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Show Hiibit Bents the Bishop. During the session of the Methodist conference one of the ministers went into a drug store about dusk on a chilly evening and asked the proprietor for a good, mild cigar. After paying for it he added: "Is there anyplace around your store where I can have a quiet smoke? Our bishop has just been preaching pretty sharply against the use of tobacco, so 1 don't want to smoke roand tho house where I am staying, nor out in the street, on account of the bad example I might set. But a mild cigar does rest one sol" The druggist quite agreed with him and said: "Step behind my prescription Co outer, sir; you will be unseen there." Two minutes later another good minister min-ister came into the store, bought a mild cigar and asked if he might be permitted permit-ted to smoke in the Btore, because: "Our bishop has just been preaching against smoking," he explained, almost in the exact words of his predecessor. He also was sent behind the prescription prescrip-tion counter. The Bcreen hid the two dominies from sight, but it did not shut ont the peals of laughter which arose when minister No. 2 encountered minister min-ister No. 1. Washington Cor. Boston Gazette. |