Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 May 1898 — Like Mother, Like Son. [ARTICLE]

Like Mother, Like Son.

One of the most remarkable among the feats of the postoffice In finding people—and such feats are many—is recorded by a New York paper. AJetter was received at the postoffice ln'that city addressed simply: “To my mother, New York, America.” The letter come from Ireland, but as there are In New York several women who have sons in Ireland, the postoffice people despaired of finding the right one. However, the letter was turned over to the deciphering department. Now It so happened that on the very day of its receipt there an Irish woman came to the general window and said: .“Have ye a letter from me b’y?” The fact that a woman with the cast of mind required for such an inquiry should come at that time, struck the clerk, who had heard of a letter for a woman whose name was not given, as something more than a coincidence. It was quite possible that such a woman might be the mother of such a son. So he took the letter, observed the postmark, and asked the woman where her “b’y" lived. She gave the name of the place with which the letter was stamped. Some other questions were asked and the answers noted down. Then the clerk gave the woman the letter, on the condition that she should open it on the spot and return it if it were not for her. She opened it, and lo! its contents proved conclusively that it was really from her son in Ireland.