Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1889-11-02

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II still had my twenty acres of ground.
While lamenting the loss OF my crop of corn
and beans n cartman came along with n
load ofseathers in bags OF all sizes and colnrs.
We had long conyersationupo the raising
OF greese as a source of emolument. He said
feathers were Of high and rising value, that
could pick geese once in two months, could
make more money from twenty acres OF
geese than from hundred acres of corn and
beans, that the eggs would supply food for
the table, and when friends should call a
roast goose with apple sauce could be served.
There was music in the mans voice.
and in few days after
he had passed away, had
borrowed money, using my farm as security,
and was buying geese in d most surprising
manner. 1t had been +he labor OF q week to
learn how many head OF geese an acre OF
ground could support comfortably; also how
long goose was in the habit OF living life
OF usefulness. at what age it ceased to be
| tender for table use in the first families, and
| Mt what other period in life, if any such ex-
| listed. the fowl became too old for even the
common clearinghouse. The supply also
| demanded great wisdom and much labor,
| attended with expense.
AT last all the preliminaries had been dis
cussed and prepared and was the happy
| owner of / 600 geese. combined a study
| of the beautiful with the pursuit Of the
| profitable and taught these geese to
| march in perfect step in a two-tile column to,
/ the beating OF bass-drum. At last a small
negro boy accompanied my drum with fife
Ia service for which goose egg dny was
| an ample compensation. Thus with all the
| pomp of music my flock marched twice a
| day to long troughs ofwater. Hundreds and
| thousands of persons came from abroad to
/ see the wonders of the Goose Farm" and
| children were cheered along the path ofduty
| by being promised visit some Saturday to
| the Goose Farm. Happiness came back to
| my soul: for when was beating u drum at
| the head OF this white column was as happy
/ in spirit as had been those days OF first
love and it's many Authorizations.
1 The girls Of the township
| volunteered each second full moon to help
/ pick the down from the thousand bosoms;
| and as the young men would call ut sunset
to accompany these girls to their rural OF
| village homes my farm became MT once q cen
| tire OF fashionable life lofty but unique
| kind of Saratoga or Newport. Each youth
4 of the country wore n quill in his hat, while
/ the girl that bad missed picking season
/ at the farm was an object OF wide sympathy.
"Avarice will, however work out at last a
| ruin or an injury. In my own case nature
i has always sent ruin rather than injury
1 Last autumn was wonderfully warm. Week
/ utter week passed by, bringing only clear
\ skies, and it seemed to me that Winter would
| for once forget his old timetable. / adyer-
/ tised one more gOOse-plcking' to be
held on the day before the National Thanks
giving. The fashionable youth Of the coun.
/ try responded with giadness. BY night the
| thousand birds had been reduced to the thin
attire Of July. The youth had eaten, had
danced o few measures, and had gone to the
4 widely scattered homes. Dark clouds sud.
/ denly formed in the northwest. Winds wlis-
tied in the trees. Some specks Of snow filled
the air. At midnight ice had begun toslorm