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Durham Chronicle (1867), 28 Nov 1912, p. 6

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AN INDIAN ON A RAMPAGE. Peter Paul, a Cape Croker In- dian, performed a stunt Monday evenin that should send him to jail. e and some other Indians were returning home and were the worse of liquor, where they got it of course the Indians do not know. They met the Wright brothers near Purple Valle and ordered them of! the roa . There was a tree for all between one of the Wrights and Peter for a few min- utes and the Indian was getting the worst of it, when he pulled a knife and gave Wright a gash over the face. Farther on the road flung down Coveney’s hill, the dlnn was thrown from the buggy and sustained very severe injur- ies. The lndisns get liquor in some wsy, and it is about time to pen them up if the will not tell where they get it.â€" iarton Echo. MRS. A. BEGGS a. sun +++++'+u “It ie a pleasure to tell you that Chmberlun’e Cough Remedy is the beet cough medicine I have ever need,” writee lire. Hugh Cmpbell, o! Levonia, Ga. “I heve ueed it with ell my children end the reeulte heve been highly eetiptectory.” For eele by all ANYONE ONE NEEDING New Pumps, Pump Re- pairs, Cement Curbing or Culvert Tile, see . . . . JNO. SCHULTZ or myself at the shop George Whitmore Pumps, Curbing._T_il_e A. woman who talk like a book n’t Io gully shut up. Goods delivered tn all parts of :3 the town on short notice. We handle thu well knnwn brands of Flour such as WINDSOR SALT BEAN and SH( DRTS 2 yds. long Five Roses Chesley Good Luck Milverton Three W. H. BEAN McGowan’s Eclipse and Sovereign LACE CURTAINS H E SELLS CHEAP TAKE NOTICE always kept in stoc FARMERS WE HAVE THEM 8104 37 in 60in 3!) in. 58in THE - wide. 25c. Jewel pair 66 66 .6 our 111:. 3 clap of thunder. I'm the first echo of It died may, it wu luc- ‘ceodod by another and mother and ;3nothor, echoing, rolunx. reverberat- in‘monx tho rochhovordunlnuh- h‘butlongdnnoutpoul. Onthoimtgntthobgrmgtohh She did not know whether she was in the water or in the air; there were but two points upon which her con- sciousness was tocussed in the vast ellipse of her imagination. Another moment or two and all coherency or thought would be gone. The grizzly still unsettled and uneasy before her awful glance, but not deterred by it. turned its great head sideways a lit- tle to escape the direct immobile stare brought his sharp clawed foot down heavily and lurched forward. Scarcely had a minute elapsed in which all this happened. That huge threatening heave of the great body toward her relieved the tension. She found voice at last. Although it was absolutely futile, she realized as she cried, her released lips framed the loud appeal. “Help! for God's sake." Although she knew she cried but to the bleak walls of the canon, the droomng pines, the rushing river, the distant heaven, the appeal went forth accompanlet. by the mightiest con- juration known to man. “For God’s sake, help!” How dare poor humanity so plead. the doubter cries. What is it to God if one suffers, another bleeds. another dies? What answer could come out or that silent sky? Sometimes the Lord Ipeahs with the loud voice of men's fit-Moms. instead of in that still whisper which is his own, and the sound of which we fail to catch be- tcsuse of our an inch]. babble. The rush of the current as it swirled about her caused her to sway gently, otherwise she stood motionless and apprehensive, awfully expectant. She had made no sound, and save for that low growl the great beast had been equally silent. There was an awful flxity in the gaze she turned upon him and he wavered under it. It annoyed him. It bespoke a little of the dom- inance of the human. But she was too surprised, too unnerved, too des- perately frightened to put forth the full power of mind over matter. There was piteous appeal in her gaze. The bear realized this and mastered her sufficiently. He was an aged monarch of the mountains, reddish brown in color originally, but now a hoary dirty gray. His body was massive and burly, his legs short, dark colored and immensely powerful. His broad square head moved restlessly. His fanged mouth opened and a low hoarse growl came from the red cavern of hi3 throat. He was an old and terrible monster who had tasted the blood 0 man and who would not hesitate t‘ attack without provocation, especialfz. anything at once so harmless and so whitely inviting as the girl in the pooL The girl forgot the chill of the water in the horror of that moment. Alone, naked, defenseless, lost in the moun- tains, with the most powerful, san- guinary and ferocious beast out the continent in front of her, she could neither fight nor fly; she could only wait his pleasure. He snuiIed at her clothing a moment and stood with one fore foot advanced for a second or two growling deeply, evidently, she thought with almost superhuman kemmess of perception, preparing to leap into the pool and seize upon her. What she saw startled and alarmed her beyond measure. Planted on her clothes, looking straight at her, hav- ing come upon her in absolute si- lence, nothing having given her the least warning of his approach, and now gazing at her with red. hungry, evil, vicious eyes, the eyes of the covetous filled with the cruel lust of desire and carnal possession, and yet with a glint of surprise in them, too, as if he did not know quite what to make of the white loveliness of this unwonted apparition flashing so sud- denly at him out of the water, this strange invader of the domain of which he was sole master and lord paramount, stood a great, monstrous, frightful looking grizzly bear. Ursus Horribilis, indeed. The answer to her prayer came witlra roar in her nervous frightened The water was deep enough to re« ceive her dive and the pool was long enough to enable her to swim a few strokes. The first chill of the icy wa- ter was soon lost in the Vigorous mo- tions in which she indulged, but no more human form, however hardy and inured, could long endure that frigid bath. Reluctantiy, yet with the knowl- edge that she must go, after one more sweeping dive and a few magnificent strokes, she raised her head from the water lapping her white shoulders and shaking her face clear from the draps a} crystal, faced the shore. It was no longer untenanted. she was no longer alone. The Bear, the Man and the Flood. The woman watched him until he disappeared, a few seconds longer, and then she hurled herself through the water and stepped out upon the shore. Her SWeater which the bear had dragged forward in its advance, lay on top of the rest of her clothes, covered with blood. She threw it aside and with nervous, frantic energy, wet, cold, though she was, she jerked on in some fashion enough clothes to cover her nakedness and then with more leisurely order and with neces- sary care she got the rest of her ap- parel in its accustomed place upon her body, and then when it was all over she sank down prone and prostrate upon the 81‘ ass by the carcass of the new harmless monster which had so nearly caused her undoing, and shiv- ered, cried and sobbed as it her heart would break. She was chilled to the bone by her motionless sojourn, albeit it had been for scarcely more than a minute in that icy water, and yet the blood rushed to her brow and face, to every hidden part of her in waves as she thought of it. It was a good thing that she cried; she was not a weep- ing woman, her tears came slowly as a rule and then came hard. She rath- er prided herself upon her stoicism, but in this instance the great depths of her nature had been undermined and the nmntalns thereof were fain to break forth. How long she lay there, warmth coming gradually to her under the di- rect rays of the sun, she did not know, and it was a strange thing that caused her to arise. It grew suddenly dark over hcr head. She looked up and a rim of frightful black, dense clouds had suddenly blotted out the sun. The clouds were lined with gold and silver and the long rays shot from behind the somber blind over the yet uncovered portions of the heaven. but the clouds moved with the irresistible swiftnels end steadi- - And then a new and more appalling :tsrror swept over her. Some man had .ilred that shot. Actaeon had spied iupon Diana. With this sudden revels» tion of her shame, the red blood beat to the white surface in spite of the chill water. The anguish of that mo ment was greater than before. She could be killed, torn to pieces, do voured, that was a small thing, but that she should be so outraged in her ‘modssty was unendurahle. She wished the hunter had not come. She sunk lower in the water for a moment fain to hide in its crystal clarity and real- ized as she did how frightfully cold she was. Yet, although she froze where she was and perished with cold she could not go out on the bank to dress, and it would avail her little, she saw swiftly, since the huge mon- ster had fallen a dead heap on her clothes. With staring eyes that missed no ,detail, she saw that the brute had 'been shot in the head and shoulder *. three times and that he was appar- -' ently dead. The revulsion that came ’over her was bewildering; she swayed again. this time not from the thrust ;of the water, but with sick taintness. :The tension suddenly taken 0!, un- Thereafter he dropped the pine tree by the side of the dead grizzly and without a. backward look tramped swiftly and steadily up the canon through the trees, turning at the point of it and was instantly lost to sight. His gentle and generous purpose were obvious even to the frightened, agi- tated, excited girl. She was so agitated that she could make out little except that there was a man crossing below her and making directly toward the body of the bear. He was a tall black bearded man, shc saw he carried a rifle, he looked neith or to the right nor to the left, he did not bestow a glance upon her. She could have cried aloud in thanksgiving for his apparent obliviousness to he! as she crouched now neck deep in the henumbing cold. The man stepped on the bank, shook himself like a great dog might have done and marched over to the bear. He uprooted a small nearby pine, with the ease of a Her culesâ€"and she had time to mark and marvel at it in spite of everythingâ€" and then with that as a lever he un. concernedly and easily heaved the body of the monster from oi! her clothing. She was to learn later what a feat of strength it was to move that inert carcass weighing much more than half a ton. Now all this, although it takes min- utes to tell, had happened in but a few seconds. Seconds sometimes in- clude hours, even a life-time. in their brief composition. She thought it would be just as well for her to sinil down and die in the water, when a sudden Splashing below her caused her to look down the stream. feet, swayed marry and stch as at an imaginary enemy with his weighty paws. A hoarse, frightful [uttering roar burst from his red slaverlng Jaws. then he lurched side wnys and tell forward, fighting the air mndly for a moment, and lay still. quiverod helplessly; the arrow of her 1110 almost fell into the stream. 33$ THE DURHAH CHRONICLE bow of her spirit Heedless of the star; .\ ing, of appeal, in the vein- } it x drowned by another roll m mm she plunged on in the (13:11:. v-zs. " canon narrowed here; she m. 1.; ‘3 way down the ledges, leaping; 10881! from rock to rock, sllpyg'... {8111118. grazing now one side, no- the other, hurling herself forward ‘0 in: white face and bruised body and for": hands and throbbing heart that woutr' taln burst its bonds. There was oncv an ancient legend, a human creature, named by all the tux-lee, pltllessly pursued by every 'malenc spirit of earth and air; like him this sweet young girl, innocent. lovely. erstwhile hum). 09d baton the storm. In one of those appalling anew".- tlons from sound to silence she ho:1"~" 3 human cryâ€"an ansuering n" c hat own? It came from the hi11.3’ .. _‘ hind her It must prom-"1. thought, from the 111311. }\..~p g-c .. not meet that man. n, craved hum 1n companiu befoxe, she did not not bear It. Bétter :3: _- "-’i‘. God. the fury of the m-..‘ " l.'l Suddenly the rolling thunder penis concentrated, balls of fire leaped out of the heavens and struck the moun- tains where she could actually we them. There were not words to de- scribe the tremendous crashing: which seemed to splinter the hills, to he succeeded by brief periods of si- lance, to be followed by louder and more terrific detonations. The clouds seemed to sink lower, until they almost closed about her. Long gray ghostly arms reached out toward her. It grew darker and dark- er ln the depths of the canon. .he screamed aloudâ€"in vain. Poor glrl, awful experience really was to be hers that day. The fates sported with herâ€"bodily fear, out- raged modesty, mental anguish and now the terror of the storm. The whole sky was now black with drifting clouds, lightning flashed above her head, muttered peals of thundcr, terrifically ominous, rocked through the Silent hills. The noise was low and subdued, but almost continuouc. With a singular and uneasy feeling that she was being observed, she started down the canon, plunging des- perately through the trees, leaping the brook from side to side where it nar- rowed. seeking ever the easiest way. She struggled on, panting with sud- den inexplicable terror almost as bcri as that which had overwhelmed her an hour beforeâ€"and growing mo: 9 intense every moment. to such a tragic pass had the day and its happening brought her. Her luncheon had fortunately es- caped unharmed. In a big pocket of her short skirt there was a small flask of whiskey, which her Uncle Robert had required her to take with her. She felt sick and faint, but she knew that she must eat if she was to make the journey, difiicult as it might prove. back to the camp. She forced herself to take the first mouthful of bread and meat she had brought with her, but when she had tasted she needed no further incentive, she ate to the last crumb; she thought this was the time she needed stimulants, too. and mingling the cold water from the brook with a little of the ardent spirit from the flask, she drank. Some of the chill had worn off, some of the fatigue had gone. She rose to her feet and started down the canon;‘ her bloody sweater still lay on the ground with other things of which she was heedless. It had grown colder, but she realized that the c‘imb down the canon would put her stagnant blood in circulation and all would be well. A storm was brewing such as she had never seen, such as she had no experience to enable her to realize its malign possibilities. Nay, it was now at hand. She had no clew, however, of what was toward, how terrible a danger overshadowed her. Frightened but unconscious of all the menace of the hour, her thoughts flew down the canon to the camp. She must hasten there. She looked for her watch which she had lifted from the grass and which she had not yet put on. The grizzly had stopped upon it, it was irretrievably ruined. She judged from her last glimpse of the sun that it must now be early afternoon. She rose to her feet and staggered with weakness; she had eaten nothing since morning; and the nervous shock and strain through which she had gone had reduced her to a pitiable condition. Before she began the descent of the pass, she‘ cast one long glance back- ward whither the man had gone. Whence came he, who was he, what had be seen, where was he now? She thanked God for his interference in one breath and hated him for his presence in the other. “Help! For God’s Sake!" ness of a great deluge. The wall or them lowered above her head while they extended steadily and rapidly across the sky toward the other side of the canon and the mountain wall. QOQOQQOOQOQQOQOOOOOOOOOQ#9 OOOOQOOOOOQOOQOQOQO O O O O 6 v 0 43‘ Dr. Horse’s Indian Root Pill The body of the girl, utterly unpre- pared, was caught up in a moment and flung like a bolt from a catapult down the seething sea filled with the trunks of the trees and the debris of the mountains, tossing about humanly in the wild confusion. She struck out strongly swimming more because oi the instinct of life than for any other reason. A helpless atom in the boil ing flood, growing every minute great- er and greater as the angry skies dis- gorged themselves of their pent-up torrents upon her devoted head. Then "the heavens burst. and the fountains of the great deeps were broken Open and with absolute lit- teralnels the floods descended. The bursting clouds. torn asunder by the wild winds. driven by the pent-up lightning within their black and turgid breasts, disburdened themselves. The water came down, as it did of old when God washed the face of the world,'in a flood. The narrow of the canon was filled ten, twenty, thirty feet in a moment by the cloud burst. The black water rolled and foamed, surging like the rapids at Niagara. nomwnntum-ntmm . cog-c â€"-d it'I to ho had for only 310. :- ohm-1000 m in “42:35:33; . . . ' . u- A and finally “was III .7 W3 It 13 for “or us. This in what many women m M. n: ”4.“..- m. _;-__L.."_?”'°fipfion._” - remedy which has i 5 12; iii a £3 O ‘09.0990099009900900000099 900900060006909009.0990... s scon- :: $323212. ? MMOOOOOOOOOOOQOOOfOO 900900600.006600609090000: is an enemy within the camp. It will un 1er111i11e the strongest constitution and ruin the most vigorous health. It leads to indi gestion. biliousness, impure blood. bad complexion, Sl(k h11.11l1 hes, and is one of the most frequent causes of appendicitis. To neglectitis slow suicide. Dr. Morse 5 Indian Root Pills positively cure Constipation. The”)! are entirely vegetable 1n composition and do not sicken. weakm or gnpe. Preserve your health by taking 1 stipation Wool ‘Wanted qufifilm For which we will pay the highest price in CASH 0R GOODS. Blankets. Tweeds, Woollen Goods. Ready-made Clothing, Prints, Flannelletbes. Crockery and Groceries always in stock. - See our Lisle Thread Gloves, full length at 250. Silk Gloves. double tippes, full length at 800. Call soon or you may not be able to be supplied. Continued next week. v “My desire is to write u few mm ' ‘ our vslutble meme.” m m ,3: ggt9';.';:;:r m: ANABET chmm'r. of 323 S. ' ‘ ' Bentalon Street. Baltiuu Md. “Bailout the storek came to our house I was a wn at? womsn. wrote you for advice which ' ' “., ‘ k; . ' . A_ {black made me I. dlfleront. woman in. aJSh1);{d:‘;n$.‘u}\?|':g l ngithe first. bottle of ‘Favurite Prm'ription’ I hwan II!) v as so that I hardly know I was in such a conditirn id my own hOlISOWOTKâ€"Washin . lowing and “)9 want Of all rurxadg and ironinv. (W MW . ‘ . . thrmchxllw whd whooping muflh- I hardh' leW M Lthi vvn‘t‘u;\gimlti's h? ‘ ' ' tom-so easy‘ywas It. hP baby lk‘ 3“ fat as a, hunpr-Hfll. mi ) " ~ " " nnv woman m “aka who“ h. .x‘.:.,‘}!_",._‘.h° butt mmn ”W “W i _ 'wâ€"v - u ‘ ‘J “11"“ l “ I did my" own houseQBrKâ€"washing lowing. and ")9 wnrst Of all nursed 1 whooping cough. I hardlv know of ‘ EWWfiQEKWflS it: Th9 hahv i: any woman to take to :11 my friends.” l DEAD BODY FOUND. On November 6th, David John- ston, of Ashfield, discovered a body on the shore about half a mile north of 18-Mile Creek. Cor- oner Holmes, of Goderich, was notified, and he empaiielled a jury, which viewed the cm pse, but deferred verdict until Noxenilwr 14th. The man was about 5 feet 9 inches in height. and would weigh about 165 pounds. 1111 re iwas nothing on his person to in- dicate his identity, but he had on 'a life-preserver on \\ 111111 am the words “Stx, Flcctwfood‘ The man was apparently a \\ .11111 or cook on a boat as he “1111 a ‘1white jacket such as is \1 0111 In Waiters. The body Was 111111111 1m ‘Thursday in Kintuil cenu ten â€" Kincardine Review. The boy’s appetite is often the source of amazement. If you would have such an appetite take Chamberlain’s Tablets. They not only create a healthy appetite, but strengthen the stomach and enable it to do its work naturally. For sale by all dealers. We reason hke this; Eve 81 4 her- self and Adam 8124 Eveâ€"total 8,838. The Leader; Eve 61 4 2 know how it tasted. and Adam 81242 399 what it might be likn. â€"t0tnl 89384. ~ How many apples did Eva and Adam eat? The old version says: Eve ate and Adam ate tooâ€"Eve b not Adam 2â€"total, 10. [his :8 what a few newnpa era have to say about it: The erald, Eve 8 and Adam 8â€"total 16. The Lia- zette: We don’t see this. Eve 8 and Adam 82â€"total 90. The Screamer; Our contemporary is en- tirely wrong. Eve b'l and Adam 1! 2â€"total 893. The Advertlser: I won-«'- head. “a Raina. THE FORBIDDEN FRUIT November 9th. 1018. 1’ mmniénd' 'It ‘, by curin‘

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