davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Las Vegas optic., 1914-10-16
W AR
CONTINUED from Page one)

Seven thousand persons came from
Belgium in two days, Their advent
swamped the town. OF the women on
the boats unable to dock many are
separated from their husbands and
children. These refugees left Ostand
Monday night. The captains of shIps
which already have locked declare
they saw hundreds OF persons leaving
Ostend in small row boats, hoping to
reach some point on The French coast
Hundreds of others boarded little
trawlers and sail boa.s, which are
still struggling into Dover Their pas
sengers often had been without food
for 36 hours.
Many small boats from Belgium are
putting in to Lowestoft and Folkstone.
These craft are manned mostly by
volunteers who know nothing of the
English ports and neau in wherever
they can see docking facilities There
are many Antwerp refugees among
the crowds at Dover. When some of
nila. Accordin to advices to the
willing to return to Antwerp in case
arrangements for their repatriation
can be completed with the German
government they declare emphatically
they would never return so long as
the Germans were in possession. 1t
is estimated that $4,000 refugees have
landed here and at Foll1estone since
Wednesday. Several thousand other
Belgians have come from Calais,
where many others are still waiting
ships.
Las Vegas optic., 1914-10-16
SAFETY At SEA

| Twenty-Five years ago today repre-
sentatives of ri nations met in Wash
Iington to lay down uniform rules for
ocean travel and traffic. It was the
first international maritime confer
ence 1t was worldwide, some of its
members coming from such distant
countries as Siam, China and Hawaii.
The purpose was voiced by Secretary
of State Blaine, who said. THE
spoken language of the world will con-
tinue to be many, but necessity com
mands that the unspoken languages
of the sea shall be one" In those
days the languages of the seas were
indeed many Some of the rules were
heritages of centuries back, and in
conflict with the rules of other ma
tions. One of the first steps toward
making ocean travel safe was taken
by American Commander Maury, who
mapped the currents Of the sea. Even
before the civil war he advocated that
transatlantic ships would follow GER
tain lanes and avoid icebergs and
dangerous fogs. The assembly adopt.
ed these suggestions and during the
II weeks which the sessions covered
many minor points, such as fog sig
nails, limits of local draughts, the sea.
worthiness of vessels, fixed response
hility for wrecks, systems of buoys
and beacons, as well as tests for sight
and color blindness, were made stand
ard throughout the world
Today the 100000 and more ocean
travellers who cross the Atlantic ocsan
every year, not to mention countless
millions who travel seas in other
parts of the world, are safeguarded
by not only the uniform rules whose
foundations were laid a quarter Of
century ago, but many new ones.
Some are to overcome new elements
Of danger brought about by new dis
coveries in propulsion, and others to
regulate the use of new discoveries
and inventions serviceable in saving
life. at sea. Under this head comes
wireless telegraphy and submarine
bells. These rules apply to all kinds
of vessels, even to the more than
100000 motor boats that are estimat-
ed to be afloat today in American
waters. Since the adoption Of ruies
for ocean traffic the ratio Of wrecks
was greatly decreased, although the
number Of vessels has increased, and
in some parts Of the world the seas
have become SO crowded by constant
ly passing vessels that they are IL
most congested. The largest percent
age Of wrecks occurs among the yes
sells dependent upon sails and tickle
winds. The total number Of vessels
of all kinds wrecked along the United
States coast during 1913 was 522, in
which s1,721,2 ,2i2 in value Of ships was
lost and IS persons persisted
Las Vegas optic., 1914-10-16
Warsaw Undisturbed

Paris. Oct. 16.-A Havas Agency dis
patch from Petrograd says that wore
is received there from Warsaw that
the people Of the city are returning
and the banks are resuming business.
A battle is being fought about 80
miles from Warsaw The Germans en-
deavored to take the heights about
seven miles from the town, but were
repulsed, A number Of German aero
planes are employed in reconnais-
'sance.
Las Vegas optic., 1914-10-16

ary scource of firmness in corn. The
opening, which ranged from 1s@A to
u to IS higher was followed by a
decided general decline. The close
was steady l1s to 1B0A above last
might
Oats held comparatively steady.
Figures confirming reports of big
decrease in the Chicago stock Of lard
gave support to provisions. The clos
ing quotations were
Wheat, Dec 11Sas May 7.1s%.
Corn, Dec. 66%; May 691a.
Oats, Dec. 4SA May 5114.
Pork. Jan. $1S.65.
Lard, Nov. $40 40; Jan. $40.
Ribs, Oct. $40 80; Jan. 1915.
Las Vegas optic., 1914-10-16
TODAY IN CONGRESS

Washington. Oct To- Senate: Met
at IL a. m.
Consideration of war revenue bill re-
sumed.
Adopted taxes on tobacco and wine
and telegraph and telephone messages
as framed by finance committee.
Petitions presented urging legisla-
tion for relief of cotton producers.
House Met at noon.
Considered miscellaneous bills.
Las Vegas optic., 1914-10-16
CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE

Chicago, Oct, 16.-Wheat bulged in
price here today, owing to higher quo
tations at Liverpool and because Of
yesterdays large export sales on this
side of the Atlantic. After opening
9s to p higher, and scoring a little
further rise, the market receded to
last nights level. The close was
steady at / to 11s cents net advance.
Wet weather proved only a temper
Las Vegas optic., 1914-10-16
VERA CRUZ MAY
BE ATTACKED
TONIGHT
CONTINUED From Page one.)

flagship West Virginia at La Paz, pre-
dicted the speedy restoration of peace
in Lower California
The admiral says that Colonel Men
dez, chief Of the Yaqui Indian forces
in that quarter, has just returned to
La Paz from Muelege and that every
thing was quiet there, with no neces-
sity for soldiers. He expected to re-
turn to Guaymas today
Las Vegas optic., 1914-10-16
FRIDAY, OCTOBER a, 1914.

once more the charge Of fostering
monopolies has been laid at the door
~ the republican party. This time
l-e Santa Fe New Mexican is the ac
User, stating that the republican par
~ has under its control or in its en-
pjoy a vast majority of all the crooks,
liars, thieves and ruthless robbers in
New Mexico. If a republican legisla-
ture is elected this fall, the New
Mexican states, everybody will be rob
bee Of about everything worth pos
sessing.
This kind of dope will hurt the
cause espoused by the New Mexican
a great deal more than it could pos
silly benefit it. Everybody knows
that the only difference between a
democrat, republican and a progress
sive is difference in political be-
Iiefs. All taken as a whole, are de-
cent, respectable citizens. Each has
q different idea as to how a govern
ment or state should be run, but
each, being a taxpayer and a citizen,
is anxious to see that the government
or the state is conducted along what
he believes to be correct, economical
and efficient lines. Neither party con
tains all the good men of the state
nor all of the bad ones.
The Optic is supporter OF the re
publican party because it believes in
republican principles and believes that
New Mexico, under republican ad
ministration, is more efficiently gov
erned than under officers Of other po-
1itical faiths. It does not believe that
the republican party has a monopoly
upon all the crooks and thieves OF
the state or that New Mexicans would
flDd themselves robbed if the coming
election results in the choice of re-
publican majority to sit in the lower
house of the legislature.
1t is sad to observe that the New
Mexican, after self-sacrificingly keep
ing its harsh language on the back
shelf for so long, should be obliged
TO put it in circulation once more in
a vain effort to give emphasis to its
campaign arguments.
The people Of New Mexico, though
they allowed a personal fight on the
republican candidate for governor to
induce them to put democrat in the
executive chair at the first state cleo
ton, were too smart to be tricked
into electing a democratic legislature.
because they knew democratic inefh-
cheney Of old. Subsequent events have
convinced them that they made mis-.
sake IN eIecting Mcdonald, who has
been rattling around inside the shell
of big mans Job. unabl eto fill it,
ever since he was inaugurated The
coming state election viii result IN the
selection Of larger majority Of re.
puFlicans in the legislature than at
The last session. And the next gov.
ernor of this state viii be a repubIi.
can.
Las Vegas optic., 1914-10-16

Prime fed steers 50. .65@1O.75; west
ern steers $6.5o@9; calves $1,000
10 so.
sheep, receipts 1900 Market steady.
Lambs So. 9O@74O; yearlings $5,25@6,
Las Vegas optic., 1914-10-16
Woman and Child Hurt

Naco, Ariz., Oct 16.-A Mexican
woman and Mexican child were
wounded here several hundred yards
from the international boundary in the
fighting about Sonora. Two shells
from Governor Maytorena's guns
burst on the American side, but did
no damage.
Las Vegas optic., 1914-10-16
KANSAS CITY LIVE STOCK

Kansas City, Oct. 1e. Hogs. receipts
1900. Market steady Bulk 81 10@
z 45; heavy ST. 25@7 45; pigs Sc 80
az 90.
Cattle, receipts 1900 Market steady.
Las Vegas optic., 1914-10-16

Entered at the postoffice at East
GAs Vegas. New Mexico for trans
@issiOn through the United States
nails as second class matter.
Las Vegas optic., 1914-10-16

(cash In Advance for Mali
subscriptlons.)
Remit By check. draft or money
frder. II sent otherwise we will not
% responsible for loss.
specimen copies free on application,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-01-08
NEW YEARS GREETING.

We take pleasure in extending to
the readers of the Daily and Week
Iy Reporter and patrons of this Of
flee. the seasons greetings. We will
all look forward to better conditions
in 1914 than what we have enjoyed
in 1913. If it were not for hope,
faith and confidence We would often
give up in dispair. We have many
things to be thankful for which have
happened during the year 1913. The
city of Grand Rapids, the county of
Wood, and the state of Wisconsin,
in which we live, have been fortu-
nate In the fact that they have all
prospered during the past year. The
future looks prosperous and let us
all pull together to that end, unit
ed we stand, divided we fall. There
are many things We can do to help
ourselves and in that way make 1914
more successful It matters but little
how successful we are financially, If
along with 1t We cannot enjoy good
health. A clear conscience, good
health and a nefghborly spirit
is what brings US the most satisfac'
ton.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-01-08
THE CORPORATIONS AND THEIR
STOCkEOI DERS

Formerly meetings of railroad and
other corporations were live wire
affairs Many stockholders would live
fairly near the headquarters of the
corporation in which they were in
terested, and they turned out in a
bunch for the annual meetings. The
old farmer who owned his five shares
turned up with a show me" at
titude. He expressed his opinion
with emphasis and appropriate ges-
lures.
The directors listened when he talk
ed, too. Also the widow who had
put her little savings into the bust
ness was on hand. and she had way
of making her opinion felt.
The past year has seen the down
fall of some very prominent railroad
and industrial corporations. The
railroads are now ON trial before the
Interstate Commerce Commission
on their petition for an advance OF
freight rates. Without attempting to
place the blame for the fall In price
of corporation shares. one thing can
be said. 1t is a very healthful thing
when the stockholders of any corpo-
ration attend its meetings and ask
questions freely.
Such corporation meetings of late
years have been too perfunctory. A
few OF the inside managers would
hand over their Sheaf of proxies and
the business would be done without
debate. Stockholders have been scat
tered all over the country, or have
assumed that they had no business
at the meetings, which have been as
harmonious as q funeral
If stockholders wish to protect
their investments they should attend
the meetings of these corporations.
Let them not be afraid to talk. If
railroad directors report the number
of ties purchased and the number of
telegraph poles erected. but omit to
tell about new railroads acquired at
a cost of millions, let them demand
balance sheet that the butcher and
grocer can understand.
All which suggests the ACCESSIBILITY
as far as possible of investing money
near home. A corporation having a
shareholders list of home investors
is doubly likely to be prudent.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-01-08
A WASTE OF FUEL.

The advancing price of coal has
to federal investigations, now under
way But not merely have the prices
of coal kept increasing, also the old
time standby, the wood pile, is not
the cheap proyider of winter com
fort as of yore.
In large cities the prices asked
for enough wood to feed a fire place
or kitchen stove ARE frequently pro
hibitive. In rural sections the forest
rather than the, coal mine is often
the main dependence for fuel. In
many villages prices are being paid
that represent a big advance in cost
of living.
The fuel wood supply of this coun-
try has been scandalously wasted.
Lax regulation and public careless
ness has permitted forest fires to
sweep off in day, the supplies Of
a town for a generation. In cutting,
isolated wood piles are often forgot
ten and left to rot on the ground.
Every vestige of a tree is swept off.
If young trees could but be spared
another crop would be ready for mar
keting in about half the time it
now takes to grow forest.
The American people have no con-
ception of the thrifty, prudent way in
which in other lands the supplies of
wood fuel are utilized and husband
ed. The gathering of 'fagots" seems
to be a regular trade, and every
scrap of dead wood in the forest
is utilized. In many sections of
Europe certain kinds of trees seem
morely like big tassels ON the tops
of poles. The lower limbs are off
periodically, and form a cheap fuel
supply for people who can afford
nothing better.
Now that so many of he natural
resources of the country are being
exhausted, it is time to devise means
for better utilization. In forest
lands scattered wood piles, dead
limbs, and limbs from cut trees are
rotting ON the ground, sufficient to
warm the poor people of a city.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-01-08
KEEPING RESOLUTIONS

4 great deal used to be said at
this time OF year about keeping your
good resolutions. 1t was assumed
that Of course you had shut your
self UP on New Years day. and
made list of them.
This turning over of the new
Leaf seemed TO come from the Oppo-
site extremes OF society. There were
the people of refined and ferVent
conscience. who took q moral and
spiritual Inventory at regular inter
walls They gTitted their teeth Jan.
/, and resolved to give Satan a
better run for his money than he
ever had before. Then at the other
extreme there were people OF feeble
Wills. whom the thought Of the
freshly turned page. Of life seemed
to impel to new start.
They felt the dead weight Of past
mistakes, which seemed to hold them
down from any effort to climb. The
presence Of a new division of time
seemed to make these past errors
fall back into a remote past. The
New Year gave them a chance for
amendment. unhampered by this
sense of failure 1t was no doubt a
real and helpful experience with some
men, although more or less artificial
The trouble encountered was that
the calendar has but little relation
to the human spirit. Many unhappy
people think that if they were only
somewhere else, they could escape
depression. So they travel to Europe
or voyage around the world. They
find that the same old black humors
dog them still And similarly the
world, the flesh, and the devil are
just as active in january as at any
other time.
Resolutions for better living are
valuable and praiseworthy whether
made Jan. 1, or Aug. 81 Every day
ought to be New Year. AS the
shams of life are penetrated by rip
eF experience, every one ought to
oe a little wiser today than he was
yesterday. Obstacles that look i'm
passable today, should seem less
immovable tomorrow.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-01-08
THE NEW DANCES S.

Formerly one dancing school term
seemed to equip fellow with all
the steps needed for a life time.
Now in high society you might as
well propose a contra dance to 'OId
Zip Coon,'' as the waltz and two
step.
Many Of these new figures having
arisen from the underworld, a flood
of protest has followed the coarse
way in which they have been done.
indianapolis and other cities appoint
matron to regulate dances, Cardinal
Farley of New York and many other
church dignitaries have banned them,
and a battle of dancing masters and
chaperones has arisen over their
propriety.
In favor of the new forms it can
| be said that the old waltz and two
step had too much sameness, and
too frequent repetition of the same
figure. This eventually becomes tire
rhythmical motion. To some extent
some people who are fond of
the new dances represent new, orig
inal, and interesting forms. People
who have the instincts of ladies' and
gentlemen can and do dance them
correspondingly.
A certain rather novel kind Of
music has come in with thee steps.
Much of it has a very exhilarating
animation, due to original syncopa-
tions popular rag-time), and larger
use of the minor scale; all which
adds to the zest of it.
People with rough and coarse
minds do the old steps Roughly and
coarsely, as they are now dancing the
tango Probably parents of young
people need to watch all forms of
dancing more closely, particularly
disrespectful enough to womanhood
| to wind his arm several times
around girl, should rec eive a sharp
call down from some one who knows
better
Apparently some of the new forms
of dancing may become permanent.
| But it is up to all who engage in
them to see that they are done in
a way suited to the home, the school
/ oh,
Light district.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-01-08
SONG AND STORY WRITING.

A New York man has just been
jailed for working the ''scng
swinuIe. It is claimed that some of
the people who advertise for words
and music of popular songs collect
money from the authors and never
try to push sales.
Many persons are devoting good
time and spending postage stamps
in writing songs, moving picture and
other plays, stories, and poems, who
should be raising corn or washing
dishes. Advertisements soliciting
such compost tons should be regarded,
with caution. This may represent
an honest desire to examine the
work of new writer's. But one sur
misses that for one person who makes
it profitable, scores waste time and
are disappointed.
Every newspaper man knows how
many people think they have. this
gift. They bring in compositions
that are neither grammatical nor
we'll spelled Their efforts lack in
yention, any gift for observation, all
sense of humor. Yet they have
certain volubility, hence think their
stuff is salable. Their endless flow
of words slips on and on. But a
mage out of the dictionary would be
more interesting.
To thousands of people, writing
songs, plays, or stories looks easy
money One reads that one We'll
known magazine receives annually
10 600 manuscripts, and uses only
800. There is so much over proiuc-
tion that much excellent work is
turned down.
Teachers and parents should be
slow to encourage young people to
these amateurish efforts. Ii a
fellow has real genius, it will escape
all letters, and claim its own place.
Lacking that, let him turn his pen
to bookkeeping, and his typewriter
to business letters. Any one feeling
a pronounced desire for literary
work should test it out by becoming
a newspaper reporter. If he has
descriptive power, some editor will
tell him so.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-01-08

not sometimes raise the price to the
man who pays the bill
1t is up to the consuming end of
the public TO organize also for the
protection of their interest.
Private customers for the individ-
ual farm mean the elimination OF
much waste 1t would seem as if
half the farmers in the country could
sell their fruit and garden produce
direct to consumers, by advertising
in more or less distant cities and
towns, and be cooperation in employ
ing statesmen.
Also why could not the retail
dealers and commercial organizations
of a city or a county combine to
make regular purchases OF produce
from certain localities in distant
states? The more goods pass in this
individual way, the less the cost OF
handling, the fewer the profits to be
paid.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-01-08
FROM THE GOVERNORSHIP TO
BASEBALL.

Even today, too many of our sober,
old timers, baseball is a kind Of kid
game. 1t is good wholesome exercise
for boys, but when man quits his
ledgers to howl ON the grand Stands,
it is time to get a commercial re-
port ON his credit.
Persons taking this view will not
comprehend how John K. Tener, gov
ernor of Pennsylvania, could preju-
dice his political career to become
president of the National Baseball
League, even giving up promising
chances of a United States senator
ship by so doing.
Thereby they fail to realize the
large opportunity that professional
baseball opens today to men posses
sing certain qualities. Of course the
business side of it is hardly the
career to which you can recommend
young man. When your $4,000
beauty may go wrong merely from
UW1SJElS HIS dIIhIe Ill SSIl4L5 OhA d
trolley car, you run up against haz-
ards surprising those of the greene
cloth
A few years ago it was estimated
that the American people spent
SIS 900, 900 annually ON professional
ball. A number of team franchises
are valued at s1,OOO,OGO or over. The
vast coliseums of steel and concrete
going up in the larger cities are in
dications that the managers are look
ing to a business future where pro
fits of single teams will run well up
toward a million.
Next to the gift for finding star
material in uncouth and immature
specimens, probably a gift for dip
lonacy counts highest in this bust
ness
Baseball players are one of the
NEST high strung types of personal
ity in existence. The marvellous
alertness of eye and nerve that give
them physical skill, make many OF
them sensitive to Sights, cause
them to brood over real and fancied
wrongs. Governor Tener will find the
job of harmonizing all these conflict
ing hopes and ambitions even more
difficult than placating 1.-The boys"
in politics.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-01-08

ticle OF clothing offered for 30 francs
would seem prohibitive but 10 dollars
would have seemed very reasonable
An abundance of small coins and
bills saves much waiting for change
The people who deal with tradesmen
at the door often find them unable
to make change, and the housewife
never gets too many dollar bills and
small coins.
Many small services must be pai.
for out of the pocket Every traveller
knows the advantage of a pocket. full!
of small coins in meeting with the
cla1nor for tips.
The mark in Germany, the shilling
in England, the Ira in Italy, the franz
in France, coins varying not more
than five cents from our quarter, are
the very backbone of daily commerce
in Europe. Our % cent pieces seems
to fall into line with these as the
normal unit of small change, and
the half dollar seems as needless
as the old two cent piece.