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A TERRIBLE FUTURE.
Atumlni Cnvtk •< tfc* Iluinnn Kara
—The United Mates la the year tf.oOO-
The new president of the Statistical
Society of London, Robert Giffin, Esq.,
has startled the world with the proposi
tion that the growth of the human race
is so alarming, that the rime is coming
when there will be more people on the
earth than the earth can feed, and starva
tion will be the result. So far as this
conntry is concerned, his proposition is
that by the end of the next century, the
United States will contain 800,000,000 of
people. He reasons as follows:
The last broad fact that I shall refer to
as presented, and made familiar to us by
these statistics of population, is that of
the growth of the population of tire
United States, a subject, perhaps, of even
greater interest than any I have yet re
ferred to, and involved as it is in fact
with one or two interesting questions al
ready glanced at, viz., the existence and
increase of large European populations
which are supported by imports of food
fn.m new countries, and mainly from
the United States.
The broad fact presented by the United
States is that of the doubling of the popu
lation in periods of about twenty-five
years. There is a little doubt about the
the exact population at the time of the
War of Independence, and dpwn to the
first census at the beginning of the
present century, but for the present pur
pose the figures we get are good enough:
In Mbis. In Mins.
1780 3.0 1840 17 1
1700 3.0 1850 28 *
1800 5.3 1800 31.4
1810 7.2 1870 38.5
1820 9.6 1880 60 1
1830 12.9
In other words, the population of the
United States has multiplied itself by
sixteen in the course of 4* century—
this being the result of its doubling' it
self every twenty-five years for that
period. In another twenty-five years at
the same rate of increase, the population
will be 100,000,000, in fifty years 200,-
000,000, in seventy-five years 400,000,-
000. and at the end of a century 800,-
000,000! Suoh is the first aspect of the
broad fact presented to our consideration
by the increase of population in the
United States. The rate is such as to be
fairly bewildering in its probable conse
quences. The nfcftrwpnon is also with
out a precedeuUfn history. There has
been no such MRrease of population any
where on a similar scats, and, above all,
no such- incoaaio of a highly civilized aud
richly fed population. The increase is
not ouly unprecedented 16 Bombers, but
it is an increasc of the moat expensive,
living population that his ever been in
the world, For the Idea of such an in
crease we are exclusively indebted to sta
tistics. ' The United States, among the
other new ideas of old civilizations they
have had the benefit of, have had the
idea of a periodical oenso*} whichiaeven
made a part of their OousutuMon, and ns
the result we have before ns, not only in
a general way, bnt with some precision,
this phenomenon of an unprecedented
increase of population, which is, perhaps,
the greateat political and economic fact
of the age.
, Oil of Peppermint.
According to A ~rw Remedies, pepper
mint is grown for its eeeenoe cbtefly in
■Western New York. Two-thirds of the
supply comes from Wayne County,
which produces sixty thoiisand pounds
of oil yearly from three thousand acres.
The bdfvest begins in August, and the
first year’s crop is the best. The mint
is cut with a sickle, scythe or mowing
machine, according to the fancy of the
cultivator. After cutting, it is allowed
to wither in the sun for five or six hours,
and is then raked up into “cocks," where
it remains a short time before l>eiug dis
tilled. It is not every cultivator that is
Srovided with a still, but stills are found
istributed about the peppermint region
at convenient distances.
The apparatus and method differ from
those employed in Europe, where the
fire is applied to the still. In America,
the still consists of a wooden tub or vat
of heavy staves hooped with iron. The
withered mint is packed into the vat 1 y
treading with the feet until the vat is full,
when a cover, made steam tight with
rubber packing, is fastened down with
screw clamps. A steam pipe connects
the lower part of the vat with a steam
boiler, and another pipe from the centre
of the cover connects the vat with the
condensing worm. The latter varies in
mbe according to the capacity of thestiii,
but becomes progressively smaller to
ward the outlet. The worm is so placer!
as to have a constant stream of cold run
ning water surrounding it. The steam
from the boiler being admitted to the vat
at a pressure of thirty to forty pounds,
the oil of the mint is volatilized and
mixed with the steum condensed in the
worm. The mixed oil and water are col
lected in the receiver, where the differ
ence in their specific gravity causes them
to separate. No at tempt is* made to re
distill the water which separates, and a
considerable loss of oil which is held in
folution doubtless results from this lack
of economy.
The oil is packed in tin cons, or glass
demijohns, holding about twenty pounds
each. The glass demijohns are much
the l>cst when the oil is to be kept for any
length of time, as its good qualities are
more fully retained and it is less liable
to discoloration. Oil of peppermint is
sometimes adulterated with turpentine
and also with oil of hemlock. Pure oil
of peppermint, as exported from Wayne
County, is colorless, and resembles the
English oil except that its odor and taste
are somewhat less pungent and penetra
ting. The oil deteriorates with age,
and the aroma becomes more faiut;
after a certain number of years it
thickens, and the color becomes o' a
yellowish tinge; exposed for a longtime
to air it becomes resinous.
How One Farmer Got His Pay,
A Western paper says that a farmer in
the com growing district of Illinois sued
a villager for debt this winter, but when
the case oame to trial the creditor’s
heart was by no means adamantine.
“I’ve waited a good while for my
pay," he exclaimed, "and wouldn’t have
sued you now if you had acted like a
man who wanted to pay.”
“I’ll tell you what I’ll , do,” replied
the debtor. “Make it $23 and I’ll fix it
bo you can get the money at once.”
“I’ll do it.”
Then the debtor fills out a bank-note
for the sum, due in thirty days, Kid
ha > ded it to the creditor with the re
mark:
“Put your name on the back and
they’ll give you the money at the bank.”
Hie termer endorsed it, got his money,
leas the discount, and his grin of pleas
ure had not entirely died out when the
note came due and the oashier explained:
"The signer has nothing we can get
hold cf, and of course the endorser has
*o pay.”
The merchant him scales to sell by and
Withers to buy by. It is a poor rule that
wot work both weighs.
3V ■*
The Lam of Boundaries.
When the existing laws relating to the
boundaries between the owners of land
were instituted, some by common law
aud some by statute, a few matters, and
more particularly the extent of territory
occupied by trees, were not very well
understood. If a tree stood a foot away
from the line, the adjoining owmer was
not supposed to be at all incommoded
by the roots, as he could dig freely the
whole surface of his ground, they being
down below out of his reach ; and if the
branches overhead did not interfere with
his work, he had no right to complain.
But men have now found out that a tree
within a foot or two of the line, draws
nearly as much of its growth from the
land of the neighbor as from that of the
owner. An apple tree fifteen feet high
sends its roots fifteen feet, and common
ly much more, in every direction ; and
to all intents and purposes feeds alike
ou the neighbor and owner. As well
might a farmer claim to graze his cattle
on the neighbor’s pasture, as to feed his
trees on the neighbor’s land.
The injury done by the shade of the
branches is better understood, because
these are in sight, although they do not
usually extend half as far as the roots.
It is well known that the roots of some
trees, of the black walnut, for instance,
one so exhausting as nearly to prevent
the growth of plants as far" as they ex
tend; but what remedy has a neighbor if
an owner plants a lire, of thCru near the
boundary and spoils half an acre of valu
able laud ? Or, the owner may plant a
l’bjv of apple trees and get nearly half
their sustenance through their long roots
running two or three rods on the neigli-
Isir's valuable laud. This is not fiction—
it is solid, substantial fact.
A village resident owns a quarter cf an
acre of land, for which he paid all the
money he could raise. His adjoining
neighbor’s apple trees grow along the
line and project their branches ten feet
over the boundary, and their extending
roots occupy and exhaust ono-third of
his entire lot. He walks under these
loaded branches with delicious fruit
bending down within his reach and sliad
ing his garden bed.B; but he cannot
touch them without being guilty of theft
in the eye of the law. It may be said
that these are rare and overstrained
cases. They are not, hut are frequently
occurring, and they would be ol served
much more were it not that this kind of
depreciation is so often committed that it
is scarcely noticed. In another form it
would l>e more obvious. If a rich neigh
bor would build a seven-story manufac
tory on the south side of a narrow town
lot, so as to cast an entire shade over
that narrow lot and reduce its crops to
less than one-half, or to render it unfit
for vegetables, the law might, ]>crhaps,
make a distinct case of it; but the wrong
would be scarcely greater than some of
the tree depredations already mentioned.
Is it not time that our law -makers and
lawyers took up this matter aud made an
amendment or revision?—Country-Gen
tleman.
Gifts to Wives.
In the eighty-eighth volume of New
York Reports, fist published, appears
an interesting opirtion of the Court of
Appeals touching the right of a wife to
jewelry and other articles given hir by
her husband. In the case before the
Court the question was whether certain
articles in possession of the wife after the
death of her husband were to be pre
sumed as here by reason of spell posses
sion and in the alisencfrof prfbf that the
husband had given them to her as her
separate property.
It is a general principle of law that
possession of personal property creates
the presumption of ownership in the ab
sence of evidence to the contrary. But
by the common law there is no presump
tion in the case of a married woman. By
the old common law she was incapable of
owning property apart from her husband.
He owned every article used by her ns
absolutely ns he owned the collar of his
dog or the hnmess of his horse. This
barbarous rule was in time somewhat
modified. A limited right of ownership
in her wearing apparel and personal orna
ments was extended to the wife. She
was entitled to hold such articles against
the executors or legatees of her husband,
but not against his creditors. But the
presumption against her ownership in
case of dispute still remained. She had
to prove oil executed gift from her hus
band.
The statutes of this State have abol
ished the atxmrd common law rule aguinst
the wife’s right to own her “piuiiplier
lialia.” They entitle her to hold as her
separate property ugainst nil comers per
sonal chattels given her by her husband.
But what is thy presumption as to the
ownership of things in her possession
when a gift is not expressly shown ? This
is the question decided by the Court of
Appeals. The Court holds that her
possession of wearing apparel, ornaments
and other articles plainly adapted to her
separate and jx-rsonal use must be as
sumed to establish her title to ownership
in the absence of proof to the contrary.
But this presumption does not extend to
articles such as household goods which
are adapted to the use of her husband
and family equally with herself. In that
case she must show that the articles were
given to her. Thus among the things
in controversy in the suit before the
Court of Appeals were articles of wear,
a cabinet picture of the wife and two
certificates of deposit made payable to
her. These were assumed to be her
own. But she had to prove her title to
a carriage and a family clock.
Our Shipbuilders.
Mr. Cramp, the Philadelphia iron
shipbuilder, recently said: “We main
tain that British steamships are bnilt ont
of poor material and that they are not
equal to American-built iron ships, and
that the frequent calamities which have
overtaken them result from inferior work
and bad iron. American iron ships have
had almost unbroken good luck, and
when collisions have happened between
them and British iron vessels, the latter
have been pulverized. Our mechanics,
who in Pennsylvania are generally
native-born, are altogether more apt, and
there has been no intellectual improve
ment in the average British ship
mechanic for twenty years. He drives
his rivets and holds his hammer and
never thinks, while our men know about
every part of the ship, and yon might
take almost any experienced man ont of
the yard and he could build one. Our
native mechanics, when they are dressed
as on Sundays, will pass for gentlemen
anywhere, but you can immediately tell
the foreign mechanic under whatever
clothes he wears ”
"I sha’n't be gone long,” remarked
Juniper as he left the house the other
evening. "Not going anywhere in
particular, only going to take air.” “Be
careful that you do not become air tight,”
was the injunction of Mrs. J., whose
knowledge of Juniper’s failing had not
begotten confidence.
TO CHOOSE WELL.
Praftmr Adler Leetaree Usee the OMlaa.
tlsseef Marrta<e.
Professor Felix Adler, in a lecture ou
“ Marriage and Divorce,” began with,
saying that the altar of Hymen had ever
been hung with roses, and that there
was no theme on which such fiery, thrill
ing and tender poetry had been expend
ed as on the ever fresh and dewy theme
of love. Should we venture to approach
so ethereal a sentiment in the spirit of
sober prose ? Yes, of a truth we might,
for our object was to convert these
dreams into facts and to subject the
dreary realm of prose more and more to
the dominion of poetry. A previous ac
quaintance with the stern laws on which
the happiness of human intercourse de
pended was necessary to check and in
form the roving imagination of youth.
Very many persons were bo entranced
with the prospect of a union with the
being they loved that they regarded mar
riage as a great privilege and forgot that
it was also a great obligation. The Pro
fessor said he did not propose to enter
into a discussion on which side, whether
of bachelorhood or fatherhood, the sur
plus of advantage lay; he believed that
the action of the majority of men was
proof of the general opinion on the sub
ject. He asserted that the entire ques
tion was rather one of duty than of ad
vantage, and that there was an obliga
tion upon all men who could possibly af
ford it to assume the responsibilities of
wedlock, from which, in the absence of
exceptional circumstances, it was sheer
selfishness to withdraw.
Strange as it might appear, his advice
to the female sex was of an opposite na
ture. It was more consonant with the
instincts of noble maidenhood not to
keep marriage in view as an end. Yet
it was imperative that young women
should have better opportunities than
are now afforded them for learning what
their duties in wedlock are with regard
to the economy of the household, to
childhood and its development, and with
regard to the careers of men and the in
terests for which the struggle of life was
waged. Without departing from the tree
sphere of woman’s work every girl should
be able to render some service to society
by which she could gain the means of
self-support independently of the ques
tion whether her parents were wealthy
or not. Marriage should be a complete
union. The so-called love match might
or might not prove a true marriage. As
to marriages for money—the people who
entered into them were well enough pun
ished for their sin. He would rather ho
tied with cords to a yellow fever patient
whose body was festering with the
plague than to be tied to one whose soul
was dead to his, whose moral nature he
abhorred. There was another kind of
reprehensible marriage wliioh was en
tered into from motives of vauity. “My
wife shall be admired " says the husband.
“Behold ! I am tho lord of this charm
ing creature; I am the sun and she is
the moon. Judge, then, what a lumin
ary I must be 1”
It was the low motives governing mar
riage that were the curse. The world
was full of misery, of Becret heartaolie
and despair, because of such unhallowed
connections. While it was true that
there were some matches made in heaven
it was also true there were some
matches made in hell. A man might
have led a most dissipated life, and yet
how readily he was forgiven on the
ground of having sown his wild oats if
only he had manners and rank, aud,
above all, wealth, to excuse his faults.
The point that should receive especial
attention in the selection of husband and
wife should be the compatibility of their
characters. It was difficult to say in just
what that consisted, but tho parties
themselves could tell whether their mo
tives were harmonious. A partial rem
edy for the troubles relating to marriage
might be found in the coeducation of tho
sexes. In reality the ideal of woman
hood was at fault—the supposition that
woman, aside from her household func
tions, was intended only to be the com
plaisant companion of man. She de
served to be regarded os the comrade
and companion of man in his spiritual
life, in his intellectual labors, in his
highest moral mid religious aspirations.
The object sliould be not to jfiake tho
exit from marriage easier, but to sur
round the entrance to marriage with
wiser and truer safeguards.
Overworking the Bees.
Poets and moralists have always
pointed to the little busy bee as a model
of industry. It has remained for a prac
tical man from Northern Missouri to im
pugu this long standing reputation, and
to force the little hummers to work
“overtime.” He noticed that in cold
weather the bees did not shovel away the
snow, or make an honest effort to carry
on their labors. Undor the pretext that
they were cold, the Inzy fellows gathered
in clumps inside their hives and refused
to do a stroke of work all winter. But
the moil from Northern Missouri wasn’t
to be trifled with. The other day he
rolled into a Florida town on a freight
car with with “ono hundred and forty
hives of the most approved pattern,” in
which were confined liis delinquent in
sects. All winter they will be driven
like slaves afield to wrestle with tropical
vegetation and the fieroo indigenous
moth. Though harsh, this discipline
may prove salutary; and when in the
spring their master turns homeward with
his winged laborers and their golden
crop, the weary bees will donlitless make
the laden hives resound with a happy
harvest home. _
Wild People of the Idaho Backwoods.
In the “backwoods” region of Idaho,
says the Territorial Enterprise, aro
many people, “bom and raised” in the
wilds, who have never seen either a rail
road or a steamboat. Since railroads
have been penetrating toward their fast
nesses they have heard such wonderful
things about the locomotives jumping off
the track and killing people, that it is
hard to get a native near a train. In
order to get them aboard a train it is
necessary to blindfold them, the same as
mules and horses are blinded when being
taken into dangerous places. Even
when they are aboard the train it is
necessary to watch them closely to pre
vent them jumping out of the windows
when the locomotive blows its whistle.
A Polish servant girl, recently im
ported, when arraigned ui New York
charged with stealing from her mistress,
said that she bad been told that it was
a custom of the country for servants to
help themselves to the property of their
employers. New Jersey bank officers
seem to be laboring under a
similar erroneous impression. —Norris
town Herald. _
Jitdob Toußcre* is delivering a lec
tore on a “Family of Fools.” We haven’t
heard it, but presume he refers to the
girl who kindled a fire with kerosene,
the boy who “didn’t know it was loaded,”
and the man who asks, “Is it cold enough
for you?”— New York Advertiser.
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revealing her condition to any one, and without
rubjoctiug her wofhunly modesty to the shock o\
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To bring heulth and happiness to the homes of
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Richmond, Warien and McDuffis Counties.
Refer* to Hon. A. , r <. Colquitt, Governor
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What Kind of a Dogr is This}
A few days ago, in response to a telo
glum, an insnrnnce adjuster was sent to
a Sorttliern city to dispose of a fire loss
thus reported. In his report of the ad
justment occurs the following statement:
“The stdre insured had been closed at
the usual hour by the merchants, leav
ing a dog in charge of the main room,
where xvns a lamp turned down left-. In
a rc-ar room lay asleep a Russian—a
rough fellow—one of the exiles lately
come to this country. This man’s atten
tions to the dog had been limited to
kicks and blows whenever the unoffend
iug animal ventured near.
“During the night the lamp exploded,
scattering the burning oil around the
room. The dog sought to arouse the
sleeper by loud barking, but failing in
this he seized a burning dress in his
mouth, and, darting through the fire
and smoke to the room where his enemy
lay, placed the burning garment as near
the bed as he dare venture. The light
aroused the man and saved his life.”—
Chloayo Journal.
A Demoralized Funeral.
The other day at Pittsburg, Pa., whei
a funeral cortege was going to the ceme
tery, one of the carriages in front stopped
to make some trivial change in the iiar
ness. The driver of the vehicle imme
diately in the rear failed to chick bis
horses in time, and ran into the halted
carriage. The result was that the h- u-ses
attached to the latter became frightened
and started to run away, and soon started
every animal in the cortege in a break
neck flight. Numerous carriages, wagons
and other vehicles were overtumod, and
the whole funeral procession reduced to a
wreck of its former uniformity. Men
ejaculated, women shrieked and many
occupants of vehicles were thrown out
When order again came fr-m the chaos,
it wes discovered that aside from the
wrecking of a few carriage* and some
bruises inflicted upon their occupant*, no
damage was done.
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AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
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Raising Fish in Artesian Wells.
Seth Green, the eminent pisciculturist,
writes to the Chicago Times about the
new way of supplying families with
fish:
“ There ore many artesian wells scat
tered all over the Western country, most
of them many miles from any lakes or
streams or fish market. It is my opinion
that, nearly every flowing well would
furnish enough surplus water to supply
a pond which will keep a family in fish.
Avery small stream will furnish enough
water for some kinds. I would recom
mend carp as being the fish most likely
to be a success, as they require less care
than any other kind. Ido not consider
them the very best fish there is, because
of late years I have been used to eating
the best kinds our country affords. Hut
I remember when my mother cooked, the
suckers and shiners I caught with r. pin
hook ; they were the best fish there was.
It would undoubtedly be the same with
families raised on carp. My opinion has
often been asked how a carp pond should
be constructed for family use. The pond
can be made in any shape to suit the lo
cality, but I would prefer egg shape if
the locality was just as suitable for it.
The pond would breed flies of a great
many kinds, one of the kinds being mos
quitoes. The larva of all flies is the best
food for young fish. I have bred them
by the bushel, but some of the mosqui
toes would be apt to take wing before the
pond got well stocked with young fish,
and to protect the family in a measure I
would advißb building the pond to the
leeward of the house in the prevailing
winds of the locality. If, for instance,
the prevailing wind was from the west,
the pond would be built to the east,
northeast or southeast of the house. I
would prefer the pond to the northeast or
southeast, because if placed directly to
the east the house would make a lee un
der which the mosquitoes could easily
reach it. The mosquito can beat any
sailing craft before the wind, but on the
wind they are nowhere in the race as
they have no keel. The whole human
family should be thankful to the Creator
for not putting a keel on them, and it
their bowsprit had not been quite so
sharp they might not receive so many
handkerchief salutes from the Long Isl
and hotels, but would be just as useful
and ornamental. The pond can be built
with plow and scraper. It should have
a deep place in the centre and be shallow
on the edges. If you have square sides
the young fish will have no protection
from the old ones. When scraping is
commenced, carry the dirt as far back as
you intend making the lower outside of
your embankment, and keep scraping
until the pond is four to six feet deep in
the centre. If the locality is such that
the ice freezes very thick, the pond
should be made deeper and holes kept
open through the ice during the winter
to keep the fish from suffocating. If the
embankment is to be raised three feet
and pounded down and sodded or sown
to grass, the water could be raised so
that but three feet in the centre would
have to be excavated in order to have a
pond six feet deep. The whole pond
should be sown with some kind of grass
or water plant, with the exception of
about fifty or seventy-five feet square in
the centre. The grass and water plants
make the spawning grounds breed food
and protect the young. The pond should
not contain any other kind of fish, and
if the graßß gets too thick it can be raked
out”
Poker In Washington.
Ramsdell writes this story from Wash
ington to the Philadelphia Press. *t
illustrates how our statesmen used J*
play the national game : The days of
official poker playing in Washington ara
gone now. There is, I believe, a little
oand of army officers who take a hand
now and then in a dollar limit game, bat
the big games went out with the golden
days of the old District ring. A gentle
man from New York told me the other
day of a game he once participated in in
Willard’s Hotel. There were tlirea
United States Senators around the table,
besides the gentleman I speak of and an
other whom Ido not know. One of the
Senators is now dead, another is ont ot
the Senate, and the third I know noth
ing about, as I never heard his name.
The Senator who ia now dead had been
drinking very heavily, and waa greatly
affected by his potations. Ido not know
that any member of the party was sober,
therefore, J can’t tell whether the others
“plucked” the Senator or not. -At any
late, he k layed very recklessly. He, for
•xomple, would have a six-spot ; h
would show the six- spot and call for four
cards, and then bet 81,000 on his hand
before looking at it. Well, this Senator
(now dead) played until 3 o’clock in the
morning, and the boys around the table
had his “ooups” (I don’t know what the
word means) for 817,000. He staggered
home, and no member of the party ever
supposed he would remember anything
that happened. Greatly mistaken, my
friends. Ho came to Willard’s the next
morning at 10 o’clock, took my inform
ant out of bed, had a list of his “coups,”
and put into the hands of my friend
817,000 in treasury notes and asked him
to redeem his paj>er. My friend pro
tested, but the Senator persisted and in
sisted, and so the money was paid. This
is a true story.
The Youngest Soldier.
Mr. William H. Case, now of Johns
ville, enlisted in the One Hundred and
Forty-ninth New York Volunteers in
April, 1864, when but twelve years and
nine months old, and served in General
Sherman’s army through the rest of tha
war. Recently he got a letter from the
good-natured General, in which he
says it would take too much time and
labor to test his claim to have been the
youngest enlisted soldier, but adds: “1
am willing to concede to you your claim,
though we have in the Regular Army,
cases of soldiers bom in the Army who
have been in it all their lives, enlisting
as soon aa possible, as, for instance, the
two Clarks, of the Twenty-second In
fantry. Still, lam glad to see that yoa
feel a just pride in sucli a claim of youth.-
ful action.”
Wanted Waiting On.
The head of the Postoffice Depart
ment passing through one of the office*
the other afternoon and seeing a man
whom he supposed was one of the clerks,
standing by the fire and reading tha
newspaper just as he had been seveial
hours before, reproved him for wasting
bis time in that fashion. The clerk ad
mitted that it was a waste of time. Tha
head of the department indignantly
asked his name and grew still more angry
when the clerk told him that it was “none
of his business. ” “I am the Postmaster-
General,” said he. “Well, I’m glad to
hear it,” was the. reply. “I am simply
one of the public, who has been kept
waiting here four hours for an answer to
a simple question, and I will be much
obliged if you will use your influence ta
get me attended to.”