Quasqueton guardian. (Quasqueton, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1856-1858, 1857-01-17
INDEPENDENCE, Jan. IA, 1857.
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The usual state Of my tenn
per is not an irascible one on the con-
irary is rather remarkable for its placid
serenity on all occasions. A boy FIVE
years old might make faces at me with
perfect impunity. livery believe | should
allow the little monster to get possession
of and keep my paper from me- half a
week without being provoked to send him
a challenge. But when it happens that a
full grown male, like the u. s Mail, too
frequently prevents the eyes of your sub
scriber from being gladdened with the
sight Of the Guardien, until Wednesday,
when he believes the said Guardian TO
have been published the Saturday pre-
rious, | am led to inquire, in the most
urbane manner desired, acAen will there be
a stop put to these stoppoges? y
1t may be that my perceptive faculties
are naturally very obtuse but. / certain
ly cannot comprehend why the Guardian.
should not be read in this place on the
morning succeeding its publication
can you? u ha.e I-.
Just now remembering that editors an
alternative in general all complaints
anonymous ones in PARTICULAR refrain
at once. Yours Respectfully
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Mr.. SUBSCRIBER, if you %conine your
inquiry to last weeks paper, we will an
swer that it was oar fault; for printers,
like other people. will occasionally get
~behindhand, though We believe it is uni
v%ersally commended that they have no
right to- But if your inquiry extends
any further, we can say emphatically.
We don't know; Cent soy. +
Mr.. SUBSCRIBER, We arrogate to our
selves, in common with all other editors,
the possession of the greatest amount of
patience and good temper. Good old
Uncle Toby. who once caught a poster
ing fly, which had made many severe
attacks upon the old man, and who, tax
ing him to the easement, launched him
out upon the open air, observing there
was room enough in the world for both,
is no parallel to us for ~meekness and
patience. Why, sir, we don't hardly be-
lieve we should flare up much if~you
or any other man should run away with
our VIE (f We had one, and she left her
wardrobe behind her for the use of a flu
ture one, nor would it rufic our sweet
ifnio lis hsadf e edf ts sehsg hi4 l}sld ,s !sk s.! It
make no provision in his will for the pa !
ment OF his subscription but, Mr.. ST"
scRIBER, we do believe, if it was not for
the cooling influence of this frosty at
mosphere, we should get considerably
fired up at the doings of that said
full grown mail and, bursting, blow
mp somebody.
As it IS, we not only have kept cool,
but have laughed till the tears came in
our eyes, at the practical jokes those In
corrigible wags, the postmasters, are play
ing ON the Stage Company. Now isn't
it funny, Mr.. SUBSCRIBER, that we should
receive u Eastern mail by way Of your
own town, and our Western one by way
of Dubuque Why. Sir, your own epis-
tie came to us through the Eastern mail
at least, VT know 1t was not placed in
car box until the Eastern mail was dis
tributed at night, for we saw it put in.
1t may be possible that our deputy post
master, who is rery good natuyed, and
is constantly playing tricks upon the peo-
pie here by his droN manner of perform
ing his duties, may, (jiust for .tan), keep
the mail in the Office undistributed, but
We should think that joke ought to have
lost its pungency by this time. No sir,
that cannot be it. That joke is too stale,
has been too often repeated, to create even
an inward chuckle OF satisfaction for our
facetious deputy. Itcan't be possible he
would play such a scurvy joke upon the
poor stage horses as to make them draw
Jul mail back and forth past the Office.
No, no., that would be at the expense of
The people as well. But who can it be
that thinks that for us 'the farthest way
around is the shortest way home.' Evil
IDENTITY somebody. 1t won't do, however,
10 find fault with Mr.. ConKERY's troupe
of Emerald ISLANDERS for don't our
Dubuque brothers tell us, while they are
every day publishing complaints about
the mails, that it can'tbe the fault of their
model post-ofice,' with its model
clerks and its : model regulations And
We certainly won't be the first to find fault
with your W efficient officer. We are
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