'How the Cinnamon Bear Fights. Having been offered a clerical posi- tion in my brother-in-law's office at his sompany's coal mine, in Bellingham Bay, Washington Territory,;I--proceeded "at once to the coast, and on arrival had been given a few days' free time to get over the effects of my long trip and to amuse myself. After loafing about the place for a day or two, and noticing thet not far from the mines there was & likely looking partridge covert, I un- | my old muzzle-loading 16-bore, gave her a good cleaning, and pocket- ing the necessary ammunition, saunter- : ed off to get a shot or two. But I had mot gone more than a few hundred yards when I heard several shrill whis- tles and sundry shouts from the direc- -- tion of the office, and, looking back, saw them beckoning me to return. "Where are you going?" said the man- ager. "To try for a partridge or two," said L "Well;-you are not in Ontario now, young man, and it isn*t our custom to single-handed through the bush about | ' You better take a couple of In- dians with you. ple of redmen who were leading mules, go with this young man." After stabling the mules they came along, cach shouldering a rifle. But, no- thing daunted, I led the way. They could speak very little English, and I no Indian, so there was no use trying to learn anything »bont the place from ; them, It was their habit, I observed, to save as many sicps as possible, and when they thought I would work my | way in a ccrtain direction they would take a short-cut to catch up. But, at- ter an hour or two of this kind of thing it "paint occurred to me that I had not seen them for at least half an. hour, and that the fault was my own, fer L _ been zig-vagging in every direction. Besides, I hadn't fired a shot. I had en my bearings by the sun, and must have tramped several miles. Being eager bo drop the first bird flushed, I had, up & this, thought of little else than part- ridge, but now, as I stood in an open- ing surveying the immensity and solem- | nity of ail about me, a great sense of | foneliness crept over me, and, listening, himse r ed from me. I didn't know what to do. ! Move I dare not, or he would hear me. Shoot! What is the use, with only bird- | shot in the gun? He must scent me! fing! his head, yet doesnt see me. pong fo this were a rifle! ore than twen . voluntaril a : Hear him snif- In y I level my little shotgun, | and, Heavens! off it goes, unintention- slly. He turns toward.me with a ter- | rible syort and I pull my second bar- | rel, then run, I thought I could-rus when I used to beat my companions at home, but that was slow compared with | back after having made | this. Looking the best hundred yard dash of my life, I saw him coming on three legs. i pave me a little hope, but, before I had seg another hundred it was plain he | reduced the distance between us by | at least one-third; so i d the gun and shouted and ran, and ran and shout- ed, till I was getting out of breath. I must take to a tree! There was one straight ahead, and about as thick as ® stovepipe, but before I could draw my feet up on the limb to which I had climbed, he was reaching for me, and struck my boot with his claws. How I did screech! But a time came when my voice gave out entirely from the over- straia The enraged brute was trying to Climb the tree, but at each effort would drop down, and it was evident from the weak way he used «ne of his forepaws and the blood trick'iage down from the shoulders that my chorge or charges had taken some effect. Then he would sit and look vp at me, and I could see him thinking "How am I going to get this fellow down!" Presently he started to chew, and as tie big bites of bark drop- i I thought 1 was a gonner, sure, but e found the wcod harder than the bark, sO gave up that plan, and stepped out to take ancther survey of his enemy, weantime taking a good look around; to we if there were any more bipeds about. Bhen a happy thought seemed to strike him, and he sct to work with the paw to remove all the soil from about and he began to bite them through, I was in such a state of terror and de spair it was all I could do to keep my hold. I was losing my nerve, and felt { must drop, but it was a death. grip. At last all were bitten on one side, and [ could fecl the tree begin to topple when something attracted his attention, and, raicing his head, his eyes became fixed in one direction. I, too looked to see the cause, when, thank goodness! there were the Indians taking sight along their rifles. Crack! crack! and bruin fell, to rise no more. They kick-, ed him, to show me the danger was over, then gently pulled the tree down. [t was a "cinnamon" bear. have his emar, Relics of John Moore. The Duke of Cambridge has presented te the Museum of the Koy&l United Service Institution, in Whitehall, with which he has been connected since 1852, iously constructed model one genio ship, made entirely of tor Another in iseshell os os a aattch "wern prayer-book, xé2mg on the fly-leaf the following in- scription: --*From prayer-book 1 read the burial service over-the body of Lieut.-General Sir John Moore, K.B, who received a mortal wound while en- gaged with the French army in the tont of Corunna, in Spain, on the after- noon of the 16th of Sted 1 other relics are oe at White- - Symons, to the Forces." Several of the hero of Corunna Ee ormer pr Into the grave. which ee eee , wit Here, you tao fel- ; lows," said the manager, hailing a cou- | He stops scratching end raises | This . _ this spe Notes for Farmers. Give the hens fresh water twice @ day at least and so add to their com- ' fort: It is stated that if turnips are fed af- ter instead of before milking the odor is not imparted to the next milking. A teaspoonful of saltpetre added to @ pail of inkewarm water, as a drink for the cow, is claimed as a remedy for the difti- culty when the turnips are fed. | It is not always the best and most ! elaborate poultry houses that shelter the choicest stock. Success, however, i mainly depends on warm, dry coops, | with proper care and management, and freedom from overcrowding. 'he Iat- ter trouble is often the cause of ill- success. If you wish a healthy flock keep only a few in a pen. When ploughing or clearing fields for epring operations a most important mat- ter is to clear out the fence corners. ' This should be done, even if-it entails an extra job after the ploughing is per- ormed, as it is such sources from whence come most of the crops of weeds and seeds, which spread over the fields and cause endless labor throughout the entire growing season. Mistakes of Fruit Exporters. Mr. E. H. Wartman, Fruit In- ; spector, Custom House, Montreal, writ- -es:--""A statement has just come to hand that 301 barrels No. 2 and No. 3 grade Canadian apples sold in Liverpool, Kng., netted one of Canada's old and respected firms 2le per barrel back. This lacks a few cents of paying for 'the empty barrels. Could we expect anything different in a year like the present, with a big crop of generally ' poor quality fruit, to flood markets with second and third grades? Would it not have been far better to have taken 30c r ewt. or less at evaporat- ers for these two grades, and shipped no- thing but No. 1 stock? It is only at | w time of scarcity when a No. 2 class | of apples will do well, It seems to me wery strange that apple exporters of 25 | and $0 years standing should be caught | making such big mistakes. I think poor ; quality apples at any time are better kept away from British markets. Let the importers of England and elsewhere | know we don't grow poor qualities ef fruit." Preventing Milk Fever. Q correspondent of The Farmers' 'Advocate relates how he has entirely got rid of milk fev-r in his breeding stock. He says:--'I am continually ' getting letters asking what to do to pre- vent milk fever. Mitk fever has no ter- rors for me now, because, after three | years' freedom I feel I have a treat ment that is a preventive if follow ' in its entirety. This is my practice for all, as in the case of a cow that cal two days ago, which was very fat and flush, would weigh 1,700 pounds before calving; a case calling for heroie treat- ment. I gave her several doses of car- bolic acid twice daily for three days a weck before calving, 25 drops pure car- bolic in one pint of water and mixed on bran. Vhen I saw she was near calving, I gave her two pounds Epsom salts; she calved in six hours after get- ting the salts (just right). After calv- ing she was very thirsty. I gave her fifteen pounds warm water; in half an hour warm bran mash made very slop- py, to which I added a handful of com- mon salt. I determined to run no risks, but made her drink all the water I wanted her to, and that is a lot. hour after calving she got 20 pounds or so of water, in another hour 25 pounds more, and an hour !ater another large pailful, the chill taken off it all. I had 100 pounds to 125 pounds water in her five or six hours aiter she calv- ed. There is virtue in plenty of water." Beware the Pee Weevil. EB. P. Felt, New York State Entomol- Yist, writing of the pea' weevil, says:-- This little insect (Bruchus pisi, Linn.) fis a specisé Which occurs somewhat commonly "* peas. Its presence is too frequently overlooked, or regarded as of comparatively little importance, and those planting a few peas or even grow- ing them on a considerable scale pay little or no attention to whether the sced is infested t his imsect or not. Asa matter. of f: 3 Funjet considerable importance, particularly ries. has caused esive measures are : or in force it may cause much damage in the United States. Aside from direct injury, it is-a well establish peas infested by {he commercial ce, as determined 20, per, ceut, . ones germina' This means that whore the weevil jane all. abtiidant in the Seed, one-half to four-fifths Of: it: apap be wore esau _and 'purchasers will do well to bear this in mind. The sowing of this seed not. One | oOaly resut "number of pagetion of the insect, and it is very probable that a great many of these ts are eaten in the grocn wiich atter is not agrécalle -to contein- plate. : The species can be easily controfi, since it is confined to one food pltavt, namely, peas, and hibernates either witi- fn the seed or in sheliered places. U the peas for seed purposes are har- vested early, promptly threshed and treated "carbon bi-siilphide, none of the insects will be able to survive, and Dr. Fletcher states that even if the peas be tightly enclosed in a paper bag the will be unable to escape trom their prison, and if the seed be held over until the second year, which mry be done without injuring its germinat- ing powers, all of the weevils will <4, and consequently there will be no danger of the species' propayuiing. This sinrple method involves little or no additional expense; and if the iarge growers of seed peas will in turn co- operate and fumigate ail of their stock there should be comparatively little or no trouble from the species in future years. It would undoxbtedly be good business policy for growers print on excel package a statement to the effect that the seed has been pro- perly fumiguted, and buyers are urged to insist upon this treatment or to ap- ply it to seed before it is planted. ts ma smaller than norm lants, but also aids the pro- oe" Harry Sobernheimer, a truant officer, recently made a ca extended aver a week, and enquired -of the lad's mother, a genial looking Irish woman, the cause, "Why," "he's now past his thirteenth year, an' having schoolin' enovgh, sor." "School ing enough!" repeated the oflicer. "Why, I did not finish my education until I was twenty-three." "Be that so?" asked the mother, in amazement. Then, reassur- ingly, after moment's thoughtful pause: "Well, sor, yez see, that boy of ours has br-r-rains." In his remimiscences, Charles Brook- field, the retired English actor; says: "My father was dining in London one night at the Oxford and Cambridge Club with Tennyson and two or three others. After dinner, the poet insisted on putting his feet on the table, tilting back his chair "more Americano." here were strangers in the room, and he was ex- ostulated with for his uncouthness, but vain. "Do put down your feet!" plead ed his host. "Why should I?" retorted Tennyson; "I'm very comfortable as 1 am." "Everyone's staring at you," said another. "let 'em stare," replied the poet, lacidly. "Ali.ed," said my father, 'people will think you're Longfellow." Down went the feet. Ex-Chief Devery of New York never misses an opportunity to express his pleasure at the failure of David B, Hill as a Democratic poss of New York State. The other day he. characterized him as "a political hold-out man, who wouldn't into the game unless he could feel the marks of the cards through "had the cards marked all right, but one ight he had been smoking dope, and ile he was shaking hands with himself in the White House, somebody stole the deck from under his liver-pad and changed the marks." Devery added: "He the bell at the front door of = rung morgue the day he passed me along the Saratoga convention. After this his address is 'D. B. Hil, Dead House, Com- partment Thirteen. Handle with care.'" Ever since his resignation anecdotes of Lord Salisbury have been printed ip the English mong the most striking appreciations is the following on his constitutional aversion to society: "He has the detachment of a hermit He has attended the House of Lords many hundreds of times, but he knows few of the members, outside his own family, by sight. He once startled the political world by admitting, in-an aside that he had never set eyes on Mr. Par nell. Everyone knows how. on receiv: ing a gracious salute from Walter Long one of his own ministers, he aske neighbor: 'Who is that?' It may be doubted, indeed, whether he knew by | sight the whole of the enormous cabinet | with which he surrounded himself. He | disliked new faces, and shrank from in troductions. The story goes that wher | he found himself once traveling to Hat | field in tie same carriage with Ouida and a common friend suggested an intro duction, Lord Salisbury shrank back inte | hid himself behind ¢ | | his corner, an newspaper." A Poisiter Tow2rds Happiness, "The only absolutely infallible rule for stay single," says "Dorothy Dix" in an y g y y the one we did not marry, and it is only m old bachelors' and old maids' dreams of wedded life that there are no family jars and scrapping matches. There is srouble a-plenty in married life. There is loneliness without it.' It is one of the things that, whether you do or you do not, you are apt to regret. But happi- ness in matrimony, like happinéss else- where in life, must be manufactured by the individual for his own use. To do this one has only to love much, and get 2 little love in return, to give without iemanding compound interest; to be quick to praise and slow to blame; to be kind to virtues and blind to faults; to zive to others the charity we expect our- selves. 'No man or woman who does this finds marriage a failure. The trouble 'is, we think matrimonial happiness is an srchid to be found only in strange places, whereas it is a-domestic plant that door sp Jong his wife remarked that Aourishesa best in a well-tended kitchen yarden." of peas to | Humor of the Hour. Teacher--Johnnie, this is the worst somposition in the class, and I'm going to write to your father and tell him. Johnnie--Don't keer if ye do; he wrote it fer me.--Detroit Free Press, rr oe Frontrow--tThe leading ook like an actor. Parquette--No, and, what's more, he doein't act like one.--Chicago News. -- Beetem--Pshaw! [I must have' §20 by noon to-day, and I 'eft all my money at home in my other clothes. Can't you. heip:mr out ? Wise:.2n---sure. fare to go home for Presa. Tl lend you car it--Philadelphia --_--o----_---- In a Liverpool school Jately a num- ber of scholars were asked to explain the meaning of the term "righteous in- digret con." Oe filth: ch: p replied : without swearing."-- Philadelphia at the home of a pupil whose absence had | she said, | me and his father-r think he's after-r | a pair of boxing gloves." "Hill," he said, article entitled "A Guide to Happiness." | 'There is never a man or woman like | 7 -------- Macdge--How often do you get a seat | in_a car MarjorieWhenever it goes around a curve and I forget to hold on to the | strap.--New York Sun. pion Mamma--You must not eat so much | of that candy, Nellie. Nellie--But you said I could have it for taking that nasty medicine. Mamma--Yes, deur; but too will only make you sick again. Nellie--Oh, then 1 can take more medicine and have some candy. much some more -- A gentleman who was discussing with the late Dr. Parker the problem 'of a future existence exclaimed: "The fact is, sir, 1 am an annihilationist. I be- lieve that when I die that will be the end of me." "Thank God for that," Dr. Parker re- plied, as he showed his companion the door--London Daily Express. sonar Teacher--Bessie, name one bird that is now extinct. Little Bessie--Dick! Teacher--Dick? What sort of a bird is. that? " Little Bessie--Our extincted him!--Puck. age "I think I know," said the amateur gunner, after his fifth straight miss, why those birds are called 'ducks.' " "What's that, sir?" inquired the guide. "Because they duck out of the way every time a fellow shoots."--Philadel- phia Press, canary--the cat ------E-- Miss Justcut--Wherein, Mr. Wiseman, lies the secict art of conversation ? Wiseman--Young lady, listen! Miss Justout--But I am listening! Wiseman--Well, that is all there is of the art of conversing agreeably.-- New York Times. -- Dicer--They tell me Fred has been playing the races. ickleby--He thought he was, but it turned out that the fellows at the races were working d---Boston Transcript. See Mrs. Isabel Savory tel's in her book, "A Sportswoman in Incla," this story about a man she knew: "He had a henhouse and a hen that was sitting, but unluckily for hev hatching opera- tions a cobra got through a chink in the henhouse. The cobra made a fine geal of well-warmed eggs, but when it essayed to retire by the same hole through which it had entered it found those eggs in the way. It was much too large to get out, so it stuck In the hole, half in the henhouse and half outside. There it was discovered the next morning in a surfelted condition. I* paid for its greediness with its life, and then It paid back the eggs it had stolen; for when the body of the snake , was opened the eggs were all found unbroken and» warm. 'They were re- | placed under the hen, and in due time , were hatched, none tae worse for their peculiar incubation. 'The strange fact that the cobra could swallow whole an egg much bigger than its own head is accounted for by the peculiar con- / struction of that head. The head and | jaws of the cobra are loose, and can be enormously stretched and distorted." A New Baconian Theory, how to be happy though married is to | Historical novelists have worked for all it was worth that mine consisting of the supposed secret marriages and unacknowledged offspring of sover- -eigns. Nobody seriously believes that crafty, cautious Queen Elizabeth went so far as to wed her Earl of Leicester. For the best part of her reign her hand had to remain a prize, open to univer- gal competition, but never bestowed. Still, in fiction she has several times fieured as a wife and a mother, with se son, perhaps, or one daughter; end but lately, with two sons, one the ac- complished Francis Bacon, the other the Earl of Essex. In this last amaz- ing story, Bacon js not only Elizabeth's son, but the author of Shakespeare's plays. A third distinction ought really to have been bestowed upon him to make the thing complete. 'n Harmony. She attended the concert and, as she . believes, .She was dressed in appropriate taste: An Atchison husband hoyered at hry at she his usual trouble tsiuon "lobe" sup) he was haying is keyhole: An accordion skirt and long piped ; sleeves z And a brass band around her waist, . ; & : £ ; fe ' ~ --"Judge." ¥ man doesn't Droop with ® ' Dyspepsia? She was AMERICAN NERVINE WILL FIRST FEED Ber SHATTERED NERVES; then strength- ened by it they will put every vital orean w gorously. " will do i blood to pump. the nerves will be quiet. The woman wili be beautiful again. Mrs. James E ear Post-hiistress of at Hill, Ont. : 'Il hav tes: estion and dyspepsia. 5 tities I could 0 b ; tirely well aud am in perfect heaith." The Great South American Kideey Care d1s- solves and washes out wasté Hiatter at once from kidneys and bladder, and simultaneously begins the building up of new tissues, Reliefinsix hours. 2 ----9---- Mr. Tyte-Phist objected. *T don't see'any use of the girls learnifg to dance," he said. "Jt won't cost anything," urged his wife. "Their uncle Hiram offers to pay for the lessons." "What good does dancing do, any- way.?" "Well, the doctors say it improves the digestion." ; "It will improve their digestion, will (t?' said Mr. Dyte-Phist, raising hie voice. "Whatever improves their diges- tion will improve their appetite. ith an improved appetite they will eat more, and it costs enough to feed them ready." "Didn't I tell you their Uncle iram----" "Their Uncle Hiram keeps a groce store. I see through his little game. By the way, what have you dene with that 50 cents I let you have day before yesterday ?"--Ohicago Tribune, rS --_--o------ J Dog Wisdom. one "a 3) 'dog ant apon dogs. pefore the fi cor) iog pasecgcSegery out. In « few min- ates therd was a scratching at the door. The dog en pan and lay dows st the fire again. Shortly afterwards the farmer repeated his Welsh remark. n the dog ran to the door and my end let him out. in in a few min- ites was the scratching at the door, and igain he lay down before the fire pant- ng. After an interval the farmer r marked in Welsh, quite in the way 0 sonversation, "I am not easy about those theep, I do believe they're in the a [he dog without rising looked u larmer, gave two sharp yelps, and tu sound to his sleep again. He said had been in ge plainly as though it 4 is been twice ? Don't be a fool; I've they're not in the corn.' -- They Toasted Him. death." friends, raising their glasses, "here's-long life to you, old man!" 7 PHUSH! 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