A town with two persons

The editor and the postmaster were its entire population

In our struggle to keep up with all the nonfiction writing published every day, we often lose sight of the remarkable articles and essays of the past. Many of them are worth remembering. The piece you can read below is one such notable work. I first read it on the front page of the January 15, 1900, edition of the Evening Report newspaper of Lebanon, Pennsylvania. It bore no byline and appears to have been previously published in the Abilene (Kansas) Reflector.