davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-10-19
Egypt i'm New York.

The New York World states by au-
thority that the Khedive of Egypt has
signified his willingness to present to
the city of New York, upon proper APP
plication, the twin needle, the sister
obelisk of that now floating toward En-
gland. This shaft stands upon the sea-
shore, monolith of the granite of Sy-
enc, seventy feet in height, and is ia
miliar landmark to all travellers who have
visited Alexandria. The hieroglyphics
on its seward face have been partly eff
faced by the action of the salt wind and
spray during more than 1900 years, and
its base is 80 much worn and mutilated
that it is likely to be Frustrated by a
Mediterranean cyclone at some future
day. 1t is, we believe, of the same age
as the English obelisk-that of Thoth-
mes I'LL, which gives it an antiquity of
3, 400 years. The English contractors.
who are now conveying the latter to
London, are said to have offered to
transport the Khedive's gift to this CITY
and to erect it in any location which may
be chosen, for the sum of 800, 900, tax
ing upon themselves the whole risk of
the enterprise. -NoW York Tribune.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-10-19
Heavy Contract to Let.

A gentleman who came down from
Lexington on Saturday was asked how
times were in that section. He said !:
"About all have heard of lately is a
joke on an editor, who, going away, left
hispaper in charge of minister. Dur
ing the minister's stay in the sanctum
the following letter came from a noun
tain subscriber
Z" You know very well paid my sub
scription to your paper the last time 1
was in Lexington. If get any more
such letters from you as I received last
week 1 will come down to Lexington and
maui HI out of you 7
"The minister answered
"I have been trying to maui that
thing out of the editor for ten years
past, and if you will really come down
and maui it out of him, then, my dear
sir, have twenty members of my church
/ will also get you to operate on. 4"
Louisville C0urier.JonnaL.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-10-19
A Brave Engineer.

The theater train was standing in the
depot nearly full of passengers, and the
engine, detached, standing some distance
in front of it, when freight train was,
by some blunder, backed down at rapid
rate directly toward the passenger train.
Fortunately Billy Whalen, the engineer
in charge of the engine, saw the situa-
ton, and, understanding the danger,
sprung at once into his engine, which
was yet detached from the passenger
train, and, turning on full steam, shot
her ahead into the rear of the coming
freight train. The shock was terrible
one. The trucks of the rear car of the
freight train climbed up the front of the
engine; the headlight of Whalen's loco
motive was smashed, and considerable
other damage incurred. The bold Billy
was badly shocked, but the force of the
freight train was checked, and though it
struck the passenger train, driving it
back to the rear of the depot and shak-
ing up the passengers at a pretty lively
rate, none of them were seriously in
iured, for all of which they may thank
the quick-witted and brave Billy Wha-
len. Cincinnati Enquirer.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-10-19
At Par.

The other day Mr.. Middlerib stopped
at grocery and bought some onions,
giving the grocer 80 bill. Among the
change handed back to the customer was
an old 81 bill. Ithad been in that morning
for kerosene oil, and there was just a
dash of the oil on it, that had been
spilled in the morning. Then the grocer
had laid it down on pile of Goldfish
while he fixed the stopper in the oil
can. Then he had it on his fingers
while he cut off couple of pieces of
cheese, and the cheese on the bill strug-
gled with the Goldfish and kerosene for
pre-eminence. Then it got little touch
of mackerel, and little tincture of stale
egg on it, and at last the grocer stuffed
it into his pocket along with plug of
tobacco, and finally, when Mr.. Mlddlerib
got it with his onions, he held it to his
nose once or twice, shifted it with an in
vestigating air, and at last walked out of
the store with cheerful countenance,
saying, "By George, we're all right
now. Good times are here again, and
the Government is paying 100 scents on
the dollar. "-BurLinQtOn HdDk-E ye.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-10-19
HOW THE JURY AGREED.

'' Guilty, or not guilty, prisner y he said.
The pris'ner said not, only hjtched In his chair;
But seen in his eye and his face, which was red,
That twas very tight papers for him To be there.
Twas plain case of forgery-so they said
The wrong mans name To q note-of-h
And they opened law-books, and several read
How the thing was felony all through the land.
But the pris'ner, he sat there still and mum,
With his eye on the Judge in way TO deceive,
And-sure AZ the Gospel Of Kingdom Come
On his rght-hand side was an empty sleeve
" How say you, gentlemen, guilty or MOI"
{" Guilty I" said some, and ''Nop said.
" Not agreed I" said the Judge. "Td better go
Over again with the law you heard read"
" Your Honor"-twas the fonman-" there Is no
hope
OF proper verdict, as I can see,
When one man 10 eleven can easy cope,
And this man CHATS mel says he'll not agree
Then felt just like ightin', but choked 1t back
When / seen how the prisoner give tears clear
track.
If your Honor so please, law is law, you show;
But the truth ought to win, whether good law or
If your Honor allows, I'll just make that bold,
For not nigh all the truth in this case was told.
1t was one day at Corinth when the rebs made
Just rain red-hot like shower from hell
got hit. Twas him carried me out o. harm
This man-and when doing that lost his arm
He ht in my company? Yes, he did so;
And he hadn't then learnt to write yet, know.
SO that is just why I'm bound to believe
No forgery is done with an empty sleeve"
II was queer, then, the shake that prisoner give,
With his single hand and empty sleeve.
And even that Judge, he went round, too,
Shaking the prisoner, then me or you;
And said he felt like the good time was near,
When wrong was made right, and everything clear.
Jurymen, you're discharged. The prisoner can
leave"
So the jury agreed on that empty sleeve.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-10-19
The Latest Curiosity.

Kentucky has her Mammoth Cave and
other natural curiosities, and now comes
human curiosity that may be consid-
cred great in the nineteenth century.
In Henderson county, in the State afore-
said, lives a man, "sober, sensible, and
AZ years of age" and in the enjoyment
of good common education. His
neighbors regard him as an intelligent
biped, and yet che never wrote letter
in his life, never owned postage
stamp, and never received but one let
ter, and that he wore out carrying in
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-10-19
LEAVING THE HOMESTEAD.

You're going to leave the homestead 'onn'
You're twenty-one to-day, -,
And the old man will be sorry, John'
To see you go away. -.
You've labored late and early, yonh'
And done the best you could
1 amt going TO stop you, John'
woindnf II 1 could
Yet something OF your feelings, John,
spose ought TO know;
Though many a day has passed away
Twas forty years ago
When hope was high within me, John,
And life all lay before,
That with strong and measured stroke
NCut loose and pulled from shore"
The years they come and go, my boy,
The years they come and go,
And raven locks and tresses brown
Grow white as driven snow;
My life has known its sorrows. John,
Its trials and troubles sore,
Yet God with all has blest me, John,
Sin basket and in store"
But one thing let me tell you, John,
Before you make your start,
There's more in being honest, John,
Twice more than being smart;
The rogue may seem TO flourish, John,
And sterling worth to fail,
0 keep in view the good and true,
Twill in the end prevail.
Don't think too much of money, John,
And dig and delve and plan,
And rake and scrape in every shape
To hoard all that you can.
Though fools may count their riches, John,
In shillings, pounds and pence,
The best of wealth is youth and health,
And good, sound common sense.
And don't be mean or stingy, John,
But lay a little by
OF what you earn-you will soon learn
How fast twill multiply;
so when old age comes creeping on,
You'll have goodly store
OF wealth and youth and health,
And maybe something more.
There's shorter cuts to fortune, John,
We see them every day,
But those who save their self-respect
Climb up the good old way.
Z" All is not gold that glitters," John,
And makes the vulgar stare,
And those we deem the richest, John,
Have oft the least to spare.
Don't NEEDLE with your neighbors, John,
Their business or their cares.
You'll find enough to do, my boy,
To mind your own affairs
The world is full of idle tongues,
You can afford to shirk;
There's lots of people ready, John,
To do such dirty work.
And if amid the race of fame
You win shining prize,
The humble worth of honest men
You never should despise
For each one has his mission, John,
In life's unchanging plan;
Though lowly be his station, John,
He is no less a map.
BE good, be pure, be noble, John,
BE honest, brave and true,
And do to others as you would
That they should do to you;
And place your trust in Christ, my boy,
Though fiery darts be hurled,
And you can smile at Satan's rage
Ana face frowning world.
Goodbye, John may Heaven guard
Your footsteps day by day;
The old home will be lonely, John,
When you have gone away.
The cricket's song upon the hearth
Will have a sadder tone;
The old familiar spots will be
SO lonely when you're gone.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-10-19

his pocket. He does not know the con-
tents of the sealed missive. This man
could never have been in love, never
have had any important business with
other men, never have had but one
friend, or relative, or acquaintance who
thought him worth drop of ink.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-10-19
The Bankrupt Act.

Active measures are being taken
among the opponents of the existing
Bankrupt law to secure its repeal by
Congress. Early last year bill repeal
ing the act of 1867 was passed by the
House of Representatives, but was
stopped in the Judiciary Committee of
the Senate.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-10-19
Tidies.

The crop of tides is unusually large
this year. The ladies have made
great Improvement in this article, and
can now cover the back of a two-dollar-
and-a-half chair with wonderful maze
of silk, satin, lace, and embroidery,
costing S15 and $50. Experienced and
far-sighted married men are laying in q
stock of camp-stools, so as to have a
chance to sit down this winter.-Er-
change.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-10-19

"YoU have only yourself to please, -
said a married man to bachelor.
"True," replied he "but you can not
tell what difficult task find it,
Dodge City times., 1877-06-09
Useful Information.

The bulk of fertile soils consists Of
three earths, to-wit: silica, alumina, and
lime. Unmixed with clay, sand, and
other organic and inorganic substances,
lime consists of the metallic element
calcium, and as it enters into the com
position of all plants, it necessarily oc-
cupies a large space in natures labora-
tory. Chemistry tells us it has an affin-
ity for water and carbonic acid; when
applied to the land it absorbs water,
forming hydrate of lime; this hydrate
then absorbs carbonic acid, so that lime,
though applied to the land in the caustic
state, really exists, shortly after its ap-
plication, in the form of carbonate,
along with a little sulphate and phos-
plate as previously mentioned. Lime
has for a long time been used rs fer
tilizer; when land previously unworked
is brought into cultivation, or when
worn out pasture land is broken up,
lime is generally applied. 1t affects
chiefly the vegetable contained in the
soil, promoting its decomposition, and
thus rendering it available as plant
food.
Dodge City times., 1877-06-09
FITZ-GREEN HALLECK.


av J.G. WHITTIER ff
Read at tn dedication Of HaiiecEs statue in Ses
,~k Central Pds'k
Amo:.s their craven shapes to whom
Thy civic wreath- belong,
q, city Of his love, make room
For one whose gift was song
Not his the soldiers sword to WELD,
Nor his the helm of state,
Nor glory of the stricken field,
Nor triumph of debate
In common WAYS, with common men,
He served his race and time
As well a. il his clerhly pen
Had never danced TO rhyme
II, in the thronged and noisy mart,
The MUSES. found their son,
Could any say his tuneful art
A duty left undone.
lie toiIed and sang; and year by year
Men found their homes more sweet,
And through "A tcnderer atmosphere
Looked down on brick walled street.
The Greeks wild onset Wall Street knew
The Red King walked broadway,
And Ainwick Castles roses blew,
From palisades to bay.
Fair city by the sea, upraise
His veil with reverend hands,
And minsle with thy own the praise
And pride nf other lands.
Let Greece his fiery lyric breathe
Above her hero -urns:
And Scotland, with her holly, wrcafhe
The flowers he culled for Burns.
., stately stand thy palace walls,
Thy tafl ships ride the seas;
To-day thy poets name recalls
A proudcr thought than these.
Not less thy pulse of trade shall beat,
Nor less thy tall fleets swim,
That shaded square and dusty street
Are classic ground through him.
Alive. he loved, like all who sing,
The echoes OF his song,
Too late the tardy need we bring,
The praise delayed so long.
Too late. aias,-of all who knew
The living man, to-day
Before his unveiled face, how few
Make bare their locks of gray
Our lips of praise must soon be dumb,
our grateful eyes be dim;
%. brothers .f the days to come,
Take tender charge of him.
Now hands the wires of song may sweep,
New voices challenge fame,
But let no moss Of years Ger creep
The lines of iIalleck's name.
Dodge City times., 1877-06-09

are the pick pockets harvest, and it is
a common thing in q crowd who are on
their way to these soirees to see pocket
books fly into the air from the hands of
some adroit fellow who has distracted
the cash, and who desires to rid himself
of that which may lead to the indentifi-
cation of the stolen money. If eau
, tious individual in a crowd of this de-
scription attempt to protect his proper
ty by holding his hands in his pockets
there are several schemes for Overcom-
ing that obstacle. a crowd of crooks
will gather round him and begin to
surge, and presently the victim finds HIM
self lifted
CLEAR OFF HIS FEET,
with strange hand under each arm
which lifts his hands clear ont of his
pockets. When he gets back to terra
fymd his pocket-book is missing. At
recent prize-fight very amusing Oc-
currence Of this kind took place. A
cattle-dealer, of very quiet, self-possess-
ed demeanor, was walking through the
train which was carrying the crowd to
the fight, with his hands slowed deep
into his pockets. Reaching the middle
of the ear, he was surrounded and '' lift
ed'' by a crowd of jovial fellows, who
shot him along clear to the end of the
car, but seemed to che disappointed.
When the quiet individual got to the
door of the ear, he turned arOuud held a
roll of greenbacks aloft, and yelled
.You-, I've got it yet,'' They
had succeeded in getting his hands out
of his pockets, but he had kept the wad
Of money i'm his grasp, and the search of
his pockets was a waterhaul. The
crooks were sadly disappointed lot.
Another scheme for getting mems hands
out of their pockets is known as the
"Jew pick-pockot racket" A careful
party, who is complacently clutching
his pocket-book. is suddenly lifted near.
" out of his boots by prod between
the shoulders with darnino-needle.
He instinctively grabs for the punctured
spot, forgetful of all else, and turns
around to do Justice to the fellow that
struck him. He is confronted by po-
lite chap, who humbly begs pardon and
explains that he happened to stumble
with the needle in his hand and hence
the accident. Meanwhile a alight-finger-
ed pal is going through the unguarded
pockets, and by the time the victim
gets through rubbing the would, his
Dodge City times., 1877-06-09


ihe lives, the work and the habits of
those who gain livelihood by law
breaking have always an interest for the
public on whom they prey, which is in
eNplicable, and there are few who have
not harbored strong desire to see a
real live burglar. thief or highwayman.
The recent influx of notorious crooks,
which has given the police department
little more active work than usual, has
brought this subject quite prominently
into public notice, and Republican re-
porter picked up among the detectives
few items of information which may
not be uninteresung.
Outlawry has lis classes or grades as
distinctly marked as are the grades of
any lawful calling or occupation, and
the operators in either grade, as rule,
confine themselves to it.
The work which requires the best
nerve. the best knowledge of mechanics,
and the longest experience. is that of
what was formerly known as "safe-
blowing" The expert safe-blowers of
the country are very few in number, and
hence il is comparatively seldom that any
extensive operation of that kind is re-
corded. A wonderful progress has
marked this trade. Fifteen years ago
the only effective method which this
daring class of burglars had dis
covered for opening a safe
was thai of pouring powder into the key
hole, or some drilled opening which en-
abled them TO reach the cavities of the
lock- The powder being exploded, the
result would be either such an exposure
OF the bolts as enabled them To shoot
them back, or an exposure of the interi-
or of the safe itself. But this method
was very defective, i'll that the noise of
the explosion was such as 20 give notice
10 the entire neighborhood that some
thing unusual had happened. and thus
necessitate prompt decampment.
Whenever it was practicable, the opera
tors buried the safe in bolts of cloth,and
thus to a great degree deadened the
sound; but no process could wholly OBJ
viste The danger of discovery.
During the past few years, however,
the science Of burglary the calling
has certainly enlisted some of the
BEST INVENTIVE MINDS
of the world-has developed a process
which has none of the drawbacks of the
blowing operation, and which has
Dodge City times., 1877-06-09
DETECTIVE KNOWLEDGE.

PecuIiarities of Some Classes of Law
Breakcrs-R-markabie improvements in
the Art of neutrality-suspicious. of
some of the Most Noted Burglar
Bank-Sneal<s and Pick-Pockets-A Cat
fle-Dealer'- Triumph.
Dodge City times., 1877-06-09


cudgelling. When large safe Is to be
gone through now, there are at least
three, and sometimes four or five, men
in the job. They are men whose mus
cles and courage recommend them more
than their address, and their little gang
has most thorough organization. For
several days previous to the job
the one who has the manage
ment visits the locality, takes his bear
ings, and seldom neglects to sight and
consider any little detail in the sur
roundings which may cut any figure in
the work. Sometimes it is deemed best
70 reach the safe by cutting through the
floor above, sometimes to go through a
sidewall against which the vault is built,
and sometimes to enter the room or bank
by forcing or unlocking the doors.
There are two or three cases on record
where an entrance has been made by
getting into sewer, having taken accu-
rate bearings by measurement, and then,
by aid of . compass, tunneling under the
street and sidewalk to the wall where the
entrance is to be made. The manager
has also, in some cases, to devise a
scheme for silencing watchman, and
in order to work to good purpose it be-
hooves him to learn something of the
characteristics and habits of the man he
has to deal with, in order to determine
upon what plan to adopt in getting rid
of him. A burglar always prefers to
avoid inflicting personal injury, if a gag
or n drug will serve as well. The brand
of the safe must also be learned, in or
der that the style of work may be deter
mined beforehand. Burglars usually
have preference in safes, growing fire.
quently, not so much from the inferior
ity of the manufacture, as from the ex-
perience which they have had in ''blow-
ing" that particular kind. A thorough
going professional, however, always
makes it a point to secure engravings of
the interior arrangements and the locks
of all manufactures, and study of
these always enables him to act intelli-
gently.
All preliminaries being completed,
the time is chosen for the work, the
choice favoring such time as will allow
the largest number of hours of freedom
from interference. The tools are trans
ported to convenient place by night.
Some of them are cumbersome, and
must be well disguised in packages.
The long, powerful "jimmies, or dou
ble-edged or pointed crowbars, are in
two pieces, which can be Joined at the
middle with ring bearing a screw
thread. These pieces are easily carried
by being run up
Dodge City times., 1877-06-09
THE CoAT-sLEEvE.

/
When the time to begin work arrives,
the watchman, if there be anv, is quiet
ly disposed Of One man takes the po-
sition of lookout, where he can COM
mand view of the streets, without HIM
self being seen, and whence he can sig
nal his comrades within to cease or con-
tinue their work as outside circum-
stances prompt. There must be at least
two others within, but there are some
times more. The improved appliances
mentioned above consist of highly tenn
pered wedges OF various sizes and a
powerful screw arrangement. A hole
being drilled into the face of the safe,
this screw is fastened therein by screw
thread. and the appliance being braced
strongly against the edges of the safe
and the floor, a jimmy is used as a lever
to turn the screw. The power thus
gained is fairly irresistible, and the face
of the door or side is fairly torn loose.
The wedges are applied to finish the
work which the screw has begun, and a
large sledge, with covering on its face
to deaden the noise of the blow, is
vigorously applied to them. In this
way the work progresses so rapidly that
the professionals freely boast that they
will enter any safe that is made, if they
be allowed four hours to do it in. If,
as detective remarked, the cracksmen
had had during the war the appliances
that they now command, there would
have been numerous gigantic robberies.
This class of operators do not, as a
rule, spend much of their time in public
places, and the long experience which
was necessary to qualifys,them for their
trade always enablesthem to judge pret-
ty well whether or not they are under
surveillance St. Louis has not been
troubled by any of this class for con-
siderable time The last expert visitors
wore Boyle and Wood, the two convicts
who made their escape from Sing Sing
by jumping on an engine rs it passed
under bridge on the grounds, captur-
ing the engineer and fireman. cutting
loose from the balance of long train,
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1877-02-28
Hsync-vlIIc uicrosiyphic..
HAYNEsvILLE. ONO Co. KY, !
February %, 1877.
Editor Herald:

February %, 1877.
Editor Herald:
Thou asst already done more for US
and better by us than we we're able to ask
of thee or in any way worthy of receiving.
There are some things which we do un~
derstand, and some things which we do
not understand. know what you mean
when you say fellow gets "bulldozed;"
but to divine how a man (ra,ional) could
live in this glorious land OF liberty-pass
his days in peace, die without remorse OF
conscience, and never once in all his life
have friendly visit from the general Wis
itor who brings to us so much general in.
telligence-l mean the al Hartford Herald"
that spicy little sheet, which We could not
live without-at least, we fancy we would
die Of dire hunger. But. as We are not in
the habit OF living without it, we cannot
conjecture with any degree of certainty as
to what would be the inevitable result.
and see, too, by what a bewitchingIy
handsome gentleman this sheet is headed,
one that would do honor to the most lord,
ly sanctum in all this broad land Of ours
Now, fellow citizens, 10 take birds-eye
view Of this picture, and to reckon up the
true state Of case, it IL ono which becgars
the gigantic stretch ofmy august compre>
hension. GRHPER.