Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1912 — “Me or Not Me?” [ARTICLE]

“Me or Not Me?”

A minster of the new Methodist Protestant church, now stationed on the eastern shore of Maryland, is convinced that tSe life of a clergynaan is not always strewn with roses. His views. on certain current questions had been repeatedly misstated by others, and considering their - action nefariously unjust, he took occasion tn refer to it in one of his Sunday sermons 1 He said that he had been consoled by calling to mind the story of an Irishman, who is reported to have lived somewhere in lower Delaware. Although a frugal and hard working man, this son of Brin occasionally visited the town tavern on Saturday afternoons, and sometimes returned home in a state of 7 intoxication. On one occasion, having imbibed so freely that he was totally unable to steer himself homeward, a kindly disposed individual who happened along placed hi-in in his cart and started the mule in the-right direction. Unfortunatelv, some mischievous boys met the cart, and deciding to play a joke on the old man, unhitched the mule, and leading him a short distance into the woods, sat down to await results. In a short time the Irishman awoke from his stupor, rubbed bls'eyes, and, looking about exclaimed: “Begorra, is this me, or is it not me. Faith, I cannot tell. If this is me, I have lost a mule; but if this is not me, I have found a cart!”— Baltimore Herald.