Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1914 — GATHERED SMILES PEACEFUL HOME [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GATHERED SMILES

PEACEFUL HOME

An enthusiastic young minister who followed one of the old type in a sleepy country village was thumping the rostrum a good deal, and disturbed a spider which had found peaceful refuge in one of the crannies for many a day. Wandering up the aisle homeless, it was met by another spider, and the tale of woe was imparted. “I can't stand this new minister thumping and jumping about. I have lived in the pulpit tor many years, but can’t stay there any longer.” Said the Becond spider, actuated by a fine spirit of charity: "Come along with me. I haven’t been disturbed for fifty years. My home’s in the collection box at the door.” —London Sphere.