The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-01-31

a guarantee that the stamp has been
destroyed:
The United States government will
make trouble for you if you have any
portions of a brewing or distilling plant.
Beer watts and distilling kettles may not
be used for any other purpose than
brewing and distilling, and if a person
Should go only so far as to make
bathtub out of one or the other of them
he would be mourning the displeasure
Of his government.
Possession of counterfeit money is a
felony. 1t is presumed that man, Wo-
man or child should be able to deter
mine whether coin or bill is genuine,
and the attempt to pass it may be fol-
lowed by extreme consequences. In
case of doubt on the part of the pos
SCISSOR he may present the coin or bill at
the redemption window in the sub
treaesury, where, if it proves to be
counterfeit, the clerk will stamp the
word Fcounterfeit" deep into the coin
and clearly through the bill, and you
who have brought it there will have not
one word to say against it.
If you should be at country railroad
station and see a mail pouch lying on
rail. where the incoming train would
cut it in two, you would better let it
| lie. Touching a pouch of United States
mail with even foot Is a technical
crime, and it is altogether owing to the
disposition of the postmaster and the
United States marshal of the district
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| you.
| Fifteen years ago in a town not many
miles from Chicago the messenger from
! the station to the post office was noto-
riously lax in his work and the post
master showed no disposition to i'm
prove the service. Two citizens unfa-
miliar with the postal laws undertook
to teach the two of them a lesson.
One winter evening, when six o'clock
train had dropped pouch on the plat
form and. gone on, these two men
picked up! the pouch and carried it
| around the, corner of the station build
| ing, where 1t was not found for an
hour They We're arrested next day
and brought before the postal authori-
ties, where, after a stern lecture, they
were let go. s'r. =
| Altogether the postal department, has
some stringent regulations. If you re-
ceive letter from a friend on which
the stamp is not cancelled it is against
a specific statute for you to pluck off
the stamp and use it again. There are
several kinds of vigorous language
which you cannot transmit by letter.
While one may not touch mail
pouch, it is different with letter which
a carrier has delivered at the address
on the envelope. Dropping the letter
at the place marked, the carrier OBJ
solves his government from any re-
sponsibility, and If after the letter has
been so delivered another person takes
it and opens it there is no recourse
through the post office department.
Carrying concealed deadly weapons
almost universally is against the provi-
sions of both state statutes and city or
dinances It has been questioned, how
ever, as to just what constitutes th'
concealing of a weapon. 1t has peer
commended that the carrying Of such
weapon in the pocket where a person
carries every IhiLS VI liz ~ ~
is not concealing it-that it is carrying
it-that it is carrying it in the mos
convenient and natural place. Conceal
ing weapon, on the other hand, nigh
be the hiding of knife up ones slew
or tucking a revolver into ones breas
or boot.
In this concoction there Is a quee
fact concerning the carving Of q re
volver in Chicago. If a man has one i
his pocket and is arrested incidentall
: on suspicion he is locked up and as
: sessed the usual fine; if he chances t
t be carrying one and is attacked b
thugs he may use the weapon, KILN
, one or two of his assailants, and nc
I even be arrested.-Chicago Tribune.