St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-03
TRUTH IN PLUMAGE"
AS Gathered by Budd Reeve
for North Dakota Farm
ePS.
How He Was Trained to Hunt
Geese in the Indiana
WildS.
A High Protective Tariff and
Corruption Are the Sins
To-Day.
A Long, Cold Winter and Biz
yards Are Blessings to the
Farmers.
Rneninl 10 the Globe.

i regard 1t as nest made by G0d AL
mighty to hatch out the truth-and as it
is gotten up and designed by the Great
Author of nature, it is a broad and
grand one-hundreds of miles long and
wide. As one egg fills this nest, you
can Judge its size.
The egg of truth has been sat on for
good many years, and is not fully out
yet; but it's coming. One reason why
it has been so slow in Matching is the
boys have kept fooling round, trying to
addle it. But is not like a common
egg of the barnyard. that if not Matched
out in twenty-one days under Shang-
hal it is gone up. This egg of truth has
been sat on for centuries, and is now
just commencing to pip.
1t will be bird of great size and pro-
portions when fully grown and feath-
cred.
Just think of the truth in full plum
age, with tail feathers reaching half
way round the earth. and head tower
ing into the sky, walking round loose
among the sons and daughters of men:
to say nothing of the ''sons Of guns"
who will flee before it i'll fear and
trembling.
The more a man sees and learns of
this world. the more he is convinced
that everything quailS before the pierre
ing eve of the truth.
The nest where anything is Matched
even the truths not always the
most delightful place to be round
without one is interested in sitting
on it.
The fellows sitting on the egg of
truth i'll North Dakota are interested
enough. Whether they have feathers
and warmth enough to force the hatch
ing at once remains to be seen. / am
inclined to think they have-if they
don't leave the nest too long to get
something to drink they are all right
The nest is on the ground. for the
reason no tree ever grew big enough to
hold up one end of it. Speaking of a
nest not having attractions, only for the
one sitting on it. reminds me of when |
was a boy living at Sock Town. in the
state of Indiana. There 1 was kept
humping to
FOLLOW UP THE GEESE
and turkeys to see where they made
nests. laid their eggs. and commenced
sitting. This was my principal occupa-
ton till | was cleaned out and had to
leave nome. Whenever goose took it
into her head to go into the family bust
ness, and picked out a place to drive
her stakes, [ always thought she picked
a spot surrounded by the least attrac-
lions and the most lonesome hole on
earth. But that was her choice and
Judgment, and if you went to interior
ing with her it would break up her fam
lily. She would walk of, just as much
as to say, ''u you are going to run this
thing, pick your nest where you
please"
The goSlings always came out the
same color. and looked just alike. but
when they grew up, were of different
gender. They may have been of differ
ent gender when Matched. but of this,
none of the family had fine enough
powers to tell.
The barn stood up on boulders, or
niggerheads, just high enough so a
fellow of my size could flatten out like a
bat and crawl under it.
In addition to geese making nests and
ToOstlng here, it was lodging place for
pigs. The festive rat carries on It's
maraudng, and Occasionly friendly
rattlesuake would crawl under here and
make itself wonderfully at home. 1t
was very common thing to find rat
tlesnake under the barn in the state of
Indiana where | carried on the goose
iCh'iAi' $50 4hOiO Olielli OttC VI IllVSO lCp-
tiles were killed under the dear old
barn. In picking out a nest the intelli-
gence of the goose seemed to suggest a
spot under this barn-uSually the most
disagreeabie part of it, where the horses
stood, and where it was the most diff
cult to get at, way back behind some
sill, she would settle down.
Mother was one of the best women
that ever lived. But whenever she
peeked through q crack and saw an old
goose sitting that settled 1t. l was inn
mediately dispatchee under to inyesti-
gate and make an official report.
Talk about the expeditions of Kane
or Greedy to the Arctic regions! l
don't believe either of them could 90
under that barn.
If [ had been put through astron-
omy, or some of the sciences. half as
thoroughly as / was drilled under that
barn. might amount TO something and
have my name before the public now.
The casual observer and superficial
thinker may think 1t was very simple
matter and commonplace thing to crawl
under there and take observations of a
goose,s nest. But here is where their
knowledge of affairs in Indiana at an
early period is deficient.
When goose joins unto herself an
ardent and admiTing gander. and they
both get right down to business, they
are not to be trifled with.
THEY ARE FIGHTERS
from way back [ was ALWAYS willing
TO sell myself cheap after boy smaller
than myself. had cleaned me out. But !
was always willing to make a still more
liberal discount after being knocked out
by goose. The gander never appeared
TO act as though he was born to sit on
the nest. He appeared to assume more
the dignity of chief of police He would
stand and hang round and take notes OF
all that went on, and whenever mother
would call on me to hazard nv life ia
reconnoiter under the barn, would nc
sooner approach the nest than the old
goose would hiss and call the chief
Her telephone line was always in order
and never missed connection. The gen.
tleman goose always responded, and
more than once, fat on my
face, with a barn on top of me-
Ing both front and rear; i'm bed OF
dust that had been accommodating fol-
years, with mouth. eyes and nose full.
! had to take it. No matter how badly
whipped and vanauiShed / could never
retreat in haste-always had to crawl
out, and could never run-and as [ left
the field in humiliation and defeat, the
geese would set up shout of victory
They would quack and coo and gobble tc
each other. as much as to say, 'DIdn't
we give it to him; Wen learn him tc
come fooling round here" Notwith
standing the geese were my superiors
and had me under most humiliating
subjugation, it would not be more
than two or three days after get
ting a terrible drubbing before
mother would have impression:
that some other goose was laying to the
one sitting, or that rats were carrying
Off the eggs, and the lesson, ''if at frs
you don't succeed, try, try again." wa;
held up TO me to go under again. The
result was the same-the geese hao
learned the lesson TO perfection. an0
not only succeeded the first time. but all
the time. 1t was mothers ambition tC
have feather bed and pair of pillows
ready to hand each one of her children