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Show JUST FOR FUN. A Broad Smile. Mr. Jones had recently become tha father of twins. The minister stopped stop-ped him on the street to congratulate congratu-late him. "Well, Jones," be said, "I hear that the Lord has smiled on you." "Smiled on me!" repeated Jones, "lie laughed out loud at rue." Montgomery Mont-gomery Advertiser, Personal. The Pastor It is very wrong, Indeed, In-deed, to profit by other people's mistakes." mis-takes." The Parishioner Then you ?on't take a fee for marrying people, eh, parson? Browning's Magazine. The Brave Absentee. T. P. O'Connor, during bis recent visit to America, told many a Btory about, absentee landlords. ' One of these men," eald O'Connor at a dinner in Nov Yorlr, "wrote to bis Kerry steward from a Piccadilly club in the troubulous days of Land League and Moon'.l&hteri. "'Tell the tenants that no threats to shoot you will frighten me.'" Washington Star. |