The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1902-03-27

only one-tenth what it used to be. but
! there are twenty times as many letters
written by every person who can write
and there are ten times as many 70
write them. The great northern mail
used to come to Our town once week
and single sack in the boot Of stage
! contained it. Now five times toat guam
tity comes twice day. | used to write
! about two letters a week and now
write twenty-five or thirty and receive
! more than write. For | have quit an
swering many letters that inclose no
stamp. The number Of letters incrcas-
When the postage had to be paid at the
end Of the line it was pretty hard 70
receive a disagreeable letter and have
10 pay for it. Ny father was a mer-
chant for nearly fifty years and sold
goods on a years time. and sometimes
we had to write dunning letters to his
customers He wrote one to very
slow man and got no answer, so he
wrote another and the slow man wrote
! back that he would have to wait until
he made another crop, and as postage
was high and silver was scarce, he ad-
vised a very limited correspondence.
He wrote another to a belated custom
er at Warsaw and another and another
and then got reply which said &:
az have received your letters b1t they hey
we're a long time on the way. II you
had sent them round by Atlanta a2d
Marietta and Roswell l would have
gotten them sooner, for we have two
mails a week by that route. but only
one by the way you sent them. Here
after you had better send them that
way. Our mail system IS very imper-
! feet. 1t takes six weeks for me to get a
/ letter from Jack. who is in tha Arkan-
saw. You remember Jack. But am
always glad to hear from you: felr
( friend. W1LL-AI WATERS.
I "P. S.-As for that account OF last
year. which you say has run iorg
, time-as the boy said 10 the molasses,
Just let h. run. w. W.
! I wonder If our young people know
who wes cur first postmaster general?
/ He was the postmaster general before
! the revolution and vas turned out by
! King George because lie was suspected
! Of being a rchal and his Garle was Ben
! iamin franklin. When the Declaration
/ Of Independence was passed Re estab-
l!shed an independent line and boycott
! ted the English System AID Afterwards
= organized a system CT our own. Sir
/ Rowland Hill was the postmasts: gem
| eral of England ard in 1874 established
what was callHd the penny post. Be
! fore that the English merchants hired
men to carry their letters. When the
battle of the Waterloo was fought the
/ Rothschilds hi.ed private carriers 10
bring them The news Of the great bat
tie. English credit and bonds and con.
/ so!s were then away down to. 20 cents
or the dollar for Napoleon was Just
running rough shod over kingdoms and
| governm ents. The Rothschilds got the
news Of his defeat twenty-four hours
sooner than the bankers Of London a1d
they secretly bought up all the bond;
and stocks and co1sols they could find
| ard when the good news came CT the
! great victory these bonds and stocks
! jumped UP to par in a day and the
| Rothschilds made many millions and
this was the beginning OF their great
! fortune. 1t was a mean. dirty trick
/ but they dldn care. fOr nedTI! q Ceh'
tury they have controlled the finances
of the civilized world and nations
could not 60 to war without consulting
the Rothschilds. But now thev have It
take a back seat. for Pierpont Morgan
and Rockefeller and fcw others ca.
control more money than they can. But
our postage has not yet got TO the low
est notch. The people say 1t must bf
reduced to ! cent, and bill has bee!
introduced in congress to that effec
and letters will soon be delivered Al
almost every mans house If he lives
on a public highway. Verify, 1t pas
seth comprehension. received a let
ter and a paper this morning from Aus
tralia. They had come $1,000 miles TO-
cents and found me. although thert
/ are half a dozen Cartersvilles in thu
United States. There is no system 81
perfect as the postal system and n:
man can steal from it without beinS
caught.-Bill Arp. Atlanta Constitu
ton.