The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1874-10-03
GRACE GREENwooD's COLORADO
HOME.
How Burglars are Treated and Threat
ened.

Grace GreenWood-Mrs. Lippincott-
is summering with her mother and a lady
friend at their cottage at Manitou, Colora-
do, contributes the following readable in
cident to the New York Times
"Our aristocratic and agreeable bachelor
neighbor, 9" the young man by the name
| of f"-Standish-has taken possession of his
stately chateau; his household gods and
deer-heads and horns are set up within
his halls; his hammocks are hung ON the
| verandas, and his big Newfoundland waves
| his black banner from the bluff. Mr..
| Standish has on his lofty and craggy
| grounds remarkable rustic stable, very
curious and costly and quite beautiful-too
beautiful for merely equine and bovine
uses. The owner seems to be of the same
| opinion, for n few mornings ago, being a
good Catholic, he had the Bishop perform
| mass in it-which was q return to first
Christian principles. Thus far the finest
houses in our pleasant watering place have
been built by Englishmen-this residence
of Mr.. Cecil Standish, DR.. Bells exquisite
stone cottage and tho ''Thornton Man
sion," just completed. The British have
taken Colorado anyhow. We cannot build
fast enough in Manitou, though all day long
the sound of the hammer is heard in the
land. And yet the little valley is thronged
with campers Goodly are the tents of
this New World Israel, and picturesque,
but I am sorry to say that some of the
dwellers therein are by no means a chosen
or choice people, but lawless, adventur-
GUS nomads, acknowledging not teven a Ter
ritorial form of government, respecting no
bounds, knowing no restrictions, their
| motto being The whole boundless Conti-
| nent is ours.
'Theft has stolen into into our Paradise,
and frantic drunkenness
Ito riot when the sun is down,
And ROB the world of rest
GA mason engaged in reconstructing our
cellar complains of missing tools left at his
work over night, taken, perhaps, by a wan
dering fellow-craftsman-a Free Mason
and night before last we three unprotected
females we're aroused by burglarious and
nefarious attempt to enter our domieil by
the bay-window. There was rashly rude
and alarming work made in forcing open
the sash. A and H struck light
after the usual delay in such cases from un-
accountable failure of matches, and stepped
boldly out into the balcony, lamp in hand,
and, seeing their GOODNESS, the monsters or
wretches fed After that we all went on
tour of inipection through the cottage to
see what damage had been done, and posi-
bly, to confont and put to confusion more
jackals in human form. 1t was solemn and
but we were not without deadly weapons.
| was burdened with the lamp, yet bore in
my good right hand Il cleaning dagger-an
instrument by the by, with a history it hav-
ing once been the cause of my arrest in
Italy in the good old days of Austrian and
Papal supremacy, when to bear arms with
out authority, was a grave offense. A
carried Corsican stiletto, the gift of our
brilliant friend, Mr.. S. S. Cox, and as keen
as his wit, but SO diminutive as to be chiefly
terrible by reason of the awful words craven
on it's shining blade VendettG,' Norte'
H--brought up the rear, armed with
formidable cotton umbrella. Woe to the
hapless housebreaker we might encounter!
We searched in all possible and impossible
hiding places, in the closets, under tables
and lounges, we looked up the chimney, on
the pantry shelves, in the clothes basket,
but without success; and after refastening
the window, We reascended to our cham
bers, covered with glory and a cold sweat.
We now give warning to all gentlemen of
burglarious proclivities, that a good and
gallant friend having provided us with a
six-shooter, we intend to practice diligent-
ly with it, firing promiscuously from our
balconies o'nights. would also especially
give notice that am not Mrs. ]. B. Lip
pineott, and haven't any diamonds, that
| our silver is plated and our money in the
bank, if we haven't overdrawn; that in
intend putting alarnl-bells to all the win
dows, and setting the shrnbbery full of
steel traps; that, in short, it is no use for
them to call again at Clematis Cottage, and
may be slightly dangerous.
P. S.-Another friend has lent us a brin-
died bull-terrier-ye powerful.