davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1908-11-16
IheWOrld-Wide Rec
| IGNITION of the
Weber

Largely come from that dstinctively sympathetic
<Ng quality which caused the most famous tenor
Fsedern times 10 say: NO other piano possesses a
Rshxabends 50 well with the human voice or is 5
Fsiaclory 10 the vocal artist at the Weber"
When both Paderewski and Rosenthal selected the
sr oF use on their latest concert tours, the rapid
|AaHre 81 she Weber Piano toward still higher ar
PIG deal xseived the most impressive recognition
at possible TO secure in the musical world today.
Recent examples OF the famous Weber Piano are
|s or you Inspection 1t is direclyto your interest
re hem
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1908-11-16
he Most Wonderful
Musical Instrument
/ in the World

EhsAuman voice. The closer that piano can come
IL sympathetic quality OF the voice. the higher its
Ifsx nae.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1908-11-16

a.Y %s sss $,$ss: * @ : ] [
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1908-10-08
Announcer

y j.
I hereby announce myself . can
didates for. the state legislature. as
representative Of the 29th legsla-
tive district, on the Democratic
ticket, and ask for the support Of
all Of the voters. / am farmer, and
in case Of election, will not be bound
by any promises to corporations or
machines. II elected, will work for
the interest Of the entire district,
and do my share to see that every
man gets a square deal, and will
work for equal and just taxation for
ALL Thorwad Mostad,
Sawyer, N. D..
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1908-10-08
16o-Are Farm for Sale.

Ten miles from Glenburn, three
miles west Lynch post Office, 1T
acresunder plow partly plowed for next
year. Abundance good water close to
buildings, room house, one story,
barn 1892, carriage house. small
granary. Fine grove trees. A hne
property for making money and
have splendid home at the same
time Price $40 acre, part time viii
be considered. Inquire on premises.
D. X. Pike, Lynch. N. D.
9-17 1922 pd
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1908-10-08

The wheat and barley on the
School Of Forestry farm was thresh,
ed out last week. OF the thirteen
kinds of barley, the Wisconsin Pre-.
mus turned out the best, going 80
one hundred pound sacks from one
acre. Eight kinds OF wheat was
threshed averaging 80 bushels per
acre.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1908-10-08

The application OF Jos. Collinson
of Eckman, for druggists permit
to sell liquor, was denied by Judge
Kirk. The application was contested
by the county w. c. T. U. and some
of the ladies OF Eckman.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1908-10-08
Farm for sale.

Section of choice land, three miles
from Foxholm, N. D.. east, half in
Mouse river valley and half on prai-
rie, 300 acres under pillow, 100 acres
fine meaow. baladnce timber and
pasture. Good story and a half
house, 14x24 feet. Kitchen 16x16.
Barn 54x42 built two years ago at
cost Of $500. Granary 2sx6o. Other
sheds. Good water. Good reason for
selling. Address x Care Independent,
or call here. IA p.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1908-10-08

Farmers Do not purchase any
seed wheat known as Alaska.
Egyptian, Miracle. Wonderful, Hun.
dred-fold or Seven Headed. Stick to
the old reliable kind. The.s make
money fast enough. No use to ex.
pertinent. -Westhope Standard.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1908-10-08

Don't worry. The rent is due,
the baby's sick, the grocery man
has quit, you can't get raise Of
salary, the house is full OF ants and
your mother-in-law is coming on a
long visit. But don't worry It's all
right.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1908-10-08

MARRIED MAN-Would like to
rent farm Of about $50 acres with
horses and machinery included. Ad-
dress Care The Independent. Mi
not N. ID. 9-17-t4p
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1908-10-08

FOR SALE-Some fine thoroughbred
st. Bernard puppies, five weeks old
/. Can be registered. Stahler &
Lambert, Foxholm, N. D. 9-17-tf
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1908-10-08
Ror Rent.

"A fine store room In the Berthold
Masonic Temple building, 24xS0. It
is the finest store in the city, in
the best central location. Write or
see F. G. Wather, Berthold, N. D.
9-24 IA
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1908-10-08

Miss Alice Miller, late OF Mime
apolis, Mimi. would like to do sew.
Ing out. by the day, for private fam
lilies. Address 100 West 9Th street.
Phone No. 1872. tip
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1908-10-08

We make speciality Of farm loans
Renwald land Agency, Minot, N. d.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1908-10-08
MODERN wooDnEN OF AMERICA

Meets every and and 4th Thursday
Of each Month
The Royal Neighbors meets every list and 3rd
Friday each month.
In the Wheeler hall over the Grow Clothing
Store.
Anyone wishing information as to transfer
cards or anything OF interest to Woodmen,
oaH on E.A HARTHoUSE. Clerk.
Andersen Bros hide house MINOT. N. D
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-12-24
Hunting Christmas Ghosts.

Ghost hunting bids fair to become
the ruling passion of Washington So
ciety. The fortunate owners of a
peaked house, roped with ivy and
densely surrounded by trees, are issu-
ing cards for Christmas specter hunt.
The Christmas ghost hunt is imported
from England, where the houses are
ancient enough to harbor specters who
were thsre before William the Con
queror. The comparative newness OF
this country leads some to predict that
the fad over here will fall There are
exceptions, however. for even in Wash
ington there is one Of the treasure
guarding ghosts-an out and out bucca
neer of the Spanish main variety, with
cooked hat, gold lace, ruffies, high vel
low boots, red Jacket and an odor OF
antiquity. Those acquainted with hin
say that he clinks his chains of stolel
misunderstanding Star.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-12-24

keeper and gather another supply Of
presents so that the chidrens faith in
Santa Claus might not be lost.
The children We're asleep when MI.
and Mrs. Hammermeister completed
decorating the tree. The father de-
cided to light the candles as a test.
They burned; so did the cotton snow
balls. The blaze awakened the chill
dren. "Santy here?" they piped. "Is
it mornin'?' The parents gathered
them in their arms and rushed to the
street. Firemen brought out lot of
fire ruined presents from the house.
''Santy been and gone and our things
is burned up!' the children cried.
Hammermeister began his weary
search for an open store. He en-
ployed the infrequent street cars for
long stretches, but trudged mile after
mile in fruitless search. Finally he
routed storekeeper from his bed and
burdening himself with a new supply
trudged home to turn sorrow into joy
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-12-24

the airs of man VIII. could "skait'
and having shown his ignorance there
of. was smartly reprovcd by Mr.. Pick
wick. Meanwhile, MIR. Weller and the
fat boy having by their joint efforts
cut out a Slide all hands participated
Says the chronicler of the days sport:
1t was the most intensely interesting
thing to observe the manner in which
Mr.. Pickwick performed his share in the
ceremony-to watch the torture Of anx-
iety with which he viewed the person be.
hind gaining upon him at the imminent
hazard of tripping him up. to see him
gradually expend the painful force which
he had put on at first and turn slowly
around on the slide, with his face toward
the point from which he had started, to
contemplate the playful smile which man
tied on his face when he had accomplish
ed the distance and the eagerness with
which he turned around when he had
done so and ran after his predecessor, his
black CATERS tripping pleasantly through
the snow and his eyes beaming cheerful
ness and gladness through his spectacles,
and when he was knocked down, which
happened upon the average every third
round, 1t was the most invigorating sight
that can possibly be imagined to behold
him gather up his hat, gloves and hand
kerchief with glowing countenance and
resume his station in the rank with an
ardor and enthusiasm which nothing
could abate.
Mr.. Pickwick unfortunately breaks
through the ice and gets a good wet
ting, but, being taken on a smart run
to the house, put to bed and given I'M
limited quantities of hot punch, finds
himself none the worse next morning.
when the party departs from Dingley
Dell.
Thus does Dickens tell us of one Of
the merriest Christmases that a reader
! could desire. There is no touch of sad
ness in the chronicle, and all that one
could wish for is that the story We're
longer. Long live the tale, and long
may we enjoy Christmas with the
Pickwickians!
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-12-24
A Christmas Sentiment.

However sincere we may he in our
efforts to spread Christmas cheer, our
charity is none the less testimony
to our sense of the fact that peace and
earth. Poverty and wretchedness are
not to be offset by yearly gifts of bas
ke's of food and outgrown clothes.
We ought to make the spasmodit
kindness of Christmas one Of the
constant forces of our industrial world
Equality and fraternity are born not
Of charity, but of justice.
Instead of commercializing Christ
mas we ought to Christmasize com
mercialism. New York Mall.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-12-24
aR FIoKWICK WENT SLOWLY AID GRAVELY DOWN TIL
SLIDE WITH HIS FEET ABOUT A YARD APART

began to stow the things rapidly away
in the cart, while the fat boy stood quiet
ly by and seemed to think it a very in
teresting sort of thing to see Mr.. Weller
working by himself.
The conversation Of these two char
acters is too long to reprint here, but
not too much so to peruse with the
greatest interest We must pass over
the story of the wedding, which was
the day before Christmas event at
Dingley Dell, at which MI. Pickwicll
distinguished himself by felicitous
speech, and get to the story of the
dance. Dickens description of the old
sitting room is q gem:
The best sitting room at Manor Farm
was good, long, dark paneled room,
with a high chimney piece and capacious
chimney. UP which you could have driven
one of the new patent cabs, wheels and
all. At the upper end of the room, seated
in a shady bower of holly and eVer-
greens, We're the two best fiddlers and the
only harp in Muggleton. In all sorts of
recesses and on all kinds of brackets
stood massive old silver candlesticks with
four branches each. The carpet was up,
the candles burned bright the fire blazed
and cracked on the hearth and merry
voices and light hearted laughter rang
through the room. If any of the old
English yeomen had turned into fairies
when they died. it was just the place in
which they would have held their revels.
After the dance was over, Mr.. Pick
wick having acquitted himself with
great credit, the reader is told about
the doings in the famous old kitchen.
Here hung the mistletOe and did its
mission well i'll adding to the jollity
of the occasion. The artist whose pic
lures appear on his pages has done ex.
cellent justice to Dickens text:
From the center of the ceiling of this
kitchen old Wardle had just suspended
with his own hands a huge branch OF
t1nistletoe and this same branch OF mis-
tletoe instantaneously gave rise to 9
scene of general and most delightful
struggling and confusion, in the midst OF
which Mr. Pickwick, with a gallantry
which would have done honor to de-
scendant of Lady Tollinglower herself
took the old lady by the hand, led her be
meath the mystic branch and saluted hel
In all courtesy and decorum Wardlt
stood with his back to the fire, surveying
the whole scene with the utmost satisfac
ton, and the fat boy took the opportuni
ty of appropriating to his own use ant
summarily devouring particularly fin
'mince pie that had been carefully put b.
for somebody else. -
1t was pleasant thing to see Mr.. Pick
wick in the center of the group, now pull
ed this way and then that and first kiss
ed on the chin and then on the nose am
then on the spectacles, and to hear tn
peals Of laughter, which We're raised o.
every side.
Finally we come to Christmas day
which was cold and cheerful and goo'
y skating" weather. The party al
went to a pretty large sheet Of ice,
whore Mr.. Wrinkle, having assumes
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-12-24

Il Dickens described them bet
ter than in the "Pickwick Papers,"
One might read the paragraph relating
to the observance of the holiday half
hundred times and not become weary.
The Christmas spirit is everywhere
evident in the chapters devoted to the
holiday making. From the beginning,
when the hero, his three friends and
his faithful servant start for Dingley
Dell, to the hour of their return there
IS Christmas in every sentence:
AS brisk as bees, If not altogether as
light as fairies. did the four Pickwickians
assemble on the morning of the 22d day
OF December in the year of grace in
which these their faithfully recorded ad-
ventures were undertaken and accom-
plished. Christmas was close at hand in
all his bluff and hearty honesty. 1t was
the season Of hospitality, merriment and
open heartedness. The old year was pre-
pairing, like an ancient philosopher, to
call his friends around him and amid the
sound Of Teasing and revelry to pass
gently and calmly away Gay and merry
was the time. and right gay and merry
were at least four of the numerous hearts
that were gaddened by Its coming.
After travelling through wide and
open country where "the wheels skim
over the hard and frosty ground" SLOW
ing up as they draw near a country
town, where the horses are changed,
then again "dashing along the open
road, with the fresh air blowing in
their faces and gladdening their very
hearts within Them" they arrive at
Dingley Dell, where we are introduced
to that famous parsonage, the fat boy
He is an old acquaintance of Mr.. Pick
wick, but to Sam Weller his face Is
strange. To follow this first meeting:
! Having given this direction and settled
with the coachman, Mr.. Pickwick and
his three friends struck into the footpatt
across the fields and walked briskly away
leaving Mr.. Weller and the fat boy con
fronted together for the first time San
looked at the fat boy with great aston
tshment, but without saying word ant
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-12-24
How TO Cure
indigestion
Well Known Family Physician Gives Good
Advice

when person cannot eat ordinary
food without discomfort afterward, when
he has heartburn, sick headache, gas
on the stomach, water brash, belches up
sour food, and this condition has contin-
ued for a week or more, it certainly is
time to do something and do it quickly"
That's what a popular physician recently
said to the writer. First thing you
know you'll have dyspepsia if you don't"
said he.
The quickest and best way to regain
your normal condition is to step into the
drug store and buy soc bottle of DR..
Caldwells Syrup Pepsin. 1t gives nat
ural, daily movements to the bowels. and
that is usually where more than half the
| trouble lies. Then it aids digestion,
sweetens the stomach, acts on the liver
and is a general system tonic. -
| Postmaster Ridgill of Brucevile Tex,
| had such a severe attack of dyspepsia
that his stomach, liver and bowels
seemed almost paralyzed, but a few doses
of DR.. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin relieved him
apd today he is well as ever Maude Hall,
Alpena, Mich, says that one bottle cured
| her of very severe case of indigeS lion.
A. l.. Espich Chief of Police, New Phil
adelphia Ohio, says: 81 find DR.. Cald-
wells Syrup Pepsin the best remedy for
| indigestion I ever used I would not be
without it." Rev A. ]. Fletcher, Ruthe-
| ford, Tenn, is now So and yet it cured
him of stomach trouble of 60 years stand
| ing. Mrs. Matte Crouch, Tiptonville.
| Tenn, cured her five months old baby OF
indigestion with it, so you see that while
| it is so effective it will cure cases OF
long standing of dyspepsia and constipa-
ton in old people, it is perfectly safe for
babies. and it is pleasant to take, and
does not pain or grippe.
All druggists sell it at SOC and s1.OC
per bottle. Pepsin Syrup Co., 3O7 Cald.
well Bldg, Monticello ILL.,, are glad te
send free sample to any one who ha:
! not used it and will give it fair trial
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-12-24
LONG WALK FOR SANTA.

Tree Burned, Father Goes Eight Miles
For New Toys.
Gifts intended for his eight children
being destroyed when his lighting Of
the Christmas tree, just before mid
night, caused a fire which damaged
his home in Cleveland, Alfred Ham
mermeister trudged eight miles Though
snow before he could rouse store
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-12-24
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
. Christmas With
The PickWiCkians
kekakskokoc 4steketeAekk
y chronicler of Christmas do
ings has done it SO inimitably
as Dickens, and nowhere has

Dickens described Them he
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1908-09-26
Business Men Honest.

The business men of our community
as a whole are honest and their meth
DDS are sound. The President has
never said otherwise. Indeed, it is
chiefly in the interest Of the great body
of honest business men that he has
made his fight for lawful business
methods.-Hon. VIM. H Taft, to Mer-
chants and Manufacturers Association,
Boston, Mass
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1908-09-26

But while we would be better
Christians than our oppressors,
we will not be towards. We
want to let the world know that
we are opposed to the punish
ment that is being inflicted upon
US as people. We want to say
with emphasis that we will not
surrender one iota of our man.
hood, no matter how many lynch.
ing parties are pulled off, 90
matter if our enemies, like Her
cules, stand in defiance over us,
for he is not defeated whose
spirit is unconquered. The shad-
ow of retribution is hanging over
the American nation, the Red
Sea is just ahead.-The Leader,
Alabama.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1908-09-26
June 1, 1905.


1t will probably be but short time
after the convention between this coun-
try and England goes into effect until
the dream Of a universal 2-cent letter
postage, championed by the Republican
party, will be realized. Australia, New
Zealand and Egypt have already called
for the 2-cent rate. The Emperor OF
Germany has said that if England es-
tablishes 2-cent postage rate with
the United States, he will have Ger
many do the same. France, Italy.
South Africa, Japan, Belgium, Hol-
land, Denmark and Sweden would need
little more than an invitation to fol-
low suit.
A 2-cent postal rate would bind all
the South American republics and the
United States still more closely togeth
er into peaceful. reciprocal, progress
sive, civilization, which would mean a
more rapid development of both Ameri-
can continents and new application
of the Monroe doctrine. With these
countries agreed, on the object desired,
the continent of Europe alone would
then be wholly outside this compre
hensive postal union, and then the
continental powers would not long
stand aloof from it.
1t has remained for the United
States to take the initiative in a move
to reap the great glory of being the
rfopears of n world wide 2-aent most
age. Mill',ns of our citizens will feel
almost us grateful for this benelicent
act as millions of slaves did, when the
Republican party broke the shackles
thai bound them to perpetual physical
eervices. "A
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1908-09-26
Synopsis of Illinois Game Law.

You may hunt and kill quail only from
)vember 10th to December 20. of each
year.
You must not kill any prairie chick+ n
or grouse for period of four years from
the first day OF July 1907 or any wild
turkey, pheasant or partridge for a
period of six years from July I, 1907.
You must not mel, trap or ensnare
quail, prairie chicken, pheasants or
cartridges at any time or under any
circumstances, unless authorized to do 30
by the State Game Commissioner.
You may kill wookcocks and mourning
doves only from August Ist to N,vem.
Der goth, of each year.
You, may kill grey. red fox or bl ok
squirrels from July Ist to November 18th
OF each year.
You may kill all kinds of snipe and
plover from September Ist to MAY Ist
of each year.
You may kill wild geese. ducks, brant,
coots. rail or other water fowl from
September Ist to April 18th of each year.
You must not kill wild geese, ducks.
brant, coots. rail or other water fowl
after shutdown or before sunrise of each
succeeding day.
You must not kill wild geese, ducks,
brant, coots, rail or other water fowl
from any steamboat, sailboat electric or
gasoline launch, or from any sinkboat,
box or sneakboat, or artificial blind in
the open Waters of this State
You must not kill wild geese, ducks
brant, quail pheasants. partridges, prai
RE chickens. grouse ur squirrel for mar
ket or commercial purposes
You must not sell, buy or have in
possession for the purpose OF selling. or
transport for the purpose of sale, any
wild geese, ducks, brant, quail, prairie
chickens. grouse or squirrels that have
been killed in the State of Illinois.
Yon must not at any time kill more
than twenty wild ducks, geese brant.
coots. rail or other water fowl, or more
than fifteen quail or other game birds in
one day.
You must not kill, Catch or have in
possession, living or dead any wild bird
or part of bird other than game bird,
except English sparrow, crow, crow
BLACKBOARD or chicken hawk, and YOU
must not purchase or expose such birds
for sale.
You must not destroy or remove from
their nests the eggs of any prairie chick
en-, grouse, quail, wild turkey, pheasant.
partridge, duck, goose, brant or song
bird
You may kill for commercial purpose
and transport for sale or market all kinds
OF snipe plover, mourning doves and
rabbits.
You must not offer for sale or trans
port for the purpose of selling any snipe
or plover or mourning dove after the
expiration of FIVE days next succeeding
the first day of the closed season: nor
can you sell the Same during the first
two days of the open season.
Inhabitants of this State may receive
game coming from other states where il
is lawful to kill and ship out of such
states, and expose and sell on the mar
ket such game between the first day oil
October and the first day of February OF
the following year.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1908-09-26
Gratitude to Mckinley.

The highest claim of William Nc
Kinley for the gratitude of his coun-
trymen is that, in spite of the abuse
and contumely that was heaped upon
his head for this policy, he placed our
country in the forefront of nations as
q civilizer and uplifter Of unfortunate
peoples.-Hop. VIM. III. Taft, at Clevs-
land, Ohio.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1908-09-26
MAGAZINE
readers

SUNSET MAGAZINE
beautifully illustrated. good stories G. ~
and articles about California and vA'ov
al the Far West. agar
CAMERA CRAFT
devoted sach>month to the AZ
tistic reproduction Of the best 90
work Of amsteur and professional . yea,
photographers.
ROAD OF A THOUSAND WONDERS
book Of IS pages. containing
40 colored photographs Of 40 TX
picturesque spos in California $3.50
and Oregon.
TOTAL $3.75
ALI for $3.50
Adde'S al orders to
SUNSET MAGAZINE
Flosd Buldlna 4 San Francisco