davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Penn's Grove record., 1885-01-24
"Priscina's' canary.

| want to tell my friends about my
canary-bird, for we think him very in
teresting. He was given to me over
a year ago, and is now two years old.
/ gave him the name of Bjou, which is
the French name for jewel or anything
in the form Of a glittering trihing OBJ
ject. The name exactly suits him, for
he is one of the most playful, Snowy
little birds l ever saw.
1t seems a. though he understands
every word | say to him, and he is at
home when perched upon my head or
hand. Nearly every day he leaves his
cage and flies around the room until
tired. The smartest thing he does, and
the only trick we ever taught him, is
ringing a little bell when he wants to
eat. Perhaps some Of you may wish
to try this with your birds, so | Will
tell you how to accomplish it. l took
the smallest bell / could hnd and fast
ened it 10 the top Of the cage, on the
plan OF q door:bsll that is on q spring.
We took broom-wlre for the spring,
then attached a string that was long
enough to hang down in the cage and
Just within reach of the bird, He will
play with anything, so in a short time
he took hold Of that string. Assoona as
he gave a little jerk the bell rang, Then
| gave him a piece of bread, After u
few days he found he would get some
thing when be pulled that string. Then
| kept the string out OF the cage and
would put it down where he could
reach it, only when / would feed him.
Now he will ring the bell as soon as
offer him anything, and seems TO know
what the bell Is for. Had no idea he
would learn In so short a time, but he
IS very tame and that made 1t easier.
Can't some one tell me what new trick
can teach my bird9 think he would
learn a great deal IL we only had the
time aad patience to teach him.
The Penn's Grove record., 1885-01-24
The rowu where snylook d,d Business.

Venice is the home Of the Venitian,
and also where the gondola has its nest
aud rears lts young, 1t is also tie head
quarters for the paint known as Yene-
tian red. They use it for painting the
t wn on festive occasions. This is the
town where the Merchant of Venice
used to do business, and the home of
ShylOck, a broker, who sheared the
Venetian lamb at the corner of the
Ratio and the Grand Canal. He is
now no more. l couldn't w find an
Old neighbor near the Rialto who Ie-
membered Shylock. From what I can
learn OF him, however, 1 am led to be,
lieye that DO vas pretty close Il his
deals, and liked to catcn a man in a
tight place ana then make him squlrm.
Shylock, during the great panic IN
Venice many years ago, it is said, had a
chattel mortgage Oh more lives than
you could shake a stick at. He wOult
loan a small amount to a merchant at
three per cent. a month, and secure it
on a pound of the merchants liver or
by a cut-thrOat mortgage on his re-
spnatory apparatus. Inen when the
paper matured ne would go up to the
mouse with a pair OF scales and a pie
knife and demand a foreclosure,
The Penn's Grove record., 1885-01-24

This we'll known shakespeare reader,
While looking through the Polytechnic
Art Gallery, Louisville, Ky, discovered
a picture which, he says. Is R3mbrsndt's
Daughter Of the I~Dnooents," g paint.
ing celebrated in history. for which
oonnoisseurs have been searching for
years. Mr.. Linde purchased the pic
ture for 500 from the owner.
The Penn's Grove record., 1885-01-24
Ntca5agu,

The republic Of Nicaragua IS the only
Latin American country that owes no
foreign debts, while ITS domestic indebt-
ednesS can DO e-Xtngulsuod at q mo-
ment's notice, by the use Of the surplus
e4uds Ia the national treasury.
The Penn's Grove record., 1885-01-24

OBSERVE a young father trying 10
appease a bawling baby, and yOul wit
ness enough ingenuity in ten inmates
to make you think that man ought to
b. an inveAt1g.
The Penn's Grove record., 1885-01-24

lHe berries have each their season Of
fruitage, save one, Thou hast all sea
sons Tor thine own, o. bri berry,
The Penn's Grove record., 1885-01-24

A siot in the dark, the shouts of
angry men out in the thick wood just
a little way from the great doors, and
then the alarm bell OF Wolstenholme
rang out upon tas night-alr, seeming to
cast the tidings from its changing iron
throat of fire ard maddened rage and
sudden death.
Old Thompson, the porter, awoke in
the hall, terrified and confused, and
stood in senlle Impotence, shaking his
hands and crying, "Alack, alack I"-
while the white.hatred Earl came out
with hasty strides from the library, ask
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1885-06-11

INDIAN VITA half.naked Indi-
an was looking on at some workmen
in the employ Of Gov Dudley, of
Massachusetts,.
"Why don't you work and get your
self some clothes p asked the Gov
ernor.
why don't you work." retorted
the son Of the forest.
II work head-work,' said Dudley,
pointing to his head. =
The Indian said he was willing to
work, and agreed 10 kill calf for the
Governor Having done 10 he came
for his pay.
"But," said the Governor, "you
have not dressed the calf"
mo" said the Indian; II was to
have shilling for killing him. Am
he no dead, Governor ?"
Finding himself outwitted, the Gov
ernor gave him another shilling for
dressing it. II was not long before
the Indian came back demanding a
good shilling in place OF the bad one
which he claimed the Governor had
paid him. The Governor paid him
another. Returning another time
with still another brass piece TO be
changed, the Governor convinced OF
his knavery, offered him half crown
| If he would deliver letter for him.
The letter was directed to the keeper
Of the prison, and ordered him to give
the bearer certain number Of lashes.
The Indian suspected that oil was
not right, and meeting servant Of
the Governor, induced him to take
the letter to it's address. The result
Of the Indians stratagem was that a
severe whipping was administered to
the unfortunate servant. The Gov
ernor was greatly chagrined at being
second time outwitted by the Indi-
an. On falling in with him some
time after, he accosted him with some
severity, asked him how he had dared
to cheat and deceive him so many
times.
Head work, Governor, head work."
was the reply.
Pleased at the fellows wit and au-
dacity, the governor freely forgave
him.
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He diagnosed the case for me. making
the story Of Reggy' g death appear per-
fectly regular and natural, and a
week afterward they carried the boy
who had accosted me that Friday out
side the Zoo to the family vault in
the little Berkshire church. A oodi-
oil had been made to tue will on the
second day Of the poor lads illness,
excluding my truateeship, and APP
pointing the widow sole executrix.
"And now, good-by," said A drastia.
when all was over and we we're alone,
face to face; 1--WE never liked each
other, aud there is now no further
cause to dissemble our hatred"
Mrs. Gardner" I answered, II
thank you for this fraukness. Let
me follow your example. charge
you with the murder Of the boy, we
have just buried r
She stepped pace backward but
her face neither changed in color nor
expression.
"The day may come when I shall
reiterate that declaration before an
earthly judge.
She swept across the room In
long train Of rustling Grape. She was
dressed in deep mourning. Looking
defantly as she laid her hand on the
bell-pull, she rang a quick, firm peal.
It was answered by a sleek Italian
servant. She pointed toward me as
she addressed him.
"This gentleman is leaving US;
order the carriage round for the rail-
way station at once"
The door being closed again, she
said: "Your malice outruns your dis
erection, and your enmity ovsrrides
your manners, / despise and defy
you'll"
All the same, she killed that un-
hoppy boy, and watched over his last
agonies with the same cruel satisfac-
ton that chilled the blood in the SER
penthouse. | am sure oft. Have
proved it2 No, tyet. Atpresent
Roggy Gardner's death Is one Of the
mysteries Of London.
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~.

had left Berkshire for London and
my servant was packing my traps for
Norway, Reggy and his wife having,
as l understood, started for the Med
iterrean, when / received telegram
from Reggy's mother; please come
at once; | fear my poor boy is dy-
ing" 1t was from Berkshire; 80 she
was there. had only been In Lon
don three days. I hurried down by
the next train. Mrs. Gardner had
been sent for only that morning. She
thought was there. The Count had
come, and local physician was in
attendance. A London doctor Of
great eminence arrived with me.
We were both too late. Reggy
Garner was dead.
He had been taken i'll the day !
came away and had gradually grown
worse. The end had been intensely
painful. His wife was with him to
the last. She had attended him night
and day. He had died in her arms.
Now she was inconsolable, they said,
and would not see anyone. The doc
tors called the fatal inalady which
carried him off inflammation Of the
heart" They did not dream what
grim satire there was in the verdict.
At my request the London physici-
an examined the remains Of the medi-
cine which had been administered to
Reggy and made other inquiries, but
everything, be told me confdentially,
tended To confirm the correctness Of
the certificate Of death which the
other medical attendant had signed.
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III.


Two years had passed. The honey
moon had long since been forgotten,
or remembered only TO be thought Of
as too many waning moons recalled
with wonder.
Yet they were happy, as the world
goes. They had their little tiffs, and
Reggy had more than once been jeal-
GUS, but not Of the Count de fourier,
her uncle, Of course. The idea OF
such an absurdity had never entered
the honest soul of Reggy Gardner.
Mrs. Trentham brought him no money.
Her@irst husband had squandered it
in gaming and speculation. Reggy
had plenty; and he felt proud TO set
tie handsome sum on his wife and
to allow her for pin money the in
come Of Duchess. The will which
he made in her favor was worthy of
his most generous impulses.
IF we have little misunderstand-
ing now and then" he said to me
while we took a monday rest in the
ubbles at his princely palace down
in Berkshire, chats the common lot,
and it gives zest to the fun Of making
up.
He wouldn't for the world have
acknowledged that he was unhappy,
and she had peculiar power over
him which could charm him into any
mood she desired. If her occasional
bursts Of iIl-temper or indiscretion Of
manner toward other men were thun-
der.clouds in his domestic life, her
smiles were summer, her acted afec-
ton was sunshine. She knew that |
saw through it all. visited them
rarely aud only at all for Reggy's
sake. They lived in curious way,
constantly travelling, coming to town
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1885-06-11

Ever 50 little the seed may be,
Ever so little the hand,
But when II Is sown, 1t mnst grow, yon see,
And develop its nature, weed, flower or tree.
The sunshine, the air and the dew are free
At Its command.
If the seed be good, we rejoice In hope
or the harvest II may yield.
We wait and watch for its springlng up,
Admire its growth and count on the crop
That will come from the little seeds we drop
In the great wide field.
But lf we heedlessly scatter wide
Seeds we may happen TO Cad,
We care not for culture or what may betlde,
We SOW here and there on the highway side /;
Whether they'v We lived or whether they've died
We never mind.
Yet every sower must one day reap
Fruit from the seed he has sown;
How carefully then II becomes US to keep
A watchful eye on the seed aud seek
To SOW what Is good, that we may not weep
To receive our own.
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ron THE HOUSE or DELEGATES.

Nessrs Editors :---Your last issue contained
an announcement which gives US very great
PLEASURE 70 endorse--nameiy that requesting
Mr.. FRANCIS v. KING TO serve the people
Of the county as candidate for seat In the
Lower House Of the next Legislature Of Mary
land-knowing The gentleman's qualifications
we feel that the people Of the 9th District,
could have made no better suggesiion--we
therefore heartily endorse Mr.. King for the
place, &c.
Democrats Of the lst, End and 9Th Districts.
March 26, 1885
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Particular attention given 10 inspection
and sale Of TOBACCO, the sale of Grain and
all kinds Of Country Produce.
Feb 10, lS79-y.
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carriages. It was the height Of the
London season. We lunched costly
at the club. / forgot Adrastia under
the influence of the Reforms dry
champagne and Reggys gush about
Mrs. Trentham-for the lady who
had won theyoung fellows heart wat
widow. ] warned Rsggy that .
certain character in fiction had utter.
ed a warning concerning widows,
which had passed into a proverb
He simply said, with the blood rush.
ing into his face, "Dickins is a vulgar
snob + and then quickly, II beg
Dickens pardon, old boy, and yours :
and we drove off to Mayfair. Reggy
was hard hit. I did not attempt to
chatf him about his passion, so out Of
keeping with the present tone Of So
ciety which never goes into raptures
over anything.
1--WE met her at Hamburg and Of
terward at Como" said Reggy's arts.
tocratic yet amiable and pleasant
mother; "she was travelling with her
uncle, Count de fourier
ut is rather short engagement,
I replied, "but we live in rapid
age"
Il hope he will be happy" rejoin.
ed his mother, but | thought there
was something Of doubt in the way
she gave expression to her hopes.
Our conversation, necessarily brief
was interrupted by the arrival o.
Reggy's betrothed-Mrs. Trentham
There was a movement Of curiosity
among the people. Mrs. Gardner rose
from the tea-table to receive the lat,
est caller with especial honor. Reggy
looked at me triumphantly as he said
"Come, and be- introduced"
/ advanced as ono in dream;
was under a spell. ! pulled mysel
together as we'll as | could.
This is my oldest and best friend
Marie" said Reggie; che hopes
though your newest to be also you
best friend"
She looked me straight in the fac,
and held out her hand. 1t seemed
to me as il her manner was chal
lenge-as il she said 1--WE are enc
mics, but you must pay homage tt
me" What she did say was, :"
hope so, Reggy."
Mrs. Trentham was Adrastia TIL
knot of golden hair which fell in
cluster from her bonnet and resteo
upon her neck was to my mind
tanglement of snakes. The eloquenc
of the serpent was on her tongue, AM
she held my friend in her fascination
as completely as the serpent holds tn
bird that eventually drops into tn
expectant jaws. Reggy Gardner wa
to marry the woman Of the snak
house.
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only for month in the season, and
going to Berkshire for the LIST Of Sep
TENDER. Reggy's mother kept her
own state in town.
Two mothers-in-law, she would say,
could not be expected to get on we'll
together, and Reggy's wife preferred
to have her own mother with her, and
so between the dear old lady of May
fair and her son had grown up an es-
arrangement which Mrs, Gardner, Jr.,
promoted with an insidious persis-
tence. Count fourier had latterly
been rare visitor at Reggy's, owing
to misunderstanding with the head
of the house; but he often wrote to
his dear niece" and made a special
journey now and then to see her.
mo, I don't know where the Count
lives or how" said Reggy one evening
at the end of our weeks shooting.
when we were smoking after dinner.
HE is, as you say, rather q mystery.
Marie's mother is an Italian, you
know, on her fathers side, and the
Count belongs to that branch of the
family. At Milan he is an authority,
I believe, on chemical science"
"You don't like him, / fear"
Like him2 l hate him r
Mrs. Gardner entered the room on
the word.
my dear, ! thought you had gone
to bed," said Reggy.
She has been listening to our con-
versation.
II have come to smoke cigarette
with you, If you don't mind" was the
answer.
Her suspicion had been confirmed
for our conversation had been q long
one-that her strange influence over
her husband was weakening that his
confidence in her was on the wane |;
that her hideous secret, whatever it
was, might be oozing out.
"By all means, delighted, said Reg
ny, and she sat down by his side. a
superb-looking woman, if you did not
examine her face critically for indioa-
tons Of feminine gentleness.
During my acquaintance with her
neither she nor had ever alluded to
the incident at the Zoo, though she
knew ii wan constantly in my mind.
She had great penetrating powers, and
she was like woman constantly on
the watch. Reggy only saw her great
blue eyes, her faultless classical fea-
lures, her wealth Of hair, her tall,
graceful figure, 1.-THE and sinuous as a
| serpents. From the frst he had been
enamored Of her beauty, and he was
not in the habit Of looking behind the
mask Of what are called perfect fea.
cures, nor did he understand that O
face, to be truly beautiful, must in
some measure reflect pure soul. One
part Of the conversation which she
overheard mot that Reggy ever sus-
pected her of listening) referred to his
will, about which / had made an in
quiry, since he had only lately told
me was one Of his trustees. 1t il
possible that she had misinterpreted
something he had said about altering
it. / think of these and other things
now, which, under other circumstances
l might have forgotten.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1885-06-11

nay The sure effects Of Ayers
SarsapariIla are thorough and perma-
nent. II there is lurking faint Of
scrofula about you, Ayers Sarsapa.
rilla will dislodge it, and expel it
from your system.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1885-06-11

MS. Kind words never die" How
bitterly does man realize that truth
when he sees all the kindsst words he
ever used in his life glazing at him
from his published letters in breach
of-promise suit.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1885-06-11

B. HARRIS CAVALIER ENOCH B. ABELL
TINE undersigned, Attorneys-at-Law and
Solicitors In Chancery, have, this lst
day of January, 1880, formed a co-partner-
ship in the practice OF their profession, under
the name and style Of
CAVALIER 4 ABELL.
They will practice in the county ofSt. Mary's
and the adjoining counties. Especial atten-
lion will be paid to the collection OF claims.
Office in the Court House. Address
CAVALIER h ABEL, Leonardtown,
st. Mary's county, Md.
b. HARRIS 0AMALIER,
ENooH B. ABELL.
Ian a. lag0-tf
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1886. NOTICE. 1886.
POTOMAC TRANSPORTATION LINE.
On and after March eth, 1885,
STEINER
SUE

Capt. W. O. GE0GHEGAN, win leave Pier
10. Light Street Wharf, every TUESDAY and
friday IT'S, P. NJ, for the following land
ings on Potomac River:
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memenon; and yet / called the wo-
man of the Zoo, Adrastia. And /
gave her in my imagination a fitting
head-dress of snakes.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1885-06-11

bay- A whisker dye must be conve-
nient to use, easy to apply, impossible
10 rub off, elegant in appearance, and
cheap in price. Buckinghams Dye
for the Whiskers unites in itself all
these merits. Try it.
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ATEs KING, EVERY THURSDAY MORNING AT ONE

I, MD, THURSDAY MORNING JUNE II, 1885
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Little girl at breakfast table
Mamma, this is very old butter; |
have found a gray hair in it,"
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1885-09-05
two weeks ago Mr. H..

About two weeks ago Mr.. II.
D. Brown and q younger brother
left Orange county for Texas. After
travelling hundreds OF miles, view
ing The promised land, and spending
nearly one hundred dollars, each,
last Sunday they suddenly and with
out any warning of their coming,
returned to Their fathers house, a
few miles west of town, in the good
old county of Orange. We would
like TO have the experience of these
gentlemen to lay before U readers.
At a meeting of the town com.
missioners held Monday night, a tax
was levied OF 20 cents on the 800
valuation of real and personal pro-
perty, and sixty cents on each poll.
An ordinance was passed making it
a fine of IS for wagons to camp or
horses t. be fed on Churton and
King streets. Mr.. D. Turner, town
constable, withdrew his resignation.
-"Yoa have seen an old dog
jump into the yard where scraps OF
bread ana meat lay 10 profusion. and
he would pick up an old bore, jump
over the fence, lay down and growl ;
thus men attend church, leave un-
tasted all good things while they
hold TO some dirty little bone over
which they gnaw aud growl."-
Req. Sam zones.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1885-09-05

Mr.. David Teasley was helping
to dig a we'll at Mr.. Jackson Crab
trees, 6 miles east Of town, last
Thursday. He stayed in the we'll
too long, and feeling that he was be-
ing by foul gas that had
accumulated at the bottom of the
we'll, he called on ONE parties out.
side to pull him out. Just be-
fore he reached the top he let go
the bucket, and down he went some
twenty feet. falling on his head.
A colored man by The name Of An
derson Tinnin went down into the
we'll and tied a rope around him
and Mr.. Teasley was pulled out OF
the well. He was dangerously
wounded, his skull being fractured.
He is improving, and it is thought
be will recover.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1885-09-05
CTATE OF NORTH CAROLINA.)
- ORANGE COUNTY. !
Superior Court, Aug. 5, 1885

Superior Court. dug. 5, 1885.
James NJ. Whitfield. Martin NJ. Whitfield.
William f.. Whitfield. Frederick Whit
ted. Walker Whitfield. Mary Whitfield.
Plaintiffs. IS. Jane Iiaughawout.
Maria Haughawout, j. Ii. Fover and
Amanda his wife. Susan Faucet
DEFENDANTS.
Publication for nonresident pirfics.
To Jane Haughawout, Maria liangha-
won't. j. IL. Fover and Amanda his
wife, and Susan Faucet
Take notice. that the above named
Plaintiffs have fled a petition for the
partition of the real estate in the county
Of Orange belonging 10 the late Martin
Whitfield and that you ara necessary
parties TO the proceeding and after due
diligence cannot be found III this State /:
you must appear nj nv office In the
town Of IlillsbOrough in said County
and State Oh Saturday. the 18th day OF
September. 1855. and answer or demnr
To the petition filed In this cause, OIL tlfe
relief therein prayed tor will be granted.
Given under my hand and seal oi Of
flee at liillsborough this 9th day oil
August, lSs3.
PRIDE JONES.
Clerk superior Court.
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