davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1914-02-14

large of suan
Chicago His public
public follows:
long since the conclusion
especially public service companies should
the supply and delivery the consumption
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1914-02-14

Alderman Charles Twigg will be
renominated and reelected to the
city council in the Twenty.eighth
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1914-02-14

Jacob Lindheimer will win in a
walk for Alderman in the Third Ward
He is liked by all classes of people
and he will prove live member of
the city council.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1914-02-14

Francis ]. Houlihan, the able law.
yer, would make fine Judge.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1914-02-14

Ed. c. Racey, popular in all circles
would make a good 25th ward alder
man.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-01-18

heavy type of divinity. law and physick''
already catching the eye, might fail to
notice II.
Then he goes on to set out with amor
Gus precision all the Stationery" war;.
the pounceboxes and the sandboxes and
the states and the colored inks. the spec
tacles. and the maps. the musical books
and wallpapers gold embossed and bluel.
which his ample and generous mind as
sociated with the business Of bookseller.
Nor did he end here. but never firing OF
usefulness) offered for sale various "cor-
DIAL clisars," "pectoral drops" "cephaIIck
Pappee Scotch and other snuffs." and the
like. So the. list concludes. The one
strange omission will have already
caught the notice OF the observant- There
is not a word of Shakespeare But this.
remember, was 1912, before Stratford had
begun to live on him: before Shakespeare
souvenirs were invented: before the first
American visitor had trod that sacred
ground, before even there was an Amer
lea These were the days when a critic
said that there was not one of Shake
speares soliloquies which could be ex-
cused by reason or nature" and when
Colley Cibber rewrote him for the stage
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-01-18
Two Italian NebIemen, Count
ORR and Prince Baksunine
Led Luxurious Lives Pre-
noting Shady Financial
Schemes.

Rome. Jan. T.-This week the assizes
courts of Rome and Milan have sentenced
to long terms In jail two noblemen.
Count Joseph Orsi and Prince Charles
Bakounine. whose meteoric careers have
filed the people with wonder.
The count and the prince may be class
ed among the geniuses Of the age for
swindling.- For many years they sue
ceeded In leading a life Of luxury and ex-
travasance by promoting projects which
crumbled. one after the othe-. with thou
sands Of victims.
Princes Life Romantic.
Prince Bakounine's life is a romance
which surpasses the boldest products Of
Seton. Twenty years ago re was a we'll
known figure in the aristocratic circles Of
the italian Capitol and. after much oppo-
sition by her parents. married a beauty of
the time. Miss Canneto. Her large for
tune, consisting chiefly of iron mines In
Sardinia he squandered In few years
Nine years ago. following a financial
reverse. the prince was charged with OBJ
tanning money under false pretenses. He
let the case go undefended and was SEN
tenced to five years In jail. Pending the
appeal the prince disappeared and q few
days later his wife received a letter from
Monte Caro- In which he informed her
that he was going to put an end to his
life. A month later the Riviera papers
printed the story Of how q foreigner,
subsequently identified as Prince Baou-
nine, had rowed out at sea alone in a
small boat and had jumped overheard.
leaving his clothes in the boat.
For eight years the prince sailed under
the name Of Prince Wassillief visiting the
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-01-18
Typhoid, the Dirtiest Disease
And Hon. to Check Its PROGRESS

ton is but another name for defective
civilization.
I'VE are" DIR. Stiles says. seven times
as dirty as the Germans and ten times
dirtier than the Swiss
The typhoid death rate per 100. 900 popu-
lation during recent years has been as
follows: Is in Australia, Il In Cuba. 3
in Belgium, s in France. in ireland,
s in England and Scotland, 5 in Holland
and Prussia, 4 in Germany. Sweden. and
Switzerland, and in Norway and Den
mark.
In curious and somewhat shocking con-
trast We had in the twenty-one States
which form the registration area of
this country 235 deaths per 10000 in 1910.
Typhoid is usually disseminated by
means OF impure water. milk. or food,
and sometimes by flies. but We must
not forget that, as Koch said, there is
no other source OF infection of typhoid
than man." It is fellow-creatures of
ours who are responsible for its spread.
Dr. North has told of an Italian la
borer who. while working in camp in
New York. caught typhoid. No doctor.
no health officer was there to tell his
friends what precautions to take They
were near 4 brook which furnished five
villages with water. The neglect Of one
man brought about an outbreak of
typhoid fever which caused not less than
forty cases and seven deaths.
On July %, 1873 a young man sitting
against the water tank on the upper deck
OF the Mississippi steamer G. W. Hill.
suddenly heard water running into the
tank when the boat was near II not on
the sewer outlets OF the city OF Daven-
port, la. The day was very hot and the
passengers helped themselves literally
to this water. although many noticed its
turbidity and others found trash and
small sticks in il. The result was that
600 of the 100 excursionists from Clin-
ton. Ia, on that day had either diarrhoea
Ior typhoid.
Typhoid is an everyday problem only
where it is allowed to become one. In
fact, some of our cities have accom-
plished, il not as much as the best Eu-
ropean cities, at least as much as some
cities across the ocean. 1t Is a pity that
this roll OF honor should be so short.
Paterson, for instance, could boast in
1910 OF IL deaths for every lOo.oo0i in
habitants: Chicago. where ia people out
of every 10000 were snatched by typhoid
in 1891, has been slowly but steadily
lowering its mortality, until 1t now ap-
proaches European figures, while Bridge
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-01-18

port had in sis1o the distinction Of being
the solitary American city with more
than 100000 Inhabitants having 3 typhoid
death rate OF less than ).
But Baltimore, Minneapolis, Kansas
city and Omaha had more typhoid in
1910 than In 1s0o-l Something h un-
doubtediy wrong somewhere when Prov
idence had in 1910 twice as much typhoid
as 1t had In 1907. and Milwaukee has
seen its death rate increase from IA IN
1901 to ST in 1910. The death rate from
typhoid has In a number OF States. as
Colorado. Indiana, Maine and Maryland.
either remained stationary during the
last three or four years or else actually
gone up. a. In Vermont. Michigan and
Wisconsin.
We have in this country national as
scciafion for the prevention of tubercu-
losis. A similar association has been or
ganized recently to combat cancer. The
time seems ripe for the creation Of q
league against typhoid fever. Its men,
bership should comprise the entire ma
ton. and its creed announced In few
lines:
Typhoid fever Is a disease Of dirt
Unclcan habits cause typhoid fever
Be. therefore. clean; and help others to
be clean.
It IL the habit of our psopie to think
only IN scareheads. Important questions
are ignored until they loom big as noun
tsins in the public eye. Not long ago a
vaxue rumor of oHtrages suffered. by
few Americans In Mexico was enough
TO make people ask for immediate war
A war against an enemy which attacks
every year hundreds of thousands of our
people and kills thousands Of them would
be more justified. For every life saved
from typhoid. It has been proved thar
two other lives are saved. A campaign
Aganstf typhoid Is therefore an assault
on evefy ailment that preys on man.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-01-18
by ARR MOLL.


Exclusive Service The Survey Pres Burcsu-l
NO, SIR" the farmer shook his head
definitely. This here law is none of my
business. Let the city folks that is
afeard Of catching fever in milk pull
for il.
Il have lived on this here farm for
twenty-five years, and We have yet to
know what the ague or a headache
amounts to. Look at them strapping
boys Of mine and this rosy-cheeked gal
We have got too much of this SANTA
ton business anyhow. and I amt going
10 bother with this milk bill of yours
The sanitary bill pending before the
assembly was defeated by two votes
What did the rich proprietor care for
it? As he had said. it was none of his
business. He had never had any sick
Eess on his farm.
A few years afterward he had occa-
sion to change his mind. A dairyman
who supplied milk to the neighboring
city went on an excursion to another
part of the State. Three weeks after
his return he was taken sick with ty-
phoid. His wife ministered to his needs
and, forgetting to disinfect her hands,
attended to bottling the milk.
Two weeks later the city was in the
grip Of a typhoid epidemic. To escape
infection a negro left the city and asked
for work on the rich farmers place.
Presently he developed typhoid. Then
the farmers daughter and two SONS
were stricken. All three died. Typhoid
from the city had reached the country.
Typhoid from the country reaches cities
through families who return after their
short vacation. with only pleasant men,
cries of beautiful scenery, balmy air, a
good table, and some agreeable ac-
quaintances among the guests. When
typhoid-an unnoticed guest-has done its
work then they reproach themselves for
not finding out whether the water supply
Of that resort was properly guarded,
whether the milk was safe. whether the
sources of ice were above suspicion. and
whether the history and habits of the
help employed We're such as to offer pro-
lection to the guests
By filth alone. by the worst and most
dangerous kind of filth, can the germs
that cause the disease be spread. Typhoid
in a State. or a city, or a farm indicates
some sanitary defect, and as Prof. Sedg-
wick. Of the Massachusetts, Institute of
Technology. has put it. defective santa
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-01-18
Ancient Bookseller of STRAIT
ford-on-Avon Announced
Contents of His Volumes
with Great Skill.

Old advertisements are very enter
tanning and pleasurable things. Those
of the present day have the advan-
tsge in ingenuity. They can lay
quicker and heavier hand on the at
tention. But those in the older, more
sober style have a literary distinction
OF their own, a measure and a gravity
which are very attractive. Their
writers were less pushed by the COM
petitIve spirit. less distrustful and as
sertive. less dependent than their sue
cessors on the epithet. Whether out
OF pride or some other feeling they
were content to leave the mere names
of their goods to recommend them.
Their skill was in the happy arrange
ment by which they could make a
plain inventory attractive
Here is an old advertisement with no
peculiar quaintness of phrase to make
it amusing. 1t is a simple list OF goods
but a list very skillfully put to-
gether. II has been done with the
incest attention to the patience OF the
reader. 1t passes easily from one set
none. so that before you are aware Of
II you have read to the end. An ad-
vertisement which can make you do
that, without any adventurous aids,
without trick or startling epithets. is
piece of fine writing. 1t Is an ad-
vertisement of James Heating. Print
er, bookseller. and stationer in STRAIT
ford-on Avon" and its date is Ti2.
As will be seen. he interspersed the
duties OF that triple ONCE very gener-
ously.
All Sorts of Bibles.
His advertisement sets forth that he
SELLS all sorts OF Bibles and Common
Prayer Books with Cuts or without Tes-
taments, Psalters, Spelling Books, Prim-
ers and Battiedores, Musick Books, Sing
ing Books; Poetry, Plays. Novels. &c,
with all Sorts of School. Books.
BOOKS IN DIVINITY, LAW AND
PHYSICK.
Or in any other Branch OF Natural and
Moral Philosophy. n. B.-Of the same
Person may be had. HISTORIES. Voy-
ages. Travel. Husbsndry, Gardening.
Cookery. &c"
You cannot but admire the equal piety
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-01-18
end MEIEORC CAREERS In JAIL

United States and Canada. vainiy at
tempting to rebuild his and his wife's
fortune. He returned to Italy two years
ago. was recognized and arrested. The
Milan courts have just sentenced him to
three years in Jail for appropriating the
money raised for the purchase Of a
sulphur mine In Sicily.
Count Orsi has been sentenced to nine
years for defrauding a number Of people.
among whom h Cardinal Merry Del Val,
the Vatican secretary of state. The
count emigrated to Venezuela some ten
years ago after receiving a short SEN
tence for fraud. Castro received him
with open arms and In a few Year, raised
him from the humble position Of director
of mines to that Of minister Of war. The
counts decision rs arbiter in a contro-
yersy between the Venezuelan government,
and a German commercial syndicate at
tracted considerable attention and the
Italian press represented him as one OF
the greatest Italians living abroad.
Promoted Almost Everything.
His career as a promoter Of almost any
thing. from colonization schemes invoiv-
ing the outlay of si.0oo.ooo to underground
railways, navigable canals across the
Alps and hotels for Catholic pilgrims.
dates IrOn inc uhy ne uohheu his uih-
form as Venezuelan minister OF war. II
has been brought out at the trial just
concluded at the local assizes that IN
his long career the count has handled
many million dollars. much Of which he
appropriated for his own use. and that
his victims were often widows who en-
trusted him with all they had. hoping
to double their fortunes.
Among those who appeared against him
was Count Laugier. one Of his boyhood
friends, whose fortune of H,soo.ooo dis
appeared in a few months. and his cousin.
a beautiful girl whom the count had
promised to marry. who lost $e0.0e. Car
dinal Del Val was not In court to testify
against the count. but the police swore
that the count obtained from him $5.oo6
to defray the expenses of organizing
company which was to build a hotel for
Catholic pilgrims In Rome.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-01-18
CHINA PLANS SHIP COMPANY.
Concern with Capital of
100000, 900 to BE Started.

London, Jan. H.-According to an OFF,
cial dispatch received in London, the
Chinese government has decided to start
big steamship company to develop the
navaigation of the country. The capital
will be $4,000. 900 and the enterprise is to
be floated by both officials and merchants.
Twe-fifths Of the capital is to be pro-
vided by the government and the mer-
chants and the rest will be raised among
the Chinese residing abroad and rich
Chinese in the interior. About fsrty
steamers will be bought The name Of the
company will be the China Mail Steamer
Company. No dividends will be paid to
those holding official shares.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-01-18
DARING RoBBER GANG CAUGHT.
Police Capture THeve. Who Have
Been Terrorisfng AndaIusia.

Madrid. Jan. 1.-THE Seville police
have captured a notorious gang Of rob-
years.
Among their exploits were the looting
of the railway station at Cordova, when
they secured $500 in cash, and many
''holdups" of trains and stage coaches.
The bandits styled themselves Friends
of Liberty" and were regular attendants
at meetings of workmen- Between their
raids they worked as masons. carpenters.
and locksmiths. and thus threw the au-
thorities OF the scent.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-01-18
SEXTUPLE WIRE POSSIBLE.
Experts Perfecting System Receiv-
fnE Six Mesa Kes At Once.

London. Jan. E.-1t will be possible in
a few month, for six telegraphers work
ing on the same line to transmit and
time. says the Globe. by an extension Of
the Baudet duplex system
A year ago the postal authorities be-
gan experiments with "quadruplA du-
plex' instrument. which took four mes
sages between London and Birmingham
almost simultaneously. 1t is now hoped
to set up a testing installation of the
new sextuple duplex Baudet system be-
tween London and Liverpool in the early
spring.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-01-18
The Dash for Cairo.

The Lee was in Memphis at four min
utes after IL the next night-the night Of
. July 2. In the thirty-five hours since she
had left vicksburg she had begun to
show that she was almost a sure winner.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-01-18
TORTURE CHAMBER REVEALED.
Police Use Room which Is Reptile.
Of One of Riga.

st. Petersburg. Jan. I7.-Recent inquf-
ries made by order fthe higher author
tiles, revealed the fact that in Petrokovo
Russian poland the secret political
police have introduced torture cham
Der which is replica Of the infamous
one Of Riga.
In this chamber persons suspected of
holding revolutionary views have been
subjected to abominable fortunes which
remind one Of the inquisition Of the Mid
die Ages
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-01-18
NAY GAIN OIL SUPPLY.

London, Jan IA voluminous dispatch
has reached the colonial ONCE from the
governor Of the Federated Malay States
dealing with the possibilities of these ter
ritories as an oil producer. with particular
reference to naval purposes.
Tho federated government has promised
to make over to the imperial government
certain portions of these territories as a
source Of oil supply for the navy.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-01-18
SENTRY Is ATTACKED.
Affair Causes Excitement In Aus
trian Town of Trent.

Vienna, Jan. Elm the ancient cathe-
dral town Of Trent, close to the Italian
border, an attack on the garrison of the
most unusual character was made a few
nights ago. Much excitement prevails as
a result. A sentry on duty at the artil-
lery depot was attacked with stones by
persons he failed to see in the darkness.
When the officer of the watch came, sew
eral figures surrounded him and tried to
stab him to death. The sentries fired
ard shots were returned. The two sen-
tries were slightly wounded, and dimIy
saw two wounded carried away.
A number OF long poles were found, on
which several stuffed figures were fixed.
The dummies were riddled with bullets
The theory is that a party of spies. en-
boldened by their numbers, had endeav-
ored to overpower or kill the sentry.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-01-18

She was out of Memphis u minute after
she arrived. The Natchez was ten miles
behind. The Natcnez cleared for the
north at thirteen minutes after Il o'clock
and the dash was on for Cairo.
The Lee passed the mouth Of the Ohio.
three miles from Cairo at four minutes
after 6, the afternoon of July .. and took
on coal and pilots running at almost fun
speed. The hatcher passed at quarter
past seven. The pilots picked up by the
Lee to take her to st. Louis-Cannon
and his pilot. Wesley Common. not being
familiar enough with the river above the
mouth of the Ohio-were Gap" Jesse T.
Jamison and Enoch King. Jamison. re-
viewing the race after he had taken Con-
nor's place at the wheel. once said:
WED Just left Cairo and daylight be-
hind when a fog settled down.
you bet. we'd a'run that fog II we'd
a. known Uncle Charon was waitin' for
us midway" said Jameson srimiy.
when it began dropping down on US a.
we shot by DEVILS Island. Enoch-my
pard in the wheelhouse. Enoch King
turned to me and said:
"'We'll cut right through II. Jesse?
OF course i said.
'The news that we got the next
morning that the Natchez had tied up.
dazed US. She had been holding on like
a bulldog to a book agent clear up to
SdirO, anu Which, L<uoSh oae "SaS
waited out into midstream on coal scow
to board the Lee and hunt easy water
for her into st. Louis. We could look
down the bend and see the Watchers
smoke filling the air like the battle OF
Waterloo. The river then between Cairo
and st. Louis comprised about 200 miles
of the toughest plotting you ever saw
around these parts anywhere. There
wasn't lighthouse from end to end of
the run, and there were snags, bars and
overhanging trees enough to discourage
Pilgrim ghost. Jim Pell and Yves
Connors, who had steered all the way
out Of New Orleans. were as tckled as
schoolboys to see us. You see, they had
only studied the river to Louisville, and
We were sent down by rail to take the
racer into the St Louis terminal.
The fog shook hands with us at
Devils Island. We supposed, as mat
ter of course. the Natchez would tackle
it, and We never thought of doing any
thing else. At that stage Of the game
blow-up wouldn't have been worse
than to have trailed in behind"
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-01-18
WARES CALLED In ODD PHRASES

and skill with which that has been
done. Observe the delicacy of the tran
sitton from the sacred to the profane
by the neutral way of the spelling
book. Observe the magnificent gravity
with which large type and a separate
line are given to the church. the law. the
medicine, while all else. even history.
is swept into an afterthought. Observe.
too, how history, though among other
profaner subjects is not of them. by
larger type is raised a little above to-
Ward the eminence OF divinity and law.
Could it have been placed with nicer
precision?
Mr.. James Heating Cthis is very evil
denp understood the delicacy of his posi-
ton as the bookseller of a small country
town. For country towns were then
much what they are now. and he would
have among his clients many ladies, who
would countenance no levity in their
bookseller. who Of an evening would
relax with a collection of sermons or
very occasionally a volume OF travels.
and by day would study their cookery
book. This would be the limits Of their
reading, and cookery you observe) Is
given a place OF importance in the list
that you would not expect These were
the days when lady novelists teven in
Stratfor6 were not that respectable
thing they had become when they wrote,
as Macaulay says. books that were al
most always silly and very frequently
wicked" and when a young lady would
blush to confess that she read them 1t
was still nearly forty years before the
publican Of .Evelina-" But tastes vary,
and some people Of a light turn were not
to be bounded in their reading by divinity
and cookery.
Tact Is shown.
Mr.. Heating was of too catholic a mind
to ignore this. His list has poetry,
plays, novels" You would. OF course. ex-
pect to find Pamela in his shop. and
perhaps. on some far shelf behind the
calf-bound works of divinity. law and
physic, was hidden that lawless parody
published in this very year,. THE Ad-
ventures of Joseph Andrews" But OBJ
serve again with what tact Mr.. Heating
announces these lighter works. Poetry.
plays. novels, &c, with all sorts OF school
books" You detect a certain uneasiness
in the hurried &c" and the sudden turn
to school books. 1t is as II he wished to
efface as soon as IL was made the i'm
preston of plays. novels" He felt him
self on delicate ground. That is mani
fest. And then how well he has placed
this doubtful announcement. not so far
down that the lshter-minded reader
would weary before he came to it. and
just where the more serious. with 1.-THE