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Show A Horn Indeed. There is a man in Atchison who is a hero, thongh if you should call him one he would scarcely know what the word meant. His wife recently died and left bim with eight children. Uo labors hard ty the day and manages hia housework afU r night. After doing a hard day's work lie will begin the family washing, to bo finished and hung on tho line next i morning, tho ironing to bo done the second night. lie could rot afford a j sewing woman, so ho has by constantly , trying learned to run a machino and cut ; and fit. i The oldest girl is growing np. and will be a great help to him in u few years. Ilia little children aro sent to school every day, and they appear as neatly and comfortably dressed as any in the echool. Ho did not scatter his family among his relatives nor send them to an orphan asylum. lie kept them together, and their homo is almost as comfortable as it was when tha mother was alive. He is a hero, and tho greatest kind of a hero, from tho fact fluit he does not re-alizu re-alizu that he is a hero at all. Atchison Globe. |