The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1902-01-23
GOOD
Short Stories

When the present Archbishop Of Can
terbury was Bishop Of London. he was
one day examining theological students
on the matter of parish calls, and OF
fered himself as an object lesson for
such a call. He went into the next
room and lay down on sofa, with
his face to the wall, and a young Irish
man, whose lot it was. entering direct
ly after. walked up to him, laid MS
hand on DR.. Temples shoulder. and
said: "Ah, Frederick, Frederick!-the
drink again!" .4
AS an instance of the acuteness or
"Al" Daggett, the former Republican
leader of Kings County, who Is to
manufacture postal cards for the Unit
ed States government, the fact Is re-
called that when Seth Low was elected
Mayor Of Brooklyn some years ago,
he wrote to Mr.. Daggett, offering to ap-
point, as commissioners of elections,
one of any three men he might name.
"AT" wrote three lines to the Mayor
as follows: Charles Henry Cotton. q.
II. Cotton, G. Henry Cotton" Needless
to say. Mr.. Cotton was appointed.
The following curious marriage no
tice appeared the other day in the Lon
don Times: ION Tuesday, the fifteenth
inst, at Bottesfield, Lincolnshire, John
Kirk, an occasional preacher In the
Methodist Connection, to Susanna Sea-
ton, Of Birmingham, mantuamaker. Inc
patient bride had kept company near
two years with blacksmith OF the
same place, and was actually publish
ed with him in the church the very
Sunday preceding her marriage. but Tor
the reasons best known to herself elop-
ed next day with the preacher; SO true
Is it that we know not what a day
may bring forth"
Robert G. Ingersoll used to be fond
of telling how. when he first came to
Washington from the West, he once
encountered in one Of the corridors
of the Capitol an old negro woman
vigorously scrubbing the floor when
she heard any one coming, and. when
the footsteps died away. busily reading
her Bible. He slipped up on her very
quietly one morning, and, taking her
by surprise with her precious book.
said: MARY, do you believe all you
read there?" II sutanly do" she re-
piled; "ebery word, Colonel Insersoll."
do you believe that God made man
out of dustT' I'm coase does" Say.
it happened to rain hard about that
time and the dust was gone and there
was nothing but mud" To which old
nanny retorted: "Den de good Lawd
knowed enough to know dat 1t was
time to make dem lawyers and inhdels.
Colonel Ingersoll."
It Is said that a certain servant In
moment Of WEAKNESS with domestic
duties said: Rather than 60 on like
this, month after month forever, I'll
ask the first man who passes II he
wants q wifev' Her fellow servant
challenged her to put the question to
a man just then passing by. The young
woman was not prepared to be taken
at her word so suddenly, but, In des-
peration, bethought herself for a way
Of escape She was Welsh. and hur-
riedly exclaimed, as the unknown was
passing: "a oes cisiau gwraig arnoch
chwi" C'Do you want a wifeTo "Oes."
cyes'D was the unexpected reply from
the young man, who also hailed from
the principality. and. with Celtic
sprightliness followed into the hall the
blushing girl, who had fed upon hear
ing the familiar word. The maid, a
farmers daughter, was buxom and
neat; the swain was an Industrious and
ambitious young dealer. with promising
prospects, and soon "merrily rang the
wedding BELLS"