davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-05-12
The Bad Boy Writes of Ancient and
Modern Highwaymen-He Gets a
Taste of High Life and His Dad
Tells the Story of the
Pickleman's Daughter.
BY HON. GEORGE w. PECK.

sEIX-GOVern0r OF Wisconsin, formerly pCO-
Usher Of 'Peck's SUM-" author Of
"Peck's Bad Boy etc)
Copyright, 1904, by Joseph B.. Bow!es)
LONDON. England.-My Dear Old
Skate: Well, il We are going to see any
of the other countries on this side OF
the water before our return ticket ex-
pires, We have got to be getting a move
on, and dad says in about a week we will
be doing stunts in Paris that will bring
about a revolution, and wind up the re-
public Of France, and seat some nine
spot on the throne that Napoleon used
to Wear out his buckskin pants on.
Dad asked me tother day what l cared
most to see in London. and I told him
I wanted to visit Newgate prison, and
the places made famous by the bold
highWaymen of a century or two ago.
He thought | was daffy, but when | told
him how I had read Claude Duyal' and
"Sixteen-String jack and all the high
way literature, in the haymow, when dad
thought l was wedding the garden, he
confessed that he used Ito hunt those
yellow covered books out of the n
when | was not reading them, and that
he had read them all himself. when I
thought he was studying for his cam
paign speeches. and 20 he said he would
go with ME. SO we visited Homestead
Heath, where Claude Duval used to ride
"Black Bess.' and hold up people who
Travelled at night in post chaises. and VIC
found splendid spots where there had
been more highway robbery going on
than any place east of Missouri, but I
was disguised when I thought what
chumps those old highway robbers we're,
compared to the American highway rob-
bers and hold W lei Of the present day.
In Claude DUvaIs time he had a brace
of fint-lOck pistols, which he had to eX-
anime the printing every time a victim
showed up and while he was. polite
when he robbed a duchess, he used to kill
people all right, though if they had had
cameras at that time the flash from the
light picture Of the robber, so he could
have been identified when he rode off in
the night to a roadside inn and filled up
on beer, while he counted the ten shil-
lings he had taken from the silk purse
of the victim. Why. one of our Ameri-
can gangs that hold up a train, and get
an express safe full of greenbacks. and
shoots up a mess of railroad hands and
passengers with Winchesters and au-
tomato pistols, and blows up cars with
dynamite and gets away and has to have
O. bookkkeeper and a cashier to keep
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-05-12
into a ditch of dirty water. and the horse

into a ditch of dirty water, and the horse
went off across a field, and the policemen
fshed dad out of the ditch, and run him
through a clothes wringer OF something.
and got him dried out, and sent him to
the hotel in an express wagon, and rode
my horse back to the liveryman and told
him what happened to dad, and they
locked me up in a box stall until some
body found the horse, they
thought dad was a horse thief, and they
held me for ransom. But dad came
around before night and paid my ran
som, and we were released. Dad says
Rotten Row is rotten, all right enough.
and by ginger it is, cause he has not got
the smell of that ditch off his clothes
yet.
Now he has got a new idea, and that is
to go to some country where there are
bandits. different from the bandits here
in London, and be captured and taken to
the mountain Businesses, and held for
ransom until our government makes a
fuss about it, and sends Warships after
us. l tell dad it would be just u luck
to have our government fail to try to get
US. and the bandits might cut u heads
Off and stick them on a pole as a warn
ing to people not to travel unless they
had a ransom concealed about their
clothes. But dad says he is out to see
all the sights, and he is going TO be ran
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-05-12

sOned before he gets home, If it takes
every dollar Il government has got. |
think he is going to work the bandit
racket when We get to Turkey, but, by
ginger, he can leave me at a convent, be-
cause | don't van one Of those crooked
sabers run into me and turned around
like a corkscrew. Dad says | can stay
in a harem while he goes to the noun
tains with the bandits, and | don't know
as l care, as they say d harem is the most
interesting place in Turkey. You know
the pictures We have studied in the old
grocery, where a whole bunch of beau
tiful women are practicing useing soap
in a marble bath.
Well, don't you say anything to ma
about it, but dad has got his foot in il
clear up to the top button. 1t isn't any
thing scandalous, though there is a
oma at the bottom Of it. You see, we
used to know a girl that left home to go
out into the world and earn her own liv-
ing. She elOcuted some at private par
ties and sanitariums, to entertain peO-
pie hat were daffy, and were on the
verge Of getting permanent bats in their
belfry, and after a few years she got or
the stage, and made a bunch of money,
and went abroad. And then she had
married a titled person. and everybody
supposed she was a duchess, or q count
ess, and ma wanted us to inquire about
her when we got over here. Ma didn't
want us to go and hunt her up to board
with her, or anything, but just to get a
glimpse of high life. and see If our poor
little friend was doing herself proud in
her new station in life.
Gee, but dad found her, and she ART
any more Of a duchess thar | am. Her
husband is a younger son Of a titled per-
son. but there isn't none enough in the
whole family to wad a gun, and our poor
girl is working in a shop, or store, sell
ing corsets to support a lazy, drunken
husband and a whole mess Of children,
and while she is seven removes from a
duchess. she does not rank with the
woman who washes her mothers clothes
at home. Gosh, but dad was hot when
he found her, and after she told him
about her situation in life he gave her
a yellow-backed f~ifty-dollar bill, and
came back to the hotel mad, and wanted
to pack up and go somewhere else,
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-05-12

where he didn't know any titled persons.
That night a couple of dukes came
around to the hotel to sell dad SON
stock in a diamond mine in South Africa,
and they got to talking about how Eng
lish society held over our crude Ameri-
can society, until dad got an addition to
the mad he had when he called on our
girl, and when n Of the dukes said
America was being helped socially by
the marriage of American women ia
titled persons, dad got a hot box. like
a stalled freight train.
Says dad, says he: you Johnnies
are a lot Of confidence men, who live
only to rope in rich American girls. SO
you can marry them and have their dads
lift the mortgages on your ancestral es-
.tates, and put on tin roofs in place OF the
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-05-12

mortgages, cause a mortgage will not
shed rain, and you get their money and
spend it on other women M Of the
dukes turned red like a lobster, and l
think he is a lobster, anyway, and he
was going to make dad stop talking, but
the duke didn't know dad, and he con-
tinued. Says dad, says he: 81 know a
rich old man in the States, who made
ten million dollars on pickles, or break
fast food, and he had a daughter that
going in the house.
"She came over here and gst exposed
to a duke, and she had never been vacci-
mated, and the first her father knew she
caught the duke, and came home, and he
followed her. Say, he didn't know
enough to pound sand, and the old man
got several doctors for her, but they
couldn't break up the luke fever, and
finally the old pickle citizen asked him
how much the mortgage was, and how
much they could live On, and he bought
her the duke, and sent them Off, and the
duke covered his castle with building
paper, so it would hold water, and they
set up housekeeping with a hundred
servants. Then the duke wanted a rae
ing stable, after the baby came, and the
old pickle man went over to see the
baby, and it looked so much like the old
man that he invested in a racing stable,
and the servants bowed low to the old
man and called him Your 'ighness,' and
that settled the old pickle person, he
fell into the trap of building a townhouse
in London.
Then he went home and made some
more pickles, and the daughter cabled
him to come right over, as they had been
invited to entertain the king and a lot of
other face cards in the pack. And the
old man thought it would be great to get
in the king row himself, so he shoveled
a lot Of big bills into some packing
trunks and went over to fix up for the
king. The castle had to be r~edecorated
for about six miles, up one corridor and
down the other, but Old Pickles stood
the raise, because he thought it would
be worth the money to be on terms of in
timacy with liking.
Then when it was all ready, and the
old man was going to stand at the front
IGOR and welcome the king. they made
him go to his room, back about a half
a mile in the rear Of the castle, and for
two weeks old Pickles had his meals
brought to his room, and when it was
over, and his sentence had expired, he
was let out, and all he saw of the grand
entertainment to the crowned heads was
a ravine full of empty wine bottles. a
case of jimjams for a son-in-1aW, a case
Of nervous prostration for a daughter,
and hydrophobia for himself. NV old
pickle friend has got, at this date, three
million good pickle dollars invested in
your id island, and all he has to show
for it is a sick daughter, neglected by
a featherhead of a husband, who will
only speak to old pickles when he wants
more money, and a grandchild that may
die teething at any time. You are a
nice lot of ducks to talk to me about
your English society being better than
our American civilization. You get"
and dad drove the dukes out.
think they are going to have dad ar
rested Tor treason. But don't tell ma,
cause she may think treason serious.
Yours, HENNERY.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-05-12
AMERICA SUPREME IN TRADE
Statistics Show Conclusively That
This Country Leads the World
in Commerce.

During the last month, fer the pur-
pose of ascertaining the facts as to
Americas relaive position, industrially,
among other nations, I have studied the
statistical reports Of our own and other
leading nations, says a writer in Cent
Per Cent, and the Investigations and
comment Of almost every important
daily and financial journal in America.
The universal verdict of the press, ire
spective Of party affiliations, is that
Americas supremacy has been estab-
lished and that the nation faces the
dawn Of 1905 steadied by the knowledge
Of the s~tupendous truth that.
clally, amOrg the other nations of the
world, she stands for the first time in
the forefront and alone. The RESPONSE
bility which m with such knowledge
is SOLDERING.
But the report Of the bureau Of statis-
tics of the government S department of
commerce will of course carry greater
conviction than the news reports ard
opinions Of eve the most reliable Jour
mails. This reports figures are in all
cases estimates, except Of the census ct
1900, but are approximately accurate;
however, for the most important items
the actual figures are available.
In cotton consumption the percentage
Of increase between 1880 and 1903 in the
United States is f07 per cent, as against
IS per cent. in the united kingdom, Ger
many and France combined; in pig iron
437 per cent. of increase for America,
against 102 per cent. increase in tie
united kingdom, Germany, France and
Russia combined; in coal 364 per cent.
increase in America, against 50 per cent.
increase in the -four European countries
combined.
And as the percentage of increase is
larger. SO the actual quantities of these
three articles consumed are larger. The
consumption OF cotton in the United
States in 1903 exceeded by 33 per cent.
that of the united kingdom and was
nearly double hat Of Germany and
France combined; of pig iron, the con.
sumption in the United States was coz.
siderably more than double that of the
united kingdom; of coal, the consump-
ton in the United States was nearly
double that of the united kingdom and
fully double that of Germany.
America has 80, OO0, 900 people. a total
wealth Of S106, 900. 000, 900, and the cash
value Of the cotton, corn n wheat
crops for the year is about s. ,012, OO0, 600.
The new year will be one of almost un-
paTalleled prosperity.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-05-12
NO MORE HEADACHE
GENERAL WEAKNESS AND FEVER
DISAPPEAR TOO.
How n Woman Was Freed from Troubles
That Had Made Life Wretched for
MANY Years.

The immediate causes Of headaches
vary, but most of them como from poor
or poisoned blood. III anamia the blood
Is scanty OR thin the nerves are imper-
fectly nourished and pain is the way in
which they express their weakness. In
colds the blood absorbs poison from the
mucous surfaces, and the poison initiates
the nerves and produces pain. In rheu-
matisfn, malaria and the grip, the poison
in ths blood produces like discomfort. In
indigestion the gases from the impure
matter kept in the system affect the
blood in the same way.
The ordinary headache-cures at best
give only temporary relief. They deadeE
the pain but do not drive the poison out
of the blood. DR.. Williams Pink Pills
on the contrary thoroughly renew the
blood and the pain disappears perma-
nently. Women i'll particular have found
these pills an unfailing relief in head.
aches caused by anemia.
Miss Stella Blocker recently said: CDR.
Williams Pink Pills did me a great deal
Of good. / had headache nearly all the
time. After I had taken three boxes of
shese pills l became entirely we'll"
"HOW long had you suffered ?'' she
was asked.
"F5or several years. I can't tell the
exact date when my illness began for it
came on by slow degrees. 1 had beer
going down hill for many years."
Did you have any other a~ilments?"
81 was very weak and sometimes Ihad
fever. My liver and kidneys were af-
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-05-12
a UUUUl BACK AND SIDE
Quickly Cured by a Short
Course of Pe-Tu-na.

MFRS. MINNIE e. McALLISTER,
4V4 wife of Judge McAllister, writes
from 1917 West 33rd street, Mime
apolis, Mimi, Is follows:
"Isuffered for years with q pain In
fhe small of my back and right side. II
fnferfered often with my domestic and
social duties and I never supposed that
1 would be cured, as the doctors med
icLne did moi seem to help me any
Fortunately a member of our Order
advised me to try Pcruna and gave il
such high praise that / decided to try
it. Although l started in with little
faith, I felt S 20 much better in a week
| that l felt encouraged.
81 took it faithfully for seven weeks.
and am happy indeed to be able to say
that l am entirely cured.
"Words faHfo express my gratitude.
Perfect health 0nce more Is the besf
thing I could wish for, and thanks to
Peruna, 1 enjoy that now"
Pain in the back, or on the right side
How often a physician hears this
complaint!
Over and over we hear women saw:
81 have a pain in the small of my back.
| have a pain in my right side, just be-
low the ribs"
These symptoms indicate pelvic or
abdominal catarrh.
They indicate that the bowels are not
acting properly-that the liver is out of
order-that the pelvic organs are con-
gested.
Pelvic catarrh-thatis the name
Peruna cures pelvic cafarrb, when
aH of these symptoms disappear.
The catarrh ma be all in the alb
dominal organs, when it would be
properly called abdominal catarrh.
At any rate, it is one of those cases of
internal catarrh which can be reached
only by a course of treatment with
Peruna
We have or file thousands of testi-
monials similar to the above. It is inn
possible here to give II readers more
than one Or two specimens of the num-
Der of grateful and commendatory let
tiers DR.. Hartman is constantly ~receiv-
ing in behalf Of his famous catarrh
remedy, Peruna.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-05-12

Mrs. Carrie King, Darlington, Mo-,
writes:
- have suffered for years with
biliousness, and kidney and liver
trouble.
"f / caught a little cold, the pains
were increased and backache and
headache were of frequent occurrences.
"Hovever, Peruna cured me-twelve
bottles made me a healthy woman"
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-05-12
Baseballitis.

Employer-So you think your grand
mother viii die soon. Is her disease catch
ing?
n. Y. Times.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-05-12

Il have looked the matter over with
reasonable CARE said the Prunytown
Philosopher, with his usual acridity, and
4 have reached the conclusion that it is
not absolutely necessary to send boys to
college in order to have 'em act the fool"
Tom Watson's Magazine.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-05-12
Needed Money!

De Style-Was the duke on his knees
when he proposed to Miss Millyins?
Gunbusta-No; on his uppers.-N. Y
Tunes.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-05-12

Russia's free balance" presumably rep
resents the money the grand dukes have
not yet taken possession of.-Detroit Free
Press.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-05-12

A good many doctors are much more
skillfal. at the autopsy than at diagnos-
i~ng.-Chlcago Sun.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-05-12

Piso's Cure cannot be too highly spoken of
Ave, n, Minneapolis, Mimi, Jan. 6, 1900.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-05-12

Some people just naturally look as if
they eat off a red table cloth.-Washing-
ton Star.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-05-12

In a Pinch, Use Aliens Foot-Ease.
Shake into your shoes Aliens Foot-Easc.
a powder. 1t cures Corns, Bunions, Painful,
Smarting, Hot, Swollen feet. At all Drug
gists and hoe Stores, Csc. Sample FREE.
Address A. S. Olmsted. LIE Roy, N. Y,
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-05-12

Hatred often comes from only knowing
half of a man.-Chicago Tribune.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-05-12

Great Britain's Rivers,
The British empire embraces 2.OC0
rivers.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1905-04-22
PALESTINE
Makes Flattering Offer For the K. of P.
Widows and Orphans Home of Texas.
Committees Address.
Location Desirable.

the establishment a Widows Orphans Home,
affecting the home the happiness
be carefully Health
without which would be folly and iuexpednt
that
But there other conditions which combined with will
Pyhanm with fit purpose
sustaining giving light pleasant
with surroundings that elevang irrespective
selfish claims other point Palestine
the list 1t would be useless
those
magnificent nducement
those who unacquaned with these conditions
carefully thoughuy the following
by place seeking this
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1905-04-22
Commercial Conditions.

The commercial conditions excellent quarterly
reports three National addition
shops they the
alone something month
of the 1t safely stated that there
having better outlet for transportation
The g. N has its main running
Galveston The main line branches points
railroads running
be forwarded from Palestine evening
Houston Galveston San Antonio Fort Dallas
than O'Clock the evening
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1905-04-22

Just received 100 pairs Of Mems Odd Pants
that we bought UNDER PRICE. They were
regular 81. 20 and $l.5O values: for one week
we put them all on one counter and offer
you choice
q Bargain Record Breaker in Pants.)
One counter full of Shoes-Mcn'S. Ladies'
Misses and Boy, Shoes-say | or , pair of
kind: will be sold regardless of cost, pair
(wolth double the money! 2jc, Zoe, 65c, 81
OF course you want something better in Shoes;
we have just received our new Spring Stock
and can show YOU all the late designs and mt
the same time save YOU money on every pair.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1905-04-22
The City of Palestine.

The city Palestine with population between
thousand people, lies nearly midway between
rivers which north parallel apart
what divide is extremely healthy beautiful
school buildings thoroughly organized public
praise
admiration from all who here has the
equipped Young buildings
practically gift Could great
distribution her benefcnce doubtless would be helpful
this should be located Gould
The principal the asphalt
The Methodist Episcopal Presbyterian Christian Missionary Baptist
Congregational Catholic
membership each having large church ediHces Water
telephone electric planS factory
operated basis there number of utilities
companies Pythan strong,
there large furnishing lodges.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1905-04-22
Anderson County Soil.

Anderson miles,
above the Gulf
the nights cool
the shade The rainfall inches
S. the population by the last
January 1904 to January 1906 every
Heretofore the last years.
the main products of the farmers
which running land high
prices Land within mile of the being
Reference is the
farming has discovered that
the yield
than growth We clearly
shows the value of this fruit
the Anderson
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1905-04-22

90 Ladies' Silk and Satin Belts, the very lat
est styles, just received, worth SOC, 1jc and
Soc each; special for one week --...-.-- HE
New Hand Bags, Combs and Waist Sets just
here.
% dozen Ladies Bleached and Tapped Sum
mer Vests, worth II lee our price for
one week.. --..-.-.------.7 lie
Garnets Indigo Blues, China Blues, AIeri-
macks, Light Shifting Styles. and solid Oil
Colors. all the best standard goods. These
brands are sold for , and &c a yard: for
one week or as long as they last ID vds 800
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1905-04-22

We have gone through our stock. gotten out
all remnants of every kind and have made one
BIG REMNANT COUNTER. Don't fail to
look them over.
Special Prices for one week on Gentemen's
Colored and White Shirts. Balbrggan Under
wear, Nansook Underwear, Elastic Seam
Drawers, Nobby Spring Neckwear Let us
save you money on your Gents furnishings
Late Shipment of Gentlemen and Boys Hats
in black and brown Gimble Stiff Hats. Black,
brown and pearl soft hats; also new stock of men
and boys Straw Hats. All will be sold I'm
der Value for this week.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1905-04-22

coETrNUED on PAGE ErGHT.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-11-30
A MORNING TONIC

(Florence Coats in Scribners.)
Now gracious plenty rules TIE board,
And in the purse is gold;
By multitudes, in glad accord.
Thy giving is eXtolled.
All, suffer me to thank Thee Lord.
For what Thou dost withhold,
j thank Thee that howe'er we climb
There yet is something higher;m
That though through all our reach OF
time
We to the stars aspire.
Still still beyond us burns sublime
The pure sidereal fire!
I thank Thee for the unexplained.
The hope that lies before.
The victory that is not gained
O. Father more and more
| thank thee for the unattained-
The good we hunger for!
| thank thee for the voice that sings
To inner depths of being:
For all the upward spread of wings
From earthly bondage freeing;
For mystery-the dream of Things
Reyond the power of seeing!