The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1904-08-18
DAVIS GRANDDAUGHTER
As A DEER tanner,

/ The Elkius, W. Va, correspondent
of the New York World, says:
Why is it that the people of Elk
ms say that your twelve-vear old
granddaughter Katharine Grace
Brown is your favorite grandchild?"
The World correspondent asked Hen
ry Gassaway Davis, the Democratic
candidate for Vice President.
Mr.. Davis chuckled
Il suppose because she is the most
j like me-" he answered. You see,
! she is only one of my granddaughter
who wishes that she had been born a
boy"
To say that little Miss Brown is a
! ''tonboy' is far from the trlth. She
is pretty buoYant, athletic little
girl with dark brown hair and brown
eyes, and is entirely feminine in her
appearance. But she plays outdoors
II day long at Graceland, the coun-
try home of her grandfather at Elkins,
and the haymakers say that she is
the best farmer in the town. She
knows by kicking her little russell
shoes among the drying hay just
when it is ripe to be raked and cock
ed for the wagons. She knows when
the cornlis full in the ear and where
the ripest Strawberries grow.
But her most noted feat was the
tanning and training of the wild noun
tain deer in Mr.. Davis preserves.
These deer are the common wild Vir-
ginia deer, very beautiful and shy.
They were caught on the hills and
since being turned into the game
ranges have increased and multiply
ed till they are envy of every wealthy
man who visits Gracland. But Shan
non Hardman, the game-keeper,
could do nothing with them. They
ran into the jungle every time he APP
preached to feed them, and visitors at
Graceland could not get sight of
them.
Il can't tame them a mite" said
Hardman, helplessly.
Pooh You don't go about it right"
said Miss Katharine. Il can tame
anything, l tanned grandpa, and l
guess l can tame the deer"
The next day she took white silk
handkerchief and pail of bran and
went up over the hill to the deer
park. Sitting down in hollow, she
elevated the handkerchief on a stick
and held the curious signal just where
the mildeyed does and the antlered
bucks could see it waving in the breeze
Now, there is nothing in all the world
so filled with curiosity as deer, and
some one had told Katharine this Sc
cret. The deer saw the white object
and "edged' down for better look.
Nearer and nearer they came till they
got good look at the little girl-and
then scampered away.
The next day she sprinkled bran
near the hollow and again lifteL her
handkerchief. Again the deer folk
crept down for look and discovered
the bran. They ate it timidly and
scampered away. In a week the deer
were coming to her when she held up
the handkerchief and eating from the
pail in hands. And before long they
came running to meet her whenever
she appeared. After a time she in
troduced them to Hartman and when
they found he always had bran it was
an easy matter to call them.
Miss Katharine-she insists on spell
idg it with an "a''-is the oldest of
the ex-senator's grandchildren and is
sort of little mother to them. "since
my mamma died" she said to World
reporter Il have had to be mother
to myself and so l have got used to
caring for little children"
SnhScriha for VNba pan,Ll;ao,