Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 306, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1915 — Philanthropical. [ARTICLE]

Philanthropical.

“Don’t you come across a good many things in the Bible that you don’t understand, like the problem of Cain’s wife, for Instrnce?” queried the layman, as he sat at a city restaurant table. “Oh, yes, of course,” acknowledged the clergyman. “Well, what do you do about it?” “My dear friend," replied the minister, laying down his fork, “I simply do Just as I would while eating a nice fresh herring. When I come to the bone I quietly lay it on one side, and go on enjoying the meal, letting any idiot that insists on choking himself with the bone do so.” —London TitBits.