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Show NEW USES FOR HYMN BOOKS. Pastor's Rebuke Had Little Effect on One of His Congregation. "I made a few calls the other day," said the pastor of an uptown church to his congregation, "and in one of tho houses I saw a strango thing. What do you think 7 One of tho church l.ymn books, tho property of this church, had been carried homo, and was placed under tho leg of a table to lengthen It out. I remonstrated at this menial uso of hymn hooks. Apologies and blushes were profuse. Now, I am not Bcoldlng about this, but hymn books cost this church money, and If any of ou have tables too short In tho legs please put a newspaper under thorn, or n pleco of wood. If )ou do this wo won't have to send out and buy another hundred hymn books, as we did last week." Tho pastor had 110 sooner ended these remarks thnu a girl sitting almost al-most under his noso calmly opened out a hymn hook, placed It between her back and the back of tho pew and settled comfortably down to listen to the sermon New York Press. Tho Watermelon an Old Bird. It seems that Columbus Introduced tho wntcrmelon Into this country. Ho brought seeds with him, and tho plant rapidly spread tluough tho new world. The watermelon is said to bo tho inoBt ancient of all tho edlblo vegetables In AbIb, whero It 1b supposed to have originated. Tho melon was cultivated In Franco certainly as early as 1029, and was a favorlto dish with tho' early G rooks and Romans, |
