The Indianapolis journal., 1903-08-02

she is lowered to herself from that time on
has lost her own ideal of herself, as well
as her ideal of the man she loves. And
cannot you see how she lowers herself in
his eyes also and ceases to be his ideal.
through her willingness to live with him
on a lower plane? That is our wound.
That is our trouble and our sorrow"
Mr.. Aliens book does not leave this old
problem any more nearly settled than be-
fore, but he presents 1t in a way that will
cause discussion and may arouse what he
calls American mettle-the ''mettle OF the
pasture which is the courage of a mans
convictions and honesty. I'VE lie in busi-
ness" says one in his book. "and We lie in
religion. and We lie to women. Perhaps If
a man stopped lying to woman, by and
by he might begin to stop lying for money
and at last stop lying with his Maker"
WILD TURKEYS AND WILD PIGEONS.
A recent work on American game fowl
and birds mentions wild turkeys and wild
pigeons among others which, once very
abundant, have become almost extinct.
Indiana was included in the original habitat
of the wild turkey, and great numbers
of them were trapped or killed by the
early settlers. There is a gentleman now
living in this city who has killed wild tur-
keys within the present city limits, but that
was long time ago. A few are still found
in the hilly and wooded counties Of south
ern Indiana, but they are exceedingly
scarce and will soon be extinct. The wild
turkey has been pronounced the largest
and finest game bird in the world, and 1t Is
indigenous to the western hemisphere
alone. The early settlers had a way of
decoying them into a large pen constructed
of rails piled closely together and reofed
over at the top. A trail OF corn led the
turkeys into the pen by sort of ditch
dug under the lower rail, and once inside
the pen, they looked above for means Of
escape without trying to get out by the
same hole they came in at. They were
Southwest. Colonel w. F. Cody ("Buffalo
BilP') describes one of his experiences:
while ait this camp we had lively turkey
hunt. The trees along the bank of the
stream were literally alive with wild tur-
keys, and after unsaddling the horses, be-
tween two and three hundred soldiers sur
rounded grove Of timber and had grand
turkey roundup. killing four or five hun
dred of the birds with guns, clubs and
stones. After this we had turkey in every
style-roast turkey, boiled turkey, fried tur-
key, turkey on toast and so on. We
called this place Camp Turkey" A resi-
dent of this city who herded cattle on the
plains back in the ffties says the finest
meat he ever ate was that of a big wild
turkey which had fattened on nuts and
after being encased in clay and buried In
a bed of live Goals. When taken out the
feathers and skin came off together and
the meat, cooked in it's own juice, remained.
There are many old persons living in In
diana who recall the time when wild tur-
| keys were very abundant and easily trap
ped or killed, but they are almost extinct
and in little while there will not be one
left in the State. They will have gone the
| way Of the prairie chickens which were once
SO numerous that they could be killed by
| the CARLOAD.
Much has been said about the disappear
ance of the wild pigeons, but it is not re-
| markable when one remembers how they
were wantonly slaughtered and how Ions
| it was before they, had any legal protec-
ton. The stories of wild pigeon flights and
| roosts in early times are almost incredible
yet there are many persons still living
who can vouch for them. One writer says
81 have seen wild pigeons so numerous fol
days at time that they literally reached
from horizon to horizon. like clouds In the
sky, and cast similar shadows on the
EARTH" Audubon, an early ornithologist
writes:
In the autumn of 1913 I left my home
| at Henderson, on the banks of the Ohio
\ on my way to Louisville. In passing ovel
| the barrens, few miles beyond Hardns
burg, l observed the pigeons flying dowr
4 northeast to southwest in greater number.
| than l thought l had ever seen before.
| travelled on and still met more the further
| proceeded. The air was literally filled
with pigeons. The light of the nooDda,
was obscured by an eclipse. Before sunse
| l had traversed ffty-five miles. Tf> pig
cons were still passing in undiminishet
| numbers and continued to do SO for thre,
days in succession.
In early times 1t was no uncommon
thing to see such fiocks as this, and man,
| persons still living have seen some ap
preaching 1t. Old residents of indianapolis
can remember seeing wild pigeons fly ove
the city by millions. pigeon roost," Of
| what ought to be called a camping ground
| was a great curiosity. 1t sometimes em
| braced many square miles of forest ans
the birds would congregate In such mum
bers as to break off large branches an,
even break down trees OF considerable size
Persons came from long distances an,
| camped under the roosting place where
night after night. the birds we're killed b,
hundreds of thousands with guns, lonl
poles and clubs. Large droves of hogs wer
driven many miles to be fattened on them
Big fires were built on the ground and tn
birds were roasted by thousands, Will
other thousands were packed in salt an
carried away in wagons But all that wer
killed and carried away or left for hog
TO eat seemed to make no impression what
ever on the numbers. The fiocks SCENE
just as large after the slaughter before
What has become of these millions an
| hundradc af millions of wild nioaons1 Cone