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Possibly by printing the news of everything that happens , suppressing nothing `` on account of the respectability of the parties concerned , '' we may prevent some evil-doers from going on with their plans , but this is mere conjecture , and we do not set it down to our credit . What we maintain is that in printing our little country dailies , we , the scribes , from one end of the world to the other , get more than our share of fun out of life as we go along , and pass as much of it on to our neighbours as we can spare . -LSB- Illustration : Suppressing nothing `` on account of the respectability of the parties concerned '' -RSB- Because we live in country towns , where the only car-gongs we hear are on the baker 's waggon , and where the horses in the fire department work on the streets , is no reason why city dwellers should assume that we are natives . We have no dialect worth recording -- save that some of us Westerners burr our `` r 's '' a little or drop an occasional final `` g. '' But you will find that all the things advertised in the backs of the magazines are in our houses , and that the young men in our towns walking home at midnight , with their coats over their arms , whistle the same popular airs that lovelorn boys are whistling in New York , Portland , San Francisco or New Orleans that same fine evening . Our girls are those pretty , reliant , well-dressed young women whom you see at the summer resorts from Coronado Beach to Buzzard 's Bay . In the fall and winter these girls fill the colleges of the East and the State universities of the West . Those wholesome , frank , good-natured people whom you met last winter at the Grand Cañons and who told you of the funny performance of `` Uncle Tom 's Cabin '' in Yiddish at the People 's Theatre on the East Side in New York , and insisted that you see the totem pole in Seattle ; and then take a cottage for a month at Catalina Island ; who gave you the tip about Abson 's quaint little beefsteak chop-house up an alley in Chicago , who told you of Mrs. O'Hagan 's second-hand furniture shop in Charleston , where you can get real colonial stuff dirt cheap -- those people are our leading citizens , who run the bank or the dry-goods store or the flour-mill .