Dr. Dirk Diephuis, pastor of the Swedenborgian Church, sends us a clipping from an Amsterdam newspaper, which he translates. It is interesting reading:

EEN WEERSTREVENDE KOE.

Gistermiddag zou te Middelburg een 49-jarige slagersknecht in de centrale slachtplaats een koe slachten. Op het oogenblik, dat hij het schot wilde afvuren, stootte de koe hem met den kop het pistool uit de handen. Door den val ging het schot af en trof den man in den bulk. Deze was dadelijk dood.

(Translation)

A RECALCITRANT COW.

Yesterday afternoon a 49-year-old employee of the central packing house at Middelburg intended to kill a cow. Just when he was ready to fire the gun, the cow, with its head, pushed the weapon out of his hand. As it fell to the floor, it went off and the man was shot in the abdomen. He died at once.

Dr. Diephuis writes. "The matter may be somewhat out of your line as a columnist, but isn't it remarkable how little the sense of news value? The item appears on Page 5 of a twenty-six page newspaper, under 'Miscellaneous News Items.' The man's name is not even mentioned. Wouldn't an American paper give this item a front-page position with a headline like this, 'Cow Shoots Man?" --St. Louis Globe-Democrat.