The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-08-26

TWIN TERRoRs OF YOUNG PENN
sYLvANIA WOMAN.
PIucky Little Dog Comes to the Res
cue Until Other Members OF the
Family Arrive at the
Scene.

Galeton. Pa.-To have been bitten
by rattlesnake and then chased By
an Infatuated bull was an experience
of 17-year-old Sarah Brandt, daughter
OF farmer three miles south of this
place. Miss Brandt had been on a
visit to girl friend several miles
from her home, and was accompanied
by a fox terrier. Returning toward
evening. her attention was attracted
by clump of wild roses, from which
she was minded to pluck a bouquet
to carry home.
The flowers grew on an embank.
ment almost as high as the girls head
and 1t was with considerable difficulty
that she gained a position from which
she was able to reach the coveted po-
sizes. She was compelled to cling to
an alder bush with her left hand as
she reached to pluck the blossoms
with her right.
The little dog ran up toward the
rose clump, gave queer little bark
and scampered back into the road.
The girl thought nothing of the dogs
unusual action, however, until an in
slant later, when, without warning, a
big rattlesnake sprang from it's posi-.
ton near the wild rosebush and sank
its fangs into her bare arm an inch
or two above the wrist.
The girl was fully a mile from the
nearest house, and started on a run
to reach help before the poison be-
came scattered through her system.
A few rods farther on she came to
the meadow of a neighbor, and by
crossing this field she could shorten
the distance by almost quarter Of a
mile. She scaled the fence and had
gained portion of the distance across
when she heard the below of bull
and, to her terror, found that she was
being pursued by the angry animal
Her little terrier, however, saved the
day for her, as he ran toward the ad-
vancing bull and put up such lively
bluff that the attention of the big ami
NAL was temporarily diverted from
the girl in an attack upon the dog. By
this time the screams of Miss Brandt
had been heard at the farmhouse and
several members Of the household ran
to the girls rescue, just as the bull
left OF his unsuccessful attempt to
impale the frisky little dog on his
horns and had returned to the pursuit
Of the girl
Fortunately for Miss Brandt, the
household In which she had sought
refuge was provided with a prepare
ton to overcome the effects of q
snakes bite. and the administration
Of this saved her life, but she was
dreadfully sick for forty-eight hours.
Miss Brandt is peculiarly unfortun-
ate. She was with her brother on a
deer hunt last fall when at a point in
the woods where he had stationed her
on runway good sized black bear
suddenly emerged from a thicket. She
became alarmed at the bear, fearing
to shoot lest she should but aggravate
it and it should attack her. In scam
pering from the stump upon which
she was standing watch she fell and
sustained broken wrist, her rifle
having fallen upon 1t with violent
force as she pitched headlong to the
ground.
In the meantime the bear had been
hiking away through the thicket as
fast as his legs could carry him, and
though crippled, Miss Brandt succeed
ed in firing the gun the given number
of times for the prearranged signal of
distress, and her brother, who was
scarcely quarter Of mile below her
on another bench Of the ridge. started
to find her. He came face to face with
Mr.. Bear as the latter was streaking
for the tall timber, and one shot from
IL .iaa uank hr,a{n To the dust