Daily Alta California, Volume 28, Number 7928, 9 December 1871 — Two Clergymen Enohred by Themselves* [ARTICLE]

Two Clergymen Enohred by Themselves*

Near a late New Jersey camp meeting, two clergymen, a Baptist and a Mothodiat, wt-r- walking, when they saw a little girl sitting on a stone, who was weeping bitterly. "What is tho matter, my little girl?" asked the Baptist kindly. My — my father way k — killed on tbe ruilroad a few duys ago, and has just been buried, sir , und my mother is wick abed and can't work, aud we huvu't nothing to eat and don't know what to do," sobbed tbe little girl, crying as if her heart would break. "A truly lamentable case ; I do indeed pity you," said the Baptist, frigidly, as if he were pitying some ice cream be could not eat. " How mucb do you pity her, Brother C. ? I pity her five dollars," yelled the Methodist, aa he threw a V into tbe girl's lap.

He bad reud an incident like this in a Sunday acbool paper. "I doublo your pile, Brother P.," the Baptist brother uaid, ab be slowly placed an X over tbe V. "I go you ono better," tbe Methodist bawl<-d aa be put a ten ou tbe other money. "I cover your stake, Brother P.," and tbe Baptist clergyman's expression showed be was getting excited, as a twenty from his purse was put on the rapidly increasing pile.

" I'll top the spons with a fifty," howled Brother P., as bo drew out his last note and placed the sum with tbe others, glaring savagely at bin companion. • • Here is a hundred dollar note, little girl," said the Baptist quite blandly, now that he bad got ahead of bis Methodist brother»iiHthe>Lord; "you may rake in tho spoils, for you've < cleaned out' and •euchred' both my friend and myself, and left us both >deitd broke.' " Then they walked off, humming a hymn. Now, what wo would like to know is, what did those clergymen do before they were converted ? ♦-• ♦ The ravages of the small pox baa so frightened the Pbiladelphians, that they are on the lookout for it everywhere. In a street car recently, norm ladies fancied that they "amelt small pox," and vigorously questioned the conductor on tbo subject. All the M.-uupantt) of the car were greatly perturbed for awhile, but finally peace returned when it wan discovered that a youthful German lady m the car wan only taking kome a eta of sour trout.