davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
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mixed paper and the volume of the waste
is being considerably reduced they are
also picking off the tin cans as they
pass. throwing them into a bin as big
as a small bedroom. Underneath this can
hin Is a wagon. When the bin is full. a
bolt is sprung. the bottom falls out and
with a tiny clash and clatter the wagon
is loaded and moves off.
Bottles as they go by are removed and
set up along the sill of the stationary
| runway colored boy with a big sack
walks up. and down the conveyor gath
ering the bottles until the sack is filled.
The rags are collected and dropped to
the floor beneath the conveyor, where
nickers separate the cotton rags which
| 60 to a paper MILL from the woolen rags.
| which go to a wooden mill and come out
as fresh and new goods. There is a GER
! tain picturesqueness in the work of these
| pickers over cast-off things. even though
| some fastidious folk should consider 1t
| sordid Colored women. mostly expert
| enced hands, are sorting over the rag
| piles Everything that men, women and
| children wear in the clothing line, with
old blankets. umbrella covers and the
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tines instead of a blade. The laborers
fork the rubbish so that it falls on the
broad. slow-moving conveyor and then
the waste passes on between the two
lines of busy pickers. The pickers at
the beginning of the run take out the
old newspapers. these going down the
chutes separately to the balng machines
waiting for them below. This class OF
paper brings a higher price by ). cents a
hundredweight than the mixed paper.
such as wrapping paper, paper boxes.
pasteboard, paper bags and the like.
The pickers next down the line take
out the mixed paper and toss it on the
floor behind them, whence men are raking
it toward the chutes. down which it falls
into the steam presses, is baled and the
bales elected onto a platform scales,
marked with the weight and swung by
travelling hooks to the shipping platform.
While the pickers are taking out the
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ed Some have on old gloves which ap-
parently came off the conveyor. Others
scorn such delicacy and go at their work
bare handed. They are chanting old
songs as the rubbish rolls along: These
women are the "pickers" They are
sorting out the paper. rags, cans and bot
ties as the procession of rubbish travels
along on the conveyor.
BY the time the conveyor has travelled
its hundred feet tire rubbish has been
reduced to small debris, bits of straw,
hay and excelsior. chips and splinters
of wood trifing pieces of paper and
plain dust and house dirt. AS the con-
veyor turns its somersault to retrace
its way face downward. TINS minute
waste falls into a stoke hole, where
t.remen shovel it into furnace. There
il flames and roars and makes the steam
which runs the conveyor and other ma
chinery. 1t is a wonderful process. IT
is systematic. orderly and economical
Every item of waste that has left in 1t
SOME trace of value is recovered, and
most waste is of economic value. Ma
chinery is substituted for man handling
wherever ii has been found possible.
<
The place where all this goes on is
the District of Columbia refuse crema-
tory. If you go out the Benning road
YOU will, at the point where the way
takes a dip to cross the rank green
marshes of the Anacostia river see on
the left mountains of baled paper. heaps
of tin cans and other heaps of battered
torn and twisted tin roofing, tin gutter
ing and tin spouting, and barrels on
barrels of old and mostly dirty bottles
on a little frame structure neatly paint
ed and usually with an auto before it
and which place you at once know is
the office of the plant, you will see this
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small book of these cuttings his regular

small book of these cuttings his regular
charge is a guinea.
"Other patients are equally skilled in a
very wide range of industries, from in
venting toys and puzzles to making
watches and picture frames, and from
breeding canaries and mice to raising
flowers. One very ingenious man actually
made a clock with no other material
than pins, buttons. iron bed laths and
pieces of knitting needles.
1.-The women, too. are just as clever as
the men. l know one demented lady
who writes the most charming books for
children and verses for Christmas cards,
another who makes a good income. in
her lucid hours, by illustrating books.
and a third who draws some hundreds a
year from royalties on her plays And
there are countless women in our public
asylums VINO earn money in scores OF
ways, such as knitting. lacemaking
| straw plating and leather work"
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scissors into fine flakes. The object is
packed in these after they have been
used to fill the corolla and other hollow
parts. and is kept in place by tiny
sticks or very fine florists wire. At the
end OF fourteen days the delicate
mummy may be cautiously removed py
the aid Of small pincers."
For large. coarse specimens, however
the method most commonly employed
is that Of drying by means of fine sand
Where the plants have "fieshy" parts
rich in water. a preliminary treatment
Of sulphuric acid is advised The plants
are put into a large glass cylinder
holding a mixture of eight parts OF
water to one part of alcohol saturated
with sulphuric acid. being SO placed that
onlv their stems touch the liquid.
I'm the course OF a few hours the
acid will have caused the fading dis
appearance of all the colors, but they
will reappear in their natural bril-
lance when the specimens are dried.
At worst the green parts will be a
trif1e yellowish ard the brown parts
somewhat reddish"
Acid and Dry Sand.
This acid treatment is merely pre-
liminary to the actual process OF dry
simple apparatus is employed consist
lHs VI d WOOucH lTdU1c WHICH ulS
side a box, the bottom of the frame
being made of a coarse -meshed sieve
The sand must be very fine and should
be well washed in several waters. sc
as to remove all dirt. then spread on q
board and allowed TO dry in an airy
room for several days. 1t is then
heated in an oven and mixed with par
af1in in the proportion Of five of paraf
fin to one of sand. by weight. and
stirred thoroughly till the grains OF
sand are coated. In another metal
pan is put mixture of six parts OF
the clean dry sand with one part tby
weight of pure potassium chloride anC
the mixture is heated till the melting
potassium chloride has coated the sant
grains. Two parts of the paraffin sand
are well mixed with the potassium
chloride. Then ''the plants are wiped
free of the acid and fastened into the
shape they are meant to retain BY
means Of silk thread and tiny stick 8
The corolla is filled with the prepared
sand and then the plants are placed
in the frame in the desired position
and covered lightly and evenly with
sand. The box is carried carefully out
into the sunshine and covered with a
glass plate, or, in rainy weather
placed near the hearth. The plants
will be dry in about fourteen days
The frame is then lifted from the box
the sand flows out through the sieve
and the specimens may be freed of
sticks and threads"
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Dutch Courage.


Excuse me- old man." says the init
mate friend, but. really. YOU ought not
TO take on so many cocktails just before
going home to dinner
1t isn't that / like tn thingsh,' al
most weeps the gentleman addressed i'm
moment of semi-maudlin confidence.
Il don't care for zhem but I got to get
up shome short o courage to be able TO
ack unconsherned in tn preshenshe o. m
wife'sh new butler
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FAME CAME LATE
Great Shakespeare's Death
Caused No Stir.
NO EULOGlES AND S0BS
Stratford Was Far From London
and Other Men Were
Writing Plays.
NO EUL0GlEs AND s0Bs
From +. P.'s Weekly.

From T. P.'s Weekly.
The following letter is long. but my
correspondent raises some interesting
points that might well be considered on
Shakespeare's birthday: A literary ques-
ton which has excited much comment
is the alleged lack of interest shown by
cotemporary writer's on the occasion of
the death of Englands great dramatist
That this was is. probably. for us "a
thing to thank God on" for much of the
glamour attached to his name would have
been lost had some seventeenth century
Froude been to hand. pen tipped with
gall. and hungry for copy. Luckily, the
age of the biographer and interviewer
had not arrived: and $50 glory beD the
worst that can be alleged against gentle
mellifuous VIII is that 'he only left
his poor wife his second best bed
It. however, is comparatively easy to
show to the unbiased mind that there
is little cause to wonder at the alleged
silence of Shakespeare's contemporaries.
In the first place, he had left his life
i'm London behind him for about four
years: new men. Fletcher, Beaumont.
Webster and others were coming to the
front, and-how easy it is to forget!
Moreover Stratford was tremendous
distance from London in those days.
being "a remote village Probably
Shakespeare was in his grave before
knowledge of his death reached the
capital. He died April %, 1915, and was
buried on the 25th. To understand the
conditions which prevailed it is necessary
to project oneself back into the time in
which he lived and remember that STRAIT
ford was really farther away from Lon
don as far as regards convenience Of
communication, than that faraway island
in tho SplIfh in which /. Sfpvpn-
son spent his last days Many wild un-
peopled wastes of country existed in the
England of Shakespeare's day. The for
est of Arden. where many young gentle
men fieetfed) the time carelessly
as they did in the golden world" was no
figment of ShakeSpeare's brain. but in
some respects a true picture of life in
the EliZabethan era.
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Crazy Fiction Writers.

There are, similarly. hundreds Of the
insane who make hobby, and some
times 2 very profitable one of writing
Indeed many OF our asyiums have mag
aZines which are almost entirely the work
OF the patients. Seventy-fve years ago
the first number OF the New Moon made
its appearance al the Crichton Royal In
stitution, Dumfries. seven years later
the ROYAL Edinburgh Asylum followed
with the Morningside Mirror and later
came the quarterly Excelsior from Muir
rays Royal Asylum Perth. Under the
Dome, the journal of the Bethlem Hos
ptal. London. and on-and full of
bright and clever reading, often contain
ing admirable drawings done by insane
patients.
"Of course. such work is not paid for.
but both in and outside our asylums are
many mad people who make a comforta-
hle income from their pens. Indeed. !
know OF two-a man and woman
whose incomes from fiction come to many
hundreds a year.
Even in our public asylums there are
hundreds of patients who make money
10y Skilled work of one sort or another
Thus in county asylum / know we'll one
man does the most exquisite water-color
sketches. for which he receives from &:
20 Glo each. and he has a market for as
many rs he can produce. Unfortunately
ike so many mad artists. he is often un.
able or unwilling to finish a picture. and
thus at least four-fifths of his work is
wasted.
Another patient, an ex-sea captain
spends his time in making the most per-
feet tiny model of ships, carved with in
finite skill and pains from bone or ivory
FOR each of which he gets a pound OF
two. For one very elaborate and beauti-
ful model of a cathedral he was paid a,
much as G30 and 1t was certainly very
cheap. at the price. third patient In
the same asylum earns good man,
pounds a year by cutting the cleverest
silhouettes out Of colored paper. For q
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For Delicate Plants.

This process. however. is not fitted
for extremely delicate and tender
plants which lose their beauty there
by 1t is recommended that such
specimens he treated by third proc
ess.
"Hyrroscopic waddinE is cut with
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r is a long. wide.
Shedlike. " 90 den
building. ii I tered
with scraps repre-
senting all the dry
" a $ I 9 that is
thrown away by
the more than 300. :
ND pc opl e of
Washington. From
end to end of this
l. ui ding. slowly,
but unfalteringiy,
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moves a travelling conveyor. wide as the
gangplank OF 4 steamboat. This travel
ing conveyor acts on the principle of the
endless chain and makes an Onlooker
think of a moving sidewalk. 1t is 2U feet
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What Becomes of the
Mountains of Baled
Paper, Heaps of Tin
Cans, Torn and Twisted
Roofing and Bottles.
The ''Pickers'' Who
Sort the Refuse-A Sort
of Picturesqueness in
the Work-How the
Conveyor Works.
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Beaumont and Webster.

1t is worthy Of note that the death
Of Beaumont. though he died in harness
in London in the same year. excited no
more interest than did that OF Shake
speare Indeed. it is open to doubt if
his decease evoked .'the need OF one
melodous tear" even from Fletcher.
though. being a Beaumont. he found
grave along with his brother in West
minister Abbey The case of John
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Mrs. Newed Ito dear friend)-Whats $
the secret of getting "A new frock out of
hubby after he refuses once?
Mrs. Wiley-If at first YOU don't sue
ceed. cry asain.-Judge.
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"The New Complaint. y

From Bits.
Litgant-He kicks and jaws me all day.
dunno wot's come over him.
Inspector-Sounds like the foot-and-
mouth disease.
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MADMEN WORKING
Insane Painters and Musicians
Thrill Patrons.
LUNACY EXPERT GIVES VIEW
Tells of Remarkable Picture
Maker Who Is Victim of Ter
rible Delusions.
From London 'rii-Biis.

From London TiiBiis.
Il am sure. said "A well known mind
doctor to the writer. you would be
amazed at the clever work that is done
by hundreds of men and women who
are hopelessly insane: some of it at
least as good as that done by sane peo-
pie who earn large incomes.
Among my patients today is one man
whose skill with the brush would al
most surely qualify him for royal
academician rank il he were only in
possession OF his senses. There are few
of the great exhibitions which do not
contain one or more of his canvases
and he has often received as much as
100 for picture. And yet this man is
as mad as halter the victim OF ter
rible delusions, and subject to violent
homicidal attacks.
Naturally his work is unreliable
one week he will produce a mastery
and beautiful picture, with genius In
every line of it. The next he will
nightmare in color. which, curiously
enough. he always considers a master
piece.
And this man is no exception. fol
there are scores of lunatics who are
quite excellent artists, and many Of
Some years ago an exhibition of pic
lures the work of insane patients OF
the Bethlem Royal Hospital, was open
ed to the public and 1 can assure you
many of them are beautiful works OF
art There is mural painting OF
heroic size over the main staircase in
one asylum In which the subject of the
Good Samaritan is magnificently treat
ed and | have seen a series of the Pas
sions which surpasses ANYTHING / have
at ha Ana
There are hundreds of other lunatic:
who are just as skillful in music and lit
erature. One of my own patients. whe
IS hopelessly mad on one subject anC
posed operas and symphonies and score:
of songs which have won fame for him
all over Europe, and have brought him q
small fortune. And i know of many
other insane men and women who carr
small and regular incomes in the sam,
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Governess-And whom did the Goddess
Aurora marry?
Pupil-Rorealis,-
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When the conveyor comes to the point
above the furnace room only the small
trash is left on il. and this falls off to
become fuel which runs the plant. the
conveyor, the baling presses and the
water pumps which bring water from the
river to the high storage tanks for the
partial protection OF the plant against
fire The fire danger seems to be guarded
. against there. Signs are everywhere
about the plant enjoining smoking. Lines
of fire hose are kept laid night and day
from a fire plug on the Benning road. and
the high tanks at the plant are ready
with hose laid to contribute their contents
to any fire that starts.
With all the work done by the trash
| fed furnaces and boilers there is sur
plus of steam, and the boilers blew of
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like. is there in rags and tatters. The
Crematory recently shipped ton of old
black socks and stockings to Germany,
the understanding at the crematory being
that they were to be converted into blot
ting paper.
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1t is difficult to run down a lie in either
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1913-02-13
THE NORTH DOESN'T WANT
RECOGNITION.

The primary vote last summer,
and the senatorial vote in the leg
stature this winter, have about
demonstrated that the north as
a whole doesn't care for repre-
sentation on the state or national
ticket that they'd rather be
friends of the south by giving
away their own rights than by
standing up for reasonable self
respect. Judge Ailshie, a typical
north Idahoan, would have won
the second day, or any subsequent
day, if the north had given him
solid vote. Everyone else in
the north came to him, or would
come, except Latah county; they
stood out alone for the infinitessi-
NAL chance of electing French
and threw away a chance to elect
man from their own section, to
give it to man thousand miles
away. and leave the north unrep-
resented If it was a bit of clever
jealousy lest Ailshie s election will
kill French's ambition for the SEN
ate two years from now, still it
was foolish it has disavowed the
rights of the north to have SEN
atOr, or to have any recognition
whatever. 1t is an abject invita-
ton to the state to use the north
for a doormat or a cuspidore. 1t
was i'll judged friendship for
French; it has made him enemies
all over Idaho, enemies who will
recall that he is from the north
that deserved a senatorship but
his friends put his candidacy above
the principle Of justice. 1t will be
indeed unfortunate if Mr.. French
is a candidate for the senate next
year, to prove the current suspic'
ion as to why Latah county woulc
not vote for Ailshie. They proved
too much in denying the northern
right to a senatorship; nobody cal
believe them if they try to revive
; it for French next year. If Mr.
French couldn't help it, it is an
other case of the wise man whC
, prayed the soulful prayer. "Thol
, knowest l can fight my enemies
but O Lord, deliver me from fool
ish friends '-Richfield Recorder
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1913-02-13
ONE ON HAROLD.

Every once IN a while some
choice bits of repartee break loose
in the lower house of the Idaho
legislature. The senate isn't mucl
of body for anything tending to
the frivolous. 1t is too dignified
although the senator's sometimes
lose their dignity in heat. and pas
sion.
But in the house it is different.
Representative G. E. Bowerman
of Fremont county is a banker.
That doesn' t promise much in the
way of wit and humor Banker
Bowerman has also been very
serious man and seldom opens his
mouth, but the other day he had
half of the house in tears from
laughter and has earned for him
self the title of the Frank Cush-
man Of the house.
Bowerman s seat was at far
corner of the chamber. He could
Mt hear well what was going on.
To make matters worse he sat
behind the elevated press stand
and the chief scenery in the line
of his vision was the red hair Of
Harris. reporter for the Capital
News. who lives in Grangeville4
Bowerman had twice complained
of the location of his seat, but it
brought no result.
The other day the roll was call
ed on the passage of bill. Bow
erman 8 name was the third on the
list and when it was called he ask
ed:
"Mr. Speaker, don't want to
be excused from voting, but l don't
know what we are voting on. Ii
you'll Just tell me what we are
voting on I'll be glad to vote. .
The speaker gave the number o
the bill.
"Let me see. There was
; stranger came in a little while
ago. wasn't there? Was he talk
ing on that bill?"
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1913-02-13

for distribution Of water among
appropriations.
No. 229, by Johnston, authoriz-
ing the state land board to sell at
auction certain lands in Bingham
county.
No. $50, by Wearne, Norton,
Edelblute, Sargent, Sinclair, Jone
and Featherstone, for $3.50 to
construct IS miles of road through
Shoshone and Kootenai counties.
No. 231, by Brown, to prevent
pro-creation of confirmed crimi-
nails, idiots and imbeciles.
No. 232, by Case, to amend pres
ent laws relating to care of or
phans and homeless and neglected
children.
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1913-02-13
The stranger was the state en-

The stranger was the state en-
gineer.
"You see" continued Bower
man, Il haven't had much to do
since coming to this legislature
but study phrenology I've become
a pretty good expert in that. In
fact, | have studied phrenology
so much that I'm afraid to go to
sleep at night for fear I'll talk
about it. You married men know
that no married man can talk abol
that no married man can talk about
golden hair in his sleep and get
away with it."
Then Bowerman turned to one
of the other representatives and
asked:
"Vote aye, said Representative
"Vote aye" said Representativ
Taylor, and Bowerman did.
The next day Bowerman's sea
was changed and he sits now RICH
in front of the speakers stand.
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1913-02-13

The Vollmer Spokesman will
now be guided by the master hand
of Mac Scofield. Mac has had
considerable training in news
paper work, his early effort be-
ing the publication of the School
Reporter in this city. We expect
Mac will make some radical i'm
provements.
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1913-02-13
PROGRAM

FhOeFFNm
Musical Reverie a hands, -. .Neumann
MARY and ROSE McENTEE
Spanish Dance ............ Sarakowski
MARGARET sAsENBERY
The Pixies Goodnight Song. Brown
LILLIAN MURPHY
Grand Lander ................ Beethoven
EDNA MCDONALD
In Gypsy Land. .................Ad Adams
GLADYS KERLEE
lntermezzo ................. karganoff
ANNIE PATTERSON
Under the Mistletoe a hands) -.
................... Engelmann
MARY CREA and MRS. GRANVILLE
Heimweh .................... .Jungmann
MRS. BROCKMAN
Vocal Solo-My Heart at Thy Sweet
Voice, (from Samson and Deli
lah") ................... Saint Saens
MRS. HATTABAUGH
Echoes of the Ball. ............ Gilbert
ROSA PFEUFER
Woodland Whispers. ........ .Braungardt
Chapel by the Sea. Wilson
MAURINE TAYLOR
Dulcinea. .........,............ Lieurance
ESTHER KERLEE
Serenade. ........... .Gounod
MISS WICKMAN
PART II
Dance of the Wooden Shoes, a
hands) NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. Schytte
MRS REMINGTON and
MRS. GRANVILLE
Sunset in Already ..................M Macy
MARGARET URBAHN
Serenade ..........,........... .Zannoni
FRANCES BROWN
Habanera from Carmen" ...... Bizet
MRS. sLUssER
Reading OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. selected
MISS JUMP
L'Adieu. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. Heller
LAURA LANNINGHAM
MARY McENTEE
To Spring NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. Grieg
LALLAH FULTON
BaDa faga ..,............... CampDell
MISS TELCHER
LIE Crepuscule ......................G Guy
DORA KNORR
ttlSoletto ....,,.-...... Nerul-Splnulei
MARY GREGG
Polonaise In A major a hands) Chopin
LALLAH FULTON and
MRS. GLANVILLE