davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-04
FORECAST OF THE WEATHER
Local Rata. and warmer in Eastsrn
Nebraska Monday Tuesday
local Rains.


wAsHTNGToN. Aug. s.-Forecast;
For Nebraska and South Dakota-Local
raina Monday. with warmer in east por-
ton; Tuesday local rains.
For Towa-Fair Monday. with cooler In
east and warmer IN central and west por-
tioni Tuesday local rains.
For Kansas-Fair Monday and Tuesday;
high temperature.
For Hlinois-Fair In north. showers In
south portion Monday; fresh. east winds;
Tuesday fair.
For North Dakota-Locai showers Mon
day. with showers in east portionss Tues
day fair.
Lacal Ranard.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-04

or.v.I rssanl. 4. z. -. a $1,000.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-04
coroRED PEOPLE TO MEET

the federation,
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Inc kidnapping
Of Eliza Ann go
BY
MARY ISABEL BOYNTON.

q HE was not very sick, little Rose
Mary, only enough to be kept in
bed and have her playthings, and be
the one object around which the whole
family revolved. Yet her throat felt
''horrid," and was certainly uncom-
Portable, with fold upon fold Of fan
mel around it, wet with an ill-smelling
something from queer green bottle
grandma had.
And Rose Mary grew tired, and lit
lie cross, with the putting on of the
Aannel for grandma drew it so tight
she could not swallow, and Aunt Myra,
who was kind but nearsighted, fixed it
over pricling her neck because she
could rot quite see where pins ought
to go Then mamma, with her soft,
cool hands, fixed it just right. Still
the throat did not get better, and Rose
Mary's voice grew quite queer and
boarse, and tiny red spot burned on
each cheek, SO papa sent for DR.. Ma
son.
He came, looked into her throat,
laughed at the flannel and ill-smelling
something from the queer green bot
tie, and left her some medicine that
did not taste so very nasty, after
which she had a spoonful of grandma's
grape jelly. And the throat began to
feel better, though the doctor said
she must stay snug and warm in bed
the whole week through.
The first Rose Mary had all her dolls
on the bed, but one by one she sent
them back to the doll house, until only
Eliza Ann was left. Eliza Ann was
only four inches long, a somewhat bat
tered china doll.
One day when Rose Mary was COM
ing from school she saw a rag-picker's
cart by the roadside with one wheel
off, and the rags strewn about the gut
ter. She stood and watched the man
mend his cart, pick up his rags and
drive off, and as she was turning to
GO away down in the gutter, where
the rags had fallen thickest, she found
Eliza Ann.
Rose Mary clasped her treasure
tight in her chubby hand and hurried
home, and from that hour Eliza Ann
was the best beloved of all her dolls.
She slept with her, she carried her to
school, safe in the depths of a spa
cious pocket; she was sometimes even
struggled to church in the same way
During school hours Rose Mary
never played with her, and never in
church, only it was a comfort to run
her hand into her pocket and feel her
beloved Eliza Ann near.
Now it so happened at this particu-
throat too, and had tiny flannel band
around it, with a drop on it from the
big, queer, green bottle. Tom, who
was two years older than Rose Mary,
and was being kept from school by
a sore toe, put grandma's spectacles
on and played he was the doctor, com
ing a great many times each day to
see Eliza Ann, looking wise and grave,
for DR.. Tom considered Eliza Ann a
very sick doll indeed.
While DR.. Mason was making his
third visit to Rose Mary, Aunt Myra
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"BaDtized a LettIe."

every amusing are the struggles
our German friends have with the
English vocabulary" remarked a
gentleman 1 met on the smokers
platform.
eve had a religious revival in our
neighborhood, and Annie, our Ger
man housemaid, decided to become
church member. 1t was a sect OF
liberal creed, some of whose mem
bers favored baptism by immersion
some by sprinllling.
eve did not know which Annie
preferred, and, although the question
was a nice one with my wife, she
did not think best to urge or advise
in the matter. The ceremony was
performed one evening, and the
morning after Annie presented her,
self with smiling face.
"'Well, Annie said my wife, you
were baptized, were you?'
"'Ya-yes,' said Annie, "a leetle.'
eve subsequently learned that he1
'leetle' baptism was a sprinkling.
eve never learned why she chose
the 'leetle,' instead of the big. =
Detroit Free Press.
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HER HAIR CAME DOWN.
A Queen Whose Locks TumbIed Over
Her Shoulders at Her
Coronation.

King Edward of England had thor
to have been called on to play on cor
onation day, and by the advice of his
intimate friends he had taken special
pains to prevent recurrence of the
ludicrous incident which took place
when his ancestor, George III, was
crowned.
At the last moment this monarch
fancied or was told that it would be
impossible for him to keep the. crown
or his head while the archbishop of
Canterbury was uttering the benedic-
ton over him; he therefore removed
it. and, as he placed it on the seat be-
side him, minated to his wife that
it would be necessary for her to do
likewise.
She at once started to remove her
own crown, but forgot that it was fas-
tened to her hair by numerous pins,
and the result was that, when she at
last succeeded in removing it, her
hair was completely disheveled.
Her appearance was, in consequence,
so little in harmony with the solem-
nitv of the occasion, that the prelate
was forced to smile, and only by a
great effort did he succeed in controll-
ing himself sufficiently to be able to
place his hands on the heads of the
king and queen, whose hair was falling
over her eyes and down over her
shoulders.-Pittsbu Dispatch.
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ODDS AND ENDS.

Banking in Pittsburg dates back to
1904.
In an 1ronclad of 10000 tons the hull
weighs 3,40O tons and the machinery
1,4O0 tons.
Rosewood is so called because it ex-
hales the fragrance of roses when
freshly cut.
An orange tree in full bearing has
been known to produce $4,000 oranges;
a lemon tree 5000 fruit.
A reasonable allowance of water for
a town is so gallons per head of popu-
lation daily, for all purposes.
Since the close of the civil war the
state of Louisiana has spent more
than $30,000,000 on Mississippi levees.
The commission appointed to reap
portion Oklahoma has announced the
total population OF the territory to be
SOC, 900, with one representative for
every $4,000 people, and one senator
for every $4,000.
A year ago, in haying time, William
Sale, of Arcade, n. Y, lost pocket
book containing $3.50. A few days ago
he sold a load of hay to Ira Parker, OF
that town, who found the money in
the middle of the load.
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CURRENT TOPICS.
Boston 10 building three ne

Boston 10 building three new
theaters.
Chicago stab1emen have recently
organized.
The Suez canal was begun in 1859
and completed in 1869.
There were 10000 acres Of LAND
in New Mexico open to entry.
st. Louis is the center of the stick
candy trade of the United States.
There is a great demand for skilled
laborers of all kinds at Ogden, Utah.
Joseph Jacques Tissot, the artist, Il
illustrator of the Life of Christ" is
dead.
Nebraska's crops for the present
year promise to be the greatest 90
record.
1t is proposed to establish Japan
kio Bay.
Two coal mines are now in success
full operation in Alaska. They produce
good steam coal.
A calf with two tongues is the prop
erty of Farmer William Sykes, of Har.
per county, Kan.
There are by careful computation
about 300.000,000 coconut palms in the
world in full bearing.
Two Methodist missionaries in Mo
roni, Utah, are the only gentiles in the
place. No converts yet.
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MRS. j. II. HASKINS.

for months after, and at the time I
thought death was a welcome relief;
but before my last child was born q
good neighbour advised LydiaE.P
hams Vegetable Compound, and
1 used that, together with your Pills
and Sanative Wash for four months
before the child's birth sit brought
me wonderful relief. / hardly had an
ACHE or pain, and when the child was
ten days old l left my bed strong in
health. Every spring andfall now take
abottle of Lydia Veg
etable Compound and find it keeps
me- in continual excellent health."-
Mrs. J. H. HAsKINs, 324S Indiana Ave-,
Chicago, Ill. - $4,000 forfeit if abOUe teStimo.
Mai is not genuine
Care and careful counsel is
what the eXpectant and wOuld-be
mother needs, and this counsel
she can secure without cost by
writing to Mrs. PinlSham al
LYNN. Mass.
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tions. Rose Mary dried her tears, and
things looked more cheerful, as how
could it be otherwise with so smart
a person as Detective Thomas B. Allen,
ESQ.,, working on the case? But noon
came, and two o'clock came, and yet
there was no news of Eliza Ann. Rose
Mary's face grew longer and longer,
while Tommy, the less he knew, the
wiser he looked. If only his toe was
well, he and Charlie Gay WOULD find
the kidnapers! And the thought of
the dire fate that would be theirs
made Rose Mary shudder. However
the toe wasn't well, and Charlie Gay
was away, and Eliza Ann was not
found. So matters stood at three
o'clock, and Tommy was limiting to
Aunt Myra that larger reward might
be necessary, when mamma cried:
''Why! Here comes DR.. Mason again!"
He came into the house, past mamma
and Aunt Myra and grandma, straight
up to Rose Mary's bed, and opened his
medicine case, and there was Eliza
Amt
"Why! Wherever did you find Eliza
Amp" Rose Mary cried.
Gin my medicine case" said the doc
tor, "the very next house [ visited
after leaving here, and I brought her
back the first chance I had. How she
got there is a mystery to me-"
''The case must have been open when
I tried Eliza AIMS coat on" Aunt
Myra said. "You know, cannot see
very we'll, and I must have dropped he1
in the case instead of on the bed and
nobody noticed"
Then Rose Mary told the doctor how
badly she had felt, how Tommy had
become detective and how very, very
glad she was to have her darling Eliza
Ann back again.
"And Dr. Mason won the rewardr
Tommy cried.
The doctor read the notice and
shook his head. 81 will divide the re.
ward between you and Rose Mary
he said, because it is very peculiar
case. You see the kidnaper discov
cred himself" -Boston Globe.
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PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

Jones-''Have you seen the new
serial story?" Smith-''No; what is
it?' Jones-''Why, they've added an
other floor to the granary. Prince
ton Tiger.
May-"Our links are the best in the
country" Belle = "Why?" May
They are so rough that a chaperon
simply can't follow one around."-
Town Topics.
1t Sometimes Seems So. - "The
trouble isl remarked the successful
man, patronizingly, ''that you don't
seize your opportunities" "Oh, l
grab at 'em fast enough" returned
the other; but, darn 'em! they re
creased. Chicago Post.
He must be put out of the way"
said the feudal king. "But your maj
esty,' protested the lord high eXecu-
toner, ''he is your first cousin. i
know; but [ prefer to have him my
cousin once removed /" = Philadel-
phia Record.
Hope for the Future. - "Come,
come" cried the candidates friend.
don't be disheartened too easily"
| But I'm sure to be BEATEN replied
the candidate, dismally. Nonsense!
Let your motto be, He who runs and
fights away, may live to run another
day '-Catholic Standard and Times.
Briggs-''I've got a great idea. I'm
going to invent an open street car
in which all the seats are end seats"
Griggs-'Don't you do it. 1t would
be a dead failure. It is the squeezed
and sweltering people in the middle
who make the end seats so delight
| ful."-Boston Transcript.
Not on the Bill of Fare.-He had
taken his country uncle into one of
the fashionable city restaurants to
dine. Casually he remarked: "Are
you fond of ping-pong, Uncle Lem?'
81 d'know," replied the old man.
''Call it out in English and mebbe I
en- tell whether I've ever eft none 7
not. "-Philadelphia Bulletin.
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RICHES IN WESTERN BARRENS
Immense Deposits of Minerals of
Various Kinds Beneath Cali
fOrnia's Desert Sands.

1t is unsafe to condemn any of
the desert lands of California as
worthless because the surface is bar
rem of vegetation. Some of these
desert wastes are proving immensely
valuable owing to their mineral de-
posts. The barren lands of Kern
county have been found to cover in
eXhaustible reservoirs of crude pc
troleum, and ground which a few
years ago no one would buy from the
government at rs cents per acre is
worth at the present time much
more than the richest agricultural
land in the San Joaquin valley. The
discovery of gold on the confines of
the Mojave desert at Randsburg and
on the edge of the Colorado desert
at Hedges and other points opened
new mining fields of great impor-
lance, which have since added mate
rally to the mineral productiveness
of the state. Copper, borax, salt and
inter are among the mineral products
which these deserts and their inhOs-
pitable and uninviting environments
are also yielding for the worlds en-
richment, says the San Francisco
Chronicle.
The saline deposits of the Califor-
mia deserts promise, however, to be
the most valuable of their varied
mineral resources. Death valley fig
ures in the early annals of California
in the role of Dante's Inferno, and,
like the latter, on it's portals was
plainly engraved the legend: HE
who enters here leaves hope behind"
In later years this graveyard of emil
grants and luckless mining prOspec-
tors who attempted to cross it's
parched floor and died of thirst and
the absorption of the moisture in
their bodies by the intense heat and
dryness of it's atmosphere has proved
to be an ineXhaustible source of min
eral wealth. Covering the bottom of
the valley are great beds of bOraX
and the bleak ranges surrounding it
contain inter deposits, which are
destined to outrank the famous beds
of Chill and Bolivia in productiveness
and wealth. Added to these are enor-
nous veins of rock salt and beds of
chlorides capable of supplying the
wants of the world for all time. The
climate of this valley and it's en-
vironments has undergone no change,
but its terrors have almost wholly
disappeared through the discovery
that nature has made it a great min
eral storehouse.
DIR. Gilbert E. Baiiey's account of
the saline deposits of California,
which is given in California state
mining bureau bulletin, throws new
light on the mineral resources OF the
deserts. The known area of the inter
beds in these wastes aggregates 3d.
900 acres. The minimum thickness of
the surface deposits is put at six
inches. Rejecting 5000 acres as I'M
workable, the remainder of the sa-
line veneering of the mineralized dis
trict is estimated to contain over 22,-
600, 900 tons of commercial product
But there are strata in the formation
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IN s1 = D = Y,aTe.llfSS
"KINDLY OMIT Flowers"

Too late to bring your fragrant offering
or Irvine loves myrtle for my marble
When I am dead! To-day your tribute
bring;
| need them now!
Waste no laudations on my deafened
Nor lay choice flowers within my icy
hand.
Your tardy need of praise shall not
hear,
Nor understand
To pile wealth of flowers upon my
mound,
Or speak the kindly words you should
have said,
VIII be but mockery-a hollow sound
When / am dead.
Go take your offerings to hearts in
thrall,
To sorrowing souls with pain and grief
distraught,
In homes where dark'ning shadows group
and fall,
And flowers bloom not.
"Omit the fowersw The bloom of shrub
and tree
Leave not upon my grave to wither
there.
IneSG ueHOUSLTdLOIlS VI yOuL lOFC L ollelAA
not see,
Nor know, nor care.
Pray, do not economic, or make a feint
To fit an aurecla round my head,
Or tag my clay with virtues of saint,
When l am dead.
When the last words are spoken: Dust
to dust"
And the last trump you leave me to
await,
My strange behest you will not then, I
trust,
Repudate.
Not for the dead are blossoms from
earths bowers,
The simplest rites are ever the most
MT;
But ostentation, eulogy and flowers
kindly omit
Springfield (Mass) Republican.
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An InsinuatiOn.

Tt was a warm Sunday morning in
church. Fans were futtering, hymn
nails Topping, handkerchiefs hopping
streaming faces, and the minister
thought his audience little lax in at
tention. Finally he LED, up to re-
buke on their lack of consideration
for sacred and important things. Said
he:
people are prone to attend to the
unimportant things of life"
And he gave few examples to illus
trate his idea. Presently he made his
pertinent application.
snow" said he, ''you are attentive
to your own comfort this morning, to
the sinful neglect of the holy word
Take no thought for the heat" he
said, dramatically, ''for you may be
dead tomorrow" = Detroit Free
Press.
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WHAT AN ALMANAC DID.

Matthews, Ark, Aug. 25th.-Mrs
Lee S. Sanders, of this place, tells how
an almanac saved her life.
81 have been troubled a great deal
with my kidneys all my life and was
constantly growing worse.
81 CHANGED to get copy of Dodd's
Almanac for 1902 and in it read some
stories of how Dodd's Kidney Pills had
cured many very bad cases of Kidney
Trouble.
MY husband bought box and I be-
gan to use them and in a short time we
were surprised and delighted at the
wonderful improvement in my case.
II am now as well as anybody and
can not say too much for Dodd's Kid
ney Pills. 1t was lucky day for me
when [ picked up that almanac.
81 believe Dodd's Kidney Pills will
cure any one who suffers with Kidney
Trouble"
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came to the bed to try on the new

came to the bed to try on the new
knit coat she was making Eliza Ann.
1t was pretty coat, too; red, with
white scallops all around it, and the
doctor, learning Eliza Ann was sick
too, looked into her throat Gas well as
he could while she kept her mouth
closed), and told Rose Mary he
thought DR.. Tom was doing just right,
and he had no doubt she would get
well about the same time Rose Mary
did herself. And it was only half an
hour later when DR.. Tom, for the sixth
time that morning, came to see if Eliza
AIMS medicine was working right,
that Rose Mary made dreadful dis
covery.
Eliza Ann vas missing! Nobody be-
lieved at first that she was really lost.
She must be about the bed, but no,
grandma, mamma, Aunt Myra and
Tom looked into every likely, as well
as unlikely, place where Eliza Ann
could be, and she was not to be found.
Her beloved Eliza Ann lost, and
when she was so i'll, too! Rose Mary
cried until her throat was worse, while
mamma tried to cheer with hopeful
words, and Aunt Myra looked sadly
at the little red coat. Then Tom put
his medicine box away.
''It's a clear case of kidnapping, like
that little girl in New Jersey" he said.
"and I'm going to be detective and
find herr"
''But you can't go out with your sore
toe" Rose Mary sobbed. Tom looked
wise.
''You don't know how detectives
work." he told her. Tom thought it
was rather jolly thing having Eliza
Ann lost, but he did not tell Rose
Mary so.
eff Eliza Ann is to be found, I'm the
one to do it. The first thing is to offer
a reward"
81 offer five cents" Aunt Myra said,
and 81 five more" said grandma.
"I'd rather be a detective, anyway,
than a doctor. Detectives have to be
awful smart, and they get killed some
times, too" Tom said, as he set about
making his reward bill. He used red
ink on white paper, and when he
tackled it up on the door Rose Mary
thought it was very nice notice. 1t
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ranging in thickness from three feet
to ten feet, in which the inter is in
places practically rure. These strata
contain, taken as a whole, from Is to
upward of 40 per cent IF the precious
mineral. Figures fail 10 express the
aggregate contents of these veins. DR..
Bailey shows the wonderful similar
ity between these inter deposits and
the Gillian fields which are now prac-
tically supplying the world, and from
which the little republic is drawing
enormous revenues. For the past ten
years they have been yielding an
average of over 100000 tons a year,
valued at $35,OOO,OOO in round mum
bers. But as the inter in the Cali
fornia deserts is more extensive, and
the volume of the mineral infinitely
greater than in Chilli, we may form
some idea of the immense wealth
which will be finally drawn from
these wastes when the mineral de-
posits are intelligently opened.
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HE NEVER SPOKE AGAIN.
VentrilOquist's Dog Rebels at Being
Deserted by His Master and
Expresses His Anger.

The following story is told of a
ventriloquist, now famous, but at the
time of this happening so hard up ne
used to walk between the cities
where he was to appear. On one
of these tours he came to Philadel
phia on foot, and on the road he
picked up a miserable little dog "be
cause it looked so much like he
felt'' The story will explain what
became of the dog, says the Phila
delphia Times.
The first house he came to was g
saloon, and, of course, he wanted 6
drink. He had no money, but went
in anyhow to see what he could do
The proprietor, a German, said:
'Well what will you have?'
He said: ''I'll take a little whisky
and then, turning to the dog, he
asked:
"What will you have?"
'The answer came very promptly:
eth take ham sandwich"
The German was so surprised he
almost tainted. He looked at the
dog moment, and then asked:
'What did you say?"
The dog replied
81 said a ham sandwich"
Hans thought it wonderful that a
dog should be able to talk, and asked
who had trained him, how long it
had taken, etc, and wound up with:
GLOW much you take for him.?
ooh" said Mr.. Ventriloquist, 81
wouldn't sell him at any price, but
I am a little hard up now, and II
YOU will lend me $50, I'll leave him
with you till I bring the money
back"
Cali right" said Hans. 81 just want
him for a little while so [ can show
him to some smart people [ know
around here"
So everything was settled, the
money paid, etc, and as the ventrilo
ouist went out he turned and waved
his hand to the dog and said:
"Well, good-by, Jack, I'll come
back soon"
''You mean son of gun, to sci
me for $50, after all I've done fol
you! So help me Moses, I'll never
speak another word as long as
live!"
And he didn't.
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PROGRESS OF
TIL on TIL
BY HON. HOKE SMITH,
tnaster-Genera1.

y
is this immense increase which south believe each
the south her will make great nroad into the business
of foreign
Nothing with the south gives greater pleasure
or encouragement tidal OF enthusiasm which spread
inc over the behalf of thorough system OF public educa
ton including chronological institutes and manual and industrial in
struction of kind
The south always had abundant and varied resources but had
them We have to-day
chronological Institutes Manual training beng
introduced public schools Of the cities Most OF the
normal schools being prepared for rural school
work REQUIRE industrial enabling them
teach children the rural sections only from books but IN
manual work fitting them thoroughly to utilize the
opportunities of country life.