davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-01-18
First Hint OF Spring Modes.

In spite of the popularity and the
convenience of the odd waist there is
certain inherent elegance found in
the entire costume and we'll dressed
women aim to possess one such at the
least. The model shown in the large
engraving is stylish and simple at the
same time and includes the important
features to lie looked for in simple
spring gowns which fact makes it
eminently desirable both for new
gowns and those that are to be re-
modelled during the long winter days,
All light weight wool stuff and such
silks as taf'eta aud bengaline are both
fashionable and suitable, but the
model is made from Henrietta cloth
in Cuban red, vest with revers of
white satin including polka dots OF
the same deep color, and belt OF
black velvet which adds the final
touch.
The waist. which is full but not
bloused, is tucked diagonally across
tho fronts aud the upper parts OF the
sleeves and is arranged upon htted
lining which closes at the c'ntre
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-01-18
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.

Space has temperature Of 900 de.
grees below zero.
Fish with white flesh are more easily
digested than fish with reddish flesh.
1t has been proved, rs the result of
experiments, that the circulation OF
the blood is affected by music.
A method of producing iodoform by
the aid of electricity has just been
invented, aud is said to yield satisfac-
tory results.
Corundum is composed of tho oxide
of aluminium (Al2 OBJ, but traces ofthe
oxides of other metals are generally
present as coloring materials.
Since the passing of the first vac
cination act in England, in 18i1, the
death rate from smallpox has fallen
from 576 per million TO 20per million.
a French statistician has calculated
that the human eye travels over 2000
yards in reading an ordinary sized
novel. The average human being is
supposed to get through 2500 miles OF
reading in a lifetime.
Electrical horticulture, Professor s.
Lemstrom assures us, is now practi-
cable, although not fully understood.
In his experiments of last year, the
application of the electric current in
creased the yield of seeds Mt least 40
per cent, aud Of roots from % to 75
per cent, the results varying with the
kind of plant and the nature of the
api1
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-01-18
ADMIRAL DEWEY'S FAD.
Tie Is Regarded MS Fashion Plate 70,
the American Navy.

Tie Is Regarded rs IA Fashion Plate for
the American Navy.
If there is any one thing which
pleases Admiral Dewey it is neatness
in dress. He has never been known
to set n bad example in this respect,
and is regarded by his subordinates
as fashion plate for the American
navy. One of the standing orders
following the establishment of routine
duty in the fleet when there were no
more Spanish ships to fight was one
requiring all officers to wear their
white uniforms.
One day Il certain paymnster named
Martin, who is afflicted with an alb
normally bushy growth ofrcd whiskers
and a figure of pronounced retundity,
visited the Olympia on business con
nected with his department. AS the
paymaster mounted the gangwav he
was seen by Admiral Dewey, aud a
frown gathered ON the brow of the
autocrat of the fleet Paymaster
Martin was a sight to provoke laugh
from a ships figurehead. He was ar
rayed in n dun-coored suit of duck, u
loosely woven undervest resembling a
sweater showed beneath his Jacket,
and on his head was one of those
enormous cork helmets with q circum>
ference equal to that of an umbrella.
"Orderly, tell Paymaster Martin I
wish to see him at once, said Admiral
Dewey, and the orderly sought the
paymaster with grin on his face. A
few moments later and the paymaster,
very much pleased with being nc
corded the honor of visiting the quar-
ter-deck, stood before the admiral
and executed one of his very best
salutes.
"Paymaster Martini" said the
admiral in his chilliest tones, 81 think
you are drunk"
81 beg your pardon, ADMIRAL
assure you | am not drunk Pc | am
perfectly sober" stammered the pay
master, staggering under the blow his
complaisance had received.
81 still think you have been drink
ing" continued the little man in spot.
less white, 'for / can't believe you
would come aboard this ship sober
wearing such an outlandish uniform.
Go back to your ship, sir, and dou'i
let me ever see another violation Of
orders like this"
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-01-18

front. At the neck is deep collar
cut with points that rest against the
hair Just back of the ears and serve as
setting for the head and face. The
sleeves are snug and long as are all
those of latest cut, and are finished
with small roll-over cuffs.
The skirt is gored and fits smoothly
about the figure, no fulness being
shown at the waist, but flares stylishly
at the bottom and touches at the
front while it lengthens to form the
slightest OF trains ut the back.
To make this waist for lady Of
medium size two and three-fourth
yards of material forty-four inches
wide will be required
To make the skir. in the medium
size five yards Of material forty-four
inches wide will be required.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-01-18
Advanced Education In india.

A native of Bombay, bearing the
name of Tata, has just devoted large
part of his estate to the promotion of
scientific research. To provisional
committee he has offered landed prop
erty sufficient to yield 162, 900 year,
or the par equivalent in rupees which
have the same local purchasing power.
He means this to form the nucleus of
an endowment of postgraduate uni
versity like the now famous Johns
Hopkins university of Baltimore. Mr..
Tata seeks to realize, or at least to
make notable beginning in realizing
this ideal. Even men like the Ben
gall physicist, Mr.. Bose, have shown
what technical science can make OF
Asiatics trained on right lines. Mr.. Ia
ta's offer is the outcome of careful OBJ
servation aud the consulting of experts
in Great Britain and on the continent
OF Europe. In Lahore, also, the late
Sirdar Dyal Singh has left $400, 900 in
rupees ut par for college. -Brocklyn
Citizen.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-01-18
Tho Fighting MRoris.

Some three hundred Maoris were
shut up in intrenchments at place
called Orakaw. Without food, except
q few raw potatoes, without water,
pounded at by artillery, and under a
hail Of rifle bullets and hand grenades;
unsuccessfully assaulted no less than
five times-th they held out for three
days, completely surrounded. Gen.
eral Cameron humanely sent flag OF
truce, inviting them to surrender hon.
orably. TO this they made the ever
famous reply; Enough We fight
right on, forever |" Then the general
offered to let the women come out,
and the answer was: "The women
will fight as we - At length, on the
afternoon of the third day, the garri-
son in body charged Mt quick march
right through the English lines, fairly
jumping over the heads of the men of
the Fortieth regiment rs they lay be-
hind bank. Half of them fell the
remainder got clear away. The earth
works and the victory remained with
us, bnt the glory was theirs. From
''rhe Long White Cloud." by w. p.
Reeves.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-01-18

The United States has n higher rep
utation for locomotive building than
any other country in the world, and
the Baldwins of Philadelphia, the
Brookses of Providence, the Schenec-
tady Locomotive works, the Richmond
IVA. company and other builders are
now shipping locomotives to nearly
every country on earth. The Chinese
government has recently ordered
eighty-three locomotives from the
Baldwins, who send them also to the
British government roads in Egypt.
The Richmond company has recently
sent shipload of locomotives to Rus
sin, the Schenectady company has
sold great many in Japan, and there
is scarcely a nation where the whistle
of an American locomotive cannot be
heard. Even the emperor of Germany
was hauled by an American locomo-
tive when he went from Jaffa to Jeru-
salem.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-01-18

At recent meeting of the New
England Association OF School Super
intendents n report was presented on
legislative enactments, by commit
tee appointed year ago. This com
mittee consisted of the highest educa-
tional officer in each of the six New
England states, and one purpose in its
creation was to initiate movement
for the extension to the smaller and
feebler towns of the superior facilities
as to education now at the service Of
the children in the cities. On this
point the committee recommends that
the state supplement local effort in
providing such facilities, with due re-
gard, however, to local interest in the
schools, and to local self-reliance in
maintaining and managing them. 9th
er recommendations are that laws for
compulsory school attendance should
be more stringently enforced, that
there should be some minimum stand
ard of professional training for the
teachers, and that school committees
should be required to appoint SUPER
intendents of schools especially trained
and qualified to exercise that direct
educational oversight of the schools
that experience has found to be SO
helpful to efficiency therein, such
small townsas are unable independ-
emily to employ superintendent to be
united into districts for such employ
ment, and to be sufficiently aided by
the state to insure she success OF the
plan.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-01-18

The decline of population is said to
have become almost as serious prob
lem in the Kingdom of Greece rs it is
in the French republic, and the patri-
OTIS are Offering all sorts of schemes
for its solution. The most amusing
of all, says the Westminster Gazette,
is the suggestion of an Athenian jour
nal that the constituencies should re-
fuse to listen to the address of any
candidate for seat in parliament
whatever may be his virtues or what
ever his party-unless he be married
mani This universal demand of mat
rimony as a qualification for legisla-
ton, our Greek contemporary thinks,
would exercise n powerful influence
upon the selfish bachelors of Helas.
What splendid opportunities it would
give for "'heckling," if it were only
partially adopted, we need scarcely to
say.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-01-18

gowns. The sleeves are snug and are
fitted with darts after the latest style
while the wrists are finished with deep
circular frills that fall well over the
haAds. At the neck is deep collar
also furnished with fitted frill that
in turn is edged with the ribbon
which makes becoming as well as
smart trimming for the coat. Being
of heavy cloth no interlining is re-
quired and only satin of the same
shade rs the cloth is used, bu' thinner
materials demand more warmth and
call for wool wadding between the
lining and the outside.
To make this coat for lady Of
medium size four yards OF material
fifty-four inches wide will be required.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-01-18

On European railways the practice
Of issuing free transportation is al
most unknown. In England there is
an interchange Of passes between the
chief officials of the road, but only to
very limited extent. On the conti-
nent of Europe even this practice
does not prevail ard cash payments
are required for all forms OF railway
transportation.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-01-18

A correspondent of the London
Daily News notes the growth of the
use of English ON the continent.
Wherever he went he was able to con-
verse with statesmen and diplomatists
in his native tongue. He found that
as rule the governing classes in Eu-
rope would understand and speak
English. In the Russian royal fami-
ly especially, English is the familiar
language of conversation. The car,
for instance, invariably speaks Eng
lish to the czarina and his little daugh-
ters.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-01-18

the national Characteristic is to DO
maintained, while for use within ones
own room it is perfectly correct to use
the form in conjunction with any ma
terial that gives II satisfactory result.
Tho long, flowing sleeves, the perfect
adaptability to the figure, combined
with the little width mean comfort,
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-01-18
sSS
NEW YORK FASHIONS.
Modes That Are Popular For Coats, Gowns
and Wrappers.

New YoRK CRY (Special). No fea-
ture of the season is more marked,
says May Manton, than the variety
shown in the coats, which are short,
long or of three-quarter length, but
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-01-18

According to the methods of the
present day militarism, it costs the
powers across the water about $780,
900, 200 a year to 'presorye the
peace" of Europe. Peace is good
thing, but it should lie possible one
would think, to find some shorter and
easier road to it than that.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-01-18

Unique Japan, original in art, orig
inal in literature, original in thought,
has conceived cabinet the members
of which are absolutely without party
affiliations. And the world looks on
with amusement tempered by amaze
ment,
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-01-18

Soudan is to have newspaper and
oil modern improvements. The prin-
cipal improvement now in contempla-
tion is the inability to get anything to
drink
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-01-20
CHURCH DIRECTORY.

CT. ROSE OF LIMA-Catholic.
q Services every morning at 1880. First and
third Sundays in each month services at 1880.
Parochial school in connection taught by Sisters
OF st. Francis. Every o0dy invited.
REV. NJ. j. FARRELLY.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-01-20
WHAT We MUST PAY,
Amount of Taxes Assessed Through
out the County.
LARGEST EVER LEVIED.
Interesting Tax Statistics Showing Total
Taxes and Amounts Levied for Each
Of the Larger Funds.


The REVIEW has secured from the
county auditor a statement of the
amount of taxes to be paid this year.
The amount-over $175, .OO-is the
largest ever paid by the people OF the
county. and the amount is increased to
over s2OO,OOO.00 by the mulct taxes COL
lected. The figures given below show
the total amount of taxes paid by each
township, incorporation and independ-
ent school district and also the amount
for each of the larger funds. The sum
paid to the county road fund is not
given, for the reason that it is in each
Instance the same as the county school
fund.
1t will be observed that within the six
miles squares of Denison township the
taxes are $29.449.19, adding the $4SOO
mulct tax, and Denison township, in
Guiding city and independent district,
pays nearly $35, 600, or about one sixth
of the entire taxation of the county
The city of Denison, counting the mulct
tax, pays almost the same amount as
do the four heaviest farming townships
of Iowa, Jackson, Paradise and Milford
Many other interesting comparison:
might be made, and by looking through
the figures the reader will be able t.
make them for himself.
Taxes paid by each Township. IncorpOra
tion or Independent School District.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-01-20
THE REVIEW,

Crawford County's Best County Family newspaper, 8
pages all home print Twice Week, offers a years
subscription value S. to the person guessing the
est to the number of guesses filed in all contests.
guess. ......... JAN. ......... Hour.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-01-20

GERMAN NJ. E. CHURCH.
" Services every Sunday. Sunday School $3.50
to 10 80. Preaching at 1880 a. m. and p. IN.
Class meeting ll:3O, Prayer meetings every
Wednesday evening.
REV. G. CLAussEN, Pastor.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-01-20

GERMAN Observation-Disclosures
" Regular services at 1880 a. m. on Sunday s
Sunday School at . 90 a. m.
REV. F. LOTHRINGER. Pastor
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-01-20
C. SEWERS g. SONS.

MANUFACTURERS & DEALERS IN HARNESS
and horse goods of all descriptions Fur COATS mttens
and gloves trunks and valses harness OIL machine
oils and axle grease offer pair of blankets value a.
to the correct guesses on Jar No. Is.
guess ....... Jan Hour
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-01-20

III ETHoD1sT CHURCH.
III Class meeting at $3.50 a. m. Preaching at
10 &c and 1880. Sunday school at II AS. Junior,
League at 300 p. m. Epworth League al $3.50:
Prayer meeting Thursday evening. Teachers
meeting following prayer meeting.
Rev. e. E. ILGENFRITZ. Pastor.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-01-20

HAwKEYE CAMP NO. rs. wooDMEN OF
THE WORLD. Meets every saturday evening
III O'clock in Laub's Hall. Visiting soveleigns
invited
z. +. WALKER. G C. j.. CAREY, Clerk.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-01-20

sIDoNIA LODGE. NO. 5ss. 1, @. O. F, Ger
ma.9 ,,eets every Friday night, in Laub's Hall
ut 8 O'Clock. Visitors especially Welcomed.
FRED LAUsTN, n. G. PETER KRAuTH, Sec'y
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-02-17
Lat Ia Consider.

The silver dollar used to be worth
more in it's bullion, or commercial
value. than the gold dollar, before tbs
characterization of silver in the year
1873 and would be worth as much
now. had it not been reduced in bull
lion value by such demonstration. It
is. however, still a full legal tender.
the same as gold. for all debts, public
and private, including duties on i'm
ports and internal revenue taxes
made so by the action of congress.
which. under the National Constitu-
ton. has "the power to coin money
and regulate the value thereof" and
though its commercial or bullion value
NAV not be more than half of what 1t
formerly was. it is much more to the
dollar than that of the copper, nickel
and smaller silver coins; and for the
same reasons that apply to them it is
Sound and honest money" and al
ways will be, until its legal tender
quality is taken away by act OF con-
gress. when it will cease to be hon
est money at it's face value, and be
worth as money only its bullion or
commercial value. But it will be a
long lime, as long as the life of the
republic, before the silver coinage Of
the United States will be demonetized,
and debased below its present stand
ard value and ratio of 16 in weight to
/ of gold. and until that is done, the
silver dollars. no matter how many OF
them may be annually coined, or I'M
der what act of congress-whether
from purchased bullion, or by virtue
of free silver coinage law-will al
ways be honest money" and as good
in all sections of the Union as gold
the same as they are now, and all the
power of Wall street can never de-
base them the one-hundredth fraction
of a penny, even though the senseless
gable of "debased, unsound and dis
honest money" should be continued
during the next hundred years.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-02-17

AS the years went on Washington's
lands increased in value, and when he
died, he was one of the richest men of
his time. He owned lands and stock
and negroes, and his estates amounted
to thousands of acres. He had houses
in Alexandria and property in Wash
ington. He had valuable lands near
the present site of Pittsburg. He was
throughout his life a money-maker,
and / was told at Alexandria that
when he was boy he got IS day and
upward for his surveying. He put his
surplus money into lands, and an ad-
vertisement in Baltimore paper of
1913 states that he had 10000 acres of
land for sale on the Ohio river. His
will, which ia now kept about twenty
miles from Washington, in the safe of
the old court house at Fairfax, Va.
gives detailed statement Of every ar
ticle he possessed down to the calves
and sheep. His personal estate was
then put down at $685., 900, and this in
cluded vast amount Of tobacco, large
numbers Of cattle, sheep and horses,
nearly all Of which he willed to his
wife. This will is now kept in a
wooden box, the top Of which is cover
ed with glass.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-02-17
Knocked Washington Down.

Washington was an eminently fair
man. He had a quick temper, but as
rule he kept it under control. Some
times, however, 1t got the best of him.
This was The case once in Alexandria.
One of the county officers told me the
story as we stood on the second floor
OF the market house in Alexandria
and looked down at the open court
within 1t, which is now filled with
hundreds of booths where the farm
ers vring their products for sale on
market days. 1T was on that spot"
said the officer, Washington was
knocked down by Lieut.. Payne. Payne
was candidate for the legislature
against Fairfax of Alexandria. Wash
ington supported Fairfax, and when
he met Payne here, he made a remark
that Payne considered an insult, and
Payne knocked him down. The story
went like lightning through the town
that Col. Washington was killed, and
some of his troops who were stationed
at Alexandria rushed in and would
have made short work of Payne had
Washington not prevented them. He
pointed to his black eye and told them
that this was personal matter and
that he knew how to handle it. Every
one thought that this meant a duel.
The next day Payne got note from
Washington asking him to come to
the hotel. He expected a duel, but
went. Washington, however, was in
an amiable mood. He felt that he had
been in the wrong, and said, Mr..
Payne, 1 was wrong yesterday, but if
you have had sufficient satisfaction,
let us be friends. There was a de-
canter of wine and two glasses on the
table which Washington had ordered
to smooth over the quarrel. The two
drank together and became such
strong friends after that that Payne
was one of the pallbearers at Washing
toms funeral"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-02-17
An Arg ument Punctured.

A favorite gold argument is that
prices have fallen because production
and transportation have been cheap
ened. That is, to great extent, put
ting the effect before the cause. When
there is general fall in the prices of
products, the cost of production and
transportation will also decline as a
necessary result, because the product
in one line of industry becomes an in
strument of production of some others
So the cheapening OF certain products.
as coal and iron, will lower the cost of
transportation. The cheapening Of
production and transportation, so far
as there has been any, has been an eff
feet rather than a cause; or per-
haps it is better expressed by saying
that it is a part of the general fall Of
prices. But the contention fails for
another reason. No matter what new
facilities may have been employed in
production and transportation, there
by tending to lower prices, shutting off
a portion of the money supply would
operate in the same direction and in
crease the fall. II it were true that
better facilities for production had
lowered prices-say. 20 per cent-it
would furnish no sort of an excuse for
demonetizing silver, and thus lower
ing them 20 per cent more.