davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Americus times-recorder., 1902-10-26
GO VIA THE sEABoARD.
Only ST.. 80 to Columbus and Return
Tuesday.

An account of the superior train ser.
vice and schedules on the Seaboard
The Veterans have changed their route
and have selected the Seaboard Airline
as the official route to Columbus, ard
Camp Sumter will go in a body via
that line. The Veterans will have a
special car to themselves, leaving here
at a. m. Tuesday the 28th. And will
have two regular passenger trains dali
Iy on which to return. The rate is
ST. 30 for the round trip, open to all,
and the shocfy the peoples train af-
fords the quickest and most conven-
lent schedule between Americus and
Columbus.
Americus times-recorder., 1902-10-26
Americas Famous Beautie

Look with horror on Skin Eruptions,
Blotcbes, Sores, Pimple. They don't
have them, nor will any one, who uses
Buckien's Arnica Salve, 1t glorifes' the
face. Eczema or Salt Rheum vanish
before it. 1t cures 81 re llips, chapped
hards. chilbains. InfalIible for Piles,
25c at the EIdridge Drug Stores.
Americus times-recorder., 1902-10-26
BOUGHT THE CHAPMAN PLACE.
Fine Farm Near the City Owned by j.
c. Brown.

Mr.. W. r. Chapman has sold to Mr..
J. c. Brown the remaining portion of
his plantation, eight miles east of
Americus. Sometime ago Mr.. Brown
bought 1900 acres of Mr.. Chapman and
yesterday bought the remaining 200
acres. The farm contains a fine mill
and is a very valuable property. Mr..
Chapman will move to North Georgia.
Americus times-recorder., 1902-10-26
Help Wanted, Male.

Salesman wanted. Intelligent, in
dustrious man to sell to doctors only.
State road experience. P. o. Box 858,
Phlla Pc. 19 % 26
Americus times-recorder., 1902-10-26
Wanted.

Men and women for steady employ
ment. $50.per month salary guaran'
teed. Address G. H. Smith, Americue,
Ga, 1921 g lw.
Americus times-recorder., 1902-10-26
BOUGHT A LEE STREET HOME.
Simmons Place on FurIow Lawn Is
Sold.

Titles to a pretty and desirable Lee
street residence are to be exchanged
in the purchase by Mr.. ". E. Hamil-
ton, the Forsyth street merchant of the
W. 81. Simmons place on Lee street,
corner of Furlow. The home is a new
and pretty one and Mr.. Hamilton Sc
cured bargain in it at the price quo
ted, $4,000 The new owner will make
his home there at an early date.
Americus times-recorder., 1902-10-26

Total receipts to date. 90, 290 bales
The local market is quoted as follows:
Good Middling. g................ : cts
Middling. ......................73 % u
New York, Oct. 24.-Futures closed
quiet. Oct. SAC, Nov. 8.45, Dec.
8.54, Jan. $50.
Americus times-recorder., 1902-10-26
For Rent.

Store house in Barlow block formerly
occupied by Galloway Grocery Co.
Possession given Sept. 1st. Apply
EIdrldge Drug Store.
soft,
Americus times-recorder., 1902-10-26
15c FIannelette at l0c.

80 pieces beautiful new Flannel
cites, splendid patterns and styles
at 10c.
Americus times-recorder., 1902-10-26
COTTON MARKET REPORT.

Americus, Ca, Oct. 25 Receipts
today at local warehouses. 604ibales.
Received previously. 10, 6S6 "
Americus times-recorder., 1902-10-26
SOC Eiderdowns at 35C.

Excellent quality in heavy wool
Eiderdown, Pink, Blue, White,
Gray, Castor and Cardinal, worth
SOC at 35c.
Americus times-recorder., 1902-10-26
GEO D. WHEATLEY. GEO. D. WHEATLEY,
A Plain Practical Talk.

This is practical age and we 1--we in world filed
with practical peope-peope who like plain honest state
mens of actspeope who want to feel absolute confidence
in the matter of money spending; confidence that they
be,ng fairly death With 1t is our constant effort try
and impress YOU with this confidence We already enjoy
the confidence of many We want the confidence of all
The Washington times., 1902-05-04

tempt to check the s5readiag of the
plague.
On the morning of January 20. 1899. the
fire department, under The orders of the
tcard Of h.alth. wgs- engaged in. the
burning CT ccrGefphad property within
The quarantine lines. when. owing 10 the
sudden rising of the wind, sparks we're
carried TO thu spire OF the Kamaukapili
Church, which was being used by the
government and Merchants Association as
a warehouse for the storing of valuable
personal effects, and of merchandise
which had been fumigated and placed
there for protection.
The spark kindled rapidly into a blaze.
which. being high upon the spire, could
not be reached By even the most heroic
efforts of the fremcn. With such ex-
treme suddenness did the fire spread in
and about the church. that the men of ;he
fire department had TO abandon their
engines to save their lives. and the
engines were destroyed.
Then ensued confiagration which
wiped out everything within the quaran-
tined district and extended to a limited
area outside.
At o'clock what had been a densely
populated portion OF the city, occupied by
numerous stores, warehouses, engine
houses, churches, and places of residence
The Washington times., 1902-05-04
AFTER THE CONFEDERATION HAD PASSED.

was in ashes. The many thousands OF per-
sons who were made homeless and desti-
tute. and still forced by government
authority to the isolation of quarantine.
had to be housed and fed at the expense
of the government until such time as they
could be released. which in most in
stances did not occur for several months.
While II may be considered to have been
an unfortunate occurrence. the fact is
that the confagration Of January 20
destroyed in very few hours strong
hold of disease germs and filth which
could in no other way than by fire be
cleansed.
Tho community breathed sigh OF re-
lief as 1t realized that the base of the
evil had been effectually eradicated. The
1000 to 10000 people made destitute and
homeless were temporarily confined in
the churches, drill shed. and in tents.
and were fed and clothed at the expense
The Washington times., 1902-05-04

''Do you expect to remain in Washing
ton for come timer was asked.
"oh, yes" she responded Il shall be
here for several weeks now. and then ]
expect to make my home here next win
ter, so that may obtain material for my
next book. ] am planning to 90 TO work
on one Immediately. probably the first Of
the coming week-but there. / shouldn't
have told you that. You know my pub
fishers make me be very careful of what
say. However. this story will probably
be one Of modern times and modern So
ciety-Rot one of bitterness against So
ciety. as most OF the novels OF today are,
but one with some pretty romance worked
in with tne lives of people OF today prob
ably taking some OF the real characters
out Of our daily life here in Washington"
Miss Rives is tall and graceful young
woman. with prominent. strong features
and an immense suit Of hair, which she
terms red. and in every movement
may be seen action and vitality. She is
a true daughter OF the South with the
greatest pride in her blue grass" State
ana her Southern ancestors the men of
which have been for generations polite
ians and diplomats. while the women have
been In many instances writers Of fiction
In speaking Of her State and people she
said:
pDsI O my people were from virginia,
and II just happened that / am a Ken
tuekisr. bat you know Kentucky is really
the daughter OF Virginia, and we love
the old State which made us almost as
much rs our own. love old th ngs, and
when j am among them or in one OF the |
old Colonial houses l can see tie people
about me and hear their conversations
just as If ] were back in the old days
with the real people whom l imagine |
Why. in my new book ] can see and hear |
Patrick Henry and Lord Fairfax as clear 4
ly as If they were here by my side. and |
have learned to love them as II they were |
my own people.
This dress she said a moment later.
wearing-lsce over white silk, ''is made |
from the wedding dress Of my great |;
grandmother. and I cherish it more than
anything else ] possess"
Method" said Miss Rives, when she !,
was asked TO tell something OF her
method OF writing. Indeed / haven't |
any method in the world. ] write by fits
and starts, and when i am writing think
CT nothing but my plot and how quickly ]
can tell it-spelling. punctuation, and
even the thought of whether my manu-
script can be read or not never enters
my mind or occupies a single thought. i
write my climax, the principal
point Of my plot, and work down from 1t
nd my writing" she continued my writ
ne is dreadful. During the last few weeks
eIore Hearts Courageous was finally
The Washington times., 1902-05-04

\ tiop hangs in the balance while the ex-
| pected message of aid from France de-
{ lays, are enacted the tensest situations.
J here all the scattered rays OF the pfot
are drawn into f5cus-here Joseph Gallo
/ way. the defender of the prerogatfve."
whcse Tory rarcor later made him pro-
! vest marshal OF the city during Howe s
occupancy. unmasks his hatred of inde-
! pendencc and winds the hero in a deadly
coil OF suspicion; here the heroine. Nnus
I Til!cpGn, to save the life of her mystic
rious lover. betrays and announces him
TO the Congress. and brings with Eer own
hard the message from Louis XVI.
Miss Riyes' picture is in no sense the
conventional one or the one of the
school bCckS. Some of our ilols are
broken ruthlessly. Her pen does not
gloss. The delegates of property (Dick-
inson. Morris. Livingston). who cried for
delay, the milk-and- water New York
delegation. the close ranked Jersey To-
ries. the faint hearts who croaked and
the dependent cnes who predicted ruin.
fcr the first time take their places N a
modern story
In Hearts Courageous the unanimous
can to arms. the leaf of Immortality
Is seen as very human document indeed
MISS Rives permits US to see the strenu-
- ~NuaiuS pstiA at tne WORD 'tyrant,
Believing George Ill rather a man de-
ceived. To hear the learned Witherspoon
rage because OF reference to the Scotch
people. To see North Carolina delegates
protest against the arraignment OF the
King for forcing upon the colonies the
African slave trade. The Declaration
draws many bitter shifts-'-a plagiarism
from Locke's treatise on government
It's phsasirs stolen from tragic
ol Aphra Behn's s-"an imitation Of
Chief Justice Drayton's Charge to the
Grand Jury of Charlestown''-"a tumble
OF hackneyed ideas composed by James
Otis in one of his lucid intervals"
Again the scene shifts to Virginia. and
row is. the keynote. The golden age has
become one OF iron. The women of the
colonies are selling their jewels,
melting their clock weights up into
bullets. tearing undsrclothes for lint and
ardages. CORVALLIS. with Tarleton and
simeoe. his rangers, is wasting the
country. Savannah. Augusta. Charleston,
aud Camden-the South's darkest days.
he slaves are scampering from the
turned plantations. Then comes Lafay-
ties light infantry and Washington's
wrapped troops marching down upon
orktown.
But throughout the pictures of fight and
leSolation runs a twisted thread OF love.
" danger. OF plot. and OF mystery. The
'eleaguered Yorktown is the scene of the
ieroine's last desperate act of courage
which gives her her lovers life and the
Of CORVALLIS brings the tals
o joyful conclusion.
The Washington times., 1902-05-04

TN Miss Halle Erminie Rives, the
young American novelist, Washing
ton possesses a most charming and
enthusiastic visitor. Miss Rives is at
the New willard, and in an interview
with a representative of The Times last
her travels, and her opinions.
She is one of those delightful Southern
characters. whose whole personality
seems 10 express force and romance. the
qualities most needed in the successful
writing of modern fiction. and whose
charm OF speech and grace OF manner
draw one Immediately TO her and hold
ones attention.
"ycu know" she said. this is my first
real visit to Washington. j have gone
through the city number OF times on
nv way TO New York and the North. but
I have never really visited here before.
sndsI cannot tell you how greatly j am
4mpressed with our Capital. now that
really see It, It Is neutrality-suspicious..
even more SO than the capitals abroad
which We think 70 grand and magnificent.
when for the first time saw London and
Paris in all their ancient beauty.
thought oh, II we could have something
like this In cur country, something great
ana old like these and now come here
and find something even SURPRISING any
thing that had hoped for. | have seen
most o! the cspitols OF the different ma
tions, and today when ] visited our Cap
atol and saw Congress in session my opin-
tou was that It was greater than any
other in all the world"
Miss Rives went on to speak OF Wash
,pston itself. its society. which she COM
pares with that Of London. and contrasts
x,ith that of most Of the larger cities
whore money seems TO be the key to
cntree.
"Taste," she said. that expresses it.
people seem to have taste
above anything else. Society here-that
Is, as much as have seen of Ii, taking
he lawn party at the White House. Tues /
lay, and the other social functions which (
have attended here. as examples-is of
very high standard. With its great mon
rom our own States. its diplomats and
Meers from other countries, and its high
lass Of American people. its society is as
~ ss that Of any Of the larger cities or
'reign courts"
The Washington times., 1902-05-04
OLD CHURCH WHERE THE FIRE STARTED

anese, and natives. the whole numbering
about 1900 persons. was placed under a
military guard. The sentinels were or
dered to fire on any individual attempting
to leave the quarantined section.
Bodies OF the victims Of the plague were
cremated. Their homes and household
effects were burned to ashes by the fire
department. Committees of business men
were appointed to a.praise all property
about to be burned. and records OF the
event were carefully preserved.
Between December u. 1899, and Janu-
airy 20. 1900, considerable number OF
deaths occurred in the outside districts
among the white residents. the disease
undoubtedly having been carried there by
the Chinese servants. who previous to the
quarantine had had their lodgings within
the district where the disease broke out
Valuable property was burned every
day in various parts of the city in an at
The Washington times., 1902-05-04

completed. was receiving kilograms from
my publishers each day Is IL ready? Is
1t ready?' until was almost distracted
! had to give up all thought OF dictat.n.
to my typewriter and go to wcrk writing
the last few chapters in my OWL hand
Well, wish you could have seen that
manuscript. The publishers said that
/ every page OF 1t should be photograph Il
and exhibited. with prize offered to the
person who could tell what it was sup
| posed to be-"
| Responding to some questions in regard
to the writing and publishing OF her new
book. Miss Rives said:
81 have written this book TO last or
! rather | hope that IL may last | spent
| two whole years in studying the different
| libraries. reading UP my scenes and char
acters, until / have learned them. and |
have also spent much time in the differ
ent places where my scenes are laid. Then
! have been two years in writing it. and
now feel that 1t Is better than anything
have ever written
She has laid her plot in the Revolution
airy era and in her own Southland. IL is
moving picture of Virginia in its later
colonial days and during the struggle for
independence, with all its lights and shal-
ows. There are Views of Monticello, of
Union Hill, of Castle Hill, of Westovcr.
and other Southern historic homes that
will appeal to every Southerncr.
The story's characters are the grea:
one that made the South of that day the
great strength of the Western world
Henry. Jefferson, Washington, and the
rest. and its events are those which his
tory has made one familiar with. But
Hearts Courageous is vastly different
from the usual thing in the historical
novel Miss Rives has sacrificed nothing
of her instructive method, and these char
acters play their part in scenes which for
passionate intensity were not surpassed /
by those OF even "A Furnace OF Earth
The love motive is NEST unusual 1t is !
the story of a woman's love which IS !
great enough to triumph over the SEEM |
ing shame and dishonor OF the man she |
loves. and which faith brings - It's own !
at last.
The story opens in the tide water coun-
ties of the Old Dominion, in Williams
burg the capital, where, f. III palace,
Lord Dunmore. the royal governor. bullies
his recalcitrant Burgesses. Here IS a
brilliant picture OF the couTtiy dashing
planters, horse racing, fox hunting, ciciuS,
and dancing in the Raleigh Tavern in
satin and small sword. 1t has all The 4
sparkle and flash of the old regime in the
colony's high days. But it is the dance
over the volcano. There are giinpses Ct
the sterner purpose that the planters hid
beneath their suavity-scenes in the little
house kept by Albcrti. the Venetian
music teacher. where met that corterie
,f younger men whose names were to be-
The Washington times., 1902-05-04

case was discovered OF December IL. 1899
Previous TO this tine it was generally
known that many ports and cities Of
Japan and China were infected with the
terrible soourge. and a vigorous quaran-
tine was maintained in Honolulu. In spite
of every preeaution the plague showed
itself in most virulent form, striking
down persons who up to the day of their
death had been in perfect health.
Government officials took steps TO pro-
tect the lives of the people. That por-
tion OF the city of Honolulu having a
d.nsely settled population of Chinese, Jap
The Washington times., 1902-05-04

come famous in Southern history-Jcffer-
scn. George Mason, Paul Carriugton
Samuel 0verton, st. George Tucker. The
head and trent Of the circles inspiration
was Re who set the tali rolling which
crumbled the Western thrcne OF III
sSS-patrick Henry.
Strangely enough. the Forest Demos
themes" the first govcrnor-of the State
/ Of Virginia. possibly the greatest natural
crater tEe world has ever known, whose
I hery challenge at Richmond did more than
any enc thing to inspire the colonies TO
successful revolt-this nest typical Of all
the Scgth's heroes OF the time has never
before been pictured in fiction. The con-
| temporary novelist has been content to
ring the old changes and 10 pass Patrick
Henry by. Fo; this one thing alone
Hearts Courageous will be remarkable.
Henry bears the same relation to the book
as does Abraham Lincoln in The Crisis"
N fact, the novel may be said to be the
crisis OF the Revolution. and 1t may be
said here that Mss Rives' Henry is in no
sense the lifeless figure OF the old school
readers, but a human character. He is
shown as he was. the tuckskin lawyer
without brief. the stoTy-swapping fish
erman and deer stalker. hated by the
lOyalists for his speech aneat the stamp
act.
his entrance examination for the yir-
ginia bar. and how he won the Parsons
Cause" But beneath all the humor, the
apparent shiftlessness, he is seen to be
the magnetic. electric. impassioned. far
seeing orator and patriot. The homcly
backwoods exterior which ervelops him
while he drinks ale in his father in laws !
tavern never conceals his soul of sweet
ness and tenderness. This is the Patrick I
i IIsK,
private and public libraries in the South. |
has unearthed for the reader. As the .
story develops he becomes less and less I
rustic, more and more the leader Of the /
men, till his supreme opportunity comes,
and in his great speech in old st. Johns I
Church, at Richmond. he rises to that eio-
quence which history has called "un-
and hurled the red brand of
battle into the ranks of the Virginia AS
sembly.
But 1t Is not with mere extcrnals that
Hiss Rives deals. Fiction Is already ia
niliar with the outer aspect of those three
n four hot July history making days in
80 in Philadelphia. One has seen pie
ure1 the great hushed crowds gathered
Ipoa Independence Square and OF the
-seat shout that rose of They Sign" that
hook the building and drowned the peal
Z the old bell And Just here Miss Rives'
ovel is different from any other. All
hese she has made only background for
er real action.
The most dramatic scenes are behind
he curtain-behind the doors OF Inde-
endcnce Hall. There. while the Declara-
The Washington times., 1902-05-04
Thousands Were Rendered Homeless and
Destitute, and the Total Loss Amounted
to Nearly One Million Dollars.

Very gradually after the lifting of the
quarantine normal conditions were re-
stored. but the busy. busting. and indus
tTious occupants of the burned district,
after being discharged from quarantine,
tried in vain to fnd new places CT EN-
ployment. Even at the present time they
are without work. and are in an unsettled
ard unsatisfactory condition of mind and
body. anxiously awaiting the granting of
the awards to be made for their losses by
the fire claims commissioners. as proyid-
ed by the Legislature OF 1901
The Washington times., 1902-05-04

of the government. which Immediately be-
gan the erection of more substantial
buildings for their comfort and accommo-
dation.
1900. about which time the quarantine reg
ulations were lifted, the government. by
orders of the board of health. had cxperd-
ed out of the treasury in the building of
houses and in the maintenance OF the peo-
pie within their charge. the sum of
sS07 ,00S
The Washington times., 1902-05-04
Seeking to Stop the Spread of the Bubonic
Plague the Torch Was Applied to Infected
Houses--Sparks Fired the Whole City,

6: !: ); &: e
and the presence here of Mr. J. C.
Pratt, of the fire claims commission of
Honolulu and OF the Merchants Associa-
ti9n in that city, have served to attract
much attention again to these faraway
possessions of Uncle Sam.
An event which struck cruel blow at
the city of Honolulu, and the Hawaiian
Islands in consequence. was the appear
ance of the bubonic plague in the Chinese
quarter OF the Hawaiian capital. The first
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-09-26
UNION VS.. NON-UNlON.
Hours and Wages Of TWO Glasses


Hours and Wages Of TWO Glasses OF
Workmen are Compared.
Carroll D. Wright, United States COM
missioner Of labor, has issued the follow
ing comparisons in hours and wages of
union and non union workers in this coun-
try: - p ~ !:
Bakers-Union men work 7O.5 hours a week:
average daily wages, $2.05; non-union men work
oG.4 hours week; average daily wages, $1.79.
Brichlayers-Union work 51.5 hours q
week. average daily wages, $780, non-unior
men work 57.4 hours week; average daily
wages, $2.17.
Carpenters-Union men work IS hours week
average daily wages, So. SO; Ion-union men worl
81 hours a week; average daily wages, $2.13.
-Makers-Union men work AZ hours ,
week; average daily wages. 1927; -uniol
men work 53.8 hours week; average dali,
wages, 81 .65.
Horseshoers-Union men work 4S hours
week; average daily wages, 50. .65.
Patnters-Unfon men work 4S hours q week
average daily wages, $3.50; non-union men wor
81 hours week; average daily wages, $3.50.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-09-26
ELKs' FAIR REVIEWED
The Executive Committee Assemblies al
Dinner and Listens to Final
Financial REPORTS.


Members Of the executive committee
which engineered the fortunes Of the Elks'
fair last June were guests at a banquet
given last evening by S. E. Hopes, also a
member Of the committee, at the National
Hotel cafe. The twelve-course dinner
represented the very best efforts of Mr..
Hopes chef.
Theodore Hays. exalter ruler of Mime
apolis lodge OF F,lks, No. "A, opened the
post-prandial, after which he called for
responses from each of the eighteen COM
mltteemen present. Echoes from Loop
the Loop headed the toast list.
AS this was the first opportunity of the
kind which the members of the committee
have had, at which to felicttate each other
on the success Of the fair, the occasion
proved thoroughly enjoyable one After
all bills have been paid the report of Sec
retary A. j. Mullen showed that the net
profit to the Elks from the fair would be
$11 900.
Those present were: Theodore l.. Hays,
A. l.. HaZer. George Cook, E. w. Murphy,
&. w. Bachman, f. F. Towle, F. G. Shep-
herd, l.. A. Lydiard, S. f.. Hopes, Harry
Rendell, E. Kayser, Emil Ferrant, Albert
Jerome Mullen, W. III. Levings, w. E.
Goddard and +. f. Wheaton. ..o<& =