. McClure's magazine. ANNA SYMMES HARRISON, WIFE OF PRESIDENT WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON, AND GRANDMOTHER OF PRESIDENT BENJAMIN HARRISON. From a painting in possession of the Harrison family. r mil—rririJ ?^-?•?—-1—?—rr. *[J==?. THERE are many hamlets in NewHampshire, five, ten miles or evenmore from the railroad station. To thechance summer visitor the seclusion andthe rest seem entrancing. The glamourof mountain scenery and trout effectuallyobliterates the brave signs of poverty andstruggle from before the irresponsive eyesof the man of city leisure. He carelesslygives the urchin, mute
. McClure's magazine. ANNA SYMMES HARRISON, WIFE OF PRESIDENT WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON, AND GRANDMOTHER OF PRESIDENT BENJAMIN HARRISON. From a painting in possession of the Harrison family. r mil—rririJ ?^-?•?—-1—?—rr. *[J==?. THERE are many hamlets in NewHampshire, five, ten miles or evenmore from the railroad station. To thechance summer visitor the seclusion andthe rest seem entrancing. The glamourof mountain scenery and trout effectuallyobliterates the brave signs of poverty andstruggle from before the irresponsive eyesof the man of city leisure. He carelesslygives the urchin, mutel^ pleading in frontof the unpainted farm-house, a few centsfor his corrugated cake of maple-sugar,and asks the name of a distant peak. Ifhe should notice, how would he know themeaning of the scant crops of hay and po-tatoes, or of the empty stall ? Sealed tohim is the pathos in the history of the own-ers of the stone farm. His thoughtsscarcely glance at the piteous wife plaitingstraw hats; the only son, whose rare hap-piness consists in a barn dance in the vil-lage three miles below, and whose largeeyes contract with increasing age, and loseall expression except that of anxiety. There was a time perhaps when
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