Show A DESERTED VILLAGE alio anit of ll 11 they were talking abent dead mining camps 1 I have seen dead the man from tho cast shore ol 01 maryland und I 1 have seen dead oil town but alio dearest deadest town I 1 over saw ans tho remains ot the buco prosperous Fro glown down on delaware hay it was once a station on one of alio first railroads built in this country a alno six miles in length I 1 through tho place last week tho engine stopp cil for water or and I 1 saw a gaunt hungry looking girl clotheil cloth cil n a calico wrapper reaching out of tho door of ft hovel and tearing air a clapboard it was alic lust board all the rest had been pulled on before for firewood and nil tho other houses in tho own biad gone alio imo way this was alio lail and alic lat As soon as tho gaunt hungry woman glicr tork of alte too will go pliny used to linao on hit ronda in elioso old day continued alio llio meditatively tho cars over wooden covered with iron strips nailed down to alie wood tho end of these raili used to curl up and inn through alio floors of alic cars and out through alio roof usually would be 1 man on ho end of rm and ll 11 took several hours lo 10 pick him off miiko nil tit 0 tun of east shore people iio contin ucil afar n anil some of the inhabitants aro queer they grow on tree you know cuine drop on before they are ripe and that ac counti for the variety of the fruit yon will meet men with one check bone two inches higher than tho otylior others with ono aide of their mouths turning down and ho other side tinning up ciomo without any cliine cli ini others walli extending out like horns como wiell feet and fiands like linins and bent and warped and twisted twitted out of all semblance to humanity A new generation Ss rp ringing up however and iio born nrc cry like mortals soon nothing will bo left of tho east shore men but tradition chicago news |