The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1895-07-05

like the eagle, the dollar Is withdraw.
Ing itself more and more from the
homes Of the people. i.Ag3 G:i 1
(. "but az q national emblem we need
another bird. We need one that will
typify the true character Of the Ameri-
can people. would suggest the hen.
The hen has commercial Importance.
She does not make money herself, but
q person can make considerable money
out Of her IL he knows how to feed
her cheaply and is shrewd enough to
cut her head of when he finds another
hen which will lay satisfactorily on
less grub. Now the eagle never
amounted to anything, industrially,
He locates In some inaccessible place,
and, when he gets anything, It IL
nearly impossible to get It away from
him. In this respect he is truly typl-
cal OF our early settlers. Did you ever
stop to think about the places which
they picked out when they come over
here? They dotted the surface OF New
England with farm houses, and every
one Of them was on north slope COW
cred with rocks. Just 30 with the ca
gle. When he finds q tree that nature
is down on, a tree that has been brok-
en- In two, and struck by lightning,
he builds his nest right there. He
doesn't get much, but what he does
get belongs to him. And outside of
his own family you won't find another
eagle within 10 miles of that place.
The hen, on the contrary, is numer-
Gus whenever found. It Is not worth
while to keep one hen. But, IL one
person has many hens, he can yet a
profit over and above what It costs to
keep them alive. This tendency to
gather In great numbers and to belong
to somebody else marks out the hen
as the coming national bird. ~
what good does 1t do q hen to
lay eggs? Did you ever see a person
Try eggs for hen? Or boil or scramble
them? In short, did you ever see the
hen enjoying the finished product? I
don't think, as they say In New York.
She Just putters along, and tries to
raise family, and to use her own
product IN the way That seems. most
desirable to herself. She doesn't know
very much. or she'd find out before
this that the conditions IRE not IA.
vorable. Once In awhile a hen finds
this ont, and she goes of and lays
eggs where nobody can find them
She wants them all for he rself because
she laid them. That sort of hen n a
crank. And she never makes anything
by 1t. By end by she appears with q.
brood Of chickens, and pretty soon ali
OF them are at work again laying eggs
at market prices for that kind Of
work. That 10 business. but you can't
get an eagle to do 1t. Then, again. the
eagle IL bald; and 1t 10 time TINT the
younger element got some recognition.
III the hen II adopted 40 the nation.
al bird, she would be represented ait.
ting on china egg, When hen eets
mad and quits laying, somebody puts
q china egg in her nest. She thinks II
10 Q. real egg and imagines that She
laid 1t herself. For q day or two She
keeps an eye on It. Shes waiting for
somebody to steal It away from her.
But the prudent person who owns the
hen doesn't do that, The china exR
remains and the hen ID fooled. She
thinks that because she can keep that
china egg everything 10 all right. SO
she goes to work and lays q real egg
on her own account, and the next
ns0raing, after breakfastinG on fried .
chicken the SPACIOUS housewife comeo
ont and gets that real egg for herself. 4
Does she take the china egG, too? L
guess not. She leaves II right there,
I'D the hsu congrstulatss herself on