Arizona silver belt., 1901-03-14
New POstOffice Rules.

| gently authorized the Silver City post off ee to cash all money orders pre- scented for payment, whether drawn directly on this office or not In other words, a money order is now cashed wherever presented, the same as an express order and bank draft, and without regard to the office upon which it is drawn. This privilege has been accorded offices of the first and second class for some time and il is now being extended to offices of tie third class. It Is convenience which will be greatly appreciated by the public. Another ruling of the depart ment which will expedite payment and make money orders more popular ia that of permitting pay ment of the order upon presentation without wait ing for the receipt of the correspond ing letter of advice. To secure this favor the order must be presented within thirty days after the date of issue. Under the old plan delay was often exp rienced in pay ment due to non-receipt of advice This is now obiterated and orders paid promptly on demand. .-Enterprlse
 Whitelaw Reid Defends Newspapers.
 Whitelaw Reid gave his second lee ture before Yale students He began Dy referring to the question asked by the New York Correspondents club, How can the Influence of the press be increasedp'
 He said that Catholic, Confucian and Agnostic in the persons of Car. dinal Gibbons, Wu Ting Fang and Andrew Carnegie had replied in sub. stance, Tell the truth and be fair"
 1t wasn't an ill omen," said Mr. Reid, that influential sections of the community seem sometimes to have persuaded themselves that many newspapers do not try either to tell the truth or be fair, except in 50 lar as they feel sure 1t wIll pay. Yet m this the critics judge the newspapers with more unfdIrness and untruthfui- ness than any of the newspapers or dinarily display themselves
 Mir Reid said chat the most of the libel suits brought are unjust.
 "People who have character to pro- tect," he said, resort too rarely to tue law against libel, bot those Whose character could hardly be injured are the first, under the guidance of law yers looking tor their pay to d share uf the verdict, to institute hbel suits as means of speculating on mad vertent errors.
 "Unhappiiy the curious'state of the law and the lingering effect Of old de- cislons that ill nt modern conditions combine to promote this unfortunate reversal of what every jurist and every good citizen has at heart. It is the rule of compensatory damages that makes the law which honest men hesitate Co use ln their own just de- fense a perfect fountain of speculation for men who nave no character to lose, and consequently no reluctance to enter the courts on an i'll advised quest of casn.n
 inc speaker gave instance where slight errors had been taken advantage or by persons who were guilty in worse ways. tie continued
 Without questioning Tn the least the learning or the uprightness ot many judges who are still apt to hold differently, l venture to point out that d reasonable hberality as to the ad mission Of evidence about general character in the case of inadvertent and unimportant inaccuracies would be Tn the interest of all honest press of the community
 he lecturer next entered upon a discussion ot probable changes ln the newspapers of the future, dealing first with Mir. Harmsworth's recent eX- pertinent with the New York World.
 The first class daily paper of the future," he sad, ''is not likely to come in the form of book or even of a pamphlet. Whatever its form or quality of contents, the people that read it wi pay for it. It will not be an elemosyDary institution conducted chiefly by the advertising business of the country for the benefit of the read. ing classes. IC will indulge no sham about being independent of business considerations
 Mir. Reid closed with tribute to the capable and conscientious editor as one of the noblest and most intlu- ential men in the world.
 The shannon Copper Company.
 Or all the recent fiotations of cop per companies on the Boston and New York markets, none have reached a more enviaole position among the legitimate enterprises than the Shan t..y