The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-11-20

.I,,S''i' INV null ana laugh, and feel
liKo ! had been off on vacation. nsh-
Ing or something. It was urant.
mistake that did not have family.
OF boys 10 keep mo mad part OF the
tln,e. because a man that never has
anything to make him mad Is no good.
envy your dad In having you around
constantly to keep his blood in clrc,i-
lation. ! suppose you are responsible
FOR his being. at his age. as spry as a
boy He told me when he and you rot
back from Yellowstone park last sum J
mer That the trip did him world OF
good ana that he got so lie could
climb tree--just shin right up like d
cat and that You We're the bravest boy
no ever saw. said that you would fight
bear rs quick as eat. Such a boy I
nm proud TO call my friend What
wos 1t about your fighting bears single
handed, with no weapon but empty.
tomato cans? Your dad said bravery
runs In the family
on, get out. Did dad tell you about
that bear story?''as said tho bad boy, nj
he sharpened his knife on Ills boot.
We'll you'd a didc right there, IL yon
could have seen dad. He Is one of
these men that is brave OF Inter.
mittent. like folks have fever. Half
>the time he Is n darn coward bu [
when YOU don't expect It, for instance
when the pancakes are burned or tho
steak Is raw, and his dyspepsia seems
to work Just right, he will flare up and
sass the cook. and don't know OF
ANYTHING Drawer than that; but ordl-
nnrily he Is meek ms n lamb. think
the stomach has a good deal to do with
a mans bravery. You take soldier
in battle. and II he is hungry he Is fun
OF fight, but you fill him up with baked
beans and things and he Is willing to
postpone fight, and he don't care
whether there Is any fight at all or
not. I think the trip through Yellow
stone park took the tar out of dad.
Those geysers throwing up hot water,
apparently right cut OF the hot place
the preacher tell about, seemed to
set him to thinking. that may be. he
had got nearer h-l.on a railroad pass.
than he had ever expected to get. He
told me, one day. when we ST ond 1,r,
side old Faithful geyser and the hot
water belched UP into the air nun-,
dred feet. that all 1t wanted was for
the lid to be taken off and HI
would be earning right there. and he
was going to try to lead n different
park alive he should go home. and
Join every church In town, and he
should advise ministers to get the sin
ners to take q trip to the park. II they
wanted to. work religion into them
Dad would wake up An the night, at
the hotels in the park. when geyser
went off suddenly. and groan, and
cross himself. as he had seen religious
people do, and tell me that in few
days more we would be safe out OF
the d--n place, and you would never
catch him IN 1t again.
well, there Is one hotel where q lot
OF bears come out Of the woods in the
evening, TO eat the garbage that is
thrown out from the hotel They are
wild bears. all right but they have
got 50 tame that they come right near
folks. and don't do anything but eat
garbage and growl, and fight each
other. The cook told me about IT, ana ana
said there was no danger, cause YOU
could take a club and scare them into
the woods.
we got to the hotel in the after
noon and dad went to our room to say
his prayers, and take nap, and had his
supper taken to the room, and he was
In the park that he asked blessing on
the supper, though it was the bum
NEST supper l ever struck. After dark
I told dad we better go out and take
walk and Inspect the scenery, cause 1t
was all in the bill, and II you got a
bum supper and didn't get the scenery.
you were losing money on the deal.
saw tho man cmptyng the garbage and
I knew the bears would be getting IN
their work pretty soon, SO ! took dad
and we walked way off, and he talked
about how God had prepared that park
as a warming to sinners of what was
to come and knew his system was
sort OF running down, and knew he.
needed excitement, n shock. or some-
thing, to make n reaction. so ! steered
him around by the garbage pilo
"Say before he knew It we were
right in the midst Of about nine bears,
grizzlies, cinnamon bears, blhck Dcars'
and all OF them raised mp and said,
"Nhoof!" and they growlcd, and, by
gosh, just MS quick ms could run this
knife into your liver, missed dad. lie