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Show DUE PRECAUTIONS. In a town In Georgia there was an old preacher whoso knowledge of tho world was not wld nor doop, but who conceived It to bo a place where, If ono nhoulcl trust hU fellow men, ho should at the same time keep an eye on his own interests. Ono hot dny ho pulled off his coat and preached a vigorous sermon, under un-der the pines, in his shirtsleeves. At the close of the opening service one of hjs admirers approached him and said, regretfully- "I don't suppose you knew that the editor of ono of the big New York Sunday papers was here when you pulled off your coat?" "I reckon I knew it well, for I'd been told of it," said tho preacher, calmly. ''I don't believe he's as bad as he might be, nnd anyway I put my coat on tho chair close by and had It right under my eye all the time." St. Paul Dispatch. nn |