Begging Letter Chains

The railways as well aa the postal anthorities ure. interested in tho frightful possïbilities of the "10 cent chain" scheme oí sending out berging letters, which has been worked to large proj)ortions in nmuerons cases. Au Atlanta Constitutiou man figures in regard to a local undertaking of that kind that, "ali iowing ten letters to tbeoraice, it would take (,400,000 to load a car, and it woiild require 1,000 cars, carrying 20 tonseach,087,049,281 yeare and 307 days to deliver the mail if the system should I rnn unbroken to the fiftieti series. The letters thus reoeived would cover the inhabitable portion of the globe to the height of flve miles and have a balance one mile square and nve miles high. "