davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
, 1886-05-09

Brooksile library exchanged, opposit,
post Office, Cheyenne News Depot
, 1886-05-09

Subscriptions taken for all daily and
weekly papers and magazines. delivered
to any part OF the city. Scasides exchan-
ged at Cheyenne News Depot, opposite
post Office.
, 1886-05-09

Everyone should buy his flour, feed
and grain at the Wyoming commission
house and save money.
, 1886-05-09

The Wyoming commission house, OPP
posite the City hall, opens for business
70 mnrrnW.
, 1886-05-09

The only cough medicine without hurt
full opiates is Red Star Cough cure.
, 1886-05-09

For fine watch repairing
DAVID MILLER! Idelman block
, 1886-05-09

Go to the Wyoming commission house
for your corn and oats.
The peoples' advocate. [volume] (New-Berne [New Bern], N.C.) 1886-188?, 1886-07-31
A Struggle for Principle.

A rainy day had housed us up in the
cabin of a Tennessean, and about 8
o'clock in the morning man who was
addressed by our host as Uncle Billy came
riding up through the steady pour on
mule. The animal was placedi in the stable,
and as the two men entered the house our
host observed:
"Well, Uncle Billy, how'll you trade
mules ?"
ooh, bout So tew boot" was the an
swer.
They returned to the stables and talked
until noon. Then we had dinner, and
they talked until 4 o'clock. The rain let
up bit then and we went out to see a
cave, leaving them talking mule, We
returned at 6 and they were still at it.
We had supper, and the interrupted con-
versation was resumed and kept up until
9 o'clock. We went off to bed with
Uncle Billy saying:
''Toll We what I'll dew I'll trade fur
So tew boot"
1t thundered about midnight, and 1
woke up and heard that mule talk still
going At o'clock l got up. Uncle
Billy was just riding away.
"WelI, how did you come out Z"
asked of our host.
''Beat him down to So and three bits" !"
he replied.
$50 you saved two shillings"
Exactly, though ] wasn't working for
that. 1t was the principle of the thing
which | looked at."-Detr0H Free Press.
The peoples' advocate. [volume] (New-Berne [New Bern], N.C.) 1886-188?, 1886-07-31
Photography I'm OphthaImoIOgy.

Messrs. w. T. Jackson and J. ID. Web
ster have lately succeeded in obtaining
good photographs of the retina of the liv-
ing human eye, illustrations of which are
given in the English photographic Ne0s.
They were able to bring the time
of exposure for the negative to within
two minutes and half, and it is very
probable that technical skill will further
reduce the time and difficulties. The
chief obstacles to shortening the time of
exposure, so far encountered, are the
color of the retinal reflection and the fact
that the lens of the eye has the property
of absorbing the ultra violet rays. 1t seems
highly probable that the photograph will
here become a valuable adjunct to the
Psychologist, opthalmologist, or even the
general physician, as the eye affords the
diagnostic aid in not a few diseases. -
Science.
The peoples' advocate. [volume] (New-Berne [New Bern], N.C.) 1886-188?, 1886-07-31
Electric Alarms i'm VINEYARDS.

Mention was made some time since in
these columns of the use of an electric
alarm in vineyards, by which warning of
the approach of low degree of temper
ature at night was at once communicat-
ed, in time to permit of the lighting of
prepared bonfres, in order to ward of
all danger of damage from frost. By the
method described it was necessary tC
keep a number of men under engage
ment, so that when the alarm was giver
no time might be lost in getting the fires
started. This has proved the most ex"
pensive part of the plan, but Glen Ell
len v.ticulturist has, by an ingenious in
vention, entirely obviated this difficulty.
Attached to the frost bell of the ther-
mometer are wires leading to the heaps
of combustible matter kept in constant
preparation. A little gun cotton is put
in each bonfire, and when the tempcra-
ture reaches thirty three degrees a spark
is at once communicated to the cotton.
and the bonfire is lighted without the
intervention of human agency. The in
vention is a valuable one, as thereby
great saving is effected. San Francisco
Chr0nick
The peoples' advocate. [volume] (New-Berne [New Bern], N.C.) 1886-188?, 1886-07-31
TYler's Second Wife.

A few years ago a friend loaned me
book containing the "reminiscences of Mr..
Wise. In it he says that he was riding
out one evening with President Tyler,
who informed him that he was going to
marry Miss Gardner
"Why," said Wise, "she is too young
for you"
Not at ALL" replied the President,
'G'm still in my prime"
"That reminds me-" continued. Wise
"of an old cOlored man down in Vir-
ginia, who was generally consulted by his
old master on any affairs of Importance,
to both. The old master was widower,
and when he got the consent of young
lady to marry him he communicated the
fact to the old man. MY sakes,' said
Sambo, she is too young for you;' Not
bit of it, answered the master, Pm
still in my prime Yes responded
sambo, you are in your prime now, but
wait till she gets in her prime, then
where will your prime be. ~ Courier
Journal.
The peoples' advocate. [volume] (New-Berne [New Bern], N.C.) 1886-188?, 1886-07-31
Submarine Boats.

The problem Of submarine navigation
concerning which VI. Verne romanced
fourteen years ago, may be now regarded
as completely solved, and the clever
structure imagined by the novelist is far
surpassed in ingenuity by the actual vcs-
sells designed and built by NJ. Norden-
felt, Danish inventor, and Mr.. j. +.
Waddington, of Birkenhcad, Eng. The
Nordenfelt vessel is run by steam, the
Waddington boat by electricity. The
former is ar-shaped, steel-plated, "a
feet in length, 10 feet beam, and II feet
deep. Two propellers working in a YER
tical direction supply the sinking force,
and system of balanced rudders keeps
the boat in horizontal position. The
steam is supplied by a marine boiler for
travelling on the surface, and is stored
up for moving under water. The crew
live in the air space in the hull, which Is
sufficient to sustain four men six hours.
This boat has remained under water over
an hour at time without inconvenience
to the men, and has been success
fully operated at depth of sixteen feet.
She has been run $50 miles on the sur
face, without recoaling, at maximum
speed of eight knots, and under water 16
miles at maximum speed of three
knots. Although this is comparatively
low rate of speed the vessel is re-
garded as a complete success. Mr..
Waddington's boat is also cigar shaped,
but somewhat smaller than the other,
being 81 feet long and feet in diameter
at the CENTER tapering off to the pointed
ends. A tower is mounted on the boat,
and her depth Of immersion below the
water surface is regulated by eXte rnal
inclined planes, placed one on either
side and controlled from within. She
is fitted with a rudder placed aft, and a
self-acting arrangement serves to keep
the vessel in its horizontal position. She
is manned by a crew of two men, and a
supply of compressed air is provided for
occasions when the boat remains sub
merged for any length of time. The
motive power is electricity, which is
stored on board in so cells. These drive
a screw propeller, and the charge they
carry is sufficient to propel the boat for
10 hours at a speed of nearly nine knots
an hour, either below the water or on its
surface. The cells also supply lights
through glow lamps, and drive pump
for emptying the water ballast tanks,
which are filled for submerging the
boats. This vessel has been given several
trials near Liverpool, England, with
results that arc declared highly salts
factory Inter- Ocean.
The peoples' advocate. [volume] (New-Berne [New Bern], N.C.) 1886-188?, 1886-07-31
VOL. [. NO. 20.
Better Things.

Better to smell the violet cool than sip the
glowing wine:
Better to bark hidden brook than watch a
diamond shine.
Better the love of gentle heart than beauty s
favor proud;
Better the roses living seed than roses in a
crowd.
Better to love in loneliness than to bask in
love all day;
Better the fountain in the heart than the
fountain by the way.
Better be fed by mothers hand than eat
alone at will;
Better to trust in God than say: "My goods
my storehouse fill"
Better to be little wise than in knowledge
to abound;
Better to teach child than toll to fill per-
fection's round.
Better to sit at masters feet than thrill a
listening state;
Better suspect that thou art proud than be
sure that thou art great.
Better to walk the real unseen than watch
the hours event;
Better the "Well done" at the last than the
air with shouting rent
Better to have a quiet grief than hurrying
delight
Better the twilight of the dawn than the noon
day burning bright.
Better death when work is done than earth's
most favored birth;
Better child in Gods great house than the
king Of all the earth.
George Macdonald, LID.
The peoples' advocate. [volume] (New-Berne [New Bern], N.C.) 1886-188?, 1886-07-31

aboard the Ariel that he attempted ons
night to desert from the ship. When in
the water he was seen by a marine -
guard and ordered to come back, but moi
obeying, he was shot through the hea3
and killed
AS to Wilson, the fact of his having
struck, under the influence of liquor,
man, who proved to be Commodore Paul
Jones, had such an effect on him, that,
never after that, greatly to the joy of his
pretty wife, Susan, would he touch an
other drop of alcohol-Ne,o York Neaos.
The peoples' advocate. [volume] (New-Berne [New Bern], N.C.) 1886-188?, 1886-07-31

Alone.
Since she went home

Since she went home,
The evening shadows lngcr longer here,
The Winter days fill 80 much of the year,
And even Summer winds are chill and drear,
Since she went home.
Since she went home
The robins note has touched minor strain,
The odd glad songs breathe but a sal refrain,
And laughter s)bs with hidden, bitter pain,
Since she went home.
Since she went home
aow still the empty rooms her presence
blessed;
Cntouched the pillow that her dear head
pressed;
sly lonely heart hath nowhere for its rest,
Since she went home.
Since she went home
rhe long, long days have crept away like
years
The sunlight has been dimmed with doubts
and fears,
And the dark nights have raincd in lonely
tears,
Since she went home.
-Robcrt J. BurdcH
The peoples' advocate. [volume] (New-Berne [New Bern], N.C.) 1886-188?, 1886-07-31
BAFFLED.

1t was during the time of powdered
hair and cooked hats-the year 1881
Off Philadelphia lay the twenty-gun
ship Ariel, just arrived under command
of Commodore Paul Jones.
There were in the city many persons
who had never seen that remarkable man,
among them the subject of this sketch,
Ben. Wilson, trim, powerful young
Jack-t tar of twenty five, who had lately
married Susan Gray, humble but beau
tiful damsel of eighteen. There had
been another suitor, also a sailor, named
Thomas Wright, who hated Wilson be-
cause Susan had preferred him, and who,
being of a cruel, malicious disposition,
longed to do him some injury.
Having finished his term aboard one Of
the vessels in the harbor, Ben shipped
aboard the Ariel, that he might serve
under the renowned hero who, with his
craft, the Bon Homme Richard, had
fought the English frigate Scraps.
LCduHluS CildC DILL AdA elIIppch,
Wright, who, like the former, had never
seen Jones, also became one of the Ariel's
crew. Neither, however, could yet get
sight of the commodore, who was absent
would not be back for week.
In few days Wright was chosen to
act in the place of the boatswain's mate,
who was at that time i'll. His duties besides
blowing on the call, etc., were to punish
with the colt-a coil OF rope from two to
three feet long-and also with the cato
nine tails, usually termed the 'cat," such
of the sailors as "otfended" against the
rules of the ship, and he ardently hoped
that he might yet have chance to fog
with his cruel lash the man he hated for
winning pretty Susan.
One day some of the crew were grant
ed liberty-that is to say, permission to
so ashore. They were ordered to return
to the ship at nine o'clock. The boat
swain's mate, Wright, and Ben. Wilson,
were among them, the former on the
watch for the coveted chance which
might favor his evil designs. Unfortu-
nately, Ben. drank, and in a state of par
tal intoXication he visited, few min
utes before nine o'clock, when he should
have repaired to the boat, "The Dol
phin"-a tavern not twenty yards from
the landing. Here the landlord accom-
modated him with a glass of brandy,
which the young man lifted high, saying
at the same time, in a loud voice:
"a health to Commodore Paul Jones ~
Then he left the place, not to go to
the boat, but intending to seek some
other tavern.
1t was dark night, but by the bright
light streaming through the windows of
the house, Ben, could see a middling-
sized, broad dshouldered man, enveloped in
shaggy overcoat, watching him with a
mingled expression of stern disapproval
and amusement on his broad, weather
beaten face.
Hold there, my man" said this per-
son, laying a hand on his shoulder.
"What's your name, and what ship do
you belong to?"
MY name9 Why, now, my name is
Ben Wilson, and my ship is the Ariel,
but blast me if know what business it is
of yours?"
cit is time you went to the boat. You
will get yourself into trouble if you don't
90 in time. Bear a hand"
"Aye, aye, all very well; but | ain't
ready yet, do you see?"
"Come, you must go" and the hand
on Wilson's shoulder pressed it heavily
'Let 60 of mel" cried Ben. angriiy
The peoples' advocate. [volume] (New-Berne [New Bern], N.C.) 1886-188?, 1886-07-31
Chocolate.

Chocolate is a kind of hard paste, the
principle part of which is the pulp of the
cocoa or chocolate nuts. The cocoa,
from which it comes, is a tree that has
been brought into great prominence only
in comparatively recent years, although
for many generations it has been exer
cislng beneficient influences upon mil
lions of the human race. The Spanish
word is coco, sgnifying nut. The cocoa
nut palm growsin warm climates, and at
tains the height of from 60 to 80 feet.
The stem is similar to an apothecary's
mortar, being of equal diameter at each
end, but tapering somewhat in the mid
dle The bark is smooth, Of a pale
brown, and the tree generally inclInes on
one side. The fruit is shaped like q
cucumber, green while growing, then
changing to a blush red color with pink
veins, and contains from 20 to 80 nuts
The calyx of the cocoa nut palm is com
posed of five sepals; the petals are five,
heightened into a strap like form at the
apex. The stamens are five each with
double anthers, and horn
like appendage between each fila
ment; the style is fliform with five part
ed stigma, the fruit a five celled capsule
without valves, the seeds embedded in a
soft pulp, and thick, oily, wrinkled
cotyledons. The species chiefly used in
the manufacture Of cocoa and chocolate
are cacao, and the fruits are collected
from both wild and cultivated plants,
the size and form o{ which vary with the
species. The cacao tree is carefully cul-
tivated in many of the settlements of
Spanish America, and particularly in
Mexico, where, we learn from Humboldt,
it was extensively reared SO long ago as
the time of Montezuma, and, whence,
indeed, it was transplanted into other de-
pendencies of the Spanish Monarchy.
The names by which the plant and the
food prepared from its seed are recog-
nized in the present time are derived
from the Mexican language. The Mcxi-
can word chocolate is derived from the
sound of the stones as they crash to-
gcther in the primitive method adopted
by them for brulsing the bean and in
cooperating the sugar and vanilla, and
from this comes the English word choco-
late The seeds of the cacao were made
use of as money in Mexico in the time Of
the Aztec kings, and this use of them is
still partially continued. But the Cacao
tree is not confined to Mexico. 1t is ex-
tensivcly grown in Central America, Bra
zil, Peru, Venezuela, Caracas, Ecuador,
Demerara, Guayaquil and Surinam; it
is also extensively cultivated in Trinidad,
Grenada, and is found in some of the
other West Indian Islands. but that
coming from Caracas being considered
the best.
The peoples' advocate. [volume] (New-Berne [New Bern], N.C.) 1886-188?, 1886-07-31
Ill M0ROUS'

A good year for pics-The current
gear.
The fishery question; Honestly. now
did you get a single bitct
1t is not patriotism which leads doc
tors to go to war, It's piIloge.
The dogs that went naked all winter
have put on their summer pants.
Age appears to increase the value
Of everything except women and but
ter
Oliver Wendell Holmes calls a kiss
lisping consonant He should have added
also that it usually follows a-vowel.
We never speak as we pa $ by;
Although a tear bedimS his eye:
! know he thinks of when he wrote
His name across my three months note.
A bore, meeting Douglass, said: "Well,
what's going on to-day" 81 amp eX-
claimed Jerrold, darting past the
intruder.
A new song is entitled, "Takc your
girl some candy when you visit her at
night" The writer is probably con
Cectioncr.
A somewhat weather-beaten tramp,
being asked what was the matter with
his coat, replied: Insomnia; it hasn't
had q nan in ten wears -
There are few disappointments in life,
equal to that experienced by a man, who
expects that he is going to snceze and
suddenly discovers that he can't
Employer Ito collector - "Scc Mr..
Smith 2" Collector "Was he annoyed
at your calling upon him ?" Collector
''Not a bit. He asked me to call again.
STILL HE WONDERS.
The young man goes to see his girl,
And then what does he do!
He wonders if six 5 a week
Is money enough for ?
This life would indeed be a blank, this
world drcary and desolate waste, if, af-
J ter misfortune has befallen US, we had
40 friend to call in and say, 81 told you
So"
An exchange says that folded news.
paper placed under the coat in the small
! of the back is an excellent substitute for
an overcoat. Now is the time to sub
scribe.
| A big advertiser was overheard the
other day as he made the following judi
cious remark: "You cannot eat enough
in a week to last year, and you cannot
advertise on that plan either.
If they indulge in many more terrific
| tOrnadoes in the brisk and breezy West,
Horace Greeley's famous admonition will
have to be modified to $50 West, young
man, and blow up with the country"
care we going to have a picnic this
year 2" inquired a youngster Of his Sun
/ day-school teacher. "Why, what do you
want of a picnic p Nothing much ;
but can get six new scholars in a hurry
/ if you are going TO have one"
The peoples' advocate. [volume] (New-Berne [New Bern], N.C.) 1886-188?, 1886-07-31
Stating a Problem with Exactness.

Bessie, if there were three apples Oh
the plate, and you took one, how many
would be left?"
eff Fred was here, mammal"
''That wouldn't matter"
Eyes it would, mamma"
'Well, with Fred here. Them
Mamma there wouldn't be any apples
left"
"Why not, Bessie"
''Cause Fred wonld take the other
two. Philadelphia Call.
The peoples' advocate. [volume] (New-Berne [New Bern], N.C.) 1886-188?, 1886-07-31

rhe japanese believe in bathing Pub
ic baths are so numerous at Tokeo that
h re is one for every three hundred in
aabitants.
The peoples' advocate. [volume] (New-Berne [New Bern], N.C.) 1886-188?, 1886-07-31

Since she went home.
robert !. BurdcH
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-06-05
CATTLE BONES.

The four feet of an ordinary OK
will make /" pint of meats foot oil.
Not bone oil any animal is thrown
away. Many cattle's shin bones
are shipped to England for making
knife handles. where they bring
$40 per ton. The thigh bones nre
the most valuable, being worth $50
per ton for cutting into toothbrush
handles. The fore-leg bones are
worth $50 per ton and are made
into collar buttons, pnrasol han
dies and jewelry. Though sleeps
legs are the staple parasol handles.
The water in which the bones are
boiled is reduced to glue. and the
dust which comes FROM saving the
bones is fed to cattle md poultry.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-06-05

PARcHED RICE is said to be very
effectual in checking bowel COM
plants. Purch till we'll done, and
then boil in water for half an hour.
Eat this slowly, and it will check
the most violent diarrhoea. It is a
good diet, in boiled milk, in case of
tiux. Bowel complaints have been
prevalent in Covington TO an I'M
usual extent during tue past five
or six weeks. caused, perhaps. by
over indulgence in early vegetables
and fruit. The above simple rem
eiy is always at hand, and will
doabtless be found effectual il
taken in time.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-06-05
POLICE JURY PROCEEDINGS
CovINaroN. La, June /, 1856.

CovINaroN, La, June !, 1856.
Tie Police Jnry met On the above
date.
Preseut-J. NJ. Allison, Zach.
Sharp, Alex. Bush, Chas Aubry,
P. WEIGH.
Absent-Milton Burns. R. Ga
la:as, john Tally, F. V. Cause.
On motion, the reading Of the
minutes of the last meeting was
dispensed with.
The following resolution was
then adopted:
Resolved, That there having
been, Ivy error. two overseers. VIM.
Dutsch and H. Shultz, appointed
on the public road. from the june
ton OF the Military road, OH the
Columbia road to the ten mile
post. it is hereby ordered that the
commission of VIM. Dutsch he re-
scinded, aud that H. Shultz be de-
clared the overseer Of said road;
and that VIM. Dutsch be served
with copy Of this resolution.
The following bills were then read
and approved:
H. A. Mortee, Coroner, to hold
iuquests, swearing witnesses, taking
testimony. etc, to-wit:
Feb. 22-Enoch April, near jays
mill, $40; mileage, ii miles, 81 40.
Total. Sill 40.
March 1O-John Damn, at Madi-
sonvi!le, $40; mileage, IA miles,
81 40. Total, $11 40.
May 13-Louis N. Lane. a. Sui
phnr Springs. near Covington.
$40; mileage. l mile, 10 cents. To-
tai, $40 10.
May 90 James ". RotcLford,
near jays mill, SO; mileage, 8
miles. 80 cents. Total, $40 80.
". G. kentzel, to printing 200
parish licenses. 81.
The following bill was read and
laid over till next meeting:
Robert J. Taylor, Constable,
Ninth Ward, to services in case of
State vs.. VIM. Lyies: TO arrest
of Lyles. 81; summoning four wit
nesses for defendant, So cts. each,
81. Total. $3.
The following warrants were then
isued to members:
J. NJ Alison. one day and mile
age. Il m,lss, s. 70.
Zach, 3La-p. Que Dag AMI r:ile-
.ss. IA ,a;lea. 50 70.
Alex. Bust, ocs day aud mile.
age, 80 miles. 81 so.
Ch.s. Arbry, one day arI lille
see. 40 miles, IS.
p. WEIGH. Que day and mileage,
40 miles, IS.
The Police Jury then adjourned,
to meet OIL Tuesday. July Ii.
1856.
J. NJ. ALLISON, President.
W. G. KENrzEL. Secretary.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-06-05

The LICENSE BlLL.-The new IL
cense bill has been ordered print
ell. The liquor license is fixed at
5000 for selling in quantities less
than gallon. and $50 from a gall
Ion rp. The insurance license is
changed. making the minimum
$1,000. The license on telephones
is fixed at 81 so per telephone.
Delinquent lists will bs made out
ON Mach instead Of April l.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-06-05

President. Cleveland is said to
have three drawers full of the pho
tographs of babies who have been
named Grover. They number 700.
If lie lives long enough he will
probably receive miniature
Grover more substantial than a
photograph-one that he cant
stow away in a table drawer-one
that will make him walk the floor
at right and invent new words in
the English language. which won't
appear in bis messages to Congress.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-06-05

A Coon BILL,-Senator Strick-
lands bill to protect the sheep in
dustry has passed the Senate. It
is entitled. "An act to encourage
sheep husbandry; to protect sheep
from the rasages OF dogs; to make
it a misdemeanor to knowingly
own a sheep-killilg dog, and to
provide a penalty fer the same. and
to Invest Police Juriss with power
to pass certain ordinances, to de-
clare the violation Of such ordi-
nances a misdsmeanoi. and to pro-
vide the punishment thereof"