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Show A Much Needed Condition. As the lamented Gen. Harry Heth of the late Confederaes was passing through the country after his advance scouts he came up with a couple "f them feasting Oil green persimmons up In a persimmon tree. The fruit hnd Just be-pun be-pun to blush from the sun and to show Ihe fullness Of being almost ready for the finishing touches of the first frost. Gen Heth whs one of Virginia's old school gentlemen, and never forgot the courteous training he had received, even wlnn among hla soldiers, who. though only privates, were yet, many of them, of as Rood families as was the tleneraj himself. Seeing his rmn feasting on the green persimmons the General thought of the condition their stomachs would be left In, and called0" "Roys, what are you doing up there?" "Kotlng persimmons, General ' came back the answer. "They will draw your stomachs all up. bovs" returned the General '!Tliat'a just what w want General, something to draw us up to suit the rations ra-tions we receive," came back the ready answer |