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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1893-1-12, Page 5fe, LEGAL.Ts:AFRAID-OF—THE-BULL 1 B., DICKSON ,I3sr rie ter, Soli - °U°1" c't suPreme Court, Notary -seethe...et, Conveyancer, Co xamissiouer, &Gmar* v to Leen. OeNsaisa, aneonesBioek. Exeter, LL cabbiX8, Barrister, Solicitor, Conveyancer , Re.• INIETER, - ONT. OFF,LOE ; Over O'Neil's Banl. 1GILLIOT 4k ELLIOT, .12,4 Barristers, Solicitors, Notaries Pablic, Coilveyancers &c, &c, oney to Loan at Lotvest Rates of interest. OE, . MAIN STREET, EXETER. a. otratar. T. Traitor. DENTAL. . O. H. INGRAM, DENTIST. Successor to IT. L. Billings. be of Cie Royal College of Dental eons.) Teeth insertoct with or without ,zn Golder Rubber, A seta Antestbetie fort he pa iniese extraction of teeth. Fine Gold Fillings as Required. over the Post Office. IlIEDIOA.L W. BROWNING M. D., M. 0 P. $ , Gracluate Victoria, Univers ty; • and residence, Oominion Lebo .Exeter. HYNDMAN, ceroner for tae 0Ounty of Huron. Oath°, opp.,sito ng Brea, s tore,111xeter. E. 0. Onlee, Math St.Exeter Ont. ence, house recently ooeupied.by P. Cline ,E . R. T. P. Mc GA.UGFIL1N, ME a- bet. of the college of Physicians and eons, Ontario. Physician. Surgeon and coheur. Office ,BASIIWOOD ONT. A. THOMSON, M, D. C. * AL, Member of College of Physiclaus Surgeons, Oatario, Cat TIODGINS' BLOOK, HENSALL. AUCTIONEERS. EARDY, LICENSED AU0— • tieneer for the County of Buren, moderate. Exeter P. O. BOSSENBEREY, General 4, ceased Auctioneer Sales conducted Iparte, Satisfactionguareeiteed, Charges orate. Mineral! 0, Oat; ENEY BILI3E1 Licensed Auc- tioneer for thli Counties of gluon Middlesex ; Males couducted at mod. ra,t00. Olneo, at l'oet-ottlee. Crod. Ont. TETEBINARY. ennent& Tennenl EXETER. ONT, ' On a cola day in &vomiter, 1879 Vincent' Howard, a yOung 'man of the Canadian Nerthwest mounted pollee, , was on. guard over a herd of police horgek feeding in a sheltered valley about three miles front Fort Walsh. While he lay on the hillside -Ireltr his picketed horse and watched the herd in his care, he sawo two moantecl Indians ride over the brow of a hill to his right, and gaze longingly on the fine chargers a the redcoats. YotingHoYeerd knew that the temptation to steal horses is one which the Northweat Indian eau seldom overcome. Indeed, he regards horscestealing as a legitimate and creditable occepation. Even the fear of hanging, which was the punishment meted out to ca,ptared horse- thievee by the pioneers, would not deter Indians who thought they had a,fair chance of making on with foar-legged plunder. Howard jumped on his horse and rode toward the Indians. He could not have imagined. that they had any design to steal Wier; horses in the presence of a, geard. He mutt have credited them with mere euriosity. His wiah probably was to relieve the moaotony of his watch by inaptaeting their equipment and holding a short pow- wow with them. They had not caught sight of him till lie rode toward them, but they betrayed no sup - rise at his sudden appearance. The twe sat quietly an their ponies awaiting his approach. They had already decided on their course. I knew Howard well. He woo afmaloviug, reeklesaboy, very handsome, generous and much loved in the force. Without a thought of danger he rode up up to the Indians with the usual salutation, "How -how 1" They did not respond, it was plain that they were in no good humor. That was nothing utotsual, for many of the Indian thou entertained a grudge against tlae redcoat. But Howard eared nothing for their sullen looks. He was accastomed to put all sorts of people in good humor ; so he greeted the two with "How how 1" and his sunny smile , and went on with the few words of theta language that he had learn - Still they showed en unfriendly disposi, tion. As they not quickly yield to his cheery ways, he incantiouely tried teasing. I can fancy him prancing round the two strange-lookbag objeeta, mischievously pull- ing the tails or slapping the flanks of their stolid ponies, and sometimes gaily offering to shake hands. Ite was little more than a schoolboy, and could have bad no con- ception a how his pranks deepened the anger with which the savages regarded him. "Sulk, then, if you will," mild Vincent, after finding that he could not mollify then. either by coaxing or teasing. With thet he rode away way a few yards, turned Ilia batik to them, and rose in his otirrups to look over his herd in the valley. At that moment the Indians both fired on him, and he fell cloud, with two bullets in his back. To days later WO men of the Fort Walsh detachment found the body of my poor young chum frozen stiff on that little need ground; hut many days passed before his exasperated comrades got anything like a trace of the murderers. They had stolen no horses, they had loft no trail. Alarmed at their ()WM deed, they hal hurried away to their far distant lodges and proceeded to live it their usual man. men The atriotest inquiry failed to dis- close the names of any. Indians who had hese near the police here that day. aduatesof the Ontario 'Seminary Col Alan ; QnedoorSofi °Mown HMI, •1111111=1111122NM MONEY TO LOAN, -------- — ONE/ TO LOAN AT 6 AND percent, $25,000 Private Funds. Bost ening Companies represented. L .J1 DICIESON Barrister. Exeter. SUIViBillsf— 47" BED W. FAENOOMB, ovincial Land Surveyor and Civil En- GaZTIONI Mt, MOTO., ce,ilestairs.Samwell's Block, Exoter,Out INSURANCE. A strong peaty galloped out th capture the skalker, while I volunte.tred to ride to Whoop -up and stop the detachment that had left us in the morning. My mount was a goad -looking colt which I had °hewmr two days earlier. 1 was con- fident of his ability to carry,. me over the forty miles to Whoop -up *ore dark ; but I very soon discovered thalfhoy, horse was not (stayer." • Already he was beginning to lag. In vain gave hint the spurs; there was no " ge" in him, Is there any tailor moretexasperating than the effort to get speed out of a lazy, spiritless horse ? Neither spur nor. Voice could get him out of that half -trot, half cater. " No position on the saddle gave me relief from that abotninable gait. Night was creeping on before I haeleover- ed half my journey, end I was nearly as mach exhausted es the miserable creature bestrode. It appeared OW I must camp for the night in the B,ollbatg Hille—a great stretch of prairie broken by unnumbered little bills ; but at the thought of what would come of iny failure to reaoh Whoop -up be- fore next morning, I determined to push. forward On. foot when my colt should go down. If the detachment should get 'away from Whoop -up without hearing from me, the prisonera at Fort Walsh would be released Just Nelien the witness against them had been found. Twenty miles is no great walk for a fresh. mate but I was very tired with the labor of urging that deceptive colt. Moreover, a men who is accustomed to riding detests the idea of walking a long distance. The evening was exceedingly hot. 1 was aweaty and out of temper. Still the colt was lolloping " along faster than I could walk. I determined to get the last mile out of his legs before tak- ing to my own. There was no danger of riding him to death—he was of the mean kind that go down, with plenty of life in them from pure laziness and cowardice. Turning suddenly to the left around one of the knolls, my thoughts were distracted from my horse by the sight of a gorgeously blanketed Indian riding parallel with me one hundred yards away. His Winchester barrel lay toms his left arm. Its butt was concealed by his blanket. He was not look- ing at me, But I was sure he had been. ao seemed to be skulking round the edge of a knoll as if trying to heal me off, In a morne ta he dieappeared behind the elevated ground. The remembrance of Vincent's lonely death fleshed upon me, with a sort of star- ing wonder what death would bring to me. But above all was the sense of my utter loneliness. No one wouldknow how I died. No one could avenge me. All the world would be blank for me as for Vincent. These thoughts ran through my brain be- fore any scheme for defending myself. But I was not excited. What I felt was au in- tensely clear sense of what death implied. In a moment I was calmly considering the situetion. I was certain that the Indian meant to ambush me—that he was skirting the hills to get a close, sure shot when my back should be turned. HE LONDON MUTUAL Poo INSURANCE COMPANY OF NADA. Head Office. 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If he had seen me he would have been more frightened than I wee, for he would have supposed I was seeking to capture him. On learning that news of his presence in the "dead tope hod been carried to the police, be had seizecl a. pony and galloped tor refuge to. the Rolling Hills intending to make his way to, the State$ He had taken the left of the high knoll to keep clear of the trail, and galloped back simply be- cause he found the road intercepted by a landslide. Whet clid. I do with him ? Well, I mount- ed him on my jaded colt, took his plucky pony for my own riding, and walked him before ine into Whoop -up before next morning. Thence IM was taken straight to Fort Walsh, Mid the trial. of the two Bloods immediately began. But the evideuce a Mau -afraid -of -the. bull, sustained though it was by certaiu particulars, was not sufacient to convict the prisoners tboughno one really doubted them guilt. They were released and went their way rejoicing. Strange to say, both of them were found frozen to death in the Sweet -Grass Mils the following winter; and thus in the opinion of the police God. himself punished them for the murcier of my dear yowl g chum, WEARING A CONVICT aUIT. The SlulT.Itlar Conduct ora Wisconsin Ilan •'Who Voluntarily Pitesses etrioed nottiem. There are few of usoaays Harper's Week- ly, who in youth oscapeci beimmg immensely bored by much' iarise of moral courage. Commeadal,Ory leeteree on this subjeet, next to remarks', applaudiug treat, are, perhaps, the most disagreeabte things that a small boy has to face; and when he grows ap, he observes that a man cau get along very well in Congress without either alleged deairable quality. It used to be, if we miotake not, that stroll men as Martin Luther were held up as extimplee of moral heroism. Looter research, es seem to confirm the view that; Luther did have a fair amount of tills cemmenda- tory virtue. He did very well for his time, but he 'wouldn't have cut much. of a figure on this threshold of the twentieth CeatUry —a conviction regarding thesituatiota which booms unavoidable since account* of Mr. Howard Watson, of Fax Lake, Wisco-asin, have begun to come in, The people of Wiest consin propose, to send Mr. Watson to the World's Fair, and have him moonted in twin grandeur with the largest monolith ever quarried. But let us come to the point without any further throwing about of idle GOULD ORANa.ED RIS MIND. 00 Second Thought tle Dbluet Wald to Ride Fast so at Texas Road. jay Gould once made a trip to Mexico to inspect the International and Great North- ern Railway. It was in ths autumn of 1878 and, a$ usual, the millionaire was in a hurry. Meeting the gentleman who had the sale of the road in had, he said: "I'm a busy moo and I want to be baek in New York next week. Rush me through." A special train was macle up and put in charge of jake Lauer, one of the pioneers in Mexican engineering. "Rusholdm " was the order, and Mr. Lamer did acme bard thinking. He knew that the roadbed was itt a terrible conaition, and that to run over twenty miles was tak- ing desperate chances. Lauer had lots of nerve, but he felt the reaponsibtlity irepoaed on him by the officials in placing Gould in his hands. He ooncluded finally to use his °wit judgement, take no clutuces, and atiok closely to the schedule time. Between hlarahall and Galveston the schedule ealled for :ad miles to be made between dark and daylight. Jay Gould did not retire early, antl on that night seemed pertiettlerly wide awake. He set Why should he wish to kill me? But reading a newspaper by a dim light, and why should he have a reason? Had not every. once in a while glanced out of the win. Vincent been murdered in pure wantonness? dow Impatiently. It was evident that the The Indian had a repeeting rifle. I was great man was becoming angry. Finally Sure it was a Winchester. My pistol would the storm buret, Turning to one of the be of no Use itgehist it unless I could get into officials accompanying him, he romerked very close range. But thmt seemed, norm- testily ; sible. What chance Was there for escape? ' If this were a funeral train it couldn't How I bated the clarnsy horse between my possibly travel in a more decorous manner. legs! Steam up and let us go along." 1 tried to spur him into a gallop again, The gentleman spoken to was aware that but still he went jog, jog, jog. No chance the night ride had been specially arra,uged of riding out of,the scrape, thought L in order that the condition of the roadbed Well, if the Indians was bound to kill could be concealed from Gould, bub thus Before long it became clear that our only me, I would at least sell my life as dearly forced he had nothing to do but to order an chance of discovering the murderers lay in as I could. So I whipped out my revolver, increase of speed. The order was given, a well-known characteristic of these Indians and made aunt that it Was loaded. but the train moved along at the same They ere much given tq boasting of their If I could but keep my face to the Indian! speed, Achievements auring the excitement of But where was he? He might havestopped "Send the engineer to me," said Gould. their 'ntidnight dances ; but the slayers to follow me, He might have outridden "111.talk to him." So we aould do nothing but wait, perhaps , head. He might Ab the next stopping place Letter was e sharply angled, the lanes through them in "Got along! Push her! Let's see what The edges of the knolls thereabout were much lees running an engine. was not capable of driving a car horse, of young Howard woald probablykeep ab- meand be waiting far a solute silenee till they should begin to feel be on my right side now, though I had sutnmoned and given to understand that he 1 secure, and they wottld probably do their seen him on tny lft. braggiog while ranging at a great dista.nce from Fort Walsh. for months, perhaps for years, tills rumor some places very narrow and quick in their the machine can do," urged Gould. turns. I might be within five yards of the Lauer demurred and tbe railroad mag - should be bruited up through the tribes and reach our interpreters—a rumor that some Or before I should see Ids levelled gun. nate concluded that he was afraid. "H.e's a Or he might shoot me as I passed by, and coward," he finality said.: "pub another savage at a midnight dance had bragged of I never see him at all. The uncertainty man in charge." as to his whereabouts was the most madden.- Lauer overheard the remark and flushed Nearly nine months went by before two spilling a redcoat's blood. Blood Indians were arrested oa suspicion itoe thing of all. up. "All right," he said: "we'll open her v ras he alone ? I had seen but one. up." of tha murder, and eonfined in the guard- Tveenty might be near me. No matter how In a. few moments the little special was house at Fort, Walsh. There was little many I must go on. To stop would be to speeding through the night at the rate of evidence against, them. A report had come to the corset our interpreter that one ot the glare the enemy an easy shot, forty-five miles au hour. It was a ride to be 1 Suddenly I caught a glimpse of the gay remembered. The cars rocked from side to prisoners bad told a Piegan named "Mao. tt afraid-of.the.bull " how he and the other blankets again. Von but an instant I saw side, creaking in every joint, and now and ,, sumogooioh.„ or it ; the Indian had. galloped across the trail then' lifting as if about to leave tho track. prisoner had killed a about fifty yards ahead of me, and dims). Everybody clung te some support, thosewho red. -coated soldier, in the Cypress Hills. eared around the corner of a sharply edged knew the conditioa of the roadbed expecting Howard was the first and only ma,n of the knoll souae fifty feet higher. force who had then fallen by Indian hands. , I instantly surmised that hemeant to lie Now begau the search for Man -afraid- in wait at the farther end of the knts11, and of -the bull. No doubt the enquiry had shoot me as I went pest. I knew the place scarcely begtux before 'he learned of our well. He could stand concealed there anxiety to find hirn. The Indians .poos such within three yards of where the trail went news over hundreds of square miles with by. amazing and mysterious speed. Now I made my plan in an instant. It Man -afraid -of -the -bull was well known to woull have been a very fino plan indeed if half the force, and should have been easily the Indian had not had one quite different found. if in the country; bat we could gain from what I presumed. Instead of riding no news of his whereabouts. alo'ng the trail to the right of the knoll I It appeared evident that he had run away would daah round to the left, dismount, to Dakota or Mentana, for fear of the enmity creep silently uon foot to my Ind.an's of the 13loods, who would seek his life were supposed p lie captured and forced to give evidence and. hiding -place fifty yards ahead, fire upon him while he was wondering likely to hang two of the Blood tribe. what lied become of me. Meantime I had been moved to McLeod, An excellent seheme—if the Indian were a police fort about One hundred and sixty waiting where 1 supposed. But he was quite near the reservations of the Bloods miles west of the scene of the murder, and not doing anything of the kind. I cocked my revolver. Perhaps the new and Piegaus. As Vincent Howard had been sound stimulated my pony. Perhays I dug my dearest comrade, you may corceive my the spurs into a new place, or deeper than .anxiety to come across Man-afraid•ofsthe- before. At any rate he broke into a de. bull. • • cided gallop. Now the evening Was becone. Bat all my efforts went as unrewarded as tee dark. those of the scouts And interpreters, till we _nstead of obeying my rein and turning were about giving up hope of ever finding to poor Howard's the left, my horse plunged on clear past the witness and avenging the right side comer of the knoll before I depth. could haul hint up and turn him. When I The two Bloods were still confined at pat his bead round he went back madly, Fort Walsh, but it became olear that they and turned the corner to the leftkide of the must be released for lack of evidence knoll at a surprising pace. But his speed .owas not so amazing as its result. ue day in July, 1880, by the commissioner , agminst them. This conclusion was reached &latish I Cradh I ire -command of the whole force. His head. - 't Hang it !" I cried. •quarters were at Fort Meteed, whence he " -Ugh I How 1 How 4" yelled the In. despatched a party with, orders to the Fort mato Walsh commander to let the prisoners go. My horse had dashed into, the Indian's I watched thealarty leave Fort 'McLeod horse at full .speed on turning the corner,' , early in the morning. 'Their intention, I He had been coming at a gallop—tto get a knew, was to camp that night aboat forty shot at me from behind, as I believed at the miles distant at " Whoop -up" --a notorious time. The superior weight Of my big colt abandoned stockade of the -whiskey-traclers had rolled his pony -over. . of early days, who had been routed out of As he went down the Indian's Winchester the Great Lene Land by the mounted pence. flew from his hand. Thal .afternbon, an. excited Lichen, 'On a My left spur had caught on the blanket, pony all eevered with sweat and dust, to which he instinctively clung—clung so cleshed up' to the sentradat Pert McLeod's strongly that my boot was pulled half off by gate, and made siges that he must instantly my colt's' forward plunge. My right arm see the "big 'chief."' Taken before the was brought down on the pommel of my conana,nder, he stipulated for a sack of flour saddle with such force as to discharge my a$ the price Of his news. ' revolver. Then we faced each other. He was Ile naight have bad. twentyosacks when he the only Indian I ever saw dumfounded ICY geve information 'that Man -afraid -of -the surprise. As for me I was nearly as com- bed lied been seen that morning hiding in a pletely surprised, For the Indian was " dead lepee"—a deeerted tepee where lay certainly Men.afraid-of-the-bull j a dead Indian. . . For e moment we gazed at each other. , , In, etre %Mete the feet woe ie commotien. 'Theti lie eprang to hia feet, and todlt three ' words. We do not need to inform the, intelligent student of the Badger State that the teetn, of Fox Lake, the home of Mr. Watson, is near Wampum nor that at NV aupun is situat- ed one of the State -prisons. The unifornt worn in this institution is the usual one of the black and white eadless stripe; indeed, some close observers claim that the Waupan uniform is the stripedest in existence, though ib is probably only the standard thing. At any rate, it is striped enough, and a man could not wear ope and mingle in general society znuolo without temper or later attraeting attention. Now it appears that teat October a man named Conley, feel- ing that he was not treated with that open- ness and confidence which he likedin Wan - plus prison, broke out one night and escaped. He made hie way under cover of the clerk. ness to Fax Lake. Here, as it began to grow light, the inherznonionsuess of his costume with general outside natare began to im- press itself upon him, and he looked. about for a change. In passing through the out, skirts of town he came to the dwelling of Mr. Hiwood Watson. Observing an open window, the migratory Conley crawled in, Mr. Watsou slept the sleep of the ionocent. As he thus slumbered, the unconventional Waupun jailbird exchanged clothes with him, and winged his way thence with a light- er Iona. In the morning, when the noses- pecting Watson arose and saw the striped costume on the chair where he had left his clothes the night before, he was at firet speechless. Then he took in the situation, and made ems clear, ringing remarks, which we do not find it necessary to act down here. He than started for the closet to got his other suit. He peused with his band on the latch. Then he turned and said in a loud voles: "No, not do it. I'll not be lammed this way. 1.11 wear them clothes awl the cutthroat left if it kills me 1" He bad nailed his thesis on the church door. He put on the striped suit, and fonnd it an excellent fit. airs. Watson Objected, foolishly, like a woman—a, woman has no moral courage anyhow—but Mr. Watson put on the gait. aormie.iposrowinzossrostrl incorporated 488,7,11.04 ,:gtso capilolof $50,01)0 LECTRIC Bttoli AND ,AIPPJAANCE 49 KING ST. W., TORONTO, ONT. 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AM" COO, PER BOTTLE. so,r, St • LL DRUGOISTS. T.M.Valra/.41.......usunreer0eVIMIlaa THE ANYEXETER -5 - • TIMES to be hurled into eternity every minute. Lauer eatatthe throttle, watehing therails as they gleamed like silver threads. He was as pale as those in the train behind, but, as he remarked in telling the story the other' day ; " I'd have gone up with pleasure betore I would have given that little cuss' the chance to say I was a squealer." Once he looked back at the swaying train and said : " He won't standit long." The engineer was right. At aparticular- ly bad place the bell -cord j was erked and the train brought to a standstill. Jay Gould was picked from under ascot, where he had been thrown, and angrily faced the engineer, who had come back to the car. "What, itt the name of all that is pod and holy, do you mean ?" he demanded. Do you want to kill us all 1" " You said you wanted me to pull her open," replied Lauer, quietly. Gould glared at the man for a moment and his manner changed. " My man," he said, " you go back there and use your own judgment the rest of the trip. I knew how to manipulate a railroad, but I gtiest you:kr:tow more than I do about running an engine." Then he was assisted to his berth. • , Mr. Watson's 'busluess is that of market - gardening. This takes him much about the streets of Fax Lake, 08 115 drives from house to house to dispose of his vegetables. On the eventful morning of which we are speaking, Mr. Watsou started out with hie lout of 'truck" as usual. Before pine o'clock he was heard to remark to himself, as he made a vicious out at his horse with the end of the lines, that Ile never knew that dress made so much diahrence before. "They don't look at the man no more , " he said,us he threw a poteto at the paaent aniinal, "nut at the clothes he wears." But no thought of a backward step crossed the rigid mind of Howard Watvon. lie dealt out half -bushels of onions and small measures of carrots with a calm, unruffled brow. Small boys and personal friends asked foolish questions and made superfluous comments, hitt he heeded them not. Be- fore noon he was arrested by searching prison officials and taken over to Watspun. He of course established his innoceuce, and gat back to Fox Lake in time to finish his vegetable route. His wife mule further weak and feminine remarks when he re- turned home, buthe remained unmoved. From this exciting day to the present time Mn. W atson has continued to wear the highly accentuated prison garments. Mrs, Watson reports gloomily to the neighbors that there is no prospect of their ever wear- ing ouL "There is one thing, though, that I will never do," adds Mrs. Watson, firm- ly : "1 will never cut, them clothes down for Willie." Mr. Watson has been arrested and dragged to Wanpun by eager officers eight times. He has been shot at by still more jealous offieials five times. Over two hundred times he has had to endure the cheap wit of friends who have asked him why he doesn't get the ball and chain which naturally go wit 5 the snit. But of none of these things has the heroic Watson complained. Daily he goes about his work, and does nis duty as be sees it. Some people think that they detect him Wince a. little at the stare of the stranger in town, and especially when he is exposed to the somewhazmarked observation° f the Brit- ieh tourist who may happen to be passing through Fax take, bus we cannot believe this of him ; Howard Watson is not made of this sort of stuff ; we would at quick be, lieve that a man wearing a single eye -glass and e doable -end cap could have looked in- quiringly at Columbus on the quay, and caused him to abandon his voyage and turn back and apply tor a position on the Palos police frteachers Iwant an example of moral conrago to bold up before the eyes of youth, let them take that of Howard Watson, of Fax Lake, Wisconsin. Electrielty, as applied by the Owen Electric Belt and huspeusory, 'will most assuredly do so. It Is the only known reme,distl agent that will supply what Is lacking, uatisely, nerve force or power, Impart touts aud vigor to the organs and arouse io healthy action the whole nervous system. BEWARE OF IMITATIONS And the worthless, eheap, so -sealed Electric Belts advertised by some cora:erns and peddled through the country, They are electric in moue ouly, worthless as a curative power, and dear at any price. Wo challenge the World to bow Sat Electric) Belt where the eurrent Is under con- trol of the patient as eompletely as this. Our Trade Murk is the portrait of Dr. Owen embossed to gold upon every Belt and appliance manufactured by us. Send for Catalogue—Mailed (Sealed) Free, THE OWEN ELECTRIC BELT 00.1 49 King St, W., Toronto, Mention this Paper. BRAZIL'S NEW CAPITAL. , . st win be Placed -in a Federal Dlgtriet ou the Great Central Plateau. A letter to the _Paris. Revue Francaise from Rio dsJaneiro says that a seientific commission, headed by Senhor Cruls, has been appointed to select the site for the new capital of Brazil. The capital now being at Rio, it is not exchtsively under the con- trol of the Federal GovernrnonL The con- stitution of the republic of Brazil provides that the capital shall be. -removed to. a Federal district, like the District of Colum- bia in the United States. The commission is expected to suggest the best place it can find tor this Federal district. The head- quarters of the expedition will be on the great eentral plateau, several hundred miles northwest of Rio in the province of Minas GeraeS. This region, at an elevation of about 3,500 feet above the sea, is one of the 'MA healthful peas ofBrazil. It is ex- pmi ected that so ewhere n this region, which forms the watershed between the great rivers Parana, Tocantitei, and Sao Francisco, the Federal distriet and the new capital will be located. " WINTER WRINKLES. Amy—" Why, Mabel, you lieveul any mistletoe hung up." Mabel—"05, Fred never seems to need any." It is discouraging to a newly merried man to sear his conscience praising his blushing little wife's first cake and then tell him that she got it at the baker's when sho went clown town. Garden Gates—"Are you really so hard. up?" Tramp—"Hard up? Why boss, if suits of clothes wuz mann' at a cent apiece, I wouldn't have enough to buy the umbel° oso . — of a vest I" Dashatvey—"I hea.ra Bobbie, that you got a train of cars for Christanua and they had an accident. Tell me all about it.' Bobbie—"I can't say a ward. You zee, I am one of tbe officers of the road." ossesto .t'olly. She didn't shine at college, Has little school -book knowleage, Can't parse or pose in grammar, Can't wield geologic hammer, Knows nothing of astronomy, Political economy, Greek, Latin, mathematics, titaness of social statics; She's green in Browningology Half heathenish in theology, She makesharp witticisms On their higher criticisms, She never studied botany, Grand fads she hasn't got any, She isn't stuffed with art conceits, Nor puffetrup with their counterfeit In short, she's just a jolly Model helpmate is my Polly; Not a pedant, nor a shocking Stuck-up frump of a blue stocking. Dub a clever little woniato And so glorioesly human, Born to cheer me all through life: That's why Polly'ismhv wife, "This is the first time I've finel you for drunkenness," said the jndge, "Yes, your Honor," was the reply. "And I think the court ought to issue commutation tickets tor men like nie." Mrs. A.—" D o you ever melte any mis- takes in speech?"Mrs. B.—" Yes, once, a few years ago." Mrs. A.—" What was it?" Mrs. 13.—"I said 'yea' to a minis - "And what did the doctor say was really the matter with you?" "Well, miss, his very words was:'You're tosufferin from a guitar in the stomach and need toning Marie--" Charlie Debrie is an easy-going fellow, don't you think?" Claire—' no. He comes to see me aboat one evening a week aud I have found him quite different. He's a stayer." I.00k here, Herr Pipser, this canary yoa sold me the other day as a good songster hasn't opened his mouth yet." "Ah, that is because he is a proud bird. He knows that he has not been paid for yet, and on credit he does not sing." Little Joe had beeo silent during his Christmas dinner, hut finally he rested his fat elbows on the table, with knife aud fork -upright in either hand, and gave a great sigh and said: "I wish torkeys could be made double breasted." A Colorado editor seems to be recterkelety susceptible to atmospheric: changes. He writes as follows: "How sharper thiso a ser- pent's tooth is it to have a man's wife draw the bedclothes over- her head and deelare that she won't light the fire if she dies far it?" 'Visitor (looking ronncl at the nuptial nest with all its little knicknacks)e--"And. how do you like your little Rat ?" Month Old Wife (who camtalk of nothing but her husband)—"Well, John may not be sharp, but 55 18 by no means a fool, I,would have you ,, itobekt4noasevel; has b e e n graciously pleased, on the recommendation of the secretary for SOotland, to approve the appointment ot Mr. Robert W hito; lateBand Sergeant the queen's Own . Cameron Highlanders (Seventy-ninth Foot), to be her Majesty's Trumpeter in Seotland." A Question of Moral Responsibility.. 1Villie (et breakfast)--" You can't help what you dream, can you, mammal" is Mother—" No, Willie." "Then if you dream yon're havia' a fight you ain't to blame for it, are you ?" "No, but if you have been a good boy you are not likely to have such dreams " "Still they ain't wicked, are they, if yo,u, "N -no ino,hIeslpupipt o?'s'e not.. Dix ...you dream lart night you were doing so wicked a thing asceptlalgin' it wOulci.deep,. you good to SSS how I licked that yeller-hat:v(1, freckle. taced, good-for-nothin Bob Itapieford till he coulaTA etmv.a up, (log -on 'Aim