Evening star., 1894-01-27


precise one suited to their case.
You can take your choice Of four ways,
ma'am. according to just what you want"
said he. IF you are going to send only a
little money less than $5-and your only
wish is to avoid inclosing coin or postage
stamps. or paper as soft and bulky as
a greenback, which may be felt through
the envelope. We can give you a postal note
for three cents This is printed on a thin,
stin paper, of size which will lie fat in
an ordinary folded letter-sheet The clerk
ana letter carriers might handle your let
ter all day and they would never guess
from the feeling what was inside Of it.
When your correspondent receives it. he
can take 1t to the post office and get it
cashed, or bank 1t as he would piece Of
money. or use 1t to pay his grocer, or send
1t away In letter himself; for 1t Is good at
any post office in the United States, and in
anybody's hands. so long as 1t is presented
for redemption within three months from
the day of issue But this very convenience
is the chief drawback Of the postal note;
for. If any dishonest person should get hold
of 1t, 1t would be the same as money In his
hands.
The Safe Money Order.
III absolute safety is what you are most
anxious to secure, we can give you a money
order. This is pretty nearly as good as a
bank check. We send from here a private
letter OF advice containing your name. and
when your correspondent receives your or
der. he can collect the money on II only by
telling who sent 1t to him and by being him
self identified as the person in whose favor
II Is drawn, or else by indorsing It to some
pooy who is known at the post Office This
you see Is decided advantage on the score
OF saiety: But. more than that, If your or
Ger should be stolen or destroyed the gov
ernment holds itself responsible and IL YOU
comply with certain requirements will issue
you a new order. This is something 1t will
,s,u ~. 10 .or you II anything happens to your
postal note. The bad feature about the
money order, however, is that 1t can be
cashed only at the one post office on which
u Is drawn If you have it drawn on Carson
happens to be gone to Santa Fe ana left
word to have his mail forwarded to him
there, the postmaster at Santa Fe won't
cesh ms order for him. The only thing he
can DO Is TO indorse II to somebody who can
collect 1t at the Carson City post office
which in many cases might be ,nconyenIent
On account Of the additional security sur
rounding the money order We charge more
for 1t than for a postal note. S. order
would cost You five cents, and a si0 order
eight cents, SIS order ten cents and 40
on upward.
The Registered Letter.
A"cii' again, tnere Is the registered let
Ter. You give us your envelope. sealed and
lnoorsed In your own handwriting We
know nothing about it's contents You NAV
have put only love letter in it, or a 81 600
government bond; it is all the same to rs
and the price Of registry is uniform for
everythihg-eight cents. This process has
the advantage OF absolute secrecy for Won
don't have to take a single soul into your
cohuoence II has the further advantage
Oh assuring You that whatever You send
reaches its destination; for we refuse to de-
liver 1t to any one except the person ad
dressed. who must either present himself in
person and be identified or give us his an
thorlty IN writing to deliver 1t to somebody
else, whose Identification we require in the
same way. and whoever receives 1t is Obliged
10 give us written receipt in his own hand
writing, which we send back to you without
expense This makes a good deal of differ
ence II you are making a payment to a
slippery creditor, or If you are sending a
bill to a debtor. who might want to make
believe he had never heard from you In
any such case you have his own signature
to confront him with. The safety of the
registered letter is pretty we'll guarded
Every post office official through whose
nands II passes has to account for it to the
one from he received 1t: so that. IL it is lost,
1t can be traced by our vouchers to the yery
point where it disappeared-even into the
hands OF the carrier who took 1t out to de-
liver. Registered letters do sometimes 60
astray. but the risk attending loss or tbaft
Is too great to make either carelessness or
dishonesty profitable. The government does
not hold itself responsible to you. but the
last postmaster or clerk or carrier who Is
found to have had your letter in his possess
sion is likely to lose his official head. and. IL
the evidence of crookedness is strong
against him, is liable to go to the state
prison for term of years
The Special Delivery.
Finally, IL your great object is speed
Gnd
livery. We sell you a peculiar kind of 10
cent stamp, which you put on your letter
besides it's regular postage. The instant
the letter is taken out of the box into
which you drop 1t 1t is hurried into the
first mail, on top of the whole pile of other
letters, with the stamp sticking up. SO as
to catch the eye of every clerk who handles
the package. When It reaches the town to
which 1t is addressed 1t is picked ont with
out an instants delay and sent to your
correspondent by special messenger so
that IL the ordinary carrier deliveries are in
frequent 1t may reach it's destination one
two, three or four hours before it would if
left to take the usual course The messen-
ger who delivers 1t takes with him a book
in which the recipient of the letter signs q
receipt. noting the hour and minute, so that
If any question ever arises afterward YOU
can have the messengers book hunted up
and nail the whole thing down with great
exactness.
Which to Select.
$50, you see. we have something to meet
every need and the way to make sure Of
the best results is to choose just the right
thing. If you are sending something whose
value you dontFeare much about. but which
you are in great hurry to push through,
don't register, but use the special delivery
If you are sending something which you
are in no haste about, but you want to
make absolutely sure, with your own eyes,
that the right person has received il, dent
bother with money orders or special deliv-
cry letters but use the registry. If you
are sending a sum of money simply and
find it incOnvenient to use check or draft,
but want to assure the same safety of pay-
ment and don't mind letting the post office
people know what you are doing, take out
a money order. If the amount you are
sending is too small to worry about and all
you care for is to send it in some form
which won't tell tales through the envelope
buy postal note. Uncle Sam has given
you quite choice between cents and 10
You thought at first that all these things
were alike, but now that you have found
out what each means you understand why
there are four of them instead Of only one" I"
Definition.
From Puck
Teacher-What is the feminine of man,
Thomas?
Thomas-Womani
Teacher-And the feminine of gentleman