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JULY 16, 1906
THE SUNNY SOUTH
THIRD TAGE
Boon of Rural Free Delivery
By HENRY M. WILTSE.
To the South and the Nation
JN TWO PARTS—PART I.
!
K 'ri. e.i -or \5hc ~ a rt r* jr uOu^ j j
RECENTLY saw a letter, j
written by a boy who j
absent from his. homc--the J
first lone absence of his j
life. The distance that,
separates him from the j
home folks is a substantial 1
one, and he wrote enthu- j
slas tically. feelingly, of
the comfort lie derives
from the numerous let-
ters, and almost dally in
stallments of local papers
and clippings from them,
received by mail
“I tell you," he said, "Uncle Sam's !
mJT?I system is enough. ».f Itself, to
•make one think well of hlc Uncle Sam '•
The simple truth is tfret the postal
branch of the government service lies
closer to the 'individual citizen, the home
and the heart, than any other. The free i
delivery service, city and rural, brings i
it more frequently and more impressive- j
ly before the popular mind and under- [
standing, than it ever war- "before their
establishment. Their popularity, ever |
on the increase, is shown by the statis-,
tics of their growth. I
City free delivery was established in
1863, and lit the year 1863-4 there were !
eixty-rix municipalities enjoying the ser- j
vice. The number of carriers was six ;
hundred and eighty-five. In the year |
or 1903-4 there were eleven hundred mu-
r.lclpalitips enjoying itn-e service, and
twenty thousand, seven hundred and
slxty-cne carriers were employed.
Of rural free delivery routes, there
were in operation forty-four in 1897,
and in the year 1904 the number was 24.-
656.
The appropriation for the maintenance
of the service, the first year mentioned,
was S40.000, For the Tatter year it was
*12,921,700.
During the fiscal year ending June 30,
1904. the number of new rural routes es
tablished was 9.447.
POPULARITY INCREASING
Rural free delivery is destined to be
come a much more appreciated branch
of the general postal service than was
ever its coordinate branch—its- second
cousin, for instance, the star route ser
vice. Furthermore, it is going to be a
mere popular service than municipal
free delivery, and will, in a few years,
be thoroughly established as a necessity
quite as absolute as is the city service.
It would not be an exaggeration to say
TTiaf a Tar greater necessity lies behind
it. and underlies it, than ever lay be
hind or under the kindred branch, tht
first cousin, as we might call the city
service. Yes. the two branches of pos
tal service arc our city cousins and our
country cousins.
They are going to perform the excel
lent service to the nation of bringing
the rural and the urban branches of the
great national family together, making |
them* better acquainted with each other |
and each other's ways; thus making city |
leople less provincial, and country neo
pie less haughty, when they go to town. I
It will be very much as If they lived |
in town a large portions of their time. !
and as if ?li*» r-ltv fnlU dwelt much ill '
the country
As in many, many affairs in the insti
tutions of life, and especially of civil
ized life, two of the greatest benefits tliat.
are to arise- from the rural free deliv
ery are merely Incidental to the original
measure. They are improved roads,
ar.d more as well as better bridge*.
For rural routes are not established
Just because the squire, or the colonel.
The Water Boy—Scene on U Georgia Route.
such equipment as is furnished by the
department. HTte immediate conduct of
the service is in charge of the superin
tendent of rural free delivery.
SYSTEM ESSENTIAL.
The work is so vast in volume and ex
tent. however, that the general super
intendent needs many assistants, ana
In order to systematize it, thoroughly,
the country is laid off into sections,
known as divisions. They are the ea?'-
ern, the Philadelphia, the Atlantic, the
southern, the Ohio, the Missouri, the St.
splendid spring in historic Jonesboro to |
Floursvilie postoffice, at the. other end
of the Journey.
ITS HISTORIC INTEREST.
Jonesboro is one of the oldest and
most historic towns in the south. it
would be a place of immense interest in
history if no other great event had
marked its existence than the birth there
of the state of Franklin, which took place
August 23. 1783.
There were present "n this momentous
occasion such men as John 'Sevier, Charles
Robertson, William Trimble, William
Uncle Sam Asked
To Become Spook Inspector
HE phenomena of ghosts,
phantasms, etc., should
undoubtedly be made the
subject of careful govern
ment study.” said a scien
tist of high standing who !
had been shadowy images j
faint, shawody Images !
that appear now and then !
to the imaginative and
unimaginative.
“I um directing efforts j
toward having higher of
ficials make a careful in- 1
vestigation and report along the lines of j
English researches of these mystic things j
that so few know anything about. I be
lieve in the end I will finally secure sanc
tion of the officials agents to begin the
queerest investigation ever made by the
government, but one promising the
{ greatest enlightenment to mankind and
| the clearing up of one of the greatest
j mysteries remaining unsolved,
j "We may be impregnated to the fidlest
I extent with the modern-day cynicism and
j skepticism until we proudly boast that
j there are no such things is ghosts, no
! apparitions and newer will he. Rut
three-fourths of the men and women who
j make these boasts privately feel that
1 there is within us some unknown power
! of the mind or soul that enniiles most
weird things to to take place. They can't
explain, don't .attempt to explain and in
public meet these facts with deccisive
laughter. Much of this is due to com
plete ignorance of the wide study of
mental phenomena. I don't believe there
is a man or woman in the world who has
given anything like earnest study to the
reputable publications relating to psy
chological problems who will not frank
ly admit that there arei many unexplain
ed things in the field of apparitions and
specters. Why should the government
spend millions of dollars educating peo
ple along other lines an'd m ike no effort
to furnish them with light on this sub
ject. which is nearer to the soul than
any other?
REASONS FOR EXISTENCE.
"The phenomena of spiritism, mesmer
ism. hypnotism and ttilepath} are demon
Paul, the Spokane, the Denver and the Cox, Landon Carter. Hugh Henry Chris
San Francisco.
The eastern division comprises No#,*
York and the New England states. It
ha5 headquarters In New York city.
The Philadelphia division is comp >sed
of Pennsylvania .and New Jersey. The
headquarters are at Philadelphia.
The Atlantic division covers Delaware,
Maryland, Virginia. West Virginia, the
District -of Columbia, North and South |j
topher Taylor. John Christian. Samuel
Doak. William Campbell, Benjamin Hol
land. John Bean, Samuel Williams. Rich
ard White. Joseph Martin. Gilbert Chris- i enu
tian, William Cocke, John Manifee, Wil- I t ,.jj
liam Wallace, John Ilall. Samuel Wil
son, Stockley Donelson, William Evans
sthrated every day to the eyes of the
most practical people, and nulling is
done to furnish corrections of the many
ignorant and absurd ideas that prevail
on these subjects. Few men doubt that
all of these things are daily practiced,
bat that which is not explicable to the
average man is nothing but the imagin
ation of a weaker man mentally. That
is the way they figure it all out. and
they go along satisfied. Isn’t there rea
son for the existence of these phenom-
If so, why can not they be in-
ntly explained so that men and
I women will not be made fools of and
its headquarters are at Chicago.
. In the Kansas City division are Kan- j
f the city folk dwelt much in sag aRd Nebraska> and the headquarters
are at Kansas City.
The S*. Paul division takes care of!
Minnesota, North Dffkota and South Da-;
kota. with Headquarters at St. Paul.
The SV>okane division supplies the ser
vice to the states of Washington. Ore- ■
gon, Idaho and Montana. Spokane is,
headquarters.
The Denver division looks to the inter- j
ests ut Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and
er even the sequire and the colonel, with i New Mexico. HefMquarters. Denver,
the aid of the honorable member from The San Francisco division occupies its
Blank county, in the state legislature, attention with California, Nevada and ,
take :t notion that they want one m j Arizona. Headquarters at Sun Fran-:
their neighborhood. No, they are es'ab- j cisco.
lished upon the petition of the people to All of these aro in charge of regular;
be affected, properly indorsed. The pur-| division superintendents, except the Phil-j
pose of the service, defined in general adeiphla. St. Paul, Kansas City, Den-
tariua, is to "Carry the mails daily, to | ver. Spokane and San Francisco iliv's-
people Who would otherwise have to gi ions. These arc in charge of postoffice !
« mile or more to a postoffice to receive inspectors.
their mail.” ' , T “« * rowth _ .
Bui, even when the people—all of the j the following tame:
people of a certain neighborhood, tfiong
a certain desired route, petition for th~
establishment of one. there are some re
quirements that must be complied with
before they can secure the granting of
their application.
These requirements, being tip-on the
part of 4no petitioners complied with,
mean to them “more than tongue can
tell," in increased omfort, better heilth.
greater safety, -cs quicker, better.
expensive means of getting* themsel'-es, ppnd , ng Jljly
and th«r fcrodurts thoir lands and mstallath
toil, to me nearest market town or city, j
That is to say, “It is required that '
the Toads traversed by a. rural free fie* i
livery route shall be in gfood condition;
that there must be no unbridled creeks
_ played upon by the mysticcism that sur-
aniel Kennedy, Alexander Outlaw. Jo- I rounds mast of them? Why is there not
sepfi Gist, Samuel Weir, Asahel Rawl- j s urn basis for intelligent explanation of
. . Joseph Bullard. John Monaghan, these things and why shoulldn’t people
Carolina. The headquarters are at Was-- John Murphy, David Campbell, Archibald i know what the basis of this explanation
intgon. D. O. , ! Stone. Abraham Denton, Charles Rob- I Is? Of course it must be admitted that
The southern division is made up o. j inson alld ,, ; . Hsha Baker. row students of the phenomena have
Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Florida : _.\t Jonesboro Andrew Jackson. Esq.,
and Mississippi. Nashville is headquar- j attorney at law, practiced his profession,
ters. At Jonesboro he sat as judge, and during
The Ohio division comprises Ohio, In- ot» session of the court over which he
diana and Kentucky. Headquarters at i presided acted as deputy sheriff long
Cincinnati. enough to place under arrest the desper-
The Missouri division takes in Missouri. , ack , Russell Bean, whom the sheriff and
Iowa, Arkansas, Louisiana. 1 exas, Indian his deputies reported as being too tough
Territory and Oklahoma territory. Head-j a customer for them. But when Jackson
quarters, St. Louis. | covered him with a couple of pistols and
The middle division has for its tern- told him to surrender, his reply was: “I
tory Michigan, Illinois and Wisconsin. ; will surrender to you. Mister Devil."
Mr. Vines deep not always ride on horse
back, while delivering .the mail, but about
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"Webster says that a ghost is thg \
disembodied soul or spirit of man, but !
my investigations all tend to prove that i
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ntelligor.ee to talk i than the houses that walled us In.
That it is an immensely popular ser-
" j vice. and constantly growing in popular
ity, is shown by the fact that there were
I, 1903, 11,700 petitions for
ion.
There Is a sentimental side to this ser-
j vice, almost unknown to the city delivery
service. No? many people. I fancy, would
care to trudge with a city carrier over
j half of ih
j top buggy.
I His route
I down West
eastern foot
historic tree,
as nearly eve
States knows
Fourteen R. F. D. Carriers and the Post Office at Jonesboro, Tenn.
into uses a neat, eomfortabl
I 'nun w.c Jiun.-es min Miiueu us in. At j sixteenth of an Inch was snipped off to
upon which in-j intervals we inquired where we were, for j induce it to grow more, and the moth -
but this is never | otherwise
is the result ’ of j all.
idea or thought;and take
ounding.c
extends out from Jonesboro
Boon creek, and along the
of a ridge on which is the
in the branches of which,
y sciioo] child ir. the United
"D. Boon killed a bar."
rncr over
several
his monotonous route more than
or streams not fordable at all ord.nary And , fanpy there an , but fow p ,, op!p of |
Seasons of the >'e*r. and that each . anv sentlment at all who would , U)l hP '
route, being not less than twenty-four; de i J(fhted to r)de wJt h a ruraI Pf
or more miles In length, as a rule, shall Bis romantic .and varied route
serve not less than one hundred farnl- j times each autumn and spring,
lies. Routes less than twenty-four miles VVe will ta ke, as an instance’ the route
in length are established where they j of Carrier John Vines, which extends from
rot be made the standard length, and a I Jonesboro, east Tennessee, to Floursvilie.
proportionate number of families is re- ] a distance of 25 miles. The population
qulred on such routes." | along this route, is 633. The number ol
The work of the rural free delivery ser
vice is described in general terms as- the
investigation of petitions for the service,
and Its installation; the appontment.
bonding and discipline of rural carriers
«r.i substitutes, and the distribution of
families Mr. Vines serves with mail Is
133. The average number of pieces de
livered and collected by him per month
is 4.500.
Every inch of the ground over which
this carrier rides is historic—from the
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Mty Vines delivers mail at the old Garst
homestead, where Is a large and splen
did spring, and 30 yards or so from this
l f ' r j is an old "log house," where, about 135
: ago. Boon discovered this same
boar, eating berries. it escaped at the
l time by shuffling off "over the hills and
j far away," but it couldn't long lte/>p it
self detached from Mister Boon’s unerr-
j ing bullet.
! Crossing this rural delivery route, near
De Vault’s Ford, is :he ancient Indian
and buffalo trail, which led from south
west Virginia, through Cumberland Gap,
to Kentucky and middle Tennessee.
Thirteen carriers go out daily from
Jonesboro, and I am able to present a
picture of them, in group, as they are
aooui to stari Tin their respective jour
neys. This picture also shows the post-
office at Jonesboro, where the Hon. Wal
ter P. Brownlow, a nephew of the famous
parson, lives when lie. is not in Washing
ton attending to his congressional du
ties, or somewhere else performing some
other useful service to his country or for
himself.
This interesting route, daily traveled by
Mr. Vines, is only one of many hundreds
throughout the south that offer delight
ful variety of historic and scenic interest.
had some marvelous expiation
marvelous to attempt to go into detail. |
My conclusion is absolute that the soul j
of man never came back to earth after
his bode ceased to exist. 1 am satisfied, ;
though, that there is within the, mental- j I’ athic P owpr ,,f th( ‘ nlin
itv of every man and woman a power officially told of. just as
at Intervals.
wo paused in
refer
t ike
close
which, developed under r
renders it possible for
of a phantom to wltoev
l.e reached by that person. I don't
now to the strange things that
place between the liying. either
together or far apart, but mean to din!
wholly with toe apparitions that follow
dea;h under certain conditions.
FOLLOW A TERRIFYING DEATH.
"Right here 1 want to ask. Did you
ever hear of a ghost where the death of
a person had been quiet and in the nat
ural way? Have you not noticed tnat
ghosts are produced after some unustSal
or horrifying death—following some
tragic, intense moment in the life of one
person or the lives of several - Make
an investigation and you will find that
this is so. This is due entirely to the
fact that at the supreme moment in the
tragedy the undeveloped mental power
of the person in distress rises to its
purposes. The person is being murder-; K IVW
ed In horrible manner. He wants the
world to know it and concentrates the
mysterious fun'tions of the mind so
sharply on a desire to expose the whole
thing In some way that the scene is re
produced in ghostly apparition. Il re
mains on the spot to tell the tale
man it would possess
on nearly any subjec
J quiry might be made,
| tlio ease. The visior
concentrated telepathi
! under stress of emotions of a kind sel- "Here." said Prentic
to ° • tiutn experienced by the living. space; "here is Temple Bar."
WORLD OUGHT TO KNOW IT. I thought r saw something that might
"If the theory 1 hold is right the world h-ave been the ghost of an arch hewn out
aught to know it. This wonderful tele- of the solid fog. The top of it. though
mind ought to be l it was not lofty, was lost to view. Tem-
mueh as are! pie Bar. now gone forever from the j>!a
the various statistics about school life, j where its gates once -swung
industrial life or other affairs. Scientists | of the old i fly—it was here
otild never have known at | er was never happy after these event3
We had to feel our way carefully) until the handicap had been overcome.
Two days ago the manager took the
prodigy out to have his hair tn'mmeu
and went to the "tonsorial parlor" of
Charles Katz, at Third avenue and One
hundred and twenty-seventh street, to
have the delicate operation performed.
All would have been happily ended if
the manager had remained in the bafber
, ,, ! qhon but he thoughtlessly went out to
rtain emotions. , l "" ‘ " i "• t,le wall mmp. tut
the protection - industrial life or other affairs. Scientists | of the old • fly—it was here her gracious I ' K1 T something
r is ilesi-il to! 1)pIievP in tllp theory and if the govern- j majesty, Queen Victoria, of England, was j Tho
l ruent should start an investigation the | wont to receive the keys of the city i ^
j revelations would be worth reading. j from the hands of the lord mayors when !
rare things In these | she drove in state to St. Paul eathedial. | penl
We threaded Fleet street, but could not |
see to the further shore.
“Here is her majesty's tow
Prentice, but nothing of it was visible. I
) "Yes, ghost
i days and have always been rare, for
! that matter, but there are other phe-
! nomena. of man's mentality that deserve
j investigation. Take the ease of a motli-
I er or father dying many miles away from
j his or her family. As death approaches
j the mind Is so strongly fastened upon
I the thought of the absent ones and the
j grief is so great at being away from
them that there is created one of those
strange phantoms that is instantly trans-
So
bin-
barber didn't realize that the lad
his chair was a prodigy, nor that ~*s
! h-iir was worth about $2,000 an inch to
Then, he is alleged to have ap
pealed to Maurice s boy spirit by telling
him how much better he would look with
I a short pompadour instead of the long
said ! locks that sometimes had to be tied with
| ribbons. •
T? took Katz but a few seconds to clip
T e ‘ ip " n another. We crossed i off - 124 times as much hair as other
Dondon bridge almost without knowing 1 barbers had taken three hours to cut.
it. The waters of the Thames, which are | Finally the manager chanced to drop
but condensed fog. were invisible from ! In and see how the operation was pro-
the parapet, and the steam ferries were! greying, and when he caught one
picking their way cautiously
ing very like marine monsters
and look-
in a mt-.iN
mined to the far away ones. So you do dy aquarium. We crawled through the
not believe such things occur? Well, I tunnel for foot traffic under the Thames
you never be the recipient of such ; which was like a hole in the fog. and for
glimpse of his star lie burst into a rage
and demanded reparation.
The barber explained that this wtas
one of the cases wherein the past i's
buried and said that there was nothing
to do but wait a year and let the hair
a case j hours carried the sky about on our shouT Know. With mingled sorrow and anger
- ■ fir . rs . It was a wooUy „ r „ - the impressario gathered up the locks
smelling sky. Our nostrils were 2 {ook thP ™* nist hnn T j° hls mo ‘ n '
with cinders, like chimnev L-'°®fted . er. who actually succumbed on see/ng
there were smudges all orL ' ' and her boy, rwul has since been under a
Sometimes for a moment » r faces - | doctor's care for nervous prostration,
a spot overhead tint was bU, tW ° We S:!W 'I Meanwhile Manager Erlich hurried to hls
wafer, and we knew ” for ^he* Pale r0d offices and canceled all but one of the
lost to us. The lamps dm engngemonts at which young Warner was
dav were like 1. o ? W] a » I scheduled to appear.
and so we expired the !: 1 . wh f n at her h ° m# '
last thought is to be a message to the j -- ---■ j- ™ ui ,1 as a blind: second. «lr„eet, sa id:
other.' I agreed, but with a laugh, lie, 111 ■. OSt no more. ■ ..j nm 1nst; r ranc s| P over this affair,
often and he was | land T have been suffering from nervous
may
a grewsome message. - I recall
in my own fife that will never be for
gotten. My dearest friend at school
was the sweetest boy I ever knew. We
up together, went to college to
gether and separated after we became
men. 'I must go to Loudon,' he told
me une day, ’and I will tell you goodbj .
I desire that we shall make this agree- j
ment: If either of us should die £ ** f* ^ *"* “""***
We mao sees. o-» ™ n as a b,lnd ; second. «lr„eet,
the very keenest. Historic, from days I whoever, i* most interesteu And I want wrotc to °thei ,
long before the revolution; scenic in all \ to , pU vou that my study of ghosts j 3 setting atong well m lppPar . j MAURICE WARNER'S LOCKS CUT
variations from the line of grace to the; that where onc originated under circum-j ; lic ' b ' v ' ,s ' - witi/iV was the voice! (Fr °m Th
picturesque—from the picturesque to the J stances of thc kind 1 describe “ ]««* j -i Tmt? ! “on r,Tn over by a
train in London,’ it said, and 1 am d>-
A Rural Mall Box With Signal up 4 ‘Mail for Carrier.”
grandest of the grand.
Any route, almost, from Nashville to
the gulf, or from Memphis to Miami,
would offer many, many such attractions
—the one or the other—and most routes
would offer them in happy combination.
The .number of carriers employed in the
southern division, given by states, is a3
follows:
Alabama 398
Florida 25
Georgia 967
Mississippi 211
tie nnessee I.! 66
Total 2.767
But there is so much more to be paid
about this -great! service that another
article will be necessary, if even a com
prehensive glimpse of it is to be given.
In that, further details of the service
will be presented, and something will be
shown of what the carriers In the squtji
see. «r .m{ghi sea.
never disappeared fully until the object
of its Creation is accomplished.
"Research of the most careful kind
into the great ghost stories of the wor.
for thousands of years shows tins to be
true. When Hie murderer lias been
brought to justice the ghost disappears.
Or if you tear up or change the locality
In whic-h the crime was committed it
will disappear because this disarranges-
the scene. The soul of the person is not
there. It is merely an embodied idea or
thought, created under such tragic, im
pressive conditions (Tiat
ing. Goodby.’ The vision disappeared.
A cable message the next day informed
' l me that the vision was right and that
" Harry had died about the hour I re
ceived the message. Was it telepathy or
what?"—Chicago Chronicle.
New York American.1
An inoffensive pair of shears, a willing
barber and a boy’s desire not to look
like a "sissy” are responsible for the
transformation of l/ttle MaurToo "Warner,
the hoy violinist, for whoso musical ed
ucation the women of the Kelectie Club
prostration. The beauty of my boy’s
hair was somethiYi* very, very dear to
me. and. besides, it was absolutely es
sential to complete rhe artistic effect on
bis concert tour Why. all the ladies of
the leading clubs in New York have
raved over Maurice’s locks, and now. just
to think, they arc all cut off. We imme
diately canceled tlie engagements wh.’eh
lie h-'d made for this summer, and we
LONDON IN A FOG.
(Charles Warren Stoddard in National
Magazine.)
He knew his London well. We went
remains until] forth into -a fog that was o-f the pea soup
the idea has been realized. A most no-'variety. 'It seemed useless to wait any
ticeable and important thing about these 1 longer for it to clear off. The days were
phantasms is that if they talk at all it
is solely on the subject uppermost in
tlie mind at the time of dissolution. No
other subject is 'discussed and a ghost
was never known to talk on anything
except the one subject. If a ghost,
then, was really the soul or wind of
all alike and were darker than twilight
ever dared to be. I clung to Prentice
Mulford's coat sleeve, for 1 knew if he
were once to get beyond my reach I
could never hope to find him again. We
groped blindly among the streets, where
tbfi atmosphere was only less palpable
raised a fund of $50,000. front a dreamy; had been looking forw-ar^ so proudly to
looking prodigy with long flaxen locks
to a plain, ordinary boy.
The consequent loss in the lad's mar
ketable value has drA-en his manager to
despair, caused the cancellation of con
tracts worth $24,000. and nearly brake
Maurice’s mother's heart. Incidentally
the barber faces a lawsuit.
The saddest part of the hirsute tragedy
is that nearly a whole year, aside front
$1,000, has been spent in inducing Mau
rice's hair to sprout to the length of 8
inches.
Occasionally it was necessary to have
lii= debut at Carnegie haTT.
"Put T shall get histice from tha* bar
ber. My rase is In the hands of M. P.
O'Connor, in the Home i -fe insurance
balding, and T e-a sure that T can re
cover damages, rersonallv. 1 would not
tape S20.000. the locks were so dear to
me.”
the hair cut. but ah! the carefulness! bt-cit in an hour." On his return, he
that was always exercised! It was cut] found that some envious rival had ln-
aimost a hair at a time .and just one-1 scribed underneath, "What fort**
SARCASTIC.
Tr Roston the other day. a young law
yer who spends the most of hls time
Lying to seem busy and prosperous,
went °ut for a while, leaving on his
door a card neatly marked, "Will be