BRINGING HOME THE TRUTH.

Evening Star, Issue 14503, 1 March 1911, Page 3

BRINGING HOME THE TRUTH.

“Goodness, Maria, wns that graph open during a cat light I No, I turned it on last night when you were sleeping. Perhaps you will believe now that you snore.” Too True-Most men don t know what '■they vote for, and then they complain that , they don’t get it. i Saving and Shaving.—Mr Elnathan Sherman, an American farmer, eighty years of age, has never shaved in his life. He claims to have profited to the extent of £6OO by this idea. “ Did he leave footprints on the sands of time?” “No; but they took his thumb-prints !” Magistrate (to prisoner) : “If you were there for no dishonest purpose, why were yon in your stocking feet?” Prisoner : “I ’eard there was sickness in the family.” i Farmer President Patton, of Princeton University, once delivered a sermon at Fifth Avenuo Collegiate Church, his subject being ‘Faith.’ Ho spoke of the blind faith of the client who puts himself at the mercy of a lawyer in preparing an action for trial, and the confidence of the tick in entrusting themselves to the physician. ‘‘A, case of blind faith,” said the clergyman,' “The doctor writes out a prescription. Cftcm ” than imt you cannot rend it; you. don't know whav it is. Jlo tells Tou to take it. ‘ Yours not to reason why, : «KB* bu* to do and die.’ ” Whether or J»>bJDr rt Patton.meant it, there was a dis♦4Aft, rippls ttosshmit-tho .congregation,.