The weekly Shasta courier. [volume] (Shasta, Calif.) 1872-190?, 1873-06-14

some of the rulings and instructions OF
the Post Office Department we should
like to see it. For instance, the follow
ing:
mail matter deposited in post Of
fee for mailing, on which at least one
full rate of postage has been paid,
should be forwarded to its destination
charged with the unpaid rate to be col
lected on delivery. The unpaid rate
is double the prepaid rate which should
have been paid at the mailing Office.
That is to say, if A writes letter
so bulky that the postage is six cents,
and only affixes one three-cent stamp,
B has to pay six cents on delivery OF
the letter. In this way B is punished
for the ignorance or neglect of his cor
respondent.
We have a few improved rulings to
submit to the department
Monthly magazines published week
ly must be charged letter postage
when delivered daily.
Powder magazines, except to regular
subscribers, are not permitted to frank
their reports. -s.--
limo stamp is affixed to letter, re-
tain it If however, the postage is over
paid. letter rip!
If you feel any doubt about paper
going with a one-cent stamp, have two
sent.
Seeds can go through the mail as
merchandise. Postmasters are caution
ed against allowing any old seeds to go
through their mails, however
Signs cannot be sent without paying
letter postage, three cents on every let
ter.
Calico prints, any foreign prince, re-
prints and footprints, all 60 as printed
matter, and pay taxes accordingly.
Vaccine matter must be properly (pock)
marked.
Poetry in its various stages, includ-
ing the Edgar A. Poe stage, must be
sent postage paid, whether it ever paid
to read or not.
A postmaster is not permitted to
make any material change in the site of
his post-office without affixing two
cent stamp for every two ounces. He
can charge double postage for sight of
the postmaster.
Shirts may be mailed at the rate of
two cents for every two ounces of shirt.
If the owners name is on the shirt, let
ter postage must be charged. The rule
is indelible.
A subscriber residing in a county in
which paper is printed, can take the
paper provided he pays in advance,
and urges his neighbors to subscribe.
If he does not live in the county in
which he resides, and the paper is not
in the same county in which it has its
press-work done, then the county must
pay double postage on the man-we mean
two-cent county must be affixed to
every postage stamp-that is to say,
every two ounces of a man we mean
the paper-the county-the maxwell
we must leave this ruling to the discre-
ton of the postmaster.
How SHE STOPPED IT. - An ex-
change says the subject of borrowing
and lending came up in the course of a
conversation with one of its subscribers
the other day, when he suddenly rec
objected a funny Renaissance of that
character which had happened in his
own neighborhood. He said he had a
neighbor whose family were great Dor
rowers but not so distinguished as pay
masters-they were always borrowing,
but seldom, if ever, returned the exact
amount borrowed. An old Quaker
lady, another neighbor, who had en-
dured these invasions for a long time
patiently, hit upon very philosophi-
cal mode of eventually putting stop
to the nuisance. Keeping her own
counsel, the next time her good man
went to town, he had separate and
express order to purchase pound of
the best tea and also a new canister to
put it in. AS he knew she already had
plenty of tea and also canister, he was
puzzled to know what the old lady want
ed with more tea and new canister but
his questioning and reasoning elected
nothing more than repetition of the
order.
Jim, did | not tell thee to get me a
pound of the best tea and new CAMS
ter: Now go along, and do as 1 bid
thee"
And go along he did, and when he
came home at night the tea and new
canister were his companions. The old
lady took them from him with an anus
ed expression on her usual placid fea-
lures, and depositing the tea in the
canister, set it on the shelf for special
use. 1t had not long to wait, for the
borrowing neighbor had frequent use
for the aromatic herb. The good old
lady loaned generously, empting back
in the canister any remittance of Dor
rowed teas which the neighbours con-
science inclined her to make. Time
went on, and after something less than
the one hundredth time of borrowing,
the neighbor again appeared for "just
another drawing of tea" when the Oft
visited tea canister was brought out
and found to be empty, and the good
old lady and obliging neighbor was just
one pound of tea poorer than when she
bought the new canister which now
only remained to tell the story. Then
she made little characteristic speech
perhaps the first in her life; she said /:
,.Thou seest that empty canister.