Got Their Licenses

There is an ancient law in Bhode Island, which, however, is almost forgotten, requiring clergyinen to take out a license before officiating at marriages. The other day Pather O 'Hare and Mr. Stewart, the Episcopal rector of Auburn, went tf the town clerk for this license. At first the town clerk was much pnzzled what to do, as he had no proper license blanks, but he finally got over the difficulty, and the clergymen departed. Af ter they had got on a street car they opened their liceuses, and each was horrified to find himself in the possession of a full fledged second class liquor license, with power to rnn a liquor shop snbjec(fo all the privileges and penalties of the law. A closer ingpection of the license, however, showed that the words "second class liqnor license," giving power to sell "malt, spirituons and intoxicating hquors" at letail or wholesale, had had a line drawn thrcugh tbem, and instead of the words "to sell malt, spirituous and intoxicating liquors" were interlined the words "to perform marriages," and so forth. Each clergyman made a wry faoe as he contemplated his battered license, and each silently vowed to exhibit it only in case of dire peril of a f20 fine. But both blessed the ingenuity of the official that could transform a document which portends so much evil for the race, aceording to their views, into an instrument with power to give snch happiness. - New York Tribune.