davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1900-07-14

would be like reviewin poem. though.
Jest to go back and lay under the willows
at home Shady? Well. l guess. And
cool? There amt cooler place anywhere
in the heat o summer than the bank O.
that old troutin' stream was-no sir. And
you could hear the stiddy song o. the water
it never stopped-and smell the pine nee
dies he't up with the sun in the middle o.
the day. Smell good. did it? / get to han
KERN after that smell hot days behind my
counter. among the stockins. Yes, Sir.
when the good Lord gives me whole week
of I'm goin' home to go troutin' with my
brother Sim
He woke out of his day dream a minute
later, in time to see Peggy skimming over
the beach toward one of the looming hotels
In the background of the sea. She had for
gotten all about her dip in the surf. She
came back again. by and by with the paper
bag of lunch. and they ate 1t together in the
lee of the big boulder. Daddy was very gay
and scarcely noticed Peggy's preoccupation
She said goodbye to him in midafternoon
ard he waited alone for train time.
Ma" Peggy said. coming upon her sud
denly. with her novel. on the broad hotel
veranda, Ma. it's played out I'm going
up home. I'm going tonight-this very to-
Light that ever is. / guess daddy'n be glad
to see me. and I've got enough of this
the girls. and I'm too old to dig in the sand
with the babies. That's what I'd like-to
have little red pail and a shovel and Zig.
That's living. But as long I can't, !
SCeSS "a 81 Iioiie- III SoiiS upstairs now
end pack up
Ma folded down the corner of a leaf to
keep her place. She was used to Peggy 8
whims and was unastonished.
But. Peggy. It's only half through the
month-there's two whole weeks left" she
said. slowly. In her heart. ma was relieved
Peggys ways were apt to be disconcerting,
and she would be safe and well with pa.
Shed be company for him. too-poor pa.
Without any objection Peggy was allowed
to put her things together and go. When
the train was well under way she went
ahead to daddy's car to surprise him. He
was sitting by himself In the front of the
Evening star., 1900-07-14

In the intervals Of trade-and the inter
>als came often and fingered, when the
thermometer registered 90 degrees-the
Jerks at Bruce's drifted together in sparse
-roups to talk. 1t was all there was 10
10 The notion counter eibowed the stock
-ng counter. and Old Adam-everybody al
:ruce's called him Old Adam-converseo
=ociably with Gregory Knox They were
he Oldest clerks in the store and were get
ing gray in the service
MY, hot, amt II? Stockin's amt runnin
real spry today?'' Old Adam said. with
heerful laugh. He leaned over the eoun-
ar and famed his round. red face with
notion palm leaf
# town and poor folks can go barefoot
his weather What's the matter with you.
I'D man? You don't look peart."
II guess 1 look as pearts l feel" Greg
Dry Knox answered.
You're played out, sonny. What you
needs a week or two Of You tackle the
.aOss tonight and see what you can do
A smile curved the other mans lips 1t
would have been a bitter smile if there had
:een time enough before the patient lines
--ettled back into place The whole palhd,
.eary face was patient.
I've been gettin my courage screwed
oh. I'll tackle him; but what's the use?
He shrugged his spare shoulders under
the rusty seersucker coat.
You goin' to try 1t. ADAM
Me- Oh, I'm all right l get aboard
my wheel at closeup. and skite out into
he country a ways Nothin' like it-not in
his world That's all the country 1 need.
Get wheel, man, get a wheeli''
Again the bitter smile that lost itself in
natience. Gregory Knox was thinking OF
he wheel he was trying to get for Peggy.
Both the other girls had them He had one
# his whimsical fancies that perhaps his
chance might come when he got to the
streets of gold
The slow afternoon crawled toward close
up Instantly at the stroke of the clerks
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equestrian statue OF George Washington
decorates the United States government
building, and there also is A Phimister
Proctor's 'Quadriga.'' The Pilgrim of Au-
gustus St. Gaudens stands in a command
ing position near the entrance to the Pal
acc Of Retrospective Art
There Is enough real art at the Paris ex-
position amply to repay one for all the
time and trouble necessarily Involved In
searching Ii out. but If all the really nots-
worthy productions only could be separated
from the vast sea of medincrity In which
they are mostly submerged most superb
collection might be formed.
CHARLES NJ KURTZ.
Evening star., 1900-07-14
TO INDIA BY RAIL.
Only Five Hundred and Eichty-Fiye
Miles of Road Now Lacking.


| From the London Mall
| All that is wanted is an agreement be-
tween Britain and Russia as to Afghanis-
| tan.
Already the enterprising Muscovite has
extended the scope of the Transcasp.an
| railway to such a degree that Russian
cars are actually running well inside AZ
! CHAN territory. Kushk, an Afghan frontier
| town, is practically in Russian hands. and
a light raj way is already under construc-
| ton to the famous Herat.
| That is the situation Afghanistan's
northern frontier On the south British
India is apparently not less active. The
| Beloochistan railway system terminating
at Gulistan karez, on the Afghan border,
is to be extended, and already work is be-
ing pushed forward in order to connect
kandahar with the Indian railroad system.
In central Asia Russia is actively engaged
| in surveying and constructing. When this
is completed all that viii remain in order to
make 1t possible to train from Calais to
Bombay will be to link up the chain be-
| tween Herat and Kandahar-an insignif-
cant distance of 5S5 English miles.
The link being made and the Central
Asian railway finished. London to Bonn
bay will mean that the only chance for
seasickness will be on the twenty-one-mile
strip of channel between Dover and Calais
Although the distances are nearly SIM
liar, the comparison between the sea and
land journeys is in favor Of the latter. BY
the STRAITS OF ana the SueZ canal
the distance is 65oo miles. and the time
occupied by the fastest Peninsu'ar and
Oriental steamer Is twenty-one days.
By the land route, allowing the average
approximate speed to be twenty-five miles
an hour by the express trains, the Journey
would occupy eleven days, four hours over
distance approximately estimated at 6.To0
English miles. But twenty-five miles an
hour is low estimate. This speed is on the
average considerably exceeded, even on
Asiatic railways. and. OF course. doubled on
European lines.
Two changes of cars would be necessary
on the journey from Calais-at the frontier
on entering Russia and at the Indian from
tier. This would be occasioned by the fact
that the Russian lines have a gauge nearly
a foot wider than the rest Of European rail-
ways.
But such a route would have its disad-
vantages. The huge steamship companies
which trade with India would be seriously
affected. Suez canal shares would go down
with a slump. Itay would suffer consider
ably by the depreciation of the Brindlsi
mail route.
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The Sleeping Sentinel.
Mary L. G. Robinson, In Life.

One day she laid aside the little cap
That framed 80 fttingly her pensive face
And with purple ribbon caught the lace
That, like a soft caress, eptwined throat
Round birds that pours forth loves glad note;
I, Then as she songht her Image IN the glass,
And heard-Or seemed to hear-a gentle rap:
Tap, tap-tap tap-Sweetheart. art thou within -
Swiftly she caught the ribbon from the lace
And fixed the little cap again In place,
BlushinE from brow demure to dimpled chin
20 thou who knockest at my widowed hesrt~
She called, thou canst not enter in. DepertT'
And when the knocking sounded before
"Begoue." she cried. Bereavement guards the
Her hand upon her heart. with dropping head.
She listened, I'LL she seemed to hear the tread
OF fast receding footsteps ecboing far;
Then, Love-" she called her voice almost q song,
II bid thee 60 today-but stay not long!"
H1 trembling ts0cA AaA found ths door ajaei
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Poor womani She works hard ell day,
and then she's up nearly all night with the
babies"
whats the matter with her husbanda
Why doesn't he help herr"
'Oh! he puts In all his time agttating for
an eight-hour day for the workingman."-
Catholic Standard.
Employer-"Was much feeling shown at
your grandmothers funeral?"
Bookkeeper-"Yes; they mobbed the um.
pire."-fiarper's Bazaar.
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The Maiden's Wish.

From the Philadelphia Press.
I'm going to hug you,' he cried. Fore
warned is forearmed, you know"
"Four-armed% she murmured blushine
vividly; would that You had been fore
WarnedI"
Evening star., 1900-07-14

The sculpture exhibits are placed In the
great court of the Grand Palace and in ap-
propriate positions in the grounds outside
The French exhibit naturally is the largest
and contains $40 works. Next in order are
Russia. with 1877: Italy. with 81; Germany,
Y; the United States. 20: Great Britain, g.;
Spain. 81; Hungary. 50: Austria As; Bel
gium and Switzerland. each 81; Greece, 26:
Denmark, "a, and so on.
The United States exhibit Of sculpture Is
especially well placed. Many of the prin-
cipal works are arranged in a large half
circle Immediately under the great dome of
the Art Palace, and others are disposed
in excellent positions in the grounds. I'M
der the dome are the large equestrian
statue Of General Sherman, by Augustus
st. Gaudens; the enormous groups Of spir-
ited horses, the Shakespeare, the Sir Henry
vane. the Venus and Adonis and the Bac-
chante, by MacMonnies, and the bronze
fountain by Karl Bitter. Daniel c. Trench's
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might serve instead OF three. and to use
the statistics obtained as a basis upon
which TO bring about several much needed
household reforms. A young ma
Martha Van Rensselaer,. is now studying
such statistical work in Cornell UNIVERSE
" and she viii arrange the plans for the
work that is TO be undertaken.
The scheme Itself originated with the
College OF Agriculture at Cornell. There
this question has been discussed In all
its bearing upon the household and sew
eral reforms We're suggested that might
prove somewhat revolutionary. from a
domestic point of view, IL there were any
figures on hand upon which the compu-
tations might be based. Lacking such
statistics. however. it was thought advis-
able to obtain them before publishing the
reforms to the world.
For instance. it has been found that
the average woman might save herself
a tramp of many miles during the work
OF preparing the thousand or more meals
that must be mad ready for a hungry
family IN the course OF a year II she only
knew how TO so TO work TO do IL, and az
soon as IT can be Hscertained just how
many steps that average woman win
Ike during that prescribed time the coll
lege will endeavor 20 show her how sha
can save herself and make her work
easier.
IL 1t is actually a fact that this effort
is being made seriously and that It is In
n 10 discover real facts and not To
iaunt idle theories that. although all
right theoretically are not practicable.
the women Of the world VIII rise up 10
bless the Agricultural College. II the
maxim about woman's work IS an old
one. II is nevertheless just as true to-day
as ever It was and anything that will
have a tendency to tighten the labor OF
woman will be a henen to humanity. a
benefit Of such magnitude that IL will be
impossible TO overcstimatc It's good ef-
feet.
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WHIST.
NEW CONVENTIONS AND THEIR
PALACES - SOMETHING O
\ MINISTER'S TO THINK OVER.
a CANADIAN CHAL-
LENGE TROPHY
DEAL.

One of the most trying things in
whist is the fact that under the pre-
text of advancing and developing the
lme new conventions are being con-
nifty sprung upon the un~suspecting.
1.-THE large progressive games where
uosone has time to ask any questions
and, where but few deals are played
agaipst the same adversary, the new
WRINKLES may work very well, mt at
close1quarters in a contest of twenty
tour or more deals, where it is the
courtesy to exchange systems, and
players are required to answer all
questions put to them frankly and
fully, most of the recent innovations
have only to be understood to meet
with ready defeat. Too many conven-
tions make the openings so very re-
stricted that it is almost impossible
TO play some hands without deceiving
the partner or running the risk of
losing tricks. The New York team is
restricted in leading the queen. as
that card must always show three
honors, or two and the ten. They are
not allowed to lead the jack without
the ten, or the ten without the n inc.
They also lead intermediate cards
with a single honor in weak suits, and
are compelled to discard always from
weakness. In the current number of
Whist there is an interesting article
on some of the customs that prevail
IN this immediate vicinity, which it
would be well for all players to read
fer their own protection. 1t fol-
lows:
The day of private conventions is
not past by any means, and will no
be so long as we have teachers among
us who teach a lot of private snaps
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or short cuts to success Two prom
inent teachers have been advising the
use of the rotary discard, and every
little while a new convention is en-
countered evidently from the same
source.
LAS an instance, there are those in
Brooklyn who quietly use what is now
known as the optional trump CALL
1t is claimed to be a great trick-win-
ner when the adyersaries do not know
it. 1t consists in playing a higher
card before a lower, not to call for
trumps, but to show that the player
has exactly four trumps. But if a
call is afterward made in another suit
it means Partner, l want trumps bad
ly; lead them at all hazards 1t re-
qulres two suits TO be led and called
in TO indicate to your partner that
you want trumps. Nothing is said
about the advantage to the adversar-
les in showing first four trumps, be-
cause the adversaries do not usually
know what it means. Shades of Cav
endish,' look down upon us.
Another neat little device which is
generally kept secret is to lead a card
below the five of a suit to show two
honors and a higher card than a five
to show only one honor. Then there
is a set of players who have been
taught just the reverse of that-to
lead a card above a five to show two
honors in the suit, etc. 1t is a very
common thing in the metropolitan dis
trict at present TO see players cali in
a plain suit TO show exactly four
trumps. Then there are those who
cali on the adversaries' suits 10 show
only two and only call for trumps on
their partners leads. When will the
w~hist-playing public learn to appre-
ciate the fact that all those devices
are trick-losing n e when the adver-
saries fully understand them, and that
their use otherwise is unfair and cal
culated TO injure the game-New York
Evening Post.
A CANADIAN CHALLENGE
DEAL.
Diamonds trumps. S. leads.
The underlined card wins the trick
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GENERAL WESLEY MERRITT.

ippines, and as military governor.
General Merritt left San Francisco June
80, 1898, and on July % he was welcomed
by the gun of Dewey's fleet in Cavite
Bay.
At once assuming command of the mill
itary operations, in cooperation with Adj
miral Dewey, he and his brave soldiers
two weeks later won the victory of Aug
ust 10, 1898, by which Manila fell before
the onslaught of American arms. The in
surgent chief had requested an interview
for that day, but General Merritt declined
it on the plea of a previous engagement,
and he never saw Aguinaldo.
The victorious general did not wait to
garner the fruits of his labor, but sailed
away from Manila on the Goth of August,
after but little more than a month in the
Philippines, to meet the Sp~anish-Ameri-
can peace commissioners at Paris.
The real motive. however. which gave
an impulse to his hasty departure seems
to have again been a previous engage
ment,' for in London on the Path o. Oc-
tober, he was married to Miss Laura viii
liams, a beautiful young lady of Chicago,
"a years his junior. With her General Mer-
rift returned to New York in December.
This last adventure of the grizzled hero
of many wars, who in seven months, be-
tween June and December, girdled the
globe, conducted a military expedition to
the Philippines. guided our soldiers to
victory, acted as adviser TO an august as
semblage of notables and carried a bride
back to his native land. is considered
without a parallel in recent history.
That Major General Merritt has been
one of the fortunate ones all must ad-
nit, but that he has deserved well of his
country nobody can deny, and 1t is oubt-
less the universal wish that he may live
long to enjoy the hard earned honors Of
a noble life and in dignihed retirement
reap the reward that a grateful nation
bestows upon it's soldiers.
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scarce and dear. Having a hankering
for something better than the farm af-
forded, he worked awhile on a news
paper, and at 16 became a cadet at
West Point academy. This determined
his career and gave to the country the
soldier who at rs was a captain and
had received six breyets for bravery.
Just before the battle of Gettysburg
Merritt was made one of that quar-
tette OF "boy brlgadiers" which includ-
go Mackenzie, Upton and Custer. He
is the only survivor.
Graduated from West Point at the
right time to take part in the most
stirring scenes of the civil war and al
most always in the saddle, he escaped
his numerous battles without a dis
abling wound. Among his numerous
narrow escapes from death perhaps the
most notable was at the fight of Bey-
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erly Ford, in 1868, when he got a saber
cut over the head in a hand to hand
encounter with a Confederate officer.
Coming out of the war, the young
general, after being personally com
mended by Grant and Stanton, was ap-
pointed to the command of the military
division of the southwest and subse-
quently to the gulf. Afterward, in the
west, he became known as an intrepid
Indian fighter and led several expedi-
tons into hostile country, the most ia
nous of which was a forced march to
relieve a band of soldiers hemmed in
by Utes in 1879. The redskins had
caught the white men in a trap, had
killed half their number, had killed or
wounded every officer and then had sat
down like a band of coyotes, to await
their death by starvation or surrender.
A single soldier escaped through the
living Gordon and took the news to
Merritt, 200 miles away. Without los
ing an hour, he set his command on
the march and arrived just in time to
disperse the Indians and effect a res
cue.
The following year Merritt was sent TO
command at Fort Laramie, and in 1852,
owing to his superior knowledge as a tao
tician, he was placed at the head of the
military academy at West Point, where
he remained five years. In 1887 he was
promoted to the rank of ~brigadier general
in the regular army, and in April, 1895,
was made a major general, ranking sec
ond to Genera Miles. In 1897 he was APP
pointed to the department of the East,
with headquarters at Governors Island,
New York, whence, in May, 1898. he was
ordered to Manila In command of the
military expedition for reducing the Phil
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LeeEnaeId pattern. may Be said 70 have
taken It's own picture. for the stalking
Of the wire and the resulting photographs
were instantaneous and simultaneous. yet
produced automatically. Not only was
the death dealing missile accurately de-
plcted. but also the air waves compressed
IN front Of 81 and the resultant vacuum
wave In its rear. Altogether. it was the
most suecesefus observation u the ktn4
ever lad
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'at sight" y see).
A pound NV homemade butter, n some
thyme m celery, too,
CIT y got to kin tn flavor in thet ounce
NV Irish stew.
Y place it on tn '~lectric range, inside a
silver pail.
Drop in a terrapin r two, a partridge m
a quail;
Then favor it with cel'ry salt m an epi-
cures boQuet.
n it's ready FIR the table when it's sim
mered half a day.
Y serve it in a golden dish, eff one is
kickin' round
N garnish it with lotus buds-they add a
charm p~erfound-
N workin' men sh'd thank Their stars
tibet this here book wuz writ
On household economics, fer the case it's
made TO fit.
Truth.
There is a diversity OF opinion re-
garding drinking at meals. Some ply
sicians assert that the practice is in
furious, as it dilutes the gastric juice.
Others again claim that a glassful of
pure drinking water taken during the
process of mastication is healthful. On
n point, however, all authorities
agree, that ice water is injurious. The
theory advocated by the best physicians
nowadays, is to drink often and much
between meals. 1t cleanses the sys-
TEN, increases circulation and helps 10
make a clear complexion.
a golf breakfast is an entirely new
idea and one that could be inaugurated
here, since our people are the happy
rossessors of two beautiful golf links.
Small tables should be set out on the
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\. n S, 5; E. and w, 5.
The above was the play of a deal in
a match between Hamilton and Toron-
to (Victoria) for Canadian challenge
trophy, and though possibly something
might have been saved, most of the
disaster results from the opening at
Table 2.
AT Table 1, trick 7, it seems to me.
S. might reasonably fnesse the ]. s.,
hoping w. would then make @. b. and
clear hearts for S.
Yours, etc,
GEO. C. BIGGAR.
From Whist.
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THE RETIREMENT Of MAJOR
GENERAL WESLEY MERRITT.

Major General Wesley Merritt, who
is to be retired from active army life
on the 10th of this month, is a living
illustration of what can be accomplish
ed by one possessed of grit and ambi-
tion.
Born in a modest house at 81 North
Moore street, New York, June 16. 1896.
end brought up on a farm in Illinois.
ne Was early instructed in the school of
adversely. Corn was Is cents a bushel
when young Merritt took his fathers
produce to market; ~luxuries were
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Whatever may be the outcome OF the
latest wars 20 either nation taking part
fl them. there Will De an undoubted ben
eft To military science as the result Of
observations in the field OF the various
projectlies now 81 Use.
One Of the most interesting expert
menfs ever witnessed was that Of taking
a photograph Of a beiles IN it's flight Dy
the electric spark produced ~ striking
a wire. This bullet. which was OF tbs
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THE PooR MANS rRIEyD.

THE POOR MANS FRIEND.
NY wife, she bought a cooki book the
tells folks how to save
IN remnants Nv a simple ~meal-here's
one receipt it gave
I'm dish IS called The Poor Mans
Friend" which intimates that it
Is people short on money tn receipt had
oughter HIT.
TIL meat fr tn foundation-jest a scanty
ounce'n do
Thet does III job IN incest Is tn kind
from Irish stew.
IN these small remnants tibet tn poor
man allus throws away,
Ills VIE Kin use CT corner stones fr
countless wealth some day.
Then take some fine sorfnx chickens
this receiptn call fr three.
On hich eny poor mans larder ku suppl
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AN ArRIcAN MrslcIAN.

West Africa has not given many great
musical composers to the world A dusky
skinned musician from that part OF the
world. however, has just been astound-
ing London with his musical genius. This
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THE HOUSEHOLD

"MARTHA'S- INTERESTING TALK.
DRINKING BENEFICIAL-AN IDEAL
GOLF b A h S IA MENU
WHICH WILL PROVOKE SMILES
IF NOT HEARTY APPETITES.
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What are pauses?" the teacher ask
ed the first class in grammar.
Things that grow on cats and dogs
answered the smallest girl.-Detroit
Free Press.