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THE INDIAN ADVOCATE 283 He smiled. "I guess you are about right, Father. But I've held out a pretty good while. It broke me all up when he wanted to be a priest, but I have got over that now, and I am glad. I have seen a good deal of your cloth, Father, in my position, and the Catholic priest is God's noblest work. I honor him. Won't you give me a book to read? I want to know what your Church teaches. " I gave him "The Faith of Our Fathers, " and he promised to read it as he left me. He will come back, reader, and I ask your prayers that it may be soon . Uniting with the prayers of his adopted son, we may be sure that Heaven will not delay the moment of grace for this good man, who has glorified his life by his noble and unselfish kindness to a desolate orphan boy. "Blessed are the merciful for they shall obtain mercy." Gflbe Georgia Wap. The following indicates the way the new prohibition law is enforced in Georgia: A traveler may go to the clerk of a hotel and ask for a room. "A dollar-and-a-half room?" asks the clerk. "Yep", says the guest, and he is shown to the room. On the table in the room he finds a bottle of whisky. He takes the bottle and wends his way rejoicing. A detective for a temperance organization tried to stop the practice. He went through the formula and took his bottle of whisky into court. "Did you ask for whisky?" asked the attorney for the defense. "No," answered the detective. "Did you know that the whisky would be in the room?" "I wasn't sure that it would be," admitted the detective. "Was it your whisky that you found there?" "No." "And yet you took it away with you?" "Yes," answered the detective. The case was dismissed and the detective was immediately arrested for stealing a bottle of whisky from the hotel.