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Show WOULD GATHER THEM ALL IN. Minister's Methods Likely to Attract ' Large Congregation. A resident of Hudson, Wis., was deploring de-ploring tho resignation of Senator Spooner. "Tho senato can't afford to loso a mind llko that," ho said. "I know tho man well. Ho practiced law in this town for 15 years or thereabouts. Ho won every enso ho sot his hnnd to. "It was no surpriso to us Hudsonltes to find that John C. Spooner was tho finest legal mind In tho senate. When ho had a caso on, wo used to go In droves to hear him plead. "I remember to this day a story that ho once told In court In a caso whero ho wa3 showing how, with a good motive, ono might still do a lot of harm. ' "Ho said that two aged Scotch ministers min-isters sat talking ono day ovor tholr church warden pipes. "'Last Sawbath,' said tho younger of tho two old men, 'only three folk cam' to my kirk, and, slnco It was an awru- cauid, snawy, stormy mornln , I Julst took them over to tho manse, read a chapter, gled thorn a prayer, and thon, to ward off tho rheumatism, a guid stiff glass of tho best whisky.' "Tho othor minister smiled. " 'Aweol,' ho said, 'yo will hao a flno congregation, my brlther, tho next stormy day."' |