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GENERAL MERCHANDISE.

BAGS = Calcutta Grain Bags SIC for June
and July; Wool Bags. 2sa2Sc San Quentin
Bags, "a 95.
COAL-Wellington. ss per ton: New Yelling
ton, IS; Southfeld Wellington 81 80: Seattle S.
Bryant Sc; Coos Bay, So Wallsend. 81 5O
Scotch IS: Cumberland. IS 30 in bulk and 50 so
In sacks; Pennsylvania Anthracite Egg. s14;
Camel, 50 so per ton; Rock Springs and Castle
Gate, 81 60; Coke. s12 per ton in bulk and sl4
in sacks.
sUGAR-The Western Sugar Refining Com
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BOSTON STOCE
THE LONDON MARKET.

NEW YORK, May 1S.-The Commercial Ad-
vertisers London financial cablegram says:
There a holiday feeling to-day in the
markets, but they were firm Americans were
wanted generally and we'll above parity,
particularly Pacific issues and St Paul, but
New York sold all around chiefly st. Paul.
causing the worst prices a the close. There was
a further relapse in the street, and finally a
slight rally. Spanish fours were 6312 on belated
bear closing and coppers were hard but under
the best Tntos were 49lb. Anacondas closed
at II 5-16 but bought largely in the
street to 12%.. Utahs were SIS, Bostons 29 1-16.
Silver finished fat at 2S, America selling free
ly The rate unchanged at 8 per cent.
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FRIDAY. MAY 10.

NOTE-In the above exposition of the tides
the early morning tides are given in the left
hand column and the successive tides Of the
day in the order of occurrence as to time. The
second time column gives the second dde OF
the day the third time column the third tide
and the last right hand column gives the
last tide of the day. except when there are but
three tides, sometimes occur. The heights
given are additions to the soundings on the
United States Coast Survey charts except
when a minus sign q precedes the height.
and then the number given is suhtracted from
the depth given by the charts The plane OF
reference is the mean of the lower low waters
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pany quotes, terms net cash. in 1oo-lb bags:
Cubes, A Crushed and Fine Crushed, SIC:
Granulated. 5Ac: Confectioners A. 5b.o Cali
forna A, Sc; Magnolia A. 4%c: Extra c. 4&c;
Golden c, 4asc; barrels, 1-lec more, half barrels
NC more; boxes. 1sc more: 5o-lb bags. No more
No order taken for less than rs barrels or its
equivalent
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FORECAST.
The pressure has risen over Nevada and
southern California rather rapidly and in con-
sequence cloudy and much colder weather is
reported from Nevada, Utah, and northern
Arizona. Rain has fallen at Carson City and
Winnemucca and Will probably fall in Utah
and northern Arizona tonight and Friday
The temperature has fallen from Il TO 10 de-
grees over the region between the Sierras and
the Rockies.
A maximum wind velocity of 80 miles from
the north is reported from Eureka.
Forecasts made at San Francisco for thirty
hours ending midnight. May ls:
Northern California-Fair Friday; westerly
winds.
Southern California-Fair Friday except in
the mountains where light showers may oc-
cur; northwest winds
Nevada-Cloudy. warmer Friday
Utah-Probably showers early Friday;
cloudy; warmer Friday
Arizona-Cloudy with showers in the north
Friday; colder at Phoenix; warmer Friday
night in north.
san Francisco and Vicinity-Fair Friday;
north winds, with fog in the morning
ALEXANDER McADIE, Forecast Official.
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HIDES. TALLow, WOOL AND HOPS.

HIDES AND SKINS-Culls and brands sell
about 1c under the quotations. Heavy salted
steers 10c medium, 969kc; light, Shc; Cow
hides, &C; Stays, 6as1ac Sailed Kip, &c: Calf,
lOc; dry Hides sound, 16c; culls and brands,
Sheepskins, shearlings, 1O630c each; short
Wool. 35d60c each: medium. 70d90c. long Wool
90cQos1 10 each Horse Hides salt, 81 750p2 25
for large and 81 for small; Colts soc.
~ TALboW1No 10 H.,, ! rendered za4hc per lb:
WOOL - Spring Clips - San Joaquin and
southerns, months 79sc; years staple. sGsc
Foothill and Northern free, 10@12c: Foothil
and Northern defective S610c Nevada 9Ql2c
Humboldt and Mendocino. 11912c.
Fall Wools-
Northern Mountain. ..-..-.--...............1 6Sc
Plains 5d6c
HOPS-1S9s crop, 1oG11c per lb for ordinary.
fancy from first hands
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h,,iIdne at the foot of Market steret, is hoisted
bout ten minutes before noon and dropped at
noon, 10th meridian. by telegraphic signal re,
ceived each day from the United states NaVal
Observatory. Mare Island, Cal.
notice stating whether the ball was dropped
on time or giving the error. II any. is published
c. @. CALKINS.
Lieutenant U S. N. in charge.
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EXPORTS OF LUMBER.

first four months Of the year were 7219 600
feet valued at sl72.2 .25O. against 6.414.G00 feet
valued at SllI.300 for the same time in 1898.
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FOREIGN MARKETS.

LONDON, May 1s.-Consols 10 5-16; Silver,
2S l-l6: French Rentes, 1927 42d; wheat cargoes
off coast, buyers and sellers apart; cargoes on
passage nothing doing; English country mar
kets, quiet.
LIVERPOOL, May 1S.-Wheat, steady; wheat
in Paris dull: -four in Paris dull; French
country markets. weak.
COTTON-Uplands. 3ad.
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CALIFORNIA FRUIT SALES.

NEW YORK. May lS.-The Earl Fruit Com
pany's sales of California fruit to-day: Royal
Ann. average So 6Gd4 10; Black Tartarian, SocG
81 o.. average 81 II; Royal cots. average 81 65.
PHILADELPHIA May lS.-The Earl Fruit
Corlpany's sales of California fruit: Black
Tartarians, average 50 OS
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Cash oIotations were as follows:

Flour. quiet and steady; No. ? spring wheat.
7la72c: No. spring wheat. 67q71c; No. 2 red,
No. 2 white, 3o@31c; No white. 2sA @30c; No.
rye. Size; No barley; S5@4Gc; y No o.; l aas fax
pork, per barrel, sS 1OaS 15 lard per 100
pounds s5G5 O2h2 short ribs sides Qoose). 81 45
"a 70; dry salted shoulders (boxed). 4A@41ec;
short clear sides (boxed), 81 95GI5; whisky, dis
tillers' finished goods. per gallon 81 26.
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Hay AND FEEpsTuFFs.

Two cars of new Oat Hay came in from An
tioch and sold at 81 so per ton. This is bad
opening for tho new crop and seems to indi-
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CLOSING

WHEAT-Spot No. / red Northern Duluth,
firm, IS 21ad; futures. quiet; May. IS lid; July,
IS 7$sd; September 5s I'd.
cd: American mixed new. firm. IS Cd; Ameri-
can mixed old firm 3s sgd; futures quiet;
May IS Cd; July, 3s SID; September, IS 54sd.
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the strength in grain. Pork closed unchanged
and lard and ribs gained 219G5c each.
The leading futures ranged as follows
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STEAMERS TO SAIL.
TIME BALL.

TIME BALL.
Branch photographic Office. Q. s. N, Mer-
chants Exchange. San Francisco. Cal.
April is. 1899.
The time ball the tower of the Ferry
building dropped at exactly noon to-day
l. e.. at of the 10th meridian, at
o'clock p. m. Greenwich time.
c. G. CALKINS,
Lieutenant L. s. N. in charge.
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THE COTTON MARKET.

NEW YORK, May r.-Cotton. steady; mid
NfW ORLEANS. May 1S.-Cotton, quiet;
middlings, 1916.
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All descriptions remain unchanged Veal
and Lamb continue weak, while Beef and Pork
firm.
Wnolt sale rates from slaughtercrs to dealers :
BEEF-TA@S1zc per lb for Steers and 61sD7c
for Cows.
VEAL-SGSIRc per Id.
MUTToN-Wethers. 7G71zc; Ewes, &c per h.
LAMB-Spring Sashc per ib
PORK-Live Hogs. 5hQ5Ac for small, 57s6
SC for medium and 5Q515c for large; stock
Hogs and Feeders. 4A95c; dressed Hogs, /
oslo.
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LONDON, May IS, p m.-Canadian Pacific
1001s: Northern Pacific preferred, l91a; Union
Pacific preferred. 7S7&: Grand Trunk. S; Ana
conda, 12A: bar silver. quiet 2s 1-16d per
ounce; money IA per cent.
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WEATHER REPORT.
.2ath Meridlan-Pacifc Time.D

G20th Merdan-Pacifc Time)
SAN FRANCISCO. May IS p. m.
The following are the seasonal rainfalls 10
date. compared with those OF same date
last season. and rainfall in last twenty-four
hours.
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NEW YORK GRAIN AND PRODUCE


NEW YORK, May 1s.-FLOUR-Receipts,
IL 62s barrels; exports. 1889. Quiet but steady
all day.
WHEAT-Receipts 56, 425 bushels; exports.
1895. Spot firmer but dull: No. red, S4lzc
spot and to arrive (. o. b. afioat and elevator
792c; No. l Northern Duluth S3%4c f. o. b.
aloat 10 arrive Options opened very steady
on favorable cables and bullish crop reports,
with prices unchanged to &c higher, and rap
idly advanced 17sc on broadening speculation.
Crop accounts in the afternoon were very bad
and closing cables strong. A rumor that the
strike at Buffalo had been settled caused tenn
porary liquidation, but the market again ral
lied and closed Arm at a net advance of 112Q
l%c. May 79AqSAc closed Sic; July rs 11-l68
7s%c, closed IS7sc; September, IS s-16977l3c,
closed 771zc.
HOPS-Dun
HIDES-Firm.
WOOL-Firm.
METALS-The metal market continues dull
and featureese. with prices in some instances
entirely nominal in the absence of important
business. News of consequence failed to put
in an appearance, leaving the local contingent
quite dependent upon home developments for
inspiration. At the close the Metal Exchange
called:
PIGIRON-warrants quiet, with s11 12ls bid
and 81 15 asked.
LAKE COPPER-Dull at s19.
T!N-Dull and easy. with SIS 30 bid and
s25 65 asked.
LEAD-DulI, with 81 As bid and "a so asked.
The brokers' price for lead is 81 25 and for cop
sPELTER-Dull. with SO rs bid and 81 asked.
COFFEE-Options closed quiet unchanged to
Spot coffee-Rio dull: mild, quiet " 80
SGGAR1Raw. !,ft,, quiet but firm; refined, firm
WIS.,. s SSS5 packages Steady;
Western, 13a14c; Southern. il%913c. 1''
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Receints. Shipments.
Ar+inlnr

On the Produce Exchange to-day the Butter
market was steady. Creameries 12@1s1ac; Dai-
ries 106D16c Eggs steady; fresh, 11&c. Cheese.
easy; Creameres, 9G10%c.
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OREGON.

PORTLAND, May 1S.-The Eastern markets
were booming to-day and Europe also
stronger Strength elsewhere, though, failed
10 affect the local market, there is ton
mage available at a reasonable rate. which
would enable buyers to meet farmers ideas
Of values. F'ifty-seven cents is still available
for Walla Walla and valley Is nominaily 5Sc;
bluestem is quoted at Soc
WASHINGTON.
TACOMA. May 1s.-May wheat is not doing
much to improve the market. Prices remain
at the figures which have ruled for the week,
club 57c; bluestem, 60c.
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SAN FRANCISCO MEAT MARKET

HOPS-l89S crop, 10G11c per ID for ordlnar
1261215c for good and Boise for choice
fancy from first hands.
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Lieutenant.
SUN. MOON AND TIDE.

United States Coast and Geodetic Survey
Times and Heights Of High and Low
Waters at Fort Point, entrance TO san
Francisco Bay. Published by official au-
thority of the Superintendent
NOTEEThe high and low waters occur at
the city front mission street wharD about
twenty-five minutes later than at Fort POINT
the height of tide is the same at both places
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San Francisco data: Maximum temperature,
So; minimum, 46 mean, 53
WEATHER CONDITIONS AND GENERAL
FORECAST.
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PoRTLAND's BUSINESS.
NORTHERN WHEAT MARKET.

PORTLAND. May 1s.-Clearings. s2o7,ss4;
Sal, ,259.
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Builders Contracts.

Charles C. Butler (owner) with william
Bell (contractor) architect G. A. Behrnd. All
work for 2-story brick and frame building
on SW corner of Geary and Stockton streets. w
1876 by S 1876; $3.50
Jonas Schoenfeld (owner) with H. II. Larsen
(contractor) architects Salfeld & Kohlberg.
Excavating and brickwork for three 3-story
frame buildings on line of Pine street. 1875
w of Octavia. w S7:6 by 1876; $780,
A B. McCreery (owner) with J. w. Wissin-
ger (contractor), architect Herbert B. Maggs.
All work for a 1-story brick building on w
line of Drumm street, 120 from Pacific. S0xS0;
S12. 200
George f Ames (owner) with Ira w. Coburn
(contractor) architect William Koenig All
work for 3-story frame building C fats on
E line of Broderick street. 100 n of Sacramento,
F no by n 55:415 S12 700.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-04-29
BIasted Homes.

In moody silence, with lowering brow and
folded arms, the young man stood before
her.
He was a returned soldier, volunteer of
fcer, honorably discharged from the service
of his country.
He had come back, as he supposed, to
make the dear girl happy who had hung
upon his neck when he bade her good-by to
go to the wars.
But the dear girl had received him coldly.
A hustling commercial traveller had taken
advantage of his absence and supplanted
him in her affections.
"So!' he said, at last. "You have no re-
morse for your faithlessnessl"
None whatever" she replied.
"You prefer that chap with the sample
case to, me-. do you"
Rather"
He drew himself up stiffly.
Miss Grenadine Corkins," he said, 81
leave this house forever. leave it" he
added, picking up his hat, "drummered out,
but not drummed out"
And as he marched out of the room with
military step the heartless girl called out
Left! left! left! left" after him.-Chicago
Tribune.
Inconsistent with Arithmetic.
Love and marriage have no regard for the
rules of arithmetic. First, one is won by
one and then one and one are one.-Phila-
delphia Bulletin.
Life is a big poker game in which every
hnIxy iu hlnffin0 ha 1neap "A toh ElolNa
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MIsDIREcTED LETTERS.
Most of Them Pass Through the Hands
of the "Blind Reader" of the
Dead Letter ONCE.

Among the hundreds of women in
the government office in Washington
some stand preeminent in their line
of work.
Mrs. Patti Lyle Collins, the expert at
the dead letter office, is perhaps the
best all-around woman in office.
In the first place nature gave her a
brave equipment, add to this liberal
education, great linguistic ability, wide
knowledge and years of experience, and
you have before you the little southern
woman who is called the "blind reader"
of the dead letter office.
This is because there is nothing writ
ten so blindly, but she is able to de-
cipher it.
The mail matter which finds its way
to the dead letter Office is of several
kinds, but the only kind that comes
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-04-29

Dixon then ordered arl aboard, and
they descended ladder into the boat
through manhole in the top.
The cover was fastened from the in.
side and the queer craft moved slowly
out into the harbor, only partly sub
merged. A shell dropped in the-Yater
and exploded so near that the waves
from the disturbance nearly swamped
the boat, but she righted herself and
kept a straight course for the outer
bar.
The Housatonic that night lay silent
and dark, as if resting from her muir
derous labors of the day.
A red light burned at her masthead,
andan officer-Crosby-p her decks
slowly and alone. He was watching the
red and blue signal rockets that rose
majestically high into the night from
the flagship of the squadron.
Presently he looked out over the bay,
and his attention settled on a long,
low, black thing which came drifting
toward him over the ripping waves.
1t was like a loose plank in the water.
lie watched it intently for few Sec
onds, then suddenly realizing the peril
of his vessel, he ran at his utmost speed
for the pilot house, shouting at the top
of his voice:
"a torpedo on the starboard! A tor
pedo on the starboardl"
He rang all hands on deck, and as
they tumbled out he gave frantic orders
to start the engines and back away.
They cut away the cables, the engines
began to throb, and the whole ship
trembled with the first motions of get
ting under way.
She was too late. The few seconds
Crosby had spent in observation of
"the plank" cost him dearly.
Dixon and his strange craft had
closed in on him and struck the Housa-
tonic in the side, a little forward of
the mainmast.
There was an explosion that was
heard far out in the harbor, and the
force threw the ship over on her side.
When she settled again the sea poured
into her through an immense hole that
had been knocked in her side.
In four minutes there were only a
few spars protruding from the water
where the stately ship went down and
a crowd of officers and men were cling
ing in the rigging, freezing in the Feb
ruary night. They were rescued by
other ships of the fleet.
With the success of Dixon's expedi-
tion came, too, the finale he had ex-
pected. When the Housatonic sank the
pugnacious little boat went down with
her, locked fast in her broken timbers.
Years after, when they raised the
sodden hulk of the Housatonic from the
harbor, they found the bones of Dix
on and his comrades in the Cigar boat" 4"
and they threw them back into the
sea.-Atlantn journal
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why the Bed Was Rough.

Archbishop Temple, of England, on
one occasion stayed all night at the
residence of clergyman whose wife
was absent. On leaving, the host po-
litely expressed the hope that when
next his lordship honored the house
Mrs. Temple would accompany him.
"No, thanks" said the archbishop,
shortly. Mrs. Temple doesn't like to
rough it," The clergyman's feelings
were deeply hurt and he complained to
his wife on her return. Surely, you
didn't put the bishop in the pink bed
room?" she cried. The clergyman adj
mitted that he did. "Oh, then, that's
it! / put all the silver in the bed. No
wonder he called it rough!"
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terry, with only her curving back above
the water line, where she vacillated
like a stranded sea monster, tossed by
the moving tides.
There the 'cigar boat" (she was un-
named) was observed by George Dix
on, an officer of the Twenty-frst Ala
bama infantry, then engaged in the de-
fense of Charleston.
Dixon had been casting about for
some plan by which the harbor might
be relieved of one or more of the block
aders. A careful inspection of the
abandoned boat convinced him that
she could be used in plan which he
favored. He was fully cognizant of
the grim record she had made for her
self and realized the extreme dangers
which lay in the execution of his plan,
but he determined to try it in the face
of all risks.
Likewise with the six men to whom
Dixon unfolded his project. They knew
a fearful death for themselves was al
most certain in the event of the sue
cess of the enterprise, yet they readily
agreed to accompany him as crew of
the boat.
1t was deliberate sacrifice of them
selves for the attainment of desired
object. The men were Capt. Carlson
and Ridgeway, Becker, Wicks, Collins
and Simpkins.
At seven o'clock on the night of Feb
ruary IL, in 1864, the party assembled
on the deck of the once-abandoned but
it,,TNn,.fa,,f inf,
esqde situation. The darkness of the
night was dispelled by a conflagration
back in the city and by calcium raft
which burned redly over against Fort
Sumter. Overhead a perfect network
of screaming and bursting shells made
apyrotechnic display, gigantic and fear
full, while the crash of the distant guns
was continuous.
The men were perfectly cool and de-
liberate in their movements. Dixon
gave his orders in calm manner, and
Inspected each step of the proceedings
with the keen perception of an expert.
A sailor approached the group on the
docks, with round, black object slung
over his shoulders. 1t was a sea tor
pedo. This was taken rather tender
ly by two of the men, who fixed it to
the end of a spar which another of the
party had drawn out of the water with
rope. The free end of the spar was
then fixed to the nose of the boat. The
spar, being thus adjusted, was kind
of ram, which pointed straight ahead
of the boat and lay just under the wa
ter. with The deadly torpedo on the
Duter Gnd.
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SlE7I55lElE|IT35II|5lE'>5I1a||IS.z E5lEI|TIl I5llI5|5E
A DARING DEED.
The sinking of the Yankee Warship
HOusntonic, by n Confederate
"CiERr boat"

If we are approaching the romantic
era which certain writer's have been
trying to create, when literature and
the drama of the daring heroic type re-
ceive unstinted approval, we may look
for a revival of the stories of sublime
courage exhibited in the civil war.
OF these tales few will more readily
appeal to the hero-worshiper than that
of Lieut.. Dixon and his comrades who
embarked in a crazy little boat on an
expedition against a big Yankee man
o'-war in the siege of Charleston.
The incident was daring in it's con-
ception, heroic in its execution and
tragic in its termination.
Charleston was choked off from the
sea by the strong hand of the federal
blockade. Ten majestic battleships lay
in the outer harbor, and by day and
night they rained storm of shot and
shell on the fortifcations and defend
ers of the ancient city.
For each gunshot from Sumter or
Wagner ten or more thundered back
a deadly answer from the fleet of fed
eral gunboats.
OF this latter most aggressive mem
Der was the Housatonic, a splendid
new ship anchored in the north chan
mel. She was particularly offensive
from the advantage of her position.
The firing of her rifed cannon on the
forts was cruelty perfect and persist
ent. She threw Parrot shells into the
city and her solid shot tore away great
sections of the defensive ramparts. By
reason of the wholesale havoc she Gre
ated and the destruction she dealt, the
motive of the catastrophe which be-
fell her was conceived.
Beauregard had accepted from Mo-
bile firm for the torpedo service a
strange craft, 40 feet in length and
shaped like cigar. She was propelled
by hand and was intended for sub
marine work.
But in each of the half-dozen attempts
TO submerge her in the Charleston har-
Dor she had smothered her crew in
the green waters of the bay, so she
was tied up to the wharf near the bat
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-04-29

into Mrs. Collins hands is that which
comes under the general head of mis-
directed"
This means letters which are wrongly
addressed or those which bear an illegi
BILE direction.
1t is curious to note that there were
received during last year 29,09S letters
which bore no address whatever. The
general appearance of these envelopes,
is well as the nature of the contents,
indicates that by far the greater por-
ton of these errors of omission were
not made by casual and infrequent
users of the mails, but were the result
of haste and want of deliberation by
persons more or less completely alb
sorbed in business.
Money orders, checks and bank notes
are frequently mailed without the
sender's name and address within, and
in an envelope with no address what
ever. After making every effort to dis
cover the owners of these, the United
States treasury finds itself the richer
annually by $4,000 from this source.
Letters bearing imperfect directions
come ulreclly 10 MIS-. Colllns, VINO mas
become so expert in her work that
there is seldom anything too blind"
for her to read When it is remembered
how many foreigners who are totally
unaccustomed to the language write
in it, and how many illiterate who are
able to do little more than to make
their mark, use the mails, one is not
surprised at the great number of let
ters which come into this department.
But these are not the worst people
Mrs. Collins has to deal with. The
writer of the ultra fashionable hand
gives her, as a rule, more trouble than
the illiterate or the foreigner.-St.
Louis Republic.