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TWELFTH YEAR
HEPPNER, MORROW COUNTY, OREGON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1894.
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"GREATGRIZZEIESr
The Immense Bears That Roam
tbe Woods of Manitoba.
Larger Than Any Others of the Sam.
Family In the I nlti d Btntes TliouKh
Still to Uo l onncl T.ioj ,Vre .Not Ho
Kuiueruus as Formerly'.
Fifteen years ago, says a Manitoba
pioneer in the Chicago Times, the
irrizzly bear was so plentiful among;
the .Manitoba Uockios that the Hudson
Bay company annually secured many
hundreds of their skins from the army
of hunters and trappers that had its
range in that wild region. Hut to-day
this fierce and ponderous beast no
where so fierce or of such enormous
proportions as among the Manitoba
fastnesses is quite a rarity in its old
haunts, and I doubt if one can now be
come upon without a difficult and
tedious journey of at least three nun
dred miles into the interior wilderness
of the province. The grizzly has met
I with almost as hard a fate as the buffa'
lo, although, from the nature and isola
tion of its present retreats and the
dimculties attendant on hunting and
trapping for it, the grizzly bear, like
the Manitoba moose, will never be'
come extinct in that country.
1 know no reason why the grizzly
bear of the Manitoba Itockies should
grow so much larger than the grizzly of
the same mountains in the states, but a
long and varied experience in hunting
these animals in their respective 1
calities has proved to mo tliat such is
the fact. No grizzly bear that I ever
captured, or that I ever knew to be
captured south of Manitoba measured
more than seven feet and a half from
muzzle to tail or weighed more than
twelve hundreds pounds. Hut it was
no uncommon thing in the palmy dnyf
of grizzly bears in Manitoba for the
hunter or trapper to be confronted by
one ol tnese monsters nine feet in
length and with a bulk of fifteen hun
oreci pounds or more. 1 nave seen
Manitoba grizzlies that, when they
tnrew themselves on their haunche
and rose erect, towered five and six
feet above me, and I want to tell you
that it takes a man with lurjre tiuan
tity and the best quality of nerve to
stand in that tremendous presence and
prepare to do battle coolly and witli a
level head, tirizzly bears, like all tin
rest of the bear family, have the curious
habit of rising against a tree, and,
Reaching up as far as they can with
their forepaws, malting marks in the
bark by digging in with their claws.
have more than once come across these
measuring m:irks of a grizzly, as the
marks on the bark are culled, twelve
feet above the ground. Imagine com
iug suddenly upon a buast like that in
some deep ravine or isolated spot al
most impassable owing to the down
timber heaped and tangled on the
ground and surrounded by rooks and
thick underbrush. The sight of hi
great jaws, open and red, and his eyes
Hashing in fury at you from the enor
mous head that towers so far above
you, is something only to be appre
ciated when once seen.
When there were buffaloes on the
plains Manitoba grizzly bears were
keen and persistent hunters of them.
When a grizzly and a bulfalo met there
was sure to be a fearful contest, al
though It seldom lasted long, and the
buffalo was usually the victim. The
buffalo bull when confronted by a bear
would invariably charge ferociously
upon its big and ugly foe. This was
just what the bear desired and he
waited erect on his haunches the onset
of the buffalo. As the latter rushed
forward with lowered head and was
almost upon the bear, the immense
grizzly threw himself quickly to one
side and with a blow as quiek as light-nin-r
with one of his great forepaws
seldom failed to break his antagonist s
neck. A Manitoba grizzly has been
known to engage in rapid succession,
four and even live infuriated buffalo
bulls, and kill every one of them. It
somotimes happened thougli that a bull
younger and more agile than his com
panion succeeded in evading the fatal
blow of the grizzly's terrible paw long
enougli to give in turn a deadly thrust
of his horn into the bear's side, punc
turing the vitals, and making the con
test a mutual slaughter.
In general characteristics, of course,
the Manitoba grizzly is not in any way
different from others of the family.
While I believe that a grizzly bear will
sometimes wait and precipitate a fight
with a man, and take pains to put him
self in the way of one, in the great ma
jority of cases he will take a second
thought about the matter and back
out. A queer instance of this disposi
tion came to my knowledge once where
a famous Manitoba guide courageously
advanced upon three grizzlies, an old
she one and two half-grown cubs, and,
by a series of ridiculous monkey shines
and acrobatic maneuvers within a rod
or two of the threatening licars, filled
them with such astonishment and ap
parent fear that they retreated to the
woods as fast as they could go.
The hunter's gun had snapped in
both barrels, he having drawn on the
old bear before the young ones came
upon the scene. It wos in a fit of
desperation that he tried the turning
of a handspring and jumping up and
down, clapping his hnnds and resorting
to other unhunterlike measures. He
had been told once that a hunter had
frightened a mountain lion away by
similar absurd movements, and lie
found that it worked to perfection in
the case of the tliree grizzly bears, but
he never, even in the face of that fact,
advised or encouraged anyone to go
hunting Manitoba or any other kind of
grizzlies armed with nothing more
than a capacity to turn grotesque
somcrsaulls.
Bruise
YUUNG BUT A WISE OBSERVER.
What a Little French Girl Saw at a Hall
to Amuso Her.
The little French girl stood at my
elbow while I wrote. She was leaning
on the window sill, one little hand sup
porting her black head, says a writer
in the New York Advertiser. Far across
the lawn she could hear the rise and
fall of music and the sound of laughter
and of tripping feet. Red and pink
lanterns swung from the balconies in
the night breeze. I was very lonely.
It wasn't complimentary to the little
French girl, but the little French girl
did not care for dancing and I did.
Suddenly she gave a little laugh.
"Why are you giggling?" I asked
rather crossly.
"Because the world amuses me," she
murmured.
A very good reason, to be sure. But
when the world amused me I never
laughed. Patinette is more than
clever for ten years, and more bizarre
in her notions than clever, so I asked:
"Why does it amuse you?"
"Well, par example, is it not bete to
dance, to dance always one way, round
and round, with no aim to get nowhere,
only to go round, to twirl?"
"Yes; very stupid."
"And is it not bete to stay up till
twelve when one's bed is ready at
eight and one's eyes sleepy? And is it
not stupid to wear a decollete gown
and long gloves when one's arms are
prettier than one's neck? The world
m'ainusc!" And she laughed softly to
herself, and I could not help thinking
what she said was true; and I no longer
envied the merry-makers, but thought
anyone would envy me my solitude a
deux and my intellectual companion.
Some moods need only a straw to bal
ance them.
TWO SIDES TO THE QUESTION.
In Flttlnfr Spectacle Bows to the Ears
Both Must Be Considered.
Having selected a pair of frames with
a nose piece of the right height and
spread to bring the glasses into the
proper position, and having had them
fitted with glasses made in accordance
with the oculist's prescription, the op
tician now proceeds to fit tho com
pleted spectacles to your head, says the
New York Sun. You might put them
right on and wear them off just as
they are.
But no, he reaches over and places
the bows over your ears himself. Then
he tries the spectacles gently, as they
rest upon your nose, taking hold at
the outer ends of the frame, where the
bows hinge. Not just right, lie takes
them off again and smooths the bows
out between the tips of his fingers and
changes their shape a little and tries
them again. Better, but not just right
j'ot. He takes them again, and
smooths out and bends in a little
more. You observe as he hands them
to you, as lie does this time, that the
bows have not only been changed
somewhat in shape, but now they vary
in sweep and curve. You put them on
and find that they fit perfectly and very
comfortably, lie touches them and
finds them right and says so.
- Senator Harris' Plain Living.
Senator Harris, of Tennessee, is not
one of the bon vivants of the higher
body of national legislation. He is
very democratic in his gustatory tastes;
a pair of hard-boiled eggs and a bottle
of beer off the ice is his favorite lunch
in summer, and during the R months he
cats raw oysters covered with red pep
per, never lorgetling the cold bottle of
beer.
WOKE HIM UP AT LAST.
How a Blocplns; Telegraph Operator Was
Aroused to Duty.
There is a good story about a tele-
grnph operator who once worked the
land wires in the Duxbury cable oflice
going to sleep one night and a message
having to be sent six or seven thou
sand miles to wake him up. The oper
ator is now a practicing physician in
Cambridge, Mass., but before annexing
M. U. to his name was one of the gilt-
edge telegraphers of the country, says
a writer in Donahoe's Magazine.
One night while on duty in the Dux-
bury office he fell asleep at his key.
The sleep wos a sound one. The New
York operator called till out of
patience, when he sent a message to
Boston requesting the chief operator
in charge to tell Duxbury to answer
Iew York. The sleeper, however, was
as deaf to Boston's "Di, as to the
impatient characters flashed on from
New York.
In the cableroom next the sleeping
operator was the cable artist. The
room was dark and he was watching
the mirror for the tiny sparks that in
those days went to make up a message.
To him Die Morse alphabet was all
Greek, so the sleeper slept on. !
Seeing no other way out of the
muddle and thinking the operator
asleep, New York called Canso in Nova
Scotia and addressed a message to the
calde operator at Duxbury. The mes
sage read: ;
"(Jo into the other room and wake up
that operator."
( anso sent it to Heart's Content in
Newfoundland; Heart's Content
rushed it across the deep to Valentin.
From there it went to London, thence
U) Hover, and across the channel to
Calais and to Brest. lirc:,t kept it
moving on to Miquclon and Miiicon
gave the cable operator at Duxbury a
unique surprise. The sleeper was then
aroused, about eleven minutes having
icen taken by the grand round of the
:ablegnim. He tried to explain mat
ters by telling New York he was out
f adjuKtmwit. The story didn't 1111-;
press the olncials as lieing truthful, '
and in a day or two there was a vacancy '
n Duxbury.
THE SOLDIER'S WORK.
4
ItaRuliirs Labor tho Mme m Any Other
Currying a tfiin ari-l shouting when
yon an- orc.eivtl t- snoot is a bum n ess
Die wtiin; as laying-bri,;k or rmikinjf a
boiler to the ;:vera;c rtulur HoMicr,"
Nti:! one of tho privates of a company
oil fruuiil at the custom Jiou.sa during i
thi; 'rvfit strike. the UlW'flo
Highest of all in Leavening
IX assess
Absolutely pube
ued, "wh-j call themselves laboring
people, and jeer at us and insult us,
seem .o forget that when a man
enters the regular army in times of
peace lie doesn't do it from any par
ticular motive of patriotism. It is a
buMuess with him, and it has less of
feeedom in it than any class of labor
that 1 know anyhting about. A regu
lar is absolutely under the eyes of his
superior day and night. He can't go
across the street without permission.
He has requirements made of him every
hour in the day. lie undergoes about
as many privntionsas any laboring man
I ever heard of. I wonder if some of
these civilians who think proper to jeer
at us, and insult us, as many have done
in Chicago, ever stop to realize what we
have done for their welfare and good
in other times? I wonder if they think
we have been kept, sometimes for
months and years, away from the civil
ization which has given them so many
advantages? I wonder if they think
we aiv dohv this thing for our health?
the regular private is as much a labor
ing man as any now on a strike: he
is under a contract, the violation of
which means disgrace if not death. And
yet it iTin..ir.cd for us, who have
been mnoug Indians and snowstorms
an.l nil privations, to come here, under
orders, to be insulted and spitefully
used."
THE ORIGIN OF TATTOOING.
It Dales So I ar Illicit Thnt It Is Lost In
Antiquity.
Tattooing dales back so far that it is
impossible to discover when it was first
practiced, hut it was one of the prac
tices that wero prohibited to the .lews,
fur in Leviticus 1 11:28, is the follow
ing: "Ye shall not make any cuttings
in your ilesh for the dead, nor print
any marks upon you." From this it
may be inferred that tattooing was
prevaleut in the days of Moses. It is a
custom that prevails among the savage
nations of the earth and tattooing is
practiced to this day, except where
Christianity and civilization have put
a stop to it, It was at one time years
ago, and is yet, but not to such a
marked degree, a fad among sailors to
nave various designs placed on the
body. It was also a fad among a cer
tain class of silly women to have their
lover's name tattooed ou the arm or
breast. There are sailors in almost
every seaport at this time who are will
ing for a consideration to place figures
on the llesh of any who are foolish
enough to have disfiguring marks
driven beneath the surface of the skin
with needle points dipped into coloring
matter.
MOURNING FOR SNAKES.
Mew England Hcplll.-n Must Be Taking
Their Vacation.
Whenever you say: "This is a splen
did season" to the Boston Journal's
snake editor, he shakes his head sor
rowf ally and remarks: "Not a bit of it
It's the worst season on record."
"Why, didn't you see the other day
that rattlesnakes had appeared at
Exeter, N. II.?" ho was asked by an in
quirer. "What of that?" was the reply.
"Would you consider that that was
worth being compared with the story
from the west about tho man who
went down into an abandoned mine
and killed one hundred und thirtyJ
three rattlesnakes, drank a quart of
whisky and earned one hundred dollars
in less than an hour?"
And the snake editor's eyes fairly
glistened at the thought of the ad
venture. "Don't you remember the eight-foot
snake found out at the Back Bay?"
"What is an eight-foot snake in Bos
ton to lie compared with the big ser
pent stories coining from other parts of
the coiinlry. There was the boa con
strictor who escaped from a cage and
hid in a sewer."
"Oil, thut was old."
"No; that happened in Washington,
anil is vouched for. Then there was
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the duel between two jealous boa con
strictors in a Brazilian forest, and the
two different stories about men barely
escaping being swallowed by pythons,
and the educated black snake which
milked a cow, and the man who caught
eight ground hogs and was attacked by
black snakes anil had to throw the ani
mals away to appease the reptiles."
This was a long sentence and the
snake editor had to pause for breath,
but before the questioner could gej, in
a query, he resumed the catalogue.
"Then there was the reappearance of
the sea serpent in the Pacific ocean,
and the man who eats rattlesnakes in
preference to spring chickens, and the
snake charmer who was being photo
graphed with his pets, when they went
on a strike and demolished the estab
lishment. I had almost forgotten the
two cases of people on the California
coast who were seized by shall I say
ocotpuses oroctopi? and almost killed.
No, this has been a splendid season for
snake stories in every section of the
country but New England, and it is
enough to drive an enterprising snake
editor west, where there is something
to do. New England isn't in it."
And with that the disheartened snake
editor mournfully wended his way to
ward a place where he could go in
training for seeing snakes as much as
he liked.
SIGNING THE DECLARATION.
Files Pestered the .fathers of the Repub
lic as They Created It. ,
Jefferson was fond of telling a story
which illustrates in a forcible manner
the importance that absurdly insignifi
cant matters may sometimes assume,
says the l'hiladelpliia l'ress. When the
deliberative body that gave the world
the declaration of independence was in
session its proceedings were conducted
in a hall close to which was situated a
livery stable. The weather was warm,
and from the stable came swarms of
Dies that lighted on the legs of the
honorable members and, biting
through the thin silk stockuigs then
in fashion, gave infinite annoyance. It
was no uncommon sight, said Jeffer
son, to see a member making a speech
with a large handkerchief ill hand and
pausing at every moment to thrash the
ilies from his thinly-protected calves.
The opinion of the body was not unan
imous in favor of the document, and
under other circumstances discussion
might have been protracted for days, if
not weeks, but the flics were intoler
able. Efforts were made to find
another hall, free from the pests, but
in vnin. As the weather became
warmer the Hies grew worse, and the
Happing of handkerchiefs was heard
all over the hull as an accompaniment
to tho voices of the speakers. In de
spair at last some one suggested that
matters be hurried so that the body
might adjourn and get away from the
Hies. There wero a few mild protests,
but no one heeded them, the immortul
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with handkerchiefs in hand fighting
flies as they came, the members hast
ened up to the table to sign tho
authentic copy and leave the flics in
the lurch. Had it not been for the liv
ery stable and Its inmates there Is no
telling when the document would have
been completed, but it certainly would
not have been signed on the Fourth.
Wasted Forests.
Reckless waste is the thing that
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forests. It is partly the reckless waste
of men, partly that of prodigal nature.
Trees cut down are left to rot, corded
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fulness of the human denizen or vis
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the edge of civilization, is a tangle of
fallen trunks, blown or rotted down.
They lie in every direction, some still
intact for their whole length, others
mingled with the soil, buried in leaves
and vegetation.
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