Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1891 — The Letter That Caine at Last. [ARTICLE]

The Letter That Caine at Last.

Washington Post Some strange things are discovered about the Postoffice Department, and the dead-letter office is a vast storehouse of epistles full of wit, humor aufl pathos. Dory Cool is a farmer who resides in Saunders county, Neb., a few miles of Fremont. Sixteen years ago Miss Harris, of Bryan, lit wrote him a letter he did

not get until long after it was mailed It was evidently impossible to fine him, or the letter got stuck some where in a postal car, or fell into ar obscure corner in some postoffice At all events the epistle finally founc its way to the dead-letter office where it remained for a period anc was then started out upon a fresh journeyOn the 22d of this month Dorv Cooldrove into Fremont, Neb., after his mail. Among the letters given him was that written by Miss Har ris years before, on the Bth of May, 1875. It had been sixteen years, four months and thirteen days reaching its destination. The Strang® part of this story is that Mr. Cool and Miss Harris have been maried several years and have a number ol children, the eldest being upward ol fifteen years old. Unlike the usual story of this kind, the two were not separated by the non-receipt of tlw letter, and two hearts were not an guished when they found out ‘ what might have been. ”