davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-12-03

c. F. Menninger, NJ. D.. office ~ Kan
sas ave Tel 10; residence 1851 Topeka
ave. Tel. So. Office hourss TO p. m.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-12-03
no cure q cold In One Day

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets
Druggists refund money if it fails to cure
E. W. Groves signature on each box. zoc
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-12-03


wis Ihadno land
had
womb ~ twice but that did good
followed advice carefully
baby which 1
frightened
Chicago Ill Il,
but e.
Heget3le compound did die but mother of
day her life She D
Benont
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-05-20
Powder-Puff Wisdom.

DR.. Casserole, Nine. Sarah Bern
hardt's beauty doctor, says that while
he recommends the use of face pow
ders, no white ones should be bought
especially in countries where electric
light is common
The puff boy in all cases should con
tain tinted powder; creamy white to
suit the naturally fragile and delicate
looking complexion, pink to tone in
with robust visage, and a slightly
Drowned brand to glorify the olive
cast Of countenance.
Nine. Bernhardt's beauty doctor also
points out that all and every vestige
of make up" be it paint or powder
should be removed every night. No
one should try her complexion to
breaking point; therefore, no one
should sleep in the mask she wears by
day. On the other hand, she should
remove it very tenderly and carefully
recollecting the fact that the skin OF
the face is fundamentally sensitive
and requires treatment that would be-
fit piece Of rarest porcelain, rather
than of the kind that paving stone re-
quires
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-05-20

pletely than would a volume of writing,
how thoroughly the church has reared
its influence upon the ruins Of the once
proud empire of Philip II and of
Charles V.
There are other great castles like
the Puerto del Sol at Toledo, the AL
hambra and the castle of Simancas, i'm
which latter was preserved for cent
uries the archives of CASTLE. The
palatial residence which the duke de
Montpensier's family still retain also
! overlooks the slopes of the city of Sc
vile, in which place was born the bull
fight. Then there is the castle of La
Grampa, situated in a wrinkle of the
Gandarrama mountains, which Philip
1 Y erected upon a crag when he came
from his exile in France to the Spanish
throne. This is literally the castle in
the air and is more inaccessible than
even the Chateau de Bellegorde. 1t
has been the Spanish eminence house
OF all the Bourbon kings When the
sun is calcining the plains of CASTLE
and the streets of Madrid are white
! with the hot light of midsummer this
castle in the clouds is as cool and
| shadowy as northwestern breeze after
passing over valley of drifted SNOW.
] Viewed from the little squalid hamlet
OF SegOvia below, the castle high above
looks like CULTS nest on the edge of
a soaring cliff you raise your eyes. .
writes John Hay in his Castilian Days,
from the market place, with it's
sickenimg, sWarthy crowd to this
grand and soaring wonder of utilitar-
i ian architecture with something Of
fancy that it was never made, and
that is has stood there since the morn
ing of the world. 1t has the lightness
and the strength, the absence of orna-
ment, and essential beauty, the vast
ness and the perfection of a world OF
nature. AS tradition has eaten into
the very life of Spain, and attained
the Judgment of it's people, the peas
antry of the hamlet would boot any
one who attributed any mortal pater-
nifty to this castle in the air or the
! aqueduct by which it is approached
Yet both belong to the gigantic works
of the Emperor Trajan. The people
call the aqueduct the DEVILS bridge
and the castle itself the Devils Nest, .
and from it has arisen the saying
/ build castles in the air. which is
only another form of the folly ascribed
to those who look for castles in
i Spain"
Spain had castles, but she now has
churches. Hence the bon mot.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-05-20

man banks of the Rhine. Spain's cas-
ties have been appropriated by the
church, with about the same ruthless
disregard as the abbeys were after the
conf1scations in England byHenry VIII
abbeys converted into palaces by
the British nobility. The most majes-
tic Of these genuine castles is the
Chateau De Billegorde where accord
ing to Froissart's Chronicles the counts
of Folk used to live in great splendor,
getting up at noon and supping at
midnight. When the count left his
chamber to go to table before him
were borne through its gloomy halls
twelve lighted torches by twelve at
PENDANTS, each attendant holding his
lighted torch while the count dined,
knights and squires sitting admiringly
around 1t is situated ON the edge of a
steep .ravine surrounded by a triple
wall, and approached by narrow
driveway. It used to be place of i'm
mense strength but is now a monast-
cry for the monks Of Navarro.
The Giralde has also been converted
into a cathedral, the tower of which
provided the architectural model OF
Madison Square Garden tower of New
York. 1t ranks with Giotto's famous
Camanilla in Florence, and is the most
perfect sample of true tower of
Islam in Europe.
It rises in square form to a height
Of $50 feet and was built in 1896, but
was renovated by the Christians and
crowned with a graceful figure called
La Fe CThe FAITH, which turns with
the wind and which looks over the
fertile valley of the Guadalquiver, and
over scenes made famous by the mem
cries of Pedro the Cruel
The next is the famous castle OF
Burgos. 1t was i'm the castle of Burgos
that the Cid was born, whose ex-
ploits in peace and war make up so
much of the legendary history OF
Spain. 1t is now the Puerto di Santa
Maria, or Church of st. Mary. From
the center of a quadramgular court
1anked on each side with stately min
arets there rise two immense spires
which eloquently tell that this once
powerful stronghold has ceased to be
of military Importance, though it still
continues to be an object of deep vene-
ration to the Spaniards. The strong
works of a formidable fortress, OF
which trenches and the ruined and
blackened walls remain intact, tell that
the home of the Cid and of Don Sancho
was no ordinary place It is stated as
miraculous instance of divine inter
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-05-20

quarter of an hour after the time I'll
o'clock when the girls were bound
to be indoors when the Bangor Romeo
brought his Juliet to the hostel, and, as
in duty bound, the authorities of the
hostel reported the matter to the col
lege authorities. The penalties of such
a breach of the regulations were, al
most automatically, enforced, in the
result that the young lady was sent
down for the rest of the term and her
lover was sent down for a still longer
period, viz, till the end Of the session,
which was practically suspension for
about IL months.
1.-TWO other delinquentS also in
fringed this rule. and were punished
on a lighter scale. When, on the morn
ing following the passing of the SEN
fences, the first mentioned young lady
and gentleman proceeded to the rail-
way station, en- route for their respec-
tive homes, they were escorted
through the town by cheering and
singing bodyguard of students of both
sexes, who intended to give them a
rousing send-off. The station authori-
ties, however, warned by the noise,
promptly closed the gates against all
but the bona f1de travellers, and the
students were obliged to do their
demonstrating outside the gates This
they did none the less heartily, and
feeling grew so intense that it was
feared that strike would follow, and
the professors and lecturers streamed
down to the college in great perturba-
ton.
However, more moderate counsels
gained the ascendency, and the stu
dents attended classes as usual, but
sent in request to the authorities
to have the sentences reconsidered.
The authorities remained firm and in
formed the students that their request
could not be complied with. The stu.
dents thereupon sent in what is gen
orally regarded as an ultimatum, and
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-05-20

In the future Frenchmen who go
into the interior of Africa and come
out again alive or those who write
important books about Africa, are, if
their efforts are deemed of sufficient
honor to France, to be decorated with
a special medal, says the Montreal
Herald-Star. This decoration will at
first be conferred upon those who
have taken part in the different
missions that have been engaged in
the center of Africa between Lake
Tchad and the High Oubangui The
decoration will be in two classes.
The first will be in the form of a gold
medal for French officers and men
engraved Central Africa" and the
second, which may be conferred upon
foreigners or native troops for "dis-
tinguished service" is a silver medal
with a similar inscription.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-05-20
PROFESSORS VS.. CUPID.
Strike Threatened at College in
Wales.

Strike Threatened at College IN
Wales.
Among the strictest of the rules IN
force at the University College OF
North Wales, at Bangor" says the
London Chronicle, ARE those prescrlD'
ing that each student, male and fe-
male shall be indoors at a certain
hour at night, and that nothing in the
way of courtship shall be INDUCED in
between the male and female students
unless with the avowed sanction OF
the parents or guardians on both sides.
Last week the students held their an
nual Eisteddfod in the college, and
probably the occasion was one which
tended little to loosen the strait
hands Of discipline in this particular
direction. Anyhow, two of the stu
dents, male and female, CHANGED it,
and the gentleman escorted his lady
to her lodgings in the lady's hostel
Possibly no notice would have been
taken Of this had the hours been
strictly observed, but it was about
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-05-20
MICE QUICK TO LEARN.
So Says Maine Man Who Finds
Them Interesting Pets.

Out on Forest avenue is mouse
fancier, whose residence, lest he lose
caste with his neighbors, is withheld.
In pen he has half a dozen or 50
ordinary field mice.
'tThey are the most sociable pets
ever had he remarked, and any
one of them will rise to attention as
he hears my step approach the pen.
have had these young ones about
six months. They don't live long
when cooped up, and they will come
freely to my hand to eat or drink.
Some of them are so tame that they
will climb to my shoulder and display
not the slightest alarm at being
touched They haven't acquired so
much faith in all humanity however,
and have refused to trust any one else
SO far.
while mice eat great deal fer an
animal so small when food is album
dant, they can exist for a surprisingly
long time with next to nothing. Any
one whose house has been infested
with mice and who has passed weary
weeks when everything that possibly
could serve as food was carefully
under lock and key, finally calling to
service an active ferret, will ap-
preciate this fact. He is mighty
aggressive and tireless forager after
food, not hesitating at walls or similar
distractions, through which he
patiently gnaws path. AS a test of
persistence IN this line | hung
basket of food from the ceiling by
rope and after weeks fast placed
a mouse at a hole in the ceiling above
the basket. He descended some eight
feet or more on a slender cord and
safely reached his haven, later climb
ing up again.
"All of my mice have taken from
nests about the premises and notice
that they invariably seek shelter
below or behind something, never in
so exposed locality as almost any
other animal would select. For nest
paper, cloth or any soft material
seems to satisfy, and the exceeding
fineness with which it is chopped
suggests some mighty artistic work
with their teeth. Portland Express.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-05-20
JAPAN IN WINTER.
Colder in Houses OF the Rich Man
Than in Open Sunshine.

Than in Open Sunshine.
81 suppose that the American peo-
pie and the Russians are the only
western races that really keep warm
in winter; still those who dwell in
other countries admit that they have
the same ideal by their inefficient eff
fort to attain to it. The Japanese
winter is most trying on account of it's
continual dampness, but the Japanese
are content to remain cold They
make almost no effort to overcome it.
The old 'Bushido' (chivalrous) idea of
the 'samurai' Cknights) was that It
was effeminate to feel cold. and such
is their severe training that they do
not really feel it as we do. The wear
ing of some extra kiMonos' and the
use of a 'hibachi or brazier, in which
are few tiny sticks Of lighted char
coal, are the only concessions to win
ter weather. With the 'hibachi' they
never pretend to heat more than their
finger tips, which they hold over the
Goals; it is used when the house is en-
tirely open. The houses, as every one
knows, are built of thin, light wood.
and the sliding panels which serve fo~
doors and windows have paper panes.
They are as apt to be open as closed
during the day. When I took my first
iinrikisha' ride through the streets of
Nagaasaki, forgot my own sufferings
in my sympathy for this unhappy ma
ton, which, as surely as the cold
came, endured such misery from it.
The coolies wear thin blue cotton
slothes, and are always padding
through the mud The storekeepers
sit out in their open booths, and the
women go bareheaded about the
streets. In the houses Of the rich, the
still cold behind the closed panels Is
often more intense than that outside
in the sunshine, where the air is stir
ring. The schools and public build
ings are equally frigid. It seems to
me that the only warm things in
Japan we're the babies, who looked
like bundles of gayly-colored crepe,
their round heads covered by knit
caps. They slumber peacefully tucked
down their mothers backs The at
tempt to keep warm in winter is not
entirely modern improvement
though it goes with western civiliza-
ton. The Koreans do it very thor
oughly, the Chinese to certain ex-
tent The Japanese, as a race, con-
tinue to scorn it as they always have
done; and this is merely one Of hun
dred examples which prove that the
Japanese are still true to their tradi-
tions in their daily life, and as yet lit
tie affected in the ordering Of their
homes, by the ideas adopted from the
west. Anna NJ Benjamin in Aims
lees.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-05-20
HALF A MILLION PATENTS.
| American Inventiveness as Attested
by the Records at Washington.


How the Government Promotes
Ingenuity" is told by Charles F. Ban
jamin in the St. Nicholas. The Pat
ent Office is a faithful servant to
those who seek to benefit themselves
and the rest of mankind by new and
useful inventions. It has put the
whole method of proceeding to obtain
patent into a set of printed rules,
instructions, and suggestions, and
sends a copy, without charge or post
age, to anybody in the United States
who writes for one In this pamphlet
is folded full-sized sheet of specimen
pen-drawings of a machine, with a
description of them and these many
a youngster with a taste for me-
chanics or mechanical drawing would
prize. There is a weekly gazette, con-
tanning a picture and short account
of each patent granted since the last
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-05-20
cALHouN's FORMAL WooINe
He Wrote But One Love Letter to His
Pretty Sweetheart.

He Wrote But One Love Letter to His
Pretty Sweetheart.
Though an ardent lover fretting at
times slow course until his wedding
day, John c. Calhoun wrote but one
letter to his sweetheart-his pretty
cousin Floride Calhoun All the
other communications, when the low
ers were separated, were made
through her mother. But shortly be
fore their marriage "the Great Multi
fer wrote expressing his anxiety for
the arrival of the happy day, and the
letter recently come to light is pub
lished in the Ladies' Home Journal.
After giving hearty expression to the
Joy he has found in her company the
letter runs: "* 1t gives me much
satisfaction that time and absence
make no impression on my love for
you; it CLOVIS with no less ardor than
at the moment of parting, which must
be happy omen of it's permanent ma
ture. When mere personal charms
attract, the impression may be VIC
lent but cannot be lasting, and it re-
quires the perpetual presence of the
object to keep it alive; but when the
beauty of mind, the soft and sweet
disposition, the amiable and lovable
character embellished with innocence
and cheerfulness are united to the at
fractions of personal beauty, it bids
defiance to time. Such, my dear
Floride, are the arms by which you
have conquered, and it is by these
the durability of your sovereignty is
established over your subject whom
you hold in willing servitude. May
God preserve you. Adieu, my love;
my hearts delight. I am your true
lover"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-05-20
Pecuniary Study.

Eff / had a million dollars,
[ would halter put on style,
An show my education
In way to make folks smile.
I'd halter shake de cabin
For a dwellin' OATS immense
Instid O. takin' comfort
Wifi dis good oil twenty cents.
I'd halter eat qu'ah vittles,
An go ridin' in a hack.
An buy me some sEspenders
Fob to decorate my back.
An I reckons your would fin me
De unhappiest O. gents,
If I had a million dollars
'Etid O. dis here twenty cents.
Washington Stal
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-05-20
Russell and the Solicitor.

It is said that once when the late
Lord Russell, then Sir Charles, was
on circuit, he became so indignant
with every one in general, and his
solicitor client in particular, that he
seized his large and heavy brief and
smote the solicitor on the head with
it. The solicitor Indignantly collected
his papers and hurried out of court.
murmuring that he would never brief
Sir Charles again.
Sometime afterward a shipping
magnate came to the same solicitor
with a big case. Brief RUSSELL" he
said. The solicitor said he was sorry
but it was impossible, as Russell had
never apologized. ''Then give me my
papers," said the shipowner, ''and TIL
go to some one who will"
Eventually the unhappy man Of
law, not wishing to lose his best client,
had to apologize to Sir Charles Russell
for leaving the court when assaulted.
-Pearson's Weekly.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-05-20
AN AMERICAN COSMOPOLITAN.
Traveller Who in Europe Forgets His
Own Country.

Own Country.
Unlike most of Charles Battell
LOOMS Americans Abroad the
one he introduces to the readers of the
Century is a confirmed cosmopolite.
'You see," said he. to one who has
Travelled, as have, to every quarter
of the globe, this belief of America in
her destiny is notifying. When
am in Europe I forget America.
actually forget her for weeks at a
time
He looked at me as if he did not
expect me to credit him, but l did,
Now, when I'm in America" he
continued, II don't forget England or
the Continent-they make themselves
| felt; but with America, poor, new,
crude America, out of sight is out OF
mind
Don't you believe in a great future
| for America in her art and her music
and her literature and her architec-
ture?"
He looked at me as man looks at
a baby who has upset its pap.
Some years ago, Sydney Smith,
think it was, said: Who reads an
| American book? If he were living now
could truthfully tell him that don't t.
For me there is only one literature,
and that is German. Just as France
| is the great cook, so Germany is the
great litterateur."
| ventured to say, in as much voice
as a worm could muster, that it
| seemed to me that we were holding
our own in all the arts, and that
| probably the coming century would
see America the foremost musical
nation. wanted to see how he'd
take such bold statement He took
it hard. I thought he would have
] tainted
mot really! Is that your honest
opinion?" said he, after weathering
| the shock.
| wished that worms had more back
| bone, because I felt myself writhing
but | managed to whisper something
about the great composers of the flu
ture being Americans, and that per
| haps some Of them were out of their
cradles already.
''Oh, my poor fellow, what hope
less provincial you are! Americans
have a certain mimetic ability; SO has
the ape; but America will never lead
except in the realm of mechanics
NOW, [ have heard all the music of al
the lands; the wild, barbaric strains
of the Dahomeyans, the hideous dis
Japanese, the rude melodies of the
Fuegians, as we'll as the harmonies OF
all the civilized natinos, and to me
Russia is the high priest of modern
music. But, do you know, I rather
like your standing up for American
music. This is your first voyage,
believe. Oh, you have so much, sc
very much to learn, my dear fellow
American music does not carry across
the waters. Europe never hears it
That's what counts, you know. Il
isn't what Americans think of them
selves, but what Europeans think Of
Americans. I know what they think Of
us, and | think like them because
am more a cosmopolite than an Amer
lean, in spite of the accident of my
:. BIRTH
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-05-20
FAMOUS CASTLES OF ANCIENT SPAIN

position, that when the castle of Bur-
COS was blown up by the French, ON
the occasion of the evacuation of Spain
these spires, with their seemingly frag-
lie towers remained uninjured to
greet the eyes of the superstitious
Spaniards while 200 Frenchmen were
buried under the ruins. AS combina-
ton of castle and of cathedral it is one
Of the most remarkable structures in
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-05-20
NE C0gR70FUQN5W74E AZAAH6R47

AS very few Americans now travel in
Spain it is possible that one great
benefit the country will derive from
the recent war is that the average
American will read more about Spain
than ever he cared to know before.
We have all heard some time or
other about the castles of Spain, not
those fortified strongholds which be-
long to the Moors, but castles which
the poets have praised in song and
story. Even our own Longfellow has
made them the subject of his charm
ing rhapsody:
How much of my young heart 0 Spain
Went out to thee i'm days of yore!
What dreams romantic filled my brain
And summoned back to life again
The Paladins of Charlemagne
The Cid Campeador?
But softer Andalusian skies
Dispelled the darkness and the gloom
There Cadiz by the seaside lies
And SeviIle's orange orchards rise
Making the land a paradise
OF beauty and of bloom.
And there the Alhambra still recalls
Aladdin's palace of delight;
Allah il Allah through it's halls
Castles of Spain not built of stone
But Of white summer clouds and blown
Into this little mist of rhyme.
Such palaces of luxury every mind
at some time or other has built in i'm
agination beside bright lakes and
pleasant places
A fantastic Alhambra-like villa
With terrace and fountain and lawn;
Whispers the fountain as it falls
The Dairo darts beneath the walls
The hills with snow are white
But like ruin overgroWn
With flowers that hide the rents OF
time
Stands now the past that have known
A balcony where ones Manila
May be smoked when the dinner
CIUIu > III 0N
Light wines ON ones table to sparkle
New books every day by the train
Which we'll read under trees patr1-
archal
That are grouped round our castle in
Spain.
81 am the owner of great estates
wrote the late George W. Curtis, ex-
pressing in prose the same pardonable
admiration of these castles mot built
of stone" Many of them lie in the
west, but the greater part are IN
Spain. 1t is a country famously ro-
mantle. and my castles are all OF per-
feet proportions and appropriately set
in the most picturesque situations.
Spanish castles, with few exceptions,
are thus the standing jokes OF the
poets and of fiction writer's.
The truth is that while Spain mas
some real castles, She has no such his
toric family residences as are in Eng
land. or as can be seen along the Ger