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
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led Alladin of old. It was set will)
diamonds and gems of priceless
worth, and his natural inclination
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ward the crown, hut as lie would
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ure an unseen hand would reach
forth and push him hack. Again
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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.
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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.
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Notice is herchy given that the
firm and partnership of W'il hy
and Dee, consisting of Charles M.
U'illcy and John W. Dee, doing a
general saw mill business on Wil
low Creek, Crook county, Oregon,
has been this day dissolved hy
mutual consent, Charles M. Willey
retiring from the firm. All ac
counts due said firm will he col
lected and receipted hy John W.
Dee, anil all accounts owing by
said firm will be paid by John V.
Dee.
John W. Dee.
Charles M. Willey.
Dated December 10th,. 1902.
NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION
Notice is hereby given that the
firm and partnership of White &
Campbell, doing business in the
City of Prineville, Crook County,
State of Oregon, is hereby dissolved
hy mutual consent, Mr. John W.
White retiring. All accounts due
said firm will he collected and re
ceipted for by Mr. J. E. Camplx-U,
and all accounts owing hy said firm
will he paid by Mr. J. E. Campbell.
Dated, this 4lh day of Novem
ber, 1902.
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