davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
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,cretaceous. On top of these are piled
the tertiary and q~uaternary ages and
their deposits Some scientific men put
these animals back into antiquity 3,000,-
900 years, but Prof. Riggs is too modest
or too cautious to venture personal opin-
ion for publication. To a 1ay1alan -vhe
saysi IF you are told the dinosaur is
a creature of at least 100000 years ago
1t doesn't add anything to your coneep-
ton to add another million years or
two
But the professor doesn't hesitate, to
make positive statements as to many of
the conditions surrounding the dinosaur.
It is reasonably certain, for example,
that he lived before the ~convElsive for
ces of nature heaved the Rocky noun
tains from the bosom of mother earth.
1t is known that that region, much of
it now a thirsty, subarid land, once had
great rivers, broad lakes and wide
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NO MILLIONAIRES.

In some respects New Zealand is the
most advanced of any British colony.
It's climate is absolutely perfect, it's
population hardy and devoted to the
land of their adoption, and it's resources
are most fruitful and already highly de-
veloped. The working man is supreme
there, and it is the boast of the islands
they do not contain a millionaire! To
New Zealand belongs the credit of hav-
ing established franchise for it's women
and pensions for it's old people, and il
has shown a general capacity for man
aging it's own affairs far in advance OF
any community of it's age. The Maoris
are decreasing in numbers, and although
they have made an effort to adopt ciyil-
%iZation, it is not suited to their tens
acknowledgement (Eng.) Chronicle.
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from a ledge near the foot Of q neigh
boring hill or butte. The hunters began
at once to quarry, as Prof. Riggs eX-
presses 1t, in the hope of finding a prize.
One of the first bones ounte was
a mighty rib. They happened to strike
1t near the middle and dug both ways.
Day after day went by without reaching
either end, and the increasing enthu-
siasm n wonder of the eager search
ers may be imagined. When the rib was
finally uncovered from end to end it
was measured with an almost breath
less interest. When found to be nine
feet five inches long and eight inches
wide, Prof. Riggs realized he had made
a great discovery. He and his associ-
ates felt we'll repaid for their long and
Wearisome toll amid sandstorms and in
a temperature. marking 40 degrees
above zero. Passersby carried the news
to town, and thereafter there were fire.
duent visitors days. in which tho
townspeople came out in large parties
to see 'the snake" as they termed it.
Prof. Riggs kept on with the laborious
digging until he recovered all tina was
left of the skeleton. One of the most
valuable pieces found was a thigh bone
six feet ten inches long. The next larg-
est thigh bone known to scientific men
is that. of a dinosaur in the collection
of the Peabody museum at Yale. 1t is
stated to be six feet two inches long,
and Prof. Marsh estimated that the liv-
ing animal, which he called "atlanto-
saurus,' was at least seventy feet long
and weighed twenty tons or more. 1t is
by comparison with the figures of
Marsh, who was an authority on the
saurlans of the mezozic age for thirty
years., hat the Chicago professor ascer-
tains he has the bones of the largest
animal ever known to man.
Prof. Riggs ana MS assistants struck
the backbone near the pelvis, and as
these fossils were revealed in all their
magnitude, the joy of the hunters was
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u~nbounded They found seven dorsal
vertebrae, which the layman would call
joints or sections of the backbone. There
We're also seven ribs. two bony joints of
the tail, Il large part of the pelvis and
another leg bone. The seven dorsal
verteDrae make up about twelve feet OF
tn big dinosaurs spinal column, and the
tail bones about two feet. The disc-like
part of the dorsal Nertebrae is fifteen
inches in diameter. Measured between
extreme points, the spinal column has q
breadth of nearly four feet, which
makes a pretty stiff backbone. Like the
alligator, the dinoJaur has a tail long
drawn out and a neck also exceedingly
elongated.
Prof. Riggs thinks this dinosaur was
n of the species that Alarsh named
"b~rontosaurus," or at least is closely
allied to that type. Marsh found an al
mos" complete skeleton near Lake
Como, Wyoming, and by comparison
with other remains he has been able
to restore it entire, SO there is no doubt
as to the bony frame of this species
of the saurians.
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More than any one in the world. So
that there is nothing that I would not
do for you, if you wanted it. There is
nobody like you, and there never has
been. We were all dead until you
came. I love You, Sonia"
NO she said, you must not love me.
One day you will marry Lucie."
mo, no."
Yes, you will; l am going away soon.
and 1 shall not come back to England
any more"
err,
Don't you like me at all?"
Il shall not tell you"
He pleaded vainly. Not for days
would she let him be with her alone
again. When she did, she said: TELL
me once more how much you like me-"
And when at the last he was saying
goodbye to her asked him it again. But
this time she said: TELL me again how
much you love me-" And in return?
He was not to write letters to her, and
he was not to kiss her handwriting,
in fact, in return.
So she went back to the haunted cas-.
tie. having acquired in England a air
knowledge of the nature of a cempro-
mise, the affection of two elderly people,
the love of a boy, and the hatred of q
girl.-F'rom Black and White.
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acter. She heard the two letters read.
she saw the photograph. She laid very
little, lbut Sonia presented herself to
Aunt Adelaide's mind as a distinct OBJ
portunity for doing good.
Ihe boy Norton also said very little,
He still held in his hand the copy of
sonia,s photograph which had been
handed round. He stared at it with big
eyes. What would she think of him?
She looked rich and opulent in the pho
tograph. He wished his clothes were not
so shabby, and wondered whether she
would despise him. Lucie Sarrant looked
over NOrton's shoulder, and was angry
at his absorption.
1T is a very beautiful face said the
rector frankly.
Beauty is not everything" Adelaide
replied. Her thin lips We're pressed to-
gether. She saw evil in the face, evil
that might be corrected by judicious and
aunt-like counsels. There was no in
stance of remarkable personal beauty in
the village until Sonia came.
She came-a red Pagan into gray
Christianity. Her hair was dark brown;
her eyes were wonderful, with long
lashes; the laughter on her red lips
~contradicted the pattos of her eyes.
$4,000 1850 S0N AaIlC l1Oll liz
highest civilization. and most Of her con-
v%ictions were frankly barbarian. She
was a paradox from the land of para
doxes-the land where they still travel
by coach and yet order their horses for
the next stage by telephone.
On the evening of her arrival aunt
Adelaide, who had been ~singularly silent
during dinner, commenced her Ell ening
game of patience. She liked a game of
patience. but her conscience forbade her
to use the deadly playing cards. She
had constructed a pack herself, in which
circles, sem-circles, squares, We're clubs,
hearts and diamonds; the king. queen
and knave were represented by the
numbers thirteen, twelve. eleven; the
word ACE vas not used, it was called
"one." Aun Adelaide spoke of them not
as playing cards, bu as patience tick
cts. And having thus with success ex-
tracted the sin from the apparatus of the
came she could with a clear conscience
ENJOY the game itself.
Sonia picked up the cards, laughing.
Nov I shall tell your fortune, if I may
II think, Sonia" said Adelaide. that
well. really, should I not be able to
trust you better if you, first of all told
me my past?" She had meant to be
much more ungracious than this-Sonia
were aid out for the game-but it was
not easy to be ungracious with Sonia.
"Ah, yes! that is true. See, l tell your
past" She shuff1ed the cards, still
laughing feverishly from time to time.
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she could help it.

h could help it.
Ihen one morning after breakfast
Sonia said: Norton, / want you to take
me through the pine woods on the hill
there" Adelaide glanced at her brother.
but he did not catch her eye. Lucie
rose and went from the room, Norton
drew a long breath. Ii neither his ia
Their nor his aunt prohibited that walk,
the gates of heaven We're e There
was no prohibition.
Thank you, Sonia" said Norton.
AS they walked through the pine wood
alone, Sonia asked him a hundred ques-
tons about his life. What had he de-
before she cameo
Nothing" ne said. She spoke of Lu-
Gle. praising her. Then for a while
they walked on in silence. She sat
down on a bank to rest; and as he
stood before her their eyes met.
D you know that 1 like you very
much?' he said suddenly.
YES she said, II knew that" She
laughed, and then: "Why have you told
me?'
Il cannot help it. I meant to tell YOU
when you asked me to come out this
morning. I would have told you before
If 1 could. Are you angry?'
II am very glad. How much do you
like me?"
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HERE'S THE LARGEST AND ANIMAL HAT EVER LIVED

Chicago possesses the bones of the
largest land animal that ever lived, so
far as man knows. Prof. T.. S. Riggs,
of Field Columbian museum, uneafthed.
the remain of a mighty dinosaur in
western Colorado and has just LANDED
them in the laboratory at Jackson park.
He estimates the length of the living
animal at approximately IS feet ED \ts
height at 20 feet. 1t is supposed ITO
have weighed between twenty and
twenty-five tons and to have lived at
least 1000, 900 years ago. It's foot prob
ably had a spread of a square yard or
more. Prof. Riggs. has been a success
full hunter of fossil remains for seven
years, and his latest discovery will give
him lasting fame in the scientific world.
He was assisted by II. W.. Menke, an
other attache of the Field museum.
The dinosauria flourished during the
ages known in geology as jurassic and
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marshes. These waters were DOrdered
by thick growths of canes, ferns, palms,
palmettos and other semi-tropical
growths as far north as wyoming. Ian
and water teemed with animal life in
many strange forms. Rivers and lakes
We're full of fishes, whose fossil remains
have come down to this day as mute
testimony to their former life. ALI
gators. and turtles like those of today
We're the companions of the ~herbivorous
dinosaurs along the reedy edges of the
marshes. Over the forests inc plains
roamed gigantic fiesh-eaters, and
most of them now extinct.
Still later, if the scientists have not
made mistakes in reading the signs Of
the ages, much of the Rocky ounta
region was submerged by a prehistoric
sea, for after the reptilian era of the
mesozoic con come geological formal
lions filled with the fossils Of marine
life. Colorado and the surrounding tef-
litory We're under the sea for centuries,
but at last the continent began to slow
ly heave up its backbone. The process
was so gradual that if men We're living
On the shores of the sea they would
have noticed no more change than an
inhabitant of New Jersey a now de-
tect on the Atlantic coast. The noun
tains grew steadily, the waters fled, and
the land became barren and parched.
But water has laid science under a bur-
den of gratitude, for the swift-running
rivers carried mineral substances which
impregnated the bones of animals
caught in their swirl and preserved them
for millions of years for the e%dification
of modern man.
Tho 1innco = n two ~ ~,,.o ,-1o
In a section now mountainous and arid.
for their remains have been found in
man. sections. The late Prof. o. c.
Marsh, of Yale college. unearthed the
bones of several hundred in Wyoming,
Colorado and South Dakota. In spite
Of the great size attained by some OF
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them, the dinOsauria are classed as rep
tiles. The 75-foot mammoth found by
Prof. Riggs has a skeleton which sug-
gestS an enormous crocodile. Other di-
nosauria had some resemblance to the
kangaroo, walking or leaping IN their
hind feet, and Prof. Riggs also secured
a la:Ge part of the skeleton of an ami
ma of this type. Some of the dinosau-
ria had skeletons SO closely resembling
those of birds that only an expert can
distinguish them. Nor were all these
animals of great size, for there We're
species no larger han rabbits, and dur
ing; the latter part of their era they
became much specialized.
Prof. Riggs had spent several seasons
III Wyoming AMI brD lS..t back r.nry
Interesting fossils. He learned by cor-
respondence Of the finding, of frdg!nn.-
'tary bones in western Colorado and-de-
cided to shift his search to that field
this year. He smilingly evades ques-
tions as to the exact locality, for he
wishes to revisit it next season. Messrs.
Riggs and Menke and an assistant spent
three months in quarrying the remains
Of three dinosaurs. You may call Prof.
Riggs a hunter of big game, if you
Wish, but his game once located, he has
to dig 1t out with pick and shovel from
beneath layers of sandstone and other
imprisoning strata. He might also be
called a miner, for he has to roam
over the fossiliferous country prospect
ing for signs. Having found a few
scattered bones upon the surface of the
ground, like the miner who has discov-
cred a little placer gold, he must follow
the signs to locate the mother deposit,
which is generally buried under sane
and rock.
The Riggs party was ten miles from
a town when its scent was %sharpened
by finding several fossilized bones, the
drift from a coveted treasure. After
some further search for the skeleton, a
leg bone was discovered protrudinc
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tried very hard. And in the meantime
Sonia influenced her. She also infu-
enced the rector and his ward Lucie.
And the boy Norman went head over
ears in love.
She had brought from her home a pile
of luggage, a heap of money, an excel
lent English maid and her own atmos-
pierre. She drove the rectory people into
that atmosphere and made them live in
it.
The boy Norman could not often find
her alone. He was full of. dumb elo-
quence and comprehended desires, very
restless, and sometimes unintentionally
amusing. Lucie S%arrant, as she watched
!, Norton and Sonia, felt daily more MUIR
derous, yet by the time that the week
was at an end the boy and Sonia had
never been alone together, never said
one word which had not been overheard.
AT the end of the week they would not
let her go. Though she was irregular
at family prayers, never attending
church in the morning, did--and made
them do-a hundred new things of which
they had never thought before. they
would not let her go. Ever Lucie-fa-
talist at fourteen said: please stay
longer, Sonia" 1t would he the end OF
everything; but Luci would not let
Sonia see that she was afraid of her-if
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The red-roofed village lay low down
In the hollow. It's g%rey-blue smoke rose
against the green and brown of the hills.
The green was laced with silver threads
when the sunlight caught the streams.
It was a remote place, where people
lived very slowly. Sonia came there
from Livonia, England, from the ro-
mantle to the. commonplace, from the
haunted castle to the country rectory.
The rector was the Rev. William Han
nell, a widower, precise, dogmatic, and
kindly. His sister kept house for him
Adelaide, unmarried, more precise, more
doslnatic, and less kindly. His son. Nor
TON, a youth in his seventeenth year,
lived at home. He had been educated at
home, and possessed most of the many
disadvantages to be derived from such
education. Yet nature had made him
though he did not know tia youth who
looked well and carried himself well.
With them lived Lucie Sarrant, a school
girl of fourteen, the ~rector's ward. Her
hair was pale gold; and she had no re-
marakable beauty, and she was at once
meek and passionate.
re them entered Sonia, and remained
for one month. She went away laughing.
Yet she still writes to her godfather,
the rector. She writes less often to Miss
Adelaide Hannell. She never
the letters that Norton writes to her. but
she refers to him in her letters to his
father. There is never a word about Lu-
Gle Sarrant.
The broken thread of their normal life
hash the case, of the old people at any
rate, been Joined again. For them life
goes on as before, though they recall
things. SOM said" Sonia did,
DO you remember how she looked when
- Thes are common phrases with
them.
They had never asked Sonia to come.
They were hospitable, but they We're
also humble, and they had no initiative.
sonia wrote and told her godfather she
was coming to England, and would stay
with them for a week if it was mot dis
pleasing Sonia's mother also wrote,
alphabetically. Sonia was anxious to see
England, and the Rev. William Hanne
was so very kind and had always taken
such an interest in his g~oddaughter,
whom he had never seen. BY the way,
she enclosed Sonia's last photograph.
Aunt Adelaide cut the pages of her
Edna Lyall novel with an olive-wood pa
,per-knife on which the word Gethse-
name had been painted in Hebrew Char
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L NEWS U

Curious developments are taking place
in Italian journalism. The financial
syndicate which, under the political
auspices of Signor Giolitti, recently
bought La Tribuna, the largest Italian
paper, has now bought IL Giorno, which
after La Tribuna, is the most important
newspaper of the capital. Signor Clio.
litti already had control Of the largest
newspaper in Turin, La Stampa. Other
newspapers are more or less affiliated
to the syndicate. There is a rumor tina
the greater part of the funds are sup-
piled by the Credit Triple Alliance in
favor of France. The rumor has been
widely discussed and in some quarters
is taken seriously.-Paris Messenger.
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Norton watched her openly with very
serious eyes,; Lucie Sarrant took a book
rather ostentatiOusly and began to read.
Sonit had talked with her mother
about Miss Adelaide Hannell. Also as
she talked she watched Miss Adelaide
Hannell's face and read the significance
of every shade of expression. She told
Adelaide many things that Adelaide be-
lieved that nobody knew but herself.
She did more-she brought Adelaide into
the romantic atmosphere enlarged the
mean fact that she had once Tilted a
curate into a beautiful story of a noble
passion. She introduced Adelaide to
herself in a new roseate and romantic
light. And the plain, middle-aged lady
was tiuttering and flattered.
You have certainly made some good
guesses, Sonia" said Adelaide. How
prettily. she thought, the name Sonia
sounded.
"Guesses? Why, it was all true. And
now 1 will tell your future, and tha also
shall be quite true"
mo, no; 1 am afraid of you. You are
a WITCH"
You may tell mine," said Lucie Sar-
rant, suddenly looking up from the
book"
Sonia laughed again. II need no
cards. I read it in your eyes, Mademois-
ellie Lucie:
Les youX verts
Won't 80.
How does that go on"
I do not know" said Lucie. cold1y. IT
am not French and 10 not understand it.
I told you that at dinner"
"Ah, I forgot! I do not know why I
have thought that o We're French. You
pardon me-"
Suddenly she went to the windows and
a summer might've must all come out
into the garden"
They went out meekly. even gladly.
Miss Adelaide Hannel forgot to mention
hat the night air was dangerous and
came, too. In the garden Sonia told
ghost stories. She had seen the ghost
herself in the haunte castle. Her
mother had seen it also. 1t was the
ghost of a baron who had shot himself,
and all for love. When Sonia saw him
it was at dawn. He stood at the foot of
her bed and bowed low; she could hear
the click of his heels as they came to-
gether. Thinking hat he must be real
she called out-and at the u of her
voice he vanished.
'How old is she?" Adelaide asked the
rector afterwards.
Sixteen, 1 believe"
"And SO much confidence and self-pos-
session. Chatters French like English.
1 hope I may be able to influence her"
But she hever was able; she never
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RELICS OF THE PAST.

At the coming session of the South
Dakota legislature a bill will be in>
troduced setting aside a sum for thu
collection of documents. relics. etc, bear.
ing on the early history of the territory
now embraced by that state and for the
furnishing of suitable quarters for pres
serving the same. The first legislature
of Dakota territory, which met in 1852.
incorporated a historical society, which
included among it's members many
prominent pioneers.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-06-13
AMERICAN CONSUL SCARED.

WASHINGTON, June 1.-THE fol-
lowing dispatch was received at the
State Department to-day:
CHIN KIANG, June u.
Secretary of State:
Large numbers natives organized
secret society, halted here. People
very apprehensiye. No protection.
want cruiser.
(Signed.) MARTIN"
Martin. who signed the above dis
patch, is the United States consul at
Chin Kiang. His telegram is the first
news received here to indicate the
spread Of the boxer agitation in that
section Of China. Chin Kiang is one
OF the most important treaty
ports in China. 1t is locat-
ed on the Yang Use Kiang
a little over one hundred miles above
the point where the Wo Sung enters.
and about one hundred and twenty five
miles from Shanghai
There is an intimation at the State
department that the consul at Chin
hiang has exaggerated the danger and
in the absence of more serious devel-
opments no ship will be sent TO Chin
Kiang.