davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Russellville Democrat., 1885-12-24
BETTER THAN QUININE. Dr. Duncan,S Chill Tonic Is tll

best chill cure known. It is much bet ter than qninine or any other chill ton- ic now on the market, because it is a fine blood tonic combined with the most powerful antiperiodics, or chill cure known. It is combined with Iron which tones and builds up the blood and the whole system, while it breaks up the chill. Hence the chills do not return, because the system is much stouter and healthier thanwhen broken with quinine. Use 1t in all forms of malarial fever as you would quinine. Price, D cents. For sale by J. W. Wells. tf.
 Crosses are ladders that lead np to heaven.
The Russellville Democrat., 1885-12-24

Put the Lord Jesus Christ by you in thcater and see how he looks at certain things said in that theater, and there are Methodists in this house, and members in all the churches that patronize those places, and if they were to go into your par ior the next day and say the things they heard there the night before, you would kick them over your frcnt Vatc
The Russellville Democrat., 1885-12-24
CAkD.

To read without reiircting is like eating without digestine.
The Russellville Democrat., 1885-12-24
CURE F0is PILES.

A coat of paint has no huttons
The Russellville Democrat., 1885-12-24
NOTICE TO MOTHERS.

Aim at chcerfulncss without le ty.
The Russellville Democrat., 1885-12-24
A RAILRoADER SPEAKS.

some day name I cabinet.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-01-24
Natural Wonders.

Did you ever see well forty feet deep,
lined throughout with stone. in which
there is hardly seam, made without
hands? have and could not credit the
evidence of my senses. There are, so it
is said, several of these natural wells. in
Florida. / question though whether
they are not the handiwork of some
ancient race. Florida is an old country.
It has been the dwelling place and the
fighting place of generations,of both red
and white men. 1t win not do to doubt
the Scientists, but if you could see these
natural wells, = so called, your first
thought would be, what splendid work
manship! The water in these wells is
always brackish--not so with that in
those that are dug in the sand. Inever
tasted better water in my life than that
in the well just outside my kitchen door,
cool and soft and clear. Florida is mot
without itslsprings of healing, also, and
for many diseases to which mankind is
heir there are waters all the way from
San Mateot to Sanford of various compo-
sitions. Sulphur and iron, sulphur and
soda, salt and iron, sulphur and carbo-
nate, all adapted to the various diseases
of humanity. Our pretty lakes are also
worthy of attention. There is one not
two miles from Palmer called Kanahapa.
The lake is small, but the shore on either
side is studded with live oaks it may be
centuries old. These again are envi-
roned by grand old vines, whose main
stems are as thick as mans body and
whose interlacing branches mingle with
the rich gray moss that hangs in fes-
toons from every point of the, oaks,
whose long arms stretch a hundred feet
toward the lake. 1t is, in fact, vcrita-
BILE fairy bower and web repays the
visitor who sees it by the clear white
rays of the moon.-Cor. San francisco
Chronicle.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-01-24
The Clock in Irinity.s Tower.

The clock in Trinity Church tower IN
this city is the heaviest in America The
frame stands nine feet. long, five feet
high and three feet wide. The main
wheels are thirty inches in diameter.
There are three wheels in the time train
and three each in the strike and the
chime: The winding wheels are formed
of solid castings thirty inches in diam
eterand two inches thick and are driven
by opinion aud arbor." On this arbor
is placed jack, or another wheel, PIN
ion and crank, andit takes $50 tuf6s OF
this crank to wind each weight up. Il
requires 700 feet Of three inch rope for
thesthres cords, and over an hour foi
two men to wind the clock, The pens
dumm is eighteen feet long, and oscil-
lates twenty-five times-a minute. The
dials. are eight feetih diameter, although
they look little more than half that size
from Broadway. The three weights are
about eight hundred. twelve hundred
and fifteen hundred pounds respectively
Alarge box is placed at the bottom d
the well that holds about . bale Of Gotten
waste, 80 that if a cord should break the
cotton would check the conclusion.
Scientific american. ess4N.ss
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-01-24

feared, raised him much higher in my
s~Miss bespard, said he, smiling be-
nignantfy, ''wiif you allow me to call
tonight and make the acquaintance of
these troublesome voicesp'' -
Somehow the load dropped off my
shoulders. Mr. Bolton was SO self-con-
tanned and courageous that went home
lighter in spirit than / had been for
many day. At eleven o'clock he
came, and in an exceedingly short time
managed to make us all feel at home
with ourselves and our sitting-room
once more He seemed to have dropped
into our circle as If he had belonged
there for years.
"A. few minutes before twelve Mr.,
Bolton stationed himself as. directed by
me. The clock changed out again the
hour of midnight. Some minutes
elapsed without the usual manifesto
ton, until + feared the spirits had failed
us. ~ 4l $3.50 s 3rts
But, mo, in a moment more the dis
NAL groan was sounded, and the ava
lanche of hardware followed. ! saw
Mr.. Bolton start, while a puzzled ex-
preston came over his face. i felt glad
that our ghost had indicated itself and
me! The horrid noises were supple-
mented by the words ''KiI the other
one'' issuing directly from the. wall.
Our landlord stood aghast.
He reflected moment, then pulled
out his pocket-knife. With this he de-
tached a portion of the wall paper, and
uncovered the orifice of speaking
tube! This then was the secret of it all
the sounds were conveyed from some
other place. and the tubing transformed
ordinary noises into CHASTITY cadences.
The next day the mystery was further
more explained. A former owner had
connected his library with a building
some distance away Some time after
the piping had been broken up. leaving
intact only that portion built in the
wall, one end of which was in our sit
tingroom, the other extending to the
cellar. of an adjoining house, between
a couple of wooden shelves. The
spoken words we heard were those Of
the colored servant, who was accus
toned to bank up the heater fire about
midnight. The rafting of the chains
was produced by the ,shoyeling of coal
/ had mistaken some words about s'dt
fire. for '.De Wire The "poison'
and mangling had reference to mice
which were making free with article:
on the shelf That was all! Is
Twas so much. obliged to Mr.. Bolton
for his efforts, that l could not "say
him nay" when he asked me to marry
him. Besides, how handy it was t.
have a man about the house to clay &
ghost. "-Godey's Lady Book. =
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-01-24
cHbI xr &YHcH.

- 49, Ca
<berlin,f 6ernany.. e only nit
ahufches. HOnlY %, 600 o3the million Of
inhx bitauf lara Aurch=gdArs
Frederick Billings, of Woodstock.
Fx=3s-ereesfxgx 800, 000- -huitding -
give to the University of Vermont
1.-The first volume of the Gutenburg
BfFle was sold at the Earl of Gosford 3
sale in London recently, for $1,000.
a conference held in Sidney, re-
Gently, the federation of the Presbyterian
churches of the various Australian colo
mics was resolved upon. 49,
The most popular course chosen ny
the new students of Cornell University
this year is civil engineering, which Is
taken by fifty-three; science and letters
come next with forty-nine, and me-
chanics with twenty e.-Ithacd Jour
nal. s4es
The ssSternenhaus, a branch of the
Evangelical "Johannesstifts, near Ber--
lin, appeals to Christian young men to
Join its society, and undergo course OF
Study preparatory to their becoming
preachers to the Germans in North
America.
More than ten thousand copies Of
the New Testament have been recently
disposed of4given away and sold
among the Fijis. Religious reading
seems to take with them, if it be true.
as reported, that nine thousand copies OF
the Conference Catechism" have been
sold among them Chicago Times.
This country was pretty well repre-
scented at the recent meeting OF the
Evangelical Alliance in Copenhagen.
Some two hundred Americans were in
attendance, and among them such
representative clergyrnen as DR.. Philip
Schaff. John Hall. William M. Taylor.
Edward Bright, and Wilbur F. Watkins.
Recently the dome of St. Peter s,
in Rome, was reclad at an expense to
the Vatican of $40, 900. The old sheath
ing required such continuous repairs
that it was deemed better to replace it,
The sheets of lead which now cover tha
dome weigh 708, 610 pounds, and would
extend over more than an acre and .
half of land If they were spread out FIAT
i'm Missouri q missionary of the
American Sunday School Union found
a church thirty years old, meeting in a
good house of worship, well appointed
as to comforts, with large eongrega-
ton, but which had never had Sum
day-school. While there was preaching
to parents and adults, the children were
hunting. fishing. ETC. Here he organ
lied good school with fifty scholars
Baptist Weekly.
The Government of Sweden has ap@
pointed q committee for the new revis-
ion of the Old Testament. Archbishop
DR.. A. N. Sundberg is Chairman, and
he will be assisted in the work by three
professors, two Bishops and one pastor.
For nearly century the Swedes have
been working on the revision of their
Bible translation. The New Testament
version was adopted by the last General
Assembly, and appointed to be used in
the schools. but not yet in public serv'
| ices. 4* -
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-01-24
Yankee Speculation.

Some astute observer has remarked
that II two Yankees were cast away on
q desert Island, they would each make q
fortune by swapping jack-knives. This
m0ney-making propensity Of the Yam
kee was illustrated some years ago in
South Africa. s
: An enterprising SON Of New England
had found his way to the Cape of Good
Hope. Looking around for chance to
speculate, the idea struck him hat It
would pay to exhibit party of Kafifs
In London. In short time he had col
lected q half-dozen Kafirs from farm
within fifty miles of Cape Town. He
had them instructed in the native dances
and took them to London, where they
appeared clothed in skins and lustrous
i'm paint. A Kafir war was then
going on, fact of which the spec
ulating Yankee made good use in
his f,shov- bills These aKafirss be-
, came the rage, aud thousands of Lon
doners and visitors to that city thronged
the exhibition hall. It happened that
about that time Dutch farmer from the
SopCs AoAnCO LIZ OCCIs W aS III 4<OuOOus
Seeing . show-bin advertisement of the
appearance of wild KAfrs, taken.eaptive
in war, he went to the hall. The per-
Torrance went on as usual, until sud-
denly two of the Kafirs rushed from the
stage, and clasping the farmer round
the neck, shouted out in Dutch:
why, herr is old Papa De Beerr'
The other Katizs jumped off the stage
and threw their arms about the Dutch
man.. He struggled with many Dutch
explosives to release himself from their
greasy embraces.
The audience, thinking the war IN
stincts of the savages. had led them to
attempt to murder g. Spectator, were
thrown into great excitement. It was
with difficulty that the Dutchman could
make himself heard. He finally Gained
Ne excitement by explaining that these
Vild Kafirs were his own farm-hands,
Yhom the Yankee Spectator had enticed
way some 'six months before You'll $
Qn10011t01. /. ftl. = t5tftf.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-01-24
TIVE MAUD OF THE PERIOD.

Maud Parvenue one summers day
Went to the stable bright and gay.
While standing by the open door
The rich man passed in coach and four.
He glanced at Maud with loving air
Her father was millionaire - ------~-
And Maud she gently moved her head,
And to herself these few words said:
sTII not be by a rich man won; .-
My pa can cover him ten TO one."
Into the stable then walked she
To hear sweet words from the coachee.
The coachman did not have much cash,
But oh he was lovely mash.
, Down they sat on bale of hay,
And this is what Maud heard him say:
"swIfl you fly with me, my pretty miss,
To a land that's far remote from this2
"You know that time and time again,
I've told my love in the shady lane.
I've often asked: viii you be my brider"
Then Maud made up her mind to slope
And said to the coachee, We'll elope."
One moonlight night they skipped away;
Maud's father raved and ragged, they say.
But Maud was happy with her coachee.
As happy, as happy as girl could be.
Time passed on and the rich man wed
A vixen with carmine head, s.-
And often he has groaued and sighed,
Because Maud would not be his bride.
, Maud's father drove her from his door.
!. And by and by grew very poor.
Tho rich mans wealth soon wont com nlete
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-01-24

-Teacher-"How, many wars were
waged with SpainP" Pupil six" !,
Teacher "Enumerate them" Pupil
Zone, two, three, four, five, six."-
French joke.
"A little boy complained to his
mother that the teacher couldn't re-
member his name. when she speaks
to me. , he says. ''she always calls me
Silence"
4. Won't you take half Of this poor
apple?' said q pretty damsel. mo, I
thank you. / would prefer q better
half" Eliza blushed and referred the
young man to her papa.
The Daughter. of q NewYork mil
lionaire has e1oped.with str6(t broker;
Coachmen. have cofne;to bep Particular
in 3hef selection Of brides that SOM
rich girls have to put up with street
brokers. -Louisuille G. lsrier-Journal.
Yes, SIR" said the entomologist,
'Foax4ame flies % thdt when whistle
they viii come and alight on my hand.r
''Bshawr' ssid the bald-heeded man.
'that'n nothing. They coma and alight
o. my head without my whistling.'
The entomologist sat down.-Son1eg-
vile Journal
They kissed: LIZ
&Beneath ashady. tree they vt;
asa sis ssad s sss I've ss 6 hs Sss
1s {eid thSt Kissing wa , no ss crime;
sessss sa az ssUsg II, ssHs ,iv
while taey thought no one knew =:
ss.his ) great pity that You CONS
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-01-24

aStr0l0ger. fortunately for us, we heard
no demonstrations through the day nor
in the earlier portion of the evening.
The fact that the manifestations oc-
CURED only at midnight was additional
proof OF their spiritual source. There
was no chance for investigation; there
was the plain wall, covered with matter
of-fact wall paper--what was there to
examine or investigated What could be
done but stare at it and ask ones self,
If it is not voice from the land of
shadows, what is itp''
1t could not go on this way much
longer, I knew; so resolved on a de-
cided movement, and one contrary to
all the reticent traditions of the Des-
pards, who had always '.insisted on
keeping things to themselves" i or
.dered carriage and sent mother and
Rosaleqn out for a drive. So soon as
they we're out of sight, turned the key
in the lock and went to see the land
lord.
Mark Bolton was a dapper little gen.
tleman of quaint manners, and beam
ing courtesy which had q wonderful
attraction for me, as opposed to the
strained foppishness affected by tie
young men Of this age He was the
agent for and part ownersof the block
OF houses, one of which was our habita-
ton. 2
To him I related the story, and the
fact that he received the wondrous mw,
terry II . sympathnihg spirit ihssea6 81
treating i with the aarisien ] SO much
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-01-24
Two Very Smart Cats.

I We hope none of our readers, who
pride themselves on their skill as fisher
men, will indulge feelings of jealousy on
reading the following story of a cat that
belongs to lady in Vermont: sc
A few mornings since she was called
to the front door of the house by the
strange actions of tabbY, and discov-
cred an eel over two feet in length on
the steps. After few words of aston
ishment and appreciation from her mis-
tress, the old cat started for the brook
again, and soon arrived with another,
but smaller, eel. A third journey to
the brook was made. and a large dace
was brought back. Hardly day passes
but the cat brings in one or more fish,
Another Windsor cat has developed a
singular method of hunting birds.
Thomas climbs certain tree and seats
himself on limb overhanging another,
at a place where the way to the ground
is clear of branches and boughs.i If a
bird happens to light on the lower
branch, Sir Thomas makes a dive and
catches the bird in his mouth on the
way to the ground, and dimes at his
leisure. His movements have been
watched several times, and he has. not
yet been known to miss his prey. He
invariably catches the bird in his mouth
while making the flying trip Vermont
Journal. .hf ts'-
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-01-24

Cushions and pillows Ssphsd ~
90 bspnok ard ~snEuce aFesnaw 7
fashion.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-01-24

"A scientific man writing from Flor.
ida, speaks Of the great advantages
houses have there, as well as in South
Alabama, in being built upon pillars
and having no cellars. The cellar at
mosphere is prolific source of disease,
and increases seyenty-fiye per cent. the
risk from malaria. With the houses
upon pillars there is always free eircular
ton Of air beneath.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-01-24
puNoENT PARAGRAPHS

-Teacher-"How. many wars were
waged with SpainP" Pupil = six"
Observation-Disclosures them" Pupil
Zone, two, three, four, five, six
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-12-04
THE E~NpEDITIoUs MULE.

work at something, he says idol hands finds
mischief. So the other morning he gave me
my choice to cut out fence corners, or haul
logs for the old man white, of corse l chose
the latter as it would be much easyer work
handling logs with a yoke of slow, lazy cat
tie than cutting out fence corners with a
big old dull heavy brush cythe while the
mercury was one hundred degrees above
zero. Old Bob White gave me a Big yoke
OF red cattle to work, and I don't believe
they was ever yoked up Before, or at any
rate they didn't act like it. The timber
from which l was to haul the logs was
situated about half a mile from the saw
mill and it took me a good three hours to
drive from the mill to the timber. I got
their at last though, and finding a nice open
spot l left my wagon and proceeded
to snake the logs out of the
braish with the cattle. l found a small
cotton wood log and after some lively
whipping l managed to get close enough to
tie one end of a large rope around the little
end of the log. l had 10 chain and I was
compelled to tie the rope in a running moose.
by this time the cattle was getting their
Blood up and so was l. Tie Mercury
stood at a hundred and l stood at one hum
bred and fifty. l started them up and
they went OF the opposite direction from
where l had left my wagon. In trying
to turn them the rope slipped off, and
forgetting myself, 1 grabbed at the rope,
and in so doing l STEPPED my foot right in
the running moose. | had on a pair of stiff,
stogy Boots and the rope drew so tight
around my ANGLE that it almost stopped the
Blood from circulating. l was thrown fiat
on my Back quicker than one could count
three, and away they ven over logs, Brush,
stumps and some OF the wourst Briers that
nynV 90 nnI q niSyt1trn1 n,J,, -0l~
several attempts to grab the rope, but with
out success. Thu great goodness thought 1,
how will | ever get loose, will the tarnell
old fools take me back to the mill, or will
they just ramble around over the woods all
day. l looked up to see what direction
they were travelling in, and l saw to my
horror and dislnay that they were travelling
in a westerly direction, while the saw mill
was south. Yes, they were going West,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-12-04
ACTRESSES.
Their First Appearance Upon the Stage In
England.

Tneir First Appearance Upon the Stage in
England.
There seems no doubt that actresses
did not perform on the stage till the
Restoration, in the earliest years of
which Pepys says for the first time he
saw an actress upon the stage. Charles
Ii. must have brought the usage from
the Continent. where women had lono
been employed instead of boys or
youths in the representation of female
characters. Corvat, in his "Crudities
CD Travels" 1911, as Mr.. Lee saws. saw
actresses performing on the stage at
Venice. John Chamberlain, in q letter
to Dudley Carleton, 1902, relates a
hoax or swindle played upon the pub
lie by a person who proposed, at a high
price OF entrance, to exhibit actresses
in a theater. Chamberlain ventures to
think he had heard of actresses before
in England. Mr.. Lee says women did
perform IN Mosques which were PLAYED
before royalty or among the aristoc-
racy by persons of nobility. Henry
VII, is mentioned in the ''Chroniclesi,
OF Hall, 1912, as having introduced
Mosques into England and HAVING
taken a part in them himself. Edward
ILL.,, however, is said to have Given a
precedent to the dramatic masn,a
which tlourished during the siyteanth
century in England. Mosques are said
to have been taken from Italy. Henry
VIII, with a Spanish wife who partici,
pated j n them, may, however, have been
adopting the manners of Spain and
PORTUGAL. Instances of women ACTING
IN plays and of royal personages tax.
ing their part in them are afforded in
Portugal by Gil Vicente. who in the be-
ginning OF the sixteenth century wrote
dramas in the Castilian languages.
which gave rise to the Spanish theater
and anticipated Lope de Vega and
Shakespeare by nearly a century. It
is related to him: His PLAYS were en-
acted at the Court of King Emmanuel.
and the first of them was performed in
1904. They had great success, which
increased during the reign of Emman-
els successor, John ILL.,, who often
played a part in them. 1t appears that
Gil Vicente acted himself in his
dramas, and it is certain that his daugh.
ter Paula Oady Of honor to a royal
41ll1Ccss) Wis Llc IIst ufanaClC per.
former of her time in Portugal.' Gi!
Vicente wrote autos or religious plays,
comedies, tragic-comedies and farces.
Being the only dramatic author of his
time, he gained a European reputation,
and Erasmus learned Portuguese in or
der to read his works. 1t appears,
therefore, that in 1902 the public were
not averse to seeing actresses on the
stage. as in their disappointment they
wreakcd vengeance on the furniture OF
the theater, breaking to pieces what
was in it. This was different from
what happened nearly thirty years
afterward, in 1929. when, as Mr.. Col
lier relates. a French company were
not permitted by the public to performs
because they had actresses to fir
womsn's parts.-Notes and Queries.