davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-07-25
THE MINIDOKA PROJECT.
Contract for Construction OF "a Miles
or Branch Canals Let
Especial 10 The 0Nows.")

Especial 10 the "NewaO
Washington, y, c., July 25,-Thc eoc-
rotary OF the interior has executed q
contract with Hubbard and Carlson,
Boise, Ida, for the construction Of "a
miles Of branch canals OF tho Mini
doka project, Ida,
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-07-25
O. J, SMITH DEAD,
Ons OF First Members Of o, u, G., PASSES
Away IN Evanston,

Especial TO the "NowsD
Evanston, Wyo,, July 40. J. Smith,
n pioneer of thla section, and for many
years a conductor on the Union Pacific
railway, II dead at his home here, Do
ceased was one OF the first members
% the order Of railway Conductors
IN the United states lilo was past 70
years NJ ave,
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-07-25
WEATHER CONDITIONS,

Precipitation occurred over portions
of the middle and northern plateau
regions Rocky Mountain slope Mis-.
souri, valley, Gulf aud Atlantic etatoa,
Tennessee, lower lake region, ana Al.
berta Thunderstorms were quite nu-
merous II was raining this morning
II, j. HYATT,
Local ForecAs tss
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-07-25
WEATHER REPORT

Record at the local offico Of thu
weather bureau FOR tho ~ hours ending
az q n, m, today
Local forecast for Salt Lako city ana
vlcInityl
Barometer reading at 9 A. M, $50,
inches Temperature nj . a. M, ~ dc.
grees, maximum, p6 minimum. 81,
mean, 81, which IL . above normal
FORECASTS TILL 9 y. NJ. wEpNEs.
DAY
Partly cloudy tonight and Wodnos.
day with local thundcrshowersi cooler
Wednoalay
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-07-25

Passing around IN northwcslerly
direction into Il small canal draw.
bridge IN opened and we sail into the
majestic wltou OF tho Hudson, At
scc only ne broad eSpanso Of walm
the closely wooded hlll-Mdes, ana the
blue arch OF the sky. We DO not have
20 stretch tho imagination much amidst
all this silent beauty, ~ 10 back few
hundred years and In fancy sail with
liendrlok Hudson ana hln crew, Hut
soon our reyorlo II broken by Wow
OF Fort George, the once famous ndli.
New-York tribune., 1905-12-24

as appropriate. Perhaps he says 1t too. And-we
shall meet 10y the Christmas fire.
have a friend who is alive. He is alive in Eng
land We have not met for twelve years He
never writes and l never write. Perhaps we shall
never meet, never write to each other, AGAIN
1t is our way the way of many friendship, none
the less real for its sience-friendshp by faith, one
might say. rather than by correspondence My
dead friend is not more dumb, not more INVISIBLE
When these two friends meet me by the Christmas
fire will they not both alike be ghosts-both, in a
sense dead, but both, in a truer sense alive
1t is so that, without thinking OF It, our
simple human feelings for another at Christmas
time corroborate the mystical message which 1t IS
the churches meaning to convey by this festival OF
peace and goodwill to men the power OF the
Invisible Love- from the mystcal,lov of God for
His world, to the no less mystical love OF mother
and child of lover and lover, of friend and friend
Md when YOU think of it, is not this festival
founded upon what, without irreverenCe we may
call the Divine Ghost Story of Christmas? Was
there ever another ghost-stOry strange, 50 full
of marvels a story with so thrilling message from
the unseen' Taken just a story, is there any
thing in the Arabian Nights marvellous as this
ghost-storv of Christmas? The world was all
marble and blood and bronze, against pitiless sky
OF pitilcss gods. The world Rome No rule
ever stood buidcd so impregnably from earth to
stars-a merciless wall of power Strength never
planted upon the earth 50 stern foot. Never was
New-York tribune., 1905-12-24

luxury of green leaves and the Intoxicating iullness
of life The summer earth is like some voluPtuous
enchantress all ardor and perfume, and soft dazzle
of NOTED sunshine. But the beauty OF winter
seems a spiritual, almost a supernatural thing
approach found to be rich in exquisite eXhlaraton,
IN rare and lofty discoveries and satisfactions OF
tie soul. Winter naturally has found less favor
with the poets than the other seasons. Praise OF
it has usually a strained air, as though the poet
were making the best Of a barren theme, like a
portrait-paintcr reluctantly fattering some un-
attractive sitter But poet has seen and seized
the mysterious beauty Of winter with urforccd
sympathy Coventry Patnorc, whose "Odes,' IN
particular, containing they do some OF the most
rarely spiritual meditation in English poetry. are
all too little known In one of these he has these
beautiful lines, which l quote, hope correctly,
from 1ncInnr--:
New-York tribune., 1905-12-24

|, singulary moved
To love the lovely that not beloved,
OF all the seasons, most love winter, and to trace
The sense of the Trophonian palor OF her face
1t is not death, but plenitudc OF peace:
And this dim cloud which doth the earth enfod
Hath less the characters Of dark and cold
Than light and warmth asleep,
And intermittent breathing still doth keep
With the infant harvest heavng soft below
Its elder coverlet of snow.
The beauty of winter is like the beauty of certain
austere classics Of literature and art, and with
New-York tribune., 1905-12-24

marble and blood and bronze, agai
OF pitilcss gods The world was
ever stood buildcd so impregnabl
stars-a merciless wall of power.
planted upon the earth 50 stern a
tyranny so invincibly Fashioned
to the cowed and conquered eye.
And against all this marble and
blood and bronze, what frail fan
tastic attack is this? What
quaint expedition from fairy-land
that comes so insignihcantly
against these battlementso on which
the Roman helmets catch the
setting sun?
4 Star in the Sky. Some shep-
herds from Judea. Three Wise
Men from the East Some Frank
incense and Myrrh y Mother
and Child.
Yes, a fairy-tale processiOn-but
these are to conquer Rome, and
that child at his mothers breast
has but to speak three words, for
all that marble and bronze to melt
away: Love One Another" j."
1t may well have seemed an
almost ludicrous weapon-three
gentle words. SO one might
attack a fortress with flower
But Rome lell before them, for all
that, and cruel as the world still
is, 50 cruel a world can never be
again. The history OF Christianity
from Christ to Tolstoi IS the his
tory of a ghost-story; and as
Rome fell before the men it
martvred, so Russia has been
compelled at last to open its
prison doors by the passive i'm
perative of the three gentle words.
Stone and iron are terribly strong
to the eve and even to the arm of
man, but they are as vapor
before the breath of the soul.
Many cnthroned and magisterial
authorities seem SO much more
important and powerful than the
simple human heart, but let the
trial of strength come, and we see
the might of the delicate invisible
energy that wells up out of the
infinite mystery to support the
dreams of man.
Christmas is the friendly human
announcement of this ghostly
truth; its holly and boar 's-head are
tumble emblazonment of that my
New-York tribune., 1905-12-24

doors, indeed, the prospect had its
Christmas-card picturesqueness;
snow-clad roofs, snow-laden
boughs, silhOuetted tracerv Of
1eafess trees; but we said that 1t
was a soulless spectacular display,
the beauty of d-ath, and the
abhorrcd coldness thereof. We
have hardly walked a hundred
yards. however, before impress
sions very different are crowding
upon US, among which the I'M
preston of cold IS forgotten, OF
only retained as pleasantly height
ening the rest.
Far from the worlds being dead,
as it had seemed indoors, we are
presently. in some strange indefin-
able way, made intensely con-
sCious of a curious overwhelming
sense Of life in the air, as though
the crystal atmosphere was, so to
say. ecstatically charged with the
invisible energy Of spiritual forces.
In the enchanted stiffness Of the
snow, We seem to hear the very
breathing OF the spirit OF life.
The cessation of all the myriad
little sounds that rise so merrIly
and so musically from the summer
surface of the earth seems 70
allow us to hear the solemn beat
of the very heart OF earth itself.
We seem very near to the sacred
mystery of being, nearer than at
any other season of the year. for
in other seasons we are distracted
by its pleasurable phenomena.
but in winter we seem close to
the very mystery itself; for the
world seems to have put on robes
of pure spirit and ascended into
a diviner ether.
The very phenomena of winter
have a spiritual air which those
of summer lack, a phantom-Ike
strangeness. How mysterious this
ice, how ghostly this snow, and all
the beautiful fantastic shapes
taken by both; the dream-hke
foliage, and feathers and furs of
the snow, the gothic diablerie Of
the fairy fancies of the frost, the
iapes that hang the brook-side with
ian glass, the strange flowers that
the windows. even while we watch
lseen hand. No flowers Of summer
as these, make us feel so weirdly
mystery Of life. As the ghostly
pane, is it not as though a spirit
n through the shining morning. We
10 grow raretIed as the air. Our
New-York tribune., 1905-12-24
BY M@rg@reG Gebbie Hays

Just see what dear old Sanity Claus
Has brought for little me,
An just because I've been the coolest
Girl that could be.
I've eaten all the nasty crustS
Each day with my nice bread,
An always went without a word
When mother dear said: Bed!"
An now I'm oh, so glad did
For only look an see,
For being such a nice good girl
What Sanity did for me.
New-York tribune., 1905-12-24

truth its holly and boar rshead but rough and
tumble emblazonment of that mystic gospel Of
The Three Words; the Gospel of the Unseen Love
And how well has the church chosen this par
tcular season of the year for this most subty
spiritual of all its festivals subtle because its
ghostlv message is 50 ruddily disguised in human
mirth and thus the more uncOnscOusly operative in
human hearts,
Winter, itself 50 ghostly thing, so spiritual
in its beauty, was indeed the season to catch
ears with this ghost-story of the Invisible and
Invncible Love. The other seasons are full of
sensuous charm and seductiveness. With endless
variety of form and color and fragrance, they
weave "A flowery band bind to the earth"
They running over with the pride of sap, the
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-04-09
Ar TILE DOOR.

The sound OF singing issued from the big
stone church az Maggie and 'Fillle came
opposite. their bare legs showing nlnes
with cold below their rn gged calico skirts
F.1,et'sr go and peek n!'i s3
They stole cautiously up the steps and
through the &yestibute.y a burst csf sofE
Iltired them ins.de, and they slipped into
d. tack pew. The church was heariys filed!
with women In richly-huedt gUwtiss TIE
air was warm and heavy Wirft perfume.
When tiie rt1nsicl ceased II wortafis on tic
platform began 10 Talk. She wax very
I beautiful, lRr face aligtt With earnc1t,
stjionEilt; but the little street girls gave
more heed to the blue SKIRT tina fell 10 her
I feetsin soft curves and then swept out IN
"a grslcetustfain. Suddenly Maggie start
( ed. The Iady was King about them
+ "B,iH my friends, wfiile we are support.
ing thesn girls rs far- away india we must.
not forget the children ut our doors. They
are cold, they are hungry, they are igno.1
! rant; we must warm and feed them. we
/ must guide them into, upward paths.
Az tic speaker went on the litt1st ones
Z fright changed into JOY. These Wste not
words TO fear. The beautiful lady SAID
I that they; were cold and hungry. Maggie.
Z wandered how she Knew She said they
must feed them. Oh, II they wouldi And
mother. poor sick mother and baby, they
were 80 hungry. But now they were going
to have something to act
es Go be Continued Next Sunday. III
8 LIsN0HA JACOBS.
or Brook Avenue, Richmond, va.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-04-09

Everyone pitied Mrs, Carter wle,14
tGwi.i. died. or course, every mother "
Hympathized with ON tic loss OF Il child,
but Mrs Carter was. 50, young, only TWEEN :
ty-nigl,t ana GWiIr was her only child
Gwin was ten when she died.
The Carriers were. very rich s. people,
hils. Carter had been q COVERINGS when
\ but seventeen years or age. Mr. Car
ter, who was twelve years her senior
met her and both fell in love At first
Sight. n Their married j tfe fwas very ha p!
ny and both fathcrsand mother fllunlored
GWins every whin. Xxx s4 Y 81
Then came that terrib BILE disease, pne'i-
8Inonin.8 and as death loves n shining
ma ris.'' Gwin was soon CARVED away 10
4 her home on high.
sE Alter this Mrs. Carter never received
any company. or called on anyone. She
often sat sibe fore the picture of tho dead
girl. thinking Of the happy days gone
by. e, fi
Her husband did everything he could
to comfort, but she grew pale and thin
S One day Mrs. Carter happened TO be IN.
the hall when the door bell ra ng.h
servant answered. the call, and the door.
1 opened She heard someone 81 y, Picase5
give me something to eat? 5 Is
" Mrs. Carter went to the door. anu tleTc
she saw ~ little girl. or \ bout Gwin = age
Ter heart went Out at once TO tho Ja,ors
little thing Siio asked tlIrss girl i. her
parents werc living, and the girl said she
lived with cruel woman that her pa
rents left her with when, they died.
Mrs, Carter adopted tire child 5at once
and aftcr3that regnined her good itenith.i
s5is ~ j.. 5LINWOOD LEHMAN.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-04-09
SARAH SWIFT.

SaraI, swirt sews seams swiftly! She
saw some stylish serge samples Sarah
cure q. stylish serye SUR shortly. gara1
fscwed steadily seven Saturdays. She
stitched such salts factory, salablet skirts
started shopping. She strolled slowly sig
squares. s,eetns scvera. stores similarly
ixituatcd she said softly, South Street"
siIk-six speois. sleepy Sarah sewed serge
slowly. Soon sleepy Sarah slept soundly.
9arah's sister Susan soon sewed SIC
seams. Sarah startled. surprised. sat star
ing seeing sister susan sewing seams
swiftly Sarah satd. Sweet sister Susan
sitting sewing: selfish Sarah sieeping:'
Sister Susan. smiling said Supper
Sarah. Sarah soon spread supper. Salad,
aaln,on, sandwiches; stcamins soup. sister
Snsan saw. She shipped sewing. sumptu-
5toriIy sewed. See sweet SARAH struIllng
slowly, smiling sweetly. -. Z. -. :. X,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-04-09
THE BLIND MAN
AND HIS DOG

There was once a blind man who Q ], was vas
sdeds about: by a dog. Attaohed.to me heG ~
$of the dog was a string, 50 & th iu VI ny
could g1lideEthe man. ,t5 Wy L.
1T was a warm day, and the poor ~.
lie dog looked as II he wo uld die IRON
Yhirst, but This blind master dld not
know 1t. AT last the dog gave a low sa .t
cry, as if1SinY great pain! &, -
Two kind boys standing near, M WIZ ~ =
had heard the pitifulS cry. went up 70 tne
man and told him his dog wanted wafer
very badly, and told him + ne adldn,t
mind, they would take the suffering crea,
sture to a nearby shop, where they Woula
procure water for 1t. The blind man =
said, II thank you shall be GLAD
you will lead my poor little dog Where
\ lle can get some nice clear " alter TO drink:
fI Will walt here till you bring hirn Da
Il After the dog had been gtven iresh
water by the kind siopks eper.d tte, boys
told. HIM lcw tt1eS l,ttlep dog led llds
blind mas ter about, and IL made him feel
very sorry for the Blind r1en:4 /. "a
He sent for him to- Gomez aud i've WEI
fhin,Sil, hisS fine house, The blind man
gladly accented tt1ea offer and went to,
live with his rich friend forever
4 His little dog remained with him and
they became srn1lfchs friends. But above
all, he, never forgot tho two little boys
who brought upon him this good fortune.
| - . JOHN HtINDLEY.
Cos North Fourth Street, City.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-04-09
SHADOW.

Shadow IL the sister OF Lecho. She was
once II lovely maid, who thought that no
,onctft d figure half so illcesas hers She
would always try to mock every one that
she saw. One day while she was walking
along she saw an ugly old stump. She
began to- try to change like the stump
when to her dlsmay she found that down
on the ground was an exact likeness OF
the stump III q much darker shade than
the sun cast. She WAS delighted, thlnH-
the trees, making shade for the horses
cows and all the animals that like It.. Sf7e
was doing 80 much mnrc good as siinde
than when she was q girl that she DECIDED
you think that for once nlocking things
did good? What would VIC DO without
shade. SAILlI1 81. JEF'bFtiEss.S
: Hottla. Va, 49,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-04-09
DO YOU THINK
ENOUGH OF YOURSELF

Most or us have soiGo friend among
our acquaintanccs who, AZ; the children
Ilfve It, thinks too much OF heiselr.s'
* beautiful knowledge that she IL right
4 In the everything is her leading, ci,artc-s
teristic,. and becn,se Of this self-c9nn-
dercc she is anything bat n nice girl 10
know. IL
v Yet, as n general rule. perhaps there
are far too many girls who ctr tbs other
way. That humility which we are at
times impured to cultivate has with them
become too much OF II habit. The girl
who lacks self-coniidcnce may lave very
pleasing conversational gifts. Enirh' others
never liavcs All opportunity to enjoy be-.
cause she dare not make use OF her
power. Many gtri.. tOos Is afraid; to
take the Initiative In any question, though
her Judgment Is invarfitbly right. How
many OF us have friends VITO spend their
Z lives In sonae Inferior posit on5 because
they think 30 little OF then,selves,f and
they dare not aspire 10 n higher post,
while one liz continually n1eetita thE:
i girl who makes terrible mistakes simply
/ because She tfs afraid TO follow the teach
Ing of her own mind. ,F} IA
or courscsit IL dinicnlt to hit that hap,
y ny dividing line. which separaa .es every
Virtue from It's corresponding vice. u
6 the same time In q EoptI nGny ~ les
the "sitting+on., pro.eSR.s which, Isl reqHs-,
8sitioncd I'M older to- dcstrpy{ cOnceE too
often Iestrpys also. tile, seif- dence.s
wsIcl, does 50 much towards success III.
SCHUYLER BRISTOW.
Z f<,~,s, T. 49,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-04-09
"a MExICAN legend.
(Conttnued,).

SNONtuluctl.J
On reaching tho city, John, went
5strnights to tlIet bishop; and buibly rs-
hded to him. The bishop listened With
attention, but hcf put him OF and hade
4 him come again,
John returned homeward feeling. very
sad. When heS reached the place OF tho
Vision he saw our Blessed Mother walt
ing for him.. He was, not surprised, and
going up he threw himself at her feet
and told her Of his want OF SUCCESS.
The Blessed Virgin listened with lriud-
mass and told John that sie had mil
/ lions OF angels ut her conlmand, but
slit, had chosen him her faithful servant
for, this work. 5t yi4 q
She ordered him to return to this bishop
and repeat the messages. Poor John: told
her lie WAS afraid it would be useless,
but promised to obey. "
IIe VENT tSa dexico this next day, and liz
simple manner told the bishop he lad
seen the B1eIsedi Virgin a second time
and she had again commanded to have
I (Tof 30 ntinued. }
JENNIE 1IDNTAGNA.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-04-09


on July I'd, l7e.t the American. Congress
declared the fight. of the colonists 70 lie
tic, same year the Declaration Of Iude-
pendencs was adopted but the g. country !;
June. III Then Congress declared the
national flag to, hej"thirtcen, stripes, seven
stars on blue field. THIS: flag it is
said was made under Washington
supervision in II house In Philadelphia,& by
4 widow named Betsy Ross.
When Newfoundland Kentucky. were adj
tmttted to the Union two stripes and two
stars were added. When Illinois was adj
mittcd. in 1918. there were twenty States
III the Union and people realized that
the flag, ifcn1arscd BY stripes as each
State eltarcd, would lose itH beauty and
become too large. In April. ISIS; Congress
passedt ~ law TINT the national flag
should be ''tl,irtee,i HORIZONTAL strtpes,,
alternating. red and WHITE, with twenty
stars, white on N Blue field, snd: that. every
new State admitted Should be repre-
ssented by an add tionai star on the flag
sof tho Union-' ~ ss3
a BY HESTA d IIoBsDN.s
~ 9 C10-e rup1eut Raa civ
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-04-09
NATURE STUDY FOR
ROYS@ AND GIRLS.

Dear Cl1lldren5of tho Club.
Since the editor last wrote you the
leaves liave come DIT and the trees are
beginning 10 be clothed III greer. The
editor confcsscs that every year tho
Intention develops Of lookins Into tho
unfolding Of tho leaves AsSusual the IN
tention has come to rnugtt for oncSmorn-
Ing they appeared and the editor was
no wiser than before.
The consequences liz that a brand now
Intention is taking the direction of ma
ture study whicl, properly pursued, is
supposed to endow one with all kinds Of
knowledge, Including even the manner
/: IN which The trees have their emerald
dress put on, over their beads. +. f
Speaking 81 the itrecs and naturo-study.
the editor istre,nindei thst the great rr,i-
stefan beethoven, after, he hccanle deaf..
loved TO spend his time during every;
eprlng and sumner III the woods. He
said to friend: MY deafness trottDres
me less here than elsewhere. Every
tree seems to speak to me OF God. How
happy an, to wander through, tie euoli
paths OF the fcrest!'
Beethoven often went to the. park wien
he wished to write music. There. III The
thlcKest part Of the wood, come o. his
most beautiful music was composed. He
sat in the fork OF an old onk and wrote,
sometimes a symphony. sometimes q
sonata, but always something good ana.
rio y
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-04-09
APRIL FOOL.

"Good-byc" llolIorcd aunty as si,e:
crossed the street. .GOod-llye." answered
little johnny. He was little tot about
four years old and was unusually small
4 for his age. sss
( & Now 1t was tho first day or April and
Johnny begun to think Of what he cpttld
dc to fool the family. a Thought soon
came into his head and 1t did not take
\ him long to- put 1t into ction.
81 They had - very pretty tito pl!ppy.
which they kept out Of doors Iii a house;
which they, had built for him. y
Johnny took tho dog out. and got into
the house himself.
Soon the baker: came. and thought that
the dog was 40 pretty; thar. he picked HIM
up and put him In the basket which het
carried on his. arm. RISK
a l!fIlG while afterwardl Johnny's mother
went to look for him and she remember
ed seeing the baker pick up something
and put into his Backetr and she at ONE
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-04-09
A FAIRY TALE.

Continued from Last Weekly
JNlireH violet, and ass soon as morning,
cones caiI her and Susan near you and
TIN ow h!sip:olctS at them and say r have
been ruled by you long senougtl and now
/ will rulc YOU; YOU stall both be fiery
ssrpents to the end OF your. days and will
Salwa VS. be desCi sec. hi .il8
VIE next morning Araibella did just az
the fairy had told her. She hit the witch
Sir the middle, Of; her ugly eye and then
hit Susant and repeated what the fairy
HAD told Her.
! The witch uttered a cry of rage ard
threw her wand at, Arnbslla, but alas It
was too late. They weret both changed to
fiery. scrpents, crawling off to the woods
as fastE as they coud go. ~
Then the good fairy came to Arabella
and said: my child, 6 YOU have been very
brave, and now 4 will give you your re-
ward. I am your mother. the fairy queen.
III looked all over the world for YOU. and
ones day the witch nchanted me and
brought me flere. Twill now take YOU
home to my beautiful castle" With this
she tapped a. tiny silver bell, and. in q
moment beautiful chariot, drawn by
six white horses appeared. n She and Ara
beiaS stepped FMS and were tsoon at the
beautiful castle.s where they lived happily
ever afterward. 5tE .ssi q.
LOUISE HARRISON. M,CRANy.
A = II.,t.e - Z"