Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1904 — An Odd Pieture. [ARTICLE]

An Odd Pieture.

One of the strangest sights I ever saw in a wild country was a little minister garbed in solemn black, white “dog” collar, buttonless vest and stiff black straw hat. The dominie was standing in a leaky boat in tbe midst of a primeval woods, fisliing the boiling waters of a mountain torrent. At his back a cataract roared and pounded tbe rocks, churning tbe water to white suds. Above him the eternal snow glistened on the mountains, and hut a few yards away a gaunt cinnamon bear was quietly nosing among the driftwood—Dan Beard in World’s Work.