davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-13

Here's a chance for Virginia and Y. p. T..
to do likewise. such pity that negotia-
tons cannot be opened. Why not leave
the question to the alumni associations Of
tho two schools In Richmond? That would
bo a suro way and tho very beat, Tor the
reason that some OF the members OF these
associatons were students at the time the
troublo arose and are probably In bot
ter position to discuss IL than the men now
at college.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-13
put ON to mako Thorn look new.

Nothing donnltc has yet becn done re-
eardIng tho game next year between Har-
ward and Princeton ON tho gtidlron. a con-
ference OF tho representatives OF the two
schools was held. but no real information
waa given out. still some hope Ia held out
that Tho two will got together.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-13

Patsy Powers, OF the Eastern League. will
likely step down and out at the meeting
of that organization in New York to-mor-
how. Powers has made a good man, and in
some quarters it is believed that he could
be reelected If he would take the job. f.
D. Barrow is slated as his SUCCESSION.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-13
stopping all of this talk.

stopping al OF ms talk.
He will enforce the salary limit II any
body will and the league authorities had
better put stop to this tSll1 about all the
teams connivlns 10 do away with the salary
limit 1t doesn't do tho game any good and
puts a bad taste in the mouths OF the fans.
That's rather dangerous thing to monkey
with.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-13

"When Congress enacts these laws
and they are rigidly enforced, eNtor-
ton, injustice and commercial cruelty
OF monopolies will be placed on the
same basis as other crimes and VIII pc
no more respectable in the community,
said Governor Stubbs.
The speaker favored the developments
Of the Mississippi, Missouri and ONO
Rivers and declared that "the American
people are being robbed every year OF
enough money by unlawful comhina-
tions, trusts and monopolies to build
this entire work I"
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-13

ject for PUBIC crltlcIsW, anu 1e V"eI
to he publicly branded. SO that ne couio
be forever after Identified.
Governor Stubs strongly opposed
appointmcnt of or election of judges
for a life term; urged an income tax
law; q mandatory law providing a
prison sentence for persons or olhcers
Of corporations who are responsible ioi
unlawful combinations in restraint OF
trade, and also providing a receiver
Shall operate such corporations until
assurance is given they will obey the
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-03-27

CALLED on a friend the other day
and the maid who opened the door
= said that her mistress was in the
attic
The day was rainy; 1 knew my friend
and | knew her attic and that nothing
short of a cyclone would bring her out OF
il. if she happened to be in straight
ening things OUT mood. So without
hesitation, I climbed afterwards.
What are you doing?" l painted. as
dropped breathless on the nearest trunk
at hand.
"Oh, lust looking over all this, T" with
a vague gesture over the chaos. You're
sitting on Fred's coffin she added cas-
ually.
What" I cried, and sprang over two
or three trunks with more agility than
l had considered myself capable Of
Fred, by the way, is her husband.
II call it Fred's coffin; it's trunk full
of letters and photographs of his OLD
sweethearts; there are shoals of them"
Reassured, I sat down again.
u shouldn't think you would care 10
have them lying about" 1 said.
Perhaps not. if ! knew what was IN
them, but 1 have taken solemn VOW
never TO open that trunk. Fred ought to
destroy those letters; they concern only
the women who wrote them and himself.
1t is not right nor wise to keep them. If
l were a jealous woman. / suppose
could not resist the temptation to read
them.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-03-27

back from the GAINESVILLE lead mines in
the Ozarks. He claimed that there was
wild man Twin in a cave somewheres
in the mountains north of GAINESVILLE,
who was neither more nor less than Esau
Brewster.
Nobody believed him at the time be-
cause he was natural born liar anyway,
but it turned out later that it was SO.
But Esau finly got tired Of wanderin an
one fine evenin' he walked into Judge
Werdner's office, gray-haired and
bumped over like a man of seventy.
I've come back to get hung or to get
buried, one o. the two he says. What
want now is TO lay my eyes on Perry
WethereH l reckon I've killed half a
dozen l thought was him, an I've lived
to jump at a sound an shy at a shadder
till I'm wore to the same. Now If Perry
wants to drink my blood, all he's got to
do is to load his gun an put a tin cup in
his pocket an come and hep himself. I'll
wait for him.
A" oh, shucksp says Werdner. That
amt no way to talk. This is a law-abid
in c'munity.' he says, AN we don't want
no shootin nor cuttin' The best thing
you kin do is to let me take keer of
them pistols, an I'll have Perry bound
over to keep the peace if he's obstrop-
lus.'
There halnt no peace bondn hold
down them Wetherells, says Esau. I
know the breed says he, an 1 reckon
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-03-27

IF the man does well to take his sis
ter's advice about the chara cter and
disposition of the woman ne is con-
templating marrying. a girl does even
better to submit the candidates for her
heart and hand to her brothers inspec-
ton.
There is something actually pathetic in
the spectacle of a poor, ignorant, inno-
cent, unsophisticated little girl trying to
pick out a husband for herself alone and
unaided. What does she know about
men? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. What
line has she got on the ins and outs of
masculine nature? None. Absolutely
none How is she fitted to judge of a
mans character, of his temper, of his
morals, Of his honor, even of his ability
to make a living?
She isn't fitted the least little bit in the
world But her brother is. She dOesn {
know anything about men, but her broth
er knows all about them. She hasn't any
rule by which to measure men, but her
brother is one of them
All her life the girl has been kept from
knowing the things about men that men
know about each other. Her Ignorance
has been carefully guarded and studiOusly
fostered, so that she really practically
knows about as much OF the habits of
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-03-27

up to the higher life. But when she tells
this TO brother, that hard-headed youth
says;
Just put this in your pipe and smoke II;
If a man doesn't do what's straight. ana
strong and manly Tor the sake OF MS
own manhood, he isn't going TO do it for
any woman He can't, because IT isn't
i'm him to do il. You can't make silk
nurse out of sow's ear, and you can't
make a real man out Of a flabby piece OF
putty; and so don't you play yourself FOR
a miracle worker, because you are not.
s'MatrimOny doesn't change a mans
tastes, Sis. It doesn't do away with MS
thirst, nor take the itch out OF his fingers
for the pasteboards, and before you had
con1bed the rice out OF your hair, jim
Wor'd be tumbling off the water
wagon again. I know how lQYable he Is
when he's himself, but I've seen him
Keeling in the street and babbling non
sense, and I've seen him with his face
sharp and thin and his eyes beady with
the gamblers madness in them, and you
haven't and I don't want you to be one
of the women. Sis. that sit up Of a night
waiting for the drag of drunken foot
up the street
advice about Bin Graham and he says:
"Ah, that's about the right size. Not
much to look at. Bill, and in no danger
of setting the river on fire with his bril-
liancy, but he's as square as they make
them and as staunch as the Rock Of Glib
raltar. He IS generous and just, and got
heart as tender as a childs, and II
you marry him he'll stand between you
and the world and keep you busy the
balance of your life burning Joss-sticks
to your luck"
It's the wise girl who passes up the for
tune teller and goes to her brother FOR
advice when she Is thinking OF getting
married.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-03-27

his long black mustaches curlin' up at
the ends.
1.-The day after he was let out Esau
got on to the train, jest as II was start
In an got the conductor let him set
in the baggage car, as a pertickler favor.
He had a big gripsack with him an the
boys on the train said he had pistol
in each of his coat pockets that he KEEP
his hands on; as he set facin' lords the
door.
when they got to st. Joe, he waited
till ever'buddy else had got off the train
afore he'd leave; an he wouldn't say
where he was a-goin or when he was
a-comin back. The on'y thing anybuddy
had to go by was letter he'd lef' for
the school trustees, resignin' his job o
teachin,' an another one. to John s.
Werdner, the lawyer, askin' him to look
after little farm he'd got in the Black
Crick bottom, an pay the taxes outen
it wasn't till more'n fifteen years after
that at him an Werdner had their set
| Element.
Wasn't Safe to Get Close.
1.-THE fust anybuddy heard of him was
when Bert Smalley came back from a
trip to White Cloud, Kansas. He was
| teachin' school there, then, an goin' by
the name of Elmer Brown, an he was
right we'll thought of, 'ceptin' that 1t
wasn't safe to go too close to his house
after dark, lessen you hollered out who
you was an what you wanted
Ter through the shoulder 'thout rhyme or
reason-a dark-complected Teller with
long black mustash-an' mighty nigh
had trouble over it. He said that he
mistook the Teller for another Teller, an
paid his doctor bill an gave him s25 to
pay him for the inconvenience; so they
settled it hathaway.
Bert never more than seen him,
though. AS soon as Esau saw who it
was he turned pale an scooted off at
sech a gait that Bert couldn't get any
where near him, an when Bert tried to
find him the mex day he'd left town.
"About four years after that Jerry
Ackerman's cousin, Pete, in Hannibal.
wrote to say that there was a Teller that
looked a heap like Esau Brewster clerk
in in a store there, On'y he was a heap
simmer an older loolKin' than what Esau
was. AS soon as Lawyer Werdner Nheard
about ii he wrote back to Pete Acker-
man, askin' him to investigate, but Pete
didn't get much chance to. because a
deputy sheriff from Holt county came up
to investigate, too an Esau got wind of
him an skipped the town. Seemed like
he'd killed a man In Mound City-a man
with a long, black moustach-who had
come up behind him an put his hand on
his shoulder kind o. student.
"a Wild Man LiVin' in Cave"
"The mex time there was any track
= r~.o,, xraS when Ed CuFney came
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-03-27
SweetheaYts and Wives
BY BEATRICE FAIRFAX.

heart comes, and claims her rightful place
in watch and on dressing table
Don't be so ready with your letters and
photographs, dear girls. Write friendly
letters, if you want to, but only give your
photos and heart sentiments to the man
you really care for
Perhaps you are a happy married wo-
man. If so do you like to think that
some other married woman is reading the
silly letters you wrote TO her husband
years ago?
They seemed very touching and tender
in the old days. but if you could hear
them read today, they would probably
sound extremely forced and silly.
Be Careful of Your Love Letters.
Just lear that in mind, girls. when you
are tempted to pour out your affection
in foolish love letters.
A real love letter can only be written
by person who really loves. All the
great love letters of the world have been
written when both parties were absolute
ly sure Of each others love.
If you are wife, don't be jealous of
past loves. The girls of yesterday cannot
snatch your happiness from you. You are
the girl of today, tomorrow and forever,
if you care to be.
Don't let your husband grow to feel
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-03-27
Vanity, Not Poverty,
A Girls Worst Enemy
BY wINIFRED BLACK.

20 it's poverty that is the worst en-
envy of the young girl. is 1t, Mrs.
- RefOrmerI
/ don't agree with you
/ never saw a good girl driven TO do
wrong by poverty in my life.
And If you will come to think it over,
neither did you.
By loneliness-yes.
By unkindness at home-Yes.
BY vanity and a fondness for dress
Yes.
Rv laziness and envy and a silly, emp
ty-6eaded desire for excitement-Yes.
By poverty, by hard work. by self-de-
nial-Never In the wide, wide world.
The best girls in the world are the
working girls. You know they're good
girls or they wouldn't be working. And
they are working because they are
No woman who was ever worth the
saving ever threw herself away be-
cause she was poor. Any girl who
amounts to a row of pins in paper
1vould kill herself before she would be
driven to any such way or getting out
she would scrub the stones in the
street for a living, and hold her head
nm with honest pride while she was
doing IL and it would never enter her
head TO offer her good name for sale
inst TO get a new dress or Chantecler
hat
Good girls are made of different ma
teriaI than that.
Can YOU make an honest man steal
because he wants a new tie. or thinks
he ought to have new hatT
Won cannot. An honest man is born
honest. and nothing but the most des-
nerate need of some one he loves will
ever make him anything else but hon
est
The poor girls who stumble and walk
IN the crooked dark paths that lead to
misery do not deliberately walk in that
path to get away from poverty. They
are called by stronger voices than the
voice of mere silly vanity.
Dress dress, dress-I get so sick Of
+he very sound of the word sometimes
that 7 wish we could all be Indians
and dress in a blanket, and be done
with II.
what are YOU talking about TO your
daughter, little mother? New clothes
YOURS and hers and the neighbors'?
Isn't there something else in the
world with which to fill that little
daughters head? Is ii so important to
her TO know the very latest styles, or
wouldn't II be better 10 keep her busy
enough so she wouldn't care whether
her dress was pink or blue. as long as
II was clean and comfortable?
And you, Mister Wise Man, who love
TO laugh at the vanity of woman. To
whom do you show the most attention?
The sweet. pretty modest little girl
who thinks of something besides her
own looks. or the Haunting human
paroquette who'd die IL she didn't have
the very latest hat and the newest
thing in spring dresses?
Vanity n cause for the ruin of young
girlS2 ves
Poverty? Never
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-03-27
w

Nv the on teller at Andue his
life msrubble count o. bein'
scarf Outen his boots half the time said
Washington Hancock when the comment
on his last story had come to an end
There was a silence in the circle that
was broken at last by the storekeeper.
oh, go ahead an tell it, he said You
might as we'll fust as last. All I hold
out for is at you won't lock the DOORS"
Il won't put a stun in your way"
Hancock assured him. I'll say right
here an now at anybuddy at wants to
go is welcome to. Mabbe l oughtn't to
tell it anyway. But 1 will"
'Less'n sOmebuddy chOkes yOu,'' sug-
gested Eben Baxter.
We'll, the Teller I had in mind was
Esau Brewster" said Hancock, crossing
one long leg comfortably over the other.
'Esau taught school over to Peavine
HOller way along back in the old days
when Sol had hair all over the top of his
head. He was a strappin' siX-fOOt, two
listed Teller as there was anywheres
around an he had to be to teach that
Peavne Holler school. They was
tough an ugly lot O. scholars there, an
there wasn't hardly a day when he
didn't have to lick two or three of 'em.
''Fin'ly a young" red-headed rooster.
name o. Jud Carson, tied his powder
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-03-27
UNEXPECTED PROMOTION

Bennys intellectual achievements were
far from not able, but in the eyes of his
small sister he was none the less won
derful parsonage. She keenly resented al
lusions to his lengthy stay in the last
desk row at school, although Benny him
self took quite a cheerful and philosophic
view of the matter
One afternoon the little girl appeared,
flushed and painting, in the library door
way.
Daddy" she explained, you promised
Benny a dollar when he got moved off
the bottom bench, and now he's up In the
next row with me-and," Benny himself
entered just then, in his usual uncon-
cerned way.
why, what's this I hear, my SOM"
his father welcomed him. I'm very glad
you've worked your way up" The boy
stared uncomprehendingly. Elsie says
you're in the second row now" his father
continued. in explanation.
Course, returned the youngster, i'm
perturbaby. Were all in the second
row-the bottom benchs being painted"
Youths Companion.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-03-27

He must be a dashing devil. and yet a
model of all the virtues.
OF course she doesn't find that kind of
a man. He doesn't exist-and so she sad
ly passes up the ambition to- marry her
ideal and begins to think of matrimony
on a common sense basis. She realizes
that a plain practical husband, who is
willing to stand for a shopping ticket, is
blessing not to be despised
Moreover. she finds out that she can
be exceedingly fond of a fat, freckle-
faced, bald-headed man, who doesn't
come within a million miles of realizing
her girlish dream of the sort of a man
she would permit to lead her to the altar.
Thereupon she turns to her sixth ambi-
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-03-27

4 WOMAN'S longing for a career is
| ~ either a manifestation of abnoT-
NAL vanity, pinching poverty or
domestic misery.
The natural woman cares little for
/ fame, or philanthropy; and when she
starts out on 4 still hunt for Il laurel
wreath, or undertakes to reform the
world, you can depend upon it that there
/ Is a pebble in her shoe somewhere. and
| that she is trying to distract her thoughts
/ from her sufferings by outside diversions.
! Generally speaking, the interests of q
/ girl who has a good home and a good
| father. able and willing to take care of
/ her, concern themselves wholly with mat
! ters of the affections. She wants to be
! loved. She expects to make love her
career in life. and she starts out with
these seven ambitions:
First-To be loved madly and roman
tically
SeeondZTo be the Only one.
Third-To be loved.
FOurth-TO marry her ideal.
Fifth-To get married.
Sixth-TO be a perfect wife.
Seventh-TO get along in reasonable
peace.
When a girl first begins to think Of
love, her standards are those of the novel
and the stage, and she wants to be wooed
in sizzling language by a lover who will
clutch her TO his manly breast in a way
that Will loosen her back hair. This is
the time when she thinks that love is
enough and 1t would be simply sweet to
starVe with a man who passionately
adored her but wouldn't work for her, or
to live In a garnet with an unappreciated
genius and be his inspiration.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-03-27
periods.

girl reaches tn third season she isn't so
particular about being the first woman
so that she is the last. She is willing to
lodging in the oft-occupied heart of
three-times widower if only she can be
sure that the affection that she is getting
is genuine.
Then she concentrates on attaining her
ideal. She doesn't know exactly what he
is but he is something that is a cross
between a demigod and the Count of
Monte Cristo. He must be big and strong
and able to command. He must be so
stern that others tremble at his frown,
yet let her wrap him around her finger.
He must be soulful. yet a money maker.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-03-27

! flash under Esau's chair an set fire to
fuse he'd got stuck in it. 1 reckon
Esau would have busted through the
roof if he hadn't heard the fuse sizz
an reached down an pulled it out.
When he seen the flask he knowed
whose 1t was an he whaled Jud with
in an inch of his life.
The mex day, a cousin o. Jud's, one
O. the Black Creek Wetherells came
up to the school house with cowhide
in one hand horse pistol in the
other, an allowed he'd learn Esau to
be mite pertickler whose kin he
flogged; but Esau was too spry for
him an laid him out with a hick'ry
stick he was jest a-goin' to jam into
the stove.
He didn't aim to do more'n crack
the feller's haid open, an he done that
but he opened it too blame wide an two
days after that this yer Wetherell up an
died.
well, Esau gave himself up to the
sheriff, but ever buddy knowed it was
jest happen-sO, an couldn't be he'ped
an he was let go; but whilst he was
in jail, the Wetherells an the Carsons
made a heap o. fuss an at the funeral
the corpse brother laid his hand on
the coffin an swOre. strike him blind
that he'd drink Esau's blood If he had to
foller him to hell an back
Perry Wetherell, that was, an he
was a turrble sight to look at that
day, with his big black eyes snappin an
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-03-27

I'll keep my hardware an give myself a
chance
"-I'n go see Perry says Werdner. You
stay right here till 1 go see him any
way. He's got a family an ought to
have warnin at you're here whether
or no.
80 he had his boss saddled right off
an rode off to Perry Wetherells place,
bout five mile out, an told him that
Esau was back an lOokin' for trouble.
"He Must Be Crazy" Says Perry.
Perry pulled his long black mustaches
an studied a while.
" He must be crazy he says at last
Dangerous, too he says, his voice
tremblin'. What's he tOtin' guns for me
for? l never done nothin' to him..
Don't you remember you swOre to
drink his blood, time O. Dams funeral?
says the judge.
oh, thatr says Perry. Is that it?
Well of ali thingsl Why, thunder, judge.
when a feller's brothers killed with
stick O. stovewoOd, he has to say suthin
He certainly hadn't ought to hold that
up against me-
80 the upshot o. that was that Esau
settled down on his little farm an moth
in never happened to him as far as
know. But they 90 say that Perry Weth-
erell was powerful uneasy as long as ne
lived after that
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-03-27

ton to be madly, POLITICALLY, and roman
ticaily loved. She has begun to get a lit
tie acquainted with the world as it really
exists, and ascertained that whatever
other charms and fascinations the aver
age man has, making picturesque love is
not one of them.
In consequence of these drawbacks, she
revises her ambition. She doesn't care
SO much for the mere words of love- but
she yearns to be the only one. She wants
to feel that Up to the time man met
her, his heart was a fortress that other
women had st0rmed in vain.
This hope fails also. Only debutantes
believe a man when he tells them that he
never loved before, and by the time a
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-03-27
By
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

So pity may shine through them.
Looking back
My faults and errors seem like stepping stones
That led the way to knowledge of the truth
And made me value virtue; SORROWS shine
In rainbow colors Ger the gulf of years,
Where lie forgotten pleasures.
Looking forth,
Out to the western sky still bright with moon,
/ feel we'll spurred and booted for the strife
That ends not till Nirvana is attained
Battling with fate, with men and with myself
Up the steep summit of my life's forenoon,
Three things I learned, three things of precious
worth,
To guide and help me down the western slope.
/ have learned how to pray, and toll, and save;
To pray for courage to receive what comes,
Knowing what to be divinely sent;
To toll for universal good since thus
And only thus good unto me-
To save, by giving whatso'er have
To those who have not-this alone is gain.