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Kendall, Montana, May 5, 1903. 3. TOUGH ON COUNTRY 8101481 The Rural Mail Delivery Brings from Them Many Protests The Large Stores of the City Reap Greater Profits Since the New System Started According to statements contained in numerous letters, complaints and protests received at the postoffice de- partment of late, the days of the cross roads \general store\ are num- bered. During Postmaster General yiyne's absence from Washington, !Acting Postmaster General Wynne issued an order instructing postmasters through- out the country to prepare lists of rural delivery routes and post them in conspicuous places in their offices. Since the issuance of that order the complaints regarding the service as an enemy to .local industry have been more numerous than ever and petitions addressed to the postmas- ter general have been received at the department by the score. Mr. Wynne's order was intended primarily to obviate some of the con- fusion resultant upon the discontin- uance of star . route3 and the establish- ment of rural aelivery, with the con- 3equent changes in the names of Post- onices and the addresses of patrons. But the complaints which have been coming in say that this posting of rural dellvery routes and the address- es of patrons alon,; their lines has worked very serious harm to the trade of rural communities. ' ' It is said that a large number of mail order firms which sell and ship - everything from a package of pins to a bedstead, inlcuding live stock and steam engines, made a practice of sending representatives to postoffices throughout the country to copy the lists of routes and patrons, which were later used in sending out catalogues and circulars descriptive of their wares. It is admitted by officials of the postoffice department that as a re- sult of the general establishment of tural free delivery routes the mail order business of the country has grown enormously. Thi3 is true, as well, of the subscription lists of news- papers, which were wonderfully af- fected as to growth by the extension of the rural free delivery service. The complaints received at the de- partment contain a general admission that the country general stores can- not compete in prices with the big mail order concerns and the statement that a great deal of this local busi- ness has been won away by the more modern and enterprising competitors In the big cities. As the interest of the rural com- munities in the whole country is cen- tered in this question, Mr. Payne's decision is of importance. Hl 3 letter to T. M. Lake & Sons, of Higgins - vine, Mo., from whom a protest was received, is as follows: \This order was Issued by the first assistant postmaster general for the reason that the introduction of the rural free delivery service has caused the greatest confusion in the matter of the proper addressing and delivery of the mail to parties residing upon the rural free delivery routes when established, and it was believed to be for the public interest that the department should cause publicity of the names of parties residing upon routes whoffe postoffice address had In consequence thereof been changed. \It seems to me that you will read- ily see the propriety of this action. that. Incident to this posting of names, merchants, manufacturers and others may be enabled to obtain such lists by copying them, Is not, I think, a sufficient reason for a refusal on toe part of the department to furnish information which will tend to reduce the confusion, annoyance and trouble incident to the change of address of the many millions of patrons of the rural free delivery service throughout the United States. \It is probable that after the rural delivery routes have been in opera - Um a sufficient length of time so that the patrons of the postoffice depart- ment are familiar with the change in address, it will not be necessary to continue such posting; but under the present conditions, and having in view the greatest good and conveni- ence to the greatest number, we be- lieve the order of the first assistant postmaster general to be justifiable.\ Postoffice department officials be- lieve that the competition introduced by the big mail order concerns will result to the ultimate advantage of the rural communities, in that the general stores will of necessity bring more modern methods into their bus- inecs, keep in stock a better class of wares and reduce their prices in the minimum in order to . secure the local business. IT PAYS TO TRAVEL The Man Who Never Goes Away S000 Becomes a \Dead One' . It would often pay a mining com- pany to give its foreman or superin- tendent a three months' leave of ab- sence under full pay, and all travel- ing expenses audited, and let him wander around a little. .It sometimes happens that when a mine foreman or superintendent stays a long time in one place without the educational advantages of travel that he gets to fancying he knows it all, and the par- ticular hole he is in is so exactly near the center of the universe that the horizon comes down equally on all sides of it, and that when he dies wisdom dies with him. When one gets that way he is about fat enough to kill. Everybody is wiser than any- body, and no matter how experienced or wise or clever one may be he can learn something by a visit to the next mine, or county or state. If he has set in one little groove for ten or fif- teen years he cannot realize how nap row he is or how far behind his broader -minded fellows who • travel around. It would pay him and pay his employers to take a tour of ob- servation, for every real progressive Miner will die learning, and when one ceases to learn he is dead, even If h.? doesn't know it. - - -- AMERICAN GENIUS A Clever Avheme That Will Doubtless Make Millions for Its Promoters A Chicago financier who spent eight weeks in Cuba investigating the is- lands opportunities, is, according to a dispatch from Havana, the promoter of a scheme for the killing of sharks in Havana waters that would result in Immense financial returns to its back- ers. An ordinance recently passed by the municipal council provides (or the payment of a bounty of $3 for each female shark killed and $2 for every male of the species slaughtered. The Chicago man was at once in- terested and has interested friends in Chicago and New York in his plans and a syndicate was formed. A large quantity of high explosives was ship- ped to Havana at once. At the same time fifty men were put to work cap- turing and corralling all the stray dogs to be found in the city and country adjacent, which were to be uised as bait to draw the sharks into the harbor. The syndicate proposed first to feed a few dogs. to the sharks and after a few days of this sort of baiting the animals are to be sent adrift with an explosive cartridge tied to each of them. The supply of dogs in Cuba and the supply of sharks in the ocean be- ing practically inevhaustible the pe cuniary outlook for the syndicate is considered promising. 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