davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Prescott daily news., 1915-01-18
RETAINED FAITH IN GHOSTS
Enslishman of High Position One of the Few Who Believed in Such
 Visitations.

Robert H. Benson, whose death is re- corded, was one of the few remaining men of high intelligence and education who believed in the old-fashioned ghost. It may have been lis opposi- tion to modernism, leading him to re- nounce the faith of his father, the arch bishop of Canterbury, in favor of Catholicism, that impolled his prefer ence for haunted houses of the old style, with malignant apparitions tramping on the stairs and clanking chains in the deep watches of the night and dissipating themselves in reyelries that include groans, means and the passing of cold fingers across the throats of uneasy sleepers. The ma niiestations' of Professor Hyslop and his mediums were not at all Mgr Benson's ghosts. And he had noth- ing in common with Sir Oliver Lodges hope of establishing intercourse with disembodied spirits across the ether, or with Henri Bergson's elaborate te- lepathic arguments
 But he was willing to consider theo- ries of ghostly visitations that would not impair the old-fashioned concep- ton. A ghost might, for example, be the effect of some violent emotion which, like an aroma, still fingers around the scene of it's original genera ton and penetrates the consciousness or visitors. Or it might be the astral body believed in by the theosophists. Scientific help was not needed to ac. count for ghosts in these ways, and psychologists were dispensed with, ex- cepting when they yielded to Hamlet's or Macbeth's conceptions. Those con. ceptlons are in fact, more comfortable and satisfying than the scientific spec ulations of the modern "highbrows.'- New York Times
The Prescott daily news., 1915-01-18
INTERNAL REVENUE"

"We are told that we must have the liquor traffic for the revenue it annually into the coffers of the na- tion through infernal-internal rev enue," said Michael Tanning, in mas terly address in Salt Lake City Who pays this revenue? Not the liquor dealer. The average liquor dealer in the United States last year took in $S,700 and paid out an average of $520, the difference being the liquor dealer s toll. This in the last analysis, is paid by starving wives, besotted husbands, helpless orphans, betrayed maiden hood, blasted careers, wreck, ruin, de- spair and death.'
The Prescott daily news., 1915-01-18
Before the Days of Steam.

Ninety-six years ago the people of Pittsburgh and Birmingham were re- 1oicing over the completion of prepara- tions for the opening of bridge across the Monongahela at Smithfield street by the election of gatekeeper and fix ing of rate of tolls. Foot passengers were to pay two cents, vehicles with four wheels and six horses 621a cents, two-horse vehicles, 20 cents. one-horse vehicles, 20 cents, horse and rider six cents. horse alone six cents, cattle three cents, and sheep two cents. A bill had been enacted by the legisla- ture in 1910 for the erection of bridges across the Monongahela and the Alleg- heny. The war of 1912 intervened and 1t was not until 1916 that the bill was re-enacted and the governor author. ized to hold 1900 shares of stock in each bridge for the state. Work on the construction was begun in June, 1918. The cost of the bridge was $110.000.
The Prescott daily news., 1915-01-18
TELEPATHY IS WIDESPREAD
mission of Thought. Says One Who Should Know.

Are we all mind readers? Can any business or professional man, with proper development, become an ac- complished psychic, receiving and transmitting ideas without the use of medium so gross as the spoken word? Recent experiments in the Charcot institute in France, and in the psychiatric clinic of the Johns Hopkins hospital in Baltimore would seem to lead to this belief, and Nor man R. Prescott states his belief that this is true
 There is not man or woman alive today" said Prescott recently, "who has not been at some time or another the receiver or 'transmitter' in tele- pathic experiment. At times, it may have been wholly unconscious; at oth- CTS it may have been dimly guessed; then again, it may have been thorough ly appreciated, but attributed to that very convenient old invention the law of coincidence. One is talking to friend, perhaps. He stops and when his friend replies, he realizes that he knew before just what his friend was going to say, and the exact language in which he would clothe his ideas. All of us have felt that, day after day. many, many times.
 That is telepathy; the transmission of thought through ether without phys ical aid. The more you study this wonderful science, the more you Will be impressed with the fact that, for its success, it depends largely on two minds being closely attuned; there must be absolute harmony if there IS to be success. Such instances as have mentioned little before are found in their greatest frequency, be- tween husband and wife. And this IS natural because of all persons in the world husbands and wives are most closely associated and bound by the closest, dearest, most binding ties Two minds with but single thought two hearts that beat as one. really ex- presses the idea perfectly. It is. might say. the philosophy of telepathv >rystallized in an epigram."
The Prescott daily news., 1915-01-18
WERE MEN, AND GENTLEMEN
CoWpunchers of the Old West Have Been Rightly Depicted in the
 Pages of Romance.

"The old West" says Edgar Beecher Bronson, author of The Vanguard" was just as romantic in real life as 1t appears in fiction Possibly it is the only case of romance standing the test of ones being actually on the spot And the cowpunchers were gallant as courtiers.
 There is story of the Cheyenne coach when a man, a gentleman he called himself, from big Eastern city, got exceedingly drunk and started to annoy a girl school-teacher who was going out to the school
 "A cowpuncher who was the only other passenger on the coach, prompt ly showed gun in his face and made him behave himself. Living out there in the open, the only good women they could remember were their mothers and sisters, and that's what good wom- en represented to them always So some of the Western fiction isn't too romantic, after all'
 Mir Bronson may be regarded as an authority on the matter, for he was a working ranchman for II years.
The Prescott daily news., 1915-01-18
EAXENIY CONDITIONS.

A country clergyman in Russia writing of the improved conditions Ill that country under prohibition, says; "The old women in the villages can hardly believe their own eyes and ears, so changed are their men folk. Not hard word, not a row, but every where peace, kindness and industry War is said to be hell, but this is like a foretaste of heaven"
The Prescott daily news., 1915-01-18
TAX COLLECTORS NOTICE

Beginning Monday February 8, 1915 1 will meet the property owners of Nevada County at the various plac- es below noted for the purpose of col lecting taxes for the year 1914. All tax payers are requested to bring their last tax receipt:
 Lackland Springs, Redland, Monday February s p. m.
 Bluff City, Union, Tuesday, Febru- ary 9 a. m.
 Theo, Union Wednesday, February, 10 p. m.
 Hatley's Store, Jackson, Thursday, February II am.
 Blakeley's Store, Jackson, Thurs day, February, Il p. m.
 Glenville, Leake, Friday, February 12 p. m.
 Davidson, Taylor, Saturday. Feb ruary 13 a. m.
 Stockton, Taylor Saturday February 13 p. m. Delta, Taylor, Monday, February 15 Willisville, Taylor, Tuesday, Febru- ary 16.
 Irma, Taylor, Wednesday, February IT a. m.
 Rosston, Caney, Wednesday, Febru- ary IT p. m.
 Rosston, Caney, Thursday, February IS p. m.
 Mt. Moriah, Caney, Thursday, Feb ruary Is p. m.
 Gale, Caney, Friday, February 19.
 Morris, Georgia, Saturday, Febru- ary 20 a. m.
 Brisbane, Parker, Monday, Febru- ary 22 a. m.
 Whites Chapel, Parker, Monday, February p p. m.
 Nichols School House, Alabama, Tuesday, February 23 a. m.
 Falcon Alabama, Tuesday, Febru- ary 23 p. m.
 Falcon, Alabama, Wednesday, Feb ruary 24.
 Fuller's Store, Parker, Thursday, February 25 a. m.
 Bodcaw, Parker, Thursday, Febru- ary 25 p. m.
 Bodcaw, Parker, Friday, February 26 p. m.
 Old Clayton, Albany, Friday, Feb ruary 26 p. m.
 Sutton, Albany, Saturday, February l27 Laneburg, Albany, Monday, March 1.
 Emmet, Emmet, Tuesday, March 2.
 Boughton, Boughton, Wednesday, March 8.
 Prescott, Missouri, Thursday, March to Saturday April 10.
 After April 10th the books will pos lively be closed. All tax payers who do not pay their taxes on or before the above date will be compelled to pay the penalty as prescribed by law. SAM E. MUNN. l Sheriff and Collector.
The Prescott daily news., 1915-01-18
NO JUVENILE CASES.

Recently superintendent of the de- partment of Juvenile courts of the Kansas w. c. T. U wrote to the juve- nile court judges of the different coun- ties of the state in an endeavor to learn the status of the work in each com munity. One judge reported We have no probation officers because we have needed none. During the past three years we have had no juvenile cases Another judge wrote, NO children have ever been sent to in stitutions from this county"
The Prescott daily news., 1915-01-18
1eIlilela5E11ie!e a5E1 B @ 1S8BN Conducted by the National Woman s Christian Temperance Union)
PEOPLErO BE TRUSTED.


 The reason why governments have not done and are not doing their duty toward the suppression of alcohol is. in the last analysis, says Congressman Hobson, based on the absence of pub lie opinion on the part of the masses as to the true nature of alcohol and the appalling results that come from its use" And pr. T D. Brothers, the noted expert on alcoholism, declares that If the actual effects of alcohol were known by the people, prohibiting its use would follow as natural and reasonable demand" To bring to the people knowledge concerning the na- ture of alcohol and it's effects upon the individual, the family, the state, is the purpose of the organized campaign of education now being carried on throughout the land from remote coun- tryside to halls of congress. Given the facts, the intelligent people ot this nation will soon settle the liquor question and settle it right. Bring the truth to the masses!
The Prescott daily news., 1915-01-18
GOOD BUSINESS.

The London Daily Chronicle, record ing the fact that large employer of labor has decided to pay the total ab- stainers among his men 10 per cent higher wages than the drinkers, states that he does this as a purely business proposition and in the interests of effi- ciency; he has no special ambition as a guardian of morality.
The Prescott daily news., 1915-01-18
WHAT DOES HE GET?

A New York business man puts It this way:
 Suppose two workingmen, quitting on Saturday, each with, say, SIP in his pay envelope. One goes to the corner saloon and spends $4 for drink going home to his family drunk, and with $S in his pocket, while the other goes to the corner and delib- erately throws $4 out of his pay en- velope into the sewer-going home so- Der, and with $S in his pocket. Which is the better husband and father? What did the first man purchase with his money?"
The Prescott daily news., 1915-01-18
REVENUE FOR COUNTRY.

Ask your anti-saloon and prohibition fiend what he would do to raise prop CT revenue for the country in case ot national Prohibition ?-Liquor Journal.
 Anyway, we'd stop making drunk ards wives take in washing and drunkards' babies go without milk to raise them.-Prohibition Paper.
The Prescott daily news., 1915-01-18
SALOONS SUPPIANTED.

On one street in Wheeling, w. Va, for seven squares where formerly were located 23 saloons there are now found shoe stores, drug stores, meat shops and business enterprises of va rious other kinds.
The Prescott daily news., 1915-01-18
LOng-Range Strategists.

Chicago Herald.
 We may not have many long range torpedoes as we should, but when it comes to long-range military strate- gists the country is almost overstock- ed.
The Prescott daily news., 1915-01-18
Another Atrocity.

today, y'know, Mrs. O'Flynn-on ac- count of the war.
 Mrs. O'Flynn. Ochl Bad Cess to them Germans! Why can't they be fightin' by daylight?
The Prescott daily news., 1915-01-18
Back Again

"Thaw goes back to New York" says the Philadelphia Inquirer. Wait bit. He has still a good deal of Pennsylvania money and Philander Chase Knox.
The Prescott daily news., 1915-01-18
The Ripht

The trouble with all these appeals to international law is that there is no such thing. Might is right is the only ruling recognized.
The Prescott daily news., 1915-01-18
LIQUOR INTERESTS DOMINATE?

Do you want to let the liquor in- terest dominate your parties, your pub lie life, and your government?-Th dore Roosevelt.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-12-16

sene and gasoline, enter into the
economies of every household. Kero-
sene furnishes OF the country lighting
throughout the land. Gasoline Is
used most extensively, and in many
places exclusively, for cooking and for
exclusively. for cooking and also for
heating in the spring and autumn
months. 1t furnishes the motor
power for delivery wagons and for
trucks, farm tractors and engines and
supplies the enormous auto demand
OF all the people. The auto has long
since ceased to be the vehicle of
the rich or well-to-do. Its use Is
almost universal. Its cost will be
In the near future so reduced that
practically every family can own one.
No other invention has given so much
recreation and healthful pleasure to
the public. 1t is giving to farm life
an attractiveness never before at
tanned, as it brings whole counties
within calling and visiting range.
Every effort should be made to in
crease Its use for the benefit and
and pleasure of all. That should
never be retarded or made more
expensive by any system OF added
taxation. Every auto owner now
pays. not only general tax on his
machine. but. in addition. quite a
heavy license tax. The auto is doing
more than its share in meeting the
expense OF better roads throughout
the country. The price Of gasoline
ia a matter of far greater concern
to the poor than to the rich.
AN increased income tax, while
not SO Objectionable as gasoline
and additional auto tax. will, never
theless, be considerable burden.
THE proper remedy for the pres
ent condition is a bond issue, the
bonds to be paid out Of revenues
which can be produced by change
in our customs duties and which
will meet both the bonds and the
running expenses OF the government
without hardship and without in
creasing the cost of living"
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-12-16
DEAL ON
Possible That McGraw Coal
Company May Be Sold
Shortly.

GRAFTON. Dec. 16.-A deal is now
about completed. it is understood, for
the sale of the McGraw Coal Company
to some we'll known coal operators
from Pittsburg and Philadelphia, who
met here recently. The consultation
with Colonel McGraw over the matter
consumed the greater part Of the day
and the matter was still unsettled
at the end of the day. Though Col.
McGraw declined to issue statement
IN the case and no papers have been
filed IN the county clerks Office, 1t Is
understood that an agreement between
the parties concerned has been reach
ed and 1t Is probable that definite
announcement Of the sale will be
made.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-12-16
'CUMBER IS
IN FAVOR OF
A BONO ISSUE
Rather Than an Increase of Di.
rect Internal Taxes as
Planned by'Wilson.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.-Discuss-
ing the financial condition OF the
United States treasury. Senator Por-
tel j. McCumber, of North Dakota.
member of the finance committee
Of the senate, recently declared that
we are in bad and must devise some
kind of financial lever to pry our
selves out"
He advocates u bond issue instead
of increasing taxes.
las to the extent We are in the
hole" he added, there seems to be
difference OF opinion between the
secretary and the Democratic lead
cr OF the house. Mr.. kitchin de-
ciares W. are in worse condition
than the secretary's statement would
iuuIcate: but they beth agree that
we are In bad.
The last Republican administra-
tion was not only paying all the or
binary running expenses of the gov
eminent, without devising new and
additional methods of taxation. but
was also meeting the heavy demands
due to the construction Of the Pan
anna canal. and still maintaining a
good surplus in the treasury. With
the enactment of the new tariff law
began the process Of rapid depletion
Of the treasury. Undoubtedly the
war has played some part In this
work: but. war or no war, deficit
was certain. Our revenues for i'm
ports declined rapidly before the war
and pointed definitely toward either
bond issue or additional taxation.
The administration. fearful OF the in
tluence of a bond issue upon the COM
ing elections. chose to impose war
taxes to meet the cash requirements
of the treasury.
In my Judgment the party jumped
from the frying pan into the fire.
These added taxes are not only bur-
densome, but extremely annoying and
unpopular. cannot but believe that
increasing them or extending their
operation would be far more unpop-
ular than a bond issue.
And why should the administra-
ton be fearful OF bond issue? We
all know the hole in the treasury
vaults will have to filled. That fact
cannot be kept from the public. Why
not issue bonds and let the next Re-
publican Congress take care of them
II will not be the first time that
party has been called upon to take
care Of Democratic deficit. Why
should we distress ourselves with
more excessive tax burdens when we
can easily devise less burdensome
method in the near future which
will take care Of any government
ID A.
give?
II cannot imagine tax which
would be as harmful and distasteful
as tax on gasoline. This is a
! petroleum age. Its products. kero-
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-12-16
Laughter Aids digestion.

Laughter is one Of the most health
full exertions; 1t is Of great help to
digesti,r. A still more effectual
help is a dose of Chamberaain's Tab
lets. II you should be troubled with
give them q trial. They
cost only quarter. Obtainable ey-
Observation-Disclosures.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-12-16
FIRST NOTICE TO cREprrons.

In the District Court OF the United States
for the Northern District OF West Virginia
In Re. Brown Market Company. cor.
poration. Bankrupt. In BANKRUPTCY.
To the creditors of Brown Market Com
.pany, corporation, Of Clarksburg. In the
County Of Harrison, and District Aforesaid,
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-12-16

forenoon. a (which time creditors may at.
tend, prove their claims. appoint trustee
examine the bankrupt, and transact smell
other business us may properly come he.
fore the said meeting.
Dated: December 18th. 1915.
W. FRANK STOUT.
Referee In Bankruptcy.
Il. II. WILSON. ESQ,
Attorney for BANKRUPT.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-12-16

Notice is hereby given that on the 18th.
day OF December. 1918. the said Brown
Market Company. n corporation. was duly
ndJudicated bankrupt: and the first meet
Ing Of its creditors will he held at the
Law Office Of W. Frank Stout. In CIarks-
burg. West virginln. on the cath day OF
December, 4. n. 1918. Mt 10 o'clock In the
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-12-16

~ cannot imagine tax which
would be as harmful and distasteful
as a tax on gasoline. This is
petroleum age. Its products. kero-
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-03-27
DANCING IN CHURCH.
Forms a Part Of the Easter Ser
vices in the Cathedral of Seville.

This cathedral at Seville has the
distinction of being the only church
in C~hristendom where dancing forms
any part of any ceremony or service.
Here a dance called the "Dance of
the Seises," is performed before the
high altar during holy week. 1t is
in imitation of the dance of the Is
raelites before the Ark of the Coven-
cient origin. Imagine the cathedral
On such an occasion crowded with
people, seated and standing. In
front of all the others are several
rows of priests and church dignitar-
les, all in gorgeous vestments, who in
close a fair sized open place before
the high altar. A piece of carpet
covers the marble floor, on either
side of which stands a row of boys
from eight to twelve years of age,
dressed like Spanish gentlemen of the
middle ages, with white stockings and
a large plume in the hat. At a sig
nal from a priest the soft music of
violins breaks the profound silence of
the church and the boys proceed to
execute several pretty and graceful
figures. Later they join in a gentle
and harmonious song, which in the
obscurity of the vast cathedral sounds
like a choir of angels, and finally
they accompany dance and song with
their castanets.
Two centuries and over ago an arch
bishop of Seville desired to put an
end to this ceremony, thinking it I'M
becoming the church and the Master
in heaven. But the people of Seville
thought otherwise and were deter
mined not to give it up without a
struggle. The case was finally ap-
pealed to Rome. The pope of that
day, thinking to appease the people
of Seville and at the same time put
an end to the dancing, gave his per-
mission for the ceremony to be con
tinued on condition that the dance
should be given up as soon as the
suits, which the boys then had, were
worn out. What resulted? The
suits have never been worn out.
From time to time they have been
skillfully repaired with a piece here
and there, and now, after two CEN
turtles, the suits are still as good as
new, and the dance is still given.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-03-27
CANCELLED MORTGAGES.

Minnie S. Hackney to Daniel Mar
tin ,irreg. inter. of road leading past
Madison Ireland's and John Risley's
and New Road from Israel S. Adams
to Absecon, etc. $1,000.
w. D. Ochs to D. F. Vaughan, COX
125 fit. North side Verona Ave. 80 TT,
West of Franklin Ave. $4,000.
Elisha Adams to Charles S. Adams
45x100 fit. North side Second Ave.
Northeast of Washington Ave. $1,000.
Charles S. Adams to Hammonton
L. & B. Asso. described as above,
$500.
Walter C. Hackney to Joshua Lake,
50x15O fit. West side of Doughty Road
in second line of a lot of land con-
veyed by J. Hackney to st. John NJ
P. Church by deed dated Februarv
%, 1899, $500.
Marie V. Sawtelle to Pleasantville
Mutual L. & B. Asso. irreg. South
west side Seneca Ave. 30.75 fit. North
west side of Chalfonte Ave.$740.
George K. Leeds to P~leasantville
Muaual L. & B. Society, IL acre,
Southwest of public road leading
from Main Shore Road past the Pub
lie School House to Mill Road, $500.
Louisa Frye to Pleasantville Mutual
L. & B. Asso. 3Ox140 fit. Southeast
side of Somerset Ave. 585 fit. North
east of Washington Ave. Sl,2OO.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-03-27
DIED.

RISLEY.-Mrs. Mary M. Risley, wild
ow of the late Kern Risley. Servic-
es at st. Johns NJ. P. Church at 2 o.
clock this Saturday afternoon.
REED.-At Atlantic City on March
oath, Anna C. Reed, wife of John c.
Reed, of Pleasantville. Funeral
services will be held at Christ
Church, Dover, Del, at 1890 P. M,
this Saturday afternoon.
WINDER.-On Sunday, Mar. 21st,
following a long illness, William H.
Winder, in his 10th year. His wife
survives, with a daughter, Miss
Ethel Winder, at home, and a son,
Charles V. Winder, of Philadelphia.
Funeral Wednesday with interment
in Pleasantville cemetery.
CARMEN.-Mrs. Carmen, the mother
of Thomas Carmen, an engineer
connected with the Atlantic and Su-
burban Company, died at a late hour
Wednesday night at her late resi-
dence on Noah's Road.