davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-01-01

The unusual severity of the cold wealth
er, and the large number ofpersons out
of employment, entails great deal Of
suffering, especially in large cities and
manufacturing districts Earnest eff
forts are being made by organized as
sociations to relieve distress, but they
come far short of requirements. Indi-
vidual charity is often invoked and ex-
tended. Many cases of the greatest
necessity, as is always the case, remain
unknown and unrelieved, owing to the
natural pride and Discrimination to be-
come objects of charity.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-01-01

The German Reichstag made mis-
take III refusing to grant Bismarck
small sum for clerical assistance. 1t
was a petty piece of business, at best,
and has reacted in a manner not expect
ed. Tenders from all over Germany
have been made from private indiyidu-
ais to contribute the 1000 marks that
Bismarck asked from the Reiehstag.
But he won't have it that way. His
seventiath birthday is near at hand, and
his friends are preparing to celebrate
it all through Germany. The members
of the Reichstag who refused to vote
the 1000 marks are losing caste, and
are being execrated generally through
out the world.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-01-01

How to avoid the long and tedious
voyage around Cape Horn, has long en-
gagged the attention of the world. De
Lesseps, the great French engineer,
who constructed the Suez canal, backed
by French capital, has begun a ship ca
nal across the isthmus and now it IS
proposed that the United States shall
build d canal also. crossing the Nicara-
guam peninsula from the port of San
Juan de Nicaragua, or Greytown, on
the Atlantic coast, to the harbor of Bri
to. on the Pacific. A treaty for tits
purpose has been drawn up between
the Republic of Nicaragua and the Uni
ted States and now awaits ratification.
The treaty requires the United States
to begin work on the canal within two
DAYS a -tey the treaty is ratified by each
party to it, and to complete it within
ten years after eginning it. The esti-
mate cost of the canal ranges from $40,-
600 900 to 800, 600, 900, and our Gov
ernm eut is to loan Nicaragua q 900, Geo,
which that republic proposes to expend
in constructing railways, telegraph lines
and improving some of the auxiliary
water courses, which will be for the bene-
fit of the ship canal Nicaragua is to
give the United States the right of way
through its territory, the use of auxiliary
water courses, and is to cede strip of
land three miles wide on each side OF
the canal for the whole distance. In
return for these concessions, the United
States, while it Is to have complete
control of the canal, and virtual owner
ship, is still to give Nicaragua one-half
of the tolls received Nicaragua also
gives, with the grant, the terminal
ports and harbors, and allows the Unit
ed States to provide any Notifications
and defenses it may deem necessary, on
" STIMULATING that it shall not wage Of
fensive warfare against any Central
American State friendly to Nicaragua.
The treaty also guarantees that the
Canal and its accessories Of every kind
shall be exempt from all taxation, and
no duties shall be levied on material
used in its construction and mainte-
nance.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-01-01

1t is sad commentary on American
social life that there are seven hundred
divorce suits pending IN the Chicago
courts and eight hundred in Philadel-
phia, and yet there are people men and
women who desire To enlarge the list
of causes for Which divorces may be OBJ
tanned To offset this extravaganza
many Of the wisest and best would have
but one adequate cause-that named
in the Scrintnrn.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-01-01

This is the season of church fairs an.
at not few of them fancy articles are
disposed OF by by sort of lottery, con
corning which class of transactions a
San Francisco paper is moved to say
that talking Will be in vain and laws
will be in vain against gambling as long
as che very children are inoculated with
the vir s of gaming. It is surprising
that orr church people, who encourage
rallies, and our charitable people who
hold lotteries, do not see the harm they
do -
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-01-01
AND COLORADO
1t also operates the best route and the
shOtt line between
thi:ag' and s..?aiI sN.aa,a3sIs

Milwaukee, Ia Crosse, Sparta, Madison,
Fort Howard lqireen Bayl Wis, Win0na,
0watonna, Ma5kato, Mimi, Cedar Rapids,
Des Molnes, Webster City, Algona. Clin-
ton, Marsliailf9NR Iowa, Freeport, Elgin,
ROCKFORD, II, bree amongst its 800 local
stations on us lines.
Among q lew Of the numerous points
Of superiority Enjoyed by the patrons Of
TINS road, are Is DAY COACHES which
are the ilhest hat human art and inge-
nulty can crea1e; its PALATIAL SLEEP
ING CAASi which are models Of comfort
ana elegance; Its PALACE DRAWING
HoOM CAhS' (which are unsurpassed by
any ana us W idely celebrated
AOEIh ~WEBTERE DINING CARS
the IKE ~ which are not run by any
ot1er foad anywhere. In short, il is as
serted thAt II Us THE BEST EQUIP
FED hoAo N THE WORLD.
Al points Of Interest North, Northwest
anu west OF chicago, business centres,
summer SUI resortj and noted hunting and
HshihB grouhuls are accessible by the
various piahcli les Of this road.
~ owns ana tontrols over 5000 miles Of
Ioau anu mas yer four hundred passen-
gei Golii,iSVors constantly caring for its
HiiiiI ~ % pat ions.
ASK your tidket agent for tickets via
inns ro9te, AND TAKE NO OTHER.
All leading ticl bet agents sell them. 1t
coses no more travel on this route, that
giFes Aise-Slassf accommodations, than 1t
dJes 70 - Dy be poorly equipped roads.
TOT maps, descriptive circulars and
SUMMER resort lpapeTs, or other informa-
office, write to HE
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-01-01
How Sealskin is Prepared.

From the San Francisco Chronicle.
Few of those wearing sealskin
sacque have any knowledge of the pro-
cess by which the skins are prepared
for use. Seen when first taken from
the animal they little resemble the warm
glossy skins worn upon our streets, for
until dyed and cured they are of light
brown hue, coarse and full of sand.
Before becoming valuable they are
shaved down ON the flesh side until not
thicker than paper, the long hairs are
pulled out and the fur dyed. The cost
{ the article is due to the labor ex-
pended upon it. The raw skins are
sold in London, where the finishing is
done and then shipped back to, America.
where they are sold with a heavy duty
added. The killing season in Alaska
begins about the 18th of June, and 100,
600 skins are usually ready for ship
ment month later. The work
of Strengthening the animals is done by
natives who live upon the st.
Paul and st. George islands and
the process is an interesting
one. When skins are wanted the
natives go to the rookeries, station
themselves along the shore between the
seals and the water, and at given sig
nal, spring to their feet and make as
much noise as possible The frighten-
ed victims, timid as deer, then stampede
up the beach and are driven like sheep
few miles inland until their captors
attack them with hickory clubs. Being
knocked senseless, they are stabbed
with long, sharp knives, and the skins
are quickly stripped from the bodies.
The work is divided among the men
some knocking the seals down, others
stabbing them and still others taking
off the skins Til native Indians num-
Der about 300, and under the terms of
the lease, are provided gratis by the
company with warm houses, sixty tons
of coal, q doctor and schoolmaster,
salmon and other necessities and com
forts. For their labor the men are paid
some $40 900 altogether each season,
a sum more than sufficient to meet the
limited needs of life in region of al
most perpetual fogs and utter isolation.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-01-01

The attendance thus far at the New
Orleans exposition does not meet ex-
pectations. This is owing in some de
gree to the expenses of the trip and the
cost of living IN New Orleans, but in a
greater degree to the fact that the popu.
lation of that section is not sufficiently
den e, nor Of the quality, to adequately
sustain an enterprise of that charac-
-
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-01-01

What was that? That was not fancy
surely She sat quite still-her face
stiii covered by her hands-and listened
a sigh had sounded close beside her,
breathed like the very echo of her
dream and now voice whispers her
name:
"Avisi Look at me, Avis!"
She turned, she rose, gazed for one
moment in his face, as if bewildered ;
then, with cry of love and Joy unit
terable; Roy my beloved !" and sprang
to the arms, sank on the breast of her
true lover.
"You have found mel' she cried.
"You have found mel"
Never to lose you again. Avis-neyer
again."
"And you mother?"
Her great eyes searched his face tim
idly, anxiously.
"She will welcome you as / do. We
shall part no more. You will learn,
dear, that she meyer meant to part us
And another waits for you. Oh,
come, love, come to the heart that ache:
to welcome you-to the arms of your
own true Mother"
Only one month later a brilliant
bridal party aroused to Joy and mirth
the slumbering echoes of the Laurels.
And who so fair as Avis, the sweet
bride, with her troop Of lovely brides
maids, of whom Rose Brandon laugh
ed and blushed, the merry chief?
Who so rich, so proud, so happy as
Avis now? Avis, the founding, found,
indeed, at last, and by her own true
Mother; Avis, the lost, restored to all
who loved and morned her? Avis, the
joyful bride of the generous, noble
lover who, in the days of her poverty
and namelessness-in spite of time, and
absence, and silence, and desertion-
loved her faithfully and truly to the
last.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-01-01

It is stated that 500 of the standard
sugar coated quinine pills are made
from an ounce of quinine. The pills
sell for half dollar box, containing
two dozen pills, so that the ounce OF
quinine made up would sell for $40.
The price of quinine was recently down
to IS cents an ounce. The present cor
ner in the article, however, has caused
a rise to 50 an ounce.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-01-01
Rat1rosa ana River News.

The carvings of the Milwaukee & st Paul
for the third week of December aggregated
$50, Sass, against s467, 526 50 for the same
week last year-an increase of 81, 6SI9z
Chief Engineer Anderson, and the commits
sioners appointed to examine portions of the
Cascade branch of the Northern Pacific, are
still snowbound at Barnesyille, on the Oregon
Railway and Navigation.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-01-01
AREALrsrrc LOVER.

Ipictured my lover a hero
Like the knights Il had read of OF old
A man who was tender and loving,
Beside being valiant and bold
He'd be so unlike other mortals,
Their feelings he'd sure be above,
And he in all truth could assure me
That was his very first love-
Myhusband? Well there he is yonder
A man very mortal find,
And thoroughly unlike tha picture
/ carried SO long in my mind
He's stubborn and cross very often,
But | love him and true he loves me,
Though know that am not his first love.
All mo- because Pm number-threel
n. Buell.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-01-01
The ROYAL ROUTE
Chicago, ST. Paul,
MINNEAPOLIS & OMAHA,
Chicago & Northwestern R'ys.
rnE suoRTEsr ANp Brsr Rour

THE SHORTEST AND BEST RoUT
EAST TO CHICAGO. with Dining Cars,
Elegant Day Coaches, and palace Smok-
ing Room Sleepers on all trains from Min
neapolis and ST. Paul, through Eau Claire
and Madison, with choice Of route via
Milwaukee. THE CHICAGO, ST.
PAUL, MINNEAPoLIs & OMAHA R'Y
also runs.through trains southwest from
st. Paul and Minneapolis to Sioux City
and Council Bluffs with Sleeping Cars
through without change to st. Joseph
and Kansas City, and Is the short, quick
route from St. Paul to Des Moines. North
east from st. Paul through trains are run
to Ashland, Washburn and bayfield,,
Lake Superior; and from Eau Claire to
Superior City, where connection is made
for Duluth, But this route to Chicago is
what the Managers take pride in, and be-
cause of the smooth steel rail track, well
ballasted road bed, the best Day Coaches,
Sleeping and Dining Cars that money can
procure, courteous and attentive employees
and WitYn ats always on Time, 1t is
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-01-01

Three strangers giving their names
as VIII King, G. A. Wilson and William
Worthington, have been arrested at
Keokuk, charged with robbing the post
Office and q store at Willets station.
Iowa.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-01-01

The dusky gray Of an Autumn twi-
light filed the lonely school -room that
afternoon, but occasionally flashes of
light from a small but cheerful fire
fell On the slender, girlish figure that
sat before it in low arm chair, her
soft, pale cheek supported by one lit
tie hand, her eyes fixed on the glowing
Goals.
A world of longing love and fond re-
greet was in those great dark eyes, that
saw not what they gazed upon, but
we're looking far away into the past.
Thinking of oy-always thinking of
Rov. Where was he? How Jared he ]?
Had he forgotten Avis? Alas poor
Avis could not forget Hank what was
that?
A footstep in the hall outside the
door. Nothing in that to make the
eyes so bright and the pale cheek flush
to vivid crimsonl All, but it had
sounded like Roy's footstep. Roy's
footstep here-what idle dreaming |!
What strange tricks fancy played her
often-times.
She could close her eyes and hide her
face in her hands, as now-now, partly
for shame at her own foIly-and fancy,
oh, such thingsi Fancy The Laurels
her happy home once more, and Mrs.
Livingstone her kind adopted mother
Fancy Rows tender smile and loving
look; recall the very words he spoke
his earnest tone-his sigh.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-01-01

rg Orders by mail promptly attend
ed to, and satisfactiongusranteed.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-01-01

A year had passed since Avis disap
peared, AID once more gay party OF
merry guests made The Laurels bright
and cheerful, foremost among them
Rose Brandon, the beauty and heiress,
and belle.
A great favorite was she with stately
Mrs. Livingstone, and there was not
wanted those who named her as the fu-
ture mistress of the splendid but gloomy
house which her beauty and Joyous
laughter made so bright
Even Roy Liyingstone's brow, on
which the cloud of disappointment and
regret had grown habitual. cleared
somewhat as his artist-eyes took in her
fresh, proud loneliness, and as he lis
tened to her animated talk, the smile
that had grown so rare stole to his lips
and shone like d light in his eyes. His
mother, watched him, smiled, too, well
pleased.
lis she not beautiful ?" she whispered
to him. aSle would make fair and
gracious queen for The Laurals, Roy.
But the gloom came back to his face
as he answered sadly:
MY queen went into exile, mother a
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-01-01
RAILROAD I'M THE WORLD.
Let it be forever remembered that the
ChlCagO&NOrth- Western

RAlLW a
is the best and shortest route to and from
Chicago and Council Bluffs tOmaha). and
that it is preferred by ali well posted
travellers whenI passing 10 or from
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-12-13

and sung out: 'Sthopt, ids bisOnP
the curtain fell.
"But the ne plus ultra oil consdn
those days" continued the Old y
"was William L Burton. In hsH
years of his life know he was slsg
work on an illustrated editiono d y
speare. | saw him working aiIi
time, and he was extremely caIelas
manuscript, keeping it locked Y Z
no one could find it. He mus nM'
it nearly finished when be died Z
one knows what became OF II
"T. ID. Rice, or Daddy Mn
another clever comedian. The VIZ
Mummy was his piece. He Ako
Bone Squash and a burlesque o. y,
To- At one time Daddy Rice va
all over the world through the ~
Crow He sang it in Europe = 81
heads, and took them crazy. Inq
him with gifts. Whenever %
here he would be called to sing y
eight or ten times Of an evening" &,
AT this point the old comeolsA
cred that his cigar had gone ouL
another, and then went on lailn 4
the old actors who we're dead, Onl
forgotten by most people Yeas
I New York sun. z
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-12-13

solved. He had bottle in his dressing
room labeled cough syrup. He was al
ways gargling his throat with the syrup
between acts. The manager gargled his
throat on the sly one night and found the
syrup to be rare old brand of whisky.
Bass lived TO be quite an old man,
though"
"Who are the oldest actors?" we asked.
"Well, there's Walter Lee, who used to
be versatile actor about fifty years ago
He left the stage some time before the
war and became some kind of a Judge in
California. He's alive yet, hear. Tom
Haddaway was a comedian of the old
times and he is farmer now
out on Long island somewhere.
But l guess the man who antedates
them all Is Ned Conner. He is over eighty
years old, and lives in Patterson, N. j.
Everybody knew him here forty years ago
lie was u theater manager for long time.
lie was a tail, pedantic cuss, and had one
hooDy oil which he was never cured, and
| that was tondness for addressing the
audience. AT the Arch Street theater.
Philadelphia, Connor had Maltese cat
thAt was always getting under foot. One
nay got mad ut her, and, grabbing her
| by the neck, | plunged her into what |
supposed was Il pail Of water. Shortly
afterward someone said:
Sam, something's the matter with
that cat.
There on the floor stood that cat a.
| ihotIonless as a 'possum. l walked around
her' ana she kept her big glaring eyes on
me all she could, hut didn't move an atom
OF her neck. She was positively notion
less, even to the end OF her tail. | asked
ohr OF tue stage hands what was In that
pan, and he told me IL was size which he
hau oeen putting ON the scenes. lt had
stlhened ON her, you know. Conner
ohercd $50 reward for the perpetrator of
the outrage, but nobody ever gave me
away. '''0
"Connor took the Green Street theater
at Albany one season, and recoliect that
one OF the attractions which came alone
was NJ. Behing, the Belgian giant. liz
was u tremendous big fellow. When ne
/ got INTO hack both doors had 10 he
/ opened. He always had to 20 clear
through the hack and half way out before
ne could get in. Behing PLAYED only in
pahtomime. lie was clever actor. and
inc people were ANXIOUS to hear him
SPEAK. 80 the last night of the engage
heht Connor advertised that M. Behine
would appear in one Of his most popular
SPOKEN parts. The theater was crowded.
me hEst act passed and Behlng numbered
IN una On the stage, but didn't open his
.uups' me second act passed, and the
sn'Tu' Nota syllable from Behing. The
auulehce was getting inpatient. Just at
ene viose OF the piece the old duke sat nj
Moie drinking from goblet. On
No Deu'ng' lie struck tine attitude
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-12-13

authority quoted. The Confederate loss
was very heavy, too, the destructfulness
OF the lighting being shown by the fact
that the Sixth Virginia, with ninety-eigbt
men, lost lightweight - one company
from Norfolk having every man killed.
The sharpshooters had eighty men and
lost sixty-four.
RELICS.
Bullets and other relics are still plenty.
There Is a building full Of relics picked
up by Mr. Griffin, the owner OF the place.
Some Of them are particularly interesting.
one Is made by two bullets meeting IN
the air, striking point to point in exact
range. The result is disk OF lead as
large as a silver dollar and about as
thick, with the base OF the Yankee bullet
showing on one side and the rebel bullet
on the other. Had these bullets passed
each other, the fate OF the men firing them
would not be hard TO reckon.
Another queer relic is a Confederate
musket, IN the barrel OF which two bull
lets met, splitting the barrel open like a
banana-peel. There the two bullets can
be seen. The rebel bullet had got about
one-third Of the way out when IL met the
prying Yankee bullet on its way in, and
then there was trouble at once. OF course
the Yankee bullet had no business In
there, or at least it should have waited
until the other got out, but it undoubted-
ly was better for the holder Of the gun
that II went in the barrel than in his eye
mother relic which tells CHASTITY
story Is Union cross-belt plate. These
plates, as many will remember, were
circular and worn on the cartridge-box
strap, and so came about over the heart,
while the belt plate was eliptical and
came about over the stomach. Both bore
the letters gu. S." Through the plate
picked up has passed bullet, making
huge hole, and Of course the bal must
have passed into or through the body OF
the wearer.
One day while Mr. Griffin was showing
party of Northern men around, one of
them said: al am reminded of an Incl
dent that occurred here. | had charge Of
gun over there in the works near Fort
Morton. One Sunday, while there was no
firing going on, and we were lOatlng
about saw man come over that hill by
the cemetery and come down across this
slope toward the rear of the Confederate
lines. His comfortable and serene manners
irrltated me and made up my mind 70 see
how close | could come to him, and we
all chuckled at the Idea OF soaring the life
out of him. took good aim and landed
shot about six feet from him. You
ought to have seen him git up and git
He was the scartebt and most democrat
lied Johnny Reb you ever saw. He went
on at a rate that would have run dog to
death, and we roared with cheers and
laughter to see him DUST
$50 you are the man that fired that
shot, are your" asked Griffin.
eyes do you know anything about
it?"
"Well, think l do" was the reply.
~ was the fellow you shot at. l was
lad coming with something for my father,
who was IN the works. / did not sup
pose there was a Yankee fool enough or
mean enough to shoot a cannon at one
little boy carrying grub to his father.
But you don't eXaggerate the scare. !
didn't grow another inch in year"
+. ID. n.