Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-08-05

TnG HIN WITH A RADIANT SMILE.
hens show signs OF hypochoodria Tbs
glad aud careless laugh is no longer
heard. / see more pale, languid hens
hens that are Still young, yet with al
sir OF age and sepllity, prematurelY
aged aud tough.
am lea TO believe that there isa
cause for this, aud 4 SINGLE one.
A year $40 bought 10 plain pui'es
OF man who lives at Hogg's Mock, Is
miles away. He delivered them Ga the
following day, he and his son bringing
them on foot In four buRches Of four
each, with legs tied together like par
csl OF spring onions. For Is miles they
had come, with their beads hanging
Gown and the blood rushing TO their
brains.
As r,st, tlCse hens are uoticea-
BILE for Their im aired intelleet. u Is
almost pathes % watch them dawdling
their lives aw. or cackling vacantly to
each other, whde the rising generation
seems even more silly than the older
ones.
Whore is the leading hen ~ The To-
re TO come from? Where shal! We 20
t, lind the typical American hen? These
questions must somo day bo met square
Iy, and row is the time. ask my TEL
low ornlthologIst. TO join with me In
rescuing from destruction the threaten
ed Intellects of our rising hens.
So intellectually deficient has the
American hen become recently that she
is to-day the dry nurse for the turkey
the duck, the guinea hen and tho
goose. What other fowl would qaletly
aud even chserfullY hatch and rear ths
castoff children OF other barhyaFa
fowls What warm blooded mammal
is so far lost 20 decent pride as TO os-
como founding asylum for the gan
der, the type and symbol OF cheerful
idiocy.
What other fowl would without COM
ulaipt forego her Vacations In order 10
sit for elk weeks on a chid's Tin dogP
What other class or genus OF the Sruto
creation. aside from congress. Is cOn-
tent 10 sit its life away without tengi-
bic result? What mammal, aside from
the hen, will sit all summer gazing In
to space and then come forth win RAJ
diaut smile and with nothing to sho"
for II but hot doorknoo or an amend
msnt?
Probably one OF the most exhaustive
works on ornithology, and one that has
begullded many weary hour FOR me
when the long, long summer days hung
warm aud pulseless on the Blue Ridge
mountains,is small volume,or booklet.
by Professor Parker, entitled zine
OsteoloRy OF Balpniceps."
II has wiped away tho collected cob
webs OF centuries, and for one can
truthfuIly say that all TO mo now 10
clear; Balaniceps have no secrets now
from me. All one calm summer night
a few weeks ago, while . large owl 10
the porte cochero OF our country housS
sang a solemn song, and big beetle
Weighing three-fourths OF pound oc-
caslonally bumped his broad forehead
against my own. read OF the lifo aud
times OF the Bal1nlceps
Professor Parker IL also tho writer or
1.-THE Ostleoogy Of .GallInaceous Birds
and Tinamous." This Is not so eXcit-
ing. however, as the other work just
mentioned. But II you want something
to take with you TO the seashore there's
nothing better than Professor Parkers
little work entitled "On the Skull OF the
EgIthognathous Birds" IL takes
line OF treatment similar 10 my trea-
tIse. read before the School Of Sclenti-
&c Research Of Erin Prairie. entitled
"Phrenology OF the Dodo Bro foona
In the Zebbug Cave"
Ia 1868 Professor Parker published
long and interesting work entitled "On
the Systematic Position OF the Crested
screamer." This Is an earnest aud
truthful work, ADD have never regard
ed life since / read IL with the same
dull apathy that did before.
Professor Huxley 10 1867 delivered .
course Of lectures on ornltholosy which
surely aroused more interest Ia the sub
isct than anything since the days OF
Ruffon. He more clearly CLASSIFIED tho
entire bird world than any previous
scientist. but did not enter into the dis.
cugsion OF diseases OF domestic fowls, az
/ wish that he had done.
Scientists are not as general thing
practical Why should We study the
chronology OF fossil birds when theirs
are so many more vital questions COZ.
uected With the growth and decay Of
useful poultry?
For instance, the laying capacity OF
q robust men during the period Of her nat
uraI life is estimated at 800 eggs. while
the potato bug lays 10 one seaon OF .
few weeks over 100000. Why should
not a man Of Professors Hurley's grea.
scope OF mind, instead Of cropping among
the fossils OF prehistoric poultry and
studying the psculiaritIes sof birds long
since extinct, have turnsd bis attention
to grating the. potato bog upon The B0f
Cochin, thus flling the land with plenty
and sndearirg his memory to grateful
people? :,
Bu:Ihays called The attention OF
sciences 70 this matter before only 20 bs
scorned and laughed at By those who
should have better sense.
We live 10 a practical axe. Why DO
not our modern scientists turn their az
tsntiop 70 the revival OF the unicorn a.
a cavalry horse Ia case Of strikes aud
MODS or revive the fried pbenlx sand
wlch at railway eating works? There
is money 10 IT.
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