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Show 12 THE CITIZEN first place many stamps are destroyed. This means a profit to the Post Office 1 department of many thousands of dollars a year; how much cannot be estij7iiiiiiiiimMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii;iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniMimiiiii: mated, for there is no means of getVALENTINE MANUAL OF OLD sau streets (the site is now called ting figures, except by elaborate and NEW YORK. No. 4. New series. Temple Court), and again to 30th untrustworthy calculation. A person Edited by Henry Collins Brown. VaBroadway, where it finally gave up tne carries stamps in his pockets until are so wrorn that he does not dare lentines Manual, Inc., New York. ghost under his impracticable and spo- they IIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIllllllllllllllllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIllllllllllllllllllllllllIlllllllllllllllllllllllllItlllllllIllllllfllllllllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII AMONG THE NEW BOOKS radic business management. Dr. Appleton quotes from an article in Scribners Monthly for October, 1875. The account it gives of the writing of The Raven is a curious one: The poem wras produced stanza by stanza at small intervals and submitted by Poe piecemeal to the criticism and emendation of its (i. e., Sandy Welshs beer cellar's) inmates, who suggested various alterations and substitutions. Poe adopted many of them. Col. du Solle quotes particular instances of phrases that wrere incorporated at his (du Solles) suggestion. Thus The Raven was a kind of joint stock affair in which many men held small shares of intellectual capital. At length, when the lats stone had been placed in position and passed upon, the structure wras voted complete. Judge Shea gave Dr. Appleton the following, drawn from his fathers memories of the period in question: Poe was exceedingly timid as to a The possible public reception of Raven. Especially did he dread the oemments of his fellow literateurs, wrhom for about a year he had been mercilessly cricising and castigating in the pages of the Evening Mirror, in which N. P. Willis, the editor, permitted him full swing. Here is another of Mr. Browns prize packages with all kinds of interest in picture and text. For example, there is a fourfold illustration in color showing the changes that have taken place on the first land owned by the city, where the Custom House now stands. Among the notable articles are Commodore Benedicts recollections of Grover Cleveland; the diary of a little girl in old New York; Justice Geige-rich- s reminiscences of the old Eleventh ward; character sketches of earlier New York merchants. Dr. Appleton Morgan, president of the Shakespeare Society, has contributed a paper on Poe in New York, which includes some unpublished material, referring to the poets most productive period. For a time he lived at 130 Greenwich street. The record runs thus: It was at about the Greenwich street date, April 7, 1844, that Poe regularly entered into the employment of N. P. Willis, who at that date occupied an office on the corner of Ann and Nassau streets, where the Mirror, daiy and Sunday, gave abundant scope for oPes restless pen. Opposite and across Ann street, with entrances both upon Ann and Nassau streets, was a famous beer cellar (called in the directories of the date a refectory), kept Poe, nevertheless, carried the poem known but about with him wherever he went, and by one Alexander Welsh, on all ocasions would produce it, and, not other wise than Sandy Welshs. This was the famous resort at the noon if permitted, read it, line by line and hour of all newspaper men and knights stanza by stanza, and himself point out what he considered, or claimde to conof the pen in the neighborhood, and almost every newspaper of the day had sider, its blemishes, and invite suggesits headquarters in the vicinity from tions for its betterment from any one, Ann to Spruce street! Sandy Welshs though doubtless he would not for an beer cellar was apparently the predeinstant contemplated accepting any of cessor of Tfaffs, beloved of George the suggestions he invited. And he did Arnold and Fitz James OBrien and this not once, but many times in Sandy that fine ilk of Bohemia which the civil Welshs beer cellar in Ann street. war dispersed. And so, along with his For example, he would express his fellow feuilletonists, literateurs and doubt about the velvet, violet lining toilers upon newspapers, Poe became a being gloated oer by the same lamphabitue of Sandy Welshs. light which in another stanza threw a shadow at once over the bird perched Among these newspaper worthies was a Mr. John Augustus Shea, a above that chamber door and upon the writer on Horace Greele s Tribune, same floor where' each separate dying who later became the father of an emiember wrought its ghost. But my nent son, the Hon. George Shea, assofather told him not to worry about ciate counsel for the Confederate Presthese; that as an experiment in rhyme ident Davis with Charles OConnor, they were permissible, and finally preChief Justice vailed upon Poe to allow my father to and later, until his death, of the Marine (now City) Court of offer the poem anonymously to a pubNew York city. To this Mr. Shea, who lisher as an experiment in rhyme. was wont to vary his stint of newsPOSTAGE WASTED. paper work with poems and fiction, atbeen Poe seems to have specifically There is one source of revenue to tracted. At this date the various ofthe government of which but few perfices with which Poe was or became sons are aware that proceeding from thereafter connected were grouped around the corner of Nassau and Ann the large number of stamps that are streets. The Broadway Journal was at wasted by the people. There are two w'ays in which the 135 Nassau street, though when Poe obtained full control of it it moved up government profits by the carelessness and Ignorance of the public. In the to Clinton Ilall, at Beekman and Nas use them. In point of fact, anything that looks like a good stamp, no matter if it is somewhat mutilated, is passed by the clerks, just as a dilapidated bank note is good if there is enough of it to show what it is. Wear and dirt cannot, without almost destroying the stamp, give it the look of one that has been cancelled. Yet few persons will put a damaged stamp on a letter. Besides, many stamps are lost or destroyed entirely and the government makes a clear gain. The other source of loss to the individual by which the government profits is the number of stamps that are wasted in excess postage. People wrho have not a five cent stamp put thre? two cent stamps on foreign letters, thus making the Post Office department a present of one cent. Domestic mail, too, is frequently overstampde. Enough money is wasted in this way to provide thousands of inexpensive letter scales. Moreover few persons know anything about the rates for newspapers and think that because a newspaper rolls into such a solid bundle it costs a great deal to send. So they go on overpaying the postage. On the other hand much matter is under paid. Here the government loses nothing, for the shortage is collected from the receiver, wno must pay the due stamp. Knowing this, and being anxious not to seem niggardly to the friend who must make up any deficiency in postage,. a person in doubt often puts on too many stamps and Uncle Sam gets the idfference. LIFE AT ITS HIGHEST. Teacher What is the highest form of animal life? Little Peter (quickly). The giraffe. Boston Globe. If gasoline goes to fifty cents a gallon one result will be that there will be a lot of people buying gasoline at fifty cents a gallon. New York Mail. PROBATE AND GUARDIANSHIP NOTICES. 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