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IN CLOSE QUARTERS.
One of the most singular men I ever
met with was a private soldier in the
Twelfth New York Infantry, which tegi
went was brigaded with the Second and
Third Michigan and Second Massachusetts
during the first year or so of the war.—
Seen at one time you would say that Dan
Harrison had blue eyes. Five minutes
afterward you would make oath that they
were black, as indeed they were.
Dan also had wonderftil control over his
voice. He could mimic the voice of any
man in the brigade. He could bark like
a dog, bray like a mule, whistle like a
bird, and was the wonder of the camp.—
On one occasion our wagon master was
asleep in his wagon, with his six mules
toped near by. Dan crept behind a bale
of hay and brayed loud and long. The
wagon-master awoke and jumped down and
pounded the nearest mule, growling out
as he re entered the wagon :
"There, blast ye—l guess you'll feel
humble for a while !"
In about two minutes Dan repeated the
words. The voice was so exactly the same
that a dozen of us, who were hiding near
by, thought it was the wagon-master again.
The latter individual stuck his head out,
looked around in surprise, and then said :
"Well, it took the echo a long time to
get around this wagon."
There were yet other reasons why Dan
was considered greater than a menagerie.
He could drop one shoulder three inches
lower than the other. He could work his
ears like a horse. lie could cramp his
hands until they seemed to have been
drawn all out of shape by rheumatism. He
could make it appear that he had a squint
in either eye, and he could raise his eye
brows clear up into his hair. He was a
farmer's son, genial, brave and good
hearted, and he was never tired of doing
something to amuse us.
Soon after Heintzelman made his recon
noissance from in front of Alexandria
down toward Centerville, he sent for Dan
Harrison, and the result of the interview
was that Dan was engaged by the Govern
ment as a spy. His curious physical
structure and his natural coolness and
bravery fitted him for such dangerous
work, and I may say here that for three
years he was accounted the most successful
and daring spy in the service.
One lonely, rainy night in the begin
ning of '62, Dan Harrison set out to work
his way into the Confederate intrench
ments around Centerville, and hear every
thing that might be turned to value to the
Federal cause. Dan had no particular
make-up except the dress of a Virginia
farmer, and no story to tell except that he
was, (when he got there), within the Con
federate lines to secure some sort of com
pensation for three horses seized by a party
of Confederate raiders. Circumstances
might alter his plans and his story, but if
so, he would have something else at his
tongue's end.
The spy left the Federal outposts and
headed directly for Centerville. He met
with no adventures that night, laid in the
woods all next day, or advanced under
cover of them, and at night again took the
highway. He knew that danger lurked
in every fence corner for one who skulked
along, and he therefore put a bold face on
the matter and walked briskly forward,
passing quite a number of negroes and
several white men without being disturbed.
Just then many slaves were trying to reach
the Federal line, and this fact got Dan in
to trouble.
B. JACOB.
About nine o'clock, as lie stepped briskly
along, a patrol consisting of three men
sprang from the bushes and confronted
him, supposing him at first to be a negro,
when, finding thtt he was a white man,
the leader of the patrol began asking ques
tions and insisting upon prompt replies.
For some reason Dan thought best to
change his plans. Dropping his left
shoulder and humping his back, he replied
to their questions in a whining, drawling
voice, in imitation of half wit.
"Laid for a nigger and captured a fuol 1"
growled the leader, as Dan began to ask
silly questions and dance around.
"Well, I suppose we'd better give him
a kick and let him go," said the leader.
"He don't know enough to be a soldier,
and we'd better hurry him along."
"I don't know about that !" remarked
the third man, who had all along been si
lent. "I don't know of any fool in this
neighborhood, and we should not let this
chap go until we have had a closer look at
him. Here, you infernal idiot, do you
know anyone about here ?"
"Missiis Brown—Missus Brown !" re
plied Dan, using the first name that came
in his way.
"Well, it is only a step down there,"
said the man, "and if she knows him it is
all right."
So there was a Mrs. Brown close at
hand I No one could have been more sur-
Autumn.
DAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1879.
prised than the spy, and he feared that he
had gotten himself into a bad scrape.—
There was no chance for him but to go
along, and go he did, amusing the men
with strange antics and silly talk. Mrs.
Brown was a widow, living in a very com
fortable, though small farm house, and
Dan was marched straight to her door.
She was a woman of about fifty years of
age, with a kind face and motherly ways.
"Widder Brown," began the leader of
the party, as he put big hand on the spy,
"we captured this fool down the road thar.
He acts and talks like a fool, but we want
to be sure he isn't tricking us. He says
he knows you. If you know him that's
all we want."
"Missile Brown know Tommy," chuckled
Dan, as he boldly entered the house and
at down and took the family cat on his
bp.
- The widow's vanity was a little bit flat
tered, in the first place that she had been
called upon to identify a stranger, and in
the next place she would lose prestige if
she failed to do so.
"blebbe I know him—mebbe I do," she
replied, as she looked around for her spec
tacles. "Somehow I allus know all the
fools going, and most of 'em come around
her for vittels. Now, then, I'll look at
him"
She put on her spectacles, took the
candle in hand, and Dan was scrutinized
for a long minute. lle looked up in her
face and grinned and chuckled, though
his heart was in his mouth.
"She don't know him whispered one of
the men.
The widow overheard it, and she was
of her mettle. Walking slowly across the
room to put down the candle and her spec
tacles she turned and said :
"Yes, he's a fool, and you are bigger
fools for stopping him !"
"Then you know him ?" asked the leader.
raythur think NO llis name is Tom
my, and be lives somewhere around Fair
fax. He's been here more'n a dozen
simes."
"Didn't propose matrimony, did he ?"
asked one of the men.
"No !" she snapped, "but if he had he'd
flood a better chance than white men who
de.in fence corners to capture niegers !"
- So saying she slammed the door on
hem and went away. She sat down at
the table and looked across at Dan, and
presently mused :
"Yes, lie's a fool, and those men had no
business hauling him around, no matter
whether I knew him or not I guess he's
hungry and tired, and I'll give him some
thing to eat and send him to bed."
Dan "played the fool to perfection, and
vthen be had eaten, the woman had a real
motherly interest in him. She guided him
up stairs, showed him the bed he was to
occupy, and -then went down with the
light, saying :
Tools can see in the dal k as well as by
dgfylight, and you might set the house on
"
The Fpy was out of the scrape in one
t-ense, and yet he was in trouble. lie
wanted to 'reach and pass the Confederate
out posts before daybreak. If he remain
ed in the house all night he would en
counter people neat day who might want
him more fully identified. But how was
he to leave
The chamber was a half story affair, all
in one room, and a window at either end.
One of these would let the spy out. He
crept across the floor and tried the sash of
one. It was old and shaky, and yet he
worked at it for a long ten minutes and
gave up in despair. The sashes were not
nailed, but so warped that to get them up
or down or out would make noise enough
to arouse everybody about the house. The
sash in the other window could be raised,
but Dan's fingers had scarcely touched it
when two or three dogs, which seemed to
be kenneled directly below, commenced a
furious barking. Escape by that way was
cut off.
After a moment's thought Dan decided
to wait until the house grew quiet. and
then descend the stairs and go out by the
front door. He might have to wait for
an hour or more, and he therefore threw
himself on the bed. He had scarcely got
settled when he heard a commotion down
stairs, and the heavy trod of a man.
Creeping out of bed, and putting his ear
to the floor, he soon learned that the wo•
man's son had returned home after a con
siderable absence within the Confederate
lines.
Dan listened for a long time, catching
words enough to keep the run of the con
versation, and when he beard both moving
across the floor he slipped into bed again.
It was well he did so. The stair door
opened, the light appeared and as mother
and son ascended she said :
"Of course he's a fool ? Do you think
I've got so okl that I can't tell an idiot
when I see him ?"
"Well, these are suspicious times," mut
tered the son in reply, and bottled advanc
ed to the bed.
Dan seemed to be fast asleep. One band
all cramped up, was on the quilt in plain
sight, and be had his face screwed up un
til the lonesome look ought to have melt
ed a heart of stone.
-"There ! don't be look like a fool ?"
wh!sppered the mother.
"lie may be one, but it won't do any
butt to let the patrol take him to our out
posts," answered the son, and both descend
ed the stairs.
Dan must get out of that. Not by the
way of the window, but down stairs and
out of the front door. The patrol could
not be far off, and he had no time to spare.
Hastily resuming his garments he softly
descended the stairs. While waiting at
the door he beard the sou go out, and af
ter two or three minutes he softly opened
the door.
No one was in the room. Tip-toeing
across it he opened the front door and
stepped out, but only to stand face to face
with the son, a young man of about twenty
five and of good muscular development.
For what seemed a long minute they look
ed into each other's face. Then the Con
federate said :
"Throw up your hands, Mister Yank,
the game is played ?"
"I just came to bid you good night,"
coolly answered Dan, and he made a rush.
The Confederate id not follow, because
he realized that Dan was running directly
for the approaching patrol. He was under
full headway when he met them, or saw
that he was going to run into them, and
swerved aside.
"Shoot that Yankee—kill him ! kill
him 1" shouted the Confederate at the
house, and the patrol opened fire in re
sponse.
Dan was not over thirty feet away, and
the gloom of the night saved him from be
ing riddled. One bullet struck him in the
left arm, just above the elbow, inflicting
a painful wound, but the others went wild,
and he soon distanced pursuit. Dan did
not get into Centreville that time.
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and other prominent authors; a new edi
tion of Out of .Darkness into Li:qht, a vol
ume which a New York critic calls "a rich
work of art ;" a red-line quarto edition of
Pilgrims' Progress, on plate paper, with
seventeen full pan illustratiuns, splendid
ly bound ; Story of the Prayers of Chris
tian _History, by the author of Story of
the Hymns; Thoughts that Breathe, con
sisting of choice extracts from the works
of Dean Stanley, with an introduction by
Phillips Broons ; a uew edition of Jesus,
Lover of My Soul; a gift book for Sung
ladies called Christmas Pie, illustrated by
Miss Lathbury ; Christmas Snow-Flukes,
a large and elegant quarto volume of orig
inal poems by American authors, with
choice illustrations, richly and uniquely
bound, and 1)r. Smith's America, our .Na
tional Hymn, with several exquisite en
gravings and a sketch of the huthor.
Of the books for young people, promi
nent is Wide Awake Pleasure Book "F,"
uniform with the five volumes which have
preceded it, yet with a richer and more at
tractive table of contents than either of
them; Don Quixote, Jr., being a history
of the further adventures of Miltiades
Peterkin Paul; Miss Vonee's Young Folks:
History of France and Rome ; The Dog
berry Bunch; Royal Lowrie's Last Year
at St.Olave's ; and Breakfast for Two, by
Joanna Matthews. Others are in prepa•
ration and will be early announced.
But it is the children who have partic
ular reason to feel grateful to the Messrs.
Lothrop, who have provided for them a
list perfectly bewildering in its variety and
attractiveness. One of the first books to
tempt the eye of the little patrons is Child
Love, a beautifully bound quarto volume
with engravings and colored illustrations.
It contains the "Babyland Classics," old
and new, with short rhymes and jingles,.
complied and edited by Clara Daty Bates,
and is good for all times and seasons of the
year. Once upon a Time, by Mis . s E. E.
Brown, is a charming book of story plays,
illustrated of course, and bound in taking
style. Then there are Stories and Pic
tures of Wild Animals, companion books,
in large type, in chromo board covers; a
new edition of Little Lucy's Wonderful
Globe; Children's Funny Book, a big
quarto, full of pictures ; the Birthday
Picture Book, with thirty full-page engrav
ings and mottoes for each day in the
month ; and several "baby books" chief
among them Babyland for 1879, Baby's
Object-Lesson Book, and Baby's Portfolio.
Unusual attractions are also offered in
the little "Libraries" and "Series." The
Wide awake Library; containing the
eight volumes of the magazine, ought to
be in the possession of every family where
there arc children, and no cheaper or more
fitting present could be made by parents
than this. The Out of School Series, con
sisting of four volumes by popular writers,
is a special attraction. Then there are
the Merry and True series of 10 volumes;
Little Chats with Little Folks, 6 books in
a box ; Baby Classic goy Books ; Favorite
Quarto Toy Books; The Natural History
Series and Stories, and Johnny's Discover
ies, in three volumes.
The presentation book upon which
the Messrs. Lothrop are bestowing partic
ular attention, and which, from its pecu
liar character, ought to have special at
traction for every patriotic American,
is
Dr. S. F. Smith's America, which for
nearly half a century has served for our
national hymn. It is to be brought out in
large quarto form, magnificently illustrat
ed and bound, and containinc , besides the
hymn, an illustrated sketch of r the venera•
ble author, who is still living. It would
be interesting if he could know the vari
ous important occasions upon which this
hymn has been sung since it was first writ
ten. During the war it exerted a wonder
ful influence at home and in the field in
the way of strengthening patriotic feeling,
and it has lost none of - its popularity or
power since. The volume which presents
it is artistic and beautiful, and it should
be found in the household of every true
American. The five handsome printed
volumes which constitute the Idle Hour
Series, and which have put off their light
summer clothing for tasteful cloth covers,
claim the attention of all lovers of choice
literature. They have all been warmly
praised by the press, and in their cheaper
form have had a large and steady sale.
Their character is not ephemeral, nor are
they simply intended as "summer books."
One can enjoy the experiences of the Two
Girls who Tried Furnzing by a coal fire
as well as in a hammock, or the narrative
of the trio who sailed Up and Down the
Merrimac when that fatuous river is frozen
as well as now. My Daughter Susan and
Priscilla Bunter are acceptable acquain
tances at any time of year, and there is no
particular season to be set apart for Poor
Papa.
There are two other series which seem
to require special mention. The first, His.
tory and Biography, containing five vol
umes, and Famous Americans, containing
the lives of Franklin, Sumner, Webster
and Amos Lawrence. They are books
which every boy- should read, and will be
the better for reading.
Another new book, Mrifs and their
Authors, is now in press, and nearly ready
for issue. It will be in the regular quarto
form, illustrated. Of new editions, prom
inent are Tarbox's Life of Israel Putnam,
which has been materially reduced in
price Sunshine for Babyland ; Pansy's
three ever popular books, Mother's Boys
and Girls, Picture Book and Our Darlings,
all of them enlarged, and in choice bind
ings. The Children's Almanac, which cre
ated such a sensation last season, should
not be forgotten. It is one of the most
useful and beautiful little volumes ever
brought nut by the publishers, and is sold
Jur hardly more than a nominal price. It
will be remembered the calendar reaches
over five years, and is as good to day as it
was last year.
Limburger Cheese
As its name indicai(s, Limburger had
its origin in the province of Limburg, in
Holland, where, with its peculiarity of
shape, smell, process of making and cut ing,,
it was formerly exclusively made. Thirty
years ago its production in the United
States was almost unknown, it being :fit
that time thought, on account of the dif
ference in climate and pasturage, impos
sible to produce it here. The same notion
in regard to Swiss cheese prevailed, and
consequently numerous quatitities of both
were imported from Europe to supply the
large demand in this country. Va-, it has
been found that both can and have been
produced in this country in such perfec
tion that the very best judges are unable
to detect any difference from the imported
article. In Green County, Wis , hundreds
of tons are made annually, more than
twenty factories being engaged in its man
ufacture. In Dodge and Jefferson counties
large quantities are also made. The cheese
is made in factories capable of working the
milk of from 100 to 400 cows, rarely ex
ceeding the latter number, and more would
require a larger area of country than
would be desirable on account of distance
to the factory, as the milk is hauled and
the cheese made twice a day usually. The
makers generally buy the milk from the
farmers at a price agreed upon for six
months, beginning about May 1. The
process of manufacture in its first stages
does not differ from the usual way, except
that a lower temperature is kept while the
curd is forming, the animal beat alone in
summer being often high enough. Great
care is taken to use pure milk, free from
taint or fiith, and cleanliness being requi
site in every stage of the making. Upon
the curd being formed it is slowly cut
into squares, pieces the size of a dice, low
temperature and careful handling being
necessary to avoid breaking the butter
globules, upon which the richness of the
cheese depends. It is slightly scalded and
stirred, most of the whey drawn off, and,
without being salted, the curd is dipped
out into perforated wooden boxes or molds.
about five inches square, and left to drain
without any pressure being applied. In a
few hours the packages are carried into
curing cellar and placed cdgeway on
shelves, like bricks set to dry. Every day
thereafter they are rolled in salt and re
placed when they have aborbed enough
salt. They are turned almost every day,
and the slimy moisture which exudes is
rubbed with the hand evenly over the sur
face, which serves the double purpose of
keeping the cheese moist and to close all
cracks, into which flies might lay their
eggs. This outside moisture decomposes
while the cheese ripens, and being mostly
composed of albumen, like fresh meats,
eggs, &c., the same results follow the de-
,
composition, and in this case the Limburger
odor is developed, which never forsakes it,
and sticks closer than a brother to all who
touch or eat it. After eight or ten weeks
it is packed in paper and tinfoil, and is
ready for market—in consistence, contents
and nourishment the richest cheese that
can be made, but to the uninitiated, a
inalicicus and predetermined outrage upon
the organs of smell.
A Millinery Opening
"You see this lovely bonnet right in
front of us, dear ?" said Spriggins' wife at
the theatre the other evening ; "the one
with the blue trim"—
"See it !" he growled. "•I should think
$O. I can't see anything else."
.. .
"There! don't be aisazrceable dear.
It's that stuck•up Mrs. Perkins that's got
it—she that was a Lawton, and so poor
before she married so well. That's the
one I wanted dreadfully, and"—
"What ! wanted that Perkins ?"
"There, Spriggins," she replied severe
ly, "don't get off any of your sharp witti
cisms here, if you please. Don't rob your
paper of your bright things. A man has
uo right to bring his business affairs home
or anywhere else where his wife is trying
to get a respite from her humdrum life.
But about that bonnet; it was so cheap. I
know it is the same one that I saw at Mtne.
Ribbon's opening, and"—
"Saw it at an openin, did you! Well
that's just where I see it now. I don't
know whose opening it is; but it is right
square in the opening between the ostrich
feathers on the right and the ribbon pal
ace on the left, and 1 can't see a duccd
thing on the stage. Next time I come to
the theatre I'm going to take a front seat
on the gallery."
"So do, dear," said his wile, having the
last word of course. I have no doubt you
will find the company more congenial, and
you won't have to suppress your horrid
oaths."
The curtain fell on the first act just then,
and Spriggius went out for a moment ; and
when we returned he smelt so strong of
cloves that his wife asked him if he could
tell her how large an opening Ns..s in an
inverted tumbler.
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Evils Among Among Young Men.
Of all the evils prevalent among young
men, we know of none more blighting in
its moral effects than to speak lightly of
the virtue of a woman. Nor is there any
thing in which most young men are so
thoroughly mistaken as the low estimate
they form as to the integrity of woman.
Not of their owty mothers and sisters, but
of others, who, they forget are somebody
else's mothers and sisters. As a rule no
person who surrenders to this debasing
habit is to be trusted with an enterprise
requiring integrity of character. Plain
words should be spoken on this subject,
for the evil is a generar one and deep root
ed. If young men are sometimes thrown
into society of thoughtless or depraved
women, they have no more right to meas
ure all other women by what they say of
those than they have to estimate the char
acter of honest and respectable citizens by
the development of crime in our police
courts. Let our young men remember that
their chief happiness depends upon utter
faith in women. No worldly wisdom, no
misanthropic philosophy, no generaliza
tion, can cover or weaken truth. It stands
like the record of itself—for it is nothing
less than this—and should put an ever
lasting seal upon lips that are wont to
speak lightly of women.— Comnmwealth.
AN ignorant old lady was asked by a
minister visiting her if she had religion.
She replied : "I have slight touches of it
occasionally."
An Amazonian Forest.
On three sides of the cane field the for
est rises in solid mass fully one hundred
feet. A distance of fifteen or twenty miles,
maybe, has been reached by the hunters
and sarsaparilla gathers; beyond that the
country is as completely terra incognita as
the other side of the moon. But so far as
we know, with very slight breaks, the
wbule, of the Amazonian highland is cov
ered with this thick growth crimes; there
is no other forest region in the world of
like extent, and richness of its productions.
Where the land has been recently cleared
we get a kind of section of the forest ;
hundreds of gray and white columns set
close together like the pickets in a fence,
and supporting a green roof above. But
within everything is a maze; a chaotic
confusion of tree trunks and vines, and
branches and leaves. Even on the ocean
you are not SG weighed with a sense of
your insignificance as'when wandering in
these pathless solitudes. For at sea there
is always the same horizon, a definite
boundary to vision ; and in the very at
tempt to reach bcycnd it the imagination
fom; an ideal ocean, a limited immensity.
The ship carries you on without any bodily
exertion of your own ; you know that yogi,
arc moving, as you know that the earth
moves, but day after day there are the
same sea and sky to give the lie to your
reasoning. In the forest you are roved
to measure your own power with the in
finite. Guided by the compass you keep
a straight line for days together, but it is
not like a woodland walk at home; you
must do battle for your right way, cutting
a narrow passage through hedge-like
thickets, and mate of woody vines, and in•
terlaced branches. And then, after a day
of hard fighting, you lay yourself' down at
the foot of some giant tree, and look up,
to where the terighs are all mingled to
gether, and single leaves are undistin
guishable, where the fragments of blue
sky seem hardly more distant than the
tree tops. as it you saw them through an
inverted telescope; and then off through
the vague network of leaves and tree
trunks, and ropelike roots, and twisted
vines, until the vision is lost you know not
where; only you feel in your inmost soul
that there is a mysterious and unfathomed
depth beyond; you know that you are
hardly within the borders of the wilder
ness where you could travel for months
aisl never reach the end ; you . compare
your owu littleness with the littleness of a
single tree, which, standing alone, would
be a beacon for miles around ; and you bow
your head with fear and trembling, with
the cry of the human, 'lle pitiful, 0 God !"
At first there is only the overwhelming
impression of exteal and impenetrable
tangle. After a while the eyes grow ac•
costumed to the labyrinth, and we begin
to notice the component parts; then we
see how different the highland fotest is
from the pictures we have drawn of
We get our ideas of the tropics from the
greenhouses, where a great number .of
broad leaved, handsome plants are gathered
from every quarter of the world, and thr . own.
together without any regard to their dis•
tribution in nature; all of them remark
able for their singular forms, or bright
colors, or showy flowers. But the high
forest has nothing to compare
: with this ;
in many respects it rather resembles our .
woods at home, only it is far thicker and
higher. Palms are common in many
places, but, as their tops are lost in the
tangle above, we hardly notice them; only
the large stemless curuas sometimes form
a peculiar foreground. There are no ba
nanas, no callas, no bamboos; even the
orchids and bromelias are hidden among
the branches, fifty feet over our heads.—
For the most part the trees look much like
northern species. Almost all forest trees
are straight and comparatively slender;
here the trunks are more buried in foliage,
and the upper branches are a hundred,
perhaps a hundred and fifty feet from the
ground. Some form fluted columns of
buttresses around the roots ; a few are spiny.
In the foliage we only notice the curious
effect produced by the preponderance of
pinnate leaves, as in the acacias and myr
tles. But in the northern wood, over
large tracts we find only pines, or beeches,
or oaks, or at most only four or five kinds
together. Here there will hardly be two
kinds alike on an acre; in a day's walk
we may see three or four hundred species.
But there are exceptions to this; in many
places the ground is largely occupied by
two or three species, but not to the entire
exclusion of the others.
A Child's Heart.
The other day a curious old woa►an,
having a bundle in !rar hand, and walking
with painful effort, sat down on a curb-step,
up Woodward avenue, to rest. She was
curious because her garments were neat
and clean, though threadbare, and carious
because a smile crossed her wrinkled face
as children passed her. It might have
been this smile that attracted a group of
three little ones, the oldest about nine.—
They stood in a row in front of the old
woman, saying never a word, but watching
her face. The smile brightened, lingered,
and then suddenly Laded away, and a ear
ner of her old calico apron went up to
wipe away a tear. Then the eldest child
stepped forward and asked:
"Are you sorry because you haven't got
any children ?"
"I—l had children once, but they are
all d—dead!" whispered the woman, a sob
in her throat.
"I'm awful sorry," said the little girl as
her own chin quivered. "I'd give you one
of my little brothers here, but you see I
haven't got but two, and I don't believe
I'd like to spare one."
"God bless you, child—Mess you for
ever!" sobbed the old woman, and for a
full minute her face was buried in her apron.
"But I'll tell you what do," seriously
continued the4hild. "You may kiss us
all once, and little Ben isn't afraid you
way kiss him four times, for he's just as
sweet as candy !"
'Pedestrians who saw three well dressed
children put their arms around that strange
old woman's neck and kiss her were greatly
puzzled. They didn't know the hearts of
children, and they didn't hear the woman's
words as she' rose to go :
"Oh ! children, I'm only a poor. old
woman, believing I'd nothing to live ter,
but you've given me a lighter heart than
I've had for ten long years !"—Detroit
Free Pass.
A YOUNGSTER being required to write
a composition upon some portion of the
human body selected that which unites
the head to the body, and expounded as
follows: "A throat is convenient to have,
especially to roosters and ministers. The
former eats corn and crows with it; the
latter preaches through his'n, and then
ties it up. This is pretty much all I can
think of about necks."
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