DECORATED
AMERICANS
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Surely Americans cannot complain
at the lack of honors winch foreign
countries and societies are bestowing
upon citizens of the United States for
noteworthy achievements and distin.
guishtng services. Aad while there is
no undignified eagerness on tfie part
of Americans for medals and decora
tions, there is still a warranted pride
in receiving such marks of distinc
tion. The already long list of those
who have been thus honored is grow
ing apace, and if all whose names ap
pear there were to form a society of
decorated Americans it would start
out with a membership far in excess
of that with which most organizations
begin.
Such a society would not be in
much favor with intensely democratic
Americans who have been wont to re
gard decorations almost in the cate
gory of bribes, but rsuch feeling is
surely without warrant- and is growing
less each year. Said Count Cassini on
this point not long before he left
America for Spain: “I have received
33 decorations, and can it be possible
that according to the old notion I
have been bribed 33 times? I have
recommended the bestowal of many
decorations, but they were given in
recognition of favors rendered without
a thought of a return. Indeed, I have
many times during by life been very
glad that I could make use of such
orders. Men have done me very kind
and substantial favors. I cujild not in
honor offer them $100 or 1100. They
would have been insulted by such a
crude form of gratitude. The only re
course at my command was to give a
decoration or a gold snuffbox. The
latter the recipient would never use
and could find little pleasure in, so I
have chosen to give the decorations
where I could."
ium but twice m 20 years
given its consent for officers of the
government to accept decorations that
have been tendered them. Further
more, 4 is the law that all decora
tions fhaf foreign governments may
wish to give to American officials must
be deposited with the state department
until the question whether they may
be accepted or not is decided.
Thus it is that there is a beautiful
order in gold of Grand Officer of the
Legion of Honor lying in the vaults of
the state department for Gen. Chaffee.
Some time congress may allow him to
receive it. The time may come when,
as with Admiral McCalla last March!
• he lies on w-hat his tearful family or
dearest friends think is hjs deathbed.
Or it may happen that even then, the
desired permission will be withheld,
and only after the brave old soldier is
dead and gone will the decoration pass
to the hands of his wife and dhildren.
to whom it will be a treasured testi
mony to the worth of the man whom
it was intended to honor. And y-et if
the order were to be allowed to be
given to Gen. Chaffee he could not
wear it as other men wear theirs on
public occasions. No officer of the
army or navy nor any civil emplove
of the government is permitted by law
to wear such an emblem of favor with
a foreign potentate. TJiis applies to
the retired officer as well as those in
active service.
Once in a long while an official has
a chance to get a decoration by what
is at least a pardonable evasion of the
law. Secretary H. H. D. Pierce last
year, when he resigned his post of as
sistant secretary of the state-depart
ment to accept the appointment as
minister-to Norway, spent a day in
private life between the two positions.
and In that choice interval took good
care to call for his decorations, which
had for years, in some cases, laid in
the vaults of the department. Among*
them were the Order of the Double
Dragon, conferred by the Chinese gov
ernment, and the cross of a comman
der of the Legion of Honor.
In the same way William F. Will
oughby, formerly expert of the bureau
of labor, and lecturer on social eco
nomics at Johns Hopkins and Harvard,
stepped out of government employ a
few days before accepting his appoint
ment as treasurer of Porto Rico, and
in that time got his medals out of of
ficial hock.
The number of legionnaires in this
country has so increased of late years
that the fact has justified Prof. James
Howard Gore, of George Washington
university in preparing and publish
ing a directory of all who have re
ceived this honor.
The French statutes restrict the
cumber of officeis of the Legion
of Honor to 4,000, of commanders to
1,000, of grand officers to 200, and of
, holders of the grand cross to 80. Gen.
L haffee has received probably the
highest honor in the Legion of Honor
in this country. Archbishop'Ireland,
Thomas A. Edison, Gen. O. O. How
ard, Prof. George F. Barker and Perry
Be2mont wear the cross of a command
er. Prof. Agassiz, Prof. Alexander
Graham Bell, Andrew D. White, Prof.
Simon Newcomb, James Hazen Hyde,
I ... E. Stone and Prof. Gore hold the
| erpss of oflicer.
Among women it this country who
.1.11 e had the distinction of wearing
; the cross of the Legion of Honor is
; -urs. Potter Palmer, of Chicago, and
A'rs. Daniel Manning, of Albany, who
ere thus honored for their services
'.n0connection with ttle exposition of
Among other orders given to Ameri
cans there are numerous decorations,
such as the Order of Leopold, the
Osmanieh and Mecjidieh of Turkey,
the order of the Prussian Crown, the
Red Eagle of Germany, the order of
St. Stanislaus of Russia, the White
Elephant of Siam, the order of Dan
nebrog of Denmark, and many similar
decorations.
Probably F. J. V. Skiff, of the Field
museum, of Chicago has as many dec
orations as any one man in this coun
try. He has made a collection, it
might be said. They all came for his
services at expositions. Mr. Skiff is
an officer of the Legion of Honor for
work connected with the Paris expo
sition of 1900. He has the order»of
•Leopold, the order of Civil Merit of
Bulgaria, has the second class order
of the Double Dragon of China, the
oHder of the Sacred Treasure of Japan,
the order of Orange and Nassau of
Holland, the order of the Sun and the
Lion of Pbrsia, the order of St. James
of Portugal, and the Red Eagle of Ger
many.
Prof. Herman V. Hilprecht has nu
merous orders for his researches in
ancient history. He wears the Cross
of Albert, the Bear of Germany, the
Cross of Dannebrog of Denmark, for
his cuneiform investigations.
Prof. Simon Newcomb received last
year the German Order pour le Mer
i.ite. This is a distinctly great honor,
as there are but 4C members of the
! order, and a new member is chosen
by the survivors whenever death
makes a vacancy. The decoration is
given by the German emperor. Con
gress authorized Prof. Newcomb, who
Is a retired attache of the naval ob
servatory, to accept the decoration.
CHURCHILL’S MAIDEN EFFORTS.
First Speech in Parliament Hit the
Mark in Spite of Faults of Delivery.
The first time J noticed Lord Ran
dolph Churchill in the house of com
mons was on a May day in 1S75, says
a writer in Blackwood's Magazine.
Sir Charles Dilke had been making
merry at the expense of Woodstock,
then represented by one known in the
Parliamentary arena simply as a cadet
of the ducal house of Marlborough.
From the third bench behind ithat
on which ministers ought to have
been sitting, rose a well groomed
young man, with protuberant' eyes,
pale face and a ponderous mustache,
with which as he spoke he nervously
toyed. f .
Members asking each other:’ *Wl#o4s
this?" learned that it was the mem
ber for Woodstock rising to defend the■
corporation of the borough that sent
him to parliament
Thoug&"as8iBted by notes, on which
the speech was fally written out, the
young member *was so nervous, his
voice was badly pitched, his delivery
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so rauity mat mere was difficulty in
following his argument. But here
and there flashed forth a scathing
sentence that made It worth while to
attempt to catch the rest. When he
sat down Lord Randolph had made bis
mark, had established, himself as a
personality in an assembly in which
•-within ten years he was predominant
Longer on Throne Than Father.
King Frederick, of Denmark, pre
sents the curious spectacle of a father
who has become a king at a later date
than his own son. W hen King Haakon,
of Norway, was lately at Copenhagen
King Frederick is suid to have asked
him: “fclow do you like beiag king?"
“I will rather ask y<iu,” replied Haak
on. “I have been king longer
■you havte.” 1 Haakon was elected king
of Norway by the storthing on Nov.
18, W05, * whilb'F rederick, "his father,
did opt Succeed to tile throng of Den
mark until Jai. 21, jpoe, en the death
of King Christian.
Pluck not a courtesy in the bud bv
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FOR THE MERCHANT
LITTLE POINTS THAT HELP IN
SELLING GOODS.
BE READY FOR OPPORTUNITY
Let the Public Know What You Have
to Sell—Never Stop Pushing—
A Hint for the
Clerks.
Pluck.
How often you hear one business
man say of another who has been suc
cessful: “Ain’t he lucky?” Luck has
nothing to do with anyone's success.
It is pluck.
Pluck and enthusiasm are the pow
ers which make the winner. With
these two qualities, which are in
variably found together, a man will
succeed.
Business men who have achieved
greatness in their line are those who
possess an abundance of enthus
iasm.
A possession that is better than any
thing else to a man is that determina
tion of character known as pluck, and
an enthusiastic confidence that he will
succeed.
To persevere against great odds,
and to make a victorious fight in the
face of almost impossibilities, it re
quires pluck which is not governed by
impulse;.1
To cultivate pluck one must encour
age steadfastness of purpose. When
a thing is begun it should be fin
ished.
The trouble with most of us is not
so much that we have a hard row
to hoe but that we dislike hoeing.
Opportunity knocks once—and often
a dozen times—at every door, but
you have no kick against the fates if
Opportunity knocks, finds you lost in
a pipe dream and turns away never to
return.
Bacon said: “The mold of a man's
fortune is in his own hands.”
All men cannot be captains of indus
try. All men cannot succeed phenom
enally. All men, it seems, cannot suc
ceed even moderately, but all men can
make an effort to succeed.
JVe must not stop striving to reach
a higher and better place until we are
willing to sink to the bottom. If we
tise most businesses, but mine is* dif
ferent.” Tiis sheriff sold him cut, and
now he works for his successor, who
does advertise.
Success.
The secret of most successes lies in
the man rather than in the method.
Making people want the goods is,
after all, about as near the secret of
it as there comes to being any secret.
Make the public want what you have
to sell and Jhe sale is half made.
Epitaph of a failure: “He worked
overtime dodging work.”
That Man with the Overalls.
When the man with the overalls
comes into your store don’t turn
around and take your time to wait on
him. Don't snub the man with the
overalls in order to wait ■ upon some
elite of your town—that is, if the over
all man came into your store first;
Your overall man usually stands by
the home town. He works in the
shops, in the stock yards, in the fac
tories and in thq. mills. iHs dollar is
just as good as the dollar given to
you by the man who tries to put on
all kinds of airs in your town. The
old American eagle on the silver dollar
given to you by the man attired in
overalls counts for just as much and
screams just as hard as the bird on
the dollar turned over Dy the man
who belongs to the “upper tens.” Be
sides, if the man in the overalls wants
credit until Saturday night or until
the first of the month, you’ll stand to
win to get the cash from him when
he says he'll pay you. Don’t give him
the marble heart. You want his
trade. He needs dry goods and gro
ceries, and he will spend his money
w'ith you if you treat him right.
Business Sickness a Common Com
plaint.
Stuck in a rut, are you? Same old
rut, boss doesn’t appreciate your ef
forts. Interest in your business wear
ing thin at the edges? Eh? Tkought
so! Well, what are you waiting for?
You know nothing really comes to
the fellow who waits, except the
“push.” Some people never “get
there” unless they’re pushed.
If you're sick of your job you’re do
ing yourself and your boss a bad turn
by hanging on. Start looking' around
for another job—that’ll keep your
mind liquid. Wonderful what a pick
me-up job-hunting is to some people.
Turn to and bury the mail-order house monopoly under the sod of local
prosperity. You can do it by spending your money with the local merchants.
If you give them an opportunity they will treat you fairly, and they, like your
self, represent the interests of the home town. -
simply expect to float and not try to
swim we might just as well quit. It
would be well for us to keep as a
motto before us: “Perseverance and
pluck conquer all things,” for it bears
close relationship to the subject
■chosen. If we regarded the little op
portunities in life more seriously and
.made the most use of them we would
’be better able to master the golden op
portunities.
Let It Be Known.
You may know that you have the
best assorted stock in town, but the
public will not know it unless you tell
them about it; they are not clairvoy
ants. First use the newspapers liber
ally, then circulars, personal letters,
talk to them when you can catch them
in your store, at their homes—any
where. The first and last thing to
bear in mind about advertising is that
it is as wide as human nature in its
appeal.
Advertising is the mighty engine of
success, and without it the business
world would be minus its dynamo of
energy.
* Push All the Time.
If it pays to push when business is
good, it pays to push when business is
bad.
If it pays to push when business is
oad, it pays to push when business is
good.
If it pays to push at all, it pays to
push all the time.
Therefore, don’t let it die.
When everything is coming your
way, push to make it come the faster.
When everything is going the other
way, push to make it come back to
|TOU.
Push oil the time and ‘you’ll feel
the better for it, and make more
money.
It takes hard thinkings and hard
work to Increase business in the fare
of strong competition. But the bu»i
aess is there, and somebody will get it
—you or your neighbor, or perhaps
your competitor in the next town.
Which shall It be?
Help your employes increase your
business.
Be Business Throughout.
A joke is a joke, but business is no
If }*u get “turned down” two or three
times you’ll,begin to think what small
potatoes you really are after all, and
that's good tonic for business sickness
—rtie first sign of recovery, in fact.
Your present job will, maybe, ac
quire a fresh interest to you, and
yo»'ll come at it again like a two-year
ohl.
If you were born^with a square chin
and the normal amount of gray mat
ter you'll probably. want to get ahead
of the procession. There is only one
sure w*ay, and that is “know how.” A
fellow with "know how” never loses
interest in his job. He wouldn’t get
th* “know how” if he did.
It’s marvelous how interesting busi
ness is when you get the proper spirit.
Some men obtain more genuine pleas
ure from business than they do from
play. If you .want to enjoy business
study it—soak yourself in it, and ima
gine it’s play.
You won’t L.o to imagine long, and
when you've got the spirit of the game
you couldn't be kept out of it with a
pickax.
Women< as Lawmakers.
Nineteen women holding seats in
cortgress. What do you think of it?
Not in any little congress of women’s .
clubs or anything of that sort, but in
the lawmaking body of a nation.
Not one in ten thousand people in
this quarter of the globe know this is
a fact, although there is really no rea
son why they should not know it.
These women have won congressional
honors and assumed the duties’of law
makers in Finland. At the election
held in that country only a couple of
weeks ago the socialist? developed sur
prising strength, and, consistent with
their pretensions, they nominated a
number of women for congressional
seats. This forced the other parties
to do the same thing.
When the hallots were counted it
was found that 19 women had been
elected, nine of them socialists. They
have taken their seats and promise
to make good lawmakers. To fully ap
preciate the Importance of this it must
be borne in mind that never before
have women or a woman been elected
to the national lawmaking bijdy of any
country.—Woman’s National Daily.
Minions in Lins of Shipping.
There is about $100,000,000 invested
In transatlantic passenger boats
8teMnln#:rrom Naw Vork bay
PUDDING THAT WILL KEEP. j
Savory and Cheap Dessert Ready to |
Serve at Any Time.
One-half cup beef suet chopped fine,
one and one-half cups seeded raisins,
one cup New Orleans molasses, one
cup milk, three cups flour, one-half
teaspoon soda dissolved in warm wa
ter; beat the molasses and soda water
well; add milk, suet, raisins, then
flour. Put it an airtight vessel and
set in boiling water to steam four
hours. Sauce for same.—One pint
water thickened with two tablespoons
cornstarch, one-half teaspoon cinna- j
mon, half cup sugar; just a little nut
meg and? allspice, juice of one leitaon,
little grated rind, whisky to taste;
boil and serve hot. When done and
turned out on a plate it resembles
fruit cake. Slice as much as you
want in thin slices and put the re
maining portion away. Turn a gran
ite cooking vessel over it to keep it
moist, and it will keep a long time.
When you want to serve it again cut
as much as you need and warm it by
steaming in closed vessel.
HAVE THE HOME ORIGINAL.
Ideal Abiding Place Carries Stamp of
Individuality.
The surest way of making the home
distinctive is to do all we can our
selves, and stamp it with our own
individuality.
' Never copy other people’s ideas of
comfort and decoration, but employ
your own talents and experience to
the best advantage by carrying out
original designs and schemes. Don’t
copy; originate.
: If you can’t afford to buy a news
parlor table on the installment plan,
you may buy a cheap table, and caver
it with pretty chintz and muslin very
reasonably indeed; and if the cover
ing matches the wall paper, the suc
cess of the venture will be doubly
sure.
All husbands appreciate the efforts
of wives to make the home pretty,
bright, and dainty, and as they are
mortal, and do not possess inex
haustible purses, if will please them
still more when they hear it is all
"home-made.”
Swiss Curtains.
A pfretty way to finish white swiss
curtains for summer use is to edge
them down the fronts and along the
bottoms with narrow linen or cotton
lace. It is not fulled in, but stitched
on flat by machine. Curtains of swiss
never should fall below the window
sill, and, when edged with lace, may
have a hem an inch or more wide on
the fronts and bottoms, with the lace
sewn to the edge. Thi3 finish is far
more durable and neat than ruffling
.the material on, and the expense is
about the same, since lace may be
bought for from three to five cents a
yard. Overdraperies of cretonne also
may be finished at the edges with lace,
and this will tend to make them hang
better, as* the stitching and extra
iweight of the lace make the edge firm.
Brown Sauce.
Two ounces of butter, two pounds of
ibeef, two onions, a quarter of a'pound
of lean bacon, two cloves, one bay
leaf, pepper, salt and two quarts of
water.
■ Put two ounces of butter in the hot-'
tom of a stewpan, with the bacon cut
into small bits and the beef into very
thin slices, with two small onions, a
little pepper, salt, cloves, bay leaf and
a little water, just enough to keep it
from burning; stir over the fire for ten
or 12 minutes, then let it simmer until
it looks brown and rich; fill up the
stewpan with two quarts of water and
when boiling draw it to the side of the
range, skim off all the fat and allow
to simmer slowly for an hour and a
half.
To Can String Beans.
The beans must be young and newly
gathered. If toughened by long-keep
ing or if old and stringy, they are not
available for our purpose. With a
sharp knife remove the strings from
both sides of the beans. As you do
this let the prepared beans,.fall into
ice cold water. Now cut them into
inch lengths, still dropping the bits
into water. Put over the fire covered
with cold water, slightly salted and
peppered. Boil until soft, but not
broken. Transfer to heated jars, cov
er with boiling salted water from the
kettle and seal.
Sauce for Roast Meats.
A quarter of a pint of water, a sprig
of parsley, the juice of one lemon, pep
pfer, salt and one ounce and a half of
butter.
Put the butter into a stewpan with
a sprig of parsley, chopped fine; the
juice of one lemon, strained; season
with pepper and salt and a quarter of
a pint of water; set it over the fire
for about ten minutes until hot or just
on the boil, and serve with roast meat.
Gingerbread.
One cupful of molasses, one-half
cup of butter, one-half cupful of brown
sugar, two eggs, one and one-half tea
spoonfuls of soda dissolved in one cup
ful of hot water, one teaspoonful each
of ginger and cinnamon, three cupfuls
of flour. One cupful of chopped raisins
and citron may be added if desired.
Bake in well-greased pan in moderate
oven.
Monument to a Bull.
Dan R. Hanna, son of the late sena
tor, is about to erect a costly monu
ment of gray granite at his Cottage
Hill farm, Ravenna, to the memory of
Bapton Diamond, an imported bull
that w^s the pride of his famous short
horn stables and was a prize winner
at leading stock shows in the coun
try. f
Washing Berries.
Take an ordinary tin milk pan,' a
hammer, and nail and punch holes all
over the oottom. Put in your berries,
let the water run over them in the.
sink, and all the sand and dirt will
wash right through those holes. Put
in holes from inside of pan, so that it
will stand a little way from the floor
of sink.
No Right to Wear Them,
fused to allow the girls to wear caps '
and gowns, which he says are wholly !
wrens in schools below the college j
American women have much to
learn from their sisters in Paris as to
the art of wearing tailor-made gowns,
for it is certain that no women in the
world equal the Parisiennes in this
difficult art. Nature has made them
exceedingly careful of details, and
this in every walk of life, and from
early youth they are taught to regard
dress as an affair of paramount im
portance. To a Parisienne it is a mat
ter ef vital importance that the dainty
little purse carried in the hand
should harmonize with some other
detail—wit;h the sporting-looking little
necktie, perhaps, or with the embroid
eries on the waistcoat of pale-hued
suede. Everything has its own mean
ing and nothing is too small to lack
importance. It is natural to French
women to look at the subject from
this point of view and this is why
they can—when they wish to do so—
dress perfectly on a comparatively
small income.
A peculiarity of the Parisian eyen
ing gowns this season is the close re
semblance which they bear to tea
gowns. There is the same graceful
flow of supple material and the same
vague outline. The Parisiennes revel
in this particular mode and invest it
with exceeding charm and grace.
They never permit their picture gowns
used to trim the bodice, the hat being
of brown with brown shaded rosea
in clusters on either side.
Roses have taken unto themselves
every conceivable tone, the most
fashionable being, of course, blue, and
these are Usually allied to black cen
ters and accompanied by black
leaves, a wreath of the latter appear
ing with considerable success round
the base of the crown of an Qpeii
brimmed crinoline straw hat.
But to turn to dresses of the com
moner sort and of the greater utility.
All combinations of black and white
are prominent, and a mode which
threatens to become universal in
cludes a three-quarter coat of the sim
plest style in combination with a short
skirt, both being made of black and
white striped coarse flbered material
of homespun description. Such a
costume is suitable, however, only for
most work-a-day occasions, and lends
itself to be crowned only by straw
hats trimmed with ribbons and wings
or rosettes of silk, and will no doubt
look i{s very best when worn with a
white batiste or lawn shirt and per
mitted to take its walks in th«t
country. Black and white cheek ap
pears in every size and form; smooth
of face and rough of face, it alike finds
devotees, and an easy means of an
Original Designs for Smart Gowns.
to look In the least like robes de
ehambre, and in this they display
much cleverness, for a semi-loose robe
has a tiresome way of looking bed
roomy unless worn with great dis
cretion.
The picture styles which are making
themselves so strongly felt in the
world of fashion this year are special
ly prominent where evening dresses
are concerned, not so much with re
gard to gowns for dinners of cere
mony as for those to be worn at
bridge parties and receptions amongst
intimate friends. A leading feature
of the new bridge gowns is the hang
ing sleeve, which can hardly be called
“angel,” but which is of that order.
This sleeve almost invariably falls
back from the elbow, leaving the
lower part of the arm quite bare.
From elbow to shoulder it is often
nearly tight, but the real picture
sleeve falls in graceful folds all the
way down.
Lace of every sort is as fashionable
as ever, if not more so. You may see
thick guipure doing duty on <the cos
tume to left in our large illustration.
The bodice is of lace, while braces and
trimmings to the full sleeves are of
taffeta, fringes decorating the sash
ends, which are held with enamel but
tons at* the waist, and the plain full
skirt is of voile. The other dress
shows cinnamon brown cloth in com
bihation with black and white striped
silk, small bands of Irish lace being
j swering the question of what to wear
] at the- immediate moment in the morn
ings can be settled by a kilted skirt
of black and white check, a small coat
of whatever shape that may best
please and best suit you, with a white
waistcoat embroidered with black
I braid and fastened with white pearl
buttons, and a white lawn frilled shirt,
crowned with a green straw hat
trimmed with green rosettes, and a
short green spotted veil thrown over
the crown, to fall just to the nape of
the neck. The veil must be short if
the dress be short, the veil long if the
dress be long. Here lies one of the
rules not to be forgotten by those who
realize the advantage of graceful pro
portion. And again I remember that
this special virtue may be accredited
to the short-waisted dress, so that the
lines of the waist be chosen with spe
cial care.
The Genuine Test.
“Do you believe that man is a real
musical critie?”
“Of course he is. Does anybody ever
know what he is talking about?”—Bal
timore American.
Fortunate.
Cobble—I had great luck in Wall
street.
Stone—What did you do?
“Came out even.”—Life. * .
The best thing in the world is to
live above it
A SHREWD ECONOMIST.
Pat t*roved to Be One Too Many for
the Preacher.
Patrick O’rioilihan was the oracle
of the little Irish village. He was the
wisest of the wise, and was looked up
to by the other members of the com
munity as a veritable encyclopedia.
But especially did he pride himself
upon his scriptural learning, says Sun
day Magazine.
It was the custom in the village
church Sunday mornings fbr all the
inhabitants to attend, and Patrick,
who never missed a Sunday, always
occupied the front pew.
One Sabbath, when the minister
was reading from the Bible, several
dignitaries were present from another
town, and in an endeavor to wax par
ticularly eloquent the pastor became
slightly^ confused and said, "And there
were 6,000 loaves and three fishes to
feed the multitude of seven.* And
then to point his moral and adorn his
tale he looked straight at the infalli
ble Pat and- said, "And sure, Pat, you
wouldn’t do that, now could you!"
lndade, I could, said Pat, and the
sermon continued.
That night, however, when the
preacher reached his home and
thought over his morning sermon, it
dawned on him that he had made
a serious error conoeming the loaves
and the fishes. Accordingly the next
Sunday he rose in the pulpit and said
in explanation. “Brethren, iast Sab
bath I made a mistake and said that
there were 5,000 loaves and three
fishes to feed the multitude of seven,
but what I should have said was that
there were seven loaves aad three
fishes to feed the multitude of 5,000.”
And then he looked at Pat again and
said, “And now, Pat, sure you could
not do that; could you?”
“Ah, yis, Oi could,” replied Pat
“And how would you do it, Pat?”
asked the minister.
“Why,”4 said Pat, '*Oi would give
thim what was lift over from last Sun
day.”
Looks Vs. Feelings.
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