davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-12-20
"It was SO chilly in the dining-room,

"It was SO chilly in the dining-room,
1 thought we'd eat supper out here"
said his wife, a small, slight, gray,
haired woman.
81 enjoy eatin' in the kitchen of q
cold night like this" said her hus.
band. cts gittin' colder fast. Sup
per about ready?"
''Yes; I'll take 1t right up"
They talked little while they ate.
Jason was inwardly rebellious over
what he called his daughters "impu-
dence," and Mrs. Hogarth's thoughts
could not be given utterance, because
they were of Jenny.
II must go up to the attic an git
out the buff'lo robes" said Mr.. Ho-
garth, pushing his chair away from
the table. "I'll start SO early in the
mornin' I won't have time to git the
robes then. I guess I'll put right off
for bed soon as git the robes. I've
got to be off by o'clock.
Five minutes later he was in his
musty, cobwebbed old-attic, candle in
hand. When he had found the robes
he said to himself:
"Wonder if my big fur muffier amt
up here in some O. them trunks?
I'll need it if it's cold as l think it'll
be in the morning. Mebbe it's in this
trunk"
He dropped on one knee before a
small, old, hair-covered trunk, with
brass-headed nails that had lost their
luster years ago. Throwing up the
trunk lid, he held the candle lower.
His eye fell on big rag doll with
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-12-20

The city of South Bend, Oregon,
presents a novelty in American poll
tics and government, in that no city
Office there will have any salary
attached to it during 1896, or prac.
tically none, and also that there are
more place hunters than there are
places. The city is in debt for i'm
provements that have been made, and
the New York Sun states that the
Council voted to reduce the salaries
of all city officers to 81 year, and
devote the proceeds of the tax levy to
paying off the debts. More than
enough citizens and taxpayers have
declared their willingness to take the
offices. and thus help to clear the city
OF debt. The State law provides that
the Treasury shall receive at least
$25 n month, but the citizen who
takes that Office will turn over the
salary to the city.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-12-20

my husbands invalid mother didn't
have to live with us, I'd bring Jenny
an her children right here to live"
'I'd never darken your door ag'ln
if yon did"
~ guess ma would. It's burning
shame, pa, that you won't even let her
go to Hebron to see Jenny. It's kill
ing ma. To think Of her own daugh-
ter living only fifteen miles away and
her mother not seeing her for nearly
six years! It's wicked. If was ma
I'd go no matter what you said."
''Your ma knows very we'll that she'd
have to go for good if she went at all, :"
replied her father, coldly. Then he
added:
81 must be goin', for I've got to go
round by Job Prouty's an see if he'll
loan me his light wagon to go to He
bron with, Wednesday. l broke the
tongues O. mine Sunday an that pesky
wagonmaker down to the village amt
goin' to git it fixed fer month, l
reckon. You an Tom'll be over to
eat dinner with us Christmas, I
s'pose?"
Eyes, I s'pose so."
They parted with manifest stiffness
of manner on both sides.
"Set set set |" said Mrs. Jenness,
as her father walked out Of the yard
and down the road toward his own
home. ''The settest man that ever
walked the earthl 1 wouldn't stand
it about Jenny if was mother. She's
dying to see Jenny's babies, an just
b'lesYa that father'd soften if he saw
'em once. The only grandchildren
he's got on earth, and he nor ma never
even saw them. If dared I'd fix it
SO he should see those two dear little
tots once !"
1t was dark when Jason Hogarth
reached his house. There were no
lights in the front windows of the big,
square farm house with an incredibly
long L back of it. He walked aro.- |.
to the rear, where streams OF CHEEKY
light shone from the kitchen windows.
A pleasant odor of frying ham greeted
him as he entered the kitchen, where
table with snowy cloth was set for
supper. close to the shining kitchen
stove,
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-12-20
china head. He picked it up and
stared at it a moment.

china head He picked it up and
stared at it a moment.
His mind went back to Christmas
long years ago. He was poor young
married man then, and ne had worked
nearly all day at husking corn for a
neighbor. to earn money to buy that
doll head. and his wife had set up un-
til midnight to make the clumsy body
stuffed with sawdust. He remembered
how his little Jenny had shrieked with
Joy when she found the doll in her
stocking the next morning. And what
IS this? A tiny, faded, blue merino
baby sacque. His wife had made it
before Jenny had yet come into the
world. 1t was the very first tiny gar
ment she had made, and her husband
recalled how she had blushed and tried
to hide it under her apron when he
had found her at work on it. He re-
membered that he had taken it from
her and kissed her, and then he had
kissed the tiny garment itself.
The candle in his hand shook
strangely as he bent lower over the
trunk and brought forth a tiny china
cup with From Papa" on it, and a
little sampler with "God bless father
and mother" worked in rather uncer-
tain letters by little hand.
There was string of blue glass
beads that he has given her on he-
fifth birthday and in a heavy black
case was daguerreotype of her with
the beads around her neck. The lit
tie pictured face smiled up at him
from the frame and there was q mist
before his eyes when he thought OF
how many, many times those bare lit.
tie arms had tightened in warm en-
brace around his neck. and OF how
many times those smiling lips had
kissed him and said:
81 love you best of anybody in all
the world, farver."
Everything in the trunk was re-
minder of her in her baby days, of his
little Jenny. He sat down on the
floor beside the trunk and took the
things out one by one, the stern look
in his face softening and his heart
growing warmer.
He smiled when he came to little
white sunbonnet and remembered just
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-12-20

II got her a nice silk umbrel' with
silver handle las Christmas; paid
four dollars an seventy cents for
it; an I'll be switched if she's had it
out O. the case it came in but one
solitary time. an then she knowed it
want goin' to rain. Beats all how
savln' your ma is of things. There's
the silk dress pattern got 'er two
years ago this Christmas, not even
made up yit. I want to git her some
thing this Christmas that she'll have
to use an enjoy. What kin you sug-
gest, Mandy?"
His married daughter, Amanda Jen-
sness, now stood at her molding board
rolling out pie crust. She was4 dumpy
little body with laughing blue eyes
and good-humored expression of
countenance. But now look of de-
termination came in her face and she
turned suddenly and faced her father.
with her back to the table and the
rolling pin held IN both hands across
her checked gingham apron.
'You want me to tell you what to
get for mas Christmas gift, pa?"
LES, Dlaueu IL KNOW WnaL TO
git9"
81 can tell you in one word, pa."
''You kin? Well, I'll git it If it
don't come at too high figger. Never
had better crops in my life than had
this year. My onions an tobacker II
bring me in 5000 more'n expected to
git for 'em, an the ROBBERY crop was
something tremenjus an I didn't have
to sell quart for less'n twenty cents.
Your ma done her full share O. work
an I'm anxious to git her something
real hanson for Christmas. What
shall it be?"
His daughter looked at him steadily
for moment and then said slowly and
distinctly:
"Jenny!"
A sullen frown took the place of the
kindly smile on his wrinkled face.
His eyes flashed ominously and his
voice was harsh and cold as he said
"Haven't l told you, Mandy Jen-
ness, never to mention that name to
me?"
81 know that you have" replied
Mandy with gathering courage; 'but
never said that wouldn't do it, and
when you asked me what thought
mad like best for Christmas, just
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-12-20

Across the hedge scream heard,
And saw Priscilla run.
Pursued by a gigantic bird
Out in the winter sun.
The gander tapped his wings in air
And. Kissing, pressed the pace
While she with feelings OF despair
Led the unhappy chase.
scaled the hedgerow double quick,
And as the gander came
In range raised my walking stick
And with unerring aim
Landed upon his head whack
Which proved the maids release
From harm-for he turned on his back
And closed his eyes In peace.
"Our Christmas bird is ready quite
To dangle on the peg"
She murmured, ''till with rare delight
We eat him wing and Leg"
She smiled and said, "You'll come around
On Christmas Day to dine?''
I answered, with a bow profound,
'I'll be there snow or shiner'
In juicy prlue the gander lay
Most luscious, brown and fat,
Upon the dish that Christmas Day,
While we about him sat.
Across the board upon me fell
Her smile, which was the springs,
Till was dazed and couldn't tell
The drumsticks from the wings.
We ate him till he was wreck
A wreck Of loveliness-
And then unto her fairy beck
And call, must confess,
went for loves most precious sake
Nove set my dreams astir)-
Behind the flowered screen to break
The frail wish bone with her.
won the better part, and wished
She seemed my wish to read
While with her eye in mine she flshcd
With subtle skill indeed.
Just then the Christmas chimes with yes.
Trembled across the dell,
She blushed as If they did suggest
The merry wedding bell.
My golden wish, made on that day
OF revelry and mirth,
Has been fulfllled-perpetual May
For me begilds the earth.
That wish bone, like the horseshoe old,
That brings good luck galore,
Now, mended, hangs with charm untold
Above our cottage door.
-R. X. Munkittrick.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-12-20

Two of the most conspicuous signs
OF civilization are newspapers and rail.
roads, observes the Atlanta Journal.
When we claim to lead the march of
the world we may go far toward justi-
fyXg the assertion by pointing to the
fa& that we lead all other Nations
combined in these two elements of
power. There are about so, 900 news
papers published in the world, and of
this number 90, 169 are in the United
States and Canada. These American
newspapers printed last year 8, 3,4s1,-
6lO, 900 copies, which is far more than
the combined circulation of all the
newspapers of other Nations. OF the
20, l6O newspapers in the United States
and Canada over 10000 are published
IN this country, and it is probably
true that the newspapers of the
United States have greater total cir
culation than al others combined. No
country can show newspapers
.qusl our great metropolitan
dailies either in quantity of news or
in circulation. Compare any one of
tie great newspapers of London or
Paris with any one of the leading
newspapers of New York or Chicago
and the superiority of the American
journal as newsgatherer will be evil
dent to the dullest reader. One Of the
first things to be established in any
settlement in the Unitsd States is
newspaper, whereas in Europe they
are seldom published outside of cities
considerable size. No Nation in
world has so many newspaper
ersas the United States. Here
iasses read, and the proudest dis
Oh any journal can have is to be
las the peoples paper. In the
n and extent of railroads the
States also excels the rest of
Id combined. There are in
utry about 10000 miles of
and all the other railroads in
combined fall short of that
uany thousand miles. A
b leads the world in news
,ilroads is in no danger
berties.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-12-20
PROSPECTS FOR POTATOES.
Secretary Morton Says No Foreign
Markets, and Farmers Must Feed
Spuds to Stock.

Secretary Morton Says No Foreign
Markets, and Farmers Must Feed
Spuds to Stock.
''The most serious complaint of the
potato growth this year is the low
price of the product, particularly in
the Northwest. The report from the
departments agent for Wisconsin and
Minnesota represents that in the latter
State the tubers do not pay for dig
ging.' He states that tho yield is
enormous, 'on an acreage three times
as great as in previous years.. that
hundreds of acres will not be dug
and that much of the acreage will go
to feed stock.
Here is another startling announce
ment on the official authority of the
Secretary of Agriculture in his Sep
tember crop report. Can Mr.. Morton
reconcile the above with the Demo-
cratic promises made to farmers in
1892, that the value of all farm crops
would be enhanced if the protection
lists were turned out of Office and the
free traders installed in their places?
Potatoes ''do not pay for digging"
says the free trade Secretary's report.
Hundreds of acres will not be dug"
even when so much labor is idle and
wages are SO much cheaper than they
were in 1892. "Much of the acreage
will go to feed stock" feeding pota-
toes to stock as we'll as dollar wheat,
and corn to be burned, too. Is there
no hope for the farmers? Let us see
if the markets of the world won't save
him. Here are our exports of pota-
toes for the last five years:
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-12-20
ON CHRISTMAS EVE.
DUNNO what in
BY j. L. HARBOUR.

DUNNO what in
creation to get
Y o u r ma for
@ h r i 8 t m a F,
Mandy" q n 4
J son Hogarth
looked at b i s
daughter d inquir-
ingly as if expect
ing her to suggest
some suitable gift.
But she was busy
at that moment
testing the condi-
tion of a cake IN
t h Q oven b V
thrusting a broom
straw into it, and
when she had
risen to her feet
her father said:
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-12-20

There seems to be no robber tariff
at present. What is it that robs the
Treasury of it's gold aud the Govern
ment of receipts necessary to sustain
Government? How about free trade
being robber of the Treasury and
thief of industry. -SaratogaN IN. Y.)'
Daily Saratogian.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-12-20

The publication at this time of the
rumor that Washington played the
flute is doubtless due, suggests the
New York Recorder, to the mean in
situations OF the surviving members
of the CORVALLIS family.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-12-20
EXPORTS OF POTATOES.

1894. .sos1l1 e5l.s77
1898. ,S57 4lS,221
Note how onr exports of potatoes
gradually increased during the Nc
Kinley tariff period and how we cap
tured half million more bushels of
the potato markets of the world in
that, directly the free traders got their
fingers on the farmers potato crop,
our exports fell off and we shipped
abroad 270. bushels less in 1895
than in 1898.
Perhaps, though, there will be O
chance for the farmers to capture the
markets of the world during the pres
ent fiscal year. Mr.. Free Trade Sec
retary Morton enlightens us upon this
point. His September report tells us
that $500. 900 hundred-weights of po
tatoes were shipped to England during
the first six months of this year" from
Germany. He also tells us that
'.France shipped about the same
quantity" 1t would seem that France
and Germany have got ahead of us,
especially, ''as England has nearly an
average crop of very high quality, the
market there is glutted and prices are
Us low as $40 ton." This is equiva-
lent to % cents bushel delivered in
England. 1t IS not surprising that
farmers, particularly in the North
west," when they think of the freight
rate from the Northwest to London
and the cost OF bags, commission and
insurance, are complaining of low
prices.
A potato market at 25 cents bush.
ell in London, less these expenses and
the cost of seed, fertilizer and labor,
does not leave much margin of profit
captured the markets of the world.
No paying market in England, France
or Germany, and Secretary Morton
says sit is unlikely that we shall be
able to dispose of any of our surplus
in Europe" We thought the markets
of the world were waiting for our sur
plus products. Can it be that the
markets of India, China and japan
alone are open to us? Must we grow
tubers to supplant the rice crops of
the Orient?
We cannot but admire Mr.. Free
Trade Secretary Morton's candor in
describing these free trade conditions,
varying SO gently, as they do, from
the free trade promises of 1892. Sec
retary Morton says that 'sthese condi-
tions are worth noting" They are,
Mr.. Secretary. The farmers will note
them-will note that ''these condi-
tions" are not theories.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-12-20

Milwaukee contains 81 square miles
OF territory-probably the smallest
area Of any city in the United States
of equal size.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-12-20
There were H. 800 persons in penal
servitude in Great Britain and Aus
tralia in 1870 and only 4345 in 1895.
The five principal languages in the
order of their Importance, are English,
German, French. Spanish and italian.

A Berlin Judge recently held that
pobody has right to say anything
against the Emperor, because his per.
son is sacred.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-12-20

July 1, 1895. ... .S7l6. .202 .061
March !, 1893 ......... 5S5,034 .26o
Cleveland's increase of debt. .slsl l,le7 800
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-12-14

of the heavenly bodies. He has to
the largest extent measured the heat
of the sun, inventing for the purpose
the bolometer by means of which the
temperature of a sunbeam car be tested
to the millonth of degree. He has given
us our best idea of the wonderful spots on
the suns surface, and has best shown how
this great body may practically affect the
earth and eventually be better used to its
advantage. 1t was Mr.. Langley who origi-
mated the systematic time service by which
the clocks of our cities are now regulated
from the observatories of the country and
by which the railroads still run their trains
without danger of accidents through vary
ing time. 1t is he who has made some of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-12-14

skill and experience to use it, just as every
mans legs are strong enough to ride hi
cycle while yet most OF us cannot do go
without much painful experience In learn
ing how to use and manipulate our
strength, as many nowadays md out. So
is with artificial flight We have got the
mechanical power now, but we have still
got to acquire the skill to use it in this
field
But will that day ever come Mr. Lang
ley?' 1 asked.
las to that" replied Secretary Langley,
Il have so far spoken only of what 1 have
ascertained to be fact, and 1 want to dis
tinguish between what is fact and what Is
only my opinion. Expressing only my per-
sonal opinion, then, I am willing to answer
that l believe it altogether probable that
IN the not very distant future. but how far
distant do not pretend to say, flying ma
On es that is. rot balloons. but heavy con-
structions actuated by machinery, will be
propelled very rapidly through the air. prob
ably at first rarely and at great risk in fur
therance of the arts of war; later in intro
ducing great change in all human affairs
in the arts of peace"
FRANK G. CARPENTER
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-12-14

the field of the telescope, and it looks just
as | saw it. You notice all around it Is
white. The sun does not look like ball of
fire when you see it in the telescope. 1t
appears more frozen than hot. 1t looks
much like the molten white iron in great
pudding furnace. You cannot see Its
beauty in the drawing. nor can you appre-
ciate its size. That spot which 1 have there
drawn was so big that the earth could have
been dropped into it without touching the
Sides Each of those bright gossamer-like
threads is about 6,GOO miles long, and that
spot covered more than a thousand million
square miles of the suns face. 1t had an
area of five times that of the whole surface
of the earth. A little edge of it broke up
and dissolved while / looked at it, which
was bigger than the whole United States.
1t was all in motion, and its seething par
ticles were flying about at the rate of fifty
miles a second along the surface, under
which I could see probably some thousands
of miles into the darkness below up from
which came volumes of intensely heated
whiring vapor."
How could you look at the sun so long,
Mr.. Langley, without hurting your eyes?"
II could not have done it," was the reply,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-12-14
Why Not Try Paine's Celery Compound?

1t Is the gr latest nerve and brain restorative the
world has ever known The wonderful formula for
Paines celery compound is no secret to the medical
profession. 1t is not patent medicine. Its abso-
lutte freedom from any deleterious substance is
assured fact, youched for by the ablest physicians
in the country and by the eminent Prof. Edward
g. Phelps, Md, LID, of Dartmouth College, who
first prepared 1t.
Sufferers from neuralgia, neuralgia headaches and
rheumatism should stop short their morphine. qui-
nine and such painkilling drugs. No cure can be
hoped for from these tempor1ners. There is one
way of getting rid forever of the of all this
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-12-14

measured. Suppose you had an arm which
would reach from the earth to the sun, and
you could put the tips of your fingers on
that glowing mass of fire 1t would be a
little mere than one hundred years Gf You
could live long, before you could know
that your fingers We're being burned. Well.
the rays of the sun have to come all that
distance before they reach you, and the
waves of heated air, which makes the sun
seem to flicker so, while beyond and behind
all this almost all its brightest surface is
in real actual motion. shifting here and
there with velocity many hundred times
that of a cannon ball. These real changes
may last for second or minute and spe-
cial phenomena may occur in the twinkiing
of an eye. In my studies of the sun spots 1
had to have a paper and pencil before me
as l looked through the telescope to record
these changes as they went on, in order to
catch their varying expressions on the
suns face.
81 cannot describe to you the wonders
which are going on there. 1 found. how
ever. that in order to do my work well, l
must learn something more than the me-
chanical drawing which was all ] knew,
and these studies went on, l learned to
draw and paint sufficiently well to make
my records. Since then have drawn hun
dreds of sun spots. and the works which l
have published have been illustrated with
my own drawings of them"
A Look Mt II Sun Spot.
At this point in the conversation Secre-
tary Langley had one of these former draw
ings Of sun spot laid upon the table. 1t
was, in fact, a beautiful painting about
12N14 inches in size, of what seemed to
be a snowy surface. with a large black area
in the middle crossed by strange lines of
light, blending in fantastic outlines like the
frost figures on pane of glass.
That" said he, as spot which I saw in
1873. 1t remained about twenty minutes in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-12-14

The loss Of a single nights sleep tells in the
drawn expression the face and the sluggish
powers OF the mind. When this unfortunate priva-
tion continues night after night one can shut
his eyes to the disastrous outcome.
Debility, neuralgia, headache dyspepsia, melan-
cholia and that dread paresis follow.
Physicians know the peril Of sleeplessness. In
every case brough under their narcotics are
rigdly kept away, because momentary relief leaves
matters In the end. A permanent cure that
looks to rapid punishment Of the nervous sys-
tenn is found in Paine's celery compound Nothing
performs the needed service so surely and SO
rapidly.