Nenana a —-—— A Home Geng I turned an ancient poet's book, And found upon the page: ®Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor tron bars a cage.” Yes, that is true, and something more: You'll find, where'er vou roam, That marble floors and gilded walls Can never make a home, But avery house where Lovo abides And Friendship is a guest, surely home, and home, home, For there the heart can Dr. Henry van Dyke, in Life in America, ei ba eaeha5esas A Badly ShocKed Bear RRS ES RSL 5a5e5 eS dn shethoh The word elect: prophetic gleam eye mist. And before he discourse he is almost the day when will make it sweet ‘Is rest Country 25252525 "eg chebedhdh as y | icity of finishes sure Lo to the econo bis speak transmission onvey the ijncalcu forni mountain that will spring up along broad, low. One fulfliment of t mist's dream may now seventeen-mile transmission conpects the cas =des Canon with a bustling littl the San Joaquin Valley powerhouse at the cascades tric current flasshe through shinymering wires which follow canon for a distance of five miles, then cross a rugged to the plain below, But the mind of company’s Hneman, with considerations of the omic era which his calling hezald, or. indeed, w of any kind, unless glad consciousness that his of brawn and muscle were suffi to any of the gereies the day conld have in His joyous good healt] the prospect of a the cascades over Stiasiing rain iiithesome st wiaigtle Ai noon, mountain, of improved possible lable tor power of Cali- as ‘ents as if fertile valleys 1¢ econo the that partial he seen in line Of From the the and mountain spur Dan the not Maloy was burdened econ- might great We may ient meet eme *P Of some distance the mer / that geome | to Sitting down in oak, he fastened on his ascending, however, it to him that thers was no use ing on an empty stomach, ing his lunch finner, Not twenty there was a ing, of which he started after @st tiokled meri a near brushy gully "Ven he disturbed old bear and hs whom were cass of a sheep Now an intrus pecially if the meal is of raw, and the bear old burdened with the care of little Ones, iz a 4p on inspection of a huge Hmbers. Be- occurred work. open fare nee the lee fore of and hegian eat basket, he ing five yar from him family party also lunch inaware until he from the spring ds by an all of the two cubs fon ating easing eag on meal-time, es- bleed. and cross two of ion at ig mea and prec fensive and imme The ious most breach of ursine vas in the cause of an jiate and f : rush. lineman scrambled from the bis shoulder no match in a oreature. He had, ¢ ld#a that people found safety in climbing a “Right in my line,” he making a dash for the which he had What was his what he coopsids soe the hear with the alacrity young lineman scram end of his limb. As he slid recklessly the bending to him beforas the bear's approach nearer the ground, his fall a few feet and giving that much more distance to des™end His artifice nearly cost him his life He dropped to the zround at what he considered the atrategic moment, but of his two hundred pounds, the delicate poise of his pursuer struggled wildly a moment for her bhal- ance, hung for a moment long, hairy arm, and a wrathful roar to the ground, this case mT trad up the glance over him that he was tawny Spring, but d rR ASST with thi _pagy, story-hook irsaed generally tres big oak under dinner gaining in his caten surprise, on red a “shinning” up ai of a squirrel bled safe perch, ter him The ut to the down over it occurred dropping to hang till bent his branch thereby lessening outer houghs, at the end of a floundecol wit Noth- the limb and his advantage in ing squarely on his feet, In the moment thus accorded him | he sprang for the nearest pole, for tunately only a few feet off, and climbed it in a panie, made for the pole he never knew, unless, indeed, because It wag the nearest thing at hand and “right in his line.” Anyway, he found himself hanging on the under side of the crossarm, entirely out of breath and wildly won- dering what next to do. The hear was ascending the pole, clumsily be- cause it wag rather slim for her ample hugging capacity, but surely, neverthe- loss, Dan drew himuelf up, and finally sat astride of the crossarm among the deadly live wires. By this time ithe temr had reached the telephone: line strung on each side of the pole, about eight feet below the jineman, real repulse, She was afrald of ‘hn wires; they looked too much like & trap, However, after a long, angry hrs so i gare at the figure astride the oross. arms, she waive{ this point, and mak- ing a few cautious dabs ath her paw, began to ascend aga'r. But mechanical difficulties terfered. The wires stoutly resisted her progress: besides, the tapering pule afforded a very Hd for the Upward struggle. While she was wrestling with Ths CHlemma, the twe baby bears came rollicking up, squatted on their haunches while gazing with expectant relish at the fresh meat perched on the cross-arm, then elambered eagerly after the mothe: It looked to Dan Maloy as if a whole bear family, But at the moment of the gloomy reverie, and just the old mother bear succeeded in wrenching off an in. sulator thereby enabling her to wrig- zle under one wire and over the oth. er, Dan's face lighted up with a swift relief. It had occurred to him that a damp bear on a wet pole would a most excellent conductor for now in- poor h he were treed by as : lectricity He began ind in a few small fumbling In his moments wire ins 1 » os i ® the one ilation from into a hook the line- handling ripped aire scared Dy man instinctive dread of clad in rainy weather frist CUICILY res Ww But I of the bear With the fastened the 4% no pause on eves jangling legs, she working her have nerved any- out a angrily on his and surely This would act! Pull from an lowly way dypward one to ing mn inner the sulated himself moisture handkerchief Dan wrapped it at gripped it with thus doubly the fluid so He then ductor ransmission line All this happened in time taken ut wire, and his prone low 100k e improvised Ove the wire of the a great in the done a than is 1 Nor was it 00 soon: for at the mnect short in a whit making the « jon the bear the pole swung the arch- Dan upward wrigel I t against her ais connector There Arms bled hing down through the telephone wires, and on her way to of the plete Up al pole the ground family was wove on the © laughed uproar well' he shouted stand, united they downfall hear rOSS-Arm, the lineman ously. ‘Well! well! i they bear lay Then For a moment the old feebly pawing the air strugg sitting position, HE 3 world with an 80 led to a offspring children!” off In an- and her Good mie lineman the ning the hing forward omfort, ware that on their istance. and side, re ir they sale ocking their head garded their zically, as Lod mother quiz he; mmwonted erity and Dan Now “the laugh ter tal hit The this mind gigh t the S001 much herself for a while Malos i 0 recall Dan astride pon distance shuffla un wover , her she began to tif, SOON assuming ho sarlike stride that final! terminat- od In cuareg ipon the nan But small affakr. and top Dan was re he anothe line. big bear up a laborious d the This of a necessarily a the charge is long before she near ady to receive he approached the covered struck at the proffered live her wet paw, and fell ground, a loose, quiver 4 nle wit} limpiy to ing Dan babs sof, fallen scended 1 the heap did not laugh bears rushed forward, low sounds sought to mother Silently pole now, for and with rouse Dan de- the at the prostrate and bremen.ier himself had at noon, when the irg been and hal moon was shin. animal how he down once ont of it" ing “In case struck she does” he | wire from his | the angry Procaring a coil of sack, he gently removed little bears and bound the legs firmly together Then for hour or more he worked abstractedly at the wrecked telephone line, When this was repaired to his satisfaction he sai down on a rock, gazed helpless- ly at the now quernlous baby bruins and their limp mother, until with a sudden desperate burst, he ex claimed; | | i | | bears?” The utilitarian mind would have been estimating with great satisfac tion their market price as circus ex- hibits; but Dan, who was no finan cler at all. dismissed this though* with a curt: “let ‘em live; they seldom fight if they're let alone, and never do any sheep occasionally, one that has got to die, anyway.” “The trouble is, after a long pause though,” he added, “if 1 turn her looso might think she owns the Mne, and claw me ribbong some dark night when I'm out here looking up a hort.’ But merry hastily, bear, she to he pondered, his back He rose xamined the old warm, and with she had shown csently, no Citi and closely ex She was still igns of life than pi nile more before, laugh that threw into a defensive » hurried to his lunch-basket, the screw-topped can that had held his coffee, put into it five or six pebbles, and fastened a stout twine the ring which served az a handle Then turning and searching he remarked, “Old lady, spect to electr and back will bles. He i « ing into a hears Bursting the little bristle took out to bear tail, the her comic to prostrate stub of a gravity: all kinds of re has the nerve these days of firearms; start alr ba for with I've bear family feity and epeating I'm going give vou a into high ranges, where the you aud your got who in for a raise a to be better for end of the tail, cut the and hastily the fr round her bound her legs, knotted of tightly wiree that money the sale but up regret, lived to need the obtained for family's {reedom : he has only one at the pressure of busi- him to remain and {rom a distance the start high range For merely viewing the extraordinary marked her fi he has laughter family of bears and thetr Youth's Companion. Dan has might h the bear to this date and that is th ness did not allow ave view safe ‘for t through ght that tracks ver the exodus, - HOUSEKEEPNIG IN MEXICO. An American Woman's Experiences in the Land of Manana. American women who com- the trials and tribulations of in the United States could in Mexico a while they would complain no more. This is a very old town, tucked up against the side of a huge mountain The wonderfully beauti- ful, changing colors the sky, the resplendent verdure the tow ering mountans, the red tile roofed, pink, ‘white and blue houses are eqial- ly fascinating with the quaint plectur old churches, with their ever iis bel if plain of housekeeping the ive Spanish ever of of clanging And th in this are some are all going, with from the mountains, and hide In the early days of hailed strapped to his Mexicans certainly ear splitting din of town 5.000 persons there thirt and when they echoes sounding one wanis to run Las 13d the hells of vy bells sojourn my by a with & man hasket back ‘Do 3 wish some nice is It fresh?” 1 asked, and earMmestinesy 8 of this was in November! M yvasherwoman very strong soap and the cloths on large, fiat fountain The ned soft water and strong sun the clothes most beauti colored garments as well ones, One arrive with bright, one in white then filter, drinking Pending the arrival of a reg: fliter, we procured a sugar mould, the larg Sugar are in, at haciendas. It le hollow, shaped, clay hrough which water will per , and we placed it on a frame in the draught would you utiles. he re plied ali ‘Si And thi Senora, it is year." at uses rubs siones at the public como renders all fully white, white may bat as Colors quite ithed We boll, our ular eo cones of the as cone liway, where oo] having bo er, 1 filled the cone, time, 1 asked maid to filtered water. She van apear with a pitcher water I exclaimed ails the water is it Keen it Altser BOM cooled and, af siled and wat due Our bring some ished soon to dark oozy “Why, what from the filter?” “8i, =i, 1 dipped it right out of the and that cone leaks water all day long. Senora, causing me much bother to be emptying the pitcher and filing the cone 3ut then they do most things back ward When they wish to beck: on ofie to come, they motion one away The freshiy ter of here bring to our doore ages, stil at three cents aplecp these are values in Mexican which is worth Ralf as much All of the fruits and vege tables are cheap and plentiful the year round in this locality: figs, dates |and peanuts also, But our greatest problem is in the As we get no ice, we must slaug. ‘tered meat. This Any part of a natives laid course, eat is tough, {reshly but cheap. don't get steaks ard roasts, but any part the butcher is down to when we arrive. Our milk is brought in an earthen jar, right from the cow, and, in spite stray spider or is good milk. Taxco {straw or two, York Sun. In Greece, after a prisoner has been sentenced to death, he has to walt two vears before the execution can take place. Japan gets 188,000 recruits yearly for her regular army. LIFE'S TITTLE PLEASANTRIES MAN f him him thi THE AVERAGE Yot who'y seen a trac Seen the Since gan? Though all talk about the Who can point the Nobody knows him, Our friends rank much hig he you know, enemies the real face of his career on planet bo chap out chap? can. than 50 nobody her does, Our rank, on whole, far below, And as for ourselves—let is 11 man it to That } lan ue, What doesn’t leave you not veterious Homo Ignotus the Average Man? Of New York Times OTHERS yi hy on thi HERE WERE cornet-player enduran remarkable agreed the ‘But it's nothing compared boarders Toledo Blade FOR HIM my daughte: ONLY ONE wed + “why, she's yvoungst ried, however “Oh, that's daunted: wanted ALSO TOUCHED wife dropped today and old man, 100; can’ Standar "TASHIONABLE FLOWER PRICE Weary THE the said people do not i AMENDED Hunter's married now 1 preparing to send we'll have address Mr. and Hun sald $ ou! bride 4&> Loot oh ar a Acari ® free whother nt able, Grn ics. Handixook « wn Pate geerrey {or mew Woy a I ila taken th rough Munn & rece cud motice. without charge, *u the "Scientific American, rir fl lastiratad weekly, largest ofr ANY soientife fournal, Terme. 83 a hs, $L A han farses yo or Toadtrtree gn PRINCE'S KNOCKOUT Mystery Solved When Montenegrin Was Caught Stealing a Bracelet. BOUQUETS Under the high sounding name of Tschilindro of Montenegro gant person has made a distinct impression in the outskirts of Parisian society Well dressed, handsome and agreeable. he successful with the women, and es] with wealthy English and American women, whose acquaint ange he specially cultivated One of the Prince's delicate atten. tions was the frequent presentation of beautiful bouqiyets {op women upQn whom he called or whom he mai in rince was pecially it came to be noticed that usually bouquets the recipient was seized with a fainting fit or sinking gpelf Naturally the Prince was the first to offer his services and assist the stricken lady {0 a private room It also happened that after such seizures the victim was apt to find herseif short on jewelry One lost a& bracelet, another a necklace, an- Search of the local- ity of the fainting spell gever result- ed In the recovery of the lost arti- cle, but no suspicion seems ever to have attached to the Montenegrin noble At last one evening about two weeks ago Prince Tschilindro was a | Buest at a musicale given in the as- sembly room of a Parisian apartment hotel. A lady to whom he had been paying marked attention was one of the performers At the conclusion of her piano solo the Prince stepped forward to offer congratulations on her skill and as he did so presented a beautiful bou- juet of Alpine violets. The usual re- sult followed. The lady smelled the and immediately showed She stood up tottering to get out of the crowded room, whereupon the Prince sprang to her side and sup- ported her as she withdrew. Unfor- tunately the hostess followed and caught the Prince outside the door in the very act of disengaging the lady's diamond bracelet from her arm. He was arrested on the spot and the effects of his bouquets were explained by the discovery that they were all impregnated with a power- ful narcotic. Police investigations, the Gaulois reports, revealed the fact that the Prince was a gypsy of international ootoriety named Bunskies. TO TELL MAMMA. Little Sophia has just been In- formed that she has a little Mater. “Oh, how lovely! 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