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20209	The inquiry is therefore proper, as a lesson from the history of the early era of steam, what are the difficulties?
20209	Why has steam failed so absolutely and so universally?
20388	The question may be raised how far it is possible to obviate the inconvenience of two different gauges by mechanical arrangements?
27256	May we now be permitted to make a single suggestion or two to the Manager of the Rail Road?
27256	One traveller is said to have asked"What is the matter, will we never arrive?"
34007	263 et seq._) overprinted(?)
34007	October(?
15713	Aside from the name of the country whence it emanates and the expression of value, what do we find in it to study?
19758	What is the essential feature of my hammer''s operation?
26601	?
26601	?
19759	And what should that be?
19759	And why has it been possible for France to carry on for four years a successful war against the greatest military power that the world has ever seen?
29493	And he asks:"Why is this?"
35566	Can our authorities not let well enough alone?
35566	Can our engravers do nothing better than that?
35566	ISSUE WITHOUT GRILLE( 1873?)
20702	The question is, What should the sum so levied, or the toll, actually come to be?
20702	The question is, Which of the places and plans mentioned is the best fitted for the objects had in view?
49371	Shall we abandon our claim to the territory?''
28533	)_ THIS SIMPLE BOY HAS LOST HIS PENNY, AND SHE WITHOUT IT WON''T TAKE ANY; WHAT CAN HE DO IN SUCH A PLIGHT?
28533	Deane Robert Hann"James Phelps(?)
28533	Tyson(?)
28533	_ Mayr._"Henry Gibbes_ Aldm_ Robert Yates_ Aldm_"James Parsons Ch(?)
40002	Naturally the question arises: What is the reason for this state of affairs?
40002	The question, however, of superlative interest to philatelists is: why has Nesbitt produced such a large number of dies or die varieties?
40002	Why have the Nesbitt die varieties been relegated to an entirely unmerited obscurity?
43857	-- St. Louis[ 1897?]
43857	Moldau, Moldau- Walachei, Fürstenthum Rumänien, Königreich Rumänien... Magdeburg[ 1893?]
43857	[ 1884?]
43857	[ 1888?]
43857	[ 1900?]
3036	Ca n''t I do what I want with my own?
3036	But whither?
3036	Where was the Erie stock to come from?
3036	Who was Harriman?
58717	Are not the boats mine?
58717	But the question arises-- Why was the meeting held at the Post Office?
58717	May it not be that the doctrine of divine right is responsible for this tone of servility in a large degree?
41041	How can it be that"two- fifths of the trade and travel of the road were diverted at Brownsville?"
41041	Is there any young fellow of the present time who aspires to take the place of a stoker?
41041	What of the future?
41041	Where are you, O rattling''Quicksilver,''O swift''Defiance?''
41041	Where are you, charioteers?
40514	And why is it that our goods are sent to New York to be sold?
40514	Can there be any doubt that a corporation thus formed and managed will prove a financial success?
40514	Having expended so large a sum on the Tunnel, the question arises, How shall we use it to derive the greatest good to the whole people?
40514	How can we, in Boston and Massachusetts, get our fair share of the importing and domestic trade of the country?
40514	What next?
40514	interest on the capital loaned to increase the facilities for extending the business over the line?
3099	If, therefore, on leaving our harbors we are certainly to lose them, is it not better as to vessels, cargoes, and seamen, to keep them at home?"
3099	Were we able to prevent their going in and out, or stop them from taking our trade and our storeships even in sight of our garrisons?
22598	But this road-- what is it? 22598 What can they do,"said they,"even with their Charter from the State?
22598	Said Lovejoy, during one of the debates:"Do I understand the gentleman from California to say that he actually expects this road to be built?"
22598	The bonds to constitute a first mortgage on the entire line equipment, terminals, etc?
22598	Through the two or three hundred miles beyond were scattered ten to fifteen thousand men(?)
22598	What was to be done?
22143	Can there be any doubt that she would_ not_ have done it?
22143	Does"interest"mean"rights"?
22143	Is the United States prevented from refunding to her vessels the tolls levied upon them for use in the Panama Canal?, pp.
22143	Or does it mean"advantages"?
38731	And in view of the dense fog and the number of trains moving, should not trains have been blocked a station apart?
38731	Could anything be more reckless?
38731	Do any of you want to ride behind that kind of runner or be on a train in front of him, even if you have your life insured and your home paid for?
38731	Why not do it and prevent some child, perhaps your own, from going through life a cripple?
38731	Why not do it and stop them in the future, avoid the injuries and save the money they cost?
38731	Why not do it?
38731	Why should not all enginemen shut it off?
38731	Will we not all agree that such a man is unsafe and unfit for the service?
37238	But by what steps should he proceed, to legalize the course he proposed?
37238	But how was the postmaster to tell the letters accompanying goods from those which did not?
37238	To the Canadian government to whom alone they belonged?
37238	[ 188] He was well aware, he said, that the accommodation in Montreal post office was inadequate, but what was to be done?
52244	( 2) Is the underlying principle of the plan embodied in the inclosed bill a proper basis for compensation?
52244	( 3) What, in your opinion, is a desirable plan for compensating railroad companies for transporting the mails?
52244	If not, in what respects and as to what classes of railroads is it inequitable?
52244	If not, in what respects and as to what classes of railroads is it inequitable?
52244	If not, wherein is it improper, and why?
52244	If not, wherein is it improper, and why?
52244	_ Question 2._--Is the underlying principle of the plan embodied in the enclosed bill a proper basis for compensation?
52244	_ Question 3._--What, in your opinion, is a desirable plan for compensating railroad companies for transporting the mails?
22190	2.--What part of this sum would probably have been received as ordinary revenue if there had been no special issue of stamps?
22190	?
22190	Can anyone doubt that all these 150,000 6d stamps were_ not_ perforated?
22190	If it is asked"Why cut up and affix the stamps then?"
22190	Were they used otherwise than for postage?
22190	What were the stamps made for if not to be sold to the public as the public wants them?
22190	What would be thought of a furniture store where one could not purchase a table or a chair but must take a whole set?
27688	At length the eldest of them broke silence by inquiring of his next neighbour,''Hast thee heard how indigos go at the India House?''
27688	How could there be an active public opinion in the conditions of the times?
27688	I said,''Were you not afraid of being hanged for forgery?''
27688	Is it surprising, under these conditions, that few newspapers should circulate, and that news should travel slowly throughout the country?
27688	Neist o''rags, bags, and size then, let no one despise them, Without them whar wad a''our paper come frae?
27688	There, night having come on, and losing her way, she was suddenly accosted by a horseman with,''Now, my pretty girl, where are you going?''
27688	Will the pace be kept up in the next hundred years?
42983	Cheap postage--he writes,"What is this men are talking about?
42983	Can it be that all my life I have been in error?
42983	How did he succeed when so many others had failed?
42983	Is it not within the last six months that the present Chancellor of the Exchequer[263] has charged me not to let the present revenue go down?
42983	The question now was, Who was to see that these reforms were carried out?
42983	The question then arose, should the Irish Office receive that part of the £4000 due them while the Holyhead packets did not carry the mails?
42983	The question then was, what was to be done with them?
42983	What was Dockwra''s reward for the boon which he had conferred?
42983	You, Freeling, brought up and educated as you have been, are you going to lend yourself to these extravagant schemes?
30509	''Or suppose a cow were to stray upon the line; would not that be a very awkward circumstance?''
30509	Aid might confidently be looked for-- but by which aspirant?
30509	How should the road be built, granted its{ 211} need?
30509	What outlay would be involved and what state aid was needed?
30509	What standards were to be set for the{ 212} new road?
30509	What were the reasons for this disappointing result?
30509	What would become of coachmen and coach- builders and horse- dealers?
30509	Where did the cause lie?
30509	Who was to build the road?
30509	Why, then, carry the grain of the prairie fifteen hundred or two thousand miles to an Atlantic port before loading it on the ocean freighter?
30509	[ 1]''Lord Strathcona may still remember the man who came into his office at Winnipeg and said:"Look at me; ai n''t I a healthy sight?
18204	And where is another pastime with such international ramifications?
18204	And why not?
18204	But is it not so with precious stones and pearls?
18204	How many ordinary periodicals can boast of equally robust lives?
18204	How many other boys, even after they have passed through the last stage of their school life, could do this?
18204	The questions,"What to collect?"
18204	What more do we want of a hobby?
18204	Whence comes the fascination?
18204	Why is it?
18204	and"How to collect?"
41167	On the twenty- first the army began to be ferried across the Wabash,"to a small hill called[ Mammelle?]."
41167	The only question was, Could the remainder escape?
41167	Was ever a general more terribly mistaken?
41167	What would that word be?
41167	Would the enemy rally here on the watershed crest near the old French fort on the Loramie?
41167	[ 45] The western branch of the Bonpas, or the Fox?
41167	[ 78] Lick Schoolhouse, Deerfield Township, Warren County?
36464	***** Is there another fair way of testing this question?
36464	But is that any reason why the Government should not pay fair value for what it receives?
36464	How is a comparison possible, unless the space credited to the mails is recorded in the same way?
36464	IS THE GOVERNMENT PAYING THE RAILROADS FOR CARRYING THE MAILS THE COST OF DOING THE WORK?
36464	Is it good policy for the Government to force upon the companies the alternative of carrying the mails at a loss or refusing to carry them at all?
36464	WHY DO RAILROADS CARRY THE MAILS WITHOUT PROFIT?
36464	What are the mails?
36464	What does it pay?
36464	What is the correct view as to this five per cent?
36464	Who conveys them?
36464	Who makes that money for them?
40709	What order? 40709 How were the workmen to breathe? 40709 If there is no loss in two miles, how can there be in five? 40709 The next question to be considered, if, indeed, there can be any question about it, is how shall the new route be located? 40709 Was it certain that the two sections commenced from the opposite ends would not miss and pass each other in the middle of the mountain? 40709 What chasms, unfathomable abysses and resistless torrents might not be encountered? 40709 What surveys?
41030	''Any room, sir?'' 41030 The new passenger, without any expression of anxiety, looks into the coach, and then looks up at the coachman:''Now, how do you mean to fix it?''
41030	''Shall I close the window?''
41030	How delighted were the old tavern- keepers in central New York with the opening of the Erie Canal, on whose boats immigrants ate and slept?
41030	Mr. Moore, a traveller toward his home in Dunker''s Bottom, Fayette County, Pennsylvania,[?]
41030	That out of the neat[ net?]
41030	[ 5] Oliphant''s Iron Furnace, Union Township?
41030	[ 7] Bruceton''s Mills, Grant Township, Preston County, West Virginia?
45092	What did you do with my mails, that I gave you, for the last two weeks, to be conveyed to the''Poost''?
45092	And who knows?
45092	But in the face of all these dangers, has the runner ever failed to do his duty?
45092	But really does it matter much if the address is written on the wrong side?
45092	But what would be the use of all these offices and all this organization without lines of communication?
45092	Has the rain wrecked the road?
45092	How can the mere negative evidence of another half- dozen stand against these convincing proofs?
45092	How do you do it?"
45092	Is the torrent in spate?
45092	Is this mere contempt, is it optimism, or is it the adoption of Warren Hastings''motto:"Mens aequa in arduis"?
34197	Do you want a penny or a halfpenny stamp?
34197	Mr. DANIEL: But is the narrow part you speak of the entrance to Small Street? 34197 Oh, Mr.----,"said a barmaid to him one day,"what can you do with so many?"
34197	What do you want?
34197	Will you put a stamp on this letter, sir, please?
34197	At the five minutes before twelve, however, should all not be ready for departure, her driver sings out''Any more for the down train?''
34197	This was in the good(?)
34197	What the devil do you mean by bringing letters like this?
34197	Where now is the fashionable roadside"Ostrich Inn"on Durdham Down of a century ago, approached by a rough and winding track from Black Boy Hill?
34197	Where now the Bath and Bristol mail pulling up at the roadside"King''s Head Inn"?
34197	each, what of that?
41179	From Crown Point to Fort St Johns is one hundred and five[?] 41179 1 To a falle carying place is 1/4 m over by water 30 2 To Crown point begining of corlaers lake 33 3 To end of a lake begining Chamly river 40(?) 41179 4 To a rift in[?] 41179 Connecticut-- Otter Creek-- Black(?) 41179 Etreze[ Threse?] 41179 To fort Ingoldsby by land when[?] 41179 We speak easily of Fort Necessity and Fort Bull and Fort Laurens-- but where are they? 41179 What else did Fort Defiance, Fort Venango, Fort Oswego, Fort Niagara, Fort Miami on the St. Joseph mean? 41179 carrying place now we leave Hudson''s river 6. goe to the Camp att wood creeke 16: From[?] 33706 And ought not the people have the opportunity to attend church?
33706	After receiving one- half, what per cent does the government return to them?
33706	How much does it expend to ease this burden of six hundred millions which lies so largely on the farmers of America?
33706	Or what joy more exquisite than with pleasant companionship to dash along the smooth highway, drawn by a noble American trotter?
33706	The question is, How much can we save of this half a billion dollars, at the least expenditure of money and in the most beneficial way?
33706	What can be of more interest to every parent than bringing the opportunity of educational instruction within the reach of every child?
33706	What can be of more interest to us than the schooling of our children?
33706	Where does the government build its fine buildings, where does it spend its millions on rivers and harbors?
33706	Who can estimate in mere dollars these advantages to the quality of American citizenship a century hence?
33706	Who wants to be landlocked five months of the year, without social advantages?
33706	Why?
38359	Ask any collector when Columbus discovered America?
38359	How can we make the most of all these interesting and beautiful picture stamps?
38359	Over what country did King Amadeus reign?
38359	Were the question to be put,"Which is the rarest stamp in the world?"
38359	What can we do with our accumulations of valueless stamps?
38359	What could be more stirring than the design on the three- halfpenny 1901 khaki stamp of New Zealand?
38359	What form of government is possessed by Paraguay?
38359	What is the best way to tell whether a specimen is a forgery?
38359	What is the difference between an engraving and a lithograph, between cream- laid paper and wove paper, between magenta and cerise?
38359	Who has ever heard of this adhesive?
38359	Who has ever seen it?
38359	Who was Prince Henry the Navigator?
38359	Who, for instance, would ever dream that a stamp could cause serious disturbance among a whole race of some millions of people?
42129	What security,it was now asked,"can there be for the delivery of letters for which the letter- carriers are to bring back no return?"
42129	''You rascal,''I said to him,''are you the post- boy and thus spending your time?''
42129	In all this consists the_ prose_ of Post- Office life; but who shall describe its_ poetry_?
42129	This witness, in answer to the questions,"How came you to know Dr. Hensey to be a Roman Catholic?"
42129	What, however, are the facts?
42129	Who can wonder at the Post- Office robberies when the carelessness and incompetency of the servants of the Post- Office were taken into account?
42129	Who would not be almost satisfied with knowing all the correspondence coming to or leaving the hands of the object of his interest?
42129	Why, therefore,"should not the stage- coach, well protected by armed guards, under certain conditions to be specified, carry the mail- bags?"
42129	and"What had you to do with his religion?"
42129	can be levied on the carriage of an article so easily transported as a letter?
37024	But who were these countries that the United States could learn anything from them?
37024	Shall we remain one, or shall we revert to factions, to factions either at loggerheads with one another, or else indifferent one to the other?
37024	Were the express companies enforcing exorbitant rates?
37024	Why add insult to injury by actually paying them for rendering unto the people the things which belong to the people?
37024	_ Private enterprise._ Did express profits represent a small amount of traffic at a high profit instead of a large amount of traffic at a low profit?
37024	_ Private enterprise._ Did they discriminate against certain shippers?
20074	Can you help us to get a railway?
20074	Then,said the friend,"why not make it a first- class watering place?"
20074	As for English visitors-- what use were they?
20074	As he alighted from the train this was dangled before him at the end of a long pole, with a pendant inscription,"Who left the key under the door?"
20074	As he was leaving his friend''s office he suddenly turned round and asked"Do you believe in the Claimant?"
20074	Banner,--''Whither Bound?''
20074	In vain did the secluded Lake Poet protest:"Is there no nook of English ground secure From rash assault?"
20074	The train, we are told by a contemporary chronicler, failed to keep time, but who cared?
20074	There was a bevy of females in a state of-- shall I go on?
20074	What, they asked, was to become of Tustin?
20074	we look round and, will you believe it?
41143	How long have you read law and what books have you studied?
41143	''So,''says the son,''am I to be served thus for not doing what I am unable to do?
41143	B?]
41143	Because some of the relatives of the Indian chieftain Logan had been basely murdered, while intoxicated, on Yellow Creek?
41143	But what could be said if Virginia purchased the Indian''s claim?
41143	Could a king''s proclamation keep the Virginians from a territory to which, for value received, the Indians had given a quit- claim deed?
41143	Could she maintain it?
41143	How aware?
41143	Nor does it seem that there was much abatement during the more inclement( safer?)
41143	Where is even the Kentucky historian who has done his state justice in telling the story of Kentucky''s conquest of Ohio and Indiana?
41143	Who composed the armies of McIntosh, Brodhead, Crawford, Harmar, St. Clair, and Wayne but these rough, wild- looking men who first entered the West?
41143	an assurance that"to him that hath shall be given?"
41067	Here''s some strangers that wants lodging; can we get to stay all night with you?
41067	Is there a ferry here?
41067	Leaving this lonely habitation, we continued on our journey, and crossing the Sinecocy[ Monocacy?] 41067 What in the world shall we do?"
41067	What''s that you say, stranger? 41067 What''s that?"
41067	A portly dame made her appearance at the door, and was saluted with,--"How de do, ma''am-- all well, ma''am?"
41067	But our attitude has been that of one asking, Why?--we have not at proper length considered all that would be contained in the question, How?
41067	I_ spose maybe_ you think I never_ seed_ a coach?
41067	May not an old route have led from Great Meadows thither on the same hillside where we find the Cumberland Road today?
41067	On the front these words can be traced:"[ 12?]
41067	The question immediately arises, What sort of vehicle could weather such roads?
41067	What must have been the price when one horse carried only from one hundred and fifty to two hundred and fifty pounds?
41067	Who keeps house?"
41008	''Do you think so, sir?'' 41008 By what means have they been diverted so far from their natural course?"
41008	By whose authority, and by whom, was a work of such magnitude accomplished?
41008	They had been opened three days by the committee,he wrote from New York where he happened to be in April(?
41008	Who comes there?
41008	Shall I lead your astonishment up to the verge of incredulity?
41008	Size of canal, 28[ 26?]
41008	That will greatly harm this city, but what good will it do to the New York State farmer?
41008	Today what are the conditions?
41008	feet bottom, 40 feet surface, 4 feet depth cross sec[tion]= 136[ 132?]
41152	By land, to the island of Cape Breton?
41152	How, my Father,they replied,"are you so bent upon death that you would also sacrifice us?
41152	What, is Cape Breton an island? 41152 And was he more at fault for the lack of frontiersmen? 41152 Are you sure of that?
41152	Could North Carolina have given birth to a Tennessee if France had made good her claim to the Mississippi?
41152	Could Virginia have borne a son in the western wilderness, Kentucky by name, if France had held the Ohio Valley?
41152	Only once or twice in the three days he lived did he speak of the battle; and then he only sighed to himself softly:"Who would have thought it?"
41152	What men in America, at the time, were more influential in their spheres than Franklin, Washington, and Morris?
41152	Who but Gordon would have omitted his name under these circumstances?
41152	With our eight hundred men do you ask us to attack four thousand English?
41152	will you suffer your father to depart alone?"
39569	Why did you not tell me anything of this before?
39569	& C. Black to every editor in London, if not throughout a wider sphere?"
39569	And was not James Chalmers the successor in that line, sixty years ago, of Palmer?
39569	Did Mr. Hill tell us_ that_ in his paper of 1839?
39569	Did he tell us that he drew up this paper of 1839 under a pressing demand for the adhesive stamp from all quarters?
39569	Further, how is it that neither of these members of the Committee before whom I laid my plan had ever heard of any such prior proposal on your part?
39569	Here was honesty certainly-- simplicity indeed-- on the side of Mr. Chalmers; but what about the representation on the part of Mr. Hill?
39569	Was it the case that he had proposed the adoption of the adhesive stamp in February, 1837, as represented to Mr. Chalmers?
39569	What are his last words to Sir Rowland Hill on the subject?
39569	[ 10]"Why did not you tell me anything of this before?"
3098	Do you think so, Sir?
3098	But how were cargoes to reach these vessels from the vast regions beyond the Great Lakes?
3098	But what of this West for whose commerce the great struggle was being waged?
3098	If roads and canals would not serve the city on the Chesapeake, what of the railroad on which so many experiments were being made in England?
3098	Is there any young fellow of the present time, who aspires to take the place of a stoker?
3098	Now, with canals building to the north of her and canals to the south of her, what of her prestige and future?
3098	Were their efforts to keep the Chesapeake metropolis in the lead to be set at naught?
3098	What land canoes could compete with the flotillas that brought their priceless cargoes of furs each year to Montreal and Quebec?
3098	Where are you, O rattling Quicksilver, O swift Defiance?
3098	Where are you, charioteers?
19414	A Letter- box?
19414	Are all letters and papers posted for despatch as well as for delivery at the office properly pre- paid by stamp?
19414	Are the Letter Bills properly post- marked and fyled?
19414	Are the Postmaster and his assistants duly sworn, and do they understand their duties?
19414	Are the Registered Letters and Mail Key kept in a safe place?
19414	Are the entries in the Book of Mails sent and received, and the Registered Letter Books properly made?
19414	Are the instructions and circulars received from the Department properly fyled?
19414	Are the letters and papers for delivery properly post- marked?
19414	Are the mails regularly received and despatched, and the provisions of the contracts under which the office is supplied properly carried out?
19414	Are the notices sent for exhibition to the public properly posted?
19414	Are there any which should have been sent to the Dead Letter Office?
19414	Are they all intended for the delivery of the office?
19414	Are they sorted into the proper boxes?
19414	Forms and other necessary equipments?
19414	Has the Postmaster proper stamps and material for post- marking letters,& c., and obliterating the stamps thereon?
19414	Is it conveniently situated and provided with proper accommodation for the public?
19414	Is the Postmaster supplied with postage stamps sufficient to meet the requirements of the public?
19414	Is the office provided with-- A Sign?
19414	Is there a notice posted in the lobby indicating the office hours and the times at which mails are closed and received?
19414	Other necessary fittings?
19414	Pigeon- holes for letters and papers for delivery and despatch?
39021	After all,it said, through its President, the late George A. Bagley,"what is a contract but-- a contract?"
39021	How about it now?
39021	How is it-- on time?
39021	Then why do n''t you take them into the house and thaw them out?
39021	What are they?
39021	What do you propose to do with these?
39021	When are you going to cart that snow off our line?
39021	***** And then?
39021	Agreements?
39021	And Watertown?
39021	And Watertown?
39021	Buy R. W.& O. at seventy- five?
39021	For what could there be of selfishness in a task which promised so much of worry and responsibility, and so little of any immediate financial return?
39021	HOW LONG IS THIS STATE OF THINGS TO ENDURE?
39021	Overtime?
39021	Suppose that the Vanderbilts should come along and purchase it?
39021	What could Mr. Parsons do?
38542	Chicora: Chicora, I do n''t remember any steamer of that name-- Ah: did you say the_ Let Her B_? 38542 Dye ye hae tea''i the noon in Canada?"
38542	Mon ar''ye feart o''goin''through? 38542 Well, White,"was asked,"what''s the verdict?"
38542	What for why?
38542	After working out our enterprise so far, were we to be wrecked just when safety was less than a mile away?
38542	Bending forward over me with a puckering of the forehead she said abruptly,"Where do ye coom frae?"
38542	But would n''t it be better for the insurance companies?
38542	Cumberland?"
38542	He might have done it, but there was a doubt in it, and supposing he had not, what then?
38542	Its first representative in the Legislature of Ontario used quizzically to describe it:"Where is my constituency?
38542	There were others also who were satisfied as one of the devout congregation who said as we walked away,"Was n''t the Meenester powerful in prayer?"
38542	They say the reply was,"Do you suppose I''d open my mouth when I went under?"
38542	We could not do anything for ourselves-- still there was no movement from the tug-- would she never start again?
38542	What had taken place?
38542	Where was she being taken to?
38542	Where would be the cargoes without the ships?
38542	Why not get the"Chicora"and strike out for a career of one''s own?
34011	And what element but universal enlightenment of the people forms the chief corner- stone in the temple of our political hopes? 34011 But, Sir, what is the''liberty of the Press''? 34011 Council of State to( Serjeant Dendy and his assistants? 34011 Est- il douteux que les liens de famille so resserreront davantage, lorsque les rélations seront plus fréquentes?
34011	Est- il douteux, en effet, que les enfants auront toujours à profiter des conseils d''un père, d''une mère?
34011	Qu''est- ce qu''elle distribue?
34011	Qu''est- ce que la poste nous porte?
34011	Sera- ce à l''impôt qu''il faudra s''adresser?
34011	Shall it be fixed on the simple basis of cost and revenue, or shall it be fixed at such a level as to yield a surplus revenue?
34011	The question is, what general considerations shall be allowed to govern the rate?
34011	Wenn Sie beide Blätter nun auf ihren Inhalt prüfen, was erblicken Sie da?
34011	[ 609]"N''est- ce pas précisément l''unité de tarif qui caractérise le colis postal?
34011	[ 754]"Will it pay?
34011	postage on letters?"
34011	the letter rate or the parcel rate), or any part of it, is taxation?
13271	Is rain a bad thing, then?
13271	What is it useful for?
13271	What makes the price of beer and Luddites rise? 13271 What ought we to do in return for his goodness?"
13271	What sort of a day is it?
13271	Who sends rain and sunshine?
13271	Why is it fine?
13271	And what are the results of this colony, in which there are none idle, none poor, and few uneducated?
13271	Did the Master slap them all round and pull the ears of the poor little fat somnus?
13271	For instance:--"What day is this?"
13271	How long are we to be slaves of salt soup, fried soles, and fiery sherry?
13271	What fills the butchers''shops with large blue flies?"
13271	What makes the difference in the demand for labour in Cheshire but the steam- engines?
13271	What other line of kings has had the fate to sign away the lives of two such men as Raleigh and Strafford?
13271	Where could a High Tory mob be found now, or who now differs with the mild liberalism of Huskisson?
13271	Who is it that examines and compares the ornaments of one coffin with that of another?
13271	Why are our architects so inferior to our engineers?
41118	But, supposing it were practicable to make a road from Raystown quite as good as General Braddock''s,--I ask, have we time to do it? 41118 [ 42] Was this a hint that Braddock had been sent by a wrong route and that his successor would march to Fort Duquesne over the Old Trading Path?
41118	At Fort Pitt could either be expected?
41118	But soon the question arose,"Where is the frontier?"
41118	By what right, the chieftains asked, could the French surrender the Black Forest to the English?
41118	CHAPTER IV THE OLD OR A NEW ROAD?
41118	Colonel Washington has had the beginning of the road cut from Braddock,[ along Braddock''s Road?]
41118	Could another army come again?
41118	Could this large body of troops cross them and take provisions sufficient to support men and horses?
41118	Do you not think it would be well to see Colonel Washington here, before making your decision?
41118	Frankly, what did he know of the needs of five thousand men on a march of two hundred miles from their base of supplies?
41118	How could a land be conquered where not a single battle had been fought?
41118	In the case of Washington''s Fort Necessity campaign, how did his handful of men fare?
41118	Is the splendid lesson of these years clear?
41118	May not such a communication be found without crossing Laurel hill?"
41118	THE OLD OR A NEW ROAD?
41118	Was not the blundering Braddock killed and his fine army utterly put to rout?
41118	Were not the French forts in the West-- Presque Isle, Venango, Le Boeuf, Miami, and Detroit, secure?
41118	Were the French welcoming the long- expected reenforcements from Presque Isle and Niagara-- or had a magazine exploded?
41118	When did the French come to own the land, after all?
41118	and if our parties continue to send favourable news, to convert him to give way to the evidence?"
52087	( 2) In what time, approximately, could the journey from Hendon to Liverpool be made?
52087	( 3) What sum would the London trader have to pay for the transport?"
52087	Do not such possibilities still further suggest, also, the eventual supersession of the small trader by the large one?
52087	Have they contributed a single farthing?
52087	Have they done a single thing?
52087	Have they removed a single impediment?
52087	He further says:--"I hear some say, You projected the making Navigable the River Stoure in Worcestershire; what is the reason it was not finished?
52087	I say, can anything be equal to these kind of cast iron rollers to produce the foregoing effects?"
52087	Should railway shareholders at once sell out and put their money, preferably, in motor- omnibus and commercial motor companies?
52087	Then:( 1) What would be the maximum weight, and, also, the maximum bulk, of such consignment as an aeroplane could carry?
52087	With all these advantages staring us in the face, what have the Government done to promote railways?
52087	to render them smooth and even to harden and encrust the surface, and make it resemble a terrass walk?
28704	Sartain,they said,"if you''ll pay us what Uncle Sammy pays for his''n?"
28704	The only question now is, who are to be the gainers by this revolution in navigation? 28704 ( buy with his own money?) 28704 But whence does this increase arise? 28704 Did you make it?
28704	Dr. McCosh from Scotland?
28704	If the other is true, and undoubtedly it is, that he can not build the ships that are needed without the aid of a bounty or a subsidy, what then?
28704	If, on the contrary, he chooses to repeat his assertion that his ships cost less than those built in Scotland, what inference is naturally drawn?
28704	In view of this glorious future, how can you, Mr. Roach, oppose the 21st section of this bill?
28704	Mr. Roach objects to our buying British ships now; will he decline to sell American ships then?
28704	Now, why can not American shipbuilders compete on equal terms with those of Great Britain?
28704	Now, why do n''t you do what he did, and give us something to do, instead of spending your money going across in his boats and the Dutchman''s?"
28704	Say, Jonathan, what are you doin''with that ar jack- knife?
28704	This is all the privilege that ship owners demand, and with the favoritism over all other mechanics shown to shipbuilders, how can they complain?
28704	What will England then do?
28704	Who will avail themselves of it?
28704	Why need he fear the effect of the clause in favor of ship owners?
28704	Will he get it?
28704	Will she grant bounties to her ship- builders, to meet the emergency?
28704	to?
44135	I asked Witte:''Do you think, Sergei Yulyevitch, that the Tsar would avail himself of a possible opportunity of meeting the Kaiser?'' 44135 What would it profit you to risk a naval battle on the high seas?
44135	And what are the results?
44135	And what does it profit us if we do get it?
44135	Are you going to make them fight against a numerically superior enemy?
44135	But what are you going to do?
44135	But what have we done instead?
44135	But who was to exercise such influence on the Kaiser?
44135	Could it be that it was intended to intimidate the British Government?
44135	Does your Excellency believe it would augur well for the future peace if Germany succeeded in inflicting a naval victory on the British?
44135	Have you read the French papers?
44135	What apology has there been offered to us for the passage in the speech describing our fleet as an article of luxury?
44135	What will it look like when we get back?
44135	What would happen if the latter raised any counter- claims of their own, or if they were dissatisfied with the percentage allotted to them?
44864	But is he not your servant?
44864	But suppose anything should break, or a linchpin should give way and let a wheel loose?
44864	But who has effected all this improvement in your paving?
44864	Guarded and lighted?
44864	How is Paddy''s leg?
44864	Just in time, your honour, here she comes-- them there grey horses; where''s your luggage?
44864	Pray, sir,says he,"have you any_ slow_ coach down this road to- day?"
44864	Then we shall have no more galloping-- no more springing them as you term it?
44864	Very fast?
44864	What coach, your honour?
44864	What did that rascally waiter mean by telling me this was a slow coach? 44864 What do you charge per mile posting?"
44864	What room in the Regulator?
44864	What will you take, sir? 44864 [ 10]"That''s the coach for me; pray what do you call it?"
44864	''"And pray, my good sir, what sort of horses may you have over the next stage?"
44864	''However, he is now seated; and"What_ gentleman_ is going to drive us?"
44864	But what does he see?
44864	Death and destruction before his eyes?
44864	Do you not mean the basket?
44864	Have you no coach that does not carry luggage on the top?"
44864	If among all these difficulties, then, he, by degrees, became a drunkard, who can wonder at his becoming so?
44864	Mutton- chops, veal- cutlets, beef- steaks, or a fowl( to kill?)"
44864	Pray, what''s that?
44864	Recovering, however, a little from his surprise--"My dear sir,"said he,"you told me we were to change horses at Hounslow?
44864	Smith?''
44864	There was--''Now, ladies and gentlemen, what would you like to take?
44864	off the stones already?"
44864	this here''oss?"
47435	Again I may ask-- Is there any reasonable probability of this?
47435	Are not our commercial conditions equally dissimilar?
47435	But is there any reasonable probability that it could?
47435	But what would happen if it were duly carried out, as it ought to be?
47435	But, even accepting the principle of canal municipalisation, what prospect would there be of Colonel Walker''s aspiration being realised?
47435	He had been asked, Why make any roads?
47435	How can any just comparison be made between these two waterways?
47435	How can the Aire and Calder possibly be taken as a model-- from the point of view of calculating cost of improvements or reconstruction?
47435	Is it ready, even in principle, for either the nationalisation or the municipalisation of canals alone?
47435	Is this really the case?
47435	What are our conditions in Great Britain, as against all these?
47435	What is to be done with these?
47435	Why should not the same principle be applied to railways also?
47435	Would the traffic on a particular route be always equal to the outlay?
47435	You may hope to get them in about a week"?
47435	[_ Frontispiece._] BRITISH CANALS: IS THEIR RESUSCITATION PRACTICABLE?
47435	[_ To face page 88._] Substitute coal barges for coal trucks, and how will the loading then be accomplished?
45563	Forwardundoubtedly must be the watchword;"en avant;"but whither?
45563	But how to achieve this end?
45563	But how to remedy the state of affairs?
45563	But surely the rifle itself, it may pardonably be contended, is nothing if not a mechanical contrivance?
45563	Could it truthfully be said that we as a community were consenting to become a"League of Dupes,"as the Nations have been banded together as a League?
45563	Distorted and not infrequently cracked or split, of what further use could they be?
45563	How could it be true?
45563	How for instance could a"flimsy"Ford chassis be expected to withstand loads and stresses for which evidently it had never been designed?
45563	How to straighten out the tangle?
45563	In the circumstances, can anyone marvel that:--"Reason frowns on war''s unequal game, Where thousands fall to raise a single name"?
45563	Taken unawares, the question consequentially arose"How to hit them back?"
45563	The time for secrecy was past; but how to stem the tide?
45563	Were we then really living in a fool''s paradise?
45563	What had happened?
45563	What is the most suitable metal to employ in the manufacture of the dies?
45563	What, therefore, if the shell, expanded in the commencement of the rifling, jams, or is momentarily checked, in its passage up the bore?
45563	Who made the law?"
45563	Who made the law?"
45563	Why then, it may be asked, this persistent demand for Ministerial megalomania- to- be?
45563	Why this inaction, this seeming hesitation?
45563	Will the forgeman bestow every care in the use of his"dies,"and will he set them accurately in the hammer?
45563	and having found that metal, what is the best process of hardening?
45563	it may well be asked,"where, Grave, thy victory?"
45563	la chère France, qu''on ne savait pas tant belle et si bonne avant de l''avoir quittée?"
41799	Are you sure of that?
41799	Certainly I can,replied Donaldson,"what shall the new name be?"
41799	Does the plan which you have mentioned, of breaking up the roads, apply to gravel roads, or only to those roads composed of hard stones? 41799 How does it come,"further queried the Governor,"that all you copperheads are for Bunting?"
41799	I am as hard as my name,said Breakiron,"and what is your name?"
41799	What do you want?
41799	What then is it?
41799	When?
41799	Why did n''t you tell me that last night?
41799	And to the inquiry,''What is the water boiled down for, Uncle Isaac?''
41799	And where were they all now?"
41799	By his amendment he proposes what?
41799	D.) Page 105.--"How deep do you go in lifting the roads?
41799	If so, how?
41799	May I request such information as is within your reach on this subject?
41799	POINTS RAISED BEFORE THE COMMITTING MAGISTRATE: Quere.--Can bail be given on any other species of property than real estate?
41799	Pray have you had a severe winter below?
41799	Quere.--Are not these persons indemnified?
41799	Quere.--The order is that two sureties in$ 25,000 each should be furnished-- will any other members be taken?
41799	Suppose the same count had charged the accused with robbing, stealing and taking?
41799	The simple question, then, was this: Are roads necessary to carry the mail?
41799	Was it not our duty to lend a helping hand to encourage, to cheer, and to sustain them in their noble and patriotic efforts?
41799	Was it possible that an American statesman could, at this time of day, urge such an argument?
41799	What a change?
41799	What power of this government was the sedition law intended to carry into effect?
41799	What would the brave freemen of this country say to the men who would deny them roads to travel on, lest the enemy might take them from us in war?
41799	Who can question the allegation that it is an immensely important national work?
41799	Who, then, can doubt its nationality?
41799	Would it be policy to recognize them as witnesses on the part of the United States?
41799	_ Who can reconcile it to his conscience and his constituents to permit it to go to destruction?_[ Illustration: ROAD WAGON] CHAPTER XVI.
39978	''Do you send mail there?'' 39978 ''Is there such a place in this country as Cleveland?''
39978	''Then it will be two cents, eh?'' 39978 ''Then it will take twelve cents?''
39978	All doing for themselves by this time, I suppose?
39978	How many have you?
39978	''But what am I to say in my report?''
39978	Allow me to ask, if a piece of string is passed through two holes and the ends not tied in a knot, if that is considered stitching?
39978	Amount of postage paid, and in what manner paid?
39978	And how does all the correspondence for the Secretary at headquarters find its way to its proper quarter for treatment?
39978	And if so, what has the thinking member made of it?
39978	As he was leaving the barracks one day a voice hailed him with the question,"Is not your name Goraud?"
39978	But is there any instance where posts have opened any of the bags containing letters, and thereby committed felony?
39978	By whom posted?
39978	Does it ever occur to an ordinary member of the community how letters are sorted?
39978	Elizabeth B---- Your usual signature?
39978	How many papers were there in the packet?
39978	I would also ask by what law did he open the package?
39978	Is it possible to reinstate him at the Post- office?
39978	Is not this a case showing a sad lack of public spirit?
39978	Now allow me to ask by what law has he dared to delay the delivery, and by that means no doubt killed the little animals?
39978	This seems a very simple process, does it not?
39978	Title and date of newspaper?
39978	To add to his distresses-- for he is not rich"( who ever heard of a rich postmaster?)
39978	Veuillez être assez bon de me faire rà © ponse pour me donner des rà © sultats sur l''existence de Madame----?
39978	Was I such a Goth as to contaminate wine with business?
39978	Where posted, when, and at what hour?
39978	Whether posted within eight days from date of publication?
39978	Why did the office at---- take it if wrong?
39978	Will Mrs Campbell kindly communicate her address immediately?"
39978	Yet, after all, what are the figures above given, when put in the balance with the facts of nature?
39978	You wo n''t mind letting me taste your wine, will you?"
39978	[ Illustration:_ Read E. C._____ Sierra Leone Cape Coast Castle or elsewhere_][ Illustration:_ Read 50...... Lane?
39978	in weight?
39978	says the officer,"what have we here?
39978	the turnpikes, as they have the assurance to call them, and the hardiness to make one pay for?
39978	what can the matter be?''
39978	where is the place of understanding?"
17299	How long is it?
17299	Only what?
17299	Then whit business had ye to stay awa on ony Sabbath?
17299	What shall I do?
17299	After the valet had been there a week or more, one day, when_ downstairs_, he said to the servants:"Tell me, what is it that is wrong with the master?
17299	Belfast and the County Down receded into the past; and shall I confess it?
17299	But two years will quickly pass; and what then?
17299	Could I give him higher praise?
17299	Dear reader, did you ever lie in a_ concealed bed_?
17299	Farewell Osiris, Anubis and Set, Horus and Ra, and gentle Meskenhet, Ye sacred gods of old, O must we leave you yet?
17299	For ever it may be, what oracle can tell?
17299	He added,"Does this seem a businesslike proposal?"
17299	He asked, was I the son of William Tatlow of the Midland Railway, whom he had met a good many years before on some coal rates question?
17299	He said there was a vacancy on the Kingstown Board; and, supposing the seat was offered to me, would I be free to accept it?
17299	How shall we celebrate_ it_?
17299	I had been mentioned to him; would I accept the position?
17299	I said,"What about his very substantial person?"
17299	I was but very recently married, I said, and how could I leave my wife to go to the other side of the globe alone?
17299	If so, would my company join in and to what extent?
17299	In Scutari we heard the Howling Dervishes at their devotions, and the following day, in Constantinople, witnessed a_ performance_ shall I call it?
17299	M''sieu Tatlow, the weather it is so hot; will you not at Rugby give us some of your beautiful_ char- a- banc_?"
17299	Pleasant times, Joseph Tatlow, you seem to have had, and much variety and diversion; but what of your own railway and your duties to it?
17299	Said Bailey:"Can not you, before we go, write a verse of Farewell?"
17299	The bargees asked would I like to go through with them?
17299	The men?
17299	What are the best means of encouraging the building of light railways_?"
17299	What are these numerous Acts of Parliament and what are their objects, scope, and intentions?
17299	What did the County Down think?
17299	What had I learned in my first five years of railway work?
17299	What is the remedy?
17299	What of it?
17299	What was to be done?
17299	Who can tell?
17299	Who can tell?
17299	Why has the pretty art of blushing gone?
17299	Why should he?
17299	Without this sentiment, and without loyalty to the Crown and Mother Country, what, we often thought, would happen?
17299	Would I write tonight?
17299	Would either Bangor or Donaghadee be better than Belfast?
17299	said I, and"how long will it take?"
17299	what''s the matter?"
29294	And was my decision,replied the Judge,"not in accordance with law as well as with justice?"
29294	Judge,said he,"did you not recently decide an important case against our company?"
29294	Now, in the name of all the gods at once, Upon what meat doth this our Cæsar feed, That he hath grown so great?
29294	And he ought to pay 20, as against 13?
29294	And they were languishing and suffering?
29294	And what do you think of this plan?
29294	And you acted as a fostering mother to A. T. Stewart& Company to build it up?
29294	Are there no human rights, for the protection of which government was established, more sacred than the rights of a wealthy corporation''s dollar?
29294	At 20 against 13?
29294	Can the imagination picture the infinite sufferings that would at once result to every man, woman and child in the whole country?
29294	Can we afford to ignore the lessons of history?
29294	Can you use it?"
29294	Do railway investments form the only property in the land which requires the protection of the law?
29294	Do you call that the same chance?
29294	Do you know H. S. Ballou, of Rochester?
29294	Do you know anything of G. C. Buell& Company?
29294	Finally Prof. Hadley says:"Where are we to find the limit to such unwise action?
29294	Have you seen any tickets yet?
29294	He asks:"Why should for any public reasons-- for any reason of public safety-- the Interstate Commerce Law have come to stay?"
29294	He seems to be a grocer there?
29294	How long had the factories of A. T. Stewart& Company been in existence?
29294	How long would the people of this country endure such a condition of things?
29294	If the State should refuse to levy its share( and how could such share be ascertained?
29294	In a recent article published by the Arena Publishing Company, entitled"Should the Nation own the Railways?"
29294	Is it not far below such reasonable amount?
29294	Q. January 11th, 1879?
29294	Should the State sacrifice the welfare of all her people rather than lay its"withering or destroying"hand on a single dollar of corporate wealth?
29294	Small concerns are not worth developing, according to your opinion?
29294	That is to say, a small concern ought to pay 40, 30, 25 and 20, as against a large concern, 13; that is your rule?
29294	That small man has no right to develop?
29294	That was the object?
29294	The main question to be determined is: Shall the railroads be owned and operated as public or as private property?
29294	The question would then arise, what proportion must be levied upon State and interstate traffic respectively?
29294	Was that to build up and develop their business?
29294	What reason can be assigned why the weaker should thus be discriminated against?
29294	Who would condemn such an organization more severely than the advocates of the Traffic Association?
29294	Why can not we secure two good things instead of one?
29294	Why is it that when a legislature is in session passes are as plentiful as leaves in the forest in autumn?...
29294	Why, then, should privileges be conceded to one beneficiary which are denied to all others?
29294	Will Mr. Hadley please explain why railroad construction has ceased in Connecticut?
29294	You consider it the same chance?
29294	You made the rate for A. T. Stewart& Company?
29294	You thought that business was not yet sufficiently built up and developed?
29294	You wanted to develop their business?
44853	Again, why should you send your general superintendent a payroll of names any more than you should send him copies of your train sheets?
44853	Are they outcasts?
44853	Are we doing as well as the rejuvenated War Department?
44853	Are we not to blame for not having met the issue squarely?
44853	Before throwing money to the contractors why not give our section foreman or our agent a bonus for supervising the coal heavers?
44853	Can we afford to manufacture relatively fewer of our own appliances than that comprehensive organization, the Standard Oil Company?
44853	Did he not ask you some questions that kept you guessing for a week?
44853	Did he not remind you that outsiders usually make the inventions that revolutionize operation?
44853	Did it ever strike you that there may be many good reasons why both officials and employes may desire to transfer to another road?
44853	Did the non- union men have any voice in their selection?
44853	Did we develop more men and prepare for the great rush of business the years were sure to bring?
44853	Did we maintain our advantage?
44853	Did you ever consider how uncertain a quantity is opportunity, as inscrutable as the ways of Providence?
44853	Did you ever hear of a padded payroll being caught in the auditor''s office?
44853	Did you ever hear of a payroll being disapproved as such?
44853	Did you ever think how desirable and practicable it would be to adopt the Government method of addressing the office instead of the incumbent by name?
44853	Did you ever think in what a haphazard, hit or miss manner we handle our traveling workers?
44853	Did you ever try to explain to an intelligent traveling man just what a train is?
44853	Do the millions of dollars of investment they represent come through a different treasury?
44853	Do we give the non- union man a show for his white alley?
44853	Do you not think we could make better bargains with our men if we did not wait to pay them until we are six weeks in arrears?
44853	Do you think the high- salaried captain of an ocean liner can select his first and second officers without consulting his superiors?
44853	Do you think we have made effort enough to let our men organize as employes?
44853	Does he select his own crew?
44853	Does not the same question confront us in our attacks upon organized labor?
44853	Has it sufficient merit to stand the test of time?
44853	Have we not chased this rainbow long enough?
44853	Have you not the same right to papers there that you have to those in the office of the chief dispatcher?
44853	How about the men who are thereby entitled to promotion?
44853	Instead of letting the men organize the road, why not have the road organize the men?
44853	Is it enough to pass it up to the construction department?
44853	Is it not better to keep twenty men steadily employed than to have forty on half time?
44853	Is not a failure to make an example of such offenders holding life and property too cheap?
44853	Is not his office a part of the superintendent''s?
44853	Is not their attitude a logical development of the example we have set?
44853	Is the principle wrong or is its application faulty?
44853	Is this consistent?
44853	Is this fair?
44853	It is so much easier to get good conductors than good yardmasters, should we not make the latter position more attractive?
44853	My Dear Boy:--"What will you put in its place, Bob?"
44853	Really, now, do you think the general superintendent should perfunctorily approve your recommendation for trainmaster?
44853	Should not all our plans for terminals and headquarters include the excellent investment of a club house and assembly hall?
44853	Should we not back up and draw some of the spikes we have put in the connection switches?
44853	Should we not control the banks in the cities and towns where we disburse so much money?
44853	Should we not manufacture our own ice at various points as needed and cut out some haul?
44853	Since these things are so, why not, to drop into familiar phrase, be governed accordingly?
44853	This may or may not be so, but how about the effect on others in the service?
44853	Very true, but do any of us ever select our brothers?
44853	Washington Irving puts it very prettily where he says,"for who is there among us who does not like now and then to play the sage?"
44853	We are paying higher wages than ever before, but is it not partly our own fault if we fail to get full value received?
44853	We endeavor to tear down, but do we build up?
44853	We examine a man before we let him run an engine, but how about the man who runs him?
44853	What difference should it make to him just how much each particular man worked?
44853	What do you think of the following proposed designations and tentative definitions?
44853	What then of our boasted civil service; of the wonderful administrative machines we build up and find wanting?
44853	When we have tried this plan and failed have we not been too easily discouraged?
44853	Where comes in the company, whose existence makes occupation possible, whose capital is invested, whose property is involved?
44853	Who is the loser?
44853	Why for a chief clerk must you necessarily have a man with office experience?
44853	Why let a floating gang of Dagoes take so big a bunch of it back to sunny Italy?
44853	Why not begin a little farther back?
44853	Why not grain elevators and industrial plants?
44853	Why not hook up in the beginning so that our different departments can get busy early in the game?
44853	Why not keep ahead of the game and lead public opinion?
44853	Why not let him turn in as cash a receipt or a deduction to cover his own pay?
44853	Why not look among your trainmen, your yardmen, your dispatchers, your agents, your operators, or even among your section foremen?
44853	Why not spend it ourselves so that its recipients will use it to develop the country and hurry the origination of traffic?
44853	Why should the most of us be so timid that we must have a precedent before we can endorse a proposed plan?
44853	Why should they open our firebox door for us as long as we fear to burn our own fingers?
44853	Would he be able to transfer without beginning over again at the bottom?
44853	Would not"purchaser"or"buyer,"and"supplyman"or"supplier,"be better terms?
44853	Yet withal we are serene, for are not we operating just as cheaply as they did at this time last year?
44853	You have heard of the man who entered the dining car by mistake and asked,"Is this the smoking car?"
40125	Are you willing to pay the price for them-- all of you travelers, I mean?
40125	Can we get a stop- over at Urbana?
40125	Does n''t he know,I can hear him say,"that railroading has taken some pretty big strides within the past fifteen or twenty years?
40125	Go up where?
40125	Go up?
40125	Jim,said he, in the course of their heart- to- heart talk,"you''ve simply got to cut out the stuff or--""If I do n''t, what?"
40125	Man alive,said he,"do you suppose I can afford to bring my train to a full stop every time one of those pesky blocks gives me the bloody eye?
40125	Sextons?
40125	Suppose a crisis should arise-- a crisis which demanded an even quicker movement of troops?
40125	Suppose there was a broken rail in that block,I suggested,"would n''t that break the current and automatically send the signal to danger?"
40125	Terminals?
40125	Up where?
40125	Was n''t that your figure?
40125	What times?
40125	What was the result on railroad operation and costs?
40125	Why is it that every investigation of a railroad nowadays shows such a rotten condition throughout its affairs?
40125	Why?
40125	Wonder if we could go around by Jefferson City and stop off there?
40125	You work long hours and hard hours?
40125	***** But is there not a possibility that the railroad can regain some of the traffic that it has lost, temporarily at least, to the motor car?
40125	*****"How about efficiency?"
40125	And did he, with a sublime myopia, pass her by without demanding that bit of pasteboard?
40125	And how about the man inside the railroad whom no strong brotherhood organization, no gifted, diplomatic leader of men protects?
40125	And what is the opportunity of the railroad?
40125	And what of the weaker roads-- the roads upon which whole communities, whole states, if you please, are frequently absolutely dependent?
40125	And when it comes to picking trains.... Do you know what are the most popular trains in America today?
40125	And who can deny that it should stand nine years ahead of 1917 instead of nine years behind it?
40125	Are we to say that, because of this mere fact, its other members are not as good as any of us?
40125	Are you willing to stand for an increase in railroad rates instead of paying the European charges for sleeping- car staterooms?"
40125	But how about the lean years?
40125	But how much greater would be the oppression and injustice of a high grain rate such as I have just shown?
40125	Curving?
40125	Did that sickly- looking woman at the end of the coach fumble and then attempt a feeble and impotent smile when he asked her for her ticket?
40125	Discrimination?
40125	Do you happen to recall why the Union Pacific was builded, why the national credit was placed behind its construction?
40125	Do you wish to dispute them?
40125	Do you wish us to return to the small engines of a quarter of a century ago?
40125	Does it?
40125	For while the brotherhood man may seek and obtain relief upon the lines which I have just indicated-- how about the salaried man outside the railroad?
40125	Has organized labor a monopoly of responsibility or of diplomacy?
40125	Have the railroads of the land made equal progress?
40125	Have you ever thought of cultivating the farmer as he is cultivating the fields?
40125	How can it be made to serve you in time of war?
40125	How is this for one?
40125	How much of an asset do you suppose this conductor was to his company?
40125	If in the most prosperous year of their lives the railroads of the country can not earn six per cent, what happens in poor years?
40125	Is it not possible that the derided branch line may not be changed from a withered arm into a growing one?
40125	Need more be said?
40125	Need more be said?
40125	Or is it a method of proselyting by which the four brotherhoods hope to force the other branches of railroad workers into organization?
40125	Perhaps you do not believe this?
40125	Rare accuracy, did we say?
40125	The alternative?
40125	The fourth line of communication?
40125	Traffic?
40125	Was n''t there a special bulletin issued by the Missouri Pacific covering that detour?
40125	We''ll wave the hand all right-- but a chat over the fence?
40125	What chance has the railroad against such a giant of a competitor?"
40125	What did these roads do in such an emergency?
40125	What is the third line of communication?
40125	What is the use of driving like a slave all day long, they argued, when you can earn five times as much by using your wits?
40125	When is a man well paid?
40125	Where did it come from?
40125	Will the railroad during the coming decade move forward to its opportunity?
40125	Would the railroad executives of the Middle West have preferred that these men be units, rather than individualists?
40125	Would you blacken a whole company because a few of its members have erred?
40125	Yet what are Americans?
40125	Yet what are the facts?
40125	You choke a desire to ask him how he knows and merely inquire:"Are you responsible for the bridges too?"
40125	[ 1] Yet how are our railroads prepared to meet their great problem?
40125	he asks once again-- then answers his own question:"To some stuffy sort of office?
40125	or was it the Katy?
38328	Are you not a Jew and a foreigner?
38328	Does your Lordship know,he asked,"that an immense communication of letters is kept up by the Liverpool packets[62] which sail weekly to Dublin?"
38328	In consideration of what services,the Committee continued,"did you receive these grants?"
38328	What is this men are talking about? 38328 And could not the Bay of Biscay boast of tremendous seas? 38328 And had not the contributions which, under his guidance, the Post Office kept pouring into the Exchequer raised him high in the Chancellor''s favour? 38328 And how had the revenue been prospering meanwhile? 38328 And if there, it was asked, why not elsewhere? 38328 And was not this permission afterwards revoked on the ground that it had led to abuse? 38328 And what was the service here? 38328 And why? 38328 And yet whence was compensation to come? 38328 Are you acquainted with the post- coaches? 38328 Are you in the habit of working coaches to any great distance from London? 38328 B.? 38328 B.? 38328 Because the penny post was little used for packets and parcels above four ounces? 38328 But bound hand and foot as they were, what could they do? 38328 But how was this to be accomplished? 38328 But meanwhile how were they to be carried on? 38328 But what was the principle to be? 38328 Can any place in Christendom be named where merchants are allowed to send their letters except through the authorised post? 38328 Can it be that all my life I have been in error? 38328 Comparing them with mail- coaches, which do you think are the best formed? 38328 Contiguity of building? 38328 Could it in reason be expected to incur the further expense which a second mail- coach would involve? 38328 Could that be right on the part of the postmaster- general which had been held to be wrong in the case of the Lord Privy Seal? 38328 Did not Sir Harry Furness, they asked, during the last war obtain permission to have his letters delivered immediately after the arrival of a mail? 38328 Did not justice demand that the additional penny should continue to be paid? 38328 Did not the charge in such a case become a mere tax upon letter- writing? 38328 For the sake of so small a proportion was it equitable that exemption should extend to the whole? 38328 Forego payment in this instance, and where were they to stop? 38328 Had they not agreed for a penny a letter? 38328 Having succeeded in one county, what more could they expect in another? 38328 How could it be ascertained that the whole of a letter was in one and the same handwriting except by prying? 38328 How could the Court have laid down such a proposition as that? 38328 How was it managed? 38328 How was it possible to compete under such conditions as these? 38328 How, except in name, did managers differ from surveyors, whose appointment the postmasters- general were urging, and urging in vain? 38328 How, within the area over which these Post Offices extended, was the State to derive any benefit from the higher postage? 38328 If so, what more could a loyal and industrious public servant desire? 38328 Is it not the fault of the landlord to keep them so long? 38328 Is it not within the last six months that the present Chancellor of the Exchequer[100] has charged me not to let the revenue go down? 38328 Might it not be possible to strike at the source of the mischief, and make it penal for persons clandestinely to send them? 38328 Now what was the consequence of all this? 38328 Or against future assaults of the same kind was it not possible to provide themselves with some less cumbrous weapon than they had now to their hands? 38328 Or in view of a recent Act passed by the united Parliament, might not the English postmasters- general themselves be so appointed? 38328 Or must the war which had already lasted more than six years be continued? 38328 Or was it suggested that a second mail- coach should be established? 38328 Or was it to his bells that exception was taken? 38328 Or what advantage would follow that had not been already secured? 38328 Or what could surveyors have done which it was not equally competent to managers to do? 38328 Proper as it might be that the Queen''s domestic servants should have their passage provided-- was this to be done at the expense of the Post Office? 38328 Should fresh legislation be entered upon, what guarantee had they that postage would not be made dearer? 38328 Should he go or should he not? 38328 Should they, then, bring one of the special verdicts on to be argued in Westminster Hall and abide by the judicial decision? 38328 To seal the bags? 38328 Was a letter to be charged double because it had in it any enclosure-- a sample of grain, for instance, or a pattern of cloth or of silk? 38328 Was a price to continue to be paid for the surrender of a privilege which had ceased to be of value? 38328 Was it impossible that he should be restored to duty? 38328 Was it not notorious that for his mission to Portugal he was to receive £1000? 38328 Was it possible that the Legislature could ever have enacted such an absurdity? 38328 Was the packet service which had come to an end through Dummer''s misfortunes to be re- established or not? 38328 Was this correspondence of no account? 38328 Were hurricanes unknown in the West Indies? 38328 What could be more calculated to promote fraudulent insurance, one- sided bargains, and a system of overreaching generally? 38328 What could hinder the passage from Ostend? 38328 What was a flying packet? 38328 What was to be done? 38328 What, then, asked Cobbett, had become of the law? 38328 Whence was the sum of £350 to come when the emoluments should be gone? 38328 Why should the postmasters- general exert themselves to do that which was done better and without expense to the Crown by another? 38328 Why, argued Stanhope, should not that which Cooper has been doing clandestinely be done openly and under official sanction? 38328 Why, it was asked, could not a similar system be adopted in Great Britain? 38328 Why, they asked, should the boats for America be the largest? 38328 Would it not be well that their suits should be abandoned? 38328 Would the King sign them? 38328 You, Freeling, brought up and educated as you have been, are you going to lend yourself to these extravagant schemes? 38328 a month? 38328 or to constitute a double letter must not the enclosure be of paper? 38328 who indeed? 38328 |? 38328 |? 37457 (?) 37457 (?) 37457 (?) 37457 (?) 37457 (?) 37457 (?) 37457 (?) 37457 (?) 37457 (?) 37457 (?) 37457 (?) 37457 (?) 37457 (?) 37457 (?) 37457 (?) 37457 (?) 37457 (?) 37457 (?) 37457 (?) 37457 (?) 37457 (?) 37457 (?) 37457 (?) 37457 (?) 37457 (?) 37457 (?) 37457 (?) 37457 (?) 37457 (?) 37457 (?) 37457 (?) 37457 (?) 37457 (?) 37457 (?) 37457 (?) 37457 (_ no value_), black on_ light green._ 1907(?) 37457 ) 900,000 3,199,900 400,000? 37457 1(?) 37457 1(?) 37457 1.(?) 37457 12"?
37457	18"""?
37457	1864(?)
37457	1879(?)
37457	1879(?)
37457	1882, May(?)
37457	1887, May(?)
37457	1888(?)
37457	1888(?)
37457	1888,(?)
37457	1889(?)
37457	1895(?)
37457	1896(?)
37457	1896(?)
37457	1897, Dec. 1(?)
37457	1898, June(?)
37457	1898, June(?)
37457	1898, June(?)
37457	1899, Jan. 8(?)
37457	1901(?)
37457	1904,(?)
37457	1905(?)
37457	1908, June 18(?)
37457	2,000,000(?)
37457	3 pence, 1875(?)
37457	30th June, 1868 1,500,000 2,000,000(?)
37457	30th June, 1868 2,000,000 500,000(?)
37457	6"""?
37457	9"""?
37457	= LETTER SHEET.= 1894(?)
37457	= THIN RIBBED PAPER= 1/2 penny, deep rose(?)
37457	?
37457	?
37457	?
37457	?
37457	?
37457	Are there any more to be distributed, and if so, where will they be distributed?
37457	At what offices were they distributed, how many at each office?
37457	Aug.(?)
37457	How many 2 cent purple envelopes were issued, and how many distributed?
37457	If so, when?
37457	If the 6 pence stamp of the preceding issue was difficult to select a normal color for, how shall we find one for its successor?
37457	Ingram._ Then it was not through stamps being unfit?
37457	Is it the intention of the Government to issue an entire new set of stamped envelopes to replace those at present in use?
37457	May 15(?)
37457	These dimensional differences being so palpably existent, therefore, what factors are we to consider in looking for their cause?
37457	This proceeding naturally resulted in considerably more protest on the part of stamp collectors and the public(?).
37457	This_ might_ have been done, but if so why were the 7- 1/2 and 10 pence stamps omitted?
37457	What can one do in trying to describe the"color"of such a chameleon stamp with such an uncertain basis to work upon?
37457	What part of this sum would probably have been received as ordinary revenue if there had been no special issue of stamps?
37457	What was the total amount received by the Post Office Department from the sale of the special Tercentenary stamps?
37457	When will the present 2 cent purple stamped envelope cease to be issued, and the red issued in its place?
37457	Where, then, does this bring us?
37457	Will you therefore pardon a short note on the subject?
37457	[ 217] Query:"qualities"?
37457	_ error_(?)
37457	_ imperforate_(?)
37457	_ wide impression._ 1857, June 2(?)
37457	on 3"""1888(?)
37457	purple stamped envelopes done by mistake?"
37457	stamp, that the latter was also printed in sheets of 120, as previously suggested, instead of sheets of 100 as stated in Mr. King''s article?
37457	stamps were_ not_ perforated?
50220	Are we increasing our yield per acre? 50220 Now, what chance is there for more roads between New York and Chicago, or between any Atlantic city and any large city in the west?
50220	The CHAIRMAN: You think that the power should reside somewhere to correct excessive and extortionate rates by summary and proper proceedings? 50220 What is dat?"
50220	''Some more, and then some?''
50220	And in time of peace, what would this country have been without the railroads?
50220	And what is the situation as this is written?
50220	And what might not have been its result?
50220	Are you interested in the prosperity of railroads, and particularly of the Burlington?
50220	But it is safe to say that in no country has the practical question,"Shall the state own or not own the railroads?"
50220	But whence does this movement come, and what are its principal causes?
50220	But would it be possible for State railways to reduce the amount included in railway rates for interest and dividends?
50220	COULD THE COMMISSION, UNDER THE AMENDMENT, FIX A REASONABLE RATE, IF IT HELD THE PROPOSED ADVANCE RATE UNREASONABLE?
50220	COULD THE DECISION OF THE COMMISSION, CONDEMNING AN ADVANCE OF RATES, BE REVIEWED BY THE COURTS?
50220	Can private capital be found to that amount unless"public sentiment"is willing to assure it of return?
50220	Can we charge that up to the construction of a station?
50220	Do you clearly see the relation between rates and wages?
50220	Do you intend to make railroading your life business?
50220	Do you think that is fair?
50220	Do you think wages are too high?
50220	Does the cost of living lay the income or does the income hatch the cost of living?
50220	For regulation, therefore, we must fall back on government; but how shall a government exercise its functions?
50220	For, be it observed, the question for him is not the exceedingly difficult and complicated question,"What is best to be done?"
50220	HOW SHALL GOVERNMENT REGULATE?
50220	Has it left us unequipped to meet the issue?
50220	How long will such legislation find favor in our halls of Congress?
50220	I will now repeat the question-- What will bring about a resumption of business on railroads?
50220	If we can do that on land, why ca n''t we do it on the sea?
50220	Is it because money is scarce?
50220	Is it certain that the mixture of private ownership and public regulation which is now prevalent will succeed?
50220	Is it great?
50220	Is it growing?
50220	Is it not contrary to all rules of political economy and to all the teachings of history?
50220	Is it not evident that these contradictions never can be reconciled by untrained men?
50220	Is it wise, under these conditions, to begin amending that statute by introducing provisions inconsistent with the basis of the act?
50220	Is there any question that such a prima facie case could be made where the consideration of the protest would, of necessity, be ex parte?
50220	Now what are the causes of the present discontent?
50220	Now, can any of us tell what they would do in Washington with a physical valuation of a road like that?
50220	Now, what effect do you suppose all these things had upon the Budget and similar questions?
50220	Now, who pays the bill?
50220	Now, why is the railway company different from other corporations, most other corporations?
50220	The citizen said,"That''s fine; can I secure a loan of$ 100,000?"
50220	The first thing that would occur to one from this toast, the railroads being first mentioned, is what do the railroad companies owe to the public?
50220	The people?
50220	The question is, What is to be done to prevent it?
50220	The question may be asked whether national railways would or could cure this somewhat indefinite position?
50220	The railways lost it, but who got it?
50220	The trainmaster put him through the catechism, and among other things inquired,"What would you think if you saw a train carrying green signals?"
50220	Then, wherein lies the difference between a private corporation engaged in manufacture and a railway corporation?
50220	To what extent does the law really require equality?
50220	WHICH SHALL IT BE?
50220	WOULD THE AMENDMENT PROPOSED BE IN CONFLICT WITH THE FIFTH AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION?
50220	What are the cold facts about refrigerators?
50220	What becomes of the constitution under such a law as that?
50220	What caused this unprecedented change?
50220	What does it mean?
50220	What does the public owe to the railway companies?
50220	What is it costing the Pennsylvania road to get into the City of New York?
50220	What is the result?
50220	What is this I see?
50220	What is your collateral, what security can you give?"
50220	What must be done to avert the consequences described above?
50220	What uncertainty would have resulted to the commercial interests while waiting for the adjudication of these questions?
50220	What will bring it about?
50220	What would State railways do?
50220	When will that time come?
50220	Where will the thing end, and when?
50220	Who has pocketed the difference?
50220	Whom have we here?
50220	Why not insist that the regulation also shall be in accordance with ethical principles and not determined by political expediency?
50220	Why should we change?
50220	Why, are not their receipts greater than ever?
50220	Why?
50220	Why?
50220	With the mere possibility of such legislation looming up in the future, can you expect improvements such as I have just described to continue?
50220	Would State ownership remedy any of these complaints?
50220	Would a 10 per cent increase in freight rates mean such a difference?
50220	Would it be reasonable to open a new station, to extend the area of free cartage, and the like?"
50220	Would it be reasonable to run a new train or to take off an old one?
50220	Would you recommend them if in my place?
50220	but the quite simple question,"Is the decision come to which I am asked to reverse so obviously wrong that no reasonable man could honestly make it?"
50220	in 1900--despite an actual growth in postal revenue in the same time of$ 89,000,000, or 87 per cent.?
48118	A growing tendency then we may say to introduce the coöperation of Members of Parliament to deal with individual grievances?
48118	A growing tendency?
48118	And the other evil is one which is rapidly diminishing, and, in fact, is very small now, namely, interference in favor of individuals?
48118	And their inability to resist that pressure for another year?
48118	At the time this Bill was sent to this Committee you had petitions against you, had you not, from 25 or 30 different interests?
48118	But the Department, I take for granted, was not excluded from expressing an opinion upon the subject?
48118	Do you mean to say that men opposed to you in political principles apply to you for that sort of thing now?
48118	Do you propose to call them?
48118	Do you think they would be liable to have that effect again if either party should be reduced to that condition?
48118	Even the constituencies can scarcely, as a rule, be appealed to in that sense, can they?
48118	Have you not to some extent recognized it[364] by creating a different scale of pay in the Lower Division for 7 hours than for 6 hours?
48118	Have you, yourself, found it difficult to deal with that; is it a factor in your administration[ of the Post Office]?
48118	That company had put forth its views controverting in detail what you have been stating to the Committee in the course of your examination?
48118	They had in fact?
48118	They had largely, upon the face of their petitions, controverted the views you have been expressing to this Committee?
48118	You would have to reckon with that as a permanent factor?
48118	1871| 365| 467| 639|?
48118	A moment before, Sir Lyon Playfair had been asked:"The writers are now a very large and very important body in the public service, are they not?"
48118	And whose privilege was it to regulate that desire?
48118	At this point Mr. Lawson interrupted:"Individual or class grievances?"
48118	By what law or right has this been done, the honorable Member asks?
48118	Do you think there is any contract to do only 6 hours''work?"
48118	Had Mr. Scudamore made any estimate on the subject?
48118	I want to know where is the document by which the State binds itself over to accept 6 hours''work...?"
48118	If it was to be a Board of Arbitration, why should not they have five postal servants added to the five employers of labor?"
48118	In the judgment of any impartial person, was that a reasonable grievance?...
48118	Is that reform being now pursued with regard to the existing judges?"
48118	It is bad enough when it is brought to bear upon the House as a whole, but what would happen with a Select Committee of this House?
48118	Lord Lingen continued:"It revived questions which had been supposed to be settled?"
48118	Mr. Gower continued:"But suppose he took every sort of pains to improve himself, but did not improve?"
48118	Mr. Gower, a member of the Select Committee queried:"Therefore, there is no encouragement whatever to superior dexterity?"
48118	Mr. Harvey resumed:"And you think it is growing?"
48118	Mr. R. W. Hanbury, a Member of the Royal Commission, queried:"How would he get such a position?"
48118	Mr. Walpole continued:"But if he showed himself shifty, unreliable, and careless for several years, ought not his trial as a head postman to cease?"
48118	Mr. Walpole continued:"Why was he not dismissed?"
48118	Mr. Walpole, Secretary of the Post Office, thereupon queried:"Is that not a reason for not employing him to act as head postman?"
48118	The Chairman queried:"But can it be done with existing clerks without a breach of faith?"
48118	The reply had been:"I should like to know how you can have a politician without political influence?"
48118	Thereupon Mr. R. W. Hanbury, another Member of the Commission, asked:"There is not?"
48118	These men are described as deliberate malingerers?"
48118	Were they going to take the rebuff lying down?
48118	What were the demands on the public purse for this particular office?
48118	What, he asked, was the Civil Service of this country?
48118	When Mr. S. Walpole, Secretary of the Post Office, heard this testimony, he exclaimed:"And was Roberts dismissed on the spot?"
48118	Why should we have it at all?
48118	[ Sidenote:_ Sir William Harcourt on Post Office Employees_]"Where is this to stop?
48118	better than in the town establishment, he will cause the vacancy to be restored to the establishment in which it originally occurred?"
48118	e._, a pension]?"
48118	e._, against the increase of government wages and salaries]?"
48118	e._, the public''s] servants as they are those of the Postmaster General?"
48118	| 24,000[D]?
48118	|22,000[C]?
48118	|?
45444	1 at Utopia when you pulled out a draw- bar on the main track on the 32nd?"
45444	Always personally?
45444	Anything very technical requiring the presence of specialists for all these things?
45444	Are not some records for seemingly low economical stocks based upon the fallacy that it costs the company nothing to ship and reship its own material?
45444	Are the offices of your subordinates run in this same haphazard manner?
45444	Are we so different in the large corporations that we can with impunity ignore such safeguards?
45444	Can T. R. come back?
45444	Can such questions be ignored as exceptional, trifling, and captious?
45444	Can the train rules committee of the ladylike American Railway Association beat the Interstate Commerce Commission to this unprotected draw?
45444	Can you blame him?
45444	Could you swear to the signature in court?
45444	Did they give him the rank of brigadier general?
45444	Did we not outgrow it long ago?
45444	Did you ever know a railway official who did not claim the same thing for that part of the organization over which he presided?
45444	Did you not just say that you hire men to run the road?
45444	Do they not reach to the heart of railway organization and efficiency?
45444	Do you not think that most railway administrative offices have grown too large to take care of themselves?
45444	Do you think any three men could agree upon what should be considered routine business?
45444	Do you think every man charged with duties should be allowed to select his own type of organization and decide as to his own methods?
45444	Do you think it is honest to have your chief clerk signing your name while you are away at this hearing?
45444	Do you think the last word has been said or that your road has hit upon the best system?
45444	Does any one know exactly?
45444	Does he give his instructions personally?
45444	Does he receive a higher salary than they?
45444	Does he sign your name to your personal bank check?
45444	Does he sign your name?
45444	Does the chief clerk see them all?
45444	Excuse me, what is a department?
45444	From whom do you receive your instructions?
45444	Has it ever occurred to you that by having more officials you might get along with fewer clerks?
45444	Have not conductors and operators been discharged for signing each other''s names?
45444	Have we given due weight to the concealed items of expense in arriving at conclusions as to the cost of handling company material and supplies?
45444	Have we not been grasping at the shadow of money at the expense of the substance, effect?
45444	Have we not overdone the matter of low working stocks?
45444	Have you ever studied the organization of the federal courts, and of the army and the navy?
45444	He asks the next man below,"Why?"
45444	How about that?
45444	How best can we blend our numerous strains to produce a balanced output?
45444	How can any one tell a year afterward whether the general manager or the superintendent ever saw the telegram on which his name is typewritten?
45444	How many a day go out of your office?
45444	How many days in each year can a man reasonably expect to be employed?
45444	How many men are authorized to sign his name and initials?
45444	How much work can each man reasonably be expected to perform in one day?
45444	How, then, if you ordered roses for a funeral, would you guard against the corpse being handed lemons?
45444	If initials make an order stronger, why not sign yours, or the president''s, or God Almighty''s?
45444	In this connection, did you ever figure that, except possibly in the case of extras, the distinctions"A.M."and"P.M."are superfluous on train orders?
45444	Instead of a clerk, why not have an assistant roadmaster, a real understudy, promoted from section foreman at a slight increase in pay and allowances?
45444	Is his chief clerk as considerate for you as your chief clerk is for your subordinate officers?
45444	Is it not a fact that on most American railroads six or eight clerks are signing the name or initials of the superintendent of transportation?
45444	Is it not a fact that your officials and employes are average citizens recruited and developed about like those of other roads?
45444	Is it not a sad commentary to think that legislation is necessary to make us do what is for our own best interests?
45444	Is it not more economical to handle numerous items of supply in carload lots regardless of average monthly consumption?
45444	Is it not more expensive for a railroad to carry too small a working stock of material and supplies than one too large?
45444	Is it not rather difficult to hold a man responsible without giving him access to first hand records of performance?
45444	Is it wise under such a disparity of conditions to make the train- mile rigid and sacred?
45444	Is not a careful trustee better than a careless owner?
45444	Is not accounting one of several components of operation of which collection and disbursement are yet others?
45444	Is not an emergency a test of a system, a proof of its elasticity?
45444	Is not human nature the same in its basic characteristics, whether employed by a railway or the government?
45444	Is not the government the largest of employing corporations with its citizens as the stockholders?
45444	Is not the problem too extensive to warrant very rigid comparisons as between different roads?
45444	Is not this more of a condemnation of the old system than a justification of the new?
45444	Is not"supply"the broader term, including"purchase"as a very important component?
45444	Is the only way you know about how things are going to have a complaint come in?
45444	Is the traveling freight agent in your department?
45444	Like the average miles per car per day, does not the equation contain too many variables to admit of a very exact solution?
45444	My Dear Boy:--Did it ever occur to you how easily a bright lawyer could tangle up many an able railway official on the witness stand?
45444	My Dear Boy:--How many miles of road should one division superintendent handle?
45444	Now, tell me, please, who runs the road?
45444	Of another company?
45444	Perhaps so, but if so, what assurance have your stockholders and the public that the same happy condition will obtain ten years hence?
45444	Shall we sit idly by, because we have had our part?
45444	Should not the number be inside the cab to be consulted for reports and statistics, including the train sheet?
45444	Signed by your chief clerk?
45444	The acid test is:"Will your system fit the president''s office?"
45444	Then it is not ridiculous to sign the superintendent''s initials when he is at home in bed?
45444	Then the company''s business with the citizens of this state receives less careful attention than your own personal affairs?
45444	Then the word superintendent does n''t always mean the same thing?
45444	Then when is a department a department?
45444	Then who are running the offices, the officials or the clerks?
45444	Then why not let each conductor make his own train rules, and each station agent keep his own kind of accounts?
45444	Then why not put the superintendent''s photograph on all the orders?
45444	Then you and your road do not give much attention to organization?
45444	Then you do not regard this as an important matter?
45444	Then you do not see them all?
45444	Then you have no control over him?
45444	Then you have one policy for one class of employes, and allow your officials and clerks to be a law unto themselves?
45444	Then you in the operating department do n''t deal with the public?
45444	Then your road has officials who can radiate more divine afflatus than others?
45444	Then, it is a sort of breeding process?
45444	Then, why not have definite designations?
45444	To avoid awkward and embarrassing silences, I am learning to discontinue the acid test,"How about your boss''s chief clerk?"
45444	To go a little further, has your company any patents on improving human nature?
45444	To prevent confusion and, therefore, to save money why not make titles sufficiently distinctive in rank to prevent conflict of authority?
45444	To whom are his instructions given?
45444	What are important matters, and what are routine affairs?
45444	What are results?
45444	What are results?
45444	What determines relative salaries?
45444	What do you think of a system that breaks down in emergencies?
45444	What does that include?
45444	What good does a wire do you if you are tied up in a hearing or a conference for two or three hours at a time?
45444	What guaranty have you against similar friction?
45444	What is going to become of the accounting department?
45444	What is organization?
45444	What matters it to the locomotive engineers if their importunities cause scant attention to the unspoken rights of your clerks and trackmen?
45444	What officer is he?
45444	What shall we do to be saved?
45444	What style of anti- bluffing device has your company adopted?
45444	What time does the roadmaster tell you to begin work?"
45444	When he spoke of sugar planting, or of cotton growing, of blooded stock and dairy yield, the bankers asked,"How much does it cost to raise an acre?"
45444	When we adopt the train indicator, should we not banish numbers from the outside of our engines and tenders?
45444	When you are away your chief clerk has to sign instructions to the general officers in your department?
45444	Where would these records land if company material carried a freight charge of, say, 5 mills per ton per mile?
45444	Which superintendent?
45444	Who is handling matters in your absence?
45444	Who is in charge of the distribution of cars?
45444	Who is the other fellow?
45444	Who sign for the train orders on your road?
45444	Whose initials are signed to your train orders?
45444	Whose judgment?
45444	Why are not communications and reports addressed"Superintendent?"
45444	Why do n''t you show the old telegraph men and the electric people the same idea in terms of things with which they are most familiar?
45444	Why is n''t it fair?
45444	Why not frankly admit that a railway is too unlike a department store to put all the cashiers and bookkeepers on a single floor?
45444	Why not interweave accounting with operation?
45444	Why not let the engineer disburse, subject to a real check, after the fact, by a competent disinterested inspection of his work?
45444	Why not make such operating units self- contained, as experience may prove wise and practicable?
45444	Why not so arrange our methods that we can be rewarded for quick judgment and prompt action?
45444	Why not trust him, and perhaps one other, checking them both after the bill has been promptly paid?
45444	Why not, therefore, hold the section foreman responsible for ordinary wire repairs in the first place?
45444	Why send the pay- rolls several hundred miles to be checked by a lot of boys?
45444	Why?
45444	Will he not become more careless if relieved of responsibility and informed that he can not be trusted?
45444	Will the railways correct such errors themselves, or will they await once more the remedy by legislatures and commissions?
45444	Would that strengthen him with the men?
45444	Would you mind telling the able members of this Honorable Commission in just what your superiority consists?
45444	You are not sure then?
45444	You feel that by doing so the office will in a large measure take care of itself?
45444	You have been talking about the superintendent; is he the same as the superintendent of motive power?
45444	You say that there are eight departments in your department?
45444	or"What percentage of profit do they make?"
39838	All right say for Berkshire County, Massachusetts,you interrupt,"but how about the southeastern corner of New England?
39838	But,you interrupt,"how about Southern Pacific in such a case?
39838	Cheap?
39838	Do n''t you see? 39838 Do you think that many stockholders would be willing to exchange their certificates upon this basis?"
39838	How about the other men who work the railroad-- the despatchers, the shop- forces, the gangs of trackmen-- all of them?
39838	How can such fine industrial cities as Rochester or Akron or Dayton or Grand Rapids thrive and continue to thrive without railroad competition?
39838	How has it always been done in the past?
39838	Responsible, did you say?
39838	Tell me what you can make of it?
39838	The what?
39838	What despatcher?
39838	What_ is_ the precedent?
39838	Why was that necessary?
39838	You do not expect your cars to be put through any such grueling test as that?
39838	***** On the other hand, what does the public demand in this railroad situation?
39838	***** What''s the matter with our railroads?
39838	***** Would you understand this situation better?
39838	A pretty theory that, but will it last?
39838	After all does sentiment count for nothing?
39838	After the engineman had finished reading them, the conductor asked:''What time have you got?''
39838	And having to put up with him, what shall we do with him?
39838	And how can friend- wife count upon her evenings with us at the movies?
39838	And then adds:"How many do we get to the peck, anyway?"
39838	And then, for a final question, what is our American railroad going to do about the assurance of continuous employment to its workers?
39838	And tradition?
39838	Are these not rather fine distinctions to hold up as a real competition?
39838	Are they not also entitled to the breath of commercial life?
39838	But how about Monticello?
39838	But on the other hand how can it be to- day accounted a real success?
39838	But what are the railroads going to do about the recognition of real merit and real industry in the individual worker?
39838	But what was the New Haven doing to gain new business?
39838	Ca n''t you understand?"
39838	Can I not buy two dozen pairs of shoes for less than twenty- four times the cost of a single pair?
39838	Can it do this even if it will?
39838	Can you understand this about the booster alone?
39838	Competition?
39838	Could more be asked?
39838	Did he not succeed in inspiring a vast army with a morale that no other army before or since has ever had?
39838	Did not the first director- general himself proclaim that in the earliest days of his regency at Pueblo and again at El Paso?
39838	Did she not have competition?
39838	Do you know what it took them in average practice with that trap- car?
39838	Do you see now where this is leading us?
39838	Does transportation salesmanship pay?
39838	Dying, a railroad dying?
39838	Economies?
39838	Economy?
39838	Exaggeration?
39838	For if Kansas City by direct line, why not St. Louis or even Chicago?
39838	Government ownership?
39838	Had there been a war just ended over there across the narrow English Channel?
39838	Has he sunk, with the debris of much of his once proud transport system, almost to the limits of degradation?
39838	Has the American railroader lost his ability to think and to act upon original lines?
39838	Have I shown enough now to make my point?
39838	Have n''t the rivers down there in Rhode Island all the load they can carry?"
39838	Have the French or the Swiss railroaders more vision than we Americans have?
39838	Have they met it with return competition?
39838	Have they more funds with which to tinker and to experiment?
39838	Have we not possibly become a little too materialistic a nation?
39838	Have we reached that solution, or anything like unto a solution?
39838	Heresy?
39838	How about the region that lies immediately west of these three last important gateway cities?
39838	How big a number to be added to the next annual report in order to impress the stockholders?
39838	How by practical planning could it best accomplish such a thing?
39838	How can the railroads, strapped, without money to- day, go into these things?"
39838	How can we prate of morale and then dare to take from under it the things that are its chief support?
39838	How is this done?
39838	How much?
39838	How much?
39838	How shall we make him most effective for the future necessities of our American railroad structure?
39838	I shall be asked: How about Napoleon?
39838	If A. is the village grocer and B. the local capitalist, and A. wishes to borrow money of B., does he go to him and talk this way?
39838	If so, just where are these lacks?
39838	If these things can be done and have been done, why are they not being done to- day?
39838	If this feeling comes to the patrons of these railroads how much more distinctly must it come to their workers?
39838	In other words, why should Holtville be the terminal of the Holtville interurban?
39838	In the meantime, in those slowly moving eighteen months, what came to pass?
39838	Increased train- miles?
39838	Is it because its mountain ranges take so much longer to traverse than the much advertised"water- level route"of the Vanderbilt system?
39838	Is it inconceivable that the United States might not occasionally take a short cut of her own in these labor situations?
39838	Is it man failure, either in the lists of the rank and file or in those of the executives?
39838	Is not that being penny- wise and pound- foolish?
39838	Is not the question now fairly answered?
39838	Is that graphic enough for the layman to understand?
39838	Is there lack of intelligence or vision or human understanding?
39838	Is this because they have loved the Labor Board idea?
39838	It met the competition of the gasolene locomotive upon the highroad, how?
39838	Let me ask you, Old Railroader, if you have any fondness for Liberty bonds in your own strong- box?
39838	Motor- haul all the way?
39838	Now how has this been done?
39838	Or he of Madison or Racine further than Chicago?
39838	Our steam locomotive is a laggard?
39838	That sounds a little different from the Transportation Act, does it not?
39838	The engineer grinned and replied:''What time have_ you_ got?''
39838	The reason why?
39838	The steam locomotive a laggard?
39838	The steam locomotive a laggard?
39838	To which I reply:"How about the gangs that keep up the highway?"
39838	To which I should reply:"If you were buying an automobile, would you rather have an automobile or a wheelbarrow?"
39838	Transportation salesmanship?
39838	Uncle Sam holding the bag?
39838	Uncle Sam''s credit back of our transportation system?
39838	Unimportant?
39838	Was it advertising?
39838	Was it improving the intensive details of its service?
39838	Was it in fact the real height of efficiency?
39838	Was it trying to induce people to go in odd hours upon its trains?
39838	Was the creation of another political board an absolute necessity?
39838	West, you say?
39838	What could be simpler?
39838	What is the actual competition to- day between, let us say, New York and Chicago?
39838	What is the opinion of the Man on the Station Platform?
39838	What is the reason for this-- for the human debacle of our carriers following so closely upon the physical, and in many cases responsible for it?
39838	What then was the net result of our first-- and possibly our last-- national experiment in the government operation of our huge railroad plant?
39838	What too is the railroad going to do about adjusting hours of labor for its workers so that, whenever it is possible, the worker shall sleep at home?
39838	What was to replace it?
39838	What''s in a name?
39838	What''s in a name?
39838	What''s the matter with our railroads?
39838	Where did it get us?
39838	Who knows?
39838	Why are not these engines of 1910 not only being equaled but bettered by the engines of 1922?
39838	Why are our steam locomotives scrapped in this way?
39838	Why are they not built universally for their highest possibilities of development?
39838	Why are they not given the mechanical refinements that experience has shown well worth while?
39838	Why courtesy?
39838	Why does it ever become necessary to scrap locomotives, within half a century of their construction at any rate?
39838	Why does not the Pennsylvania with its shorter route beat the New York Central on its schedules all the while?
39838	Why not sell the mileage- book at a little lower cost than the railroad mile at retail?
39838	Why not the large capital outlay saved?
39838	Why speak of the thing?
39838	Why turn the clock backward anyway?
39838	Why was not this done, you ask?
39838	Why was this simple step not taken?
39838	Why?
39838	Why?
39838	Will it do the obviously competitive thing and thrust the Baltimore and Ohio out, along with the Lehigh Valley into the bargain?
39838	With what result?
39838	Yet how did the national railroad structure meet this added burden set upon its badly bended shoulders?
39838	Yet how have they faced its competition, its steadily increased lowering of their passenger business?
39838	Yet is it not now a fair time to ask what that bigness has really cost us?
39838	in the operation of the locomotive?
47831	But has the commission no functions to perform in respect to the matter of rates, no power to make any inquiry in respect thereto? 47831 Is the country to be treated as a whole for commercial purposes, or shall it be infinitely divided?"
47831	The railways went to the millers of Texas and they said to them,''Is there anything you want here?'' 47831 ''Is there an old boat you can buy that could give a service?'' 47831 ''Would you like to leave me to run this fight?'' 47831 ***** Assuming the reasonableness of a difference in charges between carload and small shipments, where shall the dividing line as to size be drawn? 47831 ***** In the case of competition between a direct and a longer, more roundabout line, which onecontrols"or fixes the rate?
47831	***** What are the effects of this American practice of unduly disregarding distance as a factor in transportation?
47831	***** What remedy is possible for these economic wastes?
47831	***** What will be the probable effect of the opening of the Panama Canal upon the railroads of the United States?
47831	*****"Q. Supposing that you got the Santa Fe?
47831	And are not all low long- distance rates, in so far as they contribute something toward joint cost, an aid to the short haul traffic?
47831	And if an attempt to fix absolute rates, was it not unconstitutional?
47831	And then, finally, how about the large item of capital cost, the proportion of outgo for fixed charges?
47831	And these people carry it up to this little station near St. Louis and then transfer it to another station near Cleveland?
47831	And who was to know whether a car billed through to New York, was really going beyond Chicago or not?
47831	And why did the movement come to a head in 1887?
47831	And yet how is the Interstate Commerce Commission to aid in the solution of these intricate problems under present conditions?
47831	Are any more goods sold?
47831	Are patent medicines distinguishable, for purposes of transportation, from other alcoholic beverages used as tonics?
47831	Are"iron- handled bristle shoe- blacking daubers"machinery or toilet appliances?
47831	As Lorenz observes,"the question is not, What expenditures would disappear if a certain proportion of the traffic should be discontinued?
47831	As a matter of fact, how could this action redress grievances of those who had already paid forty cents per box?
47831	But aside from rivalry of method, were not the shippers entitled to pre- cool or refrigerate their fruit privately if they so desired?
47831	But could Congress by statute limit or define the exercise of this judicial power on the equity side?
47831	But could it restrict their judicial functions, legal or equitable, including primarily the power to issue injunctions?
47831	But does it really hold good in our hypothetical case?
47831	But how about the community and the shipping producers?
47831	But how does Charleston stand towards B as against the field?
47831	But must it not be accepted at so low a rate that it falls perilously near the actual operating cost?
47831	But while this was being done, what became of the California business of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company?
47831	But who is to discover it, in the great medley of new tariffs placed on file every day?
47831	But would it be more so than that the shipper should unjustly have borne the burden in the contrary case?
47831	Did it not suggest fixing, not maximum rates alone, but absolute rates as well?
47831	Does disability justify a handicap or the reverse?
47831	Does it not come down to this, that some road is trying to cheat another on the use of its cars?
47831	Does not this constitute local discrimination against the middle western cities?
47831	Has a shipper the right to exclusive use of all his own fuel cars, and, in addition thereto, a full share of the system cars of the railroad?
47831	Has he not, with his fellow merchants, probably shifted the burden upon the public?
47831	Has the shipper, having paid a freight bill afterward adjudged unreasonably high, any right to sue for recovery of the amount?
47831	Has the volume of this economic waste increased or diminished in proportion to the total traffic throughout this period?
47831	How about cost of service here?
47831	How broad was the right of review of the Commission''s order, as conferred by the amendments adopted in 1906?
47831	How could the Commission be expected to pass upon vital questions wisely under such circumstances?
47831	How could we help it?
47831	How could you help it?
47831	How may we, then, estimate the amount of these increases?
47831	How much less, then, could water competition apply so far inland?
47831	How shall this be theoretically justified?
47831	How will they stand toward one another by 1925 on the eastern trunk lines?
47831	How would matters stand if the rates in question were on lumber or coal for manufacturing purposes?
47831	If it be used for heating purposes rather than steam generation, why is it not a stove?
47831	If the consignment is encased in corrugated straw- board, which of the two rates applies?
47831	If the cost is simply indeterminable, why bother about any further refutation of the principle at all?
47831	If the end in view be the attainment of the lowest possible rates, why not subsidize the railroads directly by this same amount?
47831	In such a case, what guidance would the principle of charging what the traffic would bear, afford?
47831	Is each increment of business to the railroad a gain to it and to the community?
47831	Is every box of dry goods to be examined in order to discover whether it contains silks or the cheapest cotton cloth?
47831	Is five cents a barrel added to the price of flour likely to decrease the consumption of that staple commodity?
47831	Is it concentrated in a few hands or does it arise from many scattered sources?
47831	Is it merely of rival routes or of competing markets?
47831	Is it not plain that the spread between commodities at any given place is indicated by taking a vertical cross section of the diagram at that point?
47831	Is not each railway the best judge for itself of the profitableness of long- distance traffic?
47831	Is not this an economic anomaly?
47831	Is that not evidence that reasonable treatment of its shippers by railway companies is appreciated by the public?
47831	Is the reiteration of the word"maximum"intentional?
47831	Is this a case of local discrimination or not?
47831	Is this difference in rates economically justifiable?
47831	May power to fix minimum rates, so necessary to an adequate program of control, be constitutionally delegated by Congress?
47831	May the nearer points rightfully protest against the fact that equally low rates are accorded to remoter points?
47831	May the railroads properly adopt either of the two principles in fixing their tariffs, while the Commission is confined to cost of service alone?
47831	May we trust mere publicity to provide corresponding safeguards for honest promotion with this liability removed?
47831	Maybe it was better that traffic should go out this way-- who knew best?
47831	Might they pass upon law points alone; or were they to be empowered to review the entire order of the Commission?
47831	Or may it be that the judicial mind has never yet contemplated the need of regulating the minimum rate?
47831	Or, on the other hand, were the local rates unreasonably low?
47831	Shall St. Louis and the South, for example, be supplied with salt from the Kansas or Michigan fields?
47831	Shall this Kansas wheat, to be consumed in California, be ground in Wichita or in California?
47831	Shall"small- vein"soft coal, because it can not compete on even terms with the"big- vein"product, be accepted for carriage on a more favored basis?
47831	Such a policy made for larger dividends; but did it tend to the perpetuation of equality of opportunity as between great and small concerns?
47831	The effect is to build that one man up and destroy the others?"
47831	The long line may never be able to charge_ more_ than the short line-- may it, however, charge_ less_ under certain conditions?
47831	The two points X and Y being commercial and industrial rivals, is it not possible that the growth of one may take place at the expense of the other?
47831	Then again, how about the issue of stock in exchange for property acquired, as had frequently occurred in the course of railway consolidation?
47831	Then it is only the restriction of the law that keeps you from taking it?
47831	To which one of these three branches of the government should this important duty be assigned?
47831	Under the new long and short haul clause, what may be done by the Interstate Commerce Commission?
47831	Was there any further intention of Congress in thus amending the long and short haul clause?
47831	Was there ever a clearer case of megalomania, menacing the welfare of a great people?
47831	Was this fair?
47831	Was this not something new?
47831	Were the Gould roads, for example, any better off in other states where greater liberality of laws prevails?
47831	Were the goods ever really sent by so indirect a route?
47831	Were the through rates unreasonably high?
47831	Were they really worth while?
47831	What is the difference, as regards rail carriage, between a percolator and an everyday coffee pot?
47831	What is the result?
47831	What now were some of the specific"discriminations"which these various bills in Congress aimed to prevent?
47831	What roads from Mississippi to East St. Louis?
47831	When is a boiler not a boiler?
47831	Which line has the advantage?
47831	Which was the body competent to pass upon such an issue?
47831	Which was the fairer practice?
47831	Which would prevail?
47831	Who is to know whether a shipment be billed as one or the other?
47831	Why do they bill it to Rochester?
47831	Why haul it all around the country and then reduce the rate on that long haul?
47831	Why is it apparently necessary that these zone boundaries should follow along just west of the cross railway lines?
47831	Why may a paper manufacturer not combine paper bags and wrapping paper in one territory as well as another?
47831	Why need the public or other shippers be concerned about the railways''policy in this regard?
47831	Why should 50,000 pounds be prescribed as the carload limit on corn to Texas points, when the limit on corn- meal is only 30,000 pounds?
47831	Why?
47831	Will growth of business bring lower rates or not?
47831	Would it accept a plan primarily intended to meet a danger which, while injuring its powerful rivals, was of less consequence to itself?
47831	Would it benefit the nearer point if the lower rate beyond were withdrawn?
47831	You would take it to- morrow?
47831	[ 145] And what becomes of the argument that charging rates according to what the traffic will bear, is an ample safeguard against extortion?
47831	[ 156] How shall goods be graded in respect of their freight charges for identical services in carriage?
47831	[ 226]***** Does a constant rate applied over a long stretch on the same line constitute local discrimination?
47831	[ 305] But do these figures represent all that they purport to show?
47831	[ 316] Shall cow peas pay freight as"vegetables, N. O. S., dried or evaporated,"or as"fertilizer"--being an active agent in soil regeneration?
47831	[ 511] Have railway charges in general surpassed this rate or not?
47831	[ 512] But, after all, is this inquiry of basic importance as bearing upon the general reasonableness of railway rates?
47831	[ 554] Is it any wonder that the number of formal proceedings instituted on complaint of shippers steadily dwindled year by year?
47831	[ 575] Which line makes the rate?
47831	[ Illustration] First of all, what is the nature of the competition at the more distant point which is alleged to"compel"the lower rate?
47831	but What expenditure would not now be incurred if that traffic had never been called forth?"
47831	or even buy them up and operate them for cost?
40840	''The deuce you have,''says he,''what do you suppose I''m going to do with that old buck?'' 40840 Ames has n''t come out for Blake?"
40840	And did you find a package of two letters, mailed at Boston, and addressed to Rouse''s Point?
40840	And what the d-- l do you want?
40840	And where_ is_ the letther box?
40840	And would your wife open the mail in your absence?
40840	And, by the way, what was the object of serving a_ copy_ of the paper on him?
40840	Are you sure it has been sent?
40840	As the bill is of so high a denomination, you probably remember from whom you received it?
40840	But do I not bring a reliable witness to prove that this is an exact copy of the original?
40840	But is it in time for the extra?
40840	But who will attend in the office?
40840	By the way, who is this Captain Wilkins? 40840 Can I speak with you a moment?"
40840	Can it be Robert Cartwright?
40840	Come down on Gov''ment business, I s''pose likely?
40840	Confound the Dominie,involuntarily exclaimed I,"why could n''t he mind his own business?"
40840	Could it be a certain Route Agent?
40840	Did you ever see that paper before?
40840	Did you not buy a horse of Carleton yesterday?
40840	Did you open and assort the mail yourself on that occasion?
40840	Did you,I inquired,"find, in this morning''s train from H----, a pocket- book, lost there by a passenger?
40840	Do you know,said he,"that I am here on very delicate and peculiar business?"
40840	Do you mean to say, that Howard is responsible for that bill?
40840	George,said his employer,"what do these Jolliet letters mean, that you have been sending all over the country?"
40840	Good morning, Mr. H.,said he;"how is the rogue- catching business now?
40840	Guess your horses ai n''t very well trained to keep the road, are they? 40840 Hallo, stranger,"I called out, at the same time gently shaking him,"have n''t you got the wrong pew?"
40840	Has the train come up yet, Mary?
40840	Have you concluded your remarks, madam?
40840	Have you lost a letter containing a hundred dollars?
40840	Have you much on hand now, and is it here, or at the house, or where is it?
40840	Have you,continued the counsel for the unknown prosecutor,"a clerk who wears large whiskers_ and_ a large gold ring?"
40840	Have you,continued the pertinacious querist,"a clerk who lives in Front Street?"
40840	He has a wife, I believe,was the reply, and in a moment B. was saying to himself, his eyes still shut,"Jane, Jane, what will_ you_ think?
40840	He was n''t satisfied with a certified copy of the unwelcome document, was he?
40840	How about Blake and the post- office?
40840	How many hands are employed there?
40840	I mane, is the_ baggage_ put up?
40840	I suppose you will warrant this paper to be genuine?
40840	I was asking how many persons are employed in that shoe factory?
40840	I''d like to know, sir,said he,"_ what that means_?"
40840	If a_ good, warm- hearted, true_ friend, receives a letter from a dear(?) 40840 In time for the_ what_?"
40840	Is it the British Government?
40840	Is n''t it a rather ticklish one, now- a- days? 40840 Is there any way of getting at what you have just stated as a fact?"
40840	Is this letther in time for the_ extra_?
40840	Is this the road to G.?
40840	Look here, my little man,said the clerk,"what is your grandmother''s name, and where does she live?"
40840	May I ask from which one?
40840	Michael, were you on your way to Illinois, from this city, on the 20th instant?
40840	Mr. F.,said I,"this money I saw placed in a letter in Boston, this morning, to go some distance above you; how came it in your wallet?"
40840	Mr. Fellows,he cried, in the deaf gentleman''s ear,"did you ever see that bill before?"
40840	No,was the answer;"have you lost such an article?"
40840	Not if paid for?
40840	O, you do n''t, eh? 40840 Of course you know from whom you had it?"
40840	Send you to State prison? 40840 Settled?
40840	Then I understand you as refusing to obey the order of the Department, do I?
40840	Was not the distinguished Dr. L---- called from as small a place as this, to the charge of a large city congregation? 40840 Well, sir,"interrupted John Harmon, in his declamatory way--"isn''t it plain?
40840	Well, what do you think of him?
40840	Well, who_ is_ daid, sir?
40840	Well,said Harris,_ alias_ Grover,( who seemed to grow rapidly rich in names,)"if I help you out in this way, what shall_ I_ get by it?"
40840	Well,thinks he,"it''s done, and who knows it?
40840	What box would I put it in but the letther box?
40840	What box?
40840	What can you do to get me out of this trouble? 40840 What if he has?"
40840	What is that?
40840	What medicine did you sell him?
40840	What relation is Judge Ames( thereliable man") to the new post master?"
40840	What''s his business?
40840	What''s the news?
40840	What,inquired I,"did you do with the bills that were in the letter?"
40840	When did the order reach your hands?
40840	Where is R.?
40840	Where is your brother- clerk?
40840	Which way did he go?
40840	Who made the entries in this book?
40840	Who sent you here after a letterbox?
40840	Why, sir, she''s my grandma,--don''t you know her? 40840 You are going to call on the Post Master General, then?"
40840	You are sure he will corroborate your statement?
40840	You are sure you had it of the Captain?
40840	You could swear to it as the identical bank- note?
40840	You do n''t mean Ames?
40840	You have no positive proof of the charge, then?
40840	You must have a paper for me,said I,"will you look?"
40840	You will publish the letter, however, as an advertisement?
40840	''How so?''
40840	--"Good morning, Mr. C. Are you''armed and equipped as the law directs''to go over to F?"
40840	After he had concluded his remarks, I inquired,"What is the present number of your pupils?"
40840	And how should such a question be noticed?
40840	And if the former, of what had somebody else been guilty?
40840	And is Michael daid, Mr. Post Master?"
40840	And may not one take possession of a letter directed to himself?
40840	And was n''t they large, thick parcels that he dumped under the table?"
40840	And, secondly, Did they do so knowingly and wilfully?
40840	At least all that I have desired, He has done for me, or how could I have lived?
40840	B.?"
40840	Bad luck to ye, what for did ye put me to all this throuble?"
40840	Before I had fairly finished the sentence, however, he had darted into the store and returned with two Havanas,(?)
40840	But the slumberer stirred not, and he repeated the call in louder tones,--"Mrs. Willis, where''s your husband?"
40840	But what are Savage and Blake doing for Atkins all this time?
40840	Can I get it now, by proving property?"
40840	Could it be possible, thought the latter, that he was destined to destroy the peace of that happy family?
40840	Could it be that a suspicion of my real object had prevented him from paying for the ale, and settling the bill at the restaurant?
40840	Could it not be an old wrapper, or the"fly leaf"of some former official document from head quarters?
40840	Could n''t the business stop here, if I refund what I have taken, and resign my office as post master?
40840	Could not one suffice?"
40840	Did n''t you pledge yourself to use your influence, if elected, to have Blake removed?"
40840	Did the list of prizes attract the attention of a person agriculturally inclined?
40840	Do hard times prevail there as a general thing, or is there some narrow pass, leading to the place, which has originated the name?
40840	Do you smoke?"
40840	Do you suppose we are going to stand this for ever?
40840	Do you think you have taken me in?
40840	During the examination of the criminal, my worthy host inquired of me, with a sagacious wink, how the"Life Insurance"business flourished?
40840	Echo answers"What?"
40840	F.?"
40840	Fellows?"
40840	For was not the letter directed to Johnson Clark?
40840	Have n''t we the rights of the case, sir?"
40840	Have you any doubts about the bill?"
40840	Holding it up, I inquired of the post master,"What is this package doing here?"
40840	How are all the folks at home?
40840	How can your boots send you to State prison?"
40840	How could he ever face again his children, already deprived of one parent by death, and about to lose another by that which is worse than death?
40840	How is it about that?
40840	How many sisters did his wife have?
40840	How the deuse do you think we shall ever get to Barre, at this rate?"
40840	How they did trouble me-- how should I ever pay them?
40840	How''s Harrowfork now- a- days?"
40840	I asked;"and do you remember the circumstance of its arrival in the mail?"
40840	I made no allusion, however, to this discovery, and he soon closed his remarks, expressing the hope that the loud complaints of the distant(?)
40840	I suppose you know that hand- writing?"
40840	If guilty, what more natural than that he should take that opportunity of destroying any evidence of his guilt to be found among his papers at home?
40840	If he was the latter, what had he been doing?
40840	In spite of his reason, which keeps saying stoutly,"what''s the harm?
40840	Is Atkins so unselfish as to work for them gratis?
40840	Is it Jonathan or Wm, B. Haskell, or Hershel?
40840	Is it my pocket- book, or my boots, you''re after?"
40840	Is that address in your hand- writing?"
40840	Is the lady here on a visit?
40840	Is the"squeeze"commercial or geographical?
40840	Is"Wm, H. Jolliet"the name given you in baptism?
40840	It only required his own name to be written, and where was the harm?
40840	May as well bolt right in, I suppose?"
40840	Might not some wicked wag in the Department, knowing all the circumstances of the case, have prepared the letter in question, and sent it as a hoax?
40840	Often have I been saluted, on entering an omnibus or a railroad car, with the question,"Well, H----, who has been robbing the mails now?"
40840	Oh, what_ can_ keep him away so long?
40840	Or, like a careful matron, has she come here to educate her children?
40840	Rising up on one elbow, and looking about the room, apparently much confused, she replied,"Where''s my husband?
40840	So, turning to the post master, I thus addressed him:"Were you, Mr. B., at home, last Monday evening, when the Boston mail arrived?"
40840	Solus!?
40840	Supposing he had required the usual ceremony, what would you have done?"
40840	That functionary finally broke the silence,"Well, why do n''t you answer?"
40840	The future may be a new life to us, if we wish it; and shall we not?
40840	The questions for the jury were, First, Did these men obstruct the United States Mail?
40840	The reader ought to have been present in the post master''s room, some few months subsequently, when this infallible(?)
40840	Upon this, I was about starting, when he called out,"I say, mister, do n''t you want to trade hosses?
40840	Waiting for a moment after she had spoken, he broke the breathless silence that followed her words, by saying calmly,--"Mrs.----, I believe?"
40840	Wal, ef you want to git to G.--lemme see,--never bin on this road afore, hev you?"
40840	Was the reader of the hand- bill a"fast"youth?
40840	We had begun to talk about various kinds of occupations, and he inquired,"Is not your business a profitable one, Mr.--Marshall, I believe?"
40840	We had soon crossed the ferry, and were seated in an omnibus, moving slowly( who ever went in any other way by that conveyance?)
40840	Were you a passenger on board the steamboat for Albany, on any night during the present month?"
40840	What can he be writing to her?"
40840	What could I have done with so much money, if I had been bad enough to have taken it?
40840	What d''ye say?"
40840	What in the world do you mean?
40840	What is all this fuss that the people of the old village are making about the new post- office arrangements?
40840	What is that name?
40840	What was he now?
40840	What were their names?
40840	What would Demosthenes have been by the side of the giant Upton?
40840	What would he say if I should apply the term''federalists''to his side of the house?"
40840	When does either of your firm intend to visit Boston?
40840	Where do you keep your transcripts, the books, or sheets, you know, upon which you copy your post- bills?"
40840	Where then does the milk in the cocoa- nut come from?
40840	Who are their friends and relations in New Haven?
40840	Who are you?
40840	Who can tell me the name of"my wife''s sister?"
40840	Who devoted his paper to the cause of the moderate drinker?
40840	Who do you know?
40840	Who got Blake the post- office?
40840	Who knows you?
40840	Who secured Savage''s re- election?
40840	Who''d he marry?
40840	Why do n''t you stop?
40840	Will a valetudinarian virtue answer the purpose?
40840	Will you not call and see me some time?
40840	Will you see if you recognise it?"
40840	Would n''t you receive less than six shillings, if you could get it?
40840	You turn to the right by the brick house, and that''ll bring you to G.""How much further is it to G. this way than it is by the direct road?"
40840	[ Illustration]"Well, friend Ames, how do you do?"
40840	_ Agent._--"How then could you have sworn to the statement you sent to the Brooklyn post master?
40840	_ Agent._--(Scanning the person of his unknown visitor pretty closely)--Suppose he did n''t, what evidence have I that you are an honorable gentleman?
40840	_ Witness._--"And did n''t they stop me, and trate me the same as a male thafe, your Honor?"
40840	_ Witness._--"And sure, your Honor, did n''t you just tell me to remain spacheless when questioned?"
40840	_ Witness._--"Was I in Illinoi?
40840	a virtue strong against weak temptations, but weak against strong ones?
40840	and that''s what ye call a daid letther, is it?
40840	and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver?
40840	anything new?"
40840	by whom, pray?"
40840	have you taken him away without letting me know it?"
40840	is n''t it perfectly clear?
40840	member was asked, among other things, if he was or was not"in the habit of using intoxicating liquors as a beverage, while at the seat of Government?"
40840	must she ever know that her father is in a----?
40840	said he,"where abouts does a chap go to find the Dead Letters?"
40840	says the lodger,"bothering a gentleman in this way?
40840	shouted he derisively,"why do n''t you_ drive_?