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HUNTER'S NARROW ESCAPE. INE evening: while I -was so journing in Wyoming: a couple of -my young friends went out iu to a quaking asp thicket after grouse, One. of them was armed 2! lib a forty-foWinchester, the other Ii a shotgun. - t Abdut half a5 mile from the ranch they entered thicket., where they Icnew the grouse were plentiful. They Wv&nceilf "... cautiously, parting the trashes, expecting every minute to flush . r:ovey into the scattering Qees, when they -would have a good fiance at . them, 'ay - r . 5$I& ' They "approached a large bowlder, svhlcli ras about the centre of $e kh!eet,livhen young Stokesberry, who jarrie the Winchester and was i9 krontfdiscovered two or three cub bears inlaying around the bowlder, thou&besitation two hasty shots i UrOugnt OOWu IWO OA vueui nnu n umu HBbot crippled the other, which raised '.' terrible yell. Then out from, behind the bowlder ame something like a whirlwind the aaother bear a monster silver tip. breaking the fallen timber and tearing the brush up by the roots.; Stokesberry parent up a sapling to the top of the fcowlder, the bear with a mighty roar iifter him. The boy with the shotgun jammed it against her. side and pulled Stbe trigger, and then took to his heels through the brush. The shot did not stop the progress -of the she bear. 'It only brought forth another roar!. She kept on after Stokesberry, who toad reached the top of the rock, and Jpegan to pump AA bullets into her as feist as he could. , But the ammunition hats too small and did not seem to do jmuch harm. It only enraged the huge nimal. t The rock was toot tall enough to pro 7$eei Stokesberry. so he ran down the opposite side -and attempted to make bis escape by flight, and probably tarouldr have done so, but tbe fallen (timber, was a great tangle and the brush thick. He hung his foot and pell. vTfte bear was upon him before tie could rise. ' Then the bloody tussle "began. With one stroke of her paw the bear broke two of his ribs, and grabbed him by the thigh with her mouth. it But Stokesberry had held on to his gun. There was only one cartridge in it, and that was in the magazine. From some cause the bear let loose of his thigh and grabbed him by the left arm, Just above the eJbow. Stokes berry, with his right lulnd and the breech of the gun on the ground, man aged to spring the lever and throw the shell into the barrel, and worked the gun so that he got the muzzle into the bear's mouth and pulled the trig- ' geri It blew the top of the bears head ; HA -1 1 A 1 1 ' Jl 1 J ' nr,iana sne ien neaa across me uuuy of the joxivz man. In the meantime the boy had made 11 possible speed for the ranch, and xvith two other men, well armed, came back ag quickly as they could. They found the bear and the man as I have described, and thought both were dead. But after pulling the big carcass off of Stokesberry, they found that he was still alive. They hastened to the ranch, got a wagon, dispatched a messenger twelve miles to Carson for a doctor, nd used all the remedies they could, "which restored him to consciousness Tjefore the doctor arrived. He was ter ribly lacerated and bleeding profusely, -and his case lopked hopeless. But he had nerve, and' in a couple of months be was able to walk about. He had "but little use of his left arm. His friends killed the others-wounded , jubjmd brought the four bears to the ! ranch. The old one tipped the scales t S00 pounds. I afterward bought the hide, but the shotgun, loaded with No. (i shot, had made a hole about six inches square behind the left shoulder. None of the shot went any further than - to the ribs. Denver Post. WINTERING FAR SOUTH. In the autumn of 1901 an exploring -"expedition left Sweden for the South ' Shetlands, whence it was to go to the cast coast of that extensive and then unknown stretch of land which lies . to the south of these islands. There the expedition was to penetrate as far -southward as possible and land a win tering party of six persons. On the return of spring the vessel, the 'Ant arctic, was to fetch off the wintering parly. But the Antarctic was nipped in the ice and sank, and two relief parties had to spend the winter at two different points. In "Antarctica" the members of the expedition record their experiences during a second enforced wintering. They were all finally res- -cued and brought home. We were perfectly unprepared ior :the eventuality. Had we planned a two years' residence we should have taken larger stoves with us and should not have experienced the despondency and nervous uncertainty and mistrust of thefuture. We had no books. ' When we wished to delight the eye with a few printed mcx'ds we would take out the cans of condensed milk and boiled beef and xead the labels. We endeavored to make up for this want of light reading by recalling what we had read under happier circumstances, Duse and I, for example, recounting all that we re membered of "Monte -Cristo" and "The Three Marketeers.'' Strangely enough, It was but seldom vp experienced--any oppressive feeling that time passed at a snail's pace. We were busy with -work forced- upon us by a hard struggle for existence.. We had unending labor endeavoring to get imr winter boots into proper condition. We had only one sail-needle, and it was a great piece of good fortune that it .never broke as we tugged with might rand main to draw it and the thick thongs through the sealskin we used. , Grunden and I made shoes after the same simple plan. Our now bottom less Lapp, shoes were piovided,;Wth inner and outer soles of the skin of the full-grown penguin, and outside, the whole we sewed an outer shoe of seal skin with a sealskin sole. It is easy to describe the making of such a.shoe but it took weeks to get one ready. Twenty or thirty stitche a day,.witlt the tools we had was a good day's work. I y Duse made himself a pair of artistic outer shoes with wooden soles, the materials for which he obtained from the bottom of one of our bread barrels. In order to fasten the sealskin upper to this sole, he had to carve a deep groove with a very blunt knife round the edge of the hard bit of oak. - The sealskin was stuffed into the groove and held fast there with .pegs driven in vertically. They had one great advantage over ours, that they didot become so wet during the thaws, Duse being able to go about dry-fooretl on his wooden soles, while our sealskin soles flapped like wringing-wet rags about our feet. 7 THE WHALE'S BACK-SCRATCHER When a naval architect plans an im provement in marine construction he generally has little thought for its ef fect on the denizens of the sea. The man who invented bilge keels, how ever, says a writer on South America, provided the whales of the Brazilian coast with just the sort of a back scratcher they needed. Insect pests annoy the whale, and barnacles find a home on a large part of his body. Sometimes the monsters may be seen rolling on a shallow sandy, bottom to displace these pests, or rub bing themselves on the rock of reeft". On one occasion the mail steamer Orissa was stopped during a dense fog a few miles off Santa Maria Island in the Pacific. The coast being danger ous, an anchor was let down, sixty fathoms or so, and the ship allowed to drift in the snHjqth water. About 6 in tOfy morning the captain heard some heavy whale "blows" or "spouts'' apparently close at hand. Shortly afterward a continued tremor of the ship was felt. It vas too gen tle for an earthquake, and was varied with bumps. Soon a huge whale rose slowly out of the water and floated alongside, like a bark bottom up. It again descended, and the' tremors re commenced. Then the crew noticed barnacles and Shellfish coming to the surface, and the secret was out. The whale was scrap ing himself currying himself on the sharp plate Which projected as a stead ier from the vessel's bilge. Not caring to have him so s near, in case he should smash the boats, the captain had him pelted with potatoes and coal: but he took no notice of it until , a piece of coal went into his mouth, and was swallowed by mistake. Then he drenched the vessel thorough ly and "steamed" away, a last flourish of his indignant tail indicating that he was seeking quiet in the greater depths. The Sketch. GIRL CAPTURED SMUGGLERS. Two Austrian smugglers recently at tempted to cross the Silvretta Fass with heay loads of tobacco and other dutiable goods from Switzerland into the Tyrol. Learning that the cus toms official, a man named Komerthal. was ill, they chose a misty night to cross the pass. Their caref ully-Iaid plans, however, were upset by Fraulein Komerthal, who is a fearless mountaineer. She had persuaded her father to retire for the night, and, taking $his gun, stood sentinel on the lonely snow-covered pass. In the early hours of the morning the young woman saw the smugglers approaching, and hid behind a ledge of rock. When they came up she sud denly confronted them with her gun leveled and ordered them to surrender. Realizing that the game was up, the smugglers threw down their loads. The woman's voice betrayed her, how ever, and, finding that neither flattery nor bribery had any effect, the smug glers rushed at the courageous woman with the intention of overpowering her. One of them received the clubbed rifle on his head and fell unconscious in the snow. Komerthal, whom the report of the gun had awakened, then arrived on the scene and captured the second smuggler after a desperate struggle. London Daily .News. TIGER STORY FROM INDIA. A man living in a village hear Luck now is reported to have had an extra ordinary adventure in the jungle the other day. He had gone in search of two buffaloes that had gone astray When he was attacked' by a tiger. He was unarmed except for -a heavy stick, with which he fought until over come by loss of blood, when he sank unconscious. At this moment the two buffaloes appeared. One of them stood over the wounded man while the other snorted and tossed his head. The man recovered consciousness and staggered to his feet, when the tiger made another spring at him. The beast was, however, received on the horns of one of the buffaloes, and was so badly wounded that it turned tail i and slunk away. London Express. ; New York City. The vogue of the short coat is a thoroughly established one," and almost every costume of the dressier sort shows one variation or another. Illustrated' is a model which gives all the Jauutiness and style es sential to fashion at the same time that it means actual warmth, a fact which should commend it to all sensi ble folk. There is n genuine Mouse, which is attached to the fitted belt. :nid over- this is tbe little tucked Eton, so that protection against Jack Frost is amply provided. The sleeves are in full length, but finished in quite novel fashion at the wrists, where tlu?y are tucked and trimmed with buttons. The material from which the model was made is chiffon velvet with trimming of handsome Oriental applique and carved gold buttons, but all suiting ma terials are appropriate. Again, if liked, the blouse can be silk faced with ma terial to match the Eton from, the front and lower edges, so making a wrap of lighter weight that becomes available for "the heavier materials. The blouse consists of the fronts and the back and is arranged over the waist, while the sleeves are full shirred at their upper edges and seamed to the two together, so making one gar ment of the whole. The quantity of material required for the medium size is five and three fourth yards twenty-one, four and one fourth yards twenty-seven or two and three-fourth yards forty-four inches wide, with four and three-fourth yards of applique to trim as illustrated. WitH a Corselet Skirt. One gown had a corselet , skirt, the upper part draped slightly. The upper part of the corselet was cut heart shape, back and front, and was trimmed with chenille and tinsel embroid ery in tones of pink, green and mauve. Covered With MIroir Velvet. A large hat with wide, low, square crown, and brim widened, cleft lapped over, and turned up at the left side has the brim covered with miroir velvet in; silver gray, the facing shirred, and binding on the edge one inch wide; and the crown covered with gold tissue. la Jacqueminot Red. A remarkable hat, of medium-large size, constructed of miroir velvet in the dark jacqueminot-red of the sea The skirt;was untrimmed. save for two wide simulatedtqcks at the hem. The gown was closed invisibly in the back. I Runi on Simple Waists. There is a great run on simple crepe de cliihe waists. 'although one can buy simple ones only at very high prices. The cheaper waists are very much trimmed. liiou?e Waist With Chemisette. The waist made with a simple chemi sette is a well deserved favorite of vhe present and promises to extend its vogue indefinitely. This one is cut on most becoming and .satisfactory lines, and will be found equally well adapted to the gown and to the separate waist. In the illustration it is made of taffeta and lace, with trimming of narrow silk braid, but all seasonable materials j are equally correct. The combination j of box pleats with tucks is a novel ' 1 - 1 . L ' .... .1 T . A T aim ariracuve one. ami remicrs me model well adapted to all the soft ma terials that are in vogue. The box pleats at the back give the tapering ! eiTeet to the figure that always is be coming, while the tucks .-it the rro'.:t provide graceful and attractive uosir. Also the waist has the advan tage of closing at the left of. f lie front The waist is made with the lifted lining, which is closed at the centra, and consists of the fronts, cenlve front, chemisette and back. The chemisette and centre front arc joined one to the other, and are stitched to the right side, hooked over under the left. The sleeves are full and also are arranged over fitted foundations. The quantity of material required for the medium size is four and onehalf yards twenty-one, four yards twenty- seven or two and sefen-eighth yards forty-four inches wide, with one-ha!f yard of all-over lace and seven yards of braid to trim as illustrated. son's syndicate card, has the brim faced with the velvet tucked around, and its low wide crown draped with the velvet over at the left side after the fashion of the crown given the Phrygian cap. Millinery Trade Review. Care in Buyinc. Buyers should carefully examine waists before accepting them, for otherwise one may have the experience of seeing an elalorate waist go to pieces after the'firt tubbing. OUR REGULAR SUNDAY SERMOfr The Ethics of Christianity Lead One to .Higher and Better Living in Society. ' Brooklyn, N. Y. The Rev. WinfieJd Bcott-Baer, who' came from Grace Church, Sandusky, O., to assume .the rectorship of St. George's Church, ;si a man of attractive personality and an excellent speaker. His subject Sunday morning was "Christian Life." His text was from Psalms cxxii:l-2: "1 will lift up. mine, eyes unto the hills from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the Lord, who made heaven and earth." Mr. Baer said: It is from the heights that we gain our widest vision. It is from the heights of human attainment that we see life most truly. To' gain these heights we need to go where Christ has climbed. There are certain inci dents in His life which preserve to us the intimate connection between the truth of His life and the place where it was revealed in its fullness. Let us lift up our eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh our help. Up into a mount, with a few chosen disciples. He went by night to, pray. In the darkness of I he . night those who accompanied Him beheld a vision. Before them was the iSon of Man. transfigured, with sbiuing face and garments all aglow. Then there came a voice, from God, "This is my beloved Son. hear Him." How often in the dnys to come must they have recalled . that vision With joy. How often in the night of their perplexity, when they questioned what to do, must they have heard the voice, "This is my Son, hear Him." Their brethren saw not the vision, heard not the voice. In the valley below they slept. They had not been asked to go with their Master, and they did right to rest their wearied frames for the work of the morrow. But those who went with Him saw the vision and heard the voice which declared to them that whatever other teachers were, or had taught, the perfect now was come, and the imperfect was done away. The glory of the morning star is swallowed. up in the light of the sun, which it foretells. So, day by lay, these men saw in Him the trans figuration of humanity, the glory of a life lived with the Father; they 'heard the voice of that Father saying, "This is my Sou, hear Him," and knew in Christ the perfection of sonship as God intended it to be. Is this a vision of past history? A page torn from the biography of Jesus of Nazareth? Is this a day when there is no vision, and no pronhet; is this the mount of God far avy, and cnust one journey to the Holy Land to see it? Nay; since He trod the arth, all lands are holy, and we may ?o into the mount, may . gain a vif ion ind hear a voice. For the glory of Christ is not dimmed, nor the voice Df God stilled. As one looks back through the vista of centuries and isks for the force which has uplifted man, thera dawns "upon him for an swer the vision of the transfigured Christ. As one seeks for the highest inspiration of brush and chisel, again, clearer or dimmer, as he may see, there stands before him the vision of the transfigured man. As he gazes at glorious cathedrals, wondering at the greatness of the work and the beauty Df the art, again the Son of Man ap pears as the Alpha and Omega, the beginning of the inspiration, the end or all the faith. Ah, ye?, and one need not go to mrr'.erpieces of art to discern the transfigured man. Closer and nearer is He to us in lire than in canvas or in stone. Wherever man kneels down in prayer, wherever in thought he lifts up his heart to God, wherever in time of meditation he goes apart to be with the. Father, these comes a vision of transfigured man, glowing with the glory -of God. The young man looking Dut into .ne world, the old man wait ing his summons home, each may have his vision and must have it, if he would do his work aright.' How sad 5ur life as Christians would be if all we did was daily round of duty on the treadmill of existence. How long the lays vrould be; how joyless the task, with our song at best a stoic chant How glad when weary work was done, ind weary eyes were closed, and weary bands were folded on the breast. But that is not the Christian life. It is life and more abundant, with ;ts outlook and its hope. In study of the Scrip tures, in musings when the heart is too full for speech, in hours of worship when hearts and voices are upraised to God, there may come to us a vision of strength, of truth, of the -better man to be, the answer to all our pant ing and throbbing desires to come into the fullness of life. It may be dim, because our eyes are dull. But as our eyes grow brighter, the indistinctness fades away into the glory of the transfigured man Christ Jesus. The vision of man is given to us in Him. We long, too, for knowledge of God; as we creep up "the great altar stairs which slope through darkness up to God," far, far above us we see the light of the eternal glory. And as we draw nearer, the light resolves itself into the face of the transfigured One. "We have the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ," in whom God graciously veiled His brightness that our weak eyes might see. Our fullest vision of God and our clearest vision of man are had in Him. We may see Him in life of noble man and pure woman as we walk through the streets. We may suddenly be brightened in the darkness of a home of sin by a glimpse of Christ shining through the life of one who lives with Him. Let us ever seek for that vision of Christ in the life of our fellows, and if we seek, we shall find. But let- us remember that it is well to take time with Him in worship, in family prayer, where two or three are gathered . tch gether. in our own communing with the Father, as we go apart in the mount of prayer, which is the mount or vision, the mount of glory. Another vision, not now on mnnnton high, apart from others, with veil of nignt arawn down, Dut in light of day on little knoll by side of road where throngs from the -city pass. Three crosses reared black against the sky and the form of Him in the mirlst is m. the form of Him who was transfigured on the mount. When He came down from the mount of transfiguration He met His disciples, at the foot of the hiii surrounded by a'cnrious aiid dlsputioS crowd. There was a strife of tongues; there was -i need and sorrow of man; - . there wasf weakness" of His followers. The call was mlauVoa JHim, and the .1 . ...MaJ onWftW WHS. done. uemou was cipwiw, ouuw , " . away, the distressed through. strength was restored to peace. This was the epitome of His life. Then He set His face steadfastly to go to . wncoianv i?rnm tisirm to service; from communioiiiwHh God to serviee of man; from transfiguration to cruci fixion. His life was a life of service. it. K4 mltiiotarfd untO. but to minister; He was a teacner. preacher, a setter .forth of .God and. man in word and lite.' He minsfel-ed strengthened them to: realize the ideal for maji in sacrificial love, as He hum bled Himsen ana-Became poor iui . might become eternally rich; He gave r-iimseiL nit 10 ueaiu ivi ua uni" . sinners tnat we. mignc nave , , life. The depth of sin shows the -height of His love. The Cross of Gal-.- . varv is the offering up of self for .; , - -a others. As we know well there is wondrous strife of tongues. From every quarter , there are Questionings. Old forms' of belief are losing power, but the old be lief, we know, is not. It still inspires and uplifts, because it is life in God. new and strange things are taught, sometimes even as the gospel of Christ; the seething waters of life rush to and fro, and at times one is tempted to be lieve that there is a reversion to chaos in spiritual things. Wepass from this church, where we are gathered to wor- -shin God with the voice of thAnkseiv- .'r- ing and melody, the sound of prayer $ and praise or we go from the quiet silence of our meditation, which was all filled with God's voice, into our life with other men. They may have no in terest in these things, or best it may be an intellectual or speculative inter est. They are very critical In that babel to whom shall we and make i great calm? What but the old voice of the Transfiguration: "This is my Son, hear Him." Study ; His words to ascertain the truth to meet the inquiries of man's mind. But with all the study that we can give it we can never come to the truth of that which JTe taught until in our, life we live the Tt'e of service, as He; He served; therefore is He great. It is a J blessed privilege to be on the mount with God, but the vision must pass into ' service, as we go down, and by words and life declare the vision which . we have had of truth and love. It will mean cost. If He found that service of others meant cost, bitter trial and weariness of body and mind, can we expect that as His followers -we shall have naught to endure? May there not be for us misunderstandings, temptations from fortune and power and ambition?' May there not be hard ships for us, does service cost naught? It cost Him the cross. And the dis ciple is not above his Master. The nearer we come to realizing the vision of the perfect man the closer we draw to Calvary in the offering up of self for others. This mount of service and sacrifice is not far awaj inaccessible peak capped with the everlasting snow. The service is here, where throngs of men pass to and fro; it is a lowly mount, the mount of service; in the turmoil and dust of the streets, among busy men throngingthe city of n;5n, wbfch should, be the city of God. It is lowly, yea, but hard to climb. Easier f -far to go up on mount of prayer and gain the vision of what we ought to be than in life of service to be what we ought. But thanks be to Him who is with us on Calvary as on Trans figuration. His'spirit strengthens and . helps us and enables lis to offer our selves a living sacrifice, .holy, accept able unto God. "My help cometh from the Lord." Is this all vision, service, death? Nay. Christianity is not a law of death, but a law of life: Buddhism may hope, to escape life, but Christ came that we might have life, and have it more abundantly. Christianity is life, not death. A few. weeks after the crucifixion,, on another mount, was a gathering of men with loving eyes fixed on Him who was the centre of the group; and His form was as the form of Him who had been nailed to the cross, the same, yet changed. Giving rnem mis command, and His benedic tion. He ascended into heaven. Vision, service, life not vision, sacrifice, death. Through His obedience to what He knew to t: right, through His translation into A life of service of the perfect vision, which He had. He had come into the higher life, and is seated on the throne with God. It was, the fitting end and glorious con summation of such a life, the crowning with the glory of manhood, fulfilled and ennobled .to its greatest height. . The law of sacrifice is not the law of death, but the law of snlritnnl iif f -He that loseth his life .fqr My sake, ' uuuem n. ie tnat numbleth himself is ' exalted. He that bendeth down in love, ascendeth up in glory. For the truth of the Mount of Ascen sion is a higher life for man into whinh lie comes through vision and through service, is it wrong to wish to use aright those powers which we feel within; is it wrong to long for a fuller life- than that which now we have; must -we be content with what we, are in spiritual attainment, iu character? Nay, if we be Christians, we cannot be content, as we behold the hills of Transficmr.l tian nnrl OalroM . o Vui i ui j, IIS1UU and sacrifice, and on the hill of Ascen sion behold manhood crowned by God -in a fuller and larger life than' that uicu earm anoros, with clearer range of. vision, with larger realm ot'service, with richer glory of the man. as He , comes more and more into the likeness of His rLord and Saviour Jesus Christ, - ' We. V Nothing is sweeter than love, nothins;' -stronger, nothing higher,, nothing' . broader, nothing better, either in 1 -heaven nr earth hponnen In fa i"Kr- ? of God, and, rising above all created ! things, can find its rest in Him alone. Thomas a Kempis. - Do I really love Jesus? Have I ever told Him that I love Him? Let me tell Him now. Do 1 know Him as inj friend to whom I can always goi When I am weak, do I think of His strength? When I am sinful, do J think of His purity? WThen I am id doubt, do I think of His wisoomi When I am Ured. do I go to Him foi rest?-Floyd W. Tomkins.
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