davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-10-05

Chief Justice J. ]. Brewster NIcColIum
of the supreme court of PENNSYLVANIA
died at his nome at Montrose, Pa, Sat-
urday night, after an illness of about
two, years. Mr.. McCollum was 10 years
old and succeeded Henry Green as chief
Justice of the supreme court in 1900.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-10-05

Hon. Levi Wallace, justice =. ,he
first district court of northern .hiuuie
sex, since 1874, died, SUNDAY at aver,
Mass, of heart disease. ne was %
years of age and native OIL 1o"iisei'o'
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-10-05

There will be a stated meeting of
Waterville Lodge, No. SO, F. and A. NJ
at $50 o'clock, this evening There
will be work in the f. c. degree.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-10-05

The joke is on one of the firemen who,
at the fire on Maple street, Sunday
morning, wanted the screen door opened
to let the smoke out.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-10-05

Mrs. Roscoe Robinson left, Saturday
afternoon, for Denver, Col, to join her
husband, who is staying there on ac-
count of his health.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-10-05

Mr.. and Mrs. George Chadbourne of
Gorham, are the guests of their daugh-
Ter Mrs. G. w. Bradlee.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-10-05

Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. T. Colby will leave,
today, on a hunting expedition in the
region of Moosehead lake.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-10-05
WATERVILLE.

Coburn will play the Skowhegan High
team, here, Saturday, Oct II.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-10-05

The regular meeting of the city gov
eminent will be held, Tuesday evening.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-10-05

Sergt. Thompson of Co. Fl has been
elected captain of the basketball team
that is being organized.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-06
Cures For Insomnia.

To an overworked little woman who
suffers from insomnia an old doctor
delivered himself as follows:
"Shun all the device" one hears so
much about, such as counting up to
5000. They are maddening. Never
take night baths if their action is too
stimulating. Go in for a few physical
exercises, including deep breathing.
After the exercises walk backward on
tiptoe round the room. until forty or
fifty steps have been taken. When in
bed, relax the body completely. Take
long, slow, deep breaths, and if you
must think of something imagine your
self surrounded and supported by a
soft, strong gray cloud which is bear
ing you off to sunderland. Drinking
a glass of warm milk just before retir-
ing sometimes hastens the trip."-New
York Press
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-06
An Appreciative Listener.

Stories of good Bishop Williams OF
Connecticut continue to crop out Wher-
ever clergymen meet. One just told
at the General Theological Seminary
relates to his first sermon in the parish
to which he was called just after he
was ordained. He was rather nervous
when he began to preach, but as he
progressed he noticed an old man IN
a front pew who seemed intensely in
terested in the sermon. Whenever the
preacher made point the old man
nodded vigorously in approval This
was encouraging to the not overcon-
fdent parson, and after the services
he inquired of d member who the
man was.
The old man in the front pew
answered the veStryman. "Oh, he IS
one of the harmless inmates of the
insane asylum around the corner. =
New York Times.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-06

ing operations the elephants are seem
ingly told what they are to do in the
morning, and in some degree left to
carry on the work during the day ac-
cording to their own devices. Very re
markable are the stories told of their
sagaclty. One Of these stories, vouched
for as true, concerns numbering, and
tells OF an elephant that was about to
pick up log just as the great gong
which signaled the close of the days
work was sounded. To the surprise of
the mahout, the log, only little larger
than others which had been carried,
proved too heavy for the elephant to
lift from the ground. Another elephant
was requisitioned, but the two together
failed to make any Roadway with the
heavy timber, and the attempt was
given up. In the morning the first ele-
plant went Immediately to the timber,
lifted it with apparent ease, and car
ried it to the required resting place.
Forestry and Irrigation.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-06
EGG LORE.

Eggs constitute the most universal
human food of animal origin.
Plover eggs are esteemed a great del
icacy in England and Germany
T : flavor of eggs may be influenced
by the food eaten by laying hens.
Hens eggs have a white or brown
color, but ducks eggs are blush white.
Hens and ducks eggs are commonly
offered in our market, but turkey eggs
are seldom eaten.
In Virginia gulls' eggs are commonly
eaten, and in Texas the eggs of terms
and herons are gathered along the
coast.
Turtle eggs are highly priced in coun-
tries where they are abundant and,
though once commonly eaten in Amer
lea, are now seldom offered.
On an average a hens egg is two
and a quarter inches. long and one and
three-quarter inches wide. at the broad
est point and weighs two ounces. q
Recent official government figures
show that eggs and poultry in the east
ern states constitute from one-tWelfth
to one-siXth of the total value Of all
farm products.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-06
CLOSE OBSERVERS.
@avages Note Things to Which Civil
Iized Eyes Are Blind.

SavageS are supposed to have keener
senses, especially a keener sense of
sight, than civilized races. The author
of idle Days In Patagonia" does not
accept this theory. He believes that
savages have no keener senses, but
that they pay closer attention to what
comes within the range Of their percep-
ton. AS an instance of quick response
to an impression he tells the following
story:
On March II, 1861, company of
hunters were camping beside grove
Of willows in Patagonia. About 8
O'Clock that evening, while they were
seated round the fire roasting their os-
trich meat. Sosa suddenly sprang to his
feet and held his open hand high above
his head for some moments.
"There is not breath of wind blow
ing" he exclaimed, ''yet the leaves Of
the trees are trembling. What can this
portend?"
The others stared at the trees, but
could see no motion, and they began to
laugh at him. Presently he sat down
again, remarking that the trembling
had ceased, but during the rest of the
evening he was very much disturbed in
his mind. He remarked repeatedly that
such thing had never happened in his
experience before, for he said, he could
feel a breath of wind before the leaves
felt it, and there had been no wind. He
feared that it was a warning of some
disaster about to- overtake their party.
The disaster was not for them. On
that evening occurred the earthquake
which destroyed the distant city of
Mendoza and crushed 10000 people to
death beneath the ruins. That the sub
terranean wave extended east to the
Plata and southwark into Patagonia
was afterward known, for in the cities
of Rosario and Buenos Ayres clocks
stopped, and a slight shock was also
experienced in the Carmen on the Rio
Negro.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-06
0ueer Looking Worms.

New Zealand, Australia, the Samoan
and the Solomon islands as well as
portions of the Hawaiian group are
the homes Of various species of worms
with thick, heavy bodies and with a
well defined neck connecting the body
with a head that is startling remind
err of that OF the monkey In the Sand
witch Islands they are called meta
lu-ki," which means "creeper with a
child's head" An old New Zealand
legend says that at one time they were
of immense proportions and threatened
the extinction of all human life on the
islands.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-06
PEOPLE WHO APPEAR OLD.
How They May Preserve the Buoy
ancy and Freshness of Youth.


ancy and Freshness of Youth.
People who appear old must expect
to be considered so, and ii they apply
for positions with every appearance
that senility has struck them and that
they have gone to seed, they cannot
expect favorable consideration. If gray
haired applicants for positions would
only appreciate the value of appear
ances and would brace up when they
seek situations-go well groomed'
and we'll dressed, with elastic steps,
showing that they still possess fire,
force and enthusiasm-the would
eliminate an obstacle greater than
their gray hairs.
We think ourselves into incapacity
by looking for signs of age and dwell
ing on them, and the body follows the
thought We should, therefore, avoid
the appearance of age in every posi-
BILE way-by dress, carriage, converse
ton and especially by our attitude to-
ward people and things. 1t is not diff
cult to preserve the buoyancy and
freshness of youth, but it must be done
by constant effort and practice. A mu-
stefan who expects to make only one or
two important appearances year
must keep up his practice. Youthful
ness cannot be put on for day if old
age has had grip on you for months.
1t is important to preserve the fire of
youth as long as possible, to carry
freshness and vigor into old age by
keeping up a hearty interest in every
thing that interests youth Many of
us seem to think that youthful sports
and pastimes are foolish, and before
we know it we get entirely out of SYM
pathy with all young life, and conse-
quently really old, whatever our years.
We must think youthful thoughts. as
sociate with young people and interest
them. When a person ceases to inter
est the young he may be sure that he
is showing signs of old age.-Success.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-06
THE SCOLD'S Birdie.
Brutal Punishment to Which w omen
Were Once Subjected.

The Drank, or ScoldS bride, or Cos
sips bride, was neither more nor less
than a muzzIe. 1t was in general use
in Great Britain from the sixteenth to
the eighteenth century, and in Scot
land as we'll women were muZZled for
certain offenSeS, some at least OF them
more imaginary than real The lnStru
ment Of torture, even a dogs leather
muzzle, is uncomfortable; how much
more the sCold'S muZZle? 1t consisted,
according to a high authority, Mr.. w.
levitt, of kind of crown or frame
work of iron, which was locked upon
the head, and it was armed in front
with a gag, a plate or a sharp cutting
knife or point, which was placed in the
Door woman's mouth so as to prevent
her moving her tongue, or it was so
placed that if she did move it or at
tempt to speak it was cut in most
frightful manner. With this cage up
on her head and with the gag firmly
pressed and locked against her tongue
the miserable creature, whose sole of
Tending perhaps was that she raised
uCI NOlCC Ill ucICLl0C VI 11Cl SOIIdl uCc
against brutal and besotted husband
or had spoken honest truth of some
one high in office in her town, was pa
raded through the Streets led by a
chain by the hand of bellman, the
beadle or the constable or chained to
the pillory, the whipping post or mar
ket cross, to be subjected to every con-
ceivaOle insult and degradation, with
out even the power left her Of asking
for mercy or of promising amendment
for the future, and when the punish
ment was over she was turned out
from the town hall or the place where
the brutal punishment had been in
ficted, MANNED, disfgured bleeding,
faint and degraded, to be the subject
of comment and jeering among her
neighbors and to be reviled by her per-
secutors.-Fireside Magazine.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-06

Mrs. Benson's clock, after having
kept excellent time for several years
suddenly stopped. After trying for
some time to make it go she removed
it from it's shelf and sent it to clock
repairer
Madam" he said after inspecting
sis this clock kept in a damp room?"
NO" she replied. 1--WE keep it in
the driest room in the house"
HAS it ever had a fall into tub of
water or anything of that sort?"
Never"
"Well, l can't understand it. It's
works are as rusty as if it had been
left unused in a cellar for a year"
81 can't see how that can be-" said
Mrs. Benson. I'VE are so careful of
that clock that we always keep our
walls Of muriatic and sulphuric acid
inside Of it, where we know they will
never be touched
Then the jeweier understood
Youths Companion.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-06
Old COmicaI Pictures.

There is in the museum of Turin
Italy, papyrus roll which displays q
whole series of comical scenes. In the
first place, lion. crocodile and az
ape are giving vocal and instru-
mental concert Next comes an ass
dressed, armed and sceptered like a
pharaoh. With majestic swagger be
receives the gifts presented to him by
a cat of high degree. to whom bull
acts as proud conductor. \ lion and
gazelle are playing at checkers. a hip
popotamus is perched in a high tree
and horse has climbed into the tree
and is trying to dislodge him.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-06
ELEPHANTS IN BURMA.
The Great Beasts Sometimes Work
Without Immediate Oversight.

Without Immediate Oversight.
In Burma the animal generally used
in numbering operations is the ele-
plant. W,:ile my lord the elephant
solves in q unique way the transporta-
ton problon-always a veXatious one
in numbering Operations-he does more
than that. The stolid and slow moving
OK can ha1l a load from one place to
another, but the load has to be made
'o"dy for him. i'll tie first place, and
after it has arrived at it's destinat ton it
has to be unloaded. The elephant
takes care of all these operations. Not
only he is draft animal, but in
some instances, at a word from his
driver. he picks up a timber, carries it
to the designated point and then not
only deposits it where it belongs, but
does so with precision and comparative
ease, accomplishing result almost i'm
possible by hand labor, and with less
expenditure of time than would be re
CURED by a steam crane.
In most cases an elephant driver, or
mahout, is required for each elephant,
but human labor is so cheap as not to
be a factor in the expense. The ele-
plant furnishes the labor which is paid
for, and the driver is looked upon as a
necessary, though not altogether de-
sirable, concomitapt, as the native
helper is not so much to be relied upon
as his big charge. Opium and the
strong brews of native roots work on
human frailty, but the elephant has no
desire for these. In many big lumber
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-06
The everyday dress of the people. even

The everyday dress of the people, even
of the highest rank, was almost invari
ably made of broadcloth of a sober col
or, occasionally enlivened with velvet
and smart ribbons. 1t was only on
state occasions or festivities, parties.
balls and public entertainments that
the gay silks and velvets and the cloth
of gold were exhibited, and it must be
remembered that SO costly were the
materials which could then be en-
ployed in male or female dress that
not infrequently parents left their best
clothes by will to their favorite chill
dren as a much valued legacy.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-06
THE OLD FIRE HORSE.
Pathetic Ending to His Brilliant and
Glorious Career.

The story Of a veteran fire horse that
was disabled and found his way into
the street cleaning department is told
by Sewell Ford in Horses Nine" The
author says:
There was no delay about his initia-
ton. Into his fore hoofs they branded
this shameful inscription, sd. S. c.,
937." On his back they flung a forty
pound single harness with a dirty
piece of canvas as blanket. They
hooked him to an iron dump cart, and
then with a heavy dashed whip they
hailed him forth at $50 a. IN. to begin
the inglorious work Of removing refuse
from the city streets.
Perhaps you think Old Silver could
not feel the disgrace, the ignominy of
it all. Could you have seen the lower
ed head, the limp hung tail, the dulled
eyes and the dispirited sag of his quar-
tiers you would have thought differ
emily.
1t is one thing to jump a hook and
ladder truck up Broadway to the re-
lief of a fire threatened block and
quite another to plod humbly along the
curb from ash can to ash can. How
Silver did hate those cans! Each one
should have been for him signal to
stop. But it was not. In consequence
he was yanked to a halt every two
minutes.
sometimes he would crane his neck
and look mournfully around at the I'M
slightly leg which he had come to I'm
derstand was the cause of all his mis-
cry. There would come into his great
eyes a look of such pitiful melancholy
that one might almost fancy tears roll
ing out. Then he would be reused by
an eXasperated driver, who jerked cru
ely on the lines and used his whip as
if it had been a fail.
To another horse, unused to anything
better, the life would not have seemed
hard. But to Silver, accustomed to
such little amenities as friendly pats
from men, and the comradeship of his
fellow workers, it was like bad
dream. Had he not lost his caste? Elk
press and dray horses, the very ones
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-06
What He Cared For.

General E. E. Jones, long a Repub-
lican, but who turned Democrat and
was elected lieutenant governor on the
same ticket with David B. Hill, is re-
ported to be almost blind.
Still known as Jones who pays
the freight" ne passes a greater part
of his time 1T his home in Bingham
ton, in one of the room of which there
is large display of arms and military
accouterments. Another feature is
the picture of a large rooster"
emblematic Of a Democratic victory in
which General Jones figured. At re-
cent social assembly at his home were
many Democrats and few Republi-
cans among the latter being Colonel
w. Dunn, chairman of the Republican
state committee. General Jones so
frequently called the attention of
Colonel Dunn to the rooster" that
finally the latter said:
II see it general; see it all right,
but | prefer to look at those tools you
used to kill Democrats with during the
war. New York Times.
-s.Q.s-
GIRL WANTED:-At the Philips
house. Call or write 40-ly
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-06
The old Mans Snake story.

"And you say the snake was fifteen
feet long|
"Well, sub, he looked dat long Wen
he stretched his full length ter strike
me-"
"But-a snake never strikes unless
he's in coils
''Marse Tom," said the old man, I'VE
better end dis conversation right whar
it is. Either I'm a nachul bon liar or
long drinkin' hez made you fust class
authority on nakes"'-Atlanta Consti
tuition.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-06
Where Water Was Needed.

City Magistrate Crane took it upon
himself to read red nOSed prisoner
a moral lecture the other day on the
evils of drink.
Instead of swilling beer and whis'
XIV all the time. cultivate a taste for
water" he admonished, ''and even
when you're invited to take a drink
ask for water
That's all right, your honor" was
the retort But I've read my Bible
in happier days, and there's only one
place recorded there where a man
asked for water. And you know where
he WaSr'-NaW York Times
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-06
The Mean Height of Land.

The mean height of land above sea
level, according to the most scientific
geographers. is $3.50 feet. The mean
depth Of the ocean is 1880 feet Only
2 per cent Of the sea oceans in gen
crab is included inside depth Of 500
fathoms. while - per cent lies be-
tween 500 and 5000 fathoms. If the
land were filed into the hollows Of
the seas. water would roll over the
earth's crust to a uniform depth Of
two miles
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-06
A Shrewd Client.

An amusing story is told among law
yers of a Walloon peasant who had
gone to law with neighbor. In con-
versation with his lawyer he suggested
sending the magistrate couple OF fine
ducks.
''Not for your life,' said bis adviser
eff you do you'll lose the case"
The judgment was given III his favor,
when he turned to his lawyer and said,
II sent the ducks" AstOnishment on
the latter's part turned to admiration
when his client continued, But l sent
them in my neighbours name."-London
EXPRESS.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-06
Simply Impossible.

"Have you got the plans for your
new house completed yet?'' some one
asked him.
mot quite" lie replied. There is a
difference Of opinion between my wife
and me as to the interior arrangements.
She says the pantry is too large and
that there are too many closets"
Without another word the medal for
the biggest lie of the evening was
awarded to him.-Chicago Tribune.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-06

Attention
Farmers!

Why remain in the North and
stay indoors six months in the
year consuming what you raise
during the other six months?
Go south where you can work
outdoors every month in the
year, and where you are pro-
ducing something the year
round. If you are stock rails
er you know your stock are
"eating their heads off" and,
besides, have to be protected
from the rigors of winter by
expensive shelter. Cost of
production determines place of
production, and Alabama and
Florida can produce beef and
sheep cheaper than any other
state, and must become the
center of a great industry al
ready begun. Economical
stock feeding requires the COM
bination of both fesh-forming
and fat-forming foods in GER
tain proportions. Alabama
and Florida contain millions
of acres of unutilized cheap
range, and these lands when
cultivated produce in abund-
ance the velvet bean and cass-
ava, the first a flesh producer,
and the latter a fat producer;
and they are the cheapest and
best fattening materials known
to the world. If you are inter
ested and desire further infor-
nation on the subject address
G.. A. Park, General Industrial
and immigration Agt., Louis
vile & Nashville, r. r., Louis
vile, Ky.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-06

Eyes. think he'd be poet if it were
not for one thing"
S'What's th2t?'
"He isn't rich enough to be able to
indulge in improbable pleasures"
But poets are often poor"
"Well, he isn't poor enough to be ut
terly discouraged either" - Chicago
Post
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-06
His Idea CaDacity.

''I read somewhere the other day."
said Mr.. Henpeck, that one of the big
mercantile corporations pays a certain
man $1,000 for each idea he furnishes.
George I'd like to have a chance of
that kind!'
"Wretchr' exclaimed Mrs. Henpeck.
"Do you want your innocent wife and
child to starve? '-Chicago Record-Her-
aid.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-06

that had once scurried into side streets
at sound of his hoofs, now insolently
crowded him to the curb. When he had
been on the fire truck Silver had yield
ed the right of way to none, he had
held his head high now he lodged and
waited, he wore a blind bride. and he
wished neither to see nor to be seen.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-06
Envelopes In the Eighteenth Century

VIOVeS
Envelopes are supposed to be quite
modern, but in the Birch manuscripts
in the British museum. No. 44333-105
there is letter from Martin Triewald
to Sir Hans Sloane. dated Stockholm,
April "a. 1866. inclosed in an ordinary
envelope which is opened out and
mounted at the end of the letter.
Notes apd Queries
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-06-06
SYmpathY.

cob, let me lilsa a soldier der eX-
claimcl the leading man of the barn
stormers.
"Oh if l only had gum" exclaimed
some one in the gallery in a tone that
savored Of genuine sympathy.-Chicago
News.