davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1919-08-17
A New Story by Sewell Ford.

just pulls out the picture, gazes at 1t
fond for a minute or SO. and then re-
marks:
"Ah. you lucky young rascal" Then
he picks up note from his desk. "Oh.
by the way" he goes on. "here's
little remembrance she sent you in my
care"
Little! Say, what do you guess? Oh.
only an order for 1920 model road
ster with white wire wheels to be de-
livered to me when calls for 1t!
She's merely tipped me an automobile,
that's all. And after I'd rread 1t
through for the third time, and was
sure it was SO. manages to gasp out:
Lucky is right. Mr.. Eilins; that's
the only word" Nl'
Copyright, 1872 f4l3
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SUBBING FOR THE BOSS

suppose it is-Well, / trust not. at
least"
After the Follies she hadn't a word
to say. Only. as 1 landed her back at
her hotel, along about 2:30 am, she
slumps into big chair in the Egyp-
tian room and lets her chin sag.
IT'S no use, Torchy," says she. e
couldn't"
"Eh?" says I.
END my days to jazz time," says
she. mo. shall go back to my
quiet hills and my calm-eyed Hol-
stems. And 1 shall go entirely con-
tented. 1 can't tell you either how
thankful I am that it was you who
showed me my mistake instead of my
dear old friend. You've been so good
about it. too"
'Me?" says /. "Why, I've had big
night. Honest"
BLESS you" says she, pattin' my
Evening star., 1919-08-17
THE CHARIOT.
FROM I'll

must give up the prisoners. Where
are they conf1ned?"
mo one knows, exactly" replied
the Princess. For the king, whose
name Is Roquat of the Rocks, owns
a splendid palace underneath the
great mountain which is at the north
end of this kingdom, and he has
transformed the queen and her chill
dren into ornaments and bric-a-brac
with which to decorate his rooms"
I'D like to know" said Dorothy.
"who this Nome King is?"
X X X
~ will tell you," replied Ozma. "He
is said to be the ruler of the under
ground world, and commands the rocks
and all that the rocks contain. Under
Nomes, who are queerly shaped but
powerful spritAs that labor at the fur
naces and forgcs Of their king, making
gold and silver and other metals which
they conceal in the crevices Of the
rocks, so that those living upon the
earth's surface can only find them with
great difficulty. Also they make dia-
monds and ruhbies and emeralds. which
they hide in the ground; so that the
kingdom Of the Nomes is wonderfully
rich. and all we have Of precious stones
and silver and gold is what we take
from the earth and rocks where the
Nome King has hidden them"
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Scientific Management.

CIT doesn't do to swallow all the
stories you hear about the effsH
cacy of scientific management. but n
heard one the other day that cam
well believe" ~; 4 ll8
"A senator the speaker. was entefW
tanning a luncheon party at Atlantic
City. fttitl{tl!It Itfk%
SO your wife refused 10 marry yd3Mlf
when you first proposed to her" !
said to Brown during confidential
chat one day Did you keep on pur-
suing her till she consented? s
mot much" Brown replied crafti-
ly. 1 went out and made fortune,
When came back 1t was she who d'd
the pursuing"
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II understand" said Dorothy, nodding
her little head wisely.
"For the reason that we often steal
his treasures" continued Ozma, "the
ruler of the underground world is not
fond of those who live upon the earth's
surface, and never appears among us.
If we wish to see King Roquat of the
rocks. we must visit his own country,
where he is all powerful, and therefore,
it will be dangerous undertaking"
But, for the sake of the poor prison.
ers." said Dorothy. I'VE ought to do it,"
1--WE shall do it," replied the Scare
crow. although it requires lot Of
courage for me to go near the furnaces
of the Nome King. For am only stuff
ed with Straw, and a single spark of
fire might destroy me entirely"
1.-THE furnaces may also melt my tim"
said the Tin Woodman; but l am go
ing"
II can't bear heat" remarked the
Princess Langwidere. yawning lazily,
80 I shall stay at home But I wish
you may have success in your under
taking. for l am heartily tired of ruling
this stupid kingdom, and 1 need more
leisure in which to admire my beauti-
full heads"
1--WE do not need you," said Ozma.
For, il with the aid of my brave fol.
lowers cannot accomplish my purpose,
Evening star., 1919-08-17
An Overrated Article.

CHARLES NJ. SCHWAB. who, besS
lieves above all things in young
men. was defending hiS belief at ~
banquet. tsi,lllEl lsSss,
'7"Young men have energy yes!'l a.
banker admitted, doubtfully. but.
for high executive positions, don't.
you think experience is needed?' \
"Oh, experience" said Mr.. Schwab
s'Experience is an overrated article.
What's the good, after all, of know,
ing what the weather was like day
before yesterdayw etB
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Torchy. When you tell Mr.. Ellins
that I've been here. and gone couldn't
you somehow forget to say just how
l looked? You see. If he remembers
me as 1 was when that photo was
taken-Well. where's the harm?"
Trust me-" says l. And 1 won't
be strainin' my conscience any, at
that"
Evening star., 1919-08-17
HE Tin Woodman was the first
to address the meeting.

IHE llu WOOOInAU Wd0 the uIOS
to address the meeting.
ITO begin WITH" said he.
WORD came to our noble and
illustrious ruler. Oxma of Or, that the
wife and ten children-five boys and
five girls--of the former King Of Ev.
by name Evoldo. have been enslaved
by the Nome King and are held pris-
oners in his underground palace. Also
that there was no one in Ev pow
erful enough to release them. Nat
orally our Ozma wished to undertake
the adventure of liDerating the poor
prisoners. but for long time she
could find no way to cross the great
desert between the two countries.
Finally she went to a friendly sor-
ceress of our land named Glinda the
Good, who heard the story and at
once presented Ozma a magic carpet,
which would continually unroll be-
meath our feet and so make a COM
Portable path for us to cross the
desert. AS soon as she had received
the carpet our gracious ruler ordered
me to assemble our army which I
did. You behold in these bold warriors
the pick of all the finest soldiers or
Oz; and. If we are obliged to fight
the Nome King. every officer as well
as the private, will battle fercely
unto DEATH"
X X X
Then Tiktok spoke.
why should you fight the Nome
King?" he asked He has done no
wrong"
mo wrong" cried Dorothy. isn't it
wrong to imprison queen mother
and her ten children?"
They were sold to the Nome King
by King Ev-ol-do," replied Tiktok.
.It was the King of Ev who did
wrong. and when he Realized what
he had done he jumped into the sea
and drowned him self"
This Is news to me-" said Ozma,
thoughtfully. Il had supposed the
Nome King was all to blame in the
matter. But, in any case, he must
be made to liberate the prisoners"
my Uncle Evoldo was very wick
ed man." declared the Princess Lang
widere. III he had drowned himself
before he sold his family, no one
would have cared. But he sold them
to the powerful Nome King in ex-
change for long life, and after
ward destroyed the life by jumping
into the sea-"
the long life, and the Nome King
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But 1 didn't need to juggle even
I've subbed in for him with Bonnie he
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TREATY OF FOUNTAIN INN, OR BLoIs, 1899.
King Louis XII Of France, Counting His Predecessors Widow, in 14ee, Turned
the Barroom Of an. Inn Into a Royal Peace Conference Hall and
Helped Frame a Treaty That Caused War.

and Duke Sfroza, loading 80 mules
with money, decamped from Milan.
Like William of H~ohenzollern, he took:
his cash-box with him when he fled.
AS he left Milan he said to the We.
netian ambassador: "You have.
brought the king of France to dine,
with me, but he will sup with you"
And he was right.
AS for the treaty Of the Fountain.
irn which was to insure peace forever
between France and Venice, for the
next 16 years Venice sided in arms:
many times over, alternately with and
against Louis, as her interests seemed
to dictate.
The treaty begun in the Fountain.
barroom which was to have imposed
Ieace and caused war was, according
to Machiavelli,' the ruin of Venice:
end he holds it up as warning against
weak states allying themselves with
strong Ones.
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In a few days now the flag would
1lutter from the porch. The sky would
seem a bluer blue, the birds sing With
peculiar sweetness. Heaven would
seem pretty close to earth. 1t woulc
be Decoration day!
The morning breeze would catch the
folds of the flag on the porch ant
u the red. white. and blue to spar
kle anew in the sunshine.
The music of the band would grow
fainter. Every year it had been the
same. The robins chirping in the
evergreens and the insects setting W
a chorus in the close-cut blue grass OF
the cemetery with; it's quiet suddenly
invaded by the town. The voices OF
the quartet carried off over the prairie
by the breeze. The address. The
school children heaping their blood.
roots and violets and honeysuckles
above the 1ag-marked graves.
Ed Howse had limped in ut the sag.
ging gate and was making his way as
best he could up the path to the porch
Ed pushed back his SLOUGH felt hat and
with an effort seated himself below
the old man leaning on his cane.
"Well, it'll be Decoration day in 9
few days." he painted. "I'm going tc
try to make the march onc more"
The old mar on the porch nodded.
MY hearin's gettin' pretty bad.
don't suppose I'll be able to hear much
that the speaker says" Ed went on.
II won't know whether he's talkin'
about the way we held our ground at
Gettysburg or that fight around
.Amiens to hold back Hindenburg,
D-n those Huns, do they think they
can spoil all us old fellows fought
for?"
1.-The old flag never touched the
ground" answered the old man.
"If l was fifty years younger"
quavered Ed.
We've got 'em fifty years younger,
don't worry" nodded the old man grim.
ly. 1.-THE old flag'll never touch the
ground"
Never saw your llacs look iner,'
Ed remarked. "'Pears as if they looked
nicer than l w see 'em."
II man leaning on the cane cleared
his throat. He glanced toward the
gate-the gate where
They amt going to he cut this
year." he said finally. "They know
he'll v come after 'em again
Those lilacs and snowballs and PEG.
MES have got to carry their fragrance
a long way on Decoration day this
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all be sleeping out there. When yon
think of 'em, you'll only remember the
years when they offered themselves ~
a great big. good II and you'll fos-
get the faults they had"
The boys face clouded with thought.
IF I come over early in the morn
ing" he asked, twill you let me have
the flowers you've always carried up
there yourself? I'll see that they get
to a fag-marked grave"
you bet l WILL" smiled the old man.
"Tll cut 'em for you in the morning.
They bloom this way just for Decora-
ton day: You can't tell me that they
don't know that they're for soldier
graves"
= .
Lilacs and snowballs and peonies
nodded between the sagging gate and
the dilapidated porch. On the porch
sat al old man leaning on his cane.
and at the gate approached a %buoyant
youth in a belted coat, tight-fitting
trousers and a long-peaked cap.
Good morning!"
The old man strained his eyes
"GOod morning, Tommy. l was look
ing for you"
you've got ont the old flag on the
porch" the youth smiled. "You haven't
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One of the earliest treaties Of mod
ern history was that concluded be-
tween France and Venice, in 1889.
Charles VIII, king of France. had
cverrun Italy. but lost the fruits of
his conquests largely through the war;
like activities of Venice. His success
sor Louis MI, a fortnight after his ae-
cession TO the French throne, sent a
message to the Venetians proposing q
lasting peace. The doge at once sent
ambassadors to France. The ambas'
sailors found Louis at Etampes, where
they arrived on August. 12,> 1893.
Nearly four months had elapsed since
the setting out of the kings courier
to Venice with the peace proposals.
Louis was on a visit to the widow OF
his predecessor, who lived in the royal
castle above the little town when the
news of the approach of the ENJOYS
reached him. He wanted to invite the
ambassadors to the castle but the
dowager said she was not going to
have her housekeeping broken up by
q swarm of Italians, and the castle
was out of repair and not fit to be
seen. anyway. Now. Louis had come
there counting the dowager and, king
or common, the lady's word is law in
such cases.
King Stood on a Dais.
Louis ran down to his friend. the
landlord of the Fountain inn, a most
excellent hosiery, where he had
"crushed many a cup of sack" when
he was only duke IF Orleans. The
tavern was large, the landlord a man
of resource. 'Hangings were brought
down from the castle, and when the
yenetians arrived a great barroom
had been converted into a great hall
OF audience, all hung with Alexandrine
velvet thickly spr4nkled with golden
lilies at the end where the king stood
on q dais hastily knocked together by
fine village carpenter-possibly out of
the wood-box. Mine hosts great arm
| clair with cloth of gold thrown over
II served very well as a throne. Here
the ambassadors presented their ere
| deptials and the king received them
with q smiling face and a gracious
speech. The next day he received tho
ENJOYS in private audience and the
negotiations began. the Fountain inn
serving as the conference place.
For weeks and weeks the negotia-
lions went on; the town was swamped
by great men and their retinues. The
| dowager looking down from her castle
walls on the turmoil below with COM
p%lacency. Finally the king and the
| ambassadors removed to the castle OF
! Blois, where a treaty. was concluded
on February 9, 1893, the negotiations
having lasted nearly six months.
The Treaty Of Peace.
When the treaty was finally signed
Il proved to be a treaty Of peace, in
| deed. between Venice and France, but
a league of war against about every 9TH
er Italian p~otentate except the doge.
Louis threw an army into the Milanese
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bled than the congress resolved Itself
into a mad scramble for territory.
The rights of people to self-determi-
nation were utterly ignored. The
proceedings were secret, but enough
leaked out to cause Whitbread to prop
test in the house of commons, "W9
live in an age when free nations are
not to be sold and transferred like
beasts Of burden" But that was just
what was done.
Lord Castlereagh pursued at first a
wavering policy, until early in Janu-
airy, when the news of the signing Of
a treaty of peace between England
and the United States caused him to
oppose boldly, but without success,
the rapacity Of Russia and Prussia.
When the congress had been in ses-
sion nearly six months the division
Of the spells was nearly completed.
To Russia was assigned Poland as
she held it until the recent war.
Announced Escape of Napoleon.
Prussia got one-half of Saxony, a
slice of Poland and the territories of
which. Napoleon had shorn her. North
ern Italy was given to Austria and
central Italy furnished duchies for
Austrian princes. Holland and Bel
GUM were erected into a separate
kingdom. Norway was taken from
Denmark and given to Sweden.
France was confined within her old>
limits. The smaller German states
were dealt with according to their
| "pul1." England was allowed to keep
st. Lucil in the West Indies, the Cape
Of Good Hope and a few other oversea
trifes, along with Helgoland.
The delegates considered their work
nearly completed when, on the morn
ing Of March II, Talleyrand entered
the council chamber. his face pale and
drawn, and announced that a courier
had just arrived from France with the,
news that Napoleon had escaped from.
E1ba and was marching on Paris.
At first the delegates broke into
peals Of laughter; the laughter was.
succeeded by anxiety; and, hastily
passing a resolution declaring Napo-
leon an outlaw, the congress adjourn
ed. Kings and ambassadors hurried:
home to reassemble 1,O11,00O troops to.
hurl again against the man Of destiny.
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Genius and Matrimonx.

Boyle, who would not suffer his stud.
les to be interrupted by "household af-
fairs" lived as a boarder with hiss
sister, Lady Ranelagh. Bayle and
Hobbs and Hume, as we'll as Gibbon,
and Adam Smith, decided for celibacy.
Regarding the literary genius, Disraelf
says: IF the literary man united him.
self to a wornan whose taste and whose.
temper are adverse to his pur.
suits, he must courageously prepare
for a martyrdom." And thus the.
wife Of Bishop Cooper, while her hus-
band was employed on his lexicon, one.
day consigned the work Of many years
to the flames, and obliged that scholar
to begin a second siege Of Troy in q.
second lexicon.
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The congress that assembled to set
in order the affairs of Europe after
the recent tremendous upheayal nat
urally calls to mind the congress of
! Vienna, which met over a hundred
years ago for a similar purpose after
the vast upheaval of the Napoleonic
wars. Then, MS now, the delegates
professed to meet to establish a con-
dition which should ensure q lasting
peace.
The armies of France had been ut
terly defeated. Napoleon had en-
braced in farewell the imperial eagles
in the courtyard of ~Fontainebleu and
passed away to Elba. Nearly a mil
lion troops, which the allied sover-
eisns had employed to drag down
the Corsican. had gone back to their
own countries for Republication or
were on their way there. The wars
which. with slight intervals for re-
freshments and rest, had ravaged the
world for IS years, were over with
one exception. The United States
and England were still at war. The
United States had come into the con-
flict only two years before, had made
no alliances or associations, and was
playing a lone hand" against Eng.
land.
Royal Pomp and spIendor.
The congress assembled on Septem-
Der 5, 1914, and Vienna was a scene
of royal pomp and splendor. The e61.
rerors Of Austria and Russia, the
kings Of Prussia, Bavaria, Wurtem.
berg and Denmark, the princes of the
smaller German states, great states
men like Talleyrand and Castlereagh,
and a host of minor delegates repre-
senting every political division in
Europe were there. The delegates
spent the mornings in discussion and
the evenings in revelry, each nights
entertainments eclipsing in splendor
those Of the night before.
Napoleon had changed the map Of
Europe, erecting new nations and en-
larging or di~smembering old ones.
The old order of things had been
blown away on the smoke of battle
fields and the delegates proposed to
rearrange the map according to their
own ideas. In spite of protestations.
no sooner had the delegates assem-.
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HANDING Pictures.

1t is easy to make mistakes In the.
hanging Of pictures. Observing the
following as a guide, you will make
fewer mistakes in this respect. First,
a plain paper for the room Is almost
imperative. This will give you an op-.
p%ortunity to use all the pictures, no.
matter what they are. Soft grayss
and terra Gotta tones are best for
background. Avoid figured and high
ly-colored papers as these prevent the.
picture from standing out. BE careful;
not to tilt the pictures too muJ.. Hung:
them almost fiat.
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Somewhere in France"

year. They know what they've bloomed
for every May. They know this year
better than ever The breeze that mods
'em is going to do it's part. There's
nothing. going to- stop their fragrance
being carried clear across the land we
love, across the ocean we're going to
keep free, over to his grave <Ome.
where in Traace.'"-Chicago Tribune
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dMMm
@ %~@1
O1MY Iip0 Sweet.

the sagging gate and the d.
lapidated porch. On the porch
sat an old man leaning on his cane.
Past the gate swept a boy on roller
skates.
With an acrobatic twirl, the boy
swung away from the walk, whisked
through the gate and came to a stop
in front of the old man on the porch.
"Youll be picking the flowers in the
morning" the boy greeted with en-
thusiasm. you always do. And you'll
be hanging your flag out on the porch.
Tomorrow"
Eyes, tomorrow is Decoration day."
unused the old man.
Il don't know whether mother'll let
me march or not" went on the boy.
"She hates to have me stand out in the
hot so long,"
He balanced himself on the skates
and glanced over his shoulder toward
the big house across the street.
standing in the hot sun wouldn't
stop me-" the old mar answered as if
speaking to some one far off, "but
these legs Of mine l said last year
it was my, last. l was all played out
before we got to the cemetery"
The boy looked at the old man, his
hands on his hips, his elbows crooked.
II think I'll march anyhow" he con-
Guided suddenly. Il think it must
have been great to have been a soldier.
You can remember all those battles YOU
were in and how you marched behind
the flag. You can remember what you
did for your country"
The old man smiled.
"We're old timers now, Tommy
worn out old timers with nothing much
but those memories. And the weaker
we get in the flesh and homes the
stronger those old memories come
back. Ed Howse, he's a worthless old
crab in a way, but he wears the little
bronze button on the lapel of his coat,
and-well. l just can't tell you how l
feel toward him. He was with a regi-
ment way off in another part of the
country from me, but l know he went
through it, too, or he wouldn't be
wearing the little bronze button. To
morrow he'll be marching up to the
cemetery back of the band with the
look in his eyes that defies the world
to say he amt a boy again. He will
be q boy again. He'll be back again as
he was when he fought for the flag !"
The boy seated himself on the porch
steps.
1--WE studied about it all in school"
he puzzled. but It all seems SO long
ago. don't suppose thereTl be any
more wars"
NO." agreed the old man. "When
we fought to save the Union ! guess II
finished up things pretty well SO far
% this country is concerned. And
the old fellows are dropping of SO
fast there won't be any Of 'em ia
n.areh- out to the cemetery soon. They'll
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Love as a Word.

Love. even as a word only, must
stand alone. 1t is n of the great
monosyllables Of our great language
Love. 1t is the invisible gravita.
ton Of life. With its invisible cords
viewless but potent, it draws hearts
together over eternal spaces, and holds
them together in an %indissoluble bond
IN Time and Eternity.
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a Of umhreua..

C~arelessness in the treatment of UNI.
brellas is a great factor in their rapid
deterioration. An umbrella merely
damp should be opened and left until
dry, while a very wet one should be-,
put to drain first, handle downward,
and opened for the final drying.
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The Wonder Of 1T!

"Lord, when / look on my own life
1t seems thou hast fed me so care
fully, so tenderly, that thou cansl
have attended to no m else. But
when l e how wonderfully thou
hast led the world, and are leading
1t, I am amazed that thou hast had
time to attend to such as 1."-St
Augustine.