The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1881-07-23
A Sample village.


containing about 1000 inhabitants.
1t Is lovely little town, nestled on q
side hill to break off the raw winds
Of winter and the hurricanes of sum-
mer. When / arrived this morning
it seemed to me as if there could not
be bad man or a scolding woman
in the village, but four hours have
passed and am wise man. I
came here to see old Mrs. Brown
about a pension she wants from the
government, and when we had fin
ished our business said;
Il see you have -four churches
here" Z.
Eyes; but we never have any ser
mons worth listening to-" /.
"The men look intelligent aud
smart"
"Humph! They are regular pokes I.
There isn't man in Farmville who
knows enough to ask boot in horse
trade" :
But the women look happy" |
protested" !
"Then they look what they ain't,"
she answered. II don't believe there
is happy woman in the village. II
you knew of the awful carvings on
here you wouldn't look for happy
wives"
"What awful thing do the men do?"
"You'd better ask what they DOM
do! It's wonder to me that Farm
vile hasn't shared tho fate of Sodom
and GomorohN, n
| 'tDa they drink?' J - ea -
"Do they? Didn't I see even old
Deacon Harris weaving this way and
that as he climbed the hill last even
ing? It's slippery path, Of course,
but sober men don't climb hill side
ways" ~
"Do they gambler .r.
Gamble! What did Mrs. Potts
tell nae that her brothers wife told
Mrs. Davis not month ago? -Four
Of the leading men in the place wert
caught playing checkers f9r tho sodd
water. That's a nice example, ISM
itY"
as Mrs. Potts nicc?" -
mice. Why, she's the worst gos
sip in town! It's wonder the mer
don't duck her in the mill pondw
"And Mrs. Davis"
"She's hypocrite She'll talk
sweet to your face, and abuse you
behind your back"
"Mrs. George Is we'll spoken Off
"By whom? I've known her fifteen
years, and l never heard a human
being speak we'll lof ,her! She eats
/ opium and lies like q trollopr'
Isn't Mrs. MclIenry all right7y';y.
"All right? Why no one can live
in the house next to her," 81
"Thc postmaster seems like good
man." | ycnturcd to remark. Il.
"Good man! Why, my husbaid
always believed he was the very mar
who threw yaller dog down 9Al
we'll! don't say that be steg1s let
tcrs, but I know that when i sent, tn
three cent stamps ,ip a. letter to mj
daughter in IllaoS, she never got
it,"
"But there must be one good mai
hcrc?" ., +.
~There must, eh. ,Neif I wish
you'd pint him out to me- I'd like
to polish up my spcctaclcs and take
good look at him." III,
"And isn't there one faultlcss wo.
! mani"
| swell, l don't want to seem vain
and cpnccited, because none of us arr
long for this world, but expect I'm
the faultless one you are inquiring az
teri
l think I shall go out on the even
ing train. Mrs. Brown says thai
every house and lot is mortgaged
every business man is ready to ''bust,
and every family has at least ont
scandal about them. On my way
over to the postefiicc an hour ago
asked a grocer if lie knew old 1rs
Brown. n
"Know her. Why, she's a gossip
a liar, a hypocrite and a dead beat
and top lazy to change her stockings
more than twice yearw-M Quad
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