davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-04-05
FOR SALE.

FOR SALE OR EXcHANGE-BARGAI
in farms and ranches. We can sell good
land cheaper than you can rent. Tell us
what you want and we can fit you out.
J. a. Dean & Son, 403 Iowa Bldg, Sioux
City.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-04-05
LOST.

MARKET STREE 4
bridge and Logan Hill, on the Blakes-
burg road, telescope containing nurses
complete surgical outfit and uniform. etc.
Liberal reward. Return to or notify
Fred Hern, 222 North Marion street.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-04-05

Hundreds of people are daily flock
ing to the bankrupt sale of clothing
by the Hub.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-04-05

FOR sALE-16o ACRES OF GOOD LAND,
at SIS per acre; thirty miles from st.
Paul. Address Z. Haberman, box PAS, st.
Paul, MINI.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-04-05

FOR sALE-7o ACRE, FARM. -FOUR AND
half miles from Minneapolis, on main
travelled road; so acres. under plow; 20
acres wooded pastures no waste land;
good soil fine place for dairy farm or
garden H. f. Newhall, $50 Temple
Court Minneapolis, MINI.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-04-05

wANTED-YoUNG MAN ABOUT % TO
assist with milking, Address ottumwa
Jersey Dairy.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-04-05
WANTED.

GOOD SECOND HAND
boiler and engine Of not less than twenty
horse power, must be good and priced
accordingly. w. s. Campbell, Milton,
Iowa.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-04-05

Frank Wilson was delivering mail
boxes on mail route No. last Mon
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-04-05

Mrs. Ralph Banner and Mrs. Cora
Moore visited at Mrs. Mike Moore's
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-04-05
Public Sale.

will offer at Public Sale at my residence, 7h mile
and ~ east of Blakesburg and V mile east of the Pie
on the Blakesburg and Ottumwa road, what is KIN
Schwartz Farm,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-03-06
His WAGES Were Raised.

Periodically James Gordon Bennett
comes from Europe 10 inspect his news
paper plant in detail. and careful prep
arations i'm all departments usually pre-
cede his coming, but recently one I'M
happy printer GcandaliZed his fellows
by appearing in a seni-tipsy condition
on the mOment0us day. The man was
barely able 10 keep awake. but was still
sufficiently alert to evade the foreman
until Mr.. Bennett discovered him in
person. During an unguarded moment
the tlpsy printer had accidently en-
countered AN ink roller and his face
was covered with a thick black smudge
OF ink. He did not move during inspec
ton, but leaned sadly against the wall
and returned Air. Benefits gaze pathe-
I'll the moment OF leaving, and then
called the foreman after him. The shop
waited anxiously for the result. Pre-
sently the foreman returned furious.
Shaking his fist in the ink-smudged
countenance Of his subordinate he
calculated:
"Say. you wash up an go home, and
come back tomorrow when you are so
ber."
''To get my wages" stammered the
offender Am I bOunCed?"
Nav snorted the foreman in dis
gust The boss saw all the ink
smeared on you and called me out 20
say that you look like the only man in
the shop that works. and he raised your
wages So a week. d. you
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-03-06
sc ohered Instructions.
(Harper's Weekly0

J
prominent racing man tells the fol-
lowing story on himself:
His Jockey fell in on the eve of an i'm
Dortaut race and left him without a rider
for the horse which he had entered for
the event. IN looking about for n sub
stitute he decided that his stable boy
who was thoroughly familiar with Spit
fires ways, would .fill the bin very ac-
ceptably.
Now. YOU must be careful" he warned
HIM ITO use Arizona as PAGER. he is
wonder and will lead the track: follow
him closely until just before the finish
don't pass him under any circumstances
until YOU get within a few lengths Of
the line; then let Spitfire out for all
YOU re worth
The capitalist paused in his recital. and
turned his cigar meditatively in his
fingers.
wei. did he obey your instructions %
asked one Of his listeners
Yes" answered the owner. Ito the let
ter. lie kept just behind Arizona until
they were almost at the finish line. and
then he spurted ahead In great shape:
but unfortunately. there were four horses
ahead Of Arizona"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-03-06
Sixty Years. Experiences OF an Old
Nurse.

Mrs. Winslov's Soothing Syrup Il the
prescription Of one % the best female
physicians and nurses il the United
States. and has been used for sixty years
with never-failing success by millions OF
mothers for their children. During the
process OF teething its value is incalcula->
BILE IL relieves the child from pain cures
diarrhoea. gripping in the bowels and wind
cole. BY giving health 10 the child II
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-03-06
SAT ETY
Burlington
Route

All trains are examined at every
dlylsion station-that is, at inter-
walls Of a hundred miles or so.
When you hear the hammer ring
or see the flare Of the torches. YOU
know what is taking place-your
Train IS being looked over
In this matter of examining
equipment-frequently and thor
oughly-the Burlington is, perhaps.
a little more systematic than any
other railroad The reason is-IT
PAYS.
To Omaha and Chicago. leave
Denver 4;15 p m. and 1875 2. m:
10 Kansas City and st. Louis, 200
p m. and 1885 D. N.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-03-06
A Triumphant Moment.

1t was triumph worthy Of the
Tforum. During the afternoon women
had Tainted from excitement Applause
had grown in volume and frequency as
Sthe speaker swept on from satire to
tenderness; from merciless criticism to
passionate appeal.
More convincing still was the surging
Of the three grave admirals, IA com
mon sympathy OF feeling from their
places on the bench to the counsel ia
BILE. Moved by the same impulse. they
hurried TO congratulate the speaker and
his client, their fellow sailor fighter.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-03-06
WALKERS STORE
THE NEW GOODS ARR

Spring Goods Here All Departments the Latest Best be
not common not to be found every We have endeavod
and patterns Something different what at what 70
need not fear that half dozen others will be ated like yourself
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-12-01


There is n tendency among many of
the State papers to thrust into the
consideration of the selection of off
cials the question Of geography. It
is argued against the candidacy Of
men for offices both appointive and
elective, that the towns Or cities in
which they live have already had
more than their proper number OF
State or national officials in recent
years There is reason in the argu-
ment when used tor an Office filled by
popular election, if not in itself. at
least behind II, in the consideration
Of vote getting powers, Bat for off
ces fillad by appointment or election
by the Legislature the argument
should not be used. The President,
or the Governor, CT the mem bers of the
General Assembly should rise above
such thoughts and support for a given
office the candidate hest qualified for
1t, regardless of where he lives. Be-
cause he happens to have for neigh.
bors men who have been considered
worthy of public Office is nothing
against him, as general rule In
some offices it is well and perhaps
necessary to consider geography 10
certain extent Tor the convenience of
the public, as i'll the appointment of
deputy sheriffs, 81 the election Of Sc.
lectmen, or even of judges. The ma
ture of the duties required makes it
convenient to have those officials scat
tered But to say that man should
not be made judge because in the
same town happens to be Senator or
Representative in Congress or some
other prominent officers is carrying
the matter too far.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-12-01
CIRCUS REALITIES,

To circus people the circus is very
serious thing, says John Oorbin, III
the Metropolitan Magazine. When a
bareback rider slips TO the ground af-
ter a somersaut or lofty tumbler
misses the shoulder it is his business
to land on, the audience is all SYM
pathy, as if feeling itself how dis
tressing it is to fail before so many
people. Very little the performer
cares for all the vast multitude His
mind is on the uperintendent, his
particular superintendent VINO is
watching him at the side OF the arena,
and who, when he goes off, is sure to
asa very poinredly how his eye hap.
pened to be inaccurate, or his muscles
inhrm. There j S no place in the Cir
Gus for performers who fail
Even the clown look a little bit SER
ious behind the scenes But perhaps
that is only because the black lines
they paint on their whitened visaRes
are always so CLAM and solemn. And
what a Wilderness of funmahing peo-
pie there are in tine latte. dav cirausi
Tue Rumpkin, the Loon, the Harlss
quin. the GrimAcer, the Merry An
drew. the austrian Lobby. the Zany,
the Pierrot, the Punch, the Mother
Fool, and finally the German Broad
Face, whose name is Paddy Burke
One Of the clowns was sitting on his
trunk in the dressing-room. licking a
stick of black paint, and rubbing it on
his cheeks so as TO make a most fu-
neral expression. The Small Boy
ASKED him what kind of clown he
was. He said that he was just Fan
ny Friskey," aud he got ms visiting
card out of his trunk. 1t read II.
Friskey. Clown and Comediau," and
it had heavy gold rim, which made
it very imposing. In che four corners
it said Europe and Asia and Africa
and America, which shove hat II.
Friskey's fame had reached the TOUR
corners of the card Until Won saw
his merry cape iu this ring, you
never could believe that man with
such a serious face and such an impos-
ing visiting card could be either funny
/ or frisky
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-12-01
4PLEA ROE THE "DAGO.v

When the poor, benighted dago" gets
his dagger or his gun.
And proceeds to do" member of
his race,
When with base alloy he hampers
with your Uncle Sammy S mon, I"
And he "shoves the queer with
cunning and with grace
When his rude, untutored spirit chafes
beneath the lawful yoke
Whate'er his mind suggests he
thinks he'll do
Then wild insisteut clamor echoes
from the outraged folk,
And it's Back to Sunny Italy
with you -
Wherever there is work to do, on track
or ia the ditch
To build the road or rear the tower
ing welt,
To get ths labor finished, right on
time. without hitch
Trust the dago' 10 be kingpin of
them All
Theu iu's Dsgo, getg move On-get
your shovel and your pick y
He's the man chat rs to bear the
brunI Of toll
And he'll go TO work i'm sun or snow
without single kick.
Just TO wrast his soanty living from
the slil.
Oh, the dago" is r terror when he's
cOoped up in a town,
For ha keeps the wires busy night
and dav;
Sure, he doesn't care snapper for the
laws judicial frown,
And the "oop" in Ginny- town"
deserves his pay
SUIT You get the "ginny Settled in "A
Quiet little place.
Far away from many others of has
clan,
You examine him quite careful, with
out mai CO face to face,
And youn find him much like any
other man.
Charles N. Lurie, in N. Y. Times
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-12-01
30 I THE STATE.

George, the three-years-old son of
Alphonso Gsud cite. Of ST. Johusb0ry,
was drowned near his home on the
Passumpsic river on Friday The lit
tie follow went ous IN the ice to play
with the older O. ildreu and Iid upon
thin ice sinking at once in about ten
feet Of water The SIS if curreut took
him under the ice and it was nearly
six hours before the body was found
100 feet below where the little fellow
fell in.
A landscape gardenr from Boston
has been in Manchester several days
making the preliminary plans and
drawings for the laying out Of the
torty-six acres recently purchased BY
the Dellwood Cemetery Association,
and which are to be added to the GEM
etery, alIeady known as one of che
most beautiful in New England. The
original cemetery, comprising about
thirteen acres, YVES presented to the
association by Judge Max Skinner Of
Chicago and the Hon. Helmus Wells
of New York The trustees expect to
expend about $500, coo during the next
two years in the building of roads,
setting out shade trees and placing
the recent purchase SO that il will
correspond with tie old one The
ornamental gateway al the present en-
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-12-01
REFORM IN RUSSIA.

Is Russia on the eve OF political
changes at home which will dwarf in
to insigniticance anything that has
recently happened in the empire? The
latest reports from ST. Petersburg IN
dicate that there is strong proba-
bility tn the Gar is to grant con-
stitution to the Russian people which
will give them a taste OF real political
freedom, At any rate, there can be
no doubt shat more liberal policy is
to he adopted, Tor the announcement
thr0ugh the government papers Satur-
d8t o.n'n2 ia the effect that all
rem bic assemblies OF the Czar's sub
je rs enc TO t. sha'l have the right
to nad in criticism OF govern
meut leics, and that the Czer will
pro ecr rem IN ihis ghl, is a de-
cided 'a that dircetion
Tn t2 received and read with
III 1T the memorial presented to
him bY the Zenstvo congress the other
dey IT nt once called before him a
d.l.aet.or from the congress and gave
then opportunity TO express orally
then arguments IN behalf Of consti-
tuuou ion the empire They left his
presence greatly eiateo with hopes
that nf last their etorIs are not to be
Without avail Official Russia is re-
ported as dazed, while the friends OF
civil TERRY and OF equality of the
mas with the few are tilled with
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-12-01

The three ghosts on the lonesome road
Spake each TO one another,
"Whence came that stain about your
mouth
No lifted hand may oover?"
"troh, eating OF forbidden fruit,
Brother, my Brother. "
The three ghosts on the sunless road
Spake each to one another.
Whence came that red bum on your
foot
No dust or ash NAV oover;"
Il stamped neighbours heartu-hame
out.
Brother, NY brother"
The three ghosts on the winlless road
Spske each TO one other
Whence came that blood upon yoGr
hand
NO other hand may Govern
From breaking Of a womGn's heart,
Brother. my brother.
"Tet ON the earth clean men we
walked,
Guttou and Thief no Lover
White flesh and fair it hid or stains
That no mau nigh discover.
Naked Che sonl goes up to God.
Brother, nv Brother -
Theodosia Garrison, in the Christ
mas Scrbuer's.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-12-01
now NOT TO WIN.

Judge Parker kept still quite a while
And hid behind his blandest smile.
While he this silence did maintain
He was considered safe aud sane.
But when he oped his mouth bit
He promptly put his foot in it,
And said 80 many things untrue,
'Tis well, " said Mr., Cortelyou.
He said that all the Philippines
Are scarcely worth hill of beans.
And that they COST an awful lot
More than they did, or some such rot,
He said that Teddy is a fraud,
Who by the trusts is deeply awed,
And that he loves q fight to brew.
A cinch, " said Mr.. CortelyOu.
And then he talked about blackmail
And influence that is for sale;
And said the trusts sit back and gloat
And get protection for a vote;
And other statements just as queer
He made to those with nerve to hear.
II that's his way success to woo,
We win, said Mr.. Cortelyou.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-12-01
WHAT THE SEAT COST.

Thomas A. Edison, Jr, was describ-
ing the neat way in which he had
turned the tables on practical joker,
says the Detroit News-Tribune.
81 succeeded, he said, laughing,
81 succeeded almost as well as James
Hard on the trolley.
James Hard is a bookkeeper. From
8 O'Clock in the morning till at night
he stands at till desk, before big
day books and lsdgers and cash books,
adding, subtractinG and multiply ing
till his head whirls and his legs re-
fuse to support him.
lone evening, quite worn ont, Hard
was riding hOmeward on a csr. when
flashily-Gressed young woman got
aboard There were 10 vacant seats.
She locked from one man e. another,
but none returned her gaze. Then,
picking out James Hard for mild,
timid, downtrodden, harmle married
man, she trippei over to him and put
out her baud and said in a loud
voice.
" Why, Mr.. Jenkins, how glad am
to see you. How is your wife, and
how is the dear baby? Viii l accept
your seat? Why. yes. And thank you.
Thank You ever so much.
James Hard rose and he was mad.
He looked the young woman square in
the eye, and in a voice louder than
hers had been he said:
''Sit down, Bridget, my girl, Don't
often see you out on wash day. You
must feel tired, I'm sure. How's
your mistress?"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-12-01

The Universalist church of st. AL
bans has extended unanimous call
to Rev. e. e. Msrgraff of Derby Line
to succeed Rev. q. W. Penniman, re-
signed. 1t is understood that the par
fish is satisfied that he will be accept
able 1t is also practically an as
sured fact that Mr. Msrgraff will &C.
oept the call.
Many counterfeit nickels have been
placed in circulation in st. Adams.
The coins are evidently the work of
local talent, and appear to have been
moulded in plaster of paris casts.
The material used in their compost
tion is lead and casual examination
is sufficient to discover the imposure.
The coins have the buDbly appear
auce common to those in plaster of
paris, and show signs of their edges
of having been trimmed smooth with
knife where the metal entered the
molds.
A number of children who were
skating near Furnace street ut Poult-
ney ON Thursday afternoon, broke
through the ice into twenty feet of
water, and were rescued with diff
Guilty by employees of the foundry
Charles Flood, one of the party, had
gone down twice before assistance ar
rived. The ice was considered safe,
and the children had skated upon it
for several days. Instead of CROSS
ing the long bridge to reach the ice
they walked it at another point.
When the children stepped upon the
surface it gave way beneath them,
precipitating the entire party into the
water.
By the decision of Judge Hoyt Ii.
Wheeler of the United States district
court for the district of Vermont,
John q. Farrar, the Waterbury Ma
tional Bank defaulter, will be given
his liberty at once. Fsrrar has been
out on bail since November 7. He was
SOANAAbOh III 1910 III SIlD6AHAABS dUOub
S31 900 of the funds of the First Ma
tionai Bank of Waterbury and was
sentenced to seven years imprison-
ment His sentence, deducting the
five days per month Communication for
good behavior, allowed by the State
law, would expire next July but I'M
der a rnqapt aot of Cpuurecs riviuo
eight days Communication per mouth, it
expired October "a Fsrrar claimed
his liberty from that date, but United
States District Attorney Martin would
not grant his petition for release until
the matter had been submitted to
Judge Wheeler, there being inoonsist-
encies in the act of Congress as to
what cases were effected by the act.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-12-01
COSTLY LEGISLATION.

In connection with the work Of the
Legislature up to the Thanksgiving
recess the Burlington News has the
following to saw:
1t is a record we think that will
hardly be called proud one by any
member Of the Legislature OF 1904
That body has been in session for
torty-hve days In that time it has
taken into its hopper six hundred and
seyenty-three measures for coDsidera-
ton. OF these bills Governor Bell
has signed only seventy-three. or the
bills signed by the Governor, which
have laboriously passed through the
Legislature, at cost of about one
thousand dollars day. We challenge
any member of that body to name one
bill Of such commanding Importance
that it could be said to be necessary
/ to the interests of the State that il
should become a law.
or the laws already made, small
minority are public laws; all the
rest are private acts of one kind ano
another. From an incomplete list OF
/ these new laws we count up thirty
eight private acts. Not one OF thes,
has any real concern with the public
They are for purely private purposes
and for the sole benefit of those VIII,
take the time Of the Legislature {,
/ get them passed, 1t con es to this
then, that this Legislature has beer
in existence about seven weeks at
cost Of approximately fifty THOUSAND
dollars. In that time thirty eigh
purely private bills and thirty five
more or less public aots-not one o
l
which was really needed by the publ
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-12-01
WASTING TINE.

What good is accomplished by
spending 81, 600 per day in discussing
propositions of legislation without the
slightest hope of changing any result
thereby? To legislate without any
purpose beyond agitating some subject
is waste of time and money Essex
County Herals
The Herald is right Some subjects
which biennially come before the
Legislature, and which take up much
valuable time, could better be barred
out. 1t is useless to consider them
when it is known beforehand that
such considerations will not result in
any legislation. If it is desired to
work change in public sentiment
which will in time have its effect on
the Legislature. the proper place to
do that work is among the people, by
public meetings and circulars, and
through the press. 1t is not right to
spend a thousand dollars day to edu-
cate the people through the Legisla-
ture, because the value received is too
small. 1t may result in educating
people to think things concerning
the Legislature that should not be
thought
AT the present session the capital
punishment bill was killed by vote
of about two to one by the House.
1t has been killed before by heavy
majorities, The House killed the bill
giving municipal suffrage TO women.
1t was a close vote, but it probably
would not have been had the legisla-
tors thought that there was any like
lihood of the bill passing Some
members took it all as "A joke. Such
actions are not conducive to the good
standing Of the Legislature and the
proper respect which should be due it,
A suffrage bill has since been intro
duoed into the Senate similar to the
one killed N tie House Ii was
known when it was introduced that
mad no chance of ever becoming
law, hut some Senators wanted to GO
on record on the question Therefore
the time OF the Senate will be taken
up With the consideration of this mea-
sure after a similar one has been sent
to its death in the House.
Why this childishness? Are the
Senators chosen to ride hobbies and
waste time by securing record votes
on questions that are decided before
hand? Is the glory or satisfaction of
the individual in the Legislature to
be the end sought for, or the enactment
of laws which will reflect credit upon
and be of value to the State? The
members we'll know which it is.
Knowing that, they bat confess their
own weakness when they permit them
selves to bother with questions that
are known to be settled for the pres
ent. Their efforts should be directed
towards the possible and not the i'm.
possible.