Show ONE WELL MORTGAGED D COW A tale illustrating the Gune leso 81 simplicity p ll 11 lt y of an there ther e a are r e tricks trick a in all a 11 trades but ours remarked the carpenter and we sometimes drive screws with a hammer hammen A few days ago not more than LOW 1000 miles from lake county says the vermillion Verroll lion ND freeman a collector called called on a farmer for the payment of a note secured by chattel mortgage the farmer was obdurate and gave no satisfaction that he would ever pay the note finally Ii nally the collector said wen well til have to take the 11 cows cowa named in the mortgage oh no you got a mortgage on 11 cows on this farm why yes I 1 have and the collector pulled out a copy of the mortgage and read as follows one red and white cow one cow spotted red and white one red cow with white spots one cow with white spot in forehead one red cow with two white hind feet one white cow with red spots on side one white and red cow one red cow with two white fore feet on one white ewhite cow with red spot on shoulders one red cow with white spot on hips one white cow spotted wi with thred red now how do you like that continued the collector oh that all right I 1 see youve got 11 mortgages on my old red and white cow there she is davv down n in the pasture the boy swill go do down and help you catch her HOW HE FELLED A TREE scorned to labor with fill hands when brain amin work would C count 0 the man in the country has not the push of the man in the city but he knows more about necess necessity iky as a labor alving machine than the city man an ordinary chicagoan fell into this line of thought the other day as he was returning to the city on a railroad train an accident detained the train out in the woods the chicago man says the chronicle of that city had time to stay and he roamed about in the leaves in doing so his attention was attracted to a man and a horse the horse was harnessed to one end of a long rope the animal was led out the length of the rope the man walked back to a tree the other end of the rope was tied around his waist lie he climbed the tree until he reached the topmost branch then he be untied the end of the rope from his waist and made it secure un on a limb then he d descended esc ended took aff his coat spat upon his hands laid laid hold of an ax handle in the usual way and began chopping at the tree after he had made quite a gash he chucked to the horse at the far end of the rope the man resumed chopping and succeeding every half dozen chops he started up the horse at each start of the horse the top of the tree and the trunk as well inclined by degreef degree to the horse by the time the theman man had cu cut t half into the tree with the horse home still pulling on the rope the tree broke where the cuttin cutting had been made and fell the man h had ad saved himself half the usual labor the te chicago man grunted well ill be darned he aid now if a city man had undertaken to fell a tree he be would have chopped all the way through the hayseed can give us points on a good many things thing sll |