davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-04-14
Virginia county puzzIc,

i. Name II county that Is the mama
OF great Southern general
NuHle Two counties OF the namo
.: Same u county that is the name
OF Declaration OF IndeDendence thnt
was signed In 1875.
=. Name county that Is the name
oI one OF our Presidents
Il fruit. 'th''e VI
y. Name county that is the name
of an Indian king
Z. Name county that Is tho name
OF vegetable.
o. Name county that is tho name
OF an American general in the war
IN MeHico. Composed by
Nhiis' Va ALMA L. KEMP
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-04-14
Editorial And Literary Department.

can to see him and then kill him. She
said the guilt could be easily put on
his grooms.
mat time. 1T was Macbcth's timo to
entertain him. He brought his two
sons, Malcolm and alDaiu. and also
his attendants. Before they went to
bed Duncan presented to them presents.
lie gave Lady Macbeth diamond.
(To be continucd)
SAI1fE KIDD.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-04-14
To Keep Audubon's Birth
day on Fifth Of May.
My Dear Girls and Boys:

My Dear Girls and BOYS:
l am taking up an excellent suggcs-
ton made by Rcbccca Cooper this
week. with Il view to having an Audit
bon birthday celebration for our page.
The birthday of the great urnitholo-
s!st falls. Rebecca tells us, on May 4.
sunday comes May ). and on that day
we should Ike to have as many draw
inGs of birds and as many bird stories
us possible. ] mean original stories.
the things that YOU have seen and
known yourselves about birds and
their ways, their sweet songs, their
manner of nest building and the linn
we may look for them to come back
from the South in the spring.
Now do mt wish these bird stOric S
to be long. In short, / am limiting
them to 2o0 words Remember. If you
write and break this rule you will have
no place in the contest Now let us
see instead what !, nice Audubon page
VIC can have. We Shall want bird
puzzles and bird drawings of every
kind. But do not let us all centre on
our national bird, the eagle. lie is the
king, bus there arc others.
Now YOU have my suggestions. Get
to work, but do not forget to make
good pages also between now and May
3. YOUR EDITOR.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-04-14
Gcoernphicnl pux,,c.

/. What city In Now Hampshire ;.
notcu IN .history?
x. What city in Virginia is the name
or small town near Boston, where a
battle WAS fought?
3. What city In Pcnnsylyania ia Tho
name OF great general?
d. what city In Virginia Is the nnme
OF city In New Hampshire?
b. What city in New York Ia tho
name oi tho iirst permanent English
settlement In Americn?
.. What city in oregon Is a, boy's
name? AfAItGARE;T >, MaSSS'
Winfred, W. Va
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-04-14
FYasls, Depaytsxsut
Historical Pu.rIe-A story Of Two LII.
..a Hsgt ito Cblldn,n -

once there lived IN (the first prcs,-
a3ens) Two little children named "a COL
lthe inventor OF the teiephone). They
Saen mad = (tho isiunds that Columbus
passed on HIS first voyago) and a Iona
In 1880. -i .
One day they took u walk ana mat
e. general who said. "Who, who
rum ,. which frightened them very
fhuch. So they run homo
San you supply names for the pm
Ishtheses and thus mako q connect e,i
Story! HELEN BROADitUP,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-04-14
. Chnrntis

Ny hrst Is In pout and also In out:
M! second is In round, but not I'm
bound; ~
My third Is In ate and also In fato.
Ny iourth ID In pan and also In ban:
SS nith 10 In gang and also In sang:
Ny sixth is in seat and also In meat
NJ! Whole ls the name OF a fruit.
go, HELEN l.. GEORGE,
1881 Monument Avenue, City.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-04-14

PRIZE WINNERS Of THE WEEK.
Miss Sally Garland Dca,, Tnnstali's,
Nn.
William w. FnIrhcr, G3G East InrEctt
street, Raleigh. v. G.
Miss Helen BruRdrup, Lorraine, YIN.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-04-14
HELEN l.. GEORGE.

Answer TO Page tnimorc's "Provcrb"
and State" puzzles:
Proverb-A bird in the hand is
worth TWO in the bush
stat es-Carolinn, Tennessee, Arlxan
sas Idaho. GLADYS TAYIOU
Rockville, Va
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-04-14
IHE TAEs DISPATCH: RIoHMoD w suNpAY APFI1 IA e12
Cores bondence Column
lin. Not Contributed for Months.

Dear Editor.-I am onu OF your little msni-
bcrs who hasn't sent anything 10 The page
for long time, but haven't forgotten the
page ut all. We have had lots OF rain late
~. but II has cleared of. and everything Is
SO pretty out-of-doors. have found lots
Of yolets that grow ATOMS tho road. and
think they ARE real pretty. My stsior
charlotte received her prize and sends many
thanks Tor IL. She says you pm: her name
in the paper rs Charles. but It's Charlottcs.
haven't started 70 school yet, because 1
ann just ELK years old and | cans go until
seven. mighty glad ! Goa' 1
have to go now, because I'D lots rather
be OF doors than In school. One of my
t.ttle friends. Edith Sutton, Is member
Of the club. visit her much success.
Please send n bedge. because think
the one my sister has is SO pretty. Wish
ing you and all the members success.
am. your little member
SALLY GARLAND BE.tL.
Rox c.. TunStRll. Va.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-04-14
Chm ruQc

My first is In riEn,, but not in ditch.
Ny second Is In US also In fuss:
NJ. t tnnra is IN ten. but not In SEQ;
Ny whole Is In q girls name.
JULIA e. BLANlIESSHIP.
Cor. Perry and Brown SITS, Petcrsburr
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-04-14
illustrates Contest story.

Dear Edltor,--Am inclosinE my three
drawing5 to illustrate the contest story
Spring ut Curtis Neck" by Jeanette Free
thor and Win prlznI am grlevcd to note
that none OF my work has ye, appeared on
tho page. hut there, guess you nrc wait
ING fur space. and am not complaining. II
these are not satisfactory, I am inclosinE
stamp for return postage, as can put them
in my scrapbook. W. FGLCHER
tS5 East Eargeu street, lialciGh. y. c.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-04-14

Dcnr Edltor,-The beautiful notebook Ar.
rived safely. / thank YOU many times FOL
II. also for giving me 4 prize. ga" where
you wrote about Jack Iouctts Ride" Ny
sister read 1t aloud. ANA Ii WAS interest
ing. Jack was certainly brave man, and
am Gad he was Il ,NirEinian. Our school
has closed. Amy anu l have much ttmc
to play. Amy keeps q diary and she write.
in 1t every day. think Ralph Rhudl
wrote such 4 nice letter Our hyacinthR are
pretty. and the peach trees down by the
backyard are blooming. too. l thank yoa
thank you, thank you.
Bassc;t Va MARY l.. P4ANNlLI..
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-04-14
AIEDALISTS FOR APRIL.
Miss Frances IL. saunders, 800 Fifth
Avenue, Highland PRrl<, city.
Carl -AIIenswort,, 'firEinin school for
Deaf nnd Blind, Stnunton, Nn.
rnE wI.rsk,s CONTRIBUTORS.

THE wIaEl<'S CONTRIBUTORS.
Blackburn, c. j. lrby, Ruth
Barrow. Wm. j. Irvin. Susie E.
Broadrup. Helen Jones. Lucille
Bradshaw, Dennis Jackson, Laurabellc
Beal. Sally Garland Koch. Marian
Hlanlicnship. Cecil Kemp, Alma
Bowman, Wilbur Kidd, Sallie
Blankenshr, Leslie Merton. Robert NJ.
Droadrup, Helen Murphy, Milton
BlankcnShip. J. Il. Morton Katherine
Bowics. Evelyn y. Matthews, Percy
Clay, Beverly Miller. Lesley
Chadwick. W. L. Mason. NJ. r.
Chadwick. II. f. Motley, Maude b.
Campbell. Ruth penick, Elizabeth
Cooper, I;ebecca r. Pannill, Mary Il.
Collins. Florence Pannill, Amy IL.
Dickcrson. Lotto Rogers Walter
Durvn, r. Caclisic sutton, stephen c.
Diggs, Myrtle sutton, Dix
Dunn, Z. Il. Spady, Edgar j.
Isbel. Gertrude Snldcr. Henry
Fulchcr w. W. Snidcr, Gladys
roX, Edith L. Shepherd, Paul G.
Goode. Mary Thomas, Hciia
Cinsscr, Rosu Il. Taylor, Gildys
George. Helen l.. Tignor, Thclma
Hall, l1liznbaih Tlgnor, Helen
Hammitt, Charles Wright, Fanny B.
Herring, katherine Wnllnan. Elise
iIettingcr, Andrew Williams, Francis
Willis, IL .nry
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-04-14
Boyy Nomcn In r,r,,,..

hoy" MINES In Figures.
]. 6. is. /. II, IL.
:. 10, /, Is, S, 20.
B. q, 3. 10, is. Z, 3.
j. 10. Q. Is.
.. 10, !. 3. II.
9. s, ., Il, Is, 20
FRANCIS WILLIAMS.
Sol Monterio Ave. Barton Heights
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-04-14

esl halifax street Peter.burs, Va.
Would Like to IInye More snoc,.

Dear EdItor,-As ] huvc no, written 60 the
page In long I am afraid that you Will
not enroll me one OF your members. The
page is improving rapidly. You have some
reai artists. can draw very well with II
pencil. but cannot draw very vel, with r
pen. | would like 10 soc my work in print.
but II II is not will not grurnblo. do
wish we had moro space on our page.
am going to try to win prize. wish you
would please send me badge: loss mine
about two yenrs ago. / Will close, wishing
you and the club members happy Easter.
An old member, ALMA KEMP
Villa. Va.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-04-14
Likes 10 Write sinrin.

Ucar Editor May i0in Tho r. ~ G. c. ?
VIII you please send badge and IN.
club rules? ! have answered most all q:
tie puz2les. nm also sending you one o,
wh.ch composed Mysclf. ! like to ,rtitn
stories. am going TO Try and star: one
at once. 50 ] can send II In soon Yonrs
very truly. FANNIE u. WRIGHT. .
Berryy!llc va =
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-04-14
Lives on q III. Inrn,

pfa" Edltor,-I very glad my ars,
drawing escaped The w8Stehasket. am
sending You another. hoping 10 win prize
iiy" ABOUT one mile out In the country on
a Dig farm. | VII! close, hoping 10 win a
iTize. Your member,
+. CARLISLE DURVIN.
Bumpa.s Louisa county va
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-04-14
TRYING to lc q Good Memher,

frying Ia TIC Good Member.
Dear Editor,-I received the pretty NOT
book which you sent me for prize an,
thank y"n very much for H. will Try I,
of q good mcinoeF. ana avn going 10 worl
for some more prizes. Sincerely.
MARGARET l.. MASON
J.. ST. am sending some puzzles ana ;
snort story this week.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-04-14

Dear Editor,-To-day is the first Of April
and spring liz here AT last. The National
solaieEs Homo is beautiful now In the frs,
burst of spring. The ed Is my birtndav =.
and would like n postal shower from the
members. Please, members send me some.
tninF ond anu unique. certainly would
Ike 10 get a card from ono md NIL OF YOU
must now close. Your loving member
WILLIE i. CHADWICK
Care William Chadwick. National Soldiers
| Home, Hampton. Va.
| r. S--My birthday is Arrii @ WILLIE
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-11
GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATcHIsoN GLOBE.

ANY politician who agrees with you is a
Brainy Man.
Don't admit you do your best unless
you do pretty we'll.
When a man thinks he needs a stimu-
lant what he really needs is rest.
While new reporter is being broken IN
more people accept positions.
A man who goes in for aviation has too
keen an appreciation of a high salary.
Fiction is defeated candidates state
ment congratulating his victorious OPP
ponent
1t is better to merely believe in your
popularity than to have to test it by your
ability to get bail.
Only few cataStrophes are so great
that the first reports concerning them are
not exaggerated
1t may have occurred to you that d ele-
gate has to pay considerably above the
market price for badges.
A youngster can have great fun on
merry-go-round, but when older folks ride
they want to go some place.
Speaking of the attraction of sopposites
for each other, you may have observed
that everyone abuses hypocrite a good
deal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-11

find the mayor of New York when
you saw me again, but I'm a liar-I
wrote you lies-I amt nothing but
| what you see, assistant janitor-and
may never be anything except janitor.
I waited to ask your forgiveness-then
I'm going away
| The color flared back into her
cheeks She stepped forward. is
| that true?" she asked eagerly.
He nodded. "Such a grand lady as
you are will be ashamed to know me.
Are you play-actin' in that dress? %
Eileen drew very close to him.
Il came down to ask you for more
heat in Madame Florelle's room.
am her maid-yes, look at me, Mar
tin, dear, for I'm the biggest story
teller as ever was! I never could sing
half good enough-they laughed at me
for trying, but I've been maid to
Madame F'lorelle-and I was ashamed
to tell you about it, believing you to
be so grand herei 1 had my picture
taken in one of her dresses and sent
it to you-I'm dreadful wicked! You
will despise MEL
The last words were muffled on
Martins shoulder and when Eileen
lifted her face part of the smirch from
Martins face was transferred to her
own pretty cheek.
Were both deceivers. We can
start even, Eileen, darlin'-but I fear
yen never be the wife of a mayor OF
New York if you marry mel"
ST don't care who 1 marry If it's
only you," whispered Eileen.-(Copy-
righted 1912. by Associated Literary
Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-11
says UNCLE CAV

Regardless of that still flourishing
theory of education which insists that
the young idea shall be crammed with
a sort of table d hote mess of intel
lectual provender labeled curricula, /
am very strongly of the opinion that
the only man worth while is he. who
takes his mental pabulum a la carte.
Discipline is no doubt good for the
growing mind, in fact, it is to be adj
mitted as one of the prime necessi-
ties. There may be a grave Ques-
ton as to whether the colleges are
getting at the disciplinary process
properly, but just now we are not ar
guing educational problems. The
point of the present observation is
that no man ever amounts to any
thing without an appetite in his brain
that equals that in his stomach, and
that no man with an appetite keyed
up to his normal needs and stopping
short of abnormality, is either willing
lectual food that is set before him.
And if he were, he would be a mental
wreck from intellectual indigestion.
We do well only those things that
we love. We understand and absorb
only those ideas for which we have a
what we understand and absorb.
Moreover, while a many-sided devel-
opment is to be desired, the efficient
men of the world are those who alb
sorbed a sufficient quantity of their
natural intellectual food and have
exercised certain of their mental
muscles enough to develop parts of
their thinking machines more thor
oughIy than others. They are the
la carte thinkers. the a la carte liv-
ers; in a word, the specialists.
No man is a universal genius, and
apparently no man can be. Human
life is too short and the human frame
too frail. Uniform development has
almost universally resulted in medi-
ocrity. Indiscriminate feeding, mental
or physical, has never resulted in
anything but an ordinary body and
an ordinary brain. By their appetiteS
shall We know them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-11
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFrom the Chicago News.1

IFrom the Chicago NewsJ
Flattery aimed at a sensible woman
falls flat
1t takes a man of courage to do all of
his own thinking.
All the world loves a lover. The world
likes to be amused.
But minister is seldom as black as no
dresses himself.
When you see an impecunious friend 4.
may prove to be a touching sight
A wise man forgives his enemies to pre-
vent them from getting back at him.
And the man who fails in a good cause
is better than two men who didn't try.
Many a man is willing to pocket his
pride If by so doing he can poke youf
money.
Few of the things that come to the man
who waits are the things he has been
waiting for.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-11
sIsTER susIE,s BEAU.

SISTER SUSIE'S BEAU.
Sister Susie's got beau
His name is Randall White.
He comes around to call on her
Most every other night.
/ He's all dressed up, an nice enough
AS fur as fellers go,
But things amt right around our house
Since Sister got her beau
We ulster do our lessons in
The parlor every night,
Cause there's a table good an big
An a dandy readin' light.
don't see why they want that room
(The lamp they turn down lowO
But we can't use the parlor now
Since Sister got her beau
We ulster go to Sister when
Our sums we couldn't do.
But now she amt got time for us.
AS soon as supper's through
She goes upstairs to primp and preen
(She powders, too, I know
We're gettin' awful marks in school
Since Sister got her beau!
Ma says she thinks he's goin' to pop
And Pa says, well. it's time!
The way he's uSin' heat and gas
Is certainly a crimei'
I don't know what they mean by that
But there's one thing know:
The house is simply upside down
Since Sister got her beaui
-Lippincott's.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-11
EVENING CHAT
BIZ RUTH CAMERON.

Few women realize how dispPoportion-
ately much WEAKNESS and exhaustion
comes to them from doing some nItI;
thing which is beyond their Norman
A doctor was called in one day by C
woman who found that she could not get
through her days work in a comparative.
ly small house, and with family OIL
three, without being completely tired ont
at night. He surprised his patient by ASK
ing to see her kitchen. This room was a
fairly compact place arranged with Some
regard to efficiency, and for awhile ire
doctor was puzzled. Then they passeo
with comprehension. Between the Two
was a heavy swinging door. That door
ought to stay back; doctor. explain,ela :,
through it and 1t swung back, but the
catch won't work. I've been meaning to
have it fixed for months"
How many times day do lou suppose
you go through that door," asked the
doctor.
tent; perhaps a hundred.
The door was an exceptionally heavy
door, resisting to the extent of nearly
fifty pounds pressure, according to tbs
doctors estimate. Every time the house
wife passed through it she had to exert
that much effort. 1t was evidently the
last straw that broke the cameIs back.
The doctor ordered a spring tonic, buS
he also prescribed much more emphatcal-
Iy a new catch for the offending door.
One over-exertion will tire anybody in
finitely more than a dozen exertion5.
When you make a normal exertion you
are simply using your muscles and hence
strengthen them. When you over-exert
yourself, you tear down and weaken your
muscles.
You may carry a weight which your
arms are easily capable of holding, some
distance without firing yourself; but If
you attempt to lift a weight which your
arm muscles cannot easily manage, and
try to help yourself by using your Stom-
ach muscles as we all do, you will exhaust
yourself even if you only carry the weight
a very little distance. The footprints of
er than in the second, but the exhaustion
is much less because the effort was nor
NAL.
The other day found myself tired o1t
at noon. 1t did not seem to me that 1
had done very much, and then 1 remem-
bered a struggle with a window which
was swollen from the damp weather ana
would not open. Again and again had
exerted my utmost strengthened more
to try to force the window up, and it was
that over-eXertion which lef.
me worn out long before the day was
over.
Every woman ought to beware of these
over-eXertionS. She ought to be sure that
there is nothing in her equipment such
as refractory door, or a heavy tea-ket-
tie, or anything of that sort, which will
oxer-tax her strength. And she had bet
ter suffer Inconvenience, such as tie
window that would not open, rather than
them. Homework is none too easy at
best. We certainly cannot afford to be
extravagant with our strength in this
way.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-11
GOOD ATHLETES IN MANY LANDS

Two famous prizes open to the
| amateur oarsmen of the world were
won Saturday at Henley, on the
Thames, by crews from other coun-
tries. One was taken by a Paris row.
ing club. The other was won by a
crew from Sydney, Australia.
The latter victory will not hurt
John Bulls pride as the success of the
Frenchmen did. The Australians are
in the empire and nearly all of them
are of British ancestry if not of Brit
ish birth 1t is all under the Union
Jack. Besides, Australia has been
noted for a generation for the Prov
ess of it's oarsnen. Paris is different.
It will be hard for the average Brit
ish athlete to realize that a crew
trained on the Seine and made up of
Frenchmen could fairly beat crack
British crews on the historic Henley
course. The Thames has never seen
anything more shocking.
While this was taking place in
England and Olympic games were in
fun swing at Stockholm, and in the
Swedish capital the world was being
shown how we'll men from many lands
were able to hold their own in run
ming, for instance. America led. but
splendid work was done by track ath-
letes from Great Britain, Germany.
Canada, South Africa, Sweden, Italy,
France and Australia. In throwing
the javelin a Swede won the highest
honors, with a Finnish athlete second
and Hungarian third. In one of
the trial heats of the 100-meter swim
ming race a Hawaiian beat the
worlds record.
1t will be seen that one DAYS sport
ing news showed quite clearly how
well the physical prowess of the
world is distributed. Men of widely
different races and nationalities, liv-
ing under entirely different condi-
lions in respect to climate, food and
various habits and customs, prove to
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-11

be no great distance apart in physical
proves. They come together on fair
~ even terms and the vanquished are
worthy of the respect of the victors.
Two or three of the very best ath-
letes in Stockholm today are colored
men from America
The human animal is wonderfully
adaptable. Man reaches and main
tains very high degree of strength,
stamina, skill and pluck in nearly all
parts of the earth. No other living
creature has so great a range and no
other inhabitant of the globe fits SO
well into many environments and
conditions of existence.