The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1909-09-16
Hens and
Their WAYS
Which Sometimes are Peculiar and
Past all Understanding to the
Uninitiated and Others.

Al Wow VI GtO COuClONCISy WuICu
has been going on here regarding the
query, (which was created irst-the
egg or the HEMP" it might not be amiss
to note some of the extraordinary do
ings of some noted hens. There are
hens which sell as high as $500 90
each-but they are fine egg producers.
Here is story which comes from
Long Island, in the state of New Y ork !:
"Wainscott, L. l., has hen which
for industry in laying eggs and trouble
saving consideration for her owner sur
passes anything in the poultry history
of this section. She makes no claim of
high-blooded ancestry, and none of her
ancestors ever won a blue ribbon in
Madison Square Garden or at any other
poultry show. She is common, every.
day barnyard fowl, with a rusty black
coat, that has been getting rustier ever
since she got the markings of it, five
years ago. This year she began laying
on February 8. In the 100 days since
then she has laid SO eggs, and the end
is not yet.
THAT in itself would be record of
which any hen might be proud. How
ever, it is only the small part of it.
Shs is too thoughtful of the convenience
of her owner to make him walk out to
the chicken-house for the eggs. When.
ever she gets in the laying mood she
flies to the window and pecks at the
glass. Her owner knows the signal
and opens the window. The hen flies
down into the room, walks sedately out
to the hall, flies up in the baby carriage
there and settles herself. She selects
the softest spot in the baby's down pill.
low, and deposits the egg. Cackling
triumphantly, she flies from the linen
lined nest to the handle of the baby
carriage and flaps her wings violently
The pressure of her wings on the all
sets the baby carriage moving. The
hen does not cease Tapping until the
carriage has been run out to the kitchen
close to the busy housewife.
"The woman picks up the egg, thu
hen reverses the movement of hel
wings, and soon propels the carriage
back to the hallway again. Content
with that, she flies out of the window
and resumes her place among the othe
fowls.
"Three broods of chickens have beer
Matched from the eggs of this hen
Whenever the peoples see the hous'
door open they run in, group themselve
about the baby carriage, crane thei
necks and cry piteously to be taken GU
for ride"
Only recently the home of a promi
nent New .Ierseyite was robbed o
jewelry to the amount of $13,O0O.OO, 81
the dispatches said, and no trace O
track of the loot could be found. Man,
months elapsed and all hope of re
covering the aforesaid jewelry wa
abandoned. One day during the lat
summer an ordinary, everyday, com
mon hon set up a loud cackling unde
the porch of the house from which tn
jewelry had been stolen. An investi
CATION followed. The lady of the house
hold expected to find an egg-but IL
and behold she found thirty thousan
dollars worth of jewelry-not only tn
thirteen thousand dollars worth Q
jewels of which she had been robbed
but in addition thereto there was
vast assortment of diamond brooche
tiaras, rings. pins and other valuabl
jewels. all studded with the most 81
pensive, precious stones.
Here was problem. The lady ha
lost but thirteen thousand dollars wort
of jewels and sic transit gloria, in he
> signo Vincennes, Indiana and fe
other things, she found thirty thousan
dollars worth of jewels-and all du
: up by q hen.
Sherlock Holmes was not called il
to the case nor was ST Haskell consul