davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Holbrook argus., 1908-04-21

14 Feb. 10, Eustacio
 Blea, ind1gent sick
 allOWanCe- 5 OO 15 Feb. 10, Gertrude
 Silvia, board, care
 and nursing indi-
 gent Sick.------ 10 % 16 Feb. POL. E. Divel-
 bess, P. M. stamps
 county officers s % IT Mar. 12, Gertrude
 Silvia, board, care
 and nursing 1ndi-
 geng sick-- 40 % IS Mar. 12, ,JuanGall- egos, indigent sick
 allOWance--- s % 19 Mar. 12. George
 Cheney, indigent
 sick allowance --. s % 20 Mar. 12, Eustacio
 Blea, indigent sick
 allowance ..- s co 21 Mar. 25, L. E. Di-
 velbess, P. M. box
 rent county officers 1 35 Total for 1st ar. 19O9$ 592 60 Quarterly reportCounty School Superintendent submitted, audit ed and approved, showing asfol- lows:
 Total disbursements of school funds 1st or. 19OS-----$ S,O46 S1 On motion Board takes a recess until 1 p. m.
 To be continued.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1908-06-18
BAD ITCHING HuMoR.
Limbs Below the Knees Were Raw
Feet swollen-sleep Broken
Cured In 2 Days by cutloura.

"Some two months ago I had hu.
NOR break out on my limbs below my
knees. They came to look like raw
beefsteak. all red. and no one knows
how they itched and burned. They
were 80 swollen that ! could not get
my shoes on for week or more.
used i've or six different remedies and
got no help. only when applying them
the burning was worse and the itching
less. For two or three weeks the suf-
fering was intense and during that
time 1 did not sleep an hour at time.
Then one morning l tried bit of
Cuticura. From the moment II touched
me the itching was gone and have
not ielt bit OF Il since. The swelling
went down and In two days l had my
shoes on and was about as usual.
George B. Farley. so South State St,
Concord. N. H., May II. 1907"
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1908-06-18

by Mongel Bey. Frenchman. The
English tourist never lets slip q
chance to boast of his country's su'
periority In the matter OF the reincar'
nation of Egypt under British "occu'
pation;" and good story is told by
Consul Penfleld of one'of these globe
trotters who was inspecting. with
proud air. the great barrage.
"Yes, It's great work, and these
foreigners ought to better appreciate
what we are doing for their good. This
thing has put them on their feet,
financially, sure enough, but I don't
see that they show any gratitude for
our having built IT,"
II beg your pardon" said the en-.
gineer in charge, but this barrage
was designed and built by French en-.
gineers."
Il didn't know that" replied the
tourist. somewhat subdued. but any.
way, they have to get an Englishman
to take care Of IT."
II beg your pardon again." said the
gentleman with ID. P. w. on his cap
and shield, Il have the honor Of be-
ing a native-born American citizen!"
The tourist walked away. muttering.
We'll. I'm going back to the hotel be-
fore some one tells me that French
man built those pyramids over there!"
At every station we saw great
crowds of people and passed trains
packed like sardines. Our interest
was profound when we learned that
they were pilgrims just starting on
their long and tiresome journey to
Mecca. They were bound for Port
Said where they would take ship for
Jaffa, from there travelling to Mecca
by camel and horseback, though the
great majority 60 all the way across
the desert on foot, thereby attaining
added merit. Beside assured saliva
ton, q trip to Mecca gives a man the
right to wear turban Of green, the
prophets own color, and the title Of
Hadji, and when he returns to his
home, he would quite naturally fresco
over his shop or house door the his
tory Of the pilgrimage. a purple train.
red boat. string Of green camels.
and a yellow mosque before which a
man In blue turban bows himself in
prayer. Beneath this highly decorative
record he would henceforth sit serene
ly wearing his green turban, and
smoking his narghila, trying to look
unconscious of the looks of respectful
admiration not unmixed with envy
that are cast In his direction.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1908-06-18

shared the compartment with us. to-
gether with a mountain Of luggage.
The changing interest Of the land
scape. however, made US forget the
annoyances, for were not the scenes
Of the Bible spread out before us like
an open book. The shepherd with his
flock, the camels either resting or
marching slowly. the mud houses sur
rounded by palms, the women carry
ing water Jars on their heads. walking
splendidly. swinging lightly from their
hips. A family working among the
fertile fields; little girls tending goats
and winding wool on distaff as they
watched, or else q venerable old man
In floating draperies riding q diminu-
tive donkey. sC.t
During the ride We we're much edi-
ned by one Of the English party with
M saying as We passed q station:
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1908-06-18
A VENERABLE OLD MAN.

the Christian era CHATS an awful long
time, Strabo; but I'll not dispute the
word of gentleman Seti cut canal
81 miles long from Bubastis near the
present town of Zigzag-I mean Zaga-
zig to Heroopolis, at the head Of the
Bitter lakes, then forming the north
ern extremity of the Suez gulf.
erodotus-another old-timer who
juggles with centuries as the circus
clown juggles with his old hat-says
that 300 years later Necho the Persian
tried a little canal building, keeping
at 1t till the mere trifle Of a hundred
and twenty thousand lives had been
sacrificed in the job, and only aban-
doning It when the great oracle Of that
day whom he consulted) prophesied
that the most dire results would fol-
low the completion Of the work. and
the entire land Of Egypt be given over
to the stranger and the barbarian.
A century later, Notwithstanding
that the prophecy had been handed
down from ruler to ruler, the Persian
Darius took hand; but. threatened
by wise men with deluge. gave up
the job when near completion. Then
Ptolemy Philadelphus-Q'll bet he
was o slow-coach) B. C. 2S5. joined
the canal with the Heroopolite gulf
by means Of locks, opening them when
n vessel wished to pass. Cleopatra
tried, q couple of centuries later. to
escape with her ships to the Red sea.
but It was too tight q squeeze even
for this lady Of many squeezes, the
locks being rusty from want Of use or
from not. being creased in a century
or so. and the Egyptian beauty found
that her fate must run In other chan.
nels. t.
Then, successfully, the Roman en-
perors Trajan and Hadrian; the
Arabian conqueror Amron; the great
Napoleon, who held the hollow Of the
Heavens in his usurping hand; Me-
hemet Ali, who had butchered 400
MameIukes before supper. but had not
the daring to brave the ancient
prophecy; French engineers. English
engineers, Austrian engineers, each
and all, tried their hand, but to no
definite end. They disagreed as to the
level Of the two seas. Napoleon's en-
giueers estimated that the Mediter-
ranean was 80 feet below the level OF
the Red sea. calling for a scheme OF
sluices and locks. Waghorn, an Eng
lishman, declared that the level Of the
two waters was identical
Meanwhile, . young Frenchman was
dreaming dreams; he was eloquent;
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1908-06-18
THE FIRST TASTE
Learned 20 Drink Coffee When
Baby.

II parents realized the fact that cot
fee contains drug-caffeine-whicf
Is especially harmful to children, they
would doubtless hesitate before Civ
ing the babies coffee to drink.
when / was child In my mothers
arms and first began to nibble things
at the table, mother used to give me
sips Of coffee. AS my parents used
coffee exclusively at meals ! never
knew there was anything to drink but
coffee and water.
"And 30 contracted the coffee habit
early. / remember when quite young,
the continual use Of coffee SO affected
my parents that they tried roasting
wheat and barley. then ground It in the
coffee-mill, az o substitute for coffee.
But II did not taste right and they
went back to coffee again. That was
long before Postum was ever heard OF.
continued to use coffee until was q.
and when got into once work, be-
gan to have nervous spells. Especially
okIOI UEodAAaoS \ wa bO hCAN Oe0
could scarcely attend 70 my CORE.
spondence.
AT night, after having coffee for
supper. ! could hardly sleep. and on
rising in the morning would feel weak
and nervous.
"A friend persuaded me to try Post
um. My wife and did not like 1t
at first, but later when boiled good
and strong II was flno. Now we
would not give up Postum for the
best coffee we ever tasted.
Il can now get good sleep. am free
from nervousness and headaches. i
recommend Postum to Ill coffee drink
ers.
There's q Reason"
Name given by Postum Co, Battle
Greek, Mich. Read ''The Road to Well
viIle," in pkga.
Ever read the above iettsrf. a new
enc appears from time TO time. They
are genuine, true, end full Of human
Interest
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1908-06-18

he was convincing; and he finally
convinced Said Pasha that the future
was lettered big with the name OF
Ferdinand dc Lesseps. and II q con-
cession were given to him. he would
make Egypt and France both immor'
tai. He got the concession. Said
cared nothing for the ancient oracle
that had frightened his grandfather
Mehemet, and 30 Fate swept on with
her relentless broom and Said was
gathered TO his fathers; Ismail the
magnificent. the extravagant. a prince
OF immense fortune. succeeded his
uncle and also succeeded in plunging
his unhappy country up to the neck
In bonds and mortgages galore: Eu-
rope stepped In; England became the
purchaser of Ismail's personal hold
ing (only $2O.000.OO0 saved from the
wreck OF $4,000. OOO) which he sur.
rendered to his creditors n short time
before his reinforcement and Danish.
ment to Naples.
Ismail not only incurred. In his brief
rule of 16 years, a debt Of over $780,
100000. but he mortgaged the souls OF
generations Of Egyptians yet unborn.
And thus did the prophecy come
true! The ancient oracle spake not In
vain. The land of the Pharoahs and
the Ptolemies. OF Alexander and Cleo
patra, has passed into the hands OF
the stranger.
The canals varied and almost tragic
history lent an added interest to the
dull and monotonous aspect that II
presents, the fiat sandy banks melting
out into the desert. unbroken save for
the occasional government stations. a
steamer tied to the bank waiting for
ours to pass, or q collection OF mud
houses belonging to Arabs, whose
camels and donkeys were tethered
nearby.
At times. small boys would race
along the banks, easily keeping pace
with the slowly moving steamer, cry
ing for 'Backsheelsh," to which the
passengers and crew responded by
tossing fruit and packages of food and
money to them.
Twice we passed large numbers OF
workmen mending the banks aided by
droves of camels transporting sand
and stone In pannier boxes.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1908-06-18
The Funny Things One Sees
MARSHALL p. WILDER

NOpyriBht, ny Joseph H. boWie1.J
II was a fine, cool morning when
we reached that historic artery OF
water that Joins the Red sea with the
Mediterranean, the Suez canal.
This unprepossessing ditch" as 1t
has 10 often been called. has been
held responsible almost as much as
the unbrdled extravaganza OF lsmail
Pasha, for the financial ruin OF Egypt.
and her occupation by Great Britain.
Despite dire prophecy, and centuries
OF failure-for nearly every ruler Of
Egypt. from Seti, father Of Rameses
the Great to Napoleon Bonaparte,
tried his hand ut the problem Of estab-
fishing water communication between
the Mediterranean and the Red sea
the great canal has become fixed
fact in the worlds history. The one
time American consul general at
Cairo, Mr.. Frederick CORTLAND Pen
field. in his charming and instructive
book. present Day Egypt" let's In
much pleasant light upon the musty.
old traditions Of the ancient land.
Strabo, now; he's the worlds
earliest geographer and historian, or
one of 'em. and ! suppose we are
bound to believe him, even when he
says (he must have said 1t, for I've
never seen any of his handwriting
lying aroundD that II centuries before
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1908-06-18

You won't tell your family doctor
the whole story about your private
illness you are too modest. You
need not be afraid to tell Mrs. Pink
ham, at Lynn, Mass, the things you
could not explain TO the doctor. Your
letter will be held in the strictest con-
fidence. From her vast correspond
ence with sick women during the
past thirty years she may have
gained the very knowledge that will
help your case. Such letters as the fol-
lowing, from grateful women, es.
tablish beyond o doubt the powerof
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1908-06-18

There's fine engine. q splendid en-
CINE. by Jove!"
That's an American engine" said
the othor man. adding. before we had
lost our little glow Of patriotic pride.
"but we don't care for them out here.
they burn such q lot of coal and are 10
very dirty" To our humble sugges-
ton that perhaps they made up for
this defect by being fast. no assented
condescendlngly that they were fast.
but 80 dirty, you know!"
The great barrage. near Cairo. con-
structed to hold back the surplus
waters and thus irrigate a larger area,
was begun IN 1887 from plans made
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1908-06-18
Trlumph Of Mind.

Victim Of Delusion-Doctor. I'm
awfully afraid I'm going to have brain
fever.
Doctor-Pooh. pooh. my dear friend!
That's all an Illusion Of the senses.
There Is no such thing as fever. You
have no fever, you have no br-h'm-
no material substance upon which
such a wholly imaginary and suppo-
sitious thing as a fever could find
any base of operation.
Victim-Oh, doctor, what q load you
have taken from my-from my
have q mind, haven't I. doctorf
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1908-06-18

Great stream dredgers were fire.
quently passed working constantly to
keep the canal passable for steamers
as sand and silt are continually filling
1t up.
Port Said ia a town Of some impor
lance, very much larger than Suez, but
in the flying glimpse We caught of II
in the course of a wild. eariy-morning
ride to catch the train for Cairo, we
were impressed by its dirt and noise
more than by anything else.
The ride to Cairo was tiresome for
many reasons, chiefly because Of the
dust and flies, and a family who
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1908-06-18
SnllcltudA.

Cyrus" hastily exclaimed Mrs.
Jymes, "you ought to be careful how
you let Fido eat out Of your hand"
why. there isn't bit Of danger"
said Mr.. Jymes. He wouldn't harm
q fly"
"Oh, I know there's no danger to
you," impatiently rejoined his wife.
Il was thinking Of Fido."-Chicago
Tribune.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1908-06-18
Necessity for Action.

Mani was astonished to learn that
LII Billiwink had gone and married
that Spriggins boy. Why, she's q good
ten years older than he ID.
FAM know It, but 1t had narrowed
down to a choice between him and his
father, and she had to decide quick
Chicago Tribune.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1908-06-18
That Woman's Fault.

"That woman next door Is really
dreadful, john" said young married
woman to her husband. "She does
nothing but talk the whole day long
She cannot get any work done. I'm
sure"
"Oh," remarked the husband. u
thought she was O chatterbox. And. to
whom does she talk?"
"why, my dear. to me, Of course.
was the reply. "She talks to me over
the fence"
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1908-06-18
MeetInu the Unusual.

Mr.. Sinic-Do you see those three
people walking together down there!
Mrs. Getup-Yes; who are they?
MIR. Sinic-One Is a somnambulist,
one is a kleptomaniac and one Is a
plagiarist."
Mr. Sinic-Law sakes! ! never
dreamed we were going to meet 80
many brainy people in Q bunch
Baltimore American.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1908-06-18
Ennantrloltlas Of oenlus.

Genius Ia freakish. II 10 claimed
that the brilliant DR.. johnson used to
touch every post In his pathway"
81 know one OF them geniuses."
"And does he touch every post no
comes acrossf"
mo; he touches every friend no
comes across. or everlastingly tries
to."-Louisville Courier,Journh.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1908-06-18
Well Named.

Patience-That rubber plant TO
quires a good deal Of looking after.
does It not?
PatrIce-Oh, yes; that's why II n
called q rubber plant / suppose
Yonkers Statesman.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1908-06-18
LYDIA e. PINkKANl'S
VEGETABLE COMPOUND

to conquer all female diseases.
Mrs. Norman r. Barndt OF Allen
town, Pa, writes:
ever since was sixteen years OF
are had suffered from m organic de-
rangement and female weakness; In
consequence had dreadful headaches
and was extremely nervous. My physi-
clan said I must 90 through an opera
ton TO get we'll. A friend told me
about Lydia E. PiAkham's Vegetable
Compound, and ] took 1t and wrote You
for advice, following your directions
carefully, and thanks to you am to-
day a well woman, and ] am telling
ali my friends of my experience"
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1908-06-18
FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN.

For thirty years Lydia Z. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound, made
from roots and herbs, has been the
standard remedy for female Ills,
and has positively cured thousands OF
women who have been troubled with
displacements, inflammation, ulcera-
ton, fibroid tumors, Irregularities,
periodic pains, backache, that bear
ing-down feeling, fatulency, indiges-
ton, dizziness, ornervousprostration
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1908-06-18

WRITE AT ONCE to DR.. Chas. F.
Simmons. San Antonio. Texas. for In.
formation how to buy from 10 to $40
acres and 2 town lots Of the best land
in South Texas, for 500 payable s10
per month.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1908-06-18
The coIhnu Girl.

The Eoihng Girl. the gOlfing girl.
Queer are her ways and tricks;
A mans heart serves her for q ball,
And chapples are her ''sticks."
Chicago Daily New
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1908-06-18
WARNING FARMERS. WRIT

WNFFN FNWENVs WIN Ut
Chas. =. Simmons. OF San Antonio,
Texas. for information about his fine
South Texas farm lands that he 10 sell
Ing In lots from 10 TO Gao acres for
$40. including two town lots ON pay.
ments OF $40 per month.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1908-06-18
A Good Cook.

els your wife good cook?"
IT should say so. She knows eight
different ways of Disgusting cold
lamb."-Detroit Free Press.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1908-06-18

Many a wise-looking man is unabl'
to deliver the goods.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1908-06-18

After pleasure follows pain, and
after pain follows virtue.-W. J.
Locke.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1908-06-18

Mrs. WinaloW's Soothing Syrup.
For children teething, sofIAns the gains, reduces ~
anmlnation, ailays pain. cures wind con 2ooabotse
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1908-06-18

GOOD HOUsEKEEPERs.
Use the best. That's why they buy Red
Cross Ball Blue. At leading grocers 8 cents.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1908-06-18

Gentleness IL Observation-Disclosures
Aurelius.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-20
Onr Elder Siaifsmen

The Senate has long been the re- treat of our elder statesmen, and the deaths within single year of John T. Morgan. Edmund W. pettus and Will liam Pinkney Whyte has set people to thinking that perhaps the senatorial lie is too strenuous for mel four scora years old. Morgan was born in 1924; Pettus. in 1921, and Whyte, in 1924. Their useful aad honorai lives pretty well covere the 1?tn century, each tapping over into the succeeding one.
 The Senate now contains no one who is 80 years old. but William B. Allison of Iowa was born In 1929, and his sixth senatorial term will expire on the 4th day of next March, snd he is candi- date for a seventh term. The Iowa republican state convention indorsed his candidacy on Thursday of this week. He already outranks Ill former Senators in length uI service.
 Isaac Stephenson of Wisconsin was born in 1929. His term expires next March, and he is not candidate for. Il full term. Shelby M. Cullom of Illinois is another veteran Senator He, too, was born in 1929. He is serving out a fifth term in the Senate, and he can be trusted to keep ou serving as long as he can carry his state iIe really promises to become the Jean of the Senate, for his, present term does not expire until March ], 1913
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-20
Financinu inc City

In the absence of the customary liquor license fees--in the absence Of a street tax-Ihe city has taken steps to borrow s175,000 with which to bridge over the financial deficiencies of the remainder of the calendar year It Is believed that this loan will relieve the city of pecuniary embarra 'snent con- seouent upon the rostponcment of the collection of the merchants and prop city taxes, the dispute In the courts over the road and bridge tex. and the general dislocation of finances that prohibition inaugurated.
 The city did net borrow from home lenders. The money was secured in the chief money center of the country, and the credit of the city stood our Board of Aldermen and their agents in good stead. It IS not easy in these times for municipalities to borrow $175, ,OO0, and Birmingham is to be con- graduated upon its early success in the money market. The ability to bor- row puts within reach all absolutely needful improvements, and it removes all excuse for any interference with the police, the city's schools, sanita- tion or any other highly useful branch of the city's work
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-20
SEEING THE SUMMER GIRL.
High Class Neighborhood Drug Store
 Good Evening Viewpoint.

Oliver Opp in Success Magazine.
 Another good place for observing the universal American princess is suburb an town-near any great city-and pref eraby a drug store in well to do resi- denee district. A summer evening is the time to choose. The princess must have her soda water at frequent intervals, and she must go to the drug store to get It. In a certain prosperous suburb which l happen to know very well. she floats about the residence streets of evening
 in the filIniest of summer fabrics, with or without hat, and with her pretty arms and neck bare, and she does not dream of shocking anyone; on the con- trary, from my acquaintance with her l venture to believe that If any unaccus- toned observer wers so silly as to permit himself Cor hersel) to be shocked, the girl wouldn't care afrap And l will go so far as to believe that she would be right.
 An institution with which the girl Is closely identified. both before she goes away to school and after she returns "finished,' is that curious American lux uary the front porch" From Maine to California, from Dakota to Louisiana, the front porch fourishes It is usually fur nshed with easy chairs and a hammock. It is where she entertains her boy friends from the bashful caller" who supple ments his timid advances with a box of candy, to the steady admirer, who works for a big concern downtown, and who, frankly hopes to make her his wife as soon as his salary >shal reach the neces- sary figure. The front porch Is the scene of many laughing party, of many quiet confidence, of many a merry little irritation. Father and mother say good night and go to bed, leaving their partic- ular American girl to entertain her boy friends innocent of chaperonage, supreme in her mastery of every situation in which she may find herself.