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FROM DAY TO DAY.
Still we reap, from day to day,
Thorns, with roses, on the way;
Yet, iu even the darkest night,
Cometh dreams and gleams of light!
Sorrow-coming to destroy,
Is foreshadowing of Joy!
—Atlanta Constitution.
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HOW THE TENDERFOOT
MET THE BEAR.
The tenderfoot sportsman who goes
to the Wheeler-town settlement in
these days finds himself treated with
kinder consideration than he has any
reason to expect—far kinder, in fact,
than any real woodsman would accord
him elsewhere around the southeast
corner of the Adirondacks. This is
not due to any natural defect in the
Wheeler town woodsmen. They have
just as hearty a contempt for the ig¬
noramus as all other good woodsmen
have, but since Abner Chase came
from Buffalo last spring they are will¬
ing to give even a tenderfoot with a
shiny outfit a chance to show what’s
in him before they turn him over to
the professional guides.
Mr. Abner Chase brought more joy
to the community than any tourist
that has fished Little black Creek dur¬
ing the last three years, for he was
confessedly the tenderest tenderfoot
that ever combined experience with
.silver-plated outfits. He couldn’t tell
spinach from turnip tops nor corn
from quack grass, but he said he was
“ambitious to learn the woodcraft,”
and when he expressed “entire confi¬
dence in the ability” of Wheelertown
backwoodsmen' as “instructors” they
“calculated” they’d “learn him some¬
thing, sure.”
So far as the arts of fishing for trout
and applying tar oil to keep off punkies
and deer flies were loneerned, Mr.
Chase was carefully and sincerely in¬
structed by Mr. Bob Alien, with whom
he boarded; but when on the third
•clay after arrival he said he wished
he “could have a hand-to-hand con¬
flict with a bear after the Norwegian
style,” and then explained that in the
Norwegian style of conflict the hunter
used a knife only, the boys thought
they’d give him a run for his money
in a way that would make him and
them remember for years to come.
They admit now that it was a low
down trick to plan for any tourist, but
-still they aren’t sorry they did it.
Because bears are scarcer than they
used to be, and because they know
well that men carry guns of marvel¬
ous powers, the chance of arranging
a personal meeting between Mr. Chase
and a bear was too remote for consid¬
eration. But Ben Gratrix, who lives
half a mile north of the Wheelertown
sehoo:house, had a big, shaggy, black
mongrel dog—an ugly brute—that the
boys thought would serve instead of
Ursus, and they told Mr. Chase they
guessed they could give him a chance
to try.
Accordingly, Bob Allen and Bud
North took the tenderfoot into the
woods, one afternoon, and with a big
rag well soaked in fish oil dragging
behind him at the end of a rope they
led him to and fro for four hours and
finally stopped in front of the big hol¬
low birch that stands beside the old
reservoir trail, near the abandoned
Pardy clearing. Then they all went
home -for the night, but just before
■daylight the next morning they got
Chase out of bed and sent him alone
up the trail to take a stand in the hol¬
low birch and wait for a bear to come
along in search of the bait they had
.been dragging the day before.
Mr. Chase had no doubt that a bear
would come, for the boys assured him
they had seen abundant signs, and
that the bait was sure to draw. He
accordingly prepared himself with
care for the occasion. He wore a fine
leather coat which, as the boys had
been careful to learn, cost $18. On his
head he put a scarlet cap, because, as
he explained, the Indians always wore
red handkerchiefs around their heads.
Corduroy trousers and twelve-dollar
hunting shoes completed his dress,
and tor a weapon fie carried a carving
knife whetted to a razor edge.
Meantime Ben Gratiz, Jr., a lad of
17, had gone up the trail leading the
-dog, and to his delight he was having
much trouble in doing it. For the un¬
fortunate beast had been kept without
food since the morning before, and
just before starting for the woods he
had been allowed to smell of but not
to taste a comfortable piece of meat
‘To thine own self be true,and it will follow, os night the day, thou caas’t not then be false to any man. ”
LINCOLNTON, GA , THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16. 1902
flanked by bread and potatoes covered
with gravy. Young Ben had gone up
the trail to a point half a mile or so
beyond the old hollow birch to wait
till sunrise, and then to release the
dog. It was absolutely certain that
the dog would go tearing down the
trail, bound for its breakfast, and the
woodsmen hoped the tenderfoot would
jump out and try to stop him. They
knew the dog might get hurt in such
an encounter, but they calculated on
his plunging between Chase’s legs, giv
ing him a nip. and then flying on.
They had to snort as they thought of
the way the tendefoot would come
limping in, with eyes bulging, to .tell
hew the bear chawed him and then
fled.
Having seen Mr. Chase disappear up
the old trail the boys made haste to
do the chores on the Allen farm, and
then, with Mrs. Allen and the chil¬
dren following, they started for the
woods, just at sunrise.. They were ex¬
pecting to meet the dog any moment
after reaching the woods trail, but it
did not come. They were approach¬
ing the last bend m the trail before
reaching the old birch, and Mrs. Allen
was saying she believed the dog had
taken a short cut through the woods,
poor thing, when Chase came around
the bend. He was plainly running for
life, but the moment he saw the wo¬
man with the children he stopped
short and yelled.
“Get them up a tree, Bob! I’ll try
to stop him, but I don’t believe I can
do it.”
With that he grabbed an old sled
stake that lay beside the trail and
started back around the bend, while
Bob Allen and Bud North began to
howl with laughter. The children
joined ecstatically, but Mrs. Allen
caught her breath, and then, turning
to Bob, said:
“Stop your fool laughing. Didn't
you see his coat was all ripped and
bloody?”
No‘, Bob hadn’t seen that; neither
had Bud, and they were going on with
their howls when Chase came walking
back around the bend.
“All right!” ho shouted. “He fled
into the woods when he saw the club,
but that’s more than -he other would
have done.”
This would have amused the boys as
much as his previous words but for
the fact that they could see now that
his coat was ripped and bloody, as
Mrs. Allen had said. Moreover, his
corduroy trousers were slashed and
bloody, too, his scarlet cap was gone,
and there was a row of deep cuts from
the top of his head down through his
right ear to his shoulder.
“Lordy, will you look at that?” said
Allen. “Why, man alive, what’s hap¬
pened? Ye’re all chawed up.”
“Why, yes,” said Chase, as they
gathered around him, “I believe I am
cut up a bit. You see, the affair did
not function quite as I had premeditat¬
ed; I didn't anticipate seeing a flock
of bears, you know.
“I took my stand in the hollow tree,
as you instructed me to do, and I as¬
sure you I hadn’t waited more than
two minutes when two small hears
came from the thick brush on the oppo¬
site side of the trail, one right behind
the other. They crossed over toward
me and were almost in reach when the
one behind bit the other in the heel,
and the next instant they were, ah,
up agaifist each other and slugging
away like prize fighters you know, i£
I may use the vernacular.
“They were quite young, and it
seemed almost a pity to do it, but I
supposed I should not have another
chance, so I attacked them. By a ra¬
pid movement I grasped the nearest
one by the neck, and at the same time
plunged the knife into the other. Then
I tried to knife the one I held, but its
struggles were most extraordinary, I
assure you, and I had to give it three
distinct thrusts.
“Meantime it had been screaming
like a baby, and while I was striving
to control it there was a crash in the
brush and out came the mother bear
with her lips drawn back and teeth
protruding.
“I don’t recollect, ah! precisely all
that happened, then, for she was very
much more active, you know, than any
one would imagine. But the worst of
it all was that as I gave her the last
thrust the knife became fastened in
some way so that I could not with¬
draw it, and just then 1 saw another
bear with a bushy tail coming down
the trail, and it's mouth was open,
too.
“It was quite embarrassing, I assure
you, but I remembered seeing a slend¬
er tree down this way which I thought
I might climb further than the bear
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co-aid, and I was running for that when
I met you.
“I hope the lady will pardon my ap¬
pearance,” he continued, as he drew
the bow of his necktie from behind his
neck and wiped some of the blood from
his face with a handkerchief. “It’s
unusual, I assure you, to find myself
in such a predicament”
Finding that phase was exhausted,
but not seriously hurt, the party hur¬
ried up the ttfeil to the old birch,
There they foetid young Ben Gratrix
standing, dead mothen with l|s!eyes bear with bulging, beside
a hind. two dead
cubs close at And the carving
knife in the las* and fatal thrust had
pierced between two joints of the old
bear’s backborf , where it was held
fast, as Chase h ul said.
“He didn’t fe m a bushy tailed dog
from a bear,”;;* ,id North, as he tried
to withdraw H ; knife from the old
bear, “but a;; enderfoot who’ll mix
into a mill lik« that c.as got the mak
mg of a—sportsman.”
that opinid has been adopted by
wi.nl'c-'ev 8 ’^ otL * ie f nt
derfoot Heed k mm her bear in a fmht
men will give he tourist due consul
eration until ii has had a chance to
show his York#] me|.—John s. gpears,
the New l imes.
The physical effects of violent emo
tion are showtt sy hysteria and various
forms of iusai ty in animals as well
as in man. v , j
AUTOMOBILES iN THE DESERT.
They Will Dev lop the Soudan Quick¬
er Thai Anything Else.
Sir Rudolf £ atilt, on his way from
Cairo to Loi ion recently, passed
through Vienm, and was there inter- j
viewed on thevprjppects in the Sou- j
dan Wha,t«igfWfa is commented on I
organ, particularly the part of the in¬
terview dealing with the introduction
of motor cars, and Aust: : manufac¬
turers are! u ed to semi agents to
Cairo. Sir 1 -Hioli' said it, part;
“Excepting r occasional trifling in¬
ternal disturbances, which are in no
sense directed against the Govern¬
ment, the! Soudan is in a perfectly
peaceful conflifion, with nothing to
hinder its agricultural and commercial
development. The two most pressing
necessities are an extension of the
means of communication and a sys
tem of irrigation.
^asts tracts of fertile country and
mineral lands are now comparatively
valueless becau-° no facilities exist
for bringing tin roducts to a arket.
£ believe that tl introducth f au¬
tomobiles would prove high: eeueti
cial. Many par* of the country are
already perfect!" uiapted to such traf¬
fic, and where is necessary roads
could be made bout great expense.
“Automobiles -irongly built, and
capable of car. ng goods in fairly
large quantifier would afford an ex¬
cellent substitu for the railways at
a iraction of eo of the latter. Ma
cnines with a hi' rate of speed would
not. be required strength and capa¬
city being the cl fi essentials.
“With regard o irrigation, several
engineers are m r studying the situa¬
tion. Apparent!, there is plenty of
water available hence irrigation
works might be constructed ex
tensively and successfully, Personal
ly I strongly f. or the development
of the country a agricultural lines
rather than in t direction of mining.
‘The soil of t e Soudan is exceed¬
ingly rich, cap: le of producing al
most anything, Cotton of an excel
lent medium t tde is now being
grown, and the is no reason why
the Soudan she id not furnish large
quantities for foreign markets.
Wheat and bark ' of the highest qual¬
ity grow freely in addition to fucb
products as ind. o and rubber.”
Plugged Ti -th With Brass.
Two young men, giving the names
of Drs. George N. Wyman and A. J.
McGluply, opened a dentist’s office
here six weeks ago. They advertised
to do work cheaper than the local
dentists, and die a lucrative business.
Yesterday they lisappeared, leaving
numerous unpai hills. They sent to
the Central Ho el for their trunks,
but the proprietor insisted on col¬
lecting before releasing the baggage.
All day yesterday and to-day people
whom they did; work for have been
looking for theta, some with fire in
their eyes. The fillings in their teeth
were brass and were falling out.—
Cincinnati Comijiercial-Tribune.
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Onr One Dollar Brogan is better. Our One Dollar and Twenty-five
Cents Brogan beats the world.
Onr One Dollar and Fifty Cents Shoes are simplv superb,
Our Two Dollar Vici Kid Shoes a big value. "Our Two Dollar and
Fifty Certs Hand-sewed Shoes are the best on the market.
We can give yon Ladies Shoes at 75c, but the Shoes we want to sell
£ on are $1-00 and $1.25 Ladies every clay Shoes and our $1.25 and $1.50
I’reEs .Shoes. They m RBI. HOT HAIlGAiKS ami don’t you
lfc - "<>" 01u ‘ $2.00 Ladies Shoes are as good as anybody s $3.00
hiioes.
\V e is never better forget the Children and Babies and this line of Shoes this
reason than ever before.
HATS? HATS! HATS!
Our prices in Hats are simply Tornado Swept. We give you Boy*
Hats 10c, a real good Hat 25c. Men’s Felt Hats 65c, Men’s Extra Good
Felt Hats $1.00, and so on to the end.
We don’t expect any one to come within a mile of us this season in
Price and Quality. When in the city be sure to Call and Examine and he
Convinced.
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All summer shoes mu! Oxfords, Men’s Women’s and Children’s will go
positively at cost.
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AT REDUCED PRICES.;
MILLINERY—The BeeHIive has had a very successful Millinery
Season and it can well afford to dispose of the remainder ol the stock at
half the regular cost. ,
A. 910-912 COHEN, Broad St., Proprietor, Augusta, Ga.
-When you visit Augusta call on
THE REUAsLt OLD cn * Shot Guns For $4.50.
Jackson Street,
First Oldest door from Pawn Broad, Shop in AUGUSTA, GA.
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Buy direct from manufacturer and save middleman’s profit. ^
Wines JUG and TRADE Liquors A SPECIALTY. of all Kinds t
Sa tisfac tion gu araiueed. Give me trial order.
833 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga.
NO. 20.
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