Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 254, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1918 — SAILOR SYMPATHIZES WITH LORD BISHOP [ARTICLE]

SAILOR SYMPATHIZES WITH LORD BISHOP

, Queenstown.—The Right Reverend Doctor Browne, Lord Bishop, is a person of consequence, as his title might indicate. He had settled himself comfortably in the corner of a first class compartment when, just as the train pulled out, a happy and carefree crowd of American sailors piled into the compartment. They were on leave and everybody’s friends. “Are you a priest?” asked one. “I suppose I was at one time,” was the good-humored reply of the man who was known throughout the land as “his lordship.” “Well, I was a chief gunner at one time,” the Jackie replied, “but I have .been disrated also — through booze!”