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MvJ 1- French Used Aerial Mail Service During Hun Siege; TULSA D.VlLY WORLD, SUNDAY, JUNE 9, 1918. Balloons Provided Means Communication During War With Prussia. of AIRPLANE METHOD IN USE Interesting Description of Transmitting Dispatches in Ancient Times. When tlio average citizen rend In tho papers a few days ago that an airplane mail service was ( ). started between New York, Phila delphia, nnd Washington, and that It would probably be continued to Jlos ton, he gave a Kasp of astonishment and commented pointedly on h im practicability of the thing. Or, If he was mure progressively Inclined, perhaps he remarked to friend wife, knitting on the other side of thn table: "Well, well, how the world docs Re' on! What will they ho dolnic next, I ' wonder 1" And yet, why hot? The parrying of mall In almost in old an the human rare. Ancient Persia had n iiwlft and efficient mall service lonif he. Tore ArtHerxe led his giant arm flown upon (Irerpe. If nn I'.gyptlnri soldlnr 4,000 year ago winded to tell his sweetheart In Theben that the papyrus sweater' she had knit ted for him was Just right for the trench life In Niih.U. the lotier wan delivered. The Inon (if I 'em irni hla mall about as ouhkiy and surely as tho modern business man Always, too, the mall ha heen carried bv the bent and quickest system Ufa country afforded, Al ways thn latest devices or invention ..Were aelr.ed i)n eagerly hy the men who realised the vast Importance of the malla. The swlfcst' runner, the speediest horse, the surest winged pigeon, the fastest boat, th rail way "fiver", have been (elected an the mnll camera Ho It la hardly surprising lrVat. aa the pnsalhllitti" of. tho all-plan bePonie more1 and more apparent the ureal canya winged hlrda ahould become the fast est of all poatmen, Official Pigeon Points. , Aa a matter of fact, when the New York-WaahlriKton airplane mall ttrted It was not tha f trait time that loiters have been carried by air craft. During tho alone of Paris by tho Hermans In tha I'Yanco-l'rus- I l inn war, the French government I organized a balloon Ma.il .erviie. ; A, M flurnutif Was In chin Ke"of the air mall, and although spot !u! 1 Kiujrp cum, were bo III to destroy j them fifty. neve,, out of aimy-fourj went successfully through or' rather i across the invadliiKT Hnea live of i . ttia,. biilloolia were ill pf m c and lip, were lost at Ken. The aggregate ; welKht of the mail carried In this I h.'iv wiM eight and half Ions The balloons, however, were not the onlv niol.il mail currier of ihei piiat, A I'cinarkuhiv well oieimlzod pll.;eon pout wn established between; I 'n Mi iind'.Tnuis during the elexe I Three hundred and sixty. three of the w!ii;ed mcssenttei,, were sent out i fr.nn 1'iirin ami fifty-seven returned : Willi dispatches. Hume of the'- dispatches were of (Vial documents f,,r the Knglieh embassy In l'arla The churlte wn 10 centu a word, with a rcxlKtralhoi fee of 1 2 cenl.fi I'luefina hli'e nlwnvn tie'-n reron nled letter rarriera. I nofflrlnl pisreon poata uer.- c'liiiinoo In the tiitblle aaes. In Italv renulr corn- iii'inlrritionH weie niitliitalned be tween Heverill eltleM by InenllM "f IMKeonx I'robablv liomlnx bl'd.i have been lined t( beur lettelm in M eenturlea The lireelc, wtio prob ably copied the' I'erilnriH, emtiloyed tin in to convey the name of Olympic vlclorn to their respective cllln". In more modern times before the Invention, of (tie electric toleraph. they were need hv Htoek brokers and flnn nelers and by newspapers ft report euch events m yaetit racee The Dutch (rovernment establlshi-d a civil and military piiteon poetul svstem In .lava and Numntra, ob iHhilnir tha birds from Haadiid. They were uaeil In China for centuries Their use In modern warfare U too well known for comment.-' Iog have been much used as mall oarrlers In eold countries. The most common method la the doKaled t'nlll recently It waa the only way of dlslrlhullHK mall In Alaxkii and Is still lined In tho northern see tlon. In the days of the Klondike and the jrojd. rushea which followed, picked do teams, selected for their strength and apeed, carried the mails from "outside" to the prospectors. They oflen mado amnxlnir time. In dividual doirs have been used In Siberia to carry lettera or' dispatches much on the principle of the hom lnr plKeOn or tha Hed Cross do(r today. The first latter rarrlar waa. of roursa, a man, probably tho beat Movie Stars Pose far War Painting; American Artist's Work Is Praised ' J . . - , V. mar 1 W.H X rwmw jtt ; ft afS 2 6 iff in 3n June 28, Is the Day Ws ' "rr "SoiihuImto In lYiincc," Mnry Mick ton and Wallace Hold posed for 4 lie 0r11.in.1l i.ilnt.. for thn benefit of the Ked C'roaa by oIk.i l'iin.l..n 11 really remarkable piece of work. new war jiaiiilin. . f 1 bis 1 . . . , r 1 1 1 . : -'. ' w , : K in . v. n aM ! I erira a 11 1 1 'I 'pupil- of ah "..pt,.,. runner of the tribe which aent him 'atnti..iie,. in out. I'rnbatily thn hlKheat develop, j put, h,.s , ment or tne runner system waa In Mouth 'America, before the Span iards came. Iloth Mexico arid Peru had lonir established postal systems when tho CoiHitnntad'iiiH kinded. The mora elaborate of the two was thn Peruvian. At Intoruiis of five miles alonir the well-kept mill, tary roads built by the Incus enrtil hulld limn were erected. A uutobcr of runners, called "c!inSMiils." eie n-'wlo r" in that France." i.'rltic It was call It ,. 1 .-r.l I w, I'l -I" ll .1 pa-.clief fruits and im to the was so ARE YOUR WALLS " PLEASING? When you glance about your rooms do you feci contented with their ap Pjfftrf"ce? Some papers have an irritating effect upon one's nerves, and should be replaced by others of more companionable charms. In our stock of Wall Paper we have many designs that it is a pleasure to look at. They are beautiful, restful one never tires of them. This is the art that iscquired by long experience in the selecting of Wall Papers. Home Beautifying Time Is Wall Paper Time Let Us Decorate Your Home Here at the "HOME" you may choose from tho very newest do uigns, textures and colorings and regardless of how limited or liberal your appropriation may be you will find a very unusual 'scope for your selection. new things hero in every one in- There are many that will appeal terested in home rejuvenation. And the services of men long and spe cialized in training are at your dis posal to insure the fullest satisfac tion of your selection. Feel free to come for suggestion, even though you are not prepared to buy. We especially invite value comparisons. Our decorating work is !mder the supervision of Mr. W. has had charge of this work for the past five years and has decorated most of the fine homes in' Tulsa. A. Wrenecke, who during this time Let us gitc you the benefit of our advice. We have made a studu of home decoration. Home Decorating Co. 220 EAST THIRD. KltfMP PHONE 4592 jH 'lis I m .in rnesKu-cs frequently trav- roller 11 day. Nlro 1 he system w;ia similar, hieroKlyphlca of the Aztecs I,:,,, nit the even cruder .method of -.'the Peruvians, It Is claimed by old . j li.-lciiaiis that some of these Mexl I can couriers traveled four to five lifucue an hour. The couriers who brought news of hat ilea, or similar affairs of public InieriHt. were uniforms whose colors viitiid according to whether the tlci Inps waa good or bud. A late, aa tho beginning of the twentieth century the mall between Valparaiso and Luenoa Aires waa car ried over tha Andes by runnera on 'Ua. The Chilean and Ars-entlne R-ovornment maintained a corps of 300 picked men, mostly Scandinav ians who took the mall to and from tho railroads which ran, to tha great mountuln ranges. " Tha traveling was done nt altitudes of from 1,000 to 11,000 feet and the routes wre bo difficult that It often took alx man to travel 100 mllea. It waa not until a railroad was built through the Andes that the service was discontinued. In countries where horses were used th mounted courier replaced tho runner. Xcnophon n the Ana basis describes the swift riders who bore meiuuKos and letters In Persia anu ner trioute atatea. lielays of men and horsea were maintained along tho Rruat roads and the system used varied little from that em ployed In this country ami In Eu rope up to the nineteenth century. All the (treat Kuropean and Asiatic nations of antiquity had portal acrv lco by mounted couriers. Mull llouta on Nile. In Egypt the Nile bonis were the precursors of tho mail steamers of today. It Is an Interesting fact that it waa a Maasnrhusetts man, Kdmunit Oummer, who, 1 170 7. established a .rRuiui pi Net service between the West Indies and Kneland. The system by which papal et- 1 i", ucirces anil mcssaKes were 1 transmitted was possihlv tha first1 Umrouis-hJy oriranmcd postal svstem I In medieval Kurope. The couriers' were monks who were sent from city ! to ri'.y al over the continent They i were pahi regularly and the records' at the Vatican as far back an the j twelfth century show the sums ex-' prnded for these mensem; era. I The t'nlverait'y of ParisVi-anire.t a service of Its own in the thirteenth j i co 111 ry 1 In If. 5 the lords of (he eoIlnc I !.-f hngluml ordered that "noste. b... tween this and the north sho-ild eche keepe a hooke and n,a(P ,.trV(, 1 of every letlre that he ahaP receive 1 the time of delivery thereof m,to ihrl ' hands of the parties named As : early aa the fourteenth century let- ' ters bear Indorsements which 'show ! that they were carried bv men an.l ', horses under government control I Mall earrvlng in this conntrv was fo st by mounted courier an.l ' ,'er i I'V each. The Po c,i'!e,t s!,',. i c ad, perlnej" began about 754 ;inH J ".no hi u.n, lviifii railroads Ijri.refi.seii P,, far that be sent by them. That word "SHIRT" Has Been Given a New Meaning Years ago a shirt was only an article of underwear it was supposed to be covered by coat and vest. If it was clean that was all-sufficient. Then came "Manhattan Shirts" with all their refine ments, ready-to-ivcar, and the shirt assumed a new positionit became one of the most important ar ticles of apparel. Today, one is as careful of his shirt as he is of his coat, and Manhattans are the standard of shirt elegance for tlie well-dressed man. Manhattan Silk Shirts Shown by Us Are Indescribably Beautiful 5 to 13.50 Manhattan Madras Shirts are in a Class All Their Own 2-up W3 Iff" 1. 1 r AVadaxxsky 1 IK BOSTON HAD PEOPLE IN AGES LONG PAST rvldoncra of I'hrhlatorta ClvllliaUon l ouiid I ndcr Water nt Idgc of Uonn City. Boston, Mass., was Inhabited by human beings at least 2,000 years ai:o. The people who lived there then were fishermen. They used axes of stone to cut down trees and fashion timber Into useful 6hapea. At a time when the climate of rtoston was as warm aa the climate o( the Virginia coast Is today, the Tlostonlans of the post-glacial epoch constructed a wooden fish weir at a spot under what Is now Iloylston street, near the 'lingers building of the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nology. Ilurlcl I l.sli Wlcr. These facts are not evolved out nf the editorial Inner consciousness. but are deduced from a communl- , cation on thn post -glacial history of' Itoston recently submitted to the American Academy of Arta and : Sc.cnces by Prof. Henry W. Shimer, j an accomplished paleontologist, which has been furnished to the J Sun by a fellow of tho academy who resides In New York. I Tho Iloylston afreet f.sh weir. when discovered, was embedded In j a deposit of silt and shells from 13 to 15 feet in depth. "How long a time was consumed," says I'rofes- S'hlmer, "j,, (ne deposition of to 15 feet of silt and. shells Is lareely a matter of conjecture. i set,.,, i,. v ... ", P. has been estimated that tha MIs- " -in, v.nr Higher Than Col-I siesipnl river deposits a foot of mud oncl. ar(. l.iil..ti.li.rfr IVrxniw)" Jin 200 years. A similar rate here Mllit.irv Advlsori would have required 2.500 to S,000 AMs-wimum iyears for the If not Indeed MOO years ago. Such Is the atory which a few sticks In the mud tell to the vision of science. The revelations of this prehistoric Iloylston street fish weir make it plainer than ever that a fish Is the most fitting emblem of the com monwealth of Mafsarhusetts. Costly Quarrels. "Confound those feminine squab bles! They cost mo a lot of money." How?" "Whenever my w ife quarrels with another woman, she gets up a big dinner party nt as to Kiiub the other woman by not lnvltine her." had mail eouii OFFICERS OF LOW RflWk' CONTROL HUN WAR AIMs!-13' I'r.'Htis of til.'! an, I fo fv the I the I r.l t . J 1 1 n i n .rma.0 Army," oL.ll All.-ig..r. , rtnan offj,. accumulation of this The:.-reat age for the fish wler Is con- ac, firmed by the preservation of the POI1. Iwoo.l of which it was composed. It "iis considerably carbonized; its sur "une ;, , , . Kt,.k -j .iiber wet ';:";"'r rank than colonel, ; 'r llry , vory brittle." The weir f .he men who have risen I was probably erected when tho re- 1 belong, to the K'"n wfl!' ''"posed, or aimoai e 'i posed, at low tide and covered at i.vs the newspaper .high. tide; In which event the land elbow and low.'!' ,'U.s:, "ll is the no ai at !.,ii.l.'iwlorff rne They ,',,!i, inner high c, : n -.ml. b,.lnK l.ndcdorffs personal an.l iiii.iici.ato .,r ,.m.ji.-.' ' Their name, an irivrn undee th Men of Action " Th.... -., bind von Merr, I.ieutenant-frilnn.i I.ieutennnt-t'olonel p.auer. . a lOr Von I'rt,.L-..l I Major von Harbou, ' lleyer. I All of these seven men. It Is said i have come to the front since the he- ginning of the present war. They are characterized as "men of untlr- energy. drive and capacity for WELL-KNOWN FURNITURE HOUSE CHANGES HANDS X E. Rawlings Formerly of Ilawktna-RaxcTmga Purchases Entire Stock of Oklahoma Auction Furniture Co. Under new management. Assortments in all lines" will be broadened so that every furniture want, large or small, can be easily chosen. c.-lit : W Major I'ralincrt. Captain ling 1 Quick decision." must have sunk from 16 to 18 feet since the early Bostonlans took fish a Iloylston nfreet. The weir consisted of interlaced vertical and horizontal sticks. The vertical rods appeared to have been roughly sharpened with a stone ax. Whether the form of construction resembled the fish weirs used by tho North American Indians In the days of the 1'llgrlms we are not Informed. It may lie that the remnants ob tained were not sufficiently abund ant to permit a comparison. Peopled 2,000 Years Ago. At all events, we may rest as- suied that Boston was peopled 2,000 j FOR THIS WEEK Refrigerators In all sizes and of standard makes go 20 Per Cent Discount Terms The very LOWEST CASH PRICES or the EASIEST PAYMENT TERMS in BEDS. MATTRESSES . AND SPRINGS LARGE ASSORTMENTS AT LOW PRICES Stocks will also - include a . showing of second-hand goods. J. E. Rawlings Successor to Oklahoma Auction i 207 East Second Furniture Co. Phone 236 KIMaTCMtrt