| Show WAR AGAINST CRIME GOOD WORK DONE ny BY POSTAL SERVICE mighty army ever engaged in serving and protecting the public 6 swindling advertisements detected and barred just how much ol of its amazing development tills this vast country ow owes ea to its postal service would take volumes to tell A mighty machine is this whose pulsing Is felt in every home and place of business however io wever remote from alaska to florida it Is 13 served by a mighty army of employed emp loyes strategically disposed la in some offices ces which handled last year ear separate pieces 0 ot f mall mail it is evident that to protect these postal myr myriads myri ads lads and to see that units are not used tor for fraudulent purposes is the work ot of a titan who however looms unobtrusively as postmaster general george von L meyer crimes of all kinds connected with the post office are published in a journal never seen by the ordinary public the depredation bulletin of the service which must be read by dier of 0 the postal army under pain ot of fine and as you may suppose the work ot of what I 1 may call the secret service of 0 the post office Is immensely interesting monday morning frequently brings a startling wire to a stat center post office robbed last ii ht gilt I 1 sate safe blown with guncotton or nitroglycerin an inspector Is on the spot as fast as express trains will carry him and a stringent inquiry is begun on the spot occasionally suspicion falls on an inside man who it if convicted Is taken before the federal courts and sentenced to at least three years I 1 may mention here that every post office in the country Is periodically overhauled by an expert and everything from staff to stamps checked and nd ragged all well and incidentally all complaints against postmasters carriers and clerks are sifted for charges more or less welt welp founded are often laid against these tor for intoxication laziness loitering carelessness or downright dishonesty but the fraudulent use of the mails through swindling advertisements la Is vastly more difficult on account of leg legal al technicalities and flaws of which swindlers lers know so well how to avail themselves john hill jr of the chicago board of trade estimates that every year the people of the united states contribute the enormous sum ot of to get rich quick quck and sate safe investment swindlers lers alone all classes are affected from the la undress to the lawyer clergyman and merchant there are victims in the cities on farms ranches and plantations tat ions and in every hamlet and little village for distance Is swiftly bridged by the united states hafl and the publics money flows freely lud and quickly through that gigantic artery only the other day an enterprising seed merchant was sentenced to a years imprisonment and a fin fine of amateur florists all over the country had tor for years been receiving gorgeous colored catalogues cataloguer catal from him and in every cass case he announced the disco discovery of 0 a rare and marvelous lower flower and he h agreed to send a small qu quantity nalty of 0 the precious seed for one dollar a package in the first blugh ot of enthus few amateurs nna tur lt let tuch such it chance go by even professional florists subscribed on each package was tle usual trade notice that no guarantee coun be gaivenas pi gi Tenas venas to tc germinating power 11 t as usually notice is quite usual I 1 in the trade few buyers balked much aluch anxious watching careful watering and weeding availed nothing however baw cYer and for the most moat part the gardeners concluded their methods were too crude for so go exotic a flower A new york woman thought other wise on receiving her she took it to an expert and found 1 I that tho the priceless seed of that wondrous bloom consisted entirely of palm leaf jans ans crushed into fragments |
