davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1889-06-15
AN AFRICAN STORY.
The Discovery of New River Coupled
with AN Unusual Tragedy.

The Discovery of New River Coupled
with an Unusual Tragedy.
The report from Africa thas Lieuten-
ant e ere, Of the French navy. has been
the the first TO visit the head waters OF
the Cassini river. calls to mind one OF the
s'rangest stories Of African exploration
ever written. In 1855 the French mer-
chants in Senegatab bia became aware
that the coast towns were being flooded
with spurious five-franc silver coins
bearing the effigy of Louis ph lippe. 1t
could not be found that these coins
came from Europe. and il WIS soon ey-
idont that tley originated some where
dasn The coast. Fina ly some natives
were found who said they received The
coins In exchange for ivory from two
white men who had trading post on the
Casslni river Nobody had ever heard
OF the Cassini. and Lieutenant WALTON.
now an Admiral In the French navy,
was sent with small expedition 10 find
the mysterious stream which was re-
puted To be the source of the counter
fe't silver.
The party coast d for two hundred
miles south, entering many an inlet on
the way, and at lat they came 10 that
complicated system of Waterways
known as the Rivers of the South One
Of these rivers the natives called the
Gassini. and the travellers ut once as-
cended IT. Not many miles from tho
mouth they saw some large huts. and
two white men presently appeared 10
see who was approaching their retreat
As the boat party was landing. the
white men. gathering few things from
the huts. started 10 run away. They
were pursued. but were not taken alive.
The two criminals ended their remark
able enterprise by shooting themselves
dead. The discovery of new river
had been coupled with strange TRACE
dy.
A counterfeiting outfit was found in
the huts These men had left ono OF
the trading posts with deliberate put-
pose Of burying themselves in an un-
known region and making snug little
pile in the eounterfeiting business.
They bought ivory OF the natives with
their spurious coin and sent II up the
coast for shipment To Europe. IN. Y.
Sun.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1889-06-15

John Bright represented tlse central
district Of Birmingham i'm the British
parliament. He was reelected in 1885
BY his death the district will be- vacant.
The eyes Of the world will he fixed with
interest ON the election to till the va
caney. VIII it be filled by Unionist on
Home Ruler.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1889-06-15

Yaquina bay. on the Oregon coast,
will soon become an important harbor
for ships. The government is deepening
and improving Il,
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1889-06-15

The Canadian government last year
steered around the fisheries difficulty by
issuing licenses TO American vessels
pending the settlement OF the questions
in dispute The same plan will be pur
sued this year.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1889-06-15

A grave question is at present agitai
ing the warlike breasts of private sol
diers stationed at the various United
States forts. II is whether they are en-
listed for the purpose Of backing oiii
GERS boots.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1889-06-15

The merry comedy q Box and Cox"
at which all the world has laughed. was
written by John Madison Morton. .te
is now very old man and poor. He Is
spending his declining years in the Lon.
den Charter House, the asylum in which
Thaekeray's gentle old Col Newconbe
answered softly ''adsuFa@ End breathed
his last Henry Irving, in London. will
give . performance for the aged drama
tist. Americans, too. ought To take IL
up. We should have theatrical enter.
tainments here fof the same purpose. A
single performances Of BOX and Cox" In
nearly all our large cities would net a
sum that woaid sootiie the dying days
OF the kindly old play writer.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1889-06-15

II looks rs though ths failure OF the
Paris copper trust MiSh, esen havs i
poLiticai bearing. Il has weakened Goa
the tinae the credit Of Francs. Russia,
Austria and Italy are borrowers. france
ives lender The war preparations q
Russia and gtaly win be hindercd Cor 6
tune. They win be less civil 60 France.
The equilibrium Of Europe llas been dis
turbsd Tor lighter causes than thla.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1889-06-15

The following Is given rs Bill Nye's
obituary of Mr.. Weeks: MI. Weeks
was a self-made man, and even In his
most prosperous days would not allow
finger bowls In his house. His educa-
tion was most y in the line OF the busi-
ness he had adopted. and though he
did not know tl.at evolution was 1.
gradual change from an indefinite and
ineoherent hsterogeneity 10 a definite
and coherent homogeneity, through
constant dlfFerentiMt4ons and integra-
lions. iint wheel would wake him out
Of sound sleep before il had made two
revolutions
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1889-06-15

People Of the United States should
build beautiful monument al Washing.
ton to John fright. the great commoner
the friend OF America
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1889-06-15

II has become known that the father
Of his country was an ardent admirer
and patron Of the theatre. He was a
front row man in his day.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1889-06-15

"A candidate for teachers position
at Greeley, Kan. wrote AZ an examine
alton that there were two kinds Of gen
der. lady and gentlemen.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1889-06-15

Nineteen Congregational churches
have been organized la Iowa during
the past twelve months
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1889-06-15

1t has been at length settled that q
featherweight pugilist must weigh be-
tween il0 and 1875 pounds
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-09-13
them out to tho bars and introduced


them out to the bars and introduced
them 10 Gen. Rusk. They said little,
but were evidently impatient TO get
back to their work, for the machine
was silent. See here, gentlemen
said Jerry, If you have any business
with my friend here | will step out
and keep the machine going They
smiled incredulously, but he walked
through the bars, took their places
and said, Start 'er up! They started
'er up Jerry was 80 years old, and
he in the prime of his strength. The
hired men whipped the horses and the
old thing hummed. Jerry kept the air
full of wheat. The brothers stared,
then drew nigh and enjoyed it. Very
seldom has so much wheat been thresh-
ed in half an hour When he relin-
pushed his position one of the broth
ers took his hand and SAID: General
Rusk, we are glad TO make your ac-
quaintance, sir. My brothers and
agree in the decision that you are our
man for congress, and they wish me to
say that if you thrash democrats as
you can thrash wheat, you can thrash
'em like h Pierce county threw its
'oto 'oi huoh, anu nc WAS uOUllndlcu
and elected TO congress throe success
sive terms"
William Window, who for the sec
ond term holds the portfolio of the
treasury department, was. like Rusk,
an Ohio boy and also like him a far
mer's boy He had the ordinary COM
monplacs experiences of an average
farmers boy. He chopped and car
ried wood, he drove and MIXED cows,
he learned To build fences, to manage
horses and TO help about the myriad
labors of farm. He read as he got
chance, attended debating society to
his great mental stimulation, went to
school winters and finally attended the
academy in the adjoining village of
Mount Nernon-just about the geogra-
phical center of Ohio.
Young Window made the most of
his opportunities, and without taking
n college course began the study of
law with Judge Hurd father of Hon.
Frank Hurd, the eminent free trader.
From the very first he seems to have
carried about him great personal popu-
larity. for he was elected county at
torney by the wings by moiority of
200 in a county which usually went
300 democratic, and before he was %
he was chosen grand worthy Patriarch
OF the sons of temperance Of the state.
His youth was not made stormy by the
vicissitudes but had something
OF the tranquil surface that has
the career Of his man.
hood.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-09-13

James e.. Blaine, whether for good
or i'll, was born of a family that did
not have that desperate struggle with
poverty, illiteracy and adversely that
marked the early years OF Lincoln.
Greeley, Garfield and II majority OF
other men who have risen to eminence
in this land His father was above
privation and even well-to-do for he was
worth $50. 900. He was college
graduate and member of the bar u
thrifty citizen and for years the proth-
onatary OF the court, and he married a
lady of culture and accomplishments
who brought him So. 600 in cash and
800 acres OF improved land. His grand
father had fought by Washington ;
side and saved the army at Valley
Forge. Even little Jimmy himself,
was patted on the head and patronized
by Andrew jackson.
Blaine was born and reared in an at
mosphere of educated refinement and
OF successful achievement. He went to
the district school young and learned
rapidly. In grammar he became ex-
pert: he read the Waverly novels and
Dickens; and he could spell the whole
bON II hONI -SNfilOOt' liz W 40
not precocious, but he IS brainy and
plucky At 9 he had committed
"Plutarch's Lives to memory.
When he was | years old he was
sent to Ohio (where young Harrison.
Window. Noble, and Rusk were all
then struggling TO TO live in the family
of his mothers cousin-a member of
President Harrison's cabinet-Hon.
Thomas Ewing, secretary OF the
treasury. In the spacious home amid
elevating scenes and conversation, he
prepared for college. his instructor be-
ing IA brother of Lord Lyons. then
stranded in the Buckeye statc-in
which at least five members of the
present cabinet got an important part
of their education and four of them
were born.
One event of his boyhood, occurring
when he was IL yeIrs old, is credited
to Blaine himself His mother was q
rigid Catholic, like her mother and
grandmother, but his father, Ephraim
Blaine, was strict Presbyterian.
When, in 1912. he was nominated by
the wings for country Office, the
Catholic priest, who was bitter
political opponent, asked to certify
that Blaine was member of his
church, replied with the following:
This is 10 certify that Ephraim Y.
Blaine is not now and never has been
n member OF the Catholic church. and
furthermore. in my opinion, is not fit
10 be member of any church.
This was considered certificate of
supererogation
Commissioner James Tanner was
born aud grew to manhood in
Schoharie county, just southwest of
Albany, y. Y. His father and mother
had severe struggle with penury and
hardship, as the former was disqualifi-
ed by blindness for effective work and
his wife was compelled TO toll early
and late to support the family. Her
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-09-13
Fruit a Perfect Fond.

Some poor e are afraid to eat fruit
always associated, when, if they under
stood the true cause OF the diarrhna,
they would know that it was caused by
eating meat. In hot weather meat
putreties very quickly and during this
process alllaloids are formed which are
very poisonous, acting as emetics and
purgaJives. lis true that fruit eaten
green or between meals will interfere
with digestion and cause bowel
troubles; but use fruit that is perfectly
ripe IT mealtime, and only beneficial
results will follow.
Acids prevent calcerous degenera
tions, keeping the bones elastic, as
well as preventing the accumulation of
earthly matters. This is because of
the solvent power of the acids; but
manufactured acids are not harmless,
as are those which nature has pre-
pared for us in the various kin6<>o.
fruit Fruit is IA perfect food when
fully ripe, but il it were in daily use
from youth 10 age there would be less
govt, gall-stones and stone in the
bladder. Stewel apples, pears and
plums are favorite articles of diet. For
breakfast or luncheon, in the dining
room or in the nursery, there are few
table dishes more wholesome and more
delicious than well stewed fruit served
up with cream or custard.
There are many persons, however.
who cannot eat IL on account either OF
the acidity of the fruit or the excess of
sugar necessary to make it palatable.
Sugar does not, OF course, counteract
acidity; it only DISCUSSES it, and its use
in large quantities is calculated to re-
tard digestion. The housewife may.
therefore. be grateful for the reminder
that pinch, Il very small pinch, Of
carbonate of soda, sprinkled over the
fruit previously to cooking. will save
sugar, and will render the dish at
once more palatable and more whole
some. Medical Classics.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-09-13

breath, is an excellent tonic before
breakfast. Try it-you that are not
too feeble to leave the room.
As rule, fruits and vegetables are
best served at separate meals; vege-
tables, II eaten, should be taken at din
ner-near the middle OF the day. Raw
ripe fruits, as apples, berries or cher
ries, are fine for breakfast and best at
the beginning OF the meal Avoid the
frequent use OF soft, sloppy foods, and
also of soft bread; give the teeth some
thing 10 do. If you would have them
grow strong and keep clean. DO not
take very not or very cold food or
drinks; these crack the enamel of the
teeth and destroy them; they also
weaken the salivary glands, enfeeble
the stomach, and impair digestion. IL
you want good teeth you must first
eat the kinds OF food that will make
them, and then you must use them. or
they will decay. Remember that
COW can be slop-fed till her teeth fall
out To preserve the teeth then.
you must throw white bread TO
the dogs (and it will kill them if
they are fed exclusively on iD, eat
bread made of the flour of the whole
grains, and have IL well baked; it must
be hard and crusty enough to keep
your teeth clean and bright. To secure
a good sweet breath. the digestion must
be perfect and the teeth clean. Use
the brush after eating, not before.
Some persons brush their teeth the
first thing in the morning and the last
thing at night; this leaves them I'M
brushed between breakfast and dinner,
and between Dime + and superior in
other words, only clean at night Form
the habit OF brushing the teeth the
first thing after you rise from the table.
Another important rule, and always APP
plicable, is the following: Make the
meal as enjoyable as possible; cheer
full face. with pleasant conversati on, is
an excellent condiment. And if children
dine with "big folks" let them learn
at the start that they are to be put upon
their good behavior. Health in the
Household.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-09-13
Dietc.ic Rules.

Eat slowly, masticating your food
thoroughly before swallowing it, The
first process of digestion called in
salvation takes place in the mouth.
Never eat when you are mentally ex-
cited, or physically exhausted; if you
are very tired lie down and rest half
an hour before going to the table. Neg
lect OF this rule has caused many a fit
of Indigestion. Do not take vigorous
exercise, either physical or mental.
Immediately after eating. Light exer-
cise as clearing up the table. washing
dishes, or walking about the house or
garden, facilitates digestion; but heroic
exertion, as running, pulling. lifting.
washing or wringing clothes, etc, re-
tards it, A bath should never be taken
directly after eating, and particularly
after very hearty meal. A good rule
il not 10 battle for half an hour before,
and for two hours after eating. Take
your food regularly. at stated intervals
not at any hour of the day; and
do not form the habit OF eating
between meals. If anything is taken
outside OF the regular meal-time, ripe
juicy fruits, "a apples or oranges, will
usually occasion less disturbance than
more hearty or substantial food. Let
ut least the greater part OF each meal
consist of plain food, and do not con-
tinue TO eat after the actual wants of
the system are satisfied. The supper
should be the lightest meal, both in
quantity and quality, and 1t ought to
be eaten at least three hours before
retiring for the night. Do not wash
down the food with a iluid; eat without
drinking; this will insure more thor
ough mastlcation aud insalivation: it
will also help TO preserve the teeth.
The horse never leaves his oats or corn
20 take a sip OF water between mouth
fuls. nor is he ever tortured with the
toothache. 1t is bad plan 10 rise
from the table, rush out into freezing
atmosphere, and take long cold ride /;
the body becomes chilled and digestion
Is apt To be interfered with. A few
minutes brisk walk in the morning.
tilliug the lungs with fresh air at every
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-09-13

son speaks very tenderly OF these pa
thetic scenes i'm his early lie.
The first dollar | ever earned ne
says, on those rare occasions when ne
alludes 10 the subject. ''was earned
picking up and piling stones on a
neighbours farm. | picked stones SIX
DAYS at % cents a day and earned *l.oO,
with which | got my mother new
calico dress.
Before he was II he had enlisted in
the army and hurled 20 the front. Be
fore he was 10 he had both legs shot
off at the second Bull Run. Before hel
was 10 he got pair of wooden legs and
had learned photography and retYSr
ed to Washington TO do such reporNhel
as he could find.
In April, 1865, he was boarding in al
little brick house on Tenth street, OPP
posite Ford's theatre, and one evening
just as he was going to bed he heard a
tumult outside and the cry, ''Lincolnt
is shotrn
The wounded president was carried
in next door, and in half an hour Stan
ton had organized there in a back room
a court of inquiry. He called for re-
W ldhc lung
Tanner was summoned from next,
door.
| called on n recent evening at the
old Georgetown mansion in which
Commissioner Tanner lives. When L
referred TO the Lincoln incident he
went TO a drawer and carefully rel
moved and unrolled some photographic
manuscript. | looked at it to be re-
port in a very ligible short hand of the
testimony of that fateful night,
"A young man whom / knew came
and called me" said Mr.. Tanner. Il
could not get from one house to the
other because of the crowd, and went
up stairs and crossed upon the balco-
MES. From II O'Clock till in the
morning testimony was taken, and |
wrote us hard as could. Then went at
work to transcribe it in long baud, and
wrote till 8. In the front room lay
Mr.. Lincoln surrounded by doctors and
friends, and Mrs. Lincoln and ts2
children were in another room weep
ing aloud. just before Mr.. Lincoln
died | went into the room again and
remained till all was over
w. A. CRoFFUT.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-09-13
Ills Cnndnct WaS ..Onerxv Mean

There was to be n hanging in a
South Carolina town, says the New
Yoril sun, and the people had come
from far aud near 10 witness it, An
hour before the time set for the execu-
ton the crowd numbered fully LOO.
Half an hour later word was given out
that the condemned had been reprieved
and that there would be no hanging.
A very few expressed their satisfaction
that the governor had interfered, but
the majority were greatly disappointed.
One man, after cons iderable loud talk.
pushed his way through the crowd to
the Jail and called To the sheriff, who
stood on the steps:
You thar, Jim Reeves!
What is it?'
liant Jim Renfoe gwin to be
hung?"
Mo-
as that square,
Yes"
Ibid Jim hev anything to do with
it?''
We'll. he didn't want to be hung
and he encouraged his lawyers to do
their best"
He knowcd thar was big crowd
yere?"
Yes
He knowed what we come fur?''
Yes"
Look yere, Jim; " driv fo'tecn
miles TO see this yere, and I've got the
ole woman and the three children ycre
and my five niggers hev got n holiday
and who's gwir TO pay the damages?n
Thar ant no damages"
Thar han't. Ell! Don't you twitter
that thar hant, Somebody has got TO
make up to me fur this. I'll sue the
whole parcel of We. from governor
down. and il | can't git satisfaction then
Jim Renfoe had better look out fur me!
A man as will go and pizen his grand
mother and git all ready to be hung
and then kick agin it and leave big
crowd in tic lurch is too onery fur this
section and I'm gwine TO camp on his
trail! Tell jim he d better grow wings
afore he comes out q that. and they
want to be wings big huff TO carry him
off at the rate of mile minute"
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-09-13

or cOal-hcavcrs. east or west OF the
Alleghanies, or herders rounding up
steers on the plains OF Colorado.
Analogy leads us to anticipate this,
for the sons Of such workingmen it is
who have formed majority of every
cabinet in the history OF the country
At least ten Of our presidents have
grown from young men who worked as
day laborers for hire, and sometimes
did not know where they should get
their next dinner.
Secretary jeremiah NJ. Rusk OF the
agricultural department is a fine
sample OF the self-made man of this
generation. He was born and grew
To manhood in the southeastern corner
OF Ohio, near the banks of the Little
Muskingum. Here his father had
early stuck his stakes in the midst OF
the primeval forest. Jerry was very
big and strong OF his age and always
after he was II he did mans days
work.
beguiled him the other day into
talking about those days. My mind
craved knowledge, - he said. as much
as it has ever done but | hated the
SC1lOOlfOOlll ullI us ItSlTdlHJS. WIS
a truant whenever could be and now
/ often lament that did not stick TO
my books. But | had uncommon
strength and agility. and took great
pleasure in them. After | was - my
father always put me forward to leId
the men all day at whatever was to be
done-sowing, reaping blowing, now
ing, logging or pulling stumps. We
cut grain with sickle then. and half
an acre was fair days work. Our
fartl had to be cut out of the solid for
est by the toughest OF hard work, and
| detested the work and worry of get
ting out the underbrush. | learned
to do everything that farm re-
CURED
I'VE had all the sports OF frontier
neighborhood, and they sprang from
the same motives and needs that actu-
ate the young to-day. The first dance
/ ever attended was held in one of
those primitive cabins on a puncheon
floor You don't know what pun
cheon floor is? Why, floor OF logs
or slabs. the upper floor of which
has been rGdely ax-hewn to level
it."
| was afterwards speaking about
this talk with Wisconsin neighbor
OF Secretary Rusls. Capt Bacon.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-09-13
A Fearful Stroke OF Lightning.

There was a binding blast, a terrific
crash, as il the skies had been set on
fire and che earth had fallen in pieces.
On Saturday afternoon the people OF
East Point a village six miles from
Atlanta, were shocked from stroke OF
lightning the like of which had never
been experienced by any of them be-
fore. About dusk a gray cloud hung
over the town. There had been no
lightning, no thunder. nor any indica-
ton OF an electric storm. Suddenly "a
flash aud crash came simultaneously
and people rushed from their houses
With olanched faces. The danger was
past, but the brief experience was
terrible. There had been an electric
shower. The lightning had separated
into twenty or more bolts and struck
as many places within a radius OF
quarter of mile. The air was filled
with the odor OF birthstone and cop
per-colored cloud floated northward
from the city. A windmill was struck
and damaged. the grass on a lawn was
burned up, n window in a house was
shattered and the carpet in bedroom
scorched, COW was killed. tree split
open and telegraph operator knocked
from his chair. The most wonderful
thing about the electric shower was
the rolling OF great balls of fire up the
railroad tracks. The small masses
went bouncing along the rails TO the
terror OF the citizens. IL was certainly
terrible bolt of lightning, and those
who were near will remember it to
their dying day.-Macon Telegraph.