Ncbvaska Advertiser I The Buck CoOD
of Shadow Lake
VV. W. SANDERS, Prop.
NEMAHA,
NEBRASKA
Sir Oliver Lodge says ho has rcul'y
talked with BulritM. Spirits mako lota
of men talk.
Pics CaHtro defying tho United
StntPR looks a good deal like a Jackass
defying tho lightning.
Older people must loam to speak
tho hanohall language If they wlnli to
associate with their Bonn.
Naturally no SpanlHh exports havo
vetitnred to contribute anything to
tho criticism of tho American navy.
Tho Onulda, N. Y woman who con
cealed $'J,r00 In a mutlroHS could at
times ho said to ho fairly rolling In
money.
AN EPISODE
IN WOODS
AND WATER
EXPLOITS
By
Ernest McGaliey
y u thor of Votmj of
Gun and Hod, Etc.
Ah soon as I heard that, the ducku
had begun to come in I packed my
Kitchener Is keeping his pitching K1.p for Sowdors', and sent Dlb Sow
arm in training among tho Afridis (Crs a telegram. That night I reached
Ho'll havo them called the Afraldls hH fiuni, and the next night wo were
shortly. at camp. Everything was ready, feed
for (lie llvo decovs. the boats ovor-
A Pennsylvania man who looked 11M(i (.miiked. nlentv of wood
into a mirror was scared to death. Ho for Ul0 0id.faHhioned fire-place In the
evidently hadn't had the lifelong prac
tico of most men.
A copper half-cent minted in 1825,
and very rare, has just been sold for
$Dl, tho record price for a coin of that
denomination and date.
cam)) shanty, shells loaded, and gen
eral preparations complete for a ten
days' shoot. I had taken a -M-callber
old-style cap and ball revolver Into tho
timber with mo that fall, Just because
1 was charmed with Its phenomenal
accuracy. It would throw a millet ex
Tho report that King Kdward does aetly wliero you Held it, and loaded
not wear a niKht cap does not material- with a pinch of powder only It. did
ly affect our civilization. Night, caps not jar nor throw up as so many re
urn out of stvle imvlmw. volvors do. I had a notion I would
tako a turn in tlio woods alter lox
This country Is importing very few H(iulrrels with It if tho duck-shooting
diamonds but it Is getting ready to WHH HJ ,,,. a9 to warrant It, or so
uso all of those now on band wluclt
arc of tho baseball variety.
good that it would get monotonous.
Early the. next morning 1 skipped
to his place for a fish net heV forgot- big limb that slanted ncross this
len, according to a note lie left. Along j hero pond. I allowed I'd climb up and
about sundown he showed up, and I shake hlni down, and one of the boya
had the ducks done to a turn by that gave me a hist and up 1 went. When
time and some corn-meal dodgers hot I got out to wliero ho was I couldn't
on the pan, and black coffee a-plenty, jar him loose.
After wo had supper I showed Dib Hut finally all of a sudden he
the coon, and he says: "He's a strap- clawed loose from the limb and down
pin' big fellow, ain't he? The big- he went Into the pond with about a
gest. one I over saw except that old husliel or bark and grape-vine and
buck coon on Shadow lake. And he splinters around him, and the minute
was a niant. Tills lad ain't a rnt along- he lit Leander and some more of the
kill that one, Dlb?"
side of him."
"Did you
said I.
"No; but he came pretty near kill
Ing me," was Dib's response
dogs (lew out to where he was. I
squirms around on my perch, about
10 foot from tho water, to get a
look at the fight, and just as tho buck
coon and Leander has arranged to
One man has thrown up a $2n0,000
a year Job Just because of Ill-health.
It looks a bit strange that a man
making all that money tluds time to
get sick.
Tho little boy out west who tried
tho cued or a lighted match on a
keg of powder would, no doubt, havo
hecomo a boat-rocker anyhow, had ho
grown up..
A company hats been organized to
extract silver from sea water. It Is
not being capitalized by the same poo-
plo who undertook to got gold from
sea water.
A Brooklyn school-teacher has been
frightened by a "Hlack Hand" letter.
Ordinarily, you can't, scare tho city
school-teaclior with tho black hand.
She's used to it.
With two such languages why don't
the Japanese and tho Chinese mako It
a war of words? Chunks of speech
thrown at oacli othor certainly would
inflict (sutllclent. damngo.
A St. Louis preacher says girls
should not object when young men
wish to hold their hands. Naturally
this leads to the suspicion that some
St. Louis girl has boon objecting.
Charles M. Schwab has shocked
London by wearing a top hat with a
short coat, but wo aro assured that ho
has never appeared anywhoro with
tan shoes and a clawhammer.
"How was It, Dlb?" says I. "There ketch holts, whack goes my limb
must be a story to that coon some- and down I come before I could
where." holler, 'Look out below.'
"Well," says Dlb, "I reckon there "Well, the best thing me and the
was a sort of tale to It. It'll kill a limb could do was to come ka-whallop
little time, and I don't mind telling right across old Leander and bury him
you about It. down In the mud at the bottom of this
"You reckollect old man I'arrott? shallow pond. '1 wo of his ribs was
Tho man I introduced you to down at stove in, and no was otherwise dam-
tlio depot last fall. Heavy-set fellow, aged, Includln' breakln' his back. I
big brown eyes, nose hooked like a reckon I might havo kicked the coon
chicken-hawk's beak, all the time in the face with one of my spare feet
smiling. Well, old Wib is the boss as I lit, but I ain't certain about that,
coon hunter anywhere along these Of course I was knocked senseless,
bottoms. At that time ho had the and the boys run in and got me out
most surprlslngest coon-dog that'd on the bank and poured vinegar into
ever hit these parts. He got him me and tlnally Drought me to again.
from Kalntucky, though tho pup's Old Wib had left me cold as soon aB
daddv was from Georgia, original, ho sensed how bad Leander was hurt,
Phis hero dog. Leander, was about and at last I gets my hearings again,
the purest strain of a dog that could shakes myself and find I'm all right,
bo had . On his daddy's side, I mean, no nones iiroKe, and just jarred some.
The bitch that dropped him, though, Leander and the water had busted the
was half wolf and half bulldog, I heard force of the fall, you see.
old Wib say. and wasn't that a pizen- I goes over to where the boys had
ous mixture? hunt a lire and, say, I was plumb sor-
"Hut the old man he allowed it was ry for old Wib. This here Leander
Just tho cross he wanted. Pure hound was layln' out on his belly and every
for the scent and following the trail, once in awhile hod let out. a yelp. I
part wolf for cunnln'. and bull for hold- says to the old man, 'I'm terrible sor-
on. When that pup was only a few ry, Wib,' and ho says, I don't, blame
weeks old he came swimmin' after you, Dib. it was that blasted limb.' IIo
a skiff tho old man and a fellow from didn't cuss any, for old Wib was a
Saint Looey was In. and tho fellow church member. He says, 'What is to
be happens. Put him out of his mis
ery, hoys, l can t do it. So Dad Oli
ver swung an ax, and I don't, reckon
old Leander knowed what, lilt him.
'"Put him in the sack,' says Wib.
'I'll give him a Christian burial, coffin
and all. There's all that's loft of the
best hound that ever nosed a trail or
h'isted a bristle.' It was a mighty sol
emn thing to old Wib, lemme tell you.
'The Lord gives, and the Lord He
takes away,' says the old man, 'blest
be the name of the Lord.' Why they
said around Slabtown t lint ho thought
as much of that Leander dog as he did
of his own wife and family, and he
was a good husband and father, too."
Dib paused and snaked a live coal
out of the Hreplace with the end of a
shovel, and deftly shunted It Into the
bowl of his pipe with a segment of
hickory chip. Then he puffed reiiilnis-cently.
'What- became of the buck coon,
Dlb?" was my query. Dib stretched
his massive legs out so as to get tho
full blaze of tho logs on them and
said: "Oh! that pesky critter? Why,
he just naturally got away durln tho
excitement.
Two thousand errors woro found in
tho books of a California bank by tho
examiners. Tho bookeopera in that In
stitution must bo in tho habit of play
ing baseball during tho summer.
When tho Now York school board
decided that toachors should not
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Rmad What They Say.
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East 84th Street, New
York, wrltoss "Lydis
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after everything else
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nnd I feel it a duty to
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For thirty years Lvdia E. Pink.
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irora roots ana Herbs, lias been the
standard remedy for female ills,
and has positively cured thousands oi
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wny don't you try it t
Mrs. Pinkhnm invites all sick
women to write her for advice.
She has guided thousands to
health. Address. Lynn, Mass.
THEY "PASSED THE BUTTER.'
Brakeman's Happy Inspiration
with Deserved Success.
Met
tHE LIMB AND ME COI7i KA-WHALLOP ACROSS OLD LEANDER.
out by myself to try a few ducks bo
foro wo got things settled down so ua
lambasto tho pupils it should also to hunt together, nnd I found a likely-
have mado a regulation forbidding looking spot in among the willows
pupils to mako faces at tho teachers.
Naval critics toll ub that a battle-
ship Is in a bad way when her armor
belt Is too low. Of course, not being
human, sho can't hiko it up and an
chor it with a safety pin. Philadel
phia Press.
That New York woman who stole
20,000 worth of Jewelry in order to
maintain her social position gives ono
a rather poor impression of what It
takes to maintain one's social posi
tion in New York.
Prosperity must bo sitting around
picking ita teeth in Argentina these
days. During tho season Argentina
wasn't doing a thing but ralBlng wheat
and how that tho crop is being
marketed it cannot, but bo cheorful.
Australia has many dogs and no
rabies, no hydrophobin. If it were
possible to discover how a century of
absolute Immunity has been brought
about in that vast island continent,
the world might learn a lesson worth
knowing.
The New York man who wants to
be "Oslerlzed" becauso ho is out of
work and because chemical experi
ments have "destroyed all his vital
organs save his lungB," takos a wrong
view of matters. "Without any diges
tive organB he 1b in no need of a
boarding house and .ought not to care
'Whether he has work or not. He is
really In an enviable position for
tbtse hard times.
after paddling a couple of miles from
camp. I rowed in to some drift and
willows, put out five live decoys,
built up a llttlo "blind," and had my
duck "call" handy. The live decoys
splashed and dove for smart-weed,
and pretty soon a pair of mallards
came over and saw them. They sailed
around a couple of times over tlio
willows and then came in grand. I
salted both of them, and waded out
and gathered them. After that I didn't
see anything for a couple of hours, but
a few flocked away to tho north.
Thinks I to myself, I'll pull up and
get into camj), and we'll lay out our
plan of campaign for to-morrow.
It was a warm, bright day, and tho
ducks weren't stirring around much.
Thoro was a big log about 30 feet
from tho "blind" that run out from tho
butt of a half-sunk sycamore. This
sycamoro was a whopping tree, and
was connected with tlio shore on ono
side by a catch of drift-wood. Well,
I heard a noise and turned around
towards that log, peeking quiet out
of the "blind," nnd there on that log
sat tho biggest raccoon 1 ever laid
my eyes on.
Ho was squatting there listening. 1
took tho 14, slipped it through a
crack in tho willows, and aimed for
tho juncture of his neck nnd shoul
ders. I touched tho trigger, and the
coon molted off that log like a dew
drop from a lily-pad. I got out and
went around the log and there ho
laid as dead as Pharaoh. I 'paddled
back to cami). and Dlb had gone back
says, 'What's his name?' And old
Wib says 'I hain't named him ylt.'
'(lull him Leander,' says this hero fel
low. It seemed like a good mouth-
1111111' name and so Wib chrlsteued
li i in Leander. Tho fellow told him
Leander was tho best, swimmer that
ever happened before lie got drownded.
"Well, they was a nionstetr coon
down on Shadow lake that had
whipped all the dogs that was ever
brought against him. lie wasn't no
ordinary coon, but nearly as big as a
young bear, and every ounce bono and
muscle. He'd gel. out into a little
pond or piece of marsh and when a
dog'd tackle him he'd souse the dog's
head under water a few times, con
tributln' a few bites at tho same time
to make It binding, and after about
baptism number four there wasn't any
dog they had tried would go In after
him again. Nobody'd shoot, this coon,
"When 1 was connected with a cer
tain western railway," says, a promi
nent olllcial of an eastern lino, "wo
had in our employ a brakeman who,
for special service rendered to tho
road, was granted a month's vacation.
"llo decided to spend liis time in a
trip over the Rockies. We furnished
him with passes.
"He went to Denver, nnd there met
a number of his friends at work on
one of the Colorado roads. They gave
him a good time, and when he went
away made hi in a present of a moun
tain goat.
Evidently our brakeman was at a
loss to get the animal homo with him,
as the express charges were very
heavy at that time. Finally, however,
hitting upon a happy expedient, he
made out a shipping tag and tied it
to the horns of tho goat. Then ho
presented the beast to the otllce of
the stock car line.
"Well, that tag created no end of
amusement, but it served to accom
plish the end of the brakeman. It
was Inscribed as follows:
'"Please Pass the Uutter. Thomau
.1. Meeohln, Prakoman, S. S. & T.
Uy.' " Harper's Weekly.
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About Babies.
"Hables are 'creatures of habit.' Half
for they was all waiting to get some tho trdublo of child-rearing Is caused
dog that could lick him in a fair light, by allowing them to become creatures
They called him the buck coon. 0f bnd habits instead of good ones.
"Old Wib hears of this coon, and You deserve a gold medal, my dear
ho comes over for me, and a big young lady, for your management of
crowd of us goes down to Shadow Marjorie."
lake one moonlight night. Well, you "Well, her papa deserves one, too!'
know that country. Pucker-brush, cried M'arjorie's mother proudly. "Ho
swamp-holes, briers, dead logs, the hnd every bit as much to do with her
worst ever. We got the trail of this management, ns I had!"
big follow easy enough, for ho used "No, I had to do with the theory.
to prowl down around Hogeyo bend you with the practice."
most all the time, and in about half "Well," said the doctor, "both theory
an hour Leander barked 'treed.' 'Now and practice are needed for the sue-
we'll git him, says old Wib. 'Lean- cessful management of children. You
der'il walk his log fer him. have combined both, and the conso-
"When we got to where it was, tho quenco is you are rearing a fine child,
coon had got out on an old basswood I and I most heartily congratulate you
that Btood in a little pond where we on the way your havo reared Mar-
couldu't well use the axes, and we Jorle during her first and her second
could Hco him away up and out ou a year." Illustrated Sunday Magazine,
Typical Farm Scane, Showing Stock Raiting la
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