davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-01-07
Vhere the Language Lacks,

The Listener has been written to by a
lady at Washington who wishes to know
two queer things One is why the English
language has no feminine equivalent
for the word ''fellow," used in the sense
of comrade. Sometimes people speak
of a girl as a Jolly good fellow" but
the phrase is abominable, and is depre-
eating to the young woman, though
often it isn't at all meant to be SO. In
this country we are particularly favored
With girls of this pleasant type. They
ore good girls, and often very well
hammered indeed; but they are COM
radely, witty. amiable, equally devoid
of coquetry and prudery; they possess
in fact the proper feminine equivalents
of the qualities that, when we find
them in man, we call the qualities of
a thorough good fellow. But we have,
as this correspondent points out, no
feminine expression for the word. Some
wise word-monger should remedy the
deficiency. Transcript.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-01-07
IHE WoRIHlxGToN ADVANCE
{ sRoBERr McCUNE, Ed. and Publisher.
W0RTH'NGToN. Mobiles Co., MIMI.

: SENATOR SHERMAN, Senator Hoar
and ex-senator Evarts are all cousins,
and they trace their lineage back to
Roger Sherman, the grim Puritan of
Revolutionary times.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-01-07
FORGING AHEAD.

Our sales for the past week of
"CHARrER OAK" Stoves AND RANGES
have been unprecedented. The Char
ter Oak has been forging ahead every
day Of the forty years that it has
been on the market.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-01-07

Most stove dealers keep them. Il yours
does not, Write direct TO manufacturers.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-04-06

railroads running eastward from Buffalo.
It is located on the ship canal, where the
lake steamers, carrying from 5000 to
l25, 900 bushels of grain, can reech it,
and canal boats may be loaded as readily
rs cars. The structure is one hundred
and fifty. eight feet on the water front,
one hundred and forty-three feet deep,
aud one hundred and fifteen feet to the
highest point. 1t has one hundred and
zen bins, storing from $500 to $500
bushels each, and the total storage ca
pacity of the house is 100000 bushels.
50 admirable are its working facilities,
that million of bushels can be turned
over from vessel to boat, or car, every
week, and tha: working ouly during
daylight hours.
The house has two towers in front.
These hold the legs for elcvating the
yrain from vessel into store. Inside of
each leg is an endless belt, with buckets
every six or eight inches. The belt, be-
ing revo!ved by steam power, carries the
grain up into the tower, whence it is
conveyed by gravity and means of other
legs into the storage bins. The other
tower moves on track, and may be
placed SO that its legs will fit into a
second hatch of the vessel in which the
first or stationary leg is working.
Boats arc loaded by means of long
spouts Zone of which is shown on the left
hand side OF the illustration). Grain is
run out of the bottom of the hin, elevated
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-04-06
Correcting Royalty.

It is said of John Kemble, the celebrated
tragediap, that he was not afraid to
speak his mind to any one when he
deemed it necessary. Kings and princess
had no more terrors for him than persons
of humble rank or no rank at all. At
one time he had the honor OF giving
lessons in elocution to the Prince OF
Wales, who afterwards became King
George w., and his patience was much
tried, for his royal. pupil was lar from
beng a brilliant scholar. At last one
dsy, when the Prince, according to the,
vitiated pronunciation of the time had
been saying '.obleege" instead Off
"oblige," Kemble, with great disgust
denoted on his countenance, said,
firmly: "sir, must beseech your Royal.
Highness to open your royal jaws and
say 'oblige' !"-Manchester (England)i
Examiner.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-04-06
A Novelty In Gold.

James W. Orndorf has notable col.
lection of odd things, to which the
latest addition is gold nugget taken
from q gravel mine near susanville,
Oregon. A nugget of gold under
ordinary circumstances would not pos
sess any particular attraction to Mr.. Orn-
dorff, who lived for many years at Vir-
ginia, City, New, and was therefore
afforded an opportunity to see all the
famous nuggets which have been taken
from the quartz of the Comstock and
elsewhere in the sage-brush State. The
attraction of the present specimen is its
extraordinary shape. An illustration of
the nugget in a perpendicular position
shows an almost perfect outline of a
miners boot, while if the picture be
looked at horizontally there is revealed
the unmistakable contour of a dogs
head. The latter outline is rendered
almost perfect by covering with the
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-04-06

Great Waste by Green Wood.

Probably 100000 families in the State
of New York use wood for fuel, esti.
mates j. H. Andre. Many of them
never have seasoned wood except for
kindling. Placing the consequent loss
at the low average OF S5 annually per
family we have the enormous total of
81, 500, 600 on account of the extra guam
tity it takes of green wood to produce
the necessary heat over what it would
require of thoroughly seasoned wood.
To this might be added twice as much
in ve1ation and trouble caused the
women by increased weight in handling
and extra care in tending fires. I have
frequently had talks with old wood.
men on the subject, and the general
opinion is that hickory, ironwood, black
birch and hard maple are worth only
sixty to seventy per cent. as much green
as when thoroughly seasoned; beech,
fifty to sixty per cent. Probably white
and rock oak would fall still lower in
value, to be followed by soft maple,
white birch, black and red oak, etc.
What pity that men who furnish wives
with green wood worth less than fifty
per cent. green than when seasoned,
could not be forced for year to take all
this labor and worry upon themselves.
They ought to take it anyway, whether
the fuel be good Or poor; what right
have they to make the women bear the
urden.-Ncw York Tribune.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-04-06

and Toledo. while Buffalo is the princi-
pal distributing point. In carry
ing the grain from the receiving ports
to Buffalo, the railroads cannot compete
with the lakes during the season of naVi-
CATION, but, in the eastward movement
from Buffalo, the railroad has proved a
formidable competitor to the Erie Canal,
and rail shipments, for the first time on
record, have been larger during the nav
ieation season of 1891 than canal ship
ments.
The grain receipts by lake at Buffalo
from April 18th to December 18th we're
129, 127, 900 bushels. The season of
1880, when there was big export
demand, until now, has stood at the top
with los, 10000 bushels. In 1880,
however. the wheat receipts were only
40, 500, 900; IN 1891 they we're II, 1OO,-
600 bushels. Our surplus wheat is
wanted on the other side, and the wheat
movement will be large until next July,
the close of the crop year. A view OF
the big plants employed in the handling
of vast quantities Of grain is presented
in the double column picture.
The building it represents is called the
Connecting Terminal Railroad Elevator
A. It has connection with all of the
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-04-06

lump of condensed milk come to my
door every morning, and better break
fast of its kind Delmonico could not
serve. I buy the coffee myself, and q
pound lasts me month. At noon I
have quart of sweet milk and a water
cracker. That costs me another nifty
cents q week. There are plenty OF de-
lightful boarding places in the neigh
borhood where can get course dinner
for fifty cents. When ! am financially
depressed I buy chop and a roll, cook,
it on a fork in the fame of my little
alcohol range and finish with a bite OF
fruit. MY expenses never exceed " Q
week. / know I could get cheaper
Quarters in less desirable section, but /
would have to forego warm baths, polite
and attentive service as well as the con-
veniences of location. New YORK
World.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-04-06

into the shipping tower, weighed on
huge scales, and allowed to run through
the spout into the boat. Cars are loaded
on two tracks running through the eleva-
tor, the grain going directly from the
bins into them.
The terminal, as it is called, can un-
load vessels, no matter how large, at an
average rate of 1000 bushels per hour,
can load two canal boats with 5000
bushels each, every forty-ive minutes,
and twenty CARS every hour, averaging
zoo bushels each. Thus it can handle
fully $4,000 bushels per hour. The
terminal has a record of elevating from
one steamer, November 18th, 1891,
10000 bushels of wheat IN five hours.
The grain is carried to the leg in the
hold by means of large shovel, hauled
back and forth by steam power, and sup.
plcmented by the work of a small army of
men with scoops. Many years ago, be-
fore the steam shovel was introduced,
this work was all done by hand, and,
strangely enough, its cost then was
smaller than it ls now. The owner of
the grain pays seven-eights of cent per
busAel for elevating, including five
days storage, and the vessel pays $3.50
per 1000 bushels for shoveling. Transfer
to boat is made free, but for loading
cars, one-eighth of cent per bushel is
charged. Buffalo has about thirty of
these grain elevators, six of which have
two legs each. The aggregate eleyating
capacity is about $50, 900 bushels of
grain per hour, or 5000, 900 bushels per
day, and the total storage capacity 49,
000, 900 bushels.
Prior to 1S43, the little grain brought
by vessel to Buffalo was unloaded by
means OF buckets hoisted by hand, and
wheeled into the warehouse. Sometimes
the vessel carried the grain in bags. In
the year named, Joseph Dart built the,
first elevator. 1t was crude affair, Of
course, but it embodied substantially the
principles of the modern elevator. The
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-04-06

The next letter comes from q young;
woman studying medicine. Her castle,,
is hall bedroom in tue most fashion
able part of West Thirty-sixth street.
for which she pays So a week: 8
81 have the use of the psrlor and
bath" she writes, "sleep with my door
open to let in the heat from the hall ,and
when it is too cold to study in my room,
I 90 to the New York Medical Library
or the College. M ~
"Evil is wrought by want of wealth.
as well as want of heart, and by SURF
reptltious methods I breakfast like al
Frenchman on fifty cents q week. I
have little asbestos-lined alcohol lamp
that shuts up like box of blacking, that
sits on q saucer, and on which / cam
make good cup OF coffee in five min
utes. Fresh rolls, sweet butter and a.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-04-06

makes the price received by the farmer
for his hard work, and hence it is of
great Importance how the grain is moved W.
from the farm to the seaboard. The
principal route for the surplus products
of the great West is by way of the great
lakes to Buffalo. and thence to the coast
by the Erie Canal and the railroad lines.
A considerable part of the surplus
reaches the seaboard by rail to Atlantic
and Pacific ports, and some goes down
the Mississippi to New Orleans and other
Southern ports. 1t is safe to say, how
ever, that fully three-fourths OF the sur
plus takes the great Northern water
route.
The principal lake ports of accumula-
tion are Chicago, Duluth, Superior, Mil
waukee, Gladstone, Port Huron, Detroit
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-04-06

the natural-food -of-mon theory to cover
the breakfast question and the rules and
regulations of the novelty manufacturing
company to avoid her lunch.
II buy biscuits by the tin and keep
them locked in my trunk, not from the
mice but the maids. These with a bit
of fruit-raisins, an apple, orange or
banana-furnish all the breakfast /
need.
"At noon have sandwich. A small
boy brings it to me from convenient
saloon. When night comes / am ready
for my dinner. My praises of the cook,
the only tavors I ever send her, are honest
and really profitable, for even cooks are
human enough to be touched by soft
savings. Altogether my board, lodgings
and laundry cost me $3.50. l cant
truthfuliy say that live well, for while
one gas. jet may do for illuminating pur-
poses it is not always sufficient to heat
even q bathroom; but the atmosphere
of nv home is good, the surroundings
are pleasant, the people / come IN
contact with are nice, and those
elements are mere satisfying to a refined
nature than abund ant material comfort.
| don't mind saying that have often
gone to bed before l was sleepy to keep
warm, but then l mad the stars for COM
pany and plenty of time to think. !
also have the freedom of handsome
parlor to receive company. Sundays |
am generally invited out to tea or dinner.
The people in the house speak of me as
q queer little artist in comfortable cir
cumstsnces,' but an rot unhappy
A nursery governess admits her failure
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-04-06
Ellersby, bitterly; at ell events, It proves

Ellersby, bitterly; at ell events, It proves
the dagger was poisoned.
Yes" said Dowker, in delighted tone;
$50 the crime must have been committed
with the other weapon, for if one was
poisoned, it's only common sense to as
sumo the other was"
He had apparently quite forgotten the
loss sustained by Ellersby, for there was
no doubt the bulldog was quite dead.
That gentleman looked at him IN dis.
gust.
"Oh, 20 to the devil" he said irritably,
"and thank your stars don't make you
pay for this.
Dowker murmured something about an
accident, then, slipping the fatal dagger,
once more covered in paper, into his
pocket, he took his departure. On his
way down he met the doctor coming up.
and once outside. he was beside himself
with joy at having proved the kriss to be
poisonous.
'And now, he said, "I'll call and see
MIR. Desmond.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-04-06
How the Fox Escaped.

Phil. Umstadt, section boss at Stouts-
Vile. tells us Of fox that was hard
pressed by dogs one day last week. The
dogs were almost ready to pick reynard
up, when be came to the North Fork
Railroad Bridge, sixty-fve feet high and
800 feet long. The fox leaped onto the
bridge and ran over the ties safely and
made his escape, but the first dog :hat
struck the bridge went through, and this
Incidert saved Mr.. Fox's lile.-Paris
MO- Appeal.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-04-06

poor and report to the Ladies Aid So
ciety, could not even approximate thi.
army of martyrs, but she sighed wher
she said she knew thousands Of them.
Miss Grace Dodge knows them; so doe.
Mrs. Wheeler, of the Art League; the
forewoman of every factory and firm
where the sex is employed and the mis-
tress of every furnished house in the
city. -
Some of these humble tenants are only
here temporarily to study music, art,
medicine or industrial work; some are
alone in the world, widowed or bereft o.
family and dependent on their own re-
sources for a livelihood; some are pro.
fessional nurses, governesses, housekeep.
ers, ladies' maids and dressmakers out Of
employment; some, estranged from rel
atives, are playing sad parts in the trag-
edy of life-but all are poor and many
are nobly brave.
That there are attic philosophers in
this congress of homeless sisters is obvi-
ous enough, but the following sketches,
somewhat reluctantly contributed, are
interesting from social as well as do.
mestic point of view.
The author of the following is an Ohio
girl, employed as decorator and de-
signer in a novelty manufacturing COM
pany at possible salary of $500 year.
Now and then she gets an order for a
handkerchief box or keepsake, and in
that way manages to keep up appear
ances. Miss 'sBrush' writes:
"I came to New York because !
thought there was bigger field here than
in Cleveland. I forgot to reckon the
difference in living expenses, that tax me
to the utmost, and I am ashamed to 60
back. love my friends too we'll to live
with them, and for the sake of having q
genteel address on my letters and card I
have adapted myself to the narrow
limits, the chill and cheerlessness of a
hall bedroom. I pay 81 week for an
apartment originally designed for q
bathroom on the fourth floor of swell
clearinghouse in Gramercy Park. The
window is in the ceiling. That gives me
good light to paint by when the weather
is not too cold to work, and matchless
view of the sky. Indeed, if I had not
been forced by circumstances to take the
room I should have missed the many
pleasant hours I have passed in bed
counting the stars and watching the
clouds sail past. I must say, too, that /
have been singularly free from lntruslons,
due less to delicacy and consideration on
the part of the servants and acquaihtances
generally than a physical aversion to
scaling my heights. When friends and
creditors call the ease.loving butler says,
mot at home,' on general principles, and
settles with his conscience afterwards.
sit has always seemed to me that as a
nation we use too much food. Part OF
the excess is thrown away and the rest
eaten. As result the women get coarse,
gross and fat; the family is kept pool
BY the cook. am not fat. I couldn't
afford to dress myself or psy carfare if !
was. That is why manage on one meal
a day. I neglected to say that. "a g
week pays for my inside skylight loom
and seven dinners. am also forced to
confess that some logical lying was
necessary before the shrewd landladJ
accepted me as a boarder. I advanced
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-04-06

and broad knowledge of human nature:
stTo secure social footing and per-
haps congenial mistress, ] took q ball
bedroom in fashionable house. I had
a spirit lamp; smuggled supplies into
the house in my muff, and I cooked
outlets and oysters with my window wide
open and my furs on. One night ! had
smoked herring; it was my DOOM
That fatal relish brought the landlady
to nv door, and--I left"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-04-06
LIFE IN DKATH.
BY Z. r. LATTA.

A dear, dead child in it's cssket lay,
And a rosebud sweet had been borne away
From q garden near, and at loves command
Tie stem was placed in the ifeless hand.
And when it came to the funeral hour,
The fragrant bud had become flower;
And friends bereft, though their tears they
shed,
The scene beheld, and were comforted.
The preachers heart was so deeply stirred
BY fact so strange that had thus occurred,
He said, in tones that were low and MID.
While standing near to the death-cold chllo'
.An opened rose in the lifeless hand!
A spirit flower where the angels stand!'
GUTTENBURG, Iowa.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-04-06
MOVING GRAIN.
HOW AMERICAS GREAT CROPS
ARE HANDLED.
Storing the Grain in a Big Elevator
Loading Boats and Cars-Un-
loading at a Terminal
Old and New Ways.

EVER before in the
history of this won
derful country, was
the grain movement
from the Western
farms to the sea-
board so large as it
has been since last
August. T b c r e
have been as large
crops before, but
probably never was
there so heavy an
export demand for
our cereals. It is
the value of wheat
Car axnnrt Whinh
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-04-06

The total foreign commerce of .he
Port of New York Tor the year 1891,
according to the annual report OF the
New York Chamber OF Commerce.
amounted to 81, 04O, ,667, ,425.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-04-06
Her First Cake.

She measured out the butter with a very
solemn air;
The milk and sugar also; and she took the
greatest care
To count the eggs correctly and to add
little bit
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-04-06
WOMEN OF PLUCK.
HOW THOUSANDS LIVE IN THE
HALL ROOMS OF GOTHAM.
Humble Tenants Who Struggle Hard
to Keep Up Appearances
How Some OF Them
Manage.

UESs how many
women keep house
in the hall bed
rooms of New York
City' Mr., Blake,
Superintendent of
the Outdoor Poor,
says "the number
staggers belief un-
til you remember
the capacity of the
sex for suffering"
Mister Julia, the
little abbess en-
ployed by Saint
Thomas to look
after the parish
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-04-06

THE PERPENDICULAR VIEW.
finger the lower portion of projection
corresponding to dogs upper lip. The
nugget is bright in color and appears
now Just as when found. San Francisco
Chronicle.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-04-06

the natural-food -of.mon theory to cover
the breakfast question and the rules and
regulations of the novelty manufacturing
70 avoid hor 111Drh
Daily Texarkana Democrat., 1892-12-08
American Cholera.

From the Daily Reveille, Whatoom, Wash.
at. G. Burnett, the Democratic cam
didate for sheriff, was taken violently
i'll at Clearbrook. He had all the
symptoms of Asiatic cholera, and for
an hour or two it was feared he would
die. They finally gave him dose of
Chamberlain Collie, Cholera and Diar-
rhoea Remedy, which revived him un-
til physician arrived" That is pre-
cisely what the manufacturers of that
medicine recommend for cholera.
Send for a physician but give their
medicine until the physician arriAes.
If cholera becomes prevalent in this
country next summer this preparation
will be in great demand because it can
always be depended upon. For sale
by Smith Drug Co.
Daily Texarkana Democrat., 1892-12-08
Not. why Notp

All annual subscribers to either the
Blade or the Chicago Led
ger, w. d. Boyce's Big Weeklies, pub
lished at 113, 1l5 III Fifth Avenue,
Chicago, receive certificates emitting
them to free assistance in securing
suitable stopping places in Chicago
during the Worlds Fair, at whatever
price they desire to pay. Are you a
subscriber to either of these papers?
Ifnot, why not? Many people were
during Dedication Week
with poor rooms at high prices, and
many more will be IN the same situ-
alton next year unless they receive
competent assistance in the matter
This is what the "W. ID. Boyce Bureau
of Worlds Fair Information will give
you, and without one cent of cost for
the service. Some trustworthy person
will be sent with each certificate hold
er to the rooms selected, to see that
they are comfortably and pleasantly
located. The subscription price for
either paper is 5000 per year. If
Daily Texarkana Democrat., 1892-12-08
SAYET vs. RHEUMATISM

SAXET vs.. RHEUMATISM
Saxet Med. Co., Dallas, rex-I had rheu-
matism ever since last Aug; | had tried
various remedies, but none of them did
me any good. My home is Kansas City,
but hoping to derive some benefit from
the climate of Tex. | came to Ft, Worth
last Jan, but continued to, grow worse
until began to take Saxet The, pain
had all left me before had finished tax;
ing the first bottle, and when | had used
only a few bottles was completely well,
and had gained about twenty pounds. l
am boarding at the St. Charles h hotell,
and Mr.. and Mrs. Bridges, also about thir
ty boarders, know Of my condition and
how much suffered before taking Saxet.
Resdectlully, e. Mcdaniel.
We hereby certify that the above state
ment is true. A. A. Bridges, Prop. st.
Charles hotel Mrs. NJ. 9. Bridges,
B, w. Moore, book-keeper for 5. f. Ry:
o., and many others. Ft. W. Feb 1891
sey-SOLD BY SMITH DRUG CO. T6sa