We Are In Trouble

[Kathi]

My mailbox is 2/10ths of a mile from my house so I see no problem as my mail is delivered everyday even though I have to go get it. I always did feel sorry for those postal workers that have to face adversity of the weather and even loose pets as they walk their routes. Health care................don't even get me started

I can totally relate to your healthcare issue.I am with with you on that.

 

[Gary]

it was station to station. not door to door . (pretty sure).
and $25 - googled >>
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Riders received $25 dollars per week at a time when unskilled labor was paid $1 per week. Imagine working two weeks and getting paid for a year of work.
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Pony Express Riders were paid $100 a month. This is equivalent to approximately $2,570.00 today.

That quote is from Eyewitness to History.com. I like westerns so I thought it was a pretty good read. You should check it out.

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/ponyexpress.htm

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[jasonc]

uh, I work in that environment. I walk most of my routes. plenty of loose pets. as dan said. if you dog don't bite, I however will, put it up.

 

[Kathi]

Pony Express Riders were paid $100 a month. This is equivalent to approximately $2,570.00 today.

That quote is from Eyewitness to History.com. I like westerns so I thought it was a pretty good read. You should check it out.

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/ponyexpress.htm

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That is interesting.That seems like alot of money for back then.I wonder if their job was risky with all the robbers and such?I wonder if that is why they were paid so much?

 

[Gary]

That is interesting.That seems like alot of money for back then.I wonder if their job was risky with all the robbers and such?I wonder if that is why they were paid so much?

Yes. It was basically hazard pay. Much like American soldiers get for serving in combat zones.
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[Deborah13]

That is interesting.That seems like alot of money for back then.I wonder if their job was risky with all the robbers and such?I wonder if that is why they were paid so much?

and Wild Injuns'. What if your horse was injured or died? There you are in New Mexico, in Apache country, and they'd as soon bury you in the sand with just your head sticking out, in the blazing sun and...2

 

[Kathi]

I read alot of historical Christian fiction.I think history is very interesting.

 

[AirDancer]

I agree with you, Kathi: History IS very interesting!

 

[Kathi]

I agree with you, Kathi: History IS very interesting!

My father was 50 when I was born.My mother was close to 40.How I would love to sit down now and ask them about alot that they went through.When I was younger I really did not care so much.I can remember my father telling me that he could remember covered wagons.He was born in 1898 and he was from Oklahoma.

 

[jasonc]

I agree with you, Kathi: History IS very interesting!

indeed, where I shall be standing MONDAY didn't exist in the water less then a hundred years ago. it was made from dredging for the sole purpose of a park.

 

[AirDancer]

When I was a young, mail was delivered in the morning and again in the afternoon. Mail to/from the west coast would take 5 - 7 days to arrive. East coast mail was typically 3 - 4 days.

Today, mail arrives once a day. Mail to/from the west coast. Mail to/from the west coast takes 5 - 7 days to arrive. East coast mail takes 3 - 4 days.

 

[agua.]

My father was 50 when I was born.My mother was close to 40.How I would love to sit down now and ask them about alot that they went through.When I was younger I really did not care so much.I can remember my father telling me that he could remember covered wagons.He was born in 1898 and he was from Oklahoma.

I think I'd prefer the simpler days.

 

[His_nee (Jeff)]

and yet, while I don't know if he gives an explanation >>
Ecclesiastes 7
Complete Jewish Bible (CJB)
A good name is better than perfumed oil,
and the day of death better than the day of birth.
2 Better to go to a house of mourning
than to go to a house of feasting,
for all are destined to be mourned;
the living should lay this to heart.
3 Grief is better than laughter,
for sadness can improve a person.
4 The thoughts of the wise are in the house of mourning,
but the thoughts of fools are in the house of pleasure.
5 It is better to hear the rebukes of the wise
than to listen to the songs of fools.
6 For the laughter of fools is like the crackling of thorns
burning under a pot; this too is pointless.
7 But oppression can make a wise man stupid;
also a gift can destroy understanding.

8 The end of something is better than its beginning,
so the patient are better than the proud.
9 Don’t be quick to get angry,
for [only] fools nurse anger.

10 Don’t ask why the old days were better than now,
because that is a foolish question.

(at least implying not to wish for things 'as they were', maybe remembering to forget the things that are past, and press forward to the things that lay ahead ... but i haven't thought if that's 'connected' or not )

 

[agua.]

Yeah I can't disagree with that Jeff nice grab.

 

[His_nee (Jeff)]

(i (still) miss (or imagine) living in the days of dr.quinn medicine woman/ (wagon train days... ) even though I never lived then .. )
still,
I am more and more learning to rejoice and press forward knowing that ahead lies indescribable agony, unimaginable treatment(arrest/beatings/torture/homelessness) for the Faithful in Yeshua, and even unto death (like our fellow believers in other countries have been 'used to' for decades to centuries).....
sheer grace and more abundant sheer grace will be needed to endure !

 

[jasonc]

(i (still) miss (or imagine) living in the days of dr.quinn medicine woman/ (wagon train days... ) even though I never lived then .. )
still,
I am more and more learning to rejoice and press forward knowing that ahead lies indescribable agony, unimaginable treatment(arrest/beatings/torture/homelessness) for the Faithful in Yeshua, and even unto death (like our fellow believers in other countries have been 'used to' for decades to centuries).....
sheer grace and more abundant sheer grace will be needed to endure !

I have the read the stories of the diseases then and the nature of florida then. it wasn't called mosquito county for nothing. the grass is always greener on the other side.

 

[His_nee (Jeff)]

actually, good point, sort of. remember the panama canal ? ... it was stopped in its tracks by 2 or 3 diseases, highly communicable and contagious and always debilitating or even frequently fatal.
the second engineer who got to attempt it, succeeded.
he finished building the panama canal, and did it well. (it never broke down in its first 80 or so years operating, and perhaps still). (remember some of the gates on the canal are as big as a small mexican town! -- or as big as a dam on a river, but they're gates - open and close many many many times .... ) ...

anyhow, the first thing the second engineer had to do, was to get rid of the diseases. hint: he didn't use drugs ... and he wiped out the wide-spread diseases that plagued and brought to a halt the first canal attempt.

of course, the second engineer is dead now(or sleeping? ) ... so we might never know how he did it. ... ... ... .. .. ..

 

[jasonc]

the panama canal was plagued by malaria the cure? gin and tonic. the substance in that is now linked to soldiers commiting suicide. its called quinine.

 

[His_nee (Jeff)]

nope, guess again.

 

[jasonc]

nope, guess again.

I read the history of the man who helped complete that. sir walter reed. his work in the treatment of yellow fever is what cleared the path. that is official history. he figured out by killing the mosuqitoes a.egypti that it would reduce the disease yellow fever. he based his work on two others who theorized that.