Show BREAKING BAD NEWS GENTLY matter of relative values As understood in holstein in the province of holstein says a traveler who a good deal of his time abroad where of course nothing is more important than the breeding of cattle the country peo pie aze aie riot not only very thrifty but exceedingly cee fond of their cows as aa may be gathered from a charach ei story current there it appears that one farmer was walking sadly eown down the load one day when the village pastor met lihn him why so downcast filand filc nd asked the pastor 1 I have a sad errand pastor replied the daimer farmer henriks cow is dead in ili my pasture and I 1 am on my way to tell him birn A hard task indeed you may well nell say so pastor but I 1 shall hall bleak bieak it to him gently and how low will you do that oil oh I 1 shall tell him first that it Is ills his father who is dead and then having opened the way for sadder news still I 1 shall tell him that it is not his father hut but the cow harpers weekly |