High Noon Nora Roberts Epub Collectionl
Ela Hartley
One hit and one score was all the Senators could make off the Yankees at Washington this afternoon, but that was enough. Joe Gedeon made the hit, a three bagger, and Milan passed him home when he dropped Nunamacher's high fly to center.
Miss Alice Williams, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward T. Williams, was presented to society yesterday afternoon at a tea in the home of her parents, 1901 Eighteenth Street. Miss Williams was born in Shanghai, China, during her father's connection with the United States legation there, and she has lived most of her life in the Orient. Mr. Williams was chargé d'affaires of the United States at the time of the recognition of the new Chinese republic. At the time of the outbreak of the war in Europe Miss Williams was a student in Paris. Mr. Williams is now the head of the Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs in the State Department.
16. Mr. and Mrs. Christensen, with vocal solos, and Nora and Mabel Peterson, with instrumental selections, entertained the high school and seventh and eighth grades very pleasantly last Friday afternoon. The music was followed by an indignation meeting.
When I met Mr. Arthur again in his own room,at the Executive Mansion, I was struck with thechange which the anxieties and responsibilities ofoffice, entered upon under circumstances of the mostpainful character, had wrought upon him. Hisface was careworn; his hair white; his manner subdued.He stooped in his gait; the old brightnesshad gone out of his eyes, and there was what seemedto be a permanently saddened expression about thecorners of his mouth. He did not look sick; therewas nothing in his face or figure denoting ill-health orphysical weakness; but in the course of four years heappeared to me to have aged twenty. I had not beenin Washington a day before he sent for me and myfamily, with a pleasant reference to the time when lastwe met. Looking back over these four years, and consideringits record of trouble and anxiety, I could wellhave forgiven him if he had forgotten my very existence.That he recalled the occasion of our meeting,and was still touched with the spirit of it, I mention todo him honor, not myself; though, had it pleased Providencenot to have afflicted me with a never-ending sorrow,I could have felt a high sense of personal pride inthe homelike reception which the President of the UnitedStates gave to me and my family, in his own room atthe Executive Mansion, sitting down with us and chattingin a pleasant, unconstrained, familiar way, thatis characteristic of American manners, and eminentlybecomes the chief of a great republic.
To improve as well as to amuse young people is the objectof these twenty-one sketches, and they fill this purposewonderfully well. What boy can fail to be interested inreading an account of an excursion made in a balloon anda race with a thunder-storm? And is there a girl whowould not enjoy an afternoon in the Christmas-card factory?It is a curious fact that only one hundred and thirty yearsago the first umbrella was carried in London, much to theamusement of the ignorant, and now there are seven millionsmade every year in this country. And who would believe itpossible that there was a large factory full of women whoearned their living by making dolls' shoes. A bright girlor boy who insists to know something about the work donein the world, who does it, and how it is done, cannot failto enjoy these stories. The writers are all well-knowncontributors to children's periodical literature, and the bookwill be a welcome addition to any child's library, and mightbe used with advantage as a reading book in schools.
Mr. Wooldridge went to Denver in 1880 and engaged in contractingand mining the following eighteen months. He thentook a position as engineer and foreman of the Denver DailyRepublican, where he remained until May 29, 1883. The followingAugust he came to Chicago and took a position with theChicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railway. In 1886, he severed hisconnection with the railroad and founded the "Switchman'sJournal." He conducted and edited the paper until May 26th,when he was burned out, together with the firm of Donohue& Henneberry at the corner of Congress street and Wabashavenue, as well as many other business houses in that locality,entailing a total loss of nearly $1,000,000. Thus the savings ofmany years were swept away, leaving him penniless and in debt.He again turned his attention to railroading and secured a positionwith the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad and hadaccumulated enough money to pay the indebtedness which resultedfrom the fire, when the great strike was inaugurated onthat road in February, 1888. The strike included the engineers,firemen and switchmen, and continued nearly a year. On[Pg 29]October 5th of that year Mr. Wooldridge made application for aposition on the Chicago police force, and having the highestendorsements, he was appointed and assigned to the DesplainesStreet Station. It was soon discovered that Wooldridge as apolice officer had no superiors and few equals. Neither politics,religion, creed, color, or nationality obstructed him in the performanceof his police duties, and the fact was demonstrated andconceded times without number that he could not be bought,bribed, or intimidated. He selected for his motto, "Rightwrongs no man; equal justice to all." His superior officerssoon recognized the fact that no braver, more honest or efficientpolice officer ever wore a star or carried a club.
A chain of stores in various cities for no other purpose thanthe obtaining of goods under false pretenses from wholesalemerchants is the latest novelty in the swindling line. It hasoften been remarked that the originators of plans to dupe thepublic might coin their brains into cash without nearly thedraft upon their originality that is called for by the devisingof a swindling game. But the criminal instinct or incentiveseems to lay its hold upon persons who might otherwise filla leading and respected place in honorable avocations. Themen who conceived the system of credit for goods to thevalue of many thousands of dollars, which they quickly disposedof in different cities by auction and attractive sales,closing up their stores and decamping when they had convertedthe credited stock into cash, were swindlers of unusualcalibre.
The great mass of the American people, aside from thosewho have had experience in hunting and shadowing criminals,labor under the popular delusion that the most daring criminalsof today are a lot of tough, ignorant men, with little orno education at all, who would do almost anything else thanwork honestly for a living. If people would but stop to considerthe subject a moment they would readily discover theirerror. There are, it is true, a large number of swindlers,thieves, pickpockets, thugs and criminals of a like class whohave but a scant knowledge of books, or literature, but they areonly to be found among the lower class of criminals. The mostnotorious criminals the world has ever produced have been menand women of high culture and refinement, well educated and[Pg 108]thoroughly posted on all that is transpiring. It is this classof people who make the most successful, and at the same timemost dangerous, criminals. It requires men of education toswindle, crack a safe, rob a bank, jewelry store or forge a paper.To be a successful confidence operator requires the man to bewell educated in matters of all kinds, to be a fluent talker, aperson of refinement and polite address, and a good judge ofcharacter.