Show ROASTING ANCIENT CHESTNUTS l Brother Angus must have been a little 1 lit-tle excited on Sunday He permitted his mouth to run away with his brains so to speak He threshed over some old straw that we had supposed had been dropped by mutual consent Inasmuch as it discovered long ago that there never had been any wheat In Itnot one grain Of course he assailed the clergymen who wanted a prohibitive clause in the Constitution and went down Into his Inner conclousness to find their motive as though the same thing had not been attempted In every place where a State Constitution has been under consideration for the past forty years Brother Angus becomes excited and generally angry when other people ascribe sinister motives to him ought not one so sensitive to be careful care-ful when he Indulges in that same sort of eerclse On second sec-ond thought would It not be better bet-ter for Brother Angus to refrain from producing and chewing those old su periorvirtue chestnuts on stated occasions oc-casions Would it not be bettor to let them go Into the records to be sprung on later generations when there will be no one left to make denial Has Brother Bro-ther Angus forgotten that there was once a good saint and an honest man named Little who was Mayor of this city and who one evening after a similar simi-lar harangue to lhat of Brother Angus arose and said he had been making some calculations and had discovered that If the Gentiles were doing all the drinking that was being done in the city they were averaging five gallons each per day for every man woman and child of the whole company Brother Angus being high In the church should be careful not to make statements that all the records Including Includ-ing those of the Internal revenue collectors col-lectors office will not corroboate We believe that It J Is an article of faith In tho church of which Brother Angus is a shining pillar that It Is not good for a brother In good standing to bear false witness against his neighbor Brother Angus must be getting rusty he should reread his creed v |