EVENING. , JT Arrant th skr. at frventldet -wo V dmwn a rosy curtain wltft. All noftly trathprtd to (he WmI, Where unn the nun wnuld link to rlt Th Bhadowir lengthened, one by on, j And lowr dipped the trtttn ran , Till, wrapped In foliii of brilliant rtd, it 1 He tank to rt upon hit bed. The rosy color filed away, tT And faded with the closing dayr The little blrdlea ceastnl 10 ln, .X'ik, And made a gvntl twltierina- !"t Jfc!' Aa, flying home to mom and ret, V They nought the shelter of the nwt, And over hill, and vile and dell. The peace of evening loltly fell I - The flowers gently folded up . v Their petals tn a pretty cup; 5' The muitiir.R (.... W-s fell slep. And liltit fciaiy tn-aan to peep. . Still fainter grew the wvslrn UgM v Till twilight m-lt-d into night, And Nature, as the moon arose, ' fjja Called cottely fur a iwttt repose. "Oh, htiPhV the rllver moonbeamt taW; Then, peeping tn upon eiu h htd j Where In y a little ehil.Msh form, AU rluslnd with sleep rtr; M?y warm, ' They whiprkd. as wlili k:s-s liKhrf, 1 They tmuhud the tumfail curie: "QootJ nUrhi! i Drpnm w.it!v little children r14r: Keet on, elfcvp on: The Night is here!" Constance M, Folks. Lowe, lit CaawU'i Little A TOLERABLY SMART BEAR GIL said didn't said he was miphty jylad he' have any pun, or he'd a fell all his life as if the mark of Cain was orandfd onto his brow. So he told me," mid the man from the '.nub' country to a New York Sun man. "The way it eame about, (iil hatl bten talkin' ' eorisir'ble for quit a spv-U, and J up : and pays, after while: ! " 'till I says, 'ain't therequitea pas-1 sil 0' lyin (lone about bears tip your ! way?' I says. j "Tauj-e tiil lives niph the hendwa-i iers, and nt- folks don't pit to po that : part o' tlse Kr.r.h country very often. : Consequence is that the thintrs we hear j from there every r.uw and ihen, per tiek'Iy when Gil come ilown and tjropg in on us over to the Eddy. pears to me runs pretty nigh to bein amazin. So 1 ays tn Gil: " 'Air.'t there quite a pastil o tyin' done about bears up your way ? I says. ' I pueM niebbe yui'd think wi says (iil, 'if yr.u'd ever hear, Teh iel or old Jorum, or even Eli's Sam pit to goin' about 'em some tine day,' says (iil. 'Lyin! I should say so! And it's a shame, too! Tbere ain't no sort o' need o' lyin' about hnr- ' ,ays he. "'Bears is toler'blt Vuiart 5ome times, thouph, up your way, ain't they? seivs I. "'A trifle says Gil, sort o' careless like. 'Jest a trifle. I take it, says he. "Then I didn't say no more, but turned to Reuben ar.d says that t hi tips was a leetJe backward this sprinp. wasn't they? Just as if I didn't care anything- more about Gil or his head water Itenrs. arA was. coin' to argue thin? more substantial, knowin that Gil want never pnin' to let me off that way. thouph, jest as well as I knowed he was ettin' there on the shoe box chawin' borried tobacco. "Reuben was pittin' all ready tn wiy F-omethin' about things hein back warder this spring than he had knowed 'em to be in 40 year, and then mention a few springs that corre tolpr'ble nigh bein' as backward a this tin, when Oil he shoves his hat to the back of his head and says: "'Smart!' he says. 'Headwaters hears fcmart? Why!' he says, 'don't you mind that un that played it. so .mart. on me Ia.t mrine? Don't you mind that un. Dan'l!' says he. "Reuben wiggled so over bein sot ' nek in his backward springin that I bought t first that he was aimfn to ke Oil hr the neck and shet him and 's bear off riirht on the start, but he '"dn't. He only jest s.nnrled a little, id setlfd back onto his cheerand tilt- 1 it agin the counler. '"IV.n't you mind that un, Dan'l?' f ays Gil. "I thunk a minute, and then T asked r"I if it was the one that had stole the :ne cord o' bark from him and run ' over and piled it up onto Gideon' : lideway. " 'Was that un the one, Gil?' I says, : -:d. by cats. Gil never winked or 1, linked or looked surprised. '"Xo he Fays, as unmitigated as c.uH be. 'No, Dan'l. that un ain't the ( re he says. 'I saminn ented that un. r' -n't you mind, and made hi 'J'""11' 1' 'ill nine cord o' bark back and nut it where he found it,' says Oil; and Reu 1 -n then did everlasin'ly snout, and I thought sure he wa boini' to choke Oil and his bear right off hand, but he C id n't. " 'last spring says Gil. not waitin' to ask or to be asked any more ques-ti-Ts, 'I rolled a bar'! 0' pork into my cibin. up along the headwaters, git tin refldy for bark-peelln The bar'I was chuck full o nice hunks o pork, "!car to the chimes, and when I opened ft to git out some o' ihe pork, a week t so afterward, dingbusted if at roueh ; a quarter of it wasn't gone. " 'Some consnrned thief or other-had -r caked into the cabin, opened the Wl, took out the pork and lugged it way, after headin' the bar'I up ag'in tight and snug as it was when I v: 'led it in. Dan'l, I was so 'tarnal -vid that the way I ripped and tone I ' et you could a cut chunks o warhin' ; ! ie out- o' the air a round that cabin. "'After while I sot down to try to ':'i:k up who it could be that was '"nlin my pork so sly and cunnin. ' rd who do you s'pose I thunk of ns - re'n likely bein' the on, Dan'? mvs Gil. ' 'Xot your pap, Gil I pays, 'was it ?' t.1 Reuben snorted right'out. Vans --very body knowed that folks said that -hen thing turned up missin' along e headwaters the first thing folks ' ne was to go see If them things Udn't sort o foltered Gil's old man home dtirin' the nifflit hef.ire, lint 0; h mi id no, he didn't lay it to hi. imp. "Tup wasn't in them pari jet then, DntiV my Gil, ih) I iMdji't hi, ft to pap hi.vs he. .No. It-wa old i. Unit 1 tlitmk of. " 'ONI Si wnacamptn not more'n tw roile from me, ami 1 had my ltlee altot. him. 80 I jtt anys that my pork h stuck to him some way and trot mil 1. my Ivailtwk-k. ' Hut it was mehhe a pood thtnp fe me that 1 thunk a teotle fnriter.lwfori l?ntn to old Si's and ilemnmiin my por' haek. I thunk a lettle fnn'er. an then tsnyawhat .v;i.s I thtttkin'iilioitt' " 'Old Si would (juii'k onntih ftu ten on to the pork all rijrht. but I never would have ffumptinn enmiirh t' head up a bar'I like that bar' I was hem! ed, after doiu' of it, 'T&in'tjuM Si 2 svtys. " 'So T jost sot down and thunk that tvo host way to find out who the smart thief was would be fer me to hide and wateh for him, and so I did. ' 'The second day o' watehln', Han't, I see a hip bear emie slouehin' out of the brush niph to the eabin, and : there T hmln'tno pun Me, iiviu aloiip the headwaters, knowin' the hentl- wnters as to bear, and bein there in the woods without a gun! I was mad and I was sorry, for 1 thought I inotit as well as not gather in a nice lot u' bear while I was watch in to see who stole my pork, and there I didn't have m pun, "'I was jest on the pint o' gittin' up and pitch in into the benr nnyhow, when I happened to think that if the pork thief eame along he'd more than likely have a gun. and that of course he'd knock over the bear, so that when I jumped out and took the consnrned thief by the nev k while he was londin' himself with my pork ap'in. I'd have a nice fat bear and a good pelt,, besides, pit t in the pork thief. So I laid low and said nothin'. " 'The bear, he nosed around a spell, and then elim one o1 the corner poles o' the cabin to the roof, edged along to the chimly. nnd then let himself down the chimlv right into the cabin. I didn't suspicion the bear, even then, Dan'l savs Gil. 'but I sneaked up to the 1 winder ami peeked through. I "'Say, you ci-uld a tumbled me over with a chippy bird's feather, I was so flabbergasted over what f seen! The bear was a work in' at the pork bnr'l. and a good deal quu-ker than 1 could a done it myself he unheaded that bar'I! Yes, sir. Dan'l! T01 k off the top hoon and lifted out the head o the bar'I! " 'Then the benr took out two n'ce hunks of pnrk. . He sot there and eat them while 1 was lookin at him. Then he licked his paws and his chops, took out another hunk o' pork, laid it on the floor, headed up the bar'I ns slick as a boss cooper could a done it, took the hunk o' pork under his arm, skim up the chimly like n monkey, dropped to the ground as easy as nothin'. and trotted off into the brush, grinnin' enough to make a feller crazy, before I could say boo! " 'Dan'l says Gil, 'then I was ptad I didn't have no gun. If I'd a killed that bear savs he, 'I'd a felt all my life as if the mark o Cain was branded onto my brow!' says he. "And jest as mild as could be, Reuben without ever teeterln' his chair level, gays to Gil: " 'Don't knaw but what you mawt a well have the mark o Cain on your brow says he, 'as to have Ananias and Sapphiry stamped all over you plniner than the brands on an army mule!' says Reuben. "I didn't say nothing, but jest thunk what kind o' things it must be that Jekiel. or old Jorum, fir even Eli's Sam mowt be able to tell about headwaters bears when they got to goin'." Seat to Chnreh aa Ponlahment. A group of army officers was talking over experiences at the Grand hotel one evening lately. There waff also a naval officer and two or three civilians in the group. The naval officer had told of going to sleep in church at Annapolis, dreaming that he was fall ing out of a buppv, and awakening to ! find that his dream came near enough the truth to net him ten demerit marks. "That makes me think of an episode at one of the western army posts some years' ago," said F. C. Elevens, of Oma ha, one of the civilians, "I was not one of the victims, but I had the story from one of them. The captain at this post was a religious man, and every Sunday he sent all the prisoners in the guard room Hilirrh The nhn i.l-i in 'very lnri-winrletl, and the prisonem rebelled. I hey finally Kticeeeiied in getting a. board r-f investiat ion to look into tile matter. The board de cided, after due investigation, that this part of the punishment was not allow able, in that it wan not only 'unusual,' but also 'cruel.' " "That will do for a civilian," laughed the officers, and two of them left the hotel for the theater. N. Y. Tribune. Dying mm Fiuit as ftb Conld. William Pniette, the firiper, was one of a group of married men who were diwiusing housekeeping and aervants the other evening in a 1'hiladelpfcia ho tel corridor. He told of a girl who served him and Mr. Pruette well enough while they were living ire a New York flat several years ago, and who one day went to Mrs. Pruette in tears and asked permisKiontogohnme for a few days he had a telegram telling that her mother was ill. "Of course, go," said Mrs. Pruette "only, Maggie, do not stay longer than is necessary. We need you." Maggie promised to return as soon as possible, and hurried away. A week passed wiihont a word from her; then came a note by mail, reading: "Deer Miss Pruete i will be back nex week an plese kep niy place for me, mother is dying as fast as she can. To oblidge jft "Maggie." T'ft 4' Cleveland Plain Dealer. A WlldMorr. Alxuit a your ugo, an old man (15 yours (if iigi, ciuno tn Sulnn 'nun jim rti unknown with one of tlio wildest Mont's over sprung n" an iiiU'Ilinont community. 110 tidd of having litrn n irnsH)c tor and mining expert for -10 years, with mom or less success and of many strange happenings to him elf in that time, That he was a chemist of extraordinary ability lin amply demonstrated, and he' also claimed to have discovered a dry process for washing gold, that was a marvel. His wild story was fn connec tion with a southern Oregon prospecting trip, when he happen ed to tind an unknown cave. This cave he entered, so he relates, nnd upon looking ii round the cave saw a numher of skeletons, of prehistoric giants, which he claims must have Urn at least eight feet 111 hcighth. In the center of those skeletons, eight in number, he caught sight of a golden crown, which for heauty would have start led Alladin of old. It was set will) diamonds and gems of priceless worth, and his natural inclination of greed prompted him to w alk to ward the crown, hut as lie would get within a few yards of the treas ure an unseen hand would reach forth and push him hack. Again and again did he try to reach it, until, as he said he was completely worn out. .Sore puzzled, and cha grined, he made his wav hack to camp and got his wife to accom pany hini,hut when they reached the sHt where the cave had hcen it had disappeared as completely as if swallowed up hy mother earth. He solicited aid in the capital city to help hunt for this mythical will o' the wisp, and the strangest part of all, was that some Ik h ived his torv. Itl-EBB l.lcenke At AnhlBtld. report from Ashland says the city council of that city Iidh voted on the question of saloon license, as required hy the charter. The vote was a tie, three for and three against. The mayor cast the do- filling vote for granting license, and an order jras made to draw up regulations for the government of saloons and to prescribe the rate of license which are to lie voted upon at the adjourned meeting held next Thursday. Under the charter, the minimum license fee is SOO, and it is understood that it will he put at that figure. There are three applications for saloon licenses, and the mayor stated that he was already advised that then would he five. A tax lew of in mills was made for the year l!!0o Kx. I'urtnerslilp Ml ssolulion. 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