CENTRE REPORTER, CENTRE HALL. PA. — PEXEL is the last word in jelly making PEXEL always makes jelly jell. Abso- lutely colorless, tasteless, odorless. Unlike other products, Pexel is a pure. fruit product—100%. Doesn’t change taste or color of most delicately fla. vored fruit. Pexel saves time and fuel. More than repays 30c it costs. More jelly— fruit, sugar and flavor aren’t boiled off because, with Pexel, the jelly is ready for glasses as soon as it comes to full boil. It jells by the time it is cool. Get Pexel at your grocer’s. Rec- 30c. Vo Legal Meaning to the Term “Blackmail” In the King's Bench division, Lon- don, before Justice Horridge und a special jury, Horutlio Bottomley was further cross-examined In his libel ne- tion sgainst Hurst & Blackett, pub- lishers, and Henry James Houoston, formerly employed by him. Jottomley complained that he had been accused of blackmall In u bork, “The Real Horatio Bottomley,” writ- ten by Houston and published by Hurst & Blackett, who pleaded justi fication and contended that Mr, Bot. tomley had signed a document in- demnifying Houston against libel, The foreman of the jury asked Jus- tice Horridge the legal meaning of blackmall, as some of the jurors did not seem to understand it, “It is a well-known English term,” insures this wr 34 Ts i ye i RAD -2~T HE FACE By ELMO SCOTT WATSON — T LIES before me as | write—a little old-fash- joned book with the word “Autographs” stamped upon Its frayed and stained green cloth cover. You know the kind of book it is and you can easily guess its contents—page after page on which are written in the fine Spencerian handwriting of the “Ele- gant Eighties” some such “sentiment” as “In the present age, boys have grand opportunities; may you improve yours that no regrets shall mar your manhood. Your teacher, Elizabeth .' Or in a sprawling school- girl hand, signed “Jennie” or “Minnie” r “Addie” is the declaration that My pen Is poor, My ink is pale; My love for you Shall never fail! If such were all that this "auto- graph book” contained, it would be no different from the thousands of others which were once cherished by our fa- thers and mothers and which now and then come to light again as we ransack afi attic or delve into an old trumk. But this particular book contains an autograph (or perhaps I should say, an “autoportrait”) which makes it unique. On one of its pages is a pen- cil sketch, colored with bright pur- ples and reds and blues, and signed by the Indian who drew it, “Brave Bear” And so as American Indian day (September 28, this year) draws near and as I look at this little autograph with its unique “portrait of thé artist by himself,” I am minded to tell again the story of Brave Bear, a warrior of the Sioux. If there be left any who once knew Brave Bear, perhaps it may not seem quite appropriate to make American Indian day, which is ob- served'in many states “in recognition of the contribution of the American Indian to our pational tradition,” the occasion for retelling the story of an Indian who was notorious rather than famous, For, from the point of view of the white man, Brave Bear was a “bad Indian.” But there were in him some of those qualities, characteristic of the American Indian, which ne one, whether he be white or red, can help admiring, Wapaypay (Brave Bear or the Fear. less Bear) was a member of the Cut Head band of the Yanktonal tribe of the Sioux In North Dakota, He first appears in history as the boon com- panion of the famous warrior, Rain-in- the Face, popularly (and erroneously) known as the slayer of General Cus ter at the Battle of Little Big Horn, In his declining years Rain-in-the told the story of his life to Dr. A A. Eastman, an educated Sioux, and it is in Doctor Eastman’'s book, “Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains,” pub- lished by Little, Brown & Company, that Rain-inthe-Face tells how he, Brave Bear and Hohay, the Assinl boine captive of Sitting Bull, made a daring attack on Fort Totten, N. D, in the summer of 1866. Here is the story as Rain-in-the-Face told it; Wapaypay, the Fearless Bear, who was afterward hanged at Yankton, was the bravest man among us. He dared Hohay to make the charge. Hohay ac. cepted the challenge, and in turn dared the other to ride with him through the agency and right under the walls of the fort, which was well and strong. Wapaypay and I in those days called each other “brother-friend.™ It was a life-and-death, vow. What one does the other must do; and that meant that I must be in the forefront of the charge, and if he is killed, I must fight until I die also! 1 prepared for death 1 painted as usual like an eclipse of the sun, haif black and half red. Now the signal for the charge was given! [started even with Wapaypay but his horse was faster than mine, so garrisoned This was bad for me, for by recovered from the surprise and were aiming better. Theirgbig gun talked very loud, but my Wapaypay was leading on, leaning forward on his fleet pony like a flying squirrel on a smooth log! He held his rawhide shield on the right side, a lit- tie to the front, and so did I. Our war- whoop was like the coyotes singing in the evening, when they smell blood! The soldiers’ guns talked fast but few wore hurt, Their big gun was like a toothless old dog, who only makes him- self hotter the more nolse he makes. How much harm we did I do not know,"but we made things lively for a time: and the white men acted as peo. ple do when a swarm of bees get into camp. We Made a successful retreat, but some of the reservation Indians followed us yelling, until Hohay told them that he did not wish to fight with the captives of the white man, for thers would be no honor in that. There was blood running down my leg, and 1 found that both my horse and I were slightly wounded. After that daredevil feat, Brave Bear drops out of sight, at least so far as history records any of his deings The next written record of him is in the book, “My Friend, the Indian” published by Houghton Mifflin com- pany, and written by the late Mal. James McLaughlin, who as Indian agent on the Devils ake and Stand ing Rock reservations in North Dako- ta had occasion in both places to know Brave Bear, In 15873 Brave Bear and a companion named The Only One en- tered the stable of a Settler named DeLorme near Pembina, N, D., for the purpose of stealing horses. When two of the owners approached the stable, the two Indians shot and killed both and mortally wounded a third man, Then they entered the DeLorme house, shot and seriously woundéd two wom. én there and after rifling the place and taking several horses escaped into the Missouri river country, passing throug the Devils Lake reservation ns they did so but keeping away from the agency. As soon as Major Mec Laughlin, who was then Indian agent at Devils Lake, heard of the crime, he reported it to the civil authorities of Dakota territory, but they were un- able to capture the murderers, Five years later (In the winter of 1878) Mujor McLaughlin learned that Brave Bear and The Only Ong had returned to Devils Lake and were liv. ing among their people, the Cut Heads, in the western part of the res- ervation. Accordingly he arranged to capture them in the early spring be. fore their ponies were In condition to start out on their usual raids against white settlements. He called a coun- cil of their band, feeling sure that they would net dare absent themselves from the council, and asked Capt. James M. Bell, who was stationed with two troops of the Seventh cav- airy at Fort Totten to be on hand for the council and make the arrest. His plan worked well, for as soon as the two Indians had entered the council room Lieut. Herbert J. Slo cum with a file of soldiers surrounded them. As they passed out of the bulid- ing under guard, The Only One made a desperate attempt to escape. He was shot by the soldiers as he bound ed across the prairie, but when they approached be sprang up with a knife in his hand and died fighting. Brave Bear was 'taken to Pembina for trial but escaped from the jail there and made his way to the Pine Ridge reser- vation, Fearing arrest If he stayed there, be stole a horse and started north. Near Fort Sully he waylsid a settler named Johnson, killed him and taking the man’s rifle, escaped into Canada, where be Joined Sitting Bull's band of fugitives, In the summer of 1881 Sitting Ball returned to the United States and surrendered and Brave Bear had no choice "but to return with him and fake his chances of escaping punish- ment for his crime. Sitting Bull's band was settled on the Standing Rock reservation. That fall Major McLaughlin took charge at Standing Rock, and Brave Bear, knowing that the major would be sure to have him arrested again, laid his plans to es- cape, ‘ut he delayed too long. A white man who had agreed to help him escape betrayed him and Brave Bear was made a captive for the last time. He was sent to Yankton, then the capital of Dakota territory, placed on trial for the murder of Johnson, to be hanged. While he was in the jail at. Yankton awaiting execution he was the object of consiflerable interest for white vis- itors who had heard much of the In- dian desperado. One of them, =a rancher named Payne, took his small gon, Whit Payne, with him to see Brave Bear and when the boy asked the Indian to write his name In his autograph book, Brave Bear not only did that but also drew the picture which is reproduced above, The end of the story of Brave Bear is toid in Major McLaughlin's book as follows : When Brave Bear was hanged for his crime, his father, an old Indian of the Cut Head band of Sioux, came and sought me at the agency. “Is my son dead? asked the father. “He is dead,” 1 answered. “Are you sure be is dead? persisted the old man. “1 have a telegram saying that he was hanged yesterday,” said 1 “It is well,” rejoined the old man. “We are glad, his mother and myself, for he was a bad son’ And this frightful declaration was as near eulogium as was ever pronounced on Brave Bear. How Rain-in-the-Face ~~ Was Named I about ten years old when we encourXered a band ' of Cheyennes. They were on friendly terms with us, but we boys always indulged In sham fights on such occasions, and this time I got In an honest fight with a Chey. enne boy older than I 1 got the best of the boy, but he hit me hard in the face several times, and my face. was all spattered with blood afid streaked where the paint had been washed away. The Bloux boys whooped and yelled : “His enemy Is down, and his face Is spattered as If with rain! Rain-in- the-Face! His name shall be Rainn." the Face!” Afterwards, when [ was a young man, we went.on a warpath against the Gros Ventres. We stole some of thelr horses, but were overtaken and had to abandon the horses and fight for our lives. 1 had washed my face to represent the sun when partly covered with darkness, so I painted it half black, half red. We fought all day in the rain, and my face was partly washed and streaked with red and black ; sosagain I was christened Rain- in: the-Face, We considered it an hon- orable name.-—Statement of Rain-in- the-Face to Dr, Charles A, Eastman In an interview, as reported In Eastman's Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains.” (Little, Brown & Company.) To good-natured people, to be told that they are good-natured is fre. quently reward enough, replled Justice Horrldge, “and 1 should have thought you would have given your own meaning to it. There Is no legal meaning to 1t."—From the Continental Edition of the London Dally Mail. 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