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Any More There?

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Parent Issue
Day
6
Month
October
Year
1871
Copyright
Public Domain
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A littio girl once followed tho workmcn f rom her t'.iiher's grounds, whcn tlioy went home to their dinner, because she as s. ' a kind oíd man who was One ot' them. When he lookcd froni his ■ - i on a lujr, waiting ni, and :- . tvil her to go into tho ■ . Sin' 1 in, saw the strange a round the tible, and hesitated. - '...■ urged her, she raiscd her swect and inquired : " ís there any niother there r" " Yes, m y doar, there is a mother in here," he answered. " Oh ' then I'll go in ; for I'm not afraid if there'a a motín r then ' " Hor ohild's exn rience liad told her she ;ould ) lace con''1 Ln ■'. mother's sympathy. A homu iaiy be oalled sinall an 1 mean, but il it i.; rii shrine of a mother's love, it is a happier place thau a palace would be without this blessod prosonco. Tho latost achievoment of the spirits lias produced a startling ulfuct on the minds of the inorant and Buperititious. A short time since, it appears, that a litlle girl, the ot' a man naiiiod Sholíy, while engaged in ironing a white p x-ket-handkerehiet, WM attl'ttCted to what seenied tobo thu filling in of the center of it with tho portrait of a beautit'nl lady. She immediatcly t.iuk tho articlo to her paronts, who ri'.adily accepted the ' mystery " asa sign fioni tho un - Mili world. The famo of tlio "spirit photoírriph," as tho Caira Bulletin calis it, Ins unce bec-n spread fax and wide, and hvindreds Have llockod to the Shelly homestead to exaiuino it. Disembodiod spirits are reported tobo hovering Inri!; and as a matter of üourae, the uver-industrious "niwjunis '" have taken advantage of the exoitement to replenish their slonder purses. Hawthorn gives this rominiscenco of Vniliika Bromer, who'ii he met for n second timo while traveling abroad : She is the funniest littio oíd fairy in person whoin one can imagine, with a largenose, to which all the rest of her is but an insuffloient appendage : but you foei at onoo that she is most gentle, kind, vomarily, sympathetic and trae. Sho talks Englísh lluently, in a low, quiet voicc, but with such an accent that it is impossible to understaud her without tho closent attontioa."

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Old News
Michigan Argus