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THE DAILY BANNER TIMES, GREENCASTLE, INDIANA

TALMAGE'S SERMON.

SYMPATHY FOR THE GREEKS,

SUNDAY’S SUBJECT.

From the Text: “I Ain Debtor Both to the Greek* and to the Barbarian*'*— Koiuami 1 : 1 4—Thermopylae and Bunk-

rr Hill.

j_aS tor having -&S Itself on

of the Greeks,

T this time, when that behemoth of abominations, M ohammedanism, a f-

gorged

the car-

i't'i- oasses of a hundred thousand Armenians, is trying to put its paws upon one of* the fairest of all nations, that I preach this sermon

of sympathy and protest, for every intelligent person on this side of the sea, as well as the other side, like Paul, who wrote the text, is debtor to the Greeks. The present crisis is emphasized by the guns of the allied powers of Europe, ready to be unlimbered against the Hellenes, and I am asked to speak out. Paul, with a master intellect of the ages, sat in brilliant Corinth, the great Acro-Corlnthus fortress frowning from the height of sixteen hundred and eigh-ty-six feet, and in the house of Gains, where he was a guest, a big pile of money near him, which he was tailing to Jerusalem for the poor. In this letter to the Homans, which Chrysostom admired so much that he had it read to him twice a week, Paul practically says: "I, the Apostle, am bankrupt. I owe what I cannot pay, but I will pay as large a percentage as I can. It is an obligation for what Greek literature and Greek sculpture and Greek architecture and Greek prowess have done for me. I will pay all I can in install-

ments of evangelism. I

to the Greeks.” Hellas, as the inhabitants call it, or Greece, as we call it, is insignificant in size, about a third as large as the state of New York, but what it lacks In breadth is makes up in height, with its mountains Cylene, and Eta, and Taygetus, and Tymphrestus, each over seven thousand feet in elevation, and its Parnassus, over eight thousand. Just the country for mighty men to be horn in, for in all lands the most of the Intellectual and moral giants were not born on the plain, but had for cradle the valley between two | mountains. That country, no part of which is more than forty miles from the sea, has made its impress upon the world as no other nation, and It today holds a first mortgage of obligation upon all civilized people. While we must leave to statesmanship and di- ! plomacy the settlement of the intricate questions which now involve all j Europe, and Indirectly all nations, It is time for all churches, all schools, all universities, all arts, all literature to sound out in the most emphatic way the declaration, “I am debtor to the

Greeks.”

In the first place, we owe to their language our New Testament. All of it was first written in Greek, except the Book of Mafthew, and that, written in the Aramean language, was soon put into Greek by our Savior’s brother, James. To the Greek language we owe the best sermon ever preached, the best letters ever written, the best visions ever kindled. All the parables In Greek. All the miracles in Greek. The sermon on the mount In Greek. The story of Bethlehem and Golgotha and Olivet and Jordan banks and Galilean beaches and Pauline embarkation and Pentecostal tongues and seven trumpets that sounded over Patmos, have come to the world in liquid, symmetric, picturesque, philosophic, unrivaled Greek, instead of the gibberish language in which many of the natlpns of the earth at that time jabbered. Who can forget it and who can exaggerate its thrilling importance, that Christ and heaven were introduced to us in the language of the Greeks? the language in which Homer had "sung and Sophocles dramatized and Pluto dialogued and Socrates discoursed and Lycttrgus legislated ami Demosthenes thundered his oration on "The Crown?" Everlasting thanks to God that the waters of life were net handed to the world In the unwashed cup of corrupt languages from which nations had been drinking, but in the clean, bright, golden lipped, emeraldhandled chalice of the Hellenes. Learned Curtins wrote a whole volume about the Greek verb. Philologists century after century have been measuring the symmetry of that language, laden with elegy and philippic, drama and comedy, Odyssey and Iliad; hut the grandest thing that Greek language ever accomplished was to give to the world the benediction, the comfort, the irradltation, the salvation of the Gospel of the Son of God. For that we are

debtors to the Greeks.

And while speaking of our philological obligation, let me call your attention to the fact that many of the intellectual and moral and theological leaders of the ages got much of their discipline and effectiveness from Greek literature. It is popular to scoff at the dead languages, but 50 per cent of the world's Intellectuality would have been taken off if, through learned institutions our young men had not. under competent professors, been drilled in Greek masterpieces. Hesiod’s "Weeks and Days.” or the eulogium by Simonides of the slain in war, or Pindar's ''Odes of Victory,” or ’’The Recollections of Socratea,” or “The Art of Words,” by Corax, or Xenophon’s Ana-

basis.

Prom the Greeks the world learned how to make history. Had there been no Herodotus and Thucydides, there would have been no Macaulay or Buncro ft. Had there been no Sophocles in tragedy, there would have been no Shalqpspeare. Had there been no Ho- J

mer, there would have been no Milton. The modern wits, who are now or have been out on the divine mission of making the world laugh at the right time, can be traced back to Aristophanes, the Athenian, and many of the Jocosities that are now taken as new had their suggestions twenty-three hundred years ago in the fifty-four comedies of that master of merriment. Grecian mythology has been the richest mine from which orators and essayists have drawn their illustrations and painters the themes for their canvas, and although now an exhausted mine, Grecian mythology has done a work that nothing else could have accomplished; Boreas, representing the north wind; Sisyphus, rolling the stone up the hill, only to have the same thing to do over again; Tantalus, with fruits above him that he could not reach; Achilles, with his arrows; Icarus, with his waxen wings, flying too near the sun; the Centaurs, half man and half beast; Orpheus, with his lyre; Atlas, with the world on his hack, all these and more have helped literature, from the graduate's speech on commencement day to Kufus Choate's eulogium on Daniel Webster at Dartmouth. Tragedy and comedy were born in the festivals of Dionysius at Athens. The lyric and elegiac and epic poetry of Greece five hundred years before Christ has its echoes in the Tennysons, Longfellows and Bryants of eighteen and nineteen hundred years after Christ. There is not an effective pulpit or editorial chair or professor's room or cultured parlor or intelligent farmhouse today in America or Europe that could not appropriately employ Paul’s ejaculation and say, "I

am debtor to the Greeks.”

The fact is this, Paul had got much of his oratorical power of expression from tho Greeks. That he had studied their literature was evident, wbfcn standing in the presence of an audience of Greek scholars on Mars’ Hill, which overldoks Athens, he dared to quote from one of

am insolvent : own Greek poets,either Cleanthus

or Aratus, declaring, "As certain also of your own poets have said, ’for we are also his offspring.’ ” And he made accurate quotation, Cleanthus, ouo of

the poets, having written;

“For we thine offspring are. A1

things that creep

Are hut the echo of the voice divine.

And Aratus, one

nad written:

of their own poets,

“Doth care perplex?

ger nigh?

We are his offspring,

fly.”

Is lowering dan-

and to Jove we

It was rather a risky thing for Paul to attempt to quote extemporaneously from a poem in a language foreign to his, and before Greek scholars, but Paul did it without stammering, and then acknowledged before the most distinguished audience on the planet his indebtedness to the Greeks, crying out in his oration, “As one of your own

poets has said.”

Furthermore, all the world Is obligated to Hellas more than it can ever pay for its heroics in the cause of liberty and right. United Europe today had not better think that the Greeks will not fight. There may he fallings back and vacillations and temporary defeat, but if Greece is right all Europe cannot put her down. The other nations, before they open the port-holes of their men-of-war against that small kingdom had better read of the battle of Marathon, where ten thousand Athenians, led on by Miltiadcs, triumphed over one hundred thousand of their enemies. At that time In Greek council of war five generals were for beginning the battle and live were against it. Callimachus presided at the council of war and had the deciding vote, and Miltiades addressed him, saying: “It now rests with you, Callimachus, either to enslave Athens, or by insuring her freedom, to win yourself an imrnorof Marathon, where ten thousand Athenians. led on by Miltiades, triumphed danger as they are at this moment. If they bow the knee to these Modes, they are to be given up to Hippias, and you know what they will then have to suffer; but if Athens comes victorious out of this contest, she has It in her power to become the first city of Greece. Your vote is to decide whether we are to join battle or not. If we do not bring on a battle presently, some factious intrigue will disunite the Athenians and the city will be betrayed to the Modes, hut if we fight before there Is anything ^

rotten In

lion of American Independence, and the song of Robert Burns, entitled, “A Man’s a Man for a That,” were only the long-continued reverberation of what was said and done twenty centuries before in that little kingdom that the powers of Europe are now imposing upon. Greece having again and again shown that ten men In the right are stronger than a hundred men in the wrong, the heroics of Leonidas and Aristides and Themistocles will not cease their mission until the last man on earth is as free as God made him. There is not on either side of the Atlantic today a republic that cannot truthfully employ the words of the text and say. “I am debtor to the Greeks.” But iherc is a better way to pay them, and that is by their personal salvation, which will never come to them through books or through learned presentation, because in literature and intellectual realms they are masters. They can out-argue, out-quote, outdogmatize you. Not through the gate of the head, but through the gate of the heart, you may capture them. When men of learning and might are brought to God they are brought by simples story of what religion can do for a soul. They have lost children. Oh, tell them how Christ comforted you when you lost your bright boy or blue-eyed girl. They have found life a struggle. Oh, tell them how Christ has helped you all the way through. They are in bewilderment. Oh, tell them with how many hands of joy heaven beckons you upward. “When Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug of war,” but when a warm-hearted Christian meets a man who needs pardon and sympathy and comfort and eternal life, then comes victory. If you can, by some incident of self-sacrifice, bring to such scholarly men and women what Christ has done for their eternal rescue, you may bring them in. Where Demosthenic eloquence and Homeric imagery would fall, a kindly heart-throb may succeed. A gentleman of this city sends me the statement of what occurred a few days ago among the mines of British Columbia. It seems that Frank Conson and Jem Smith were down in the narrow shaft of a mine. They had loaded an iron bucket with coal, and Jim Hemsworth, standing above ground, was hauling the bucket up by windlass, when the windlass broke and the loaded bucket was descending upon the two miners. Then Jim Hemsworth, seeing what must be certain death to the miners beneath, threw himself against the cogs of the whirling windlass, and though his liesh was torn and his hones were broken, he stopped the whirling windlass and arrested the descending bucket and saved the lives of the two miners beneath. The superintendent of the mine flew to the rescue and blocked the machinery. When Jim Hemsworth’s bleeding and broken body was put on a litter and carried homeward, and some ene exclaimed: “Jim, this is awful!” he replied: “Oh, what's the difference so long as I saved the hoys!” What an illustration is was of suffering for others, and what a text from which to Illustrate the behavior of our Christ, limping and lacerated and broken and torn and crushed in the work of stopping the descending ruin that would have destroyed our souls! Try such a scene of vicarious suffering as this on that man capable of overthrowing all your arguments for the truth, and he will sit down and weep. Draw your illustrations from the classics, and it is to him an old story, but Leyden jars and electric batteries and telescopes and Greek drama will all surrender to ihe story of Jim Hemsworth’s, "Oh, what's the difference so long as I saved

the boys?”

Then if your illustration of Christ's self-sacrifice.drawn from some scene of today.and your story of what Christ has done for you does not quite fetch him Into the right way, just say to him, "i’rofessor—Doctor—Judge! Why was it that I’aitl declared lie was a debtor to the Greeks?” Ask your learned friend to take his Greek Testament and translate for you, in his own way, from Greek into English, the splendid peroration of Paul's sermon on Mars Hill, under tho power of which the scholarly Dionysius surrendered, namely: “The times of tills ignorance God winked at; hut now cominandeth all men everywhere to repent: because he hath appointed a day in Ihe which he will judge the world in righteousness, by that man whom he hatli ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto

INi WOMANS CORNER. INTERESTING READING FOR

DAMES AND DAMSELS.

§oni© Current Notes of the Mode*—Some of the Prettleat Cown* for Evening

Have Flounce Satin.

and Plaited Skirt* of

all around. After being well fitted at the waist the plaits are laid to the bottom of the skirt, becoming larger as

they go down.

Another novelty in evening skirts is

flounced from hem to waist with two-

inch bias flounces of the dress mate-

rial. This mode is as becoming to tall, slim girls os the accordion plaited skirt

is to short folks. Bunches of artificial flowers are used to decorate skirts. For this purpose violets

PRESiDENTiAL SUCCESS.ON, MEAT MARKET.

Ttie Mother of n Mljihty Hare. H MOTHER of a mighty race, Yet lovely in thy youthful grace! | The elder dames, thy haughty

peers.

Admire and hate thy blooming years. With words of shame And taunts of scorn they join thy name. For on thy cheeks the glow is spread That tints the morning hills with red; Thy step—the wild deer's rustling feet Within thy woods, are not more fleet, Thy hopeful eye Is bright as thine own sunny sky*. Ay, lot them rail—those haughty ones While safe thou dwellest with thy sons. They do not know how loved thou ni t How many a fond and fearless heart Would rise to throw Its life between thee and the foe! They know not, in their hate and pride. What virtues with thy children bide; How true, how good, thy graceful maids Slake bright, like flowers, the valley shades; What generous men Spring, like thine oaks, by hill and

glen:

What cordial welcomes greet the guest Bv the lone rivers of the west: How faith is kept, and truth revered. And man is loved, and God is fear'd. In woodland homes. And where the solemn ocean foams! There's freedom at thy gates, and rest For earth's down-trodden and oppress'd. A shelter for the hunted head. For the starved laborer toil and bread. Power, at thy bounds. Stops and calls back his baffled hounds.

orchids are most in favor. Or. if the dress be white, bright red or bright pink geraniums are used. Garlands of blossoms may be effectively used to simulate an over-drapery, which is quite an important factor in up-to-date evening gowning. Silk crepe, figured, which can he bought at a very low figure, makes a pretty evening dress.—

The Latest.

Somethin!; for Bride* 1 o Do. Easter brides will be extremely hardworked individuals, for their best

Cireum.tanee. That Kepi ClevelunU from

Hendricks' Kuncrsl.

Behind the law of Presidential ruci cession is a curious chapter of unwrit- ! ten history. It was told today by a Missourian, who has been for many years a trusted official of the United States senate, ie explains fully an in-

platn cident, almost forgotten now, but once

and the cause of much criticism of Presi-

HOW SAN FRANCISCO IG SUPPLIED FROM BRUIN'S HAUNTS.

Klr.h Tn.tc. I.ike Pork I'-amy I :.i»or-Hear-Kitt (' wed liy Perforurri xml Itimnltng- Holme KcoperH Ttic Hnnting Season.

dent Cleveland. Until ten years ago the law was that the President ■ pro tempore of the senate succeeded to tho Presidential office in the event of tho death or incapacity of both President and ’’Ice-President. In the absence of a President pro tempore, the succession devolved upon the speaker. But either of these officers only acted as President until congress could bo convened on twenty days’ notice and a special election could be held. Early in the first term of Mr. Cleveland, VicePresident Hendricks died at his home in Indianapolis. A situation which was without precedent existed. Up to the time of his sickness Mr. Hendricka had prevented the senate from electing a President pro tempore. He had been able to do this by declining to vacate the chair and to recognize that privilege. The senate was Republican by a narrow majority. The Vice-Presi-dent, having some political advantage in mind by so doing, steadfastly refused to let the Republicans organize. When he died there \sas ho President pro tempore. The death occurred between the dissolution of one congress and the regular session of the next congress. There was no speaker. At the White House President Cleveland was completing his preparations to go to Indianapolis to attend the funeral. Senator Edmunds was at the capitol, busy in his committee room. The suggestion came to his mind: What would happen if the President should be

dresses must he all embroidered by kl ] lp( i or |, 0 rendered unfit for duty by hand, and, of course, tho bride herself an acc id en t on this contemplated joftr-

I

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must do the work to have the gown a perfect success. An Easter bride is

im-/-

all men, in that he hatli raised him

the state of Athens. I believe | from the dead.” By the time he has

that, provided the pods will give fair . got through tho translation from the field and no favor, we are aide to get j Greek I think you will see his lip tremthe best of it In t!.e engagement.” ble and there will come a pa lor on lus

That won the vote of Callimachus, and soon the battle opened, and in full run the men of Miltiades fell upon the Persian hosts, shouting, “On! Sons of Greece! Strike for the freedom of your country! Strike for the freedom of your children and your wives, for the shrines of your father’s gods, and for tiie sepulchres of your sires! All, all are now staked on the strife. While only one hundred and ninety-two Greeks fell, six thousand four hundred Persians lay dead upon the field, and many of the Asiatic hosts who took to the war vessels in the harbor were consumed in the shipping. Persian oppression was rebuked, Grecian liberty »'as achieved, the cause of civlllzat’on tias advanced, and the western world and all nations have felt the heroics. Had there been no Miltiades, there might

have been no \fyasbington.

Also at Thermopylae, three hundred Greeks, along a road only wide enough for a wheel track between a mountain and a marsh, died rather than surrender. Had there been no Thermopylae, there might have been no bunker Hill. Tho echo of Athenian and Spartan heroics was heard at the gates of Lucknow, and Sebastopol, and Bannockburn, and Lexington, and Gettysburg. English Magna Charta, and Declara-

face like the pallor on the sky at daybreak. By the eternal salvation of that scholar, that great thinker, that splendid man, you will have done something to help pay your indebtedness to the Greeks. And now to God the Father, God the Son. and God the Holy Ghost, be honor and glory, and dominion and victory and song worlJ

without end. Amen.

VISITING TOILET

Oh, fair younp mother! on thy brow ; Shall sit a nobler grace than now. Deep in the brightness of thy ski s Tiie thronging years In glory rise. And. as they fleet. Drop strength and riches at thy feet. Thine eve. with every coming hour. i Shall brighten, and thy form shall tower. And when thy sisters, elder born. Would brand thy mime with words of scorn Before thine eye. Upon their lips the taunt shall die! — Bryant. Ilovr ViolclH Arc Worn. The prettiest evening gowns have accordion plaited skirts of satin. They're

PARMA SiLiv.

now at work upon an embroidered lawn, with an East Indian cream ground. The dress is made with a very large double box plait in front. Around the lower edge of the bodice there is a thick shirring of the cream lawn. Down the front of the plait pink roses are

ney to Indianapolis? "Senator Edmunds,” said the Missourian, “was much disturbed. The more he thought of the peculiar possi- j bllities the graver the situation seemed to him. He asked me to find some oth- i er senators and send them to him. Only two were a lion t tho capitol. They were soon closeted with Mr. Edmunds. He told them his opinion of the situation. He said that if anything should happen to Mr. Cleveland the country would be without a head. There would lie no one with even the temporary authority to call an extraordinary session of congress. It would he impossible to take any step. No special election could he ordered. There would he no relief from the confusion until the regular date fur tho assembling of congress came round in December. Until tiie senate chose a President pro tempore and the house elected a speaker, nobody could perform any of the duiie.;

of President.

“Tilt' law then relating to Presidential succession was laid before the other senators. The anomalous condition had not occurred to them. They agreed at once that Senator Edmunds was right. When ho suggested that under tho circumstances the President ought to be specially careful they approved the suggestion. As the result of the conference Senator H imunii • caRie out and asked me to get a carriage for him. He rode direct to tho White House and told Mr. Cleveland he must not go to Indianapolis. He wont over the ground, showing the President that if an areident happened to him the country would be left without an executive for months, until Decorube; came. The President was astonished. He had not hr.d tho slightest realization of how much depended on his life at that time, lie acknowledged tiie force of Senator Edmund's argument. Immediately cancelled tiie orders for trnnsponation and remained in Wash-

j ington.”

j Tin re was much . riticism over the- j 1 failure of Mr. Cleveland to he proront ! ::: the 11 tndrlcka obsequies. The c- ws- ■ ; papers couldn't understand (lie appar- | ent lack of console ration. Tho l’;v>|- ; dent said nothing. This i>: the lirst j time the circumstances of the scna- i torial conference and of Senator Ed- j munds’ hurried visit to the White | House have been told. As soon ns congress convened after Mr. Hendricks death Senator Edmunds futhorc I and

icate leaves of green surround the

a\

No Two Religion*. There never were two true religions. Every true Jew is at heart a Christian. Tiie word Christ is only another form of tiie Hebrew word Messiah. Doth j mean the anointed. All Hebrews who believe in the Messiah may he called— if I may make a word—Messiahans, which is just another word for Christians. Judaism is the gray dawn of Hie morning; Christianity, properly understood, is the sun at noonday.— Rev. R. S. MacArthur.

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The Labor J'rohlcm. There will be no relief from growing poverty and distress until millions now shut away get back to the soil and oeeume producers. Tho solution of the labor problem lies at the end of this road. Rev. A. J. Wells.

hot at all like tho old fashioned kind, however. In the first place, they’re cut altogether differently. These skirts are cut exactly like circular skirts, only with a much larger circle and naturally a larger hole in the center. The center edge is plaited in to fit around the waist with fine, even plaits

roses. The skirt is a very elaborate affair. Entirely around the hem there is a row of roses very heavily embroidered in pink silk. The entire dress is made over pink taffetta, and it may be mentioned here that a great many people object to making a lawn dress over silk, but when it comes to the matter of an embroidered gown, it will be found that it is much better to do so. To give this dress a still further tone of pink, there is a broad belt of pink moire with double loops at the side and around the neck there is a crush of the pink moire. Notes of the Mo<lo. If a woman would have the latest eleganee in silk petticoats she must avoid the rustling kind and wear dainty, soft brocaded silk skirts, ruffled with silk crepe. Metallic finished cambric, which lias ai! the glos$ of real satin, is a new lining for thin dresses. It comes in all the pretty colors, costs only 35 cents a yard, and is fully a yard wide. Fabrics for dresses and millinery purposes are now being made of Venetian glass, and it is promised that we are soon to have bonnets which can ba subjected to tho application of soap and water. Taffeta silk hats are the latest cry in millinery. The silk is doubled and shirred for the brim. The crown is one high puff, and the trimming consists of black feathers, black velvet and a fancy ornament.

impossible the repetition of such a cri sis. The law of succession now i.. such that a vacancy in the office of ITe ideut of the United States is beyond all probability. if Hie President dies tiie YicePresident tal es the office and holds it to the end cf Hi- term. If both the President and tin* Vice-President die. the Secretary of State succeeds. Succession falls in turn upon the members of the cabinet, including the Secretary

of Agriculture.

\Y:i*liiiiff Out Typhoid Fever.

An eminent French physician says that typhoid fever cun be washed out of the system by water. He gives his patients what would amount to eight or ton ounces an hour of sterilized water. In eases of cholera, where the system secretes a large amount of fluid, enormous quantities of hot water are

of great benefit.

Tin* Ftiuliah Lieut.

The late Henry O. Houghton, the publisher, said that when in England lie was asked where he lived. “Near Boston,” tie replied. “Alt! you probably know some friends of mine who live near Boston.” "Where do they live?” "In Atlanta,” was the reply. Iluskliig Corn by Mnclilncry. An Iowan has invented a machine, which he hopes to have in operation by the next harvest se son. for > uttlng corn and separating the ears and s’alks at the rate of ""teer. acres a day.

HE fact that bears bring from $20 to f>.')0 c ch in the San Francisco me a t market and that there is a lively demand for ad that are sent thne has moved many men who live in the foothills of the inoun ain ranges to

scour the hills for them and ship them hence, says the San Francisco Chronicle. Cubs are taken alive, kept in pits and fed until thry attain several hundred pounds in weight, when they are marketable. The carcasses usually displayed by butchers during the holiday season are of domesticated bears, as the wild boars at tiiat season of tho year are hibernating. A stall-fed 1 oar designed for the market is treated in about tho same way as a hog. Ho will eat the same food a hog will eat and about the same quantity and his flesh tastes very much like pork, ex-

cept for a gamy flavor which it p

sesses. Aside from this the bear's blubber makes the finest lard, his hindquarters furnish superior hams and his ribs yield the best of bacon. The best bear grounds in California are in Tulare county, in the region of Mineral King, Homer’s Nose and Hospital Rock. Bear meat is sold in San Francisco at from 40 cents to $1 per pound. It is, of course, a delicacy reserved for the rich. Some leading restaurants have bear steaks on the bills of fare when tho meat is on sale in town and they serve a steak for from 40 to 50 cents. The region on the coast most infested by bears is believed to l)e southern Oregon, near the California border, and from twenty to fifty miles from the ocean. In this district run

tiie Illinois and Rogue rivers, and

there, loo, are many fresh-water lakes,

notably the three great Klamath lakes.

Fish lake, Game lake, Cra'* r lake, besides many small creeks and rivulets, all of which teem with fish and about

which are the breeding grounds for

i ducks and geese. On the banks of ( these fresh-water bodies and stretch-

ing away over the flat country are

thousands of acres of bushes bearing buckle and salmon berries, anti the low

mountains are thick with the scrub

oak, which in the fall of the year yields abundance of mast, all comprising the

most toothsome provender for bears, as they will not eat flesh when they

can get vegetable food or fish. In this country, liears—grizzly, black or brown —abound. They are a nuisance to the farmers, on whose pigs and sheep they often raid, but to the hunters they are a source of profit and delight. There 1 tire two r.eaeons in the year for hear killing—one a long, and the other a short one. The first is in the fall of tho year, after tiie mast is well dropped ; ml Bruin is fat from feeding on j acorns and nuts; the second is in tho I spring, just as ho is coming out of hi", j winter’s Hoop. When tho ground in the fall becomes covered with snow Bruin wallows in fat and cannot find more to eat. Then ho proceeds to i hibernate. In that state his lair D 1 sometimes betrayed by the steam

which rises through the snow from h.

body. In that condition hp can Ic easily killed, for he will make no re-

sistance. When his hibernation is ove

| in tiie early spring, he is still quite • fat and game for tho hunt: man. I at ! he does not long remain in that condition. There being no berries or tnn ; w hen he comes out, lie finds noth ng to eat and in about a week he is i :n : down and as poor as the proveri ial i turkey of Job. In this low state of fiesli it is wanton waste to kill him and he is not hunted. Then the breeding season follows, which gives his ; bearship immunity from molestation. Bears slaughtered on the Oregon

ranges are packed out on mules to th<

j stations where they are shipped to butchers in this city, it som r 'tinic> ! happens that the location where the bear is killed is such that tiie hunters cannot get the carcass out of the country in good condition. Then the pelt is taken off and tiie meat is cut into strips and dried on wire netting suspended over a fire built in a hole in tho ground, a piece of canvas being thrown over all during the process. The grease also is tried out, a bear weighing 400 pounds yielding about twenty-five pounds of lard. This is eagerly bought by hotels and boarding houses in south-

ern Oregon for cooking purposes, in this city bear fat is used by perfum-

ers. Dried bear meat finds a market in Oregon. Occasionally a shipment ■ of it is made to this city. Of all the he irs

which come annually to this market

the blark hear is the must common. The grizzly and the cinnamon come in very

rarely but tiie groat bald-faced bear of Alaska is seen frequently strung up in front of Market street butcher shops, tiie dressed carcass always at’ractitig much public attention.

U(* ft motion* of >i Ba«*holor. A woman would rather have a man say more than he feels than to have hya feel more than he says. When you see a girl that doesn't act ashamed to let you see she wears big shoes you may be sure she has pretty feet. Tfiere never was a married women who sympathised with an old bachelor and there never was a married man .who didn't.—New York Press.

Parisian a year.

rag-pickers earn $C,000.000