davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-07-25

Many makers are now building gas
engines of $500 horse power and are
ready to double this efficiency.
A lately tested section of the sub.
marine cable, laid 20 years ago be-
tween Cienfuegos and Santiago, is in
excellent condition, providing the dur
ability of rubber-covered cables.
Swallowing is no longer an effective
method of hiding stolen property. At
the Japanese mint employees suspected
of swallowing small coins are now
placed under the X-rays, and the coins
have been discovered in this way in
the stomaches of guilty persons.
The first effort to make steel by us.
ing electrical heat was that by Sic.
mons, in 1879. He designed for this
purpose an electric arc lamp furnace
in which the arc was formed between
coal and the metal contained in q
crucible of graphite as electrodes.
A scientific examination of the oil
deposits in the great coast prairie ex-
tending from Louisiana through Tex.
as to Mexico, distance of several hun
dred miles, has recently been made by
Prof. X. T. Hill, who describes his re-
suits in the Journal of the Franklin
institute. The oil was first struck in
1901 by drill hole driven 1,10O feet
deep, through clay and quicksaid. More
than 200 wells are now in operation.
and one has been sunk to a depth of
more than 5000 feet. Sometimes hot
water is struck below the oil, and
sometimes the oil itself is hot. The
deeper it is found the more salt the
water is.
A most striking example of delicacy
in weighing has been referred to by
Mr.. j. A. Brashear, the widely known
instrument maker. At the interna.
tional bureau of Standards near Paris
is a balance mounted in vacuum in a
heavy glass case and provided with
mechanism for handling the weights
from distance great cough to give
security against influence of the heat
of the body. So perfectly made are in
strument and accessories that when
two kilogramme weights are placed
side by side on each pan the indicator
finally comes to rest at zero. But when
one OF the weights in one pan is placed
upon the other the indicator shows
the opposite pan to be slightly the
heavier, the almost incredible explana-
ton being that one weight is made
lighter by its slight increase of dis
tance from the earth's center.
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-07-25

and discover that they do without other Life is
too short best and pity the husband willing
be separated for months time auredy interest
of unison and connubial bliss
To that all the blame for the things rests upon
would be unjust and unfair Men have large
responsibility They have adopted modes living and all too
frequently spend too much time their clubs and little
homes Strong minded intelligent honorable cure
the folies of wives with silly predictions.
Most women are ambitious to keep abreast of their husbands
the right KIND OF encouragement be offered them Men complain
that their wives indifferent their duties absorbed
fashionable fads and interested everything else than in
their homes and their families will discover upon reflection that
they themselves not guess provoking this Indifference They
betray their own weakness and mistakes the
of their 1t unnecessary to be petty tyrans or to
donee IN order to the which they deprecae
partners of Share with pleasures troubles
Make them feel that they happiness and help
mates intellectually Few would have the hardood persist
unwe and frivolous conduct their husbands appealed
in the right to desist and give that to
be their paradise gained or lost
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-07-25
DUE TO BRAIN WORK.
Men Engaged I'm the Professions
Grow Gray Sooner Than
Those In the Trades.

Everything physical being equal, It
lis established that the man who is
engaged in professional work will
grow gray sooner than will the man
who earns his bread by the literal
sweat of his brow. Thus by implica-
ton the man who has more and
harder brain work than another
more worries, more troubles, more
difficult thoughts, less vitality in pro-
portion-this is the individual and the
profession that soonest are marked
by gray hairs, says the Chicago Trib-
une.
But who shall decide which is
whieh?" asks DR.. /. N. Danforth, who
has made study of both bald and
gray heads. "The doctor and the
lawyer and the minister and the
business man, and the whole cate
cory of men are willing to go on
record as the victims of the hardest
possible occupations.
Thus far, however, one may be
certain: In the professions generally
there are three groups which may be
taken as suggestive of the manner
In which heads grow white. First of
these are the representatives who are
on the outskirts of even moderate
success in life. They have the bur-
den of living more than the burden
of ambitions. They have to work
harder toward making the ends of
things meet than they work toward
attainment of their skill as profess
sional men. These are of the class
which get gray earlier, even if there
be no disposition on the part of
their ancestry to become gray early
In life. just to the extent that they
are susceptible to the worries and
pinchings of life, to that extent they
become gray and prematurely old.
Another class are the happy men.
They are capable, of bounded ambi-
tions, and are content with the sue
cesses that come to men who bore
with small augers and learn well
the philosophy of living for ease
and comfort. They have horizons
that are wide enough, they have
learned to avoid cares, and between
working well and not worrying, they
never grow gray; you will see them
long after the allotted span of life
scarcely with any gray hairs, and
with small trace of badness.
"That third type of professional
men belongs to the top of the profess
sional ladder the world over. Their
brains are filled with surging ideas;
there is no rest for the gray matter
within their skulls; before blood nu-
triton can get to the hair it is cut
of and subverted to the use of the
brain, until the logical result of years
of this is either gray hair or no hair
1t all. There is a disposition to
badness instead of grayness, but in
many ways the two conditions are
brought about by the same causes.
"In general the man who thinks
will be gray before the man who
works without thinking. To the ex-
tent that the thinker fails to take ex-
ercise, is sedentary in his work and
habits, and allows his system to lapse
in tone, just to that extent he will
become prematurely gray.
"As factor in grayness. however,
heredity has more to do with it than
anything else. In my own family
everybody has been in the habit OF
getting either gray or bald at 40
and as result, am good deal OF
both"
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-07-25

"The great trouble with you." said
Mrs. Jaggsby to her husband the next
morning, "is your inability to say no.
Learn to say it at the proper time and
you will have fewer headaches"
II can see where you arc right, my
DEAR" replied he of the throbbinR
temples.
BY the way" continued Mrs. j.
II want to do little shopping to-day.
Can you let me have ten dollars?"
no." answered the willy Jaggsby
without a moments hesitatiou.-Cht-
aaGe Daily News
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-07-25
Not Wnsted.

Mrs. JSnner Lee Ondego-My hus-
band says Americans spend 500, o,0oo,-
600 a year in foreign travel.
Mrs. Selldom-Holme-I don't doubt
1t, but it is all well spent. Why, con-
slider the French accent my Esmeralda
acquired from her two years in Paris
worth every cent of it.-Chicago Trib-
une.
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-07-25
Usually They Are.

"Are women good managersY'
"Well, yes, in one way or another,
/ think they are"
"What do you mean by cue way or
another?"
"Why, the woman who can't man.
age house creditably very often can
manage baby all right, and the
woman who can't manage either fire.
quently is capable of managing a
husband. So hold that in one way
or another nearly every woman is .
good manager."-Chicago Post.
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-07-25

fev Of
the benefit taking
ation the eating thought
Compound like
doesa al that is to do more.
~ hope that did will Lydia Pnama
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-07-25

Mrs. Secondly-My first husband
used to eat four or five of my biscuits
every morning. Why is it that you
never eat any of them?
Secondly-Simply because I have a
good memory, my dear.
Mrs. Secondly fail to see the
point.
Secondly haven't forgotten that
your first husband turned up his toes
because of observation-disclosures
Enquirer.
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-07-25
Causes of Domestic Unhappiness
BY MRS. JOHN A. LOGAN,

EN- need the companionshp of their families and if they
cannot have it they will seek companonshp elsewhere
One always shudders when hears woman who has
husband or sons say: Il going to Europe with my
daughter, Il going Europe without my husband
He engrossed in business that go without him
go at ALL 1t would be very well if they could
realize how much better would be go at all than
to go at the risk of losing that husbands love-
Is in the a.
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-07-25

WRONG?

Ere you sick!
Do you feel under the weathert
Suffer from shooting or. aching
pains! Consumption.
If SO your blood and nerves are
probably in need of some special
vitalizing food, like
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-07-25
Rashness Itself.

"'Blank was foolishly rash to-day"
"Why?"
He is trying to be a Christian
Scientist. he. has corn, and he got
crowded trolley-car."-Brooklyu
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-07-25
Free Medical Advice to Women.

Mrs. Pinkham invites all women to write to her
for advice. You need not be afraid to tell her the
things could not explain to the doctor let
ter will be only by women and is absolutely
hdential. Mrs. Pinkhams vast experience with such
troubles enables her to tell you just what is best for
you, and she will charge you nothing for her advice.
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-07-25
Another Case of Nervous Prostration Cured.

DEAR Mrs the benefit
started to take the of prOstratiOn Could
heard Of Lydia Pnkham wonderful medicine and which
Immediately
heartily recommend to all suffering "MRs BERTHA
25h Lapidge St., Francisco
eE000 sel
Lynn
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-07-25
The Ills of Women Act upon the
Nerves like a Firebrand.

IEO IIIS VI VvOI1ICI1 <AOV uROIA SAAO
Nerves like Firebrand.
The relation of womans and gnerative
consequently enhs of the postaon
dependency the blues seepessns and nervous irtaby OF
arrangement of the organism which makes
her Herein prove concucy that Lydia f. Pnkhams
Vegetable Compound will quickly relieve all this trouble.
Details of Severe Case Cured in Eau Claire, Wis.
trouble for
the past five About month taken with pros
aches read one o books and finding Of the nsn
sned lady it's and happy that after
bottles feel all
reGomendn medicine to OF my friends and assure
trust will Vegetable
poundMRs MINNIE TE $40 First Claire Wis MAY g. 1901
Nothing will relieve this distressing condition
surely Lydia e. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound; it
sOOthes strengthens, heals and tones up the delicate
female organism 1t is positive for ali kinds OF
female complaints; that bearing down feeling back
Ovares and is Invaluable during the change Of life, all
Of which may help to cause nervous prOstratiOn.
The Colfax chronicle., 1903-07-25

WREN WRITING TO ADyERrusrws
please state that ysu saw The Advertise.
New-York tribune., 1903-05-17

any will believe that house worked up IN
such way is vastly more interesting 10 visitors
more satisfactory to the owner, than one which
represents nothing more than the right name 10
a check for so many hundred thousand dollars
Hearnlee is reached 10y a winding woodland
road, which ascends the hill at an easy grade
through a park in which there number of
fine houses. II is a dignifed pile of blue gray
Amherst stone. crandalled TO give an eggshell
effect three full stories high and in architecture
that is graceful adaptation of the classical
The house stands in the centre of six acres of
lawn literally studded with forest oaks, and is
So feet square, exclusive of porches, one OF
which extends 12J feet across the front of the
house and around the side, where il terminates
in a massive stone porte cochere. Behind the
house are the stables, and to the left a large
vineclad bungalow.
Through the ponderous front doors the visitor
masses under the groined arched ceiling of the
yestibule into the red tiled main hall, which
is Elizabethan in architecture. with high Flem-
New-York tribune., 1903-05-17

ish oak wainscoting and old strapped plaster
ceiling The furniture is of the Italian school,
brought to France by the De Medici. A beaut-
ful mantel of Cannes stone reaches the entire
height of the story 1t is fanked by caryatldeS
which were copied from the mantel OF the
Piccoomini family by the curator of the Fine
Arts Museum in Siena Italy, where they are
preserved Above this and extending the
full height of the next story is a rich tapestry
representing a spirited medieval battle scene,
which is best seen from the balcony on the
second floor. An old esperto. or Spanish crane,
hangs in the great fireplace.
The large Louis XIV drawing, room, with lls
rich coloring lighted through four French WIN
dows always calls forth an exclamation of de-
light The floor is covered with an Aubusson
carpet of turquoise blue and white, harmonizlng
with the coverings and with the draper1es ana
hangfngs of the room. The wainscot reach
ing to the ceiling is profusely ornamented and
finished in cream enamel The ceiling is coVed
and freely enriched with plaster ornament. On
New-York tribune., 1903-05-17

each side are three panels after those painted
by Jean Beran OF the originals two are in the
Louvre and the other ten in the possession OF
Count Boni de Castelane. The two lunettes
which further adOrn the room. one at either END.
were taken from al ancient house in France
\ mantel of cream white dark veined PaVa-
nozza marble faces the door. A unique and in
teresting bit of furniture is artistically pant
ed leather covered sedan chair Of the period
It has been mounted a gilt stand and con
verted into a curio cabinet by the Introduction
Of dainty silk lining and glass shelves.
The walls Of the Louis XIV library are of black
walnut freely enriched with hand carving The
book cases are of the same material, trimmed
with Circassian walnut and decorated with
ormoIu. There is a mantel of red Nunaldlah
marble which is the exact copy Of one built in
Versailles for Louis XIV. The furniture is all
very old. The large table belonged TO the Duke
de Montbise in France, and was made in the
Continued thirteenth page
New-York tribune., 1903-05-17

Continued on thirteenth pnGe-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-06
HLRELESS TELEGRAPHY.

Now that the international congress to con-
slider wireless telegraphy, called to meet this
summer in Berlin, has finally assembled, its
scope is more clearly defined than when the
project was first announced. This is not
gathering Of electricians, to talk about the
present state Of the art or the theories on which
it is based The body is composed exclusively
of delegates from the leading governments of
the world, with the possible exception of Great
Britain, which is not specifically mentioned in
the dispatches; and the men all represent mill
tary and commercial departments which, in one
way or another, are particularly interested in
telegraphy.
The congress affords an opportunity for an
exchange of views on several questions which
may eventually call for official action. No bind
ing agreements will be reached. Each delega-
ton will report back to its own government
upon it's return, and the ideas thus elucidated
may at some future time be incorporated in
national regulations or an international under
standing. AS yet, perhaps, wireless telegraphy
has hardly developed fully enough to make it
clear just what course the principal govern
ments of the world should adopt On the other
hand, it would be injudicious to postpone too
long a recognition of the practical problems
which it raises. Moreover, inasmuch as the
proceedings Of the conference resemble those
informal conversations of diplomats on which
subsequent negotiations are based, there is
manifest propriety i'll conducting them with
privacy. A question which can hardly fail to
receive serious consideration is how far it may
be good policy to discourage monopoly in wire
less telegraphy. Jealousy between rival in
ventors ought not to be the dominating motive
in promoting competition. The validity of pat
ents must also be kept in. mind. If, however,
the delegates are substantially agreed in be-
Heving that five or six practical systems are
already available, no doubt that opinion viii
have weight with their superiors. Theoret-
icalIy, antagonism to monopoly would hurt one
inventor as much as another. For various rea-
sons, it might bear harder upon Marconi than
his rivals. The omission of Englands name
from the list of participants in the conference
is probably nothing more than bit of care
lessness on the part Of a reporter or cable OPP
orator. If that country actually held aloof, her
attitude might possibly result from embarrass-
ment on that account. Even then, so long as
she refrained from posing distinctly as Mar
cOnis champion, other nations would feel free
to act as their judgments dictated.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-06
NOT LIKELY.

In reckoning up its available assets from time
to time Tammany is fond Of inviting the puDhc
TO take particular notice Of the colossal fame
which Mr. Hugh J. Grant achieved by declining
70 be bribed by the Broadway Railroad sharp
ers. The circumstance that Mr.. Grant refused
the role Of a Doodle alderman undoubtedly made
him Mayor of the city, but there is no need to
beg his pardon for saying that honesty is not
the only important qualification for the cmef
magistracy Nevertheless, it is natural that
Tammany when facing an arduOus campaign,
should manifest a hypocritical respect for
member of the organization who was never in
danger of being caught with the goods on him
and begin to discuss his present availability as
a candidate.
Mr. Grant has been subjected TO this process
several times within the last decade but it has
never seemed TO please him. On the contrary,
it has always had the effect Of ru1fiing q con-
stitutionaly amiable temper, and there is no
visible reason why it should prove more agree
able to his feelings this year The presumption
is that he will again refuse to put himself in the
hands either of his friends or of his enemies
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-06
IN THE BERKsHIREs.

tBY TELEGRAPH To THE TRIBUNE
Lenox. Mass. Aug 5.-The celebration =. a.
birth Of Jonathan Edwards. who wrote his -
dom OF the VIII in StockbTidge viii take ~.
there in October. and the principal speaker MI, =
the Rev. John De Witt. of Princeton. An NE.
ton has been issued to Justice David A -
of the United States Supreme Court. to max -
address in the evening Justice Brewer is a Ba,,.
OF Stockbridge.
Mr.. and Mrs Rutherford TrowbrIdse win l..v,
Friday for Duluth. making the trip thrones 80
Great Lakes.
Gaylord Lapsley. OF California ard Miss Am,
1apsley have arrived in Stockbridge from IT., =
the Continent
Mrs Waller Hoffman, OF New-York. IS ep..,
Of Miss Irene Botsfocd, in Stock6ridze
Mr.. and Mrs Robert De Tytus who ra.s,+t
bought a large estate in birmingham have ra,1-,aS
10 New-YOrk, and Will sail on Monday for Egv,.
Mr.. and Mrs De Tytus viii return next I1na -
viii spend the their estate - e'i~
Miss Thomson and Miss Mary TbC,----
gone 10 Babylon. Long Island. where thew viii -
the guests OF their brother. Charles + Th6ronsr-
Mrs. Oscar IasiSi has returned 10 St9ClS-i5.
from visit with her daughter. Mrs. c. Cisnnis r.
New-Canaan. Conn. - ~
Mr.. and Mrs Thatcher NJ Adams OF Nevr-v,-r
started to-day for Bar HaTbOr-
MI and Mrs; z n Taylor and Mr.. and Ms
EsremOnt for the rest of the month.
David Wolfe Bishop, Of New-York. who arrival
IRON acrOad on Monday. will open Interlaken cot
tage the last of this week.
At MaplewOOd Hotel, in PfttsfeId ara Mr. al
Mrs. Frank ID. Whitehead and Mr.. nd Mrs C;ao-g.
r. Day. OF New-YOrk; Mr.. and Mrs A 3 CiIiat3e
and Mr.; and Mrs E g Terry, OF Hartford Conn
Mrs. Benton NJ. Harger, of Dubuque and Mrs n
Otis Smith, OF Chicago
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-06

ply. and then force the price up for their own
gain No wonder that in such circumstances all
our foreign customers are talking about indus
trial emancipation, and are taking practical
steps to secure it. A discreet policy might have
kept the world chiefly dependent upon us for
cotton for uncounted years 20 come. The pres
ent mad policy is bringing into the near future
the day when we shall have three times as
much cotton as we can use ourselves. and no
foreign market for the surplus, unless in com
petition with the pauper worked plantations of
Africa and Asia, which will be able to force
MS down TO three cent cotton instead of the fif-
teen cents in which short sighted spectators
have been exultng
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-06

many needed changes and there seems to be no
good reason why all the hard punches should be
used toward checking the tobacco habit what
would please the public more than to see all the
men who have the Acknowledgements habit
banded together for purposes of reform, agree
ing to take certain number OF hard punches
when they forget their vow? Or what would
afford the people more pleasure than to see the
men and boys who have the "Hlawatha" habit
form league to prevent its spread and agree
to take or give hard punches as the circum-
stances warranted? The isit-warm-enough-for-
you people, the men with umbrellas and canes
carried at right angles with their bodies, the
tellers of old stories and the lend-me-a-dollar-
till-to morrow people might all organize punch
ing clubs with profit to themselves and salts
faction to their fellow men. If they do so. the
West Hoboken boys will have builded better
than they knew.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-06
COTTOV 1TADEESS.

The impolicy of forcing cotton by artificial
speculation up to extortionate prices has al
ready been remarked upon in these columns.
What we have said is emphasized by almost
every days news. Foreign countries, disgust
ed at having their industries disturbed by such
speculation, are earnestly preparing to secure
their supplies of cotton elsewhere than in
America. Germany, as we have reported is
entering upon cotton production in TOgoand
on large scale with marked success Great
Britain Is doing the same in Nigeria, in Rho
desia, IN Egypt and in other parts of her trop-
zeal empire. Now France, too has formed a
great Colonial Cotton Association with ample
capital, to conduct experiments in various
Parts OF French Africa, and TO establish the in
dustry on large commercial scale if the ex-
periments prove successful. France, it will be
remembered, owns more OF Africa than does
any other power, and her territories there in
clude vast variety of soils and climates amid
which there is little doubt some perfectly suit
ed TO cotton culture viii be found.
AT the present time the United States is pro-
ducing three-fourths of the worlds supply of
cotton. Yet il has in its factories less than one
fifth OF the worlds spindles Great Britain has
more than twice many spndes, and the
European Continent has GO per cent more than
the United States. Moreover the number of
splndles IN other countries is increasing much
more rapidly than in the United States With
all our boosted enterprise and the considerable
development Of cotton spinning in the South, we
are actually falling behind the rest Of the world
in the manufacture OF cotton and are return
ing 10 the inferior state of country that mere
~ produces the raw material for others TO
manufacture in such circumstances the most
rudimentary common sense should indicate the
1esirebilify of This counfTv'S doing ifs hest IN
maintain itself in favor as 4 provider Of raw
cotton.
But it is not doing so. 1t continues TO pro-
duce cotton. 1t is increasing its acreage of
plantations year by year. At the same time
II is as steadily and even more rapidly increas-
ing the price of the staple. That is what hurts.
For foreign customers see that the increase
Of price IS chiefly artificial and speculative It
is not due 10 scanty crops. 1t is not for the
benefit OF the farmers. 1t is due TO the greed
- speculative middlemen, who corner the sup