davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
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washington,s Crested Carriage.

of England. William of Normandy
was the victor, and King Harold, with
tens Of thousands of his English, was
among the slain. The victorious
French marched to London, and on
christmas day they proclaimed their
Idashing leader William ], Conqueror
and King of England
King William, like all his French
knights, loved the French ideals of
government, church and home, and in
fused into the old English national
and domestic life all the customs of
his native land. Even the English
language, which William never could
learn, was gradually set aside, and
among the loyal French knights who
assisted the Conqueror in enforcing
his reforms was the distant kin of
George Washington. This early an
cestor of our first president was num-
lbered among the intimates of the
King, and was one Of the leaders Of
the French Conquest In the past,
American historians, possibly because
of the strong influence upon literature
exercised by England, placed the
Washington ancestry as beginning in
that country; but careful investigation
bears out the statement that the
Washingtons were of definite and d.
rect French origin. They were French
both in sentiment and training, and
the original name was De Hertburn.
10 ~ 11xy
was the name changed, and what in
6cced these faithful French subjects
of William of Normandy to assume an
English cognomen? The explanation
is simple enough. William the Con-
queror was careful and far-seeing
man. He realized that his usurpation
of the English throne was a very rad
zeal departure in a governmental ex-
pertinent, to say the least; and he was
anxious to mould the people, whom
he had made his vassals by dint Of
the strong hand, into as close dupli-
Gates of the French as possible. In
other words, he strove to implant the
French ideals into the English char
acter as deeply as circumstances per-
mitted. The complicated heraldic rec
ords found in the pages of the famous
"Doomsday Book is undoubtedly the
best evidence that the King wished
to make his radical campaign of perm
anent record, and hence great num-
Der CT men of education and ability
were occupied in diligently surveying
and noting all the land and water con-
ditions of England. They also In these
visitations made lengthy entries as to
t. riginal English estate owners as
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SURELY HARD MAN TO PLEASE
Artist Did His Best, but Somehow
Managing Editor Would Not
Be Satisfied.

An artist was drawing cartoon
wherein the flag of our nation played
large part He drew the flag, first
time, with five stars in the blue field
and took 1t to the managing editor.
who promptly let out yelp.
"Wadye think this country It," said
the managing editor, "a trust?"
What's the trouble?" asked the art
list.
Trouble" beloved the managing
editor, why, we need more stars.
stars, stars"
So the artist brought the picture
back and this time he had III stars In
1t by actual count.
The managing editor felt his head
and choked slightly
What do you think you're draw
ing?" he asked at last
You're the hardest man to please
ever met in my life," said the artist
Indignantly; first it's too few and
then it's too many. How many stars
do you want anyway"
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rnrninn Aha Tahles-

Having done his best. by every fair
and unfair means, during the last cleo
ton to catch the candidate tripping.
the heckler grew extensively personal.
''Is it true that your mother
washes" he began, but before he
could add the word CLOTHES" the wit
ty candidate called out smartly:-
"Of course she does. Why. don't
your"
This raised loud laugh at the heck
ler's expense; but, still undaunted, he
returned to the attack.
''You can't deny" he said, that your
father was rag-and-bone man. /
bought some clothes Of him thirty
years ago."
"And I see you're still wearing
them!" was the candidates lightning
retort.
There was no more heckling that
night.
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COST OF GRAIN
GROWING IN
CENTRAL CANADA

A careful canvass made of a num-
Der of men farming IL a large way
indicates that even with the extreme
expense of harvesting the crop, which
has been caused by the bad weather
and difficulty In threshing, wheat has
been produced and put on the market
for less than 55 cents bushel. The
average freight rate is not over 10
cents per bushel. This would make
the cost Of production and freight 60
cents and would leave the farmer an
actual margin on his low-grade wheat
OF LIN cents and for his high-grade
wheat of 1917 cents; and though this
is not as large a profit as the farmer
has every right to expect, it is profit
not to be despised, and which should
leave very fair amount of money to
his credit when all the expenses of
the year have been paid, unless the
value OF low-grade wheat sinks very
much below its present level. A mat
ter of Importance to the prospective
settler is that of the cost of produc-
ton. The following table has been
prepared after careful investigation:
Interest on 800 acres, value
$50 per acre, years at
per cent interest. .........$1, 10000
Interest on horses, machin-
cry, wagons, ploughs, har-
rows, etc., to operate 800
acres--say $4,000 for 8
years ................... $4,000
Getting 800 acres ready for
crop first year, doing ones
own work, with hired help,
about $3.50 per acre. ...... 10000
Getting 800 acres ready for
crop, second and third
year, about $1.25 per acre
per year, or $3.50 per acre
2 years ones own work and
hired help. ............... 10000
Seed per year, wheat, per
acre slips, years. 49,. 10000
Seeding, 800 acres, rs cents
per acre, years. ........ $4,000
Twine, 800 acres, 30 cents
per acre, 3 years. ....... 288.00
Harvesting, 800 acres, 80
cents per acre, years. 49,. $500
Marketing, 800 acres, esti-
mate 20 bushels per acre
per year for years, 8
cents per bushel, or cents
per bushel for 8 years. 49,. $1,000
Threshing 800 acres, estimate
20 bushels per acre per
year for years, cents
per bushel per year or Is
{ cents for years. ........ 1,152.O0
Total ..................$7 ,s34.Oo
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Solely BY Finger Prints

rogues. On the strength Of the finger
print they have arrested man they
know was guilty Of crime, but whose
face no person concerned had seen.
There was swell gambling house up
town in which the proprietor was
more efrectually hidden than ''the man
in the iron mask" TIE remained In
little room, which he entered from an
other house. No one ever saw him;
not even his employees. All business
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preme. A decline in their
fortunes then appears to
have taken place, for in
1920, the year the Pil-
grims set sail for Amer
lea, the Washington
were practically driven
from the Sulgrave estate
to take up residence at
Brighton with minor ma
nors and holdings. The
loss of the hundreds of
acres of rich meadows
and harvest fields was
in a measure counter
acted by the marriage of
a Sir William Washing
ton to a sister of George
Villiars, Duke of Buck
ingham. This union
brought about new al
liances and affiliations
which made Washing
tons possible in Amer
lea, and ultimately led
to the rearing of George
Washington to be the
military leader of the
colonies and eventually
our first chief executive.
This marriage brought
the Washington family
into direct domestic So
cial and court relation
ship with the prominent
and powerful favorite of
the then reigning mon
arch, anu political cir
cumstance destined the
20 1Cp~,rca
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Air Laws.

Wilbur Wright, at tea in Dayton.
said with laugh:
Already there are air laws, strin-
gent as road laws. Without them we
should soon be seeing advertisements
like this:
1.-TWO, dollars reward will be paid
by Mrs. John Doe for information lead
ing to the identification of tho aviator
on Wright roadster who, while flying
over my house yesterday afternoon,
dropped can of oil down my chin
ney and completely ruined plum pud-
ding l was cooking"
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eQ the statement as cor
rect. The English poet
was misled by his fervid
fancy, for the Heralds'
College at London, the
highest authority on
British heraldry, writes
as follows: "A Washing
ton shield with stars and
stripes (pales) has never
been Of record" It
Is altogether probable
that Upper, as well
as others, was deceived
by the shape of the
"mullets." These spurs,
as worn by the knights
of old, were round in
form, resembling mod
ern cog-wheels some
what, and their bristling
points possibly suggest
ed the stars" of which
Upper spoke.
Hundreds Of writer's
have also announced
that the crest on Gen
eral George Washing
toms coast-of-arms is an
eagle, and that this fam
lily emblem was the foun-
dation of the suggestion
that the eagle be the en-
blem of the American re-
public. While the crest
may appear like an
eagle, the facts are that
the heraldic grant Of
arms to this Washing
ton branch nresent a. RI.
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was transacted through a little wicket,
through which his voice might be
heard. but his face could never be
seen. When player wanted to buy
cards or chips he passed his money
through the,-wicket and got his cards
end chips--but never saw the proprie-
tor. When he wanted to 'cash in" he
passed his chips through the wicket
and got his money-but never saw the
proprietor.
The nimble wits of the police de-
partment wanted to pinch" that man,
but they couldn't get the goods on
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him." Finally, however, Detective
Charles Steinert gained entrance to
the place, pushed his money through
the wicket and secured lot of chips
and cards. He put them in his pocket
and took them to police headquarters.
From them he took innumerable fin
ger prints" left by the unsuspecting
gambling house keeper. These he
compared with the finger prints in
the rogue's gallery.
That evening he arrested man on
the streets and charged him with con-
Quoting gambling house. And the
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sun a LampIichter.

In the acetylene burning lighthouses
along the Panama canal will be in
stalled copper cylinders exposed TO
the sun. When the sun rises in the
morning and the rays fall upon these
cylinders they will expand and close
valves that admit gas to the burners.
AS night approaches and the suns
rays diminish in power the cylinders
will contract and again turn on the
gas, which will be ignited by small
pilot Scientific American.
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of this honor, and possibly
because he deemed that suf-
ficient respect had not been
shown to one of such noted
ancestry, he did not emf
CRATE to the United States.
However, before the inter-
view was closed, he deposit.
ed with the American consul
a certified genealogical chart
on which the following ap-
pears:
Baron de Washington Is
a direct descendant Of the
ancient and honorable Wash
ington family of England, the
earliest emigrant to Holland
being James Washington,
one of the four brothers Of
Stuart mpa t h lie s.
(Charles u. James came to
Holland in 1850, his two
brothers emigrated to Vir-
ginia, and the third brother
remained in England, where
he was serving as a divine"
This remarkable bit of
genealogical history gives the
earliest and most authentic
record of the Dutch and Ger
man Washingtons, Of which
there are many and of whom
the church records abound In
entries of marriages, births
and deaths. Further investi-
cation brings to light the
fact that this earliest Dutch
emigrant, James, was mar
ried In the English church
of Rotterdam, all of which
tends to corroborate that he
was of English training.
Baron de Washington was
born in 1888, and his brother
Max married the Duchess Of
Oldenburg and In this way
became connected with one
of the Oldest sovereign fam
lilies Of Europe. The House
of Oldenburg is the prime
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the cause of the king, rather than the
idol of the Commons-Oliyer Crom-
well. The Washingtons performed
heroic services for the king, but
when Cromwell proved victorious
and seized the reins of govern
ment, they found England to be
no longer a safe dwelling place.
Prison sentences. exile and death was
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OR.
By wheat crop farm 800 acres

Crr
BY wheat crop farm 800 acres
for years, average 20
bushels per acre per year
for 3 years, or a total of go
bushels, = 1920 bushels at
80 cents per bushel. 49,. .$15, 10000
Balance to credit of farm aft
er 3 years operation, ST.
$4,000 per year. .......... 7,526.OO
ITO operate $50 acres would cost
less in proportion, as the plant re-
quired for 800 acres would do for the
larger farm, and the interest on plant
for the extra 100 acres would be
saved"
The figures given may be open to
criticism, but they will be found to
be reasonably accurate, with fair
ness given to the expense columns.
There are those who profess to do
the work at a much less cost than
those given.
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of heraldic investiga,
ton.
Later the e S t a t 9
known as Wessyngton
was spelled and en-
tered officially as Wes~
sington, the proprietors
assuming the same
name. Then it was re-
corded as Washington,
and a natural change OF
the owners name in
accordance with that
of his land followed.
The proprietors became
known as William,
John, Lawrence, Rob-
,ert and Nicholas De
Washington. Finally
the haraldic shields
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Dental Operation on Pony.

A remarkable operation has been
performed by a Wanstead (Eng.) vet
Urinary surgeon on pony which had a
bad fracture Of the lower Jaw. Aft
er injecting cocaine and wiring the
teeth together, the surgeon drilled a
hole through the jawbone. and the
broken parts were then firmly drawn
together by strong silver wire. The
pony is expected to make a complete
recovery.
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ven issuing from golden ducai
crown, the crest of the family. Furth-
ermore, Washington himself clearly
shows by correspondence with the
Herald's Office at London that it was
not an eagle, and the letter is dated
ten years after the eagle had become
the emblem of the republic (June 20,
1882. His letter was sent from Phil
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Ais birthplace, but the true name
of his male ancestors was not Wash
engton. This may seem sweeping
statement in the light of generally ac-
cepted history, but careful research
has established beyond doubt chat
the ancient founder of the family from
which came the Father of our Country
was named William De Hertburn. The
key to this apparent paradox lies In
the fact that, In common with many
nobfemen and monarchs or Europe,
the first president possessed an estate
name and real, or family name, the
latter being known s4s the patronymic,
or paternal name.
The first Washingtons were of
French, and not English, origin. and
were numbered among the powerful
knights of the northern portion of
France. When the Duke Of Normandy
conceived the ambition OF becoming
King Of England he called to his aid
the Catholics Of France, and among
those who responded to his appeal was
an ancestor of George washington.
The duke gathered his soldiers about
him and announced that by right and
promise he deserved and intended to
be the new King Of England. His spir-
tied address had the desired effect
and the knights and their vassals
thronged to the standard until there
was soon gathered under the leader
ship of William, Duke of Normandy,
the greatest army France had ever,
mustered, ready for the field and
thirsting for the glories of conquest.
Among the manF banners thrown to
the breeze appeared the shield Of the
multi-great- grandfather of our own
George Washington His name was
William de HEARTBURN. The 10000 fol-
lowers of the duke set sail in 5000
vessels of war for the English coast
and landed without OPPOSITION, because
of the English King Harolds conflict
with the Norwegians in another part
of his invaded domains. On October
IA, 1866, the rival armies met. and on
the field of Hastings took place one of
the most terrific battles In the history
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queer part of it all rs that the police
are sure they will convict him, though
no person can be found who ever aotu-
ally saw" the man in the gambling
house. His finger prints, however, are
deadly evidence against him.
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descendant of the James Washington
who landed in Holland In 1850. He
married a Bavarian lady and held
certificate of honorable discharge
showing that he had been lieutenant
in the Bavarian army. To obtain a
commission as officer in the Federal
army was his wish, but because Of the
inability Of our consul to assure HING
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s1ew York Police Hope TO Convict
Gambler Who Always Kept His
Face Hidden.

The New York police force is will
ing to admit that 1t can go M. Bertil-
lon one better on his finger print
Identification system, which. by the
way, was invented by the Chineseg a
few thousand years before M. Bertil-
lon became terror to the French
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ruined towns. One hundred thousand
people died in this debatable strip OF
land, and there, where active hostili.
ties ever reigned, the De Hertburns, or
Wessyngtons, were stationed. This rec
ord of the great family is absolutely
authentic in every detail, having been
proved by minute research and per.
sonal visits to the locality where its
members were lords of the sofia
task which embraced fifteen years.
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and French prefix of de" was drop
per, and the modern spelling Of
Washington prevailed.
The Washingtons were very prom
inent in the military as well as the
civic phases of English life. In the
days of Henry VIII, when that mon
arch was in conflict with the pope
of Rome, Lawrence Washington sided
with the king, and the latter confiscat-
ed the monasteries, converts and
churches of the Roman Catholic
church, giving to this Washington the
Sulgraye estate, where for over GEN.
fury the Washington family ruled SUI
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The man who is doing good work is
writing his name on the memory of
the world. Stone monuments are only
seen by very few, no odds how high
they may be built.
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The Commander.

Does Mrs. Peck's husband com
mand a good salary?"
"He earns good salary: she COM
mands it."
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Let love make you strong, pure. Sc
we're. Let 1t prevent your sacrificing
the least portion of your souls life
Carmen SYLVIA.
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MIsconstrued.

Shopman-The fresh behring's are
very nice this morning. MN.
Lady-Er-have they roes?
Shopman-Well. MN, all fish IL
dearer at this season Punch.
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Where all men are not allowed
hand in making the laws that govern
them. they are slaves. They must bow
to the dictates OF other men and have
no redress
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Constipation causes many serious dis
eases. It is thoroughly cured by Doctor
Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. One a laxative,
three for cathartic.
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The evils and sorrows that affiict
mankind are of mankind's own max
ing.-Marie Corelli.
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Work is the very salt of life; not
only preserving it from decay, but
giving 1t tone and or.-Hugh Black.
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A bitter, cruel speech, may cost a
friend; but gentle. loving words may
win a foe-Earle William Gage
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Mrs. Wfnslow's Soothing Syrup for Children
teething, softens the gums, reduces inhamma-
lion, allays pain. cures VIVID collie, 25c a bottle.
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well as an accurate record
of the biographical and her.
aldic character of the new
or French proprietors. And
In this last seemingly un-
necessary entry appears the
statement that the brave,
ever reliable Knight, Sir
William De Hertburn, for
military service to Will,
lam |, be granted with feu-
dial rights and power the ex-
tensive estate known as
Wessyngton, and henceforth
said Sir Knight shall be
known as Sir William de
Washington; but he shall
still be a vassal Of the bish-
Op and his heraldic demon,
ination shall continue to be,
Arms: Argent, two bars
gules (red); in chief, three
mullets of the second. Crest:
A raven with wings endorsed
proper, issuing out of a du-
cal coronet or (gold)."
AS a further demonstra-
ton of the Importance of the
De Hertburns, or "Wessyng-
TONS" history furnishes the
information that the estate
In question was under the
command Of the Bishop of
Durham, and situated in a
locality exposed to the at
tack Of the Scots of northern
England. On this border
there was constant warfare,
and the king naturally select
ed the bravest and most
warlike of his adherents to
hold lands in the disputed
district. For nine years this
country between Durham
and York was laid waste,
and for ten years It was
practically a desert. no man
having the courage to at
tempt cultivation of the
h1a cfod Ao1dc ~. fphohif fho
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TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY
Take LAXATIVE BROMO Qunine Tablets.
Druggists refund money IL 1t fails to cure II. w.
GROVES signature is on each box. Csc.
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branch of the Holstein- Gottorp stock,
which has given emperors TO Russia
and Kings to Denmark, and is prom
inently related to the present King
of England, George Y. And Jacob
Washington was first lieutenant of
the Dutch navy in 1916, this branch
being related to the wealthy banking
firm, Cornelius L. Keurenaur of The
Hague. Upwards of seYenty-fiYe
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been able to find which announces the
Washington shield blazoned with
stars and stripes, relates to public
banquet at Baltimore, Maryland, in
1851, where the ideas Of an English
poet-Martin Topper by name-were
voiced, proclaiming that the Amer
lean flag, with its heraldic notions,
was borrowed from the Washington
shield, which possessed stars and
stripes. Ever since this banquet
American authors and orators have,
without further investigation, accept
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Washingtons are numbered
among the inhabitants of Hol-
land and Bavaria. Hence the
Washingtons, in the farthest
genealogical tracings, hail
from France. We next find
them in England and then IN
Holland and Bavaria.
Regarding the Washington
ian coat-of-arms some odd dis
coveries have also come to
light. Quite contrary to our
American belief the Washing
ton shield does not contain
stars and stripes notwith-
standing that more than a
thousand books and as many
more published articles so pro-
claim it. The facts are that
the Washington shield con-
tains bars and mullets (spurs
of the Knights boots. The
oo,.Iioek roforopoo ~x,hion 7 box,x
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Most people look at trouble through
a microscope
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HE real name Of the
first president Of the
United States was not
washington. His bap-
.tiem al name w as
George, and he was
born February % in
the year 1882. The old
colony If Virginia was