Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1891 — Habit Beats the Bishop. [ARTICLE]

Habit Beats 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 ha adgpd: “Is there any place around your store where I can have a quiet smoke? Our Bishop has just been preaching pretty sharply against the use of tobacco, so I don’t want to smoke ’round the 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 so!” The druggist quite agreed with him, and said: “Step behind my prescription counter, sir: you will be unseen there.” Two minutes later another good minister came into the store, bought a mild cigar, and a-ked if he might be permitted to smoke in the store, because: “Our Bishop has just been preaching against smoking,” he exclaimed, almost in the exact words of his predecessor. He also was sent behind the prescription counter. The screen hid the two dominies from sight, but it did not «hut out the peals of laughter which arose when minister number two encountered minister number one.— Boston Gazette, Washington Special.