davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Arvada enterprise., 1911-07-06

True fruits with your ice cream
at the drug store. H. A. Ullery
the druggist.
The Arvada enterprise., 1911-07-06

Take your shoe repairs to J. B.
Jarvis, Corner Wadsworth and
Grand View avenues.
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LAYHAWKER JOTS

This is not very encouraging. Says
the Bonnor Springs Chieftain; Fools,
like squashes, get bigger as they grow
older.
Every police star in the city has
been polished up and is in evidence
today. as a police star is better than a
comp" for getting free admission to
the circus and to "all parts of the big
show. "-Kingman Courier
Related by the Oakley Graphic: A
fellow went down east to work and he
became stranded. He wrote his dad
to come back. Dad wrote to him and
said: Dear Son: Sell the hog and
come home"
A Howard woman, reports Mrs. Tom
Thompson in the Howard Courant,
who has retained the affection of her
of the credit to the fact that having
been blessed with good grinders she
can manage the tough ends of the
steaks without grumbling. and just
loves to eat the backs of the chickens.
A Leavenworth chemist has discov-
cred that you can stop runaway
horse by throwing ammonia in its
face. This shows remarkable advance
ment. 1t has been several centuries
since it was discovered that you could
catch bird by putting salt on its tail.
This latest discovery is in the same
me VI dQNduCCu SClGuCS.-lxdMIoAC6
JOurnal-World.
When visiting and invited to make
yourself perfectly at home, it's a good
plan not to follow the invitation too
literally. as the following incident, re-
lated by the Cherryvale Journal, would
go to show: I'VE won't make COM
pany of you. Just do as you do al
home" said a woman to a friend OF
her husbands who was a guest of the
family at dinner. "AI right" replied
the man as his host served him a lib
eral portion of roast lamb. where's
the mint sauce?" said the guest. 81
can't eat lamb without mint sauce
When the astonished family had finally
recovered, the guest grunted out
These biscuits have too much soda in
them See these brown specks. AND
the coffee is too strong of water.' And
as the guest wiped the dust off hi:
trousers after his host had thrown hin
into the street, he murmured, "Anc
she told me to do as 1 do at home"
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A QUARANTINE Is NOT A JOKE.

There are generally two or more
sides to every question and PROPOSE
ton. And so, while considerable crft-
cism has been voiced against the re-
grottable act of Dutton, the health
guard, in shooting the intoxicated
johnson. who was bent on breaking
the smallpox quarantine in that small
locality to which it is confined on the
East side, there has also been express
sions of opinion en- the part of many
that Dutton was justified in the course
he took.
As to the right OF Dutton to use the
means he did to bring Johnson to time.
there surely can be no question. Dut-
ton was regularly deputized to make
arrests. That certa 'nly carries with it
the right to use such agencies as are
needed to bring a recalcirant into sub
lection. Perhaps. as some folk insist
there was no necessity for Dutton us
ing his gun. He might have arrested
the man or called a policeman to do
it for him If he did not feel equal to
the task. But Dutton was on the spot.
No man Is infallible. And while Dut-
toms judgment may have been wrong,
he was the man to act. and he must
be credited with believing that he was
only doing his duty in acting as he
did.
Suppose for instance, the irresponsi-
BILE johnson had actually broken the
quarantine before buttons eyes; had
become infected with the smallpox
and then scattered it around and about
the city. The very few people who
are now so severe in their criticism
Of Dutton would likely be just as Sc
we're in criticizing him because he had
not shot Johnson.
1t is quite as essential, and more So
that the smallpox quarantine regula-
tions be enforced to the letter and in
rigorous fashion than it is to enforce
any other city or state law on the
statute books. 1t is because of this
rigid enforcement of the quarantine
that the smallpox epidemic on the East
side has been put down and out Dut-
ton may have made a mistake II
shooting Johnson when other means OF
suppressing this rowdy could have
been used. But there is no reason
why Dutton should be punished or any
attempt made to punish him merely
because his Judgment was in error.
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A HrNr TO THE SCHOOLS.

An intensely interesting story comes
from New York city that certainly
furnishes a valuable suggestion for
the education of boys and girls along
practical lines. 1t tells of a workman
who slipped on a banana peel and fell
through a plate glass show window in
one of the stores. The mans wrist
was cut so severely that a big artery
was severed. He was in fair way to
bleed to death. A nimble-witted ten
year-old boy, happened to be nearby
on roller skates. He whipped out his
knife. cut a strap from his skate. He
buckled this around the injured
mans forearm little above the wrist.
Then he picked up a stick from the
gutter, stuck it under the strap, and
turning it, he twisted the strap tight,
In other words he made tourniquet,
that did its work perfectly. It
staunched the flow of blood until
surgeon arrived.
There is no good reason why
the boys and girls in every pub
lie school. and private school, for
that matter, in the United States,
should not know how to make just
such a tourniquet. 1t wouldn't take
many minutes week from the regu-
lar course of studies for teachers to
impart such instruction to the chill
dren. And it would be time Wen
spent. And such instruction would be
of real practical value to the children.
Many a little boy and girl has gone
to a premature grave when their
lives might have ben saved had their
playfellows known anything about
this effective device for extending
first aid to the injured.
And educating the children along
tins and other simple lines for meet
ing a variety of emergencies which
are certain to confront them will be of
far more value to them than much OF
the stuff which it is attempted to
cram into their heads. Probably it
doesn't need any lengthy elaboration
on the part OF boards of education or
county superintendents to frame rules
and regulations for the injection OF
this sort of teaching into the curricu-
| lurns of the schools. Matters of this
sort, in all probability can be taken
up on the initiative of the teachers.
And they should be alive to their op-
portunities in this and other simple
particulars. Maybe this sort of in
struction should be given to children
by their parents. But for some reason
or other the bulk of the parents of
today haven't the time" or the in
clination, to bother with things OF
this sort So the duty belongs on the
shoulders of the school teachers. They
have burdens a-plenty to carry but
the adding of one like this ought not
l to be oppressive.
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struction,, and the following the count
of damage not irreparable: 4,273 steam
ers injured by fire collision, strand
ing, stress of weather, and other
causes. The destruction varies. from
year to year; in 1907 there were 1,1o4 to-
tai losses among merchant shlpss in
1905 1.03S steamships and sailing vessels
were gripped by the sea.
No count is kept of the men who go
down in the ships that are lost. The
statisticians deal only with CONNER
cial values. No bureau in the world
finds profit or incentive in keeping
count Of the thousands of sea- workers
VINO are claimed as toll by the sea we
reckon tanned. Only this is taken IN
count: that every day In the year some
where on the restless wastes Of the
seven seas two-in some years three
ships are snatched in greed by the pow
er that tolerates the many. So the
average has it.
The sea takes most of it's 1.-THE by
stealth. A bandage of fog about The
navigator's eyes. a racing current NOV
ing unseen beneath the masked ia
nocence of flat water, a knife-edge
reef. or sand that yields until keel is
fairly trapped-then destruction. Not
quite four hundred of the 9S6 vessels
lost in the year 1908 were wrecked
through stranding; 1873 of these were
steamships, superior as they were over
the barks and schooners subject to the
whims of the wind. Collisions sent
ninety craft to the bottom. Fire de-
stroyed thirty-eight. Ninety-three filled
and fOundered. Under the head miss =
ing" which means that not even care
full French statisticians can divine the
secrets of the deep. fifty ships were
registered in the 1908 record of disaster.
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sUPERsENsIBLE.

The harp is ever singing to itself
In soft and soullike sounds We cannot
hear;
The stars of morning sing. and soundless
words
Make Gods commands run swift from
sphere to sphere.
Each flower is always sending incense up
As If in act of holy worshiping,
Till fragrant earth is one great altar, like
To heaven where saints their prayer
filled censers swing.
The stars send out a thousand rays, writ
full
OF mysteries we cannot read nor see,
OF histories so long, and going forth
So vast, the volumes fill infinity.
Celestial presences have walked with
man.
Alluring him to Nebos lofty height;
TRANSPORTED forms in tender light, TOO
oft
Invisible to our low range of sight.
o Source Divine of things so fine and
high
Touch all thy children's souls with
power to see
That vibrant earth and air and boundless
sky
Still throb with immanent divinity.
H. W. Warren, in the Independent
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While talking with friends in the
exchange of the Bridgeton hotel, Fred
Low of Philadelphia was startled by
an explosion in his coat pocket. Fumes
of peculiar odor came from the
pocket and in an instant the entire side
of his coat was afire. Friends tore off
the garment and beat out the flames
with their hands.
Two boxes Of safety matches
dropped from the burn ed pocket, but
Low and his friends were astounded
to discover that not a match had been
ignited. To his knowled dye there was
nothing else inflammable in the peck
ct; its contents in addition to the
matches being a pouch of tobacco. a
key and a box of medical tablets.
Later experiment showed that the
pills, made of a chemical compound,
had fallen out of the box inside the
pocket and coming in contact with the
chemicalized friction plate OF the safe
ty match boxes, had exploded like
firecrackers. Low and his friends were
badly burned about the hands,
Bridgeton On. ID dispatch to Phila-
delDhia Record
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THE nom, OF THE SEA.

Careful French statisticians compile
each year for the Bureau verttas a
record of the accidents and losses suf-
fered for &. twelvemOnth by the Iner-
chant marine of all nations from which
data are obtainable. writes We.les
Richie in Harper's for September. The
yearly summary put forth by the Blu
reau Veritas Is counted authoritative
by all maritime men-owners, agents,
underwriters. Few who loll in the
palm-gardens or loiter on the road
ways Of the swift cities of ease that
cross the Atlantic know the Bureau
veritas, its record of the tolls gathered
by that complacent sea down-far.
down-below the rails.
Nine hundred and eighty-six 7essels
Of the worlds merchant marine-stsam
and saiI-totally lost in the year 1908,
say these careful French statisricians;
and this tally recognizes only steam
vessels of over one hundred tons bur
den. Such the record of complete 1e-
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Time to Get Busy.

With that singular and unfailing OPP
timism which is one of his chief char
acteristics, President Taft is hoping,
almost against hope. that those whom
he regards. as genuine advocates of
conservation, despite the fact that they
have long permitted their resentments
and prejudices to divert them from
promoting conservation policies, will,
now that he has proved that they have
nothing to fear with regard to Con-
trOller Bay, forget their personal griev-
ances and devote their energies to as
sisting him to secure genuine conser-
walton legislation. A determined effort
begun now and carried on with unre-
hitting energy, would undoubtedly re-
suit in the enactment of both coal land
leasing and Alaska commission legis-
lation at the next session. And the en-
actment of such legislation would not
only make possible the prompt and
proper development of Alaska, but it
would remove the opportunities of
those who, solely to serve their selfish
ends, have been able to forestall all
proper legislation affecting the terri
tory by cries of fraud. In a word, the
president believes this is a most op-
perfume time for all sincere conserva-
tionists to quit fighting and go to work
George G. Hill. in the New York
Tribune
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QUAKER NEprrAT1oNs.

From the Philadelphia Record
Even the coign of vantage is some.
times counterfeit.
A man should use his head, even
when he is a kicker.
The man who takes advice must
also take his medicine.
A punch in the mouth isn't so bad
If you get it through a straw.
A luxury loses its charm when we
reach the point where We can at
ford it.
Of course II is luckier to climb the
ladder of fame than to walk under II.
woman might as we'll make t1p for
lost time if she is going to make up
at all.
A girl seldom hits what she aims at
especially when she throws herself az
a man.
1t would take a sand bag and bras,
knuckles to knock the conceit out OF
some men.
Any girl wiu tell you that the fell
lows who pose are not always the ones
who propose.
We should all forgive our eneruie.
but we have sneaking desire. II, sse$
square with them first.
Wigg-"Sillicus is the most orad,,
lous fellow I know" WaerLss17e--
sometimes actually think he belie,'sss,
in himselif.' IS
Blobhs-"B jones complains ths+
is always broke" Slobbs-ssv-as W ~
wife says he Is becoming monotono,,-
and she is doing ner best to breaL So ~
monotony.' = Tue
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James


little embarrassment into James
/ F'loydJames' clear blue eyes.
Il have heard of you, Miss Sill. and
wanted to meet you,'' said a vibrant,
quiet voice; and Melita started, sur
! prised, to make sure that this was the
voice which only few hours before
had pettishly stated its owners opinion
of "prying women"
For the first fifteen minutes Melita
had a miserable time She was angry
with the man at her side. He had no
right, she argued to herself to treat a
poor young woman trying to earn her
bread and butter in a perfectly honest
way as he had treated her in the after
noon, and then to treat his dinner
partner, just because she had on a
pretty dress and looked as If she had
never done anything more strenuous
than eat chocolates and do embroid-
! ery-Meiita knew that she did not look
/ "Overbearing or .'mannish''-aS he
was treating her now.
| But gradually her stubborn dislike
wore off. and she acknowledged to her
self that Mr.. Floyd-James, whatever
sort of companion.
And he need never know I work. >
she promised herself.
You work, don't you, Miss Sill" he
asked suddenly just then.
yes" said Melita. How did You
know?''
Mrs. Bell told me so: we're old
friends, you know, and she admires
you tremendously"
Melita looked nervously at her plate
so do l. said the young man con-
idently. You know l have no end OF
respect for a young woman that can
write. You write, don't you? Things
that women are interested in, think
Molly said"
Don't" said Melita. furiously red
dening. 1 hate you. Don't you ever
dare speak to me again.
Mr.. Floyd-James looked up aston
lished.
7 don't understand he said; what
did =
But just then Molly and the other
ladies left the table. and James Floyd
James was left to a very gloomy cigar
with his host.
L wonder if she minded my saying
admired her pluck?'' he asked himself
some girls are sensitive like that"
When the men went to the drawing
lroom James sought Melita.
I'm sorry. Miss Sill. for anything
IL
"Oh, don't" begged Melita Il wal
awfully rude-and I'm sorry
Then you don't mean that-tha
you never want to see me again-tha
you hate me %
ooh, I don't know burst out Nell
ia. You don't understand. I'm al
arrogant overbearing, mannish woman
and I go prying about where nobod.
, wants me; don't you see ?"
Floyd-James gazed stupidity at Me
lita. Then he remembered.
WAS that you?''
Yes" nodded Melita.
But why didn't you let me know
: I thought you were one of those
Arrogant, overbearing-'' begal
t Melita
Don't" said Mr.. James Floyd
James. Miss Sill, will you see m
: again and let me convince you that In
{ not as-foolish as I seemed today?''
And Melita looking into jaime
FlOydJames' honest blue eyes, SAID
1 ''Yes - Copyright, 1911. by Associ
ated Literary Press.)
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GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe

lf rom the Alcn1SOn AIlODe.
Beer, like Pullman cars. is all much
alike, regardless Of names.
We aren't very smart. but we know
who pays for the prize the agent gives.
The menu never changes as nucn
as the cookbooks indicate it might.
A cats fondness for the canary
doesn't prove its appreciation of good
music.
It is the opinion of boys that there is
more to eat in most homes than ia his
own.
If you have a rasping and penetrating
voice learn baseball and play the side
lines.
What has become of the old-fash-
toned man who lariated his straw hat
to his coat lapel?
A dog doesn't bark as loud as an
automobile horn, but it stays longer in
the same locality.
Fashion note: No woman should
have more wedding rings than she has
fingers to accommodate.
Defensive fighters don't win the most
battles Not meaning war or pugiiism
entirely, either.
Apparently the first lesson in French
is that it isn't pronounced anything
like IT is spelled.
Camping IN the woods for a week
raises the estimate on the endurance
of the pioneers a good deal
It IS also possible for a man to prove
he isn't henpecked without coming
down town and getting full.
Raising the price of a turkey at this
proper time continues to be about rs
difficult as rearing those delicate birds.
Man should rejoice in the fact that
he doesn't show signs of old age as
soon nor as seriously as typewriter
does.
You may have observed that most of
those who are anxious to Get Back to
Nature were not raised on the farm
An agent makes a living by talking
and it is hard for him to understand
that other men have to work for theirs.
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.


7 7 VIII tIIS -IIIO''t7v 4F-FFo+I
Some people are so funny that they
make others sad.
Few men can distinguish between
biliousness and true love.
Some women seem to think love
should be kept in cold storage.
The trouble with many a good man
is that he is unable to forget it.
Charity that begins at home seldom
gets over the neighbours back fence
If nobody will lead man into temp
tation he thinks it's UP to him to
butt in.
When the average man gets what he
really deserves he begins to howl to
the effect that he is being prosecuted.
A modest man never blows his own
horn. He lets his fool friends hire a
brass band to head his procession =,
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

Placing any great reliance on hope is
sure to prove disappointing.
X
All the comforts of home are fire.
quently far from being what that ex-
preston implies.
x
A lot of valuable time is wasted in
making explanations that are wholly
unnecessary.
X X
An inquiry from the foreman: If a
mans wife won't mind him will a
dress-maker?
And would you believe it? BONE
people are actually complaining that
the weather is too cool.
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REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR
IFrom the New York Press.l

A small family can absorb all a mans
money just as easily as q big one
The most interesting thing to a man
about a girl is how she can pretend he
is interesting to her.
A man can come mighty near to be-
ing the ideal husband if he will just get
home regularly to meals
The reason g woman with children
would rather lose all her teeth than be-
lieve in heredity is their father.
Even when she is sure she couldnt
be more so, a woman would rather read
about how to be beautiful than any
thing else.
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1.-The little son of the hostess is mighty
certainly doesn't take after his mother se
Must look like his father" His mother
says he does. I'm his father."-Houstoh
sar IT. ss res - -a--
would she love me II were penniIessg,
faltered the young man who was about
to risk his worldly all. ''She might - an
swered his wise friend, But no one would
ever know it. my boy."-washingto
Herald.
His Only Hope-The doctor stood by
the sick man. II cannot hide from you
the fact that you are very ILL.," he said.
Is there anyone you would like to seer"
YES" said the sufferer family. Who is
lit?" Another doctor. Judge.
He watched his wife doing up her hair
and his face was stern. why do you
put the hair of another woman on your
you," she replied, sweetly, put the skin
of another calf on your feet?"-Suburban
Life.
ling" said the fair brides fourth hus-
band. what is the matter? Has some
thing gone wrong?' No, dear" she an
swered. ITS nothing. II was-just a
little Observation-Disclosures air.
Chicago Tribune.
Are you going anywhere this summer ?"
No, 1 can't get away You see, we have
two major league ball teams in this town
and the schedules have been so arranged
that there will be game here every day
during the season. Judge
Il wish to pay for this poem" remark
ed the long-haired individual Il merely
submit it as a compliment" Then, my
dear sir, permit me to return the compli-
ment," replied the editor, with true jour-
Inalistic courtesy. -Phiiadelphia Record.
whats the trouble?" inquired the
judge. This lady lawyer wants to make
motion" explained the clerk. but her
gown is too tight. Washington Herald.
(Which would you rather be, a poet or
a musician "A poet. People aren't so
liable to be disturbed while you are prao-
ticing. Washington Star.
yes. that's one of the leading lawyers
for the reform movement" He looks
like man who would put his whole heart
and soul into anything he undertook -
You bet he does. Why. his bill for re-
form services during the last six months
IS S53. 900. "-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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Funny old world in which it took so
many, many years to get a campaign
moving in China against hitting the
opium pipe. yet right away one could
be started against putting the cigarette.
After the suppression Of the dope trade
the Chinks took to smoking cigarettes
like a duck to water. So our old friend
WI Ting-fang-Wu of Washington
fame-organized league against
cigarettes. It took like the old opium
joss in that woodpile.-New York
Press
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Cincinnatus Leconte, the new presi-
deat Of Haiti. is a wise old bird. Re
ports are to the effect that he has chos-
en- a cabinet Of particularly strong
men" II there is any ruler on the
face of the earth that needs a gang
Of huskies to help him hold his job, he
is the chief executive of the negro re-
public