davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Alaska citizen., 1915-01-18

appear. but it is quite sure that the Fair banks people who will greet the popular players when they return here next summer, will enjoy the novelty of seeing the Tango Maid and the characters bearing the names of the former residents of this city
 The Bostonans are now tourins 2 the Western States. Copies of ths program of the Tango Maid" and some of the other plays in which the Bostonians are appearing were re cieved d few days ago by The Citi
The Yale expositor., 1915-08-19

themselves lucky IL they are taken
across for less than ten cents. Well,
twopence is not famous pay for half
an hours hard pulling.
The old grandmother takes COM
mand in all things. Girls may not
be wanted in China, but IL they live
to be old they are venerated Indeed,
generation for old people and ances-
tors is one OF the most admirable
traits in the Chinese character. And
what magnificent water women they
are. have been In sampan in dan
gerous weather, with typhoon threat.
ening land ! should never have been
there had 1t not been absolutely neces-
sary, don't take me for a hero). A
fierce gusty wind was blowing and
all the time the boat looked like be-
ing swamped. But the way in which
that old woman gave her orders and
anticipated every gust OF more than
usual strength was entirely admirable.
The sail would be raised a little
way, to the vast mental discomfort of
the passenger, who was vastly afraid,
and down it would come with a rattle
on her order Just before the wind
caught the boat and sent 1t careening
along at an alarming pace. Mind you,
there was a man aboard, a son-in-law;
l have yet to see grandfather-but
he counted for less than nothing. He
smoked all through the trying time.
He also smokes when the weather is
fine. Sometimes, when no breeze is
about, he will take the tiller, but that
is because the old women are wanted
at the oars. do not know where the
old men go. nor nave 1 net anyone
who does know, but they do not at
least die of premature strain OF the
heart induced by overworh.
The Yale expositor., 1915-08-19
IR!\XkEEE TL,F1lE ] !;
inQf1IilAl.,4l.,,A:!'|'.:'.+''

think it worth their while to chronicle
the fact. But then, life is much cheap
er out in the far East than 1t is at
home. Why, we have epidemics of,
say, smallpox here in Hongkong dur
ing which a couple OF hundred cases,
and goodness knows how many
deaths, will be reported in a week.
And no one except the authorities
takes much notice.
Mention Of the hen above may make
the reader wonder what manner Of
boats these are and what manner of
people and animals and birds are con-
gregated therein. Bless you, in little
more space than is available in an or
binary rowing boat these sampan peo-
pie will crowd three generations of
people-anything up to ten-and hens
and dog. These at least. Don't ask
me where and how they all sleep.
Even IL they are packed as clothes are
packed in a holiday bag, with the
smaller articles-the children in this
case-wedged into any available cor
ner and crushed in the process, there
docs not seem room enough for even
one to get legs healthily stretched.
But they do manage it and keep
healthy and thrive tremendously on
it. The housing problem for them is
readily solved.
To passengers aboard steamers they
will sell eggs or vegetables or pots
and pans, or silk, or anything else
they may wish. They may not have
the particular article you require, but
they will either get 1t or find another
sampan where il can be secured. II
you go to Canton they will ferry you
across the river very cheaply-if you
know the ropes. Chinese passengers
will be carried across for ten cash,
which Is one tenth of cent Mex, or
two fifths OF one cent u. S. currency.
Work that out for yourself and don't
talk for strikes for a generation after.
But the European passenger, who is
not initiated, Is fair prey.
Will Squeeze you II he can.
The cost to him is as much as can
be squeezed out of him. No flftieth
part of penny for him. If he looks
a stranger so cents Mex. or more will
be asked, and If he protests, the price
may come down to half. Even then
the sampan people have done a ia
nous stroke of business for that day.
And the best of Europeans count
The Yale expositor., 1915-08-19

R F YOU visit Hongkong or Canton
or Shanghai you will find thou
sands OF people who spend their
III lives from first to last on water
Both in Hongkong and Canton a
population equal to that Of consider
able town lives on little boats called
sampans, and never by any chance do
these water jewellers set foot on land
If they can avoid it, the Hongkong
correspondent of the Dundee Courier
writes.
Nor can they get back quickly
enough to their native element If bust
ness should call them from it for
little time. They are unhappy on land;
one can read 1t alike in their carriage
and their faces. Even the tiniest Of
children dislike dry land. But see
them aboard rocking cockleshell of
a boat, and, if you are tender hearted,
you have heart tremors the first time
or two. They are able to do little
more than walk, yet they balance
perilously on the narrow side of the
boat and perform feats that would
turn a white mothers hair gray in
day.
But these Chinese mothers do not
turn gray; they do not even look at
their offspring. For one reason, they
are too busy; for another, there is not
the faintest need for them to worry.
What is bred in the bone comes out
even in the flesh of a sampan-born
youngster, and ability to get about
rocking boat at the age of fifteen
months or so is bred in the bone OF
these babies.
Girl Babies Of Little Account.
Besides, babies (girl babies at least)
are of very little account. If one OF
them should fall overheard she may
be pulled out again before she is
drowned, and IL she is not caught up
quickly enough the loss is not greatly
serious from their point of view. You
may regard this as exaggerated, but
Il is overstated no whit. The writer
remembers successive days-when he
was new to the far East and took
notice of such things-seeing first
girl baby and then a hen fall into the
water.
The mishap to the baby caused no
excitement whatever, but in the case
of the hen there arose a mighty
screeching. The mother and grand
mother and what may have been either
The Yale expositor., 1915-08-19

aunts or sisters set up a tremendous
row which did not subside until some
time after the frightened hen had been
neither here nor there; the loss of a
hen would have been serious from an
economic point of view.
Whether among land or water Deo-
pie in China, girls are not greatly
wanted and the addition to a family
which has already a sufficiency Of
girls of another of the female sex is
counted almost a calamity. But it is
q calamity which is easily got over
One hates to set down the horrid
fact, but the unwanted baby is quite
often got rid of by the simple expedi-
ent of dumping 1t overheard. Especial
Iy does this take place with much
frequency in Canton.
In the British city of Hongkong the
practice is not so commonly followed,
because the authorities have a swift
way of dealing with unnatural parents
of this stamp. But IL is not yet
stamped out and probably never will
be. The best that can be said is that
fear OF the law keeps IL within rea-
sonable bounds (if any bounds can
be reasonable In such a connecticut, ,
and that those parents who do risk
the penalty of the law have at least
been educated to the point of dump
ing the bodies with for them, quite
commendable decency They do not
now drop them overheard and allow
them to be picked up or no as chance
determines. They dump them on
buoys, where they are sure to be seen
and so secure burial Cor them.
Life Cheap In the Far East.
Dumping on buoys Is even today so
common hat the newspapers do not
The Yale expositor., 1915-08-19

hdll. II AllAilo NlOSNN
the icebox noisily
and pretended not
to hear.
isn't that some
one at the door,"
Helen was drop
ping the mayon-
naise from the
fork to test its
smoothness.
mo, ma'am, 1
guess it's the
wind" as she
opened the door
and evidently Sig
nailed the girl to
go away.
For a second
Halan WaS temDt-
The Yale expositor., 1915-08-19

Bay county-2S8 cases pending, ia
bills filed and 81 DEGREES granted.
Lenawce cornty-SS1 cases pend
ing, 7e bills fled and Go DEGREES
granted.
st. Clair county-648 cases pending,
Muskegon county-102 bills filed
and Sc DEGREES granted.
The Yale expositor., 1915-08-19

It was faint, furtive knock-the
knock of the maid from across the
The Yale expositor., 1915-08-19
INTERNATIONAL
SUNDNSC[lOOL
LESSON
BY o. T.. SELLERS, Acting Director of
the Sunday School Course of the Moody
Bible Institute)
LESSON FOR AUGUST ~
AsA's GOOD REIGN.

LESSON TEXT-II Chron. 15:1-15.
% GOLDEN TEXT-Draw nigh TO God and
lie will draw nigh to you. James AS.
The Yale expositor., 1915-08-19

The National Taxation and Inspec-
tion League of America, with head
quarters at Ann Arbor, HAS filed arti-
cles of association with Secretary Of
State Vaughan. 1t is the purpose Of
the association to advocate legislature
to place all church property on the
tax rolls. Alfred p. Norton, of Ann
Arbor, is president, and James b.
Saunders, is secretary.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-03-08

lie as good roads. This same state
ment might also be said of the whole
of North America.
Los Angeles has spent millions on
good roads, experimenting with this
and that, only now to positively and
definitely return to the fact that con-
crete roads. concrete streets and con-
crete paving is the only satisfactory
road to build, the only road whereby
the taxpayer gets what he pays for,
the only road that will give an en-
gfneer permanent reputation.
Practically every engineer and
read builder in California today is
agreed that concrete is the only good
road, that the days of oil macadam
have gone. This experimenting with
oil macadam has been a mighty ex-
pensiye tryingout for the taxpayers Of
Los Angeles. p m: j.:
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-03-08

trochus shell for button making
Mr. Cottrell, who arrived on the
Makura, found many places where
trochus shells were abundant, such
as the Gilbert and Marshall islands,
900 miles south of Hawaii. However.
the transportation OF the gathered
shells is a problem for there are no
vessels plying between here and
these islands. He will investigate the
possibility Of establishing a schooner
connection from Honolulu, and also
the ACCESSIBILITY of operating cutting
factory here.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-03-08
KUPIHEA DENIES
ALL TESTIMONY
ACCUSING HIM

Saturdays conclusion OF the taking
of evidence in the house investigating
COMMITTEES Of the legislature was
occupied principally by David NJ.
Kupihea. member Of the lower
branch of the legislature, in pre-
Sent;ng his side of the case. KuDihea
entered denial Of almost every charge
made against him and his wife testi,
fed about the same as her husband
LCrr.n Andrews, HI D.hea's after
ney, finished the hearing by deliYer,n :
a denun citation Of tirCuit Judge Ash
ford. whose charges against kupihea
the committee has been probing. The
attorney charged that the Judge use1
his office TO make vicious and IN
warranted attack upon the honorable
member from the fifth district One
feature of Saturdays proceedings was
the testimony Of Joseph Girard, sol
der, who was called Just before the
defense commenced Introducing evil
dence
Girard termed himself an interested
spectator. He said he had visited the
Kupihea home on several occasions
with other soldiers and at the request
and invitation of Kupihea. lie said
that Kupihea took them to the de-
tached cottage on the first visit with
a lantern and that at this cottage only
a screen door separated the reception
room from the rooms where the girls
slept He corroborated the testimony
of French Oldham and William Brad
brock, the two soldiers convicted on a
statutory charge in connection with
KuDihea's daughter and niece.
He claimed further that he had seen
the soldiers on various occasions make
free use of the sleeping room occupied
by the girls and that Kupihea handed
the key to the soldiers in his pres.
ence Girard said that Kupihea re-
fused to take any pay for the use Of
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-03-08
SHELLS FIRED IN. TAHITI
PLACED ON EXHIBIT HERE

Pieces of shell fired into Papeete.
capital of Tahiti. by the Ger
man cruiser Scharnhorst in the
bOmhardment of that city before the
cruiser was sunk of the Falkland
islands, are on display in the promo
ton committee window. The war rel,
les were loaned TO the promotion COM
mittee by w. p. Cottrefl. OF Mckee
and Bliyen Button Co., at Muscatine.
Iowa, who has spent some time in the
South Sea Islands seeking a supply of
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-03-08

Physics lnstructor-Name the unit
OF power. Mr.. Jones. Jones twaking
upl-The what? InstEuctur-C Correct
Any questions? All right. We have
a few minutes before the end OF the
hour in which we will do this prob-.
lem: A man on a bicycle approaches
a per cent grade: how far has he
come. and will me have to get on and
walk cornell Widow.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-03-08

gan to thicken and 1 series 81 I'VE
arrests followed rs 4 result
Jeff Mccain ordered the women IN
the case. Annie X Kauhinl arrested
after her evidence in defense Of Hol-
0ron. and since then her husband. ka-
hae kaahini. and Mary Jones have
been arrested on n statutory charge.
Esther Holbron, Holbron's wife. and
Joe Terry were arrested on the come
plant OF Holbren to answer q similar
charge. @
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-03-08
HORNER SUBMITS DATA TO SHOW
CONCRETE PAVING IS SUPERIOR

"Macadam pavement is rapidly fall
ing in disfavor all over the country.
The state Of New York has spent $65,.
coo 900 upon macadam roads, but a
few months ago, in popular election.
$50 O00, 600 was voted which will be
used in tearing up the macadam roads
and replacing with concrete. A Gu
riCus fact IS that macadam roads were
factors which made possible the adOp-
ton OF power traction, including
trucks and automobiles. to the coun-
try: and it is now the mechanical
transportat on agents which are tear
ing macaGam TO pieces and necessitat-
ing a heavier type Of road cOnstruc-
ticn. This is eventually to be con
crete. Four inches of concrete will
stand greater strength than six
inches of macadam. On an average,
where traffic IS not unusually con-
gested, four inches OF concrete is suf-
ficient'"
Taken from report Of Austin B.
Fletcher. state highway OF California:
For a large portion of the roads
the commission has adopted a pave
nent consisting OF Portland cement
base of a minimum thickness ef four
inches and Is feet wide, with Shout
ders at least three feet wide on each
side of the concrete. The concrete
base is covered with thin coating OF
asphaltic oil and stone screenings,
forming bituminous carpet from "
to y inch in thickness to serve as a
wearing surface, and to protect the
concrete.
"Tn the environs of San Francisco
thicker base wearing surfaces are spe-
Gifted and running from Is to "a feet
in width.
Roads under contract August l,
1918:
Cost Cost
per. So.
Miles. mile I'd.
Water bound mac
adam ......... 7.6 5 4303 0.4S9
Bituminous macadam.19.1 1854 0.723
Asphalt macadam. Ills S403 0.716
Asphalt on concrete
+ base .............. 6.6 1890 Loo
ss-in. wearing surface
oH CUHCIete pdSe. 1901 oo54 VIZ
Some contractors have called the
roads painted concrete and insisted
that the asphaltic surfaces should be
not less than two inches in thickness,
consisting OF either the sheet asphalt
or one of the bitulithic variants.
. And the commission has conclud-
ed to continue with the thin surface,
renewing it as often as is necessary.
3. 81 " The thick surface would cost
more than ten times as much as the
original cost of the thin surface, and
1t seems probable that the interest on
the excess cost will pay the cost of
renewing the thin surface"
There is no one question in all Cali
fornia which is so interesting the pub
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the cottage. although ii had been OF.
fered TO him. Girard described the
four-day iuau given Christmas week
and said that KHp.hea helped drink
the bCozs purchased by the soldiers
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-03-08
H0LBRON CASE STARTS
CHAIN OF ARRESTS

After sentencing Robert Holbron
Jr.,. to six months in the Oahu prison
for statutory offense last week. the
federal authorities found the plot be-
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-03-20
Heart toHeart
Talks
CHARLES n. LURE
.,.,,,,v,n,yALIzE YOURSELF.

,,.um,upuALIzE YOURSELF.
rsa artist who is to produce . wots
v,,ch is to be admired, not ~ ..
.usnas or his townspeople OF his con-
. .., but by all men. and when
- - ~ more beautiful to the 90 ~
oronortion to its culture must d'''n.
d,vidualise himself and be man u
~ nartv and no manners and no ase
~. one through whom the soul OF ~
men circulates a. the common ~
through his lungs.-Emefson.
In other words
r. do rood work you must get oos.
.,de 81 yourself. You must fosses
vonr own interests and temporary 20
ysntaues and strive with an eye TO tns
,uture II must content you to Know
- vour own heart and soul that the
thing YOU are engaged in II worthy ana
vill meet with ultimate approval
Such is the spirit that animates ~
GOOD mechanic at bis bench OF iatnc
Tho cobbler who puts on the patcu
true. the artist who expresses DIS I'D
sn,ration with pen or brush or cnisel
the statesman who labors TOT tne 40
Tancement of his country and OF tn
world. -.
Each partakes of the universal spirit
The worker is lost in the work !
possesses him and fills him. 1t grip
him with the never slackening grip Q
the thing that must be done II oil
own individuality is to find expression
It is the recognition Of this feellnl
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-03-20

49,.
w .M.. -. -s,, ... suan Tue w6fEn
. u Iurrow, Il.
.A.s - en the hon
s"oe. .... y. -. work or the M.
ue. !. 49,. s.ete. catches n
'u - sas - - nd,., ~ a,s bucket
"a .dm,re. sool, vor,r 1a,'y Recognise
anu az, tns vor,a ~. -. nowever doaa
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-03-20

Rode Five Miles to His Nearest Neigh.
dating back to boy and girl times,
they began to drift apart.
Where there are sheep the wolf
comes. It was no exception here. Jim
Collins was six feet one, flashy and
taking with women. He had sim
lister reputation among the folks Of
the district. But he was the man for
whom Larry was working. He had
not often paid visit to the range.
preferring to gamble away his money
ut Butte, where he had . string Of
racers and two or three automobiles.
He had the patronage Of the county.
too. Many women had given their
love to Collins. They had lived to
regret it-but Dorothy only saw In
him q big. good.natured man. longing
for sympathy and to be understood.
Once Larry. returning from the
range sooner than had been expected
found Collins in the hut, bending ovel
Dorothy ~ she made tea. He looked
up brazenly and laughed. Larry said
nothing then. Later he taxed his wife
with caring for Collins. That was {
mistake. A man should hold his peac,
until the time comes to strike. Blu
all Larry's wounded soul. all the sui
fering he had endured during thos'
days of estrangement came to his lip
| in a food of bitterness.
Next morning he went to work with
out word having been spoken. Whel
he was gone Dorothy slipped out o
the hut. An hour later she steppe'
into an automobile that was waitin
for her below the hill.
When Larry came home that nigh
his heart overlooking with contritior
he found the hut empty. A little not
was pinned to the dresser.
Il don't love Jim Collins" II reat
but he can give me something be
ter than sheep. We leave Butte fc
California on the night train and 70
will never see me again. But you won
want to. as loug as you have you
sheep"
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-03-20
Wolf IN THE FOLD
sy GERALD MONTAGUE.

You will find no woman willing to
stand for . life in . shepherds hut"
his friends told Larry Owen. when he
announced his intention Of getting
married and retaining his job.
Larry smiled. and when his friends
saw his bride they changed their opin-
ion. Dorothy was . mite Of . thing.
just like . little gray mouse-Welsh.
like Larry, and . girl whom he had
been engaged to before he went to
Montana to work on the sheep
ranges.
Larry did not intend to keep Doro-
thy In seclusion upon the hills for
ever. Just - the seaman has thoughts
Of . quiet farm where he can spend
the latter years Of his life. 20 Larry
had always dreamed Of . snug little
country place with IN orchard. bees,
and chickens, and no sign Of . sheSp
within . hundred miles. He was IN ex
pert farmer, besides being . sheperd
and he had twelve hundred dollars
stored snugly away-almost enough
to start the farm.
There was . certain orange farm
in q California county ON which he had
his eye for some months. How Doro
thy would love the life there. tn.
warm companionship Of the westernel
beyond the ranges. the sun, the ease
He had paid Q flying trip there 81,
months before. But he said nothinl
Of this to Dorothy.
A man should take his wife into hi
confidence. AS a rule the surpris
element does not work out satisfae
torily. Rather 1t Is the man who get
the surprises.
This case was no exception. Dore
thy soon began to weary Of the etel
nal hills. They had been married 81
months when Larry discovered tina
she was running bill at the neares
town for clothes. far in excess of wha
he had planned for her.
"Well, I'm just sick Of the motonon
here" she said defiantly. Il can
live here forever, seeing nothing bt
the sheep. Won't you get anothe
job?"
The Welsh girl was homesick Il
the old friendly society. She longe
for the faces she had known; 81
felt that she had stepped into q vas
perpetual prison.
It has been said q man and woms
cannot live in utter seclusion and :
tain their love for each other.
spite Of their love Of dozen year
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-03-20
Aequlrlna an Education

Nobody ever drifted into an educa.
tion. Conscious effort to direct one's
reading and thinking into the best
channels Ii an absolute requisite
Choice must be made Of books. Of
friends and Of pleasures. One cannot
read trash and think literatura-
Amos R. Wells.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-03-20

Alligators' eggs are eaten In the
West India Islands and on the west
coast Of Africa They resemble IN
shape . hens egg. and have much the
same taste. but are larger. More
than . hundred eggs have been found
n one Allientoe.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-03-20
Language Of che World.

Strange Is 1t may seem. there ri
more than four thousand lsnsu,e,.
spoken by mankind, while the nm
Der Of dialects exceeds this. rh~,|
are more than sixty vocabulsri~ n
Brasil and In Mexico the Nahu 4
broken up into some seven hundri
dialects. There are hundreds n
Borneo. while III Australia there /, n
classifying the complexities. Assup.
ing that so dialects on the avenn
belong to each language. we have ~
colossal total of 100000 linguistic y
rieties.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-03-20
Marriage Age for Women.

Training and efficiency, and not sex.
should be the qualifications of those
wishing to I'LL positions in life. says
Dean Emile w. McVea of Cincinnati
university. She says that girls should
marry at twenty-five. and the only OBJ.
lection to a college education is that
it raises the marriage age to twenty.
eight or thirty.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-03-20

lW0o0touo YeuN0eeer.
A httis bog came near getting .
~ spanking for answering bis father
N Q pert way, but escaped by saying
when you were a small boy. dad.
didn't you ever get excited and say
the wrong thing!"
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-03-20
nDaa q hls Wsra

II DNegins . man Il h1s vog1f
Unfortunately %. Whenever - s1Ap
Landlord, FIN the Flowing BOWL -
I Won't Go Home TIL Morning!' hs
absolutely insists on making good"