Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1886-10-02
A FATHERS LETTER.

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way. your mother and me. We ar,
neither of us real well, and yet | sup
pose we are rs well as folks are at oul
time OF life could expect 10 be. You
mother has 4 good deal of pain in heI
side all the while and am off my feed
more or less in the morning. Doe has
fixed me some condition powders
that he says will straighten Inc out
right away. Perhaps so. Doc has
Strengthened out good many people
in his time. wish had as many dol
lars as he has Strengthened out our peo-
pie.
Most every spring I've had to take a
little dandelion root limbercd up with
gin. but this year that didn't seem to
get there, as the boys say. | fixed up
dose of it day and night for a week
till wore that dandelion root clear
down TO skin and bone, but in ten days
my appetite was worse than ever and
had head on me like a two-year- old
colt. Dandelon root never served me
that way before, and your mother
thinks that the goodness is all out of it,
may be. It's the same old dandcliOn
root that I've been using for twenty
wears, and | believe when YOU have
tried a thing and proved it's good, you
orient to change Off
tried 10 get your mother 10 take q
dose of il last week for the pain in her
side. Fixed mp II two-quart jug of il
for her, but she cant bear the smell of
gin, so ! had 10 take it myself. Dan
delion is great purifier of the blood,
Henry. Some days after have been
taking this dandelion root for an hour
or two feel rs if my blood was pretty
near pure enough. | feel like a new
man.
You know | wrote you last winter.
Henry. that ] was going TO buy some
new-fangled hens in the spring and go
into the egg business. Well, sent east
in March for couple of fowls, one of
each sect. They came ut 50 per pair
over and above railroad charges, which
was some S3.4j on top of that
thought that as soon as the hen got
here and got her things off and got
rested she would proceed to lay some of
these high-priced eggs which we read
of in the Poultry Keepers GUide and
american EggiSt. But she seemed
pensivc, and when | tried TO get ac-
guainted with her she would cluck in
croupy tone of voice and 60 away.
The rooster was no doubt tine-look-
ing brute when he was shipped, but
when he got here he strolled around
with preoccupied air and seemed to
feel above us. He was poker-dot
rooster, with gray name and tail. and
he was no doubt refined, but did not
think he should feel above his business,
for We are only plain people who are
accustomed to the self-made American
hen. He seemed bored all the time,
and | could see by the way he acted
that he pinned to be back in Fremont,
o., having his picture taken for the
Poultry Keepers GUIDE and american
EggiSt. He still yearned for approba-
ton. He was used TO being made of,
as your mother says, and it CALLED him
TO enter into our plain, humdrum home
life
never saw such a naughty rooster
in my life. Actually, when | went out
to feed him in the morning, he would
give me cold, arrogant look that hurt
my feelings. | know I'm not what
you call an educated man nor polish
ed man, though | claim TO have a son
that is both of such things, but hate
10 have q rooster crow over me because
he has had better breeding than have.
so there was no love lost between us,
as you can see.
Directly | noticed that the hen began
to have spells of vertigo. She would
have spells of standing on corner of
the hen retreat reverting to her JOYOUS
childhood at Fremont, o., when all ut
once she would fall senseless on the earth
and there lie prone upon the sward, to
use these words of great writer
whose address has been mislaid She
would remain in this comytoes for be-
tween five minutes, perhaps. Then she
would rally little, slowly pry open
her large, mournful eyes, and seem TO
murmer where am II"
could see that she was evading the
eggs issue in every way and ignoring
The great object of which she was Gre
ated. With the ability to Law EGGS
worth from "a to S475 per dozen de-
'ered on the cars. | could plainly see
that she proposed 10 roll up this great
talent in napkin aud play the invalid
net. i do not disguise the fact. Henry.
That was mad. | made large rect
angular aililavid in the inner temple of
The borsc-barn that the poker-dot hen
should never live 10 say that had sent
her TO the seashore for her health
when she was cminen;ly fitted by ma
ture TO please the public with her Law
therefore gave her two weeks 10
decide on whether she should contri-
butte few of her meritorious articles
or insert herself into chicken pie.
She still continued naughty to the
last moment. So did her pardner We
therefore treated ourselves to 80 din
ner in April.
l then got some expensive eggs from
the efiete east They were not robust
eggs. They were laycd during time
of great depression, judge. So they
we're that way themselves also. They
came by express, and were injured while
being transferred at Chicago. No one
has travelled over that line of railroad
since
do not say that The eggs were bad,
Lnt say that their instincts and their
inner life wasn't what they ought to
have been.