"Warp and woof." . AVOOF. 27 home, when he caught sight of a lone woman standingby a grave, weeping. George knew that form and dresstoo well. Twas Grace, his own wife. He watched herclosely for half an hour. He was in a retired spot, butcould see her every action. She planted something onthe grave, then laid a wreath of evergreens over waited patiently till she had left the cemetery,then went to the grave and read this inscription on theshaft: Sacred to the memory of Henry Manly, who fell, nobly fighting for his country, at the battle of Chancellorsville, Va., May 3d, 1863. Erected b
"Warp and woof." . AVOOF. 27 home, when he caught sight of a lone woman standingby a grave, weeping. George knew that form and dresstoo well. Twas Grace, his own wife. He watched herclosely for half an hour. He was in a retired spot, butcould see her every action. She planted something onthe grave, then laid a wreath of evergreens over waited patiently till she had left the cemetery,then went to the grave and read this inscription on theshaft: Sacred to the memory of Henry Manly, who fell, nobly fighting for his country, at the battle of Chancellorsville, Va., May 3d, 1863. Erected by. the members of No. 7, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. uHe was faithful unto death. George Silvers walked out of the cemetery, picking the leaves from a white rose, that his wife had left on the grave. He was truly an object of pity. He would stop and mutter to himself, Who beat? Who beat? I have her hand—but that poor dead soldier has her heart. Who beat? And, kind reader, vje ask the question, Who beat?. 28 WARP AND WOOF. BEER IS GOOD. A great many people are of the opinion, that LagerBeer is healthy, because its tendency is to make men never made any one fat. Its an India Rubberkind of mixture, that, expands or busts any kind of avessel that encloses it. All Beer casks are made ofheavy oak, two inches thick, and yet they very often ex-plode or the bung flies out, on most any occasion ofrough handling. Yet, men will fill up with this explo-sive, to the amount of thirty or forty glasses per day,with the vain hope, that their hides can stand the sameamount of pressure to the square inch that a hard oakcask can, when made double the thickness of any othertight barrel. Beer also has a tendency to rot any thingthat comes in contact with it. This is why we have somany cases of Typhoid Pneumonia, or using a morecommon phrase, Delirium Tremens. A man beginsthe habit of drinking beer by taking only a few glassesper day, for the first year. At the end of that periodhi
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