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;
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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<tob
fo
Mra
the 1 advised
1'd hetter
and Mr
Pre
Hun
iphia
KEEPING UP.
burial associations have cut
of funerals of late,
“These
the prices
they not?
“Yes replied
profits are
gingle funeral,
came to be the
as many funerals.”
undertaker
large
the
we have
Hounaton Post.
the
not BO
but
"our
gince auto
rage
A DESPERATE REMEDY
Agont—1 came to deliver your
“How to Play th# Piano.”
Lady--But 1 didn’t order any
book.
Agent (consu
Have you a next-door neighbor
Jones?
hook
on
such |
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named
Yes: is it for her?
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AMATEUR GARDENER.
Your husband is
the shoulder. He
doesn’t
THE
Mrs. Black:
straight out from
always calls a spade a spade,
he?
Mrs. White]
yesterday 1 was
though he did, + but
listening while he
I'm sure | heard him call it some.
thing else.-—Detroit Free Press.
SET AT EASE.
“They say my mogey is tainted”
moaned the expiring trust magnate.
“Who say so?”
“The people.”
“But your business partner and
your lawyer say that it is not”
“Then 1 die happy.”
Colorado holds the record among
the States of having 407 mountain
peaks exceeding 10,000 feet; thirty.
three of these are 14,000 feet and
over,
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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! Please,
let 6 D6 the: or 20 Sell He ease
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