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.
Primus Well I was divorced from
her once, and she has scruples about
marrying a man whose first wife is
still living. -Life.
The Oown or 4 barlea II.
The oldest Kngllsh crown is the
ancient imperial diadem made for
Charles IL to replace the one worn by
Fdward, the confessor, which was
broken up and sold during the civil
war.
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