The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-12-01

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---n!rmlnRham age Herald.
minister living in an Aberleen-
shire coast town had preached
sermon which a skipper, one Of his
parishoners, who traded in London,
thought very like one which he had
read to his family the Sunday be
fore from volume of sermons
which he had purchased in London
On the following Sunday he, with
two brother skippers, took the book
TO church TO ascertain the correct.
ness Of the suspicion. The miuister
in due time gave out text which,
true enough, the skipper found in
tine index of his book and poInte8
out to his friends.
The minister then proceeded with
the sermon going on word for word
with the sermon book for a sentence
or two, which greatly excited the
skipper who, with a crony on each
side, kept tracing the words in his
book af."r the minister, and say
ing:
See till him, see till him"
The minister who used himself
to tell the story, said:
Il lookit down and saw what they
were at. so I turned over two leaves
at ance. an they never c'applt saut
upo' my TAN after that. ."-Tid-Bits.
Mrs Gertrude Atherton does not
approve of the modern magazine
Al luncheon in New York she
said:
"Thc advertisements in the aver
age magazine are more interesting
than the fiction. The magazines
advertisements of themselves are
very interesting, tool often read
them in the papers.
"But IA certain magazine once
took to ADVERTISING foolishly by
means of personal letters. A critic
got this letter:
Dear Brown-IIave you seen ar
tlcle in this months Trash Maya
zine? Heavens, can it be True?-N.
But the critic, not to De fooled
sent to the editor of the Trash
in an unstamped envelope 50 that
double postage would be charged
this answer:
Dear X-I have seen one pre-
vious number of tho Trash Maga-
zine. and with heart and soul |
hope never to see another. This is
quite truc.-Brown.' .'"-EXchange
"Why did you break your engage
ment with that school teacher" ask
ed the frlenll
"If | failed to show up at her
house every evening, she expected
me to bring a written excuse signed
/ by my mother. II !. Horton in
Woman's Home Companion for May
Among the late Bishop Foss an
ecdotcs about the prayer said a
Philadelphia ethodist, there was
one concerning very original Nor
ristown preacher.
This preacher, in the course of
very long prayer one Sunday
night, reccounted the many misfor
tunes and evils that had bcfallen
him in the course of his long life.
Then, signing heavily, he prayed
Thou has tried me with afflic-
tion. with bereavement, and with
sorrow of many kinds. If thou art
obliged to try me again, Lori try
me with the burden of welth." -
Detroit Free Press.
THAT view is rather unscientiric ="
said at q dinner party in New York
Dr.. Simon Flexner, the he'd of the
Rockefeller institute.
THAT view reminds me-" contin-
ued DR.. FeXncr, "of Hopkinsou,
VINO was wont to observe Lent very
vigorously.
but on certain fast day, after
three hoursl Of golf Hopkinson
couad not resist luncheon of
chops. And as he munched his
chops a violent storm came up sud
denly, a blue light filled the room
and then terrific clap OF thunder
shook the building.
'llophiuson, pale anil shaly, laid
down his knife and fork
what fuss he muttered, over
a mutton chop Washington star
II was the morning OF the Yale
/ Harvard game at Cambridge, and
two New Haven collegians were
wandering through the Harvard yard
/ looking fat the university buildings