davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1905-06-07

plon, elgnt guns; cruiser, bscohiyb,
twenty guns; Des MoiDee, ten guns;
protected cruiser Cleveland, ten guns;
Olympia, fourteen gun; Texas,
second class battleship, eight guns;
monitors Fiorids, Arkansas and Me-
vada, six guns each; protected cruiser
Newark; gun boats Bancroft and
Castine; converted cruiser Dixie;
protected cruisers Chattanooga and
Detroit; gun boat Newport; protect
ed cruisers Tacoma, Des Moines,
Galveston, Aberands; collier Caesar;
coal supply ship Colga; Pennsylvania,
West Virginis, Colorado and Mary
land, all armored cruisers; Mime
apolis and Columbia, protected
cruisers; cruiser Hartford; converted
cruiser Prairie; gun boat Topeka;
converted cruiser Yankee; torpedo
boat destroyers, twelve; two SUBJ
marines; eighteen torpedo boats in
reserve; one submarine in reserve.
This strength represents the North
Atlantic fleet alone, now under COM
mand of Admiral Evans.
There are now in commission, and
ready for service at any moment
when the department may call for
them, the following ships: Three
ships of the class of the Alabama,
1,525 tons, 18 guns main gun bat
terry; three of the Oregon class,
10,28S tons, 16 guns main battery;
one of the class of the Iowa, II $40
tons, Is guns main battery; two of
the Kersarge class, 11,525 tons, %
guns main battery; three of the class
Of the Maine, 12,50O tons, 20 guns;
one second class battleship Texas,
$3.50 tons, eight guns main battery,
armored cruisers, Brooklyn, 9,215
tons, 20 guns main battery; New
York, 5000 tons, Is guns main bat
terry; two Of the West Virginia class,
1850 tons, Is guns main battery;
two of the Pennsylvania, 13, 3,78O tone,
is guns main battery. There are
also two monitors of the class of the
Monsdnock, $500 tons, six guns; one
OF the Puritan, 5000 tons, ten guns;
three of the Ampbitrite, 1890 tons,
eight guns; four of the Florida class,
3,2l4 tons, six guns. Besides these
there are four torpedo boat Destroy
ers of the Decatur class besides
numersus other destroyers and tor
pedo boats.
There are now under construction,
forty-three ships of which twelve are
first class battleships, ten are armor-
ed cruisers, three protected cruisers,
the others being gun boats, colliers
and torpedo boats.
With this formidable array of sea
fighters it can be seen that the
United States at the present time is
pretty we'll able to take care Of itself,
should occasion srise for her to show
her progress on the high seas of the
world. Besides this it is not i'm.
probable that since We have made 30
much progress along this line during
recent years that now nothing will
stop this country from standing
second to no country in the world in
naval equipment. 2
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1905-06-07

traced 10 the kidneys.
but now modern
science proves that
nearly all diseases
have their beginning
in the disorder OF
these most important
organs.
The kidneys filter
and purify the blood
that is their work.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1905-06-07

The Columbia Record advises the
Emperor of Russia to cringe at the
feet of the Mikado and sue for peace,
but strange to say the Emperor has
80 far turned q deaf ear to the
Records pathetic appeal.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1905-06-07
Disastrous Eartho uake.

Scutaria, Albania, June 2-Re-
ports received regarding an earth
quake, which occurred yesterday in
Montenegro, say great damage was
done, over 500 houses being Destroy
ed and in the neighborhood of 200
people being killed and injured.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1905-06-07
Hint For the Cook.

On. touch it with tender touch,
For. till the egg is boiled.
WHO knows bit that unwittingly,
1t may be smashed and spoiled?
The autumn breeze that 'gainst It
blows
Ought to be stilicd and hushed,
For eggs like Youthful purity.
Are awful when they're squashed.
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1905-06-07

The laxative effect of Chamberlain S
Stomach and Liver Tablets is SO agreea-
BILE and so natural that you do not
realize it is the effect of a medicine For
sale by The Kaufman Drug co.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1905-06-07
Often The Kidneys Are
Weakened by OVGI-Wolk.

Unhealthy Kidneys Make Impure Blood.
It used to be considered that onlv
urinary and bladder troubles were to be
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1905-06-07

Therefore, when your kidneys are weak
or out of order, yo,, can understand now
quickly your entire body is affected and
how every organ seems to fail to do its
duty.
# YOU are sick or s:feel badly" begin
taking the great kidney remedy, D7.
Kil1ner's Swanp-Root, because as soon
as your kidneys are we'll they will help
all the other organs to health. A trial
will convince anyone. :.
If you are sick you can make no mis-
take by first doctoring your kidneys:
The mild and the extraordinary effect OF
DR.. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, the great
kidney remedy, is soon realized. It
stands the highest for its wonderful! cures
of the most distressing cases, and IS sold
on it's merits by all EE~
druggists in ifty-cent ass+s:s r.
and one-dollar size assts!l l|Bsf = I:sssss
bottles. You may Ssassgg:s:98sN SsM@8N
have sample bottle Home Of swampRoos.
by mail free, also pamphlet telling you
how to find out if you have kidney or
bladder trouble. Mention this paper
when writing to DR.. Kilmer & Co., Bing-
hamton, N. Y. Don't make any mistake,
but remember the name, Swamp-Root,
DR.. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, and the ad-
dress, Binghamton, N. Y, on every bottle.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1905-06-07
A Secret.

First Giraffe During a little conyer-
sation I had with the lion today /
asked him if he was the king Of beasts.
Second Girafe-And what did he
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1905-06-07

First Giraffe-Ie said he was, but he
made me swear on a stack Of Bibles
not to tell his wife he said so.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1905-06-07

on its merits by all
druggists in ffty-cerlt
and ore-dollar size
bottles. You may
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-05-25
Paris Sharpers Are Clever

but with our patent mysterious pocket
that in future will be rendered inpos.
sible. 1t has had an enormous sue
cess in America. and will defy the
ost ingenious pickpocket on earth.
Look at it; it appears and disappears
at the will of the owner. One, two,
three-there it is at the back of M
neck. One, two, three-now it is up
my sleeve. Look at it, ladies and gen.
tlemen. | do not ask you for SOW
ereign, half sovereign, or even five
shillings, although it is well worth
that sum. But for the good of HUI
mainly | dispose of it for sixpence."
At that moment, when fifty hands
were outstretched to buy tie mysteri-
Gus pocket, shrill whistle was heard
and the street vender promptly disap-
peared. The crowd retired disappoint-
ed. when they discovered later that
while they were reaching out for the
great mysterious American invention
their own pockets had been rifed
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-05-25
Cremation Of Hindu Dead

remove the shrcud from the face,
splashing water five times upon the
mouth. Others, in the meantime, are
building a wooden ogre, made of flag
OTIS sold near by. and when finished
standing three feet or more above
ground. The corpse, its dark color
showing through the dripping shroud,
is then placed on the wooden altar
and covered with fagots. This done.
all but two mount the ramparts and
watch the final ceremony. OF the
two remaining, one pours oil upon the
wood from a small clay dish, while
the other goes TO the firehouse above.
He soon returns with long straw
wisp, blazing at one end. He advances
to the corpse's head, touches it with
the wisp, and then circles the pyre
five times, touching the head each
time until the fifth, when he places
the blazing wisp beneath the feet and
the whole pile bursts into fame. When
all is consumed the ashes are raked
into the river and float away to bliss
eternal.-F. j. O. Alsop in Outing.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-05-25

The tricks adopted by sharpers to
noodwink the ever-gullible public are
as ingenious as they are varied. says a
Paris letter to the London Globe. The
latest tried in Paris is described
in the morning papers. The other
afternoon in the Rue de Condo a we'll
dressed individual, with every appear
ance of a gentleman, got UP on heap
of stones and, striking his hands to-
eether. gathered a crowd around him.
Ladies and gentlemen he began,
81 am not here, within two steps of
the nearest police station, to sell you
stolen goods or obtain your money on
false pretenses. No, ladies' and gen.
tlemen. | am here for the good of hui
mainly. represent the famous Amer
lean firm OF Findem & HAVEN, and |
am sent by them to tell you the very
latest novelty, which is destined to
IevolutioniZe the world.
"All of you have probably at some
tire or other had your pockets picked,
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-05-25
Identity of SaIIie's Beau.

An eminent New England minister,
pastor for years of Presbyterian
church in NewburypOrt, and after
ward of a prominent church in New
Jersey, used TO relate with much
amusement this story of HIS early
days.
While a student. working his way
through Harvard, he at various times
taught the district school near his
childhoods home in Bedford.
On one occasion he was annoyed
by the whispering of a tall, lank fell
low, just before him. and called him
to order, demanding at the same time
that he shoul!s tell what it was he was
so anxious to Snpart to his neighbours
ears.
The fellow repeatedly refused the
request, but finally, when he could
hold out no longer, blurted out, much
to the confusion of the master: Il
said. sir. Sallie had beau home from
meetin' last night, but | didn't know
it was you, sir; didn't know it was
you"
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-05-25

Toward the upper end Of the CHATS
is the burning ground. There are no
steps here, but a slope of beaten dirt.
Stop half an hour and you may see.
every step of the cremation rites. Sit
ting on stone ramparts above, TO right
and left, are friends and relatives Of
the dead ones. The figure TO the
right, huddled up in bright green
wrap, is of the lowest caste of Hindus
and keeps the mat shed near by where
the sacred fire for igniting every
corpse is for sale. You hear hoarse.
loud cries of Ram! Ramana!" and be-
hold, a burial procession is coming
down the slope. Four men carry the
corpse slung between two bamboo
poles, and cry to the god Ram. He
is the personification of filial love, and
thus it is meet that they should call
him TO witness. They swing down TO
the river and immerse he corpse. 1t
is wrapped in a white shroud stained
with red blotches. Then they lift the
head slightly out of the water and
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-05-25
NEWS OF
THE STRIKE
MURDER AT FIFTEEN DOL
LARS AND THREATS OF
FURTHER VIOLENCE.
BoDYGUARDs ATTEND THE MAN
AYERS OF BUSINESS HOUSES
DAY AND NIGHT.
MAYOR dunno SAYS SPREAD OF
THE STRIKE WILL BRING IN
STATE TROOPS.
The Hazard of Life.

Fully 100 letters threatening death
have been received by the half dozen
men who have been given wide pub
licity as managers of the employers
end of the transfers strike in Chi
cago. Serious consideration is being
given the letters since exposures
made by a confession of hired thus
that he and others made a business
OF smuggling at the rate of $15 per
person slugged. Bodyguards are no-
attending all the principals on the
employers side of the transfers
strike, and all are accompanied day
and night by guards. Secretary f..
w. Job of the Employers association
and Robert j. Thorne of Montgomel,
Ward & Co., admit having received
many threats. President Gompers is
said TO have issued a call TO all mem
bers of the American Federation of
Labor, estimated at 100000, to con
tribute to a strike benefit for the Chi
cago teamsters. Forty-two branches
of the transfers union in New York
have already made contributions, 1t is
asserted.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-05-25
Killed For Money.

]. Casey, business agent of carriage
and wagon workers union. local No
4, of Chicago, Saturday night, made
written confession to Police Inspector
LAWN to the effect that Charles J.
Carlstrom, who died several weeks
ago, was fatally beaten by men en-
ployed by the union. Carlstrom was an
old man, and one night was so fear
fully pounded by three men that he
died in a few days. Casey declared in
his confession that the men were paid
SIS for their work, the money coming
from a fund known as The education.
al fund" The police have arrested the
following men in connection with the
case: Charles J. Casey, business agent
carriage and wagonmakers' union, 10.
cal No. 4 Henry j. Newman. secretary
of union No. 4 George Miller, mem
Der of the executive committee OF the
union Charles Gilhooley, Edward
Feeley, Mark Looney. Gilhooly, Loo
ney and Feelsy are said by Casey to be
the men who killed Carlstrom.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-05-25

Grandson Gardner, aged 65 years,
closed his life In Traverse City with a
terrible tragedy Monday, shooting and
instantly killing his wife and then
turning the 3S-caliber revolver on him
self, shooting himself through the
temple. dying instantly The tragedy
occurred in the home of ex-Mayor
Fulghum. Mrs. Gardner being the
mother of Mrs. Fulghum, with whom
she was living. The couple were d.
vorced ten years ago, the facts lead
ing to the divorce not being
known, and Gardner went to Lafay-
cite, Ind, and up TO two weeks ago
had not been seen in Traverse City
since.
Mrs. Gardner and her daughter were
alone in the house, when someone
knocked at the front door. Mrs. Fulg-
hum went to the door and opened it,
when man wearing mask pushed
his way in and asked for the man of
the house. Mrs. Fulghum ran to the
street screaming for help and immedi-
ately heard two reports from a revolv-
er, and fell fainting to the walk. When
the neighbors arrived they found that
Gardner had dragged his wife to the
kitchen and shot her. He then tore off
the mask and, placing a revolver at
each temple, shot himself. The double
charge literally tore off the top Of
Gardeners head. 1t is believed the man
was dementcd.
Mrs. Gardner was a gentle, refined
woman of SO years, who moved in the
best social circles, and her tragic death
was a shock TO her many friends. She
mad never heard from her husband
since he went away, 10 years ago. II
is said Gardner had a grudge against
his son-in-law, dating from before the
marriage of the latter to his daughter.
and 1t is believed he went TO the Fulg-
hum home with the intention of killing
the whole family. Gardeners insane dis
position is shown from the fact that
some years ago he attempted to kill
his father.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-05-25
Shea's lncendiary Talk

An infammatory appeal to class
passions was delivered as an Grafton
by Cornelius p. Shea, president of the
international Brotherhood of Team.
sters, at the funeral of George S.
Pierce. the union man who was killed
by a deputy sheriff: Fellow work
ingmen." he said you have partici-
pated today in a remarkable demon
stration in honor of our fallen COM
rade, our murdered brother. You
have made 1t plain this morning what
you think of the cowardly method by
which the money powers are trying to
beat down and crush the working
classes. You have shown by your
numbers and by your earnestness to-
day that you no longer propose TO be
cowed and inundated by such dis
graceful tactics Now is the time to
stand together and show the employ
ers they cannot trample you under
foot
II want TO say TO you, my fellow
toilerS, that when God Almighty saw
fit to take away this young man in
the flower of his youth, when that
coward was permitted 70 shoot down
this boy. and then was set free with
out question: want to say that
when such things happen. something
must be wrong"
Yes, men; there is something
wrong shouted Shea waving his hat.
Are you TO be hunted animals to be
shot down at the will OF ring OF
rich men, or are you going to stand
up and be men and wrest your rights
from your oppressors? Now, | want
all of our people to understand that
we can win this strike. We can win
it, not through violence, but through
the ordinary perseverance of free
American citizens TO win rights de.
MED them
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-05-25
Few Find Their Work"

The writer for the Worlds Work
who inquired of twenty clergymen Il
they would choose the same occupa-
tion If they had their lives TO live over,
need not have been surprised to find
nine who replied that they would not;
nor the investigator for Leslie's
Monthly who asked eleven teachers a
similar question to find only one who
was willing TO say yes. Such express
sions Of disappointment can be got out
of men and women of any and every
vocation, says the New Bedford Stan
dard The person who wishes he were
something else than what he actually
is can be found at almost any minute
of the day by any one who takes the
pains TO inquire, Not much is proved
by ii, except that, in the first place,
there are too many square pegs in
round holes, and that, in the second
place, there are more pegs for which
there are no appropriate holes than is
Sood for the community. We have no
question that the nine clergymen and
the ten teachers who wish they had
chosen some other manner of life were
not conspicuous successes in the occu-
pations they had selected and ii is
rather TO be doubted if all Of them
would have been successes in any Of
the occupations which they wish they
had selected.
Ii is not difficult for a clergyman 10
dream that he would have made a
great lawyer, or for a school teacher
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-05-25

10 fancy that he would have been
splendid captain of industry. But the
great lawyers and the splendid cap
tains of industry might. If they would
tell some stories of disillusion about
the business They would certainly
say that If unsuccessful preachers and
teachers put no more effort and inter
est into the law or into industry than
they have put into preaching and
teaching, the end would be the same
disappointment and the same longing
for something else.
Happy is the man who has found
his work" 1t is pity that so many
persons have apparently not found
the work that they could best do and
be happy in it, But sometimes 1t APP
pears TO us as If those who complain
because they did not choose rightly,
and who give up their thought TO spec
ulations of how much better they
could have done if they had done
something else, are not quite doing
themselves and their opportunities full
justice.
The secret or happiness IN an ocCu
patton is usually in the worker himself
more than it is in the occupation. And
it mostly comes from the disposition
and the determination to do the best
possible, even If a mistake or bad for
tune have made a wrong choice. Not
in fancying that better could have
been done, but in doing the best you
can where you are is found the recipe
of contentment with a life-work.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-05-25
Careless ENGLISH Mothers.

In his recent book, Child Slaves of
Great Britain" Robert II. Sherard
writes: There are thousands of our
poor children in London starving, not
on account of the poverty Of the par
ents. but by reason of the ignorance
and sloth of the mothers. They know
nothing of cookery, they wish to know
nothing. They do not care fer the
trouble. In every London slum you
will find a fried fish shop, or a cooked
meat shop, or grocer who sells
cheese and pickles and potted things.
II is much easier and less worriting-
like to send the children out with cop.
pers for a penno rth of fish and chips
or a bit of cheese and pickles than to
cook anything for them
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-05-25
FEAR FOR TREASURE
6ANk or ENGLAND OFFICIALS
ARE uneasy.
Hoards of Wealth in the stronsboxes
Of the Old Lady Of Threadneedle
Street Thought to Be in Danger
from Bad Marauders.

Officials Of the Bank of England are
said TO be worried for the safety OF
the boards of wealth stored in their
strongboxes. The bank station of the
new underground railway in London
is close to the vaults Of the worlds
greatest institution Of finance. At
recent meeting of the bank directors
it was suggested that some brave but
wicked person might set off a quaint
ty of explosives in the bank station,
wrecking the foundations OF the state
ly building above and sending the
bars of bullion and the streams OF
gold coin leaking out on to the station
platform. The feasibility of this plan
has been conceded by the bank
governor. 1t is figured however, that
the tube as the underground rail-
way is called, is little too deep at
this point. To reach the bullion vaults
of the bank the conspirators would
have TO drive a shaft nearly 100 feet
and then they would face mass of
concrete, thick masonry and steel. At
one time the Bank of England was
the object of a conspiracy. From a
church tower close by the bank was
bombarded. Afterward the authori.
ties had the church and its threaten
ing tower destroyed. Officials of the
bank do not like the tunneling going
on in the clay beneath their founda.
tions. The constant pumping of water
has affected even the solidity of the
clay and from this cause one of the
wells which is within the three acres
comprised within the banks precincts
has dried up.
Those three acres are valued at
about 100000 each and the treas.
ures within them are guarded in fit
ting fashion. On either side of the
main entrance to the bank are two
small glass houses. In one reposes
stately beadle. In the other are two
wideawake detectives. Other detec
tives are in and out of the rooms, but
always unobtrusively. At night the
police force is heavy one. Every
evening a compact body of men com.
manded by a lieutenant and including
two sergeants, two drummers, a
bugler and thirty privates, marches
from Wellington barracks to the
bank. They are in full marching or.
der and before they enter the techni-
cal limits of the city" exercise that
privilege of the guards Of fixing bayo-
nets. They are on duty for twelve
hours and but for the recurrent spells
of sentry-go have an easy time.
officials of the bank provide moder.
ate refreshments for these guards. In
the guardroom, which is of regulation
pattern, are the usual shelf and blan-
ket sufficient accommodation for a
soldiers intermittent doing when on
duty of this kind. The officer has a
suite of rooms at his service-the din.
ing room of paneled oak. a neat bed
room and bathroom There is hid.
den away in the center of the bank
one of the most pleasant gardens in
London, where an after-dinner cigar
may be enjoyed on a summer evening
TO the full while the roar Of the great
metropolis around has died away to
inarticulate murmurs.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-05-25
The Doc and His Friends.

This little anecdote is a standing
Joke on one of the best known matho.
MATES professors in Dartmouth col
lege. One day during a recitation in
trigonometry little black dog strayed
into the room. The professor sud
denly looking over his glasses saw the
dog. and, thinking he would make
little fun, said: Take that dog out
of here. There's dogs enough here
now" A fellow in the front seat cot
up. and giving the dog a kick out OF
the door. said: Get out of here. you,
ono rups enough"
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-05-25
Had Three Wives

Frank w. Simpson, the landlord of
he Lenawee house, in Adrian. who
died a few days ago. proves to have
been a much married man. Besides the
woman who has been living with him
here as his wife and the Walker wo-
man from Hillsdale, there now appears
as claimant for his estate a Mrs.
Frank Simpson, of Ridgeway. Pa, who
alleges that she was his first wife.
Simpson, on account of poor health
and bad management, leaves nothing
but heritage of debts for any of his
wives.