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“Evil Dispositions Are Early Shovun." Just so evil in the blood comes out in shape of scrofula, pimples, etc., in children and young people. Taken in time it can be eradicated by using Hood’s Sarsaparilla, cAmerica's Greatest Medi cine. It vitalizes and enriches the blood. I ^Never DiSappoint THE TWO OLD WOMEN. Two gathering crones, antique and gray. Together talked at close of day. One said, with brow of wrinkled care, “Life's cup at first was sweet and fair; "On our young lips, with laughter gay, Its cream of brimming nectar lay; “Rut rapid then it grew, and stale And tiresome as a twice-told tale; “And here in weary age and pain Its bitter dregs alone remain.” The other, with contented eye. Laid dywu her work aud made reply: I’utmed in French* Papa—So Emily stands at the head of her class in Fiench? Mamma—Yes. She and another girl were exactly even in the written ex amination, but it was decide 1 that Emily shrugged her shouklers more correctly like the French.—London Tit-Bits. Mothers will find Mrs. Winslow’s Sooth ing Syrup the best remedy to Use for their children during the teething period. The moon, according to the theories of astronomers, is not inhabited by living organisms similar to those on the earth. There was a young man from Lenore, Who bold I v went off to the war; The ••beef’’ made him ffek, He recovered quite quick By the prompt use of old Jesse Moore. The highest point to which man can Ascend without his health being veiy seriously affected is 16,500 feet. To yourself you owe the duty, purify vour system by Pf under’s Oregon Blood Puri tier. > The prizefighteis of Chicago have organized a boxing trust—not to limit “production,” but to raise prices. The members have agreed not to fight hereafter for purses of less than $75 each. CITQ Permanently Cured. No fltsor nervousnes rilO after first day s use of Dr. Klines ureat Nerve ltestorer. Bend for 1'Kf.K S l.oo trial bottle nod treatise. DR. K. H. k~ I .IX K, Ltd., use Arch street, Philadelphia, Pa. The pneumatic tube between Paris and Berlin carries a letter from one city to the other in 35 minutes. It takes a crocodile 80 seconds to turn completely round. An Excellent Combination. The pleasant method and beneficial effects of the well known remedy, S yrup of F igs , manufactured by the C alifornia F ig S yrup C o ., illustrate the value of obtaining the liquid laxa tive principles of plants known to be medicinally laxative and presenting them in the form most refreshing to the taste aud acceptable to the system. It is the one perfect strengthening laxa tive, cleansing the system effectually, dispelling colds, headaches and fevers gently yet promptly and enabling one to overcome habitual constipation per manently. Its perfect freedom from every objectionable quality and sub stance, and its acting on the kidneys, liver and bowels, without weakening or irritating them, make it the ideal laxative. In the process of manufacturing figs are used, as they are pleasant to the taste, but the medicinal qualities of the remedy are obtained from senna and other aromatic plants, by a method known to the C alifornia F ig S yrup Co. only. In order to get its beneficial effects and to avoid imitations, please remember the full name of tlie Company- printed on the front of every package. CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. SAN FRANCISCO. CAL. LOUISVILLE. KY. NEW YORK. N. Y. For sale by all Druggists.—Price 50c. per bottle. PORTLAND DIRECTORY. 4 DENTISTS. No pain: new process; fine cold work. PR, LAN'iWORTH¥, X.W. eor. Third and Morrison Fence anil Wire Work«, PORTLAND WIRE A IRON WORKS: WIRE .nd iron fencing; office rsillne. etc. 334 Alder. Machinery and Supplies. CAWSTON A CO.; ENGINES, BOILERS, MA- ehinery, supplies. 4S-5u First St., Portland, Or. RAKES MOWERS BINDERS Write for Catalogue. J. 1. FREEM*», Agent, 21*9 East Water Street, PORTLAND. OR. MACHINERY. ALL K1NDS . .TATUM & BOWEN... t8 to 35 First Street PORTLAND OR. JOHN POOLE. PoRTi.ANn, O begon , ran give you the best bargain* in general machinery, engines, boiler«, tank-, puntps, plows, belts and windmills. The new steel IXL windmill, sold by him, is un equalled. _______________________ EDWARD HUGHES: MACHINERY AND vehicle«: «en-1 for ceUlogue. Front ^t. PHYSICIANS. Dr. Ern»et Berten, epeeialty. di-eaeee of the Fkln and Rectal sorgeri. 131 ir : st . 1’ rtleu 1. Y CONSUMPTION “Yes, life was bright as morning tide, Y’et, when the foam and sparkle died. “More rich, methought, and purer, too, Its well-concocted essence grew; “E’en now, tho’ low its spirit drains, A-id little in the cup remains. “There's sugar at the bottom still— And we may take it if we will.” —New York Ledger. »**«•«»««•«*««*«««»«««««*• » • » o Tom’s Revolver. S * • • • aaaaeeeeea»»04«ee*a«ee**«ü> • parlor of the farm-house among the Maine mountains had enough touches of quiet good taste about it to make us wonder at sight of a common four-ounce glass bottle which occupied a conspicuous place on the corner what-not, further honored I by a worsted mat under it and a small bouquet of dried grasses stuck into its mouth. 1 “Yes, that's mother’s whim—she will have it there,” said the eldest daugh- ter, who was a teacher, now home for the long summer vacation, during which time two or three of us—city residents—were fortunate enough to find accommodation as boarders. “She calls it Tom's revolver,” re marked another member of the family; whereupon I set It down with a sudden ness which made Tom laugh. “Oh, there isn't anything about It now!” he said. "I’ve told mother lots of times I’d spend every cent I’ve got, nnd buy her tlie handsomest vase down to Pineville if she'd let me smash that old bottle against the stone wall, but she won't.” “Tell me what there has been about it.” I urged. “There's a story, isn't there?” Tom was a big boy—just as the “gawky age,” his sister had confiden tially informed me—but was neither un couth nor ill-mannared. So, without more than a reasonable amount of coaxing and encouraging from others, and the modest disclaimers proper from a boy who figures as his own hero In his own story, Tom began: “It was in early spring, and the doc tor had been here and left prescriptions for something father had got to have just as quick as we could get 'em. And he thought—the doctor—that if we got them over to Pineville It would be bet ter, for they didn’t have very fresh drugs down here at the Corners. “So I made up my mind I'd go over the hills—it saves nearly half tlie way, only four miles going and four back. I'd have to walk, but I didn’t mind that, for I knew it would be about as hard to go round on horseback, for tliere'd been a thaw, and the lower roads were so slump}- folks could hard ly get through at all. “I hadn’t got more than half-way over when I met Squire Plutnmer, hunting all round, and says he to me: “ 'Tom, I’ve lost Old Blacky, sure’s you live!’ "And says I: “ ’I want to know, squire!’ “And says he: “ ’Y’es, indeed, Tom. She's been gone three days. She’s the best cow I had— blooded stock—cost me a’sight of mon ey, and I'm offering three dollars to anyone 'll find her.’ “I told lilm I couldn’t go out of my wny on account of father, but I'd keep a sharp lookout wherever I'd go; and you'd better believe I did, for I'd a' been glad enough to get that much money for so little work. But I got into town without seeing anything of her. I sat down by the drug man’s counter to rest a bit while he was putting up the stuff, thinking how I'd change my route going back, and perhaps I'd strike her yet “The man brought two bottles, nnd set one down while he was wrapping up the other. I took it up and took out the cork. " 'Take care, there,’ he says; ‘don't you smell that!' “ 'Why not?' says I. “ 'You'd be sorry if you did,’ says ne. ’It would knock you down qnlcker'n if you was shot.’ “He went on to tell me it was a most awful strong kind of ammonia that was used for drawing blister«, Would do It in less time titan you'd take to tell about It most. “Then I asked hint if it was any kin to smelling salts, and told him how I’d got hold of mother's smelling salts in church, unbeknown to her, long ago, when I was a little shaver, and had taken the biggest kind of a sniff, be cause it was the first chance I’d ever bad at It. and I thought It something good tbeyM been keeping from me. And bow I'd kicked and screeched, and how mother'd had to haul me out of church and use up no end of lemon drops and ginger cookies to bring me to. “So the drug man laughed, and says the stuff In the bottle was something of the same sort, only they weren’t to be mentioned In the same day for strongness—or. If you made any com- parison at all. It would I*» to compare the smelling w It« to the smallest mite of a baby, and that ammonia _ to Its big Goliath of a great great grandfather. y - tj ^IIE II “I didn’t smell It. but started for home with Old Blacky and father on my mind—Old Blacky, to see If I couldn’t find her and get that three'dol- lars. and father, because I wanted to get back as quick as I could. “It seemed rougher going back over the hills than It had coming—I suppose because I was a little tired. Some times the way was through pasture lots, but mostly It was over fallow ground, bushy aud stumpy, and plenty of rocks, but not malty trees. There wasn’t any roadway. "I aad<t got near to the summit when 1 saw something that made me stop short—something dark behind rocks nnd bushes, down In a kiml of little hollow. There were no leaves on the bushes, you know; so I could see something through them that looked like black hair. "I went a little nearer and looked a little harder, and then I off with my cap and swung it around, and sang out: “ 'Hurrah for that three dollars of yours. Squire Plummer!’ Then I called: ‘Co’ boss, co’ boss, co’ boss! Come, Blacky, come!’ "But the old thing wouldn’t stir. I picked up some little stones and shied ’em at her to hurry Iter up. I didn’t want to lose time, but I did want to drive her home with me for fear some one else might get ahead of me if I left her there and then came back. I called to her and kept on throwing, but still she wouldn’t budge an inch. "Then I thought I’d slide down the side of the hollow she was In, and get ahead of her and drive her out. I tried rolling down a lot of stones and gravel first, almost over her head, to see If that wouldn’t start her; but it didn’t. So I began sliding myself down. "But just then I heard a growl—such a growl as no mortal cow ever made yet. I know. And there began such a scratching of gravel and such a scrab bling up that bank, mixed up with growls all the time, that I scrabbled myself up pretty lively, and started to run, I tell you. “When I’d got a little piece off I looked back, aud just getting to the top of the bank was Old Blacky; but it wasn't a black cow. It was a black bear, sure’s you live!” Tom paused a moment to enjoy the little ripple of astonishment and dis may which came In Just here. “You'd better believe I ran. But it was hard work—up hill, and rough, tool I tumbled over logs and I jumped through bushes, and he trotting after me all the time, mad, I suppose, with the stirring up I’d given him, growling like a young thunderstorm all the while. “Soon I began to feel how tired my walk had made me, and to wonder how long ago. .f all that man said was true, perhaps't would send him kiting down as good a s if he’d been shot. ”1 poured a lot of it on my handker chief, 'most all there was, looking out to keep a little back for father, till more could be sent for. 1 tried to keep from getting the smell of It myself, but the wind whiffed some of It Into my face, and do the best I could It stran gled me so I came mighty uear drop ping. "I held the handkerchief tight In my hand, and reached It down just as the bear poked his ugly muzzle up between the lower branches. lie gave a big sniff as he saw it coming, thinking. 1 suppose, he’d got me sure; and the next Instant 1 was rubbing It like fury against his nose and into his eyes. "He gave a most awful snort, and let go, and went crashing down on the stones and bushes. 1 thought for a moment lie,was dead, but he wasn't, He scrabbled himself up. and went snarling and tumbling over aud over, down-hill like all possessed. “I didn't wait to see how far he went, though, for I dropped out of that tree, and put out of that neighborhood al most as lively as the bear had. After a while I took it easier, for I reasoned he wouldn't be likely to track me, after the dose I’d given him. That's all.” "Wasn’t It a good revolver now?” asked Tom’s mother, regarding the bottle with affectionate Interest. “Aud you didn't find the cow after all?” I asked, after expressions of ap proval of his coolness had been ex hausted. “No; but”—Toni’s eyes twinkled—“I told Sam Plummer, Squire Plummer’s son, what I'd Seen, and where I’d Siam It, and he went after it with his gun. and finished what the ammonia had left; and Saul said It was no more than fair I should have a share of it, so he gave me the skin, and I sold it for twelve dollars. So It paid better than If it bad been Old Blacky, you see.” Sixty Mile« an Hour. The present tendency in all branches of trade is toward lower prices. Per haps no business has felt this more than the theatrical, In which the drops have been so remarkable as to excite general comment. Yet the fact remains that longer entertainments l>y, some say, better performers, were at one time given for a lower price than that uow charged for admission to a gallery. London led the world for low prices. At the famous Globe Theater, built on Bankside for Richard Burbage, ynd for which James 1. granted a license to Shakspeare and others, the charge for the best boxes was at one time only 15 cents, of the lower places 4 cents, while in some places only 2 cents was charged. The twopenny gallery was frequently referred to by the drama tists of the Elizabethan era. For many years the general price of tlie boxes was 25 cents, and it was not until 1045 that we bear of $1.50 boxes. At that period tlie pit nnd galleries were 10 cents. It appears to have been the cus tom on the first night of a new play to raise the prices, and the same practice was adopted on the authors’ nights, or ou the representation of expensve plays. The hours of performance were then between 1 and 5 o’clock In the af ternoon, commencing at the former and terminating at tlie later hour. As years rolled on the hour for the raising of the curtain became later; and when, nt last, the evening became recognized as the proper time for theatrical amusements prices began to be In creased until. In London, Paris anti New York, $5 Is not an unusual charge President l.outiet and ills Mother, TWEEN THE LOWER BRANCHES.” M. Loubet seems to be a kind of in genu among rulers—with all the sweet simplicity and none of the arts. He visited tlie little town of Montellmar recently, and all the place wns en fete. Ills old peasant mother, trembling with emotion, waited on a balcony specially arranged for her, where, when the pro cession was over, her son was to join her. Rut the President. as he was driv ing by, saw the old wrinkled face look ing down at him, and In spite of the procession, which was in danger of being spoiled, and In spite of all the pomp and the ceremony he wns expect ed to observe, he stopped his carriage, jumped out. mid running up the bal cony, caught the trembling little old lady In his arms, hugging arm kissing her before all the world with boyish glee. Somehow the story set-ms bettor than any fairy tale, and the new President twice over a better prince.—Harper's Bazar. Tree« Kille I I y Its Sting. J. S. Boren exhibited In Cadiz, Ky, a most remarkable horned snake, Which he plowed lip In a field oti his place. The snake has, near the end of his tall, a long, keen horn, w It Ich comes to a point ns sharp as a needle. Tills Is the first serpent of thia variety ever seen In Kentucky. Tlie snake, when angered, takes the end of Its tall In Its mouth and rolls like a hoop toward the object of Its wrath, but, just before reaching It, the serpent stands almost upon Its head and thrusts this prong into whatever it would strike down. Mr. Boren de clares that the horn of the snake Is filled with poison, and that a blow from It Is deadly. It is said that even a tree stung by thjs vnrlety of reptile will. If the sap Is up, die In a few hours. Piso's Cure for Consumption is the only cough medicine used in luy house—1>. C. Albright, Mifflinburg, Pa., Dee. It, 1805. Bright red speotacles accompanied by internal doses of calomel, form a new German spoeitic against seasick ness. A I’nr, Vegetable Compound. No mercurial or other mineral poisons In Cascareis Candy Cathartic, only vegetable sub stances. late medical discoveries. All drug gists, 10c, 25c, 5uc. St. Petersburg has the largest bronze statue in existence—that of Peter the Gieat, which weighs 1,000 tons. SHAKE ANTO VOI It SHOES, Allen’s Foot-Ease, a powder for the feet. It cures painful, swollen smarting feet and instantly takes the sting out cf corns and bunions. It’s the greatest comfort discov- eryoftheage. Allen's Foot-Ease makes tight-fitting or new slices feel easv. 11 is a certain cure forchilblaina, sweating, damn, callous and lint, tired, aching feet. We have over 10.0C0 testimonials of cures. Try it today. Sold by all druggists and '■line stores. By mail’or 25c in stamps. Trial package FREE. Address Allen 8. Olm« sted, Le Roy, N. Y. A ppropriate. Briggs—Von Kernel has been vety successful in corn lately, hasn’t he? Griggs—1 believe so. Why? Briggs. — His wife told mo he had presented her witli a pair of cobs.— Brooklyn Life. A LIVING WITNESS. Mrs. Hoffman Describes How She Wrote to Mrs. Pinkham for Advice, and Is Now WolL D ear M rs P inkham :—Before using your Vegetable Compound 1 was a great sufferer. I have been sick for months, was troubled with severe pain in both sides of abdomen, sore feeling ill lower part of bow els, also suffered .with dizziness, headache, and could not sleep. I wrote you a letter describ ing my case and asking your advice. You replied tell- ing me just wliut to do I followed your direc tions, and cannot praise your medicine ehough for what it has done for me. Many thanks to you for your advice. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound has cured me, and I will recom mend it to my friends.—Mrs. F loiiknc B R H offman , 512 Roland St.. Canton, O. The condition described by Mrs Hoff man will appeal to many women, yet lots of sick women struggle on with their daily tasks disregarding the urgent warnings until overtaken by actual collapse. The present Mrs Pinkham's experi ence in treating female ills is unparal leled, for years she worked side by side with Mrs Lydia E. Pinkham, and for sometimes past has bad sore charge of the correspondence department of her great business, treating by letter as many as a hundred thousand ailing women during u single year. Ilatlier the Opposite. Indignant Mother—How dare you suffer him to kiss you, Marguerite? Sweet Seventeen—Oh I thore wasn’t ar.v suffering about it, ma, dear.— Tit-Bits. O hio , city of T oledo , | L ucas county . < F rank J. C heney makes oath that ho is tho senior par ter of the firm of F. J. chf . ney F l C o ., doing business in tho City of Toledo, County and state aforesaid, and that Mid firm will pay tlie Burn ol ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of H all ' s C atarrh C ure . FRANK J. CHENEY Sworn to before me and subscribed in mv presence, this 6th day of December, A. D. 1884. S tate of A. IV. GLEASON r__ _ » Notary Public. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally and acts directly on th«1 Ll-xt-i hik I mucona ‘-uriaces of the system. 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Mrs. Margaretlia Deuben, 1214 North Superior street, Ratine City, Wis., writes: “I feel so well and good and happy now that pen cannot describe it. Pe-ru-na is everything to me. I feel healthy and well, but if I should be sick I will know what to take. I have taken several bottles of Pe-ru-na for female complaint. I am in the change of life and it does me good.” Send for a free book written by Dr. Hartman, entitled “Health and Beauty.” Address Dr. Hartman, Co lumbus, O. ITEMS OF INTEltKST. Gray horses aro usually the longest lived. Creams are decidedly delicate, and are seriously affected by voty warm weather. Recent chemical experiments prove that all waters have action on copper; that “hard” water takes up little lead from lead pipes, but that “soft” water and carbonated water dissolve consider able quantities. There have been fresh terrible ex amples of the explosiveness of flour dust in more than one accident that lias oc curred lately in Ametica. 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POKED Iti« VGT.V MI ZZLE UP BE It would be with me if I got clear tired out before the bear did, as seemed very likely. “When I knew I couldn't hold out much longer I made for a tree, and climbed up It quicker than I ever climbed a tree before or Blnce. “Then I tried to catch my breath and think a bit. I was glad to be out of reach of the bear; but I wondered how long he might keep me up that tree be fore any one came to look for me, and I thought of father wanting the medi cine, and, if you’ll believe me, I thought, too, about that blamed old cow and the three dollars 1 wasn’t go ing to get for finding Iter. "But it doesn't take long to think, you know, for 1 thought all that before the bear got to the foot of tlie tree, and it was a mighty short while, too; aud when he did get there he walked around It, and smelled a little, and tlie first thing I knew he was clawing away at tlie bark, and climbing tip after me. "Then I began to think harder than ever. I'd read of a boy who was up a tree, with a bear after him. and lie climbed out on some weak limbs, where tlie bear had sense enough to know lie couldn't go. and lie kept tho poor little chap there, growling nt him, till some one came nnd shot the bear.' But this wasn’t that kind of a tree. The limbs were stubby, nnd I knew tlie In ar could go almost as far as I could. "I looked down to see wlint chance I'd have If I swung myself down, and got a new start of him; but the tree was a tall one, and It was all stony under the branch where I wns. If I should get n sprain or a hurt. It would be all up with me. So my only chance wns to keep out of bls wny the liest I could. I put my hand Into my pocket, to get out my knife, for I wasn't going to let him get the better of me without a tussle. “Then what do you guess I felt? And what do you guess I thought? Why, I felt that bottle of ammonia, and I thought of that time in church. And. cracky! If I could help laughing right out, as I thought If I could only get It ou that bear as I'd gut it on myself There are 506,000 persons in Wales xho cannot speak English. In Scot land there are 43,000 who only speak Gaelic, and in Ireland 2,000 who peak only Irish. ». r. N. V. SO.