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Show RISK" LIVES JARRYINQ MAILS Swlis Postmen Face Oravfl Danoers In Execution if Their Duty , Amona the Mountains. ! There, nro several post ofilccs In Switzerland nt n belgbt of 7,000 or , more feet nnd a mail bor on tho ury I jmmlt of tho Lnngunrd, from which l four collections nro liindo dally, Is I nparly 10,000 feet above tho sea level. i Near here some years ago thrao letter j cnrrlera were crushed to death by nn I 'vnlnnche. In nn ndjaccnt canton, In ' the summer of 1803, a postman fell I Into a crovnsso while crossing n g!a cler. bis two full bags on his bn.-l: I All eflVrts to recover cither tho body 1 or the malls were fruitless. Hut 31 i years afterward, In 1897, the glider east forth Its prey many miles lower down the vnlley, and the long-lost letters let-ters were delivered to ns many of the addresses ns could he traced. Not Infrequently, tno, these Alpine postmen nre nttneked by the huge, floreo eagles that soar hungrily above the least frequented crngs. Usually the men nre nble to bent off their feathered nssnllants but not Always. In July one yenr a postman who carried car-ried the malls on foot between the villages vil-lages of Sospello nnd Pitget Tbcnlers wns fatally mauled by three such birds. Of two inert who nttemptcd to nvengo bis death ono wns killed outright out-right nnd another Injured so severely that his life was for n long time In danger. |