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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1897-1-1, Page 7xAN. try'.!. O6 Popular dislike or the pretensions of 'the military class in Germany has been greatly intensified by the recent de- bate in the Reichsttvg on the subjects NOTES 4WD 0011IXON- 2'S, of duelling and the killing of Glebe - mann, an artisan, by Lieutenant Baron von Urusowitz, at Carlsruhe. Siebe- mann accidently brushed against von 73rusewitz and jostled itis ebair in a restaurant, tied though he made ade- quate explanation, was followed into the street and was killed with a sabre thrust by the offended officer, Tho latter was tried by a couelemartial and ecntcnced to four .years' imprisonment in a fortress and to dismissal from the army, a sentence grotesquely dispro- portionate to the gravity•of his offence, but which, nevertheless, seems to have been virtually set aside by" the em- peror. In the acrimonioua discussion of the matter in the Reichstag, led by tbo Radicals and Sonlalists, the than- eollor, Prince von ITohenlohe, censured the members who were inquisitive as to the action of the government in the case, while the minister of war, Gen- eral von Gossler, said stiffly that he would furnish information when per- mitted to do so by the emperor, He defended the killing, however, on the ground that the honor of the king's uniform must be upheld, and stated that the emperor bad not approved the sentence, thus disclosing the fact that von Brusewitz yet remained unpunish- ed. Such a statement, as indicating the oondanation of the offence by the gov- ernment, was astounding enough, but it was made worse by the indirect praise given to the slayer by the em- peror in his address to the officers at the recent swearing in of recruits. Of- ficers were advised to remain in their quarters when excited with wine, but if they did appear in public and were insulted by a civilian, then to use their swords in the "most effective man- ner." This advice, coupled with his re- mark to the recruits, "whoever in - emits any uniform insults myself," is a virtual defence of the killing of 01- vilians by army officers, and an invi- tation to commit murder, the officer being left to decide when he is in • suited and what the penalty shall be. Indeed, it is mare than an invitation, for as an officer must resent an insult or quit the army, be is thus put under obligation to kill the civilian who may tarnish his honor by brushing against bis, uniform. All this. is, of course, a reversion to barbarism, and warrants the jeer of a Radical member of the Reichstag that the time may come when an army uni- form may be suspended, like Gessier's hat, from a pole for popular obeisance. Naturally, public opinion is greatly em- bittered by the discussion, and there is little probability that its bitterness will be diminished by the promised mea- sure of reform in military judicial pro- cedure, which goes little farther than to give publicity to the proceedings of military courts. The courts themselves will not be reformed, the character of evidence and sentence will remain the sante, and the code of honor whiah gov- erns the relations of army officers to civilians, will be unchanged. Only the personal intervention of the em- peror will render any legislative enact- ment on the subject efficacious, and his. virtual command to his officers to main- tain the code in full vigor prevents hope that he may be willing to lead a movement to check the evils of in- tolerant militarism. The root of dif- ficulty is in the system of duelling in the army and the false idea of honor which it cultivates, and there is little doubt that its abolition, urged by a large party in the Reichstag would, by diminishing the touchiness of officers, go far to remove the prevailing dis- content. FAC AL EXPRESSION. character el Disease as It is Indicated en the Face. Facial expression can and does to a very considerable extent indicate the character of disease from a diagnostic and prognostic point of view. First of all, pain is invariably clearly written on the face. Contraction of the brow indicates pain in the Bead ; sharpness and contraction about the nostrils, pain in the chest, and a drawing of the up- per lip, pain in the abdomen as a rule (especially in, children). The upper third of the face is modified in *Pres- sion in affections of the brain, the mid- dle third in diseases of the chest, and the lower third in those of the abdom- inal organs. Heart disease is indicated by blue lips, high -colored mottled cheeks, paleness about the nose and mouth and Daftness of the face gener- ally. Kidney disease by puffiness of the lower eyelids and pale face. Again we }save the PIeus Sardonic, a drawing of the muscles of the mouth es if the pa- tient were laughing in a sardonic way, in tetanus or luoklaw, and intense ex- pression of mingled fear and anxiety an hydrophobia, andof deep anxiety in asphyxia. Then there are the flushed face and bright eyes of typhus and pneumonia; the bright cheek and pale. face o£ consumption and the dull, heavy, NEWZ IN a HoisN�� T#•II3 VERY LATEST FROM ALL This WORLD OVER. Interesting items About Our Own Country, Chant Britain, the United States, and All Parts of the Globe, Condensed and Assorted tor easy Reading. CANADA. Ottawa hots this your laid ten miles of165,gr500.anoliihio eidawelk at a cost of Patrick Renaud, a Montreal laborer, was blown to pieoes by an explosion of dynamite The Governor-General and party have arrived in Ottawa from their trip to the Northwest. Messrs. ]3. & A. Allan of the Allan Line have let contracts for a 10,000 -ton freight steamer. For the past year 0,137 vessels lock- ed through the Canadian Soo canal, carrying 4,577,397 tons of freight, Tile Thirteenth Infantry Regiment of Hamilton, scored their fourth vic- tory in the Growski Cup competition. The four-year-old daughter of Mr. fire.Jahn Draper, of London, was terribly burned through her clothes catching Mr. W, W. Ogilvie, of Montreal, pad donated $1,000 to the General Hospital in Winnipeg, and $500 to St. Boniface Hospital. There is good reason for believing that the Dominion Parliament will be summoned for the despatch of business the first week in March. Mr. Alfred Baylis, a grocer, keep - lag store et the corner of Bay and Cannon streets, }Hamilton, committed suicide by taking atryehlne. The number of immigrants arriving in Canada for the season just closed is officially reported at 21,841. com- pared with 21,338 Iast season. The Winnipeg Board of Trade is pre- paring 1,000 invitations to be sent out for a business men's convention, to be held on February 4. At Wentworth, NS., Mr. Fred Coch- rane's house was destroyed by fire and his two children, aged two and four years, were burned to death, The Toronto Railway Company got udgment in the Exchequer Court for $50,000 the amount of customs duties wrongfully collected on its steel rails. While Lord Aberdeen was in Win- nipeg, a sneak thief entered his private car and stole his fur cap and other ar- ticles. The thief was arrested. Col. Thomas J. Birley, treasurer of the Ontario Gold Mines Company, off New York, is at present in Montreal to interest Canadians in the develop- ment of Ontario mines. Mr. Fisher, Minister of Agriculture, has decided that a dairy school for the Maritime Provinces shall be conducted in January, February, and Marco, at Susses, N.B. City Solicitor Meredith of London has informed the Council that, in this opinion, the corporation has no power to pass a by-law prohibiting the sale of milk within certain dates—that is, to stop Sunday milk -peddling. The Ottawa civic Finance Committee has adopted Sir Oliver lllowat's curfew bell legislation, and on and after :fan- uary lst children under sixteen will be warned to leave the streets at 8 p.m. in winter and 9 tem, in seminar 117 Ore ringing of bells. Amongst the probable Governnene. measures at the next session. 01 the Do -- minion Parliament. ere bills to give the two Controllers Ministerial status, to revise the Franchise Act, to amend the Civil Service Acts, and to provide for a plebiscite on prohibition. The Department at, Agriculture of Manitoba ,has issued its final crop bul- letin; but the estimated yield of grain of all kinds, ss given in the August bulletin, has not been realized. The total grain crop was 30,442,552 bush- els. The acreage for next year is much in excess of t 's year. Mr. Frank Maxwell, a Reacher of modern languages et Winnipeg, quer- relied with his wife, and she left bin, and took a position as housekeeper. Mr. Maxwell called to see her, and she threw a dipperfulof boiling lye into his face. Maxwell is frightfully burn- ed, and will probably lose his eyesight. The Grand Trunk Railevay manage - meet is considering a number of im- provements in its Montreal property. One is the city's proposal to run the tracks on a viaduct, whiob will do away wibb grade crossings, and the other is the purchase of the entire blook of buildings facing the Bona - venture station for its new affixes, 'GREAT BRITAIN. The Duke and Duchess of York are to spend a month in Ireland next year. John Stewart B;igh, sixth Earl of Darnley, is dead. ide was sixty-nine years of age. It is reported teat the Duke of York will bo promoted to be rear -admiral on New Year's day. Figurea show that the shipbuilding trade of Great Britain is remarkably prosperous et present, Tee certificate 01 Captain Williams of the wrecked steamer Memphis has been suspended for six months. The cruise Indefatigable sailed from Portsmouth to relieve the cruiser Mo- hawk on the North American and West ladies station. Counsel for Edward J. Ivory, alias Ed. ward Bell, the alleged Irish -American dynamiter, have obtained a postpone- ment of lois trial; in London until next month. The Pacific. Cable Conference, which has been holding meetings in London, has adjourned over the holidays.The i evidence is all in, and Oho report s be- ing considetred, need States . Ambassador Bayard present on Thursday at a uunebeon he Bristol Grammar school, and pre - ed the prison. Ile wade a very vetoes speech. Mre Emma hare, of London, wee has n birth to twenty-seven children, formidable rivalsin three sisters in gston, jam**, who between them sixty children, all living. here is good meteorite for stating the L''ranch Embassy in London, h will shortly bo relinquished by Baron de Coerce), has been offered Rib*, ex -President o£ the Coun- walls. in t sent fell give has stupid expression, in Ilia faces of chi} -" ece dren suffering from swollen • tonsils or have growths at the back of the nose. The subject is of enolvnous importance, es - t Tt peoially in children, A well-known physician, lately deceased, could, by long whoa experience and close observation, diag. , rem nose with remarkablea a y almost ei11 all the eommon diseases by the facial expression. • ang vntn '1'nngane V caro. 00 Ilupeb, China, who has hitherto ab- structod tiie work on the Hankow rail- 1 but manufacteein road, is ono of the pioneers of the new industry in Chu' g Y Chinn 130 pe owns and operates an immense cotton Great 10111 in Wuehang. 1 , . , ford, r The action for breach 1of promise bras gilst by Miss Helen Grant, of Tar dee against Mr. Seems M. White, es- M, . for Tbrfarshiro,was cafited in the Ndimburgit Court Session on Friday, was postponed until next sessions, UNITED STATES, of. 1 armann, the magician, died at Valley, ,while ori route to Brad - 1a. 1 , , THE BB'CL8SRLS PABA', The largest electrical power station in the world is to bo constructed et Berlin near Eartford, Conn, Zion II. L. Pierce is dead, aged 71 years. Ifo served two terms in Con- gress and was twice Mayor of Boston, An ordinance rot a four -cent fare on all the street oar lines in Chica,go was passed by the City Connol'1 on Monday night. •fames Smith, a mulatto, was hang- ed at Upper Marlboro', Md., on Friday, for the murder in July last of Miss Margaret Brown. The daily application list for relief in Buffalo is steadily growing, and the department is now oaring for 447 more families than for the same period last year. The baited States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations lens ordered a favorable report on Mr, Cameron's re- solution recognizing the independence of Cuba. The war feeling in the United States is growing. There is talk of armed companies being formed at various points to fight Spain or to free the Cubans. Rev. Barada McKane, of the M. E. Church at St. Louis, Mo., his wife and son on Tuesday narrowly escaped death from rough -on -rats, whioll was acci- dentally mixed with their food. The steamer Germanic, whieh arrived in New York on Friday, had a very rough passage. Miss L. S. Sayre, of London, Ont„ was severely hurt by be- ing thrown against a writing desk. Mr. Burton, of Ohio, on Thursday in- troduced in the United States House of Representatives a joint resolution, di- recting the President to conduct negoti- ations with Great Britain to secure, if hes' treatyhof 1817gas forbiiidssthe build ing of warships on the great lakes. John C. Jiodewig and GeorgeW. Johnson were sentenced at Detroit to serve 20 months each in the House of Correction, and to pay a fine of $2,500 each in addition. During the A.R,L7. strike, two years ago a Grand Trunk passenger train was wrecker} near Bat - tel Creek and the fireman of the loco- motive was killed. Bodewig and John- son were arrested for the crime and finally convicted, "According to commercial advices from New York, business throughout tee United States shows practically little or no change outside the passing ac- tivity of the holiday demand, and this is over as far as wholesale bouses are concerned, except for small sorting -up orders. The volume of holiday trade noticeable that in several lines cheap goods have been in unusually increased demand. Outside the special seasona- ble requirements there is little doing, and no movement of any consequence is expected until the middle of next month. Some grades of iron are quoted lower, and uncertainty exists as to the future of prices. The boot and shoe industry is dull. The tendency of prices continues mostly downward. GENERAL, The Hamburg dockers by ballot have derided to continue their strike. Li-Hung-Cbang has bought a resid- titerence in Pekin, and intends to settle s. Four additional battalions of Span- ish troops embarked on Thursday for the Philippine Islands. Mill Godart and Surcorfi, the aeron- auts, are about to organize a balloon ascension to the North Pole. The Baroness de Hirsch had signified her intention of erecting and endowing a home for Jewieeeconsu`mptives. M. Deuglese"of Thingau.. has been eiected•'President of the Swiss Re ab - 11o, and IA. Buffy, of Lausanne, Vice - President. The rebellion in the Phillipins Is- lands is spreading and bands of insur gents infest the outskirts of the city of Manila. The French Chamber of Deputies on Wednesday adopted the credit asked for to meet the expenses of the visit of the Czar and Czarina to Paris. Passengers arriving at Key West from Havana report Mkt Antonio Maceo, is alive and well, and is in the Province of Matanzas. An explosion occurred in Cromer's match factory, in Bavaria, demolishing Ottheh'0ra. buiid[ng, killing fifteen women and children, and seriously injuring seven Aocording to advices received from Berlin, Vienna, and Paris, there is no truth in the reported escape of ex -Sul- tan Mural from his place of confine- ment in Constantinople. It is understood thlat an English syndicate hes obtained a concession to build and maintain a long railroad in China, which will be a powerful coun- ter -check to Russian designs, Private letters from Manilla, the cap- ital of this Philippine Islands, state that the Spaniards are emceeing to tor- ture, to extract confessions and infor- mation from captured insurgents. A despatch from Caracas says that President Crespo will not yield to the popular demand for the rejection of the protocol arranged. by Great Britain and the United States to settle the Vene- zuelan boundary question. NEARLY THIRTEEN MILLIONS. Cosh Value of 1110 Muting Properly a4 itosshnlll-5la II Service Improved—Mtn. Nle Notes, A elespates from Rossland, says:— Mr. R. M. Armstrong, Superintendent of the Toronto postoffice, has complet- ed his work of improving the service at the Iiossland offices: The new ar- rangements will be a great boon to the people Sore. The Rossland Record publishes a list of 50 mining properties, in the imme- diate vicinity of Roseland and gives the present cash value of each, The estimate is a conservative one, yet it foots up to nearly $13,000,000. The list is far from complete, but it gives some idea of the way the wealth of Canada has been added to withing a law months in this portion of the Dominion. Stook in the Deer Park shine eon- buses to advance. The Butte draft 1opprotteei,g the hundred foot level, The ore is improving in quality and quantity. It is rumored here tet the C,P,R, aro riesling a deal for all the isteamers of the Columbla & Kootenay Naviga- tion Company. This includes the steamers Nakusp, Kokanea, Nefsoe, Trail and Lytton, Mr, Mara, Presi- dent of the steamboat eompaev, thus gone to Montreal, w lull Mr. Starpole, local C. P, P. Superintendent. Tee contrast les been let to drive dila main cress -cut enable in the St. Pall 200 teen more. It is now in 50 I • I Loa SONE LATE CABLE NEWS, WHAT I5 GOING O▪ N AT PRESENT IN MERRY OLD ENGLAND. ,Hlalk,e institete for Narnea,-Thr llnite Wid Hat'le'ss or t`orlt—PM4I•ess aulrld•,: .*enol )fil1$-311n9 of shartrseure to alarm• 1444 heiress, Ar., ,1e, A despatch Irani London says:—A preliminary meeting of the support- ers of the Queen's eo'mmamoretion fund for planing the Jubilee institute for Nurses upon a national} basis was heed at Grosvenor house on Wednes- day The Duke of Westminster, who presided, read a ^etter from Miss Me- r'ence Nightingale approving of the plan. It is stated that although sub- scriptions !have not yet been invited £18,000 is the amount already in hand, The committee appointed includes the Duke of Westminster, the Duke of Fife, The Duke of Norfolk, Earl Cado- gan, the Archbishop of Canterbury. Cardinal Vaughan, Baron Rothschild, the Chief Rabbi, the Governor of the Back of England, and others. The Duke and Duchess of York are spending a week at Wefiheok Abbey, the seat of the Duke and Duchess of Portland. '11.e•visit has been full of elaborate ceremonials, balls, concerts, and shooting, culminating with a splendid ball in the famous subter- raoean ba -Vroom on Thursday, The ]page house party included the Duke anti Duchess of Devonshhirrge�, the Duke and Duelers dot lIfennherlborouhsiert D and Countess Dudley. It is stated that the Duchess of York will shortly again go into temporary retirement, and it is rumoured that the Duke of York Will be promoted to be a rear -admire', on New Year's day, at which there is a great deal:, of ell- fee:ing, as he will thereby overstep more thane hundred captains who are his seniors. The Prince and Princess Charles of Denmark, started for Copenhagen on Saturday where they will spend several months. Princess Maud, who greatly admir- ed the Dueness of Marlborough's jew- el belt, is having a hundred lovely ru- bies and diamonds, which were pre- sented to nor by the Queen, set in a. gold eeinture similar to that of the American Duchess." The Earl of Shaftesbury, who is a LordbBrnsfsey, teeGovt ernorMelbourne South Wales, and whose name was connthat sofa tee late Sadie tedStatesth of Hoyt's "A White Flag" company, now in Australia, is soon to marry an Aus- tralian heiress, the daughter of Sir William Clarke, which would seen to set at rest •thereport emulated at the time of Miss MaoDonald's death, that the Earl was making her gifts of large sums in diamonds, and that it rested with her whether another en- trees was or was not 10 sea }ler name in the peerage. AN ENGLISH GUN. iii a 1 es a a throughout tbetr Length. By this means the required diminution in the external diameter of the gun, from the breech to the muzzle, is obtained with- out shoni,ders or sudden changes of thickness, whish are thought prejudi- ing tubehe to as are made so tlia.t they. close- ly fit, one over the other, beginning with the inner lining and ending with the carr ascii. Another advantage is the comparative ease of manufacture. The builder can form the outside of one tube and bore gle from end tt oo end other theesame egxternmindiameter of diameter of ththe othermthat the outer tube can be placed very nearly in its ultimate position upon the inner tube without pressure, wire a slight hydraulic pressure forces the tube to its exact position. In this way one tube after another is added and the gun built up of four steel sections. At the breech, the tapering tubes aro secured by a sories of screw baits. The breech plug Is usually cylindrical, but sometimes made taper, with continuous screw threads to facilitate the opening and closing of the breech. The new gun is so perfectly fitted that not only can its various parts be withdrawn and replaced readily, but in case of a desire to remove the gun from oncan beeeapatiyt to separated, a paehked Band trans- ported. Il I$ glade is 'tabes of Equal Length, 'relic Nropt4t One In the Other. A new ideain big guns has just been developed byau inventor of Openshaw, England, is gun is called the Gled- hill built-up gun, and takes its name partly from its inventor and partly from the manner of its construction. The inventor is Manasseh Gledhill. 73e makes bis gun by building up a series of steel tubes, so formed, fitted together and united s to insure great strength and durability, while permitting the ready removal of any section without injury, of theother sections, a forma- tion valuablebecause it permits the replacement of an inner lining. This part often becomes worn by constant use, so as to affect the accuracy of the firing. The most important feature of the gun is the construction of the steel tubes, which are uniformly tapered CURIOSITIES OF INSECTS. The common bercules beetle can lift 112 times its own weight. The microscope is said to show 4,000 muscles in an angleworm, Zopherus Me/lames, a species of beetle, can cat its way out of a tin can, weep will kill a Bremner, fliesuingraa day. The dregon the "snake 'feeder" bas 28,000 facets in beth ,of its eornpound eyes. Soma grasshoppers have no ears, of Others Imesthem situated on the side Sir Arthur Sailivet can now torn - maid $3,500 down for one song, while from "The Lost Chord" glove it is said that bo has realized over 00,000. Sig- nor Tosti, the composer 01 ".Forever and Forever," whose first manusoripte Were "declined with thanks," can now command 51,250 for a song. (C c 1141 plEYJ0lMW.t3ELL,B.D. ` aleP4tLToN,ONT. ' A . E3 E ltd. s BEA VERTON , pNT. James A. De'[, of P.eavorton, ()Li.. bivtLer 01' the }rev, Juan It rsie,v e;,•,i, 13,11., prostrated by nervous 14.e,la1.us A vietiu, of the trouble for s1vrra1 Years. 4utith ;litierienn Nervine effected a 001041114.1e ,•fire, Lu Heir nun. purtienlar Veld few mon nfe hour known then tele Hew, John esley L'r•ll, 1;,1.1, and his brott er .kr. James A. Bel The former win 0o re- cognized by Ins thousands of blends illi 044.1 the• reentry 11.ti 1'1(4` papule }• and atm, missionary superintendent of theTtilie; 41 re nca 4,f Temperance, Among Ili, L`0 1Umembers t -itis 11,104 in Ontario his counsel i, scimlIt on all sorts 441• co- easinns. On 111• public platform lie 18 one of the strong wen of the nay, niltiin1 against the ,-4 Is 01 ieh'nlpernnee. Tseuelly well 1•nowu 1. 41r. Bell 444 other provinces of the Dominion, Imre g been 01• years ,4 member of the lltanitobt 4fetllodist C'nn,"ereuce and part of 0414 114144• Was stutieued in Winnipeg. 11i, brother. Mr, .inn.'e A. Bell, is a n'ghiy respectedre) Idris of Beaverton, weer..• his influence, though 1 erhlips more eir- (uuIceribed than that of his eminent irrother, is none the less effective 1111d pro111111ive of trend. Or rrc•et11' y i1rs,l•.•n•- ever, the working al ility of Mr. ,Armes A. Bell Ilan been sadly umarrod by severe 11)trt cs- of nerveua headache, neeom- pnn4e11 by bidigesYn', 14110 cm do fit wort: when f51s trouble takes hold of them and especially when it becomes ern Refit, 11s 44144, X4 ratil,gly, the case with Mr. Bile; The tn.ub e r,•ached seen fn- tensity that Inst .,mm ha was camp ate- ; 18 prostrated. In tats ro..clition a ,•lend rorommeudrd tenth Amer1/•an Nervine. IR.eedy ie try anytb eg and everytmng, though he thought hr bird covereu the list of proprietary medicines, he secured • ,t bottle of Ibis great discovery. d second bottle of t e medicine was tiken1 au4t the work was done.Emp.oying has own 111nguage: "Two bottles of South. American Nervine imu,canti ly relieved my headaches and have bunt tip my systl'W in it wonderful man:en' .LCt ns not deoreente the good our clergymen and soedul refernlu•s are doing is the world. but how ill -Pitted they wont: be for their work were it 11,t the relief that 400111 A un rll'-n Nrrv.no brings to them when physical ills overtake them, and V. 111.11 the system. as a re- . 81111 of hard, earnest and ceuti-ttlous work, breaks down. Nervine treats the system 115 the wise reformer treats rho evils he is battling against. 1t seniles at the root of the troubl4•. All din• ease carnes from disorganization of the nerve centers. This is a scientific tact. Nervine at once works on those naive centers; gives to them health and vig- or; and then there emir4es through the. system strong, healthy, life-ntaintaming• blood, and nervous trnnhles of every variety are things of the past. Sold by Deadman. & McColl THRILLING MAN -HUNT. I FOR TWENTY -.91X YEAR©;, /11 Traced Willi Bloodhounds Tbroagil tl WHIN al 51I'4414ln, but nanny apes. Only a Sew days ago bloodhoun were used to hunt down a bait-savag girl bandit, whose lurking place wa in the lonely Lavender Mountains, n Rome, Ga., and how they have he turned loose again, this time to re. down a white man named Ben Bishop who, although but twenty-five year old, has long been a terror to that so tion of the country. The difference be tween the two oases is that the hound caught the gine but utterly failed t catch the man. Bishop's last murder was that of a harmless old negro, whom he shot down, stabbed and robbed in the vicinity of Rome, Soon after he held up the foreman of a section gang on the rale - road, but was scared away and chased to the woods before he succeeded in ac- complishing wcomplishing the robbery. Then Deputy Sheriff Raymond Mc- Connell, with the Sheriff's pack of bloodhounds, took a ]sand in the game, It was nearly night when the hounds struck the trail, and Soon the solitary forest was resounding with their bay- ing,as they tore through eanebreak and thicket and plunged headlong THROUGH DARK POOLS in pursuit of their 'human (merry. The hounds are trained to keep at 4i Sr y 14, C P WIDER TNECOQK'S BEST FRIEND Lp RC -EST SALE 1141 CANADA. and flundered through it, making his escaQ.• business ae. nd Le dispas layed m ch oun041 in puzzling the dogs and at last so tire them out with fruitless crossings and recrossings of the swamp that at mid- night they were called off the chase, When Bishop was turning away 81104, his Bast unsuccessful robbery, a chance shot fired at him by one of the section foremen's resouars hit him int) nt the right hand and kncxsked his gun out of his. land. He did not stop to pick it up. The wound moat have been a deep one and a painful ono, for the fugitive left A TRAIL OF BLOOD behind him null through the chase, ex- cept when he actually was in the wa-• But there was no use in trying to urge the dogs on to the chase that night, so the party rested until} dawn and teen Started out afresh, But it was too through Bishop o had managedto creep uS"h cordon of sentries placed about the thicket in whiob he was sial - don. The point where he got through sa near the Ooctanaula River, and he plunged into the stream where it is 300 feet wide and the current very swift. He reached the other side aia�l right and was safe u the solitudes of the enw lli: der ountains before his pursuers knew he had slipped tbrough their Singers. :Che dogs followed his trail to the elver brink but wean they were taken to, the other side they were unabee, to pick it Up again. THE DEACON AND THE KID. Doacon Goodman (to small boy ory- ing)—Wiiat's the matter, my boy 1 Bay --Ivo just lost ten cents, D.G.—Well, '1Va11, don't cry hero's a of er. Bet, how did you lose it? n Boy—Matching pennies, a safe distance from the man they are chasing, and their instinct alone seems to teach there that there is death in a too near approach unless their mas- ters are near at hand. Bishop is remarkably fleet of foot and had the advantage of his pursuers 131 knowing every foot of the ground. Prom time to time he would stop end recover his wind and then be off before the Sheriff's posse mime up. The Sheriff and his followers were on horsoback and so unable to penetrto the douse jungle. Hour after hour the chase 4485 kept up, and at one time it was thought Bis- hop was caught, for ho dodged into a thicket where (1 grouper men* foot had been stationed. Ole of them Mired at random in the direction of the noise the fugitive macre as he crashed through the undergrowth, buc the shot miss- ed and Bishop plunged into tt deep pool Mark Twain is in London, preparing his book deseri tive of hro Iris room totes *mend the world.