Show THE POSTAL SERVICE AND THE PUBLIC no branch of the public service is more popular with the public than the post this is easily understood when we look at the task allotted to th institution in political economy it is tho post through choso whoso agency correspondents enta relying on the faithful observance of the letter to crecy exchange the most tender and personal thoughts it is by the post that family ties are kept unbroken which would otherwise run the risk of being fevered by distance the post i the means by which cul tural industrial and commercial undertakings der takings aro facilitated and differs encee discussed and arranged it promises abo spread ot education and the diffusion of all kinds ful knowledge by its aid political combinations are proposed and brought about it i on important auxiliary in the administration of the stat in short everybody receives benefit from id developments it is therefore not surprising that while the expense arising to the state from other causes such as from the maintenance of an army the ado ministration of justice etc are borne on the whole with no great willingness by the people the postal charges are cheerfully paid but il though the post enjoy the ego public favor still there is no branch of the public arvice which is more frequently exposed to unjust claims and accusations than tag institution while the defects and inconveniences of other public departments part ments are quietly submitted to the improvements in the amo willingly acknowledged and only gradual progress is looked for it would seem as if from the favorite the post perfection wre at once expected when on account of unavoidable obstacles or of the forgetfulness of the addressee no answer is received to a letter or the answer does not arrive at the proper time when it suits somebody to pretend that aletter has been lost in order to clear him self irom the blame attaching to the non fulfillment fulfilment of an obligation of courtesy in all such and similar case the post is very frequently made the scapegoat for the disappointment and is accused of having don its duty either carelessly or not at all from this it may be een that there are still people who do not look at the relations between the public and the postal administration from the right point of view and who are of opinion that their own interests are opposed to those of the administration an opinion which is altogether wrong for the state only undertakes the transmission of correspondence in the interest of the public and does not as a rule anyhow commit the carrying out of a branch of the service from which lh weal and woe of its subjects depend in BO large a measure to the carelessness and negligence of a private contractor now that the post keeping pace with the increasing demand of the public has attained to a high degree of development and chrt the number of articles entrusted to it for transmission to all tho ends of the world has augmented considerably every body should facilitate the task undertaken by the post which cannot satisfy the demands of the public for safety celerity multiplied means of communication and cheapness if people do not make its interests their do not consider the pasi as one of their most important instill in ions and do not assist it whenever they have an opportunity of doing so it i only by a cordial understanding between the public and the postal administration that it has become and will continue to be convey and deliver such an enormous amount of correspond dence numbering in some coun trie hundreds of millions ot letters as is at present entrusted to the post for transmission transmit sion AN interesting sketch of the unusually picturesque trip from vera cruz to tho city of mexico is given by D S richardson in the for september starting from the sea shore and directing his course inland the traveler finds as he proceeds that hois gradually rising through the different gradations of the torrid zone and entering upon temperate latitudes this he can at once detect from the decreasing heat and more par ticul arly from he change in the style of vegetation which him A run over the railroad irom the gulf port of vera oun to the city of mexico is a revelation to iho intelligent B ranger this i the only completed line of in th republic the dia tanco between the two points i about two hundred and sixty miles tho run being made in a little over eighteen hours there is probably no road of equal length in the world upon which tho traveler can pass BO rapidly from torrid to temperate icons from thu region of the palm to that of the pine and through o varying a panorama of wonder and beauty as upon this mexican road leaving the hot fever ridden tea coast at vora cruz where death and the black amul have maintained a reign of terror since the landing of the arat spaniard your car bolls lolls westward fora couple of hour over a level sand plain covered with low dense yogo tation interspersed here and them with giant trees many of them leafless and apparently dead zard or as alia natives oal him loves these solitude sand countless numbers of them are perched along the naked limbs or alap ping curiously past your car window from this low plain the road gradual ly emerges the country begins to roll n litile the foot hills draw near the vegetation takes on another lingo and form and before you can fully make up your mind to the are skirting the banks of a limpid stream with picturesque hills on cither side tho ascent Is bof radii and a charming abua of mountain stream and canyons with occasional glimpses climp ses of the gulf of mexico in the distance f before you your car Is bravely for the heart of the cordillera which rios blue fr above you and now and then as you twist and curve about tho canyons glimpses may ba hd from the car window of the walla cone of ori babii which iu palo tip up so clone to heaven lie it the mountain of the star |