The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1895-04-19

carelessly handled, nut that mani clerks
along the route had been defacing
some letters and destroying others. He
stated that he had obtained enough
proof to cost several clerks their posi-
tions and To put one or two in the peni-
Tertiary. Several of Miss Browns let
tiers referred to Enclosures of S. bills,
but the money was lost.
As to the cash value of this avalanche
of stamps. everything remains to be
Seen. One or two New York dealers
have offered $50 million for the I'M
sorted stamps without inspection. and
Mettie reports an offer from a Chicago
firm OF 500 per million. Whatever
sum may be realized the folly and
waste of such means OF money rails
ing is obvious from a simple calcula-
ton. One hundred dollars is ten thou
sand cents. which sum will mail five
thousand letters, carrying, according
to the chain agreement 1000 stamps.
So that, supposing the highest price yet
suggested to be realized, it would cost
the donors 1000 to confer 800 upon
the crippled girl.
This most unique example of the
stamp and chain craze will result in
real benefit to Mettie Garman, but at
what a cost. No hospital wants stamps,
but stamp dealers will absorb a limited
number at low figures. Mettie will get
money enough to go to hospital, but
the cripples of the whole country could
have been treated for smaller sum
than has gone into sending her her
mail.
But Mettie Garman herself was inno-
cent enough The scheme was started
without her knowledge, she was pow
erless to stop it, and great many peo-
pie will be glad of any good that comes
to the gentle crippled girl. She is not
fake" though crazy philanthropists
should think second time before they
load Uncle Sans mail bags with can.
celed stamps at $50 or less per million.
As well send rags or waste paper.
DANIEL CLEvERroS.
uaine's Winter Mosquitoes.
stopping over night at a little Maine
hotel that stands OF low ground near
marshy pond" said the CONNER ,ial
traveller, ION cold night with .hree
feet of snow on level out of doors.
thought | heard 4 mosquitoes note OF
course it didn't seem to E!e possible that
mosquitoes should be hu:lming about
in miGwinter. but soon felt an unmis-
taxable bite. and saw several of the
RI winged terrors flying b. tween me and
the light. oh. they're mosquitoes sure
enough said the hostess in answer to
my question. They come from the eel
lar We have EN- all winter long. Its
the lights at night that bring en- up
stairs. They're kind o slurgish at this
season. and don. bite as hard as they
do in summer, but sometimes they're
pooty veXin' 10 folks not used to sum.
nerin' an winterin with EN-"
The Heart of Easter.
Our JOY and our hope is in the
continuance of existence in another
world, Immediately after death. even
as Christ's existence continued after
His death; and we look more for
this immediate resurrection than
for some later one Indeed. what
the early Christians called resurrection
OF the dead we are apt to call. perbaps
as correctly, the Immortality of the
soul; and we triumph in the thought
that as the penitent thief had the prom
Use that he should this day. while his
body was yet unburied, be with Christ
in Paradise, SO the souls of all believers
do at their death pass into glory. Be
cause He lives we shall live also.
Why Not Try 1t on All of Them?
Il see that Hoyt is going to have his
new play vaccinated."
what for?r