davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1881-09-24
True or False.

Underneath the latticed porch
Sits she of the dreamy eyes;
FREELY has lit his torch,
Starry glory fills the skies;
At her feet the moonlight lies.
Checkered bars of dark and bright,
All the summer night.
Drowsy murmurings from beyond,
Where the treetops brush the sky
From his rank and weed-grown pond
Comes the bull-frog's croaliing cry,
All night long strange beings fly,
Chirp and hum and buzz and boom,
Giving voice to gloom.
But she heeds nor frefy's light
Nor the moonbeams at her feet
Hears no voices in the night
Save some words her thoughts repeat,
Ghosts of golden dreams, and fleet
Echoes of some far-off days ..
Cast in pleasant ways.
And her heart says, ''He is true p
And the blood impulsive springs;
Lighting her pale features through
With the happiness it brings
And her soul, glad child, sings,
Always with an old refrain
'He will come again!"
Hide thy doubling face, O moon,
Ere her eyes may read the truth
Croaking frog, thy dismal tune
Is black prophecy, in. sooth,
For the hopeful heart of youth
All the world in death would lie
If her dream should die.
WaUerley Magazine.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1881-09-24
FASHIONS FOIBLES.

|
IN importers sample books.
Buds on bonnets are about to be
superseded by full-blown flowers.
The most recent novelties in lace are
vivid scarlet and old gold colorings in
Spanish lace.
1t will be good news to some that
silkvelvets are likely to be sold at very
| low prices this autumn.
Button cloth is newkind of chevoit
with raised threads scattered through il
which look like buttons.
| Plush founces that are as rich as fur
and have pile as long as fringe will be
the supreme novelty at midwinter.
Foulards and pongees having excelled
''staying" powers will be the rule for
autumn toilets at the seashore.
Pokes with square projections and
somewhat short sides, reaching to the
top of the ear only, have recently ap-
peared.
A trimming to be used for scarf and
bonnet draperies this fall is an embroi-
dered gauze, accompanied by border
ing to match.
Scarfs, fchus and collarettes have by
no means exhausted the invention of
designers, but are, if possible, more
beautiful than ever.
The newest Mother Hubbard dresses
for little girls are of Turkey red oil
dressed calico or serge, or the soft dark
blue flannel called beach flannel.
One of the richest novelties promised
for the fall is sealskin cloth, a material
embroidered with gold or silver, and
designed for carriage or promenade
wear.
Squares of linen batiste and linen
lawn are now the favorites for legiti-
mate handkerchiefs or "nosewipen," as
our Teutonic brethren would say.
Gowns of one solid piece, frightened
by small quantity of rich trimming,
continue to be recommended by the
best French dress makers.
The small, fluffy curls, which have
for some time been worn at the nape of
the neck, are becoming somewhat
larger when seen with evening toilets.
An eminent artist declines to paint
the portraits of ladies who "fritter away
their foreheads and cover their brows
with smothering fringe of hair"
Fluting and anticipating take the
lead in frills and ruches for the neck,
as they keep their form better and stand
away more firmly from the throat.
Satin finished beaver hats, with
crowns that may be either broad and
low or high and pointed, but of which
the brims are in all cases immense, are
among the stunning novelties.
If you see caterpillar on the bonnet
of lady in front of you at the theater
next winter, do not be uneasy, for the
sweet creature-the caterpillar, that is,
and not the lady-will probably be
made of silk chenille.
Crescents, stars and circles of metal
set with stones, closely initiating real
Jewels, will be seen on fall bonnets, the
tendency being to display more snowy
and costly ornaments than have been in
use heretofore.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1881-09-24
DOUGLAS HALSTEAD'S WIFE,

ALI SOlHB W ulo Iuo uOcCOr
keen gray eyes dimmed suddenly as he
looked down into the wan, girlish face,
SO thin and pale from the wasting dis
ease that baffied his skill, at the white,
nervous hands that lay crossed in her
lap, then he tried to clear his throat,
but answered, huskily,-
"Dear child, no, we hope not. You
have been very ill, and must talk up
change with papa. Be hopeful, Eva !"
and he smiled cheerily as he turned to
Mrs. Campion while he stood buttoning
his glove.
Eva only lifted great, solemn eyes in
a sad, questioning way that haunted the
honest old an as he went, perturbedly
thinking, to obey the various gcallings
of disease and distress. Once he gravely
shook his head and sighed. He was
thinking of his dear little patient, so
gentle and so fondly loved, only sixteen,
yet so womanly for her years; she had
been the light of the house before she
was stricken by this mysterious illness.
She was generous and impulsive to a
fault, warm-hearted, with pure, child
ish mind that even though she ranked
among the brightest students at the
academy, retained the guileless sim
plicity of an infant.
Just before the blighting disease had
fallen upon her, new hopes and aspira-
tions had come. The eccentric bachelor
uncle across the seas whose name she
bore, who had loved her from her baby
hood, died, willing to her his thousands,
and his store of exquisite foreign treas
ures, the much-prized accumulation of
years.
"As the one person who loved Uncle
Jessie. bequeath to Eva Worden Cam
pion my entire fortune and personal
possessions, sure that she will prize
them, the whole to be her husbands in
case of her death, otherwise to descend
to the State National Hospital, in case
of her decease while single"
1t was peculiar every one admitted
that but Uncle Jessie Worden had al
ways admired the poor, struggling,
student-cousin, Douglas Halstead, who
loved Eva SO dearly. Hidden under the
crusty exterior there was warm heart,
and tender little romance he would
have blushed to own twined about the
lives of these two.
Douglas Halstead, only nineteen, pale
from intense application to the few
books he owned, pursued the torturing
useless, ever fleeing ambition of his life
and cursed the grinding poverty that
debarred him from the hope of years
Restlessly ambitious, life became {
burden by reason of the never-s atisfet
longing that possessed him.
"No one but Eva understands me,
he told himself as he went toward he
house that afternoon "she always help
me-"
He echoed the doctors sigh 1; ther
was an underlined fear in his heart a
with his wonted freedom he opened tn
heavy outer door, hung his hat in tn
hall and went in softly to the brigh
room where, in her cushioned chail
Eva leaned back, white as the pillo,
beneath her head. She started littl
as he stood, by her chair and sale
softly
"How are you to-day, Eva dear p
81 wanted to see you," she said, e,
tending her cool little hand for his war
one to clasp in greeting, and failing
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1881-09-24

meant her to feel her exact position
she told herself with sensitive pride
forgetting who had placed the ban o
silence upon him. She never though
her girlish error -sssin," she mercilessl.
called it-without sense of heart brok
en- misery.
'sOh, how could I ?" she would ago
nizingly ask herself; and the grandeu
of her Offering was lost in the intens
modification and sorrow that never lef
her. y,
Twice Douglas Halstead had sough
her presence. She avoided him. Hi
earnest, manly appeal in his letters tt
see her had been unnoticed.
Tonight she was alone, and she wa.
thinking after remorseful fashion that
she had not been quite just, when, in
the same quiet way that he had entered
eight years before, Douglas Halstead
stood by her side.
"Forgive mel" he said, humbly.
"They told me you were alone, and !
must see you. Eva, my only love-wife
this once-though that is forbidden me
-dearer with every hour of life, gar
nered into my heart and treasured as
the grandest, purest memory it ever
knew, don't send me from you! May
not hope some day to win your price
less hearth?
For answer she only covered her face
and wept piteously.
"Have you forgotten ?" she sobbed.
els it because you are honorable. be-
cause you fancy you need be grateful,
that you pain me thus?"
Pain your He sprang to his feet
in vehement passion. 81 would die
sooner than give you pain! I have for
gotten everything save that want the
purest, sweetest woman in the world to
come to her rightful shelter, my heart" !"
He waited eagerly there was no re-
sponse.
"Shall I-must I-go hopeless ?" he
pleaded at last.
"No-if-" the words were very faint
and low-''if-oh, Douglasp M
Tie voice died in broken little sob.
"My proud darling, my wife!''
He had her in his arms noa the
great deeps were broken up. He kissed
passionately the pallid face, and held
the trembling hands.
"What have you thought ?" she asked,
timidly, at last
"That you were too cruel to be the
dear little girl who honored me, as
never man was honored before, years
SINCE" .rsIt,-8e
His voice was low and reverent.
"Oh, I did not mean to be-" she cried,
in tender remorse. "Forgive me, won't
you?"
"The clear eyes met his he bent
low. as
eff you will tell me you love me-
AS she said the words shyly he held
her close, saying
"Thank you, dear love! Oh, may
heaven reward you and bless you even
as am blest You have been first in
my heart ever since can remember,
and now at last you are all my own"
The pride in her face made him smile
fondly, and Eva, won at last, was silent
from purest joy.
The world calls Mrs. Halstead an in
valid, so delicate she is, so fragile, and
it wonders as usual if she be not bur
den to the grand man of such superb
physical and mental mould that she
calls husband. 1t does not see the fon6
care and tenderness which never fall
her, nor yet does it know that its idol
it's king, will carry to death, embraced
in his heart of hearts, his wife.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1881-09-24

Kentucky is about to have mush-
room farm in the Mammoth Cave.
1t is said there is room enough to pro-
duce million pounds mushrooms daily.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-04-15
TAKE A REST,
IL WHAT The POOR OVERWORKED
SENATOR'S WILL DO.
ComparatIyo Peace ReIgns In the Halls
which War SAW-FFOPOSed Caucus
OF RFpublIchns-PTObHbllity OF
Temporary Break In
the Dead Lock.

WASHINGTON, April l4.-The Senate in
tends to adjourn this afternoon unit
Monday, A Republican caucus will prob
ably be held Saturday and will consider
aud discuss the present situation in all itt
bearings and influence. The Republican
Senators generally say that the calling o.
q caucus does not fOreshadow any re-
treat on their part, The Republicans are
entirely united and harmonious. They
recognize the policy OF confirming some ol
the most important pending nominations
Such leading nominations as Robertson
Price, Pardee. Hill and others, have not
yet been referred. Tho first execu'
tive session would, in the natural
order Of business, refer all nominations to
committees. As the committees are con-
trolIed by Republicans, they could re-
port back only such nominations as they
dssire confirmed, and hold back oil others
The only nomination tho Democrats
will fight against Is Chandler's. The
Democrats will vote to confirm all others.
Through the committees the Republi'
cans can control tho executive businesG
and thus maintain their position by stop
ping the executive session whenever
they decide to renew the present fight, BY
confirming the principal nominations, all
the embarrassment OF the present will
be relieved and the Republicans could re-
sumo the fight now on haud In better shape,
This is the position OF the Republicans
as outlined BY some Of the most promi.
nent Senators Of that party. II 10 now
stated positively that Bome time next week
Senator Conkling will, in open session,
make q speech fully explaining his posi-.
tion In regard to RoberIson's nomination.
ConkIing aud his friends have despaired
oil getting Robertson Withdrawn, and now
Oonklipg intends TO give to tho country
bis precise position, explaining every
thing connected with Robertson's nomi.
nation.
Tho Vice. President laid before the Sen.
ate to-day the unfinished business, hOing
the resolution for the election Of officers
OF the Senate.
A motion 10 20 into executive session
was lost aud Senator Morgan addressed
the Senate.
A good humored discussion took place
between Messrs. Hoar and Brown, which
WAS kept up I'LL Mr.. Brown, miHunder.
standing q statement made by MI. Hoar and
msquoting, was excitedly inierrorgated
by Mr.. H0ar Rs 10 whether he implied that
he [Hoarl had said what was not true2
Mr.. Brown denied any intention OF mis-
stating the Senator's remarks, and good
humor was restored by Mr.. Becks bimu.
lated fear that the Senate would lose both
OF the Senators from Georgia, Mr.. Haw.
ley also replied to some remarks ol Mr..
Brown. Alter some opposition from the
DemoCratic side the Senate adjourned I'LL
Monday.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-04-15


BoS1oS, April 3O,-1'he annual report OF
tho oIlicerS Of the AtchinSon, Topeka 4
Santa Fe Railroad shows the Vroaa earn.
ings Tor the past year to be s., 500 O7G, less
operating expenses aud tSXes Of $4, ,343,.
2Oj. The other deductions, expenses, in
Cluding II per cent on dividends, fixed
charges, rentals, etc, aggregated $3,272,.
Obi, leaving a surplus oil S0ll ,7l0 The
Pfesidenta report states that there has
been Rpent on construction, Including
$liS2j, 100 Tor new rolling stock, 81 SOL OPS.
and IN order tU provide funds Tor this and
Other Outlays, largely exceeding the bal.
anCe OF the equipment fund raised 10 1870
made necessary by the vigorous extension
Of the lines In Kansps and New Mexico.
The Directors Issued 81, 24O, 400 Of stock to
their stock h0ldersAt par.
The capital stock has been further In.
Crtated by the purchase or exchange oI
the capital Of various connecting roads
Moteoyet the holders OF 81 PSI, $50 Copsol
dated mortgage bonds avAilpd tbpnselye,
Of the option TO convert them into stock
The road, With It's branches, Ia about 800
miles long, md from tho recently formed
connection at DemlnB with the Southern
Pacific, a large business is expected from
california aud the mining districts o
A,hA1na. The Atlantic & Pacific railroad
81 which the AtChisOu, Topeka 4 SAINTS
SeOompany owns one half the stock, hal
een Geen pushed one hundred miles Wes
lIOm AbbnnnnLnnn. N
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-04-15

wAsntNeroN, April 14.-Tbo question
regarding the payment ol interest on Gov
eminent bonds was referred to First
Comptroller Lawrence, Of the Treasury
Department, to day, as follows: II j. W.
n. ahedld purchase Government bonds
and register them j. W. N, trustee for A.
n, his daughter, 10 whom he desired to
leave them upon his, death, should tho
intetest be paid directly 10 A. N. on the
death OF ]. W, N. without requiring any
further papers or proceedings save the
evidence Of the death Of W. M Judge
Lawrence, alter examining the law aud
ascettaining the legal points Involved, de-
Cided In the case stated that II J' W. N.
would become trustee for A. N. that on
the death OF ]. W. N. there would be
A vacancy in the Office OF trustee and no
PAYMENT Of Interest should be made until
~ court having Jurisdiction appointed
nav trustee or by a decree Terminated tue
jfuSt This, oil course, is on tie ass1mI
tiSn thal there was no written declaration
nj lhs ptitpose Of the tFuIt beyond that
Siaied In the question. But II would be
cnn, nstant for ]. W. N. to declare In the
bond of ia 4 sepstate wfilten declaration
nj itpnSl. dniy executed and acknowledged
that uron his death the absolute title In tht
hnnda. with the righL TO interest thereon
ShnHid vest Ia A. N. III, however," thI
dscision concludes, IA. N. was then .
minor, the interest could he paid only L
lie Guardian until the ago ot majority
The donor, ]. ". N, could In hia deClairs
lion Of trust name the trustee to succeed Y
hIs fights and act as such, Ia the event o
hi9 death, until A. N. should reach ma
jority and absolute title should vest II
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-04-15

wo ,enroduce Senator Camden's speech
-, m, Virginia debt question in this issue
'I,bs TsrELLlGEScER. 1t Is on the whole
,s,y fair presentation Of the case, and
.nIbe Of service hereafter as a collation.
or documentary evidence bearing on the
nrs,,ion. lie pnts In a word for the
D.mocracy IS he goes along by way oi
,ol,iulnv their refusal in 1872 to insert
!, opr present Constitution the recogni-
linn Of the debt Gs 1t stood in our former
Conaitplion, On the principle that "he
vbo excuses really accuses" the Senator
:, that extent reil,es the claim Of his col
,.,,pO made the other day that the Demo
cn'ic party ia really the only party in
West Virginia that has moved Straight
on thla debt question.
The Rgister feels called upon to quote
l,orl Tia Charleston correspondence In
l,,g to,shoS that the important omission
,lIudeG to had really no significance. Now
,noDose We we're to quote from our cor
rs,polsnce.to show thatit did have sig
pl8nnce. What avaIlS such expressions
olOpinlon, As Lord Coke once said, zone
man ayerreth one thing and another man
ore,re,h another thing, but the verify Ia
the record" And 80 we say in regard 10
th. debt question tha! the verify Is the
record, and tho record Is against the
Democracy by reason Of the fact that they
refused to insert IN the present ConStltu'
tI,n a plain and unequlvoCal recognition
oil the debt as an impending question be-
tween the two States.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-04-15

""hlSOroS, April "A. - Postmaster
General zen James has appointed commits.
SVn SU'n 70 make thorough examination
NV. ,,aso l1e alleged steamboat mail service
t,"esa'"tisiea Oh the several routes center.
ing " Memphis. The commisSion will
pos'cNiee In that city.
. ssvIesSY WINDOW will hear the afRu.
Son Stens ~ hoop iron manufacturer on The
ton ties, " ''PeO' W ''e uuIy Oh Cot
to.d,s iIS idt ihdtttsay say Department pufChaset
Nav y iVVVO ounces Of fiue silver toi
M.,.l MuI nium'et Of Immigrants arrived II
TS.t nS,Vn Is II lgj, oIwhom 1900 were from
nusv.uIIauy and 5000 from Ireland, Thu
SSSist uiOet arrived during the nine month
OSS S'I V III March is 3jl ,A22; Of these lO2,
Csn.gse' e'e from Germany, 1900 iron
S"Tn' ~ ana 5000 from Ireland,
U,s W., MoneYpenny, Chairman Of tn
,.on.o., SS commission, recently resigned, ha
SSusenleI S1eI TO serve "a member Of III
,.a.a ,sao.aanu''si9n until relieved by bis sut
SisIsrA.NS SSS'sS'' .NSoo9e,ypcnny Is at he home i
c,,lt,e lGe POSTMASTER General will soon on
Walk; ueclSre all publications. issued
Uni,,I ol Copyrights granted by Ii
,sn. n's.u states IA unmaIlable matter,
,S VI, Ia,a.l ,nal Uaosda has been tepublishir
Wo 'igi,qilcsh ig.9ilcsh book and circulating II
iats' S ."''ea States at lees than AmerlCr
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-04-15
Mx,lnrr ln q nndlen nnnlh.

KEoEUK, IA, April l4,-The sudden
death Of Mrs, Lydia Young, the youthful
widow Of the notorious Bill Young,
lynched in Missouri, is creating consider.
able interest from circumstances con.
neGted Herewith, especially from mys.
terious letter which arrived after her
death, 1t WAS addressed In care OF Mrs.
Orr, with whom the young woman lived,
dated Earl Station, Ills, and signed @,
Pierce. The writer proiessed great atfeC.
tion for Mrs. Young, and offered to come
and visit her or to send her money II she
would meet him at Burlington. He was
cory to hear that she was sick, and hinted
that there was something very curious
about her sickness. It Is said the body oil
Mrs. Young will he disinterred,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-04-15
ROUGH WEATHEK,
A Winter Six MOuths Long and 'COu
slant SNOW Storms.

CHICAGO, April l4.-A special from
Granite Falls, MINI, says: The past has
been severe winter in many respects In
this section Of the State and the lonGest
about ever known, as it is aix months to-
day sluCe winter actually set in here. The
snow at times during February was four
feet on q level, and at present there Is
over one foot OF snow on the prairie, but 1t
ia fast disappearing, and in few days will
all be gone. The Minnesota river at this
point has not yet broken up. There has
been no suffering for want ot wood or pro-
visions In this section this winter. An
abundant crop is looked Tor by farmers,
On the same subject Sioux City, Iowa,
special says: Farming prospects we're
never go dlsCourSging At this season. The
snow covers the ground to the deplh oi
eighteen inches to three feet. Northern
Iowa and Nebraska and Southern Dakota
farmers cannot commence plowiug for
some weeks yet, and the cold weather eel
In 60 early last fall that very little was
done toward preparing the ground for
spring sowing. Spring wheat has been
usually planted and up before this time.
The weather continues very cold, tenn
psrature seldom rising above freezing
point during the day and freezing very
hard every night, and snow storms are
frequent At present the outlook for the
wheat crop Is anything but favorable.
A Yaukton, Dakota, speCialssys; Twelve
or fifteen inches OF snow has fallen since
Saturday night, which has dritted, and the
railroads are blocked as bad as or worse
than ever nd the weather is bitter cold.
The river has fallen some ten feet from
the highest mark, and the channel is par.
TALLY open, hut not enough to admit q
steamboat to run below here, and as all
the railroads are blocked and some washed
out, we have no communication with the
outside world and no mails since the 2B;h
Of February. Fuel and provisions are
running very low.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-04-15

fixtures shaving the Growth Of the In
duAtrIta In the Last Decade.
WMnlNGroS, April l4-1hO bulletin oil
the census on tue iron and steel industries
Il the United States shows the whole
number Of establishments 10 1880 was
1905 In 70 IL was sos. The siEe and
capacity Of the establishments were, how.
ever, much greater in 1880 than Ia 1870.
The whole amount Of capital invested In
1850 was $3.50 Oh ,SS4; 10 1870 1t was $l2l,-
7igOi3, Twelve States made over lOO, 900
ions each in 1850. Pennsylvania, for more
than 100 years the leading iron producing
State in tho Union, made in 1870 .
fraction over 80 per cent CT the total
product, Gnd in 1850 fraction over 40 per
cent, Ohio Ia the next State 10 promi.
HenCe. In 1910 1t produced l40,7GS tons
and $50 2l0 tons iu 1850.
Illinois took the fourth place from New
Jeney in 1850, while producing only 25,.
TGl tone in 10. Illinois produced All ,087
tons in 60 an increase 1852 per cent. Mis-
sOIFi increased in ten years from 04 $40 TO
l9j,1jS tnnB Michigan In the same
period increased from S8674 10 l437l8
tons. Wisconsin increased from A. 234 to
1885 tons. Indiana from "a, l4S to O6,.
III tons. West Virginia from 1887 to
l474S tons. Tennessee from "a 3O5 10
TlOO tons. Kentucky from SG732 10
lS,Ibl tons. Az the States which made
iron or steel in 70 increased their produC
lion In so except Maine, North Oarolinu
aud South Carolina.