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Show AND SHE LEFT HIM GUE8SINC1. Woman's Directions of Little Help to Traveling Lawyer. A Now York lawyer was called recently re-cently to a hamlet In Borks county, Pennsylvania, In tho Interest of a largo coal corporation, nnd now he Is telling this story on himself: Ho was driving along a country road nud feared ho might havo lost his bearings. Tho vlllngo ho wanted to reach seemed elusive, so ho hailed In front of a farmhouso to mako Inquiries. In-quiries. I "Madam," ho called out to a broad German woman, who stood looking at him from beneath a "poko" bonnet, "can you tell me how far It Is to the next vlllngo?" "Oh, yust a leedlo vays," camo the ! response. "But, my good woman, how for Is ItT Is It two, four, six or eight miles? That's what I want to know." "Yah. I tlnks so." And tho Wall street lawyer drovo on a wiser man. |