Arizona republican., 1899-05-02
TIPsY CARTRIDGES.
A Maine Prohibitionist's Qscovery Tn
 an Old Orchard.

Ralph Hart believes that the mod ern partridge as developed by clvlllza- tion is a depraved and utterly aban- doned creature, unsuitable for tne tables of respectable families and wholly unfit to associate with other birds that have any self respect. Mir Hart has a large orchard mostly in natural fruit Last fall he ground and pressed his apples until new cider went down to less than S1 a barrel, af- ter which the remaining fruit-75ome 300 or 400 bushels-was left to hang on the trees, where it was sampled by
 part1idges, squirrels, pine grosbeaks and such other creatures as liked Eour frozen appbas as steady article Of diet Tho cartridges didn't seem to care much for the apples, but were very fond of the seeds, and as they had to pick through an inch or more of f1inty, frozen fruit to get at these, MT. Hart believed they paid well for their provender. March was a very warm month in eastern Maine. Un- der the hot rays of the sun the brown apples ttawed out and exuded juices that were sweet and stinging to the taste In month the frozen cider began to Terment, and every apple had bunch of froth in the little hollow which holds the stem. The cartridges were whirring about the orchard, from l sun-up until dark, growing fat upon i the nut-brown seeds, which co1lld ba shelled out eaaily. Along in April MT Hart noticed that the birds did not show themselves in the orchard at all, and waded down through the deep snow to learn if they had eaten up all l the apples that remained on the trees.
 He found plenty of apples on the limbs. and under the trees he picked up four plump cartridges that were suffering from some form of paralysis.
 They couldn't walk or fly, but when
 he took them mp and carried them home they f1uttered all the way and
 rolled their eyes in a way that 1ndi- cated they were suffering intensely. He threw them on the granary floor, and when he opened the door the next morning all four of them were beating
 their heads against the window trying
 to get out. When liberated they He"
 away to the woods as if nothing ln-
 usual had happened.
 The Following afternoon MT. Har1
 found three more partiidges suffering
 from the same malady and placed
 them in the granary to recover, tying l bit of red flannel to their wings 1T
 order to identify them should they come again. He liberated them tn |, next morning and six hours late found five cartridges laid out on tn snow under his apple trees and thrc of them had red flannel attached |
 their wings. He kept T.p the 'experl
 ment for a week, finding from three t : six cartridges every day. Then he dit | some tall thinking and came to tn , conclusion that the birds had mad themselves drunk on apple brand
 that had been manufactured troI
 frozen sour apples by a liberal appli
 cation of sunlight MT. Hart. being l rigid prohibitionist, has made vo' q that he will never again leave apple Q on his trees over winter. He hope . that by removing the temptation th ' misguided cartridges may see the e1 = TOT into which they have fallen an >. resolve to lead better lives in the fl ., ture-Holden, Me, Dispatch in Ne
 York Sun