Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1913-09-25

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go straight down -: - ~
to Nine. Capote's r. !" ,-gR2 u
this morning. T. f Il IN ff VI Il
can get beauty lNWl tMH |
for ten dollars, I MMR RM |
know, and I won't N N N II 4 4%sn|
have single song = - = 4 Nv ESsd(I
bird on it," nj s,s. r. 9I
That night after 17 1'-sf1'' EAI
thinner Mrs A--:' '-----' ------ n IN
Sparks sent the maid Of all work into
the front bedroom to bring box that
arrived shortly before from Nine. Ca.
pote's. Mrs. Sparks opened the box,
lifted the wonderful creation and said
the usual womanly thing: isn't IT. "a
dream?" *s...5xe Il: 5.SE2 81, !55
| Henry Sparks looked at the hat
| euizzically. There was not perhaps
expressed in his face the admiration
and entire approval that Mrs. Sparks
had hoped for. ET r. rs a>i1 s5#s $sg.s
Henry she said, II rknow there is
| a birds head or two and q lot of feath-
ers in it, but Nine. Capote told me that
they we're all made-up things, mostly
barnyard fowls. This head with the
slate-blue neck and just touch OF
brown at the place where it was sep
arated from the breast, was the head
of common domestic fowl in China.
Now don't look that way. Everybody
is wearing feathers, and I don't see
| why shouldn't wear them" :Ht sS%
Henry Sparks rose from the table
and took the; befeathered hat out OF
| his wife's hand and looked at it
through his glasses. ''This,'' he said,
| pointing with his finger at the birds
head with beautiful steel blue feath.
ers, lis, as understand Nine. Capote.
the head of common Chinese do,
nestle fowl. Eliza, when you wander
along by some tumbling stream in the
springtime you will hear now and
then a rafting cry. It is birds voice.
It is as much q part Of the time and
place and Of the wildness of It all as
are the trees the stream or even the
pril clouds overhead Wander along
the same stream in the heat Of sum.
mer and you hear the same rafting
cry. A bird form dashes by, then
stops in midflight and hovers lightly
over a pool beneath. Then there is a
sound of the plash Of waters as
feathered form descends and rplunges'
There is a sensation of GOODNESS in
the sound Of that plunge that tempers
the heat Of tho August day to the way
farer. Perhaps you have legal right
! - ,,>o~ +1,;o 1,1.d heearno n NOV Il a VIC
heen killed in New York, where the
wise legislators withdrew from this
creature the protection OF the law. The
men who urged that it be exempt from
protection were men OF the kind who
70 into the northern woods and drag
'eines, dynamite streams and catch
.nd kill thousands Of fish that they
nay pick out the big ones for the
! market. The souls Of these men are
their pockets. This bird catches
= few small fish for the sustenance Of
':self and It's young. It adds, when moi
n a bonnet, living interest to, every
~aterside. Eliza, your Chinese do.
nestle fowl is an American kingfsh
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! Henry, Nine ,.te.,r +. r. :
! n Eliza, this bird that has been eat
ng up the crops in India, thus causing
famine in that country, was Matched
| n a nest in an Illinois tree. Perhaps
I: $:ou have the legal right to wear it
The wise legislators Of Illinois re
Gently added this bird to tho game list
so that it may be slaughtered and
made into pies. The souls of the leg
islators were situated in their stom
achs. This bird has stood a. an EN-
blem Of peace since tho world Was. ani
yet every pot and millinery hunter il
. the land makes war upon it. You arr
4 l good Episcopalian and you some
times tell me that there ID nothing
more beautiful than all that pertain.
to tho church and its teachings. Ok
you, Trinitarian that you are, know
that 1t was in the living form OF one
Of these murdered innocents in your
bonnet that the Holy Spirit descended
upon our Savior az heHstood at The
side o.. the Baptist BY the waters o.
Jordan? Eliza, this East Indian crop
destroying, neutrality-suspicious. bird
d Is ! Illinois mourning dove. 4.
Doubtless Nine. Capote told yoy
that this little bunch Of feathers tina,
clasps the upturned brim OF the hal
came from q bird .harpy Of some rs
mote region whose daily practice it il
& TO carry and devour the sweet
Il babes ofsdoting mothers. Wen, these
. sinnamon-b brown feathers with these
soft gray dotted with darker color rep
resent all that Is left Of d hermit,
thrush, q bird that sings itss seraphis
song in the twilight nosl'thern wilder
ness. It Is tho note 'of this, bird thu,
Burroughs says sassests : serene 70
n Hgious beatituds.is'
n but, Henry, Nme. Capote said . !, i.
| ss884g Eliza there are Il tl1ollaand Mr.