The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1918-03-21
STORY OF THE MAIL SERVICE
Ancient Medieval and Modern Methods of Carrying Routeng
and Distributing Mail
Classnaate.


portero who carried the mails the An
ds Mountains between Chile and Argentina His
Trail his had ramped for
before the Spanards Francisco faithful
upon reliable by the captas,
One Juy-whch is midwinter
part mails arrived Las Vacas the Ar
the railroad The looked the
fresh mantle of had
fallen there the cold Of DEATH The wilderness
omnipresent him. the mail
He could the out for threatening
gathering the heads of
and Mercadero
capias another por.
responded The mail
weighing
panon each pouch
his shoulder On they the famous natural
Bridge of the Las Cuevas
this highest point
three miles above the the wind began blow
through Uspaata the obscured and the
fell quantities. the sides of the
scarcely be almost impossible make
Roadway.
Antonio became Francisco pouches-a
weather after his slipped
disappeared the the ridge 1t impossible
hundred
Francisco held tight his pouches kept on he
knew shelter house He wandered
finally upon
days
impossible His small provisions
exhausted and the fuel quickly
days that half frozen finally reached Juneau
But he had been faithful his delivered the mail pouches
to the Chilean authorities wooden little cemetery
the mountanside marks the resting companion
whose body lies other who lives
similar way.
There Alaskan mail thousand miles long. Most
of this distance in boats but six hundred miles be
made foot Ben Downing, famous mail that
land of and gold saved from death this
by his dogs While driving his sedge frozen river the
broke beneath him. The dogs reached
tracking blood reached the
almost frozen Thawing himself and uniaunted
rb experience Ben started for Dawson fifty miles away
ling bunk after arriving there he
result of Several of his had be
he of the house for months
mail for such the stuff made
generation the plains of the West
stories of the bravery and adventures of the riders The old
habtants we'll remember the pony express of
riders who wild unset
tied plains Then the overland mail" which composed
of white covered drawn by eight
been the first May
Twenone days first
Lake City Narrowing the experiences pony
ders and overland mail drivers and brave
bullet.
The carrying of mails of origin says Now my
days wifter than the Many writer's
mention The oldest history
abhed Persia the sixth century before Egypt
had developed pigeons Romans
used swift horses developed fair
the excellent
The Inca kept with
all of their empire by the chasqu post boys On all tn.
principal roads there number of these
chasquis stationed forward Japan had
developed system of between
uries before Western civilization introduced
The monastc medieval times
Often he would take Berlin po
Office museum which visited parchment
six yards long, which he journey that began
the neghbohood of Vienna and
oene The journey made
land and the mountains of the Tyo The stay
night in each sometimes visited "a
many hundred institutions his Wherever
halted the abbot ports tho
deaths of any monks or benefactors.
England early built national postal department. The
carriers oftenmes boys who horses
league with the robbed the willing
Tins OF valuable letters and parcels at
high and usually paid by recipient system stamps
mad been provided There
ten IN the time of Edward H. inscribed Haste
poste hase and Ride william ride