The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-13
and the other with dyna-

gun-cotton and the other with dyna-
mite.
While you can go out any day in the
week in any state in the union and
find q humble bee waiting around for
somebody to tread on his coat-tails, 1t
| is in MaSsa chusettS that he thriyeg
best. This is because the farmers
hired men in that state welcome and
encourage him. Instead of yelling
/ lung out at q lazy horse or a dawdling
cow they press the button and the
humble bee does the rest. Instances
are not rare where the New England
farmer has used a humble bee to
awaken his hired men at a certain hour
in the morning One jab of the singer
I does better than hitting the sleeping
man with a crowbar. He wakes up
thinking that another war has broken
out with. Spain. A healthy, cheerful
warm corner in the woodshed to pass
the winter will live for two years, and
during that time will lift the heels of
forty boys and men off the ground. but
as a rule they only live one season and
die happy and without making any fuss
over it.
The goat is an animal familiar to
all, but he is less understood than al
most any other animal you can name.
4 If he had been a sheep or a calf he
would have fallen into line and been
respected for what he was, but nature
made him neither. He is a sort OF
betwiXt and between, and he knows 1t
and feels it. The only country where
a goat has a fair show is Persia. The
Persians have an idea that their faith
ers and mothers become goats when
they die, and so they are willing to
give the animals square deal. In all
. other countries the goat is kept busy
a good share of his time in listening to
strong English language and lodging
brick bates. Few people give him
: credit for wisdom, but there is where
. they make a big mistake. He also
has more philosophy about him than
the fox. If a fox is chained to a post
he will break his teeth off trying to
bite through the chain. If a goat
finds himself in that position. he will
/; Immediately eat up the post and chain
: and thus secure his freedom. He ap-
> petite for old cans. bottles and lengths
of stove pipe have often been re-
ferred to- He does not devour those
could have what he wanted to eat he
! would never be found nosing around.
It is hunger that drives him to climb
upon a shed and nibble at the bricks
! OF chimney, and one who sees a
goat swallowing an old corset or a
stove leg should not turn the incident
into ridicule.
While the sheep or the calf display
a liking for a human being who treats
! them with kindness. the goat Is one
I of the most affectionate of animals.
Instances have been quoted where they
have died broken hearted soon after
y the death O child. and words OF
G kindness and sympathy to an erring
q eyes.
q While always as cheerful and roll
= licking as he can be expected to be
O under the circumstances, and while
5 generally willing to give the small boy
r more than half of the road and let
. MIN turn all the hand-springs and
, the goat becomes a dangerous ANNA
. He gets to thinking that he is not a
+ goat with whiskers and tail, and thai
4 ne can never get an advance of wages
o no mater how hard he works and dis.
- satisfaction breeds a case of the slIIx
p lie then enters a back yard some
: mouse where he knows they have 6
# boy about twelve years old around
o ana ana ne goes into ambush to surprise
;. Tommy comes out after while to tun.
= nle around on the velvet grass and
/, he hears bleat. catches sight of a Ait.
ing shadow. and the next thing hs
- the head and sent him clear back to ths
: doorsteps Nature did not give the goa
j teeth or claws to attack with but shv
r, furnished him with head about as hars
/ - Soopiestone, and people who have
IS afs Of i force OF It are never agar
: IS an easy matter to bring about n zk.t
- between two goats and see one of therY
week
n ana II Is also easy to coax a goat to but
IS grlndstone that will give him a head
? acne Tor month in consequence, but nt
Is boy or man with the right feeling in nj,
: heart will do this. - M
- 1t is hard enough to be a goat withau
a having to bear additional burdens- ~
i, may, and he sometimes does live to b,
at q thousand years old. At least the sam,
2 old goats are to be found around cerf111-
2 after century, but if he were treated ..
- ne should be, his life would be one ions
~ sunshiny day instead of the cloud
y weather which surrounds most Of he a.