davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Washington herald., 1907-12-02
Holiday
Announcement.

VAT mendvey and present entirety
w inspection
ans
The FsrsV Vienna,
Berlin, tfohe
md
ii is
The It eadve OF and is
o a degoen
The and planning nd placing thereby
aamg TIL
to offer this varied asSnIdag gift things
The
mda apparent rttot,s shopper.
goods covering every phase paramount feature
business at andfer and hnrsu
in dw be san
gifts and gifts of this character getting
what you want broader
This nhe ever
the list the the beautiful and n
gown Jeweny
personal andad
Toilette and requisites
Mems rain coats
smoking outfits den enornamer &c
WOmeu furnishings peticoas
including large assortment Arts
bed porhae dpers
tapestries, pillows &c
Metal beds, mattresses pHlOws linens and
coverings
Table and toilet
set cutlery cut glass; alpewAs and other dningrOom
Books,
writing materials desk ynedS
BHcabrar bTOns statuay, psta pottery: miniatures
and other objects sc
Handsome eeGTOHer audeIaa &C.
Art nedIawOS booklets cal
cameras, Photographic sporting goods
requisites necessities bathroom frtues
o. gopup folk ne have made
splendid the
The Washington herald., 1907-12-02

All advertising contracts made by The
Washington Herald are based upon its
sworn circulation circulation in Wash
iugton larger by thousands than was ever
before attained by any morning news
paper at the Canital Is hooks are -nrer-
The Washington herald., 1907-12-02

TAT completely and ompreenve ready for the Holiday Seas
w the several classes of European Oriental Gift
and selection.
The Washington herald., 1907-12-02
From Tit Bits

Prom TitBitz.
"How's your wlfe?"
She's having constant trouble With her
head"
Cant the doctor help herr"
'No-nobody but the milliner.'
The Washington herald., 1907-12-02
In The SOCIAL WORLD
Dinner in Honor of New
Chilean Minister.
BRAZILIAN AMBASSADOR HOST

Secretary of War and Mrs.
Oliver Entertain I'm Honor of Miss
crn White Children by Mrs. Hale
Arranged for Thursday.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1907-06-06
ODD WAYS OF POETS.
Tsnnyson, ArtistiesiIy Fastidious, Was
Personal SIoven.


Personal Sloven.
There Is a sort OF idea In the public
mind that the poet is what scientists
call a fixed genius" that every poet
is the exact counterpart of every other
poet There is probably no class of
men In the world-if class 1t can be
called - whose members differ more
widely in personality.
Pope, for instance, was a miser.
Dryden, Sedley, Rochester and Shelley
seemed to have no use for money and
''splashed 1t about in the most insane
fashion. Shakespeare was a keen man
OF business. His contemporaries, Mar
lowe and Massinger, did not leave
enough to have their bodies decently
buried.
Coming down to modern times, Ten
nyson was artistically the most deli
cate and fastidious of men. A mis-
placed comma, an epithet which was
not the perfection of expression, gave
him nights Of insomnia.
Yet he was perhaps the most utterly
careless man of his generation regard
ing his personal appearance. Had he
not been carefully watched by his de-
voted wife, he would have been quite
content to wear a suit of clothes until
1t dropped off him bit by bit in obedi-
ence to the law of gravitation.
A great admirer of Tennyson once
described his first meeting with the
great poet.
1t occurred at a roadside public
house in the Isle of Wight The late
laureate was seated by the kitchen
FIRE. with a short black clay pipe be-
tween his lips, burning grease spots
out of n pair of check trousers with
the point of redhot poker
1t was probably Tennyson's faculty
of silence" which helped him to secure
the friendship of the greatest talker-
In both senses of the phrase-of his
generation, Thomas Carlyle.
Carlyle had occasional fits of silence,
and he and Tennyson would sit on op-
posite sides of the hearth for six hours
at stretch without exchanging as
many words.
At the expiration of such a period
of silent intercommunication Carlyle
would knock the ashes out of his last
pipe and remark with every symptom
Of the keenest intellectual satisfaction,
Aye Alfred, mon, we've had glori-
Gus nicht"
Tennysou's great and friendly rival,
Browning was as different from him
in hfs personal peculiartties as he was
In point of genius.
He always looked as If he had Just
been turned out of a bandbox Ten
nyson was one of the most silent of
men. Browning one of the most ebui-
lient and loquacious. Tennyson was
pessimistic and somewhat morose.
Browning was always bursting with
optimism and expansiveness.-C Chicago
Inter Ocean.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1907-06-06
AERIAL TELEGRAPHY.
First Attempted by Amontons In the
Fifteenth Century.

FtTteontn
One of the first systems of aerial
telegraphy was attempted in the if
teenth century. The originator was
Amontons, at that time considered enc
of the cleverest scientists of the world.
Yet you never hear the name nswa-
days in connection with that Of Morse
or Bell. However, Amontons develop
ed a system Of signal telegraphy so
that a message could be sent from
Paris to Rome in three hours. Those
who assisted In the transmission of the
message along the line were unable to
tell the nature of the message.
Posts were placed from Paris across
the Alps at consecutive points, where
men were stationed with telescopes.
Different signals, representing com
binations of letters, were run up at
each post. The man at the other end,
seeing the signal. placed similar one
before his post, and so the message
was carried to its destination.
The key to the signal was known
only to those who sent the messages
in Paris and to the recipients a thou
sand miles away. Amontons was not
encouraged in his work by the puffy,
gouty functiOnaries of the time and
discontinued his efforts. - Philadelphia
North American.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1907-06-06

The manufacture of tinware in Eng
land originated in a stolen secret. Few
readers need to be informed that tin
ware is simply thin sheet iron plated
with tin by being dipped into the molt-
en- metal. In theory it is an easy mat
ter to clean the surface of iron. Dip
the iron in a bath of boiling tin and
remove it enveloped in the sllvery met
al to a place of cooling. In practice,
however. the process is one of the most
difficult of arts. 1t was discovered in
Holland and guarded from publicity
with the utmost vigilance for nearly
half a century. England tried to dis
cover the secret in vain until James
Sherman, a Cornish miner crossed the
channel. insinuated himself surrept-
tiously into tin plate manufactory,
made himself master Of the secret and
brought it home.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1907-06-06
ADAM AND EVE.
Tho Forbidden Fruit, the Fall And the
Three Mystic Gifts.


Many are the attempts to identify
the forbidden fruit Some say 1t was
the fig, others the grape, Others, again,
the pomegranate, but the most Ara
bian Nightish" description paints 1t as
an ear of wheat which looked like
ruby and was as big as an ostrich egg
and grew on a tree whose trunk was
like gold, its branches like silver and
Its leaves emerald.
Our first parents were expelled about
D O'Clock of the afternoon of Friday,
the 10th of May, having resided in
Eden seven years, two months, two
weeks and three days. Adam was
banished to Ceylon and Eve 70 Mecca,
and they remained apart for 200 years
Adam. according to some accounts,
spent half his time weeping, with his
face to the earth. Others less chari-
table aver that his solitude was cheer
ed by Lilith, who resumed her former
relations with him.
When he repented and rejoined Eve,
he begged that something might be
given him from the happy garden OF
innocence which he had forfeited, and,
10, In answer to his prayer three
mighty archangels were sent to him,
Michael bringing gold, Gabriel frank
incense and Raphael myrrh-mystic
gifts in after years associated with the
offering of the magi, whom early
Christian tradition identified with
Enoch, Melchisedek and Elias.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1907-06-06
MISLED BY PARROTS.
How Columbus Missed the Honor oi
Discovering This Continent.


Discovering This Continent.
A fight of birds, coupled with sail
or's superstition, robbed Columbus of
the honor of discovering the continent.
When Columbus sailed westward over
the unknown Atlantic, he expected to
reach Zipangu Dapan). After several
days sail from Gomera, one of the
Canary islands, he became uneasy at
not discovering Zipangu, which, ac-
cording to his reckonings, should have
been 216 nautical miles more to the
east.
After a long discussion he yielded to
the opinion of Martin Alonzo Pinzon,
the commander of the Pinta, and steer
ed to the southwest. Pinzon was guild
ed In his opinion solely by flight of
parrots which took wing in that direc-
ton. 1t was good luck to follow In
the wake of flock of birds when en-
gagged upon voyage of discovery, ac-
cording to widespread superstition
among Spanish seamen of that day.
If Columbus had kept to his course,
he would have entered the gulf stream,
have reached Florida and then proba-
bly, have been carried to Cape Hat
teras and Virginia.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1907-06-06
THE COTTAGE.
Il Should Be Without Sham Elegance
and Elaboration.


There are cottages and cottages Any
modest, unpretentious house designed
on strictly economical lines may be
fifty called q cottage, and 1t is more
satisfactory to regard ones own SIM
pie little abode as we'll built, commo-
dious cottage than as a small house Of
comparatively cheap construction and
cramped dimensions. 1t is when given
to the big staggering seaside houses of
the rich that the term cottage" be-
comes a misnomer and an affectation.
To the man of moderate means the
very idea of building q cottage rather
than a house carries with 1t a sense Of
making a home within his means free
from vain striving for q sham elegance
and elaboration. The cottage which
apes the mansion is as absurd as the
affected and exaggerated dignity of the
pompous and undersized Individual
who seeks to create an impression out
of all proportion to his real Importance.
Since simplicity is one of the main at
tributes of a well designed cottage, its
charm and effectiveness must depend
upon the quiet excellence of its proper
ton and the harmonious and unobtru-
sive quality Of its coloring in relation
to its urroundlngs.-Robert G. Spencer
In House Beautiful.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1907-06-06

Professor Vambury, the Hungarian
orientalist was in Shiraz, Persia, at
the time of one of its devastating earth
quakes. The shock was terrible, throw
ing great houses about like shuttle
cocks and splitting the hills beyond the
town. When the very earth seemed in
process of disruption and men and wo-
men We're weeping and tearing them
selves In agonies of fear two mad ia
matte priests stalked through the tot
tering city crying aloud that the for.
eigners sojourning in the place had
brought on the calamity. And the peo.
pie took up the cry 'The Frengis are
uncleanw and made rush for the
house in which the professor had been
staying. Only the entire collapse of
the property adjoining beat off their at
tack and enabled him to make his es-
cape from the city.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1907-06-06
PHYSICAL EDUCATION.
Don't Develop the Mind at the Expense
of the Body.

The man or woman who would train
the mental faculties without any refer
ence to the physical shows faulty
qualification for the work in which he
or she may be engaged The mind
may be ever SO well trained and stored
with knowledge of the books. but un-
less there Is behind 1t a reasonably
strong body life runs the risk of be
ing failure; If not that. an existence
of pain that serves as limitation upon
its possibilities. 1t is species of cru
city to educate the mind at the ex-
pense of the body. Better let a child
grow up into manhood or womanhood
with an inferior education than with
better education of the mind and a
body weakened in the effort
The fact that so many men in this
country who have succeeded In bust
ness and in professional and public
life have been the sons of farmers,
whose early life has been spent out Of
doors. has been a subject of remark
May 1t not be accounted for on the
ground that in their boyhood their
physique was developed 80 that in aft
er life, besides their mental acquire
ments, they had strong bodies with
which TO do the work they have so
successfully performed? This is not
only possible, but very probable
Knoxville Journal.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1907-06-06
SSranue Freak of MemorX.

There is a strange story of how
Sir Walter Scott, producing "The Bride
of Lammermoor" during illness. was
afterward found to have forgotten en-
tirelv what he had thus created. Ac-
cording to James Ballantyne, "the book
was written and published before Mr.
Scott was able to rise from mis- bed.
and he assured me when It was first
put into his hands in a complete shape
that he did not recollect n single Incl
dent, character or conversation 1t con-
tained. The original incidents of the
story, which he had known from boy
hood he still remembered, but he knew
no more about the story he had writ
ten than he did before he began to
write or even think about writing It."
These facts were corroborated by Mr..
Lockhart, Sir Walter Scott's son-in-
law and biOgrapher so that they are
placed beyond question.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1907-06-06
An ARGUMENT OF FORCE.
Napoleon Smashed Vase, and the
Treaty Was Signed.

Early In April, 1897, the people of
Austria demanded peace with France.
Negotiations were begun in the vicini-
ty of Leoben. Bonaparte. In an inter-
view with the Austrian plenipotenti-
aries, said to them, Your government
has sent against me four armies with
out generals, and this time a general
without an army" In the treaty
which the Austrian commissioners pro-
jected the first article stipulated that
the emperor of Austria thereby recog-
nized the French republic. Erase itw
exclaimed Napoleon. "The existence
of the republic is as plain as the sun.
This article Is only fit for the blind.
We are our own masters and shall es-
tablish any government we prefer. IL
one day the French people," he con-
tlnued, should wish to create a mon
archy, the emperor might object that
he had recognized republic" The
preliminarles were soon settled, Napo-
leon signing for France, thus placing
himself on an equal footing with the
emperor OF Austria. The formal treaty
known as Campo Formio was signed
in October. 1897, Austria fulfilling the
pledges she had already given. The
Austrian plenipotentiary protested
against the distribution of the prov
inces beyond the Adige. Napoleon was
angered at this, and, selling a vase,
dashed 1t to the ground, exclaiming.
IF 1t is not so arranged | will break
your monarchy as l have broken this
vase"' This argument of force, as
demonstrated to the diplomat was
convincing. and the treaty was signed.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1907-06-06

Let the boy learn to hit the bright
spot with rifle, and If war comes he
can hit the button on the coat of an
enemy the first shot and does not have
to be taught to shoot over again after
be enlists. If he is familiar with guns.
boats, water and the wild woods, he
Will be handy anywhere, and you can't
lose him. Any boy who has got ia
ther who won't do the right thing by
him and give him a chance to love the
woods and the water and the free.
clean air that God serves free, when
you get far enough away from mans
city can come along with me some
time, and will show him how TO have
the time Of his life-Outers Book.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1907-06-06

soker-I won $50 from Bings last
night playing poker.
Joker-Why. does Blngs know how
to play poker?
soker-Not yet-Lippincott's Maga-
zine.
Why the Dial Has Sixty Divisions.
We have sixty divisions on the dials
Of our clocks and watches because
Hipparchus, who lived In the second
century before Christ, accepted the
Babylonian system of reckoning time,
that system being sexagesimal The
Babylonians were acquainted with the
decimal. but for common purposes they
counted by "sossi" and "sari." the sos
so' representing sixty and the "saros'
sixty times sixty-a6O0. From Hip
parchus that mode of reckoning found
its way into the works of Ptoiemy
about the year 150 A. D., ana on that
authority 1t has been perpetuated.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1907-06-06
Why Paper Cuts,

Have you ever cut yourself with a
piece of paper? The edge of piece Of
glazed paper looks much like that of a
knife under the microscope. OF course
the little teeth have not the strength
of steel, but If the edge of the paper Is
drawn swiftly over the finger without
much pressure that peculiar property of
matter called ineEtia comes into play,
and the tender teeth Will cut the flesh
before they are broken. The same prop
erty 1t is which allows q candle to be
shot through a one inch plank or per
mits bullet to pass through a pane
of glass without shattering 1t, leaving
only clean, round hole.-C. H. Claudy
In st. Nicholas
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1907-06-06
WOMEN OF HOLLAND.
Dutch Feminine Costumes Arc Too
Complex For Words.

Dutch Feminine Costumes Are Too
Complex For Words.
The women's costume is a trffe too
complex f0v verbal description, as
feminine belongings usually are. but
the white lace cap which covers the
head from eyebrows to nape of neck
and from ear to ear, curving out In
rounded wings on each side of her
cheeks, is always conspicuous and
inevitable portion of woman's attire.
1t may possibly be that on Sunday
this cap Is n trifie whittier or sitter or
daintier than on week days, but the
difference is not very apparent.
The ladies assure us there is vast
difference in the quality of the net and
ahe amount of handiwork employed,
but the lens made no special note OF
that In shape and outline the camera
fnds great distinction between these
caps and those of Katwyk or Marken
or Bois le Due, but between Sunday
and Monday caps In Volendam 1t re-
cords none whatever. For the rest Of
the costume feminine Holland asks
above all things apparently very fiat,
narrow chest surmounting enormous
hins, and Volendam is no exception
to this fashion rule. The invariable
black best waist of the elder women
is usually frightened by square yoke
Of lighter color and material, and the
dark apron or overskirt is topped by
SIX inches or more of gay plaid or
bright colored band worn over an un-
derskirt of dull blue striped or black
material and uncountable petticoats.
About the throat a collar formed OF
many rows of heavy dark red coral
beads is fastened by huge silver clasps,
and the number of rows, the size and
quality of the beads are matters for
feminine pride Long hair is not the
glory of women in Holland, save per-
haps at Marken. 1t is usually hidden
and at Volendam is out quite close and
entirely covered by tight fitting thick
snowy white lace. The younger girls,
from the tiniest toddler to the young
meis1e, old enough to wed, wear dress
es and caps the exact counterpart of
their grave mothers, no less full Of
skirt or narrow of chest, but much
aayer in color. A group of tiny maid
ems In n stiff breeze on the dixie resem-
bies nothing more than a swarm of
utterflies.-Florence Craig Albrecht in
Scribners
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1907-06-06
FLY FISHING RODS.
1t is the Weight Outboard From the
Hand That Tells.

u 10 tHe Vei9nt OutpOard FROM the
Hand That Tells.
Much pleasure will be found in buy
ing rods and tackle. If inexperienced,
any old angler will rather enjoy help
Ing you out or you can go to n first
class shop, ask for salesman who Is
an angler and tell him where YOU pro-
pose to fish. If economy is an object to
you, very fair working tools can be
had for little money. 1t Is surprising
to handle some of the rods that are
priced at 50 to $40. l do not consider
weight in the scales of great impor-
tance, as l like good sized. comfort
able handle. 1t is the weight outboard
from the handle that tells. One of the
lightest rods l ever saw weighed eight
ounces on the scales. 1t had a big, fat
wooden handle and substantial fittings,
but the rod proper was very light. My
individual preference is for a rod of
ten feet, but lots Of men prefer some
thing shorter. l have seen good work
done with an eight foot rod, but there
is great difference in the power of
rods Of the same length. A tall strong
man can handle q rod of great power
and with suitable line bring out all
there Is In 1t. He may be able to do
this all day long without great fatigue,
while weaker person would be heav-
lily handicapped and tired to death
Forest and Stream.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1907-06-06
ANCIENT ARMIES.

Ten thousand horse and 100000 foot
fell on the fatal field of Issus
The army of Artaxerxes before tho
battle of Cunaxa amounted to about
100000
An army of Cambyses, $4,000 strong
was buried in the desert sands of Afrl-
ca by south wind.
a short time after the taking of Ba.
bylon the forces of Cyrus consisted of
100000 foot, 10000 horse and 1000
chariots armed with scythes.
Minus the Assyrian king, about 300
B. O., led against the Bactrians his
army, consisting of 100000 foot sol
diers, 100000 horse and 10000 chariots
armed with scythes.
When Xerxes arrived at Thermop-
ylae his land and sea forces amounted
to 2,641 $40, exclusive of servants. eu-
nuchs, women, suffers, etc, in all num-
bering 5,2S3220. So say Herodotus.
Plutarch and Isocrates
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1907-06-06
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

No small noise sounds as bad as that
made by squeaky shoes.
Lift any little woman's thumb and
you will find a man under it.
How few people are as polite to their
friends as they are to strangersl
People seem to begrudge a preacher
everything he gets except his vacation
The child that is ruled by love and
the child that has its own way live at
the same house
II you were a mind reader you would
learn a lot of unpleasant things which
now you can only surmise
The man who prides himself on being
a great observer of little things" can
usually be relied upon for a few un-
pleasant remarks.
Soon after a boy ceases to credit his
father with being the smartest man on
earth he imagines his father should
consult him on all doubtful issues
Atchison Globe.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1907-06-06

The wife of an army officer at a
western post recently had occasion to
visit small neighboring town to do
some shopping at what is called the
general store. She was much enter
sained by the variety and antiquity Of
the stock Of goods, and as she passed
out her eyes were attracted by a pile
of notices. elaborately lettered and or
nately framed, the upper one being the
scriptural passage, walk in love"
As she paused the clerk, a dapper
young man of more affabllity than ad-
vantages, stepped forward with the
remark: Them are the latest things in
notices. This top one IS swell to put
over a young lady's door-'Walk In,
love- '"-Lippincott's.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1907-06-06
Women and Jewelry.

women know great deal more
about buying jewelry now than they
knew twenty-five years ago." said a
jeweler. when | first started in the
business a clerk with a persuasive
tongue could talk woman into buy
ing most anything 1t wasn't safe for
her TO step inside shop unless she
had man along. Now the average
woman knows more about jewels than
the average man. OF course they can
be fooled-anybody can but an expert
but as rule she buys with sur
prising knowledge of value, and her
taste in the cutting and setting s ex-
ceilent."-Hew York Post.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1907-06-06

Tommy Rattles was turned down
when he asked Elsies father for his
consent The old man said that Tom
my was a good boy, but lacked per-
sistency
What Is Tommy going to do about
It?
He goes to the old man and asks him
for his daughter three evenings every
week.-Cleveland Plain Dealer.