davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1915-08-19
KENT TELLS A NOME STORY

Representative William Kent of
California has many quaint tales of
the north country. One of them deals
with the early days in the Nome re.
gion, when gold was plentiful and
everything else was decidedly scarce.
One of the residents, the story runs,
wandered into rough, ready-made
saloon and beheld four bewhiskered,
rough-looking individuals.
They were deeply detected. They
sat far back in their chairs, hands in
pockets. Occasionally one Of them
sighed or swore. In front of them
were stacks of chips representing
several thousand dollars in gold.
What's the natter" asked the
visitor
This here poker game is busted
up!' was the reply.
Busted up?' repeated the visitor
in establishment. why, you've got
enough money there to play for a
week."
Yep, stranger agreed the be-
whiskered man, moodily, I'VE got that
two jacks in the deck!" and resumed
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1915-08-19
BRUCE ISMAY, RECLUSE

There is one man in the British
isles, at least, to whom the memories
of the Titanic disaster are a dread
and ever present reality. That man
is Bruce Ismay He was managing
director of the White Star line at the
time of the Titanic disaster, and was
among those saved when the liner
sank
He has voluntarily withdraw him
self into almost complete seclusion.
He is tragic figure whom care and
premature age have marked for their
own. A great part of the year he
passes, oftentimes alone, in Costelloe,
one of the most remote, most unfre-
quented and desolate spots on the
west coast of Ireland Here his sole
employment is fishing for days and
weeks on end. occasionally with
friend, or perhaps two, but for the
greater part Of his time accompanied
only by his servant.
Ismay is very popular among the
COttagerS around He found than,
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1915-08-19
WORKING HIS WAY UP

At the 1915 commencement exer-
cises of Columbia university Ensign
Louis Randolph Ford, u. S. NJ, re-
ceived the degree of master of arts.
That was only one incident in the
determined fight this young naval
officer is making to achieve his child
hood ambitions, which ambitions, it
may well be, do not stop short of the
insignia of a rear admiral.
AS barefooted lad in Texas,
where he was born thirty-two years
ago, Louis Ford made up his mind to
enter the navy, but his parents were
not able to send him to college and
the influence to obtain an appointment
to the naval academy was lacking. SO
at the age of fourteen Louis went to
work on a Sabine river tugboat, and
three years later became an appren-
tice in a machine shop In two years
more he was full-fledged machinist
and enlisted as such in the navy.
Starting in at Mare Island, he worked
hic vuov CT I'M 70 raxI~ 30
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1915-08-19
Fear Is Responsible
for Ghosts Of Life
By Dr.. Preston Bradley. Evanston. III.

the part plays shaping conduct mog destiny
achievement IN the mental and spiritual realm the
Clothes STYLE religion and morals all dependent
OF fear Fear results the world
1hsre distinct types of There optimistic
tear OF one falling to live the superaye life There the
bghng demoang and devastating fear Of making
the gntried and INFESTED.
Fear an faith both spring from language
similarity very apparent Fear responsible for the Of
The unreal narrowing uncanny maazaons which the
odor damp sepuheTs around being GHOSTS
your life necessary for the attainment Of happiness
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1915-08-19
YOUNG MAN HAS OLD JOB

One of the youngest officials OF
the Wilson administration is at the
head of the Oldest scientific depart.
ment of the government, and his ap.
pointment was not the result of luck,
accident or political influence, but the
recognition OF remarkable qualifica-
lions which fitted him for the posi-
ton
1t was on the fifteenth of April,
the day following his thirty-ninth
birthday, that DR.. e. Lester Jones be-
came superintendent of the coast and
geodetic survey, the service which,
according to Secretary Redfield, deals
first with humanity and second with
commerce.
Perhaps no one in the survey, no
matter how long he has been in the
service, has spent more of his life
in the open than has Doctor Jones.
Indeed, it would seem, that by en-
vironment, training, education and
temperament, he had been qualifying
for the superintendency of the coast
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1915-08-19
Eliminate Machine
Methods in Schools
By P. ]. Doueheny. Columbus. Ohio

public schools and Professor Thompson University Colorado
declared that the teachers inclined fur
Their said that teacher that adhered down
IN the textbooks not really teaching that the
be suppressed machn-
cry and limitations to destroy his originality and independence
Education aspiration outlook personality liberty things
ce the teacher and whatever these
The need of the day which
freedom to exercise their personality helping the child without
ming against regulation at every
1t unquestioned proposition that individuality originality
initiative and the true spirit of endeavor
unless he has the example before him. prevailing school
system does not do.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1915-08-19
BEAUTY

When Older Brother first called her
Beauty the whole family laughed.
That was rare compliment to Older
Brothers wit, for the family was one
seldom given to mirth. But when they
looked from the thin, pinched little
face, with it's buttermilk expression,
down the angular young body to the
too long legs, and back again to the
straggly hair the nickname created for
the girl by Older Brother was so in
congruous that even Mother, who had
never wanted any one of her six chill
dren Qeast of all Beauty could not
help laughing outright Naturally
Older Brother was much pleased with
himself and saw to it that the name
chung to the little girl all through the
days of her childhood
The years that came and went made
Beauty no less misnomer, for the
girls face grew smaller and more
pinched and more sour with every one
of them. The youngest and least well
come of all the unwelcome six at
home she was always pushed aside to
shuttle for herself as best she might,
getting but the frazzled end of every
family deal. In school things were no
better. Other children called her
Beauty and roared with laughter until
the girl designated by the name al
ways skunk unhappily away to some
far corner where no one would find
and taunt her.
So Beauty grew up for all the world
like an unlovely, scraggly little weed
crowded in among harder plants which
never gave her room to thrive and be
healthy.
.
When The First Man met her, and
heard someone call her Beauty he fol-
lowed the earlier example of her fam
lily. That is he 1aughed-almost in
Beauty's very face And whenever he
was alone and thought Of the ungainly
young woman with her sour face, he
laughed again.
Then to keep up his reputation for
doing odd things The First Man paid
court to Beauty.
The girls family was thrown almost
into cachinnating fits, and The First
Mans friends said he must be crazy,
all of which made him the more deter
mined in his attentions.
One day when he was in particu-
larly spiteful and contrary mood The
First Man asked Beauty to marry him,
and the girl, who was every whit as
resentful of the gibes and jest of his
friends and hers said yes.
When they were married they led a
cat and dog life, which was quite to
have been expected. The First Man
called his wife Beauty with sheer,
and she told him in turn that she had
married him for spite and hated him
cordially, all of which was true enough
to be sure.
One day The First Man told her that
he was going away for long time.
He said her face had made him sick;
that he couldn't stand it any longer.
She spat back a sharp retort, and he
went
After a long while Beauty received
letter from The First Man telling her
he never intended to come back. She
loked in the mirror at her buttermilk
face and told herself quite honestly
that she didn't blame him in the least,
and straightway got her divorce.
1t was different with The Second
Man. Beauty never knew how it hap
pened that he gravitated to her unless
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1915-08-19

1t was, as he said that there is always
something away down in the soul of
every woman which some time or an
other draws her mate to her.
He got down to the causes of the
caustic temper of Beauty when he
first met her. and learned that her soul
was asleep because there had been no
love in all her life to awaken it. So
when they were married he Just loved
her. He made his home the most
radiant place Beauty had ever seen in
all her young life through the tender
ness of his smile, and the gentleness
of his presence. He helped her make
a garden in which the flowers seemed
only to need his touch to make them
grow more luxuriously than in any
other garden she had ever seen, and
the young wife was happy because she
spent most of her hours in the garden,
either working among the flowers or
listening to the resonant voice of The
Second Man as he read to her from
some old and wonderful volume, of
which he had hundreds.
Beauty was so absorbed in her new
life that she never stopped these days
to look in the mirror and talk to her
self in tones of disgust The divinity
within her had been touched by an
other divine spark, and famed by the
power of love into sculptor And
this sculptor had remolded the
peaked little face of Beauty into the
countenance of a woman so lovely
that those who laughed themselves al
most sick when Older Brother first
gave her the name of Beauty looked
at her now with something of awe
mingled In with their wonder
But SO busy was Beauty in loving
and being loved that she did not notice
them nor hear the things they said,
and when at last motherhood complet-
ed the work The Second Man had be-
gun, and he knelt beside her as she
sat in great arm chair with the little
new soul Graded in her arms, and
whispered Beauty" in a tone akin to
reverence, her laughter sounded like
the gurgle of a cooling brook, and her
eyes shone like two stars.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1915-08-19

1t may De true, as has
been averred, that the old
fashioned girl has passed,
but SO have OK teams and
spinning wheels. T hey
served their purpose, but we
would have little use for
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1915-08-19

At the school superin-
tendents' convention in
Philadelphia Professor
Judd of the University of
Chicago spoke strongly in
favor of the elimination of
machine methods in the
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1915-08-19

Fear has long been rec
ognized as one of the impor-
tant and vital motives Of
life. If we stop and care
fully analyze the various in
centives for action and atti-
tude we quickly discover
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1915-08-19

geodetic
small boy the his father himself ascenst
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1915-08-19

The alarming number of
physical defects found in
schoolchildren through the
United States is opening
the eyes of the medical pro-
fession. The superintendent
Of public schools in st.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1915-08-19

chief machns in
on various vessels followed
which included radio
and Then
where of the said
attached the New
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1915-08-19

and friendly and he has given them employment in
fishing
this
whether
for that matter they take
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1915-08-19

One day The First Man came back
from abroad. When he saw Beauty
for the first time he did not know her.
Then he was told that it was she and
he said miracle had been wrought.
Aye answered the man to whom
he spoke, the miracle of love-"
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-02-19
MEMBERS CANNOT
ASCERTAIN REVENUE

Total .$1,295, 1O2
This includes all the property, as
near as, your committee has been
able to ascertain caused to be spread
by the Tax Commission and in nu>
merous instances extending back six
years.
Your committee further begs leave
to report that it is unable to ascer-
tain the exact amount Of taxes so
caused to be spread upon the asses,-
ment rolls that has Deon paid. Much
of the property above indicated is
now in litigation, and in particular
Grand Forks and Ward counties.
"A great portion. Of said property
consists of leases of elevator sites
and lumber yard sites, upon railroad
right-ofWays, with the exception CT
the county of Barnes, in which the
greater portion of such additional
| property consists Of diamonds.
Your committee further reports
that from it's examination that it has
ascertained that the Tax Commission
has also gathered and filed in it's Of
flee various statistics and have made
numerous recommendations based
upon Its researches.
THE value of such statistics anc
recommendations is a matter which
must address itself to the sound dis
erection Of the various persons anG
boards who might seek information
touching the matters therein involv-
ed.
Your committee also finds that the
Inheritance tax which has been plac-
ed under the supervision Of the Tax
Commission by Chapter of the Laws
of 1918 has occupied considerable
time of the said commission.
"Your committee further finds that
the cost Of placing such property up-
on the assessment roll and OF main
tanning the Tax Commission, and the
total expenses incurred by them IN
carrying on the WORK from the begin
ming of the commission. July LIST,
1912, to December. 81, 1914. is as fol-
lows.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-02-19
HONESTY ITS OWN REWARD
Act Of Street Car Conductor Made
Whole Glass Popular With
Pittsburgh Business Man.

They were talking of the work Of
street car conductors and of their
chances for graft in comparison with
politicians.
II suppose that all men use the
nimble finger in, response to the MIN
BILE mind at times, but let me tell you
a bit of experience which may not be
at all exceptional" said a contractor
of the Oakland district. Last sum-
mel one day%I put 5000 in $50 bills in
one of those long folding books and
slipped it into the inside pocket of my
coat, as l thought. 1t was a hot day
and I wore no vest. l boarded a car
to 60 down town. Another a fol-
lowed closely. Before | could leave
the platform OF my car | saw the con-
ductor of the other a waving his
hand, holding a book that looked like
mine. l clapped my hand to my pocket
and no purse was there. l sprang from
the steps, ran back, the other car
stopped, the conductor gave me my
money and l felt for something to re.
ward biz. All the .-caccr nocey WIS
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-02-19

women, too. I cannot praise Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound enough
for l know | never would have been as
we'll if l had not taken it and l.recom-
mend it to suffering women
Daughter Helped Also.
81 gave it to my daughter when she
was thirteen years old. She was in
school and was a nervous wreck, and
could not sleep nights. Now she looks
so healthy that even the doctor speaks
of it. You can publish this letter if you
like."-Mrs. RENA BOWMAN, ISL S. 10th
Street, I%ronton, Ohio.
Why will n continue to suffer
day in and day out and drag out a sickly,
half-hearted existence, missing three
fourths Of the joy Of living, when they
a find health in Lydia Z. ~Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound?
If you have the slightest doubt
that Lydia L. PINK hams Vegeta.
bic Compound will help you. write
to Lydia f. inkham MedicincCC.
icon EdentiaD Lynn, MaSs.,fOr adj
vice ~ Your letter will be opened,
read and ans,y> red by a woman
and held in strict confidence.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-02-19
HEAVY MEAT EATERS
HAVE SLOW KIDNEYS
Eat lsss meat if you feel Rackschy or
have bladder t~rouble-Tsks
i I glass Of Salts

No man or woman who eats meat regu.
larly can make a mistake by flushing the
kidneys occasionally, says . well known
authority Meat forms uric acid which
cxcites the kidneys, they become over.
worked from the strain, get sluggish and
fail to filter the waste and poisons from
the blood, then we get sick. Nearly all
rheumatism, headaches, liver trouble,
nervousness, dizziness, sleeplessness and
urinary disorders come from sluggish
kidneys.
The moment you feel a dull ache in the
Kidneys or your back hurts or if the
urine is cloudy, offensive, full Of sedi-
ment, irregular Of passage OF attended by
: sensation of scalding, stop eating meat
and get about four ounces of Jad
Salts from any pharmacy; take q
tablespoonful in a glass of water before
breakfast and in a few days your kidneys
will act fine. This famous salts is made
from the acid of grapes and lemon juice,
combined with lithia, and has been used
for generations to flush and stimulate
the kidneys, also to n~eutralize the acids
in urine 90 it no longer causes irritation,
thus ending bladder weakness.
Jad Salts is inexpensive and cannot
injure; makes q delightful efcrvesccnt
Whitewater drink which everyone
should take now and then to keep the
kidneys clean and active and the blood
pure, thereby avoiding serious kidney
complications.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-02-19

rate of S. per cent, which is the
amount estimated by the state audi
tor for cities and towns. This would
produce a revenue of s7l,230.61. The
tax commission states that the aver
age rate for cities and towns in North
Dakota is n mills, and at that rate
this property would produce a rev.
enue of $~92,252.24. sA
The answers to the second letter
show a total amount of taxes placed
on the rolls to be $122, APO .SS; less
amount in litigation, ST., $4,000; leav-
ing balance in revenue, $11O, 624 SO.
The total amount of valuation GER
titled by the tax commissioners to the
various county auditors is ~$3,9S6,524,
as set forth in Exhibit f.. Further
than this the tax commission had
written to the various county treas.
urers, asking for the amount Of taxes
placed on the TAX rolls. The ta'bulat-
ed results of replies to these letters
are set forth in EXHIBIT F, hereto at.
tached, and total the sun of $780,
l25.74, which, according to the coun-
ty t%reasurers would b. the amount Of
revenue produced. There is some dis.
crspancy in these replies which goes
to show that they are more or less
inaccurate. However, the replies
showing the total amount Of taxes
spread on the rolls covers a term OF
six years, and the replies shcwi"g
amount of valuation covers only the
years 1913 and 1914. The amount GER
titled by the treasurers of the various
counties to the tax commission should
agree with the amount certified by
the auditors TO your committee rs to
the amount Of taxes spread. They
the amount of taxes spread. They
do not in many DISTANCES agre, in fact,
there are few instances in which they
do agree.
1t appears, then, that the tota;
amount of revenue produced by the
efforts of the tax commission. which
this committer can vouch for, is some
where between the amounts set forth,
The total expenses of, the tax commits.
sion is, ascertalned from the state
auditors Office and the supply depart.
ment Of the secretary of state,
amounts to $42,573.37, as set forth In
Exhibit G. herewith. OF this amount,
the commission claims the sum of 49,,
$3.50 was expended in bring in the
above revenue. In order to verify this
statement, the statement that the
commission had saved to the state
the sum of SIS, 900 in inheritance tax
and had increased the revenue from
light and power plants it would be
necessary that your committee check
inc books of the tax commission for
the two years and a half in which
they have been in existence. Such
matters manifestly belong to expert
accountants. and would require much
more time than allotted to your com.
mittee. Your committee therefore re.
spectfully submits the above report
and begs that it be discharged.
GHAS. F.. KELLOGG.
...,' W.. E. BURGETT.
A. NJ. BALDWIN.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-02-19
POTATOES.

Extra Fancy Idaho White Potatoes
at Yegen e. Schneider's, 4Oc per bush
el.-Adv.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-02-19

Bell; superintendent, Rev. Geo. B.
NeWcomb.
3:30-Address, The Outlook For
Woman's Suffrage in North Dakota,
Mrs. Elizabeth Preston Anderson ana
Mrs. Kate S. Wilder.
4:20-Business.
Evening-R. 3. Griffith Presiding.
7:30-Devotional, Rev. A. w. Mac
Neil. ..
S:00-tAddress, Juvenile Court
Work and Its Needs Lillian Grace
Topping, Florence Crittendon Home.
S:45-Address, Responsibility of
the State in the Development of It's
Citizens President Kroeze, James
town College.
The chorus from the Sixth grade
will furnish music for the evening.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-02-19

The second session of the joint
meeting of the Society for the Friend
less and the Law Enforcement League
began at $3.50, in the Presbyterian
church, r, B. Griffith, presiding. The
devotional service was very accept
ably lead by Rev. James Anderson,
jamestown.
Hon. C. l.. Young gave a strikingly
up to date analysis of the National
Prohibition movement. The opening
sentence vas to the effect that the
present movement is but the result
carefully planned of a multitude OF
forces. The present uprising against
the liquor traffic has been a long time
coming and there is nothing now tina;
can stop it. For years court deci
sions have been adverse to the traf'
ic.
Eighteen states now have state
wide Observation-Disclosures Idaho
South Carolina and Arkansas having
come into the ranks this present year,
in fact, the speaker declared, changes
are so rapid that one. needs to revise
ones statistics almost hourly in or
der to- abe correct. Prediction is free
" given by many that national pro-
hibition is close at hand, he said,
Mr.. Young quoted from the Liquor
Dealers Journal in an editorial which
said, among other things. that "The
handwriting is on the wall. The case
has been called into court: MOI can
it be postponed 1t was an able an
alysis. r
lev. VIM. Suckow followed, dis.
GUESSING the topic: The Liquor Traf.
fc From the German View Point.
He began by saying THAT as a Ger.
man he was glad he did not stanC
alone in his attitude against the traf-
tic. He argued that the Germans are
not generally understood in their at
titude on the question; therefore.
they are misjudged. In the fatherland
the universal dring of the %peasantry
is a light beer and wholly unlike what
the Germans upon coming to this
country find and naturally soon &C
custom themselves to drink-a beer
stronger in alcohol, besides contain.
ing ofttimes poisons; therefore, the
havoc wrought among the German
Americans.
He deploEed the fact. that the Ger.
man+American press was so hostile
as a whole to the prohibition move.
ment and could explain it only on the
ground of, a subsidized" press, and
cited one, instance in his own knowl-
edge, He said there are now 1873 pro-
fessors in the German universities in
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-02-19
DRIVES AWAY
= HEADACHE
Rub Musterole on Forehead
and Temples

A headache remedy without the dam
gers of Headache medicine" Relieves
headache and that miserable feeling
from cold or congestion. And it acts at
once! MUSTEROLE is a clean, white
ointment made with oil of mustard. Bet
ter than a mustard plaster and does not
blister. Used only externally, and in no
way can affect stomach and heart, as
some internal medicines do.
Best for Sore Throat, Bronchitis,
Group, Stiff Neck, Asthma, Neuralgia,
Congestion. Plcurisy, Rheumatism, Lum-
bago, all Pains and Aches of the Back
or Joints, Sprains, Sore Muscles, Bruis-
cs, Chilblains, Frosted Feet, Colds of the
Chest tit often prevents Pneumonia).
At your druggists, in Csc and Soc jars,
and a special large hospital size for $3.50.
Be sure you get the genuine MUS
TEROLE. Refuse imitations-get what
you ask for. The Musterole Company,
Cleveland. Ohio. - f