davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Washington times., 1911-12-11
Plenty of Material
For Jim Callahan

CHICAGO, Dec. n.-When James John
Callahan starts away for Texas next
spring he will have with him almost
two score White Sox players.
All Of the old staff with the exception
of Ambrose Mcconnell will be fighting
for places on the team, but there will
be no Charlie Hemphill doing stunts, for
he was turned back to the New York
Highlanders, and may pull UP as a
manager in the Southern League.
Callahan starts away with quartet
of catchers. Old Billy Sullivan will lead
the crew, with Jimmie Block as the
second string to the fiddle. Then there
is young Krietz. who made such a SEN
sation by defeating the Cubs in one
game of the city Series; Tom Carney, a
semi-pro player from Utica who comes
we'll recommended. and Glen Clemons,
who halls from Wichita.
TIE pitching staff will be led by Ed
Walsh and G. Harrison White. with q
number of worthless behind them, and
among them Jesse Baker, Jim Scott
Morridge, o. c. Peters. and L. w; Delhi
There are a lot of intielders besides
the regular crew, and besides Rollie
Zeider, Lee Tannehill. Harry Lord, Roy
Collins, Charley Mullen, w. B. Borton
NJ. Berghammer, w. r. Jones, D. Pad
dock, NJ. c. Roth and G. Weaver.
There will hardly. be q battle for the
Ping Bodie and Jim Callahan himself
| will be in the line. There Is other ma
,terial, however, in Patrick Dougherty
Rollie Barrows, w. H. Genest. "Chink'
Mattick, and Ray Powell =
This is some big SQUAD, and from thu
| lot Manager Callahan should develoI
team that should make a clever bic
for the American League pennant.
The Washington times., 1911-12-11
Name Your Team,

Would you show your baseball
knowledge and judgment in
choosing an All-Star nine COM
posed of American League
players? II you think you know
enough about baseball to do
this, go ahead.
Send in your selection Of an ALL
Star nine to the Baseball Ed
itor, The Times. Make It brief.
legible. and sign 1t with your
own name. not to be used un-
less you wish it. II you wish
to explain the reasons for your
choice in some cases. do so, but
do it briefly. There are sure to
be many fans who will want to
register their selections. and
space is precious.
Send in your selections right
away to the Baseball Editor,
The Times.
The Washington times., 1911-12-11
Georgetown Plays
First Game Tonight

Georgetown basketball team will get
started tonight on the Arcade floor,
when the Baltimore Medical School will
be played. The contest Is scheduled to
start promptly at o'clock. Coach Jim
Caulifower had his men out for final
practice yesterday. and his team Is now
we'll prepared to meet the goal shooters
from the Monumental City.
The visitors will undoubtedly be much
crippled without the services Of Scheur-
hoits, who has not teen reinstated by
the Amateur Athletic Union. Scheur-
holts is one Of the hest performers on
ford to lose him at this late time.
The Washington times., 1911-12-11
Basketball at Arcade tonight.

Prof. Darrieulat, maitre d'armes, was
telling me today that he is receiving
the greatest sort OF encouragement in
the formation of the Washington
Fencers' Club. which will shortly open
its regular season. Lieut.. A. c. Cum
ningham. U. s. N. has been In charge
Of the correspondence. and the indica-
tions appear to be that there Is to be
revival of interest in the sport of the
foils between now and the 1st of June,
when the season closes. An attractive
hall has been fitted up at 1870 4 street
northwest. and Prof. Darrieulat Is CIV
ing lessons thrice a week.
The Washington times., 1911-12-11
Now for track athletics!


That was some football game at Capt.
tai Park yesterday when the Vigilants
won a last-minute victory over the pick
team composed of former High School
students. A nothing to nothing score
would have better shown the way the
ball progressed up and down the field.
but a team that can successfully work
three successive forward passes de-
serves a touchdown, although 1t was a
poor kick that put the ball within
striking distance of the goal line. The
real feature Of the afternoon was the
punting Of Reggie Rawlings. For a
punter. with but little practice. to have
kicks averaging more than forty yards,
Is rather remarkable record. and drew
forth most favorable comment from the
crowd OF about I,5Oo. which included
The Washington times., 1911-12-11
McVey Clinches Title to
Australian Championship

BRISBANE, Queensland. Dec. IL
Sam McVey. of California, today Is the
undisputed heavyweight champion of
Australia. having defeated again Jack
Lester. of Gle Elum, WASH, in eight
rounds.
McVey won the championship first
from Lester last September, Just after
Lester won 1t from Bill Lang.
The Washington times., 1911-12-11
BOB TttAYER'S SPORTING GOSSIP
"EVERY KNOCK IS A BOOST"

many OF the best known football men
IN washington. or course, the picked
team had not practiced together enough
to work smoothly. and Manager Oliveri
would make no mistake in arranging
a return engagement. The crowd yes
terday was the largest Of the year at
Capital Park. and another game be-
tween the same elevens would probably
draw even more spectators.
The Washington times., 1911-12-11
Georgetown feast tomorrow night.

The Baltimore Medical School basket
ball team will give the Georgetown
quint its first tryout this evening at
the Arcade, and considerable interest Is
attached to the game as 1t will afford
an opportunity to get a line Of the prob
able strength o. the Blue and Gray
team, which will face the hardest sort
Of a schedule after the holidays. North
Carolina, Manhattan, Dickinson. New
York, and Pittsburg are some of the
quints that will take up dates or the
attractive list arranged by Manager
Tom Fortune.
The Washington times., 1911-12-11
VIII re-elect Tom Lynch.

Harry Edwards. the Cleveland scribe,
arises to state that since Fred Falken-
berg has been disposed Of the Maps are
without single veteran pitcher. True,
Falkenberg was dean of the Cleveland
twirlers, but there is not a club in the
American League who would not be
willing to toss Harry Davis more than
one veteran, II 1t could get hold of vean
Gregg in exchange.
The Washington times., 1911-12-11
NATIONALS RECORD
POOREST INLEAGUE


and
third 52 of
National
W Yo s
The eleven in the Americ INaguefo olows
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-12-25

an electrical signaling device and a
red lantern. The plant can be Install
ed at cost of $50. 1t can be tried a
W lille in one part of the city and then
moved to another street.
The Joy rider enters the trap" An
officer signals to another an eighth Of
& mile away and to another a quarter
Of a mile distant, the signal being Civ
en- by pressing a button. With the
fash Of the signal stopwatches are
started.
When the Joy riders pass the Off
Ger stationed in the middle he flashes
an electric searchlight on them. get
ting the number Of the car and some
description of those in charge. Then
the man at the further end of the trap
gets busy with a red lantern and halts
the JOY riders and places them under
arrest.
The first night the trap was tried
eight arrests were made, and six OF
the eight were fined SIS. That more
than paid for the cost of the installa
ton Of the plant.
Pasadena has neither copyrighted
nor patented the device.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-12-25
(Atlanta Georgian.)


There is nothing about the report of
President Taft's tariff board to occa-
sion anything more than an Il told you
so" from the nation.
Here is how the president himself
sums up the boards finding:
Although these duties (woolen) do
not increase the prices of domestic
goods by anything like their full
amount, II is none the less true that
such prohibitive duties eliminate the
possibility of foreign competition, even
in times Of scarcity; that they form a
temptation to monopoly and conspira-
cies to control domestic prices; that
they are much in excess OF the differ.
ences in cost of production here and
abroad, / recommend that
such revision (downward) be proceed
ed with at once"
If this says anything more or less
than the lowered tariff bill passed by
the democrats and insurgent republi
cans last spring. but vetoed by Presi
dent Taft the most penetrating scru
tiny fails to discover it.
Big Bill is slow. All his mental pro
uses seem slow. Deliberation II
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-12-25
The Insult to Jews.

The Russian authorities declare
American Jews not can be admitted
into Russia because among them
many are anarchists or revolutionists.
II Russia were TO confne itself to
these classes the United States could
offer no serious objection. But what
are the facts?
Oscar Hammerstein. the great i'm
presario, was refused admission to St.
Petersburg whittier he went to secure
operate talent. Mr. Hammersteln is
a jew.
The president OF the company that
erected the magnificent Pennsylvania
station in New York City desired not
long ago to so TO St. Petersburg to ne
gotiate for the contract for a some
what similar station which the Rus.
sian government intended to erect
there. The state department issued
him a passport But at the Russian
embassy In Washington approval was
refused on the ground that the appli
cant. Mr. Horowitz. was OF the Jewish
faith.
That ts. because OF his religious be
lief Mr.. Horowitz was barred from en-
tering the Russian empire, a privilege
granted to all American citizens under
the Russian-American treaty.
The ending OF this discrimination Is
what is intended by the movement re
sulting in the abrogation OF the treaty
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-12-25

venient virtues to her spouse, holding
up his allowance when it suited her,
and working off her bad temper on his
poor mother if mother-in-law dared to
say word in her abused darling's de-
Tense?
When women were economically de-
pendent upon men, it was natural that
girl waited for man to suggest that
he take upon himself her fathers job
of paying her bills
Nowadays, however, a girl goes out
into the world and pays her own bills.
By the time somebody wants to marry
her. she is earning and managing an
income equal to his, If not more. She
is economically independent Yet, no
matter how much she may love man,
she must wait for him to ask her to
give up the position to which is at
tached good salary, to take one
where, in return for the prefix of
Mrs" and nothing else certain, she
gives her labor and her liberty.
1t does seem as If the most modest
of girls should have the right to select
the men they deem most fit to be hus-
bands and fathers, instead of trying to
fall in love with the men who select
them.
AS 1t is, women have only the veto
power, which they are exercising more
and more, as they are the more able
to put aside the necessity of marry.
ing for home. But the self-respect
ing woman ought to have the right to
go a step further and, instead of wait
ing for the right man to wake up, give
him a shake and tell him that she's
willing and able to jog along in double
harness with him If he's willing and
able, too. There would be no boldness
nor immodesty in such an action il
the case of woman who has proved
her ability to support herself and prob
ably several others. But l doubt If i
will ever come to pass, except in rar,
instances-at least not in your and my
day.
THEY SAY 1T WORKS.
Talking about marriage and propos
ais and such-here's an old supersti
ton which may help along, If yol
don't want to do any proposing b,
word Of mouth.
Get piece of mistletoe and hang
in conspicuous place SO che" will Sc
it and take advantage of 1t on Chris
r mas day. If there isn't any special ''he
, and if anybody will do, bride or fore
! some masculine individual to do tn
J proper" under that mistletoe. The
: do say that it never fails, and that tn
, girl who isn't kissed under the mil
tletoe on Christmas day is sure to r,
} main unwed during the following yea
3 But, then-who's superstitious, an!
: way?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-12-25
The Dignity of Labor.

lie W dlltES u444On VI ANG" AOAA nus
denounced tipping as degrading to the
dignity Of labor and made a demand
for abolition of the system.
Tipping probably had its beginning
when some weil-fed and attentively
served individual gave substantial evil
dence OF his appreciation, and waiter
willing TO receive something for moth
ing accepted it.
From humble beginnings tipping has
become a great institution. Where
gratuities to the waiter once were vol
Lntary, today they are forced by the
law OF custom and the rule Of neglect
and disfavor.
Employers Of walters pay them only
nominal wage -"$6 and tips The
employers thus made themselves the
beneficiaries of q system originally
operating for the benefit of the waiter.
But the employer Of the waiter
doesn't get it all, or even the largest
part of it. The more money he can
make the more money the landlord de-
mands. In the end the landlord gets
it. The operation is in this order:
The waiter levies tribute on the pa
iron; the employer levies tribute on
the waiter in the form of low wages ;
the landlord levies tribute on the EN-
! ployer in the form Of high rents. Who
levies tribute on the landlord? No
body. He is the last depositary.
Over in England, in several cities in
Germany and in several other places
they have begun TO take it away from
the landlord for the benefit of the
state in the form Of tax on the un
earned increment in land values.
Some day, when it is generally I'm
derstood in this country that the com
munity creates the value in land, tn,
community will claim that value as it.
own.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-12-25
va THE COAL MINER ,

things; his life depends on it.
Every miner is practical geologist,
Faults, "slikensides," the intimate
characteristics of coal, limestone,
sandstone and shale, the peculiarities
of various kinds of tops everything
veins of coal-all these he is familiar
ly acquainted with.
When a mans life depends on the
soundness of the rock above mis- head
he is likely to have something more
than a theoretical knowledge of rock.
The miner works in a dark world.
Eye and ear are trained to a sensa-
tiveness the worker in daylight knows
nothing of. He works beneath hun
dreds of feet of earth and rock. His
business is the removal of the sup
porting coal, which has carried all
this burden.
Forces of a magnitude unimaginable
to the ordinary man are at work about
him all the time. He must bring down
the everything formation in the ex-
hausted workings to relieve the pres
sure above his head He must know
when and how the ground will
break" and when the wrath of the
earth-gods is awakened and fight is
the sole resource.
The miner is not impressive, per-
haps, above ground, but he is king
in his own right In his proper realm.
No worker in the whole fabric OF
modern society is more faithful or
does greater service in proportion to
his reward.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-12-25
Talks viii
ev'\b1nnoaD
LxeoderS

There's a girl who always makes
the day seem brighter when 1 see her,"
remarked one woman to another, con-
corning a third who had just greeted
them and passed on.
Il don't believe she ever sees dark
side to anything" said the second wo-
man.
"She couldn't" declared the first.
She's such a ray of sunshine that she
just naturally brightens up every side
that's turned to her. That's why she
never sees a dark side to anything"
"O-o-o-ohl comprehensively exciaim-
ed the other woman. Il never thought
OF it that way before"
WHY SHOULDN'T sHEf
AS next year is leap year. it is in
teresting to know that at least one
man approves of the proposing being
done by women.
"a girl by all means should propose
to a man if he is her IDEAL" says
George Willis Cook of the Boston
School of Social Science. Women are
getting better educated than men, and
therefore will select more intelligently
and will be more cautious. Marriages
then will be happier.
When women do the proposing-and
! 1t is possible that their growing econ
omic independence will bring this
about wonder If they will follow the
same tactics so long pursued by lordly
masculinity when it had everything its
own way.
1t will be Interesting to watch the
revolution of the shy and difident CIR
into the crafty young-woman-about
town, mistress of that art which will
/ lead young man to believe that he is
all in all to her, the while she skill
fully steers clear of any definite pro
posal upon which a trusting young
masculine person might build substan
tial hopes.
1t will be also interesting to watcl
this new woman swell in importanc,
over her own worth (if she emulate
her brother of the past), and guar
herself from designing persons of tn
Opposite sex, or their maneuverinl
mammas who are anxious that thei
sons shall marry well-or marry any
thing that wears skirts Cor possibl
bloomers).
When woman takes into her ow,
hands the power of making the mai
riage proposal, will she adopt that al
of lordly superiority, of condescendin
nonchalance, in the presence of youn
bachelors who, in her heart of heart
she just knows would jump at tn
chance IL she but said the word? AnC
having made selection among them, a
her convenience, would she proceed t
queen 1t over the household, leavin
all the unlovely drudgeries and incol
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-12-25
Taft and the Wool Tariff

good, but when carried to an extreme
u may defeat its own purpose.
Last spring all the country and a
majority of congress was in a hurry
to have something done about schedule
X, but William said, Hold a minute.
Do nothing rash. Wait till my board
complies ton Of statistics to prove
what we already know; then we will
act"
And when everybody was busy with
Christmas shopping and paying with
their purchases the high rates that
might have been lowered last spring,
TIE president gets in hurry and wants
schedule K trimmed at once. But It
win be next December before Christ
rias shoppers can get the benefit
| from 1t.
When the president is slow, he is
very, very slow; but when he hurries,
I he is horrid.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-12-25
Roosevelt as a stampeder.

Mr.. Barnes, the republican boss of
New York, has assured Colonel
Roosevelt that the Empire state dele
cation will support him, if he again
aspires to the presidency. In reply
Roosevelt said:
"All can say is, in the words OF
Abraham Lincoln. that this is bridge
that | cannot be justly asked to cross
until come to il"
Many of Colonel Roosevelt's closest
friends declare that this will be his
last word upon the subject of a pos
sible denomination.
This means that the colonel is to be
a stampede candidate. He wants &c
defeat Taft. II this can not be done
with La Toilette, the colonePs nam,
will be sprung on the convention a
the psychological moment and undel
such circumstances he will be nomi
mated.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-12-25
Hunor and
Philosophy
D. DUNCAN ~. .svsrs
FAREWELL.

WELL, II 1t must be on the fly
We bid another year goodby.
/ guess 1t must, for that's the how
or years. as you must all allow.
They come and go, they go and come,
Almost as automobiles hum,
Which brings US to this truth profound.
A year amt much to stick around
1t doesn't seem SO very long
: Since this year came in young and
: strong.
Since timidly Its steps began
And here 1t Is an also ran
A common year that used to be,
Dead to the world and you and me.
A bit Of history and not
very large, important blot
And has II used US well or i'll,
Given US q lemon or thrill,
Been gentle with US in a way
Or bumped US every other day?
It win not matter anyhow
In ten or twenty years from now,
For 1t win in the discard go
AS one of those we used to know.
And that's the way they come and skip
As just the span 'twixt cup and lip.
Just going, never standing pat,
And when we see one take its hat
To go, oh, dear, we know not where,
Although little we may care.
We neither sigh nor shed a tear,
But simply say, 80 long, old Year,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-12-25
est. Louis Republic.)


The Knoxville mine disaster once
more illustrates the courage and mag
nanimity of the coal miner when the
hazards of the business run against
him.
1t is a bit singular that in an age
which has raised a numerous crop of
writer's of stories of the world of toll
and of physical peril the coal miner
should have been overlooked We
have Cy Warman's engine men and
Owen Wister's cowboys, Mark Twain
river pilots and Ralph Connor's luln-
Der jacks. F. Hopkinson Smith. has
immortalized the submarine diver, but
the subterranean miner who walks in
darkness and waits his chronicler,
apologist and champion.
The real miner Is a very different
person from the miner of popular
thought-as different as the real lum-
herman is from the pleasing creations
Of the fancy of Ralph Connor While
he works with pick, shovel and drill,
he is in reality a skilled laborer. He
may live in a wretched dry goods
box Of house and be as improvident
as summer moth, but he is "a man
for a. that"
The coal miner must perforce be a
scientific man. He may not recog.
nize himself from the description, but
it is accurate. He knows more about
the behavior of gases and the laws OF
ventilation than tho tipiuarcif, o-rod,,
ate in physics. He has to know these
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-12-25
The Argus Daily Story
How They Gained Time-By Janet Littleton
Copyrighted. 1911. by Associated Literary Bureau.

Elmer worthington. banker Of both
financial and social prominence. called
his daughter Mabel into his private
waiting room and said to her:
my dear. am very much troubled
at having seen you walking with this
actor, who seems to have thrust him
self upon you"
"You are mistaken. papa, In assum-
ing that Mr.. Deane has thrust himself
upon me-"
well, he is an actor. and wish you
to understand that no actor is welcome
In my house"
"The profession Of the stage Is an
artistic calling, and consider 1t above
buying and selling merchandise or
lending money. But you are not right
In assuming that Mr.. Deane is an &C
tor. He was an actor. but is now a
playwright, which means that he is a
member of the literary profession. BE
is the son Of q gentleman, has receiv-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-12-25

Ottawa sends word that more than
100000 Americans moved into Canada
in the last eight months and that Can
ada's total immigration in that time
was nearly 100000. The world was
flooded with similar Official state
ments during the preceding decade,
but the Canadian census of this year
proved them to be gross exaggera-
tions.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-12-25
PERT PARAGRAPHS.

Sometimes a man who marries with
great elaboration wishes he had de-
liberated awhile longer.
Probably because she is amply able
to take care Of herself young widow
feels minded to have some man take
care Of her.
Patience is an admirable quality, but
sometimes it doesn't seem very heroic
When we get something for nothing
1t often proves dear at half the price.
In the opinion of some persons one
favor is done in order that it may pave
the way for you to do them another.
A college education is frequently one
Of the means by which boarded coin
gets back into circulation again.
1t Is good thing to think before you
speak, but to impose the condition
might be to cause a great silence to
fan about us.
There are some men who are so ar
dent in their pursuit Of wealth that
they die in the poorhouse.
Nobody ever saw baldheaded wo-
man-and nobody ever wanted to.
One of the hardest blows to a mans
vanity is finding that his son regards
him as much of back number as he
once regarded his sons era ndfather.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-12-25
Ocean Etiouette.

Ocean Etiquette.
He was almost a hero once. He
plunged into the water to rescue a girl
from a briny grave"
"And did he succeed in his noble pur-
poser
mo; she wouldn't let him because
they had not been introduced"
did she drownT
"Not much. She swan ashore plumb
Disguised. She was expecting another
man to rescue her and he never wet
his feet
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-12-25

One of the big firms in Tien Tsin,
China, has received an order to sup
ply the Chinese army with 10000 pairs
OF boots, at the price of about 81 gold
a pair. Owing TO the inferiority of
Chinese leather, the firm decided to
buy in America and make the boots
in Tien Tsin.