davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-20
TOGO & NOGI.
Household Detectives.
Sneaking Done Carefully"

90
We owe such exalted rent for this
place that we feel quite fashionable.
II was here that this Horrible Mystery
of the Rockefeller Institute began to
collapse. 1t happened like thus:
About two weeks of yore Hon. VIM.
Jenny Bryan dropped up by elevator to
where we sat. He was disguised to look
like Hon. John Drew, so that nobody
would suspect his Nebraska personality.
How do, Hon. Bryant" This from u.s.
He remove his deceptive moustache
with peaceful expression peculiar to
to be President.
Togo he say with circular voice.
please imagine the worst
II shall attempt to do So" report.
attaching my sad thoughts to Asiatic
cholera, Tammany Hall. army canteens.
aviation and increased cost of beef
steak.
Il have imagined the worst" dib
superstitiously.
What am going to tell you Is worse
than that" snagger that great Common.
Deep breathing by me & Nogi.
The tale have to tell is one Of de-
licious horrors" resum Hon. Bryan.
clannish pallor running through his bald
hairs. "You have doubtlessly heard Of
the Rockefeller vivisectional Institute.
You have! In this great cat & dog Ia
bsratory 1000 talented doctors is en-
ployed as cut-ups. Great discovery Of
science Is made here. New heads Is
sewed onto old dogs and they are per-
mitted to bark away completely content
ed because Or that wonderful surgery.
BY daylight & nishtlight them great
Scientists Of this Rockefeller factory
are spying through talented microscopes
at eat-germs and dog-germs. and each
hour they learn more astonished mir
aclea"
Me & Nogi set beswitched. Our dog
O-Fido hide shyly under bed.
What next shall they discover
require nervely.
Missy" say Hon. VIM. Jenny. Lat
est discovery they make is most horrible
Of any. What you think?'
ct can notr This from me & Nogi
similarly.
They have discover the secret OF
manufacturing living protoplasms out
Of which organic animals can grow up
to be adults"
What then, please?" we require.
Togo, listen at mel" snagger VIM.
Jenny Bryan. III scientific doctors can
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-20

his hand on his breast bone and his
finger-point raised to the roof.
Friends and fellow citizens" he begin
with cold-storage voice, From the
rock-bound coast Of Maine to the palm
beach of Florida-one and forever, now
and united. let there be peace while the
divine bird of freedom
You are surprisingly lacking in dan
gerous IDEAS" snuggest Hon. Rockefel-
ler Are you Republican or Demo-
cratic?''
Whatever suits you, Mr.. Rockefeller"
corrode this machine-made politician.
This specimen will do say Hon.
Rockefeller turning to Boss Doc. IT
congratulate you on your remarkable
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-20
THANKSGIVING IN WASHINGTON CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS.

candies donated and utilized in Was0-
ington's Thanksgiving dinner. There are
the numerous orphan asylums. homes for
the aged: private subscriptions annually
given by the unostentatious rich who.
for one day at least. almost feed the
other half; the back-door charity that
extends the length and breadth OF town,
since nobody will turn a tramp away on
Thanksgiving day; the numerous church
never make any mention of the same.
and the genuine Christian hospitality OF
those in modest circums' ances, who buy
twice required quantity that they may
ask in for dinner. on this day when the
human soul so Graves companionshlp.
some less lucky friends otherwise doomed.
to eat solitary meals in restaurants or
boarding houses or the loneliness OF
bachelor fiat
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-20
A Splendid Chance.

tS~TURKEY raising is an arduous busi-
ness" said wholesale poultry
dealer of Baltimore. DAY and night you
must look after your birds the same Is
you look after horses.
California turkeys are very fine. They
are very well taken care Of 1t Is no snap
to work on a California turkey farm. ]
tell you.
II was visiting a California turkey
farm last month when a boy applied for
a job.
"'Your references are good. I'll try
you.' said the farmer.
"'Wfll have q chance to rise, sirr the
boy asked.
"'Yes,' said the farmer. "A grand
chance. TIL want you to have the feed
mixed by 4 o'clock every morning.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-20
A Gourmet on Turkey.

CENATOR DEPEW. apropos OF the ad-
~ vent of Thanksgiving. praised. In an
interview In Washington, the turkey.
AZ have eaten twenty-five or thirty
pound turkeys" said Senator Depew,
that were as sweet and tender as young
cartridges. Rossini adored such birds.
Rossini, you know, was no less famous
as a gourmet than as musician. Yes,
Rossini asked nothing better. on a
dreary autumn evening, than TO tuck HIS
napkin, French fashion. under his chin.
and fall to upon turkey dinner.
And may we all have, on the oath.
the appetite of Rossini. who once said:
The only trouble with turkey Is
that it's too much for one person and not
enough for two.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-20

Under his ruling the men will, for the
first time, eat their dinner at tables in a
dining room instead OF having 1t passed
in through cell doors to be partaken of In
solitary confinement. Yet to some i'm
aginative offender such an environment
might possibly be even more gruesome
than his little stone bedroom, for the
room is what was formerly the hanging
chamber of the jail. Forty-one men paid
the penalty of their crimes within that
somber hall which this Thanksgiving will
be occupied by men who are going to
come as near having a regulation Thanks
giving dinner as the warden can man
age. His bill Of fare includes beef, cab
bage, onions. potatoes, dried peaches and
coffee To each man a pound of beef is
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-20

cessities OF life for the table, has decided
to ease theestrain somewhat by giving
breakfast for 200. in the arnlory at $50
Pennsylvania avenue, from to 10
Thanksgiving morning. The secretary
explained that the menu had not been
prepared, but everything would be on a
generous scale for the number men
toned, and there would be abundant
coffee 1.-THE extremely cold weather and
lack Of funds among the usually self
supporting men have made us feel the
necessity for this extra expense" was
the reason given out.
The American Salvation Army will give
it's usual dinner Thanksgiving day, with
turkey. vegetables. celery and Die in pro-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-20

turn out to be an Insurgent.' said one
Senator. He should be killed before
finished" say another.
And now, gentlemen and Senators,
say Hon. Doc" "the next I shall show
you is our pride and joy-the complete
Senator manufactured in six weeks by
the Rockefeller Institute Man-making
Plant"
He open large life-size tank. Pop!
Side-doors flew open and outward step
ped large, hanson Senator including
side whiskers and a copy Of the Con-
stitution.
This, Mr.. Rockefeller, is the Senator
you ordered"
Can he speak," require John oilishly.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-20

HE can only speak when spoken to"
snuggest Doc.
Ideal" snagger Hon. Rock, turning
to the Manufactured Senator.
what is your manner"
II don't know"
Haven't you any mind Of your own?"
mo. I am Standard Oil Senator"
Good, Your name is Senator Shrimp.
Can you deliver q 4th Of July Grafton
that will make the Americans feel as
free as possible without compromising
the Business Interests?"
This Chemical Statesman stand with
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-20

am aware Of something. That Rookie
Teller Institute was founded by the
Standard Oil for purposes
Relate them purposes. If convenient"
I digest.
III should relate you all have dis
covered in that Rockefeller Institute
should collapse by horror" say him.
Therefore I ask it, Togo. kindly pro-
coed at oncely to that great visection
works and see what is with your detec-
tive peep-eye."
Shall we see something" I negotiate.
You shall see how John D. Rockefel-
Ter has arranged to overlap the Ameri-
can Govt" aggrevate VIM.
This would be amusing to observe"
report me & Nogi. So disguise myself
with following apperatix:
/ horse revolver and colts.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-20

in and continue until six tables OF men
have been relieved of their hunger. BY
that time the day will be far advanced
and there will have been consumed five
hundred pounds of turkey, four large
buckets Of cranberries. two barrels of
Irish potatoes, served mashed, eight
enormous pans Of baked beans. 200 pump
kin pies, 400 loaves of bread. two bar
rels Of apples and twenty pounds of but
ter. A large donation of preserves has
also been received for enough years back
to be counted upon. These are served
sparingly at the dinner and the remainder
kept for sickness during the winter. And
you have no idea how it appeals to those
who cannot eat the regular food" the
manager explained. Nearly all the men,
toned foodstuffs are donated by Wash
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-20

ators can be manufactured by Hon.
Rockefeller at small expense. he will
soonly be enabled to fill Washington
with politicians created in his own
laboratories and carrying the Rockefel-
Ter brand exclusively. Thusly, if a
Rockefeller-made Senator fails to act
with satisfaction, he can be destroyed
and another manufactured to take his
place.
How perfectly dee-licious"' say one
Standard Republican.
do not congratulate me- say Hon.
Rockefeller cowcattishly.
These tanks you see surrounding
you," say Hon. Doc, contains human
persons in process Of manufacture. It
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-20

given. The estimate of the population for
this =. -if.:zsiving is put at about $50
But" the warden sighed sympathetically
when the subject was being discussed for
publication, Thanksgiving isn't any more
Thanksgiving without turkey than Christ
mas without tree. and certainly do
wish could give 1t TO them"
\
The Salvation Army usually conserves
all its financial resources toward the
giving Of q monster Christmas dinner,
and passes over Thanksgiving with the
usual aid for the needy; but this year.
owing to the prevailing high prices Of
food and the fact that even many
worthy, Industrious families have been
heard from as saying they will be UNI
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-20

fully carpeted feet we arrived to family
entrance Rockefeller Institute. Our
dog O-Fido follow us at a suspectful
distance. but when he seen the cut-up
neighborhood in which we was stopping
he bounced away with his valuable tail
carefully concealed. What has man in
vented equal to the wisdom Of dog?
We carefully vanished behind crate
Of medicated chickens and awaited.
Nothing was heard but the superstitious
crokes Of typhoid frogs from the in
terror Of that scientific headquarters.
Chill creeps enjoyed by us.
What would Shylock Holmes do
under such circumstances?" require
Nogi with nerves.
He would take morphine and be pa
tient," I snuggest
Pretty soonly the sound Of footsteps
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-20

portions for about 800. although the hun
cry will he fed SO long as morsel re-
mains.
And since there are many homes where
sickness or other unavoidable cause has
brought hunger. they will also give out
300 well packed baskets, for which tick
cts may be obtained at the headquarters.
Each Of these will contain some nour-
fishing meat, q half pound OF butter. one
quarter peck OF Irish and the same
quantity Of sweet potatoes. one cabbage
one bunch OF celery and one pie with
enough for all Of from three to ten per-
sons. and also q generous supply Of
candy for children, who find 1t SO difYlcult
to understand why they should know
want with luxury around them.
Nor does this even adequately outline
the thousands of pounds and hundreds
Of barrels of meats, vegetables, fruit and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-20

is a dificult process. and have taken %
years continual brain-thought to accom-
plish. In this entire laboratory We have
only one Complete Man. which I shall
show to Hon. Rockefeller as a sample
OF our line Of u. 8. Senators which we
hopes soonly to turn out at the rates
Of a week"
This Boss Doc take all these tourists
through his works. showing everything
From one tank labeled Incomplete he
fished out a human person minus head
and arms. Another he removed was all
head and no feet. He will probably
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-20

the stars or In the detention rooms of
station houses iE the Gospel Mission at
1870 Pennsylvania avenue. Preparations
for the Thanksgiving dinner hore are on
a scale that would give the general house
work grade of chef nervous prostration.
Beginning promptly at noon, a dinner
will be served continuously until all the
food and all the guests have been Eek
hausted.''
The dining room seats one hundred and
fifty at a time. When the first installment
have been given tickets, marshaled into
the aroma of roast turkey and all the
accessories, have eaten and marched out
again, a second similar number will file
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-20

ned and designed as any OF those IN
homes of the rich or the fashionable no
tells. For the meal proper the cunnary
manageress is figuring on ten quarts OF
soup, fifty pounds of turkey. bushei OF
potatoes, twelve cans OF corn, hVe quarts
Of cranberries, dozen punches OF celery:
ten mince pies and several poun1s o,
cheese. But the best part Of 1T all will
come afterward, when every one who
cares to come will be invited to adjourn
to the well furnished coy parior ana IL.
brary on the third floor where, as an art
poster evidently done by some ama!eur
with the brush informs an anticipating
public. everything will be arranged as
mother planned to have IT. Pounds and
pounds of mixed nuts and ra1sins ana
half a dozen quarts of conee with real
cream will be served al fresco around
big open fre--not cityfied gas fire, but
the regulation fire that will warm the
cookies of any country girls heart VINO
has been mopfrg over register and cure
her heartsick yearning for down nome:
And because Washington Is so prolific in
girls who have come from large families
and the atmosphere of sociability to be
wage-earners and live in boarding houses,
which may possess every requisite OF the
most perfect sort and yet lack the
THANKSGIVING congeniality Of girls ones
own age and that sort OF thing, these
managers. who are themselves mostly
young college women, are making de,
parture this year and asking any ana All
SuCn IOneIy sOulS " yoAi'
drinking, musical and homely, comforta-
BILE time that will begin at about O'Clock
and continue until there isn't any more
fire and the most daring would hesitate
over another cup of coffee. Nor Is there
any age limit OH the invitation.
over in conservative Georgetown the
daughters of the King of old King
George Episcopal Church will prepare
ond deliver baskets co1ta aiming some meat
here again the remark is heard that
.always before we have sent turkey or
chicken. but everything Is SO high that we
have to compromise on more vegetables
a head of cabbage. potatoes. enough OF
all for FIVE persons to domiciie, and
with fruits and candy for the children II
possible.
X X
Mount Pleasant Congregational Church
has q society of young women who make
I'm and send out baskets containing a
complete little Thanksgiving dinner for
cooking, and, while their menu is not
ready as yet. they usually give what is
necessary, and eadeavor to put in a little
that will prove a luxury to the desperate
ly poor.
In compliance with time-honored GUS
tom. the Central Union Mission will send
out about 800 baskets of provisions to
needy families on the eve OF Thanks
giving day, and will provide dinner at the
mission for the same number Thanksgiv-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-20

make adult dogs & cats out OF mixed
chemistry, will they stop at this? An
swer Is, No! They will proceed onward
with their drugstore mixtures until
Until which," we renig.
Until they are manufacturing Human
Persons in holesale and retale guam
tities.
will not this be nice science to do?'
I ask out.
eff anybody but Hon. Rockefeller was
interested in this cookery, should say
nothing" snagger Hon. Bryan. But 1
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-20

toned for the dinner In quantity enabling
five persons to partake Of it.
There is as much caste in charity as
society, and it is a far cry from this free
dinner for the unemployed to the Thanks
giving dinner served at 5 o'clock by the
management OF the Young Women's
Christian Association for its members
and all feminine jewellers In Washington
who desire regulation homemade meal
on such day and can only afford to pay
a very nominal sum for It,
Everything possible will be done to re-
move any suggestion of an institution
dinner The tables in the dining room,
which only accommodate sixty at a time,
are to be prettily decorated with au-
tumnal foliage and softly lighted by shad-
ed candles.
The menu will be as artistically plan
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-20

ington merchants and individuals. Two
prominent Pennsylvania avenue hotels
yearly donate the baked beans, serving
them in their own capacious pans. and
have the turkeys roasted brown and done
to turn in the splendid hotel ovens.
Usually this mission sends out few
basket dinners to families where dire
poverty reigns, but this year such har-
rowing stories Of households in which the
prospect is for fasting have come in that
it will endeavor to treble the number
supplied. Each such receptacle Will con-
tain something of what has been men
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-20

1 Shylock Holmes cap Of deduction
pattern.
wrist-cuffs, oftomobile goggles and
one copy american Medical Review.
Cousin Nogi wish me to add on 6
quarts chloroform to this list, but dib
hastily:
ITO take ch1oroform to Rockefeller
Institute would be foolish like taking
smoke to Pittsburg."
Saying this wise wisdom we buckled
on our tools and shrank silently away.
It was 1890 nighttime. With care
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-20

bakery. The country will be mine in
six months II you can continue to turn
out Articles like the one you show me.
He is neither q man nor a dummy-he
is a Corporation Senator. I need him
Immediately. How soonly will he be
finished?"
Next Wedsday," say Doc. with
a set of financial whiskers and new
false teeth he will be ready for any
thing"
Can you bake more like him?" re-
quire the Great Otler.
ITO any extent-if I do not lose the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-20

was seen approaching in the midst Of
silent talk. More close & closer they
came with conversation. BY close eye
peep we seen what was-Hon. John D.
Rockefeller entering his Institute fol-
lowed by Z Standard Oil Senators!
IT smell rats!' Whisper Nosi. (This
were not impossible in the midst Of
such mixed animal life.)
With suppressed heels we follow this
Rockefeller procession to inside Of
Rockefeller Institute where they went.
One Senator seen us. but when he no.
ticed our guns and wrist-cuffs he
tools
In interior Of secretive hallway Boss
Doctor step forthly and make handclasp.
Bright evening. Hon. Rockefeller" he
report.
Are everything in ready preparation
for our Astonishing Discovery" require
ludL SESdI 0IduOdIO 0AACS.
Everything" report Doc. ''This
must be conducted with elaborate mys-
terry. because If our plan was unloosed
Senator Beverage would have us
lynched immediately"
Them Standard OIL Senators hear
this threat with pale digestions Ne &
Nogi hid shyly behind a taft-shape Re-
publican.
Lead us forwards to the chemistry
department" say Hon. John removing
his wig timidly.
All walk forth with me & Nogf dog
gishly following in rear. Boss Doctor
lead them past guines-pig department,
up flights stairway. and finally they
arrived to small room Of sick greenish
appearance. All arrive inside and make
slam door. No admittance for me &
Nogi. who seen what was by inserting
our eyesight over transom.
We observed as follows:
II assistant Doctors stood around with
spoons. drug-bottles. saws. chisels and
other implements Of science. In long,
neat rows all surrounding walls was
large tin tanks with labels Incomplete"
NEARLY Finished" and Done" Hon.
Boss Doc open several tin tanks, drop
in a little prussic acid & sour milk ana
explain. "This are very interesting case"
Hon. Rockefeller & Senators. take
sit down in central room.
Gentlemen & Senator's" say Hon.
Doc. 81 firstly must make slight
lecture to you about Science. This
branch Of intelligence have advanced In
such rapid bounces that we are now
enabled to create full-sized human
man by delicious mixture Of chemicals
and careful cookery. This manufactur-
ing process were discovered by Prof.
Slasher while he was experimenting
with the appendix Of a congo eel You
would not believe what delicious results
we have obtained"
would you show US some samples,
please?" require ono Senator.
*
X
"Sssssssss" say Hon. Rockefeller.
Hon Prof will come to that presently"
1.-THE objeck OF our meeting here to-
night" say Hon. Doc, sis to demonstrate
to the U. 8. Senate that Artificial Men
can be manufactured by the Rockefeller
process who will be able to I'LL positions
in the Senate as we'll as the natural
product now does and
What will be the advantage OF hav-
ing Manufactured Men in the Senator"
require ono oldy man.
Because So" say Hon. Doc. TT Sem
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-20

0 the majority of
Washington folk
turkey is as certain
as Thanksgiving.
for 1t has been
many years since
the day has been
set aside as one of
thanksgiving and
fasting" The only
people who volun-
tarily fast are
those who must,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-20

z and Nogi has
now got extreme
ly financial Offices
In 86th Fl o o r,
p a W n b r o X g RS
Trust Bldg, New
York. This room
is laboriously fur
nished with mis-.
3 ] o n a r y o q X
chairs. Y o u n 9
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-20

To Editor Sunday Star. who knows how
Science advances. especially in base
ball.
Dearest SIR
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-20

Turk rugs and contains following
motto In large gilty letters on front
door-glass: