Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1893 — Bear and Husband. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Bear and Husband.

Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. Mrs. Keeler, whose husband works in the lumber woods, came to Kettle Creek, the other day, expecting to meet him at the store and carry a sack of flour three miles to their home, the road leading through heavy

woods. Mr. Keeler failed to arrive, and toward dusk his wife shouldered the flour and started off alone. About half way home she saw what she supposed to be her husband standing in the-road waiting for her. Hurrying to him to give him a piece of her mind, ominous growls warned her that she was about to lecture a big black bear. With a shriek she dropped her sack of flour and took to her heels back toward Kettle Creek. She had rup about half a mile when she saw what she thought was another bear coming toward her. She stopped in the road and filled the woods with shrieks that were heard plainly at Kettle Creek, but this bear was her husband, and when she recovered herself sufficiently to recognize the fact she struck him a blow with her fist between the eyes that knocked him flat in the road and then promptly fainted. Her husband had ouite a time in fetching filer to, but when he had succeeded and she had explained matters they went together toward home. The bear was gone, but he had scattered the contents of the flour sack along tne road for twenty yards.

LOOKING FOR HER HUSBAND.