| Show A DANGEROUS PAIR the state of maine has ft a jean valjean in the person of the outlaw nadeau A united states marshal got after him near Aro not long ago and met with such euch a reception that the right of way on all public highways has been awarded nadeau by common consent ever since bince A reward la Is offered for his hie apprehension but the people are either quite independent and not at all in need of money up that WELY way or dont believe in obtaining it in that manner perhaps however like the man and the be bearthel arthey bear they lost any outlaws of late and have no need to go in search of them nadeau is a smuggler who has established the doctrine of free trade in a practical way over the canadian border barder the government on this side would like to have him the best beat kind and it cannot be said that he gives given them no but from whatever cause the powers that be are not supporting up porting him yet and probably will not for some time to come he to is assisted in his hie nefarious work by his brother who is almost as much a desperado as himself certainly OTta the risks they jointly run at times go tu to show how that neither to is in the least afflicted with nervousness A constant watch with a portable arsenal is kept up at home or on the road and when an unwelcome caller comes along he is given a warning to come no nearer than he is and a reasonable time within which to retrace his stops steps which so far has been done with re uniformity the brothers are not destitute of generosity by any means nor are they at all ail discriminating regarding whom they courtr confer it upon A few days ago they went to moose river settlement to do some trading one standing guard as usual while the other ran the business department when in the out skirts karts they found a teamster with a broken down cart and at ones once nadeau sent him in for some blacksmith Od tools the driver returned with about half the adult male population along with him the brother with gun cooked advanced to meet the squad quad and re requested them in his blandest blankest blan dest tones to halt which they then and there immediately did he then drew draw a line in the road fifty paces from the wagon and said nothing more but the crowd knew what that line meant at least none of them crossed it meantime the outlaw worked away at the wagon as an coolly as if he were not performing before a good sized audience when the work was finished the teamster was sent lent on an hla his way rejoicing the tha oro walked sheepishly wk from cheno wh crews they came and the brothers faded fade d into i the woods the most moat lurid of our cheap altera ture could carcell scarcely car cely contain adyth excelling oelling ex this incident or for til th matter several Inui incidents dents in the oar of the nadeana Nade aua aus the reward 1 for the th has ha probably been increased inore aed by frk 01 time and it to ii idle to suppose that this tou toils rul not be drawn about IK sooner boner or later while the bettens general ther m benses of C r these men do not ot with the grower crimes r auk i ing perhaps lose less of moral tur I 1 tude than the majority of tak t I 1 demeanors demeanor they are still contrary rain T I 1 law and the government t cannot toi S ate them to intersperse tola generosity or a dash of romance an ct of 0 I 1 w with the routine procedure now and th I 1 makes it more readable but does i abate its criminal character one jot act t |
