Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1886 — How Horace Gave Himself Away. [ARTICLE]

How Horace Gave Himself Away.

—The first certificate of entry as second class matter at the postoffice at Rensselaer, in accordance with section 199 of the Postal Laws and Regulations, was given by’ Postmaster Bates, on Monday, to the publisher of The Message.— This paper is the only one in Rensselaer that has ever complied with the law in this particular, although the la#' has “been in operation since 1-879.---Jl/cs.wpt’. The above is an admission, then, that “the publisher of the J/ess(t (je," who was transferred from the guano beds of Turk Island to the post-office in Rensselaer, the year above mentioned, where he clung like a leech up to within a few months, during all these years was either ignorant .of, or engaged in wilful violation of the section which makes it the duty of postmasters to direct the attention of publishers thereto. We remember distinctly, on -first seeing the announcement by some papers .that they “entered as second class matter,” we inquired of the then postmaster—present publisher of the if that procedure was required by law, and he gave us an emphatic NO. — Democratic Sentinel. - : :