Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-03-29
A Male Eagles Eggs.

Lille Devereaux Blake, a woman
who has gained some reputation in this
country as woman s,ffragist, and who
takes every occasion 10 push women to
the front, and sit down on men, mover
tires OF telling what more important
parsonage a woman is than poor,
weak man. 1t is sweet boon TO her
that men cannot be the mothers OF
children. To Mrs. Blake, man Is OF
little account in the world. She is
willing TO admit that they make passa-
BILE soldiers, but If they were not in
spired by women they would not do
great deeds. The Blake woman in her
zeal for the female sex, has started a
scandal on "Old Abe" the celebrated
Wisconsin war eagle. In one OF her
speeches she says:
"You all have heard OF the famous
war eagle, "Old Abe" who accompan-
led Wisconsin regiment all through
the war. Well, after the fighting was
all over "Old Abe was taken TO Mad
son, in the state of Wisconsin, TO end
his days in honorable retirement; and
he spent all his leisure time in laying
eggs!"
AS an intimate friend OF Old Abe, the
war eagle, we must kick against the
above scandal. Old Abe never laid an
an egg, any more than Lille Devereux
Blake did. He was man eagle, by q
good working majority. III Mrs. Blake
had seen Abe. for years after the war,
in the basement OF the capital building,
sitting upon his perch In deep thought,
l. II. H.
about his laying eggs. He would sight
for mice and rats, and never got fright
ened at mouse and climbed up on his
perch and screamed, as Mrs. Blake, or
"a female eagle would have done, on the
entrance OF a rat or mouse TO his cage.
He would "come down off his perch
birdie" and corral the animal, and eat
it. Mrs. Blake. before she made this
charge Of laying eggs against Abe,
ought to have seen him kitten around
when his keeper would place a female
eagle in the cage. He would put on
more style than dude, and would
walk around the hen eagle, and hirt
with her, and act in such manner that
nobody could mistake his sex. IL would
be plain to all that he was all that was
claimed for him. a grand old hemale
eagle. The hen eagles that used 10 visit
Old Abe, were addicted to laying eggs,
and that fact is very likely what has
mixed Mrs Blake up in this eagle bust
ness, and her unconquerable desire to
sound the praises OF her sex has caused
her TO lay eggs 10 Abe that he was not
more than half responsible for, and
that he never laid if he knew himself.
The state of Wisconsin has been lied
about by great many people, and has
turned the other cheek, when smote on
one check, but there can be an end To
her good nature, and the calling Old
Abe hen eagle is liable TO bring on
trouble. Mrs. Blake had better not
visit this state until the eagle scandal
has blown over. While Old Abe is
dead and in his grave, his companions
in arms. who helped him put down the
rebellion, and who caused him TO be
cared for and pensioned during the
balance OF his life, will not tamely
submit to have him injured in his rep
utation, and unseXed, as ii were, by a
female with a mission. We trust it
will not be necessary TO petition the
legislature to pass law making Old
Abe legal male eagle, but if it were
necessary it could be done. If Mrs.
Blake still insists that her egg story
is true, and asks for an inv stigating
committee, it can soon be proved to
her satisfaction that she is wrong, for
Old Abe is stuffed and still il. existence
in the spirit. Come off, Mrs Blake,
you ought TO be ashamed of yourself -
Peck's Sun.