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het CHARLOTTETOWN, P. E. ISLAND; SATURDAY OCTOBER 16, 1897. NO 242
PANS PRIVATE MARK
FOUND ON A MOSQUITO. HARDIN’S LIFE.
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Neither Kouife Nor Lranding fron Was Teed on
@ Fretty Fair Shot and Always Kept Ina
That Ranch, as the Owner Was
Yractice.
“Them was pretty good shots,’’ said |
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the old sheep raiser when the boys had fuished te/ling aboat some glass ball | shooting they bad done at the gun club tournament, ‘but folks nowadays don’t go no shootin like they did a few years azo. There was Dan Hardin now, who run a sheep ranch in west Texas in 1881; he could shaot.’’
‘Pretty gooi shot, was he?’ asked
the bovs, to draw the ald mau ont. “Well, he was a good, fair shot for them times and locality. A Colt’s 45 wae Dan's favorite. He run about 6,000 sheep 20G a good many cattle and horses. The ranchers all marked the ears of their stock, each man in a dif- ferent way, to distinguish their proper-
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be never allowed a knife to te used on hie ranch. He marked every animal himself with his six shooter, and he never made a mistake. It was a sight to see him gallopin across the prairie en his 1wuetang after a bunch of lambs or a round up of spring calves, a-placiu his marks with his 45 and never varyin a sixteenth of an inch from where they belonged. Dan marked inore mavericks than anybody else in the country put together.
‘*From practicin so mach Dan got to bea first rate shot. He used to ride aloug in his pasture and put his mark on the coyotes and jack rabbi.s just to ksep his hand in. It got so that nine ages -7t of ten when a man killed a deer with hia winchester he would find a hole in its left and an underbit in its right ear, and be’d always send Daz over a quarter of venison when he got it home. Iseen Dan wina cet of $50 one day froma tenderfoot. We was tidin along the rcad and we seen tue ground a-humpin up where a mole was sbovin along out of sight under the garth. Dan mode his proposition, the teiMe;foot wek him up, and Dan’s old 45 went off a couple of times. We dag the mcle up, and there was the marks ia his ears right where they belonged After awhile I don’t think there was a living thing on Dan's ranch except his wife's that didn’t bayew his mark in its ears.
‘This habit cf Danu’s got him ont of a pretty bad scrape one time. Alcng about 1882, when free range commenced gettin scarce, the fence cutters got to cuttin the wire fences around the pas- tures and give the sheep men lots of trouble. Dan’s had been cut half a dozen times, and he waa mad. One day he rode out without his gun and saw a low down rustler pamed TYompkine slicin bis wires like fiddlestrings with & pair of nippers. Tompkins got on his horze and let out, cud Dan rode back to his ranch and get his gun. He struck ut on Tompkins’ trail and overhauled him about sundown in the )ittle town that was tae county seat. Dan shot him ‘Quietly and was about to get a cup of ‘coffee and start back home when he
Was surprised by the sheriff's arrestin him. You see, that was about the time ‘the lew and order gang got to raisi ‘Cain in the west and tryin to set down on promiscuous shootin and personal liberty. They scared up a judge and a jury somewere and held a kind of couré right away to try Dan. Tompkins had & lot of friends in town, among the hoss thieves apd free grassers, and they Come in by the dozen and swore that Tompkins hadn’t been out of town for a week, and that Dan’s story abost his ‘Cutt _uithe fence didn’t go. Dan had no ‘Witucsses, and it begun to look kindof funuy for bim. They had~Tumpking
«cut on.a table in the courtroom.
“Directly ‘Dan went over and’ looked Pretty sbarp at Tompkins, and then be asked one of the deputies to go out to a little jewelry store across the street and
ga magnifying glass. The deputy Went and .got it, and Dan handed it to she judge and asked bim to step down and look at something a minute. There Was a mosquito with his bill fast in Tompkins’ ear, and Dan a ked the judge to take.a good look at it with the glass, The judge. did. 80, and blest if that mos- §uito didu’t have a hole in its left and & under bit in. its right ear, as shore as I'm sitting ‘here. Everybody knew
‘s mark, and ‘the court was con- Vinced that Tompkins must have been Prowlin round his ranch. It was what you would call good circumstantial evi- dence, and ten minutes afterward Dan Was on his way home.”’
There. was a little silence among the boys, and then the one who bad broken 45 glass balls out of a possible 50 sug- ested that some lemonade be handed
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fhe Story of the Lame Horse and [+> Young Doctor.
‘*One reads so many stories about a™1-
mal intelligence that it would be hazara-
ous fora doubter to express his disbe-
lief in almost any gathering of men at the present day,’’ remarked Dr. W. W. Watkins. ‘'A little instance came within my own observation a number
of years ago when I was studying med- icine and which convinced me that the wembers of tho herse family at lezst § ought to be credited with the possession
of a very considerable quantity of rea-
soning power. It was the custom for the students at the medical institution
at which I pursued my studies to wear
asmall badge upon their coats to dis
tinguish them from others at the col-
lege. A horse belonging to the estab- lishment was used a great deal about the medical department, and the ani- mal seemed to have aspecial preference for the embryo doctors more than for any other people about the establish- ment,
‘*One day, whiie a number of us were gathered in a little knot upon a smali campus in the rear of the college, the animal in question, which used to nip the grass in the location, came toward the group limping very badly. He came tc a stop a dozen or more feet from the crowd and, carefully surveying the lot of us, finally made up his mind as to what he wanted to do and without any hesitation limped directly to may side, whinnied, stuck his nose against my body and held up his left foreleg. Look- ing down, I discovered a large nail im- bedded in the frog of his hoof. This had evidently caused the lameness. I then realized the interesting fact that the apimal desired attendance, I ex- tracted the nail with some difficulty, aud the horse whimpered with relief and walked away. Rather curious as to why the beast had picked me out to at- tend to his wound, I glanced at the boys and found the solution to the prob-
jcal badge upon hia coat but myrcl, The horse bad recognized tho ipaignia,
CAR HORSES HARD TO GET.
The Demand Is Now So Small That the Trade Negiects Them.
One of the most curious effects of the general replacing of horses by elestrici- ty and cable traction for drawing street cars is being experienced by one of the extensive car lines in this city which still uses horses. One would suppose that, since the only lines in the whole country which contipue to use horses now form but a very small percentage ef those which used them five years ago, these lines would have a much wider range of choice and could get horses Of a grade superior to the gen- eral run of those which used to be offered to them. Remarkable as it: may seem, this is the exact opposite of the truth.
The New York city line referred to rans in direct competition with the cable lines of the upper west side, and its managers, who recently purchased it, determined as soon as they came in- to possession to place upon it a superior Jot of horses, and in this way improve its running until mechanicai propulsion could be introduced. Orders were sent out to buy the needed horses. Much to the surprise of the managers, it was discovered that there were almost no street car horses of any kind to be bought.
The explanation of this situation lies
in the fact that since the demand for street car horses almost ceased the trade machinery by which they were gathered has fallen into disuse. A few years ago the street car horses were one of the most important features of the horse market. They were animals of a stand- ard grade and of almost stable price, and every part of the country contributed its quota. The street car horse had to be big and able and sound of limb and wind, but it might be of any age. Few lasted long enough in the service to make the question of a few years more or less of any consequence. The demand was constant, and the price never varied in New York more than from about $125 to $150 each. Dealers could always count upon getting this price and get- ting it promptly,.and as a consequence every horse which would auswer the purpose was a safe investment at a lit- tle smaller price, and a clean profit of $10 a horse was regarded as a fair mar- gin in handling ‘them.
Horses of all sorts, which lacked the qualities of speed, beauty or youth, but possessed the other requirements, were qnickly sorted out from the markets of the whole country, and every big dealer was always able to gather droves of car horses as fast as the companies needed them. The trolley has supeyseded the
car horses, and car horses are no ionger quoted as staples in the market. The companies which still use them are obliged to go out and search the marts and buy them one by one instead of simply sending out an order for 100 or 200 or 500 and getting them as readily as they would so many loads of hay or grain.—New York Sun.
Greco-Egyptian Painting.
The remarkable series of portraits foand in. Egypt are described in The Monthly Llustrator and the methods of the old artists employed.
The methods of these ancient days were totally different from those of the present day and were evidently vastly more durable. Panels of wood were used to paint on—sycamore and cypress —also panels of papier mache, and oc- casionally they were formed by gluing three thicknesses of canvas together. These panels were usually about 14 inches long by 7 inches wide. The artist used liquid wax insftad of oil to mix the colors, which were made not from vegetable. but from mineral substances and were of marvelous brilliancy and permanence—blue powdered lapis lazu- li, green malachite, red oxide of iron, etc. The colors were laid on in patches, somewhat after the fashion of a mosaic, and afterward blended with an instru- ment called the cestrum, which appears to bave been a lancet shaped spatula, long handled, with at one end a eurved point, at the other a finely dentated edge. With the toothed edge the wax could be equalized and smypoothed, while the point was used for placing high lights, marking lips, eyebrows, etc.
The final process, which gives the name encaustic to this kind of painting, was the burning in of the colors. This was done by the application of a heated surface to ‘the panel, though George Ebers believes that in Egypt the heat of the sun was probably all that was needed to complete the artist’s work.
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‘*Can’t help it, boss. - You’ll have to wait and catch another train.’’
‘*Well, I'll report you to the com- pay. That procession will take tive minutes in passing us.’’
‘‘Report away. I can’t belp it if the procession takes 20 minutes. You couldn’t hire me te run this car across that funerai procession for the best job on the line, That’s the worst hooloo a man could run up against.”’
‘*Bah!’’ said the fat man.
“*A!l right, boss. I know what I’m talking about. One of the best men on this line crossed a funeral procession soon after the trolley system was put in. A live wire dropped on the beck of his neck and electrocuted him before he’d gone a block. A little while later another poor fellow cut across back of a hearse. He ran over three children in as many weeks. He quit the read as crazy as a loon. Now the conductor on that same car has lost every cent he had in the world, and his wite and child have died. Bah, yourself! I'd like to see you get off this car and walk across in front of one of those car: iages. I’ bet you'd be catchin your last train in this world pretty quick. Jest hop of and try it now.’’
But the fat man only shifted uneasily about on the hard car seat and waited silently until the last carriage had passed. —New York Telegrsus
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