| | 1 | Author: | Phillips, David Graham, 1867-1911 | Add | | | Title: | Grain of Dust.  | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | INTO the offices of Lockyer, Sanders, Benchley,
Lockyer & Norman, corporation lawyers, there drifted
on a December afternoon a girl in search of work at
stenography and typewriting. The firm was about the
most important and most famous — radical orators often
said infamous — in New York. The girl seemed, at a
glance, about as unimportant and obscure an atom as
the city hid in its vast ferment. She was blonde — tawny
hair, fair skin, blue eyes. Aside from this hardly
conclusive mark of identity there was nothing positive,
nothing definite, about her. She was neither tall nor
short, neither fat nor thin, neither grave nor gay. She
gave the impression of a young person of the feminine
gender — that, and nothing more. She was plainly
dressed, like thousands of other girls, in darkish blue
jacket and skirt and white shirt waist. Her boots and
gloves were neat, her hair simply and well arranged.
Perhaps in these respects — in neatness and taste — she
did excel the average, which is depressingly low. But
in a city where more or less strikingly pretty women,
bent upon being seen, are as plentiful as the blackberries
of Kentucky's July — in New York no one would
have given her a second look, this quiet young woman
screened in an atmosphere of self-effacement. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 2 | Author: | Phillips, David Graham, 1867-1911 | Add | | | Title: | The Price She Paid. | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | HENRY GOWER was dead at sixty-one—the end of
a lifelong fraud which never had been suspected, and
never would be. With the world, with his acquaintances
and neighbors, with his wife and son and
daughter, he passed as a generous, warm-hearted,
good-natured man, ready at all times to do anything
to help anybody, incapable of envy or hatred or
meanness. In fact, not once in all his days had he ever
thought or done a single thing except for his own
comfort. Like all intensely selfish people who are wise,
he was cheerful and amiable, because that was the
way to be healthy and happy and to have those around
one agreeable and in the mood to do what one wished
them to do. He told people, not the truth, not the
unpleasant thing that might help them, but what they
wished to hear. His family lived in luxurious comfort
only because he himself was fond of luxurious comfort.
His wife and his daughter dressed fashionably and
went about and entertained in the fashionable,
expensive way only because that was the sort of life
that gratified his vanity. He lived to get what he
wanted; he got it every day and every hour of a life
into which no rain ever fell; he died, honored, respected,
beloved, and lamented. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 3 | Author: | Romeyn, Henry | Add | | | Title: | 'Little Africa': The Last Slave Cargo Landed in the United States | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | Among the passengers of the "Roger B. Taney," Captain Timothy Meaher, plying
between Mobile and Montgomery, Ala. in April, 1858, were a number of Northern
gentlemen returning to their homes after a winter spent in the South. The trip
occupied several days, and as might have been expected, the slavery question was
a fruitful theme of discussion. Captain Meaher, though born in Gardiner, Maine,
had removed, when a mere lad, to the Gulf States, and accumulated quite a
fortune for those days; a large portion of which was in "chattels" employed on
his half dozen steamboats, or on cotton plantations in the interior of the
state, and in lumbering among the pines and cypress lands near the coast. Of
course he was a defender of "the institution," and, in reply to the expressed
belief of one of his passengers that "with the supply by importation from Africa
cut off and any further spread in the Territories denied, the thing was doomed,"
he declared that, despite the stringent measures taken by most of the civilized
powers to crush out the over-sea traffic, it could be still carried on
successfully. In response to the disbelief expressed by his opponent, he offered
to wager any amount of money that he would "import a cargo in less than two
years, and no one be hanged for it." | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 4 | Author: | Austin review: Steffens, Lincoln, 1866-1936 | Add | | | Title: | Mary Austin | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | OUT in the great Southwest they say that the desert “gets” those
who live there long enough, and they illustrate themselves the
truth of that saying. They say, but they stay; they cannot come
away. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 11 | Author: | Washington, Booker T. | Add | | | Title: | Negro Self-Help | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | FROM time to time in the past a great deal of matter has been
furnished to the public, with the praiseworthy purpose of portraying
the individual struggles and sacrifices of colored youths to secure an
education. These efforts of struggling young men and women, with
no inspiration in family tradition and fortune, and with little or no
money with which to secure the knowledge they crave, is one of the
most encouraging as well as pathetic features I have come across in
my educational work during the past twenty years. As a hopeful
indication of race character, and I may safely so describe it, it must
be of peculiar interest to the average American interested in the
Negro people. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 12 | Author: | Addams, Jane | Add | | | Title: | Women and Public Housekeeping | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | A city is in many respects a great business corporation, but in other re- spects it is enlarged housekeeping. If
American cities have failed in the first, partly because officeholders have
carried with them the predatory instinct learned in competitive business,
and cannot help "working a good thing" when they have an opportunity, may
we not say that city housekeeping has failed partly because women, the
traditional housekeepers, have not been consulted as to its multiform
activities? The men of the city have been carelessly indifferenct to much
of its civic housekeeping, as they have always been indifferent to the
details of the household. They have totally dis-
regarded a candidate's capacity to keep the streets clean, preferring
to con- sider him in relation to the national
tariff or to the necessity for increasing the national navy, in a pure
spirit of reversion to the traditional type of government, which had to do
only with enemies and outsiders. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 15 | Author: | Anonymous | Add | | | Title: | The Louisiana Amendment the Same as Ours! | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | The pending amendment in this State is a copy of the Suffrage Amendment in
Louisiana except the property clause. The Constitutional Convention of Louisiana
adopted the amendment in 1898. It went into effect soon after. There has been
the fullest possible opportunity to study the question in all its detail. The
city elections last year were held under the provisions of the new constitution.
This year the State election was held under it. No word of complaint has been
heard. No white man has stated that his right to vote was denied. No test has
been made of the question in the courts. So we take it that the working of the
amendment in Louisiana will be its working in this State. It has stood a
practical test there. In order that the people of the State might have the
fullest information on this subject, Hon. Josephus Daniels, editor of the News and Observer, has been to the State of Louisiana and
made a study of the question in all its bearings. He was specially active in
seeking information as to whether white people are disfranchised. His letters
from the South are interesting reading. He interviewed men of every shade of
political opinion. He did not confine his investigation to the towns. The County
Parishes—our townships-were visited and people themselves sounded on
the subject. Attention is invited to some of the leading points taken from his
articles. In the light of experience the people of Louisiana declare unanimously
that their amendment was the only possible solution of the suffrage question,
and the amendment is regarded as an entirely satisfactory solution of it. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 16 | Author: | Austin, Mary | Add | | | Title: | Bitterness of Women | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | LOUIS CHABOT was sitting under the fig tree in her father's garden at Tres Pinos
when he told Marguerita Dupré that he could not love her. This sort
of thing happened so often to Louis that he did it very well and rather enjoyed
it, for he was one of those before whom women bloomed instinctively and preened
themselves, and that Marguerita loved him very much was known not only to Louis,
but to all Tres Pinos. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 17 | Author: | Austin, Mary | Add | | | Title: | The Search for Jean Baptiste | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | ONE bred to the hills and the care of dumb, helpless things must in the end, whatever
else befalls, come back to them. That is the comfort they give him for their care and
the revenge they have of their helplessness. If this were not so Gabriel Lausanne
would never have found Jean Baptiste. Babette, who was the mother of Jean Baptiste
and the wife of Gabriel, understood this also, and so came to her last sickness in
more comfort of mind than would have been otherwise possible; for it was understood
between them that when he had buried her, Gabriel was to go to America to find Jean
Baptiste. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 18 | Author: | Austin, Mary | Add | | | Title: | An Appreciation of H. G. Wells, Novelist | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE very ancient conception of a genius as one seized upon by the waiting Powers for
the purpose of rendering themselves intelligible to men has its most modern exemplar
in the person of Herbert George Wells, a maker of amazing books. It is impossible to
call Mr. Wells a novelist, for up to this time the bulk of his work has not been
novels; and scarcely accurate to call him a sociologist, since most of his social
science is delivered in the form of fiction. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 19 | Author: | Austin, Mary | Add | | | Title: | The Woman at Eighteen-Mile | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | I HAD long wished to write a story of Death Valley that should be its final word. It
was to be so chosen from the limited sort of incidents that could occur there, so charged with
the still ferocity of its moods, that I should at length be quit of its obsession, free to
concern myself about other affairs. And from the moment of hearing of the finding of Lang's
body at Dead Man's Spring I knew I had struck upon the trail of that story. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 20 | Author: | Brown, Charles Brockden | Add | | | Title: | Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | I WAS the second son of a farmer, whose place of residence was a western
district of Pennsylvania. My eldest brother seemed fitted by nature for the
employment to which he was destined. His wishes never led him astray from the
hay-stack and the furrow. His ideas never ranged beyond the sphere of his
vision, or suggested the possibility that to-morrow could differ from today. He
could read and write, because he had no alternative between learning the lesson
prescribed to him and punishment. He was diligent, as long as fear urged him
forward, but his exertions ceased with the cessation of this motive. The limits
of his acquirements consisted in signing his name, and spelling out a chapter in
the bible. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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