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Show "YOUNG MAN, can you tell me who's lecturing here to night [tonight]?" inquired a motherly-looking old lady in front of the Tabernacle last night. The party addressed, a gentlemanly-looking young man, made answer as pleasantly as a bad cold would permit, "Gough." A pained expression came over the old lady's face and just a shade of indignation was apparent in her voice as she inclined her head forward and demanded, "Who did - what did you say?" "Gough, Gough." "G'off! And I have raised six boys and trained them to be respectful and polite to their elders, and live to be told by a young whelp like you to go off! Why, if one of my boys, old as they are, was to give me such impudence, I'd spank him I'd I'd- ." ---- SOME PEOPLE when they meet a loss sit down despondent; others go to work all the harder and make a gain that more than covers the loss. There is a good moral to the following. At the battle of Shiloh an officer rushed up to Grant and said: "General Swartz's battery is took." "Well, sir," said Grant, "you spiked the guns before they were taken?" "Vat! Schpike dem new guns? No, Sheneral, it would schpoil 'em." "Well, then what did you do?" "Do? Vy, we went right in and took 'em back again." |