The bank draft is the very best way of transmitting money.
As has been said, drafts can be bought at any bank, and they should always be made payable to your order.
You want to pay a bill of goods to Lloyd, Smith and Company, New
York, so you sign on the back of your draft for the amount:
Pay to the order of
Lloyd, Smith and Company,
Henry C. Robbins.
Lloyd, Smith and Company must endorse the draft before it can be cashed. The draft, after payment, is returned to you, and it becomes the best form of receipt.
LOST IN MAILS
Were you ever at the Dead Letter Office in Washington? If you have never paid such a visit, you can form no conception of the tons, the hundreds of thousands of letters and parcels that are lost every year in the mails.
Unaccounted for drafts, checks, postal orders, books, jewelry, medicine, everything, indeed, that the mails will agree to carry, may be found piled in that cemetery of lost communications, the Dead Letter Office.
Have you added to the mortuary list?
All these deaths, like many of living creatures, are due to carelessness.