davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Gilpin observer., 1904-12-29
First Ocean Cables Cost.

The original 1858 cable weighed
ninety-three pounds per mile and had
a conductor OF seven copper wires OF
twenty-five and half gauge; price OF
deep sea wire per mile. 5000; price OF
spun yarn and iron wire per mile,
s265; cost Of outside coating of tar
and gutta percha. $25 per mile; total
cost per mile. $4s5. At $4S5 per mile
the total cost Of the $500 miles Of
deep-sea wire was S1.212.500. To this
add twenty-five miles Of "shore end"
wire. costing $1,450 per mile and we
find that the frst ocean cable. exclus.
i've OF instruments. cost $1.250.0OO.
Gilpin observer., 1904-12-29

You who miscarried my message.
You have betrayed me, and l tell
you" Hysterical tears broke her
voice. but she pieced 1t together with
her temper and went on telling him
all the bitter things she could think
of. while he stood before her in the
grim silence Of one who has long
foreseen the disagreeable aspects of
his undertaking and made up his
mind to endurance.
When she stopped for breath, he
said steadily, Il declare with truth
that you cannot dislike what have
done much more than !, Lady of
Northampton. l hope 1t will be an ex-
cuse with you, as 1t is a comfort to
me. that instead Of fetching you into
trouble"
Thorkel took the words from his
lips, and no longer with sinister de-
liberation but with a ferocity that
showed itself in the gathering swift
ness of his speech. "Trouble-yes!
By the Hammer OF Thor, l think you
deserve to have trouble! Had any
of your witches brew done harm to
the King, I can tell you that you
would not have lived much longer.
What! Are the plans of men to be
upset by your baby face. and king
dom lost because a little fool chooses
to play with poison as a child with
fire?"
"Poison?" she screamed. She had
been facing him with whitening lips,
and now the little breath that she had
left went from her In a sharp cry.
mot poison; love-philtres! To win
him back! Love-philtres-can you
not hear?"
"Love-philtres! The old warriers
voice made the words bite with con-
tempt. did the mouthful she swal.
lowed have that effect upon your
woman? Or do you think you planted
love in the breasts Of the dead soul
lions? Had you seen their writings
think you would have called It by
another name."
He was standing over her now. and
she was covering before him, her
shaking hands rising as though to
ward of his eyes. II meant no
HARM" she was wailing with stiff lips.
THE scroll said not o word that It
was hurtful. Do not kill me. I meant
no" The word ended In an mar
ticulate sound and she swayed back.
ward.
Gilpin observer., 1904-12-29
PROBLEM OF OLD AGE.
Question for Political Economists to
Puzzle Over.

Question for Political Economists to
Puzzle Over.
What the country shall do with its
ex-presidents is not nearly so vital a
problem as what it shall do with its
old men.
According to the new gospel of bus
mess economics a man is "old" at
fifty. That is to say, he can no long
er remain an integral part of the
industrial machine.
Young men are in demand every
where. Old men are in demand no.
where. The commercialism of the
age feeds upon young blood and re-
jects everything else.
Most of the railroads have placed
an age limit upon their pay roll &C.
count. II is a tacit rule that no man
over forty-five years of age shall be
employed. even at clerical work.
One OF the great steel companies of
the country, employing thousands Of
men, recently adopted rule that in
certain departments requiring expert
knowledge and skill no man over thir-
ty-fve years Of age should be given
employment. Other large industries
are following q similar policy.
Practically the same thing is true
In the professions. Except as a
counselor the old lawyer is not in de-
mand. The churches are calling for
young ministers, and the schools give
preference to young teachers. When
man reaches the age of fifty he is
supposed to have crossed the dead
line.
1t is strange commentary on our
modern civilization that while medi-
cal science is bending every energy
to prolong the span Of human life
to people the world with old mem
the tendency Of our economic system
Is to drive them out Of business-to
make them charge upon the world,
which Is said to owe every man q iiv-
ing.
Here is a question for political
economists to digest. II possible. for
the beneht Of the coming generation:
What shall the world do with its old
men?-Chicago Journal
Gilpin observer., 1904-12-29
Pumpkin Came From Asia.

The pumpkin Is native Of Asia
and was introduced into Europe about
1870. being frst raised merely as q
curiosity and later as food for both
man and beast. just when It was
brought to America is not known.
Some claim that variety Of the
pumpkin was cultivated by the Amer.
lean aborigines. being grown in their
maize fields. but this is probably .
misapprehension. But II the pump
kin Is not native to American soil. the
pumpkin pie certainly 10.
Gilpin observer., 1904-12-29
a Romance Of the Danish Conc

her eyes fell on the house-door. and
her expression changed from rage to
amazement and from amazement to
horror. Catching Randalin's arm in
fear. she began to gasp over and over
the name of Teboen the nurse.
In the doorway the British woman
was standing. wagging her head in
time to silly quavering song that she
was singing with lips SO distorted as
to be almost unrecognizable. Her
once f1orid face was ashen gray. and
now as she quilted the door post and
came toward them she reeled in her
walk. stumbling over stones and CROP
ing blindly with her huge bony hands.
IA devil has possession Of her," Elf
giva shrieked. Take her out of my
sight. or shall go mad! Take her
away-take her away!" Shrieking
in widest terror she fed before her.
and for a moment the garden seemed
given over to grostesque game of
blind-man's buff as women and boys
scattered with renewed screaming at
each approach Of the CHASTITY face. It
did not stop until the two soldiers
who had been made keepers Of the
wretched creature came running out
of the house and led her away.
Then it was Thorkels sardonic
voice that brought the Lady of North
ampton back to herself. Now, is
this how you take the sight Of your
own handiwork? One mouthful and
no more has she had of the blood Of
the coiled snake"
Stopping where she was, Elfgiva
gazed at him, and with a dawning
comprehension came back her inter
rupted fury. "The coiled snake" she
repeated slowly; and after that, in a
rush Of words. "Then it was you who
enticed her away and mistreated her?
But what does it concern you that
sent snake? Where saw you it?
How knew you it had blood?" Without
waiting for an answer, she turned up
on the Marshal. her lids contracted
into narrow slits behind which her
eyes ragged like prisoned animals. ut
is you who are to blame for this!
Gilpin observer., 1904-12-29
500 Reward. 500.

The readers Of this paper will be pleased to lean
that there 10 At least dreaded disease that science
has been able To cure 10 all its stages. and that 10
Catarrh. Hsll's CatArrh Cure Is the only positive
cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh
being constftutional disease requires conssltu.
tfonai treatment: lias Caiarrh Cure is taken In
ternally. acting directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces Of the system, thereby destroying the
foundation Of the disease. and giving the patient
strength by building the constitution and assist
ing nature in doing its work. The propretors have
so much faith in its curative powers that they offer
One Hundred Dollar for any case that It fails 70
cure. Send for list Of testimonials,
Address F. J. CHENEY CO., Toledo, o.
Sold by all Druggists. 75c.
Take Halrs Family Pills for constipation
Gilpin observer., 1904-12-29

$500 per NJ Lewis "Single Binder"
straight &c cigar, costs the dealer soma
price enables this factory to use higher
grade tobacco. Lewis Factory, Peoria, IL
Gilpin observer., 1904-12-29

Every housekeeper should know
that II they will buy Defiance Cold
Water Starch for laundry use they
will save not only time, because 1t
never sticks to the iron, but because
each package contains 1G oz.-one full
pound-while all other Cold Water
Starches are put UP in n pound pack
ages, and the price Is the same, 10
cents. Then again because Defiance
Starch IL free from all Injurious chem
icals. II your grocer tries to sell you q
12-oz. package 1t is because he has
stock on hand which he wishes to
dispose Of before he puts in Defiance.
He knows that Defiance Starch has
printed on every package in large let
ters and figures "16s ozs." Demand
Defiance and save much time and
money and the annoyance of the iron
sticking. Defiance never sticks.
Isn't the climate rather bad in your
part of the country" Yes" answered
the Central American; but it doesn't
make any difference. We are so busy
with revolutions that nobody has time
to notice the climate"
Gilpin observer., 1904-12-29

It's nice thing to have a girl in the
family to comfort you for the way the
boys turn out.
Gilpin observer., 1904-12-29

When high-salaried office finds ie
necessary to seek the man you may ex-
pect to see thieves trying to break into
jail.
Gilpin observer., 1904-12-29
A Rare Good Thing

~ NdT0 OUUu HHS'
"Am using ALIENS FOOT-EASE, and
can truly say would not have been without
1t SO long, had known the relief it would
give my aching feet. think it rare good
thing for anyone having sore or tired feet
Mrs. Matilda Holtwert, Providence, r. L"
Sold BY all Druggists 25c. Ask today.
Gilpin observer., 1904-12-29

TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All drug.
gsts refund the money II It fails to cure. T.. ".
Groves signature Is on each box. 25c.
Gilpin observer., 1904-12-29

RnTe r~vmanentiy cured. No or nervousuoep afea
y nrst days use of Dr. Knes Nerve Restors
e. Send for FREE %. 90 trial bottle and treatisa
d K Il. KLNE Ltd, as1 Arch Street. Philadelphta r.
Gilpin observer., 1904-12-29

Some successful men are ninety five
per cent. backbone and some others are
ninety-five per cent. cheek.
Gilpin observer., 1904-12-29

There is very little fun in the kiss
that you are both willing to have other
people see.
Gilpin observer., 1904-12-29

i, Painting the wagon puts no ginger in
the horse.
Gilpin observer., 1904-12-29

Whatsoever the foolish farmer sows
that shall the bunco man reap.
Gilpin observer., 1904-12-29

tits a companion in pleas
ure or misery, one or the
other; and some of us don't
know one from the other.
Gilpin observer., 1904-12-29
Those who Have Tried II

will use no other. Defiance Cold Wa.
ter Starch has no equal in Quantity
or Quality-16 OF. for 10 centa- Other
brands contain only II OF.
Gilpin observer., 1904-12-29

After a girl has refused him twel'~
times a superstitious youth will quit
proposing.
Gilpin observer., 1904-12-29

The latest museum freak is pig
with two legs. Outside a museum 1t
isn't necessary to have four legs to be
a hog.
Gilpin observer., 1904-12-29

Mrs. Windows Soothing Syrup.
FOR children teethng softens the gurus reduces h.
nammAton. aays pain, cures wiad collie. 25c bottle.
Gilpin observer., 1904-12-29
TEA

We don't know how good
it can be, nor how bad it is
some of us.
Gilpin observer., 1904-12-29
= Miss Rose Hennessy, we'll known as Y
poetess and elocutionist, of Lexington,
KY, tells how she was cured of uterine
Inflammation and ovaritis by the use of
Lydia E. Pin1kham's Vegetable Compound.


tnkhams Vegetable
It, that
enjoyed the best OF health and thought
chilled but did think
months
cngested ovaries
Vegetable
cures NAG performed and made mind to
what 1t would
At the close of the we'll
have advised number lady friends
satisfied
AESSEssY <0 s. Broadway, Lexington.
The experience of of noted
Women OF America a
Vegetable Compound
at once removing the q
normal and healthy condition. - " "
DEAR Mrs PINKHAM: About 1 a
health which had
pains across abdomen
trouble grew each month The physician prescribed for
soon that he unable to help
Vegetable
was doing good My appetite pains disappear
ing, ana the general benefits were we'll marked.
~ You cannot mot realize how pea and after taking the medi
cine months found
and have been well and hearty
monthly period as without truly
Miss PEARL ACKERs 1927 North Summer St. Nashville
When medicine has been
To an t non women you cannot well without trying
get bottle Of Lydia E. Pnkhams
fnkham
vice II free and helpful Write to-day
NIIIIIII
Gilpin observer., 1904-12-29

Rattle brains always make the most
raHEl
Gilpin observer., 1904-12-29

pATENTQ ,S:s was:se u : .s, Coleman, , r.ssn. AZ.
- free. Terms low. Highest ref.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-20
The Phenomenal Rise Of BLUE Eyed Billy" Shee

studies that he was sent to st. Joseph's
college to be educated for the priest
hood.
But the young man had no taste for
theology, and it was not long before he
began to manifest a decided preference
for the law. He was admitted to the
bar in 1881, and four years later he
took his seat in the assembly. He was
elected seven times and speedily be-
came power in Erie county. He ac-
quired the reputation of being an in
tense partisan and in those early days
was ready to advocate with ali his force
and ability any measure that was de-
signed to secure party supremacy. In
1891 Mr.. Sheehan was made speaker of
the assembly, and the following year
he was elected lieutenant governor on
the ticket with Roswell P. Flower He
was a member of the Democratic state
committee from 1889 to 1893 and was
first named for the national committee
in 1891.
After the disastrous autumn election
of 1898 Mr.. Sheehan resolved to resign
his party leadership in Erie county and
remove to New York city. His term as
lieutenant governor expired the fol-
lowing year. and he announced his de-
termination to seek a new field from the
speakers desk in the senate. He said
that he had given all his strength and
substance for party ACKNOWLEDGMENT
and that he should be obliged to leave
Albany in order to make money enough
to pay his debts. He went to New York
and opened a law Office in partnership
with Charles A. Coffin, a professor at
Cornell university, who had been legal
adviser to Governor Flower
Mr.. Sheehan confesses frankly that
he has forsworn his former political
methods and has provided himself with
an entirely new set. 'Frankness. can
dor and honesty pay he declares. LAS
long as l live L shall never again be a
factionist in politics. 1t does not count
for advantage in the long run"
CHARMING A. BARLOW.
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| treated with small consideration for
their personal feelings. Neutral mer-
chants may trade in arms, ammunition
and stores in time of war as in time of
peace, but either belligerent may cap
ture such goods as are of direct and
immediate use in war if he can inter-
cept them in their passage to the enc
my while not within neutral jurisdic-
ton.
In order to commit the offense of car
rying contraband three things are nee
eSsary-O goods must have been sent
across the frontier to a belligerent by
land or sea; CD the goods must have
been intended eventually for a hostile
destination; go the offense is complet-
ed with the deposit of the contraband
cargo at the belligerent destination
One of the most famous and ingen-
ious rulings as to the term contraband
of war was made by General Benjamin
r. Butler while he was in command at
Fortress Monroe. He applied the def
milton to captured slaves and on that
ground refused to deliver them.
On account of the numerous modifi-
cations which modern developments
have made in warfare the necessity of
an international conference has been
urged. There is at present no provision
for several of the powerful agencies
which recent invention has supplied,
one of the most interesting being wire
less biography. AS matters are at
present, Japan is not seriously affected
by the Malacca incident, but the raids
of the Vladivostok fleet have caused
great loss to her. Of course any well
planned and successfully carried out
scheme to disturb the worlds COM
merce must sooner or later react on
both bellfgerents, but the inconvenience
&C. xaIx To he ba
The Dardanelles, or Hellespont, which
has been brought into new prominence
by the activity of Russia's so called
volunteer fleet" is in it's way the most
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against the customs and habits of indi-
VIduals and society. Political carica-
ture is launched against party corrup-
ton and bad government.
To be typical and artistic caricature
must exaggerate real traits so plainly
that they cannot fail to be recognized.
1t must also be conceived in a spirit of
unmistakable good nature. IF a car
toonist permits his own personal opin-
ions and prejudices to occupy too much
of the foreground his effort is likely to
be failure in an artistic sense. Most
OF all, caricature must be free from
any suspicion of malice on the part of
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Besides obtaining a working influence
Il the delegations, these personal
riends were keeping close watch of the
.fovements of the managers of other
&ndidates. Through them Mr.. Shee-
an was kept informed of the strength
{ the opposition in all parts of the
3untry. This enabled him to concen-
rate his effort on any particularly
weak spot. He realized that his cam
idate was in a peculiar position. A
ess clever man than Mr.. Sheehan
night have been confused under the
circumstances, but he proceeded with
tut delay to adapt them to his own adj
vantage. It was known that Judge
Parker was willing candidate but he
had not yet been heard from. The
country was getting impatient to have
him speak. 1t is declared that Mr..
Sheehan was the only one of his ad-
visers who insisted upon silence. The
wisdom of his insistence is now plainly
have garnered the strength acquired by
that golden silence. The outcome at St.
Louis demonstrated that fact.
Mr.. Sheehan was born in Buffalo
Nov. 6, 1859. AS a boy he sold news
papers in the streets of his native city,
and he is not at all averse to hearing
the fact mentioned. His father was
poor laborer, and the family was de-
pendent on his daily wages. Billy was
barefooted, redheaded and freckled. He
was also the possessor of pair of re-
markably blue eyes. In his early child
hood he acquired the sobriquet of
blue Eyed Billy" and it has chung to
him with singular persistency until the
present time. He was also a ferry boy
at one time of his career and owned a
small boat, with which he used to con-
vey passengers across the narrow Buff
faIo river. His mother saw to it that
he was a tolerably regular attendant at
the public school, and he was regarded
as a bright boy, with a tendency toward
in fun loving propen-
sity. He made so mu@A progress in his
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citation that will Precipitate a revoIu
ton. At the time of the foundation of
the great American republic the poit
icaI cartoonist's pencil was a powerful
propaganda for the cause of freedom.
A master caricaturist once told the
complete story of the reign of Louis
XIV. in three small sketches. The first
was a picture of the French monarch,
arrayed in all the trappines of royalty;
this was entitled "Louis Rex" The
second sketch was an exact representa-
ton of the respondent costume with
out wearer; that was marked "Rex."
The last was the enaciated figure of an
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historic waterway in the world II TOOK
it's name from the ancient Greek city
Dardanus, which used to stand on the
eastern side. 1t is really a narrow
channel separating southeast Europe
from southwest Asia. 1t unites the sea
of Marmora with the HEgean sea. The
DardaneIIes is strongly fortified on both
sides with guns of large caliber. Ac-
cording to the terms of the treaty con-
cluded between the five great powers
and Turkey in 1S41, it was agreed that
no ship of war belonging to any nation
except Turkey should pass the Darda-
nelles without the consent OF the latter
government, and all merchant ships
were required to show their papers to
the Ottoman authorities. These provi-
sions were ratified at London in 1871
and at Berlin in 1873. AS the only
outlet for Russia's Black sea fleet is
through the Bosporus into the sea OF
Marmora and thence through the Oar
danelles and Egean sea to the Med
iterranean. the treaty of 9S4l mas
greatly embarrassed the car since the
war with Japan began.
In 1891, after a long series of diplo-
matte exchanges, Russia secured the
portes consent to the passage of her so
called volunteer fleet" through the
jealousy guarded gateway. Prompt
and emphatic protest was made by the
powers, but the matter has never until
recently come up for final adjudication
1t is fact, however, that Russia has
never shown a disposition to abandon
her stoutly contested right. When the
Russo Japanese hostilities are over it
is probable that the matter will come
up for settlement, if indeed it can be
deferred until then. There is always
the possibility that too frequent ag-
gressions and too prompt reprisals may
engender a state of feeling which, as
the Bard of Avon puts it, cannot
brook delay"
TRUMAN L. ELTON.
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old, decrepit roue, almost naked; that
was labeled Louis"
Today nearly every newspaper of i'm
portance publishes cartoons, mostly po-
Iitcal and usually good natured. A ma
tionaI election is the harvest time for
the lampoonist, and it is generally con-
coded that many thousands of votes are
influenced by. his pencil.
Caricature is probably as old as mans
ability to express himself by the graph
ic art. 1t is common on the papyri and
sculptured Assyrian and Greek remains.
Although the Greeks were expected to
entertain a certain reverence for their
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the artist. For a cartoonist to endow
his subject with some mental or moral
enormity which he does not possess
would be as untrue to art as it would
be to ridicule a physical defornity.
1t is true enough that the average
man may be made sufficiently ridicu
Ious by the employment of perfectly
legitimate methods. A slight exaggera
ton of ones virtues is often quite
enough to create an absurdity. This
species of caricature was employed by
the ecclesiastical IamPoonists of the
middle ages.
There is no question as to the power
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that has been exerted by a skiIIfulIy
drawn caricature. Political corruption
has been made odious, and the plague
spots of official dePravity have been
laid bare. A caricaturist's single happy
stroke often points a moral which all
the eIoquence of a Bossuet might fail to
make clear. 1t is matter of general
credence that the constant and pitt
less warfare waged by Thomas Mast
and other cartoonists against the VenaI
Tweed ring of New York city was as
efficient toward its final overthrow as
was any other agency. A solitary carl
caturist may be inspired to make a rev.