davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-31

hand Off the wrist nor press II AS in
wise, nor pull it as though it were Il
bell handle, nor fling your hand at the
other PERSONS so as to cause a report.
The hands arc almost as good an in
dex to a mans character, habits and
profession as his face. If we examine
handshakes carefully they tell us a
wonderful history in mute language
Of their own. They make us realize
that man is the wisest of all animals
not because he has hands, but that he
has hands because he is the wisest Of
all animals
Every one has experienced the feel
ing of confidence and good fellowship
expressed by good, firm clasp Of the
hand. Also, every one knows the feel
ing of repulsion and discomfort which
comes over one when one is given
what is known as a hand like a cold
haddock." An instructive distrust is
awakened in us at a peculiar or un-
comfortably individualized method of
shaking hands.
The specimen who makes you feel
that you have taken hold of the fin of
a skate fish extends two fingers which
are arranged close together. It's arms
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-31

vigorous and prolonged kind, and pos
sesses other features, including special
pressure and continued holding of the
hand of the elected. The time when
elapses between the sensations Of touch
and pain is negligible.
This variety of handshaker should be
eradicated, but if you are loath to kill
outright and will take the time TO cut
the man up in several pieces and then
get the glue pot and put him together
again he will be Just as valuable to
society then as he is at present
Outstretched arms, sailing far over
head, are sometimes seen in our best
circles. Rumor has it that the Prince
of Wales (who later became Edward
VID was suffering from a boil Jndeg'
his arm, and consequently was reduced
to the necessity Of shaking hands up
in the air. Society observed and con
cluded a new style was being insti-
tuted. \ decayed count brought the
fashion to Newport and Americans fOl-
lowed suit. In rather crowded draw
ing room where, for the sake Of conven-
fence many introductions are made
rapidly, these attempts for the altitude
record arc not commended nor arc they
much in vogue. Such handshakes are
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-31

right. This practice may be very eff
fective from a scenic point OF view,
but il should be borne in mind that all
the Pecksniffs are not dead yet
The bow is also extremely interest
ing Louis XIV was a small man. but
he was on intimate terms with all the
best bows Of the period To him bow
was a matter of supreme importance.
1t is said that he had fourteen differ
ent grades Of bow, and was finishing
I'D some new ones when death made
him resign, and the work was carried
on by the best built men of his court.
The hand is the principal seat of the
sense of touch. And Of all the senses
the most painful to the victim is un-
doubtedly that of the touch. When
YOU lamp" one of these hands coming
outstretched toward you the best thing
to do is to turn the corner at fiill
speed, even though you later find your
self knocked down or knocking down
another by the violence of the contact.
Such hand produces the sensation OF
pain which warns us TO f1y from the
agent which produces that sensation.
1t is frequently impossible 10 eyade
this type of handshake, which is Of d
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-31
THE ORNAMENTAL HAND, RARE
AND USELESS.

We have now reached the considera-
ton Of the most beautiful and delicate,
but, alas, the most useless and imprac-
teal type OF hand. This hand is rare,
but when you see it you cannot help
remarking ii. You will recognize 1t at
once by its description. II is very small
and delicate. having a thin palm,
smooth. fine fingers. long and deli
cately pointed. It has generally
pretty litt'e thumb
These hands never command. They
establish for themselves far too loiv
an ideal to care about earthly domino
ton or material interests Of any Kind
They are Incapable Of strife or strus'
giles for glory.
Shaking such a hand, unless you. TOO
have soul in the highest state OK
poetic development. will get YOU no
where II is not even an enJoyapie
waste Of time. II. however, you nave
something you want 70 sell, persons
with this type of hand will believe
anything you tell them without !nves-
tigation or analysis. Such suolec"
have high-strung nerves. and are easiV
fired with wondrous enthusiasm. The'
will do anything you say. II they ike
the way YOU part your hair.
They buy most Of the stock issued ny
the Perpetual Motion Companies
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-31
1ANY LANGUAGES ARE SPOKEN PALMS OF HANDSHAKERS

ed handshakers are dsliked in som
circles more strongly than those pc.
sons who carry their umbrellas in sue
a way as to endanger the eyes OF tho
walking up staircase behind them.
College boys have attractive methol
of shaking hands, as a rule, llthous
some young men who have been bite
by the fraternity bug are afflicted with
the exclusive spirit which renders
them afraid TO shake hands for fear
the other party to the transaction may
be deficient in grandparents or have
wretchcd taste in neckwear They cear
that an intimacy which they do not de-
sire may be orccd on them. Hence
they frequently ward off all approaches
with a formality that is accompanied
by what is known such circles as tho
refrigerator bow.
In making this bow the upper part
Of the body is bent slightly, as we'll as
the head. The chin should not be
poked forward. if gracefulness is 10 be
attained After leaving the dormitory
this bow is relegated TO the attic Jy
college men who are engaged ia COM
mercisl pursuits, as it has been found
by experience that it interfere with
getting an order for a carload OF hoops
and slaves.
Shaking hands over a Chinese wall.
such as is built around the members
Of some Of the exclusive clubs, is an
experience that is never repeated *
cept upon the threat OF death. There
are clubs-not in this city, but in Bos-
ton and London-whose atmosphere
has been aptly described as suggestive
OF the fast that a nobleman is Wing
dead upstairs. Shaking hands in such
a place should not be attempted.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-31
ESPERANTO CONCEIVED BY A
RUSSIAN PHYSICIAN.

Then Esperanto appeared, having
been preached in 1887 by DR.. l.. Ia
menhof. a Russian physician, Of Bielo-
stok. for patriotic and humanitarian
purposes He saw with grief the quad
ripartite feuds of Russian. Pole, Ger
man and Jew, and conceived the notion
that with one common language they
would become one harmonious people.
His first thought was 10 revive some
dead language. and his second was to
construct a new one ON scientific prin-
ciples. Observing that a language is
made OF compounds and derivatives
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-31
THE BASES OF ARTIFICIAL LAM
GUAGES.

Now these and others are all a pos
teriori languages. based upon pre-ex-
listing languages. and every one OF
them bears some resemblance in APP
pearance TO some national tongue. 1t is
an interesting circumstance, however.
that no author of an artificial language
has taken his own mother tongue for
its basis. The German author Of VIOLA
puk confessedly drew chiefly upon Eng
lish, and the Russian inventor OF Es-
peranto turned TO all European Ian
guages but Russian. IL was reserved
for an American, = Congregational
minister at Marietta. Ohio. TO devise
an a priori language owing nothing to
other tongues. but created original
from the beginning. This world speecn
is called Ro, and its name is suggestive
Of the whole language. for it has a vo-
cabulary Of short words. With only
three letters 10 word vocabulary
Of two thousand words is possible.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-31
THE LORDS PRAYER BECOMES
UNREcoGNIzABLE.

"Patro MIA. kiu estas en- la cielo.
sankta estu via mono; venu regeco
via; estu volo via, kiel en- la cielo, tiel
ankau sur la tero. Panon MAN ciutagan
donu al nj hodiau. kaj pardonu al nj
suldojn main, kiel nj ankau pardonas al
Maj suldantoj no konduku min en-
tenton, sed liberigu min de la palbono."
II may be observed in passing that
the Esperanto requires five more words
and thirty-three more letters than the
English version.
But the Academy which had repudi-
ated Nolapuk would have iothing TO
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-31

while by increasing the number to six
cured-whch should be sufficient for
any spellbnder or author Of a best
seller What Ro looks like is shown in
a couple of sentences:
abb ella sikh AGO. Aci weme rami
abo?"
Now, who would think OF saying any
such thing to pretty girl? Yet if a
lover does his counting in Ro it is thus
that he must tell her that he loves
her and ask her to marry him.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-31

do with Esperanto but went on, under
DR.. Rosenberger, Of st. Petersburg, to
develop the Idiom Neutral in 1902.
This language has a Romance Latin
vocabulary and a Frenchlike grammar.
1t processes TO he strictly scientific. and
therefore to avoid the errors and i'm
projections OF languages which have
grown up empirically. Yet there are to
be found in it numerous antiquities
and alternate forms Of words, and,
worst of all, some Of those very homo
nyms which are the chief stock com
plant against the English voca bulary.
For example, precisely the same word
form, 'kar," stands for the substantive
carriage" and the adjective dear"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-31

WI Wilhelm, us silent in seven
languages" Ii seems TO be
the resolution of some that all men
shall be silent--or loquacious, as the
case may be; generally the latter-in
at least one other language than their
own. To that end the propaganda OF
universal language is being per-
sistently pushed. Just now they are
holding great Esperanto convention
in England, at which men from many
lands converse, debate and crate in
that bad Italian" device Of a Russian
physician, and pour loquential scorn
upon its predecessor, Volapuk, and its
would-be successors. Ilo, and Ro, and
the Idiom Neutral, and all other in
ventions of the Modern Babel.
Although now neglected and all but
abandoned. Volapuk is TO be remem-
bered as the first attempt to construct
a new. scientific, universal language.
II was put forward by j. NJ. Schleyer,
a South German priest, in 1880, and for
a time had great vogue.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-31
I Y 7
YHEN Theodore Roosevelt starts

~
making trip. which he an
nounces he intends to do at an early
date, he will add several million hand
shakes TO his record, already thing
of beauty in that there is nothing else
like il in the world.
Mr.. ROosevelts hand is thick, leaning
To pudgy. There is nothing about it 20
suggest the artist It is, moreover,
one of the most unpatrician hands you
ever saw. But il gives you a powerful
grip t makes you instantaneously a
warm friend of the man who controls
it, 1t makes you feel that Mr.. Roosc-
welt likewise is vehemently predisposed
i'm favor of you. You may have come
from small town in Arkansas,
through which the great man may have
PASSED once while asleep. And yet the
way he shakes hands makes you feel
for the rest of your life that Mr.. Roose-
welt has a peculiarly animated affec-
ton for your town, based on his inti-
mate personal knowledge of its fine
points.
There are all kinds of handshakes.
Handshakers include all of a mans
best friends and many of his enemies
The art of shaking hands should be
mastered by all Americans, it being a
truly American habit. In many Euro
pcan countries kisses are exchanged
between men, and an embrace is quite
i'm accordance with even a somewhat
formal salutation. We do these things
differently here.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-31
SOME CUSTOMS PREVAILING IN
EASTERN LANDS.

An African king requires visitor
TO approach him crawling. The natives
of the Tonga islands kiss the soles Of
the chieftains feet, while q Tammany
politician merely leaves his shoes at
Murphy's door. Those admitted into
the presence of the big smokes" in
some OF the Oriental countries are eX-
pected to kowtow. kneel and touch the
ground with their foreheads nine times
in successioI-no time allowed for re-
freshments, no Saturday half-holidays
in the summer, probably because it is
always summer where people are will
ing TO act this way, they being crazy
with the heat at the time.
Men in this country acknowledge an
introduction by extending the right
hand in greeting Hand, in this case,
is used in the sense of the whole hano.
Ii is assumed that men will not offer
two fingers. or the left hand, one offer
being as poor as the other, and as
likely to go without takers after the
first offence. The right hand Is the
sword hand. and its extension TO a
friend is embematic as proof OF
peace and as safeguard against
treachery. And yet many a broker
has shaken hands with victim and
then sold him sock on margin.
Certain h ndshakes convey good
wishes for the health, happiness and
prosperity-all three combined-of the
person whose hand is shaken. In get
ting across this much To be desired re-
suit il is not necessary 10 wiring
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-31

So it may be that in spite of the Es-
peranto Congress and the Akademi
international de Lingu Universal the
Genius of the Race will work out the
problem of world speech on very diff
ferent lines from theirs.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-31

IA HY MOLTKE." said old Kaiser
MI Wilhelm. lis silent in seven
languages" Ii seems to be
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-01-05

Three charges have been filed ag
when the O'Hara Welfare Commi
Charles H. Stevens & Co. In the cas-
cratic stores on the street, it is alleg
half hour overtime.
At the time the Woman's Trade
ganize the clerks, it was common
nounce the fact that she had worked
lunch money" .....-
ct was still more common to
working with the shades drawn dow
pearances the store was closed, inside
hours of toll, for which they were oft
times paid merely with cheap meal.
At many of the meetings half
could not be present because they
we're fixing up stock" ...
The shopkeepers, though they
went to Springfield in carloads to
fight against the enactment of ten
hour law, did not fight one-third as
violently against the enactment of a
law as they did against their clerks
organizing.
They realized that they could work
employees overtime in defiance of this
law and there was slight possibility
that it would ever be found out
slight possibility that any clerk would
have the courage to report it.
But they were MORALLY afraid of
having the clerks organize, for then
the underpaid employees would have
some place to go with their COM
plants of the abominable treatment
accorded them, and the shopkeepers
would have to face publicity of the
thing they apparently did not mind
doing in secret.
The manner in which these shop
keepers prevented their clerks from
organizing is a story that has been
told before, but sufficient stress will
never be laid upon the treachery of it.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-01-05

every case were unable to get a posi-
ton in any other department store.
But no battle is ever entirely lost
that has been fought. And while the
clerks failed to get strong organ
ization because of the methods adopt
ed by the shopkeepers, they gained a
little courage through watching the
courage of the clerks who were
martyrs to the cause, and instead of
tamely submitting to the violation Of
the law this year, several letters
found their way to State Factory In
spector Nelson.
These letters are kept in confidence
by Nelson. Together with an assist
ant he worked out his own case
against each store. And because of
this, Stevens, who have never been
investigated and therefore were held
above reproach-the Boston Store,
that has Dragged of its wonderful
welfare work by which the girls are
$50 thoroughly taken care of" and
The Fair, where no pretense has ever
been made that the employees are hui
man beings, will come before Judge
Newcomer next week, when it will be
decided whether they can, with i'm
punity, break the law, as State Fac
tory Inspector Nelson charges they
have done, or whether they will pay
the penalty in spite of their wealth.
-O-C-
Eastern ministers are taking titles
of modern novels for themes of SER
mons. It's reported they think the
gospel is too old-fashioned.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-01-05

Eastern ministers are taking ii
of modern novels for themes of s
mons. It's reported they think
gospel is too old-fashioned.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-01-05

keepers prevented their clerks from
,[oTganizing is a story that has been
told before, but sufficient stress will
never be laid upon the treachery of it.
They had spies worm their way
into the confidence of the clerks. The
miserable little shopkeepers who
G were amassing millions out of the
toll of these underpaid girls, had a
report sent them of the clerks in each
store who were active toward organ
@ izations. ...-..--
These girls were discharged, usual
ly On some pretext or other, and in
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-09-20

and dependencies, among which there
is not one which is not aiding Great
Britain by soldiers or other contri.
buttons or both in this war.
with regard to the matter OF
treaty obligations generally, the Ger.
man chancellor excuses the breach OF
Belgium's neutrality by military ne
cess!ty. at the same time making a
virtue of having respected the neu.
trality Of Switzerland and Holland.
and saying that it does not enter
his head to touch the neutrality OF
the Scandinavian countries, a virtue
which admittedly is only practlced in
the presence OF temptation.
ITO the chancellor's concluding
statement that to the German sword
Is entrusted the care of freedom for
the European peoples and states.
the treatment OF Belgium is a suf-
hclent answer"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-09-20
Buys Mason & HamIin Piano.

Mrs. Nettie Pennington, president
of the Philharmonic club of Ardmore
has just purchased through the Fred
erickson-Kroh Music Co., of Oklaho
ma City, Mason e Hamlin Parlor
Grand Piano, the finest instrument
ever shipped to Ardmore.
The Mason & Hamlin is now con.
ceded to be the new standard of per.
fection in the piano world. and is so
recognized by artists and musicians
who know.
Frederickson-Kroh Music CO., who
have the state agency of the Mason
& Hamlin, are to be congratulated
in placing one of their instruments
in the home of so prominent a music
ian as Mrs. Pennington, whose stand
ing in musical circles is unques-
toned
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-09-20
GREAT BRITAIN
DENIES GERMAN
|NS|NUAT|ON
WOULD HAVE PROTECTED BEL.
GUM AGAINST FRANCE - BIS
MARCK WAS DIFFERENT - N
1870 GERMANS DID.

London, Sept 1.-THE official
press bureau announces that the fol.
lowing statement is issued with the
authority Of Sir Edward Grey, secre.
tary Of state for foreign affairs, with
regard to the communication made
by DR.. Von-Iollweg, imperial Ger
man chancellor, to the press
Does anyone believe asks the
German chancellor, that England
would have interfered to protect Bel.
GUM against France"
"The answer is that she unqques-
tionably would have done So Sir
Edward Grey, as reported in the
White paper, asked the French gov
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-09-20
WARMING To
PLANTERS Of
ALFALFA SEED
TIE TuRkESTAN VARIETY is
BOTH HIGHER IN PRICE AND
POORER IN QUALITY THAN THE
HOMEGROWN PRODUCT.

Washington, Sept ia warning
TO alfalfa growers to avoid the use
Of commercial Turkestan seed is
contained in Department Bulletin No.
13>. Of the United States department
/ of agriculture, which is shortly to be
issued under the title Commercial
Turkestan Alfalfa Seed
Specialists Of the department have
been investigating the comparative
merits of different kinds of alfalfa
seeds and have reached the conclus.
ion that there is nothing 10 recon-
mend the Turkestan variety for gen
eral use in this country. II is, they
say. particularly unsuited to the hui
mid climate of the east, which. as
matter of fact, uses most of the
Turkestan seed imported into this
country, This seed is also not suf-
ticiently hardy to warrant its general
use in the upper Mississippi valley,
where hardness is an important fac
tor. The investigators. however, are
careful to distinguish between COM
mercial Turkestan alfalfa and special
strains of hardy alfalfas that have
been developed from certain intro
ductions of seed from Turkestan.
Valuable varieties of alfalfas unques-
tionably exist in central Asia, but
these are at present only fitted for
use in experimental work in breed
ing
At the present time, approximate
ly one-ffth of the alfalfa seed used !
in the United States is imported |
OF this quantity, PRACTICAL all-95
per cent ip the last twelve months |
comes from Russian Turkestan. In |
the European market, commercial |
Turkestan is the cheapest seed avail.
able, in this country its, wholesale
price is less than that of domestic
seed. In spite of this fact however.
a mistaken belief in its superior quail
tiles has resulted in raising its re-
tail price to a point frequently above
that of domestic seed. No such pref
arence is shown in the alfalfa grow
ng regions of Europe. There French
seed is commonly considered the
'est, with Italian ranking next, and
rurkestan last. Under these cir
very little French and
Italian seed finds its way to the
)nited States, the bulk of the i'm
'ortations being, as already stated,
he cheap commercial Turkestan
Fortunately, growers who wish to :
void this variety can readily iden- :
ify it by the presence of Russian :
napweed seeds. These seeds have =
OF been found anywhere except in
Turkestan seed, and here
ley are practically always present.
.ussian knapweed is in some ways 4
Imilar to quack grass, Johnson I
rass and Canada thistle, spreading
9th by seeds and underground root q
ocks The seeds are slightly larger e
ian those of alfalfa and cannot all |
? removed by any practicable meth
of machine cleaning. Their chalky d
hite color makes them especially ST
and their symmetrical
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-09-20
!: :: :: :: ;: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :
/: SCRIPTURE. :;
;: :: :: :: :: :: {. . :: ;: /. -. -: :::: ::
Proverbs S:12-21.

proverbs S:12-21.
! wisdom dwell with prudence, and
find out knowledge of witty inven.
tions
The fear of the Lord is to hate
evil; pride. and arrogancy, and the
evil way, and the froward mouth, do
| hate.
Counsel is mine, and sound wis
dom: l am understanding, I have
strength.
BY me kings reign, and princes
decree justice.
By me princes rule, and mobiles,
even all the judges of the earth.
| love them that love me: and
those that seek me early shall find
me-
Riches and honour are with me;
yea, durable riches and righteole ess
My fruit is better than gold, ~
than fine gold; and my revenue ths.1
choice silver.
lead in the way of righteousness.
in the midst of the paths of judg-
ment.
That l may cause those that love
me to inherit substance; and | will
fill their treasures.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-09-20

form-slightly wedge shaped-disting-
uishes them from the notched seed
OF other species often found in var
ieties of alfalfa from other sections.
The knapweed seeds, however, are
not usually found in large quantities,
and any lot Of alfalfa should, there
fore, be examined in bulk. The ex-
animation of small samples is not
sufficient to show whether the al
falfa comes from Turkestan or not.