The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-07-31
He Has . Hen that Runs His Paper
With Great Sue
cess.
She Bosses tho Whole Concern
to the Degree Of Autoo-
racy.
Triumph Over . Fraud and Other Ene-
mies-Last and Greatest, Over
Balky Mule.

1t9 8OlVOE III u O61lS -A0UOc0 A04Ays GNA
tor Daily lives on . farm in the suburbs ans
minRles agriculture with journalism. He j
assisted in both callings BY guinea hen Of
rare accomplishments. When Mr.. Daily il
busy with his pen or his scissors tho guine,
hen is always at the Office to assure him by
her presence, and when ne Is speeding tn
pillow Or sailing thecattle she IS with him to
see that all goes we'll, says the Richmond
Ind. correspondent Of the New York Sun
The News is supposed to sbe put to press
promptly at O'clock on Wednesday after.
noon. As that hour approaches the guinea
hen struts and parades about the composing
room in growing state Of uneasiness and
noisy officiousness. She pipes shrill
orders first to one compositor and
then to another, jaws at the proof-reader,
and screeches harshly the man who is
making upit 1.-THE forms. If the Office
clock strikes and the forms are not on the
press the hen becomes wild, and frequently
emphasizes her displeasure at the delay by
such fierce peckings at the legs or even
hands of the printers that Editor Daily has
to be appealed to to take her to the sane
tum and keep her there. The men in the
office once struck in body agains the
tyranny of this feathered associate editor
of the News, and the proprietor had to
grant an increase Of wages all around to
save his pet her situation. The moment the
paper is on the press and being printed the
guinea hen becomes as gentle and quiet
as can be, and after q stately and import
ant survey Of the establishment to assn! 9
herself that everything is moving along
smoothly, she retires to the editors room
>contcnted.
A GOOD many of the subscribers to the
News call at the Office for their papers. The
guinea hen knows some of these subscr1 beers,
and if she is there when they come in sue
will pick up paper in her bill and carry 1t
to them. 4 subscriber that the hen is in the
LcN - hu~1inn hic nan tn mt her
vigilance to the test, and after receiving his
naper and going out with it returned to see
il the Guinea hen would hand him second
copy. She made no move to do 80, and the
subscriber picked up paper. The hen
flew at him fiercely and he dropped the
proprietor of the News was there for bust
ness.
This guinea hen hates the exchange fend
of the country printing Office, and she has
to be we'll acquainted with anyone If he can
tumble the exchanges about in the News
test. The owner of this wonderful guinea
hen says that he believes he could teach her
to set tyne, and that he could send her out
to collect bills for him, but he doesn't want
to strain her capacity.
Editor Daily's guinea hen has whipped
ventured in or near the News Office. in
GLIDING bull dog of great local fighting
fame. She fights with feet. beak and wings,
all at once, adding to the ferceness of her
assaults by a fusilade of screeches, shrieks
and yells that old hunters say would frighten
The dogs know the guinea hen SO we'll that
noae will walk past the printing Office on
that aide of the street, and hasten by at full
speed even on the opposite side.
At the farm this guinea hen lords it over
every living thing. A pretentious game
10 mileslfcll into the possession OF Farmer
Daily few weeks ago, and at once protested
against the supremacy of the guinea hen in
that department of the farm. The hen
pitched in and licked him in less than Is
seconds, and the cock accepted the yoke in
common with the rest of the flock:
A few days ago, however, the guinea hens
genius came out SO strong in dealing with
characterization on the farm that all her
former achievements seem small in compar.
ison in Farmer Daily's estimation, A
neighbor had young and aforementioned
mule, which would have been an animal to
command big price had it not been for an
unfortunate habit it had of baking and
staying baked indefinitely at just the times
when contrary course was of the greatest
Importance. Farmer Daily admired the
mule, and would have bought it but for
this lamentable trait. A week or 60 ago,
however: the mules owner offered the ami
low price that the farmer bought it, balk
and all. Before attempting to use the mule
Farmer Daily treated it with the most alb
iect consideration, and really pampered it
in its stall. At last he ventured to try it at
plawing corn. He harnessed it to the pillow
and started in, the guinea hen going along
to see how things turned out. The mule
plowed two or three burrows in a
way that no animal on the farm
ever approached. and Farmer Daily
began to think that he had secured prize
field, the mule stopped. Farmer Daily
coaxed and whipped and prodded and
coaxed again, and waited in silence at in
tervals the mules pleasure, but that pleas
ure seemed to continue standing in the hot
corn field until the Judgment day, unmind-
full of kind words, sharp lash or patient
Waiting. The farmer spent an hour in this
fruitless procedure. The guinea hen had
remained quiet and impressive spectator
OF the struggle. But at last the hen thought
it was time for some one to take hand in
the resumption of operations in the corn
field, and she walked around the mule
couple of times, looking the stub
born beast over with critical eye.
Then suddenly she let 90 shrek and
q yell and scream all in one, and
FLEW at the mule, landing on his neck
bust behind the ears. She held on to
his bristlinR name and drove her sharp
bill first into one ear and then deep
into the other. keeping up the fierce peck
ing as fast as she could swing her head, and
never letting up on her shrill shrieking.
The mule threw up his head at the guinea
ben first assault, shook it violently and
Mapped his long ears to and fro like pendu-
ums. But the hen hung on and pecked