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need—and how, I will ask you. was Helen 
White to know that he was going to refer 
to her woodlot and fen< e? As you may 
know, any sudden excitement is quite 
likely to start a roaring in the ears of 
the deaf, which often obscures sound or 
changes it. So that when this honest 
man seemed to propose that she share her 
lot with him Helen White probably did 
just what you would have done in her 
place. She just threw her arms around 
the heck of this astonished man and 
shouted in his ear: 
"Oh, Henry. I have waited so long for 
this. I never was so happy!" 
And Henry? Shall I tell you the truth 
about it? It was the first time any 
woman had ever attempted to embrace 
him. and ns is the case with various 
emotions which sometimes come into 
human life after Summer has come, he 
seemed so afraid that it might escape him 
that he offered his share of the embrac¬ 
ing. And as a last vigorous effort the 
sun peeped over the hill and drove in 
through the elms and the rose leaves a 
parting shaft which illumined the entire 
room. I do not quite know what color is 
produced by the usual blending of brown 
and white, but in this case the corner 
where Ileary and Helen sat seemed rosy 
as the dawn. n. w. e. 
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A New Story of Lincoln 
In the New York Herald Horace .T. 
Brewer tells the following story, which 
was quite common in Civil War time but 
has rarely been seen in print. It will be 
appreciated by all who have ever taken a 
civil service examination. Some of the 
questions are as wide of the mark as 
Cromwell's successor was from a pilot’s 
job. 
A certain pilot on the Mississippi 
River, Billy Pomeroy b.v name, had 
greatly distinguished himself by his skill 
and gallantry in running his boat past 
the Confederate batteries and bad applied 
for the captaincy of one of the built-up 
and sheathed river bouts which were 
used as gunboats. Pomeroy was highly 
recommended by his superior officers and 
was directed to appear before the exam¬ 
ining board for examination as to his 
qualifications to serve as commander of 
a gunboat 
One of the first questions he was asked 
was: ‘‘Who succeeded Cromwell?” “Tom 
Watson.” replied Billy. 
“Are you drunk, sir.’’ said the chair¬ 
man. “that yon presume to trifle with the 
board in this way?" 
“Well.” said Billy, “I guess I know 
what I’m talking about. Old Sam Crom¬ 
well was captain of the Lady Gay until 
he died, and Tom Watson succeeded 
him." 
“Our question does not refer to steam¬ 
boat captains.” said the chairman, “but 
to Oliver Cromwell, the Lord Protector 
of England.” 
' ph ! ’ said Billy, “I don’t know and I 
don't care a damn ; I’m not applying for 
his place.” 
Thereupon the board turned Billy down 
and marked his papers: “Not recom¬ 
mended: ignorant and insolent.'* 
Billy’s friends- at once took up the mat¬ 
ter. his Representative got into the fight 
and it went front one department to an¬ 
other. hack and forth and round again, 
and the papers, with long indorsements 
on each, kept piling up until nobody could 
tell exactly what it was all about.' 
At last Billy's Senator Washburn. I 
think—became interested and went to see 
I resident Lincoln about it. telling him 
the story. The President sent for the 
papers, which had accumulated into a 
huge mass, and after looking at a few of 
them made on the last one the following 
indorsement: 
“As nearly 
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essential equipment— belt pulley, fenders, platform, 
throttle governor, adjustable drawbar, angle lugs, 
brakes. This equipment, worth more than $ 100 and 
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Maple Products High 
as anyone can guess, this 
seems to be a triangular contest between 
( hnrles Stuart. Oliver Cromwell and 
Lilly Pomeroy. It is generally believed 
her.- that both Charles and Oliver are now 
(lead. if. upon investigation, the board 
finds such to bo the fact, give tho appoint- 
inpnt. to Billy, 1 v\ r,t??cor \ 
h.' s hardly necessary to say that Billy 
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