davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Grants Pass daily courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1919-1931, 1919-02-25
COSTS 81 A NIGHT TO
! SIT UP AT RANGER, TEX.

El Paso, Tex. Feb. 25.--It costs
$1.00 nightly to sit in hotel lobby
chairs at Ranger, Texas, according to
letters received here from persons
attracted there by the oil boom.
Many men. women and children are
forced to sleep in the streets because
OF the lack of hotel facilities.
Grants Pass daily courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1919-1931, 1919-02-25

London, Feb. 25.-GeneraI Lu-
dendorf left Sweden for Germany
Sunday night when his permit to
stay in Sweden had expired.
Grants Pass daily courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1919-1931, 1919-02-25

Amsterdam. Feb. 25.--There was
severe fighting Saturday In Prague,
the capital OF Bohemia, in which the
national guard and students drove
the anti-government communists
from the public buildings which they
had occupied. according to Berlin
newspapers.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-12-09
FAMOUS PALACE AND JAIL FOODS NO LONGER IN USE
Historic Tower of London Easily
"Most Ancient and Most Poetic
Pile in Europe"

Palace and prison, once noted also
fol- its menagerie and it's pageantry,
birthplace and death house of mon
archs, scene of hairbreadth escapes
and reputed hidden treasures, ghostly
il it's memories of tortures and killing
and sacred for it's martyrs, the Tower
of London amply warrants description
as the "most ancient and most poetic
pile in Europe" reads a bulletin of
the National Geographic society.
William the Conqueror gave Lon
don charter, but built me White
tower to show the people how little
that charter might mean. Like the
English constitution the rambling Lon
don Tower of today is a product of
centuries, and not one. but many tow
ers, are now scattered over some ID
acres. The site had been a fortress
since Roman times.
To the Middle Tower Elizabeth
came back a queen five years after
her Jealous half sister, Mary, had kept
her there a prisoner. The humpbacked
Richard III hired three assassins to
muder his nephews in Bloody tower.
Not until years later were their bones
found and taken TO Westminster abbey.
Lady Jane Grey, she who had the
birth of a princess, the life of a saint,
anG the death of a malefactor," was
beheaded in London tower.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-12-09
Vegetables and Meats, Familiar in the
Middle Ages, Have Disappeared
From Modern Menu.

If the art of cooking has declined,
it is in part due to the changing fash
ions in food. For instance, in Ger
many in the middle ages many vege-
tables were eaten which have long
since disappeared from the table, such
as violet leaves, mixed with young net
ties, and green wheat, and boiled hemp
seed. Salads were made of mallow
leaves, celery roots, and purslane,
mixed with salt and pepper, for oil was
almost unknown. Olive oil was cor
sidered to smack of effeminacy and
Italian luxury. Horseradish sauce
was used instead.
The origin of sauerkraut Is lost In
antiquity. But il was certainly made
by the German hausfrau long before
caulifiowers or artichokes or potatoes
were known. The potato revolution
lied the fare of the poor, who had for
merly to rely on the roots of wild
plants. The variety of meats was
larger, including beavers. and In Berne
bears were kept for food. Spices and
aromatics were much sought after and
far more used for cooking. Ginger
and nutmegs were used to flavor many
dishes that have now vanished from
oul tables.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-12-09

from his own to the auction. ISabels
room was still as it had been, but the
furniture would be moved with
Fanny's to new quarters in the morn
ing. Fanny had made plans for her
nephew as well as herself; she had
found "three-room htchenette apart
ment" in an apartment house where
several old friends of hers had estab-
lished hemselves-eiderly widows of
citizens once prominent" and other
retired gentry. People used their own
"kitchenettes" for breakfast and lunch,
but there was table-dhote arrange
ment for dinner on the ground floor
and after dinner bridge was played
all evening, an attraction powerful
with Fanny. She had made all the
arrangements" she reported. and ner-
vously appealed for approval, asking If
she hadn't shown herself pretty prac-
teal" in such matters. George acqui-
esced absent-mindedly, not thinking of
what she said and not realizing to
what it committed him.
He began to realize it now, as he
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-12-09

ut must be in the sum-" he said.
There wasn't anything here but
the sun in the first place, and the
earth came out of the sun, and we
came out of the earth. So, whatever
we are, we must have been in the sun.
We go back to the earth we came out of
so the earth will go back to the sun
that it came out of. And time means
nothing-nothing at also in little
while we'll all be back in the sun to-
gether. 1 wish"
He moved his hand uncertainty as #
reaching for something, and George
jumped up. 'Did you want anything,
grandfather
"What?"
"Would you like glass of waterT'
Mono. No; don't want anything"
The reaching hand dropped back up
lapsed into silence; but a few min
ures later he finished the sentence he
had begun:
ST wish-somebody could tell mel"
The next day he had slight cold,
but he seemed annoyed when his sob
suggested calling the doctor, and Am
berson let him have his own way SO
far, in fact, that after he had got up
and dressed, the following morning,
he was all alone when he went away
to find out what he hadn't been able
to think out-all those things he had
wished somebody" would tell him.
Old Sam, shuffling in with the break
fast tray, found the Major in his ac-
customed easy-chair by the fireplace
and yet even the old darkey could
see instantly that the Major was not
there.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-12-09
CHAPTER Xxx.

When the great Anderson estate
went into court for settlement, "there
wasn't any," George Anderson said
that is, when the settlement was con-
Guided there was no estate. He re-
preached himself bitterly for not hav-
ing long ago discovered that his IA
Their had never given Isabel a deed to
her house. "And those pigs, Sydney
and Amelia" he added, for this was
another thing he was bitter about.
"They won't do anything. I'm sorry
1 gave them the opportunity of making
a polished refusal. The estate was bad
ly crippled, even before they took out
their third and the third they took
was the only good part of the rotten
apple. Well l didn't ask them for res
titution on my own account, and at
least it will save you some trouble,
young George. Never waste any time
writing to them; you mustn't count on
them"
81 DON'T" George said quietly. 81
don't count on anything"
"Oh, Wen not feel that things are
quite desperate" Anderson laughed,
but not with great cheerfulness.
"We'll survive, Georgie-you will, es-
pecially. For my part I'm a little too
old and too accustomed to fall back
on somebody else for supplies to start
a big fight with life; I'll be content
with just surviving, and can do 1t OH
an eighteen-hundred-do con-
sulship. An ex-congressman can al
ways be pretty sure of getting some
such job, and l hear from Washing
ton the matters about settled. So
much for mel But you-of course
you've had poor training for making
your own way, but you're only boy
after all, and the stuff of the old stock
is in you. It'll come out and do some
thing. I'll never forgive myself about
that deed; it would have given you
something substantial to start with
Still, you have a little tiny bit, and
you'll have a little tiny salary. too
and of course your Aunt Fanny's here,
and she's got something you can fall
back on if you get too pinched, until
can begin to send you a dribble now
and then"
Georges little tiny bit' was six
hundred dollars which had come to
him from the sale of his mothers fur
niture; and the little tiny salary
was eight dollars week which .old
Frank Bronson was to pay him for
services as clerk and student-at-
law. George had accepted haughtily,
and thereby removed a burden from
his uncle's mind.
Anderson himself, however. had not
even "tiny Bit" though he got his
consular appointment, and to take him
to his post he found it necessary to
borrow two hundred of his nephew's
six hundred dollars. 1T makes me
sick, George" he said. "But I'd bet
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-12-09
Honored His Great Foe.

The Crystal palace, home of the
British Imperial War museum, was the
scene in its earliest infancy of touch
ing incident apparently unrecorded by
any of WellingtOn's biOgraphers. Ac-
cording to 'Le Palais de Cristal." 8
French weekly published in London at
the time Of the great exhibition, zone
day in April. when our workmen were
busily engaged unpacking exhibits In
the French section. the duke of Wei
lington appeared. in company with his
daughter, the marchioness of Douro.
He was expressing his interest In sew.
eral products of French industry, when
the wOrkmen happened 10 open a case
containing statue of Napoleon. The
duke stopped his conversation, re-
moved his hat, and bowed his head. II
was easy to see, both by the attitude
Of his body and the expression Of his
face, that the old soldier was deeply
moved. There fell upon all present one
of those deep spells of silence which
imply more than an ocean Of words"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-12-09
.DDJ EVENING
kNA|RY TALL
A O Mary Graham
~ Bonner g u&fzo @
THE DOGS FINE.

well, bow-wow, what do you think
had to do?" asked the st. Bernard
dog. named Sport.
what did you have to do?" asked
Rover, another big dog, but not as big
a dog as Sport. Rover was collie.
Il had to do 1t before came here"
said Sport.
"Are you glad you came here, or
didn't you mind doing what you had to
do?" asked Rover.
Eyes, I'm glad 1 came here" said
Sport, land I'm glad that my master
came. too. for 1 wouldn't be happy
without my master no matter what /
had TO do. We've been together so
much, In so many places, under so
many different conditions-that is
we've been together in pretty places
and ugly places, in big places and
small places, in the real country and
In the real city, in every way posi-
ble."
"And on rainy days and sunny
days" said Rover.
"Of course" agreed Sport.
"What made your master come
here?" asked Rover
The dogs had made friends when
they had met in the village that morn
ing. Every one had greatly admired
the big st. Bernard and they had all
heard what wonderful record he had
made through his life.
wont you tell me some of the
things you've donew asked Rover.
"Oh, DEAR" said Sport, "I've done
what any deg would do who had had
my chances. That's all"
"But tell me-" said Rover, land then
tell me what you meant when you said
you had had to do something which 1
should think about"
81 didn't say it quite that way" said
Sport. II asked you to think or to
guess what it was that I had just
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-12-09

Wnen he realized at last that money,
IKE life, was '1.ke quicksilver in a
nest of cracks" AND his nephew had
the awakening experience of seeing
the great Anderson estate vanishing
into such a nest-in a twinkling; it
seemed, now that it was indeed so ut
terly vanished.
when George reached the entrance to
Anderson addition-that is, when he
came to where the entrance had for
merly been-he gave a little start.
and halted for 4 moment to stare.
This was the flrst time he had no.
ticed that the stone pillars, marking
the entrance, had been removed. Then
he realized that for long time he had
been conscious of a queerness about
this corner without being aware of
what made the difference. National
avenue met ANDERSON boulevard here
az an obtuse angle, and the removal of
the pillars made the boulevard seem a
cross street of no overpowering i'm
portance-certainly it did not seem to
be boulevard!
George walked by the Mansion hur-
riedly, and came home to his mothers
house for the last time.
Emptiness was there, too, and the
closing of the door resounded through
bare rooms; for downstairs there was
no furniture in the house except q
kitchen table In the dining room, which
Fanny had kept ''for dinner" she said.
though as she was to cook and serve
that meal herself George had his
doubts about her name for it. Upstairs,
she had retained her own furniture,
and George had been living in his
mothers room. haviLg sent everything
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-12-09
Risky Food Combinations.

An Argentine doctor in a Spanish
medical review states that there are
many articles of diet in hot weather,
which, although sound and nutritious
in themselves, are positively danger
GUS when taken with other foods.
Everybody today recognizes the harm
Of drinking tea with a meat meal, the
tannin of the tea rendering the meat
as indigestible as leather. Yet in these
days of summer dishes, one is not
aware perhaps of the fact that vinegar
retards the digestion of food. and that
the smallest quantity will lengthen di-
gestion by 30 minutes at least. Milk
ana cherries together are held TO be
singularIy harmful, and were said to
have caused the death of Franklin
Pierce, president of the United States.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-12-09

had to dol meant before l came
down here?'
'Ill try to guess after you tell me
your history" said Rover. II won't
be conceited, for we're friends"
"Weli, L rescued a man and his
daughter from fire." he said. Il was
quite young at the time. There was
fire in the opposite house and the
firemen hadn't come and / knew the
man and his daughter were inside.
1 had given the alarm as best 1 could
by barking and waking up my master.
'He was quick to help me always
and l knew that he would give the
alarm. But 1 knew how l could get
in the house and how one of the doors
could be pushed open from the outside.
81 got the man and his daughter out
Il took the daughter first, and l
dragged them along with my teeth. /
tore their clothes badly but that
couldn't be helped.
81 got a medal for that which made
my master very proud. And then l
saved little boy from drowning once
and also stopped a runaway horse.
ST pulled out of the cold water a
girl who was skating and who had
fallen through the ice. Oh, I've done
several little things like that, and
I've had several medals and my pic
ture has been in the paper and all of
that"
you're modest about it," said
Rover. "You speak of those things
you've done as though they were of
no more signs of bravery than the eat
ing of bone"
'Pm not proud of those things"
said Sport, honestly I'm not, and
that isn't false modesty either. I'm
glad that 1 happened to be the for
tunate dog who could do them.
'But my master moved from the
city with me lately because he wanted
a place where he could play lots Of
golf at any time on holidays and after
he got home from business, and he
thought it would be nicer for me to
have the country to enjoy without hav-
ing to wear a muzZle."
"Muzzle?" asked Rover.
"Oh, yes; that was what I was going
to make you guess" said Sport. II
will tell you though instead for l am
late for dinner. I was fined for not
wearing my muzzle in the city. or
course my master hadn't put it on me
and he paid the fine in one way. But l
carried it in my mouth to the judge
when he said what it was to be. And
he fined me very little for he said
had such a splendid record. Wasn't
that nice of himf"
you've had every experience" said
Rover, admiringly.
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well be-yOu never see them any more
and the rest. whoever they were, are
probably so mixed in with the crowds
Of new people that seem never even to
have heard of uS-and I'm sure we
certainly never heard of them-and
people seem to forget things so soon
they seem to forget anything. You
can't imagine how things have changed
herei"
George gulped painfully before he
could speak. "YOu-yOu mean to sit
there and tell me that If I'd lust let
things go on OH" He swung away.
walking the floor again. 81 tell you
l did the only right thingl You think
] was wrongr
I'm not saying So" she said.
"You did at the time!" he cried,
"YOu said enough then, 1 think. Well,
what have you to say now, if you're
so sure was wrong?"
Nothing. George"
Its only because you're afraid to ~
he said, and he went on with a sudden
bitter divinatiOn: You're reproach.
ing yourself with what you had TO do
with all that; and you're trying to
make up for it by doing and saving
wha. you think mother would want
you TO, and you think l couldn't stand
II if got to thinking l might have
done differently. Oh, knowl That's
exactly what's In your mind: you do
think was wrongl So does Uncle
George. challenged him about IL
the other day, and he answered inst
as you're anSwering-evaded. and
tried 70 be gentlei 1 don't care 70 be
handled with glovesl l tell you | was
right. and / don't need any coddIirr
by people that think | WASN'T And
l suppose you believe was wrong no,
to let Morgan see her that last Plight
when he came here, and she-she was
dying. If you do, why In the name of
God did you come and ask me? You
could have taken him in! She did
want 10 see him. She"
Miss Fanny looked -tartled. "You
think"
''She told me sol" And the tortured
young man choked. "She said-'hs,
once She said I'd like to have seen
him-just oncer She meant-to teu
him good-byel That's what she
meaDtl And you put this on me. too
you put this responsibility on me
But tell You, and told Uncle
George, that the responsibility ism;
all minei If you were so sure I was
wrong all the time-when | took her
away. and when turned Morgan out
If you were so sure. what did you
lei me do it for? You and Uncle
George were grown people. both OF
You. weren't your You were older
than |, and if you were so sure you
were wiser than l. why did you Just
stand around with your hands hangins
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-12-09
Breaking a Confidence.

Do not assume that you are justi-
fed in disregarding a confidence be-
cause you have pledged another not
TO repeat what you tell her. If your
obligation to silence means so little,
why assume that another girl will
take it more seriously? And more
over, If you have promised not to tell
something, to break the promise where
one is concerned, is as out Of the way
as to break IT fifty times over.-Glrls'
Companion.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-12-09
CHAPTER xIx-continued.


A month after her death he walked
abruptly into Fanny's room, one night,
and found her at her desk, eagerly
adding columns of figures with which
she had covered several sheets of pa
per.
"GeOrgel You startled me-"
81 beg your pardon for not knock
ing" he said huskily. 81 didn't Think"
She turned in her chair and looked
at him solicitousIy. "Sit down, George,
won't yOu?"
mo. just wanted
81 could hear you walking up and
down in your ROOM" said Fanny. 'You
were doing it ever since dinner, and
IT seems to me you're at it almost
every evening. 1 don't believe it's good
for you-and 1 know it would worry
your mother terribly if She" Fan
ny hesitated.
"See here," George said, breathing
fast, Il want to tell you once more that
what l did was right. How could l
have done anything else but what
did doT"
"Oh, L don't pretend to judge" Fan
ny said sOOthingly, for his voice and
gesture both partook of wildness. II
know you think you did, George"
""Think l did, he echoed violent
ly. MY God in heavenp And he
began to walk up and down the floor.
"What else was there to do? What
choice did l have? Was there any
other way of stopping the talkT He
stopped, close in front of her, gestic-
ulating. his voice harsh and loud f:
was there any other way on earth
of protecting her from the talkT"
Miss Fanny looked away. at died
down before long, 1 think" she said
nervOusly.
'That shows I was right, doesn't 1t ?''
he cried. IF I hadn't acted as l did,
that slanderous old Johnson woman
would have kept on with her ISLANDERS
--she'd still be"
NO" Fanny interrupted "She's
dead. She dropped dead with apOplexy
one day about six weeks after you
left. didn't mention it in my let
tiers because 1 didn't want---I
thought"
''N ell, the other people would have
kept on, then. They'd have"
81 don't know" said Fanny, still
averting her troubled eyes. Things
are so changed here, George. The 9TH
er people you speak Of--One hardly
knows what's become of them. OF
course not a great many were doing
the talking, and they-well, some of
them are dead, and some might as
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-12-09
The Cautious Elephant.

Ancient chronicles tell us that the
Romans sometimes tested their mill
tary bridges by sending an elephant
out on them and then watching TO see
whether the cautious beast would
cross. Even to this day the natives In
India set great store by the elephants
caution.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-12-09

ter get there and get that salary start
ed. OF course Eugene would do any
thing in the world, and the fact is he
wanted 10. but / felt that-ah-under
the circumstances"
sNeveri' George exclaimed. growing
red. Il can't imagine one of the fam
ily-r He paused. not finding il
necessary TO explain that "the fam
ilyr shouldn't turn a man from the
door and then accept favors from him.
II wish you'd take more"
Anderson declined. "one. thing IN
say for you. young George; you have
nj a stingy bone in your body. That's
the Anderson stock in you-and l ike
itw
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-12-09

The crow family is placed by orni.
biologists at the head Of the bird
world as being more highly organized
than any other. Linnaeus gave the
post OF honor TO the eagles, because of
thei1 kingly quality Of rapacity, but
two great authorities. Professor Park
er and Professor Newton, agreed In
assigning the highest place to the cor.
vidae.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-12-09
The souroe

Experts tel Us thEs, roughly speak
Ing, one marriage in three results in
divorce" began the chap with the fund
OF useless irritation.
Yes" the other chimed In. -and
it's the roughly speaking part that
causes most Of the trouble"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-12-09

Little Felix, aged six, had found four
little kittens in the cellar. A visitor.
being told Of them, expressed a desire
to have a peep at the new arrivals.
Felix went 10 fetch them. and soon a
pitiful wall was heard on the stairs.
"Don't hurt the little kittens, Fe
Tx" called his mother. Bring them
up carefully"
81 am, mother" returned Felix, I'm
bringing them up by their stems"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-12-09
Pretty Good Fellow.

Keep your body straight and apply
this rule to your mental and moral
life and you will be a pretty good
fellow.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-12-09

a factory has been established In
South Africa to extract rubber from
the roots and v.aes Of rubber plants.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-12-09

Give a pig plenty Of milk, and II
viii make a hog Of itself.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-10

barrel. The present price Is 500 bar
rel, at the mill.
Lime--The old standard price for
lime was fifteen. to eighteen cents a
bushel. A few years before the war it
advanced to twenty cents and then
twenty two cents. The last named fig
ure was the 1916 price. During the
war lime cost forty FIVE cents bushcl.
Now it costs sixty cents.
Labor costs have advanced even since
the war in some of the building trades
but not commensurately with the ad
vancng costs of materials. Ruilders
have little complaint to make concern
ing wages paid to labor. in fact. admit
ting that higher wages are a necessity,
with living costs at their present lovol
Complain Bitterly
But they do complain bitterly about
the exorbitant prices charged for build
ing materials.
Secretary of Labor Wilson's ad
monition to the patriot" to build
houses, said MIR. Moss. lis futile in
view Of the prices asked-and perforre
raid-for building materials
Because of these prices il costs SC
per cent more to build dwelling house
at present than it did in 1916. Cost