THE , OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL; PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING, 'AUGUST 4, 1007.
REMINISCENCES OF A NATURE FAKER
John Kendrick Bangs Writes Entertainingly of the Bears That Manned a Trolley Line
(Copyright, 107, by Joseph BV Bowles.)
THERE was considerable excitement
In and about the postoffice. The
humdrum placidity of life In the
Village of Mouaa.ni had been sub-
jected'to very material disturb
ance in the acandaloua behavior of an
alleged bear that, taking advantage of
a beautiful moonlight night, had come
, down to the rock-bound edgea of the sea
and without waiting for the formality
of an Introduction had hugged one of
the "lady boardera" at the Inglenook,
who was Bitting thereon gazing out
upon the rest leas waters of the ocean,
and doubtless fined with romantic
dreams of what might have been. Miss
Susan Weevil., the heroine of the esca
pade, was a woman of many angles and
an uncertain number of years. Her age
varied from 37 to 43. according" to trie
temper of the various sewing circlea on
the hotel plana to whom the subject
had proved Interesting enough for dis
cussion, and there is no denying that
she would have been considered plain in
any community whatsoever from Boa
ton to the unexplored fastnesses of the
Congo. The persistence of her maiden
ly estate was one of the few thing In
life which needed no explanation. One
glance at her face, which suggested
Washington and the cherry tree epi
sode so poignantly hatchet-like It was,
was prima facie evidence that no man
had ever dared smile upon It, and that
minute, leaps over the back dashboard,
an' landln' in a snowdrift up to his
nock.
Chucked Into the Snow.
"Gee!" cried SI Wotherspoon. 'That
motorman had his hands full."
"He would ha' had If the bears had
been in a flghtln mood," said the cap.
tain. "But ye see, they wasn't They
was Jest out for a trolley ride, an' was
as good natured 's a jackass In a thistle
patch. All they done was to grab the
motorman around the waist when he
tried to shove 'em. an' chuck him over
board. Fortunately for him the snow
wasn't very hard packed, an' when he
landed It was like fallln' into a pretty
oernea aamp reatnerbed. He feu flat
on nis stummlck lengthwise, an' went
down two or three foot In snow without
even so much as a scratch."
"I'd ha' thought the bears might ha'
on mm, saia me postmaster.
"Well, maybe they would have," re
turned the captain, "but ye see he had
on a big bear-skin overcoat an' a cap
an' gloves made o' the same material
pulled down over his ears an' on his
hands, and I guess they thought he was
one of their party tryln" to get fresh.
Anyhow they chucked him overboard
Into the snow, and went boundin' merri
ly along On their way to Portsmouth."
"Warn't there no oolllslons?" asked
81 Wotherspoon. I
cornea I want to lie In a ccmetary, with
a nice slab o' Vermont marble speak
o' my virtues laid a' top o' me, an'.beln
burled on th' Inside of a bear aln t
never appealed to my sense o' the nt
ness o' things.'
"You wouldn't have no trouble Jyln'
anywheres." said 81 Wotherspoon.
"That's as it may be. HI," grinned the
rami in "All th same nwi n
n'tlcular minute I wasn't hankerln' to
be stowed away Inside that animll e
stummlck. As I says, I done some quic
nothln' 'but my fish-rod, hook and line
and mv lunch, I had to use them agin
h in,i.ar ivhlukln' onen the basket
I grabbed up the piece o' raw beefsteak,
tin' fastened It to the fishhook, backin
iniv onnv m I done It. Then I made
a cast with It right In the path o' Mis
ter rtruln. It kind o' surprised him.
an' I guess the cllckln' o' my reel as
th' lln ran out skeered him a little,
because he stopped for a second an
glared at me. Then he got down on
all fours an' walked up to the steak,
sniffed It, an' with a roar of pleasure
gobbled It down, hook and line, likes
If It wasn t no more n a sieamea ciam.
Didn t even chew it.
That was luckv."' observed the post
master. Might have broken the nook
If he had."
"Go on. said Bi wotnerspoon, Dreatn
lesslv. "What d ye do next. Captain?'
I played mat lener line s ye would
sammon." said the captain. "Boon's
he'd swallered th' steak I reeled him
consequently she was walking the prim
rose path of life alone. Nevertheless,
much sympathy was lavished upon the
i lady for her soul-stirring experience
. that night upon the rocks, although a
few educated cats In laces and ribbons
paused in their afternoon games of
; bridge long enough to congratulate her,
, not upon her escape from serious in
1 I Jury, but upon what must, In her place,
, have been a new and not altogether un-
pleasant experience.
- iBear Hugging for a Joke.
" "It's curious though how It could be,"
aid the postmaster, when the news
1 reached the Nature takers' circle. 'They
ain't been any bears seen around here
for nigh onto 10 years."
"Maybe it wasn't a bear at all," put
In SI Wotherspoon. "I sort of has my
. suspicions that some one o' them
Wlllleboys up to the Inglenook done it
"JBver seen the lady, SIT' asked the
captain.
"Don't know as I have," returned
81
"Well, If ye had ye wouldn't suspl
clon no man of havin' done it," said the
. ospwn. ones one o tnese here wlm
roe.n as makes ye think some human
bein's had out to be pervided with a
safety face so's it won't cut ye, like
mem new rang led hoe razors they're
sellin' up f th' hardware store. I be-
iieve u was a Dear just as they says
it was, because I don't think nothln' but
a bear would o hugged jest that kind
o a lady."
"Then ye don't think bears has in
telligence?" asked the postmaster.
"I ain't sayin" they ainX got tntelll-
fence, Joe," replied; the- eaptato. "But
sort o questions In my own mind if
the dern critters has taste. I do know
they ve got a great deal of humor
and it may be that hear done that hug
gin Jest or a Joke, I don't know but
that beats is most as full o" fun as
monkies. Remember the time when the
trolley first came through Joe how
six of 'em got aboard the front plat
form one dark night an' in the dark the
motorman thought they was a lot o'
farmers with their fur coats on?"
"No, I don't," said the postmaster.
Bruins Board a Trolley.
"Ton ain't got a very good mem'ry,"
said the captain. "It was right up thero
back or my farm where the line runs
through the woods. It was a terrible
cold December night, an' the car was a
boundin' along at about 10 miles an
, ' hour, with the conductor an' motorman
Inside tryin' to keep warm. These six
fellers made a jump for it as th' car
passed through the woods. They was
seven in all, but one o' 'em slipped on
the snow an' got left. Th' other six
landed all right, an' stood in a row
along the front o' the dashboard with
their noses snifftn,' in the cold al as
!bL"pUB "J0"8' an th'- backs turned
. , to th front door o' the car Ajs soon
Stiffen?" th" c0nJor opened the
wtvrv J C UIBUHA alt' sst.
Come inside, gentlemen. It s agin' the
rules d th' comp'ny for passenger to
; stand on the front platform.' The bear
. didn't pay no attention whatsoever but
. jest kep' on snlfffn' the cold air. Then
th conductor hollers out: 'Fare ri .... '
through the little hole In the door eelic-
Itln no response from the parties in
front,- This sort o' made the conductor
, mad, an V callin' on the motorman for
assistance, be went out on the platform
tn collect or to put 'era off. He walk.
tip to the middle one as cool ' ye please,
an tapped him on ' hi shoulder. 'See
)i era. young feller.' he begun, but be
id n't say no more, for lust then the
- leir turns sround. and the conductor
seen how it was, an' with a yeu.o ter
ror he Jumps back: into the -car, slams
'the doof to. leavin' the motorman out in
front with the bears and makes a break
tor Ike rear pluUorm, goin' xniie a
"No," said the captain. 'They only
run one oar after midnight, an' this
was the last trip until mornin'. For
that reason they wasn't no serious dam
midge done."
'They must of ended up somewhere,"
said the postmaster.
"They did," assented the captain.
'They run along without no interrup
tion whatsomever until they come to
the dock down by Klttery where the
trolley ends. About that n int the track
havln exhausted Itself, the car left the
tracks, Dounded over the wharf, an
jumped down onto the Ice In the river
an' slid half way aoross to Portsmouth,
where they found it next day. What be
come of the bears I don't know, but the
details o' this story as I give 'em to
you is exactly as they was given to me
by the oonductor and the motorman."
Meets Bear in Woods.
"Well, I'm glad they didn't come fool-
in' round me," said Si Wotherspoon. "I
should hardly know what to do in case
I got into a muss with a bear.'
"It's a queer thing about that," said
the captain. "Th' instinct of self-
preservation will almost alters tell ye
what f do when ye get into a tight
place. I remember the first time I run
onto a bear up Mount Agamentlcus. I
didn't have no weppins with me other
than a fish-rod an' my lunch basket.
We'd Just had a pretty hard winter an'
It sort o'llngered in the lap o' spring,
an' all the bears that had been sleeping
in their holes through the oold spell
hibernatin's 's what the maKtryzIno
writers calls it was hungry enough to
eat the head off an iron hltchln' post.
I got kind o thirsty for trout one
mornin', so I done up my lunch basklt.
filled her full o doughnuts, an a oIk
hunk o' beefsteak, an' a bottle o' cold
coffee, an' started for a day's flshln' up
in Bill Durkln's brook. Everythln' went
all right till I got up near the top n'
the mountain, when what should I sea
comln' towards me, walkln' In his hind J
legs, an growun nice a tromDone at a
band concert, but a great big black
bear. His eyes was red an' glltterln'
like them otter-mobyle lamps an' he
was wavln' his paws in my direction s
much as to say, 'I gorry that feller
looks like my breakfast.' "
"Couldn't ha been very particular
bout what he eat," suggested Si Woth
erspoon.
There be times when I aln t myself.
St." returned the captain, suavely. "If
ye'd go four months without eatln'
nothln' I guess ye wouldn't kick about
the food ye got neither. An' that was
the case with that bear. I suddosb I
looked good to him, an' he wasn't wait
in' for no head waiter to show him
where to set, ner no gal to tell him
what was on the bill o' fare neither. I
was his pie, flap-Jacks, beans an' cof
fee, an to Jedge from the look In his
eye he was goln' to take It all in at one
mouthful.
Angling for Bruin.
"Well, sir, my heart stopped beatln'
for a minute, an' then begin f wabble
between my mouth an' my shoes. Run
nln' was out of the question, because
I had on big rubber boots comin' up to
my hips, an' what's more, a bear havin'
four legs can run twice as fast as a
man havin' only two."
"Stands to reason, don't it, Cap'nT"
put in the postmaster.
Twice two ain't never less 'n four,"
?f.I?eT caPin. "Reallsin' that
thS? 3,4 .n 1 try t0 run- an' 1 knowed
tnat climbin' a tree warn't goln' to 3o
hAi08,?0 because tree climbin' is a
hSVu ..!.40 some quick thinkln';
ne was gettin' nearer all the tim on'
r n' my wife- waa quarrelin'
wasn't
In tight, and Jumped behind a tree. The
line bothered him some, an' he gave it
a couple of swipes with his paws, an"
then, seeln' me laffln'. he gave a growl
like a clap o' thunder an' made for me
at full speed. I gave him line enough
around the tree and then when he come
up by It I played out about three yards,
an' run behind him. By slow degrees
I got him all tangled up, an' after a
half an hour's manooverln . tackln' this
way an' tackln' that, I had him bound
up to the trunk as hard an' fast as a
papoose to a board on a squaws back.
I don't know, but I guess that was th'
only time a 700-pound bear was ever
caught with a trout line loaded with
raw beefsteak."
Teddy Sore on Bears.
"What ye do with him?" asked the
postmaster.
1 came back later with a gun an'
dispatched him,' said the captain. "We
fed on bear for two months th' follerln'
summer, an' the' overcoat I wear In th'
winters is the very same one he wore
when I got him.'
Well, with proof that I don't guess
we need go no farther in satisfying
ourselves as to the truth of the story,
Cap," said the postmaster, wearily.
"Nevertheless, as the local rep'sentatlve
of th' administration, I ain't commlttin'
myself on the subject. I'll have to write
to the postmaster general an' find uot
what my duty is In the matter."
"Go ahead," retorted the captain.
"Write to the president himself if ye
want tc only I wouldn't If I was you.
He's sore on the subject o' bears."
"What makes ye think so?" demanded
the postmaster.
"well. I'd be sore if I was him," said
the captain, rising to leave. "If I was
th' most famous hunter in the world,
an' after chasin' grizzlies all through
me rtocKy mountains, savage cinnamons
in the nortwest, an' hand 1 In' poler bears
in the arctic circle. I only had a small
plush thing stuffed with sawdust like
them Teddy bears named after me. I
think Id be kind o' sensitive about
bears, an' I'd discharge any gol-durned
officeholder that so much as mentioned
the critters to me."
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BUSINESS BUILDINGS
AT NORTH POWDER
(Specl.l Dlrtch to The JoerntL)
North Powder, Or., Aug. 3. The
North Powder Produce company having
completed its new 10 Ox 4 0-foot ware
house on Second street, the same con
tractor, T. J. Norval, will begin Monday
the erection of a second warehouse on
Railroad street, with a frontage of 100
feet, 60 feet deep, the elevator 80 feet
high and 60x40 feet.
Constable Shrouds has a neat two
story. eight-room house in course of
construction, and four more dwelling
houses will be under way next week.
The Methodist Episcopal church,
which Is nearlng completion, promises
to be the most attractive building In
town.
AUTHORESS HAD
OVER
Elinor Glyn Objects to Being
Featured as Apostle
of Free Love.
DENIES INDORSEMENT
OF HEROINE'S VIEWS
RAILROAD BOOSTS
WALLOWA'S MINING
(Special IMsptteb to The JoarntL
Enterprise, Or., Aug. 3. Ever since
the survey of a railroad from Hunting
ton to Lewlston, the mining interests In
Wallowa county have become active,
as the railroad will enable the owners
and operators of mines along Snake
river to ship their ore. Several mine
owners are now having surveys made
of their claims for the purpose of pro
ducing patents. A bond for a deed was
executed recently, the consideration for
which, was J82.600, for several claims
lying near the Snake river. The ore in
Wallowa county lying alone the Snake
river la principally copper.
Author of "The Visits of Elizabeth"
and "Three Weeks" Annoyed by
Stories In Hearst Papers Will
Boon Be Guest of Mrs. Vanderbilt.
From a Staff Correspondent.
London. Aug. 8. Elinor Glyn, whose
rather daring novel. "Three Weeks," Is
attracting so much attention in this
country, is considerably annoyed by an
Interview with her, recently published
In the Hearst newspapers. She says
that the writer has doubtless uninten
tionally distorted her views "in a fash
Ion that Is likely to do serious injury
to her standing In ths Unite? States.
Ths subject of this Interview was
Mrs. Olyn's new book which the head
lines over the article described as "a
novel of yery free Jove" and In the
course of It ths definite Impression Was
given that the views of the passionate
Russian woman who serves as Mrs.
GJa's latest heroine are also those of
the authoress herself. This Mrs. Olyn
declares is far from being the case.
Again the interviewer quoted her as
stating that a few persons in whose
Judgment she had confidence begged
her not to publish her book on the
ground of Its supposed Immorality a
statement which the author character
ises as "quite untrue."
Incensed Over Interview.
Mrs. Olyn, who also was described
by the American interviewer as an "at
tacker of law-bound emotions," Is espe
cially resentful over being thus mis
represented in the United States, as she
is to make a visit to America in (Sep
tember, a trip to which she is looking
rorward with the keenest pleasure, one
Is to be the guest of Mrs. Vanderbilt.
"What I actually said to the author
or tnat interview." oDservea Mrs. uiyn,
"was that the art of writing is to be
able to put oneself into one's work so
thoroughly that one sees only from the
heroine's or hero's point of view for the
time. I explained that, were I writing
of a nun, I would see the nun's point
of view Dernaps narrow and ascetic-
were I writing of a poodle I would not
make him have the reelings or a duii
dog, but his own, whatever my personal
Views were. And In the case of "Three
Weeks' I was making an absolute study
of a fierce Slav woman with a splendid
soul and passionate material instincts
I was making no attack on 'Law-
bound emotions.'
Brands Stories as Xdes.
The statement contained in the In
terview that "a few people in whom I
nave great confidence as to their judg
ment nave reaa -rnree weens, ana
begged me not to publish it, fearing
that it will hurt me, owtftgto its what
they call Immorality" is cfsge untrue.
What I said was that one woman friend
to whom I was attached bad said this,
but that several people in whose judg
ment I had great confidence had said it
was splendid, and advised me to publish
it, and that my conviction that it was a
rood book was so strong that I had to
stand by my own judgment."
"Th nk." Mrs. Glyn added, "of the ef
fect of all this in America that I am a
kind of advocate for free love and other
vulvar thin Kg. instead of an artist who
understands ,how to create pictures of
truth In whatever subject she writes
about. Certainly an entirely falsa Im
pression has been given to numbers of
Americans both of me and ray work
and the actual facts. I do not think it
fair or kind, and as I love Americans
and have always been in svmnathv with
them I hate the thought of their being
led to misunaersiana me.
Critics Hall New Book.
The theme of her new book is, of
course, a love episode between a reign
ing queen and a young Englishman
whose "soul" the heroine endeavors to
awaken, and though the book has been
severely "slated" In some quarters
vu Vila Biuuim Ul ItB imUAUOH 111
.details, reviewers are not wanting who
nave nanea u as a genuine achieve
rami ana a, consioeraoie advance on
xne visits or unzaoeth. '
KLAMATH OUTFIT ON
NEW TRACTION LINE
(Soaelal Dlsptcb to Th Jorrasl.)
Salem, Or., Aug. 3. A large number
of men and about to horses for use
on ths new Salem and Portland electric
line passed through Salem yesterday.
Ajivse iuivo uwn ompiuyea on me lrrl
gatlon canal of the Klamath project
The horses were driven from the south.
em part of the state, some hitched to
wagons ana me remainder in a drove.
The party camped last night on a farm
near the state fair grounds. 'They
nuirieu ijiiv muining 10 meir destina
tion, a short distance north of Chem-awa.
PIONEER'S BURIAL
IN KING'S VALLEY
(SoecUl Dispatch to The Journal.)
Corvallls, Or, Aug. 3. Mrs. John S.
Miller, whose funeral occurred in
Kings Valley, Benton county, Tuesday,
was an Oregon pioneer who had lived
In this section since 1852, when she ar
rived with her parents, Mr; and Mrs.
John Bodge rs, at Wells. The cause of
death was paralysis, with which she
was affected only four days.- Her aire
was 70 years. The funeral services were
conducted by T. T. Vincent and inter
ment was in the Kings Valley ceme
tery. ;
LUMBER SHIPPERS
CHARGE OVERCHARGE
Alaska Lumber Company Complains)
of Northern Pacific to Inter
state Commission.
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(Wsshlnffton BuTaa of Ths Jberaat) ,
ashlngton, Aug. 3. The Alaska
Lumber company of Seattle has filed
a complaint with the Interstate com
merce commission alleging that ths
Northern Pacific and connecting lines
via Billings charged It overweight on
cedar shingles shipped from Edgecomb,
Washington, to El Paso, Texas, making;
excess charges on one car $137. It is
also alleged that a joint rate is effec
tive but that the railroads charged on
the basis of a combination of rates)
based on deliver .
EDWARD REVIEWS
TIfE RECORD FLEETS
(Journal Special Berries.)
Portsmouth, England, Aug. . Tw9
hundred warships, constituting Eng
land's home fleet, today paraded bafors ,
the king and aueen. Thev were snread :
out in seven lines between the Isle of
Wight and the Hampshire shore. It was
the first time so many British warships
were ever seen together under one ad
miral. The royal yacht steamed 11
miles up and, down between the ships.
Thirty-five thousand officers mnA men
were on board the warships, -.
A Magnate in Embryo.
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mottoes and sentiments given
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