davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
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" that came to us from
England a few days
ago!
The story of the English officer
of good family and position, of
character and of courage, who
went to prison rather than tell
that his wife was a fool and had
made a fool of him.
The wife pretended to own a
magnificent pearl necklace, and
when people began to ask what had
happened to the necklace, the wife
said she had lost it, and to carry
out the deception she actually
brought suit against an insurance
company for $4,000.
She said the necklace was in
sured for that amount. Her hus-
band believed her. When it was
proved that she had never owned
any such necklace, much less had
it insured, the husband was held
accountable, as he is apt to be un-
der the English law and was sent
to Jail.
He served three cars, and then
his wife confessed.
And 1000 of the finest and most
representative men in England
signed a petition to the King to
set the officer free.
The King listened, liberated the
man, and he is now with his regi-
ment in France.
The wife is dying. Some say
her only disease is remorse.
What a price to pay for little
empty vanity.
How She "Improvises."
! wish some one would write
that story in a few short, clear
sentences-I'd buy it, frame it, and
hang it on the wall.
| think it would be more useful
than i "Do 1t Now" motto or a
Home, Sweet Home" slogan.
] wish I'd had it framed the
other day when the sweetest little
woman in the world came in to see
me.
She's clever as we'll as sweet.
She can make the prettiest little
hats you ever saw, and the smart
little frOcks she embroiders for
her nieces are really too lovely
and she can cook, and she write; a
lovely letter, and you should hear
her improvjse on the piano-when
you're tired, and the day has been
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put my soul into"
My dear girl, don't attempt to
bottle up all that energy. Decide
what you want to do most in the
world. Your desire may seem
utterly fantastic, impossible. Never
mind that. It's. the impossible
that's always happening. But II
you want to dream true" make
your vision big one. Don't say,
oh. that would be too good to
happen to mel" Nothing is too
good to happen to you. Why
shouldn't you have the best there
is in life's shop? And hold on to
your idea. Never let 1t go. Live
in it, expand 1t. Work toward It
with the strength Of an undivided
purpose.
A man was telling me the other
day OF a great deal he had put
over. Il didn't think l could get
more than five thousand dollars for
my share" he said. but suddenly
| said to myself. BY Jove, l won't.
take that although five thoustnd
dollars looked as big as the moon
TO me at that time. So ! took my
courage in both hands, insisted on
thirty thousand-and got It."
CamOuflage Age.
Here is an extract from another
letter l have received: 81 feel like
a girl of sixteen, but, sad to say,
! am thirty-seven years old, with
out any education whatever, as |
was raised in the backwoods in a
small Western town, and have
never had any schooling. l was
married young and came East.
And now I'm alone in the world,
without an income. | must soon
find some substantial branch on
which to light, for | am sure /
could make good in some line of
business. But what? | am ener-
getic, capable, and quick. What
are my chances?"
Your chances, my dear lady, are
the very best. But cut out that
sad to say" 1t is a glorious thing
TO be thirty-snven and feel sixteen;
there's nothing sad about ii. Also,
woman who can write the sort
of a letter you have written me
without any schooling shows that
she has acquired a much wider
education than any university can
give-the education of life.
A very famous and brilliant
woman of the eighteenth century
once remarked: Il don't know
anything about books. / never
read them. But | know men and
women an dthe world"
\ woman who is thirty-seven
aud feels sixteen has health OF
mind and body. The liability of
being alone in the world and
without an income" Is trifiing as
compared to Your assets-health.
energy, the will 10 succeed.
have friend who, whenever
she particularly desires anything.
always says: The thing | seek is
seeking ne. The good ! want
wants Inc as much as l want IT,"
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r WAS shopping the other day
with my sister. I'll only be
gone ten minutes" she said,
leaving me seated in the taxi, and
she did not return for half an hour.
There was nothing for me to do
but watch the passing show. But
my attention soon wandered from
the general to the particular, from
the mass to the individual.
Near me stood a shabby, timid
little woman apologetically offer
ing a tray of wares. She looked
pfnched and staryed-starved of
affection, happiness, even Of food.
People hurried by her without
giving her a glance. She was the
kind one likes to forget-if one
can, Thread, safety-pins, needles.
tape and pins. She offered them
with a sort of despairing apathy
which brought pity sometimes and
impotence always.
| thought Of another street ven
dor | had seen only a day or two
before, a leather-lunged. maseu-
line tramp who was selling chill
dren's books, bright-colored, gay,
and tempting.
Take 'em home to the Riddles,
Make the little ones happy" he
bawled, thrusting them impudently,
insistently into the faces of the
passersby. And several people
laughingly accepted the challenge
and stopped to purchase.
An Old Story.
Something, a sense OF curiosity
l suppose, made me step out of
the taxi, go over to the woman
and buy a paper Of pins.
She thanked me rs II | had done
her a favor, and then, as / asked
her a question or two, she told me
her story, similar to hundreds Of
others.
She was a widow: there was
nothing else to which she could
turn her hand. and she wasn't
making anything at this. said
something of this sort:
Why don't you lift up your
voice? Stop customers; make them
buy. People need pins and needles
and thread. If you'd stand here
and yell, Here's your thread and
needles, Patch your pants, mend
your mending, sew up your rents
in mind, body, and estate! A stitch
in time saves nine. If you can't
sew, pin! Take a safety to do il,
Here are your pins, needles, tape
and thread Take them home 70
your wife! Teach your children
how to sew
Don't shrink back" | went on.
Stand out where people can see
you. And then when you have
their attention. look them in the
eyes, and say sweetly and impera-
lively. I am sure you need some
pins. Pins are so necessary. And
these are really a bargain.
She smiled in a reluctant. wiriry
az, and said. oh. ] couldn't do
anything like that. wasn't
brought up to this. Ny fathe- and
my husband were both WeIi-to-dO.
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THE TIeHTwADs' CHANCE.

I know a family with five chill
dren, the oldest nine years, the
youngest eighteen months. There
has been no IRE In the house for
days, and no food. The children
are barefooted; the mother Is
wearing a single garment and IL
sick.
These people are poorer than
any OF the advertised ''opportuni-
ties" and thus far Charity has
fed by the door.
I want to interest the tight
wads in this family, and get q
few dollars from fellows who
never dug down in their jeans be-
fore. It will all go to relieve
this desperate case; nothing out
for carfare, salaries, or the en-
ployment OF sociological experts.
In this case you simply get your
instructions from the best text
book on charity ever written:
For I was an hungered and
ye gave me meat naked
and ye clothed me Yer
lily the King shall answer and
say unto them, Verify say unto
you. inasmueh as you have done
It unto one OF the least Of these
my brethren we have done IT unto
Me."-St- Matthew. xxv:35-40.
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narr.r cnrn nr.nr
just emerged from the busiest
Christmas ever experienced by the
Postoffice, and yet he has retained
his good humor sufficiently to send
me this good story:
Zone of our registered men was
asked by a member of the legal ad-
visory board the other day whether
he had had any military experience
The answer, No, sab, but has skin
disease"
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Mrs. Wilson Woodrows Article on Being Raised Well

young girl. She says: 81 am en-
ployed in a business office, but my
work does not take up all my time
and attention. There are times
when 1 am struggling and half
choking, because | am full OF sup
pressed energy. and don't know
how to work 1t of. have friends
but it is not friendship nor play
that ! want, but work that | can
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Why, il they knew what I'd come
to- Then she began to cry.
Oh, dear! oh, dear, What an
awful hold 1t has on the feminine
mind-this idiotic old cry, Il
wasn't brought up to work." and
the air Of injury-of resentment,
that cruel circumstances have
made it a necessity.
l received today a letter from a
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-12-29

OF course, everyone was seated in
comfortable street cars that ran
promptly this morning.
II takes only two inches Of snow
to show how utterly inadequate our
street car system il.
ED HUMPHREYS tells me he
waited FORTY MINUTES this
morning for q Wisconsin avenue car
at Wisconsin avenue and Observa-
tory lane.
CHARLIE CoTTERILL waited
thirty minutes, he says, for a Mt;
Pleasant car. These two are well
known Washingtonians, and / sim
ply use their names to point out two
individuals in the enormous number
of wet, belated, ill-treated office
workers who have to rely on the
Washington Railway and Electric
Company.
l used to think that company was
the worst in the city. have changed
my horizon. ] think now it is the
worst in the world.
The man who packs the crowds
into the Capital Traction cars at
Fourteenth and U streets did a good
stunt this morning. He allowed the
front door of the Fourteenth street
cars to be opened to let hundreds Of
passengers in, collecting their tick
cts and transfers from them as they
were damned in. The packer then
gave the fistful Of transfers and tick
cts to the motorman, who later turn
cd them over to the conductor.
Four years ago, says o. F.
JONES, of the Department of Agri-
culture, there was a movement afoot
to reduce the price of telephone
service. The telephone company, he
says, gave as a reason for retaining
the prices then in force the fact that
Washington people did not subscribe
to the service in sufficient numbers.
Now, Mr.. Jones continues, the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-12-29
HEARD AND SEEN

telephone company advances the az
gument that it should have increased
rates because so many people sub
scribe.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-12-29

Also that the city Of Cincinnati
has unlimited service at $3.50 q
month.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-12-29

ED HUMPHREYS tells me he
waited FORTY MINUTES this
morning for q Wisconsin avenue car
at Wisconsin avenue and Observa-
tory lane.
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OF course, everyone was seated in
comfortable street cars that ran
promptly this morning.
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WINIFRED BLACK WRITES on
VANITY AS A TEACHER

TX THAT strange story it is
" that came to us from
England a few days
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-12-29

used to think that company was
the worst in the city. have changed
my horizon. ] think now it is the
worst in the world.
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Now, Mr.. Jones continues, the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-12-29

It takes only two inches Of snow
to show how utterly inadequate our
street car system II.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-07-27
HERvEY HOTEL
SALE PROCEEDS

Notices have been sent out by Jo-
seph N. McAleer, referee in bank
ruptcy for the aervey Hotel Com
pany, stating that all personal prop
erty consisting of furniture, stores,
fixtures and all other property used
in connection with the Cawthcn and
San Carlos hotels, will be sold under
direction of Charles B. Hervey, as
trustee, in the offices of the referee,
405 Van Antwerp building, Mobile
on August 6, 1917, at four o'clock.
The notice further states that the
sale will be made free of all liens. A
general description of all the prop
erty may be had by examining the
schedules of the bankrupt in the
referees office, and may be inspected
at the two hotels mentioned.
The trustee reserves the right to
withdraw any of said property from
the sale unless it should bring at least
seventy-five per cent of its appraised
value.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-07-27
Californian Had
Kidney Trouble

Jack Maltos, Copperopolis, Calf,
says: II had such a severe case OF
kidney trouble 1 thought / would have
to sell out my business. took three
bottles OF Foley Kidney Pills which
entirely relieved me and I have had
no recurrence Of kidney trouble since
then"
Some days 1t seems as II you can
no longer bear the pain and misery
you suffer from kidney and bladder
troubles. The ache across your back
grows worse with every move you
make and every step you take. 1t
Just seems to rob you of all strength
and energy. Your head aches, you
are nervous and worn out, sleep poorly
and have no appetite, stomach is up
set and bowels irregular.
Foley Kidney Pills lessen the pain,
until It is finally gone entirely. They
give strength and tone to the kidneys
make them strong, active, their ac-
ton becomes regular and normal
again, and your health grows better
each day you take this great healing
medicine.
-EG3yT8YHd S.9LdadWTIv.d
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Royd ConfesseS
and Describes Murder
CONTINUED From Page One.)

can, and went up to the Davis house,
asking for a drink of water, Boyd
stayed in clump of bushes with the
shotgun. his orders being to shoe.
anyone who tried to pass.
How Bob and Will Blackwell went
around the house with Harrison
Davis and drank water; how they re
turned to the front and received some
potatoes from Nancy Davis, aged
mother; how Harrison and his sister,
Melinda Littlefield, left to spread the
alarm of the great forest fire, whose
roar was now audible-"it looked like
all the world was burning up in the
NORTH" Boyd said-has been told so
many times that it's repetition is not
needed here.
The Ambush.
When Harrison and Melinda were
lost in the gloom, Bob and Will, says
Boyd, again approached the door and
knocked.
who's that"
Its US, Mis- We'se- come hack
to hep you in dat fire-we doesn't
want for to see you get hurt"
1 guess my son and daughter will
be able to give the alarm in time and
a lot of men come to put it out"
"Yes'm. But just aame to de door
and look at it."
She did so, and as the door was
opened, both Bob and Will bent their
revolvers on her.
Hands up" their cried we don't
want no trouble, We want your
money"
ooh, Lord have mercy" cried Aunt
Nancy, and staggered back into the
house.
| The Old Veteran.
But Uncle Bud Davis had been
warned that somebody was inquiring
after his financial condition; and some
| instinct told him that there was some
thing wrong in the solicitufe OF these
/ strange negroes in their welfare. Had
! he been positive enough to tell his
: wife not to open the door-they would
be alive today, Bob Blackwells wife
would not be heartbroken, and there
would not be a little woman and four
/ babies CRYING for their dad.
The old Confederate had evidently
| gotten his Winchester out from be-
| tween the mattresses, as his wife was
| going to the door. for all of a sudden
one of the Blackwell's cried out:
! Don't do that-we don't want no
trou-" And then viii Blackwell's As
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-07-27
SUMMER SCHOOL
CLOSES SESSION

Today marks the close of the sum-
ner school of 1917 in Pensacola. After
six weeks of hard work, those Vfo
have been attending the school will
begin their vacations before re5uming
their duties as teachers in the fall
This year has been record-break-
er for the Summer school here. as the
enrolment was larger and greater in
terest shown. Teachers of unusual
ability were secured to instruct in
the school, and supplementary courses
by Mrs. Nita Osborne Benn in music,
and by Miss Lonny Landrum in can
ming work, added much to the attrac-
tiveness of the work
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automatic roared out. The bullet
crashed into the grip, broke two fin
gers, was DETECTED to the floor, from
which it glanced losing its force in
the air and falling in a chair, where
it was found next day.
Says Bob Killed Couple.
Then Bob Blackwell went crazy.
Three shots he fired from the 80. viii
all the time trying to get him to quit
the bullets that killed the aged
pair,
Bob and Will had not been inside
the house. Without attempting to
search for the money, they turned and
fled, Will cursing Bob for what he
had done. We've got to run for it
now" Will told Boyd. and Selling the
shotgun, fired at the house over his
shoulder. Why he did this, Boyd
would not say-but thought it was
probably in a fit of rage at the turn
events had taken.
They Fled.
When they were down the road a
little ways. they heard the roar of
Harrison Davis gUn-the shot he fir
ed to scare providers away, just be
fore he began the wild run to bring
help leaving Melinda Littlefield and
her little girl in the kitchen alone
with the murdered remains of their
Bovd told of the fearful trip back;
of how they suffered from their fe6t;
of how they walked to Florala; he
told how Bob put on the old shoes. as
they were easier for his feet. and car
ried the new ones with the rubber
heels in his Goa pockets; how they
lost one of the shoes. and tried 70
throw another one into a swamp, but
. it was dark and he hit the telegraph
wire on the right of way, and the shoe
fell short. He told how Will Black
well, who went to Florala on the night
! train, walked back and met them five
miles this side of that place, and eau
toned them against taking the train;
and how Will a little further on drop
ped his As Colts in a stream.
Finding of the Shoe.
One of the shoes-the shoe that Bob
| Blackwell lost-has been found and
was dramatically exhibited on the last
| day of the trial at which Will ard Bob
| Blackwell were convicted of the
| crime; with the above additional IN
! formation. the authorities are goinS
| to seek for its mate, and also the
| Colts AZ.
! viii Boyd was placed in the Escam-
bia county jail for safe keeping. The
grand jury will indict him at the Au-
gust term. and he will plead guilty
! Detective Moore would not tell where
! he got the clue that led to the appre-
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-07-27
DIED

H. c. Struggled, Of Savannah, Ca, a
Confederate veteran. expired yesterday
morning at 10 o'clock, at the home of
his son, H. c. Struggled, at the corner
Of Lloyd street and 20th avenue. The
funeral arrangements were held up.
pending advices regarding time of ar
rival of relatives. who had been informed
of the sad event. They are expected to
come here to attend the funeral
Members Of the local camp of Con-
federate veterans will assemble at the
home of the decease comrade when the
time of funeral is announced and pay
tribute to one more of the old soldiers
who has answered the last roll call.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-07-27
BOOZE SELLERS ARE
TAKEN TO ATLANTA

United States Deputy Marshal C.
P. Mcmillan left yesterday at noon
with six prisoners, sentenced to serve
terms in the federal penitentiary at
Atlanta. All six of the men were con-
victed at this term of the federal
court of selling liquor to enlisted men
of the military forces of the United
States while in uniform.
Six others were sentenced also but
Icing short terms they were allowed
to serve them in the Escambia jail,
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-07-27
ALA. MAN FACES
LIQUOR CHARGE

J. W. Coleman, a white man of Bay
Minette, Alabama, was given a pre-
liminary hearing before United
States Commissioner Jerry J. Sulli-
van, Jr., yesterday morning. the
charge of selling liquor to enlisted
men of the military forces of the
United Stats while in uniform.
Coleman was arrested shortly after
the near riot Wednesday night and
charged with the violation of federal
statutes, He is held in Jail and will
probably be tried at the present term
of federal court, which is in recess un-
til Monday.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-07-27
REA|VAL STOPS
FOR ONE NIGHT

Owing to the death of the late
Henry J. Coburger, the revival series
now being held near Muscogce wharf,
were called off for last night, one of
the sons of the deceased being on the
arrangement committee Of the series,
The meetings, however, which nave
thus far proven highly successful,
will be continued tonight at the usual
hour,
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hension of Boyd, but he said that it
was from an authentic source and that
Bob Blackwell corroborated it. Bob
now insists that there was another
man-Gradie Bartlett-in the bust
ness. and that he, Bob. simply came
down to try to save Will from the ma
chinations Of these two men.
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RECEIVES
FIRST OFFICIAL
DRAFT LIST

Continued from Page Two)
1916, 1541, 1o8, 1850, 3o16. 1880,
2240, 178. 1884, 1892.
377, 9, 347, 1887, 2267, 10, 16,
1878, 1896, 952,
595, 789, $40, 1883, 1874, 1872, GOT,
1851, 1864, 1888.
1914, 874, 2425, 2818, 2814, 2744,
1919, 925. 249O, 1928.
.173, 1882, 2407, 3178. 1874. 1880.
2541, 1915, 1866, 1924.
1912, $40, 2805, 2672, 1866. 1859,
166, 1869, 2842, 1889.
474, 60, 1866, 2O46, 1928, 518, 1926,
3483, 1859, 1887, BOIL.
1922, 1852, 1928, 2o8, 1929, 293,
1903, III, 1850, 785.
4o4, 1877, 2641, 1886, 1862, 1852,
369, 1923, 3419, SIS.
t2452, 1888, 1884, 2697, PIT. 2661,
987, 1894, All, 2237, 1851, 80, 3o8o.
266, 123, 3210, 1886, 1888, 1849,
249, 2570, 3495, 1908.
204, 367, 1885, 921, 1882, 1868, 1901,
$3.50, 139, 81.
2898, 1856, 1864, 24o1, 159, 2798,
BOTS, 419, 1868, 1851, 2843.
3408, 2236, 1858, $3.50, 1864, 1877,
1913, 165, 1851, 1868,
767, 3101, 1893, 334, 1896, 3278,
1927, 1928, 217o, 386.
2416, 1901, 1859, 1886, ITO, 252.
70, 3115, 1888, 2631.
7o8, 17O4, 1o41, sop, 3177, 1929,
2571, 644, 1922, 683.
1862, 1902, 3401, 412, 2417, 1926,
996, 301, 1856, 1873,
2183, 2424, 1909, 1o44, 587, 2115,
3468, 828, 1911, 3O39.
1410, 937, 400, $40, 1892, 1881, 706,
729, 4O1, $500
719, 1902, 1886, SIS, 1869, 26O1,
HOO, 255, SOS, 538.
1869, 1856, 1884, 2138, 1906, 1860,
1928, 1648, 2772, 3242.
2555, %, 1412, 2193, III, $3.50,
2944, 234, SO, PIG.
1871, TIA, 2547, 439, $40, 3424,
1858, 2754, 1880, 225.
24S1, 1884, 1886, 1884, ST, 1871,
2510, 1922, IS, 1913.
70, 3010, 1897, 1929, 610, 1852, 1872,
1888, 2351, 2343, 500.
3421, 967, %, 20O4, 1884, 3275, 1883,
1929, 688, 472.
1778, 1912, 2951. 1903, 3113, 1865,
484, 2714, 3374, 1856.
2734, 722, 1896, 1882, 24Oo, 1890,
814, 1852, 1862, 1905.
181, 632, 1916, 1888, PITS, 500,
Pill, 1875, 1882, 243, 1906.
CSC, 40, 1912, 367, 2757, 214o, CO,
1888, 324, 3446.
805s, 37S5. SOP, 225o, 1873, 1858,
S66, 1857, 101, 116.
2685, 795, 1860, 585, 1913, 333, 1912,
853, 794, 1165.
285, $500, 1891, 2849, 2248, 1871,
2079, 971, 1924, 1916.
1914, 8161, $50, 147, 80, 2976, 653,
273, 3444, 2649, go.
3454, 2781, $40, OF, 3271, So, 1916,
255G, 1862, 765.
27O3, At, 2477. 1910, 32o5, 986,
2946, III, 1444, 3146.
1904, 1928, 1854, 2129, 2156, 125,
1871, 2947, 522, 2722.
1855. 466, "A, 1896, 2377, 626, 3098,
sol, SOB, 1852.
PCS, 2O83, 1914, 1871, 865, 1T, 167,
1882, 1910, 1927.
pol, 141, 754, 3041, 1925, 1880, 908
S42, 2016, 1919.
21O5, 1916, 2277, 277O, $3.50, 3470
3175, 1140, 1852, 708.
992, 495, IS, 1446. 654, 1909, $3.50
1905, 1475, sos.
1851, 1864, 2O21, 537, 1888, 1857
66, 1887, 718, 1852.
227, 1869, 200, 2644, 500. 2464. 1888
1928, 1853, 1854.
PSI, 448, 673, 2437, AGA, 73o, 1928
1899, 1872, 10, SIP.
/ 2251, 1880, 894, $40, 1882, 1924, 898
] 1858, 1841, 1859.