The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1891-04-24

go"
"Thev know kind of sand vat they
look for, unit ven they find 1t they dlg
down unit got the water"
"Zor'
"That they do buy the farm shows
thew have funded that sand"
CO.
cunt the first thing you will know
thew will build big hotel here, unit pay
some doctors to tell the people that the
waters cures everythings unit sell that
water in bottles, unit make more money
as you never saw; unit you are fool II
YOU sell that farm for ten thousand dol
lars"
$50"
eyes, that is 20; unit you must make
them pay ten times so much"
"That would be Won hundred thousand
dollars"
"vell, maybe there is that much
money"
care you done?'
eff am vat will you say!"
$50 to shleep."
Heinrich! Gan you think of that
boor poy Jacob shtanding outside the
fence around that big hotel we're the
rich gentlemens unit ladies are, unit sayin'
| nit broken heart, 'Mein water sold all
that for boor leedle ten thousand dol
lars Ach, Heinrich, you got no heart
at all for that poy!"
"Get yum tuyfulr' roared the exasper-
ated old man, plunging out of bed and
retreating to the guest chamber, where
he locked himself in and tried to get
some rest during the remainder OF the
night in another bed
In the course of the forenoon follow
ing that nocturnal discussion a middle
aged tough looking citizen sauntered up
to the porch and inquired of Farmer
Kropff. who was as usual seated there,
if anything stood in the way OF his nav
ing dinner with the family.
..Yes: the old woman have got gol-
ossal prejudice against feedin' dramps,
RESPONDED the old man, eying him with
marked disfavor.
"Trampsr' echoed the tough citizen
y seeming rather amused than lnsulted
You're away off, senator. shoule
: think you'd live long enough to be
t better Judge of a mans style. Do the
| tramps in this part of the country carry
+ letters of introduction like these?
n AS he spoke he drew from pocket
handful of ten and twenty dollar golc
f pieces and poured them, clinking melo
f diously from one grimy paw to the othel
@ before the farmers astonlshed eyes.
a ..Mv gracious!" calculated Her
s Kropff Excuse me, sir. Will you no
d take seat?'
h IL don't wonder at your taking me TO
a a tramp" continued the man, acceptln
r the invitation, ''as my get up may be
q leettle off accordin to eastern notions
g STYLE but in the country | come fror
d clothes don't count for much, and Nv
!, ,,ot 70 be sort of careless about EN-,
l, reckon
ID .From we're do you come, mein frlnd!
"Montana, Idaho, wherever there
k gold. to'ard the sunset. My names Da
h. Cbipland. but I'm better known as tn
,e Goldbug of the Sawtooth Range"
II ..My gracious! Never | did hear til
like of that.
it ..prob'bly not. But there's lots ha
ed TIM n modest flower, but not scare
he where I bloom. Why, say, senator, ~
located more big mines and made an
as snent more big money than any otht
~ man west of the Missouri river. I'm
H. nrosnector from way back, am, an
dont Won forget it. These are some of N
own producing" And again he dazed Il
lie farmer with his handful OF gold.
lit Your producing? How vas that
~ ..My digging. Got the gold out #
,em myself. Staked the high muck
ed muck of the mint to have my own du
er coined for me, the hull hundred weight
Hundred weight of vat!'
on .Gold dust, that washed out myself
en- "Potztansend"
,st ..Oh. I'm boss of the placer, al
l You ought to see me toy with pan"
ne .Vat is that toy NIT PAM"
The Goldbug condescendingly ana T
ut tiently set forth by simple phrase al
ample illustrative pantomime the a
SIS. and mystery of placer mining, emo
fishing the dry details with wealth
yas romance respecting his achievement
Herr Kropff, with open mouth ana on
NJ" ing ewes. listened in silence, the wh
he thick LAYERS of wonder piled up over
nto mind. Gradually suspicion stole up
it'll him that the mysterious proceedings
nd the New Workers must have been sol,
my thing akin to those now brough TO
knowledge. He therefore repeated WI
Reuben had told him, and asked
led guests opinion upon 1T.
the There's no tellin'," answered n
No Cb;plaud with an air of grave cons
BILE Grafton. ..in this offhand way. 90
ew won see. is Just as likely to be found
uld one place as in another, most al
ose where. 1t has been got in every state
In this Union. more or less. Wherever
; to find black sand. if the other Indicate