The St. Johns herald., 1900-06-23
OUR COMPOUNDED MAIL
 B0IHERS US.

] ral q weeks mail and send it all il
 a bunch, either.
 Monday morning, 18th inst. VI, got Albuquerque Citizens sLd Ari
 zoRa GazetteS aud Enterprises e
 the 18th, l4th, 18th and l6tb inst i We suppose that some censoriaIly
 inclined galoot has been passing judgment on whether to allow our pure mind to feast on the good
 things which these most excellent friends send us in order that we
 may have taste of metropolitan lite each day. But permission ot his High and Mighty Nibbs, the postal employe, who IS the same opinion. as the New York pOl,ce- nan, cannot always be secured O mlserum me!
 Our l.. A. Times, our Prescott Courier and our Journal Miner are all a. coy of approaching us as a self conscious maid of sweet sixteen all on account of the hOrrId mail man whose spasmodical methods would cause spasms ot madness in the bosom of an angel of mercy.
 Our Chicago and other eastern papers come on time just often enough to show us they could do it all the time if the mail system had backbone enough to vertebrate Q Mednsa.
 Our letters have the same habit of coming within eyeshot. Satur- day we received two letters, one from the East and one from the West. from points probably l75 miles distant. The writers If so inclined, could have walked thru, delivered theIr messages and been on their return home before the let teTs got off the "kivered c-yars."
 These arc a few instance- out uf the many to illustrate the prevail ing method in onr mail business as we experience it in this part of the moral vineyard under the stew ardsh'p of Charles Emory Smith. Perry Heath ct al, whose deeds are writ In the First Book of Cuba. We've had six months of this, and more-;ban enough.
 We feel inclined to kick, but we won't; for is it not writtcn-proba- bly, by some sage'ot tke postal ser vire-"Whom the gods would de- stroy They first make kick" And besides, Emory, Perry. and every body has troubles of his own. Ev- en the Inspectors have their troub- les. For an occasional letter or paper to he delay ed doesn't amount to much out here where we have so much else 10 amuse us; but when it is only the occasional letter or pa per that gets here on time. excuse us, o ye gods. if we yell Justify for D cholagogue for ourselves and 8 belminthagogue for the postal sys- lem.
 The fault is not with the office here. for We have witnesses, who gre 'lbchlnd the scenes" usually when the mail is belng distributed and could testify as to the correct ness Of the estatemcnt. St. Johns md HOlbrook star route can't car . ry the mail before it gets 1t and the z office at Holbrook is , not empowered 10 keep an agent tO : ravel up and down the line and gather the mail for these parts and put it off at HnIbrnok at the right ! .ime. The mail IS at least 24 hours ater than it was before the time Of arrival and departure of mail at ! was changed. Former " the mail left Hoibronk at p. m; now leaves there 6 9:30 &. n. and our mail from the west must always lie over in Holbrook till the ,ext day. And should the train ,e few hours late. as it very often s, our ma'l from the east likewise ies in Hnlbrook 24 hours. All st us object to this, of course. But Ve won't kick, we don't kick at hat either.