davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Press., 1897-06-17
CheorfuIness In a Medicine.

Surprising recoveries occasionally happen which can be ascribed to no oth- CT cause than q cheerful state of mind and the heaIthful nervous influence which it diffuses through the frame. A singular but instructive instance fell under the observation of Sir Humphry Davy, when, early in life, he was as sisting Dr. Beddoes in his experiments on the inhalation of nitrous oxide. Dr. Beddoes having inferred that the oxide must be a specific for palsy, a patient was selected for trial and placed under the care of Davy. Before administering the gas Davy inserted small ther- momcter under the tongue of the pa- ticEt to ascertain the temperature.
 The paralytic man, wholly ignorant of the process to which he was to sub init, but deeply impressed by Dr. Bed does with the certainty of its success, no sooner felt the thermometer between his teeth than he concluded the talis- man was in operation, and, ill a burst of enthusiasm, declared that he already experienced The effects of its benign in huence throughout his whole body The opportunity was too tempting to be lost. Davy did nothing more, but desired his patient to return on the following day. The same ceremony was repeated, and tine results followed, and at the end of a fortnight he was dismissed cured, no remedy of any kind except the ther- mometer having been used.-New York Ledger.
The Press., 1897-06-17
WHAT TO EAT.
Some Sensible Suggestions That Should
 Be Posted In Every Household.

Some Sensible Suggestions That Should
 Be Posted In Every Household.
 Aralstonite, writing in that excel- lent gastronomic journal, What to Eat, makes few sensible suggestions in re- gard to the diet that ought to be posted in every household. He says that the healthiest and purest lives come from those who do not eat meat before the age of 15.
 Potatoes, sliced thin and fried, are in- digestible. While tasting delicious, they afford no real nourishment and cause a derangement of the liver.
 Cake clogs the stomach. All rich pastry is poison to the liver. Soft cara mels and creams are also bad for any one with liver at all rebellious.
 When you get old, look out for your food. Do you every notice that grand fathers face is not as jolly as it used to be? His strength of mind also seems slowly disappearing, though he is get ting feshier every day. He needs a change of food. Probably he has been eating buckwheat cakes and sirup, white bread and butter, sugar, fat meats, etc. Give him lean meat and fish, cracked wheat and potatoes, barley cakes, rye bread or southern corn cakes. Try it, and instead of moping and sitting round the house all day you will find him run ming around lively as a cricket.
 Maybe, on the contrary, he is growing thin and pale. Then he needs buck wheat and molasses, fat meats, mashed potatoes in milk, northern corn, cracked wheat and fish, oatmeal porridge and fruits every morning.
 All rules have their exceptions, and the diet described for the mass may not answer for exceptional cases, but the following directions are good for the majority:
 Milk is the simplest and most natural food. If you cannot drink it, your stom- ach is in diseased condition. Cheese is good substitute, if mild, fresh and made from pure milk and cream. Per sons who live mostly on vegetables have the best nerves and the best complex ions. Red pepper is an excellent condi- ment. Its effect upon the liver is re- markable. Malaria, intermittent fever or congcstive chills cannot endure the presence of red pepper. Pure red pepper (known as C;lyenne) should be on every table.
 III health is caused largely by inn proper food or ty food which is in bad condition when it is eaten.
The Press., 1897-06-17
Devonshire Terrace.

Dickens was 27 years old when, in 1889, he moved from Doughty street to Devonshire terrace. George du Maurier lived for some years in Devonshire terrace.
 In this now celebrated house Dickens wrote no fewer than ten of his books: "The Old Curiosity Shop" Barnaby Rudge," "The Christmas Carol, " American Notes, " Martin Chuzzle- wit, <" ''The Haunted Man, "The Bat tie of Life, ''Dombey and Son, " ''The Cricket on the Hearth" and David Copperfield." Devonshire terrace was situated at the corner of the Marylebone road and used to be called the smallest terrace in London.
The Press., 1897-06-17
A ohean Hair Ont.

There is in New York city little German barber shop the proprietor of which has a grievance against the Irish race that will not be wiped out for some time. One evening in his hearty German way he welcomed a customer, burly son of Ireland, with an enor- nous shock of hair, who roughly cried:
 "Oi want hair cut Do yez moind?'
 "Yah, von hair cut init der head?"
 "Yis, that's it, wan hair cut," And with yawn the Celtic gentleman threw himself in the chair.
 While the barber was preparing his scissors the Irishman nodded a few times and in short while had appar- ently dropped into a doze. The barber went industriously to work, and the locks fell with every clip of the scissors. Meanwhile the Irishman slept on. At last the hair was cut and brushed, and the barber exclaimed:
 "Ach, dat is goot. You looks joost like von gentleman.
 With a start the man of Ireland awoke and gave a glance in the mirror.
 "Say, Germany, did Oi ask yez to cut my hairf"
 "Yah, dots vot do.
 "What's that? Did Oi say Oi wanted my hair cut? Did OiP"
 "Yah, yahl Dots right.
 With a rush the Irishman grabbed him by the collar.
 Look here, Germany. Oi said Oi wanted q hair cut. That's one hair-do yez hear?-the long wan that was hang in in front. For what do yez want to be cuttin all of thim? Oi'll have the law on yez at once fer that" And with a wrathful countenance he slapped on his hat and left the place before the as- tonished barber could recover from his fright.
 When the rollicking Irish wit turned the corner, he was heard to remark, Faith, that's a chape way to git a hair cut. "-Harper' Round Table.
The Press., 1897-06-17
Accounted For.

Mabel-What an interesting talker MT. Gusher isl He always holds one when he speaks.
 Mrs. Gusher-Does hep That &C., counts for tbe hair found on his shoul- der last night -Straud Magazine.
 GREAT TRIUMPH.-Instant relief and a permanent cure by the great remedy, Otto's Cure for Lung and throat diseases. Why will you irTitate your throat and lungs with hacking cough when E. K. Taft, Stafford Springs, w. P. Fuller, Somers, Odell < Jones, Staffordville, sole agents, will furnish you free sample bottle of this guaranteed remedy? Its success is simply wonderful, as your druggist will tell you. Sample free, Large bottles 60c and 25c.
The Press., 1897-06-17
Deafness Cannot be Cured

by local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure Deafness, and that is by constitu- tional remedies. Deafness is caused by an in- paineo t . rS oI InS mucous nnlng o1 the you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing and when 1t is entirely closed Deafness is the re- suit, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condi- tion. hearing will be destroyed forever nine cases out Of ten are caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condition Of the mucous surfaces
 We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free.
 F.J. CHENEY & CO.,, Toledo, O. ew Sold by Druggists, 7Bc.
The Press., 1897-06-17

A. H. Patter, with E. C. Atkins & Co.,, Indianapolis, Ind. writes II have never before given testimonial in my life. But will say that for three years we have never been without Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera and Diarrh9a Remedy in the house, and my wife would as soon think of being without flour as a bottle of this Remedy in the summer season. We have used it with all three of our children and it has never fail to cwre-not simply stop pain, but cure absolutely. It is all right, and anyone who tries it will find it so." For sale by w. w. Lathrop, Stafford Springs; G. l.. Phillips, South Coventry.
The Press., 1897-06-17
Embarrassed.

First Chorus GirI--I do feel so queer in these sh,Tt skirtsl
 Second Chorus Girl-I know. Wc all feel that way at the start, Lut i. Cu Mi get used to it.
 First Chorus Girl-Maybe I will. You know, it is the first timo ever ..II peared in such Q rig. have been dong living pictures all season. .-Intliaaai otis Journal
The Press., 1897-06-17
Origin of the Sidesaddle,

The use of the side saddle for women riders is traced to tho time of Anne of Bohemia, eldest daughter of the enper- or of Germany, who married Richard II of England. Previous to this date all English women bestrode their horses in manly fashion, but on account of de- formity this German bride was forced to use 8 side saddle, and the custom be- came general. Pittsburg Dispatch.
The Press., 1897-06-17

Tho estimates of the yield of the po- tato crop ill Great Britain show that on 633, 900 acres crop of 8,053, 0O5 tons was secured, against an almost exactly similar quantity produced on a much larger acreaSc-753, 900 acres-in Ire- land - --
The Press., 1897-06-17

Ask your Grocer to-day to show you package of GRAIN-O, the new food drink that takes the place Of coffee. The children may drink it with out injury as well as the adult. All who try 1t, like it. GRAIN-O has that rich seal brown Of Mocha or Java, but it is made from pure grains and the most delicate stomach receives it with out distress A the price of coffee. 15c. and 26 cts. per package. Sold by all grecers.
The Press., 1897-06-17

"There's no use in talking" says w. H. Broadwell. druggist. La Cygne. Kas. Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera and Diar- rh9a Remedy does the work. After taking medicines of my own pr Teparation and those of others, l took a dose of Chamberlain's and it helped me ; a sec- ond dose cured me. Candidly and con- scientiously I can recommend it as the best thing on the market. The 25 and 50 cent sizes for sale by w. w. La throp, Stafford Springs; G. l.. Philips, South Coventry.
The Press., 1897-06-17
Save Money.
 Make HOmG Attractive
OUR FINE POST

CAMPBELL'S VARNISH STAINS make Old Furniture look like new, and trans form it into beautiful limitations of choice woods finished with varniSh. Anybody can apply them. These are the original and only perfect Var nish Stains ever produced. If you cannot find them in your vicinity, write Carpenter-Morton Co.,, Boston, Mass, Manufacturers.
The Press., 1897-06-17

Careful measurements prove that the average curvature of tho earth is 6.99 inches to the statute mile.
The Press., 1897-06-17
What He Asked For,

A tramp tumbled out of a store, stood on his ear a moment and then col lapsed in a heap.
 ''HelloW cried q bystander. What's the matter?"
 Excuse me, pard," said the va grant. "I just went in there and asked that feller to help me out '--PhiIadel- phia Record
The Press., 1897-06-17

Although there are nearly 6,O00, ,0OO total abstainers in Great Britain and Ire land, the consumption of spirituous liq- uors last year amounted to e149, 972, ,23O- an increase of e6, 300, 900 over 1895.
The Press., 1897-06-17

Sealskins are originally of light drab color, but as found in the market are all ways dyed.
The Press., 1897-06-17

1t is now proposed that instead of vaccinating persons bitten, as in the Pasteur method, dogs should be inocu- lated with the virus of rabies, in the hope that they may thereby be made proof against the usual effects of the bite of a mad dog, just as human sub- jeots are vaccinated to make them proof against the ravages of smallpox. The result of researches on this matter un- dertaken by an eminent Frenchman will be awaited with interest. =.
 MT. Isaac Horner, proprietor of the Burton House, Burton, w. ", and one state was cured of rheumatism after three, years of suffering. He says: "I have not sufficient command of language to convey any idea of what suffered, my physicians told me that nothing could be done for me and my friends were fully convinced that nothing but death would relieve me of my suffering. In June, 1894, MT. Evens, then salesman for the Wheeling Drug Co.,, recommended me Chamber lain's Pain Balm. At this time my foot and limb were swollen 10 more than double their normal size and it seemed to me my leg would burst. hut soon after 1 began using the Pain Balm the swelling began to decrease, tho pain to leave, and now consider that 1 am entirely cured. For sale by w. w. Lathrop, Stafford Springs c. l.. Phillips, South Coventry.
 The army expense per h',ad of the pop ulatiop is $475 in Francs and $3.50 in Germany.
 Hundreds of thousands hay" been iI- duced to try Chamherlain's 's Cough Remedy by reading what it has done for others, and having tested it's merits for themselves are to-day it's warmest friends. For sale by W. w. Lathrop, Stafford Springs; G. l.. Phillips, South Coventry.
The Press., 1897-06-17
A drop of creosote will stop the bleed. ing of cut.

Some for ten, some for twenty and some for thirty years have suffered from piles and then have been quickly and per mdnently cured by using De Wits Witch Hazel Salve, the great remedy for piles and all forms of skin diseases. w. D. Heald's Drug store.
The Press., 1897-06-17
Try Grain-Oi Try Grain-Oi

Salt thrown on soot which has fallen on the carpet will prevent stain.
The Press., 1897-06-17

Sick headache can be quickly and com pletely overcome by using those famous little pills known as De Witt's Little Early Risers. w. D. Heald's Drug store
The Press., 1897-06-17

They are dandies," said Thos. Bow CTS, of the Crockett, Texas. Enterprise, while writing about De Witt's Little Early Risers, the famous little pills for sick headache and disorders of the stom- ach and liver. w. D. Heald's Drug store.
The Press., 1897-06-17

Don't neglect a cough because the weather is pleasant; before the next storm rolls around it may develop into serious difficulty beyond repair. One Minute Cough Cure is easy to take and will do what its name implies. w. ID. Heald's Drug store.
The Press., 1897-06-17

TERRIBLE AOOIDENT-It is a terrible accident to be burned or scalded but the pain and agony and the frightful disigure- ments can be quickly overcome without leaving scar by using De Witts Witch Hazel Salve. w. D. Heald's Drug store.
The Press., 1897-06-17

The army expense per h,ad of the pop ulatiop is $4.75 in Franco and $3.50 in Germany.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-10-28

right and a poor man depending on
renting a farm in the east at cash rent
could do better here, FOR his rent money
would soon buy a farm oil his own.
WHAT Dakota needs is good prices for
her produce and one eau live here as we'd
as in the east. This IS my opinion after
travelling through the Dakotas this sum
mer. don't see that people dress any
poorer or drive poorer teams or ride ia
poorer conyeyanees. All vary according
to taste and purse.
had the pleasure Of seeing IA caravan
OF Indians enroute to their aunuel camp
meeting at the Rosebud agency. They
won't trade horses when they are going
TO meeting, thinking that will ROB them
them OF a good meeting. They were to
have a lads missionary with them.
going to see one OF the little pap
doses but be vas SO heightened I gave it
up. Perhaps some Of your relders do
uot know that FOR every bushel oi wheat
these Indians raise THE government pays
them ST. They all drove good hor
with line carriages the men wore
!othing like white men except that the
noccasins were not given up, aud the
women all wore smbomets or fancy
iandkerchieis on rheir heads
Mrs. Geo, Miller.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-10-28

Of silver viii raise all prices and
yet make nothing dearer. This
shadow can no longer deceive.
The farmer has dollar wheat III
gold. Why shouldhc fool with dol
lar wheat in soc silver? Mr.. Bryan
is uuwise; he talks too much. His
best course is silently to wait in
the privacy to which ms fellow
citizens have consigned him for the
chances Of another panic. For him
there Is no place in the sun Of
prosperity. IL has risen with heal
Ing N its wings. The mists Of err
ror haye disappeared. Those BIRDS
Of ill-omen, the domagogue, the
agltator and the anarchist, who
haunt every land n hours Of de
preston hara disappeared for their
works love da Aness rather than
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-10-28
From South Dakota.

THE following interesting correspon-
drnce from Condo appeared recently in
the Howard County 0a.) Times and
goes TO show the impressions of Soutl
Dakota made on a visitor from Iowa.
We are having delightful weather here
and farmers are getting along finely with
their threshing. Wheat is yielding from
10 to i2h aud as high as IL bushels to
the acre around Condo, thirty miles
southwest not so good, 6 to 8 and a few
are all generally going into stock. and
the grass is always good, dry or green.
Their stock all looks well. Farmers tell
me they can make o money here with
ten bushels oil wheat per acre than they
can in the east with twenty bushels per
acre, for they don't have to build fences
or pillow as deep. Some do not plow
every year but use "A press drill, and
have the best crop, at that, as the
ground does not dry out so easily. Far
mer women do not cook for twenty-four
men to run a steam thresher, I'd the
threshers take a cook car and board
their own crews. The owner of the ma
chine does all this and gets five and six
cents for t.reshing wheat.
III the Dakota farmers could always
get as good prices for their grain as they
are nov getting, Dakota would be all
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-10-28
How Would You Like 1t

Just think this over aud see how il
hts, says an exchange. Suppose that a
raises 1000 bushels OF wheat a
year, aud also sells this to 1000 persons
u all parts OF the country, a great num-
Der OF them saying, II will hand YOU a
in a short time" The farmer
Toes not want to be small aud says, "all
Soon the 1000 bushels are
rome and he has nothing to show for it,
md he then realizes that he has fooled
way his whole crop and its va lue is due
y a 1000 little driblets. Su ~bsequently,
he IS very seriously embarrassed in bust
because his debtors, each owing
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-10-28

Wheat has gone up, silver has fall
en-. Mr., Bryan has to shift to the
assertion that while wheat may All
vance alone under "a special cause,
"A general advance III prices can
only come through the free coin
age of silver.
Here, again, prosperity is too
potent for Mr.. Bryan. All other
prices, even in the brief time
since Mr.. Bryan wrote, are daily
advancing, too. They are all ris-
ing from the very causes to which
the Republican party confidently
appealed, a tariff to stimulate in.
dustry at home, and & sound cur
rency tC stimulate confidence both
at home and abroad. Prices could
not rise, Mr.. Bryan asserted, and
still rashly asserts, unless silver
was remonetIzed.
A year has passed. The argu.
meGts of the last campaign have
been ground through the memorable
mill of fact. Ii grinds slowly, hut
it grinds exceeding small. What
is left of Mr.. Bryan's argument
nothing. The plea based on wheat
aud silver has gone utterly. With
every week of rising prices the ar
guments based on other low prices
vanish like the dlssolving fabric OF
u dream. MIR. Bryan's fling over
the Indian famine as a primal
cause is nonsense, because the cur.
rent crop Is not harvested until
March aud April, and the
failure to which Mr. Bryan alludes
raised the price of wheat while he
was talking cheap wheat to west
ern farmers a year ago. Nor Is 1t
Europe alone that has advanced
wheat. Thanks to MIR. Bryan's de-
feat, our own consumption has
risen 70, 200, 900 to $4,000, 900
bushels u year, and this has swept
the vast reserves which once
weighed down wheat quotations.
This demand remains, however
Europe may want more wheat or
less.
OF this increased and increasing
demand AT nome Mr.. Bryan says
nothing. No man likes to read the
date OH the tombstone OF his hopes.
The prosperity of his native coun-
try is the death of his political am
hilton. Vanquished 10y facts he
has no resource but the continued
bald assertion that the free coinage
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-10-28
Bryan VS.. Prosperity.

Facts and the demagogues do i'll
agree. The issue Of a year ago was
whether low prices were caused by
the legislation which demonetized
and could be cured by the
artificial remedy Of remonetizlng
Or whether low prices were
ine to natural causes and could
oniy be removed by the increased
temand which prosperity produced
honesty aud confidence could
alone firing. No can't from Mr..
now about the Law Of sup
'ly and demand eau alter this is
When wheat aud silver
seemed linked tagetber it WAS pos
lole 70 utgc that rengnetizing SAL
'or would restore wheat prices.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-10-28
Hear We Hear We I

will sell at public auction at my farm
eight miles southwest OF Webster, Mon
day, Nov. 1, at ten o'clock a. m, all
my stock of cows, cattle, horses, colts,
household goods and farm machinery.
Charles Binder.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-10-28
Warrant Call.

Notice is hereby given that all war.
rants OF Webster Independent school
district No. 10l up to and Including
No. 402 are called for payment and in
terest ceases from this date.
October %, 1897. L. X. Foster,
School Treasurer.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-10-28
G535G7a7e7eVa aVs3a5a7C5 eTaTGgaTG5 e5agagagGga@aglgS

him IA dollar, treat it as a small matter
and think it would not help much. Con
tlnue this business year in and year out,
as the publisher OF IA newspaper does,
how long would he stand it
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-10-28
Teachers Examination.

An examination for teachers will be
held in the court house ut Webster on
Friday and Saturday, November 3 aud
g, 1887.
Nina ii. Aasved,
Co. Supt
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-10-28
'Ng |IAS 'v g.A1VH !G2 glA I'T !AgIy7 III ,W 2''a ;,

light, and today all is light. Light
Of forge and furnace, light of open
factory and widening store, light
over every farm aud in the deep
enIpg mine, light on millions 90
ing TO their labor with Joy and re-
turning IN happiness and cheer
with a full wage in their hands,
and in this light, which bathes all
the land and gilds its every scene,
how poor, how pitiful "a figure is
this prophet Of calamity and priest
Of disaster, William Jennings
Bryan, c~roaking that all this pros
perity IS a myth, the by product
of death, dearth, and depression
Philadelphia Press.