St. Paul daily globe., 1895-10-27

quired in the world is appreciated by
everybody there. Charley Garman,
the village blacksmith, is not much
heard of outside of Kaneville, but he
poses as the most prominent citizen
there now. When a reporter went to
the posltotfice to inquire for Edna r.
Brown he was referred to Mr.. Garman
as her husband.
''This is Mr. Garman," said the post
master. And a young fellow leaning
against the wall shifted and grinned.
He was not averse to talking if he
could only get copy of the paper the
story was to be printed in. He lives in
a cottage-roofed. square frame house
two stories high, situated near his
shop. There are two front rooms. one
is used as a parlor, the other as a
storage room for the stamps and let
ters. This room is II by IA feet, and
one-half of it is stacked up six feet
high with boxes and barrels filled with
stamps. One corner of the room is
filled with unopened letters; the rest
of the floor is piled up with bags filled
with stamps. Measurements and cal
culations showed there were 420 cubic
feet of postage stamps in the room.
Estimates made, based on the counted
contents of boxes, placed the number
at more than 2O,000000.
"These amt all, either" said Gar
man. my uncle, John Weber, who
lives two miles east of Sycamore,
hauled away about a quarter of what
there is here. My father took nearly
as many as my uncle"
what are they doing with them?"
'"They are helping open the letters
and sort out the stamps. Everybody
around helps u.s.
REAPING THE PROFITS.
Have you sold any stamps yet?'
"YeS-we sold some-about $40 worth
of old stamps and the same amount of
new ones.''
Get any rare stamps in these let
ters?''
1--WE got two we sold for IS apiece"
Were those all?"
mo; we find rare ones every once
in a while"
do you get any money in them?''
Yes, we get a check now and then.
Never more than S.. We got abouI
$50 in this way"
Then he told Of a $500 check which
his wife cashed at Elburn. 1t turned
out to be q. fictitious paper, and it cost
her $3.50 for the trouble the banks had
had brought them a little more than
5000.
"Was this used for medical aid for
your sister?''
He explained that she came to Chi
cago last summer and remained here
three months, spent $3.50 and went back
no better than she came.
"She was treated by DR.. DoWie," he
said, "the divine healer. She had all
the faith in the world, but he could not
do her any good"
will she try any more to be cured %
Eyes, when we get more money out
of those stamps"
Recently someone wrote to the mayor
of Kaneville, inquiring about the case.
Now Kaneville has only one officer, a
constable, so the letter was turned over
to Neat Ravlin to answer. The writer
had $50, 900 stamps and wanted to know
something about the case before giving
the stamps. Ravlin wrote to him say
ing the people of Kaneville would raiss
all the money needed for the girls cure
if she could be cured.
POSTMASTER HAS TROUBLES.
Letters of inquiry arrive every day
from people who want to know more
about the case before contributing to
the charity These are addressed to
the postmater, the mayor, the chief OF
police, the burgomaster, the commits
saris van polite and to ever so many
other sorts Of municipal officers that
do not exist in Kaneville. When one
comes for police officer Mart Shoop
the constable, takes care OF 1t. He
answers them all in the same vein as
Meet Raylin answered the man with
the 10000 stamps to give. The post
master. John Shoelihorn, does not
answer one letter in forty which he
receives. He has not the time and be-
sides he has lots of other things to do.
He is the shoemaker, the barber and
the confectioner of the place. Versa
tile though he is, he was plodding
along on a. salary of $500 as fourth-class
postmaster all unknown to fame until
one day he was compelled to move his
barber shop and shoe bench out in the
back yard to make room for the wagon
load of mail "Grandpop' Logan
brought over from Sugar Grove. Now
he wades around in mail breast high
and sits up nights writing to the fourth
assistant postmaster general for more
salary, so he can hire somebody tc
help him.
"Granpop'' Logan, VINO gets $144 q
year for hauling the mail over from
Sugar Grove, eight miles, six days lr
the week, says the postmaster has nc
ground for complaint as compared tc
him. The postmaster is getting fam
Gus and people are showering Sympa
thy on him. while he has to haul thai
| mail through all kinds of weather
! while it fills his wagon so he cant
! haul any passengers or freight and nc
! one ever thinks of his troubles.
SPIRIT OF SPECULATION.
Old man Gardner used to have E
! star route contract. He made an ar
/, rangement with Garman about pack
| ages Of stamps which came by express
He agreed to pay the charges on th
| packages and take half of them. Thi
! arrangement did not last long, becaust
! the spirit of speculation in stamps go
hold of everybody out there as soon az
! those two stamps were found which
sold for S. each. Garman pays all ex
! press charges now, even if he does no
| pay the postage due.
| The other day he sold a package o.
| letters to John Quinn for 10 cents. JohI
| took them home in a meal sack an(
| went through them. He did not fin(
| any rare stamps in the outfit, but h