davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-03-12

OF one thing there can be very little
doubt, and that is the greater readi-
ness in conversation of women than
men. A woman can create conversa-
ton, which is a very useful thing, and
is frequently found a great social diff
ficulty. If we give a mar a subject on
which he knows anything at all, I'M
less he be a fool or morbidly reticent,
he can talk about it so as to make him
self fairly ineligible and perhaps in
teresting to those for whom the sub
ject has any interest at all. Men,
when their feeling of enthusiasm is
excited, throw off the slowness and
their power in society, just as they
throw off the physical infirmity of
suffering under the influence of some
awakening theme or some strong SYM
pathy. But the power of conversation
in some women, and not always those
of remarkable ability, is the very art
of making bricks without straw. They
will talk to one by the hour about
Nottingham is, on no particular sub
ject and with no particular object, and
talk coherently not foolishly and with
al very pleasantly all the time. 1t
would, we are free to confess, be
rather difficult for the listener to carry
away with him any mental notes of
what has been said; he may not be
conscious of having gained any new
ideas or of having had his old ones
much enlarged; but he will rise and
go his way, as n does after a light
and wholesome meal, sensibly cheered
and refreshed, but retaining no trouble
some memories of the ingredients
which have composed it.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-03-12
IN A TYPHOON.
struggles of a Ship Which Made a VERY
Narrow Escape.

The P. and o. steamer kaisar-i-Hind,
carrying the English mail of Sept. II,
was nearly lost in a tyrhoon off the
Paracels on Thursday, the 14th inst,
says a correspondent of the London
Times. Early that morning she en-
countered a strong northeasterly gale,
which rapidly increased to hurricane
force, and lasted throughout the best
part of tw%enty-four hours. During
that time, steaming head to wind, with
her engines head to wind at full strain,
the ship made only thirty-nine miles.
She was often in great danger. Huge
seas swept the quarterback aft, gut
ting the smoking room and the after
deck cabins, and flooding the saloon.
The bridge was wrecked, navigation
and steering having to ba done from
the hurricane deck. All the boats, one
after another, were carried away,
many davits being snapped off like
carrots; and, owing to two of the guys
breaking, the funnel at one time
threatened to fall, swaying from side
to side some two feet out of the per-
pendicular. At the very height of the
storm a huge spanner, weighing three
hundreweight, was torn from it's fas-
Jennings near the funnel and fell crash
ing down through two stout floors of
iron grating into the forepart of the
engine room. By the greatest good
fortune it got caught and jammed Tin
the debris of iron bars which it
brought DOWN just a few feet above,
and Immediately over the steam pipe
where, with splendid promptness on
the part of the chief engineer, it was
secured with ropes. Had it fallen a
few feet further down it must have
cut through the steam pipe. This
would have course meant instant death
to every soul in the engine room and
the certain loss of the ship, rendered
helpless in a truly terrific sea. With
her tottering funnel temporarily Sc
cured and the plunging spanner made
safe, she eventually struggled through,
thanks to the excellence of her engines
and the strength of her steering gear
Had either of these given out nothing
could have saved the Kaisar-i-Hind OIL
any soul on board, seeing that all thu
boats had been washed away. She
reached Hongkong in most dilapidateG
condition early on Sunday morning
the 18th inst, t~hirty-six hours overdue
from Singapore. The Kaisar-i-Hind is
an old ship, but a splendid sea boat
To some extent her sea-going qualitie
helped to save her, but to a far large
extent salvation came from the engin.
room. Her case was very similar t.
that of the Calliope.. The smalles
breakdown in the engines would hav'
meant certain destruction. A flaw il
the shaft, a rotten nut even, the leas
imperfection due to dishonest work
and there would have been another dis
aster to record, a disaster as appallin
as the wreck of the Bokhara, a dis
aster like the loss of the Aden-unlik
these only in that there would hav
been no survivor to tell the tale.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-03-12

which is proving very advanta-
geous to the settlers of North
Alberta, Canada, and is truly a boon to
The farmers, is the establishment oil
creameries by the Government at regu-
lar distances apart. The Government
furnishes the entire plant, puts it in
and operates it without direct cost to
the farmer. From the sale of the but
ter the Government retains 5 cents per
pound, the balance going to the farmer.
This is continued for three years, when
the government turns over the plant
and business to the farmers, CIV
Ing them a clear title of it.
Thus these creameries are put in
at a minimum cost to the farmer
and paid for in a way that he least
feels 1t. When we were there butter
was selling at Fl and % cents per
pound. Cheese factories were being es-
tablished, too, along the railroad and
much of the freight loaded on the cars
on our return trip consisted of butter
and cheese, as it was in the best sea-
son for milk. The produce found a
ready market in the mining and lum-
bering towns and districts beyond the
Rockies, through the British Columbia
country, where it was, we were told,
difficult to supply the demand"
The Klondike is another field now
open to the Western Canadian farmer
for all produce of the farm, and the
officials in the Department of the In
terror, Ottawa, Canada, are kept busy
sending out literature describing this
great agricultural c%ountr.%. The agents
of the Government throughout the
United States are also supplied with
literature. which they distribute free.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-03-12
FADS IN FLOWERS.

Florists shops abroad are much diff
ferent from the ones in this
country. In London, for ex-
ample, funeral freaths n en-
blems are displayed in the windows.
with their prices attached. Some are
attractive, others very hideous. Lichen
is fashionable there for crosses and
wreaths, and from this grisly-gray
background Gala lilies and white roses
peer.
Set pieces, the "gates ajar," broken
columns and floral pillows, are always
painful, for, in the first place, the nat
ural grace and beauty of the flowers Is
destroyed, and in the next there is no
excuse for the emblems. Flowers for
the dead should be scattered in care
less handfuls-then only are they COM
~forters, with their graceful beauty un-
impaired. The modern custom of add
ing to a death notice the words,
Friends will please omit flowers, may
be traced to the reluctance of the sur
vivors to be confronted with those
CHASTITY set pieces which have ragged 50
long.
The best artists have always recog-
nized that flowers should be allowed to
arrange themselves. Basketfuls, arm
fuls or great punches of loose flowers
are j%ustiiable, but crushing their beau
ty into any s~ystematized outline is un-
forgivable. Florists abroad have a
frightful habit of making up" bouton-
niers for mems coats, and these punches
of three or four violets a spray Of fern
and a branch of forget-me-nots are
seen on the lapels of the men who do
not appreciate true fitness. A single
gardenia tuberose or a knot of mig
nonette is better than one of these hor-
rible mixtures.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-03-12
Hints on Mating.

The Scottish Fancier says: "The aim
to be kept steadily in view is the
points an exhibition bird requires to
win. If you have a cock with too much
white, match him to a hen darker than
the color required, or vice versa. In
breeding for color, always select birds
a shade darker than the color you
want to breed, as fowls are inclined to
breed lighter, and you can never get
depth of color unless you breed from
birds very deep in color themselves.
This wouldn't be very good advice for
a Plymouth Rock breeder. A very
good standard rule is-what the male
bird is deficient in, see that he hen
has extra developed. Cocks with
coarse big combs should be mated to
hens with small fine combs, or vice
versa, and so on all through the
points" This is very good advice, but
cocks at all. If they must be used,
then the advice should be followed.
I'm breeding Cochins look more to
sound color and heavy feather than to
size. Here again, breed from birds
rather darker than the exhibition
shade, and avoid all 'mealy' specimens
and those wanting cushion" Not bad
advice especially for breeders of Bluffs,
so far as color is concerned. Still size
ought to be omitted. "In breeding
Dark Brahmas, and you wish good
penciled pullets. select a hen with a
well-penciled breast and throat, and
the color of the breast feathers the
same as those on the back and wing.
Avoid light-breasted hens as the pull
let's from such are generally far too
light in color; but the cockerels from
such a pen are often very good in
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-03-12
Drop Through a Tran

More than one good story is related
OF the late Lord Norbury, and in spite
OF the grimness of the following its
humor is evident. When acting in an
official capacity Lord Norbury inquired
OF a man who had been capitally con-
victed if he knew any reason why SEN
tence of death should not be passed.
The prisoner replied to the effect that
he considered the joke had gone far
enough and that he would prefer to let
the subject drop. THE subject NAV
drop" said his lordship in response.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-03-12
EFFECT OF COLORS.

Green needs sunlight to develop the
yellow in it and makes 1t seem cheer
full.
Red brings out in a room whatever
hint of green turks in the composition
of the other colors employed.
If Olive or red brown be used in
conjunction with mahogany furniture,
the effect is very different from what
it would be if blue were used. Blue
would develop the tawny orange lurk-
ing in the mahogany.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-03-12

That the National Convention did
not name any particular party in its
resolutions this year is not to be con.
strued as Indifference to prohibition
by a party" The National stands just
where 1t has stood for years in rela-
ton to this question. It believes in
prohibition by law, and that this is to
be accomplished by the ballot box. II
does not propose to desert a cause or q
friend. 1t will go with its principles
one mile, or it will go with them twain,
If it can, but it will go no part of a mile
further than its principles go. In other
words, the National has declared it's
principles, and will stand by them
wherever found. Therefore, to be con-
s~istent, it could not name and COM
mend n party embodying a funda-
mental principle and ignore another
having precisely the same principle. as
was contemplated by the resolutions as
first offered. 1t is well to keep in
min that wherever parties have been
named and commended in state or Ma
tional conventions, it has been only Sc
far as they have exemplifed our prin-
ciples and no farther. Sympathy and
aftiliation have never been offered be-
yond this. 1t is more than probable
that had Miss Wizards unique reso-
luton, formulated and passed unani-
mously in her own inner conscious
ness. and SO announced to the Conven-
ton, been presented for a vote, 1t
would have passed.-T1rior Signal
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-03-12

A town in Canada is partially light
ed by gas made from sawdust. The
sawdust is charged in retorts which
are heated by a wood fire, the gas from
the retorts passing into a series of coils
and thence into the purifiers, which are
similar to those used for coal gas.
Lime is the principal purifying agent
employed. The works turn out daily
$40 cubic meters of gas, for the pro-
duction of which about two tons of
sawdust are required. A man and boy
furnish all the labor needed at the
works. The gas in an ordinary burner
gives an illumination of about eight
cen candle-power. The best quality
comes from resinous woods.-Tit-Bits.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-03-12

color. Eens bare OF leg feathers
should be mated with a very heavy
~feathere1 hooked cock. Cocks light in
leg feather generally throw a large
percentage of birds with too little leg
feather.''-Exchange.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-03-12
A Plant That Catches Moths,

A house NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. albeus is
its name-has been found that catches
and firmly holds. until they die, but
terfies, moths, millers, flies and other
insects which alight on the blossoms.
The plant bears b~ell-shaped flowers,
which are covered with a gummy sub
stance, and it is this that catches the
insects.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-03-12
MIXED

The first portable clock was made
in 1880.
A gull can fly at the rate of 100 miles
al hour.
The German government to
try to grow potatoes in Africa.
In only three cases out of ten the
sight is equally good in each eye.
Marseilles has a 107-year-old woman
who still earns her living by keeping
a newspaper kiosk.
The average monthly cost of a pupil
in the Philadelphia SCHOOLS is s2.26, and
elsewhere in the state s1.22.
Christmas The glorious season
when every man gets a divorce from
his coin.
Egotist-A man who talks about
himself when you want to talk about
yourself.
Intuition-What some people claim
to have when they succeed in making
a good guess.
Heathens-A class of people who
never waste their time quarreling
about religion.
Widow-Sometimes a woman who
believes she is an example of the sur
vival of the fttest.-Ch'oae News.
Wearing the Whuo a.,ubop.
A writer in the Union Signal. the or
gan of the w. G. T. u, says: Do our
members wear the white ribbon? WHY
not? 1t speaks volumes! 1 am a very
busy business woman, but l stick to
my bow Of white ribbon, and wherever
I go my little badge of loyalty brings
me many a pleasure. In m work
among business men, often is my rib
bon mentioned. One gentleman said:
II see you wear the white ribbon: /
should like you to go home with me to
dinner, my wife would be pleased to
meet you" Another, pastor of a
church that l attend, said: 81 am
pleased to meet n one associated
with my wife in her work"
Do you not love to meet those wear
ing the badge of your order? Why
should not we be as proud as our order
as the secret societies, the Free Masons
and Odd Fellows, and numerous others.
Is not our society as worthy our loyal
ty? Then let us stick to our badge.
Be sure We have enough white ribbon
to put a knot or every dress and put
side wrap, and let it speak a silent Ian
guage for u grand cause of total alb.
Etinence
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-03-12
Can This be True.

Parson--"What do you gather from
the lesson Of the five wise and the five
foolish virgins?" Student-"That at
least one half the women are foolish"
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-03-12
How They

Together the lovers cast their lot
And were Joined in holy wedlock;
But it was a failure, so they got
A divorce to break the deadlock,
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-03-12
4 Business Germ.

Talker-"I was but a little lad when
I started in business" Walker
That's been the Foundation of many
a business mans success" Talker--
What has?" Walker-"A little adj
Boston Courier.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-03-12
Hose VS.. Hose.

Lady Tin dry-goods store)-"T'd like
to see some hose, please" Clerk ian
ex-hardware man)-"Yes, madam.
With or without handles?"
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-03-12
Desired Results.

she actually flung herself at his
head"
HIN! What did he do?"
HE flung himself at her feet."-
Boston Transcript:
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-03-12

That Seed Distribution.-The gov
eminent seeds. The Rural New Yorker
says: The free seed distribution is as
much of a bugaboo as ever. Secretary
Wilson vas inclined to distribute the
seeds according to the original design,
which was to import and distribute
new, rare and promising s~pecialties.
But the comptroller Of the treasury has
decided that the language of the ap-
preparation as passed by congress is
mandatory, and that the only course
left open to the secretary is to adver-
tise for seeds all put up ready for dis
tribution, and the commonest kind of
seeds at that. He can't ever buy the
seeds and have them put up for dis
tributicn. The whole thing is a farce.
The writer received some of these
seeds the past spring, as he has for
several years, and among them were
varieties grown by market gardeners
for the past forty years. But the sys-
tenn must tickle the farmers, as it must
please the congressman who think
that they can buy the farmers for a
pinch Of cabbage or onion seed.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-03-12

A CORE
s p o II dent
of a Brown
City, Mich
igan, paper
w + ties as
follows:
An in
d u S t r y
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-03-12
CANADIAN ~CREAMERIES,

How They Are Operated and Made to
Paw the Farmer.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-03-12

Red Netting and Peaches-A Chicago
correspondent of the Rural New Yorker
says: To say a basket Of peaches came
from Michigan is equivalent to declar-
ing that it contains a lot of green, I'M
wholesome fruit, topped with a handful
of moderate-siZed peaches and covered
with a bit of red netting to deceive and
defraud nobody but the packer. No
body wants it at any price. The quick
est and most expeditions way of max
ing a basket of peaches unstable to a
Chicago customer Is to cover 1t with
red netting. He knows at a glance just
what it contains, just as well as If he
had ripped the stuff off and poured the
peaches on the table. The commission
man Is lucky if he finds a purchaser at
10 cents per basket for such fruit. Even
retaile2s will not impose on their GUS
toners with such fraudulent packages.
What becomes of 1t? Italian vendors
Of cheap fruit get hold of it and retail
it from push carts in the streets and
suburbs of Chicago. They are about
the only kind of men who can dispose
of il. Reputable grocers and market
men will not touch it, much of it goes
to the garbage pile, condemned by our
health officers.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-03-12

Birthdays were kept even as far back
the time of Pharaoh.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-03-12

The question of keeping many fowls
together is one that has been frequently
considered. 1t has been assumed and
believed that chickens did better in
small fl9cks than in large ones. We
are very uncertain that this Is true,
with the one exception of health. Were
1t not for contagious diseases we be-
lieve that chickens could be made to
do well in large flocks. Unfortunately,
when many hens are together it makes
way for the spread of contagious dis
eases. If one started with clean pens
and bred all of their own stock, using
incubators, and having their flock so
far from neighbors that the disease
germs would not cross the intervening
pens it might be possible to have i'm
mense 1ocks. The more would this be
possible if the fowls had the range of
a whole farm, as they would not in that
case be SC likely to crowd together and
infect n another did a contagious dis
ease appear. But most people that
raise chickens are not situated so that
they can have these conditions. Small
fiocks of not more than fifty should be
the rule. A hundred may possibly be
kept, but it will require great diligence
and w~atchfulness to make that number
a success. When disease breaks out in
a flock, the sick fowls should be killed,
unless it be merely a case of indiges-
ton. Then the other fowls should be
taken from the pens and the latter
cleaned and purified.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-03-12

. ldlu OA III SlSSlS Ut layers
which, on any cross section, appear as
so many c%oncentric rings. Generally
these rings are sufficiently we'll defined
to be readily counted, and, since only
one is formed each growing season,
they furnish a very convenient record
of the particular cross section, and, if
properly chosen, of the age of the tree.
Viewing a cross section of the stem Of
a pine, fir, cedar, etc., these concentric
yearly rings appear as alternate mar
row bands or lines of lighter darker
color, the dark line, or summer WOOD"
occupying the outer portion of any n
ring and being sharply c~ontrasted
against the lightest portion of the in
ner, lighter, or spring wood" part Of
the next ring.
Foreign View of American Agricul-
ture.-The French delegate Monsieur
Zolla, who is investigating American
agriculture, is delighted with the in
telligence of American farmers and the
great variety and abundance of their
farm stock and agricultural products.
He praises our agricultural schools as
superior to those in France. He says:
These schools are numerous and they
are conducted in splendid buildings,
with every convenience; that the ap-
paratus Cor teaching the best methods
of dairy work, of stock feeding, and
Of general farm economy are complete
and admirable. You spend so much
money on these schools. But then you
have it to spend, and we are compare
lively poor. l have received every
where, from your minister of agricul-
lure at Washington, Mr.. Wilson, from
your state officers, and from every
farmer l have met, the most obliging
courtesy. Elk.
Strange Work of Lightning.-The
London Lancet reports the remarkable
case of the killing of Major Jameson
by lightning in a field neal Guildford,
on August %. There was but a sin
gle flash and a clap of thunder. The
victim was found lying on his face,
dead. with his clothing torn to frag-
ments and scattered widely around
lin. Even his undergarments were
rent to ribbons and scattered owe the
ground. The soles of his boots were
stripped off, brass eyelet holes were
torn out. and nails forced from their
places.
Pure Evaporated Fruit.-A. F.
Spawn, who was formerly in Australia,
but has recently located an evaporat-
ing plant in Tacoma, says one of the
things most needful to Americans to.
day is an improved system which shall
| give to consumers a more cleanly and
unadulterated article in the prepared
or manufactured food products. Legis-
lation providing strong penalties for
offenses is required.-Ex.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-02-13
FLORIDA.
A Superior Through Sleeping Car
Line Between St. Louis
and Jacksonville,

Commencing December 26th the Louis
vile Air Line has established the great
Through Sleeping Car Route to Florida.
Through steering cars arranged to leave
ST. Louis 9.15 p. n. daily, passing Louis
Vile 700 a. m. Lexington 1855 a. m,
10:4O p. m. and Jacksonville $40 a. m. (see-
ord morniug). Stop-overs allowed. This
route is through large cities and interes ting
country, and, while a new through sleeping
car route IS over most superior and well
established lines of railway. The schedules
are fast ana most convenient
This line also affords passengers for
Florida trip va Ashev.lle, y. c.. the great
est American au-yca--aTound resort
Correspondence solicited and information
promptly furnished. r. 4. CAMPBELL.
Genl Passenger Agent, ST. Louis. No
This IS also the best line TO points in Ken
lucky, Tennessee, Georgia ard North and
South Carolina.