davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-03-16
TkeG1
NJThd!l0y
.RTghkfnsM
Izqnble'
Gracious Words.

Gracious Words. ze3
We cannot tell how sweet must be
The heavenly speech they use above;
What cadences deep as the sea,
What holiest phrase or tone of love.
Yet human speech has many a word
More sweet than angel-lips can sound;
Forgiveness, grace in Christ the Lord,
Mercy, with loving kindness crowned
They breathe upon our hearts like songs
That swell around, below, above; q
Immortal words on mortal tongues,
The words that tell Gods wondrous love-
We cannot want for words to men,
While still we strike the mercy chord; Z
God grant us power to speak again
The words Of life in Christ the Lord! !
Mrs. Merrill E. Gates, in New York OBJ.
server. i'.-..
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-03-16
The hllnp nf Salf

Achievement fused with ?clf is too brittle
to stand the test Of time. The secret Of
the success of one who had accomplished
much in many fields was we'll expressed
when it was said that he had learned to
his powers on the result, ire.
spective of how that result would affect
himself Every atom Of force DETECTED
toward self becomes friction. Introspec-
ton, self-consciousncss and egotism are
all synonyms for wasted energy Are you
striving 10 rid yourself Of this waste!
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-03-16
Realizing Gods Nearness.

How can the sense that the living God
is near to our life, that He is interested in
it and willing to help it, survive in. us, if
our life be full of pretty things? Absorp-
tion in trihes, attention only to the mean
er aspects OF life, is killing more faith than
is killed by aggressive unbelief.. For if all
a man sees Of life be his own interests, If
all he sees of home be its comforts, if all
he sees OF religion be tho outlines Of his
own denomination, the complexion of his
preachers doctrine, the agreeableness and
taste of k:5 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS such a
man God must always seem far away, fer
in those things there is no call upon either
m,nd OF heart to feel God near.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-03-16
CHAPTER XXXy.
BEFORE THE RECEPTION.

1t was o'clock and time for Miss
Rogers to dress for Miss Aspinwalrs
reception. She was in her room alone,
nnd before her lay spread upon couch
two dresses, one of plain brown cloth
which we we'll know, and the other Of
-sichest velvet that had been hurriedly
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-03-16
EXPORTS OF Our ADOPTED ISLANDS,.

The value of the merchandise brought
into the country during the year 1903 from
stands which have recently come under
The American flag was: Porto Rico, Sill
l,l95; Philippines, .$ll ,a2, ,5A; Hawaii'
s26,242,s6O, q total of 1896, ,64S, against
s2e,252. .563 in 1897. -
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-03-16
1--WE un,,ar-n IN une Year,

Mrs. Tracy Lineweaver, wife of farmer,
Of Shenandoah County, about two and a
half miles east of Edinburg. Pa, has pre-
sented her husband with five children dur
ing the past year. Twins were born early
in the year 1903 and these were followed
by triplets short time aao.G
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-03-16
f,rows New Teeth.

George Krause siyty-eight years old, OF
Tamaoua, Pa. suffered from recent at
tack of neuralgia, causing several Of his
teeth to become loose They were all ex.
tracted and new teeth are growing in the
cavities.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-03-16
Easfal Forty-nine DAYS.

J.G. Myers, a farmer at Joplin, Mo-, has
Just completed fast of forty-nine days,
and during that time he did not take,
bite Of food at any time. He says he de-
sired to starve to death.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-03-16
Examples.

The world, lying in sin and sorrow, with
thousand desires to he better. simply
calls to the church for examples OF those
Go6.-The Rev. Ray Palmer.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-03-16
Seven Hundred Insane Let Loose.

Seven hundred inmates OF the insane asy.
Ium at Cienpozuelos, Spain. will be set at
liberty, as the General Consulta has refused
to vote funds necessary Tor their nam
tenanCe.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-03-16
Progress Means Effort.

You cannot expect to gain without effort
that which cost Christ all His hfe.-Ram's
Horn.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-03-16
Sicna, Service Makes record.

The United States Signal Service made
the worlds record by flashing sun-ray
messages between mountain peaks lSO
miles apart.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-03-16
Slept Outdoors Two Years.

Russell Leonard, of Warsaw, Ind, has
completed his second year of sleeping IN
the open air in all kinds of weather.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-03-16
Our Coal imports

In 1903 the United States imported g
$4,000 tons Of coal; $50, 600 tons in 1902.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-03-16

elation is not sealed; that truth is llV-
ing thing, growing as we grow; that man
kind is saved through perpetual evolu-
ton from lower to higher, or, in other
words, by fulfilling one meted destiny Of
becoming perfect as the Father in Heaven
is perfect. Our business to-day is frankly
to admit that the final revelation is YET
far of and that we have by no means
found the absolute" truth. The kn.wl-
edge of to-day is but little section Of that
absolute. The thing for us to remember.
and to take courage from remembering, is
that we are here to enlarge. md that we
are enlarging, that section of knowledge.
I have said that whatever religious ex-
clusiveness is found it is accompanied by
some kind of authority purporting to guar
antee the permanency and integrity, OF its
its sriginal meaning" "credo, l believe
to an imperative thou shalt believe"
From being a simple statement Of an indi.
vidual faith it has become formal state
ment of system of dogma to which all
who would he saved must subscribe. No
latitude is allowed for individual inter
pretations or for the growth of religious
and theological conceptions. The aim is
simply to lay down a body of dogma that
embodes final truth, and confession to
which the whole world must subscribe rc-
gardlcss of individual reason and unai.
fected by the growth OF knowledge and
moral consciousness. The attempt has al.
ways failed. There is no creed thar holds
the same meaning for us to-day which it
held for mankind century ago. 1t it is
not now actually changed in form, as in
the case uf II notable number, it is changed
in content to the minds of its adherents.
If we are but willing to open our eyes we
shall find that there are hundreds of means
of salvation, and each me hod breeds a
sect. But what does the method signify
beside the tremendous ultimate fact that
all the world is looking for salvation: !:
Here is the universal and permanent thing,
In some way the truth has percolated
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1904-10-15
Citation Hearing for Appointment Of Ad.
ministratOr.

Citation Hearing for Appointment Of Ad.
ministrat0r.
State Of North Dakota In County Court.
County of Mclean Edwiw 4. Lamb,
Probate Judge.
In The Matter of The Estate of James Madi-
son Pace, Deceased:
Stella NJ. Robinson, Petitioner.
Mrs. James Madison Pace, Frank
Pace, William NJ. Pace, Quin Pace
and all other persons interested in
the aforesaid estate,
Respondents.
Citation Hearing Petition for Appointment Of
Administrator
The State of North Dakota to The Above
Named Respondents and all PERSONS Interested
In The Estate OF James Madison Pace, Deceased
You and each of you are hereby notified that
Stella NJ. Robinson, the petitioner herein, mas
filed in this Court her | etitiOn, praying that let
tiers ot administration upon the estate Of James
Madison Pace, deceased, late of the Town of
Washburn, County Of Mclean. State of North
Dakota. be granted to Geor-e Robinson, and
that the said petit ion will re heard and duly
considered by this court the It'll, day Of Move :
htr a. d. 1904, at 10 O'Clock in the forenoon OF
that day, at the Court looms Of t is Court in
tie county court l. ouse in the city Of Washburn.
and you and each OF you. are hereby cited to be
and appear before this court at said time and
place. and answer said petition, an show cause
If any there be, why the prayer of said petition
lated this g: dayof September, a. d. 1904.
BY The Court:
F. A.. LAMB.
Attorn, , i lnr Petitioner timer ~ ''D ~0'
Nelra, -. d.. 101
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1904-10-15
CONTEST NOTICE.
department OF TIE in:crl r,
rod Ctntac Land 0l1ico RiSmarpk I

department OF tie in:crl +,
United States Land Office. Bismarck, North Da
k0ta, Sept. %, 1904.
A sufficient contest affidavit having been filed
In this office by Wilhelm Wagner of Waslburn,
contestant, against Homestead entry No. 2362s,
made Jrne 9th, 1903, for swA- section 4 town
ship l4s, range "a, by Anton Haberman contes.
has wholly abandoned said tract: that he has
changed his residence therefr0m for more than
six months since making said entry, that said
tract is lot settled upon and cultivated by said
does now exist, and:that such default is not due
to claimants service as a private or Oifi-
Ger, in the army, navy or marine of the Unit!'
States In time OF war, said parties are hereby
touching said allegation at 10 O'Clock a. m. on
Nov. IL. 1901, before Kari Klein a notary public
at his office in Washburn, North Dakota, and
that final hearing Will be held at 2 O'Clock p. IN.
on Nov. IS, 1904. before the Register and Re-
ceiver at the United States Land Office in Bis
marck, North Dakota.
The said contestant having in a proper afi-
davit filed Sept. 90, 1904, set forth facts which
show that after due diligence personal service
of this notice cannot be made it is hereby order
ed and directed that such notice be given by due
and proper publication.
1O1 M. II. Jewell. Register.
j. A. Hyland. Atty.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1904-10-15
NOTICE OF ELECTION.

sth day OF November next. in the year OF our
Lord, 1904, at the established polling places
n Mt the several stste y Sf N:IRf 1ef baRst In the as b e9siRty Of
described, an election will be held for the elect.
ion Of State. Legislative, County and
District officers, tO-wit:
STATE
Four Presidential Electors
Two members of the House Of Representa-
tives of the United States
One Governor
One lieutenant Governor
One Secretary of State
One State Audi1Or
One State Treasurer
One superintendent OF Public Instruction
One Commissioner OF agriculture and Labor.
One I commissioner of Insurance
One Attorney General
Three Railroad Commissioners
Two Justices of the Supreme Court
JUDICIAL
One Judge, 9th judicial District
LEGISLATIVE
One Senator and Two Representatives lOr the
18th legis ativc district
COUNTY
One Public Administrator
One County Auditor
One Treasurer
One Sheriff
One Register of Deeds
One Clerk of the Distric Court
One County Superintendent Of Schools
One County Judge
One States Attorney
One County Surveyor
One County Coroner
-Four county justices Of the Peace
Four county constables
DISTRICT
One county commissioner Sd commissioner
district
One Assessor for the first commissioner dirtrict
s'ne Assessor for the second commissioner dist
One Assess r. for the third commissioner dist
The question Of removal Of the county seat Of
Mclean count from Washburn, where it is now
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1904-10-15

Boss Patrick II. McCarren has indt-
rectly conceded that Roosevelt will car
~ New York by 10000 to 10000. In
discussing what should be the proper
betting odds between Higgins and Her
rick. candidates for governor OF New
York, he said, 1t was an even thing,
and Immediately thereafter in answer
to another question claimed that Hig-
gins would run $1,000 or 10000 behind
Roosevelt. Putting two and two to-
Rether would indicate that there is no
doubt in the boss mind how New
York will 60 in the national election.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1904-10-15

Tom Watson finds in the visit of
ex-senator Jones of ArkansastO Esopus
occasion for this fine burst of pity for
the Democratic candidates: Poor
Parker. His burdens were already
heavy. Too much Cleveland. too much
Hill, too much Belmont, too much Nc
Carren. too many Sights put on Tom
Taggart. too much German, too much
Juggling with the old English Language,
too much foxiness generally-but when
Jones of Arkansas rolled up, we could
almost see the same old pick and spade
and shovel with which he dug the
graves for the Democratic national can
didate IN the memorable campaigns Of
1906 and 1900" In truth, 1t was hard
that the Judge should have to eadure
a visit from the first Democratic ma
tional grave digger a month previous
to his political decease.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1904-10-15

A vote for Judge Parker in the CON-
ing election vii be q vote of censure
on Theodore Roosevelt. 1t is incon-
ceivable how any patriotic, fair
minded American can take that posi-
ton toward a man Of President Roose-
velt's character and record.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1904-10-15
NOTICE OF LEASE OF SCHOOL LAMBS FOR
COAL MINING PURPOSES.

The following described School Lands bearing
Ignite coal situated in tile County of Mclean
and State of North dakota, will be offered for
lease at public auction to the highest bidder for
coal mining purposes, at the Court House in the
town Of WaShburn in said county, commencing
at one O'Clock p. M, on Thursday, the Goth day
Of October, A.. D., 1904.
No bid will be entertained for less than ten
cents per ton OF 224O pounds, foreach ton OF coal
mined during the continuance Of any lease.
The lessee will be required to pay at the time
of such leasing and each year thereafter in
advance, an amount equal to ten dollars for each
and every forty acre tract or fraction thereon,
and at the expiration of each year said lessee
will receive credit for such amount as may have
been paid in advance, OF the amount due
under The terms Of such lease on tonnage.
The lessee will also be required to furnish at
such time or times as the Board of University
and School Lands may direct, a verified state
ment of the humber Ut tons of coal mined on
said land from time to time, and such other in
formation as said board may require, and to
make full settlement at the expiration of each
year for the amount Of coal mined during such
year..
All leases will be issued for q torn often years.
The state reserves the right to lease for past
urelge or meadow purposes the. whole or any
part Of the surface of any land LEASED. for coal
mining purposes as provided by law.
In addition to TIE advance payment above
mentioned, tile lessee will be required TO pay
at the time of leasing q fee Of $500 for each lease
issued. :,
The foil wing is the list Of lands to be offered
acre tracts according TO- the government sub.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1904-10-15

If there is a citizen Of the United
States anywhere who has too much
business and too much employment,
and longs for the stagnation that pre-
vailed from 1893 to 1906, he car con
tribute to that end by voting the Dem
ocratic ticket this year.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1904-10-15

! Our foreign policy has been
+ not only highly advantageous to
! the United States, but hardly less
I advantageous to the world as a
! whole. Peace and good will have
I followed in it's footsteps -
I U,oosevelt's Letter of Acceptance.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1904-10-15
l~sascless Charge.


The charge that Mr.. Roosevelt is al
unsafe man is t'iSprOved by history.
He was go%verloruf New York for a full
term and has been president three
wears. These are the two highest eX-
ecutive posts in the nation. In neither
of them did he ever do all executive
act that has turned out dis%astrously
for the country? Where does the un-
%safeness come in?
The pretended alarm Of Democrats
OH this score is really a great complf-
ment to Mr.. Roosevelt. 1t 10 equiva-
lent to saying that he 10 an energetic
president. We Americans are an ener-
getic people, accustomed to doing
things instead Of sitting down and
dreaming about them, and why should
not we have that kind Of q president?
Mr.. Roosevelt's energy IL Of the
healthy American kind, and it has had
a wholesome effect upon our own peo-
pie and in other countries. A president
who has spent his life doing things is
greatly preferable to one who has
spent his life writing judicial opinions.
Likewise. Parker has heard some
thing about illegal and dishonest
trusts, but he doesn't know that there
is anything to he done about them.
And nobody cares about his ideas OH
that question. He'll never set any
river afire in his Indignation over the
trusts: not even a river of petroleum
would be ign;ted by such a match!
The election next month will indeed
turn upon the trustworthiness of the
respective parties. and Republicans
bide the result with the confidence
born of a stewardship faithfully,
coulageously and successfully admins.
tered.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1904-10-15

All leases Vim be issued for ten yoars lrOn
and after the date Of such public leasing OK
cept as fOlloWs:--:
fhe sex mex Of s6-l4e-sl M the sen mex Of
1919 e6 will be leased for ten years beginning
The sWH mex Of lo-i4e-s5 will DO leased for ten
years beginning March sth, 1906.
The Board OF University and School Lands
reserves the right to reject any and I'll bids.
Dated at Bismarck, North Dakota. this 18th
day of August. A. D. 1904.
d, j. LAXDAL,
Land Commissioner.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-03-19
THESE BOYS WORK.
Raise $40 Acres of Corn, for Which
They Receive 81, 15+. so.

They Receive 81, 15+. So.
BY industriously tending a patch of
corn all last summer three Missouri
boys earned net only the handsome
sum of 81, 154 80, but sufficient distinc-
ton to have the fruit of their industry
selected to be one of the features of
Missourfs exhibit at the Worlds Fair,
and to cause the commission to place
their photographs i'll place of honcr
in the Missouri building.
The boys are John, George and
Joseph Christian, aged IS, 16, and II
years respectively. They are the sons
c. A. Christian, and their home is in
Tarkio, Atchison county. The work
was all done between May l and Nov.
l, and the boys are now in school.
The Christian boys accepted an offer
from Davis Rankin of Atchison county,
Missouri. who is the most extensive
cattle feeder in the world. Mr.. Rankin
has 10000 acres of land in Atchison
county, and each year he raises corn
on flom $1,000 to 10000 acres.
When the Christian boys applied for
tract of land on which to raise corn
Mr.. Rankin promptly turned over Il
tract of $40 acres and agreed to pay
the boys IL cents for every bushel Of
corn they would raise.
Hitching six Missouri mules to n
lister the boys went to work. This
machine plows, harrows, and seeds all
at one operation. They worked like
Trojans and soon the $40 acres were
all planted. Then the boys had a
breath spell. When the corn began to
grow another task appeared for them,
and three times the growing corn had
to be cultivated. Again was requisi'
ton made on the Missouri mule, and
six were attached to each of three two
row cultivators. The weeds were KEEP
down, the soil loosened, and the corr
grew. This corn was gone over thre'
times. Meanwhile the grain grew ant
ripened, and when November rollet
around the harvest was begun.
Up to this time the work of making
the crop had been done altogether b,
the three boys. Extra help was EN-
ployed in the harvest, however, anC
when the corn was gathered ant
measured into Mr.. Rankin's great corr
bins It was found that the boys hat
grown 1862 bushels of the grain. A
|, IL cents per bushel this netted the sun
of S4,154.52. and Mr.. Rankin CAV
them a check for that amount--Chl
cago Inter Ocean.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-03-19

ing aside and pooh-poohing the whole
idea. The biologists and chemists-all
scientific men. in fact-are advising
the undertakers to get coffin measure
mcnts for these people at once for
they are dabbling with dangerous
drugs and doing other things that are
called unwise if not perilous.
But Kibbewhite and his friends ex-
pect to be here when the millennium
begins. They are enthusiastic. They
declare the doctors, the preachers and
the grave diggers are facing sorry
times. These men have not been stam-
pedcd up to date.
The people who hope and believe
they will live as long as they want to
have been studying the Labits of the
whale, the pike, frogs, and lizards.
Tie whale lives 300 years. The pike
often lives to be $50 years old If some
hidden hook does not draw him from
his favorite stream. Frogs live an in
definite period. They are found sealed
in rocks that must have been centuries
in forming. Lizards, likewise, have an
almost eternal lease ON life.
Why rot man? That's the question
the livefor-ever theorists are asking.
The secret of long life lies in the lib
eral application to the skin of glacial
acetic acid. according to the unscien-
tific Britishers. Persons who have dab
bled in chemistry are aware of the
fact that acetic acid has an effect upon
the epidermis. Acetic acid baths re
store the hardened and wrinkled Skin
of octogenarians to the freshness an(
softness of a childs skin, say the be
levers. 1t routs death and all the sign:
of approaching death. In short, Il
, makes a man over. 1t is a revised ides
, of the fiction for which Ponce de Leor
sought in vain.
, Kibbewhite claims to have cured va
rious cases of disease which were pro
nounced 'incurable" by doctors ant
really believes that glacial acetic acit
is capable of prolonging life.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-03-19
Making German Toys.

More than $4,000 people find employ
ment in the manufacture of German
toys. the annual output for export be
ing valued at more than $13,COo,OOO
The manufacturing industry has CEN
tered chiefly in Nuremberg and Some
berg and the surrounding hamlets. The
manufacture of toys has become inn
portant as a domestic or house indus
try among the people of many small
villages Each city has IFS speciality.
and never figures as a rival to another
district. The products of Nuremberg
are principally of metal tin soldiers,
swords, railway trains, fleets, models
of machinery and other toys for boys
while Sonneberg uses almost exclu'
sively wood. porcelain. glass and paper
in the production of toys best suited to
girls
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-03-19
English Pork Pies.

Chop very fine a quarter pound OF
beef suet and mix 1t with an equal
quantity of butter. Rub both into
pound Of -four and put in a pan at the
side of the stove until the shortening
is melted and the flour heated through
xnead into a paste, throw cloth over
it and set in a warm place while you
prepare the meat. Have two pounds
of pork cut into dice, season it with
pepper, salt, and, If you like 1T. little
sage, add q very little water and stew
gently for half hour. Now divide the
paste into as many pieces as you wish
to make pies. and put these pieces OF
paste into small pie plates. Fill with
the meat mixture, put a round of paste
on the top of each and pinch the edges
together. Bake in a steady oven and
lift carefully from the tins