The age-herald., 1902-02-19
Ishkooda Fades From the
 Map of U. S. PostofEces.

There is one statement officially pub lished by the postoffice department which will be denied and resented throughout all this grand and glorious and so forth and so forth republic or ours, and that is that United States treasury notes are ''third-class matter"
 Git out wid ye! If there be any one article in all America that Is more nre- eminently first-class than any other whatever, that first thing ct national. tn- ternational and earthly value is d United States treasury motel Dear old green- baclIs-what would the males be without them?
 Yet here is the Postoffice Department saying the notes are 'third-class mail natter Out upon the suggestion-out upon It. To males and mails treasury notes are the whole thing.
 The Postmaster General thus very oblgingly defines a newspaper for an in- terested public: "A newspaper is de- fined to be publication issued at stated intervals of not longer than one week, for the dissemination of current news, whether 1t be of a general or special character, and having the characteristics of second-class matter prescribed by statute' we are respectfully but firmly assured For which. many thanksl
 It is comforting to know that marriage certificates filled out in writing are 'first-class" Who would have thought it?
 pair O them licenses t git mailed, it seems comes under the head of 'insur- ance applications" which are classed with valentines" as "third-ciass mat ter" all of which would seem to be highly proper; and very properly in the same classification is the Correspondence of the blind' for assuredly the owner of a pair O them licenses t git maied'' is, pending further developments, quite blind! As for the certificates of actual matrimopy the accomplished thing, they are classified with seeds and old letters, receipts and checks, and properly so, one would think What a wonderful fitness here Is in the postal laws of the United States
 But not on the Postmaster Generals tintype neither on his daguerreotype, will this free and enlightened nation tamely submit to having these types" classed with soap-wrappers, soap, paper nap kins, pills, tobacco, wooden rulers, dried figs and queen bees, and the whole lot dumped with coin under "fourth-class natter payable at the rate of lone cent for each ounce or fraction thereof prepaid by ordinary stamps affixed" The F. M. G. wooden rulers that way If he knew how bitterly 1t wounds us-how the sting of queen bees is in it all. Still these painful conditions are set out on page 19 of the U. S. O. P. G., that most admirable journal of which the Hon. Henry Candoit Payne is editor-in-chief.
 
 Georgia, the P. M G. informs us, Ever may Tinke after Sunset in postoffices, for the city of Corbett, erstwhile fff the Georgian county of Carroll, has been re- moved by stroke of the pen into the Alabama county of Cleburne, and in an Idlehour the Georgia Jerusalem has fal- len to a Hickory Level on Flatbranch near its junction with Flatcreek, all of which are now Nameless on the map of the state of crackers +Georgia mas been losing postotrloes this year at the rate of two a day ana securing others at the rate of two a week. That is a net loss of twelve offices a week, and followed to its logical conclusion 1t means that all of Georgia's 2729 postoffices will have utterly disappeared from the map by the fourth week of May, 1906. hi this calcul- ation are included Atlanta and the Rest. Alas, poor Georgia
 That most excellent official and most gracious of men, Capt. James E. White, general superintendent of the Railway Mail Service, gives renewed and em- phatic notice to all postmasters of "the necessity for a closer inspection of mat ter presented for mailing" to the end that prohibited matter shall not be mail- ed, Therefore persons in the habit of writing names and messages on copies of newspapers and writing ugly letters had best have a care lest the postoffice inspectors get em on their lists
 Although Captain White has got Ala bama under the headquarters of Birming- hams Tennessee suburb Of Chattanooga, he Is one of the oldest and most admir- able public officials in Washington.
 LUCIEN JULIEN WALKER