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MAY 1901 x 3 Last Sunday I did this same thing, and Dell Dimond, sitting just ahead, also at the extreme end of her pew, saw m y discomfiture out of the corner of her eye. She' tume and dropped her envelope in the plate as I was backing out. It saved me a trip into her pew, but I fell to wondering why she did it. I finished the rounds all right however, and breathed my customary sigh of relief as I dropped into my seat just as the choir was wailing the last note of the offertory. • After church as we stood in the vestibule, I said to her, “ I want to thank you for your time saving device for expediting the collection. 11 Said she “Oh ! wasn't it awful of me. 11 “No, 11 said I, “’twas very nice of you. It saved me from that feeling I always have, when there are many empty seats, that I am playing 4 Pigs in clover 1 as I shoot in and out of the pews. 11 “You mustn't say that, 11 said she, “you mustn't liken yourself to a pig. 11 “But think, 11 said I, “ My saying that, likens you to clover. 1 * “ Yes ? And do you know the color of clover ? 11 “ Indeed I do 11 said I—“a lovely pink 11 — “ Yes ; but I meant clover tops 11 said she. By that time some friends of hers came along 5 and as I didn't know for the life of me what clover tops are like, I smiled knowingly and passed on. Now I'd really like to know just what she meant. Phonograph has been used in California to convict a of murder. Perhaps justice may yet be brought about her trumpets than Gabriel's.