davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-03-31

wrongs and humiliations flashed upon
me with dazzling brightness, all that
j had suffered and others had suffered
mans very existence. sprang on
him, blindly, insanely, and drove the
knife into his shoulder. knew then
that IL was no more than a flesh wound
- had felt the steel crate on his shoul'
der-blade-and | raised the knife to
strike at a more vital part.
But Maud had seen my first blow
and she cried Don't! Please DON'T"
dropped my arm for moment. and
moment only. Again the knife was
raised, and Wolf Larsen would have
surely died had she not stepped be.
tween. Her arms were around me, her
hair was brushing my face. My pulse
rushed up in an unwonted manner. yet
my rage mounted with it. She looked
me bravely in the eyes.
For my sake" she begged.
II would kill him for your sake!"
cried, trying to free my arm without
hurting her.
"Hush!" she said, and laid her fin.
gers lightly on my lips. ! could have
kissed them. had | dared, even then
In my rage. the touch of them was SO
sweet. so very sweet Please please.
she pleaded. and she disarmed me by
the words, as ! was to discover they
would ever disarm me.
steDDed hack senaratinp from her
and replaced the knife in its sheath
! looked at Wolf Larsen. He still
pressed his left hand against his fore
head 1t covered his eyes. His head
was bowed. He seemed to have grown
limp. His body was sagging at the
hips, his great shoulders were droop
ing and shrinking forward.
Van Weyden!" he called hoarsely
and with note Of fright in his voice
"Oh. Van Weyden! where are your"
looked at Maud. She did not
speak. but nodded her head.
Here | am" l answered. stepping
to his side What is the natter"
Help me to seat" he said. in the
same hoarse, frightened voice.
81 am sick man. very sick man
Hump" he said, as he left my sustain
ing grip and sank into chair.
What is the natter" asked. rest
ing my hand on his shoulder What
can ! do for your"
But he shook off my hand with an
irritated movement, and for a Ions
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-03-31

erything was wet except Maud. and
she. in oilskins rubber boots, and SOU
wester. was dry. all but her face and
hands and stray wisp OF hair. She
relieved me at the bailing hole from
time to time. and bravely she threw
out the water and faced the storm. All
things are relative. 1t was no more
than a stifr blow. but to us, fighting
for life in our frail craft. 1t was indeed
storm.
Cold and cheerless. the wind beat
ing on our faces, the white seas roar
ing by. we struggled through the
day. Night came. but neither OF US
slept. Day came. and still the wind
beat on our faces and the white seas
roared past. BY the second night
Maud was falling asleep from exhaus.
ton. l covered her with oilskins and
tarpaulin. She was comparatively
dry. but she was numb with the cold
/ feared greatly that she might die In
the night; but day broke. cold and
cheerless, with the same clouded sky
and beating wind and roaring seas.
(TO BE CONTINUED)
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-03-31

wealthy, and important among world
ports, houses more than half mil
lion people.
The city lies on semicircular bay,
about midway between the mouths OF
the great Russian rivers, Dniester and
Dnieper. 1t is LOTT miles south-south
west from Moscow by rail and Gle
miles south from Kief. Varna, the
nearest Bulgarian port, and one re-
Gently bombarded by the Russians,
lies 290 miles across the Black sea to
the southwest
Has Six Fine Harbors.
Odessa is builded in the midst Of
in broad streets, faced with substan.
tial modern buildings, and wears its
commercial prosperity patent to the
most casual visitor. It's port Is
equipped with six good harbors-the
quarantine harbor, coal harbor, petro-
leum harbor. new harbor, practical
harbor, and the harbor of the Russian
Company for Navigation and Com
merce, the principal shipping company
Of the port. The freezing OF the har.
bors and the bay interrupts navigation
for an average Of 16 days each year.
Novorossia, or New Russia, which
includes the governments of Bessa-
rabia and Kherson, has its intellectual
and commercial capital at Odessa.
The social capital is also there, and
the life Of the metropolis has been de-
scribed as much more gay than the
life of Paris or Vienna. The nights in
the Odessa of pre-war days were giddy
and irresponsible, the avenues filled
with people and ablaze with cafes un-
til early morning hours. The merry
making OF Odessa did not really begin
in the cafes chantants until midnight,
and it's gayeties lasted until between
three and five in the morning.
There was a dark side to the pic
ture, the usual one to contrast with
the bright in every great city. A mis-
cradle army of poor, whose ranks were
largely filled by the tides of transient
labor that washed the greatest trading
city Of southern Russia, lived from
hand to mouth on stray crumbs OF the
places prosperity. The number Of the
very poor was estimated at $4,000, and
many OF them lived in the extensive
catacombs beneath the city, which
were formed by the quarrying OF sand.
stone for building.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-03-31

~ DESSA, Russia's first naval
base OH the Black sea and the
starting point for over-the-wa-
ter attacks on Bulgaria, Eu-
ropean Turkey and Asia Minor, is the
most imposing milestone on the Mus
covite's shortening road to Constan-
tinople and the warm waters of the
Mediterranean, says a bulletin OF the
National Geographic society. The
great and fiourishing port is one Of the
youngest cities of the East, for IL was
founded by Catherine III after her war
Of conquest against the Turk had end
ed in the treaty of Jassy in 1891, and
its foundation was largely due to the
desire to have a strong city just as
near to Constantinople as possible, as
a well-equipped point Of departure for
Slav armies OF future generations.
1t is said that the Russian is the
dreamiest and the longest-memoried of
all the races of Europe, and 1t has
been on it's way toward the world-city
on the Bosporus, where it's national
faith was Graded, ever since Arab in
vaders broke the communication be-
tween Santa Sophia and the Russian
church in the ninth century.
The only un-American thing about
Odessa, Mark Twain said, are the cut
Of its droshkies and the stupendous
girth of their drivers. The city is
modern, new, and more European or
American than any other city in the
cars empire, with the exception OF
Petrograd.
Becomes Great City in a Century.
Odessa has only recently passed its
one hundredth year, yet, at the out
break of the war, it was ranked by but
three other cities in the empire for
size and commercial importance-Pe-
trograd, Moscow and Warsaw. A few
huts of mud and reeds and Turkish
fort were all that marked the site,
when Catherine the Great commanded
a city here. In 1902, eight years after
it's I foundation, 1t numbered 5000
Greeks, Italians, Russians and Alba.
mans. 1t enjoyed, however. unusual
imperial patronage for strategical rea-
sops even the Emperor Paul. who
delighted to make vain all that owed
its title to his mother, continued to
favor the young town. A statue OF
Catherine, represented trampling the
Turkish flag under foot, stands on one
Of the finest squares. Today the city
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-03-31
Commercial.

THAT fellow Dauber's work is alb.
solutely rotten" exclaimed one Of his
brother artists. "He has no feeling
for true art. All he cares for is to
pander to the degraded taste of the
philistine public"
What's the reason for this venom.
GUS TRADE against Dauber?" asked
the man who occupied the studio next
door.
"What7 Haven't you heard? The
lucky dub sold q picture yesterday
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-03-31

who developed Inese opportunities. till
Carlyle could say: Americans have
begotten. with rapidity beyond re-
corded example. $4,000, 900 of the great.
e. bores ever seen in the world be.
fore.
Yet in contrast with this deadly
equality, the existence OF opportunity
for all individuals also led to a strong
individualism among Americans. Civ.
ing each man a chance to develop
what was in him. Hence our love
for the self-made man, and hence the
American devotion to leaders rather
than to principles"
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-03-31
A Disappointment,

Il understand you have quit max.
ing speeches on preparedness"
Yes" replied the more or less pub
lic-spirited citizen. II became dis.
couraged.
why 500"
II discovered that the chau .auqua
managers were not prepared to pay
me for my trouble"
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-03-31
CHAPTER xxIl-Continued.

He led a lost cause. and he was not
afraid of Gods thunderbolts." Wolf
Larsen was saying. Hurled into hell
he was unbeaten. A third OF Gods
angels he had led with him. and
straightway he melted man to rebel
against God. and gained for himself
and hell the major portion of all the
generations OF man. Why was he beat
en- out OF heaven? Because he was less
brave than God? less proud? less
aspiring? No! A thousand times no!
God was more powerful. as he said.
Whom thunder hath made greater. But
Lucifer was free spirit. To serve
was to suffocate. He preferred suf-
fering in freedom to all the happiness
of comfortable servility. He did not
care to serve God. He cared to serve
nothing. He was no fgurehead. He
stood on his own legs. He was an In
dividual."
THE first anarchist" Maud laughed,
rising and preparing to withdraw to
her stateroom.
Then it is good to be an anarchist"
he cried. He, too, had risen. and he
stood facing her, where she had paused
at the door of her room, as he went
on:
Here at last
We shall be free: the Almighty hath not
built
Here for his envy: will not drive us
Here we may reign secure; and in my
choice
To reign is worth ambition. though In
hell:
Better to reign in hell than serve in
heaven
1t was the defiant cry of a mighty
The cabin still rang with his
is he stood there. swaying. his
face shining, his head up and
mt, and his eyes. golden and
inc. intensely masculine and in
y soft. flashing upon Maud at
".
that unnamable and unmis-
terror was in her eyes, and she
lmost in a whisper, you are
door closed and she was gone.
I'd staring after her for a min
en- returned to himself and to
relieve Louis at the Wheel" he
ortly, land call upon you to re-
midnight. Better turn in now
some sleep"
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-03-31
CARLYLE CALLED US B0RES
Equality Developed Monotony Of Type
In country's Second Epoch. Was
His Assertion.

Prof Max Farrand OF Yale, lectur-
ing on american Traits" as developed
in the epoch of 1912 to 1910. said
at Lowell institute recently. the Kan
sas City Star observes:
Equality OF status is, of course.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-03-31
'Twould Save Time.

What have you there?"
Some garden seed"
Thinking OF starting a garden?"
Il was just debating the matter.
don't know whether to feed the seed
to my neighbor's chickens direct. or
put the pesky fowls to the trouble M
scratching them up IN
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-03-31
CHAPTER XIV.

There is no need of going into an
extended recital of our suffering In the
smal' boat during the many days we
we're driven and drifted, here and
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-03-31

and hunters set their spritsails many
times, yet this was my first attempt.
What took them possibly two minutes
took me twenty, but in the end sue.
ceeded in setting and trimming IT. and
with the steering oar in my hands
hauled on the wind
There lies Japan" / remarked,
straight before US"
Humphrey Van Weyden," she said,
you are brave man"
Nay" I answered. 1T is you who
are brave woman"
We turned our heads, swayed by a
common impulse to see the last of the
Ghost. Her low hull lifted and rolled
to windward on a sea; her canvas
doomed darkly in the night; her
dashed wheel creaked as the rudder
kicked; then sight and sound of her
faded away and we were alone on the
dark sea.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-03-31


AZ led to
ut Ameri-
absolute
asst there
ian there
there was
! for all,
pportunity
lonship Of
| could no,
: Of today
the 's,ipe.
great Stin
developed
depend
nspiicucus
been not
atibns. 1t
CT for au-
the exist
I to a re-
he people
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-03-31


a puny blow. He roared in a ferocious,
animal-like way, and gave me a shove
with his hand. 1t was only a shove, a
fiirt of the wrist, yet so tremendous
was his strength that ] was hurled
backward as from a catapult. struck
the door of the stateroom which had
formerly been Mugridge's, splintering
and smashing the panels with the Inn.
pact of my body. l struggled to my
feet, with difficulty dragging myself
clear of the wrecked door, unaware Of
any hurt whatever. | was conscious
only OF an overmastering rage. think
], too, cried aloud, as l drew the knife
at my hip and sprang forward sec
ond time.
But something had happened. They
we're Keeling apart. ] was close upon
him, my knife uplifted, but withheld
the blow. l was puzzled by the strange
ness OF It. Maud was leaning against
the wall. one hand out for support;
but he was staggering, his left hand
pressed against his forehead and COW
ering his eyes. and with the right he
was cropping about him in dazed sort
OF way. 1t struck against the wall,
and his body seemed to express a mus
cular and physical relief at the con.
tact, as though he had found his bear
fngs. his location in space as we'll as
something against which to lean.
Then saw red again All my
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-03-31
CHAPTER XIII.

Nv not what had aroused me,
yund myself out of my bunk. on
t, wide awake. my soul vibrat-
the warning Of danger as 1t
aave thrilled to a trumpet call.
open the door. The cabin light
lrning low. | saw Maud. my
straining and struggling and
| in the embrace of Wolf Lar.
rms. / could see the vain beat
ter of her as she strove. press
face against his breast. to
from him. All this I saw on
" instant OF seeing and as |
forward.
uck him with my fist, on the
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-06-22
cARRANZA REPRESENTATIVE AT
WASHINGTON ASKS LANSING
FOR EXPLANATION
WITHOUT INFORMATION
Secretary Lansing Without Informa-
ton and Unable to Reply to Are
dondo - Latter Declares Americans
Have Occupied Casas Grandes.

Washington, June 22.-Arredondo,
Carranza's Washington representative,
called on Secretary Lansing today,
asking for an explanation Of the Amer
lean troops approaching Carrizal and
also seeking an explanation of the
report that Pershng has occupied the
towns of Casas Grandes and Neuvas
Casas Grandes, saying that such would
be open hostility. Secretary Lansing
has no official information.
Official Mexican dispatches were de
scribed to Lansing as indicating that
the Mexican forces thought the Ameri-
can troops, who were approaching Car
rizaI, intended taking the town.
Arredondo said he called Lansing's
attention to the distance traversed by
the American troops from their base
and to what he called Lack Of pru-
dence of the American commander in
approaching the Mexican railway"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-06-22

ARE PAYING IN
THEIR MONEY
WANT WORK TO BEGIN AS SOON
AS POSSIBLE, THEREFORE ARE
TAKING ADVANTAGE OF FIF-
TEEN DAYS BEFORE FIRST.

Thousands of dollars in cash has
already been deposited with the trus
tees of the New Hotel and so conf
dent is the committee that the small
amount necessary will be raised that
all money is to be paid in by July
1st and fifteen days will be saved on
the time actual construction is to
commence. The contract with Mr..
Sharpe is to the effect that the
money must be up by July 18th, at
which time the plans and specifica-
tions would be drawn up and the con-
tract let as soon as human energy
could do it.
With the State and National Bank
ers due to hold their convention in
Ardmore next May, the committee
decided that every day counted hence
its action. Less than two thousand
dollars is necessary to close the sub
scription list. The trustees for the
fund are p. C. Dings, Guaranty State
Bank. G.. w. Stuart. Ardmore Nation
al Bank; C. A. Anderson, First Nat
ional Bank and Harold Wallace, State
National Bank. Any one of these
men will accept the money from the
subscribers and all are urged to pay
up Immediately. The committee IS
elated at the success of the enter
prise and when told that more than
ten thousand dollars was already up
they felt that possibly even more
than fifteen days could be clipped off
the allotted time.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-06-22
Rode Into Ambuscade.

Ell Paso, Tex, June PA new yer
sion of the Carrizal fight was brought
today by Mexican, who was in Nllla
Ahumada yesterday and who said Gon
eral Gomez knew the Americans were
coming He sent courier asking
them to withdraw. When they per
sisted in coming, Gomez dug large
pitfall, several hundred feet long over
the Americans trail, covering it with
brush.
AS the Americans rode into it, the
horses threw off their riders. Then,
the Mexican asserted, the Carrancistas
from ambush raked the Americans
with a machine gun. The Americans
withdrew to reorganize and seventeen
prisoners were captured when they fell
into the ditch. The encounter then
started again, in which Gomez and
several Americans were killed. The
Mexican's story tended to confirm the
other reports that forty Americans
were dead.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-06-22

Ell Paso, Tex, JUNE . The
Americans lost twelve u in
cluding the commander, a '
seventeen prisoners, "
fourteen Mexicans were kill
and thirty wounded in the Car
rizal battle, according to a
Mexican official announcement
today, which said that COM
plete details of the battle had
been received.
The Americans removed
their wounded, but left the
dead which were counted on
the field.
The name of the American
commander is still unknown.
The Mexicans claim to have
captured twenty horses and
twenty rifles.
Mexican officials said, two
additional trains had been
loaded from the Juarez gar
rison, and are ready to move
south on orders.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-06-22

Washington, d. c., June %.
General Persbing's interpre-
tation of yesterdays fight with
the Carranza troops near Carri-
zal will probably determine
largely whether the incident
will cause immediate war.
If it develops that the Amer
leans were attacked to enforce
Carranza's orders, Wilson will
probably accept it as an act of
war. If the fight was in answer
to Wilson's note, there is little
doubt but that Wilson will rec
ommend to congress a declara-
ton of war.
There was a stir of grim pur-
pose today about the state and
war departments. Secretary
Baker conferred with Wilson
on the basis of reports given
out by the Mexican command
ers at the border. Lansing was
closeted with the war secre-
tary, and soon after Baker has
tened to the capitol for a con-
ference with the congressional
military committee chairmen.
No explanation for these con-
ferences was given at the
White House. 1t was said that
President Wilson's policy is un-
changed for the present at least
and that he has no intention of
going before congress immedi-
ately.
A resolution authorizing the
President to draft national
guardsmen, who are willing to
take the federal oath, immedi-
ately into the regular army, un-
der the terms of the new army
bill, was submitted today by
Secretary Baker to Chairman
Hay of the House military
committee. Hay said he would
press the house for immediate
action. on
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-06-22
GIVEN SIXTY DAYS
Bud Ballew Fined and Jailed on Con-
tempt Charge.

Bud Ballew, who while serving as
deputy sheriff, slapped the face of
Judge Freeman of the district court on
the streets of the city but while court
was in session was arraigned before
the court on a charge of contempt and
was fined 5000 and given Jail SEN
tence of go days. Guy Sigler and Mo
man Pruiett have been employed as
attorneys, and they have sued out a
writ of habeas corpus in the state su-
preme court. 1t is stated here that
the upper court ordered the release of
the prisoner and set the hearing for
next Saturday. The order of release
has not reached here. and Ballew was
still in jail today.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-06-22
Would ORGANIZE Company.

Chickasha, Okla, June 21-A. L.
Hollingsworth of Chickasha, a former
member of the United States army,
has written the governor of Oklahoma
asking permission to form company
of militia at this point. The promise
was given representatives of Chicka-
sha that the next company recruited
in the state would be raised at Chick
asha Hollingsworth, who saw service
in Cuba and the Philippines, hopes
to have a company ready for service
in sixty days.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-06-22
Encourage Enlistment at Durant.

Durant, Okla, June 21.-A mass
meeting of citizens was held here to-
night to encourage enlistment in the
local militia company and as fare
well tribute to the boys before leav-
ing. Company H here is the only
company on the eastern side of the
state and a strong effort is being
made to recruit it to full strength be-
fore it leaves tomorrow for Oklahoma
City. Much interest was displayed
in the meeting and a number of re-
cruits were secured.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-06-22
MExIcANS MAKING ARMS
DAY AND NIGHT

Laredo, Tex, June 21.-ApproXi-
mately 100000 rounds of ammuni-
ton has been taken in charge by Car
rama authorities at various points
throughout Mexico, and the govern
ment factory is working twenty-four
hours daily to augment this supply,
according to one of the American
refugees from Mexico City arriving
Tuesday. He was formerly in the
hardware business in the capital
The output of the government fac
tory is approximately 10000 rounds of
cartridges daily, he said.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-06-22
Pershing Without Report

San Antonio, Tex, June 22.
General Pershing reported to
Funston today that he had not
received report of the Car
rial fight, but on information
sent him, he had sent two
suuadrons of the Eleventh Cav
airy to get in touch with the
Tenth, which was engaged. Un-
til Pershing reports fully, there
will be no special orders.