The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1885-12-24
ARCHITECTURE.
How 10 Mako a Hen Coop.

How TO Make a Hen Coop.
Architecture, when taken In ITS
widest sense, may be regarded eth
er from an artistical, a scientific OF
a Unitarian point of view. In the
first case as means of giving ex-
ternal form and sensible expression
to mental conceptions or ideas, it is
branch of aesthetics and takes,
rank with sculpture and painting
in the second casa. it consists in a
knowledge of certain laws of phys,
icaI nature, and consequent pow
er of calling them INTO play, or
counteracting their operation, and
is consequently branch of that
wider department of science to
which the name of mechanics is Civ
en-: whereas in the last it. becomes
a practical art, which has for its OBJ
ject the application of the princi
pies. both artistic and scientific.
which architecture embraces, to the
|elevation of national and individual
character, and the increase ofphys
ical comfort and well being of man
kind. But though it admits of be-
ing thus analyzei or separated in
thought, it must not be imagined
that architecture can exhibit in
practice any of these principles to
the exclusion of others. The alb
stract conception of all pcrvading
Deity, as embedied in the Greek
temple-the religious aspiration af
Ter a personal god, as shadowed
forth in the Gothic cathcdral-can
be realized only i'll accordance with
the principles Of mechanics, and
most rigorous adaptstion of means
to ends whereas In an opposite
direction. the kraal of the Hotten,
tot. the hut of the Indian, tho den
Of the ciitor, if properly construct
ed for their respective purposes,
will ba found to have obayc;l such
ms:hetical principles as they my
have come in contact with. Thus
IN the construction of a Hen Coop.
the came rules of science and asthet
;cs combined with she practical
branch of mechanics. ana with the
advantages of the advanced and
progressive culture of modern CIV
llization. ali the elements may be
brought into requisition and the i'm
proved facilities develop higher
degree of cultured favor in the hen,
her eggs and her offspring.
Our BUSINESS MANAGER,
Bro. Willard, has been thus en-.
gagged for the last three weeks. To
every inquiry for his whereabouts,
tie same answer has been given. No
matter. however important. no in-
duccment however great, could dis
tract bis attention from the archi-
tecturaI labor with which he was
engaged. Willard was engaged in
labor of love. The peace, felicity
and Improvement of his royal brood
of blooded poultry was endangered.
The rigorous winter was upon them
and the admiring eyes of Roches
ter's piebeian chanticleer were
glaring through the fence cracks,
boding no good to the welfare of
tho blue blood and aristocratic gen
eology of the future generations of
tho Willard brood. Once the bold
bigamisr few over the fence, and
with an assurance and impudence
born of low and degraded nature,
be threw his strong, vulgar, pleblan
form against the slender, dudy, |
aristocratic Brigham Young of |
WilIard's poultry yard and basely
varquished him, drove him into a
remote corner of the yard, took
possession of his high. bred harem,
and solomon in..ail his glory never
strutted and swellei about as did |
this ignople, overgrown buccaneer
of low degree. The half-starvcd |
cats of Parson Gould would creep
into the yard and snatch from the
bills of the pensive pullets, the
mathematically prepared morsel.
Jack Mitchell's pup aud Colonel
Mul!en's oI dog met and made ac-
quaintance daily in the hennery,
TO the CONSERVATION of the quiet
cluicks.
The Small Boy with accustomed
festivity would hail gravel upon their
yellow ankles from his 'snigger
shooter" 10 See the chickens dance.
Over these unhappy circumstances
Brother Willard pondered until his
broad brow was scanned like "war's
wrinkled 'front.'" and his venerable
form was bent beneath the trouble
that had fallen upon him. At last
a happy thought formulated with
In his fertile brain and his form
again became erect and stately and
the storm passed from his serraled
brow, and with it came that glori-
GUS expression that the limners give
to the hero and victor. He would
build a COOP. Not a vulgar ordin-
AIRY chicken coop, but a pala tial ed
lfice OF majestic. proportions and
architectural design,a prop
er domicile for the dainty fowls of
his patrician brood. He would
have facade and Doric columns.
and CORN THAN capitals and entab-
lo al