An Aged Woman's Recollection

Mrs. Graham, of Port Byron, New York wlio died last Slimmer at the age of 104 years, was asked shortly before tiie fallurc oí her facuktei ifslie remembereil the surremier of Corn wallis. 'I o I remembiT ('ornwallis's wrrenjerf replied Mrs. üraham. "Yes, I reincmbcr it. That is, I remember how the mus qmm. We lived iu Frccliolil, in the Jarseyi tben, and iiiy father wal with the anny; he'd been with tbe anny a long linie. My inothci' was worrlad about liiin. Tlio day the newi caine I was a littlns on the doorstep, and I had a rmg-doll, and the door was open, and mother was ironing at the big tatile. Tl, ere was i man canu' Qylng up Um road on a gray horse and jmlled np at onr door and ealled out to mother, and sayshe.'Oornwallishassurremlered.iitid the war is done. I saw a man tliat saw your husbaml; Hu's snaUng honie.' And tbcn ha rodt on. And my mother just set down the tlat on the table and dropped into a cliair and cried like anythlnK, and the hot llat humt a bi hole in the ironing sheet, but mother did not sceui to niind that. Law, yes, I remember it welt. It wns one of the neigbor men on the pray horst1 and be carrled the newi all ovrr."