Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 297, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1911 — The Church First. [ARTICLE]

The Church First.

That the influence of the church in Ireland is considerable Is newly attested by a story with a humorous turn, recently printed in St. James’s Budget Some years ago the little Irish watering-place, Lisdoonvaraa, boasted of but one hotel, or rather Inn, of very modest dimensions, and the accommodation which this could afford waa often severely overtaxed during the summer months. When all beds had been disposed of, "shake-downs" were made up on the tables, and a table was pften made to serve as a double-decker, one guest sleeping upon it and another underneath.

After one unusually large Influx of visitors, an English tourist, who desired to catch the morning coach, and had therefore ordered an early breakfast for himself, was fuming and stamping impatiently lh the hall. “What’s keeping breakfast?” he broke out, angrily. "I ordered It overnight.” “Te can’t have breakfast yet,” was the unperturbed reply of the general factotum. "His rlverence is not off tta’ table." *