The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-06-09

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i She isn't late from the west As mncI
as she was.
Il 4 price list with prices added in writ
ing subjects it to letter postage.
The small boy'' still delights in call
ing for fathers mail" six times day,
and twice in the evening
| A new post office named Dell has been
established on Duck creek, in the north
ern part of this county. VIM. Orr has
been appointed postmaster.
| A circular may have an address, date
and name of sender written therein.
Any other writing except typographical
corrections subjects The circular TO letter
postage.
Another case of the cold man carrying
it around in his pocket for a week" has
transpired. These sscases" do not have q
tendency to make the average '.young
man" have very deVont feelings for the
ssold man"
| Under the postmaster generals order
of February 81, 1881, drawings, plans and
designs, which We're formerly rated as
fourth-class-master, are now subject TO
letter rates of postage
Do the men who purchase money or
ders on lottery companies ever think of
what Josh Billings said: 81 will never
purchase lottery ticket as long as can
hire a man to rob me at reasonable
wages-''
The whole number of letters mailed in
the United States during the year end
ing December 31st, 1881, was loss, Esq.,
$40, or an average of 81 for every man,
woman and child. OF this number KAN
sas furnished Il, $3.50, sos, fraction over
Is for every man, woman and child. in
the state. The total number of pieces OF
mail matter OF all classes handled in one
year in the United States is 2, 712, $50, 7T2;
in Kansas 1920, 116. Some of the
patrons of this Office may think they
have not received their share, but keep q
stiff upper lip and have faith.
Recollect that no printing or writing
will be allowed upon the address side of
postal card, except that imprinted
thereon at the mandatory, and such as
may be necessary for the proper direc-
ton of the same. All postal cards bear
ing any other writing or printing upon
the address side are declared unmaila-
BILE and must be returned 10 the writer
at the mailing Office. Ifmailed on the
train it will be sent into the superin-
l.radx mill h
eusing somebody" because their postal
cards which they knew were directed
properly didn't reach their destination.
The owner of box 124G was happy for
a time this morning. AS he took the
little missiye from its resting place his
face shot fourth a radiance equal to that
of the full moon, and the beatings of his
heart were distinctly audible, as he
broke the seal and read:
"You dear old counterpart of patience!
Would it scare you almost TO death 10
get letter. CHe chuckled, grinned,
and looked pensive). Would it cause
you 10 faint or your heart to jump out of
your mouth 10 get One?'' The thought
it came awfully near it,. al hope it
won't, but if it does try and put your
heart back again. You have not for
gotten your little 'Kitsey-witsey' have
you, dearest ~ (Here he "went all to
pieces" grasped chair for support and
muttcred something about comforting
his neck that he hadnt''). "YOu didn't
think that yourilittle 'Kitsey-witsey' had
forgotten her darling 'Doty-woty,' now
did You, honey?'' Now a tear-drOp of
sorrow trinkled down his cheek to think
he had doubted the little angeD. You
never once took thought that your lit
lie dew drop might be suffering with the
measles, chlcken-pox or rheumatism, SO
bad she could not hold u pen to writes"
(He wanted some one tol
hit him with a club if he ever
doubted her again). "But, Doty, my
dearest Che smiled) ''BIy love- (he te-
he-ed) "wOuld it take all The romance
out of this letter to tell you I've been
having jolly, good time with another
fellow %
He looked completely "fired out,' inn
plored some one to strike him, wished
he was the "Yek, from Central Africa"
the Little baby Elephant or the man
with the iron jaw" and as he "slid him.
self gently out" at the back door he
muttered.
They're frauds, are women. st their best,
AhII should blush to murmeri
IN go sout west.' take a rest.'
And try goshi-to forget herr
Miss M. LaVille Case at Marion Gen.
ter, Kansas, has letter here held for
postage which she is probably anxious
to get.
Some one has tried to send a package
of papers weighing four ounces for one
cent, TO Miss Eliza J. Wright, New Lon
don, Indiana, but Uncle Sam refuses to
carry it unless another cent stamp is add
ed. A paper addressed TO Robert
Chichton, Parsons, Kansas, is in the
same fix.