davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
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Must Help With Repairs.

Repairs are usually made under con-
tracts, either with the municipalities in
which they are located or with private
persons, and the cities or towns in
which the roads lie are required to con-
tribute 500 per mile per year to the main
tenance fund.
Under what Is known as the small
town act the commission is authorized
to add a sum equal to 40 per cent of
whatever appropriation may be made by
towns having valuation of less than 81, :
600. coo for the five years preceding If
such towns make appropriations for
building new roads the commission NAV
con ntribute an equal amount
The money for the construction OF new
roads Is raised by issuing thirty-year
bonds. The funds for maintenance are
derived from taxing vehicles and from
fines imposed for violation OF the ighwa,
laws. Since the 1st OF January 29, $50 au-
tomobiles have been registered, which
pay a graded tax of from s5 TO $50 year
according to their horse power. The av-
erage receipts from this source have been
$500, 600 annually for the past five years
All vehicles pay taxes. In 1910 the tota
proceeds from them and from licenses
and fines amounted to S530,612. which was
applied to the maintenance of roads
There are now S37 miles of state high.
ways in Massachusetts,, which have cost
about S9,0O0,0O0. Since 1894 an annua
appropriation for construction has beer
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The w Washington Star
LONDON OFFICE,
No. Regent street

Magnificent s. =. ARABIC"
leaves FER. ]; rates. 500 mp,
including shore excursions. Il
enchanting days. Stop-over priv
iieges. ROUND WORLD Tours
Sept. 10. Oct. 81 and monthly
until January X. VI. HICKS,
1906 + 81. NV; GEORGE W.
MOSS. 517 18th st. NV, Wash
ington. FRANK c. CLARK.
Times bldg. New York.
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The trend Of education in America
toward practical utility rather than ger
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Functions of Commission.

The Massachusetts, government began
by appointing a commission composed Of
a professional road builder. geologist and
a lawyer. who recommended that certain
main highways connecting the centerS OF
population and trade should be selected
and designated as state roads. to be re-
built and kept In repair by state appro-
priations, and that the branch roads,
leading from them to the interior, should
be maintained by county and township
taxation. By this means our main ar
teries of travel have been laid out from
one end of the state to the other. and
connecting with similar highways In ad-
Joining states. Most of them are Old
roads rebuilt on scientific principles. "A
few new roads were laid out TO shorten
distances and improve the conveniences or
travel.
The state highway commission consists
of three persons, one of whom is appoint
ed annually by the governor for term or
three years, with engineers, secretaries
and clerks. who are selected after civil
service examination. In addition to its
duties in building the state roads and
keeping them in repair, the commission
is required to obtain and publish useful
information concerning the science or
road building as carried on in other coun-
tries to test and report upon materials
suitable for road building ard to give ad-
vice to local officials when called upon.
When a petition is received from the
commissioners of a county, the aldermen
of a city or the selectmen of a town, the
highway commission takes 1t under con-
sideration. If it appears that the i'm
provements asked for are justified it
takes action Immediately, issues a no.
tice that the road in question will there
after be regarded as a state highway
and makes provision for the necessary
improvement. All cities and towns are
expected to indemnify the state against
claims for damages brought by persons
living along the roads that are rebuilt,
and on the other hand the commission
gives the cities and towns the first OPP
portunity to take contracts for the work
If they do not choose to do SO bids are
invited by advertisement, contracts are
awarded and an inspecting engineer is
placed in control OF operations. While
the entire original expense is paid from
the state treasury. the law requires that
one-fourth of the amount shall be paid
back with interest within six years by
the county in which the highway is To-
cat te.d
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Spoils Journey to Hurry.

BY hard riding one can make the
journey from Boston to Provincetown In
a day, but that would be waste OF
time. The distance is about 12O miles,
and the road passes through fifteen towns
and villages At least three days ought
to be- spent on the journey, and six
days would be very much better. The
longer you linger the more you will enjoy
the experience.
There is a tradition that the board
walk on one side Of the main street IN
Provincetown was built by Andrew Jack
son. The only justification [ could lind
for such a yarn Is the fact that certain
taxes collected in the town during his
administration as President were refund
ed. and as the selectmen did not know
who paid them or how much any one
had paid the proceeds We're devoted TO 2
much-needed public Improvement ana
pine planks were laid on the sand on the
off side of the street.
Let us believe that this was the pegln-
ming of the good roads movement In New
England and that Old Hickory was re-
sponsible for a Yankee reform lie GER
tainly gave the Yankees good deal OF
trouble one time and another, and ought
to have the credit of at least one benefit:
but 1t was many years before the second
development appeared.
Some of the New England roads are
perfect Undoubtedly the main highways
are the best In the country and as good
as the average of Europe. but the branch
roads are no better than they ought to
be in a community which claims to rep
resent the most advanced civilization or
the age, and generally are good deal
worse 1t is also true that the Massa-
chusetts system of road building and
maintenance, like the Massachusetts in
surance laws, is the best we have
knowledge Of and 1t ought to be imi-
tated by all our states. The French
highway system. while it is q model has
been applied with a few notifications to
meet local conditions in Massachusetts
for the last ten or twelve years. In a
word, it is to treat roads as scientific
and business proposition.
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Paws to Grow Cranberries.

Cranberry culture. next to summer
boarders, is the most important industry
on Cape Cod. It is a comfort to know
that in both lines Of business all the
work Is done by women, which gives the
men plenty OF time for meditation and
gossip, and allows them an opportunity
to spin yarns of their experiences while
chasing whales at sea. Very little labor
is necessary in the cultivation of cram
berries and the vines can be made to
produce double the natural crop by prop
marshes or "mashes.' as the word is
pronounced here. and 1t Is only neces-
sary to clear out the rubbish and dead
wood, trim up and straighten things, and
let nature take its course. When the
picking season comes every woman on
the cape goes out in her sunbonnet and
works from daylight to dark with COM
mendable energy, and facile fingers can
fill barrel in a day.
Cranberries are natural to the cape:
You can read in the records that In 1877
the magistrates OF Massachusetts pre-
scented his majesty Charles II, who was
very much out Of humor because the col
onists had issued currency of their
own known as the Pine Tree shilling,
with three bales of Goldfish, two hogshead
of samp (boiled corn with the hulls Off
and ten barrels Of cranberries from Cape
| Cod.
Of late years the cranberry crop has
become too large to be picked with local
fingers, and trainloads OF women are
brought down from Boston and New
| Bedford, and are turned into the swamp
Some Of them make as much a s. a day,
| and 1t is great thing for city people to
| have a few weeks In the stimulating salt
air, sleeping in tents and eating fried fish
| and berries. Many Of them go home
| with pin money enough to last them the
| rest of the year.
| There is no poverty on the cape. In
several of the towns the poorhouses are
rented for dwellings. and elsewhere, as
| matter of public economy. 1t Is the Gus
| tom to contract with farmers to take
care of the frendless, the helpless and the
| INDECENT in their homes. In the village
| of Orleans there has not been pauper
| since the civil war. and the almshouse
has brought in an annual revenue to the
| village treasury Of $16 month.
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windmills Ornamental Only.

Three windmills embellish the village Of
Orleans. each of them moro than $50 years
old. They were originally used to pump
sea water into wooden watts for the pur-
pose of making salt by evaporation: then.
when the Syracuse and Saginaw salt
operations knocked out the Cape Cod
"salters' they were used to grind corn
and wheat But that Is done in Mime
apolis nowadays. and the people down
here can buy Minnesota flour cheaper
than they can raise wheat and grind IT,
remind artists and other visitors OF Hol-
land
But, thank God" said an old lady who
was telling me about the economic Sit
uation, I'VE Capers can still pick cram
berries and raise sparrow grass for the
Boston market. I dunno what we could
do for a living without them F1shin Is
no longer profitable. and crabbin', clam
min an lobsterin' are all played out
1t seems as If the Almighty had TOOK
away their jobs from the Capers on pur-
pose, but He's left US cranberries and
sparrowgrass and summer boarders. an
we ought to be grateful for that.
Some year. ago somebody discovered
that the sandy soil in certain portions OF
the cape Is peculiarly adapted to aspar-
agus. and the acreage planted to 1t has
been increasing annually until now large
tracts of land that were considered
worthless are producing a good revenue.
At Wellfieet Is wireless telegraph sta
ton, which consists of four tall skeleton
towers of steel tubes rising from a bleak
promontory, with group OF shingle cot
tages around their base. For long d1s-
tance in every direction are nothing but
dreary moors covered with stunted un-
derbrush, and In the hollows are cram
berry marshes. The landscape would re-
mind you Of the west coast OF Ireland,
but the people are of a very different
sort.
Evening star., 1911-08-19

Washington to Philadelphia,
Atlantic City and New York.
ERICSSON LINE STEAMERs."
ATTRACTIVE WATER ROUTE FROM
BALTIMORE To PHILADELPHIA.
'-Throngh the Chesapeake and Delaware canal
to PHILADELPHIA" Stopping at great fishing
grounds Betterton also Chester. Pa. From
Washington by b & o. or W.. B. A. z. BY.
phis. steamers daily except sunday. pm
Fast day boats daily and Sundays. 8 s.m Tickets
70 Philadelphia sale In Washington at b. o.
and W. Il. & A. f. Ry. Ticket Offices. Also ].
SPLIEDT, Ticket Agent. 1885 St NV, for
New York. Atlaatic City, Cape Nay. Asbury
Park. Ocean Grove. Long Branch. Albany Trey.
POINTS north. Write for guide.
CLARENCE SHRIyER, q. p. A.,
Light and Pratt SITS. Baltimore. Ma
Evening star., 1911-08-19

Americas attitude toward the educa-
tiona1 progress Of the world has been
helpful The part
Nations Attitude this nation is
1Y.,, now playing in
ern educational facilities to the Chinese
will go down in history as an unparalleled
procedure Modern Japan acknowledges
a great debt to American educators, and,
in so far as the practical sciences are
concerned, the nations Of the world all
come to the United States to learn.
Many features Of this great and COM
pick American system Of education are
Of only professional or technical interest,
but every American ought to know some
thing Of the general character Of the
schools OF his land. In the seventeen ar
ticles that will follow a comprehensive
review Of the entire system will be given.
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Present Trend
Toward Utility.

Toward Utility. cal Voca1,onal @
education may now begin in the kinder
earten; 1t ends In the college or uni
versity. While the public schools, pro-
viding, as they do. the educational re-
sources Of fully 75. per cent Of the coun-
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BUILDS GOOD ROADS
Massachusetts Pointed to as
Model for Other States.
CRUDE PETROLEUM USED
Declared to Be Better Than Either
Asphaltum or Tar.
"A JOURNEY OUT CAPE COD
Trip Can Be Made In One Day, But
Week Is Far Better-Home
Of the Cranberry.

By WILLIAM = CURTIS.
Special Correspondence of The Star and the
Chicago Record Herald.
PROVINCETOWN, Mass,
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STEAMSHIPS.
If Going to Europe

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syivania avenue. to arrange for having youf
mail addressed care the London oice of The
washington star. No. Regent street. London
Eneiand. IL desired mail viii be forwarded to
all parts of Europe and the Continent Tourists
are requested to register at our office upon reach
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-03-16
BOYS IN Bloc ON
SOUTHERN BORDER
WILL "SM0KE up

San Antonio, Tex, March IS
fSpecial)-That Uncle Sam expects
10000 of his soldiers to Smoke up
while in camp at Fort Sam Houston,
near this city, to engage in a three
months military maneuver, was en-
phasized this morning when 5000
pounds of a popular brand of smoking
tobacco was delivered at the commits
sary. That the pipe is not popular
with the soldiers was shown by a
large part of the consignment con.
sisting of tobacco for cigarette pur-
poses.
To insure that the "makings" would
be complete in all details, the tobacco
was accompanied by almost half a
ton of cigarette papers.
This consignment of smoking ma
terial was the largest ever made to
the post here and gives some notion
of how universal smoking is in the
United States army.
The time was when soldiers in the
regular army were served with an
allowance of chewing tobacco each
week. In the past twenty-five years
the smoking habit has become so
general that the government has ad-
ded smoking tobacco as part of the
commissary.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-03-16
ADDITIONAL MAIL
CLERKS required
At TEXAS FORTS

Fort Sam Houston, Tex, March Il.
Especial. JAS the result of mobiliz-
ing 10000 men at Fort Sam Houston,
the postoffice at the post has been re-
enforced by the addition of fifteen
clerks. To meet the emergency un-
til these can be named, accommoda.
lions for several extra clerks from the
local Office in this city have been
made and Ed. Marbrite and w. H.
Kraus of the San Antonio office, have
been assigned to 60 out on duty at
Fort Sam Houston.
While the mail is always large for
the post, the addition of 10000 men
will increase it five or six times at
least. 1t is also understood that ad.
ditional clerks will be put on the mail
cars going out of and entering this
city, particularly those carrying mail
north and east.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-03-16
REFUIE INSlNUAI|0N THAT
MINNEWAUk0N Meeting Was
A STAR CHAMBER SESSION

, but have not signed the resolutions.
That at said meeting nothing was
said by the supporters of Judge Cow
an about influencing the senate in the
coming trial, and the meeting was a
voluntary gathering on the part OF
the citizens to protest against the
action of the legislature in bringing
the impeachment proceedings and car
rying on what we thing is political
persecution of Judge Cowan.
We believe that the sentiment of
the people of Minnewaukan, as ex-
pressed in the said resolution, is a
fair indication of the sentiment of the
people of Benson county, North Da-
kota; that the resolutions are being
widely circulated and signed by the
citizens of this county.
That in the oldest precinct OF Ben
son county, outside of Minnewaukan,
every voter in the precinct has signed
the resolutions.
Dated this 14th day of March, 1911.
A. f. HUTCHINSON,
Chairman of the meeting.
T. M. MCDONALD,
Chairman Committee on Resolutions.
State Of North Dakota, county of
Benson, IS,
On this 14th day of March, 1911, be-
fore me personally appeared A. E.
Hutchinson and Thomas NJ. Mcdonald
and who, being sworn, doth each for
himself depose and say that he signed
the above statement, and that he
knows the contents thereof, and that
the same is true of his own knowl.
edge.
r. A. STUART,
Notary Public, North Dakota.
(Seal.)
My commission expires January II,
1916.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-03-16

There have been some reports about
the state to the effect that the met
ing held at MinneWaukOn, in which
the action of the house OF representa-
tives was censured for reversing it's
decision in regard to the Impeachment
of Judge CoWan of the Second judi
cial district, was an executive session.
That there was probably nothing in
the reports the following sworn aft.
davit will show:
Whereas, statements have been
made and published in some Of the
newspapers of this state, to the effect
that the meeting of the citizens OF
Minnewaukon, North Dakota, held at
the town hall in the village of Min
newaukon, on the 4th day of March,
1911, was a secret meeting, and at
tended only by Is or 20 people, and
that it did not represent the senti-
ments Of the voters of Minnewaukan,
and that the meeting was held for the
purpose of influencing the senate in
the coming trial;
We, the chairman of the said meet
ing and the chairman Of the commit
tee on resolutions of said meeting, do
hereby certify that the said state.
ments are false and untrue in every
particular; that there was between so
and 60 representative citizens Of Min
neWaukan present at said meeting, and
that the meeting was an open meet
ing and was attended by all the citi-
zens who wished to come and was not
in any respect secret.
That there are approximately 107
voters in the village of Minnewaukan,
and out of these SO have signed the
resolutions adopted at said meeting,
and six voters are against the resolu-
tions, and IL voters have expressed
themselves in favor Of Judge COwan
and against this persecution of him,
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-03-16

O 1911, by American Press Association.
a clean majority over all five Repub-
lican opponents in the primary. he II
Charles e. Merriam.
The name of Carter 81. Harrison 10
known to every voter in Chicago, but
no one, it is said, knows Carter b.
Harrison. Inscrutability seems to be
this mans predominating trait and
those who know him best are the drst
to call attention to the fact.
Harrison Is unique figure In CHI
cago politics. For four terms, from
1897 to 1905, he ''wore bis fathers
hat" succeeding the elder Harrison in
the chair that he relinquished only
when be was shot down by the assas-
Gin Prendergast.
Harrison was born in Chicago in
1880. When be was thirteen he was
sent abroad to study German, and for
nearly four years he lived in Heidel.
berg and Alteaberg. To this day be
sings the old German songs.
Merriam the Scholar.
Professor Merriam. the slender
scholar with the boyish face, doesn't
object in the least to being dubbed 4
politician. He believes In reform-in q
whole lot Of reforms should anybody
ask you-but he isn't in the way Of
trying to bring them about BY eanting
and writing letters Of protest.
Merriam calls himself a young man
He was born in Hopkinton. L.. In
1874, got all the college and unworthy
degrees he could accumulate at Lenox
college. the state University Of Iowa
and Columbia university and then
spent two years in Berlin and Paris
brushing up on some Of the things be
thought he didn't know. Immediately
thereafter. in 1900, be Joined the fac
atty of the University Of Chicago and
has been there ever since in the de-
partment of political science.
Not being busy enough at the uni
versity, Professor Merriam has gone
Into civic matters a good deal:
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-03-16
Hard on jeremiah.

Sir Walter Raleigh and burned two
heretics at the stake He involved his
whole country in war because q for
eign princess would not marry his son
he allowed his own daughter to die In
poverty. He had nothing to do with
the translation Of the Scriptures except
that he authorized It and gave some
general directions. Yet this work that
has had 80 profound an influence on
English speaking people, this well Of
English undefiled," Is known 40 the
king James version" The lacking on
Of that name Is almost blasphemous.
Credit Given Puritana
Much Of the credit for tho agitation
that led to the making Of the author
lied version Is due to the Puritans.
There were 90 many translations and
20 much confusion In consequence that
the desire became general to have one
standard text that would be authorita.
tive in settling disputes % to inteepre-
tafions. There were two views ~ to
the way to arrive ut such q standard.
One was the revision Of the German
Bible: the other was the making Of
new translation.
In 1904 a conference was held In
London to settle the matter. The king
decided the question in favor Of the
now translation. His reason was a.
oblique and peculiar AZ bis character.
He was determined to make the Puri-
tans and other dissenters conform"
They had been urging q new transla-
ton. Now let them have It and be
compelled to abide by II. It may b
said in passing that when the au.
thorized version appeared tho inde-
pendent sects did abide by It gladly.
Yet they did not conform to the
Established church any more than be-
fore. They continued to dissent until
James own son, Charles l., was BE-
headed and England established q
commonwealth under Oliver Cromwell,
q Puritan. But that is getting ahead
Of the story.
It was the Puritans and independ-
ents who put forth DR.. John Rainolds,
head Of Corpus Christi college, Oxford,
a. their spokesman in urging . new
version. The bishop Of London and
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-03-16
SCHOLAR FIGHTS
Wise POLITICIAN
Chicago Has Mayora|ity Cam
paign Of Novel Character.
GENERAL INTEREST IN VOTE.

Carter II. Harrison, Four Times City
Ruler and Who "cams Back" op.
posed by. Charles e. Merriam, College
Professor, Reform Alderman and Ex.
poser Of Municipal Graft.
Chicago has selected its candidates
for mayor by primary vote, the first
time the state law has been tried
municipality by the big Illinois city,
and the election in April will be watch
ed with great interest as a possible
political forecast of the times.
The election will admittedly be won
by either Carter H. Harrison, the Dem
ocratic nominee, or his Republican op-
ponent, Charles E. Merriam, although
the Prohibitionists and Socialists will
have full tickets in the field. On one
hand is the astute political leader who
served his city four times as mayor
and with credit, who has an enormous
personal following and who attracts
thousands who knew his father and
who later admired the son for the man.
ner In which he smashed the Yerkes
street railway combine many years
ago. This is Carter II. Harrison.
Theory Versus Practice. -
Opposed is young man, formerly
professor in one Of the greatest Of tho
country's universities, theoretically an
expert in political science, and who
has proved some Of his theories In
practice as alderman and chairman Of
an investigating commission that I'M
covered numerous instances Of munich
pal graft. This young man received
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-03-16
SQUIRRELS DAMAGE PHONES.

Kansas Towns Pets Dine Hsartilv On
insulation,
Because squirrels, pets Of the town.
had nibbled the insulation OF the tele-
phone wires and bitten into the cables
40 telephones in Hutchinson, Kan.
were out of commission recently dur
ing storm.
Linemen and electricians worked all
DAY In the storm and succeeded In hav.
ing all but 125 Of the phones in opera.
ton BY evening. Wherever they had
eaten the insulation from wires or
eaten into the cables the rain caused
trouble.