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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER, HYRUM, UTAH tAs Mail Carriers Battle Death soon as the Ice begins to form I feel eager to get out one of the ironclads and fight my way across. Each is a skiff. Theres a sail in the bow to carry us through the water or over the ice when conditions are runright. There are two ners on the bottom so the boat may be used ns a sled. The sides are sheathed with galvanized iron. This is very Important because thin ice will cut a boat like a knife. Makes Fast Time on Ice. From here to Sandusky is ten miles In a direct lifie and I go there when conditions are good. At other times I go to Marblehead, which is four miles away and the nearest point on mainland. I have sailed these four miles over smooth ice In 20 minutes. I have covered the same distanec in eight hours. That was when the ice was about an inch and half thick and I had to break my way over every foot of the four miles. At times the lake has been covered with icebergs 20 to 30 feet high and I have had to travel 15 miles in a roundabout course to reach Marblehead." The craft used by Uncle Sams carriers to deliver the mails to these points on Lake Erie is a combination sailboat, rowboat, ice yacht and sled. The star route from Ellison Bay, the northernmost post office in the Door county peninsula to Detroit Harbor, Wis., is one that is covered by carrier entirely by water, crossing the famous passage called Deaths Door. Winter Period Dangerous. During the months when navigation is open that is, from May 1 to November 1 carrying the mail on this route is a comparatively safe occupaIt is tion, and free from difficulties. during the winter period, however from November 1 to May 1, that the carrier has more than a mans size job on his hands. Let the postmaster at Detroit Harbor tell his own tale: The chief difficulty encountered while crossing Deaths Door in winter, he says, is drifting ice fields. The ice bridge that forms in extremely cold weather hardly ever remains for more than a few days at a time. It is speedily dissembled by shifting gales and currents. Sometimes this breakup occurs so suddenly that the carrier is caught out on the ice with his horse, sleigh and mail. It is at these times that the proximity of the United States coast guard station at Plumb island is a godsend. One such incident took place some few years ago. The breakup occurred while the carrier was transporting the mall to this side over the Ice with horse and sleigh. The ice became so thoroughly broken up that in a very short time the carrier found himself on an ice cake barely large and heavy enough to hold him and his equipment. The, coast guard crew, having noticed his plight, came to the rescue. They succeeded In getting a line out to the carrier and then towed the whole cake over to the solid Ice and the carrier was enabled to walk on to more solid ice and thereby reach the Iron-sho- d ment show that among the most dangerous and difficult routes served by rural carriers and star route contractors are those extending from Newport to Otter Rock, Ore.; Ellison Bay to Detroit Harbor, WIs.; Rocky Bar has Sam his Uncle Washington. to Atlanta, Idaho, and from Sandusky heroes in p?ace time as well as in war. to Kelleys Island, Middle Pass and heroism of Records of bravery and of deeds to the daring performed equal On the Rocky faced shot (Idaho) by those patriots who have the service Is performed in the route, are not and shell of an enemy country winter season by carriers traveling on lacking among the army of employees United States government. snowshoes, packing 50 pounds of mail. of the Not infrequently carriers on this route While the hardships encountered and have been caught in snowslides and the loss of life are not so great in numto death. Only a year or two swept warfbers as those recorded in actual a carrier lost his life in this way ago mute bear nevertheless are, they in January and his body was ncA testimony to the valiant service ren- early recovered until late the following the servants of dered by these faithful June. diffithe on bent performing people, Carriers Face Ice Peril. cult tasks assigned them. The routes from Ellison Bay to DeAnd the praises of these heroes are not sung in either prose or poetry. troit Harbor, Wis., and from Sandusky, throughout Ohio, to nearby isiands must be opThey are not broadcast There is no congressional erated over the ice in the winter and the land. medal of honor bestowed on them; in the fall when the lake Is frozen. no decoration of any kind awaits them. During the spring thaw It is extremely difficult and hazardous to carry on the There is not even so much as a citation for bravery and meritorious servi- service. A number of carriers have ce performed In the line of duty. lost their lives in endenvoring to transBut these faithful employees of Un- port the mails between these points. cle Sam never complain. They are not Probably one of the most hazardous seeking notoriety. They are con- experiences that ever befell one or tent to carry on their daily labors more of Uncle Sams mail carriers was without thought of reward other than that of the Hitchcock brothers, carthat which goes with the conscious- riers on the routes out of Sandusky. Some winters ago, while endeavoring ness of duty fulfilled. to deliver mail to residents of some of Difficult Mail Routes. Carry There is no class of employees of the smaller islands in Lake Erie they the government that faces more actual were caught In a storm and running perils of life and lhb and are subject Ice. They were carried down the lake to more vicissitudes of the elements in by the resistless force of a drift in The their daily routine than some of the which they had become wedged. men who carry the mails over some of carriers were given up for lost by the A cablegram wired the more difficult of the star routes. excited islanders. These men are not paid salaries, but to Kelleys island read: Look out for the carriers they are work under contract, awarded under the law as a result of competitive bid- fast in the ice and drifting that way. But the two men, after many efforts, ding. It might be said that they differ from all other government employees were rescued. They were in an exin that they fix their own salaries. hausted condition and so completely When it is pointed out that during covered and weighed down with Ice as the last two and a half years 55 car- to be helpless. Their caps were frozen riers have lost their lives while in the fast to their heads and their clothes performance of duty, it will be seen so loaded with Ice that the wearers that the tasks assigned them are haz- were unable to bend. On arrival at home their friends ardous In the extreme. To the city dweller a reference to were obliged to cut and tear away After garments. the mail man brings a picture of the their Ice that of a bushel changing clothing carrier who delivers his letters and packages unhampered to had fallen off in the process was swept any great extent by wind or weather. from the floor. But the denizen of the rural district Brave Death on Lake. thinks of him as the driver of a n For several years George and or motor vehicle, whose arrival Charley Morrison were employed as is regarded as an event In the dally carriers on the Bass island route. life of the occupant of the farm, putThey, too, passed through many arduting him, as it does, in touch with the ous and trying experiences, being vicoutside world and with his fellow man. tims of many close calls. Out on the In January of this year Reinhold lake in all kinds of weather, with Ice Dreahn, carrier on the star route be- conditions of every description, they tween Buffalo and Murchison, S. D., battled with storm, running Ice, fog fell a victim of duty. For several and Rooster Kills Cat snow. blinding years Dreahn had been making k Formerly associated with George Kingston, N. C. Hostilities between trips between the two ham- Morrison in the service a cat and a rooster at the home of lets, encountering all sorts of weather was his brother-in-laCarl Robert. Jack Howard here resulted in a vicconditions, but never failing to carry The two were unexpectedly overtaken tory for the fowl. Howard found the out his part of the contract with the an accident which resulted in the cat suffering from severe wounds inby Post Office department. He had startdrowning of Robert. Among the arti- flicted by the roosters spurs. He ed from Murchison, as usual, on a cer- cles carried was a long, unwieldy went into the house to get first-aitain Saturday, and when he did not of metal. This, in some way, materials for his pet. When he repiece put In an appearance the next day at shifted, capsizing the boat. Morrison turned he found that the rooster had Buffalo, a search was made for him. found himself struggling in the water. renewed the combat and killed the Found Frozen to Death. With great difficulty he succeeded in He was found just one mile outside extricating himself, but Robert was cat of town with both hands and feet carried under the Ice. His body was Shakes Off Bullet frozen. He was dead when discovered not recovered until late the following Fat Man and it is estimated he had been ex- spring. Casper, Wyo. Rex Buck of Idaho posed to the Intense cold for over sixHenry Elfers carried the mails to Falls, Idaho, was held' up and robbed teen hours. The theory advanced for Kelleys island for over forty years. of $80 and slightly wounded on the his death was that, becoming exhaust- During that time he had many hairroad by a lone bandit, who fired ed from a hard days work, and while breadth escapes and adventures galore. as he commanded Buck to hold up his said hands. The shot entered the abdomen. When I was a youngster, attempting to crank his car, he fell and was not able to recover his senses Elfers not long ago, I was out In a Buck, who weighs nearly 300 pounds, before he succumbed to the cold of the boat about all the time. Now I dont fairly shook of the bullet by his flesh. night. care for ordinary sailing, but battling It glanced and did not reach a vital Records of the Post Office depart with the ice has a fascination for me. organ. Unsung Heroes Die While in Performance of Duty to U. S. Put-in-Ba- y. Bar-Atlan- ta d horse-draw- twice-a-wee- mail-carryi- d Al-co- MAN WITH PRICE ON HIS HEAD WRITES FOR PAPER Todor Alexandroff, Macedonian Rebel Leader, Startles the People of Belgrade. Belgrade. While the Serbian government is offering a price for him, dead or alive, Todor Alexandroff, the Macedonian rebel leader, entered into Serbian politics the other day with an article on the first page of the Republics, which made Belgradians rub their eyes. After pointing out that In his opinion Serbians mistakenly ascribe the nnrest in Macedonia to the incompetent Pashitch administration, to provocations from Bulgaria, to the traitor Baditch or to the cruel Alexandroff, Alexandroff writes, over his signature as a member of the central committee f the Internal Macedonian organization : All oppressed nationalities who jealously guard their nationality GRAHAM. SOMMER."" AAKY COntlGMI VUIU KiWfU -- tl UWO , Many gray-coate- I I are struggling shoulder to shoulder to attain their right to After they have won their autonomy, they will be In a position to organize a great federated state with equal lflghts for all nationalities. Neither a powerful government, able to repress the activities of revolutionary bands, nor a good administration can prevent the dissolution The opof Imperialistic are In Serbia nationalities pressed struggling neither for the attainment of a strong chauvinistic government nor for a wise Serbian administration (two incompatible terms), but for their liberties. In closing I wish to quote the words of Mazzinl In 1848 about the Austrians : That you govern well Is not what we desire, but that you depart Like Jail Life So Much They Break In Sydney, Australia. Jail holds no terror for Kanakas they like It so well that police In the Morobe district find it difficult-tprevent the native bush-me- n from breaking in jail. A district officer recently sentenced a Kanaka to six months in Jail, where he found rations to his liking and took pride In the uniform provided him. When his sentence expired he refused to leave the jail, and within 24 hours after he was forcibly put out of jail he broke In three times. Finally he wis made a guard. Yugo-Slavl- a. Fishermen Routed by Whales Thirty-fiv- e New York. sperm whales have been playing around the lightship off Cape May, N. J., according to men of the crew ashore. Two were so near that the men said they counted the bamades on their backs. A crew of fishermen came ashore through teslr of the visitors. Shipping men think the whales came south with the ice floes, looking for food. PYGMY HIPPOPOTAMUS His name was Midget, and he was named that because he was so small. In the first place he belonged to the Pjgmy Hippopotamus family and they are ail very small it is a small family and the members of it are never big, as are the members of the regular Hippopotamus family. He was very small, even for a Pygmy Hippopotamus, and he was even very small for a Pygmy Hippopotamus baby. That was really all he was. He was just a baby. He could walk, of course. He was smart that way, and he could do a number of things follow his mother around, look politely at admiring visitors and put himself to Cleanses montb and teetb and aids digestion. Relieves tbat overeaten feeling and acid montb. Its flavor satisfies tbe craving for sweets. Vrlgleys Is doable value in the benelit and pleasure It provides. bed. He didnt have to learn to dress and undress himself, for he wore the same little smooth suit all the time. It was just like the costume his mother wore, except his was very much smaller. If he had worn one the size his mother wore he would have been completely lost in it. lie was such a little wee creature. Yet he was a very healthy little fellow. And he was getting fatter every Account Was There, but Not Much Else President Ernest Frothingham, of the Commercial Trust company, said at a bankers banquet in Denver: We bankers are often called heartless. You remember the story of the dead shot who, having failed to kill his man at point blank range, day. explained that he shot four times at His cunning little stomach was be- the fellows heart, not knowing he coming so round and fat that it almost was a banker. looked as though he were one of those Bankers, as a matter of fact, are long, filled, toy hippopotamus balloons altogether too kindly and indulgent. A (that shape you often see when you're young clubman went to a tailor the picking out a toy balloon at the circus other day and ordered a dozen suits or the fair), with a little head at one of clothes on, credit. The tailor asked end and little feet underneath the for a reference. body. Oh, said the young clubman, go A good many times each day the over to the Third National bank peokeeper would call to his mother and to ple. They know all about me. I him: have an account there. Come, Mother, come and show the So the tailor went over to the Come visitors your baby. along, bank and said to the cashier: Tootsie, and show Midget to them. I understand that young Mr. For Tootsie was his mothers name. Cromwell keeps his account here. And when his mother was called, He does, said the cashier, but she would go slowly to the end of her goodness knows where he keeps lii3 Detroit Free Press. money. Dont chuckle if yon put over a substitute when an advertised product is called for. Maybe your customer will never come back. Ben Mulford, Jr, Poor Mans Pride So many men to whom the East side missionary had given money had expressed a preference foif a certain lodging house that he wondered what constituted its particular attraction. It makes us feel Midget Never Left His Mothers Side. said the men, when questioned. So far as the mission worker could enormous yard, outside of which were 4t was the typical cheap lodging see, the visitors looking at her through whose inducements to house, wired fence. were not discernible to the orAs his mother went forward, of So he interviewed the eye. dinary never too. course he went, Yes, Midget manager. left his mothers side. Thats easy, replied the latter, All day long and all night long they and pointed to a sign above the desk: he she When got up stayed together. Are Requested to Leave Gentlemen got up, too. with the Clerk. Their Valuables When she decided to lie down, he American Weekly. Legion did the same. Sometimes she would pet him, and Famed Horse Had Tomb often he would give her ear or her was the name of the famous which Celer little an affectionate lick, head horse of the Roman emperor, Verus. was his kiss, and he would say: Dear Mother Hippo, I love you so It was fed on almonds and raisins and housed in the imperial palace in robes much. She looked so often at him, at his of purple. When it died a mausoleum dear little body which looked like a was erected In its honor and elaborate smooth cake of choeolate, for it was funeral ceremonies held. much the color of chocolate, too. And she looked at the people and went to them when the keeper called her to show off her baby, but none of them, she thought, amounted to anything. It was her baby who counted for something. He was just so dear and so cunning and, while at times he was naughty, she always loved him. At times, of course, he thought she was pretty strict, but he always loved her. The Now, again, the keeper was calling Household Necessity to her : For cuts, burns, blisters, rashes, Tootsie, Mother, come and show wounds, or skin troubles of any son them your little kind. Soothing and healing. Keep it always in the house. In Come along, Mother, show him self-respe- ld ct 1 , off! Slowly, down through the yard, walked Tootsie, and Midget close beside her. 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