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"Sure7" said he, as he finished filling the
three bowls. "Then we will eat together as
usual" At curious clicking that he made
with his teeth, Timon came leaping from the
dark end of the room where he had been
sulking for his injured dignity, and jumped
up on the far end of the table, while Diog-
enes numbered into the middle-sized chair.
They both waited politely until Ursa
Major had cut bread and broken it into
their basins; and then upon another click
from him, they fell to.
"Do they understand you2" asked Made
line in surprise.
ooh, yes, we talk great deal together.
They've the only friends I have in the
world, said Ursa Major impassively.
"Oh!" cried she, and dropped the bellows
to cover her ears against terrific peal of
thunder. After that, there was no more
conversation until the storm lulled; but the
Three Bears ate imperturbably, which was,
under the circumstances, the politcst thing
they could do. Madeline felt her heart
warming toward them.
"Guess I'd better light a candle, and
clear the table," said Ursa Major at last,
when the thunder had given way to heavy
rain. you've made poor work of that
fire."
She flashed a smile upon him. "Suppose
suppose I put the dishes together-and
you blow up the fre?"
"All right" said he "You may wash
'em too, if you like. I'll get you the dish
pan."
AS she went to the table on which he had
set a lighted candle, she broke into soft
Laughter;
bellows.
"I wondered what you would do with the
mustard? But aOkere did you get your baked
potatoes?"
"From the ashes, of course Didn't you
see me rake them out7 Ialways use mustard
when I haven't any butter. One has to
make shift up here in the woods"
It was on the tip of her tongue to ask why
he lived there; but she said only: do you
think the storm will be over by the time I've
washed your dishes?"
"Sure!'' said he, making a beautiful
fame
"Then when you've brought in the dish
pan and the soap and the towel"
"Towel?" said he. ."You're too civilized.
You just get 'en clean and I'll dry 'em here
on the hearth. That's my way!"
He poured the hot water on the soap,
making beautiful sguizsy suds; then she
said in a tone of command: "Now get your
pipe hanging over the shelf there, and sit
down just as if I weren't here. Talk to the
other bears. like to hear you"
He laughed as he reached for the briar-
wood "You've hit it about the pipe but
the other bears won't stand it to be walked
from their after dinner maps, so shall have
to talk to you"
/. 81 don't mind" she answered graciously,
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don't care-I 7viN! can never get home
without"
She found cup on the table and ladled
the little basin full, and cut bread and fell
to. The soup was so good that she emptied
her dish twice before she felt able to STOP
"But what could they want with the mus
tard2" she wondered.
Strengthened as she was to face her prob
lem how to get home, she was yet no nearer
its solution. If only somebody would come
--usyb0dy-who could get her out of this
scrape. She had a feeling that the hour was
near sunset, and if she wandered away now,
she might have to spend the night in the
cold, lonely woods. It seemed almost bet
ter TO wait in the snug little cabin for the
coming of the Three Bears-whoever they
were. Of course, they were bound to be
people! =
This decided, she looked about for COM
Portable place to rest, the chairs being hope
less. At the far end of the room lay cot
bed covered with coarse blankets; but pru-
dence counseled keeping near the door.
Under the window beyond the fireplace was
built rude seat on which lay bearskin rug
smallest chair.
ILLS HluSI DC TIC LlIllC DCdI DCQ, she
said, feeling very drowsy. She dropped on
think minute. =.
And then the Three Bears came and stood
in row grinning down upon her and lolling
out their red tongues, and the Little Bear
gave jump and landed on her chest with a
horrible snarl. :. VIZ.
She opened her eyes with scream, and a,
%I %l.% L.,
her chest jumped to the ground and disap-
peared. But great shaggy head, on level
with her own, remained real, staring and
painting, then suddenly stopped and thrust
a snuff1ingUose against her shoulder.
AS she struggled to disentangle herself,
she carDs suddenly face to face with the
chair, it seemed, and stood looking at her
with grin on his shaggy, bearded face;
AS her vision cleared, she gasped: "Why,
you're only mani"
"That's ALL" said he. "And a dog
disturbedyou, but you were warned to keep
out"
"I know" she said, almost ready to cry
with relief, "but had lost my way; and
was so tired and hungry! I couldn't 60 a
Step further; and don't know how to get
back to the hotel"
"Well," said he, it sounds good excuse
for trespassfng. Sit down while we consider
the situation"
With this she was suddenly quite at home
with him: IT have tried all your chairs
Only nice man would have taken things so
much as matter of course.
"And broken Timon's." He found it out
at once. 'And you ate Timons soup; and
lay down on his bed-poor Timon! He got
the worst of it."
Poor who1" she asked, demurely, re-
treating again to the seat under the window.
"Timon. And the Middle Bear is Diog-
enes. See-he's ready to make it up; you
might give him paw. And the Great
Bear-oh, wel-Ursa Major will do for
name, if you know what that means2"
"Of course!" she cried Indignantly. "I'Yf
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W&MW E8U this was the very spice
MSxM M2M of the adventure. And
e.gG2ZYX2&IB after all, the trackless
wilds of New Hampshire
could not hafbor anything more dangerous
than few deer, such as had just pit-patted
down a gully, leaving her frozen with mo-
mentary fright. But she was clearly lost;
and the underbrush grew thicker and
thornier with every step. Her white serge
dress was torn in six places or seven; her
arms were bleeding with scratches; and her
hair was all about her neck.
Suddenly she stopped short. ooh, dear!
can't 60 step further; am Just babe
in the woods! shall sit down and die and
let the robins cover me up! But wish
there were two of me-I wish somebody"
She raised her voice in shrill Cooe-eei
that echoed in the silence and made squir-
rel above drop nuts and scold her for his
loss. She waited moment, then flung up
her elbow to,protect her eyes and dashed
through the .tnQgle until she found herself,
torn and gaspng but free, in a clearing. AS
she stood arranging her hair and recovering
her breath, she suddenly spied an incon-
spicuous log cabin at the far side of the open
space. With half sob of relief at the near
presence of humanity, she ran toward the
hut until she could see and read to the right
of the open door rough slab of wood
painted with large letters of gory-red hue:
The Three Bears. Keep Out!"
There she paused, half frightened, but,
being woman, was the more moved by the
prohibition to go in and ask why she should
keep out.
There was no sign of life about the place
no sign of any danger. Moreover, she had
lost all sense of direction and knew that un-
aided she had small chance of finding the
hotel; she was weary and she wanted her
supper. She concluded that the sign must
be joke, and that even if the people were
inhospitable they must be human and could
not refuse to set her in the right way.
She crept slowly up to the door, with
many pauses and futters, and starts; but as
nothing stirred, she at last gave a tinid
knock on the post, and hearing no answer,
peeped in.
The one-roomed log cabin was quite
empty; but it was trim with kind oqprim-
tive neatness and order, set out with rude
handmade furniture and cheap village
wares. A. log fire smoldered on the hearth
and pot that bubbled slowly hung over it
opla hook.
*Why-eel" cried the girl suddenly. cts
just like fairy-talel There are the three
basins on the table-only there isn't any
soup in them! And there are the three
chairs ip row before the fire! 1 guess I'll
try them"
All her fears gone now, she walked boldly
across the room, climbed into the biggest
chair-a great, high-backed, rough-hewn,
clearly homemade article of furniture; but
it was altogether too straight and deep and
hard for comfort. Laughing to herself at
the adventure, she tried the second, which
was similarly made, but with very short legs
and humpy cushion of sacking that she
did not like at all. The third pleased her
low splint- -bottomed bonghten chair with
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fluffy looking red calico
cushion; but the moment
she sat down, she began
to slip, with a terrible
creaking noise, and barely
saved herself from going
through to the floor.
When she lifted the cush-
ion she found the splint-
seat gapings and she was
at once bewildered and
half frightened, to find the
fai4y story so lit orally
coming true. She brought
all her common sense to
bear on the situation, to
prele that it was only a
coincidence with probably
a quite natural explana-
tion-when she came to
know it.
N"Well, I may as well go
on trespassipg, I suppose"
she szid reSignedly, "and
pay the damage later. I
am % hungry! I wonder
what's IN the kettle!"
!. She took another survey
Of the table, discovering,
besides the large porrin-
ger, the middle-sized soup
plate and the little shallow
basin, q loaf of bread, and
"a bottle Of
"Mustardl" she cried.
3French mustard! Fancy
bears eating French mus
tardl But what would
they eat it with9 Oh, I
must see what's in the
kettlel"
Shk pried up the lid and
was enveloped in a steamy
SAVIOR thak Uade her hui
times as Aa8elg ms before
at looks clean!" she CD
R~@N~AM MA
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who knows7-Diogenes too may have had
his thoughts. Certainly, at the end, he
came and snuggled his nose in Madeline's
hand, as if admitting her of their fellowship
and loath to say good-by.
At the white gate Ursa Majo paused.
you'll be all right now; and we must be
getting home" He whistled for Diogenes,
who seemed to have the intention of enter
ing the hotel and was deaf to the call.
Hes not shy-bless the brutel" said Ursa
Major inpatiently, and continued 10 whis-
tie.
care yo~-when you arc shaved7" asked
Madeline.
ooh, I don't know
Then why don't you shaver"
"Would you like me tor"
"I've no idea You'd have to try"
For moment they looked at each other
by tie dim light of the lantern; then he
whistled again for the truant, and after
waiting moment with ill-concealed impa-
tience, turned away: You'd probably treat
me as badly as the other girl did"
She withdrew into the shadow several
steps up the path before she said naughtily:
"But you'd get over it tzCice as fast because
it would be your second experience-or your
tenth, for all l knowI"
1t was at this point that Diogenes raced
back out of the darkness and laid his nose in
her left hand. She took him by the collar
and together they returned to the man who
still fingered swinging his lantern. %
"Thank you both for bringing me home,"
said she, "and my love to Timon, please.
And you all look so happy in your cabin up
there, I'm sure you'd better stay"
"Hang It'll I'll shave tomorrow" was his
irrelevant retort.
ooh, don't!" she expostulated.
"And come down and call and-drink
tea, supposed But ! haven't any money;
and m not sure that want to stop being
bear and go back into the world and make
some"
"You needn't stop being a BEAR" said
she, and added: "I like bears!"
With that she fed up the path and by
the look of the lantern and the sounds on
the gravel, it would seem that both bears
pursued her. Like the little girl in the fairy
tale she got away-for that time; but this
story has different ending.
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} be sure, a girl not two
years out of college had
no business wandering
the woods alone; but
this was the very spice
of the adventure. And
after all, the trackless
rryiIIc of Nou uop,y>chiro
The Holly chieftain., 1914-06-12
LONDON FULL OF BEGGARs
mendbeants and cadoers Appear In
the Great Metropolis In All
Sorts Of DISCUSSES.

There are many professional beg.
gars in London, who have their own
copyright methods Of extracting coin
from sympathetic and credulous pub
lie. You may perhaps have come
across the distressed governess, out
of situation, who asks you in Oxford
street the way to walk to Turnham
Green, and is 80 staggered at the dis.
tance that you ask her to accept the
bus fare.
Then there is the transatlantic
journalist stranded in the metropolis
He is too proud TO seek aid from some
OF his millionaire friends at the Cecil,
but If you could?-and perhaps you
do.
Most artistic Of all mendicants ia
the old lady Of grandmotherly appear
ance dressed in black silk She is Up
In London for the day, and some one
has robbed her of her purse. She has
called on her solicitor, but unfortu-
nately he was out What shall she
do? You give her the train fare and
she promises to send the money on to
you If you will give her your address.
But If you are wise you decline, and
thus escape shoal of begging let
ters. For addresses of benevolent
persons have a market value among
the cadging fraternity. - London
Chronicle.
The Holly chieftain., 1914-06-12
LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP SURE
That Meeting Of Atfinities is inev.
liable 10 Opinion Advanced by
This Novelist.

There are people in life one never
more than Just brushes by: from
whom one gains nothing; to whom one
gives nothing. People who, though
they may be the pivot of another's
life-and that's always very difficult
to realize and remember-are no more
to you than family pencied draw.
Ing. You may be introduced to them
again and again, know all their rela-
tlons, their personal history, admire
and approve. But that is all. 1t Is
no use arranging meetings; striving
TO know each other better: you'll nev.
sr get any nearer.
Love and friendship are as inev-
liable as all else in this inevitable
world. You may first meet at the an.
tipodes and each go opposite ways
perhaps without even speaking. But
II you are native to each other YOU
Will meet again and again. People
lose half their energy in contriying
and planning. They are like men who
would try to hurry on an express train
by getting out and pushing: or-to
use very homely simile-like GER
tain impatient persons, who, instead
Of waiting for bus, imagine they
save time by walking on so that 1t
may overtake them.-From "Simp-
son." by Elinor Mordaunt.
The Holly chieftain., 1914-06-12

Robert Raikes, the man who found
ed the modern Sunday school, was a
journalist, with passion for what
be termed "botanizing Is human ma
ture." and seems to have had very
little In his makeup of the conven-
tional religious reformed. His great
experience is said to have been sug-
gested by the disturbance caused by
crowds of little ragamuffins playing
beneath his window on Sunday after
noon when he was correcting proofs.
why should they not be got together
and taught the elements of reli-
gion and good behavior" he asked
himself. and answered the question by
establishing the first Sunday school
at Gloucester In 1870. says the London
Chronicle. 1t was characteristic Of
the man that In his school scheme he
laid as great stress upon the incul-
cation Of manners" as on the teach
ing OF the catechism
The Holly chieftain., 1914-06-12
YOU CAN'T EAT
APPETITE POOR

Multitudes of people lose their
appetite. Simply don't care for any
thing to eat. The dinner bell has no
interest TO them. They loathe their
breakfast. They may nibble a little
of this and little of that, but they
do not care for il.
Lunch has lost all OF its charms.
although they try to eat something.
Dinner about the same.
There is something positively
wrong. of course. but no disease that
can be named. Just out OF sorts.
That is all
1t is in this kind of condition
that Peruna acts very beneficialIy
After using Peruna, interest in food
is revived. Beginning with n tea
spoonful Of Peruna before each meal
will generally quickly improve the
appetite and help the digestion.
Thousands OF people can testify to
this. Liberated from n slavery that is
almost unbearable. The slavery of
having no interest in life. All used
up. Yet one does not know exactly
why. Take Peruna before each meal
Skies will get blue again. Fields will
look green once more and life will
be pleasant. You will feel that you
are good for something and the world
will do it. Not as an artificial slim
ulant. Simply tonic that stimulates
appetite in a natural way.
Those who object to liquid medi-
eines can now obtain Peruna Tablets.
The Holly chieftain., 1914-06-12
WHAT NOT TO READ.

Philip Hale recentiy guggestad thai
modern readers would De materially
assisted from the tyranny OF tradi-
ton II a distinguished goterie of men
like Mr.. Howells. MI ytrsterton. Mr..
Shaw and DR.. Eliot would draw UP
list of the "25 worsJ books" A
writer in the Providence Journal un.
dertakes the task. as pride and pre-
tense to processing admiration for
books they never READ and never in.
tend to read. This writer in his list
names Paradise Reganed," The
Faerie Queene, "Wutthering
Heights" Aurora Leigh ",.ohn Hall.
fax" "Hypathia," and several other
books that people today care nothing
for. but for which great admiration is
confessed simply because their past
fame makes present readers afraid or
ashamed to admit ignorance of them.
Senator Hoar once admitted that
often he preferred "Old Sleuth" to his
classic Greek volumes. Other great
men make no secret of their reading
bad books" for diversion. list OF
worst books" sworn to by men
whose opinions carry weight would
create a greater freedom and boldness
among those misguided folk who draw
up lists of the worlds best books
And In due season natural man
might find In such lists some of his
real favorites. instead of the dull
dead volumes that are now included
not on merit, but by reason Of the
power Of tradition.
The Holly chieftain., 1914-06-12

To sleep-perhaps to dream. Most
OF US have our special form of bad
dream. born Of III advised and i'll d.
gested supper usually. The common
est OF the smaller nightmares is the
experience of facing a drawing room
or a public thoroughfare without
clothes. But ! suppose we all have
our special horror on the edge be-
tween sleeping and waking, says a
writer in the London Chronicle My
own Is the belief that l am In for my
finals at Oxford and have not yet
looked at Aristotle. and simply can't
get into the time at my disposal.
And when | really wake to the GER
tainty that | have passed all my e1-
aminations until the day of Judgment
that is the most Joyous moment OF dis,
illusion.
The Holly chieftain., 1914-06-12

The little girl who asked the gov,
ernment for a Panama hat came on
more luckily Than the boy who want
cd dog Of war" She got the hat,
while the boy was informed that the
government had use for all the dogs
Of war 1t had IN stock. The moral
seems to be to ask the rulers for some
thing they do not care to keep.
The Holly chieftain., 1914-06-12

Let us get you up some sta
tionery that will be a credit to
your business-nou detr1ment.
The price will be practically the
same, and you'll have something
you'll be proud of. The Holly
Chieftain Printery.
The Holly chieftain., 1914-06-12
Rye a Poor Ration.

Rye is the poorest of poultry grains.
Corn and buckwheat should be fed
sparingly, as they are very fattening.
Wheat leads as a well balanced food.
and barley is close second Feed
Ing too much buckwheat has a ten
dency to produce a white skin and
light colored yolks in eggs.
The Holly chieftain., 1914-06-12

Dr.. HugonencQ a French scientist,
has written 4 pamphlet to prove that
human flesh Is the only proper food
for man and the very last word Of
science and hygiene and perfect diges-
ton. He omits, however, to tell
where, when and how he got his data.
The Holly chieftain., 1914-06-12

sympathies for the intrepid eIplor-
srs deyoured by Cannibals would be
more intense lf It were not for the
known fact that there's no place o
scientist won't go In search OF in.
formation
The Holly chieftain., 1914-06-12

Live with your wife and your joint
income tax exemption Is $4,000. Live
apart and you each have a $4,000 al.
lowance. But think of the double
rent
The Holly chieftain., 1914-06-12

France rejoices over the recovery
Of Mona Lisa But America is still In
mourning because two OF "Ty" Cobb's
tavorite bats are yet MISSING
The Holly chieftain., 1914-06-12

That Hetch Hetchy matter Is settled
now and newspaper men won't have to
bother any more about whether or not
the name should be hyphenated.
The Holly chieftain., 1914-06-12
Corrects Bowel Trouble,

A few drops of spirits of camphor
In the drinking water will often cor.
rect slight bowel trouble In old and
young birds,
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