People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1895 — HUMAN NATURE. [ARTICLE]

HUMAN NATURE.

General Count von Heseler of the German army ,is a stern old soldier and a strict disciplinarian. He has oeen known to stop a subordinate in the street and make him remove his boots and stockings to see if his feet were clean. An old-fashioned cathedral verger ‘ lord of the aisles.” saw a pious v sitor on his knees. The verger hastened up to him and said in a tone of indignant. excitement: ‘‘The services in tliis cathedral are at 10 in the morning and 4 in the afterno >n. and w.j don’t have no fancy prayers.” A minister in a small country village. who was noted for his absentmindedness. was once observed to stop excitedly in the mi Ist of his ser mon and heard to mutter: “I knew she would—l knew she woul I!” After the service was over someone asked the reason. “Dear me,” sii I he. “di,l I? Well, you know, from the pulpit I can ju-t see old Mrs. Ada n’s gar ten. and this morning she was out pulling up a cabbage, an I I th mg.it to myself, ‘Now, if that cabbage comes u > suddenly she’ll go pver, and just then it came up and over she went.” Once when Prince Bismarck was still a count the princess w s repeatedly addressed at a dinner party a i “Excellency.” She int -rrupt -1 the sp-aker with “Please don’t call me ‘excellency.’ I like best to be calle I ‘Frau Von Bismarck.’ That rem nis me so of a quiet, joyful time when Otto and I, as modest country peopl ■, had time in our.old Sc toe ihuuseu on the Elbe to live for each och >r an 1 other villagers. Now my husban I belongs to the whole world.” - l)-:ir child,” h>r husband smilingly sail, “those times will return som • day- • when we are old and th - worl I docs not want us any longer.”