Show HEARD HERE AND THERE 0 IV DAN the tha handsome cinnamon bear that rally may be to in seen tethered n near ear the n RIO I 1 0 cra arando n de western depot had a little exper ionee I 1 R rece recently antly which bich helped to tc break the I 1 I 1 monotony of 0 his 1119 A weary eary life at the end of 0 a chain dan t Is 9 usually a very I 1 11 I 1 I 1 I 1 pleasant animal il lie jim haa gotten so that 11 i lie he knows win when c n a tenderfoot come for tt it Is tit the tender tenderfeet feet that aro are the most liberal with aith sweetmeats sweet meats arts and fault A pretty boston damsel accompanied danied by tier her father comes along alone and pt onee falls into a rhapsody on oil bears something like oh he elite cute I 1 do think hes just too loo sweet for anything dan retaliates with aith ills his most gracious grac loui sniff and lie pauses in front of 0 the lady tor for a long lone time big hl actions dying as plain as words come on now a llly 1113 you roust must expert expect to tip IL a llull when you come west t im not stil strictly etly speaking a silver up bear but I 1 prefer tips of apples or a stick of 0 p popcorn 0 acorn but dan had lit his ursine wrath aroused recently and perhaps justly too it was late in the lie afternoon of 0 one of these chilly days the bear had walked hla his beat until tired llred out and had entered his kennel to escape the cold mind the policeman passed by unnoticed and FL a milkman shouted ills his fluid without even making dan mind tile the echoes now in the middle of the en enclosure closure is an upright ladder perhaps twelve feet high at the top of which Is a round platform on which the bear lies at a intervals dan was nas slumbering away aay at a great rate when suddenly lie he heard a scraping on the rungs of his ladder ile he reasoned did this wise old fellow that no neighborhood hen aou would ill dare to encroach upon big ground so he blushed out and looked at his perch ife he saw a small boy a very small boy need aped about 10 years seated scaled upon his perch and enjoying the joke hugely it took dan but it a short time to grasp the situation and a rung of 0 the ladder 1 l the kid had by this time lime become becom a acquainted with nith the hie inevitable and made preparations to jump which he did just as drulis claws struck the top of the perch dan plow led too a regular angry y prowl growl ile he saw that ills his tantalizer hall had escaped him and turning slowly around lie he climbed down domn and entered his kennet kennel officer litz fitzmaurice maurice regards dan as a very sagacious lolus animal and never lets a chance slip by to speak a a word for his big shaggy baitner pail pait ncr ner 1 an amusing incident occurred the other day tn in connection with the building of the new lire fire station and the oc cu tience goes to illustrate among other things how low frail and heeling fleeting or as the bard ot of avon would have it how and weary meary principally are unprofitable flat tho the the issues stale latter r a az z 4 7 J D 5 J of this life VC charley harley vall vail Is 1 sw chief electrician at tire fire station no 1 and catches as lie goes alting along a 0 few stray sparks which coalesce into remarks which create untold merriment nt in ili the social sessions of the firemen in other words he Is the wit of the station anti and when ten lie sp speaks eicks though in a droll drol i dry way a ia laugh ugh results now charlie rarely 14 1 made the butt of ridicule but the ahe other day the boys got the laugh on him in first class shape shortly after the work mork of tearing down the old fire building was begun vail by look hook or by crook stumbled ci on to the knowledge that in the coiner stone among other things was avas EL a ilak flask of tho the fenest nest whisky in the land at the time it was placed there ile he knew that liquor invariably improves with age and reasoning that exteen long years ought to make a big bid difference with this particular brand lie he laid plans to havo have a pull nt at that flask so he took one of tw the other tire lire men into his confidence conn dence and tiler they took turns watching tile work of the hired iconoclasts little by little the walls diminished in size and larger end and larger grew the proportions or of that flask in the minds eyes of tile the to fire fighters no one has probably ever experienced perien ced tuch buch gloa tinas and dreams of A what hat was to conic come as did these thesa two finally only the last tier of 0 masonry remained and the hopes of the in men en A tt ero ere at a dangerously bi high g in pitch the crucial moment came nearer nea and nearer and EL a glass WAS procured before the two ment out to the exhuming they quarrel about alio lie should have tile the first pull tor for by this time the flask was large enough to give the whole department a christmas drink the last lafit stone was mas lifted and the paper taken away there was A as the flask sure enough but not lint ft a smell amell of whisky remained the building in the course 0 of C time and aided by dumo dame nature with her ter rusty frosty jackscrew jack screw had sagged anti and the bottle was sadly cracked A wail aall was heard and vail and his partner sneaked to their later tile the confederate lot let the secret out anil and now vail hears to waste naste its fragrance on the desert air sung sting with ith variations in crescen clos and di minuen dos A a stiff f north northwestern western breeze was b blowing lo 10 ing ac across truss tile the foitl bench in tills this c ity city t the he ot other her day ns officer dick shannon mounted on his trusty gry gray mare and with mackintosh buttoned closely I 1 about him made ills way across the bench dick was k I 1 1 busy 11 8 y with ith his ya 3 thoughts though AV which in I 1 c 11 were in the shape J of day dreams dreama about tile the next hat hand of I 1 caste case he would capture 5 ills hla errand to the bench was to investigate the re poet that a gang of small boys aith 3 earnings to become dick and jesse jamses had been te tearing aring down a picket fence around a certain piece of property and after con converting v erting the hie same game it nto into kindling wood k kindled if idled ires fires and played bandit to their hearts content their work had occasioned considerable inconvenience and chief pratt was finally appealed to dick was assigned to run down the red handed banded bandits and wait waa on oil ills his way to their rendezvous approaching the inclosure be h tilled to see aie any bad boys boya in ill t the tle midst of their ori areles there A were ere t the i I 1 e embers ember and there here to too 1 I were the tracks of the receding rascals shannon stopped lopped ii dismounted and looked P puzzled u aled lie he has the reputation of bringing hits maji lit in nearly every instance and to be beaten out by a crowd 0 of t ragamuffins raga muffins mg was more thin than he had figured on ile he looked about for further evidences of the whereabouts of his intended prisoners all he saw at ass as a tot of oc a girl carl dressed in tt IL blue checked mother hubbard standing inside beside a punt hello little one said shannon with fl n reassuring smile at tile tha child not u a word was wag uttered in reply to the kind salutation Balilla llon tor for the girl with Il resIde stories of awful policemen policeman in tier hr r mind was shy in the extreme it was lies not long ions though before the had N won on her over and the she talked who bo built fires arand iced shall shannon boys ws as the laconic reply what hoys hays was naked asked I 1 don t it know nom zare bamps well tunny funny tunit said ald shannon beginning to to think that the girl tied had been posted what do they call tall themselves the reply WAS prompt rust doiren of th wild declert came thi the words word and shannon saw that hat the tot was too cut for him lie ho mounted tile hie mare sni rode aw an av |