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

There was pause-Topham must
be looking about to be sure things were
safe. Then he creaked to the door and
shut it carefully behind him.
1t only took minute, but in that
minute-in that minute, Mag, 1 had
the rose diamond clutched safe in my
trunk and out of the window.
Oh, the feel of that beautiful thing
in my handi I'd "a loved it if it had
mt been worth a penny, but as it was
adored 1t. L slipped the chain under
my collar, and the diamond slid down
my neck, and 1 felt it's kiss on my
skin / flew down the black corridor,
humping into scenery and nearly trip
ping two stage carpenters. 1 heard
Ginger, the calI-boy, ahead Of me and
lodged behind some properties just In
time. He went whistling past and
got to the stage door.
I pulled it open tenderly, cautiously
and turned to shut it after me.
And
And something held 1t open in spite
OF me.
Mono, Mag. it wasn't man It
was memory. 1t rose up there and
hit me right over the .heart-the mem
ory of Nancy Olden's happiness the
first time she'd come in this very door,
feeling that she actually had a right
to use stage entrance. feeling that she
belonged, she-Nancy-to this wonder
land Of the stage.
You must never tell Tom. Mag. prom
isel He wouldn't see. He couldn't
The San Francisco call., 1904-07-17

Slowly he Began to place the jewels,
one nx,sQalc, In the order her ladyship
paIs themi on. We Charity girls had
he never let one Of US put a foot inside.
He was method and order itself. He
never changed the order in which he
lifted the glittering things out, nor the
places he put them back in. I put my
hand up against the top Of the box.
tracing the spot where each piece would
be lying. Think, Mag, just half an inch
between me and quarter of a millionl
oh, was sore as / lay there! And
I wasn't 50 cock-sure either that I'd
get out of 1t straight / tried the Beryl
story lots of ways on myself, but some
how, every time 1 fancied myself tell
ing 1t to Obermuller, 1T got tangled up
and lay dumb and heavy inside OF me.
But at least it would be better to
appear Of my own will before the old
Engl.shman than be discovered by Lord
Gray and his lady. 1 had my fingers
on the curtains, and in another second
I'd been out when
Miss Beryl Blackburn's compli-
ments, Mr.. Topham, and would you
step to the door, as there's something
most important she wants to tell you"
Oh, I loved every syllable that cali
boy spoke! There was giggle behind
his voice, too; old Topham was the butt
of every joke. The first call. which
had fooled me, must have been from
some giddy girl who wanted to guy the
old fellow. She had fooled me all right.
But this-this one was. the real article.
The San Francisco call., 1904-07-17

understand couldn't make him know
what l felt any more than I'd dare tell
him what did.
/ shut the door.
But not behind me. 1 shut it on the
other door. too-the old door that opens
out on Crooked street. With my hand
on my heart. that was beating as
though it would burst. flew back
again through the black corridor,
through the wings and out to Ober-
muller's Office. With both my hands I
ripped open the neck Of my dress. and.
pulling the chain with that great -dia-
mond hanging to it, I broke it with a
tug, and threw the whole thing down
on the desk in front OF him.
For Gods sakei" L yelled. Don't
make it so easy for me to steal!'
l don't know what happened for a
minute. could see his face change
half a dozen ways in as many seconds
He took 1t up in his fingers at last
1t swung there at the end Of the slender
little broken chain like a great drop
Of shining water. bIushing and spark
ling and trembling
His hands trembled. too. and hs
looked up at last from the diamond to
my face.
It's worth at least fifty thousand.
you knOw-valued at that"
I didn't answer
He got up and came over to where
I had thrown myself on a bench.
whats the matter, Olden? Don't
I pay you enuogh?"
The San Francisco call., 1904-07-17

rxHB 70 the second installment OF Miriam Michel.
sons noted novel, "In the Bishops Carriage" the
first tnstallment OF which appeared In The Sunday
i Call Magazine July Is almost
twice much I'm demand the leading libraries as
any other piece of fiction. of the best
selling books OF the day. Miss Nicholson, before
ing Eastern fields, of the newspaper
women this State, may be
who following the Bishops Carriage" know that
Miss Michesons first journalistic experience gained
Call The story OF tho career Of professional
thief treated In highly literary style, orig
a hrst-class fiction. I'm the
portrayal of the character OF Nance Olden Miss Michel
son has created girl thoroughly human with faults
acquired than native and with bump of piquant
generously developed enlist for her,
delinQuencies, tho keen and sympa-
tustall1neutA
The progress., 1904-02-20
Tame wild Birds.

Naturalists commissioned by the Unit
ed States government have discovered
on the distant island Of Laysan in the
Pacific some new birds and many novel
facts in regard to known species. The
visiting scientists were perhaps the first
human beings whom the myriads Of
birds that crowd this tiny speck of land
had ever seen. In consequence, birds
representing species which in other lands
wing hurriediy away at the sight of men
came up to the naturalists, looked Gu
riously into their faces. perched on their
writing tables, yonderingly inspected
the tripods and other accessories of the
cameras. and permitted themselves to
be stroked. The fact that these birds
are ordinarily regarded as the widest
species made a profound impression on
the visiting scientists.
The progress., 1904-02-20
PROBLEM OF DRY FARMING.
for Raising Plants With
out Use of Water.

1t is probable that in the near future
it will be possible to raise good crops
without either natural or artificial irri-
cation. AS is apparent to everyone,
even the most liberal system of irriga-
tion reclamation will not exhaust the
available arid and semiarid regions Of
the west, as even when irrigation has
been applied to its utmost limits there
will remain some millions of acres of
fertile land that adjoin these reclaimed
wastes. The lands lie principally be-
tween the one hundredth and the one
hundred and twentieth meridians and
comprise areas over which there is o
deficient rainfall with no available
neighboring sources of supply which
might be brought to them even by ca
nails.
But the department of agriculture has
other resources to fall back upon. II
the customary crops require water why
not develop new crops that can be grown
dry? This, in substance, is the problem
the bureau of plant industry has set for
itself Dry land farming or "dry farm
ing" is the name of this unique scheme.
Just now the world is being searched
for industrial plants that can sustain
life and mature crops with a minimum
of water and an elaborate life study of
all such plants is under way.
The progress., 1904-02-20
ORIGIN OF DOGS NAMES.
Derivation Of the ApDelIaticns Ihat
Are Given to the various
Breeds.

The spaniel is SO called because the
original breed OF this beautiful and intel
ligent type came from Spain. and the first
arrivals in England were called Spanish
dogs, says the Washington Post.
The Spitz dog got Its name from Its
sharp pointed nose. "Spitz' means
sharp point In German, and the Spitz
was a favorite German breed before
he became known in England and Amer
lea. The Spitz is known also as Dalma-
tian dog, because his native home Is IN
Dalmatia.
The dachshund is another German
breed, and his funny name-almost as
long and funny Is the dog himseif-fs
a German name, meaning badger dog.
The original dachshund was used Tor
drawing badgers, and the dogs still are
great favorites among German hunters,
although the breed has become little
too delicate for fighting such gray o.d
warrior as the badger.
The fox terrier earned his name. not
from any fancied resemblance to the
fox, but because long ago, in the days
of merry England" these terriers.
much larger and stronger then, weie
used everywhere by sportsmen for draw"
ing and killing the fox, they being sem
down into his burrow. 1t is said that
no good fox terrier ever backed out OF
q burrow without his fox. II he came
out he had the dead fox gripped. II ne
didn't get the fox he didn't come out, but
died there
The bulldog used to drive cattle, and
as he was trained to meet the rushes OF
the bull by seizing him by his most sensi-
tive point-the nose-the sturdy, brave
dog came to be known in time as bull
dog. In some countries he is known
as bull bitter.
The beautiful Blenheim spaniel is
named after Blenheim castle, where this
dog first was made fashionable in the
time of the great Marlborough. The
King Charles dog owes its name to the
merry monarch.
The various breeds of hounds OF to-
day are called hounds because they are
the present survivors of the time when
all hunting dogs were used to hound
game. In the early hunting days OF
England every dog that was used to ac-
company the hunt was selected mainly
for his speed and endurance. There
were hounds that were supposed to fol-
low the game by scent, and others who
were supposed to sight it a long way
off, but all were expected to be able to
run the game down. Consequently,
while the name of hound, or hund, in
the ancient Saxon, was first used for all
kinds of dogs, it finally came to denote
hunting dogs only; that is why we call
our running dogs hounds to-day, such
as greyhounds, rabbit-hounds, blood
hounds, wolfhounds, bearhounds, deer
loundS etc
The progress., 1904-02-20
EDITORS OF THE "SUPAO."
The Life of "We" In China Il Not Ex-
actly One Continuous Round
of Pleasure.

In Germany the position Of news
paper editor is precarious one. He
must be very careful not to criticise
the emperor, or otherwise incur the
wrath of the press censor or he will be
thrown into Jail and his paper be sus-
pended. But in China it is even worse.
The offending editor who expresses
opinions contrary to those of the admin
istration is liable to the extreme penalty
death in no merciful guise. Several
months ago preacher of reform in Pc
king was beaten to death with bamboo
rods. Later the editors of the publica-
ton called Supao were charged with
sedition. Their sedition consisted in
advocating more modern methods in the
administration of the government. This
brought down upon them the anger Of
the dowager empress, who ordered their
instant apprehension. 1t appears, how
ever, that the editors had realized the
enormity of their offense, for they
sought refuge in the foreign reservation,
where they came under the protection of
the consulates.
The question whether the daring news
paper men should be surrendered to the
native authorities was referred to the
legations. 1t was certain that IL this
should be done, cruel, and barberous
punishments would follow. The British
consul stoutly opposed giving the fugi-
tives up. State Minister Conger sided
with the Russian representative, who
wished to accede to the Chinese demand.
An agreement was finally reached to de-
tain the newspaper men for trial by
mixed tribunal.
The trial has not yet taken place. On
nothing more than an accusation the
men have been kept in prison, all bail
having been refused. And now the gov
ernment announces that special deputy
will be appointed to hear the case and
that this deIlty will be instructed not to
be lenient should the defendants be
found guilty. Evidently, the penalty has
already been decided upon, and the trial
will be mere form. All of which goes to
show that the life of the Chinese editor
is not one grand, sweet song. and that he
who incurs the wrath of the Chinese law
is the most unenviable of culprits.
The progress., 1904-02-20
RAISING SQUAD FOR MARKET.
An Increasing Demand Has Given
Rise to Quite an Important
Industry.

Up to very few years ago pigeon
raising was considered a boys sport
only but their interesting ways, the
fascination of breeding them for the
show pen and the demand for squads by
hotels and restaurants prompted few
men to take them up as recreation or
a business, and the success Of these few
caused others to join them until now
it has become quite large industry,
says Outdoors. We will first take up the
breeding of pigeons for squad selling.
There is only one variety of pigeons
used for this purpose-the common va
riety. They are worth nothing for the
rearing eight or nine pairs of squads a
year. 1t takes squads but one month
to mature, that is, they are-full grown
and ready for market one month from
Matching. The old birds have made their
second nest and laid their eggs before the
last young ones are grown. 1t takes the
eggs IS days to hatch, so that about
every month and half there is pair
of SQUADS ready for market from each
pair. The pricinpal food for pigeons is
wheat, though little cracked corn with
this is good for them.
Cleanliness and system means success
with SQUADS, and though much is said to
the contrary they require considerable
care in order to get the very best re-
suits. They do well in nearly any clim-
ate, though place where the winters
are short and not severe is the best. The
southern states and California are the
best suited for this industry, and they
contain many farms which make spe-
cialty of squad raising. One farm in
California has nearly 100000 old birds.
The progress., 1904-02-20
DePoincy's
FIier

Copyright 1908, by Daily Story Pub. Coz
1T WAS rather lazy afternoon in the
/ Cotton Exchange, as midsummer aft
ernoons anywhere in New Orleans are
apt to be. Several of the older mem
bers OF the talent" had gathered in a
quiet, corner under the breeze of an elec-
trie fan to while away the time and talk
over weather conditions and speculate
on the chances of good crop with the
cotton fields of Texas burned to crisp
and no rain in sight on the weather
maps.
Outside on Carondelet street there was
little life and only an occasional linen
clad stock broker walked by on his way
to the ceremonious call in the Stock
Exchange.
The ring in the farthest corner of the
change floor had been left to the
younger and more strenuous members
who varied the monotony of dull trading
with yelling like mad and singing In
the Sweet Bye and Bye" and other selec-
tions that find favor with brokers when
they feel musically inclined.
Once in awhile a furious burst of bid
ding would come from the bull clique,
but there was more yelling than trad
ing, as is frequently the case when the
market Is a little off.
Suddenly more than usually ener-
getic yell rose to the historical pictures
The progress., 1904-02-20
NERVES AND WEATHER,
Irritability often Consequent Upon
an UnfavOrable Atmospheric
Condition.

Now that the confidence has been
ances Of the clouds at night with re-
gard to the moon, as Indications ol
the weather we are to have, says the
Medical News, there is need of some
thing else on which to base predic-
tions. 1t quotes writer in the New
York Independent, who, describing a
summers day in the country. says:
"The best rain prophecy | know is
nerve irritability. II the boys are ash
ly provoked myself also), there is
likely to be shower" Commenting on
this, the Medical News says:
Here is weather prophet with
ideas worth considering. Some time
it will come to be realized that many OF
the pains and aches that Immediately
precede and accompany damp weather
rheumatic diathosis, but are just plain,
everyday irritability consequent upon
some change in nervous conditions
which are caused by drop in the ba
rometer perhaps, or perhaps the hydro
scopic variation in tissues which fol-
lows a change in the atmospheric hui
midity Old people become walking
barometers in their power to portend
storms, because the lessened elasticity
of their arterial and vascular system
prevents or At least hampers those
changes in the peripheral circulation
which would compensate for variations
in barometric pressure Whenever an
injury has taken pace around joint,
this same state of affairs proclaims it.
self even in comparatively young sub
jects. All signs. however, fail in
dry time, so the human barometer like
most other weather prophets, proves
unreliable when it is most needed. 1t
is probable however, that careful
study of human feelings would enable
the would-be weather prophet to prog
nosticate weather conditions with more
assurance than any empirical study of
the moon and cloud conditions"
The progress., 1904-02-20
CnheaIthful PaIaces.

The illness of the czarina has been
attributed to the insanitary condition
of many royal palaces in Russia. 1t
may be so, but there are cases where
Inflammation of the ear arises from
quite other causes. There is, of course,
considerable difficulty in renovating
the private apartments of a monarch
whose life is in constant and imminent
danger from obstinate anarchist in
trigues. Unless rumor gravely lies, the
czar himself does not know where he
will sleep before night comes, and to
throw open the geography of the pal
ace to workmen would increase its ter
rors tenfold. The best plan would be
to employ foreigners. and, preferably,
Englishmen, who are least of all
touched by hatred of monarchy. A
court is always conservative, like a
university, and it is not uninteresting
to compare the statements about the
damp and unhealthy palaces of Russia
with the famous American mothers
characteristic condemnation of the COL
leges at Oxford.-London News.
The progress., 1904-02-20
STRANGE. SEA MONSTER.
How the First Sight of n Manntee OF
Sea Cow Impressed Fisherman
in Florida Waters,

A sight that is getting more and more
rare now is that of manatee, or sea
cow-the wonderful mammal lives ex-
clusively in the water, like fish, and
that has furnished the foundation OF
many mermaid story by thrusting its
head and shoulders out of the ocean
near shore, just in time to let startled
crew see it, says the Washington Post.
Il shall never forget the scare got at
the first sight of manatee," said John
Mansfield, the angler 1T was last year,
in the Indian river, in Florida. My
boat was anchored under bank Of
grasses, and was lolling in the stern.
looking idly downward into the water
and thinking of anything except sea
monster, when suddenly a vast form
made me pull my head back in
tinctively.
THE thing was SO dark that 1t
looked almost black 1t was shaped like
a huge, thick carrot, only, instead of the
thin tail of a carrot, it had broad, fiat
tail exactly like that of lobster.
TT came along smoothly and silently,
gliding close along the bottom, and at
first l couldn't see any head at all. 1t
looked weird, and l couldn't imagine
what it was.
Suddenly, it bent that big lobster
tail backward, doubled it beneath itself,
and instantly its progress stopped as II
1t had put on brakes.
"Tha nnyt tho thing
parently standing straight up on end.
Then l saw two bony things like arms
shoot out from the upper part of its body,
and the thing began to bob back and
forth like very clumsy person trying
to make funny little bows.
"Then l realized that what was look
ing at was manatee, or sea cow, and
that it was in the act of feeding. A big
bunch of river grass grew just where 1t
had stopped, and it was taking it down
in great mouthfus.
Il now saw that it had head, sure
enough, although it was most absurdly
small head, looking like little cork
in big, fat bottle. But the most remark
able thing about the head was the mouth.
"The lower jaw was all right. 1t was
like that of seal. But the upper jaw
was split vertically, so that it opened
like the upper lips of rabbit. 1t was
true hare lip, only it was about 40 times
as big as the worst hare lip that ever
was on dry land
with the queer upper lip the manatee
seized the big whisps of river grass, and
handled them as an elephant would
handle hay with its trunk. Then the
lower jaw would shoot out and yank it
into the cavernous mouth 1t was a
great sight-the funny mouth, the tiny
head, the huge body twice as big around
as that of a man, and about as long; the
rough hide, the tiny flippers, and the
lobster tail-a veritable cross between
a COW and seal, and fish and water
bug"
The progress., 1904-02-20
AN EDITOR On DECEIT.
Missouri scribe says Il y Practicee
Almost Exclustvely ~ Men
ana Mules.

Deceit often undermines the fabric Of
the home says the Nevada MOI Post,
and it also sometimes disconnects q
man from good horse and leaves q
jaded, wind-broken stump-sucking
steed in Its stead.
Deceit is practiced almost exclusively
by men and mules. Men are extremely
deceitful, and occasionally woman Is
found who is handy at pulling the An
CORA goat hair over the eyes, while
mule will maintain sleepy, docile at
titude for months and moaths for the
blessed privilege of kicking its driver
into the next township.
The possum is very deceitful except
when parboiled, baked brown and sur
rounded by sweet potatoes.
People say that girl says no when
she means yes, but married men have not
found 1t that way.
Some men are so deceitful that they
lie to their wives lie to their offspring,
lie to the editor, lie 70 the preacher, and
even lie to the candidate after they have
the hog-faced dollar in the opertuse OF
their trousers.
There are men in Missouri so deceit
ful that they try to deceive themselves.
They reason that dull headache and the
dark brown taste is simply pleasant
specimen of innocent enjoyment. Such
men, if they are ever fortunate enough
to get in hailing distance of the peariy
gates. will try to palm themselves on
on ST. Peter as class leaders.
If there is anything that brings more
woe and misery into the world than de-
ception, Noah Webster has overlooked
it in his Unabridged Yet we go along
deceiving our wives. our neighbors and
their wives, ourselves and our poster
ity and if it was possible We would palm
off deception on the God who made us
and will save us, If we can drop our in
fernal deception.
Deception is the rat trap that catches
the entire human family and then turns
right around and puts nice piece of
fresh cheese on the trigger in an effort
to catch the man who made the trap.
Beware of the base deceiver, and be
careful that you don't stumble and fall
over Yourself
The progress., 1904-02-20
THE HOME OF UNHAPPINESS.

There is art glass in the windows,
Costly rugs are on the floor:
There are rustling silken curtains
In the alcoves: and the door,
Leading out to winding pathways
Where the fiame-plumed songsters dar
And where fountains murmur softly,
Is work OF rarest art.
Halls are carpeted in Brussels
And feet sink into their pile
As the carpets were lush grasses
Where the meadow streamlets smile;
And a gas log in the chimney
Sends afar its cheerful glow.
When the night creeps from its corners
And the sun is sinking low.
All the world has yielded treasures
To adorn the spacious hall,
Here the rarest tinted onyx
Forms the stairway and the wall;
Here are paintings by old masters,
Here an alabaster Pan
Pipes tune for nymphs TO dance 10
In a mid wood wild can-can.
But woman's sobs come softly
As the curtains swing apart.
There are idle scattered playthings,
There's a woman's broken he art,
In the mansion by the river
With the carven onyx stairs
Wealth cannot bring back the baby
To the empty crib upstairs.
j. M Lewis. in Houston Post.