Show A sample village write abi from country village containing about one thousand inhabitant it is a lovely little town on a fide bill to break off the raw winds of winter and hurricane of bummer when I arrived abi morning it seemed to me as if there could not be a bad anan or a scolding woman in the village but four hour have passed and I nm a wiser man I came here to see old mrs brown about a pension she wants from the government and when we had finished our business I said I see you have four churches here ye but we never hav any sermons worth listening to the men look intelligent and smart U urn phi they are regular pokes there a man in farmville aho vho knows enough to ask boot in a horse trade but the women look happy I protested then they look what they aint she answered I dont believe there is a happy woman in the whole vil luge if you knew of the awful car on here you look for happy wives what awful things do he men do belter ask what they dont do its a wonder to me that farmville faint shared the fate of sodom and tomorrow Go morrow do they drink dothory Do thoy even old dencen harris weaving this way and that as he climbed the hill last evening its a slippery path of course bui sober men dont climb a hill sideways do they gamble what did mrs potts tell ni that her brothers wife told mrs dvis not a ironsh cof four of the leading men in the place were caught playing checkers for the soda water oliata a nice example il Is mrs potte nice nice why ashes the worce gos sip in towal il a wonder the mon dont duck her in tl mill ponda and mrs dayie ashes a shell talk sweet to pour tace and abuse you behind your bick mrs george ii well spoken of by whom ive known her fifteen year but I never heard a human being speak well of her slie eats opium and lies like a trollop mrs mcinenry all right all right why no one can live in the bouse next to her the postmaster seems like a good man I ventured 10 good mal why my husband always believed he was the very man who threw a yellow dog down our well I dont gay that he steals letters but I do know thal hen I tent two three cent stamps in a letter to my daughter in Il linoy she never got it but there must b one good man here there must eh well I wish pint him out to me id like to polish up my spectacles and take a pod look at him and there one faultless woman well I dont want to seem vain and conceited because none of us are long for this world but I expect I m the faultless one are inquiring after I think I shall go out on the evening train mrs brown says that every houe and lot i every business man is ready to bust and every family ha at lean one scandal about them on way over to the pbs toniee an hour aaa I asked a grocer if be knew old mrs brown know her I why a a liar a hypocrite and a dead beat and to change her stockings more than twice a year af TUB YORK bierau in its editorial review of the old year accords a prominent to the isthmus canal question making the following timely remarks among the have occupied attention during the yer perhaps the only one whose cons are likely to be felt in a distant future is the visit of M do les to he american Ameri pan continent it sj net necessary that we express any opinion as to the merits of his but he ha given an impetus to the financial and commercial mind that will not be lost if he does not suc caad at panama he will be the cause of through nicaragua he has aroused the maritime nations from their long apathy and by the jealousies bo has provoked the interest be has kindled and the competition acas inspired be has rendered it certain that our time is to witness the triumph of mar over the sa s1 this aw aclid lid to leeps even atthe rival projects should destroy his own and commerce will be houe h may su ufler if h both canals are made the consequences of lesseps visit will survive in over expanding it WM t on of the cw and his macular roar nage when the wars n afghans t alie persecution of the miny elections in the united states ahll have be con CaB chool boys tale the wonder of an sour |