BRUIN'S HAM WOES. r THE POOR OLD FELLOW HAS A HARD TIME OF IT. Tka Siberian Ptiinnli Trap film In Pit mil With Naoaee Incenlona Derlcee IVeect on an Aeewrate Know! tfffe of Dear'a Geaaral Character. The benr in Russia Is what the hull is In Spain Hie common enemy. Every body lookn upon it as the most prsiiHC worthy of actions to take a bear's life rhenever and wherever possible. Yet in pitoof this constant war upon his kind, bruin manages to live and to have a gay time. - . The Rusitmn bear is the common brown tear found in InrRe numbers In tho Ty renees, and in Rusnla and in Siberia especially, very numerous. This un wieldy and very crafty animal is omnivorous, which makes him a disagreeable neighbor for farmers and for anyone posaeeslug garden and table yard. When he Is young the bear lives ou acorns, chestnuts, walnuts, fresli fruits, roots, mush rooms, grain, eggs, worms, and even insects. His bill of fare is very varied, and he is always hungry. . As ho gets older he develop a taste for fresh ment, prefernbly that of human being. If he can't get a man ha will take a fat ng, but his decided pref erence is for man. Therefore, man is naturally and eternally nt wor with him. Tho chase of the bear has always been considered sport for sovereigns in Russin. Until a young prince has slain his fiixt bear he can not be considered to have shown his courage under arms. In Siberia the peasants and small farmers are perpetually looking out for bears, and are never hnppler than when chiming one or trapping him. In this latter sport they are especially ingen ious. Bear hunting is very profitable'. To free the neighborhood of bears means freedom for the Hocks, and less damage to the growing crops. Besides, bear's meat is considered as great a delicacy in Siberia as in our Western States. The manner in which bears are trapped in Siberia is amusing because it shows such accurate and profound knowledge of the nature and habits of Mr. Bruin. The dominant principle in the bear's character is excessive suspicion. As he is possessed of senses of almost miracu lous sharpness, it is decidedly difficult to get around him. If it were not for his besetting sin, his darling weakness, glut tony, the Siberian peasants would never get him into their clutches at all. Beehives are often robbed by bears, even when they are but a few yards from a peasant's cottage. The raspberry thick ets, w hich cover whole acres in Siberia, are always favorite haunts of the bears at tho season when the fruits are ripe. As may well be imagined, the bears do not pick the berries one by one. They sit down on their haunches, and clutch ing a great mass of bushes with their huge, hairy forepaws, they bite off great rtRsses of fruits and leaves and briars all once, at the same time keeping up a noise something like the purring of a monster cat, and expressive of their ex treme satisfaction. In these thickets the peasants dig deep pita, and garnish tho bottoms of them with very sharp wooden spikes, the blunt ends of which are driven firmly into tho ground. The pits are then artfully covered with broken boughs and leaves, o as to simulate the appearance of forest soil. As soon as a bear falls iuto one of these pits and is wounded on the sharp takes, he roars and growls so that he can tie heard for miles, and the peasants put an end to him with guns and spears. But of all the Siberian traps for bears, none is more ingenious or displays a more delicate and far seeing sense of combi nation than the "lasso and the block." A long cord, very strong and several yards long, is attached at one end to a huge log of wood, and at its other extrem ity a running noose is rigged and artfully concealed in the center of a mass of brushed leaves. This noose is so ar ranged that bruin, in order to get at a peculiarly tempting mess of raspberries, which his gluttonish eyes see not far away, must put his head through it. Tho noose falls loosely about his neck, and does not trouble him until he begins to move away, when the weight of the log of wood tightens the rope, and bruiu fluds that he can not breathe. After two or three angry trials to pull ahead, like a dog attached by a rope, when walking by his muster, the bear growls and fol lows back the rope until he conies to tho log. He picks it up and bites it, shakes it. fights it, throws it down, and starts off ngnin ; but anew the fatal Cord tugs at hi. windpipe, and his eyes are starting from their sockets. Twice or three times he goes back to fight the log of wood. Then finding that this does not help him, he takes up the log and carries it off in his arms or in bis forepaws. Then ho looks about for a high precipice or a lofty rock from which to throw the offending !og. The moment he finds one he pitches the log violently over, and is, of course, pvllod over after it and killed by the fall or so choked that he is easily captured. Another ingenious trick which rarely fails is the bringing of a very heavy block of wood, suspended by a cord from a hough directly in front of a beehive in the hollow trunk of a tree. When the tiear comes to rob tho hive he pushes away the block from the door of the hive and is surprised to find that it comes back and strikes him in the neck. This awak ens his rage. Anxious to get the honey he gives the block a terrible push, and of course it returns with all the inoro vio lence, and sometimes breaks bis skull or huocks out his teeth. It is taid thai bears sometimes fight with these swinging blocks for half au hour at a time. At l ist the block gets in a good blow, the bear is thrown to the grouud, where he is speedily dispatched by the peasants con cealed and awaiting the result of tho singular tree duel. Another and more cruel trap is com posed of a broad plank filled with sharp iron spikes. This is slightly concealed with grass and dirt. Bruin steps on it and finds his forefeet caught ; ho presses with bis hind feet to get away they are caught also; and, nailo.l to the plank, he is a lost bear. Ills: WAS A LITTLE TOO LATE. A Tala of Conjugal Infelicity In tha rlvanla Backwaads. I was riding along one Cf He niountnln ronds of northern Pennsylvania recently, and had got up into the hills about four miles from the railroad station at Goo tow d, when I met a wild looking man on horseback, with a bundle in front of him. lie was evidently a denizen of tho lum ber woods. He pulled up his horse when he met me, and exclaimed in anxious tones ! "Say, boss! Y' didn't meet a feller drivin' a mule toabuckbonrd wagon any whar on yer wav up, did v'?" "Yes, I did," I replied, for I had. "Were he gettin' along at a tol'ablo BtilT gait?" nuked the auxious woodsman. "Yen, he was, come to think of it," I replied. "Seem ee if he were goiu' to git thar, did he?" said the lumberman. "Oct where?" I asked. "ToOeetown." "There's no doubt about it," I said. "Were tha a woman with him, did y' notice f asked the man. "Yes, there was," I replied. "Crosseyed?" questioned the woods man. " I don't know about that. " "Mole on her nose?" "That's more than lean say." "Were the mule lame in the off hiud ICR?" "I think he was." "Didn't notice whether the woman were crosseyed, hey ?" "No." "Did the man have a yallor baird ?" "Yes j a long, yellow beard." "From w'at little y' see o' the woman, d'ye think tha were room enough on her Dose for a good sized mole?" "Well, yes, I think there was." "Did the mule wheeze consid'able on he Fpnn by y'?" "He acted to mo as if be might have a touch of the heaves; yes." " Couldn't Bw'ar the woman wa'nt cross eyed, could y'?" "No." " Backboard kind o' rattly in the spokes, au' actin' ez if a pint or two o' grease wouldn't hurt it?" "It seemed that way. " " Woman hev on a blue dress'u'agreen bat with a red feather in it ?" " I remember the green hat with a red feather. " " Were tha a gap in the buckboard'g dash, sumpin' like ez if a mule's heels mow t 'a' gone through it some time or other?" " Yes, there was a hole in the dash. " "But y' hain't dead sartin th't tha were A mole on the woman's nose?" "No." "Tha hain't no doubt, though, but w'at they was goin' to git thar?" " Not a particle. " "Man in his shirt sleeves an' one Callus?" " Yes. I remember that he was in his shirt sleeves aud wore but one suspen der." The anxious woodsman paused as if trying to think of something else to ask, but at lost said : "Y'll hef to 'scuse me stranger fer beiu' so kinder cur'ous, but mebbe y mowtn't know who them folks be?" "I haven't the least idea." " Wuli, the mule 'n' the woman V the buekboard is mine. The man is Sim Bilger. He's slopin' with the woman, V it's jUt my durn luck to be too late to ketch 'em, fer they've took the keers at Geetown ufore this!" "What! The woman your wife!" "Course!" "Well," said I, "it don't seem to me that I would go to much trouble to fetch such a woman back. " "Fetch her back! Great hoop pole! I hain't arter her to fetch her back!" "What were you in such hot pursuit of her for, then?" " Wull, it's this here way. Time she sloped with Bill Balls, a year ago last spring, she kirn back two or three weeks orterwards 'n' said she'd fergot some of her duds, 'n' she'd kim back to git 'em. I toP her whar she'd find 'em, but sho jist settled down to hum ag'in, 'n' were boHsiu' the clear in' same ez afore in less'n half an hour. She run things fer a spell, V then sloped with Sam Fletcher, the mule boss. 'Twa'nt long 'fore she dbkiv cred th't she'd fergot to take sumpin' else o' her'n, 'n' sho kim back togit it, 'n' first thing I know'd I were workin' fer her ag'in. Las' fall she cut sticks V dugout with Joe Fassett. "'Gosh!' I says. 'I hope Samanthy's mem'ry hain't ben bad this time!' I says. ' If she's fergot any thin' this trip I mownt as well move out. But sure as sap she'd ben fcrgitful agi, V 'twa'n't three weeks 'fore she kim pian cin' back hum arter sumpin' she'd left ahind her, 'n' me 'n' her went to workin' in harness ag'in. Now along comes Sim Bilger, 'n' Samanthy puts on her bes' bib 'n' tucker V slopes with him, V I'm too durn late to ketch 'em!" "Let em go!" I said. "What do you want to waste your time chasing up such cattle for?" " Let 'em go! " exclaimed the anxious husband. "Course I'll let 'em go! But here's a lot 'o things in this here bundle th't Samanthy's fergot! W'at I wanted were to overhaul her V give 'em to her 6o she wouldn't hef to come back alter 'em! Now she'll member 'em in a week or two, 'n eousarn it! she'll come home ahummin't It's just my durn luck!" And the disappointed husband turned his horse about and galloped discon solately away. Ed Mott, in New York Bun, - Win the Wenld lapport. A hard working woman was asked : "Madam, are you a woman suffragist?" "No, sir," was the answer; "I haven't time to be." "Haven't time? 1 Well, if jou had the privilege of voting, whom would you support?" "The same man I have supported for the last 10 years, " "And who is .: that "My husband.? Nebraska State' Journal. , McAwber I claim that more peoplo drink than do not. Heep And I say less drink. McAwber Thanks ; I don't ; care if I do. Biughair ton Leader. IIVMOR I OFFICIAL PAPERS. General flrntit'e Pan anil Mr. Lincoln's Dlapatrhaa to Ilia General. It liflS been semi-ofllcially recorded somewhere that General Grant is the ouly President who ever dared to perpe trate a pun in a stato paper, and that ho did it in ne of his messages when he said: "Agriculture is tha groundwork of our national prosperity. " President Lincoln's joking propensities are historic, and if he has left no message with a puu in it the Government files at least afford numerous illustrations of his inclination to give play to his humor. In preparing for the printer the manu script of the rebellion records the official!) of the War Department frequently run across letters and telegrams written In Mr. Lincoln's characteristic style, and altounding in wit, all the more surprising when the circumstauces under which the correaiondenee were carried on are re membered. In June, 1803, General Dan T. Tyler telegraphed President Lincoln from MartitiRburg that he and his com mand were besieged. The rresi lent Im mediately wrote this message in reply : "If you are liesieged how do you dis patch me? Why did you not leavo before being liesieged?" Tho following month General Thomas telegraphed: "Tho Union forces are now passing Carlisle" (Pa). To this mes sage Mr. Lincoln replied: "Lee is now passing the Potomac faster than tho forces you mention are passing Carlisle. Forces now beyond Carlisle will in my unprofessional opinion be quite as likely to capture tho man in the moon as any art of Iee's army. " A prominent g ueral on another oceiwion telegraphed Mr. Lincoln that the head of 's army (Confederate) Is at burg and the tail is on the plank road near town. " To this tho Presi dent replied: "You say tho head of 's army is at burg and the tail nt town. If this be true the animal must le there somewhere. Can't you break his back ?" When the President and every member of the administration were apprehensive that Early would succeed in marching into Washington, Mr. Lincoln sat down by the side of his telegraph operator aud in a telegram to the commanding geu oral of the Union forces explained by the Rule of Three how it was possible to keep tho Confederates from reaching tho capital. New York Sun. Street DrlTlng In Parla. The noise of the streets in Paris would eouse an Americau to fancy himself at home on the Fourth of July. The average Parisian is no more to be trusted with a whip than he is with a locomotive whis tle. From dawn till dawn tho cracking of cabmen's whips makes the air tremu lous with resonant agitation. Every man who drives a horse carries a long whiplash, and cracks it incessantly. Crack, spat, spatter, spatter, crack, crack, crack, go the whips in a never ending chorus around you wherever you walk, and apparently in your apartment when you try to sleep. If you want to imag ine what it sounds like, just fancy every third or fifth man in New York going about firing giant torpedoes all day and night. These terriblo inflictions, the drivers, are quite picturesque. They wear red waistcoats as a rule, aud inva riably sport tall hats of some shiny ma terial that looks like patent leather. Their hat bands are often of metal silvered or gilded. They are a pestiferous lot, as noisy with their mouths as with their whip lashes, and though I had no quarrel with any I heard of or saw quarrels between them and their fares on all sides. They have no silly scruples against a battle of tongues with a woman, and the Ameri can ladies in Paris were often quite ter rorized by these noisy malcontents.' There are few, if any, hansom.1) in Paris, tho small opon barouche being the fa vored public conveyance. To see a myr iad of these flitting about at night is like looking at a festival of lanterns. In places Paris is brilliantly lighted by masses of lights, always gaslights; but in the open places, like parts of the Champs Elysees, whore the foliage flings dense shadows, tho lamps of the cabs produce a beautiful effect. 'Buses aro pleuty, but lest the driver should fail to make the necessary amount of noise with his whip and voice he is roenforcod by the use of a horn fixed beneath his foot board, aud worked by a sort of bellows process. Au expert driver is therefore uble to make three sorts of noises at once. In Paris the public vehicles are too few and too slow, Paris is as far behind Lon don in means of public conveyance as London is behind New York. Harper's Weekly. Tha Bohemian. We often read of some person who "leads a Bohemian life." What does it mean? Quite a history is suggested by the word Bohemian. The first gypsies who reached Paris 500 years ago or so came from Bohemia. They wandered around without settled residences, and in time any man or woman who seemed to have no regular way of living was called a Bohemian. A Bohemian nowadays is a person who doesn t do things the way everyone else does them. For instance, the man who eats many 60 cent table , d'hote dinners is considered a Bohemian ; a woman who smokes a cigarette is dreadfully Bohemian ; all newspaper men aro Bolu in urns, because they never get to bed until duylighl, and take breakfast in the afternoon. And, furthermore, no Bohemian calls himself so, any more than a newspaper man calls himself a journal ist. New York Sun. Voltaire said of an apothecary that his employment was to pour drugs, of which he knew little, into a body, of which he knew less. "First impressions are not always cor rect," said the printer as he yanked " section of type out of the galley he proved. It takes an unusually good swimmer nowadays to float a loan. Boston Herald. The spidor is the original business cen ter. Scranton Truth. Thousands of Women . m t, Testify, from personal knowledge and experience, that as a simple, reliable cure for female complaints, Lydia E. PinkhanVs Vegetable Compound is unequalled. Mrs. Mary A. Alley, Lynn, Mass., says: "I suffered from womb trouble, mis placement, ulceration, leucort licea, etc. After using a few bottles of Lydia E. Finkliam's Vegetable Compound, I recovered entirely." '- AM Drurrtitt tN It. er twit hy mult, In form of nil, or Lottficre, on teceiMl of 0 1 .OO. 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