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About The Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898 | View Entire Issue (May 14, 1896)
0 JOOOOOOOC 300COOOCOCOOOOOOOO BURGLARIES AT BOURQEOISVILLE Detective Sergeant Collie bad arrived sooner he might have been able to discover a workable clew he thought but when he -was called in the burglary was three days old It was only after the local police had done their best and failed that they applied to Scotland Yard for help and that the clever detective sergeant was sent to Bourgeoisville By that time the local police under the able direction of Inspector Boodle had succeeded pretty well in obliter ating everything which might have served as a clew to the sergeant Enough however still remained to show him that the burglary was not the work of amateurs but of profes sionals The way in which Mr St John Smiths powerful plate safe- had been forced was really a charming piece of workmanship and excited the detectives warmest admiration and the rapidity and noiselessness -with which the massive silver plate- had been removed and the reception rooms stripped of their valuables including paintings bronzes and other not easily portable articles proved the person concerned to possess the highest and rarest skill known to the trade Although Sergeant Collie thought he might have been able to do something had he been called in immediately yet he fully recognized that it was no great discredit to the local police that they had failed to trace the guilty per sons It was clear that from the first there was little to indicate who these were Not a single suspicious looking man or woman had been seen in the neighborhood for weeks and yet it looked as if those who committed the burglary had thorough knowledge not merely of the country about but also of the house and the habits of its in mates Not a single suspicious looking vehicle had been seen on any of the roads about the pillaged house or in deed about Bourgeoisville or the vil lage as it was called which was near ly a mile distant on the night of the burglary and yet the number and weight of the articles -were such as to render It highly improbable they were carried off without the help of a vehi cle of some sort The policeman whose beat lay along the London road off which the pillaged mansion was situ ated had seen the ordinary number of vehicles during that nigOit hut they all obviously belonged to carriage people in the neighborhood There was not a van dog cart or other likely conveyance among them Sergeant Collie spent a whole fort night searching for anything that might promise a clew to the solution of the mystery- He examined and cross examined Mr St John Smiths numerous servants He searched the grounds -of Longleat the plundered mansion and of the neighboring houses most minutely in the hope of finding some traces of the missing property He questioned everybody who lived in the neighborhood and who within the past month had visited the house But he discovered nothing At the end of the fortnight Sergeant Collie reported to headquarters that he had done all he could and had com pletely failed to trace the criminals As he was convinced that further In vestigation on the spot at least for the present was useless he was re called to town Before leaving Bour geoisville he impressed on Inspector Boodle the necessity of reporting the affair at once if another crime of the same kind occurred in or about the village Sergeant Collie had not returned to town above two or three weeks before a telegram was received at Scotland Yard from the respected Inspector Boodle It ran as follows Burglary last night at Chatsworth seat of Mr St James Jones Similar in all re spects to that at Longleat seat of Mr St John Smith Immense robbery Send help Within half an hour of the receipt of this telegram Sergeant Collie was in the train bound for Bourgeoisville A rapid investigation showed the de tective that Inspector Boodles descrip tion of the burglary was absolutely correct The second burglary corre sponded with the first in every detail It was executed with the same skill and daring the thieves had forced with the same dexterity an equally strong plate safe and had removed with the same rapidity and noiseless ness an equally large amount of plate and valuables and finally they had left as few traces by which they might be followed up and identified Sergeant Collie after three hours most careful and intelligent inspection of the house its grounds and-everything in the neighborhood which by any possibility could throw light on the mystery felt compelled to ac knowledge that he was as much at sea as to how or by whom the burglary had been perpetrated as the local po lice -had been in the last case Indeed the only point that even look ed like a clow had been discovered by the local police Toward evening When the detective was wearied and disappointed by his labors Inspector Boodle came to him with a very mys terious air and told him that he had found an important clew This turned Trat to be a story told by the groom of the doctor at the village who had been attending one of Mr St James Jones family This fellow said that on com ing to Chatsworth the previous day 30000000QOOCK3OOCOOOOCOOOOOOOOOOO with a bottle of medicine he had no ticed a shabbily dressed man hanging about the laurels at the side of the lawn This person when he saw he was observed hurriedly made off Ser geant Collie had the footman before him for examination It was then made clear that the intruder on the lawn was merely a common tramp The detective on making sure of this dismissed tne footman and his story with contempt He was certain of lit tle as regards the burglary save this that it was the work not of tramps but of men carefully trained in that line of business who had planned out every deail in it before taking the job in hand One or two points in the burglary had carefully struck the detective In the first place the plate safe in Chats worth was built into the kitchen wall yet the burglars had gone straight to It in -this unusual place Again a min ute examination of the footprints out side the house and it had convinced the officer that two or at the most three persons had been engaged in the job Thirdly the plunder carried away and carried away with amaz ing rapidity must have weighed the best part of twenty stone And lastly there was not the slightest evidence to show that a horse and vehicle of any kind had been used to remove the plun der As before the usual number of private carriages had been seen pass ing along London road but nothing be yond that To the detectives mind all these pe culiar circumstances could point to only one conclusion namely that the burglars had been in the house before they went there to commit the bur glary and that they must live some where in the immediate neighbor hood of the scene of the burglary Ac cordingly he directed his inquiries as to the persons who had lately been vis iting the servants hall at Chatsworth These he found consisted pretty ex clusively of tradesmen and the maids sweethearts The former were all uTtra respec table men who had been living in the village for years back yet the detective thought it wise to in spect the premises of all of them They raised no objection and he made no discovery As to the sweethearts he found that all the maids had recog nized lovers who were allowed by Mrs St James Jones a pretty free run of the servants hall Among them was the policeman on whose beat Lon don road was He informed the detec tive who the other lovers were and assured him that no new admirers had been hanging round the place of late Hid have seen em if they ad he said and the missus would ave done so too Shes a very systematic lidy She hallows each of er mides one sweetart and no more When the gal as got one too she wont stand poach ing No him sure there werent no hother men about And the men who were about the detective soon ascer tained were all as respectable and aJbove suspicion as the constable him self Sergeant Collie occupied a full fort night in these inquiries At the end of that time he had to confess that he was not an inch nearer the solution of the mystery of the burglaries than ever He again reported to headquar ters that further investigation seemed useless and requested to be recalled He was awaiting an answer from Scotland Yard when early one morn ing he was aroused by Inspector Boo dle rushing excitedly into his bed room The officer brought news of an other burglary This time the victim was St George Robinson The man sion broken into was called Hatfield and lay on the opposite side of the vil lage to the other two plundered houses Exasperated at this repetition of the burglaries under his very nose Ser geant Collie set out hurriedly with In spector Boodle for Hatfield fiercely re solved to leayeno trace unturned in his efforts to trace the perpetrators As they hastened along the road the house was some half mile from the vil lagethe sergeant cross questioned his companion as to the character of the poor people who lived in the neigh borhood of Hatfield When he had got all the information he could he became silent Suddenly when they were not far from the house he came to a dead stop Hurrah he cried delightedly well nab them this time How Why What makes you thinkso asked the inspector amazed Dont you see this replied Ser geant Collie walking across the road and picking up a horseshoe Luck my boy good luck The inspectors amazement turned into annoyance Is that all he said I thought you were wiser than to pay attention to such old womens notions as that Youll see well nab them cried the sergeant exultantly as he pocket ed the horseshoe I never felt more certain of anything The inspector made no reply he was too disgusted at his colleagues folly They were now close to Hatfield On going Into the house they found every thing and everybody there in the wild est confusion The family were away from home and the housekeeper ter rified at the burglary and still more terrified lest she might in some way be held responsible for it was in so excited a condition thai the policemen found It useless to question her From her daughter however who was the only other person staying In the house he learned that the burglars on this occasion had been disturbed in their work and that they bad hastily to leave the house before they could force the plate safe Dawn was just beginning to break when the alarm took place The housekeeper and her daughter had sprung out of bed and run to the window tb call for help The burglars by this time were run ning helter skelter down the side of the lawn to some trees which separ ated Hatfield which was on the by road from a field occupied as a dairy farm and opening into the main road The women had only a glance at them and could give no very definite de scription of them All they could say was that there were two men one looking something like a stableman the other more like a clerk in dress A remark of the younger woman how ever struck the detective sergeant as of more importance than her descrip tion of the burglar She said that the man who was dressed like a stableman seemed like somebody she could not remember The alarm had arisen through the barking of a little fox terrier which was sleeping In a basket in the hall of the house Usually two dogs were kept there the fox terrier and a big mas tiff but when the family went to the seaside for the benefit of their only childs health the little girl asked to have her dogs with her and the doc tor who was attending her advised that her wish should be granted as she was much attached to the animals and might fret if parted from them The mother assented but at the last moment the father insisted that one should be left behind for the protection of the house To this fortunate cir cumstance it was due that the bur glary was discovered before the house breakers could secure their plunder Collie and Inspector Boodle spent several hours in a most exhaustive ex amination At the end of it one or two things seemed clear enough As be fore it was clear the burglars were adepts in their business as before it was clear too that they knew well the interior of the house and as be fore there was not a trace or a mark to show who they were or where they came from When they gave over the investiga tion for the day they walked back to the village both deeply depressed and one reflecting deeply The latter was Sergeant Collie After he reached his lodgings he sat quietly for some time reflecting still Then he rose put on his overcoat and walked down to the village farriers The blacksmith was still at the forge though it was now evening Sergeant Collie who knew him slightly bade him good day Had a busy day the sergeant then asked the blacksmith Pretty well pretty well answer ed Vulcan This weather you see makes the roads plaguey heavy and theres a lot of shoes dropped I thought so answered Collie I myself found one He took the shoo out of his pocket Ay ay said the blacksmith look ing at the shoe fore off I should say I had three of them to day Any of them about the size of that All of em I should say answered the blacksmith Whose were they Let me see Yes Farmer Oakes mare the carriers pony and and I should say the third was Dr Pells gelding yes it was What sort of a man is the carrier asked Collie Old Pardell One of the best old souls living said the blacksmith Hes lived in the village since it was started I think remembers when there wasnt a big house within three miles except the old manor house which was pulled down by St John Smith three years ago Hes getting past work Im afeard The detective sat in silence for a minute or two Then he said I dont feel at all well to night I thought you was looking a bit glum said the blacksmith Ill go home I think and get to bed The detective went home and went to bed Before he was long there he directed his landlady to send for Dr Fell and ask him to come as quickly as possible as the case was urgent In spite of this intimation Dr Pell was not particularly quick in coming and by the time he arrived the detective seemed very ill indeed He made the doctor feel his pulse examine his tongue and try the state of his lungs and -heart Then the doctor left saying it was merely a gastric attack and promising to send him some medicine When the doctor was gone Collie sat up in his bed and reflected I have seen him before he said to himself Was it a witness in a stab bing case or what Let me see now Hes altered of course but I feel sure I know him He paused and thought again Then he suddenly jumped out of bed Ill swear it Its Jack Howes the forger or Im an ass Half an hour later the doctor his coachman and footman were in cus tody on charges of breaking into and stealing from the houses of Messrs St John Smith St James Jones and St George Robinson and half the plun der of those burglaries had been found by the police safely stowed away in the doctors house and stables At the assizes Dr Fell and his associ ates were tried and convicted of the three burglaries The story of Fell was then made public His real name was John Howse He had been a med ical student in a London hospital from which he had been expelled for dishonesty One of his chums had succeeded however in getting a di ploma This man who was as disrepu table as Howse himself was called Fell Shortly after his expulsion Howse was convicted of forgery anfl sent to penal servitude Whilo he was serving his sentence Fell died or at any rate disappeared On his dis charge Howse became aware of thie fact and calmly appropriated his missing friends diploma and name started practice at Bourgeoisville as a doctor His former training as a medical student eanbled him to carry out the Imposture with complete suc cess Unfortunately his old criminal associates found him out and willing ly or unwillingly on his part made ihim their chief in carrying out a regu lar scheme of burglaries Hie profes sional position diverted suspicion from ihim and them while his brougham was used to remove the plunder and his residence to store it till it could be safely disposed of You see now said Collie to In spector Boodle the horseshoe proved ducky after all London Truth WOMEN OF ABYSSINIA They Are Said to Be Very Beautiful but They Are of Many Colors The Abyssinian women are said to be very beautiful They are of different colors some jet black others copper colored and others fair They are noted for their very pretty soft hands which are so small that in general they will pass through the bracelets which fit their wrists They use mutton fat in the dressing of their hair and sleep upon pillows upon which they rest only the neck much like the Japanese The women do all the work connected with the household and the men scorn to do anything of a domestic nature The women do not fight in battle though they go to the field and take care of the wounded They are often given charge of the captives and dur ing Gen Dyes trip one of the doctors escaped through a woman who fell in love with him Abyssinia is said to be the land of free love Marriage seldom lasts any length of time Couples marry and separate at pleasure Upon i separation they divide the children The eldest son goes to the mother and the eldest daughter to the father If there is but one daughter and all the rest are sons the father gets the girl but if there is one son and all the rest daughters the boy goes to the mother The Holstein Jersey Cross This cross is often tried and with va ried success says the Practical Dairy man Occasionally a good animal is obtained but as a rule the results are disappointing In the first place the types of the breeds are too wide apart The Jersey gives a small amount of rich milk containing large fat globules wMle the Holstein gives a large flow of thin milk in whioh the fat globules are small In the cross bred animal the fat globules are found -to be of various sizes some small and some large and for this reason the cream does not sep arate readily from the milk by any gravity process nor does it churn uni formly In writing upon this cross in an exchange Solomon Hoxie a noted Holstein judge and writer says that the cross of medium weight Holstein bulls on Jersey cows is a success but that Jersey bulls on Holstein cows do not produce nearly so good results The Fate of New Varieties As an illustration of the very great uncertainty that attends the production of new varieties it is noted that out of over four hundred seeding strawber ries fruited at the Geneva N Y ex periment station in 1893 onlly sixty one were retained for further trial In 1894 one of these varieties showed so high a degree of merit as to induce still further trial In 1895 it fully main tained its previous record for quality and productiveness and the station au thorities decided to name it and send it out for planting in different parts of the State The late T B Miner orig inated fifteen hundred varieties of the grape From this great number he se lected twelve that he thought were val uable His death interfered with their introduction but even if he had lived it is probable that not more than three or four of Oiis favorite kinds would ever have attained a wide popularity They Fear Nothing The followers of Menelek king of Shoa while not so large as the fierce Zulus of the south are about the tough est warriors in the world They do not know physical fear I have seen a man jab a burnt stick several inches in his flesh without wincing declares a writer in the New York Press This apparent insensibility to pain is accompanied with a religious frenzy in battle that renders the soldiers unconscious of bodily harm They have no fear of death and their happiness is to kill Sheep Diseases Looseness of the bowels may be checked safely by giving five drops each of laudanum and tincture of rhu barb to the ewes three times a day A sheep having a dry husky cough will be improved by giving two tea spoonfuls of turpentine every morning for a week an hour before feeding Sulphur is a rank poison to a sheep in the cold weather It opens the pores of the skin and makes the sheep ex ceedingly susceptible to the cold Ruined by Relic Hunters The furnishings of the historic palace of Henry VIII at Hampton Court are being taken away in bits by visitors from America and the continent Some beautiful tapestry chairs have been de stroyed and even valuable tapestries have been ruined by the insatiate relic hunters through lack of an adequate force of attendants Wiheneer two evils may befall The leas all wise men choose Tis wrong to go to war at all But worse to go and lose Washington Star The funniest things around every house are the things called Stlrna ments HELrTULEAEH HINTS SUGGESTIONS FOR THE AGRI CULTURIST AND STOCKMAN Productiveness of the Elberta Peach How to Make a Cheap and Practical Causeway Good Device for Smooth ing Ground Farm Notes The Elberta Peach Among the whole list of peaches both old and new there Is no variety that has attained a higher place in pub lic estimation than the Elberta It 1b liked equally well by the grower and consumer About twenty five years ago Dr Samuel H Rumph of Georgia raised about 12000 seedling peach trees from the seeds saved from the very ELBERTA PEACH TREE choicest named varieties and in the whole lot there was but one that he deemed worthy enough to be preserved This was the product of a cross be tween the Chinese Cling and Craw ford Early He bestowed upon it the name Elberta in honor of his wife ana it has in turn been an honor to its name sake Knowing something and hoping more of its good qualities he planted extensive orchards of it from which he shipped large quantities of choice fruit and realized profitable returns It was not long before other peach growers learned of the good qualities of the Elberta and began to plant it first in the Southern States where it had al ready proved its value beyond ques tion and then in the northern peach growing sections It has proved to be one of the standards In all regions from Georgia to Michigan and from Connect1 cut to California American Agriculturist Fattening Animals Quickly The old saying that time is money Is doubly true with regard to fattening animals There is no profit in slow fat tening of anything The largest amount of nutritious food that can be digested and assimilated is always the most brofitable for the fattening animal The food required for maintenance of the animal to merely keep It in store con flition is just so much wasted If no more than this goes with It This does not mean that fattening animals are to be given food without limit That will Injure digestion and then no matter how liberal the feeding the animal will not thrive Old animals are generally fattened slowly For this reason their flesh is tough But if they are fattened nuickly as they may be by combining some with succulent food thair flesh will have the tenderness and feweetness that are commonly associ ated with the tlesh of young animals Device for Smoothing Ground Many people sow their grain and cover it with the harrow simply A Sood brx sh and a rough roller ought to follow the harrowing but much better than the simple harrowing which leaves the land in ridges to dry out Rapidly is an arrangement like that llustrated in the engraving A heavy IMPROVED SMOOTHING HARROW wide plank is attached to t e rear of pie harrow the ridges are thus level i md any lumps that may have been left are pulverized But best of all the joil is pressed down over the seed caus ing it to sprout more rapidly and giv ing it a better chance to get hold of the ground with its roots Warming Ground hy Plowing It It used to be the practice of a farmer of our acquaintance to replow the part of the garden yet unplanted whenever a new piece was to be put to use The whole garden was plowed as early as possible and the parts devoted to peas lettuce onions and other hardy plants were planted at once When corn beans and the tenderer plants were to be put in the ground was replowed mixing the manure thoroughly with the soil and also imprisoning a new supply of warm air from the surface In this way the soil was made much warmer for the late planted crops than it could be by cultivation without plowing American Cultivator Early Lambs Not Profitable Unless making a specialty of early Iambs for the market there is no object in having them come before April By that time the weather is warmer the grass has started and the conditions of growth are more favorable in every way and as with all young stock It is quite an item to procure a strong vig orous growth from the start Potash Salts on Manure Heaps The German potash salts are excel lent applications for the manure heap They help to keep it moist and they absorb whatever ammonia the manure gives off while it is fermenting They are much different in this respect from caustic potash in the form of ashes which will liberate much ammonia b fore it Is Itselr changed to a nitrate The potash salts are so changed almosi immediately and when applied wit manure they furnish plant food that can at once be taken up by the roots oi plants and thus greatly increases its value Too Early Sowing of Boot Crops Most of the roots like beet carrot parsnip and turnip are true biennials growing their root the first year and sending up their seed stalk after the root has been partly dried out and is replanted the following spring But in our hot summers this drying out which usually requires a whole winter is ac complished In midsummer The result is that the very early planted seed of beet carrot and other root makes its root growth early in the season and by fall is ready to send out a seed stalk Tije of course -makes the root worth less The common radish is one of thes9 natural biennials that always tendtobecomeannual when early plant ed If seed Is put in the ground any time before midsummer it will produce seed pods before cold weather comes Rich Soil for Early Potatoes In planting early potatoes there Is never any danger of making the soil too rich It will rot late potatoes to manure very heavily especially with stable manure But the early crop is got out of the soil soon after it is fully grown and before the time for rot to begin Its work One caution is to be observed however in manuring even for early potatoes Coarse strawy manure or that which is apt to dry up quickly should never be plowed in for them It will keep the soil above the furrow too dry and this will often les sen the yield more than the fertilizing will increase it If the season is very wet the manure will heat and develop rot very early in the season sometimes even before the potato crop is got out of the ground A Practical Causeway The usual method of building a causeway is to lay down two rows of stone to stretch flat rocks across from one row to another and to cover x whole with earth The two rows oi stones soon work together while brush and other rubbish will work in and clog the drain A better plan is shown in the accompanying sketch taken from the Orange Judd Farmer A few six inch drain tiles are laid down and both ends are covered with wire netting The whole is then cov ered with earth to make the roadway Such a drain cannot clog nor can the SECURE CAUSEWAY sides settle together while the labor of making it is not one half that re quired where stones are used Topdresaing Grass Iands Almost anything spread thinly over grass lands will help them Even ma terial not very rich and which Itself will not grow a good crop will make the grass grow better because it acts as a mulch for the grass roots beneath The washings of poor uplands will fer tilize the richer soil of the valleys be low But except where topdressing can be thus done naturally by irrigation it will not pay to topdress with poor material The labor will be too great and it will trample and cut up the grass too much unless the fertilizing material is put on during the winter Remedies for Neuralgia The following are homely remedies for neuralgia Boil a handful of lobelia in half a pint of water strain and add a teaspoonful of fine salt Wring cloths out of the liquid very hot and apply till the pain ceases changing as fast as cold Two large tablespoon fuls of eau de Cologne and two tea spoonfuls of fine salt mixed in a bottle make an excellent mixture to be in haled for facial neuralgia Horse rad ish prepared the same as for table applied to the temple or wrist Is also recommended Notes Grow a small plot in horseradish Simply place the roots on top of the ground and turn a furrow on them They will grow and thrive without fur ther labor A writer in an English paper asserts that only one steer out of every 200 shipped from the United States is lost while from the River Platte from one to twenty five and from Australia from one to over seven It fs much easier to feed whole grain than to grind it but it is better to put the labor to it than to lose In the feed Ground grain can be more intimately mixed with coarse food and in that respect It not only serves to balance the ration but the combination of foods cheapens the whole and more perfect digestion results If your wheat does not appear prom ising apply from fifty to 100 pounds of nitrate of soda per acre upon it The effect will be quickly noticeable and the wheat will appear to take on a new growth at once The nitrate is somewhat expensive but the results at harvest time will show that the In creased yield will nearly pay for the fertilizer Sow a patch of oats to be cut as green food The oats should be cut just as the seeds are In the milky stage which arrests the nutritious matter in the stalks and renders them palatable They are cured the same as is done with hay Farmers who use oats in this manner run them through a fodder cutter stalks and heads and sprinkle a little cornmeal over them They are highly relished by cattle and horses The shuttle of time weaves the gar ments of Eternity u K t - 4 V J y f a