Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1899 — Mailing of Letters in China. [ARTICLE]

Mailing of Letters in China.

In China when a man writes a letter he does not drop it in a mall box, as we do here, but takes it to a letter shop, where he makes a bargain with the keeper of the shop to have Ft carried for hfan. It costs a great deal to have a letter carried, and not many people can afford to write them. When a miner gets down to business he lowers himself in the world.