davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The San Francisco call., 1913-10-27

There wasn't an animal on the en-
tire bill which opened at the orpheum
yesterday afternoon AT least. none
appeared on the program as regular
act The whole show rather leaned
toward music, song and patter. The
nearest thing to a playlet with a
regular plot was presented by Sam
Chip and Mabel Marble with THE
Land of Dykes but even this clever
team couldn't resist interpolating a
The San Francisco call., 1913-10-27

Depart for Santa Barbara
Mrs. George Tallant and Miss Min
The San Francisco call., 1913-10-27

glide on through the three acts OF
| the play to her tragic end.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-12-19
Straining at a Gnat.

Ont in Wisconsin the signs are right
for q hard winter for Cupid. Little Dan
is robbed of Ills personal rights py
the new law. He has no use for eugenic
spasms. He fears notification" of the
eueenic obstacle to matrimony Will
prove more disastrous TO the morals
of society than would a few imperfect
marriages. But he is up against 1t.
And the little god with the culver and
darts is doing his best to turn
point on the law through the medical
profession. He wins the first engage
ment by the Milwaukee Medical society
refusing to comply with the state eu-
genie marriage law The law provides
that all candidates for marriage must
prove their physical fitness by the pro-
duction of a physicians certificate. And
the doctors say they can't afford to
give the provided examination at the
statutory price, So. The attorney gen.
eral has ruled that the doctors cannot
be forced to issue the certificates for 50.
In that case, no marriage acan be
solemnized in Wisconsin after Jan. /.
until the law is doctored Business is
consequently dull for Cupid But he
has his hopes. OF course parties can
secure certificates through the regular
county physicians, who will be able to
make the required tests through the
state board of health; but that is a
process so slow as to make little Dam
wings curl. Just imagine a six months
campaign Of tests and examinations,
including tapping the spinal cord and
removing a portion of the brain of each
applicant, in order to prove you are
At to go into partnership with another
human being. And in these days
when thousands of men, backed by
hundreds of millions of money, are en-
eaged in the commercial exploitation
of humanity. Looks like the camel
swallowing act, now doesn't it?
Anyway. Wisconsin marriageables
have our sympathy and we would sug-
gest that when a town, county or
state becomes insufferable it is a nice
place to move away from.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-12-19

Are your salaries equitable and uni
| form?
How would a survey help this or
any other city?
| 1t would show commissioners ana
! citizens where old-fashioned. round
about, costly practices exist.
It would show commissioners and
citizens how to apply up-to-date, log
icaL time and money-saving methods.
| 1t would show where all the waste
| Is, from the little tribble at the splgot
| to the big leak in the main.
| 1t would show how other cities have
mended their leaks-by putting in
central purchasing department, maxi
ing salaries fit jobs and by keeping
accurate cost records of services and
supplies.
1t would show that city's score in
the contest of American municipal
ties to give better quality at less cost
in the service rendered the people.
How would an administrative code
help this or any other city?
Every builder needs plan to work
by, A code would give officials a plan
for constructing a good government
house.
A code would draft or chart the or
eantzation of every department and
bureau showing an official just where
he fits into the scheme and showing
the citizen just what to hold an off,
cial responsible for
Is our present scheme of organiza-
ton complex and confused? Is there
direct contact between bureaus whose
functions are closely related? An ad-
ministrative code would cut a door
through the wall.
A code would cut out all unneces-
sary links in the chain of authority
and would clear up overlapping du-
ties and divided responsibilities.
A code would give present and flu
ture officials a simple, logical method
Of procedure.
Progress can be made only by con-
slant endeavor, criticism-"nnding
fault" il you will. When we are well
enough" and congratulate ourselves on
the discovery, we have already started
on the down grade. Self satisfaction Is
retrogression. If we have good admin
istrstion let us cling to it and urge
on to something better; that is prog
ress. Our best friends are the ones
who clarity us by honest criticism
never mind whether or not they are
competent.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-12-19
Worm Threatens to Turn.


Every paper has corked up in it Bit
ter, burning wrongs, which it never
airs. Some day, when the time comes,
we propose to get out a special edition
and for once in a long and useless
career tell the truth about grating
church workers who think that the
advertising of their entertainment to
steal and cheat and graft for the Lord
is a pious act; in that edition We pro-
pose to tell how many dollars the var
ious busted fair associations owe us
for advertising which never was paid
for; how many men the Gazette has
supported for office who went around
declaring that the Gazette did them
more harm than good; how many
times we have got behind the town
booming propositions, wasted our time
and space and good black ink and
white paper and in the end had a lot
of ivory headed chumps hold a lodge
OF sorrow over typographical error,
and moan about the fact that the Ga
zette never does get anything right.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-12-19

He's right down there near you."
Near San Antonio?" was the ques-
tien. Yes, right down there
somewhere. Let me see. knew
his address. He's on a ranch or
something. He has his mail sent
to Ell Paso" Nor is that man any
more ignorant, when we stop to think
of it, than the Texan who thinks II
a bare-faced lie when he is told that
there are three distinct cities in
Rhode Island, the largest with over
200, 900 population and the smallest
with q, 600, so close to one another that
a line five miles long will touch all
three postoffices.
No, all the ignorance about America
is not among the Europeans, but
Americans are rapidly learning the
truth about their own country, and Il
Secretary Lane can think up scheme
to enlighten the English, perhaps they
will come over here and help US broad
en- our own people.
Really, the woman who expected to
enioy the mountain scenery of Louis
lana isn't much more amusing than
the northerners who are surprised to
find that the Alamo is a building, nav
ing always thought 1T was merely the
name of a battlefield.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-12-19
Editorial Comment.
Mania for investigation.
Detroit Free Press


After a loud flourish of trumpets
about the searching inquiry the gov
eminent was to make of the egg and
cold storage situation, Washington
dispatches now inform the country
that there is no cold storage trust in
this country and that prices of eggs
and other products are not controlled
by few constituencies dealers.
Why this necessarily futile and
needless Investigation" was ever in
stituted is now even greater wonder
than ever. 1t had all been done be-
fore 1t is done ali over again and
reaches precisely the same result it
reached in the past. Some day, per-
haps, our governments will learn the
senselessness of YEARLY and uselessly
going over ground already traversed
and will save time and money by look
ing up the records in their archives
when .agitators clamor for wasteful
repetition of work.
The agricultural department and the
department of Justice have found out
what the predecessors of the present
incumbents ,faand out years ago, that
there is No system of extortion work.
ing in the cold storage business, and
that while there may be few isolated
instances of unreasonable practices
these are not common to the industry
as whole. The report will not sat
isfy the grumblers, who will be as
positive as ever that some one is
rohbing everybody else. 1t discloses
nothing new whatever. Why was so
much effort thrown away in reaching
it?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-12-19

Now that .nutting" time is here II
is observed probably for the first time
that the white walnut, better known
as the .'butternut,' is about extinct,
at least in this part of the country.
About all the older trees have died of,
and there seem to be very few young
er trees of this species. The passing
of the day when butternut was a COM
mon sight is very much regretted, es-
pecially by the schoolboy, as he hears
his father tell of days when he went
to the woods and gathered them by
the bushel Many of the older folk
are sorry to see these trees disappear.
as the kernel of this nut is consid-
cred rather delicious as we'll as very
nutritious. This tree is native OF
America, and grows to height OF
from 50 to 50 feet, having gray bark
and compounded puhescent leaves, oo-
long ribbed, green nuts which ripen IN
September and October. The wood or
this tree is more exempt from insects
than other nut trees, thus making 1t
valuable for shipbuilding, gymnasium
stocks, cabinet work and interior fin
ish of houses, but it is still less pop
MAR than the black walnut, when Is
also rapidly disappearing
Plain Dealer.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-12-19
Pro1ressiveism.

Some might almost put down as sar-
castle, our genial former President,
William Howard Taft, because of his
utterances at the New York dinner of
the Pennsylvania society. Here is a
bit of it:
The truth is we have arrived at a
time in our social development and
our freedom of thought when we know
everything, and know it hard, and
among other things we know is that
people who preceded us in this life, and
especially in this last 100 years, did
not know anything. No pent-up Utica
contracts our powers. We are able to
suspend the law of gravitation or
any Of the economic laws that have
been thought heretofore to work with
as much certainty as physical laws,
and by their suspension we are going
to make everybody happy without in
dfvidual effort. We are going to make
the rich moderately poor, and the poor
moderately rich. We are going to ar
range by legislation that those who
don't make any effort are not going
To be condemned by loss of Just re-
ward FOR merely living. We are going
to rearrange human nature in such
way that men will strain their minds
and muscles to the point of perspira-
ton to help other people. and that this
is not going to be confined to the few,
but 1t is to include everybody. We ex-
pect to exclude the word 'demagog'
from the language. to drive out OF
business politicians, and to have
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-12-19
Preservation of Our Newspapers.

Lovers of rare literary works will
be pleased to read that old Nebuchad-
nezzar II has just had one of his
mitted unexpurgated and un-Com-
stocked to the New York public Ii
brary. 1t tells what a fine fellow he
was-"great and mighty, favored OF
the God Marduk; beloved of the God
Nebo; faithful shepherd who pursues
the path of peace" Press agents were
working in three platoon shifts then
as now, and the output took the form
of these briquettes of paid-for esteem.
The cylinder is gift from Mrs.
Henry Draper and Prof. Richard
Gottheil, chief of the oriental division,
gives the Interpretation of the cunei-
form characters. following the scholar
ly rendering of E. A. Wallis Bulge,
who found the text almost as legibie as
1t was $500 years ago, when the pub
Usher went to the chisel.
What about our cylinders, the lead
en- cylinders of this rapid age, which
we take daily from our presses and
dump into the melting pot? Are they
not the only permanent material we
are using in the newspaper publishing
business? Ought we not, now and
then, to bury our cylinders Of lead for
an entire edition that posterity sew
eral thousands of years hence may
have the fun of looking over our
ideas? OF course, our books will not
last. Even though our paper lasted
as we'll as the parchment and papyrus
{cI md
Egypt, we lack the necessary dry
climate. Many of the best preserved
documents were found with the mum
mics. and the spice in our literature Is
not the preservative kind. True, we
have found that radium is passing into
lead from helium, and that lead Is
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-12-19
Ignorant of Our Own Country.

(San Antonio (Tex) Light
An American, returning from Eu-
rope, met an English lady aboard the
liner who CHANGED to tell him her
plans for seeing America. She had
travelled widely in the East and expec-
ted to round out her experiences by
IAN extensive tour of the new world"
as she told him. The American vouch-
es for the fact that she was educated,
cultured and apparently entirely sane.
1t was her intention to remain in
New York several days. after which
she was going to take train to Chi
cago She had not planned to stop
off at Niagara falls, saying that she
had seen the Victoria falls in Africa
and was sure Niagara would be tame
after that. After a stop at Chicago
long enough to enable her to see the
country in that vicinity she was going
to st. Louis, where she would see
the Mississippi river.
Thence she was going to New Or
leans, and she anticipated great en-
joyment from the scenery in the Rocky
Mountains while passing through
Louisiana. From New Orleans she had
QeclueU To ldFAS q otSoi'''-.F
York which would enable her to see
Florida and the entire Atlantic coast.
Then, having seen about all there Is
to see in the United States, she plan
ned to return to England.
Now, this was not joke. The wo-
man was certainly in earnest, ana was
intensely surprised at the information
her American acquaintance was able
to give her. He, on his part, was SO
impressed with the matter that on
landing he wrote a letter TO WASH
ington. urging that something be Done
To give Europeans a better knowledge
If This country. The story was toio
70 the newspapers by Secretary of the
Interior Lane.
Mr.. Lane says that this is but one
of hundreds of similar instances tha'
are occurring all the time. lie Is Try
ing to work out plan TO aoVeruse
the natural parks ana other seeLiio
spots of the United states, III Iu
rome. If a scheme can be DEVISED per-
hams the day will come when foreign
ars will get some adequate idea OF the
size and resources of this country.
Tbe day when Englishmen expected
80 engage room in New York ana
t.ke daily trips out to the plains
oround Buffalo or Chicago to shool
game and Indians is gone, to be sure,
hut some of the European IDEAS OF
America are little less amusing.
While he is about it. Mr. Lane
might try to think up plan TO IN
struct Americans regarding their own
country. San Antonian who was
East last summer was asked by an ac-
ouaintance in Boston If he had not re-
Gently seen q mutual friend, and was
surprised at the negative reply.
.'That's funny said the Bostonian,
hes a neighbor Of yours, in a way.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-12-19

likewise kissing its past and its pres
emit goodby, but as things go we call
lead permanent.
1t will not do for us to place our
records of stone against those OF the
Egyptians. Builders tell us that our
Central park obelisk will not last here,
where moisture SO often creeps in and
frost tears apart, as it might have
lasted on its native heath at Hello
polls. Neither stone nor our best
rag paper editions will hold out
against Nebuchadnezzar. We can
beat him on best sellers, but the only
way We can compete with him for the
long run of the limited edition is ac-
tually to pit-a brick lined one would
do-against his cylinders a few OF
ours from the perfeeting presses.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-12-19

Penobscot county's hen census re-
veals a substantial increase in the
number of birds in the last ten years.
Ten years ago the assessors found
l39,43S hens in the county and five
years ago they found 1Ss,S75. This
year the total reaches 204 l42. The
only trouble with these figures, from
the standpoint of the man who is go
ing without eggs owing to the high
price of the same, is that the asses
sors failed to note how many hens"
were really hens and how many were
ROSTERS. Consequently there is no way
of telling what the annual egg yield
for the county ought to be. If all the
hens listed were really hens. and If
they did their duty according to the
hen books) and each laid 125 eggs a
year, Penobscot county ought to have
had 26,51T,750 eggs during the last
year, almost enough for every man,
woman and child in the county to have
had one for the breakfast every work
ing day during the year. In ten
years the number of hens in Penob-
scot county has increased 46 per cent,
the estimated value of the poultry
product has increased from s52,97317
to $11S,699.25 or 124 per cent. and the
estimated value Of the egg product
from S135, SO to 1901. 1901. or 125
per cent. Prices of both eggs and
poultry have jumped materially, but
not to such a large degree. 1t should
be noted that in the reports for the
current year all reports from the town
of Dexter are missing, the assessors
of that town having failed to make
return. Five years ago Dexter re-
ported 4,S53 hens. Bangor has more
than three times as many hens in
1918 as it had ten years ago. In 1908
the returns showed Asp; five years
later 1880, and this year, 1882. The
estimated value of the egg and poul-
try product this year is s59,546.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-12-19
Champion John Barleycorn,

No man In the worlds history has
ever won in the booze fighting game,
and yet there are a lot of White Hopes
going into training all the time.-New-
ton Newkirk.
And their friends" are urging them
on, assuring them that they are the
boys who can do it.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-12-19
PLIGHT of the Republic

| tFrom Ex-President Taft's Speech at
the New York Dinner of the Penn
sylvania Society,"
I'VE have been in the habit of re-
garding the United States as fortunate
in it's birth. We have supposed that
there was no other government in the
world that had such a galaxy of
patriotic statesmen to preside over its
birth as this American republic of
ours. But it was reserved for what
John Muir calls these Godforget-
/ ting progressive days" to prompt in an
associate professor of Columbia uni
versity, q muck raking investigation
into the founders of this government,
and to demonstrate that the consttu-
tional convention whose work was
said by Gladstone, and by others in
deed whose judgment is even more
favorable than his, in that it is more
/ judicial and calmer and more based on
an intimate knowledge of history, to
be the greatest single governmental
| instrument ever struck from the brain
of man.
But we are not advised by this
sapient investigator, who evidently be-
gan with the conviction and the desire
! to establish the sinister reactionary
nature of the constitution that the
members of the convention were own
ers of government bonds, and posi-
4 bly, of the financial obligations of some
of the colonies, and owned real estate
and farms, and even were wicked
enough to hold farm mortgages, and
| the quod erat demonstrandum is that
the constitution is e-sided and I'M
Just instrument because the bankrupts
and the debtors, and, by natural infer
ence, the ignorant and the unsuccess-
full did not have representatives in the
convention, and that thus the whele
plan organized by these plotters
against society and social justice was
based on the wicked principle that
governments and men should be made
to pay their debts.
THE truth is we have arrived at a
time in our social development and
our freedom of thought when we know
everything. and know it hard. and
among other things we know is that
people who preceded us in this life.
and especially in this last 100 years,
did not know anything. No pent-up
! Otlca contracts our powers. we are
able to suspend the law of gravitation
or any of the economic laws that
have been thought heretofore to work
with as much certainty as physical
laws, and by their suspension We are
going to make everybody happy with
out individual effort. We are going
to make the rich moderately poor, and
the poor moderately rich. We are go
ing to arrange by legislation that those
who don't make any effort are not go
ing to be condemned by loss of just
reward for merely living. We are go.
ing to rearrange human nature in such
way that men will strain their minds
and muscles to the point of perspira-
ton to help other people, and that this
| is not going to be confined to the few
but it is to include everybody. We
expect to exclude the word "demagog'
from the language, to drive out OF
business politicians, and to have
statesmen who, with complete power
over legislation, will make good the
1 promises of every eloquent period that
is calculated to win votes"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-12-19
Friday, December 10, 1918

A word fifty spoken is ike
apples of gold in pictures Oh
silyer.--Bible.
Life like a dome of many coIofeo
glass,
Stains the white radiance OIL
eternity.-Shelley.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-12-19

Frost, who is getting over the mumps,
how to do the next to the last exam
pie in partial payments.
Besides this some one broke In TO
find out what time it was and all
hands stopped talking to set the
clocks, as Lemuel Pease had just been
to Belfast and knew his watch was
just right, for he had regulated it by
the town clock.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-12-19
home, but forcing other American farm
ers into competition with US

Finding p ballots in a Portland ward
that had been tempered with In the In
terests of the Democratic candidate for
mayor, shows the desperate straits to
which the united Republicans of Names
biggest city forced their opponents. In
the campaign law and order, decency
and sobriety were on trial and were
triumphantly vindicated, in spite of the
underhand work that is slowly being
brought into the broad light of day.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-12-19

No notice whatever will be taken OF
unsigned communications. .
The Journal cannot be held respoEsi-
Bile for the preservation or return "a
re:scted communications.
Address all communications relating
70 subscriptions and advertisements
10 Kennebeo Journal Co.. PUBLISH
ers, Augusta, Maine.
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statesmen who, with complete power
over legislation, will make good the
promises of every eloquent period that
Is calculated to win votes
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-12-19
AUGUSTA LODGE DIRECTORY
TRINITY coMMANDERY, NO. z.

X. T. Stated conclave at Masonic Tenn
pie. Friday, Dec, 10. All sojourning ira
tiers are cordially invited to attend-
CHAS r. GETCHELL, E. &.
rTJOS II RODGE Rec.
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ODD FELLOWS HALL

ASYLUM LODGE, NO 20, REGULAR
meeting at 7.sO Friday evening. Friday
evening. Dec. 10, work in the Second de-
gree and nomination of officers.
JOHN C. HOWES. N. G.
E. F. WESTON. Sec