Show SPAIN FAR BEHIND NATIONS illiteracy prevails there to a most amazing extent ot of the 20 people inhabiting spain only about 35 per cent can read and write rite another tuo to and one halt half per cent of 0 the he population can read without being able to write hut but the remaining 62 per cent aro ab solute illiterates in the south or of spain it la Is impossible to get a ant who can read and write and many ot of the postmen are unable to tell to whom the letters they carry are addressed they bring a bun ban dle die of letters to a house and the owner looks through them and takes those which are or which he thinks are addressed to him the spanish postmen are not paid by the state the reci recipient of 0 the letters have t to remunerate them according to the amount ol of their correspondence arAl an A each letter costs coats the addressee at least one cent it to la a loke joke amons among the easygoing spaniards that he ha who treats the postmen best receives the most letters whether they are in tended for him or not |