Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-04-28
uNApPRsclArsD HONESTY.
Pride and FAlI 0f the arzn whs nAllis1
 With the Possoeaea.


 Pride and FAn oe the arna whs nAIlis,
 With the Ross0eaea.
 You can't always tell about hon ssty. Sometimes you sec a maH
 making a great show of 1t just fol the saEo of tho show. not for tn sake of the honesty. The other da, man went to the postofioe anG asked for two cent stamps. H, laid down his dime. took his twS stamps, put them in Q pocket cas' and went away, Three or four dayI afterward he had occasion to use ons of them. Just as he was about tc stick it on the letter he had written he noticed that 1t was cent stamp instead of center.
 What do l care2" be said to him. self If cents will send the letter, C will.
 Then 1t occurred to him that the clerk who had sold the stamps was out 2 cents for the mistake
 T can't help it. :" the buyer ar gued. Tt wasn't my fault. and it's too far to go to the postofSice now for cents. it's honest of coarse, but it's only 3 oents How it would paralyze the clerk. though. to have me come in and reotify his little mistake for hiIn. Make him feel good for Christmas sure. Probably he makes such mistakes frequently, and I'll bot mighty few men go back to make them right. It's easy enough to kick when the things against you. but this is different. Somebody ought to kick about these stamps anyway. hard and good. to some body way up. They re just like the ives in size. shape and color. No wonder he made tho mistake By love. I'll go over and see him.
 So tho two stamp buyer put on his oyarooat and hat and went out into the cold and tramped over to the postoffioe to makeA show of his hon. esty. There was long line of men waiting their turns to transact busi. ness at the stamp window. The hon. est man waited patiently and used up several dollars worth of time trying to give back 3 cents that didn't belong to him. At last he got his place at the window.
 II bought these two stamps here the other day." he began. ''far cent stamps.
 Those in the waiting tne began to crowd up to hear the kick, and the face of the stamp clerk took on an expression just 8 shade more tired than usual.
 But they 're 6 cent stamps, went on the honest man, 'and the clerk must be out cents. go I want to give them back. "
 The stamp clerk opened his eyes a bit wider and stopped down to get a good look at the honest man through the little half window. 4 murmur 1 of approval ran through the crowd. l The honest man swelled out with l the consciousness of his own up TightneSs. The stamp clerk fooled | with hie stamps and then said:
 You didn't buy 'em of me"
 "No, a answered the honest man, "it was another clerk. l don't be- lieve I'd know him, though, if | should see him. 1 wasn't long enough at the window"
 Well. said the clerk very dis- tinotly. II can't take your 3 cents. The other clerk has lost it that's all The government ism t out any. thing. and can't take it m give you cent stamps if you like. and he reached out for the 6 centers.
 The honest man was the surprised one, 80 surprised that for a moment he couldn t think of anything to say. Then he blurted out:
 sWhy-why can't you take 'em. not mine. I paid for fves and got sixes. ]"
 The clerk leaned forward and irawled out so that half the man In line could hear it:
 "How do I know that you are not an inspector laying trap to catch nep"
 The honest man thrust his hands n his oyercoat pockets and strode away with 6 muttered "Well, I'm l-di" and half dozen of the nen began to whistle There Arc Others. "--New York Sun.