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Huntmo the
UifdTurReu.
Scenes In The Virgin For
ests of Arkansas.
TURKEYS ARE PLENTIFUL
The Story of the Turkey,
and How the American
Bird Became Fam
ous.
It is an easy matter to go to market
for your Thanksgiving turkey, but out
West they do it differently. Down in
the deep bottom land forests of Arkan
sas is the home of the wild turkey, and
L this fall the game has been so plentiful
and bo easy to get at that hardly a
home In the States of Arkansas and
Kansas will be without Its turkey din
ner on Thanksgiving Day. There was
a time when the wild turkey made his
home east of the Alleghanies, hut the
memory of living man runneth not to
the time when they were plentiful there,
for this shyest of all birds is absolutely
incompatible with civilization, and he
has retired year by year until now only
the most secret places in the Allegha
nles and the vast swamps of the South
ern States give any hope for the per
severing turkey hunter. The wonder is
that the bird still exists at all. For
ever since the white man came all man
ner of nefarious schemes have been
concocted for his destruction.
Out in the wilds of Arkansas, where
the railroads have Just begun to pene
trate, the wild turkeys have not yet
learned that civilization has laid claim
to tills land, and this fail they often
perch calmly on the branches of trees
along the railway track. The train
crews noticed this and engineer and
firemen have a daily hunt Tor the game.
They sit on their engine boxes with
their shotguns in their hand while the
train ambles along at the easy rate of
k. twelve miles an hour. When they run
Into the turkey regions they tire at
them, and If they kill any they stop the
train, back up to the spot, and retrieve
the game. The passengers enjoy the
■port, and occasionally some who are
going to or from a hunt Join in it.
Some of the older sports men who
twere in this country when the Kansas
Pacific Railway was built remember
when passengers and train crews shot
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gams from the ear windows on the
Kansas plains, and this Arkansas di
version recalls it to their mind. The
sport will not last long, however, as
there is no wild game more wary than
the wild turkeys. They will soon be
come acquainted with the dangers
along the railroad, and then railroad
ing in Arkansas will once more drop
back to the Bteady pace it holds else
where.
Taking him by and large, an old tur
key gobbler is the quickest, swiftest,
shyest and most knowing animal with
wings or without. He can run like a
greyhound, smell like a deer, see like
an eagle, and fly like a wild turkey.
You may have spent two hours in
crawling or. your hands and knees over
, a mountain open or in moving with
j noiseless footsteps, each one of which
i is considered with careful deliberation,
and a sing'e, sudden turn of your head,
snap of a twig, or gleam of sunshine
on your gun will send a whole gang a
mile away and up the mountain. Up
ward it always is. When a wild turkey
does not like the looks of things he
wants the rockiest and roughest summit
of the highest headland of the topmost
ridge of a whole range, and he gen
erally gets it. If it is steep, he runs,
and he can run up faster than you can
fall down. If it is a gentle rise he
thrasnes the air with his mighty wings
clear up obstructing tree tops, and then
away he sails with the velocity that
belongs to a twenty-pound feathered
cannon bail.
Never for a moment are all oft their
guard. One, two or three of thetr tall
necks are always stretched aloft, full
of eyes and ears, in statuesque suspi
cion. Now the old gobbler straight
ens up his head, poised four feet from
the ground, trim, graceful, powerful,
the sun glinting on the dark, iridescent
feathers of his back and lower neck.
Now you decide he is in range. Your
38-calibre bullet strikes his noble breast
with a muffled thump, and the giant
wings wildly beat down the dry rag
weed while your magazine is emptied
vainly at the dark forms shooting off
toward the wooded mountain side.
H> is a royal creature this wild tur
key, and you may hope to see an old
! aobblor tip the scales at t' /enty or
twenty-five pounds. Blung over your
\ shoulder by the foot, his head dangles
against your heels. He is a wild mon
arch, eloquent of the woods and moun
tains and their innermost secrets, fed
only by the most delicate wild fruits
and crystal spring water, formed for
the highest beauty . nd strength known
to American bird kind, with a flesh
more delicious than his stall-fed cousin,
because of the gamy flavor imparted
by the wild food. To a man whs has
■killed and eaten a November wild gob
bler, Thanksgiving Day has a meaning
blank to other mortals.
An English writer has delved Into
the history of the turkey and this is
the interesting story he tells:
The time of the first appearance of
the turkqy In the eastern hemisphere
Is doubtful. M. Brillat Savarln and
other French writers attribute its in
troduction to the Jesuits of Paraguay,
and the above-named learned gastron
omer adduces in proof of the debt we
owe the followers of Loyola, the fact
that In many parts of France turkeys
are called “Jesuits,” by reason of the
first brood having been reared at a
large farm belonging to the brother
hood named Bourges. This statement
Js, however, decidedly at variance with
another authenticated by Montiuc, who
says that the first turkey ever served
at table In France appeared at the
nuptials of Charles IX. (A. D. 1570),
-who ate a wing of the fowl for his sup
per. But the probability Is that the
Spaniards Introduced the turkey among
us at a much earlier period, mention
being made of it in Europe in the year
,1524. The first turkeys came to Ger
many In 1534. Let the date, however,
be what it might—whether the turkev
followed In the train of Cortez or of
Plzarro—to America we are Indebted
fo/ it; and there, in its wild Btate, in
some parts, it stlU ranges, its plumage,
as in the case of the Honduras turkey
(meleager ocellata), growing more lus
trous and mggiUflcent as the family ex
tends southward.
The males, usually termed "gobblers"
and no doubt meriting the name, asso
ciate In parties of from ten to 100 to
seed their food apart from the females,
which either go about singly with their
young or form troops with other hens
and their families, sometimes to the
number of seventy or eighty. These
all avoid the old males, who attack and
destroy the younger whenever they can
by reiterated blows on the skull. But
all parties travel In the same direction
and on foot, unless the dog of a hunter
or a river on their line of march cora
| pels them to take wing. When about
I to cross a river they select the highest
! eminence, that their flight may be more
! sure, and in such position they sometimes
i stay for a day or more, as if in'consul
! tatlon. The males on such occasions
gobble obstreperously, strutting about
j with extraordinary importance, as If to
animate tiheix companions, and the fe
! males and young assume much of the
pompous air of the males and spread
their tales as they move silently around.
Having mounted at length to the tops
of the highest trees, the assembled mul
titudes, at the signal note of their lead
er. wing their way to the opposite shore.
1 The old and fat birds, contrary to
what might be expected, cross without
difficulty, even when the river is a mils
in width; but the wings of the young
and meager, and. of course, those of the
weak, frequently fail them before they
hare completed their passage, when in
i they drop and are forced to swim for
: their lives, which they do eleverly
i enough, spreading their tails for a sup
1 port, closing their wings, stretching out
their feet. All do not succeed in such
attempts, and the weaker often perish.
; The wild turkeys feed on all sorts of
! berries, fruits and grasses; also bee
, ties, tadpoles, young frogs and lizards
are occasionally found fn their crops.
When the turkeys have arrived at ths
land of abundance they disperse In
flocks, devouring all the mast as thay
advance.
| The beginning of March is the pairing
' time, for a short time previous to which
the females separate from their mates
J and shun them, though the latter perti
naciously follow, gobbling loudly. The
sexes roost apart, but at no great dis
; tances, so that when the female utters
a call every male within hearing re
sponds, rolling note after note in the
; rapid succession: not as when spread
1 ing the tail and strutting near the
hen, but in a voice resembling that
of the tame turkey when he hears any
unusual or frequently repeated noise.
Where the turkeys are numerous, the
woods, from one to the other, some
| times for scores of miles, resound with
this voice of their wooing, uttered re
sponsively from their roosting places.
This Is continued for about an hour,
and, on the rising of th* «un, they si
lently descend from their perches, and
the males begin to strut for the purpose
of winning the admiration of their
1 mates.
I If the call be given from the ground
the males in the vicinity fly toward the
: individual, and, whether they perceive
her or not, erect and spread their tails,
throw the head backward, distend the
comb and wattle, strut pompously and
rustle their wings and body feathers,
at the same time ejecting a puff of air
from the lungs. While thus occupied
they occasionally halt to look out for
the female and then resume their strut
ting and puffing, moving with as much
rapidity as the nature of their gait will
admit. During this performance the
males often encounter each other and
desperate battles ensue, when the con
flict Is only terminated by the flight or
death of the vanquished. The usual
fruits of such victories are reaped by
the conqueror, who is followed by one
or more females, W'hich roost near him,
if not upon the same tree, until they be
gin to lay, when their habits are ultered
with a view of saving their eggs, which
the males will break, If he can get at
them.
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The New Flexible Jewelry.
Pall Mall Gazette: Flexibility is the
leading characteristic of all the newest
Jewelry, many of the diamond necklets
being decorated with flexible ends, in
the form of loops and tassels, carried
out entirely in the same precious stones.
A diamond corsage ornament has two
flexible ends, each being a mass of tiny
stones, a sort of diamond rain, drooping
downwards from a scroll shaped top,.
| and finished with two large pearl drops.
| Many large pearls appear, too, In a
beautiful diamond necklace which is so
( contrived that It can be used when re
i quired in the form of a tiara, or even as
1 an ornament for the bodice.
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A Kentucky man has married the
granddaughter of the girl who refused
i him.
The Origin of Thanksgiving.
The first recorded instance of anything
In the nature of Thanksgiving in the his
tory of our country is the following entry
in an old bible belonging to one of the first
pilgrims: * Sonne born to Susanna White,
L i*mb«r 19th. 1620. vt six o'clock morn
ing. Next day we meet for prayer and
thanksgiving.” This, however, is not gen
erally accepted as the first observance of
Tthat nature, since it hardly partook of
tiie character of a general thanksgiving.
Hut fifteen months after the pilgrims
sailed from Holland they henl • harvest
festival which lasted a week This is gen
was appointed as a day of Thanksg ving.
in New Kn^land, but it was mn a day set
apart by the governor, nor was it attend
■ ed by any religious observance.
A few years later precisely the same
thing occurred. Thereupon July 30, 1623,
was appointed as a dlay of Thanksgiving.
, and before the second sunset a relief ship
, arrived. Fast days and Thanksgiving
days came at irregular intervals for a
; number of years, the latter following some
marked event of a beneficent nature, such
; as getting rid of Anne Hutchinson, whose
preaching caused such a turmoil in New
England, for the termination of King Phil
lip's war and the close of the resolution
and the triumph of independent e in Amer
ica. Then came the practice of the gov
ernor of each state naming a day for gen
eral thanksgiving. These at first were not
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coincident, but the beautiful custom has
prevailed for considerable time, and
doubtless will prevail, for ages to come, of
the president appointing such a day, gen
erally the last Thursday in November, to
which the governor of each state assents
by naming the same day. Thus there is
on© day each year when the forty-five
stales and the territories from the Atlan
tic to the Pacific and from British Amer
ica to the gulf return thanks to od for his
manifold blessings and mercies.
Thanksgiving.
A king rode forth one summer's day
And all the peasants by the way
Said to themselves;
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How great are we—
The king rides out that we may see.
A housewife with her busy broom
Brushed dust and crumbs from out her
room;
A sparow puffed himself arnd said:
This dame was made to moke me bread.
—Marco Morrow, in Womankind.
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John Brcidenthal declined with re
: gret ai> invitation to join other bank
i ers at a banquet in Wichita, Kan., and
closed his telegram with the injunc
! taon: “I caution you not to permit
^ overdraughts.**
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Habit of Procrastination Has Never
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"Sometime” Is a useful word that Is
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l will do it,” hut the time never comes.
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