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Show f SHORT STORIES OF STREET ' AND TOWN J The following incident occurred in one of the southern wards of the State at the afternoon meeting a few Sundays Sun-days ago. The bishop of the ward was offering Invocation at the- opening of the meeting. The bishop, who is a Scotchman, is noted for the length of his prayers. As one member of his ward remarked, "He will pray from Genesis to Revelations, and then switch into the "Holy Land and pray from Dan to Beersheba. If he should ask a blessing on the food which was on the table he would make it so long that everything. would be cold before he got through,". .. .. '- The bishop was opening the afternoon meeting with prayer. He prayed and continued to pray. The choir grew uneasy, un-easy, as they had done many times before, be-fore, and commenced to talk among themselves, as they had done many times before. The bishop heard a part of their talk and . a few smothered laughs. Stopping in the middle of his prayer, he said: "And I Kay Lord ha mercy on the choir. Poor, silly, giggling gig-gling fools, they dinna ken any better." The bishop proceeded with his prayer without Interruption. Miss Flora Wiseman, cashier at the Wilson, is fingering every bill she gets very carefully these days. Chief Clerk Mel Wright is something of a Joker, and recently placed a $10 counterfeit bill with, the cash. When Miss Wiseman counted up she was $10 over and could not pec-ount for it. Long and faithfully she worked over her books trying to discover where that money had come from. After" she had hunted for an hour Mel . discovered (?) that J10 of the cash was counterfeit. Then the trouble was worse than evr. Finally Clerk Wright told the cashier that as she was $10 ahead and that as the $10 bill, was counterfeit, the besjl thing to do was Just to throw the counterfeit coun-terfeit out, and call the books balanced. But Miss Wiseman was not of that kind of stufT. She declared that her cash showed $10 too much even if the $10 was counterfeit, and she would find it and pay it out of her own pocket. But she did not. Wrieht told her of the trick in time to allow her to eat her supper before it was too late. Now, everything the chief clerk says to the cashier has to be accompanied by an affidavit, and he is trying to figure fig-ure just where the joke landed heaviest. |