The daily morning Alaskan., 1901-11-13
FOOLS THEM.
 A BUNCH
How Uncle Sam Watches
 For Papers
Man, People Slip Them In Envel- op and Think They Will Pass tho stamp and Dato Canoeiisrs, Bnt Do Thsyi ...

Abraham Lincoln once said that you can fool an of tho people some of the time: some of the people all of the time. but you can't fool all of the people all of the time, Neither can you fool the postofIiec employees and the local boys are no exception to the rule.
 Yesterday afternoon an Alaskan repre- sentative happened to fall through the door of the postofilce Into the little place behind the boxes. Harry Relnhardt. the stamp canccller and all-around assistant postman. was working away at the sort Ing table. First he would pick up a large envelope. Carefully his eyes and hands would pass over it. Perhaps gleam would light up his eagle eye, and with a hIss he would spit forth these stago'loin words. At last. villain. I have you And bin. Miss Envelope would hit thcI high spots and snuggle away In big box meath the tahle,
 The scribe got excited. He looked for knife. for he did not know but that "l have you. villain. gleam In Harry's eye would light on him and it would bc all or with the reporter in bunch.
 Time and time again large envelopes would find their way underneath the ta- ble In a box marked Mt" Then the pencil shoyer got an axe and sauntered up to the table and timidly said: why slave. dost thou put big sized envelopes in wonder boxlcts?'
 Tho coming postmaster-general looked the newspaper man up and down. from his head to his cowhides. and as his cye lit on the axe he said: "Thcy would fool Uncle Sam. but not your skagway uncle You see those envelopesg We'll they arc for points below Dawson. They contain letters-I think not. They arc full or papers. and you can't send papers this time of the year to any place between Dawson and the lower river. Nome in- cluded.
 "McthInks many win walt for the letter that never came; that Is, they will have 10 walt until tho steamers begin to run In the spring, tra-la."
 .'But." queried the news gatherer' sotto yoce. don't you ever make mistake and throw some letters in the boNy
 Never" replied Harry. "Therc is al- ways n printers ink snicll about the en- yclopc that can detect when sack ls thrown from the deck of steamer into ,bc wagon at the dock oven. My smell Ia educated. When In doubt tear lt- te holc in the corner of the envelope and find out But have only mndc one mistake and that was over year ago.
 "Tt was this way" Harry went on "A nice. fat envelope came in the mall t wns for Fort Yukon. and postmarked Rotterdam. Germany. felt of It. Se" whlzz. I thought. there must be dozen papcrs in this. but I was not sure might be letter written on meat market paper.
 VT tore h open Holy Moses DO you smell that funny. nauseatlng air in thc postofrlce. We'll lt was caused by that letter being opened. It contained cheese. IImburgcr cheese. It was fin crumbs and fl ran out of the envelope. That was the only mistake: but that was enough nay attention to postmarks. and IT one comes from Germany it goes down the line. scat" ...
 From the above it appears that no pa- pers can be sent while the mall is be'ng carried over the Ice to points below paw son. Many have no doubt. taken this method to smugglc papers, as It were, through the man. thinking that it would mass as a letter. but it does not. ..''.'''