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Show THE "BEST MAN'3" MI8TAKE. Wedding Fee That 8urcly Must Havo Astonished Minister. As the young man was donning his evening suit preparatory to keeping a oclnl engagement ho ran his hnnd into his pocket and was surprised to And aj envelope there. On opening It ho discovered $25 In bills. "Now. whero In thunder did I take on all this money?" ho said. "It Isn't mine, for I never carry my bills around In nn envelope." Then he sat down to think whore he had worn tho suit and how he had come by the $25. "The last placo I wore It," he mused finally, final-ly, "was when I was best man at a wedding a month ago. nut I gavo the minister his money. I remember distinctly dis-tinctly giving him tiomething, nnd It must have been I1I3 fee. If I didn't glvo him the money, what In tho world did I give him?" He called up the clergyman by 'phono. "Do you mind tolling mo," ho asked, "what 1 gave you for a fee at lilank's wedding?" wed-ding?" Tho nnBwer came back very distinctly and cuttingly. "Young man, you gave me a box of vfle-smelllng cigarettes." |