davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-12-01
NEW POOL RECORD

New York, Dec alfred De ORC
broke his own worlds record of 20
balls for a continuous run at pool here
last night in winning the WORLDS
championship from Jerome Keogh. He
ran five straight frames and a part of
the sixth for total tally of 81 sue
cessive balls
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-12-01

Hot Clam Boui11on with salt sprays
Elite Confectionery Co
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-12-01

In her petition the baroness declared
she had paid .s1.50O.OOO to settle her
hus bands gambling and stock ex-
change debts. and that ser father had
once furnished 100000 for the same
purpose. The baron i said TO be in this
country in search of quiet and rest.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-12-01
HUN ING SEASON COSTS 113 LIVES
ACCORDING TONEW5PAPER COMPILATION

Chicago I'LL, Dec closed yester-
ibune
than d
the for he shooting hunter
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down the river nearly every day during
the excursion season with the old Jane
Moseley (eheu! doesn't that name bring
the Old memories backD. the Jane Nose
ley being bound for Monte Cristo. after
ward Blackstone Island. and the Ar
menta, being built on that grayhoundsh
Ilan spoken Of. used to make a CHM
panzee Of the Jane Moseley just as often
as the two shippers decided to hook up
for the sprint of sixty and odd miles.
And then the young 'uns tnow worrying
about their waistlnes) would range them
selves along the rail when the Ar
menia was co1laring the Jane Moseley,
down below Mount Vernon, and make
faces at the kids lining the rail of the
Jane Moseley, and treat EN- with derision
and scorn and things. for sportin blood
is q fluid developed at a very early age,
and we never quite get over the tickled
feeling that we experience when we hap
pen to be aboard any old kind of a con-
traption that's faster than the other fell
lows.
Well. we'll. and what's become of the
tunes that the wonderful four-piece band
used to play on the way down to and
back from Lower Cedar point on the
Armenia?
Beautiful music, too-honest. Songs of
a sort that are never written any more;
and this ID said with all due allowance
for the fact that one is more or less
bound to consider the things OF his very
young youth better than the things OF his
maturity ] suppose. really, that that
four-piece band on the Armenia
wasn't much o. a musical organization,
and that If l heard IL now I'd feel ike
beating II from the deck where II was
Playing and going below to have buzz
the day which that old band played
were songs!
There aren't any songs today like
White Wings The songs of today are
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somehow, the clients wouldn't come.
"But the children were coming right
along, and when 1t came to the point
where 1t looked as II l was never going
capacity Of q lawyer I was forced to
look around for something else.
II was among the early ones to take
advantage Of the civil service law when
it was first put into effect. I took an ex-
a NINA ton. and after few months got a
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. appointment In one
of the Washington departments. brought
the family along to Washington, and We
settled in little house UP on Capitol Hill
and began to live out our destiny. There
wasn't much in sight for me as q gov
eminent clerk, especially as I got into y
division where there were no promotions
worth mentioning. And, as say, had
an unusually large family. and my II 200
didn't go very far. counting the cost of
shoes and frocks for the girls and the
education Of the young ones and 50 on.
can ook back now and see that 4 was a
mighty discouraged sort OF a man at
that time: discouraged and disappointed
with myself.
Then Benjamin Harrison came along
to the United States Senate from Indiana
/ didn't look him mp when he came here
never was man to 90 looking up proni.
nent men from my state; hated that sort
OF thing, and couldn't see myself cooling
my heels In Capitol corridors and FUN
bling my hat and asking for favorA So
I didn't look Mr.. Harrison up. It wasn'I
very comradey, my not looking him up
either. considering that I'd been In his
regiment and all that sort Of thing. hu,
] feared that he might consider that
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RECOLLECTIONS OF GOOD OLD DAYS"

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ment that wasn't maudlin. like tho stun
of the present day about When arst
/ seen dear Ethel in dear old Manitoba
where the luffiy magnolias bloom" anad
SO on; songs that were musical and
singable and beautiful.
point on the Armenia the young fel
lers they wore Prince Albert coats
and fat derbies and crocheted neckties
and toothpick shoes and 50 on in those
days. and the girls would become still
more sentimental. especially If there was
shores of Virginia or Maryland, and
they'd fall to singing the old Stephen
Foster songs: .'Old Kentucky Home.''
.'Massa's in the Cold, Cold Ground
"Suwanee River" and so on.
The four-piece band would break N
upon such singing occasionally with a
blithe, giddy rendition of Pop Goes the
Weasel" and every time the tune hiksd
around the pop" part of It the gay.
debonair pilot with the highly twisted
mustache would give tug at the whistle
to sort o. lend gayety and verisimilitude
to the rendition: and the young 'uns
would regard that pop" OF the steam
boat whistle as the most humorous and
wonderful thing In the world and would
talk about 1t for days and days.
Pretty generally, as the gallantry OF
the young folks increased on the four
hour ride home they'd all fall to singing
THE Spanish Cavalier" and IL was some
song. too. This would be followed by
when First Took Nellie Home which
was one of those really gulpy things, the
notes of which caused you to vow in your
soul that you'd never break of loving
her until the very last crack OF doom.
When the sa-adness and sentimentality
Of this was becoming almost oppressive
some OF the gayer spirits would break
into John Browns Body" leaving of
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haven't got the logic or the sense of COM
mon justice TO admit 1t.
"Of course / don't expect to nave
Nine. de stael for a wife-oh. you
wouldn't know who she was II l told you
hint | sure would like to experience the
satisfaction ct feeling that my wile knew
something more than face powder and
biased cores. :
.Hox's that? I've always said that
despised puffy -wuffy women that mas lheu
thew had brains. and I've said thal a.
soon be married to green eraSshoppei
as to an intellectual woman or any pe-
c,es, and every time l come into CONTACT
with a woman like that l try to bully ner
into my way Of thinking about everything
and refuse to treat her civilly ana mat
..Oh, go right ahead. Go right on; rus
things in my mouth. Put the nun NJ ~ a. 2.
and Talmud in my NOUN. ia u"eu ~ -
I'm used to everything. ,,,
..When YOU get through perhaps you ~
he good enough to permit me 70 nudge ~,
the statement that l never IN my ne saio
any such a thing as that dldnt IKE IN
teiIectual women What l may possibly
have said was that didn't like women OF
the fhluestocking variety. There s a neai,
of difference between the two, put
haven't got the time or the Inclination To
draw up diagrams showing you these
differences.
Say, why do you think you've got 10
bark back at me that way every time
open my face around here and say few
little needed things? Why do you persist
in following that comeback system:
But. shucks, The hull business, as I've
said time and again. is my own blooming
fault. Maybe IN learn some time. Maybe
by the time they are ready to tote me out
feet foremost I'll have learned just about
enough to last me over night, and onat
ol1s
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M r.

doings in the House OF Representatives,
he suddenly concluded that Mrs. Grump
wasn't understanding what he said. Il
might just as well climb to the top OF
the Washington Monument and explain
the row over Speaker Cannon to the
fou, winds of heaven.
you're sitting there with CLASSY stare
hin your eyes. wondering whether you'd
better have that new rajah skirt made
with pleats or with bias cores. or some
thing like that, and pretending-merely
pretending-that you're hearing what I'm
saving and that you have working I'M
Outstanding of the subject In hand.
"How's that? You don't profess TO
know much about what's been happening
i'm Congress- but you're willing to ma
out something about it and you've listen
ed 10 every word l said?
Huh. OF course. But l reckon can
tell whether a woman's intent upon
what's being said to her or whether her
mind, or what she elects to call her mind.
is whirling in a sort Of a vacuous vor-
tex about 1900 leagues away.
..IIi-hurn, What's the use. anyway!
What right have l got to expect anything
else. What license has a man got these
days to expect to enjoy such thing as
mental companionship with his wife?
Dye know. there are times - as AZ
present, for instance-when / come TO.
and then I have sort Of a srtsly inter-
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wanted something from him. and so
stayed away from him.
II didn't even clap eye upon Mr.. Har-
rison for quite Q number OF years after
he came to Warrington as a senator.
Then. one holiday, was walking along
the Avenue when he came up behind me
and called me-addressed me by my first
name, too. He wasn't ebullient or en-
thusiastic or anything of that sort, re-
just called out to me, using my
first name. and / turned around, and we
walked along and chatted.
HE asked me all about myself and he
got it out Of me gradually. I told him
that / didn't amount to much. that was
jammed into q billet that offered little or
no chance Of promotion. and 80 on.
He was sort Of thoughtful an I spoAe,
and presently we fell to talking about
civil war experiences.
Prom that he opened up gravely. yet
sensfbly and smack to the point. Asked
me II I'd been able to buy any kind OF q
home for myself In Washington. OF
course. told him that had not been
able to DO anything Of the sort.
well, that seemed to sort Of bother
HIM. He reminded me that was sort OF
getting on, that a man OF my age ought
to have roof that he could call bis own.
and that sort of thing. l agreed with
him. But l ventured to suggest that
$1.2O year wasn't the kind Of money
that enables Q man with . large FAMILY
to buy q home In the city Of washington.
I'm going up on Capitol HUI he said
to me. Come along for the ride, and. as
lived up that way, I was perfectly
agreeable.
when we got up on the hill he got of
tie car q couple Of squares beyond the
Capitol, and. taking side street, be led
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Rather Previous.
MAYOR LYONS of Mobile $

KHAYOR LYONS of Mobile said in
AVA recent interview:
mo: cannot pronounce judgment ON
this question yet. Do you take me for
Judge Taliaferro?'
Judge Taliaferro." the mayor explain
ed with a smile, was holding court back
before the war in the little courthouse of
Chronicle. 1t was a cloudy spring after
noon, and a very difficult and puzzling
case was on. The lawyers wrangled,
quoted from great lawbooks and broke
into grand flights OF eioquence, while
Judge Taliaterro listened solemnly, or
gazed out Of the window at the approach
Ing storm.
ut grew darker. The Judge snatched a
sheet of raper, scrubbed line or two
upon It,, and. placing it beneath a paper
weight, took up his hat.
Colonel he said briskly to the lawyer
who had the floor, excuse me TO- inter-
ruptin yuh. sub: and ! want that you
should go right on with you argument.
TO it's a, good one But It's suah goin'
to rain this even, colonel. an I just
hatchery got to set out my sweet potatoes
right away. But you go right on. colonel:
an. majah. you follow him up: an when
you two gentlemen get through you'll
ind my decision under this heah weight
"And the Judge disappeared through the
door before the lawyers had trina to ex-
change one astontshed glance"
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A "BiII Bailey" Joke.

A n actor talked sadly OF WIZ Cannon
~ author Of "Bill Bailey and Goo
goo Eyes," who died In poverty last
month In Michigan.
Poor BILL he said, was too happy
go-Iucky to save, but then he didn't get
out of his songs the profit that good
business man would have got. Bill was
too Eighty to do much business.
"One April Fool day in Shawmut he
and I entered q BARRIERS to be shaved
The shop was empty. The barber had
slipped out somewhere Well have some
fun said Bill, and, throwing off his coat
and hat. he drew on q white Jacket.
IAN old gentleman came In.
Shave sir?' asked Bill, politely
Yes. please: close.
"Bill lathered him up and rubbed the
lather in with his fingers. Then he lath-
cred him again. and. going to the rack.
put on his coat and hat. lighted cigar
and calmly started out.
Here said the old man. sitting UP in
the chair. aren't you going to shave me?'
"'Oh no. SIN said Bill, with a look of
surprise We only lather here, sir They
shave four doors below
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That Settled It.

SUPERINTENDENT OF INSURANCE
- WILLIAM H. HOTCHKISS said at
dinner in New York
There are not so many people buying
annuities from the insurance companies
as there used to be- This, perhaps. speaks
well for human nature. An annuity hold
or. you know. Is apt to be selfish.
Il heard the other day. though. OF an
annuity holder against whom the charge
Of selfishness could not be brought.
sThis man lived on and on. Year a5ter
wear his annuity was paid. Finally. wnen
his ago seemed about ITO. the COMPANY
sent a special agent to his house to make
sure that James Montrose In his proper
person was really getting the annuity.
..rha seant found James Montrose. an
aged man. but hale making 8 chicken
coop in the back yard. ,...r
he asked.
"'Yes. sir; am the old man answer
ed.
".Are you the Mr.. Montrose VINO draws
the annuity from the Dash company .
"sYes. sir; am. and my father pelore
me- said the old man..
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st. Thomas of Canterbury.

From the London Chronicle.
The festival OF ST. Thomas OF Cah'e'
bury. from being perhaps the most pop-
lar Of saints days in England mas " a.
fallen into complete desuetude' anu
revival is not advocated by even 'he ~
fervent of Anelo-Catholics. 1t was Henry
VIII who destroyed the Beckett trao,l'o,.,
The king was (as always In neeo -
money. and the shrine of St. Ihoniao o,,s
Canterbury Cathedral seemed a suaas ~
object for Iegaiized loot. SO ID 100 the
order was Issued that the bones nr;nes
saint should be. burned and the oa e three
made at the shrine-the trophies ol The
centuries and a half--forfeited uoor,zsd.
crown. Beckett was TO be uec ,a;r name
his image to be destroyed and me The
erased from all the service BOOKS .srhe
work was faithfully performed s..nley
name OF Geta," writes Dean ed 10y
s.has not been more carefully era,t o,
his rival brother on every nionuinei'
the Roman empire"
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people who'd make me smoke up men-
tally and all that. I'd enjoy the clash OF
opinions and the jar OF controversy.
But no, instead of following this sys-
tenn. what do I do? Why, when | come
home here from my hard day. l hang
around my home. and presently some
thing takes a-hold Of my mind or seizes
my imagination and 1 begin to spout
little about it, and almost Immediately
I'm confronted by your glassy-eyed stare,
and then, as now. for example. l am
made conscious of what a big lummox
am for expecting anything else but what
I get.
won't always go on this way around
here Situations Of this sort can't last
always
"A man with a mind above that of
wood tick has got to have some kind OF
mental companionship IL he's not to dry
up and blow away ike an abandoned
ant HILL and l tell you what. when l re-
fleet upon what a desert place, intel
lectually speaking. my home is to me, it
makes me desperate, simply desperate.
There's no particular need for me to
spend all Of my leisure time around here,
you know. There's no law compelling me
to do 1t, and I'm net SO Internally old
that wouldn't be able to change my hab-
its of living.
Even if / am not crazy just now over
that going-downtown thing of evenings.
why could mighty easily form the habit.
and if / ever get into that way of doing
there wouldn't be one chance In eighty
millions that I'd ever resume the old dry
as-dust scheme of hanging around this
dreary plant all the time
"WOmen-WiVes, I mean-never seem to
wake up to it that they're making mis-
takes before it's too late, and then, when
they've lost out and all of their world
comes crashing about their ears, why.
they go moaning around seeking sympa-
thy and wailing about how they've been
abused and outraged. and all that sort or
moonshine, when the whole Internal mess
Is always their own fault, only they
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morrow. Maybe we'll have to wear our
fur coats and complexion-screening wells
and winter hats and things. Then, again.
maybe we'll have day that'll enable
us to spring all of the new and -tee-rinc-
ally expensive and spiendiferous personal
investiture upon the marveling stroiiers
on the Broadway of the Sea.
All depends. every bit of II, upon the
attitude of Boreas and the grouchy In
dividual perpetually referred to by the
base ball reporters as Jup. Pluv.
Last Easter Sunday down here, al
though it was about two weeks later
than this years Easter, was brilliant
with sunlight, but cold; not chilly or
sharp, or eager or keen, anything miti-
gated or ameliorated like that; but just
plain. downright. out-and-out cold. The
brilliant sunlight wasn't equal to the job
of dispelling the cold. And the disgust
of the husdreds of thousands Of Board
walk paraders was distinctly manifest:
particularly the disgust OF the feminine
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Hardly.

DR. HARVEY ". WILEY at dinner
II in Washington said. apropos OF Eas-
ter and eggs:
"A school teacher told me an egg stofJ
the other day He said he was giving a
geography lesson and in the course of .
description of the tropics he told all about
the cocoanut and the cocoa palm. III
tie girl held up her hand.
Cocoanuts don't grown on trees. 40
they, sir?' she said, with puzzled froWn.
why, of course, they do said tne
teacher. ''Where did you think they grow
Hannah"
II thought the monkeys laid EN-. shs
answered.
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are really big don't

are really big don't wear their hearts
upon their sleeves. They're reticent.
They're difident. They don't reveal them
selves; and thus they become wide open
to criticism and misconception.
I've bit Of story to back me up
that it's generally a mistake to label this
or that big man as being such and such.
my story concerns BENJAMIN Harri-
sou. BENJAMIN Harrison. you know. went
to his grave with the popular reputation
of being cold man. a sort Of human
icicle : I thought that OF him myself
until
well, anyhow, was In Benjamin
Harrison's Indiana regiment. went into
his regiment as buck private ana ]
came out the same. had known Mr..
Harrison before the war. but had never
beer particularly chummy with him. He
advanced in rank right along, wheteas !
stuck TO the ranks. But he had re-
markabIe memory, as you viii see.
After the war studied law ont in
Indiana, and Ment to practiciug. didn't
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and wear just those filmy. sleazy-weazy
wells over their hair. knotted with little
knots under their ears-they look just
as enchanting and appealing as usual.
thanks Hats are all right and no hats
are equally all right. 1t all depends upon
the twist and the effect. The girl with
the nuttering veil-ends knows certain ex-
tremely winsome effects In the manage
ment Of the fluttering ends. and she
uses 'em like q Spanish senorita manipu-
lating q fan for the captivation ana
esquelchment of her victims.
wen in fact. eli of them are all
right! CLARENCE L CULLEN.
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He Snubbed the Emperor.
rom the London Globe

From the London GloDe.
It is not often that the German en-
percr allows himself to be snubbed by
one Of his own subjects. but an actual
instance occurred last summer. His maj
esty was on board the Hohensollern and,
approaching q certain German port on.
the North sea, the imperial yacht took on
. pilot. and this authority posted him
salt at the wheel.
The emperor, who regards himself as
a perfect master Of steering, stationed
himself In the vicinity OF the pilot and
suggested giving him q hand at the
wheel
The rough sea dog, not recognising the
emperor. turned round with q snarl.
Are you pilot or am II" he growled.
Amased, Wilhelm II retired crestfallen
to his stateroom. But he thought better
Of II, and In few minutes returned to
the bridge and in great humility laid q
bcx 30 cigars beside the pilot, with the
remark:
Thou art the pilot"'
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lacking. generally. in the germ of mu.
steal idea. And how about Wait TIL
the Clouds Roll By? Do you hear any
songs nowadays like when the Robins
Nest Again" or when the Leaves Begin
10 FaU"? How about "A Lighthouse By
the Sea-? and Gathering Up the Shells
From the Seashore"? Yes. and poor
Fritz Emmet's immortal Sweet Violets,
and likewise his "Lullaby?. III Await
NV Love" was another of those old ones
of the Armenia day. THE Notices
On Our Wall was another. So was
annie Rooney Likewise. Paddy Dur
fy's Cart Whole rats and slews ana
slathers Of songs that had genuine sent-
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a word of the refrain with each repeti-
ton of it. until finally there was nothing
left of it but the John.
zone wonders il they do that any more
on the Potomac river boats of this gray
epocho
Then. when the Armenia would touch
at Shepherds point on the way home the
singing young people would strike into
Maryland, My Maryland, and
Here I'm Numbering off into bunch
of recollections of steamboat music, Wnen
! started of to talk about just the old
steamboats, themselves. WANTED. for exam
pie. to become expansive about the George
Leary, that used TO go to Chap But was
1t the George Leary that went to Chapel
point. and why is it that the name
Chapel point never appears in the eAcur-
sion ads. any more. anyhow! Is there
such a place as Chapel point. nowadays!
Maybe it wasn't the George Leary that
went to Chapel point; 1t might have oeeh
the Lady of the Lake. you know: one
forgets. Anyhow. the Lady of the LAKE
used to drop down O. Saturday nights 10
Piney point-and it seems at least ia
years since I've even thought of the name
of Piney point. much less heard II men
toned.
1 fully intended too, to write a lot OF
things about when the old w. W. Cor
coran used to go down to Mount Vernon
away back yonder, and how the bells OF
all the steamboats, were toled land are
yet. / presume and hope) when they
swung by Mount Vernon, and l was going
To ask what on earth has ever become OF
GIymont, and to inquire if the old Mary
Washington. that used to be the ferry o De-
tween Washington and Alexandra, sun
R,,t pshaw! now one remembers thai
the poor old Mary Washington, too. was
burned to the waters edge years ana
years ago.
/ wonder il il can be possible that any
body around here is growing old. be.
cause this habit of living in the past Is a
pretty bad indication, viewing 1t from any
old angle that you choose to take. lsn NJ
CLARENCE L. CULLEN.
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On Love-.

CT HE Countess of Cardigan SAID
Chicago editor, has lately WIZ
ten a very wicked and amusing voiunie
Of memories. The countess IS o'e'
eighty, but she still goes out. ! met he''
last season, at a dinner in Beisra'e
Square.
"She made at this dinner, an epigram
on love.
Love she said, SIS at twenty pa.
sion, at forty an art and al siAls
vice."