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• A TRUE BEAR STORY.
i i T TT HE avalallcll e of 'boar sto-
N I l'ies' which have fallen
V""* _l ' upon a bewildered public
"g since tbo day the Presi
dent penetrated the cane brakes of
Mississippi," said Walter Brevort, of
Boston, to a Washington Star man,
"testifies to the versatility of the Amer
ican mind in reconstructing a tinie
lionored and well-worn theme with
new habiliments as to time and place.
"Upon analysis of the regulation bear
Story which is told over and over
again, sometimes to the extent of sev
eral columns, all are alike in the es
sential features of exhibiting the brave
hunter's titanic prowess, the unusual
size and phenomenal fierceness of the
xinlmal, and in the final victory of the
gallant but modest hunter over poor
bruin. They seldom deviate, except as
to such minor details that while one
hunter chased his bear eighty-three
/ and one-third miles around a high
■ mountain upon a dead run from start
t -to finish, the next hunter met his 3450
pound grizzly face to face upon a nar
row ledge overlooking a precipice, with
a sheer descent of 10,000 feet, and
hurled the wretched grizzly into the
dark depths below with one blow from
bis powerful fist. Some hunters vary
the formula by swearing that they
used their bowie knives, while still
othcis are weak enough to hint that
they may have shot the bear with an
explosive bullet from a high-power rifle
at a good safe range.
"However, I will tell you a boar story
which will have the novelty of truth,
not that we would for a moment doubt
the stories of great deeds with b'nrs of
the other fellows. I fancy that the true
version of most of these stories lies
along similar lines.
"It was my first bear hunt 1n the
y (foods of Maine. I had a guide, a
brand new bear rifle, bowie knife,
hatchet and hunting suit complete,
from heavy, waterproof boots to a can
vas bat. With sucli an outfit any story
about bear killing ought not to bo dis
puted by reasonable men who can tell
a real live bear from a Jackrabblt.
"I became separated from my gnide
and was making my way back to camp
about five miles through the thick for
est. I was dog tired. I wasn't think
ing about bears, hedgehogs or anything
else, except my sweetheart, and was
counting the days when I would get
back to civilization. My 'complete
hunting outfit' hadn't attracted so
much as a baby wildcat, and I was be
ginning to dimly realize that the great
bear stories I bad heard at home and
the club, after all, were nothing but
elastic stretches of well cultivated and
fertile imagination.
Jtl had Just made up my mind that
would be better pleased with
h sunburst than with a ring. When I
heard a noise up a big oak tree under
which I was passing, which sound, <1
to my unaccustomed ears like eighteen
tons of brick falling a mile upon n tin
roof. I glanced tip, and there was a
big black bear as large and threatening
is a thunder cloud in n squall. He was
falling down from the top of tile tree
timb by limb, liumpty-buinpty, directly
over my head.
"Did I pause, gracefully and skill
fully raise my trusty riflo and shoot off
both ears and each paw with separate
shots while he was yet In the air, as a
trick marksman hits glass halls? That
Is what I ought to have done, accord
lug to the regulation bear story. But
I didn't. I was too amazed to move,
and gawked up at that bear as a coun
tryman looks into a city window. Down
ho eauic like a Hash of black lightning,
snarling, growling and whin
ing. Before I could dodge he landed
upon me and sent me spinning about
thirty feet, while lie rolled over and
over like a huge rubber ball.
"Run? Gee whiz, but you ought to
have seen us scamper off In opposite
directions, I toward Iho camp and the
boar toward a deep crcck. Death on a
wlilte horse could not have caught mo.
I lost my rifle, bowlo knife, canvas
hat and hatchet, and never did find
them, though the guide and I the next
day went over the wide speedway I
had cut through the underbrush in my
mad flight.
"The bear had been caught by a lot
of wild bees stealing honey out of their
hive in the giant oak, and their furious
nttneks and the pain from tbo stings
caused him to let go his grip and to
some down, crashing through the
branches like a cyclone.
"When a man now tells me about
/'killing hears,' I tell him my own nc-
experience, and I am glad to Bay
lor the veracity of our sex that he Is
man enough usually to crawl and pay
for the dinners."
f WALKED BESIDE DEATH
Felix Donnelly, one of tlie miners
lost recently on the Mojave Desert,
faced a horrible death that almost
robbed him of liis reason. For days he
wandered over the burning desert
Without food or water.
On November 11 he left Randsburg,
Cal., to guide William MeLeod out to
work on a Wilson Canyon mine, in the
'Angus Mountains. It was a Journey
of about seventy miles, and was made
without mishap, in spite of the fact
.that their horse was in poor conoition,
1 nnd seemed likely to give out at any
-*"**ioment.
He left the mountains next day to re
turn. expecting to spend tho night nt
Sanderswell. lint he got lost toward
evening. All that night and tho next
day he drove about on the desert In
search of the well. During tlie second
night he at last came to the well, only
to find It dry. There was not a drop
Of water la It. '•—
The horse was exhausted and fell to
the ground, so Donnelly unhitched It,
and putting some hay in front of It,
started out on foot. He intended to go
to El Paso Peak tunnel, where he ltuew
there would be plenty of water.
He wandered for dnys, bow many
be was unable to tell beyond the first
three, for after that he often fell Into a
stupor, from which he would get up
and travel on. Every time ho came in
sight of a mountain he would think it
El Paso Teak, and would exert himself
to reach It, only to be disappointed. All
this time ho was suffering a most in
tense agony and realized that he was
perishing from thirst. The cool nights
refreshed him a little, but the hot days
were horrible, and he expected each to
he his last. He became almost wild
with the terrible thought of the death
ho had to face.
At last his strength gave out and he
fell down, unable to rise. Tlio usual
stupor did not come upon him for
hours, and It seemed he would have
to lie there and watch death come.
But nt length he became unconscious.
Ho was found lying there with hl3
head under a bush by n Portuguese
sheep herder, who took him, still un
conscious, to Indian Wells. He was
cared for there until he could be taken
to Ills home at Raudburg.
FOUGHT A FIVE-HOUR DUEL.'
A hot pistol and shotgun duel oc
curred near Scuola, Ga„ between .T.
W. Entrikin and Clinton Morgan. For
some time there had been bad blood
between tlie men and rumors were
afloat to the effect that Morgan would
kill Entrikin at tlie first opportunity.
The latter is a bailiff, and in anticipa
tion of trouble went fully armed. A
few days since a man went into Entri
kin's office and placed some papers
with him to be served Instantly on
Clinton Morgan. Realizing that a cri
sis had been reached in his feud with
his neighbor, Entrikin concealed two
weapons on bis person, and took a
friend along to net as witness, realiz
ing full well that when, in addition to
their original quarrel, Morgan learned
bis mission there would be troublo.
In nbout twenty minutes tliey had
arrived within twenty yards of Mor
gan's house. At this Juncture Morgan
himself appeared, and before Entrikin
had time to servo him with the papers
he Jerked his shotgun from behind the
door nnd commenced to fire toward the
approaching men. Both hastily sought
shelter behind trees and a rapid fusil
lade ensued. Morgan had his pockets
full of shells, and as fast as his charge
was exhausted he would shove others
into the chambers, thus keeping up a
hot fire nt any portion of the bailiff's
body that was exposed.
Entrikin answered with his revolv
ers, until finally both men wore badly
wounded and could not leave their
posts. Thou came a blockade, for both
were afraid to even hang out a white
handkerchief lest It draw the fire of his
enemy. Entrikin's friend was unarmed.
For nearly five hours this ludicrous
situation continued, until finally a
friend of Morgan's came up, and plac
ing the latter on horseback, covered
his retreat. The bailiff was taken back
to town.—St. Louis Republic.
BLEW CAPTAIN OVERBOARD.
Captain Mark Clark, scarred in a
dozen places with a Siberian cyclone,
has Just returned from a year-aml-a
half trip filled with interesting expe
riences through Russia, Siberia and
Mongolia.
Captain Clark has been erecting
boats in foreign countries since ISSO,
and lias bad many thrilling expe
rience.-!. hut tlie ones be lias Just passed
through capped tlie climax. During
tile twenty-two years he lias set up
three boats in Venezuela, one in Span
ish Honduras and three on tlie Yukon.
In Alaska.
"The cyclone which gave me these
sears," said the Captain, "struck the
boat July 14, Just after I had finished
her and taken lier across the border of
Siberia into Mongolia, on the Slllngnr
River. It tool; ninety feet from tlio
middle of the boat and lifted It over
into a meadow, upside down and in a
terrible tangle.
"I was in the pilot house and went
with the rest of the debris. As luck
would have it I landed on my feet and
was able to keep on them partially for
tlie three-eighths of a mile It blew me,
over into a heavy wood. But I had to
hold my hands about the back of my
head to shield it from tlie bail, and
they were terribly cut by the hail
stones, until now they are simply a
solid scar, as you can see."
IN OPEN BOAT FOUGHT DEATH.
Frostbitten and exhausted by a twen
ty-four hours' battle with sea, storm,
hunger and bitter cold. Captain R. H.
Somcrville nud tlie crew of six men of
tlie schooner Belle Wooster reached
Gloucester, Mass. They were brought
in by the schooner Patriot, which had
picked them up at 2 o'clock a. m.
The Helen Wooster sank off High
land Light Just after tlie erow aban
doned her. In a southwest blizzard the
schooner had lost every bit of canvas,
except tlie foresail, and, under the
pounding of terrific seas, bad sprung n
leak, her cargo of granite having
shifted. When it was seen tlint the
eral't could not be kept nflont, the crew
left her In a small boat, and for hours,
scantily clotlicd and without food,
beaten by terrible seas and unable to
lay a course In the blinding snow, tho
men fought for life.
At 2 o'clock a. m„ when some of tlio
men were with difficulty prevented, by
comrades not as far gone, from lying
down In the boat to die, a vessel's light
was seen. Those In the open boat
raised their voices in a united cry.
Tlie cry was heard on hoard tho
schooner, which- proved to be the Pa
triot, nnd the shipwrecked men wero
rescued.
The shoemaker says his life is awl
work and no play.
M,
"IF."
If yesterdays were to-morrows
flow easy tliis life would be!
Then we never need make
, The slight mistake
i That stifles in voice of glee,
r
sknd the past would be all unnoted
And we'd smile in the face of fate;
'And we never need sigh
As a day sped by,
"I have learned—but, alas, too late!"
—Washington Star.
JUST AS GOOD.
Jaggles—"How did that drug clerk
come to Jilt Ills old girl?"
Waggles—"The new one told him she
•was just as good, so ho took her in
stead."—ruck.
HIS OriNION.
" "But you don't think he's mercenary,
papa?"
"Why, yes, I do. I'm afraid- ho re
gards marriage as a get-rich-auick
scheme!"— Puck.
NATURAL DEDUCTION.
"Does he claim to know much about
women?"
"No; he says they are beyond his
comprehension."
"Then he's married."—Chicago Post.
DINNER TABLE GALLANTRY.
The Hostess—"You are such an epi
cure, Mr. Stutter, that I was almost
afraid to ask you to dinner."
Stutter—"But the pleasure of your
company more than compensates me."
—New York Times.
v ' THE PRICE OP WISDOM.
1 Richard—"Life Is too queer for me."
Robert—"What do you mean?"
Richard—"Why, by the time a man
Is far enough along to understand girls
ho Is so old and prosy that they jvon't
look at him."—Puck.
ONE ON IKE.
ilf
Ike—"Hello! Tim; the last time I saw
you was in jail."
Tim—"Yes; I went there to see you."
—Detroit Free Press.
WHERE IT HURT HIM.
Miss Jenkins—"l hope your heart Is
not broken at my refusal, Mr. Hop
kins."
Mr. Hopkins "No, Miss Jenkins,
worse than that; my aesthetic nature
is deeply, irreparably wounded at your
lack of taste."—Puck.
KINDRED BLESSINGS.
"Hero is a letter from a lawyer," said
his wife, "who says that your unci®
has died and left you .$10,000."
"For those and other kindred bless
ings," murmured the dominie, "let us
be devoutly thankful." Now York
Times.
HOPE DEFERRED.
"I know one Improvement I think
I'd have made In the human race If I'd
directed evolution." ,
"What's that?"
"I'd have them cut their wisdom
teeth first instead of last"—Washing
ton Times.
THE VOICE OF EXPERIENCE.
"Do you think that the stage exer
cises an elevating Influence?"
"Yes," answered Mr. Stormlngton
Barnes. "I don't know of anything
better than the classic drama for de
veloping the noble virtues of patience
and humility."—Washington Star.
DREADFULLY DISCOURAGING.
"I see that a lot of French scientists
claim to have discovered how to abol
ish old age and Insure an indefinite
prolongation of life."
"Say. what a sad blow this will be
to expectant nieces and nephews who
are waiting for the bank accounts of
rich uncles and aunts."—Philadelphia
Inquirer.
nE REMEMBERED.
Towne—"Rather absent minded, isn't
he?"'
Brown "Extremely so. Why the
other night when he got home he knew
there was something he wanted to do,
hut he couldn't remember what It was
until he had sat up over an lißur trying
to think."
Town—"And did he finally remem
ber it?"
Brown—"Yes; he discovered that he
[wanted to go to bod early."—Philadel
iphia Press.
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r (f THE CHILDREN ENJOY t||>
i Life out of doors and out of the games which they play and the enjoy-
A'&vy ment which they receive and the efforts which they make, comes the
greater part of that healthful development which is so essential to their •
'' happiness when grown. When a laxative is needed the remedy which is
c'r f'J given to them to cleanse and sweeten and strengthen the internal organs \\Q
/Vy* on which it acts, should be such as physicians would sanction, because its Q
/jf component parts are known to be wholesome and the remedy itself free from
lif every objectionable quality. The one remedy which physicians and parents, A. f ' v C/
jfj well-informed, approve and recommend and which the little ones enjoy,
UJ because of its pleasant flavor, its gentle action and its beneficial effects, is— '
Syrup of Figs—and for the same reason it is the only laxative which should
j";- ' be used by fathers and mothers,
: .vSyrup of Figs is the only remedy which acts gently, pleasantly and
naturally without griping, irritating, or nauseating and which cleanses the
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them medicines, when medicines arc not needed, and when nature needs ' r >
assistance in the way of a laxative, give them only the simple, pleasant and
gentle—Syrup of Figs.
Its quality is due not only to the excellence of the combination of the /
lp.xative principles of plants with pleasant aromatic sj'rups and juices, but
-;.:y also to our original method of manufacture and as you value the health of '
■i'\ (0 little ones, do not accept any of the substitutes which unscrupulous deal- ~ |
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\ bought anywhere of all reliable druggists at fifty cents per bottle. Please t 4 1
\ to remember, the full name of the CompaftV~ ?'.{*' S
CALIFORNIA FIG SYR.UP CO.- is printed on
V-fK the front of every pack
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These Fowls Knew When the Roost
Was in Danger.
"People generally thinks turkey
have the least sense of all the domes
tic fowls," said Frank Wilkinson, a
Virginia farmer, the other day, "but
I've got some that seem to have more
gray matter than a great many human
beings I know. Ono night a short time
ago my wife and I and some visitors
were out driving In the evening. As
I was putting up the horses alter
returning home 1 noticed my turkeys
were not roosting as usual in the big
buttonwood tree by the barn. Instead
they were perched on the fence posts
and in the limbs of other trees. It
struck me as mighty funny, as tur
keys on the place had roosted in that
tree ever since I could remember. I
mentioned it to my wife when I went
la the house, and she said she had
noticed it when we drove in and
thought it peculiar. That night about
midnight a hard wind and rainstorm
came up and the old buttonwood blew
down. Now, how did those turkeys
know that tree was doomed? At sun
down there was no sign of a storm,
and the buttonwood was fully 50 years
old and apparently a3 stanch as ever.
I tell you, I've had great respect for
the judgment of turkeys since then."
Scotland bore the name of Caledonia,
literally the hniy country of the Cails,
of Gaels. The word Cael, or Gael, is a
corruption of Gadhel, signifying In the
native tongue "a hidden rover," while
Scot, derived from the native Scuite,
means a wanderer.
STATE OF Onio. CITY orT OLEDO, (
LUCAS COUNTY. T
FRANK J. CHENEY, raako oath that helstho
senior partner of tho firm of F. J. CHENEY .FC
Co.. doing business In tho City of Toledo,
County and Statu aforesaid, and that said
firm will pay tho sum of ONE HUNDRED DOL
LARS for each and every case of CATARRH that
cannot be cured by the uso of HALL'S
CATARRH CURE. FRANK J. CHENEY.
Sworn to before mo and subscribed in ray
..—■— . presence, this Gth day of December,
J SEAL, fA. D., IHS6. A. W. GLEASOX,
' —v— ' Notary Public.
Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and
nets directly on the blood and mucous sur
faces of the system. Send for testimonials,
free. F. J; CHENKY & Co., Toledo, O.
Bold by Druggists,7so.
Hall's Family Fills are tho host.
t A million one-dollar bills, packed solidly
like leaves in a book, would make a pile
275 feet high.
Mnny School Children Are Sickly,
Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children, ,
Used by Mother Gray, u nurse in Children's
Home, Now York, break up CohLs in 24 hours,
euro Fovorishnoss, Constipation, Stomach
Troublos, Toothing Disorders and Dostroy
Worms. At all druggists', 25c. Sainpio mailed
PUKE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, Le lloy, N.Y.
Brussels has a church clock wound by
atmospheric expansion induced by the
heat of the sun.
Mrs.Winslow's Soothing Syrup for chiMroa
tcethiug.softon tho gums, reduces inilamma
tion.alluys pain, cures wind colic. 25c. abottlo
One thousand five hundred and thirteen
novels were published in England in
1901.
FITS permanently ourod.No fits or nervous
ness after llrst day's use of Dr. Kline's Groat
trial bottleand troatlso free
Dr. B.U. KLINK, Ltd., 981 Archßt.,Phila.,Pa.
Two men one woman living in
Worcestershire, England, state that they
are centenarians.
It you want creamery prices do ns the
creumerics do, use JuN-li TINT BUTTEIS
COLOJ:.
There arc two women of seventy-five
years and over for every man of that age
in the borough of Finsbur.v, England*
lam suro Plso's Cure for Consumption saved
my life threo years ago.—Mas. TEOM.VH Kon-
IKS, Maple St., Norwich, N. Y., Feb. 17, I'JOJ.
Dublin Museum now possesses a large
etuffed elephant, tho first mounted speci
men ever exhil-i'.tfd in Ireland.
NEW JOB IN BANKS.
Little Soap and Water Improves
Paper Currency.
An official of the "United States
Treasury at Washington recommends
the washing of bank notes and other
paper currency. If the bankers of the
j country only knew," he says, "the
great difference that a litltet soap and
water makes in a dirty bank note there
would be more clean money in circula
tion. If you have never seen tho opera
tion just spread a soiled note upon a
marble slab and use a little brush that
has been well soaped and go to work
scrubbing, lightly, of course. But a
few strokes are necessary to secure a
clean note. I give my personal atten
tion to all the paper money brought
into my household, and I can tell you I
feel repaid for tho little work it causes.
I can see every reason why there
should be a person employed in the
banking houses for this particular
duty. Certainly the neglect in doing
so gives ample cause for complaint
from the patrons concerning the dirty,
oily notes that are too frequently
handed to them. They may be full of
germs which, of course, are dangerous
and this risk could be easily elimi
nated by tho simple use of soap and
water.
Inventor of Paper Collars.
Uncle Sydney Clark, of Black River
Falls, Wis., a well-known character
and an inventive genius who had made
fortunes for others, is still hale and
hearty, though in his ninety-third year.
Mr. Clark was the inventor of the
paper collar and also the improvement
on the same through the amalgamation
of paper and cloth. Mr. Clark is a
native of Rockland county. N. Y.. and
has been a resident of Black River
Falls for many years.
The first celebration of Christmas In
the White House occurred on Decem
ber 25, 1800.
Ha Cough]
a " I have made a most thorough S
trial of Ayer's Cherry Pectoral and g
am prepared to say that for alldis- g
eases of the lungs it never disap- i
points." ?•
J. Early Finlcy, Ironton, O. I
Ayer's Cherry Pectoral
won't cure rheumatism;
we never said it would.
It won't cure dyspepsia;
we never claimed it. But
it will cure coughs and
colds of all kinds. We
first said this sixty years
ago; we've been saying it I
ever since. r ®i
Three sizes: 25c., 50c., SI. AH druggists. jj
Consult your doctor. If he anvs tnko It, I
thon do ns he Buys. If he tells you not B
I to take it, then don't take it. He knows. 9
I Leave it with hini. We ure willing. > \
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