davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-10-26
One of the MANY.

"There is a great deal of talk about
you as a presidential possibility"
said the friend.
Il know it," answered the great
statesman.
Doesn't it make you proud?"
mot especially proud. But l own
should have felt sighted If had
been overlooked in so general dis
trlbution of glory. Washing Star.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-10-26
Killed While Racina Auto.

Chicago, Ill.-While racing an auto
mobile on Michigan boulevard the 9th
er day, Adrian sibsone, 20 years old
of Cleveland, son of a prominent real
estate dealer, was killed and five COM
panions were injured,
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-10-26

than automobile For my Pr
country
comfort ana
Automobiles do not 40
They ations
They nave no
doubt that had aggressive
rather their purchased
addition the ctys ugnheSs
wonder there purchasing gets many un'
friends? instance no ooJecuon
amiable little but If he brought
through the streets souu
automobile the plane as e
The like him immensely Du ne can CA
o he a it.
to It, is the most nor
rbe the hunan race Is horrible
ugness The races OIL
the getting unspeakab metallic the sport Is ~
drying
beau the faces
still AUTOMOBILES
Humanity will become set OF Vng'
bodies OF Doe
will Of burial but can put IN nice
human eeS
of the
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-10-26

An average of 800 persons are killed
in the United States each year by
lightning. This means one in every
100000.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-10-26
TUESDAY,,
October %, 1907.

TUESDAY, October %, 1907.
John Alden Thayer of Worcester,
Mass, prevented from accepting the
Democratic nomination for attorney
general by the lateness of a Boston G.
Albany train.
Illinois Central meeting put over to
Dec. IS and Fish calls 1t 'our vic
tory"
Methodist social union votes to re-
tain women as members.
Walling party released, with apollo
gies by police at St. Petersburg, who
charge arrest to over-zealousness of
spy.
Joseph E. Courtois of Boston kills
himself after shooting a woman in
Vallejo
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-10-26
WEDNE SDAY,

"CbNESCHI - OCtopSF Eo5 ISU('
Secretary of the Treasury Cortelyou,
after conference, declares treasury will
aid all legitimate interests in New
York crisis.
Two vacant houses on Genesee street,
Boston, collapsed and five children are
injured, one probably fatally.
American balloon United States
smashes the record.
Agreement between American cap
tains and native fishermen at Bay of
Islands.
Woman passenger on steamer Mani
tOu commits suicide at sea by leaping
overheard.
Gov. Guild of Massachusetts takes up
Whitney's challenge regarding use of
money in speech at Lynn.
Henry M. Whitney, Democratic can
didate for governor of Massachusetts,
passes his GSth birthday.
Dangerous fire in East Boston ware
house district.
Jury trying Everett at. South Paris,
Me-. ordered to report to court this
morning.
Question of corporation control by
state and nation argued at opening of
trust conference in Chicago.
Life endangered in the throng of 90
coo that cheer President at Chatta-
nooga.
United States court in ruling in in
ternational pressmen's union strike
makes ruling barring support of strike
for eight-hour day, and declares closed
shop against public policy.
President Roosevelt in speech at
Nashville declares his policy will con-
tinue regardless of conditions.
Unusual petition in the probate court
at Clinton, Mass, in which a posthu-
nous child Of an octogenarian figures,
Interference Of mother-in-law and
preference of wife for Cinnamon rea-
sons assigned by janitor for failure of
his married life.
Score OF laboreTs nearly buried alive
by cavein at Brookline,. Mass.
Two young women hurt in rear-end
collision of electIics at Maiden, Mass.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-10-26

In Holland the horn as a warning
signal is reserved exclusively lor 'he
use of motorists.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-10-26

Did ever a shadow sit on one side
Il The hearth without an angel on the
Cther?-James Buckham.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-10-26

To make the appended quotations of value
alike to buyer and seller, the resume of the
market, prefacing the quotations, should be
carefully read. In n market of this charac.
day Of the week Noting, however, .he
general tendency Of trade sufficiently, aG'
curate quotations will be given on which
dealers can safely base their transactions
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-10-26
MONDAY,


Postmaster Hibbard consents to be
Republican candidate for mayor of
Boston.
Little boys throw powder on fire
in Fall River, Mass. and six are bad
ly injured
Game warden shot at Beacon Valley,
Conn.
New York clearing house forces
Morse, Helnze and the two Thomases
to quit all their banks and places new
men in control of four institutions, the
Mercantile, Consolidated. Hamilton and
bank Of North America; situation
thought to be now entirely cleared up.
w. e. Walling, an American social
ist his wife and sister-in-law arrested
at st. Petersburg in company of Fin
nish progressives; Kellogg Durland,
formerly of Boston, seized with party,
but restored to liberty.
Sylvester Small deposed president of
the telegraphers' union, hissed and
jeered in Chicago, leaves hall in tears.
John Dillon comes again to defence
of Redmond policy, and William
OBrien says he is willing to accept his
leadership and return to party.
Ordnance department of the army
experimenting with a picric bomb de-
signed to be thrown as hand gren-
ade in war.
Admiral Germinet of France differs
from other naval experts in asserting
that big ships and big guns are most
needed in successful warfare.
Fish forces jubilant on early indica-
tions that he has beaten Hartman in
Illinois Central Railroad battle.
Prof. Frank Parsons, at opening of
Breadwinners' institute, says President
Roosevelt's life is one of the noblest
In history.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-10-26
IN WASHINGTON
The President Returns From
Western and Southern Trip

He Has Added Several Deeper Shades
to the Bronze He Had Acquired Dur
ing the Summer at oyster 5ay--EN-
presses Himself as Thoroughly
Pleased With His Trip During Which
He Visited Eleven States.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-10-26

1t is said that in Algeria the horses
out-number the human beings.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-10-26
SATURDAY,,
October 19, 1907

Henry M. Whitney and his associates
declared by the Massachusetts, ballot
law commission to be legal nominees of
Springfield convention; Gen. Bartlett
gives no hint as to what course he will
now pursue.
Marconi says 1900 words were sent
by wireless across the ocean yesterday
and 1000 received
Webster hall at Dartmouth College
at Hanover, N. H., dedicated to use
as gift of the alumni
William G. Rockefeller testifies that
Standard oil is a heavy lender to Wall
street, but says he has no knowledge of
the Trainor account.
New York, New Haven & Hartford
railroad lays off $50 workmen in repair
shops at Readville, Mass, and New
Haven.
United Textile workers convention
at Providence instructs executive COM
mittee to call strike in big New Eng
land mill unless delegate discharged
from service is reinstated.
Peace conference in closing session
sends homage to President Roosevelt.
Aeronauts Mccoy and Chandler sail
500 miles in balloon and St Louis and
win Lahm cup.
Prof. Stimson in Lowell institute lee
ture predicts abolishment of injunction
if abuse continues.
Wall street has a bad day, but it is
believed the situation is now under
control.
Gov, Hughes Of New York states his
attitude toward presidential nomina-
ton.
Mayor of Boston says Col Liver
more's statement that 5000 city en-
ployes could be discharged is absurd.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-10-26
9NNNe~>ss~sVf@a~DsfSss~s
By George FentriCk

0 thoses ing a the
tie their general health In
II of in the hot let
H themta AXE to the and
E=--====I throught he
II thoroughly,
II appym
Wilr al
in removed. Put sand mouth and
with sand, taking
the skin
susceptible
until
and harden
being
the nerves imulat the 0 blood.
without without price
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-10-26

it must be
to incentives that lifted
and difeenta-
of
+
shall
and
*%sEf*EEEI
and
mechanism
and to
responsibility into
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-10-26

ireland has 300, 900 goats.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-10-26
.ws0.~er- The ~N~~O'~3G
= AwfuL Motor Car q
u UariouS Reasons LUhy the OUner'S Friends y
Fall 4LVdy
n
Fall HUdy.

BY H III
g. NOTICED recently silly letter from some man VINO
friends green yellow hes OF envy ~
purchased automobile The tFlehos Ia uo @
defence nature is not very mean
after all and while some people be jealous OF lne
g prosperity friends there many VINO reo'Ce
good which enables other people TO purchase oe'
nAS able worldly possessions.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-10-26
>sa~~Ns~~'sF~s-oaQN~D ~VO"""~t"S~"N"N~e
OOer-CapitalizatiOn Does
VotRJfeCt RaiAr0adRateS
Ey Francis Lynde StetSon, Counsel of the
sAssa-aNQAns Southern RaiIrOdy. e-JIr"~-SAbNr

regulation, there possibility OF harn
other particular ndcaeo
~ overcaptzation would exist
ando n
industrial purposes
promising to pay sums
that in the of corporations Just as In
The corporation
the in without discount
cos
evil expressly permitted
evw strictly within
mpang the AFFINITY
against such evil and should DO
direction the provisions
commissions appoVa
well issues of railroad stocks are emil
Opntl
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-08-09
A Chinese Solomon,

Two Cinnamon, brothers, well adj
vanced in age, quarreled over piece
of land which they, had Jointly inherit
ed from their father and went to law.
The native magistrate heard the testi-
mony on both sides and determined
that both were wrong and both right
according DO the different points of
view. Therefore, instead Of rendering
a Judgment In favor Of either, he order
ed that both be locked up in cangua
with their heads fastened face to
face and kept there until they settled
their quarrel. The cangue Is a sort OF
cage In which prisoners are placed
with their necks locked into hole in q;
board. It resembles somewhat the
stocks which were used for the punish
ment Of malefactors In olden times
When the brothers were placed IN the
cangue, they were both very stubborn.
and indignant, but toward the end of
the second day they began to weaken
and on the third day reached q salts;
factory settlement and were released. u
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-08-09
The American Sailor.

/. It is related Of Commodore. Decatur
that after he had tanned the Barbary
powers, whose energies had been re-
awakened while the war of 1872 kept
our navy busy, he set out in his flag
ship, the Guerrero, to make his way
across the Mediterranean unattended
and suddenly found himself in the
midst Of one of the corsair fleets which
had remained in a neutral port during
'hostilities. Tho situation looked rather
squally. -, The corsair admiral hailed,
.a.What sheep is dat?' S."'The United
States ship Guerrero, Commodore De-
catur,". was. the reply. "Where you
going r. was the next question. "Where
please!'', Numbered Decatur through
the speaking trumpet, and the Guer-
riere proceeded unmolested. - Boston
TRANSCRIPT.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-08-09
ANIMAL TRAITS.
Reminders In tho FoaI and tho Calf Of
Their Wild Ancestors. 4

~
1t is an Interesting study to note in
domestic animals the traits of their
wild ancestors. There are some char
acteristics, of course, which are readily
recognizable as being similar to those
Of animals still in wild state, and
for this reason they give a fair idea Of
the life and surroundings of progeni-
tors The habits Of the dog and cat
are too familiar to comment on, but
take the foal land compare his traits
with those Of the calf. X
The foal when few days old can
gallop as fast as he ever can In after
life. He never leaves the dam and
takes nourishment in small quantities,
avoiding full meal, which would i'm
pede swift escape. In lying down no
attempt is made at concealment, and
when he stands his head is held high.
These habits show that the animals
ancestors spent their lives in the open
and not in the forests and that they
were great travellers. -ss~-sssrT
The calf, on the contrary, fills him
self with milk and Is poor traveller.
When danger approaches his first i'm:
pulse is to conceal himself. He holds
his head low in order to look under
the branches of the forest. All his
characteristics point to the fact, that
the ancestral home of cattle was In a.
moist, wooded country, while the.
primeval horse roamed the plains
London Chronicle. 5y 4, &s Fs8s
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-08-09
! WANTED THE GIBLETs.
An Incident Of Revolutionary Days In
.ser.455 # South Carolina. y, ], N, I.

. There are innumerable stories of
Revoluti onary days in Charleston. The
old ladies used to tell with glee how,
when the British were supposed to be
out Of the way, the young fellows
would come home to dance with them.
A message would so to the nearest
cousins and friends and supper be
cooked. It might be only rice and ba-
con, but 1t was good to hungry men,
declares Charleston's historian, Mrs.
Ravenal. The dance and the feast
would continue until the stars grew
pale. p. IL :'.3
Often these merrymakings were dis
turbed by. the enemy, but there was al
ways q negro or two on the watch, and
the harsh note of the screetch owl or
the cry OF the whip orwill would give
the alarm, then ''partings in hot
haste" a rush for the horses, a sharp
scuffle,' hot pursuit and perhaps q
prisoner taken.r- ar.v 10. .r ..sss<,2 d. .-,,.,,
= The young men had odd adventures.
One young fellow betrayed himself by
bis appetite. He was pursued and had
taken shelter at Mrs. Notes place, on
South Santee. She rolled him up in a
carpet and, pushing it against the wall,
told him to keep quiet until the enemy
had gone and she could release him.
,Unluckily he heard through the open
window his hostess giving directions to
the cook about the chickens which
were to be dressed for the dragons
dinner. He could not bear to be left
out and thrust his head from the car
pet chrysalis and cried out, "Keep the
giblets for me!' f:ss9585
The soldiers heard, and he was at
once caught and carried of to repent
at leisure OF his indiscretion.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-08-09
AN INSECT PLAGUE.
The Mosquitoes That lnfest the Region
NJ s4 Of Lake Nyassa.

St 3Ssss saG n or Lake NyaSSa' 5& &f35fGs5. asa
n In his book 'Trom the Cape to
Cairo E. s. Grogan writes: ''.The
Kungu fly, which is peculiar to Lake
X Nyassa, resembles small May flies
and at certain seasons of the5year they
rise from the water in such stupendous
clouds that they, blot out the whole
horizon. Seen In the distance they
have exactly the appearance OF a rain
storm coming across the lake. When
they are blown landward they make
every place uninhabitable by the
stencil which arises from the countless
millions that lodge and die on every
inch of sheltered ground. myself
have seen them lying foot deep in
a room, and was told that they are
often much worse. The natives sweep
them up and make cakes of them.
/ Biting and poisonous ants are an
other pest, but the mosquito is the
great enemy Of man. 1t was abso-
lutely necessary to turn In half an
hour before sunset and to make all
the preparations for the night. piled
all my belongings round the edge of
my net and kept green wood fire
burning at each end, and then / lay
! inside, smoked the native tobacco and
prayed for morning. As soon as the
sun went down the mosquitoes started
operations.
1T was like having tame whirl-
wind In ones tent. They. could not
possibly have been worse. Every
night 200 or 300 contrived to enter my:
nett have no idea how The most
pemicious and poisonous kind was a
very small black mosquito that might
possibly have penetrated the mesh. I
used to turn out in the morning per-
fectly dazed from the amount of poi
SON that had been injected during the
niphfo
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-08-09
Mans Walk Shows Age.

e "YouS cam tell mans age by his
hands," said one of the girls. 'They
get knotty and veined and terrible
They get old sooner than his face"
u ':.You can tell it most of all, think, y
said the woman, "by his walk. know
a man who has been one Of the bright.
est minds of his time who is still the
best company know, but the other
day when I saw him come toward me
at his home along the hall it made me
awfully sad to see the heavy, old, old
way In which he walked."-New York
Press ~ n 7, - j. ~
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-08-09
CUNNING or MuskRA ";
Foresight With Which These Animal.
Build Winter Homes. "oss'

Foresight With Which These Animals
Build Winter Homes. 's' =
In the month Of March, before the
rivers have opened, on the snow around
the heads OF the creeks and about the
airholes in the thick ice may be seen
the curious trail of the muskrat. It
can readily be recognized by the firmly
planted footmarks, heavily and slowly
impressed, and the sharp after drag Of
the long, scaly, 3bladelike tall. All
through the cold winter months these
heavily furred animals have lived
warm and comfortable in their we'll
constructed houses, rearing their third
and last litter. One house erected
about September seemed planned with
almost human foresight, Here, with
their long, sharp teeth and strong, inch
long claws, they had cut and cleared
wide paths through all the marshes
paths so deep that three feet Of ice did
not close them, so wide that we have
often padded along them, marveling
at the great floating masses Of torn up
aquatic vegetation. These paths were
q AuAAtAISu' y dAAS AOuS dAA AOuL ACCI
wide and were cut through a mass Of
tangled cover high enough in most
places to thoroughly conceal a duck
hunter and his canoe. In the winter
months the muskrats can easily dive
from their houses into these under ice
channels, land. the whole marsh is be-
fore them to choose their meal from.
The long yellow roots Of the flag and
the juicy tubers of the wild onion (the
muskrat apple is the more poetic Ojib-
way hang exposed before them or are
readily torn out.-Bonnycastle Dale in
Outing Magazine.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-08-09
: Costly In Human Lives.

In ancient times the great engineer
ing works were costly in human lives.
The making Of the Red sea canal is
said to have involved the loss Of no
fewer than 10000 Egyptians. Buc-
kle's examination made him believe the
number to have been somewhat exag-
gerated, but he gives 1t as still & gaile
to the enormous waste of human life
In those days. The men who KEEP: 1000
slaves engaged for three years bring
ing single stone from, Elepi,an-
tine TO- the pyramids did not care Il
great deal SO long as In the twenty
years In which one of the pyramids
was building there were forthcoming
the 100000 men required for the work.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-08-09
they Al Thouuht About Alike.

Three ''tired' citizens-a lawyer, a
doctor and newspaper man-sat In a
back room in the gray light Of the
early dawn. On the table were many
empty bottles and couple Of packs
Of cards. AS they sat in silence a
rat scurried across the, hearth into
the, darkness beyond. The, three men
shifted their feet and looked at each
other uneasily. After a long pause
the lawyer spoke. II know what you
fellows are thinking" he said; you
think I thought I saw a rat, but. I
didn't "-Argonaut. ~ $%#'&g
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-08-09
THE CAMEO.
Il Gets It's Name From the Cutting
.1 Gg@a Not From the Stone. "a "a 3t NV SS$8


W The true nature Of cameo Is very
much misunderstood By the public gen
orally. Most people think it is the stone
itself, when In reality the method o.
cutting Is what produces the cameo.
The real meaning Of the word Is UNI
known, It's derivation having never
been discovered; but, correctly speak
ing, canoes are small sculptures exc
cuted in low relief on some su Distance
precious either for its beauty. rarity or
hardness" - ''@,'g's'e' 0" NJ
There are emerald canoes, turquoise
calneos shell canoes. coral canoes.
Indeed. any substance that lends itself
to carving in such minute detail can
be used for cameo cutting, and nearly
all precious stones, except diamonds,
have been SO used for intaglios, but
never for canoes Emerald is the most
common precious stone from which
canoes have been made, and there are
some very. fine emerald portrait cam
eos in existence, notably those Of
Queen Elizabeth in the British muse
,um. Shell canoes were first made I'M
the fifteenth century.
Banded onyx is generally used for
cameo work because Of its hardness
and coloring, and 1t Is this fact that has
caused the Misrepresentation, the stone
that it has now become better known
as Cameo than by Its right name
st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-08-09
DQUGHERTY ISLAND.
Il 10 the Most Remote and DesoIate
Spot on Earth.

Which is the lOnel1eSt, most QeSOlate
and most inaccessible island on the
face of the globe?, Many people would
doubtless plump for one Of the Crozets,
in the south Atlantic ocean. And yet
Hog island, the westernmost Of the
group, is by no means an undesirable
place of residence. = Astounding as it
does in hares and rabbits, pengulns,
albatrosses and sea elephants.
1 Herd island, in the same seas, is
far more isolated as we'll as more bar
rem, but it possesses, as does Hog, q
shelter hut for castaways, and it IS
visited by whalers occasionally. So,
too, is South Georgia, but it has no
shelter hut, and as it Is right out Of
the track, Of shipping any one unlucky
enough to be cast away thereon would
stand a very poor chance of ever get
ting off alive. @'@ = II 4
Bouvet island, in the same seas, is
visited even more rarely, and on the
last occasion WI h "a ship touched
there five corpses were found frozen
on the beach, grim mementos of some
unrecorded tragedy of the sea. Pos
session island, in It's turn, IS still
lonelier8 and more inhospitable than
BOuvet. s..'
- But probably the palm in this direc-
ton must be ascribed to Dougherty
island, on which, so far as is known,
no landing has ever been effected. It
has only been sighted twice in cen
+~,v~ &n ~ lo 30e1s2h1H In, IN
admiralty sailing directions as 1.-The
most remote and isolated spot on
earth."-Pearson's Weekly. ..
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-08-09
Thoughtful.

LADY with f1ashy paste necklac.
wants to know whether it's pure dia-
mond or not, said the jewelers. shop
man. %|5
s"Lool like married woman?" in
quired the jeweler. -,
"Yes, sir"
''Tell her it Is. No use making trou
bic for poor husbands these hard
times."-London Telegraph. ~ ".
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-08-09
lnsipid Company.

n Low spirits are my true and faith
full companions. They get up with me-
60 to bed with me, make Journeys and
returns as I do; nay, and pay visits
and will even affect to be jocose and
force a feeble laugh with me, but most
commonly we sit alone together and
are the prettiest insipid company In
the world.-Thomas Gray. -.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-08-09
"a Philosopher.

Askitt- Why do you consider Smiley
la philosopher? oitt-Because tof his
ability to bear other peoples troubles
with fortttude.-Kansas City 1ndepend-
ent. $
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-08-09
A Baby.

= A baby-that which makes home
happier, love stronger, patience great
er, hands buster, nights longer, days
shorter, the past forgotten, the future
brighter.-Rupert's Magazine. q 4.