Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1898 — Bright Retorts. [ARTICLE]

Bright Retorts.

The late Dr. John Ritchie, of Edinburgh, a keen total abstinence advocate, was forced by a heavy shower to take shelter in a roadside public house, where he met a number of carters similarly sheltering. He reiponstrated with them for drinking, and told them that drink was their worst enemy. Observing the doctor’s clerical garb, one of them replied boorishly that his kind told them to love their enemies. “Yes,” replied the doctor, “but not to swallow them.” A gentleman went to look over a house that was to be let furnished. He was piloted through the rooms by a very pretty housemaid. As he was leaving he turned to the girl, saying, “And are you to be let with the house?” “No, sir,” she replied; “I am to be let alone.” —London News., A soldier, fire and water soon makq all the room they want for themselves,