Show The Omnivorous Scrub In sacred history it is recorded that one of the Pharaohs dreamed a dream in which there appeared seven fat kine and seven lean kine and the illfavored and lean fleshed kine did cat up the seven well favored and fat kine It is also related says the Breeders Gazette that Pharaoh was much troubled over the interpretation of this vision and had finally to invoke tl e services of a young man named Joseph who seemed to have acquired somewhat of a local reputation as a reader of dreams to help him out of the difficult which he did so the story goes to the kings sails faction In this latter day however we seem to have tangible practical illustrations illustra-tions of that which was only foreshadowed to those ancient times in the dim and misty creations of restless untiring brains It may seem to some an absurd aud impossible impossi-ble thing that the fivoicd and lean fleshed kine should cat up the fat kine not for lack of appetite to be sure but for want of adaptability to such a diet Nevertheless we have illustrations almost without number of just such consumption apparently impossible though it may be This does not necessarily involve a change in the anatomical structure of the kine whereby the herbivorous and grarnmivor ous are converted into the order caruivora and become flesh consumers not at all literally but practically these illfavored kine are not only carnivorous but omnivorous omnivor-ous for they consume not only the well fatted stocks of their own kind but also horses and mules and hogs and houses and farms and bank accountsall that their owners have accumulated through years of toil and labor for they are nothing less than the allconsuming neverreturning scrubs Well might they stand in Pharaohs Phar-aohs vision as typical of the years of faminethese destroyers of plenty and producers of want How many feeders of scrub cattle have this winter sunk not only prospective profits but past accumulations accumula-tions in attempt fat for market the hard feeding unthrifty steerall gone into the insatiable maw of the rascally thieving profitconsuming scrub And the ill favored leanfleshed kine did eat up the seven wellfavored and fat kine Is there need to point out this moral Will a man sit idly by and see his house go up in smoke I Ought a farmer U aid and abet scrub stock in the consumption of his profits pro-fits and his property I Is it not about time to turn the rascals out |