davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Florence daily tribune., 1901-10-25
Took the Ten Per Cent OF.

The county mlssloners on
Tuesday received notice from the
state board of equalization that the
assessment of Fremont county
had been raised ten per ceut. in
the proceedings looking toward an
equalization of the taxes of the
state among .he various counties
This, with the increase of about
thirty per cent already made by
the county assessor, will make a
pretty stiff advance over previous
years, and steps will be taken to
have the matter re-adjusted.-
Conon City Times
The increase made by the state
board would add to the valuation
of the county something like 81, :
100000, bringing up the total to
nearly Sl0,OO0,0o0 In view of
this condition of things the county
commissioners sent their chairman,
H. l. White 10 confer with the state
board in reference to having the
the tax rate reduced that ten per
cent and yesterday received tele-
graph message to the effect that
such had been done.
Had this ten per cent increase
in the valuation of the property
possessed by Fremont county resi-
dents not been taken off the people
would have had to pay taxes on a
valuation of forty per cent more
on their property than they did a
year ago. Although the valuation
has been raised thirty per cent.
this year, the tax schedule has
been reduced SO that the county
and scnool tax is the same as it
was last year but the state receives
larger revenue to sustain its
institutions by the increased val
uation
The commissioners are doing
good work in their effort to keep
the county and school tax down
and MIR. White deserves credit for
the manner in which he gained his
purposes before the state board of
equalization.
The Florence daily tribune., 1901-10-25
GUESTS WERE POISONED.
An Event That Came Near Being
The Fatal Wedding"

Bath. Me Oct. % wedding
celebration at Tafts Corner near
here last night came near resulting
fatally for all concerned After
,he wedding ceremony nearly a
hundred guests sat down To Il
spread A short time later all, in
cluding the officiating Gle gyman,
became violently i'll Physicians
were hastily summoned, who found
all in serious condition, but all
will live,
1t is thought man whom the
bride Tilted two years ago poisoned
some If the food
The Florence daily tribune., 1901-10-25
FEARFUL FIRE IN
PHILADELPHIA
Employees of Big Store Lose Their
Lives in fhe Flames.
FIRE NOT YET SUBDUED

Philadelphia, Oct ga fearful
fire is raging in a block on Market
street, between Twelfth and Thir-
teenth and already eleven dead
bodies have been recovered, Will
kiuson Hunts immense furniture
store is entirely destroyed, and the
fire may make its way to Wana-
makers Every effort possible is
being made to suppress the flames
1t is thought many more bodies
are in the ruins.
The fire started at lO:30 in
Hunts furniture store, and in a
few minutes flames were leapirig
from every window When the
fire department arrived, a mass of
dead and injured was lying in
front of the building many of the
employees having Jumped from the
windows. The dead were quickly
removed and the injured taken to
hospitals
The exact number of injured is
not known, but it is thought to be
over fifty. The exact mum ber of
dead will probably never be known.
The fire crossed Market street
and destroyed two buildings. but
it was stopped from going farther
on that side
Agonizing scenes took place in
front of the big furniture store.
Wives and children of the EN-
ployes were almost frantic with
grief, Several women tainted
while watching the fire. An extra
squad of police were necessary to
keep the crowd back One man
burned to ashes hanging half way
through a window before the gaze
OF the horror stricken crowd.
The property loss will be heavy
1t looks now MS if the fire will be
prevented from spreading TO the
big department stores.
The Florence daily tribune., 1901-10-25
Big Bunch of Coal.

New York. Oct. % The Flat
Top Coal association has Just re-
mitted through a local bank So
100000, the first half payment of
Sl0,0OO,00O on the Pocahontas coal
mine purchase The new company
is capitalized at S20.0O0.0O0.
The Florence daily tribune., 1901-10-25
Citizens Up Against II.

Chicago, Oct 25-The courts of
this city have held that citizens
have no right to damages when
property is injured 10y the raising
of the railways. They say that it
is public Improvement and the
city can not be held for damages.
The Florence daily tribune., 1901-10-25
Killed Brother-in-Law.

Brockton, NJ ass Oct 25--CharIes
w Morse, New York contractor.
shot and fatally wounded his
brother-in law. Joseph h Sullivan,
for giving protection to Mrs.
Morse
The Florence daily tribune., 1901-10-25
Thirty Thousand Dollar Wife.

Chicago, Oct % Albert c.
Whitney, bpokkeeper for the
Steel and Wire com
pany, has been awarded $4,000
damages from Sigmund A,
Schmidt. wholesale dry goods
dealer of New York, for alternating
the affections of Whitney's wife.
The Florence daily tribune., 1901-10-25
Communication With Brigands

New York, Oct. 25- Dispatches
from Sofia to the World say that
the brigands who kidnapped Miss
Stone, the American missionary,
have permitted communications to
be esta blished. This is taken 10
mean that no harm will befall M iss
Stone for the present
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1901-06-05
The Chambered NautiIus


This is the ship of pearl which poets feign
Sails the unshadowed main.
The venturous bark that filings
On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings
In CULTS enchanted, where the siren sings
And coral reefs lie bare,
Where the cold sea maids rise to sun their
streaming hair
Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl
Wrecked is the ship of pearl,
And every chambered cell,
Where its dim dreaming life was wont to dwell
As the frail tenant shaped his growing she'll,
Before thee lies revealed
Its rised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed
Year after year beheld the silent toll
That spread his lustrous coil.
Still, as the spiral grew,
He left the last years dwelling for the new.
Stole with soft step its shining archway through,
Built up its idle door,
Stretched in its last found home and knew the old
no more.
Thanks for the heavenly message brought by thee,
Child Of the wandering sea,
Cast from her lap, foroml
From thy dead lips cleaner note is born
Than ever Triton blew from wreathed horn
While on my ear it rings,
Through the deep cares of thought hear a voice
that sings:
Build thee more stately mansions, o my soul,
As tue swift seasons roll!
Leave thy low vaulted pastl
Let each new temple, nobler than the last,
Shut thee from heaven with dome more vast
Till thou at length art free,
Leaving thine outgrown shell by lifes unresting
sea| Holmes
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1901-06-05
Peace and Pain.

The day and night symbols Of creation,
And each has part in all that God has made;
There ~ no i'll without its compensation,
And life and death are only light and shade.
There never beat heart so base and sordd
But felt at times sympathetic glow;
There never lived a virtue unrewarded
Nor died vice without its need Of woe.
In this brief life despair should never reach us;
The sea looks wide because the shores are dim
The star that led the magi still can teach us
The way to go IL we but look to Him.
And as we wade, the darkness closing Ger u.s.
The hungry waters surging to the chin.
Our deeds will rise like stepping stones before
The good and bad-tor we may use the sin.
A sin Of youth, atoned for and forgiven,
Takes on a virtue, il we choose to find;
When clouds across our onward path are driven,
We still may steer by its pale light behind.
sin forgotten is in part to pay for,
A sin remembered is a constant gain;
Sorrow, next Joy, is what we ought to pray for,
As next to peace we profit most from pain.
John Boyle o'Reilly.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1901-06-05
THE WOrthZessmess of
Cheap Fertilizers
FACTS ABOUT FERTILIZERS.

The station Vermont calls attention the
worthenes cheap fertilizer Bulk bulk
we'll demonstrated following which should be carefully
read and pondered by farmer in the
selling brands middle
and of low grade them prefer sell all of the
his
The quality
the himself the dealer responsible
To the cheap goods either inferior material be used
crude diluted technically
material which
railroad and local
day dirt of fertilizer does 1t is far better for the
fertilizer higher
goods and to make his grade mixing soil
In other words buy smaller quantity of really high grade fertilizer and
in the dirt yourself-Britol News.
Pure Raw Bone Meal is sold by c. S. Page of Hyde Park,
~ W.T. at ST. per hundred ordered in lots $50 per
ton with egh prepaid Vermont station cash
panies the order.
1t is said that the of tablespoonful mixed Bone and
Ashes in each hill of almost anything the farmer gardener
plants will produce surprising results.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1901-06-05
HARD ON THE MULE

and draw it into the center and place
the roadbed in the proper form for con-
veying the water to the bitches and
building solid foundation for the
wheels. This work cannot be well done
when the ground is wet or very hard
and dry, hence the necessity of having
a man for Shs work who makes it his
business and will give it timely atten-
ton.
All taxes for the highways must be
paid in money. We have law in To-
wa that permits the placing of a town
ship in supervisor district and. if the
trustees so elect, of making all the
taxes payable in money. Townsh }
trustees have in some instances made
the township a single district under
one supervisor, but have rarely if ever
required the entire road tax to be paid
in money. 1t might be better to give
the care and the expenditure of Il
highway funds to the county board {
supervisors. permitting them to eXpend
in the several townships all the tax s
raised in the township by contract +
new grades and the maintaining in
good order all grades already made
contracting for crawling the grades
wherever that is available.
Old methods of making and caring
for the roads have followed us from
primitive times in the older eastern
states, and must be relegated to the
dead past before we can hope for very
much better highways. A more just
method Of taxation whereby the prop
erty of all the people, bondholders and
railroads, telegraph, telephone and al
other public utilities, are made to pay
their just proportion of the taxes by al
assessment of their properties accord
ing to their cash or selling value, the
same as farm or the merchants
stock of goods or the capital of a bank
will aid materially in equalizing the
burdens of making and maintaining
better roads.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1901-06-05
Forest Hymn.

The groves were Gods first temples. Ere man
learned
To hew the shaft and lay the architrave
And spread the roof above them, ere he framed
The lofty vault to gather and roll back
The sound of anthems, in the daTking wood,
Amidst the cool and silence he knelt down
And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks
And Supplications. Let me then, at least,
Here in the shadow of this aged wood,
Offer one hymn-thrice happy, if it fnd
Acceptance in his ear.
Father, thy hand
Hath reared these venerable columns. Thou
Didst weave this verdant roof. Thou didst look
down
Upon the naked earth, and forthwith rose
All these fair ranks of trees. They in thy sun
Budded and shook their green leaves in the breeze
And shot toward heaven. The century living
crow
Whose birth was in their tops grew old and died
Among their branches till, at last they stood,
As now they stand, massy and tall and dark,
Fit shrine for humble worshiper to hold
Communion with his Maker These dim vaults,
These winding aisles, of human pomp or pride
Report not. No fantastic carvings show
The boast Of vain race to change the form
OF thy fair works. But thou art here; thou fill st
The solitude; thou art in the soft winds
That run along the summit of these trees
In music; thou art in the cooler breath,
That, from the inmost darkness of the place,
Comes, scarcely felt The barky trunks, the
ground,
The fresh, moist ground, are all instinct with
thee. Bryant.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1901-06-05
PRAIRIE HIGHWAYS.
DIFFICULTIES OF ROAOMAKING IN
IOWA AND ILLINOIS.

Methods by Which the Desired Re-
suits May BE Obtained-Taxes Must
Be Paid In Money - All Property
Must Contribute.
In an article in The Prairie Farmer
Mr.. H. H. Fitch of Iowa discusses the
problem "How Shall We Improve
HighwaysT He says:
Not by running in debt and issuing
bonds which will remain a mortgage
on our farms until paid by increased
taxation. Such measures would drive
more people to the towns and make
our boys and girls less willing to re-
main on the farms and follow the &C.
cupation of tillers Of the soil. Yet we
want and must have better roads. The
demand for rural free mail delivery is
urgent and pressing the general gov
eminent from every quarter. This de-
mand cannot be met without roads
suitable for light vehicles at all sea-
sons of the year, under all conditions
of the weather.
How shall we make the roads better?
We must make them, for the most
part of the soil and near by where the
road is located. The alluvial soil of the
greater portion of Iowa, Illinois and a
considerable portion of other adjoining
states is rich in humus and all the con-
stituents that are needed to enable 1t
to produce bountiful crops. But these
materials are not the best for making
a solid roadbed impervious to water
and free from mud and water in rainy
weather. But roads of this material
may be made possible even in wet
weather if properly drained and the
grade maintained in an oval form, so
that the water which falls thereon
shall find it's way quickly to the bitches
beside the road and on to the sea.
A very large number Of good and
sufficient grades have been built by the
townships and counties of Iowa and
other states, which, for want of proper
care, are quagmires and almost, if not
altogether, impossible in a rainy sea-
son or in the annual break up of the
springtime. To put these in order and
keep them so we must have some man
or men who can do it when the ground
is in condition for such work and the
farmers are busy in their fields plant
ing and sowing. The road supervisor
must not be a farmer, and here in To-
wa he should work under the direction
Of the township trustees.
We have machines in almost every
township for grading and ditching
which, if properly handled, will take
the earth from the edges of the road
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1901-06-05

No. 436.-Diamond /. G. 2. Sol. 8.
Fumed. 4. Support. 5. Companion. 6.
Leonine. Z. Drink. s. Toe. 8. N.
No. 437. = Geographical Puzzle: 1.
Champlain. 2. Rockingham.
No. 43S-What Meter2 Chronometer.
No. 439.-Primal Acrostic: Lincoln. 1.
Lafayette. 2. Icarus. 3. Napoleon. 4.
Cook. 5. Ontario. @. Livingstone. Z.
Nelson.
No. 440.-Hidden Words: Train, trait,
cat, rat, angle, ream, hake, car cap,
craw, cram.
No. Diminishing Rhyme: Chill, hill,
rill, i'll, still, thrill. mill, achill. shrill.
No. 442.-Rhomboid: Across-1. Games.
2 Named. g. Dvan. 4. Tenor. 5. New
er. Down.. G. 2. An. 3. Mad 4.
Emit. 5. Seven. G. Dane. Z. Now. 8.
Re. 0. II.
No. 443.-Arithmograph Red Riding
Hood.
No. 444. Beheadinrs; Hash, ash. Tin,
In. Reel, eel. Kill. i'll.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1901-06-05
The Song of the Camp.

"Give lis a song!' the soldiers cried,
The outer trenches guarding,
When the heated guns of the camps allied
Grew weary of bombarding.
The dark Redan in silent scoff
Lay, grim and threatening, under,
And the tawny mound of the Ma .akof
No longer belched its thunder.
There was a pause. guardsman said:
eve storm the forts tomorrow.
Sing while we may; another day
Will bring enough of SORROW"
They lay along the battery's side,
Below the smoking cannon,
Brave hearts from Severn and from Clyde
And from the banks of Shannon.
They sang of love and not of fame,
Forgot was Britain's glory;
Each heart recalled a different name,
But all sang "Annie Laurie"
Voice after voice caught up the song
Until its tender passion
Rose like an anthem, rich and strong,
Their battle eve confession.
Dear girl! Her name he dared not speak;
But, as the song grew louder,
Something upon the soldiers cheek
Washed off the stains of powder.
Beyond the darkening ocean burned
The bloody sunsets embers,
While the Crimean valleys learned
How English love remembers,
And once again fire of he'll
Rained on the Russian quarters
With scream of shot and burst of shell
And believing of the mortars!
And Irish Morals eyes are dim
For singer dumb and CORY,
And English Mary mourns for him
Who sang of annie Laurie"
Sleep, soldiers, still in honored rest,
Your truth and yalor wearing.
The bravest are the tenderest;
The loving are the daring.
-Bayard Taylor.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1901-06-05

triton. In time the heart, liver, lungs,
or other organs are involved and the
engineer has to lay off.
DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery
cures diseases of the stomach and organs
of digestion and nutrition. 1t purifes
the blood and builds up the body with
sound healthy flesh.
vI used ten bottles of DR.. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery and several walls of his Pleas
ant Pellets year ago this spring, and have had
no trouble with indigestion since" writes Mr..
w. r Thompson, of Townsend, Broadwater Co.,
Montana NWords fail to tell how thankful I
am for the relief, as I had suffered SO much and
it seemed that the doctors could do me no good.
got down in weight to I2S pounds, and was not
able to work at all Now weigh 100 and can
do DAYS work the farm. l have recon-
mended your medicine to several, and shall
always have a good word to say for DR.. Pierce
and his medicine.p
DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets cure con-
stipation.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1901-06-05
For the Highways.

The good roads officials of the gov
eminent are felicitating themselves
over the fact that, although congress
failed to pass the river and harbor bill
it did appropriate $4,000 for the cause
of good roads. Even though this was
$4,000 less than the amount asked
for, the beautifiers of the public high
ways are thoroughly satisfied with the
treatment accorded them by congress
all things and all appropriations con
sidered.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1901-06-05
BREED TO ASHLAND CHIMES.

WHY? Because he is grand individual !;
he is fast, large and handsome. We have driven
him quarters in 80 seconds, straight away in his
years old form. He took the blue ribbon at
the State Fair, Tilton, N. n, in 1896 and 1897.
He was fOaled March s, 1894, stands 16 IA hands
high, a beautiful bay ana weighs 1900 pounds
a break. In breeding to him, you stand more
than an even chance 10 get phenomenal speed.
If you fail in this, you will be sure to get
large, stylish, gentlemen's Toadsters, which will
bring more money than under. sized 2:30 trOt-
tiers. You will see that he is as well bred as any
of them, far better than most of them.
HIS SIRE, Merrimack Chimes, was by Chimes,
sire of Fantasy, 3 yr, :08 "a, yr, 2:06; The
Monk, yr, 2:0S Ia; The Abbott, yr, III l 2;
Merry Chimes, 2:08 Ia; Ed EastOn, 2.09 "a; May
Bug, yr, 2:l7 IL; fanny Bug, yr, 2l7 IL;
Princess Royal, 220; Midnight Chimes, 3 yr,
2:l6 Ia, al 80 others with records from 2:l5 to
I? 80. Dam of Merrimack Chime. Velvet, by
MambrnO King. sire of Nightingale, 2 0S Moon
yr, 2 :09 3d. and 81 others in 80 list; also dam
of Palo Alto Chimes, years cid record, 2 IL
IA.
DAM OF ASHLAND CHIMES, Lady Davis,
dam of r. NJ. Wilkes, which was sold for $500,
2 % IL, by Kearsarge, by Honest Allen, by
Ethan Allen. Second dam, Gyp, a renowned
road mare, by Black Hawk, 3.
His colts are all large, sound and fast.
Terms: SIS to warrant, for s26, with
return privileges.
T.w. uTToN, Manager
MORRIsvILLE, VT.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1901-06-05
Maintenance. of Dirt Roads,

The maintenance of dirt roads afteI
being properly constructed is usually
left to the elements; consequently thu
roadmaker is compelled to rebuild hi
road annually, while the employment
of caretaker or overseer at all times
on all roads would maintain our dir
roads in fair condition with presen
taxation.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1901-06-05
GEMS IN VERSE.
OLD FAVORITES.

Though Lost to Sight, to Memory
Dear.
Sweetheart, goodby That fut'ring sail
Is spread to watt me far from thee,
And soon before the farth'ing gale
Ny ship shall bound upon the sea.
Perchance, all des'late and forlorn,
These eyes shall miss thee many year,
But unforgotten every charm,
Though lost to sight, to memory dear.
Sweetheart goodby! One last embraced
Oh, cruel fate two souls to sever!
Yet in this hearts most secret place
Thou thou alone, shall dwell forever,
And still shall recollection trace
In Fancy's mirror, ever near
Each smile, each tear, that form, that face,
Though lost to sight, to memory dear.
-Ruthven Jenkyns, 1701.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1901-06-05

I. Upper left hand square: 1. Likewise.
2. To jump. 8. A feminine name. 4. A
precious stone.
IL. Upper right hand square: 1. A small
bed. 2. A letter belonging to the written
language of the ancient Norsemen. 3.
Public houses. 4. Most excellent.
III. Central square: l. Water falling
in drops. 2. An old word meaning cal
though" 3. A large bird. 4. A snug
dwelling.
". Lower left hand square: 1. An old
word meaning ITO check" 2. A number.
3. An old word meaning 'of a bright col
or" 4. Busy insects.
V. Lower right hand square: 1. An is
land. 2. A support. 3. Recent. 4. Parts
of the body.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1901-06-05
No. 453.-Numerical Enigma
No. 4o4.-HistoricaI Characters.

No. 454.-HistOricaI Characters.
1. Break the bread into small pieces
and do it thoroughly.
2. Put slightly intoxicated before us.
3. The answer to the question, I'm
what article of dress shall we steal"
4. Place one of the wonders of China
before an inhabitant of a country Of
Europe.
5. Deface metal and tell what lisp
ing girl said to a gentleman who asked
her name
6. A style of furniture and architec-
ture.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1901-06-05
An Essential Point,

"Going to learn to play the cornet, Ell?
Do you think your wind is good enough"
"Oh, l can blow the instrument all
right"
Eyes, but mean do you think you
could outrun any pursuer?" - Detroit
Free Press.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1901-06-05
No. 447-NumeraI Puzzle.

From one thousand five hundred and
ffty-one take five hundred and ffty-one;
to the remainder add one and fifty and
five hundred, but in declaring the result
do mot" appear to be wild"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1901-06-05
No. 44s.-Accented syIlnbIes.

When the following words have been
rightly guessed, add the accented sylla-
bles in the order numbered and form the
name of an American war vessel:
1. Jolly. 2. Eagerness to surpass an
other 3. Stainless.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1901-06-05

note in that jum-
bic of sounds
would catch his
ear as quickly as
a discord would
strike the ear of
the leader of an
orchestra.
He thinks more
Of his engine than
himself. That is
why he neglects
to notice symp-
toms which are
full of warming.
The foul tongue,
the bitter taste,
sour risings, and
undue fullness af-
ter eating are but
symptoms of dys-
pepsia or some
form of disease in
volving the stom-
ach and organs of
digestion and nu-
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1901-06-05
The Engineer

Leaning from the cab window does more
with his ears than his eyes. The vrum-
Bile and grumble and roar" of his engine
are to him articulate speech, and false
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1901-06-05

Money isn't much Of an argument per-
haps, but it is so dead easy to follow
New York Herald.