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BERNICE AND
 HER CHIPMUNKS
BY LILLIAN E. PURDY.

Way up in the mountains of Alpine County, California, thirty-two miles from the nearest railroad and 5676 feet above the level of the sea, lives little girl of 10 years who has a special fad of her own-she traps raises and trains chipmunks for pets.
 Her pets are trained so that they will come and lick her fingers when she calls them. They are always glad to see her, for she is very gentle with them.
 I have seen Bernice the little mis- tress of the squirrels, with her furry friends Once, when Bernice had called to the squirrels, she opened the door of a cage in which there were two chip hunks. Slipping her hand in she brought out one of her pets to show me all his tricks and antics. She stroked his soft coat, and the little trembling creature-trembling because his rapid heart beats are observable even to the tip end of his fur-licked her hand and looked contented. Then she placed him upon her head and he nestled there as comfortable "as a bug in a rug" She then allowed him to run over her shoulders and arms and back to her lap again, and before the little fellow was returned to his cage he had been up her sleeve and even into her pocket, where he was rewarded for his performances by finding a heap of pine nuts.
 It is curious fact that there is not another member of the household who dares lay hand upon Bernice's pets, for it will be remembered that chip hunks have sharp teeth and are very fond of biting. Once, when one of the pets made his escape from captivity, Bernice's brother might have caught the deserter, for he saw him on the porch, but he knew that there was danger near those pointed teeth and the chipmunk would struggle against being captured by any hands but those of his gentle mistress
 For several summers Bernice has caught chipmunks, and this she accom- plishes in very simple manner. She arranges the most primitive sort of trap, consisting of a box and a stick
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~ ATHERINE LEE was silent and
 thoughtful.
 about?" asked her mother. N "I have not found out any url- selfish way to celebrate my thirteenth birthday"
 Let me see. Yes, your birthday should find you doing good 10 some one. Catherine, dear, l have been thinking about Elsie Brown
 My school rival?"
 "Yes. your rival. Elsie's mother IS very poor and is an invalid. l called on her only yesterday and found Elsie there. The child was working busily making dolls clothes"
 For her dolls ?"
 "No. Her mother told me that their money was all gone. Elsie must work early and late. Often she tolls at the sewing machine until midnight. Rich ladies have agreed to take the dolls clothes she makes for their children. By such labor she keeps food and fuel in the house."
 "When does she study so hard? Oh, mamma" said Catherine, with tears Tn her blue eyes, T see it all now. She must give up her play time, and just to think the girls have all blamed her for being offish--keeping by herself, and they have called her proud, vain of her scholarship. And, mamma, have done her wrong by thinking so, too.''
 Mrs. Lee looked grave. Well, my dear," she said, after pause, there IS a way to undo your share of the wrong, and it would be nice to perform your duty on your birthday"
 What can I do?"
 would my little girl give up her promised birthday party for the sake of Elsie?'
 To give up that birthday party! Catherine had long dreamed of that party Her little cousins from Philadel- phia, who had never been in San Fran cisco, were to be there, Alice and Mary, who were about her own age; and all her nice friends had been invited; and there were to be music and games, cakes and candies and rich presents. She had been promised new piano and she knew that her uncle from Phil
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OUR CORRESPONDENTS,

ANNA ROBERTS writes her first letter from Chico. She goes to the Sierra every summer. Her next birthday will be No- vember 30.
 JULIETTE DRISCOLL has written a pretty little poem for the Boys and Girls page, which will appear in print in turn.
 TOM LEuTNER-The public. library contains a department of juvenile liter ature. It is open to all children who re- side ir San Francisco.
 VERA CHISHOLM-You communica- tion was delayed in delivery. Try again.
 VII the little girl in Portland who wrote My Old Home" please send her address? Her name was not appended to the communication.
 CLARA A. BAUFILL, Byron-Poem re- ceived.
 HELvETIA POZzI, 12 years old, writes from Oakland:
 My little cousin visited my uncle's ranch once and says she does not like the way they get milk in the country. She says in the city you get it out of a nice clean can and there they squeeze it out of old cows. I like the Boys and Girls page very much and always rush for it in the morning to read in bed.''
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baited with apple or grain. The unWary creature nibbles at the apple, the SUD- port moves and the box flies down over him. She thus catches him without any injury to his slender body or downy coat, and keeps him as long as her sweet will pleases-which is from a day to year or two, and sometimes longer.
 At one time her company of pets she keeps from three to six in the cages. When she is off camping in the summer she often catches three or four in day, plays with them and lets them go at night. All animals, even little insignificant chipmunks, know their friends, and it is surprising with what readiness they will respond to a gentle touch or kind word.
 It is the habit with chipmunks and squirrels and all other animals of that family to lie dormant in winter but not so with Bernice's pets. Their cages always stand in the neighborhood of a warm stove, and there is not day, though the wind be grooming around house corners and the snow piled to second story windows, that Bernice may not coax her mountain friends from their cage and pass pleasant hour or two in frolic with them.
 And food? Why, if she did not deal oNe W tiiCilA udily lIS Plilc nuts t1tl the Indians give her by the bagful in autumn the chipmunks would be we'll supplied with food for they have larder of their own. They will crack pine nuts with wonderful deftness, peel off the thin skin, cram as many as ten of the unshelled nuts into their mouths at one time, running with them to the second story of their house, where they pack them away carefully in the fuzzy mass that makes their bed. Indeed, just under that scrap of carpet of which I have spoken you will see dozens of pine nuts tucked away ready for the winter, when the deep snow hides from them daily susten- ance
 Crackers. bread and grain form also 2 part of their winter fare In the spring, of course, when insects are more plentiful, their menu is more varied 1t is then that grasshoppers are their special relish. And many are the times that Bernice had dropped live grass hopper into the cage to see them clutch at 1t with lightning rapidity. They de- vour legs and head.
 They make the little nest or bed of
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adelphia would give her something fine. / Catherine uttered a little cry of alarm.
 "It is not compulsory, dear," her mother said, you shall do exactly as you please. Come, am going to make a call, and I wish you to go with me- Perhaps you will be able to make up your mind during the day"
 A few minutes later Mrs. Lee and Catherine were ready and walking briskly along the street in which is their handsome San Francisco home. It was winter, but the air was sweet with flowers growing in the door yards. A few blocks farther on Mrs. Lee led the way into a small court, removed from the street, and, going to the door of a oor-looking house, rang the bell.
 "Catherine!"
 "Elsie"
 The two girls were face to face. The faces of both suddenly flushed Elsie had heard the girls mutter that she was proud and unsociable and had been hurt by their injustice. The same thought was in Catherine's mind, but she impulsively seized Elsie's hands and kissed her. That one act broke down the barrier between them, and tears rushed to Elsie's eyes.
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again.
 Your King at once, or the work of ruin shall not stop until the mountains have filled up the valley and you are no more"
 Tt must be so,'' the people walled. "Oh great witch doctor, bring the King, that we may not all-the warriors ana the women, the old men and our little children-periSh.
 Silent the great multitude stood. si- lent and trembling, as the witch doctor escorted from his village the White King. But when the King and the witch doctor, obeying naughty gest- ure by Harry Ostend, entered the grove, their walls and death songs broke forth with all the strength Of the people.
 The witch doctor had a cruel-looking knife This he held over the white King, with the evident intention of striking the King down at any motion he might make to escape.
 Harry OstendS time had not come. The balloon was not full.
 "One week from tonight" said the King. in German, my brave friend, the people will celebrate the birth or thelr witch doctor, with sacrifices of victims. If you make a move now the witch doc tor, who is at once fearless and fa- natic, will kill me. Come, then, if your courage and ability do not fail you.'
 we will be there" said Ostend.
 When the savages saw their King re- turn to them they were glad, and even showed signs of friendliness, but Harry Ostend mistrusted them.
 "They will see us in their village" he said, but it will be in connection with the most remarkable surprise that ever yet befell to savages, since the earth was made.' D. w. H.
 Gro be Continued.)
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THE BABY PIONEER,

Each blade of grass its secret had and
 whispered it to him, The stories of the glens he learned from
 every swaying limb. And when the far Sierras raised OCT
 clouds their summts steep, The little boy laughed, for he knew they
 played with him bo-peep. ''I'm going to be a Pioneer he told the
 birds one day. Much easier,' they whistled hack, ''for
 little boys to play" But he had counseled with the flowers,
 and golden poppies told Him that they symbolized land that has
 heart of gold.
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den power. Smoke and sudden flame, a noise as if the hills were being torn from their bases, the odor of powder these startled the savages.
 They looked up only to see Harry Os- tend standing before them, cool and smiling, his right hand upraised, as if he would call down from the sky the power to finish the work of destruction and really topple over the vast moun- tains from their bases.
 He, at whose only gesture the solid earth crumbled-he still stood before them. Hark! He speaks to them
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HERE IS A NOVEL CONTEST,

Boys or girls? Is there amy superiority of sex in literature?
 1t is proposed to institute novel competi- tion upon the boys and girls page of The Call to assist i'm determining this question.
 Upon successive Sunday mornings, the dates soon to be manned, there will be am opportunity for demonstration of the relative literary abilities of our boys and girls.
 One Sunday morning the boys will occupy the page. The next Sunday the page will be given up entirely to the writings of the girls. From the communications six written by boys and six written by girls will be selected for pulp lication. Upon the six selected champions for the boys and the six who represent the girls the interest of thousands of readers will be cern- tered The honor of occupying the represent ative positions will be eagerly sought.
 Now suggestions concerning the competition are requested from all the boys and girls. Do you prefer to write stories or essays? Perhaps you fancy that poetry is your forte.
 How do you wish to have the jurors selected to decide whether the boys or the girls are the victors in this novel rivalry?
 Shall they be educators, journalists or Judges of our courts? Suggestions upon these and all other kindred considerations are now in order.
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withdrew to a distance, but there they could hear what was said.
 "Who are you," demanded Harry Ostend, 'and what would you ask of us?"
 'We beg that you will leave ~our country and not bring woe upon us?"
 Are you the King of this people?"
 Yes
 Do not lie to us,'' said Mir Ostend, sternly Bring us your King at once or we will shake the land with earth quakes such as will throw down the mountains about your heads. Send us
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PUMPKINS AND
 SEA TODDLEKINS

The Pumpkins will, next Sunday, with the assistance of Bronstrup. make their bows in connection with their '.Sirkuss and Meanagery, of which they give notice to-day in a poster, which has been tackled by them upon the Boys and Girls page
 This morning a connected history of the Sea Toadlekins Family is opened up by Culver. This history will be told pictorially, and what befalls baby sea toddlekins and sea toddlekins general ly will be graphically and humorously depicted. Two Toddlekins have just been married, and the wedding process sion is on it's way from the church to- day.
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their house from scraps of cloth that are given them for the purpose. If you give them a bit of burlap four inches square in less than fifteen minutes they will have it torn into woody mass in which you cannot distinguish single thread.
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Brakeman Attacked by Eagles.


From the Parsons. Kan, Eclipse.
Conductor J. n. Romer Of the Katy
says:
we were two miles south Of Keliar on
the main line. when the engine broke
down and ] sent a brakeman bach to nag
behind the train to protect us from trains
coming down the line. When he had gone
back the required distance he stopped.
ana Two eagles. that probably have a nest
IN the little piece of woods where we
stopped. attacked him with beak and
wings. They would swoop down on him
ana peck at him with their bills and strike
with wings and talons. He defended him.
SELF with the blunt end of a nag stick and
succeeded I'm keeping them on by inces-
SAINT fighting. In a short time he had used
the stick to such good advantage hat he
managed to keep them at a distance. and
hnaiiy frightened them away. The eagles
were large bald eagles. with powerful
wings and talons. fully capable of carry
ing on n small child or an animal"
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that was not agreeable. and that was
his howl. I've heard a good many dogs
howl. but / have never heard a dog
howl as he could. And we never could
stop him. I don't know, Il seemed as
though he had to howl. and he always
howled at night. The first time we
ever heard him, he woke us all up with
IL I'm the middle OF the night. My good
ness, j heard anything X that,
Snakes, IL was the howl of a dis
tressed demon. There was never any
thing like that.
II ven down stairs and found him,
and he was glad to see me, and he
swung his tail and tapped his ears,
and there was nothing the matter with
him-he was all right; but the first
thing i knew back went his head-I
don't believe he could help it-and he
howled another of those hair-lifting
howls. Gee-whizzlums squizzlums. II
was the most awful sound I ever heard.
We'll. We tried every way we knew
to stop him. but IL was no use. He
would howl, n finally we had to put
him out doors nights. We built a ken
mel for him in the yard and put him in
that, and we thought that maybe that
had cured him. for he didn't howl at
the usual hour hat night. but along
about i o'clock In the morning he did
howl: the widest. most unearthly howl
we ever heard; and then we realized
for the first time what putting him out
doors meant. You could hear him, out
there. for blocks. He woke up the
neighborhood.
w could rear windows going up
all round N then everything was
still. and we knew the folks were list
ening. And then the dog howled again.
And then we heard the folks all around
down their windows to shut
the sound. The nex day my next
door neighbor. who knew what the
sound was. told me that IL / put the
dog out again at night he'd shoot him.
We didn't put him out. because we did
not want to disturb the neighbors and
we didn't want the dog hurt; we kept
him in the house. But a few DAYS
after he strayed away some where in
the day time. and never came back.
We never knew. for sure, just what be-
OF him, but We never had any
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800 Reward, aIOO.

The readers OF this paper will be pleased TO
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RESULTS NOT CHANGED
Later Returns Dc Not Affect Any
body or Anything.
NEARLY A CLEAN SWEEP
b Republicans Elect the State Senator.
the County Surveyor md . Justice
OF b Peace-Great Joy Among
the Democrats.

Missoula, Nov. 10-The returns n
have come in to-day have not changed
the results in Missoula county. Martina
and Heron have o been heard from,
and will probably not be until the on
cial canvass is made. worden. repub-
lican. is elected state senator. and the
republicans have also landed Hughes,
county surveyor. Inc Hayes, justice OF
the peace. The rest OF the successful
candidates are all democrats. The cleo
ton OF Clarence r.. Prescott, assessor.
and OF ID. T. Curran. sheriff. is espe-
cially gratifying to their friends. as the
hight made for Hamilton and Darbie
was a very hard n n their support
ers were very confident OF their cleo
tion. There was some doubt of the
election OF George Higgins. the demo
cratic candidate for treasurer. for a
time. but the late returns last night
settled his election and his friends are
much gratified over the result, espe-
cially on o of the seurrilous cir
cular that was issued at the 18th hour
OF the campaign attacking the charac-
ter OF Mr.. Higgins. IL has already been
stated in the Standard that no one
holds Mr.. Kemp responsible for this
circular. nor was II issued by anybody
who was a particular friend of his. but
by somebody who is . personal enemy
OF Mr.. Higgins. and thus sought to get
even with him 10 some fancied grew
ances. 1t Is certain hat the circular
made votes for the man against whom
II was aimed. The local republican pa
per takes very much to heart the demo-
cratic victory I'm this county. and to-
night emits a howl that is ridiculous
and makes the paper the laughing stock
Of the city. Nobody pays much at
tention to II. but II is really bad
form.
The election of worden IL a matter of
some surprise. but II Is simply the result
OF the expenditure of the funds of the
Carter-Hanna barrel that was opened
here for securing his election in order
that Carter might have at least one
west side vote two years from now.
The democratic campaign In this coun-
ty was made without funds and the
eoldbugs succeeded In landing Mr..
Worden by the Doodle route.
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Notice for p~ublication.)
Mining Application No. l020.

Mining Application No. 4020.
United States Land Office. Helena. Mont.
Oct. Is. 1885.
Notice is hereby given that John w.
Fairfield. whose postofice address Is
Butte. Mont. has this day filed an appli-
cation for a patent ~(notice of which was
posted Oct. II. 1888, for S9S linear feet,
the same being for 800 feet in a south
erly and 5ss feet I'm a northerly direction
from the point of discovery on the RAM
bier lode mining claim. tuated in unor-
ganized mining district. Deer Lodge coun-
~. Mont. the position. course and ex-
tent of the said mining claim. designated
by an official survey thereof, as sur. No.
52sI, township No. 8 N, range No. "
W., being more particularly set forth
and described in the official field notes
and plat thereof on file In this Office. as
follows. to-wit:
Beginning at the N. f. corner, a lime
stone 4xsx6 ins. above ground. marked
ing trees, from which the initial point
No. l established for mineral surveys in
fractional j. 5 N, r.. IL w. bears N. Is
deg. "a min. Il. 4.132.S feet, and running
thence west 4s5 feet: thence 8. 3 deg. II
min. f. sos feet; thence east 800 feet:
thence N. 3 deg. 30 min. f. s9s feet to
corner No. 1. the place of beginning, con-
tanning an area of $50 acres claimed.
The location of this mine Is recorded
in the office of the recorder of Deer Lodge
county, on page IL in book ) of lode To-
cations.
The adjoining claims on the east sur.
No. 2467. the Morgan Evans mill site
and sur. No. 2i6s, the Stornaway mill
site. John ID. Thomas ct al. applicants
for both; on the north the White Swan
lode. u~nsurveyed, Claus Oldhaber. claim
ant.
GEORGE d. GREENE. Register.
M. j. BAKER. u. s. Claim Agent.
First publication Oct. q. 1898.
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~Phuosophical Tom.

J Missoula. Nov. 10.-Colonel T. c. Mar
ehall takes his defeat gracefully and
very good-naturedly. He Is much
gratiied. he says. by the demonstration
OF loyalty made by his townsmen and
by the pleasant reception accorded him
NIL over the state. He appreciates the
good vote which he received in the
banner silver state. and he certainly
should consider IL a very fattering tes-
simonial to his popularity. He is too
old q campaigner not to accept the re-
suit OF the contest gracefully. and some
of his local friends would do well to
follow his example In this respect.