davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-02-07
FOR OUR YOUNG FOLKS.
PUSSY CATS EXPLOIT.

Old Pussy-cat Gray is both handsome and
fat;
Renowned for her prowess is she;
If she sharpens her claws It's death TO q rat.
Where one mouse is caught by very smart
cat
This wonderful puss catches three
Her dress is of gray, with broad trimmings
of black,
AS soft and as shiny as silk;
Though she has but one suit, she never is
slack,
But washes her face, and each whisker
smoOthS back
On drinking her saucer of milk.
Her manner is gentle; her courage is great;
From none doth she flee but the man
Who comes for old rags to the area gates
For the notion has entered her wise little
That he'll carry her off if he can.
1t CHANGED that a neighbor, who lived very
visit was wishing to make
And pussy kind mistress to make the way
clear,
Took home her pet parrot till she should ap-
Nor dreamt of the strife it would wake.
The parrot, though wise, but one sentence
Which reached the extent of his lore;
And this il would Shrek fifty times Il day.
- Win you dine! win you dine? Will you dine,
He shrilly would cry O. or and DER.
Old Pussy-cat Gray, fast asleep in a chair
Awoko from her dreams with start
What curious creature was sitting up there?
She gaZed all about with a wondering air,
Surprise in her small feline heart.
Is 1t looks like a chicken; perhaps it is fat"
She thought, with a blink of her eyes.
i" 1t surely must taste quite as good as a rat.
I'll catch it She crept up, this, wonderful
To take pretty Poll by surprise.
The parrot, poor creature, looked on in dis
For he knew that it BODIED him i'll.
So he tried TO prepare for the coming ARRAY
By sharp ming his claws i'll bloodthirsty
And solemnly whetting his bill
With green eyes aglow, and slow switching
her tail
Puss suddenly sprang on her prev.
Then. oh there arose such terrible wall!
The feathers and fur flew like leaves in a
Alas! for poor Pussy. cat Gray.
~win you diner" shrieked the parrot, and
Pussy-cat Gray
Her whisIers erect with alright,
Her tail thrice its size, stood stock still in
diSmay.
50 1t talksl It's mani" She fled wildly
Her senses deserving her quite.
She hid meath the lounge, and that valorous
cat
Came not forth at her kind mistress
call;
For though she had bravely slain many a
rat,
She dreamt not chicken could speak out
like that.
So was not prepared that was all.
Grown Older and wiser is Pussy-cat Gray
A fat and u solemn gray sinner;
Yet show her parrot and she II flee away
As quickly rs when on the memorable day
That Polly but asked her to dinner.
Mary C. Huntington, in N. Y. independent.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-02-07

Oh! Say, does the star-spangled banner still
wave
Der the land of the free and the home of the
braVeF
Lou hummed the lines, then she add
ed: " Since | read the story the song
seems to mean great deal more than
it did before"
''lt does seem to make it different"
said Ned, thoughtfully. "Say, Lou,
can't you imagine them straining their
eyes before it was really light enough
to see, trying to catch a glimpse of the
old flag? That flag meant great deal
to them, didn't it?"
"Indeed, it did! But I suppose it
really did not mean any more to them
than it does to us now"
81 don't understand how" said
Ned.
"Why, the flag told them that the
fort had not surrendered, that the Brit
ish had been unsuccessful in their at
tack; and it tells us every time
we look at it floating out on
the breeze that our Government
still stands, and that we are still pro-
tected by the power that holds up the
flag"
but after all, it is different" said
Ned; that was in war time, but no
body is firing at the flag now"
80 much the more reason to be
glad"
Glow came we to have the flag any
way?" asked Ned.
"'Ned, why do you say anyway "
Because it seems to fill out-6and o.
finish up sentence.
Lou laughed. ''It is like the snapper
on the end of a whip, and Isuppose you
think it will bring out quick response.
Well, happen to know something
about the flag. When we made the
large flag at the academy, Prof Com
stock told us about it, and the history
of the flag will take us back to the pc
Rod we were talking of in our history
talks. In January, 1776, the British
held Boston, and Washington's army
was encamped at Cambridge. 1t was
then that the American flag was I'M
furled. 1t had thirteen stripes, red and
white as now, to represent the thirteen
colonies, but in the corner, on blue
ground, instead of stars, were two
crosses combined; the st. George Cross
and the Cross of st. Andrew which is
like the letter X The next year, by act
of Congress- stars took the place of the
crosses. The number of stripes and
stars was changed by Congress two or
three times, but in 1918 it was settled
that there should be thirteen stripes and
star for every State. "-F'aye Hunt
lngton, IN PanSy.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-02-07
Origin of the Amulet.

A kind of odiferous amulet, said to
be made in Persia, is sold in New York
bazars and is becoming very popular
among New York ladies. A Turk in the
trade give this history of the origin of
the amulet:
THE legend of the amulet is well
known by all women in the Orient.
Many years ago Genghis Khan, the great
Tartar warrior, overran Persia. The
Shah's harem was captured at Teheran,
comprising some three hundred or four
hundred beautiful odalisques. These
became at once favorites with the hero,
but his family was already so large and
included so many pretty wives he could
not distinguish his Persian from his
Tartar W yes. In order to be able to do
So he resorted to the expedient of at
taching amulets, perfumed highly,
around their necks, which proved quite
successful. The hieroglyphics on the
diverse side OF the charm are supposed
to represent the Khan's signature and
his proc amation warning others not to
interfere with his property. For hun
dreds of years the amulet was handed
down as an heirloom and protection
against evil. When the Turkish race
became the conquerors of the East they
captured these charms and put on the
reverse side the crescent, star and the
word kismet Then after many years
the Shah permitted the charms to be
manufactured and sold as boon to the
human race. ~. Y. Mail.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-02-07
A SINGING BEACH.


Musical Stones and Sands in the Bed of
ar the Susquehanna River.
Halfway down this lovely and lonely
island passage we plunged in, as | have
many times said; and we had no sooner
struck bottom than Mr.. Butler uttered
strange shout and threw up his hands.
was startled till looked at his face:
and then L was puzzled beyond measure
by his motions and expressions. With
his hands above his head he seemed to
be dancing on the bottom of the river,
and with every step he gave shout of
pleasure. While | looked at him. as
tonished, | began to feel the infection
of his strange conduct A thrill like
soft music ran through me, and seemed
to Jingle in my ears and under my
tongue; and every movement | made
brought a repetition of the inexpressible
sound, for a sound it was, that seemed
to run all through me like musical
echo.
What is it?" 1 cried at length. This
is wonderful
sit is a musical beach-a singing
beachr' answered Sgourney And /
should say it was the finest in the
worldr' And then he said-for by
strange chance he knew something
about such queer thing-"I believe
there are only two or three singing
beaches known in the whole world; and
this certainly must be the best"
You may be sure we fingered over
that oclliauous swim. We pushed the
boats ashore, and went irr Gdr the wlerd
sweet music of the stream. 1t was
enough to make one howl with sheer
sensuous enjoyment. As we pushed
or scraped the pebbly bottom with our
feet we felt or heard, | hardly know
which, rich resonance passing through
us, clear and sweet as the soft note of
distant cow-bells. The slightest dis
placement of the gravel brought it up,
as if it had Just escaped from the earth.
When we had tried it hundred and
a thousand times, it occurred to us that
neither could hear the note caused by
the other-we only heard the sound of
our own feet. Again the tenacious
memory of my friend found an eXplana-
ton. He remembered that divers can
only talk under water by placing their
heads on the bottom.
Another discovery here: You can't
get your head to the bottom of four
foot stream, unless you catch hold of a
stone on the bottom, and pull yourself
down. You can dive and get your
hands and feet or knees down; but not
your chin. We are both good swim
mers, and we tried in vain. While I'M
der water on the dive, or crawling
along the bottom on hands and knees,
the river was drear and silent sluice.
At last we got our chins on the bottom,
each on a stone, and we heard it-oh!
we heard some melodious discord, such
a mixture of near and remote echo-like
/ sweetness as can only be imagined in
| dreams. The river became as full Of
music as it was of water, and the mex
pressible fusion of notes played through
our senses like intoXication. Sigourney
was twenty or thirty feet from me, and
in deeper water; but every sweep he
gave the pebbles sounded to me like g
thousand cow bells melted into liquid
harmony. Never, until we 90 to the
same spot again, shall we hear such
strange, suppressed elfn music.-John
Boyle O'ReiLty, in Outing.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-02-07

A Remarkable Woman.

A remarkable woman died recently in
Benares, in India. She was Anna,
widow Of General James Kennedy, OF
the Bengal Cavalry. Her life set at
defiance all orthodox medical theories,
for though ninety-six years Of age, she
never left the plains in India going to
the hills for her health only on one oc-
casion. She lived to see no less than
one hundred and seventy-six lineal de-
scendants, of whom one hundred and
twenty-eight survive her. She was
married at the age of fifteen, and had
eighteen children, eighty grandchildren,
seventy-three great grandchildren, and
five great-great- grandchildren Besides
military officers of inferior rank, her
father, husband, two sons, one son-in-
law and four grandsons were generals
in the army. She lost her husband at
the age of eighty-two, after tifty-fve
years of married life. For nearly half
a century Mrs. Kennedy has been the
center Of society at Benares, where she
accomplished the difficult task of being
equally popular with Europeans and
natives; and so great was her activity
of mind and body to the very last that
whenever the Maharajah of Benares
called upon her she never failed, though
thirty years his senior, to offer him the
use of her arm when he left. She re-
tanned her vigorous intellect unimpaired
until the last.-LOndon Paper.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-02-07
DEALING IN DEAD HORSES.
Shoes, Fertilizers, Buttons, Glue and La
dies Switches Made Out of Defunct
EquiBes.

Shoes, Fertilizers, Buttons, Glue and La
dies Switches Made Out of Defunct
Equihes.
A crowd had gathered on a South
side street corner where horse with
broken leg had been shot. As the
owner stood ruefully surveying his loss,
a fat, dark-complexioned man elbowed
his way up and said, as he smiled
grimly:
Say, mister, III cart that horse
away if you will give it to me. Is it a
bargain?"
The owner pondered moment,
looked around at the crowd and re-
marked:
1.-The animal is no use to me, and |
guess you can have it, but I'm blessed il
know what you want with it. You
an have it if you will tell me.
"All right You see a dead horse
represents considerable money to me,
and when can get one, | am going to
drop onto it every time. I'll haul the
animal out to my place, where l will
skin it and tan the hide, or else sell it
raw to one of the tanneries. 1t will
then 90 to some boot and shoe firm, who
will proceed to make it up into shoes.
The leather, being soft and waterproof,
makes up nicely and commands a fancy
price.
"Shoes made of cordovan, as the
leather is called, are considered the
proper thing by swells and sell well
The tail, when it is long and bushy, can
be made into nice horse-brush or
switch for ladies. To make a nice
switch, take out the bone from the
tail and tack the skin onto handle,
and there we have it, all ready for use
as soon as it gets dry"
''But, what do you do with the re-
mainder of the body-the bones and
fleshP"
80, they come in handy. l raise
lots of hunting dogs. OF course, if L
were to buy beef for them it would cost
me a small fortune. When l get or buy
dead horses save some of the meat
feeding the dogs on that. They thrive
on it, and it don't cost me much.
1.-The hoofs | sell to some glue factory,
where they are boiled down and made
into glue. Do make use of the bonesP
OF course l do. Sometimes l grind
them up and sell them' as fertilizers.
Ground bone is the stuff to spread on
your garden if you want to raise good
crops. When l am busy and want to
dispose of them | sell them to some
button-factory, They make buttons,
large and small, out of bones. | have
seen some knife handles made from
bone, but it cracks easily and is not
used much. Buttons are more generally
made from horse-bones than anything
else in that line.
"Now, if you want any meat for your
cats let me know, and | will supply
you," but the former possessor of the
horse did not seem to relish the idea of
his cats being fed on horsenesh. and
declined the honor with thanks. Nil
t0dqtkee Sentinel.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-02-07
TYPE-SETTING MACHINES.
A New Invention Which Means Mischief
to the Intelligent Compositor.


to the Intelligent Compositor.
There are about Congress some of the
best shorthand writers in the world,
writes a Washington correspondent.
Nearly all of them are spectators in a
quiet way, and some of them are quite
rich Most of them are at present in
terested in the new tyPe-setting machine
which is being perfected in Baltimore.
Here is machine which is manipu-
lated by keyboard similar to that of
the typewriter. Each top of the key
moulds and manufactures a new type
out of stereotype metal, so that one link
of work represents solid bar of metal
with a raised face of the letters struck.
This bar can be sliced like cheese for
the correction of proofs or justifying,
and can be made in such shape that it
can be locked in cylindrical form so as
to 90 upon any of the presses where
stereotype plates can 90. The beauty
of this work is that the presswork is
done each time from the face of new
type. Ii it is practicable the machine is
so clean and simple that the work of
type-setting can be done in parlor
without any dust or litter.
When these machines are ready to 90
to work the intelligent compostor will
be banished. His place will be taken
by nimble fingered, neatly dressed
young women. The dirt of the great
newspaper establishments of the future
will be swept into the basement where
the presswork is done, while the money
saved by those machines will be de-
voted to the establishment and adorn-
ment OF the up stairs part of the publ
cation office, so that the editorial rooms
of the future will be all that art and
luxury can devise. The editor of the
future will recline upon an easy chair
and softly murmur his editorial musings
in the pink ear of gentle and lovely
maiden, whose fingers will set his
thoughts as fast as uttered. so that as
soon as he has finished proof of them
can be instantly hung up in front Of
him for correction. This is the glowing
picture of the work of the editor of the
future given me by one of the steno-
graphers interested in the development
of the machine. One of the principal
stenographers of Washington has in
vested the savings of a lifetime in this
invention.
Belief in the virtues of this type-set-
ting machine has spread to Congress
sonal circles. Senator Pendleton and
at least dozen more of his associates
have stock in the enterprise. 1t has
been worked up among the offices in
about the same way as the Bell tele-
phone stock before it took its great
sweep upward. Through the location
Of the Patent Office here and the pres
ence of large class of patent attor-
neys, nearly everyone in official life has
heard Of some marvellous fortunes being
made in the lottery of inventions. -
Ptttsb1lrQh DiSpdtch.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-02-07
A DAINTY BEDROOM.

Showing How Easily, With the Most In
different Materials, sleeping ROOM
May be Adorned and Beautilied.
A bedroom may be daintily furnished
by clever hands at small expense. The
dressing table, which may be only g
common pine table or low stand with
shelves and wooden upright nailed to
the back to support the looking glass,
is covered with sateen or paper muslin
of any desired color, over which white
muslin covering is arranged with cas-.
cades of fre or is simply gathered full.
Drapery of the same falls from the top
of the mirror. The long box for hold
ing the dresses not in use has a thickly
cushioned top with a round bolster al
one end covered with some of the beau
tiful creto.ne to be found at the dry
goods or upholstery stores; two large
square ere ,onne covered pillows with
full frills complete the lounge. The
occasional tables are covered with
cretonne. Chairs, the seats of which
have not withStood the rayages of time,
may be reseated by covering them with
dOlNDlO EJS VI blChlh@ VI oNOuu vi on
plated and tackled firmly to the edges
of the seat. Finish with a cretonne
covered cushion with a full tlounce
reaching half way to the floor; or, il
preferred, cover the entire chair with
the cretonne. Take care to fasten the
cushion securely in place, else it is sure
to fall to the ground, revealing the skel-
eton which it was meant to hide from
the gaze of the uninitiated If you are
not the fortunate possessor of a table,
take three broomsticks and cut them OF
equal length, stain them and cross them
at the dlle, securing them with
screw. Take the cover of large but
ter-frkin, or a square box cover, and
screw it to the broomsticks for the top.
cover smoothly with burlaps or any
thick material at hand. and then put
the cretonne over it. Old pine tables of
small size may be utilized, covering the
legs as well as the top with the cretonne.
N Y COnnlerctuL AdUertiSer.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-02-07

The late George Gardner, of Bos-
ton, a recently deceased millionaire,
left a peculiar will which was filed
Friday. The trustees of the estate are
directed to pay to his wife each year
1,l6l troy ounces of pure gold, which
was her exact weight when the will
was drawn. If she wants it she is to
have $4,000 additional for her annual
income. boston journal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-02-07

Notwithstanding the great advan-
tages of citizenship in the United States
and Territories, 255, 100000 human be-
ings still live under British rule.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-02-07

There is a man in Emanuel County,
Georgia, who, forty years ago, sold his
wife for jug of whisky. Several days
later he was presented with the wife of
a man who had grown tired of her. The
woman first traded was afterward sold
for bushel of corn. All hands then
settled down in the same neighborhood,
and have lived there ever since, sur
rounded with descendants who are
among the most respectable people of
the county. - Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-02-07

What. the country needs are shorter
trains and more freight to train-load.
Work in the freight yards would be
reduced one-half, coal would be saved,
crews reduced, and freight-gluts made
less frequent. Steel cars would secure
these improvements-Ca rrens
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-02-07

Noise hab eber been deceibin' De
hoss-hy makes mo- fuss den de yaller-
jacket, but he don't hurt ha'fso bad
arkansas Traveller.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-02-07

"A game pie containing live quails,
which flew away when the pie was cut,
was feature of the supper at New
York children's holiday party.
Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1885-08-04
Tuesday, August 4. 1885.

WHILE it is generrlly speaking an
unseemly performance to blow ones
own horn we cannot refrain from al
luding in the most praiseworthy
terms to the very successful reception
given yesterday by our citizens to the
merchant princes OF ST. Paul, nor do
we in so doing feel that we are trans
crossing the rules of propriety. Until
yesterday no occasion has put to the
test the hospitality Of our town and
people and because of this, we rejoice
that when weighed in the balance
we have not been found wanting in
the qualities that go to make a popu-
lar and per consequence 3 successful
people. Through the modest but cordial
reception given the jobbers yesterday
Miles Gigs fame will be made endur-
ing and the men who yesterday, II
they knew Of its existence ut all, knew
Of it only as railroad station, to-day
know it as the undisputed capital of a
kingdom whose wealth is countless
fearing no rivals to its advancement,
and peopled by men whose devotion
to its interests will never let it lag be-
hind in any public movement. The
very meh who were yesterday our
guests built up st. Paul from village
to the magnificent city it now is by
working shoulder to shoulder in all
public movements, never stopping to
count the cost where the reputation Of
the town was at stake. The example
is before us, but the record Of yester-
day shows that we have learned the
lesson intuitively.
Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1885-08-04

We hear good deal about the value
of trained and tame animals in assist
ing herders TO manage unruly fiocks
and herds. The shepherd dogs about
the stock yards are of almost incalcu-
liable value in driving stock. The
COW ponies of long experience play a
not unimportant part in helping the
boys to handle the unwieldly herds.
Occasionally when a steer gets on a
wild rampage he cannot be managed
until surrounded by few lazy, good
natured beeves which act as decoys to
make him forget his tormentors. At
loading places on the plains COW men
frequently have trouble in trying 10
get herds into the loading pens. IL is
said that at Dickinson, ID. T., where
so many Montana cattle were loaded
last year, there is COW which earned
about 81 100 last year in leading herds
into the pens aud preventing SIAM
pedes. The COW is said TO 20 into a
big herd, run around for awhile and
get the cattle TO follow her, then run
into The enclosure, the others follow
ing. Her owner receives S. per head
we are told for her decoy services. II
this is true IL beats the milk OF beef
business.-Drovers' Journal.
Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1885-08-04

RANCHMEN In Colorado, New Mex
leo, Arizona and other states and ter
ritories. are obtaining titles to their
ranges, so there will be no such thing
as ever crowding them out. The ex-
perience of our ranchmen have taught
them lessoL had IL been thought ten
years ago or even five years ago, that
this country would ever be taken up
as farms, men who now have no range
would have secured all the land they
ever would have wanted.
Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1885-08-04

THE plants known as weeds is the
coating which Nature has taken to
cover up her waste places and neg
lected soil. Without such a covering
the soil would become sterile unless
cultivated by man. Nature steps in
and takes possession wherever mans
laziness leaves an opening, Nature Is
never idle and man TO secure best
blessings must follow her example Of
activity and perpetual change and
motion.
Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1885-08-04

tice of the proceedings, and returned
last winter with her sister, since
which time they have been living
with Keeney. Jealousy on the part
of the divorced wife caused her to
quarrel with her sister on several occa-
sions, and this is supposed to have
brought about the denouement.
Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1885-08-04

patronage line that appeals especially
to the Office seeker, it certainly is a
nice cDnsulship with good pay and
little work.-Minneapolis Journal.