Show what she grasped the man on the street car with a newspaper happened to observe that the old lady next to him on the right seemed interested and he laid the paper aside and said madam you have of course heard of the panama canal enterprise 9 I 1 I 1 think I 1 have sir she replied think of it madam think of dig ging a great ship canal eighty miles long and some of the way through hills fifty miles high yes sir think of the largest ships afloat passing through that canal yes sir think of the it will cost to complete the canal think 0 the stupendousness of the whole en ter prise can you grasp it madam can you grasp it well no sir she replied as she hitched around some more no I 1 can t say that I 1 can but I 1 ve got halt a dollar and am on my way to market and it you 11 please tell me whether baters have gone up since yesterday I 1 shall be a thousand times obliged to you washington post |