Show TROUBLE IN THE TIIE a funeral ami and a strawberry Festl Fest Tal lyAl brooklyn eagle things is looking smoky down our ur way again remarked the ja mai luaina 1 wat ingmer as he paid the cashier for advertising ft a lost cow it is not what might bo be called pleasant limes times ii among mong the which church is in trouble lethis this trip inquired the cashier receipting the bill The Baptiste Baptists has got into trouble among replied the old man alf atha a sigh you seethe see the baptists fixed it up for a strawberry and cream game and on the sale of the tickets was doin considerable copin ro in among outsiders they the had bad atall it all laid out fora for a bi big shelf swell when the tile first thing they lowed knowel the par on slipped hia his wind and a big question tion arose whether they should go on with the shindig jr or lay it over until they holed the stiff A good many was for going r right ight ahead as though nothing had happened but the rest was inclined to think the pason like iland wanted to postpone the tea fight until they had planted the old man and they could go in and have a good time without exciting comment nien in kotlier congregations they came to me about bein what did you advise asked the cashier 1 I advised cm em to have tho the funer funeral al at and the festival together and charge harge the mourners eo so much a head to bear hear the service and heave in a plate of cream at the end that would haver have enabled all hands lands to get in on the last sad rites and caught the whole business for the festival how did they seem to take that inquired the cashier 4 they thought that was just the be scheme heme replied the old man and I 1 lay right up to the masthead for the suggestion but alig they fetch i it and the old man heaved a a heavy sigh what interfered demanded the cashier with increasing interest when they came to examine the matter they found they have bavo ice enough to keep the corpse and the strawberries and so they had to have the funeral and the festival separate that mistake busted the church for the summer the mourners kicked because they get any ice cream at tie tle funeral and the people raised a row rov because thero was no corpse at the festival and theres where the matter stands now how do you imagine itis coming oat out rl interrogated the cashier pretty bard to tell muttered ed the old man you cant jud judge e what church folks folk will do when S they ey get started I 1 recommended that they have noram and admit all ill hands li holdin old in festival tickets but they they seem to think that would woul work and now they are figurin on another festival to admit the mourners at half price and give the people at thelast the last festival a ride at the next funeral its a mighty hard bard thing to run ruti a church in a country place but weve got to have some kind of a contrivance to hold the christians together and I 1 dont want to secour baptist racket broken up and th the old man went off meditating on the possibilities while the cashier informed a reporter that salaries could not be anticipated and took out his awn own for two weeks iii m advance |