davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-23
FROCK OF CAFE-AU-LAT BROAD CLOTH.

800 Per day is asked, exclusive of
board. The Astoria, now being erected
next to the Waldorf, is to eclipse them
all, if such a thing is possible.
The Waldorf, by the way, has be-
come the meeting place for fashion
able danes, who lunch there after a
shopping tour.
Both Mrs. General Harrison and
Mrs. Cleveland (who was accompanied
by Ruth, now a tall and graceful girl
OF some six years. were there the
other day. I learned that Mrs. Har-
rison was in New York to attend some
of the Art sales. The famous baby
boy was not visible. Mrs. Cleveland,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-23
A CURSE CARD" LEAGUE.
NEW YORK WOMEN TO REPRESS
PROFANITY ON THE STREETS.
How They Will Try to Stop the Habit
Gotham's Luxuriant Hotels-S1OO a
Day for a Bridal Suite-Gossip About
Noted Grand DANES and Swell Gowns.

Especial New York letter.

NOIeu VTduQ DdIle6 ana Dwell UOWnbs
LIE 5Iy:Ss
Especial New York letter.
The New Y ork League of Purists is
up in arms again. This time it is to
repress profanity on the streets and in
public conveyances. The committee
has chosen some thirty young ladies,
workers in the organization, and pro-
vided each with a novelty in the shape
of a bundle of Course cards"
The plan is, for the lady to carry o
package of these cards whenever on q
mission of charity, shopping or prom
enading on the public highways. For
instance, if she is travelling in an ele-
waited train, and hears a man who has
accidently passed his station, or for
any other reason, murmur a subdued
"swear word" she is to hand him q
curse card, which invites him to fill in
the blank form, and bind himself for q
stated time to refrain from swearing.
As o rule the culprit is so astonished
by the request, and so charmed by the
winning smile of the giver of the card,
that he pledges himself. The thirty
ladies are of various nationalities; be-
cause in a great metropolis like New
York s'cuss" words fly through the air
in every tongue under heaven.
The architecture of the houses and
hotels in New York has advanced SO
rapidly in the last ten years, that there
is now no city in the world which con-
tains so many beautiful and various
specimens. The magnitude and
splendor of the new hotels astound
Europeans who visit us and who have
been taught to believe that Paris,
London and the Riviera lead the world.
For the bridal suite at the Hotel
New Netherland the modest price of
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-23
Hoods Pills SICK H ia a5Est i s5s. ana
Speed of Corked Bottles.

Numbers of experiments have been
made to test the speed and destination
of corked bottles thrown into the sea
at various portions of the world. The
most remarkable example ever heard
Of was that in which a bottle travelled
5000 miles in about two years and q
half, roughly at the rate of six and q
half miles a day. 1t travelled from
si1ty-three degrees south latitude and
sixty degrees west longitude to West
ern Australia.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-23
Brave Men,.

{ Alex Mcclure Of the Philadelphia Times
saws: "The two boldest men he knows are
John Wannamaker of Philadelphia and
lilly Haynes of Boston. Both went to New
York. Mr.. Wannamaker took the Stewart
property, the finest dry goods store in the
world, and Mr.. Haynes took the great
Broadway Central Hotel, the largest in
the city. But dry rot had crept into both
of these magnificent properties and no one
dared to grasp them, until John Wanna
maker took one and lilly Haynes the other.
A complete and unqualified success has
crowned the efforts of both. Verify a good
re equation is better thar riches"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-23
Covered Her With Shame.

Mrs. Modus-"Well, George, you
promised me n new bonnet"
George-"I? Promised you a new
bonnet? Great Scott! When?"
Mrs. Modus-"Before you married
me you swore that never should dis
grace rest upon my head through you;
and what do you call this shabby thing
that's on my head now?"-Tit-Bits
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-23
Remarkable Discovery in Ohio.

DR.. Clarence Loveberry, the curator
of the Ohio Archaeological and Histori-
cal Society, who has been in Chilli
cothe for q week exploring the mounds
in that locality, has made what he con-
siders a very important discovery.
In a mound 200 feet long by forty
high the workmen came upon the
skeleton of a prehistoric woman. The
body was five feet long and the bones
we'll preserved, considering the fact
that they had been buried hundreds OF
years. The body had been buried in
some coarse fabric, shreds of which
still chung to the bones. It had also
been wrapped in bark.
It had evidently been a person OF
rank, for around the neck was a string
of beads, and the left arm was covered
from shoulder to wrist with strings of
beads made from gulf shells. Through
one of these the string still remained
intact. There was also a quantity of
mica fakes about the skeleton.-Chi-
caoo Times Herald.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-23
Perfectly Plain.

Corporal Ito soldier why is the
blade of the sabre curved instead of
straight"
Private-''It is curved in order 70
give more force to the blow"
Corporal-"Humbug! The sabre is
curved so rs to fit the scabbard. If it
were straight, how would you get tin
to the crooked scabbard, blockhead?'
-Fliegende Blatter.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-23
Too Thin.

"You know" said the Skeleton
Dude, ''that lam the only %self-evident
freak in this place. People can't help
but know that I am not q fakir."
"Nonsense!" said the Glass-Eater.
|'No nonsense about me. I'm so
thin they can see through me at first
glance. "-Harper's Bazaar.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-23
Not His Class.

"This is IN INSULT" declared the
prisoner in the police court.
"What do you mean, sir?" roared
the Judge.
"Im a professional rider, Your
Honor, and here I'm charged with
scorching at the rate of eight miles an
hourl"-Detroit Free Press.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-23
What Allied Her.

links lat a party)-''I don't see
what's the matter with that pretty wo-
man owe there. She was awfully firty
a little while ago, and now she won't
have anything to do with me-"
Stranger-''I have just come in.
She's my wife. THE Yellow Kid.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-23

My system was entirely
and I suffered with terrible b
in the small of my back and cSS
hardly stand upright. I was more
tired in the morning than on retiring
at night. I had no appetite. Since
taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound, have gainedffteenpounds,
and I look better than I ever looked
before. I shall recommend it to all
my friends, as it certainly is a wonder
full medicine.-MRs. E. F. MORTON, 104a
Hopkins St., Cincinnati, Ohio.
Kidney Trouble.
Before taking Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound, I had suffered
many years with kidney trouble. The
pains in my back and shoulders were
terrible. My menstruation became ir-
regular, and I was troubled with leu.
corrhoa. was growing very weak. I
had been to many physicians but re-
ceived no benefit. I began the use Of
Mrs. Pinkham's medicine, and the first
bottle relieved the pain in my back
and regulated the menses It Is the
best kind Of medicine that Ihave ever
taken, for it relieved the pain SO quickly
and cured the disease.-MRs. LILLIAN,
CRrPpEN, Box n, St. Andrews Bay. Fla.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-23
Britons War on Sparrows.

England has turned against its own
sparrow. The birds are being slaugh-
tered wholesale by the farmers, espe-
cially in Yorkshire, and great disgust
is expressed at the manner of their
taking off. The Board of Agriculture
refuses to protect the birds.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-23
Interesting to the Clergy.

A minister who used to preach in
Somerville had a little boy. A few days
before his father left the city to 60 to
his new parish one of his neighbors
said to the little boy:
$50 your father is going to work in
New Bedford, is he?"
"Oh, no." he said. "Only preach"
-Somerville Journal.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-23

queenly in her bearing, looked ex-
tremely we'll in a black and white
check gown, the broad revers on her
open Eton coat giving a very stylish
effect.
Mrs. Harrison, as 'bonnie" as n
Highland lassie, was gowned in a
sensible well-ftting Scotch heather
mixture suit, her fashionable coat
being of the blazer pattern.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-23
The Bitter Bitten.

Ancient History Man-''We have
much new and valuable information
concerning the Hittites, the Invites,
the Jebusites and the Moabites."
His Friend-"How about the Mos.
quitobites? "-Household Words. .
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-23
OUR BUDGET
AUCHTER.PROVOKlNC STOR
LOVERS OF FUN.

Perversity of Observation-Disclosures
Con~sideration-A Familiar Paradox
Its Meaning-Cause and Efect-The
Right Thing in the Wrong Place.
These methods perverse fate so oft will dis.
close
That tits useless to doubt or to scoff;
It's the girl with the new suit Of bicycle
clothes
Who, at the first mud hole, falls off.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-23
The Grafn-O Law Shit.

The damage suit against the Genesee Pure
It out of court, and as a practical result.
Grain-O is in greater demand than ever. The
new plant. only just completed, is to be dup
Heated so that not only the old friends OF the
delicious food drink which completely takes
the place of coffee, but the new friends it is
making every day, can be supplied. Suits may
come and suits may go, but Grain-O goes on
forever.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-23
BluHed.

Stern Party-"Well, sir, T don't
know as I ain particularly DESTROYS of
becoming your father-in-law, young
man."
Cholly Seeke-"Er-eh-I n-ne-
never thought of that. You w-wo-
would b-be my father-in-law, wouldn't
you? Ig-guess we'll l-let the-er-
m-matter drop; g-good-d-d-day."
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-23
Its Meaning.

Little Johnny-"Ha, here it says o
man was half seas over What does
that mean?"
Pa-"It means q red-hot time fo1
him when he gets home, if he's a
ried. "-Cleveland Leader.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-23
Indirectly.

Englishman-"You haven't the un.
~derground system in New York, have
you?"
American-"Not exactly, but the
cable cars bring a great many people
there. Life.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-23
Cause and Effect.

He-"They say bicycles are o drug
on the market this year"
She-"That must be the reason all
the doctors are prescribing them
Yonkers Statesman.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-23
A Familiar Paradox.

First Sport-'There's one funny
thing about the long green"
Second Sport-"What's that?"
"Why, you can't keep it long,
Yonkers Statesman.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-23

A monster petition, favoring Cuban indie
pendence. said to bear the names Of $4,000
citizens Of Philadelphia. has been presented
to the United States Senate.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-23
Congenial.

"The Bizzlers seem to be q very
happy couple"
eyes; he shutters and she is deaf."-
Chicago Record.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-23

Halls Catarrh Cure is a liquid and is taken
internally, and acts directly on the blood and
mucous surfaces of the system. Write for tes-
timonials, free. Manufactured by
T. ]. CHENE & Co. Toledo. o.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-23
A True Sister.

"She said she would be a sister to
me, and she kept her word"
Sin what way?"
"She objected to all the girls ]
wanted to marry. "-Chicago Record.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-23
ParadoXical.

Observation-Disclosures one thing
that's pretty hard to understand"
Yeast-"And what's that?"
Glow a man blind drunk can see
double. "-Yonkers Statesman.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-23
Forgot Number One.

81 am afraid it is all up between
Jones and the rich widow"
"Made one of his ridiculous breaks,
I~presume?"
eyes. He asked her if he was the
only man she ever loved.
Enquirer.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-23
No.To.Bac tor Fifty Cents.

Over 100000 cured. Why not let No-To-Bac
regulate or remove your desire for tobacco?
Saves money. makes health and manhood.
Cure guaranteed. so cents and Sl.W at all
druggists.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-23

In Washington State the bullet from a
gun accidentally discharged struck a man
In the right temple and went around the
skull as far as the left ear without serious
1p ipin rim " him
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-23
Weighty Consideration.

Minnie-"I want to introduce you
to a young lady-a very nice young
lady-and she's worth her weight in
gold"
Bob-"Stout girl, I hope."-Tit-
Bits.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-23

Iuse Piso's Cure for Consumption both in
my family and practice.-Dr. q. w. PATTER-
son, Inkster, Mich. Nov. 5. 1894.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-23

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children
teething, softens the gums observation-disclosures
lion, aliays pain, cures wind collie. 25c.a bottle.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-23
A Useful

"Hobbs has a great head for inven.
ton,
"What has he got up lately?"
GA rough-shod cake of soap war.
ranted not to slide when you step on
il. "-Chicago Record.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-23

CAscARETS stimulate liver, kidneys and
bowels. Never sicken. weaken or grippe; lOc.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-23

When bilious or ~costive, eat a Cascaret
candy cathartic; cure guaranteed: l0c., Csc.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-23

Fits permanently cured. No fits or ervous-
ness after first days use of DR.. kline's Great
Nerve Restorer. SO trial bottle and treatise free
DR.. R. II. KLINE. Ltd. gl Arch St.. Phila. Pa.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-23
The Right Thing in the WI

"And he kissed you?"
eyes, and right under mother's
eye"
81 should think he would have pre-.
ferred to do it under your own."-Tit-
Bits.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-23

If affictedwith sore eyesuse DR.. Isaac Thomp.
sons Eye-water. Druggists sell at25c. per bottle.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-23

Just try a l0c. box of Cascarets, the finest
liver and bowel regulator ever made
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-23
saw EpH. '

The craving for drink Is q disease, q marvellous
cure for which has been discovered called anti
strong drink without knowing why, as 1t can be
given secretly in tea, coffee, soup and the Ike.
If "Anti-Jsg' is not kept by your dr"Gsis1 send
way. New York, and 1t will be sent postpaid, in
plain wrapper, with full directions how to give
%secretly, Information mailed free.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-23
Shake Into Your Shoes

Aliens Foot-Ease. q powder for the feet: 1t
cures painful, swollen. smarting feet, and in
stantly takes the sting out of corns and bum
ions. It's the greatest comfort discovery of
the age. Aliens Foot-Ease makes tight-fit-
ting or new shoes feel easy: 1t is a certain
cure for sweating. callous and hot, tired, ach-
ing feet. Try it to-day. Sold by all druggists
and shoe stores. BY mail for CSC. in stamps.
Trial package FREE. Address, Allen S. Olm.
sted, lie Roy. n. Y.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-23
Yours e r truly,

"'Henry W. LongtelloW.
"One of these would be sent to the
applicant by a member Of his family to
whom he passed over their requests.
"F'ut the autograph-seekers were
not always satisfied with a mere sigma
ture and he often sent a verse from
one of his poems, signed with his
name. The most remarkable request,
however, came from a lady in Boston,
who the poet said, sent him by express
a package of $50 blank visiting cards
with q letter requesting that he In
scribe his name on each of them the
next day, as she was to have a grand
reception at which q number OF literary
people would be present and she
wished to present each n Of her
guests with the poets autograph.
"This was too much for even Long
fellows good nature, and would seem
to be hardly credible had I not heard
it FROM the poets own lips"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-23
Audacity.

Many readers mayrecall experiences
in getting the autograph of Henry W.
Longfellow. The author of "Chats
with Celebrities" has something to say
about this very thing:
II remember one very pleasant party
at the poets dinner table," writes Mr..
Guild, sat which Mr.. Monti, Profess
sor E. N. Horsford and myself were
present, when MI. Longfellow related
a number of amusing anecdotes re-
speeding applications that were made
to him for autographs. He was very
kind to autograph-seekers and used to
keep in a little box upon his writing
table a number of slips upon which
were written.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-23

sold for twenty
below twenty ddNS
machine manufacture
mensely rich from them
several hundred per cent?
been. estimated that typewritiMy
chimes cost less than twenty dollars
build, while they sell for from fifty
dollars to one hundred dollars each.
It is generally understood that an
agreement exists whereby these high
prices are maintained. Business men
are compelled to pay from three hun
dred to five hundred. per cent. profit
or go without the machines.
Are there any other machines which
yield such profits as the sewing ma
chine did for years, and the type
writing machine has and does, except
it be the bicycle?
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-12-16

think it unpardonably rude when lieges
have stood live or six hours to see an
august parsonage, only to be shown a
parasol or umbrella? The king of Siam
has sinsularly winning smile and
manner. He is free from all tincture
of self consci, sness ard can say smart
things One of his sayings was very
Oriental in its significance. The broth
er next in rank to him is his foreign
minister. There is nobody to replace MIN
at Bangkok; at any rate, for the trans
action of great affairs. When, there
fore, the king was pressed by NJ Han
otauX to make some concession to
France, he asked how could he, he and
his foreign minister were too long all
sent to be we'll up in current affairs.
But why, then, did you bring your
brother to Europe?" asked the French
minister. For very good reason.
Had | left him behind, l should on my
return have found him on my throne"
"Why not have left, then, as foreign
minister, your other brother who is
with you?" For stronger reason.
He is both ambitious and ferocious.
The eldest would not have beheaded me
If 1 went back, but the second might"
Paris Correspondence London Truth.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-12-16

is certain that the bulk of voluntary
deaths, occurring as they did among
markedly degenerated people, who
were deteriorating with every genera
tion, were like the suicides of today,
due to insanity (using the word in its
widest sense), disgust of life and that
uncomfortable desire to die which is
SO marked a sign of decay, and which
no alienist has yet fully explained.
When vice and dissipation were at
their height in Rome self destruction
was most common and suicide was
most often met with among the Greeks
after they had been contaminated by
Roman manners and customs. In a
few words the prevalence of suicide
was disease produced by a depraved
condition. AS vice and debauchery in
creased, crime, immortality, disease and
self-destruction also increased Indeed,
with the Romans under the empire,
suicide seems to have been one of ma
ture's most active and effectual meth
ods of stamping out a people who had
become too degraded for continued ma
tional existence. When the Greeks
and Romans recognized the impracti-
cability of committing suicide they de-
cided to establish tribunals whose duty
it should be to hear the applications
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-12-16
ANCIENT SUICIDES.
Greek and Roman Courts Tried Cases

Greek and Roman Courts Tried Cases
In Advance.
During the centuries Immediately
preceding and those following the
opening of the Christian era the volun-
tary death idea was at it's worst.
Broadly speaking the teachings of all
the philosophers, orators and poets Of
the time was that suicide was not only
justifable, but was a noble and cour-
ageous act, says the Boston Traveller.
Among the propagators of this doctrine
may be mentioned Plato, Cicero, Sene-
ca, Epictetus, Cleanthes and Marcus
Aurelius, and it can be truthfully as
serted that many of the greatest men
of pagan Europe died by their own
hands. In this way Aristotle, Demos
themes, Zeno, Cato, Brutus, Hannibal,
Mark Antony and many others met
their deaths. The popularity of sui
eide must have been due, to certain
extent, to the teaching of the learned
men of the time. Nevertheless, it
would not be correct to class even a
majority of the suicides of this period
among the Greeks and Romans as the
result of any teaching, although many
were undoubtedly due to this cause. 1t
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-12-16

of those persons who wished to die.
Ludicrous as this may appear to us,
it is almost identical with the system
suggested by Sir Thomas More in his
utopia" in 1916. If the applicant sue
ceeded in showing what the tribunal
considered good cause for quitting life,
his prayer was granted, and he de-
stroyed himself under the authority of
the court. In some instances the court
not only sanctioned the suicide, but
supplied the means of self-destruction
in the shape of a decoction of hem
lock. If any one applied for permis-
sion to end his life and was refused,
and in defiance of the decision COM
mitted suicide, his act was illegal. The
Romans in such cases coniscated the
property of the deceased. the Greeks
held his memory as dishonored and
treated his body with indignity.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-12-16
The Kin. of Siam and His Brothers.

The king Of Siam might give lessons
in politeness to some European poten
or parasol in corner of his carriage,
not to hide him from the sun, but from
the gaze of bystanders. Instead of this
he went about unshaded. Do you not
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-12-16
We WILL SLAUGHTER

FINE COATS until they are closed out
IF YOU want coat under these conditions
don't forget to call and we will sell you
regardless of cost...