Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1880-11-05
ROCKVILLE MARYLAND FRIDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 5 sso
THE HEN CONVENTION.

Inc regular and annual convention of the
+ egg manufacturers of the State of Iowa was
held on the closing day of the Des Moines
county fair. 1t was largely attended, and
+ business of great Importance was laid be-
fore 1t by Mrs. Speckleback, the president
who stated that the time had come for re-
arranging prices and the amount of the pro-
Duct. Prices now are such that hen might
slave the life out of her on the nest dav in
and out, and then not get enough ahead to
carry her last brood through the winter.
She hoped the convention would waste no
time in idle cackleations on what ought to
be, but would go right to work and do it, so
as to have matters going on under wise
REIMBURSEMENT before Thanksgiving.
A pert little Bantam in the gallery wanted
to know when Thanksgiving came this year
A motherly old Brahma from the Flint
river, looked at the young cackler pittyingly,
and said, "Necks tweak," in a tone that made
the whole convention SILVER.
The president whetted her beak ON the
table and said, "Comb let us have no more
| 'O'A'J' Aa"'Nh U Jpu hCulu HUH mullltE
Brahma Betsy, the delegate from Mont
gomery, moved that the convention reafflrm
the platform of 1879, Eggs is eggs" accent
heavy on the eggs"
Mrs. Cackle would like to know on which
eggs2
Creepy Jane moved to amend by placing
the accent ON sis"
Madam Dominique suggested that it would
be quite as well, and far more grammatical,
to say eggs are eggs" but she was cackled
down amid the widest excitement, it being
the unanimous voice Of the entire conven-
ton that nobody ever heard such thing.
Dorking Ann, of Lee county, said she
would liked to lay statement before the
convention for investigation and discussion
On the 10th of September she had alone
and unasssted, which fact she now regretted
very much, as it deprived her of witnesses,
laid an egg on the shell OF which appeared
this inscription, "Hanc-"
At this point the delegate was interrupted
by the president, who promptly pecked her
down. "'rhe statement" the president said,
'was entirely too thin 1t wouldntgo down
in an Iowa convention. This sort of thing
never happened except during presidential
campaigns, and by a singular and wonderful
coincidence, nobody, ever saw the wonder
full egg except the hen who laid it, and some
unreliable man. 1t was always broken by
the children or eaten by a horse before any
one else could see it. She had noticed that
the editors themselves who printed these
ridiculous stories never saw the eggs them
selves, and only accepted the unsupported
statement OF some obscure hen or obscurer
man. She hoped the good sense and nteili-
gence of this conyenton would not be trfied
away in any more such mendacious non
sense"
A vote of the convention was then taken
declaring that 1t was the sense of the con
vention that since the day of creation no
hen ever laid an egg with Hancock and
English" inscribed on the shell, and de-
nouncing as a liar, a william and horse
thief any hen that made any pretense Of be-
lieving such monstrous newspaper and hem
roost fables.
Shanghai Sal, of Polk county, regretted |
the tendency Of this convention to unbelief, |
as she herself had had prepared u paper,
somewhat similar in general tenor to the |
one which had just been so severely cen
sured. Sensation and signs of excitement
in the convention. On the 18th of Sep |
TENDER, at ten O'Clock in the morning, she |
also, alone and unassisted, had laid an egg, |
of unusually large size increasing indica-
tons Of excitement and increduity i which,
upon being broken, discovered Il second egg,
perfectly formed, inside the first one, rest
less excitement and preparations for vigor-
Gus expressions Of unbeef, with great diff
ficulty repressed by the firm dcmeanor
of the president and the shell Of this
second egg was plainly inscribed Ithc ex-
element in the convention growing in
the delegates on the desks and
crowding around the speaker, the sergeant
alarms and the president doing their best
TO maintain orderl in large letters Clarified
and Arthur, 1880"
At this point the enthusiasm of the mo-
ment fairly carried the convention off its
feet, the delegations from Des Moines and
Polk counties flew around the room twice,
the galleries were conyulsed with excite
ment and the air was fairly choked with
feathers, and two hens from Dubuque flew
up on the clerks desk and tried TO crow,
and in one wild burst Of cacking Shanghai
Sal was escorted to the presidents desk and
asked what she would takeY
Order being restored, the president said
that delegate SAILS statement sounded some
thing like a statement. That there could
be in the mind of any intelligent hen, no :
doubt she had performed, all unconsciously, {
the marvellous, and, let us trust, phrophetic
wild cackle Of applause feat which she I
bad narrated |, myself, have no doubt that {
am yoicing the sense Of this convention in
aging that Shanghai Sal did lay this Gar
ield and Arthur concentric egg.
A yoice-"And she can do it again - !
The president Enthusiastically believe 5
jhe could, right here, on this table, before c
his convention"
Dorking Ann, Of Lee county, rose TO a I
'oint Of order The statement Of the dele.
gate from Polk county, was, in many par. Z
iculars, similar to her own, which had been
at by the convention as entirely ;,
and She ;,
The president sternly interrupted her, and !
aid that the time Of the convention could -
Iot be irittered away In such idle cacking :,
he two statements differed entirely in the !,
nly vital particular, and the sense of the !
invention was not 10 be called into qucs- !,
lon on such points. :.
Dorking Ann then rose 10 question Of !,
rivilege, but was promptly fined two dozen !,
ggs for contempt, by the president, and the \,
onyention proceeded with routine business y,
Mrs. Poland reported from the commit. -
'e ON comparative philology. The report, !,