davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The sun., 1914-09-01

1T ,s ugge.,tel then that the total
si-,r suppl" Of Lb'in America is nor.
mal.y worth about $500. 100000 and as
tic price ~ sugar Will increase so If not
20 per cent. over last year. the total
value OF the crop about To be harvested
is liable 20 be more than 5000 600. QUO
Thls would add greatly to the purchasing
power ot ror;o liico. Cuba. the West In.
dd" Islands. Central America and Latin
American countries as well as Hawaii
sul the Philippines
Those countries. outside OF South
Anr'.c'. ought from us IA the last fiscal
'esr approximately s250.OOO 900 worth
merchandise. II Is likely that their
'iF masses this year should amount fully
'i""'o"oo 900 Taking Latin America
\ whole it, takinEs Of merchandise
rom the Cnued states last year
',h'uniel 90 $ii.. 600. 600. which suggests
thdt Win the increased purchasing powsr
aid the necessity " calling upon tin.
n'trd states ,o supply the merchandise
"hi'h I formerly bought In Europe our
'Hes In me coming year with those
$1,000, 900. 900
Hawai- and thr Philippines have in.
oroaF q their purchases from s27 900. 600
IN 1903 10 practically sl00.UOO,O00 in
! 10 ana II mis- trade is t. double a,
" result %; new Conditions IL Is worthy
%; study. Cuba. IL. the same time. has
increased her purchases OF our mcrchan-
Gtsc from f22 o"O. 600 in 1908 to S7i.OOO-
"oO IN 1918. 80 here is trade lust
AZ our doors amounting to si7l.O0u. 600
'hat may he almost doubled in the mkt
year cuba buys almost 500. 600 600
worth OF material from other countries
that She could buy Just as well in this
country
Porto Rico. Hawaii and the philip-
pines buy more than $4,000. 600 worth
'oi goods annually from other coun.riea
80 that the total Imports Of those Islands
l"ggr' gated last y.'r about $3.50 600. 900.
ana II this increases merely 30 per cent
their importing power would Increase 10
Ia bout 1900 O0o O0o
The sun., 1914-09-01
W. W. AsTOR GIVES 100000.
~" To international Red Cross
so"fev IL Announced.

LoNpoN, Aug. 81. The Iondol Times
hhoun'cs that William Waldorf Astor
!" gwen SlO1oo0 tc the international
ltI Cross Society.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-04-06
GIRL WHO WAS SOLD FOR ONE HUNDRED
DOLLARS TELLS AWFUL STORY

Los Angeles, CAL, April 6.-Having
freed herself from the bondage of
slavery and renouncing her country
and it's customs forever, Sarah Ka-
toff, 19-year-old slave-wife of Jacob
Uran, has revealed the reasons that
caused her to defy her father, mother
and all her friends in a fight for lib
erty.
Four years she has been the slave
wife of Uran, to whom her father
cold her for 800. In court, she re-
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-04-06

fused to marry him by American
laws.
She declared she would be free
from him and all bondage and, be-
coming an American, she would work
for her two babies and educate them
and herself.
She was told that her babies would
have no name if she did not marry
their father.
IA bad father, a bad name" she
responded vehemently. my own
name shall be good for my little ones.
They are to be Americans and they
shall not bear the curse of that name
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-04-06


long years"
This is the story she told as her
golden-haired baby of three climbed
over her knees and played with a lit
tie doll like an American baby"
When Sarah Katoff was 10 years
old she was put out to do hard work
in Russia. She was paid 81
month, but her older brother took
that. When she was Is they brought
her to America.
She wanted to go to school after
she arrived in Los Angeles, but she
was told she would have to work. Her
father made her work in a laundry
at night and stay at home inside the
house all day long, so that the truant
officers would not find her and COM
pei her to go to school. She dared
not disobey.
7 Two months after she arrived, as
she was going to work one evening,
a strange man accosted her on the
street, He told her he would like to
marry her.
She told him to go away, that she
did not know him, and did not wish to
talk to him.
The next morning she was told
that her father had consented to
marrying her to the man, for the man
would pay him 800. The father had
wanted 5000, but had compromised
for half the price.
The girl protested until she was
beaten. And a week later she was
given in Russian marriage to the
man she had seen but once. The oc-
casion was celebrated with a weeks
holiday. At the end of the week the
husband decided to take a second
weeks holiday, and he lost his job.
Then the wife was put to work and
her money taken by the husband or
his mother.
The husband drank heavily, and
he beat the girl often and hard.
Then Sarah Kafoff ran awav and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-11-08

it, though. He was studying electrical engineering
maybe it was catchin', at that" says 1. "Where
all this?"
AT the Coed says Ruby "But then I'd known
Nelson before. He's from Naukeesha too
"Come again" says 1. From what?'
"Naukeesha," repeats Ruby, just as ii it some
common like Patchogue or Hoboken.
as that island somewhere says l, cor just
mixed drink"
"Why says she "it's town; Wisconsin, you know.
think of that" says 1. @How they do up the
map. What's it like, this Naukeesha?"
And for the first time Ruby shows traces of life
dts NICE says she "realnice Notat all like New York"
@Ah come, not so rough' says l. what you got
special against our burg here?'
Ruby apses back into her vacant stare and sort of
shivers. ats big and-and whirly!' says she. Il
don't like things to be whirly Then the people are so
strange, and their faces hard. If-f l should fall
down in of those crowds I'm sure they would walk
right me- trample me, without caring
"Pooh!" says l. you'll work up rush-hour nerve
in a month Of course, havin' always lived in a
place like Naukeesha-"
"But haven't" corrects Ruby. a born in
Kansas
"As bad as that?' says l. @And your folks moved
up there later, eh?"
NO." says she. "They-they-I lost them there.
cyclone, you know"
"You don't mean' says 1, @that-that-"
EYES," says she, Mother, Father, and my two
brothers We all together when it struck that is,
just coming in from the kitchen I'd been shut
ting the windows. them all go-whirled off, just
like that. The chimney fell, big beams came down,
then it all smoky and dark. 1 must have been
blown through a window. My face was cut little. 1
never knew Neighbors found me in field by stump.
They found the others too-lad them side by side in
the wagon she'd. Nothing else left standing It's
dreadful, being in cycone-the roar, you know, and
things coming you in the dark, and that feeling of
being lifted and whired I was only twelve but L
l can't forget. And when I'm in big, noisy places it
all comes back [ suppose I'm Slly.N
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-11-08

know. 1t was out in the Middle West last summer.
had two three weeks work to do on the piece,
revising it to fit Amy Dean. All stars of that magn-
tude demand it, you understand.
well, 1 should have stayed right here until it was
DONE but some Chicago friends wanted me to go with
them up into the lake region, promised me an ideal
place to work n-all that. So 1 went l might have
had better sense. You know these bungalow colonies
in the woods-where they live in fourteen-room log
cabins, fitted with electric lights and English buffers?
Bah! 1t was bridge and tennis and dancing day and
night with new mob every weekend. Work? As
well try it in the middle of the Newport Casino.
$50 hunted up little third-rate summer hotel a
mile off, where the guests few and the food
wretched, and camped down with my mangled script
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-11-08

her head. @That is why he He had charge
of the electric light plant too good place. And here
he gets only odd jobs 1 tell him he's silly to stay
can't see why he does"
asked him, have your says l.
"Why, no." says Ruby.
@Shoot it at him tonight says 1.
But she shakes her head, opens her notebook, and
feeds in copyn sheet the clock points to l. looks
up Just in time to catch couple of them cheap bond
sports nudgn each other they passes by.
Thought I'd been joshn' the Standn' Joke, expect.
WE'LL that's the way started in, I'll admit
IT'S only day or so later has the luck across
Oakley Mills Something had come up that needed
to be passed by Mr. Robert, and as he still out
lunchin scouts his club, and finds him slowed
away table with this chatty playwright party
He's quite swell, Oakley is, you know; and guess
with Broadway hit in its second year, and lot of
road compnies out, he afford to fit around under
the white lights Him and Mr. Robert has always
been more or less chunmy, and every and then
they get together like this for tafest. AS Mr. Mills
seems to be right in the middle of something drifts
in Mr.. Robert to chair and signals him to
keep on, which he does
"Its curious mess, that's ALL says Oakley spreadin
out his mancured fingers and shruggin his shoulders
under his Donegal Norfolk. "Im not if the
piece will ever GO on
another procrastinating producer?" asks Mr. Rob-
ert careless.
aNo, fnicky author this time, says Oakley aYou
see, there is part character part, which I'm in
sistng must be cast right 1t seemed easy at first.
But these women of American stage! No training,
facility, understanding Not of them
fill it, and we've tried nearly dozen. If could only
find the original"
@Eh?" says Mr.. Robert, who's been payin more at
tenton to manpulatn the soda sphon than to Oakeys
beefn'. what originate"
"The dumbest woodenest, most conscientious young
female person it has been my lot meet goes
Mr. Mills. talk about your types! You should
have known Faithful Fannie (my name for her, you
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-11-08

and my typewriter. lnere L met Fannle the OlHoI-
getful. She was the waitress happened to draw out
of job lot. suppose her debut at that sort of
thing For the sake of hungry humanity hope 1t
What she did not know about serving was SIM
ply amazing but her capacity for absorbing suggestions
and obeyng orders profound. Gould 1 have
plate? asked at the first meal Oh certainly,
Sir says Fannie, and from then on every dish she
brought piping hot even to the cod-meat plat
ter and the icecream saucer. 1t was that way with
every wish l rash enough to express Fannie
forgot, and she kept to the letter of the law
"Also she would stand patiently and watch me eat.
That is she would fix her eyes on me intently, never
moving and keep them there for quarter of an hour
at time. little embarrassing, you know, to be so
constantly observed She had such big, starry eyes too
absolutely without any expression in them. To break
the spell l would order things l didn't want just to
get her out of the way for moment or so while l
snatched few unmatched bites. You know how it is?
There's green Now 1 like to tackle that with
both hands, but don't to be closely inspected
while I'm at it. 1 used to fancy that her gaze was
somewhat critical. Good Heavens, Girl! said
day. Cant you look somewhere elseat the ceiling,
of the Window She chose the ceiling. 1t
bit weird to have her stationed opposite me- her eyes
rolled heavenward Uncanny! 1t attracted the atten
ton of the other guests. But it something OF re-
lief l could watch her then.
There was something fascinating about Faithful
Fannie, though, as there is about all unusually plain
persons Not that she was positively homey. Her
features were regular enough, suppose But she was
such TALL SLIM cooress, neutral creature! And awk
ward! You've young turkey, all legs and neck,
with its silly head bobbng above the tall grass? Well,
something like that And as 1 read at my meals
had nothing else to do but study that salow, unmov
ing face of hers with its steady emotonless, upward
gaze Was she thinking? And what about? Who was
she? Where had she come from?
"A haunting face, Fannie's was at least, for me.
1t became almost obsession l could see it as
1 sat down to my work. And the first thing knew
l writing Fannie into my play. There was
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-11-08

Was she? Say, what's your guess about that? And,
take from me, didn't wonder any at that starry
look of hers She'd em all go-four of em. Good
night talked easy and soothn' to Ruby after that
"Then I went up to live with Uncle Edward at Nau-
keesha" she trails along 4He's minister there. 1t
he who suggested my going into foreign mission
work. I had to do something, you know, and I'd al
ways been such good scholar. 1 love books. So
studied hard, and sent to the Coed. But the
languages took much time. Then l had to skip
era terms and work to help pay my expenses worked
during vacations too, at anything Now I'm waiting
for field They send you out when there's vacancy
4How about Nelson?" says 1. AHe's gon' to be a
missionary too?7
"He doesn't me to CO." says Ruby, shakin
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-11-08

my young friend Torchy, with wits even more brilliant
than his hair. Ask him to find Fannie for YOU
"a girl whose name 1 don't know!" protests
Oakley. 1How in blazes could anyone trace "a
aTn bet you the dinners" cuts in Mr. Robert 3that
Torchy do it"
"raken," says Mr. Mills, and turns to me brisk.
aNow young man. what further details would you lke?'
3Don't happen to have lock of her hair with your"
says 1, GRIMM
@Alas, nor says he. 3She favored me with no such
mark of her esteem"
@Was kind of gingercolored,' says I, 3and done in
a braid round her head?"
4Why-er-I believe it was, says he.
3And didn't she have sort of droopy shoulders, l
Continued page IS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-11-08

MAID part IN 1u,-Cne COnVentlO1ldl, CdDie-
busting, note-carrying, tea-serving maid,
with not half a dozen words to speak.
But before knew it this Insignificant part
had become so elaborated, l had sketched
in Fannie's personality so wildly, that the
whole action and theme of the piece were
revolving about her-hinged on her. l
couldn't seem to stop, either. l wrote on
and on and-well, by Jove! it ended in
my turning out something entirely different
from that which had begun. The original
skeleton is still there, the characters are
the same; but the values have exchanged
places. This is Fannie play through and
through. And it's good, the biggest thing
I've done; but" Once more Oakley Shrugs
his shoulders and ends with deep sigh.
D UBBISH!' says Mr.. Robert. 3You and
~ your artistic temperament! What's the
real trouble, anyway
HAs I've tried to make clear to your
limited and wholly commercialized intelli-
gence,n comes back Mr. Mills, Il have Gre
ated character which is too deep and too
subtle for any available American actress
to handle If I could only find the original
now, with her tractable genius for doing ex-
actly what she was told"
"Why not send out for her, them asks
Mr.. Robert.
Gas though hadn't" says Oakley. 1.-TWO
weeks ago 1 located the hotel manager in
Florida and wired him full description of
the girl. All I got from him was that he'd
heard she was somewhere in New York"
@How simple!" says Mr.. Robert. Here is
friend Torchy, with wits even more brilliant
air. Ask him to find Fannie for you"
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1914-06-04

The university board has announced that it will not ask
for increased appropriation for next This would at
least make the tax bills stationary Yet that may not
be quite enough If there upeuous departments they
should be aboshed-ike the law department, which
boil If that money could into the big
helpful departments like the farm extension work Of Prof
DIN whom lost because the state only paid him clerk
salary would be less important to actually cut the tax than
would be to get better service But less money
service for the money going to be the slogan
cry department of the state government this year
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1914-06-04
PUBLICITY THAT PAYS.

The community publicity plan being carried through
the three months special issues of the Recorder reaching
era thousand prospective Idaho immigrants in the Middle
being commented upon highly by other papers
Idaho almost double the circulation and value of the ad
vertising.
tty people will always read attractive booklet But it is
usually extravagant in quality, in statement that it dis
counted heavily And uncensored selfish paid
paper display advertising eyed akance But regular
campaign extending term of weeks months
with the responsible newspaper and the whole community to
back it. gives of sincerity that other plan
approach The Rched plan leaves all the others far in the
for efficiency. 1t is available for every community, and
could be adopted with profit.
In this campaign the Recorder aims allow nothing
misleading nature appear 1.-The Truth is enough to
win and if it's in the Recorder it's and backed by the
whole community.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1914-06-04
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.

l, Charles S. Mcfarland, of Richfeld,
Idaho, who on May 9Th 1911 made
entry No. 959-A under the pro-
visions of an act of the
legislature Of the state of Idaho
commonly known as the Carey
Act, approved March End 1899, en-
bracing the SW1-4 of NW1-4, sec. "a
twp A south, range 10 E. B. M, hereby
give notice of my intention to make
final proof to establish my claim to
the land above described, and that
/ expect to prove that l have resided
on, reclaimed and cultivated said
land as required by law, before
Chas. j. Lisle, representative of the
state land board, at Richfield, Ida
no on the 9th day of June, 1914, by two
of the following witnesses:
Thos. J. Byrne, 7. B. Brush, F. w.
Powell. Patrick Bryne, all of Richfield,
Idaho.
CHARLES S. MCFARLAND,
Entryman.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1914-06-04
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION

Department of the Interior U
S. Land Office at HALEY, Idaho
April 18th, 1914,
Notice is hereby given that Bridget
Mckay, of Richfield, Idaho, who or
March Is, 1910, made desert land entry,
Serial No. O7773, for the Z IL of NE
Id, Sec. a, Town. South, Range 20, E.
Boise Meridian, has filed notice
of intention to make final proof
to establish claim to the land above
described, before Register and Re-
ceiver, U. S. Land Office, at Haley,
Idaho, on the 18th day of June, 1914
Claimant names as witnesses:
John A. Dixon, of Picabo, Idaho;
Jethro Womack, H. C. Bader and
James David, the three last named of
Pagari, Idaho.
P. F. HORNE, Register.
apr 23-ju II
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1914-06-04
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS

Third day April, 1914, Session
May 81, 1914, 10 A. NJ.
Pursuant to a former adjournment
the Board of County Commissioners
of Lincoln County, Idaho, met this
day in regular adjourned session.
Present: w. J. Taper, Chairman
W. A. Heiss and Thos. H. Cooling
Commissioners, and Harry w. An
erson, Clerk
Claims allowed on the CE. Fund:
Mrs. Emma Morse Lodg. paupers
$1.OO; MIST. & T. Co.. Tells. 5000;
Darwin A. Utter, maps; $500; c. W
Wernicke, Supplies $500; Frank
Crandall Reps CHI, $3.50; G.S. &
TWP. Co. Lights $3.50; Roessler
Bros, Drilg., $4,000; J.L.Fuller, ct.
Bailiff, $36.O0 C.F.Annett, JP Fees.
s6.O1: B.M.zug, Expss, s6.40; VIII.
Baugh, Supps. $1,000; Jerome Auto
Co Livery, $780, J.C.Davies, Sal,
$500; Geo. Redmon, Rem. Carcasses,
$500; Clarence Wheeler, Expenses.
s22I05; H. b. Jones, Exps. SIPS;
Stockgrowers, Supps, s412O; Gem s.
Lbri Co. Supps., $4,S5; McFall Ho-
Congdon, plaster $12.75; L.M.zug,
EApS. flUi.oO, olelld OOON, G4ApeliStSt
s32.55 Mamie Ryan, Clerk, Co. Supt.
$780, C.FsAnnett, J.P. Fees, $500;
ETA. Bowler. Clerk Aud. $500; HE
Cornell Sal Engr. $500; First
State Bank, ct. CTS, s6549; First
Nat. Bank, Ct. CTS. $3.50; G.S. &
TWP. Co., Lights, $12.15; w. D.
vredeburgh, labor, $3.50; Village OF
Water, $37S3; W.O.Knox
maps, $780, Phillips, livery.
$1,000; W. D. Vredenburgh, Board.
paupers, s16400; Lincoln Co. Nat
CT. Cts, $3O0.SO: Syms- York Co.
Supps., $13.05.
The Board reviewed the bids for
bonds and awarded the $4,000 issue
to Central Savings Bank & Trust Co
Of Denver at 5 per cent with a pre-
MUM of $4,000.
The resignation of Probate Judge
H. b. Jones was accepted and Walter
II. Copp was appointed in his stead
md duly sworn in.
Upon petition Joseph Ballinger was
appointed as Justice of the Peace and |
Nm. Kisling as Constable of Dietrich |
Precinct
Whereupon Board recessed until
une 49, 1914
w. J. TAPER, Chairman.
Attest: Harry w. Anderson, Clerk.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1914-06-04
BETTER POLITICAL LAWS.

The delegates the state platform conventions to be
chosen next Tuesday according to plan announced by
the various party organizations All the conventions meet
in Boise June Both This revolutionary change from
ali the older systems Under the old convention pan
of delegates named the candidates for office and made
party platform for them Under the first primary law the
candidates named suspicion to what they would
do, and then they made platform that might be worlds
moved from what the people wanted The plan for the
people to make party platforms and then know what
candidate going to do before rskng vote in the prmar
les, looks to be much the best of all.
But this could be vastly improved in saving time
and money and civic enthusiasm by cutting out the prma
les and letting settle it. Then the party that had
such lead pipe cnch the election that it had dozen
foolish candidates who counted political precedent pres
tige pull them through would be automatically swamped
1t would absolutely ruin the hereditary politician.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1914-06-04
Helpful Facts
CONTINUED from page ~

not have several thousand dollars
for the many who have pulled
through on so much less initial cap
ital is too large. But if one could
have that much money, it would go
as far here as anywhere else in the
world 1t would save some years
of deprivation right at the hardest
worked period of ones life-at the
time when he's giving his very life
for a home, and if he can sacrifice
something somewhere else, and in
vest it here where he's going to
live, it will pay to sell at half price
and have the money to use at once.
Butter brings 30 cents, or higher;
hogs have been 7 cents a pound, or
higher, live weight; and everything
that the farmer has to sell, brings
enough money to make it pay a
profit. And the land is sure to
grow rapidly in value, with cult
walton. 1t is a general saying, that
land seeded to alfalfa is worth a
basic price Of $10O an acre; and it
Will pay the farmer interest on that
much
The schools, the good roads, the
bracing climate where 50 few peo-
pie are ever sick, the fishing in the
streams that are always close at
hand, the certainty of crops under
that one cannot possibly
have the variable rainfall condi-
tons of the humid belt, make this
look like good place to investi-
gate, whether you have so much
that you Cont need to be
careful, or whether you have SO
little that you can't rightly capital
ize good farm as it ought to be
If you have the slight
est notion of making a change, cor
respond with the Community
League of Richfield. It's made up
Of all the farmers, the merchants,
the professional men and the labor
ing men of the Richfield Tract,
for the general good; and
is safe to trust
The accompanying cut shows the
and in. the three stages, raw sage
brush, cleared land, and land in al
,alfa. A constantly increasing
acreage of land is being put into
cultivation, SO that in the irrigated
section the sage brush will in few
rears be no more.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1914-06-04

Some of the have having another attack
snakes and again featuring how Teddy elected Will
son as president If he did, better than to let the
Chicago convention go unrebuked. But he didn't do it. 1t
was the headed bunecked Taft ring that would rather
nominate Taft and lose than Roosevelt and win. The peo
pie wanted Roosevelt Taft Of all the idotc things
great party ever did his denomination the To
to charge the result of this docy the majority who could
not endorse it, supplemented And Roosevelt couldn't
have made coaxed that majority vote for Taft anyhow