Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-02-11
SALLY AND HER CLUB
HOW DARlus scoFIELo,s MOTHER
 KILLED FOUR PAINTERS.

She Wasn't His Mother Then. and So ua
 Didn't Remember It-But a Former
 Cortland County Resident Gives an In-
 teresting Account of the Incident.
 If the fate Darius scofield of Cort. land county, who remembered his grand mother dickering with bear for him when he was year old and getting him back from inc bear in exchange for loaf Of corn bread, and who remembered a lot of things about other relations of hls, us told in The Sun the other day, had remembered something his mother did once, he would have had another entertaining story to tell, said a former Cortland county resident. But even Darius amazing memory wasn't capable of that, for when his mother had this adventure she wasn't Darius mother yet and indeed wasn t his mother until two years later She was then plain Sally Fighter.
 She was going through the woods one day on an errand to neighbours, couple of miles from her fathers clear ing, when she heard panther yell, and looking buck saw the animal bounding along the path toward her. Sally was only Is, but she knew enough about partners to be afraid of them. h turn ing round 10 look behind her she had stopped, and she noticed that the pan ther 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, erouching 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 whon 1t stopped be- fore
 Sally wasn't half way to the place she was going. She saw that at one more turn the panther tactics would have brought 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 HOW hot 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 thef lowered it's head and began to sneeze and snuffie Sally brought the club down again, this time on the pan ther's head, and the great cat sprang one side and ran up a dead hemlock tree. Thinking that she had scared her hungry foe from the chase, Sally started to run OH 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 tho club ended it's career.
 Sally was pretty well frustrated by this lively bout with the panther and was wiping her face with her apron and taking breathing spell when she heard great whining iii the direction of the dead hemlock. Looking in that direc- tion, she SAW too good sized panther kittens tumbling out of hollow in the tree trunk. Sally had her spunk up now. 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 little more satisfaction by knocking them on the head too. She was walking over to the tree to finish her work when yell that almost made her hair rise broke on her ears, and looking down 1 the path she was alarmed to see another panther, bigger than the one she had killed, coming fiercely toward her. This she set down as the dead ones mate She was pleased to notice that his ad vance was somewhat hampered by the | fact that one of his fore legs was off at the knee.
 "He was plainly bound for a fight, however, i'll spite Of that handicap, and came right on, yelling at every humpy 1 bound he made. Sally concluded to try the same tactics on this panther she had on the other one. and she set up the most nnearthly yelling and rushed to meet the ugly beast. This surprised him. He stopped, but kept on glaring. The next thing he knew he got whack over the nose that dropped him fiat ill the path. Sally didn't give him time to recuperate, and i'll less than five seconds had his brains scattered to the four winds. The two young partners had by this time come out into the path and were huddled at their dead mothers side. licking her and crying most pite- ously. This touched Sally's heart, and she determined to spare the lives of the kittens and take tiem home She stoop- ed down to stroke one Of them, when 1t turned on her, and quick as lightning | snul the sLarD claws of one paw deep