davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
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ish census. An emigrant in New Zea-
land stated to the authorities that his
mother was q Kafir. his father an
Irishman who had become naturalized
American, but afterwards served In the
French army. and that he himself was
born on the passage between Yokohama
and Colombo In Spanish vessel. Put
him down a Scotchman!" was the Of
fetal decision. Chicago Chronicle.
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What did they do or say?"
Nice for the Tortoise.

"Now Mary" said mistress to her
newly imported maid, 'in the kitchen
there is pet tortoise, and l hope you
will be very kind to it. Do you know
tortoise when you see one?"
mo, mum. Shure, and what loike is
it?"~
After having explained it to her the
girl went and brought it forth.
N"Is that it, num-"
yes"
''Shure, that is what OF was using to
W6rS.
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The Bird They Call the Hen.
OF all the birds our Father made,
The best one is the hen;
He put more brains in her little head
Than He has in some of men,
She does not fly to mountain peaks,
Or soar from zone to zone.
But is content in any place
For her no place like home.
The eagle is the honored bird
Because he aies so high.
Give me a hen-I want no part
OF eagles in the sky!,
When the morning stars first sang for
Joy.
No doubt the rooster crew;
And hens laid eggs in paradise
When this old world was new.
Adown the ages the records show
That hens their parts have played:
Mankind have lived upon their flesh,
And on the eggs they've laid.
And roosters were the ancient clocks.
That told the time of night;
All nations counted on their time
When the sun was out of sight.
Peter heard the ROSTERS crow
When his Master he denied;
But after that when he heard them
crow
He remember how he lied.
Christ wept DER Jerusalem, and said.
Like mother hen.
"Td care for thee-but I cannot
Because you're wicked men,"
Poets may praise the singing birds,
And l will say amen;
But the sweetest song the poor man
hears
Is the cackling of the hen.
Those cackling birds have sung their
oUngs
Six thousand years, no doubt,
Nethinks they're just the things to keep
When a man is all played out.
Exchange.
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Texas Big State House.

The Texas capitol is the largest state
building in the United States, and is
the seventh in size among the buildings
of the world. 1t is vast Greek cross
Of red Texas granite, with central
rotunda covered by dome 311 feet
high. 1t was begun in 1881 and finished
in 1888, having cost about $500, 900. 1t
was paid for with 100000 acres of pub
lie land, decided to the capitalists who
executed the work.
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Extensive skin Grating.

An unusual operation in skin grating
is soon to be attempted in New York,
where a young woman was recently
burned over larger portion of her
body than person is usually able to
survive. For her recovery an extensive
transfer of living skin is necessary, and
this her fiancee very properly offers to
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HER HISTORY.

1t Wasn't Just What the Clerks Ex-
pected.
It was 5 o'clock, and in the big tea
house the Office force was very busy
indeed. The typewriter clicked rapid
ly, and the heavy pens scratched over
the thick leaves.
In the height of the rush a woman
entered the office. She carried fox
muff, and a graceful automobile reach
ec to her feet.
"A stunner!" breathed several of the
Office force, and then the young man
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Obs tacles In His Path.

eyes, they are mighty particular folks
in Cleveland" said the tramp who was
relating some of his adventures. II
If they hadn't been so finicky about
it,
What did they do or say?"
"Why, they wanted me to wait for
an off-shore gale and then to hire tug
and so out six miles before l jumped
overheard? l simply had to defer my
bath till l struck country duck pond. :"
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and now

"You don't get any" he interrupted,
s.for all our friends lavish it on me"
Philadelphia Press.
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where 1t Was Due

EYES," she sneered during the Gus
tomary exhibition Of her temper. I'm
disappointed. married you for pity.
The representative., 1901-06-13

supply. About 80 square inches are to
be taken from his arms and legs In as
many as so round pieces. which will be
implanted in the raw surface of the
young woman's body.
The representative., 1901-06-13
OF Mixed Nationality

The usual humorous incidents were
not lacking in the RECENTLY taken Brit
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-07-17
how TO- Bemu,e Wealthy

In New Hampshire city there
dwells an oetogenarian physician,
who, in addition to bis wide medical
skill, is known Far and wide dispenser
of blunt philosophy. The ethe. day
g young man Of his acquaintance call
ed at his Office.
II have rot come for pills this
time, doctor" said the visitor, "but
for advice. You have lived many
years in this world of toll and trouble
and have had much experience. am
young. and ! want you to tell me how
to get rich.
The aged practitioner ga7ed through
his glasses at the young man, and in a
deliberate tone said:
Yes, can tell you. You are
young and can accomplish your object
if you will. Your plan is this: First,
be industrious and economical. Save
as much as possible and spend as
little. Pile up the dollars and put
them at interest. If you follow out
these instruction, by the time you
reach my age you'll be rich as Croesua
and as mean as h-l."- BsGazo Com,
7neyciGf.
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New Jerusalem somewhere in the
South after they had licked us.
But We nipped the little plan in the
bud right then and there, for l never
saw any Of these things in subsequent
captures. In one tent l found lot
Of cidcr-vincgar. | got a pint cup and
flied it to the brim. l tasted it. II
was soca to nc then. l drank !: all.
The reason it didn't upset ME, l
reckon, was because my appetite had
turned to brass aud my stomach to
sheet iron. That was ali ate or
tasted. ! finally, after going into
about all the tents, fastened onto
side of bacon placed my bayoncs
on my gun aud stuck the bayonct
through the side Of bacon, and putting
the gun on my shoulder, started back
to camp. 1t was then about dusk
When wc reached the place where
we left the regiment it was gone, so
We trulgcd along the road up the river
with our loads and finally came upon
the brigade campcd on the side of the
road. Just as we found them the
long roll aroused them and off VIC all
went Tor Antictam or Sharpsburg,
which place we reached early in the
morning and where We sat up all day
with the ianks.
w. A. JOHNSON,
Company ID, Second =. G. Y.
Atlanta, Ga.
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The Mississippi River.

81 have been very much impressed
with the. Importance of small things in
late years. said an old steamboat
man, "and the Mississippi River has
furnished me some rather good ex.
amples. l can understand now why
Caesar looked out upon the Nile in
such curious amusement and offered
all that he stood for to the Egyptian
priest if he would show him the source
of that wonderful river. But the
antics Of the Nile look like ins;gnifi-
cant nothings to me when compared
with the strange conduct of the stream
'hat oozes out of the earth at Itasca
and hurries on it's murky and devious
way towards the Gull of Mexico.
Towns along the Mississippi that
stood right on the bank of the river
have been isolated even in my day,
and there are, too, all along the course
OF the stream little empires in view
where the river has enroached upon
small centres of population, finally eat
ing the earth away and forcing the inha-
bi.ants to seek other quarters. There
are hundreds Of these places that are
almost forgotten now even by the men
who are constantly on the river.
"What brings about these violent
changes along the banks of the river?
Not foods. 1t is just the ordinary
doings of the stream. In the first
place the current Of the Mississippi is
wonderfully swift, and the sediment
deposited at any point where resist
ance to the How is offered is very
great. Tie string to the neck Of a
bottle and sink it with the mouth of
the bottle up and open.
eff held in one place where the fow
is normal, in an extremely short period
of time the bottle will fill with sedi-
ment. Stretch a net acrosss the river,
net so finely woven that nothing but
the pure water Of the river can pass
through, and. on account Of the rapid
ity of the flow and the greatness of
the deposit of sediment, almost in
tW.cIling the river would be damned
at that point. Experts have admitted
.his. This brings me t1 the point of
my narrative.
''The flow of currents is frequently
inserferred with by sunken boats, per-
haps by iaekstaf sticking up above
the surface. The current is diverted
by degrees, generally touching the far
side OF the ssream q mile from the
point where it again meets resistance,
and Immediately begins the building
OF sandbar. I have seen thousand
examples Of this sort during nay career
on the river, and I have known Of in
stances where the root OF tree or the
mere twig Of willow have brought
about similar conditions. These
things have tended to make a riddle
out OF the river yet the stream after
while will be handled 80 as to undo
all that it has accomplished IN this
way. Mes Or3emns Tsmscs- -Dsnseeyus.
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Nt So Very Hard.

An old army surgeon who was fond
c2 g joke, if not perpetrated at his
own expense, was ons day at mess
when, wag remarked the doctor, who
bad been somewhat severe in his re-
marks on the literary delinquencies Of
some Of the officers appointed from
civil life: doctor, are you acquaiDt-
ed with Capt. or"
eyes, know him well?" replied
the doctor. sBut what Of him?"
Nothing IN particular" replied
the officer. II have just received q
letter frcm him, and wager yon that
you cannot tell in Eve guesses how he
spells cat"
"Done," said the doctor. "It's a
wager"
"Well, commence guessing" said
the officer.
"K-a-double-t."
"No."
"C-a-t-e."
"No, try again
"K-a-t.e."
"No, you've missed it again"
"Well, then," returned the doctor,
"c.a-double-t."
"No, that's not the way; try once
more, its your last guess"
"G.a-g-t."
'No, said the wag, that's not the
way; you've lost the bet."
"Well," said the doctor, Grow does
he spell it?'
"Why, he spells it o-a-t," replied
the wag with the utmost gravity, amid
the roars Of the mess; and. almost
choking with rage, the doctor sprang
TO his feet, exelaiminG:
Gentlemen, I am too old to be
trifed with In this manner"
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A Yankee Story.

"Whcre we we're camped one spell
in front of Petersburg said Civil
War veteran, "there was one gun on
the other side that seemed to have a
line on our company street.
"As ger raj thing the shells
would go over us to the rear; but once
in while one would burst over the
street, and now and then we'd get one
touching the ground. And with the
conditions as they were, when shell
actually stirred up the dust in the
street like that it almost struck very
close to one particular spot, that being
at the inner end Of the street and on
the cook tents side.
THAT used to disturb us consider
able, because we didn't know but
what some day a shell might come
along through there and carry oil our
dinner; and we tried to get the cook
to shift the fire little, ten feet r. so,
SO It wouldn't be in so much danger:
but he was a stubborn cuss, and he
wouldn't.
she said a cook fire wouldn't t look
very nice in the middle Of the com
pany street, and there wasn't any
danger, anyhow. What he wanted, I
guess, was to keep it where it would
he most convenient, right alongside of
his tent; but there's where he did
keep it, anyway. We could't move
him I'LL something happened.
"Our fire arrangement was just the
usual thing, a couple of crotched
sticks driven in the ground, FIVE or six
feet apart, with pole laid across be-
tween them, and the camp kettles
hanging from that pole, with the fire
built under them. We got a shell
from that gun one day that took away
one Of those crotched sticks and scat
tered earth around pretty freely, but
it didn't Go any other damage; it was
just after breakfast, when there was
nothing on the pole; but we got a shot
later that same morning, when there
was something there, our dinner.
"We were going to have boiled pork,
boiled beans and coffee for dinner that
day, and all three kettles were hang
ing side by side and close to the
ground, and how it ever did it I don't
know, because it didn't have the kes-
ties in line; but it nsanageu somehow,
all the same to smash all three Of
them into seventeen different kinds OF
cooked hats, and it scattered our din
ner pretty much all over creation.
"For about @ minute it just rained
beans and coffee and chunks Of pork
all round that neighborhood. Some
OF the posk came down four streets
away; and 10 seemed rs thoegh in our
street there wasn't teat but what got
more>sr less of the beans OF coffee or
both. You wouldn't have thought
they could have been so widely dis
tBibuted, so that there was enough Of
'em to go 'reund 80 far, and the shell
didn't explode, you understand, either,
just smashed the kettle and passed on.
"Well. we lost our dinner that day,
bnt the loss served our good purpose;
we were able after that to get the
cook to move the Ere o little, anyway,
out Of the range Of that gun. .'-NeY
yanI3 .S,sM.
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In Tyrol the mother Of o female
infant makes during the frat year Of
:.s liee beautiful laea AAnAkArch;ee.
After it is finished it 10 laid away to
be brought over and placed over her
head. After the marriage it is again
laid away to be seen no moro until
death, when it is again produced and
laid over her face in the cofin.
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"close call" is. All that saved them
was getting the first fire.
d. NJ. RUSSELL,
"liigh Private Co. 3, Palmetto
Sharpshooters.
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l read in Saturday Journal letter
written TO Mr.. X. f. Bullard, of Mil
lcdgcville, by a member of the Six
tccnth Michigan regiment, U. S. vol
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Don't nll0IpIoQi.

Almost everybody remembers the cele-
brated advice of the London Paneh, wTo
those about to marry. Don't" There
is in that advice the expression of the
feeling of many q mother who saws. wI
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-07-01
HELLO GIRLS EXCURSION
THE NEW STEAMER J. S,

The telephone girls annual river
excursion, at first announced for June
%. and postponed pending the ar
rival of the new steamer j. s., is to
occur tomorrow evening. Hundreds
of tickets have been sold and the in
dications are for one of the most sue
cessful outings yet arranged by tie
musical voiced maidens from the
central telephone station. The nov
city of a trip on the new boat has
added to the interest in the event.
AS usual, there will be band and or
chestra aboard for the entertainment
of the excursionists, and there will be
dancing during the evening. Refresh
ments will be served and the young
ladies will seek to Guido former eff
forts in making it pleasant for their
guests.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-07-01
FOUR BARNS WRECKED
IN EDGINGTON TOWNSHIP.

LAST Friday nights storm was one
of the most destructive that has Wis
tied the lower end of the county for a
number of years. The community
particularly affected lies in the vicin-
ity Of the village OF Edgington. The
wind was fearful and there was
heavy downPour of rain. Four
barns were blown down and a great
deal of damage done to windmills.
growing crops, ETC. The barns were
on the Taylor, Cutler. Moses litter
ington and Mary Danlap farms. At
the former place the zephyrs took the
nature of a twister and the building.
which lacked a tribe of being con-
Pleted, was torn apart and the seat
tered pieces thrown in different di-
rections. In Bowling a farmer named
johnson had four acres of hay raked
up in the field Friday evening. Sat
urday morning the patch was swept
clean, the forage having been blown
q way and stacked in a hollow.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-07-01
REBELLION AS LONG AS
AMERICANS REMAIN

JEFF Lancaster, son of Capt. Ian
caster, the well known river man,
has returned home to LIE Claire from
the Philippine, where he has been
stationed for the past Is months.
He was ~ days on the water in
reaching San Francisco, returning on
the transport Pennsylvania.
Mr. Lancast er saw Aguinaldo soon
after his captu re by Brig. Gen. Funs.
ton and served with the regiment that
escorted the returning party into
Manila. Mr.. Lancaster stated that in
his opinion there would always be a
rebellion in the islands as long as the
Americans remained there.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-07-01
REV. c. A. MENNIcKE's 40
YEARS AS MINISTER HERE

Rev. G. A. Mennicke, pastor of the
German Lutheran church, yeste day
observed the 10th anniversary of hi!
call to his present charge in sermon
in the morning on a subject pertinent
to the occasion.
Forty years ago when Rev. Men
nicke came to this city the German
Lutheran congregation worshipped in
the little brick structure which had
been built but three years before and
which is still standing on Thirteenth
street between Fifth and Sixth ave-
nues.
The flock grew and prospered an
in 1866 the pastor was instru mental
in securing the erection of the old
church on the site of the present
house of worship on Twentieth street.
In 1896 a more modern church be-
came necessary. and the beautiful
and commodious one now in use was
erected.
Although eminently successful in a
material way, Rev. Mennicke has
done even more in spiritual way.
Children have grown to men and
women and have reared children of
their own under his watchful care and
guidance, and the influence he has
welded upon their lives and for the
betterment and upbuilding of the
community can never be estimated.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-07-01
white Man Turned Yellow.

Great CONSERVATION was felt by the
friends of M. A. Hogarty, Of Lexing-
ton, KY, when they saw he was turn
ing yellow. His skin slowly changed
color. also his eyes. and he suffered
terribly. His malady was yellow
jaundice. He was treated by the
best doctors. but without benefit.
Then he was advised to try Electric
Bitters, the wonderful stomach and
liver remedy, and he writes: after
taking two bottles l was wholly
cured" A trial proves its matchless
merit for all stomach. liver and kid
ney troubles. Only 80 cents. Sold
Hartz & Ullemeyer, druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-07-01
use AIIen,s Foot-Ease,

A powder to be shaken into the
shoes. Your feet feel swollen, ner-
vous and hot, and get tired essily.
If you have smarting feet or tight
shoes, try Aliens Foot-Ease. 1t cools
the feet and makes walking eas,r.
Cures swollen, sweating feet, ingrow
ing nails, blisters and callous spots.
Relieves corns and bunions of all pain
and gives rest and comfort. Try it
today. Sold by all druggists and
shoe stores for % cents. Trial pack
age free. Address Allen S. Olmsted
LIE Row, n. Y.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-07-01
TO DOUBT THIS
IL to DisbeIisve the Evidence of Your
Own Senses.

IL to DIsbeIisvs the Evidence of Your
Own Senses.
It's Rock Island proof, for Rocl
Island people,
It's local Endorsement for local
readers;
1t will stand the most rigid investi-
CATION.
Albert Littig, of 1900 Fiftha We
nue., bricklayer and stone mason,
says: II was taken with a soreness
across my back, and it was further
aggravated by the nature of my work
as l have to be so much in a stopped
position. 1 saw Doan's Kidney pills
advertised and they were also recon-
1nended TO me by a neighbor, so l
sent for box at Marshall & Fishers
drug store and began taking them. 1
was really surprised to see how
quickly they cured me-"
For sale by all dealers. Price so
cents. Foster-Milburn company. Buff
falo. N. T., sole agents for the United
States
Remember the name, Doans, and
take no other.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-07-01
COUNTY TEMPLE
Transfers.

County clerk to David Cramer, lot
1, assessors plat %, II, 2w.
27-Sara Lisa Swanson by heirs to
Nels DIVA, WI lot 5. block 2, Daebel-
liekn'5 add, Moline, 81 900.
George Z. Bailey to Simon Burns,
part lot 6. block l, old town of Rock
Island, $40 900.
Edgington Cemetery association to
Jerome b Elliott, part block 10, SIS.
George Titterington ct al by special
master to Mary Titterington and
Moses Titterington, NV fra 81, 10,
Sw. except 81 acres.
Mary Titterington and Moses A.
Titterington to Jerome b Elliott, NV
fri ! 81, 16 5w, except 81 acres, 81
4S3 80.
George Titterington to Jerome B.
Elliott, part nwl 81, 16. 3g, 81 166.
2S-Jacob Hager to Elizabeth Bufe,
part lot 1, s8l nwl .. II, 1w, 81, 200.
Henry Curtis to Robert NJ. Pearce,
lot 10. block l, Barth & Babcock's
add Rock Island. 81.
Charles A. Hayes ct al to Christian
w. and j. C.. Schricker. part lot IS,
Knaack, Moller * Co.'S. div, Island A,
$25.
June 29-Philip Pfaff to Henry Sic
mon, lot 3, block 10. Thompson &
Wells add, Rock Island, 800.
Home Building & Loan association
to Lucinda nj. Walker, WI lot 6. Nc
Enary's add. Moline, 81, 400.
Grace L. Knowlton to w. o. Negus.
1.6 60 feet sublots and 10 sublot
8, block 1, old town of Rock Island,
50. 600.
Rock Island Mutual Building. Loan
& Saving association to David Zifrin,
lot 10, block 10, lower add, Rock
Island. 81. 600.
z. II. Guyer to Sarah L. Read, lot
z. block 3. College Heights add, Rock
Island, $3.50.
Rock Island Mutual Building, Loan
and Savings association to Myra Wal
ker, part lot L, block 1, Healey's sub
div, 80, Is, 1w, 81, 900.
Z H. Guyer ct al to Ed Johnson,
lot IL, 'Guyer's add, Rock Island,
$3.50.
David Ziffrin ct al to Rock Island
Mutual Building and Loan associa-
tion. lot 10. block 10, Lower add,
Rock Island, 1900.
Myra Walker to Rock Island Build
ing. Loan and Savings association,
lot l, block l, Healey's subdiv., 33.
10, W, $3.50.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-07-01
THURSDAY, JULY q.
The Big Celebration Mt Black Hawk Watch
Tower.

The Big Celebration ut Black Hawk Watch
Tower.
There will be q big time July at
the Watch Tower. Fine programs
for the morning. afternoon and even
ing. Thousands will 60 to the tower
to spend the day and enjoy the enter
tainment. Family picnics will be the
order of the day. Free dancing in
both Pavilions day and night. Fire
works, tub. sack, wheelbarrow and
potato races, ETC., for prizes. Fine
exhibition of moving battle pictures
in the evening. Full band all day
and evening and numerous other at
fractions. The big crowd will spend
July at the Watch Tower.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-07-01
STILES BROTHERS STAND
WELL IN HOME TOWN

The Patriot, published at Carrolton,
Ill, the home of the Stiles brothers,
held here as suspects in connection
with the murder of Carl Wendt, OF
Cordova, speaks in the highest terms
of the accused men, of whom it says:
The Stiles brothers are sons of
David Stiles, a well known farmer
and fruit raiser living on Macoupin
island, in the extreme southwest cor
ner of this county. The news of
their arrest was a great surprise to
their friends and acquaintance in
this county. They range in age from
20 to 80 years, are all unmarried, and
are known here as sober, peaceable
and industrious young men. Although
they have been thrown into all kinds
of rough company during the years
they have spent on and near the
river. the stiles brothers were not
given to drinking nor carousing.
They are all expert musicians, and
have enlivened many social gather
ings. The evidence against them is
entirely circumstancial, and it is
hoped they NAV be able to convince
the court and jury of their innocence
of the terrible charge of murder.
David Stiles, father of the men, has
gone to Rock Island to look after the
case"