The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1899-10-04
SULT OF
ET OF LETTER WRITING.
nd Girls Nowadays Seek Know
10 of Others-Bin Arp Takes
hsure i'm Writing Letters.

% of Others-Biu Arp Takes
hsure in Writing Letters.
u hopeful sign that so many of
lung girls ana boys have u thirst
owledge. The youths depart
the newspapers and magazines
wing into Importance and their
TO the editors betokeps otudious
Ylng minds. The art Of letter
~ Is Itself not only an accom-
iment, but q good part Of q polished
RcRtion. Letters indicate character
hd good letters require thought. The
etters OF notable men and women are
Vac best part Of their biographies.
Ehey are an index to the heart, the
bmottOns, the dispositions. Time was
when but lew could write 81 all, and
The opening OF mail IN u country town
awas "a small affair. L know from eX-
Serience, for when | was in my teens !
my father was the postmaster and /
had the york TO do, There are nov at
least ton letters per capita to where
there was ono In those days. One
Agreat drawback on letter voting then
Mao the cost OF postage. A letter
TO u place within the State VS. l2t
cents ana the postage had TO DO paiu
Dy the person receiving ii, and If i.
was u poor letter he felt like he was
| cheatea. Many q letter was handed
1back to me with such a remark o 3
Well, | reckon It's from Dick Jones,
over in Arkausaw, and | hain't got the
buarter. Just put it back ontil / come
Ag'in."
~ LII keeps me busy nowadays to an
fer al toe letters | receive. Ny
Ie ana daughters help to keep up
2 correspondence with the far-aw9y
rs and n oCher kindred, but good
enus who write kind letters to me
Apst be answered in person. Such
|yfestefs are q pleasure and q comfort.
"A Then, there are many letters. asking
for charity or q little help for @ church
Atpat only remind me how poor | am.
y But these letters from inQuirine
minds who are in pursuit OF knowledge
and perpleGed about the mysteries OF
nature always interest me, and have
to pretend to be q wise man whether l
Now IRE is one from a pretty school
girl II teens. L know that she is
Pretty, N@Eeuse she writes q pretty
letter and there Is not Is blot Or eras-
ure or u misspolled word. She wants
to know whore the day begins and
why, and where tho navigators fret
hnd Il change. OF course that Is worth
knowing, "nd [ suppose that very few
outside OF colleges and the continental
travellers and the sea-taring men an
derstsnd it.
Well, my dear girl, the day begins
Just whore man begun--iu the
gardon OF Eden, II the Creator had
cho5sn New York or Charleston for
that garden, the day would have begun
over hero on this continent and eX-
tended west" ard to California, rs the
people multiplied and carried it there.
OF course the day kept It's namo auu
Its late around, ana cast OF Palestine
ms far as the sea, but " westward the
lido Of empire takes its way" ana SC
did the tide Of time. C0lumbus brOught
the day with hiin to this Continent.
from our eastern coast the people toot
ITO CALIFORNIA, and irOE there the
j missionaries tv2E Z. 80 the Sandwich
4 islands, and IL continued TO follow tho
sun until tho n~avigatOrs got around
to Pombay and Hong Koug and Cairo
and found that they Lad lost Q day anu
it wee Monday instead Of Sunday. And
tEose who sailed eastward ANA travelled
against tho sun found they had gained
3 day and it was Saturday instead Of
Sunday.
But is not so now, for there Is gu
international line in midoccan-a mon.
dean that has been established by the
great powers ana accepted by the
naVigators Of al nations IS the change
OF dato line. This linz Is $50 degrees
west OF Greenwich and % from New
Zealand north to Boring straits and
goes not far from Samoa. 1t Is Just
hall way arOund the world from Lon
! don and is called the Autipodc vi
Greenwich. 1t is 1900 miles west OF
a laval aud 5000 west Of San Francisco,
This line is check. marked on the un.
4 to-datc map and Sunday is Pointed on
the vest side and Monday on the east.
NaVlgators tell by their iog books and
compass when they ave reached IL,
ana n captain On the mGte announce
\ with great ceremony: Set the day
\ CLOCK back tw~enty-tour hours. We
nave crossed the lin2.'
4 o many years our American. rail
ways, as they pressed their Way from
] Inc atlantic to the Pacific, found the
1 question OF Tins very confusing, anG
henc9 by consent OF action they e5tab-
Iis9eu lour DIVISIONS OF "aliway time
4 any hrRed iongithulna lines OOO
4 mics aparI 70 ln0lcate them. When
the Train crosses one oil these lines
ene passengers set tnelr watches back
lor"ar Just one honr, .or the sun
? moves or seems to move just 1000
mlies an hour. These mondean lines
alVlue ms mo eastern, central noun.
Saln s1d racine, a q they pass through
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