Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-02-06
SALLY AND HER CLUB
Eow oARius scoFlelD's MOTHER
 KILLED FOUR PAINTERS.

cortland County Resident Gives an In~
 .a~astlng Account of the Incident,
 ssIf the fate Darius Scofield of Cort land county, who remembered his grand nother dickering with bear for him when he was year old and getting him hack from the bear i'll exchange for a loaf of corn bread, and who remembered . lot of things abous other relations of his as told in The Sun the other day, had remembered something his mother d;d once. ho would have had another entertaining story to tell, ," said former Cortland county resident. "But even Darius amazing memory wasn't t capable s.a that, for when his mother had this sdyenture she wasn't Darius mother rot and indeed wasn t his mother until two years later. She was then plain Sally Fighter.
 saShe was going through. the woods me day on an errand to a neighbor' s, a oon1Ie of miles from her fathers clear ina. when she heard panther yell, and looking back saw the animal bounding along the path toward her. Sally was only IS, but she knew enough about nanthers to be afraid of them. In turn ing round to look behind her she had stopped. and she noticed that the pan tber stopped too. When she started on again, the panther followed. The faster she went the faster the panther went, yelling frequently. Then Sally stopped again and turned square around in the path. The panther stopped instantly. crouching and swaying it's long tail Sally hurried on again, and the panther hurried after her. When Sally stopped and turned again, she saw that the panther was great deal nearer to her than it had been when it stopped be- fore.
 sSally wasn't half way to the place she was going. She saw that at one more turn the panther's tactics would have bropght the willy beast so close to her that it would undoubtedly make it's spring. She resolved to make an effort to save herself Before stopping again she saw heavy club at the side of the path, She quickly picked it up and aft CT step or two more stopped and turned suddenly, facing the panther. which was now not more than ten feet behind her. The panther was ready for it's spring, but before it could leap Sally rushed upon it with yell that shamed those the panther had uttered and gave the savage beast blow on the nose that made everything crack. The pan ther lowered it's head and began to sneeze and snuffle. Sally brought the club down again, this time on the pan thers s head, and the great cat sprang one side and ran up dead hemlock tree. Thinking that she had scared her A hungry foe from the chase, Sally started to run on her way, when she saw the panther get ready to leap from the tree. She turned and faced it again just as the furious animal sprang. Sally jump ed aside. The panther alighted on the ground at her feet, and quick as flash and with the force of trip hammer the big club descended on it's neck The panther settled down flat on the ground under the blow. and two more strokes of the club ended its career.
 Sally was pretty we'll frustrated by this lively bout with the panther and was wiping her face with her apron and taking breathing spell when she heard a great whining i'll the direction of the dead hemloek Looking in that diree- tion, she saw too good sized panther kittens tumbling out of q hollow ill the tree trunk. Sally had her spunk up HOW. She believed. and no doubt she was right, that the two baby partners belonged to the panther that had been making her journey so unpleasant for her, and she made up her mind to have ittle more satisfaction by knocking them on tho head too. She was walking over to the tree to finish her work when a yell that almost made her hair rise ! broke on her ears, and looking down the path she was alarmed to sec another panther, bigger than the one she had 5sliled, coming fiercely toward her, This sne set down as the dead one's mate. she was pleased to notice that his ad- vance was somewhat hampered by the Tact that one Of his fore legs was off at the knee
 lie was plainly bound for fight, however, ill spite of that handicap, and came right on, yelling at every humpy pound he made. Sally concluded to try the same tactics on this panther she had on the other one. and she get up the most unearthly yelling and rushed to meet the ugly beast This surprised II, nm. lie stopped, but kept on glaring. ihe next thing he knew he got whack over , the nose that dropped him fiat Ill 'he path. Sally didn't give him time to lecuperate, and ill less than five seconds had his brains scattered to the four winds Tho two young partners had by SS'is tlme come out into the path ana Sisfe huddled at their dead mother $ sye, llcking her and crying most plte- oysly This touched Sally's heart and ste determined to spare the lives ot the A.ttens and take Il em home. She stoep- eo down to stroke one of them, when It turned on her, and quick as lightning