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BROWNVLLLE, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 1880.
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How Carl Waldow Punished
a Kobber.
During the time pf theZtfeadoTY Lake
mining excitement of which many
Comstockers have sad recollections X
was sent as a representative of the
Daily Territorial Enterprise, to write
up the mines of the camp, then a most
flourishing place. A large town had
appeared as if by magic to the shores
of the beautiful lake which gave its
name to the town, and half the people
of the place thought themselves mil
lionaires. Shortly before my visit to the town,
Steve Yenard had performed the exj
ploit of hunting down and shooting,
single-handed, three stage robbers.
During my stay, Mr. Yenard -visited
Meadow Lake and was a good deal
lionized, though he was not "the man to
take kindly to that sort of thing.
Naturally, there was a good deal of
talk about the affair, which occurred in
the same countv Nevada countv, Cal
ifornia and manv stories of robbers
and robberies were told aboufc camp
fires and in the saloons of evenings.
One evening a party of us were seat
ed in the reading-room of Asa "Wauga
man's saloon, talking of the exploit of
Steve v enard and similar adventures
by others. Several stories had been told
by persons of the party, when a man
who had come into town a day or two
before from one of the Oregon valleys,
Carl "Waldow byname, said:
"I was once stopped by a highway
man and in this verv countv but I
got thoroughly even with him before I
was done with him. I had my revenge.
There is nothing very exciting in the
story, but the adventure had much to
do with shaping the course of mv after
life."
All present expressed a desire to hear
the adventure, and in order that there
j might be no interruption once it was
j commenced, a gallon measure of beer
i was ordered, and the glasses all filled
to the bran.
Carl Waldow was a German by birth,
but spoke with so little of the accent
peculiar to the people of that country,
that it was scarcely noticed. He was
a man over six feet in height, light
haired, blue-eyed and well and power
fully built. In appearance he was a
second Baron Trenck. Naturally a
good-natured man. there was at times
a glitter in his blue eyes, and an ex
pression about the lines of the mouth
that showed he was fearless and a man
not to be trifled with when aroused.
In his own country he had served as
a soldier, and traces of his early train
ing in the army were still to be seen in
his erect carriage and general bearing.
Having taken a sip of beer, "Waldow
at once began the relation of his adven
ture, warning his hearers that the story
was a long one.
CARL WALDOW'S ADVENTURE.
In 1S51 1 was mining near the head
of Fall Creek in this countv. I had a
claim that was paying me over an
ounce a day, and, for once in my life,
was quite content with my prospects.
In July of the year named I took a lot
of about eighty ounces of gold dust, and
went down to Washington, on the South
Yuba. Fall Creek is a tributary of the
South Yuba, into which river it empties
but a few miles above "Washington, at
which town I generally procured my
provisions and other supplies.
I arrived at "Washington late in the
j evening, and going to the hotel got my
! supper, and soon after went to bed.tell
j ing the landlord to wake me early, as I
! was going to Nevada Citv in the morn
ing. You see, shortly after my arrival,
I had concluded not to sell my dust in
Washington, but go on to Nevada, some
twenty miles further down, and sell to
the dealers in that place; beside, I de
sired to pay a short visit to some coun
tryman of mine i ho were mining on
Deer Creek, near the town.
The next morning I took an early
start. I had my dust strapped around
my waist in a buckskin belt, where it
wab out of sicht. Though it was rath
er heavy and inconvenient, I preferred
carrying it in that way to having it in
my pockets. I never once thought of
robbers, and in the way of weapons did
not even have a Kiutewith me. Hadl
thought of going to Nevada on leaving
home, I would, no doubt, have belted
on my revolver.
I had purposely made an early start,
and bv sunrise was up the steep mount-
j ain trail that leads from Washington,
ana was passing tnrougu the mining
town of Alpha just as the breakfast
bells were ringing at the
were ringing at the boardintr-1
j houses. Soon I was in the dense forests I
t t "'" ""-" " "". imuugu me cnmics in tne partition saw vour
which the wagon-road leads, and which belt of gold. I heard vou sav vou were
extends nearly all the way to Nevada, going to Nevada earlv in the niornin"
s ot a team was on the road, nor a it was also my road, "and the devil put
soul m sight. When alone in the forest it into mv head to get vour gold with
I am always overcome andawedbv the1 nnf hnrm"inrr rmi Ac ni icr.,. .i
andawedbv the
' solemn stillness, and in spite of myself
j fall to musing upon the wonders and
j mysteries of the world and the Creation
. in a way that quite carries me out of
J and beyond the things of everyday life.
oecome, lnaeea, m such situations.
Dy insensible degrees, quite
minded.
absent- J
As I passed along I merelv noticed
) the point where the road I was travel
, ing joined that coming in from Omega,
I a mining town that stands opposite Al
i pha, just across Scotchman's Creek. I
merely giancea aown alone this mnri
and saw that there was no living or
moving thing on it, when I again fell
into the deep, dreamy mood from which
I had only been partially aroused.
I was walking slowly along in the
deep shade of the great forest, with mv
eyes bent upon the ground, and
thoughts far away in some of the old
forests I had seen in Germany while
serving as a soldier, when there came a
sharp, quick cry:
"Halt!"
Instinctively I halted, hardly real
izing that I was not still a soldier, obev
ing the command of a superior officer.
But it was only for an incomputable
fraction of time, for on the instant a
masked man, armed with a double-barreled
shot-gun, stepped out from behind
a large sugar-pine, and. about ten feet
from where I had halted.
"Hold up your hands!" cried the
masked man, and the shot-gun was lev
eled at my head.
I held up my hands.
The fellow then seemed not to know
what to do next. He stood some sec
onds without speaking, and as if con
considering how to proceed.
"Jake off your belt"
"How can I take off mv beltif I am
to hold up my hands?" said L
The man seemed nonplussed, and
again-hesitatcd.
"You hsvs no pistol?" said he.
"That is my business."
Again he hesitated and surveyed me.
Seeing no pistol belt outside my cloth
ing, he seemed reassured, and said:
"You can put down your hands and
take off the belt you have about your
waist that dust "is what I want. Be
quick about it f and again the gun was
leveled.
I took my own time, nevertheless,
and as long a time as possible, closely
watching the robber, who several times
for an instant glanced nervously up
and down the road. I also observed
that his hands trembled. I could plain
ly see that he was really more fright
ened than I was. Having passed
through many battles and dangers of
all kinds, I did not feel at all alarmed
at my situation. In a moment I un
derstood the whole business. I knew
that the man onlv wanted to get mv
dust, and did not want to kill me. If
he had not feared committing murder,
he would have shot me down without
speaking would have taken no chanc
es with me.
"While slowly taking off my pouch of
gold dust, my mind was not inactive. I
saw that the robber was a trembling
fellow, not at all fit for the business.
A man that I could have cowed and
commanded in almost any situation,
had we been placed on an equal footing.
When the belt was off the highway
man said:
"Lay it down and be off."
I laid it down and turned as though
to go away, but as the fellow picked up
my dust 1 faced about and said:
"Do you know who I am who you
are playing this trick upon?"
"No ; nor do I want to know. Go
away!" said the man.
"Did you ever hear of Big George, of
Siskiyou, the stage robber?" said I,
moving toward him.
He made no reply, but stood trem
bling and evidently quite bewildered.
"Poor soul, how nervous you are!"
cried I. "Why, I am quite ashamed of
you for a man in your business. There's
not a bit of style about you."
I was now quite close up to him, and
suddenly and sternly said:
"Hand me that gun, you trembling
ass, and I'll show you how to do things
in a way that will make you a credit to
the profession."
The command came so unexpectedly
that I had the gun in my hands before
the man knew what I was about.
"Drop that belt!" cried I, leveling
the gun at his head.
He let it fall to the ground.
"Take off that mask!"
He hesitated a moment, and then
took off his mask a piece of black
muslin, with holes for the eyes when
I saw before me a man about thirty
years of age, pale as a ghost, and by no
means desperate-looking.
"What is your name?"
The man hesitated.
"What is your name?" and I raised
both the gun and my voice.
"George Kobinson," came hesitating
ly from his quivering lips.
"I didn't ask you for a lie. Tell me
your true name, or it will be the worse
ior you.
"If you must have it, Thomas Berry
is my true name, but I don't see why
you should care to know it."
mat is my Business. I snail let you
carry that dust for a time; the gun is
load enough lor me. As foryour name,
it matters little whether or not you
have told me the truth, as I am going
to take you to where you are no doubt
well known, for now I shall march you
straight to Nevada City."
"To Nevada City!" cried the man,
stopping short, and beginning to quake
from head to foot. "Why, am't ou
Big George, the stage robber?"
"Never heard of such a man in all
my life," said I. "I am Carl Waldow,
of Fall Creek, and not ashamed of my
name. 111 take you to Nevada or blow
the top of vour "head off! Do vou un
derstand that ?"
"For the love of God spare me!"
cried the man, whom I shall hereafter
call Keed, winch is not his true name,
but is a name given in place of the
name he gave me, and which I soon as-
certamea to oe nis real name, "snare
me this and I will honestlv tell
all."
vou
"Talk fast, then," said I.
"I have a young wife and a child a
little boy and a ranch that I am about
to lose. It is mortgaged and will be
taken from me in five days if I don't
raise $2,000. On account of my wife
and child I made this desperate at
tempt to save myself from rum. I was
i in Washington last niirhr. whurp T
fripri in vnin tn rni mnnov t oiQ-
in the next room to vou, and throueh
I would have been killed before I would
have shot you. I had determined to do
vou no harm."
" "Is that all?"
"That is all, and the whole truth, so
helD me God. Now. for f hp lnvo r.f
Heaven, let me go, and I'll never again
do a wrong act to any human being."
"March?" commanded I.
"God help me!" cried he, "will vou
ruin me and bring disgrace on mv fam
ily by taking me to Nevada to the
jail?"
"I did not say, March to Nevada ;' I
only said March!' and I sav again,
March!' We march not to "Nevada,
but to your ranch, if you have one."
"Good God! Y'ou don't mean to
take me there and disgrace me in the
eyes of my wife. She is one of the best
women in the world, and it would kill
her."
"I will now know the truth of this
whole business," said L "I am in no
hurry to go to Nevada City. I will take
my time and find out all. " If vou have,
as you say, a farm and a wife and child',
I shall do you no harm will cause your
wife no pain. Again I say, march !"
I made Reed shoulder iny dust and
march some ten feet in advance, I told
him to take a straight course through
the woods, as I wanted to see no one,
nor was he anxious to meet- anv of his
acquaintances.
We turned to the right from the road
and marched in a southerlv eoursp. Tr.
was a long way through the forest and
nothing worthy of note occurred while
passing through it Little was said hv
either Reed or myself. Reed tried to
taiK to me about his wife and child
once or twice and beg me ts be careful
in wnat x snouia say before his wife
but I sternly ordered him to shut his
mouth.
"I am thinking," saidl, "and that is
enough. I am thinking otevervthing
and shall do -ha is right?'
We passed through the pine forests
and down into the foothills among
groves of live oak ahd among manzan
ita thickets.
"Is it yet far?" said I, after we had
been some time among the hills.
"But a mile or so," said Reed.
At last, as we reached the summit of
a little ridge, he pointed to a cottage in
a field half a mile away, and said:
"There is mv home."
"Good," said" I. "Now sit down and
compose yourself, for you are not to
appear at all agitated. We go now to
see your wife and little boy."
Beed began to weep.
"This is rough," said he.
"It is," said I, "but there is no help
for it. I will now take the belt and put
it on. Leave it where you are and
move twenty feet further down the
Kill; then sit down and dry your eyes,
for the sun is not half an hour high,
and we must go to your house."
Beed did as directed, and when the
belt was in place and I had given him
time to compose his features, I ordered
him to get up and move on.
"My wife will think it strange to see
you earning mv gun. Will you trust
me with it?"
"I have bought your gun, you know.
When I leave your home I shall carry
it away with me."
Beed said no more. As we drew
near the house I told Reed to fall back
by my side.
"Now," said I. "pay attention. I am
an old friend of yours, a man you knew
manv years ago where are vou
from?"
"Near Cold Water. Michigan."
"Verv well ; I am from Cold Water,
Michigan ; you knew me there ; I have
come home with you to see vour place.
and your boy. Now go on. I am your
old friend, Mr. Waldow ; remember the
name Waldow."
So we went to the house. Reed's wife
met us at the door. I was introduced
as Mr. Waldow, and at once began to
play the part of an old acquaintance.
Mrs. Reed was a woman about twenty-eight
years of age and quite hand
some. She spoke with a slight accent
that caused me to ask if she were not
of German parentage. She was. She told
me the name of her father Jacob
Schroeder.
"Jacob Schroeder!" cried I. "From
what place in Germany?"
"From Dantzig," she said.
"From Dantzig!" cried I. "Good!
I also am from Dantzig. It is my na
tive town and I knew your father
well." which in truth I did. My heart
went out toward her, and I said to my
self as I looked at her honest face:
"Daughter of Jacob Schroeder, you are
married to a weak, bad man and a rob
ber, but I will do you all the good I
can."
As for Reed, he said nothing, but sat
looking quite stupefied. Even when his
w;ife said: "Is it not wonderful,
Thomas, that Mr. Waldow should be a
Dantziger and should know my father
he who is also an an old friend and
acquaintance of yours?" Reed mut
tered something about there being
strange meetings in California.
I paid no attention to Reed's dis
tress, but went on and told his wife
many things that I remembered about
her father and her uncles, of not a few
of which she had heard her parents
speak, for her mother was also a Dant
zig woman.
I was soon on good terms with the
boy, sang little songs to him, and, in
deed, made myself so much at home
and the friend of the family that Reed
cast at me stolen glances of astonish
ment. He seemed to be saying to him
self: "Is this the man I tried to rob a
few hours ago, but ' ho captured me
and marched me to ray own house a
culprit and a prisoner?"'
But I gave heed only to become more
merrv and talkativethanever with the
boy and his mother. Also with Reed I j
talked about his ranch and told him we i
would take a look overthe whole place j
in the morning.
As soon as I found that he had actu
ally conducted me to his home, and
once I had seen his wife and ch:ld I
had no fear. I knew it was safe that
Reed would do no murder there had he
a score of guns and pistols.
After I was shown to my room for ,
the night I took off my belt, and carried
it to the room I had just left, and tel
ling Mrs. Reed what it contained, ask
ed her if she had a safe, place to keep it
till morning.
She begged me to keep it in my own
room, there was no knowing what
might happen, and she did not like to
take any responsibility.
Reed looked astounded
He also beg-
geu me to tase tne gom to my room,
and said:
"Take your gun to your room take
care of the gold vourself."
"The gun!" s'aid I. "You think,
then, there may be danger of robbers?"
"Oh, no I don't know. Take away
the gold. I will take no chances with
it."
Seeing a wood-box in the corner of
the room, I threw the belt into it and
laid over it two or three sticks of wood.
and saying: "There is a better and
safer place for it than in my bed-room,
turned about and left the couple, Mrs.
Reed gazing after me in astonishment.
The next morning Mrs. Reed handed
me my gold Reed did not seem to!
want to touch it. I had given him a !
dose of it, by lettin
ir him sleep in the I
ill All aictj' JAX mc- T
same room with it
T t'Alll lsi "V f An-
it away somewhere, as Reed and I were j
J. LU1U 1ICI LU 51UW
going to look about the ranch a little
before -Dreaklast,
I marched Reed off and we looked
about the place.
I saw that he had excellent land
three hundred acres of it in all but
that it was poorly cultivated. Signs of
shiftlessness were seen in every direc
tion. The fences were not what they
should have been, the barn was dilapi
dated, the animals were lean and hungry-looking,
and I soon was satisfied
that Reed did not much relish hard
work. His house was a large unpaint-
ed structure that stood in an open field,
with not a tree or shrub about it. Ui
this three hundred acres of land he pre
tended only to cultivate eighty. He
said he lacked water to irrigate more.
As we were returning to breakfast
after this inspection of the premises, I
! said to Reed:
I "Tell your wife that we are going to
I Nevada City after breakfast"
' "To Nevada City!" cried he, turning
t pale and quaking with alarm. "You
don't intend to deliver me up?
Calm yourself," said I; "I have
business there and shall do you no,, fenced and brought under cultivation,
harm. Tell yoar wife we shall be back Fifty head of cows had been purchaa-to-night,
and'also'tell her that I shall , ed, .and two thousand .head of sheep.
be your guest for some days."
"I shall do as vou
eay, -a-as Rseds
reply, but he did not look very comfort
able. "I presume I shall be quite welcome
in your house for a week or so?"
saidL
"Ye-e-s Oh, certainly," said Reed,
"quite welcome. I am" really under
great obligations to you. You have
saved me from doinga great wrong. I
shall always "
"Never mind; you have said enough.
I think we are beginning to under
stand each other that is, to some ex
tent. We have not been acauainted
long, you know."
After breakfast Reed harnessed his
team and we left for Nevada, Reed's
boy little Jacob calling out after us,
"Papa, bring me something from
town ?" He was a bright little fellow,
about five years old.
On reaching Nevada I told Reed to
drive directly to the court house.
He turned pale.
"It is all right," said I. "We are go
ing to see about the mortgage it is, of
course, on record?
"Oh, yes; of course," said Reed,
looking relieved.
We found it all straight. I sold my
dust, drew some money that I had de
posited at the bank in the town, and
then went with Reed and had the mort
gage released. I then asked Reed if he
did not wish to take home some provis
ions or dry goods. He said he would
like to take home some provisions, but
did not like to go to the store after
them, as he owed quite a bill over
S100, he thought.
I gave him S250 and told him to pay
off the old score and get what he want
ed beside. "Also," said I, "go to a
dry-goods store and get your wife a
dress and some such things as you
know her to need, and something for
little Jacob."'
"But how am I ever to pay you all
this money?" stammered Reed.
"You are presently to give me your
note for the whole."
"But how shall lever pay the note?"
"Never mind about that ; that will be
all right. I shall see that you pay you
will work it out."
"Work it out!"
"Yes ; right at home on your own
farm. You are going to work now to
work for me and yourself and your
wife and your boy. I could have sent
you to State Prison, but I can make
better use of you do better by you. I
shall work you on your own farm, in
stead of letting you work in San Quen
tin. You will have all manner of home
comforts, and will be making money
for yourself and wife and boy more
money than you ever made in your life
before. I am not doing right, I know.
I am compounding a felony, so to
speak, for the law requires me to send
you to State Prison. I choose to diso
bey the law, however; I take the law
into my own hands, and I'll make a
better job of the business before I get
through with it than the law would
be able to do."
Reed looked utterly astounded.
"Be off with you now and get the
goods you require; you will find me
with the team at the stable,"' said I.
Reed marched away, did as told, and
presently came to me at the stable,
when we drove around to the store and
took in his purchases. As Reed's guest,
I purchased some little presents for
Jacob and Mrs. Reed.
On the way home I gave Reed in
structions. He was to tell his wife that
I had paid off the mortgage, paid his
store debts and intended to set him up
on his feet and give him a good start to
make money, giving him almost his
own time in which to pay the note he
would give me "w hen all was arranged,
and this I was doinir on account of our
old friendship in Michigan.
All this he carried on to the letter,
and Mrs. Reed shed tears of gratitude,
when she tried to thank me.
I remained five days at Reed's ranch,
thoroughly studying it. During the
time I went to Nevada City and drew
more money, also took out to the ranch
an assistant to Reed, a couniryraan of
mine from Deer Creek, a man named
Kempf. I told this man that Reed was
an old friend of mine to whom I lent a
considerable amount of monev in order
( to sive him a fresh start in the world :
that Reed was soodeiioush fellow, but
a little inclined to be lazy and shiftless,
therefore I wished liim to push him in
the work on the rauch. as I desired to
get my money back as soon as possible.
I also told Reed that any soldiering on
his part would be reported to me.
I found and took up a water right,
through which hufiicient water could
be obtained toirrigate the whole ranch;
had surveys made, and at once let a
contract for digzintr the ditch, which
was but two miles long. I bought an
additional tam and lumber for fencing
one hundred and sixty acres of land ;
also for putting private fences about
the house and barn, and gave orders for
fruit and shade trees to be planted. All
this I did through my robber, Reed. I
then returned to my mine at Fall
Creek, telling the Reeds I should re
turn in six weeks.
At the appointed time I was again at
the ranch and found that all
was go
ing on wen. ine cutcn was completed,
the house and barn had been fenced,
also that the greater part of the fence
about the one hundred and sixty acres
had leeu put up, and the old fence
, " rlc '.
. . ,
I bought ten cows, one hundred
sheep, caused a well to be dug. Availed
up and housed in (before they had been
using water from the ditch), hired an
other man, and a stout girl to assist
Mrs. Reed, left orders for an addition
to be built to the house, and the whole
to be well painted, then returned to the
mine. I say I did these things, and so
I did. but no one knew it, as all was
done through Reed.
When winter came, and the mines
were buried in snow, I went down to
my robber's ranch, and went to work
there with a will. Mrs. Reed did not
think it strange, as she knew her hus-
band owed me a large sum of money,
which was to be made out at the ranch;
besides, 1 charged regular wages
which was but right. She could but
know that her husband was rather in
dolent and doubtless suspected why I
desired to be on the ranch and see that
work was pushed.
"ft e plowed and planted tne whole
quarter section of land, besides doinga
vast deal of other work, marketing and
the like. The ranch did not look like
the same place.
The next vear all the cround was
j with many swine, and fowli of all
kinds. Chinese were put to gardening.
and two herders hired, one to attend to
the sheep out in the hills and mount
ains, and the other to look after the
cows and to milk and make butter and
cheese for the market When the Chi
namen were not busy at gardening they
were made to work about the house,
orchard and grounds. Thus all was
put in shape, and my robber was made
to become a very industrious man.
I frequently visited the ranch, and
the next year began to get back my
money. Mrs. Reed was a very happy
woman. It was her nature to try to
get along in the world and make mon
ey, and all was now going on to her
satisfaction. Her parents lived but
five miles away. I frequently visited
them, and they were often at Reed's.
I began to have a good opinion of my
robber, as he was now industrious, and
was in many respects a fair sort of man.
Now that he had got a start in the
right direction, he seemed anxious to
go ahead. He began to feel a pride in
his ranch and all its belongings, and
took great interest in everything. I had
not found it necessary to keep Kempf
over him after the first year.
All was going on so well that in an
other year ortwoReedwouldhavebeen
able to pay me every cent he owed me,
when an accident happened to him.
While going home from Nevada one
day, his team ran away, throwing him
out of his wagon against a tree, crush
ing in his skiill and instantly killing
him. I was in Fall Creek "when I
heard that my robber was dead. I at
once went down to the ranch and mar
ried the widow not right away, you
must understand, for she thought a
great deal of Reed; I comforted her
and took care of things on theplace un
til a proper time had expired.
Now vou know how I met mv robber
and how I got my revenge. To this
day Mrs. Waldow does not know when
and how I first became acquainted with
her first husband. She still thinks it
was at Cold Water, Michigan. Instead
of three hundred acres in Nevada Coun
ty, I now have three thousand acres in
Oregon.
Jacob is a fine fellow, and I think as
much of him as though he were my
own son, almost, although I believe I
am somewhat fonder of my own boys.
Perhaps it is because I think they have
a better father than theman that Jacob
called by that name. Jacob has six
hundred and forty acres of as good land
as can be found in Oregon, and it is
well improved and stocked. I have
done all for him that I would have
done had he been my own son, and in
that I have again had my revenge and
carried out the law according to my own
notions. Dan De Quille.
A capital idea has occurred to the
managers of the Agricultural Society
in Washington Co., Maryland. Instead
of offering money premiums of one to
five or six dollars for the exhibits, they
have decided upon the plan of offering
a choice among a few first class agri
cultural journals, for which the associ
ation will pay the subscription for one
or more years, according to the value
of the premium. Thisis an example
worthy of imitation. It is the best
possible way of benefiting the prize
takers, as the premium itself eives in
struction in the calling in which they
are striving to excel. A silver chalice,
with engraved monogram, may form a
handsome and very acceptable prem
ium, which the housewife who receives
it for the superior quality of her butter
and cheese, or the farmer who wins it
by raising the largest yield of grain to
tne acre, or ior navmg tne best pigd, i
sheep or cows, can treasure up as a
pleasing memento of victory, put prac
tically it is of no use except as an or
nament. If the premiums, on the oth
er hand, consist of money, it is gener
ally the case that it is less profitably
invested than by subscription for an
asricultural journal. We hope that
thia idea Tvill pruvc to be tntlcliiug.aiHl
that other societies will adopt the same
plan, not so much for the increase it is
likely to give to our subscription list
as because an agricultural paper is a
most beneficial and suitable premium
for agricultural products. Rural JVew
ForA-er.
A New Measuring Implement.
A remarkable implement was lately de
scribed before the "Societe d'Encour
agement pour l'lndustrie Nationale.
It is called profilograph, because when
in use it mechanically traces on paper
the outlines of the ground over which
it travels. A foreign contemporary de
scribes it as a small carriage mounted
on two wheels drawn by one man, and
attended by another who marks the
levels of the proper places, and under
neath hangs an iron rod with a large
ball at its lower end serving as a pen
dulum. This pendulum maintains a
constant vertical position, while the
machine inclines in one direction or
the other, according as it ascends or
descends a slope. To the upper end of
the rod is fitted a pencil, which marks
on a sheet of paper the ups and downs
of the country traversed, whether on
an ordinary road or across trackless
fields. The exact profileis thus record
ed to a given scale. At the same time
one of the wheels acting as a chain
bearer measures and indicates the dis
tance traveled throughout the survey.
0p.igin or Early Amber Cane.
Mr. E. Y. Teas, a well-known horticul
turist of Indiana, on his visit to Eurone
in 1S00, purchased in Paris a few pounds
of Chinese sugar-cane seed, which he
planted. In the product of this lot of
seed, one stalk appeared of different
habit from the rest, and that ripened
its seed before the rest of the plot was
fairly in bloom. The seed from this
stalk was carefully saved and planted
separately, to prevent mixture. This
cane ripened much earlier than any
other had been known to, and the syrup
from it was superior in taste and color
to any previously produced. From its
earliness and the beautiful amber color
of the syrup, Mr. Teas named it Early
Amber, and under that name distribu
ted it far and wide. That it was a
sport, different from anything that had
ever been known, there'is no doubt
Caiman's Rural World.
Religious tract3 sent to a man with
12 cents postage due on them are not
conducive to religious thought, word
or action. We have in our mind a
young man who was just wavering in
the balance; the 12 cents decided him
and he became a howling heathen.
Hartford. Sunday Journal.
Was Adam a iock"v? If ;-o, why?
A "j. Y. 0EIW EI THE TOST
He Declines to. Grow up with Detroit, fl
Prafera to "Fite InjtuiB."
Detroit ?ree Press.
On& of the little lambs picked up-iii
the streets of New York-by Whitelawr
Reid and sent West to find a home,,
was adopted by a Detroit family about
two months ago, and ere tills fs pub
lished Mr. Reid has received a-big pos
tal card announcing that his dear lamb,
has gone west to fight Indians, and that
he needn't mind about sending snath.
er to take his place.
This New York lamb wa3 thirteen
years old. He said so at the depot on
his arrival, and half an hour latex ho
reiterated the statement at the house,,
and added r "And if you don't believe
it, then call me a liar! That's the sort
of a spring-gun I anv and dont you for
get itr
They didn't forget it. Hegave them
no chance to. He ate with his. fingers,
wiped his mouth on his sleeve, and gave
the family to understand before sup
per was over that he didn't come west
to- have his hair combed or his face
washed as a regular business. On his
first evening he slipped out, had three
fights and stole a dog, and when hunt
ed up he was about to take bis beer in
a saloon. The family expected to wres
tle with the boy for a while, and they
didn't sit down on him until it became
a painful necessity. During his first
week he stole S3 in money, a gold chain,
a revolver, and a pair of ear-rings, and
he got drunk twice. When reasoned
with and asked to do better he took- a
fresh chew of plug tobacco and replied:
"Oh, you Michigan folks are too soft I
If a feller can't have a good time, what
is the use of being an orfun?'
On Monday of the second week he
sold the family dog to a stranger for a
quarter, threw the saw and axe into
the alley, and when locked up in a clos
et tore a. Sunday coat to pieces.
It was thought pest to have a police
man talk to him, and one was called in.
He put on his fiercest look, and lectur
ed the lamb for fifteen minutes, but aa.
soon as he stopped for breath the
young sinner replied : "Now, see here,
old brass buttons, you are wasting time I
I know my little "gait, I do, and if you
think I've come to a village like this to
be bluffed by anybody, you've missed
your train !"
He was taken to Sunday school by
the hand. He hadn't been there half
an hour when he wa3 taken out by the
colar. He seemed anxious to punch
the head of every good little boy with
in half a mile of him, and he told the
teacher of his class that when she
could stuff Moses in the bulrushes
down him it would be after she had
bleached out her freckles. They gave
him a Sunday school book to fit his case
but he fitted to a crack in the sidewalk
on his way home. When moral suasion
had no effect on the wicked youth hi
guardian tried the rod. He was big
ger than the boy, and he walloped him,
but within three hours two of the nuts
were taken off his buggy and thrown
away. There was a second seance in
the wood-shed, and before dark a win
dow glass worth SS was broken. That
orphan was faithfully and duly and
persistently wrestled" with. He was
coaxed and flattered. He was licked
and reasoned with. Ambition, grati
tude, fear and avarice were alike ap
pealed to in turn, but as he was the
first day so he was the last A few
days ago he was told that he would be
sent to the reform school, at Lansing,
if there was any further trouble with
him. That night he stole So of the
cook, a butcher knife from the pantry,
a pie from the sideboard and departed
the house, leaving on his bed a noto
reading as follows :
"This town ar no place fur a N.York
orfun. I'm going out on the planes to
fite Injuns. It will be yuseless to fol
ler me, rur x cant oe cue .aiiver
Do Not TJ38 Grade Sirea.
As a rule, cross-bred or grade ani
mals cannot be relied upon to reproduce
their own excellence. The only true
road to success lies in the constant use
of thoroughbred males upon these
grade females. However excellent the
direct results from this process of
grading up may be, the animals so pro
duced cannot themselves be depended
upon to transmit that excellence, ex
cept in a further union with thorough
bred stock, until the process of grading
up has been carried on uninterruptedly
in a given direction for several gener
ations. L'nder ordinary circumstances,
five or six generations of breeding to a
certain point, from purely-bred males,
will give to the produce much- of the
fixedness of the thoroughbred stock,
and the males of that grade may pos
sess great prepotency as sires. In ex
ceptional cases males of the second or
even the first cross have proven to be
reliable sires; but the impress of the
thoroughbred stock is qukkly elimina
ted from their produce when exposed
to further dilution with cold blood. It
may be laid down as a safe rule to fol
low, that the longer this process of
grading up has been continued, the
greater will be the value of the male
produce for breeding purposes. Ex.
C00I11660.
John Williams, merchant, of Rut
ledge. Ga sued a desperado. The de
fendant entered the store in a f uriou3
passion, held out th summons in one
hand, clutched a long knife in the oth
er, and said. "Williams, have you sued
me?" Williams knew that an imme
diate "Yes" would make him sure of a
stab. "Let m? get my spectacles so
that I can read the paper," he said. He
went behind the counter and came back,
not with his glasses, but with an axe
across his shoulder, "Yes," he said,
"I have sued you." "All right." re
marked the desperado, "I guess I'll pay
the bilL"
We once knew a man who wa3 ad
vanced to such a pitch of self-esteem-that
he never mentioned himself with
out taking off his hat.
One of the things which is bothering
the curious in railroad circles is wheth
er any two bells have the same tone.
Clothes lines should be well wiped
and taken down after each wash.
Gutta Percha lines are the best
Lemon juice will allay the irritation'1'
caused by the bites of gnat asdfiw.