The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1886-09-10
slLL NyE TO HIS SON.
ae Relates iIis Experiences i'm the Chfchen
IA ~ Industry. 5s{5ff

MY DEAR Son: We are SflH peggIng 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 wen as folks
ut our time of life could expect IT, be. Your
mother has good deal of pain in her side all
the while and I am of my feed more or less
In the morning. Doc has fixed me up some
condition powders that he says win straighten
me out right away. Perhaps so. Doc has
traightened out good many people IN his
time wish had as many dollars as he has
straightened out people. ...s.
Most every spring I've had to take little
iandelion root, limbered up with gin, but
this year that didn't seem 10 get there, as the
boys say. 1 fixed up dost or it and took il
day and night for week till | wore that old
aandelion root clear down to skin and bone.
but in ten days my appetite was worse than
sver and had head Oh me like a 2-year-old
colt Dandelion root never served me that
way before and your mother thinks that the
goodness is all out of it, may be. It's the
ame old dandelion root that I've been using
Tor twenty years, and believe when you've
Tied thing and proved it's good, you orient
10 change off. 81s
I tried to get your mother to take dose Of
t last week for the pain in her side. Fixed
ap two-quart jug of it for her, but she can't
bear the smell Of gin, SO had to take it my
lef. Dandelion is great purifier OF the
blood, Henry. Some days after have been
aking this dandelion root, for an hour ortwo
[ feel as il my blood was pretty near pure
enough. feel Ikea new man. G
You know wrote you last winter, Henry,
That was going to buy some new-fangled
hens in the spring and go into the egg bust
ness. Well, / sent east in March for couple
f fowls, one of each sect. They came at 80
per pair over and above railroad charges,
which was some 81. So more on top Of that.
I thought that as soon as the hen got here
md got her things off and got rested she
would proceed to lay some of these here high
priced eggs which we read of in The Poultry
Keepers' Guide and American Eggkt. But
The seemed pensive, and when l tried to get
acquainted with her she would cluck in a
Toupy tone of voice and go away.
The rooster was no doubt fine-looking
brute when he was shipped. but when he got
aere he strolled around with preoccupied
lir and seemed to feel above us. He was a
,oker-dot rooster, with gray name and tail,
and he was no doubt refined, but I did not
hink he should feel above his business, for
We are only plain people, who are accustomed
10 the self-made American hen. He seemed
oored all the time, and could see by the
way he acted that he pined to be back in FREE
mont, o., having his picture taken for The
Poultry Keepers Guide and American Egg
St He still yearned for appreciation. He
Has used to being much made of, an your
mother says, and it CALLED him to enter into
,ur plain, humdrum home life
never saw such naughty rooster in my
life. Actually, when / went out to feed him
N the morning he would give me cold, ar
,ogant look that hurt my feelings. know
I'm not what you would call ali educated
nan nor polished man, though claim to
nave SON that is both of said things, but l
late to have a rooster crow over me because
,e has had better advantages and better
breeding than have. So there was NO love
ost between us, as you eau see.
Directly noticed that the hen began to
nave spells of vertigo. She would be stand
ng in corner Of the hen retreat, reyerting
% her joyous childhood ut Fremont, o., when
ill at once she would ssfaf senseless on the
arth and there lie prone upoI. the sward.
She would remain III this coInytoes condition
or between five minutes, perhaps. Then she
would rally little, slowly pry open her large,
nournful eyes and seem To inuiiiilir, Where
I'm IT
/ could see that she was evading the egg
ssue in every way and ignoring the great oh
ject for which she WAS created. With the
lbility TO lay eggs worth from 81 to S5.75 per
iozen delivered on tile cars, | could plainly
zee that she proposed to roll up this great tai
nat in a napkin and play the invalid act.
10 not disguise the fact, Henry, that | was
mad l made large rectangular affidavit
a the inner temple Of the horse barn that
his poker-dot hen should never live TO say
hat had sent her TO the seashore for her
health when she was emineutly fitted by liii-
a1re to please the public with her lay.
therefore gave her two weeks to decide on
whether she would contribute few of her
neritorious articles or insert herself into
,hicken pie. sa9a L ta ~
She still continued naughty to the last
So did her pardner. We there
lore treated ourselves to 50 dinner in April.
then got some expensive eggs from the
sffete east. They were not robust eggs
they were layed during time of great de-
preston, judge. do not say that the eggs
we're bad, but / say that their instincts and
heir inner life wasn't what they i,ught to
,ave been
8 In early May bought one of those inky-
,aters that does the work OF ten setting hens.
hoped to head off the hen SO far as possible,
imply purchasing her literary efforts and
xliting them to suit myself. cannot endure
he society of a low-bred hen, and refined
len seems to look down ON me- and SOL
hough If could get one Of these ottymatic
nkybaters | could have the whole process
lnder my own control, and il the bloofed
lens wanted to 60 to the sanitaritim and sit
round there with their haiifs in their
,ockets while the great hungry world of
raffic cllinored for more spring chickens
ried in butter, they might do 81 amt beldog;
,oned.
Thereupon I bought one OF the medium
ize. two-story hatclless, and loaded it with |
ggs Inmy dreams could IL long pro-
ession of fuzzy little chickens marching out
i my little inkybater, arm i'll arm, every day |
r two. was dreaming one of these dreams
light before last, at midnight's holy hour, |
yhen was rudely awakened by q gallon of
old water in one of my ears. arose In the
arkness and receiyed . squirt OF cold water
through the window FROM our ever watchful /
nd courageous fire department. I opened
he easement for the purpose OF thanking
hem for this little dem0nsrra alton, wholly un-
olicited ON my part, when discovered the
emery was in flames, went down 10 assist
he department. We saved the other build
ngs, but tbs hatchery is d mass of snioldering
uins. So am ]. It seems that the kerosene
amp whicla / kept burning in the inkybater
or the purpose of maintaining an even teni-
erature, aid also for the purpose OF showing
he chickens the way to the elevator in case
hey should hatch out IN the night, had
orched up and ignited the hatchery, so to
peak,
Isee by my paper that we are importing
Qe 0O0 900 of hens' eggs from Europe every
ear It'll be 300, 900, 900 next year SO FAR as
IN concerned, Henry, and you can bet your
title pleated jacket on it, too, II You want to.
To-day send p O. order No. i43, $40 for
$50. agree with the Bible that 'sThe fool
nd bis money are soon parted. Your
ather. Bill NYe in Chicago News