Catoctin Clarion

Letter Carriers' Secrets.

"There is not a letter carrier in the city but who is the custodian of the secrets of some one on his route," said a well-known postal official yesterday. "What a sensation they would create if what they knew could be revealed at one time. But there is a barrier to these revelations. The postal laws strictly provide that a carrier must never tell of what he sees, repeat what he hears nor make public in any manner the address upon a letter. When notified to deliver letters only to the person to whom addressed, it is enjoined upon him to remember this rule, especially as regards members of the same family. Well do I remember when I was a carrier a certain maiden on Broad street was receiving letters from a father and son. Whether one knew that the other was writing to the girl I do not know, but this I saw several times, when she received a note from the old gentleman she was very deliberate in her movements, but when I handed her one from the son she was out of the house in a jiffy.

"One of the most annoying things to the carriers is the imprudence of mashers." I have had these fellows intercept me and offer $5 or $10 if I would tell who such a lady in particular, who came here from a neighboring city and stopped at the residence of a millionaire. She was a magnificent woman. A man would hardly pass her without turning around to take a second look: The mashers nearly went crazy over her, and one met me at nearly every corner on my route with some question regarding her. I came near getting into half a dozen fights over her and was glad when she went home. — Philadelphia Record.