davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-03-31
LABOR CONDITIONS
NORTH AND SOUTH
Statistics and Facts Most Favor
able to Dixie-Lesson
From Lawrence.
COMPLETE INDICATION
Revelations That Came by Con
gressionai Investigation OF
Affairs in Massachusetts.
BY w. j. LAUCk.


statistics do not have any incitinS
effect upon the public mind. The Inn
man element does. The testimony of
one little mill girl from Lawrence
Mass. arouses a storm OF poplilar in
dignation. TIL. story OF tho Same ron
ditions which she narrated whep -,
forth in voluminous governmental r.-
ports and demonstrated by imposing
statistical fluctuations fall to excite
the sympathy OF the average Ainer.i-
can.
The conditions which prevail in what
is suppos ID TO be our greatest worsted
goods manufacturing centre have long
been known. Figures have bcen-,ay,lI-
able. and have been used TO show the
sham and hypocrisy Of the contention
OF the woolen and worstcd goods man
ufacturcrs that the high tariff is need
ed TO protect the American mill opera =
tive The fact has been published that
the American wage Garner is Il mis-
homer. II has been clearly set forth
that instead OF being protected from
the ''pauper labor" of Europe, the rep
cssntatircs of all the so-caliCd pau.
per races ot Southern and Eastern Eu-
rope have been encourage TO
immlsrate 10 the New England textile
centres, because their standards of iiv-
ING nave been lower and because they
nave been willing TO accept lower
rates OF payment or moro uniavora bic
WorkinS conditions than the nativ =
81 ,hia nhn, rs me resnit OF me advent
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-03-31
VIEWS AND NEAR VIEWS.
HINTS AND SUGGESTIONS
A Fright Young Mans Way Sturgeon and His
Clgar-More Hookworm Talk mere Tobac-
CO Is King-schools and Near Schools.
Peanuts and Potlcs-MaDy
Other RiutS
by FRANK ). Nt0ODSoN,
Industrial T-,lIfn-

This column In open TO cont rihutors
who have something to shy OF n sug-
CcstIyc MIXTURE, md who nrc willing 10
nuke hints and suEEcs ions Looking tn
the better Development of the good old
states Of Virginia, West Virginia and
North Cnrolinn. and who can hold their
suggestions down In an, one issue to
from $50 to 100 words. Such com
munications, addressed so the Indus
trini Editor. will receive prompt at
tcntiOn.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-03-31

\ "Southsidc Virginian." at least
that is the way he signs e communica-
ton TO the Industrial Editor. says.
You may talk as piuch as you please
about new industries and new farming
propositions. and all the like OF that,
bur, after all, Old Virginia ia q. totnc
co-Srowing State. 10 certain parts
of the state, especially in the South
side. tobacco brings moro money than
any other crop. have Nc objection to
CONTINUED on twelfth PaSo.l'
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1912-08-23
r EFT SA FILE

II y a neuf ans, c'est-a-dire vers
la fin de 1916, la jeune famille de
M. Honore Duchateau, conseiller
a la cour royale de Paris, Sc COM
posait de cling enfants; cinq fills.
L'a1n6 entrait dams sa treizi4me
aimee; la mere n%ourrissait lie plus
,jeune, gui n'6tait encore age que
de quelques mois. Une autre jeu-
ne mere, la veuve Barbe Mikel, al
DAFT Nine Duchateau dams ses
soins maternels. Barbe n'avait
point de fonctions determines
chez lie conseiller; lie personnel du
service 6tait au complet quand ellie
fut admise dams la maison, aussi
ne jugeait-on pas meme n6cessaire
d'abord celle qui bient6t devait Sc
rendre indispensable.
C'est au malheur qai l'avait
rapp6e qu'elle dut d'appartenir a
cette honorable famille.
A cette 6poque d'effervescence
politique ct de repression rigou-
reuse, Oh d'egales rancures entire
les gouvern6s ct les gouvernants
les mettaient incessamment en-
lutte, ia tache impos6e aux JUICES
6tait parfois cause dun grand tour
ment pour eur conscience. Ain
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1912-08-23

me sera rendu, c'est lei quill me
retrouvera." dut c6der a la, gene
reuse instance de Nine Ducha
teau.
Ce fut dams la maison du con-
%seiller-juge que la femme ct la file
d'Alphonse Mikel Sc r6veillerent
lie lendemain.
Files y avaient etc recueillies
settlement a titre d'6trangeres di-
gnes de compassion, mails peu de
jours apres qu'elles y furent install
lees, Giles sly trouverent 81 compile
tement impatronisees, 81 incessam-
ment utiles, qu'on n'aurait su COM
ment Sc passer d'elles.
LIE magistrat, absorb6 tout en-
tier par ses devoirs, Nine Ducha-
teau, uniquement occup6e de ses
enfants. avaient solvent senti que
lie bon gouvernement de leur int6-
rieur ~n6cessitait lie choix dune in
term6diaire d6vouee qui sdt voir
pour les maftres ct r6soudre, avec
les Wallets, les questions douteuses
du service. Barbe, de bonnie heu-
re orpheline de mere, s'6tait vue,
presque enfant, charg6e de lentre-
tien du pauvre m6nage de SOL pc
re; devenue jeune femme, ellie await
apport6 dams son propre menage,
qui n'6tait. pas beaucoup plus RI
che, les habitudes d'ordre ct Pin
telligence dies SONS nombreux que
pouvait exiger meme I'm grand 6tat
de maison. Ellie ne Sc trouva done
pas d6pays6e chez SEES opulents
protecteurs; ellie n'eut pas non
p,us a Sc demander comment ellie
pourrait reconns1re leur protec-
ton. Sans imposer ses services
par un zele indiscret, Barbe rem
dit avec tant de bonnie grace ceux
qu'on lui demandait, ellie indiqua
81 naturellement ceux gu all besoin
ellie pourrait rendre sans qu'on les
lui demandat. que Nine Ducha-
teau s'habitua insensiblement a
dire, a propos de questions de de-
tail, touchant soft Pofice, soft Ia
lingerie:
-Ceci regarde Barbe. C'est
Barbe qui lie fera, Demandez
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1912-08-23
"a CoNT1NUER }
u. C.. F. C..

Cercle Ste Anne, reunions les
2e ct De lundis du mois, sale A. o..
u. W 80 Avenue Centrale. Nine
Deslauriers Sec.-Fin., 1923 Be rue
N r,
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1912-08-23

Faites faire vos invita-
tions de marriage aux ate
Tiers de I'ECHo.
Files seront bien faites
ct ne couteront pas cher.
Prix soumis par la NAL
lie.
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1912-08-23

Ca pale d'annoncer dams ! Echo
DE L'OUEsT
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-15
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

CFrom the Chicago News.1
It's easier to make love than it is al
ways to mean it.
A woman who can speak seven Ian
guages generally does.
Every mans credit is good when it
comes to borrowed trouble.
1t is well to exercise your rights, but
don't work them to death.
Some people who tell everything they
know don't have much to say.
Few men will register kick If they
get more than their moneys worth.
You may become quite popular with
some people by keeping out of their way.
It's easy to get something for nothing
if you are satisfied with worthless adj
vice.
A hotel patron is justified in kicking
when he has to pay good dollars for
poor quarters.
The man who is always on time wastes
many valuable hours waiting for the 9TH
er fellow
Many a man has been accused of steal
ing kisses when in reality they were
forced upon him
As fun producer comedian isn't in
1t with a henpecked man when he starts
out to assert himself
1t is difficult to acquire q satisfactory
reputation the strength Of what you
are going to do some day
An old bachelor may not know what he
missed by not nlarrying-but peace hath
her victories just the same.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-15
GLOBE SIGHTS
BY TIE NICHOLSON GLORE.

1t takes ten cent man to make an
expensive row.
A man who doesn't control his temper
Is apt to say he can't
Patriotism isn't often the principal pro-
moter of the campaign fund.
On the farm, sunflowers continue to be
weeds instead of state enblems.
Down south, the militia is used to ar
rave too late to prevent lynchings.
Sometimes a man imagines he is popu-
lar when he is only a convenience.
he early bird may catch the worm but
occasionally the worm is frost-bitten.
An Atchison woman is in such constant
turmoil that she is called THE Army
1t often happens when people wonder
how man makes a living, that he
doesn't.
A consultation of physicians is apt to
be among the last items on your expense
account
This is sure a rough world for a pam
pered child who loses his parents and
their money.
Possibly you have observed that the
man who wears a string tie is often
negligent about tying it.
No one else has the cinch on recovering
from a surgical operation that a novel
heroine has.
Quarrels of calf love seem amusing 10
oder folks, who forget the days they
bawled over similar business.
It IS hard for a man to- outgrow the
suspicion that his Havana cigar grew In
kentucky and was made in Cincinnati.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-15
LAYHAWKER JOTS

The Elk City correspondent of the
Wilson County Citizen calls his news
notes "Eyetems."
AS the Blue Mound Sun points out:
Many a promising young man never
does anything else.
1t is a matter of regret to Charley
Barnes of the Usage City Free Press
that the grounding did not stay out
longer and freeze to death
The Cawker City Ledger never
heard of a bird called q defective.
but it quotes from the Scottsville Ad-
in the house occupied by R. R. Reed
and family" and caused a fire to
break out.
A high school note in the Beloit
Gazette; I used to go to high
s seh99 Whst a 6ra ar hen DID 4co you
ash and walnut DO you want
to see something swell?' YES
Drop q. sponge in water"
Here's something of difference
pointed out by the Scottsville Ad-
vance: A town girl wants to go to
the country to teach school SO she can
rest and save her money. The coun-
try girl wants to come to town so she
can have good time-and spend her
money.
practicing rifle shooting and will
soon take up the study of throwing
the javeIin instead of putting the
shot. Shooting weeds in the corn
rows with q hoe and throwing hay
with fork are to be thus reIegated
Usage City Free Press
Ha, ha! Here's some definite evil
dence that all of the groundhogs, at
least, did not return to their holes on
that fatal Friday, February g. w. w.
Campbell, who lives near Warden, re-
ported to the Overlook Citizen that his
dog treed" one On top of his corncrib
on the following Monday morning.
In the high school notes in the Over
brook Citizen there are not the usual
number Of . roasts'' on the students
and teachers that are common in many
similar columns ir other Kansas news
papers The reason is not difficult to
find The rs. mes of the editor and
assistant editor of these notes ap-
pear at their head
Maybe the following from the
Mankato Advance is merely a case of
sour grapes: We wonder each week
why some of these papers with type
setting machines don't run their ar
ttcles under the puzzle department
head? BY the time an amateur and
a typesetting machine get through
with a long article it is usually in
shape for that department
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-15
oUAkER MEDITATIoNs.

IFrom me Philadelphia Record.I
An ounce of hustle Is worth a pound
OF luck
Presidentiaily speaking, things seem TO
be TRable.
Even after a girl is married things may
go a-Miss with her.
Even the man who loves his stomach
may love not wisely, but too we'll.
No Maude. dear every girl who Gomez
out on top isn't a dizzy blonde.
It isn't wise to be carried away by en-
thusiasm unless you have a return ticket
The most surprising thing in life is the
fact that the things that don't seem pos
sibIe happen so often.
The beauty about writing a play Is that
you can crowd more love into three hours
than you can otherwise experience in a
whole lifetime
Blobbs-'I was out skating the other
day; hadn't been on the Ice for 20 years.
S.obbs-"How did fl go2'' Biobbs-"Oh
I fell in with It right away"
Muggins-'I never knew a fellow SO
fond of borrowing trouble as Dashauav..
Buggins-''W What has he done now" Mug
gins Eloped with another mans wife"
Sillicus-'-Who was IL that said Deliver
me from my friends7" Cynieus-''I don't
Just remember. but suppose It was some
Fellow who knew he could take care OF
his enemies"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-15
FoRCEFUL JUSTICE.

| Armed with power to punish FOL
contempt of court, and with the still
mora important preliminary power to
determine just what may constitute
such a contempt, wearers of the er1nlne
have long had an admitted advantage
over recalcitrant witnesses, and such
lawyers and others as are prone 10
treat a court with disrespect- It is sell
dom that judges have abused this
power. More often has it been the case
that they have submitted to rather out
rageous conduct in their courtrooms
without taking advantage of their op-
portunities to infict punishment
Judges are men. Most of them have a
high sense of honor. Maybe for this
reason they ara slow to use their au-
thority in falling obstreporous lawyers
and others Their fine sense of feeling
will not permit them to take advantage
of the deserved victims of their wrath
because they have no show to defend
themselves or fight back.
However, a Texas judge has just set
a precedent that ought to open the way
for Judges to defend the fair. name of
their court and keep its escutcheons
unsullied; and at the same time extend
to their detractors or malignars as
square a deal as any man could ask
During the progress of a case before
this Texas judge the other day, one of
the parties concerned in it took occa-
sion to call the judge liar. Instead of
filming this man s4.9S and sending him
to Jail for Is days. the judge promptly
decreed: Court is adjourned until
whip that man who called me liar"
Bang went the gavel. From the bench
jumped the judge. There was a mix
I'D on the court room floor. When the
smoke of battle cleared away, the
judges traducer was stretched out
PROSTATE Thereupon the judge re-
mounted the bench. and re-convened
the court He Immediately fined him
self for fighting, and the interrupted
proceedings were resumed.
Thus was the integrity of the court
preserved and it's honor satisfied. OF
course. an occasion might arise when
a Judge would not be physically able to
come out on top in such an encounter
In such an exigency, he would still
have the power to impose a fine, a
Jail sentence or both, and he could
make the punishment doubly severe by
taking cognizance of the assault that
had been made on the court, even If it
think how such a disposition of cases
of contempt would add to the gaiety of
the administration of justice. Under
the present demands of dignity, there
is nothing more monotonous-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-15
SAYS UNCLE CIV

A loser is always a loser, but cheer
fulness helps.
1t is not good to minimize our
losses. The important thing is rather
to give them their true valuation,
but to refuse to permit them to dis
courage us.
He who habituaIly looks on the
bright side" to the extent of under
estimating his losses can no more
prosper than a merchant who ignores
in his business calculations the uncol-
lectabIe bills or fire damage. The one
is Just as sensible and just as insane
as the other. On the merchants part
such course would cause his creditors
to force him into bankruptcy. And
the ''bright slider" is actually, If not
obviously a moral bankrupt
Cheerful idiocy is not the kind OF
cheer that helps. Cheerful sanity is
what counts-the kind of cheer that
faces the situation with clear brain,
and unclouded eye and steady hand,
undisnayed and courageous for the
struggle to regain lost ground. This
is the cheerfulness that keeps the
heart beating regularly and lends
strength to the thews. 1t is the kind
of cheerfulness that drives the poison
of despair from the veins and purges
the brain of fear. 1t is the kind OF
which knowing the worst,
and knowing it's own possibilities
pIunges joyously into the fight to win
And between this cheerfulness and that
which is born of ignored disasters
there is fixed a gulf as wide as that
between success and failure.-(Copy-
right, 1912 by w. E. Williams-)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-15

son-himself. And their secret=now
his-should die with him
1t seemed hours before time for his
dance Mrs. Marsh, radiant in pale
blue satin and not in the least looking
tired, was willing to sit out the dance
IN the conservatory.
The senator wasted no time. Il
want to ask you a funny question,
Mrs Marsh. if you don't mind. Do
you ever wear blue Bingham dresses p
Why, yes. you funny man. live in
them at home. and what is more, there
is nothing I like better"
Il know it, Laura Laura dear I
love you VIII you marry me tomor-
row? You must"
And Laura said simply Eyes. Elias
dear, l viii. And although she did
not say, This is so sudden" she
thought so.-(Copyright. 1912, by AS
ISOLATED Literary Press)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-15
DAFFYDuS
BY Q. NOAL4L..

If a beet keeps in winter would a
carrot2
(Take your feet off that table, Will
liam. What do you think this is. a
barroom
Would a grass widow necessarily
be q vegetarian?
(Yes. he was a great general The
only time he ever drew a sword was
in a raffle.)
Does the possession of a new auto
make DR.. G. j. MuIyane2
(Donst lock that man up He only
committed murder.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-15
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Few men are as smart and clever
as they think they are.
=
Considerable of the variety that
makes up the spice of life is not
pleasing to the taste.
x x
A friend expects you to laugh at the
jokes he tells no matter how often you
may have heard them.
v
That part of the money invested in
the whip generally has the most to do
with making the mare go.
Nor will you get much applause on
your second appearance if you did not
deliver the goods the first time
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-15
ADVER Using TALKS
BY WILLIAM c. FREEMAN

Do you read the advertisements in this
newspaper? You, reader. one OF a
big family, owe it to yourself and to 9TH
er readers to read the advertisements
because if you read carefully and criti-
cally and If some advertisements dis
please you, you will write to the pub
Usher about them
That is just what the publisher wishes
you to do.
The publisher of wspaper-furnish-
ing to his family of readers news and
isementS-realiZes his responsible
ity. He knows he is human and liable to
make mistakes like all other human be-
ings-so nothing spurs him to greater
endeaVor than frank and friendly criti-
cism from his readers.
If readers will take an interest in the
advertisements-if they will help to PICK
out those that don't ring true Gf there be
any they will find the publisher only tee
willing to cooperate to exclude the un-
true printed words of advertisers.
The publisher Of newspaper-don't
ever forget it-does more for his commune
ity than any thousand individuals, be
they ever so important. AS rule he
gets less financial return than any bust
ness enterprise in his coTnmunity-con-
sidering the money invested and the ire
mendous cost of producing satisfactory
daily newspaper.
The need of money is always great, but
even it's need will not influence pub
Usher to print that which will defraud or
Believe me when I say that the aver
age publisher wishes, first of all to be
square with his readers. The readers
after all, own the newspaper They can
make it an influence for good or evil.
Read the advertisements Most of them
will prove to be of direct benefit to you
Those that are not, write to the publish
er about.
If we are to make our advertising co..
urnns dependable, there must be genuine
interest and cooperation from the reader.
(To be continued)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-15

of all corporations doing an interstate
business and intend, during this ses-
sion, to oppose any attempt to weak
en- the Sherman antitrust act, be-
lieving that this law is the great bull
wark of American commercial and in
dustrial liberty and that it should be
strengthened by defining more clearly
those things which constitute its vio
latfon, instead of being weakened as
proposed by some"
If this isn't a progressive stand on
two of the largest questions pressing
for solution these days, what could be
one?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-15
seven Thousand Miles a Second.

Mr. Arthur Gleason in the World s
Work for February tells this story TO
The people of the Argentine re-
public were so interested in the
launching of their great battleship
Moreno. at the yards of the New York
Snipbuilding company in Camden. n.
J., on Saturday, September %, 1911,
that the Central and South American
Telegraph company asked the West
ern Union to arrange a special wire
to flash the announcement. The Mo
reno glided into the water at 2:33 p.
M. instantly Camden flashed 1888"
to New York, New York cabled to
Colon in the same instant, Colon
flashed it to Valparaiso and Val
paraiso to Buenos Aires. Buenos
Aires acknowledged its receipt and
bulletined the information at 2:33 Q.
m. In other words, the news arrived
In Buenos Aires in the fraction of
minute, even before the rippIes caused
by the battleship's entrance into the
water had subsidized.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-15
BY THE WAY
BY HARVEY PARSONS.

Soft-boiled humanitarians are trying
| to avert the execution of five young
| chicago gentlemen. Up to a late hour
TINS afternoon, the Movement was con-
nned TO the Chicago branch of the Cn-
( lversal Simp's Association, but the local
auxiliary may get in before the bull
dog goes to press.
Young gents IN question are not Real
Criminals, and are subjects of Reform
All they did was to stab and beat 4
young farmer to death, and then jam
club down his throat. OF course they
put On that last stunt on account Of
the Exhuberance of Youth.
AS a further proof that they are not
real criminals, and should be turned
over to some reform society, rather
than hanged. records of the case show
that they Only found few dollars in
the pockets Of the man they killed.
These young gentlemen never in their
lives sold a drop of red liquor, and no
testimony was introduced to show that
they smoked cigarettes.
Some people claim that the person
ality of the old writer's is written be-
tween the lines of their classics, but you
can't even make a guess at the per
Sonallty of newspaper writer. The
person who writes Hon Lii RusselPs
syndicate stuff while she is in New
York attending a theatrical benefit and
midGle-aged woman who is supporting
a sick husband and keeping three
daughters in boarding school, but the
chances are that it is an old batch who
wears az eye shade and cob pipe.
And, speaking Of Hon LII; she holds.
as we understand it, that she doesn't
love long green less but Moore more.
The story, under New York date line
of the woman who was Simply Crazy
to go up in an aeroplane, and then
changed her mind while 1000 feet from
the earth, may be good material for
some parag-s piers, but having at one
time taken a balloon trip with q cold
footed German, this department is un-
able to enjoy the fine points of the joke
on that aviator.
After careful investigation, the fed
eral bureau has named several .perruis-
sible' explosives. We hold that too
ton of explosives. and too little upon
the mental capacity of The user of e1--
plosives. No explosive-even a jug
full of unslacked lime, is safe in the
hands of a - fool
Gus Rubin didn't wait for defeat at
the hands of some smoke. He passed
out of the game quickly and decently.
The mau who is eternally hammered
by his family because of his poverty,
may as well give up hope of ever find
ing peace If he makes his pile they
will begin to hammer him about his
grammar and table manners.
Some people may borrow trodble, but
a number OF us have IL to lend.
soft answer may turn away wrath,
but it won't touch book agent.
Every time Lincoln's birthday comes
around, the newspaper syndicates pro-
duce a picture that was never before
public that Lincoln spent all his time
posing for pictures should be discour
aged. Fle spent some of his time split
ting rails.