Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1898 — The Third Commandment. [ARTICLE]

The Third Commandment.

The famous Congressman, Thaddeus Stevens ,had a colored servant in Washington named Matilda, who one morning smashed a large dish. “What have you broken now, you black idiot?” exclaimed Thad. “ 'Taint de third commandment, bress do Lawd,” replied Matilda. In regard to the above, if any of our readers do uot remember what the third commandment is they had better look it up, and while they are about it they may as well read the whole ten and try to remember them. We are reminded by the above of what was once related to us about a Republican Governor of Ohio. He put in his Thanksgiving proclamation a beautiful quotation from the Bible. A Democratic editor declared that the Governor hud stolen it from some book, for he distinctly remembered seeing It somewhere before. To which a Republican editor replied that the statement was a Democratic liq, for the quotation referred to was purely original with the Governor.—Our Dumb Animals.