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Bear Killed by a Fanner's Wife.
THREE boys were hunting rab
bits on the Weaver farm,
near tlie Wind Gnp, in Monroe
County, Pennsylvania. They
' started a rabbit. It ran into a fodder
stack in an old cornfield. One of the
boys went to the stack to kick It and
scare the rabbit out. The other two
stood ready with their guns to shoot
It when it jumped out.
The boy kicked. The rabbit jumped
out on one side, but neither boy shot
It, for on the other side of the stack
a big bear tumbled out and surveyed
the youthful hunters in astonishment
The rabbit got away; so did the boys.
They came ac >ss Farmer Weaver
In the course of their flight, and paused
long enough to tell him about the bear
they had disturbed in the farmer's
1 ifodder stack. Farmer Weaver hurried
away to find .Tir.i Wagner, the bear
hunter. Jim lived just beyond the
field where the bear had come out of
m the stack and scared the three boys,
\ but Farmer Weaver took a wide cir
cuit around the field and came to
Wagner's house from the far side.
When he got there he found that Wag
ner was out hunting.
Farmer Weaver left Wagner's great
ly disappointed, i ad had not got as far
as the road when Mrs. Wagner saw
liim tearing back and into the house
and slamming the door behind him.
"The bear is ct uiln'!" he cried.
Mrs. Wagner In iked out of the win
dow, and, sure enough, the bear was
slouching leisurely across the door
yard, headed tow d the garden. Wag
ner's wife seized her clothes-pounder,
a heavy block* o:' wood, with a long
upright handle fastened in it, used for
pounding clothes u the wash. Armed
with this she ru ;cd from the house.
I took a short cut around and caiuo out
A ahead of the 1 lr. Bruin stopped
when he saw her and put up a savage
front, showing h teeth and snarling
nnd snapping his aws. Mrs. Wagner
was not turned from her course by
the fierce demons; ration made by the
bear, and she ndv mod rapidly toward
him, her formidable weapon raised
above her head, ready to fall upon the
bear when she got within reach.
The bear, seeing that lie had not
frightened his enemy, and evidently
not liking the appearance of the up
lifted clothes-pounder, turned and
phufllcd quickly back toward the house.
Mrs. Wagner had not stopped to shut
the door when she rushed from the
house to intercept the bear, and the
latter, seeing it open, nnd perhaps im
agining that it promised him refuge
.within, made straight for it.
Farmer Weaver, in his excitement
wtv.d astonishment at the sudden niove
| mont of Wagner's wife against the
bear, had stood still by the window
watching tlie proceedings outside, and
had not thought of the open door.
When he saw lb • bear approaching the
house lie moved and started for the
bear. The bear was so close, then,
though, that Weaver did not venture
to go out of the door, and, not even
stopping long enough to shut It, he
rushed for a door at the other side,
made his escape from the house nnd
in his haste left that door open behind
him. The bear entered at the one
door, but Mrs. Wagffer was close on
his trail, nnd he hurried right on
through and out of the door at the
other side of the house, Wagner's
wife, with her weapon still aloft, close
behind him. Farmer Weaver had run
toward the barn and had nearly
reached it when the bear went hurry-
N *lng out of the house. Weaver looked
f over his shoulder, saw the bear headed
\ straight In his direction nnd only three
rods away; got the barn door open
and rushed inside, closing the door bc
. hind him. There was no fastening to
the door and it would not stay shut,
and Farmer Weaver made double-quick
time up the ladder leading to the hay
mow.
There was a high fence to be climbed
whichever way the boar turned, un
less ho turned toward his pursuer, nnd
that did not seem to be the thing ho
wanted to do. He would not have
time, either, to scale the fence before
his enemy would be upon him with
that ponderous weapon. Whether the
bear reasoned that way or not, he
chose to take the chances of entering
the barn and he did. Mrs. Wagner fol
lowed him so close that he had got
only a little way up the ladder lending
'to the mow, and with one sweep of
J lier clothes-pounder she knocked him
back to the floor. At the
same moment Farmer Weaver got the
mow window open, dropped from it
to the ground and hurried homeward.
Before the bear could gather himself
from the blow Mrs. Wagner had given
him she followed it with another which
crushed liis skull, and when Jim Wag
ner came nome from his hunt, an hour
or so later, he found a nice, fat bear
lying dead in the barn.
M's. Wagner had only laughter for
the manner in which Fnrmer Weaver
had acted as she related how she had
managed to chase the bear down and
kill him, but when the farmer sent
word over the next day that as the
bear was started out of his field he
would expect a share of it, Mrs. Wag-
Oer got angry.
' "Jist you go back nnd tell Tote
Weaver te come over here and get his
share!" said she to the messenger.'
"Jist you tell him to come over here
end git it. that's all!"
Whether Ihe message was delivered
or not they don't know, but Farmer
Weaver didn't come.—Ed. Mott, in the
New York World.
Imi>r<'K4iiiK Seamen.
One of tile causes of tlie War of 1812
was the Impressment of Americans to
serve on British ships. The practice
was so extensive tlint when an English
ship came to an American port able
bodied men hid in disguise for fear of
being seized.
John Bull at that time claimed the
services of every British sailor, wheth
er the man had ever voluntarily en
tered the Navy or not; and if the sailor
could speak English he was assumed
to be an Englishman and forced to
serve. No doubt many of those who
were impressed were really British de
serters; but many others were Amer
ican citizens, and the compulsion to
serve on British ships was a wrong.
The diary of Captain Hoffman, of the
Royal Navy, which has been published
under the title of "A Sailor of King
George," contains a story of masquer
ade which must have been amusing
from a British point of view.
Hoffman had been sent to a house in
Jamaica where able-bodied seamen
were reported to be in hiding. When
tlie party entered the house they found
three slovenly females sitting by a
table darning stockings. Near by was
a cradle covered with a net. In the
bed, also covered with a net, was a
woman lying ill. Still another woman
was near the bed, persuading the wom
an to take the contents of a bottle
of red mixture.
The lieutenant nssured them that he
entered with reluctance-upon the duty
he had to perform, but that as he had
information that seamen frequented
the house he must search It.
A coxswain who had been examin
ing the features of one of the women
at the table, exclaimed: "If I ever
saw my old shipmate, Jack Mitford,
that's he!"
Another British sailor whispered that
the baby In the cradle was the largest
he had ever seen. Thereupon the floor
was locked and the officers Insisted up
on knowing wno the women were.
Hoffman discovered upon the sick
woman a close-shaved chin. The dying
person was a fine young seaman about
twenty-six years old, who, when he
was detected, sprang out of bed, and
joining the others, attempted to resist.
Then, seeing that they were outnum
bered, they surrendered.
The infant in the cradle proved to
be a fine lad sixteen years old.
"This was a good haul, eight sea
men." remarks Hoffman. "We got
them without accident to the boats."
A Duke's Willi ltlcln For life.
Among several incidents of "The
Boyhood of 'The Conqueror,' " related
by Adele E. Arpen in the St. Nicholas,
is this account of a midnight flight:
One of these shooting matches nearly
cost him his life. He was about twen
ty years old, when, In early summer
of the year KMT, he went, with a large
train of friends and attendants, to
shoot at Valognes. In those days
there were great forests covering the
hills and valleys around Valognes, and
as these forests were full of game,
the young Dulse and his friends ex
pected to enjoy themselves. They
formed so large a party that they had
to separate and lodge where they could
in the town. This left the Duke with
only a few servants in the castle.
In the middle of the night he wa<
suddenly awakened by a loud knock
ing, and the shouting of some one
mounting the stairs to his chamber,
lie listened and recognized the voice
of Gallet, a strolling buffoon, whom he
knew very well, and to whom he had
frequently given little trifles.
"Fly! fly!" shouted the buffoon.
"William, thou art lost! Fly, sweet
friend! Thy murderers are coming!
I saw them. Fly, or thou wilt be
taken!"
William had been through too many
dangers, and had had too many narrow
escapes to neglect such a warning. He
seized the first horse he could find,
leaped upon It bare back, and rode
for his life.
Not a moment too soon. He had
scarcely galloped out of the courtyard
before several armed men rode hur
riedly into it. Oallet met them at the
eutrance. He had seen them a short
time before from his hay-loft at the
inn, when they were preparing for
I heir murderous errand, and whence
he had run to warn his "sweet friend"
William. He knew them and their
purpose. "Ha, lia!" he cried, with mad
glee, "you're late, my sirs; you're late!
The Duke is gone! William Is offl
Your stroke has missed! But, hark ye;
bide a bit. He will pay you! You
made him pass a had night—he will
make you see an ill day." And then he
capered derisively about them.
llow Koonevelt Killed Boar.
Standing on the porch of the hunting
lodge at Corbin Park, In Vermont,
President Roosevelt told the story of
how he killed a wild boar. "I fired but
once," he said. "The bullet pierced
both lungs and the heart. Senator
Proctor loaned mo his old shooting
coat; someone else donated a pair of
blue overalls, nnd Bill Morrison con
tributed shoes and socks. Bill, the
Senator nnd myself made up the party.
Just about dusk a wild boar darted out
of the brush, nbout fifty yards ahead
of us. We kept up the chnse and sud
denly I spotted him. There he is.'
'Wrong,' yelled the Senator, squinting
ahead. 'That's a deer.' 'lt's a boar. I
tell you,' said I bringing my rifle to
my shoulder. 'Senator's right' chimed
in Bill Morrison, 'it's a deer, for sure.'
But I knew better and blazed away.
It looked like a iniss for a minute.
Dike a frightened rabbit the big boar
plunged straight ahead, going faster
than before the shot. But just as I
took sight for 11 second try he pitched
forward nnd rolled over dead. As to
that shot of mine, all that I have to say
Is that It was a mighty lucky one." 1
WHITE HOUSE CANES.
Call for Souvenirs That Cannot Be
Complied With.
Colonel William H. Crook, the vet
eran disbursing officer of the White
House, sometime ago arranged to give
a few canes of historic value to his
friends. When tho interior of the
Executive Mansion was being torn to
pieces by the contractors who are re
modeling the building, Colonel Crook
obtained some of the flooring in the
room used for so many years by pres
idents. He was especially careful in
selecting portions of the flooring over
which Lincoln had walked, sat and
done business in the trying days of
the country's history. No man in
Washington knew better the habits
of President Lincoln around his office
than Colonel Crook, whose first work
at the White House was as bodyguard
for tho great war executive. Many a
day and night Colonel Crook, who was
then a policeman on the city police
force, remained with and near to Pres
ident Lincoln. His mind is full of
reminiscences of just how the famous
President worked, what kind of a desk
he used, how he handled himself, and
other details of personal Interest. On
obtaining the flooring from the par
ticular spot he had selected Colonel
Crook sent the timber to a wood work
man and had a dozen or so caneG made
for presentation to his friends, who
appreciated most highly the gifts be
cause they were confident of their
historic value. Mention of the canes
was made in the Washington Star,
with the consequence that during the
last two months Colonel Crook has
been unable to meet the demand, and
he has been kept busy with a gratui
tous correspondence. Several female
organizations of a benevolent and
charitable nature in Washington hnve
gathered hundreds of pieces of timber
and almost every article from the
wreck of the interior of the White
House, and propose to convert them
into small souvenirs to bo sold here
and elsewhere, the proceeds to be
used by the organizations in their
work. The relic hunting at length in
terferred so seriously that visitors to
the grounds had to be shut out. and
the few who were admitted got in by
a card from the superintendent in
charge. •
Quaint Uses of Common Words.
Crowd yas the old English name for
fiddle or violin. Good-by is a con
traction of "God-be-wlth-you." Fash
ion was the old name for a certain
disease of the horse. It is alluded to
in "The Taming of the Shrew," where
Petruchio's horse is said to be "in
fected with the fashions." The com
plaint is a common one now, but not
among horses.
llow's This?
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any case ot Catarrh that cannut be cured by
Hall's Catarrh Cure.
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obligation made by their firm.
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Ohio.
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Druggists, Toledo, Ohio.
HBII'B Catarrh Curo is taken tntomally,act
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faces of the system. Testimonials sent free.
Price, 75c. per bottle, hold by all Druggists.
Hall's Family 1 ids arc tip* beat.
An ostrich lives about thirty years, and
the average annual yield of a bird in o.v.i
tivity is from two pounds to four pouutLt
of feathers.
FITS permanently oured.No fits nrnervous
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teething,suften tho gums, reduces inflamma
tion, allays puJu,euros wind nolle. 33c. a bottle
American machinery, tools and sewing
machines are used all over the world.
Plso's Cure for Consumption is an infallible
medicine for coughs and colds.—k. W.
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The experience that makes a man poor
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Victoria's Boundary.
Professor Gregory, of the University
of Melbourne, is deltvAdng a series of
lectures on the "Geography of Vic
toria." In one of them he pave an in
stance of the happy-go-lucky fashion
in which business was conducted in
Downing street in the olden days. Halt
a century ago, when the Port Phillip
Province was detached from New
South Wales and erected into a new
colony under the name of Victoria,
it was the intention of thb imperial
government of the day that the River
Murrumbidgee should be the North
ern boundary. But the clerk in the
Colonial office who copied out the en
abling document, never having heard
of the river with the long aboriginal
name, and being uncertain as to its
proper spelling, coolly substituted
the River Murray in its stead. No
body noticed the change, but it made
a vast difference to the new colony.
Victoria would have been twice its
present size if the original arrange
ment had been adhered to, and would
have included the valuable pastoral
provinces known as Riverina, which
stretches from the Murray to the Mur
rumbidgee. Although Melbourne, the
Victorian capital, has always done
most of the trade with Riverki'a, the
district continues to be officially rulefi
from Sydney.
Mysophobia.
The medical profession has con
ferred no small boon on many suffer
ers by inventing a Greek, or pseudo-
Greek, term for their otherwise demo
cratic complaints. The last of these
inventions is recorded this week. The
disease is fussiness and the medical
name is mysophobia. The mysophobe
is he who, when seated by his table,
lifts his glass to see if it is fingered
and if he detect a smudge uses his
napkin to dispose of it. In short, my
sophobia is the exaggeration of that
respect for cleanliness which con
vinced Svengali of the madness of En
glishmen when he surprised the Laird
in his matutinal tub. The lady in the
play who seized on every one's watch
chain and began rubbing it with cha
mos leather was a mysophobe, and the
irritating man who begs your pardon
and picks some miscroscopic piece of
fluff from your sleeve is another. The
servant, though most would benefit by
inoculation with the disease, who In
sists 011 dusting papers is another, and
she disease is widely prevalent among
all housekeepers in the spring. It is
nice to know at last just what to call
it, but the medical press is more in
clined to suggest scientific names than
remedies.
SCIENCE BAFFLED THE BURGLAR.
A Cyclometer Was the Means of
Bringing Him to Justice.
Science sometimes baffles the bur
glar whose knowledge is not strictly
up-to-date. A thief who broke into a
house the other day leisurely packed
his plunder in a compact bundle, then
added a bicycle to t'he stolen articles
and rode off. So far ho had exhibited
commendable common sense, for it
isn't every thief who is clever enough
to steal the means of transporting his
stealings to his own lair. But he had
overlooked the fact that attached to
tho wheel was a cyclometer which reg
istered the exact distance ridden by
the thief on his journey home. When
pursuing justice caught up with the
burglar ho had disposed of all his plun
der except the wheel. The little cy
clometer's record of distance traveled
proved the case against the thief, for it
registered the exact distance from the
houso to the thief's quarters.
Glaciers Getting Smaller.
In Switzerland the studies of many
years have determined the fact finally
that the glaciers are not only steadily
receding, but that their rate of reces-
I slon is becoming greater each year.
I There are only a few glaciers that still
[ grow. The Boveyre glacier in Canton
Wallis is the only one that has in
creased steadily since 1892. The fa
mous Rhone glacier has receded al
most 800 yards since 187 G.
American citizens of Polish birth
and extraction are Interesting them
selves in the project for the election in
Washington of a stafue of Count Cnsl
mir Pulaski, the intrepid Lithuanian
who served with distinction in the Rev
olutionary war.
CONGRESSMAN WILBER SAYS
(To Tlie Pe-ru-ua filodleine Co., of Columbus, 0.)
"Fe-ru-na is All You Claim For It."
Congressman D. F. Wilber, of Oneonta, N. Y., writes:
The Peru mi Medicine Co., Columbus, Ohio:
Gentlemen—"Persuaded by a friend I have tried your remedy' and
1 have almost fully recovered after the use of a few bottles. I am fully
convinced that Peruna is all you claim for It, and 1 cheerfully recom
mend your medicine to all who are afflicted with catarrhal trouble.
David F. W'tlbcr.
Pe-ru-nn n Preventive and Cure for Colds.
Mr. C. F. Given, Sussex, N. 8., Vice-
Prosident of the Pastime Boating Club,
writes:
"Whenever the cold weather sets in I
have for years past been very sure to catch
a severe cold, which was hard to throw
off, and which would leave after-effects
on my constitution the most of the win
ter.
"Last winter I was advised to try Pe
runa, and within five days the cold was
broken up, and in five days more I was a
well man. I recommended it to several of
my friends, and all speak the highest praise
for it. There is nothing like Peruna
for catarrhal afflictions. It is well
nigh infallible as a cure, and 1
gladly endorse it.* } —C. F. Given.
A Prominent Singer Snved From Loss of
Voices
Mr. Julian Weisslitz, 175 Seneca street,
Buffalo, N. Y., is corresponding secretary
of The Sangerlust, of New York; is the
leading second bass of the Sangerlust, the
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Is to perpetuate the business.
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