davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-02
told her she could go to the work

told her she could go 10 tne Worh- house.
 When I get out" she saird. "Tll be much better and I can go down and meet the ships again."
 Mary Walsh was born in Ireland, but came here when a girl. She start ed to work as a chambermaid at the old Stevens House, and 1t was there she met a young man who was third officer on ship plying between New York and Chinese ports. They were very much in love, but decided not to get married till he had made one more trip. She bravely waved good-by to him from the Castle Garden wall. He never came back.
 He wrote one letter, but that is all she ever heard of him or his ship. After he had been gone nearly year she gave up her work at the Stevens House and began selling apples so she could meet all the ships. That was 60 years ago, and until today, when she couldn't stand the heat any longer, she had gone to Battery Park every day to watch the ships come in and sell enough apples to keep her alive.
 Many visitors to the park knew Apple Nary and many know her story. Patrolman Wilson of the Old Slip station, who took her into court and who had long known and often befriendded her, said he was sure that, true to her word, she would be back in her old place in two months, watch ing the ships.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-02
Banker Woodward of New York

"I am glad to see that the New York bankers have selected MT. William Woodward, president of the Hanover National bank of New York, for the local director of New York's federal reserve bank" said Col. T. O. Smith.
 "The other directors will, I under stand, be chosen from outside of the city. Mir. Woodward has large interests in Birmingham and is great believer in the Birmingham district He Is a director in the Birmingham Trust and Savings bank and a director in the Birmingham Realty company He is a nephew of the late James Woodward, who was for many years president of the Hanover National, the dominant di- rector in the Tennessee company, di- rector in the Birmingham Trust and director in the Birmingham Realty. MT. ] William Woodward ranks as one of the ablest financiers in New York and will
 make an ideal director in the federal | reserve bank"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-02
Rus' FIRST WIFE


 From the New York World of June 27, 1907.
 Jacob A. Riis, phlanthropist, sociolo- gist, author, whom President Roosevelt las called New York's most useful citi- zen, is about to marry again. The man whose tribute to the wife now dead is one of the purest. the most deeply touch- ing of the simple utterances that have given him so wide a celebrity; the man who has proved himself the husband in heart as we'll as in name, who has found the time amid many of his activities to study the soul of the woman who walked beside him, will give ihs later years to a bride of half his age. who has grown into his companionship and love through his great loss. Mrs. Riis died in May, 1903. In August of this year Miss Mary Phil lips, who has been MT. Riis stenographer for several years. will become his wife. Miss Phillips is 25.
 In ''The Making of an American" pub lished two years before the death of his wife, MT Riis wrote of her as David Cop perfield might have written of Agnes He said:
 'I dreamed a beautiful dream in my youth, and I awoke and found 1t true. My silver bride they called her just now Q903). The frost is upon my head. in- deed; hers winter had not touched with its softest breath. Her footfall the light est, her laugh the merriest in the house. The boys are all in love with their mother; the girls tyrannize and worship her together. The cadet corps elect her an honorary member. for no stouteI champion of the flag is in the land"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-02
WHEN THE HERMIT-TH SINGS

From Upland Pastures" by Walter
 Prichard Eaton, in the June Scribner
 Now there comes a hush in the bird songs. hush in all nature. while the peak behind us grows amethyst, the high zenth golden west blushes into rose. The woods grow dim. The rose dusks to a deeper hue, and suddenly against 1t all the pointed frs stand darkly up like spired city in fairyland. At that moment the birds break their hush, the peabodies flute from spire to spire like little Moslems in Chris etion beifries, and from the dusk of the forest wall behind us comes ringing the full-throated song of a hermit-thrush Even the sparrows respect that master minstrel, and pause. An expectant si- lence succeeds Then. from farther off, from the very depths of the woods, the coolness of their brooks, the greenness of their leaves, the mystery of their si- fences made vocal, the answer comes, in liquid triplets dripping twilight. George Moore has called the songs of Schubert and Schumann "the moonlit lakes and nightingales of music" But what man made music is twilight and the hermit | thrush? A few of Mozart's andantes? AL most, perhaps, yet they lack the forest timber and the dusk they are liquid anl pensive, but they were composed at sun rise, or while the sun yet fingered on the lowland meadows Incomparable of birds.
 uncelebrated in classic story like the nightingale uttering no homesick note in a warm and sentimental southland like the mocking bird, your habitat in your
 musical mating time is the forests of our bleak New Hampshire hills, and on the border of an upland pasture at twilight you sing an unheard song that could rav- | ish the world!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-02
A FAMOUS WAR REPORTER srov,, tho Nouy VorIr Herald


 The death of MT. de Bonneville Ram dolph Keim at Washington, Sunday, re- moves another of the famous war corre- spondents who served the Herald during the rebellion and won renown for him. self as for the newspaper he so faith fully represented.
 There is wealth of achievement to MT. Keim's credit, but perhaps the greatest is the writing of the dispatch which de- scribed the methods of Gen. U. s. Grant and dealt with his ability as comman- der in such a way as to aid in bringing about his selection as commander of all the union forces in the field.
 This was one of the things which MT Keim accomplished through knowing con. ditions at his headquarters and in Wash. ington. He struck while the iron was hot and results followed in week.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-02
A Suggestion to Doyle

Introducing Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at luncheon given by the Pilgrims in New York, Joseph H. Choate said he hoped Sir Arthur would write some more detective stories on the Sherlock Holmes order. Anyone who has read the fascinating adventures of Sherlock will under stand MT. Choate's admiration for the author of these tales, but once before Sir Arthur revived him after the great man had been to all intents and purposes killed, and it was move of doubtful expediency. Since the Gre turn of Sherlock Holmes" the criti- cism has often been made that he is not as interesting as he used to be. Perhaps this is nothing more than the pessimistic attitude of people who think there are no days like the old days and dwell on the past so fondly that they lose sight of the present.
 And yet, if the later Sherlock Holmes stories don't compare favora- bly, with Sir Arthurs earlier work, there is nothing surprising in that. After a character in fiction has been Aken through great variety of ad- ventures by his creator the time is bound to come, sooner of later, when the spontaneity and verve which dis tinguished that first work will begin to wane. The hero will grow tiresome, both to the author and to the public. The mere reiteration of name will eventually become monotonous to a reader, and where a writer confines himself to certain field that is some what narrow it is superhuman task to retain his original freshness of style and subject matter.
 But Sir Arthur has achieved won- derful success as a writer of detec- tive stories and his fame will be last ing, no matter what his future out. put may be. He has had host of imi tators, most of them such palpable failures that Sherock Holmes, in com parison with his successors, continues to be by far the best detective char. acter in modern fiction. Sir Arthur has been accused of modelling his hert after Poe and the French school. Ht has freely acknowledged this indebted ness.
 If he can write another yarn al good as "The Sign of the Four" ol "The Hound of the Baskervilles," by all means let Sir Arthur begin at thu
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-02

"Hot weather hints" have been is- 1 sued by Assistant Surgeon General Fucker of the public health service. First of all, don't overeat," says pr.
 Fucker. "A furnace is not stoked in
 summer the way it is in winter Par take sparingly of meats Eat largely of fresh vegetables and fruits. Avoid all coholc drinks Alcohol never made anyone cooler. Be sparing in the use of ice water. Drink plenty of water. but not too cold and have no ice in it' Loose clothes of a light color and weight are recommended by Dr. Ruck CT for summer wear. "It is a significant fact" he declares. that women are much more sensible about clothes than men. Keep in the air as much as pos sible and in the shade. In the mat ter of sleeping stay out of doors. Screen off the porch if possible and sleep in the open. Cold baths are to be avoided. It is far better to bathe in lukewarm water in summer than in cold water"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-02
SEEING BY WIRE

From the Washington Times.
 It was Jules Verne. If recollection
 does not mislead, who described in
 one of his works of overwrought
 imagination a device by which people
 talking over the telephone were en-
 abled also to look each other in the
 face as they conversed. Of course, it was quite as impossible as verne's
 visions of air travel and submarine voyaging and about everything else he described; that is, 1t was prophecy instead of pure invention. Nowadays the world moves along so fast that
 the widest stretches of one genera tion's ina gination are the accom- plishments of the next. Even Jules Verne didn't think of the possibilities of moving pictures and wireless teleg- raphy.
 Now comes London savant with the announcement that he has per fected the seeing by wire' inven- tion. He has given a demonstration of it before an audience, and the thing is alleged to have worked over distances up to four miles. He an- ticipates that in time this new elec- trical scheme will be harnessed to the wireless, and people on shipboard will be able to see the doings on land hundreds of miles away!
 The same day that brings from England the announcement of this device brings also the news dispatch which tells of successful flight in Dr. Langley's heavier than-air ma chine. The contrivance which failed to work over the Potomac has been restored along exactly the lines laid down by Langley, and with the same
 motor than was built for it under Langleys directions it went aloft yes terday and conclusively proved that the inventor had solved the problem of flight. Dr. Langley had the idea, the
 whole idea; and now they are saying that in addition to making an aero plane that would work, he also pro duced one of the most remarkable mo- tors ever turned out, even to this day Langley's vindication seems to be pe-
 culiarly complete, even if sadly de- layed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-02
Fame's Related Wreath

Truth crushed to earth will rise again, though often long time is required in effecting the rise. Samuel P. Langley, the inventor of the flying machine, has been in his grave twenty years, whither his broken heart at the apparent failure of his device placed him; but today Glenn Curtis, the famed aviator, has demonstrated that theoretically Langley was right and at this late day his name is placed upon the roster of immortals.
 As a fossil or an archaic relic the stranded Langley machine has lain in the Smithsonian institute in Washing ton, but Curtis recently repaired it and made with it successful flight. He proved that the dead inventors error consisted solely in the manner of launching the airship. Instead of shooting it from catapult all that was necessary was to give it run ming start upon the ground, when it would rise mechanically and in re- sponse to correct theories.
 There is both pathos and moral in the story. Poor Langley travelled tc southern state where he watched the flight of buzzard and from that bird evolved his theory of aerial nav. igation. He solv% the problem cor. rectly, yet the world jeered him tt
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-02
ToMoRRow-TRIAL OF DR. PRITCHARD
LOG OF NEW HAVEN LINE

LOG OF NEW HAVEN LINE From the Detroit News.
 8 a. m.-went through my morning ex- ercise for MT. Morgan, such as rolling , over. playing dead, begging, etc. a. m.-Swallowed a gas company. 10 a. m.-Bought legislature. Il a. m.-slipped another job over on the stockholders.
 12 noon-Fixed a newspaper for $S0000. p. m.-Traded Connecticut judge for one in Massachusetts.
 2 D. m.-Ate a trolley line alive. 3 p. m.-Bought a common council for 30 cents
 D. m.-Hornswoggled a government inc quisitor.
 D. m,-Had a nice collision, the wooden coaches making a splendid bonfire. 6 p. m.-Kissed some more stockholders' money good-by.
 p. m.-Shot a bale of kale over to the g. O. p.
 p. m.-Testified at prayer meeting.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-02
Stock Raising in Alabama

"Stock raising in Alabama is receiv- ing more attention now than ever be- fore, and it will be found a highly profitable branch of husbandry," said Al c. Garber. cashier of the Merchants and Mechanics Trust and Savings bank.
 T visit Demopolis frequently and keep in close touch with the farming life of that section. Many farmers there- abouts have turned their attention to beef cattle. The grasing is fine and our climate Is exceptionally favorable to stock raising. In few years Alabama beef will have become famous.
 Cotton around Demopolis is looking well, but other crops have been suffer- ing for rain"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-02
Virginia's Prohibition Campaign

"The Anti-Saloon league is conduct ing a very spirited campaign in vir- ginia for state wide prohibition and when I was in Richmond a few days ago several persons whom I happened to meet seemed to think that the pro- hibitionists would win" said Charles Maxwell of New York. But the busi- ness men of Richmond, as a class, are strongly opposed 10 statewide prohi- bition, and they are leaving no stone unturned to keep the state in the local option column.
 Prohibition seems to be a good thing for the small towns. but it has been a failure in the few cities that have tried it. Richmond has a large wholesale liquor trade and many saloons. If Vir- ginia should go dry, there will be thou sands of blind tigers in Richmond. The election to decide Virginias fate re- garding the statewide prohibition question will be held in September"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-02
GREAT TRIALS OF HISTORY
TRIAL OF VALLANDIGHAM

TNHE radical ideas of Clement Laird
 Vallandigham brought him into a
 A great amount of prominence dur ing the civil war, which finally ended in his arrest. During the early part of the war he served as a member of Congress from Ohio, and shortly became conspicu- ous on account of his bold utterances against the acts of the administration, and on December 5, 1862, he offered a series of resolutions in the House of Rep resentatives, in which he declared that, as the war was originally waged for the purpose of defending and maintaining the supremacy of the constitution and the preservation of the union, whoever should attempt to pervert the same to a war of subjuga ton, or for overthrowing or in- terfering with the rights of the state, and to abolish slavery, would be guilty of a crime against the constitution of the union.'
 After his term in Congress expired he returned to Ohio and began the attacking of the administration. Gen. A. E. Burn side, then commanding the department of the Ohio, regarded his conduct as trea- SOHdDles ana issued an Order declaring that persons within the union lines that were found committing certain specific acts should be tried as spies and traitors
 Vallandigham defied Burnside in reply issued on May l, 1868. and in return, the general ordered his arrest. He was taken to Cincinnati and, though he issued an appeal to his adherents, he was tried by court-martial.
 The prisoner submitted no defense to the commission which, he declared, had no right to try him. but he cross-examined the witnesses. He brought out the fact (which was used in extenuation) that not withstanding his denunciatory language he said the remedy for the evils was in the ballot box and the courts.
 In analysing the speeches of MT. Val landigham, Hon. Aaron F. Perry. the em- inent counsel for the government, touch ing on his cautious reference to the gov ernment, said: "It cannot be claimed that the motive was to influence electors because the argument does not fit that motive. It fits to insurrection and to that only.'
 The trial of Vallandigham began on May and continued until May 16. The members of the court-martial were Brig
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-02
GIVE US MEN.

By Oliver Wendell Holmes. God give us men A time like this de-
 mands Strong minds. great hearts, true faith
 and ready hands; Men whom the lust of lucre does not kill: Men whom the spells of office cannot buy; Men who possess opinions and will; Men who have honor; men who will not lie; Men who can stand before demagogue And damn his treacherous natteries with- out winking; Tall men. suncrowned, who live above the fog, In public duty. and in private thinking; For while the rabble with their thumb worn creede, Their large professions. and their little deeds,
 Mingle in selfish strife. Loi freedom
 weeps:
 Wrong rules the land. and -'-'.'-s tvr-,rr
 Sleeps."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-02
WATCHED FOR GO YEARS

From the New York Sun.
 For 60 years "Apple Mary" Walsh has been meeting every ship that came In at the East river piers looking for a lover who has never come back. She Is now s6 years old and yesterday aft ernoon she asked Magistrate Corrigan. in the Tombs police court, to send her to the workhouse for two months.
 Its the heat. your honor," she said. Its pretty hard on an old woman like me, and I think If I could get good rest I'd be more like myself again"
 Bent. worn and trembling little. she thanked the magistrate when he
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-02
TURNED THE TABLES
From the New York Journal.

From the New York Journal.
 A young fellow clad in homespun was standing near the National gallery in London, when he was accosted by half a dozen genteelly dressed men with; Just arrived in town?"
 ''Yes. and a great place it is. replied the young man from the country.
 'Tis SOL said another. How Ia your mother?'' he continued, bent on sport with the Yorkshireman.
 "Oh, she's pretty we'll" he replied She's sent me up on business"
 "Ah. what kind of business?" continued third.
 Why" said the man. ''she wanted mo to look about for half 8 dozen of tho biggest fools in London. and now think I've got my eyes on 'em." The next moment the Yorkshire mar had the pavement to himself.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-02
PoPuLARrzED sLoRNA DooNEr

From the London Chronicle.
 The popular mind often moves in a mysterious way. but perhaps there is no more remarkable instance of its whim than is supplied by Blackmores s fine romance. Lorna Doone." 1t was originally published by Messrs. Samp- son and Low in three volumes, and had no great success. MT. Low was convinced of it's merits, and deter mined to issue 1t in one volume al what was then a low price for novels The issue coincided with the engage ment of the Marquire of Lorne and the Princess Louise, which. of course. ere. ated tremendous interest in the coun. try. For some reason the public go it into its head that the title hat something to do with the betrothal and the book sold like hot cakes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-02

adied General Potter president; Colonel
 Decourcey, Lieutenant Colonel Goodrich,
 Major Van Buren, Major Brown, Major
 Fitch and Captain Lydig, with Captain
 Cutts as judge advocate.
 He was arrested at his home in Dayton
 by a company of United States soldiers sent for that purpose by General Burn side. He had his house barred and the soldiers were compelled to force their way in, He refused to plead to the charges which were read to him, and the court
 proceeded with the evidence The charges
 were based on his Mount Vernon speech. While the trial continued he stayed at the
 Burnett house under a strong guard. The commission found MT. vallandig- ham guilty and sentenced him to close confinement in a United States fort dur ing the continuance of the war. General
 Burnside named Fort Warren in Boston
 harbor. Two days after sentnce was
 passed Hon. George E. Pugh of his coun- sel applied to Judge Leavitt of the United
 corpus. The application was argued by by Mir. Pugh for the prisoner and by
 MT. Perry and the district attorney in | behalf of General Burnside. After due
 consideration the application was denied by the court in an opinion that attracted wide attention.
 MT. Perry declared that the power of the President as comnander-in-chief un- doubtedly includes the right to arrest 1 persons who by their acts of what he might term disloyalty impede the military
 operations of the government. The repu- tation of MT. Leavitt as a judge gave weight to his opinion at the time, but subsequently the supreme court of the United States dissented from some of it's
 conclusions in the case of the so-called
 Indiana conspirators.
 President Lincoln modified the sen- tence of the military commission by die recting that instead of being imprisoned,
 Mir. Vallandigham should be sent within the Confederate lines, and should not re-
 turn to the United States until after the close of the war. This sentence suited the popular humor Many who thought the arrest of MT. Vallandigham impoli- | tic, and who believed 1t better to run the risk of instruction even than to abridge | the freedom of speech, conceded that the President had met the difficulty happily and widely.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-02

5-year-old boy whose home is near Oxford, N. C., recently left the Emer-
 gency hospital in Washington after having undergone a remarkable sur gical operation. The child's feet were "clubbed" and he was so badly de- formed that he could hardly walk at all. In spite of his affliction he was healthy and light He was op- erated on by pr. A. R. Shands, who cut fragments in the boys feet, sep arated tendons and readjusted bones while the child lay unconscious on the operating table. The boys feet were put in plaster of Paris casts after the
 operation. Five weeks later the casts
 were removed and both of his feet ap- peared perfectly normal except for the sears made by the surgeons knife.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-02
JUST FOR HIS KIND

From the New York Globe.
 A certain millionaire did not approve of foreign missions. One Sunday at church, when the collection was being taken up for these missions. the collector approached the millionaire and held out the collection box. The millionaire shook his head.
 q never give to missions" he whispered. "Then take something out of the bag. sir" whispered the collector. "The money is for the heathen.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-02

earliest opportunity. Stories of ad- venture really worth while are seldom met with nowadays and it would be a treat once more to feel that utter ab- sorption and freedom from all outside cares to be found in reading the best of Dovle's works