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S. ami For all BILIOUS and purify the and give HEALTHY to the entire Cure CONSTIPATION and PIMPLES By OCTAVE Jy Figure yourself poor tho Littlo who 5 years tutted that eventful day shall Claude and Tho widow being lo give hor children anything given thorn tbe finest she waa ed to ont The Wilds lived in a two roomed log cabin iu tho great gmn only two miles from ed their rent iu tho corn and cotton of t ten pigs and a aud Mr. their allowed them the of a of Foci is he luul fur the iu whilo fruit and grow almost of thuir mo ti uh Bat thoro was tlo money kept ija the old nho had When tJio cold return uot goto school for lack of a. warm Claudo could not go because ho must baby Sometimes thin waa no easy buby sister taking per verso into her hoad On tho very day of the cuke there waa lo with above his own ragged cap. wear two Kays 'cause buby sitter wijl wear Ho nays it to Colonel nel reins in He homo Iho I diiro that Ing bag over Ins to help make my exclaims tho good catch cold and fishes a brown paper parcel out of his bong lit nice cakes with wy Put hat ou like a good litHe and there's cmo for Hero's Tho bribo waa Baby Claude to tie her bonnet as she munched IHT but wouldn't say Claude ed do yon baby And wlie wouldn't yoB liko -i polito Arkansas when Colonel Ormond rode She sat clown 111 tho cold in rude little baby lier x isn't to set tho baby paid pulling at hor said yon be sure hot 011 remarked baby sister Baby hinter a Kho was also from ho could not carVy her ball a if I slap her lay down flat and ha Therefore wise Jit tie lad tried di- baby said he iu tunes of all go look lit the Baby mster tip liko a bouncing ball and smiled like a good lisped You mutt not that there was n real circus A real circus had exhibited its splendors yesterday at the bat tho were too poor to boy saw the whith of itself was ft thrilling Clande named the cus was bne brilliant putter on a high How may a np person adequately the of that Tbe ons damsels pirouetting on flying white the gentlemen in with curled ing over best of the savage beasts tigers crouching land and tearing their prey in the brightest how How glorious 1 Claude could have gazed on tho animals by tlie Especially did he admire the grizzly him in tho lower right hand corner where the piece watt torn off. The fact Clande always a lively interest in bears be- cause of hi H mother's In Mrs. narratives wore no grizzlies nor cinnamon uur black the bears wore divided into two moral species good beara and the The bad bear hankered to fiat up boys and but the good nt iho bad beards Ihe of iven children and a In the child in 1, aftur which he return in triumph to a of nuts chirped baby standing ou one foot and tilting chin the better to view tbe Claude likewise stood on one foot It was because the ground was and the winter stock of shoes was bought tbe little Wilda stood as the chickens to keep said Then he told often told story to such effect ou its happy baby sister WDR quite willing to go tell yon buby said the brother ain't done ot a bit of that cuke witb the white on T ore going to save it for maw for Christmas sister trotted paying no China never does give maw Ho don't give we all mach WP does be BO small reindeer of his jest lopes it and by the big Baby sister was not old enough to care even for Sunta bat tshe ruu ou cheer f crooning a funny little song a Behold tbe children walking hand like good little and the forest I can exactly how they I can see the A few bright leaves still dre clinging to the of trees and the slim dogwood There arc of green on the willow The burns in flickering splashes on gny it lightens the rusty shreds of foliage on the other strikes narrow gleams of silver ont of black pool to tbe and paints softer aud brighter the bright green of the mobs on The grow iu the This is the that C la ado's mother cantious him daily to for in that muddy water two children sink and and their shrieks bo never heard 1 No doubt Claude looked upward the of the white ries of which gleamed among the tree tops wished himself as big as bad been promised a whole large silver dollar when he fetch a barrel of mistletoe holly to Mr. the northern who was Staying at Colonel He was a this northern Be bad from he had killed and deer and learned to lasso wild He was going to send the mistletoe to a pretty young fie told Clan do BO must bo his Bo guvo Clande 50 cents nothing ou earth but gathering him a bag of Be hacl as UP Marveling over wealth and rau the They had reached tlie and who obediently on the higher lifting sister in order to carry her a place an awful thing 1 Claudo saw a. Not a bear in a picture this u real flesh and fur and claws bearl He was plain to coming at a gentle pace through the a huge bulk of grayish black a red tongue be- tween two jagged white saws of Claude's heart bumped against his His thin legs shook to the extent that he had like to have dropped baby Was the bad bear to cut ut In one swift aud agonized glance his eyes seized on the single of A log floated on the water of the one end almost touching the dry the other against n Like all such the hack berry bud knots and lumps on the and many low Children that had ed babyhood wriggle np the these knots and sit in the The unsteady log would their but it would not hold up a big It is not likely that Claude reasoned the matter ont Some in- picture of a thing came to aud ho hurried baby sinter on to She had the bear She was sure it was tho bad bear on a mission of vengeance because 1 she had been aud ehe clang to BO that she nearly toppled him and don't let bear eat baby 1 Baby be Me good now iu a piteous small voice of How poor with his heart and was able fat and frightened buby over the unstable log is hard to Somehow ho do half half pushing baby Well for both that their feet were with nothing more slippery than their They could hear tho bear heavily ding through tho They dared not look they dured not for black death was ambushed in the waiting They np tbe hackberry Claudo helped baby sister into a She was too little and to climb very After he had ed beside her ho ventured to look the bear was Deliberately bo waddled across the road to the He mounted the Ho was walking on tho screamed the frightened bear to eat me 1'' Claude burst into wails and cried for his but in an instant ho was with Look there 1 He done Sure the bridge that had been none too for the two babies sank the big off ho swashed ID to swamp with thud and He heaved and plunged until he got two paws upon the but he could do no and perhaps he re- himself to his the day not being coat being a thick he presently gave over his struggles aud stood passively eying the children with a perfectly gentle sleepy 1 if Claude did that the bear had stopped at Farmer man's storehouse aud gluttonously a side of I feel no sort of surprise .it his peaceful He must have been stuffed too full for jumping But as Clande at his mild eyes a wonderful thought came to Was it tbe bad Bad bears in tbe stories never pursued except And Claude bad not been He had been baby sister home as well as he while baby sister had been which is Arkansas for she had repented aud was miming along as Be stared at the Ho was half persuaded that the bear meant to Bears conversed fluently in the you the good Tho bear said with ious said the does favor tbe circus the little hoy it is very ho being the bear no lew Be had escaped and was ranging the pursued by half a dozen bauds of Of Claude was but the be watched the boor's mild the more emboldened ho enid ho yon git go Baby she are powerful skeered and I git her to go by yon no and waiting OD He checked his tongue just in time to avoid saying ing that there was u risk yet that it might be tha bad and dot willing to start such a suggestive and dangerous NO. train of thought The bad ite dinner was little 1 Never a answered tbe blinked hin and the water about his flanks began to That was Impatiently watched and olear e the notes of bis bom racked the They must He oast about ID hid mind far away to propitiate their brute Sadly ho took ont his precious Tbe eye of the bear t light right Good said give yea It is a mighty nice I did ben going to give it to maw for Christmas but if yen will off let we all git by I'll frow it to Yon needn't be 'fraid always frow corn pone to our dog He's a right nice dog and likes added Claude I frow The boar grunted and reared himself on his hind ready to In- catching was one of admired Claude raised the How ful it with all that white candy on Bo couldn't lot it all Good be I take one right tle taking the bear's grunt for ha did venture to nibble ouo wee morsel before he flung i be swift and at the great black The bear his at catching it And as if he wished to such a generous little lie made a vast heave plainly an effort to climb oub of In He was to this moment Baby Sister had been awestruck into the quiet children keep at first with but at the commotion she screamed nare Good said plumb mired and yon holy it. And Buby Sister don't aim to bo We'll goat all holler together for folks to come aud The bear seemed of his for ho let out a prodigious Clande screamed his while Babj tor yelled like a steam whistle in her renewed Tho trees distant hills echoed the forest was full Again and until lus small tired throat Claude Baby Sister cried until she could no Then she Had not Clande held her she would have tumbled ont of the tree sheer His arms burned with He knew Baby Sister could be persuaded to past the of which he now felt no and it was impossible to carry It did not enter tho loyal little heart to escape without There was to do but to keep calling for His voice grew and the tears of mingled riess and pain were streaming down his but he called maw I do and holp Good Bear aud mo But no Did no one Away to the left rang tho sas pig Whoop me I Here shrieked j But his was not much than a whisper when young Mr. Crosby galloped the You can imagine that at the tabes iS the wood at one end of the the bear the Ho was not 'the to lose bis He uttered a loud but even as ho opened his month for the lasso at his saddle bow whizzed the air aud cled above Mr. Good It It please don't hurt him pleaded the good whether it was in truth the good bear or whether bis meai at Farmer Norman's had made him or cowed by his slimy certain it is he Was v. as docile as Colonel rodo behind Mr. He rolled another log up for the and the bear clambered on after a deal of struggling and Sufo ou the shore he put his head down and followed tlie horses like a they took the bear nol you may be the same kindly log bad bridged the bear's fellow Good I wish yon later in the day be Crosby Colonel tho whole while Mr. Crosby told Clande how they had safely returned Mr. Good Bear tjO his circus I he ben inquired with deep Good Mr. Crosby was aud the circus people felt BO bad that they offered a reward of for his capture Aud Colonel Ormond and a note out of his and turned to Mrs. Wild who had all while iaa state of extraordinary at one sobbing over the children's at another hugging them intD a because they hod BO and are convinced that your boy caught tho bear and should have the Because if He had not kept the in tho ho was ing for the which most he Would have and is knowing where he would have ed ror how many people be would have So here is tbe money and oar congratulations ou your brave little It was of no use for Mrs. Wild test. They were and at list she yielded with tears of But one thing the mother not done she replied to Colonel of good Baby Sister smiling Claude his own little lie inter- posed eagerly at the first bear he wouldn't have He ben Who knows? Perhaps he In any Claude has no Be is busy at present collecting a store of walnuts and pecans against the coming of tbe when he hopes to see hie friend and present his 'Cause I love Good says For the I was on a visit to u country rectory iu when a called is many of tiia a most and but who is troubled with -a ful impediment in his ho usually posses over with a banity soon makes one forget Ithe But this found impossible to a fine Newfoundland dog lying extended nu tho rug during tho afternoon ently listening with much surprise and to a strange which he could not understand t. IB at length ho jumped np With fall of auger and barking in oir friend's whose waa not disturbed for it appears fonr footed companions not only like to listen to but demand that GUI should ba and as a of capacity may 1 Highest of all in Leavening U. S. Report A LOVE My no beauty of will laet Save in my tore's eternity Thy that light Are lost moment Except the few thon me. ThV sweet words vanish day by As all breath of mortality; Thy cease to all thy dear tones pass Except tbe sing to me. Bide then my hide All thon art loath go from Be kinder to thyself and me. My from this river's tide Shall never reach the sad r THE WHITE BY GILBERT j i by tlie 1 'The old woodman shifted the knife which he waa hia rod one hand to the other and looked at it musingly before ho replied to I knew the White us they This was up the a watch from his gave them to mo. I was with him ia the Circle the great there uro many and who knows which is tho right one he was to me like u I know the Ho paused a ont ou tho river tho was playing with all its then off cap laid it beside and speaking as into the distance began had been a trader of the Hudson Bay Of his birth said one some 1 know lie waa and hia it a when there trouble with tnn ho went tc their said ho would their strongest man to He tho ueck of tho great man of tho so that it went aud that ended and he was made a in their hearts thoy all hated their strong winter there came down to Fort o' God and pey that three white men were wintering by the Coppermine They had traveled down from the seas when their ship was locked in the but could get no They were sick with tho evil skin and She chief said to will you I would have gone with him to the ends of the this Was near The old laughed to his jot hair from his aud after a never was such a winter The air was so still by times i that you could hoar the rustic of the I stars nnd tho shifting of the northern but the cold at night caught yon by the heart and clamped how it clamped itl We crawled under the snow and lay in our bags of fnr and and the dogs hugged close were porry for tho and and then and there iwas nothing BO dreadful us to hear the dogs howl in the was like the cries of ghosts iu an empty The circle of the got smaller and till he only traveled along the high edge of tha to thb river at laet aud tho There was ono man t but these re not what a thing it is to look the bones of and know 1 Medallion put his hand on the old man's a he lie pouted out coffee for aud drank the rest was a go V the White thief looked at the dead man as ho sat t hero in the with a hook and piece of paper beside aud the pencil in the The face was bent forward to the Tho White Chief picked np tho book and imcl 4heu knelt down and peered in the dead man's all hard like stone and crusted with I thought he would never again he looked so I think he was Then he turned aud to so aud Rot but it was cold and my head seemed big and running liko a ball of But I u lamp aud aud tha book and began to All at once I heard a and suw him drop book on ground and go to the dead jerk his fist as if to strike him in tho But he did not nnd lighted his and was so long Hint had to jog him into Hw puffed the smoke to that his face was in tho and ho said not He got to his fort and like and come and took up the book again and He eat and drunk and read tho book and I his face that something more cold was his wo bury the I ho him sit there till tho This is a wonderful ho went waa a brave but tlie rest then his breath was so but a I not understand We started leaving the thing for fonr and thon I saw that the White Chief would never get back to but read the dead man's book cannot forget He lay looking at the but the waves of blue and on and Tho sun lifted on eya of in the winking like a devil ai X tried to drive away by calling in bis all at but his eyes seemed Ho told me to take the book to a great man iu He gave mo the ho was knife and pat them JIHO my aurl then ho pat my Ho to have iho bug drawn over it. Of course ttio took out tho watch and round in his held it to his and gave a si lent little that was a good what about the liou 16 was I took it to the man in What u fine house aud good wine had told him He whipped out a Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE scarf aud blew bis nose load and very she'll lost both a scoundrel bo was 1' Which did be I do not understand ever A SUMMER From Magazine for aud very I have heard a maiden say r Sue thought me quite a wonder in my own i peculiar what u novelist would call a person And when I'm in tbe no maiden seeks the I've for flirtation there arc twinkles in my eye you will find must own you're very And I was told ono in the My glances worts j ou could m in tho dark I twostep observe J merely quote And I sing a or strike a My bearers ecstatic Unaware not And if old hick on earth lii I must you tl rarely a. man To talk as I can And in a mate IT. h mimr The the all out Butl am imor as aa i a Clonus in w me Aud that is why I write now hi mer's To if for mo for For dollars weekly nnd I will Aud a a full of The hummer girN who crowd tbo Can make no mistake if they'll sub- you Ml walk with Pli upon the I'll off lonely to jour and j I'll flirt with HI liait your when yna perchance would tish In I'll iu (i bt-au ah auj unu So summer and yet your If you a for nt For are t-s I To corner all tbe s THE BOY HOW VOI NO MADE TIIK It- Of tho many true stones of frontier life during the settling of thu Ohio cone is more interesting than that of the boy and if their tures were pot could hardly lie In those dayb schools very few people were rk h enough to em- persons able to teach their One of the few situated was Col. who built in the a few miles from Ky. H kind hearted he offered to along with his and in a school er had quite a The mostly had fine times ip the They were robust and and with them learning seemed no task at When not iu they were hunting or helping their and it was not loog before the master told Col. Pope that a better set of scholars he had never One crisp February morning fire of the border school boys went into the woods to Their ranged from 9 to 14, but they were to carry the and already had become expert young As the forests were full of game of every boys expected to cotne back thing nice for the table but they sorely and months were to pass ere the old log would gladden their eyes At the end of their day's hunt the boys encamped for the night on the bank of the sat around the blazing camp Ere till a then heaped on more wood and fell Daring the night and nearly covered morning came the of ture was But the backwoods boys another They like a lot of hawks a number of Indians who had been near them all In a moment the little camp was in a state of The boys had beard enough about not to want to fall in their The Indian was the white man's foe at the and was always teeking to barm J goes one boy for claimed one of and in a minute he was running through the forest two Indians in close Young Brasher was LLe runner in the but the soon ran him down and he was brought back to his companions in One of the other boys fried to but WHS aud they started off with their The band turned out to which tribe then in the Ohio and the young captives that a long journey was before Where one of the M From was the The shook heads 4' White boy tell a story a tall rior exclaimed to this no answer was and were not forced to reveal the of the The Indiana took the buys across the river and kept them tramp for many The little fellows cheered another as best they and watched for an opportunity to escape but their them too weU for i It a tiresome march to the Indian which was in northern and by the time all reached it the boys won the good will of their i They found the inhabitants of the lage drawn rtp at the edge of it to re- They were greeted cries of every and were ed with sticks and stones by the women and Fora time the boys stood this but at last yonng waa singled ont one of their assailants ami dealt him a smart Of course the young Indian returned the white boy knocked him The fight between the two boys de- lighted the assembled They cheered lustily while they find kept the scene an an In a abort time other Indian youths sailed which brought his ions to his Never before had tap ndian boys found their equals in and when the battle the prisoners were declared the They had given their enemies a severe Strange as it may this ed the Kentucky boys in the favor of the whole The very boys they had whipped became their best and when the captives had been adopted into several they had plenty of com- Daj s and weeks went and they were far from and captives Whenever they got together they would talk the friends from whom they had been taken T and many were the plans fur that thought of. They were tcf bant in the for- but sharp watched rode races with I the Indian boys and had a merry etill they yearned to go I think I have a piece of good one of the boy captives to rades one Next week the riors are uff on their annual aud if they us we may was a of jrood for the b that while they remained in the village freedom was hardly They watched the Indians prepare for j the hunt with a great of and when the band set them their joy 1 j thought the time has come A few days later the young captives and the red hunters were encamped in a thick from the Game was aud the warriors kept with the During their into the of the wood the were left in sometimes One day they were left alone with two old and then they held a council under the They had long desired to and to go back to those from whom they had and to re- their in the backwoods They not think of remaining in captivity with their fate unknown to their they did not know how soou they might be de- uf the friendship of their captura if not to 1-Vith a fate like this staring them in the the little Shawnee captives re- to They did not want to take the lives of their for they had treated them with great and they stole without ing Now began the most exciting part of their Home was hundreds of miles and the forests were out patha which they conld Be- this country was full of wild and bands of roving Indians would add to the dangers of All did not daunt the We'll find the said one of them God won't let us get lost in tbe He has watched over thus and we will trust Him Onr absence will soon be and then we will have the Indians after said when he had put some between them and the Then we must make good use of onr the laughing We do not know whether they had been taught the points of the or whether they depended on their knowledge uf tbe woods to guide We know that they did not go far ont of their They covered their trial as well as could they ed but little by day and were obliged to proceed by sometimes with the wolves around and all the while in The wild fruit and nuts that abounded in the forest with such small game as they conld take by means of the smars furnished thorn with They durst not their firearms for of making known their whereabouts to the whom they dreaded more than anything Many weary days and nights passed in this over the heads of the forest At last they learned that their old capture were on their The warriors had followed them and were at now became careful than They waded in fhe streams to deceive and tried many other ways to throw them off the After three weeks of adventure in the the little band reached the of the Hume and the log house lay beyond the which was wide and fur a cried young }A His companions looked at him add They had no cutting tools but a or bat thib did not dis- may They to work like beavers they found a lot of driftwood on the river and fastened some of it together by meana of the strong inner bark of the It not long before their raft was but it looked too frail to trast themselves on it to the mercy of the raft turned out to be too small to carry them and one of the Linns of- to swim alongside and help to get them He was an excellent and while he pushed the frail craft his assisted him with long It happened that they had launched their rait at a point nearly opposite then a small places and were discovered by the But at the time they were seen by the Indians whom they had deceived so and were greeted with loud yells snch as none a warrior can Tbe Kentucky boys had reached the river just in for a delay of a few minutes in launching the raft would have thrown them all back into Encouraged by the whites oc one and fired at by their late captors from the the young fugitives worked with ail their Ballets struck the water all but this them redouble their efforts and at last they themselves safe on the tucky They were greeted shouts and caresses of They had been away nearly a whole and those at home had given them up as was the joy over their Once more they eat at the backwoods table and told to brothers the story of their long All of the did not get In the early part of their Indian village life Wells was separated from bis companions and taken distant tion of- the wilderness by the family which adapted He grew up among his married a young In- dian and ra family He appeared to have his old tucky briefly is the story of the boy They all became useful men on the and to make the forest blossom like the The of their adventures is now dotted with fine cities and and it would be hard to find the route they took in flying from the red
