davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-09
TAINTED.

Chemists of the nation charge the Royal Baking Pow
der Company with the of the powerful drug AM
MONA in their Powder that article of food should
be tainted by this unsafe drug; that it is unfit for ap
pearance in any human Diet that its long continued
in any form will derange the bood that is only found
in the natural food and drink of as incidental
impurity.
That NATURE ABHORS and expes it as
ment
That in Baking Powder it has the virtue of
necessity.
If the charge is unjust would it not be act of JUS
tice themselves, well polite concession to the
deeply interested public sentiment the charge2
To answer immediately To honestly? Oily
evasion won't do Oily dignity, oily plausibty, oily
non-committa won't do Ridicule won't do Come for
ward in manly way and give the public evidence that
iustifes its
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-09
This Presentation consists OF
Handsome Scrap Albums!


Of oil
will be continued during the following
10 days. We invite inspection
The Ban's Tea and Coffee Co.,
Avenue, Island.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-09
5 Per Cent. Of AMMONIA.


o.
Gent. of this unnecessary substance"
Prof. CHARLES E. DWIGHT
Chemist, Labratory Wheeling, W. Va
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-31
THE TALKING DOG.
How a Solemn Man Played 1t on n Fellow
Being.
San Francisco Chronicle.

San Francisco Chronicle.
1t was Marketstreet restaurant A solemn
man entered, followed by his dog, seated himself
and asked for the bill of fare. 1t was given
him.
what would you like to have sir9s asked the
waiter, Tipping the table with his napkin.
The dog meanwhile had climbed upon the
chair on the other side OF the table, and was
gravely regarding his master.
WELL said the solemn man. refectively,
gimme two fried eggs. turned over.
"Gmme the same" said the dog.
The waiter gazed at the animal with amaze
ment mingled with horror. The solemn man
continued:
Then l guess you can gimme a sirlon steak,
very rare, with fried potatoes
Gimme the same said the dog.
The walters face assumed the color of cold
boiled veal.
Cup o coffee, plenty o. milk" went on the
solemn man.
Gimme the same" said the dog
The waiter shuddered, and turning fled for
che kitchen.
man with squint, at an adjoining table,
was much interested in the scene. He had OBJ
served it closely and finally spoke to the solemn
1T must "a been a fearful lot o work to learn
that dog to talk, mister
1T was" said the solemn man
Il should SMILE" said the dog
''What nd you take for him now'" said the
man with a squint
Wouldn't sell him" said the solemn man.
You'd better not" said the dog.
The man with the squirt was much impressed.
He began making wild offers, and when he
reached thousand dollars the solemn man re
Tented.
well" said he, Il can't refuse that. I hate
to part with HIM, but you can have him"
Hell be sorry for it" said the dog
The man with the squirt drew check for the
amount, which he gave to the solemn man.
The latter was about leaving when the dog cried
out:
Never Mindful get even. I'll never speak
again"
He never did
The gentleman with the squnt was proprie
tor of a Dime and Freak Museum on Market
street.
The solemn man was a ventriloquial crook
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-31

PnliaOepnIa 1lDeS,
Few Americans know how to pronounce the
names of English families prominent in society"
said gentleman who has Travelled much abroad
yesterday. land I don't wonder. for some of
them are very pulling Now, there is Choimon-
deley pronounced Chumley and Marioribanks
sounded Marshbanks, and Cockburn, which is
called Coburn Then we have the poets name
Cowper always sounded Cooper by English peo-
pie, and Manwarng is called Mannering, just
like Scott's novel. The is never sounded in
Jnhnston and the in Elein and elliott is hard,
while in Clifford and Nigel it is soft. The is
sounded in Molyneaux and Vaux but not in
Devereaux though the Irish families Of the
name use all the letters, The de is dropped in
Waldegrave and the tn in Blyth. Dilwyn, the
first name of Mr. Parrish, leading Philadelphia
Friend, is pronounced Dillun. The first o in
Conyngham, Monson, Monkton and PonsOnby is
sounded u. and on the same principle Blount is
Blunt There are any number Of other hard
ones, as, for instance, Wemyss pronounced
Weems, Hereford Hartford, Beauclere Boclare,
Duchesnes Dukarn, Bethune Beeton, Knollys
Knowles, CLAIMS Glarmes and Ruthven Riven-
Changes have been going on for ages in the spell
ing of some English family names, but in most
cases the spelling preserved is the old one, and
this is what makes the trouble"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-31
THE DAYS HUMOR.

The wife is called the better half but in the
base ball season the husband bets for the whole
family.-Oil City Derrick.
The female giraffe says the Bismarck
Tribune, has tongue seventeen inches long
but she can't talk Now we know why giraffe
wears such sad and subducd expression
1t is said that a womans person is several de-
grees warmer than that of man Experienced
married men who are i'll the habit of returning
late from the club will agree with the statement
heartily.
An old lady of Chicago, ninetv-four wears Of
age boasts that she used to sit in Washingtons
lap. This refutes the historical SANDER that the
Father Of His Country was so bow-legged that
when he was keeping company he had to put
Single across his knees for Martha to sit on.
Vassar girl writes: Il haven't seen a man
in q month of Sundays. We were out taking a
constitutional on saturday, and came across a
scare-crow in a corn-held. All the girls ran for
1t at once, and ] only managed to secure a part
OF one of the skirts of its coat. Still it was
something
Russian is not legally man until be is
twenty-six years old Fancy A Russian mother
saying: 'AlvirawiskN, who was that sitting so
close on the sofa with you last night!" and Alvi
replying: Only Chipmunkiwiski little boy
from over the way. We We're celebrating his
twenty fifth birthday. "-Philadclphi Call
Mary said mother to her daughter, ''has
Henry proposed yetF
Not yet, ma; but think he will before many
days"
What makes you think 500"
'Becanse he asked me if you expected to live
with me if married. and told him no.1-Phila-
delphia kronikle- Herald.
Here is how it looked in the programme book:
From mighty Kings he took the spoil
And with his acts made Judah smile.
And this is about the way IL sounded after
Madame Nilsson had put her dramatic soul into
il:
Fro miyiyiyte kang re toohoowOohoowoohook
til Spolodoil II we thees AK madIudah smiyehis-
yethi5miyehle. Cincinnati New-J Journal.
$50 your husband is drummer!" remarked
Mrs. smith. You'll excuse me for saying it,
but they do say that drummers are awful hirts.
Is 1t really soy 81 don't know anything about
the others replied Mrs Greene: but / know
that John isn't. Why he don't take any notice
Of the women at all Leastways he doesn't take
any notice Of me when he is at home, and he'd
be more likely to take notice of me than any
other woman
The Graphic: A little fellow of six years over
in Brooklyn has lost faith in the efficacy Of
prayer. He was told not TO leave his veocipede
ont and he forgot" His father hid it. and then
came the lesson Of the white lie Tri5ulaton
was sore and much of it, Al night he broke out
into much supplementary prayer please God.
make the bad boy sorry that stole my vcloc. aud
make him bring it back With the third night
the velocipede came not, and the child prayed
again; Please, God. | spose you're glad my
veloc. is gone and I'm the bad boy. Never mind
botherin about the other boy Now lay ne,'
etc.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-31
A BuRGLAR.s Love. MAKING.
A California Fable illustrating the Soft Side
of a Jimmy Hope.

San Francisco Chronicle.
II has often been said that nothing save bust
ness success and money constitutes 4 claim to
social recognition on this coast: but as even with
such illustrations of that fact as the Sharon trial
before them, our Eastern friends can hardly UNI
derstand how absolute said rule is here we can
hardly expect the following perfectly true incl
dent TO be believed out Of our States
One night, not long ago. the daughter Of one
of our best citizens was awakened by noise in
her room, and, upon sitting up, discovered a man
disguised in black mask standing beside her
bed and calmly contemplating her features by
the aid Of Il bull s-eye lantern.
Don't be alarmed miss" he said; 4 haven't
taken anything vet"
Bless me-" said the girl; II do believe its a
burglar"
an ungratifying smile, as he lit cigarette
'And I'm proud Of it"
What do you want~ demanded the young
lady
case" said the robber, but you looked so all
fred pretty lying there with your auburn hair
just my style-and l couldn't help waking you
to see if you also had dark eyes. I'm terribly
fond of light hair and dark eyes myself
"Well, | have" said the young lady CHANGING
at the mirror But | must look like fright In
thiS--ths dress.
''On the contrary, white is becoming to you,"
said the disciple of Jimmy Hope, tenderly. by
the way, are you eugagedP
That's tellin',' said the girl.
mo, but are you-honest Iniuu"
"Well yes am-to young lawyer; but L
don't care for him so very much
Hes poor, isn't her
ooh, awfully."
Exactly thought as much. Now, my dem
girl don't you know there is nothing in thiE
iove-in-a-cotlagc busineSs} You don't want td
peg along nursing babies IN some study back
room for the next ten years. do you}"
Moo 0" murmured the girl.
"Then why not let this fellow slide and take
met I'm pretty comfortably fixed. Business
has been pretty good this season, and our profits
arc large Our firm is now running tunnel
under bank, and I've got a fourth interest Be-
sides I'm secretary of the Burglars Protective
Association. What dyer sayl"
Couldn't we 90 abroad next summers" asked
the girl thoughtfuly
"Why, certainly. 1 expect TO have to just
think over the matter, and I'll drop in some
night later in the week. l know how to get in"
And shouldering his kit, the secretary stepped
out Of the window and went off to open jeweirY
store for an engagement ring.
And the next day the young lawyer received
back his letters and photograph
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-31
Boston Advertiser.

boston AuNertlser,
A society bell who usually goes to the North
holder flight. remarked the other evening to her
confidential friend: Il am glad Mr.. y. is to be
at Mt. Desert when we are this summer. Do
YOU know, I've been acquainted with him for
three years, and never saw him by daylight.
He used to come over from the hotel evenings
and then in the city met him at parties and he
called in the evening, and positively I've known
him pretty well for all that time, and never
saw him except by easlight. L must see him in
the daytime for I've about made up my mind
to marry him. and it is best to examine him
in all lights" However absurd this may seem
on the face of it, it is matter of fact strictly
true, both the lady and the gentleman being
pretty well-known in fashionable circles in the
CITY
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-31
June.


Sweet June, o, rarely scented June.
Thy bIushing face is here;
And were it e'er our own to choose,
We'd have thee ali the year
There is no month whose laughter fills
The air so full of tune;
There is no loveliless like thine,
o, proud, triumphal June.
And yet we have more brilliant hues,
When meath ahotter suns
Is there secret why this month
Should be the sweetest one?
Have we not known the richest gifts
May bring far less content,
Than those that FIRST in early days
OF joyous youth were sent!
We join June's name with roses glad,
The rose of crimson bloom;
And roses are emblems of hope,
And never of the tomb.
Then. June, it is because thy smile
So gracious and so kind.
Hath woke the first sweet summer song,
And sung it in the wind.
Come now, in all thy harmony,
And victory, come soon;
And let us breathe in ecstasy
Thy breath, bewild ring June.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-31
MutabiIitY,

We are as clouds that veil the midnight moon;
How restlessiy they speed and CLEAN and culver,
Streaking the darkness radiantly! yet
Night closes round, and they are lost forever.
Or, like forgotten Tyres whose dissonant strings
Give various response to each varying blast;
To whose fiail frame second motion brings
One mood or meditation like the last
We rest-R dream has power to poison sleep;
We rise-one wandering thought pollutes the day;
We feel conceive reason laugh or weep
Embrace fond woe, or cast our cares away.
1t is the samel For DO it JOY or sorrow.
The path of its departure still is free;
Mans yesterday may ne or be like his morrow;
Naught may endure but mutabiiity.
Percy Bysshe Shelley.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-31
Little Mary's Question.
Rehob0th Sunday Herald.

good story is told of tho Bishop Of Atlanta,
Ga. He recently addressed large assembly of
Sunday school children. and wound up by asking
in a very paternal and condescending way. "And
now is there aa NY little boy or a-a-n-y little
girl who would like to ask me a question: After
pause he repeated the question els there any
little boy or a-a-n-y little girl who would like to
ask me question: A little shrill voice called
out, please sir why did the angels walk up
''Oh, ali, yes-I see said the bishop; ''and now
is there a-a-n-y little boy or RAINY little girl who
would like to answer little Mary's question"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-31
A Long Straisht-Edge.
Engineering Review.


An absolutely exact straight edge of more
than thirty-six inches is a wonder of mechan
ism One of six feet was not recen tly believed
possible, although several had been made on diff
ferent plans of web like and truss construction
It has been claimed however, that almost ALSO
lutte exsctness has been secured by a straight
edge twelve feet long The appliance looks like
an arched truss, the highest spring of the arch
being only twenty inches in a length of twelve
feet The space between the chord and the
spring is filed with diagonal latticewOrk. Such
a tool is invaluable in testing lathe and planer
Inda
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-31
Ruin Wrought in the Forest.

How depressing it is to see acres Of trees cut
down in the midst of noble forest How sad
dening it is also 10 that thin spot in the midst
of your otherwise abundant hair. Stop it at
once by the use of Parkers Hair Basam. For
actual efficiency this famous article stands at the
head of It's class Elegant for the toilet. deli
cious in odor, and restores the original color "a
gray or faded hair. Economical. slight oc
casonal application keeps the hair and scalp in
perfect order
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-31
Canker Worms and Lager Beer.

UNrtfOrd NOurNnt.
On tho under side of almost any apple leaf TO-
day are half a dozen little black lines. You can
not sec them without careful inspection, but
in a week or so you will not be able to any
thing else. They spread all over the tree as quick
ly as bad news spreads over community. and
they eat up the leaves kill the fruit and burn
the whsle tree over until it looks as if fire hal
visited it. 1t will be but short time when the
most disgusting sight to be found win be the now
beautiful apple orchards
These nasty pests, the canker worms, are now
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-31

ICNas siftlnPs.
An Austin Israclite has his dwelling and place
of business in the same house which is quite
small one. There were several customers in the
store. when his wife, who is very affectionata
creature. called out from the next room:
20, Schon. my dear Schon, come to dinner
A shade of rage passed over his Hebraic fea-
lures. and going to where she was, he seized her
brutaly by the arm. and with a malignant voice,
hoarse with annoyance. said: "Rebeocs, does
YOU want to ruin me in my pishness! What for
you call me dear Schou. ven | wants 80 be known
as CHI. Schon! Do you want dot PEBBLES to
lose cCnL.~-2:n in Tle?F
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-31
Only a Base Ball Umpire.

Boston GIohr.
An umpire in recent base ball game has beea
sentenced to two months in the common Jail.
There seems to be no limit TO
the indignities heaped upon the
He is cordially detested by both sides on the
field. is an object of derision to the crowd, gets
abused 10y everybody, cursed by some and club
bed by others and after u brief but intensely
gloomy career goes down to his grave or this
county jail unwept, unhonOred, and. if he is in
lDcL unhuDp
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-31
The Happy Isles.

On quiet waves, when heaven smiles.
Man rests on idle oars;
And, dreaming of the Blessed Isles,
Drifts past their magic shores.
On stormy waves. when heaven weeps.
No dream, tho sweet, beguiles;
To toll he bends. nor rests nor sleeps
So gains the Happy Isles
Emma Carleton, in Chicago Current
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-31

When in my walks meet some ruddy lad
Or swarthy man-with traybeladen head,
Whose smile entreats me or his visage sad
To buy some images he molds for bread
think that though his poor Greek slave in chains
His Venus and her Boy with plaster dart
BE like the organ grinder quavcring strains
But farthings in the currency of art;
Suoh coins kingly elhgy still wear
Let metal base precious in them mix
The painted vellum hallcws not the prayer,
Nor ivory gold the crucihx.'
Sum Ward,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-31
Eros,

Fill the swift days full my dear,
Since life is fleet
Love. and hold love fast, my dear.
He il so sweet.
Sweetest dearest fleetest conor
Fledgling Of the sudden summer.
Love- but not too we'll, my dear;
When skies are gray.
And the autumn winds are here,
Love WiliAway.
Fieetest vaguo,t, furthast rover
When the su,nmer's warmth Is over
Louise Chandler Moultcn. in Manhattan
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-31
Preserve tho Teeth,

ical and dental. claim Wards Cream of Chall.
lhe best. Twenty five cents Browning sloan
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-31
As onre FOR Sore Throat and Copgh.,

browns Bronchial Trochrs" have heen thor
oughly tested. and maintain thoir good teputa
ton.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-04-16

REGISTERED AT THE PALATKA POST OFFICE
AS SECOND-CLAsS NAIL MATTER
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-04-16

Keifer's shame was in one sense q
shame on our country. That d man
in his position should have no word
in his own defense when accused OF
such crimes as leave him no claim to
the title of gentleman is GROWING
disgrace on the political system
which make such congressman posi-
bic. He is the latest exponent of a
party which has given us a long line
of his brothers since the war. His
disgrace is the natural fruit of a tree
which will continue it's regular crop
as long as it is suffered to thrust its
poisonous roots into the soil of our
government. But it surely presage,
we'll for the future that he has no
friend to defend him and no word to
speak for himself.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-04-16
A Warming to Parents.

Columbus EnquierSun.
There is something appalling in the evil
dent increase of youthful depravity
throughout the country. In the record
of one week (the one before the LAST there
are some fifty or sixty instances of dark
crimes committed by boys between nine
and nineteen years Of age. They consist
Of burglary, forgery, arson, highway rob-
berry, attempts at patricide by poisoning
and deadly assaults; to which may be
added the case of Berner, eighteen years
of age-a murderer of the darkest type
who was the exciting cause of one of the
greatest riots the county has ever known.
suppose that this dark list would be
doubled if the deeds done had come to
light. These things should awaken the
deepest solicitude of those who have the
care of children. To me, as a parent, it
is startling, and [ would gladly contrib
ute my mite in aid of those who share
with me this sacred trust. The outrage
of which your correspondent of few
days ago complained was committed in
the night, and | have personally wit
messed that many of the children and
youths of this town are permitted to go
where they list on the Sabbath, and from
under the parental eye.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-04-16
IMMIGRATION.

On the anniversary of the birth of
our Nation, the orator represents the
Union as standing with open arms,
wooing to her motherIy embrace the
outcasts of every land. 1t is time
this should be stopped. To the in
dustrious citizen we offer the enjoy
ment of personal liberty, a choice as
to climate and to soil, good wages
for labor, and a share in our govern
ment But to the loafer of any
race, the depraved pauper and the
criminal, we should speak in forcible
terms and declare they are not want
ed. 1t is a lamentable fact that
crime is on the increase in greater
ratio than our gain in population,
and this fearful fact is due in the
North to the influx of ignorant citi-
zens from other countries and in the
South to the sudden upheaval of a
degraded element from the dregs of