The Benton record. [volume] (Benton, M.T. [Mont.]) 1875-1879, 1878-11-01

story and was advised not to kill the Of
tenders, but to arrest them and bring them
to the fort for punishment.
In compliance with this advice, Little
Dog and his son arrived in town one cay
with prisoner who had stolen some
horses from the whites.
Hang him; shoot him; do anything you
please with him" said the chief. Il can do
nothing with him."
But however much the tribe feared the
great chief and his son, they were not
willing to submit to this sort oftreatment,
and no sooner had the prisoner been tnrn-
ed yer to the whites than they concocted
! q scheme to rid themselves Of these dread
ed men.
While returning to camp, after deliver
ing up the prisoner, the party, who had
! provi led themselves with good supply OF
Cbiskev, halted near the river bank to rest
and have a social time. The plotters'
headed by halfbreed named Isadore'
suggested that as they were liable to get
drunk, they had better put away their
arms to provide against accidents. Little
Dog and his son gave up their weapons
without hesitation, aud the boy left the
party to indulge in a bath. The spree
then began,
After the cowardIy plotters had nerved
themselves sufficiently for the bloody
work, they secretly recovered their weap-
ons and then began to quarrel with the
chief. The latter with his usual intrepid
tv replied to their sneers and insults with
contemptuous epithets, and finally brought
the quarrel to climax by kicking three
of them over the river bank. The towards
then opened fire upon the detenceIess
chief and he fell riddtcd with bullets
Meanwhile the son, attracted by the nolst'
left the water, and came to the assistance
Of his father. He was shot down four
times, but reached the spot where his
father laid and fell dead upon his body.
Are Fat People Healthy
Why are fat people always complaining?
asks some one who entertains the popular
though erroneous notion that health is
synonymous with fat. Fatpeople complain
because they are diseased. Obesity is an
abnormal condition of the system, in:
which the saccharine and ole;agino4s e!e
,nen3s Of the food are asslmllated TO the
martial exclusion Of the muscle forming and
brain-producing elements In proof OF
this. il is only necessary to assert the well
known fact that excessively fat people are
never strong, and seldom distinguished
for mental powers or activity. Besides
they are the easy prey OF acute and cpl
demic diseases, and they are the frequent
victims Of gout, heart disease, and ape
plexy. Allan's nti-Fat is The only known
remedy for this disease. It contains no
acid. is absolutely harmless, and is war
ranted to remedy the most confirmed case
Of obesity, or corpulency..
Four-FoOted Mail Carriers.
Between two. of the remote towns OF
Michigan the mails are carried BY means
ofdog teams. The sledge IS simply thin.
flexible board, six or seven feet long and
a foot or more in width, turned up at one
end to enable it to rise over obstacles 10
the path. Along the edge, on either side,
Is a low rail, to which the load is securely
bound with cords. The bprden carried
usually consists Of the bags, few blan-
kets, rarely tent, provisions for teW
days, a small axe, and few other articles
essential to the primitive mode OF locomo.
t;on. The driver never rides, as his
weight il too much for the strength Of the
animals and the fraiI sledge. The dogs
are not noble looking animals, by any
means. The truth is they are NANCY ours,
which arc "driven" BY being called on BY
the driver in advance stimulated to some
degree Of speed BY a furnishing process and
various ingenious kinds Of torture, and
occasionally helped along by propalsive
aid from behind. Their weekly advent II
Marquette is still the source Of wondering
curiosity and intense admiration OF
large group Of dirty urchins, who have
lingering love Of the antique. One ofthe
mail attendants usually precedes the tram |
on snow shoes, either to encourage the
dogs to a greater speed, or to break the
path and remove obstacles, as the road IS
narrow and circuitous.
In a work By Lord William Lennox, en
titled Fashion, Noso and Then, just pub.
Hshed in London, is the following para
graph, relative to the ages Of animals and
such, which may be entertaining az weilas
instructive t. the younger readers OF the
Drawer:
"A bear rarely exceeds twenty years 3
dog lives twenty years, wolf twenty
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