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Show Never Saw a Railroad Tntlo. "Do you see that long, lank girl with I the pink calico dress and blue knit jacket, jack-et, standing over Uierej"" Baid a station I agent in a country town not far from ; Pittsburg tho other day. "Pretty tall? Yes, she's about 23, and this is the first time she ever suw a train of cars. Talk about enlightenment; how'B that? "I know the whole family. They live over here in the country, about seven miles. 1 went over there to get some butter the other day, and 1 swear I thought 1 had been transferred back to colonial times. Bare floors, rafters ail bare, home made linen on the table, home made towels, home made dresses on the girls, home made cheese and ham and eggs for dinner; everything home made; even the old gentleman wore a vest of homespun. "One of tho girls, nearly 23, has never seen the cars nearer than a mile, and never was in a city. And yet they are intelligent and contented to live within their gates, utterly oblivious to the great world outside, and eat, work and sleep in the same way tliat their father and : father's father had before them. Great world, isn't it?" Pittsburg Dispatch. , |