davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-11-23
The Origin of Tea.

The tea-pIant grew for endless
centuries in Central Asia. and the
guileless Celestials blandly assert that
the drink was invented by Chin Fong
some five thousand years ago. A pO-
etic version makes it sixteen hundred
years ago, and gives the following ac-
count Of its earliest appearance: "In
the reign of Yuen Yy IN the dynasty of
Tsin, an old woman was accustomed to
proceed every morning at daybreak to
the markeU-place, carrying q cup of tea
in her hand. The people bought it
eagerly, and yet from the break of day
to the close Of evening the cup was
never exhausted. The money received
was distributed among orphans and
beggars. The people seized and con-
fined her in prison. At night she flew
through the prison windows with her
little vase in her hand. If you care
to do so you can read this story and
enjoy 1t in the original Chinese of the
"Cha Pu," or Ancient History of
Tea" and will no doubt find the
translation exact.
Tea was not heard of in China again
for three centuries and a half, when
go hi" priest is said to have advised
its use as a medicine. In the ninth
century, an old beggar from Japan
took some of the seeds and plants
back with him to his native land. The
japanese relished the new drink, and
built at Osaka a temple to the memory
of those who introduced it. This tenn
pie is still standing, though now al
most seven hundred years old. Grad
ualiy the people of Tartary and Persia
also learned to love the drink, and
serve it all hours of the day.
The honor of iutrOdTciDos the 7ra7.1
into Europe may be considered due
equally to the Dutch and Portuguese.
Early in the seventeenth century tea
became known among persons of
quality in Europe, and IN 1902 some
Dutch traders carried a quantity Of
sage (Which was then used to make a
drink popular In EurOpe) to China,
and by some ingenious device succeed
ed in making the Acknowledged tea
drinker think 1t a fair exchange for an
equal quantity of very good tea, which
was brought home in safety and with
out the loss of single Dutcbman--
E. II. LjbGU, IN ST. NichOtQS.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-11-23
1ER. LOWEIL.s new PoESr.

Ny day began not til the twilight fell
And, 10, in ether from heavens sweetest wen,
The New Noon swan divinely isolate
In maiden silence, she that makes my fate
HapIy not moving it. or only so
AS the secrets OF my sheep may know;
Nor ask more, entirely blssU If she,
In letting me adore, ennOblo me
TO height Of what the gods meant making mar
AS only she and her best beauty can
Mine be the love that in itself can find
Seed OF white thoughts. the lilies Of the mind
Seed OF that glad surrender Of the VIII
That finds In service seIf's true purpose still
Love that in outward fairness sees the tent
Pitched for an inmate far more excellent;
Love with a light irradiate TO the core,
Lit at her lamp, but fed from Unborn store:
Love thrics-requited with the single Joy
OF an immaculate vision naughb could coy
Dearer because, So high beyond my scope,
Ny life grew 1ich with her unbribed by hope
OF other guerdon save to think she knew
One grateful VOtary paid her all her due;
Happy If she, high-radiaut there, resigned
To his sure trust her image IN his mind.
q fairer even than Peace is when she comes
flushing Wars tumult, and reLreating drums
Fade to murmur like the sOugh of bees
Hidden among the nOOn-stiilsd linden trees,
Bringer of quiet, thou that cGnst allay
The dust and din and travail Of the day,
Srewer Of Silence, Giver of the dew
That doth our pastures and our souls renew,
Still dwell remote, still on thy shoreless sea
Float unattained in sacred empery,
Still light my thoughts, nor listen TO a prayer
Would make thee less imperishably fair!
The atlantic.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-11-23
HASH: ESSAY.
u PHILERoN PALAvER.

Hash are known and ct the hull
wurld over, from North and South to
East and West people likes 1t.
1T are the most pOplerest vittles ever
got up, and the feller, be he mail or fe-
mail, vat first inyentid hash shOOd NV
cum down to prosperity arm in arm
with b. Franklin.
He or she are desurvin nv it. far
without them bordin houses wood NV
bin faleyer, and hash wood NV cum
up miniss.
It are amOosin after consoomin a
plat or two NV bang-up hash to rekiine
back in your cheer and wunder what
was the ingreiints NV hash away back
In the times NV NOey.
/ spect NOey's pardner put hur most
fittin foot fOrmust, and applyed the
haverin to SCOT NOey to o dot, but nv
wat were it made NV.
Commentators says the pothdge NV
them days were most likely q sort NV
hash kOnsisti2 nv waiter and flower
billed up and yaryus yurbs thrOwed IN.
Esaw swept OF his berthrite fur wun
mess NV it. Eyether it We're furst klass
and hard to cit or else Esaw didn't
valvOu his berth nuthin.
But known minds and willin hands
has AItJ-- Gu I'll q III III tN-A INV
we heve got a hash wich are q hash
Wen it are put tugether rite thare
haint no diskOUnt on it. Its the feed
fur me.
I kin Iiv on it times a day, and eat
it tween meels fur relish
Furthermore IneVer yet seen , dOrgs
wich wOOdnt fife over q moresel NV
hash.
I hev offon thort how is it sumboddy
haint inventid cOnsekratid hash done
up in cans like Bordin's milk on Lew
ises's lie.
Seems to me it wood be bully thing
fur picknicks and sich.
Only list conserve Nv q Teller cartin
arOun 2 or 3 mess Nv hash In his
| pOckit.
Or intent it be turned out in the
form desikcated cOkynut Gums in, dry
like, so as to be carrid in paper bags.
Sum teller with a he'd on him mite
make fOrtyun out Nv this.
Eff I were yunger L wood go into it
| eye tooth and male, purvidin I Good
! bOrry a few shaczels to push it with.
The idee is too sublime to be forgot.
Civ US sum consolidated hash, yung
man, in 3 pound cans.
Thare is all kinds Nv ways, vulger
and unvulger, Nv deVOurin hash. Sum
puts it away with a lase-nife; uthers
uses a fork; and verashus pursOns
| spoons it down.
The heethen Chimes transfurs it
with a wooden nittin-needeI (by the
way wan needed full nv their hash wood
be sufishunt fur me-, and the copper
injUns eats it with piece Nv bark.
Thare be lots Nv ways Nv maxim hash.
Not evry wun knows the kerect methud.
Z don't PEERLESS to llno it my own self.
The most pervalin plan NV preparin it
kan only be obtained in a bOrdin house,
Chicago Ledger.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-11-23
A EIuskrat on His MettIe.

a number Of years ago, while I was
hunting muskrats IN a marsh on Long
Island Sound, there being several feet
of snow on the ground, I CHANGED to
get myself In between one Of these ami
mails and his burrOw, which happened
to be the only means, beyond his run
ming away from me, that presented
itself for his escape. He took In the
situation at a glance, and / was curious
TO see what he would do about it I'm
agine my surprise when he started to
come down for me as fast as his legs
could carry him, and In a few moments
he was too close for me to shoot with
out tearing his beautiful peIt all to
shreds, for, I at once saw that he was
an unusually handsome specimen, and
TO thus spoil him would be a great
shame. When within about a yard Of
me, and his eyes actually flashing out
their meaning st his thus being cor
asEed, he. without 8 moments hesita-
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-11-23

When Gen. Edward McCOok was
chosen as a delegate to represent JEFF
fersOn County in the Kansas Legisla-
ture the miners considered it a question
of personal pride that their representa-
tive should cut as "big a swath" as any
of the members from the river dis
tricts. 1t was the duty of the hour to
array him as became his station and
the vast and glorious country he rep
resented. In those days raiment was
very trihing consideration, but the
wardrobe of the pioneer was not con
sidered elaborate enough for so great
&. parsonage as the delegate from the
golden Rockies. So an inventory was
ordered, and after a two weeks ride all
over the Territory the committee
brought in a bOttIe-green Overcoat
with a satin lapel, a plug hat Of the
last century, and pair Of very dilapi-
dated trousers. A stray tailor was
found to patch the last, and at the
proper time Gen. McCOOk was salts
factOrily arrayed, and clad in his bot
tIe-green coat, his plug hat polished
and glossy, and his new trousers, he
was accompanied out OF town by an es-
cort Of one hundred picked men, and In
royal state started upon his long jour
ney to the capital.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-11-23
Money Made in MATCHES.

A st. Louis jeweler. now retired
from trade, says: There is more profit
in the repairing department of watch
making than there is in any other trade
in the country, unless, possibly, it is
plumbing. Take, for instance, the
handspring Of a watch. The general
price for repairing one is anywhere
from $1.5O to 3. Now, a handspring
to a jeweIer costs little more, all told
and set, than twenty-five cents. Then
there Is the extravagant price that is
always demanded for cleaning a watch.
Few jewellers ever charge less than
S1.5O for such work. The time usually
taken In doing this class Of work is
not more than from a half to three
quarters Of an hour. The handspring
itself costs on an average about eight
cents. Then there is an enormous
profit made on watch crystals The
standard price for them is twenty-five
cents each. The ieweler buys them by
the gross or In lesser quantities for
twenty cents per dozen. Louis
Gy0be-De3pocrGE
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-11-23
Smoking and Throat Diseases.

Smokers are not easily frightened.
They have been warned so frequently
of the perniciOus consequences of the
Filthy habit" in which they indulge
Of the paralysis, premature decay and
early death which result from Excess
siYe smoking they have grown a
little hardened and smoke stOlidly on,
grimly awaiting their fate. It is hard
" likely, therefore, that they viii be
very seriously affected by the letter of
"Medicus" which appeared in yester-
days Times and is dated from Middle
sex Hospital. In that letter we are in
formed that there has been latterly a
eases, almost exclusively confined to
males. This set the doctors on the
track Of the tobacco, and induced them
to accept the theory that smoking was
in most cases the cause of the ailment
Smokers viii perhaps breathe a little
more freely when they find that the
chief suspicious of "Medicus" rest upon
certain cigarettes imported from Turkey
and Egypt, which he believes are made
attractive by a mixture of opium and
an unclassifed alkalOid which the writer
detects in them. Suspicion is, of
course, not proof. But to be fore
warned is to be fOrearmed, and smOk-
ers who suffer from throat troubles
may do well to bear these statements
in mind The genuine smoker Is no
bigOt, and though he may have his IA
vOrite vanity, he would sooner smoke
anything black shag, cavendish, or
the finest Turkey-than smoke nothing
at Manchester Examiner.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-11-23
FOR EVERY HEART.
BY ELLA H1GGNsoS.

Where do they go-the signs, the tears, the
prayers
That have their birthplace in our secret cares?
Prayers unanswered and tears shed all III vain,
Signs that only speak and never heal our pain?
Do they but leap forth moment to relieve
The hidden sOrrOWs-the hearts OF those who
grieVe?
Then like the purple 1anguor of the night.
Steal softly on and pass beyond our sight?
Or do they spring from aching hearts like mine
And pass, with tender comfort, on to thine,
Breathing, faint as perfume OF a summer rose,
Sweet consolation in every tear that flows?
Or even try TO guess, where they must gO2
Unless they steal to heayen-Wheuce they came
To live in some new heart, in some new name.
That there may be forever while the world
From day to day from year to year, is whirled
Signs for smiles, and for our pleasures cares,
And fer each heart that unanswered
prayers.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-11-23

reer.
My cbum bought the cigar. He had
smoked several, and thereby earned
the superiority of being a man in my
estimation. 1 looked up to him then,
which was necessary, as he was half a
foot taller than l.
We took up our quarters in a feed
store, well filed with sacks Of grain.
The boss was in the front Office busy
with his books, so there was little dan
ger of being seen.
My chum lit the cigar, took a puff OF
two, and then offered it to me,
laid on my back and proceeded to
undergo the initiation. I gripped the
cigar tightly between my teeth and
pulled away. My how nice it seemed
To better appreciate it, 1 folded my
arms and spat between each puff. Sud
denly the sacks began to waltz around
in a fantastic manner. 1 reached out to
catch one, and rolled on the floor
Amt it nice 2" asked my chum
Eyes" I answered, feebIy.
Further utterance was chOlzed by an
internal row in the region of my stOm-
ach. My brealzfast-eaten a half-hour
precious decided to come up again.
I did not interfere. It came up and
hid behind a sack of wheat
81 guess you're gittin' sick, said my
chum, smilingly.
I arose and staggered to the door
way, and out into the alley in the rear.
My chum and I sat down together It
was an hour or more before I dared go
home. Mother never found it out.
Did that experience cure me of all
desire for tobacco? All, no. And so
it is with many youth.
Boys, I am an inveterate smoker now,
but would advise you to never form
the habit. There is nothing nice about
it. You Will become men without the
use of tobacco in any form. Beware of
the cigarette; it is deadly, and will
shatter your system. imagine my
pipe a great comfort, but it is my i'm
aginatiOn- nothing more. Take my
advice, the advice of a smoker, and
shun the weed.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-11-23
The Exact Time.

On the occasion of a wedding In Vir-
ginia, not long ago, the hospitality Of
the family naaPsiOn was taxed to the ut
most and one Of the guests had to be
accommodated with a hastily erected
bed In his host room. Early In the
morning, Jim, an irrepressible retainer
Of the family, came in to light the fire,
and his master ask him the time. BE
didn't know.
Well, you idiot, Can'tyou look at the
cIock2"
jim studied it anAiously for few
minutes. and then ventured: @I can't
les zackly make out Whut time It's, Mis-
Sniff; but one hands p'intin' todes you.
en- one hands p'intin' hOdes Marse
Sammy. L reckon you know what time
dat Is. Editors Dr0l0eT, IN Harper
Magazine.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-11-23

TIE petrifed remains of a huge
animal have been discovered lying be-
meath the earth's surface on the bank
of the Des MOines River. near Percy,
Iowa. The length of the monster,
without the head. which was detached
from the body, measures over forty
feet. The remains were in a bed of
dark blue stone. surrounded by petri-
fed insects and remains of other ami
mails. 1t is supposed that the animal
belonged to the carbOniferous age.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-11-23
pRoAD EIEWs OF - GANG.. ,,
By FREDERIC TOWNsEND.

HE "Holy Terrors, as
they styled themselves
three or four shift
less young lOungers,
In pronounced sport
ing" clothes, embla-
-zoned with big brassy
scarf-pins and chains,
their pockets overflow
ing with gaudy silk
handkerchiefs, tooth
brushes, and rubber
combs - were tilted
back on an array of
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-11-23

yENERATE old age; and love not
the man who can look without emotion
upon the sunset of life, when the dusk
of evening begins to gather over the
watery eye, and the shadows Of twi-
light grow broader and deeper upon
tha understanding.- oagfeLLoLg.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-11-23

AGE creeps along on all Only a few
years ago and Tynda1 and Huxley
were the scientific pOIemics Of the times.
Now 1t Is announced that they have re-
tired, desiring the repose Of old age.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-11-23
My First Cigar.

& were new acquaint-
.ances then, my first
cigar and I.
1t IS twenty five
years since that dav OF
my first indulgence,
but L distinctly re-
member the occur
renee above all other
happenings in my ca
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-11-23

ONE may live a conqUeror, a king, 8
magistrate; bat he must die as a man.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-11-23

The use of feet is more Characteristic
than the feet themselves. Of course.
there is some character even IN shape ;
there Is the common and careless fat
foot, and the neat foot, and the vain
foot, and the quick foot In HerTick's
old poem the whole portrait of a dainty
white-slippered girl Is suggested by the
words:
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-03-31
The Dangerous ST. Bernard.

Apropos Of dogs an old friend that | met
the other afternoon drew my attention to
a superb st. Bernard that went by with a
small young man ia tow.
"There," he said, lis the most danger
Gus breed of dog in existence. 1t is worse
than the bun dog. No one should be al
lowed to keep a ST. Bernard III the city,
except under guard, and the freedom with
which they are kept in fiat houses full or
women and children and led about the
crowded streets is an outrage on puoIc
safety. They are naturally III tempered
and vicious and you can never tell when
they will break out. Their mild and Dig
nitiad appearance renders people unsuspi-
cious of their real natures and their great
strength makes them as dangerous as
lions. Even with their teeth filed, as Is
customary in Europe, they do q great deal
of damage. With their teeth fun grown
they could mangle a woman or chlla 10
death before help could come to the VIC
tim. ! have owned several of them my
self and nave never had one that ] could
trust with strangers, so | gave up keeping
them altogether rather than risk harmlng
any one through them !.
enioyed a melancholy illustration OF
this statement within twenty-four hours.
The mildest and most benevolent looking
ST. Bernard possible to find belongs to
one of my neighbors. My own little York
shire terrier met this benign big brother
of his in the hallway Of the house ana
barked at him at n distance OF several
feet. With a sudden roar OF rage the
giant leaped at him and fanged him. lie
was pulled off at once, but, alasl my poor
little comrade of seven years OF midnight
labor lies in the New York Veterinary
bospital with a hole in his chest that may
be. | fear me, like merry Mercutio's, and
the benevolent st. Bernard still travels to
and &C, nursing his latent fury in q
household of women and little children
Trumble in New York News.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-03-31
NOTICE or FORFEITURE,

To the heirs AMI legal representatives Of Mrs
sarah Crtndall. deceased
You, ANA each Oi You, are hereby nolilltu Una
| laNc expended Two Hundred tS-Uo.UN dollar
IN labor ami Improvements upon Tie Northern
Light quartz Lode, situated IN Newton Fori
mining district, County ut remington ;tlld
Territory Of Dakota, ana the location certificate
thereof is recorded IN book "B' OF Location
Certificates, on page E9, Ia the ONCE ol the
Register OF Deeds OF said county and territory.
\ certificate Of the performance OF SAID labor
duly verified under oath, has been filed III The
office Of the Register Of Deeds of said county
and territory. that said expenditure WAS Oc-
WoiE, in order 10 hold aid quartz lode under the
provisions Of section wa of the Revised Statutes
OF the United states.
one hundred tslUu.OO) dollars of said amount
having been expended during the year 1856,
prior Ia the 3ist day of December, of SAID year,
being the amount required 10 hold SAID quartz
lode for the wear ending December 3lSt, 1856
having been expended during the year 1857,
prior Ia the 3ist day oi December, of said year,
being the amount required Ia hold said quartz
lode Tor the year 1857.
Now. therefore, II within ninety days from the
service ut this notice anon you. and each oT Noii,
by publications, you fail or refuse 10 contribute
your proportion of such expenditure as o-o ncr,
to-wit: The sum Of twenty-five 5000 dol.
lars for the year 1856, and also the like sam of
twenty-five lS2j.UW dollars for the year 1887 then
lo,lt, and each q. your, interest IA said Northern
llght quartz lode, owl An tlllal uldlNlHtu
oiic-Quar,tr interest, Viii become the property
of the undersigned w performing SAID
labor. under section 2:524 OF the Revised statutes
OF the United states.
Dated January 2ist, 1888.
join u. SCRUTON.
First nunlicntion. January ~.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-03-31
A Dot I'm the China Sea.

The little island Of Pootoo, n Of the
Chusan group, about 100 miles from
Shanghai and forty from Ningpo, is a
beautiful little dot in the China sea, some
four miles square and sacred TO the priest
hood and worship Of Buddha.
Perhaps the main object Of the Chinese
pilgrim in visiting Pootoo is to hear what
the oracle has to say at this temple; for u
fortune told here is supposed to be de-
lincated by the great Buddha himself.
Chinese pay handsomely for these mani
festations and every white man doing the
island is supposed to have his fortune told.
The business costs about two or three
dollars, and Is marked with considerable
ceremony and righteousness.
The great golden idol OF the temple
holds in his right hand a sort OF ornuco-
pia filled with numbered bamboo sticks.
On payment of the fee the officiating
priest makes obeisance to the deity and
waves incense before him, which is fol-
lowed by some hidden machinery making
the hand rattle up the sticks and drop two
or three. These are reverently picked up
and the combination deciphered, written
toner.
The writer has before him one Of these
manifestation translated verbatim by a
Chinese office boy. Though rather OBJ
scure, it is not altogether devoid of an ell
ement Of the encouraging and poetic. 1t
runs thus:
''The joss say you come the time au-
tumn. i tell you l compare you IS a
Stork; then you get fair wind you fly up
to heaven; no, any bird can pass YOU
San Francisco Chronicle.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-03-31
Bone Circulating Library.

81 want to borrow a frontal bone!"
"I'm sorry l can't accommodate you,
sir, but the 'frontals' are all loaned out"
"Well, give me a string Of 'vertebran'
instead"
"In one moment, sir"
This short conversation occurred in the
"bone ROOM of the College Of Physicians
and Surgeons, where a large number OF
disarticulated skeletons are kept and
loaned out ia the students in the same
manner hat books are lent from a circu-
lating library. 1t is n novel institution.
The bones are numbered, labeled and
placed in order upon shelves around the
room. An attendant is always on hand
acting in the same capacity rs n librarian.
1t is his duty to keep track Of the bones
lent, to enter them upon books and to see
that they are returned uninjured. During
the day scores OF students flock in and
out Of the place carrying packages Of
strange appearance in their hands or
sticking out Of their coat pockets. They
contain human bones Of all shapes n
sizes, which they are returning TO or TAX
ing from the "Bone Circulating Library"
BY this means they are enabled TO prose-
cute their studies at home. Some of them
na be seen going through the streets
carrying fragments Of skeletons uncovered
in their hands. Every student is entitled
to a complete skeleton after having dis
sected an entire subject, but during the
/ prosecution of his studies 1t Is a great adj
vantage to nave separate bones to study,
and hence the establishment of the circu-
lating system.-New York Evening Sun.