davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-08-12

ono hour would Yield pillar OF steel .
feet in diameter and llO feet high, the
altitude Of a tall church steeple. The
work OF year would construct a steel
wall five feet in thickness. 20 feet high
and 100 miles long. sufficient 10 inclose
London and its suburbs i'm a circle OF
about 30 miles I'm diameter. The foun-
dation Of the wall itself would occupy
60 acres.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-08-12

statement here. but even then the Porto
Ricans were not satisfied as to their
status. In fact, IL / may Judge by the
opinions OF those with whom / have
conversed-and have seen many intel
ligent persons in every part OF the is
land-they did not know whether or not
they had any status at all. But they
still clung to the flag, with few excep-
tions Loyalty. and believed In their
hearts that all would come out right in
the end. These hopeful ones have had
their expectations gratifed, and now
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-08-12

as few changes as possible, left all the
local alcaldes, etc, in Office and Sc
lected his official advisers from among
the Porto Ricans, the latter being
known as the insular cabinet, or coun.
ell of secretaries. The machinery OF
the courts and municipalities was
practically undisturbed. but the island
was divided into military districts. con-
trolled by army officers OF experience
General Brooke was succeeded by Gen.
eral Guy V. Henry. who governed Justly.
but in the main with a leaning toward
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-08-12
How the Natives Regard Free Trade.

mouth from day to day, the bounteous
charity bestowed upon them by our
people after the destructive hurricane
of two years ago having given them the
impression that they are always 10 be
fed. clothed and housed by a generous.
paternal government
The march Of events has been rapid,
and for the comprehension OF our pres
ent condition recapituatlon OF occur
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-08-12

taries OF the Duke OF Cornwall II al
legged that ~ was the intention OF the
duke 20 present a sovereign and the
duchess a silver spoon 10 every child
born on the day on which the royal vis-
itors landed on Australian soil az Mel
bourne. The number of applications
for these royal gifts that have poured
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-08-12

cease altogether. The corporation OF
Portsmouth. knowing that he promised
TO open a charitable bazaar In the
town. arranged to present him with
sword Of honor before he departed. but
was Informed that his lordship wished
70 defer accepting the gift until . later
date.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-08-12

rences since the American occupation
Is almost essential. On July %, 1898.
little more than three years ago. Gen
eral Miles landed his little army of oc-
cupation on the 2Sth the invaders
were enthusiastically welcomed at
Ponce, and few days later the Span
iards were fleeing over the great mill
tary road in the direction of San Juan.
The peace protocol halted the Ameri-
cans in the flush of victorious pursuit,
and the middle of August saw the en-
trance of the cruiser New Orleans into
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-08-12

nearly as keen an angler as her.slster.
the Duchess Of Fife. but the lives OF the
queen and princess are buster than
hers.
A paragraph published in England
and extensively reproduced in Austria
liza has been the source OF a queer di-
lemma confronting the private secre-
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-08-12

pert fisher. Queen Alexandra also
knows how TO handle a rod, and she
likes nothing better than taking the
rod and reel accompanied by one OF her
daughters. and having an hour or two's
restful sport. Princess Victoria Is very
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-08-12
FOLK OF TITLE.

The Duchess of Fife is said 60 be un-
doubtedly foremost among royal fish
orwomen. She enjoys most OF her an
Cling in the Dee. in Aberdeenshire.
where there are salmon Of surprising
size md beauty TO be taken by the ex-
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-08-12

work may seem out OF place at this
time, as it has already been passed
upon, and his place is assured as one
OF the foremost writer's of fiction OF the
time. He may never write another
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-08-12

Grated in any writer less liked and less
famous than Hardy. This may be at
tributed TO constant dwelling among
the coarse though quaint rustics OF
Dorset and TO viewing them at close
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-08-12

The largest seal cargo ever obtained
has been landed az ST Johns. New
foundland. from the steamer Terra
Nova. IL consisted OF 10000 seals.
weighing 500 tons.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-08-12

work just like Far From the Madding
Crowd, though some held Tess OF the
D'Urberviiles' TO surpass u. In his
later productions, like the one last men
toned and especially In Jude the OBJ
scure," there Is much coarseness and
even vulgarlty which would not be toll
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-08-12
ENORMOUS STEEL pRoDucTroy,

The worlds annual production OF bes-
semer steel would make a column 100
feet in diameter-the size OF a moder.
ately sized gas tank and a mile and
third high.
The worlds steel production during
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-08-12

The United Kingdom has $50 blast
furnaces: France has $40.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-08-12

month Of July has always
been an eventful one In the
ialane OF Porto RicoHas well
axe as i'm the United States. but
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-09-24
GOOD BOOKS.

Good books, like good friends, are few
and chosen-the more select the more
enjoyable-A. Bronson Alcott.
A good book is the precious lifeblood
of master spirit, embalmed and treas
ured up on purpose, to life beyond life.
John Milton.
Books, like proverbs, receive their
chief value from the stamp and esteem
of ages through which they have passed.
Sir William Temple.
OF all the things which man can do or
make here below, by far the most mo-
mentous, wonderful and worthy are the
things we call books.-Thomas Carlyle.
knowledge of books in man of bust
ness is a torch in the hands of one who is
willing and able to show those who are
bewidered the way which leads to pros
perity and welfare.-Jos eph Addison.
A taste for books l would not exchange
for the wealth of the Indies. The miser-
les of a vacant life are never known to a
man whose hours are insufficient for the
ineXhaustible pleasure of study.-Gibbon.
Except a living man, there is nothing
more wonderful than a book, message
to us from the dead, from human souls
whom we never saw, who lived perhaps
thousands of miles away, and yet these,
on those little sheets of paper, speak to
us, amuse us, witty US, teach us, com
fort US, open their hearts to us as broth
ers.-Charles Kingsley.
Above all, there is this value in books
that they enable us to converse with the
dead. There is something in this beyond
the mere intrinsic worth Of what they
have left us. When a persons body is
moldering, cold and insensble in the
grave, we feel a sacred sentiment Of ven
Grafton for the living memorials of his
mind.-Sir Egerton Bridges.
Books, it is true, are silent as you see
them on their shelves; but, silent as they
are, when | enter library | feel as if
almost the dead were present, and know
that if put questions to these books they
will answer me with all the faithfulness
and fullness which have been left in them
by the great men who left the books with
us.-John Bright.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-09-24
MONEY LOST IN STREET CARS.
Conductor Estimates That In New
York 1t FOOts Up $4,000 a Year.

Conductor Estimates That In New
York 1t FOOts Up $4,000 a Year.
"Have you any idea how much money
Is lost in the street cars of this town.
asked a street railway conductor Of re-
porter the other day after he had picked
up a dime and slowed it in an inside
pocket "Well, there's a lot Of it, and
no one knows it better than we conduct
ors. Hunting for coins on the bottom
of my car is one of the regular CRAFTS,
and any other conductor who has been in
the business long enough to get his eyes
open is on the same lay.
"Last year 1 made up my mind to put
away every cent found in my car in an
old iron bank l had at home for the
benefit of my youngster. l kept slowing
the coins away and at the end of the
year l had $607. OF course that's not
barrel of money, but it's a right nice
pick up for conductor. The biggest
find l made that year was a 80 cent
piece. From that the coins ran all the
way down to a cent. In the winter time
the pickings are especially good, for then
every one has on gloves, and coins slip
from the fingers to the floor without the
owners knowing it. The only way to
De sure you nave an inc HloHey 10 "
pick up the gratings on the floor. do
that every night as regularly as eat my
supper.
"Now, I've figured it out that if find
Sc in one year it's very likely that the
other conductors average somewhere near
that sum- maybe more, maybe less.
There are several thousand conductors in
Greater New York, so that it's safe to
say that at least $4,000 or $4,000 is
annually dribbled into the floors of street
cars by the passengers. In this estimate
1 don't include large sums, which are
sometimes lost in wallets or purses.
conductor is expected to turn these in at
the office, and about all of them do. But
the nickels and dimes and quarters are
legitimate pickings, and we all have our
eyes peeled for them. New York Sun.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-09-24
THE BEEHIVE.

A good supply of empty combs is half
the battle in beekeeping.
Arrange the hives so that all dampness
can be kept away from them.
Submitting combs to the fumes of burn
ing sulphur will rid them of moths.
Worker bees are dwarfed female bees,
so small that they never become impreg-
mated and lay no eggs.
Good sealed honey and that gathered
during the first of the season is always
best for winter feeding.
Bees do not like to be hastily handled
and will repel all quick motions. There
fore move quietly in handling them.
While bees will live with very little at
tention or expense, yet to make them
profitable they must have good care.
Many bees are lost by not being able
to reach the entrances of hives that are
set up some distance from the ground.
There is great difference in stocks OF
bees, so much so that it is almost i'm
possible to find two stocks exactly alike.
Comb building ceases at the winding up
of the honey flow at any season of the
year. Bees are not known to secrete
wax and build comb at any time other
than when they are gathering honey or
being fed.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-09-24
The Ear and the Phumh.

There is whole world Of telltale indi-
cations in the apex of the ear. If it lies
close to the head, the owner possesses a
refined nature but if the top starts away
from the head at well defined angle
that person has an uneven disposition
and is not to be relied upon. If a girls
thumb lies fiat or droops a little, marital
submission to the master mind is indi-
Gated. If the thumb has a tendency TO
stand at right angles TO the hand, the
damsel owning it is headstrong.
A person of weak character has a
pendent thumb. The strong character
has strong, erect thumb. Fingers which
bend backward mean powerful deter
mination. If they are round, strength,
both physical and mental, is indicated.
Stubby fingers are grasping fingers. Fin
ger nails that are rounded show refine
ment; if long and rather square at the
top, firmness and energy are denoted
Leslie's Weekly.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-09-24
A ELIGHTlNG NIGHT.

On fighting night when the shore winds blow
And the birds are hurrying fast and low,
When the curlews wall the white waves crest
When the peewits fly from the fading west,
When the waders drift from the northern shore
And the tide sweeps In with sullen roar,
The moon shines glimmering cold and bright
On fighting night, on fighting night
On the low, bare fats where the sand bars rise
The long grass rustles, the reed stem signs,
The wind blown shngle lies cold and gray,
The waves are calling a mile away;
The brent comes sailing along the wind,
The divers and dunlins flock behind,
The gulls go wheeling in circles white,
On fighting night, on fighting night
Over the fats the widgeons cry
As they rush like a gale through the darkling
sky;
Over the single the wild fowl glide
To meet their prey In the shore borne tide.
Over the ridges the hooded crow
Follows the gunner to and fro,
His keen eye searching to left and right,
On a fighting night, fighting night
On fighting night the gunner hears
The sough of the wind as 1t shifts and veers,
The sting of the spray his forehead whips,
The salt of the ooze is on his lips,
And the Joy of the storm driven, churning tide
As it seethes on the sand wastes far and wide
Beats in his blood with fierce delight
On fighting night, on fighting night
Mary Bradford Whiting in Spectator.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-09-24
Borrett and the Dictionary.

Poverty and drudgery kept Lawrence
Barrett out of school, and only when
callboy did he really learn to read. Then
that head of his came to his aid. Beg
ging candle ends from the theater, he
would go to his wretched little room and
stick them on tacks purposely nailed into
the floor. as the ends were too short for
candlestick There, lying fat on his
stomach. the future tragedian taught
himself to read out of an old copy Of
Johnson's dictionary.
"I'll wager | can trip you up on the
first page" said Laurence Hutton on be-
ing told this incident.
"Try me-" replied Barrett.
A very extraordinary page is that first
of Johnsons dictionary. beginning with
such unusual words as aaronical, abacist,
abatis, all of which Barrett spelled and
defined correctly.
"What's 'abacotP"
"a cap of state used in old times by
our English kings, wrought up in the hg-
ure of two crowns"
whats 'abannition?
"a Punishment for one or two years for
manslaughter."
whats 'abditoryY"
"a place to hide and preserve goods
in"
The very words of dictionary that
Barrett had not opened for 80 years!
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-09-24

The train had just recommended its
journey toward Bedale.
"What did the porter say was the next
station?" asked one passenger of another.
Excuse me-" said passenger No. z
'you mean what is the next station. It's
still station, you know"
You're wrong. What it was, wasn't
it? Is is was, but was is not necessarily
is"
"Now you're getting ridiculous" said
the second speaker irritably. what was
is, and what is is. Is was is, or is is
was?"
Don't be foolish! What may be is,
but is is not was Is was was. but if was
was is. then 1t isn't is, or was wasn't was.
If was is, was is was, isn't it? But if is
is was, them
Listen. Is is, was was, and is was,
and was is; therefore Is was is, and was
was. and is is was"
"Shut up. will you! I've gone by my
station already"
And there was a silence for awhile
London Answers.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-09-24
Rome, and / will write you from Lon.

Rome, and l will write you from Lon
DON"
complied with her request, inwardly
resolved that 1 would not allow the
friendship thus begun to lapse. "How,"
said to her. with sigh as we steamed
into Bale-"how l wish | were going to
Calais! You will be quite safe, you
think?"
quite, now" she answered brightly.
"Shall | ever forget your
"Shall l ever forget your" I retorted
warmly. Never" She was in the act of
tenderly raising her violin case, but she
turned and looked at me with an odd
smile, smile l could not understand,
that l scarcely liked, it seemed inclined
to tremble into sneer.
II don't suppose" she said slowly,
''you ever will"
She said no more but descended from
the carriage, l following her, thinking
how wonderfully she carried off her
great height
eve will part now" she said, pausing
at the entrance to the waiting room.
"Your train starts soon. Goodby, Mr..
Wilmot."
You will not forget your PROMISE"
said entreatingly, toto write to me, to
to send me-
l looked at her beautiful hair. She
laughed and nodded her head.
'You shall have it," she said softly.
"Do not fear"
Thus we parted, and l suddenly felt
that the world had grown dark and drear
/ could scarcely wait for that promised
letter from my beautiful unknown, of
whose name even / was ignorant But
one day there came a parcel from Lon
don, rather a bulky one, addressed in a
bold hand. l removed fold after fold of
tissue paper till at length the object of
such careful packing lay before me, and
stared in utter stupid amazement and be-
wilderment at-a golden wig of the love-
nest hair imaginable and pinned to the
scalp was a letter addressed to me. 1t
read as follows:
You see l am keeping my word as regards send
ing you lock Of hair with great generosity, for
/ am sending you the whole blooming concern.
don't know when l enjoyed anything more than
those few hours with you, my impressionable
young friend! You were Of great service to me.
I was afraid that l should be nabbed to a GER
sanity, for my violin case may as well tell you.
contained jewels, the proceeds Of a long and en-
joyable tour among European hotels this winter,
that were not exactly my property, though posses
sion is, we know, nine points OF the law.
You swallowed my hastily concocted tale as
fish does fly, and your claiming me as a sister
put those police off the track instantly. may
well confess that while you were fetching me a
glass of water / saw the policemen and instantly
changed violin cases with you, so that had there
been search the onus would have fallen on you.
JACK ALLANsoN.
Traveller.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-09-24
THE HILLTOP.

Yonder the hilltop rises. We're you there
How opulent prospect would unfold
Forest and field beneath the morn outrolled
And SUBMITS climbing skyward like stairl
About you and above you lucent air;
Around your feet the cleaning kingcup gold
And little vestal violets, snowy stoled,
And near, in shadowy hooks, the maidenhair.
In the adjacent boughs the boon of song
Bird harmonies with leafy interludes,
Guides to content and calm, sequestere,
moods,
And far, so faint and far you cannot ken,
The oppressive city with its moiling throng,
The clamor and the ceaseless surge of meni
Clinton Scollard in Critic.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-09-24

"There was one occasion" said the
train robber who was exchanging remin-
iscences with his companions, when l
came pretty near letting chance go by
"But your presence Of mind saved
your"
Exactly. | had boarded train and
discovered that had carelessly left .all
my firearms behind me. But the Black
Raven Ranger was not to be daunted. |
took the porter's white jacket and whisk
broom. 1t was little slow, but got all
there was before l quit. Washington
Star.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-09-24
Kinship Names.

Katie, the romping 6-year-old, came
dancing and singing into the parlor.
Then, seeing a strange caller, she stop
ped, abashed.
This is my little daughter" said her
mother Katie, this is Mrs. Bags"
"How do you do, Mrs. Baggs? saiu
Katie, anxious to remove any unfavor-
able impression the visitor might have
formed. Il know little girl at school
named Sake Is she any relation of
yours ?'-Chicago Herald.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-09-24
The Bucksaw, the Seesaw and thu
Buck That Saw Esau Saw.

The Bucksaw, the Seesaw and the
Buck That Saw Esnu Saw.
An old farmer of Arkansas, whose sons
had all grown up and left him, hired a
young man of the name OF Esau Buck to
help him on his farm. On the evening Of
the first day they hauled up a small load
of poles for wood and unloaded them be-
tween the garden and the barnyard.
The next morning the old man said to
the hired man, "Esau, / am going to
town today, and while l am gone you
may saw up that wood and keep the old
ram out of the garden"
When the old man had gone, Esau
went out to saw the wood but when he
saw the saw he wouldn't saw it. When
Esau saw the saw, he saw that he
couldn't saw it with that saw. Esau
looked around for another saw, but that
was the only saw he saw, so he didn't
saw it. When the old man came home,
he says to Esau, "Esau, did you saw the
wood? Esau said, Il saw the wood,
but | wouldn't saw it, for when l saw
the saw l saw that l couldn't saw with
that saw, so l didn't saw it." The old
man went out to see the saw, and when
ne saw tAG saw AS saw tAAetN A@~"NN
couldn't saw with that saw. When Esau
saw that the old man saw that he
couldn't saw with the saw, Esau picked
up the ak and chopped up the wood and
made a seesaw. The next day the old
man went to town and bought new
bucksaw for Esau Buck, and when he
came home he hung the bucksaw for
Esau Buck on the sawbuck by the see
saw.
Just at this time Esau Buck saw the
old buck in the garden eating cabbage,
and when driving him from the garden
to the barnyard Esau Buck saw the
bucksaw on the sawbuck by the seesaw,
and Esau stopped to examine the new
bucksaw. Now when the old buck saw
Esau Buck looking at the new bucksaw
on the sawbuck by the seesaw he made
a dive for Esau, missed Esau, hit the
seesaw, knocked the seesaw against Esau
Buck, who fell on the bucksaw on the
saw buck by the seesaw. Now when the
old man saw the old buck dive at Esau
Buck and miss Esau and hit the seesaw
and knock the seesaw against Esau and
Esau Buck fall on the bucksaw on the
sawbuck by the seesaw he picked up the
ak to kill the old buck, but the buck
saw him coming and lodged the blow
and countered on the old mans stomach,
knocked the old man over the seesaw
on to Esau Buck who was getting up
with the bucksaw off the sawbuck by the
seesaw, crippled Esau Buck, broke the
bucksaw and the sawbuck and the see
saw.
Now when the old buck saw the com
pleteness Of his victory over the old man
and Esau Buck and the bucksaw and the
sawbuck and the seesaw he quietly turn
ed around, went back and jumped into
the garden again and ate up what was
left Of the old mans cabbage.-Hartford
Times
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-09-24
His vi1lniny Exposed.

"Why, dear. what's the matter with
you? Bad news from your husbandT
"Oh, worse than that. He writes me
that he is longing for me and kisses my
picture every day"
THAT'S no reason for crying"
ayes, but find put mothers photo
graph in his trunk in mistake for mine.
.-RrooklYn Life.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-09-24
Ennal to Any Emergency.

The story is told of the late Du
Maurier that when a young man in Paris
he was one day waited upon in his studio
by model who later became famous
for her great beauty.
"What do you sit for?" asked the
young artist patronizingly.
The model looked round the room and
elevated her nose
ooh" she said, "for anything that you
lke, sir; landscape, if necessary. STRAY
Stories