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Show Senator Gore's Chicken Yarn. Senator Gore of Oklahoma is given credit for this story, told on his recent visit to a Methodist convention at St. Joseph. It is delated by the Rev.. Mr. Williams,' pastor of the Baptist church of Pleasant Hill, who happened to hear it. According to Senator Gore, there was art accomplished hen with a brood of chickens five roosters and five pullets. The chicks matured and went their various var-ious ways, while the mother hen busied herself with a new brood. In course of time Methodist ministers came into the vicinity of Chickenville to hold a conference, con-ference, and, as might be suspected, th five young roosters, fat, yellow-legged and extremely tender, were feasted upon by various and sundry preachers. The young pullets, left behind, were met by the mother hen a day or so later. "My children," she asked, "where are you brothers?" "They have entered the ministry." Bracing herself from the shock of disclosure a look of resignation spread over Biddy's countenance as she replied: re-plied: "Well, my dears, perhaps it is all for the best. They would not have made very good lay members, anyway." Kansas City Star. , ' |