Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 51, Number 14, Jasper, Dubois County, 18 December 1908 — Page 6

WEEKLY COUHIEK Hi:. KD. DOANK, Publisher. JASPHK, INDIANA. English woman Suffragists th'nk t). ir magna clurta a loa Um in liiig handed to them. Now tf it the Japanese have taken ti tas.i ! presume their cry of ' üanzai' i!l rie way to "rotteu." The i.i'ia r who marries his st. :vgrj !. . neer gets any symW'h) ft' m. the haters of wealtll. An An, rir.ni has bfen a'.M l to aid tU Chit.-mint to a .ike metal money To '.) i the chli.ks chink, as It were. " En:tr t ;. '.!. K.m anr.u luces thnt she Is a fu! wer of Satiin " And there are tini - v. h. ( h- 'cu. to be stepping on h - hi e!s. Mrs. H" .;rd Gould says her husrand tr,. 1 to parve h. r hv cuttlug her alio v n e to $60,C" a year. Ever hear of u h cruelty? That !inu tie who Mole $5.0ii worth of j'liy under the very eyes of her i..:'res In Ph. . Mphia nertr was borti to be a sen ant. Wright a rojiiaiif x .11 soon be on the tuah. t at $4.em) njuece, whtch shows u tt h-gh Hying Is going to be as expet.s;w a iranie a? e-r. Some : 'he hoielk-c;ers In Switzerland ;r- .:::.iUy not the best are making w i on the stirs of commendation in. he Ua'd ker mi.de books. One N v York newspaper learns that Mr. iiM-eelt will receive $30.00" a year as a.-,lstant editor of the Outlook. That isn't auch a had outlook. A chewing-gum magnate in Ohio has been sued for divorce. Certainlj. any kind of a wife ought to be able to make a husband of tills sort stick. "When the Bagllshtnon hear that Chicago's smoke nuisance Is grtaUr itthat of L ondon they will put it down as nothing but another Yankee boast. Americans, declares Prof. Zuehin, prefer th- .jxcluslve to the common life. Th raan who owns a motor car will be inclined to deny this assertion. Mr. Ed .'son may be taking a physical rest, rut his imagination appears to bo working oxer tlmo when he predicts that ha will Jly to tho North Pole in forty rn mutes. Sometln.' i a bridegroom really attracts attention at n wedding nnd gets what Is coming to him. One at Los Angeles recently was kissed by four hundred girls. A brother of tho "King of Kurdistan" has applied for naturalisation papers in this country. Being a brother of tho "King of Kurdistan" isn't a very good Job, evidently. When the news came that the Kaiser bad invented n new brake, the rest was easy for the newspapers. One and all announced in chorus: "The Kal- . always making breaks." President Roosevelt announces that hp does no' intoad to klH more than two olej.r. ints during his African hunting tr;p. Of course, If ho scares a lew more to death it will not- be his fault We look forward with keen relish to the time when Editor Roosevelt and Marsa Henry Watterson unllmbertht ir vocabularies and start something across the chasm that separates iae sanctums. Russians, Englishmen and Germans are mad at Emperor William because of his recent declaration of friondship for Great Britain. William may as well give up his hopes of ever being able to please anybody. Dr. Cook, who is looking for the north pi4e, writes thnt the boys are looking well and thnt he has plenty of dogs. No wonder the boys are look lag well. Dog In that country is such a pleasant change from n stoady diet of canned goods. It is much to bo proud of thnt on the occasion of tho visit of the fleot to Japan not only did tho thousands of sailors who were given shore lib erty conduct themselves well, but vrhen Admiral S perry sailed away there was not n single deserter. Dr. Napoleon Boston, of Washing ton, declares that tho practice of kissing Is worso than houso files for spreading dlsense. Why, if this is true, do so many of our most beauti ful young ladios manage' to got along until they nre married without having poor health? The possibilities of woman suffrage nre Illustrated by the fact that n Wyoming man and his wife are run nlng In the present campaign on op poslto tickets for tho same office There may be some heart-burnlm ovor tho rosult, but, whichever w ns, the salary will be in tho family

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Tho following I the Platform for ; the revision of county, township and city accounts and other matters relative to county nnd municipal affairs that has been proposed by the Merchants' Association of Indianapolis and other cltlos nnd will be prosented j to the Legislature lu January, upon j which laws relative to the proper and j business-like management of the dif-i fercnt counties and municipalities of the State will be framed. Our readors are earnestly advised to read this "Platform" closely nnd uso their best efforts to procure the passage of the bill that will be promulgated from tho Platform as given below: Plank No. 1. Provide a Uniform System of County, Township and City Accounts, and Centralize Their Supervision in the State Auditor, Modern business methods control the conduct of public "business in Federal offices. The admirable results of such methods In securing honesty nnd efficiency In the conduct of public business show conclusively the vnlue of modern business system for county, township and city offices. Thero should be fixed by law a business system and an honest standard which will mnke irregularity and dishonesty in these offices as difficult ns possible, and which will make the detection of cither easy and certain. The details of the system should bo worked out in the otllce of the State Auditor, and the system should be Inaugurated and the working of the system supervised from that office. Plank No. 2. Require the Governor to Make State Examinations of the Books of Every County, Township and City Office. Examinations should proceed from the highest executive authority in the State, an officer without interest in reflection, dhoreed from local infiiiencs, most prominently before the public, and directly responsible to the people of the State for the enforcement of the law. A department of inspection should be organized to make examination of the books of every county, township and city officer; the head of the department should be named by the Governor, under his direction, and responsible ouly to him. Th examination should be at irregular intervals, speedy, without notice, thorough and relentless, following the methods of the United States government Where the local machinery from any cause, fails to oust or prose cute inefficient, negligent or dishonest officials, the Governor should be em powered and required to act. hxami nation should be of such a character as to place the stamp of official ap proval upon the work of all officers who are honest and faithful in the discharge of their duties. Plank No. 3. Require the County Auditor to Audit Before Making Settlements. Settlements mndo by the county auditor in the receipt and disbursements of money, either with other officers or with tho public, should be based only upon such an audit as will assure tho regularity and accuracy of tho transactions Involved. Such assurance can not be had without checking tho settlement sheet in ovory Instance with the original entries of recolpt and disbursements. Bids, pro posals and contracts when required bv law should be demanded by the au ditor as the basis of every settlement in which they are involved. Plank No. 4. Pay the County Com missioners Appropriate Salaries and Require Them to Give Bonds. Tho countv is an Immense nubile corporation and its officers control millions of property and collect and disburse hundreds of thousands of dollars annually. Under our laws tho county commissioners nre the execu tive directors of this great corporatism nnd form the active bond of tho county official machinery. Tho neces sary qualifications, the grave nnnnciai responsibility and the lmportanco of tho office demand that the county commissioner should receive an adequate salary, established on n business basis, and that he should give proper bond for the honest and faithful discharge of his duties. Plank No. 5. Require the County Auditor to Give an Adequate Bond. Under the present law the auditor of overy county of tho State gives a bond for the same amount, which Is $10,000. The treasurer's bond, howovec Is graded upon the volume of tho business In tho county. The control of disbursements In tho auditor's office and the responsibility and liabil Ity on that account varies with tho business of the different counties In precisely the same manner as In the treasurer s oince. tiio oonu oi me au dltor should be bnsed upon tho volume of business and graded in the same manner as tho treasurers bond. Plank No. 6. Cut Off Extra Allow ances to Public Officers. So long as extra allowances are per mltted to public officers under the law. political friends and associates will find a motnod oi voting to each other unearned money. The applies tlon of this system to county officers is so gonöral and the amounts to bo secured from this course aro so great that the Inducement exists constantly to Increase the list of extra allow ances. Plank No. 7. Forbid Public Officers Profiting From Public Contracts. The law now prohibits municipal officers from entering Into contracts with the cities or towns which they represent. But It does not prevent tho officer of one city from entering Into a contract with another city, or the officers of n city onterlng a contract with n county, or members of the leg i ilat uro from taking profit from public ronfracts with county. . township or cit). A broad general iaw affecting all public offices should make it a felony for any public oilicor to profit

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Plank No. 8. Require County Officers to Keep a Ptibl.c-Fee Book. lh ieoi'e who pay fees to public ttfioT have a right to know that how fee are accurately charged. properly recorded and accounted for. I and that they ae turned Into tho pub- j lie treasury. Books recording the bus-1 iness of public ottlcers with tho public ! should be public records always open ' to tho public. Plank No. 9. Require Sheriffs to Feed ' Prisoners at Actual Cost. The present law provides that the sheriff shall receive a fixed amount j per day for feeding prisoners, and that amount Is the same u every county in ' the State, whether the county is Inrge or small, the jail crowded or ompty, tho cost little or much. This system is clonrly unjust, either to tho sheriff or to the public. Any system which nffords the sheriff a profit from tho foedlug of prisoners is a violation of good business principles. Such a system Induces underfeeding tho prison ers, overcrowdtng tho jails, the ird-1 ding of accounts, and Is an outrage on public ruorfc:r. That tho present sys-1 tern Is an extravagant one for the pub He Is conclusively proved by tho fnct that In every ense where prisoners aro feil In workhouses or jails at actual cost the expense ranges from ono-third to one-half of the cost under tho prosout system. Plank No. 10. Require the State Auditor to Audit the School Funds. Under tho present law accretions to the school fund are reported to a state olficer only when they are collected, hut no fiscal officer of the State is furnished a record of the items belonging to this fund at tho time such items originally accrue. The only supervision of the school fund by any State officer authorized under tho present law is given to the superintendent of public Instruction, who is nn educational and not a fiscal officer. And tho original charges of school fund Items are not even reported to him. The common school fund Is i sacred fund, and every item belonging to that fund should be reported to a fiscal officer of the State at the time it originally accrues. Plank No. 11. Compel the Collection of Fines and Forfeitures Due to the School Fund. Unwarranted remittances of fines and flagrant neglect in collection of fines, fees and forfeitures belonging to the school fund are matters of common knowledge In every county of the State. The present annual loss to the fund on this account amounts to hundreds of thousands of dollars. This loss not only gravely threatens the adequacy of the school fund, but it has already caused a material Increase In direct taxation for school purposes. Every taxpayer in the whole State is annually paying a tribute in dollars for the long Indifference of citizens to this abuse. Correction lies in placing tho final responsibility for the collection of all items belonging to tho school fund In a State officer. Plank No. 12. Put the Prosecuting Attorney and His Deputies on Salary. The fee of the prosecutor under tho present law is fixed, not on the Invesligation of crime nor on the trial of criminals, but only on conviction. And that fee Is identically the same amount where conviction is secured after woeks of trial in a single case In the criminal court and in the police court where scores of convictions are often secured In a single hour. Tho prosecutor's fee for a month's trial in the criminal court may be nothing If no conviction Is secured. And the chance of convictions Is very much less In the more Important cases where stubborn defense Is made. But the prosecutor's fees In the police court may amount to hundreds of dollars In an hour. The present system, therefore, furnishes an Incentive to prosecute minor offenses to tho neglect of matters of public interest. And In large cities It greatly overpays the prosecutor. Plank No. 13. Compel the Payment of All Fees Into the Public Treasury. The fee system of paying public officers is endured by tho public only on the theory that it costs the taxpayer nothing. That this theory Is utterly false needs no argument Tho opportunity to make an independent fortune In the public office shows how the public treasury would profit if all the fees were paid into the treasury and the officers were paid a straight salary. To make a private fortune out of a public office Is In violation of tho nrlnclples of republican government. The fee system Is vicious and obso lete, and should be abolished. Plank No. 14. Require the Courts to Be Responsible for the Drawing of Jurors The law provides with the utmost exactness what shall be presented to the jury, and the court scrutinizes the evidence with tho utmost dlllgonco, Why then should tho law not require that the court oxorclse the same scrutiny in regard to tho men who shall compose tho Jury? Our mothod of selecting Jurors is nnclent, Ineffec live. "Unsatisfactory and offers oppor tunlty for the protection of official law-brenkers and tho benefit of special Interests. The judge of overy court should be responsible to tho people for tho character of overy Jury which tries a case In his courL The excel lent results of the recent New York law proves the value of this method Plank No. 15. Require Preliminary Examination of Jurors for Special Venires. Special Juries are drawn on the theory' that cases of peculiar importance to the public require an dxtra effort to secure competent juries for their trial. Tho integrity of the special Jury can only bo secured through a careful oral examination of each individual ns to his qualifications before he Is placed In a special panel. This examination should proceed from nn officer authorized to cite citizens to appear beforo him and answer questions as to their qualifications. Such examination should bo made a matter of record nnd the books placed at the disposal of the court In which thö special Jury is to servo. The saving of time to court nnd counsel nnd of money to tho public for disagreements and mls-trlals would more than componsnto for a good salary to n competont commissioner to make such examinations.

Plank No. 16. Authorize Grand Jurors

to Make a Presentment to the Gcvernor When Conditions Warrant and Require the Governor to Institute Special Investigation and Prosecution In Such Cases and to Present the r-acts to the Legislature. The p-jecutor not only prosocutos criminals after indictments are returned, but he secures the evidence for tho grand Jury upon which the Indictments nre returned, and advises the grand Jury as to tho law in all matters pertaining to Indictments and to their Investigation. Therefore, wheroever he Is negligent, inelflrient or subject to local conditions and influences ho Is In a position effectually to obstruct tho prosecution of crime. Under our law It roquires tho voto of llvo wilt of six Jurors to return an Indictment. Two grand Jurors, therefore, may prevent the return of an Indictment, oven when the evidence seems to the other four conclusively to warrant an Indictment. Whore local conditions are such as to obstruct the prosecution of crime. eH,;- through the control of the grand Jury or the Inefficiency, neglect or control of tho prosecutor, the people should have a right of appeal to tho State, That appeal should go to the highest executlvo officer of tho State chargetl with the responsibility of enforcing the laws, and he should bo required to institute special Investigation and prosecution, and empowered to employ special counsel for this purpose. In order to apply the curative remedy of publicity to cases of this kind, and further, to prevent the abuse of such gr?nt power on the part of tho Governor, it should bo required of him that a full report of all such special investigations and prosecutions shall be presented to tho next succeeding session of the legislature. No Help Wanted. Scene a courtroom. A big. burly artisan is brought in by tho bailiff, nnd placed iL ihe dock. Flo is a regular Hercules In point of stature and Is brought up on a charge of assault. It is evidently his first appearance in court. When he enters the magistrate Is busy with his papers, but presently looks up hurriedly and, turning to the prisoner, exclaims: "Have you engaged any ono to defend you?" "What's that?" asks the prisoner: then, collecting himself, he ndds: "l don't want anybody. Come on, any .half dozen of you." London Answers. Her Cure For It. "How do yez kapo from beln lone ly. Mrs. Flynn." "Faith an whin I m all alone I hnvo the houso full of company." Harper's Weekly. We Never Learn Not To Write. The years of man seem all too brief. One lesson ne er, aias is learned. Still foxy people come to grief Because their letters were not burned. Chicago Record-Horald. When He Loves His FellowMan. "Biffins has a kind word for ovorybody." "Yes. Has running for office." Clovoland Plain Dealer. His Experience. Singleton So you think marriage Is a failure, do you? Wedderly I know It Is. I married an heiress, and her father failed the next day. Detroit Tribune. Expected to Talk. Nurse (announcing the expected) Professor, its a little boy. Professor (absentmindeilly)I Wei ask him what ho wants. Boston Transcript. As a Special Compliment. Jlmmle My ma's gone downtown to pay some bills. Tommle Pooh! The man comes to the houso to collect ours. Now York Life. The Stay at Home. He always stayed at home, ha did. The reason why was plain; Hl wife was suffragettlng from The rear end of a train. Birmingham Age-Herald Calling Names. Freddie What's tainted money, dad? Cobwigger The kind that's continued' to the other party's campaign fund. New York Herald. Powdered Whale Meat. Norwegian cattle are at times fed on powdered whalo moat for fattening purposes. A Convict Island. Women are barred from the island of Ferdinand do Norouha, belonging to Brazil. It Is reserved for convicts. Expensive to Mankind. "What was this Pandora's box that contained so much trouble?" "A bandbox, my son." Kansas City Journal. Strenuous Game. Harker I see that football train came home In sections. Hnrker Yes, and so did some of the players. Chicago News. Methodical. At system he Is quite adopt. He doth abhor To put off anything except A creditor. Kansas City Journal. Lettuce. Tho ancient Romans used to begin meals with lettuce. They also ato It shortly before retiring as n soporific. The Oldest Coin. The earliest coin known Is a Baby Ionian stater of the date of B. C. 700. It Is of olectrum, 1GC grains. Holly. Holly grows In all northern Euro pean countries as well as in Canada

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All Over the All Dry In Newburg. Newburg. a town of 1,500 In War rick county, is now dry. Saloons In tho town woro voted out rocontly aud tho last license ox pi rod last wook. Stocking Woods With Game. A larire number of nunil nnd nhensnnts will be brought from tho giune prosorvo In southorn Indiana and win bo llbornted In the woods north, oust and west of Goshen. Philander Dies for Love. Because Etta Gloason had Jilted him. Philander W. Oliver, of Logansport, drank carbolic acid nnd was found dead in bod by his landlady. Killed In Odd Accident. Tripping and falling hondlong through a holo at the sliding pole of a fire station, in answering an alarm, Earl Garl, an Elkhart fireman, receiv ed injuries that caused his death. Killing Fish by Thousands. In consequence of the prolonged drought the lake east of Milan is al most dry. Tho many fish In the lake are now plainly visible nnd thousands of them are dying daily. Healthy Folks in Fairmount. Falrmount probably holds tho health record for November, not only In tho State, but In the whole country. With a population of 4,000. there was not one death within the corporate limits during the month. This Was a Real Revival. Evangelist Stoner concluded a pro longed revival In the Reformed church at Bluffton with tho conversion of a druukon member of his audience, who went to the altar whore ho remained until after midnight. He was lltorally prayed sober. Game Preserve for Blackford. Fanners of Blackford county are in communication with Z. T. Sweeney. State Game Commissioner, relative to a game proservo of 4,000 acres In that county. It Is proposed to hnvo the State furnish the gnmo and the land ownors to servo ns its protectors. Dog Saves Farmer From Bull. When Abrain Pleichor, a farmer near Goshen, walked through his barn yard wearing a red shirt he was at tacked by an infuriated bull and toss oil Into the air. Pletcher's life was saved by his dog, which soizod the bull by the nose. Hanged Self On Banister. Harlan T. Marshall, of Indianapolis, hanged himself nt his home while his wife was supping and his two children were at school. He adjusted a rope about his throat and fastened one end to the banlstor of the stairway. Scores Burlesque Shows. Thn Rev. Father llletrel. oi SL Jo seph's church. El wood, told his parishionors that If anv merchant of the Catholic faith permitted promoters of burlesque shows to hang posters In their windows he would refuse them the holy sacraments of tho church. Saved by Her "Rat." To tho fact thnt she woro n "rat" in hor hair. Miss Shlloh Van Motor, of Cambridge City, owes her escape from serious injury anu possiuiy death. As she was descending a flight of stairs she fell nnd the physicians agreed the "rat" was the only thing that prevented a f rat uro of the skull. Praise for Poor Farms. From the ninety-two county poor asylums In the State, the Board of State Charities has selected thlrteon of these for special commendation for tho condition In which they nre kept. The thirteen are SL Joseph, Porter, Marshall. Adams, Madison, Parke, Henry, Kosciusko. Benton, Orange, Clark, Dubois and Posey counties.' Rabbit Hunters Break Record. Henry Bruns nnd Henry Bullock, two well-known hunters of Lafnyette. have broken all records for successful rabbit-hunting by bagging 210 of tho llttlo animals In a single day. With out moving from one spot Bruns shot twelve of tho rabbits. Before sundown they had shot enough rabbits to fill a largo wagon. Stirred Up Vincennes Some. Sheriff Westfall, of Vinconncs. chased Charles E. Berry, an alleged forger, for eight squares nnd shot nt him three times In nn attempt to crip pie him. Börry ran through crowds of children who had just been dismissed from school. Berry, who Is a HnrrI son township farmer, had Jerked looso from the sheriff at the courthouse door. Rather Dance Than Marry. With the wedding gnosis nil assem bled, the preacher present and alter the mother of the prospective bride li-i.l .-ocelved nermlsslon of the court to let hor daughter wed, Carmel Hnrgor, 15 years old, of Evansvillo, decided she would rather go to a dance than bo married, so she disappeared from her home and went to that of a neighbor, where sho enjoyed a dance. The happy event took place next day. Cement Industry In Mitchell. Tho cement Industry at Mitchell continues to grpw. The two plants have been running full time, not even closing on holidays. With nil of this It seems imposslblo to keep up with orders. Two of the Inrgest cement mills In tho State nre located thero, and tho same company Is making preparations to build another mill larger than both of these combined.

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v Length and Is It a Ghost Pant Shoals people repot r pnnthor lurking 'round Is getting to bo an Ind.. Week's Sleep Ends in Aftor being asleep ex.i. Peter Stiydor, a farmer . port. died. A week bi-r ail day husking com nn f or early. Ho did not ;i morning nt his usual tine was unable to arouse hm failed to awakon him. Th ly puzzled ovor tho case Indiana Liquor Law Lr -t Judge Plummer of tit. v cult Court Inst week In new county local option ' tional and that nn ele. ordered beforo nn api r . mndo. This Is the first . restraining order againtho county coirsinUslon. . solved. Tho election is t.. Wnhash Doc. 2i and will In Indiana. Big Sale of Indiana TcTho Southern Indiar, i Gwors Association last w pool of 8,000,1'ou pound -McCIary nt Boonville. at : lng from 3 to 11 cents j. Tho pool was In throe gr. l the largest sale cf tobarc in southern Indiana by will put $223.000 In the li. ors. Tne association ha ... to growers. Pardon for Blackma r uovornor naniy nas i--' conditional pardon to Jnwho was sentenced to State Prison frrm Tippe. . Jsnunry 24, liuio. Ea'i vlcted of conspirar-y to t; received n sentence of ! fourteen years. He was tho Board last February. shnrt time, went to Texals engaged in busimss. Sudden Deaths In This Fa -Leonard Orr died In a ! hospital from a blow on tl.a shovel by John Wilson . at Shelburn, three weekquarrel over the use of i seph Orr. a brother. atwo years aso by Nick quarrel In a saloon over i beer. Miss Flora Orr, n tlio most beautiful woman died suddenly roccntly on her marriage. To Fight Option by Injunct " That it is tho plan of th toreets In Indiana to flu lit option elections by means " Junction lins developed In ' tios where tho new law is u first tests. In Whitley cow quor men have secured at. restraining order again.-t mlsslonors. preventing thcalling a local option elect. n ' February 4. when the fin. it h r a permanent injunction w.i: Where Are Those Factories Althouch more than 1 " ' owners have told the M inn. trial Association thnt they .oto remove thoir plants to V clven the nroner encou-a ' notwithstanding the fact tlu soclation has at Its dispi -a 5 with which to assist new f.u come there, none had been 1 Muncle by this fund, owing t r culty of selection and the bi"sepnrating tho sheep from tilt Is Intended, now, to r.i amount of tho fund to at V ? 000 aud probably to $200.0"" Foolish Boys in Pistol Due' John Skelly and Roy Or years old. engaged In a pist.., Logansport, not with the pur killing or maiming each other ascortalo who was the bettor man. Instead of firing at In targets, ono proposed that th fire at the other, and the c: could shoot nearest the other hitting him would win. Arm. revolvers the boys stood at ti t nnd fourteen shots rang out wit' brief space of a few seconds A by the shooting people living r rushed forward, expecting to fir. lying on the ground, dead or n wounded, but instead the youth unharmed with smoking revoU their hands nnd sheepish gra their faces. Gets Mall Twice a Year. Thero Is at least one woman i dlana who docs not beliee In rural freo delivery of mall. Ml1 dano Little, aged CO. of near P ton, Kosciusko county, refuse low the postman to bring letter cols.iir papers to her home, pref- ' to have a box in tho general ih iof the nostofllce nt Pierceton But more strange Is the fnc' Miss Little calls for her ma l twlco et-ch year. On her last yearly visit she obtained twent) copies of one weekly newspaper oral packages, and third and f class matter. For five years a Warsaw p'it Hon, for which Miss Little Is a scrlbor, has been trying to get a eclpt to her. but without st Each time the letter is sent to Pi ton It is held for ten days anu ' .nHimixi tn tho writer." in at nnce with tho ruling of the Post Department with regard to firstmall. Tho same thing happens to a Miss Little's flrst-ciass man, e that which comes within two or L weeks from tho time she makes visit to tho postofflce.