Pike County Democrat, Volume 27, Number 29, Petersburg, Pike County, 27 November 1896 — Page 3

I’ibc County Jmocrat Wt MeC. STOOPS, Bdltof ud Proprietor. PETERSBURG. - - - INDIANA. FIGHT WITH PANTHEKS. [COmiORT. UM.} On Almost any pleasant summer Afternoon, a dozen years ago, half the boys in • certain, quiet little New York wrillage might hare been seen making -their way toward a small brown house, Almost hidden in vines, that stood on the outskirts of the town. The brown bouse was the home of old Jerry Smith, better known to the residents of his native town as Uncle Jerry. It was Uncle Jerry’s distinction to be admost the sole surviving relic of the days when “big game” abounded in western New York and Pennsylvania. He bad always been a huntsman by profession, although he admitted that he bad been accustomed to “scratch the poll” at odd times when the hunting

round the house en* set for a spell in hie quiet way, smokin’ his pipe an* jnebbe not sayin’ a word fer half an noor. Sometimes he’d bring us bear meat, too, an* he’d alius want to help ef they was any heavy work goin’ on. So you see he was a good neighbor, an* in spite of bein’ so quiet he was good eomp’ny, too—a sight better's some white men. “There was plenty of game here*bouts then, an* though I was only eight years old w*en we come it didn’t take me long to learn how to handle a gun tol’ble well. In them days a gun, ef it was handled by somebody thet knowed how, could earn a man a sight better ! livin’ than a hoe er a ax. You see, the country bed just begun to offer a bounty fer the scalps uv wolves an* painters. The bears was fairly thick, too; they j hadn’t got thinned out es they wasj later; they was enough uv them so’st ■ a family thet could keep a couple uv pigs er a few sheep through the sea-1 | son thought themselves lucky. But I didn’t set out to tell you thet, but ’bout Phil Turkey’s tight with the painters. “The second winter arter we settled J i here was oncommon hard for thee*:

■HE SEE A SIGHT THET WOULD ’A* MADE MOST MEN DROP.

■*vas not brisk. Hut these were not the j -days on the memories of which he loved to dwell, and apropos of which he told the talcs that drew the boys around biin. One day the talk had turned on the bravery of hunters in facing enraged or wounded animals and theii^ hairbreadth escapes. 1'ncle Jerry was silent for a time, then said: "Ker reasonin’, seusible courage give ! me a white inan in gen’rai. Hut 1 must any thet the most unfearin* man i ever ] k moved on was a red Injun. Yes. sir, ] be was a full-blooded Seneca, and ez great a credit to the race e* old lied Jacket er Cornplanter. He wasn't no .fool, an* most alius w»s keerful enough in follerin’ up his game, but once he got his blood up he’d sail right into a bear er a painter jest ez you would into a boy Oj

jnirts. tom set in early, an when December come they was considerable snow. We h d three pood samples uv pork meat in our sty. an’ was only waitin’ fer ’em to turn a little more of our corn crop into fat afore saltin’ ’em down in the bar’l. Painters was prowlin’ round the house every few nights, an’ father kep’ his rifle loaded to scare ’em away ef he couldn’t shoot ’em. Putin spite of all our watchin’ one of ’em broke into the pip peu an* kerried off the fattest of the critters. In less’n a week another one went. Both times we heart! the pip squeal, but the varmints got away afore a shot could he fired. Thfe ntornin’ arter the second visit father didn’t say a word, but he went out an’ lit a fire under the big kettle, an* it wasn’t long afore we bed the only porker thet was left taken care of.

& . THERE THE TRAIL SPLIT.

tw?iet your size et you got mad all i through with him. Kf you've got real Cgh^'E’ *pc2ii you most likely wouldn't i •top to think w hat was goin* to happen to you, and that was the way it was j with Phil Turkey an’ the varmiuU he j hunted all his life. "lie w as the first Injun I got acquaint- j ed with arter cornin' into the country, fer he lived jest in the aidge of the Buf- ] falo reservation, as it was called, ilis ! cubic wasn't more than a mile from j where father put up his log house, on the ! \ banks of the old Casenove. He was j our only neighbor, fer the nearest white fsm'ly lived three mile# sway in t'other direction. So we seen a good deal of Phil Turkev an' his fam'ljr. He'd come

’‘While we was dressin’ the pig up ! come Turkey, en* we told him ’bout It, He looked at the tracks the vanniuti bed left in the snow; then grunted out in his Injun talk: ‘Me know him. mebbe eatch him;* an* away he went back home. “.Next mornin*. bright and early, he was on hand agin, carryin* his rifle an* wearin’ a pair of light snow-shoes. There had been a light fall of snow dorin ’the night, but it was still easy to; track the painters, an’ Turkey started j out on a brisk walk, foiierin* the trait I off toward the big swamp where the rabbitf is so thick now in winter. Thet was thp last we see ot him fer s week, j but what happened we found from hixo 1 *L^ Z... ..Jh&L* . . '

afterwards. An* I know It’s true, far tee wasn't the man to make no boasi, an* ha told it jeat like he waa talkin’ ‘bout the weather, er anythin* like thet. Besides, when I seen him he was all clawed np like he’d been through a th reshin’ machine, an’ the marks he got thet day he kerried to the end of hie life. But you’re waitin’ to hear the story. **Phil walked along over the snow fer a couple of miles ontell he struck the aidge of the woods where they had been part cleared away. Then he stopped an’ looked over his gun like a good hunter,"to see ef the primin' was good so’st the thing couldn’t miss fire. We didn’t have no fancy breech-loadin’ guns then thet you could fire as quick as you could jam a shell into them, an’ in huntin’ painters a man don’t want to let his gun go back on him fer a minute.. Well, arter he was sure the load was all right he went on fer a spell, not thinkin* ’bout anything much, I an’ bimeby he come to a stop, suddin i like. “A little stump stood in the path, an* j there the trail split, one track goin’one j side an’ t’other on t’other. There hed j been two of them varmints, an* they j hed follored each other’s steps so dost j he hadn’t know’d afore thet there was j more’n one. Nuthin’ but a painter could | do thet so’s to fool a Injun. Arter they j passed the stump the trails jined agin. j “Pacin’ a couple of painters with a I gun thet it takes a mmit at least to load j ain’t a thing thet a man’s likely to feel ' tickled over, but I don’t s’poae Turkey | ever thought of goin* back. He jest ; raised the hammer off his gun an* | shifted ’round to a handy place the long knife thet a Injun gener’ly kerrics, an’ j knows how to t«*e, too. Then he went on agin. “Soon he e»»k*.e to a place where a ! hemlock an’ a beech had been chopped ; down an’ fell with their topa together. They was more tracks when he got dost j to the tree, an’ he made up his mind j them painters was right there. So he i took a ball out of his pocket, poured some powder into his left hand, an’ j took a rap atween his thumb an’ linger, j He stuck the ramrod through his belt j so it wouldn’t take no time hardly j to lead agin, an’ then he crep’ up quiet J like. Injuns an’ painters is alike about j tb?ij they kin go anywheres ’thout j makin* a noise. I never see a white mnn thot

“When Phil got ’bout 15 feet from j the tree top. sure enough he seen a painter through the branches. He hed his head down an* seemed to be knawin* a bone, prob’ly the sparerib we had counted on hevin’ fer Christinas. ‘ The Injun knowed the place to i>)unk a ; painter, an’ raisin’ his gun he tired. The old feller dropped without a cry, t but ’fore the sound of the shot hed died out up jumped his mate, crouchin’ j on a big limb, rollin’ her eyes, an’workin* her tail back ail’ for’rd. “Phil hedn’t took his eyes oft th’ tree, : but afore the smoke hed begun to crawl out uv his gun bar’l he poured [ his handful uv powder in an’ jammed th’ ball in arter it. When he told ua , ’bout it, says he: ‘Mebbe go half way down, mebbe not, nev’ mind.’ Afore j thet painter was ready to jump the Injun >vas ready. He hed his rifle to his shoulder, pintin* to th’ beast when he seed a sight thet would 'a made most men drop the gun. There were three of them painters. In a crotch atween two limbs was another, some stnaller’n the first two, keepin’ his eyes straight on Phil an’ movin’ his tail slow-like, but the Injun didn’t pay no more ’tention to thet feller then ef he’d been a chipmunk. He jest pulled the gun on th’ one he was sightin’, an’ ez his finger moved the third painter jumped. “The painter struck the Injun ’fore he could club his gun. Both of ’em went down, an’ the painter’s teeth went into the Injun’s shoulder while his claws was a-tearin’ the poor filler’s breast. But Phil didn’t forgit what he was . about. Ez he fell his hand went ter thet ' long knife, an’ he jabbed it inter Mr. \ Painter till he struck the heart. “Thct’s all he know’d till' long ’bout I four o’clock in the arternoon. When he come to he were lyin’ in the snow, ’o’ the body of ther dead painter were lyin’ j stretched aerost him. It bed stopped the bleedin’ from his wounds, so he i wasn’t ez done up ez might hev been ex- ; peeved. Arter he got a little strength he pulled himself out from under the body an* started out ter help, leavin’ th’ painters jest ez they was. Two er three hours later he stumbled into the cabin of a Injun named Conjockety, which was the nearest house. The v> immen fixed up his hurt*, ah’ the men set out an’ got the scalps uv them three «*aiuters, an* the gun.

“Twenty-live dollars apiece was the j bounty on them seai|>s, so it was* a pretty good day’s work, fer « money went. Hut what do you ’spose thet Injun w an ted us to do? Wanted us to take j»art of the money to make up fer our i pigs. Course we couldn’t do thet; we i felt more like payin’ him. “Rut what heat showed she kind tie j man l’hil Turkey was, he never seemed to think he hed done anythin’ wonderful. He never told the story on less ; he was pressed, an’ the only thing I j ever heerd him say ’bout it, exeep’ tell- j in’ the bare facks was when he’d draw i up his shoulders, kind of this way, an j grunt: T'gh! me some scare.’ ’’ An Object Lesson. ’ A kind-hearted and pitilan: Jm>pn* tty was one day buzzing around the j room, whet, he noticed another fly j firmly attached to a piece of fly paper, j The philanthropist did not know' what ailed its brother and dk] not stop to ; make' inquiries. "You arc in sore distress,’* *nid ths j kind-hearted one. “I will render yon j all the assistance in my power.’* Saying which the misguided xamari*an alighted and was soon as badly tangled as the other fly. Moral—Perform your deeds of char ity through some benevolent organize tioa.—Gulden Days. —Shawl is the name of a valley in north India, where the manufacture of these urtides was once extensively curded oa.

PERSONAL AND LITERARY. —America may hare an opportunity to see the Red Nun of Parte, Louise Michel. She has been urged to come to this county and lect ure. She is expected to preach anarchistic doctrines. —Edouard A. Martel, a bright young lawyer of Parte, has started a new science. He caHs it apeleologie, or the science of cares. He intends to conduct a systematic exploration of caverns. —The Bay View Reading circle is ^likely to become a western rival of Chautauqua. From its local Michigan circles it has spread until in the class of 1900, now forming, 13 states are represented. —The celebrated collection of books made by the late Dr. William R. Williams, of New York, is now being sold at auction. It contains 80,000 volumes, including the greatest collection of Baptist and Anabaptist historical works in ] the country. —It is strange that the critics have as yet failed to come forth with complete “keys” to the originals of the political character^ in Mrs. Ward’s “Sir George Tressady." The only attempt of the kind is a meek suggestion in a London periodical to the effect that Lord Fontenny sometimes suggests the late Lord Randolph Churchill and sometimes Lord Hartington. —The malady of the old Creek chief, Isparhecher, who did so much to keep the Creeks within bounds after the civil war. will awaken much interest in civilized circles. He is seriously ill at his j home on Salt creek with “snakes and 1 terrapin." The Indian medicine man ! says the snakes have yielded to his medi- j cine, but he has not yet reached the j terrapin. —Augustus Thomas, the dramatist, { lives in one of the handsomest villas in j the old Huguenot Park district of New Rochelle, with spacious grounds and an t extensive view of Westchester hill and j dale from the piazzas. It is furnished | tiniquelv and richly, and its appearance j inside and out gives a misleading im- j precision that Mr. Thomas is a man of leisure.

RUSSIA’S "DISPENSARY" SYSTEM Monopoly of the Sole of Spirits by the Crown. The extent of the system of monopoly of the sale of spirits by the crown in Russia is described by our consulgeneral at St. Petersburg in his last report. The system was first introduced in 1893 in the provinces of Perm, l*fa, Orenburg and Samara, and was extended from July 1,1896, to Bebsarabia.YoIhynia, Ekaterinoslav, Kieff, Podolia, Poltava, the * Taurida. Kherson and Tchernigov. To these provinces tie system has been applied, with some modifications, which local peculiarities and conditions have necessitated. The modifications consist principally in the acquisition by the government of corn brandy fxom small brandy distillers, whereas in the four eastern provinces such purchases were confined to large distilleries. Moreover, brandy disti|led from grain and potatoes will bc"acquired by the government in preference to that obtained from the residue of sugar made of beetroot, the brandy distilled from which has a peculiar taste, which renders it rather unpalatable. It would appear that the sale of Scotch and Irish whisky, gin, rum, liqueurs and other spirituous drinks, excepting wine, beer, porter and mead, comes under the operation of the new liquor sale monopoly law and that it will rest with the ministers of finance and the interior to issue or withhold license* for the sale of these to private individuals. The ordinary corn brandy, or vodka, of the country in its various forms is, under the new regulations, sold from shops and depots maintained by the government, which, however, as in the case of spirituous drinks of for- j etgn origin, reserves to itself the right ! of allowing private dealers, such as grocers, etc., to sell vodka, and the righto? doing so will be granted only to persons who may be considered thoroughly trustworthy. From July 1. 1897, the monopoly will be extended to the provinces of Wilna. Vitebsk, Kovno. Minsk, Moghilef? and Smolensk, and from Jan- j nary 1, 1898, a further extension of the system will embrace the provinces of St. INjtiU^urg, Novgorod, Pskov, Olonetsk Kharkoff. "It is too early yet to form a positive judgment whether the monopoly of the sale of j spirituous beverages by the government has answered financially all expecta- ; tions. But the first essay in its appll- j cation to four of the eastern provinces , of the empire has proved so satisfactory in general effect as to justify the i gradual extension of the system toother j parts of the empire. This gradual ex- ’ tension Is now in progress.”—London , Times. j

Ilnming of the Peggy Stewart. The anniversary of theburningof the ship Peggy Stewart, caused by the Annapolis patriot#on October 19.1774. was well chosen by a Maryland society formed to perpetuate memories of th? revolution for its annual meeting? this year. The historical event is eclipsed in celebrity by the Boston tea party, J but is yet worth noting?, as it expressed the indignation of the Marylanders, j who. on the arrival of the ship with a j cargo that included 17 packages of tea i that had paid the tax, forced its.owner to burn both the cargo and the ship.— Chicago Inter Ocean. A Provisional Voter. “How did you vote at the lata election, Dave?" “Well. suh. fo’ I answer dat question 1 has ter ax you one." “All right.” “Who was elected, suh?” “The colonel won.” “Den uat.wuz de man I voted fer. suh; 1 knowed he had a kunnel terTlis name.”—Atlanta Constitution. Mrs. Fanner—Why do you walk the ,*oads in this aimless manner year in and year out? ’ Weary Wakins—Because I ain’t get bo bfcjck.—Indianapolis Journal ... -A

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