Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1898 — Spurgeon and the Scold. [ARTICLE]

Spurgeon and the Scold.

While Spurgeon was still a boy preacher he was warned about a certain virago and told that she Intended to give him a tongue lashing. “All right,” he replied, “but that’s a game at which two can play.” Not long after, as he passed be gate one morning, she assailed him with a flood of billingsgate. He smiled and said: “Yes, thank you, lam quite well. I hope you are the same.” Then came another burst of vituperation, pitched in a still higher key, to which he replied, still smiling: “Yes, it does look rather as if it is going to rain. I think I had better be getting on.” “Bless the man!” she exclaimed. ‘'He’s as deaf as a post! What’s the use of storming at him?” Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.—Hazlitt. The desire of appearing clever often prevents one becoming so.—Rochefoucauld. The ropes of a first-class man-of-war cost about $15,000.