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Show THEY KNEW HIM. From Harper's Weekly. A well-known literary man who has been spending nevoral weeks at his old homo In Vermont tells of a conversation conversa-tion which he overheard between two visitors on the porch of the vllluge, store. An acquaintance of theirs had just passed In tho street, and tho following fol-lowing comment was heard by the visitor: visit-or: "Thar goes Si Perkins " Then a meditative medi-tative pause. . . . "SI ain't the lnan he used to be." "Naw an" lie never was." |