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Wednesday April 20th, 1892.
IMO/ finked. 4 byeta?adarr
+l +lcause Z atria afraid for Iny own
9war4'e life, didu't nate foo let
:aQ the tiler for a WM01t. X steed,
.tktoia alupid 'pith .;fear' afraid ta.
:leave tho tiller for a?a lillitail,t,.afi'aild
of death.. T faits lilto4. lien pataliz-;
'ed. Aa the boat rase and fell pn
the worse lvatciiydt my friend
etrtlgale iiia the •seat I" sew him
throw up ills arms; I caw hie face
white With.terrpr: l hoepd him (117Tho roadway began to z arrpw-
out `Save the 1' atscl tt e;u be gktiat A turbulent high sew moved in put'.
have read what Was in my aoaiod ti suit of him. He lengthened and
,aud quickened hia .steps: It was
a race between so wall a thing as a
man and so great 8 thing as a storm
impelled ocean.
The, ocean won. With a great
roar it natio down upon the -num
But he would not bo taken in flank
with his back to, hie enemy. Iso
turned and faced the sea. He leap-
ed into it :head fdremoat. After•
wards his body was cant op upon
the beach. The ocean had toyed
with it, and had thrown it back to
its owl} kind.
Those on the island saw that
when the man turned tip moot death
a smile was on his fade. He had
discovered he was not afraid to die.
'l'he pool}ic on the Vaarlel'ui'txtelied
lam witb wakimo hopo aud 00siia-,
tiou of bread; Vhe, bulidredo,ot
talandera ou .She ,;hore stood 0111011
atlirtilsd, and anger:- No. word was
sgid .only tb04e a spalrei . a.
Tho' Wisp ra silo •estard,°'rvPth
abduldere aud head haat: i'rirroid
told eyes set, `The -Bee rose.• » f etre
'eirlee of him, Tho' .lttige `xra+ips
•wallod his roadway,
face, for be ehoutad 40oward 1' and
sent sue a look of hats as the 'waters
covered him . up. I .don't know
how I made .laud, but Z got in safe
afte}' six houra of tossing, when the
gale fell.. I'd givey life, if I
only I could to know hat I wasn't
a coward, but when the times comes
to show it I haven't the power.
You don't know' the shame of 'its
air, but you would if you could' see
that look on my comrade's faee,tind
if his history rang in your ears day
and night. Cowardice is upon me
like a curet. It's the blight of my
life, sir.' .
Such evident grief and shame
were upon the man's face that all
who hoard, including the captain,
were moved to some pity of his state
and so.much curiosity had he excited
in the captain's mind that he was
employed for the voyage.
MET HALF *AY.
•
IIe was the yuan who came last
to the ship as aeaman aboard the
Warrior, as she lay in the harbor.
A fine two masted schooner was
the vessel, 'and Captain Scudder
was properly proud of hal', as she
lay alongside the wharf receiving
cargo and passengers. She was to
rail with twenty souls upon her -
seventeen men, two women and a.
lady's maid. At the lust moment
the captain decided to augment the
crew by ono man more. Ere he
made a muve to engage,one, he heard
a man's voice saying :
"Please tall me ,where the esp.
tain is."
He turned and faced the speaker,
who was a tall, gaunt fellow of
thirty years or thereabouts, with
such diffidence cf a manner as re•
quired sotne courage in him to look
the captain squarely iu the face,
when the latter gruffly said :
" I'm the captain."
The man stood atilt in an awk-
ward . attitude under the captain's
stern gaze as if unable to find speech
before so fierce a glance. He drop.
pod hie dim,gray eyes to the deck,
and doffed his now seapetess hat,
. and spoke, after a gulp, in a low
voice that slightly trembled.
"If you please may I work my
passage outl"
The captain was moved by this
speech to a faint facial demonstra-
tion of amusement. A pretty sail-
or this big, shame -faced man would
make. The captain studied the
applicant's appearance in detail. A
homely fellow he was, with au un-
healthty brown hue to, his skin, a
forehead into which some lines of
sorrow had bean wrought, roving
eyes that met one's glance with a
slightly startled look, a haggardiface
•M j -0,,Q11,1' -Yet,1 4=9.1;4 ,'a -NM".4g.:_ hi 41
bent shoulders, and a graceless way
df? wearing his faded and frayed
nt$ire. lied hands and long wrists
protruded front the two short
sleeves of his worn out bluuse.
"What do you know about sail-
ing?" asked the captain in a tone
of ridicule,
"Not much, sir. I've worked
with fishermen, and I know a little
abont handling a smack."
"I reckon wo don't need you.
Ever been on a schooner before at
all ?"
"Often as a passenger, sir. I
know I am not a seaman, but I'll
do any anything, I watt to get back
to my people."
"You look atrong enough; but
why do you hang your head • like
thaatl Ono would thick you were
a coward."
"I am," said the man in a low
voice.
."What 1 and you admit it-"
"Yes. Why not, I've faught
hard against it, but I can't help it.
I make up my mind to be brave
enough, but when the time comes
for it I am afraid ."
The captain' bad never met such
a character as this before, and he
was interested. A few other loun-
gers on the wharf stopped to over-
hear the conversation, their atten-
tion first being attracted by the great
height of the man.
"Afraid of what," asked the cap-
tain.
"I don't know. Ofdeath, I sup-
pose. Thiaa is how it is : I came
from home with a comrade ; I go
back alone, One day when we
were out in a little sloop a storm
came up and in a sudden lurch of
the boat my partner was knocked
overboard by the boom. In half
a tnlnute the boat was several fath-
oms away from him. He couldn't
swim."
Why didn't you throw him a
When the' Warrior hoietod sail
an hour later, she had twenty-one
souls aboard. The captain classified
them thus : Seventeen men, two.
ladies, a timid and a coward.
The Warrior had good winds at the
start of her voyage. But one night'
a wind rose and at, daylight there
was a heavy gale. Whitecaps dan•
ced wildly, upon the waters of the.
sound. The perturbation of the sea
Was'becoming frightful. The vessel
was drifting straight out to a rocky
onset. The passengers, pale with
dread of the coming catastrophe,
lashed themselves to the deck or
clueg to the rigging. Captain
Scudder shouted the warning of the
doom of the Warrior above the
sound of the sea,
'Nothing under heaven can change
her course !'
Yet he and his crew strove never
the lass to the last. Everyone on
board knew that the vessel was
drifting rapidly and that soon she
must strike and be dashed to pieces
The sea swept her deck and broke
over meets. Seven men hung to
the rigging.for lite. They looked
ashore. Only 150 yards away stood
a group of islanders, as helpless to
succor those in peril as the latter
were to save themselves.
Now the position of the vessel
was this: Where Sandy point
droops beneath the sea it does not
end, but is prolonged under, the
water, making a perilous sandbar.
Out upon this bar was. the Warrior.
The island tide from the east and
from the west meets hore. There is
no more terrible place in a gale
than that where two seas collide.
The storm grew. Such. was the
work of the wind and sea that times
were when the sandbar from the
shore to the vessel was swept naked.
But its nudity was speedily buried
tinder heavier seas.
Passengers and crew, fatigued
with labor and loss of aleep,assailed
by the biting winda,at last succumb-
ed to chill and numbness and made
no more effort,
Then arose one of their number,_
tr`t's11 nt"fe17o�', 41iomili c per`
tain a coward in the harbor, and he
proceeded to belabor them and keep
them active, that they might not
perish from the cold.
'There's hope yet!'
'Keep alive, men!"
And ono after another did he
awaken by rude shaking and warn
by his rough chafings.
Some caught his spirit,
the labors of their weary
set their frozen blood in
motion. -
'But what use,' cried' one. 'The
must come.'
'Aye, but thorn's one chance,'
shouted the coward, who nowv loom-
ed up large and resolute. 'Look !
the sea has rolled back and left the
bar uncovered. A man could run
ashore on that, maybe, while the
sea held back.'
Two men laughed madly.
'Aye, maybe! Look nowl said
one, with savage sarcasm.
The coward looked. Tho sea
had swelled up and hidden the bar
far beneath its foaming waters:
'Yet one may try !' cried the cow-
ard.
'Try you, then 1' shouted the
other.
Now it is bard to meet death half
way. It's against men's nature to
walk to destruction. Even though
he knows it to be coming he has
the hope or the cowardice to shrink
from it to the last. Therefore no
sailor of them would leap into that
sea and dare the deed suggested by
the coward.
'If I sicced will you follow at
the next fall of the sea,' he asked.
What one man can do another
can,' was the reply.
The coward looked ashore. Sul-
lenly the waters rolled apart, The
eand bar was naked. The man
jumped from the gunwale and ran.
he cried,
and by
muscles
quicker
DID.IT,RUN IN THE FAMILY?
tens. $ONTAOU'S BROT'lER w8LL
KNOWN IN WESTERN
• 0 TeRlo.
LONDONOnt,, April 1I. -The
recent triad and conviction in Ire
land of Mrs. Montagu, daughter-in-
law of Lord Montagu, for man.
slaughter in connection with the
death of her child, recalls to the
minds of many residents here the
fact that her brother, Lord George
Moore, was a familiar personage in
the city some twenty or twenty-five
years ago. He came out .to this
country with bis young wife to
engage in "farming; and like tunny
others of those so•called aristocrats
ho was a ;outline scalawag. He
settled near Konrolra, Out., aud
spent most of his time roaming
around with his gun and fishing
rod. His treatment of his wife was
said to ha brutal. She died'shortly
afterwards and was buried near
Komoko. Lord George returned
to Ireland about ten years after he
camp to these parts. He was
eccentric and disgusting in his
habits. Ile preferred to camp out
with the Indians in their wigwams
rather than live at his own home.
He was in the city a great deal and
gained much notoriety through hie
misbehavior. The "castle," which
he built near Komoka, was a monu-
ment to his folly.
A TELEPATHIC MESSAGE.
SiNG AND 'THg. SftaWEf ,
4.14 In notable $to ty Wald Ili an )taitnitable
tyaNr i►y' ark. Team,
T'be. ,Ifing 4.'0000 le,'i..man 'who,geea.
arouad,,cluigtl 'enough waima of duty, AI►e
day la4ta, attrttQm er Iia was: travelling in an
ordinnl!y Arseilstaas compartmeat•in 5lvllzor*
laud;; just in life other amt, the one which',
he works the realm iu when ho is„aa ltotne,
and so ho was not looking' like anybody ilr
:particular, but a good deal like everybody
in general. 13y and by a,Ileaety end healthy
'Germ*n•Americao 'got i}1 and opened up a,
frank and interested and -sympathetic eon- :
versatiori ,ylsh him, and asked him a uouplo
of'theusand ?thestious abort himself, which
the King answered good-naturedly, but in
a more or loss indefinite way as to private
particulars,
"Where do you live when you are at
home t”
"In Greece."
"Greece! Well, now, that is just aston-
ishing., Born there?"
"Y es."
"Do you speak Greek ?"
"Yes."
"Now ain't that strange 1 I never ex-
pected to live to see that. What is your
trade! I mean, how do you get your r living ?
What is your tine of business ?"
"Well, I hardly know how to answer. I
atn only a kind of foreman, on a salary ;
and the business -well, it's a very general
kind of business."
"Yes, I understand -general jobbing -
little of everything -anything that there's
money in?"
"That's, about it, yes."
"Are you .travelling for the house now ?"
"Well, partly,. but not entirely. 01
course I do a stroke of business if it falls in
the way---"
"Good, I like that in you. That's mo,
every time. Go on."
"I was only going to say I am off on my
vacation now."
"Well, that's all right, no harm in that ;
O. man works all the better for a little let-
up now and then. Not that I've been used
to having it myself, for I haven't. I reckon
this is my first. I was born in Germany,
and when I was a couple of weeks old ship-
ped for America, and I've been there ever
since, and that's sixtyfour years by the
watch. I'm an American in principle and
German at heart, and it's tho boss combina-
tion. Well, how do you get along, as a
rule -pretty fair ?"
, "I've a rather large family—"
"There, that's it -big family 'and trying
to raise them on a salary. Now, what did
you go and do that for ?"
"Well, 1 thought—"
"0f course you did. You were young
and cnnfident.a id thought you could branch
out and make things go with a whirl, and
hore you are, you see ! But never mind
about that. I'm not trying to discourage
you. Dear me. I've been just where you
are myself. You've got good grit ; there's
good study in you, I can see that. You got
a wrong start, that's the whole trouble.
But you hold your grip, andwe'll see what
can be done. Your case ain't half as bad'
as it might be. You are going to Como out
all right -I'm bail for that. Boys and
girls ?"
"My family? Yes, some of them are
boys-----"
"And the rest girls. It's just es I ex-
pected. But that's all right, undies' better
so, anyway. What are the hi,ya' doing --
learning a trade ?"
"Well, no -I thought---"
"It's a groatmistake; it's the biggest
mistake you ever made. You've seen that
in your own case. A man ought always to
have a trade to fall back on. Now, I was a
harness -maker first. Did that prevent me
becoming one of the biggest brewers in Am-
erica? 0, no, I always had the harness
trick to fall back on in rough weather.
But as to the boys, you see -what's to
become of them if anything happens to
you?"
"It has been.my idea to let the eldest one
succeed ine—"
"0, come t Suppose the firm don't want
him?„
"I hadn't thought of that, but—"
aim --"Now look-li'er€rrrit-Sai f "f.o gef' ,;grit
down to business and stop dreaming. You
are capable of immense things -man, you
can make a perfect success in your life ; all
you want, is somebody to steady you and
boost you along on the right road. . Do yon
own anything in the business ?"
"No -not exactly ; but if I continuo to
give satisfaction I suppose I can keep my
The National Review.
On the ''right of March ISO.
1870, I was going to a dinner party
at Admiral•. -•-•'s, While dressing
for the same, through the doorway
of my room, which led into my
husband's dressing -room, I distinct-
ly saw a white hand clove to aud
fro twice. I went into the room
and found no one was there or had
been there, as the door on the other
side was closed; end on inquiring I
found no one had been upstairs,
While dressing, nothing further oc••
curred, but on arriving at Admiral
's a strange feeling of sadness
cYttf!'e'0t�tY'hic';'"'TeouliTeat`no cifn-
ner ; nor afterward, when we had
some music, could I sing well. All
the time I felt some one or some
thing was near me. We went borne,
and about eleven o'clock, or per-
haps half -past, I commenced un•
dressing. I distinctly felt some one
touching my hair, as if they or he,
or she, were undoing it. I was
very frightened. and told my hus-
band so. Ile laughed at me. When
saying ,iny prayers, on praying as I
always did -for the recovery of a
sick friend, instead of, as usual, ask-
ing God to make him well all I
could say was, "0 God put him out
of his misery." I'got into bed and
something lay beside me. I told
my husband, who, though he laugh-
ed at me, pitied nervousness, and
took me into his arms; but still
whatever was there remained by
me, and a voice -the• voice of my
friend -distinctly said, "Good -by,
Sis"' (which lie used to call nie).
'Whether I fell asleep then or not I
don't know, but I distinctly felt a
kiss on my cheek, and I caw my
friend, who told me "he had left me
some money, but that lie wanted it
to be left differently, but had had
no time to alter it." A livid line
was across his face. I awoke cry-
ing. About (I think) five days
after a letter was brought to me
with a deep black border. I felt
what it meant. It was to tell me of
the death of my friend , who
passed away at half -past ten p. m.
March 13th. The letter proceeded
to tell me some money was left me,
but that the writer (his brother) was
too ill and upset to give further
particulars, or tell me of any mes-
sages he had sent me, only that his
brother "had died murmuring my
name." .
Nothing creaiaa more disease, diaoom•
fort and distress than constipation of the
bowels, in B. B. B. we have a remedy
sure to remove and cure it.
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NgWSPAPgR W48 GAPTViRSP A'
AM. C,QRtVSRtS OF TNg EARTH,.
»right soifrsoringa troth il'',itti7 and ,"suet,;-
eu>ti gAvilant;e8 'rhe ,t'araera1iltorp' avid
the Artlats' run Budget ror a Genorou$'
Woelr•»Every Item Werth Keret ag.
"Keep yor place -yes. Well, don't you
depend on eaiythrug of the kind. They'll
bounce you the minute you get a little old
and worked out ; ' they'll do it. sure. Can't
you manage somehow t" get into the iirm-
tlutt's the great thing, you knew."
"I think it is doubtful, hi fact, very
doubtful. "1
"Um -that's bad -yes, and unfair, ton.
Do you suppose if I should go there and
have a talk with your people -look here
-do you think you could run a brewery?"
"I have never tried, but I think I could
' do it after I got a little familiarity with the
business."
The German was silent for some time.
Finally he said :
"My mind's made up. You leave that
crowd -you'll never amount to anything
there. In these old countries they never
give a fellow a show., Yes, yon come over
to America -come to nmy place in Roches-
ter ; bring the family 'along. Yon shall
have a show in the business and the fore-
manship besides. George -you said your
name was George ?-411 make a man of
you, I give you • my word. You've never
had a chance here, but that's all going to
change -by gracious, I'll give you a lift
that'll make your hair curl!" -Mark Twain.
No Time to Lose.
A "small and early." -Punk.
A nervous affection -A man's on the eve
of proposal. -Puck.,
Tho man who puts heart in his work will
always have work to put heart in. -ham's
Horn.
She -Do you dance, Mr. Freshloigh ?
lie (sadly) -No; I pay the piper. -Yale
Record.
"You won't Suit mo at all," as the man
said to the tailor who refused him credit. ---
Texas Siftings.
All the world's a stage --and everybody
seems to want the seat with tho driver. -
Somerville Journal.
instinct, -She (4 years old) --tae dot a
penny. Ho (same age) -Let's det married.
-Boston Post.
None but the bravo deserve the fair, and
none but the brave can live with some of
thein. -Hazleton Sentinel.
There are people who pray for showers of
blessing who want them to come without
any clouds. -Mm's Horn.
"Serie, wot you' keep such a roarin' fiah
fo'? Body kain't git close 'null' to de store
ter git wa'am t"-Rarper's Bazar.
Jagson says that the man who claims
that lec',aree aren't what they used to be
must be a widower. -Elmira Gazette.
One reason why men see things so differ-
ently is because no two can stand in the
same place to look. -Ram's Horn.
Indubitable Evidence. -Wilkins -Were
you over in love ? Kneeland -Don yen see
the bags on these pantaloons? -epoch.
A Poser.--Jimmieboy (viewing a bald-
headed baby) -Papa, aren't we going to
plant any hair on him ?-Harper's Young
People.
"Freddy," asked hia teacher, "what does
leap year mean?" "One day extra of
school," answered Freddy, sadly. -Har•
per's Young People.
Subscribers rage beyond control,
They flnd that the paper's late ;
The editor cutting a fishing pole,
And the devil digging bait.
-Atlanta Constitution.
r" X rerod%oiia Haaband.-Yea, my dear,
whenever we have words he behaves like a
perfect savage. How so? He makes for
his club. -Pick Me Up.
Old Snagg-IIain't you ashamed to be at
the foot o' yor class, Tommy ? Tommy -I
don't know why I should be, popper ; the
foot's the foundation, isn't WI -Puck. b
"Won't you smile, please ?" said the pho-
tographer to the sitter. "Certainly," was
the ready reply. "Do you carry a flask, or
shall we have to go down street ?"-Epoch.
She winds a skein of yarn to -day,
While at her side I linger ; .
So in that soft and gentle way
She winds Inc round her finger.
-New York Press.
On the Same Subject. -Boston girl (in
Chicago) -Have you. "A Cigarette-Alaker's
.1?oAnan e11;. _...,..7lookselterm 'N' °N,i,.-but•'- per
haps "My Lady Nicotine" would do in-
stead. -Puck. '
"What particular incident in the, life of
George Washington marked his undaunted
courage ?" asked the teacher. "He married
a widow, ma'am," replied Benny Bloobum-
per.-Life.
She -Oh it's fun, I tell you,to flirt
with a man dill you get hitt; to propose, and
then say "No." Ho -Yes; butI should think
it would be a greater joke on him to say
"Yes." -Sparks.
Indulgent aunty (after stuffing little
nephew with doughnuts and fruit cake). -
What does your mamma give you between
meals? Little nephew= Orders not to eat.
-Good News.
Benedick-When I lost my fortune there
was nothing I regretted so much as that I
could not afford to keep my excellent cook
any longer. And what did you do ? I
married her. -Fliegende Blatter.
Dressmaker -How would you like your
costume made, madam ? . Mrs. Clownrich-
Spose you make•it with oneof those vestibule
trains that I've Ileum talked of lately. -
Boston Commercial Bulletin.
First English sparrow -The legislatures
are offering rewards for our heads. Aren't
you scared ? Second English sparrow -
No, I shan't worry until they call us game
and pass laws to protect us. -New York
Weekly.
Miss Shoddy (introducing caller) -You
know Mr. Sweet, don't you, pa ? He
wrote those verses, you know -in the
book with the cover that harmonizes so
beautifully with the crimson rocker. -
Philadelphia Upholsterer.
"What 1 fell down stairs ? How did it
happen?" "Why, you see, I started to go
down, and my wife said, 'Be carefnl, John;'
and I'm not the man to be dictated to by
any woman -and so down I went." --Boston
Transcript. '
Not much. -She -What do you think of
Capt. Powderhorn, Mr. Monsey ? Mr.
Mousey -I thought very little of him. The
fact is, he struck me for an idiot, t'lhe-
Why, the brute, did he hurt you much ?-
Boston Beacon.
The doctor -Have you called on the But-
lers since the tenure', Miss Newgold--No.
I think I shall have to scratch them off.
Poor Mrs. Butter is so sensitive that I hesi-
tate to intrude upon her in her trials. --
Brooklyn Life.
Neighbor -I wuz s'prised to bear late-
ly, Brudder rVampus, dat you's drinkin'
hard.
Mr. Wampus-Yassir. Doy's a man ont
west says the wort' am gwiue to come to an
end in 'bout two weeks, an' I's bound I
won't let dis yore bar'1 o' cider go to waste!
SAP WISE114
A AQt1T0 yl?A 4 l k� I'Artg
Q lanzwgia 11l' Wanofil
A lnert 000 A riLIS a ooiftl)
=About.te'o ;Years ago Alnoi;Oliar,i..
ton, a •well,.to'do 'firmer and
osinter of„&pe;3,40acre fern
South Porchestor, decided to take,.
utatters easy, leased bis farm a. 4 '
tumid 11110 Aylmer. Begvliiing
tired of hiving nothing to. do, bo
decided 0 eubance• his ' Private
means and biotin a .milllocara•Jap.
dabbling in wheat iii Chicago:•
commenced operations one year
The uaual result followed,
thoroughly cleaned out by Gl
cage stooks, to the tune of 5,000, ,
He has made an assignment tQ
William Warnock, backer. HIa na
sets are placed at $9,000 ; preferen'
tial liabilities, $5,800, and.unsecur-
ed $10,200. Mr. Charlton stood
bigh in the estimation of the public,
no one ever dreaming of' a cool head-
ed &ruler
ead•ed..fatruler dealing in Chicago mar-
gins. ” .
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HORSE MARKET.
Two or three parties have written
us as to whether or not there is a
horse -market in Detroit. We have
looked into the matter a little and
find the market to consist principal-
ly of a few deelera who pick up a
few "horses in the country, send
them or bring them to the city, and
then hunt up cuaton'ere.
There are a few of the cheapest
grade of horses sold under the ham-
mer at the hotels having a country
patronage; but as to a regular mar-
ket or a range of values which
could be given, there is nothing
of the kind in existence. The
street railway companies have regia
tar buyers, and take a class of
horses which is not much good for
anything else. They are 900 to 1,-
'000 lbs.. in weight, all colors and
shapes, but generally with goad legs
and feet. Such horses command
from $75 to $90 per head. Three
years ago they would bring $10 to
$125. A good many of thein are
shipped in from the west, and when
broked are found to be tough and
enduring. It looks as if the ranches
were hereafter to supply all that
class of horses needed, as they can
do this cheaper than any one else
can. There is a very poor outlook
for those who are raising common
horses at present. -Michigan Firm:
er.
NEWS NOTES. •
-The writ for. the election to
the vacancy caused by the unseat-
ing of Mr. German has beet, issued.
Nomination takes place on the 22nd
and polling on the 29th of April.
-The rush for Canadian North-
west lands caused by the reduction
in prices by the Camadian Pacific
company and the large arrival of
settlers is growing daily. Last
week's sales were the largest in the
history of the company find this
week, opened with sales of 9,500
acres on Monday. .
-Mond ay some Indians living
at the Nort hwest angle, Man., were
examan'ing-tri"w '3'eiolver, not be--
ing aware of tho fact that it was
loaded. One of thecartridges was
discharged, the bullet entered in
the head of an Indian. He claimed •
that the bullet did not hit
Several hours afterwards one of the
Indiana discovered blood on - the
injured man, and upon examining
the head found the bullet imbedded
near the right ear. Two hours af-
ter tho Indian fully realized that
tie was ebot he died. Duncan Begg
into Rat Portage the Indian who
did the .shooting and brought him
before Judge Lyon, and after a
couple of 'witneesos'were heard the
judge decided that it was an acci-
dent,
-Grit purity recievod a sicken-
ing blow last week when the Su-
preme Caurt rendered a decision
not only sustaining the disqualifica-
tion for corrupt practices of that
eminent exponent of party cleanli-
ness. Mr. German, of Welland, but
did it unanimously, and with- em-
phasizing accompaniments not often
vouchsafed by this august body.
This man German was declared un-
seated for corrupt acts of an agent
and through hia counsel in open
court accepted the decision. He
was then declared disqualified be-
cause of proven personal corruption
and from that finding of the trial
judges appealed to the Supreme
Court. and while that appeal wee
pending, after his own declarat'olll
that he would not take his se*s
the House, be did take that seat,
and not only so, but drew his ses-
sional indemnity, money to which
he was no more entitled than Ba-
laam's saddle beast. Now�owes
along the Supreme Court Million
declaring not only that he was not
entitled to take hie seat, but that the
disqualification chall stand, and
that the appeal was frivoloils. For
seven long years Mr. Germain, of
Welland, will watch othersexercis'
ing the highest right and responsi-
bility of citizenship, dut be will
enter not iri.
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