The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-12-15

fatigue shey ara about to lose their ten.
sion, the sleeper is awakened by a dream.
This is one OF the singular little phenom'
| ena We overlook while in search Of
! mother in a railroad car or stage
coach, holding her infant when tired
nature hal forced sleep upon her? Her
head Will drop in sleep upon her breast,
but the arms will not sleep; and when.
! exhausted, the muscles are about 10 relax
and let the child fall, the loving mother
will awaken with start and gather her
bate nearer to her heart. Of the same
sort 10 the fact so familiar to us all, that
when one is about to start upon jour
ney early in the morning, and fixes In his
mind before going to sleep the hour neo
essary to AWAKEN. at that nour the sleeper
will start into consciousness as if shaken
by some friend. And 1 have often asked
what part of US it is that remains awake
to guard the infant or arouse the sleeper.
The evidences OF spiritual life lie all
about us, but, like our Saviour in the
manger, seem so humble and insignificant
that we magnificent creatures take no
notice of them.
But to return to my friend. Day dawn
ed at last, and ne Crawled down, sore,
faint and hungry. He was about to
gather up the fragments of his rife and
hurry back to camp, when q fresh burst
Of rage from the wounded bear, and is
suing from the same location az during
the night, so excited MS curiosity that
he deter mined to investigate, and there
fore crept cautiously toward the gorge
from whence the noise proceeded. The
explanation made him laugh. OLD grizzly
had fallen into log trap, such as hunt
ers set when seeking to capture = living
specimen. There was the last nights foe
well secured, and my friend was m san
enough to laugh in his face, while re-
garoing curiously the wound kis hastily
discharged rifle had made. The left ear
was torn away.
Nearly o year after this event, my
friend, the assistant hero of the adven-
ture, was passing along East Broadway,
in New York, when his attention was at
tracted by sickly hand organ that made
an orchestra to the show of grizzly
bear, with the usual accom- paniment of q
fat woman, the anacondas, calf with
two heads and an assortment OF tails and
monkey. Wishing to renew his ac-
quaintance with an animal that had so
nearly closed his career, my friend Paid
the necessary dime and entered through
foul odor of decaying sawdust and
fried sausages. To his Amusement, in q
huge iron cage. scarcely large enough to
allow him standing room, was the grizzly
bear he had marked in the mountains
He mad been carried to San Francisco and
won great renown in several fights with
bulls and dogs. He was now being ex.
hibited on the Atlantic slope to admiring
thousands. My friend tried to catch tue
eye of his old adversary, but in vain.
Tne creatures ill temper seemed to sur
we his many fights and long coniine.
ment; for an awkward fellow, evidently
from the interior, turned rather near the
cage to gaze at the corpulent woman,
then being festooned with anacondas,
when Old grizzly with growl threw out
his huge paw with such force, rapidity
and precision that not only the back Of
the countryman's coat, but the seat Of his
stout pantaioons disappeared. My friend
left the place in the midst OF ierce
alteration between the country fellow
and the Snowman, as to who should pay
for them clothes
The strange acquaintance did not end
with this. Years after, in visit with
some friends to the Geological gardens OF
Paris. the Englishman was delighted to
recognize again his former foe. Old age
added to a better knowledge of the world,
mad not only subdued his ugly dispos j.
ton, but the life in Paris affected him as
it does all native Americans, and render
ed the beast positively luxurious
lie received bone kindly from his
once deadly opponent. and, as the wealth.
or was extremely warm, he rolled into
the stone trough to lie on his back, per.
hitting the cool water to trickle over his
hairy head, while he lazzily gnawed al
the bone. This falling from his indolent
grasp, he closed his eyes and dropped of
into sleep, to dream such stuff as bears
dreams are made Of.
was once told how a bear was used tt
illustrate fact in science. 1t was at ar