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4* BOLD BLACK BART. A PICTURESQUE HIGHWAYMAN OF CALIFORNIA. The vjelcyll and Hydev Career of a Stage Robber Who Terrorized the Pacific Slope and Kluded the Officials for Many Years—Again at Work. There is good reason to believe that Black Bart, the boldest and most no torious highwayman ever known in BLACK BART. California, is ope rating again. The five robberies of stage and coach on lonely mountain roads in northern a if or a a southern Arizona during the last few months have abun daut earmarks of the famous lone highwayman of the Sierras. More than this, two of the passengers in the held up stages knew something of Itlack Bart when he held central California in terror 20 years ago, and,-from his speech and figure, are sure that their robber is the noted bandit. Moreover, no one seems to know what has be come of him since his release from San Quentin prison, where he had been sentenced for eight years. The trial of Black Bart for highway robbery in Visalia, Cal., in May, 3884, revealed a mass of information about this unusual bandit. For 17 years high way robberies by Black Bart had taken place at intervals and in least expect ed localities, all the way from Port land,.Ore., to Yuma, Ariz. His arrest came about iu this way. In March. 1S84, the stage coach that traveled the rough road over the deso late hills and through the lonely gulches from a gold mining camp in the Sierras to Marysville, Cal., was held up by a masked, lone highway man, whom the driver and all the pas sengers recognized by his manners and speech as none other than Black Bart. The veteran highwayman had reduced his mode of robbery to a science, and when lie had quickly harvested a crop of gold Watches, purses and bits of jewelry, he shouted to the driver to go ahead. When the coach had rumbled out of sight on the way down the mountain side Blaek Bart turned his attention to splitting open the wooden box con taining the Wells-Fargo Express Com pany's treasure. Something must have disturbed the highwayman while he was gathering up the money from the treasure box, for when the stage coach passengers had armed themselves at the next station and hurried back to the sceue, later in the day, they found among the debris of papers, empty purses and wrappings of parcels a linen cuff. The robber evidently had dropped it in a hurried light to his refuge. The cuff was turned over to the ex press company detectives. They found, after weeks of inquiry, that the indeli ble laundry marks were those of a Chinese laundry on Bush street, in San Francisco. When the detective had'learned from the Chinese laundry man that the marks on the cuff indi cated that it belonged to one Charles E. Bolton, a regular patron of the laundry, they set about to hunt up Mr. Bolton. It came out that Charles B. Bolton, who owned the cuff, was a quiet, unobtrusive, spare man of about 50 years. He lived in a modest and quiet boarding house, where sedate, old-fashioned business men had rooms, and every one there was his friend. When a detective weut to live in the same boarding house he found that Mr. Bolton was a studious man, lived a correct life, was a reader of new books. dabbled in poetry, and every few weeks went away to visit one of the several little mines about Califor nia in which he had investments. Bol ton was an expert whist player, and evidently he had traveled far and wide in his early life. His hobby was water colors, and he spent whole days in painting bucolic scencs alone in his rooms. Then when he had dined in style along with the other bachelors in the boarding house he went alone to the theater, where he took the least conspicuous seat. He uever got mail and never sent letters, but he devoured the daily newspapers at times. Never theless it did not take the detective long to connect this quiet, polished gen tleman with the most dreaded outlaw in California. A MEETING WITH BLACK BART. For 17 years he had kept half the sheriffs and constables, a lot of detec tives, and all the United States mar shals in California ceaselessly watch ful for a fresh deed by Black Bart. He had many a time walked down to local tank carrying a snug fortune te his gripsack—the proceeds of & re (tit affair out on "the road"—past of 8m Francisco people. while they were excitedly .. discussing Black Bart's latest hold-up. The outlaw was convicted and be cause of his confession and apparent determination to lead a new life he was sentenced to dan Quentin prison for only eight years. He was a model pris oner, and he earned all the commuta tions of his sentence for good conduct. He was libueated in July, 1890. For a few days he lived in Sacramento, wait ing, he said, until he got some money from Eastern relatives, when he meant to go to Seattle and earn an honest liv ing. Then the man disappeared. There is no doubt in the minds of the officials who participated in Black Bart's capture before, but that the ac complished stage robber is again at work and will once more lead the of ficers of the law a merry chase before lie is apprehended. NAGGING. One of the Sins that Destroy Home Comfort. There is one exceedingly disagree able habit into which some people fall without seeming to notice it. This is nagging. They cannot say what they have to say and then let it alone, but ke'ep pecking and pecking at it on ev ery occasion and if occasions do not arise naturally, they make them. In this nagging, sarcasm, or irony, bear a leading part. A thing may be said once or twice as a pleasant raillery, in a genial humor, but when repeated over and over it ceases to be fun. It then cuts. Sarcasm is a two-edged tool it cuts and wounds the one at whom it is aimed, and it irritates and roughens the one who uses it. It is a dangerous tool for one to use who wishes to be either kind or just. It comes easily to the lips and the in tellect takes a certain kind of delight iu aptness, ingenuity or sharpness. Its use grows on one. At least the habit becomes so habitual that it is used unconsciously. However good-natured one seems to take it, it is almost cer tain to leave a sting there is a wound that hurts. Struggle against it as one will, there 'will often be an impression carried that some part of it is meant in earnest. Too often do all of us wound the feelings of others by carelessness in speech. AVe cannot too carefully guard ourselves against the nagging habit. It rasps anJ wears out the best of dispositions. Let us endeavor ever to make our speech kindly, even when obliged to find fault. "A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword." We shall never err by speaking too kindly. These naggers are often kind at heart and would not willingly wound another. They have formed the habit uncon sciously and are not aware of how frequently they indulge in that kind of talk. It does not occur to them that any one may take a further mean ing than they have meant, or that any part of it will be taken seriously. It is unavoidable, however, that this is so. The nagging habit is the real reason why some women find it difficult to re tain servants. It is for the sharpness of their tongues that some really ex cellent people are avoided and disliked iu society. People dread the tongue lashings that slip so easily from the lips and without real malice, but they, nevertheless, cut deep. Let us put a guard on ourselves and see that this habit of sarcastic speech and nagging is not ours. The Chinese have a say ing that "A man's conversation is the mirror of his thoughts." There is a truth in it. If we habitually talk in a certain way, we grow to be that way in character.—Milwaukee Journal. A Smart Man's Clever Ruse. "I saw your wife in a car with you the other day," said friend to the gay Wall street broker. "I thought she was going to stay South over the holi days." "She thought so, too," and the brok er smiled. "She was with friends down there for a long time, and kept writ ing me not to tell her to come back just yet." "How did you manage it?" "I didn't write for her to come back. I just sent her last month's gas bill. It was for 11 cents. She got here two days later, and her trunks have been coming in on every train since." Then they both smiled.—New York Press. Tunnel Under North Channel, The estimated cost of a submarine tunnel from Wigton, Scotland, to Lame, Ireland, twenty-three miles, is $50,000. 000. There is no immediate prospect of its being built. Subsidizing ManofitctoriM, Under a law passed two years ago the Hungarian government may subsi dize almost any kind of manufactory. Every kind father should drop mon ey into the children's bank, in order that their mother can be supplied with "change." MAKING MAPLE SUGAR. Method of Gathering the Sap yua Boiling the Sirup. Maple sugr and sirup are favorite sweets the country over, and this fact gives a general interest to some infor mation about the maple sugar industry which has practical value also for the sections where this particular kind of sugar-making prevails. An American Cultivator correspondent supplies the following details: The evaporator is the first and most important consideration. The point to be considered in an evaporator is the one that can make the best sugar in the least possible time with the least amount of fuel. Evaporators are made of gal vanized iron or steel, copper or tin. They are usually supported on iron arches lined with brick, but sometimes the arches are made entirely of brick. Storage tanks, draw tanks, sirup tanks, buckets and pails are of galvanized steel, tin or wood. We consider gal vanized steel the superior article be c-ause it will not rust. Bucket covers can be of wood or tin spouts, steel or tin. Take a sugar place of 3,000 trees or, rather, one that uses 3,000 buckets. When the "boss" thinks it is time to "sugar," the men are set to tapping the trees. A three-eighths or one-half inch bit is used, and in large trees the hole is bored about two Inches deep, in smaller trees only about one and a half inches. Spouts are driven or screwed in, buckets hung to each spout and! ©ov ers, if they have them. Some trees are tappepd in two' or three and oftentimes four places, hang- BOILING THE SYRUP AT THE: CAMP FIRE ing a bucket to each spout, of course. Then, the weather being right, the sap ruus, aud the teams are started as soon as possible, for the quicker the sap is made into sugar the better the sugar is. Men with pails holding sixteen quarts go to each tree, collect the sap and empty it into the draw tank, which is being hauled about on a "sugar sled*! by a pair of horses. These tanks hold anywhere from twenty-five to fifty pail fuls. When a load is secured, the team is driven to the sugar houses, and the sap, by means of four-inch pipes, is drawn from the draw tank to the stor age tank. The storage tanks are placed on a staging on the outside of the sugar house and connected with the evap- TAPPING THE MAPLE TREES. orators by rubber hose or iron pipe, the flow of sap from storage tank to evap orators being regulated by automatic valves. Thust he sap enters one end of the evaporator, working back and forth through partitions and corrugations till it reaches the other end of the evap orator, when it is drawn off as "sirup." The sap is not "handled" any from the time the men pour it into the draw tanks until it comes out a finished ar ticle, i. e., made sirup at eleven pounds to the gallon. This may be put away in sirup tank3 and allowed to cool and settle, and then, if the sugar is wanted, this sirup is put into the "sugaring off" pan on a separ ate arch and boiled down until the right pitch is reached, when it is taken from the fire, stirred gently and allowed to cool and then put into tin cans or wood en tubs, and it is then ready for market In the form of maple sugar. THE POWER OF SUPERSTITION. The Gypsy Charm and Its Alleged Miraeulous Cure. Superstition Is a force to be reckoned Vith and not despised by those who la bor for the good of the poor in the large cities. A philanthropic woman of New York tells the following experience: "A poor Italian housewife, living In Mulberry street, had a swelling of the knee. She told me of her trouble and I gave her the address of a free dispens ary, where she went for treatment. The treatment did not cure her and she drew out from the savings tank a large it WV iff T'. '5^ tpart'of her little hoard of savings, and, (in spite lof all my protests, paid it to a fgypsy woman on the outskirts of Brooklyn for a charm. This charm con sisted of a piece of parchment, on which were written some queer char acters. i'he whole was tied up in a lit tle bag and was suspended by a string around the patient's neck. When she showed it to me I laughed the^thing to iscorn and tried to show her how foolish she was to pay hard-earned money to a miserable quack. I could not convince her of the folly, however, and so gave up the effort, trusting to time to prove me right. "The neighbors of the woman with the swollen knee soon heard of her gypsy charm, and one of them who had an eruption of the skin which bad long defied the power of medicine to remove it begged for a copy of the charm. The first woman was ready to do this favor to her fellow-sufferer, and as neither could read nor write they used a 10-year-old son of one of them to make the copy. This boy bad been attending a public school, and his parents were exceedingly proud off bis ability to read and write 'American.' Bat the lad could .make nothing of the gypsy writing on the parchment. He was equal to the occasion, however, and: showed he haJ the making of a true American, for he would not acknowledge' defeat. What he wrote was 'This is know good.' "It was not until some time- after ward that I heard of this, whem the woman with the skin trouble' waw show ing me the copied charm. When I saw the trick the boy had played' on- both of them I thought my vindication! haid truly come'. But when I explained: it all to her she met with the knockdown, argument:. 'Well, miss, it cured us both.' "What could I say to that?" When a Man Falls Down. Slippery sidewalks tend to bring out (emphatically one of the peculiar sides of human nature. No matter how much the fall injures a man physically, it seems as nothing to the damage to his self-esteem if perchance his misfortune happens to be witnessed by some one elsei The first thing the unfortunate does after picking himself up is to look all about him with an idiotic smile on his face, just as if he took the whole thing as a joke, but anxious to see if any one has seen his tumble. If there happens to be some one near by who has witnessed the fall the smile vanishes, and there is a display of temr per that is ludicrous. It is his hat that suffers. It is pounded instead of brushr edi, as if that hat was responsible for the- humiliation, or as if be could, get square with the hat by a "roughhouse?' sort of brushing. If, however, no one is in sight, and no face is seen at a win dow, the unfortunate goes his way af ter a few preliminary limps, as if the thing was a matter-of-course incdient, that must be taken good-naturedly in common with the other trifling affairs of a lifetime. The result is about the same when a soft, slushy snowball, burled by a small boy, finds its n&ark on the broad back of an otherwise' dig nified person.—Washington Star: The Origin of "Buck-Board." "There are few persons," says a sol dier who, long since returned to eivic ranks, "who know how the name of buck-board came to be applied to a ve hicle. It was way back in the *20s, when the transportation of goods, wares and merchandise was principally all by wagons. Dr. Buck, who for long years after was the military storekeep er here, was then in charge of stores en route to army posts in the South west. In east Tennessee difficulty was experienced by reason of the rough roads, and there were frequent mis haps, mostly from the wagons over turning. Dr. Buck overhauled the out fit, and abandoning the wagon bodies, long boards were set directly on the axlcS or hung below, and the stores were reloaded in such a manner that there were no further delays from breakdowns, and the stores safely reached their destination. The idea doubtless was not new, but Dr. Buck's example was followed, especially when roads were rough, and soon much haul ing ras done by the use of wheel, axle and boards only. Now the fashionable buck-board recalls the old gentleman to some of us."—Washington Star. Perilous. In! the higher regions of the Cordil lerfis refuge buts have been erected for the postmen who have to make their rounds till late in the winter. Even thus)some of these men perish every winter, if overtaken by a storm lasting several days. The nearer a girl approaches the age of 80ithe more anxious she is to lose her self-possession. love for pickles doesn't nec essarily sour her disposition. fife Trr. "V .-.. JR.. Functions-of Rubber Tree Milk. No definite function has heretofore been ascribed to tb« milk of the rubber tree from which rubber is produced. It lias no. nutritive value to the tree and it does not assist the1 growth in any way that ha» been ascertained. What, then,, was nature's object in providing the latrex,. or milk,, of tropical trees? A rub ber expert has reeentiy suggested that it i» probably intended to protect tropical trees from the- ravages of destructive in sects^ This seems a plausible theory,, as almost all tropica 1 trees have some such: milk,, which is unpalatable to insect dc vourersv Soft, rapidly-growing trees have particularly large quantities of it.:— Philadelphia Record. EARIiIEST RUSSIAN MILLET Wilt you be short of hay If so plant at plenty of this prodigally prolific mUlet. 5 to 8 Tons of Rich Hay BEAUTIFUL CHILDREN Made Well and Strong by Pe-ru-na. no Robbtns. Per Acre. Price, &01b*.SL.»0t ISO IU $8.00 Lms FMlcfet. John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis. —Merchants and parents at Kateus wood, a Chicago suburb, have united to repress the comic valentine. None will be sold this season. —There are 5000 persons engaged In the fishing industry in the Hawaiian is lands. We are never without a bottle- of Piso's Cure for Consumption in our house.-— Mrs. E. M. Swayze, Wakita, Gkla.^ April 17. 1901. —One per cent, of the entire popula tion of the country is enrolled on the list of fourth-class postmasters. riTA Permanently Cared. Wo flu or nerromne—after rll tntdtj'anw of Dr. Kline'* Great Nerve Re storer. Send for PKEK $I.H trial bottle and treatlae. DR. R. H. KUKE. Ltd.. Ml Arch St.. Philadelphia, Fa. —American clocks are to be found in the most remote hamlets in Siam. PUTNAM FADELESS DYES do not stain the hands or spot the kettle. —Paper" twine' stockings .at 3'cents a pair are the latest thing in hosiery. MRS. WIN"SLOW'S SOOTHIXG~SYRUP for Children teething softena the gums, reduces in flammation. allays pain, cures wind colic. 25 cents a bottle. —Spanish war veterans at Honolulu have organized Camp Roosevelt. Do you like Mrs. Austin's new dress? —Honolulu consumes half a ton of candy each day.<p></p>ST. Comforting, Soothing, Kills Pain Instantly, Nothing So Gooii. Mrs. Schafer, 436 Pope Ave., St. Louis. Mo., writes:^ "In the early part of last year I wrote to you for advice for my daughter Alice, four years of age. "She has been a puny, sickly, ailing child since her birth. She had convul sions and catarrhal fevers. I was always doctoring until we commenced to use Peruna. She grew strong and well. Peruiia is a wonderful tonic .the best medicine I have ever used."—Mrs. Schafer. Mrs. C. E. Long, the mother of little Mina Long, writes from Atwood, Colo.,„ as follows: "We can never thank you enough for the change you have made in our little one's health. Before she began tak ing your Peruna she suffered every thing in the way of coughs, colds and croup, but now she has taken not quite a bottle of Peruna, is well and strong as she has ever been in her life. She has not had the croup once since she began taking Peruna and when she has a little cole a few doses of Peruna ,fixe$ her out all in* M'NA foilk ESTER5 LON HESTER ROXENIO ROBBINS A factor's Little Daughter Cured of Grip by Pe-ru-na. Dr.. R. Rbbbinfh, Pltysieian and Surgeom of Muskogee, Indian Ter.. writes: "I have been a practicing physician for a good, many years and was always slow to take hold of patent medicines, but this winter my little-girl and myself were taken with the grip. I was so bad I was not able to sit up. I sent for a doc tor, but he* did: me no good. "Finally sent and got a bottle of Peruna' and commenced to take it. I took: two bottles- and! my cough was gone and my lnngs loosenied up and my head became clear. MSy little girl took the same- way: "It looked as thomgh she would die, she was so) sick.. J? gave her medlclnei but It seemed1 to- her little good, so I sent and got one more bottle of Pe runa and commenced to give It to her. It was only a short time until she was getting along all right, so I give your medSdne, Peruna, the praise for what It did for me- and' my dear little daugh ter."—Dr.. ... We can never praise- it enough."—Mrs. C. E. Long. Mrs. G. W. Heard,, of Howth, Texas, writes to Dr. Hartmant in regard! to her baby girl, Ruth: *AMy little girl had some.- de* rangement of the bowels. She wa& a mere skeleton and we did not think she would ever get well. After giving her /ess than one bottle of Peruna she was sound and well. Now she has agood appetite and is a picture of healthi" Mrs. Heardiatlso writes in regard, to'her son, Carl: "My son's ears had been affected since hewas baby only a fewmontfis old. The last year 1 thought he bad almost lost hfs heating and had a iocal physlclani treating him for about six weeks- Flhaliy I began giving him youtr remedy, ana after he had taken»two bottles he-wast entirely cared. I cannot praise Peruna enough."—Mrs. G.. W*. Heard. If you do not receive prompt andisatis^ factory results from the use of Peruna, write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a full statement of your case, and he will, be pleased1 to give you his valuable- adr wee gratis*. Address Dr.. Hartman, President of The Hartman. Sanitarium, Columbus^. ()*. JUSTTHINKOFIT •as? 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