davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Middletown transcript., 1908-04-11

To destroy ants, grease plates with lard
and set them where the insects abound.
They prefer lard to anything, and will
forsake even sugar for it. Place few
sticks around the plate for the ants to
climb up by. Occasionally turn the plate
bottom up over the fire and the ants will
fall in with the melting lard. Reset the
plate, and in a short time the plague
should have Il sappeared.
To clean v all paper, make soft dough
OF coarse brown flour, mixed with water,
stiff enough to handle easily. The paper
can be rubbed with this carefully until
all the dirt is removed. When there are
grease spots on the surface lay coarse
brown paper over them and pass hot
iron over it. Fresh paper may be needed
several times if the spot is large.
For children with delicate chests pro-
cure at chemists five cents worth of
Russian talow and five cents worth of
black caniphor. Place in jar in medium
oven until quite dissolved, then rub the
child's back and chest night and morning.
This will give instant relief, and it is also
good for chapped hands or chilblains.
When the smell of frying pervades the
house examine the outside and bottom of
the frying, g,pau and you will probably find
that it is covered with burnt fat which
smells as soon as it is at all hot. Besides
washing the pan inside and out with
strong soda water after it has been used
it is necessary occasionally to boil it out
in larger vessel with strong soda water
and soap. Directly the burnt grease is
removed the strong smell of frying in the
house when the pan is on the fire will
exist 70 more.
Middletown transcript., 1908-04-11
LUCK? MONTHS FOR WEDDINGS

The fact. show that the spring is the
favored time for weddings in this coun-
try, with Cupid's very busiest season
coming along in June. The June bride is
considered especially fortunate and the
June nnnth can be generally relied upon
for All au~picious daY E"r the launch into
matrimony.
In Holland, however, May is considered
the best month in the whole year for
being married in, and May brides and
bridegrooms look forward confidently to
happy future.
In Russia winter weddings are con-
sidered the luckiest, and picturesque
white" weddings in January (the best
month OF all for marriage, according to
Slav belief are the social events of St.
Petersburg and Moscow.
About an eighth of the weddings in
Scotland take place in June, the "month
of roses,"' which is also first favorite as a
marriage month among Swedish women.
February is the favorite month for
weddings in Italy, and the popular time
is Just before Lent begins.
Middletown transcript., 1908-04-11

well, and while wet lay them on folded
newspaper, and iron. If too stiff rub dry
and iron again. They will look like new
ribbons.
A good way to clean kitchen is to
take everything out of it and place wash
boiler full of water on the range with
cover off. Close all doors and windows,
and in about one half hour rub the steam
covered walls and ceiling with clean
cloths. This is very good, especially be-
fore painting.
If heat in bottom OF the oven is not
sufficient for pie, place a hot stovecover
under the pie. It will cook the under
crust beautifully. The under crust is apt
to be soggy when oven is slow.
An old skillet makes a good cover for
irons when being heated on gas or gaso-
line stove.
Add little coaloil to cooked starch to
keep the irons from sticking. .-..
Linseed oil will take the fire out if
applied Immediately to burn.
Pour boiling water over soup beans
first, let stand until cool, then put on to
cook in boiling water and see how much
quicker they cook.
For burns try the down of cat-tails and
lard, or cream and -four mixed to form
thick paste.
For eczema, cid sores, etc., use lard
two parts and caomel one part, mixed to
salve. --.
For Group take flannel cloth, grease
with mixture of lard, turpentine, coal
oil and spirits of camphor; apply warm
to the breast 1t is also good for pneu-
monia if used freely in the first stage.
If the nickel on your stove is rusty,
cover the spots with mutton fat, let stand
few days, then rub off with rottenstone
and polish with whitening and water or
whitening and alcohol. A mixture of
the latter is good thing to have about
bllC IlOuSC AOL SUI 70 Va
rors, window glass, silver, nickel and
brasses. The proportions are about one
third whitening to tWo-thirds alcohol.
When used, it should be well shaken,
and applied with flannel cloth, let dry,
then the surface polished with a soft dry
flannel cloth.
Lace that is very much soiled may be
cleaned by putting it into glass jar and
covering it with gasoline. After shaking
it for ten minutes allow it to stand for
twenty-four hours. Then give it bath
in clean gasoline, squeeze dry and roll it
on bottles, smoothing out the pattern
carefully. When dry unroll and hang it
in the air to remove the odor. This
should be done in the daytime and at
distance from any fire, preferably out of
doors, las gasoline generates gas rapidly
and is very explosive.
Middletown transcript., 1908-04-11


Speaker Cannon has succeeded in
arousing some interest in Commerce and
Labor TO report to the House what in
vestigation, if any, it has made
into the business of the international
Paper Company or other combination
engaged in the manufacture of wood
pulp and print papers; and also directing
the Department of Justice to report what
steps, if any, have been taken looking to
the prosecution of these corporations, for
their alleged violations of the Sherman
antitrust law. Various reasons are as.
signed for the action of the Speaker in
introducing this resolution at this parti-
cular time, some claiming that it is
merely "grand stand play" on the part
of the willy Speaker. The concensus of
opinion is that it is politics and not an
ardent desire to carry out the wishes of
the wishes of the President that has call.
ed forth this activity on the part of
"Uncle joe"
Middletown transcript., 1908-04-11

THE TRANSCRIPT, $l.Oo per year.
Middletown transcript., 1908-04-11
CAUSE OF APPENDICITIS

Writing in Umschau, DR.. Mailer dis
cusses the latest theories of appendicitis,
The motives for the Inflammation of the
appendix Sre more and more attracting
the attention of physicians as well as OF
laymen. Scarcely known IL years ago,
it is now one of the most frequent and
most dreaded diseases. The treatment of
appendicitis was formerly part Of the
inner medicine, but belongs now to
surgery.
Professor Kremmer, of Hamburg, who
has performed CT u Itless operations for
appendicitis, has come to the following
conclusion concerning the disease The
theory particularly advocated by French
physicians, that the use OF enameled cook
ing pans, particles of which entered the
appendix, caused the inflammation, can
no longer be held. This idea must be
abandoned, as such particles were never
found in the parts operated upon. There
is no doubt hereditary cause, as MEM
bers OF the same family often times are
affected one after the other.
The enjoyment of too much meat ap-
pears to be one reason. The frequent
occurrence of this disease in England,
America and in the city of Hamburg,
where meat is used more than elsewhere,
and the fact that well-to-do people are
most exposed, speaks for this theory. The
connection with contagious diseases is
also startling. The relation between la
grippe and appendicitis is proved by
French physicians. In pointing ont that
the disease has occurred most frequently
after epidemics of grippe aud proving the
existence of grippe germs in the assesses
from the appendix, this connection can
no longer be questioned.
Middletown transcript., 1908-04-11
WASHINGTON LETTER
WASHINGTON, D. c., April 4th, 1908.

WASHINGTON, d. c., April 4th, 1908.
A peculiar situation was revealed this
~ week when the House Committee on
Claims undertook to scale down the bill
presented by the Southern Pacific for re-
pairing the damage done by the Colorado
River when it created the Salton Sea, in
Southern California. 1t seems the rail-
road has presented bill of 81, 900, 600, and
the committee proposed to cut this down
to 81 ,000,0 900, when the attorney for the
Harrison road charged the committee
with demanding rebstes in violation of the
Law and declared that nothing would in
duce his client to violate the law even to
obIigs Uncle Sam. However, there is
every indication that Congress will strike
about 100000 from the company's bill,
even though it be obliged to enact sus-
pension of the interstate commerce law
for this particular occasion.
~
In spite of the efforts that have been
made in his behalf, it is perfectly obvious
that Rear Admiral Evans will not receive
the rank and title of vice-sdmiral at this
session of Congress. Senator Hale is op-
posed to granting this recognition to Ad-
miral Evans at this time, though it may
be done after the Admiral is placed ON
the retired list. In view OF this opposi-
tion it is believed that even though the
House were to pass such bill it would
be allowed to slumber in the Senate
consequently there is little
likelihood that any action will be
taken by the House committee, in spite
of the earnest efforts of Representative
who introduced a bill along
these lines.
Middletown transcript., 1908-04-11

The Chief Of the Secret Service Bureau
in Washington has issued circular
warning business men against two conn
terfeits, one $40 United States note of
the 'Buffalo" design, and the other $40
gold certificate of the series of 1906.
These bills were taken from two negroes
at Cape Girardeau, Mo. The counterfeits
are very badly executed photographs,
hand colored, and the general char
acter of the workmanship is 60 poor that
it is believed the negroes may have made
the notes themselves.
Middletown transcript., 1908-04-11
THE TRAILING ARBUTUs
BY JOHN G. WHITTIER

BY JOHN G. WHITTIER
I wandered lonely where the pine trees
made -
Against the bitter east their barricade,
And, guided by its sweet
Perfume, found, within narrow dell,
The trailing spring flower tinted like a
shell
Amid dry leaves and MOSES at my feet.
From under dead boughs for whose loss
the pines
Moaned ceaseless overhead, the blossom
ing vines
Lifted their glad surprise,
While yet the bluebird smoothed in leaf
less trees
His feathers ruffled by the sea breeze,
And snowdrifts, fingered under April
skies.
As, pauzing, o'er the lonely flower bent,
thought of lives thus lowly, clogged and
pent,
Which yet find room,
Through care and cumber, coldness and
decay,
To lend sweetness to tine ungenial day
And make the sad earth happier for
their bloom.
Middletown transcript., 1908-04-11

= Now on storage in our warehouses a
Bear and Middletown, Del, fertilizers for
all Spring crops. Send along your teams
for any goods you may need. Prompt
attention. Orders for LIME promptly
shipped. Your patronage is solicited.
JESSE L. SHEPHERD.
Middletown transcript., 1908-04-11

Hearing on the Aldrich bill by the
House Banking and Currency Committee
began on April Sd and will continue for
one week. In the House and in the
committee strong opposition has Develop
ed the amendment put in the bill by
Senator La Toilette, prohibiting any nat
ional bank from investing its funds of q
corporation, the officers of which are off.
GERS or director of the bank. This is
looked upon as hardship to the many
hanks in the smaller towns, where the
bank directors are generally interested in
every h cal enterprise.
Middletown transcript., 1908-04-11

President Roosevelt is the recipient of
a $50 pound turtle, presented to him by
Col. James Deitrick of Grande River
Station, Nicaragua, personal friend Of
President Zelaya, of that country, and
the owner of more than l, ,000, 900 acres of
land there. The President was so in
terested in the monster-turtle that he
spent half an hour examining it before
turning it over to the White House chef
for the consumption of the family. Col.
Dietrich and the President are personal
friends and several years ago when he
visited Washington he presented to Mr..
Roosevelt two tiger cubs, which now form
part of the exhibit at the Geological
Gardens.
The Havre herald. [volume] (Havre, Mont.) 1904-1908, 1908-05-06
GEN. J. Y. BELL.

have the men, the money, etc, but
we Will not have the time to convert
these men into soldiers able to cope
with the trained soldiers Of other ma
lions. 1t can be safely relied upon
that the remoteness of war largely de-
ponds upon preparation to meet 1t. I'm
less other great nations are wrong
and wasting time and money, they are
giving us an object Lesson which
Americans will some time have to
learn by costly and humiliating expert
ence, and which 1t is the urgent duty
Of professional soldiers to point out
namely, that time and training are
both necessary to convert an unframed
volunteer into a soldier, whether for
infantry, cavalry, artillery, engineers
or signal corps. The last great war
clearly demonstrated that the side
which is ready and acts promptly gains
a decisive advantage.
THE engineer force as now organ
lied Is insufficient for the needs even
Of proper peace training of the army.
During the past two years, on not less
than ten or twelve occasions, actual
necessities for engineer troops have
arisen which could not be met, because
Of the relative smallness of this branch
Of the service"
The Havre herald. [volume] (Havre, Mont.) 1904-1908, 1908-05-06
YOUNG TURKISH ATHLETES.
Eject OF Foot Races and Bali Play-
ing en- Their Costumes.

Eject OF Foot Races and Bali PIay-
ing en- Their Costumes.
"Oriental people are very ayerse to
physical exercise OF any kind Their
Idea OF enjoyment Is to sit under an
awning and play backgammon" said
Edward Q. Donaldson Of Constantine
pie, Turkey, the director of an Ameri-
can and English wholesale importing
house in the capital OF the sultan, to a
Washington Post man. THAT a man
should 60 out and run around a track
In shameless nakedness, and this with
no hope of gain, only confirms them In
the belief that all Americans are mad.
But they are initiative people, and some
years ago the influence and example
OF the young teachers got few Of the
preparatory boys out for foot races.
THAT day, for Beu-Beirut, at least,
the death blow was struck to the pic
turesque dress of the orient You can't
run 1OO-yard dash with long, baggy
trousers and a silk gumbez that fops
around your ankles. Even If you tuck
your skirts into the sash tie effect is
more startling than speedy So one by
one the students ordered European
trousers from the city tailors.
"At first they were poorly cut and
viewed with suspicion. but to-day there
are not three men In the collegiate de
purtment who wear the old costume,
and many Of the students dress with
taste and an elegance that their profess
sors cannot afford to emulate Tennis
and basketball soon won their place in
the studental favor, and now we have
gymnastic apparatus and a regularly
graduated athletic director, who has
learned physical culture and boy ma
ture through a long experience In the
gymnasiums Of America.
But 1t was football that did the
most toward unifcation. The value Of
team work Is q new idea to eastern col
lege men. The old ideal was that of
every man for himself It has been
50 since the time Of Alcibiades and Abb
SALON.. # 1t had not been so the his
tory OF the world might have been diff
,ferent. 1t was comparatively easy to
see the JOY Of winning a foot race or
a tennis, match but to play an unthe-
ntrical part in football game, obeying
captain and working for the good Of
the side-that was different thing"
The Havre herald. [volume] (Havre, Mont.) 1904-1908, 1908-05-06
LfncO1n's Rules.

On one occasion President Lincoln, on
entering the telegraph office Of the War
Department, writes Mr.. Bates In "Lin-
coin and the Telegraph Office" was
heard to remark to Secretary Seward
by jings, governor, we are here at
last!" Turning to him In reprovlng
manner, Mr.. Seward said: "Mr. Presi-
dent, where did you learn that inele-
CANT expression?" Without replying to
the Secretary Lincoln addressed the
telegraph operators, saying:
Young gentlemen, excuse me for
swearing before you. BY jings' is
swearing, for my good old mother
taught me that anything that had a
by before 1t was swearing"
One day Secretary Seward, who was
not renowned as a joker, said he had
been told that short time before, on
street crossing, Lincoln had been seen
to turn out In the mud to give q COL
ored woman chance to pass.
EYES," said Lincoln, at has been 4
rule Of my life that IL people would
not turn out for me, I would turn out
for them. Then you avoid collisions"
The Havre herald. [volume] (Havre, Mont.) 1904-1908, 1908-05-06
OUR GROWING COLLEGES.

10000 Students In Ten Largest
Untversities.
The attendance at American univer-
stiles annually compiled by Prof. Ru-
dolf Tonbo, Jr., Of Columbia, shows
some interesting figures for 1907. Har-
ward holds the lead as the largest uni
versity, with 5,345 students, Columbia,
Michigan, Chicago, Cornell, Minnesota,
Illinois, Pennsylvania Yale and Cali
fornia following In the order named.
These ten universities, says the In
dependent, represent total attendance
Of over 10000. The largest gains were
made by Columbia, New York Univer-
sity, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan and
Minnesota; that is, two Eastern and
four Western institutions
At three Of the prominent State uni
versities Of the Middle West decrease
In the number of male students EN-
rolled Is counterbalanced by an in
crease In the number Of women. Wis
consin has eighty-seven less men In
1907 than In 1904, but 1873 more WON
en- Inere Is steady gain In the en-
rollment at Smith, Vassar and Bryn
Mawr.
The greatest number of degrees con
ferred in 1907 was for Harvard, with
1,187 to her credit. Michigan, Column
bia and Yale followed in the order
named.
The decrease in the number Of Amer
lean students at all the German unlver-
stiles is this year more marked than
ever According to the registration
statistics Of Berlin University, which
has been the most popular Of all the
German universities with Americans,
there are now only ninety-five students
from this country-sixty-ei men
and twenty-seven women enrolled.
Three years ago there were 1O3 and ten
years ago 400. ....z. .:
The Havre herald. [volume] (Havre, Mont.) 1904-1908, 1908-05-06
~~~~~~-~~

Reports are to the effect that the Wis
consin Central is securing through route
between Chicago and Winnipeg by the
way of Duluth.
The management of the Pennsylvania
road has issued instructions that wher-
ever possible business shall be transacted
by train letters instead of telegraph. The
order is In the interest of economy and
has resulted In reducing the daily num-
ber Of messages sent from the Broad
street station, Philadelphia, by nearly
1000.
On New Years eve eliminated a
1iqua movement for industrial temper
hnce when pledge of total abstinence
signed by $4,000 employees of the North
western railroad went into effect. 1t
started among the employees after 1t had
been made known that the management
was selecting the drinking men for dis
missal In reducing the force.
The railroad companies doing business
Ia Missouri have about decided not to con-
test the State 2-eent fare law, because
they ars now confident that the reduction
Of traffic shown by their figures since the
aw went into effect will satisfy the courts
that 1t Is negotiable and confscatory A
Missouri Pacific official said the receipts
had declined 30 per cent in the last ninety
lays, and a Wabash man said that the
ombined loss to all the roads In passenger
traffic alone was S6,0OO,OOO.
1t Ia estimated by members of the car
service committee that between S7eO, OOO,-
900 and S1,OOO,000,O00 worth Of equip
ment Is idle In the country and that it
Ia therefore costing the railroads nearly
100000 month In interest charges to
maintain 1t In idleness. There are 375,-
900 freight cars standing Idle on side
tracks throughout the country. It is stat
ed that for every thirty freight cars which
have become Idle an engine has been put
in the shops, which would mean that fully
1900 locomotives are without loads to
ha.sa -
The Havre herald. [volume] (Havre, Mont.) 1904-1908, 1908-05-06
WANTS BIG ARMY.
Najor General Boil Says Uncle Sam
Should Have $4,000 Men.


a United States army of 250, 600 men.
That Is what Maj. Gen. J. Franklin
Bell, chief OF staff, says Uncle Sam
would need II involved In war with
any flrst-class power. 1--WE should not
allow ourselves to nurse false sense
OF security says this man, who Is In
charge of the United States army, In
MS annual report, ''or continue to en-
tertain the illusion that brave, but
unframed, unorganized people can crap.
pie successfully with another nation
better trained and organized"
This is from Gen. Bells report, in
winch he asks the government to con.
slder important facts, recommending ar
increase In the army and the restora.
ton Of the canteen. 49,.
1T Is modest assumption" says
Gen. Bell, Ito say that the United
States will, If involved In war with
any hrst-class power, require the I'M
mediate mobilization Of 25O,0OO men
to be speedily followed by as many
more, with possible ultimate addi.
fional Increase of four times that mum.
Der. .-..-
Zone division, 1900 troops, Is. OF
course, not sufficient to meet any need
at time when isolation has become
thing Of the past, and we have points
Of a possible friction in SO many di.
rectlons. That we can first in any
popular outburst raise volunteers in
ggeat numbers may be admitted. We
The Havre herald. [volume] (Havre, Mont.) 1904-1908, 1908-05-06

In winter time, says a writer, life
In a lighthouse Is no joke. Even when
the house Is on the mainland, where
the keeper and his family can get
around somewhat as other folks do,
the winter Is long, hard pull.
In the United States there are about
LOO lighthouses, built in large va
riety Of situations, not one Of which
was chosen with a view to the comfort
and social advantages Of the occupants.
For instance, when it comes to linked
loneliness long drawn out the eight
families who keep the Scotch Cap and
the Sarichef lights off the coast Of
Alaska are candidates for first prize.
There are four Of them at each light,
but they do not see each other for
months at a time.
As for seeing anybody else, passing
steamer occasionally lowers boat and
sends them mail. But as the steamer
company charges Uncle Sam $50 every
time it does this the lighthouse folk
have to put up With rare visits.
Life on a lightship Is even worse
than it Is In lighthouse. The house,
at any rate, keeps fairly steady, where
as lightship is never absolutely still,
and In stormy weather rolls and
wrenches, douses and drenches Its
crew unit they almost go crazy under
the strain. The best Of them can't
stand too long a spell Of that sort OF
thing.
The Diamond Shoals lightshlp, thir-
teen miles out In the ocean off Cape
Hatteras, Of evil memory to mariners,
was kept there once for five months In
stead Of the three prescribed by the
regulations.
Even when the crew were half dis
tracted from the strain Of their long
duty 1t did not occur to them to aban-
don their post. As a matter Of fact
only three or four instances have been
recorded of American keepers abandon
Ing light which was In their charge.
Probably when 1t comes to out and
out -Wintry rigors some Of the light
houses on the Great Lakes suffer more
even than those ON the seacoast. They
become coated with thick Ice and have
also to stand up against onslaughts Of
cake Ice forced up out Of the water and
driven against them with terrific force.
One lighthouse ON Lake Erie had to
stand on one occasion against ice which
piled up against 1t to height Of forty
feet.
But it's no summer resort In the
tower Of any lighthouse in winter. No
heat 1s allowed, as that would cause
dimming Of the plate glass window
or the lenses. The heat from the
great lamp liz carried Off by ven
tilator overhead and the turret Is so
cold that on the New England coast
keepers say that glass Of water will
quickly freeze solid Ii set on the win
dow sill.
The big lamps, by the way, are al
lowed to burn only four hours at a
time. II they burn longer there Is apt
to be vaporization of the gases In the
oil, lessening the brilliance Of the light.
So the lamps are changed twice every
night. When there Is fog or storm
frst-class lighthouse will keep three
men busy all night tending to lights
and the engine which keeps tie siren
whistle going.
These whistles differ from one an
other, Just as the lights do, 80 that
even IL vessel cannot distinguish a
light it can determine its position by