davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Omaha daily bee., 1911-03-05

long time he was pestered with sharks
who wanted the information as to whether
people who assigned warrants were in ar
rears for taxes.
These fellows came iu the office with
jury lists and inquired as to the standing
Of jurors. even before they had been ace
cepted as jurors" stated Mr. Furay. But
I soon put "a stop TO this business by re-
fusing any aid.
Loan sharks should be put out OF busi-
ness instantcr. The sooner it is done the
better the city and its employees will be.
There are two ways in which they could
be eliminated.
The comptroller or the council can issue
an orucg that the assignment must not be
handled or department heads can refuse
to employ or to Keep employees who pay
toll TO the loan shark.
you have no idea the amount Of BUSH
ness these fellows do. said Mr. Furay
producing records to substautiate his state
mcut. These records showed that one firm
had collected warrants amounting to So
lg& this month These warrants came
through in three patches
Operate at Court House, Too.
The sharks who operate in the city hall
signm,nts are filed and protected by the
county clerk. The business i'm the county
building is said to exceed that Of the city
hall by many thousands of dollars. a dis
tirctive feature Of the business is that SO
far the school warrants have not been
scalped. though the board pays by the
. month as does the city.
Former Comptroller Lobeck says the
practice could be stopped by the city main
tanning a fund to pay warrants as soon as
they are issued and to have orders espe-
cially for day laborers. O. K.'d each day.
AT present the day laborers are paid by
| the week Brokers charge them per cent
for money so the victims pay p per cent
a month the same principal working all
the time
"Other cities have solved the problem
so why can't the city Of Omaha says
Treasurer Furay. In Chicago. 81. Louis
and other metropolitan cities loan sharks
are not allowed to light In the buildings
omaha can do the same thing whenever il
gets ready
Omaha daily bee., 1911-03-05
Piano an Aid to
Better Vocal Music
Singing Voice May Come Through
Means of knowledge of the
Great Instrument.

That the larger number Of persons who
can play the piano in Europe is respon-
sible for Europes amazing crop of opera
singers sounds at first very paradoXical;
should a pianist's name stand back OF this
statement. the skeptically inclined would
detect in II a desperate effort to promote
the piano teachers profession
But the man who INDUCED in this APP
parent paradox is by his own confession
very mediocre pianist, although very
prominent in other fields of musical en-
deavor lie is no less an authority than
Alfred Giraudet. for thirty years a singer
at the Paris opera, the creator of Mephist-
opheles in Gounods Faust, professor of
operate expression at the Paris conserva-
toire, and at present head Of the operate
school at the famous New York Institute
OF Musical Art
There was "A time" he said, when
believed, a, many Americans do, that there
was some racial disability or maybe eli
matte influences which would doom
America forever to reach across the ocean
FOR filling the casts of operas presented
here. 10 was an nonsense!
"l accepted call to this country as
AN experiment without much enthusiasm.
and shall come back next year with a
good deal Of enthusiasm, for / have found
among my students wonderful voices, and
/ ] know there must be somewhere in the
/ United States many more wonderful voices
/ which will boz silent forever But alas
/ three-uuartors of these budding songsters
/ are terribly handicapped 10y the fact that
! they never studied piano playing They
/ lack facility In reading, they lack the
| rhy thin, they lack the knowledge OF ton,
! alty which European boys and girls &C
/ qure very young. al an age when IT woult
he futile or detrimental TO sing
/ "l am amazed al the Indifference girls
| and, especially boys manifest toward in
strumeutal music. The American boy who
| can play an accompaniment Is almost
ashamed Of the accomplishment The re-
suit is that young men and women VIII,
perhaps have voices worth cultivating q,
not discover that fact on discover it &C.,
late, after their voices has become harsI
from singing ridiculous popular songs. o,
bowling I'm the college chorus or otherwise
Almost every proficient pupil OF min,
has been brought up in a musical environ
ment and could, II not render Difficult
plano pieces, al least read any score
The others might in many cases. hav,
saved their time and their money and m,
patience. Imagine the trying position Il
which a singing teacher is placed when
young woman applies for tuition who ha
naturally a good voice but has TO D.
taught the notes OF tune as a parrot {
made 20 mem0rize words. one az time
Lack Of solid musical foundation make
Omaha daily bee., 1911-03-05
Century Old Child'S
Book is Discovered
Juvenile Story in Verse in Library
Of Mrs. John Ross, Jr., of
Omaha.

Its pages are yellow with the mellowing
touch OF century, its leather covers are
faded and dogeared but the story II tells
is one which the child of today finds
fresh and interesting, though it is story
which 200 years ago was an heirlOom-the
story Of the Babes in the Woods" Mrs.
John Ross. ir., of 1895 Dodge street has a
copy Of the quaint little book which told
the children who lived in the eighteenth
century the sad and direfuI tale OF a
wicked mans evil deed and a little birds
kindly mnistration."
This little volume was one of several
splendid old books which Mrs. Ross re-
ceived from her father. the late Or. George
Keller OF Bucyrus o. II tells first at
serious length, the incidents which caused
the uncle's bitterness toward the orphans
and then it tells Of his cruelty 70 them,
After telling the story I'm prose II cpl
tomizes it ian verse, then gives a ballad
version popular at that time; later It ana
/ lyzes the story and points the moral so
that even that mythical reader The who
runs" could not escape the lesson.
! The style of the story is Characters
/ ucally pressed i'm the versical summary.
which is herewith quoted
/ "A tale well known 10 those OF old
/ I'm many a winters nights been told,
/ While gaping children round appear,
/ And drop the sympathizing tear.
! when the dread tale was understood,
| OF children starving in the wood,
/ our grandsires each have wept ere now,
] Our grandsires and our grandames, too.
] And shall TO ages yet unborn,
] Who read the tale Of these forlOru,
sun cause the tender tears 10 flow,
/ And melt the breast with others woe.
I "A cruel uncle wicked hate,
/ With all the terrOrs OF his fate
/ shall strike a terror i'm the breast,
/ And make us cruelty dctest;
{ And little Rod Breast stlu preferred
| And honored vet as Gods own bird.
Sweet Bird Who spread its tender wing
And stretched its little throat TO sing
A pleasing note above the head
OF those sweet babes, who now are dead
And when they found their lives were DER
Their little busoms heaved no more.
Leaves DER their tender bodies Sast
And prov their friendship 60 the last
Peace Go their dust. and endless rest
In heaV'n they are supremacy blesti
Every little hoy and girl be good,
And they shall read The Children In tht
Wood
Omaha daily bee., 1911-03-05
DAN BUTLER HEAD OF THE ELKS
CITY clerk IL Elected Exalted Ruler
whole slate Is Accepted
Unanimously.

Dan Butler was selected as exalted ruler
NJ the local lodge Of Elks at the annual
election held Friday night. Others who
were elected are.
Evalted Ruler-Dan h. Butler.
esteemed Leading Enight-Robert w.
Patrick. ,,. ,t-.,4 n
Esteemed Loyal NhlBul w al'el
Thomas. .,, rr--,-... d,
Daniel
SaCretarv-I W. Miner.
Observation-Disclosures L. Saunders.
Tilcr-Joe J. Kaspar. ,,-,.
Trustee tThree Years)-G. \. SchooisJack.
Representative to Grand Lodge-Sldney
W itsrnate Representative to Grand Lodge
george w. Shields
Omaha daily bee., 1911-03-05
BERKA WANTS VENTILATION
VIII Soon Introduce Ordinance Il
Have Moving Picture shows
Ventilated.

Councilman Berka is fathering an ordi-
nance. which will force moving picture
shows and other places of amusement to
nrovide more ventilation in the buildings.
Rerka saws the conditions that prevail in
the nopular amusement houses of Omaha
are dispraceful and he thinks it is time to
provide a remedy.
Berka will introduce an ordinance seek
ing to rectify this condition into the city
council soon.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-03-05

ARcient order of Waited WOrkmcn.
Dr. Willis Redfield head physician
4 the Surgeons and Physicians hospital
Il North Platte. has announced his can
idacy for reelection as grand medical ex-
miner OF the Ancient order United Work
pen lodge OF Nebraska.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-03-05
Royal Aehates.

Union lodge No, 10 has made arrange
ents to start a series Of six card parties.
lllowed by refreshments and dancing, to
p held on the last Thursday evening In
ach month, beginning on March 30 and
nding August 81. Prizes Of hand-painted
hina will be awarded those making best
ores, and each evening seven games Of
ards will be played before the refresh
Aents and dancing One committee will
ave charge Of the series, composed OF
r. Slingerland, Alice l.. Slingerland and
larry j. Walsh.
Omaha lodge No. /. viii entertain visitors
rom Pansy lodge No. "a, OF Tekamah,
eb Tuesday night when class viii
g Initiated, All members of Union lodge
fo no and Success lodge No. 49, are in
tied to attend. As many Of the members
b can'are expected to be at Webster street
ration at ll:i5 "A. m. to welcome the visi-
prs on arrival
Omaha daily bee., 1911-03-05

a singer sclf-consCious and eXpressionless
1t Is responsible to a marked degree for
that horrible sensation known as stage
fright which paralyzes the best singer and
spoils his or her effects"
Omaha daily bee., 1911-03-05

HoyRI Neighbors of America.
Mrss Kate Remington and Mrs Lora E
'chum OF Omaha We're elected delegates
b the supreme camp meeting OF the Royal
Feighbors Of America at the state conven-
lon held at Kearney last week The alter
ates are Mrs. Frances McDermott of
Bellevue and Mrs. Mary Lands OF Calhoun.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-03-05

wounded with a gun or pierced by a rusty
nail Bucklen's Arnica Salye heals the
wound. Guaranteed. Csc For sale by
Beaten Drug co
Omaha daily bee., 1911-03-05

%. a. NJ. camp No. 9lj has been officially
btiflcd that IL has again been awarded
e head camp SILK banner for making the
rgest membership increase during the
81 year of any camp in the state. The
mp has a committee arranging 20 prop
IS celebrate the event. Head Consul A.
Talbot will be present and present the
lnner 60 the camp
rhc camps Of Douglas county elected
legates to the county convention, which
sembles in omaha April 8. This con
ntion will choose delegates TO the state
Imp meeting to be held in Fremont in
ay, which IN turn chooses delegates to
e head camp meeting to be held in
me at Buffalo, n. Y.
South Omaha camp No 1895 initiated a
rye class of candidates Thursday even
&. The forester team Of Is. q NJ. camp
o. 9l5 OF Omaha assisted In the degree
ork and also put on a splendid exhibition
IN.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-03-05
JHOES OF The ANTE-ROOM
odem Woodmen of America to Meet
at Fremont.
RIL TEAMS WILL COMPETE
ibiic Sessions Plnnned-PriHcs Of
frred Ia Lodge C0npettttons--
Gossip OF the other FrRter-
naI Societies.

state gathering Of the Modern Wood
en Of America will be held at Fremont
ay g and o. Prize money amounting to
% will be- offered to drill teams and other
mpetitions between the lodges i'm attend
ice az the camp meeting
notice Of this meeting has been issued
A. Truesdcll clerk OF the general com
ittee, with office al Fremont The other
embers Of the general committee for
ebraska are Ross j.. Hammond T.. r.
Irney and a. =. Ovcrgaard
An meetings OF the gathering except that
be held in the evening Of May will
open
Omaha daily bee., 1911-03-05

independent order of Odd Fellows,
Omaha lodge No. will put on the first
3gree next Friday evening.
State lodge No 10 will have work in the
itiatory degree Monday night.
Prize Council Bluffs lodges have extended
ID invitation to the Omaha lodges to go
\ Council Bluffs on April 20, and partici-
ate in celebration of the ninety-second
anniversary of the order
Beacon lodge No 20 will have three cam
dates for the initlatory degree next Tues
Ry night
South Omaha lodge No. l4S will work in
he initiatory degree tomorrow night.
IWasa lodge No lS3 viii have couple
candidates for the lnitiatory degree next
Wednesday evening.
|The charters OF the Omaha lodges are
raped in mourning on account OF the
hcent death Of Past Grand Sire Durham
a Kentucky.
.Dannebrog lodge No. 2l6 will confer the
lrst degree on three candidates next I'ri-
Jay night
Benson lodge No. ~ will put on the mi
Iatory degree work tomorrow night
Ruth Rebekah lodge No. / viii have de-
pee work next Saturday night.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-03-05

~ following excerpts are from
"a lecture delivered by the music
critic Of The Bee at the Young
Women's Christian association
last week This was the second
Of the cight-lccture course, and
Omaha daily bee., 1911-03-05

FrBternHl Union of America.
Mondamin lodge, No. III, will hold an
pen meeting Monday evening, March -,
pr the entertainment Of members and
heir friends
Omaha daily bee., 1911-03-05
First Cost Is Light - Profits Big
Time Required, Spare Moments

habit for d hobby
Thousands of oth-
prs are getting a..
why not get your
share OF the back
yard profits?
The Parker post., 1911-07-01
DISBURSES DIVIDEND.

This week the Tom Reed Gold
Mines company paid another dividend
to it's stockholders, disbursing about
$4,000 in four per cent dividend.
This is the largest disbursement since
the company was incorporated and
shows the big earning capacity of
the mine. 1t has enough ore in sight
to pay a dividend of four per cent
per month for more than a year and
the new ore that is being opened
on the $50 level indicates that the
property will become one of the larg-
est dividend payers in the territory.
1t is said that the ore now being
opened on that level is larger and
better than anything heretofore open
ed in the property County
Miner.
The Parker post., 1911-07-01
HEADING FOR YUMA.

The good news comes to us that
the work of the San DiegO-Arizona
railroad now building is to be start
ed at the California end and that a
force of right-of-Way men are now
busy in the valley buying up rights
and paying cash for them. 1t is al
SO stated that there is a clause in
these rights of way that guarantees
the road to be completed in twelve
months, or else the company fOrfeitS
its rights. That means that they
will stal active construction in Il
very short time and work from both
ends of the line. The gap between
the imperial valley and Yuma is al
ready closed by the Inter California
road via AlgadOnes and Mexicali.-
Yuma Enterprise
The Parker post., 1911-07-01
HORRIBLE CRIME.

GLOBE, June 24.-Charged with
assaulting and then drowning in the
Salt river, about twtnty-four miles
from here, Media and Myrtle Cos
wick aged eleven and twelve. yes
terday, Kingsley Olds. a prospector
aged 46, and a mining partner of the
girls father, is in the county Jail
here with his lower jaw shot away
apparently in an Intellectual attempt
to commit suicide after killing the
girls
Olds' tongue is partly shot away
and he cannot talk, but when supplied
with paper and pencil he wrote that
a Mexican had done the shooting.
Olds last night was brought into
Globe, and at daybreak the bodies OF
the girls were discovered in the wa
ter where they had been since the af
ternOOn.
Winchester shotgun was found
lying beside Olds' clothing and a
bloody trail extended almost to the
point where Olds' body was discov-
cred four miles away.
Olds' story as written is that he
went in bathing with the girls who
accompanied him on a trip to the
river from Goswick ranch near Globe.
While in the water he said Mexican
took the shot gun from the wagon
and shot him. He did not know what
had become of the girls as he had
lost consciousness.
Wesley Goswick, father of the vie
tins, was disarmed while trying to
overtake the wagon conveying Olds,
With the avowed intention of killing
Inn. Despite threats of lynching
Olds was safely lodged in the county
Jail. The bodies of the little victims
were brought here in an automobile.
The Parker post., 1911-07-01
AFTER WELLS FARGO CO.

Special Examiner John S. Burch.
more of the interstate commerce com
mission conducted hearing i'll the
United States court room at Phoenix
Monday, on the complaint of the Ar
iona railway commission against
Wells Fargo & company asking for
lower rates between all Arizona points
and all outside points. The case
covers a wider scope than any yet
brought against Wells Fargo & com
pany for if the rates asked for are
secured it will establish a precedent
for similar revisions throughout the
west, though Arizona is believed TO
be more greatly Disseminated against
than any other section.
The Parker post., 1911-07-01
Blythe Brevities.

Palo Verde is on the move these
days trying to keep dry.
Floyd Brown is erecting some large
sheds in his lumber yard for the pro
lection of finishing lumber, etc, and
making other plans to have every
thing ready for the building boom this
fall.
Still the travel into the valley con
tinues very heavy, twelve arriving
Tuesday while last Saturday and Sun
day it required four automobiles to
handle the crowds, and necessitated
an extra trip by the Green line.
Fred Springer had two stacks Of
hay and a stack of straw burned last
Thursday, and he is of opinion that
it was set on fire by someone. He
says that if he finds out who it was
there it going to be something
doing.
Brawley is now so low down in
the world that it is going to try an
airship to see if it can get on the
level with the rest ofthe universe.
We hope it will succeed as it is a
fright smart" little place considering
where it is located
The Parker post., 1911-07-01
LITTLE WILLIE SAYS
FAREWELL TO BOSS
(Palo Verde Valley Herald.)

Little Willie has gone. Never
rake leave it's impression upon the
roomy seat of his faded Lewis; and
the shaded spots that knew him best
will know him no more forever.
With the cool, balmy breeze of
last autumn, when the juicy, saccha-
rine melon grew along our ditch
bank; when fried cotton-tail could be
found daily in the larder; when the
sound of revelry mingled with the
strains of impassioned waltzes and
surcharged with the odor of cologne
water, hot toe-jam and Wilson's corn
Juice nightly emanated from the
grand, roof-garden ballroom Little
Willie came.
We tried to be a father to Little
Willie. Each morning we called him
early that he might contemplate the
beautiful, varigated tints that adorn
the eastern sky precursive of the rls-
ing sun, and each night when the last
hog was in the fold, we quoted to him
the most pertinent passages from our
latest Appeal to Reason. But the ad-
vent of the mosquito, the scorpion
and the rattler was synchrosous with
the midnight departure of Little Will
lie. Poor, unsophisticated boy Our
gratuitous precepts reached ears that
heard not, and our admOnitionS met
with deliberate lack of attention.
We promised him that when he
reached 21 years of age we would
give him the gray mare and fifty dol
lars in hard coin. Alas! Even that
magnanimOus offer was rejected;
and he had but four short years to
wait-and work.
The following verses were found un-
der the arrow-weed mattress of Lit
tie Willie's bed, and they are all that
are left to remind us of our mis-
guided boy:
Farewell, you raiser of the pumpkin
vine,
Of bawling calves and long-nOsed
swine;
You, who at dawn, weighed dowr
with swill,
Give the dirty sucklings their fill,
Farewell, old boss
You whose fare of pork and beans
Is seldom changed except for greens,
To hell with your vile, maloderoui,
steam:
I'm going to hike with my carcass
lean
To Los, to Los.
Farewell, you parsimonious pessimist.
Anticipated issue of an anarchist;
| long to clasp you to my breast
And squeeze your gizzard through
your vest.
Old socialist, farewell.
And if your predictions prove cor
rect.
The Parker post., 1911-07-01
PERSONAL. MENTION.

Ice Cream-Sunday-at City Drug
Store.
w. G. Williams came in from Los
Angeles Wednesday,
A. W. Eaton of Blythe Junction
was visitor here Tuesday and
Wednesday.
Have a cool, moist smoke. A fine
line of cigars and tobacco just re-
ceived at City Drug Store.
Mrs G. A. Marsh and son Phillip
departed for Los Angeles Wednes-
day night to spend the next two
months.
Mrs. John F. Collins left for Cen
tralia, Wash, Wednesday evening,
on a visit with her daughter, Mrs. E.
NJ Wright
Engineer Wallace, who was on a
leave of absence for thirty days, re-
sumed his passenger run between
here and Barstow Tuesday
G. A. Marsh received a special
pharmacist license from the territori-
al board the past week. He is the
only registered druggist in Parker.
Mrs A. S. Prescott arrived from
Los Angeles Monday morning, accom-
panied by her son Garner. Mrs
Prescott will depart tonight for Tex
as, where she will spend the summer
visiting with friends and relatives.
c. e. Bentley, who has been acting
as local agent for the A. & G. for the
last couple of years, has been trans
ferred to Mayer, Ariz., and T. H.
Widmeyer of Mayer has been appoint
ed in his place. l.. l.. Campbell Of
Wickenburg arrived yesterday and
took temporary charge of the local
office until Mr.. Widmeyer arrives,
which will be sometime next week.
The Parker post., 1911-07-01
DOUBLE TRACKING.

DOuble.tracking of the Santa Fe be
tween Wins;Ow and Ash Fork, Ariz.,
q piece of Work recently authorized
5y the company las been completed
from Supai to Williams. Ari2.. a dis
tance of six miles, and opened to
traffic. The entire Arizona section to
be double-traeked on the present plan
is 115 miles in length.
The plans of the Santa Fee are to
have the entire line from Chicago to
Los Angeles double-tracked by 1915,
the year of the Panama Pacific eX-
position. Large gangs of men are
now at work in Arizona, where they
will be kept until that section is
completed. when they will be moved
eastward and westward.
The Parker post., 1911-07-01
DIED..

Mrs. Alice Johnson, an Indian Wo
home on the reservation, from a com
plication of diseases, including tn
burcnlar trouble She was about 81
years of age and was probably the
best educated Indian woman in the
tribe. She left a 6-year-old daughter
and a husband According to the
custom of the Indians the remains
were cremated last Sunday.
The Parker post., 1911-07-01
In hell, in hell.

The following communication came
by todays' mail:
"Neighbors Correspondent of The
Herald Dear Sir: | write to ask
you if you can tell me what to do for
my feet They smell bad, especially
so while waltzing in warm room
Yours truly, MAYME."
Mayme The Herald has no Mad
am Cavaleria on the staff; and
seldom reply to queries except when
stamp is enclosed. OdoriferOus
toe-jam accumulation is a hereditary
disease and is very refractory to
treatment. The scent, however, may
be modified by wearing open-tOp san
dals without hose, frequent applica-
ton of Pears, and by sleeping with
the feet dangling from the open win
dow. Turn the hose on them frequent
ly. The word hose" to apply to the
flexible rubber tube that is attached
to the pump, not to the tight, wrink-
leless neither garment that is sold for
9S cents at Hamburghers
The Parker post., 1911-07-01

NeighbOrs is a 'live one;" her per-
spective enlarges with each succeed
ing day The jungle of yesterday is
the cultivated field of today, and
where yesterdays road-lizard left his
caudal monogram in the dust of Mel
son avenue, today the inimitablo
NeighbOrs girl gracefully floats down
the Scobey canal and causes us to
ponder why any aesthetic admirer Of
Long Beach for a summer rubber
necking when Venus, Hebe and all the
Graces are reincarnated in the Neigh
bOrs girl.
The Parker post., 1911-07-01
YOUR TRADE APPRECIATED.

| wish to thank my customers for
their past trade in vegetables, fruits,
of the same. | also solicit your trade
in the fresh meat line and will prom
ise that all orders will have careful
attention. Thanking you all, ! re-
main,
Yours truly,
J. T. PRICE.
The Parker post., 1911-07-01

And Saint Peter culls me from the
elect:
Well meet again, old rustic churl,
Where your whiskers will SINCE and
curl
In hell, in hell.
The Parker post., 1911-07-01
Subscribe for THE POST.
CLASSIFIED LINERS.

Will trade 40 acres Oregon land
for equity Parker lots. Also buy lots.
Box s, Covina, Calf (8-26)