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After Martin had helped her on the car, he hurried to the post-office and invested three of the five dollars in stamps; and when, later in the day, on the way to the Morse home, he stopped in at the post-office to weigh a large number of long, bulky envelopes, he affixed to them all the stamps save three of the two-cent denomination.
On inquiry, our Postmaster-General informed me that it was not possible to arrange a two-cent postal rate with America. It had been tried and abandoned, because Canada wanted a share for carrying the letters through her territory. He told me, however, that he would agree gladly if the United States offered it.
Early in August, 1786, a little rebellion, known as the "Two-cent Revolt," broke out in Lyons over a strike of the silk-weavers for two cents an ell more pay and the revolt of the tavern-keepers against the enforcement of the "Banvin," an ancient feudal right levying a heavy tax on the sale of wine.
Some people have not yet learned that a fifty-dollar hat can never cover the deficiency of a two-cent head. Ofttimes money only makes a mean life more conspicuous. True, some of these people dress more becomingly than they suspect for their slim, pointed-toed English shoes admirably match their few ideas.
The shop-talk roused Paul Riesling. Though he was a player of violins and an interestingly unhappy husband, he was also a very able salesman of tar-roofing. He listened to the fat man's remarks on "the value of house-organs and bulletins as a method of jazzing-up the Boys out on the road;" and he himself offered one or two excellent thoughts on the use of two-cent stamps on circulars.
You want to tell this to your father who is in the city. What do you do? You put a lot of dots and dashes upon a piece of paper you add a few more dots and dashes upon an envelope and you carry your epistle to the mailbox together with a two-cent stamp. What have you really been doing? You have changed a number of spoken words into a number of pothooks and scrawls.
"And papa says if he ever catches you in this part of town " "WHAT'D I do to Mitchy-Mitch?" gasped Penrod. "You know well enough what you did to Mitchy-Mitch!" she cried. "You gave him that great, big, nasty two-cent piece!" "Well, what of it?" "Mitchy-Mitch swallowed it!" "What!" "And papa says if he ever just lays eyes on you, once, in this neighbourhood " But Penrod had started for home.
The blankety, blankety, et cetera noise of this ditto ditto town! The remainder of these remarks will be sent in a plain, sealed envelope upon application and the receipt of a two-cent stamp!" The Angel and I looked at each other. We dared not speak. "How why " I faltered at last. It was all Considine needed perhaps more than he needed to set him going. "I came here under contract, as you know.
In his mind it became set. Thus he would tell it to any one who would listen from now on, week after week, year after year, all the rest of his life "And I based my calculations on a two-cent rate. So soon as they saw I was to make money they doubled the tariff all the traffic would bear and I mortgaged to S. Behrman ruined me with a turn of the hand stuck, cinched, and not one thing to be done."
The two-cent stamp is the Magna Charta of the spiritual rights, the patriotic forces and the intellectual liberties of the people and when Albert Sidney Burleson, of Austin, Texas, by establishing a zone system for ideas, for conveying the ideas of the great central newspapers and magazines in which a whole nation thinks together with one huge national thoughtless provincial swish of his own provincial mind coolly takes ten thousand cities that like to do their thinking when they like, in New York or in Philadelphia, Washington and Chicago, jams them down into their own neighborhoods, glues them to their own papers, tells all these thousand of cities that they have got to be, no matter how big they are, villages in their thinking, cut off from the great common or national thinking, Mr.
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