davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-01-26

MONTE CARLO. Jan. 28--Pisy.
Ing carefully AZ all times. Alfred
Gwyn Vanderbilt lost sao0 az Monte
Carlo. Then. without any o
cash 10 his pockets. he quit the
game, refusing 10 borrow from
friends.
cLuEvELAhD. o.. Jan. 26-An
embryo jugxier for vaudeville WAS
nlpped when Chef Nous J. Wright,
whose cap Ia very French. fired"
Felix Jussiefwicx. only a hotel dish.
washer. because he persisted In
Juggling SIX and eight cups at once.
CLEVELAND. o., Jan. 2s.--chio-
rine. a powerful ~aatringent, placed
In the Cleveland water. In blamed
for chapped lips and hands. The
drug draws the akin taut and the
wind cracks H.
NEW YORK, Jan. 26.--Mrs. Anna
Rosemann does moi place n high
value on her husband. for In suing
his parents for alienation of his af-
fections. she asks only $50, the
smallest sum ever asked In such a
suit.
CHICAGO. Jan. 26.--Four burg
lars broke into Allison Kcnyon's
grocery store and carted the entire
stock away In wheelbarrQws. The
goods were found In Artour Jones'
cellar. He said he did II because
his family was starving.
CHICAGO. Jan. 26s-Whcn J. g..
Tcmpleton. board OF trade man,
heard that Judge Rooney had fined
a destitute woman 81 for stealing
coal, and paid the fine himself. he
cent 500 to cover similar cases.
ST. LOUIS. Jan. 26-Chss. q.
Peterson, a crack billiard player.
has sued the street car company
for 5000. alleging that when a
car struck his automobile his nerves
were no shaken as to permanently
injure his playing.
BRU6sELs. Jan. 26.--A poor cit
izen OF Brussels. pressed for money,
sold two pictures for $40 that had
been in his family for years. They
proved TO be two Rnbens. each
worth an immense fortune.
NEW YORK, Jan. 26.--AIthou1h
doctors cannot tell why human be-
ings have a spleen. Arthur Gallo
secured a verdict for 1868 because
his spleen was broken by falling
through q sidewalk grating.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-01-26
WANTED TO {
HTS JAP WIFE

SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. &c,
u Morgan. nephew OF J. rierpont
Morgan, was distinctiy annoyed
when he and his wife. an attractive
Japanese woman. arrived here on
u" Nippon liner Tenyo Maru. were
compelled to run the gauntlet OF
curious hundreds when they left
the pier. Morgan had boarded
the vessel at quarantine. Ills wife
had spent the winter with her rel
ntives IA Kobe. japan.
Accompanied by W. Franklin. OF
London, the Morgan party viii leave
ON the overland Saturday for Paris.
where they will be At home during
the next year.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-01-26

MISS MARY X. GRAHAM
NEW YORK. Jan. 2sTh~ ia.
male OF th~ speefes has q nc~ fad,
moro deadly than the hatpin.
Women NJ fashion are actually
wearing daEH~rs.
A f1ffh ". jewelry house a few
weeks ago Imported a line Of xIis.
trning stiIcttoa- shenthsd in dia.
mond c~nfruasrd gold.
Society girls rushed 10 the fad
and any evening now you will see
them at the opers or in the fash.
|ionsbie restaurants wearing these
sinister ornaments.
IN the accompanying picture
Mas MARY X Graham. daughter of
the rich r. wurdrn Graham of
Washington and New York. II Hscn
wcaring u beseweisd dagger near
her heart
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-01-26
AMBITIOUS

III. LOUIS. Jan. 70. Open
charges Of double dealing on the
part OF Gov. Herbert 4. Hadlcy OF
Missouri In an effort 20 land the
Republican presidential nomination
for himself we're made here today
BY friends OF President Taft. Had.
iep. supporters Of the president say.
IL trying IN = quiet manner to
create a situation fhat will lend
TO success In his alleged ambition
and they unhesisafinTly charge him
with a breach Of faith.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-01-26

NEW YORK, Jan. 26.--Aithouqh
doctors cannot tell why human be.
ings have a spleen. Arthur Gallo
secured a verdict for 1868 because
his spleen was broken by falling
through a sidewalk grating.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-13

From the Columbus, Ga, Enquirer-Sun.
 More for sentimental reasons than otherwise" reports a correspondent of the New York Herald, "Connectleut dem ocrats are on record today for Governor Baldwin for President "The real choice of the Nutmeg democracy's rank and file today is not Governor Baldwin. Nor is 1t Governor Harmon, nor Governor Wilson, nor MT. Clark. The strongest man with Connecticut democrats, in the opinion of impartial observers who go up and down the state, into the factories and counting rooms and through the length and breadth of it's bucolc acres, is Representative Oscar W. Underwood In every city and considerable town of the state and even out on the farms repub- licans are to be found on every hand who openly declare that they would vote for the Alabamian In preference to either MT. Taft or MT. Roosevelt"
 Politically the New York Herald main tains an independent attitude, conse- quently it's reports of political matters are not influenced by partisan bias. The sentiment in Connecticut is not surprising. although it is gratifying It shows that the people are not thinking now of the country except as one country and that the President of 1t should be President of the whole country, and not a part of it. There is no doubt that Mr. Under- wood would be such President.
 In this connection it is interesting to note that the Underwood sentiment is
 
 country nor to the south, but it extends to the west as we'll. otwithstanding the fact that Governor Wilson secured ma jority of the delegates to the national convention in Wisconsin a few days ago, Representative Burke of that state in an interview in the Washington Post, de- clares that MT. Underwood is strong among his people.
 If MT. Underwood is nominated" says Representative Burke, The will not lose a single vote in Wisconsin because of the fact that he was born in the south. As a matter of fact, I believe he would poll more of the floating vote than any other one of the other candidates so far mentioned. His sane and wise policy as leader of the house appeals to the peo- pie of my state. and if nominated he will be elected; and he would make a Presi- dent of whom the whole country would be proud
 notwithstanding the testimony from Connecticut and Wisconsin, as well as that from other states indicating the pop uarity of the Alabamian as a candidate for inc presidency, some of the suppor- ters of Governor Wilson continue their effort to belittle MT. Underwood and make it appear that he is being used as fgurehead in this campaign. Of course they don't believe it, and neither does any other man who thinks and acts for himself
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-13

to the Conciergerie where they were all thrown into the same dungeon to await their trial. which was. immediately to take place before the revolutionary tri- bunal. A few hours of pain, anguish and despair passed away. when at o'clock in the afternoon the whole party was con- veyed to the merciless court. which was but the last stepping stone to death. The trial lasted but a few moments. They were already condemned and 1t was only neces- sary to prove their identity. The con- vention was victorious, and no man of the revolutionary tribunal dared to resist It's will. Had the Commune of Paris con- quered in this strife, the obsequious tri- bunal, with equal alacrity would have con- signed the deputies to the guillotine.
 At o'clock the carts of the condemned received the prisoners. The long process sion advanced through the Rue St. Hon. ore to the Place de la Revolution. The flekle crowd thronged the streets, heaping imprecations upon the man to whom they would have shouted hosanna had he been victor. Robespierre, his brother, Couth- on, Henriot-all mangled, bleeding and with broken bones-were thrown into the first cart with the corpse of Lebas.
 As the cart jolted over the pavement, shreks of anguish were extorted from the victims At 6 o'clock they reached the steps of the guillotine. Robespierre as- cended the scaffold with firm step; put as the executioner brutally tore the band age from his infiamed wound, he uttered shriek of torture which pierced every ear. The dull sullen sound of the falling ax was heard, and the head of Robes pierre fell ghastly into the basket. For moment there was silence; victory had been achieved, and the long sought bless ings of the revolution attained. Thus died Robespierre, in the thirty-fifth year or his age His character will probably re- main a mystery.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-13
Pennsylvania Votes Today

Pennsylvania's 36 congressional dis tricts will select, under the primary plan, 72 national delegates alike to Chicago and Baltimore. The process is compulsory, covered by law.
 There are three tickets in all the districts-the democratic, the repub- lican and the keystone. The primary ballot bears the names of these three official tickets, as well as the names of independent candidates. The name of one person sometimes appears on all three official tickets. The key stone and the democratic tickets have common object in view, and the names on them pretty nearly coincide.
 Ex-President Roosevelt has spoken in many places in Pennsylvania. Chairman Penrose is also on the spot, and he favors the election of Taft del- egates. In the election of delegates to the national conventions every voter will have chance to vote for either Taft .or Roosevelt man, and the contest in Pennsylvania thus becomes almost as interesting as that of Illinois. There is a general belief that the Penrose machine will succeed in electing majority of Taft dele gates.
 Democratic delegates will be elected today also, and the contest is largely for and against the ex-president of Princeton university. This adds to the general interest, and altogether the news from Pennsylvania's 36 dis tricts will be read with avidity to- morrow morning.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-13
THE REPORTER A HISTORIAN

From Knights London
 A police reporter, indeed Cor a penny-a- liner, as he is sometimes, with too much levity, styled), is the truest historian of his age And, as no other histories are half so true, so few are nearly so en-
 tertaining. or so useful. either, as those which he indites; there only have wr the manners of that time caught living as they rise" up, as 1t were, pip ing hot-and human nature naturally de- lineated everywhere else it is dressed up, vanished over, idealized, perhaps, or otherwise so metamorphosed or mystified as hardly to be recognized for the same thing that one is accustomed to see and have 10 do with in it's original condition of flesh and blood. Nay, your penny-a-
 liner is not the greatest of historians merely, but the most penetrating of phi losophers, going to the root of the matter, and the most instructive of poets and dramatists, not only "hish actions and high passions best describing" but low ones quite as we'll All this he is by reason of the matter of fact spirit in which he works. For this is his distinction, that (to the shame of literature it must be confessed) he is the only description of man of let ters who is not in some sort as such, systematic liar. All other writers set ! themselves to enbellish elevate refine 1 truth and nature-sone have gone the length of maintaining that this falsifica-
 tion, this lying is the very soul and indispensable essence of the poetical, in all | it's forms; he alone takes down and com
 municates what he hears and sees sim
 ply as he hears and sees it-"among the l faithless. faithful only he"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-13
Revision of the Patent Laws

Complete revision and qualification
 the patent laws is proposed in bills
 resented in both houses backed by
 he patent committees of both. The
 ew bill was framed by Commissioner
 Ioore of the patent office.
 Under this proposed law patentees ould no longer name the material to be used on patented devices, nor could manufacturers buy devices for the purpose of expressing them.
 The supreme court has refused to grant a rehearing in its 4-to-3 decis- ion on the mimeograph case. The en- tire subject has been turned over to Congress, where the law can be ldhanged, and all oppressive and llhonopolistic features repealed.
 The truth is, the present law is out Off date. For example, the plan of the Limited Machinery company is vicious. i It compels a purchaser of it's equip ments to purchase no other, thereby giving it a control over the making of shoes as well as the machinery for making them. All patents, too, should within a given time be put on the market.
 Congress should not adjourn until it has passed the new Moore bill or something very similar to it. To ad- journ without passing it would be to add new set of monopolies to those already in existence.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-13
Enifh in nirmingham

Birmingham has recovered completely from the 1907 panic" said working man yesterday. There are a dozen and one signs to be seen everywhere of the returned prosperity and by the time the next panic comes I believe the city will be so large and independent that serious effects will be almost an impossbility.
 Any town that can recover in such a short time from so serious a blow as was dealt Birmingham during that panic is destined for great things, for 1t is the
 final proof that the place is not a boom town but that 1t is built on solid foun- dations with resources behind it. The most remarkable part about the panic to me was that so few people left the city. 5000 was a whole lot to me. l had bought home and was making payments on 1t and getting along nicely when the crash came. Then places began to shut down and the first thing I knew I was out of work. I had to stop payments on my home and soon lost the thousand dollars I had paid on it.
 But I wasn't discouraged. 1 think had it been in any other place I would have left the city. But I knew Birmingham and had faith in her. l stayed here, as did thousands of other men just like me and now we are reaping our reward. We are sharing the new prosperity and are proud that we have helped with our lit tie mite to make this great city.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-13
oyEn IryDERwooD,s SHOULDER

From the Atlanta Constitution.
 The Washington D. @ Herald thus serves warning upon those who, in last ditch effort to weaken Oscar Underwood s presidential candidacy, are resorting to methods that will inevitably return to plague them:
 Have care, Woodrow Wilson, that you do not offend your southern sup porters by the covert attacks of your
 press bureau upon Oscar Underwood! To call the House floor leader a 'minion of Wall street is an insult to Alabama, whose intense loyalty to it's fav- orte son threatens to become one of the pivotal factors in the coming Baltimore convention"
 It is not only an insult to Alabama, but equally an insult to every democratic member of the House of Representatives who has come under the sway of the mar velous and creative leadership of the Alabamian. TO tell these loyal democrats that they have been implicitly following a general who is a tool of the money power is to bring a bill of attainer upon their intelligence, their personal and their party patriotism. It is also to charge, by mean innuendo, that the entire pro- gramme upon which the party will go be- fore the country bears the imprimatur of Wall street.
 An ipse dixit indictment of this nature
 is as stupid as it is wanton and reckless Whenever the campaign prevaricator runs out of other material, he invariably grabs hold of the Wall street bogie" and slams it for all he is worth. Conven- tent Wall street. Like the Mormons, 1t has no friends and charges can be made so vaguely that the come back is slow.
 In this case, however no such draw back exists. For had oscar Underwood been even remotely responsive to the dic- tates of Wall street he would not have dehed the steel trust, q powerful Wall street factor, by making a 50 per cent slash in the iron and steel schedule, the chief industry of his home state. and the first one he selected for its share of re- vision He could have quietly and plaus- ibly pleaded the protection of his constit- uents and given steel an immunity bath. But he didn't He argued that whoever or whatever it affected, tariff revision was to De snare and snare alhe, nol tuiheS ioi one industry and buzzard for the other.
 They pulled the Wall street banshee on Underwood before, when his candidacy was launched, by charging that Senator Bankhead had made the Underwood an nouneement after a conference with Thomas F. Ryan. Whereupon the senator submitted affidavit proof that the Wall street magnate had not been seen, had noe contributed penny to the Underwood fund and that the last Ryan campaign contffbution of which he had cognizanee was the s1O0O0 this powerful Wall street leader had given to aid in the election of Woodrow Wilson as governor of New Jer- sey.
 It shows political inexperience, to put it charitably, for the partisans of the New Jersey executive to invite the light
 ming by returning to their old and ex- | ploded tricks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-13
MinstrcIs for Veterans

"On the evening of April 29 at S:3O. Jefferson theatre. the Fra tres Minstrels, composed of refined and cultured young men of the city, will give an enter tainment,' said Capt. J. Lawler Darby. These gentlemen are not appearing be- fore tho public under pretence of asking charity, but are offering the citizens of Birmingham and vicinity an entertain nent in which all classes can find re- creation and pleasure. If our public spirited people will patronize these klnd hearted fellows a fund will be raised to aid the sick and needy old soldiers.
 T wish to say. and l can say 1t in truth, that in all of our southland no people can be found that have been and are more generous to the helpless than those of Jefferson county, and they give to all alike"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-13
INCOMPETENT AMERICAN ACTORS

1T ioHi lliN -Nth 1oi NOliu
 The shortcomings of the present day type of actor are aptly characterized by David Belasco in an interview explain ing his advertisement for well educated, ambitious young men desrous of enter ing the theatrical profession" Says the veteran manager:
 Tn casting a play nowadays it is ex- tremely difficult to find young men who know how to speak English correctly, who know how to walk, how to address d lady. The young actor of the present generation seems to think he cannot be taught anything, and thinks only of the salary he believes he should receive and nothing about the stage as a profes- sion. He plays small part, and then he joints theatrical club where he spends most of his time. He never thinks of study, of learning life. of watching peo- pie to find out how to behave. He does no. take the trouble to learn how to dance. he has no Knowledge of fencing. is all there is to it.
 All of which is notorously true But is the fault wholly the actors, or does it not largely proceed from the system of managerial exploitation by which half trained actors with limited stage ex- perience are prematurely launched as Broadway stars? Time was when actors worked their way up from the ranks with painstaking care and were starred only when they had demonstrated their versatility with competent company. To- day. given the ability to make hit in q minor part or to raise a laugh, and straightway new star is foisted on an unoritical public and accepted at his box office valuation. That these easy eondi- tions of theatrical fame should be reflected in contemptuous disregard on the actor s part of the finer qualities on which good acting depends is only natural
 Mir Belasco excepts the women of the stage from his criticism, admitting their greater conscientiousness and ambition. and the truth of the observation is to be found in the larger number of capable actresses whose names instantly come to mind On the other hand, how few are the actors who are identified with well realized role or whose names are even known to the general public! Yet at nc time in the history of the New York stage have there been greater opportunities for earnest actors or the promise of better rewards for those who adopt acting as a serious and dignified profession.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-13
Rhode Islands Pass Grabbers

A good share of New England at least is watching the effort in Rhode Island to compel the railroads to grant free passes to all members of the legislature and some others. The bill has already passed the house, and it is now being considered by the judiciary committee of the senate.
 The bill will not probably become ef- fective, for the federal supreme court has ruled that legislature cannot in- terfere with the conduct of the affairs of transportation companies in such a way as to compel them to give service for nothing or for less than the regu- lar rates. Chief Justice White has declared that "under pretense of regu- lating fares and freights the state can- not require a railroad corporation to carry persons or property without re- ward; neither can it do that which in law amounts to taking of private property for public use without just compensation or without the process of law"
 The Providence Journal is fighting the bill with all the force it can bring to beara The bill has been declared to be piece of compulsory bribery, an insult to the legislature, and an of fence against common honesty.
 Members of the interstate commerce commission have declared with respect to this situation: Nothing could be more renrehensible in the way of leg islation than a provision such as is proposed in the Rhode Island public utilities bill, making it obligatory upon the railroads to furnish free Yailroad transportation to members of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-13
Size of the Electoral College

Attorney General Wickersham de- cides that the reapportionment bill does not become effective until March 4, 1913, and thereby hangs tale. For upon the reapportionment depends the size of the electoral college, and the latter is not changed until the for mer is.
 It follows therefore that the cleo toral college will consist again of 483 electors plus on account of New Mexico and Arizona, or 4S9 all told The number necessary to elect is 245 instead of 266. Here is difference of 21 electors, and this difference might change the result of a presidential election
 In a number of states nominations | have been made for the electoral col lege based on the new apportionment. These will have to be cancelled under the decision of the department of justice.
 The election of delegates to the national conventions need not be changed, for they are based on the new apportionment, and each party is a law to itself.
 No state suffers from the Wicker sham decision so much as New York does. She will send up 39 electors instead of 45. This is loss of six cleo tors. Pennsylvania will lose four electors, Illinois two, and Alabama one. These losses are all due to, the fact that the apportionment could not be put into effect on March 4, 1911. To do that the congressman elected in November, 1910, would necessarily have come under an apportion- ment passed in the summer of 1910, and that could not be accomplished when the census itself was taken in April, 1910.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-13
SURPRISE FOR BRmEGRooM

From the Kansas City Journal.
 George von L. Meyer, Secretary of the Navy, said at the recent banquet of the American Society of Naval Engineers:
 "A very fashionable wedding once took place in Washington. Only the intimate friends of either family were invited and all seemed to be bent on having the best time of their lives. There was. however, one exception. A young man did not seem to be enjoying himself bit
 Instead of mlngling with the gather ing, the sad looking young gentleman wandered around the house. inspecting the wedding present and displaying great interest in the decorations.
 Finally the happy bridegroom noticed the fellow, and. wishing to say some thing pleasant and having imbibed enough to be able to do so. asked him why he did not mingle and have some fun.
 Have you kissed the bride yet? ht asked.
 We'll. said the sad one. not lately