The age-herald., 1902-02-01
Feared c0ngrcssmen Do Not Prop erly Appreciate the Common

- 4aA Ht9 Ais1ue eoal pockeI when MT. Blaine said with apparent haste:
 Let me glance at it a second more, please
 The reporter again passed the letter to Mr. Blaine. and Hr. Blaine hastily placed it in his own pocket, buttoned his coat over it. and looked at the astounded re- porter.
 My God, Mir. Blaine, you gave me your word of honor you would give me back the letter!" the reporter cried.
 T gave you my word to return 1t when you first handed it to me. and I did so,'' said MT. Blaine. T made no promise the second time. You cannot get the letter; it is miner'
 There was approximation and little scene in the lobby; but MT Blaine walk ed out with the letter safely concealed in an inside pocket of his coat.
 There have been many versions of the historic incidents but none equals this one from the Washington barber.
 
 Another long list of publications ex- cluded from the second-class of mall matter" has just been published by Third Assistant Postmaster General Mad den, against whom publishers of iliegi- innate newspapers" are redoubling their efforts through lobbles of all kinds, one particular publisher having a lobby of his own which has been ranting before the House committee on postoffices and post roads this week.
 Atlanta and Nach1,i11a tba o,,1zz Southern towns that figure in Mir Mad den's new list. He has got them on the list, and barred from second-class, or newspaper, postage rates are such excel- lent and useful publications as the Att lanta Constitution Almanac, the Nash vile Banner Almanac, and the Nash vile American Cumberland Almanac. These almanacs are not newspapers, the Postoffice Department declares, and when they are mailed they must be paid for at the rate of lone cent for each two ounces or fraction thereof. prepaid by stamps affixed. Numerous other news paper almanacs throughout the country have shared the same fate.
 All sorts of railway guides are like wise on the list, including that of the Watts Publishing Company of Atlanta; and other publications ranging from the thrilling Superb Library. the scalp-rais- ing Sunshine Serial. and the enthralling Postal Days and Festtage (queer name) to the luminous Chair Leader. Chair Journal, Concert Helper, Church Festi- val Helper, Postal Chimes, Sunday School Leader, and the tenderly pathetic Home Folks-hes got 'em on the list.
 All this is of great benefit to the busi- ness of making of real newspapers. And so we all of us may join in saying, Go on Brother Madden, go on Brother Mad den, and you'll be a white-newspaper robed angel in Pennsylvania Avenue. while in third-class postage the howlers will wallow howlingl In -s terse but not fully understood vernacular of Ills Imperial Majesty of Germany, hurrah- 
 Yet in the midst of our daily bread, and rejoicing, there is one sad note of sadness, as it were, so to speak, by the way The Daily Bulletin of Orders Af- fecting The Postal Service, most ad- mirable newspaper with the largest cir culation (free) in the whole world, while telling us on one page of the wide swath cut in the second-class, gives us on an- other page the painfully startling news that the time allowed for carrying the mail between Squirejim, in West Virginia via Diana Horsepen, to Tiptop, in Ole Ferginny. has been increased by nine minutes!
 This grave wrong to the Squirejirn mers and the Tiptopians is believed in Con- gressional circles to be the first really important steps in the Republican cam- paign for the next Presidential election, and the new Postmaster General, MT. Henry c. Payne of offensive partisan ship, is given credit for the bold stroke. The Squirejimmers and the Tiptopians are understood to be to a man Demo- crats, and the purpose of the Roose- welt administration is clearly to delay the receipt of their Pub Docs and Liter rytoor by nine whole minutes, lifetime sometimes in the patriotism of the bal lot.
 And this view of the administration,s fell purpose against the Democratic Squirejim mers and the Tiptopians is greatly strengthened by the proclamation in this same issue of the Daily B. O. O, A. T. P. s. that the mail-time between the Oshkoshians and the Winneconne- mans, Wisconsin Republicans, every one of them, has been decreased nearly one hour-precisely, fifty minutes. Moreover there has been very serious interfer- ence with the mails of the Hudate- Thesha-Thula-Scoot- -Coytee people of the Southern Democratic state of Tennysy.
 Clearly the Roosevelt administration has already begun the depicable work of thwarting the will of the people in 1904. Therefore Mr. Bryan ought to talk about Perry Belmont like he's .doin' in every issue of the uncommon Commoner.
 LUCIEN JULIEN WALKER.