davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
, 1891-08-06

A young man who has Just written q
successful play vas leaning on his cant
in company with an actor-an English
importation-watching the passing show
on the Broadway side of the Morton
House when, after a silence of severa
minutes, the playwright said:
do you see anything peculiar about
the Broadway a horses?'
Nay, nayl Would'st try to guy mey
said the actor.
Look at their hoofs and tell me II
they are not branded"
The actor sized the animals up, and a
reporter, who was standing near enough
to hear the conversation, did the same,
and discovered the number $3.50 on the
forward left foot Of one of the horses
The figures were about half an inch Ions
and mad evidently beer just burned int
the hoof.
Superintendent Newell of the Broad
way line, who was seen at his office il
the barns at Fiftieth street and Seventh
avenue later in the day, said in relation
to the reporters question concerning tn
branding of the hoofs of the horses
Yes, we have been doing this for som
time now. The idea occurred to me sew
eral years ago, and we find 1t very satil
factory"
What was your object in branding
themY'
Simply 30 keep track Of what eac
horse was doing. We keep the account
of each horse now the same as we do @
any man in our employ. It benefits u
in a thousand ways We know just no,
many days q horse works, how man
days 1t has been sick and, In short
everything 1t does 1t enables us t
keep such a minute knowledge of thei
work that we know just what conditio
they are in, and If they are not all RICH
we keep them in the barn"
Couldn't you do that If you CAV
them names instead of numbers?"
"We have 1000 horses in u employ,
vas the reply, land there is a limit b
names, unless you go back into ancien
history.-New York Advertiser.
, 1891-08-06

The Romans cried Ede Fictisr' Woe
to the Conquered at their triumphs.
Today many of US are being conquered
our peace, our rest and daily appetite
wrested IRON US by that invader OF the
stomach dyspepsia Succor we sue ior
from a hundred sources. Temporary re-
lief we sometimes obtain. But a hearty
meal. the simplest indiscretion in diet,
and the Protean imp returns with re
doubled vigor TO torment Us. A persist
ent use of the great anti-dyspeptic and
regulating tonic, Hostetter's Stomach
Bitters, is best calculated TO drive into
permanent Punishment every form of in
digestion. temporary or chronic. No less
efhcacious is it for malaria, ~biliousuess,
constipation. rheumatism. kidney and
bladder ailments. This remedy of specific
utility and many uses overcomes them all.
It's a safeguard. too, against the effect:
of .emperature apt to revive an attack Of
La Grippe"
, 1891-08-06
Erect of Cold and Aoolden. on Hair.

Arctic voyagers and other travellers in
frigid regions have frequently been sub
ject to canities as the effect Of cold, a
circumstance quite in keeping with the
fact that animals, such as the bear, fox
and lemming, inhabitants of the ex-
treme north. have hirsute coverings of
white. The writer was once acquainted
with a man named Sweeny, formerly a
sailor, whose hair was jet black except a
snow white tuft about the middle Of the
frontal suture, where the scalp had been
taken off through a fall from a mast on
shipboard. Where burns and severe
local inlammations have resulted in a
loss of a portion of the scalp, the injured
part has similarly been covered in many
cases with a growth Of white hair
Hyland Q. Kirk in New York Times.
, 1891-08-06

Some of the words used by old fash
Nned country people. and laughed at by
those who hear them. are not corrup-
tons Of language. but merely survivals
OF old f~orms-forms so old that many
educated persons hav forgotten. or per
haps have never known, that they were
once in good and regular standing as
English words.
II an old woman axes your pardon"
she Is speaking as the most careful Eng
lish scholars spoke for hundreds of years,
down almost to the end of the Sixteenth
century Thus in Wyclife's New Tes-
tament-about 13S0-we read, What
man Of you is, that if his some axe hymn
breed, whethir he wole take hymn a
stoonr And Coverdale's translation Of
the gospel according to St. Matthew,
published in 1885. has Axe and it shall
be given you"
So. too, when the same old woman
says ..piny" instead of peony, she is only
following the ancient usage. In William
Brownies "Britannia's Pastorals," print
ed in 1916, the poet contrasts ''the rudy
piny with the lighter rose"
1t amuses the schoolgirl of the pres
emit day to hear hlacs called "'laylocks,'
but Walter Savage Lander always said
~'laylocks, following, as his biographer
tells us, a pronunciation traditional in
many old Eaglish families"
When an lrishman speaks of his "fader
and moder" he is guilty of nothing worse
than talking older English than we are
accustomed to hear. "Worschipe thi
fadir and thi modir." says Wycliffe's
New Testament.
Axe" "laylock" and the like are
now vulgarisms, and as such are to be
avoided, but it is well enough to know
that they were once as well received in
good society as their successors are at
present--Youth's Companion.
, 1891-08-06

~ nave always held" said a cheerful
man, that a happy disposition and am
pie wealth would enable one to bear up
pretty well under the ordinary misfor-
tunes Of life. Riding up town the other
day on the elevated railroad | sat next
to a fine looking couple, evidently hus-
band and wife, and evidently possessed
of abundant means. As they chatted
along pleasantly together he mentioned
incidentally the fact that he had that
morning lost $4,000 on stocks She said,
Did your and then they didn't bother
about that any more, but branched off
on something else. New York Sun.
, 1891-08-06

The frog has beer called "the victim
OF science" because he is always being
dissected for the purpose of seeing how
he can get along without his most essen
tial organs, how his blood circulates and
how his nervous system acts. He is Be-
lected for such ends not, as is commonly
imagined, because his structure is at all
humanlike, but for the reason that he
will endure being chopped up to such a
remarkable extent and still retain life.
You a remove his brain and he will
get along fairly well without it, swallow
ing whatever is put into his mouth, and
otherwise behaving as usual, though in
an automatic fashion. In fact the ami
NAL will live indefinitely under such
conditions, as experiment has shown.
II you cut out HIS lungs he will not die
for a long time, because he can breathe
very well through his skin. Human
beings breathe through the skin all over
the body in a small degree, the blood in
the superficial vessel taking up a certain
amount of oxygen, but the function is
exercised more satisfactorily by the frog.
Besides, his nervous system affords an
interesting study under ingenious torture
by the anatomist, and the corpuscles in
his blood being remarkably large, that
fluid serves admirably for the instruction
of the seeker after medical knowledge
Interview in Washington Star.
, 1891-08-06

The earliest mention of wheels in the
Bible is in Exodus xiv, 20, when the
chariot wheels of the Egyptians were
taken off by the Lord; but chariots are
mentioned in Genesis xii, 43, But there
were older nations than the Egyptians.
The Chaldeans used chariots; the Greeks
-Homer's poems date from about 900
B. Chad chariots at the siege Of
Troy, 1900 B. q. Probably in reality
the wheel is about as early a piece of
machinery as any now existing. OF
course it has been developed, but the
bicycle wheel of today is a lineal de-
scendant of the section of a log of wood
used by the agricultural peoples thou
sands Of years ago.-New York Sun.
, 1891-08-06

THE mayors suggestion that the Office
of city plumber be abolished, sup
plemented by the reasons therefor, was
received with much favor Dy the citizens
of Cheyenne yesterday. 1t, however,
doesn't seem to make very much difference
one way or the other. The city council is
a law unto itself and it pursues the ever
tenor OF its way, altogether u%nmiudful of
whatever criticisms the public may pass
uDon il.
, 1891-08-06

Haydn's Dictionary of Dates" makes
the statement hat the old name of the
city Of London was written Lynden or
Llyndin, meaning 1.-THE city on the lake"
An old tradition gives US to understand
that London was founded by Brute, a
descendant of Eneas, and called New
Troy, or ~Troynovant, until the time Of
Lud, who surrounded the town with
walls and named 1t Caer-Lud, or Lud's
town This latter is probably the cor
rect version of the story, IL for no
other reason because it Is an easy mat
ter to detect a similarity between the ex.
preston Lud's town and London 1t il
claimed by some writers that there was
a city on the same spot 1,107 years b. o.,
and it is known that the Romans found.
ed a city there called Londinium A D
61.-St Louis Republic.
, 1891-08-06

l have known a wedding appointed,
and the doors of the chapel open, and
every n waiting, but no one arrive,
and tbs parties remain unmarried. In
one case a foolish dispute occurred as
the young couple were walking across
the fields to the place of worship about
who ought to clean the husbands boots.
At first 1t was only a joke, but it was
taken in earnest, and the bride elect
seated herself on a stile to argue the mat
ter out. Neither would give in, the vii.
lage clock struck twelve and they re-
turned home unmarried. -London Tit
Rita
, 1891-08-06
J. sLOAT FAsSETT.
by President Harrison Col
hector OF the Port Of New York.

The highest gift within the federal pat
ronage of the state of New York has
been bestowed upon State Senator j.
Sloat Fassett, that of collector of Gus
toms of the port of New York in place
of Joel 4. Erhardt who has just resigned.
Mr.. Fassett was born in Elmira, N. Y,
Nov. IS, 1858. He entered the univer-
sity of Rochester, n. Y. whence he was
graduated, taking afterwards a post grad
uate course at the university of HeIdel-
berg, Germany. On returning to the
United States he studied law, and it is a
, 1891-08-06

S. j. Tidwell. HaleY's, Marion county,
Ala. writes:
''Allcock' Porus Plasters are a most in
valuable household remedy. They do all
tina, is claimed for them. | sell many
hundreds every year, and every day l
hear OF their curing coughs and colds, DIS
eases Of the spine. liver, and ague cake,
In fact, there Is no disease that can be
reached by an external application that
they do not cure"
Beware OF limitations, and do not be de-
ceived by Misrepresentation. Ask for
Allcock's, and let no solicitation or ex
PLANTATION induce you to accept a substi-
tute.
Allcock's Corn and Bunion Shields ct
feet quick and certain relief.
, 1891-08-06

DR.. Y. j. Eaton, twenty FIVE years
special practice of the eye, ear and deiorm-
cured unless Reorganization has taken
place. Cross-eyes Strengthened without
pain. and a cure guaranteed. Artificial
eyes inserted, and braces for the sure of
club feet aud other Determines furnished
at Inter Ocean hotel until Aug. Is.
, 1891-08-06

Or twenty Republican, editors in Colo
RADIO whose opinions were asked by the
Denver Times eleven favored the nomi-
nation of Blaine for president and only
three the denomination of Harrison. The
opposition to the latter was based en-
tirely upon President Harrison's cauivo-
cal attitude on the silver question.
, 1891-08-06
LAST CMaNCE.

NOsU Is certainly your
last chance for custom
scOrk at the prtces Aellsssass
IS offering. $50 suits at
$3S, $50 for $S5, $4S for
$2S, $40 EOrS20 and eres-v-
fhfng Ia proportion. see
the aciHdOlU.
, 1891-08-06

curious fact that be was admitted to the
bar on the motion of Governor Hill, now
the Democratic governor Of New York,
who was then Il young lawyer in Elmira.
Soon after, Mr.. Fassett was appointed
district attorney of ChemuDg county by a
Democratic governor. the late Lucius
Robinson. Ne was selected because OF
his ability-which had already been
recognized - regardless of his politics
He made an admirable district
attorney. On engaging in politics
he speedily acquired a reputation for his
cratOry and his staanch Repuhlicanism
He was elected to the New York state
senate Tor the term of 1884 5 from the
twenty seventh district by n large major
ity. In the next election strenuous eff
forts were made to defeat him by the
Democrats, but his majority was greater
by nearly a thousand. 1t was so the
third and the fourth time in each case be-
ing triumphantly elected-on the last oc-
casion by a majority oil $500. During
this term he was elected president pro
ten of the senate. In 1888 he was sec
rotary of the Republican National com-
mittee and helped 10 CARY New York for
President Harrison. He Is a trustee of
Rochester university and Cook academy,
and is editor ola daily paper in ElmIra.
, 1891-08-06

jack have come to believe that
there's good deal Of similarity between
. car porter and Cupid's arrows
Nellie-Graciousi How do you make
that out?
Jack-Well, neither is effective unless
tipped with gold or silver.-Pittshurg
Bulletin.
, 1891-08-06

Henry Clews, of New York, devotes
a great deal of time and money to beau
tifying his house, He is particularly
well pleased with any n who expresses
a desire to go through it, and n of the
first rooms he will take a visitor into
is his bathroom. He is said to have ex-
pended $40, 900 on this room. The walls,
floor, bath, in fact, every part of the
room. is Of onyx.-Upholsterer.
, 1891-08-06

ACCORDING to a census bulletin the
number Of prisoners in all county iails Of
Wyoming June | was SO, or in the ratio
of 972 per capita. In 1880 it was SO or
1872 per capita.
, 1891-08-06

He-After we are married. darling, 1
trust your wealth won't necessarily be
thrown up to me.
She-No, 1 rely upon you to keep 1t
down. dear.-New York Epoch.
, 1891-08-06

THE Washington Post believes there is
grave danger of the Farmers Alliance
taking on too many lawn mower a%gricul-
turialists and suggests that it should push
the self binders to the front.
, 1891-08-06

Wisdom's Robertine Is the only thing
now used by fashionable women to per.
petuate . beautiful complexion.
, 1891-08-06

Fraulein Silberstein-Why, papa, you
might nave advanced that money to
Lieutenant Won NJ
Herr Silberstein-l know him too
little.
Fraulein S.-Ach, that is only an ex-
cuse, for you refused Herr & as well
only the other day.
Herr ST. know him too well.-Lus-
tige Blatter
, 1891-08-06

Ifyou want a nice horse and phaetol
20 to Abney & Johnston's.
, 1891-08-06

Join Alex TurnbulTs Household Furni-
ture club. $50 worth for 81 per week.
, 1891-08-06

Information regarding the Wyoming
Normal and Business College. The best
school OF its kind In the country, and the
best kind of a school 10 the country.
Cheyenne, Wyoming.
, 1891-08-06

Subscribe for The Leader.
, 1891-08-06

Knew What He Wanted.
Sesdy Observation-Disclosures me to
your friend.
Jones-Not much. I'd rather lend you
the money myself. -Harper's Bazaar.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-02-20
Admiral Porter Dead.

Washington, February l3.-Admiral
David ID. Porter died this morning.
His death resulted from fatty degenera-
ton of the heart, which he contracted
at Newport, r. l., last summer. The
admiral's condition has been such for
past years that he has been unable to
transact much public business. He was
retained on the active list of the navy,
however, and given the iightest and
least responsible kind of duty. The
department authorities have shown him
meanwhile scrupulous honor and re-
spect and treated all his official utter
ances with due Difference.
His death this morning was calm and
peaceful. The nature of the admiral's
disease made it dangerous for him to
lie on his back, so he was sitting upon a
large sofa with his back and head sup
ported by pillows. The household was
at once aroused and DR.. Wales sent for.
The patients pulse grew fainter and
fainter and at :l6o'clock ceased to beat.
At that hour he gasped convulsiveiy
and expired without a word. He sat
bolt upright with his son Richard hold
ing one hand and his daughter the other.
ADMIRAL PoRTER'S EvENTFUL LIFE.
David Dixon Porter was born in Ches-
ter, Pa, in 1913, and at the age of IL
his father David Porter,
a naval officer, to the West Indies,
where piracy prevailed. In 1897 he
was appointed midshipman in the
Mexican navy, and in 1929 became an
American MILDLY" serving first in the
He subsequently serv-
ed on the coast survey, and in 184l was
appointed lieutenant. He was trans
ferred to the naval observatory in
in 1913 and in 1916 was en-.
rusted With aseeret mission to Hayti
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-02-20

was actively engaged in the Mexican
war, first as lieutenant, afterwards as
commander of the Spitfre. At the be-
ginning of the civil war he took COM
mand OF the Powhattan and in April,
1861, was in charge of the mortar fleet
OF twenty-one schooners and five steam
ers that joined Farragut's feet in 1852.
He took part in the bombarding of
Fort jackson and Fort st Phillip be-
low New Orleans and they surrendered
to him in 1862. He assisted Farragut
in all the operation between Vicks-
burg and New Orleans. While the
Confederates at Vicksburg were making
efforts to repair the IndianOla, which
they had captured, Commander Porter
fitted an old scow to look like one of
his turtle gun boats, a smokestack of
pork barrel and mud furnace in which
fire was built. This craft was called
the Turreted Monster and was set adrift
with no one on board. A tremendous
cannOnading from the COnfederates
failed to stop her and the authorities
at Vicksburg hastily destroyed the In
dianola, while the supposed monitor
drifted before they discovered the trick.
In 1862 Porter, as rear admiral, took
charge of the Mississippi squadron, inn
prOvised the Mound City navy yard,
increased his squadron to 125 vessels
and co-operated with Sherman in the
capture of Arkansas Post in 1868. Con-
gress thanked him for his services at
Vicksburg and he was commissioned
rear admiral in July, 1863. The same
year he ran the batteries at Vicksburg,
captured the confederate forts at Grand
Gulf and later assisted in the capture of
Vicksburg. He remained in the Miss
issippi until 1854, and in October of
that year was transferred to the North
Atlantic squadron and in 1865 captured
the forts at the mouth of the Cape Fear
river, including Fort Fisher. For this
he was given thanks by congress.
He was promoted to vice admiral in
1865 and served as superintendent Of
the naval academy in 1859, when he
was detailed for duty in the navy de-
partnent at Washington. In 1870 he
was appointed admiral OF the navy.
Admiral Porter was the author OF the
'sLife of Commodore David Porter,
Allen Dare and Robert lie Diable," SIN
cidents and Anecdotes of the Civil War"
Harry Marlane," History of the Navy
In the war of the Rebellion and other
works.
Deceased came from a long line of
navy officers, five generations of success
ors having preceded him in the SER
vice.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-02-20

tall and erect, with close clipped beard
and brown hair. His eyes were dark
hazel, keen and searching. He was a
man of incisive intellect, strong pur-
pose, decision and energy. As writer
he saw clearly his object and wrote to it
with charming directness. Under the
seeming sternness of his face in repose
Law nature OF great warmth and cor
diality, though his brusque andcurt man.
ner sometimes gave offense. He had to
the last fondness for social pleasures,
and his heart always remained young.
His conversation was brilliant and en-
pertaining. He was popular diner-Out.
and wherever he sat was the head of
the table"
He visited his friend Admiral Porter,
whose death preceded his own by so few
hours, when the latter was Frustrated a
few days ago and prophesied that his
own death would soon follow that of the
last of the great naval commanders.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-02-20
Secretary Window

The sudden death of Secretary Win
dom profoundly impressed the country;
and yet such a death, immediate and
painless. Just as wise views Of q great
and pressing public question had been
ably expressed, with touching tone of
timely warning, must be regarded for
the dead as euthanasia- although for
the living the shock is tragical. The
views of secretary of the treasury, at
time when financial questions of the
kind that now engage public attention
are pending, could not be expected to be
universally approved. Especially upon
the subject of free silver coinage he
could not hold and express sound views
without arousing the free silver" OPP
position.
But there was universal confidence in
the ability and fairness and high integ-
rity of Secretary Window, He was a
man of great public experience and con-
servative moderation Of temperament.
His mind was hospitable to new ideas,
hut it was not erratic or unwisely i'm
pulsive. His official discretion was
treat and his death at this moment is
ferrous public loss.-Harper's Week
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-02-20
NATIONAL AUTHORITY WILL BE
MAINTAINED.

Boycott the products of the north il
the force bill is enacted into law" was
the plan of campaign by Governor Cor
don, of Georgia, when the national cleo
ton bill was before the house. This
plan was abandoned. Boycott the
Worlds Fair" is now the battle cry OF
the democratic leaders when the bill is
before the senate; and even the voice of
the editor of the Courier-Journal is
heard in the chorus of the last boycott.
But the two boycotts are like two black
eyed peas out of the same pod.
Notification is threat, secession is
IN sct-the overt act. But for the
memory of lS6O-65, the state legisla-
lures of the solid south would be in
strueting their senators to retire from
the senate, and order them home.
Mr.. Pettigrew, of South Carolina, in
1850, said to the secessionists: South
Carolina is too small for a nation and
too large for lunatic asylum" A few
years ago the people Of Charleston
erected monument to his memory.
The Worlds Fair will be held at Chi
cago successfully, with or without the
support of the democratic leaders of the
solid south. 1t is desirable that every
citizen should aid it by his good will.
The help of the democratic party ought
10 be generously given; but to impair
the Worlds Fair for a partisan purpose,
or attempt to do so, is only within the
province of desperate men.
The supremacy Of national authority
will be maintained over the efforts of
the solid south, and the republican SEN
Ators from Nevada-that state which
democratic editors recently described
as rotten republican borough"-may
wsg the democratic tiger in vain.
Sectional interests can not make the
basis of a political party nor of a coali-
ton Even the hope of public plumber
IS not present to cement them. The
failure of free coinage of silver will
leave the winnings in the hands of the
leaders of the solid south, except those
which the gamblers may have. Sena-
tor German cannot say to Senator Stew
art:
He that parts US shall bring a brand from
And fire us hence like foxes"
Commercial Gazette.