Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-16
THE STORY OF TOM AND HIGH BEAR.

THE STORY OF TOM AND HIGH BEAR.
Tom and the Indians.
There was once min named Tom. He
was private in an Indian war. One day a
great charge came on the Indians and Tom
was wounded. and High Bear picked Tom
up before the other Indians came. Tom got
better, and they went to war again. The
war started in 1912. on the 1st Of Deem
Der. and on February 3, 1912, Tom was
wounded, and he got SO he could go to war
on March II, 1912. and High Bear went to
Des Moines and lived there for five years,
and Tom lived with High Bear, and then he
went to Iowa to live, and Tom said: Il will
stay here in Iowa. for I want to see my
brother Jack" So High Bear went to
North Dakota. Soon an Indian war broke
out, and High Bear was chief in the war
One day High Bear said to his soldiers.
There is going to be battle tomorrow at
B or o'clock" So at 3 o'clock the next
day the battle broke out. One time bullet
went through his hat. but 1t did not hurt
him.
And on the battlefield High Bear was
killed, and soon Tom came in search of
High Bear. but he could not find him. So
he said to Black Beast, Where is High
dead. He died March II, 1890"
Soon Tom died. and Jack was a soldier in
an Indian war. and he got wounded and
died from it.-By Watson D.. Age years.
a TRUE STORY.
Across the continent / was living at Sc
attic. Wash, when my mother was taken
sick and went to Washington, d. c., where
my grandparents live. She was pronounced
much better, but when she came back the
journey proved too much for her and she
died at Spokane.
Well, father my sister Ethel and tried
keeping house, but 1t didn't succeed very
well, and SO 1T was decided that Ethel and
! should go on to where our grandparents
lived. while father stayed at Seattle.
Ethel and l were to get on the train at
Seattle travel alone to st. Paul. meet an
aunt there, go with her to Chicago and go
alone from there on to Washington
or course, being children, Ethel and
were glad to go on a journey, but IL we
could have seen very far into the future
am afraid we would not have been so eager
1t was Sunday. May %. when we started,
and as mile or two was on a trestle we
were chiefly occupied in looking out of the
window the first part of our journey
Ethel had a great dread of crossing the
switchback, and she and I arranged that
we should move from the head Of the berth
to the foot as the train went back and
forth She woke about 10 o'clock. and.
pulling my arm, said We were crossing the
switchback, as the train had stopped But
1t wasn't that. There had been a freight
smash-up at one of the small towns,
hours. We didn't cross the Switchback
until 10 o'clock next morning and the
speed that we went down the other side
was a hair raiser. The airbrakes became
unmanageable, and. as l said before, the
way the train shot down that mountain
was enough to raise the dead Once 1t
struck a curve, with a steep bank and
stream underneath. and about everybody
in 1t was flung from one side to the other.
OF course. everybody thought that the train
was trying to make up time and nobody
knew what peril they had been in until
later. 1t wasn't any advantage in the way
of making up time, either, for the train
had to stop about an hour fixing the air.
brake, so that evened things up with 2
per cent more. 1t was about this time we
made an acquaintance with newspaper
agent. who made himself very agreeable
Cor disagreeable) by bringing us maya
zines, eating up the main part of our
lunch and chewing up the candyv we
bought of him. OF course. this made it
very pleasant for him, but it wasn't so
pleasant for us. Therefore, whenever
he came through our car we began at once
to read our books, and pretended not to
see him. / guess he took the hint. for he
didn't trouble us after that.
Before we reached Spokane we heard sew
eral rlimOrS of the most diSuuieting sort.