Logan Republican | 1904-09-03 | Page 1 | Herbert Spencer's First Oath

Herbert Spencer's First Oath. That Herbert Spencer wns a roally keen fisherman cannot be doubted. If It were It would bo set at rost by an anecdote which ho tells without apparently ap-parently being In the lert conscious that it is amusing. During his trip to Loch Doon his lino became entangled, and, at length. "losing all patience, I vented an oath." The man in the boat, who was precentor in the kirk, reproved hlm.'whlch drew my attention atten-tion to the fact that, being then 36 years of age, I had never boforo been betrayed into intemperate speech of such a kind, thus making mo moro fully awaro than before of the irritability irrita-bility produced by my nervous disorder."