Show possibilities 0 the postal system cheap mail facilities one ot the chief factors in our prosperity and progress common Is the commonplace the most valuable of civil benefits Is such a commonplace matter that we scarcely give it a thought it would take a winter on a whaler nipped in an left floe to make us truly appreciable of the worth if the postal service what wonderful thing it 1 wonderful in its organization iza tion with its vast machinery tor the collection and distribution ot letters its railway mail cara its route riders the unfailing order and precision ot its methods wonderful it Is too in alte results it knits together families widely separated it carries across tho sea some tender lovers message or perhaps a little flower picked from the dasler 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 cheek and dim the talling sight with bitter tears but with all this there Is going on through the mall service a alon of human knowledge a reaching out of human help which Is one of the crowning blessings of our country the correspondence schools led by chautauqua are sending to every village and hamlet the broader knowledge which Is so eagerly craved by many who arc shut in to the homely duties of a humble life without the mall system this plan of education would be utterly nonexistent non existent every mall too carries from the ecat centers the advice of great phy which it would be impossible or the distant public to obtain were it ot for the malls few people realize how many thousand people depend on he mall service for medical treatment ot long ago when some postal affairs ere being discussed in connection with the erection of the new building in buffalo N some light was thrown on tah subject by the tatem that the mall by dr V pierce amounted dally to over 1500 pieces of course this Is pot a common case because dr pierces Pl erces relation a chief consulting physician to buffaloe buffalos Buff alos famous institution the invalids hotel and surgical institute makes his advice and that of his staff of nearly a score of skilled and experienced specialists much sought after especially by women to the treatment and cure of whose special diseases dr pierce has devoted over thirty years of almost constant labor but though this example is out of the ordinary it may serve as an evidence of the abaz ng benefits reaped by tho public from aie mall service it puts every outlay ing hamlet in touch with the most ad danced medical of the day it gives at the cost of a two cent stamp the skill and experience that it has taken years to acquire literally at the cost of a two cent stamp since dr pierce invites sick women to consult him by letter without charge and this would seem to be one of the most remarkable services rendered by the bostal system perhaps the service of all for while it is a splendid thing to be able to shop in new york while living in kansas and a crand thing to be able to command the learning of great professors while working in the michigan woods it is a nelll grander tiling that by means ot this cheaply supplied service men like dr pierce who have the disposition to be helpful are enabled to place their skill and knowledge at of those who are being dragged down by disease without of help from those about them when one the vast and far reaching benefits of the mall service so briefly touched upon in this article it makes the familiar gray uniform of tho postman the most glorious of 11 uniforms for it is worn by the soldiers of the it makei tel like hat oft to the on rushing mall katr and cheering tho work and of buncio sam |