The Washington Bee Newspaper, September 20, 1902, Page 7

IT MADE HIM TIRED, Dade from the East Started Out to Slay a Bear Which Refused to Be Slain, The station agent at Canon had a half cinnamon = b chained up to a post as a pet and & curiosity, and while the tr grown ed there for the east-bound to e¢ me along many of the passengers crossed the trachs to gaze der. Among at the living won- Phila- d man bear for them, says the deiphia Press, was vir with a lisp, who viewed awhile and then agent and asked: “Thir, | thee you have a bear over there. If I should kill him, could I went back athie column es to ans ill correspondence that may “oa anc urgently request young 1 reau this colump, and any that they wished answered nd them in before Saturday By Miss May CLEmatis, r yus person is a jealous per- ould be watched, notwith- 1eir looks may beall smiles. lake my advice and don’t iar with the widower. Why don’t you settle on one don’t seem to know what our intended is quite prom- He is everything that is right. worst enemy is generally t a woman’s usually her ian first loves he feels un™ ) particular reason. Lat es the reason, and forgets worthy. . ? < “HAVE 1 THLAIN HIM?” es juality in woman is cis true to her trust and can ap- telegreph to my ma in New York e who have befriended thath 1 had thiain a savage monster of the west?” tanijustice be your guide.| “You could." “How-much to let me thoot at him flower seldom found ! thix iime: garden of love. | | i continued the young | man, as he fished up a small revol- kinds of worlds to make , ‘°T: . : “Twenty dollars for six shots,” re- plied the agent. se yourself to criticism. “I will accept, and here is your ; ome No ° meervbody eas havenint i eoeme me meyth. » Ws then, everybody attend to their own tusi- | t hand ack while I thlay the mon- ster in his tracks,” | We moved back, and he advanced vain and doutttu } ; b i #to within ter gloss which fadeth opened fire. The et of the beast stood bros bear a City | ain wait-] to the} | yard, SHARK STEALS HE INS. | Louisiana Lawyer. The Robber Fish Caught in the Aet, with Chicken Feathers Between His Ugly Teeth-How He Worked the Game, into a man’s henroc chickens. tand steals his Such a case, however, is on record at Pointe-a-la-Hache. Em- met Hingle told the stery as he showed a New Or erat vans ‘Times-Demo- man around his father’s back which was full of Lively and intelligent young chickens. Mr. Hin- gle has only had a few years’ ex: perience as a lawyer. His veracity is therefore oned. He intro- duced the matter by remarking: “We lost a great number of our chickens t year by a shark.” “White or colored?” asked the vis- itor, incredulously. “A sbark, m a shark from the gulf—eight feet long.” “Did he walk all the distance or come in a fish car “The affa is not as impossible as yoa are inclined to believe,” marked Mr. Hingle in an a tene. “You notice the levee in front Well, each year dur- ing the equinoctial season, a strong southern wind blows the waters of the gulf into Pointe-a-la-Hache and floods the town. The water is three or four feet deep. We have to go in skiffs a me front of the house to the les st ar, as usual, when the ods tlh ane we drove all our chickens into the big henhouse. Naturally when the flood deep they could not come unques re- rieved of the house. became down to jeat. In order to feed them we rigged up a rope parallel to each roost, and siowly pulled a basket of corn from one end to the other. In this way the chickens had to eat ‘standing up.”” “I did not know that chickens ever ate sitting down or in a re- clining visitor, position,” interjected the “However, that may have side on, and did not even raise head. | j “Have I the | young man stood with empty rson usually handles : thlain him?” asked as he of talkative giris. Weapon in hand. j I iiiving, when there! _ le dvesn’t appear to be slain,” re- more at the vis often more pleas No, old truth. t to try six | same price?” | | r, I gue not. 1 will j and telegraph to that Is me, and time kills | 0Uth to thlay a monster of the west f the revenges. | but he refused to be thlain and tired me outh!” who is jealous of even an erity, enlertains an evil RESCUED HER CHILD. are happy only, when , 8+ Paul ding to somebody’s else Woman Shows Rare Pres-| Laleoked Fer Emergence 1 ence of «a Mind in a | Don’t imagine xu would look sint so much. that you better if At Paul the | Mary McKenzie heroine by {had fallen and was drowhing. The St. other day, Mrs. proved herself a her three from a cistern into which he rescuing ear nerally blind S are in view when | -niearn more, by | cover of the cistern was a part of | ' | of what you know, { the | floor of the- kitchen, and in or cistern | to! be} der to draw water from the € you are so well though oor had neclse doa little tal a trapdoor in the fi lifted. Mrs ed the door and turned dress will not make the | pail, ta reputation she has} long proud of McKenzie had just tift-| to pick up a i when little Perey twppled headd-} into it, falliz int» five feet of | 1 to the water helpless. | water. It was six f : e, and the mother was wear such bright | ime * ‘ are certainly unbecom- She ran into the yard ser help, and when two women neighbcrs aming for iship is dangerous ‘ } oble woman why I all things. f ‘ - + b * a ep your lips closed your ignorance. ks ill of any wom is unfit for society | | ikeep away from | eylearn to much } > » . fF place of amusement, | pees, , then let a man es- |} ke he is not able to ise don’t let him | ot * atuated with them- sling Lo others. eited, neither ought 1 are admired for w the importance of you are in need. oe she 1 ! and asked that ‘they by hb foot, ans suspend her h down into the well. Without a tréerix down, etd wap let slide down toward | take her, one your friends is to vill persuade a girl the will of her the mother the water,-head, first. ge is the souls Eden. | coming up for the second time when k her hand {fdpghed Mas Fkirts, and, 5 Not how srOne a Rees 64 , yall BlfGgether, the | ed, he should not seek | fe # stig pull ailFaset \lways consider that. what , two women holding to Mr * rs shall be meted | vie’s aukless drew both, meatherzmd child from the wa hild was | revived in a% ¥ew-~menteats, “Widg. |T deople arrogate their | neither was the worserfgr the e i i ch an extent, they be- | 1 riengendbe-texindlaiemmm t too large for their posi- | : never forget from ittle Pounenotd Hint. - It eins if new UEPare | t lard nad are entireiy too war- | 15 A Ue w iii hag? a : ceed. Because you | oughly heated in the oven before i » ‘ &, it is wrong to criticise | is used, it will never rust afterward, ° no matter how much it is put in wa- tthe. 7” never weep until they a and never laugh e ©) are in the lead, H s © year tne? and never those a cial | standing is secure, all the ) made «.f wool. The rich, for warmth, “Cone does that is boi don silk. kheard aanoise jn-the klooking down 1 large }dne my consternation f'a, henhouse shark them understand } his’ 'taily he grabber the roastianad swWallbake dit whol He repeated the feat nntil he had ea | six, and then: diving through the hol y | went les evidently very. much please; The child was | failed to see me, hpv® bitten me in the leg MeKen-| him next, mom and teeth of the were a numbenof chicken feathers. or-| marked Mr. Hingle, Amstersigmao? Dhey are connected Iby ter. : The place where the bait rests is the oe a — Atte... only pa GH ithd ct raps Mh is a « ‘ond puree dls, "EG 2 “A SHARK, ENGHT FEET LONG!" | been their custom during the days of the Romans.” “Kk sion,” only ‘a method of expres continued Mr. Hingke. “I meant that the chickens stood on the and ate the corn them in the basket. We reost ssed before we had heen i ‘feeding them im this way for a few days when we noticed that they had begun to diminish innumber. We then began to count «ach morr and found that four or five Cisappeared each nighi. We final Gecidel te wateh. -I riggec f up a platform ni the chicken-ouse and went out to spend the night. From ten o’¢lock un- thinking til four-neth becoming } well tirec probably that negro who hat beer robbing our henro¢ “nme and empt uy Tight eard a oward would not make axnothe while I was there t be series of splashes, and, Ic an to dawn, howewer, the rear, 1 saw a large sha mping the fences as if they had been hr Naturally lowas very touch s When the shark had jumped our fence he disappeared under the water. Laas looking all around for him when 1 henkouse, Wy) tlue lgha Uli gh which our had copie ip br hole thro & goné into the yard wher th with a and:I trad’ no adequate agsu- e that he was not also a man AT Piel eMark didinos waitMor aw eA one lapding aie a chicken ‘from rjiWg ver. the\ fetadshaga He ha he might otherwise “Well, to make a long story short.” epatinued Mr. Hingte, “we waited for = and stp pped the hple aftar Wewhat? murered= VP then Hed him witha rifle? - - faking. the! visitor to the 2g a éry,--MrHingle howed-the—ja whol ark. In the teeth “We managed to-kijl him before-he hag had time to pick, his. teeth,” re- modestly. An Electrical Rat Trap. Elestrie* rat ttaps ‘are “in Suse in wire with a supply tor, and the moment Mr. Ra “shock” ¢lokes his’, ta | .anie THE WASHINGTON Startling Story Told by Truthful BEE. SNAKES PLAYED TUNES. eg euaene Fiatnaniasl Heard a Reptile Fami Rattle Off Pop- ular Airs, “Yes, sir,” said the old plainsman, as he stood before a den of rattlers ‘at the Lincoln park 200, to a Chicaco | it is not often that a shark breaks | Inter Ocean reporter, “I don’t allow there’s a more interestin’ goin’ than this here same breed. here is those as places the intel- lect of the rattlesnake on a low or- der an’ rep-tile 1 don’t know as they have ag good » workin’ brain as a Gila mon- ster or a tarantular, but I do know this: ‘Their appreciation of the art of music is profound an’ stirrin’, A SIGHT NEVER TO FORGET, They takes to it like one of these , here Wagner fellows does to a Theo- dore Thomas concert. An’ they're ‘smart to learn, lemme tell you! ‘people kuntiu’. together.” He 1 of rabled witht} ado $122000w ried he v feredhine and began ao smeake:'* 1 self im a airug store and soon saw that his etegantly-dressed companion. and his *roll* of “rubles tad While he was wontlerhig what had be- conie of them the druggist told him hat he had Certainty been robbed. as he brought you jn here,” he said, “4, with him. I suspettethnethiug at the time, but I soon noticed a peculiar odor fromthe half-burned cigarette which you beld. between your. fingers. and when, 1; examined it 1. saw ica ete mm hea been. srogevid z }the music, “Up in Routi county, where I come from, rattlesnal.es xnd Colorado, there is most gebrush an’ a few i ve nber a party of huuters passin -u-way last fall. In the evenin’s they set about the camp singin’ an’ there was some mandolins Three or four times the party was scairt out by snakes that crept into camp to hear though they should~a- known betier’n to be, for there’s no harm ina rattler when there’s mu- sie gom’. along. ain’t the curious part of h I'm unfoldin’. 1 was the tale n along that place seine time after the campers broke up and was attracted iad from behind Knowin’ somethin’ of tunes, I was s’prised to catch the chorus of one of the coon songs that by a low musical s« the bowlder. had been popular with the campers. It was the one they the Chi oF a Shame Ponderin’ up on top of the over at some flat rocks on sing down to ‘Ain't that over it, I crept bowlder ar” looked the other side. it was a sight never to fergit. A chorus of ten rattlers had their tails-in the air on’ was poundin’ out the song for all they was worth! I lay there fascinated, and, by ginger, before they st through they ‘The Holy City’ an’ ‘Go Wey Back and Sit Dowas’ as well’s I ever heard ‘em done. Kill ‘em? been a crime to break up a musécal family like that.” DGPED BY CIGARETiE. a house, done *Twould Victim pf Cunning Thief Ix Rendered Usconscioux and Rothbed of a Large Sum. While on hisway to the Imperial bank fin Wz ldax, a young Pole, v aw recently Constantine Kai- accosted by an elegantly-dressed who politely jaskeal him the way to the bank. “lam going there now,” replied Con- we may as well walk ‘THE DRUGGIST EXPLAINED. with him @ roll was intend im Thes stfan to deposit: em thunked-him and oft a-cigarette: Which he féok, A fear aninutes k and fainted nion’s, arms._ When he ecovered cohseiousness he found him- ater he became very, si 1 his comy appeared: “Your companion ished as soon nd, of course, he Took the money plainly ATTENTION «LAS -Hair Restorer.— All wao are dersirous of having a beautiful suit of hair, or if your hair is falling out, you ‘should get a bottle of Hairoline, better known aa the Renowned Hair Restorer Oriental Complexion Cre m ao cures all shin diseases and makes the skin like velvet. Price, 25¢ to 75c per bottle, ‘Treatment of the Skin Scalp STRAIGHTENING A SPECIALTY. 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