Peace
The mourning widow caused a tender sentiment to be chiseled on the headstone of her husband’s grave. The exact wording was as follows:
“Thou are at rest, until we meet again.”
PEACEMAKER
The father was telling at the table of a row between two men in which he had interfered. One had swung a shovel aloft, shouting, “I’ll knock your brains out!”
“It was at this moment,” the head of the family explained, “that I stepped in between them.”
Little Johnnie had been listening, round-eyed with excitement. Now, he burst forth:
“I guess he couldn’t knock any brains out of you, could he, pa?”