davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Der Nordstern. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1874-1931, 1903-09-10

Was has @olben @alep Ebal an
Satmprotufter bieies sSabr selte=
fert, bapon fam man ft@ tn 9errn
Setter 8rid's Office iber3eusen.
Oort ftebt man Bronze @ras, bas 8
btS 4 Eonnen per Nder lieferte ; Msil:
let 8ras, Ilfafa pom suetten S@nttt,
Wetsen nnb Safer 10 i66n, mte man
e.. it6 tn Stearns Gountp ni@t better
wanl6en f6nnte nod m09te. Nu9
@artensema6ie iinb In senanntem
sclbenen Sbale aussesei9net sebtez
ben. Sober Sairbeiu@er lit freunb,
lt9it einselaben, 9erru Yeter 8rid
gu beiu6en unb ii@ BON benz Sarmer=
rei4tbum TIM @olben gauep peri0nlt9
gu hber5eugen.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-01
THE TUNE is OUR OWN.
A Few Remarks Concerning Our Pa
triOtic Songs.
Philadelphia Record.

Philadelphia Record.
Many Americans in visiting England have
military band has played the air of Amer
lea" and the English crowd has risen to its
feet and doffed its hats. Similarly, English
bowed as to a compliment when an Amer
lean band has blared the same tune. 1t has
taken time in each case to convince the
nearer that God Save the King" and
America" have the same air. OF course,
the Briton has become indignant over the
theft of a national air, forgetting that the
colonies, with their allegiance TO British
King. had a claim to the melody and on
their revolt could fairly set their own new
words to it.
The charge of theft and of musical pow
erty in America has inspired a patriotic as
ISOLATION In little Rhode Island to offer
gold medal to anybody who shall compose
a new and "a better air to DR.. Smiths in
spjring words Rhode Island denies that
Great Britain is musical, and aftirms that
our own country (whose coon songs as
played by Sousa'S band have captured King
and Queen and become the burden of every
whistling newsboy, coster and clubman in
London) has a degree of musical talent and
culture which even Germany cannot rival.
Therefore ii is impatient under the charge
of stealing the most venerated of British
melodies.
1t is vain, however. to hope for popular
acceptance of a new tune for America"
The present air has been sung on too many
glorious and significant occasions to the
words of our heart-filling hymn to be sur
forced to break loose from that oppressive
mother we retained the common law, the
language, the absurd system of weights
and measures and whatever seemed to our
sires to be desirable. We retained Yankee
Doodle and the air of America" putting
our own words to each. More than CEN
fury and a quarter has endeared to us these
tunes, and we shall keep them. When Gen
eral Sherman visited Ireland he found that
the melody of Marching through Georgia"
belonged to an old Irish song. but it has
been hallowed to us by the camp-fires of
thousands of Grand Army posts and is ours
beyond surrender.
Cultured musicians have complained of
| the quality of our national airs, which in
clude America Hail Columbia 1.-The
Star-spangled Banner" Columbia, the
| Gem of the Ocean (Which suggests that
Columbia is an isle) and several war songs.
| Still, they have not been able to produce a
| melody of such conspicuous merit as TO
| win instant popular admiration. 1t may be
association alone which endears America
| to us, but there is no escape from the fact
| that we all love it and are stirred by it;
/ and we shall cling to 1t in spite of any COM
| plants from the unnatural mother country
which undertook to spank US without prov
| ocation and lost us in consequence
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-01

accomplished II expended to alleviate the
suHerlng IL some needy ones who are still
allVe, and who are confronted by the prob
lem OF living. That's all very well to
talk about, said the keen young man with
the req necktie, but you can rest assured
that the flowers left to perish on the
snow, as you put it. didn't perish TO any
great extent. You can probably purchase
the same blossoms on Chestnut street to-
Gay at greatly reduced prices. 1t is an open
secret among florists that the flowers left
Dy the undertakers on the graves in GEM
eteries seldom stay there over night In
spite or the vigilance OF watchmen the
ghouls break in and steal the cut flowers
from freshly-made graves, which explains
why some sidewalk flower merchants can
undersell the reputable florists"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-01
ECCENTRIC CHARITY.
New and Strange Stories of AnOny.
|. nous BenefactOrs i'm London.
London Express.

London Express.
Two curious instances of doing good by
stealth have within the last week occurred
in London and there is apparently no doubt
that the weIldoer has been the same indi-
vidual in both cases.
AS was reported. an elderly gentleman
walked into the Edgeware-road branch of
the Church Army, put down a bank note
for f1OO0, and, refusing his name, walked
out From inquiries it appears that. the
e1OO0 which the Society for the Propaga-
tion of the gospel in foreign parts was re-
ported to have received arrived in precisely
similar manner. Other societies have also
benefited largely from n, indio,duals OF ane
of substantial sums is not SO uncommon as
might be imagined.
The secretary of the British and Foreign
bible Society said that at one time a
farmer, with hay tied around his legs to
protect his trousers, used TO walk IN, put
down n note for ESQ so, and when he
died left a legacy, but not his name. Two
more striking instances are those OF the
National Lifeboat Institution and the Lon
don Biblewoman's Mission whose oHlees
the former in John street, Adelphi, and the
latter in the Adelphi Terrace. Mr.. Dibdin.
outer office one day when a tall man en-
tered and said: us Mr. Dibdn M Tnat
gentleman replied; Yes; do you n, wish ut, to
Envelope into his own hands it will do as
well" said the stranger. and he handed
over an envelope and left. Opening it Mr..
Dfbdip found a DanknOtc.
one evening fifteen years ago an OLD
man entered and said: 'Oh, as hap
nened TO be passing I saw the name. so
fhonrbt I would just look in. and see IL
vou want any money" Mr.. Dibdin as
snred him they wanted money badly-al-
WAYS did. The old gentleman, however,
instead of producing his money: began talk
ing notifies, and elected Mr.. Dibdin s views
on Mr. Ralfour and other politicians. Ii
happened that the visitor heartily approved
of Mr.. Dibdins principles, and soon. ne
pulled banknote from his pocket and put
if on the desk Still he kept up the po-
Niitical> conversation without break. and
soon out came another banknote-'. MI
Dibdin talked politics as long as ne couno.
and the old gentleman put down note after
note. until a pile worth Ez,Uv lay on the
Gesk. He would not give his name. walked
ont and was never seen or heard OF again
I'm the case of the Bible womans mis-
sion an elderly gentleman for some years
called once a year. asked what the def1cit
wa mt down the money and went away.
C, The Ia ST occasion he gave G3,OO0. and In
All fs 600. Within the last three weeks
the London Missionary Society mas re-
caived two separate sums of E1,00O from
fwo ANONYMOUS donors through pank
eighteen months ago stranger cameo ana
eve about f7p0 I'm banknotes. YESTERDAY
| T. was stated that the Chelsea Hospital
| Tor Women had received donation OF tou
| tsc,n : generous friend. III. N. T., toward
the emergency funoN
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-01
MONETARY.


INDIANAPOLIS.-Com paper. 4G6
per cent; time loans, sac per cent Clear
ings. sS79. O92 "; balances, $l65,co3.55.
NEW YORK.-CalT money nominal; no
loans. Time money firm; all periods, per
cent Clearings, S242,65 ,4O3 balances. So
$3.50.
CHICAGO-New York exchange, 25c dis
count. Sterling exchange, $4S5 for sixty
DAYS. Sass for demand. Clearings, S2e.OoS,-
$50: balances, s1,S15012-
MISUNDERSTANDING Sc, 227.77 balances.
81, 719, 696.
PHILADELPHIA.-Mo per cent
Clearings, $40, 500, ISL balances, 2,541,2p.
ST. LOUIS.-Money, sac per cent. New
York exchange, 25c premium. Clearings,
Sc GA. 329: balances, s1,272,5S7.
RAITIMORE.-Money, per cent Clear
ings 81 go. 52S; balances, S524.3l9.
Observation-Disclosures, 4G6 per cent New
York exchange, 25c discount. Clearings.
s2503 $50.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-01
AMERICA THE CRADLE OF ASIA.
Indications Showing that IL IL
Really the "OId World"

Prof Stewart Culin. in Harpers Magazine.
The idea that America is a new world,
not only from the viewpoint OF European
discovery, but actually, so far as con-
Germs it's inhabitants and their civiliza-
ton, Is one that has been accepted almost
without question. Ii Is. indeed, funda-
mental notion, having back of IL all the i'm
petus of religious sentiment and historic
tradition. Almost from the period OF dis
covery, learned writers have endeavored
TO confirm the theory OF Asiatic immi-
grafton, adducing the resemblance OF the
arts religions and symbolism, and the
supposed Identities OF the language and
physical types Of the Indians with those
of the inhabitants OF Asia.
Preoccupied with the notion that America
is the new world, they have seemingly
lost sight of the fact that these resem-
lean intercourse with Asia as they do OK
an Asiatic invasion of our continent.
In supporting the latter view the writer
is aware that Ii premises the same, IL NOT
a higher antiquity for man on the Amer
lean continent as is revealed by the most
remote historical perspective OF Egypt or
Babylon: that he is called upon TO estab-
lish the American origin of the particular
things 10 which he refers, their birth ana
subsequent development In America ana
Furthermore to demonstrate the probability
of their transfer from America to other
civilizations.
The games OF the Eastern continent-and
I speak now not so much OF the present
day. but from what we know OF the re-
mote past-are not only similar 10. but
practically identical with, those OF Amer
lea, and are not only alike In externals,
but. II we may so apply the word. In
their morphology as WE'LL And. IL may
be added they extend over into Asia from
America as expressions of the same UNDER
| lying culture. They belong TO the same
culture.
| Man evidently wandered far and Wide
| over the world before history began. Shall
We with our American explanations In
midland they hold good not alone for
games which are but the stalking horse
| of the student-shall we not assent 10 the
claim that ancient America may have con-
tributed. TO an extent usually unimagined,
| her share OF what is now the worlds civ
/ iHzatfOn3
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-01

Elk. United States deposits, decrease sos, 100
The banks now hold s. 95I, 800 in excess OF
reserve requirements under the Is per cent.
rule; ex. United States deposits. s1s.992.s75.
The F'inancier says: 1.-The associated
banks of New York city begin the month OF
March with a surplus reserve OF less than
$6,0OO,OCc. A year ago the excess cash
reached above legal requirements was ap-
proximately SIC 100000, and two years ago
sl5,O0O,OOO. This will give an idea OF the
present situation. The statement for the
current week is favorable in one particular,
namely. that while the loss in actual cash
was $4,SiS,oo0. reserves decreased only So
0S9, 775, owing to lessened requirements due
to a contraction of s. Oh. 800 in deposits. As
a matter of fact, however, the traceable
movements of money indicated loss OF
between eight and nine millions cash by the
banks, so that the statement shows more
favorably than circumstances seem to war
rant. There is an almost unaccountable
discrepancy between the loan shrinkage OF
only So, 400 and the heavy deposit loss, eX-
plainable partly on the assumption mat the
bank averages published are misleading.
Taking the statement as "a whole IL lndl-
Gates that halt has been called In the wild
loan expansion of last month. for the rea-
son, one hand, that requirements have
Deen SdllSIeu, ana, Oh tue OlutI, lfldl TIC
banks cannot continue TO further expand
their commitments. y feature OF the week
that attracted attention was the sudden de-
mand from the West for currency. This
movement is not abnormal at this season.
but il came suddenly. The effect on the
surplus reserves was instantly apparent,
and some interest is expressed as TO the
volume of the Western money now loanec.
here which may be called home. The banks
also have been losing heavily TO the sub
treasury, but if the Aldrich bill, now pend
ing In Congress, Is passed, this constant
source of disturbance and incentive 20
higher money rates may be removed lt
is needless TO repeat that the frmer money
market OF the week is explained by the cur
rent statement Theoretically the situation
seems TO warrant continuance or this fea-
ture but that Ii foreshadows a season OF
duIlness in speculation is uncertain. Actual
bull markets have been conducted In the
face of a money situation quite as unprom-
Using as that now presented, but If the past
course of the banks is criterion, mer-
camille loans will have preference over
stock requirements during the spring sea-
SON.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-01

W. ID. Howells. in Harper's Margarine.


1t appears that child born where he
could first Willingly open his eyes upon a
noble square, framed in by palaces whose
frescoed and scuiptured fronts should face
In gardened spaces lovely fountain with
groups of beautiful statuary glimpsed
through the leaves and waters, ought TO
feel the impulse to creative art far more
than a child that first looks out on barn
and a henhouse. with a pump in the fore
ground, and woodshed struggling along in
the middle distance, and some cattle emerg-
ing FROM the background; or on an empty
village street. athwart dooryard with the
Mondays wash hanging out in il. Yet the
chances immensely are that the farm-born
or yillage-born boy will feel the divine in
fiuence which will not visit the soul of the
city-born child; or II city birth is not
wholly alien to the creative viii. that it
shall stir in the spirit of some boy born in
a mean house, on a back street, or over a
shop. and not in the heart of boy born
in a palace on noble square. AS yet no
one can say why this should be. though no
one can deny that IL is so, aud we venture
with much modest misgiving theory
which will not perhaps hold half way, II SO
far a. that
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-01
Market Remain. Unsettled.

"a. r. Thompson & Co.'S TeIesram-l
NEW YORK, Feb. 2S.-There was con-
tinued selling pressure this morning dur
ing the first hour and some OF the active
stocks were lower than yesterdays low
price, which caused some LIQUIDATION. but
after the bank statement was published
there was 6 good rally in the entire list:
but the buying seemed to be 20 cover shorts
mostly, and there was little buying for in
vestment. The market remains In an UNI
settled state pending the defeat or the
passage of the Aldrich bill.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-01

Philadelphia Record.

..of course, the typewriter has already de-
creased the sale OF pens." said q stationer
Yesterday. but steel pens are still being
made in large quantities, In much larger
quantities. / might say. than one would
imagine the demand TO be. And yet the de-
mand must exist or they Wouldn't be made.
IL wasn't uatii 1885 that the steel pen came
into use and for many years after that all
our pens were imported from England Nov
we export them. and am told the export
trade is increasing. I suppose they 90 to
the foreign countries I'm which the type
writer has not as yet gained much popular
ity. There are only about twenty factories
in the world making steel pens"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-01

Philadelphia Record.
u went to a funeral yesterday: the
funeral or relative OF mine said the
and l was amazed al the quantity OF
mowers left to perish on the snow OF the
cemetery. There was one bunch OF orcnius
alone that must have cost $50. ana l
couldn't help thinking what an amount of
good the same sum OF money might have
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-01

NEW YORK.-Imports of merchandise
and dry goods at the port of New York
for the week were valued at $l4,o2O. 49,
Imnorts of specie for the week were
& 81 in silver and s19S. 603 in gold.
Exports of specie were si67.2 In silver
and S945, 900 in gold.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-01

LONDON.-Money, 31zd3s. per cent: dis
counts 3sa6i3sx and 3l1q3ss. Consols. 90 3-l6Q
92h.
PARIS.-Three per cent rentes. 99f soc
for the account.
RERLIN.-Exchange on London, 20m 52pf
for checks Discount rates, short bills, "a
per cent; three months, 2.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-01

wASHINGTON.-Satur statement OF
the treasury balances in the general fund,
exclusive of the $50 oo0. 600 gold reserve in
the division of redemption, shows:
Available cash balance. 500. 46s SIS
Cold ..........................1 los. 4s2, 7S6
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-01

NEW YoRK.-Bar silver, 4sc; Mexican
dollars. SSc.
LoNpoN.-silver bars, 22Ad an ounce.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-01

NEW YORK. Feb. 2s.--The statement
Of averages OF the Clearinghouse banks
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-01

but It might reasonably be argued that he
VIII find in the statutes already on the
books provision covering the points raised
In the Northern Securities litigation 1t Is
altogether probable that before the case
reaches Washington at least one more new
judge viii be appointed TO leeSen the lump
and add to the uncertainty OF the out
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-01
Total sales ............35O, 500
Local Securities.

Sales reported on the local Stock Exchange
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1903-04-24

norance and are content with the
bare necessities Of life, which are
supplied by their bands Of sheep and
crude agriculture. Their diet is beans
and corn, chill and mutton Their
houses are Of mud, the work OF a
week in building, worth about $50,
and will last a lifetime If the Occu-
pant is a renter he pays 81 q month.
There are long rows Of such buildings
along narrow, dusty streets without
sidewalks, where men, women, chill
dren, burrOs and rude Ox-carts inter
mingle and form the quaint street
scenes Of all Mexican towns
The upper class Mexican houses
look much the same on the outside as
those OF the poems, but are built in q
hollow square incIOsing q placita Gan
inner garden COURT, in whose cool
shade, during the long, warm sum
mers, the most feIicitOus domestic
and social lives are led Everything
in New Mexico conforms to this pre-
vailing style Of architecture At the
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1903-04-24
NEW YORK TENEMENT LIFE.

Condition Denounced BY Man Who
Has Studied Them
In no other city in the world outside
Of New York are the conditions Of
life 50 frightful. says Louis WELLER, Of
the Tenement House commission, who
has made a study Of them. New York,
he continues. is a city Of disease, pow
erty. vice and crime, where the marvel
is not that some children grow up TO
be thieves and worse, but that any be-
come decent men and women Il is a
city Of ceaseless toll and endless pri-
walton. with no possible end for thou
sands but the pOtters' field; a city
where the great white plague reigns
supreme. claiming its victims at the
rate Of 5000 per year; a city which has
given $4,000 children TO the state asy-
lums and in which millions are annual
" expended in charity.
The connection between these con
ditions and the condition OF the tene-
ments is very close, and in no other
city are the people so badly housed.
Other cities can have light and air and
space, but in New York We have 325.-
600 dark rooms. without a window Of
any kind The lack Of sanitary cOndi-
lions produces conditions so shocking
that ! cannot in the faintest way de
scribe them 70 you. ard reporters from
two Of the most sensational newspa-
pers in the city after looking at some
photographs that I showed them said
it would be impossible 10 publish them.
Yet the wives and daughters Of re-
spectacle wOrkingmen have tc live IN,
der such conditions.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1903-04-24

velpen. Ind. April sth.-Wm- OBJ
Sullivan, a highly respected farmer OF
this place. tells q personal experience
70 show that there Is stin some genu-
ineness and honest worth to be met
with in this age in which SO many
frauds are reported.
Yes. have been hunbuggeds" said
Mr.. Sullivan, and when I was so III
with the rheumatism. Kidney and
Heart Trouble, l used a good deal OF
stuff that claimed to be remedies fer
these diseases only 70 find them worth
less.
But, as you know, did find the
genuine remedy after all and had not
been taking DOdd's Kidney Pills very
long before knew that they we're an
honest remedy that would do all and
more than was claimed for them They
cured me, made a well man OF ne and
I am now as sound as I ever was
Il can testify that DOdd's Kidney
Pills are a genuine remedy for Rheu-
matism and Kidney Trouble
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1903-04-24
a Left-Eianded compIiment.

President Francis Of the St Louis
exposition was a busy man in his suite
of rooms at Claridge's hotel in Lon
don. He was besieged from morning
till night with visitors. A young
American tourist quoted recently a
story that Mr. Francis told at a dinner
party to the Prince Of Wales. The tour
list said: MIR. Francis stated that two
clergymen had exchanged pulpits for
a Sunday. One Of them. after he had
finished preaching before his unfami-
liar congregation, was accosted by an
old woman
Where. sir she said, is our own
preacher
He has exchanged with ne said
the clergyman He is preaching 10
my people today.
Wei. they'll have treat she
muttered.-
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1903-04-24
Gil BARGE IS HERE
The Only One of the $1,000 Inhabitants Of the UnOrtna..
City Of St Pierre Who Escaped with Life After the
Eruption Of Mt Pelee.

what vas lost in this once thriving
seaport
i picked up a lady's watch. a cork
screw, a door lock and a fused goblet
Several Of my companions found sil-
yer coins. and I discovered q partly de-
strOyed bank bin in the ruins. think
that the mountain is not yet through
with its work, though it may not send
forth such a volume Of destruction as
IL did IN May and August last II
was only the direction Of the wind
which saved Fort-de-France- The
people Of that city can never be as
sured Of absolute safety"
In the book recently written By
Angelo Heilprin on the eruption Of
Mount Pee is told the story Of the
escape Of Gil Barice. and then MI
Heiprin says that u wa believed that
another negro. a shoemaker. Leon
COmpere-Leandre by name. also es-
capped. The story Of Leandre's exper-
fence is given in detail, though IL was
mostly hearsay. DR.. Brewer says that
in FOrt-de-FTance II is now said that
the story OF Leandre's escape is IN
true and that Auguste Gil Barice is
unQuestiOnably the only one OF the
thousands Of St Pierre residents who
went through the fiery ordeal and
lived
Angelo Heilprin was the first man
to reach the crater Of Pelee after the
eruption OF May s. He visited Il
again in August, on the day when the
eruption which destroyed Morne
Rouge took place. narrowly escaping
with his life. Mr.. HeilpTin says Of the
prisoner Gil Barice's experience: $50
unique a record is perhaps not 10 be
found in the pages Of all history, and
even from the lighter vein Of romance
it would be difficult 70 extract any
thing that has more extraordinary re-
latiOns."