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The Washington times., 1912-11-27
OLLIE JAMES IS
AGAINST PENSION
Plan to Pay Former President I'm.
democratic, Says Senator
Elect.

Such opposition is springing up to the
plan Of Congressman Burleson OF Tex A
to put former Presidents on a salary Of
Sl7,500 a year as representa- tives. al large
that II Is unlikely anything will come Of
the proposed legislation this session.
6enatOr.eleCt Ollie James has come out
In strong opposition to the proposed
legislation. He declares II is undemo.
cratic. Other leading Democrats are
against II. Mr.. Burleson 10 working
hard trying to get the proposition s nut
into the legislative appropriation Bill.
but 1t is not likely that he will succeed.
The Washington times., 1912-11-27
Will LSON'S POPULAR
VOTE WAS b,156,748
Roosevets 1928, l4o; Tafts 337e422 and Debs e7a,-
7s3-Democratic Loss of 23e,434 Fronl 1908,
T., When Bryan Ran.

The popular vote for
wilson poed throughout the country
S<s4 ana Tart 3S6422 The Socialist
the Socialist States chaan the Phbonst
ddate received 16O6l4 votes
In 1908 Bryans
This shows that the Democrats
ana fogressives together poed 1873
The hgures In the following
and una returns indicated
the are left blank:
The Washington times., 1912-11-27
Eleven Sailors Shot
To Death in Russia

81. PETERSBURG. Nov. 0.-Elsvsn
men Of tho Black sea feet. who re-
Gently were condemned to death for
inc'ting mutiny, we're shot at 9ebasto-
pol by firing parties from the warships.
-Four hundred sailors OF the feet are
being transferred to Reval and vladi-
vostok.
Strikes are being declared in various
parts OF the country a. q protest
against the action Of the government,
The Washington times., 1912-11-27
Bryan Buys Bungalow
With Reporters Pay

MIAMI, Fla, Nov. 27.-William ].
Bryan. who expects to spend part Of
the winter in Florida. has purchased a
bungalow here. He paid for II out of
the s7.OO) hs received for reporting the
Republican and Democratic national
conventions for several newspapers.
Mr.. Bryan's reportorial task occupied
about two weeks OF his time. outside Of
his political activities.
The Washington times., 1912-11-27
Alleged Pawnbroker
Is Freed by Court

Harry Burnstins. proprietor o. q
secondhand clothing store. arraiSned In
the District branch OF Police Court
today on the charge Of conductias Q
pswnbrokers' business without q H.
cense, was exonsrateA. The court held
mission Of moro than one offense 70 e..
tabiish the fact that the man wss q
pawnbroker. A. only one instance WAS
shown IN which Burnstine loaned money
on clothing, the case Was dismissed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14
Van Brunt Interferes

She went up with heavy heart As she had her hand upon the latch of her door her grandmother, who had been sent to bed before the festivities began, called out from the opposite room to know who was there. Ellen went in to the old lady, who asked what all that noise was downstairs
 "A bee" said Ellen.
 "A beer" replied the old woman, "who's been stung?"
 Ellen explained.
 Dear me-. said the old lady, ''and not downstairs! Reach me my 'paddysoy, out of the closet there"
 And the grandmother, hastily dressing herself with Ellens help, descended in state to the great kitchen-much to the de- light of the company and the annoyance of her daughter.
 Ellen went to her room and was just ready for bed when young girl who had been allowed to come to the bee" on the condition of helping Miss Fortune, came up to say that she was to 'come right downstairs again.
 MT. Van Brunt had noticed her ab- sence and demanded that she be recalled Miss Fortune, as usual, did as Mir. Van Brunt demanded.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14
One Thing In Common

Ellen quickly took him aside where they could talk, and then cried out 70. John. my dear brother--I thought you never would come"
 And I cannot stay now," replied John 'I must leave for America to- morrow"
 "America" Ellen's heart died within here-was this the end of all her hopes. 70, I wish I was going with you she said.
 We must both wait. Ellen" replied John. T have no power now to re- move you from your legal guardian; you have no power to choose for yourself. Wait for time. I would have talk with MT. Lindsay.
 Ellen sought out MT. Lindsay intro- duced John to him and they went into the library. which was not, that even- ing, open to guests.
 "I hope MT. Lindsey will pardon me for giving him this trouble said John. but we have one thing in common which should forbid our being strangers to each other.'' MT. Lindsay bowed and was happy to have the pleasure" But evidently he was not happy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14
Van Brunt's Secret Power

"Only one person seemed to have any power over Miss Fortune Emerson. That was MT. Van Brunt In her most sour and forbidding moods word from MT. Van Brunt could tame her-he could even make her alter flats which she issued about farming and household affairs.
 Ellen noticed this and wondered at 1t. What was the secret of the power of this hale. hearty, jolly farmer over the grim Miss Fortune.
 Van Brunt took his meals generally at the Emerson homestead but otherwise lived with his aged mother in neigh boring farmhouse.
 Thus was Ellen introduced into an en- tirely new life, and If, at times. the thought of her mother came across her with a sting of anguish, youth was on her side, and she gradually fitted her thoughts to her new way of living.
 She had thought that when the week which Aunt Fortune had given her to enjoy herself in was ended she would be sent to school. But at the end of the week, instead of sending her to school, Miss Fortune set her to work.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14
A CL A SSIC
 IN A PA c B

Susan Warner published ''rhe Wide' Wide World in 1851. and it immediately attained a wide popularity, which it has maintained in a verw considerable degree up to this day.
 It is not a 'best seller'-but 1t is a steady seller,' and, has an audience of its own, which, probably, has not de- creased in numbers. For the increase In popula ton yearly adds to the class of people who read The Wide, Wide World" just as they read "The Pilgrim s Frogress.'
 It Is very simple story, with no es- pecial literary merit, as literary critics see merit, and it Is also extremely prollX Susan Warner seemed to revel in detail, and the minuteness of some of her chap ters is exasperating to those who do not care whether Ellen turned to her right or her left when she walked down the street, and fail to find anything thrill ing in an enumeration of the number or white stockings she possessed.
 It is a very religious story or the strong "dissenting'' sort. The descriptions of rural life are, however, entirely worth wading through it's many pages to ready they are gems.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14
Breakfast Mysteries

But as she gazed in wonder there came a steaming odor as of something savory from the kitchen, which said as plainly as a dressing bell that it was time to get up. So up she jumped and dressed herself with great alacrity.
 But as for washing, she discovered to her surprise that no facilities for such a dissipation were afforded by her apart ment. Ellen went downstairs into the kitchen wondering.
 As she entered that important apart ment she saw Aunt Fortune standing before a good fire holding the end of a very long iron handle which communi- cated with flat vessel which sat upon the fire and which Miss Fortune kept in an almost constant state of agita' ton.
 A tall thin coffee pot stood in one corner of the fireplace upon live coals and another little vessel in the front Of the fire also claimed a share of Miss Fortunes attention, for she every now and then leaned forward to give a stir to whatever was in 1t, making each time a spadomodic effort to do so without releasing her hold upon the long iron handle of the other dish.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14
A Call from Brother John

The efforts of the whole family were put forth to make her forget America and her American friends-they had de- termined that she should thereafter be thoroughly Scottish.
 But this Ellen could not do-though she compromised by thinking a great deal and talking not at all about Brother John" and the other Yankees dear to her.
 After time Ellen developed into a fairly successful society girl and was looked upon by the Edinburg youths of quality as a maiden well worth the wooing. But Ellen gave encourages ment to none of her suitors.
 Then one day something important, vastly important to Ellen. happened. John, Humphreys arrived in Edinburg and came to MT. Lindsay's house to see her Apparently they had not cor responded since John had gone abroad. John called at a rather inopportune time, for the Lindsays were giving . bau. But the servant let him in, he penetrated to the drawing room-and there saw Ellen.
 She turned and saw John-just as she had seen him the first time at Cara cara when she had looked up from her chocolate and espied him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14
The Family Parting

It was a bitter moment for Mrs. Mont Komery of New York, confirmed invalid when she had to tell her daughter Ellen +bat the doctors had said that It was necessary for her-the mother-to go abroad for her health
 Ellen's father, Captain Montgomery, was going abroad also with his wife. But Ellen must be left behind.
 She must go to live, until the return of her parents, with the captain nalt sister, Fortune Emerson, a severe spins ter of mature age who lived in the coun- try upon a farm lying near the mountains about four miles from the town Of Thlrl- wall, "up state" in New York
 Captain Montgomery-who had just lost A lawsuit, which losing also lost him about all his fortune-was man quite different from his wife; nan selfish, un- thinking, negligent of affairs
 He was going to make his trip to Eu- rope. he imagined, a business trip which would restore his broken fortunes. The doctor said his wife must have change of climate if she was to live.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14
A Bit of a Prig

John was disciple of muscular Chris tianity as well as of spiritual, and taught Ellen to ride, directed her studies. which now she had, in part, resumed; supplied her with books and lots of good advice. He corrected boldly her little faults of faith and temper.
 Frivolous people of these days would doubtless say that John was a bit of 'prig," but in the early '5os when Susan Warner wrote, his type was the admira- ton of serious people"
 One of Ellen's experiences. which she have forgot, was when her aunt gave bee. The whole neighborhood, al- most, gathered at the old farmhouse to prepare apples for drying" and to help make sausages.
 Men and women, young and old mar ried and single. all carefully selected by Miss Fortune for their ability to work, were gathered together.
 The fire in the front room was burning finely, but Miss Fortune had no idea of apple pairing or pork chopping being done theer One party was dispatched down stairs into the basement kitchen; the other made circle around the kitchen fire.
 In the upper kitchen every one was furnished with a sharp knife and bas- ket of apples given to each two or three.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14
Left Alone

Then, one day, the news came in let ter from Captain Montgomery to Miss Fortune, that Ellen's mother had died in Paris.
 The blow was an awful one to Ellen. But by the help of her good friends. the Hum phreys, who infused into her young mind a spirit of Christian resignation. she man. aged. finally, to reconcile herself to the in- 'evitable.
 John Humphreys went away-back to his studies-and Ellen felt his absence deeply. But they corresponded regularly and his letters were a great comfort to her.
 Miss Fortune was now more gentle with her niece. It seemed as If, even In her stern breast, a conscience was mov- ing.
 In his letter announcing his wife's death Captain Montgomery had stated that he was about to sail for home on the Due d'Orleans, sailing from Havre. He did sail-but the Due d'Orleans never reached any port but the port of the missing ships" After long waiting all hope of the ves- sel was abandoned. and Ellen knew now that she was quite alone in the wide, wide world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14
Sent to Sister Fortune

..I have writer to Sister Fortune" said he to his wife, ''or rather l will write directly, and tell her to take care or Ellen until we return. l have asked Mrs. Dunscombe, who is travelling that way, to take charge of her.
 T fancy she is not pleased with the traveling companion I have given her but Ellen's off-thats one satisfaction and now I'll go and engage berths on the England for our European trip
 Between Ellen and her father there ex- isted no strong sentiment of affection they tolerated each other. But between Mrs Montgomery and her daughter there was warmth of love and devotion which made their parting an agony to ooth
 Mrs. Montgomery felt that she would never see her daughter again, and Ellen had never before been parted from her mother.
 Tris Mrs. Dunscombe who took Ellen In charge for the Journey was naughty society woman, whose husband had been under obligations to Captain Mont gomery In the captains prosperous days and so. at her husbands urgings. she accepted the charge.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14
Her Mothers Last Injunction

Ellen, as they were hers. read them and was thrown into a state of great agitation Not only did they recall her dear. lost mother, but there was. among them, one letter which seemed to speak and command her from the grave.
 The letter was written by her moth CT shortly before her death and when she knew that death was fast ap- preaching.
 She had written to her Scottish rela- lives and they had replied They had told her that in case of her death they would adopt Helen.
 Her mother. therefore. commanded that when she was no more Ellen should go to Edinburg and there she would find a grandmother. Mrs. Lind say: an aunt. Lady Kieth, and an un- cle, MT. Lindsay.
 There was letter from her father. written just before he sailed on his ill., fated voyage. commanding her. in case aything happened to him, to obey the injunction which she had received in the letter from her mother.
 What should she do-what was her duty? Must she tear herself away from that life which she had now be- come ac sustomed to, to enter once more upon an exploration of that unknown sea,--the wide, wide world?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14

Loneliness would have overcome the girl had it not been for the busy life she led trying to manage the house. hold as Miss Alice had managed it be- fore.
 There was a wild. hoydenish girl granada aughter of an old Mrs. Vawse, who lived up on the mountain. and this girl Nancy, had been employed by Aunt Fortune--now Mrs. Van Brunt- since Ellen had taken up her residence at Carra-Carra.
 Ellen had been kind and considerate with Nancy, and Nancy felt that she owed her a debt of gratitude. One day she came to Ellen at Carra-Carra and handed her a package of letters.
 She frankly confessed that she had abstracted them from trunk belong ing to her employer, the former Miss Fortune. Mrs. Van Brunt had gone to Thrilwall and Nancy had taken the op- portunity to ransack the house out of mere curiosity.
 She found this packet of letters, all addressed to Ellen-letters which her aunt had withheld from. her for all these years.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14
Thoughts far from Pleasant

The fact was that years before MOT In Montgomery had borrowed some ,oney of his half sister-and had not |renaid it. Now the question in MISS Fortune's mind was this;
 - Had Ellen been sent to her 10 pc |<ared for without compensation, or was Morgan going to pay for his daughters s ,board?'' rro A.a sT Before she was put to bed Ellen had ttkld her aunt of her mothers illness, " business trip her father was apout '0 make to Europe, or the loss or the law suit' and, in short, all she Knew |, the family affairs.
 Miss Fortune had never seen her halr tother's wife, but she had a small klnion of all "city-bred' folks any NJ and she knew that Morgan had
 lied a Scottish woman whose 1amlly
 a objected to the match and had'
 lrefore. ceased to have any correspond e with her after she came With her
 lerican husband to the United states.
 re facts Ellen did not know.
 .ne spinster sat before the fire brood E for a considerable time that night
 her thoughts We're not pleasant
 q felt at war with fate and its de-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14
An Unexpected Guest

Mir. Van Rrunt had been seen going up the village street some time before and MT. Van Brunt ran Miss Fortune Emerson's farm. A messenger was ent to find him and to tell him to stop t the inn on his way back He did so
 A great kind man this farmer Van
 runt proved to be. He comtorted JIllen and, taking her In his OK cart car rIed her to the home of her aunt. ,''Here's Morgan Montgomery daugh- fer Ellen--your niece-come to see you said the farmer as he deposited Ellen in the great kitchen.
 4, If the man in the moon had suddenly sanpe ared in Miss Fortunes kitchen that worthy spinster could not have been more urprised. "Father said that he had written to tell YOU that I was coming" faltered Ellen, "and that you would meet me at Thirdwall."
 ], ,lIf that ain't just like Morgan Mont {. komeryr, said Miss Fortune grimly; The lever wrote a line. Morgan never oio h anything he said he would
 Her aunt seemed anything but glad E, see Helen, and the girl felt, after MT
 an Brunt had gone. us lonely as a hild could feel
 MT Van Brunt had carried her trunk
 ostairs to a room designated by Miss
 ortune and thither the austere spin,
 ar at length conductor her niece ano
 ,de her go to bed and go to sleep
 len naturally cried herself to sleep.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14

had written-but Miss Fortune had sup pressed the letters. Also Captain Mont gomery had written and sent sum of money for Ellen's support
 But Miss Fortune had taken that money and applied it to wiping out the debt her half brother had so long owed her. saying nothing of course to her niece.
 Ellen, from small girl. was now rap idly developing into 'big girl" and was approaching that age when soon she would be called a young lady
 It was upon one of her visits to the home of the Humphreys that Ellen met her fate. She was talking chocolste with Alice when a step was heard behind them.
 Alice looked up, and, giving a glad cry of surprise. sprang into the arms of tall, stalwart young man who had en- tered the room unannounced.
 "oh. John,' she cried "how glad. how glad I am! And this is my friend-ny sister I call her-Ellen Montgomery. She shall also be a sister to you,"
 From that hour on-although neither of them realized 1t at first-Ellen Mont gomery and John Humphreys loved each other.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14
Only One Letter

This was severe trial to Ellen. She was utterly ignorant of household affairs, and Miss Fortune prided herself on be- ing the best housekeeper-and the thrifti- est-in the county.
 But Ellen applied herself to her new duties with industry and perseverance, however dstasteful they were to her How she longed for human sympathy for companionship,
 Her only friends seemed to be MT. Van Brunt and her old grandmother But Van Brunt was not always there and the poor old grandmother hardly dared show hei affection in the presence of her domi' neering daughter.
 Ellen received a letter from her mother written just before she sailed from New York-and then no more.
 She visited the home of MT. Van Brun and found friend in the formers moth era sweet, kindly old woman.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14
The Trip to Thirlwall

But she made things as uncomfortaple fov Ellen as she could on the trip up the rive1 and on the long stage ride which followed it, until, at length, with sigh of relief late one afternoon. she put the girl and her trunk down in the little town of Thirlwall
 Ellen saw the disappearing stage, she stood there alone in the wide, wide, world No one was there to meet her
 A portly and friendly innkeeper. near whose house of entertainment she had been left. saw the girl standing there desolute and alone. He came out ana asked her what she was waiting Tor
 She told him that she was Ellen Mont gomery; that she was going to her aunt, Miss Fortune Emerson; that she had sup posed some one would be there' to meet her.
 The kindly publican called to his kind wife and they took Ellen in and gave her food-she was faint and weary and scared-then they consulted
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14
Intrnduced to the Spout

It was not until Miss Fortune was carefully pouring this over the slices of fried pork in the dish that Ellen ventured to say timidly: Aunt For tune-I-I haven't washed yet There was no basin in my room VIII you please show me where can wash "
 Yes" snapped her aunt 'go to the spout-here is towel.
 "The spout?"
 "Yes, the spout"
 What is that2"
 ''Youu know when you see 1t, guess, Open the door behind you and go out,
 Ellen went into the back yard anu saw, a few yards distant, stream of water pouring from the end of wood- en pipe into a high trough She had no doubt but what that was the spout
 Needless 10 say, Ellen--the city bred had some difficulty in performing her morning abiutions at this rustic sub stltute for what she had been accus- toned to in re gard to toilet facilities.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14
Magic Cookery

At length the hissing pan was brought to the hearth for some new ar rangement of its contents and Ellen seized the opportunity to say Good morning" Miss Fortune was crouch ing by the hearth turning her slices of pork.
 How do you do this morning?" she answered without looking up.
 Ellen replied that she felt great deal better, Then the hissing and the spluttering of the approaching break fast began as loud as ever.
 In few minutes the pan was re- moved from the fire and Miss Fortune went to take out slices of deliciously Drowned pork and arrange them in deep dish leaving a small quantity of clear fat in the pan.
 Then she darted into the pantry, and returning with a cup of cream in her hand, emptied it all into the liquid pork fat Then she ran into the pantry again for little round tin box with a cover full of holes and shaking this gently over the pan, fine white snow CT fflour fell upon the cream. The pan was then replaced upon the fire and stirred and, to Ellen's aston ishment, the whole thing changed, as If by magic, to a thick, stiff white froth.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14
Dismissed from the Feast

Down in the lower kitchen MT. Van Brunt was at the head of the party. He stood at the end of large table cut ting with his huge knife the hard frozen pork into very thin slices, which the rest of the company took and before it had time to thaw, cut up into small dice on the little boards Mr. Van Brunt had pre- pared.
 As large a fire as the chimney would hold was built up and was blazing finely. The room looked as cozy and bright as the one upstairs and the people were as busy and as tallSatiye.
 \ man came early with Miss Hun- phreys pony and Alice kissing Ellen good night and making her adieus to the rest of the company rode away home
 When she had gone the company sat down 10 husiness again, and at length the last nork chopping was done-tne last apple prepared.
 Then the fun besa=- They. played
 puss-i -in-the-corer ap- blind man 's
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14

Ellen's spoon was not of silver, her knife was neither sharp nor bright and her fork--certainly made for anything else in the world than comfort and convenience-had two prongs to 1t and those so far apart that she had no small difficulty in carrying potato safe- ly from her plate to her mouth.
 It mattered nothing; she was now looking on the bright side of life. and when after breakfast her aunt, in re- sponse to her request to be allowed to go out of doors and look over the farm, said; Yes. give you a week to do as you please; after that we shall see,'