Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-12-06

and 50 with living or dead anlfl0io,
Liquids are forbidden becausetNperieGce
[ shows that thew can not be confined to
any receptack thy can I've put into. a
woman can >ce, /" save her life. why
we should refuT 10 mail bottle OF
' hanakerchief-r in a glass bottle IN
/ closed in a paStrboarI box. But if one
liquid is admitted Others must Inc ainiit-
ted. and soon the most revolving and
/ the mVSi destructive liquids. like snl-
! phuric acid woutd follow. They al
! most always break their rrCrptacles and
! ieiilr or corrnda escrsthin" they touch.
! Even canned articles. containing liquid.
are forbidden. though Theoretically
. sealed in tin. because somr one rlSc MAY.
mail in the Samr pouch pair -ot sch-
>nrS which will pun"tmre the can and
let out the liquid contents on tn" other
nrril matter. All poi>ons'are prihibtet.
because If on" fool mails poison and
4 another fool some sort of edIhle. tiiey
are very apt TO get mixed and ill .
dozen people at once: and also because
the Anailing clerks may be killed. Oils
and all fatty substances are forbidden,
because. in spite Of everything. they
leak out of their rrcrptaclrr aud d"lilc
hundreds of other pirc,s, of mail ma ter.
Al ,nrts nf f,r mcat and nintmrnts are
inst az hal hacauS.. - soon az t,,e
mail pouch containing them IS put INTO
,vnry warm ror,n orIaid in bn, sun
they are converted into oil and a.c,pe y
why must the second class Of ar
ticIss he confined in wood or TIM"
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ner,,les ,-at. loo, ,hsra is no trIiins
whom the evil willcu They may LOAF
around a pouch for wear, distributing
? I,eL INV among all III, nnst-n,fices In ths
country Fish-hn,h> are almost rs bad
In fact. any sl,rp-r, tinted Instrument
ike forks and scissors. or even case
knives. lacrratr the hands of tie clerks
in = Terrible manner. unless p-opprly
protected Candy of all sorts breaks
into Ane pieces. get. distributed all
through the ponci. and srneals and
Glue, together all the rest of the mai
matter. some kinds If candy will melt
and run. and other kinds are hollow an 1
contain siruns (which leak out and soil
everything they touch. Cake, andpaStry
seem to be- the least Objectionable of all
the thing> | have named. and yc. .they
are mnikd So frvurelitly that they give
more trouble than o. the rest put to-
grthcr. They not only crumblr up. get
scattered around. and prod,lcr grease
spots on eyrrything they touch. but the
rats smell them and gnaw away a whole
pouch Of mail matt t.r to get Al thrm
Al this second kind Of matter, there
fore. must b. securely incIosd in tin or
wood or il is prohibited"
What pr.cautious are taken to pre-
v.pt n4npie from drrnsjtin~ Destructive
unmailabl. In the Pn,t-otlier -
when they brng packa yes Of mer-
chandSp Ia b. weighed the clerks cues
ton diem particularly rs 10 he con { nj :.
If they don't know. or have forg ot ten, ,
or get an.rv at the quest on tbcv are
generally guilty, and few more uues-
! tions elicit = confession that :. razor or a
hottie of hair-pil j. IN the packaye. 81 II
they weigh and stamp their pack age
Themselves and put it into the drops,
then all the clerks in the basement are a
committee to discover destructive un-
mailable. and il runs fhe y;uurtlst Of
their hands At the risk Of being de-
tanned While all the clerks keep n
watch for such matter in 4 general way.
three of them are charged with the duty
in particular. md they open and exam
ine not only all packages which by
weight. smell or shape excite suspicion,
but a multitude OF other packages at
random 1t j. not expected that they
will detect more than one in ten Of the
} objectionable Iackages, but they det4-t
4 enough of them to make il very IN
desirable thing for any one to mail them
who desires them to reach their de>tig-
ton
What disuositiou !, m,d,. Of tbis
r,,,ter after i is fnupdP''
..It !. taken to th,. iuouiry office TO.
cethar with all other unm,iI,bIr matter
8 Nspackocr of destructive unmaiIable has
on It the name OF the. person who drpos-
tied II in tb,. Jron the clerk. send him
word tn come. and claim his pronertv
If this name i not ON the package. then
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