davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1904-05-27
-he Mischievous Magpie.

Here is an anecdote illustrative Of
the magpie's love of mischief and Of
sport: There was a field wherein clothes
were often hung out to dry on posts
which were let down into deep wooden
sockets buried in the ground and were
carried away and put under cover when
they were not in use. A gravel path
ran round the field, and tame mag
pie, which had the run of it, was OBJ
served to walk repeatedly and demure
ly from the path to a particular point
in the field, conveying each time q
stone IN her bill and then returning
without it. A maybe seldom continues
at any one amusement for any length
of time but this amusement went on
so long that the curiosity Of the owner
was aroused There must be some
thing unusually novel or piquant about
it. He went to the spot and found that
a large toad had fallen into one of the
wooden sockets and that the maybe
was amusing herself by deliberately
stoning it! AS each shot told the toad
gave little hop of distress in the hole
deep below, which the magpie capped
by a big hop Of satisfaction and an
irresistible 'currack' of delight above.
R. Bosw orth Smith in Nineteenth
Century.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1904-05-27

Insects are scrupulOusly clean IN
their personal toilet and often brush,
comb and wash themselves, service for
which they are admirably provided with
natural implements. This habit is trans
ferred to communal affairs. The streets
within the city bounds and the gates
and external plaza and country roads
leading into the foraging fields, as with
agricultural ants, are kept free from
filth and distractions that might gath
err filth. The constant washings and
combings Of baby ants by the nurses
would satisfy the most fastidious ma
ternal taste. One may not say that
sanitation is an exact emmetOnian sci
ence, but it certainly is an art thor
oughly practiced in every department
Of the formicary and brought to per-
lection as far as natural conditions will
permit. Every insect citizen takes part
in this service. All ants unite to keep
their civic precincts clean.-H. &. NC
Cook in Harpers Magazine.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1904-05-27
Wooden Shoes.

Wooden shoes in France are produced
to the extent of about 100000 pairs
yearly. They are made in Alsace and
Barriers by machinery and in Lozere
by hand. In the last named province
LOO persons are engaged in this man
ufacture, and the yearly product is
more than half a million pairs. The
best are made of maple. In the prov
inces nearly every lady possesses a
pair of the finer sabots for wearing out
in damp weather. These have mono
grams and other designs carved on the
vamps, and they are kept on the foot
by ornamented leather pieces over the
instep. The manufacture Of these
pieces of leather is a regular business
in France.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1904-05-27
How She Got New CIntIaes.

The lawyers at lola were swapping
yarns the other day during a recess in
the district court. A lawyer whose
wife is marked for her good dressing
told how he had come to be such a
good provider. Soon after he was mar
ried his wife met a girlhood friend
The friend said to her that she wasn't
as we'll dressed as she used to be be-
fore marriage. ooh, you are mistak-
en- said the wife. II am wearing the
same clothes did then."-Kansas City
Journal
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1904-05-27
A ReautifUI Art.

Without disparagement of any of the
other arts, to attain proficiency in
which people make such long and val
liant struggles, it may be truly sald
that the one art of smiling warns more
hearts than all others t ge her Most
children-in fact, all happy children
have an unconscious mastery OF this
beautiful art, but unfortunately they
often lose it as they grow older. Chll-
dren are the best judges Of smiles IN
the world. "Her lips SMILE said a
child, speaking of hard faced woman
''but she doesn't" A widening Of the
mouth in vain endeavor to look pleas
ant is not smile. 1t deceives nobody
A smile, to be worthy of the name
must come from the heart. It is the
result of an honest willingness and
readiness to be pleased with little as
we'll as great things.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1904-05-27
Antwerp Milk Woman,

There is no more picturesque figure
in quaint old Antwerp than the milk
women. For many years the milk of
the city has been served to the houses
by these women, whose customs and
even costumes have remained I'M
changed. The milk women wear 6
simple dress, almost completely COW
cred with voluminous white apron.
A quaint white headdress completes
the uniform. Scores Of these pictur-
esque figures are to be seen through
out Antwerp in the morning hours.
The milk is either carried in two large
buckets, hung from a yoke running
across the shoulders, or in little carts
drawn by dogs
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1904-05-27
Suitable Text.

cdr. Thirdly is certainly an up to
date clergyman" said Fosdick.
"So?" said Keedick.
Eyes sir. One of his parishioners
was killed by the explosion of his auto
mobile, and the doctor took for the
text of his funeral sermon the Biblical
account Of Elijah going to heaven in a
chariot of lire"-Smart Set.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1904-05-27
A Traitor.

Ethel (aged siX)-Oh, gracious. She's
just a horrid person. She's forever
wishing she was boy
Minnie (also six)-Well I'm sure I
wish I was too
Ethel-Of course, but she wishes it
out loud SO the boys can hear her.
Philadelphia Press
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1904-05-27
IMebrietY.

Inebriety is called disease, but is a
disease of the will. AS with the hys-
teric, the inebriate said, 81 cannot" it
looked like Il will not;' it is 81 cannot
will It's successful treatment in
wolves the problem Of how to rehabili-
tate a human will.-EXchange
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1904-05-27
SHYLOCk

Shylock was the man who
wanted a pound of human
aesh. There are many
5Aylocks now, the GONZALES
,ent, the consumptive, the
;iclly child, the pale young
woman, all want human flesh
I'd they can get it-take
5cctt's Emulsion.
SCOTS Emulsion is flesh
IA blood, bone and muscie
l5feeds the nerves, strengthe
- digestive organs and the
sd the whole body.
For nearly thirty year
3cott's Emulsion has been th5
s~eat giver of human flesh.
We will send you couple of
ounces free.
SCOTT g. BOVINE, Chemists.
Lo9-4l5 Pearl Street. New York
SOC ard SI.oo; all druggists.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1904-05-27

How about that little bill?' asked
the doctor.
why, DOCTOR was the reply, "only
little while before you sent it in you
told me not to let anything worry me-
and I haven't Chicago Post.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1904-05-27

He who has neither friend nor enemy.
is without talents, powers or energy
Layater.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1904-04-02

Among the stately
Exposition
Topped building
It's magnitude In this
supreme after the fair opened The palace machinery
whole OF
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1904-04-02
CLOUDS OF GREAT EXTENT.
They Are Frequently Eight Miles LONG
and One and Two Miles Hiuh

They Are Frequently Eight Miles Long
and One and Two Miles High.
Scientists have recently been meas
uriug the dimensions Of the clouds and
have arrived at some rather startling
conclusions. The dimensions of single
clouds, as far as the area covered by
their base is concerned, vary, as any
one can see, from the cloud the size Of
mans hand to that which covers the
entire visible heavens, but the height
of clouds can be observed more defin-
! itely and can be estimated with con
! Yincing accuracy. and 1t is this height
that largely determines their contents
and characteristics.
A great, cumulous thunderhead. tow
cring up on the horizon like n huge.
fiambOyant iceberg, is often higher
than the highest Alps would be if
| they were piled on top of the Hima-
layas. 1t is not unusual for these
clouds to measure five, six or even
eight miles from their fiat, dark base,
| lowering mile or two above the
world, to their rounded, gistening
summit, splendid in the sunlight. And
in these eight miles the changes of
temperature are as great as those over
many thousand miles of the earth
surface.
These clouds contain strata of TEN
| perature, narrow belts of freezing cold
| alternating with large distances OF
rainy mist and frozen snow and ice
particles. Hailstones, which are formed
from snow particle that falls from
! the upper strata and is frozen hard
in the freezing belt and coated with
added ice in the wet belt. are often
found with a series of layers in their
formation, showing that they have
passed through this succession of
cloud strata more than once on their
way from the upper air to the earth.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1904-04-02

Russia and Italy in 1884, in France In
1886; with AustriaHungary i'll 1892.
She has no well-established postal ia
cilities or means of transportation and
communication. She has only one short
railroad, while others are projected,
and only a few miles of telegraph
lines, and these mostly controlled by
foreigners. The means of transporta-
ton of men and goods is man back,
pony back, COW back, by means of Sc
dan chairs and by two wheeled, clumsy
bull carts. She manufactures feebly
an insufficient supply of textile fab
rics, of pottery and of metal wares.
She exports rice, ginseng and fish.
Korea has never recovered from the
blighting ravages of the japanese con-
quest of three centuries ago. At no
time since then has she had an army
worthy the name. She has no military
class, no military aspirations, no mill
tary aptitude, no military instruction.
Her present army, nominally of 1000
men. is deservedly a laughing stock
and an object of proper rdicule when
it is not an object of dread. Her sol
diers, poorly equipped and badly paid,
instead of being a body for protection,
become a band of desperadoes, Of
which the Emperor, the court and the
people are desperately afraid. The
Koreans are not towards, but they are
spirit-broken. resembling in this re-
spect the fellaheen of Egypt. Corrup-
ton and intrigue have dwarfed even
such tardy growth as has come to since
the Western powers opened way into
her ports and interior. Her salvation
for the future depends upon the insti-
tuition Of wise government at home and
the neutralizing of ambitious projects
of other nations abroad. She is de.
signed by nature to be a buffer state.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1904-04-02

kindly and generous. They have no
national religion and never have had.
Confucinianism, so far as regards the
worship of ancestors, the reverence for
parents and the dignity Of family, has
a stronger hold than any other form
of religion. Buddhism has always had
a languishing existence among them.
There is widespread belief among the
people in witches, in spirits and in
devils. There are relics of fetichism
The costumes of the men and the
women do not differ widely from those
in use thousands of years ago. The
universal costume is cotton cloth,
bleached and unbleached. In winter
this is padded with short staple cotton
which grows In Korea and Is carded
into pads for the purpose Of quilting
the clothing of the people. Their head
gear is remarkably varied in form.
They have a different form or differ
ent kind of hat for almost every sta
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1904-04-02
ONCE UPON a TIME

Heard l once my old nurse telling
Stories by the fire at night,
All about big, bearded giants
Till l shivered in alright;
Then her voice came from a distance
From a drowsy, far-off cline,
Echoing the sweet old cadence,
"Once upon a Time"
Read l once golden story
OF King Arthur's wonder court
Lancelot and Guinevere,
All the knights of brave report.
But amidst the loving, hating,
Still l heard the insistent chime,
Like a cuckoo clock repeating,
"Once upon a Time"
Will our lives when we have lived them
Seem like stories we have read
Stories which our nurses told us
AS we lay all snug in bed?
viii they seem as vague as dreams are,
All the days we thought sublime?
Shall we hear the faint, low whisper,
Once upon q Time"
When the earth and day and sunlight
Grayly fade away,
When the years that we have lived here
Seem like one brief day;
Shall we hear again at twilight
Echo Of our nurses rhyme.
"Here you lived and loved and labored,"
"Once upon a Time"
-Leslie's Monthly.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1904-04-02
KOREA AND ITS PEOPLE
Country Has Never Recovered from
Invasion of the Japanese.

The people of Korea are not Japan
csc, and they are not Chinese, says ].
Sloat Fassett, in the Review OF Re
views. They are Monaghan. and have
a polysyllabic language with n phonet-
ic alphabet. They have recorded his
tory, of disputed authenticity, which
claims for them a continuous existence
as Korean people of about 5000
years, the earlier part of which Of
course is shrouded in the mists of ira
dition and fable. AS early as three
centuries ago, the Koreans had made
great progress In the arts. They built
ships POO feet long and covered them
with plates OF iron, the iron being
hammered into small plates and fas-
tened by small spikes driven into the
wood. They made woven fabrics and
were very skillful in metal work in
the fashioning of jewels and in the
manufacture of pottery. They We're
far in advance of their Japanese
neighbors, to whom they have taught
the arts of metal working, pottery.
making and silk weaving. Three cen
turtles ago. Japan overran the country
colonies of artisans to Japan, and
broke down forever the military power
of Korea. Korea has produced buI
little litera ture. Korean students have
been largely devoted to Chinese au
thors. The native literature consists
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1904-04-02

Der tt!' he went on. You wanted the
water lilies, and l got in beyond my
depth. How you laughed, you heart
less little wretch!'
you laughed so ABSURD. Tommy"
she said, gggling at the recollection of
him, with your clothes all mud and
your hat gone and your hair all drip
ping. And you swore, too, and it
sounded funny because the water got
into your mouth and made you gasp
and sputter."
II got the lilies, though"
"Of course you did" she laughed.
"And the day we went tramDing."
he said. Great Scott! Didn't it rain!
DO you remember that house on the
ClOyerty road, whore | asked for shell
ter for you, and they told me if I'd
take my wife-didn't you blush at
that!-round to the back door. the ser
wants would feed us? And we fed and
dried out there like a couple of real
tramps. 1t was ripping, wasn't it?''
She was silent.
Suppose you'll have to forget all
that now" he said.
Il chal always remember those
times" she said quietly.
"You won't remember them as !
Go, though" he said.
Perhaps not" she sighed.
Look here he said. suddenly, 81
need some more tea. This thing is get
ting on my nerves"
She filed his cup and looked at him
archly.
Poor old Tommy" she said softly
Hang him." he burst out. He's
an interloper"
"Hush" she said " You mustn't say
that"
"Of course not" he said, Il must
conceal the murder in my heart and
congratulate him.
He rose and stood with his back to
the fire.
I'D better be going" he said.
$50 sOOn?" she asked.
My temper is getting the best of
me-" he grOwled.
lie pulled on his coat ana picked up
his hat. Then he turned to the girl
by the fire.
lawfully pleasant afternoon of it,
he babbled, formally.
when shall l see you again" she
said.
Il don't know" he replied. I'm
going away"
away" There was a bit of dis
may in her voice.
"FOolish" she chided. "You don't
know what he looks like. You don't
even know his name"
'I'll find him and-and choke him.
he said. tersely.
She burst into a peal Of laughter.
Tommy, you idiot, you mustnt-er
choke yourself. 1t would be suicide
you know
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1904-04-02

1t was the turning point Of his life
He embraced it stupidity.
HUH" he gasped, and stood star
ing at her flushed cheeks and down
cast eyes.
1t was dark when he finally left.
The sleet still came down in long,
slanting lines and the wind howled
dolefully.
Ripping weather" said Vrail. as
he stood at the door turning up his
coat collar.
isn't it?' said the girl-Indlanapo
lis Sun.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1904-04-02

as many concubines as he may have
the ability or the disposition TO sup
port.
The position Of Korea is unique. She
is the youngest of the nations to come
into diplomatic relations with the
Western world Her treaties with the
United States and England were made
in 1882; with Germany In 1888; with
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1904-04-02

ton In life An the unmarried men in
Korea are called boys and wear their
hair in braids down their backs. Mar
rage may take place at any age from
II upward and when n boy is married
he is man. The women of Korea
have no legal status. A man may have
one wife and her children are his le-
Ultimate heirs, but a Korean may have
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1904-04-02
Nationality OF Patti.

Somebody calls attention to the fact
that Patti was born in SPAIN her faith
er a Sicilian, her mother Italian; that
she was educated by an American
stepfather in the United States and
has had two French husbands and a
Swedish one, and that her home is in
Wales.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1904-04-02

largely Of descriptions of scenery and
folklore.
The people of Korea may be de-
scribed generally as robust, amiable,
industrious, pleasure loving and given
rather to the arts of peace than the
ardofS of war. They are agricultural
rather than commercial They are
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1904-04-02
after TIE OTHER MIN.

CO HEY were in the hall where

CO HEY were in the hall where a
fire cracked on the broad
hearth. The winter day was
dying, and already the gloom of
bleak twilight was filling the room.
They drew their chairs close to the
fire, and Vrall stretched out his hands
to the grateful heat.
A gust of wind ratified the sleet
sharply against the dripping window.
Vrail rose and stood for moment
looking out at the leaden sky.
''The melancholy days are come"
he quoted gloomily.
Babbette reused herself from the
comfortable depths of the chair.
Come back to the fire, and have
some tea" she said. This weather
gives me the blues"
Il wish l might lay my own private,
particular blues to the weather." said
Vrail bitterly.
what elseY she said lightly.
you'll feel differently tomorrow
when the sun shines again"
Twill the sun shine tomorrow he
asked. "If it does, it won't be the
same sun"
Tommy Vrail," she cried in ex
asperated tones, as she stamped the
floor with one little foot, this is not a
funeral"
Not yours, anyway" he said, as he
resumed his seat near her.
You and the weather are a delight
full combination this afternoOn' she
Knocked.
II can't see the weather home, so
I'll go myself" he said, half rising.
"Sit still, foolishv' she said. will
you have one lump or two?'
MY temper needs all there Is In
the bowl, | fear" he said humbly.
ut does" she sad grimly. Your
mood is yillainous."
ITS a recent development" he said,
suggestiyely.
And possibly not incurable," she
supplemented.
20, there's cure" he said. eager
ly.
so I've heard before" she said, and
laughed softly.
ITS real funny" he sneercd.
"Crosspatchw she said, still laugh
ing.
Bah" he said, turning to her, lis it
your mother?'
II generally manage my own aft
airs" she said.
Then he isn't q milliOnaire: he ask
ed.
Poorer than church mouse" she
confded.
90 Lord" he said, in despair.
She looked at him steadily n sar-
donic smile curved her mouth.
Must have brains, them he pur-
sued.
termittently," she said.
"What on earth did you ever fall
in love with him for?" he groaned.
"Just because l shouldn't, l sup
pose" she explained. Hes the most
improbable, impractical, charming
dreamer ever knew. He writes me
most deliciously foolish sonnets-'
Il wrote you sonnets, too" he re-
minded her
His are really charming" she said
looking away.
Il see," he said, coldly.
There was silence for a time.
81 hope you'll be very happy" he
said, at length. =,
"Now. that's like the old Tommy"
she said, warmly.
You'll probably forget me-" he con-
planned.
Never" she said, stoutly.
"And l shall never forget you, Bar"
he said. I'm fact, there are thousand
and one things I shan't forget"
She was silently staring at the nre'
"We've had some high old times
anyway" he observed.
She nodded.
1.-THE day we went ashing-remem-
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1904-04-02
Alpine Flowers in Danger.

Alpine flowers and plants are so
quickly becoming extinct that strong
measures are to be taken in the future
for their preservation.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1904-04-02

When man is abused for mean
ness, it is a sort Of a compliment If
no one suggests that some one put
him up to it."
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1904-04-02

We have noticed that when a man
wears an unusually big diamond stud,
his wife wears no jewelry at all.
The Indianapolis journal., 1904-04-28
CITY NEWS NOTES.

A preliminary meeting OF the officers Of
the executive committee OF the state con-
ference on charities and correction. which
will meet at Terre Haute next fall, was
held in Secretary Amos w. Buffers office
yesterday afternoon to discuss the pro-
posed progl anime for the Terre Haute
meeting.
James Bradley. who has been confined in
the city Jail for several days on a charge
of grand larceny. was declared of unsound
mind by a commission yesterday afternoon
and the patient was removed to the Insane
Hospital The charge of grand larceny was
dismissed.
a requisition from the Governor of Cali
fornia for the return of Walter Reed, who
is under arrest at Mooresville. hon
ored by Governor Durbin yesterday. Reed
is wanted I'm San Francisco for forging
the name of NJ. d. Schellenmerg to a
check.
Charles Hart who has been convicted of
obtaining money under false pretenses,
was taken to the Michigan City peniten-
tiary by Warden James ID. Reid last night.
Warden Reid has been attending the state
convention in this city.
Charles Minnicks. wanted al Delaware.
o., for. embezzlement. was arrested last
night by Detectives Manning and Simon
and will be returned to the Ohio town.