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Show SPAIN TAR DEHIND NATIONS. lllttracy Prevails There to a Most i Amarlng Client. ' Of the 20 000 004 eopIe Inhabiting t) tin only about 3S per cent can read and write, another two nnd one-lalf one-lalf per cent of the iHipulatlon (nn (vaJ without being able to write, but tho reroalnlng CSVfc per cent nre nb oloto Illiterates In the south ot Ssln It la Impossible to get n scrr int who can read and write, and tiaoy of the postmen nro unable lo tell to whom tho letters they enrry ire addressed They bring a bun ttlo ot letter to n bouse and tho owaer looks through them and taken those which are (or which ho thinks tre) addressed to him Tho Spanish tollmen nre not paid by the stale; the recipient of Iho letters havo to remunerate them according to tbo snmart of their correspondence, and each letter costs the addressee, at )4iit one cent It la a Joko among the easy going Spaniards Hint he who tresti tho postmen beat receives tho most letters whether they aro In-tculed In-tculed for him or not. |