davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Forrest City times., 1907-01-18

p"osoo Uinougit ,iie cIUy veuneSday evening on his. way home from Little
The Forrest City times., 1907-01-18

and lodged in jail to await the action
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-09
THE DIRECT PRIMARY.

We find the astonishing statement in the columns of one of our local contemporaries that many Democrats of the city advocate the abolishment of the direct primary form of nomin- ating local candidates and the revival of the convention plan. If our con- temporary is correctly informed the compliments dislike the work unload ed upon them of hustling to get the nominations made, They prefer the cut and dried methods of the Repub- licans, a few of whom get together, make their selections and give orders to the machine to have the trick done quietly and neatly.
 We shall be surprised to learn that the Democratic organization of the city of New Haven is ready to aban- don the direct primary principle at the very moment when an intelligent agitation is being carried on in the State of Connecticut to have the Gen eral Assembly pass direct primary law. It is quite true that the Dem- ocratic party's direct primary rule needs revising and expanding but 1t is decidedly not true that it re- quires to be done away with, It does give the people the right to nominate if they see fit to exercise that right which is exactly what it undertakes to do, It is of little consequence that it does not always nominate the best man, though that Is to be regretted.
 If the Democrats will take their rule seriously and seek to improve upon 1t in the many ways which can easily be suggested they will find that they have an important weapon fol the protection of their party against boss government,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-09
Brief Description of America.
(Arthur Machen in The London Aca
 emy.)

(Arthur Machen in The London Acad-
 emy.)
 Readers of The Academy may re- member my very inadequate attempt to depict the horrible body of death de- cay, and wickedness. which Is called the United States of America, Briefly, showed, from American evidence, and from unchallenged reports, that (1) the whole judicial system of America had fallen into contempt; CD that it was corrupt; (3) that its proceedings, as in the Thaw trial, were in the high est degree degraded, offensive, and abominable; (4) that it's ordinary po- lice methods, as in the case ot Slgnof Caruso, lately honored by King Edward VII. were beneath the standard of Hottentots; (5) that in Chicago, for example, the Magistrates and the police were brigands and thieves in league with thieves; (6l that when poor man, without money to bribe the loath- some press and the more loathsome Judge, was executed, he was killed with hideous and revolting tortures CD that the deficiencies of American Justice were supplied by the Kerosene can of the obscene Judge Lynch; (s) that a peculiarly savage and abomina- ble form of slavery was actually en- gineeFed by legal officers; t9) that all the municipalities of America are cor rupt, and (t0) frequently depend on enforced bTibes from brothels; (1l( that children are held to industrial slavery; (12) that the condition of the poor IS unspeakably wretched and far worse than in any other country; (13) that
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-09
4 C0sTLK LESSON.

It Is costly lesson, but 1t is encour- aging to see the disposition manifested to learn the lesson taught by the col lapse of the great bridge over the St. Lawrence at Quebec, It is truly point ed out that the bridge was being built by "men of long experience and the highest professional standing" that "the problems involved in it's design were, after all, simple" and that the work of erection was Subjected to predetermination and calculation as elaborate and painstaldng as that re- quired in the design itself" Of course. It would have been too foolish in such a work not to have had everything as near right as possible What happened to defeat these well-laid plans of trained and experienced engineers? The Engineering News has been care- fully studying the accident, and what it says Is important. we step up," 1t Isays, from the ordinary columns of ordinary construction, tried out in multiplied practice to enormous, heavy, thick-plated pillars of steel, and we apply the same rules. Have we the confirmation of experiment as a warranty" And 1t adds: Long and careful inspection of the wreck shows that the material was of excellent quality; that the workmanship was re- markedly good, The end connections of the compression members were re- markedly massive and well wrought together. The doubt all centers around the design of those enormous
 long columns of which the lower chord and the vertical posts were made up. Did one of them fall under load on- ly one-half the elastic limit of the ma- terial in it?'
 Was the error in the calculation of rthe actual limits of safe stress on
 long steel columns of exceptional size?" Perhaps the cause of the dis aster will not be made fully clear, but
 it is probable that there wont be an-
 other such disaster soon.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-09
COMFORT IN SIGHT.

Comfort me with apples" said the sweet and sad singer and though we believe the higher critics have got the better of the world "apples' they haven't hurt the significance of the song to those who find comfort in ap- ples. It will please such to know that they will be able to get their favorite fruit this fall and winter If they can afford to pay for it, The experts say that in the whole country there will be Ia falling-off of only twenty-five per cent in the crop.
 Good. At one time 1t looked as if there wouldn't be many apples this year, and even now there are distress ing stories of the failure of the crop in some place. For instance, in Kansas, where man let out his orchard for half the crop, expecting to have good big profit without any work. He has just received a statement from the lon shares man who tells him that his share will be four apples and wants to know If he will send for them. But there are apples in other places, and with the transportation facilities available they can and will be put where they are most needed.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-09
INTERRUPTIONS

"Toothache, eh? I'd have the thing pulled out if it were mine" So would I If it were yours. ."-Pick-Me-Up.
 "How are the meals at your hotel2"
 Pretty good"
 ''That means pretty bad, eh?"- Washington Star.
 How are you progressing in a lit- erary way?''
 "Fine All I need for my new novel l is name, publisher, and enough to live on until it's finished! !"-Atlanta Constitution.
 Miss Cutting-Well, well, I wouldn't believe 1t of her if any one else had told me of 1t. Did she really call you a liar?
 Miss Antex-To my very teeth. Miss Cutting-To your teeth? But were you present at the time?-Phila- delphia Press.
 Me father" said Mrs. Murphy, "al- ways gifts up whin a lady enthers the room"
 "The ould man is too suspicious" MT. | Nuul Plly BIullGu uCNbp SSCll lIl5 woman yit that 'ud be mane enough to hit ye when ye was sittin down. "- New Orleans Times-Democrat.
 she-"Did you see where a magis- trate in New York says that a wife has no right to interfere with a mans privilege of making a fool of himself? The ldea' He--"Weil, what are you kicking about? You never wanted to prevent me from making fool of my self when asked you to marry me, did u?"-Baltimore American.
 It was the tenth week after the hon. eymoon. The great round moon rolled up above the trees.
 George" she said, romantically, "do you remember how the moon used to affect you when you were calling on me? Why, every time it went under a cloud you used to kiss me. You don't dc it now"
 "No," yawned George, as he lit his pipe, "the moon affects the tides. but not the tieds. The honeymoon ends all moon nonsense"
 And then she said he was the mean est man in town and went over to call on the neighbors, Chicago News.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-09

men whose help is essential to the maintenance of the nations prosperi- ty, The other admits the intemper- ance of speech upon all occasions but finds the need for great fighting so pressing that methods of speech sink into significance. Perhaps this is as far as two earnest students of the same problem could go in agreement, which suggests that history alone can determine which is right. We suspect nevertheless that most men will agree that methods of speech are of import ance according to the personal or off, ficial dignity of the speaker.
 The Journal and Courier naturally holds to no philosophy which can surely settle a controversy of this character. Second sight people, sooth- savers and prophets are alone equal to that job We do hold it as a tru- ism, however, that given more or less common agreement upon the ne- cessity of enforcing the law against all violators, speech in considering vio- lations of the law. careful and pru- dent though determined and resolute methods of speech, are desirable if the right solution is to be reached. It would be pity if the President in his forthcoming speeches should re- cede a step from his fundamental purpose in enforcing the law, but it would be lamentable if in reiterating that purpose he should again use that warlike tone which his admirer says is always to be regretted.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-09
OUR CONTEMPORARIES.
Promotions in the Army.

AfAIllly anu ANdNS LALO't
 We see all around us in the service to-day the unhappy results of the se- lection principle. Until the promotion of Lieut., -Col. George Crook, in 1873, to the grade of brigadier general for ex- ceptionally brilliant, meritorious and long continued work against Indians promotion by selection, from jurors was never dreamed of in our little hard worked, but splendid and content ed army. Since the Spanish war pro promotion by selection, from juniors, custom And who selects. and who are selected?
 Is it not those whom fortune has placed under the eye ''d i'1 'No-- sonal contact with-the Authority hav- ing the temporary power uo scl,It, tue one who has the good luck to be plac- ed, at the time, where his activity, en- ergy, usefulness and fitness can im- press his deserts on the selecting pow CT? But in this selection when made what justice is there to those others Of equal, If not greater, activity, energy usefulness and fitness who are at dis tant posts doing their allotted duty Loyalty without the chance of being seen, heard of or known to those of power to give prizes?
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-09
WILL WAIT AWHILE.

Evansville, Indiana, Is not by any means "a slow town,' but it has lot of sense, and knows when to be con- servative. Its municipal authorities an- nounce that owing to the existing mon- ey stringency and the uncertainty of the near future the municipality has indefinitely abandoned extensive public improvements that had been under contemplation for the last six months and for which plans had been adopted
 by the board of public works. Only one bid was received for any portion of the work, and that was entirely too
 high for consideration at all. Other contractors who had been regarded as probable bidders formally notified the city that they could not undertake the work on account of present financial conditions and the outlook, one firm
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-09
Decorating Rudyard.

Rudyard Kipling, it is said will get the Nobel literary prize'-Press Dis patch.
 What are the authors sneerin' for?'
 said Bookworm on Parade. 'To call him down, to call him down."
 the Nature Faker said, What makes Hall Caine so blooming
 mad?' said Boekworm on Parade He's '~at*t0F 'cauce he lest the prize '
 the Nature Faker said; For lAEy .2 A4yh5 |, to Alpilngi and
 the crowd is shrieking 'Nitp And Gorky and his fellow Slavs don't
 like the deal bit; And Bernard Shaw has sneaked away
 to throw a little fit, While they're deeoratin' Rudyard in
 the mornin'" What makes Dick Davis turn so pale?'
 said BookWorm on Parade. "A jealous twinge, a jealous twinge,'
 the Nature Faker said. And what makes Doctor Twain so
 glum? said Bookworm on Par
 ad6
 Tt ain't no joke to him, I guess" the
 Nature Faker Saidi For the ink pots are a hissing, and
 the pens are scratching hard, And the typewriters are a-thumpin'
 without fear or regard, And therell be bricks thrown, I'm
 thinkin', from each author mans When they're deeoratin' Rudyard in
 the mornln'"
 Denver Republican.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-09
THE MODERN SKYSCRAPER,


 Consideration of the monstrous buildings which are being constantly erected In the city of New York has changed from it's original purpose of convincing people of their unsightli- ness to that of Illustrating to them to what an extent they are in their for getfulness preparing new and dread- full source of danger in case of fire. While admiration has been reserved for those who have discovered how to disdain the upper ether in their suc- cessful attempts to overcome It's architectural resistance it is not un- likely that horror will take it's place in time if the warnings of the watch full are unheeded
 The most impressive warn- ing which has yet been given the builders of this new and hideous New York comes from the lips of George w. Babb, president of the New York Board of Fire Underwriters. In statement before a commission ap- pointed to consider the height of buildings in that city he startled it's members and those present by prophesying that unless limit was set to the height of the buildings there would some day~ occur catastrophe which would be beyond the ability of the fire eaters below to contend with. The fire overhead would have its own sweep and go its own way while helpless New York watched the calamity overhead, Said President Babb: with our present unlimited height of buildings in the financial district, where the streets are being converted into narrow canons by the walls of thirty and forty-storied build ings, we are courting disaster that would outdistance that of any other great fire in the country, The San Francisco fire has taught that so call ed fire proof buildings cannot with stand the attack of an uncontrolled wave of flame. How much more dan gerous would a fire be when 1t was sweeping through the top levels of our lines of lofty buildings?" MT. Babb later said that 'all systems of sprinklers and all attempt at fire prooflng would not avail in the least in an instance of this kind. The fire men way down below could do noth- ing. The fire would gain such head
 way that when the edge of the sky
 scraper zone was reached there would
 be a blaze of such proportions as to imperil the whole city"
 This is very impressive warming given by an expert in the study of con struction as it relates to effective pro- lteetion and it remains to be seen what impression it makes upon the com
 mission charged with making a report Iupon the subject. There are ohjee-
 tiens of legal and economic eharaet- CT to hinder perhaps an immediate regulation of the danger but there is
 no reasonable doubt that all such
 considerations would be indignantly
 rejected if the city of New York
 should be treated to an object lesson
 in the truth of MT Babb's warning, It Is a commercial age in which we live and every inch of land and sky is of pressing value especially in eongested sections but 1t is inconceivable just the
 same that men should so on roasting
 their tenants high in the air for the
 temporary dollars there are in the re-
 lationship. It is more conceivable
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-09
NEW HAVEN MORNING JOURNAL COURIER SEPTEMBER 9o

that they should learn to dread the probable day of reckoning. Nor should other cities, including the city of New Haven, fail to note the seri- ousness of President Babbs warning. A limit should be set here to the height of buildings, not necessarily because there is imminent danger of the sky-scraping craze striking New Haven but because the existence of a real danger elsewhere is enough to justify the enactment of suitable building laws everywhere. The height of the First National bank should be accepted as the limit here.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-09
THE TIME IS SHORT.

Those whose duty or privilege it is to pick out a mayor for New Haven seem to be in about the predicament a political committee in Nebraska was in. The story, of which MT Bryan was the hero and the victim, is told by him self. A widely admired campaign speaker in Nebraska, who had been billed to make the principal address at a political gathering at Lincoln, was obliged, at the last moment, on ac- count of illness, to send word that he could not keep the appointment. It chanced that MT. Bryan, younger and less famous than he is now, was select ed to fill his place, Naturally MT Bryan felt somewhat nervous, knowing that he was to act as a substitute for an older and much better known speaker, and his apprehension was not lessened by the chairman, who thus in- troduced him: "Feller citizens, this here's the substitute for our gallant an admired leader, unfortunately sick. I don't know what this gent can do, but time was short an we had to take what we could git"
 Y If the substitute picked out by the New Haven committee satisfies New Haven as we'll as the substitute at Lin- coin satisfied his audience all will yet be well.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-09
4 aoop THEE sHoW

Nothing, they say, pleases the fam ous average" man or woman like get- ting a complimentary ticket to good show There is enough truth in this saying to make 1t interesting. It is also interesting to notice that the average man or woman in New Haven can see a good show any day and any even ing without having to even bother with handing a free ticket to the ticket-tak- CT. The good show is in the front win dows of the enterprising merchants of New Haven, and 1t is especially good at the beginning of this fall season. Such color, variety, taste and quality as are daily and nightly spread before appreciative and admiring eyes In the show windows are well worth the care full and grateful attention of all who have eyes to see and feeling to feel. The merchants of New Haven deserve the gratitude as we'll as the money of the people to attract whom they take such pains. And if little merited rec- ognition wont be a fatal shock to the artistic "window-dressers" who don't get much of the public praise they are entitled to we hereby offer them our hearty tribute to their skill and suc- cess.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-09

declaring that "the stringency in the money market Is so pronounced and future conditions are so uncertain that we must decline to bid on this work"
 The Evansville action is wise. The cure for the present situation does not lie in a continuance of extravaganza and having things.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-09

The Bishop of London, who Is about to visit this country, has been telling a story of another bishops wife who was greatly shocked to find that in certain clergyman's house, where there were guests, the daughter of the family was in the habit of getting up early in the morning to black the boots of the guests, and thereupon there arose a host of testimonies both for and against such practice, a country rector acknowledging that in the average country parsons home, where poverty forbade servants, some one must do similar tasks yet he failed to perceive how any clergy man in good health could allow such tasks to fall to his wife or children when he could do them himself, ex- blaming that in his twenty years in- cumbency, which had been constant struggle to live, he had always black ed the boots of visiting clergy and found it no hardship.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-09

Banker Wayne of Philadelphia says the United States treasurer is holding up money that should be circulated. Somebody certainly IS, as everybody who wants money to circulate discov- ore
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-09

the Legislatures are corrupt: (14) that every kind of noisome and poisonous adulteration hourishes together with (15) a host of peculiarly squalid, silly, and mischievous impostures known as new religions"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-09

A Pennsylvania minister says his church must have a billiard room or lose it's influence. Perhaps a church in that condition ought to have billiard room.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-09

During the restoration of West Thurrock church, in Essex, England, it was found that the walls had once been repaired with stone collins which had been broken up for the purpose, and a complete coffin more than one thousand years old was beneath the floor.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-09

There have been many fires in New Haven this Summer, but the children are hopping glad that none of the beloved schoolhouses have burned down.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-09

Beloit, Wisconsin, is agitatlng for the passage of an ordinance limiting the number of saloons to one for each nine hundred inhabitants, as was done last September in Rockford, Illinois The Rockford ordinance provides that there shall be no more licenses issued for saloons until there shall be of those now in existence less than one for each nine hundred of the popula- ton of Rockford as ascertained by the then last preceding school census based on the proportion of two adults for each individual under twenty one years of age It also provides that a license shall renew Itself each year and shall be transferable from one party to the other unless the city
 counci+ref to recognize the trans 1 fer.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-09

Miss Anna Goodyear of Boston is up to date. She hopes to get a bill through congress which will make whipping a punishment for all crimes.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-09

Ownership of the historic Dent farm of Gen. Grant, located outside the city limits of St Louis, has chang ed hands, having been sold at auction for $75,OO0. The old log cabin occu-u pied by Grant is still standing.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-09

The Danube has to bear on it's cur- rent four-fifths of the commerce of eastern Europe, Is that why it is blue?
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-09

Fairy tales have lost their one-time fascination for children, according to reports received by Miss Elizabeth O'Neill, supervisor of the summer play grounds conducted by the Board of Education of Philadelphia. Re- ports from the teachers of the sixty playgrounds show that the instruc- tors are almost unanimous in saying that the children prefer lively games and stories based on historical incl dents to Mother Goose rhymes, ghost stories and the like.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-09

Outside of Its use as hedge to turn cattle, the cactus plant has been pret- ty much of nuisance wherever 1t has fourished, but at Fl Paso, Texp a company has just been formed to cohol, ether and fiber from all forms of cacti. The works will be in an adobe building because it is easier to maintain in a building of this material certain temperatures necessary in the process. The capacity of the works will be twenty tons a day, which means that profitable employment will be found for many persons in cutting the cacti and hauling it to market. This will be the first plant of it's kind in the United States.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-09
SAYINGS AND DoINGS.

Seattle claims to be the sixth larg- est city in point of area in the United States, New York, New Orleans, Chicago, Philadelphia and San Fran cisco are the cities with larger areas.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-09

The real Kings are very young, as everybody who has one in the house knows. The new King of Annam is only eight
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-09

DELIVERED BY CARRIERS IN THE CITY, 12 CENTS A WEEK, 50 GENTS A MONTH. $8 FOR SIX MONTHS. ss A YEAR. THE SAME TERMS BY MAIL. SINGLE COPIES. 2 CENTS
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-09

THE OLDEST DAILY PAPER PUB- LIsHED IN CONNECTICUT.
 Pounded 17Ge.