Show IT HAPPENED IN JERSEY I There Was One Man Who Didnt Know About the San Francisco Earthquake Not all the world knew of the San I Francisco eartl ike Within the I range of vision oiu has from the lop I of the Flatiron building there was discovered I dis-covered the other day complete Ignorance Igno-rance of the calamity says tho New York Sun The discovery came as a Joke to some literary folk who live the simple sim-ple but busy life In a cottage among the New Jersey hills an hours ride from New York With tho rural freo I delivery bringing the city paper on the day of issue they keep In touch with the outer world and It was only the morning after It occurred that they learned of the earthquake and fire The nearest habitation to the cottage cot-tage is a farmhouse whence dally vis Its are made for tho purchase of milk During the visit of Wednesday the day of the earthquake none of the farmers family nil gossips of the usual bucolic type mentioned San Francisco at all On Thursday night the visitor while waiting for the milk pall to be filled remarked apropos of a threatening sky that she hoped there might be rain In San Francisco too Why asked the farmer dont they have rain out theret Amazed that anyone should not know about It the visitor told In a rush of excited words of the blow that had fallen on the Pacific coast city The farmer stopped milking to listen open mouthed Durned If I heard a word about It he drawled when the visitor conclud ed You see I haint been daown to the village sense Manday an dont do much readln here The Boonvtlle pa per comes every week but Samanthys eyes hez been so bad lately guess sho hadnt read the last copy Tho next nvnnlntrMn h L u OHII IIfongnt besides the milk pall a bundle of New York papers Now she said to the farmers wife you can read all about the Mrth quake In San Francisco Lands sake cried Samantha was It San Francisco AM Silas said It l was Cincinnati |