Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1893 — Can You Gobble? [ARTICLE]

Can You Gobble?

“I think I have discovered an error,” writes a correspondent of the Critic, “in ‘The Century Dictionary’, in the definition of ‘Turkey-call—an instrument producing a sound which resumbles the gobbling of the tur-key-cock, used as a decoy.’ I have hunted wild turkeys, and decoded many a strutting gobbler and foolish hen to death, but always bv imitating the ‘yelp’ of the female, and I have never seen a hunter who could imitate the ‘gobble.’ Perhaps Bettina. in ‘The Mascotte,’ might do it, but I have heard old hunters say it is an impossibility.” Bernhardt’s crazy lover, Benatre, has just died in an insane asylum. He was a minor official of the municpality of Paris, and became enamored of the actress from seeing her on the stage. Neglect of business and imploring letters resulted, but they did not affect her. He endured her contempt, however, until she married M. Damala. He then had to be taken to Bicetre and there he died, having never recovered from his hopeless passion. Mrs. Gladstone’s regular attendance at the House of Commons is said to be due less to her interest in the government of her country than to anxiety for her husband’s health. Unless she is on hand to see that he is properly muffled up when he leaves the House, the Grand Old Man is likely to return home invuffloiently wrapped.