davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-04
her POISE IS DIRECTOIRE
To Be Modish the American Girl Must
Change Her Ways.
SOME STUNTS SHE MUST TACKLE
Must Give UD Her Independence of
Manner, Learn TO Walk Again
and Perhaps Take the Roll
ing Exercises.

NEW YORK, Oct. 2.-The woman who
is having her new frocks built on the
models OF long lines and hipless effects
will have to go into training to acquire
the proportions, poise and manner that 20
with the new fashions.
The new clothes are going to be hard for
the average woman to wear becomingly.
They certainly suggest carriage and bou-
doir effects and are very different from
the trim street costumes generally adopted
in this country.
There are some styles of dress that are
essentially luxurious and foreign in char
acter, while others are shaped In their de-
signs by the ideas of utility, neatness and
hygiene. and the average American woman
has adopted the latter idea almost to a
fault. One can always pick her out in a
crowd in London or in Paris not only by
her straight back. but also by her skirt,
trinity hung and escaping the ground, un-
frilled. her washable waists and her hats
built on unextravagant lines, suitable for
all occasions, rather than for particular
ones.
The girl who is endowed with any extra
flesh or with the energetic. quick mapner
and frank, direct gaze typical Of the fem
mime American will have to put on a new
personality II she wishes to wear the
frtlled neck ruche and the long lined gowns
and coats that appear in the fashion illus
trations this autumn.
Simply Can't Walk Fast.
IN the first place. the new petticoats do
not admit OF rapid locomotion and 1t is
necessary to wear them for a while before
the person used to the delightful freedom
of the flare skirt can even walk with grace
in them. In the new plays put on the
stage this fall It will be noticed that the
gorgeous gowns prove a serious handicap
to ths wearers as they enter, walk about
and. above all. sit down or rise from
chairA
Nor can the wearer lear back with any
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-04
SHORT LIVES OF BATTLESHIPs
Prospective Material for the Junk
Pile of Uncle Sans
Navy.

II is barely twenty years since the cele-
brated White Squadron was the admiration
of the country. That squadron of four ships
comprised the first vessels or the new navy,
and the country was immensely proud OF
them. While not one of the four has been
lost or met with any serious mishap in its
career. all Of them have passed out of the
active fleet, except the little dispatch boat
Dolphin, which still serves the useful pur-
pose of an official yacht. The former flag
ship Chicago, although still a good ship,
has been relegated to training service; the
cruiser Atlanta is now USED as living quar-
tiers for the crews of torpedo boats I'm re-
serve at the Norfolk navy yard; the cruiser
Boston has been lying in ordinary at the
Bremerton navy yard for the last two
years, and 1t has recently been decided that
1t would not pay to reconstruct and rehab-
ilitate the ship.
1t is not merely the White Squadron that
has become Anticipated, however. Quite a
number of later ships have passed out Of
the active service or are rapidly becoming
candidates for the scrap heap. The famous
battleship Texas, which did such good serv-
ice at Santiago, and thus redeemed herself
from her previous reputation as the hoo
doc" OF the navy. owing to her many mis-
A~kot - IcAcbhlCu TO pedCGIu receive
ing-ship duty at the Charleston navy yard.
The San Francisco. which distinguished
herself as a flagship OF the American
squadron during the Brazilian naval revo-
luton Of fifteen years ago. mas been quietly
rotting away in the Norfolk navy yard for
the last ten years. The Cincinnati has long
been the receiving ship at Bremerton, and
Dewey's famous flagship. Olympia, is now
q training shin at the naval pacadamv Tho
Detroit, Marblehead and Montgomery, all
of which are hardly u years ola. are either
permanently laid up or are doing subsi-
diary duty.
1t will thus be seen that the time is now
at hand when we will have to revive our
own scrap heap, which has been neglected
since the old wooden navy passed into his
tory. All OF this goes TO Show that war
SHIPS considering their enormous cost, are
remarkably shortrved vessels. This is not
due to any deficiency in the ships them
selves, or In their structural strength, but
entirely to the keen competition among the
naval powers, which evolves new types of
ships so rapidly that the best vessels be-
come obsolete within a comparatively few
years Battleships are not now expected
to serve mole than ten years IN the first
line and five in the second, after which
they are Of no further value for war pur-
poses Thus the three battieships OF our
heet-the Oregon, Indiana and Massa-
chusetts, all of which saw active service in
the war with Spain. and were then new
are now. although not more than eleven or
twelve years old, absolutely obsolete. Bat
tieships certainly are costly luxuries.-NeN
Orleans Pieayune.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-04

stride Is entirely out Of the question. A
glide is better. Her arms hang loosely, or
at least curve themselves, celebrating the
elbows. Lace ruffles droop over the hands,
which are never held tensely.
The voice must be sweet and low, and
all slang or accented expressions are
taboo. Conversation no longer must tend
to athletics on politics, but to the accent
eddy feminine. Flowers, music, the play,
dress. the shops. pets, gossip of the mild
est sort, and above all hero worship, are
the themes.
In fact the directoire girl must ape the
manners of the three volume heroine and
put aside her good fellowship with her
heavy boots and her s~ocks-which she may
have got direct from Paris this spring,
but wore only long enough to prove them
unsuitable and ungraceful.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-04
End of

Now. boys" qusried the teacher OF tho
Juvenile class, "ean any Of you tell me the
final end OF all manklnd?"
Yes. ma'am, ] can" promptly answered
the boy az the foot tn letter "a"
Blue-grass blade., 1908-03-22

the School, write and tell what You
think about the plan. II you are able
send in a donation to help us make a
start. All subscriptions will be pub
lished in the Blade and full account
ing made. Friends donating to the
School Fund will be made honorary
members, entitled to the instruction,
provided the amount be sufficient to
cover tuition fees, if they desire it. At
the annual meetings these contrbu-
tors will be granted admission with
out further invitation
The Blade is of the opinion that this
School can be made the nucleus of 2
gigantic institution for the benefit of
Freethought.
Blue-grass blade., 1908-03-22
BLUE GRASS BLADE.

provable from the viewpoint of our
present knowledge. The expectation
of finding regularity where there is
apparent confusion has almost become
an article of faith with the scientific
mind, but the theological mind gets
lost in the confusion, and unable to
comprehend, he shirks the task by de-
claring god.
One of the most important facts yet
developed is that which shows the
universe to be continuous chain of
events, of cause and effect, and being
continuous the chain is without be-
ginning or end Every event is linked
to its antecedent by an inevitable con-
nection, and that antecedent being
connected with preceding fact,
everything, organic or inorganic, is Of
necessity part, and to break that
chain at any point becomes an impos-
sibility. This known fact disposes of
god and the theologian is left without
means of support or argument. 1t
contradicts the idea of god separate
and apart from the universe. At the
same time it explodes the old theory
of chance so shrewdly advanced by
theological debaters, in that nee
essary connection of events preceding
and succeeding is established in its
place. To certain extent the theo-
Logan will admit these facts but his
sole purpose is to remold them into re-
ligious shapes. These methods have
resulted in corrupting the sources Of
human knowledge and have given rise
to the various religious sects whose
mutual animosities have disturbed
social relations and embittered the in
dividual life.
The earlier inquiries were necessaril-
iy made upon an hypothesis of either
theology or metaphysics. Both were
wrong and they have led mankind
into grievous error. Today, as we
leave such influences behind and ex-
clude them as guides to investigation
we find the human mind obeying the
laws, or rules of it's own existence,
with man modifying Nature and Ma
ture modifying man. On the other
hand, theology has tenaciously chung
to all the traditions of the past and has
made it boast of having checked the
progress of every age.
Blue-grass blade., 1908-03-22

him and knew just what there was in
him. The public at large do not know
him, some know of him, and many are
now learning to know him.
Zachary sought to prosecute Moore
because of an honest difference in re-
ligious opinion. Zachary was afraid OF
Moore. Zachary is now being prose
cuted at Lewistown, Idaho, on
charge of an attempted criminal as
sault upon married woman. At
least, this is what the dispatches say.
would be flashed all over the country
and that it would reach Lexington,
which he claims as his home. He tried
to break its force by an interview in
which he alleged that the prosecution
against him was based upon malice
and without just or sufficient grounds.
Naturally, the news agencies gave the
pith of his statement, but among that
class of people who do know Zachary,
his excuse don't go.
Time does work strange things.
Here is a religious fakir of the first
water One of the most blatant type
of god chasers He sought to serve
god and prove his loyalty to the cross
by putting man, whose shoes he was
and is unworthy to clean, in a prison
cell While this was going on he was
guilty Of sundry and divers offences
against society and morality, conduct
that would disgust Mormon elder.
and the world knew him only in an
outward way. AT last he has been
caught up with At last he is probably
to get his just deserts and Idaho juries
are not calculated to permit injury to
their women.
The Blade does not deem the subject
important enough to demand any
further comment.
Blue-grass blade., 1908-03-22
FACTS VS.. THEOLOGY.

When any fact is presented to the
theologian he Immediately sets about
seeking to find some point wherein the
fact and his theology can be brought
into harmonious relationship and the
result is frequently temporary con-
tortion of the fact The honest investi.
gator goes behind the fact and en-.
deavors to discover the particular
laws that govern it, collecting the ma
terials from every available source,
thus affording the fact greater de-
gree of confidence.
In these mental attitudes may be
found the difference between the in
telligent Freethinker and the intelli-
gent Christian. The inquiring mind
has delved into every part of the uni
verse. 1t has penetrated the past
and through laying bare the sites of
ancient cities, deciphering coins, in
criptions and alphabet, dead and for
gotten languages have been restored
and the secrets of extinct peoples re-
vealed. The strict and prejudiced
theologian has never recognized the
necessity, or, if recognizing it refuses
to admit it, of this wide and prelimi-
nary study of physical facts such as to
enable them to grasp the subject in
the whole of it's natural relations.
For this reason the theologian is but
a one-sided thinker. He thinks only in
straight line and is unwilling to
branch out upon either side where
wide fields are opened unto him. The
theologian tries to reason by analogy
only. The aid he might derive from
system of either inductive or deductive
reasoning is lost. Every possible anal
Ogy is sought that will coincide with
the main object he has in view. He
reasons to a desired end instead Of al
lowing reason to carry him where it
must Thus the theologian is blindly
led to assume what he cannot prove,
and to assume much that is highly i'm
Blue-grass blade., 1908-03-22
ZACHARY CAUGHT AT LAST.

From current newspaper reports it
would appear that an evangelist fakir
by the cognomen of Rev. j. w. Zach
airy, stands fair chance of being put
where he tried so hard to put our late
Editor, q. G. Moore, that is, behind
prison BAYS. The casus belli, however,
is vastly different Blade readers will
remember Zachary. Mr. Moore knew
Blue-grass blade., 1908-03-22

We will cheerfully exchange all
Our'rghts, privileges, whether reserved
or unreserved, in the New Jerusalem,
Tor twice our present circulation
And just think of it! Just one sub
scriber from each one of you would
do the work.
Blue-grass blade., 1908-03-22

Later reports from Idaho state that
Zachary was acquitted on the ground
that the State was unable to produce
sufficient testimony to make out its
case The woman still accused him but
the issue narrowed itself to a question
between Zachary and his victim, there
being no other witness on either side,
and the court gave Zachary the bene-
fit of the doubt.
Panama City pilot., 1908-12-10
Commercial Club.
Edited by w. F. LOOK. Secretary.

The attention of members of the
Commercial Club, and Of every one
interested in the development of the
Bay country, is directed to the fol-
lowing article in the Manufacturer
Record by Edwin Brobston of the
Jacksonville Development Com
pany," Jacksonville.
"My operations are principally in
timber lands and cut-Over lands that
have been abandoned by the Sawmill
people. There is marked activity in
this line since the election, particu-
larly cut-over lands are being bought
up by Western spectators, who have
exhausted the cheap lands of Texas.
During the past 90 days several hun
dred thousand acres of land have
changed hands in this State at prices
ranging from IS cents to S1.50 per
acre. These lands are being sub
divided and sold out to prospective
settlers in tracts of from 10 to 200
acres at prices of from S5 to $50 per
acre. The prospects are there will be
a general influx of new people coming
into Florida during the next year,
with every reason to expect that the
tide of immigration will rise higher
and higher as the years go by. Flor
ida is exceedingly prosperous. 1t has
often been said ''It is the poor mans
paradise" Transportation facilities
are being constantly opened up, the
citrus fruit industry has been recOv-
cred, and is now in excess of what it
was before the great freeze of 1895.
The vegetable industry has taken on
gigantic proportions, while phosphate
mining, sawmilling and the turpen-
tine industry continues to increase.
People are beginning to realize that
Florida is good place in the summer
time, and is not SO much regarded as
merely a tourist section. Never in
the history of the State have so many
people come in previous to the holl-
days, and, speaking for the real
estate fraternity, can say the outlook
is particularly bright. Many new
firms of reaI-estate people have
Panama City pilot., 1908-12-10

gain is to be had from protection they
have had, and the continuance of
protection is not merely useless, but
hurtful. incidentally they point out
that the tax on imported hides does
not in the least help the farmer in
this country, but only enables the
packing-house semi-monopoly to add
to its profits.
The steel and iron men are not so
candid, as a rule, but Mr. Carnegie
has stripped the mask from their pre-
tensions and shown that the mainte-
nance of protection on these staples
of industrial activity in the United
States is an unmixed evil. No one
could speak with more authority or
with greater weight. In the face OF
his specific testimony the cant of the
ordinary pro+ectionist arguments be-
come ridiculous and contemplate.
Meantime the artists are pleading for
the removal of the tax on imported
objects of art, especially paintings,
drawings and sculpture. In sense
their plea also is that of enlightened
self-interest. They hold that free eX-
change in the works of art stimulates,
decidedly and continuously, the tastes
and demand for art, and broadens the
market for home products of the
better sort. In this view they are
undoubtedly correct. The true artist
has little to hope for from buying un-
instructed and uninterested by the
habitual contemplation of the best
art available. While all this is going
on in Washington the President-elect
at Hot Springs, Va, in the intervals
of golf, is devoting mind singularly
Panama City pilot., 1908-12-10
Tinkering the Tariff.

The comfortable time counted on
by the Committee on Ways and
Means when they arranged the pro-
gramme of hearings on the tariff has
been sadly broken in upon. The
leaders of the committee felt entirely
confident that the ''clamor" for a re-
vision, and particularly for reduc
tion, of the protective taxes on COM
petition was the work either of par
tisans or of faddists. They thought
that the pledge of the Republican
party had been SO neatly devised tha t
it committed them to nothing in par
ticular, and with an elaborate show
of expert preparation by Government
officials and few quiet hearings in
the interval between the election and
the opening of Congress, they could
turn out tariff bill that would pass
the House before March and be ready
for action by the Senate, so that the
whole business would be settled and
out of the way by June and no harm
done. The more the tariff is changed
by this process the more 1t remains
the same, or worse, and that is what
the eminent and experienced stand
patters were after.
1t is now plain that the protectionist
managers have misread the signs of
the times. The gentlemen who have
addressed them in favor of the radi-
cal reduction of the taxes on imports
for the profit of the home manu-
facturer include many important rep
resentatives of the home manufac-
turers themselves. The theorists are
conspicuously absent. Take, for ex-
ample, the case of free hides. These
were advocated by a manufacturer of
leather betting, by representatives of
the American tanners, and by manu-
facturers of boots and shoes. This
would have been disturbing enough,
bnt the most prominent of the manu-
facturers did not confine themselves
to asking for untaxed raw material;
which obviously would be to their ad-
vantage; they also called for the abo-
lition of the tax on goods such as
they make, when imported, on the
very simple and practical ground that
they could command the home mar
ket and wanted to get into the mar
ket of other countries. In other
words, they maintain that whatever
Panama City pilot., 1908-12-10
Mr.. Carnegie and the Tariff.

The evidence for and against high
protective tariff which is being given
before the Ways and Means Commit
tee of Congress at Washington is not
likely to have any definite effect upon
a new tariff bill. Evidence, to have
an effect upon a jury, must syste:
matically follow some careful hypo-
thesis logically framed by either the
prosecution or the defense. The
Ways and Means Committee (if the
newspaper reports may be relied
upon) is following the somewhat hit
or-miss plan of hearing individuals
just as they come along, whatever
their opinions may be-yesterday the
representative of labor in the tin
plate industry, who want the high
duty maintained; to-day an expert
student of all tariffs, who discusses
the effect Of a tariff tax on society at
large; tomorrow Spokesman in be-
half Of automobile importers, who
claims that the tariff is fostering a
pernicious automobile trust. Whether
these hearings have any direct effect
on legislation or not, they are &C.
complishing one very desirable thing,
namely, the awakening of public in
terest on the tariff question: ques-
tion usually considered to be one of
the driest and least human of practi-
cal political economy. The event of
the week in the public discussion of
the tariff is the appearance in the
current Century Magazine of Mr. An
drew Carnegie's paper on the tariff.
Mr. Carnegie has added to his other
distinctions the achievement of max
ing a statistical contribution to the
tariff discussion thoroughly enter
tanning. He says that Adam Smith,
the particular apostle of political
economy to whom his faith is pinned,
is not 1.-The bigoted free-trader be is
generally supposed to have BEEN"
Readers of Mr. Carnegie's article will
find that he is not the bigoted pro-
tectionist he is sometimes accused of
Panama City pilot., 1908-12-10

A farmer, living within ten miles of
this place, makes the following re-
port of his farm for the present year:
twelve bales of cotton, S437; 800
bushelscOrn, S225; 200 bushels sweet
potatoes, S1OO; 1000 pounds of pork,
$3.50; six barrels of syrup, S54; shade
tobacco, 50 ,96G, making total of
81, ,26S. The cultivation of the above
farm was by one -year-Old mule,
except the hire of an extra team,
amounting to SIS. If 1nyOne doubts
the above statement, the farmer who
is wholly reliable, will make affidavit
to the correctness of the same. This
is sample of what can be done in
the farming line i'll West Florida and
rich Old Jackson county. Young man
"Why go West?'-Marianna Times
Courier.
Panama City pilot., 1908-12-10

being. He assumes 1--WE think rightly
as automatic that the tax imposed by
the tariff is paid by the consumer,
thus at the outset taking issue with
the ultra-protectionists who have as
serted for years that it is paid by the
foreign producer. He holds that it
is wise for Americans to submit to
this tax for two purposes; first. to
encourage new industries and to
guard them during their early period
of weakness; and, second, to raise a
revenue for necessary expenses of
government. Most American manu-
facturers have passed the expert
mental stage, he believes, and there
fore do not need the protection"
which once was necessary. He refers
to his own industry of steelmaking
as an example, and asserts that the
United States can successfully COM
pete with the world in the steel in
dustry without any protection what
ever. AS to the tariff for revenue he
most largely consumed by the rich
or well-to-dO, relieving, as far as pos
sible, articles of general consump-
ton, like sugar, for instance, from
any tax burden. The Outlook would
probably differ with Mr. Carnegie as
to certain details regarding articles
that may be justly taxed because they
are consumed by the rich. We think
it may be shown that the tax on cot
ton, leather, and wool manufacturers,
which Mr. Carnegie tolerates because,
he asserts, it is paid by the rich,
really adds to the burden of the poor.
But nevertheless Mr. Carnegie's gen
eral proposition appears to us to be
sound and very ably stated. We
should so much like to see him a
member of a Permanent Tariff Com
mission that we should be willing to
have him paid the 'thundering salary
asked for by one OF his early aSsO-
ciates. This associate, Mr. Carnegie
says, was lone of the most original
characters the steel industry mas re-
vealed, Captain Bill jones. He re-
fused partnership which ent allied fl
nancial responsibilities but would
have made him millionaire, declar-
ing that he was no business man, and
had trouble enough managing the
work. Just give me a laundering
salary was hisSaeeision." In an
other place in this issue The Outlook
states the general principles which
it believes should underlie any reaI
and permanent tariff refornl.-The
Outlook.