The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-11-22

AT ST. Clairsville. in Bedford county,
Pennsylvania, a sawmill workman. A.
S. Otto, had a ~wagonioad of saWdust
to haul away in the early autumn. He
went to work with a scoop shovel, and
he hove shovelful after shoveiful into
his wagon. Tcmarking to himself, as he
lahOred:
well, this is the doggondedest. hesv-
lest dust I eve hefted. Darn if l
wouldn't rather work in a coal mine
and earn my money, instead of haNira'
people think I'm just lallygaggin' over
easy sawdust an yet heftin' up about
1000. 900 ons every lick-holy murders"
Otto shook q whole bundle of squirln-
ing copparhead snakes. one of The most
deadly iE America Out of his big scoop
and leaped backward. There We're
snakes kissing all around him.
He made two jumps. one TO his wagon
and the second right into 1t. AS he
landed squarely in the midst OF all the
copperheads he had been slloveling in
With tho sawdust. There was no safe
of it.
Aftcre the first terrified stiffness OF
alright Otto comprehended that there
must be scores of dead snakes. or there
would he at least one dead Otto. He
a no weapon other than his shovel
ana there was no help within hearing.
The snakes We're ready TO force the
fighting when he began his tremendous
conflict. IL but one of Them succeeded
III biting him he knew how horrible
must be the death that he would die.
Using tire scoop as a cutting tool, he
attacked the snakes nearest him, n
the sharp edge Went through their
bodies almost a. if it were an AK. For
more than an hour the ma fought the
snakes. until, at last, ffty-tive of them
lay dead in ,he wagon and forty-five
were dead on the ground. They meas
ured in length all the way from one foot
to over a yard.
DIR. Charles Il. Penrose. brother of
United States Senator Penrose, of
Pennsylvania. hunted the trouble which
overlook him q few weeks ago i'll the
Lake Mcdonald country of Montana.
Seeking deer, he went out alone from
the camp, and wandered or until he
reached the bank of a small creek. He
had three cartridges in his gun, when
he deserted q yearling silver tip, whose
skin he told himself at once, would look
magnificent in his handsome residence
in Spruce street. Philadelphia.
He used two OF his three cartridges
in killing the young bear, and then
he did something no expert bear hunter
would do. II he had shot sixteen cubs.
He began to skin his quarry without
%reloading his gun with every cartridge
it was built to hold. He just took it
for granted that the mother bear wasn't
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take chances. anyway.
Now, the mother bear is always OF
her job. Startled by n noise in the
bushes some two hundred feet away
from him, DR.. Penrose glanced up, to
see a huge powerful silver tip coming
for him with all the bristling wrath OF
the she bear bereft. Then he rennem.
bered the solitary charge tina lay wait.
ing In his rifle. But he held his nerve,
F1e waited until the great body had
o~verpassed n half the distance. Sure
OF his mark he fired. The bear came
tearing on, after q single growl of pain
at even greater speed. The physician
t had only his empty CUR with which he
dealt her a blow Of the butt as sht
l came upon him.. He might as well hav,
hit her with a lemonade straw. Hel
mighty paw felled him to the ground
e and with foam-flecked open Jaws sh,
] stood over him. ready to wreak tn.
J maternal vengeance he had so foolish
lily kraved.
In that Instant the physician was lit
I orally in the very jaws OF death-fa,