davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-22

Co. win be found stamped on the end of
each and every one"
But what is all this to me?" demanded
the creditor as he rose UP and sat down
again.
ssYou claim, I believe" unused the ma
jor, that your name is Robinson2'
sOf course It Il" s-e- - 49,
And that you once forced a loan of
SO on me?" " e-'+s
mot by jugfuli You asked me for the
money a dozen times over before 1 let
you have IT. had q suspicion tAst you
were the beat
You forced . loan OF. 80. on. me- 1t
showed your desire to be friendly. 1t
tegrity- In the rush Of business the
whole transaction slipped my mind and 4
thank you for bringing it back Major
Crofoot remembers his friends. You came
here for 4 paltry1 49, but 'you zhan go
away with an assured fortune My dear
Mr.. Robinson, Y that is your name
mo more taffy, major" interrupted the
man. I'm here for my money and you
fork over or Fli make your heeas hyH'
MY dear Mo Robinson continued the
major as calmly as II just awakened
from sleep, The Great American. Dough-
nut company wants q secretary. The sal
sry' is -$2a 900 per year, and you. can have
100000 worth OF stock at Is cents on the
dollar In i've 9ears you VIII be playing
marbles with rubies and diamonds. In ten
y
steamboat Hne.. H your name Is Robin
son, and IL you ever forced me to accept
loan of $50. them
That Is all wind Where's my noney? -
then let me congratulate you. As
secretary your duties will be light. Each
doughnut via bear motto. and these
notices will be changed every three
months. It will be your business to think
up new ones. We shall start OF with Love
Thy Neighbor,' but will want something
a little more thrilling for the first change
If you will now step out in the hall with
me-
But I want no more fooling's Cautioned
the creditor
I'VE shall raise our own wheat, grind
our own -four and fry our own doughnuts,
and in that way can produce at the least
cost and make the most profit. The div
idends the first year cannot be less than
80 per cent. and after we get fully
They were out in the hall. The major
stepped into his office and closed and lock-
ed the door. and 1t was q fun minute be-
fore the creditor beat upon 1t with his
fists and cried out. -
Here, You blamed old sceundrei, but
how is thiss Open the door or ia kick
it inf'
But the door. did not open. The man
knocked, and kicked and swere.- but the
grand promoter sat at his desk and made
no gn.-+{Copyright 1902, by C. B. Lewis. }
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-22
Emporia's New Postmaster.

Emporia, Kan, July PR M. Ha-
mer took charge of the postoffice here
Monday. His commission arrived Sat
urday. He spent most of Sunday try
ing to learn the ropes and was assisted
by the outgoing postmaster, w. F. Ew
ing. Ewing took charge of the office in
October, 1897, succeeding Mary Richter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-22
NO CHANGE FOR yINEWOOD.
Road Must Keep to It's Old Right of
Wav

The county commissioners Investigated
the proposed new right of way of the
Vinewood Park railroad over Maryland
avenue in Highland park and refused the
right of way asked for.
The county commissioners refused to
allow the road to change the route as
the majority was in favor of those who
opposed the change. The new route as
proposed would allow the railroad to use
Maryland avenue and have it's tracks in
front of eight residences. Six out of the
eight property owners objected and a re-
monstrance with ia names signed was
filed objecting to the proposed change.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-22
THE KING WALKS.
L. About to Hold First Council Uuder
Dalfour Administration.

London, July 22.-The weather was
less dfsagreeable at Cowes, Isle of
Wright, this morning and the reports
from the royal yacht Victoria and Al
bert continue to chronicle King Ed
wards improvement. 1t is said that he
walked few steps yesterday.
The king will hold his first council
since A. j. Balfour became premier, on
board the yacht, shortly 1t is expected
that the name of the new lord lieuten-
ant of Ireland to succeed Earl Cadogan
whose resignation was made public July
IL, will then be announced.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-22
Train ssNumber Eight"

The Detroit and New York express of
the Grand Trunk Railway system.
which leaves Chicago daily at 11:05 a.
m. for Detroit, Mt. Glen ems, Niagara
Falls, New York and Philadelphia;
carrying wide vestibule coaches, cafe
parlor car and Pullman sleeping cars,
is much sought by the experienced
traveller because of its quick time and
unsurpassed accommodations. Infor-
nation, timetables, etc, will be furnish
ed on application by George w. Vaux.
A. G. P. & T. A.. room 917, 1876 Adams
street Chicago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-22
Chautauuua Paid,

Ottawa, Kan, July 22.-The total re-
ceipts of the Chautauqua assembly were
$6.736. After allowing for all the ex-
pepses that can be figured upon, and
still allowing 500 for others yet to
that there will be nearly $500 of balance
from the years business. The debt,
with interest is 1854.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-22
Federal Money For Kansas.

Washington, July 22.-The army board
has made the following allotn ent: To
continue construction of barracks and
quarters at Fort Riley, Kan, and Fort
Leavenworth, Kan, to provide for M
officers of the schools of instruction to
be established there, at Fort Riley,
1925 600; at Fort LeaVenwOrth, $3.50, 900.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-22
Killed Two ana Escaped.

Harrisburg, Pa, July 22.-William
Filler, steel worker. shot and killed
his wife and Harry Bennett, a 1nacfain-
list, today at Steelton. The Filters and
Bennett boarded at the same house and
it is alleged Filler was jealous of Ben
nett's attention to his wife. The couple
quarreled and the husband shot Ben
nett killing him Instantly Mrs Filler
ran into the street followed by her hus-
band who shot her through the heart
The murderer escaped.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-22
Tennis at Chicago.

day in the 18th annual western tennis
championships tournament on the courts
of the Kenwood Country club. Perfect
out a large crowd Of enthusiastic specta-
tors. Today 1t n expected the third round
in singles ana the first and second rounds
in the doubles will be completed The
tourney will cover the entire week. the
Little Of Princeton present western cham
pion IN singles; T. Alexander and Little,
champions in doubles. VIII defend their
titles.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-22
RAILROAD TIME TABLES.
Rock Island.

Aock Island.
TN effect May Is. 1922
west hound Arrive. Leave.
Texas Elk. No. H.. II - PIE. LOO Dim
Il u & Top Elk No. H.. -12.A5 pm
SSioht Colo Flyer No. 9...- BIO nm $40 nm
N Paso Limited No 29..--R 40 am IL so am
Nieht Texas Elk. No. g.. II IS pm l2:15 am
s hi Express No q. 6:05 zm
q E & Chick Ex- NO. 3D. ~ am 9:35 am
~ "a Mound Lam. Elk No. 2 BED pm s:ss pm
Ton & st. J. Elk No. NJ 1896 pm
49, FIX & NAH No. A.. $50 am 400 an
% 20 FL Paso & Chicago. AS am $500 am
"a q K C. Flyer No. 10 7:45 am
G~1 r. st ]. Elk. No. g. 7:46 am
c9afck & K. C. Elk. No. &c.. ESD pm $50 pau
All trains daily, except Nos. - and a.
asily except Sunday.
Union Pacifie.
WEsTBOUND.
On. q Pac. Coast No. So 20 pm 1870 pm
5 ane.sc City pass No S..sa0 pm Sc sm
ssa'ne ~ ExssTB0UED -"
ns,s::sss e e. 20 g.. sss pm pm ffS s%
q g. Rase- 80. e----.-.--- 458 am S8 am
Ea11uu Ex. ND. S.-.....--. 10 pm S1U IN
= C. Elk No e..-..-..... 5-5o pm $40 pm
All, trains dzfly except Nos. Z and -
dnDY except Sunday.
Missouri Pacific.
rersxs-F4 soost Accom-.
No. as ............s...... 500 Da lee a.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-22

City Ticket O6ce.
Onion Pacific r. r.. 6s5 Kansas Ave.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-22


MERCHANTS TRANSFER & STORAGE
CO. packs. ships and stores household
goods. Tel 1S6. Clarence Skinner, LIB L.
eth St
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-09-27
SHADOWING A TEEkER

Il have had all sorts of experiences"
said Pinkerton detective whom met
at luncheon in Broadway restaurant
Friday noon, 'but last night had an
entirely new one. Two days ago the
president of Wall street banking
house sent for me and said that he
feared there was something wrong
with his assistant teller, who appeared
to be laboring under some excitement,
and: who showed signs of late hours
and dissipation. was asked to shadow
him and to look out for evidence of ir-
:regularitie ~. . .s. ! " IS: .-s s ~. 81 s ( (
! zzsslt was then noon and started saf
once by following my man to cheap
restaurant in Ann street. supposed
that he was going to his luncheon, but
he went into telephone booth and
closed the door. 1t was impossible for
me to hear with whom he was talking,
so went to the proprietor of the place
and made some inquiries, and learned
that my man telephoned every day at
that time and seldom bought more
than sandwich.
THAT day he paid the telephone toll
but bought nothing. AS l followed
him into the street made up my mind
that he was in communication with a
stock broker, and that financial trouble
in Wall street was the cause of his
strange actions. That was nothing new
in my experience.
When he left the bank that after
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-09-27
OUR POPULATION In 1910

An interview with Census Commits
sioner Merriam in which he predicted
100,O00,000 as the total population of
the United States in 1910 has been
commented upon in some quarters as
extravagant and as probably wide of
the mark.
The official count of two years ago
gave the population at that time as
76,3O3,300, and it showed that these
have been the percentages of increase
between censuses since 1870, not TAX
ing into account Alaska, Hawaii, In
dian Territory or the Indian reserva-
tions: From 1870 to 1880, 80 per cent;
from 1880 to 1890, "a per cent; from
1890 to 1900, 20 per cent.
1t is a we'll established rule in the
computation of population that as the
number of Inhabitants increases, the
percentage of gain declines, and should
the population of the states and terri
tories of the United States increase in
the present decade in no greater ratio
than Is per cent, which is abnormally
small and below the record of any pre-
vious decade in the country's history,
there would be gain of 10,25O,00O in
population, which, with the addition
of 100000 for Alaska, Hawaii and In
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-09-27

dian Territory, would bring up the
total to more than 88,OOO,0O0, without
making any account of the increase in
population of the American islands in
the Pacific or an increase in the popu-
lation of Alaska.
There are now 100000 inhabitants
in the Philippine Islands and $4,000
in Porto Rico, and even without any
allowance for gain in either, the total
population of the United States and
the countries under it's sovereignty
would be 9S,5S3,000.
Under these circumstances, an esti-
mate of 1OO,OO0,O0O Americans under
the Stars and Stripes eight years
hence, so far from being extravagant,
is really quite modest and conserva-
tive, and there does not appear to be
any reason why the total population of
the country in 1900 should not consid-
erably exceed, as it probably will, that
figure.
!, If the present rate of immigration
continues, the rate of increase in pop-
ulation will be much beyond the Is
per cent.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-09-27
PUG DOG REPLACES IDA MONK.
Brooklyn Organ Grinders innovation
Excites Comment.


Is the day of the organ grinders
monkey entirely gone? City ordi.
nances, S. P. c. A. influences and
probable scarcity in the monkey mar
ket have combined to do away with
the comical little creature, which has
always been children's favorite. The
question asked above was suggested
by an unusual sight seen on lower
Fulton street this morning, says the
Brooklyn Times. An organ grinder
with one of the old-style instruments,
which always, in the reporters boy
hood days, not so long gone by, was
accompanied by tt'monk," passed by
on his way to the upper residential
districts. Instead of monkey, how
ever, he had with him a pug dog,
which he led by string. In answer
to a question by the reporter the Or
gan grinder said:
"Da monk he maka da lot trooble;
da olda gal she keek, say da Etalian
hurta da monk, da cop he pulla me
and da monk Fin. I pay da lot mon
for da monk; had trooble. Da dog
he pleasa kid same da monk, no costa
mooch, no SO mooch seek, no troo-
ble."
This explanation was perfectly sat-
isfactory to the organ grinder, who
evidently gets as many pennies with
the dog as an attraction as he would
with monkey, but the reporter could
not refrain from thinking of Mickey
Finn, and quoting:
1T maka da monk sick; mea, too. ."
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-09-27
Rulers Death Unnoticed.

1t is curious to note how absolutely
unnoticed by the world in general was
the death recently of reigning mon
arch. Two or three lines only in the
papers told us of the decease OF the
Bey of Tunis. Tunis is country
much visited in the winter by Amer
leans and many tourists have seen this
oriental potentate. The Bey was a
small black bearded man, elderly, and
in appearance somewhat resembling
the Sultan of Turkey. His palace in
the city of Tunis was furnished with
an absurd commingling of oriental
and European furniture. The floor of
the great throne-room for example
was covered with a gaudy Brussels
carpet. In the room adjoining is a
life-size portrait of Washington. The
Bey used to drive about the streets
dressed in plain blue uniform in
rather shabby coach, preceded and fol-
lowed by a score of ragged calvary
men carrying long spears. One of his
Accomplishments was painting in
oils, and in the palace is a portrait
which he made of himself painted
upon the mirror, which he looked into
as he worked. Since the French oc-
cupation the poor old Bey has been
ruler in name only.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-09-27

features as to make it seem as though
the second had been carefully pre-
pared on the details and after the
plan of the first. All fire departments
understand that great confagration
is usually followed by second and
often by a third within a few days:
insurance men have noticed that a
fire occurring in a building devoted
to an unusual occupation is also fol-
lowed at a short interval by second
fire in a similar line, and that the
rule also applies to buildings devoted
to a particular, often common, kind of
business. For a month or two it
sometimes seems to the insurance
men that all the hat stores in the
country are devoted to destruction:
then for long time the hat stores
will have immunity, while the shoe
stores, dry-goods stores and groceries
are burning. The principle even ap-
plies to smaller accidents and mis-
fortunes.
A surgeon in a large manufactur
ing plant bears testimony to the queer
feet that whenever a mechanic comes
in with an injured thumb, necessitat.
ing amputation, another accident of
identical character will occur within
three days. No explanation Is fur
nished, perhaps in our present state
Of knowledge no explanation is pos
sible, but the fact that one accident
follows another without visible con-
nection is too well known to be
dOuhted
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-09-27
DEFIANT OF UNCLE SAM.
Notable Career Of Kentucky Moon
sinner and Bad Man.

Notable Career Of a kentucky Moon
sinner and Bad Man.
1t seems strange that a man could
for 80 years defy the United States
authorities and carry on the business
Of illicit distillation of spirits, yet
such an instance is on record in the
Cumberland mountains the Ken.
tucky-Virginia border-where civiliza-
ton Is a mockery and where law and
order are jokes. Will Wallen, aged
SO years, and known as "Whisky Bill"
is man who has done this thing. To-
day he is still living in his accus-
toned haunts and is as free as the
deer in his native mountains
For over 80 years "Whisky Bill''
has eluded the officers Of the govern
ment. Both the Kentucky and the
Virginia ofacia1s~ have searched for.
him numerous times, but they have
so far failed to effect his capture At
this time there is little or no effort
made to capture Wallen and his cei-
ebrated whisky resort in the wilds of
the Cumberlands, which has become
the only rendezvous for moonshine
lovers for many miles around.
Several times Wallen has been in
conflict with United States officers. In
June, 1880, he and a comrade named
Jones fought off 13 officials and shot
one OF them. He has also figured in
some of the mountain feuds and in
1854 killed a feudist named Taylor
Vance. Another man who fell before
his rifle was Bishop Boggs, who tried
to hold the moonshiner up
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-09-27

wonderful, but have tried It for four
days without you and found it consid.
erably more of bore than q mys.
terry. Please get your coat and come
up on deck. Everybody up there is
talking sixteenth century pirates and
you know I am all gone bad on his.
tory. If you do not wish to see me
cast down in the dust before my fel.
lows, come and give me a lesson on
the reign of Elizabeth"
And then, because this suggestion
of superiority fattered her, or because
of the over-persuasive light in his
pleasant gray eyes, the girl laughed
and unbent.
where shall I begin?" she asked,
when they had dropped into step and
were walking comfortably beneath the
early stars.
''Drake is what everybody is talk
ing" he said, happily.
She plunged into the subject with
encyclopedia exhaustiveness and car
ried the navigator from his obscure
cradle around the world to his famous
grave.
1T is extremely pleasant, isn't It,
her listener remarked appreciatingly
being together this way beneath the
stars? Don't you find it so?"
"Why. yes," she said, surprised into
forgetfulness Of that pledge to pride
A forgetfulness that permitted hin
to draw her closer and speak in low,
eager tones.
"Goodness!" exclaimed the girl,
when they strolled on deck after sup
per, what has come over the }pirit
of the sullen mans dreams?"
Heaven, should Judge, fro4 pres
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-09-27
SEQUENCE OF CALAMITIES

"M||sfortunes never come singlv." is
pr'verb well known in every Ian
guags and devoutly believed by the
peope Of every nation. There seems
something fatalistic in the prompti-
tude with which calamities tread on
one another's heels. One of the
earliest sacred books of the Jewish
cano1 furnishes an illustration in
polnF for in a single day the oxen
and sheep, the camels and other
beass of burden of the patriarch of
Uz we're swept away, his servants
were slain, his children destroyed, the
messengers following each other so
quietly that hardly was there time for
one dismal narrative to end ere an
othe! began. But we do not need to
go q far back as the days of Job
to md examples of the rapid se-
quere of misfortunes, according to
the IT. Louis Globe-Democrat. Every
one KNOWS that one accident or dis
astel is certain to be followed by an
otnel sometimes of similar character.
ana having visible connection with
us predecessor, sometimes entirely
d1sseclated, so far as appearances go,
from everything that has preceded.
Ihe clustering of accidents is well
known among men in particular lines
of business.
Every railroad superintendent
knows perfectly well that an accident
involving considerable loss of life
will within few days be followed
by another so similar in it's leading
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-09-27
!. AS TO. NEWSPAPER TRUSTS.
Brooklyn Eagle Shows Why They Are
> Not Practicable. Is.


~ Not Practicable. 800. -:
II Mr.. Ochs can run two newspapers
in Philadelphia and one in New York,
and If Mr.. Hearst can run what is
almost three editions of the same
paper, in New York, Chicago and San
Francisco, why may not Mr.. Collier
run 40 newspapers all the way from
Peekskill through Skaneateles and
Schenevus? Partly for the same rea-
son that man who can drive a span
may not be able to guide a four-in->
hand; or, if he drives a four-in-hand,
ne may not be equal to the require
ments OF a 16-horse team. Each one
OF the 16 horses will have temper
OF his own which will need watch
Ing. Each one of Mr.. Golfers pro-
posed 40 newspapers in his combi-
nation will bear just about as much
watching as a healthy boy just out
or kits, who has learned to run
away. A newspaper is an individual
product to much greater extent than
a box OF soap or barrel Of sugar
cured hams is. It is made for ono
particular local market even more ex-
cluslvely than scrapple, pepper pot
or catfish and coffee are prepared for
the Philadelphia. palate, gumbo for
that of New Orleans or Goldfish balls
for Boston. If the paper is to be a
success, the man who runs it must
not only know local prejudices and
history, he must be part of them.
They must beat in his pulses uncon-
sciously. Then the paper is the voice
OF the community and fair share Of
the treasure of the community finds
it's way into the editors bank account.
Brooklyn Eagle.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-09-27
On the High Seas.
BY F. H. LANCASTER.

BY F. H. LANCASTER.
copyright, 1902. by Daily Story Pub. Coz
They were going out to the Philip
pines to teach the young ideas how
to shoot, or, as an institute lecturer
once expressed it, to teach the young
shoots how to idea.
The deck of the Ell Cid quite teemed
with enthusiasm, educational, relig-
ious and otherwise. But one man hung
on the rail and sulked
Three days out from San Francisco
and he had seen nothing of her. It
was not NAL de mer, of that he felt
convinced. What it was he did not
say. He smoked and sulked and
sulked and smoked.
His fellow-passenger eyed him crit
ically, wondering if he had soured on
his government job already. They
were the rather inclined to this opin-
ion from a description he had given
of the population they we're destined
to enlighten and elevate.
"a race of mongrels," he had cut in
tersely when an enthusiast across the
table from him was descanting upon
the little brown mans virtues.
do you suppose he is homesick?"
girlish looking teacher asked of the
man lounging beside her.
"The Lord knows" he returned,
fecking the ashes from his cigar.
Then, as though his reply struck him
as rather discourager to conversa-
ton, II suppose he thinks this is what
Carlyle would consider case where
ones resource is to talk little and
that little from the newspapers"
The girl laughed.
1T seems outrageous to joke about
him when he appears to be so un-
happy"
"Was it his uncomfortable mood you
were pondering so deeply when came
up?"
mo-" she smiled at the idea. '1
was thinking about Drake and Caven.
dish and the villianies they committed
in these waters and then got praised
for when they went home"
MEDIEVAL morality was a queer
thing" he admitted. II dare say ten
or twenty generations from now ours
will appear as queer"
II wonder if it WILL" she mused.
"Of course" he assured relentlessly.
"1f the march of progress is to be
continued onward and upward, we
must resign ourselves to figuring in
the far future as cut-throats and
thieves. Drake and Cavendish were
innocent children compared to the cap
tains of Spain; but those same red
handed Spaniards Christianized most
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-09-27
Frenchman Would Tax kisses-

Certain legislators in France are
talking of imposing several new taxes,
and a political opponent suggests that
they put kisses on the schedule Of the
articles to be taxed.
A statistician, he points out. has
calculated that 1855, ,407 kisses are
given in France every day, and. If
these figures are correct, the national
treasury would receive large amount
annually even though only small tax
was imposed on every ksser. 4,
He claims, however, that children
who kiss their mother. should be ex.
empt from taxation, and that ten times
the ordinary tax should be imposed
on men who kiss married women. IS