The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-14
FL0TSAM and JETSAM.
Gathered From the Sea OF
Washington News.
UNCLE SANS DAMAGED STAMPS.
A Chickamauga Reiic-Attractive South
ern Girls - Information For the Fair
Daughters of the North-Land So Poor

That 1t VIII Not Raise a Disturbance.
WASHINGTON, July IA. = Especial. -
Many complaints have reached the post
Office department during the past month
concerning the quality of the adhesive gum
used on postage stamps. In the excessively
hot weather which has prevailed through
out the country many business firms and
individuals have suffered loss or annoy
ance through the sticking of postage stamps
to other objects than the letters for which
they were intended Every one knows how
provoking IL is TO buy a lot of stamps at a
postoffice or agency and TO find them all
run together when they are wanted for use.
it is believed that if better quality of adj
hesive glue were used there would be less
trouble of this sort. The postoffice depart
ment has authority to redeem spoiled post
age stamps, and in an average year $780,,
600 worth of damaged stamps are replaced
by new ones. But the authority TO do this
does not extend to ''stuck" stamps, only
to those whose face has been ink marked or
accidentally Cancelled, so that they could
not be accepted in the mails.
Uncle Sans Finest.
Uncle Sam has very nice little trust in
the postage stamp business, and he ought
to turn out a more satisfactory article.
At the present time the cost of manufac-
turing and delivering postage stamps to.
any part of the country is only cents per
thousand, and as / 200 twos are worth $50
Ii is easy TO see that the government has
wide margin of profit. Notwithstanding
the apparent difficulty of working off TO
advantage bogus stamps, frequent attempts
are made TO produce counterfeit postage
stamps. The secret service makes a num-
Der of arrests every year for this offense.
In single year the bureau of engraving
and printing here turns out more than
$50, 900, 900 worth of stamps and about
$12 100000 worth of stamped envelopes
are also used. 1t is remarkable fact that
there Is enough carelessness In this coun-
try to make 1t possible for the government
to sell In single year $3.50, 600 worth OF
postage due stamps, principally ones and
twos.
While President Mckinley and his party
were at Chattanooga last month General
Grosvenor of Ohio was approached by q
one armed Confederate veteran. The old
fellow had for sale bullets and other SOU
venirs of Chickamauga battlefield. He war
ranted them all genuine. One piece Of
flattened lead he placed in General Gros-
venor's hand, with the remark that he
had himself cut 1t from O tree on the bat
tlefield
''was it Federal or Confederate bull
LETT" asked General Grosvenor.
Federal" replied the veteran prompt
ly. "We didn't shoot ut trees -
General Grosvenor bought the relic as
reward for the old fellows wit.
A Decided Attraction.
Among the Chattanooga gentlemen who
escorted the presidential party over the
field of Chickamauga it was discovered that
of nine in one group seven were from the
state of Ohio. and all seven had served In
the Union army, most of them having
been present at the battle of Chickamauga.
"How do you account for so many Ohio
soldiers coming back to Chattanooga after
the war was over to find honest" asked.
"Well, guess it was in part because we
| liked the scenery of this beautiful spot"
replied one of the gentlemen, "but In my
case am willing to confess that 1t was
southern girl. met her while was SOL
diering here, and told her that after the
| war was over and the rebels had been
| whipped I should come back to claim her.
] She said the rebels never would be whip
ped, and that II they were and came back
] here she wouldn't speak to me. She was
so much of southern woman that one
| day she was up there on Lookout noun
| tain and she begged the artillerymen to let
| her pull the lanyards of q gun. They con-
| sented, and she fired q gun at the Union
troops In the valley below. Of which was
one."
"And you came back after the war was
| over?'
| Eyes, and the girl said that inasmuch
| as all the other Confederates had surren-
dered she was going to stay with them and
| surrender too. We have been married now
for quarter of a century"
This little story brought out the inter.
esting fact that of the seven Ohio men who
had returned to Chattanooga after spend.
ing some time there as soldiers five had
been lured back by the wiles Of Tennessee
| maidens whom they had met while doing
duty as young soldiers in the town between
the hills. To this day one can understand
why man would be willing to give up
his home and his family and his party and
II necessary conceal his convictions In order
to take as wife one of those fair southern
girls.
The GIories of Dixie.
1t Is rather odd, though, and Of the fact
I am assured by good many people in
| Nashville, Chattanooga and other southern
cities, that the southern young men have
weakness for northern girls. Whenever
northern girl goes south to visit relatives
she may as we'll make up her mind that
she Is going TO be married. 1t would be
ungallant to say that northern girls pur-
posely hunt up southern relatives and hint
for an invitation to pay them visit, but
the large number of matrimonial ventures
INDUCED by northern girls and southern
young men has become well recognized
social tradition In Dixie.
Henry Clay EVANS, now commissioners
Of pensions and one of the most popular
men in Tennessee, tried to explain to Presi.
dent Mckinley what rich and productive
country Tennessee was. After he had
dilated for some time on the glories of his
native state Mr.. Evans was little sur
prised to hear the president ask
Haven't you any poor land in Tennes-
seer"
ooh, yes, Mr.. President" replied Evans,
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