davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-07-28

In speaking of the outlook for the
season President Ebbetts, of Brooklyn,
takes rather an optimistic view. Said
he the other day:
Il have always been a strong advo-
cate of an eight-club league, simply
because | know it is the proper cir
cult for the league. Beside, it will
mean good base ball for Brooklyn for
many years to come. We will have
seventy games at home this year in
stead of seventy-seven, as last year,
but the games this year will be more
interesting and attractive.
We have thirty games with New
York, Boston and Philadelphia against
thirty-ive last year with the same
clubs and Baltimore and Washington.
We have also forty games with Pitts
burg, Cincinnati, st. Louis and Chi
cago against forty-two with the same
four and Cleveland and Louisville.
Take the eastern and western series
of 1900 in comparison with those of
1899 and you can readily see that the
1900 schedule, although with less
games, will be far more interesting
and attractive to the public.
"Pittsburg will play Sunday ball
away from home this year, as will
also Brooklyn and New York. This
will increase the number of Sunday
games in the west; in fact, every Sun
day will see at least two games, eX-
cept when the western teams are play
ing in the east. There will be no
double-headers except toward the
close of the season, when the clubs are
playing their final series"
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-07-28

Dryest Spot on Earth.

The reputation of being the dryest
spot on earth is claimed by Payta, in
Peru, a place about five degrees south
OF the equator. In February there was
a fall of rain of more than "a hours,
the first for eight years. The aver
age interval between two showers is
seven years. Sea fogs are OF
about nine species of plants noticed
by a recent visitor seven were annu-
ais, and their seeds must have remain
ed dormant in the ground for eight
years. In spite of the lack of rain the
long-rooted Peruvian cotton is grown
in the dried up. river bed. furnishing
crops that yield subsistence tt the ma
tives.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-07-28
Fans, Favorite Reporter.

Among the writer's of the latter day
school, who have taken up base ball
as a speciality, non has made a hap
pier hit with Fandom than j. Ed.
Grillo, the sporting editor of the Gin
cinnati Commercial Tribune. Mr..
Grillo was born at Cologne, Germany
in 1872, but he spent all but the earli-
est years of his life in the United
States. He became a fan" long be-
fore he had any idea of taking up the
pen of a sporting critic. All his news
paper experience is embraced in the
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-07-28

have an effect on his WORK one way
or the other. He may favor the club
which has opposed him just to show
that he is all right, as he may figure it,
and, on the other hand, he may favor
the team that is opposing this certain
club. The magnates should have moth
ing to do with the selecting of the I'M
pires. That should be the duty of an
entirely different power"
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-07-28
Has Five Knighthnnds.

Sir George White, who has been
made a G. c. V. O., has now no fewer
than five knighthoods. He is Sir
George White, G. G. B., K. c. B., G. C.
s. l., G. c. l. E., G. c. v. o. Only two
other British subjects, not of the blood
royal, have five knighthoods. They are
the marquis Of Dufferin and Lord Rob-
erts, and they have but four each,
without their K. P.s. Among COM
moners, who cannot be X. P.s, Sir
George White stands alone. Indeed,
he is the only with more
than three knighthoods.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-07-28

A boys magazine had offered an an
agram for competition among it's read
ers; the sentence to be transposed ran
as follows: "Kruger's added policy of
ACKNOWLEDGMENT will puzzle a sphinx"
Tommy tried combination after COM
bination, but always failed to utilize
all the letters. At last a brilliant
thought struck him, enabling him to
dispose of any superluous letters,
Here is the solution: With a gurgling
cry of 'Akzzzxa! Miss Nellie Pullen
dropped dead" The editor awarded
Tommy an extra prize for his ingenu-
ity, remarking that, if the young lady
spoke only English, her death must
have been most painful."-Stray Sto-
ries.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-07-28
Hitting the Ball Regularly.

If Flick keeps up his present great
stickwork he, and not Delahanty or
Lajoie, will hereafter rank as the
''slugger" of the National League. AL
ready the pitchers dread him as much
as any batsman they have to face. At
the march base ball meeting in New
York Patsy Donovan, formerly of
P1ttsburg and now of St. Louis, said
to Horace Fogel: "Flick is the pref
test hitter in the business. Mark what
| tell you, that youngster will rank as
one of the best hitters, if not the great
est batsman in the country this year"
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-07-28
Improved Cycle Cab.

All the bicycles hitherto In use are
adapted to carry only one person, or
are so arranged that when two or
more are carried each rider must aid
in the propulsion of the machine.
James c. Anderson, a Chicago inven-
tor, has turned his attention to the
designing Of a vehicle which is adapted
to carry two persons through the
physical exertions of only one. The
inventor states that the machine will
be found useful in cities and towns
for the purpose of conveying a pas
senger comfortably and economically
to any locality expeditiously. The per-
SON who propels the machine also has
full control Of the steering, which is
accomplished by turning the front
wheel exactly as though it were the
forward wheel of an ordinary bicycle.
and the driver is also expected to
maintain he cab in an upright posi-
lion when at rest, in order that the
passenger may seat himself or a1ight
in perfect safety. The vehicle is COM
posed of two frames, which are hinged
to each other, with the handle bars
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-07-28

one time each town along the banks
had a section to look after. The peo-
pie of Greenville proved callously care
less. They allowed the strong current
to eat deep into the bank without re-
placing the soil. The result was that
one April night the river came down
in flood. tore a yawning gap in the
worn levee, and swept Greenville and
most of its people from the face of the
earth. Johnstown, the Pennsylvania
town wiped out by the bursting of the
Conemaugh dam on May d, 1885,
owed this shocking disaster and the
loss of 5000 lives directly to the in
credible carelessness of it's authorities,
who were warned the dam was inse-
cure, but refused to move in the mat
ter
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-07-28
LOVES c OA.p o.
A Girl Imprisoned by Her Father an,
Kept from Marrying.

a UIrl imprisoned by Her Fatker and
Kept from Marrying.
Like medieval days is the SEQUEL to
the sensational threats made by the
father of Mary McAllister aud Joseph
Berry against the life of W. C. Nc
Namara when he went to the Meal
lister home at Sioux Falls, Iowa, to
marry Mary as reparation for the scan
dial in which she figured. The father
has spirited her away it is believed, to
a convent. In habeas corpus proceed
ings begun by Mcnamara to force the
McAllisters to produce their daughter,
Joseph Berry, a rival for the wealthy
girl, reluctantly testified that she was
imprisoned in her home two weeks
ago, and that she has not been per-
mitted to see or receive letters from
any one. She is 26 years of age, but
her parents have forcibly restrained
her from marrying the man of her
choice.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-07-28
SCIENTIFIC TOPICS.
CURRENT NOTES OF DISCOVERY
AND INVENTION.
A Scientific Discussion of the Indians
Art In Respect to Charming ~serpents
DiscoYeries.
Snake Charming in India.

With a musical instrument made of
reeds or bamboo the Hindu, or native
OF India. manages OF soothe the evil
spirit of the deadly Indian serpents,
playing a peculiar droning melody
that, according to it's quickness or
slowness, causes the snake to raise its
body and sway it's head about in time
with the music, or to lie quietly with
dull eyes watching the immovable
musician. Gradually the player may
draw the poisonous cobra de capello to
his side without danger so long as the
music lasts; but many snake charm
ers, either through carelessness o + ia
tigue, have Jagged with the music and
have been struck and fatally poisoned
by the fierce snake. Many are the
stories told of the powers of these
snake charmers, however. A General
Campbell of the British Indian service
tells how a big cobra was found at the
bottom of a we'll heal his headquar-
tiers. The soldier hurried to get his
gun and a crowd of natives remained
~ thC AalCo ndh VIII otohCo
In this way they drove it into an
opening in the brickwork of the well.
Two snake charmers were sent for.
They were let down into the we'll by
means of ropes, and one of them be-
gan to play a shrill and monotonous
tune on a sort of bagpipe. His COM
panion stood On the other side of the
hole where the snake was hidden, and
held a long pole with a slip moose at
tache to its end ready to moose the
snake as soon as it's head should ap-
pear. For a time the snake appeared
unconscious of the seductive music, but
in about half an hour, during which
the playing had been constant, the CO.
bra was heard to move, and soon out
slowly came its ugly head. In an in
and the snake was a dangling prisoner.
After being hoisted from the well the
snake charmers carried their prize to
an open place and released it. The
ugly snake made a rush at the by
ISLANDERS and sent them scattering.
IL piping CHdIIl6E now Idppeu liz
snake IN the tail, causing it to turn
angrily, but hearing the subtle music
the cobra coiled up and lifted it's head
In the striking position. But it did
not strike. The head swayed a little
from side to side, and not till the
music stopped did the creature spring
at the musician, who barely escaped
being struck by a quick leap to one
side. Many of our own wild creatures
are s~ingularly affected by certain notes
repeated in succession. Often have I
caused a rabbit to sit up in his tracks
by Whistling in a low tone some simple
tune. The squirrel will chatter from
his treetop if you whistle to him. But
If you keep it up the little fellow will
gradually work his way down to the
trunk of the tree and will crouch there
and listen as if %spellbound. Try whis-
Ting a simple MARBLE nea a catbird.
The impudent little fellow will ruf1e
up his feathers, cock his head on one
side, listen attentively for awhile and
then will try to initiate the sound.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-07-28

Not only is diamond cutting not a
specially high paid occupation, but it
is one involving a most humiliating
system Of espionage to the worker.
Each man has to strictly account for
the stones he receives on going to
work in the morning and the count
has to be carefully taken when the
unfinished work is handed in at night
to be locked up in a safe against the
return of the workmen next day. The
possibilities of theft are great, though
a dishonest workman knows that an
attempt to dispose of an unfinished
stone would bring suspicion upon him
wherever the attempt was made.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-07-28
An Expert Third Baseman.

James 7. Williams, the great third
baseman of the Pittsburg Club, was
born in st. Louis on December 20, 1876,
and learned the rudiments of base ball
at Pueblo, Col. Williams first pro-
fessional engagement was with the
Pueblo Club of the Colorado State
League in 1895. During the succeeding
season he played with the Pueblo and
Leadville, Col, and Albuquerque, N.
M, teams. In 1897 he played shortstop
for the st. Joe Club of the Western AS
ISOLATION in 11S games, and earned the
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-07-28
Eloped Five Times.

For the fifth time since taking the
marriage VOWS Mrs. James Duffy of
Shamokin, Pa. has eloped with Wal
lace Hummel and deserted her husband
and three children. For years she
has been friendly with Hummel, and
on five different times they ran away
together, but each time the woman
returned and was forgiven by her pa
tent husband. and o Mrs. Duffy Is
anxious to return to the bosom Of her
family,
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-07-28
APPLYING H LASH.

court is not over 10 or Is lashes, oc-
casionally, however, when an old Of
fender is arraigned before the court,
he gets 20 or sometimes 80. The high
est number ever given in Delaware
was go lashes.
There is an agitation il Delaware
at the present time for tie abolish
ment of the pillory and the whipping
post, but it is not likely that it will
be successful.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-07-28

Mr.. Muggs-"Want work, Ell? Well
that's encouraging, at any rate. What
can you do?" Tramp-'I'd like to hire
myself out as a reminder, sir" "A
reminder? What's that?" IVY, sir,
every year I'll remind you that it's
your wife's birthday, so you kin get
her a present. an not be made miser-
able for six months"
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-07-28

WHIP AND
PILLORY.

The pillory and whipping post have
proved their efficacy in Delaware in
the cases of petty offenders against
the law. While not an absolute pre-
ventive of petty crimes, their success
Is such that few persons who have
once been pilloried and whipped re-
turn to have the penalty repeated.
shey either reform or leave the state,
except occasionally a hardened Grim
inal who cannot be either reformed or
exiled.
While undergoing the punishment of
the pillory the victim is almost per-
fectly motionless, hardly being able to
move his head or hands. In some
instances, however, where the neck
OF the prisoner is small, he can move
it enough to keep him from getting
the cramp in it. as is often the case.
There have been cases where a prison
er has chewed tobacco during the
Whole time of his Incarceration. which
is never less than one hour, and in
aggravated cases sometimes is two
hours.
After the pillory comes the public
whipping. The prisoner in this case
is stripped of his shirt and coat and,
with his back exposed, his hands in
iron cuffs, fastened with spikes, he
leans forward hugging the post as it
were, while the sheriff applies the
lash. The mark of the rawhide is
plainly left on the culprit's back, who
endeavors to bear up under it, but
coming as it does in rapid succession
and almost in the same spot invariably
he squirms and twists, as if to stave
off the effects of it. For cases OF
minor larceny the sentence of the
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-07-28

sobriquet of "Home Run by his heavy
batting. At the close of hat season
Manager James H. Manning of the
Kansas City team of the Western
League, secured the clever young play
er and placed him at third base in 1898,
chiefly as an experiment. His wonder
full work at that corner of the dia-
mond for the Blues made him a fix
ture, and resulted in his release being
purchased by the Pittsburg Club.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-07-28


Every amateur has his own troubles
in printing, toning and washing films,
plates and prints, and even with the
best of appliances to be purchased at
the Photographic shops this task is
none too pleasant. However, William
Fitzgerald Crawford, residing in Lon
don, England, disclosed in a recent
patent a water motor washing hath,
which, he asserts, makes the toning,
fixing, and washing processes COM
paratively convenient and pleasant.
The apparatus by which he accom-
fishes this consists of two grooven
discs or wheels, mounted upon a hori-
Zontal axis and belted by means of
cords with a tiny water wheel, by
which they are revolved in a trough.
This is for washing only. For toning,
fixing or printing, when the water has
to be kept out of the bath, the straps
are removed, and the discs turned by
hand, by a crank or milled buttons.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-07-28

"dngernaif poison formerly in use
among aboriginal Javanese women,
who cultivated a nail. or more. on each
hand, to a long, sharp point, and that
the least scratch from one Of these
was certain death.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-07-28
Some Great Floods.

Disregard for proper authority killed
a town called Greenville, on the Mis-
sissippi river. The great Mississippi Is
only kept In its bed by gigantic en-
bankments called levees. Nowadays
they are kept up by the state, but at
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-07-28

Papa-"Are you sure that you and
mamma thought of me while you
were away" G~race-"Yes; we heard
a man kicking up a great row about
his breakfast at the hotel, and ami
said: That's just like papa.'"-Stray
Stories.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-07-28
AW FA MIN E
That Is Now Making of India One Vast
Charnel Pen.


The famine area in India is about
$500 600 square miles, and extends Over
the central, south and northwestern
provinces, says Leslie's Weekly. No
pen could describe its awful horrors.
Some of the things proved by pho
Biography are too realistically horrible
to be reproduced in any publication,
the less frightful photographs
taken by the missionaries, because
many have not believed that such an
awful condition could exist in this cen
fury of plenty and prosperity. Ema-
ciated beyond belief, the starving ma
tiyes crawl to the house of the nearest
sahib, usually a missionary, to crave
food; but 10000 mouths have to be fed.
Fifteen dollars a veal will feed a Hin
du, yet even this pitiable allowance
is not to be had. The causes of the
famine are the failure of the crops, the
refusal of the native princes to allow
their hunting jungles to be converted
into fertile agricultural regions, and
the mysterious disappearance of a spe-
cial famine fund of 500, 600, 900, COL
lected by the government after the IA
mine of 1877. The Hindu is a strict
vegetarian. The low-caste Hindu is a
fatalist. So, when famine stalks abroad
the Hindu submits uncomplainingly.
Day by day he will subsist on less food,
until at last, when a mere shadow, he
will drag his bony self to a relief sta
ton. There he may get food-or he
may not. If not, he crouches in some
corner, or out in the fields, under Gods
trees, and awaits the coming of death.
The majority of the victims are women
and children.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-07-28
WATER MOTOR WASHING BATH.

MOIOR BATH.
To hold films and prints suitable car
riers are provided. These ore plates
are placed between the discs, with
their opposite sides in corresponding
radial grooves. A rubber band. which
encircles the circumference of the discs
prevents their falling. out when the
discs are revolved. The toning, de-
veloping. fixing or rinsing solution is
placed in the trough. For simply
washing plates the trough is filled
with water and placed under a run
ming spigot, when the small water
wheel shown at the top of the device is
caused to turn, thus rotating the discs,
and thereby thoroughly washing the
plates held between them.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-07-28
!. the Pineapple of a poisonou. Nature

Is the Pineapple of a Poisonous Nature?
The chemists now say that we must
give up the pineapple. as an article of
food. and be particularly careful to.
keep its juices out of u circulation.
They find that the pineapple has a
very bad record. In Java. the Philip
pines and through the far east it is
said and believed that the Juice of the
green and growing plant is a blood
poison of an extremely deadly nature.
1t is said to be the substance with
which the Malays poison their krishes
and daggers. 1t is also said to be the
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-07-28
BASE BALL MATTERS.
CURRENT NEWS AND NOTES
OF THE GAME.

High Hopes of Success-How One League
Magnate Figures Out a Profitable Sea-
son for His CIub-Endorses the SUN
day Game Schedule.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-07-28

nine years he has been connected with
the old Commercial-Gazette and It's
successor, the Commercial-Tribune
Ameryka. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1893-1902, 1900-07-21
Wojna W Chinach.

Rad chinski rozesfaf do swoich pred.
stawiciei okolnik wyjasnieniem wypad.
kow Pekinie. Gaia wine Rad spycha na
''bokser6w." Dalej Rad oskarza take mo-
carstwa, ktore nasfaty wojska do Pekinu
niby dla obrony poselstw, rzeczywisto-
sci dla robienia tam nieporzadk6w. Smiert
posfa niemieckiego nastapifa jakoby wsku-
tex jego wfasnego uporu. Tsung- Ii yamen
ostrzegf Kettelera ably ME pokazywat sic
na ulicach miasta, lecz smiafy Niemiec ME
posfuchaf przez to zginaf. Dalsze wypad-
XII byfy tylko nastepstwem zaczepki admi-
rafow, ktorzy pierwsi rozpoczeli strzelanie
W Taku.
Dobrze sic tfomaczy Rad chinski, lecz
mafo mu to pomoze. Bedzie musiaf ciezko
odpokutowac "a swoja czy ME swoja wine.
Jezei sic okaze, re posfowie mocarstw
wraz zaioga legacyi zostali wymordowa-
nj to dynastya mandzurska bedzie zle.
Cesarz Wilhelm tax sic zmartwif smier-
cia swojego ambassadors, re swoim zwycza-
jem nagadat wiecej, niz MONA byfo po-
wtorzyc pismach. Byfa tam jakoby mo-
wa zabraniu caiej prowincyi, o zatknie-
ciu sztandaru niemieckiego ma pafacu ce-
sarskim Pekinie innych roznych O.
kropnosciach. ze sic Wilhelm zgniewaf, to
naturalne, ale do zatykania sztandarow
Ameryka. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1893-1902, 1900-07-21
DO CZYTELNIKOW" "AMERYKI.' ,

Nam zaszczyt zawiadomic Szanownych
:, Czytemik6w, re wskutek nawafu piracy re-
dagowanie 'Ameryki'' Cd dzisiejszego nu-
meru zdafem calkowicie na pana TOMA-
SZA SIEMIRADZKIEGO, ktory przyjaf
odpowiedzialnosc "a tresc pisma, wyja-
tkiem ogfoszen.
Kierunek pisma pozostanie bez zmiany,
''Ameryke,' jak dotad tax W przyszfosci
bedzie pismem niezaleznem cd zadnej par
tyi politycznej polegajacem tylko na po-
parciu ogofu.
A. A. PARYSKI, Wydawca.