Don't hurry so. There's time, friend, To get the work all done; Before the world comes to its end, Just take some time for fun. What's all our living worth, unless We've time enough for happiness? my Don't flurry so. Just wait, keep cool! Your plans are all upset? Ab, well the world whirls on by rule And things will straighten yet, Your flurry and your fret and fuss Just make things hard for all of us. Don't worry so. It's sad, of course, But you and I and all Must with the better take the worse, And jump up when we fall— Oh, never mind what's going to be, To-day’s enough for you and me. > —New York Times. PHOTOGRAPHING BEARS {i 8 a In grafting apple trees one has to be very careful not to mix the scions. Otherwise you may have a tree or a row of trees intended for Baldwins mixed up with early fall apples, or thing else. It was from a mis- laced scion label that a row of fifteen joung seedlings, meant for White nter Pearmains, was grafted to Au- t Sweets at Clement Brooks's ap- farm, up among the Sierras in Cal- rnia. 8 it chanced, too, this row of Ss was on the extreme upper side the farm, where the log fence bor- pd the yellow pine growth which s the mountain side of the little v. That was about the worst possible for early sweet ap- which sinould be near the pro- 's house, where they can be ed from boys, squirrels, crows, hogs and other pilferers. No did these luscious sweets be- earing than all the wild-wood Ss in man's bounty took knowl- of the fact, and congregated Not only squirrels and birds, eer and bears came poaching. a matter of fact, bears are not numerous in that portion of the S. A grizzly is rarely seen . A few yellow or ‘‘cinnamon” rangs about the mountains. ck bears are more frequently met, but as frequently as in the State Maine. ; lement Brooks was a New Hamp- lire boy who had come into pos- assion of this apple-farm in the erras by way of a namesake uncle. is family in New Hampshire nat- felt a great interest in his wel- e, and a certain anxiety for him ter his uncle's dea.u, fearing that } was quite alone in a wild, remote a result of this solicitude at ime, Clement's older sister went out California during the following mmer to pay him a visit and learn iw he was prospering. ucretia Brooks was a school-teach- 5 but the summer vacation offered good opportunity for making the Pp. As she was also an amateur bot- pist and photograpiner, she antici- id much enjoyment from the tour, ap®. from the pleasure of seeing Clement. | The bears had been holding carni- val in that row of August Sweets for two or three weeks before Miss Brooks's arrival. Clement watched for them on sev- eral nights with a gun, and had slightly wounded one of the black fel- _Jows. One bear, too, had nearly | choked to death from sucking an ap- ple into its windpipe when the gun was discharged. Clement heard the i 1 making most distressing sounds as it ran off. They came back, however, either ' the same bears or others, in spite of the gun. Thaese apples proved a great \ attraction to them. A bear, like a man, enjoys variety €in his diet, and 1 eat almost anytning, from pin- d cherries to salt pork. That is Bne ~0f the secrets of his survival, perhaps. These were mostly black bears, al- though it is not easy to distinguish one species of hear from anotaer in the night. Clement had seen but on _ that seemed very large. : Clement was in the midst of this campaign against the bears when his sister came. She had brought her camera, and indeed was enthusiastic over the idea of ‘hunting with a cam- era,” instead of with a gun. When ‘she learned about the bears, she was / desirous of pootographing one or more of them in the act of robbing an ipple-tree. A photograph by flashlight of a group of bears at an August Sweet itree would be a notable one to send to a prize competition. The more Miss Brooks tanought of this the more en- thusiastic she grew. But the affair was not easily man- aged. To secure a good photograph it would be necessary to bring the ‘camera within thirty feet of the bears, and naturally the young lady was afraid of them. It occurred to her to ‘set the camera and the flasalight apparatus on a post near one of the apple-trees, and operate the shutter and light by the aid of long lines ex- tending to a covert behind the log fence. ‘I'nis project did not prove practicable when attempted, and the only other plan whic Clement could hit on to gratify his sister's whim "was to haul an apple-wagon out near the n of Sweet trees, and use ft @s a hiding-place from which to ope- | sate the camera. 7 A TWENTIETH CENTURY SER] MON teen feet in length, with sides four feet high, made for transporting forty boxes of apples to market at onee. The better to serve thelr present gur- pose, Clement covered the top ¢* it over with boards lightly nailed, aud made a peep-hole in the taiibon.d. The chamber thus formed inside the body permitted one to sit at ease on a low stool, and Clement placed the little lamp and cup of magnesium powder for making the flash on top of the body outside, With this by way of outfit, the two young people sat up several nights, watching for the bears. Lucretia was afraid to remain out there in the wagon alone, and Clement was obliged to go along, too. By the second night, however, Clement's interest in watching for bears that did not come Thad nearly vanished. He fell asleep at the front end of the wagon. But his sister maintained the vigil assiduously. She could sleep through the days; Clem- ent was obliged to work. Bears came to the trees at the far end of the row during the third night, but they were not near enough to be photographed. After this, Clement refused to spend the night in the wagon; he preferred his bed. But Lucretia persevered... She had by this time grown accustomed to her hid- ing-place in the wagon body, and she ventured to remain there alone. Clem- ent wimself considered wne place safe enough for her. He did not believe that a bear would go near the wagon. He slept with his window up, how- ever, On either the fourth or fifth night of her prolonged effort to “hunt wita a camera,” Miss Brooks fell asleep, perhaps for an hour or two. A con- siderable jar and rattling of the wag- on waked her suddenly. She looked out at the peep-hole. The night was starlit, and it seemed to her that those apple-trees were full of bears! Branches were cracking and apples were falling by the bushel! 'L'here were loud champing sounds, cough- ing, snufiling, and all the riotous com- motion of an ursine feast. For the moment our amateur pho- tographer was not much alarmed, but rather elated. This was just what she had watched for. In mervous haste she reached for her camera and made ready to work the flash-light. Just then, however, the wagon was jarred again, and she heard a shuf- fling noise close beside it. Could this be Clement? But on peering forth she saw a very large animal within an arm’s length of the peep-hole. Its great muzzle was raised to sniff the cart! Miss Brooks gasped in terror— wiereupon the animal rose upon its haunches with a low growl. This completed her consternation, for the creature loomed up much taller than the cart. It seemed to her to be eight, yes, ten feet tall, and so near that she smelled its breatn. She felt sure that at a stroke of one of these big, drooping paws it could have knocked fhe cart body to bits. Miss Brooks did what most young ladies would do under circumstances so startling—she screamed, or at- tempted to do so, but was so terrified that she merely made a faint sound. The bear snuffed repeatedly and went ambling round the wagon, evidently investigating those little, gaspy squeaks. By this time Clement had arrived on the scene with his gun. He, too, had been soundly asleep at the cabin, but waked, having heard through the open windows the sounds of ursine activity in tne orchard. He jumped up and putting his head out at the window to listen, distinguished his sister's little gasping cries. “My heart nearly flopped over,” so Clement wrote in a letter, “for I thought those hears were eating Lu- cretia up! I grabbed my gun and ran up there. At every step I could hear the faint little squeak! It was awful! I didn't expect to get taere soon enough to save much of her! There wasn't much left of her, to judge by the sound! “I ran along beside the log fence, and tnen I saw that tremendous big bear moseying round the wagon. Just as I got there he swung round on the upper side of it, so that he stood clear of the body, and I cocked both barrels and let go at him. I was wild with fear, for I thought that bear had eaten Lucretia. He looked big enough to eat a whole family. “The bear gave a yell and ran. The other bears left, too, when they heard tine gun. I could hear them leaping out of the apple-trees, swarming over the log fence, coughing up ap- ples, making a general stampede up into the tall timber. But I didn’t stop to listen to them, I ran to the wagon. * ‘Lucretia!’ I exclaimed, with a terrible sick feeling coming over me, ‘Speak, can't you? Are you alive ’ “And with that Lucretia put her head out. ‘Was that you woo fired, Clem? said she. ‘I am all rigat.” “She pretended to be so calm and not a mite scared that I was a little angry—I had been so frightened about her. ‘That was a pretty noise to make, anyhow,” said I. ‘You sounded like a little pig dying of colic!’ “She laughed at me. ‘You have too much imagination, Clem,” said she. ‘But I think you hit that bear; I seemed to hear something strike him!” “That was the end of our adventure for the night, and Lucretia said nothing more about taking flasi-light pictures of bears in apple-trees. I guess that she had had as much hunt- ing with a camera as she cared for. “Of course, as every one knows, it is easy to tell a great story as to the size of bears seen in the nigat; but In this case certain facts were ob tained later, In the latter part of October, a Cinnammon bear was trapped less than ten miles from my, place, and we have little doubt that it was the one I fired at. For this bear had a broken jaw which had not healed, and four marks as of buck: snot in his hide, “On account of his nearly useless jaw he had grown very thin, but the hunters who trapped him estimated his live weight at seven hundred. None of the mountain men hereabouts had ever seen a larger bear. They kept him over in the Yosemite Val. ley in a log cage for several months. His jaw did not heal, however, and at last he grew so emaciated that it became necessary to shoot him.'= Youth's Companion, MONOTONY OF BRITISH COOKING. Any Attempt to Break Up Established Course Ends Only in Disaster: Those who have eaten a great many English things will fully appreciate the American girl's strictures on the British table, After her observations on tea, she remarks: As to the other details of English diet, the American girl felt, after eight weeks’ experience, that mono: tony was its chief characteristic. Be- ing adaptable, she had not minded MEBs andy, tl eRe {Ly appreciated ihe grumbling of her fellow-Ameri- cans. English food is more than sub- stantial, it is solid, and it never varies, B® must be infinitely easier to run an English house than an Am- erican one, since it seems necessary only to supply a sufficient quantity of food and the man of the house will not complain that he had this or that dish yesterday or the day before, or the day before that. From his youth up he expects to have repetition, and probably would be resentful if he did not have it. Any attempt of the American to break up the established course only results in disaster, and it is the part of wisdom in England to begin the day with marmalade and end it with cheese, as all good English folk do. Even in lodgings, when a complaisant lady inquires, “What will you have for breakfast?” the invariable ans- wer should be “Fish,” or “Ham and eggs.” Marmalade and toast or rolls will appear as a matter of course, To be sure, one may substitute coffee for tea, but one is more fortunate who takes tea, for the English coffee is a poor thing even in the best places, and in cthers it is an abomina- tion. The eating of fresh fruit for break- fast is an American practice that is not favored in England. It is pes- sible to get it, but it is not easy, and it is expemsive. After a week or two of insistence, one will usual- ly fall back upon marmalade or jam, much as she may detest “sweets for breakfast.” There seems to be little discrimina- tion made in England between ham and bacon. To order one seems quite likely to result in getting the other. In fact, the American girl saw very little of what is in her country call- ed ham served for breakfast. Eggs almost always meet expectation, which is more than can be said for them in the American boarding house, To be served with fish at an Am- a week is a rarity. It seems a staple in England. The absence of hot breads is, perhaps, the most difficult English seem to eat even their toast cold, or nearly so, and to get on with- out any other pretence to hot bread. Luncheons, likely to be poor in all |i parts of the world, are only a shade worse in England than in America. An Englishman can take his cold cut every noon; an American demands variety and housekeepers have to ex- ercise great ingenuity in disguising |1 the remnants of the previous day's dinner, and in inventing new dishes that are not too expensive, Timber Wolf Caught in Indiana. armed with 3 i Indianapolis hunters, bird shot intended for the elusive quail, came across three wolves on the farm of John Oursley, about thirty miles from Indianapolis, yes- terday. By strategy: they captured one of the animals, a timber wolf as large as a setter dog. J. C. Clark and Jack Abrams sight- ed the wolves on the Oursley farm and they went after them, thinking they were large foxes. Two of the It was desired to capture the anis mal alive and, still thinking it a fox | ¢ one of the men went after Oursley, a blanket and an axe. A hole was chopped in the top of the log and a small stick was used in prodding out the wolf. It finally ran out of the with the blanket. A lively fight fol- lowed, and the three men finally over- powered the animal by choking it. They then tied and muzzled it se- curely. During the fight the men realized for the first time that they were struggling with a strong wolf and not a fox. The wolf was placed in a wagon and brought to the city. Clark said he would attempt to save the \ This apple-wagon had a body thir Sue rances said worked.” I'm doing it. came 2108s ever playing body-guard.” The visitor's eyes opened wide. “Yes,” laughed the other, “I'm the Czar fear of being bombarded and—things. I have to stay right with him every minute to when I feed him, I everything first poison him; you! ‘em out again. said TOYS. In strange and different And cannot think of thin I'm glad as glad can The doll that will not The little duck that ran And now can't even w I never ought to leave tk They're sensitive, you And just to comfort them I take them all to bed at ® the pleasant, shady cookies. Between bites ing Lady Claire a dress. quet and ball, go-a-visiting travel and guess-whats=-in- “Who's that striped littl out any hat on?” inquired suddenly. Sue Frances took anoth answered: ing or sweeping or doing she never plays.” worthy!’ “Well, honest she neve opposite side of her. It ache!” The visitor got up rather suddenly. “I guess I'll walk” she said; “s‘he needs a consti- take Lady tution.” But it was not of La She looked “No, thank you—I mean “0!” stammered wpe yeu'll beg my pardon. you swep “Why. I do; but I play a street. I'll tell the guess, so yodyguard, you know. The and he can't go out body-guard h have It's lot make those old hordes But' they will She sweep or Suddenly she “There's washing the di triumphantly. “Oh, yez, that's splendid Shipwreck, 1 call it. “Shipwreck?” the visitor “Yes, the dishes tumble animal's life and keep it as a peti boiling sea; waves always “Never plays? Sue Frances you. I to be sure that’s the way they do with the regular Czar, you know. I take little bites, and, when it doesn't poison me dead, I give it to the baby —the Czar I mean. play that!” had body-guard remembered a kind of work you couldn't play. All up and down the land I go With mother making calls, And sit in chairs so much too nigh halls, gs to say, And feel so pleased to start away. But when we come to home again, be To see the very oldest toys All waiting there for me— The horse with missing tail, the blocks, And all the soldiers in their box. The hose-cart with the broken shaft, talk, so fast, alk. They all are friends so tried and true Because of what they used to do. And every day when I'm away I know they miss me so. em once, know, a mite night. —Youth's Companion. THE LITTLE GIRL WHO PLAYED. The visitor and Sue Frances sat on piazza, they took long, straggly stitches in Lady Claire's sleeves; they thought they were mak: Since the visitor's arrival they had played cro- and school, mine. were really quite tired playing. e girl cross there, wheeling a baby carriage with- the visitor er bite and “Oh, that's the little girl who never plays. She’s always wheel- something; Tre- r. 1 guess you'd pity her if you lived on the makes me Claire to dy Claire's health she was thinking; she wanted to go a little nearer to the girl who never played and see how she looked. Across the street the baby carriage came to a stop as the proached. The girl who never played was smiling! erican breakfast table more than once | other little girls! “How d’ you do?” sthe nodded. visitor ap- just like I'm preity well, thank you,” murmured the vis- “You don't thing for an American to endure. Al-| itor in some confusion. ways at home he has hot rolls, muf- | look a bit different!” she added hon- fins, gems, biscuit, or some such | estly. thing, often with the addition of a “Me different?"—in wonder, special course of batter cakes, serv- “I mean because you won't ever ed with butter and maple syrup. The | play. I s'posed you'd look—" “Don’t ever play—me? Why I play all the time!” the visitor. O, 1 I thought t and—and | 11 the time I always take the baby out like this; what do you suppose I slay then? I was playing it when you, can't was You baby’s the alone for im. Then, to taste it won't s of fun to animals were some distance away “But—but you have to sweep a lot, and they scampered over the hills | gon vou?” questioned the visitor and escaped. The third wolf was |. io . chased Dy Caries setter dog, and “Course; and then I play I'm driv- the wolf, after a mile run, took refuge ing out the hordes.” in a hollow log. It held the setter “The—the what?” at bay until the hunters came up. “Hordes—of sin, vou know, My, don't I sweep ‘em out like everything? fly, I tell creep back, so next day I take the broom and drive That play's fun, too.” The visitor's eyes were getting very wide open indeed. end of the log and Abrams fell on it | “played” baby. never the shes,” she And as sure as vou live the other little girl nodded with glee. play!” she laughed. “I play that three times a day. zasped. into the are soap eating They 1 trips. gudsy on the tips, you know. I play a great ship has been wrecked, and I'm the lifesaving stationer saving the folks. The nice wihite dishes are the first cabin passengers, and the cracked and nicked ones the second cabins and the pans and pots the steerages. The saucers are the boys and the cups the girls, and the butter plates the little babies. It's the greatest play that is!” The visitor went back to Sue Fran- ces with a thoughtfil face. She had quite forgotten Lady Claire, who dangled ignominiously by one leg. Sue Frances was playing tea party; she had tea all ready. “Well,” she said, looking up from the little gold- and-white teapot, “don’t you pity her dreadfully—that poor little girl cross there that you've been a-talking to? Think of never play—" “She plays all the time,” the visi- tor said quietly. “I know, cause she said so. She has the splendidest times, sweeping and taking care 0 the baby and--you guess what next, {Bue Frances Treworthy! But you { can’t if you keep right on guessing till the tip end of forever. She makes a perfectly splendid play out of washing the dishes!” The cambric tea in the tiny gold- and-white teapot grew cold while they both sat gazing across the street with wonderstruck faces at the little girl who played all the time, while she patiently, cheerfully wheeled the ba— the Czar, 1 mean—up and down in the sunshine.—Annie Hamilton Donnell in Congregationalist. A DOG WHICH SAVES LIVES. Rags is a four-year-old dog, unm- kempt and ill-looking, but a heroic heart beats in his shaggy breast. Rags has saved more than forty lives. His field of service is the Klondike, where he and his master have winter- {ed for. several years. The Philadel phia North American tells of two of the dog's exploits. In the winter of 1901 a number of men belonging to the Pittsburg min- ing company were prospecting in Alaska. They lived in a little wooden hut, from which they went out in pairs to explore. They were away beyond any sign of civilization, and the weather was so severe that they endured a good deal of suffering. One day two of the men, out on an expedition, were caught: in a sudden and terrific storm. They started back for camp, hut the trail was rap- idly covered by the drifting snow. On and on the men plodded, each falling now and again, only to be roused from the death-dealing sleep and hustled on by his companion. At last both sank, and the snow drifted over them, The men at the camp, alarmed by the non-appearance of their comrades, started out to rescue them. Rags went along, too. Straight as an arrow he followed the trail, and before long a sharp yell told the party that their friends had been found. The two men were completely buried in the i snow, and help had not come one mo- | ment too soon. This was Rag’s first | exploit. | At another time he went out as the { leader of sixteen dogs which were | dragging a rescue team to relieve a { party of snow-bound miners. As the {team was plodding steadily along. | Rags suddenly gave a ery, broke from ihe traces, and bounded away. Think- {ing he might have found the trail, the | party followed, and by the time they had reached him, Rags had dug away enough snow to allow an entombed miner to crawl out. Rags has saved forty-six lives and made ‘several record-breaking rescue His badge of honor is a gold inscribed a list of collar on which is his deeds. Monkeys as Cashiers. “Talk about dummy directors!” sald a New York corporation lawyer just back from Oriental climes. “Why, on a recent visit to the East I saw monkeys who knew more about the value of money than most insurance directors. 1 saw apes employed in many of the business houses as casn- iers, simply because they have prov- ed their ability to detect counterfeit money better than human beings. Though on a pleasure trip to Japan I couldn't resist the temptation of trying for a little concession in Siam, and in the city of Bangkok I witness- ed this strange exhibition¥of siamian sagacity, and heard the explanation thereof. It seemed that three years flooded with clever counterfeits that store- rs were at their wits' end. Fi- hey noticed that pet monkeys, if given any of these discarded coins to piay with, would gravely bite the metal and throw it to the ground with disgust. Given good money, they would retain it. “The opportunity being given them of being official coin testers these monkeys have so developed the fac- ulty of discrimination between good and bad coin that mo one can com- peie with them.”—New York Fress. ago the country was such UNRESPONSIVE, Her marble brow 1 do admire, And ardent looks I dart, But ah, for me there is no five Within her marble heart, SPOILED IT ALL, Smoothleigh--1 agree with you en. tirely, Old Hunks—Shucks! Then what's the use of arguing! —Chirago Tribune, IS, OF COURSE. “How does the Senator take (his wave of popular indignation ugeinst him?” “He's resigned.” al “Has, or is? PRISON GATES, “l see they didn't { pieces at the opening Wonder why?” “Guess they were of ator might get a aay floral of Congress. » Sen. A MEAN “1 think I'll join a ‘shut in’ soci whined a woman who imagines that she's a hopeless invalid “l wish you'd join a shut-up soci ety’ was her husband's brutal re: spanse., MAN. THAT. pew neighbor is MUST DO Mrs. Subbubs— My a great borrower. Mrs, Citiman—And return anything? Mrs. Subbubs—Only my visits, does she never CRUEL GIRL. “This,” remarked Myr. Sappyhedd, “is my photograph taken with two French poodics. You recognize me, eh?” “I think so,” Miss “You are the one wiih the hat on, are you not?” Sulfuric. said A REFLECTION. First Hen—Mrs, Farmer hurt my feelings very much today. Second Hen—How? First Hen—She came here with an- other woman and said she thought = might have done better with an in cubator. REMARKABLE CHANGE. Visitor-—Your husband’s sojourn the country seems to have done ! a world of good. Mrs. Lapsling—Yes, indeed. 1 was fairly alarmed at Gerald's condition when we went there, and his present indelicacy of course, gratifies me ©x- » ‘Tribune, ceedingly.— Chic: EVEN POSSIBLE. “They say that the latest fad is to cultivate the ‘art of talking.” “That's encouraging. Maybe some day somebody’ll start the fad of culti- vating the ‘art of thinking’ '—Delioic Free Press. I'T NEVER FAILS. “These high-heeled ladies’ shoes of ours are not selling at all)’ complain- ed the junior partner, “and yet we guarantee them to please the wea rer.” “You are unacquainted with woman senior partner. the. wearers nature,” responded ik “Guarantee ‘em to 1 health.” HIS TIME TO GUFFAW. “Well, old Si Perkins, the feller wio wunst bought a gold briek, has been the laughin’ sto i 3 county fel twenty year, but his has come dat last.” “How's “He's township that ance policy.” that?” about the only hain't got a life man in the imsur- THE MERRY MINSTRELS. Mr. Tambo—Why does a human be- ing cross the road? Mr. Bones—I give it up, Mr. Tambo Now, why does a human being cross the road? Mr. Tambo—Merely to annoy the chaufteur. Mr. Bones—Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Falsetto will now sing, “I've Got a Senator A-Workin' Fer Me.” STATE OF AFFAIRS. “Your police and fire departments seem to hold cach other in supreme contempt,” observed the visitor Plunkville. “Well, yes, there is a little teeling of that sort,” acknowledged the native Plunkvillian. “You see our police got robbed about a month ago and a week later our engine-house burned down.” HE WENT. Enamored Youth—I would go to the uttermost ends of the earth for you. I— Voice (from the head of the stairs) —Would vou zo somewhere for me, young man? Youth—Certainly, ]—er——- Voice—Then go home, or out and sit on the curb; it is time that gir} was permitted to retire.—Houston Post, Sir, CHANGE HIS TUNE. “Well, I see they've cornered lin- seed oil.” “80? Guess that don't interes. me any.” “Linseed is the same thing as liax- seed, you know.” “Eh! Same thing as flaxseed! Why, my wife told me to bring home some flaxseed. 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