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WAR SI
...A. Federal Veteran
(Mfjor S. ll. M. Uvera, in J
Charleston, 8. C., February 20.
.-'or^a week we have been ic historic
oM Charleston-Charleston by thc
sea,'Charleston thc picturesque, tlic
.ity of fine old mansions and historic
churches, tho city with the delightful
climate, and whose ."tory in thc devo
lution lutrivals tilt* !-t-?ry of Ho?ton
itseh'. Il SOCHIS like :tli old to WU of
.'rance. Not alioth? i city tn the At
lantic rils .-o ?rh se to the ocean: not
mother city in Am?rica >? mtaitin FO
.nany splendid ubi time niaiisions.
Were I seeking a town iti :?li I lie
South to live in I would lind it hcic.
Of ci . - . I would like to have oun.sid
.eraWe :i. tn y in that case: I would
!iki ' > have a great, great lot of h is
ure ly laziness thrown in. When p
jilo I reakfast after .< in the forenoon,
and dine for au hour ??r two at ?J in
thc afternoon, supping for an hour at
7, ono must bc ready to lake things
easy. When all things are done on
thc slow plan, when railroad trains
?ot. ki not by a schedule, but when
thc Lord wills it, leisure absolute,
'brcouiC9 a religion. Next, if living
her-1, I would want some old family
traditions, nome real, aristocratic
blood, turne kinship lo Marion or
I'inckncy or Rutledge or Marshall ur
ito any of the revered patriots of the
-dlden time. I would want to live in
meet any one of these four hundred
.rasrUeions I sec, with their three uto
rum aud their enormous white column
ed verandas, looking to the Bea. ?
wo tv! i want 1(580 or 1720 carved on
my mansion as thc date of its build
ing. Aud to be in mode of the Char
JestOQ four hundred, a stone tablet
rabove my window would read: "In
this house George Washington was
.entertained," or "in this houso La
fayette was lodged," or "in this house
the British Clinton lived," or "in
this houso Cornwallis had his head
quarters, " or "From this house pa
triots in the Revolution were led to
execution." Inscriptions like this aro
on dozens and dozens of Charleston
But, above all, I would want to
-?ave it written on my forehead that
ria the war of secession I was a "rebel"
-a heroi J Confederate soldier; that I
served witnout pay, lived on poor
cratione, lost all I fought for, and
?came home to find my houso in
/ruins.
Pos sessed of ail these requisites
-Charle ston, with its sea-views, it? de.
Cicious climate and its purely South
ern types-spite of its myriads of
darkies-would be a little paradise
The city has perhaps 75,000 people
1-35,000 whites and 40,000 thc chil
dren of slavcB.
vQne need not be so rich after all,
'tolive in a big mansion in Charlcs
't'ju. M any of these great homes, af
ier thc civil war, passed into other
jh&nds. Some of them have been sac
rificed for a tithe of their original
?cost, yet today they are still absolute
ly tho stateliest mansions in tho
4ioutfc.
Charleston for many years had lost
its grip. Money, ambition, opportu
nity-all were gone. Tho people had
Mittle to live on, sovo the great recol
lections of other days. It was like a
beautiful grave yard filled with state
ly eep ulchres. And what had this
grave yard by tho sea experienced?
First, f our years of war right in its
-door yard; next, terrible conflagration:
'then earthquake and at last a monster
cyclone. Ono wonders that one stone
stands uj>on another in Charleston.
Yet here it is, beautiful as a bride,
and with a halo of history about
??hat makes it the most interesting
. city ?a the South. Business men tell
>aae that the tide of a cow day is set
ting in for Charleston. Thero has al
vfnvvo been wealth here. The blookade
TuuncTS prevented Charleston's be
coming poor to the same extent ns did
.fither Southern towns. Many of
*&b.o9e palatial homes by the sea were
ke?sl .up by their first owners, and
irheir .xAildren still live in them.
That means money, and much of it.
Cotton growing and cotton dealing
?have al ways "been a gold mino to the
tipper classes of the South. Then
naturcva' few years ago unoovered vast
i^aosphate dlqpoait? that have been
rolling million^ of dollars into thc
?pockets of South Carolinians. Of
thone Charleston has her share. And
t\ieso phosphates are revivifying
??yZtBands cf the worn out corn and
.Sottou?Vi/ds of the South.
The recently established cotton
?niUr?, ??o*? tare revolutionizing every
thing, Xitiio do ac) and forgotten
diauiiets are turned into happy towns
where these great mills are planted.
*y.ur.?lred?> of thousands of poor fam
ines'of whites, who never earned a,
??-loll ar before, nre,brought om of thc
rino un tai ns and given employment,
.noni wages, new dwellings, sohbolft
/Sod churches. This State has 740
?<eo?ton mills, with 2?u,0inj looms atid
ORIES.
Hovisits CCharleston.
?esMoincs Register Leader.)
'8,000,000 spindles. In .?hurt, South
Carolina is already second to Massa
chusetts as ii cotton manufacturing
State. What all this i.? doing for New
langland can speedily he guessed.
I have asked many people what it
i- makes c??tt.<n land so cheap, when
cotton prospects ar?' so great. Why
i-.1 ii '.'.:?<)!) land bc bought for ?15 or
lr>- per acre, when a common farmer
can riet vi."? an ai re <>t: tl.i- land in
cotton? This i* ? great puzzle. The
answers ?nv n. \ ? r alike. Home at
i tribute it i..t!?. yasi plantation* "i
ante bellum ?i.:;. - bei tig eui ta j > into
im?!.:'.ii- ni farms (hal arc now hut
hall cultivates by ig abra nt negroes,
. nod soujolim i by as ignorant white-.
I ( >ilu:i s claim thal a -I *\ ? ? system is
necessary < i keep land up in a hot
climate, where thc white man is
physically not lilted to work. Oth
ers say thc land has been absolutely
worn ? Lil by au everlasting repctitiou
ol' cotton planting-and these men
arc looking to thc phosphate beds
I within thc earth to revivify thc lields
upon the earth. Fertilizing with
phosphates almost doubles thc pro
duction, though tho cost varies from
?12 to ? 15 per acre.
Of course noone comes to Charles
ton without going out to the bay, to
look upon, if only from thc outside,
the water fortress that made the city
famous in both the Revolutionary and
thc civil wars. Moodier fighting
never occurred in Amcrioa than in
some of thc fearful encounters on Mor
ris Island Some nf these forts, no
tuhly t:ic famous Sumter, were bom
barded for two and three years, and
still never HU ndcred-till Sher
man's army, marching from the west,
flanked this Charleston, and all was
abandoned without a shot. This city
itself withstood a bombardment of
582 days and whole streets were laid
in ashes. Once tho enraged Confed
erales, hoping to stop tho burling of
Yankee bombs into the city, picked
out a lot of Federal officers they had
in prison at Macon and put them un
der fire of the Federal cannon. It
was an astonishing deed of war.
The writor had the bad fortune to
be one of the officers selected. We
were placed in the Charleston Jail,
and our ships notified that we were
direotly within the range of their bom
bardment, and that they could not in
jure the oity further without striking
us first.
Our ships did not cease their bom
bardment; but perhaps getting some
notion of our whereabouts, they sim
ply fired over our heads and beyond
us. Fow of us wero hurt.
After awhilo the yellow fever broke
out among both guards and prisoners.
It was worse than the bombardment
and many died. At last we were
carted away to Colombia, where even
tually, as I have told iu a former let
ter, I esoaped. A negro assisted at
that time in secreting :MC, and thus
helped sive my life. Strangely
enough, I have met tho son of that
negro during my proBent visit South.
.Old emotions have been curiously re
awakened.
Thc old jail where I was confined
in Charles*.on stands much as it was
then. Hoper Hospital, whero some of
us languished, has not fallen down. I
have been upon tho big porch again,
on which during my imprisonment I
had stood many a night, watching the
Bhells from our men-of-war soar above
our heads like rockets and explode in
the city. I was also again in the big
room and at the very spot whore I
once saw Capt Russell lying on the
floor, dying, as I supposed, with yel
low fever.
Wc have visited historio Sumter
the fort that received the first shot
fired in tho civil war. It withstood
attucks fot four bloody yeats. Per
mission to enter had to be seoured
from the war department in Washing
ton. At tho instance of Capt. Hull,
this permission was telegraphed to
the commander and we were soon in
side. We had strange sensations as
wc were shown about the historio
pile, and great events came think and
fast to our memories.
The fact is, during our stay in
Charleston, when not visiting historic
plaoes, I have done little but talk of
war days. At our table every man
save mysolf was in tho Confederate
army. We talked together all the
time. Those whom I have met fought'
inside this very Sumter. Every one
of them all has been polite aud friend
ly, and every courtesy ba? been ex
tended-courtesies'such aa aro appre
oia'.ed when offered by men who were
honorable foes in battle.
; In these Jotters I have narrated
much about myself. It could hot bc
otherwise. I was again among' scenes
that had their bearing on my life,
j Part bf my object in coming was to
! lot'k again at places w^j rc things bop
p< nod that no li um an being can for
O t.
Charleston's monuments, ?ts great,
old mansions, it^ beautiful bay, its
wonderful park, overlooking the sea
all have their attraction and their
charm; but, for me, there is, too, the
thought of strange and thrilling ex
periences, far away yet vivid still,
that had been burned into my memory
forever.
Lieut. Dldred S. tickita?, C. S. A.
Mr. K. S. Tickling, who died in
Columbia April 18, was a native of
beaufort, who during thc war between
the Staten s< rved as tir-t lieutenant in
the first regiment of South Carolina
artillery, (regular.) which garrisoned
Kort Sumter fro ai thc 13th ?d' May,
IStil, until that position was reducid
lo a In ap of ruin-, which could no
!>>;igc! bc held us an artillery post,
September I. 1803.
Iron plated warships of every va
riety aro now to bc found in all ihe
H"as of the world, but in IHU3 the
ir'>n ela'! * which Kricson first eon
strucled were deemed hy thc Federals
!?. be irresistible: therefore, when
they came South in the ?pring of that
y< ur every oue at the North supposed
that there would not bc the least diffi
culty in 111 ? . : r capturing Charleston,
as the following letter of instructions
to Admiral DuPont will show:
Navy Department, Ja nu ry tl, 18(13.
Sir: The new Ironclads, Passaic,
Montauk. Fatapsco and Wechawkcn
(ironclads) have been ordered to, and
are now on the way to joiu your com
mand, to enable you to enter the har
bor of Charleston and demand the
surrender of all its defenses or sutler
thc consequences of a refusal.
Cen. Hunter will be sent to Port
Hoya! with about ten thousand men
to act as shall ho deemed best after
consultation with yourself. The
capturo of this most important post,
however, rests solely upon the success
of thc ?javiil force, and it is commit
ted to your hands to execute, with
thc confidence the department repos
es io your eminent ability and ener
gy. * * * Send immediately upon
I the fall of Charleston the new Iron
sides and two of tho. other ironclads
(convoyed) to Pensacola.
* * * Very respectfully,
Gideon Wellea,
Secretary of the Navy.
Hear Admiral S. F. Dupont, com
manding S. A. H. squadron, Port
Royal.
In obedience to tho above directions
on April 7, 1863, this modern invin
cible armada entered Charleston har
bor and attacked Fort Sumter, but,
after three hours and a half from the
time of crossing the bar it withdrew
badly crippled. The Keokuk sank
next morning, and Admiral DuPont,
ia his report of this engagement,
says: "Had I succeeded in entering
the harbor I should have had twelve
hundred men and thirty-two guns, but
five of tho eight ironclads were wholly
or partially disabled."
A period of quiet followed this tri
umph of the Confederates until on
July 10, the fighting began again, first
on Morris Island and then at Fort
Sumter, iq all of which Mr. Fickling
was actively engaged with the regi
ment.
On August 17 the first combined
attack upon Fort Sumter started,
when the 300 pounder Farrott guns
opened firo from the Union batteries
over twa miles off on Morris Island,
which they had captured, and the
whole fleet, the Ironsides and seven
monitors, steaming in and opening a
heavy cross-fire with their 15 inch,
and ll inch guns. Against tho 300
pounder rifled guns in earthworks at
so great adistanoe tho guns of Sum
ter were useless, so the work of dis
mantling the guns and demolish og
the walls of the fort went on from
day to di?y; while from time to time
the fleet united its powers in attack
ing.
For seven days, without intermis
sion, the batteries of Gen. Gillmore
were served vigorously against thia
fortress, and with great preoisiou of
aim their ponderous missiles were
thrown from a range h evo nd all pre
cedent, well nigh destroying this
strong artillery post. During this
period, an observer from its battered
walls could watoh the shot and. shell
I rising from little clouds of white
smoke far away among the low hills of
Morris Island. Sometimes two or
three in sight at onoe, they would
oome rushing on their way, and as
they neared tho fort would be heard
rushing and hurtling through the air
-straight to their mark to bury them
selves fa;; within the solid masonry,
whero exploding they would send up
clouds of dust and scatter masses of
debris to tho winds at d waves.' J?jo
charged with gasser did the ruined
heaps become that one could seo tho
smoke escaping slowly from the ere*
vices of the mass, ns from tho cr?t?r
of a volcano, long after thc forco of
thc shell had beon. expended, and tho
peculiar odor of thc percussion pow
der used for thc fuso-phig of the shell
so pervaded everything that tho air of
tho fort scorned to bo entirely com
posed of it.
At thc eimmoncemen*. of this bom
baidment there were 131.000 pounds
ol powder ia Kori Sumter ami DO ; t
bomb proofr>, or security from tho s
shells of thc enemy; one of which J c
struck thc \cutilator of a casemate ! t
next to thc sholl room one day, which,
when it exploded, set tire to the wood- T,
work, cracked thc wall between thia ?
and the "shell room, whence smoke 1
issued, so that thc danger was immi- (
neut; but at that moment Capt. (
Kran'. I?arleston and Lieut. Kldred S. <
Pickling rm into the blazing case- ]
mate, and extinguished the lire.
Such incidents occurred frequently |
and were always met with cool cour <
age, by the officers aud men of thc i
1st regiment of Soul 1 Carolina anil- j
lery. (Regulars.)
ileitides doing his duty at thc gun?, i
Lieut. IC. S. Tickling was one of the
volunteers who went with Capt. Car
lin to blow up the ironsides with i
torpedo August ?0,1803. This ?-nter- i
prise proved unsuccessful, owing to
the weakness of tho eugine of thc
Confederate ship, but that fact dots
not detract from the daring of those
who so boldly ventured their lives in
thc defence of this old "City by-thc
Sea."
Mr. IO. S. Pickling served as 1st
lieutenant on thc Charleston police
force under Capt. ?John Minott, and
after his removal to Columbia, was
made captain of the police of that
city.
Female Huiidit in Texas Land.
It is conceded on thc Southern bor
der of Texas that the female bandit
and smuggler, who was wounded and
captured by thc Mexican rurales after
a desperate battle a few days since,
on the Rio Grande, is none other than
a noted adventuress aud all-round bad
woman, who is well known in the In
dian Territory as Zalia, "The Devil's
Ace." She is now confined in a mili
tary hospital in Monterey, and her
physicians say that she has peiform
ed her last daring exploit and fought
her last battle, and tho local popers
are filled with stories of her dramatic
career.
This strange character, who has ex
perienced vicissitudes of fortune in
her short career without a parallel
outside of the widest dreams of fiction,
was born in an Indian village on the
Western plains. Her father was a
mysterious Frenchman who lived with
the Comauohes for more than half a
century. He married the daughter of
Iron Jacket and raised a large family
cf children. After the Couj&uuue*
settled on their present reservation
this Frenohman whom the Indians
called "Reap Write," from the faot
that he spent a great deal of his time
in writing, built a home of no small
proportions and devoted all of his
really fine abilities to the education
of his family.
Zalia was the beauty of the family
and no ono ever suspected her when
she was a young girl of having the
terrible traits of oharaoter that she
? afterwards displayed. She spent one
year at school, either at Jacksonville,
111., ora plaoe of the same name in
some other State, and when she re
turned to the Territory it was easy to
see that she had mastered many little
, arts that gave her considerable advan
tage over her sisters.
Some times she came to Fort Still,
when the Indians were drawing sup
plies, dressed as a Comanche maiden.
In this costume it is said she was ir
; resistible. She wore a robe literally
i covered with variously colored beads
and sparkling gems, the making of
i which had occupied the attention of
two genevatiDns of the most skilled
, artists of her tribe. Long ohains of
beads of gold intermingled* with
strings of e 1 k 3' teeth that had been
, dipped ia molten gold wire were
wound about her neok and allowed to
hang in loops below her waist.
; Of this period of her career she
i afterwards Said that she had more
i than a hundred offers of msrriage.
"When I was a young girl I could
have married any ono of a dosen rieh
men," she said, "and at least three
men proposed to me who have einoe
become famous."
Her career of crime beg*3 about
this time. She foll in love with e
! private soldier, who was a bugler and
o musician. As time passed it bsoame
evident that the beautiful semi-oivil
ized ohild of the forest fairly worship
ped the handsome yoong soldier. She
would have passed through fire to
bav?'gratified his slightest wish. Th?
bugler's comrade- believed that lie
was sinoere in hf s protestations of
affection for tho Indian girl.
A few days before the soldier lover
' was to reeeive a ho&orable 'discharge
from the army a pretty young woman
arrived at Fort Sill, who made no at
tempt to conceal thc fact that she was
to become the bride of tho bugler ! ai
an carly day. Sager rivals, were not
. .lacking,to carry the news quickly to
.??alia. She lost little time in consum
mating a horrible revenge. Thann?
'suspecting and unfaithful lover.was
lured to a former trysting place in a
gi Ovo of trees not far from tho Indian
girl's homo. There tho half frenzied
girl met him with a stillet to in her
bosom, and, aftor rebuking him and
abusing him with thc stinging tongue
of an educated savage, threw her arms
-about bis neck and drovo tho keen lit
th^^j?o into his noan. Kissing thc
dood and foam from his dying lips a? !
he gcutly lot the dying forai sink up
?n the grass, she muttered: ''Now the
vhitc faee woman can have you."
She knew well enough that she
vould be accused of the murder, and ?
'he Jost uo time in making her escape
"rom the Territory. Dressed in a suit
)f her brother's clothes and mounted
)ii her famous black horse, she at
mee set out in the direction of Old
Mexico.
A small body of soldiers struck her
traii tho next day and they came in
iight of her just at sunset, where sho
was in the act of plunging her horse
into thn Red River. Several whiskey
peddlers were encamped in a grove
near the crossing, and when they eaw
the soldiers they supposed that they
were about to bc attacked and they
sprang to their arms and poured a
shower of rifle balls into the rauks of
the advancing dragoons.
/alia quickly comprehended thc sit- |
uation, and drawing her revolver, she
eagerly joined the newly-discovered
allies. Thc soldiers were surprised
and' repulsed. Zalia, while firing \
with rapidity and prccisiou, sang au
Indian war song. Galloping from one
strategic point to another, she laugh- I
ed and sang and shouted as if she were
intoxicated with the joy of battle.
The peddlers thought that sho was
insane.
Sho told them that the -'blood of
forty generations of warriors was
boiling in her veins."
Decency And Cash.
The Chicago and Alton Railroad
company has issued rules for its em
ployes forbidding then to visit saloons,
race tracks, dance halls or other re
sorts where liquor is sold or gambling
permitted.
A cranky idea of some official? Not
at all. General Passenger Agent
Charlton says: "All the things which
are prohibited either t^nd or might
tend permaiently or temporarily to
impair a man's physical and mental
powers."
Plain enough. It is a business mat
ter. The railroad requires the best
service the man can give. The ser
vice depends upon the habits of ihe
man. Therefore the prohibition.
The railroad company is not trying
to reform men. It is not heading a
cru&ade against vice or immorality.
It is engaged in the railroad business.
If that business is injured or affected
by the bad habits of aa employe,
either the employe must quit his bad
habits or quit the employment of the
oompany.
And thus does the strenuous re
quirement of this commercial age min
ister to morals.
A man may pooh pooh sentiments
about temperance and morality. He
may say the company is interfering
with his personal liberty. It matters
not. Everywhere he goes the neces
sity for sobriety and steadiness of
habits confronts him.
The employe is free to do as he
pleases BO long as he pleases to be
decent. Which is after all the true
measure of personal liberty.
Any one, however obtuse, cao grasp
the significance of ethical principles
when expressed in terms of dollars and
cents.- Atlanta Journal.
- A girl always speaks of a Turkish
bath in the same tone of voice she
would use about boys who go in bath
ing without bathing suits.
- Men never quit bad habits; they
ohacge them.
liefere Jemima (jot Me.
Before Jemima got me I wus je?t about
a? free |
As thal e're noisy mo<;kln' bird a-siugin'
in the tree !
Springtime, or winter, I never made no
moan
I walked In enow an' blossoms, au' call
ed my soul my own !
(That wuz, I tell you,
'Foro trouble bit me SD
'Fore Jemima got me,
Long time ago !) %
'Fore Jemima got mo, well-almost any
day,
I could saddle mule or pony, an' ride
ride away !
I made my plans for livin'-jest us I'd
have 'em bo?
An' tho big sun ri/, each mornin' an' tho
world turned 'round fer mo !
(That wuz, 1 tell you,
The freed mo time to know
'Fore Jemima got me,
Long time ago !j
I wi./, freer than o,'e Adam, 'fore Eve,
she took a bau',
An' ho Mraek the applo bittiness, an'
mode trou bio fer the lau' !
I wuz mastor o? my vineyard-nor ever
asked release :
I passed my days iu pleasure, an' dream
ed my dreams in peace !
(That wuz, I tell you
An' ever' word is so
'Fore Jemima got mo,
Long time ago I)
An' now, good folks, look at me I-They
pabs me by, an' tray :
"You made out any ached ilo ?-Got any
plans to-day ?
How's the world a-goin' with you in
countryside an' town ?"
An' they ahus git this answer-"It's
a-goiu' upside down !"
(That's what, I tell you ! -
I've got my row to hoe
Since Jemima got me,
Long ti md ago !)
But I reckon thar'll be rest fer me, fur
from this world o' Bighs :
Kezj I passed through tribulation, I'll be
fitter fer the skies ;
An' I'll hear the angels s ay in', wnen the
heavenly gates I win
'Poor soul! Jemima had him : Swing,
gates, an' let him in !"
(That's what, I to": .' you !
An' I'll smile np thar, I know,
To think Jemima had me,
Long time ago !
[Atlanta Constitution.
Experts Will Gather Ants.
Washington, April 15.-The severe
weather of last winter killed most of
the Guatemalan nuts that were recent
ly brought to Tesas from Central
America to wage war on the boll
weevil, the destructive cotton pest in
that State. In consequence the De*
partment of Agriculture io cbortly to
send to Central America by way of
this port a party of four or five experts
on the subject of oolloo ting new and
large quantities of these ants and ship
them to Texas as quickly as the work
can be done.
Last winter was unusually oold in
Texas and the entomologists of the
Department of Agriculture are con
vinced that under ordinary conditions
the ant, or kelep as it is called, can
thrive and suooessfuly attaok and
overcome in a large measure the weevil*
The Government authorities are said
to be fully convinced from experi
ments already made with these ante
that they display no tendency to de
stroy cotton or other crops, confining
themselves solely to the weevil. In
all the nests of the ants so far found
in Texas the remnants of many weevil
were found, which indicates to the
authorities that the kelep fed on the
weevil as long as he survived the rig
ors of the winter.
Grizzly Bears And Panthers.
"IQ the mountains of Wyoming,
where I have hunted for years, you
oan fiud most any kind of savage
animal that you get in America ex
cept alligators. Grizzlies, blaok bears fe
and mountain lions are commonly
killed there," says Hugh Shiverly, of
Sheridan, Wyo. "Some of the men
that come out there to hunt think
that if they stir one hundred yards
away from oamp they must be armed
to the teeth for fear of being attack
ed by a bear or a 'panther' and killed.
There's a heap more danger of getting
killed on account of leaving your gun
at homo when you go down Marked
street. Some one might shoot you on
the street in a big city, but it is dead
sure that a bear Or a mountain lion
will never attack you unless you drive
him to it.
I "I've hunted through thc best dis
tricts for big game in the country, and
I've BO?o a good many grizzlies, but
I've never seen one of them go after
a man unless he was cornered or
wounded. If you run into a grizzly
bear in a lonely placo you'll hear a
grunt, something like that of a mam
moth hog, and then there will be a
mighty crashing of underbrush as ho
makes off in the opposite direction as
fast as bc can go. All you can gen
erally see of the mountain lion is a
tawny streak as he makes off at in
credible speed. If he has any inten
tion of being after you it must be
his intention to go around the world
and catoh you in the rear, for if you
are standing to the east of him he is
sure to go due west.
"Mountain lions in the winter time
will follow sleighs at a distance, wail
ing as they go, but there is nothing
in that to inspire terror, for I d o n't
think they have ever been known to
close in on anybody. Their terror of
I human beings is the thing which
makes them hard to oho ot. , In. all the
time that I have been in the . moun
tains 1 have never heard of any one
being attacked by a wild animal that
had been left-strictly alone. But I've
known men to be killed even by deer
when the brute was driven to desper
ation.
"Grizzlies ara the best game in the
world. When you once get their dan
der up they are savage fighters, and
the hunter's life is in danger every
minute unless he is a good shot and
has a steady nerve, If you ever get
within reach of the grizzly's paw you
are a dead one. These stories of
men killing them with kuivea iu
hand-to-hand fights are about as
responsible as it would be to talk of
stopping a locomotive by getting in
the way of the train. If the big fel
low gets the ehanoe to deliver one
blow it is all over. There was a'griz
zly up our way that the cowboys call
ed Big Ben, who killed about one
hundred and fifty steers before he waa
finally shot.
He would break a steer's neok at one
blow, and then he would pick him up
and carry him oS to a secluded plaoe.
Grizzlies look awkward, but they are
mighty light On. their feet, and they
oan beat any man in a footrace.
Louisville Herald.
- A woman has a great head to bo
able to get into all the queer clothes
she wears without losing herself iu
them. >
- It is the man who talks moat
about his wine closet that goes home
and huntB through the cellar for a bot
tle of beer.
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