The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-04-15

over the NorwrgianS bringing alcohol into the
valley which Is a Prohibition community, pn'
The incubators Mere set going ~ a cost Ol SZo
each for eggs and for three weeks NE AR MAJ
hllei with discussion and pr'd,Cn.ns ,h'
quit. him and left him high and dtf upon We
sandbar Of %rec,itude. To a brggarly array 81
empty. benches he preached q sardonic sefnlnr
On Blessed are the peaccmakers Tor they 'hail
inherit the earth" Az he vas dependent cn
urcly upon his congregation and bis congrc
less queen. the WondrOus Mother. The Dinkl
PhenOm or the Blue Hen, the y uality ol Ms mental
anguish was not strained
Perrhance matters would have simmcr"d down
and q hollow truce been patched w II Ur women
had not taken a hand When the Women "l
a countryside take a hand there v u mutAI ON
recriminalion. Old scandals deed and buried
tt many a year were hikcd OUT 81 we gt.lc
And walked abroad in ghos,ly crrrmen,s Mi.
polhemus cast severe rejection. up'p the hGuse
keeping abilities Of Mrs. SwagErrt, Mrs. S"hg
CERT said that Mrs; Tinker had once thought
to much Of Nj ~Swasgett; Mn llnklrf ~"
nounc"d that Mrs, Sarah Guml'v, lrasuI 7
Of the ! aides Aid Society, had never accounted
Tor all Of the money taken n! ana MIS- huU.,y
evened up matters by publishing, a card IN the
county paper. threatening TO hale MIS- rome
cookies for a dance and been disresreciiul 10
the pastor. Az one Of the men folk ieeiingly
put i, they had 50 much trouble that II was 700
much trouble To say trouble, 81 they called
IL "iroub" fr shnr,
At the end Of four weeks reports were due from
all 81 TIE incubalors and should have Teen HANGED
into Vi Scrlmshaw, he S'oreheei er' Who Was u"
only urinvulved man In tie valley oie by one
the incubator owners declared tina, Me hrst hatch
ing had met tleir most unbptlnded expectations,
and that their yards were then vocal With the
Itepings of The chicks. All the same, II was
%io,lcea bic that III. postmaster was kclN nusy
making out money orders i"r more RgN ms
lasted for three months, tie money orders growing
fewer in numler Finally hey ceased alngeifer
knut knut knuison showed up, loaded t.. tie
guards with neat alcohol, aud anNl",isly %lnquiring
the { hicaEo address Of the Blue Hen man, :" that
he might In certain TO find HIM when lie went To
the city 10 whip hin. Then followed a convention
Of The victims of II Waldo Emerson Bangs,
gho concoc,ed and sent him a Joint lel,er IN rough
English. II IL SUPPOSED that he did not get II,
rs no answer came The Peerless Queen forces
held a mass meeting and ia,sed %Scaihlng re,olu
tons which were, engruS'ed ana nailed 70 ne
manufacturers. Purchasers II the lhnkI Plenom
were less loud only le"HuSe u ere were lever al
them Gradually, under the snftening Influences
II mild spring weather, tie Cedar alley iolk
got together and COMPARED notes SO many in
suits had Teen exchanged that II was agreed To
call the whole matter III and sIat,in alresh Tie
preacher was rr'uiCed 10 see u complete congIega
ton once more facing hin. In orGer 10 avoid any
complication whatever, re talked about TIE boer
wal. In due tire EXPERIENCES were brought OUT.
one man, prideiully loading his Peerless Queen
with $50 worth # Cochin China eggs. raised his
lnmp-tlame until 10 degrees was registered, and
went to sleep that night with the reflection that he
was getting rich while in ted, Vt 10 o'clock he
WAS aroused by n series ul eNll'SlDUS anu n Stnell
from, the ~outhouse like nothing else that he ever
smelled before or since. Investigating, he found
two thirds Of his eggs IN fragments and tie Others
we're getting ready to burst They were too ril e,
lie concluded lie burnt the incubator 10 get
rid Of the scent Tie Dinky Phenom, guaranteed
Ia be I~erfeCtly safe anywhere eNceIt in a cyclone,
blew UP on !Ee third day and SgIhsd d SdrS Jim
firing up his Blue Hen unul tie spectral fane
Of the alcohol lamp was three inches high, went
into the, woods, hunting squirrels, and when he
frAt I.al f,uN.A Inn GtAFIl.l N 4 uII th4 nfrfl
roasted through and through, and ~ hard as bricks
Worse than that, tie alcohol was all gone and
that caused him a deep sense u loss one ~ the
Wondrpus Mothers did even better since II haici"d
thirty two ont III iOO White BrahmG eggs, and
the chicks were az black as Cows However,
they all died inside Of two days and JlnN Brown,
their owner, was enabled 90 get them Underground
with speed lie had bough, the Wondrous Motler
and his wife had bought the eggs, and they are
now divorced, hut tie minister holea 70 brlng
them together again.
When all II the testimony was in II was dis
covered that the various styles If incubaturs had
run a dead heat as far as worthieSe1ess was con
cerncd. Some were disposed "a assert preemi-
hence for the Dinky PhenOm, a., m addition To
burning a henhuusc, II had set fire to- stable and
had also exploded in three instances, hut the
Others had dement's as strong and II he matter
had been put 10 a vote there would have Teen a lie.
OF course, each investor " as disl osed 10 think that
his own incubator bad leen wore lhan any II
the others hut the dispute immered into quiet.
they were all w weary Of war
J. Walmsley Jones had followed - W hat
differing plan. Peing Of n theoretical ,urn, he had
theori7ed that the chickens must le'nre accl'-
matted before amounting 10 much lie had pur-
chased a Peerless Queen incubator all right, but
did not lay on, anything IN esq lie bought,
instead. two dozen pairs Of black Ninorca hens
with q complement of r~ooSters, intending 10 let
them breathe the western Wisconsin air and do
Their laying On TIE rremiSes This plan might
have worked well but for the fac, that the chickens,
leirg q an Asiatc breed all fro7e 10 death tie first
night, and, when visited in the morning, were in
many attitudes 81 stiffness and inutlliiy So far