davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Washington times., 1906-12-09

traps. He has scores of these set with
i'm radius of SIX miles from his cabin.
and derives substantial income from
the sale of fUrs which every spring
are taken TO The most convenient most
of the Hudson Bay Company or sold u
collectors who make the round of the
camps at given intervals. A large per
o,rJdee ot the returns go for provisions
and ammunition but a. u-le has been
saNeI eacI year. ard this fund viii even
Juaiiy be used TO bay "a small farm.
.'' 1 love Jue woods. but } ~oalize that
] can't 1--we here always. this remark
abe hunter l0lu Ule. so B au sratiu-
ally making up my mind to ser .le d1v
81 here my wife e5s# see nelghbor nov
ar6 eu. aa- my ouy can ~ 30 sCuJu--
Arthur knows lot now he added
pI Quay but J want INN 10 know more
than sis mother and father. and. Of
course We can teach aIm more than
..Farret bears several scars he re-
CeiVed IN encounters with ViCiOUS AMI
mails ana on several occasions has
bee d laid up cor week al a time as
result of unfortunate adventures One
seam of MS thigh gives eloquent proof
of "a battle W3ged ten years ago VITA
wounded bear. and "A patch OF miss
ing scalp Is the trade mark of 2 IynA
which dropped on him while he WA
setting trap and covering IL with
burnt hickory wood. On the whole hs
has come of rema -kabIy well
strangely enough. Arthur is "a poor
hunter ana worse trapper He IL
moderately fond of shooting d-slikes
trapping and dOIes on fishing The lar
ter Is sport his father disdains sa
Arthur keeps the family supplied with
nsh- The young man 20 q. ---.-zl-aI5si
ana there ism bird. beast, flower oE
tree ne doesn't know all about lie
has also picked up considerable inf0rma-
Ion regarding herbs and has established
himself as the family doctor. Now and
then distant neighbors send for him to
cure their i'll
Il asked the mother If she didn't fear
her husband would some dry be killed
she replied that at first she was fear
tul, but that she 5000 n.rame con-
fsmself'
Gilpin observer., 1906-06-21
Snake Milkman Starts Early.

Allentown. Pa.-For some time yo-
seph Wetzel. of Locust Dale. noticed
that his cow was not yielding her
usual amount of milk. As all his
neighbors owned cows and had no use
for anybody else's milk. he could not
Understand what was the matter. So
lie watched.
The other day his vigils were re-
varded by seeing a big blacksnake
;lide under the COW. assume an atti-
,ude like a corkscrew, without making
noise like one, and proceed to milk
hat COW.
Joseph. after batting his eyes for a
ew moments, to see whether there
vas anything the matter with his
ision, ran home, got his shotgun. and
lilled the snake.
Round about the end of June Joseph
'ather expects to see his cows MIXED
hat way, for blacksnakes with fond
iess for milk fresh from the COW are
ather numerous around Locust Dale,
ut this is the first time he has seen
ny of them so early in the season.
Gilpin observer., 1906-06-21


diana section Of the line tangled 1p
so completely that traffic was not
regulated for hours, and the station
agents are still suffering from the
shock.
kellam's wrist had lost none of its
speed and he sent messages up and
down the line as quickly as they could
be received, ordering trains held or
sent on and to pass at certain sta
tions.
Station agents soon discovered that
orders were conflicting and that Sc
rious accidents would follow if they
were carried out. But the orders con-
tinued to come, and once in awhile
the insane man happened on the cor
rect number of a train. This helped
to mystify the agents. They thought
at first that some operator at some
point was drunk, but he was intent
on sending and would not be broken
in on to answer questions.
After 80 minutes, in which the
greatest confusion was caused, one
agent threw the key open and then
grounded the wire to the south of
him. Communication was thus opened
with other operators along the line
and a comparison of orders showed
that they were mixed, and it was con-
cuded TO hold all trains at stations at
which they should first arrive till the
muddle could be cleared up.
In the meantime Beauchamp had re-
turned to his Office and found Kellam
at his key. The insane man refused
10 vacate. and it required the COM
bined force of the operator and two
other men to overpower him. He
fought desperately, but finally was
bound hand and foot, placed upon a
handcar and sent to Jail. When
Beauchamp got possession of his key
and began to talk to the agents he
found that trains were being held at
several points. Explanations were
sent and the system started to work
again.
But for more than half an hour the
Wabash railroad in Indiana was at a
standstill and the operators at various
stations in maze.
Gilpin observer., 1906-06-21
cHILp's AWFUL SKIN HUMoR
Screamed with Pain-Suffering Near
: ~ Broke Parents Heart-Speed-
lily Cured by Cuticura.

Il wish to inform you that the
iCuticura Remedies have put stop to
twelve years of misery I passed with
my son. AS an infant noticed on his
body red. spot. and treated same
with different remedies for about five
years. but when the spot began to
get larger put him under the care OF
doctors. Under their treatment the
disease spread to four different parts
of his body. The longer the doctors
treated him the worse it grew. Dur
ing the day it would get rough and
form like scales. At night 1t would
be cracked, inflamed and badly swol-
len, with terrible burning and itching.
When think of his suffering it near
ily breaks my heart. His screams
could be heard down stairs. The suf.
fering Of my son made me full of
misery. I had no ambition to work,
to eat, nor could sleep. One doctor
told me that my sons eczema was
1ncurable. and gave it up for a bad
job. One evening I saw an article in
the paper about the wonderful Cuti-
cura and decided to give it trial.
tell you that Cuticura Ointment is
worth its weight in gold; and when
had used the first box of Ointment
there was a great improvement, and
by the time I had used the second set
of Cuticura Soap, Ointment and Resol-
vent, my child was cured. He is now
twelve . irs old, and his skin is as
fine and smooth as silk. Michael
Steinman. 7 Sumner Avenue, Brook
lyn, N. Y, April 16. 1905"
Gilpin observer., 1906-06-21

FRAGMENTS OF BURSTED SHE'LL.
Says Popular Mechanics, commenting
upon the picture:
1.-The average citizen who is accus
toned to reading of shells and other
munitions of war rarely has the faint
est conception of the fearfully devas-
tat.ng effect that results when a shell
explodes.
THE shell. which was known as a
six-inch A. p. shell, originally weighed
1924 pounds; the recovered fragments
aggregated "a 315 pounds. Of which
the largest piece weighed 10A pounds.
The average weight of the pieces was
2 5-16 ounces. The shell, which was
loaded with black powder, on being
firei from the gun passed through six
inches of hard-faced Krupp plate, and
burst when about eight feet beyond.
Arrangements had previously been
made for the recovery of as large a
number of fragments as possible
When the count was made there
were almost $50 pieces. Had the pro-
jec:ile burst in a group of men. the
fatal results can easily be imagined"
Gilpin observer., 1906-06-21
Self-Igniting Mantle.

Platinum sponge becomes incandes-
cent on contact with gas and causes its
ignition. This phenomenon has given
ducing the flame direct. NM. Rouxe-
Vile and Michaud have patented In
France process In which the addition
of any foreign apparatus to the mantle
is avoided. They have recourse simply
to mixture in which platinum sponge
is the essential ingredient. composed OF
refractory and adhering substances
Impregnated with this mixture in Its
upper texture, the mantle has the pow-
er OF igniting the gas. and of thus be.
coming incandescent. The stem ,ay
also be covered with the composition,
and the same result secured.
Gilpin observer., 1906-06-21
MAD OPERATOR TIES
UP RAILWAY TRAFFIC.
insane Man, Crazed by Heat, Seizes
Telegraph Office and Sends
Wild Orders.

Huntington, Ind.-With an insane
operator at the key at Andrews, Ind,
station agents all along this section
OF the Wabash railroad the other day
had the hottest half hour they ever
experienced striving to prevent 3 Sc
ries Of wrecks and collisions.
That none occurred was not the
fault of Everett Kellam, a worker in
the shops, who suffered a sunstroke.
While he was waiting transfer to an
asylum Kellam remembered that he
once had been an operator, and fast
one. He thought it would do him
good to send some train orders again.
Waiting until he saw Henry Beau.
champ, the Wabash operator at An.
drews, leaving his Office at noon, h0
slipped in and took possession Of tho
key. In half an hour he had the In
Gilpin observer., 1906-06-21

things appear to the fish could be OBJ
tanned by immersing camera in wa
ter and photographing the circle of
light, for 1t is easy enough to arrange
lens and iate so as to obtain
sharp image when both are immersed
in water. The apparatus was con-
structed out of a lard-pail, a short
focus lens provided with a very small
diaphragm being cemented over
hole perforated in a metal disk which
rested on a rim soldered around the
inside of the pail. The plate was
placed on the bottom of the pail and
the whole filled with clean water in a
dark room. The lens was covered by
a metal cap, operated by handle on
the outside of the pail. The apparatus
was set on the ground and the sur
face of the water covered with a sheet
of glass to prevent ripples. the pail
being so full that the glass was in
contact with the water. This arrange
ment obviated the necessity of i'm
mersing the AFFAIR in a pond. since
the function of the latter was per-
formed by the water in the pail above
the lens. A diagram of the arrange
ment is shown in Fig. l. together with
the paths Of the incident and refract-
ed rays. A number OF extremely inter-
Gilpin observer., 1906-06-21
S,!tiifiIl{lEE3M{{%1i!!!|!5{. Sen ion
ssssgaa MvLE
AS THE FISHES SEE US.
Unique and Interesting Experiments
with q Submerged Picture
Machine.

Some interesting experiments In the
photography, by means OF sub
merged camera, of objects above the
surface of a sheet of water, are de-
scribed by Prof. R. w. Wood in The
Johns Hopkins University Circular.
Prof. Wood says that his object was
to ascertain how the outer world
would appear to fish. He writes:
I'm discussing the peculiar type OF
refraction which occurs when light
from the sky enters the surface OF
still water, it seems of interest to as
certain how the external world ap-
pears to the fish. AS is we'll known an
eye below the surface of the water
sees the sky compressed into COM
paratively small circle of light. the
center of which Is always Immediately
above the observer, the appearance
being as II the pond were covered
with an Opaque roof with circular
aperture or window cut in 1t. The
objects surrounding the pond, such as
trees, houses or fishermen, must ap-
pear around the rim of the circle of
light, but we are unable to get =. clear
notion of their appearance, since our
eyes are not adapted to distinct vision
under water. 1t occurred to me that
a very good notion of how these
Gilpin observer., 1906-06-21

and all champions of race increase
might ponder.
Reduced to its lowest terms. this is
Tense all in one, as he gave 1t to the
reporter:
Il have worked hard on this farm
all my life. | have been getting poorer
and poorer every year. and more chill
dren kept coming until the house is
run over with them. But love them
anyway. Things have come to |,
pretty pass II man can't get his OWL
boys to help him.
Farmer bundle is shaggy man
with discouraged expression and
look of sullen defiance in his eyes.
Life has dealt unkindly with him.
At mention of the plow he led the
way without word to barn over
flowing with broken-down farm imp e
ments. 1t showed the same povert,
as the house. The man pointed to 1
wooden plow made OF rough tree limbs
with long tongue and four prongs.
There 1t is" he said, in tiret
way. rs that too much for my boy.
ana girls 10 pull? They like Ii.
push hard on the handle and it's easy
II is not plow. anyway. 1t is {
oabbage rake"
The reporter pointed at the horse.
whats the matter with the hors,
pulling it," he asked.
THE horse was SICK" he said. sui
lerly. Then his eyes flashed. "Wha
business is 1t OF the neighbors. any
way? l love my children. woul,
not mistreat them"
bundle lives near Wooden She
o'isy, Ave miles north of here. 10
years stories OF his misery have gon,
round the neighborhood. The Tumble
down cottage, which he calls home,
avoided by children. 1t stands In
secluded corner OF the Lake couatr.
Gilpin observer., 1906-06-21
Steam Without Fire.

A new type of boiler that is able to
keep on supplying steam for several
hours after the fire has been extin-
Maurice, engineer-iu-chief OF the
French navy. and ~ attracting con-
siderable attention. being operated
upon novel and os!ginal plan. This
invention, which waa awarded a prize
at the end of the last year by the
Academic des Sciences, is thus de-
scribed in the Scientific American
Supplement:
THE principle OF the storage Of
heat consists in the use of a mixture
of salts having great specific heat and
surrounding the greater part OF the
tubular system of the boiler The tenn
perature of these salts rises to about
45O degrees C. (s41 degrees F.) during
the heat. The result forms a new So
luton of the problem which was for
merly solved by the use OF reservoirs
of superheated water. and here we
have an economy OF weight as well as
space. After the heat which has ac-
cumplated during the run after the
fire is extinguished. the accumulation
of the heat is again made very quickly
after the fire is started. The system
is Of special value in the marine. and
also In electric stations. The result
OF the first experiments which have
been made at Cherbourg are quite ia
vorable, and no doubt the system will
be applied afterward on larger
scale"
Gilpin observer., 1906-06-21
USED IN
FIELDS AS HORSES
WISCONSIN FARMER DRIVES
oFFsPRINos TO PLoW.
STORY OF A LIFE TRAGEDY
Accused by Neighbors Of Cruelty, He
Denies Charge-Forced by Ne
cessity and Adversely to Have
Little Ones Work.

Oshkosh, Wis.-Complaint has been
made against August Dumdie, farmer
Living about five miles southwest Of
Eeenah on the line of the Oshkosh &
rIeenah Interurban, that he has been
Eitohing four of his seven children to
corn plow or cultivator and COM
relling them to drag the implement
through a ten-acre truck garden, while
n guided it and drove as he would
CrIve horses.
This sensational complaint is found
cal upon facts, as farmers in the vicin-
i.y and persons from Oshkosh riding
a.ong the highway in carriages and
automobiles have witnessed the prac-
ticc.
The attention of the authorities has
been called to the matter and after
securing substantiation of the facts of
the case DR.. Wilkie, of this city, agent
OF the Fox River Valley Humane So
cjety, went to the farmer and COM
pelied him to send five of the children
r.. school. OF the seven children five
are OF school age, whom the farmer,
1t is alleged, was rearing in ignorance.
The majority are girls. The oldest
one who was hitched to the plow is
not over IA years of age.
DR.. Wilkie stated that the plow has
harnesses attached to it which were
put about the shoulders of the children.
The farmer says the corn plow or cul-
tivator is very light, and was used
merely to stir up the top soil.
When newspaper correspondent
visited the farm, four children, one of
them a girl. stood around August Dunn
die, their father, offering a bulwark
OF loyal flesh and blood to the wrath
OF neighbors who branded the man
cruel, inhuman and a brute
Dumdie was seen, first by neigh
hors, then by an officer of the HUI
name society, driving a plow to which
four of his children were hitched. The
little ones were harnessed to the piow,
and they dragged it like horses. At
first sight it seemed monstrous, and
the neighbors arose in outcry against
the farmers inhumanity.
But they did not know Farmer Dunn
dies story, and, not caring, did not
ask it. His story does not reveal
cruelty. It is the story OF life trag-
edy on which even President Roosevelt
Gilpin observer., 1906-06-21

great mental depression. was unable to at
tend tony house work, and life became bur-
den to me- Twas confined for days to my bed,
lost my appetite, my courage and all hope
~ could not bear to think of an operation,
and in my distress tried every remedy which
l thought would be of any use to me, and
reading Of the value OF Lydia Z. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound to sick women decided
to give 1t trial. l felt SO discouraged that
had little hope of recovery, and when began
to feel better, after the second week, thought
it only meant temporary relief; but TO my
great surprise found that kept gaining,
while the tumor lessened in size
The Compound continued to build up my
general health and the tumor seemed to be
absorbed, until, in seven months, the tumor
was entirely gone and l a well woman. am
so thankful for my recovery that l ask you
to publish my letter in newspapers, so other
women may know of the wonderful curative
powers Of Lydia Z. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound"
When women are troubled with irreg-
ular or painful periods, weakness. dis
placement or liberation of the female
organs. that bearing-down feeling, in
fiammation, backache. flatulence, gen.
eral debility, indigestion or nervous
prostration. they should remember
there is one tried and true remedy.
Lydia Z. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound ut once removes such troubles.
No other medicine in the world has
received such widespread and unquali-
fed endorsement. No other medicine
has such o record Of cures Of female
ills.
Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick women
to write her for advice. She Is daughter
in-lsw Of Lydia L. Pinkham and for
twenty-five years under her direction
and since her decease has been
advising sick women free of charge.
She has guided thousands TO health.
Address, Lynn, Mass.
Remember that II Is Lydia e. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound that is cur
ing women, and don't allow any druggist
70 sell you any thing else In It's place
Gilpin observer., 1906-06-21
THE TEETH OF THE HAIR.

then move in the direction of the root
end.
A glance at the magnified hair. Fig.
2. will show the cause Of this motion.
The teeth along the sides Of the hair
act like ratchet teeth and allow 1t to
move only in one direction. 1t is on
account of the teeth, says Popular Me-
chanics, that the horse hairs used in
the manufacture of violin bows are not
all laid in one direction. Half of them
are turned end for end so that the bow
will produce the same volume Of sound
on the up and down strokes.
Gilpin observer., 1906-06-21
starves to Death on Ice Cream.

Argenta. AKA. S. Roberts, a jew
.ry peddler. has failed in an effort to
rove that ten cents worth of Ice
ream daily will sustain life. Roberts
requently asserted that few persons
ppreciated how much nourishment
ias contained in his favorite delicacy.
.ecently he became SO much shortened
funds that he was able to spend
1t ten cents daily for food, end In
ested 1t all in Ice cream. He finally
I'd. and an investigation by DR.. w.
Abingdon. of the Argenta board Of
.ilth, SHOWS that he starved TO deash.
Gilpin observer., 1906-06-21
Egyptian borrowers.

The Egyptians had a very remarka-
BILE ordinance to prevent persons from
borrowing imprudently. An Egyptian
was not permitted to borrow without
giving to his creditors In pledge the
body OF his father. 1t was deemed both
an impiety and an infamy not to re-
oeem 30 sacred pledge. A person
who died without fulfilling that dity
was deprived OF the usual houors paid
to the dead.
Gilpin observer., 1906-06-21
500 Reward. 500.

The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn
that there at dreaded disease that science
has been able in all Its stages. and that is
Catarrh Halls Cstarrh Cure 10 the only positive
cure now known to the medical fratSrntty. Catarrh
being constitutional disease, requires constitu-
tional treatment. Halls Catarrh Cure 10 taken In
ternally acting directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces Of the system. thereby destroying the
foundation Of the disease. and giving the patient
strength by building up tho constitution and assist
ing nature in doing its work. The propretors have
much faith in It's curative powers that they offer
One Hundred Dollars for any that It fails to
cure. Send for list Of testimonials.
Address F. J. CHENEY CO., Toledo, o.
Sold by all Druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
Gilpin observer., 1906-06-21
A FISH EYE VIEW"

esting pictures were obtained with the
device, which proved to be the equiva-
lent OF a lens having a working angle
of 1S0 degrees. There was OF course
a good deal of distortion near the cir
cumference of the circular picture.
Fig. 2 shows Mt. Vernon place as 1t
would appear to n fish submerged in
a pond near the base OF the lion."
Gilpin observer., 1906-06-21
RESULTS OF SMALL FIRE.
Terribly Destructive Power Of One
of the Modern Missiles Of
Warfare.

The accompanying picture, which is
from the Journal of the United States
Artillery, shows In vivid way the
probable results of the bursting of
single shell, by depicting an assemb-
lage of the fragments made in an ac-
tual proving ground test, which were
gathered together and photographed.
Gilpin observer., 1906-06-21
HAIRS HAVE TEETH.
A Curious Fact Which Only the Mi
sroscope and Careful Testing
Will Reveal.

A person who does not know ho1 a
hair looks when magnified. would be
very much surprised to know it is pos
of hair that had been broken or cut.
This may be easily done by holding
the hair between the thumb and finger.
as shown in Fig. l. and moving the
thumb up and down. The hair will
Gilpin observer., 1906-06-21
velocity of Underground Water

The highest recorded velocity OF
underground water is said to bo IA
feet in "a hours. The new record is
for water flowing through gravel near
Tucson. Ariz. The observations were
made during the last Christmas holi.
days by Mr.. H. G. Wolf. OF the depart.
raent Of mathematics OF the UnivsrsitI
OF Wisconsin.
Gilpin observer., 1906-06-21
Bad Effect Of Athletics.

This man." explained the hospital
doctor, sis the victim Of athletics"
"Ah, overtrained, suppose"
mo, he never trained bit. The
fellow who hit him had, though
Philadelphia Ledger.
Gilpin observer., 1906-06-21

For flexibility. smooth finish, stiff
ness and durability, Defiance Starch
has no equal-10c for 16 OF.
Gilpin observer., 1906-06-21
Music for Neigh hbors,

I've got to practice on the piano five
hours a day." said the disconsolate
small girl
What for?"
"Cause mother and father don't like
our rev neighbors.' - Washington
Star
Gilpin observer., 1906-06-21
Care Of Oilcloth.

Oilcloth should never be scrubbed with
a stiff brush or washed with strong SOAP
Remove all dirt by carefully sweeping with
a soft hair brush. Then wash until clean
with tepid water and Ivory Soap. Rinse
with clear water to which has been added
dry cloth. ELEANOR r. PARKER.
Gilpin observer., 1906-06-21

A straight life is the shortest dis
tance between honesty and honor
Saturday Evening Post
Gilpin observer., 1906-06-21

A tennis suit should be tried In open
court
Gilpin observer., 1906-06-21
INTERESTING letter
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Mrs. Sarah Kellogg Of Denver. Color
Bearer OF the Woman's Relief Corps,
Sends Thanks to Mrs. Pinlkham.

The following
letter was written
by Mrs. Kellogg.
of 1928 Lincoln
Ave-. d e n v er,
Col. to Mrs. Pink
ham, Mass:
Dear Mrs. Pinkham:
=" For five years l
was troubled with q
tumor, which kept
growing, causing me
intense agony and