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Show 00030960 03 33 9030 C'i? $30$ 0303 WILD TURKEY SEEMINGLY ENJOYED BEING SHOT AT.g oooo oo 6 oo eo 3 oe o oe 99 oee? The wild turkey, called by Choctaw and Cherokeea in differing tongues the wit of the woods, is supposed by old hunters to have Intelligence above that of other birds. In general it has. Yet sometimes it nods like Homer, and sometimes it displays the Indifferent recklessness of a cross between D'Artagnan and dear old Ouldus hero, Dert Cecil. G. S. Stribling lives near the lower part of the San Antonio river, a few miles above its debouchment into the Gulf of Mexico. Wild turkeys are plentiful in the region, and he kills a good many of them. In winter it is never more than three miles front his house tc a roost. When he wants turkey meat he saddles his pony before daylight, rides to within a quarter-mil- e of the roost, dismounts. walks stealthily to the burdened trees, waits till he can see a round, black form between him and the Bky, knocks one over and goes home. Mr. Stribling does not pretend to b3 a sportsman in the finer Bense of the term; in fact, he raises cotton as a means or keeping In debt, but he likes turkey, especially when it is with nuts and wild pepper. The river runs by his home and is thirty yards' wide. Directly across from his front yard grows a solitary cypress that is probably 150 feet high. One forenoon, while sitting on his e front gallery and enjoying a he had been blackening for five years, Stribling glanced toward the cypress self-lla-vor- cob-pip- and saw perched on its top a wild gobbler whoso burnished feathers shone in the sun. It stood calmly with head erect enjoying the air and the placid river beneath. Stribling laid tbe pipe down carefully, walked into bis lied room, picked up his rifle of .44 calibre, and went back to the gallery. He knew that e he would be forced to go a downstream to the nearest ford, cross, come back upstream, go back downstream, and come back upstream in order to retrieve, but did not purpose to be insulted. He shoots well. He leaned firmly against the end post of the gallery, got the tip of the front eight on the base of tbe bird's tlack beard which hung from the gobbler's breast, held it there for a moment, smiled as it occurred to him that the thing was ton easy and pressed the trigger firmly and steadily. There was the usual sharp crark. which sounded doubly loud in the stillness of morning, but the turkey Was unmoved. It evinced no curiosity. tried it again, a little more Stribling carefully and with less confidence; same result. He said: 1 may be getting old and wrinkled In my face, but Ill bet the farm and all It costs me that I can make you move." Same result. That was all the cartridges he had. He walked to the bank of the river and yelled at the bird. It looked down at him and sailed away. half-mil- When Bob Evans Famous Captain j PALESTINE WAKING UP. & riany Signs of Progress Which Are Due to German Enter- prise. j i ; territories in which to develop German markets. The llagdad railroad, which will lend through Anatolia, in- According to United States Consular Agent Harris 1'alcstiuc has shown unmistakable signs of progress during the past decade, much of which Is to lie attributed to German enterprise. German colonists, merchants and horticulturists. says Mr. Harris, "are that part of the Levant awakening from a lethargy of a thousand years. Three years ago a German bank was Jerusalem, with a established in branch in Yafa. which exchanged in ll'ol. The waters of the Dead Sa. where no rudder has been seen for centuries, are now being plied by German motor boats. A direct line of communication has tints been opened up between Jerusalem and Kerak. the ancient capital of the land of Moal). which still commands the caravan routes lending across the Arabian desert. There is no doubt that German enterprise will also exploit the phosphate fields situated on both sides of the Jordan, when transportation facilities shall have been sufficiently developed to insure success to the undertaking. "For many years Germany has been looking to Asia Minor and other countries adjacent to Palestine as suitable The products of the country are wlmat, barley, oranges. oil. wine, nuts, figs, apples, peaches, pears, pomegranates apricots citrons almonds, cuciiniliers, lettuce, onions, wild artichokes and asparagus, traffics, tobacco, sesame and silk, while potatoes and other European and American vegetables are being introduced by German nnd French colonists." Kitnunril Contemporary. Republican contempopower mcn- rary run by a tal dynamo says that the only silvcr-ite- a now in Nevada are We are willing to bet his head against a pumpkin (the most even odds we ran think oft that if there is any Holl silvcriics in Tnnnpnh he is the one. And if good writing means good thinking he really doesn't know what lie Is: the idea that two und two makes four being yet in progress of filtration through the slum deposit ho fondly imagines to ho a brain. Virginia (Nev.) Chronicle tersecting the headwaters of the Tigris and Euphrates, to the shores of the Iltsiun gulf, is an enterprise of vast importance, not only to Germany, as the prnmotnr. and th Turkish empire. hut to the world at large. It is liie greatest commercial and civilizing factor that could lie introduced into this region r.inl will tap the rich territories which composed ancient Mesopotamia. Apart from now avenues of commerce, a land will he opened up to students and tourists which, owing to expense and unsafe methods of travel, has thus far been practically Inacces- io sible. "The-commerc- one-hor- se one-jacka- ss olfice-seeker- of Palestine to-d- ay is not unimportant. An A e s. I a greater one that introduced the element of performance. The American cares a good deal more about knowing what a person can do now than about who his ancestors were. Good ani- mals are much more plenty than formerly on our American farms, but there has never yet been a time when the farmers could all fill their stables with the best animals. There have never been enough io go around. To improve the stock of the country it has been necessary to keep a good If advising a young many grades. man now as to what kind of stock to keep I should say get the best possible within your means. But buying good stock will not alone Insure success. There are farmers whose Ideas of the care of animals are so crude that ihe best would fall In their hands. There are farmers who have not the elements for success in their make-uThe d stock In their hands would be sure to deteriorate. There are a great many good, profitable cows in farmers' yards whose pedigrees cannot be traced. Such cows bred to bulls of known worth should produce 'alves that would be well worth ralsliv It is not possible for us all to have at once cows that will produce milk enough to make four hundred or tnree hundred pounds of butter In a year, but by careful selection of the best cows In our herds and breeding to superior bulls it would be possible to raise the average annual yield very materially. No lover of good stock should be disheartened because he cannot fill his yards at once with the best pure-bre- d animals. p. oest-bre- An Opinion on Hast Ill Ip Fan I. At a California convention, r Mr. was killed, and I suppose they 'wanted I to see the last of tne old man. was soon aware that one of the doctors was feeling and twisting my right arm, and that my right shoulder was in pretty bad shape. Through It all 1 was sorry for Kimball, who, I thought, was surely killed, and 1 was greatly relieved when I heard his voice, which sounded a mile away. Ths men were running in a steel hawser, and it had picked up the steel battle hatch, weighing something over 400 pounds, which was lying on deck, ready to bo put on the cabin hatch when needed. The line had carried It along until it came directly over the hatch under which I was sitting, when it slipped off, came down edge first, and caught mo on the shoulder instead of the head. The man who called to me to look out held on to it in his effort to stop it. and came down with it. My shoulder was badly mashed and dislocated, but the excellent medical men soon wiped the blood off, reduced the dislocation, bandaged my arm to my side, and turned me in. n my head had been four inches further forward I should never have had the pleasure of writing this book. B Cer-vera'- i of Ilis Narrow Escape from Fatal Accident. Was Near Death a a aaaaaa' Rear Admiral Kobley I). Phans, although he haa seen plenty of sharp fighting and has been often under fire, once came nearer to losing Ins life on board his own ship .'.nil when not engaged with the enemy than during any battle in which he ever had part. He tells the story in A Sailor's Log. A little before the destruction of fleet he had gone below to his cabin with Commander Kimball of the torpedo fleet, who had brought dispatches. They were sitting at the cabin table studying the situation, when a startled voice exclaimed, Look out, captain! I threw my head to one side, he writes, to see what I was to look out for, when there was a tremendous crash, and I was aware that I was hurt and more or less dazed. My first impression was that one of the Spanish gunboats had sneaked up on us and put a shell into my cabin. I had been thinking all the afternoon what a fine chance it would be for them that night. Hut when I was really conscious I saw that that was not the trouble. My cabin was full of men. all staring at me, their eyes fairly sticking out of their heads. They thought I Tells ((! Kot Fnoa(h Animky A. W. Cheever, in an eastern paper, says,: What the business farmer wants Is well-bre- d stock, and this Is miftv likely to be found in the yards of men who keep a record of their animals. The first herd books marked a step In the right direction, but it was Newball said: It would be difficult to economically feed pulp away from the factory, as transportation and handling of pulp Is quite expensive. Factories sell pulp at from 10 to 25 cents per ton; the former price has been the custom when taken away from the factory, the latter when convenience!, and facilities for feeding cattle have been; furnished at or near the factories. I doubt any profitable use for at over 25 cents per ton for pulp. At this price, and the usual value of grain and hay or straw, It will cost from $9.00 to $12.00 per head to put the animal Into good marketable condition. At the present and usual price of purchase and sale cattle In California these figures ($9.00 to $12.00) are the full margin of profit when fattened on grass on the ranges and without any extra cost of feeding. I am of the opinion that under ordinary conditions in our state, except by small farmers, pulp, or In fact any feeding, cannot be profitably carried on; but pulp is a most excellent thing to have In this state to fall back on In case of emergencies, like dry years and seasons when cattle do not prop erly fatten on the ranges. I believe, however, that small farmers who do their own work can purchase ca.tle. fatten them, and sell to a profit that would be satisfactory to them, especially as lots can be turned off every three or four months. This would be especially true of farmers In the localities where sugar beets are raised, and a long start made by feeding beet tops, and which would require but little time, say one month, for finishing on pulp with grain and hay. beef-feedi- ng 'f Vsrlrty In Stork Food. Bulletin 192, University of California: The usual feeding practice In alfalfa districts Is to depend entirely upon alfalfa pasture and alfalfa hay for cattle feed, except for the vexing foxtail, which comes up every spring. That this is a cheap method of feeding cannot he denied. That It would be cheaper to supplement the alfalfa with other feeds, either grown at home or purchased, is not yet proven to the satisfaction of all. The experience of a few dairymen has shown that some straw judiciously fed with alfalfa has lessened the cost of the ration and added to Its palataldlity. The few also who have fed corn silage report most satisfactory results. The most simple rule of animal feeding is broken when a cow Is required to subsist on alfalfa alone, or any other single food, for no animal can be expected to do ita best when confined to a single food. The question then comes, will the cow do bo much better on two or three different foods to pay for buying or On many raising the extra ones? ranches food material goes to waste, or is burned; such as straw, which if well preserved would be relished by the cow along with alfalfa. And in every dairy section In California corn can be grown In sufficient quantity to furnish silage to supplement dry pasture and add to the cows change of food. It costs less to make dirty butter than it does to make clean butter; but it Is wortl less. VTrnTTTTTTTT iromnmnn tttttttt tttttttt mrnmrmm nrnmrTTTrnrmrnTmmT irnmui DIED AT AGE OF 112. Sallie Waters, an Ex-Slav- e, 1 1 Was Young Woman at Time of War of 1812. Suruu, or Sallie." Waters, an old Virginia negro woman, who went to New Orleans with her young "inars-te- r and mistress when Gen. Andrew Jackson was preparing to whip the British invaders at Chalnictte, died at her daughter's home in that eity. recently, at the very advanced age of 112 years. 1 here ran lie no dispute about the old woman's age. She was between 25 and 30 years of age when she came to the Crescent City Just a few months before the battle of New Orleans. Sallie was a slave and was bought and Bold several times. Aunt Sallie, according to her story, was born in Mecklenburg county, Virginia. Her father was a Creek Indian. Sne belonged to the Vons family of irginia. Mr. Vons business carried him to New Orleans on more than one occasion. The young woman made one of these trips in a wagon with, her master and young mistress. It took the party over a mouth to come from Virginia to this city. One day. after they had been out for a week or so, she saw a blue spot on tbe sun. Every one thought that it was they thought the world was coming to an end. At a place in Alabama the party found the ground literally covered with locusts. A peculiar thing about the bugs was that each one had a kind of letter on its hack. The young master picked lip a number of bugs and spelled out Sally's name. Lordy! exclaimed the darky, not liordy! knowing what to muke of the strange phenomenon. The travelers reached New Orleans a short time iiefore the battle of New Orleans a short time before the battle of New Orleans. Aunt Sallie was the cook of the party. She managed to get about occasionally, and on one of her trips saw Gen. Jackson. Mr. Vons returned to Virginia shortly afterward and took the cook with him. Mrs. Vons died and Aunt Sallie was then sold to Iry Nun of Maryland. When her new master died she was stolen, with four children, two boys and two girls, and brought to New Orleans and sold to Jack Doty. She and the children were sent to Mr. Doty's plantation. In Wilkinson county, Mississippi, where she remained until the close of the civil war. The old woman was the mother of about a score of children, says a New Orleans special to the St. Louis thirteen of whom were reared. Of these three are still living. the eldest, who is between 70 and 75 years, being the eighth child. Tho other two children are 53 and 49 years or age. respectively, the youngest ehil.l having been born when Aunt Sallie was 62 years old. Post-Dispatc- h. $ Wisconsin Woman Descended From Famous War Heroine. Residing in Trempealeau, Wis., is an aged woman, a din'd lineal descendant of Hannah Dustin, the heroine of the French ami Indian war which raged in the New England slates between the years of 16X9 and 1697. Her name is Mrs. Maria Hull Truesdell, a widow, who is now in her eighty-fift- h year, and though quite frehle. her intellect is still bright. Included in various family relics that have been handed down from past generations s a dress made by Mary Chene Homan, granddaughter of Mrs. Dustin, in the year 1769; also an Identical piece of wearing apparel that was worn by Mrs. Dustin's Infant while both were prisoners of the Indians. As Mrs. Dustin was captured in March, 1689, the relic Is over 213 years old. It Is of home-spu- n linen. Mrs. Truesdell is the of Mrs. Dustin and traces her lineage as follows; Mrs. Hannah Dustin, heroine of the 5If Haverill massacre; next in line her daughter, Hannah Dustin Chene; then her daughter, Mary Chene Human; then Mrs. Chene's daughter, Abigail Homan Hull, who died in i renipealeau in 1SS2 at the age of 103. Mrs. Hull was the mother of Mrs. Truesdell, who was born in Wentworth. N. 1L, Nov. 8. 1817, and after living at Utica, Schuyler and Deerfield, N. Y., came to Trempealeau in 1868. Her only daughter died some years ago, but leaves two sons now residing In Minneapolis. Descendants of Mrs. Trues-dcl- ls Bister still reside at Trempealeau in the persons of Geologist George Squier and his son Ulysses. Not only are the relics shown by Mrs. Truesdell very Interesting la themselves, but still more so Is the fact that ihe aged woman has the correct family version of Mrs. Dustin's famous and historic rapture and escape after she had killed and scalped ten of her Indian captors. PASSING OF THE CASCO. 54 Ancient Filipino Craft That Lighters Are Rapidly Surplanting. 3 7t 4 4 4 04K 4 4 kjr 4 4 of 4 The march of progress Is undoubtedly going to be a great thing for the Filipino some of these days, said a man who got back from the islands not long ago to a New York But one of the prices Sun reporter. lie's got to pay for it is the gradual wiping out of picturesque customs and traditions of many years' standing. A good example is the passing of the Filipino casco before the improved and wholly unheautified lighter of western commerce. "The casco is a craft for roast and river commerce, and at the same time the permanent home of its crew or pn'ron, the former living forward and the latter aft. It Is a long, crude looking structure, hooded or covered witli bamboo, and under the manipulations of expert boatmen is capublc of rather surprising agility. Manila is not a city of good wharves, nor is Manila bay a deepwater harbor, hence when big ships arrive their cargoes must lie lightered ashore, and this has been tbe casco's work for ages. The lighter cascoes have a tonnage 10U tons and the smaller ones, or casquitos. from 8 to 20 tons, and they range from 20 to 90 feet in extreme beam, length witli a and when loaded draw only 2 to 3 feet of water. They are built of a light, tough wood grown in the province of lhitani. which resembles teak and will last for centuries on land or water. Cascoes are usually propelled by a bamboo pole eighteen or twenty feet long, in t ho hands of husky Filipino liver men. The poles are spiked and so the crews may place them paddi-against their shoulders to give force to their pushes. The crews number lrom five to ten men and they and their families live almost wholly oa rice, fish, oysters, clams and shrimps.' Their pay is a peso a day. about 50 cents. At night the liow is cleared and the deck spread with palm mats, and on these men. women and children lie down like sardines in a box.' THE WOODS. at being understood by uttering short barks and running around ills master. Upon further investigation tracks in tho deep snow were discovered showing that the dog. true to bis early training in the Alps, hud half carried, half dragged the baby across fields from the woods nearly a milo distant, where the infant either was lost or had been abandoned. An old blanket and some iufant clothing that had slipped off win'll Niro attempted to carry the baby homo showed where the child had lain in the snow. It Is feared the baby will die from the effects of its terrible exposure despite tho brave efforts of Hie dog to save its life. New Yoi k Sun DOG FINDS BABY St. Ilernnrd Curries IN Infant KrnnrL St. Bernard dog Nero, a a farmer of to John Oliver, belonging Gates, attracted the attention of his master yesterday morning by his peculiar actions. The animal would rush to the door, whine and pnw the panels until some one came out, nud then rush off to his kennel. After repeating this performance some time lie was followed to the dog house, where an investigation revealed n Infant, scantily dressed a and almost hurled in the straw. The baby was hastily carried into the bouse and medical aid summoned, while Nero to full-blood- half-froze- III Ilulf-Fror- en of from 2d to 12-fo- ot Sir Rrdvcrs Duller Is to write his It will be bound in antobicgiaphy. black. showed his Joy |