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came baok The second nigh after. and
made havoc OF several packed boxes Of
fruit. tearing them open and rolling about
over the spilled berries.
The bears are not always 80 surly and
mischievOus. One hysterical girl OF Q or 7
years was alarmed to see a fine young bear
approaching at a quick walk. She begged
the brute to let her alone. See, she Said,
III you will, I'll giveyOu all my blueberTies, F"
and with that she emptied her lard pail OF
fruit on the path and stepped aside. The
hear accepted the invitation quietly and
deliberately lay down to enjoy the feast
at his ease. allowing the terrified child
to step past and make her way safely to
where the older children we're waiting.
On the Saguenay the pickers were hold
ing q festival a little While age when at
dinner time a couple OF great whitenosed
hears and two cubs came running toward
them from the woods. The whole party
being unarmed decamped hastily, pursued
by the BEASTS, which were rapidly gaining
on them when they reached the water
sido, where the canoe were. They EN-
bArked safely, but one Of the women then
discovered to her anguish that the bundle
she had snatched up was not her baby,
which had been left in the shade OF some
trees.
In an instant she was in the water making
for shore again. The party followed, to
find the young woman running at all speed
toward her baby, the four bears trotting
sticks and stones and much shouting the
berry pickers followed the bears, which,
finding themselves pursued In turn, charged
right through the crowd, made for the
water and swan away to the other side.
The baby WAs found pea0efully alecpinG.
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HEARS Plentiful IN CANADA.
Berry PIckers This season Have Reported
Many Encounters.

LACHINE, Canada, Sept. 14.-So large are
the ~bIueberries grown on the shores OF the
SaRuenay River between TadOusac and
Chicoutimi that they are known TO the trade
as saguenay grapes. There are miles Of
natural plantations OF the berry bushes,
and the gathering Of the fruit ia the i'm
portant industry Of The scattered popula-
ton.
The crop has been good this year. al
though the fruit is smaller than usual,
owing to long droughts. Other fruits, like
raspberries and ~blackberries, have been
very scarce from the same cause.- PROP
ably that Ia the reason why the bears have
been more troublesome than ever. In this
brownies Bruin il protected by law through
the long season when his fur is thin, and
in equen his family ia increasing
rather rapidly in some sections.
On the GAtineau a mother looking after
her little ones saw two OF the children
standing pretty close TO q big surly brute,
which was gobbling up the berries gathered
by the children. The bear must have
grown angry at their presence, for, making
a dash at the little party, he struck the
tIniest one a fierce blow with his forepaw,
and then stAIked away. The blow sent three
long claws right through clothes and Mesh
and broke two ribs.
IL wa probably the same beast which
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CHARGED M ANGRY ELEPHANT.
A Hunters AdVenture with q wounded
Pachyderm IN q MaIayan Forest.

| took a steady aim at the last vertebra
at the nape OF its neck, expecting the bullet
TO smash its backbone and perhaps TO rake
into it's brain, writes O.. Maxwell in the
Temple Bar, describing an elephant hunt
in the Malay peninsula. | fred and all was
still.
Peering under the smoke Of my ten bore,
I saw the animal lying mOtionless. |
waited a few seconds. and then looked around
toward the two Malays. Tn week before,
shooting in the Kuantan valley, l had killed
a fine tusker elephant with q single bullet
in the brain. This made two consecutive
elephants with two consecutive bullets,
and the second Of them was this famous
Blat elephants Trying TO conceal my
emotion, 1 beckoned to the men to come
up, saying that the animal was dead. But
dead" had barely crossed my lips when
there was q rending Of the ~rattans. and
before I could move the elephant was
charging straight at me.
A second before II had been lying on the
ground with all four feet stretched out.
and with. I believed, q bullet in its brain.
An elephant cannot spring TO his feet, and a
tame animal generally takes some time to
rise. The suddenness Of this charge may,
therefore. appear exaggerated. / can only
say that I vas standing within a few yards
Of the animal and was not aware Of any
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WEAKFISH IN BIG SCHOOLS.
Great sport for the Fishermen Down in
GraVeSend Ray.


There has been an extraordinary run OF
weakish In Gravesend Bay. 1t began some
days ago, and fishermen say that it is likely
to continue for several days more unless
a storm comes.
One morning Louis Girard caught III
on one tide and the Q morning brought
in between sixty and seventy. John Lock-
wood caught ninety-three in a forenoon;
and there have been many other catches
OF from forty to 100 in three or four hours
fishing.
These catches rave been made near the
Atlantic Yacht III anchorage, not far
from the mooring known as the big fender
buoy and about ten NUT pull in a skin
from Stllwell'sI ht the foot OF Forty-eighth
street. The catches have been made on
hand lines and with rod
A four ounce sinker is'used. with ons
leader and one hook and with blOOdworms
for bait. The water there is fifteen or twenty
feet deep. The weakfiah run fairly ever
in size-about two pounds-and are in fine
condition.
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chest drove il to frenzied madness. Ik
trampled over the ground, which was
already besmeared with its blood, and with
trunk Outstretched and ears thrust forward
turned in every direction for its assailant.
After a time-it may have been only a
few minutes, but it seemed like hours
weakened by the loss OF blood and con-
WINGED perhaps Of the futiity Of its search;
il moved slowly away
Long afterward It was found dead. ~
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Enamaled Ware:
Why You Should Buy
. Only First Qualities.
Base

We handle only perfect quality
Enameled Ware the absolutely flaw
less sort.
A damaged piece even slightly chip
ped--goeS back TO the factory.
Some otheI store that can afford
10 sell what We cam OF afford to sell
gets il.
An snameIed cooking Utensil, ever
slightly Clipped; is q menace 10 health.
High authorities agree that muCh i'll
heslth-particularly cases OF appen-
dicitis-can be traced 10 chips OF en-
amel from faulty wares used in cooking.
The second grade enameled ware
Is an e~xtravagance at any price. II
We were less particular and chose to
sell il we could double our profits.
Perfect quality ware costs no o
here-oiten less than seconds" cost
elsewhere.
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Two Special Lots of
Boys Suits.

Zine and dandy" this idea Of col
Letting all lines Of boys and girls sp-
parel in one big section OF the second
floor and calling it the Store For Little
Folks. IL has been the outiitting
cenlre for hundreds Of schOOl-goers-a
place where they could be rugged out
from head TO heels for q very modest
outlay. These offerings in Boys Suits
indicate
Al 1896 S SiC".s N sOtts m ESSs"iS az
all wOrsted serge or mixed CheviOt;
double breasted. with braid trimmed
shawl collar and shield, in navy, red or
light blue; also about one hundred sample
suits. made TO sell ny to $500. All FOR
boys or 2f to s years.
Al $4.6S Model suits made OF
all wool cheviOts, with one pair regulation
trousers and an extra pair Of knickrr-
bOckers. For boys Of \ to 10 years.
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Grocery Specials.


F~IGS-READY THE NEW CROP 1909
FIGS: large. bright. luscious and healthful'
per
NATIONAL BISCUIT CO.'S CRACKERS
Regular Sc. In -er Seal Cartons-Cneeda BIS
cults, Uneeda MIX Biscuits. Zu Zu, Oystercttes.
Dealers not supplied during this sale. Per
doEen.. .....,....... .19c
sUGAR-Havemeyer 4 Elders Crystal
Domino sugar. In 5 ID. cartons. sold by others
at CSC. per carton: our price...,..",.....33
TOMATOES Virginia Queen Brand Toms-
toes, red ripe. solid pack; quart can. &C.;
dozen. Csc; case .SA
COFFEE-Vienna Brand rich. fun Favored
and fragrant: bean or zranu!ated; pound ear
tons fresh roasted our regular price. zoo. ID,
Tor thus SAFE ''''''''.''' Nc
: III. cartons. regularly e4r.. sale price. 5sC.;
2SIb' sAcks' '.'.''''' WIN
PEKIN CHOP T~EA-Formosa Oolong,
Mixed and English Breakfast
lib. carton. regular price, 2Ic. for this sale
the price is Be.
8 ID. caddy. regular price si.i4; for this sale
the price Is S4c.
10 Id. caddy. ocular prlA S2.iO for this sale
the price Is 81 "a.
FLOUR LILY White Brand Flour Means
the highest standa I'd we guarantee Il cquHl TO
many Of the higher priced popular brands.
barrel Sass; half barrel 80. az; 2lia III. bS g
SIc
RED STAR BAKING POWDER -Gua rantScd
absolutely pure and equal In every respect
TO the wluely advertised brands that are sold
At much higher prices
One pound cans, special for this 81 2. each
94c.; dOZ. s2.sl.
Five pound cans. special for this sale, each
500
III Ca rbOnate Of Soda. Il III. cartons &c.:
4 uOItn .s..t.t.t.s ..srs.rF ,s.s,.t $50
Cream OF Tartar, = ID. cartons. IOc.;
dozen .,...,..,..,. .......,... sl.l8
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Parlor Furniture: An Echo
of the August Sale

Fourth oOE
~0HREE and Five piece Pahr Suits and q collection OF handsome Cah-
nets values as inviting as any the August sale afforded. We counted
upon having the goods here for the final weeks Of the big sale, but did
gAAzg lot count upon delays in transportation.
Three-piece Suit, $2524 Heavy Mahogany finished frames; eats
uT phce, $34ss.
Three-piece Suit, $52.49 Heavy MshoE, HSy1AI finished frames; high
Regular price s7Iss.
Five-piece Suit, $52.49 Heavy Heavy MasOs'Ay i'll hHi: she frames; Sh
ur price, $7Iss.
Five-piece Suit, $59.49 Richly Carved Mahogany finished frames;
lar price, $3.50.
Five-piece Suit, $6S.89 Heavy Mahogany S& finished frames richly
velour. Regular price sssss.
Five-piece Suit $4,000 Carved Mahogany. finished fEa%s' Of
arms; covered with panne velour. Regular price, Sl4SO0.
Five-piece Suit, $154.00- Solid mahogany frames gsSeinny de:
shaped backs and arms covered with damask. Regular price, $4,000.
Five-piece Suit, $333.OO Beautifully carved frames; all p9r. gold
hobtered arms; covered with silk damask. Regular price, $4,000.
Three-piece Suit, $1532S Gold carved frames .. all pure gold
uhr price, sIS4OO.
7Sree-piece Suit, $l39.75 Heavy gold frames: 81 prs geld SUE Leaf:
ask. klsular price, $1,000.
Pedestal LtdO Cabinet, gold leaf, Music Cabinet gold ef finish,
s4s24. s24H.
CuHO Table. NIub-Marhn finish,
Cuio Wall Cabinet. Vss7is-Marin s65ss.
Music Cabme, vemis-Marin finish, /, CurO Wall Cabinet, gold leaf finish,
ASIs. s4sAe.
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flor Ghe Children.
Kinds of Lightning.

On warm Skinner evening one often
sees clouds on the horizon lit up with bril-
liant glows of lightning, unaccompanied by
any sound of thunder. To this appearance
the name of "heat lightning has been
given, and the warm weather is often as
signed as its cause. In point of fact, the
heat lightning is only that of a thunder
storm SO far off that, while the observer
can see the flash, no sound of thunder
reaches him, and the intervening clouds
veil and reflect the flash until it becomes
glow instead of the sharp streak usually
seen.
Where the fash starting from one point
branches out and divides into several parts
it has received the name of "forked light
ming" This is usually seen when the
discharge is near the observer.
Single flashes bearing zigzag or crinkled
aspect are denominated ''chain lightning, y
probably from their resemblance to chain
thrown loosely on the ground.
Again when several discharges occur
from about the same place at the same time
and are screened by rain or clouds, so as to
light up the heavens with broad bright
glow, the title of 'ssheet lightning is
applied.
These four comprise all the common
forms. There is, however, one rare man
Hesitation, called s'ball lightning" In
this phenomenon a small globe or ball Of
fire rolls slowly along the ground and after
time suddenly explodes, scattering de-
struction. There are few instances of this
on record, and no very satisfactory expla-
nation is known for its appearance.
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The Best Remedies.

The young squash plants are attacked
when they are just appearing above ground,
to prevent which the hills should be COW
cred with wire netting, the edges to be
buried under the soil, as the bugs will en-
deavor to get under them. The netting
will also keep out the flea beetles and yell
low and black striped bugs. As soon as
the plants have five leaves the covers
should be removed and the bugs fought by
other methods. Some gardeners plant
more seeds than can properly develop in
order to provide against the destruction Of
the whole hill The bugs are not partial
to clean cultivation. The burning of use
less rubbish in the fields reduces the winter
shelter, and all vines should be collected,
and burned after harvesting the crop. The
bugs may be collected by hand from the
vines, or from the squash plants between
the rows used as traps. The bugs
also seek shelter under leaves, in the earth,
under clods or boards, or wherever they
can find covering. All eggs should be
destroyed and the vines examined twice a
day. The bug will always leave the melon
or cucumber for the squash, hence few
squash vines among the melons and cucum-
bers will trap them. Kerosene emulsion
may be used. An eight per cent. kero-
sene emulsion may injure the plants, about
seven per cent. being strong enough (seven
parts kerosene to 100 parts water. 1t is
also important to kill as many bugs as pos
sible in autumn, after the crop is harvested,
aud be sure to burn every vine.
When spraying the vines care should
be used, as the kerosene and water must
be intimately mixed. The first flow
should be on the ground for minute,
as it may contain too much kerosene.
Spray the vines lightly, not too much, the
spray to be very fine. The mixture will
drive the bugs from their covers, when
they can then be destroyed, but, as stated
before, everything depends up destroying
them by hand.
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Holstein Cow A Storage Battery.

When John Hinkle's son brought in the
cows on his father farm near Laurel, Pa.
it was noticed that one Holstein walked as
if dazed. Her hair seemed to stand out
straight from the hide.
At milking time Mrs. Hinkle set tin
bucket beside the animal and started to
milk Her hand barely touched the COW
when she was hurled backward. She in.
sisted that she had been shocked by elec-
tricity.
The hired man in picking up the milk
bucket accidentally came in contact with
the animals leg and he too, got shock.
Mr.. Hinkle made inquiries and learned
from a neighbor that this cow had been
shocked by lightning several hours earlier.
Equipping himself with pair of rubber
gloves and put on his rubber boots, Mr..
Hinkle successfully MIXED the COW. The
milk was sour and could not be sold at the
creamery, but it furnished several excel
lent meals Of flannel cakes.
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Something to Think About.

Some of the processes of nature are as
hard to understand as the operation of the
mind. Why is it that the movement of
the sap in plant proceeds with regularity
so absolute that in the leaf of yariegated
geranium, for instance, it drops little
coloring matter of one shade at one point
and little of another shade at another
point, with never mistake And how
does the wheat that is grown in northern
latitudes know that it must produce many
seeds to each plant so that some of them
may survive the rigor Of the winter? On
the other hand, why do the plants Of the
tropics expend all their forces in leaf and
gorgeous flower and yield only few seeds
if they don't know that in the climate
where they grow every seed stands IA good
chance of surviving.
The more we study nature the more
wonders we discover.
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Steer Feeding.

Tn regard to the feefling of the carload
of cattle which I sold for S.. 35 in Chicago
the other day I would say this was the first
carload I ever fed. In the first place l
had some blue grass pasture, more than L
needed, and bought eighteen head of
good young Hereford steers. They were all
of that blood but two-one Red Poll and
one Angus were all coming two years
old.
l bought them about the middle of June
and turned them on pasture. During the
second week of September brought them
up and fed them little corn and still let
them run on good blue grass pasture until
1 got them on full feed. About the middle
of October I confined them in yard and
fed them cobmeal, corn and timothy hay.
These steers weighed about 700 pounds
when started to feed them. They were
all dehorned but four, and would always
rather have my steers dehorned. They
were kept in a small feed lot, and l had
number of brood sows running after them.
My feed lot is sandy, consequently it never
gets very muddy. kept the steers well
bedded all the time. bought them all
around here near my home, and think
they made me about ST.. 20 per hundred
weight.
The best steers to my notion to feed are
pure bred Herefords, but one cannot al
ways get them. The better they are bred
the better they will feed and sell as rule.
The way to get this kind of stock is to
buy and use pure bred bull instead of
using an old scrub animal.
These cattle were in good flesh when
they were put in the feed lot. believe
you should always have steers in good flesh
to start with. I cannot tell how much
these averaged per month, for l had no
scales to weigh them on. They were not
large, rough streets, but small, blocky,
smooth and well shaped. shipped chem
January %. The cattle went through
fine, filed up well and weighed 1,O95
pounds per head.
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farm ayelss.
Rising Tide In Cattle.

The rising tide of values in the Short
horn world is one of the noteworthy feat
ures of the live stock trade. The appre-
cia:ion has been most marked in Great
Britain, the ancestral home of the breed,
where its popularity seems indeed perennial,
but the recovery from the depression of
few years ago on this side the Atlantic has
restored the business of breeding registered
cattle of this type to profitable plane.
This statement applies with almost equal
force to pedigreed cattle breeding as a
whole. The transatlantic scramble for
red, white and roam bulls began early in
the year, when bnyers took hold at the
Perth and Birmingham sale with an avid
ity that fairly amazed even the old hands in
the business. There is constant demand
from the tenant farmers and great landed
proprietors of England and Scotland for
good cattle of this old established type.
The prime cause Of the soaring values
for Shorthorns abroad, however, is the
apparently Unsuitable demand for the blood
from the Argentine. Marked as has been
the enterprise of North American import
ers in the past, the operations of our own
breeders in transferring valuable blood
from the fountain head to our own soil pale
into insigni6cance when contrasted with
the extraordinary buying of top cattle dur
ing the past decade for Argentine account.
We have on several occasions warned
American farmers that if they do not util-
ize more good bulls they will wake up some
fine morning and find that the export grades
of beef can be had in greater and cheaper
supply in in Buenos Ayres than in Chicago
and Kansas City. And it must never be
forgotten that the Argentine Republic is
the one meat exporting nation of the
world, aside from the United States, that
can produce Indian corn in sufficient guam
tity to admit of giving meats in finish and
flavor that commend them to epicurian
palates, concludes the Breeders Gazette,
Chicago, in expressing the foregoing views.
Ladas VI, two and half years old,
first prize and champion of shorthorns, sold
for $10,3 800 is a handsome specimen of
what the Argentine has done in the way
of cattle production.
Is it not worth moments study as to
whether we are drifting? The despised
Spaniards, whom we SO ignominiously de
feated in war, are they not getting their re-
venge? Yea, and more so. Today the Ar
gentine beef sells right up to the best Amer
lean Notwithstanding it has to cross the
equator. Why? They hesitated not to
buy Britains best, and, as regards Short
horns no 500 fee is required for registra-
ton. Hens will come home to roost, and
the Argentine is Matching some of those
eggs. They will pay from $500 to 10,-
900 for bulls and from $500 to 81, 500 for
Lincoln rams, and we, who despise those
South Americans, will some time awake
up to the fact that the indolent Spaniard
is getting his revenge in the British mar
ket.
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Earlier or Later +?


Many persons are puzzled when they
come to speak of the difference in time be-
tween one place and another. Take the
case of New York and London, for ex-
ample. The difference is four hours and
fifty five minutes, but is London time
''earlier' or ''later' than New York time?
When it is IL O. clock, noon, in New York
it is 4. 55 p. m. in London. The time in
London, therefore, is four hours and fftv,
five minutes ahead of the time in 80
York, and because it is s'ahead, Se'
persons think it is ''earlier, y wbe some
because it is ahead that it rs lgaa it is
At any given hour in New York it ;s r
hours and fifty five minutes later in : iour
don.
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Rabbits And Farm Crops.

Too many of the socalled game laws are
made for the benefit of the sportsman
rather than the preservation of insectivero6s
birds or beneficial animals. We have
heretofore spoken of the protection Of rab-
bits in many States. There is no possible
reason for the protection of these pests of
the farm, except to give sport to the idle
fellows who follow their beagles over the
farmers land without any regard for the
farmer or his crops. No close season is
needed for rabbits, for no matter when or
matter when or how they are hunted they
will increase more than is desirable to the
farmer. And now we hear that on Long
Island they are having pest of jack rab-
bits, which are far worse than our common
hare. Sportsmen turned loose there a
large number of these long cared gentry
and they have increased to such an extent
that the crops of the truck farmers have
suffered great. We do not believe that if
the matter was carried to the higher courts
that any farmer could be fined for shooting
any wild animal that is a pest To his crops at
any time he chooses to do SC. No one has
a right for mere sport to turn out lot Of
animals that prey on the farmers crops.
and every farmer has the natural r;ght to
protect his farm and crops from tresspass
BY Wild animals or by the idle fellows that
hunt them. All that is needed is for the
farmers to unite in testirg the ridiculous
game laws that are made solely for the
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Pulse Beat ON the Wall.

Take small piece of looking glass and
lay it on the wrist just over the pulse,
fastening it by means of rubber band at
the upper end. Now darken the room in
such way that only small ray of sun
light to enter.
Having placed table where the ray of
light will fall on it, seat yourself near it
and lay your wrist on the table SO that the
ray will strike the looking glass Adjust
your wrist so that the reflected light from
the glass will strike the wall, and then, if
you keep perfectly still, the light on the
wall will move every time your pulse beats.
This is very pretty experiment if
neatly done, and it will give you the
unique experience Of counting your pulse
on the wall,