davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1910-01-08
CHAPTER vIII.-fContipued.,

Don you mink tnat girl Wn0's en-
gagged to one man ought to tell other mer
so?"
She drew back sharply and faced ms
with astounded eyes.
why, what do you mean, Mr.. Sci
den?"
l WAS In for 1t, so plunged ahead
That day you came to the Ship, had nc
idea," l blundered on. II did not know
Fou were such friend of Islips."
WELL" she said, 'and now that you
know?"
Il think you should have told me. ]
'ught to have known before that after
soon"
She was haughtiness itself "why,
what affair was ii of yours?'
shrugged my shoulders. Il was enti-
tied to know
Il cannot understand why. What
makes you think that Mr.. Islip and r.
she hesitated a second-"are such old
friendsT'
OF a sudden we were in very nasty
tempest, facing each other.
Il happened to see his picture In your
iocket II was lying open. face upward"
She did not even tap her foot she sim
ply sat still and looked he- Indignation
at me.
Really, Mr.. Selden. ] cannot see how
that affects you. What reason could there
be for telling you my personal afairs?"
stuck doggedly at II. 81 think
should have been told" | repeated.
She gave me single glance. then rose.
i am going back TO the Penguin Club"
she said.
] rose also. Very good. ] will see you
there"
mo" she turned to me sharply. 81
prefer to go back alone"
She was imperious ] could be equally
so.
And prefer to go with you The
pines are lonely. and II is growing late.
owe at least that duty to your aunt"
Then she tapped her foot impatiently,
angrily- you are very tiresome, Mr..
Selden. ] am my own mistress. and I do
not want your company"
And will not LET you 40 back alone"
you are very rude" She looked over
al the beach as If for some possible help.
rs there no one else2" she asked aloud.
There came voice from the cabin
steps behind me. III you will permit
one. mademoiselle, ] should esteem It
great honor"
We both started az II we were shot.
and faced about. A tall somewhat angu-
AR man stood before az. hat 10 hand, bow
Ing low 20 Miss Graham.
u heard your question" be said. "and
I took n on myself 10 answer IN. Permit
ne" He stepped forward and placed
himself AZ the girls side
who are your ! asked. al amaze
menf. FOR j Waf surprised ont Of my wits
my name d Pierre Dup01oean" the
stranger said. ignoring me and addressing
Miss Graham. and ] count myself foru-
cate in coming On lady 30 distress"
We both stood still taking n The queer
figure. Never had . seen q man Just
ike him H. was dressed al a. black.
3uf bio cio1las were singalarly rich and
n stfapge pattern. From BE- shoulders
hung = black cloaf held under b. chin
~ Two heavily wrought sod chains.
Across BIZ open Nalsiooaf which was
slaek faun foHerec ~ wAits, we're three
fof chains. AND tsere we're rlnss o. BIS
fpEefs Moreover. b. nanner pas
sinDge. exotic. polished 10 D degree. am
lF goloe la0 peoullar fascinating for.
rign foftuesf fbaf ] bac never heard "a
any otlef mao ~ height VA Over 49,
fesf Recognized az fsurs r,ei i.ad
'eep IA ~ storm.
~ Haf smlllQg easily. ~ leasf ~.
'prl,ec N ~ flfef 'Permli ~. ula1e.
uo'sellsF M fspeaiso. sne oaelee Ma
GRAHAM ~ afn.
EI. .I.lI .... .I.... - $500. - A.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1910-01-08

stuyYesant-Coing 10 turn over q
new lear, New Years day. old MANI
Schermerhorn-Ao, going ~ turn
over the same Old leaf Brooklyn "a.
gle
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1910-01-08

ffilNei 400 eef 49, lff fNihstf
etff
fl4se oeffl 49,, n s,eks ~
s''s'f WI sss'< llslf b,lit u n
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1910-03-04
CLAMMING.

Last summer while we were in the
country my mother wanted some
CLANS. but we couldn't buy any. One
day my two sisters and I thought we
would spend the afternoon at Crom-
we'll Lake, one mile from our cottage.
While we were walking along the
shore my sister picked up something
that looked like a clam. Yes, we
were pretty sure it was a clam. So
we went TO work to look for some
more. The water being very clear,
we could see more CLAIMS quite far
out, so my sister waded to the differ
ent places. We found an old burlap
Then we started to walk home. On
the way We were planning what we
would do with the money mother
would give us, for we thought she
ought surely TO give us forty cents
each for the trouble and the clans.
sitting on the veranda, and she was
greatly puzzled when she saw the bag
She came down to meet us, and we
Immediately opened the bag, and how
she did laugh when she saw what it
contained. At last she told us that
those were mussels, not clans. You
can imagine our disappointment. We
had to walk all the way back and
dump the mussels into the lake. Of
course. each of us was minus a good
clam dinner and forty cents - Ger
trude NJ. Grisch, in the New York
Tribune
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1910-03-04
MIISEUM OF ART.

Many little children either have
visited. or soon will visit. the Metro
politan Museum of Art, in New York
City. Here are some interesting
facts about the museum as given in
the Tourist Magazine:
The museum. in Central Park, op-
posite East Eighty-second street, oc-
cupies a plot of ground at one time
called Deer Park. 1t was started in
October, 1869, by the Art Committee
of the Union League.
Incorporated in 1870. the Park De-
partment offered to furnish build
ing if it were transferred from its
first home, the Douglas Mansion, in
West Fourteenth street. In 1880 the
first section was completed. At the
same time an agreement was made
to allow the public to visit the mu-
scum without cost four days a week.
The public in 1890 sent in so many
petitions for free admission on Sum
days that this was granted the same
year. though it meant a great none
tary loss.
1t is said that the value of it's ex-
hibits cannot be computed, though
some OF the statisticians have set the
total at half a billion dollars. j. P.
Morgan is the president.
More than 100000 persons visited
the museum in 1907. This attend
ance was exceeded but once, in 1903,
when the new wing was completed,
the total being but 1000 more.
The city appropriates S160,O00 a
year for the museum. and even that
sum would be inadequate were it not
for the help of its many rich patrons.
The most costly painting is Meis-
sonier's "Friedland," purchased for
S65,000. An alabaster statue of Teie,
wife Of a Pharaoh of Egypt. dating
back to 1900 B. c.. is said to be the
oldest piece of sculpture.
The Jade collection of the late
Heber r. Bishop is the rarest of its
kind in the world. Many of the pieces
are without a duplicate.
The Hoentschel collection of Gothic
art, recently purchased by Mr.. Nor
gan for 81 900. 900. is one of the most
interesting exhibits. occupying the
whole of a section, built for that pur-
pose.
A permanent expedition is main
tanned in Egypt, and this sends every
year some beautiful, interesting and
valuable specimens Of ancient art.
A fund has been set aside to pur-
chase the best, works of modern
American painters and sculptors.
The musical exhibit contains in
struments of all kinds, from ancient
times to date, while the crystal ex-
hibit is unique.
The library, for which Heber r.
Bishop subscribed the first $4,000,
about twenty-eight years ago, con-
tains a large number of extremely
rare old works and costly examples of
modern printing and engraving.
Only recently collection of rare
laces was discovered hidden away in
a store room Sand it is said that many
other priceless collections have never
been placed on exhibition. owing to
lack of space.-Newark Call.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1910-03-04
= =
Dangers in Dancing.

Dancing has been eXtOlled as a
most healthful recreation: as Il
means of physical culture it favors
the development Of the muscular sys-
tenn and promotes health. and cheer
fulness. And dancing is carried on
by women whose fashion Of dress is
Of such nature as 10 injuriously af-
feet one or other organs Of the body.
Young girls appear 10 experience
no fatigue after it. They will not
miss a single waltz, polka or square
dance, but il the pulse of one of
these interchangeable deyCtees is felt
after the dance is finished it will be
found in the majority Of cases that
the number of puisations is far in
excess of the normal. and from this it
may be inferred that the condition Of
the heart must react prejudically up
on the entire organism. and i. jnsti
Iies an apprehension OF danger where
girls are delitate.-London Globe.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1910-03-04
For the
Younger
Children.

cause to keepers and farmers to de-
stroy it on sight. Cases have been
known where hedgehogs actually
forced the hen pheasant off her nest
and then proceeded to demolish the
contents There is tradition among
country people to the effect that the
hedgehog will suck milk from cows,
which certainly show strong aversion
to the hedgehog, but eminent natu-
ralists scout the idea: their explana-
tion being that it is the heat of the
cow which attracts the hedgehog, the
cows dislike being no doubt caused
by unpleasant contact with the prick
ly spines. Hedgehogs are inVulner-
able to most of their enemies except
man. although the willy fox has been
known to get the better of them oc-
casioralIy - Scotsman.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1910-03-04
HABITS OF THE HEDGEHOG.

The hedgehog.- that butt of juvenile
rustic horseplay, is the possessor of
tastes which, like Sam Weller's
knowledge of London, are extensive
and peculiar" Scorning fastidious-
ness, it can make a hearty meal Of
nearly any insect. and is one of the
few vertebrateS which can tackle the
Tepulsive cockroach. For effectual
determination of beetles and crickets
it is as suseful as d mOngoose among
the rats. but it is not generally
known that it has a partiality toward
snakes and adders. The methods it
employs for the attack are interest
ing. Having come upon the adder
it goads the reptile to the offensive
and at the first dart Immediately
rolls into q ball The adder is then
left to attack the spires, in which Ell
counter it naturally comes Off second
best. After while, when the hedge
hog feels that his antagonist has ex
hausted his power, it once more opens
out and takes a bit at the adder's
back, thereby breaking its spine. 1t
then proceeds to crush the whole of
the reptiles body by means OF lis
powerful Jaws. and after that it is
said 10 start al the tail and aevL}:r
It's prey. OF eggs, thc hedgehog is
also very fond, thereby giving just
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1910-03-04
BILLY,

want to tell you about my pony
named Billy. Father bought him
two years ago from a friendk Once,
when Billy belonged to him he was
left at the shed of the village while
his owner went away on the train for
short time. Somebody embarrassed
Billy and turned him loose. He set
out Immediately for home. and soon
he arrived at the barn, walked in and
went right to his stall. Billy is easy
to ride and when, during the first two
or three days that I had him, I rode
over to his old home. | had to coax
and lead him back. for as soon as
got on his back he would turn around
and gallop toward his former stable.
Now I have great fun with him.
riding and driving around the country
in the summer, and he is considered
a regular part of the family.-Stod-
dard p. Johnston, in the New York
Tribune.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1910-03-04
GAME OF NINETEEN-TEN.

GAME OF NlNEIEE ZEN.
In the centre of a doorway suspend
a bell so that it hangs about three or
four feet from the ground. Arrange
the game so that each player has two
turns For the first turn each player
is given nineteen marbles which he
throws, one at time, at the sus-
pended bell, when standing about
eight feet away. On the second turn
each player must use ten marbles in
the same way as the nineteen were
used for the first turn. Each player
should be provided with bell-shaped
tally card so that the number of bell
strikes he makes may be recorded at
each turn. The player striking the
bell with the marbles the greatest
number of times receives the prize
Washington Star.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1910-03-04
AN EXPERIENCED MAN.

How do you conquer your ele-
phant when he goes on a rampage?
I asked the managerie proprietor.
We avail ourselves of an expert
enced baggage man. he replied.
AN experienced baggage man." |
repeated with wonderment.
Yes he explained patiently, al
though it was evident that he was
nettled by my stupidity, I'VE set
man who knows how 20 smash
trunks Boston Post.
ALWAYS WILLING TO OBLIGE
Fave you no home, MY rcor
man"
Nom"
Are YOU hungry?"
'Hungry?"
Yes. People who have no home
always make me feel as if I would
like to DO something for them
Nom, I am not hungry, but if
YOU have any ice cream and cake and
black coffee l might manage to keep
them from spelling. Trenton True
American.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1910-03-04
A WOMAN AND \ B

A WOMAN AND a BLACK BEAR.
It's one thing 10 look at a big black
bear through the iron bars at the
ZOO. It's quite another TO look at hi:;,
from the other side OF your door
and not a very strong door at that,
But that is precisely what Mrs
Charles Johnson who has been ly-
ing in a lumberman'S shanty on the
Skeena River. State of Washington
had to do-and it was not a very
pleasant experience either Only Il
lucky shot saved her life after fifteen
minutes besieging by Brain
Il wouldn't go through that ex-
perience again for worlds" says Mrs
Johnson now. II WAS at home alone
over the clearing and on the noun
tain side. My husband had gone out
woodchoppiug with party, not to
be home till dark.
Luckily for me the door was shut
i shut it because it was cold out
house, when suddenly | heard some
thing at the door. 1t sounded as if
d log had fallen against it: jumped
Il was JUST about TO open the door
to see what was the matter, when
heard something between a growl
and a grunt, and then the sound Of
terrific pounding outside.
Instead Of opening the door l slid
open the window and looked out
Paving away at the door was A big
black bear-he must have wtighei
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1910-03-04
\ Modern City.

TeheraD. in Persia. has within the
last twenty years undergone the most
Eapid transformation of all Oriental
cities. Since the old four-miie wall
was taken down and the ditch filled
up to form broad boulevard. gas,
tramways and telegraphs have mod
e-nized the ancient birthplace Of Ha-
roun- n-al-Raschid
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1910-03-04

HERO OF THE TELEGRAPH KEY.
Three years ago as the Overland
Limited dashed through the night, in
the bad lands forty-five miles west
of Cheyenne, Wyoming, rail broke
in two and came up through the bot
tom of the baggage car. In an in
stant the train of nine cars was piled
thirty feet high, while about and be-
meath the wTeckage were more than
one hundred and fifty dead or injured
human beings. A frightful sleet
storm with biting cold was raging,
and to this the hurt and dying lay
exposed.
The locomotive was wrecked so
that it was impossible to cut loose
and race ahead to the nearest settle
ment with word of the disaster, and
it seemed as if nothing could be done
to save the sufferers except to flag the
next train. due in five hours, when.
from under the wreck, on hands and
knee stumps, came an ,apparition
leaving red trail behind 1t proved
W DC L dHh oudlOs lSlOSi dpu lllC-
man who had been sent up the road
to locate a wire trouble and who. with
his satchel Of instruments strapped
across a shoulder, had been in the
baggage car when the crash came.
Clutching the precious ssatcheI, he
had been smashed off at the knees
nd he was bleeding frightfully "The
telegraph. Cut in on the telegraph
he shouted, but not man there knew
which one of the score of wires to
cut. and Shaley himself could not tell
without testing. They threw a rope
across an arm of one of the poles,
passed a sling about the dying man.
and hoisted him up. Then he cut
and grounded the wire and connected
his telegraph key. Tenderly propped
by anxious hands, he began to send
the call for the Cheyenne operator.
meanwhile gazing stoically at the
pool where his life blood ebbed away.
At that unusual hour of the night he
found trouble in raising his man, and
he pounded his key for ten minutes
before he got an answering click.
Number II terribly wrecked forty
miles west of Cheyenne. Send hos
pitai train" he said. Then they pill
lowed his head on the satchel and an
armful of waste. while forty miles
away whistle shrieked through the
night and brought engineer. fireman,
and two hundred japanese tumbled
on to the wrecking train, followed by
the hospital train with doctors and
nurses. But Shaley was gone when
they came. Not line in the ashen
face betrayed the inhuman torture
he must have undergone. nor the
strain of turning his mind from his
own agony and impending doom TO
the little brass instrument with which
he had saved scores of liyes.-A. W.
Eolker, in Eyerybody's Magazine.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1910-03-04
SUGGESTIVE PAUSE.

Him-''I've come to a conclusion"
Her-"What is it?"
Hint realize to-day that l have
been a bachelor for thirty-eight years.
and"
Her-"Oh, Jack, this is so sud
den!"
Him. And I've decided that Id
had a bully time and that I'll keep it
up. ."-Cleveland Leader
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1910-03-04
Greatest Inventions.

A Paris newspaper has been asking
lis readers 10 name the twelve great
est inventions. Over 100000 coupons
were sent in and the votes were cast
in the following order: The locolno-
tive. the potato. vaccine. the cure of
rabies. ugar, electric telegraph.
matches. the boiler of steam engine.
the telephone petrol. the sewing ma
chine and soap.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1910-03-04
PHONOGRAPH'S FIRST WORDS.

When Edison first went to work
on his phonograph he was as much
surprised as any one when the thing
actually talked. 1t appears that the
inventor had been working on some
new variety of telephone receivers
when he was led to put piece of tin
foil on a cylinder. 1t recorded sound,
and Edison was convinced that the
human voice could be recorded and
reproduced
When the time came to make the
actual test Edison, with his mind on
the mechanical details. is is said. alb
sent mindedly tested his contrivance
with the familiar phrase, Mary had
a little lamb" Accordingly this lit
tie nursery jingle has gone down into
history as the first words ever repro
duced by a phonograph Washing
ton Star.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1910-03-04

In DR.. korn's system Of transmit
ting pictures by wire-which has
been under test for some time at sta
tions in Paris. Berlin and London
greatly improved results have been
obtained with more rapid transmits
sion, by the late plan Of using line
drawings instead of photographs at
the sending station. A photograph
drawing published in lie Matin, the
Paris daily. showed Aeronaut Zippel
on his aeroplane At the Berlin sta
ton the photograph had been pre-
pared by mixing its principal lines.
when a half-tOne was made from II
for transmission, and the picture
printed in the Paris paper showed
some of the shades and tints as we'll
as the drawn lines. For transmission,
the half tone was rolled in the form
of a cylinder, which was revolved
with a small contact wire resting
against it to send the impulses of cur
rent. The receiving end had the usual
apparatus. a Photographic film being
wound on cylinder rotating in
agreement with the transmitting one,
and point of light varied i'll bright
ness by the current giving the impress
sion on the film Tie picture was
received in ten minutes, while pho
tograph from Berlin by mail would
haze taken eighteen hours.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1910-03-04

500 pounds. I knew in a jiffy what
the trouble was. We had some fresh
meat inside the house. and the bear.
crazy with hunger, had smelled it
from far away. He was going to get
that meat, no matter what happened.
The door wasn't any too strong
and | knew it. | cast about ME,
thinking how to keep him out until
help could come, and l didn't know
when that might be. The bear was
throwing himself against the door
again and again, and l knew he
would soon break in.
Il thought Of the only thing in the
house that might be barrier-a
chest of drawers. l tugged and
pushed it until I got it against the
door, while the bear kept hurting
himself against the panels, wild to
get in. | didn't know how long my
barrier would last, so I went to the
window and began to scream for help,
hoping my husband or some of the
woodchoppers would hear me.
"All the time the shaggy brute was
trying to get in; he was scratching
and pounding at the door and leaning
all his 500 pounds against it, kept
screaming and screaming, and at last
the men up on the mountain heard
me. They came running up, but what
could they do? They hadn't a rifle
Or even pistol and when the bear
turned and faced them, leaning his
back against the door, they had to
halt
They tried to frighten him away,
but the bear was too hungry to quit
the meat he had tracked down inside
our cabin. They threw stones and
they shouted, but not an inch would
the bear bulge.
~" Somebody get a rife.' ordered
my husband, while the rest of us
stay here to watch him. So the
swiftest runner went as fast as he
could to the nearest camp, and back
he came with gun. l was watching
the window. 1t seemed
hours to me before he returned
My husband carefully loaded the
gun while 1 watched him, trembling.
Then he kne1t down and took careful
aim. One shot and the bear rolled
over, bullet through his heart.
He's killed. yelled my husband:
come out!' 1t took all my strength
10 move back that chest of drawers,
and when I opened the door the dead
bear tumbled in on me. But he was
dead and couldn't hurt me. New
York World
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1910-03-04
THAT WOULD HELP.

$50 you want to become first
class stenographer?"
II do. Does it take long?"
"All depends. Do you know how
to spell to start With ?''-Louisrille
Courier-Journal
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1910-03-04
COULDN'T SEE IT.

Il am afraid I will have to in
crease the price of board, Mr.. Good
FEEDER
What is the reason for this as
sault on our liberties?"
The price of necessities has ad-
vanced so much"
Necessities of life?''
Yes
How can that be? vas Just
reading that we had the biggest prune
crop in our history. Trenton True
merican
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1910-03-04
THE PLANT OF THE lONSr1AIEn

THE PLANT OF THE CONSUMER.
The cost of living's gone so high
We cannot live and so must die
And, say,
We've got to do it right away
Because unless we're p. d. g.
In what it's up to us to do
The undertakers will combine
Along the whole darn funeral line
And make the cost prohibitive
As now we find it is to live.
Thus we can neither live nor die
No matter by what means we try,
And this condition being true,
Say, what in thunder shall we do?
w. j. Hampton. i'll New York Tribune.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1910-03-04
Thouuilt IL Mas q Coin.

Nephew (iust returned from
abroad) This frame piece, aunt,
got i'll Paris
Aunt Hepsy-'I wish, nephew,
you'd fetched home one of them
Latin quarters they talk so much
about. Boston Transcript.