davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Milford chronicle., 1909-06-25
Stole chickens; eets Life Term.

Charles Chaffee. of Syracuse. N. Y.
who was convicted Of stealing chick
ems. was sentenced to Auburn state
prison for life. The judge had no dis
cretion, as Cbaffee had been convicted
ave times of burglary.
Milford chronicle., 1909-06-25

ting BIIPs favorlte white horse Ia
Kentucky charger had presented him
three years before), whom they found
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-03-24
PEARLS OF THOUGHT.

Honesty needs no press agent.
The rolling stone is never on the
level.
Happiness is merely not being mis-
cradle.
You can't always measure a good
time by the price,
A man can't hold his own unless
he can hold his own tongue.
A man may be all right in his way,
but he wants 1t to be in his own
way.
1t is better for love to laugh at
locksmiths than to cry over spilled
milk.
No man can become popular unless
he is willing to be bored once In a
while.
The man who succeeds is the one
who makes use of other peoples mis-
takes.
Tell a lazy man to hump himself
and he will Immediately get his back
up about it.
1t takes good buffer to keep the
other fellow from finding out that we
are afraid to fight.
The fellow who blows his own horn
should be careful not to come out at
the little end of it.
A man can keep more things from
his wife than she can find by going
through his pockets.
There are men who don't consider
they are taking their own part unless
they grab the whole thing.
The theory that love makes the
world go round may account for the
fact that so many girls are giddy.-
From the Musings of Cynic" in
the New York Times.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-03-24
feed and clothe her hungry children. a

feed and clothe her hungry children. A
child with no father and q mother,
however noble, who under such handi'
caps and difficulties tries to perform
the functions of both, generally fails 10
perform that of either. Is 1t wonder
then that the child is not brought up
in the way 1t should go?" Is 1t the
childs fault? II not, why then the
Jail and degradation?
The boy returned to school. He
brought good reports for over two
years, and with them he brought JOY
and gladness. We had, in poor way,
tried to supply what was lacking in his
little life, but to do this well spark
had to be struck somewhere, or a
heart-string had to be sounded that
would respond.
One day his mother came at the end
of weary, toilsome day to tell me that
Harry was a changed boy. She told me
how thoughtful and loving he was;
that once when she had been sick he
had, with the tenderness of woman,
waited on her and given up all the
pleasures of the street. Finally the
tears came into her eyes, and she said:
Judge, | never knew just why Harry
changed so much till one day while |
was i'll and he had been so sweet and
kind | asked him how 1t was he be-
came good for the judge, and looking
up into my face with a tear in his
eyes, he said, Well, mother, you see
it's this way, if ever gifts bad or
swipes things again, the judge-the
Judge will lose his job-see?-and he
is my friend-he is-and | am goin' TO
stay wild him. B. B. Lindsey, Judge
of the Juvenile Court Of Denver, in
Woman's National Daily.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-03-24
------ 7
WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN.

=. Frederick Foulkes was born In town,
And Sarah Smith was born In Boston.
His mother was Burradge- Brown;
Her family the Mayilower crossed on.
Wise Nature from instructive stores
Secrets of sex to mothers teaches;
Sarah was put in pinafores.
While Frederick was put In breeches'
Her eyes were blue. her hair was flaxen;
Her cheeks were like a pink verbena.
She was the type of early Saxon,
Fair Rosamund or mild Rowena.
Her nature was gentle one.
AS mild as goldfish balls or honey;
When father made foolish pun,
She used to laugh and call 1t funny.
Her fond mamma preferred a school
Possessing up-to-date attractions;
When kindergartens are the rule.
Sarah was just beginning fractions.
So Sarah chose the True and Good.
And satisfied her fond relations
But Freddy turned from rectitude
To questionable divagations.
His fond mamma was hard to suit
And thinking Freddy seemed unhealthy.
She sent her darling to a tut
Or patronized by all the wealthy.
But Fred soon gave his mother cause
To drink of bitter sorrows cup;
He disbelieved In Santa Claus,
And would not hang his stocking up.
The simple tales of Sunday school
In earliest youths he would not credit;
Jacob he thought hopeless fool,
And often publicly he said 1t.
Solomons private life he swore,
United him to wear the ermine;
And Noah he strongly censured for
Perpetuating all the vermn.
Early a skeptlc in his tone
He soon became fragrant Arlan;
And then-too horrible to own,-
An out-and-out humanitarian.
or Satan not at all afraid.
He really doubted he existed:
And Sundays, when he might have
prayed,
He golfed or country y-house- bridge
whisted.
His wealth, when he was twelve years
old
With Croesus' would stand comparing;
Sarah was just as good as gold
But frederick was as good as Barring,
Contrasts Of this engaging kind
The happiest marriages beget:
And so a pathos you will find
In learning-that they never met.
For she was welded to a sub
Instructor in the Arboretum:
While Fred was welded to his club.
And as for girls, would never meet
'em.
Yet circumstances will afford
Ihelr own amends, and all have known
some;
Her husband all his life was bored
Whlle Frederick was merely lonesome.
-Iiarper's Magazine.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-03-24

S a
and makes the in
of a
day and a girls
She likes to have people about her For
are all together and do be having a
little old
do other
You can all keep from
your interest in people and things alive
Gray hairs and wrinkles will
heart dried
unmarried typical
Don't be ktensh Nothing Objectionable
But keep
doings, and don't withdraw a Of
Go and visit friends
yourself
Don't get into
only and don't fail
preserves as
woman take of yourself live senby
will
don't lose
friend proved it?-New York Evening
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-03-24
EARLY HUMANITY.
A Geological Discovery of Great I'm
= port at Toronto.

= port at Toronto.
While two workmen named Miller
and Haneys were at work on the big
water works tunnel under Toronto bay
they found human footprints in the
blue clay 81 feet down, or 70 feet be.
low water level.
This find in the interglacial clay de-
posted unknown ages, said to be So
600, to 100000 years ago, is the most
important geological discovery of that
period made in America. The city in
spector,. w. II. Cross, thus describes
the discovery:
1T locked like a trail. There were
over hundred footprints. You could
follow cne man the whole way. Some
footprints were on top of the others,
partly bliterating them. There were
large footsteps of all sizes and a single
print of child's foot three and a half
inches long.
"All the footsteps toed in. You could
see the hollow between the ball and
the heel in many of them and they
were all made with mocassined feet.
In some places you could see where
the toe had been driven in and the
clay had shot up underneath the heel.
All the footsteps pointed north except
where some turned off to the side.
This piece Of blue clay was at grade
in the tunnel. A shot had been put in
each side and the men were cleaning
the loose rock from the floor to go on
with the concreting. That is how it
was preserved. When one stratum of
the clay was cleaned off these foot
prints were underneath
About too feet south of the trail
we found remains of footprints at tho
same level, but they were indistinct.
Between the two lots of footprints |
picked up some pieces Of stone which
appeared to me to be petrified twigs."-
Telegram in New York Sun.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-03-24
MARTvREp PRESIDENT
COST NATION $42,617

After careful guarding for more
than seven years the facts as to the
governments expenditures incident
to the last illness and burial of Pres
,ident Mckinley, the treasury officials
have made statement covering all
Of the items of expenditure under
the appropriation Of $4,000 for this
purpose, made by congress on July
1, 1902. The sum spent was $42,-
517.SS. The items as they appear
on the treasury ledgers follow:
DR.. M. D. Mann, 100000; DR.. H.
Mynter, $4,000; DR.. G. McBurney,
$4,000; DR.. Roswell Park, $4,000; DR..
G. G.. Stockton, $1,50O; DR.. q. G.
Janeway, $1,5OO; DR.. H. G. Matzinger,
$3.50; Drs. w. w. Johnston, q. w.
Lee and H. R. Gaylord, $500 each;
DR.. N. w. Wilson, $3.50; DR.. G. MGR.
Hall and DR.. E. G. Mann, 5000 each.
dertakers-Druggard and Koch,
$2,2O4.15; McCrea and Arnold, 1888.
Nurses and miscellaneous-M e.
Mohan and J.. Connolly, $500 each;
G. Mackenzie, $4OO; Evelyn Hunt,
5000; M. C. Morris, M. E. Shannon,
M. D. Barnes, X. R. Simmons, M. e.
Dorchester, A. Barron, A. M. Waters,
B. F. Simpson, F. Ellis and B. ].
Bixby, $100 each; J. Parmenter and
H. A Knoll, $500 each; Edison Man
ufacturing Company, $3.50; E. l..
Pausch for death work, $1,000; e.
Garret, post-mortem cost, $45; West
ern Union Telegraph company,
$1,593.61; Postal Telegraph Gable
company, s44O.27; New York Electric
Vehicle Transfer company, $192;
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone,
$1S7.60; Woods Motor Vehicle com.
pany, $12S.50; Price G. Niehaus, $120;
]. Powell, sSOS; H. o. Hicks, $1OO;
the William Hengerer company, $50;
White-Evans-Penfeld company, s35.7S.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-03-24
Gen. Grants Farm.

The days when Ulysses S. Grant
was interested in the development of
Missouri were recalled yesterday at
the local United States land Office
when the record entry Of the Grant
Farm in Maries country was found in
the musty ledgers of the Office. The
record shows that on March 26, 1859
Gen. Grant entered by means of land
warrants a quarter section of land in
section 5, township SO, north range
west. The description by numbers
shows that land to be situated in
Maries county and about ten miles
southeast of Vienna, the present coun.
ty seat, and fifteen miles north OF
Rolla, the seat of the Missouri School
of Mines.-Springfeld Republican.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-03-24
TANNING A RIVER.
The Erratlc Susquehanna Has at Last
Been Harnessed.

The Erratc Susquehanna Has at Last
Been Harnessed.
Although with the exception Of the
81. Lawrence river it is the largest
stream flowing into the north Allan.
tic, the Susquekanna river has never
been renowned for anything but
scenery and trouble.
Since the timber has been stripped
from its mountainous drainage basin,
embodying an area of $1,000 square
miles, the floods of the Susquehanna
have been extremely sudden, violent
and destructive. Not infrequently 1t
attains the remarkable record of flow
at high water equal to 25 times its
volume at low water.
Large as it is, the erratic Susque-
hanna is navigable for only five miles
above its mouth. Beyond that point it
is so full of rocks and shoals and ra-
pids that nothing but an occasional
raft at high water has ever passed
down.
Such a particularly outrageous
stream is the Susqueuhanna, says the
Technical World, that it is difficult
to find room upon it even to navigate
a ferryboat comfortably. One of these
quiet reaches is McCall's ferry, where
a part of Washington's army crossed
on its way to do up CORVALLIS at
YORKTOWN. The commander himself
crossed at the Conowingo ford, IA
miles below
At this historic spot some clever
engineers are demonstrating that the
Susquenhanna is good for something
after all, for they are building a hydro
electric power plant which is remark
able. Not the least interesting feature
is the extraordinary care with which
the situation was studied before plans
were formed. To be sure engineers
are proverbially painstalling, but in
this case a new record for thorough.
going accuracy was established. 1t
was the highest tribute that man
could pay to the terrors of the Sus-
quehanna.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-03-24
London Eous.

A certain undesired supremacy has
always been granted to London in the
matter of fogs, and the London pea
souper has always been considered
uneQualed in it's way. But things
have changed good deal of late. In
the first place, those Of late years,
potably that at the beginning of this
month, have been overhead fogs,
which made the MONDAY like night,
although in the streets it was perfect
ly clear, and there was little or no
dislocation of traffic. This is said to
be owing to the fact that few hun
dred feet up the air is cold enough to
condense the moisture, whereas in
the streets the air is warm enough to
keep the moisture uncondensed. This
variety of fog is certainly the least OBJ
jectionable, for it enables people to
go about their business without crop
ing along the walls in utter darkness,
as used to be the case. Another
change that must be noted is the
prevalence of fogs in Paris, notably
in the present month, when in the first
week the fog was much worse on the
banks of the Seine than on the banks
of the Thames. Some years ago,
when Paris burned wood, the city had
no real fogs, but now that it has tax
en- to burning coal it has imported the
London particular" And as the
Seine at Paris is not tidal, there. is
less chance of breeze to carry away
the fog than there is even in London.
London Globe.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-03-24
Would Have the Author.

During performance of Sophocles's
tragedy of "Antigone" at the Theatre
Royal. Dublin, the gallery gods, very
important portion of the audience in
that city, were greatly pleased and
according to their custom, called fol-
the author.
Bring out Sopherclaze!" some one
shouted.
After while the manager appear
ed, and there was general shout un
til he explained that Sophocles had
been dead two thousand years and
more, and could not well come.
"Then chuck us out his mummy!'
came back In answer from the gal
lery.-Youth's Companion.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-03-24
A Chanue of Mind.

A Wellesley College student rushed
into a telegraph Office few days ago
and asked the clerk for a message
blank. She Immediately wrote a mes
sage and after she had finished it she
tore it in two and began another
blank. This was also torn in two and
then she wrote third. which she
handed to the telegraph operator.
After the lady departed the opera
tor became curious and picked up the
torn pieces of paper.
The first read 'It is all off. Never
want to hear from you again" The
second read "Do not write to me
again, as never want to hear from
you" The third message, which was
sent, read Come at once on the first
train. Boston Herald.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-03-24
He Won His Case.

so you want divorce on the
grounds of cruelty?" asked the great
lawyer. "Yes, sir" replied the plain
tiff. What sort Of cruelty was it,"
well, sir, for three consecutive nights
my wife took the door mat in" "Took
the door mat in? How can you con-
slider that cruelty?" well, you see,
Monday night was lodge night, Tues
day night was a smoker at the club,
and Wednesday the annual blowout.
got home each morning at O'Clock,
to find the door locked and the mat
taken in" But where does the cruel
ty come in?" Where does the cruelty
come In! Why, didn't have to sleep
on the bare step, without anything to
rest my weary head on?"-Birming.
ham Post.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-03-24
The judges Friend.
A TRUE STORY.
SoeDoSR

Shameful to relate, he was in jail A
strange place for a 12-year-old boy
with soul and heart.
The jailer had telephoned me one
cold wintry night that the boy was
In spasm Of crying and had so harmed
him that he urged me to come at
once. l grabbed my coat and hat and
went out into the night, feeling that
the pitiless beat Of the sleety rain was
ever kinder than criminal law that
condemns little children to crime and
iron cells. But this was before the
fight against the Jail was fought and
won. This was before love and firm
ness had supplanted hatred and deg
radiation.
Behind iron bars that would shame
the king tiger of the jungle, | found
the boy. He was sleeping, and you
would have thought not a care had ever
visited that little tousled head with its
worn and tear-stained face. But he
wakened, startled by the grating of iron
bolts and bars, and clinlling of great
keys turning in their solemn, monot-
onous locks as the jailer, leaving me
alone with the boy, returned from the
cell back into the dimly lighted corri-
dor.
The boy, frightened at these strange
surroundings, looked at his new cell
mate at first cautiously-almost fear
fully. Then look of joy came to his
eyes, as might come from a captive
at the approach of deliverance. The
boy knew me, for he had been a
chronic little truant, and there may
have been worse things, but they may
be left unsaid, for it was the boy, and
not the things" we were trying to re-
deem.
| sat down in the cell on the iron
floor and put my arm around the boy
Z told him how much thought of him,
and how | despised the bad things he
did. Yet what could do if he did not
help me? l might help him, but
could not carry him; l would always be
his friend, but he was getting both
himself and his friend, in trouble, If
he 'swiped things" for If | should
let him out and he "swiped things"
again, would not the officer say that
The judge made a mistake in not send
Ng that kid to the state industrial
school, where he would not have a
chance to swipe things?" Then they
would say both the judge and the boy
should be in, Jail. How could he ex-
pect to l0eep his job if his boys did
such things? He saw the point and
standing upright there in the cell, the
light in his eyes speaking better than
bis words, the earnestness Of his prom
ise to stay wild yer, judge" as he
.earfully declared he would never get
INTO trouble and we would both keep
out of jail ''~''' 70 "f'''''"'f
And so almost as tearfully accepted
his proffered protection, and out of the
Jail we walked together into the now
raging storm. And yet, it was no such
storm as had ragged in that boys life
"a home blighted by father who had
deserted and trodden under foot every
vow he took at the marriage altar. And
SO a fathers care, the divine birthright
of every child, had been denied him.
The boy was not bad. His opportunity
had been poor; his environment was
bad l took him home to his mother
poor, struggling woman deserving OF
betser sate than to toil all day to
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-03-24
Old Animosities Gone.

Jefferson Davis, name is to be put
back on the tablet OF the Cabin John
bridge, near Washington, that span
to carry the Washington aqueduct
across deep chasm having been
completed while he was serving as
secretary Of war. The name was
chiseled off in 1862. There is no
good reason why it should not be
restored, the animosities which it
was once capable Of inspiring having
passed into history.-New York Tri-
bune.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-03-24

Clarence B. Cralle, policeman Of
Louisville, KY, at a recent sale of
rifles discarded by the government,
purchased one which proved to be the
identical gun he had carried through
the Spanish war.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-03-24

Professor Percival Lowell declares
the end of the world will come when
some dark star crashes into the sun,
and he adds that such an occurrence
is sure to come. However, the ca
tastrophe seems to be little too far
in the future to worry about, anyhow.
New York Herald.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-03-24

In a scene Of balloon race, repro
duced in New York moving picture
show, r. j. Mailer saw his younger
brother, whom for three years he had
been unable to communicate with, and,
writing to the officials of the club
conducting the race, was able to OBJ
.ain his address.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-03-24
To Defy Old Age,
Keep
The Heart Young
A<~s--~QN-s By Beatrice Fairfax .

KNOW little old woman of 70 whose heart is young
though she in the twenties Her hair is white
but in her there the fire of youth
She has worked hard all her life and has saved quite
of Her people anxious she should stop
working and live comfortably her savings for the of
her days. but she she is young give work yet
for while.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-03-24

something appalling the
listen She's wokn
all the time"
akn;" and he
Tmbe fellow aborers who the
The climb
The
nsgnifcance yet
irresistible
The
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-03-24

afford
the margeabe fit to
Why afford wfet Simply because the various trades
hasn't
mans sphere is business
marrageabe unfit wives?
certainly isn't the fault that doesn't
bed correctly
should be
from his Ia
a and a
he will
time
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-03-24
Talks on Alveolar
TEETH
By
E. Dayton Craig, DID,. S.
INVESTIGATE
my
METHOD

J have heard a definition for
skeptic, which reads something like
this, "a Skeptic is one who first
doubts, then investigates"
If you are skeptic in regards my
Alveolar Method Investigate" and
you will be satisfied that it will do
all that is claimed for it.
Investigations are being made
daily and / wonder If you, who may
he reading this article, are ready to
start yours. There must be merit
n my method, else it would not
stand the test of time. l can send
you to patients who are wearing my
Alveolar teeth-you can talk with
them and be satisfied for yourself.
But first of all l would have to ex-
anime your mouth. No charge is
made for examination and there Is
no obligation to have work done.
There Is no two cases exactly
alike, hence each case has to be ex-
amined carefully before l could say
whether you could be supplied with
these Alveolar Teeth.
When by examination it is found
that you can have teeth put in that
will give you absolute satisfaction.
I will be ready to proceed with your
work.
If you cannot call at this time, send
for my booklet on "Alveolar Teeth"
which explains my method fully. 1t
is free on request.
E. DAYTON CRAIG, D. D.S.
MONoNGAHELA ANK BUILDING,
The Most Compl Dental Office
in Pit .ursh,
SIXTH AVE, COR. WOOD ST.
Bell Phone Grant 1852, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Office Hours: 9 A. M. to $50 p. M.
mot Open sunoays.)
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-03-24

oE11.~qr. ~Nr~2,Ns
The Bachelor Tax
BY uditer c. Michel

HAT wonder do the lawmakers of Wisconsin, Iowa. Texas
and other states accomplish by their bachelor
tax? If they think that they will benefit anybody by tell
ing that he must either marry pay tax, think
that they badly mistaken.
In the first place, why there bachelors? Do they
the fun of the thing because they don't want
home, they be different from other peo
pie they live cheaper in that state? think
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-03-24
ss~s~>As-s-~QN~s
FEELING a Great Tree
BY Clifton johnson

the wooded of Puget Sound Washington the trees
sometimes diameter of dozen feet The cedars, in
particular reach vast girth and in the valley by the
roadside with circumference at the ground of 63
feet and nearby another that had Gothic arch cut
through it affordng easy passage for man horseback
But the taest frs. Two hundred feet is
very moderate height and shoot to above three
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-03-24
The Child Must Haze
Home Training
By percioai Chubb. of the Ethical Culture Socie,

culture, old peties,
II disappearing. school
II pedagogy, losing th hold
II ~ In
I-l
distress othe schools
II * to President Eliot
VL! for educaion but it is mistake We
cannot transfer of the the
school,
the
rial Weekly.