Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-04-05

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or railroads. and snch other thingS,A
And tend to your business AZ hoHk? 0
husband. dear husband, don't write to me more
OF the theater, lobby and club;
Nor dinners you've eaten at the "capitol'' there,
But hurry away my own hub,
Yes, hurry back home, your Betsy ID sad,
Her heart is 30 honest and true;
All winter she's slept IN the bedroom alone
And say, dearest husband, have r0uq
Husband, dear husband, como home to me now.
Come home while the birds sing SO gay; 9
And let not the smile in the gallery there
Come home. for YOU yon know ~ .n what III i means;
And we Will have cowslips for green's.
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BARTHOLOAEWs Bean.
The Present that was 1ntsa aea fer
Charley.
From the Philadelphis Bulletin.
A year or two ago Mr.. Barthnlo-
new, of Lancaster, was out In COlOra-
do for q few months, aud Just before
he started for the journey home he
wrote to his wife concerning the
probable time Of his arrival. As q
postscript to the letter he added the
following to his son, boy about 8
years old;
.Tcll Charley I am going to bring
with me dear little baby bear that /
bought from an Indian"
OF course that Information pleased
Charley, and he directed most of his
thoughts and his conversation to the
subject of the bear during the next
two weeks, wishing anxiously for his
father TO come with the little pet. On
the night which had been fixed by
Bartholomew for his arrival he did
not come and the family was very
much disappointed. Charley par
ticularly was cut up, because
he couldn't get tho bear, On the
next evening while Mrs Bartholo-
NEW and the children were sitting in
in the front room with the door open
into the hall, they heard somebody
running through the front Yard
Then the front door suddenly burst
open, and man dashed into the hall
and up stairs at frightful speed
Mrs. Bartholomew was just about
to go up after him to ascertain who
it was, when large, dark animal Of
some kind darted ih through the
door, and, with an awful growl, went
bowling up stairs after the man. 1t
suddenly flashed upon the mind of
Mrs. Bartholomew that the man was
her husband, and that that was the
little baby bear. just then the voice
of Bartholomew was heard calling
from the top landing.
"Maria /! for gracious sake get out
of the house as quick as you can, and
shut all the doors and window shut
ters." "#.
Then Mrs. Bartholomew sent the
boys into Partridge's next door, and
she closed all the doors and shutters,
locked the doors, and went into the
yard to await further developments.
When see got outside she saw Bar
tholomew on the roof kneeling on
the trap door, which he kept down
by most tremendous exertions. Then
he screamed for somebody to come
up and help him, and Mr.. Partridge
got a ladder and hatchet and some
nails, and ascended. Then they nailed
down the trap-door and Bartholo-
new and Partridge came down the
"a ss foEfeahsy fam Ars A.ef ne mao sreews
asked him what was the matter, and
he said:
"Why you know that little baby
bear said I'd bring Charley? Well,
L had him i'm box until l got off the
train up here at the depot. And then
l thought I'd take him out and lead
him around home by the chain. But
the first thing he did was to fly at my
leg, and when l jumped back ! run,
and he after me. He would have
eaten me up i'm about a minute. That
internal Indian must have fooled me.
He said it was a cub only two months
old, and it had no teeth. l believe
it's full grown bear"
1t then became very interesting
question how they should get that
bear out of the house. Bartholomew
thought they had better try to shoot
him, and he asked o lot of the neigh
bors to come around to help with
their shot guns. When they would
hear the bear scratch at one of the
windows they would pour in a vol
ley at him, but after riddling every
shutter on the first floor, they could
still hear the bear tearing around in
there and growing. So Bartholo-
new and the others got into the cell
lar, and as the bear crossed the floor
they would fire up through it at about
the spot where they thought he was.
But the bombardment only seemed to
exasperate the animal, and after each
shot they could hear him smash some
thing. 84 t
Then Partridge said maybe o coup
le of dogs might whip him, and he
borrowed bulldog and setter
from Barney Maginn and pushed
them through the front door. They
listened, and for half an hour they
could hear a most terrific contest ra-
ging, and Maginn said he'd bet mil
lion dollars that bulldog would eat
up any two bears in the Rocky Noun.
taiRs. Then everything became still
and a few moments later they could
hear the bear eating something and
cracking bones with his teeth. Bar.
tholomew said that the Indians out in
Colorado said that the bear was par.
ticularly fond of dog meat, and could
relish litter Of pups almost any
| time.
At last Bartholomew thought he
would try strategy. He procured q
huge iron hook with o sharp point Ia
| it, tied it to q rope and put three OF
four pounds of fresh beef on the hook
Then he went up the ladder, opened
the trap door i'm the roof and dropped
in the bait. In few moments he go,
a bite, and all hands manned the rope
and pulled, when out came Maginn',
bull dog, which had been hiding in
the garret. Bartholomew was DISCUS
ted, and he put on fresh bait and
threw in again, and in about an hour
the bear toQk hold and they hauled
him out and knocked him on the
head. M
They then entered the house. IL
the hall the carpet was covered with
particles Of dead setter, and in tho
parlor the carpet and the windows
had been shot to pieces, while thu
furniture was full Of bullet holes
The bear had smashed the mirror
torn up six or seven chairs, knocked
over the lamp, and demolished all tn,
crockery in the pantry. Bartholomew
gritted his teeth as he surveyed thu
ruin, and Mrs. Bartholomew said sht
wished to patience he had stayed IL
Colorado. However, they fixed thing
up as well as they could, and theI
Mrs. Bartholomew sent into Part
ridges for Charley and the younges
girl. When Charley came he rushct