Valdez daily prospector., 1913-04-18
FRIDAY. APRIL IS. 1913.
MAIL DELAY AT SUckERvILLE.

Sunday bath on Barrack Square and discussing the fact that the outside mails were near nowhere.
 It's just tierce," said one of the men, 'ihc way these mails are delayed" and he paused to examine the man With the red side whiskers that just came up to him expecting to make a touch. "The delays are pretty bum all right" said the man with the red whiskers as he joined in the sun bath, but shucks, there ain'l
 nothin' new under the sun. l mind the time l was back in the Ozarks and wc was isolated from the outside for seven long, weary months. The mail was coming reg'lar enough for some years. when all of a sudden they stop ped with a jerk. l dunno but 1t was just the same as happened this winter. There were two passes to our camp, and the con- tractors had switched it over the bumemst road, with the natural consequence that the road was hIocked. When we learns how t was, We up and telegraphed Col Onel L.OethalS and demanded the repudiatiOn of the Panama treaty, but that didn't do a bit of good. We come to the conclusion that we had better leave the whole matter in the hands of the Dem ocratic club. and was for sendIn&a a message to William Jennings Bryan when along comes a wise gazabO of an editor and he tells us all about il. ''rhrre aint no delay, men, says he, 'and wo- men. too, begging your pardon"
 Eve been over the trails and know all about if. The mail de- lay is simply imaginary. and case of thought projection mere ly. All you have to do to relieve the situation is to think back wards, and imaGific you get in" mails rrg'Iar and ther" you are. The department in Washington will tend tO the rest, and We can receive mail by inductinn.' We'll. we allowed that mebrb he guy was right. though most of us felt that we was getting mails by re- duction just them. However, af- ter consulting the leaders of the Democratic club. now that they was in power. We formed a DOW erful society for the study of Spiritualism. so that we might project the mails into our pres ence by absent treatment. This editor guy he had the long dope at his fingers ends. and he teaches us how to do it, although he near ly got Us all into trouble when he taught Us the elements of levi tatiOn. which is lifting something by just putting your hands on it. One of our members lrvitated a barrel @ beer. and the judge said that there were no SplrItualISm about il. and gay" him ninety days
 Well. sir we met reg'lar and we had The darndesi lime you ever saw--our little burg'S name for got tO mention was called Suck crvillr--and the citizens made things hum. Even the politic- ians got the spirlualislic craze, and when they'd meet one anoth- or in the street. they'd try and hypnotiZr votes for the municipal elections out of everyone of us. The way We understood the bad eyes and cold shoulders, and levi tatiOn and materialiZat ion, was a sight. and we allowed that if it wasn't for that there editor teach in us we'd still be harbarians. Well, anyhow, there cant be too much of good thing, and when our neighbors began to think us all bugs. we began to think the same of ourselves. They editor says they was nothin' but lot of dope fiend Socialists, them neigh bors. what was drivin' capital out of the country. and he clapped his hands on his jeans just to get a strangle hold on a beer check that rested there for fear it might disappear. We kind of failed on our induction, so we copf q conopn if oo tn ntapy iauJ hn