The Washington herald., 1915-03-21

Nv fr.u> said Rrothcr Gardner. as
in" routine work q tn. meeting had been
dis posed OF at ia, last meeting of IN"
..rn". I\Iln ClHi. II want To say to A"'
r':.ht Nrre and now dat bylaw No. f.>'h'
VIII lee Vigorously enforced in iW'hcr-
Tat hv-lIw. as mos Of IO' know. am to
%. ..ff,,.k dat any member of dis club win"
hall start a rpl-uS diScUShun shall h"
I"cmcd guilty uf misdcmcanor an rem
der rLSself liable TO INC Of S:':"" l'lS
club numbers Baptists Methodists. Pres
hvirriiInS. Iniiarians. nivcrsalists.
Atheists. AdNcnti>tS an scheral other
sorts Of religion among its members, an
lat hy-iaN w:iE wise 70 Thought. If
u man wants :. PertiCkler brand of re-
hcun. dA.'s ali right. an he must raise
no "bjerkshunS agin somebody else,s
an make de best of it,
'' TIOut two weeks ago ! was in a coal
al to ask if coal had riZ up or gone
Watkins an Brudder BadfoOt Jones.
l:ruddor Watkins am A baptist, an Brud-
der Jones hang. out wild de tn!vcrSal-
ists Dev had got int" dispute bout
N"ah'S Ark. y" on" said IL was painted
rcd. an de ndder blue. an dey had got
mad an was nghtin' ober it. | took off
my coat an sailed IN, an If dose two
,ne1lbLhs am still laid up in he'd it,
,ny what dcy dc-arve. Dat ark may hey
iin painrcd dc reddcst sort - red or
e blucst sort o blue. it might not
hey hin painted tall What's do differ
,.n"" /" us: 1t am our bizncSs to pay our
rent. go To church un Sunday. an keep
-" al" woman an Chill'"n in shoes, an
d. color Of N0ah's Ark. or Dc color
OF NOah'S whiSkcr> amt SwInc to help
III out.
n few days az" I went ober TO call
"u Erudder Waydown Bebce, who owes
ru" two dollars an pears to hey for
."ttom it, 7 found a row in progress in
his back va'd Brudd"r Connexions Thump-
,."II had called to borrow some butter.
an dcy had begun to talk bout DAM
in lie Hons den. Bruddcr Bcbcc said dat
panl WAS So Skccrt when h" WAS shut
up wild dc lions dat his ha'r al Cuile'l
~, EruddCr Thompson "ontend"d dat
h-nl wasn't SkccTt tall. but dat he
jest Looked d.' lions in dc fac" an smiled.
I.n dcy- called each other liars an dotlnS
an pitched in. ] ar happy to ubSarve
dat I also took hand i'll. II was a surt
hain't got uber il Vet. What we got 10
4" with DanI in de lions den? He may
hey hin skeert an he may hey had
rec'lar picnic ober it. but how does da-
help us to keep de cook stove Cwinc
What happened eighteen hundred var
ago hsin't gwine to buy Goldfish fur to
n"rrer.
''Tain't VERY long ago dat Samuel
Shin an Giveadam Jones got together
To sec bout church matters. Boat am
NethOdists. but while Brudder Shin be-
licvcs de whale swallered Jonah. Brudder
Jones won't have il dat way. Dey had
no biZness to bring up dat whale. but
dcy hadn't talked ten minits when up.
he riZ an each man begun to blow an
haks his fists. DE natural conscience
Was fight. | wasn't dar to swing my
right. but it is consolin' to know dat
Brudder SHIN had his nose broken. an
Erudder Jones lost "A heap o. wool an
will limp around on one leg fur weeks
Ia cum. What If dat whale did or didn't
swaller Jonah? How's dat gwine to keep
-four in de bari at home? Oar was a
whale or dar wasn't. Put IL either way
ri is it swine to take OF de price
cents on flannel skirt?
Neither Sir Isaac Walpole nor de Rev
Penstock am we're in DER places dis even
in. WHY not" 'Ease de two of 'e,n sot
down TO play checkers a few nights \aso
an dey hadn't bin playin' above five
minits when Sir Isaac obsarv dat he
had hin readn' bout Moses in de bull
rushes as didn't believe de warn. DE
Rev. Penstock fired up in moment an
said IL was all trIe an he could lick de
man who denied it. Sir Isaac hit him on
de Jaw an got one back on de left eye
an dey had raglan scrsppin' match