davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
, 1882-10-28

any unusual development OF our re-
sources. Tue mineral report for last
year shows that, though the value Of
the years mineral produce was great
er by f45,000 than the average for
the previous decade, it was, after all,
moro a year of great promise than
one of great performance, while both
agricultural and pastoral production
have been checked by the dryness of
the season, The great cause of the
public income being so high is the
large amount of money derived from
the national estate. But public opin-
ion is becoming increasingly uneasy
on this point, The alienation Of land
proceeds much more rapidly than the
increase Of population. Huge pasto-
raj estates are being amassed in adj
vance of railway construction and in
practical blockade Of settlement. A
line recently opened to the township
of Hay runs for miles through vast
properties owned by about shalf-a-
dozen persons, none of them being
resident proprietors. The squatters
are only too willing to buy, and the
Government is naturally tempted to
sell. We are making rosy times for
the present generation. Money is
flying about in all directions.
Tradesmen are pushing a good bust
ness, and artisans are rejoicing in I'M
wonted wages. But are we acting
as wise trustees of a great national
estate, and what are we laying up
for the future? Troublesome people
will disturb our serenity by asking
these questions. The Government,
however, is extremely unwilling to
touch the land system. In the first
place, its author, Sir John Robertson,
sits in the Cabinet as decemvir by
the side of Sir Henry Parkes. He
is proud of his handiwork, he believes
in it, and he is the most strong-Willed
man in our Parliament. He always
processes his willingness to accept any
suggestion that is an improvement,
but then he has never heard one that
is an improvement. Sir Henry Parkes
does not understand the land ques-
ton, and never did, and from sheer
necessity leaves the matter with his
colleague, so that at present we have
a growing dissatisfaction with the
working Of the law, and yet we have
no new policy formulated, and a very
strong opposition to conquer before
any change can be made.
The banking returns for the quar-
ter show that commerce has been
unusually active. Money has become
slightly dearer; the banks a use
now ali they can get, and readily offer
5 per cent. interest. The conse-
quence is that the money on fixed
deposit is somewhat larger than it has
ever been before; but as a great
deal of English capital has come out
here, we must not look upon our
accumulated stock as wholly the pro,
duct of our own industry,
Prospects i'm Ireland.
From the SpectGtOr.)
M GRO ;nc1innd on the whole.
, 1882-10-28
Health and the Air.

read by Mr.. SymOnS, tor Dr. ii. =.
Bartlett, F. G. S., who had pre-
scented a paper on " The Inhu-
ence Of Minute Suspended Matter on
Health" He said that the almost
universal belief that health was inhu-
enced in a high degree by the air we
breathed, and by the fluids we drank,
was the reasonable result of the ac-
cumulated experience Of all classes Of
people, extending from the earliest
times to the present moment. Many Of
the noxious matters against which peO-
ple had to contend were in a soluble
form. as was evidenced in the nitro
genous. albuminoid, or ammoniacal
constituents of some Of the clearest
filtered water and the presence Of
copper, lead or other poisonous met
ais, or metallic salts in drinking water
was almost invariably detected in so
luton. In the same manner, poIlu-
tions Of the air were frequently diff
fused in a gaseous form, and it re-
CURED great dclicacy Of chemicalin in
yestioation to estimate the relative
quantities in which the gases might
be taken up by the atmosphere, and
still more so to ascertain in what pro-
portions such gases must be deemed
distinctly injurious to health and life
when breathed through the lungs OF
the strongest or the more delicate Of
humanity. While not adopting all
the alleged discoveries OF floating
disease gems, he was DESTROYS Of
pointing out that the balance OF evil
dence was IN favour of some cpide-
mic diseases being carried and widely
spread by clouds Of insect life and
he said that scientific opinion was al
so fairly agreed that many contagious
diseases were communicated directly
from person to person by flies, and
possible by other insects. A vote of
thanks was accorded to DR.. Bartlett.
Russia and the Danube Conn
mission.
VIENNA, Sept. %.
At the very outset a difference has
arisen in the heart OF the Executive
Committee of the international Da-
nube Commission, to which, in a
certain quarter, greater importance
is attached than it really deserves.
In the spring of this year the Com
mission resolved to have the Kilia
branch OF the Danube sounded and
measured by its engineers. The
delegate of Russia in the Commission,
M. Romanenko, with his colleagues,
approved this resolution. The engi-
neers of the Danube Commission have
already commenced their work, have
made certain preliminary lnvestiga-
tons, and have executed several
plans. Lately, however, the Russian
Consult eneraI addressed himself to
the Executive Committee with the
communication that the Russian Go
vernment itself was about to have
soundings made on its W territory
and had already commissioned Rus
sian engineers with the task, and now
requested that the finished plans and
preliminary works might be submit
ted for inspection to the engineers OF
tho Russian Government. The mem
, 1882-10-28
New South Wales.
From the Times

NUS A-'
Our long Parliamentary Recess
the longest that has ever been known
in this or any of the adjoining colonies
is drawing to a close, and our alb
sent Premier is supposed to be within
a weeks sail of our shores. There is
plenty of business for Parliament to
do when it meets, and after SO long a
holiday it is expected that the Go
vernment will have its measures in a
verv forward state. There is no I'M
mediate prospect of any new politi-
cal combinations, as there is still no
organized Opposition. The strength
of the Government lies, first, in its
being a coalition of the two men who
for many years past have managed
to divide power between them and,
secondly, in the enormous amount OF
money at their disposal. To keep q
good following together there is no
thing like having something to give,
Walpole may have OWNED the secret,
but he had not at his command the
resources which our colonial Minis
tiers possess. If they crafty the con
stituency in the lump, they are sure
OF the member, and they are in a
position to disburse money for post
offices, telegraphs, court houses,
bridges, roads, and railroads with I'M
p|recedented munifcence. Politicians
who sit in the cold shade Of Opposi-
ton may rave in vain. What a
they do against men who sit in
trenched, not behind sand -bags, but
behind money-bags, and who can
rain, not shot and shell, but golden
soyereigns2
What is good for the Ministry, is
good, also, for the working classes.
Never before has so large an amount
been expended in public works in
proportion to the population. The
consequence is that labour is every
where in demand and wages are
rising. Nominally, indeed, they
were higher during the greatest ac-
cess Of the gold fever, but living then
was so enormously dear that the
wage-getter was not so well off as
he is now The condition OF the
working man was never so prosper
GUS in New South Wales as at pre-
sent, and wages were never so high
in relation to the cost Of living as
they are now, During the last WIN
ter, indeed, some articles of food
have been exceptionally dear, due to
the long drought. We have grum-
bled greatly because meat has gone
up to 4d. and sd. a pound, and but
ter has been haIf-a,c crown. Vegeta-
bles also have been scarce and dear,
but this will be all over in a month
or so when the Spring rains come,
and the grass will be again album
dant, and work will then be just as
plentiful and wages as high. The
lower section Of the ..middle-classes
feel the pinch much more than the
working classes do, because their
salaries and small fixed incomes do
not rise, though everything gets
dear around them.
The large income at the disposal OF
the Government does not arise from
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-04-28
Overdid the Thing.

Yesterday afternoon man from Park
City came into the Cliff House consider
ably excited, and inquired if a certain
person was stopping there. He ex-
planned that the man had .'done him
Dirt and he was anxious to lick him.
Finding that the man had just left the
house, he rushed out after him, and find
ing him on Tribune Avenue, walked up
and announced that he had come all the
way from Park City to lick him, and ac-
cordingly he started in. In few min
utes he had blackened both the mans
eyes, walked all over him, and reduced
him to general wreck. When he had
finished the job, he stood the man up
against the wall of Walkers bank, and
remarked:
''Now, you contemplate, lop-eared
scoundrel, want you to understand that
l consider you the most infamous whelp
l ever saw. You dirty little cur, l."
''Hold on!' said the man who had just
been licked, taking off his coat. Il think
that after thrashing man you've got no
right to abuse him. l can stand a lick
ing, but 1 won't stand abuse from any
living man, no matter how much he
weighs. Now I'm going to lick you.''
He was as good as his word, and started
in with the most business-like air i'm
aginable and knocked his late victor into
the gutter. Every time he got up he
knocked him down with: ''Blast me,
I can't stand abuse" When he got
through with the Park City man the
crowd thought he was a pile of rags and
mud.
''Now, look here, my friend" said the
last victor; ''next time you lick man,
let well enough alone. Don't abuse him.
You handled yourself well enough while
you were licking me, but you overdid the
abuse. "-.SaH Lake Tribune.
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After good dinner Jacob began to be him.

After good dinner Jacob began to be him
self aGatn. With an old friend and neiglbOr
he went up to the Capl oil once more, as q mat
ter OF curiosity. He saw another case on t. ial
that of q sutton who was struggling to get
his rights from railroad corporation. He
heard the lawyer for the railroad company al
Jude to the suitOr as the most bare-!aced, I'M
scrupulOus and designing villain who had ever
perjured himself in that court room. Look
ing at the party thus described, Jacob saw
only thin, pale face, on which anxiety was
painfully written. Jacob perceived that his
own case was onlv one If many, and that in
the court room 1t had already been forgotten.
There was no reason why Jacob should re-
main longer in town. At four O'Clock in the
afternoon he and Mary were in the wagon, in
front of the hotel. about to leave lust then
Willie came running down the Sidewalk in
great excitement. He came to e si.e of the
wagon, his warm brown eyes dancing, and
said, with what breath he had left, so,
father, father. they have found it all out! It's
Andrew Eenner, and they have got him in
JAIL"
s.Andrew vennerr' said Jacob, surprised !;
and he added. turning inquiringly to Mary:
"I'never had any trouble with Andrew"
Just then the large man came down the side
walk, walking very rapidly. He said pleasantly
to Jacob: SCOT him sure. l told you so. By
the way" he added, turning back after he had
passed, did You ever have any Difficult y with
Andrew Venner:'
"No," answered Jacob, "onlv he worked for
me one time, and my woman here didn't seem
to-"
"O-oh tina. unspeakable wretchr' said
Mary, coloring painfully. Il never told any
body, and never will, only if Jacob
"Very proper---yery proper indeed, Mrs VIII
son." said the large man politely. If ".
should need YOU on the trial l will" and he
nodded to complete the sentence.
A boy stopped on the sidewalk, evidently
listening curiOusly.
"Drive on, Jacob" urged his wife, in q
furry.
William climbed in at the back end of the
wagon, andJacob started. He had gone but
few steps when he pulled up his horses, and
calling back, said
90, say"
"The large man heard it, and came down
the walk to where the wagon was.
"Would you mind telling me, now that it is
all over" said Jacob pleasantly, whether you
really heard anything about that verdict las
night, or whether you lold me just to see how
l would
my dear SIR" said the large man deprecat
inglv, II beg that you will not think that
would willingly distress you by. Hullo,
there is man must see before he goes" and
the large man dashed Off across the street.
Jacob looked after him few moments,
then gave his horses cut with the whip, and
started for home.-.4hdntic
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Mrs. Bales PreSentment,

John Bale, the postmaster at Staple
ton, Staten Island, was found dead in q
vacant lot close to BrOwnell Street, not
far from his residence, at an early hour
yesterday morning. He had been en-
gagged in the post-office until after mid
night, balancing his months accounts,
and when he left he carried with him q
large quantity of stamps and other val
uables belonging to the Government.
He stopped half an hour at lyman read
ing-room, and then left, remarking that
he was going to bed. At this time he
was in his accustomed health and spirits.
Mr.. Cassiday, q brother IN law of the
deceased, on his way home at 12:45
o'clock, saw q man stretched out near
the sidewalk. Not recognizing him, and
surprising him t. De intoxicated, he took
no further notice.
At twp clock Louis Taylor, of Harri-
son Street, was on his way home, when
his attention was attracted to the body
lying face downward on the ground. At
first he supposed it was trick of some
person who meant to rob him, and he
passed on, but on second thought here
turned and made an examination. He
did not recognize him, but perceiving
that it was q well-dressed man, he went
to Tynan's hall and procured the aid of
several men, who recognized the body
as that of Mr.. Bales. DR.. John L.
Feeny judged that he had been dead
several hours. A superficial examina-
ton revealed a wound on the forehead
and bruises on the face. On the ground
where his face had lain were found sew
eral drops of blood. An open penknife
was subsequently found near the spot,
there is no indication that it had been
used. Neither the money nor the valua-
bles had been disturbed. When DIR.
Feeny called at the residence of the
family at four o'clock in the morning,
Mrs. Bale was on her kness praying for
her husbands safety. She said she had
been awakened about 1870 o'clock by
dream that her husband wigs in danger.
She could rot sleep afterward, having
presentiment that he was dead. Her
first words to the doctor were: "Is my
husband dead or living?'-M 7. Sun.
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may be found, at the cost Of the United States,
under snch regulations as the Secretary of the
Treasury may prescribe.
SEC. Il. That this act shall not apply to dip
lor,intic and other officers of the Chinese Gov.
eminent travelling upon the business OF that
Government, whose credentials, in tie usual
form. shall be taken as equivalent to the pass
port in tais act mentioned, and shall exempt
them an! their body and household servants
from the provisions of this. act as to other
Chinese.
SEC. Il. That hereafter no State court or
court of the United States shall admit Chinese
to citizenship, and all laws in conflict with this
act are hereby repealed.
SEC. Is. That the words "Chinese labOrers,
wherever used in this act, shall be construed
to mean both skilled and unskilled labOrerD
and Chinese employed in mining.
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THORNLESs ROSES.

NO rose may bloom without thornf"
Come down the garden paths and see
how brightly in the scented air
They bloom for you and mel
Bee how, like rosy clouds, they lie!
Against the perfect, stainless bluel
See how they toss their airy heads,
And smile for me, for yous
No scanty iargess, meanly doled-
No pallid blooms, by two, by three,
But whole crowd of pink-white wings
Fluttering for you and mel
So fair they are cannot choose;
/ pluck the rich spOils here and there;
1heap them in your waiting arms;
Irvine them in your hair.
There is no thorn among them all
No sharp sting in the heart of bliss
No bitter in the honeyed cup
No burning in the kissI
Nay, quote the proverb if you must,
And mock the truth you will not see,
Nathless, Loves thornless roses blow
Somewhere for you and me.
Julia C. r. Dorr, in Our Continent
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"A wagon load of misery excited pity

"A wagon load of misery excited pity
at Ottawa, Kan. 1t was handcuffed
thief on his way to prison; his insane
wife, who was being taken to the asy-
lum; two children going to the poor
house, and . dead baby bound for .
graveyard. The object in taking them
all in one vehicle was to manage the
woman easily. as she refused to part
from the rest. Chicago Herald.
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Cornelius j. Vanderbilt is dis
tinguished as being the richest man who
ever suicided in America.-Utica( IN
~ Herald.
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The name of the Speaker Of the
Massachusetts, House is No-yes, and his
ability to decide tie is doubted. Gin
cinn0ti Commercial.
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Judge Blatchford is the richest man
that ever sat upon the Supreme Bench.
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The Oldest man on the New York
police is eighty-four years OF age.
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officers of the Chinese Government travelling
on the business ct that Government, with a
particulars, as shown by the respective pass
ports and certificates, as the case may be, OF
other Chinese passengers; and such list shall
quired by law in relation to the manifest Of
the cargo. Any refusal or neglect of the mas.
ter to comply with the provisions OF this sec
sre 1ae
neglect to report or deliver a manifest Of the
cargo.
his deputy shall proceed to examine such pas
sengers. comparing the passports and certifi;
oates, as the case may be, with the list and
be allowed to land in the United States from
such vessel in violation of law.
SEC. 10 That every vessel whose master shall
shs be to United state
and shall be liable to seizure and condemns
tion in any district of the United States into
which such vessel may enter or in which she
may be found.
SEC. ii. That any person who shall knowing
ly bring into or cause to be brought into, or
shall aid or abet the bringing or coming into
aid or abet the landing in the United States
from any vessel of any Chinese not authorized
by law to enter the United States, shah be
deemed guilty OF a misdemeanor; and shall,
into the United States, or so landed, be fined
in the sum of $40. and imprisoned for a term
not exceeding one year.
SEC. Il. That no Chinese shall be permitted
to enter the United States by land without pro.
ducing to the proper officer of customs the GER
tfcate herein required of Chinese seeking to
land from q vessel and any Chinese unlawful
ly entering within the United States, or who
shall have unawfully entered the United
States in any way. either by land or By water,
shall be removed therefrOm to the place from
Of any collection district in which such Chine Sc
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Seems to be sort Of crime" echoed the
latge man explosively; why, man alive, it's
arson, State-prson, long term! And acU find
him out. He may fool the people down your
way, with his blind Dutchman, who can see
the pegs in a mans boots mile off in the dark.
but he can't fool me. There is villain behind
this, and we are after him. know him now
am sure of him. am watching, and III ius
him within twenty-four hours; and in saving
this, by the way of emphasis the large ma n
brought his fist down upon the table in q way
that made the whole room jar.
And that was what you were watching me
fora" asked Jacob timidly, shuddering as he
saw the gulf.
"why, my dear good fellow" said the large
Suppose was watching you fora"
Jacob pondered, and was silent. The large
man turned and walked out of the room.
Within halt an hour the President OF the In
surance Company came in. He said he desired
to congratulate an honest man, and explained,
mysterionsly, that they were on the right
track at last. He remarked, speaking in con-
fldential manner, that he had always told the
folks that Jacob was mot that kind of q man. -
"Thank you," said Jacob, huskily.
"You and your father before you have lived
In our town too long to be treated in this
way" said the President, wiping . tear from
The President went away.
One by one JAG IBIS old neighbors and vari-
Gus members Of the company dropped in and
went through with about the same formula
the President had INDUCED in. Each ex-
planned SO fully and satisfactorily that he had
all the while told the folks that it ''could not
De Mr.. Wilson, hat did it that Jacob really
began to wonder how it had come about that
there had ever been any difficulty. Jacob also
gathered from the remarks which were made
that some clew had been gained in connection
wi the trial, and that soon all would be
made plain.
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You understand my question:" said the
counsel.
"Yaas, yaas, unders ham," said Gotlieb.
"Ask him in German" said the Court to
the interpreter.
The interpre er complied and responded.
"He says they were boots"
"Ask him what time of day it was," said
the counsel.
He saws 1t was Just getting dark"
Ask him what Jacob had around his neck
when he saw him strike the match and set the
fire."
"He says it was black handkerchief"
Ask him if he could see him plain"
He says yes"
Ask him whether he had on stockings"
said the counsel.
This question caused . slight ripple Of mer-
rimen'. Old Gotlieb glanced arouui saw
the fun, and laughing and shaking his head
said, "Naw, nav, could not tell de shtock-
ings."
which Gotlieb stated that he did not mean
that he actually saw the match, but only saw
Jacob stoop over and strike, as il it was
match, and then saw it kindle, and saw it grow
to . large tire. He also explained that the
oyeralls were blue instead of red.
1t was apparent that Gotlieb's left eye had
been injured or lost. His examination was
concluded by . single quest on, asked by
Jacobs lawyer, which drew out from Gotlieb
the answer: shaw, nav, can only see from
Won eye"
As the concluding evidence in the case
Jacob was now recalled formally to deny, as
the rules of evidence require, The statements
made by the witnesses against him. As he
came upon the witness stand, it was apparent
that a great change had come over him. Was
there such a pallor upon his face, or was ii
the strange yellow light of that strange dav:
His voice had sunk almost to q whisper, af;l
he seemed weak and uncertain in his steps.
He quietly answered ''no" 10 the long, formal
questions involving the statements which had
been made against him, and that closed the
evidence in the case.