Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1891 — It Costs You Nothing. [ARTICLE]

It Costs You Nothing.

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During a certain period of the war a bushel of wheat was worth $2.90, but would buy only 5 yards of muslw iyiDt worth so much money butit wftl buy 10 yards of muslin; and in fact, fully twice as much, on the average,.of everything else a farmer has to buy as it would in war times. And still these aro the times of the terrible McKinley law.

The Democratic Sentinel claims to quote the words of a local dealer in saying that the reason why tin fruit cans are not higher this year than last year “may be attributed to the throat-cutting process, so easily resorted to by some dealera.

It is certainly an extraordinary circumstance if the habits in business of a few Rensselaer merchants has the effect to keep down the price of articles of tin manufacture, all over this broad country. Take the neighboring town of Delphi, for instance. There, several weeks ago, the Journal published the statements of about a dozen dealevery one of whom said that tin cans weie selling at the same price as last year, and no one has been found todeny the truthof their statements.

Deacon John Wanamaker is just about the best Post-master General this or any country ever had, but while he is doing so much to improve the mail service, and suggesting so much more in that line, which can’t be done without the approval of Congress, he ought to take time to bestow a little fatherly admonition to some of

his Smart Aleck.subordinates, especially in the Fifth Division, with headquarters at -Cincinnati. Some of these fellows take a good deal more pains to find out and report trifling errors on the part of post-masters and mail clerks than they do in delivering the mails safely and promptly. Nothing is more common, for instance, than for these fellows to return letters

and papers to their originating post-office for the most trifling errors in spelling, and when it was perfectly evident where they were intended for. As an illustration of what we mean, we instance, an important letter mailed a few days ago at Rensselaer. It was intended for Carmel, Indiana, but the nam eof th e tow 11 was spelled Carmell, the final letter being doubled.

Of course there was no question whatever as to where the letter wasmeant to go, but all the same it came back after a few days, stamped, “No such office in state named.” The only fault with the address was a redundant 1. Another case in our own experience, and we have had several very m uch like i t, was the return" for better address, of a paper sent to Elroy, 111. We made a little kick about the matter through our P. M.,and learned that the name was Eleroy, instead of Elroy; and if anyone would believe it, the hairsplitting officials who sent back the Carmel letter because or a redundant J, and the Eleroy paper because of a lacking e, actually addressed their official letter in regard to the Elroy matter, to “Renssellaer,” instead of Rensselaer, thus committing as great an error in spelling the name of the town addressed as were either of the others mentioned.' The post-office department ought to do”everything in reason to instruct the public into more careful habits in addressing mail matter, but it should also be careful to see that its well-meant instructions in this respect, are not carried to such ridiculous and injurious extremes as is often the case in the office and mail-routes of the Fifth Division.