The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-07-17
BELIEVES IN NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Why n Widow Clings to a Turkey
Goboler and Won't Go to Her New
Husband.
From the 81 Louis Globe Democrat


From the 81 Louis Globe Democrat.
SAN ANTONIO, TEX, July 8.-Justice
Leha Maque of the Mission Espada came to
town today and related to interested audi
tors very queer tale of the neighborhood.
One year ago Antonio Jimens, likely
looking Mexican Of the lower order, mar
ried a young widow, Eliza Valdez, who IS
described as being remarkably handsome,
and prior to her last marriage quite ardently
desired by suci. youths as had the good Tor
tune to be acquainted with her. The
ceremony was Of the usual kind with tins
happy -go-ucky people; the black robe padre
joined them, there was a supper, some
whisky, some dancing and music, and much
guitar playing. The festivities were kept
up till late hour, but ended at last.
The impatient bridegroom approached his
prize, requesting her to make ready to &C
company him to their future home. He
was disagreeably astonished when she burst
into tears threw her arms around her aged
grandmother's neck, and refused to 80 with
him. Arguments, protestations, woolngs,
anger, were of no avail; she intended to
stay there, and she stayed, giving no expla-
nation further than that she was compelled
to refuse to live with him. Jimens took
himself off in high dudgeon, but returned
next morning to renew his plsadingS tie
achieved the same result, and was left in
trant spouse was widow, and might have
been reasonably supposed to have long ago
overcome any stubborn maidenly scruples.
The state of affairs has not altered.
Jimens lives by himself, and Mrs. Valdez.
or rather Jimens de jure, if not de .fdcto.
lives with her grandmother She has de-
veloped, however, a very singular mania
which explains her queer action. Like
most Mexicans, she believes in the doctrine
of metempSychosis. With her it is not
matter of PHILOSOPHY, but of superstition.
Trere is pet turkey around the place into
which she asserts that the soul of the de-
ceased Valdez entered on the night of her
second marriage. She tends the bird with
the most devoted asslduity; will not suffer
it for a moment out of her sight; has it in
bedchamber at night; follows it
about like slavish nurse; talks to it in
| terms of extravagant endearment; is i'll
when it is ill; rejoiceS when it is well again,
| and gives it the choicest food which her
| limited means enable her to procure. I'm
| der the influence of this intense and unnat-
| ural attachment she has wasted away, and
is no longer the buxom and blooming beauty
of year ago.
It is a belief among her friends that when
tho gobbler dies she, too, will seek consola-
I tion in the tomb. The idea is immovablv
| fixed in her mind; all attempts to disabuse
| her of the nonsensical impression are
resisted with tears, sometimes with violence.
II the unconscious object of her attachment
strays from her side, as, being an active
bird enough, it sometimes does, she be-
| comes nearly manageable. and runs wildly
| from place to place seeking and calling it.
| This fantastic version Of THE Quick or the
| Deadn excites much interest in the Espada
section, and Mrs Valdez receives numerous
| sympathizing callers with whom she is
entirely affable, until they eDdeavor to
| show her that she is making fool of her
| self