Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1869-08-12

KANSAS ROGUE.
lilo Con. ,nsts Forserios 10 tho Amount
Respectable Young Lady ofLcxing-
ton, Mo-.
From tho st. Louis Dispatch.
A young man calling himself Stevens.
has been making Lexington his he"tlqunr
ters for solno time and putting on consid-
cradle style. lilo represented himself to be
son of u banker in Now York, who was
possessed Of untold woalth. Ho seemed TO
hnvo plenty Of money, and some people be-
loved his story. At ono tino no profess
cd to be u secret agent Of tho Treasury Do
partnent, at another all insurance agent,
otc. He succeeded in winning tho affect
ions of ono Of our most respectable young
ladies, s.ys tho Lexington Register, and
abont three months since married her.
lilo took her off to Now York to visit his
people, and when thoy arrived he stated
TINT his father and mother, and indeed all
the family, wero of on tour anil would
not return for somo timo. Sho returned
without seeing any of them. On Tuesday
last, a man came up from Paola, Kansas, on
tho hunt for Stevens, whose right name is
james Il. Cram. He know Cram in the
army, and had introduced him to the bank
Mt PNolH, where no cashed check for six
hundred dollars. Tho check purport-
ed to have boon drawn by u
bank in st. Louis, and was
forged by Cram> He saw Stevans
near tho market house, and recognized him
~ Gram, and, in connection with Colonel
Davis, attempted to arrest him. Colonel
Davis came up from behind and seized him
by the collar. lie turned, and, seeing the
gentleman from Paola, and knowing what
was the matter, adroitly- slipped out Of his
coat. leaving Colonel Davis to hold it, and
r.n of. A hue and cry was raised, but to
no avail. Ho ran we'll, and had pistol,
and mp to tho time of going to press. he
had not yet been takon. In his cont
was found four hundred dollars in
good money, dnd about mn equal
amount in counterfeit. Also some
forged checks similar to tho ono
which he had drawn at Paola. He had also
letters in his pocket showing that l,o was a
counterfeiter. We understand that he has
ut different times bought handouts, 70,
viii purpose W. CtShuOt baby. ALSO tilasL liz
| has been trying, to buy ut tho hartlvp.arc
stores small iron saws. The gentleman,
| from Kansas, whose name we did not learn
| informs us that forgeries Of GRAMS have
been discovered to the amount of ovel
$4,000. We regret that the attempt al
arrest was so lmngling. lie is an accom-
plished rogue, and society ought to be pro
tected from him. His wife has our sympa
thics.
EVER SINCE THE LAs1ENrED CARHART gave
to the world the first perfect melodeon,
that form of musical instrument has been
steadily gaining in popular favor. Twenty
thousand homes were rejoicing in its swee,
ent was Ave yeara old; and, 30 great did
tories sprang up to vie with the originating
Arm, well known as Carhart l. Needham
now E. P, Needham 4 Son, of tho city O.
New York. Many of these rival makers
have ceased to manufacture the melodco,
in its original form, but the pioneer house
referred to is still shipping to various parts
of the world thousands OF the soroll-leG
and piano case Instruments, with the man
ufactnre of which their immense business.
started in 1916; and the constant demand
for these cheap and yet "tlear" little home
companions has not suffered them to rela,
their efforts to make them more and more
worthy of their popularity.
! Extensive, however, az their melodeor
trade still continues to be, it forms but {
fractional proportion OF the business of the
great New York firm; and it is only por
ton of the credit due their efforts to 81,
that they established the reed instrument
trade in this country; for they have been
also, the most energetic and successful ex
perimentors for its improvement and de
velOpment to its present prevailing type
the "Qrgan." Tho firm in question was O.
q composition that could not fail to pro
duce remarkable results. Where Car1lar
left the melodeon, Needham took it ur
and transformed it from tho beautiful lit
tie songster that might grace the cottage
parlor or tho city boudoir, to the mag.
! nificent reed organ whose rich and
mellow tones peal thro' the aisles Of
many church and fill with their majestic
melody the gilded halls of our metropoli.
tan PALACES; and now when We come to
consider the vast number of church, school
! and parl0r organs that are constantly issl.
ing from the. extensive works of EPNeed-
ham & Son, the difference is so great as to
throw the molodeon figures, large, az i'll
deed, they are, entirely into the shade.
Their extraordinary success is q natural re-
suit of the possession of certain original
advantages as vol as q constant care to
improve those advantages and secure all
others that enterprise, hard thinking and
experiment could compass. Starting with
all of Carhart's patents, and with the full
and exclusive benefit of his fertile ingenu.
ity when in its prime, their improve.
ments were not even limited to his
experiments and successes. They held and
used at an early day, the '.Pneumatic stop, u
an AUTOMATIC device for securing the whole
weight of the atmospheric as o means OF
closing the registers. Experienced in the
manufacture of reeds : the inventors, in
fact, of the reed in its present form--they
were the first the bass down to thirty-two
feet C. But their greatest step in advance
was taken in 1859, when Mr.. E. T. Need
ham, perfected. aud patented peculiar
construction of tho action, which enables
them to combine any desired number Offsets
of vibrators and yet retain a light key
touch. The mechanism is simple. COM
pact and economical, yet capable of
indefinite extension, and hao been applied
to organs with eighteen acts of reeda. l'hia
house also introduced the Coordination
swell" and "Grand organ Foot-stop,"
which can be operated with the feet while
engaged in supplying the bellows, giving
an immense graduating power to the instru-
ment, while they are far more manageable
and convenient than ihe old kneeswell md
stops. Mr.. Needham has 1atsly supple-
mented to the ."Pneumatio stop" an ar
rangement which he holds under the name
of a 'stop-keeper," and which renders the
stop forever Interchangeable by the influence
of atmospheric variations =
Messrs. F.. P. Needham & Son have
an almost EXCLUSIVE control over the trade
i'll the matter Of large instruments, since
they alone have facilities for constructing
them with durable certainty of action and
at reasonable prices. They are never with
out contracts to build for churches or pri-
vate individuals, extensive and ornate
styles of tho reed organ. But, Of course, in
respect CT numbers Of sales, the smaller
kinds, coming ct low figuFes,, are vastly in
excess; and it is probably upon thia ci4e,
of instruments that the popularity of the
firm depends. Their parlor and church
organs are scattered all oven the west, and
everywhere carry reputation for
tSsr makers skill As their hea"tifsl finish
and proportions are Aattefing to their
taste. THOR most prominent agents ia
tho west arc Messrs. Bauer Il Co., of Chi