davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The San Francisco call., 1904-07-17
The AufO
Rubdiydt

~ - OvEi-Or the devil red who
NH puts TO fight
v Whate'er's before him. 70 the
left or right.
\ VIII toss you high al heaven
when he strikes
Your poor clay carcass with his Eaastsr-
might
As the cock crows ths -nsnd5' who
stand before
The starting-point, amid the streams
wild roar,
Shake hands. make wills. and duly are
confessed.
Lest once departed. they return M more.
For whether toward Madrid or Wash
ington.
Whether by steam or gasolins they run.
Pedestrians keep getting IN their way.
Chauneurs are being slaughtered one By
one.
A new fools every minute born. yeu say;
Yes. but where speeds the fool Of yester-
day?
Beneath the road he sleeps. the autos
roar
Close Ger his head. but cannot thriu his
clay.
Well. let him sieepI For What have -
to do
With him. who this or anything pursue
So IL take swiftness7-Let the children
scream.
Or cOnstables shout aftsr-hesd not ysu,
Oh ys who anti-auto laws would make
And still insist upon the silly break.
Get IN. and try spin. and then yoVu
see
How many nnes you wiz imposs-And
takeI
All. my beloved. al the tank that cheers.
Nor heed the laws rebuks. the rahhlSs
tears.
ouickI For tomorrow you and I may
be
Ourselves with yesterdays sewn thou
sand years.
A pair Of goggles and = cap. trow.
A stencil. roar, and my machine and
Beside me. going ninety miles an
hour
Oh. turnpike road were paradise enowi
All. love. could we successfully eonspire
Against this sorry world FOR our desire.
Would We not shatter IL to bits with
So much OF damage As q busted ttrsl
with gasoline my fading life provide.
And wash my body In 10 when I've died.
And lay me- shroudsd In my cap and
cape
By some not Gutolssa asW speedwaJa
side.
Yon -devu' that goes pricking Ger the
plain.
How oft hereafter VIII shs 20 aEatnI
How oft hereafter wiz she seek heH
preyf
But seek. alas. for ons OF us In vaini
And when. like her. o love. you cons to
take
Your morning spin for appetite's sweet
sake,
And pass the spot where lie buried.
then,
In memory OF me. hing wide the breal<I
Reginald Wright Kaufman. IN July
IfpDincOtt9.
The San Francisco call., 1904-07-17

throng are eager and impatient for tina
latest one.
Popular novels, by the way. are sell
dom ever gatten out in cheap editions.
They really are not worth while The
standard price Is one dollar and half.
but that nay be lowered to one dollar
ars5 ght cents II the dealer so pleases.
Hc lr,ver. he cannot sell 1t at lower
figure the first year Of It's publication.
After that he may do as he pleases,
but as a general thing the sale has so
greatly diminished that he turns his
attention to q better paying Invest
ment.
This is not so with the standard books.
The demand IL so great and competi-
tion is so keen that they may be pur-
chased at almost any price. Shakes
peare stands first and next to 1t comes
Dickens and either Of these works may
be had for the immense. sum OF ten
cents At this rate there Is really no
reason why every library in town
should not comprise a complete set.
Ten cents, OF course. means an ordi-
nary paper cover. twenty-five cents a
cloth cover and 80 on until the SUM
of one hundred dollars may be paid
for q handsomely embossed leather set
that reads for the world and all like
the cheaper one.
Just at present Horace Fletcher has
been giving the literary world soma
clever work on The New Thought.
Really one would be surprised at the
number of books that are sold and the
number of magazines as well that are
published on this subject. The fluffy
summer girl. who looks as though she
might want a pretty light story, goes
her way with volumne Of reasoning
and lessons with her and the plainly
dressed little woman tucks the latest
novel under her arm and walks out In
q guilty fashion, 90 you see one can
The San Francisco call., 1904-07-17

he is also a sport in the dead-game
sense Of the term as men use it anent
some Of their own kind. He is also a
sample Of what students OF heredity
designate as atavism, and has bred
back" to some far-off ancestor who
had black face and heavy goat-like
horns. The owner Of the ram of this
story treasured him as a novelty till
he was found spelling the uniformity
Of his white fieeced focK by begetting
lambs splotched with black. Then he
was sold at butchers price. He was
rope-led by his purchaser through the
wilderness toward a far-off farm. The
ram smelt the sweet air OF the wild
and the atavisn Of his black face and
big horns was also in his blood and
made him wish that no man had
strings upon him, no fence might con-
fine him, no herder hold him from his
viii TO wander. Midway aforest, the
man athirst. bent over to imbibe from
a bubbling spring. Oh, opportunity
golden great. thought the rope-led
captive 10 himself.
The situation as his ramship saw it
was that this bent-over man with his
back turned temptation wise was the
alone gate betwixt him and perfect
freedom. He butted that gateway
down, and the then wide-open wilder
ness welcomed the atavist as he rushed
rejoicing into its depths. The man
dropped instantly, and 1t was several
seconds later before his slower moving
brain tumbled to the situation that
his goat-headed ram was gone where
the woodbine twineth
This tale ends comparatively tamely,
but II passes from butting to believing,
from the angry to the tender passion,
and withal is full Of pathos and ram
romance 10 the very last. In the wild
erness OF his new-found freedom he
finds also a eve who has wandered
far from the fold. He becomes her
lover and cherishes her little lamb
with all a foster-father's fondness.
Now for the finale comes Fate to play
one Of her most fantastic tricks.
Through the wilderness happens to
pass the man; he picks up the helpless
little lamb, while the dam follows
bleating plaintively. The lover is led
captive by this chain of events; the
unseen rope holds like a hawser and
the widest, the most daring dead
game sport" the most untamed and
The San Francisco call., 1904-07-17

THDSE days there are very few
books that win their way entirely
through their own merit, for the
4 publishers have discovered that
advertising and plenty Of 1t pays, and
pays well. Occasionally q book comes
out IN a plain, unassuming color and in
a plain unassuming way, and the
striking individuality stands out
stronger than all the advertising that
can be done. For instance. what could
have had a greater sale than David
Harum" or ''AIrs.Wiggs Of the Cabbage
Patch?" Both ran into the hundreds OF
thousands and are good sellers even
at this late day, and that Is something
to say Of book that is considered light
fiction.
And the books, by the way, that are
the most popular and that sell the best
are light, summer reading; something
that is frothy, something that is airy
and that requires no deep thinking.
OF course there are people who read
books that are really worth while, but
the average person is the one who asks
for a pretty, winsome tale like when
Knighthood Was in Flower" They
want to be amused for the minute in
a way which will leave no unpleasant
memories. In fact, the demand Is for
stories that leave a pleasant impress
sion, rather than the old-time tragedy.
The three books that are the most
popular this year are The Crossing"
I'm the Bishops Carriage" and Mem
oirs Of q Baby" The first named
sprang into instant popularity, and
there are few books that can boast of
a better record. In the six weeks that
Il has heen out we haYa sold nrer ona
The San Francisco call., 1904-07-17

hundred thousand copies and tho good
work is still being kept up, so that II
is easy to prophesy that 1t will run
into edition after edition.
Now and then a clever bit Of work
Is passed lightly over and Is soon rele-
gated to the back shelf. The public
are as tickle as thistledown, blowing
here one day and there another, and 1t
IS sincerely to be hoped they viii veer
in the direction Of When Wilderness
Was King" by Randall Parrish. This
book is very good and entirely out Of
the ordinary, but whether II will be a
success remains to be told.
In speaking Of the popularity of
books, one thing should be duly con-
sidered. 1t is one thing to rush to the
library and take q book out on your
membership card and another to walk
into a shop and pay one dollar and a
half for It Money speaks louder than
words, and 1t is this which constitutes
a Dealers idea OF popularity. A story
that may be all the talk on the streets
may not be paying proposition in the
shops
The public has always had fads and
probably always will have. and this
holds good in the literary world as well
as in any other. A few years ago
everything ran 10 tne colonial vein and
nothing was considered quite UP to
snuff that did not at least suggest the
powdered hair and the silks and the
satins of picturesque colonial days Yet
this fad has died out to great degree.
People are tired OF 1t. They want a
change and when they are willing to
pay for it, they certainly are entitled
to 1t. Good books of adventure are
what the public demand these days.
Witty, bright tales of children are tax
ing more or less and they are a splen-
aid cInca nf hnnlEa for thau ro.ror. 20
The San Francisco call., 1904-07-17

to be sweet and wholesome.
Society leaders have much to do with
the popularity of books in their own
little clique. At an afternoon gather
ing Mrs. So and So turns the conver-
sation upon such and such book and
those who are in ignorance consider
themselves entirely out In the cold and
straightway go to store and purchase
1t in order to post themselves. They
want to read something, but really do
not care Just what, and as long as e.
book has been recommended II will do
quite as we'll as anything else. And
this is true Of the average person.
When a book is dramatized Il always
leaps into public favor. even II It had
been on the ragged edge before. For
instance, when Ben Hur" came to
town every one was enthusiastic about
the play and as q consequence we sold
considerably over two thousand copies
of the book. The same was true Of
''If I Were a King" and even as short
a time ago as when THE Little Min
ister' was here we ran out of copies
ply could not get them In fast enough
for a few days. So when a book Is
staged its sale Is helped a great deal
Books, by the way, are not like they
used to be when Dickens. Scott and
Thackeray were in their heyday. These
authors, of course, remain the stand
ards and there Is never a time when
they are not more or less In demand.
but the popular novel Of to-day is en-
tirely different. In the first place 1t
is written to sell and when It has run
through q number of editions nothing
more is demanded of 1t. The book that
sells over a hundred thousand copies
this year is but little talked of next,
and the following year is entirely for
gotten, for the same author has placed
a newer and perhaps a better book
upon the market and the admirins
The San Francisco call., 1904-07-17
Uhy WOmen'S
U0geS fire Lou

MATTER an amusing reason Is
l. given by Anna B. Doughten as
TO why young girls wages still
4 remain 50 much lower than
young mems. when the same
work IS accomplished and In quite as
good a manner. Seldom" she says.
docs a girl work with any idea OF
permanency, and often the brighter
and more capable she Is. the sooner
does some young man find that her
qualifications are just what he wants
in a wife. Indeed, it is fact" says
this philosopher, that many employers
have found II useless to train good
looking, capable girls in any special
lines, for lust when they are fitted for
the required duties and the accom-
panying higher salary. on they 60"
Miss Doughten Is In position to dis
cuss the subject. as she Is social secre-
retary In one Of the largest publishing
houses In America--Fr0m Social Ser
VioA
The San Francisco call., 1904-07-17


ing himself TO his congenial surround
ings when a little girl passed by. She
wore a red sash. Wild passion suddenly
flowed through his breast, the blood
lust came on him and he charged her.
But a bullet from a farmers gun
stopped his ferocious rush and stilIed
the wild ragings OF his heart forever.
There IS also a splendid bear story.
(L- c. Page & Co., Boston, Mass;
s2.)
The San Francisco call., 1904-07-17
'UdtcheTS
of the Trails"

0HARLES G. D. ROBERTS, who
/ wrote the well-known kindred
Nd OF the Wild" and several other
Z good books which tend TO make
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-08-26
irst, August 26 Last, September !
Final Notice
First, August 26

Notice is hereby given that the storm and
sanitary sewer, in accordance with the plans
of l.. +. Wolfe, civil engineer. will be CON
structed in district No. one of the city of Mil
bank, and that a resolution adopting a plan of
sewerage for said district was passed on the
18th day of July, 1904, by the city colncil of said
city, after making the necessary changes and
amendments, and that the said city council will
be present at the Council chamber on the 9Th day
OF September, 1904, at the hour of eight O'Clock
p. m. OF said day, when property owners along
the line OF the said proposed sewer can make OBJ
~jections to the construction thereof, and that
said main sewer will run along and through the
streets and avenues as follows: A twelve inch
pipe commencing at the intersection of Second
street and Third avenue, thence running north
along Second street to Railway street, thence
east along Railway street to Fourth street, and
thence a fifteen inch sewer pipe running east
along Railway street and Railway street extern
sion to Seventh street, and from thence an
eighteen inch sewer pipe running east along
Railway street extended to Viola street, thence
north along Viola street to Milbank avenue,
thence east along Milbank avenue to the alley
between Eastman and Lloyd streets, and thence
northerly along said alley and the line of the
right of way to be obtained by the city to the
MILESTONE creek, where the same shall be dis
charged; also a lateral sewer along lines des-
cribed as follows: An eight inch sewer pipe
commencing at the intersection of Main street
street, thence north along Second street TO
Third avenue; also an s inch sewer pipe on Main
street between Railway street and Fourth avenue
also an eight inch sewer pipe on Fourth street
between Railway street and Fifth avenue; and
also an eight inch sewer pipe on Fifth street
between Railway street and Fourth avenue, &C
cording to the plans for said sewerage.
Attest: THos. L.. BoUCK,
ED. p. DoRE. Mayor.
City Auditor.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-08-26
Notice to Construct Side.
walks

To Nicholas Schaefer, Levi Schnsble. F. w. A.
Popple, L. II. Bentley, j. c. Elliot. Anton
Foss, Augusta Lindquist, Florence F~arnsworth
and Lottie Farnsworth.
You are hereby notified that at a meeting Of
the city council of the city Of Milhank, held on
the 18th day of July. 1904, it WAS proposed to
construct new sidewalks along the east side OF
Lots One ~, Two C2), Three t3), Four (4, Five
(5), Six 80, Seven ca, Ten (10J and Eleven l1l),
of Block Ten (1O). and on the west eide of Lots
Seven ca and Eight (S) of Block Five (5). of the
salG City of Milbank; and, whereas, on the 10th
day of August, 1904, a resolution was passed
ordering the construction OF said sidewalks
along the lots herein before described, and Of
the following proportions and specifications,
namely: of concrete, one q part of cement to
Six 10y parts of sand, to be at leaet three G)
inches thick, placed on a gravel fill well tamped,
with the top coat made of one a. part of cement
to two GU parte of sand, to be at least one ID
inch thick, to be built at the expense OF the lot
owner. and that said sidewalks shall be con-
strncted within thirty (3O) days from the date OF
card resolution so passed on the 10th DAY OF
August, 1904.
You are further notified that in pursuance to
said resolution you are hereby notified to con-
struct said sidewalks within thirty (30) days
from the 10th day of August, 1904, in the manner
and according to the specifications above named,
1T your own expense. and that unless the same
are so constructed within the time named the
same VIII be built by the city OF Milbank, and
the cost thereof assessed against the Lots accord
ing to law.
CnARL SUTCLIFFE,
Street Commissioner
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-08-26

Some of the samples OF newly
thrashed wheat have been
brought into the city during
the week, and these show the
great damage that has been
done. Some of these samples
are so shrunken that they hardly
have the appearance Of wheat,
and weigh out from 35 to As lbs.
to the bushel. Nh. Martens
brought in some of this from
farms on the Milestone, where
a few weeks ago the splendid
stand of straw indicated a yield
of 25 bushels to the acre. The
threshing shows but 6 or 8
bushels to the acre of this
shrunken grain, the poorest of
which will only be useful for
feed, while the better qualities
may receive rejected or no-grade
as the demand for wheat becomes
more general. In the different
localities the grain was differ
emily affected and there will be
some localities and fields where
there will be an average yield
and a number two quality. So
far what thrashing has been
done only makes certain that the
wheat crop has met with one of
the worst disasters of many
years. Fortunately farmers of
this locality are not SO dependent
upon this one crop as they have
been in former years, and an
abundance of other crops will
make the misfortune less serious
than it would otherwise have
been, while those who have even
an average crop will receive the
benefit of high prices.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-08-26

The Fort Cobb (Okla.) Record
fathers this story about a bright
little school girls composition on
men: "Men are what women
marry. They drink and smoke
and swear and have ever so
many pockets, but they won't go
to church. Perhaps if they wore
bonnets they would. They are
more logical than women and
always more geological. Both
men and women have sprung
from monkeys, but the women
certainly sprung further than
the men,"
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-08-26
EMANUEL


Notice is hereby given that sealed
bids will be received at the office OF
the county auditor Of Grant county,
South Dakota, for the position OF
superintendent of the county poor
farm: said applicant to enter upon
his duties on or about October l, 1904.
The board reserves the right to reject
any or all bids. Bids to be opened
September 6, 1904. For information
apply to county auditor or commits
siOners.
By order of the board of county
commissioners.
Dated July 20, 1904.
G. 81. P1NCKNEY,
Auditor,
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-08-26

Letters remaining uncalled for in
Milbank postoffice, August "a, 1904.
Berg, T.. H. Jonson, Mr.. William
Brown, Mr.. Jim ORielly, Mr.. Lauis F.
Driffen, r. A. Schmidt, Miss Ley
Ehlers, Mr.. Lewis Spahr, Gus
Jansen, Miss Clara Trip, Mr.. Chas.
In calling for any of the above
please say ~"advertised" and give
date of advertisement. If not called
for in fifteen days will be sent to
the dead letter Office.
W. w. DOWN-E. p. NJ.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-08-26
First July IS Last Aug. 26
NOTICE OF MORTGAGE SALE.

Whereas. default has been made in the condi-
tions of a certain mortgage containing power OF
sale, given by John r. Birch and Inger Birch, his
wife, to M. A. Cartwright, bearing date April %.
1903, and filed for record in the Office of the regis.
ter of deeds of Grant county, South Dakota, on
the 23rd day of October, 1903, and recorded in
Book siXty-three of mortgages at page ninety
seven, mortgaging the following described lands
in the county of Grant and state ofSouth Dakota
to-wit: The east half of the northwest quarter
tEh NWl4) and lots numbered one ~ and two
() of section nineteen (19) in township one hun.
dred and twenty-oDe Q21). north of range fifty
one (5D west, fifth p. m, Sisseton and Wahpetor
Indian reservation.
Notice is hereby given that said mortgage
will be forecloeed by the sale of the lands GOV
cred thereby by the sheriff of said Grant county
or his deputy, on the 27th day of Angust. 1904, a
two O'Clock p. m. of that day at the front door o.
the court house in the city of Milbank, in eait
county and state. to satisfy an Indebtedness o.
the sum of eight hundred fifty eight dollars ant
ninety-three cents, the amount now due on sale
mortgage, besides the costs and disbursement
allowed by law.
Dated this 18th day of July, 1904.
NJ. A. CARTWRIGHT,
THos. L.. BouCK, Mortgage
Attorney for Mortgage.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-08-26

First Aug. 10 Last Sep.
NOTICE OF HEARING PETITION FOR
N LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATIONS.
State OF South Dakota .co...ucn
County of Grant,
In the matter of the estate of OLE S. THoLo,
deceased.
The State of South Dakota sends greeting to
euro o. Tholo, Severt o. Tholo. Julia B. Tholo,
Bertha L. Tholo, Dina S. ThOlo, Ella c. Tholo
and Clara A. Tholo, heirs at law and next of kin
of Ole S. Tholo. deceased, and to all whom these
presents may come.
Notice is hereby given that euro O.. Tholo,
widow of deceased, has filed with the judge of
this court, a petition praying. for letters of ad-
ministration of the estate of Ole S. Tholo, de-
ceased, and that Thursday. the eighth day of
September, 1904, at two O'Clock p. m, of said
day, being a day of a regular term of this court,
to-wit: of the September term, 1904, at the county
court room, in the court house, in the City of
Milbank, County of Grant, South Dakota, has
been set for hearing said petition, when and
where any person interested may appear and
show cause why the said petition should not be
granted.
Dated at Milbank, S. D., this 18th day ofAugust
A. d. 1904.
S. s. LoCKHART,
[SEAL] Judge of the County Court
w. L.. RExFoRD. Attorney.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-08-26
SCRAWNY HORSE STORY
To Which Pierre's Capital Stu.
anon Is Applicable-Pierre
BultOn-hOldGrs is
Settled

Webster World: "Now of
course you're for Pierre, [
know you are" began the
Pierre striker, as he deftly
buttonholed the farmer whom
he had been laying for since he
drove into town. "Pierre is the
geographical CENTER he con-
tinued, still clinging to the but
tonhole, "and always will be the
geographical center and will
therefore always be the same
distance from every point that
it was before the crime of rs.
Besides we must not forget the
1867, 1913 acres of school land,
which, if the capital is not in the
exact center, won't be worth
thirty cents an acre. Then
there's the expense to move
"But Mitchell looks out for all
that" interrupted the farmer,
"she has decided a site of twenty
acres of ground, gives a perpet-
ual lease of a new $55, 1000 build
ing and will pay all cost of re-
moving the records"
Eyes, l know" broke in the
Pierre three-dollar-a-day man,
"but it amt legal; I can take you
to a lawyer who will guarantee
that it is contrary to the law to
do such thing;it's most awfully
illegal and that settles it. Have
a cigar
"Well," remarked the farmer
as he took the cigar, II guess if
Pierre could give a capitol build
ing to the state and issue several
hundred thousand dollars of
illegal bonds and the town and
state stand for it all. I guess
it won't hurt anybody much if
Mitchell loans her new city hall
for a while, seeing it is all paid
for in good money. 1 guess
Pierre is the geographical center
all right, though it seems to be a
poor place for the capital-stuck
out on the end of one branch of
a railaoad and no prospects of
any more. 1t appears 60 be a
mighty poor town, too, not good
enough to encourage more rail
road building, cant pay it's back
taxes and owes 5000. 900 or $780,
900 and is SO badly in debt that
it will never get out of it or even
pay the interest on what it owes,
while Mitchell is a large and
beautiful city that we could be
proud Of as a state capital, and
Snow look here, that may be
so," broke in the Pierre worker,
"but just suppose for instance,
you had two horses and one was
thin and scrawny and poor and
the other fat and sleek; would
you take the feed away from
your thin, scrawny one and give
it to the fat slick horse?"
"Well, I'll tell you,' unhesitat-
ingly replied Mr.. Farmer, "if ]
had been feeding and coddline
that thin, scrawny horse for
fourteen years and he was still
just as thin and scrawny l woulc
take him out and kill him."
The best feature about this
story is that it is true.