The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1901-05-31

shelter from the wind and rain. All
parts of the premises are kept clean
and healthful.
When the ponies are permitted to
remain out all winter an astonishing
growth of hair appears. This thick
coat of hair is heavy and long, and then
the pony is far from beautiful. But
when the warmth of spring comes the
little creatures throw off their winter
clothing and appear smooth and shiny
in their new spring attire.
The patriarch of this farm is appro-
priately called "Tom Thumb" He
was imported from Shetland Islands 10
years ago and is now IA. He is coal
black and is as dainty and vivacious as
can be imagined. Dozens Of ponies are
imported from Shetland every year for
breeding purposes. This is made nee
essary because the succeeding genera
tions ofponies are larger than their pro-
genitors, which result is attributed to
the salubrious climate of this country
as compared with the native home of
the ponies.-Chicogo Tribune.
A TEMPTING
ACCUMULATION
"What becomes of all the money
orders which are never presented for
payment" asked a Washington busi-
ness man of postal official. "Every
few days we receive letters from cur
customers saying that they have for
warded orders for goods, but the orders
have never reached our hands. Ard
this is true of every large mail order
house in Washington"
"They disappear in various ways"
was the reply. "Some are burned or
torn up instead of the receipts, and this
is particularly true of international
money orders, where the receipts are
of the same size of the order, only
white in color. Some are sent in let
ters which are not addressed, and these,
together with thousands of other Or
ders, find their way to the dead letter
Office. Ultimately most of these letters
find their way lack to the remitters,
or duplicates are applied for.
THE British government utilizes as
a source Of postal revenue all Of the
money IN it's hands which is not paid
out to meet money orders upon pre-
sentation and derives about 10000
annually therefrom. Our government
does not attempt to derive any profit
from this source, and the money is
turned into the treasury, where it is
held in trust, as it were, to meet these
obligations. The government has no
desire to claim or conliscate this money,
and it will pay its obligations in the
form OF money order at any time
upon presentation, upon satisfying it,
self, in the instance of long lapse of
years, that there has been no previous
payment by duplicate or otherwise.
In Great Britain, l believe, this money
becomes forfeited to the government
after certain number of years-four,
think. The British government evi-
/ IDENTIFY proceeds upon the theory that
if a holder of a money order or the
sender does not seek to cash the order
within a reasonable time the govern
ment can put it to good advantage by
applying the amount to its own use.
Such a practice undoubtedly facilitates
the business of the governments end
of the contract and is strictly legal if
authorized by law. In nearly all money
transactions there is limitation upon
the validity of any voucher which rep
resents cash as to its time for presen-
tation. Even note payable without
date is barred by the statute of limita-
tions in the various States.
"There is to-day an accumulation of
over 50 500, 900 in the treasury of these
unclaimed money orders which has
been gradually piling up during the
years the government has been con-
Quoting money order business. With
each individual order the government
has made special effort to effect pay
ment to the payee or restore the amount
to the remitter, and, failing, can do
naught but keep the amount. The
fact that $4,000 duplicate orders are
annually issued would appear 70 indi'
cate that the American people are ex-
tremely careless in the handling OF
these money vouchers. Where the
originals 60 or how they are disposed
of would fill a volume.
"a single order may be issued up to
800 IN amount, and the average is
about $3.50, the smaller offices issuing
the great bulk of orders and the larger
offices cashing 95 per cent. of them.
"Traveling men, actors, circus men,
railroad employees and others whose
business requires them to move from
place to place are very fond of buying
orders payable to themselves. They
cannot spend an order as a bill, and as
no one but themselves or the indorsees
may secure the amount of the orders
they are just that much ahead when
they get into the next town, making
themselves their own bankers, with
the government as depository. Some
times an actor or a circus man will
present dozen orders at the close OF
the season which he has bought from
time to time, and their amount repre-
sents savings which otherwise would
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