davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-03

mutiny, battled against the Chinese in
1850. helped in the Red river expedition OF
1870. led the Ashantee campaign of 1873
1874. fought in South Africa tve years
later. and was communicated chief of the
British forces in Egypt in 1852.
II was service marked not only by
many pieces of notable strategy. and by
the continued proof of a genius for. or
ganizarion. but equally So by a personal
bravery so great that it was the constant
fear of the officers of the staff that some
day Wolseleys life would pay the pen
atty of his Indifference to darger.
Poor and Friendless.
Perhaps it would have been better if
this had been so, for now in his seventy
fifth year of life the old fighter finds his
reputation gone, he Is poor and friend
less, and that nation which once wor-
SHIPPED him has turned against him.
About, all he has left is the shadow of
a past reputation, and rome forgotten
medals for past achievements
The Boer war. which was a tragedy to
so many regulations. put Lord Wolseley
on the downward path. His was TO some
extent the experience of Lords Butler and
Methuen. though against him could not
be charged as in their cases the odium of
actual blunders on the field of battle
But the Boer war was a frightful shock
to British pride. and the nation demanded
sacrifices. 1t had been expected by the
people that the organization of her ma j.
esty's army could swiftly crush into sub
lection the handful of Boer farmers, and
when defeat followed defeat and thou
sands of British lives were sacrificed. and
the two greatest fighters of the nation
Lords Roberts and Kitchener-had to
take command before the fighting farm
ers could be repressed. the indignation Of
the people knew no bounds.
Even without the EXCUSES of the de-
feated generals the fact would have be-
come public anyway. England was not
rs ady for the war. and had her rival
been one of her own mettle-Germany
France. for instance-it is hard to tell
what would have been the outcome of a
struggle where Britain started under
such a severe handicap.
The Capricious Public.
4 frenzied public turned quickly from
its idol, Lord Wolseley. and demanded to
Anow why he had permitted such a con-
dition OF unpreparedness to develop.
Also he was asked why he had shown
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-03
French Woman the Leader.

portion of the booty that his country wills
he should have and to conquer in u great
war is by no means to be sure of HE
freed from the cares and worries of
finance
Lord WoIseley Of England is now find
ing out this fact just as Gen. Grant "
the United States discovered [ a genera
don ago.
The illustrious career of this noted
British soldier. who at one time was
spoken Of as "England's only soldier
= having the most pathetic of endngs.
He has conducted noted campaigns in
Canada in India in Egypt and in the
least civilized portions of Africa. AL
most always success has been his. only
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-03
AL NAVIGATION is BECOMING A FAVORTE WI

,rediately took the place of woman pio-
neers OF the sport In Uncle Sans realm
Mr.. CORTLAND Bishop resides near PIts-
field Mass Mrs. Bishop persuaded MN
Ia take an interest in the new sport, ana
as a result Pittsfield has become a sort
of a center for American baiiooning, ana
Mrs Bishop and Mrs Edgar nave now
made so many aScents that they are vet
Grams and no longer can take fright no
matter how much balloon may TIT.
Americas Social Aeronauts.
Mrs. James Brown Potter, the famous
actress: Mrs. James Brown LORD. MISS
Ada de Acosta and Mrs p. Lorillard
Ronalds are other American women who
learned the joys of ballooning as guests OF
F'renchmen.
Mrs. Newbold Edgar claims the record.
In ballooning sense she says she has
been I'd in the air more times than any
American woman. but it is said that she
will have some trouble in showing more
ascents than have been marked up 10 the
credit of Mrs. Julian z. Thomas.
But the French woman is not content
now merely to so along as the guest of
some member of the club or to make an
ascent with the balloon under control of
some professional pilot
Now the great ambition of the gen.
tier sex is to operate the balloon them
selves.
Nine. Durcuof and Mile. Cache were
the first women to succeed in actually
making such trip.
1t was with deep trepidation. and not
until after the operation of the balloon
was demonstrated TO them many times,
that they were allowed to rise above an
awe-stricken crowd in Paris and start
a Journey that lasted four hours.
1t was too uneventful trip, the two
frail aeronauts said. to merit any spe-
cial mention. They got up all right, the
balloon acted properly. the winds were
CALAMITY kind, and they made flaw
less descent.
The daughter of the Count Won Zeppe-
lin. whose experiments in the develop
ment of the airship have been a matter
of so much public interest has made
ascents with her father in the famous
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-03

one noted early failure being charged
against him. He did not reach khartum
in time to save Chinese Gordon, who
was beleaguered there But even this one
misfortune was shown to have been no
fault of his. and was not permitted II
put any smirches on his brilliant record.
For generation WolseleyS reputation
lowered to d pinnacle even above that
now occupied by the fame of Lord kitch-
cner.
His successes were the boast of the
army. The soldiers loved to recite his
deeds in the Burmese war. now more than
half a century ago, Of how he had fought
with distinction in the war of the Crimea,
aided III the suppression of the Indian
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-03

four. one and three cards and two
dropped out. In absolute monotone he
RI scd :hU francs and asked for two cards
In uncannY silence the three men peered
al him with their eyes, intently painful.
if seeking to catch the vibrations of
his very soul
The stout. fiorid man with the blond
beard dropped out He would not pay
Ron francs to draw four cards. But gently
the two others pushed their chips up.
The strong. erect brother of the second
duke of France twho lost his sight by
gun explosion fifteen years ago. smiled
amusedly when he filled his flush but the
weak. white-faced invalid at his side
never relaxed his strange iEtentness as he
caught another tenspot 10 his pair
The buffer with his ace high and two
kickers picked up his draw. Two more
aces.
Now the silent strain was absolutely
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-03

such poor judgment in picking ou' tiie
officers to whom was intrusted the uu,S
OF leading the British troops. Al Is ali ui
contradicted fact that the rashness anu
indifference to life of the English COM
manders led to criminal sacrlnces OF
brave soldiers in courageous Dut Ioo!lsii
frontal attacks.
When Lord Wolseley finally turned to
Lord Roberts and told him to take fuli
charge of the campaign then England
saw his failure completed. All that had
gone before of bravery and sagacuy IN
lis younger days was forgotten III an
instant Wolseley was no longer a nero.
He was now the scapegoat of faiiure.
Then followed a time of bitter hunllii-
alton for Lord Wolseley, as steamer a1ter
steamer brought in numbers of broken
generals brigadiers and colonelS-men Ill
whom he had placed supreme commence
but who had failed. and were quickly
taken from their important commands
when Lord Roberts set Ou. on new lines
10 undo the damage of the earlier stages
of the campaign.
Then came the final and most painful
blow Of all. Wolseley was forced to
give up the command of the army to
Lord Roberts.
When Wolseley was at the summit of
his fame a grateful country had voted
him liberal rewards. a large sum OF money
being placed at his command.
But Wolseley. like many another soidlef
money. In his desire to so place ms
wealth that it would bring him the great
est possible returns, he fell into the
hands OF company of sharpers. and they
ended by completely stripping him.
Compelled to Sell All.
Now as he is tottering to the grave.
broken and helpless cid man, he hnds
himself compelled to sell everything he
has, his home, furniture, his relics, almost
everything. in order to raise the funds TO
go to the continent where he can live more
cheaply than at home. and where perhaps
he will not so often be reminded OF the
past glory that was once his. but which
has now gone from him forever
Poverty has compelled him virtually to
forswear his native land. to which he has
in the past so often returned home a
conqueror.
The case of Gen. Grant is somewhat
similar to that of Lord Wolseley. though
in the case of the American general there
never was any military failure to take
from the prestige of his great success in
the civil war
When Grant uttered his Let US have
peace he put aside the sword for all
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-03
OF the 5000 registered blind folks In

OF the 4o,Np registered blind folks N
France.
In Houmsn a conditions w~rr far dff-
feren.
II ell began one day when I was
visiting an ola mans home" tells Car
men Sylvia. Among the gray-haired waits.
[ was surprised to see a fine. dark haired
Young man walking toward me in the
corridor. with uncertain steps. / asked
what he waa doing there.
He was blind. they told me. He had
been a printer: and his old employer.
TIL hts death. had paid the poor young
fellows salary to him but when his old
benefactor was no more. they separated
him from wife and little chiidren-to i've
in this home for The aged"
The queen took him 70 the palace. Then
a great desire To help the blind came on
her. Shr bought machine for print
ing in raised characters. and set her
protege 10 work on II.
He soon became proficient. and from
that time on earned a good living for HIM
self and family.
Then. one day, Carmen Sylva's secre-
tary came To her with news that Theo-
doreson. her blind printer. had perfected
a great invention.
1t was a new machine for rapidly and
cheaply emhossing books for the blind.
The queen patented IL. II was exhibited
at the Bucharest Jubilee exposition IN
1905. and 1t had already made enough
money to Justify the setting up OF a great
blind colony which Carmen Sylva's calcu-
lations showed her ought to finally become
almost self-supporting. Since 1904.
100000 have been loaned the colony from
the machines earned profits. And into
this colony there have been happily gath
cred all the painfully situated blind folks
of Roumania.
The poor blind Of France are happy 30
have Theodoreson books supplied to them
with lavish hand. They do not need a
colony. Some $1,000 OF them live In COM
fort on their own means or their families .
AS I have said. 1000 are provided for by
the French government. The remaining
Club OF Paris would not have II other
wise than that they should suf1ce, thus.
to their own needs while Yet living In
their families
Some kind of intense occupation is life
to the sightless. Therefore the sports or
darkness, working through their great
association see to il that all such as
them I'm accordance with their varying
capacities. from organists to ptano-tuners.
and from bruSh-makers dawn to paper
bag pastors!
AS for reading and music. why the
association keeps some 10000 books; and
some 1900 graphophopes or photographs
and 10000 music films from their supply
in constant movement over France.
The working blind OF France have strong
and ready elder brothers Let them play
STERLING HELLO.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-03

for those mind-readers: though of course.
the flush took the pot. And in the two
other hands I saw played. there was the
same mingling of sureness with nerve and
reserve that gives one the impression
that these Sports of Darkness. battling
together in the void. have triumphS that
our groSSer sight sensations know not.
Once the Whtefaced invalid laid down
a straight against a three-card draw-and
he was justified. because that draw was
composed of three deuces. The other
time, the great financer's nephew slammed
back a cool thousand against a try of two
queens to steal jack pot. Was 1t nerve
alone that moved him to back so mag
nifcertly his plain pair of kings?
Were it not that their faces sometimes
give them away" / said, I'D back those
men against any full-sight players"
They've beaten full-sight players every
time they've met laughed the libra rian.
Cards and music are their intense pleas
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-03

painful EXultation, disap pointment,
natural hesitancy struggled on his I'M
guarded face-no longer now a buffer.
for he had three aces. He spoke no word.
He seemed to be careful not to move a
muscle.
The flush. in tone OF resigned curiosity.
bet a small chip-the smallest. The weak,
white invalid came with HMM one word.
What would the astute financial scion
do with his three aces? Hoist the four and
three-card draws as they deserved?
] think he must have waited full two
minutes During that time neither of the
others seemed to breathe. They were
hiding in the backness, and he sought to
find them.
Then. he just pushed up the little chip
that called,
Il was an intellectual Stand-off all round
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-03
Special Correspondence Of las Star,

Special Correspondence Of las Star,
FAT.IS Septe.r.her ~, 1905,
HAVE sce:1 the most poignant game
of poksr IN the world.
During the fTc minutes 7 was al
D., lowed - observe u"I was aIn,os,
breathlAss with It's i,pma:er'a' we!
silent strain
The players We're like pure inteIl!gences
battling together in eternal VOID The
room was bright. luxurious: but the rich
sports sat III darkness. No one but me
saw the deal or draw, No one spoke hut
the brief necessary words No one-but
n!e-saw the players faces,
Il was at the rich blind mems club of
Paris where 1 might not photograph the
scene Among the sports WHO sit In
darkness there are Observation-Disclosures. men
Of great families bearing world-isnown IL
ties. heads of houses even lost 10 the
world by their blindness.
Among. them ere blind men who dress
with meticulous coqUetry-faultlessl
frock-coated. gorceously waistcoated, in
high hats of eight reflects" that might
serve a pretty woman for q mirror. There
are those who wear eyeglasses. glance
round as If taking interest and pat their
paid guides Sayly on tho shou.der-not to
Nave the look Of being ed,
There ara Others. powerful r their
family inference AVID riches, who so mo-
rose. slouchinc in net-Iectful clothes They.
care nothing for publicity. Their only real
Conpa r ioUS-fell0w -ClubmCn-canrut see
them. Two such. the librarian and the
director Of the TheCdorson book -embosa--
ing plant. posed for me in the general re-
ceptiOn room free to the blind men of all
Paris when they cali. for aid or sympa-
thy. upon their elder brothers
In this photograph, by the looks of the
gentlemen, you might imagine that they
have their siEht. Yet both are stone
blind. So the six blind sports in their
luxurious .cardro0Tr skinned their cards
with fleeing smiles of satisfaction or
frowns of impotence They have no ne
cesSity to train their faces.
So they use their voices for deception
or keep silence. One tall. salloW. sender
piunger-the forgotten scion Of "A family
foremost in the worlds finances-received
ace high on the deal. That man knew
each card before | saw it. at his elbow.
His light fingers read them by their cor
ner pointings with nonChalant deftnesS
tfat would battle Mr. Sheedy
l watched his ascetic face light up with
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-03

time. and henceforth knew only the life
of the citizen.
The love of the public put him twice
into the chair of Washington. and AFTER
he left the White House, having failed Oh
an lll-advised third effort to be- President.
he took A trim around the world, in which
perhaps his reputation mounted TO It's
zenith, for he was hailed everywhere oy
rulers and monarchs alike.
But when he came back to the United
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-03
StingIess.

THROUGH the late Ira D. Sankev was a
total abstainer. he did not believe
that mankind was as yet sufficiently
civilized to allow total abstinence TO pre-
vail.
Discussing the temperance movement
with reporter. NJ. Sankey one day
said in Brooklyn:
1T will not be a temperate world till
everybody in it perceives and loathes the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-03
NneCdOte8 Concerning
Well-KnOWn PEOPLE.

uglness OF drunkenness. As it is. there
are too many men like a chap 1 once sat
next TO i'm a street car
lie was poorly clad and dirty--a tramp
i'm appearance-and his companion was
of the same stamp. His companion was
reading piece of newspa per. and now
and then leaned forward to comment on
the news.
What do you think of this?' l heard
him say. 'Feller drowned in a beer vat
in Milwaukee Yesterday.
The other rolled his eyes and said:
20 - -th, where is thy stinge'''
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-03

Ballooning has become so common in
Paris that it is nothing out of the or
binary for a French gentleman who
wants to entertain to phone to his friends
order a balloon, have a hamper made up
and take the party for a cioudland Jour
ney far from the heat and noise OF the
city.
The Aero Club has large park for the
lettering and filing of balloons. and a
member is much sought after by women
who want the novel joys of being enter
tanned on rides through the clouds.
Among the first American women VINO
We're permitted to go up as guests OF the
Climb were Mrs NewbOld Edgar and Mrs.
CORTLAND Bishop
without showing the least sign of con-
Germ they went up in the air, far above
Paris. and reveled in the joys or ina.
which is said to outclass every form OF
riding for luxurious comfort.
Both became SO enthusiastic that on
their return to the United States they I'M
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-03

States he found his means were not large.
In order 10 live he had to engage in bust
ness. Lacking the needful knowledge.
he proved an easy mark for the designing.
and his failure plunged others into failure
and sadly damaged his reputation.
Old and ILL., brol1en-learted by his fall
ure Cen. Grant nevertheless bravely set
10 work TO write his memoirs. and the
publication of that work kept him from
paupariSm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-03

ment for TIE card tax. supplies ali clubs
ard gets their re5a.N for e, m OF all "a
turned ac~s % Spades to prove that the
: ghfly USED 7scsS.s l-.rS not h>11 ->espi6-
Trey ara usual playing cards with ern-
bossed points added IN the upper i,ft-hant
corners. but two Of these consimmat'
blind sports actually played a game o.
ocarte with ordinary une1nbossed cards
Their representative. delicate. S!en te-
fingers felt The forms of ink prints on the
faces
Any o. the players could a: once dis
tinSu;sh the feei OF a picture card: and
most could call off the denominations o /:
piD-carCs. ace. deuce, tray. four. five and
SO on. Feeling the suits is more delicate.
and calling the suit and the value OF a
picture card is the height OF this blind
mans tour de force.
Fo. years past. It has been the rious
accomplishment: Of many high society
French ladies to point MSS books. page
after page. i'm order that the previously
swell and cultured members of this unique
Blind Mems Club might keep up with the
science. literature. poetry and fiction of
the day
Previously SWELL Even the rich and
happy sometimes 60 blind very strangely
IN the library. ! saw a fashionable young
fellow who has yet his eye sight: Yet he
took q feveriSh interest in the titles of
the volumes and their places on the
shelves
He is going steadily blind" they told
me. Science cannot help him. a year
ago he saw with slight blur Now. he
bumps against people in the twilight. The
great oculists say that the disease is
spreading. surely, as an oil spot that
grows larger
The unfortunate young fellow, in prep
aration for his coming blindness. has al
ready Joined the club-and spends his
time fixing all its details in his memory
for future need I'll have a lot to read"
I heard him say.
Five thousand such MSS. blind men 9
hooks. for the most part in fiction. form
the very personal treasure OF the library.
Each volume stands for months Of patient
labor done by so-called frivolous women.
themselves fortunate, happy. tempted to
enjoy each hour of their bright days.
Up to the invention of the Theodoreson
embossing machine. it was one or the
faithful works of the Rich Blind Mems
Club of Paris to lend out five or six thou
sand of it's ordinary press-embossed books
to the working blind of Paris. Now that
club has acquired French rights from
Carmen sylvia and her proteee to use
that wonderful contrivance. the blind OF
al, France are being lavishly supplied
with gratis modern books, a monthly
magazine and weekly paper.
There is scarcely need in France FOR the
club to attempt what Carmen sylvia mas
done for the poor blind Of Roumania.
Even the French government. recoS-
nizing the strong family solidarity and
general thriftiness that so protects them:
grants financial aid to only some 700
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-03

in her enjoyment of mans newest means
of transit.
She has even essayed the aeroplane on
which experts arc now working in hope
of producing a practical means by which
mankind and womankind may emulate the
flight of the birds. and give the final laugh
to specific gravity.
Only a few days ago Nine. Therese
Pelltier. a young sculptress of merit.
gained herself the distinction of being the
first woman to master the aeroplane.
She made her first flight with NJ. Della
grange on the Military Square at Turin.
AMI after having been up with him for
several minutes. essayed to make an
ascent alone. She did not go very far up,
and the flight only lasted for two minutes.
but even at this short duration 1t was
enough to establish a record. and to show
that for every forward advance man
makes In the great problem of aerial navi
cation he will find some woman close be
hind and ready To do likewise.
Mrs. Henry Farman. wife of the dis
tinGushed FRENCH navigator who recent
ly accompanied by his spouse. spent some
time in this country. is woman who has
figured III a number of noted flights.
Although SIC is rich and was brought
up in London. no one would ever think
so. for she has been transformed by Il
ten-ycar residence in Paris, and speaks
French like native.
She has been UP many times in balloons.
but was only recently for the first time
allowed to make a trial of the flying ma
chine and was so e.ated over her sue
cess that she has been promised chance
TO repeat it in the near future.
- In number of cities clubs of women
aeronauts are being formed, and the am
btion of all their members is to go one
step further in daring than the sister
members.
For once it is not American women who
have led the way In this mania for bal
looming.
French Woman the Leader.
y French woman. Mines du Cast.
most noted spOrtswoman, who is hunter
and great automobiles and who became
famous when she was kidnapped in Mo
rocco. set the example in devotion to
. aeronautics as the most diverting of
sports.
The Aero Club of France leads the way
in the science of navigating the air and
naturally those women who are lucky
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-03

VRT TOMAN'S love of daring is now
finding its favorite indul-
MAJ SenCc in aerial navigation.
Wv Swimming. boating, automo-
billing, all these have become
tame in the esteem Of the modern daugh-
ter of Ne. who is never SO happy as when
she is defyinS the laws of safety.
The transit of the g. Il new science
a new sensation. gives her just the JOY
she needs, and the thrill of dangling
from the swaying wicker basket at the
end of a huge gas bag is the last word
in enjoyment.
In fact. the. fair aeronaut has not stop
ped at ballooning.
She has even advanced a step fur; her