Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-04-26

name, and unable to repeat the vers.
of the Bible, repeated a part of a line
from Milton: The potent rod of Am
rams son, etc.
"Ah," said Randolph, that is the
way you learn your Bible-get it out
of other books, what little you know
of it," and with an exceedingly solemn
manner and tone added: And SO it
is with us all. and terrible proof Of
our deep depravity it is, that we can
relish and remember anything better
than The Book"
This utterance, simple as it was,
filled every one with awe, and made
him feel guilty, while at the same
Bible which was never felt before, and
which, from enc mind at least, was
never effaced. Randolph was so well
pleased with the young man who
quoted from his favorite author, how
ever, that in a short time-as soon,
perhaps as he could get it from Rich
mond-he presented him with beau
tiful copy of Millions Paradise Lost"
with suitable inscription in his own
elegant handwriting.-NewY York Mail.
THE DOG AND THE BONE.
in the ground bone for which ne
dad not seem to have any present
need. have always understood that
he did this on the principle which ac-
tuates a provident man to lay up
something for rainy day." This
may be, though l have never known a
dog to dig up the bone afterward; yet
some persons tell me they have known
him to do this. | should think the
dog must be hard pressed by famine
that would attempt to gnaw bone
covered with clay and dirt, as this
bone must be after being buried in
the ground. If the dog hides it away
through any such provident foresight
as this, 1t must be the slight rem
nant, a mere adumbration, of for
mer instinct of his race. He does not
pursue this practice in the steady,
metnodical way in which an ant or a
bee or a squirrel lays up a stock of
food against time of need. With
him 1t is only a fitful and rare &C.
currence. His long domestication and
the ages through which he has re-
ceived his food from the hand of his
master, have obliterated largely the
sense of this necessity from his mind,
If he may be supposed to have mind.
The fox, when he has had the good
fortune to capture several fowls at
the same time, will, it is said, Sc
crete such as he has no present need
for under a bush or behind log. l
remember that in Rowland Robinson's
pleasant book, Sam Lovel's Boy" a
young fox is represented as doing this.
"He began burying the leg of lamb
In the loose earth, but desisted when
he saw that the eyes of all his mates
were upon him, then unearthed the
falf buried treasure and sought new
hiding place" l do not understand
that the wolf has this food hiding in
stinct. Gilbert White, of Selborne,
says in his quaint way that he had
some acquaintance with tame
brown OWL" which, when full, hid,
like a dog, what he could not eat.
"The origin of most of our domestic
animals" says Darwin, will probably
forever remain vague. But l may be
state" he continues, that, looking
to the domestic dogs of the whole
world, have, after a laborious col
lection of all known facts, come to
the conclusion that several wild spe
cies of Canida have been tanned, and
that their blood, in some cases min
gled together, flows in the veins Of
our domestic breeds" He mentions 8
dog whose great-grandfather was q
wolf, and this dog still betrayed its
; wild ancestry in the fact that it never
, approached its master in straight line
when called. But which species O.
the CANDIDA from which the dog may
have descended mas the food hiding
; instinct or habit have nowhere seer
, stated.-Forest and Stream.