Not To Be Resisted

Some years ago, at a session of the legisl ature of Kentucky, an effort to repeal the law offering a bountyon foxes' scalps was made, bnt was defeated by the appeal of a member from a rnouutainous and sparsely settled región. "Do the gentlemen want to deprive my constituents and rne of the beucfits of hearing the gospel preached?" he deinanded, with indignation in his toue and overspreading his rugged countenance. "We are all Methodists up my way, aud our preachers won't come without we can give 'em chickens, I know. We can't raise chickens unless the foxes are killed by somebody, that's sure, and there ain't anybody that can afford to spend their timehunting foxes and get nothing to pay for it. "So, gentlemen, if you repeal this law, yon'll bedeprivingmy coiistitueuts of the benefit of heariug the gospel preached. That's the way it looks to me!" This reasoning was too inuah for the legislature, and for the time beins the