Show I 1 who was I 1 I 1 who t by louise 31 comstock DEVIL JUDD TOLLIVER nt dev EVIL john fox for jr called him in the trail of the lonesome pine devil judd tolliver Tolt lver but all up and down the borderland of kentucky from the dig big sandy to the cumberland and far into the blue ridge mountains of virginia he was known as end dad bad john wright glit straight shooting son of the hills a bad man to pick a quarrel with if you doubted that the lanky old man who died just a few years ago at the age of ninety had earned that ominous title you had only to look at the thirty odd notches on his gun or at wrights cemetery a little plot so called because cad bad john had filled more graves in it than any other oilier causa cause it Is only fair to give credence to wrights claim that all of his bis killings were in tue the cause or of law and order or at least under circumstances under udder which somebody being bound to be killed justice was with the deepest eye and the straightest aim put cut fighting was his second nature during the civil war var he served first as scout for morgans raiders on the confederate side was captured arid and imprisoned at old fort smith and on his release joined up with the union army and fought with it through to the end of the war ile he was quite a family man too several times a husband and father of over thirty children whom he kept track of in his own mind by the ingenious device of associating them with their mothers maiden came alice wright the original of june of the novel for instance was a harmon II armon when john fox foi jr knew wright he owned acres of land in lonesome cove all except the burial ground which held his ancestors back to the days of daniel boone wright later sold out for a ridiculously low price to a coal company 0 THE TEDDY BEAR T THE HE teddy bear essential to every nursery twenty years ago and still a popular toy was of course named for teddy roosevelt but how a president of the united states became associated coated with nith a humble little stuffed bear Is just another proof of the so called power of the press about in a title litle village in germany a crippled dressmaker named margarete concocted out of leftover scraps of material a little stuffed bear which she presented to a chit child d of the the bear prove proved d so that tier her brother richard st elff eye to business hai had other bears manufactured and d put t on the market markel the first stuffed bears bear sold in this country were imported in 1002 by borgfeldt co 00 that same fall president roosevelt went hunting in mississippi soon the ever watchful press informed the country that its president had refused to shoot a small bear which had bad been captured and brought into camp for him to kill clifford E F berryman cartoonist proceeded to make the incident subject for a cartoon in which roosevelt gun in one hand and the other raised traffic cop fashion as if I 1 to prevent such a deed stood with h his I 1 is back turned to another man leading a tiny bear on a rope labeled drawing V the line in mississippi the cartoon 0 took the country by storm cerry berry man subsequently adopted the bear as mascot for or all of his roosevelt cartoons and margarete stellas stuffed bear was soon being sold as teddye or the teddy bear 0 SAM PATCH F THE name of sam patch became I 1 IF several generations ago a synonym for boasting cocksure fool foolhardiness hard ness it was not so much because of what he did as because of the way he did it IL sam was a brave stunt jumper to be sure from leaping boldly oft off bridges into the stream below and from the tops oi of windmills he advanced in his art to such a point that he be leaped successfully from a shelf of rock midway between the highest point on goat island and the water at niagara falls meantime of course he also advanced in fame and fortune from a humble cotton spinner in raw paw tacket t R I 1 in which place he was born in to a public figure drawing down pod good compensation and followed by admiring dI Ig throngs wherever he went sam waxed in confidence and ambition at length in november 1829 0 he faced an excited audience gathered to see mm him leap the genessee falls on the genessee river near rochester N ST and said napoleon Nn was a great man and a great general tie he conquered armies and nations but jump tile the falls of the Con essee that was left for me to do and do it I 1 ft and sam patch leaped to his own death proving that even famous stunt jumpers sometimes must meet their waterloo a hit 1932 western newspaper union |