Show HOW LAW GOT ON THE STATUE BOOKS poor weather for skunking remarked one ot of the regular patrons of the stove corner of the store ae as he took his seat and shook the ac of snow from his shaggy whiskers the law to catch en em any way commented the village 9 wise man did you ever hear how taftt law come to be queried the oracle as he bit off a fresh thew shew of navy plug no one had heard of it but the wit of the beer barrel ventured a remark that the offense was raap ran ft and smelled to the canada bordee bord the oracle continued it waa was rev denison of jamestown its a good thing tor for the skunks but it z a joke on the reverend I 1 oil see mr denison was vas formerly pastor of the tho baptist church at cherry creek nod while there he joined the grange and became an active member A while ago he moved up to jamestown and assumed the pastorate of the calvary baptist church of that city he re bained his membership in the tho grange in fact he was a member of union grange which meets in jamestown and which is the largest and livel liveliest test grange in the whole country he was mas a conspicuous member of the grange too being in fact the chaplain what s that got to do with queried one of the group I 1 im m coming to that if you won wont t hurry me continued the oracle do any of you people know rev deni dent son well III describe him tor for you hes he s one of those big openhearted open hearted whole jolly liberal fellow fellows that can be found adorning the minis try in every community and he has a dry fund of humor that among his friends is simply irresistible well one day the grange had been discussing the protection of almost every kind of bird and beast that Is found on the farms and mr denison more as a joke than anything else suggest ed that this protection should be ex tended to skunks the skunk said he with apparent earnestness Is a very useful animal moreover he Is valuable and at the present rate of skunk hunting he will mill soon be exter initiated why not protect him as well as the fowls of the air and the fish of the deep the grangers took this talk very seriously and before the rev deni dent son realized what had happened they were agitating skunk protection laws it its a protecting them all right on the farm they are thicker than due bills in january and even in the city of jamestown the policemen are talking abbit a special skunk drill to enable them to chase the animals down there theres s no mistake about it il you can just wager though that the bev rev denison denion isn t saying much new york evening post |