The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1879-09-05

New York Weekly.

frame structure with wooden
stceple, had the doors and windows
tightly shut, but there was man
sitting on the front steps whiting
a stick and | said to him:
care you connected with this
church :"
ayes" he said, "I'm the sex,
ton"
"What is it closed for :"
swell, mostly on account OF Ban,
kiss babies"
"Babies ~
"Sit down, and III tell you about
it. You know Banks, he came to
this town few weeks ago per.
feet stranger, and he rented q pew
i'll this church. 1t seems that
Banks had three little babies, trip
let's, not more'n two months old,
and then, besides these, he had
twins about year old. So nobody
knew about the babies, but Banks
wanted to have the little darlings
baptized, and he allowed to Mrs.
Banks to rush the whole five ba-
bies into church OH one Sunday
might excite remark, you, under
stand. So he settled it that he'd
have 'em christened gradually, so
to speak. Accordingly the next
Sunday he fetched little Jimmy,
one Of the triplets, and all went off
well enough. On the followin'
Sunday he come a promenadin' up
the aisle with George Washington,
another triplit, and DR.. Binns, our
preacher, he fixed him up all right.
People thought it was queer, but |
when on the next Sunday mornin'
Banks and his wife came into
church with another baby, William
Henry, crying like a Pawnee war.
whoOp, some of the folks couldn't |
help snickerin'. HOwsOmdever,
nobody complained, and all might |
have been well if Banks hadn't
come along the Sunday after with
Elijah Hunsiker Banks, one of the
twins. Everybody laughed and
Mr.. and Mrs. Banks they were fur
ious-mad as anything, you know
and when Elijah Hunslker Banks
hauled OFF accidently with bis hand
and hit DR.. Binns, who WAS bolding
him during the ceremony, whack
i'll the face and the Doctor dropped
him in the water, the congregation
lust fairly roared with laughter.
Mrs. Banks turned red as fire and
looked as if she would like to mur-
der somebody. \
"Well, you know, we all thought
this was the last, and public feel
ing kinder summered down on to-
ward the end of the week, when
who should come booming sp the
aisle on Sunday morning but Mr..
and Mrs, Banks, with Tecumseh
Banks, the remainin'
win ! Well you ought just to we
heard that congregation Taught /
lever seen nothin' like it in all my
Even DR.. Binns had
o smile. And the BankSeS, they
we're perfectly wild with rage.
Anyhow, they baptized Tecumseh {
md after meetin' some Of the elders s
got to joking about it. One lowed {
hey'd have TO apply to the town SUI
,ervis0rs for an extension OF the
water works another allowed that :
ought to be made to |
Iivert Huckle- betry creek and run
t down the middle aisle OF the I
hurch ; another made some kind |
# Il joke about business being I
.ood because 80 many banks being a
n town another said that Banks Il
7ould need about twelve pews I
rhen his family grew up. Some t
'ody must have told Banks about "
t, for what does he do to revenge G
imselfs He sends down to Clar- "
)n county to his two sisters TO b
ONE and bring their children. SO n
hey had couple of babies apiece, s.
nd as soon as they arrived Banks h
e begins to bring them to church g
radually, like the others. You II
ever seen such meetings as them y
he church was ,jammed full and n
eople just roarin'. And when a
anks came in on Sunday with Il
Ie fourth aud last of bis sisters d
lbies, the trustees thought it was s;
me to interfere. Gettiu' to be n
lrce, you know. SoDeacon Smith 81
. stepped up and said somethin' al
r other to Banks, and Banks, W
uicker n a wink, laid down the ly
iby and banged the deacon with
is list. And so, l dunno how it
as, but in IA minute there was F,
anks and Deacon Smith and Dea-
IN Hubbark, and Banks's sisters rt
lby aud me, all a rollin' and 6.
Impin' over the floor, hitteu and eI
cken' aud whoopiD' in a manner o,
lat was Ridiculous to behold. IA
s'And when we all come To aud N
Dt Strengthened out, Banks picked al
p the battered baby of his sister al
I'd quit, and the trustees held an d
formal meetin' and agreed to I,
ose the church for a month SOS to Il
nder fneeze Banks ont, and now n
eve shut up; but | reckon it is d
D use, for | hear Banks has got u
Is back up and gone over and W
lined the Bsptists.' 10
So said good day to the sexton W
I'd went in search of another sane tu
iary. O'