Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1891 — LETTER CARRIERS IN INDIA. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

LETTER CARRIERS IN INDIA.

In the hill country on the border of Rurmah, India, annexed not many years since by England, the mail is •'carried on tho hacks of sturdy pedestrian coplles, usually of the Chin tribes. In settled districts, free from ✓

ivildi marauding folk, no police or military escort so .needful, and tho (lag carried by the leader of the party commands sufficient respect. The letters and newspapers) so acceptable to man/English offlkers at lonely stations, are packed in baskets*- forming a moderate load for each 1 mom The carriers plod on silently from rawr group of huts to another, discharging [vart of their burdons as-they proceed!. The Horae that Dal cl MU* TOlll Many of tho older residents of this* wet ion remember the late DnJhhm Warner, of New Milford, and will appreciate tills little story. WhenDlv Warner was a student at Yale housed to come home Saturday l nights and return to New Haven Mondays* Thuds was before the days of railways?. md l as stage-coaches did nofci leaveNow Milford Monday mornings for New Haven young Warrior used tomount his father’s horse and ride to* Yulo on horseback. Thero were several toll-gates on the route, and at each Warner would pay the returntoll for Iris horse. Arriving at Yule* lie would affix to tho bridlo a card bearing these wordy: “Please netstop till* horse." The sagacious animal would jog along homeward, Invariably reaching his stall at New Milford- all right. Tho toll-takers-got to know tho horse und ho wasnever Interrupted. Fridays the horse would be started alone to New Haven, with a small pouch attached to hissaddle, In which was the exact change for the tolls, Each toll-taker would take his toll and tho horse would trot along, reaching Yale in the evenings. This practice was kept up until the young doctor was graduated—Dunbury (Conn.) News.

BURMESE LETTER CARRIERS.