Show recalling the bloody war of the broken egg W tu ILS HINGTON tho the subject ot of eggs cime came up at luncheon time in the sen ate te r restaurant estaura nt the proposition of efficient economy mas under discus slon sion ali when n senator carroll S P ef made the startling statement abit in the discussion slon ot of tariff and currency one caf s ng Q S E or F art w ec 0 important element clement ot of cost and loss q ti t 1 c UP cowf had been bee overlooked looked lie he referred to I 1 I 1 J k I 1 IVA avah p the report from tho secretary ocre tary of agri rae MADE culture cul lure de ellred ired that in one year ear over taff M I 1 eggs were i ere destroyed in trans M lie por port atlon tation to new nen lork city alt this loss I 1 y P ap represented 9 per cent of the total supply with a tw inkle in his eye lb T senator page suggested that some one might acquire tame fame and fortune by in venting a sate safe and sane egg ege carrier ehlt would alert the smashing hing ot of 10 per cent ot of the eggs laid by bt the american lien hen th tho 0 firmer s boy ot of years ago can the time when eggs eaps sold at from five to ten cents a dozen and even under those conditions the smashing of 0 an egg nas a real the omnipresent egg on the breah breakfast fast tible recalls tho the story told b tho the lato late senator allison of a broken egg that led to an indian war ar in minnesota in sei leeral era I 1 sioux indians appeared in a farmers farmer r door ard and saw a nest of eggs with a hen sitting on it as an industrious hen is bout to do an indian picked up ono one of the eggs and his companions warned larned him not to breal break it as it belo belonged aged to a white man having a general contempt tor for all pale faces tho bra braie 0 cou could id not resist smashing the egg he proceeded to break the others in the nest e st while another shot the hen scared from her nest A third sioux to show his heroism sent a bullet through the farmers cow which brought the farmer to the door rifle in hand and a fourth indian to show his supreme braier braer and his contempt for the white man shot the farmer dead this ahli bloody blood outrage was v fis completed by massacring the farmers wife and chil dren thus thug fir from 0 m a bit of mischief started by a broken egg there followed a revolt at the 1 indian reservation |