davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The newspaper., 1910-02-04
Be Glad

o. heart Of mine. we shouldn't worry so.
What we've missed OF calm we couldn't
Have. you know
What we've met of stormy pain
And OF sorrows driving rain,
We can better meet again II IL blow.
F or we know. not every morrow
Can be sad
So, forgetting all the sorrow we have had.
Let us fold away our fears,
And put by our foolish tears,
And through al the coming years.
Just he glad.
JAMES WHITcoMB RILEY.
The newspaper., 1910-02-04
The Conversion Of Schmidt

This is the true story Of real
man and his conversion to adver-
tising. Schmidt was butcher in
Burlington, Iowa. The manager
of the Burlington "Hawkeye" had
long been after Schmidt. trying to
bring him into the fold of the true
believers, but Schmidt tor first one
reason and then another. had
The newspaper., 1910-02-04
Real Estate Transfers

Warranty deeds recorded during
week ending February /, 1910, furn-
ished by The Delta County Abstract
Company.
f NJ Duke to Frank d and Peter La
Tourrette, 40 acres Payne mesa.
$500.
W + Doyle to A Duncan, 90 acres
near Crawford, $1,000.
Frank l. Darling to Millard Falkland,
. lots Delta, $685..
Millard Fairlamb to Frank l. Dar-
ling, lots Delta, Sl,050.
G T. Rusho to q w Reed, 40 acres
near Crawford. $1,000.
Cabel Maher to Robertson Drug Co.,
> lots Hotchkiss, 81.
Myrtle Lanning to J NJ Lobdell. 80
acres near Austin, $500.
l. + Crandell to Frank w Fisher, y
lots Delta, $1,000.
Frank W Fisher to l. l. Crandell, !
acre near Delta, Sl.G0O.
W NJ Marshall to ii f Ball, 10 acres
near Peach Valley. $40.
Edith NJ Heep to j IL Witt and L O
Butler. 20 acres near Cedaredgs.
81 800.
+ Horning to G l. Simpson and ID
NJ Waite. ~ acres near Paonia,
$500.
b F Horping to f l. Brown...s0 acres
near PaoDia, $1,000.
J c Patterson to DIS Walker, 10 acres
near Hotchkiss, $1,000.
W II Byrd to J B Williams, 50 acres
near Cedaredge, S4.J0O.
Ed S Stone to 4 o Pesrsley. lots
Delta, $Il5.
C l. Dana to W ii rutherford. .
tracts Payne mesa. 81 30.
q Slatten to J b Helunick. 20 acres
Crawford, 500.
J X Hester to f II Decker, 40 acres
near Paonia, 81.
J W Phillips to q NJ Gwynn, 200
acres near Cory, so, 900.
q VI Gwynn to j ] Travis. int
100 ncres near Cory. $4,000.
Minnie l. Obert to Frank Waller. 4
lots Delta. $500.
JR Williams to Mary = Robbins,
tract near Paonin. $1,000.
A J Watson to S + Patton, > acres
near Cedaredge, $500.
A Hannah to w + Hornsby and G A
Smith, 3 lots Delta. 1850.
W + Hornsby and Clarence Smith to
A Hannah. 50 acres near Cedaredge
$3.5OO.
C l. Pike to Rachel f McConaughey,
lots Hotchkiss, SO,
C NJ Hooker to W. Overhults. l acre
near Cedaredge, $3.50.
Austin + Miller to b + Bertram, 2
lots Austin, $40.
X F Rockwell to Aileen NJ Rockwell,
lots in Paonia, 81.
NJ Trew to w p Trew, 2 lots Delta,
$500.
E Hillman to g f Wade. 8 lots
Delta, 81, 900.
Frances + Conkle to A T. and J
Conkle, 10 acres near Delta, $3,500.
A T. Conkle to f + Conkle, 10 acres
near Delta, $500.
The newspaper., 1910-02-04
Spartan News Column

He who expects educational
Beed to grow in three months is
acking much in the proper width
pf vision. The growth of pump
kin vine. and an oak tree differs
both in time and substance.
Half-yearly examinations are
being held in all grades from the
fourth up this week. for those who
have fallen below the standard.
The High School Course OF
Study is standard as compared to
other high grade schools, and ac-
cording to the opinion of the
State Inspector OF High Schools
for Colorado and Regent OF the
State University whose letters are
on hand.
The following High School
students are exempt from all ex-
aminations:-Nancye Calender,
Lena Stewart. Nettie Bryant,
Ethel Klatt, Paul Hamilton and
Hubert Wynn.
The Latin class will soon COM
mence reading in Caesar.
Some material and books have
been ordered to make our grade
work in phonics as strong as pos
sible. This will assist in spelling
and reading which are the bases of
all future educational work.
Supt. Hussong spent all day
Tuesday on the physical exam
ination of High School students
as required by law.
Rev. Woods gave most inspir-
ing talk for future college work.
to the High School students last
week. He has been a stcong
friend of the school in many ways
and we will miss him. However.
he says his successor is large in
helpfulness and strong in track
work which comes on this spring.
A visit by the Superintendent
of our city schools to the Bethle-
hem School finds things progress
sing we'll.
w. A. Coonradt is we'll liked by
the people of Bowie. His attend
ance is very good and he insists
upon this. The order. too. is
good. He is ready to accept and
apply sdvice given and the Su
perintendent talks over his work
with him every week and some
times ofteuer.
Sone professional books Sc
lecteo will be read and good
work for phonics and reading in
troduced.
In the spelling contest among
the Spartans. Earl Roger won
out.
A letter from State High
School Inspector Thompson
states he expects to make us a
visit soon.
The newspaper., 1910-02-04

and the expenses were CORE
spondingly small. he main ex-
pense being the hauling of the
beets to the railroad for shipment.
The sum that the Jap received
was magnificent return for his
labor.
Do you suppose you could
take 60 acres in Ohio or New
York or Pennsylvania and take a
crop that would return 1925 ?
We hardly think you could. In
truth, farmers back there have
worked almost a lifetime for that
sum of money in cash. The
major portion of profit in the old
days from one Of the back east
farms came from the poultry and
eggs and other side issues, the
farm products being fed and used
up in a roundabout way, returning
no caSh particularly.
And we repeat that we some
times think that the only crop we
have is fruit, when beets are a
we'll paying crop. and, if engaged
in year after year, will prove a
handsome profit Garner for the
farmer.
All OF northern Colorado has
been revivified and has grown rich
since the advent of the sugar
factory. II
The day of the advent of the
sugar factory in Grand Junction
changed the whole course of
events in this city and county,
and marked the beginning of an
era Of prosperity that never since
has vanished. but constantly
grows greater.
If. upon the unused land of
every farm in this valley, with a
little extra labor, the farmers
would grow beets. it would earn
big percentage of investment on
the time and labor.
Northern Colorado is not any
less, prosperous than we are. and
its prosperity is due solely almost
to the cultivation OF the sugar
beet.
inst imagine what an eastern
farmer would think if he could
earn gross on 60 acres of land the
sum of $5.625l He would have
to pinch himself TO see whether
he was awake. We realize such
wonderful returns on fruit out
here and on almost everything
else that we produce that some
times we forget our less fortunate
neighbors back east. who till the
soil more laboriously than We
ever have to do in caring for our
trees. and they make much
smaller returns
Let US not overlook a crop that
is sure every year. and one that
will produce abundant returns il
given the right care.-The Grand
Junction Daily Sentinel.
The newspaper., 1910-02-04

w. H. Garvin was up from
Delta yesterday attending the an
nual meeting of the N. F. F. G.
Association.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-04-29
In Search of q Husband


According to the family Bible, Julia
Walsingham was 81. but she pleaded
guilty to 26 with such Ingenious frank
ness that everybody believed her. She
had been engaged many times. but
never for longer than three months at
a stretch, although she had been in
troduced to each mans family as the
only girl a reasonably sensible per
son could marry.
The rolling stone nature of Julia's
affections at last caused her to be
classed as tickle, and friendly atten-
lions from young men suddenly ceased.
She took serious counsel with herself
as to the quickest method of acquiring
a husband. There was no time to wait
for a man to come to WOO her, so she
messed herself in a dainty costume
and went forth to battle.
By a fortunate accident she ran right
into the arms of Jack Homebird. a
cynical married man whom she had
fouted long ago, when he thought her
too beautiful for this sordid earth.
He was sorry for Julia now. and SO
grateful for his own escape that he
undertook to help her to stalk a hus-
band, although his conscience told him
it was a cruel conspiracy against his
fellow man.
Julia cheerfully confessed that, as
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-04-29

An inheritance tax is an assessment:
laid upon the male heirs Of property,
either by distribution or descent. Some
times this assessment is confined to
collateral heirs, when it is called col
lateral inheritance tax. The raising
Of public funds in this way has been
sanctioned by legislation from the be-
ginning of Roman law, and in England
and in other countries Is 6 large and
steady source Of revenue, although
such taxes have been stigmatized by
certain economists as death duties"
During the Civil War taxes of this
kind were made part Of the internal
revenue system of the United States,
but abolished soon after the struggle
ended. The rate and method of as
sessment vary In different countries
and in different States of the Union.
In the United States lineal collateral
and succession inheritance taxes have
beer instituted in several States as
a PURGE Of domestic revenue. Inner
itance laws have in the United States
occasioned much discussion and liti.
cation. but their justice and utility
have been testified to by experience
and the decision Of the law courts.
The leading economists Of the present
and other periods have seen the scien.
tihc propriety, even necessity, of such
legal provisions, and have noted the
uniformity with which they deal with
all classes Of the financial community.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-04-29

A most extraordinary two-wheeled
automobile. designed on the principle
of a bicycle" bicycle which drew at
tention in England twenty or more
years age has been built in London
and sent to this country for exhibit
ton.
1t consists of a couple of large solid
tired wheels, connected by an axle from
which hangs a platform sufficing for
the engine, which is at the rear, is of
the single-cylinder type and develops
four and a half horse power. The
countershaft lies parallel with the axle
OF the vehicle, and on the ends are a
pair of roller chains driving sprockets
that engage with the wheel hubs. The
steering is accomplished by an ordi-
nary auto steering wheel, which act
yates wires that move friction discs
between the sprockets and the wheel
hubs, the drive being released from
one wheel or the other to effect a turn.
The chief feature of this remarkable
type of machine is the cheapness with
(Which it can be built and the lack of
vibration that results from the use Of
large wheels. The seat for the driver
and passengers rests just over the
aXle.-Popular Mechanics.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-04-29
GAME OF GoFF, GoUFF, OR GowF.

Origin Traced to the Romans, Al
though Scotland Has Credit.
One of the foremost of the anne
which we have adopted is the royal
and ancient game Of goff, gouff, gowff
the last the genuine old pronuncia-
tion-or golf, which, curling excepted,
is the game most peculiar to Scotland,
as characteristic as baseball in Amer
lea or cricket in England. The word
was derived from the Dutch kolf, a
club, but the game is not of Dutch
origin, though in early days golf balls
were imported from Holland and per-
haps the name came with them, Arthur
B.. Reeve in Outing says.
. The date of the origin of golf, even
approximately, like that of most sports,
is unknown. Tradition has it that the
game originated with the Scotch shep-
herds knocking a ball about the heath
with their crooks. But among the Ro-
mans a game called paganlca was
played with a ball stuffed with feath-
ers. AS early golf balls were made in
the same way in Scotland, it has been
surmised that the Roman game was
perhaps a f~orerunner. An early nam
in England was bandyball, and in old
prints reproduced by Strut in his
Sports and Pastimes" the club, some
four and a half feet long, had a curva-
AZURE, much like a crook. Later the
heads of the golf sticks we're affixed to
ash shafts and were faced with horn
and backed with lead.
Golf in the early days was a highly
democratic game laird and cobbleT
we're competitors; every one played,
even the women. The Ii, we're the
common land along thu - ,lore. The
prizes we're simple-a golf club or a
dozen balls, and only later the more
elaborate medal and cup. Even the
great national prize was a silver stick
which never became the property of
the winner.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-04-29
Their General.

Nothing could better show the love
of the Confederate army for their COM
mander, General Lee, han the incident
told by Prof. w. w. Smith in south
ern Historical Papers," At one time,
during the Battle of Spottsylvania, the
Army of Virginia was severed, and
ruin seemed inevitable. A quick order
was given, summoning two brigades
from the trenches, a feeble force
against the Embarrassed foe.
AS the regiments stood, ready to at
tack, an officer on an iron-gray horse
was seen to ride to the front. He ut
tered nc word, but pointing at the foe.
advanced to lead the charge. As ha
did so, he turned his face toward the
army. The sight of that face, full Of
calm resolve, sent a thrill of dismay
through each heart, for there. amid he
already whistling bullets, rod the Idol
lied general of the army-Lee.
To throw their bodies in front or
him was the involuntary impulse which
seized the devoted soldiers. Gordon
commander of the charging column.
saw the situation. Dashing up, he laid
his hand on the bride rein of the
chief, saying:
General Lee, this, sir, is not your
place. We will drive the enemy back.
This is the Army of Virginia. They
have never failed you, and they will
not now. VIII you, boys?"
NO, NO." burst from the eager
lines. General Lee to the rear! We
can't do anything until General Lea
goes to the rear!"
An officer reverently led the iron
gray through the opening lines, while
the ringing voice of Gordon sounded:
'Forward!"
The soldiers faces set in grim deter
mination. The word passed from
mouth to mouth: Remember that
General Lee is looking at us!" and tho
army rushed on to successful attack
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-04-29

believe that you are the he
has been waiting for all these weary
years"
i want him to feel that" said Julia.
mo doubt; but when he is en-
crossed in his work you will have to
show him your marriage-lines to re-
mind him that you are his wife"
Hes a bit fond of me, but hates
"firts."
IF you can avoid hat v%irtuous form
of indiscretion he will be as plastic as
clay in your accomplished hands"
II
Julia set about the siege of the au-
thor or the lines laid down by Jack
Homebird.
Mr.. Laurelle was. among other
things, a poet, and sought inspiration
in a public park in the evening. He
was madly fond of flowers, and, like
many men similarly sensitive to their
beauty, he could not grow them at
home. for you could not swing a cat
in his garden-at least, not with my
degree of comfort to the cat.
Julia met him quite accidentally, of
course, and asked him about his work.
He gave her a voluble biography Of
he had written since a child. She
told him she had nothing to read
worth reading, and he Immediately
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-04-29

Che would soon be 81 Chat is to say,
$50, it was really time for her to
sober down and be of some use to the
world. The idea of including posterity
in the purview of her altruistic iGten-
tions seemed to invest the pursuit Of
nan with a lofty spiritual purpose.
Jack Homebird cordially approved,
and they proceeded to plan the am
buscade. 1t was rather a protracted
business, as they differed widely on
the important question Of tactics.
II cannot for the life of me see
why you object to dances and musical
evenings said Julia, with a pout.
my dear girl, the men o catch
that way are only fit to be let loose
again out Of pity"
Il never thought of that"
Few girls do, Julia
"Do tell me what you mean in a
way l can understand"
well, all things considered, and es-
pecially having regard to your erratic
past, l strongly recommend the role
of the ingenue for you"
WHY"
Because it deceives the most eX-
perienced bachelor. and gives a neo-
phyte in love no chance at all"
Il don't quite like that, but tell me
what I have to dc without any more
~1ippancies."
Listen. Ask the predestined person
to lend you a book or something and
tell him to bring it in the afternoon.
yIyL~- I1 =, ranni1-o hir, IN n rr1$
ty apron. and have your hands all over
-four. Say you the sure he is laugh
ing at you, but you take a delight in
domestic duties Inc were making
cakes for tea. Tell him you would ask
him to stay, but, unfortunately, every
thing is homemade, as you were not
expecting anybody. If you had known
he was coming things would have been
very different. He will think 0 naive
and natural, and when a man makes
that mistake his days of single bless
edness are drawing to a close"
THAT sounds rather deceitful,
doesn't it?'
ooh, heaven excuses such things in
a woman"
II shall make as good a wife as
most women, l am sure"
81 should hope So"
Don't be so horribly smart"
Now, Julia, where are we going to
find the fatted-I mean the victim?"
II know the man | want already"
Thanks. You nave removed a ton
Of remorse from my mind"
HE is an author-Mr. Laurelle.'
"A man like that can be lured into
the tolls without trouble. 1t will only
require Q little diplomacy to make him
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-04-29

pressed her to accept a copy of his
poetic drama, THE Startled Gazelle."
He walked home with her, and glad
ly promised to come to tea some even
ing.
He went to Julia's to tea, and she
behaved so sensibly and charmingly
that he metaphorically smote himself
for not having seen long G that life
was a bowling wilderness without a
wife.
She sang to him. and he liked her
songs because they were not too
saccharine in sentiment.
1t was a glorious evening for both,
and she invited him to come whenever
, he chose, and guide her choice of
books.
Mr.. Laurelle's conception Of love was
august. and glittered with Arthurian
r~ectitude. He professed a knightly
chivalry, n offered a devotion of
such ardor that no caprice of Julia
could chill it. The fanfare of adula-
ton wound up with az impromptu ode
to her eyes, which so correctly cata-
logued the glories of those orbs that it
"N DSSh "liltCA ny LII oulIdSI
with a gift for rhyme.
When this avalanche of sentiment
fell on Julia she gasped with amaze
ment. and soon got hopelessly out Of
her depth in the weller Of unfamiliar
words in which he expressed his ado
ration.
Julia wisely refrained from answer
ing it, and he called in some trepida-
ton a few days later. He had never
been SO wildly in love before and fear
ed that he might have overdone It.
She. however, put him at his ease on
that point, and he became a frequent
guest at her house.
Now, Julia generally managed mat
ters so that he should avoid meeting
other friends until he could be intro
duced as her future husband, for then
his Sir Galahad style of gallantry
would be excused. One evening, how
ever, an old lover Called he was a
bank clerk with a divine mustache. He
was also deeply in debt. Julia was
in a radiant humor and simply could
not resist the temptation to firt. She
cooed and languished and rather neg
lected Mr.. Laurelle, who was puzzled
at first and finally tool refuge in deep
thought. He made no allowances for
the civilities due to a fellow guest.
He did not understand the persifage
Of his companions and felt that he
was being made to look foolish.
Julia was not an alert observer and
saw nothing of the turmoil that was
tearing Mr.. Laurelle's delicate nerves
to shreds. He fancied that the other
man saw his discontinue and va en-
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-04-29
BURNED PAPER MONEY.
Source Of Great Profit to the Govern
ment and Banks.


At the redemption windows of the
treasury and Of the subtreasuries of
the country any silver coin that has
not beer mutilated willfully and which
still is recognizable as from the mints
of the United States will be redeemed
at face value, this in spite Of the fact
that the silver in the worn coin may
not be worth half its face value. AS
to gold coin, the government stands
only a small portion Of the loss from
abrasion; but, according to weight,
these worn gold coins always are re-
deemable.
In the case Of the paper currency
tWo-tifthS of a note must be presented
if it shall be redeemed or a new note
issued, and no matter what the evil
dence may be as to total destruction
OF this paper currency, the govern
ment regards it as the holders indi-
vidual loss with which it is no further
concerned. Fire may melt $1,000 worth
of silver coins and it is worth its
metal value. 1t may melt 81 600 in
gold coins and the mint will pay
$1,000 in new twenty-dollar gold pieces
,4Sr the mass. But the aSneS OF 9l,UOO
in paper currency is without value.
In the thousands of fires over the
country every year involving Office
buildings, factories, business houses
and family residences an untold total
of legal tender notes of all kinds are
destroyed. Every piece of such paper
lost is loss to the holder and gain to
the government or to a.lational bank.
1t is a promissory note nopelessly lost
to the holder. 1t is even more, for in
many cases an individual man might
redeem his debt obligation If he were
assured by the holder of it that the
piece of paper to which he had signed
his name had been destroyed by acct
lent and by no chance could turn up
again against him.-Chicago Tribune.