davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-18

The announcement that John D. Rocke- feller has been born again physically IS nf interest to large number of New York CTS who have broken down under tho strenuous life. When Rockefeller retired from business activity he was looked upon as a candidate for the grave. But he made getting well his one aim in life. He quit worrying, lived an outdoor life and has succeeded in his purpose, though at a cost of $5,000,000 There are many New Workers who would like to enjoy health once more, but they are not willing to give up business cares, and that is ab- solutely essential, the doctors say Here is the Rockefeller prescriptions
 Take regular exercise.
 Keep in the open air.
 Forget everything but play and play as though your life depended on 1t.
 Here are some rich New Workers who need, like the oil king, to be 'born again" into perfect health.
 worth $20 GOO, 000.
 John w. Gates, dyspepsia, insomnia, worth s25,0O0O0o.
 H. H. Rogers, "all broken up," can't sleep. worth s100,000,000.
 Thomas c. Platt, senile, can't do any thing, worth s10,O00,oo0.
 James R. Keene, dyspepsia, insomnia, nervousness, worth SZoVOU,UUU.
 Charles M. Schwab, nervousness, worth SlU,000 600.
 These strenuous citizens and money getters have for years been In the hands of specialists. who have been receiving large sums for keeping their patients out of the grave. But not one of the lot has tried the Rockefeller plan. Senator Platt, 1t is said .y his friends, would be willing to give s7000,000 to be made z Aw.rA years. Schwab Gates and the rest all are franticaly eager to be restored to health, but all are equally eager to keep fin the game" They are not willing to let go the chance to pile up more money.
 Recently the comment on the enormous concentration of money power in the hands of a few monopolies has been re- newed Only the other day Professor Business spoke of the steel trust as an example. Few realize what a vast pro- portion of the countrys wealth the twen- ty-four directors of the Steel corpora tion represent. The trust has more than s1, ,O00, 100000 capital and it's directors are represented In all the chief industries of the nation. The steel trust alone em- ploys more than 425,0O0 persons. The tvynty-four trustees who manage its vast affairs are directors of railroads, whose combined capital exceeds s2600,- 900, ,O00
 They are directors of insurance com panies whose assets are more than 1,660.- GOO, ,000 They are on the managing boards of banks with total capital of more than $150, 100000.
 The Steel trust directors are likewise on the boards of all the biggest industrial combinations-the Standard Oil trust, with $100 900. .000: Amalgamated Copper, w..n sl54, 100000; the Pullman company,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-18

Robert Fulton would not be surprised at the progress of today Fulton realized the possibilities of steam, and he was familiar with the doubting Thomases. After his trip up the Hudson in the Clermont ne wrote: There were perhaps not thirty persons in the city who believed that the boat would ever move one mile an hour, or be of the least ut<ty."
 Not the least interesting episode in Full tons career was his long search for patron during the years of his eXperi- ments in Paris. If Napoleon had recog nized the value of his invention, If the conquerer of Europe had seen in 1t q means of towing transports to the Eng fish coast, the map of the world might have been changed.
 When Robert Fulton built the Clermort steam navigation was in about the same stage of its development as aerial navi- gation Is in today. Fulton was not tho inventor of the steamboat, neither was the Clermont the first boat to be pro- pclled by steam. Like all great inven- tions, the steamboat was the cumulative result of the work of many heads and many hands, Jonathan Hull is in all probability the first man to have had practical conception of a steamboat. In 1737 he took out a patent and published a pamphlet descriptive of a paddlewheel steamboat. The skepicism of his day proved too much for him, and the project never got any further than the patent and pamphlet stage. In the years that followed there were numerous expef'- ments, the first of which to take practl- cal shape was that of James Rumsey, who in 17s4, constructed a boat that was propelled by a jet of water forced from the sterm. He tried 1t on the Potomac and succeeded in making four miles an hoir
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-18
| community or interest,"
 total :. .. ST. ,010, ,0Oo,0 900

Here are sketches of some of the twenty-four steel trust directors
 Ebert H. Gary, chairman of the steel corporation, took part as a law yer in Chicago and other properties which the Moores put in the steel com bine. He Is a friend of w. H. Moore. He Is rated at s10 ,O00,0 900.
 William Ellis Corey, president of the steel trust, who recently married Miss Gilman. the actress was first book keeper, then a chemist in one of the Carnegie mills. He invented reforged armor plate. He is one of Carnegie's boys"
 Henry Phipps Is more heavily inter- ested in the United States Steel secur- ities than any other man except Car negie. Born in Philadelphia, he worked in a spike factory, then started an iron mill. and finally went into the steel business with the Carnegie brothers. Andrew and Tn homas M His wealth is rated at over $100, .000.
 Henry Clay Prick, who ranks next to Henry Phipps in steel trust holdings, is commonly known as the Coke King" He owns 12,000 coke ovens in Southern Pennsylvania. He managed the Home stead strike, in 1892, and was shot by Berkman, the anarchist. Prick joined hands with Carnegie in 1882. They quarreled at the time the steel trust was being formed. He is rated at over $75.000,000
 J. Pierpont Morgan needs no intro- duction to The Age Herald readers. He founded the steel trust and keeps as many directors friendly to his interest as he can. He is in all kinds of trusts. He was born in Hartford, comes of banking and preaching family, and Is rated at $65.00o.oo0.
 Henry H. Rogers one of the three Copper Kings" has long been heavy holder of Standard oil securities. He was a Massachusetts boy. He repre- sents Rockefeller on the steel board and is said to be worth over s100,000, 900. He Is a large holder of railroad and bank and traction and gas trust stocks.
 John Davison Rockefeller, Jr., is the son of his father and is supposed to be backed by the $600,000, ,000 to $900,- 00O 900 capital of the head of the oil trust. He partly owns the Missouri Pa ciio and Lackawanna railroads and has large copper interests. He IS one of the representatives of the Rockefeller interests In the steel business.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-18
TALK IF THE WEEK IN NEW YORK CITY Century Anniversary of the First Practical Steamboat STRENUOUS LIFE VICTIMS Many Wall Street Men Want to Be Born Again. Like Rockefeller.
 A Newly Discovered
 Millionaire.
STRENUOUS LIFE VICTIMS
BY sEWELL HAGGARD.

New York, August 17.-One hundred years ago today began the wonder story of steamboating. On that August morn ing Robert Fultons Clermont turned her prov against the current of the Hudson river and set forth upon the first prac- tical voyage of steam navigation. The Clermont averaged five miles an hour against wind and stream, which made Robert Fulton so proud that he wrote to a friend: T overlook many sloops and schooners beating to windward and parted with them as If they had been at anchor"
 From that puny craft padding It's slow way up the Hudson has grown the mighty Cunarder Lusitiana of 32, 800 tons and with engines of 10000 horsepower. This mod ern leviathan is nearly four city blocks long and a new channel has been scooped out in the lower bay so that 1t may reach It's dock through the New York harbor which has heretofore accommodated the merchant fleets of the world. This is in brief the story of what that little magi- cal cloud of vapor from James Watts tea kettle has accomplished.
 The first steam vessel to cross the At lantlc was the S50-ton Savannah. It could be swung from the boat davlts of the Lustania. And where Is development in steam navigation to end. Englands s new battleship Bellerophon adds another 1000 tons to last years Dreadnought, it. self the crowning achievement of warship construction. The launching of this new naval monster three weeks ago has a special interest In view of the fact that Fulton by his application of steam power to frigate in 1874 became the father of the battleship.
 The mournful note in the jubilee of steamboat progress is the decline of river traffic. Five years after the Clermont steamboat was plying the Mississippi. beginning a river trade under steam the subsequent extent of which was indi- cated by the 2.13O,525 tons of freight de- posted on the levee at St. Louis in 1880. But it's glory has departed The old cap tains are gone and the boats that Mark Twain wrote about are in decay. Will the linking of the Mississippi with the Great Lakes by ship canal wrest the lost traffic from the railways and re- store 1t to the river2
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-18

with S1o0,o0Oo0O; the American Telephone and Telegraph company with s15S 100000; the Shipping trust with S102OOO 900; the Can trust with ssS, 100000; the General Electric, with $650O0, GOO; the Glucose trust with S77,o00,0o0, down to the Harvester trust, with only $12,O00,O00 capital They are in bag trusts, paper trusts, llnseed oil trusts match trusts, tool trusts, etc.
 The Steel trust and its pool of allied interests" may be thus stated
 Steel Trust ......................$11 .$1 1O0 000 900 Insurance companies Q. ........ 1,660 900, ,0o0 Banks and trust companies .. 15OOO0,0OO Industrial combinations ....... 1,500, 0O0,O ,O00 Railroads .................. 2'60O 0OO,O00 Community of interest"
 total ,01o 100000
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-18

A case in a police court the other day led to the discovery of ti-millionaire whose name has never figured in the newspapers. He Is Charles Edgar Apple by, whose fortune is estimated at any where from $25, 10000 to s40,0OO00O. That MT. Appleby has managed to keep out of the limelight for all these years-ne is now S3-is most amazing. It was thought that the ensation loving newspapers had let no guilty millionaire escape.
 Mir. Appleby has made his money in New York real estate and 1t would prob ably take him week to make an inven- tory of his holdings He certainly could not remember every lot he owns. If you would know what this curiosity looks like imagine a ruddy old gentleman, with mop of soft white hair, an old gentleman rather under medium height somewhat inclined to bulk around the waist line with bright shrewd eyes, set deep under heavy gray eyebrows.
 Put a sack suit of well worn black upon this figure, and top the large head with old black slouch hat quite shapeless. and you have fair picture of the mod est old man who pinned his faith to Man haitian more than fifty years ago, and has floated Into the harbor of multi-millon- aires on the flood tide
 But do not for an instant imagine that this rlcn old man DelleVeS that ne IS an ancient. He Is hale and hearty, sturdy and independent. and good for more men tai and physical fatigue than half the men half his age.
 Mir Applebys habits of life are simple to ascetlcism. He eats only the simplest foods, but plentifully of them, uses snuff, takes an occasional glass of toddy does as he pleases and never knows what 1t is to be ill He seldom rides. employs the trolley par to go to and from the depot, although there are horses and carriages in the barn, and lays out upon his own self no more today than he did when a penniless young lawyer without brief.
 Richard Harding Davis, the author and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-18

Ex-Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw was arrested in New Jersey the other day for auto speeding and taken before justice of the peace. The justice imposed a heavy fine on the chauffeur.
 Now for the owner Of this here ma chine," said the justice. will he step forward and get hls?"
 I'm the owner" said MT. Shaw ad- vancing to the desk. My name is Shaw, Leslie M. Shaw, and live in-"
 Good goshl" retorted the surprised justice. Don't mean to say you're Shaw of Iowa, who used to be Secretary of the Treasury?'
 "Im that same individual" replied the banker.
 And a candidate for president?'
 "I believe I have been mentioned in that connections" was the modest reply.
 "Dern it, MT. Shaw, but this is hard on me-" said the justice, now apparently displeased. "Why. MT. Secretary, you're my favorite candidate for president. I'm glad to meet you, but I don't like to im- pose any fine"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-12-13
SOME BIG BITES.
They Show the Power Of the Jaws Of
the Crocodile.

They Show the Power Of the Jaws Of
the Crocodile.
The power of the jaws Of the croco-
ollie is terrific, says Sir Samuel Baker
in his book on wild beasts.
Once, he continues, he had the metal
Of large hook the thickness Of ordina-
ry telegraph wire completely bent to-
gether, the barbed point being pressed
tightly against the shank and rendered
useless. This compression was caused
by the snap Of the jaws when Selling
live duck which he had used as a
bait, the hook being fastened beneath
one wing. On one occasion he found a
fish weighing seventy pounds bitten
clean through as If divided by knife.
This, again, was the work Of the snap
Of the jaws of crocodile.
A Frenchman, NJ. Paul Bert, once
made experiments on the strength Of a
crocodile's jaws by means Of a dyna-
mometer He found that crocodile
weighing 100 pounds exerted force Of
BOB pounds In closing his jaws. The
lion has an enormous Jaw power On
one occasion an African traveller push
ed the butt end Of his gun into q lions
mouth, and the pressure OF the jaws
cracked it as though 1t had been struck
by q steam hammer.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-12-13
A Teuah cura.


Faith will do wonders. A woman in
Devonshire. England, recently said to a
chemist:
''I've got cruel, bad cough. surely.
rye heerd that bronchial troches are
good things. Hav'ee got anyT
The assistant pointed to small box
on the table and said:
eyes: there they are"
"How much is it?" was the inquiry.
The price was paid, and the old wo-
man took her departure. At night the
assistant missed box Of glycerin
soap (three cakes).
A couple Of days afterward she re-
turned to the shop and said:
81 want'ee to take back two Of them
things had t'other day. took one of
'em. 1t was mortal hard to chew and
awful to swallow, but Il cured the
cough."-London Queen.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-12-13
Is Friday unluekx3

Is Friday unlucky? Gladstone, Bea.
consfeld, Washington. Bismarck. Fair
enheit and Sturgeon were born on Fri.
day. Henry VIII. gave Cabot his com.
mission which led to the discovery of
North America. Columbus actually dis
covered the continent and the pilgrim
fathers landed at Plymouth Rock on
Friday. Once more: The first news
paper ad. and the first newspaper
printed by steam power (the London
Times) appeared both ON Friday,
while the stamp act was repealed In
England on the same day Of the week.
With Charles Dickens Friday was an
especial favorite.-Chicago News.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-12-13
Badly Mixed Up.

Abraham Brown, of Winterton,
N. Y, had very remarkable ex-
perience; he says: doctors got
badly mixed up over me; one said
heart disease; two calledit kidney
trouble; the fourth, blood poison,
and the fifth stomach and liver
trouble; but none of them helped
me; so my wife advised trying
Electric Bitters, which are restoring
me to perfect health. One bottle
did me more good than all the five
doctors prescribed" Guaranteed
for blood poison, weakness and all
stomach, liver and kidney COM
plants, by Eli T. Reynolds. drug
gist, Soc.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-12-13
SQUARED ACCOUNTS.
Also Won Reputation and Saved
Himself Further Trouble.


Himself Further Trouble.
Press agents, like other individuals,
have their troubles, but there is one in
Philadelphia who has fewer of them
than the ordinary man. Asked one day
how he managed so well to get along
with everybody, he explained:
"Well, won a reputation. You see,
when press agent is able to give a
man heart disease from which he ac-
tually dies his troubles cease if persons
have a proper regard for their lives.
was the press agent for a German
singing fest. naturally used the Ger
man papers.
There was one editor who had the
idea that he wasn't getting all that
was due. Nevertheless he published
column after column of type and pic
lures.
"Afterward the managers Of the
show received bill for $500 for adj
vertising.' They were in rage. What
shall we do?" they demanded. Don't
get excited cautioned 'em. TIL fix
that all right
II went to the office of friend, and,
going to the type cases, l stuck the
finest billhead you ever laid eyes on.
printed it in two inks. 1t read, The
Two Continents Engraving Company;
John Smith, manager Next wrote
this account, TO Peter Jacob Schmid-
theiser, Dr., to cuts for German festi-
val, $780,
when Schmidtheiser received the
bill he tainted. He revived and sent
for me.
"'Fer vot is it you scharge me fer
der cuts vot 1 could puy fer 40 cents
abiece, YETI he demanded.
"That's all right old man. 1 as
sured him. You might buy those cuts
from anybody else for 40 cents apiece,
but not of me-
"He refused to pay the bill, but not
long afterward he was stricken with
heart disease and died. His executors
found the bill, with its balance Of $40
in my favor. They asked me what I'd
take to settle, and told them $50.
They paid it cheerfully, and since then
/ haven't had any trouble."-San Fran
cisco Chronicle.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-12-13
PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD.
Bulletin.
THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS ON THF RAILS.
Bulletin.

At other period of the year does home hunger grip the
human heart with such yearnng at Christmas me
The lasting memories of the old homestead the tender well
of the older and the greetings of the younger dear
the happy reunion about the fesa board the pungen
of the CEDAR the wchey of the holly the lurking sen
of the mseoe, all combine to make lure well nigh
irresistible
reunions and foregatherings of meetings
and parting
The of travel rife for apart from the home goings and
social exchanges is holiday time for many and there
pleasant excursions be made where sightseeing has added
relish from the prevalent gaety and good cheer.
The Pennsylvania Railroad is always popular at holiday
Its system far reaching and at the time
closely interviewer with the needs of the travellers its trains
and well equipped for the accommodation of
every class of travel and its ckeng arrangements salts
flying that it might be termed the Santa Claus route.
Its Limited trains carrying the highest grade of Travellers
completely appointed every DETAIL offer exceptional advan
age the children going home from school for the Christmas
vacation The boys naturally gravate to such trains; the
girls will find every comfort and safeguard well maid
at their command.
No matter whittier bound it is wise to consult Pennsy
Railroad Ticket Agent trains and He
start you right; the rest will be easy.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-12-13
AN OLD PRoyERB.
"A Penny Saved Is Penny Earned"
10 Almost Universal.

"A Penny Saved Is Penny Earned"
10 Almost Universal.
Like most of these wise old proverbs.
ga penny saved is penny earned" Is
probably, In some form or other, uni
versal. In Germany there are three
forms of it-"A penny saved Is penny
gained" C'Ersparter Pfennig list so gut
vie erworbene'o, "a penny saved is
twopence got" C'Ein esparter Pfennlg
list zwelmal verdient'D and penny Is
penny's brother" ('Pfennig list Pfen-
nig's Bruder'). In Spanish, "a penny
spared is penny saved" C-Quien come
y dexa, dos wees pone la mesa'O. In
Dutch, "a penny spared Is better than
a form gained" ("Een stuiver gespaard
is better dan cen gulden gewonnen'D.
In Danish, "a penny in time Is as good
as dollar" CEN SHILLING er Tide saa
god som en- Daler'). In French. "Sav.
ing is getting c'Qui epargne. gagne'D.
Similarly in German, Saving is
greater art than gaining" Al"Sparen LIST
grossere kunst ais erwerben'O. Danish.
Money saved Is as good as money
gained" ("Den Penge man sparer er
saa god som den man av1er"). italian,
Money is moneys brother C'Il danaro
e fratello del danaro'D. But money is
no gain when it advances meacocks"
(.Deniers avancent les bediers''). Eng
fish. Penny and penny laid up will be
many" and who will not keep PEN
ny shall never have many"-he who is
prodigal of little can never have a
great deal.-London Notes and Queries.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-12-13
A Dangerous Deadlock /,

that some time terminates fatally,
is the stoppage of liver aud bowel
functions. To quickly end this
condition without disagreeahle sen.
sations, DR.. Kings New Life Pills
should always be your remedy.
Guaranteed absolutely satisfactory
in every case or money back, at
Eli 7. Reynolds drug store. 25c.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-12-13
Here's Good Advice.

o. s. Woolever, one of the best
known merchants of LIE. Raysville,
N. Y, says: If you are ever trou-
bled with piles, apply Bucklen's
Arnica Salve. 1t cured me of them
for good 20 years ago." Guaran.
teed for sores, wounds, burns or
abrasions. 25e. at Eli T. Reynolds
drug store.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-12-13

One OF the best formulas known for external
use can be made by combination of Kerosene
OIL, Spirits Turpentine, orisanum. Ether and
Ammonia. When these different oils are made
into an emulsion it is the most penetrating Of all
liniments. Elliott's Emulsifed Oil Liniment is
made from the above formula and Is put up in
half pint bottles in yellow packages and sells for
% cents bottle. Sold under guarantee. Eli T..
Reynolds.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-12-13
How He Caught Them.

Archbishop Whately had a true
sense of grammar, says an old English
man who remembers him, and delight
ed to spring catch questions. One was:
''What is the vocative of cat?"
Generally the assured answer was
20 catv'
The archbishop would smile ahsn and
say, "No: puss, puss!"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-12-13

IL reckon dat nigger's chances fer
life Is mighty good" said Brother
Dickey.
How come?'
'Well. de news is dat de lawyers
what wuz tryin' ter git de jury ter
hang him 80 confused an mixed up
matters dat de jury went in an took
an hang itse'f."-Atlanta Constitution.