davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
, 1880-09-06

School teacher, to little boy vhase
father is liquor-seller. "Now, Johnny,
If your father has barrel OF whlskey
con aiming forty gallons. and one fourth
of 1t leaks out. how many gallons 'oes
he lose9" Johnny don't lose none.
He fills it up again with water right off"
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-01-08
a Boys Fortune.

Hal, boy OF twelve, after a season of
discomfort, concluded that he was not going
to stay at home, and work 'for nothing"
So he told his little sister that some dark
night, when the wind blew gale, the thun-
der roared and the lightning flashed, he was
going to slight out, to seek his fortune,
and was not coming back either until he
brought oceans of money; then he would
be considered of some account, and not told
to do this, that and the other for nothing.
The little girl became so nervous and un-
happy, whenever storm was brewing, the
mother noticed it, and questioned her for
the cause, and so found out the true story.
There was family consultation, and Hal
was tol by his father that, if he was not
satisfied with his home, he need not wait
for an inclement night, but could go in
broad daylight, right out of the front door,
with his clothes in new valise instead of
tying them up in bundle, some money in
his pocket, accompanied by the best wishes
of his friends, and, if not successful in his
endeavors to earn "oceans Of wealth, -"
could return and be warmly welcomed
home. Hal hung his head, but said he
had better be earning something. Father
said, eyes, it's manly to wish to work. "
nd that he knew of man in the neighbor-
hood who was then hunting some one to do
mans work for boys wages When told
who the man was Hal looked disconnected,
but said he supposed he need not be too
particular, as it was wages and not the man
he was after E'All right, I'll try it" was
the decision: so Hal was off with the birds
next morning-and, ,thiswas his experience.
When Hal arrived at Mr.. Van Nests, he
was received with these words 80 you
are on hand; your father spoke to me about
you yesterday, and engaged a days work
for you. It's bargain, is it,"
Hal said; eyes, sir" but was too much
abashed to say word about the wages.
''Had your breakfast 2"
And when Hal shook his head, said,
"That's bad, but come in, s'pose you'll
! have to eat something"
So Hal went into the small untldy KIT.
chen, sat down at table against the wal
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-01-08
Red Hair.

Throughout creation nature appears to
delight in red. 1t predominates in the
pleasure of the imagination, for whatever is
beautiful, agreeable, or sublime partakes of
red. The rainbow, the rose, and the charm
ing lip and cheek of beauty's self, the sun,
the source of heat and light, are all red; as
is also the fire, the mighty autocrat of the
universe. The most brilliant flowers, the
most delicious fruits, the orange, the apple,
and the peach, are red. Through the an
ilnal kingdom red predominates, as in the
king of beasts, the lion. But go further:
Adam, the first of mankind, was red. The
greatest of Grecians, jupiter, Apollo and
Vulcan, were crimson. SAMSON, whose
strength was gigantic, derived his power
from h1s red hair, and the destiny of the
empire of Athens depended on the red hair
of Nisus. Queen Elizabeth had red hair;
so had Spencer and Shakespeare Milton
is another instance of the proof of my pro-
position Also Defoe, the author of that
world-renowned story, Robinson Crusoe.
LAFAYETTE had red hair; Bonaparte's hail
was of this color, Artemus Ward had rec
hair; so have the Red Indians, or else why
so named?" etc.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-01-08
"NIaKs Soup of L om"
"What use do you make of old boots?'

"What use do you make of old boots?'
"Well," said lie, Sin Paris they might
make soup of them, but in America we sell
them again. Why many good pair of
uppers are nothing in the attic or closet
they might be sold for - or 80 cents, thus
bringing money in the family al clearing
the house Of trash that is on y in the way.
We buy up these old boot legs, pack them
in boxes and send them to New York and
Philadelphia. No, sir; we are not thieves
in disguise, and we don't 60 round to get q
sight at front bolts that we may be ter
know how to go about picking locks and
getting into houses That is u mistake
This legitimate business Of ours. TO be
sure, il is a little low down or off-color,
but there is little money in II and we
might as well have it. We get through
here in few days You see, there are
many cheap John shoe stores in the world.
| mean such stores were very cheap boots
are sold. Well, we sell the old bootlegs
and new feet are put to them and the
old leg is finished up nearly as good as
new. The man who buys them is generally
quite poor and it does him no harm to
wear that kind of boots so long as they are
clean. Then again the leather we buy is
uoed for various things and answers the
same purpose as new leather does
There" continued he, holding up a
pair of boot legs, is pair of French calf
legs which bought up street this morning
for twenty-five cents. I'll get about seven
ty-five cents or one dollar tor them. They
are in excellent condition. Some day /
can make as high as four dollars. We deal
with reliable men, and get our cash early.
OF course We meet with many ups and
downs in our business, but as for that, who
don't2 At some places we are insulted,
and at other points kindly received. There
is money TO be made now -a-days in our
business, but the panic that has just closed
compelled men TO hangon to their old boots
rather long, and this slackened our trade.
have bought at least ten thousand, pairs
of old boots in the past ten years.
"What is your name2'
"My name is Tompkins, sir. and hail
from New York. | do not belong to n
gang of thieves, and wish you would say
so in the paper. have seen better days,
but when pinching poverty comes | must
make my living the best way | can. have
found many high-priced old boots in this
city, boots that could not have cost less
than eighteen or twenty dollars, and they
only about half worn out. Such as that
are half-soled and sold for secondhand
material"
"Then you don't belong to the gang
called trampsl"
''No, indeed, sir. Neither am thief
or n murderer; nothing but q stranger in
your city, for few days seeking an honest
livelihood
AS the reporter thanked him and was
turning to leave, the blue-eyed man spied
the mistress of an adjoining house at the
window, when his clear, shrill voice echoed
the words from housetop to housetop,
ANY old boots or shoes to sell. mefain r.:
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-01-08
Mistakes.

Ii is mistake 10 suppose that man new
er employed as conductor Of horse car un-
less he can bring the certificate of 6
respectable physician testifying to his total
deafness. 1t only seems so to you because
you happen not to attract his attention when
particularly desirous to take lns car.
1t is mistake to think that your actions
or desires have any influence on the Dispen-
ser of weather. You should be thankful
they do not If they did, Old Prob would
60 mad and your fellow countrymen go mad
der.
1t is mistake to think your interlocutor
is listening to what you say. He is think
irg either of what he has said or is going to
say, just as you were and VII be.
1t is mistake, young man, when you
think the G rls are just dying after you. 1t
is only you who are thoroughly in love with
yourself.
1t is mistake for preacher to say, ''Just
one word more, and | am done" He but
lengthens his discourse by somuch, without
deceiving any one of his hearers for an in
slant.
1t is mistake to suppose that everybody
is thinking about you. You do so much of
that kind of work yourself that you exhaust
the subject.
1t is mistake to expect direct answer
from politician. His life is giving to dodg-
ing questions before election and giving eva
sive answers after election.
1t is a mistake 10 suppose that profess
ing Christians perfect. lie is very much
like yourself.
IL &c n ,,,;Ctaka tO srnDosa that vour chill
dren will be satisfied with your experience.
You didn't accept your fathers, but prefer
red taking term in the same dear school.
1t is mistake to suppose that men do not
mean what they say. There is but one man
of whom you can positively make that atfir-
nation.
1t is a mistake to suppose that the dis
mally pious man has had change of heart.
The change is in his liver, if anywhere.
1t is a mistake to suppose that people go
to q concert to hear the music. They simp-
" go to exchange receipts for doughnuts
and drop-cakes.
II is mistake TO suppose that your friend
is consumedly interested in your eloquent
description of your liver troubles. On the
contrary, he is excessively anxious to tell
you of his catarrh.
1t is a mistake to wish the butcher would
remove the bones before weighing your
meat. How would you like to be weighed
that way yourself.
1t is a mistake to suppose that physicians
know how to treat your constitutional disor-
ders as well as yourself. You know well
well enought what is best for you, but you
dislike to undergo the proper regimen. You
employ doctor, paying him for shoulder
ing the responsibility of your sickness, and
handicap his efforts with all your unhealth-
full habits and practices.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-01-08
GastronomIcs in tho TyroI.

Throughout South Germany the English
traveller is apt to complain of the prominent
place which veal occupies among gastrono-
mic materials, and Tyrol is no exception
TO the rule. 1t must be said, however,
that much ingenuity is displayed in varying
the forms in which it appears. Moreover,
it is a fact that other kinds Of animal food
are obtainable Beef is tolerable, ham and
bacon are much better than an Englishman,
who is apt to think that swine's flesh is
uneatable on the Continent, would suppose.
Chamois, when fresh (Which it seldom is.
that served at tables d'hote being preserved
from the previous winter in pickle, and
roe are very tolerablc. But it is in her
puddings that the Tyrolese cook displays
her genius NJ. Albert Wolff, Frenchman
though he is, has rendered homage to the
excellence of the Tyrol neehispeisen, and
their variety is inexhaustlble. Let not the
English housewife, however, hope to ''pick
up wrinkle" unless she be one who can
contemplate without dismuy the use of a
dozen eggs and pint of cream to single
dish. 1t is on the unlimited supply of the
ingredients, as well as on her own skill,
that the Tyrolese cook relies. In the mat
ter of drink the strangers will fare as well
as elsewhere Just as in Switzerland, there
are two kinds of wine-red and white
both very decent when not too new; but
they are not, as in Switzerland bottled and
labelled according to the price which the
! consumer wishes to pay. Till recently,
! the regular measure was the Seitet, about
two-thlrds of pint but of late years the
litre and its fractions have come into gene
! raj use.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-01-08
Genius and Want.
Homer was q beggar.

Homer was beggar.
Spencer died in want.
Cervantes died of hunger.
Terrance, the dramatist, was a slave.
Dryden lived in poverty and distress.
Sir Walter Raleigh died on the scaffold.
Butler lived q life of penury and died
poor.
Bacon lived life Of meanness and dis
tress.
Pautus, the Roman comic poet, turned
q mill.
Paul Borghese had fourteen trades, and
yet starved with all.
Tasso, the Italian poet, was often dis
tressed for five shillings.
Steele, the humorist, lived life Of per-
feet warfare with bailiffs.
Otway, the English dramatist, died
prematurely, and through hunger.
Chatterton, the child of genius and mis-
fortune, destroyed himself at eighteen.
Bentivoglio was refused admittance into
hospital he had himself erected.
The death of Collins was through neglect,
first causing mental arrangement.
Savage died in prison at Bristol, where
he was confined for the debt of forty dol
lars.
Fielding lies in the burying ground OF
the English factory at Lisbon, without O
stone to mark the spot.
Milton sold his copyright OF Paradise
Lost" for seventy-fve dollars, at three pay
ments, and finished his life in obscurity.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-01-08
A Strict Diamond Test.

1t is the rule of Lord Chamberlain office
at London to send to the Queens jewelers.
for valuation all the ornaments which are
found in the palace after court ball or
concert. The day after state ball gen.
tleman came to the Office and inquired for
a diamond necklace which his wife had
lost the night before. The chief clerk as
sured him that no diamond necklace had
been found; whereupon the husband pro-
ceeded to expatiate on the enormous sum
which he had given for the necklace, with
description of its various beauties. The
clerk listened in silence which much ap-
parent sympathy, and, just as the loser was
taking his leave. quietly remarked: 'lt is
a very old coincidence, but your nacklace
was of the same pattern as paste orna-
ment which has been found but which has
been pronounced of 80 little value that it
was not worth Advertising" The paste
ornament was produced, and it ended by
the gentleman signing receipt for it,
which involved swallowing a large mouth
full of humble pie after his circumstantial
description of the cost Of it,
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-01-08
The Old Red Cent.

AS the old ''red cent" has now passed
out of use, and except rarely, like the ''old
oaken bucket" its history is matter OF
sufficient interest for preservation. The cent
was first proposed by Robert Morris, the
great financer of the Revolution, and was
named by jefferson two years after. 1t be-
gan to make it appearance from the mint
in 1892 1t bore the head of Washington
on one side and thirteen links on the other.
The French revolution soon. created rage
for French ideas in America, which put on
the cent instead Of the head of Washington
the head of the Goddess Of Liberty,-a
French Liberty, with neck thrust forward
and flowing locks The chain on the re-
verse side was displaced by the olive wreath
of peace; but the French Liberty was short
lived, and so was her portrait on our cent.
The next head of figure that succeeded
this-the staid classic dame with fillet
around her hair-came into fashion about
thirty years ago, and her finely chiselled
Grician featured have been but slightly
altered by the lapse Of time,
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-01-08

to breakfast very different, and served up
very differently, from the morning meal al
home. Halls appetite, which the brisk
morning walk had sharDened, had suddenly
abated with Mr.. Van Nests salutation, and
wholly departed at bis wife's cold look at
the "new boy" The first order was to
hitch the horse to the plough, then an old
tin bucket was handed Hal and they started
for the field. Mr.. Van Nest said, "Stick
to your business to-day, boy; look sharp,
for want you to pick up angle worms, as
| turn the furrow, and fill that gallon buc-
ket, if you're smart and know what's good
for yourself.
"Are you going fshlngl" Hal asked with
sudden interest.
.''Never you mind where I'm going-only
follow me and stick to business
Hal did not mind STOPPING over so many
tunes in a minute, at first, though the birds
sang their love songs in the trees around
him, and the breeZes whispered in his ear,
as they famed his cheek, TO Come, come
DER the hills and away, fishing" He re-
sisted the impulse to fly, and did stick to
business most assiduously.. After while
he ventured to ask again:
''What are you going TO 90 with all these
worms, sell them TO the stu1entsl"
And he was told again: Never you
mind what I'm going to do with them; you
just stick TO your business"
When noon case, and they went to din
ner, poor Hal had became 50 disguised with
his work, that eating was farce. Before
starting for the field again, he made pro-
test, but was, "See here, boy, you and |
made bargain for a day work yon do what
| tell you. or Ill make you"
Hal was subdued, and marched off, and
went TO work. He was dizzy, faint. tired,
hungry, sick, but he dragged himself after
that everlasting plough. And SO the long
ending, and SO did this wretched day.
They went to the barn, unhitched, and the
man took up the bucket, shook his head,
said mot half enough, and putting pen
ny in Halls extended hand, said Snow,
clicket for home, youngster before dark. !"
Hal threw the money at the mans head,
and started on run. How he got over
the ground, he said he never knew, but he
burst in upon his astonished family looking
delapidated enough and very considerably
demoralized. lie sobbingly told the story
of his wrongs, and as he sat in the large
rocking chair, looking into the glowing en-
bers of Spring fire, which burned low up
on the hearth, he soliloquized thus:
IL don't believe, as long as live, shall
ever care cent for angle worms again,
and you'll never catch me complaining
again, can tell you
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-01-08
Painless Death.

In one of his lectures Prof. Tyndall spoke
of the great probability that entire absence
of pain accompanied death by lightning
1t is probably supposed that an impression
made by the nerves, blow or pnncture is
felt at the precise instant it is inflicted, but
such is not the fact. The seat of sensation
is the brain, and intelligence Of the injury
must be transmitted to this organ through
a certain set of nerves, acting as telegraph
wires, before we become conscious of pain.
This transmission or telegraphing from the
seat of injury TO the brain takes time, long
CT or shorter, according to the distance Of
the injured part from the brain, and accord
ing u the susceptibility of the particular
nervous system operated on. Helmholtz,
by experiments, determined the velocity Of
this nervous transmission in frog to be a
little over So feet in a second; in the whale
about 100 feet per second, and in man
at an average of 200 feet per second. If,
for instance, whale 90 feet long were
wounded in the tail, it would not become
conscious of the injury nntil half second
after the wound had been inflicted. But
this is not the only ingredient in the delay.
1t is believed that in every act of conscious
ness a determined molecular arrangement
Of the brain takes place, so that, besides
the interval Of trannission, still further
time 10 necessary for the brain TO put itself
in order or its molecules to take up the mo-
tionS or positions necessary for the compile
tion Of consciousness. Helmholtz considers
that one-tenth of a second is required for
this purpose Therefore, in the case of a
whale, one second and one-tenth would
elapse before an impression made upon its
caudal nerves could be responded to by a
whale fifty feet long.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-01-08

Good-by, if it please you, sir-good BY.
This is a world where the wild swans fly,
This is a world where the thorn hangs on
When the rose its time 10 gone. Is gone.
Good-by-good-by good-by.
Good-by, if it please you, sir-sood-by,
You are here and away care not why.
This is n world where Man has his will,
A world where woman had best be still,
Good-by-gso !-bys-Sood-by.
Goo3-by, IL it pleaas you, sir-eood-by.
This is n world where-ws see the sky;
After while the stars will fall;
And the end w,n-maks an end of il all.
Goo od-by-eood-by-good-5y.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-01-08

1t is wonderful how silent man
can be when he knows his cause is just,
and how boisterous he becomes when
he knows he is in the wrong.
Show me the man who cares no more
for one place than another, and VIII
show you In that person one who loves
nothing but himself.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-01-08

Goldsmith's ''Vicar Of Wakefield" was
sold for a trifo to save him from the grip
Of the law.
New-York tribune., 1880-06-25
REPUBLICAN DISTRICT MEETINGS.

The ratification meeting of the XVIIIth
Assembly District Republican Campaign Club, nj Glass
Hail. iu Thirty fOurth-st. last evening largely at
tended the audience cneercd frequently and heart
ily. The meeting called to order by G. H. Bruce,
prcsJen Of the club. ana Christopher Pullman read
letter from General Arthur, rcgrctng his Inability
present. Resolutions commenting tho Chicago plat
form and pcdgng the club tO work zialuusy for the
Republican nominees adopted. Judge Fithian was
then introduced. lie said OF tho cnnati Convention
that the Democrats had thrown AWAY the only issue
they pOEsessrd-he fraud Oryby burying its oprr-
sentative under 100 Vot for Union sOnier, aud tho
novel sight presumed OF Confederate Veterans
voting for the who hashcd them 80 badly al Get.
tyBburg. He considered the DrmOornLc simply
soldier, with no civil training to lt him for Presl-
dency
Ameelug OF tho XIIth Assembly District Republl-
Campaign Club OF which John G. Llnbock is prosi-
dent and Andrew Doan secretary, took place at No. 20
East FOurths last night OF resolutions approy-
ing In enthusiastic terms the nOmlnces OF the Chicago
Convention were read nud adopted, after which tdo
meeting adj burned.
large and enthusiastic meeting OF Republicans Of
tho XIVth Assembly District held at No BAG East
Twelflhst last evening. John II. Nugont stated tho
object OF the meeting to Dc the formation Of Garfield
aud Arthur Campaign cub. Tho following officers were
elected: President, William IL. Abercrombie; Vice
presiGsnta Augustus p. MnrgFdf Andlow IArkin and
patrick J. Kelly; treasurer Rci ri i. Wnlhh secre-
tarea Pcer IL. Med maid aud RObcr, Ray. Jr Resolu-
tons offered by j. Il. Nusent approving the party