davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-04
EMPIRE OF SPEECH.
What Improvements in Telephone
Have Done to Improve 1t.
From the Cosmopolitan.

From the Cosmopolitan.
Two or three recent improvements OF the
telephone show what undeveloped capacl-
ties still lie hidden in this wonderful far-
talker of modern science In the hrst
n1aca II has become possible to eliminate
the telephone girl as connecting INK, or
rather a, connector of links, between the
sender and the receiver of message. one
can now switch on without her interven-
ton. If you wish to talk with friend by
this new system, you simply look up his or
her number and then on dial, or NINA
ture switchboard, in your own house or
office YOU turn indicator TO the dlglts
representing that number, and Immediately
YOUR friends bell rings, and, without any
further preliminaries, you may begin your
conversation. The switching mechanism at
the central exchange has automatically fol-
lowed the movements OF your indicator at
home and put you into direct communica-
tion with the desired point. Besides, 1t
gives delightful sense of privacy to a
telephone talk Mechanical contrivances
possess no ears and no memories, and, haV
ing nothing to forget, make no elunders.
Rut if the automatic telephone excites
grateful wonder, another recent invention
the telephone that takes your speech, keeps
II unuttered if your friend happens to be out,
but speaks it into his ear as soon as he re-
turns whether the interval be an hour or
week-must be regarded as marvel of
marvels. That machine may consist either
of a steel wire wound on a revolving drum,
or of a hard steel disk revolving in hori-
zontal plane Above the revolving wire, or
disk, is placed a small electromagnet ac
tuated by the telephone circuit. All the
varying impulses that come over the tele-
phone wire under the influence of the
speakers voice are impaired by the little
magnet to the steel moving beneath it, and
they make upon that steel surface a series
of magnetic impressions, like invisible dots
each of which possesses its own peculiar
polarity and degree of intensity. 1t is just
as if the steel were a sheet of paper and the
magnet pen, and the magnetic impulses a
series of alphabetical signs jotted down on
the paper-only nothing is visible to the eye.
But the hundreds of little magnetic poles
are there, though unseen, and when the
wire or the plate carrying these mystic
bierglyphics is again passed under the cleo
tromagnet (the latter being now connected
with a telephone receiver) they reproduce
exactly the same impulses that created
them these impulses passing into the re-
ceiver vibrate the speaking membrane and
give forth the voice and the words which
they had stored
The only thing that man who has a
telegra phone in his Office needs to do is to
set the apparatus going when he has time
to listen to it, and If any of his friends have
been speaking to it while he was out, or
busy, or asleep, their messages will be re-
peated-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-04
GINGER Is THEIR Triple.
Victims of the Habit Become Pitiable
Wrecks in Time.

From the London Mail
The taking of ginger. in the form of es-
sence or strong tincture, is revealed by a
medical man as a growing form of ineb-
riety both in this country and America
AS it's alcoholic strength is about double
that of whisky or brandy, the deleterious
results of excessive Indulgence can be
imagined.
There is one recorded case in which the
daily dose of victim of ''gingerism' was
increased from ten drops to pint in the
course of three years. Though the habit
is more practced In the United States than
in England, there are numbers OF chemists
in London who admit that they have regu-
lar customers for the pungent essence, who
buy comparatively large quantities every
week.
The cause of the habit is nearly always
the same. "Gingerists" are people with
weary brains and disordered stomachs who
seek palliation of the results of overwork.
They know that such drugs as morphia,
choral, cocaine and chloroform are accu-
mulative in their effect upon the human
system, they know also that ginger was the
homely remedy of their youth for stom-
achic troubles.
1t seems incredible, but it is fact, that
from the taking of few drops of this pow
erful carminative for indigestion a gin
gerist' will grow into the habit of taking
large doses, as a tonic, a sedative and a
palliative.
So far inquiries show that women are as
much addicted to 'gingerism' as men, but
the actual victims difficult to trace, as
essence of ginger is easily purchasable in
any chemists shop by child or grown-up
person.
1T must be a very vitiated taste that can
endure large doses of tincture of ginger,
said wholesale chemist. But, of course,
the same can be said of most violently act
ing drugs. Once there is physical de-
mand created for a particular stimulant,
the palate is disregarded. 1t is the result
which is looked forward to, not the imme-
date impression. In this connection at
least the ordinary alcoholic drinker is more
sane than the morphia taker or the gin
gerist.' He may put that in his mouth
which steals away his brains, but at least
he gets some physical sensation of pleasure
in the operation. 'Gingerism' is depraved
form of drugging.''
The result of the practice seems to be n
negation of the results aimed at doctor
said yesterday that this form of inebriety,
after giving relief at first, completely dis
orders the stomach and gives no relief to
busy brain.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-04
DRUGS AS HEADACHE CURES.
Simple Remedies Often More Effica-
cious and Far Less Dangerous.

From the Youths Companion.
1t may be said. with little fear of con-
tradiction from those who know the facts,
that IL a cast iron law forbidding the use
of any drug whatever in the treatment
of headache could be enacted and enforced
there would be much less misery for the
coming generation than there is for this.
A sufferer from repeated headaches who
has found means of relief in headache
powders or other even less harmful drugs
may dispute this assertion, but the victims
of some drug habit the friends of one
whose heart, poisoned by acetanilid or anti
pyrin, has suddenly ceased to beat before
its time will look at the matter from an
other point of view entirely.
During the Spanish war numbers of
would-be recruits were rejected because of
a weak heart, and in the epidemic of pneu-
mona which ravaged the country last WIN
ter an unusual number of deaths occurred
from failure of the heart to meet the added
strain.
Although various causes have doubtless
been at work to weaken the hearts of the
present generation, there can be no ques-
ton that one potent influence has been the
indiscriminate use of headache powders.
In all cases of habitual headache re-
curing periodically a physician must or
course, be consulted, that he may ma the
cause-eye strain, disease of the ears, nose
stomach or other more distant organs-and
remove it il possible. But the separate
attacks of headache have to be relieved II
severe, and in these cases 1t IS better not
to resort to drugs unless the drugs are
taken under the special guidance of
physician.
In the congestive headache, marked by
throbbing and made worse oy STOPPING or
lying down, cold towel or an ice bag APP
piled to the head. a hot water bag to the
spine a mustard foot bath-one or more
will often give relief when many drugs
fail.
In the anaemic form of headache marked
by pallor in which the pain is made less
severe by lying down, massage OF the mead
or the applicat ton of warm cloths to the
head and face will often be found grateful
threatened bilious headache may some
times be warded off by a dose of EPSON
salts. as may other headaches due to auto
intoxication," and one due to overuse OF the
ewes or eve strain will usually, II taken at
the moment of the first warning, be arrest
ed or nitigated by closing the book and
going for a walk.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-04
Bat-Fowling in England.
ndon Country Life

from the LOnuOn Country Lie.
This used to be merry and innocent
pastime for boys. perhaps one of its great
est attractions being that it was carried
out during the night. There was all the
preliminary excitement about getting the
net ready and preparing the torch, for the
torch mark you, is a most important part
of the outfit. How patiently have we in the
old days unraveled a heavy farm rope
Which, dipped in barrel full of tar, will
blaze like an electric light. OF course, one
had to know the country thoroughly to go
bat-fowling in those lonely places in the
dead dark of a December night. The blaze
or the torch only seemed to make the
darkness visible. 1t lay like a great thick
wall around one. and the birds when beaten
out OF the hedges came futtering in the
most unsteady manner toward the light.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-04
Money in Onions.
From the Hartford Times.

From the Hartford Times.
Fortunate is the farmer who has plenty
of onions. He can get a dollar bushel
for them, with a prospect of higher prices
before long. The onion crop in Europe
was a failure last year, and a great many
are being sent over the water III the pres
ent time. Twenty thousand bushels we're
sent In one consignment from Sunderland,
Mass, a few days ago. 1t is estimated
that there are now about 5000 bushels in
the Connecticut valley which can be
bought by people who have got the price. -
They are said to be mostly owned by four
men in the vicinity of Springfield.
There is very good profit il raising On
ions at dollar a buShel-a good deal more
than in producing tobacco at the present
time. Indeed, it may be GoubEed whether
there Is any other crop which pays so
haUGsC mely as the odorferous vegetable
Witch is now commanding such d high
pr.ce in this part of the country.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-04

made with the yolks of two hard-Dolfeo
eggs. a dessertspoonful of grated Parmesan
cheese. teaspoonful of mustard, table
spoonful of tarragon vinegar and one OF
tomato catchup. When well mixed together
beat in four tablespoonfuls OF salao OH;
This is a sauce to pour over a potato salad
or a cream cheese salad. The cream cheese
is broken into light fakes with fork anu
laid upon crisp leaves taken from the CEN
ter of head of lettuce. the sauce ms III
the holIows. The dressing is poured over
these salads only once and is not turned
about. A sprinkling of chopped chervll or
parsley is added to the potato salad after
dressing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-04
A Water Observation Boat.
rom the American Inventor.

FT0n tHe afIHFIcftn IHVtHtUf.
Capt ]. Larsen, a sailor on the great
lakes, has just received patents on new
form of pleasure boat The boat is sup
piled with a glass bottom, and under the
bottom is an electric light, which will illu-
inmate the water and the bed of the stream
for some distance around. A hooded refiec-
tor makes it possible to sit comfortably In
the boat and witness the curious things in
the water Fellow with great ease, and pic
lures may be taken also by means of a mir
ror. The captain has in his possession a
number of photographs which were taken
by this mesms and these are said to be
quite satisfactory, although they were made
when the water was clouded with dirt
washed down into 1t.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-04
Spraying Fruit Trees.

From the Garden Magazine
1t is impossible to have frst-class vege-
tables and fruit without spraying. Most
people are afraid of the subject. because
they think they must learn all about the
insects and lot of hard Latin names. 1t
is not necessary to get expensive ap-
paratus. Four dollars will buy an excel
lent pump and hose suitable for home use.
This outfit consists Of a portable, double
acting force pump. attached 10 a hand buck
ct, with hose and nozzle for spraying
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-04
A Mere Novice.

From the Louisville Courier,Journal
at bet / get into more trouble than any
man in this state volunteered the young
fellow who had come in and ordered
Scotch highball. Nothing In the trouble
line overooks me- Why, I'd be afraid 20
marry"
what, amt you married?" calculated
the red-nosed elderly party who was how
ering over the gratis lunch. boy, yoQ
don't know what trouble is.'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-04

development, must change gradually 1
own that there was q time when It was the
single aim to make the mode of a season
as different as possible from the season
gone before. But, having found fitness and
good taste, we arr not eager to experiment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-04

Head of Institute-"Tm afraid we can't
cure your husband of drinking. madame"
She-"Your note said it could be done in
six months
'.True, but hadn't seen you then."-Life.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-04
Gray Pushing Out Brown.

considering spring lidll-nOSe, Drown IS De-
ing shouldered aside by gray, especially in
slate and dove shades. Last year brown
was 1.-The thing" but the popularizing of
the color has rendered it unacceptable to
men who seek distinctiveness in dress. Low
russell boots will be worn as much as hith-
erto in the country, though not in town.
Spring boots are cut with moderately point
ed toes, rather high heels and less out
swing to the sole. For outing use serge,
tweed and homcspun suits cut full and
loose will be countenanced. Trousers are
to be turned up at the bottom when made
of soft summer stuffs which might trail at
the heel, but not when made of the frmer
cloths. Outing and tennis belts are fash
toned of white buckskin silk webbing
and sometimes silk handkerchief are used
as belts. The evening jacket will be worn
as heretofore at summer hops and semi
formal gatherings in the country. 1t is
hard to preserve dress decorum in it's en-
tirety during blistering days and sultry
nights. There was general proneness
among well-dressed men to disregard the
Jacket altogether this winter, but rules re-
lax now and then, and the most unbending
anti-jacketer finds his prejudice whiting
with his collar. AS long as we make the
jacket a purely summer garment, and that
is the position toward which 1t is drifting,
no violence is done to custom and tradition
in so far as the swallowtail is concerned.
The position of that garment is quite I'M
assailable.
Fancy Waistcoats.
Fancy waistcoats will be as proper rs
ever, but the trend is away from brown,
which has been done to death, and toward
more spring-like shades, such as corn and
biscuit. They are cut a bit higher to ac-
cord with the mode of the new season.
While the general leaning of fashion is to
brightness and color, there are no signs
that spring is to upset in any sense the
accepted standards. These have been form
ed slowly and. being the result Of natural
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-04
A Outlet Novelty.

Chicken outlets are recent novelty. They
are made of chopped chicken meat mixed
with white sauce and nodded into outlet
form and fried in oil. Served on a bed of
cress or lettuce they are delicious. The
salad bowl is a welcome addition to the
Lenten table. There is a vague idea, too,
that salads are 'halesome FARM" good for
body and brain, a kind of tonic in a pleas
ant form. Whether the result is whole
some or not depends entirely upon the
salad makers skill The mixing of the
salad is best done at table, the lettuce or
cress being arranged in the pantry, and,
these made ready, the mixing of the dress
ing, be 1t mayonnaise or what is called
plain French dressing, should not be left
TO the hands of the average servant
An exceedingly grateful salad sauce is
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-04

Spinach Croquettes.-Thesea are made from
a half peck of spinach, boiled, cooled and
chopped fine. Mix with it two tablespoon
fuIs of butter, tablespoonful of minced
parsley, teaspoonful of sugar, the grated
rind of a lemon, and salt and pepper to
season. Add half cup of milk, heat thor
oughly, then cool. When cold shape into
croquettes, dip in egg and crumbs and fry
In the usual way.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-11
A Life-Pictupe.

The mortgage is due, an he's awaitin
to see
If I'll stave it off longer:-His mes
sage to me:
i've only that shelter to cover my
head,
An the poor little fellows are cryin'
for bread!"
But what does it matter THE whole
world will frown
On the fellow that's down-on the fell
low that's down!
What matter his sorrow Pie made
it, he knows
He reaps the red thorn for neglecting
the rose:
He might have found pathways that
blossom with light;
And the black Wolf of Hunger is his.
and the Night.
What does it matter THE just world
will frown
On tho fellow that's down-on the fell
low that's down,
F l.. Stanton.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-11

who was for several years the faith
full matron of this institution
- The gift of the Glass of 1905.
which graduates today, is $4,000 to
the loan fund.
80 The College has just received
from Mrs. William j. Bryan, whose
visit to the College in 1894 will be re-
membered pleasantly by many of us.
$4,000 to be known as the Phllo
sherman Bennett Fund TO be used to
aid young women in securing their
education This is a part of the $10,>
600 left to Mr.. Bryan to be used to
aid In the education of young women.
let us not forget that, while during
the twenty years between 1880 ana
1900, we decreased our female white
iIliteracy 1874 per cent, and our male
white illiteracy only 1.S7 per cent, the
excess of female white illitcrates in
North Carolina over the male white
illiterates is still 1900. Illiterate or
feebIy educated motherhood is a fear
full handicap to human progress in any
direction"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-11
LOUISVILLE REUNION.
People of the City Will Entertain All
Veterans Who Will Attend.

To the Editor: You will please al
low me to announce through your col
umns, for the information of the Con-
federate veterans who may wish to
attend the reunion at Louisville, that
ample and generous arrangements will
be provided for all veterans who will
not be able to defray their own ex-
penses while at Louisville. There has
been some misunderstanding about
this, and consequently the Reunion
Committee at Louisville has issued "a
circular stating that the city of Louis
vile will make full and complete
preparations for the entertainment of
the veterans and that 'its hospitality
shall be equal to that of any city
where the reunion has ever been
held" Those who enjoyed that hos
pitalty in 1900 know that this prom
Use will be fully redeemed.
The Reunion Committee desires to
know at once the number of those who
may avail themselves of that hospf-
tally and therefore it is earnestly re-
quested that all United Confederate
Veterans Camps and all Confederate
veterans at once notify Thomas D.
Osboren, secretary, at No. 700 Fourth
street, Louisville, Kentucky, exactly
how many will need free entertain
ment. Such notification is necessary
in order that accommodations may be
provided.
H. A. LONDON.
Adjutant General and Chief of Staff,
North Carolina Division u. C. V.
Pittsboro, n. G..
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-11
Bethel Regiment Ond It's
Victory.
federate soldier killed In the War Be
tween the States
Continued from First Page.l

federate soldier killed In the War Be
tween the States.
The act was as follows:
Whereas, at the battle of Bethel
Va, on the 10th of June, 1861, Henry
l.. Wyatt q private soldier from North
Carolina, was the first Confederate
soldier killed in battle and at Chick =
amauga, North Carolina troops made
the farthest advance, both on the 18th
and goth September, 1858; and where
as there is no memorial to mark these
historic spots, save pine board
tackled to a telegraph pole at Chick
amauga, on which field the positions
held by other troops from our sister
Southern States are marked by costly
and appropriate memorials, now, there
fore,
"The General Assembly of North
Carolina do enact:
THAT in honor of so much valor,
tablets, with appropriate Inscriptions,
shall be erected to mark the farthest
advance of the North Carolina troops
at Chickamauga at a cost not exceed
ing five hundred dollars for said tab
let's, including all accompanying eX-
penses, and Judge A. C. Avery, chair
man. James w. Ray, M. G. Toms,
Isaac H. Bailey and Henry c. Cham
bcrs are hereby appointed special COM
missiOners to prepare suitable inscrip-
ton and preclude and supervise the
erection and placing the tablets.
That for the purpose of erecting a
tablet to mark the spot where Wyatt
fell Major E. j. Hale, chairman; Capt.
w e. Kyle, Capt John II. Thorpe,
Capt. w B. Taylor and r. II Kicks
are hereby appointed q special COM
mission to prepare suitable inscrip
lions and supervise the erection and
! placing of The tablets to mark the
appropriate spot at Bethel, Va, at
a cost not exceeding two hundred and
| fifty dollars for said purpose, incIud-
! ing ell attendant expenses.
The above sums are appropriate ed
! for said purposes to be paid on the
order of the chairman of the respect
tive commissioners, and approved by
the Governor"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-11

Sow love and taste its fruitage pure,
Sow grace and reap it's harvest bright,
Sow sunbeams on the rock and moor,
And find harvest home of light
H. BOnar.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-11
Newark. Ohio. Man %. l9O3.

Some years ago used your S. s. s. with the most
satisfactory results. childhood up had been both
cred with bad blood characterized by skin erupons and
bos especially bad in the For FIVE six
had boils ranging from five twenty in number
each Our local physicians prescribed for but
nothing they gave did away with the annoying skin
eruptions prevented the bois appearing. The
burning accompanying the eruption terrible andI had
high six boils time My condition truly
pltiable when began S. S. S. 1t seemed to be just
medicine needed in my 1t drove out all mpuri
ties and blood circulation its orig
strength purity giving permanent relief from
skin eruption and bos This has been ten years ago
and have never return the disease would state
my husband has taken it with good results.
MRS. J, D. ATHERTON,
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-11
Do Snakes Eat Grass?
(Wilkesboro Chronicle.)

Col. Calvin Handy, of Atkins shop
country, has a very serious question
for the public to discuss. 1t is this:
do snakes eat grass - Mr.. Handy
takes the ground that snakes do not
eat grass, but that according to the
Bible they live on the dust of the
earth, and he quotes the 14th verse of
the 3rd chapter of Genesis to prove
his contention, wherein the Lord spoke
to the serpent in these words: Upon
thy belly shalt thou go and dust shalt
thou eat all the days of thy life" If
any one can overcome this argument.
let him show UP at once.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-11
Special Term of wake superior Court

Notice is hereby given that a specia
term of Superior Court has been called
by His EXcellency, Governor r. B
Glenn, for Wake county, to begin or
Monday, the 18th day of June, 1905
and His Honor, Frederick Moore, has
been designated by His Excellency tc
preside over said court
l.. H. ADAMS,
Oh m. Board County Commissioners.
6-4=t f
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-11

Last Thursday night the safe in the
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad office at
Bepnettsville, S. c., was entered and
$5t2.26 in checks and $20S.50 in cash
taken. A. Reed, a 19-year-oId office
BOY, was doing work for nothing in
order to learn biography, confessed
the theft, and was committed to jail.
He had spent part of the money.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-11

The worst about paying bills is-it
Just makes another chance to run
them up again.