davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Svenska monitoren., 1904-08-05

22S5-Ole Vasgard, Centerville, S. d.
22S7-Carl August Brostrom, Sioux City, la.
2303-John c. Dahl, Bristow, Neb.
2346-Andrew F. Seversen, Beresford, S. D.
23G2-TheodOre Hokenstad, GarretSon, s. D.
2411-Emily Anderson, Beresford, S. D..
2415-Wm. KnudsOn, Montevideo, MINI.
24+9-Joseph J. Larson Beaumont, Tex.
2450-Augusta Swanson, Jefferson, la.
2454knud Smith, Bloomfield, Ia.
24GO-Gustav f. Hallberg, Luverne, MINI.
2+G1-Nels A. Madden, Viborg, S. D..
24G4-William f. Storm, Norfolk, Neb.
24S7-John NJ. Ericsson, Alsen, s. d.
2490-Anton T. Linblad, Andover, s. d.
Svenska monitoren., 1904-08-05

ON nj will ha en- god kopp katie
eller CODA grocerier si ga till
Breun, 4o7 Pearl Street.
ON Nj har hosta, sd en- k0p
fia,ka at Thelanders Compound
Cough Syrup.
Svenska monitoren., 1904-08-05

Fina parfvmer kunna erhallas
nos Z. {. Thelander.
Bestallningar at tafvelramar ut.
foras bast och till billigaste pris
hos Anderson & Abel.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-01
Early Marriages and Success.

From the Metropolitan Magazine.
We are used to look grave when a young
man takes a wife unto himself with what
seems to us to be undue precipitation. and
if presently we see young family growing
punctually up around him maybe we wag
our heads a bit and say it was pity that
young Buxton did not wait until he had
got round or two further up the ladder.
We say we don't like to see likely young
fellow overweighted at the start. and we
know of men of promise who incurred do
mestic blessings so early In life and in such
numbers that all their lives they never did
better than TO stagger on under their load
We say they never had chance to get
where they belonged. and we fear it is
going to be so with that young Buxton.
But if Buxton has got his start and
seems to be the right sort, and If that
demure young Lucy seems to have some
hard sense and due constancy, in whatever
disguise. under her ribbons and muslin,
let's not croak unduly nor forecast lot of
bogy troubles that are not actually in sight.
Keeping body and soul together is not
quite so desperately complicated a task as
some of US have grown to think it. Lots of
people don't starve to death
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-01
The Value of Saying emo"

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
No is characterized as "a monosyllable
the easiest learned by child. but the most
difficult to- practice by the man.
DR.. Johnson displays a world of wisdom
in these few simple lines, and the saying
is no less true inEregard to women than it
is to men.
1t seems cold and heartless to a man to
refuse to lend a friend little money to
tide over some anxious time, and yet it is
great question as to whether he is justified
in doing so If he himself is forced TO make
some of his own creditors wait while his
money is fulfilling a friends need.
In domestic life a woman has also much
call for the little monosyllable mo" She
may dislike to disappoint her children in
some matters, but knows in her heart Of
hearts that the granted favor would be bad
for their health or future happiness.
Yet how few mothers do say mo under
such circumstances! And they excuse them
selves by saying 1t is bad for children
to be thwarted! So it is, but if the said
children were brought up to know that their
mother had always a good reason for her
decision and was not to be cajoled out of
that decision, the mother would save a
great deafO annoyance both to herself and
to others thrown in contact with her off,
spring
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1ord 20 make her own peace terms, and her
British alliancesat. her rear guarantees to
her that mo second power will undertake
ever a nj n net S ~ dermsns sn0q Prus.
sia to this day has not forgotten Russia 8
intervention in her own quarrel with Aus
tria half century ago. Gar Nicholas l
first one who shoots" The result for Prus-
sta was the ignominious humiliation OF
Olmutz. which to this very day brings
shame to the face Of every pru = At AT
asperating to thu actual pride Of both to be
told what to did or what not to do In q
question Of national interest.
Is exposed to dangers more than any other
country Of Europe owing to her position,
with three fronts Of attack against first
rate poweTs-France. Austria, Russia. Tne
pixies in the European carp pond prevent
her"-to use Bismarcks words-.from be-
coming scarp herself, striking their teeth
into both her Sides" In spite of his pro-
Russian policy at the Berlin congress,
where he acted in such friendly manner
toward Russia that, he gained for her q
great deal in the face of hostile England
and Austria. sometime going to the bed
side of sick Lord Beaconsfield at night.
Russia felt bitterly aggrieved- Bismarcks
establishment was great when the Russian
press and government began campaign
of hostility against Germany, procedure
which drove the latter power into an Aus
trian alliance, while from that time dates
the Russo-French rapprochement In the
light of all those experiences it is certain
that Germany will not repeat her grave
error of mediation or Intervention between
the two powerful antagonists in a part OF
the world where she has no strength. 1t is
very doubtful, indeed, whether Germany
would ever participate I'm world confer
ence for the establishment of a universal
peace arbitration board" as demanded by
the Interparliamentary Union, except, per-
haps, in a Pfckwfckian sense.
- A DIPLOMAT
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-01
Spanish Praise of French iWt.
From the Madrid Liberal

from tne Madrid Liberal.
in reply to the question, What is wit %.
a chronicler of recent times answered. eft
Is the genius of the French" At first sight
the definition seems to be correct: but a
little reflection brings one to the conclu-
sion that II is defective. In genius there
Is ingenuity-that is to say. certain
amount of preparation and effort-but wit
sparkies without labor, without prepara-
ton, without art.
In truth. wit is malicious smile its a
thing which gushes out suddenly from a
shock. from a contrast, from a fortuitous
meeting, from an image. 1t Is a spark. a
hutter of wings. a rapid reflection, very
light, very frivolous and very vaporous
Wit is next to nothing; but how important
1t Is, and what a high place it occupiesl
1t is more feared than satire and more
dreaded than criticism. To criticism q
man gives answers-he can put in de-
tense; but he stands disarmed before wit.
Its St1ngs can be compared only to those Of
wasps. 1t comes In sunbeam, in breeze
charged with the perfume of flowers. Pro-
PEELED by it's iridescent wings, it stings
and darts away, leaving no time for de-
fense
WaspS of Partisan laughter how danger
GUS you are! In your arsenal somewhere
in the realms of Queen Nab there are ar
rows STEPPED in the poison of sarcasm and
sharpened by irony, while you wear an i'm
penetrable cuiraSS-the steel of laughter.
Who does not know the laughter of France,
the laughter of Paris? The laughter of the
Spaniards is piercing and malevolent: that
of the Germans is grotesque. The English
laugh is dry and the italian laugh is false.
But the Partisan laugh is like a little gold
en- bell that rings for the fun of ringing.
and, although it makes little noise. 1t
arouseS the entire universe.
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her music. and one lesson a day nearly kills
modder.
Come, darling, and we will have nice
hour practicing scales'' says Miss Fannie.
and de little one, she says cheerful yes
mamma, in minute; as soon as L have
dressed Eunice for dinner" Eunice IS little
Fannie's pet doll
Come sweetheart" says Miss Fannie at
de end of ten minutes. Come and try your
B minor"
"Oh. 1 do love my B minor!" SAYS little
Fannie, like b minor was very strong wit
her. 81 just want to put Eunice's iocket
on and den I'll be wit you.
In fifteen minutes Miss Fannie gets tired
or her novel and she says. MY dear child.
VII! you go to de piano and play your
scales or will you play wit dat doll all
day."
In minute, mamma" says little Fam
ME. 1 have only to unravel Eunices hair
from her necklace. l never saw such a
naughty child as Eunice"
II have" says Miss Fannie
On, nave your? asks little Fannie
tlckIed to deaf. Tell me about her."
When you have done your scales"
But, mamma, l must undress Eunice for
bed You wouldn't have her go to bed in
her dinner gown"
OATS de way until de hour is up, den
madame to dress for her drive" Miss Fam
ME tells de youngster she is bad child and
goes on her drive. and Little One cries
because she can't have her music lesson"
Say, it's dat hard educating kids I some
times wonder how some of us got de good
education we have slowed away in our
conkS OATS right!
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Japanese Socialism.
From the London News.

From the London News.
The presence of a Japanese delegate at
the socialist congress is natural enough.
Japan has imported so many of our institu-
lions and ideas that socialism was bound to
creep in among them. Katamaya's party.
like its European models. is now engaged in
agitating against the war. 1t Is not pro-Rus-
sian; neither as Japanese nor as socialists
could Katayama and his friends have any
sympathy with the Slav despotism. But
Japanese socialists oppose the war. no
doubt, because it means heavy taxation on
the poor and the Strengthening of the mill
tary element which is always most hostile
to socialism Their efforts will be useless.
In the midst of Japans life-and-death strug
gle there is room for debate as to the mer-
its of a war policy. But after the war is
over more will be heard of the socialists in
connection with the labor movement. Kat
ayama declares that Japanese trades unions
have no politics. but only seek to improve
the condition of the worker He errs in
comparing them in this respect to our
trades unions, which at the forthcoming
congress will affirm their political faith
in decisive terms on free trade, Chinese la
Dor and other burning questions of the day.
But Katayama probably hopes, like English
socialists, to capture the trades unions for
the independent socialist party. 1t remains
to be seen whether this policy, which has
not gone far in England, will succeed in
Japan. e.,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-01
How to STAY Young.
From the Milwaukee Journal.

From the Milwaukee Journal
How old are you? The adage says that
women are as old they look and men as
old as they feel That's wrong A man
and woman are as old as they take them
selves to be.
Growing old is largely a habit of the
mind. "As man thinketh in his heart so
is he" If he begins shortly after middle
age to imagine himself growing old he will
be old.
To keep ones self from decrepitude is
somewhat matter of will power. The
fates are kind to the man who hangs on to
life with both hands. He who let's go will
go. Death is slow only to tackle the tena-
cious
Ponce de Leon searched in the wrong
place for the fountain of youth. It is in
ones self. One must keep ones self young
inside So that while 'the outer man per-
isheth the inner man is renewed day by
day."
When the human mind ceases to exert
itself, when there is no longer an active
interest in the affairs of this life, when the
human stops reading and thinking and do
Ing, the man, like a blasted tree, begins to
die at the top.
You are as old as you think you are Keep
the harness on. Your job is not DONE
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-01
The Secret Police Rule France.


Skilled in all languages, able to enter any
society. the agents of the brigade des
rechesches the secret police have their
fingers on the pulse of public life and know
the men Of high place as well as if thew
had gone through with lighted candles. In
large measure 1t is through than that
France Is governed. 1t is a mistake. thong h
not an unnatural one, to assume that. be-
cause France is republic the people have
much to say In matters of government. The
word OF the people Is of little weight. The
republic Is parliamentary. 1t is i,,trenched
behind privileges and buttressed by an ir-
removable senate, which selects the presi-
dents. In later years it has become large
ly government of financiers 1t has abro-
gated the right of trial by jury and denied
to the people the right of plebiscital suf-
frage. The French republic is ruled rom
the top down. The project of police IS the
agent of this oligarchy, as he was in the
time of Louis XVI. The secret police IS its
obedient servant, Presidents come and go;
liberal ministers are succeeded by radical
ministries. and socialists follow .he radicals
but always the secret police remains. and
always the oligarchy governs. The very man
who is chief of state may be ranked among
the enemies-at least the adyessaries--of
this occult ruling power.
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which one Of dc tinss would buy. He
asks what was troubling me. and shows
him de list. Mr.. Paul laughs when no reads
de tings had to get for Riddles education.
and he gives de list to de man behind de
counter and tells him to send de goods to
Kiddie's school and de bill to him-to Mr.
Paul! Say, Is he torrowbred7 What7
Dat night I tells Duchess what a slick
trick 1 had done. but she says noting. only
looks comfortable--de way a woman does
who has ducked touch on her roll.
Little Miss Fannie is educated to home,
and she has some kinks in de game never
heard of down In Poverty Hollow where
went to school, when couldn't sneak from
de truancy cop who had de beat in dat part
of de East Side. Little Fannie has a noisse,
a noissery governess and just plain gov
erness. OATS tree of em, and dey has
troubles of DER own-mostly of DER
own. De noisse attends to little Fannies
close, de noissery governess to her
manners and de governess to her mind
when dey isn't quarreling about where her
close ends and her manners and mind
begin Mr.. Paul attends to her NOR
ais. and dey is de best attended to. for
gives hand at de job Miss Fannie says
de kids morals are good. but dat her frocks
and rithmatics are ragged De only ting
Miss Fannie attends to for de little one is
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You soitainly WILL says. Education
is grand proposition. VIII your studies
along de royal road of learning need any
more heip?''
Yes, If yo1 please. dear dad; I need a
set Of golf clubs and box of golf balls. I'll
try to make re golf team next year and
need practice"
DE higher education comes high" says
l. " But knowledge is powers as Whisk-
ers says. and 1 want you to be as high
powered de sons of de swells'
Il shall try to be credit to you, dear
dad" says Kiddie, earnest-like; 80 If you
could get me a heavier set of Indian clubs
l will woIk up me power better wit 'em
dan wild de dinky little clubs dey has in de
gynnasim. And the boxing gloves dey has
dere is 200 much stuffed. 1t is awful hard
to give boy bloody nose wit 'em. If you
could give me set like dey uses in prize
fights / tink / could make great hit wit
en-
''T1l do me BEST I says, beginning to see
dat I'd have to rob bank to make Riddles
education unanimous. rs dere anything else
you need to make scholar of you? Let
Us make one job of 1t, for If have to hold
VI bookmaker want to know how much
to strike for"
Tank you, dear dad says Kiddie cheer
ing up. as he seen was bound to make him
wise If l had to go to Jail for 1T. Dat is all
Iii need, except dat while you Is In de
sporting goods store you might as well get
NE mask and chest protector for next
spring, when I'll try to make de base ball
nIne De senior boys has a banjo club, but
III not try to make dat, because only boys
who has neglected DER education goes in
for banjo playing. OF course I'd like to
have banjo to hang on de wall of me room
wit ribbon tied on it, and so IL dey keeps
dem in de store you might fetch me ONE
y might" says tautfully SIS dat alp,
Dat is all. dear dad. unless you want to
give me lot of tops and marbles. Mostly
little kids of six and seven play wit such
rubbish-not big boys of ten, like me-but
tops and marbles is good to trade wit kids
for cakes and candy dey gets from home.'
If can get around de sporting goods
store when nobody Is dere, may FIJI de or
ders for your education" says. IF any
body is looking I'll do de best I CAM
Tanks. dear dad says Kiddie, and he
starts to &C on his way, but he TOMS and
says. careless like. 81 almost forgot need
rithmetic, a grammar and a Biography.
Dere is some old gents at de school who
teaches dose tings and dey butts in on our
time in dreadful way. We lose whole half
days fussing over dinky things like nouns
and fractions, when we might be out doing
good practice at foot bali or something else
useful"
I'VE all has our troubles in life. me son.
says, land IL you 10 ordered to bring dose
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advice, when he is up against a hard prop
oslton. Women has way of seeing things
before dey comes in sight, and when a man
has de odds in his favor by getting his
w1fe's views on a ting he can't see and she
can, he has right for to take de. advan-
tage. When he wins out by her advice he
can go home and brag about what large
forehead he has to see de ting so quick and
fair.
Most women like peace, and a peaceful
woman won't call her husband down wit
any fool reminder dat it was she who put
him wiSe-and den he believes on de level
dat he doped de proposition all by his lone
lies. Dere is few women what don't know
dat dere husbands cocos are shy on furni-
ture. but most women are satisfied wit de
comfort dey has out of knowing it wit out
wanting to make a holler to de neighborS.
So 1 goes to Duchess and tells what a
shpload of junk Kiddie needed for his edu-
cation, and before 1 had half finished
Duchess was shivering- and her eyes was
TONED to de roof. OATS de way she gets
when she hears a scheme dat means a
touch on her bank roll. When she got
enough breat to talk wit she shows me
troubles of her own, so dat l wouldn't be
too fresh wit mine. She has list of edu-
cational things, too, beginning wit a trunk
full of close and ending wit six dozen han
kies.
what for?" 1 says DO you t'ink our
son is to spread his bed wit hankies or
make balloons out of 'em?"
'1t is not one too many" says Duchess.
de proper end and aim of education is to
teach children to always have a clean
hanky In DER pockets. Should we have our
son educated and den deny de poor youth
all de hankies his education needs? STILL
mon ami. if was to pay for 'em all mesef
I should fink again"
who else will pay?" I asks, wanting to
get next il she had roped an angel.
Miss Fannie. of course, she says. 'Tll
buy when I'm shopping with her. I will
order but few, and she will say for me to
order more, but will say we cannot stand
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Respect for Old Age in Japan.

from LeSlie's Weekly.
In Japan there is no such thing as disre-
spect from youth to age. No Japanese boy
or girl could ever think in light or disre-
spectful manner Of his or her superiors or
teachers. and this may account for the
earnestness so unusual among young chill
dren When student enters a masters
presence in Japan he bows to the floor and
when the lesson is finished he bows again,
with expressions Of the deepest gratitude as
ne taxes MS departure The teacher. sitting
in most cases upon his feet on the floor
grayely returns each salutation, then lights
his little pipe at the inevitable bit of a
smoking box and waits for his next class
There Is no hurrying of masters from room
to room, as In some of the schools In our
enlightened land. Great imitators as they
are. the Japanese are remarkable for know.
ing instinctively those foreign customs
which would not coincide with their ma
tional characteristics. ~
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de expense. and she will give de orders and
have de goods charge to her. She is most
amiable!''
Well, p'chee de very next time I was in
town wit Mr.. Paul he went to get some fish
ing tackle, and steps into de shop wit him
and looks at me list like 1 was wondering
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-01
CTIIMME FADDEN.
Observations on the Education of Youth and
Its Peculiar Requirements.
WRITTEN FOR THE EVENING STAR EDWARD W. TOWNSEND.
Copyright. 1904 by e. W. Townsend)

foolish books to school. Til try to get 'em
for you"
But get de odder things foist," says Kid
die. Il can always borry books, but to
borry bats and balls is rough house."
De proposition was serious for fair so L
goes to Duchess to have chin-chin wit her
about 1t. A wise husband gets his wife's
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From the Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.
Friend-He!lo, doc. how's business?
Young Doctor-Pretty dull; but I'm bound
to have my hands full from now on. I've
moved out near the college campus, and the
football season opens Saturday.
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The Result.

From the Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Johnny-"Papa. what does it mean when
you say man Is good at repartee?"
1T means he hasn't any friends"
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Japan Would Not Accept.

And Japan. being victorious, being at
home. having the supremacy of the east
Asiatic peoples, Korea, China. having
German Kiaochao In her grasp as pledge,
will not accept her mediation. She can at
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Will Germany intervene in the Russo
Japanese war? One needs not be in the
councils Of the German government to guar
antee that such a step will never be taken
by Germany. She has absolutely nothing
to gain. and everything to lose by 1t. Her
Ecst delicate and feeble condition in Kiao-
cbaO. with the hinterland of Shan-tung.
which would be much, and more So at
the disposal of Japan as Manchuria is to-
day, will preclude any such unwise step.
Besides. such step would be an inexplica-
Bile deviation from her traditional policy
since Bismarck assumed control of Prus-
sia's foreign affairs in 1862.
Germany once before burned her fingers
in friendly mediation to which she had
been most cordially invited by the belliger-
ents, both Russia and Turkey. The solution
or that enormous complication in the orient
in 1877. affecting almost every state in Eu-
rope with its stirring possibilities of uni
versal European. and, for that matter
western Asiatic war. required the co-opera-
ton OF the greatest statesmen of the time.
Ine towering personality of Bismarck not
only the founder of the German empire hut
also the promoter of Germany to the head
time actually challenged the submission of
the question to Berlin congress Condi-
lions hnalIy prompted him to accept that
mission. He called himself "the honest
broker or Europe. Knowing the ungrat e-
fulness of the role of mediator. he endeav-
ored strenuously to equalize the European
balance of power. but. in spite of his fen
dencies extremely friendly to Russia. so
That later he called himself the fourth
Russian' delegate to the congress, he ut
terly failed to satisfy Russia, which always
hereafter felt herself deprived OF many of
the fruits OF her victory. In fact, since that
times dates the termination of the intimacy
between Russia and Germany Gortschakoff.
the russian chancellor. felt himself de-
frauded. and the relations became grad
uaiiy so strained that war was on the verge
of outbreak in 1888
In the Russo-Japanese war GERMANY has
actually clashing interest with both. She
was not able to satisfy Russia; what would
the results be in a defeat? Unable to salts
fy victorious Russia. how could she satisfy
victorious Japan without estranging forever
her powerful eastern neighbor already sus-
picious of her? May not humilating war
accomplish what the long peace period has
not accomplished. namely. a real alliance
with France for revenge for the conquest
of Alsace-Lorraine? No. Germany cannot,
and will not. mediate in this war for Rus
sia's sake.
Japan Would Not Accept.
And lamar hofn~ yfofr~vic,,u y>nsn~
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. III
: !, HEARD


anu seems to be making some most effect
I've speeches for the republican party"