The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-01-29
His Interpretation.

Texas when the Panhandle was vast
cattle range, unbruken by the plow
among the herders was one Jack
Templin. Jack was one of the best
ropers and line riders on the range
He had the appearance and manner
of speech Of the ordinary cowboy win
the single exception that while the
most of the range men INDUCED 10
profuse and unssemly profanity JACK
was religiously inclined and earnestly
DESTROYS of bringing his companions
to see the light as he saw It,
1t occurred to him that In view OF
the fact that there was no resnlar
church within Is miles OF the "Ir'-
angle Bar" camp there ought TO oe
some sort of religious services hs
therefore proposed to organize sun
day school class for the study OF the
Scriptures. There was one thing 10
he said for Jacks plan; 1t offered q
change Of program from the usual
Sunda, routine of poker and seven-up
and the cowboys concluded tnat IL
might be a good thing .
II was therefore quite a class that
gathered at headquarters camp on one
first Sunday. Not only all OF Cne
"Tr,angle Bar" OUTFIT but coco
number from the HalfCircle Diamond
range az we'll. 1t appeared that JACK
possessed the only Bible in the outhb
and 1T was up to him to DO mosC Oh
the talking. He had selected as the
apb,ect for the first lesson the absorb
ing story of Daniel and his aoven-
lures. With the utmost solemity ne
n,oceeded to tell the story 10 the YER
naeular of the camp and the range:
"Now, fellers," he began. Il wisht
that we could had regular parson
N round up the bunch today ana
mavbe nut the gospel brand on some
ef YOU mavericks of sin, but seeiH
that that amt possible am goin
In do the best kin. You fellers nave
bir wastin' your time Elayin' stud
poksr and feedin' your minds between
times with such trash as 'The Iraio
Robber of the Sirras" an "Cress- EVso
Disk. the Terror of the Plains" ana
other garbage Of that kind never even
.usne tim that right here 10 TINS
h,essed book are some Of the bustlnest
best stories any man ever read, better
a DANCED sight that any that you
dough biscuit eaters ever read any
way.
"Here for instance, is the story OF
Daniel which you will say when you
hear it that it is peach. Daniel was
a little Jew kid what was cut oat ana
run off by Nebuchadnezzar when ne
made a dash on Jerusalem and siam
NEEDED Jehoiakim the king of the Jews
and took his range away from him.
Nebuchadnezza wasn't such BAD
lot a. kings went IN them days and
he took some considerable fancy 10
Daniel and three or four other OF the
little Jew kids and concluded That ne
would raise 'em and let 'sm run on
his range along with the rest OF tne
Chaldean boys.
$50 he spoke to his range boss, a
Teller by the name Of Ashpenaz, ana
says to him. Ash I want you TO PICK
out a few Of the most likely OF them
lew kids and raise EN- Aud among
the lot was Daniel and Hananiah ana
Mishasl ond Azaria1. And the King
he says, These here Jew names dont
20 with me, give 'em some othe'
names. So they called Daniel Bellies
hazzar and the other three they called
Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego
The names Of Meshach and Shadrach
and Abednege stuck all right but
Daniel stuck to his own name aud
made 1t wln out, too.
"Wel, Nebuchadnezzar he says to
his camp cook, Feed them boys well,
lat ,em have full feed of meat every
day aud see that they get plenty
Rut Daniel he kicked on the ratlons
and says to the range cook Here we
amt no meat eaters, what we want Is
pleuty OF beans and other vegetables.
Daniel called It, pulse but it was sort
of sucotash. Then the range COOK ne
saws, well. kid, you certainly have
YOUR nerve with you. Don't you know
that the king has ordered you to be
fed on range beef every day SO that
YOU will get fat and shed on nice SO
that the brands on you will be per-
fectly plain? If was to do as you
say my job wouldn't last ever nignt'
"Now,' says little Dan, who was as
,mart az they ever make 'em, what
the king wants reckon, is that we
csme out and make good growth 1
don't want no meat in mine but VIII
tell you what we will do. II you VIII
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