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"Why don't you ) raise chicken for the
market ? " suggested HIram lJauett , the
village store keeper , to Den Singer , Den was
H years old Ills mother had died a short
I time before. Ills lather was a. carpenter by
trade , but had been crIppled by rheumatism
80 that ho could not work. Ben who always
a looked on Mr. nauett as a friend of undoubted -
doubted 1ellty < and great resources , had been
t' telling the storekeeper hose much he. wished
he coulll get oorno steady work. Mr. Singer's
, little stock of money was exhausted : he had
r already sold some of his tools to get the food
r ho and his on needed. Ben realized that the
' day was rapidly coming when there would be
° no way of getting more , unless he managed :
to do somethIng of greater prollt than the
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i' odd jobs he picked up now and then frolll
, . the surrounding farmers.
, " I "I'll .10 It , " said lien , In response to Mr.
; Basactt'h suggestion turned about , trudged
1. home and all the way was plannIng how ho
. mIght begirt ,
w t , . A week later the "chlclen farm , " as Ben
I called It , was a fact , at least he had made a
. , . ' start In hIs spare tlmo he had constructed
: a some coops from old barrels and a box or
r ! two The pay for two days' work he Ink .
k ' : - vested In three dozen ( eggs , and with the
money obtaIned by sorting some vegetables
. for the storekeeper bought two hens which
were just about to "set" lie and his father
already had five pullets , and wlthlll a couple
of weCktl more there were five "clutches" of
eggs under as many of hlB hens.
He red hIs chickens from the screenings he
got at a small price from several of the
. farmerB. The hens managed , ' too , 10 pick up
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"Mr. BaBsett , how does a sheriff sell you out ? "
a good deal of food among the bushes and . In
the tiny garden back of the house. Ben
worked hard at the small Jobs ha was given
roundabout and waited with confidence for
. the time when he should be able to make
something from his venture.
" Ho would have felt much happIer If It
. hadn't been for his fathor'B conditton . , Mr.
' Singer ! did not complain of the rheumatism ,
though It still kept him confined to his big
chair. But something Worried him very
s " ' much : the boy could see that. He asked
what It was several times , but Mr. Shiger'B
only reply was that he suffered , he felt down-
hearted on account of being Bd crippled He
. " t trIed to make Den thlllk that that was all
.r that distressed him , but the boy could not
R believe It
. Slpwly the flock of chickens grew. The
' : eggll hatched remarkably well. Fifty downy
little balls were Boon runnIng In and out of
. the coops , where their mothers were con- ,
: ; fined Four more "clutch os" of eggs were
under that number of new bens , which he
v had bought and paid for In Installments of
work. The first days of summer saw him
with seventy young chickens , 90me of them
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able -to scratch for themselves. It took all
he could make now to keep his father and
himself In food and to provide for his farm ,
but he was always on the alert for a job and
was liS cheerful liS he could be , so that the
, neighbors all liked to employ him when they
' could . Den had told his father of his plan
. . aid explained that , as few of the farmers
' ralseJ chickens , except for their own use ,
- he thought there ought to be a chance to
. , . , make 1I0mething by shipping them to
"Waynesboro , the bigger town five miles away.
Mr . Singer was not altogether confident of
the BtlcCel13 or such an experiment , but he
III said nothing to discourage the boy and used
to sit near the windows and watch the broods
and'1alk to Den about them. July and Au-
gust went by , and the young chickens throvo.
' Only 11 few of them were lost. A prowling
, " pogum got several before Den trapped the
marauder. Cold and rains killed off a few
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more But the let of September came and
moro than sixty chicken were the boy's.
--tJ p planned to Bell thirty or forty In the
, ellJly.autnmn and to keep the remainder till
the next summer , to stock his farm with
afresh. lie Intended to go Into It , then , on
a bigger scale and he hoped to realize
enough from his sales to keep him through
{ the winter with the part of his flock he re.-
't.-1alneJ :
' . Then , one day In September , as he and his
IJ , father sat In , the doorway of the cottage
Den noticed a couple of tears trickle down
his father'l face Ho jumped up and threw
, his arms around his father's neck. lie was
frIghtened and he did not understand just
"wh t was the matter
Presently Mr Singer unclasped the boy's
hanes and looked him 111 the face "l1en , "
. . he . ald'J'm afraid we'r" In for hard times
yet
J'What do you mean , Dad ? " asked Ben
"The house b only rented , " saId Mr. Singer
slowly "they can't take that , but they can
take all our furniture and everything else. "
"Why , they belong to us ! " exclaimed Ben
"So they do , Ben , but the law gives another
man the right to sell them and take the
money they bring , If we owe him money and
can't pay It. "
i "And we owe somebody money ? I thought
Dr. James was paid "
"So he WIlI1. But there Is some one else
to whom I owe money-a man I borrowed
from when yourr mother wl\s sick. I owe
Y hLlu $100. He has what they call my note.
I ha'en't been able to pay him , and now he
says he must have lA Ho II I entitled 10 It
right off , and will get as much of It as posaf-
blo by selling ' what we have He was here
to see me about It the other day and I tried
to get him to walt. But he says he's tired
I z of watting and the sherln'lI como and sell
us out"
Den had a fairly goeil Idea now of the
1 situation. He tried to comfort his father ,
but It was of little avail. Mr. Singer felt
Ills helllleflllness and the disgrace keenly , and
did not know what would become of them
' Den worr.ed over what ho had heard all
j night long , but he could trnd no way out of
rhea dimcully
u- The next day he took ten of hIs biggest f
chickens to the village store lie had already -
t ready , arranged with Mr. Dusett to have
them sent to a commission merchant at
Waynesboro and sold. After he had de-
Uverce the chickens and Mr. nassett had
j ' promised to get him the money for them as
Quickly as possible , the Idea struck the boy
' of asking the storekeeper about a sberLt's !
sale The thing puzzled him a bit yet , and
t : he Indulged a taint hope that , If he knew just !
, , how It was done , he might be able 10 hit on
E II way out of It. "Mr. l1aslett , " he Bald ,
a ' ' "how does a sheriff sell you out ? "
V Perhaps the storekeeper had an Idea of the
trouble. nut , U he did , he gave no sign of
It and tried to explain to Den how such a
i , ' sale was conducted "And the people at the
Q sale , " he concluded , offer to buy what Is
offered and the sheriff sells to the one who
makes the highest bid "
. ' Den asked several questions befro he left ,
Then he walked slowly home and nil the
i while , In his mind , lIe was turning ver 4
dimly defined project which had been su 6 .
lasted to him by what he had heard
A. week later Den received the money for
ada chicken.-$3.80. He Will a proud boy , 'I
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Rod ho would have shown his atlsfaction
more It It had not been fur Iho Impending
trouble , which made his father 10 miserable
that he could not leave I his bed , Dell bought
some fruit for a quarter of a dollar and took
It home to him , but ] ,1'1' . Singer was feeling
so badly that he ate of It only sparng'y. :
On a Monday In the early part ) of the next
month the sheriff , In pursuance ef formal no-
thee , arrived at the house to make a sale 10
Dllhfy Mr. Singer's creditor Quito a crowd
had gathered about the cottage and there was
not one or those present who did not sympa-
thl7. with the carpenter and his 5311 Ben's
father was very III that morning , and could
not leave the bed. The sheriff mounted a
box In the yard , allll began a doscrlpUcn of
the goods to bo sold
It was a pitiful ! array after all A few
tools ] , a miscellaneous assortment of cheap :
furniture , a kitchen stove , with some coking
utensils and china and some linen and
blanlsels..But one Item Intho lol""tho chlcl-
ens-the sheriff counted en liS hs ! draw : ng
card Half a hundred at fine lions and mal'
ketab1a chickens were cooped In a nearby
pen and upon the value of these ! the county
officer dwelt at length. Then , when ho
thought ho had the crowd Isufficlenlly around ,
he named a startling figure In default of an
actual bid
"Sixty dollars for this chJco : lot of chclens :
and household goofs ? " ho crlelt.
There was no rcson90. lie rep.a td Ito n.
nounccment , then dropped the figures to $ O.
Still no one spoko.
The sheriff made soma further lemuks
about the articles for mo : and tried again ! at
$40. But the crowd was ; < Jumb. No one fet ! '
Inclined to ( buyout the crippled carpenter
and his son
The sheriff tried again and again dropping
the figures lower and lower , and all the time
growing more vociferous In the explanation of
the bargain : ! which he offered lie did not
specially like the job , for he had been to d
about the case by some of the village pe p e ,
but he had a duty 10 pert rm and he knew he
must get IlS much out of the laIc as he could.
The figures had dropped to $10 , but sllenoo
reigned , except for n defiant crow from one
of the roosters In the pen Mr. Singer's
creditor , evidently , had no representative
all the ground and , even the low price
named , was not taken up with
The sheriff dropped his otter , now a dollar
at a time , but apparently In vain It looked
as If the sale would cOlfle 10 nothing
Nine ! elghtl seven I six ! 1Ivel four ! not
/I response came from these about.
Three dollars ! The sherlrr was smiling at
the ridiculous offer and was just about to
name $2 and $ I In quick succession , hopIng
for no reply , when a boyish voice , close at
hand , answered :
"I bid $31"
The officer looked down on the speaker
and saw Den. The boy held up three $1
notes In his hand. '
The sheriff Bmlled. More than one man
In the crowd .felt like cheering the bIdder.
nut the officer know ho could not accept the
offer at once.
'Three dollars I am bid ! " he announced.
"Who bIds tour ? "
No one spoke
"Three and a half , then ? " ho said
Everyone was silent , and the suggestion \
of $3.25 , likewise went unanswered Three / (
dollars was the one bid offered and after
one expostulation the sheriff took the otIc.
Den handed the money to the sheriff who
congratulated him on his purchase with an
earnestness he had seldom felt on occasions
of the kind , and there was not one of the
farmers who dldn't come forward and speak
, II kindly word of praise and encouragement
to the boy
But Den was listening to little at all this :
ho slipped away to his father , who could
only strain tfie boy to him , while the tears
streamed down his faco.
The chicken farm : was saved and the
chicken farm proved a Buccess. A year
later , when Mr. Singer was once more work-
Ing steadily , and his rheumatism was gone ,
his creditor was palll In full the amount
borrowed from him , and the proceeds from
Don's chicken farm did not a. little to make
up the sum required.
A BOY OE'r.
\'lIl1nn1 Cullen Bryant Wrote Verses
'VI1"n It Chlld
Just a century ago William Cullen Bryant
was born In 11 log farm house In the beautiful .
tlful Berkshire hills of western Massachu-
settB. Ills father , was the country doctor
and the child was named after a celebrated
physician. He began his school days In , a
log school house beside a little brook that
crept down the hills and went singing on
Its way to the vaHey. ,
All around stood the great forest.covered
hills , haunted by wolves bears , deer and
, wildcats , whIch occasionally crept down even
to the Bettlemonts. Wherever the siobea
wore cleared , the farm lands had taken pos-
Besslon.
From the door yard of the Bryant home-
stead the whole world seemed to be made
up of hills and forests , and fertile fields , I
while In the woods grew the exquisite New
England wild flowers , and laurel and azalea
the violet the tiger lily , and the fringed
gentian. Here also lived the summer birds
of New England , the robins , the blue birds
and the. thrush , haunting the woods from
early spring until late autumn.
All these sights and sounds sunk Into
the boy's heart and made themselves Into
a poem which he wrote down In words many
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yetrs : after , and which Is as clear and fresh
as the voice of the little brook Itself after
which .It was named. The poem Is ealkd
"The Rivulet , " and one of Its verses runs
thus :
Thou unchanged from year to year
Ga'ly shalt play and glitter here :
Amid young flowers and tender grass
Thy endless Infancy shall pass
In Dryant's boyhood New England farm
lire was very simple The farmers lived In
log or slab houses , whose kitchens formed
the living room , where the meals : were gen-
erally taken. Heat was supplied by the
great fireplaces , that sometimes tilled one
whole sIde of the kitchen and were fury
nlshed with cranes , spits and pot hOQks.
Behind the kitchen door hung a bunch of
birch rods , vlth which mischievous boys
were kept In order , and In the recess or the
chimney stood the wooden settle , where the
children sat before bed time to watch the
fire or glance up through the wide chimney
at the stars.
When 3 years old Bryant often stood book
In hand and with painful attention to gesture
repeated one of Watt's hymns while his
mother IIsl ned and eorrecltM. Here he prepared .
pared his lessons , and wrote those first childish -
Ish poems so carefully crtlelled : by hs ! father ,
who was his teacher In the art of composition
In the poem called "A LIfetime" ! Bryant long
afterward described Incidents of his childhood !
and the Influence of hs ! father and mother !
upon hIs art , one developing : his talent for
composition and the ether drectlng : his Imag- '
Inltloll to and enlisting hia sympathies with
lIumanlty This poem shows the boy by his
mother's knee , reading the story of Pharoah
and the Israelites , of David and Oollath and
of the life of Ohrllt. AI he , grow oldtr
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try life In the spring ! he took his turn In
the maple sugar camp ; ; In the autumn he attended -
tended to'the hUlklngs when the young people
met , tp hunt the „ corn In each neIghborhood !
barn successively , until all was done. lie
helped at the Qlder making bees and the apple .
pIe parings when the cIder ! and apple sauce
was prepared ' or the year's need : and the
house raisinge'vhen men and b3ys railed the
frame of a ne'ghbor's house or barn. In those
times the farmers depended upon each other
for such friendly : aid , and the community :
seemed like one great family.
On Sunday every one went three times to
meeting listened to long sermons , and sung I
out of the old Day Psalm book If an un- '
lucky child fell aSleep bo was speedily waked
up by the tithing man , who woud : tickle his
nose with a hare's foot. Once In a while a
boy might be restless or noIsy and then he
was led . out ef the meeting house and pun'shd :
with the tIthing man's rod , a terrible dls-
graco. -
But Bryant had not yet reached manhood-
when the true voice or hIs heart was heard
In the most celebrated poem that he ever
wrote and one or the most remarkable ever
written by a youth This was "Thanatopsls , "
which his father discovered among his papers
and sent to the North American : RevIew with-
out his son's knowledge , so little dId the poet
of 18-who five years before had pub\lsh \
the tirade against Jelrer on-reallze that he
bad produced the most remarkable verse yet
written In America.
"Thana tops Is" attracted Instant ! attention ! In
this country and In England. It had appeared
anonymously and American critics Insisted :
that It could not be the work of an American
author , No native poet approached It either '
In sublimity or thought or perfection of Ityle. 1
llut "Thanatopll& bears no trace of English : :
influence , nor was It strange that an heir at '
the Puritan spirit , who had lived In dally cotn-
munlon with nature , should thus Bet to the
muslo of poetry the hopes and Inspirations of
his race.
In 1821 he published his first volume of
poems under the title "Poeml by William
Cullen Dryan ! It was a little book of forty
pages , contalnLntr "Thanalop.ls , " "Oreen
River , " "To a 'Vatrfowl" al\d other pieces ,
0111 which ! was the charming \ , "The Yel-
low Violet " a very breath at the spring
This little book was given to the world In
the same year In whIch Cooper published
"The Spy , " and Irving completed "The
Sketch Book "
In 1825 Bryant moved to New York to
assume the editorship of a monthly review
to which he gave many of his best known
poems. A year later he Joined the staff or
the Evening Post , with which he was connected .
nected until his death
The light of Drrant's imagination burned
steadily to the end. In his 82d year he wrote
his last Important poem , "Tbe Flood of
Tears " It Is I , a beautiful confession of faith
In the nobility } of life and the Immortality of
the soul , and a fitting crown to an exIstence
10 beneficent and exalted
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GRANDMOTIIER9.
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A _ DOY'S OPINION.
Christian Advocate.
Grandmothers arc very nIce folks :
They beat nll.tl aunts In creation ;
They let a chap/do as he likes ,
And don't worry about education.
Grandmothers have muffins for tea
And pies , a. whole row In the cellar :
And they're apt ! If they know It In time ,
To make chicken pie for a. teller
And It he Is bad now and then ,
And makes a great racketing noIse ,
They only look over their specs
And say , "Ah , those boys will be boys I"
Quite often as twilight cornell on ,
Grandmothers sing hymn ! . very low
To themselves , as they rock by the nrt
About heaven and when they shall go
And then 0. boy , stopping ! to think ,
Will find a. hot tear In his eye
To know what will come at the last ;
For grandmothers nil have to die.
I wish they could stay here and pray
For a boy needs theIr prayer every night ;
Borne boy more than others I s'pose ;
Such IUS I need a wonderful sight
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Twenty years ago a woman In Minnesota :
sent her son on an errand lie was to get
a clothes line. lie returned last weelc. He
brought a familY with him , but ho hid not
forgotten the clothes line ,
MAY IT l'LEASE TilE COURT
A lJuquet of Storie ! About Judges and
Lawyers ,
The wrItten examination for candidates
who seek admission ! to the bar of this state ,
says the Boston Standard , has been , comparatively -
paratively speaking , recently Instituted.
Not very long ago , when a candidate made
an application for membership , his exami-
nation was assigned to 11 member of the bar ,
generally to eng living In the appllcant's dhr
tract and was conducted orally
Mr. A. was assigned for examination to
Lawyer D. , who made the appointment for
the noon hour of a certain day. The candi-
date , trIm and smooth looking , presented
himself for the ordeal a little before the appointed -
pointed time , and the following was the
exact and the whole form of his examInation :
, Lawyer D.-Wben a client comes to you ,
Mr. A. , what will be the first thing you'll
ask of him ?
Mr. A.-Money.
Lawyer D.-Oood , very good ! And the
next ?
lolr , A.-J shall ask hIm to state his case
Lawyer D.-Very good , again Now , Mr
A. ( looking at his watch ) , It Is nearing the
hour or 12 , and when you met a gentleman
like me at such a time , what will you ask
him ? '
Mr A.-I'll aljk him to come and have ! a
drink
Lawyer D-Very good , I'll join you ; It Is
n go.
"A man who has hlB wits about him , " remarked -
marked a learned jl1dgd to a Washington Star
writer , "Is greater than he who Conquera a
city , or words to that effect , for he Is always
sure of getting there. "
"In respect of what ? " was the Inquiry ,
made with the ulterior purpose of drawing
the judge out , "for he knows a good many
things worth the telling.
"In many , " he went on , "but In this par-
ticular case I refer to an experience I had
whoa I had been practicing for two or
three years and had an Idea that Coke , mack.
stone et al were scarcely In It with me In
the ordinary business or the courts. There
were a lot of young fellow. at our bar , and I
srDra + w . ;
am free to confess that we did not always
maintain that dignity or the law which IB one
of Its strongest points Sometimes we even
exceeded the limits , and now and then somebody .
body had a fine to pay for contempt. Wo had
fun at times with visiting lawyers and the
best practical Joker In the lot was always
held In great respect by the rest of us.
"One day an old lawyer from the neighborIng -
Ing county seat was defending a prisoner for
stealing a cow , I believe , and I had the
other sIde and was quite sure or making my
case. The old fellow had been In our court
many times and he was the slowest and longest .
est talker 1 thInk I ever listened to. He
dIdn't seem to know when to let up. Well ,
on this occasion ho had been talking \ until
the young fellows were worn ont and they
thought they would teach him a lesson and
at the same time help me In downing him.
So they QuIetly went out to the telegraph
olnce , got a blank and an envelope and fixed
up a telegram which read : 'Oreat Caesar ,
govern , won't you over stop talking
"Then they got a boy to bring the message -
sage Into the court room and they sat around
the bar to see the old man drop dead when
ho read the Illspatch. The _ boy came In all
right and the sheriff promptly delivered the
message. Of course , everything became
quiet when this poInt was reached and the
lawyer asked permlulon' of the court to read
his message Ho tore It open amid breathless
silence , everybody watching him , and those
who were In the joke expecting an explosion
as soon as the end had been reached But
there was nothing of the kind lie read It
over slowly once , then more slowly again , and
then he looked up at the judge and over to
the jury "
" 'May It please the court ; he said In trem-
ulous tones , 'I have just recelte : a message
Annouljclng the death ef a very near and dear :
relative , one who , ' and his lip quivered , 'was
more to mo than I can tell , and I must ask to
be excused from speaking turther '
"This was an entirely ! unexpected turn to
the affair , and , of course , the Jokers were
powerless to change the current They simply -
ply IIIt dumbfounded , while the old fellow was
asked to finish his speech lie finished very
briefly , but It was to the point , and when my
turn came to end the business I was not In ! It
with the iflef..trlcken man bJ UlJ lido and
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the jury gave the case to my opp scent wldiJ
out leaving the room.
"After It was all over the old lawyer called s
one of the crowd aside and said something t.d n
result . . ,
him with 11 mild sort of a smile that result a
In his taking up a collection among UI aur > -
ficent : to pay for a. line dinner for ( the ontlf
bar , " -
D. F. Hamilton ; ; r--mddetord , Me. , ned )
talks much nbout his defense of an Individual -
ual who was arrested and arraigned to'
breaking Into a jewelry store and steallnl\
a lot of watches The court assigned tll
shrewd and energetic Dldderord attorney ' ( I ) , '
defend the prlEoner.
"I didn't do It , " the prisoner told the la ;
yer. "I wouldn't do such a thing as thit
on my life Really , Mr. lIamlllon , I dl"n'
do It , Yon can take my word as you hap 6
mo tell you , but I suppose they'll rallrdadto. .
mo. "
The trial was held before Judge Vlrsl)1. . . . .
'fhe prisoner was acquitted , and when h" ,
met his lawyer In the afternoon said to hlaH
"What Is the amount at your bill ? "
"Well about $100 , " replied the lawyer '
"Woultl you take $25 ? " asked the fr6/J /
man.
man."Yell that's better than nothing " 811
the lawyer , and ho said : "Twenty.flvo It '
They stepped outside , and the dlschu
man said to the lawyer : "Say , It YOJ'U t\ f
until I get 10 .nos ton so I can 1cll t esp \
watebes. I'll send you the $25. " .
A week later : Me lIamliton reeeh'd his 11 . .
_ r.
The new woman prisoner locked over ,1ls ' Ij ;
jury of gentlemen In the box , relateB the t J7eJ >
troa Free Press.
"May It please the court , " she aaiij wit
great hauteur , "I desire to be tried by a N I
of my peers. "
"That I. Impossible , madam , 1 am sorry t0 .
say , " replied the gallant judge. This ebijtt . .
hasn't the power to summon angels to ervi ci
. .
ob Jurle. "
Attorney ( for dofense-You ) uy you baYd
not formed or expressed any op'lIln In tbl9
case ? Now , sir , what I P . . , . lI.1er.land b ,
the word opinion t
Venireman-Why , I have In Ide -
Attorney-That will do. Your boner 1 ChY < :
lenilI"lhll Ulan lot < < : cause
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