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OriETHlNCi
NES
HOW BILLY FOX
TRICKED MR. WOLF
By CALEB B. WHITFORD.
One frosty morning, just about Gun-rise,-old
Billy Fox was trotting home
after having been out" all night, when
he heard the hounds on his trail.
"I . declare," said the fox, "I don't
feel much like having a race with the
hounds this morning, because I have
beon working all night, and had such
a big late breakfast I don't believe I
could keep very far ahead of them.
This is what I get for staying out so
late. I ought to have been at home
an hour ago. But it won't do to be
loafing around here. I must get busy
and fool those hounds some way."
And the fox jumped up on an old
stone wall and ran a little way on the
stones, then he jumped away off to
one side as far as he could leap out
into a pasture where there was
a flock of sheep. He ran as
fast as he could to the 6heep.
Of course they ran away, but
the fox overtook them, and, get-!
ting right in the middle of the flock,
ran with them to the other end of the
pasture, where he jumped the fence
and ran toward the big woods.
"I guess by the time the hounds puz
zle out the tracks I made for them
on the stone wall, and pick out my
trail among the sheep tracks I'll be
such a long way ahead of them I can
it down and take a rest. Come to
think of it this will be a good time for
me to call on old Mr. Wolf."
And away he went as straight as he
ould go for Mr. Wolf's home.
"He'll be awful mad when I wake
him up. for I'm sure he hasn't been in
bed very long. Ill just take a look
in the next barn yard I pass. Perhaps
1 can get a nice fat rooster to take
him for a present It won't take me
long Jo pick up a rooster. Besides
I can make some crooked tracks
around the barn so as to bother the
hounds when they come up."
While the hounds were working out
the trail made on the stone wall and
among the sheep the fox galloped
away out of hearing of the hounds.
Slipping quietly into a barn yard he
-Brought Him a Fat Young Rooster.
came to, he picked up a nice young
rooBter and rushed away through the
woods as fast as he could go, never
stopping until he came to the home of
the wolf.
"Good morning. Mr. Wolf." he said.
"How do you do today?"
The wolf growled and threatened
o give the fox a shaking for waking
him up.
"I'm not feeling very good natured,'
he said, "because I've had a bad night,
Worked hard without getting a good
meal."
"You are such an unsociable f el-
low," said the fox. "I'm sorry I call
ed on you. I Intended to do you a good
turn, so aa to cultivate a better ac
quaintance with you. See! I've
brought you a nice fat young tender
rooster.
The wolf put on as pleasant a smile
as he could when he saw the rooster.
and thanked the fox for the pres
ent.
"I'm so hungry," said the wolf, "I
won't stop on ceremony but will make
a meal of that young rooster at once."
While the wolf was busy devouring
the rooster the fox had his ears
pricked up listening for the hounds.
He could hear them in the distance
howling on his trail. But the wolf
was too much taken up with the good
meal he was haying to hear the
hounds. '
"I must be going." said the fox. ;'i
have a friend I am going to see over
ia the big white birch field."
And away he went, laughing as he
ran to think of the trick he had play
ed on old Mr. Wolf.
"The hounds will follow iuy trail,"
h said, "up to the wolfs den. Then
they'll get his trail, and while they are
chasing him I'll cut around and get
back home."
Presently the wolf heard the hounds.
Their cry indicated they were coming
closer and closer, and coming very
ast. - -
"I believe I'm the most unlucky an
imal in the woods," said the wolf.
"Here Ym all tired out after a hard
night's work, forced to take a long
run ahead of those hounds. And that
rooster! If I hadn't eaten him I
-could get away. But tired and load
ed down with a heavy meal, I'm ia for
a hard run and a severe battle! Ill be
lucky if I ain't killed."
So away he went through the woods.
groaning under his load of rooster and
berating the fox for having brought
him such a big meal. The hounds ran
along the fox trail until they came to
the wolf den. There they picked up
the trail of the wolf and followed it
as fast as thev could eo
Meanwhile sly Billy Fox had got
well away. Coming, to a brook he
said: "Just to make sure the hounds
won't follow my trail I'll run down the
middle of this brook, for a short dis
tance and throw them off."
Then he came out of the water, and
seating himself on a little knoll listen
ed to the hounds following old Mr.
Wolf. ;
' "Some people would think. I played
a mean trick on that wolf." he said.
but I've got my way of taking care
of myself and he his way. '""Besides,
he's a mean, domineering old wolf and
makes me a lot of trouble. He puts me
at my wits' end trying to keep even'
with him. He's in for it today. That
nice little rooster I brought him will
be mighty heavy before he runs very
far."
And Billy Fox nearly split his sides
laughing at the trick he had played
on the wolf, in order that he might
escape the hounds that were after
him. When the sound of the hounds'
voices died out, Billy Fox went leis
urely on his way and soon was fast
asleep in his cozy bed. Shortly after
dark bo was out ready for his night's
work.
'I'll just drop in on old Mr. Wolf."
he said, "as I go along through the
woods, and see how he came out of
his trouble with the hounds."
"Good morning." said Billy Fox.
when he came to the long big rock
under which Mr. Wolf had his den.
"How do you feel this fine morning?"
The wolf got up and came out into
the open howling with pain.
"Why! Why! Mr. Wolf, what Is the
matter? - One of your eyes is closed,
and you are all cut to pieces! How
did it happen?"
"This is what I got for accepting
your rooster this morning," said the
wolf as he limped about. "The next
time you come around here I'm go
ing to give you a good shaking. You're
always getting me in trouble."
"It isn't because "I brought you a
nice rooster, but because you are
such a glutton that you ate it all at
one meaL I see now you was so full
of rooster you couldn't run away from
the hounds. They certainly did give'
you an awful licking!"
"Ouch! Ouch!" said the wolf.
"They did cut me up terribly. But
I cut them, too. It was a dreadful
fight, and the hounds were just as glad
as I was to sneak back home. What
I'm going to do for a few days I can't
tell, I can't go far from home, bo I
suppose I'll have to hobble about
here in the woods and live on bugs
until I get well."
"Too badi! too bad! Mr. Wolf, I
really feel sorry for you. But I must
be on my way."
And off he trotted laughing at the
thought of how he had outwitted the
wolf.
"It's the way of the world." he said.
"The big, ' strong creatures go along
fighting their way, abusing those that
are weaker, and we who can't fight so
well use our ,wits in order to get
along, and those of us who stop to
think get the most out of life. At
any rate, I've saved my life many a
time by the use of my wits."
(Copyright. 1313. by Universal Preas Syn
dicate. "So Long, Mary."
A teacher in one of the primary
grades of the public school had no
ticed a striking platoric friendship
that existed between Tommy and little
Mary, two of her pupils.
Tommy was a bright enough young
ster, but he wasn't disposed to prose
cute his studies with much energy, and
his teacher Baid that unless he stirred
himself before the end of the year he
wouldn't be promoted.
"You must study harder," she told
him, "or you won't pass. . How would
you like to stay back in this class an
other year and have little Mary go
ahead of you?"
"Aw," said Tommy, "I guess there'll
be other little Marys." Weekly Tele
graph. Her Uttle Brother.
A small boy was seated in the par
lorv with his sister's young man. Being
of an inquiring mind, he asked Mr.
Gaysmith: "Do you weigh very
much?"
"About 150 pounds, my little man,"
the hopeful lover responded.
"Do you think sister could lift you?
the boy continued. .
. "Oh, goodness, no," said the young
man, blushing at the mere thought,
"but why do you ask?"
"I don't believe she can, either, but
I heard her tell ma this morning that
she was going to throw you over as
soon as she could." Weekly Tele
graph. Passing It On. - .
When little Bob bumped , his head
Uncle Jim gathered the youngster in
his arms and said:
"Thefe! I'll kiss it and the. pain
will all be gone. ,
Cheerfully smiling, the youngster ex
claimed:
"Come down, into the kitchen; the
cook, has the toothache." Judge.
The Young Idea.
Sadie was eleven and Alice seven.
At lunch: Alice said: "I wonder-what
part of an animal a chop Is. Is it a
eg?" . . -v.; -"Of
course not," answered Sadie.
"It's the jawbone. Haven't you ever
heard of animals licking their chops r
Uttle Chroalck.
IN FAVOR OF SUBURBAN CHICKEN RAISER
This New York Woman Raises Nearly
Her City
(By ISAAC MOTES.)
While the farmer-poultryman at a
distance from the city has some ad
vantages over tho near-city poultry-
man, the latter is not as badly handi
capped on his home acre as you might
think.
The farmer can, of course, raise
most of his feed, and his chickens have
plenty of room to rustle their food'ln
the fields, orchards, pasture and barn
yard, but on the other hand, the su
burban poultryman is much closer to
market and can take advantage of
rush orders from merchants either for
eggs or dressed poultry, and he is thus
la a position to get top market prices
for the product of his flocks.
And the near-city poultryman can
get cheap, feed if he knows how, for
there is so much waste in cities in the
form of garbage, stale bread, butter
milk and skim milk. In a city contain
lng a number of bakeries a poultryman
can get large-quantities of stale bread
merely for hauling it away; or, if he
pays for it, it. will be only a nominal
sum.
All first-class bakeries sell only
fresh bread, so if they bake more
than they can sell each day they get
rid of it the following day in what
ever way they can.
Each bakery has a box located in
front of grocery stores which sell its
bread, and before closing their doors
each evening these grocers put all the
bread on hand which they failed to
sell into these boxes, and next morn
ing, before the stores are opened, the
bakers' carts come around and the
drivers open the boxe3 and take out
the yesterday's bread, if any, and leave
fresh bread.
Then, after making the rounds of all
the groceries, they take the old bread
back to the bakerB, and it is gotten
rid of in different ways. Some bakers
give away quantities of bread to the
Salvation Army and other poor, chari
table or religious organizations and In
stitutions. In baking some kinds of bread, rolls
or pastry, a portion of this old bread
may be used again by drying It in an
oven, grinding It in a mill, mixing it
up and baking It again in some other
form. . ,
But they can use only a small por
tion of it in this way; so the most of It
is either given away- to poor people, or
else for chicken feed, hog feed or cat
tle feed.
A chicken raiser near a city can
easily make arrangements to get so
many hundred pounds of it each week
for his fowls, perhaps free, or, any
WAY OF SHIPPING
BREEDING FOWLS
Seller Should Find Cheapest
Route, Making Least Ex
pense for Buyer.
The breeder who buys breeding
stock should state -what express com
pany he wishes the birds shipped by;
if he doesn't so state, the seller should
find out the cheapest route for the
shipment. If the consignment is
shipped over two lines, the charges
are higher than by a direct route; It
is to the advantage of the seller to
make as little expense for the buyer
as possible. This means not only ship
ping by the cheapest route, but also
crating in the lightest crate - consis
tent with safety. Light wooden coops
with solid sides, and opening at th
top, can be bought for thirty cents
each up. Cracker boxes can be made
into light, convenient coops for ship
ment. But whatever box is used it
should be clean and light.
Valuable birds should be shipped
singly. If the distance is long, fasten
a drinking cup in the corner of the
coop, and tie a sack of feed to the
coop. We usually put in a large pota
to or apple which-serves the purpose
of both food and drink for short ship
ments. Mark the address of the con
signee plainly, and plan the shipment
so birds - will not lay over Sunday : ln
the express office, or have long waits
on station platforms to make connec
tions. The condition the birds are re
ceived In largely "determines whether
or not the customer is satisfied.
v. Cement Floor.
In ' making j cement hog floors ar
range a slat frame or woven wire de
vice In one corner when placing a sow
In the house at farrowing time. The
frame should rest flat on the floor, be
ing, higher on .the outer edge than. In
the middle, ' to prevent the nesting
from being scattered about and ,to
guard the pigs crawling off onto the
cold floor and chilling a very com
mon occurrence unless ; omethIrg is
done to prevent tt. ; , v - . .
1,000 Chickens on Stale Bread From
Restaurant.
way at a price absurdly low when Its
food value is considered.
I have in mind now a woman -in my
city who owns a restaurant, not a very
large one, either. She also has
chicken farm about twelve miles from
the city, and she sends out to . the
farm once a week from six to ten pota
to sacks of waste bread for her chick
ensbread which, but for utilizing It
thus would be thrown away. The re
sult is that she makes a big profit on
the chickens and eggs she sells
Another kind of chicken feed which
the near-city poultryman can get in
large quantities is fresh buttermilk in
cities where there are creameries or
butter companies.
Such companies sell a great deal of
buttermilk, but noth'ng like as much
as they could sell, and a great deal of
it is turned into the sewer; so, if
poultryman with two or three hundred
chickens wished to buy It In, say five
gallon lots, he would be able to get it
very cheaply perhaps for five cents
a gallon, for the butter maker would
surely prefer selling it, even at this
price, to throwing It away.
This buttermilk is especially good
for chickens cooped up to fatten for
market, for the acid in the milk fs
good for their digestion In the winter
when they cannot get green stuff, and
also while they are cooped up where
they cannot take exercise.
Very few things are as fattening as
slightly sour milk curds, sweetened,
heated to blood heat and with soma
refuse grease or meat drippings fron
the kitchen added. Such fat making
food is better for fattening chickens,
however, then for hens with broods
Put two or three gallons of this milk
in a large pot, sweeten it with cheap
brown sugar and add the meat drip
pings, stir while it is heating, and
pour into a small flour sack or other
thin sack, and hang up in a warm
place to drip. Put a pan under It to
catch the whey, which is good for ma
king bran or corn meal mashes
When the curds are reasonably dry.
dip them out as needed, and put them
la little troughs alongside the coops,
where the chickens can reach the
food through the wires without getting
Into it with their feet. Put in only
what they will eat up clean each time,
Another advantage the small poul.
tryman has near the city is that he
is accessible to dairies where he car
get skim milk from separators, which
is also exceedingly good for fattening
chickens, in making up mashes of dif
ferent kinds.
(Copyright. 1913, by C. M. Shult.)
FOUNDATION OF
SUCCESS IN HOGS
Diseases Caused by Filthy Pen?
Quite Often Mistaken for
Cholera.
(By DR. F. S. SCHOENLEBER. Stat
. - . Veterinarian of Kansas.)
Cholera, parasites and pneumonig
are some of the worst troubles hoi
breeders have to fight this time ol
year. . The parasites, or worms aa
they are called, commonly, are always
with the hogs, more or less. It wilJ
be possible to eradicate cholera from
the swine industry before the breed
ers will be able to rid their stock of
parasites. Pneumonia may be pre-"
.vented by , keeping- the. hogs from tak
ing cold.
' Hogs are kept for - years on th
same lot generation after generation
until the soil becomes saturated
with the different parasites and theli
eggs. With such surroundings a hog
is certain to be affected. The ani
mals look scrawny, and cholera it
blamed for their condition.
Sanitation is the foundation of suc
cessful hog rearing. A hog lot should
be plowed frequently, and thoroughly
disinfected. Every two or three
years the lot should be changed to a
new location. A hog Isn't dirty in ita
habits. If given half a chance It will
keep clean.
Cost of Butter Fat.
Cow Tester H. D. Wetherell, Som
erset county. Missouri, reporting six
teen herds of ninety-five milking cow
In all, finds the average feed cost foi
one pound of butter fat 22 cents.
Highest cost was 39 cents In one herd
and the lowest cost 11.7 cents in an
other herd.
.. X
Big Record for Guernsey. :
- Straight Fern, "a Guernsey cow, has
broken all record3 for Guernseys in
Minnesota. In one year the cow pro
duced 395 pounds of butter fat,, which
is equivalent to 695 pounds of butter.
The . record Is the official Minnesota
Gra-iiger record.
OLY BAY OF REST
Sabbath Wisely Set Asicte for the
Worship of God and the
Needs of Humanity..
v It Is worth while to allude often to
Prof. Carl Hilty's delightful book on
"Happiness," and especially to its
glorification of work.
One of Professor Hilty's 6trong
points is that no one has a real right
to the rest of Sunday unless he has
tolled during the preceding six day3.
The keeping of the Sabbath among
the ancient Jews was counted a car
dinal virtue. ( It extended even to their
plants, which could not be watered or
plucked on that day. Of course, the
ceremonies of the priests, as of 'those
of all Beets in our own day, were not
accounted as labor.
We can only fully realize the inten
sity of the old Jewish feeling for the
day when we consider the fact that a
deliberate breach of the Sabbath was
punishable by death. '
That the national feeling on this
subject approached fanaticism is seen
by the record that a Jewish steersman,
during a terrible storm, left the helm
tmtended, because the hour had struck
for the beginning of the Sabbath. It
Is well attested by passages from the
books of the Maccabees, from Jose
phus and from Plutarch, that the Jew
ish armies refused to bear arms on the
Sabbath, even suffering their enemies
to cut them down rather than to dese
crate the day.
Sabbath Rigors Mitigated.
"Prudent commanderp, however,"
.says Doctor Strong, "seeing tho great
advantage thus given the enemy, ob
served the Sabbath rest only so far as
to abstain on that day from offensive
operations. :
The Pharisees, Essenes and Samar
itans were, in the time of Chrisl, the
chief sticklers for the old rigor. They
split the very smallest of hairs in their
zeal. Thus it was permitted among
them to give medicine to save life; but
to give It merely to make the sick
more comfortable was forbidden.
Recent discoveries, as related by
Delitzsch and others, Indicate that a
seventh day of rest was prescribed
among many, perhaps most, of the an
cient nations, and markedly among
the Hittltes and Babylonians. It seems
to have been early felt .that the repose
of the night did not suffice for the re
freshment of the human system, and
that in addition a whole day of rest
was needed as often as once in each
week.
The Jew keeps the Sabbath as fes
tival. After a brief, ceremonious reli
gious service of some kind during the
morning, teasting and pleasure are the
order of the day. The Jews consider
that Isa. 18:13. 14 enjoins this in say
ing, "If thou turn away thy foot from
doing thy pleasure on my holy day.
and call the Sabbath a delight, the
holy of the Lord, honorable, then shalt
thou delight thyself in the Lord, and I
will cause thee to ride upon the high
places of the earth."
Make Sabbath Day of Feasting.
Buxdorf, one of the great authori
ties, says: "So convinced are the Jews
that one'way of honoring the Sabbath
is by feasting that they sometimes
fast the preceding day to enable them
to eat the more at the Sabbath meals."
Our modern evangelical methods
are very different We consider this
day as sacred to the higher spiritual
needs of mankind. We deplore an.
thing which tends to make it carnal
or sensual. . -
As for the special deeds to be done
or left undone on the Sabbath, men
are more and more leaving them to
the individual conscience; but let
each of as remember that, according
to the way the great rest day ia spent,
so will character degenerate or im
prove. Let us keep the Sabbath day
holy. Christian Herald."
Sacred Duties of Home.
More must be done to remedy the
domestic evils of life. The pulpit
ought to be more devoted to the in
struction on home life. - The mlni&try
may be aware of sores among their
people, and for fear of giving offense
they may fall to Instruct young and
old as to the sacred duties of the
home. . But this mistake is a fatal one.
The result will be that their flocks
will be eaten up of the worms of In
testine domestic corruption. Religion,
or at least piety, will vanish, even if
religious forms be still . retained.
Church authorities should be more
wide awake to the greatness of the
evils of this widespread plagues
Christian Instructor.
As God Sees.
One of the great reasons why we
do not understand better God's deal
ings with lis is because we only see
a very little part of his plans and
purposes at a time, . we judere life
in little pieces, instead of one niece.
We must not judge yesterday, or last
year, or this loss or that fall by itself.
They must he put together to make
up one life; - one ' plan." and then . we
may see God's pattern. "
But seeing little or much of hi
plan for our lives, loving and serving
mm, we may be . assured that "all
things'! will "work together- for our
eternal good.
: Rejoice.'--Every
worker for Christ. In his own
particular ' sphere, meets with manv
valleys and mountains. crooked
places and rough ones, . which God
aio:ce can deal with. Let him reioice
not only that God's power is equal to
tha occasion, but also that there are
difficulties of such a nature as to
make the putting1-forth of that power
a risible and notable thing.
1,
The Bible:
ikt It Is
Br REV. WILLIAM EVANS.
Director of B&Ie Coutm.
Moodr Bible Witate, Chicago
TEXT II Tim. 3:16.
The Bible is th
Book of God and
religion. There art
other books be
sides the I'.iblc,
we are told, that
reveal God to us;
e. g.. the book of
nature, and thf
book of provi
dence. Yp admit
that, nature so
veals God to us.
That tho. heavens
declare the glory
of God, and th
firmament show
his handiwork, w
do not for a moment deny. Nature is
vocal with theology. Nor wo?:Id .v
think of contradicting the statement
that God manifests himself through
history and providence. Victor Ilugr,
said: "Waterloo was God." By that
he meant that God showed his hand
in that great war and turned the
stream of civilization Into another
channel. The history of all nations
is replete with marked interferences
of God. Promotion cometh neither
from the east nor from the west. It
is God who 8etteth up cn? nation,
and putteth down another.
The knowledge of God that coities
to us from these sources, however, i
not sufficient fully to satisfy the hu
man heart. Nature tells us of God.
but does not adequately describe him
to us. We might infer from the d:
vine manifestations in history and
providence that God Is a great force
or power, but such a definition of God
by no means satisfies humanity. We
need some other and deeper vision of
God. We need to know something
about his person, nature and attri
butes; his relations with his creaturea.
what things are pleasing and what
displeasing to him; what are his
ethical, moral and spiritual standards.
To these questions not nature, nor
history t nor yet providence affords an
answer. Nature may show the head
and wisdom of God, and providence
and history the hand and power of
God, but we need a revelation such
as we have In the' Bible to repeal to
us the heart and the grace of our God.
Sometimes the Bible Is compared
with other sacred books Bibles of
other religions: the Koran, the Veda.s.
etc. There can be no real comparison.
The Bible is not to be pat on the
same plane as these books. None of
them claims for itself what the Bible
claims for Itself; nor did any one of
their authors claim for Himself what
Jesus Christ, and the inspired writers
of the Bible claim for themselves. The
Christian must be very careful in the
matter of comparing his Bible with
other sacred books. Such comparison
Is attended with grave danger. There
is practically no difference, so far as
the disastrous effects of such com
parisons are concerned, whether you
drag the Bible down to tho level of
these other books, or lift these other
books up to the level of the Bible.
The effect ia the same; you rob the
Bible of its unique character and au
thority. Let us be careful In this
matter.
The Bible is not only the book of
God, it is also the book from God. At
least this is the way In which it gires
its own account of its origin: "All
Scripture Is given by inspiration of
God" that is to Bay. is "God
breathed" (II. Timothy 3:15). Again, in
II. Peter 1:20, 21, we read: "Know
tng4his first, that no phophecy of the
scripture is of any private interpreta
tion (or origin, for it seems clear
that It Is to the source rather than to
the 'exposition of the scripture that
reference is here made). For the i
prophecy came not in old time by the t
will of man; but holy men of God (
spake , as they were moved by the
Holy Ghost." Here are some very
clear and definite statements concern-
lng the source of the scripture. It is fj.
this "God-breathed" element that dif-
ferentiates this book from all other
writings. The Bible is quite often re-
ferred to nowadays as splendid "liter- ?
ature." Well, the Bible is that, but it
is more than that it is scripture. $
Literature is the letter; scripture ia
the letter inbreathed by the holy spir- 1
it. Just as in the creation of man we
learn that man became a living 8oulj
when that frame of dust, as it lay on f
the ground, became inbreathed by the
spirit of life from God. Man is dust .t
inbreathed by Deity; and if you take V
away the spirit of life from man, he ;
returns to dust. So is it with the
Bible; it is the letter, but it Is the
letter inbreathed by God's spirit that ; ;
makes that letter scripture. And when ; '
you rob the Bible of its inspiration
you have nothing but mere literature I . ;
left you have rio scripture.
The message of the Bible is a re-
llgious message. Its aim and purpose j '
is. to bring man, who has been es-i1 '-'
trahged from God by reason of sin,f y
back to the God from whom he has
been estranged. The scriptures,, which
are given by Inspiration of God, are
for the man of God, that he may bj
Instructed In righteousness; mark you.
In righteousness, not la science, or
art, or poetry, or history. Important
these things are In themselves. Wr
come to the Bible to tJnd,.God. ;
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