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Show QUITE AN INTERESTING SPOT. Pleasant Associations Connected With Pleasant Valley. Edward W. Townsond, tho creator of Chlmmio Fnddon, says that whon ho lived In tho West as a young man ho was tho editor of two wookly pa-pors pa-pors ono In Arizona and one In California. Cal-ifornia. Kach was in a llttlo town, and between tho two towns lay tho rldgo of tho Slorras, which was tho boundary of the two Btntes. Every woak It was necessary for tho editor to go by stago from ono town to the other. "Being vory young thon," saya Mr. Townsond, "I was very chesty and very proud of being tho editor of two papers. I always took tho box seat on tho stago as a sort of testimonial to my own Importance, and upon one such trip I found soatod besldo me tho most prominent citizen of ono of tho towns tho proprietor of Its most pros-porous pros-porous faro ganio. On tho way I was vory talkative, and ho was very silent. si-lent. Ho was ono of those men whose sllenco Is oloquent. As we drovo along I remarked a ptotty llttlo valloy nnd called my neighbor's attention to It as I had dono to everything on tho road. 'What a lovely spot,' I said. " 'That thar valley?' said my neigh, hor; 'yes, It's n very pretty valley That thur valloy Is whoro wo shot tho last editor.' "Now York Times. |