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Last week, King Alfonso left Madrid, journeyed to Barcelona. En route, a large bomb, intended to blow up the royal train, was found on the railway tracks...
...Rising Tide of Culture-"They remind me," says the "doctor," "these modern huntresses of culture, of sportsmen who, in their anxiety, get so close to their quarry that they blow it to smithereens with both barrels." Culture is knowledgeable interest, not the emotional deflection that Americans, especially their women, seek. Prosperity has released so many naive intellects "that in no other period in history, and in no other race, has virtue been so curious about her sisters." But, culture being reflected in manners, these naive ones are of good report. "They are developing new resources in human intercourse." The Lady...
Medford High, with two and one half legs on the championship cup will face almost overwhelming odds from Brockton High. Last year the cohorts from the shoe city deadlocked with the Greater Boston team and this year seem likely to outpoint the forces from Medford which received a severe blow to their chances for victory when their captain, Henry Hormel, was injured this week. Latest advices indicate that this powerful sprinter and broad jumper will enter the meet today, but his chances for making anything like the performances expected of him have been greatly lessened...
...charm, and love itself, were life's incredible increment. Wilting suddenly before old circumstances, Jason let himself be married to Geneva Ellwood, empty heiress. Out of this irresolution came, for Geneva, insanity and suicide; for him, drink, failure, consumption. Dorinda was first stunned by the blow, then slowly forged hard. She wandered in New York, fell (arbitrarily) into good hands, was disembarrassed of her child, went back to Pedlar's Mill with her secret intact, her spirit erect. She beat back the broom sedge, brought prosperity from barren ground. She beat back memory, married out of respect...
Many a supper table, that night, kept its candles wagging until the company came back to blow them out and sit down to Derby breakfast with day broad at the windows; many a pretty gentleman cut cards and drank his glass who might not have a penny by sunset. It dawned cloudily; the morning was bright and dour in fits, with little spurts of rain and a rattle of distant thunder like uneasy hoofs. On the sidings of the railroad waited eight and a half miles of Pullman cars. Airplanes were neatly parked near the grandstand. Innumerable financiers, editors, sportsmen...