Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1880 — An Effective Quotation. [ARTICLE]

An Effective Quotation.

“The devil,” says Shakspeare, “can cite scripture for his purpose.” We doubt if he ever quoted it as effectually as a parish clerk in England once did, of whom Chambers' Journal this anecdote : He lent a man 50-shiHings, which was unpaid for several • years; never find the borrower at home, although he confronted hifii every Sunday in the middle aisle at church. One Sunday, the clerk, looking- tsc debtor full in the face, repeated -the lines, “The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again.” This admonition had tse desired effect, for the next day the mil called and paid him the money. I The man who scolds his crying- baby, and is too mean to invest 25 cents in a bottlp Of Dr. Bull’s Baby Syrup, should be divorced.