These Sunday school people will have a nice time, and do a great amount of
good, if the fish continue to bite, and they can go home with their hearts
full of the grace of God, their stomachs full of fish, their teeth full of
bones; and if they fall out of the boats, and their suspenders hold out,
they may catch a basin full of eels in the basement of their pantaloons.
But we trust they will not try to compete with the local sports in telling
fish stories. That would break up a whole Sunday school system.
THE POLITICAL OUTLOOK.
When you see an article in the editorial columns of a paper headed, "The
Political Outlook," look at the bottom line, and if it says "sold by all
druggists," don't read it. There is such an article going the rounds,
which is an advertisement of a patent medicine. It is a counterfeit well
calculated to deceive. Don't read a political article unless the owner's
name is blown in the bottle.
ROPE LADDERS.
The law to compel hotel keepers to provide rope ladders for every room
above the second floor, is said not to be enforced, though it should be by
all means. The law ought to be amended so as to compel guests to get up
once or twice during the night and run up or down the rope ladder, outside
the window, in their night clothes, so as to be in practice in case of
fire.
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