davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-09-21

IS hits, .172 batting average. Their
fielding average was only .918, 294 put
uts, 13O assists and q errors.
Against Monroe Vicksburg excelled.
>th in batting and fielding. The Hill
"imbers were at bat 372 times, made
runs and SO hits, an average of
a5S. Their fielding average was .956
16 put outs, 1853 assists and % Ell
rOrS
During the season GA ball games
"ore played on the local diamond but
this number three resulted IN ties
If the remaining 81 Vicksburg won &C
md lost 10. On the home G;amont
carrie team won 754 per cent of the
game
With Natchez we played 13 games
winning ten and losing three With
Ireenville We played 13. winning eight
and losing four and tying one One of
the contests was draw Vicksbure
beat Pine Buff nile times aud lost
four times. Twelve game. were played
here with Monroe and VickSburg won
all but one. With Baton Rouge y
contests took place. One game was
led. Nieksburg won eight and lost
three.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-09-21

The board will meet next October
and it is probable that the final winner
, Of the pennant will not be determined
until that time.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-09-08
A Relic of Margaret Street.
Type of architecture of 172O-177O.

yariably it looks out upon squalid sur
roundings. But not even the ugliness
can utterly destroy it's charm, for it
has architectural character.
He who would learn more of old
Boston architecture would do we'll to-
have talk with William; Ralph EN-
erson, Boston architect who has.
given much time to the colonial
period.
ut is fact" he will tell you; "Bos-
ton was built in England. It was sent
over here and set up by our colonial
carpenters. The architects of early
Boston were Sir Christopher Wren,
James Gibbs, Sir William Chambers
and few other masters of, that
period.
There were no early American
architects. In those days we had
carpenters and builders only. Batty
Langley's guide and the printed
directions of the other architects
mentioned were used as text books
by the colonial builders. And that
is why our homes are so beauti-
full
"Those masters of the English
renaissance were the first great archi-
tects of the world who had their ideas
put in wood. The old world built
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-09-08

While much of ancient Boston has
crumbled to dust there is still enough
of it left to fascinate the visitor from
other cities.
There is one peculiar thing about
many of these old colonial houses
they are not so much destroyed as
they are in hiding
One feels sorry as for an old friend,
when he sees these fine old houses
given over to Chinese laundries,
butcher shops and what not. They
suggest good people who have fallen
upon evil days in their old age. The
pathetic note is there, and it sounds
in ones ears with an almost human
intensity
Yet here and there one of these old
structures raises it's head with all
the dignity of other days. Almost in
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-09-08
ImmedIate MorphInIsm cure.


In the Medical Record for April 10.
DIR. Margaret b. Halleck of the New
York State Reformatory for Women
reports four cases of successful treat
ment of the morphine habit by sudden
iy and completely stopping the supply
or the drug. and administering strych-
nine sulphate. hyoscine hydrobromate
and codeine sulphate.
. Summing up the result of her treat.
ment, Dr. Halleck says: "Strychnine.
hyoscine and codeine certainly form a
perfect antidotal combination and one
which works quickly. Morphine, as
we know, depresses the nervous sys-
tenn, reduces metabolism, hinders the
action Of the liver, finally paralyzes
the vaso-motor centers, and lessons all
secretions. Strychnine, on the other
hand, stimulates all functions, in
creases the appetite and while doing
this 1t is eliminating the morphine.
Nausea, restlessness, insomnia and
pain are cared for by the hyoscine
and codelne, 1T seems reasonable that
this combination should cure In time,
but the celebrity of cure, with no suf-
fering to speak of, and the very small
amount of medicine used, is certainly
remarkable. These cases may relapse,
but it will not be because they are
unable to fight the habit
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-09-08

like hue. 1t is thought that originally
this glass was white, and that the
chemical action of the light streaming
through it for so many years has
changed its color.
80 those who live in glass houses
made of that kind of glass live in
constant terror lest some one throw
stones. 1t cannot in all the world be
reproduced. Consequently it is almost
priceless in the eyes; of those who
love antique things.
During the Revolutionary period
some fine old French houses were re-
produced in wood in this country.
Those are the houses we see wearing
hip roofs and adorned with stately
1uted columns. 1t was along in 1920
when American builders cut loose
from English models. Up to that
time we had no distinctive American
architecture. Then we got it with a
vengeance. Our first architects
weren't satisfied with Roman archi-
lecture as illustrated by the English
renaissance. They harked back to
the Greek, with the most horrible re-
suits ever seen anywhere. Many of
those monstrous examples of "archi-
lecture" are still to be seen in East
Cambridge and in Roxbury. They
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-09-08
Transporting power.

A Scottish power scheme of great
interest, which has been recently ap.
proved by the British Parliament will
soon be under way. Instead of trans.
porting fuel over railroads by the aid
of locomotives consuming large guam
titles of coal, it has been suggested
that the power be generated at the
mine and carried over wires instead of
rails. This proposition is a parallel
to the generally Acknowledged view
that it is cheaper to transport the
finished product than raw material
1t is proposed to generate electricity
in the vicinity of the coal mines. and
to transmit it to the city of Glasgow,
and industrial establishments along
the Clyde in the neighborhood of that
city. Three generating plants will be
established, located at Yoker, Mother
well and Crookston, and the ultimate
capacity of this trio will be $4,000
horse power. The two first men,
toned will be built at once, but the
initial installation will be only about
half of the total contemplated.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-09-08


A Berlin inventor believes that rail-
way companies should carry on all
passenger trains a preventive for
the rear end collisions (which
occur from time to time. his argument
being that the loss of life occasioned
by wrecks of this class is SO great
as to justify the use of special buff
fer car on the rear of each train. He
has also gone so far as to design
form OF car to absorb in the most
rapid manner possible the kinetic
energy possessed by collding trains.
For this purpose a short section OF
track is laid obliquely on powerfully
constructed truck frame. sloping up
ward from near the main rails and
ending In spring buffer at the high
est point. In order to gradually re-.
duce the energy, bed of sand Is
provided, covering the buffer rails
to such a depth that the progress Of
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-09-08
WAS sARAeRAs A PUBLlsHER9
Incident That Recalls Jest of George
Augustus Sala.

Incident That Recalls Jest of George
Augustus SaIa.
The recent news of the arrest at
Budapest of a notorious gang of
thieves, whose chief turned out to be
a publisher, recalls the story of George
Augustus SaIa's presenting a Bible
to a certain London publisher who
had handled some of his books, says
Harper's Weekly. The publisher was
at loss to understand just why he
should have been singled out for this
peculiar gift, until some time after he
discovered a slight change in the
wording of John xviii, 40, where the
phrase, NOW, Barabbas was rob-
ber" was made to read ~Barabbas
was a publisher" When Miss Cor
illi's "Barabbas" appeared with the
text on the title page a reviewer,
quoting the words in his review, evil
IDENTIFY indistinctly written, received
the proof with the amazing state
ment, "Barabbas was ratter" Cor
recting it,, he deemed it wise to see
the review through to a finish in print,
and asked for another proof. Either
the proofreader was not given to
searching the Scriptures, or his zeal
for truth led him to overconscientious-
ness, for the writer found his cor
rection garbled to read, "Barabbas
was a rotter!"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-09-08
New Rapid reIenranhx.

At recent test in Germany Of the
Pollak-Virag system of telegraphy
speed of $4,000 words an hour was at
tanned. In transmitting, this system,
like other fast systems, uses a strip of
paper previously punched with holes
representing dots and dashes. The
most novel feature of the system is
the method of receiving. The incom-
ing electric impulses cause thin
strip of metal, resembling a telephone
diaphragm. to vibrate and thus move
tiny mirror attached thereto. A
sender beam of light from an mean
descent light falls upon the mirror,
and is reflected thence to a strip of
photographically sensitive paper,
which is steadily unrolled by clock
work when messages come. Chemi-
Gals for development" being applied,
the paper exhibits continuous dark
line, with upward projections for
dashes and downward ones for dots
The message must then be deciphered
and the translation must be written
out.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-09-08
THE pLAYINe-cARD SUPPLY.
:, Amounts to Tent Cards Year for
zach inhabitant Of the Country.

:. A,,ourts 70 Tent Cards a Year for
Each lnhabitant Of the Country.
One of the internal revenue taxes
nroy-ided by Congress to meet the ex-
pense of the Spanish war was tax
~ . cents on each pack of cards,
manufactured in the United StateG
saws the New York Sun. The usual
mack contains So cards or with a
Joker So. but for the sake OF uni
formity the number was liked by
Congress at 81.
The government revenues from the
war tax on playing cards amounted
to about 81 900 for each working day.
and assuming that all the packs were
fulI decks. the average number manu-
featured in each year was 100000
packs, or 7SO,OOOOOO cards. The popu-
Iation of the United States is, APP
proximately, 76,O00,O00, and there were
10 cards manufactured each year for
each man. woman and child in the
United States.
To the total revenue of 100000
from playing cards, Ohio contributed
100000. New York following with
$50 900, and Michigan and Illinois
with $4,000 each These four States
have a practical monopoly of play
ing-card making in the United States.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-09-08

IL the small boy don't steal or Dor
row this new mouse trap to celebrate
the Fourth of July with, we shall be
very much mistaken, for he can make
Just about as much noise and run just
as much risk of blowing off a hand
or putting out an eye with this trap
as he can with the toy cannon de-
signed especially for the above form
of celebration. When used as a
toy the boy will insert the cartridges,
pull back the firing pin inside the
coiled spring at the rear of the gun
until 1t hooks over the trigger at the
rear, bend the rod forward and secure
1t beneath the wire bale to set the
trigger Then he will place his finger
on the fitting platform, either in front
OF tho gun or at one side, as suits his
fancy, and give a slight downward
pressure to release the trigger and
allow the spring to drive the rod for
ward to strike the end of the cart.
ridge and explode it. When the trap
is set to catch rodents the operation
is just the same, except that in this
case 1t is the animal that is injured
or killed Instead of the boy. II
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-09-08
An omlnous Phrase.

81 hope you will excuse what may
seem to you to be a liberty" said the
young man.
Certainly" replied the merchant.
81 am sure that you will not presume
on your position as a trusted EN-,
ploye-"
ut is just that that desire TO men
ton. heard you speaking of me to
one of your friends the other day as
a trusted employee and I wanted to
ask you as a special favor to call me
something else. After all that has
been happening l can't help feeling
that it causes me to be regarded with
suspicion which | do not deserve. -
New York Times.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-09-08
A Richmond Street Dwelling.
Date of erection not known.

everything in stone; that is. every
thing that embodied the thought of an
architect.
But in this country timber was
plentiful. The first houses of the
settlers were, of course rude affairs,
built Of logs, or roughly hewn timbers.
As soon as the colony gave assurance
of permanency, however. the people
No one here knew anything about de-
signing, and 1t was natural that our
builders should bark back to the old
country.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-09-08

Pulling the Relns Give beverages.
sas men provides a means by which
leverage on the jaw can be obtained
whenever the animal takes fright and
starts to run. Instead of attaching
the reins directly to rings at the ends
of the bit, they are secured to the
lower ends of pivoted plates, with a
short strap passing beneath the chin
to connect the upper ends of the two
plates.
1t will be seen that pull on the
reins will swing the plates on the
pivot point until the strap beneath
the jaw is frightened to the required
degree. while at the same time a
U-shaped gag plate inside the mouth
is tilted in position to open the ami
mails mouth and break his hold on
the bit
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-09-08

yet from the very first, some Of
the houses which looked squalid and
cheap from the outside were full Of
interesting interior details. In almost
all the first frame houses there were
fine old nantes that are the despair
of the modern finisher. In the best
homes throughout the country thess
early colonial "details are reproduc'
ed, not because they are old, but be-
cause they are better than anything
modern architects have been able to
devise.
"One of the most curious features
about these very old houses is tho
purple glass used in the windows
This glass can not be reproduced by
modern glassmakers. There is some
thing about the tint that defies re-
production. 1t is of delicate, violet
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-09-08
Buffer Car for collldino Trsins

Buffer Car for collldna Trains.
the engine is further impeded, and by
the time the forward truck has
reached the highest point and comes
In contact with the buffer the invent
or believes that it will have lost all
its power for damage. A double-ended
buffer has also been designed, having
the same principle, but serving to re-
ceive the rear car of the train on one
side as the engine of the train in the
rear rolls up the track on the oppo-
site side. The buffer car itself is Civ
zen light structure, like that of the
closed luggage vans used with pas
senger trains
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-09-08
Fearful and wond.rf,,,

me Japanese tradesmen Of Toxic
are becoming very fond of hanging
out English signs, In one street an'
pears the notice, Restaurant 49,.
european nourishing cakeso Anotber
shopkeeper has in large lettars 80,
sne doorway y, the words, Photographer
e, The principal barber Of
ene , Town calls himself "headcutter .
and has taken to wearing long White
gown oil approved nightshirt pattern
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-09-08
What the White House is.

To the American people the white
house represents the personality of the
president of the United States. To
the politician the magic words may
stand for the goal of an ambition too
often associated with the deepest and
most poignant disappointment, while
to the historian the name may typify
decisions that have marked epochs in
the affairs of nations In the mind of
the people, however, the official char
acter of the building has always been
subordinate to its domestic uses. Pop
ularly speaking, the white house is the
place not where the president works.
but where he Charles
Moore in Century.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-09-08
Theory of Addition.

M. Pierre Bounier in a note enti.
tied The Ear a Manometer," sets
forth a new theory of hearing, to wit
that the liquid of the interior ear
moves as a whole, so that addition is
a hydrodynamic, not an acoustic, phe
nomenon. The ear is not a resonator
but registering manometer, in which
variations of pressure are alone re
corded. He points out that the nerve
of the labyrinth is thus brought un
der the common law of the apparatus
of sensation.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-09-08
The Disaster to- Shamrock m.

ne DISASTER 100 shamrock III.
doggedly pursues in his efforts to
raise the cup. Sir Thomas Upton is
still most sanguine, both as regards
the rapidity of the refitting operations
and the ultimate performance Of the
boat in the all-important contest of
Sandy Hook. He declares, moreover,
that there will be mo- necessity for
postponing the date of the races The
yacht, he told an interviewer, is the
most wonderful boat ever built In this
country, and nothing like the best has
been got out of her During her trials
up to the time of the accident Mr..
Fife had expressed himself as highly
gratified with the display she had
given"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-09-08

mouth of Cape Fear river, North Car
DINA. 1t took the form of two COM
plete bodies, Joining at the breast,
Siamese twins fashion, the point of
union being marked with a dark
streak. Between the viscera of the
fishes there was no connection at all,
but the joining integument was hol-
low and flexible, and the two could
swim easily together. The bigger of
the oddly united couple seems to have
had the start of the other in the battle
of life, and to have annexed the lions
share of the good things which fell
to their Joint lot.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-09-08

have heavy columns with pedemented
ends. Beyond that l can't describe
them other than to say that they are
mongrels of the worst type.
after this period of chaos our
architects fell back ON French roof
style, the Jueen Anne house and
other eccentricities. We are now back
to the old colonial style after a
century of wandering in the wilder.
ness. And we haven't returned to
that type because it is old, but be-
cause it looks better aud is better."-
Boston Journal.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-09-08
Engraving Glass with Gelatin,

A singular property of gelatine,
when spread upon glass, has lately
been experimental with by the French
chemist, Cailletet. When a thick layer
OF strong glue, that has been allowed
to dry upon glass surface, is de
,tachsd, 1t carries off scales of glass
and leaves designs resembling those
of frost on window pane. Polished
marble and quartz are similarly at
tackled. With glue containing 6 per
cent of alum. Monsieur Cailletet pro
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-09-08
Development Of the Gas Enolne.

Development of the Gas Engine.
The development during the past
year of modern blast furnace gas en-.
gines is one of the most notable things
in the world Of practical science. This
form of engine takes the gas given off
from the blast furnaces and utilizes It
for the generation of power, which
may be applied in many ways. 1t is
predicted that the profits of pig iron
production will be ultimately doubled
through the saving effected by the gas
engine, and some persons even think
that in time blast furnaces may be
erected primarily as great gas gener-
ators, the making of pig iron by them
becoming only secondary considera-
ton.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-09-08
MODEL FOR THE WHITE HOUSE
Mansion of Chief Executive a Copy of
Monticello.

Ex-Representative jefferson M.
Levy of New York, who owns Jeffer-
sons old home near Charlottesville.
Va, says that the white house Is
getting to look more and more like
Monticello. The architects who re-
modelled the executive mansion recent
ly asked him if the mirrors in the
salon OF Monticello cauld be bought
for the white house. and he wrote
that while he did not feel like selling
them he was willing they should be
copied. This will be done. The mir
rors in question were purchased in
France by Jefferson.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-09-08
RIt for RESTRAINED LIorsss

Until the day arrives when the
automobile has displaced the horse
completely there will continue to be
reported accidents caused by fright
ened animals running away and up
setting carriages, with more or less
serious damage to the occupants. A
restraining bit designed by three Kan
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-09-08

municipal development Of water
gas, electricity, street rai,n'n water
kets, baths and cemeteries ~ m. mar
nam england, has showed an ayerags
ann net profit of s15S, 600 for ne ne
q. -FOUR years The money is anr, ,
to the reduction Of taxes . spphee
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-09-08
The Action Of Poisons

nature seems to have provided that
no poison which acts externally shall
nave any effect internally. and vice
versa Thus the most deadly snake
venom can be swallowed with i'm.
punity. the juice of the stomach pre.
sumably decomposing it and rendor p,e
it harmless. 'eii''eiin s
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-09-08
RO2ZZZ AZ
OLZENLX

duced five designs. resembling moss in
texture. Hyposulphlte of soda and
nitrate OF chlorate of potash, added to
the glue, produce analogous effects.
The glue while drying exerts a power.
full mechanical strain.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-09-08
CURIOUS, FREAK OF NATURE.

Double Catfish Captured ON North
Carolina Shore.
The accompanying curious ilIustra-
ton represents double catfish given
many years ago to Prof. Silliman, an
American scientist. The fish was
captured alive in shrimp net at the
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-09-08
Upton is NOT DlsMAYED.

English Newspaper Tells Of Hopes Of
the Challenger.
Here is an account, from an Eng
lish paper. of the disaster which be-
fell Shamrock III. recently:
"The accident to Shamrock III. has
evoked a chorus of sympathy with the
owner of that vessel, whom ill-luck SO
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-09-08
no Warm RalIroad cars.

A new system of warming the pass.
enger compartments on an English
railway is being tried. 1t consists OF
cylinders charged with chemicals,
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-09-08

Nothing makes woman so happy
as to see that her dearest friend Is
getting wrink-ed.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-09-08

May Also Celebrate Fourth Of July.
might be added that the animal
win need some sort of bait placed on
the platform as temptation. but the
boy will need no temptation what
ever.
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-12-16
The Pope Bicycle Daily Men,
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dustry. Upon the S66 calendar leaves
are freshly written lines, from the
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other eminent men and women, all OF
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