davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-09-28

Along the highways ofthe town things
are scarcely better, perhaps with the
single exception that they exist in the
open air instead of in the close, confined
atmosphere of the interiors. The Baku
street cleaning department would receive
but slight commendation should its op.
erations be extended to America, or, to
reverse the proposition, il the uniformed
gangs of street cleaners which are now
familiar sights in New York were to ap-
pear on the streets of Baku, broom in
hand, they would create something re-
sembling panic. I am not quite sure
that their appearance would not galvan-
ize the bodies of horses, mules, cats and
dogs which unfortunately litter the
pavements into restored life under the
impulse of sheer astonishment. In
Baku, in fact, when municipal vigilance
becomes aroused to the point of consld-
eriDg the disposal Of carcass which has
been encumbering the highway several
days, one or two municipal employees
stand pensively on the opposite sidewalk
and mutely survey the task before them
for an hour or more before bracing
themselves up for the mighty effort of
removal. After this, it is generally con-
sidered that human endurance cannot
sustain similar effort for at least three
or four weeks. Such is the sanitary at
mosphere CT the great petroleum centre,
and can anyone marvel at the results
On the north of the Caucasus, from
Bsku, the cholera has gained its greatest
strength in the province of Astrakhan,
where motley and ignorant population
has resented from the start the efforts of
the public Officials to alleviate the gen.
eral condition. OF course, it was neces-
sary: in thepublic interest, to hastily dis
pose Of the dead bodies of victims, but
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-09-28
AS 4 MESSENGER.

approach of strangers and to return at
once to his master to announce this fact
to him. All this must be done very
quietly, of course, so as not to disturb
the enemy. II
When doing duty as messenger the
dog wears a collar around his neck to Z
which q leather pouch is attached, in
which the dispatches are concealed. !
The collar is numbered and bears also
the name of the army division to which
the dog is detailed. In war times this
name can be affixed in cipher so that the
enemy may not be any the wiser as TO-
the location of the division in question,
to which the dog belongs. should the
dispatch fall into his hands.
Some of the hest and strongest dogs j
are detailed to the red cross division OF
the army, where they do valuable SER.
vice in hunting up the wounded in tim
bered and valley regions, where they are.
likely to escape the eye of man, especl-
ally after dark. When the dog dis.
covers a wounded COLDER he places his
two fore paws on the body of the man and
barks until assistance arrives. With
this is combined the ambulance service.
Small but we'll built wagons, which can
carry two men, are easily drawn by q
good strong collie. These ambulances
are low, have good springs and the tires
are covered with rubber. One OF these
wagons, with two attendants and a dog,
can do twice as much field work as has
heretofore been done by two red cross.
men with litter. This has been. de-
monstrated during the spring ma neuVers-
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-09-28

area of territory, they will be used fori
carrying ammunition to the various
divisions. They are furthermore trained !
for reconnoitering and for hunting up:
the wounded and carrying them on am
balances, especially constructed for that
purpose, to the field hospital. For the
latter purposes these dogs are almost in-
valuable.
For reconnoiteriug purposes the dogs
are trained to run ahead OF division off
soldiers. search the territory closely and
announce suspicious circumstances by
standing still in their tracks. Another
field for his activity is outpost duty, In
this case the dog is trained to scent the
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-09-28
Dogs Of War.

For the past year numerous tests and
experiments have been made in Germany
with the Scotch collie dogs for military
purposes, especially during times OF wal,
and it has been found that this dog is
the best and most available among the
various bree 3 Of dogs, and from now on,I
according to the St. Louis Post Dispatch,
trained collies will be added to the stand4
ing armies of Germany and France. The
services to which the Scotch collies wlll
be trained are numerous. They wil
serve as messengers for carrying dis
patches and important communications
to those army divisions stationed in the
immediate vicinity of the enemy. Dur
ing the progress of fight where the
troops happen to be scattered'over vast
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-09-28
Piucking Ostriches.

The invitation of "Biddy, Biddy,
come Bld," and handfuls of yellow corn
scattered over the brown sand at the
Coronado ostrich farm yesterday after
noon, / brought the eleven full.grown
birds into a feathery mass before E. P.
Waters and his colored assistant. A
group Of curious people banked the low
IIssi!i1g along tie west reseIye Of the
grounds: Wis the second Plucking
thfs season, but Of generally fresh lot
OF birds from the American Ostrich Com
pany's parent farm at Fallbrook, as in
tervals of eight months must separate
pluckings. Superintendent Waters was
in his shirt sleeves, and limp -four sack
dangled from his rear left pocket. It
required some time to counteract the
suspicion that would flare up id fringe
of shaky necks, until the reassuring gaze
and the soothing voice OF the feeder
caused them to drop In security to the
temptation in the sand.
Suddenly there was wild stampede,
and the neck of the gray female that
Waters had bent to seize was hooded in
the sack, an opening for breathing ad'
mittins several inches of her bill. Be-
tween the men this strangely subdued
creature was guided into an open-end
stall. Apparently the ostrich, with its
fore-and-aft eye sweep, feels its help
lessness when blinded. There was no
resistance, as the powerful pronged toe
could not get back bit at the plucker.
The assistant stood behind as guard,
while Waters pulled, shipped and an.
swered questions from the lnquisitors.
They learned that in each wing, over
the protectors or floss feathers, there
grow to maturity in eight months twenty
six long white plumes. In the black
male these are pure white, but the female
adds slight shadings of ccru or gray.
The sweep of short feathers above this
splendid fan of white is plucked TO, tips,
and each wing furnishes seventy-fve OF
these. The tail feathers are toned into
deep old ivory. and sixty-fve OF these
are of commercial use. Scissors were
used only to clip the long white plumes,
as this must be done month or more
before maturity to prevent the ends be-
ing whipped out. The quills are then
pulled when ripe. Nearly 300 feathers
were secured from Biddy. which will
have market value of $65 after being
curled and dressed. The female averages
seventy eggs in q year, and nowadays
these are ell incubated at FallbrooE,
where alfalfa pastures await the young
ones. Green feed at Coronado for the
eleven costs, on a daily average, sixty
cents. None of these birds are over
three years of age, aud all are native
SONS and daughter. The youngest male,
splendid curley coated fellow, Is but
sixteen mouths old, and this second
pucking in his experience was certainly
anticipated. He fought, kicked, and
croucheo through the process, but MIR.
Waters secured from him the finest
plumes of the pick. A second female
was denuded, and the remainder were
left unmolested for third plucking soon.
San Diego (Cal) Sun.
-
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-09-28

average, and it was not unusual for l2o
cases to be registered in one day. Next
the cholera was heard of in Askabad
about June 1st. The latter town IS on
Transcaspian Railway, and the plague
continued to follow the line of this road
IN both easterly and western directions,
its western hating place being for
time at Uzun Ada, from whence the tide
of emigration subsequently carried it
still further west across the Caspian Sea
to Baku, the eastern terminus OF the
Transcaucasian Railroad.
Baku is a city offering peculiarly ia
vorable conditions for disease to take
root and establish itself as permanent
danger to surrounding localities. Being
a railroad center, it is in constant COM
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-09-28

As invariably happens in similar cases
the air is thick with conflicting rumors
and opposing theories as to the origin
and first location of the contagion. The
most reliable version, l think, is that
which traces it to Turbeti- Sheik-Djami,
a place of minor importance on the
Afghan. Persian frontier. Here it be-
came unmistakable evident about the be.
ginning of May, thence spreading to
Meshed. This town is on the road con-
Meeting Kandahar, Herat and Askabad,
and is the most important place in the
northeastern part of Persia. The deaths
here quickly reached an alarming high
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-09-28
CHAPTER XII.
THE wILEs OF THE SIREN.

THE wILEs OF THE SIREN.
At the other extremity of the room, fac
ing him, was large mirror, before which
stood Cora Eiliston. Her back was turned
to him.
She was dressed, or rather draped, In
sort of dressing-gown Of white cashmere,
without sleeves, which left her arms and
shoulders bare. Her auburn hair was
unbound and floating, and fell in heavy
masses almost to her feet. One hand
rested lightly on the toilet table. the
other held together over her bust the
folds of her dressing gown.
She was gazing at herself in the glass
and weeping bitterly.
The tears fell drop by drop on her
white, fresh bosom and glittered there
like the drops Of dew which one sees
shining in the morning on the shoulders
of the marble nymphs in the garden OF
Pallavicins-
Then Eugene quietly dropped the cur
tains of the entrance and noiselessly re-
tired, taking with him, nevertheless, an
sternal souvenir of this stolen visit.
He made inquiries and finally found
the room he was in search of, and where,
shortly afterward. he WAS joined by Mrs.
Elliston.
To his astonishment her face was not
only serene, it was joyous.
Good evening, my dear nephew" she
said gayly, and with peculiar emphasis
on the nephew. How very kind OF you
to GOMEZ"
Not at all" murmured Eu2ene, as he
took her proffered hand. 1T was duty ]
owed you"
And one trust you were pleased to
discharge"
"You can rest assured of that, my deal
aunt"
Il can not doubt it." she rejoined with
q smile, at the same time seating herself
on the divsn by his side.
Her skirts came in contact with his limb.
The touch thrilled him, and he began to
experience a strange sensation of fear at
the tremendous power he reluctantly con.
tsssed to himself this fair siren was &C.
quiring over him.
New, rtheless, the sensation causad by
the very knowledge of his danger was q
delightful one, and the evening t-lssed
far too swiftly. 1t was with real regret,
then, that he at last arose to say good.
night. .
You will come again soon?" aueried
Cora, as she, too, arose, and offered him
her hand.
"As soon as you like" he said. quick
", and then his face flushed little.
Did YOU know I was going to give a
grand party?" she asked, abruptly.
L had not heard Of it."
"well, I am. 1t is for yonr nncle's
sake-to further his political projects,
and bring certain important personases
together.
"Ah, I see! When is it to be?"
Some days hence. and | wish might
nave the peneht OF your advice ABOUT
some arrangements desire to make.
Il fear my advice will be worth very
little to you, but of course il is freely Mt
your service"
Il want to make some alterations IN
and additions to the gaIden-clear away
here and there, and add marble statues
and the like"
"Ah, indeed"
Yes; and propose to light the whole
by electricity
-That-will be charming"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-09-28
MY SWEETHEART.
BY WILLIAM ALEXANDER BOWEN.

know not why In darkest skies
The sta-s gleam out the whitest,
But know that from my loves dark eyes
The light seems always brightest.
Iknow not why the golden light
OF sunset seems so fair,
But it touched my sweetheart's tresses
bright
AID shining is her hair.
know not why an angels face
To innocence is given,
But know that in her smile I trace
The purity OF heaven.
know not how Love found its homo
In hearts where no lights shone,
But know her love TO me has come
And know it's all my own.
know not why, nor when, nor how
All things that are may be;
But my heart knows with gladness now
That my love loves but me.
'Tis only this know, and this
To me is all Of life;
And all of this my sweetheart Is,
My sweetheart is-my Wife.
CHICAGO, Ill.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-09-28

A chimney piece carved from wood
over 5000 years old has recently been
erected in house in Edinburgh. The
wood, an oak tree, was found IN sand
pit at Musselburg. thirteen feet below
the surface.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-09-28

casion It comes via Asia suggests re-
version to its more ancient itinerary,
when it almost invariably advanced upon
Europe from that direction. In later
years the tendency of the disease has
been to spread its ravages first through
Europe and the Red Sea, thence north
ward.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-09-28

The great cantilever bridge at Niagara
Falls is entirely composed of steel. It
is $40 feet in length, weighs 5000 tons
and cost 5000, 900.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-09-28

OBEY the law as good citizens IS a
maxim which a lot of people SHOULD
paste in their hats and read it every
time they feel themselves growing
hot under the collar .
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-09-28
CHOLERA'S HOME.
THE PESTILENCE STALKETH
FORTH FROM THE ORIENT.
It Has Swept Over Europe From
Baku. Russia's Petroleum Centre
Ignorant Peasants Repel
the Physicians.

NCE more from
Turkestan stall 8 k 8
Europeward through
the vast country of
the car the menac-
ing specter of the
cholera. The fact
that upon this &C.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-09-28

The Italians have guns weighing one
hundred tons on their battle ships.
They are found too big and are to be
taken out.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-09-28

possible; corners of rooms into which
rubbish of all kinds has been thrown,
and left to accumulate indefinitely; and
altogether a state of affairs specially
adapted for the breeding Of disease.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-09-28

A broken wooden horse, with whca
Napoleon Bonaparte played when r'io,
was recently sold for $780,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-01-02
From the Star. Travelling Commissioner.

UsHUwAIA. TERRA DEL FUEGo.
SHOULD YOU EVER FIND YOURSELF
~ so desperately hard up for a new place to
visit as to choose this PARKWAY fire land be
sure to time yo1r arrival in April, May or
June. the autumn months Of this locality,
which. though cold as Greenland's icy noun
tains. are infinitely preferable to the slightly
warmer but much wetter summer time. In
fact, there are few localities on the face of the
earth which have less Of summer time than
this August and September are the worst
months Of the year. sure to be attended by ter
rife gales and ceaseless storms of sleet and
snow.
Though fogs are rare on the Fuegoan coast
the sun shows itself but at rare intervals, the
finest weather being what the seamen call
''muggy." l. E., overcast and cloudy. That Is
one reason why. search as you may, scarcely
picture can be found representing any portion
OF this archipelago. because there Is hardly an
hour from year to year clear enough to make
photograph
When magellan and his men sailed through
the straits some three hundred and seventy
years ago they named the country on their
left Terra del Fuego, ''land of fire., on ac-
count of the innumerable little fires that
sprang up all along the coast at nightfall-for
the Indians Of those DAYS as now kept
themselves from freezing by huddling over
brush heaps Had they called the country
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-01-02
"MUJER," TERRA DEL FuEoo.

little group of islands -Hermito high and
rugged: Wallaston, Herschel and Deceit. whose
mountains rise in sharp peaks from 1000 to
5000 feet high, all composed Of green stone.
in which horneblende, flspar are conspicuous
their lower declivities thickly clothed with
dark forests. 1. was the Englishman. Drake.
believe. who first sighted the cape, about the
year 1913, and nearly forty years later. in 1916
the Dutch navigator. Schouten. named it
Hooru. from his native town in Holland. Near
the Christmas tide Of IVA Capt. Cook while
examining these coasts, was forced to seek
refuge from the storm-tossed sea in n sheltered
spot. which he named Christmas sound" and
IN the month of October Of this good year 81
the party which includes your correspondent,
following in his footsteps and those of subse-
quent explorers. passed a wretched night roll
ing at anchor in the same spot.
The notorious promontory still keeps up it's
ancient reputation and made us pay the usual
tribute to the resistless spirit of the place.
When approached the weather beaten cape hid
her face like n modest virgin behind q veil of
mist and spray. while black clouds scudded
across the heavens and squalls of rain and hail.
accompanied by terrific wind. made it impos-
sibie to stand upon the deck that was constantly
washed by sheets Of spray. Ice hung upon the
rigging. and huge bilows like moving Alps
Win deep valleys between. came laundering
toward us in an unb-oken line; while screaming
sea birds swept round and round in narrow
ing circles, rs those birds will when q severe
almost becalmed in the hollow of the seas: the
next we were on their summit caught bv
unseen hands that seemed about to lift the
tiny ship IN malicious sport and dash it to de-
struction And so, as discretion seemed to be
by all odds the better part of valor, we turned
our backs on the caprIcious cape and sought
the shelter OF Christmas sound till calmcr
weather. Nobody thought of retiring on that
terrible night. though probably it was no worse
than hundreds upon hundreds of other voy-
ayers lave experienced in these waters: and
when the mysterious sea, with its dark masses
and snowy crests yields up its dead greater
company Will arise from this locality thar from
any other on the face Of the earth. Daylight
found US in Eycic sound. with icebergs jostling
one another on either hand, all floating out
ward toward the sea.
Some days aftersard we actually did reach
Hoorn Island and went ashore, though only
for moment. Drawing drenching in the rag
lEg surf for the satisfaction of having it to saw
that our feet had touched the southernmost
lands end--the very jumpinS-off place of all
creation. am yet toe much oppressed by the
horror ofit-by feeling akin TO that one expert
ences after nightmare-to give you lucid
description of tine scene. My mind retains only
a confused impression Of bare heights. desolate
beyond tie power u imagination to conceive,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-01-02

Terra del Aqua. ''lani OF water. instead, the
name would have been more appropriate. for
while fires are maintained with difficulty water
II tine bane OF the islands. falling continually in
rain or snow. rushing down every declivItv or
standing In stagnant pools, forming swamps in
every level place. making peat boys of all the
hiilsides and keeping the knee-deep moss that
covers the rocks saturated like sponges. So ex-
cessiyely cold Is the climate that even in mid
summer, according to the almanac. people
have been lost in the snow and frozen to death
few hundred feet above sea level?
HUNDREDS OF SMALL ISLANDS.
Selling down toward Cape Horn in a south
westerly course it is difficult to believe that
the high. rugged wintry coast is not an IN
broken continent instead of a vast chain of
close-lying islands. nearer view dlscloses
inlet after inlet. IntersectinS the land in every
direction, opening into larger gulis and sounds
behind the seward islands. Though Magei-
lan's records show that he suspected some of
the inlets might be channels running through
to the ocean. he did not explore any OF them
AMI for many years it was supposed that the
American continent was terminated by a single
great island. IL remained for later SURVEYS to
prove that there are hundreds of islands, of as
many sizes and fantastic shapes. separated from
one another by deep and dangerous fords and
a perfect labyrinth OF sounds, bights and IL
lets
The one large island which the Spano- Portu-
guese yoyagers dubbed Land of Fire" is now
known as King Charles South Land or Eastern
Terra del Fuego; and the boundary line be-
tween Argentine possessions and those of the
Chlleans runs straight down through the mid
die, thus dividing 1t half and half between
those rival powers. There are half a dozen
other islands of considerable size each larger
than any of the Philippine group. Cyprus.
Crete and most of the West Indies; besides in
Vulnerable smaller ones. some Of them being
nothing but great rocks lifting their bald heads
out OF the sea- All of them are mountains, of
more or less magnitude. and evidently con-
tnuation of the great Andean chain their in
tersecting channels. including the strait itself
being gorges and ravines which the ocean has
overfowed- Viewed in this light the mighty
Andes-by far the longest chain Of mountains
on the globe-really terminate at Staten Land
an island lying considerably farther to the
southeast than even Cape Horn.
BY the way. the celebrated straits do not run
rs most people suppose, in an almost direct line
east and west between the two oceans Enter
Ing from the Atlantic. ship first runs more
south than west until about half way through
the channel, when she mus. head almost at a