The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-12-27
Bank Account Not Growing,
but Gaining ExpsTIsaca.
DUE-posTsG: IS A HuGDEAa.
Som! Quick Methods Adopted b. Publishers
TO Call Attention to Lack Of the
Proper Stamps.

More experiences" said the struggling
young author. "You may remember my
telling you of the care / exercised fully
to prepay the postage on the manuscripts
! sent out.
Il always looked after the postage very
carefully; but once | did send a package
that, as IL proved. was not fully prepaid:
and in due time heard from IL In a
manner that excited my admiration.
This manuscript was returned; and
contained IN the envelope with IL there
Was ALSO a clipping from the envelope In
which IL had been originally sent.
"On thai clipping was q postage-due
stamp, ana the clipping had been 30 cut
as 70 take In also a part OF the address
written on the envelope by the sender.
that being. in this case. my hand writing.
so, mere. on this one scrap OF ianer.
was visible proof of underpayment on
package sent by me, the amount being set
forth IN the stamp. And this documen-
one sweep Of the shears In less than
quarter or minute
STILL BETTER METHOD.
81 forwarded the amount called for
promptly. and thought as did so that
the manner in which the shortage had
been brought TO my notice was modern
and up 10 uate In the very last degree.
But that only shows how limited my
knowledge OF such things really was. sns,;S, NO
with the postage-due question was alto
gether admirable, but l have had an ex-
perience since that shows me that. COM
para lively speaking. II was in reality an
uquated and slow.
"By the old method something less than
n quarter OF minute was required In
disposing OF the postage-due business. by
the new method liz is disposed or In abso-
lutely no time at all.
script which in the ordinary course of
events expected TO hear from In week.
but which l did not hear from for
1
''Of course, l hoped eand thoughD that
this delay meant consideration; and that
this careful consideration would not be
given TO the manuscript unless the aru-
Gle seemed worth II.
And so on that delay reared, OF my
/ hopes, a beautiful structure. in which for
a month i lived rent free; and then came
the tornado.
zone morning I received at the hands
OF the letter carr,er large p ana ibmpos brp~r
paper, with a lot OF printing on the out
stds of II and addressed In a very legable
handwriting.
MANUSCRIPT CAME BACK.
'"The printing said that the envelope
flee of the first assistant postmaster gem
eral dead letter office and finally that It
was on official business. What under the
well, L opened the tough. brown parer
envelope. with all the printing on the out
side Of it, and looked; and what 4 saw saw
again when / think Of il today.
Inside was the manuscript that / had
been waiting for SO long and so hopefully,
with a postage-due stamp affixed to the
envelope, while stamped upon the en-
velope itself was the word refused
And so II had never been taken in at
all, but had gone back TO the post Of
flee. and In due time Uncle Sammy. good
humored, BENEVOLENT, kindly Uncle Sam
my. had brought IL back to me.
"You say you should think that In re-
fusing things In this manner they might
now and then shut out an angel? Well.
possibly so; but l suppose they think
prepaid contributions of unknown con-
tributors."