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Show Charming is that faculty of the human mind which enables one to drop into poetry like Mr. Wegg upon tiny occasion, no matter how prosaic, which throws a soft light of romance around bread and cheese, and irradiates irradi-ates the commonplace soul with beauty. beau-ty. Such is tho faculty possessed by a nohlo poet of Chicago, who was recently re-cently informed that Madame Nill-son Nill-son had thoughtfully erected a shelter shel-ter for her cows on her land at Peoria. Mindful of tho catastrophe which led to the destruction of his native city, he immediately burst into this wild and beautiful frenay of verse: "Christine, "Chris-tine, Christine, thy milking do tho morn and eve between, and not by the dim, religious light of the fitful kerosene. For the cow may plunge, and the lamp explode, and tho fire fiend ride the gale, mid shriek the knell of the burning town in the glow of the molten paill" |