davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1900-07-12

No, Augustus, the knapsack is not so
called because it is used as a pillow.-In.
dianapolis News.
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1900-07-12

The crowbar opens but it never Closes
Chicago Daily News.
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1900-07-12

The circulation of the blood is an al,
fair Of the heart.-Chicago Daily News.
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1900-07-12

In politics, the wise man layeth pipes,
while the fool only spouts.-Detroit Jour.
nal
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1900-07-12

To Cure a Cold in One Day
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. Al
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-04-28

st. Louis has a haunted house in which
the ghosts of mui dered people are said
20 nightly re-ennct the tragedies which
ended their lives. There IL one tale of q
woman who entered its portals in the
early seventies aud was never seen after
ward. There is another story of n gam
bier who was killed on the stairway one
night quarter Of century bnck in
quarrel over a game OF cards that had
been played in one Of the rooms. The
house is tenanted by roomers who leave
without ceremony or explanation. y re
cent occupant tells n startling story to
the st. Louis Republic.
zone night was awakened by
strange sensation" says he. Then there
came 10 me the sound of wGman's
moan. 1t was low aud fun or pain, ana
It died away into the stiffness from which
II had come. A moment later ! heard II
again. This time it started low and
broke suddenly into "A smothered scream.
Then it was a shrek, Ii was smothcred,
only to break forth agnin in n sob and
then groan. Then there was wall. so
long and sud and full of suffering that
threw off the thrul of fear that had held
me still and cried out
".Who's thcreT
"The echo oe my voice came back to
gibe me.
Il lighted the gas and made search
through the room. found nothing-ab
soutely nothing-that had not br,tl there
the prevous morning | sat Oh the edge
of the bed and trembled. My joints
ached, and my heart was humping hard.
while In the veins OF my throat there
was great throbbing which jnrred my
brain ! stepped to the mirror aud look
ed .iod -eo w
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-04-28
Pari. Journals and Editors.

In Paris the Identification of journal
with its editor and chief writers is COM
plete. In the brilliant days of the July
monarchy nobody thought of the Pressa
OF the Constitutional. These were mere
counters. and hardly that. People thought
OF Emile de Girardin and Aduphe Theirs
they provided educated men with their
politics. as somewhat laier on Sainte-
Beuye and Jules Janin provided them
with their literary ideas. When the re-
public was founded. Gambetta started
the Republique Francaise. and. though it
had many able writers. France Identified
that journal with the great orator, and
millions accepted it's every utterance aa
oracular, To quote a lesser instance,
Llptransigeant. with its Mysteries aud
heroics. could be nothing without the per-
sonality of NJ. de Rochefort. And L'Au-
torite-well. simply NJ. Paul de CASA.
gnac.-Spectator.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-04-28

eyes We're staring wide open, and ON my
white face there were rivulets OF cold
perspiration. The face was so ghastly
that | laughed.
1T was a sickly laugh, one that had
no possible rlirth in il. 1t was laugh
of the kind that stage villains give. and
as soon as | uttered il felt like real
villain. II was SO inappropriate. you
know. ! washed my face. ran comb
through my hair and then lay down on
the he'd again. / thought | would go to
sleep.
Just as ! was doing the moaning be
gan again. 1t grew more intense. and
with it came cries and pleadings for
mercy. What could do? The sounds
We're in the room, but had already made
a search aud knew that there was no one
there. So remained in bed. The
means and the cries and the pleadngs
continued for 70 minutes know it was
really that long, for heard the clock
in the hall strike the quarter hour Then
they dwindled into gpsps. few inter
mittent groans, then a final scream of
agony. half dozen more sobs and then
intense stiffness
"Great heavens. When it ended. |
was aching In every limb was frozen
with fear. was paralyzed. unable to
move finger or muscle. suppose ]
lay still on the bed for ten minutes. every
part of me except my mind in state OF
absolute inactivity. | thought OF all the
ghost stories that have ever heard, and
! repcnted having discredited them. AT
the end Of ten minutes life suddenly re.
turned to me. ! sprang from the bed
and stood IN the middle of the floor like
fool. Then | began to wonder what !
! would do To sl"op in that room was
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-04-28
Cry of the Broken hearted.

When the day VI battle is ended
And the cruel suspense is past,
When the hours OF anguished waiting
Are over. for all, at last,
Then those who are reunited
viii offer their praise to God,
But the lad have waited and longed for
Lies voiceless under tie sod.
There are many who climbed the hillside
When they stormed the enemy's post.
There was many clear outringing
For the triumph OF Briton's host;
There were many who stood, unwounded,
Unharlned. at the set OF the sun,
But the lad ] have waited and longed for
His day OF battle was done.
Ere long by many firedde
They will tell OF that gallant fight.
They will praise those warrior heroes,
The power OF Britain's might;
They Will speak. with awestruck voices,
OF their comrades among the slain,
But the lad | have waited and longed for
viii speak to me never again.
You are dead for your queen and your coun
tryi
You are dead In your honor and pridei
You are dead that your brother soldiers
Might rise with the triumph tidei
You have paid the price Of their glory,
As a soldier would wish to do
Aye. but my lad that Eve longed for.
Ny hearts Just breaking for youi
London Queen.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-04-28


utterly inpcssiblc knew that. | could
not have closed my eyes to save my life.
So | decided that would 60 into the
hall, where there was couch. and
spend the rest OF the night crept
stealthily TO the bed aud lifted from II
tbe blanket. Then | tiptoed to the door.
opened il softly, stepped out quickly and
closed II behind me. Then. for some un'
accountable reason. stood with my ear
close 10 the door listening. The Lord
knows ] did not want to hear anything,
but was fascinated by the terror that
the room contained for me. and stood
there. Not a sound came from the room,
end after n time | reluctantly left 1t.
~ lay down on the couch. spread the
blankets over me and prepared TO go to
sleep. But there was no sleep for me
for long time. All could do was to
stare with wide open eyes into the dark.
ness Finally ! got drowsy. The sleep
vas 6tful. and every few minutes |
would start up. But could hear Moth
ing. Tired nature will finally WOO and
win sleep. however. and after a long
time | sank into deep slurnber. How
.ong | slept do not know. but all at
once found my self standing beside the
couch, listening TO the awfulest curslng
that ever fell or the cars Of man. The
sounds came from the head Of the stairs,
not ten feet from me. ] saw distinctly
the white figures Of two men, and
heard as plainly as J now hear my own
voice the sounds of their angry curses.
"Both were cursing. and they were
quarreling about game of cnrds that
had been played. Then they began to
fght. could hear and see them scuf-
fling at the head of the stairs.
"What did do? | stood there by the
couch. staring straight ahead at the two
e,en. AS looked the arm OF one OF the
men rose to its full length. The hand
held something that glinted IKE steel:
The arm and tue CLINT descended and
there was that terrible sound that comes
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-04-28

of military supplies which are now held
in the Abyssinian arsenals, amounting to
no less than 100000 guns of the Gras
pattern and several million cartridges for
their use. About half million more
small pieces in the shape of Remington.
Winchester and Martini guns aud re.
vovers are also ready in case they are
wanted. together with an enormous guam
tity of blades for ances. Rapid firing
cannon have not been forgotten. and
Menelek has some Of the best and most
up to date artillery ready for use in the
field. The Abyssinian fortrcsses have
also been strongly fortified, and an Ens-
lish army of invasion would find vefy
different foe to confront in 1900 from
the one it found in 1867 when General
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-04-28
VISIONS OF HEAVEN.
What nm tpdinun Woman Saw While
In u Trance,


Mrs. Mah!on Cause. wife Of the Rev.
Mahlon Cause Of the Friends chapel.
Stillwell. Ind. relates the sensations she
experienced during deathlike trance
from which she emerged recently. She
said:
AT the moment lost worldly con-
seriousness oil was dark. and. though |
felt the power OF stranger lie in me, |
seemed to have no power to move mus
Gle. ] felt myself carried. like particle
of thistle down. through the air. and a
great light burst all around me. ! saw in
the distance Il world of brightness and
beauty. farreaching. undulating plain
studded with beautiful buildings.
"Ahout them forms were fitting, some
walking apparently on the ground. 9th
prs appeared 10 rise in the air like birds.
The spectacle da2zled me, and ! closed
my eyes for a moment. felt with JOY
that my sou! had separated from its earth
ly tenement. was unspeakably glad,
and tried TO sing, bu, no sound came
from my lips. | opened my eyes aud he-
held on either side OF me two OF the most
exquisite human forms | ever dreamed
of, They stretched each hand toward
me. and was led across the plain
through the air The mast beautiful mu.
sic sounded in my cars, aud perfume
seemed to till my nostrls.
Away toward high tower Of light
saw magnificent and stately form APP
pnrently walking toward me. His coun-
tenance was brighter than the sunlight
of earth, and myriad of forms clustered
around him. He came toward me and al.
most reached my side when in an Instant
darkness incloscd the scene, and my next
sensation was waking again"
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-04-28
A Farmer Fathers Philosophy.

A Farmer Fathers Philosophy.
Dear son-Your letter of the 10th came in tho
mail today.
And so you want to marry, and you wonder what
well sayl
Well, Joe, your mother here and have read your
letter through,
And she seems to think that I'm the one who'd
better lecture you;
For, though in most affairs, Of course, there's
nothing quite so nice
As mothers letter, still IL takes man TO give
advice.
Your letter says, "she's beautiful and handsome
as queen"
hope go, Joe. ind hope you know Just what
those two words mean
a beautiful form Is one which tells Of a beautiful
soul within;
handsome face is one which wears no damning
brand Of sin;
Beautiful eyes are those that with the FIRE Of pure
thoughts glow;
Beautiful lips are those which speak for truthful
heart below;
The handsomest hands are those not ashamed the
Masters workto do
Hands that are patient and brave and kind, gentle
and strong and true;
Beautiful feet are those which go In answer to
duty's call
And beautiful shoulders those which bear their
daily burdens all.
Remember this maxim true, my boy, wherever
you choose wife,
"The handsomest woman OF earth is she who leads
the handsomest life.''
therefore trust that the woman you wed Qf you
really love each other)
May be the handsomest in the world-except.
ing one--your mother.
Frank s. Pixley In Chicago Mail.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-04-28
Ren.on ana Instinct.

Nhs,her with reason or with instinct blest,
Know, all enjoy that power which slils them best
To hlics alike by thai direction tnfd,
And lind the means Rtepoltloncd 20 tAeir ond.
Say, where full instinct is Tie nnegrlns guide,
What pope or coun,il osn ,hes need bssides
Heason however able, e9ol ~, best.
Cares not for service, " hat seryss when prest,
stays TN we call, aiRl then no, oioa near;
bot honest instinct 6cN,cs volunteer,
sure nc'er TO ocrsluei bm Iust to hit;
White sin 100 wide or sn1rt IS human wit.
Sue b. Quiob uatago hgPnlnesS 70 gain,
Which h-s,icv reason lAhors az in yaln.
THIS too serves always, reason nsrcr long;
Ono mrst 80 right. The ethnr ,aay SO wrong.
See ti1n the acting and sohipanag pusers
oHo N tleiI nature, which are two In luS;
And rta'cn raise Ger inetGei Us YOU Gun.
h. this 'tls God d:roeis IN thar Ills nau,
Nho taught the nasiSM of tho field and wood
To shun their pcisoniead 20 oh0s.e tlcr iooif
President, the ides 81 telnpests 70 wll,nand,
Build on the wave, az preh heleltl I've saudi
Who made the spider laralielE duslSn,
Sure as De MoiUo, withnuf rule or linnl
Who bid the s,ork, Coumbw-iiha gXpoie
Heavens not his ow1i and worlls ukloWu before
Who calls the council states the certain day,
Who forms the PhalapS, and SAe poIals The wayf
tf.. ~ Pope.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-04-28
Artists.

M. ..,s -. .-. - ...4
1ne No,lo contains many an aus.
WV hno"e w. Wv seenHiqae y. a,e'
ana yet Is poet al hesrt;
VINO knows not the use OF the chsei
NOT the oeitness oi eye or oil haho'
but whose spirit Is hiied win longing
nc never can quite understands
az Fd.'e's "ho ue'e, 'on'n o'i'''s'
NJ husiea's ,iei' Wno eve. uie suIl'
NV nav NV '"e s't % eHpies.iou'
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-04-28

Napier. with 10000 troops. stormed Mag
dala and cowaidly kng Theodore COM
niitted suicide rather than fall into the
hands OF his conquerors.
AS to the military force which Meneek
could command, accounts differ. The
country over which he has nominal con-
trol has n population of about 4.O000OO
souls, and II is estimated that with the
assistance OF the chiefs over whom he
maintains a suzerainty force of about
100000 men could be put in the field.
There are considerable number of
European officers in the Abyssinian ar
my. which is well drilled and has been
brought to a high state of efficiency dur
ing the recent war With Italy and since
that time. II
The Abyssinian soldier is the equal OF
the Sudanese at least. il not his superior.
and his bravery cannot be questioned.
for he seems to go to war with the same
kind OF fanatical frenzy which character
lies all the desert tribes and to place THO
slightest possible value on life.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-04-28
ABYSSlNlANS UNEASY.
King MeneIek wodId Like to Fight
the British.

Sirdar Ilg. Swiss. who has long been
the intimate and personal adviser OF
King Mcnelek of Ahyssinia. is under
stood to urge the decisive action on the
part Of Abyssinla during the present
South African war. as he claims that
such an opportunity should not be miss
ed. Tie points out the fact that the Brit
ish will some day. in the interest of rail
road hondholders. seize the country and
that the time to drive British power on
OF East Africa Is when il is making Il
supreme effort TO hold its possessions IN
the south.
Sirdar Ilg is second Dir. Leyds in this
respect, and his advice goes long way
with the king. He has prevailed upon
him thus far to lay in the vast quantities
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-04-28

WIN the sinking OF knife into a human
body.
'Instautly there were wild scream. the
fall of a body. kick. curse. and the
sound of a heavy man railing down the
stairway, step OF time. until the baiy
hit the floor at the bottom. Then there
was the shutting of feet on bare floor
as q man ran down the hall A window
was raised in the rear of the house. and
there was the sound OF man climbing
ont Of il upon the roof Of building ad'
joining. Then all was still.
'The queer thing about II all is that
there could have been no overwrought
nerves in the case. and there could have
been no imagination. ! had never heard
any story of the mysterious disappear
nnce of woman or of the killing of q
gambler at the head OF the stairway.
heard these stories later. but at the time
that had my experience with the ghosts
knew nothing whatever of any story OF
any tragedy in the old house."
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-04-28
The Dixon Transfer Co.
cnal. Trensfar and LlyarY

Packing, moving and storing Of
goods. Coaches, coipes and carriages
for funerals, weddings, parties and
callings.
i23 and t2y Carroll 81. Tel. No. 800
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-04-28

81 saw something attractive clineing
TO the lapel of your coat at the dance
the other night"
"Chrysanthemum"
"No. schoolmumv-Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-04-28
cE MS IN VERSE.


Two stalwart nations battle to the knife,
With she'll and steel destroying hero life;
Two prayerful peoples serve the selfsame Lord,
Yet put each other to the cruel sword.
The stern old Bible reading Boer with blood
Now saturatas the sell as with food;
The British svppliant at the throne of grace
Goes forth TO war With murder in his face.
Should not some kindly friend Of high estate
Between these blood bathed brethren mediate
And in the cause of peace on earth again
Uphold the principles Of Christ, not Cain7
David Graham Adee in Washington Post.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-04-28

We offer to business men
the novelty of special mes
senger delivery at reasonable
rates.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-11

themselves i'll at ease with the invading
And, not least room is wanted for yet another
new factory. So four houses of the nine to
be pulled down, their tenants having been
warned to quit on before Monday, February
b, and the site will be used for wagon factory.
Yankee Row" and its vicinity ought to be
remembered as a refuge of the oppressed. Take
for example, the case of Mrs. McCiarvey, one of
the tenants low warned to quit. She was born
in County Limerick; O'RouTke was her
father Before the days of Daniel O'Connelrs
triumph when there still some sense in
calling Ireland the most disthressfu country
that liver yet was seen she, then "a slip of a
CURL" twelve years DID, came to New-York in a
sailing ship.
AYE, there was none of your steamers in
thin days" she says, and she adds that many
times on that rough and perilous voyage I'VE
was shut down below to dhroWn." 1t is useless
to attempt exact dates in connection with her
history, for she has no memory for figures but
lhat time long enough ago to make her
wish she could see Limerick again She
like Others has found, in the course Of years
new grievance in her adopted home-the Polish
Jews, who, she complains, want to sell a peck
of potatoes by the pound. What do you think
o that, noW?" These and other alleged pc
culiarties Of the East Side Semites blind Mrs
McGarvey to the grievances. worse than Irish
which have driven many Polish Jews from
their native country.
But rs a resident of the row this daughter of
1.-THE Guild sod" is a newcomer compared to Mrs
Start. The latter having upward Of a score of
descendants in three generations to keep her
memory fresh on dates is able to state positively
that she was a bride of twenty when she came
to live in the row, and that she has lived there
ffty-one years, moving only once, and that only
from the house next door but one. All her mar
red life has been passed in Yankee Row" and
for that matter. her whole life, from ba byhood
to great observation-disclosures has been lived in the
Seventh Ward. She tells it with pride that she
is native of Cherry st
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-11

How this place has grown in my timer? she
muses. "An about here was village when my
husband brought me to live here. There was no
water in the house. I used to go to the pump
at the corner of Jackson-st. to get water. and do
all my washing under that shed you see out
there at the back
But no theorist will find in Mrs. Start an eX-
AMI pie Of the insalubrity of crowded nelghbor-
hoods The visitor who expects to see in her
withered, white haired survival of antiquity is
puzzled when this alert busting, middle aged
woman opens her door for him and laughingly
explains that she is not Mrs Starts daughter,
but Mrs Starts own self. The evidence Of
committee of her descendants is necessary to
convince and it can be had without much diff
Guilty. More than cOrpOral's guard of them
ranging in age from three to forty-three, can be
brought at a minutes notice into the raftered
back kitchen, where the stove stands in a high
brick alcove
They will talk Of bygones and old associations.
''Tuenty-sfx of US have eaten our Christmas
dinner in this room all at time You see
those two hooks on that rafter? Two genera
lions of us have used those hooks for the
ropes of a swing. We were always swinging
and cutting up in here. We married two or
three from this house, and we buried two"
No wonder they spoke a little sadly of their
coming over from Williamsburg, some of them,
to help in the first family packing they could
relat mber
That old rafter must be in the rubbish heap
to-day and the old swing hooks with it, unless
some of the family have taken them for souve-
Mrs. Mrs Start has at last moved out of the
Seventh Ward, but she will be at home in
Brooklyn, among her descendants, where she
may reasonably hope to be some day counted
one of the oldest inhabitants of South Second
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-11
AN ASTRONOMICAL SEARCH
LOOKING FOR AN INTRA- MERCURIAL
PLANET
WILLIAM H PICKERING WILL TRY TO VERIFY

WILLIAM H. PICKERING WILL TRY TO VERIFY
ONE OF LEvERRIER's PREDICTIONS.
The announcement that Professor William II.
Pickering of the Harvard Observatory staff. will
make a Photographic search for an intra-Mer-
curial planet during the coming eclipse of the
sun revives interesting subject of speculation
and controversy. So far the astronomers
know only two planets. Venus and Mercury
have orbits that lie within that of the earth
Mercury is the nearest to the sun, its average
distance from that body being thirty-six million
miles. But in 1889 Leverrier expressed the belief
that still another planet existed whose path was
inside that of Mercury. He was led to this con-
clusion by mathematical processes. and advanced
the theory to account for certain pecuIiarties Of
Mercurys behavior. When il is remembered
that Neptune was discovered in very much the
same manner it is easy TO understand the i'm
preston which Leverrier's utterances, coming
thirteen years later, made upon the scientific
world. But while the prediction regarding the
existence of a body outside the orbit of Uranus
was promptly verified that concerning a possi-
bic intra- Mercurial planet has not been al
though more than one sensation has been pro-
duced by supposed discovery of this nature
Scarcely had Leverrier declared his belief that
some other body was disturbing the course of
Mercury before a cOmpatriot, DIR. LescarbauIt
announced that he had actually observed il
moving between him and the sun and appearing
as small black dot on the solar surface. The.
public was then informed that Vulcan. as this
object was called. had diameter of $500 miles
moved around the sun in a trfe more than nine
teen days and was about 100000 miles dis
tant from the centre of our planetary system.
Forty years have elapsed since Dr. Lescar-
bault thus startled the world. But during that
interval Of time else has witnessed the
same phenomenon For more than twenty years
almost daily photographs of the sun have been