davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Washington times., 1903-04-26
Troops IN the Parade.

q
This being the end sought by the
national commission. only the best types
/ of troops viii appear in the parade.
United States engineers. artillery. cav
airy, and infantry VIII represent all
arms Of the service The battaHons xiii
( parade in every kind Of uniform adopted
( by the War Department. The new cav
airy dress. the khaki of the field, the
/ fatigue. and the latest Olive-drab battle
cloth VIII be shown on different bat
talions-
/ Catching the spirit Of this educational
mobilization. the State authorities have
picked only the best drilled and equipped
/ troops for The show. New York is
sending composite regiment of com
panIes selected by the adjutant general
of that Commonwealth, from the crack
] regiments. Ohio is preparing TO send
the First. Second, Third. and Fourth
i Regiments Missouri viii contribute her
/ Second. Third. Fourth. and Fifth Regi-
! ments The First Missouri viii do police
duty en- the Exposition grounds, and
therefore viii not take part III the pa
rade
Illinois INTENDS TO De represented Dy
the Fourth Regiment and the Second
J Ships Crew or the Naval Militia Iowa
VIII send her Thirty fourth Regiment
Minnesota VIII appear with the First
Infantry. Louisiana sends as a guard
/ 10 her governor, q battalion. and Okla
homa has prepared similar display
What the other States will decide to do
befora the dedication is only indicated
/ bY a general desire TO share the honors
/ in this monster demonstration TO show
( that the nation is On guard.
The Regular Army Contingent.
Grand Marshal Corbin has now the
authentic assignment Of the United
States troops. The detail includes 3.S43
officers and enlisted men, ana 6S6 ami
: -.--- - -.L-..-- - -. h -.--..-.-..
The Washington times., 1903-04-26

56-inch Atwood Covert Cloth; col
ors tan mode, gTays, brown, and
blue. suitable for travel
ing costumes and sepa- G. 20
Eete skirts IRIS, or jackets, NI.1J
The Washington times., 1903-04-26
LANSBURGH & BRO.

Si.UO cream serge, OcS.
Tomorrow you can buy a very su-
perior quality All-wooI Cream Storm
Serge. suitable for seashCre OF
mountain wear. full 46 inches wide,
perfect in every par HOH
ticuIar. Worth Sl.00, for, nhS
ward. w
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-11-24
WATER GUARD FOR SULTAN
submarine Lights Used to Protect
Him at Night.

submarine LtGnts tse0 w fFOtect
Him at Night.
Remarkable measures are being TAX
en- for the Turkish sultan's safety,
writes the New York World CONSTANT
nople correspondent. The night guards
have been doubled, as it is believed
that any attack on his life which may
be contemplated will be attempted at
night.
Another measure which the chief OF
the palace police has adopted is the
submarine Illumination of the Bos-
porus in the neighborhood of the pal
ace. An elaborate system of subma-
rine lamps of great power have been
ranged all along the landing stage in
front of the palace. and both the SUR
face and the bed Of the Bosporus are
blaze of light.
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-11-24
A WITTY Reioinder.

Representative Fred lands Of Indi.
ana, who said he had come to congress
because there was nothing else to do,
Is thin, says the Washington CORE
spondent Of the New York World. He
was sitting In street car when Fat
man came in ana sat down in his lap.
Il beg your pardon" said the fat
man
IT'S all right" Laudis replied. "But.
fell -. ia you mink was painted On
Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-11-24
Napoleon,s ned For Sale.

The bed on which Napoleon died at
st. Helena is being offered for sale in
Paris, says Tit Bits. The bedstead is
made Of brass and was given by the
emperor to Comte de Montholon. who
was with him at st. Helena. 1t is now
the property of the Comtesse de Mon.
tholon, who is the last representative
Of the family, and. as she is very old
and has no one to leave 1t TO, she Is
now willing 10 sell it. The comtesse
also has in her possession dinner
service which belonged TO Napoleon
The price asked for the bedstead is
$50 600.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1903-02-19
MADE IDLE BY A TRUST.
Power Of Great Industrial Combina-
tons to Ruin Towns.

One of the great evils in the opera
tlon of industrial combinations from
the point Of view of the wage-earner,
is their power to scatter a community
to the four winds or starve its people
into submission to the demands of CAPT
tai. 1t has been pointed out that per-
haps one man or small group of men,
by the mere act Of signing an order TO
close up a plant, could exercise power
OF life or death over thousands of hui
man beings. Something akin to this
happened in the beautiful New England
village of New Hartford, Conn, last
August and September, when the COM
paratively large cotton duck mills of
that place were ordered closed. Nearly
1000 persons of the 1900 in the place
were compelled to leave the town.
Nearly a hundred houses were boarded
up and rents were offered free to the
mill hands who remained. for some
men who had worked thirty, forty or
even fifty years in the place were too
old to get work elsewhere.
With the population cut almost in
half, the merchants of the place thought
they saw ruin before them. The pay
rolls of the mills had been more than
$175,000 year, and when the spending
of this money stopped it seemed as if
the community must die. The income
of the churches was cut down, a large
part of the foreign congregf ton of the
Catholic church disappearing as if
swept out by cyclone. There were
fewer children for the schools. The
value of real estate declined. and those
who had put their savings into homes
found themselves unable to get rid of
them. There were too many merchants,
too many physicians. too many BARRIERS
and. one and ALL they sat down to
see who would go away or go to the
wall first. Gloomy forebodings as to
the increase Of the poor fund OF the
town arose; the bells Of the mills
ceased to ring: the town band that gave
a concert every week ceased to play; q
water power, estimated as worth from
100000 to 100000. lay idle; the ma
chinery of the mills was being shipped
to the trusts mills in Alabama; only
the four walls Of three large buildings
remained. The town was dead; the
heavy hand Of trust seemed to have
killed the city
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1903-02-19
SOME DIPLOMATIC HUMBUd.
Nothing in the Shape of State Secrets
in the World Nowadays.

Lord Newton. who for some years
held the post attached in the diplo-
matte service, principally as secretary
AT the embassy in Paris, shocked the
old fashioned mem bers OF the house OF
lords with iconOclastic views on otf-
cial secrets. There are. In fact he
said, mo such things as Official secrets.
They do not exist The dispatch boxes
which follow the foreign represent9uv
wherever he goes, and are guarded as II
they contained earth shaking mys-
teries. rarely contain anything which
the world does not know. The boxes,
which are carried by kings messengers
TO the uttermost parts Of the world,
contain little that is really secret, and
most of the facts may be expected 20
appear In the press the next day.
These revelations were made while
inviting the secretary for foreign al
fairs TO make a statement with refer
ence 10 Sir Horace Rumbold's recent
article In the National Review, and TO
explain that there was no lmputation
on the character OF the ex-ambassador
at Vienna. Lord Lansaowne justified
the answer given by the under secre-
tary in the house OF commons Nov 10,
as indiscreet and reprehensible. The
book Of "reminiscences written by sir
Horace Rumbold might be described a.
innocuous, but the Review article con-
tanned an account OF a conversation
with the emperor Of Austria and COM
munications with the Austro- Hunga-
rian government on subject OF i'm
portance and delicacy affecting the
name Of Queen Victoria.
Sir Horace's dispatches on these sub
jects were marked confidential and
the foreign Office itself would not have
been justified in publishing them with
out the consent Of the Austro-Hunga-
rian government II that was neces-
sary for the foreign office II should
also have applied TO Sir II. Rumbold.
who ought to have asked the consent
OF the fol ign Office. The foreign Of
fice IL about TO issue a new regulation,
which will make II clear that members
of the diplomatic service must not pub
lish observations on service matters or
information obtained in the course or
their official duties without the consent
OF the foreign office, and, further, that
the obligation OF secrecy continues
equallys after Observation-Disclosures
Mail.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1903-02-19

Ellison creek, and seven miles east
Burlington. then called FLINT Hills"
After the war was over the Sac an,
Foxes drew their annuities from III
government. according to some treaty
and for several years they would cross
the river somewhere about Mount Rose
and would follow wha. was known for
many years in early history of the
west, THE Rock Island Trace" go 10
yellow Banks" (now Oquawka), anu
receive their pay from Lex Phelps, the
Indian agent for the tribe
Sometimes there we're five hundred
or more making the trip sem-annually
or annually, as the terms were. This
old trace led through Yellow Banks,
and occasionally an Indian would stray
away from rank and file and visit the
settlers cabins, wanting to beg some
thing 10 eat.
Could Not Bear the Sight.
Mother never could bear the sight Of
an Indian. and especially one of the
Sac and Fox tribe. One day In the fall
of 1884, an Indian in full dress, with
his toggery on and riding a splendid
black pony, left his train and come by
our cabin, thinking no doubt that we
would give him something TO eat. When
mother saw him she came near losing
her Quaker Tenents," and ordered the
red man to be gone, and proposed to
enforce her orders with an axe shat lay
on the wood pile.
But the savage stood not upon the
order of his going, but went at once.
Note.-The place where Major Still
man met his defeat, for many years
was known as Sycamore Creek" 1t is
now called "Stillman's Run" For sew
eral sessions the legislature of Illinois
was implored to make an appropria-
ton to build monument on the bat
lie ground at "Stillman's Run" to COM
memorate the death of the men who
fell in that unfortunate affair At the
session Of 1901, the appropriation was
made, $4,000 was the amount. Last May
the monument was completed and dedi-
Gated, and the names of those who fell
are inscribed on it,
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1903-02-19
Call This Man Down.

A word TO the presiding officers OF
farmers institutes. Enforce a time
limit on the persistent, driyeling. wan
dering speaker who is simply stuck on
the sound of his own voice. These fell
lows destroy the interest and strange
the life out of such meetings, Invite
something from the many rather than
let the time be monopoliAed by the few.
Glass meeting institutes are always
good ones Because man sits still in
the audience II is no sign that he does
not know and cannot tell something OF
much interest and value to me audi
ence The very best things brought out
in these meetings are the personal and
practical experiences of successful mon
of the community where such meeting
is held.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1903-02-19
Living Close to the Soil.

The advanced cost of the products OF
land is very sharply calling attention to
the old truth that the closer a man
lives to the soil the better he Is off. The
tendency has been of late years 10 get
away from the soil anywhere, any
business as far removed from il as pos
sible. If the needs of the food which
the soil produces could have been also
gotten rid of II would not have mat
tered so much. but do what we will the
old problem of something to eat is be-
fore US all three times day 365 days
in the year When a man entirely cuts
loose from the soil. he becames at once
dependent. AS an illustration Of what
we mean we give the bill Of fare OF a
meal and this particular meal is only
a type Of many which on the writer's
own table, invited and precipitated a
discussion on this line. The -four OF
which the bread was composed, the
coffee and the condiments were not
produced on the farm or in the gar
den. but everything else on the table
was-meat. butter, eggs, all the veg
etables. fruits, pickles-a list ~ choice
food products which. had they been
bought, would represent large slice
OF POO1 Shidfy fd'H year intu INV,
absolute wholesomeness and purity OF
ouch food produced AT home count for
a little-the heaping painful Of straw
berries Just fresh from the garden, the
fresh laid eggs. the Jersey cream-a
pitcherful When a man has 10 buy
these things. only the few can afford
such literally. Then, better than all,
Is the daily consciousness Of being able
10 do II all yourself, the feeling Of in
dependence realized, and the resulting
development of all the better side Of
one-nature In the doing Of " The typ
zeal American home Of the coming
years will be one where all this may be
done, where man will still retain his
God ordained connection with the soil,
to his benefit both mentally, morally
and physically.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1903-02-19
PIE FOR BREAKFAST
Still a Regular Thing On the Bills of
Fare In Maine.

None of the Portland hotels supply
pie for breakfast unless special order
is given, and even then | think there
might be a strike in the kitchen before
the goods were delivered. The only no.
Tel in the state that | know of that is
run on this truly liberal plan is the
Robinson house in the town OF Bucks
port the home of the speaker of the
present Maine house. though the Hotel
Brunswick in Bangor used to do so
until called to account by Sheriff Gill
man of Penobscot county, whose strong
hold is baked beans. and who grew
jealous of the popularity of the palm
room Of this famous establishment.
Once when | went into the Robinson
house for dinner, in the course of a
drive to follow up a party of politicians
then touring the eastern counties,
Clara, the table girl. said: Yes. sir,
We have breakfast ready, including pie,
steak, custard pie. potatoes, apple pie,
coffee squash pie, fritters, punkin pie.
graham rolls, lemon pie, and new milk. y
Isn't that a good deal of pie for one
meaI?' | asked.
No" said Clara. 1--WE usually have
mince, prune, cream and Jelly, but this
is the slack season, and we have to go
slow on something, you see. Chatter
Ton in Portland Advertiser.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1903-02-19
A FOOLISH INDIAN
he Bought Carriage and Trad
nv" ed For Wagon.

,.s;.ns soon part with their money.
in1 =. doing SO they frequently display
anu ~ traits of business charal-
renla' cent Myton, of the Uintah Res
yer. lon tells of a number OF partlngs
erva' .ho lucre incident to his recent
WIN ants Of rental and other incomes.
pay hour after one old buck received
an ~ ash he was seen driving about
~ reservation in a splendid two-horse
anrriaee. The Indian had no means OF
ting the products OF his range or
salds no wagon, no COW, little cloth
ne and less to eat. Reprimanded for
me me imnroyidence, he replied that white
nis tides in carriages; why not In
MAJ hian He was told that he should
Va va purchased common heavy wagon.
. n &c could be used for farm work.
~ another Indians purchase OF such
wagon was told to him as wise pur-
ahose The Indian grunted at every
,-ord looked troubled, but gave no evil
Sonce Of being favorably impressed.
NEXT dav Agent Myton saw his In
,ian of spendthrifty inclination riding
ahout in Just such wagon as he had
nsmed for him, and upon inquiry 1T was
learned that he had traded his $3.50 car
riagn for the wagon; that as soon as
he had been upbraided the previous day
h. didn't do thing but hunt up the
wise Indian who had bought jolt wagr
on, and proposed trade. "How'much
did YOU trade?" was asked. Carriage
his wagon NINE" was the reply. The
trade was vehicle for vehicle. The farm
wagon cost the purchaser $40, the car
rage $3.50. The wise Indian took the
carriage back 10 the seller and got two
wagons, two sets of harness, blankets
and a number Of other necessaries.
When the first Indian was told of the
trade made by the Indian who got his
carriage he expressed no regret. He sim
ply grunted. shrugged his shoulders,
and exclaimed; HE wise Indian. -
Salt Lake Tribune.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1903-02-19
A WONDERFUL CHILD.
An Iowa Four earOld Probably
Smallest Child in the World.

Ruby Belle Kickoff, the 4-year-old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Rick
off of Clinton, Ia, is one of the most
wonderful children in the world De-
spite the fact she was years old last
month, she weighs but Is pounds and is
scant % inches tall.
She is perfectly formed child and is
well developed mentally. She has pref
ty baby features, soft blond hair, and
looks more like little doll than a hui
man being. However, her ways are
old-fashioned, and when she is not in
the midst of her dolls acts herself al
most as grown people do. She prattles
away from morning to night in her
thin, musical voice, and when she goes
lodging about the store of her father
looks more like some mechanical con-
trivance made to resemble human be-
ing of decided pigmy dimensions than a
child of years old endowed with every
faculty.
At the time of her birth Baby Kickoff
weighed Just three pounds, and has
gained but IL pounds in four years. She
has always been in good health ano is
a hearty eater and never misses meal.
Her shoes are made to order and The
size is 60. Her stockings ard all her
clothes have to be made by hand, as
nothing can be found in the market
small enough to fit her. Her hands and
fet are as tiny as those of most infants
a few days old. and her tiny legs are
only few inches long, yet she skips
about at a lively rate.
Her parents have often been offered
large sums of money 10 place their lit
lie daughter on exhibition, but have re-
fused all such offers.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1903-02-19
A NAVAL BULLY.
How j. L. Trowbridge Lost His Hank
ering for a Seafaring Life.

One day. perceiving a man-of-war in
port, and fine looking officer on the
quarter deck walking 10 ana fro under
an awning. | venturef on board and
accosted him with ali due respect, as
! thought then. and as ! still believe.
] have forgotten what l was starting
10 say. hut ! remember well the curt
command that cut me short: Take of
your hat when you address gentle
mani" uttered without disseminating
his walk or turning his face which he
carried straight before him.
If he had hurled pinnacle al me or
a bow anchor or anything else naval
and characteristic, | couldn't have been
more astounded Az he wore his own
cap handsomely gold-laced as ! see him
in my minds eye still. and we were in
the open air but for the awning,
couldn't probably see how ! merited so
brutal rebuff | stared at him a mo-
ment. sitting with establishment and
humiliation. and indignant enough to
hurl back at him anything In his own
line. capstan or forecastle-I was
too angry 10 make a discriminating
choice. Fortunately | had sense
enough left TO reflect that he was In
his own little kingdom. and that II
wasn't pleased with the manners and
customs Of the country the sooner /
took myself out Of it the better. I
turned my back on him abruptly ana
left the ship. choking down my wrath,
but thinking intently too late, as was
my habit, Of the killingly sarcastic
retort | might have made.
Thus was quenched in me the last
Pickering ember Of inclination for a
seafaring life.--J I. TEQwbridge, in the
Atlantic
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1903-02-19
Inequalities of Taxation.

Farmers in the coal regions Of
Pennsylvania must pay taxes on the
Fane Of their farms. Thus, if farm
Us worth $50 an acre. they must pay
on this assessed valuation.
The miner, owning his own home,
must pay on the full assessed value
OF his lot and his homestead. His lot
may be worth from $3.50 to $500.
The coal companies. whose coal
lands are valued at s25.0 900 to $50 900
al acre out of use, are required to
nay taxes on an assessed valuation
OF 81 to 81 an acre.
The injustice of such a system of
taxation is so obvious that exposition
would be superfuous Dubuque Tele.
graph
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1903-02-19

Two cars of lemons en- route for the
East were caught in blizzard One car
was got out and run into roun6house,
where the lemons all froze: the ether,
left on the track. was buried up In a
huge snowdrift, and never lemon
frGze
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1903-02-19

Old pastures can be greatly improved
by an early spring disking and the
sowing Of little medium clover on
them. Blue grass on certain soils Of
ten gets hidebound, and nothing is so
good for 1t as to rip it all to pieces. II
can't be killed by such treatment, but
is always benefited.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1903-02-19
Might Have Been Worse.

less-You don't mean to say she
wanted to take her dog into church
With her?
yess-ies, but the usher objected.
Icss--I should think so. The idea OF
such a thing,
Jess-She said she thought they
wouldn't object TO this particular dog.
a. u was to a certain extent religious.
y 81. Bernard, you know .-Phila-
aslphia Press.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1903-02-19

A defeated candidate for Office in
Wisconsin, complying with the law re-
specting campaign expenses, filed an
itemized bill containing several specif-
cations calculated to provoke a COB Of
sympathy from the defeated. Listen TO
these significant items: Expenses
within two hours after reSiving nomin-
alton. 1924; organizing the Barta du
Rudd club in the Third ward Il never
saw the club. s.; seeing people and
being showed. $3.50; cigars, good, bad
and Indifferent, $40"
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1903-02-19

A section of the West famous for
many years for it's great crops of on
ions, crop of 400 or 500 bushels per
acrde being common thing forty
years ago, now counts n crop OF 100
bushels per acre good one, this fact
being in line with the well established
truth that no one crop can be produced
in large excess in any place and escape
the law of deterioration both in quanti-
ty and quality of crop.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1903-02-19

Rye is not estimated at its true value
ms fall and early spring forage crop
up in the north country where the snow
falls. Sowr on the cut corntield in
September, then pastured till snow
comes again as soon as it disappears in
the spring ii pays well even If the rem
nant is plowed under in May for other
crops Grass seed sown on such field
in March is almost invariably a sure
catch This fall and spring rye pasture
is just the thing for the dairy cows.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1903-02-19

The best timothy hay is quoted at
$l4 per ton in the larger cities this
winter. which price and the very large
yield of timothy in 1902 make the
growing of this crop PORTABLE bust
ness.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1903-02-19

friend in Missouri writes us that
squirrels do not hoard up supply OF
nuts for the winter In any one place.
but bury them in the earth here and
there, where they are dug out as need
ed in winter. This is one Of natures
cute ways of securing a distribution OF
seed, the nuts thus scattered being Civ
en- just the right treatment to insure
their termination in the spring, the
squirrel not using them all for food.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1903-02-19

Six hundred of the better class OF
German citizens sat down recently to a
banquet, the meat dishes of the menu
being wholly horsefiesh. II was got up
by the Society for the Prevention OF
Cruelty to Animals, this society wish
ing to prove that the old horse was
better fattened for food than worked to
death.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1903-02-19

Four hundred and fifty bright young
men farmers sons and their kind. at
tended the two weeks special course at
Ames, Iowa, Agricultural college this
winter. stock feeding and Judging and
corn culture being taught by expert
enced men. This is the second year
this plan has been tried and ii is a
great success.