davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1904-08-20
News Of the Day.

In an Official statement issued at the
White House Secretary Loeb made Il
clear that no letter was sent either by
the President or by him by their au-
thority 20 the National Association OF
stationary Engineers in session at
Richmond. declining 10 receive the en-
gineers AS a body. because 1T would
create capital for the Democratic cam
paign. and particularly where an asso-
citation was so closely allied with Ia
Dor"
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1904-08-20
Teiegraph,c Briefs.

There are three cases OF yellow fever
at Vera Cruz. Mexico. three at Coatza-
coalcos, and five at Tehuantepec. There
have been no death at the latter place.
Chairman COwherd. OF the Demo-
cratic Congressional Campaign Com
mittee, has issued a statement chal-
longing the accuracy OF Commissioner
Wright's report on wages and the cost
OF living.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1904-08-20
News ~ Wire

Democratic leaders are hoping FOR
favorable results Ia contrasting the
personality OF the candidates for presi-
dent
Turkey having yielded on all points
20 the United states the American feet
at Smyrna has been ordered % leave
The United states South Atlantic
squadron arrived az Cape Town.
The British torpedo boat destroyer
Decoy sank on the Scilly Islands Ia a
collision with another destroyer.
The Republican campaisn text book
is 60 be- issued from national headquar-
tiers today
The Associated Press learns thai
Lewis Dixon. OF New York. VINO has
been in ST. Petersburg for several days
came a. the request OF the Russian
admiralty. and that negotiations are
progressing between the admiralty and
Mr Nixon. but whether for the sale %
ships. machinery or what. Is not ascer-
tainable Mr.. Nixon is going 10 Se0as-
tapOi Friday 20 confer with the com
mander OK the Black Sea feet
4 whole family was poisoned az Sal
isbury last week from eating food INTO
which the cook had put some Kind OF
POISON
DR. 4. b. Simpson. OF New York.
took up a collection of $4,000 for the
Christian Workers Alliance at the Old
Orchard (aIaioe) camp meeting
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1904-08-20

Chiraeo. Spec. al rhat senator Pair
banks the Republican vice presidential
candidate win participate almost con-
tinuousiy .n Che presidential camapign
ana tour the country n behalf ~ the
ticket of which he is a component part.
was made known today AS the result u
n visit made hy him 90 Republican
headquarters ln fhis city TIE has en-
tered into an engagement O. open the
Kansas State campaign at Marion. In
chat state on Seutemher ist. and there
are calls for him FOR earlier dates IN
Vermont Hc also today indicated his
positive acceptance % An invitation To
speak 40 Saratoga y. s.. on the 18th
of september. on the occasion of the
celebration OF the hftieth anniversary
Of the organization OF the Republican
party at that resort. Later in the cam
paign he viii visit the far West
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1904-08-20
Bv Wire and Gable.

President Nord. of Haiti, made a
speech threatening foreigners.
II is officially denied in Berlin that
Germany had sent an ultimatum TO
Venezuela demanding the payment OF
interes on the ldemnity.
In the House of Commons Joseph
Chamberlain said he was anxious for
a general election at once on his tar
III proposals.
A French officer was appointed
head OF the Tangior police.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1904-08-20
7inor 1entiOn.

The British expedition under Colonel
Younghusband reached Lhasa. Tibet.
The total number identified bodies
recovered from the wreck at Eden. Col,
up to Tuesday night was 20. and the
unidentified 3.
The United Mine Workers executive
board adjourned at scranton without
definitely deciding upon the date for a
strike in the Wyoming and Lackawan-
IA valleys
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1904-08-20
Odds and Ends.

Even a golden vessel cannot make
smooth sea.
II the Sinless knew sorrow shall the
sinful escape?
The branch that bends lowest pears
the most fruit.
You must either fee from Egypt or
forfeit Canaan.
Circumstances may abase. but only
sin eau debase you
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1904-08-20

conquest. that make the country .
world power. Thss condition We owe 20
the bounty % Provfdencs. unfolfei IN
the great natural resources % the
country. 10 the wisdom OF our fathers
manifested BY them. 20 the energy. in
dOstry. moral character and iaw-ncit-
inS spirit OF the people themselves.
We are not a military people. bent
on conquest. or engaged IN extending
our domains IN foreign lands. CT de-
siroDs OF securing natural advantages
however great. by force. but a people
loving peace. not only foS ourselves.
bat for all the nations % the earth.
MILITARY DISPLAY.
The great display CT military ar
mamcnts NAV please the ere and. foI
the moment. excite the pride o. the
citizen. but IL cannot bring 20 the
country The brains. trawn and mus
Gle % a single Immigrant nor induce
the ilvcsf mcnt here " a dollar ~
capital OF course. such armament a.
may he necessary Tor the security
% ths country ana The protection o.
IRE rights 90 it- citizens az home OF
abroad. must lc maintained. ANY
other course wclfi to nct only false
economy. lut plst,anlDo pro.
test. however. o-nl0e- the feeling.
now FAR too prevalent that cy reason
q tNn commanding position We have
assumed Iu fre world. wc must take
part .n tfr disputes and nroiis of for
elgn countries and that because We
have Grown great wee should inter
vere .n every Important question that
arises .n otacr parts &C enc world.
also protest against the erection OF
any such military establishment ne
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1904-08-20

Ing without a commission from the
people.
IMPA1IENCE AT RESTRAINT OF
LAW
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1904-08-20
HANDS OFF FOREIGN
TROUBLES.



A"t @of'l "--'nt .A 80
H'"lc7 vas 'ietn.-e. -.lel ioa
bN'iit OK tN' ."-'v1 N'A'e.- -4-'
D. was ,on,''l llat'a 'Nat mis- Gun
Dl a-oA.a .''olne rouge toE 80
DipLte-ea vt every .AnA. wHo li'eA.
PC pr I'D 1i''hatse me Nu'es OF ouI
e'l.-eis-lp' "nN NNl-t We naee
WAYS 0s ~ tAN"l ..t WIN 'u' ptvlt' 'A
every nation in their s'russ'es Tor
sen soN. '.'.n-' l-e so'.' n.'.,.- "a.
g-.eo --l '' i.'''.'Ai ~
. mons eF'-i -'.i-",'''N pr -''''e"
,onr.ii'' ol A'.''-s A'l.n l~-,'.
400. -.s. '.".l.N- No.A san ~
,ries is PSI tae pres-nta,lon IN a hap
py prosrrro'.. .t sotc.nins naJ'on
81 .' ''.'' -' No.. '., II
~ l''-io-
' Fl. i-.l
-
.., e -
f exception 20 the war Wis., Mexico
th.s country h1f rren az peace. win
a sf1ni.rr army MOST of tho time 20
less cham f.n Thousand men. He who
thinks chat thc nation had grown a.
A. miraf. during that period should
..OnI fne casualty rolls 20 the armies
on eItlor siic Gao shiloh. Anletam
Frederic kshur< and Gettvsburg AZ
Stone River ANA ChicamauEa.
'Noli Do t'c l.st man to pluck sim
s.o eur.i frnm che crown ~ any one
.of che military HEROES 60 whom LIS
country owes g much. but { Insist
thlf fncIr MOST heroic deeds ore
.. .. ...| |.H III
fu - country cham from martiai
spirit AS Z have already proceeded
a. GOO Nr'1t lNn.n. other Qu0 lions
s4sste.' .n iN. platform must await
nl letter nt aces pIaucc.
NOMINATION ArgrpTrn
4
Mr.. Chairman. lu most graceful
speech yuu hAFn reminded me of tns
{ great responsibility. cas- Wen AS hs
, great -NN'f OF me nomination De
81 slowed upon me py the convention
s you represent tAis day Zee assure,
NlAt NnIl $3.50 appreciated so kcoull
Is appreciated that / am sumbled 10
e. their acceptance.
$ 81 accent ,--,tfan,., ~ .h. c,-rr,,.,
n tee tha nomination ma if the artfo,
"A up tha .onr.rff,n eh,n h, .,s,-..,.
q b,. an election hy th, r..,,f, MI
God helnlnr ms rfv, 20 49,. li..h,-g
T. of ~. fnff.s IL th,. .,,ft,., ,,so
a. tha best e.~,-i.e - which .r, -.
D. bio and M tha end - th, ferr, rati-
10 4, private nfe shan nor ~ = ,.rs
n date for nor shau accent +, r,.,,g,r,
81 ir,fion several reasons r,f,bt 40 81
al yancad FOR mis- nosifio, ~. 49,. -,
10 trolling ONE with mo HI mar 7 ar, s,fi
b. persuaded that no incnmbert - tb-
81 office should ever ho placed in \ sirl
IN ot.oo ~ rossii,l' ,.,crts.e,.., . ~,
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1904-08-20
RIOTS IN NEW YORK
Exciting ConfIict BstEeea uaion and
Noa-uaioa BrickIsyers
MOB GRASSES BOY WHO FIRED GUN

Youthful 5riekiayer Ernpties rs Pc
voiVer into Mo5 o. Wou'd-b-
Lynehers while Standing On an
Elevated Railroad Platform.
The Grit-advocate., 1904-01-08
He Did Not Mote.

The motor cyclist was careering
down the remote country hillside at
a speed which would have made a Sur
rey policeman chortle with glee. Sud-
denly there was Al report, Chi.
nese-puZZle view OF motor.cyclist
and his machine, and then both repos.
ed in roadside ditch, each consider.
ably the worse for the experience.
"Help!' cried the motorcycles; and
in response to the cry farm laborer
hurried out from field near by.
For an instant he gazed at the strus-
Cling mass in the ditch, particularly
focusing his vision upon the still re-.
volving wheels of the cycle, the like
of which. as he explained afterwards
he had never seen before. Then he
grabbed big stone.
Tell me where to hit her" he
shouted. land I'll dash her brains
Answers.
The Grit-advocate., 1904-01-08
CHAPTER v.
The Turning of the Road.


At the close of the war Cant Ed
ward Franklin returned to a shrunkel
world. The little Illinois village
which had been his home no lonse-
served to bound his ambitions, but of,
fered only a millround of duties so
petty, a horizon of opportunities so
restricted, as to cause in his mind a
feeling of distress equivalent at times
to absolute adherence. The perspeC-
tive of all things had changed. The
men who had once seemed great to
him in this little world now appeared
in the light of wider Judgment, as
they really werc-small. boastful,
pompous, cowardly, deceitful, preten-
tious. Franklin was himself now a
severe and eXactins school which so
quickly matured generation of
American youth. AS his hand had
fitted naturally weapon, so his
mind turned naturally to larger things
than those offered in these long-tlled
fields of life. He came back from the
war disillusioniZed irreverent. impa-
Iielll, dIu lull VI ludl SuTSlnS lfe1ul-
ness which fell upon all the land.
TO this young man. ardent, ener-
Setic, malcontent, there appeared the
vision of wide regions of rude. active
life. offering full outlet for all the
bodily vigor of man. and appealing
not less powerfully to his imagination.
This West-no man had come back
from it who was not eager to return
to it again. For the weak and sloth-
full it might do to remain in the older
communities. to reap in the long-tlled
fields. but for the strong, for the
unattached, for the enterprising, this
unknown, uneXplored, uncertain coun.
try offered a scene whose possibilities
made irresistible appeal. For two
years Franklin did the best he could
at reading law in a country Office.
Every time he looked out of the win
dow he saw white-topped wagon
moving West Men came back and
told him of this West Men wrote let.
ters from the West to friends who re-
NAMED in the East Presently these
friends also. seized upon by some
vast impulse which they could not
control, in turn arranged their affairs
and departed for the West.
(To be continued)
The Grit-advocate., 1904-01-08
Difficult Churnino.

]. G.-I keep the milk from three
cows about one week. then warm it to
60 degrees, and after churning from
five to six hours cannot get butter.
The cream will foam until it fills the
churn. fed each COW daily about one
bushal of beets and about five quarts
of mixed corn and oats and corn fod.
der with ears on.
Ans.-Difficult churning is frequent.
ly met with at this season of the year,
more especially if the COWS have been
milking Il long period and are getting
dry feed. An improper re-opening OF
the cream often accompanies these
conditions. The course to be followed
is to ripen the cream more thorough
ly by keeping il at a warmer tempera-
ture and churning once in not more
than five days. 1t is also advisable to
add little warm water or weak brine
to the cream and raise the churning
temperature until butter comes in
reasonable time. 1t may be necessary
to warm the cream to rs or even so
degrees. No fresh cream should be
added to that which is to be churned
for at least twenty-four hours before
churning.
The Grit-advocate., 1904-01-08
BOOK III.
The Day of the Buffalo.
CHAPTER ~.
sattersieigh of the RiIe Irish.

eattersieigh of the RiIe Irish.
Col Henry Battersleigh sat in his
tent engaged in the composition OF a
document which occasioned him con-
cern. That Col. Battersleigh should
be using his tent as Office and resi-
dence-for that such was the fact even
the most casual glance must have de-
termined-was for him circumstance
offering no special or extraor .inary
features. His life had been spent un-
der canvas. Brought up in the pro
fessiOn of arms. SO long as fighting
and forage were good it had mattered
little to him in what cline he found
his home. He had fought with the
English in India, carried sabre in the
Austrian horse. and on his private ac-
count drilled regiments for the Grand
Sultan, deep within the interior of
country which knew how to keep its
secrets. When the American civil war
began he drifted to the newest scene
of activity as metal to magnet.
Chance sent him with the Union army,
and there he found opportunity for a
cavalry command "A gintleman like
Battersleigh of the Rile Irish always
rides he said. and natural horseman
as well as trained cayalryman was Bat
tersleigh. tall, lean, tlat-backed, and
martial even under his sixty admitted
years. 1t was his boast that no horse
The Grit-advocate., 1904-01-08
Tried to Pull Her Tonaue Out.

Jacob Gittel, of Southington, Conn,
is in trouble. AS matter of fact the
gentleman has been in trouble for
years. His wife is one of these un-
bearable nuisances which the Puri-
tans used to hold under the town
pump-a village gossip. He has tried
every argument and used every threat
to induce her to cease her chatter
and let him sleep O nights, but in
vain. Driven finally to desperation.
he determined to put stop for good
and all to her incessant talk by pull
ing her tongue out. The cure would
have been heroic but effective. But
weakened as he was by his loss of
sleep and by the continued strain on
his nervous system, the unfortunate
husband had not the strength to hold
his wife with one hand while he per-
formed the operation with the other.
She got away and complained to the
authorities. The result is that, while
everybody sympathizes with him, the
husband is in Jail and the woman i,
still talking
The Grit-advocate., 1904-01-08

on earth could urseat him. Perhaps
none ever had-until he came to the
Plains.
For this was ca the Plains AS all
America was under canvas, it was not
strange that Col. Battersleigh should
find his home in a tent, and that this
tent should be pitched upon the West
ern Plains. Not that he had gone di
rectly to the West after the muster
ing out of his regiment. To the con
trary, his first abode had been in the
city of New York, where during his
brief stay he acquired a certain ac-
quaintince.
What We're the financial resources
of Battersleigh after the cessation of
his pay as cavalry officer not even his
best friends could accurately have
told. 1t was rumored that he was the
commissioner in America of the Lon
don Times. He was credited with
being Fellow of the Royal Geo
graphical Society. That he had a his
tory no one could doubt who saw him
come down the street with his broad
hal, his sweeping cloak, his gauntlets,
his neatly vanished boots.
In reality Col. Henry Battersleish
lived, during his city life. in a small
very small room, up more than one
flight of stairs. This room, no
larger than tent. was military in
its neatness. Battersleigh. bachelor
and soldier. was in nowise forgetful
of the truth that personal neatness
and personal valor 90 well hand in
hand. The bed. very narrow one,
had but meager covering. and during
the winter months its single blanket
ratified to the touch. There's moth
papers, me boy said Battersleigh,
Upon the table. which was box,
there was displayed always an invar.
| able arrangement Col Battersleigh's S
riding whip (without which he was
rarely seen in public was placed
upon the table first. Above the whip
were laid the gauntlets., crossed at
sixty degrees. On top of whip and
gloves rested the hat. indented never
more nor less. Beyond these. the per,
sonal belongings of Battersleigh of
the Rile Irish were at best few and
humble. In the big city. busy with re-.
viving commerce. there were few who
cared how Battersleigh lived. 1t was
vagrant wind of March that one day
blew aside the cloak of Battersleigh
as he raised his hat in salutation to
friend-a vagrant wind. cynical and
merciless. which showed somewhat of
the poverty with which Battersleigh
had struggled like soldier and gen.
tleman. Battersleigh. poor and proud
then went out into the West.
The Grit-advocate., 1904-01-08

stoomngs. The quest was but too OBJ
vious. And even as Franklin gazed.
uncertain and unable to escape. it
seemed apparent that the two had
found that which they had sought. The
girl, slightly in advance, ran forward
few PAGES, paused, and then ran
back. "Oh, there! there!" she cried.
And then the older woman took the
girls head upon her bosom. With
barred head and his own hand at his
eyes. Franklin hurried away. hoping
himself unseen, but bearing indelibly
pictured on his brain the scene of
which he had been witness. He wanted
to cry out, to halt the advancing col
umns which would soon be here, to
tell them that they must not come
upon this field, made sacred by such
woe.
Near the intrenchment where the
bitter close had been, and where there
was need alike for note of triumph
and forgetfulr ess, the band major mar
shaled his music, four deep and forty
strong, and swung.out into the anthem
Of the flag. The head of the column
broke from the last cover of the wood
and came into full sight at the edge
OF the open country. Thus there came
into view the whole panorama of the
field. dotted with the slain and with
those who sought the slain. The
music of triumph was encountered by
the concerted voice Of grief and woe.
There appeared for the feet of this
army not mere road, a mere battle
field, but ground sacred hedged high
about, not rudely to be violated.
But the band major was poet, a
great man. There came to him 70
order telling him what he should do,
but the thing was in his soul that
should be done. There came to him,
which was command, voice which
sounded to him above the voices of
his own braSscs, above the tapping of
the kettledrums. A gesture of com
mand. and the music ceased absolute
ly. A moment. and it had resumed.
The forty black horses which made
up this regimeEtal band were the pride
strong, with arching necks, with fore
feet reaching far and dropping softly.
each horse of the famous cavalry band
passed on out upon the field of Louis
burg with such carriage as showed it
sensible of its mission. The reins lay
loose upon their recks, but they kept
step to the music which they felt.
Forty horses paced slowly forward,
keeping step. Forty trumpeters. each
man with his right hand aloft. hold
ing his instrument. his left hand at mis-
side, bearing the cap which he had re
The Grit-advocate., 1904-01-08
CHAPTER lll-Continued.

In this part OF the wood the dead
were mingled from both sides of the
contest, the faded blue and the faded
gray sometimes scarce distinguishablc.
Then there came a thickening of the
gray, and in turn, as the traveller ad-
vanccd toward the fences and abattis,
the Northern dead predominated,
though still there were many faces yell
low-pale, dark-framed.
Franklin passed over the abattis.
over the remaining fences, and into
the intrenclments where the final
stand had been. The dead lay thick,
among them many who were young.
Franklin stock looking out over the
fields, in the direction of the town.
And there he saw sight fifty to be
called the ultimate horror of all these
things horrible that he had seen.
Over the fields of Louisburg there
came fearful sound, growing, rising.
falling, stopping the singing and the
twitter OF the birds. Across the land
there came horrible procession, ad-
vancing with short, uncertain. broken
pauses-a procession which advanced,
paused, halted, broke into groups; adj
vanced, paused, stopped and stopped:
a procession which came with wall
ings and bitter cries, with wringing
of hands, with heads now and then
laid upon the shoulders of others for
support: a procession which stopped
uncertainty, horribly. 1t was the wom-
en- of Louisburg coming to seek their
slain-a sight most monstrous, most
terrible. unknown upon any field of
civilized war. and unfit to be tolerated
even in the thought! 1t is for men,
who SOW the fields of battle, to attend
also TO the reaping.
Franklin stood at the inner edge of
the earthworks, half hidden by a little
clump OF trees. He saw approaching
him, slowly but almost in direct line,
two figures, an older lady and a girl
They came on, as did the others, al
ways with that slow, searching att-
tude, the walk broken with pauses and
The Grit-advocate., 1904-01-08

Not the least curious feature of the
critical situation rapidly developing in
the far east is the attitude of Korea
and the apparent apathy of the Ko-
reans themselves in the face of the
threat of national extinction. Their
country forms the bone of contention
and may yet be the fighting ground
upon which Russia and Japan are to
settle the question Of supremacy in
the Orient, but their possible prefer
ences and their future position are
still mystery.
Presumably some light might be
thrown upon the question of Korea's
ultimate destiny and upon the prob
able tendencies of it's people by an
examination of their racial character
istics, but even here the student
meets with difficulties which defy
analysis. The Korean is an indubit-
his conservatism, his distaste for civ
ilization and his preference for the
lower forms of Buddhistic worship,
but he is sharply differentiated from
other Asiatics. He is neither Chinese
nor japanese nor yet. as some ethnol-
ogists would have it, an offshoot from
remote Caucasian ancestry. The eff
fort to trace a Caucasian origin
through the singular tribe of Amos.
the light colored people of northern
Japan, on the ground that the latter
came from a Caucasian race of great
antiquity, has been rejected as un-
tenable. Several theories have been
advanced Identifying tho Koreans var
iously with Mongolia, Japanese and
Malay sources. but perhaps the most
authentic and satisfactory is that
which regards them as distinct type
intermediate between the Monaghan
Tartar and the Japanese. Whatever
their origin, the distinction is too
marked to admit OF confounding them
with the Chinese, while the contrast
The Grit-advocate., 1904-01-08
ePo9Gs!A|:! wi?
So
q, o.
YELLOW ael,.S1
SEA sS#sss i
>: sil.zS,
Where Korea and Manchuria Meet.

Where Korea and Manchuria Meet
between the tall, robust, large-limbed
Korean and the diminutive, swarthy
and active Japanese is even more
marked. The difference in the spoken
language Of the country, both in ge-
MUS and in structure, is but another
evidence of the fact that the Korean
is a type by himself
With population variously esti-
ated at from 100000 to $4,000 900,
and territory about as large as the
area of Great Britain, Korea awaits
the decree of fate and apparently has
less voice in the matter than any of
the other nations concerned. The
official classes by turns have paid
Difference to China, to Japan, and to
Russia. korea's dependency in one
way or another upon the two former
powers having lasted for centuries.
The people themselves, docile. tract
able and Indifferent, are too uneulight-
ened to care. though since Japan's ag-
gressions in Korea in 1894 they have
been credited with a deep-seated dis
like OF the Japanese. Russia alone,
with its slow-moving policy of gradual
encroachment and adrot intrigue.
seems to have gained ground with.
out arousing antagonism.