davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-10-21
KINDERGARTEN OPE WE'D.

A kindergarten department has been
opened in the public school at Giffurds.
1t is being attended by the children of
that place.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-10-21
-TT NgIK z
MEET SATURDAY NIGHT.

The meeting 81 the United Independent
Club will be held Saturday evening in
stead of Friday. All members are re-
quested to attend. -"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-10-21
DATE FOR TRIAL.

Announcement has been made at the
Court in Richmond that the trial of
Isaac Steadman, the alleged murderer
of Sunny Gibbs, will take place on
Monday, October "a.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-10-21
Oiled Roads in India

The practice Ct .oiling the roads has
been introduced in India, at Bombay. II
is found that hThe oil is allowed to soak
in slowly, no cbnoxious mud isproduced,
and the result Is a success.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-10-21
Wouldn't Work.

Broadway have just spent two
weeks al a summer resort.
Manhattan Sorry. old cnap, but |
cant lerd you any money to-day
Town Topic.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-10-21
who Knowsp

If, as ali the newspapers would have
US believe. all brides are beautiful, where
do all the homely married ladies come
from?-Chicago Daily News.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-10-21
NEW FAROCHIAL SCHOOL.

A new parochial school, which will be
conducted by the Sisters of the Holy
Cross, will be established shortly in Tot
t~euville.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-10-21

DENVER, Oct. 21. - Laurence G..
Phipps went driving and took luncheon
with his recently divorced wife here
yesterday.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-10-21
N FIRE.

At 6 30 p. m. last night the firemen
of K~reischerville put out a blaze in the
chimney of the home of Mrs. Beckman.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-10-21

Real estate Real estatel Read
the bargains in special column on
page Q.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-09-15
An OWLS Love for Music.

"In my sons junior year at Har.
vard,' says John Burroughs, the natu-
ralist, ut became the custom in May
and June to give frequent band con-
certs in the evening on the steps of
University hall. Exactly over the band
was a fagpole, fastened at an angle to
the building. On the gilded ball of the
iagpole there would come and perch,
soon after the concert began, a little
screech owl. After the music ceased
and the crowd dispersed the little owl
would fly away again. So regularly did
the owl come with his n~oiseless, mufied
fight that my son come to look for him
and to speculate how long the band
would have to play before he would be
attracted by the music. Many persons
saw him, yet he appeared to take no
notice of the yard full of people, but
seemed to enjoy the music, as far as
his actions and attitude betrayed his
feelings, as much as did any one. Ger
tainly the love for music, so strong in
man, must find its beginning in lower
forms Of life"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-09-15
RIO GRANDE ON THE RAMPAGE
E.:.ttGi States Custom House nj Pre-
sidio del NOrte, Mex. Has
Been Washed Away.

Kansas City, Mo-, Sept. IA spe.
cial to the Star from Alpine, Tex,
says:
The Rio Grande is on the worst
rampage in its history, and great de-
struction of property has already oc-
CURED at Preside del Norte, Ojinito
and many other smaller settlements
situated on both sides of the river for
a distance of 300 miles along its
course. The valley is narrow along the
river through the Great Bend region
OF Texas, and losses by destruction of
crops there will not be heavy. Accord
ing to information received Sunday
from a mounted courier who came di-
rect from Preside del Norte, more than
n hundred houses of that town, in
GLIDING the United States customs
house were washed away by the flood.
The flood is said to have swept
away whole settlements of houses c
pied by Mexicans between Preside del
iNorte and Boquillas. No reports of
loss of life have been received. The
valley south of Del Rio is wide and in
a high state of cultivation. 1t is also
thickly populated. Heavy property
losses will occur when the flood
reaches there. A warning has been
issued to the settlers below, and they
are busy moving out of the valley and
preparing for the expected inunda.
tion.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-09-15
AN ESKIMO ~SALMON-TRAP.
Simple Continuance by Which Many
Large Fish Are Easily
Taken.

The Eskimos along the Yukon river
have an odd method of catching salm.
on, which is described by Mr.. jeremiah
Lynch in Three Years in the Klon.
dixie"
THE Eskimos take boards a foot
wide and an inch thick, and nail them
together l%engthwise in a triangular
spout, a little wider than a good sized
salmon. This is submerged in five
feet of water a foot from the surface
and 20 yards from the shore.
THE salmon, swimming along the
side Of the shore against the strong
current, go straight into this simple
trap and cannot get back, and those in
the rear press on those in front.
1--WE saw IS large salmon taken from
one Of these spouts in a few minutes,
and the Indians said they caught
scores every day while the run con-
tinued. =
SAT an old Russian settlement We
observed how the natives live and pre-
pare for the winter. The fish were
running plentifully, and every Indian,
even to the little children, was busy
bringing them up from the bank, open
ing them and hanging them on the
trees, or temporary scaffolds, or tops
of huts and cabins, in every conceiv-
able place where a salmon could be put
to dry out of reach Of the dogs.
fgTNbn 49, InC+c aho,4 II. ...a1 -
in that interval the natives must pro-
vide food for their families and their
dogs until next season. Very few
wild animals exist on this lower Yu-
kon, and with the addition of geese
and ducks, salmon is the only food
that the country provides for it's in
habitants. No grain is cultivated.
The Indians buy flour and light sup
plies from the traders, paying in dogs
and furs, for they trap all through the
long winter"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-09-15
Couldn't Keep EN- Awake.

pew sleepers are one of the bug
bears Of preachers" said Rev. Robert
Collyer, the veteran New York minis
ter. Il can speak feelingly from expe-
rience. On One occasion when Henry
Ward Beecher asked me to go to
Plymouth church to talk to his people,
he remarked-jokingly. let us hope
that most of them were Woodworking
folks, who needed plenty Of rest on
Sunday, and he felt that a sermon from
me might be gratefully received.
In the course of my talk I men
toned this, and said that it was, how
ever, a matter upon which my feelings
could not be hurt, and that l owed this
imperviousness to Mr.. Beecher himself.
told them that n Sunday, years be-
fore, when | was attending a service
at old Plymouth and Mr.. Beecher was
laundering forth, l saw one Of his
deacons asleep in a front pew.
Il went on to say that always after
this, whenever I saw a man slumber-
ing peacefully through my most stir
ring efforts in the pulpit, l would say
to myself: Well, let him sleep; even
the great Beecher can't keep 'em all
awake. '"-Success.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-09-15
Russia's Problem.

When we look back upon the num-
erical superiority which we required in
order to crush the resistance of some
$4,000 to 10000 Beers in South Africa,
who were ultimately cut off from all
communication with the outer world,
and especially upon the tremendous
strain which the maintenance of our
forces imposed upon our double line of
communications from the coast, it is
hard to believe that the single Siberian
railway can ever transport and supply
and maintain a Russian force in suf-
fcfent numbers to overwhelm a Japan
csc army of 800, 900 men, with reserves
OF the same strength at its back, and
operating close to its natural base,
with all the resources of a nation of
over 10000, 900 inhabitants to draw up
on, free from all m%olestation so long
as it commands the sea. AS for finan-
cial resources, the disparity between
Russia and Japan is also, | believe,
ore apparent than real. 1t is obvious
that the war expenditure of Russia
must enormously exceed that of Japan,
and though Russia for various reasons
enjoys facilities of credit abroad which
Japan can hardly hope for, the ex-
%travagant scale Of normal expenditure
in Russia, together with the existence
of widespread di~saffection, renders the
financial situation at home relatively
much less elastic than it is in japan.
where no burden Of taxation will be
considered intolerable for the purpose
of carrying to a successful issue a
struggle which her intensely patriotic
and united people know to be a life
and-death struggle. Moreover, in the
Japanese military and naval services
the very highest standard Of ~pecuniary
integrity is the rule, where as we know
from Russian writer's themselves how
deep the gangrene Of corruption has
eaten not only into the civil, but into
the naval and military administration
in Russia.-London National Review.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-09-15
TERRAPIN SLOW TRAVELLER
Took This One Twenty Years to
Cover q Distance of Two
Miles and a Half,

Thomas S. Stadden, a prominent resi-
dent of Vaudeville, Clarke county. and a
former resident of Winchester, was in
this city recently and brought with
him a terrapin which has rather a re-
markable and certainly a most unusual
history, says the Winchester (Va.)
News.
Just 30 years ago, in 1874, Mr.. Stad-
den came across the terrapin on his
farm, and on the bottom Of its shell he
inscribed the date. Every time since
then that he has seen the terrapin he
has cut the date on the shell, and the
entries are as follows: 1874, 1875. 1879
1880, 1881, 1882 and 1884.
On the latter date Mr.. Staddep car
ried the terrapin to a spot near Stephen
sons, fully two and one-half miles from
nome, and then turned it loose. Mr..
Stadden has always held to the theory
that terrapin and turtles will endeayor
to wander back to the spot of their
birth, and to test the theory the terrapin
was taken to Stephensons.
That was 20 years ago, and durinp
al the intervening two decades Mr.
stadden never saw his pet. In fact. he
had forgotten all about 1t until one dav
recently ne came across a ~terrapin 80
years old. Turning the terrapin over
ne was amazed to find that 1t was liz
iong lost pet. There were all the dates,
the initials that had been placed there
rom time to time. grown larger, Of
course with the terrapin, but just as dIs-
tinct almost as the day they were cut
there m
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-09-15

In n celebration had. are. .hc-ss who
would hold place as leaders OK the ysople
must be 50 thoroughly American, So dis
Greet. so f~ar,s.ghted. and so sure o. the
pulses of the people as to discern the
course public opinion will take. Though
the instant judgment of the people may
be often at fault. the ripe and final de-
cision is always for the right. And the
part OF leadership is 20 know the right,
and to honestly. patriotically, fearlessly
and zealously advocate it Just as long
as the press can discern n lead the
unhurried and well-considered judgment
of the people Of the country, so long Will
its power grow nightly and so long will
IL hold its place in the front rank of the
unfaltering and vigorous march of ma
tional progress. To the upbuilding of
the power of the press and to the best
use OF that power, you have devoted
yourselves. There are questions of great
import TO be passed upon by the PEOPLE
in November, questions that it will be
your duty. and, therefore, 1 am sure.
Sonr pleasure as well, to present honestly
n SO clearly that people will under.
stand them.
THE democratic party is not a ma
chine; 1t Is a body of citizens who be-
lleve that on the whole its fundamental
principles are best adapted to the CON-
duct of government.
Among SO many patriotic and intelli-
gent men it is inevitable that divergence
OF opinion as to minor questions and diff
ferences Of view as to the correctness
OF the disposition of the dead issues
should be found. The party is concededly
unified to-day as to every vital article
of the faith which can reasonably en-
ter into the pending canvass.
Our adverSarieS are intrenehed, in fun
possession of every department of the
government, and 1t is a mistaken policy
that would drive away voters who would
help to GUST them. TIL cause n not
be advanced by attacks on others within
the party with whom we have had dis
agreements, but who are now working
with lis for a common result.
"All men who have attained any degree
of prominence have their friends, and
the exercise of ordinary prudence forbids
the alienation of allies who are willing
and anxious to assist. The coming cleo
ton Is not to be determined by the Sep
tember vote in hopelessly republican
where local issues and candidates
even are g~rievously handicapped, but the
result in Vermont, on Tuesday, admon-
us-and there can be no harm In
voice to the admonition-that hay
cooperation of all and the elm
nation of personal, fractional and unim.
portant differences involving no surren.
der of principle, are essential to success"
After the speaking was over, Judge
Parker and the members of his fam
lily greeted all the guests at an in
formal reception held on the veranda.
The entire delegation and other visit
ors then proceeded to the boat, where
luncheon was served.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-09-15
WHAT'S THE USE
TO Keep a Coffee Complexion"

A lady says: postum has helped
my complexion so much that NV
friends say | am growing young again,
MY complexion used to be coffee col.
ored, muddy and yellow, but 1t is now
clear and rosy as when I was a girl.
| was induced to try Postum by a
friend who had suffered just as | had
suffered from terrible indigestion. pal.
pitation Of the heart and SINKING
spells.
After I had used Postum a week /
was SO much better that I was afraid
1t would not last. But now two years
have passed and I am a we'll woman
! owe it all to leaving off coffee ana
drinking Postum in its place.
I had drank coffee all nv life. /
suspected that it was the Of nv
trouble but it was not until | actually
quit coffee and started to try Postum
that ! became certain; then all my
troubles ceased and | am now we'll and
strong again." Name furnished by
Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
There's a reason.
Look in each package for a copy OF
the famous little book, 1.-THE Road to
MELVILLE"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-09-15
THE HAPPYFYING PERSON.
An Enviable Reputation to Which
emily Howe" Could Not
Lay Claim.

Mrs. Brown climbed the steps and
dropped YEARLY into one of the big
chairs on the Hamilton piazza. The
Hamiltons were summer people, and
Mrs. Brown had never been 20 miles
away from South Gosport in her life,
but a warm friendship had quickly lev
eled all distinctions between the two
families, relates Youths Companion.
Yes" Mrs. Brown said, in reply to
her hostess greeting, cts been an age
since I've been over, | know, but we've
been having company; and 'tisn't that,
either--I wouldn't have minded the ex-
ira work even with mother sick, but
we'll, it was Emily Howe, and you've
met Emily, so mebbe you'll understand.
She isn't exactly what you'd call a hap
pyfying person."
The Hamiltons understood; they had
exchanged calls with Emily Howe sever
al times, and always, although they we're
conscious of nothing but the sunniest of
mental tempers at the beginning of the
call, its close invariably found them un-
|accountably depressed. Clorinda. who
was young and had not yet learned the
long and gentle art Of charitable speech.
spoke suddenly before her mother could
prevent her; it was not easy to prevent
Clorinda:
Emily Howe she declared, lis like
the climate of Scotland as I've read of it
one perpetual drizzle. And there are
some things-feathers, and my hair, and
afternoon calls and certain enthusiasms
that can't stand a drizzle, and nothing
wants to be drizzled upon all the time"
No, Emily Howe certainly was not
"happyfying," but the quaint word
might well set one to thinking of the
many people who could wear it honor
~ably-the sunny, CHEEKY, warm-hearted
people full Of interest in life and love for
humanity and faith in God. They may
not be brilliant or cultured or intellectu-
al, but everywhere they go they carry
an atmosphere of ease and charm to
which others yield as quickly as to the
welcome Of an open fire on a bleak day.
After ali, could one wish a finer thing
than just to be, wherever life has placed
one, a ~"happyfying" person?
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-09-15
THE "YELLOW DOG" CLOSED.
The East St. Louis saloon Which
Has Acquired IL Rcpat:lti0n
For Murders.

St. Louis, Sept. 9.-The yellow
Dog" saloon, in East st. Louis, has
been closed by Sheriff G. II. Thompson.
The place has borne a bad reputation
for more than twenty years. 1t is al
legged that during that period seven
murders have been committed at OF
near there. The killing Of two men
by Kane, Monday night, is supposed
to have carsed the sheriff to issue tho
closing order.
The murder Of Owen Obey, of In
dianapolis, Ind, occurred there I've
years ago. Obey's body was thrown in
TO the weeds and it lay there for ovei
three months before it was found
Four men from Brooklyn, formerly
owners of the yellow Dog" saloon,
were sent to the penitentiary for the
crime.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-09-15
RUSSIAN TRANSPORT LENA
Comes Into Port at San Francisco
For. Repairs.
The Lena Left vladivosfoI< on q
Cruising Expedition Looking For
Vessels Carrying Contraband.

San Francisco, Sept. 1.-THE Rus
Glan transport Lena. Capt. Berlinsky,
put into this port, Sunday, for repairs.
The Lena is 81 days from Vladivostok,
via Bayaiwa, Sakhaline islands. She
made the run from Bayaiwa In 10 days,
which is considered fast time. The
Lena has a crew of 497 men and q
officers, and carries 20 guns. She has
three tunnels and three masts.
Capt. Berlinsky, who officially de-
clares the Lena to be a transport,
states that their engines and boilers
are in need of repairs. After passing
quarantine the Lena anchored off the
Union iron works, where she now lies.
According to Brassey's naval man
ual, the Lena formerly was the Kher-
son, of the Russian volunteer fleet.
Brassey refers to her as a volunteer
cruiser" and also as a transport YES
sell" The Lena has a speed of 1914
knots. Her hulls of steel of her dis
placement is of 10,225 tons. She is
493 feet long, 81 feet 8 inches wide,
and has a draught Of "a feet. She has
two %propellers. Her indicated horse
power is 1880. She was built at Heb.
bum, England, in 1895. According to
Brassy, the Lena carries three z
inch quick-firing guns and 20 smaller
calibre.
The arrival of the Lena has been
reported to Washington.
Instructions are expected from the
Washington authorities Monday as to
the length of time the Lena may re-
main in port.
Pilot McCullock, who brought the
Lena into port, says that chains were
wrapped around her null, indicating
that some of her plates were loose.
Immediately after the Lena dropped
anchor in the bay, Capt. Berlinsky left
the war ship, but the object of his
visit ashore was not announced. An
officer of the cruiser, however, stated
that the Lena left V~ladivostok on a
cruising expedition, hoping to capture
some of the trans-Pacific vessels car
rying contraband of war. 1t was adj
mitted that the vessel most eagerly
sought for was the steamship Amer
lea, of the Togo Kisen Kaisha, which
company sent her from this port sew
eral weeks ago for the orient. The
America arrived safely at Hong Kong
on September 2.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-09-15
A WORLDS FAIR INCIDENT
Kentucky National GuariIsMen Dof
Their Hats in Admiration of PHIL
ippine Scouts Drill.

st. Louis, Sept. "a regiment OF
the Kentucky national guard had just
finished dress parade on the Plaza of
st. Louis at the Worlds fair Wednes-
day evening when the Philippine
scouts battalion marched On the plaza,
every man of the command looking
as trim as though he had just come
out of a fashion factory, in sharp con-
trast to the dirty, slouchily-worn
khaki uniforms and campaign hats
of the Kentuckians. The little brown
men drilled superbly, every move of
foot or hand being made with the pre-
cision born of pride in work well done.
When the butts of their rifles came to
the ground it was as if one piece only
struck. 1t was, however, when they
went through four sets of Butts calls
thenic manual that they showed the
perfection of their training. Every
move was made with an easy grace
and precision that could only be
likened to clockwork, and the thou
sands of people who lined every side
of the plaza went fairly wild with en-
thusiasm, and many of the Kentucky
.guardsmen were heard to say that it
was worth making the trip to st. Louis
Just to see such a perfect drill.
The most sincere compliment came
when the battalion marched off the
plaza. They had to march past the
lined-up Kentuckians, who, every man
of them, DOTTED his hat 10 the little
brown men who had given them such
an interesting object lesson.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-09-15

Mrs. Elizabeth H. Thompson,I
of Lillydale, N.Y., Grand Worthy
Wise Templar, and Member Of
W.C.T.U., tells how she recov.
cred by the use Of Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
"DEAE Mrs. PINKHAM 81 am
Of the many of your grateful friends
who have been cured through the use
of Lydia g.. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound, and who can to-day
thank you for the fine health I enjoy.
When 1 was thirty-five years old, 1
suffered severe backache and frequent
bearing-down pains; in fact, / had
womb trouble l was very anxious to
get well, and reading Of the cures your
Compound had made, I decided to try
it. / took only six bottles, butt built me
up and cured me entirelyo of my troubles.
my family and relatives were
naturally as gratifed as I was. My
niece had heart trouble and nervous
prostration, and was considered incur
able. She took your Vegetable Com
pound and it cured her in o short time,
and she became well and strong, and
her home to her great joy and her hus-
bands delight was blessed with a baby.
l know of a number of others who
have been cured of different kinds of
female trouble, and am satisfied that
your Compound is the best medicine
for sick women."-M MRS. ELIZABETH FL.
THOMPSON, Box los, Lillydale, NY
$4,000 forfeit If original of aboue letter proufno
gsnuineneSs cannot be produced.