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THE AMERICAN. STORIES OF HOLD-UPS, t Tb TlrtUn Kviuuau Art M Thrf I'ro looj FatH-Uxl Tkrjr Woald. A group of men were lolliojj in the loungers' corner of a San rrmicisco hotel say the Examiner, hath wiw reading a morning piper. Kch had hjs papr opn at the pajje describing robbery that startled the country. 1 can not help having an admiration for such bold thieves" said a very respectable looking memlr of the fathering. -Not" he added --not that I approve stealing in any form, bsrt if one ia bound to loot a strong box it ia more manly to do it at the jKiot of a pistol than to sneak inio the victim's confidence and then be tray it" Una by one the readers threw their papers aside, and without difficulty dispDsod of bandits and plunder in the romarlcably short order that al ways prevails on such occasions Then they gtow reminiscent. The pluckiest robber I ever heard of," said a Itenverite. was the one who made Dan Mo flat give up '2L 000 about three years ago. The story became familiar enough, but the se quel has been generally squelched. A young fellow walked into Motlat's pri vate office at the First National bank, covering Mo Hal with a pistol displaying a bottle of harness oil that he said was nitro glycerine, made Moffat fill out a check and then get it cashed and hand him the money. lie specified just what he wanted, de manding fl 000 in gold, a ten-thousand dollar bill and. smaller bills. When Moffat went to the paying teller the visitor was just behind him with the revolver close to his ribs, but hidden by an overcoat. Having secured the money, the robber backed out the door and disappeared. Did they ever catch him? Well ??w. that is hard to state. There is some mystery about it. Some people did not think that MotTat wanted him caught But a big row was made about it and rewards offered. In per haps a year, after numerous arrests and release it was announced that a prisoner in jail in Clay county. Mo., charged with horse stoaling. had con fessed to being Moffat's robber. The bank teller went there and identified him. The Denver chief of police told me. however, that the prisoner was a pretender, and that ho did not believe he had ever been in the state of Col orado. Then the chap went, crazy. You can't try a lunatic for robbery, and the public does not keep track of the crazy prisoners of Clay county. Mo. bo the matter rests." The Denver man had the floor. You remember don't you, the way Senator Tabor's gold bricks from the Vulture mine in Arizona were stolen? He got the property along in the eighties The output in the form of a brick left the mine every two weeks. One of these bricks was worth about $8,000. The foreman thouyit he ould carry the treasure himself, but a lone highwayman fooled hini, got away with the game, too. He was afterward caught in the City of Mexico and the brick recovered. The foreman took some assistants with him next time, and on the trip ran into nn ambush. One assistant was killed and the other wounded. One of the robbers was hurt, and caught later nursing his wound in a hut The other robber was picked up in alonely canon, dead, a bullet through his head, a revolver in his hand, and the brick on bis breast Must have been a grimly sarcastic cuss. 1 notice you are having a good many stage robberies out here. Used to have them in Colorado. Abolished the robberies first and then the stage. But speaking of robberies re minds me of one highwayman who could give your Black Bart points. He had held up stage after stage in Southern Colorado; taken everything in sight lie always gave orders as though he had a whole posse in his gang. When he was captured it was found that he was a cripple, weighing . about 100 pounds and never had any confederates except dummies armed with broomsticks. He's in the govern ment pen at Detroit now." MICE BY THE MILLION. Tkf ? Knrnlnhed a Kt for Dogs, CaU, Owli and Other Anlmalit, During a fine moist summer, when grass and flowers were abundant mice increased to an abundant extent In La Plata so that everywhere in the fields it was difficult to avoid treading on them, while dozens of them could be shaken out of any hol low thistle stalk lying on the ground. The most incongruous animals warmed to the feast which they pro vided. Dogs lived almost entirely on them, as did the domestic fowls, assuming the habits of rapacious birds. The oats all left the houses to live in the fields. Tyrant birds and eackoos seemed to prey on nothing else. Foxes, weazels and opossums fared sumptuously, and even the common armldillo turned mouser with great success. Storks and short-eared owls gathered to the feast so that fifty of the latter birds could often be seen at once, and they got fat and bred in the middle of winter, quite out of their proper season, in consequence. The following winter was a time of drought the grass and herbage had all been consumed or was burnt up, and the mice, having no shelter, soon fell a prey to their numerous enemiea and were almost wholly ex terminated. The Naturalist I Hi Not Put OAT Ihr Shearing. If wool is left on a suckling ewe un til after the usual shearing time and her lamb is meantime weaned, the wool will start a second growth and will show a joint or break in the fiber that will injure it seriously. Onion Juice nuellage. A very convenient mucilage can be made of onion juice. On being boiled a short time it will yield, on being pressed, quite a Urge quantity I S4tl9liTS fluid, SHE IS A TOMBOY. ab II4 Sot Mta4 Ktopplaf a Km way and harln( T w IIih. Fanny Krause is a bright little 12-year-old girt She has been cared for by the San Francisco boy' and girls' aid society since her ff(tur mother died about a year ago. The society has found lots of homos for Fanny, but she will not stay in them She always run aay and makes di rect for the boy ' and girls' home that is. she will do this eventually if the good people to whom she is sent do not return her tlien.-el ves. They all like Fanny, they say. but she is too wild and harum ,'arum. and they are afraid of what ianny may do nevt Not that the child is vicious or in clined to wrong-doing, they all cay Fanny is very good and innocent but then she is ueh a tomboy. She can jump off as high woodsheds and ovor as many high tonces as any of the boy ana she does it when she gets a chance. She can catch on the tall of a wa;'on and climb in with the agility of an aerohat no matter how fast the horse is running, and as for cable cars, she can hop on and o:T with such rapidity tnat the conductors gave up trying to stop her from catching on. It makes them tired. Fanny never know her parents. She hud an indulgent foster-mother, though. Fanny always got nlong with her all right They lived in a cozy home for a long while, but one day Mrs. Frederika Krause fell on the sidewalk and never rose again. She died in the hospital the next day. That was a sorry day for Fanny. She has had no mothor like her since. One day Fannv told Superintendent Heap she wanted to go and see some body. He thought the girl knew enough to take care of herso A and ho lot her go. '1 here was a parade down town that day. Fanny doesn't like t' miss anything like that so she was looking around for the band, when about the corner of Fiirhth and Mar ket street whon a horso and bu''gy passed by. A man carrying some thing crossed in front of the horso. The animal got frightened snuffed its nostrils, put its ears back and started to run. A woman and a little baby wore in me ouggy. i ne woman Ueeurne ox cited, thereby losing all control of the horse. Things looked very serious. It seemed ns if a shocking accident were unavoidable. But l anny, the tomboy, was there Climbing into a runaway buygy was no work- for her. Mie swung herself Into the buggy-box at the back, clam -bered around the side by the wheels, grabbed the lines and brought the horse up with a turn. The woman kissed l anny. and wanted to give nor a dollar. Fanny wouldn't take the money. She jumped out of tho buggy and ran home. She doesn't know that she did anything smart either. HERO WORSHIP. Men Are Seldnm Ili-roe In Their Fellow l:.ve I'litll They Are Demi. Men have a poor eye for the truest heroes round about them in tneir own day; their hero worship is concerned chiefly with the past " says Kdwin 1). Mead in his Kdilor s Table in .vew England Magazine. F.mer son said of Webster, at tho time of the Fugitive Slave law. when Harrison and Phillips and Parker and Whiltier were waging their great fight: 'He knows the heroes of 1776 but cannot see those of 1861 when he meets them in the street' However severe this view of Webster may be, the word is true of a thousand men. It is as common to-day as it was in Christ's time and before Christ's time, for men who busy them selves in painting the tombs of the prophets to be just as busy in stoning the prophets sent unto their own gen eration. Carlyle himself, the great est of all our horo-worshippers, whose name rushes to our lips at the very mention of heroes and heroism, had but a poor eye and ear for the heroic figures and voices of his own epoch. He never caught Mazzini's vision, he hardly understood what Mazzini was about in the world, even whon ho had him for his neighbor and went in and out with him day by day. There had been no considerable exhibition of heroism in England, according to his vision, for two centuries no real body of heroes since the Puritans. It may well be doubted whether, had he been the contemporary of Cromwell or of Luther, whom he celebrated so well he would not have been found their enemy and counted them mal contents, busy-bodies and disorderly fellows." A Wild Turkey's Fate. Some of my friends, in hunting last fall found an immense turkey gobbler that had met his death in a strange and tragic manner. He was found with his head fast in a live-oak bush, his feet being about a foot from the ground. When found he seemed to have been dead not more than a day or two. My friends supposed that he had jumped up to get an acorn, and in doing so had got caught It was a violent death, as was evident by the way in which the surrounding brush, also his wings were torn up. Forest and Stream. IQnalral Item. Mr. Jones being on a visit to a friend in a Texas town, and having a good voice, was urged to sing in the local choir. He at last yielded. "I hear you have at last consented to sing In our choir," said a lady In meeting Mm. " "Ves, I have at last yielded. I be lieve that when you are in Rome you should howl with the wolves. Texas Sittings. A Recorder r Weight. A Massachusetts man has Invented a recording device for scales. Upon a roller is placed a piece of paper, upon which a marker records the weighings of the eoalei m desired. JUST PFCCfD ON. Aa Old Maa Who toaa4 II Hard Work t I He la Hana. There died down in tha Neswho valley not long ago a nun known foi miles and mile around as Old Joe Kitnptoa says the Kansas City Jour nuL Old J ik) came to Kansaa i lK.ili. 11a brought weak lung wiiu him from the uger" swamps of In diana, ut be plugged along and whs ailing off and on for a numlxr of years when he was took down with lung fever. It went iulo uuU'k con-umplion t nd one of h lung i gone oefore he knew it The doctors cave Mm up and didn't think he could live through tho winter, llu he ;ut plugged along and allowed he'd pull thmugh somehow. Tho children were little tots then. and Joe bought a bunrh of calv that spring and said ho guussed he'd have them anyhow for the clii dren to eo to school on. The doctor told him he couldn't poaib!y get through the next winter, and he made his will. He hung around in the house and coughed most of the limn, and the children helped him about the chores in cold weather. Ho had his spells, and e eiybody thought he would die. but Joe he just plugged along and allowed he'd pull through somehow. The next year and the next and the next he bought calves and steers and pulled through somehow. Summer afternoons he used to sit in front of the long, low farm house, built of ad d it ion on addition. thinking an 1 coughing, absent-mindoiily. Ha was a Democrat and his chief dissipation was his attendance on the county conventions every year and the state conventions when they camo. Ho got to be known as a large cattle buyer. and strangers who saw him would look and wonder which undertaker would get him. But old Joe used to take grim delight n counting up the doctors who had given him up and who had since died or natural causes themselves. F.very winter he would have his spoils and evory winter ho would tell the doctors between his coughs thas he would just plug along and pull through somehow. He had attended the funerals of ten doctors whose bills he bad paid for pronouncing him beyond hope and for tiptoeing into the room to tell him thev feared tho worst. I o had a bad spell tho last winter. They said it was the grip combined with tho old cough, but old Joe Kimpton didn't say any thing, though he took their medicine with the old, reproachful look, ns if to say the old words. Old .loo was 62 years old when he died, lie was 62. and most of the time enduring constant physical suffering. Yet he seldom complainod. All over Lvra county and Morris county, where the old man was known and lived, he is missed. His peculiar case may pass into tradition, and child stories may grow from it about the kind grim old man who couldn t die. BY HAIR'S PHOTOGRAPH. On Man Liberated and Another Convicted ot Murder. In Chambers' Journal 1. C. Hep- worth writes an interesting paper upon the detection of crime by the aid of photography, as exemplified in the experiences of Dr. Paul Jeserich of Berlin. The first case mentioned is one in which the liberty of the suspected man laterally "hung upon a hair. " for by a single hair was he tracked, case was one of assault and two The men wore suspe. ted of the deed. A single hair w.is lound on the clothing of the victim, and this was duly pictured in the form hair of a photo micrograph. a, one oi tne suspected mea bad a gray be u-d. and a bat- from his chin was photographed and tompaied with the first picture taken. The differ ence in stiucture, tint and general appearance was so marked that the man was at once libe, ated. The hair of the other man. B. was also examined, and bore little re semblance to that founi on the victim. Tne photograph o; the latter clearly showed for one thing that the hair was pointed. It had never been cut Gradually the conclusion was arrived at that it belonged to a dog. tin old, yellow, smooth-haired and compara tively short-ha red dog." Further inquiry revealed the fact that B owned such a dog, a fresh hair from which agreed in every detail with the original photograph, and the man was convicted. He subsequently confessed that he alone bad committed the crime. The Time Fixed. Miss Twilling." said Mr. Call oway, glancing down at his polished boots with a self-satisfied air. -don't you like to see a man looking as if he had stepped out of a band box. his clothes nicely brushed and everything about him indicating refinement?" Yes. Mr. Calloway. I do," re plied Miss Twilling, glancing at him significantly. "I like to see such a man as you have described about once a year." Clothier and Furnisher. Oh, It's not Dimmit! Yabsley Now, Mudge. you know I am your friend, or elso I should not speak so plainly to you of your faults. Mudge But if what you have been saying to me is true, I can not see bow you can be my friend and retain your self-respect Indianapolis Journal How She Spend Pocket money. A New York lady has a weakness for murderers. She spends all her pocket money on bouquets, which she carries to the cells of the con demned and presents them to the oc cupants. A Ilalr-llearted Kffbrl. Daughter Yes. I know Mr. Stay- late comes very often, but it isn't my lault 1 do everything I can to drive him away. Old Gentleman Fudge! I haven't heard you sing to him once. New York Weekly. MADE OF HIS WIFE'S HAIR. Tke fair at It II tea W kirn a iraaa Hea anaa ave a t aaaea aptala In the extensive rolled ion of curios itios that Captain Alvin HaiLof Par ing, Me. has own uruniu!ating dur ing his many voyage ia the past twenty five year Ih a pair of nilttans that at a casual glance has a very ordinary aptwamnce and. according to tho 1'orlland Transcript lok rather out of place among the Iwauti ful corals and aholls of tne rabinct Bui eloper inspection shows that Ihey are no eoiiimoiiplnee milieus but are itiado of human hair very neatly wown. i.en drawn upon the bands they fuel as if the cold est atmosphere could not penetiale them or the roughest iiiagn destroy them. They are undoubtedly exceed ingly warm and durable for they have seen hard service on tho hands of a second mate of Captain Hull's Vessel whom ho shipped In South America two years ago, The man was a Herman and said that the mit tens were made from his wife's bair. Ho gave them to Captain Hull ine ne nail imotner pair made troin a mixture of the hair of his mother and sisters. 1 ho hairs of this second pair were of several colors, the whito of his aged mother b ing prominent Ho said it was not an infrequent cus tom among tho German sailors to be thus supplied with mittens for a voy age, and certainly it is a sensible economy to thus utilize tho combings from the hoads of their families. wnicn would otherwiso bo thrown awny. Another curiosity ia Captain hall's collection is a tiny boat about three inches long, fashioned from a frag mont of the British man-of-war Samoset, that was sunk off Cape Cod over 100 years ago and that during an unusually violent storm about five years ago was washod ashore from out tho depths of tho sea and thus brought into the light of the sun after a century's entombment The wood is black oak nnd is in a perfect state of preservation. No description could do justice to the boiiuliiul coral specimens in this collection, in point of quality this collection of corals has been said by many to sur pass anything in tho country. CURE-ALLS. How Thry Were Advertised Nearly Two Hundred Yeitra Airo. 'Tho art of advertising is carrlod pretty far in theso days, but after all there is nothing now under the sun, and very likely if the hieroglyphics of tho t gyptian sculptures woi o prop orly understood they would bo found to be merely advertisements of patent nostrums, cosmetics and gimcraeks generally. At least as far buck as tho publication of newspapers has ex tended the a t has always been much the same. An instance is to bo found in the sdvcrlisemenl of a hundred and soventy-iive years ago in which were set forth the virtues of a quack medicine which curod all sorts of diseases -"by promoting tho cheer ful Curiele of the Blood and Juccs raising all the Fluids from their lan guid State to one moro liorid and sparkling. restoring a Juvenile Bloom, increasing tho animal Spirits, and e idently replenishing the crispy hbres of the whole Habit with a gen erous Warmth nnd balmy Moisture, and thereby invigorating to such a degree as not to be imagine 1. It is an admirable Remedy in all Weakness of the Body or Doeay of constitution of any kind, and evon seems to keep back the effects of old age itself." This is hardly to be outdone in these days of abundant advertising, when the profession of writing advertise ments is recognized as a legitimate business, on a plane somewhat lower, it is true theoretically, than the writing of epics, but equally legiti mate and far more profitable Decidedly liiarealhle. Not long ago, at a wedding dinner. one of the guests told this story: In a estcrn town a small number of zealous people decided to put up a Young Men's Christian Association building. A committee was appointed. and sent for a contractor to under take the work. When ho came the first thiner he did was to Inquire, in a very worldly and matter-of-fact wav. in the finan cial. resources of the organization. The president replied: Tever fear, sir; we are sure of funds: the Lord is on our side" That is all very well" replied the contractor: -but I want someone that I can send the sheriff after, if neces sary. " ane for Thankralnees. When Johnson, the lexicographer. was preparing his dictionary, his pub lisher could only, by the greatest im portunity and oft-repeated requests, get the copy" from him as it was needed by the printers. There came time however, when the great dil atory author sent in the last pages of his manuscript and when the messenger returned. Dr. Johnson said to him: " What did the man sav?" He said." was the reply, "thank the Lord God I am done with him." Well" said Dr. Johnson, ! am glad to know that ho thanks God for anything. Argonaut A Chlrazo Woman. Primus The woman I proposed to to-night declared that she loved me, but that she could never marry me as long as she lived. Secundus That's queer. What's the trouble. 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