The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-02-25

It does beat the Dutch how closely great
men are watched.
BY some means the world has possessed
itself of the knowledge that own an m
cubator, and the result Is that am now
having excellent opportunities for compil-
ing a catalogue of persons desirous or be-
coming rich in the poultry business.
Scarcely day passes that l do not ~
ceivc a letter from somebody wanting .
slice of my golden experience in the line "t
speculative knowledge, that begins with an
old hen and generally ends in the poor
house, if persisted in; and to save hard
work and postage have concluded to pad
this column with little Information that II
judiciously applied will slave off old age
and keep wrinkles in the next county.
There is money in embarrassing II
Won know how to go about 1t. but like
everything else, cermin amount of know
how is necessary to induce eminent sue
cess to come your way. The man who
can't tell a chicken from n gosling had bet
ter remain behind the counter, or stay in
bank until he learns something.
My advice to the novice In poultry rails
ing would be. TO follow it simply for pleas
ure until you acquire a knowledge that will
tell you to go ahead.
Anybody can hatch chickens with an incu-
bator, but it takes large amount of science
and eternal vigilance to raise them. Pat
rick Henry never said anything more true
than his memorable allusion to the price of
a spring chicken and the cost of liberty be-
ing one and inseparable. Patrick 10 doubt
kept few hens himself.
But to the man who goes into the chicken
business simply to find steady employ
ment and lots of pleasure, Tsay, $50 il -
you'll get there in both respects" When
the motive is not mercenary the pursuit is
an unbounded sea of bliss. with islands of
pure delight scattered through il in great
luxuriance.
don't think / ever did anything outside
of religious duty that gave me greater Joy;
though it must be admitted that L made
close carrom toward bankruptcy while doing
1t; and joy, although nice thing to have
around when you want to write poetry, is
not equal to salt pork for keeping a man up
when he has hard work to do.
If you want to be happy and get your ra
as you go along, raise chickens-unless
neighbours division fence is bad-but if yo
want to salt down something that can be
used as collateral after awhile, don't do it.
/ began by trying to raise chickens for
sordid gain that could be jingled in the
pocket, and a more miserable man you
couldn't have found with q constable's
warrant. / then gave it n whirl simply for
fun, and felt glorious right away. 1t makes
all the difference in the world whether your
incentive is moonshne or money.
When l heard the first chick chirp in
my incubator, and realized clear down
TO my boots that 1 was indeed a
mother, and had the documents right
there to prove it, in spite of the cold,
unfeeling fact that / was regarded by the
HI 80
ness, l felt as though l was worth
million dollars; but when, six months
later, 1 had to pawn my overcoat in
mid winter to buy corn meal, / felt that
had been blessed with altogether too much
profuseness in n maternal way to suit the
size of my flour barrel.
long at times to sit down and mediate
on things that have made the world gnaw its
beard for ages, but no man with loaded
incubator can take much time to muse, un-
less he puts cotton in his ears, or gets
dreadful reckless about consequences.
An incubator is one OF the most
remorseless things outside of board
ing school, and for keeping a
man from loafing with the clouds it can
discount both failure of crops and an
iron-clad chattel mortgage.
When you see man with hollow eyes,
haggard cheeks, unshaven face, and lifeless
hair, stumbling around in an aimless,
homeless sort of way, looking as though he
hadn't slept, washed, or combed himself
for month, bet every cent you can rinse
that he owns an incubator which has just
begun to fire its possibilities at him with
desperation of energy that will kill him if
he don't blow the light ont.
That's what 1t means to monkey with
hen-roost on neutrality-suspicious., and as 1
love all mankind want everybody toknow
it. When somebody tells you that the east
est way on earth to get rich with quickness
is to buy an incubator and plunge into the
chicken business, pull down the corner of
your eye and Immediately give him front
view of your back.-Ldge Bropn IN Chi
cugO Ledger.