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Show HUNTING T.0SSUMS AT NIGHT Upstate, over In South Jersey, on Long Island, and indeed wherever wher-ever the 'possum makes Its home, cold nights find pursuers on Its trail. After the supper dishes have been cleared away the hunters get the dogfl together, light tho torches and fc. cut to tree the game New Yorkers who go to the Virginias, the Carollnas or Florida frequently Join In the hunt "for the fun of it." Xot long ago Jefferson City, Mo . got together 250 automobiles and Just after sundown Governor Major, Maj-or, members of his staff and other friends started in their machines, with horns and dogs and followed by motor trucks bearing refreshments refresh-ments and negro "beaters," for an all night 'possum hunt Some one sent President Wilson a large sweet potato last October. From MacParland, N. C, Joe Far-rell, Far-rell, who described himself as "an old slave time darky," wrote that he was sending a 'possum to go with tho potato and by express there came to the White House. October 30, the North Carolina 'possum, fine, fat and "sassy." Secretary William Jennings Bryan Bry-an caught A "possum last month in an unusual manner. Somebody sent the Bryan family n 'possum. After they had fattened It for several sev-eral days it escaped. Three davs later the 'possum was found in 'an alley and it took refuge In a blgr tree. One of Mr. Bryan's colored men climbed the tree, shook off the 'possum and the Secretary caught 'Possums are found as near New York as the Orange, New Jersey, Mountains. Henry Clay of Orang-! hunting one night last month, caught a 'possum, and when he dressed it found a celluloid button In its stomach bearing a picture of Colonel Roosevelt and the words "Vote for Theodore Roosevelt for Governor." Whether the 'possum gulped down the campaign button recently or whether it swallowed it when Roosevelt was running for Governor is a question. If you want 'possum hunting go to New Jersey. Up along the hills In the northern part of the State where the Hackensa k Rivor begins' is the place to go. Woodcllff Lake" has within its borders a number of 'possum hunters, and almost anv point in Bergen County is a good place to start from. John Sharp Williams of Mississippi Missis-sippi was recently the guest of twenty-five MlsslsslppJaas at the Hotel Astor, where the menu including in-cluding 'possum and sweet potatoes. crackling corn pone and hominy. I scar W. Underwood of Alabama also likes the 'possum, and not so long ago he was the guest at a 'possum dinner given by the Birmingham Birm-ingham Press Club. Robert Love Taylor of Tennessee and famous as Fiddling Bob Taylor, not long before he died, received word that an especially fine 'possum was being sent to him from Waldo's PldKo, in his State, and he planned a 'possum dinner. But he wouldn't have it cooked by a Washington chef. "'That would be desecration." he said. "Nobody knows how to cook 'possum but a Tennessee nigger." nig-ger." And he sent to Waldo's Hidge and got a negro to cook the animal In true Tennessee style. The party that sat down to that dinner Included Senator Crane of Massachusetts Massa-chusetts and other Northerners, besides be-sides men who knew the value of possum, such as Senator Bradley and John Sharp Williams, and they said it was the most successful 'possum dinner ever given outside of Waldo's Ridge. Recently John Stewart Bryan, n the Richmond Times-Dispatch, disowned dis-owned the 'possum. This hard blow from a Southern editor came when Mr. Bryan said in an editorial: "President Wilson growa bigger daily. Having had a 'possum wished on him from some lummox in Mississippi who wanted to get rid of the beast, Woodrow did not ; pretend to eat the 'only American marsupial,' but sent it to the zoo. "Possums are about as fit to eat as cotton cake." |
