Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-05-19

made couple of bounds that took
her six feet up the trunk.
The surgeon scrambled upward.
tearing through the branches, with
the leather satchel banging against
his stomach. But the bear came up
with amazing agility; she seemed to
wriggle through the dense branches
like a squirrel, and while Craig was
painfully gaining another yard. the
enemy had almost come up on level
with his feet
He was quite unarmed; he had
even dropped his pocket-knife on the
road. But he remembered that there
were couple of short-very short
operating knives in his case, and he
jerked open the satchel to get at
them.
The bears head protruded from the
dark LEAKAGE below him. In panic
he kicked at it, and the return blow
ripped the bottom of his trousers leg
into ribbons.
He could not feel the knife, but,
hardly knowing what he did, he
snatched the largest bottle in the case.
and flung 1t downward with all his
strength.
It hit and rebounded from the hairy
neck. The bears face rose to his
knee with an open-mouthed scowl, and
he smashed another bottle squarely
across it.
The animal wavered, with chok-
ing cough. She let go with her hind
feet, clung an instant with her fore
claws, and then dropped smashing
through the branches, striking the
earth like a stone.
Craig stared down at her, almost
letting go his own hold in his amaze
ment. There she lay, as If stone-dead,
at the bottom of the tree.
There was pungent, choking odor
in the air, but at the moment he was
too excited to speculate upon 1t or to
recognize it.
He could not believe that the ami
NAL was dead, for he knew that he
had no poisons of such instantaneous
effect in his case. He ventured to
slide down the tree, however, keeping
as far from the motionless body Of his
enemy as he could; and once on the
ground, he flung off the medicine-case
and bolted up the road almost as fast
as Peter had gone.
He ran for nearly half mile, and
then slowed out of breath, to a fast
walk. The moonlit road remained
empty behind him, and he came In
sight of Warwick in less than an hour.
Just there he encountered party
coming to look for him. with lanterns
and rifles. Peter had come up to the
barn gate half an hour before, drip
ping wet and shivering with fright,
trailing broken harness, and with
three long, bleeding scratches on his
flank.
With this reinforcement, Craig
went back They found the buggy ly-
ing where 1t had capsized, but the
bear was gone. No trace of her could
be found within fifty yards, and be-
fore going. she had contrived to drag
the cub from under the buggy and
to tear open the sack. Crippled as
he was, she had taken him with her.
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The rapid recovery of the animal
was as puzzling as it's sudden collapse,
and Craig was more than ever at
loss to account for it. The medicine
case lay where he had dropped 1t, and
he searched the ground for the brok-
en- bottle
After some minutes he found the
neck with the cork in it. and 1t still
seemed to have clingng odor, pierre
ing and pungent. He knew what 1t
was, even before he found the larger
fragment with the label sticking to 1t.
Holding IL up to the moonlight, he
read the inscription, "Lig. Ammonia
Fort"
The bottle had been almost full
and five ounces of strong liquid am.
monia discharged upon the bears
eyes and nose must have been more
than enough to blind and strangle her
for some time.
No weapon could have been more
effective. and it was a bloodless vic.
tory besides.-FRANK LILLE POL