If, for any reason, the person to whom the money is sent cannot be found within forty-eight hours, the money is returned to the sender, but the fees are retained, as the company is not to blame for failure.
The receiver of a money order, if unknown, must identify himself as he would at a bank, and he must receipt for the money.
If the person to receive the money is an entire stranger in the place to which the money is sent, the sender knows it, and he provides for the situation by signing, on the reverse of the application, an order to the distant operator to pay the money to the person named within, without further identification.
When a telegraph operator receives a money order, he at once seeks out the person to whom it is sent, and pays the money in accordance with his instructions as to identification.
THE TELEPHONE
The telephone, local and long distance, is fast superceding the telegraph as a medium for speedy business communications.
Its use is not confined to large cities as at first.
Nearly every village is now in communication with the outer world through the telephone.
The world has just awakened to the needs of its food producer, the farmer.
In Norway, which is not a rich country, the telephone has been introduced on the farms. The rates are low and the benefits are inestimable.