davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-04
The Pumpkin and the Cranberry.

Paeans and pastorals have been sung
for pumpkins. The golden spheres, their
round, fat faces upturned for caress by
the frost, dot the fields, and despite the
sad. witherin9 blooms of summer make
all the prospect glad. These big poten-
tial pies by the magic kitchen craft of
mother, or the culinary witchery of
wife. will be translated into winter joys.
All praise to the pumpkin pie with it's
mellow. gracious heart, it's crisp and
crinkly crust and breath richer than
that of voluptuous rose and sweeter
than the perfume of the daintiest violet
that ever nestled in a ladys hand.
But, though pumpkins are some pump
kins, there is another fruit that hugs
the ground and holds a fond place in
mans affection. When the cruel news
went out that this jewel of the table
would neither blush nor glow this year
mems hearts sank, their signs arose,
and if stOmachs had the gift Of eyes
they would have wept. However. the
news was false. and the cranberry In
all it's crimson luster will be here.
Read this:
The cranberry harvesting season on
Cape Cod practically came to an end last
week, with rather better results as to
volume and quality than had been
looked for earlier in the season. II is
declared that the late berries are
sOunder, larger and have a better color
than those of last year. and many grow
ers will hold on to these in the hope
of higher prices later on. The poor con-
sumner must have his cranberry sauce,
whatever the tax thereon"
So Danish every thought that's sad
and bid farewell to care! The ruby
berry will be here.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-04
Bonaparte.

This paragraph from Attorney General
Bonapartes reply to the charge that he
has not been sufficiently Industrious in
prosecuting trusts is worth bordering at
this time:
1T is. of course, needless for me to
say that the mere fact that a corporation
or association is called a trust by John
Moody in his manual does not prove, or
even tend to prove, that the organization
in question or its members have been
guilty of any violation of federal law;
neither is such guilt suggested by the fact
that such organization may do a large
and apparently profitable business
Some persons see a lawbreaker in every
corporation. Mr.. Bonaparte does not. AS
the principal law officer of the govern
ment, he cannot assume guilt, but must
prove it according to the rules of evil
dence. Buncombe affords a poor case in
court.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-04
DR.. Knopf on School Children

School children should be taught to
breathe and to swim is the gist Of a
speech by DR.. S. Aldolphus Knopf a
phthisis expert, before the Eastern Public
Education Associations.
The advice from the eminent man is in
line with that given many times in the
columns of TIE Star. and the reasons
are those many times heretofore ad-
vanced. The child on learning to breathe
deeply and fully has erected a barrier to
pulmonary disease: In learning to swim
he overcomes the repugnance to water
which many children have. learns a lesson
of cleanliness and becomes interested in
a fine physical exercise
Another opinion of DIR. Knopf and one
that is popular in the older school sys-
TENS Of Europe is that no child should
begin his school life before the age of
seven or eight years, for, he said, in cram
ming chldren's brains at the EXPENSE q.
their physique children predisposed ia
consumption have small chance to combat
the disease. This would be strikinsly
true if the American public school were
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-04
POLITICAL THOUGHTS.

From the Schenectady Union.
Mr. Hearst must have an underground
connection with Standard Oil secrets.
From the Augusta Herald
However, not all the oily politicians
have been oiled with Standard oil.
From the Detroit Times.
Will Gov. Hughes kindly explain how
his state contrives to get the nominee the
people want?
From the Newark News.
That awful foreboding has been realized
Chancellor Day has butted in.
From the Houston Chronicle.
The political weather promises to con-
tinue squally.
From the indianapolis News.
Still. being a statesman is mighty en-
PERTAINING until you're found out.
From the Los Angeles Times.
Nothing now remains to complete the
excitement but an announcement that
John u. Rockefeller is to take the stump
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-04
The Condemnation Commission.

The commissioners named by Chief
Justice Clabaugh of the Supreme Court
of the District OF Columbia to appraise
property in the district between 18th and
18th streets. the Mall and PENNSYLVANIA
avenue should be satisfactory to the
property owners directly concerned and
to the citizens in general. Under these
gentlemen the rights OF owners in the
territory and the rights of the govern
ment will be conserved.
The condemnation of the district in
question. where soon will rise majestic
buildings for the State Department. the
Department of Justice and the Depart
ment of Commerce and Labor, Is the
first important step toward the restora-
ton to the public domain of all the
truncated triangle or trapezoid between
the Mall and Pennsylvania avenue, Sd
and 18th streets. The other steps re-
quired to reform the aspect of the south
side of Pennsylvania avenue will be taken
in time. and all delay Is regretta ble
Property in Washington is increasing in
value and the uncertainty of the situa-
ton has q bad effect on the property on
the south side of the avenue. This prop
erty must sooner or later come into the
possession of the general government as
sites for federal buildings already needed
and which Will be needed and the sooner
the transfer is accomplished the better.
Every reason, utilitarian as well as
esthetic. favors the taking OF this part of
The city by the United States government,
and the first step In making ready to
transform the west end of the doomed
district into public building sites gives
general IL not universal satisfaction.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-04

thing for our side. The result is that we
overload our man with virtue and ability.
and make it well nigh impossible for him
in the event of election to redeem our
promises. We have been describing and
vouching for a miracle worker: and mira
Gle workers are not in politics. Vide dis
appointment is apt to follow.
AS usual, both sides are indulging in
this sort of thing in the present cam
paign. Many of the republican promises
of what will follow if Judge Taft is elect
ed are far too generous. And the demo-
Gratis are promising to the people the
earth and the fullness thereof in case Mr..
Bryan enters the White House. AS
matter of fact there will be a hard row
to hoe ahead, and it will test to the ex-
treme the successful man. be he Taft or
Bryan. Even Judge Taft. promising a
continuation of the policies of sound
money, protection, restraint of trusts and
railroads, and control of the Philippines
policies which the country at previous
elections has indorsed-will have anything
but a holiday task on hand if 1t falls to
him to steer the ship for the next four
years.
No President was ever more fortunate in
but few have been as much Very
generous promises We're made in his be-
half, and at a time when fulfllment
seemed difficult. The country had been III
the throes of acute distress for four years.
Mills were idle. Tens of thousands of
men were tramping the roads in search
Of work. Soup houses were thicker than
barrooms. Elect this man, Mr.. Mckin-
ley's friends said, and prosperity will re-
turn. The idle will find work, and every
body will again be happy.
1t SO happened. Mr.. Mckinley was elect
ed, and such prosperity set in as the coun-
try had never before known, and con-
tinued all through his administration
And when he fell at Buffalo he was the
chief magistrate of the richest and most
active nation on the globe. He had steer
ed the boat as promised, and everything
had turned out for the very best; But
such man and such conditions are rare
in human experience: and they must be
joined to produce such wonderful result.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-04
DUEL OF The LETTERS.

From the Scranton Truth.
Campaign dueling with epistles appears
to be the order of the day.
From the Nashville Tennesseean.
If Mr.. Roosevelt has uttered his last
word in the controversy with Mr.. Bryan
he has made a record.
From the Los Angeles Express.
Roosevelt's method of teaching politics
by correspondence in a few hard lessons
combines a pleasure to himself with profit
able instruction to his pupils.
From the Spartanburs Herald
This will go down in history as the
I-take-my- pen-in-hand campaign
From the Portland Press.
Some one with a list toward higher
mathematics has tabulated the campaign
letters of Roosevelt. Bryan and the rest
We regret that space forbids its repro
|duction
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-04

The bunch declares that you're all right:
You know that what they say is so.
You feel your vogue is at Its height.
That you're the kingpin OF the row,
And with the girls you're quite beau;
There never n chan more strong.
But all the same wouldn't crow
You wont be missed very long.
In politics you've Won a fight
The other fellows cake Is dough.
He's now completely out of sight
Beneath the heavy fall of snow.
Your followers their trumpets blow.
They clash the cymbals. beat the gong;
You re IT but once you fall. I trow
You won't be missed so very long.
Your fame is great and you delight.
OF course. To see il spread and grow,
To know yourself man of might;
Your power. too. You ike To show.
But regulations cbA and flow;
We like TO sing another song;
To change the public isn't slow.
You won't be missed very long.
LENNOT.
Nv friend. I hate 10 cool your glow,
But Ii you think it lasts, You re wrong.
It's best, perhaps, that you should know
You won't be missed 50 very long.
Chicago News
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-04
The Washington Climate.

Col William F.. Stewart Coast Artil-
lery. US.A, commanding at Fort Grant
(abandoned, in the desert of Arizona,
and having under his command a de-
tachment of one enlisted man and one
civilian employe, is reported to have said
that the climate of Washington is better
than the climate of Arizona. So much
that is adverse and hostile is said at the
expense of the Washington climate that
1t Is encouraging to hear this comment
even from an old soldier who in some
mysterious way is out Of favor at court.
Perhaps 1t is not very much of COM
pliment to the climate of Washington to
say that it is better than that of Arizona.
ArizOna's climate, or the climate in that
part of the country in which Fort Grant
is. may not be the best on earth How
ever, the statement ascribed to Col. Stew
art furnishes a text for few observa-
tons on the home climate.
Washington is not far south. neither is
1t far north. The citizens do not carry
palm leaf fans in December OF wear ear
NUTS in June. Washington is not far
from the sea and not far from the noun
tains. The citizens may roll in the surf
or dip their hands in the clouds by a
little travel east or west. These features
give to Washingtonians advantages which
few other people have.
Sometimes it Is said that Washington
has not only climate but climates. Mo-
notony is one charge that cannot truly
be brought against Washington weather
1t is versatile. The seasons change and
their change is registered in the climate
There is good deal of affectation in
the clamor some persons set up against
the Washington climate. On the whole
it Is good. There are heat waves in sum-
mer, as. there should be in any we'll reg
ulated climate, and there are cold waves
in winter, and sometimes, for the sake
Of variety, there are heat waves in win
| ter and cold waves in summer. There
Is plenty of calm and blow, sunshine and
cloud, dust and mud in Washington
weather, and it is a pretty good old eli
mate. 1t is the same climate that was
In use here long before the government
undertook control of the weather. and
loyal Westinghouse are satisfied.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-04
The BASE BALL FINISH.

From the Cleveland Leader.
1t may may be noted that in the two
big leagues the east has one club
among the first seven, which is doing
fairly well, for the east.
From the Chicago Post.
The moth ball and the base ball are
passing together.
From the Syracuse Herald.
The chill in the atmosphere fails to
diminish the ardOr Of the base ball fans.
From the Milwaukee Sentinel.
"Who will carry New York;" asks the
campaign orator. Echo answers. Mike
Donlin.''
From the Syracuse Herald.
We trust that the Giants aren't going
to make u Dorando finish
From the Chicago News.
To the Chicago base ball clubs: No slips
on the home stretch. please
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-04
CHANGE.

That hat you wore ten years ago
How would IL look TODAY
II 1t upon your head you'd show
And try 10 20 your way:
That derby which you wore with pride.
That very nifty straw.
That silk tile-they would all he guyed
And get the coarse haw-haw.
Yet in their time they made a hit
And Won approval's smile.
Because. as fashions then were writ.
They We're the proper style.
And % il is with OF her ways,
All subject to great range:
All undergo. with heeting days.
Considerable change.
For instance. now a backward glance
And thoughtful one just take
You'll see you'd stand darned little chance
With bluffs you used Ia make.
Indianapolis News
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-04
WHAT |!

You're not a common dub:
Then Join u Browning club.
Take a DID IN culture mud baths twice week.
Use sonnets for rub.
I Then all your friends you'll snue
SbouId thew say Ito me the blooming stun y
Greek
Therefore
Interpreters now hire.
Then an accent acquire
Learn to yearn and sigh for elevated thought.
But don't sink in the mire,
Still keep your soul afire.
Though the neiehbors grin and say pure tommy.
rot
However
Trailing a mystic thought,
$ n tack With danger fraugbt.
Also one that often ends IN foreign lands.
And when this thing you've caught
What is il that you've got:
A huge beast who's said 10 stay on peoples
hands.
So
Let il alone.
&C. G. sullivan in ST. Paul Pioneer Pre-.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-04
PLANT.

Backward turn backward. o Time. in thy highti
Give us an autoless day and a night,
Give us a yellow" headlines to scan,
A rustleless skirt and a hustleless man.
A babe teddy bearless a mfcrobeless kiss.
A fstic fight fakeless. raight-frontless mise,
A Riggleess schoolgirl. and-better than that!-
A summer clad college man wearing hat!
I know Father Time. that I'm asking TOO mucA,
Rut urn 10 day ere a dinner was lunch.
Swing back 10 age peroxfdeless for hair
An con ere rats made their rendezvous there
An old ia shioned brea kfast without Shredded Hay
A season when farmers went whinelees a day.
burg moving pictureless--ah. what treatl
A eumless- girl town. and q trolleyless street;
Pm asking too much. but / pray, Daddy Time,
For DAYS when q song had both substance ana
Bohemian Magazine.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-04
SECOND THOUGHTS.

Harry. when you proposed 10 Inc last night
In that blunt clumsy way Of yours slthough
It was not unexpected. took fright
And answered No.
The wedding ring has tcrrcrs for me, Harry:
It's apparifiou set me IN a whirl:
Rut all the same, I don't want You 10 marry
Some other girl.
The very thought torments me; though prepared,
Nav satisfied 20 face the world alone.
What would my future he should yours be shareA
BY Grace or Joan.
Don't you look upon the thing as settled, win
you?
WHY ehould We either OF us. suffer pain?
And / for one, can't eat or sleep until you
Ask me again.
Punch.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-04
TESS UP.

He had not been educated
Up TO artists celebrated.
But he had some friends who prated
OF true art and symbolism
And lot OF things like that.
And who looked upon as common
And. in fact. as quite dumb one
And q heather every some one
Who could not see through their prism
And appear TO like their chat.
SO he oft grew eulogistic
Ger some picture-so artistic.
Still so striking and SO mystic,
So lit up with inspiration.
So poetic In its tone:
Wildmann. Ell: So Characteristic,
Just his style impressionistic,
Odd and yet SO realistic,
Wondrous in imagination
And with so much feeling done.
Yes he talked like that. my friend.
For he did love TO pretend
Haven't You
Done il. too?
Eli?
Kansas CITY Time
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-04
The Language of Science.

II must say remarked the plain every
day man, that I feel as if had a cold
In the head. And I'm so hoarse l can
hardly speak.
II see,' answered the scientist. "You
are suffering from a slight cohryza caus-
ing congestion of the mucous membrane
and suffusion of the optical organs, and
inducing somewhat phlogistic condition
of the epiglottis. Perhaps. however, you
had better send for a physician
Send for a physician? No. I don't
want a doctor. Send for an interpreter"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-04
Campaign Skepticism.

/ likes to hear de music play;
/ likes de eloquence;
But. honesty. l couldn' say
Dey makes much difference.
Dey's often said dey'd help us get
Financial wisdom free;
But rents ain been reduced as yet
And amt a-gwine to be.
In spite of ali dat dey spoke,
When lection day is Ger,
l aIlus finds dat l is broke.
Jes' like I was before.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-04
A CAMPAIGN CRY.

I'll he dazzed II I see
What's goin' TO become OF me.
81 go to work TO hold my Job,
But soon's I'm started. well. i-gob,
Some blamed fool stops my hardest Hicks
BY comm and talkin' politics.
On. I'm for party and all that,
I'm for party and all that,
I'm q real old fghtin' democrat.
And I don't want To see my side get beat
But meantime, friends. 1 got TO eat.
st. Louis Post Dispatch
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-04

merely place for coming books and
memorizing lessons. The American pub
lie school has become broader than that
and is still broadening. The school now
seeks to give a child more systematic
physical training than he would probably
get at home and to turn out we'll
rounded boy and girl. not faded and faded
with too much book learning. yet having
enough, and at the same time blessed
with q strong sound body
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-04
DIAGNOSIS.

When your thoughts won't turn.
And your gig-lamps burn.
And the tip Of your nose Is red,
And there's no dry reef
In your handkerchief.
And your comforts all have fed:
When you cough and sneeZe.
And your proboscis
II minus the sense Of smeil.
And a beer taste good
As ricky would
So far as your taste can tell;
When q good cigar
And a stogie are
Alike In their rich bokay:
When your throat is psrched.
And your temper starched,
And your nose Just runs away
That's hay fever.
buffalo NewU
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-04
WHERE She WAS.

Underneath the balcony
He played his lignt guitar:
The moon was afioat like silver boat
In the sea blue depth ajar.
But out from the lattice pecped
To answer his ardent wishes.
His love- his adored one. where she;
Why. back there just where she ought 10 be-
In the kitchen, washing M the supper dishes.
Philadelphia Bulletin.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-04

The President may have become con-
WINGED of the futility of further debate
But the statement that he was 'called
on Is absurd on the face of it. No one
OF sufficient consequence to gain a hear
ing would presume to call Mr.. Roosevelt
off.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-04

On the Goth of July Lord Granville in
the house of commons said: "All British
ministers agree that We
The English have no ambition in what
po,;.r concerns Egypt. British
troops have only been
sent there to re-establish order and re-
store the khedive's authority
In 1885 Lord Derby in the house Of COM
mons. said: I'VE went to Egypt, and we
formally took upon ourselves not to re-
main. We owe the respect for the Brit
ish crown and the dignity of parliament
to evacuate''
In 1886 Lord Salisbury said: we
should keep our engagements sacred and
evacuate Egypt"
On February 8. 1892. Mr.. Morley. in the
house of commons could see no other So
luton but evacuation.
In a remarkable speech at Alexandria
to several thousand Egyptians, Mohammed
Farid Bey. euogiZing the party of Young
Turks, entreated his audience to emulate
those who had obtained a constitution by
constancy to purpose. They should not
lose sight of the evacuation of Egypt and
all should join to obtain from the khedive
the coveted constitution. They should
abandon all religious dissensions, remem-
bering only that they were all children Of
a common country. And these declara-
tons were vehemently applauded with
cries of Long live the Ottoman constitu-
ton! Long live the Ottoman army. Long
live the Egyptian constitution. Long live
the kheIive. Long live Egypt"
The constitution. as We have seen, IS
reported to be a surprise with which the
Khedive Abbas II Will bless his people on
the occasion of the anniversary of his
accession to the throne January 8, 1909.
England may contemplate also a sur
prise and make January S. 1909 a double
fete, that of the constitution and of evac-
uatiOn.
And why not? Has not England pledged
her good name and sacred honor to evac-
uate Egypt? VIII she continue to defer in
definitely the performance of pledges to
Egypt and to Europe made by Lord
Wolseey, Granville. Derby. Salisbury and
by Gladstone and Morley? The evacuation
of Cuba by the United States finally, is it
not an object lesson which may not be
ignored?
Will the British occupation of Egypt.
now twenty-siX years old. require a brief
interval of a modus vivendi with consti-
tutional Egypt? England in accord with
the powers may arrange for such inter
regnum by a brief occupation limited by
the Suez canal, as an international high
way, pending a complete evacuation of
Egypt and the Sudan, including the
equatorial provinces attached to Egypt
by the existing treaties.
CHI. CHAILLE-LONG.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-04

By this time MIR. Archboid has. surely
gotten as much Of his correspondence as
remains out of Hearst's hands into a safe
whose combination is known to himself
a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-04

1t would be cruel indeed for Gov. Has
kell to arrange any program of libel suits
that would interfere with the African lion
hunting next year
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-04
A Studied Opinion.

what will We do when the trees are
Destroyer" asked the forestry experts
Il suppose answered the sereneIy SOL
emn statesman after some thought, that
in such an event we will he obliged to
depend for wood entirely on the lumber
yards
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-04

Reports that Chairman Hitchcock is too
busy counting campaign funds to see
callers are vigorously denied.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-04

The Wall street man who paid $17.UoO
for an automobile and then presented the
automobile to an actress seems TO have
been all kinds Of all easy mark
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-04
SHOOTING STARS.
By PHILANDER JOHNSON.
A Preliminary.

How would you start in to educate the
Fiipinos?"
Well, answered the man who has
been among them. 'if had my way, the
first thing l should do would be to send
over hazing party and a foot ball
team
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-04

1t will not be very long before the
weather bureau is criticised for lack
of the warm wave literature recently so
plentiful.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-04

One great objection to the publication
Of campaign contributions may be the
fact that there are none worth mention
ing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-04

Only remarkable man could surprise
people as. frequently as Alfred Austin
does merely by writing bad poetry