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1 T 1 i - W Wp ' g- i ' J x.----, uest newspaper: ever puDiisnea in Western North Carolina. -Knoxville Tribune. . " SHFVIIIF MFf IN Al AQKan cmn nemo . .w " " 111 I llai IWIWl I Ulli If' i I ) I I I ...r.t .,.,,,,.., ,,...,., I 1 " 1 " ' - - - . .wwrw ......... . .' cuar-ren on mm luce an armv with -n- She come at him armed with a ,-Hv CO aooat th-e to of September, Jjuft. two in Merest -by -Xaz ire-y friends rf th Ashevule cen, Jesse Lattoe .and John JUh turers la 4ia "eic7- h7 f5?-rA? I mto, lea this a.y u ste. the.r Untunes 'with ere thi h S-n here eat-xllrejt to ea,JT, they remain- -vtix.br a-ths irii-c-i - . "- .. .ast, accounts 'tiie coat and rew wpw etc. . They .are-in company, who proDDse i'ne -sola QeTda of ling sn-onncT. :.: fte; Gazette'; las - ccibMshiifl Rfiwrfli,-iiof. tr froim Mr. Romej. . detaa.'rnar ,h miv- oMb of 40ie p-arty,' wkch were read with. 1 Usaps cf Fan for a D tne employ -of a jiortnern Train 'Ie-n'ry 'Romeo, scan r .Thn -tjc.q.., lf.. tnat 'te laa heard roiling eV-nt above T WxlS spending a d!ay last fall with ;JL iny old fn end, Potts Banker, tip in the. Pennsylvania hemlock belt, and 116 j', V.., . f?i 77 A n' " A i ; - - Vi: ci8 V Now Entering upon -its Third Year; V - : e nfl . ' JESSE J. LANGE. & BOARD "OF TRADE v i GETS TO WORK. ; CONTIUEB!' PROM FIRST PAGE? Covering the: News of Asheville; arid its stir: luuuumg lyuuujjr inc ;iuubi uuinpieLeiy oi anv Newspaper published. , ; ; AciiOii'ei-y &na eappiaes t . "'10o,tOO 1 200,000 ; .50,000 15,000 55o,Jl0 ojca smoe lih - 'iflraiihi '-? n, rT-nVOo t lt i --. iim ettle. - -,- i -r r;iti it. . . juuiiu vjiiuci i, me iruveiing-g-roceryma "and I had just sat down to dinner when a stub-and"tvist,of a boy, "about ten y-ears old, with a very moist and much turned-up nose, camein, snifTed, ran his riose over the .whole length of Jus sleeve, and piped, out: ;v '-"Aunt - Thankful "now -mother wants to know if you won't now lend her one o' yournow-milk pans till pap kin now go to" town an' git her onfe, " - - " Then'-the boy sniffed again . and swabbed his nose once more with his tleeve. ; ''-'.". ' - 'One o,my mSlk'pans!, saitTAunt Thankful. -;, Sakes, ..alive, ; - Benny! Whai'fe 'comedo your mammy's? , I - "Sniff, swab; by the boy, and then: : "-.iWhafs come of; it? TVeli; I won dex if the bear didn't scrunch it ? (Sniff, swab.) . An', mother's eroflo have a milk 4Jdn -till pap Jdn-now i? to town an &?The hear scrunched it! - " TTuhr' huh, said Benny,' and "went out.of the door, sniffinsr and swabbini?, Aunt Thankful gazed at the door, still V J0HM R0ME0 private- schooiLs," all n-whiok coixtiuon. :. 'i he vaa ae of these are In good these as ,estjnated gatta about 'oO, oX 'ftih'J-th- auVMate iryia a ajsji'nu.-e. lhe'tiost 'al tujan nanges titwn 0'i.o ?i00. peir. year, smd ihoCc oi'bird irom 8 "U perjmon'Ci;.," Lt 49 aUm-ated that tawia student froxn a discaace brings-intd (tee ovMn Iroui $20& to $oO per ear. -The sa'iriaife'q! :iaitnount ; of imMiney 'brouih.t into u-e, -euy -by 'tn-ese. schools during-the cur kvlV year is'-$200,00u. :..v -ri v : V. -.i L city Tas noaf.'e V special school -di-at- ireJJ in -1887, at whicih ,-tlmetn school property, ccta'svated of a " smiall ""wooden 'house, a vacant - lot ami a'snualf sum of j'Cdtey. ih'e clty -has -todiV-four hiandson-.A bi'iJk jMi!li'LBrgs1 twer-'ty-n.'jn'e teadh.rs and tn-e.-suprmtnaent,- aud during the school ners. milk pan,, which she thumped with her 'iater , masher. -. What with , the bee3 first of No-N ;S THAT IS IT Y AS UITTIX IIRS. PCI- ' a-dippin' him and the stones a-peltin' S LEY BREATHED HARD. mm an xne rumpus bamantha was mak- r..,,,..,..MM, in on xne miiKpan, tnat bear 'pearedto the way he danced an grinned tut he ' got tired of it by an by, ah, pickin up -that beeskip under one. arm,' away he 'went with it on the double-quick t'ords x "the turnip patch yender,- My wife's the furiseein'est woman there is in all the "borderin' counties, an' she says:" " 'Timley," she say s, "we won't have ' no honey for our buckwhit cakes this winter,". she says. v - 0 "I lenowed in my heart Samantha was , right, hut, bein', the oncommittin'est TYin-n TT1T3iT'f in Hmivt T"1.-. an Biler's Crossin; I says: -, " "Samantha," I says, "not bein' per sonally acquainted with bear an theii natur', I can't say," I says. Z ' "But the bear kep -right on an me an Samantha follered him, serenadin him with the milk pan an' chuckin stone's at him. Wen he got to the place ; in the field ?vender . tJiat- vou kin see if :you stand on the fence the bear stopped. lie sot down, an.' . with- a swat an' . a ; swoop he scattered that beeskip to the " wmus an . xnen - scoopea up me noney v an' went on his. way eatin. of it an smacking hisjlips till ' he got into the -woods down yender an we lost' him. My wife's the philosophizinest woman that ever see the sun git up. - An she . says: Full Might J Telegraphic Service of the. news of the world from I the: Laffan .News Bureau V (New-York Siin). : ' ' - r Daily. Telegrams and Kews Letters from Raleigh and fro ; other points . in North Carolina: . Type set by Mergenthalerl i-inotype Machkies.. J . V . - . -: ' - Eight ;Pages-48-4 of, Carefully" Selected, Up-to-tlate Reading. Matter. -1 lhe Lrazette has won the good will of the people of Wesr' . tern North Carolina arid in the Interesting year" that : has. : ? now begun it will be its aim to serve them better, than ever " before and to deserve their continued support. f '-T' . , " The pneerof the Gazette places a live -newspaper within the reach ofll the r reading' people of . this section.".. Since Y the reduction of the rates f subscription it'has extended its ' circulation . into every, town' in the sixeeh'counties of the- : " Ninth Congressional District. With this - encouragement " we shall continue to serve the public in 1898 at, these low rates, to subscriptions. i.-.l ; ii.6 rfpiAes -niMiertQ Ctrcuuars .,are tnot ...a. rt i-.-. . .A..fc.J.M. ;a.20ff to 1,400. pupils. K. The schooLs ar us ti tucjr .j-tT ictai-c- fe)i'tia!fcf (jhn .'unut xaC: j.6i.'o. 1 fj.n lo'ux nij,'n Cttia -its jtu-s ox me ii.to:c t iiu'paTt'aju.c i-iuta Oj.-'DUBinwtvi-i'or (iiuotbd- liktietoai-es-oe! laba -10 arrive at reii- . it. . l cl 1 . . b. n.ia .tnl..,j; OiJ. . i.r 7 lull. . r.n f t IWa'l'u.'! 3 iaiwl OX? ln'Oolajie; iJUXi&IiQiXL,;1'' ttUT- uag-TJie cuiiVbitt. lama iti'ture y&airs. So, far &3 xwe oaa gather Irani, the re sponse 'Jo our -cuinxjir;- repurt, 'cn;e n'ew- ou&Ju'e&s i ; Uiwg n ad.a.t;t.ecl 'wi'ui very faUujjii'xug'Z'e'dU.is, . suvJa su a niaTAcd in wil equipped, proirejJrvs and are oatro- mze'ai, y . every .oiajs 01 - society,;- liJNTiiKIN'A'Ij ; ..RIEVENTJE - JDEPARTMENI . - The 'offioe 'of "uihe" -collector " for the 5th district oi Nortlh 'Cairolioa is: located -.in 'Aisaevil'le, stnd.ds.one of great "importance, as pan be 1rtaoJu.y:seea by its report that tie amount of col'lejti'ons amade In 1896 waa i,tb, and in. 3 897 J.687.592 . '"flue fact that t'hfe large sum of money w xiv w tent xo ouaer places for deposit; em pnasizes' our rugg.4oji, 'runder the; head cf "Banks," -that -the new nationU bank Eiuaua ue speedily designated as a ta.tional depository. , - . , - V - - climatology!' " , HoOd'ing ' as -we do that ' Asiaevil" a ' "-Ofecca for. Invalids, -it ;ls- tout fair. T.hjjt. Lu tujaw oi -ciryuiuufiv AiaM.. adi-erung ' pAtT v shoai'd -be required" to give, reason IZor thi? 4n60. vw. a6 -uu :m.,c ujui -tomb , 'ogjiei;- ;we ai.tep't the ehalkaige and euib adAits,t as. kttiy prfcf 'a-a lu-oattiSri oi.'oe- mlt this " extract Icotm. ;iih, TiniKri $5.4 ire i.or gfrnial . inaorinatioa. ; aniong -r , - "T'h'e temBerajtus in wfn vuue) rraea dutring mid-day, wtih few ex-, cepOions to thirty degrees or over, and in 'hel!tered.'pilas.whi.;'3iutttei'n- exposure; tKTseveaty -or eighty to fih eun. fea.h am- aua.1 teni'peirai.Tire, F i.60, F;.jnean maximum ' grctiea, e isjcI some awtiifua in tiae great' eo.84. - . . iiuunuiy, aoii.utv eiajen-ia mada to une 'LTaicaa , aad . equxpmen't. "l!he'aLeuyajQ.d; comfort ,of pWiiSoiigfcrs seeuL ootY.uo be assured. . I are oJt ;U'c!a -a c'iilarauer -as -to justify their bejng ithcroug'tiiy alvexU&'ed.. - - . "6IiE'Ef.RAILyTAY(S. " ' (Returns inidticate & dstrt'ase in number i of Liaiaext'-eis . ttvxiaiSiJOfi'vehi. '.etwfcen: the . IMjANU'FAOTOi-JIiifS. IWe regret lihat tout lew re-pjies - ihaJy e . been reeeivfa; vhx&e, iuoAever, iusJry a iavor- aioie. -report asnd we h'ope Jtnaii' un-.s line ot ominemwa.y be .nourtaihwd 'in -oil ilegljjnate wav3: .we bedieve thait our nexc reoort. be ing based; upon full stiausulcs, 'w.li show piainJy that-capjtcal caui imd" a paying in wjwjent in. nJanuaactorUs 'hexe, and; thus vusr lajboTinig" popula Iran ; be 'provided y- with tJhlait wlhxch Uhey most deke, Shoniorable atnd reununerat'ive empdojiment. : , ' " ' LIVERY STABLES. -f We know of mo town of jcur size which can boast or so exijelileat "am equipment of ; liv--ery ; 'horses, caTTiagaaind dri v era are ad- - 'AveragVl number, of " flear; and fair' days In" each month, 54.1d'l-2."-v-"t ' . - "'Average mimber of clou-dy days "in eacsa noath, 5. 7-12. ; - i - - - , .Average number "of diiys in which 01 of am inch" of .naia or meLted-snow. fell 9.4. , v . - x. Jt ' tAverage monthly raiafil, " including ' ItKiaa rainfall d'urtng the- year in- laches. ot.w uviean, annual Laromc'tefr, 27.83. i Pre vaiaingw-inds oorith .and iaarttiMuvt "-. . From a table of vital statistics before : (prepared .hy a veiry high' medical lauthorlty, wts j. uitiain xne. lOii'owing:5:; 1I tibe whole -mim'ber of deahA.'iti'iiha , lowowang sections, .the proponUon caused oy eonsumption: f In northern- Nw Finv landi ; mearly one-fuith; in - Minnesota mtd Cal'iforn'iia, ; onore tham m-e-sfivTi i h in Keaiyui;Jiy -and Tenn!s,see more-vthinv one- rimlev,' she says, "if we can't dazed, - when it v opened" again and - in I have honey, for our buckwhit cakes we came uenny. ; . . -r " 'An' you ought to see how he scrum hied, the beeskip. iGoshl C Then he. went oiht and didn't" come back. Aunt Thankful returned tn-fiw piace at. the table. by and by, but still not at her. ease. 'Drat -that" boy!' said she. 'What's ue urivxn- ax, anynowv - .- - 1. Dnvin at? said Uncle Potts, who hadn'tSloet a second during all this con- W T.Tv -r hooU Benny W the sniffin'est.an SSl tSS " it1-" f thlnk sleeves mustabeen made be-' them.-, Drmn'. ai? Why nothin' car- vn:?, , lA'lnti Ai.J il. i T- i .i ' . . , t ivies uau acivui:i9 u waa viuiic a s ucii tic Iar, except that T s'pose there's been x . 'i , i -t . a, boar havi' c; I guu oui waai ne nau to say, out k-: at Pimlev's V R be did " ont It was thisV. r things a little.V '-.That was the end of the incident for the time,1 but af tef dinner wns ihmnwK and Uncle Potts had lit his 'np " " looiced out o the door, an snrP ; walked? out tothe .barn and Wlr nough, there wr.s -t.he bear.dowhin the km have 'lasses, she says. 'j'- ? 7 . 'Which there wasrit no denyin of, an' I bein the agreein'est man myself :; .that - eVerjoted ?for the '.last7 man- that: asked hims I says: u "Q0 we - kn; Samantha,'' , I says." ,cSo"we kin'V. v ; -. .. M Samantha wnt back.to.her housed .work, an'-I-mogged forthe bnclrwhit fields Next .day at dinner, time I was washin. up an' Denny he came m from ' " Pap," says he, "the bear's come back, an is playin' mnmble-je-peg with the -turnips."-; ivli VlfKTm - 1. A - -.ft. ..1. - T 7 .1. - V 1 I"B' . o ie6iw uuv wuiijr awKUie ! .tn, . ttt .:t.-ii.' . ' have seem fit to reply to our circular: Ihese I :Zi:iV,r T.? 0 mm man ht rvrw rft,a.rWCii rtta.ahia uuv-iM-ureiu, wniicn , at , least tihree- rourtihs do not . orisiniate here, bnt nm One Year; Six Months . . ; Eleven- Weeks; '"PL One Month.'. : .. . . . i .;$4.ob , 2.25 I.OO 40 Cents Free Carrier Service in Asheville Victoria and Biltmore. - if: Gaz ette injdlicJate that prices ttiargtd are rea-sonablej 1 indie-ed, very low when we con'sider the ex- ceiltimt character of JiJie e-ervice.' -v ; " ' ORlEAL ESTATE. " - . i - - . rA liarger- proportion of replies have' been j received 'from dealers in fTead' -estate,. 'than. 1 in other lines of business: Indicating tihaE wtole -tihis is vbyao neaiis overdoja-e,sit of- i fers (Lndiuoements 'to purcha'sexs; whi-eh can safely bemajde baitiSj-. From .our knowl - edge of ;va3iueof .lands in 'trhis ecti'on,''we do niot heisi'tote Wo say, that ait ruling prlc es a safe investimdit ia offered, and from 1 our acquiaan'tainee .with agents, we assure those ; -Who j conteiaptLate purduaise, .that 1 42iey 'WilB meet with 4xJh t courtesy; f.ajxL ieaivdor in any dealings -they may have. y - ' s . : IlSSURANaa. t t Xr (But one reply, has 'been received from insurance a'gtmtSi fW'ibiile Jhf'one ladicates 1 an increase . of , business, we do not feed ju'iit'ified m making any gneral. report as to its condi'tion, hoping -thja't a "full. ."re : sponse maiy . eaiabie us oonsclequtiously rto do so in future... , r ' -,. ' The Largest) -Most Complete' and - Most' Entertaining " Weekly Newspaper in North Carolina. " - ' ' " . : " : r-' ' Replete with the News of the World, of the State and of ' thisMountain Section - " " -in. Only $ 1 .00 Gnlv 00 a Year, BANKS. v" The misfortumes "vhich 3rave recently he- fallen three: of .'the Ijian'ks of i. AfchevllIe :ar feo well known as" to' -need no oommemt. We are gratified to -be aible .lo- assure theJ public; -that bank fa-ilure'S and suspensions have reached their l'-niit.' We, congratulate our fellow citiztinis upon the rece-nt-opening of .a natloinal Jb-ank, amd urge liinmedi iate steps to have it designated" as a gov ernmemt depository so that the large -811013 of -money daily -co ieeted in tihe rostofflce md internal revenue derarbmenitSi may be Kept mere instead oi ifceing sent away as at present. " ' -1 " . from .other places, frequently, too late to De improved. The acoeptam-ee of- these re markabue facts has Ted' to 'larse " inmt . men'tfr In sanitorfiujEis for fiopeci'M treatment 01 ftais dlrefuil scourge.- . - .. . . .t,;iMAtRkETvHOrjSE.z t. J - iihe .market -of , cVsheville is exceedin-gly ureiTca'Die;: Kepx in good' oondiflion.- and - of- f erim-gTeat toonve-ni'enice to louisekeepen. The -sales for the year 1897 are as follows. Mea'bs ..t. .... . vegiei.iabte Fish ..u $175,0W ; 60,000 25,000 Toitaa , .$'250,000 ;POSTOF.FICE. ' .T!he husiness done in the Asheville post- mte ior cne past -two years is as . follows:- , . . '. - ' -"- - - Cash;- .received . . 1897' $2527.52 PublishedThursday morning. - ' - That subscriptions, if Received before February 15, will be accepted at the Rate of 25 cents for three months. TTTTTTi in; , 1 IB I 4 I 7r li ASE T TELEPHONE, .'."".' ; -We know of nothi.ng better calculated" to shiow 'the true comditon of a city than its telephone buipine-ss. and we thaik the ex change ffitanager for a full report, which nope 'he will - -consent that - we may- make public. It n?ay. aaifoly ha .published in full. It 'Shows -a Tem-arkable inereass in subscri bers, acd a liberal, expenditure on equip ment, thvs sisricg a continuance of sat- isfia-etcry -service. "" HLTFt'OHES. ..We find from returns and coins? rvsttive esfiin-iates thiaf Asheville 'has trwr nty-five ! chnirches, . with a - property - valuation of . ?ou,uuu, -with six thon-s'irj cemmuci can't and ten tboripand sittin-rs. PPwIVATE SCHOOLS. 'Our reports frccn private schools have t 'been too ireasgre for lis to si&te fijnr and facts of 'great vaJ-ue. far es we have ''teen ab'3 to discover, cur ci.v has qovp-i ' - -.1896.; from -..:.$ 25.493.80 jGash received from " -fourth class mat--'- vfMteay,. :.' 18,686.93 ' 18633.53 . roNEY o(rier , business; Amount of -money or-"j 7 ders fesai'ed ....$62,162.85 Numiber of money or- " - ders jssued 9.481 Amoumt of Money or- . ' v dea-s .paid "124.5S5.48 Amoutn'ts reoei'ved1 - - - from other of- ' "V fiees -111,465.41 couple of .times; he said: : 'Come on; John. -We'll go dotvn to Finney s and see bow good a time the bear actii'ly had with 'exn. Pimley an his folks ain't -used to -bear,' an' it wouldn't, s'prise me none if bruin had been- havin' a reg'lar Fourth oJu!y celebratiott with W .-- -. . , -'So we went down; to Pimley'sVa mile distent. P i mley was " home a - thin; gawky, stoopHshouldered man with the inevitable -hemlock - belt yellow, whis- kers. - -: -ijff -t...;'-.: rf,y, - " 'Hnllo.'Pim I ' shouted Uncle Potts. I d on't see nothin' of your beeskip; What j on done with.lt ? '.";. - C V ' .Pim raised himself tip on his toes,' eianed his long" .neck and cazed off tow;ard rtt: field that stretched away be low tfte house. .Then he got off his toes and turned to Uncle Potts. - - .-'.:,. . VGit , up -on the f ence an you. kin see it, said he. 'It's kind, o skittered about some, .though. " Down vender in the turnip 'patch ' J j, ; Do you think that's a better place for it than up here in the yard ?' , 1 ' ; " 'The bear 'peared to think so re plied Pim. 'I didn't have no say about it, not iapartic'lar . -y .".;Bear?'( said Uncle Pqtts, as If sur 'prised. , , ' ' ,' VPotts, said Pim, there's been the' consarndest commotioti on these prem ises, durnr the past few days that there's been anywhere sence Pharaohs ; turnip field yender, not fur from where ne naa narvesT.ea our noney crop, pu:i- -. , I 1 I I I I - 111 I I 14 ! 1 I!S ril ' K.L1 I I I V - nh 11 1 111 ' . . more around thefield but always pull-' -in' up a.' fresh Ipt, till I see that if he- wasn't fetched up in his career tol'able , sudden nve wouldn't have. no more tnrw 2-- nips for, winterin over on than we had honey fer buckwhit cakes, t hollered for Samantha. an she' bein' r the sot- tin'est in her way woman there is 'twjxt the West Branch and Huckleberry: IIill,T grabbed the 'milk pan an' the r'tater " masher,! an' hollerin f er me, to gitthe." ax, 'an' for Penny to run to Howser's. " down yehder, fer a gun he dashed; to'rds the turnip field, soundin' the mjnc'"':;.. pan enough to set a circ7ar- sawmill hand deef. I grabbed the ax, an' Ben- ", ny run" to Howser!s. The bear didn't ' . pear a s it. he seen ; us marci in on him; v; in battle array at. all; an' kep on puIlinV tup an' chnckm' down turnips as if they H : nva'n't part' the mainstay o' life in as high as a couple b' rod of him, when ' ne riz up-witn. a. snort that skeert Sa- tv tnant-ha ' so -that shedropped the milk V. T. --x jl.- AX. A J.. JX1 4 forrthe house.' " , ' - " r ' " 'We" got there, shet ourselves in, an'l ' looked back out - o' the winder. . The - , bear had stopped .where the 'milk pan . lam. .; ne ; prancea rouna x ar Touna r i A it, like an Injun dancin' his war dance.: l Then he turned ' it bottom, up.- an on it. note Turn c pmTr-rtrl -I-- DJ : if i. 1 - -i - ti mo e ;r t 11 V " TrSfl hoth fore feet- Then-he picked it up,; there is m the hull len'th an' breadth f n s9'm9nt- L - I -70,617.85 n, t "",ik lC 9,610 ;.124,6964 115,822.00 'rB-8 ' .being :!be .only ; toat: of our: tnnnrt wttieh ia perfectly aeourate, we think it jus u'uws, me louowing remarks: It is most sc-rpTLsing o ncie now very clcsjly the two 3-ears app.roai.(h agreeTnent in tihe eev-. eraa. items.' Thrs of the large -amounts u.-ui vii inw-ey opuers, Teacning eacu .xea.mearjy.na.. qu-an'er of a million-dallars the .dJifTe-nesnce between liih'e years 'is scaree Iy one hundred dio-Ilars; the 6.an-e is very e'un-.ius lu-me cass m casn reeeivea from arps -and for 'fourth class matter. " On 'the whole, this , report shows plainly . that .As&eviile Is ihio!ld"itjg her owndturing these tfanes of gn-eral business depression. " The 'eon-jriitte rrsp&trtfi'liy 3Sk fer this, (h-e'ir frst. report, a , fair and rea-onnble -.ons-id-OTatSoo,' .with alLowan.ce for-the-short 'ire avowed 'for its precar-at'on . - 'Tih-p-r .l -'-ore 'tha t'wiili n-oro toe in whbh to ga?h-f.-.r statlsftics, their rext re-port m:a-v b mora , tj.ji, .more accurate and of -rruch e-paier 7alue. Respeifu'ly tTjb.i.tfd, - . T. W. P.ATTON. A. A. JOXE3. J. D. EGGLGTON. 6 the -belt; consekehtly,' she wasn't 'f pectin trouble when she took-her tablecloth to the back door to shake it t'other day; 'but there it.was. Least wa3's,;she had an idee that it was, for it-vvsis-a smolHckin biglear,'an' it was v.iggerin' right .t'ord .her? from; the lane; yender, , 'twixt the house an the turnip -field.4- MIy .wife's-; the politest woman there is anywhere in the belt; but. she was just: onpolite enough to slam- v the - door almost plum : in that bear's face- an' run " to the front door on t'other sidey o the house yender an holler to mei Benny bein'.to school, .My wife's got the best lungs of any woman 'twixt here .an! Little-. Kittle, an1 con- sekentjy I heard her holler though I was :in -the buckwhit field, clean on t'other, side o' them woods yender. " ' "It's - either : the house iifire of lightnin' rod peddlers," I says to my: self f cor Samantha wouldn't never open up like ',that! ": an' so I struck it lively for home.-' L-never thunk o. beart 'cause I only ome here last year t an hadn't no idea that the country was so f ci ty le in bear. L I wasn't long in gittin home. I. could hear Samantha yelpin' every fpot of the.way; but the fust thin" -T( see .when I hove in sight was a bca standin', 'twixt them, two apple tree yender, snifBn' at . the beeskip, "whie1 was standin' on a bench there at.thsr time, he havin' changed his mind abof -callin' 'on Samantha after she was e onpolite as to bang the door in his face The bees was buzzin abouihim an' din pm him, but he jest seemed to like il My .wife's the sensiblest woman ther is from Pine Creek 'to the Sinnamahbnr and nonsekently when she see rue corn in' she quit strainin' her lungs." -1 didnT Icnow then how the bear had come 6 i he premises; but. as I had reasons f o thinkin I had a better claim on the ir nards o' that beeskip than he Lad, picked up a lot o! stones an' bccrun fcorr bardin' him, advancin' as I fired. ' " 4jry wife's got'more rrit than, ar" other woman on 'the Susquehannr spread o' waters, an' when she see nr advancin'. on that bear an' peltin' c im with stores she" com? out a seein'est woman . 'twixt the two rivers' to see that it wouldn't never be worth -a cent for hold in' milk agin.J - ' ? ' , V.That pan seemed to tickle the bear- ' tnore -than the beeskip had. ?- He tossed . Jit, an' he kicked it, an' he jumped on-it Jtill.it had -more corners on - it; than,' there's prickers on a chesthut'; burr. 'When he couldn't hammer j no more " kinks in it he left it,-an' Swaggered straight for .the house. -When Saman- -tha breathes hard she never says muchj;3 but . she nip an does. I had heerd her v breathe hard, an' knowed her to up an' - -do iotsQ times, but never heerd r her. v bf eathin- have quite setch an ed ge on" . it ai it had as-she seen that milk pan o .hern bein' trifled with bythat bear, an'-the-bear theu-a .comin' to the' house r lookin' for more f un.-r The bar come up : and stuck his nose ag'in.the winder an' . snorted at us. Samantha had a dipper '' o' soft soap standin on the "Bench. She ' took it .up:; She riz the ' winder; an" 'fore the bear got over his s'prise she; ' slashed-that soap'.plumib in his'-face. He.tumbled back,a"n,'he yooped am' he. - noiiereci, lie-couldn't see which way to go, ah, he jest rolled and' howled. ' Jestwhat would a' cotne to that bear at the hands o Samantha; for she was .breathin' harder'n ever, if P,enny hadn't ' got back ject then with Howser an' his 1 gun, I nevf? kin begin to Jell.1 Hawser ' put- a;.buEeJ in the bear, an he won't never have np more fun with nobody.' My wife's the sniddenest-woman to grab -& situation -there is from Monkey Pun .to ceres Juncftion, an as soon as sli ie quit breathin hard after that bear give up the, ghost. she says: - jv: -. ----Pimley," she says; "there " ain't riothin' "so good on bupkwhit pancakes as bear meat' grslvy -not. even honey," she says. - - : " Tn goin) to town to-morrow to git a new milk pan,' concluded Mr.'PimTey. 'An' while there I'm also goin to git a gua. I -find -they're a Tarrain cniple ment in this part o' the hemlock belt that's uscfuller than your plough an' harrow. ,AspIagney sight, accordin'.to my idee and : Saraantha's.' " N. YJ un. v.--.-. . .,.
The Asheville Times (Asheville, N.C.)
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