THE OMAHA DAILY PEE: WEDyESDAY, OCTOBER 0, 190i.
THE SILENT GATR t
A Voyage
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(Copyright, 1001, by the 8. S. McHure Co,)
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The first van of the afternoon loosed
him, with x others. In the prison yard.
The other got out haltingly; sullen, fright
ened, or shnmefaced; but he, the last In
alight, hopped down on the gravel, hi
quick blue eyes ablate with Interest, and
hitching up h! wretched little pants,
seemed Inclined to prove that he could
dance,
"Easy there!" said the warder with the
blue paper In his hsnd.
The seven wards of government hail
fallen mechanically Into line, as the Jailer
unfolded his list. Nearest to him, with a
cowed and ashen face, was a man In a
silk hat and frock coat; numbers two and
three were evidently tramps; four had the
appearance of a clerk; live was a listless
graybcard who looked sulkily at homo In
his surroundings; six would havo been
dubbed a professional thief by any detective
In London, and sovon was the adventurer
who took such an amazing Interest In
verybody else. He stood on a level with
the thief's shoulder; fair featured and
freckled, with a aparrow-like frame, and
an expression rather like that of Dore'a
eophyto among tho unsplrltual monks. HIh
turn came presently.
"Name?" said the warder, glancing at
his list.
"John James Turk."
He had It pat this time, but he had for
gotten It when called Into the dock of tho
Old nalley In the morning, for he knew
himself only as "Turkey." .
"Aao?"
"Fifteen."
He knew no more than the wnrder how
old he waa, but In answer to a question by
the magistrate who had sent him for trial
some one In court had called out "ID," and
Turkey accepted It at that.
The warder, a big, mild-eyed man of a
different race, almost, from tho derelicts
before blm glanced at the little sparrow
hawk as he thrust the list Into his belt
and shook out his bunch of keys.
"Follow me," he sail to the squad.
Turkey,, tingling In his ragged breeches,
not so much with cold as with Intensity of
Interest, was more and more captivated.
He felt his dignity and Importance) as a
prisoner. These gates of steel and solid
walls, tho mute warders with keys and
batons at their belts, nnd unspenkahle au
thority In their beards, froze hlra with de
light. He remembered Ills first pantomime,
as viewed from the gallory, and felt llko It.
Tho thief by profession, a gentlemanly
young man In black, observing the tremu
lous condition of his little neighbor, whis
pered that he had no cause to bo fright
ened. Turkey swelled visibly
"Mel" said he. "I aln'tl I likes It!"
Oh. you like It?" The thief was much
nicer In accent nnd grammar than Turkey.
Ha was In the upper ranks of the profes
sion and moved In good society at railway j
stations ana music nans, -wimi are you
In for?" he continued.
"Threo doss," returned the boy.
"Three months, eh?" The graduate could
not stoop to slang with the novice. "Mine's
five years."
Turkey eyed him more graciously. "You're
a toff," he said.
"Bvr In hofnro?" was the next nuestlnn.
"Well-not-exactly." he said, with som I
ba.hfulneis. "Not as you might say In 1
quod. But I bin through the school'" The
"school," rendered Into tho vernacular. In
the reformatory. As who should say that,
though his education had not Included the
university, he had at least been to Eton.
"Ah!" observed the thief. "They should
have sent you back thero, sonny, and not
here."
"Oar!" said Turkey, out loud and wrath
ful. "Silence there!" echoed metallcally from
the left. I
An hour of unbroken silence followed;
then two men In the broad-arrow livery
camo In with bundles of broad-arrow
clothes and boota, which they cast upon tho
floor.
"Pick your sizes," snld the warder.
The order of the batb camo next, The
first prison hath has a curious effect. Yon
enter In your own clothes, and come out
twenty minutes later disguised beyond
knowing, a full-blown prisoner.
Still the night of wonders waa not ended.
Back went tho seven friends to tho recep
tion room; Turkey In a warm cloth Jankot
and moleskin trousers, sir ton largo for
irktmm T5
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him, and looking with his assortment of hid who seems to have associated with
broad arrow marks, llko an exonerated criminals from childhood. Is lmmensol
five of spades. Placed on tho scnlos the P1" of having got Into prison, and evt
doctor found him a stone and a half below I dently fancies It will give him n new start
the welcht nroner for his are. t'Llaht .
labor," bo said to his attendant warden,
who wrote It down.
II.
Aa the morning bell was shaken up and
down the words, and hundreds of men
cursing it variously, twitched their blank
ets about them for another sixty seconds,
Turkey tossed his coverlet across the cell. !
Ho had slept without break, or Jar en a
couch of everlasting elder. It was Novem
ber, the London fog was In the prison, tho
gas was already on In the wards and In the
cells. It was a miserable hour of a miser
able morning) but Turkey had slept and
was awake nnd fresh. Turkoy was warm.
Turkey waa sharp-set and knew that
breakfast was a certainty In prison and
Turkey was all rlsht.
"Now, then, little 'unl" and Turkey'a
warder took him In hand nnd showed hm
how to mukit his bed and stack the bedding
and bedstead against the wall, and how to
swab his rell.
When he foil In for hU first chapel pa
rade there was a cVuckle In tho ward over
bis outrageous fit, and when tho warder
had passed to the end of the line he said:
"You'll s-cuse roe, gents, I 'ope. Mother
packed me portmantel In a 'urry. Tho
la pa'a clothes, bm the tailor's took me
Into Prison.
Hopkins
order for a soot same as yours 'all mark
an' all."
Heads turned, and Turkey was observed
with attention. -"tllght
about!" said the warder.
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"EARTHS HAS SEEN NOTHING. NOR HAS FANCY DEVISED ANYTHING TO
MATCH THE ASTONISHMENT OF TURKEY WHEN HE HAD SPELLED THE
LETTER OUT." t
Dut the heads went round again on the
march to chapel. It was almost sensa
tional. Tho noweomers begin their proba
tion In tho worst nnd most uncomfortable
ward In tho prison. They aro pariahs amid
a population of pariahs, and the old hands,
who are Just watting their turn for promo
tion, nnd who expect nothing good In tho
first month, acqulcsco In the oakum ward
as tho Clapbam Junction on their Journey.
It Is n nasty, drafty, ugly placo, but the
passenger has to atop there. No one Jokes
In It, however, and this wbh the reason
that Turkey wbb stared at and approved
of.
Washed nnd trimmed, and draping his
baggy clothes about him with an air, ho
looked a child posing as a convict at a
fancy ball.
One dissentient voice wae heard. "Send
th? likes of Mm 'ere! It ain't right! Wol
was the Judge a'thlnklu' of?"
"Ow!" said Turkey. " 'Ere's Jealousy!"
Iu time he began to bo a puzzle and n
trouble to the prison. When pulled up
short his language was of the Dials, fruity;
but the wnrdor who wrote bis name down
for report generally wiped It off In the
evening.
A new prisoner, serving his first aentonce.
ls watched by the head
nrln. youngster undergoc
heads of the
s a sur
veillance that he knows nothing of. Every
one In authority has an eye to him. The
doctor sums him up quickly, aa fit for hard
labor or light labor, and squares or modi
fies his first decision by private observa
tion. The wardens kuow In a week or two
what his work Is tike.
After the wardens, the chaplain has mora
to do than the rest with the tenderfoot,
Tho chaplain took Turkey In hand and tho
more he shook him up the better Turkey
liked him. He was a chaplain with a
method and a passion for his unprofitable!
work; a long-haired, wild-bearded man,
akull-capped and bound with a girdle, who
fasted o' nights, knew every thloves'
kitchen In London and talked thieves' Latin
like a thief. Turkey was astonished at and
awed by him; but, on second thoughts, he
declined to be converted,
He had begun by posing,
"Us criminals," he said, "Is wldo chaps.
We tnkes a lot o" glttln' over."
The chaplain wrote In his diary: ".In.
Ja. Turk. ('Turkey') Fifteen years of ago,
Pickpocket, Three months hard. Curious
Instance of tho effect of prison on n sharp
' uurgiary on a nij, scale ills prin
clpal ambition, and ho thinks he will now
bo able to pal with 'wide' men. If not
burglary, would prefer to go to sen 'on a
ship llko he saw In tho docks once.' Shall
rcmombcr tills. Prison, of course. th
worst possible place for him (the Judge was
a fool who sentenced hlin); It feeds his
queer little vanities at every turn, and ho
thrives on the air of the place, which
should bo poison to
him."
This was entirely and regrettably true.
It was so new nnd grand to Turkey to be
under lock and key with hundreds of grown
men that he did not feel even the restraint
of cell and ward. Steady work, to be sure,
was not much to his liking, but as tho doc
tor continued to keep him on light labor,
ho had only one pound of oakum to pink In
the day, Instead of three, and nla nimble
fingers made nothing of that.
When Ills first month was up his favorite
offlrer got him a nice, cheerful berth In tin
paper room, The paper room, as Turkey
soon discovered, was the happy land or El
dorado of the prisoners. Hither were dls
patched In cartloads, to be overhauled and
sorted, the sweepings of tho houses of Par
liament, tho government offices throughout
tho kingdom and the general poatofflca; old
ledgers, blue books, directories and all
manner of waste paper. This Is nos a gay
Inventory, but wait until you come to have
the handling of the goods. For, scattered
through the mass, were all the articles that
man In prison most delights In, scraps of
tobacco, packets of cigarettes, end3 of
rlgars, string, postage stamps, novels, writ
ing paper, coins, pins, pencils, and ecn
penknives. It was the business of thu
prisoners to tear Into mall pieces every
thing that could be converted Into paper
after handing over all contraband to the
warder In charge. Hut Turkey had been
privately admonished by prisoners residing
In his ward what precious things a good
boy would find In the paper room, and com
mission had been given him for sundry
articles, which were to be paid In toke.
Hence, as soon as he had learned the way
of the room, he began to be extremely busy,
and thereafter sundry knaves languishing
In chambers near Turkey's were engaged
In writing surreptitious letters on House of
Commons note paper, chewing tobacco and
paring their nails, or shaving themselves
with brand new pocketknlves, while the
felon Turkey grew fatter on Illicit rations.
There came a day, however. It waa on
the return from work In the afternoon,
Turkey tripped on the polished Iron stairs
he lodged on the first floor of his ward
and as he caught at the rail, something was
Jerked from the Inside of his shirt and
rattled on the flags below. A neat llttlu
faggot of pencllo.
"Halt, there!" said the warder of Tur
key's party, when they reached the land
ing, and Turkey was hauled from the
ranks, Searched on tho spot, ho was a
mero museum of smuggled goods, They
were shaken from his shirt, they weru
sorted from his socks, they were sifted
from his shoes. Conviction, In a word,
was flung at him In n lump.
A whole bench of visiting magistrates
heard all about the wickedness of Turkey,
who' In due cotirse of time waa Introduced
to them.
"Should you llko to bo birched?" asked
the chairman, when the cause had been
considered.
Turkey looked as If his dignity were a
little hilrt by the suggestion, but he
responded softly:
"Well, genelmcn all. It ain't for a pora
criminal like me to stand again' tho rools.
If Ifa blrchln", It'a blrchtn'."
"Wo can have you birched on the spot,"
observed tho chairman.
Hut the culprit had tnkon stock of tho
court, and gathered thu Impression that It
was mainly with hlra.
Drawing the back of his hand across his
mouth, he said sweetly:
"Fact Is, yer worships, I bin throo It.
Dono mo bit o blrchln' nt the school. It
wouldn't, ao ter say, bo nothln' new to me."
Turkey's Impudence wns almost alwaya
deliberate and deep-seated; but It was also
utmost alwaya timed and calculated to a
nicety, and glossed with an art which was
klu to genius. He escaped the twigs.
But h was kept In durance and on half
rations for a week, and then sent back to
the cokum ward,
It was at this season that his great ro
mance began. The oakum ward was tak
ing exerclso In a new yard, which waa
overlooked by a row of houses not thirty
feet from the boundary wall, the prison
being crlbbid In the midst of London.
It was quite understood that Turkey was
In disgrace, and he understood It himself
and expressed his contrition.
"Bound tor look you up agin, gents!" he
said.
But before tho hour's tramp round and
about tho yard was ended a fresh charm
had banished bis Interest In- his old asso
ciates. An organ, Just beyond tho wnlls,
was playing "Annle'a Got Her New Cock
Feathers," and Turkey, as a matter of
course, added his voice to the whispered
chorus from tho ranks; but It waa not the
sentiment of a favored air that moved hlin,
He had seen a faco and a form nt a win
dow. By and by, when the organ had been trun
dled out of hearing, tho other prisoners
became aware that n woman at a window
was watching them hut Turkey had seen
her first.
"Saema ter me, gents," he said, smooth
Ing his baby chin, "a hloke'a gotter git In
prlsen ter find Ms gal, too!"
In the hideous monotony of prison a' little
nothing makes n monstrous stir and It was
quickly passed about that Turkoy had a
sweetheart and that the girl had followed
him. Turkey helped the legend all ho know.
He Invented a story of Interrupted love
now on the point of renewal, gavo the
woman a name nnd a blameless history and
weaved In a hint about her bit of money.
The tale was the emotional sustenance of
tho oakum ward.
A seeming reality kept It throbbing; tho
face and the form wero always to be seen
at the window while tho oakum party were
on parade, and secret questions drew out
the fact that they were not observed there
by any of the prisoners who took exercise
In tho yard nt later hour, clearly, the
lady was Turkey's, Having expounded her
charms nnd given himself out her hero, he
fell In love with her and wished he might
come to know her.
But his ridiculous story held a grain of
truth. The grazlolctta at the window a
plump cne. If uncertain seeing could be
trusted whom Turkey, of course, did not
know from Eve, had a veal Interest In him.
For that matter she had an Interest In all
the prison, since the was engaged to be
married to Warder TolUU But Miss
Walker for the lady also had a
name. and Mr. Tolllt called
her Rosahad no sooner observed Titrk?v
anion the felony of the oakum ward thin
her heart had gone out to him. Not that
It weakened In any degree where Mr. Tolllt
was concerned. Miss Walker's Interest
In Turkey was of another kind. From
where she beheld him, airing his graces In
the walled, gray yard, he looked Just the
child ho was, falr-iklnned and falr-halred.
and Miss Walker was pained and even
Indignant.
Under the tender smart of love. Turker
grew Into exemplary, behavior. He studied
prodigiously In school, for though he could
read a little, he was barely able to write,
and he wanted to send her a letter. He
sought to polish both his manners and his
outward man and went short of bread for a
few days to buy soap from the outlaw next
door. With soap and a pinch of dust he
rubbed a faint mustache on his Up, de
voutly hoping she would sea It, removing
the ornament as he took his last turn round
the yard. He lived solely for the hour of
exercise. Every day, passing under the
wall at the end of the yard, he cocked his
cap and threw up his eye and he was cer
tain she saw him and smiled on him. The
oakum tarty sharlnr Turkey's constitu
tional enjoyed It hugely.
Then, to his extreme disgust, he caught a
cold nnd tho weak-minded doctor confined
htm for three days to his apartment and
even threatened him with Infirmary. It
was absurd the way that felon was pam
pered. Still worse, when the three days were
spent, the barometer having gone round dis
tractedly to "fair, mild," the meddlesome
medlclno man decreed that Turkey should
be employed for a while In tho garden, a
retired apot where no drafts entered. It
waa a place which sensible prisoners peti
tioned to be sent to, for the work was light
and there was little supervision, but to
Turkey, in love, It wns banishment In a
wilderness. No, he wouldn't hoc. nor he
wouldn't dig nnd he wouldn't shove no
blcomlng roller about, neither. He had
hta rights as a criminal, he had. and why
didn't they aend him back to his own party?
Take hta gorspel, he'd never had no cold
In all bis born dayB.
Now," Miss Walker had missed the des
perado from tho oakum squad, and had In
quired for him. A mother-like spinster of
two and thirty, plump, handsome nnd revel
ing In a legacy which meant affluence for
her lover and hersclf. jslic was bent on try
ing tho power of rnoney In the Interests of
Turkey. She. had yp);pcd from Mr. Tolllt
(who wished jurkey. jjn Khartoum) that If
burglary failed Turkey was willing to go
down to the sen In a ship; and she had a
brother who owned a smack. A very little
of her legacy would buy Turkey In as an
apprentice. Sho bad It nil out with Mr.
Tolllt, whom she wanted for her accomplice
In her scheme for Turkey'a escape. Give
Turkey Into her hands for twenty-four
hours, nnd she knew how to arrange for
him. Mr. Tolllt said Turkey had served
two months of his sentence, and would be
out In another month, Miss Walker said
that If ho went baclc to Drury Lano he
yould bo In prison again In a week, and
that he must be out before bis time. Mr.
Tolllt said It would be as much aa his place
was worth and Turkoy began to be tho
victim of a plot.
Precisely at the same time he began to
evolvo a very fine plot of his own. A
cracksman who hnd Just come In on a
very long sentence, had attempted flight,
and a venture of that kind Is apt to l:e
Imitated, Turkey, for his part, was In no
great hurry to put prison behind him, but
he did desire to do as It pleased him there
and he didn't want any nonsense of garden
ing. What If ho were to show that ho
meant what be aald, by giving thorn the
slip!
An escape would make a man of him
at a bound and set the seal upon his
fame. Tho daring outlaw had broken
prison to Join the woman of his heart! He
would be chased, and would have to He In
hiding; she would shelter htm, nnd when
the police had abandoned the pursuit they
would fly together, and perhaps set up as
robbers.
With these high thoughts to hearten him,
he saw that the garden was not without
advantagca. For instance, he was practi
cally his own master there, A warder oc
casionally went the rounds, but nobody
showed any special Interest In Turkey. The
chief obstacle waa the man with the cut
lass. This was an officer who patrolled
the gravel walk circumventing the prison,
at tho foot of tho high, smooth-faced wall,
and who was never absent.
Turkey could not, of course, bo nwnre
that the guardian of the path In this par
ticular walk wns Miss Walker's Mr. Tol
llt, and It was equally Impossible he should
know how sincerely Mr. Tolllt wished him
on the other side of the prison wall. Com
pelled as he was to regnrd him as a foe,
Turkey nevertheless felt an Instant liking
for Mr. Tolllt, who was of great stature,
and, with his cutlass on his shoulder, rather
terrible to look upon.
Approaching him on the second day of
their acquaintance he said:
"Mister Tolllt! Oh, Mister Tolllt! If you
waa to ceo a criminal cove a-shlnnln' up
that thero wall, wot 'ud you Jest about do?"
"Hey?" said Mr. Tolllt. "Well, It you
were tho 'criminal rove I should say:
'Come down off that, else I'll warm you!'
If It was anybody else I expect I should
carve him!"
"A-courso you would Mister Tolllt!" said
Turkel, delightedly. "An'," he added with
unction, "I lay you could enrvo Mm!"
To himself he remarked:
"But I bet I does you In tho eye all the
same, Mister Tolllt."
The very next day an occurrence which
was neither more nor less than extraordi
nary decided him upon in-medlato action.
How the letter camo there ha not been
known; Mr. Turk himself Is unaware at
this day of the hand which delivered It.
It lay among the cabbage stalks, at the
aj.ot whero Turkey must see It the moment
ho was turned Into the garden at half-past
R. His name was on the envelope. In
capitals, and the tnclcsure wna In capitals.
In a sense, It was vague as a tetter from
the shades, for It was dated from nowhere
and signed by nobody. Turkey hammered
It out to this purpose:
LET THE BOLD TURKEY CLIMB THE
WALL.
THE LADY WILL BE THERE.
Earth has seen nothing, ncr has fancy de.
vised anything to match the astonishment
of Turkey when he had spelled the latter
out. The lale he had bamboozled the gang
with was a t.uie one In splto of hlmiclf.
Ho was to escape, assisted by his lad).
What was more, with the letter In hie
hand to Inspire him, he know the very way
that he would do It.
At S-05 In the evening, when all the gang
hnd Just been marched In to supper, he was
sitting nstrldo the outer wall, his nice mole
skin trousers In tatters, tnklng a last look
at the prison. He was leaving It not quite
without regret, for (although he scarcely
felt this at tho moment) ho had never run
away from home before. He was bleeding
at the hands, and worse at tho knees: he
was triumphant; he was a trifle sore at
parting, and he had Just strength enough
to drop down upon the other side of tho
wall. He was faintly conscious, when ho
touched ground again, that a person In a
hood wrapped him In a cloak, tossed hi
prison cap back to the governor and lifted
him Into a chariot.
It waa a sickening experience when, on
awakening, Miss Walker threatened to box
his ears for trying to kiss her. told film
she was engaged to be married and old
enough to be his mother, and locked him
Into the attic to prevent him from return
ing to prison. From the attic window he
could see tho oakum party going round the
yard and he cried with rage.
He Is mate of tho Rosa Walker and If
any one were to read this story to him he
would repudiate It with language.
Table and Kitchen
Practical Suggestions About Food and
the Preparations of It.
Hull)' Mi'inia.
THURSDAY.
URKAK FAST.
Fruit.
e. i ,.,CcreB, Cream.
Stewed Mnneys. Steamed Potatoes,
hahy l.unns. Coffee.
LUNCH.
Beet iirotli.
egetable Croquettes. Brown Sauce.
Krult Knlnil.
Cheese. Wafers.
Tea.
DINM'IR,
Cream or Barley Soup.
Fricassee of Mutton. Hlce.
Scalloped Swcut Potatoes,
reach Taplocn. ' Coffee,
BREAK FAST.
Fruit.
Cereal. Cream,
creamed Salt con.
Hashed Brown Potatoes,
hlce Waittes. Syrup.
Coffee.
LUNOil.
Broiled Oysters on 1'oast. Brown Sauce.
Celery Mayonnaise.
Brown lirenu. Collage Cheese.
Cereal Coffee.
DINNER.
Clam Broth.
Baked Fish. Dresseti Cucumbers.
Plain Botleu Potatoes. Cream ttiuice.
Potato Mayonnaise.
Peach Cake. , Whipped Cream.
Coffee.
SATURDAY.
BREAKFAST.
Fruit.
Cereal. Cream.
Mutton Chops. German Fried Potatoes.
White MilttlnB. ColTcc.
LUNCH.
Macaroni Balls. Tomato Suuce.
Shrimp and Celery Salad.
Fruit. Wafers.
Cereal Coffee.
DINNER.
Ukra and Rice Soup.
Fresh Beef Potted. Mushed Potatoes.
Creiuned Carrots. Browned Turnips.
Lettuce Salud.
Deep Apple Pie. Coffee.
SUNDAY.
BREAKFAST.
Baked Apple.
Thin Slices broiled Hnm.
Cream.
Creamed Tomatoes.
Baking Powder Biscuits. Coffee.
DINNER,
Clear Soup.
Roast Duck. (Unlet Gravy.
Applo Sauce.
Mashed Potatoes. Browned Turnips.
Orange Salad.
Pumpkin Pie. Coffee.
SUPPER.
Shrimps 11 la Nowhurg.
Thin SHccb Bread nnd Butter.
Tomatoes staffed with Ciicumbera.
Cheese. Wafers,
Cereal Coffee.
WIIK.V game: is in season.
All n u I'nrtrlilKo, Pin tun, Well Fed
nml Fnlr.
Game holds a very different place on our
list of foods from that glvon It by our
early American ancestors.
With the first settlers It was a necessity
and In no sense a luxury, either by virtue
of Ita price or scarcity. They had hut to
take down their trusty flintlock from Its
place over the mantel and go but a tew
rods Into the forest around their homes to
find their meat market, supplied with the
very choicest game of tho soason, without
cost or price the only thing needful being
a firm, steady aim.
Game still holds Ita place among the "first
families," but how altered tho conditions.
Scarcity and price have relegated It to
tho luxurlea and abundance of other meats
have made It a non-essential, except to
those who have the Inherited taste for this
wild and "woodsy" meat.
Game, as found In the markot of the
present day, la not very generally appre
ciated, owing to this "wild flavor" and the
length of time It Is usually kept, and often,
too, owing to the carelessness of the
hunters.
The very noticeable flavor peculiar to
wild game and enjoyed by thoso who have
Inherited their taste for It, Is Imparted to
tho flesh by the wild food the bird or ani
mal feeds upon. This may be removed
when It is disagreeable to thoso who do
not rclt6h It by careful bleeding as soon
o the animal Is killed. This Is done bv
opening the largo vein found under the
tongue of both birds nnd animals. The
body Is flrst suspended from the limb of a
tree, with head downward. If tho birds
are to be cooked Immediately, tho feathers
should be removed by stripping them down
carefully and quickly from the tall to the
head and tips of winss. Tho feathers
will come off very easily at this time whllo
tho bird Is hanging, Tho huntcrb cut a
silt Inside the leg and lengthwise of the
body, remove the entrnlla and wipe nut the
blood, then All tho body with prairie grass.
This keeps the birds In form nnd dry.
Game Is considered h valuable meat for
Invalids, as tho flesh Is moro easily di
gested nnd has less fat distributed through
the meat than the tahio birds. Fresh game
should be given and no risk taken In giving
meat that la not In the very best condition,
oven though "keoplng" brlngH out tho flavor
and makes the flesh moro tender.
All shot should be removed at onco from
the flesh. Do this, If possible, even when
the game Is not Intended for Immediate
cooking. 1
How to Pre pure (or ('noklnir.
To remove pin feathers from game, plunge
Into a pan of boiling water to loosen them
Never wash game more than Is absolutely
necessary; frequently a thorough wiping
Inside Is sufficient. The skin needs a moro
complete cleaning.
Large birds, like pheasants, peacocks and
prairie chickens may be made more delicate
In flavor by soaking them for eight or nlno
hours In cold salted water, or parboiling
them In water to which you hava(added an
onion and a little vinegar. To removo any
unpleasant odor or flavor from wild fowl,
peel the yellow rind from a lemon and place
the lemon Inside tho fowl before cooking.
When birds are kopt for some time before
cooking they should have a piece of char
coal laid Inside; this wilt prevent Its be
coming too strong. Do not remove the skin
or feathers from game If It Is to "hang"
any length of time. To keep rabbits or
squirrels sweet and fresh foi several hour
before cooking and after skinning them rub
well with salt inside and out and placo
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bits of charcoal about them, cover with a
cloth and keep them In n cold place.
Venison This meat Is generally best en-
Joyed roasted or broiled, especially If tho
roasting can ho done before an open fire.
Those who do not like tho slight "musky"
taste will find the flavor more dellcato If
they make It Into a fricassee. J
To Roast nirds Wild duck, grouse and
pheasants, are best roaated. Allow thirty
minutes It roasted plain and longer If
stuffed. The flavor Is best preserved If I
thoy aro served without stufilng; they
should be seasoned with pepper and salt
and butter only; place n good-sized lump
of buttor inside each bird truss; and skowor
nnd place In tho oven. Uaste with moro
butter If required to keep tho birds from
becoming too dry.
If stuffing Is used, a plain bread dressing
Is the best to preserve the flavor and a
piece of bacon or fat ham akewerod or
laid on over breast and thighs. A most
dellcatu way of dressing small birds Is to
dip n largo oystor In melted butter or
beaten egg nnd then cover with soft, coarsu
bread crumbs and place Insldo thn bird.
A mashed potato stuffing la also delicate
and la often used for stuffing for braised
squabs.
Larding Game Tho natural navor of birds
Is destroyed or disguised to a great extent
when they aro larded, hut for tho dry meat
birds larding linn Us advantages; thn fat
pork moistens the meat, if larding Is dono
properly, and at the same time bastca the
outside, preventing a hard, dry skin.
Gralnfed young pigeons and partridges
that friqucnt the grain flolds and atubble
are thu beat and aro equally good broiled,
roasted or baked.
Roa3t Blrda Cut off tho neck ao as to
leave twu-thlrdr on; draw carefully, being
careful not to break the gall bag In the
liver. Remove everything from tho Insldo,
especially tho lungs that aro Imbedded In
the ribs and will impart a bitter tnste.
Draw the Icrb up clone together and tie
loosely; fill with a plain well-flavored
dressing of bread, or the oysters or potato
stuffing, filling rather loosely; lay the birds
In a baking pan, placing each one on its
back on a strip of fat, salt pork or bacon.
Arrango In rowe. Spread them thickly with
butter or lay strips cf fat salt pork over
them; put a little water In the pan to pre
vent burning to the pan; bake half an hour
If birds are yuung. Dlrds may bo prepared
In tho same way for braising and placed on
a layer of carrots, turnips nnd onion cut Into
dice nnd a little parsley, with Just enough
water to cover tho vegetable. Then the
cover Is put on and tho pan placed In a hot
ovcu. Old pigeons are nice cooked this
way, but It is not the beat way to cook
young birds.
Prairie Chickens Sauted Young prairie
chickens are very nice fried or sauted.
Joint tho chicken and aeason with aalt and
pepper and sprinkle with flour and let stand
In i cool place Heat enough bacon tat or
vegetable oil to cover each piece. Dip the
pltcea of chicken In b?aten egg nnd broad
crumbs, put Into tho fat without crowding
and fry n nice brown, Do not hive tho fat
too hot, aa It will requlro thirty to forty
five minutes to cook tho chicken. Keei
covered until the chicken la brown enough
to turn them; leave uncovered. When all
Is sauted, keep hot whllo you make the
sauce. Measuro tho fat In tho pan nnd for
a pint of tho sauce take four level table
spoonfuls of tho fat, four level tablespoon
fills of sifted flour nnd a pint of milk or
one-half pint of milk nnd half pint of
chicken or voal stock. First melt your but
ter, but do not brown; then atlr In tho flour
and when unonth add tho milk and atlr tin
til It beglni to thicken nnd bollH up. Seaion
to tasto with Bolt and pepper. Old birds are
not 6o good this way and must lay over
night sprinkled with salt. They are better
boiled, brnlscd or frlcajsced,
Pratrlo Chickens Kteamod Wash tho
chlckfn thoroughly snd quickly In worm
wnter, using a llttln soda In tho water;
rinse and dry quickly, fill up with plain
dressing, sew up, tie down the legs and
wings and plare In n steamer over boiling
water nnd steam until tender. Then placo
In a dripping pan, spread thickly with but
ter, dredgo with aalt, popper and flour
and place In the oven. Ilaato with melted
butter until a nice rich brown. Servo with
applo butter, or spiced wild grapes.
Quail on Toast Dry-pick tho blrdfc and
singe over tho gas flame or a tablospconful
of alcohol poured In a saucer. Cut off the
heads' and the legs at the first Joint; placu
In salt and water for ten minutes, drain
and dry on a cloth, cover with bacon or
butter, season with salt and popper and
place on a broiler; broil ten minutes on
either side, brushing frequently with melted
butter. When done placo each bird on a
slice of buttered toaat, with breast upward,
garnish with parsley and serve with
creamed celery or cucumbers.
Wild Goree Roasted Soak In salt and
water for twelvo hours befcre cooking, and
If you are not suro that It Is young and
tender, parboil It for an hour at least. Old
geese aro better boiled or steamed, for
roasting they rhould not be mire than S
months old and very fat to he tender and
Juicy. A green goose, i months old, la con
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andnr. II should hang at least twenty-four
hours before cooking.
Cut the neck off closo to the back, but
leave the skin so It can bo drawn over and
down on tho back under tho wings, whcji
they nre placed In pcaitlon. Flatten out
the breast with a rolling pin; tie wings and
legs securely Into place and All locxtcly with
a plain bread stuffing. Sew up securely and.
If the- goose Ih not fat enough to bastn
Itself, lay strips of salt fat 'pork over tho
breast and tie In place. Put n llttlo water
In the dripping pan, add n little salt and
pepper and baste the goose frequently with
this. Turn occasionally so as to brown
even on all sides until tender and a iilcu
color. Serve with glblet gravy and applet
sauce.
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Xli'i'l Itnlln.
The deslro for souvenirs upon tho part of
the large crowds lined along the railroad
tracks r.t eveiy point was a distinctive fea
ture of the McKlnley funeral train, relates
ths Pittsburg Post. Tho moat popular of all
the methods adopted was the placing of
coins on the track so that the train might
pass over them, smashing flat the pieces of
money as a mark of Identification In year
to come. This practice waa not confined to
any particular poldt or crowd, but was In
dulged In generally all along the route. The
mutilated coins wero afterward gathered up
by tholr owners and displayed with much
pride. At some stations, according to the
train conductors, so many coins were placed
on tho rails that , It caused n slight Jar to
the cars as they pinned over thorn.
Coins of different denominations aggre
gating nt least several hundred dollars were
fctrewn nlong the track at Union statlotf.
Kven these relic hunters seemed to appre
ciate the occasion and surroundings and In
stead of making a rush for their property
as soon ns the train had passed, waited un
til It was out of sight before picking up
the crushed coins, nnd by common mute
consent each was allowed to have his or
nor own without the least quibbling among
them. At Roup station a prominent and
wealthy resident of the 8badvalde district
placed a 110 gold piece upon the rail. The
approach of the train started to shake It
off, but it managed to remain, long enough
to have Just a small portion of It nipped
off, at If done by a knife. The owner Is
quite a collector of aouvenlrs and oddities,
and when he picked up his coin he stated
it would occupy the most prominent and
conspicuous place In his targe collection.
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