PRACTICAL PATRIOTISM.–

In the early part of the war, when patriotic merchants and manufacturers were sending their clerks and workmen to the field, with a promise to provide for the wants of their families, as well as to continue their salaries during their absence, a very enthusiastic landlady of New York offered to allow her boarders’ bills to run on, as usual, should any of them desire to go for the defence of the nation.

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