davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Gilpin observer., 1915-04-15
Monsy order Foroer Sentenced.

Greeley.-Frank Hall. who pleaded
guilty to the charge Of passing forged
money orders that he had stolen
from the office where his brother
worked as agent in Holly, and who
came to Evans to spend the proceeds
Of one of them, made out in the sum
Of $50, was sentenced to from one to
three years in the penitentiary by
Judge Graham. Jose Reyes, the Mexi-
can who pleaded guilty to stealing q
quarter Of beef from the back porch
of the ]. =. Neill home, was given .
paformatory sentence.
Gilpin observer., 1915-04-15
Unperturbed.

Unperturbed. :.
THAT poem of yours about spring
had some hard lines to scan. The
feet were difficult to manage"
We'll. in spring you must expect to
have hard lines and take extra care
about your feet"
After a man gets to be about DO
old the insurance solicitors give him
a rest.
Gilpin observer., 1915-04-15
MACHINE Gun
KILLS 1S WOMEN
cARRANZA ARMY EXECUTES $50
PRISONERS WITH RAPID
FlRERs.
BAYONET THE WOUNDED
VILLA DEFEATED AND DEAD Es.
TiMATED AT 800 IN MATA-
MoRos BATTLE.
Newspaper Union New. Service.

western Newspaper Union News Service.
Laredo, Tex, April 14-Reports
from Carranza officers and soldiers
In Nuevo Laredo, Mex, state that $50
villa soldiers, who surrendered after
Mondays battle between Villa and
Carranza armies near Huisachito,
thirty miles south of the border, as
well as number of Mexican women,
variously estimated at between ten
and eighteen, were summarily exc
euted by the Carranza forces. 1t was
stated that Carranza general Or
aered machine guns turned on one
party of surrendering Villa men, re-
Iulting in the death of seventy-six in
The party.
Another Carranza officer is credited
with having killed 12O prisoners with
l machine gun, while other Carranza
commanders were said to have used
revolvers freely, killing Villa men as
well as women camp-followers. The
wounded, it was stated, were bayo-
netted on the field.
Carfanza officers in Nuevo Laredo
| say the wholesale executions were or
aered in retaliation for alleged SINH
lar killing of Carranza forces under
Gen. Maclovio Herrera recently by
Villistas.
Brownsville, Tex.-In sortie Tues
day the Carranza garrison at Mata-
moros inflicted a heavy blow upon the
Villa army besieging them. Gen. Saulo
Navarro, second in command of the
Villa troops, was brought to Browns
vile, dangerously wounded, and the
Carranza consulate here claimed that
the Villa dead numbered 300.
The sortie drew from the Villa
torces the Compromised shelling Of
Matamoros, but the shelling stopped
when the Carranza garrison returned
to the trenches, and the firing ceased
with the position of the armies prac-
tically unchanged.
Gilpin observer., 1915-04-15

Junta.
Sept 27-Oct s.-Meeting international
Dry Farming Congress at Denver
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STRICTLY "WHILE YOU WAIT"
Chinese NeedIewomen Mend Mascu'
line Garments While Seated IN
Public Street.

In many towns of China one may
have his garments mended on the
street, and while lie waits" Native
sewing women are to be seen on low
stools, perhaps ON the sidewalks,
mending articles of masculine attire.
The accomplishments of these street
seamstresses are somewhat limited,
their efforts with the needle being fo-
the most part confined to running"
Other branches of needlewOrk are
practically unknown to them. AS a
consequence their efforts are better
appreciated by native worknlen than
by foreign travellers.
They are never short of patrons
among the former, for these are often
natives of other districts, and, hav-
ing come to the city to engage In
business, have no one to mend a rent
for them. Their wives being left at
home, they are glad to avail them
selves of the services of the street
needlewomen. For this class OF GUS
toners the skill of the itinerant sew
ing woman answers practically every
purpose.
Generally speaking, these women are
wives of boatmen and laborers who
live in the households which line the
creeks of many Chinese cities and
towns, and their needles are a great
help toward the solution of the prob
lem of maintenance in q crowded city
or town.
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and, when no was afflrmatively ans'
swered, his eyes contracted and bored
searchingly into the strangers face
"Whsre'd ye put up last nightf'
RED Bill Hollman's house, at the
mouth OF Meeting House fork; do you
know the placef"
Samson's reply was curt.
Fl knows hit all right"
There was q moments pause
rather an awkward pause. Lescotts
mind began piecing together frag
menta Of conversation he had heard
until be had assembled q sort OF men
tai jigsaw puzzle.
The South-Hollman feud had been
mentioned by the more laxative OF
his informers. and carefully tahoOed
by others-notabls among them his
host Of last night IL now dawned on
him that he was crossing the boun'
dairy and coming az the late guest OF
q Holman to ask the hospitality OF q
South.
81 didn't know whose house II was,
he FASTENED 20 explain, until I was
benighted and asked for lodging. They
were very kind to me. I'D never seen
them before. I'm a stranger here
abouts."
Samson only nodded. II the explana
ton failed to satisfy him. Il at least
seemed to do 80.
II reckon ye'd better let me holp
ye up on tibet old mule" he said:
"hit's a-comin' on ter be night"
With the m0untaineer's aid, Lescott
clambered astrids the mount, then he
turned obviously.
"I'm sorry to trouble you." he ven
tured. "but I have paint box and
some materials up there. II you'll
bring them down here. I'll show you
how to pack the easel. and, by the
way" he anxiously added, please
to handle that fresh canvas carefully
by the edge--it's not dry yet"
He had anticipated impatient con-
tempt for his artists impedlmenta,
but to his surprise the mountain boy
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Copyright, 1916, by w. G. Chapman.)

Copyright, 1916, by w. G.. Chapman.)
Now that have passed my seventy
eighth birthday l like to sit on the
piazza and doze in the sun on warm
afternoons. / like to see the life of
the village, the girls and young men
passing along the sidewalk under
meath. Sometimes one of them will
look up at me. Hello, grandma"
they shout cheerfully, and nod.
/ like it, especially in springtime,
when the leaves are beginning to UNI
fold, and nature takes on a renewal
of life. 1t is always miracle to me,
this new opening of the buds, just the
same now as when l was a girl so
many years ago.
was brought up very strictly, in
the Presbyterian belief. In those days
we all thought that only the elect
could be saved, and that many were
destined to perish everlastingly in hell
fire. Then, / remember, Mr.. Darwin
brought out book which told us we
were nothing but monkeys, and had no
souls, any more than the beasts.
was never so sure that the beasts
hadn't, and I am less sure of 1t now
than ever; but, still, that was a pc
r'iod of great unrest. A lot of relig'
ious folks ceased to believe In any
thing, and there was good deal OF
hypocrisy La the matter of church 60
ing.
But of late years ] have seen the
change that is coming over folks
again. II isn't so much that they are
turning back to the old beliefs as
that they are beginning to believe
They haven't got it all down so fine,
about predestination and all that,
mean. but still they are beginning to
believe as they used to. And that
strikes me as the finest sort of be-
lief-a belief in which there is a good
deal Of hope mixed, belief you have
to cling to-faith, ! suppose.
To my mind it isn't only the open
Ing of the leaves year after year, but
the opening of our hearts, too, that
convinces me of a better life to come.
/ don't believe any Of the young
people who see me nodding here in
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Sally sat mountain fashion behind
him, facing straight to the side.
So they came along the creek bed
and into the sight OF the man who
still sat propped against the messy
rock. AS Leecott looked up he closed
the case Of his watch and put 1t back
into his pocket with a smile.
"Snappy work. that" he called out.
"Just thirty-three minutes. didn't
believe 1t could be DONE
Samson's face was maskllke, but
as he surveyed the foreigner. only the
ingrained dictates Of the country's
hospitable code kept out of his eyes
a gleam OF scorn for this frail mem.
Der OF q eex which should be staiwert.
"Howdyf" he said. Then he added
suspiciously: "What mOut yer husi-
ness be in these parts. stranger"
Lescott gave the Odyssey OF his wan.
behring's, since he had rented mule
at Hixon and ridden through the coun-
try, sketching where the mood prompt
ed and sleeping wherever he found a
hospitable roof at the coming OF the
evening
"Ye come from over On Cripple
shinf" The boy flashed the question
with q sudden hardening Of the voice,
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MEASURING LIGHT OF STARS
With Improved instruments, Johns
Hopkins Professor Hopes to So
euro Most important Results.

A recent number Of Le Radium con.
tains a paper by DR.. A. H. Pfund OF
Johns Hopkins university. in which
he describes some preliminary tests
he has made Of a new apparatus for
measuring the light Of q star. The
work was done at the Allegheny OBJ
servatory, the Keeler 30-inch reflector
being used. In the focus Of the tele.
scope, either Of two small blackened
disks, which formed the junction OF
a thermo-circuit. could be placed. The
wires used for the thermo-elemens
were alloys Of bismuth and tin, and
OF antimony and bismuth respectively.
They were enclosed in an evacuated
capsule, closed at one end by a plate
of fiuorite and substituted for the eye
piece Of the telescope. The thermo-
current was measured by a moving
coil galvanometer. The sensitive.
ness of the arrangement was such that
a candle at O distance Of 50 miles
would give a detection Of one mil
gimeter. The reflections obtained
from celestial objects were: Vega,
rs; Jupiter. so; Affair. 20 millime
tiers. The author hopes. by using .
more sensitive galvanometer and ma
terials for his thermo-elements, to In
crease the sensitiveness considerably.
and in this way to open up new held
OF astro-physical research.
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Then she turned and disappeared Ia
the deep cleft between the gigantic
bowlder upon which she had been sit.
ting and another-small only by com
parison. There, ten feet down, in a
narrow alley Uttered with ragged
stones. lay the crumpled body OF q
man. 1t lay with the left arm doubled
under It, and from a cash In the fore
head trickled a thin stream Of blood.
Also, 1t was the body of such . man
as she had not seen before.
Although from the man came q low
groan mingled with his breathing, 1t
was not such sound as comes from
fully conscious lips, but rather that
OF brain dulled into coma.
Freed from her lettering excess OF
shyness by his condition, the girl
stepped surely from foothold to foot
hold until she reached his side. She
stood for a moment with one hand on
the dripping walls Of rock. looking
down while her hair fell about her
face. Then, dropping to her knees,
she shifted the doubled body into q
leaning posture, Strengthened the
limbs. and began exploring with Ell
cient fingers for broken bones.
She had found the left arm limp
above the wrist, and her fingers had
diagnosed o broken bone. But uncon'
sciousness must have come from the
blow on the head. where hruise was
already blackening. and cash still
trickled blood.
She lifted her skirt and tore lenG
strip Of cotton from her single petit
coat. Then she picked her bare-footed
way swiftly to the creek bed, where
she drenched the cloth for bathing and
bandaging the wound. When she had
done what che could by way OF first
aid she sat supporting the mans
/ shoulders and shook her head dubi
ousiy.
Finally the mans lids fiuttered and
his lips moved. Then he opened his
eyes.
"Hello!" said the stranger, vaguely.
81 seem to have" He broke OF, and
his lips smiled. 1t was q friendly, I'm.
derstanding smile, and the girl, fight
ing hard the shy impulse to drop his
shoulders and fee into the kind mask
ing of the bushes, was In q measure
reassared.
"You must hev fell often the rock
she enlightened.
81 think | might have fallen into
| worse circumstances" replied the un-
known.
81 reckon you kin set up after q
little"
Eyes, Of course" The man suddenly
realized that although he was quite
comfortable az he was he could
scarcely expect to remain permanently
In the support Of her bent arm. He
attempted to prop himself on bis hurt
hand and relaxed with twinge OF ex,
treme pain. The color, which had be-
gun to creep back into his cheeks. left
them again, and his lips compressed
themselves tightly to bite OF an ex,
clamation of suffering.
"Thet air left arm air busted" an.
nounced the young woman, quietly
"Ye've got ter be heedful."
Had one of her own men hurt him
self and behaved stoically It would
have been mere matter of course; but
her eyes mirrored pleased surprise
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HISTORIC FIND IN PALESTINE
chIcagoan Reports Discovery Of Floor
Of Church Dating From Third Or
Fourth Century.

DR.. George L. Robinson Of the Nc
Cormick Theological seminary. who
has returned to Chicago after years
study Of ruins in Palestine. reports
the finding Of an ancient mosaic floor
one mile south of st. Nebo.
"The door was discovered BY an
Arabian farmer who dug into the
earth to build q foundation for a
barn." he said. 1.-THE floor was in
ono OF the early Christian churches
and was built in the third or fourth
century.
blowers. animals and Greek In
scriptions are inlaid In most artistic
manner. The mosaic Is In a perfect
state OF preservation and looks as
though Il might have been laid yes
terday."
As a result Of his studies Doctor
Robinson has come to the conclusion
that the true Kadesh Of Moses and
the Israelites is properly located at
Aim Kadees. Doctor Robinson said he
believed that the Catholics were cor
rect In their contention that Zion is
located on the southwestern hill OF
Jerusalem and that Calvary Is under
meath the church Of the Holy Sep
lucher.
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How'd We git hGrtr"
He shook his head.

He shook his head.
II was painting-up there" he said:
"and guess got too absorbed in the
work. I stepped backward to look at
the canvas and forgot where the edge
was. stepped too far"
The man rose to his feet, but he tot
tered and reeled against the wall Of
ragged stone. The blow on his head
had left him faint and dizzy. He sat
down again.
I'm afraid" he ruefully admitted,
that I'm not quite ready for discharge
from your hospital"
"You jest set where yer at" The
girl rose and pointed up the mountain
side. I'll light out across the hill and
fotch Samson an his mule"
who and where 10 Samson?" he
inquired. He realized that the bot
tom Of the valley would shortly thick
en- into darkness. and that the way
cut. unguided, would become impos-
sible. ut sounds like the name of Q
strong man."
Il means Samson South" she en-
lightened, as though further dascrip-
ton OF one 80 celebrated would be re-
dundant. Hes over thar 'hosst three
quarters"
"Three-quarters of mile?''
She nodded. What else could eesrbsv
quarters mean?
How long will It take yeSe'' he
asked.
She deliberated. "Samson's hoein'
corn In the fur hill Geld. He'll hev
ter cotch his mule. Hit mout TEX q
half-hour."
"You can't do It In a half-hour. can
your
I'll Jest take my foot In my hand.
an light out" She turned, and with
q nod was gone.
At last she came to a point where
q clearing rose ON the mountainside
above her. The forest blanket was
stripped of to make way for fenced
in and crafty fitting field OF young
corn. High up and beyond. close to
the bald shoulders Of sandstone which
threw themselves against the sky, was
the figure Of man. As the girl halted
ut the foot Of the neld at last, painting
from her exertions, he was sitting on
the rail fence. looking absently down
on the outstretched panorama below
him.
Samson South was not. strictly
speaking, q man. His age was per
haps twenty. He sat ose-jointed and
indolent ON the top rail Of the fence.
his hands hanging over his knees, his
hoe forgotten. Near by, propped
against the rails, rested q repeating
rife. though the people would have
told you that the truce in the South
Holman war" had been unbroken for
two years. and that no clansman need
In these halcyon days go armed aheld.
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Auntinn the Blue Heron.

In big Swamp" the region known
as the Everglades in Florida, many
sections of which are still practically
unexplored today, is found the rare
blue heron. The plumes of the blue
heron command high prices and are
extremely difficult to secure. During
the breeding and mating season the
birds congregate at various points,
and as the principal tail plnmes inter
fere with their nesting, they cast
them off, which gives the hunter his
chance. In order to locate these
carefully hidden breeding places he
climbs tree, and from the top
watches the fight of the birds, using
as a landmark a dead tree or some
other object in the distance to guide
him farther in his search through the
intricate maze of waterways and tan
gled vegetation comprising the Ever
gIades.
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the sun understand that even at sew
enty-eight one may be, at heart, the
same as a girl of twenty.
1t was only three months ago that
] met Tom Bentley, after separation
of fifty years. The Bentleys had lived
for generations in this little town, but
Tom went west when he was boy,
after a quarrel with his sweetheart,
and l understood he had married and
settled for good in California. The
first part was true, but the second
was exaggerated; at any rate, he had
come back widower, his children be-
ing married and scattered, to end his
days in Four Corners.
When / looked at the gray old man,
and remembered the dark-haired boy
whom / had loved so much and sent
away, my heart felt as if it was going
to break. But after few weeks felt
quite differently.
He had sought me out, and he
learned for the first time that I had
six children living, and eight grand.
children, and that / had been living
with my daughter Molly since my hus'
band died.
"Tom." said to him, 1T don't mind
telling you that / never loved my hus-
band half so much as you"
Lizzie" he answered, "you haven't
anything on me there"
So we chatted together quite gayly
and nowadays Tom comes over pretty
nearly every afternoon. If he sees
that 1 am asleep he goes away very
softly. so as not to disturb me. And
sometimes only pretend to be asleep,
so that / can sit still and think and
live in my memories.
"Grandmother's fiirtation,' the
grandchildren call our talks. 1t never
enters their heads that, for all my six
children and seventy-eight years, / am
just as much interested in Tom as
though he were again the dark-haired
boy whose photograph, very faint and
faded, stands on my bureau.
At first, as / said, my heart was
nearly broken. But then / used to sit
out here In the sun and think things
over. And gradually / seemed to work
things out in my mind. and at first
was reconciled, and then happy, and
now / am just like a girl in mind
again.
You see, as was saying, folks are
coming back to belief, though it is not
the old certainty. Now never re-
GREETED marrying Jim. and hope and
am sure that i shall meet him again
and that whatever there was OF com
mon interest and affection between us
will be renewed. But that doesn't
shut me out from Tom.
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Now suppose ] had married rom.
Would the old romance, which exists
still, in spite of my seventy eight
years, continue? Or would It have
been frittered away with the cares Of
life the bearing and rearing of my
children, the friction of things and the
struggles? l think it would have
been.
That seems the strange thing about
life-the moment you begin to realize
happiness you lose it. 1t all consists
in the looking backward or looking
forward.
Now, what an adventure life ought
to be, and was, and is becoming
again, with the old faith coming back
to us. Because | am quite sure that
it is this youth in our hearts, which
never dies, no matter how old We are,
that is to be realized in the life to
come. l am quite sure that then, at
last, we shall find the happiness which
we all try so hard to catch and some
how miss.
me that my heart won't be big enough
to hold both my husband and Tom, in
an existence where there is no marry
ing or giving in marriage? 1t seems
to me that there one will have all the
romance of girlhood and all the joys
of being mother, and grandmother
| too.
/ have put this idea into words
rather crudely, not being a writer;
| but, anyhow, that was my conclusion,
and ] told Tom about it. You can't
imagine how pleased 1t made me to
know that he understood.
"That is just how have been feel
| ing, my DEAR" he told me. "You see,
when / heard you were married life
seemed impossible for me. But by
and by l began to find out that it has
got to be lived, and tried to live 1t.
My wife and l were very happy to
gether. And / thought often that If
it had been you our children would
have been different souls"
EYES," / told him. II should be
dreadfully unhappy without Polly and
Dora and Mark and Philip and the
two boys in Los Angeles"
"But now we have each other as
well as our own" he answered.
/ closed my eyes. because ] wanted
to think. l was casting over in my
mind the different women knew, and
it seemed to me that whether they had
married the right man or the wrong
man it seemed pretty well to even
itself out. And / thought of those
who had never married at all, and
what load of experience there must
be waiting for them in the next life.
"For my part, Tom," ! said. 81
would not have it any different. am
so glad / never married you-and ]
used to think my heart was broken.
"Same here" he answered, squeex.
ing my hand, and then l saw couple
who were passing along the street
look up and smile at us.
| I'LL be over tomorrow about the
same time," said Tom, getting up and
| taking off his hat with the sweeping
| gesture he used to use. ! watched him
walk away toward his cottage. How
| pleasant it is to be alive, ] thought.
And how pleasant it is to be an old
woman, with all ones troubles lived
| through already.
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at the strangers good-natured nod and
his quiet refusal to. give expression
to pain. Il relieved her Of the neces-
sity for contempt.
"I'm afraid" apologized the painter.
that I've been a great deal OF trouble
to you" 4a
Her lips and eyes were sober "a she
replied.
II reckon thet's all right"
"And what's worse. I've got to be
more trouble. Did you see anything
Of brown muller"
She shook her head.
HE must have wandered OF. May
I ask to whom am indebted for this
first aid to the inturedf"
II don't know what ye means"
She had propped him against the
rocks and sat near by, looking into his
face with almost disconcerting steadi-
ness: her solemn-pupiled eyes were
unblinhng, unsmiling.
why, I mean who are your" he
laughed.
II hain't nobody much. I Jest lives
over yon."
But" insisted the man, surely you
have a name"
She nodded.
'Hit's Sally" '@-A
Then. Miss Sally, want to thank
you" Ei.@a
Once more she nodded. and, for the
nrst time. let her eyes drop, while she
sat nursing her knees. Finally she
glanced up and asked with piucked-up
courage: t< ~ .1% 91l
Stranger. what mout yors name
be-" ~g
'Tescott--Qeorxe Lescott."
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observation-disclosures Motorcycle.

To bridge the gap between the ordi-
nary bicycle and the modern. high
power motorcycle, lightweight me
dunn power machine has been devel
oped. 1t is built with a sturdy frame
of the loop type. much lighter than
that of the average motorcycle. With
it's tanks filled the machine weighs
only no pounds as compared with the
approximate average weight OF 200
pounds. or more, of the larger cycle
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