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Judge--You say it was piuch du.rk when you -received the blow , then how can you swear tfm prisoner did ft. 1" Complainant--When he hit me I saw stars, your Honor, and I f recognized his features by the starlight. starlight. The spring of 1908 found me in charge of one of the remote trading posts of the Hudson Bay Company,. at a place called Pepekwatooce, situated in a trackless wilder ness 300 miles "inland from the western shore of Hudson Bay and 900 miles from the nearest railway, says a writer in the Wide XVorId Magazine. Magazine. During the whole winter, my sole companions had been half-breed dog drivers, employed by the company, company, and a few scattered families of Cree Indians who made a living by hunting and killing moose and deer for their own consumption and trapping furs, which they bartered with me in exchange for various articles of clothing and so forth. Spring having arrived, all the Indians, Indians, with, their squaws and families, families, had come into the post from their far-off hunting grounds, and were now camped in their wigwams on a high ridge about a quarter of a mile to the rear of the fort. The following day all the hunters were leaving for their final spring hunt, : which consisted of overhauling overhauling their traps and shooting any beaver,, musquash or other game they could find. As the spring hunt is usually the best of the season, each man expected expected to return in the course of a couple of weeks with a good catch of peltries. , One" night about a week after the hunters had left, one of my ha f- breed employes, McKay by name, came rushing into my room to inform inform me that some of the squaws, whilst out cutting wood toward dusk, had seen a devil, which had pursued them very close to the encampment, encampment, McKay further stated that the whole camp was m an uproar. uproar. . The Indians, I should explain, are--like most natives very superstitious, superstitious, with strong leanings toward toward the supernatural. They have a very firm belief in devils, and m a kind of cannibal spirit which tries call a weetigo. One has only to mention in the hearing of an Indian Indian that he has seen a weetigo to turn a whole camp green with tear. I took a stroll over to the camp, accompanied by McKay, the a breed, to investigate the matter. With the exception of one wigwam -a and tant. Everything in the camp was very quiet. We cut a couple of long willow sticks and .secured a lantern, which we had brought with us, to the .end of each. In the shelter of a willow bush we lighted the lamps, tying red handkerchiefs round ' them, which caused them to emit a dull red glare. Everything was deathly quiet as we hoisted the lighted lanterns over our heads and gradually swung them to and fro. Suddenly the stillness was rudely broken by an ear-splitting shriek from the direction of the camp, followed followed by the "most awful uproar- medley of short cries, screams the wailing of children. Occasionally igniting a quantity of gunpowder, we would hold the two lanterns side by side in the smoker To the overwrought imagination imagination of the Indians on the- ridge the two red lights no doubt appeared appeared to be the weetigo's. eyes. Suddenly the uproar subsided considerably, and we could distinctly distinctly hear the voice of a man, who appealed appealed to be addressing t men. . , -, Presently the voice stopped and the uproar recommenced louder than ever. . ' - - We still continued at varym 0 m ter vais to swing our lights m the air, occasionally moaning and shrieking as we did -so. Suddenly McKay shouted that there was somebody moving m the darkness ahead. Hardly had lie spoken when there was a flash, tol lowed by the report of a rifle and a cry came from McKay as he dropped dropped his lantern and made off for the woods, quickly . followed by Nazie^ I lost no time m grabbing the t dropping them into a we had left on a duck hunt, but had returned owing to the wet. Next morning x- mu**, sure enough X., upon the reappearance reappearance of the devil, had immediately locked his store, transferred his children, and . aJll his belong- HANGED BY THE NECK. iTgs' to his canoe, and left for Dog Island. X.S night approached there were unmistakable eigne of excitement and fear among my Indian friends, and shortly" after dusk two Indian boys came rushing mto the house to say that the devil- was about again; .as the women heard him. Rising from my chair, I picked up my Winchester, and,' having filled the magazine with cartridges, again walked over to the camp. Immediately the story of the weetigo's weetigo's reappearance was shouted m my ears from a dozen quarters Thereupon I informed them- that I o-oing to see if 1 could not kill a Chinese Artist Got Even With Mr. Carnegie. The man who orders goods and then refuses to accept them is a trial to shopkeepers and manufacturers manufacturers in all lands; a novel way of serving such delinquents is described described in a curious little anecdote told in "The Memoirs of William Hickey." Hickey." There was a Chinaman who took excellent likenesses in clay, which he- afterwards colored, and they were altogether well executed. To this man's shop Pott and I went to see his performances. We found Mr. Carnegie, surgeon of the ship Nottingham, sitting for his portrait, and complaining violently of the extremely ugly phiz the artist was making. After he had repeated this several times, the- .man _ laKl down his tools, and looking signm- • 4 /I < ( TT-l XT/Yl 1 was going to see u. ±.. YT ca-ntly at Carnegie, said, "Hi, you the devil himself. Half-a-dozen ^ " band-some face no have- got how can make," and turning to Pott, he con tinned, "Here can make handsome face, for too much ee handsome face have got." Carnegie was offended at both observations, and declared he would not pay for or take the model away. He kept his word, and the next time we called at the shop we found the image of Mr. Carnegie tucked up, hanging by a rope, round the neck to a beam with several others Inquiring the meaning of that, tne Chinaman, with much anger, answered, answered, "All these have too much ee grand lad rones, give- me too much trouble, make hand-some face, no take, so must ee ham? lanterns, 'erent voices immediately dinned into my ears the best and most approved approved methods of dealing with weet-igos. - With iny rifle under my arm 1 strolled down the trail in the direction direction from which the latest sounds were supposed to have come. Pen-e- trating for -some distance into the wood-sf I stood awhile and waited. Then, uttering one or two piercing shrieks, I commenced firing my rifle as quickly as I could eject the exploding exploding cartridges. Thus, I discharged discharged ten or twelve rounds of am munition into- the air, accompanying accompanying the shots with the most bloodcurdling bloodcurdling of yells. . Having emptied the magazine, 1 slowly retraced my -steps towards the camp, whence I could -still hear yells and cries of fright. Arriving inside the circle of light thrown out by a fire kindled in the middle of the encampment, I was pestered with questions innumerable. In reply I ipfor-med them that 1 had had an -encounter with the devil devil and had rendered him hors- de no pay, up." Altruism. "J-im," said an honest coal dealer dealer to one of his drivers. "Jim, make that ton of coal 200 pounds short It is for -a poor, delicate widow, and she will have to carry all of it up two flights of stairs. 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In fact, so fearful weie th squaws that even m the daytime they would not venture into th surrounding forests _ for firewooc , except in bands- of eight- or ten. About the sixth day after the sup- nosed appearance of the devil, my Lac e opponent, a. half-breed who was in charge of a fuj trade post m opposition to the Hudson Bay Com nany, visited me. Between him and myself, as between all Hudson Bay and free traders, a very keen «vary «vary existed, each of us endeavoring to obtain all the furs we could for our respective firms. , X. the free trader, appeared to be a-s badly s-care-d as the other Indians, Indians, and in -a- conversation 1 had with- him he showed a very strong disposition to leave the vicinity and remove his wife, family and belongings belongings to the bosom of a small island island a few miles out m t-h® adjoining adjoining lake, where he thought th > would be -safe from the terrible weetigo. weetigo. and diabolical. The French upon 1 the walls, viewing the scene, broke ' into shouts, jeers, cheers, and triumphant triumphant laughter that completed the demoralization of the enemy. The twelve " bold knights aocom- _ plished their task, and received an days of old, still survive as part of j uproarious welcome on their re- t-he military ' uniform of certain j + urn _ Although -most- of them had famous European troops, particu- ; b<?en • hit, no one was hurt except larly among the German cavalry, j on€ gunner, who,' having v i'°rg J 7 Most of us would say, however that j[adjusted a hr assart-, was slightly not for several hundred, years have wuund ed in the arm. The blockade mail-clad warriors in armor of the ! wa? continued some time longer, in all its com- ; but w i tb little spirit-, and the be- ANTIQVE, BUT EFFECTIVE. Last Fight in Armor Occurred More than a. Century Ago. Helm a-nd corselet, much modified from those worn in the knightly true romantic type, tally 1 i plicated cumbersomeness, a fought upon -a field of batt.e. Jean Rameau, writing recently in a French journal, corrects tins idea. The last fight in armor occurred only a little more than a_ century ago. It was an episode of tne Napoleonic Napoleonic wars, and took place m the town of Aquila in 1/99. , The place had been captured oy the French, and a small garrison- some four hundred men--was left to hold it after the army moved on. The country was bitterly hostile ; leaders appeared unexpectedly among the peasantry, and an army of insurgents that numbered several thousand succeeded m retaking the town and driving the Frenchmen into the fortress. The streets surrounding surrounding the fortress were barricaded barricaded and the houses' loopholed, the besiegers felt themselves secure against the besieged ; but so, since they were well provided with pro- ' - VL --- were the sieged w Capt. 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In a couple of days the hunters would probably return and with the free-traders away i should undoubtedly gather in most of their furs. Accordingly, giving out that ^e were leaving for a duck hunt, I had mv half-breed companions embarked embarked in a -cànoe , and after an hour s daddling beached the canoe about Se in the rear of the encamp- ment, which was hiddcQ. frpm by a strip Of woods skirting the lakeshore. Quickly pressing through the woods, we emerged into a flat swamp, plentifully covered with willow growth It was nox.dark, but the eo-ndcal wigwams could be see-n dimly outlined against the sky about tiiree-qua-ntere of a mile dis I could hear t-he frightened cries and shouts of McKay and Nazie in the woods ahead of me; they, v undoubtedly thought that the real devil was after after them, incensed by our mummery. mummery. Breaking from the woods, I rushed rushed to the beach, only to find my half-breed friends afloat- and paddling paddling away for dear life. Calling to them to wait for me, I rushed waist-deep into the water, and was hauled into the canoe. In the meantime the heavens had: became overcast, and occasional flashes of lightning dispelled the gloom. Rounding a point there suddenly occurred a bright flash of lightning illuminating everything -and lasting .long enough for us to discern a birchbark canoe- far out in the lake being propelled vigorously in the direction of Dog Island. I chuckled chuckled for I had no doubt that it contained contained X., the free trader, and his family. Upon disembarking at- the tort, „ e immediately ran over to- the encampment, encampment, to find everybody m a state of the most extreme terror. One young man, it appeared, upon seeing the apparition, bad uttered a shriek and immediately _ fainted. The camp was still in this furore when old Piskonas, the medicine man, returned/, carrying a Winchester Winchester rifle in his hand. Evidently it was he wlio had shot at us >> ; . Immediately upon hi© arrival m camp he proceeded to recount -his experiences to the band. it appeared, fired two shots at the weetigo, whereupon the devil had knocked him down- and fle<F shriek- ing into the forest.- Nobody* inspected inspected us, for everybody though* WHAT ARE DREAMS? ed my cartridges with a preparation preparation known only to white men, which would penetrate- the body of a weetigo and cause him to dissolve into thin air, whereas an ordinary bullet- would take no effect. The Indians did not doubt my word for a moment. Cries of delight replaced the yeUs of terror that had previously rent the air. Squaws and papooses clamored around me, hailing me as their deliverer, and innumerable pairs of beaded moccasins, moccasins, new and otherwise, were showered upon me. During the following day all the hunters returned- with remarkably good catches of fur, and, needless to say, I lost no time in visiting Just Merc Memories and Nothing Else. It is memories and only memories which weave the woof of our dreams. All that we have felt, perceived, thought-, willed, from the first awakening of our consciousness survives survives indestructibly. These memories, perceiving that I have raised the trapdoor which has kept them beneath the floor or consciousness, arise from the depths. Memory images are like the steam a boiler under more or less ten- v i sio n s and amm u n ltio n, besieged against the besiegers--- un less, indeed, artillery could be brought to bear on their stronghold. stronghold. The besiegers had no cannon; cannon; but twelve dismounted guns, without carriages, which the French had not had time to take into the fort with them, lay on the glacis outside the walls,_ commanded b> the fire from both sides. One night, under cover of darkness, a h ■ e party of insurgents succeeded in at- to Scheme Went Wrong. "We thought this year we'd ra- ! t-her move than clean house." "Great scheme !" 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