St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-06-10
TWO TOUGH TWINS
They Live In q New Jersey Town
and They Keep Things Lively
for Everybody.

In Hilton, n. j., there are two bows
who look SD much alike that their own
parents cannot tell them apart. They
are twins. and their names are Hiram
and Joel Stewart, and they do many
things other little boys do not dare
do, for their parents do not know which
one to spank.
The lads are always dressed alike.
and nobody knows which is which en-
cept as each in some way lets it be
known. One day not long ago their
mother took them into grocery store
to have them weighed. One was found
to tip the beam AT one ounce more than
the other. After he had left the scales
the heavier one took a top from his
pocket and began to spin it. The moth
er, who was worried at the difference
in weight, picked up the top and found
that it weighed exactly one ounce.
When the twins first went to school
last summer the teacher, to tell them
apart. marked Hiram" on one desk
and Joel on the other. One day
grain of corn from a peashooter struck
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to the seats used by the twins. She
turned quickly and saw the lad in the
seat marked Hiram" hastily hiding
something behind the desk.
i Hiram" she said, '.you may stay
after school,"
Hiram stayed. The teacher scolded
him for his conduct, and when she was
Through the little fellow said, with
funny look on his face: 1T wasn't me,
teacher: it was Joel. He had my seat"
One night the Stewards had ice cream
after supper. One of the twins was on
hand for the meal and ate his cream.
but the other. without the knowledge
of his parents. had accepted an invita-
tion to dinner elsewhere. When the
meal was finished. Hiram. who was
home. was sent out to find joel. BY
and by the supposed Joel came back
alone, with an explanation that was sat
isfactory to his parents. When they
asked him if he had had his supper he
said:
/ "Yes. but I wouldn't mind eating
that dish of ice cream you've saved for
me-"
/ The cream was set before him and
he ate it. As the last spoonful disap-
peared in walked the real Joel
At a recent entertainment in the Hill
ton chapel the twins recited a piece to-
gcther in a manner that won the APP
plause of the audience, and then Hi |
ram was called upon to recite alone. !
When his name was called the twins sat |
like statues.
Come, Hiram," said the Sunday
school teacher. 'be good boy and |
speak your little piece
Still they remained motionless. The |
teacher took one of them by the arm |
and led him to the platform.
"Why don't you go on?" she said.
Il can't; I'm Joel"
"What do you want to say that for.
[Iiram?" said the other twin, and the
teacher gave it up"
Despite the fact that their looking SO
much alike sometimes spares them
rom punishment. each twin often puts
Up a job on the other by playing prank
md arranging things so that the other
'hall get caught and punished for it.
The twins delight in keeping their
separate identities a mystery.
One day the twins upset tub OF
water. Their mother arrived in time
o see them disappearing around the
orner of the house. She saw that one
# them was wet, and told him to 60
Upstairs and change his clothes and
he would attend to his case afterward.
t was Hiram who tipped over the tub
nd got wet.
Joel" he said, mournfully, I'm GO
ng to catch it. Let's both change
ur clothes, and then she won't know
which did it,"
Joel agreed to the plan, but it did not
rork as they expected, for, being un-
ertain which one was guilty, the moth
r walloped both.-Cincinnati En-
uirer