Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1896-04-28
A LEAP YEAR INCIDENT.
The New Woman Comes to the Front
in Great Shape.

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There was given on q recent even
ing at Black lake, this state, leap
year party, at which Miss Kittie
Carr escorted Mr.. Frank Lupton, as
we learn from a Callicooon dispatch
in q contemporary. The neighbor-
hood of Black lake is wild region
infested by all sorts of cruel, raven
Gus and venomous beasts of prey.
The bones of many an unfortunate
traveller, polished to an unnatural
whiteness by these scourges of the
forest, lie in windows along the
lonely highways. So it is not strange
that while returning from the party
Miss Carr heard the piercing cries of
a wildcat. Oddly enough, she was
unarmed. But, assuring the young
man at her side that there was no
danger, she drove rapidly home.
Arriving at the house, she got her
fathers rifle and announced to young
Lupton her intention of going back
after the cat "B-b-but," he re
turned, 81 am no hunter. Why
should we m-m-molest the animal?
He has as much right to life as any
of US"
81 shall go back and shoot that
wildcat, answered Miss Carr
"G-g-good, replied Mr.. Lup-
ton. 'S-s--shoct the b-beggar-
that's what he n-needs. S-shoot
him till he can't w--w-wiggle. III
stay here and hold the h--horse.
''Of course you will hold the horse
when we get there, said the young
lady, and she stepped into the car
riage, and drove away into the forest,
the awful and ominous silence broken
only by the chattering of the teeth
of the man by her side. Reaching
the spot, Miss Carr first slipped a
corner of the robe into the mouth of
young Mr.. Lupton, thus, in meas
ure deadening the clatter, and then
dropped out of the vehicle.
All was silence save for the wind |
making means in the tops of the
overhanging trees, and the distant,
last cry of some belated traveller,
gone down before the spring of a
denizen of the unknown glades. The
fierce vibrations of the mans teeth
estimated at $500 per minute were
fast wearing out the corner of the
robe, when suddenly his cheek was
famed by the shock of the wildcats
cry, now close at hand. His jaw
was paralyzed and forgot to move.
The wind ceased to complain. The
last gurgle of the distant traveller
died away, and the silence could al
most be felt. Then, again, nature
shook with the wildcats shrek. His
CLASSY, baleful eyes were seen be-
tween two rocks. There was the
sharp report of rife, and the beast
and the man fell forward-the one
dead, the other in a faint. The horse
dashed wildly down the road with
the limp young Mr.. Lupton hanging
over the dashboard.
But at the end of a mile he re-
covered consciousness, stopped the
animal and drove bravely back.
When about half way he met Miss
Carr, dragging the wildcat behind
her by the tail. She drew it into the
carriage, and again she drove home
The man is still under the care of
local physicians, suffering from
shock, but Miss Carr has felt no in
convenience from the experience.
The wildcat, says the dispatch,
in closing, was the largest ever Sc
cured in Sullivan county, and Miss {
Carr will have the skin mounted.
and keep it as a memento:"
This is practically the first leap
year occurrence involving the new
woman; we shall look for others with
great interest.--N, Y Tribune. /;
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