davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1904-02-05
A Great Old Man.

One Henry Jenkins died in England
Dec. 6, 1910, at the alleged age of 1859
years. He is said to have been a fisher
man for 40 years Though he could
neither read nor write, his reach Of
memory was such that he would calm
ly give evidence in court in matters on
which his memory went back 120 and
lao years. AS boy he is said to have
taken a horse load of arrows to North
allerton to be forwarded north in time
for the battle of Flodden. At the age
Of 100 years he used to swim wide
stream in Yorkshire with ease. He
lived until four years after the great
fire of London, was poor all his life,
but subsisted cheerfully by matching
and salmon fishing.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1904-02-05
(;@llhIM T RlR|
||1SllAIIRY|

The editors of Hoards Dairyman
say they have never fed oats as a part
of the ration for milk COWS because in
their opinion other feeds were consld-
cred more economical. In an expert
ment conducted at the Wisconsin sta
ton oats proved to be 10 per cent more
valuable, pound for pound, than pran
for producing milk. An experiment at
the Colorado station showed that there
was no practical difference IN feed1nS
value between Colorado oats ana COLO
RADIO bran. Theoretically oats contain
about Sc per cent of digestible nutrl-
ents as against 50 per cent III bran.
This would give oats a trif1e more than
10 per cent higher feeding value than
bran for milk COWS, but almost invaria-
bIy. in Wisconsin, oats are worth in
market from 20 to % per cent more
than bran.
In answer to the inquiry as to what
the editors grow for COW feed and in
what way and manner they are feeding
COWS they say that they are more and
more convinced that for the latitude
and climate of Wisconsin corn for ST.
Iage and alfalfa for hay must consti-
tute the greater part Of the home
grown ration for COWS. To this may be
added for grain either bran and barley
or barley and gluten feed or distillers'
dried grains or whatever else the mar
ket makes most profitable to use.
Tudar the Fair Test
The illustration shows the Jersey
COW Lorette D., the property of E. Fl.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1904-02-05
Sick
Blood

Feed pale girls on SCOTS
Emulsion.
We do not need to give all
the reasons why SCOTS
Emulsion restores the strength
and flesh and color of good
health to those who suffer
from sick blood
The fact that it is the best
preparation Of Cod Liver Oil,
rich in nutrition, full of healthy
stimulation is suggestion as
to why it does what it does.
SCOTS Emulsion presents
Cod Liver Oil at it's best,
fullest in strength, least in
taste.
Young women in their
teens are permanently cured.
of the peculiar disease Of the
blood which shows itself in
paleness, weakness and nervous I
ness, by regular treatment
with SCOTS Emulsion.
-~It. is a true blood food and
is naturally adapted to the cure
Of the blood sickness from
v'hsch SO many young women
T@@ suffer.
:. !: !: !: !: ! !:
En We will be glad to send
- 81 sample to any sufferer.
4&kN BE sure that this picture in
ssNaz SS2NE61 the form of label is on the
! "a - Hl4i wrapper of every bottle of
| EsaE Emulsion you buy.
EEx aSI SCOTT g. BOVINE.
E8 ~l Chemists,
ef.Ez - 400 Pearl ST., New York.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-05-08
=:a= Ann O'Delia Diss Debar.
BY A. H. Hunlmel.

Madison avenue, and who possessed
deeds to almost all his property. which
was valued at something like half a
million dollars. AS O. result of Howe &
HummeIs action, 1Ir. Marsh's property
was restored TO him. and the woman
VI hose duDC me had been was sentenced
10 years imprisonment I'm the peni-
Tertiary. Two little girls whom she
had brought with her to MY. Marsh $
house. one of whom she claimed TO have
adopted and the other 20 be her oWu
child. were taken i'm charge by the So
ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty TO
Children.
After serving her term I'm tine peni-
Tertiary The Diss De5ar took ADVANTAGE
OF the u8tOTietE she had obtained To
give Illustrations OF spirit painting 0t
The stage which enterprise proved a
failure. She next came before the pub
lie when the newspapers published a
report that she had committed suicide
from "A Jersey city ferTybo and 50
cleNcrly had she contrived Il plan t0
make it appear that she had periShed
In the river that for year she #as
supposed 90 De dead.
However, at the expiration of that
year news was received that she had
been arrested in Illinois FOR sWindIing
under preteuse OF supernatural power
and had been sentenced TO short term
in Joliet prison
After her release from Joliet the Diss
Debar was not heard from again until
1872. when she Was brown into prison
m Rome. accused of sWindling in the
American colony on an extensive scale.
under pretensc of being q spirirualistic
medium. as before. The Italian author
tiles found the easiest way the best in
her case, and she was escorted TO the
frontier and warned that she would be
prosecuted il she returned TO the coun-
try.
1t was only "a year or two later that
she was brought 70 the notice Of the
police I'm New Orleans, i'm company with
a man named Jackson, who is now serve
ing a sentence in England for the crime
for which she is also undergoing pun
ishment AS the result of her cam
paign in New Orleans several women
were actually driven mad and Sc was
only because fear Of public scandal
prevented charges being brought
against her that she escaped prison
again. She was, however, ordered to
leave the city and Jackson Weht wish
her
OF the wanderings of the pair after
this occurrence ana before their arrest
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-05-08

In London i'm 1901 7 have been unable
to obtain accurate Information. They
had evidently been i'm India. for among
their effects at the time of their last
arrest were several phOtOgTa phs of
themselves taken i'm that country. They
were i'm cape Town during the EUeT
war and the Diss DebaT almost sue
ceeded I'm getting the famous English
journalist William r. Stead. into her
clutches on her return to England, by
bringing forged letters of Introduction
to him from South Africa.
In fact when she was arrested i'm
London she gave the name of Stead as
that of an intimate friend, whereby
that gentleman was very much en-
bauTassed and wrote TO the newspapers
TO explain that the extent of their ac-
quaiGtauce consisted i'm an effort ON
her part TO impose upon him.
II was in Seut-mber, 1901 that the
Diss Dcbar and Jackson fell into the
hands OF the law iu London. where. as
Mr.. and Airs Theodore HorOs. of the
'TheOcratic Unity of Purity League, 3D.
they had for two or three years been
PURSUING q particularly despicable ca
reer of crime that. has landed both ion
prison ar hard l8b0r-the woman for "a
term of seven years and the man for
one Of fifteen years.
The trial Of Diss Debar and Jackson
was one of the most sensational ever
held I'M England; and. although only "a
sWall part OF the testimony was ft 10
print i'm the newspapers, that part was
sufficient to cause society TO shudder.
The details. as given iu the court room,
were so unspeakablv loathsome as to-
lead tho judge and counsel Co doubt If
either the man or the woman had a
sciutilla Of undebased feeling Left. They
had established a religious order, un-
ger the cloak of which their crimes
were cOmmitted-the "Theocratic Unity
of Purity League" before mentioned. of
which the Diss Debar was the swami
or high priestess, and Jackson the
Perfect Man"
Three girls, the youngest 16 and the
Oldest 10 years of age, appeared ian
court to testify against the prisoners.
and the detectives who had been en-
saged on the case said that they might
have brought two score more victims
of the pair. THESE victims had been
obtained by advertising I'm the matri-
mcnial columns of the newspapers. and
robbery was the least of the misfor-
times that befel the uufortunates who
were delivered into the clutches OF
M and Mrs Horos.'
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-05-08

a BSOLUTELY the most extraordin-
A airy human being with whom j
have ever come in contact during
tairty years practice of a profession
that has brought me into relations
with a great many strange people, is
Ann U'Delia SalOmau, or Editha Dlss
Debar. as she was known when she
first came under my cosuizance VINO
claimed 90 be q daughter of Louis 1
of Bavaria and the notorious Lola
8Iontez, and who is now serving a
long sentence iu AN English prison.
This woman IS living demonstration
of the Calvauistic theory of total de-
1rravitv unredeemed by gracc-if I may
use the language OF the Clerics. If she
ever had any redeCWing traits she
managed To keep them under subjec-
uau. She had NO love FOR parents.
sisters or brothers IN her childhood.
Later ia life she had Ho affection for
hef own offspring Every person with
whom sine has ever come into init
mate rciatiaus has suffered by the con-
taat
From earliest youth she has left
blasted careers I'm nor path, which exc
tends over two hemisphere. Her
known victims are numbered by the
score TlH.l ODD Iltf latl 70 N'l NA'
fcESes those unknown must uutuuIn-
Der the others ten GO one
Imprisoned and exposed again and
again. and n spite OF personality
50 striking IS 90 make 1T impossible
ror her TO conceal her identify when
once she might be suspected, sine has
lived upon the credulity % new dupcs
since she was "a meTe-child. Had her
intelligence, energy. audacity and un-
scFupulousncss been added 20 culture
and beauty. she might have accom-
pIished anything within the scope Of
the most daring adventures. Com
mCnplace Of feature. ungainly of fg-
ure and iliterate as she was, and all
most masculine in appearance and
manner. she yet found mankind an
easy prey.
she possessed the courage of a lion
ess and that courage was always high
esf and her intelligence most alert
when she was in greatest peril With
al she was capable of assuming at
viii Z smile of infantile innocence that
would deceive any one who had no
actual knowledge of her character.
Il may be a shock 90 those Who have
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-05-08

papers. I'm New York, where she at
first went 10y the name of Editha Lola
Montez, she made the acquaintance Of
an artist named Diss Debar natural
lied FrenCEman. whose home was in
Philadelphia. lie left mis- family to
live with her and she took his name.
10 was in 1855 that the New York
Bar association appointed the 'iun of
Howe g. Hummel 10 obtain restitution
of the property of Luther r.. Marsh
(0uce one OF cur ablest and most re-
spected lawyers then "a septuagenarian
suffering from seuile dementi8) which
had been fraujulenuy obtained from
him by Ann ODeIi8 SaIlman. or Diss
DebaT. who was then iu possession.
Mrs. Marsh. 20 whom her husband
had been devotedly attached. had died
only a short time before lie had be
come a spiritualist az his INTELLECT
weakened. aBd The Di-e Debar played
upon bis affection for his dead wife to
bring him under control claiming to
De able 90 put him into communication
with the spirit of The l0vct ore whom
he had lost
She obtained complete aseendaucy
over the old man. however by pruduc-
ms spirit pictures in mis- presence.
She had obtained several valuable
paintings from a weu-kpowu picture
dealer samuel T. Laeweuherz. by
fraud She Wouid coVer any one of
these paintings With p coating of chalk,
making ID resemble clean canvas.
Then. i'm dim liEht but right before
Marsha eyes. she would surreptitious-
ly remove the chalk with q damp
sponge making hin believe that he
witnessed On her q REFORMATION OF am
old master
How completely Mr. Marsh was Ge-
ceived may be gathered from the cir
cumstance that he wrote to all the
prominent newspapers. explaining this
wonder and asking each editor to send
a representative to see how III was done.
the invitation concluding thus:
-As a lawyer occupied in trying
causes to hard facts for dfty-two years.
have no hesitation in saying that
have been able to discover no other
way in which these phenomena can be
produced than by the way claimed. The
theory Of fraud or collision is out of
the question.
As Mr.. Marsh ha5 no near relatives.
the Bar association. of which he was a
member. interfered t0 save him from
The Diss Debar. 60 whom Dee had trans
lerrcd the title 0f his 6nc mansion in
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-05-08
CWashington Star.1

~ met a relative of mine-pretty
-close one-that I'd never. seen before.
when 7 got back to Washington the
other day." said an army officer, who
returned from a tour Of duty in the
Philippines recently. ''The relative
happened 90 be a so nof mine. lie was
born a couple of months after I made
the start for the islands three years
ago.
Il was due in Washington about Il
o'clock that night, and they tackled the
dining car ON somewhere around Has
risbuUg. I was hungry for United
States food, as / had been for three
years and L didn't seem TO be able TO
get enough of il.
zone of the things that made an i'm
slant hit with me on the table was a
nice long dishful of fine looking spring
onions, Uttered up with little particles
of ice.
II simply couldn't resist them. / COB
bled up the whole platefuL resolved
that when I met my wife and she no.
ticed the aroma ia simuly have TO
throw myself on aae lHerey % the court,
Well mF wise Was ~ the station, OF
course, te meet melt was pretty nigh
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-05-08
HOW A GREEN ONION
TEMPTED AN OFFICER

midnight. She was too busy looking
me over and commenting upon nv coat
of bronbe to mention the onions. even
If she had noticed 'cm. aud she had too
much 10 tell me about the kid. any
way, as we sped uptown ON the street
car.
The kid was asleep of course. and
when we slipped into the room and
turned up the gas 7 suppose. may De
didn't take good long look at the
little tyke-and maybe of course. there
wasn't a lump about the size of am old
fashioned gOurd just at the point where
my front collar button presses against
my neck.
Then 7 grabbed the stuI sleeping
kid out of the bed
He opened his eyes and surveyed me
with calm serenity. while i gave him
hug. Then he turned his head away
from me, with a very decided express
sion Of disapproval. This hurt his
mother, and she instantly told him
Why, Jackie. that's your papa
The kid turned his head away from
me in the other direction and strug-
gled TO be turned loose.
don't care WhO he is, he replied
in the calmest accents Imaginable.
amt a-goin' TO let any tody blow onions
all over me-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-05-08
Personal ReCOlleCtioHs
of New Works. Greatest
Criminal Lawyer.

seen in the career of Diss Debar a
romance whose l8Wless phases are at
tTibutable 20 and excused by royal line
age. 10 learn that her origin was COM
mCuplsce and respectable. She is the
daughter of the late George SalOman
"a no lived FIN Louisville. Ky. where ne
was prominent music teacher and
composer at the time she was born.
one OF her sisters. q lady of refine
ment and culture, is the principal of q
public school iu a prominent city to-
day. and the other keeps house for her.
They both are maiden ladies of the
highest standing iu the community.
Their brother was "a wei known law
yer iu New York who died mere a lit
tie more than two years ago.
The elder Saiomau fled from Ger
many after the attempted revolution
OF 1913 iu which ne had participated
aud. coming TO the United States and
kiuE his home iu Kentucky. mar
lied there q Miss Thompson Of the
we'll known family Jon thai state. Ann
Opclia Was their youngest child.
BY what strange atavistic freak the
daughter of the simple musician gud
the Urim country girl became one of the
'ficEedest and most daring criminals Of
gist- From early childhood she was
wild and Maynard and kept her par
eUts Dos a state II continual anxiety.
When only or 3 wears of age she
would. without any apparent cause, go
into paUoXysms Of rage throw her sis
ters' clothing into the Gre break the
family crCckery and conduct herself
Ike q young demon.
Before Ann D'Delia was - ears Of
age she had run away from home sew
eral times and been gone for days and
weeks at time, coming back with
some impossible romance 10 account for
her absence on each occasion AT the
age Of is she was gone for more than
year, and her family finally heard
from her in France. whence she wrote
them that she was livir[ with her hus-
band. q FIenchman. whom she had met
and married in New York
When She returned 10 Louisville she
told her parents that her husband was
dead. She did not long remain at home.
and after her next disappearance she
was heard from in New York She
never came back 10 Kentucky after
ward nor did her relatives ever hear
from her again. except when her esca-
pQdcs brought her name into the news
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-05-08

The Diss Debar acted as counsel for
herself and Jackson at their trial. Fat
enough to have served as a museum
freak, for she weighed at the very least
$50 pounds, and was scarcely more than
five feet tall, aTrsyed i'm a grotesQue
white robe, low at the neck which she
declared to lee he. correct costume as
the swami, handicapped besides by
cOgnizance of the fact that, in the eyes
of every person i'm the court room. she
was guilty of an unspeakable crime,
and conscious of her own guilt; con-
fTOnted by her victims. who openly eX-
ulted as the damning evidence against
her and her paramount accumulated;
and with the merest fragmentary
knowledge of laW-picked up during her
experience as a prisoner in various
Courts-she contested a forlorn hope,
point by point. for ten days. opposed 10y
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-05-08

some OF the most eminent counsel in
England, with a courage and resource
fulness that ELECTED wonder where if
could not command admiration.
Throughout her swindIing career the
Diss Debar has always cluug TO her
pTetense that she is the daughter OF
King Louis and Lola Montez. It is
probable that she got the idea through
her association with Loeweuherz. from
whom she obtained the pictures with
which she fooled Marsh, Loewenherz
was q Bavarian by birth, and he had
several paintings i'm his collection that
had been in the palace Of Louis 7. and
that may have come into the dealers
possession through Lola NIOntez.
Wherefore, when the Diss Debar stole
the paintings she also stole her royal
lineage.
Copyright, 1904, by Abraham HummeD
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-05-08

tell such stories when you are so
thirsty2
Blazing Doors of Hell
The train, looking like a great dust
covered worm, stands in front of a
stone station waiting for orders. The
sagging telegraph wire whirrs and
sings as the operator at the end Of the
division gives the signal to advance.
The heat rays dance a fantastic quad
rifle on the corrugated iron roof Of the
station, as We wonder if the English.
whom everybody SAYS are 50 enter
prising. have thought to build an ice
plant at Mendoza See that billOW Of
dust rolling out there on the sand
That is a horse and rider. The man is
trying to make our train. The dust
splashes right and left under the gal
Looping feet of his suffering steed. AS
he filings himself from the saddle. the
poor beast spreads its front feet wide
apart and ticks the earth with it's red
tongue A gray shower falls from the
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-05-08

there rs thunderOus roar i'm neigh
boring chasm as a mass of rock breaks
away and crashes into space. One
doesn't know whether TO laugh OF to
pray. There is a feeling Of great eX-
hiiaratiou mingled with a sense of fear.
No matter what happens, it viii not
be- surprising. The upward rush of air
feels like the breath of am invisible
presence. In a moment the mountain
may speak and challenge YOU for dar-
ing 10 trespass on its domain. And it
would be the voice of ages-Of countless
ages. These immutable shapes saw the
world begin, and have looked with
urbiukug eyes on the march of all
time What secrets do they know?
Is this not the uTysting place of the ele-
ments2 From here the storm king
sends his riders forth to harass and de-
stUOy- here is where the night BROOD
and tells its troubles to the wind, it is
the breeding place of signs
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-05-08

just In time TO hear a drummer across
the aisle remark that it looks like rain.
The ride among the bUttes from Inca
to Mendoza is like a passage through
a furnace. The air is hot and heavy.
You put your hand to your burning
cheek, and wonder if it is really blis-
tered. The clouds drift aimiessly be-
cause there is no plotting wind to
shape their course. The train kicks
up an envelOping smudge of dust,
which sticks as close as a bOdyguard.
Your eyes are red, and your nose and
throat become raw. Awake you think
of nothing but water, and if YOU d0ze.
your mind dwells on il as you sleep.
over four hundred men started across
the desert, and only fOTty-three got
out alive. Those white things out
there. shining in the sun. are the homes
of men and horses. Farther on there
is a gulch ChOked with lhe bleaching
bones of q thousand cattle that died
of thirst Why viii your companions
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-05-08

The train makes an all-uaV job of
getting down TO sea level. 1t is q sort
Of professional. The track hugs the
bank of the little river, and the noun
tains march by i'm unbrOkeu columns.
Miles of temples and pyramids and am
phitheatres stalk TO the rear as the
open cars wriggle along the channel.
The endless array of towering rock is
circled above by drifting clouds, and
encompassed below by swirling sand.
The eyes hurt from the white light and
the throat burns from the Intense heat.
The dust becomes a plague The train
stops at a fOTlOTn little station, and as
the Easpng, painting engine is allowed
to qUench it's thirst from the nozzle of
water tank, you nod ian your seat.
You think che car is running through
a tunnel i'm a mountain of ice cream
and you haven't got a spoon. What
predicament. Then there IS a jerk and
YOU come to" with a start.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-05-08

As the train moves slowly onward.
the Station agent stands on the plat
form looking after fl. His skin IS as
brown as the leather mail pouch at his
feet, and his eyes squirt under their
dark lashes. You are soon nOddins
again. You dream Of the fellow YOU
once met in the desert when your water
can was empty. You recall that he did
not speak, but held up his empty, rat
thing can; that you held up yours, and
passed on i'm silence. so disappointed
that you could have cried. You wonder
if that fellow got to water in time to
save him, and if he prayed his graf
itude as you did when you opened your
eyes and found the sheepherders try
ing to force water through your teeth.
You are i'm great fret because sou fear
the station agent win always have that
sQuint, and viii die. and have to 50
to the Judgment looking that way,
when you are aroused by another jerk,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-05-08

Mr.. Hummei's prOfes-
sionaI Relations with
Notorious Criminals.
The Glenwood post., 1904-10-15
Cause of LOckjaw

Lockjaw, or tetanus, is caused by
bacillus or germ which exists plenti-
fully in street dirt. 1t is inactive so
long as exposed to the air, but when
carried beneath the skin as in the
wounds caused by percussion caps or
by rusty nails, and when the air is
excluded the germ is aroused to activ-
ity and produces the most virulent
poison known. These germs may be
destroyed and all danger of lockiaw
avoided by applying Chamberlain 5
Pain Balm freely as soon as the injr-
ry is received. Pain Balm is an an
tiseptic and causes cuts, bruises and
like injuries to heal without matura
tion and in one third the time requir-
ed by the usual treatment. 1t is for
sale by all dealers.