davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1905-12-08

bibliophile and an-Gov. PENNYPAcKEB
tiquary. He has accumulated thous-
ands Of books bearing on the early
history of the country which can hard
ly be bought at any price. In the col
lection are all the books bearing the
imprint OF Benjamin Franklin, and
this part of the library is valued at
$4,000.
Carl Setakosch and his wife. Clara
Lonise Kellogg. will shortly close their
house at New Haven. Conn. and SO to
Italy to spend the winter.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1905-12-08
SHIPS WRECKED BY STORM.
Vessels Ashore In n Terrific
blizzard on Lake Superior.

Blizzard ON Lake SUPERIOR.
st. Paul was the storm center of the
great disturbance which ragged over
the west and northwest east of the
Rocky Mountains Monday night. The
temperature up to noon Tuesday was
mild and the terrific gale which ragged
nearly all night dice out with the COM
ing of dawn. Over the British north
west the temperature is zero or be-
low.
At Superior. Wis. Il binding. wet
snow accompanied a GO-milc hurricane,
with the result that snow drifts -four
to six fee deep ODStructcd the princi-
pal streets. The citizens in their
homes were literally showed under.
The estimated velocity of wind all
miles an hour. All night the snow fell,
while the wind increased in force.
Lake Superior was dashed into boiling
fury. The hurricane marks the first
really fierce blizzard since 1872. and If
anything this storm is worse than the
II thirty-three years ago.
The steamer Crescent City is ashore
ilcdl buluiI III d NUS stoIAi hhi ~
is reported that Il whole bunch Of
Stpamers'' is ashore on the Lake Su-
perior coast and that the vessels are
being pounded to pieces by the heavy
sea. 1t is feared that the loss of life
in shipping disasters will be heavy.
The Crescent City Of the Pittsburs
Steamship Company fleet, which is
stranded on the north shore Of Lake
Superior, is Il total wreck. She was
driven on the rocks within the limits
OF the City OF Duluth.
The Crescent City is 40 feet long
with 5,1O5 gross tonnage, being n Of
the best Of the steel trusts ships.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1905-12-08
Humorous News Notes.

The Spanish minister Of war has ask
ed an appropriation of $4,2O0,OOO for
the purchase of 200 field guns.
Mrs. Thomas Stewart Of Columbia,
Mo-, was killed and her husband and
3-year-old child probably fatally injured
in a runaway accident.
Mrs. Isaac Barnes Of Presque Isle,
Me-, has been arrested on a charge of
poisoning her s~tepdaughter, a Pearl
Barnes, 10 years old.
The Countess Castellane is said to be
rapidly recovering from the effects Of a
fall from her horse, received in Bon
nelles forest while hunting.
President Roosevelt has amended his
recent civil service order increasing the
power Of himself and the heads of de-
partments to dismiss from the classified
service employees whose actions d~isplease
them.
The report Of the receivers of the
coal and ether properties Of the lata
G. J. Devlin, as made in Topeka. Kan,
showed the total assets to be 1885,
94S, and the total liabilities 4.J92 2O6.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1905-12-08
POWERS STAND PAT.
Hold One Turkish Island and May
Take Another.

D~ctachmcntS from the international
fleet landed at Mitylenc Sunday after
lions of Rcar-.Admiral Ritter Won Je-
dina and occupied the customs II
postal buildings. The governor pro-
tested, but his representations were
not awaiting. II the Sultan does not
Hcte,le to the demands of the powers
the fleet vii! occupy tho island of
TenpdoS, off the coast of Asia Minor.
control scheme so as to make it more
acceptable to Turkish views. The
grand viZier. Fcrid Pasha, the report
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1905-12-08

Papa asked the small boy who
was reading the magazine, 'what does
It mean by severing home ties?"
my son. one meaning" replied the
n~aterfamilias from behind his news
.1s a term used to describe z
mans feelings in regard to tearing
apart certain articles Of male neck
wear usually presented to him by a
wife with a fondness for bargain sales.
Boston Evening Transcript.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1905-12-08

that Whitney had
~miSquOted him, has
long been Il prolni-
nrnt figure in the
Massachusetts bus
mess world. Mr..
Whitney has long
identified with
many Of the enter
prises that make
New England IA
0 u being n di-
rector in fifteen
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1905-12-08

ed in a signal vim
dication of the pow
err of the law to
deal effectively with
influential offenders.
In April, 1904, Bur-
ton was convicted
of having violated
the federal statutes
by using his official
influence with the
Postotlice Depart
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1905-12-08

sons for maintain
ing that illness
saves lives, is SER
geant surgeon in
ordinary to the
British king and
surgeon in ordin-
AIRY to the Prince
of Wales. He per-
formed an opera
ton upon King
Edward in 1902,
and also p o the
(Tarman nmnnrnr
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1905-12-08

large corporations and president of
twelve. He is a banker and has been
interested in street railways. Notwith-
standing his great business interests.
Mr.. Whitney finds time for politics,
having been at the last election Demo-
cratic candidate for Lieutenant Gov
ernor of Massachusetts.
80
Right Rev. Arthur Foley Winning
ton Ingram, who denounces the prev
alence of drunkenness a. Oxford Uni
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1905-12-08

versity and other
English colleges,
has been Bishop
of London since
1901, and is one of
the distinguished
prclatcs Of t Il e
English Church.
He was born in
1888. 4 w a S
educated at OK
ford, graduating
with high honors.
For n time he was
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1905-12-08

accepted by the
board of trustees.
The resignation of
Robert II. McCur-
dy, son of the pres
ident. and general
of the
company, did not
accompany his faith
er's, nor did that of
the son-in-law Louis
A. Thebaud. The
early retirement of
both is looked for,
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1905-12-08

in Trinity College
for the higher edu-
cation of Iris h =
American III
is q resident of JOLT
ct, ILL.,. and presi-
dent of the Nation
al Woman's. AuXil-
larry Of the Ancient
Order of Hiberni-
ans, which organi-
cation collected the
. L. ~-AAtl,,41I
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1905-12-08

auction his $lOO,OUO
library and the
news has caused a
flutter among lovers
of old books. The
library is historical
~ one of the most
complete in the
United States and
its owner, besides
being a politician,
is known as a his
forian. 1itterateur.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1905-12-08

t h G sharp repri-
lnand administered
to him by Secre-
tary of State Root.
He will be sue
ceeded by Edwin
V. Morgan, minis.
ter to COrea.
Il h e reprimand
given Mr.. Squiers
resulted from his
alleged &C
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1905-12-08
ILLITERACY DYING OUT.

Comparisons with Foreign Nations
Show Fnvorably.
According to a bulletin issued by
the census bureau about JOG persons
out of 1000 in the United States over
10 years old are unable to write.
which is equivalent to about one in
only 46 out Of every 1000 or fewer
than one in twenty, of the foreign born
whites, 12S out of every 1000, and of
the negroes 445 out Of every 1000 are
illiterate.
International comparisons, restricted
as far a. possible to corresponding
classes of the population, are on the
whole, favorable to this country, indi-
eating that in most European countries
illiteracy is much. more prevalent
than it is here, although the United
States is still far behind Germany,
Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Switz-
erland. b There also is ground for salts
faction in the statistical evidence that
illiteracy is being reduced steadily. In
1890 the number of illiterates in every
1000 was 1873 for the total population,
w. " liz ~
for the foreign-born white and 56S for
negroes, Indians and Mongolians.
The women are shown to be mere
illiterate than the men, the illiteracy
for women being 112 in each 1000 and
for men 1O1. But the contrast is less
marked than it was in 1890, when the
illiteracy for the two sexes was IA
and 1913, respectively. In explanation
Of the fact that the girls have caught
up with the boys, it is suggested that
boys are less subject to parental con-
troll than girls and more prone to play
truant; and that they also are more
frequently required to contribute to
the family income by becoming wage
earners when they should be in
school.
In the country the illiteracy among
children is SO in each 1000; in the
city, using this term to designate col
lectively cities of over $4,000 inhnbit-
ants, it is only 10 in each 1000. The
contrast is least in the North Atlantic
States. In this section child illiteracy
in the city is 8 to a 1000; and in the
country S to a 1000. In the South the
difference is very marked; in the
South Atlantic division, 80 and 1913 for.
city and country respectively, and in
the South Central 45 and 1S1 a 1000.
, Illiteracy is in general greater in
the South than the North for all class
es Of the population. Perhaps the fair
est basis of comparison between the
two sections is that for native white
children living in cities of over $4,000
Inhabitants. In the North Atlantic Ill
vision the illiteracy for this class OF
children is 81, and in the North Cen
trail. 10; in the South Atlantic division
it is S.3, and in the South Central.
1871.
There are fewer illiterates among
the children of foreign-born parents
than among those of natives. owing,
it is said. to the fact that a greater
portion Of them live in cities.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1905-12-08

to the Washington School. She is con-
spicuous in matters affecting the Irish
race and the Roman Catholic church.
and is exceedingly popular in the cir
cles in which she moves.
- .~% -.I
The announcement has been made
in Philadelphia that Governor Penny
packer Of Pennsylvania will sell at
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1905-12-08

aDIy is lIlc HOS
important work
ever done by his
department, Il a $
undertaken anoth-
err arduOus bit of
litigation in the fl
ing Of a suit to de-
terminp whether or
not the Elkins law
against rebates ap-
plies to private can.
Mr.. Moody.
who like prpciH1ut
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1905-12-08
Wooaen Cara hetsel

y It has been suggested TINT thesexcsl-
lent showing made by steel cars e COLI
lision is due to this fact that the
wooden cars in the train With them
acted as cushions and lessened -
force of the shock
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1905-12-08
IS OUT.

Mutual Life Presidents Rcsigna-
ton Is Accepted.
Richard A. McCurdy has resigned as
president of the Mutual Life Insurance
Company and his resignation has been
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1905-12-08
ENVOY CALLED DOW

Minister SquicrS, R~eprimandcd oven
Pines Revolt, Quits.
Herbert G. Squiers resigned his com
mission as minister Of the United
States to Cuba. as Il protest again
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1905-12-08

william Henry Moody, who, since
Ne assumed the duties OF Attorney
General, has had charge of what prob
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1905-12-08
BURTON AGAIN CONVICTED.
Kansas senator for tho Second Tim .
Hns Been Found Guilty.

For the second time in two years
trial proceedings in the case of Senator
J. Ralph Burton of Kansas AVE result
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1905-12-08

Mrs. John e. Quinn. who at Wash
ington presented to Cardinal Gibbons
the sum of $4,000 to endow Il chair
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1905-12-08

chaplain to the Archbishop of York
and the Bishop of st. Adams, and was
raised to the ep%iscopate in 1897, serv-
Ing for four years rs Bishop of Step
ney. Bishop Ingram has published sew
eral volumes Of Il religious character.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-03-02

white kid shoas, her sailor hat tilted
at barely perceptible angle. The men
were in white flannels and smart
yachting suits. "Can we come aboard: ~
Wilbur gasped and stared. Con
found it"' he muttered. "Oh. come
along be added desperately.
The party came over the side.
"Oh, N.Y." said Miss Herrick blank
~, stopping short
line decks, masts and rails of the
schooner We're shiny with a black coat
ing OF dirt and grease; the sails were
gray with CRIME; a strangling odor of
OIL and tar. of cooking and of opium
OF Chlnese punk and drying fish, per-
vaded all the air. In the waist, Hoang
and jim, bare to the belt, their cues
Topped around their necks to be out Of
the way, were slowing the dory and
exchanging high pitched nonosylla-
bles. Miss Herrick's sister had not
come aboard. The three visitors-Jer-
ry, Ridgeway and Josie-stood nerv-
ously huddled together, their elbows
close in, as if to avoid contact with the
prevailing filth, their immaculate white
outing clothes detaching themselves
violently against the squalor and sor-
did CRIME of the schooner's back
ground.
"Oh, my" repeated Miss Herrick in
dismay, half closing her eyes, "'ro.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-03-02

mystery, the legend-behold he was
there, back from the unknown, drop
ped from the clouds, spewed up again
from the bowels of the earth, a verita-
BILE god from the machine who in a
single instant was to disentangle all
the unexplained complications of those
past winter months!
Here he comesr' shouted Jerry, his
eyes caught by group of men in full
dress and gold lace who came tramp
ing down the hall to tie ballroom,
bearing a nondescript figure on their
shoulders. Here he comes-the bows
are bringing him in here! Ohr' he
cried, turning to the musicians, cant
you play something anything? Hit it
up for all you're worth! Ridgeway-
iNat-look here! Ross was Yale. v
know-Yale '95. Amt we enough Yale
men here to give him the yell?'
Out of all time and tune, but with q
vigor that made up for both. the mu-
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-03-02

cost I'm fifteen bundled dollah. I be
| bury all same mandarin-all same Lit
tie Pete. You plomise, sure?'
Il promise you, Charlie You shall
have a funeral finer than Little
| Pete's.''
Charlie nodded his head contentedly,
drawing breath of satisfaction.
"Bimeby Hop Sing send UNI body
back China" He closed his eyes and
lay for long time, worn out with the
effort of speaking, as if asleep. Sud-
denly he opened his eyes wide you
no fogettee horse?'
"Four horses, Charlie. I'll remem-
ber.'
He dropped once more, only to rouse
again at the end of a few minutes
with:
"First chop coffin, plenty much sill
ver," and again little later and very
feebly, ''SiX piecee-band music-Chi-
ma music; four piecee-gong-four.
81 promise you, Charlie" said Viii
bur.
"Now," answered Charlie-"now I
die
And the low caste Cantonese cody,
with all the dignity and calmness of Il
Cicero, composed himself for death.
An hour later Wilbur and Moran
knew that he was dead Yet, though
they had never left the hammock, they
could not have told at just what mo-
ment he died. .....- ......
Later, on that same afternoon, Will
bur, from the crows nest, saw the
lighthouse on Point Iona and the
huge, rambling bulk of the Coronado
hotel spreading out and along the
beach.
It was the outpost of civilization.
They were getting back to the world
again. Within an hours ride of the
hotel were San Diego, railroads, news
papers and policemen. Just off the
hotel, however, Wilbur could discern
the cleaning white hull of a United
States man-of-War. With the glass he
could make her out to be one of the
monitors, the Monterey in all proba-
bility.
After advising with Moran it was
decided to put in to land. The report
as to the castaways could be made to
the Monterey and Charles body for
warded to his tong in San Francisco.
In two hours time the schooner was
we'll up, and Wilbur stood by Moran's
side at the wheel watching and study
ing the familiar aspect of Coronado
beach.
Its a great winter resort" he told
| her. Il was down here with a party
two years ago. Nothing has changed.
| You see that big sort of round wing,
Moran. all full Of windows? That's
the dining room. And there's the
bathhouse and the bowling alley. Sec
the people on the beach and the girls
in white duck skirts, and look up there
| by the veranda-let me take the glass
yes, there's a tallyho coach Isn't it
queer to get back to this sort Of thing
after Magdalena bay and the beach
combers?'
Moran spun the wheel without reply
and gave an order to Jim to ease off
the foresheet.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-03-02

! think of what you must have been
through! thought you had some kind
| of yacht. I had no idea it would be
like this And as she spoke Moran
came suddenly upon the group from
behind the foresail and paused in
abrupt surprise, her thumbs in her
belt
She still wore mems clothes and was
booted to the knee. The heavy blue
wooden shirt was open at the throat.
the sleeves rolled halfway up her
large white arms. In her belt she car
ried her haftless Scandinavian dirk
She was hatless as ever, and her
heavy, fragrant cables Of rye hued
hair fell over her shoulders and breast
to far below her belt.
Miss Herrick started sharply, and
Moran turned an inquiring glance up
on Wilbur. Wilbur took his resolution
in both hands.
Miss Herrick,'' he said, "this is Mo-
ran-Moran Sternersen"
Moran took a step forward, holding
out her hand. Josie, all bewildered,
put her tight gloved fingers into the
calloused palm, looking up nervously
! into Moran'S face.
| I'm sure,' she said feebly, almost
breathlessly-"I-I'm sure Pm very
| pleased to meet Miss Sternersen"
1t was long before the picture left
Wilbur's imagination. Josie Herrick,
| petite, gowned in white, crisp from her
maids grooming, and Moran. sea rover
and daughter Of a hundred vikings.
towering above her, booted and belted.
gravely clasping Josie's hand in her
own huge fist.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-03-02
CHAPTER XII.
ME winter season at the Hotel
del Coronado had been unusu-
ally gay that year, and the

uCA OOIOuduO udu DSGu unuSu-
ally gay that year, and the
young lady who wrote the So
ciety news in diary. form for one of
the San Francisco papers had held
forth at much length upon the hotels
"unbroken succession of festivities.
She had also noted that prominent
among the newest arrivals had been
Mr.. Nat Ridgeway Of San Francisco,
who had brought down from the city
aboard his elegant and sumptuously
fitted yacht Petrol jolly party. COM
posed largely of the seasons debu-
tantes. To be mentioned in the latter
category was Miss Josie Herrick,
whose lavender coming out tea at the
beginning of the season was still
subject of comment among the Cos
sips-and all the rest of it.
The Petrol had been in the harbor
but few days, and on this evening a
dance was given at the hotel in honor
Of her arrival. 1t was to be q cotillon.
and Nat Ridgeway was going to lead
with Josie Herrick. There had been a
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-03-02
CHAPTER XIII.

r. AN FRANCISCO once more!
A For two days the Bertha Mill
w. ner had been beating up the
coast, fighting her way against
northerly winds, butting into head
seas.
The warmth, the stiffness. the placid,
browsing quiet of Magdalena bay,
steaming under the golden eye of
tropic heaven, the white, baked beach,
the bay heads, straited with the mi
rage in the morning, the coruscating
sunset. the enchanted mystery Of the
purple night. with its sheen of stars
and1iding moon, were now replaced by
the hale and vigorous snorting of the
trades, the roll of breakers to land
ward and the unrelnitting gallop Of
the unnulnbered multitudes Of gray
green seas careering silently past the
schooner, their crests occasionally hiss
ing into brusque eruptions of white
froth or shifting broad on under her
counter, showering her decks with a
spout of icy spray. 1t was cold. At
times thick fogs cloaked all the world
u WAFER. IL luc east pEOceSS1Ou OIL
bleak hills defled slowly southwark.
Lighthouses were passed; streamers of
smoke on the western horizon marked
the passage of steamships, and once
they met and passed close by huge
Cape Horner, great deep sea tramp,
all sails set and drawing, rolling slowly
and leisurely in seas that made the
schooner dance
At last the Farallones looked over
the oceans edge to the north; then
came the whistling buoy. the Seal
rocks, the Heads, Point Reyes. the
Golden Gate fanked with the old red
Preside, Lime point with it's watching
cannon, and by noon of gray and
boisterous day, under lusty wind and
slant of rain, just five months after
her departure, the Bertha Millner let
go her anchor in San Francisco bay
some few hundred yards off the life
boat station
II this berth the schooner was still
three or four miles from the city and
the water front But Moran detested
any nearer approach to civilization,
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-03-02

~ AN FRANCISCO once more!
va For two days the Bertha Mill
w. ner had been beating up the
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1905-10-25
A Clean Attraction.

"A. +. Bacon wrote the manag.
er OF the Lakota opera house, re.
garding Patten & Perry's high
class comedy which will be given
here Friday nighG. The answer
should be sufficient to convince
all that the attraction is one
which should not be missed:
Lakota, N. D.
Mr.. A. f. Bacon:-
Patton & Perry
put up the cleanest and best
vaudeville attraction ever saw.
They haven't a poor feature in
the whole show. Band and or.
chestra are fine. Several parties
told me they were the best they
had ever seen. You can gauran-
tee the people OF Minot the big.
gest two hours of clean fun that
they ever saw.
Sincerely,
W. c. FAIRBANKS,
Mgr. Lakota opera house
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1905-10-25
The Judge Davis Cigar

Have you smoked one OF them
yet-one of those Judge DAVIS
cigars? Then you have missed
a rare treat for they're the finest
that have struck Minot in many
a day. And the picture on the
box cover. Its Nehemiah him
self as big as life and twice as
natural. Looks just like he was
going to speak and give a
gambler sixty years in the pen.
Don't know where to buy one?
Oh, anywhere, any OF the drug
stores keep them. Got to do it.
They're stocked up with them in
good shape. Easy sellers and a
fragrant smoke at that. They're
made in Wisconsin, most to
good for campaign cigar, but
Judge says he is going to lay in
a big supply Of them for camp
align purposes. He doesn't need
them of course, but they'll not
come amiss. They were first in
PRODUCED in at Emerson's confec-
tionery.