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Show UNABLE TO SEE THE FUTURE. Short sighted English Stateiman Denounced De-nounced Penny Poataga. "Of all the wild and visionary schemes of which I havo ever heard or read It Is thn most extraordinary." Thut was the official comment muds hy lord l.lclitleld, poslmustor general of Knitlund. on Rowland Hill's proposal lo eKtutiHhh u uniform poatul rule of a penny tliroiixliout tho I'nlted Kinx- ilniii. And that was at a tlnm within the memory of some lin n atlll livlnx, only 71 yours a so IliHplte laird l.li h-lletd'a h-lletd'a ronilemuutlon of il, Ibo si-homo was wlihui three yen is un ealuhllalied fact. And men who In their cliililhood mlyht have sei-n uud read Iho (list let-ti let-ti ra ever sent ftom nno imrt of Knx-land Knx-land to aiiotlier for a penny may thla , year ace mid read lotion soin around tlm xtobo mid practically lo every purl ', i ' llm KiHtllsti-apeakltiK world for thn loutin small fee. Tho iicliii'i-iiient will be not only u most liiiprcsalvo rebuke of the Kliotl-slxtiieil nnd IIihuiihis adiuln-Isirutor adiuln-Isirutor of two xonenitlons uxo, but uIho un equally Impies.-ilvo deiuonstra- tlun of Ihu cotihiautly acceleruilUR I'li'dn.l of civilization. |