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Dodge City times., 1883-02-22

sof work is accomplished, as the booty
is heavy enough to carry away in itself,
so that tools are left behind. Mechan-
les of superior class exist in larger
cities who make speciality of fashion
ing burglars tools. In the absence of
such mechanic the tools are collected
in parts. but as this is risky way Of
obtaining them it is avoided if posi-
bic. Kits of the tobyman's tools are
kept on hand for hire, and good col
lection can be obtained in the centers
of the business for from $500 to 5000.
These tooi-renters are genera;ly tool
makers, also, but often the fence has
them OF hand. and it is part OF the busi-
ness of the old cracksman to keep them.
Fifty per cent of the noted burglars are
practical smiths and thoroughly under
stand the temper and capacity of their
own tools. Sometimes a gang, each
owning implements of different kinds.
pool their possessions, and thus make
up a full Exit" The tool-makers have
their specialties. Some are famous for
chisels, others for punches and jimmies,
and one maker has made Il national rep
utation for sledge of lead and copper
that entirely superseded that formerly
used of steel, because Of the dull, al
most noiseless, blow it strikes.
The latest great improvement is in
drills that cut into the hardest steel like
a knife into wood, especially the double
rachel drill of Howard, the burglar, who
was murdered by his comrades some
years ago for treachery. This drill is
said to be able to bore hole through a
solid block of steel as easily as does a
gimlet in one of wood. Another tool
called safe-opener, made on the prin-
ciple of the domestic oyster-opener, will
cut the front out of safe when once it
gets hold. But the most powerful and
destructive instrument used by burglars
is the safe drag. originally made in En-
gland. 1t weighed at first about 500
pounds, but American ingenuity has got
it down to little over 100 in weight
and improved its qualities. An expert
can tear a strong safe literally to pieces
with this terrible machine. = Cleuelund
Herald.
Dodge City times., 1883-02-22
A Pest of Wild Ducks.

The wild ducks are more destructive
to grain this winter than are the geese.
At least, that is the complaint of the
ranchers. While the geese feed more
or less during the day, the ducks con-
fine their depredations to the night,
when the darkness prevents the herd
ers from successfully warning against
them. Charles Chapman has been
greatly annoyed by ducks, and his grain
has suffered to u considerable extent.
But Charles has hit upon an expedient
that is not only protecting his grain,
but threatens to annihilate the duck
family. He stretched five strands of
barbed fence-wire from the top of his
barn to a post twenty-five feet high,
placing the wires about eight inches
apart. A hair-trigger shotgun, loaded,
was fastened on the side of the post, at
the top, the muzzle pointing along the
wires. From one OF the lat er a small
wire ran to the trigger of the gun. This
trap was set Thursday night of last
week. The wires were only about thirty
four feet in length. About two o'clock
Friday morning Charles was awakened
by the discharge of the gun. Then fol-
lowed chorns of 'quacks." He went
out. On the ground in the vicinity of the
wires he found twenty-three ducks;
nineteen were dead, and the remainder
crippled so they couldn't fly. Ten of
the lot had been struck by the shot from
the gun The remainder had flown
against the wires, the shock killing
them. He reloaded the gun, and put
up one of the wires which had been
loosened from the pole. Between three
and four O'clock the same morning he
was again woke up. but didn't 60 out.
When he arose in the morning he picked
up thirty-seven dead ducks-making
total OF sixty during the night. He was
in town Friday, and told us that he in
tended erecting at least 500 yards of the
trap on his grain fields. The expert
ment was sugges ed to him by recollec-
tions of the manner in which prairie
chickens killed themselves by flying
against the telegraph wires s.back
East" The experiment would be a
costly one to large ran hers. but, if the
game was bled Immediately, so that it
would be fit for the market, the sale of
the ducks would more than meet the
outlay. y.-Gr1dley (Cal.) Herald.
Dodge City times., 1883-02-22
Testing Seeds.

Those who have not grown their own
seed, and are obliged to go into the
open market to buy, should remember
that there is always more or less uncer-
tainty about getting new seed of good
quality; it is the efore important, if
they would avoid complete failure
that they should take some method to
test the terminating quality of all seeds
they buy. To do this, it is important
that the seeds should be purchased at an
early day, that in case they should not
prove to be good, there will be time to
purchase more and test them before it is
planting time.
To test seeds, certain number should
he counted out and planted in a box or
fower-pot, keeping them in warm
room. BY counting the number that
grow, the terminating qualities of the
seed can be very nearly ascertained.
and thus sometimes complete failure
prevented. 1t is true this will not de-
Dodge City times., 1883-02-22

eide all that it IS esirable to- know; fer
sometimes the seed may grow, but pro-
duce variety altogether different from
what it was purchased for, or what is
desirable. There seems to be no RENE
dy for this except to purchase of refia-
BILE parties, or. what is better, save Your
own seed: This sin some eases may .he
very difficult to.do. but a large. proper
ton of the seeds used by the farmer
can be very easily saved if he will make
up his mind to do so. He ought never
20 buy established varieties of corn,
re, barley, beans, squash, melon, cu-
cambes. tomato, onion, beet, turnip or
parcnip s6sd; but ought to grow them.
becanss they can all be grown of
better quality thaa he will be likely to
buy, especially the garden seeds; for
these can each be iilproved in direc-
tion to better suit his czvr taste: this, if
no other, is a great induce1nent for ev-
cry one to save their own seeds. as far
as possible, but there are seeds that it
seems necessary to buy. Improved va
rieties of all products need to be occa-
sionally bought. Hungarian grass
seed, oats, ensilage corn and peas, can
be bought cheaper. if not of better
quality, than can be grown. The custom
of buying seed has become so general
that comparatively very few seeds are
grown by consumers; hence the i'm
portance of the advice that seeds be
purchased and tested at once. .-NaSsa-
chusetts HOuglsnan.
Dodge City times., 1883-02-22
The Burglar and His Methods.

The methods of the American thief
are very comprehensive and skillful;
more SO than are those of the profession,
for such has thieving become, of other
countries. 1t is commonly acknowl-
edged among the first police officers
in the world that, for a fine job, the
American thief is far ahead of the other
nations. Why should they be? That is
somewhat of mystery, unless to the
training he has received under the
tutelage of the best of English thieves he
adds the peculiar daring, GOODNESS, cum
ming and skill that seem to be inherent
in the fully developed American; but no
matter for what reason, the fact remains
unchallenged that he stands at the head
of the craft. A consideration of his ways,
gentle and otherwise, will be interest
ing to read. He is divided in many
families, but first and foremost among
thieves is the bank burglar or ''high
tobyman." He is the king-bee in the
criminal hive. and affects to be a gentle
man when not engaged on '1ay."
The history of nearly every large and
wealthy city abounds in instances of the
bank robbers daring roguery. He
presence would not have been felt had
he not left a ''kit'' of beautiful tools be-
side wrecked safe or bank vault, and
taken in exchange greenbacks and
bonds that may be thousands, but more
often is millions. This in his peculiarly
sportive moments he might term a fair
exchange. and does; but no amount of
sportive wit can persuade the bank Off
GERS into thus regarding the visit
Bank burglars are not in the habit
of working alone. They travel in
gangs, and have at Their beck and
call a crowd of confederates-cap-
italists, layers-out and go-betweens.
The first-named "stake'' the cracks
man when he is broke, furnish
the funds for his expeditions, and
when he is in trouble look generally to
his interests. The layer-out is the
brains of the gang. plans its expedi-
tions. often furnish the funds, and, aft
er a success. shares the spoils. The 60
between is he who acts as agent for the
return of non eligible bonds or securi-.
ties of any kind, for, although these
papers have no real value to the
burglars, the bank people are pinched
by the same wise, and between the two
inconvenience both are willing to
sacrifice something in the interest of
harmony and the rest Pank burglars
tools are generally of very superior
order, gathered with care and piece
meal until the kit is made up. 4 full
kit of the best order is worth $4,000
This may all 60 in the event of fail
ure of a lob by disturbance. and gen.
orally does 90 when successful piece
Dodge City times., 1883-02-22
A Black.FiSh Drive.

A "black-fsh drive is the Cape Cod
fisherman's ideal of sport. The black
fish or grampus. appears frequently on
the coast in schools of from four to five
hundred, and is driven at every fish
ing hamlet along shore from Truro to
Cedarville. A drive" is managed in
this way: When school is discovered
feeding close in shore, score or so of
boats put out to intercept it. The boats
are in two lines, one on each side OF the
school. and pull silently out until far in
the rear, when they unite and advance
on their prey. No fish is more timid
than the grampus, as the fishermen
we'll know, and they take advantage of
this t ait to efect his destruction
When still several hundred yards away.
the schooldiscovers the toats and begins
to show signs of alarm. Then the drive
begins. The boats are urged forward,
the crews splash the water, fire pistols,
blow horns, wave their fisher-coats, and
yell like Comanches. The frightened
fish rush shoreward- only line of
retreat-through the breakers, high AID
dry upon the beach A few remain in
the surf, and among these the men leap
like madmen, shouting, thrusting with
lance and pike. never ceasing until the
last victim is slaughtered.
'Its excitin'," said grim old
whaler, '.but it's kinder harrowin' tew.
There's young uns among 'em that cries
out like human, and it goes agin'i the
grain to stick 'em." g.
Tales told of the booty taken in these
drives seem incredible. Four hundred
have been driven ashore at one time.
The old whaler above quoted assured
me that he went out one moonlight
night, short time before my visit, and
captured sixty-.our. Another time. in
company with the Wellheet fishermen,
he drove 800 ashore at Billingsgate.
Beside his share he purchased 100 at
S15 each, had them towed to the try
works in Provincetown, and realized 80
profit apiece on them. Warerls Maga-
zine.
Dodge City times., 1883-02-22
NICHOLAS b. KIAINE. EDITOR
CLIMBING THE STAIRS.

With tagging steps and anxious heart
Sought my home one summer night;
Some plan had faird, some hope was vain,
And had fought weary fight.
felt not in the summer air
The scent of flowers and bleaching hay,
did not know the night was fair,
For shadows of the troubled day.
And as stood within my door.
Still full of fears, and doubts, and cares
A clear, sweet voice behind me said:
"Ts just a-creeping up a'stairs!
turned and saw my little one.
Quite happy in her brave intent,
As step by step, with hands and feet,
Up to the very top she went.
Just step by step, with hands and feet
slowly, but still without a stop,
Till with a crow of victory
She sat down on the very top,
And stretched out loving HANDS to me,
Who claSped her to my faintng breast
The little angel who had brought
The cheering words of strength and rest.
Isaid: "Now. fainting heart, be brave;
See here the image of thy strife:
'Tis step by step, with hands and feet,
We climb the road of daily life;
Ills step by step all good we win.
With tOiling hands. upon our knees;
Upwards and OnwardS, step by step;
But at the top is rest and ease.
And ever after day by day,
L boldly faced my many cares;
Telling my heart: Another step;
We're only creeping up the staIrS!
Thus fearing, tOiling, hoping still,
l did not turn, L did not stop,
Till with a cry of victory
l sat down on the very top.
But never in my brightest hour
Have | forgot the weary day,
The SAD. almost despairing walk
Home, in the evening still and gray;
The half-unspOken prayer made
For help to bear my weight of cares;
The climbing child-the clear, sweet voice
as just a-creeping up a'stairs!"
Mary A. Barr. in Christian CniOll.
Dodge City times., 1883-02-22

Lima Beans: Plant with the eye
downward or the young root and top
will be hindered in the growth. Do
not plant too early nor tco deep. Half
an inch is the proper depth. J.
Herald.
Dodge City times., 1883-02-22

"A curious advertisement appeared
in a late issue of the Liverpool Mercury.
1t read as follows: 81 lost my purse
containing two guineas and a sixpence.
The finder can keep the gold if he will
return the sixpence, as it was the
amount of damages l received from the
Midland Railway for breaking my leg.
The bit of silver cost me f21O. George
Amesbury."
Dodge City times., 1883-02-22

Charles Reade told a correspond
ent of the Philadelphia Times that the
favorite character of all his novels was
Margaret in ''Clois.er and Hearth"
s. To me my characters have an exist
ence." he said, mot always pleasant,
Il is true, but always fully individual
lied, thoroughly human, and with pos
sibilities of an intimacy and an ac-
quaintance." He thought that his
weakest story was white Lies"
which he described as splendid con-
ception spoiled in the carrying out.
Dodge City times., 1883-02-22

Corn Sponge Cake: Two cups of
Indian meal, one-half cup of.four, one-
halt cup of molasses, two cups OF milk,
sweet or sour, two teaspOonfuls of soda,
and little salt.-1He Household.
Weekly Phoenix herald., 1883-05-10

Continued damp weather often
causes rouD in fowls. In order to
prevent 1t the best quarters must be
provided. Dryness, warmth and
freedom firm draughts are the best
safeguards.
Reputticdn: Vera Cruz must be
charming place to dwell in. The
population has just been visited by
an epidemic of catarrh, attributed
by the ignorant to the building OF
Yank, railroads into the coun ry;
and this foreign pestilence is now
about to give place to the genuine
homemade article of yellow fever.
Catarrh half the time and yellow
JACK the other half is the cheerful
portion of the Vera Cruzans.
This is the greeting which Texas
paper extends to the new past I:
'The Rev Mr. Glass, the preache
r the ensuing year, has come. He
has pre- ty good clothes, doubties
purchas d with means saved by sys-
tcmatic starva ion from his salary of
last year, for he looks little lauk.
Ii is perhaps, quite proper that the
world and especially his church
members should take his good clo-
thes into consideration and ,lcHdbcat
the Lord This year. Th re is nos
thing more to appreciated than free
religion
Take strip of paper or cardboard
thirteen inches long and and five in
ches wide, thus giving Il surface of
sixiy-five- inches. Now cut this
strip dag ,uaily, as true As possible
Of making two pieces in C shape s,
a triangle Now measure exactly
five inches from the larger end
of each strip andcut in two piece.
Take the strips and put them in
the sh lpe of an exact square, and i
will appc al to be eight inches square
or sixty-four square inches, loss
of one square inch of superficial
measurement. with no diminution of
surface. The ques' in is what be
comes of that inoh?
AT the close of a recent revival
meeting in Custer, Mich. one of the
brethren complained to his pastor,
the Rev. Andrew FaulIIer, that in
calling upon the various members oil
the church tolead in prayer he had
made an 1n}fdious discrimination
against the PLAINTIFFS wisf, and de
cIared that 1fi1fess she Were invited
to lead off at the next meeting he
would avenae the slight. Mr.. Faulk-
ner, it appears, is not the MN to be
brOwbeaJeh. nor is he deficient in the
manly art IS self-defensc; and so
when thei par shioner made the thre-
atencd asA Al-. it was not the pastor
| wl.r l,it 'N..a.,-+
Weekly Phoenix herald., 1883-05-10

Goldman & Co. hs We removed al
partitions from the. ir large ware
house corner of Cente. and Jefferson
streets, and now have an immense
store room of it.
Any many can tell VI either adver
tising pays by trying it a while and
comparing his ca h reee ipts with
those of similar periods when he
did not advertise.
A band of outlaws are ongre-
gated in San Diego county, say s the
Los Angeles Herald. tor the pur pose
of pilaging the Gu tom houses at
Tiajuana and Ensenada-
The funeral of Miss Maria Pes
quiera took place from the Catholic !
church this forenoon at 10 o'clock
a large number of friends and rela-
tives followed to the cemetery
We hope our Mineral Park ex-
changes will send their papers to
PhGnix via San francisco Express
matter now passes those points in
four days and from San Francisco
to Phoenix in two days, making six
days on the road via San Francisco,
while it usually taxes about fifteen
d Us across the coun ry
DIR. Gregg today reports Mrs.
scars as still insonsible from the {
stroke of club on the head in the
iands Of one of the Pima Irdians S
IN rhe d y cf the fight, the 25th of /
April. Her symptoms are growing t
farming and il + not probable that '
he can urvive in her present con +
II;ion much longer. D.
Weekly Phoenix herald., 1883-05-10
Jum peFS, e ewaTe!

ALL PERSONS ARE HEREBY NOTT-
- fed not TO purchase from one J. g.
Bullorsl any interest. part or parcel oT he
following mining claims, situated in y una
Cuonty. IN the Hacuaver MOurtins. near
Collins We'll, Arizona, tO-wit: Emperor
Regent. King, Queen and rrince mines
The said j c. Sullord owns no interest in
the said mines, and the undersigned are
the absolute owners of the same.
d. c. king,
&. h. PHILES.
r. *. MCGRATH
Weekly Phoenix herald., 1883-05-10

! The stroud Theatre company, with
- Charlie Kohler at it's head, rather
i takes the lead of anything of the
z kind in the Territory. The music,
with Mr.. F-rrer at the piano and Mr
Silsbee's violin, is probably une-
, qualled. For five months this COM
pany has held the boards nightly
and still continue to draw houseful
eve ery time
Notice has been received at FIT.
Mcdowell of the discontinuance IF
the postoflice at Reno This leaves
an immense scope of country with
out a postotfice, but as there has
never been service at that place the
| loss will lie lightly felt. Ii seems
that the Star Route frauds have
si.aa ken the confidence OF the govern
ment in western postal routes, and
Arizona is punished with heavy
hand { or the sins of others.
Work commenced to day on the
Arizona Canal which will ferilize
the plains north of the Grand Canal
for a distan ce of thirlh- five miles in
len 9Th. 1t W. Il carry forty thousand
inches of waite, Mr. w. J. Muir
ply has tax en- ol At twenty teams ac
companied l'y W 2rkmen, and will !
make his headquart, ers at the mouth
of the Verde. In the fall when the
heat Will not interfere with full
more force will be added
and the work vigorously Pre- secured
to completion. 1t estimated tina the
work. though gigantic, will b. con- I
Dleted in the fall or winter of 1881
n sufficient time to allow the plant
nE of crops for 1855. +
DR.. r. T. Osbo.n returned from :
San Francisco by yesteruay's coach.
lie has been inside" for the purpose
# purchasing stock of goods and o
for The drug business, ?
Which he i about to open up in the Il
next door to Irvine & Co, "
nd which is now being handsomely u u
itted up for the purpose 10y the in Ii
reduction of bay Windows and by
.eneral renovation. The Doctor is p
n old hand at drugs and will add 81
D the buslne>s of Phoenix first A
lass drugstore. We trust that his il
nergy' enterprise, and the bona f1e d
nvestment which he has mafe Will Il
nd ample remun Grafton among US. d
Weekly Phoenix herald., 1883-05-10

Visions in claims a baby with six
arms. Tennyson had probab' heard
of this curiosity when he wrote his
son,-"Hands all Round"
The Boston Transcript recon-
mend kerosene oil to take the smell
of onions out of the breath, doesn't
state how many barrels arc necessa-
~.
Two hand-organ grinders were in
the city Saturday. We also noticed
several men with guns. Our read
ers arr capable of drawing their own
inferences.
Il tell YOU, gentleman that dog o
mine is an intelligent critter." "Pos~
ibly," muttered Egg: "but you
wouldn't think it, judging from the
company he keeps"
An Englishman is credited with
having sheared twenty~six sheep III
four hours and twenty-five minutes.
The quickest time made was five
and one-half minutes per sheep.
Last year Holla I'd shipped to En-
gland 1900 tons of butter, $50 tons
of cheese and 4 $50 tons of meat from
the port Rotterdam alone, and yet
Holland is a small conntry as we
view territory.
The Lansing (Michigan) refriger~
ator has now on hand 100000 po-
unds, or fifty tons, of extra quality
butter. This is said to be the lar
gest pile of butter ever seen in the
State at one time.
Agilt-edged delight is the kind of
a thing that fills mans soul when
he is ransackiDg the closet to find a
bookjack and accidentally rakes out
a last summers straw hat, and nOti-
ces the sentimental things that were
written in it last July by some little
blue eyed darling in the mountains.
Hartford Tins,
A peculiar flavor In the drinking
water at the board of trade rooms in
Cincinnati, Tuesday, was recognized
by many members, who wondered if
a distillery had broken loose and
made grog of the river water. 1t
was finally asccrtained that the water
had been placed in empty whisky
barrels 10 allow it to settle.
st Springfield, Mass. a revivalist
named Fowler has been rendering
service for term at Grace Church
A careful footing mp of the result of
of his mission shows that he has
made one convert. The question
now open for discussion is whether
or not this one convert could have
been won from his wi ked ways by
the ordinary course of effort on the
part of the pastor of the church
without the aid of the revlvalist.
The following mixture is recon-
mendcd for taking grease spots out
cf carpets: Aqua ammonia, two
ounces; soft water, quart saltpetre
1 teaspoorful; shaving soap, 1 ounce
finely scrapcd; mix well, shake, and
let it stand TIL the soap IS dis Owed p.
Sponge and rub thoroughly, then
rinse with clear cold water. 1t is a
COOL mixture 10 have in the house ;
kills bedbugs, removes oil mixed
with paint, and will not injure the
| finest fabrics.
To extract essence from flowers,
procure a quantity of the petals of
any flowers which have an agreeable
fragrance; card thin layers of cotton
and dip into the finest Florence or
Lucca oil; sprinkle small quantity
of fine salt on the flowers alternate
J ly until an earthern vessel or wide
mouthed glass bottle is full Tie
the top close with a bladder, then
lay the vessel in a south aspect to
the heat of the sun, and and III fif-
teen days, when uncovered, a fra
| grant oil may be squeezed out, equal
TO high priced essences.