The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-11-29
LETTERS STOPPED IN TIME.
People sa,eo by Postmasters From the
Result OF Hasty Action.

People sa,eo by Postmasters From the
Result OF Hasty Action.
"The tears were streaming from her
eyes like spray from the Yerkes foun-
tain" said a clerk in the inquiry di-
vision of the postoffice, laughing at the
memory of the stout, fiorid woman who
rushed in one hot afternoon with the
plaintive wall: Stop my letter. Give
me my letter to the old countryp
"That letter." the man went on,
swas dropped somewhere within the
sity limits and was mixed in with some
1000, 600 other letters, yet she wanted
as to get it for her quick-seemed TO
think that would bounce out of my
chair like rubber ball out of tennis
racket, snatch up that particular epis-
tie and come running back breathless
and hand it to her. Now, the facts are
that the government does not permit
the stopping of a letter that has left the
writer's hands unless it is important
that it should be DONE 1t makes an
enormous amount of extra work. Here
is a blank that must be filled out, stat
ing the box in which the letter was
dropped, the time, the address and the
reason why the request for the recovery
is made. That reason sometimes dis
closes some very interesting and roman
tic facts; but, of course, most of the
letters are stopped for the business
houses about town. When we asked the
red faced Niobe what her reason was,
| she boohooed, Me an my man had
some troubles, an l wrote to my fader
for moneys to go home, but my man
| an me have made up, an l would not
have that letter go for t'ousand dol
| lar We got that letter for her.
| "There was another, young woman
who rushed in here during the opera
season, and when she had caught little
breath she said she wanted letter she
had addressed to Peoria, Ills. There
were some So opera tickets in it that she
wanted to use that night. She had hac
letter written to her family, and
thinking there might be postscript t.
add. had not sealed it. She bought hel
seats to 'Tannhauser' and left the win
dow with her purse, her letter and hel
tickets in her hand. The open envelope
was so inviting place for the tickets
that she thought she would carry then
there, but just as soon as she saw let
ter box it was like red rag to bull
She sealed the envelope and posted it
tickets and all, and it was hours befor
she remembered what she had done AM
then came down to us for help. We go
her tickets too.
Young women who have 'reconsid
cred a proposal or who regret hast
note, like the men, blushingly confid
their troubles to us, and we have pre-
vented more than one broken heart.
sometimes the letters have left on
hands and we have to telegraph to cate
them, which is done at the persons ex
pense. We have more than once cable
to Berlin and st. Petersburg to head o.
a billet doux or some request from a
impatient and petulant son for a check
A scion of a noble German house cam
in here to implore us to prevent the d'
livery of a demand for money, writer
| / fancy, in a tone that, in the light
, recent remittances, would endanger b
, inheritance. There Is some mighty II
teresting reading among the blanks r.
questing letters stopped, all OF whic
; are sent on to Washington. "-Chicat
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