Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1894-12-22
A PRIMITIVE LIFE.
TIMBER HUNTERS IN NORTH
CAROLINA MOUNTAINS.
widows Tackle Bears With Axes, Boys
charm snakes and Men Garry Rides
Aoont Wherever They Go-Good sport
Pound 10 These wiIds.


Aeont Wherever They Go-Good sport
Pound 10 These wlIds
II you want TO see primitive life.
such As Daniel Boon lived, where the
loom and spinning wheel are going all
day log cabins swarming with lean
hogs and fat children, where every
man carries rifle to store or church
ana where crime is unknown. 20 TO
the western part OF North Carolina.
Oi all Southerners there are none more
manly and straightforward than the
Far Heels.
SO says a Philadelphiau. James
Calder, who has been ON a timber
hunt in that region. SO great is the
domestic demand for fine hard woods
that very little j. exported. Along
the North Carolina streams are fine
Halnuis and wild cherries and some
very large curied naples The
principal trouble is transportation as
many Of the roads are little better
than cattle tracks. II got black
walnut thirty feet two inches. beauti-
fully curled, and Il cost me $50 10 pet
this hauled forty miles Cut into
geneers the value Of this log is not far
from $4,000, said MIR, Calder, to "A
Philadelphia Times man
"A few nights before my departure. "
he continued II stopped al the cabin
oi a widow with two sialWart dauph-
tiers. in the middle Of the night
there was a tremendous noise outside.
hog squealing ANA dog barking.
The Old woman turned out. shouting.
Ihars bar n-tacklin ms Old
sos catch him, Tigh come On. gals
pitch ia Stranger
such scrimmQge ] never saw.
Tie moon 1as up and High, as day. the
bear had clambered into the pen.
seized the hog, and then Tho dog sailed
IN. tho widow had an Ak. one daughter
u pitchiars. the other club and
cmpliei my revolver into something
black. bui the Widow's az did tie busi-
ness, and al hands pulled 4 iull-grown
black bear out - the pen The hog
and dog were badly maulcl, but the
women we're game and by morning
the bear Was skinned. hung up and
We had steak FOR breakfast as good d.
pork but 10 better
II never saw ducks 20 plentiful as
on the Iadkin No one hunts small
game here saye party that comes
annually from baltimore A. for
quail they are oyoNW where aud wild
pigeons by the millions. These made
into poi-plc, with rrusi like a brick
wall, are a popular delicacy Other
uise the food hog aud hominy. with
coffee l. palatablc AS I've.
~ borrowed \ muzzle.loading gun
from friend IN Rockford and
went for duck taking with me a
queor-lookinR negro lad as guide We
went through she meadows TO the
river. Suddenly something crossed
the road. big water moccasin The
boy made one dash and the next mo.
meni had the snake in his hands !,
was fully i've feet long II writhed
and struck n him. ! yelled Drop
him quick He waved It around his
head. gave a snap Ike a whip and the
reptile was dead This WIS repeated
several times, iill got nervous, aud
declared ! would shoot him. and the
snake too II he did not quit Il,
Il soon got into the ducks and
fouad II mere slaughter They would
Z fly after every shot about fifty yards
and light, 90, iwculy-cigh, in two
I hours and started home with ten.
II was told that the boy was the
son 81 IA youdou near the toun, and
hn could charm any snake
''lt looks curious to see half dozen
ncirhbors meet. each one balancing a
long rife. stocked 90 the muzzlo and
the name Of tho maker who, by the
way. lives in Lancaster. Pa. on the
barrel. These men can take the head
on squirrel az 100 yards. but at the
shooting matches the Winchester car.
RIGS the prize Among these people
pride o. birth and family Is more in.
tense than anywhere else in my knowl'
edge. and it's patent Of nobility tc
have had an ancestor who Sought al
Kings Mountain,
Tried by the standard Of common
sense, these people are far happier
ihau the same class North Al seem
10 have enough, and there are but few
poor, and these mostly negroes. Any
one seeking rest at little expense can
find II at the small towns throughout
This region. and the society Is quite as
good as elsewhere. with fewer fads.
Only keep clear % the war and liz
records. There is siill an Uudercur-
rent Of sensitive feeling that is easil,
brought 70 the surface. As for sport
with gun and line, don't believe il
can be surpassed north Of Florida