Eureka Reporter | 1907-08-09 | Page 5 | Spain Far behind Nations

SPAIN FAR BEHIND NATIONS illiteracy prevails there to a most amazing extent of the people inhabiting spain only about 35 per cent can read and write another two and one halt per cent of the population can read without being able to write but the remaining 62 per cent are ab solute illiterates in the south of spain it is impossible to get a ant who can read and write and many 0 of the postmen are unable to tell to whom the letters they carry are addressed they bring a bun die dle 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 recipient of 0 the letters have to remunerate them according to the amount ot of their correspondence and each letter costs the addressee at least one cent it is a joke among the easy going spaniards that he who treats the postmen best receives the most letters whether they are in tended for him or not