Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-12-18

gether families widely separated. I,
! carries across the sea some tender
| lovers message or perhaps little
| mower picked from the daisied grave OF
an English churchyard. Every hour
| of every day the commonplace mail
bag is packed with the secrets of life
words which waken love and laughter
and words which deepen the furrow
in the cheeks and dim the failing sight
with bitter tears
But with all this there is going on
through the mail service a dissemina-
tlon of human knowledge, a reaching
out OF human help which is one of the
GROWING blessings of our century. The
correspondence schools led by Chan
tauqua, are sending to every village
and hemlet the broader knowledge
which is so eagerly craved by many
VINO are shut in to the homely duties
OF humble life. Without the mail
system this plan of education would be
utterly nonresident
Every mail, too carries from the
great centers, the advice of great phv-
slclans, which it would be impossible
Tor the distant public to obtain were
it not for the mails. Few people real
lze how many thousand people de-
pend on the mail service for medical
treatment. Not long ago when some
postal affairs were being discussed in
connection with the erection of the
new postoffice building in Buffalo, N.
T., some light was thrown on this sub
Ject by the statement that the mail by
DR.. r. V. Pierce amounted daily to
something over 1,500 pieces. Of courss
this is not a common case, because
DR.. Plerce's relation as chief consult
ing physician to Buffalo's famous in
stltution, The Invalid's Hotel and Sur
gical Institute, makes his advice and
that of his staff of nearly a score of
skilled and experienced specialists
much sought after, especially by wo-
men, to the treatment and cure of
whose special diseases, DR.. Pierce has
devoted over thirty years of almost
constant labor. But though this ex-
bma1f is re alt Fl BY th the f pdHcv rr6
mail service. 1t puts every outlaying
hamlet in touch with the most adj
vanced medical specialism of the day.
II gives at the cost of a two-cent
stamp, the skill and experience that 1t
has taken years to acquire. Literally
AT the cost of a two-cent stamp, since
DR.. Pierce invites sick women to con-
suit him by letter without charge. And
this would seem to be one of the most
remarkable services rendered by the
postal system, perhaps the supreme
service of all For while it is splen-
did thing to be able to shop in New
York while living in Kansas, and
grand thing to be able to command
the learning of great professors while
working in the Michigan woods, 1t is
a still grander thing that by means OF
this cheaply supplied service men like
DR. Pierce. who have the disposition
TO be helpful are enabled to place their
skill and knowledge, at the disposal OF
those who are being dragged down
nv disease. without the possibility OF
help from those about them. When
one contemplates the vast and 1ar-
reaching benefits of the mail service,
so briefly touched upon in this article.
II makes the familiar gray uniform or
the postman, the most glorious OF all
uniforms. for it is worn by the SOL
diers of the army of peace. 1t makes
one feel like taking his hat of to the
on-rushing mail train, and cheering
the work and wisdom of Uncle sam.