Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 118, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1903 — Lessening the Risk. [ARTICLE]

Lessening the Risk.

A certain woman, says the New York Times, had been using the malls for fraudulent purposes. After the ease had been rendered, the rostmasterGeneral issued an order barring her letters from the mnils. Then she sept him a pathetic letter, asking for a private hearing, that she might lay her case before him. “i feel sure,” she wrote, “that if I could get a chance to look straight into your beautiful brown eyes, you would hear my story.’* The Postmaster-General, after thinking the letter over for a few moments, indorsed it: “Respectfully referred to the Secretary' of War for advice," and sent it the War Department.

In due course of time It came back with this indorsement: t * ” “Risk one eye.—Elihu Root.”