Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-09-25
An Experience With Chickens.
Bill Nye in Chicago News.


ing along here at home in the same
old way, your mother and me. We
are neither of us real well, and yet /
suppose we are as well as folks at our
time of life could expect to be. Your
mother has good deal of pain in her
side all the while, and 1 am off my
feed more or less in the morning. Doc
has fixed me up some condition pow
ders that he says will straighten me
out right away. Perhaps SO. Doc
has Strengthened out good many
people in his time. L wish / had as
many dollars as he has Strengthened
out people.
Most every spring I've had to take
n little dandelion root, limbered up
with gin, but this year that didn't
seem to get there, as the boys say. 1
fixed up dose of it, and took it day
and night for week, till 1 wore that
old dandelion root clear down to skin
and bone, but in ten days my appe-
tite was worse than ever, and / had a
head on me like 2-year-old colt.
Dandelion root never served me that
way before, and your mother thinks
that the goodnes is all out of it, may
be. It's the same old dandelion root
that I've been using for twenty years
and I believe when you've tried a
thing, and proved it's good, you ort-
ent to change off.
l tried to get your mother to take a
dose of it last week for the pain in
her side. Fixed up two-quart jug
of it for her, but she can't bear the
smell of gin, so I had to take it my
self. Dandelion is great purifier OF
the blood, Henry. Some days after
I've been taking this dandelion root
for an hour or two, feel as if my
blood was pretty near pure enough,
/ feel like new man.
You know wrote you last winter
Henry, that was going to buy some
new-fangled hens in the spring, and
60 into the egg business. Well, ]
sent east in March for a couple o.
fowls, one of each sect. They came
at 50 per pair over and above railroad
charges, which was some $4.35 more
on top of that.
I thought that as soon as the her
got here and got her things and go
rested she would proceed to lay some
of these here high-priced eggs which
we read about in the Poultry Keepers
Guide and american Eggist. But sh'
seemed pensive, and when I tried Il
get acquainted with her she would
chick in croupy tone of voice ant
60 away.
The rooster was no doubt a fine
looking brute when he was shipped
but when he got here he strollet
around with preoccupied air ant
seemed to feel above us. He was
poker-dot rooster, with gray man
and tail, and he was no doubt refined
but did not think he should fee
above his business, for we are onl,
plain people who are accustomed t
the self-made American hen. HI
seemed bored all the time, and
could see by the way he acted that h
pined to be back in Fremont, Ohio
having his picture taken for tn
Poultay-KeeperS' Guide and america
EggiSt. He still yearned for approbs
ton. He was used to being made O.
as your mother says, and it gale
him to enter into our plain, humdruI
home life.
never saw such a hauty rooster i
my life. Actually, when [ went OF
to feed him in the morning he woul
give me cold, arrogant look thu
hurt my feelings. / know I'm nc
what you call an educated man ne
apolished man, though I claim t
have a son that is both of said thing
but / hate to have a rooster crow owe
me because he has had better adval
tages and better breeding than Ihav
So there was no love lost between l
as you can see.
Directly / noticed that the hen b
gan to have spells of vertigo. ST
would be standing in a corner of IL
hen retreat, reverting to her joyol
childhood at Fremont, Ohio, when a
at once she would "fall senseless q
earth, and there lie prone upon IL
sward," to us the words of the gres
writer whose address has been mi
laid. She would lay in this comyto
condition for between five minut
perhaps, then she would rally a lit
slowly pry open her large mounf
eyes, and seem to murmur, swine