davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1916-10-04

Mrs. W. T. Mcdonald left Sunday
Tor Atlanta, to spend some time with
Mr.. and Mrs. w. T. Mcdonald, Jr.,
Ind Mrs. Rob Hill.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1916-10-04

Lawrence Harper of Honea Path,
who is the efficient postmaster at
that point, was in Abbeville. Mondoy
bidding on real estate at the Mas
ter's sale.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1916-10-04

Mrs. Lewis Perrin is at home after
b short stay in Chester at DR.. Pryors
Hospital. Every one is glad to know
that she is: quite we'll again.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1916-10-04

Misses Louise Chilcotte, Hannah
land Carrie Cochran, and Messrs. Vic
|tor and John Lomax went up to An
derson Sunday and spent the day
with friends.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1916-10-04

Misses Lilly Brooks, Lena Gallo
way, of Due West, spent the week
end with Miss Maggie Brooks.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1916-10-04

Miss Ruth Howie of the Carey
High School, delighted her parents
and many friends by coming home or
Friday for the weekend.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1916-10-04

VIM. T. Hughes, who is attending
the Carey High School this year
came home for the weekend to see
his grandmother, Mrs. J. M. Taggart
and to take look at the pretty girls.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1916-10-04

4 Raymond Stilwell and Bill Speed
spent Sunday in Hartsville with
friends.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1916-10-04

Mrs. J. D. Kennedy and Mrs. John
Cade, of Troy, were among the busy
Fisitors to the city Monday.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1916-10-04

Miss Mamie L. Smith, Sec. and Treas
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1916-10-04

Mrs. j. F. Clinkscales and Miss
Alberta Clinkscales were among the
shoppers in the city on Monday.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1916-10-04

Mr.. and Mrs. J. L. Maxwell of
Greenwood, spent Sunday in the city
with relatives.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1916-10-04

Miss Willie CaIhotn has returned
Ito her home in Atlanta after pleas
amt visit to Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis Per-
|rin.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1916-10-04

James Cox and Arthur Link spen'
Thursday in Augusta with friends.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1916-10-04

Mr.. and Mrs. r. L. Mabry and
family spent Sunday in Edgefeld
with Misses Minna and Anna Bee.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-13
German Students in War
[springfeld Republican,

A striking picture of the German
universities in war time is drawn
from their calendars by a writer in
School and Society. Superlicially, he
says, there is little change; the cal
endars are as full as ever, and there
seem to be as many courses, teach
ers and students. Bbut when the
names marked with a X (for Krieg-
steilnehmer or participant in the
war; are deducted, it appears that
80 per cent. of the teachers are doing
military service, and that $4,000 stu
dents are taking part in the war as
against $4,000 in residence. The num-
ber of foreign students has shrunll
from several thousand to less than
200, and the Internationaler Student
verein founded in 1910 has collapsed.
Much of the work of the universi-
ties goes on as usual but many
courses are offered which bear di-
rectly upon the war. The medical
faculties give much attention to waT
surgery, and the professors of law
offer many courses on the problems
of the day. 1t is interesting to find
that even in the midst of the great
war Professor Schuecking, of Mar
burg, is giving a course on 'the idea
of international organization"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-13
Revolt Against Primary
[Ohio State Journal ]

Here is the way the Sioux City Jour
nal says the primary system is work
ing out in Iowa:
The talk about the voters having
something to say about their conven-
ton delegates is Il good deal of a joke.
Here in Iowa delegates to the national
conventions will be elected on April
10. Theoretically they will be named
by the people. AS a matter of fact
Republican delegates have been al
ready named. \ group of party lead
ers got together in Des Moines and
agreed upon four men for delegates
at-large."
There is a growing opposition to the
primary system all over the country.
1T is good theory but it is not work
ing right The people are not having
their say and if they are their judg-
ment is not justifying itself, for as a
general thing politics is perverting the
democracy to it's own selfish ends.
What was supposed to be the popular
will is turning out to be the most un-
popular will. Get us back to the old
convention style, where we will know
what we are about, and where we can
fight the gangsters in the open.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-13
PHILIPPINE PROBLEMS
Footlights on the Farm
By Frederic J. Haskin

slight degree. but the movie is essen
TALLY a means of individual entertain
ment, affording little opportunity for
social intercourse and the fostering of
community spirit.
Such was the state of affairs when
Mr.. Arvold began his experiment with
the little country theater. The college
donated a room on the second floor
of its administration building, which
was fitted up with a stage, lights and
rows of chairs, all of which are avail
able in the average town hall or
church. The students started to give
theatrical performances and invited
the people from the surrounding
farms. They spared no effort to en-
tertain their audiences. Since seventy
per cent. of the population of North
Dakota is either foreign born or of
foreign parentage, a special plea to
their interest was made by specializ-
ing on nationality programs in which
folk plays, folk songs and music were
featured. An admission of five to
fifteen cents was charged, to pay for
scenery, costumes and incidental eX-
penses.
The experiment worked, and is
working yet. From the beginning the
actors have played to capacity houses,
the farmers are now writing plays
themselves, and the whole community
nothing else could have brought about.
Moreover, the fame of the Little
Country Theater, as it is called, has
spread, and rural communities all
over the country have adopted the
idea.
Each student in the college is re-
quired to take some active part in this
dramatic work during the year, either
as an actor, director, playwright
sceneshifter or member of q mob or
chorus. In this way he learns every
phase of the theatrical production
which enables him to establish a sim
liar use of the town hall when he
goes home.
Under the auspices OF the Drama
League of America, Mr.. Arvold is
making a complete tour of the coun-
try explaining the object of the little
country theater at Fargo and the re-
suits it has accomplished. Farm
towns that have known no social ac-
tivity in the past fifty years are Civ
ing historical pageants and outdoor
dramas with the energy of a Broad
way producer. And their young peo-
pie are ceasing to hear the call of the
cities.
Besides entertaining the prosper
Gus classes of the nation, the little
theater is being used to educate the
immigrant. Tt has proved highly eff
ficacious in social settlement work on
the East Side.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-13
REAL DAVID GRAYSON''
[From the Kansas city Star.l


Those of us who remember Ray Stan.
nard Baker as one of the three original
'muckrakers" of the old McClure's S
Magazine, will be surprised at the dis
closure that he also is David Grayson. -
that delightful stroller with the tin
whistle; for in all his undertaking
stories there was nothing to suggest
the same authorship for Grayson's
charming pastoTals.
Many thousands who have been fas-
cinated by the adventures in Content
ment" and "The Friendly Road" have
wondered about David Grayson,
whether that was his real name,
whether he had a wife named Harriet,
and whether he really carried in his
knapsack n tin whistle TO play in har-
mony with the singing OF the brooks
and the droning of the wind in the
treetops.
And now we know that all the ad-
ventures of David Grayson were crea-
tions of the imagination Illusions. but
none the less real. For the "AdVen-
lures in Contentment" are true. whether
they ever happened or not, and so are
the experiences of The Friendly
Road"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-13
RECENT REMARKS
IFrom the New York Independent

From the New York Independentl
Lord Beresford Brilliant retreats
will not win the war.
Lillian Russell - More women than
men suffer from cold feet.
William Allen White-The reformer
with u past never gets beyond second
base.
Victor Murdoc1l-Before July, maybe
by April, half of London will be de-
stroyed by great Zeppelin attack.
Senator Chamberlain-There is not in
the diplomatic history of the United
States a single instance in which we
did not get the worst of 1t.
General Nelson \. Miles II one
half million men were landed on either
of our coasts and we were not able to
raise enough men to drive them out. /
would want to move to another coun-
try
Charles Ram Kennedy We don't
want literature used as n sugar coating
God loves little Willie because he fed
the dicl<ie birds and didn't say "damn." "
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-13
THE POWER OF SONG

[Punch.l
The Man of Business. Returning to
His Mansion. Findeth His Wife at
the Grand Pianoforte.
Sing to me, love, need thy song.
l need that thou should'st cheer me
well,
For everything is going wrong,
And life appears an awful sell.
I've overdfawn my bankers book.
I'm teased for loans by brother
John,
Last night our clerk eloped, and took
Two thousand pounds-sing on
sing on.
My partner proves man of straw.
And straw, alas! i dare not thrash;
My mortgage has gone to law,
And swears he'll have his pound of
flesh.
My nephew's nose has just been split
In some mad student fight at Bonn;
My tailor serves me with Il writ
For three years bills-sing on
sing on.
My doctor says L must not think.
But go and spend a month at Ems;
My coachman, overcome by drink,
Near Barnes upset me in the
Thames;
My finest horse is ruined quite,
And hath no leg to stand upon;
The others knees are such sight,
He'll never sell-sing on-sing on.
My love, no tears. I'll touch thee now:
Thy parrot in our pond is drowned;
Thy lap-dog met furious cow,
Whose horn hath saved thee many q
pound;
Thy son from Cambridge must retire,
For tying crackers to don;
Thy country house last night took fire
It's down, sweet love-sing on
sing on.
The Courier, Charleston, s. c., Feb
ruary 20, 1866.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-13

DROADWAY has ceased to dazzle
Id the wheat belt. The tired busi-
nessman no longer has anything
on the farmer, who can drive to the
town hall almost any. night in the
week and indulge his dramatic tastes
TO the full. Not only that, but he can
become an actor himself, playing any
thing he pleases from the hero to a
member of the Roman populace. He
can write a play and direct its stag
ing, paint his own scenery and super
wise its building Even when he is
merely a spectator. he has n certain
pride and sense of ownership in tho
drama, which is never enjoyed by the
most faithful metropolitan first
nIgh!cr.
Much of the monotony of rural life
has Eeen dispelled by the simple eS-
pedient of the amateur theatrical.
The town hall, which for years was
in. use only for church sociahics and
an occasional performance of Uncle
Toms Cabin" by a nondescript road
company, has come into its own. 1t IS
a center of social activity now. Here
the families of the surrOUndnF FARMS
Jnir, IN the production OF plays and
rartomipes, often written and staged
by themselves.
The popular idea of the modern
farmer is that of a iovial individual
who motors in to see the latest comic
opera. His house is lighted with cleo
tricity and heated with hot water; his
servants sweep it with vacuum clean
ers and cook his dinner on the fireleSs
cooker. 1t is not for farmers such as
these that the little country theater
has been evolved. 1t is for the many
farming districts where recreation for
the main consists in reading the
county paper and playing checkers,
while his wife peruses the woman's
magazine and drives to church on
Sunday; where there is a scarcity of
young people because they have gone
to the city to escape the dullness.
For these districts the transforma-
tion of the town hall into little thea
ter is the answer to an old problem.
The farmer can forget the response
bilities of agriculture in his interpre-
tation of Rip Van Wrinkle, and his
wife has no thought of the hired
hands or the sick heifer while she por-
trays Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage
Patch"
A. G.. Arvold was the first to estab-
lish little country theater in the
North Dakota Agricultural College al
Fargo. North Dakota is a farming
State with a hundred and forty towns
having less than three hundred per-
sons. The usual lack of social inter
course exists. The moving picture
show has invaded the country to a
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-13
WHEN MEN GATHER TOGETHER

ISOLATED as we Americans are
from the zone of fighting, and de-
pendent, as we are, almost wholly
upon the more or less accurate news
of the world war which is CLEANED
from censored press dispatches. it is
next to impossible for us to develop
an adequate appreciation or concep-
ton of the thoughts that rule the
minds and hearts of the individuals
who comprise the nations at war. We
are prone to leap at conclusions and
to form hasty judgments from i'm
perfect premises, and one of the most
I frequently heard opinions is that
| Christianity has failed by reason of
/ the apparent breaking down of the
bond of international brotherhood.
! Those who were fortunate enough
| to hear George Innes. of Philadel-
phia, at the morning services of Mar
/ ket Square Presbyterian church yes
| terday and again in the afternoon
when he addressed the Laymen's
! Missionary convention in Grace Meth
odist Episcopal church, got new in
sight into the European attitude to-
ward Christianity. Mr.. Innes has but
recently returned from the European
center of activities where he has talked
with soldiers, bereaved mothers and
sisters, broken fathers and heavy
hearted relatives, and without eXcep-
ton there is no bitterness IN their
hearts toward their enemies; their
faith in God is unshaken, but all their
religious fervor has been absorbed
into praying for their country, and
they fear not to back up their prayers
with the strength of arms.
We in this country have much to
be thankful for. Our families are
preserved intact and we are permit
ted, through divine manipulation of
the universe. to pursue our peaceful
way, untouched by wars hurtling
death. When the foreign nations
whose life blood is ebbing can still
maintain their faith in humanity and
belief in an all-wise God, as we are
! assured they do by a man who has
seen and talked with many of their
people, how much more ought we in
our lives and thoughts strive to culti-
vate characters in which His life shall
be exemplifed.
Mr. Innes is only one of the many
noted speakers whom it will be the
pleasure of those who have enrolled
with the Laymen's Missionary Conven-
ton to hear during to-day and to-
morrow. 1t Is a good sign when busy
men in every walk of life are drawn
together with n single purpose to
spread the gospel to the uttermost
parts of the earth, in an effort 20
reach those whose unfortunate lot
has not been cast in Christian lands.
Harrisburg and those upon whose
shoulders has rested the burden of
the work in making possible this in
spring convention may well he salts
fled with the results OF their efforts.
This city is we'll in the van in every
civic activity neither does it allow
itself to lag in matters which make
for . higher spirituality.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-13
THE STATE FROM DAY TODKY

Roswell c. McRea, Phi. D., at pres
ent dean of the Wharton school of
commerce and finance in the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania, has accepted an
appointment as professor of economies
in the Columbia University school of
business. He will take up his duties
with the opening of the term in Sep
tember
Music and free lunches in rooms
where liquor is served will henceforth
be banned in Williamsport by order of
Judge Whitehead. The Judge at the
same time granted ninety-five licenses,
refused two, and held seventeen over
for further hearing:
The new freight outlook for HazIe-
ton has given that town a new lease on
life. City council has passed an ordi-
nance permitting the Wilkes Barre
and HaZleton Railway to run tracks to
the site of it's new freight house i'm the
western part of the town, making
freight connections with the Central
Railroad of New Jersey.
Theoretically sealed within the burn
ing Hollenback mine of the Lehigh
and Wilkes-Barre Coal Company. five
miners have been entombed and all
hope of recovering them has been
practically abandoned. Officials say
that at least three weeks will be re-
quired to smother the flames, and were
it not for the fact that the mine is
sealed months would be required be-
fore the flames could be eXtinguished.
Bucknell and Penn State Universi-
ties combined their glee clubs at State
College Saturday night for the second
annual concert by these combined or
ganizations. A large crowd attended
the concert
The University of Pennsylvania,
through the official mouthpiece of the
students. Old Penn. has made an edi-
torial plea that some public spirited"
citizen present the university with an
auditorium with "A seating capacity OF
at least 5000. And those who know
say that "Thc Mask and Wig" could
fill ii in no time.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-13
MONDAY EVENING,

speculations in 1913. by reason of in
dustrial and financial depression and
the subsequent closing of the New
York exchange at the outbreak of the
European war. became almost negli-
gible and the vigilance of the authori-
ties was relaxed. Then came the swing
back of the business pendulum and a
veritable whirlwind of Wall street ac-
tivities. The bucketshop came back
into its own and until curbed by order
of the Governor piled up countless
dollars for its operators.
One of the remarkable features of
the raids was the secrecy with which
they were conducted. With warrants
sworn out and in the hands of forty
State policemen, not a bucketshop pro-
prietor had an inkIing of what was in
store for him until actually confronted
by the laws representative.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-13
We'll KNOWN PEOPLE

james L. Wehn, Pittsburgh law
yer. is the head of the Pittsburgh
commercial mems organization to pro-
mote civic affairs.
Senator William G. Sproul, OIL
Cboster who is q candidate for re-
election, has been in the Senate since
1896.
Robert Ginter, Washington cor
respondent of the Pittsburgh Gazette
Times, has been made a managing
editor of that paper. A. c. Farr, man
n einf- editor for several years, has sue
ceeded the late Morgan L. Gable, as
chief editorial writer
Edward III. Filter OF Philadelphia
is at Palm Beach.
j. l.. Replogle, who inquired IN
ENJOYING Florida resorts.
President Samuel Rea,. or the
Pennsylvania, has returned from
trip to Virginia resorts.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-13
THE BUCKETsHoP RAIDS

HOVERNOR BRUMBAUGH and
NJ Attorney General Brown have
done good stroke of work in
Kidding the State of large number of
bqcketshops and it is gratifying to
note that every county is being raked
as with a fine-tooth comb to the end
that the evil may be eradicated in
Pennsylvania.
The Legislature a few years ago
recognized the necessity of regulating
stock transactions and placed on the
statute books law that the Attorney
General has used as an instrument in
The present prosecutions. Fer a period
it was vigorously enforced, but stock
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-13
so SILLY OF THEM
GFrom ANSWERS, London. /

AS a train was getting up steam to
leave n certain station 1t suddenly
parted in the middle. OF course. the
communication cord broke, and one
end of it struck an old woman. who
was standing on the platform, in the
face.
Goodness met" she gasped in as
tonishment. What was that"
"The train has broken in two,
madam" said a man who stood near
her.
"And I should think SOL" said the
old woman, Indignantly, as she eyed
the broken cord. Did they really
think that a piece of string like that
could hold a train together"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-13
HIGH TIDE
TFrom the Sailors Magazine. ]

FTOW IHe SalIUFS MaEdIIHC'J
The feminine naivete that is so
amusing to the nautical man has a
good illustration in this question asked
by young woman who saw a monitor
lying at anchor in Boston harbor. She
turned TO her escort and said: What
makes that boat lie so low in the
water-is it high tide?"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-13
Smash in China

In the busy calendar of mer-
chandise this is china sale time:
The stores present unusual
opportunities to replenish the
china closet - frequently MAX
ing price concessions.
This particular impulse. to
buy at this season has been built
nm by recurring advertising.
People have been educated to
watch their newspaper for the
opportunities and many are at
this very minute instinctively
turning to the advertising coll
umns OF the Telegraph.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-13
OUR DAHYLAUGHI |
POOR JONES.

POOR JONES.
She: I hear
Jones and his
wife have patch
ed it up.
He: Yes, but
not until Jones
gave the doctor
a FIVE spot to
patch himMp.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-13

When a mans garter begins to
slide down 1t isn't the thought that he
is losing weight that troubles him.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-13
TELEORAPH'S PERISCOPE

How the Kaiser must envy us our
little job of capturing Villa.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-13

Easter comes late this year." OBJ
serves an exchange. But we have to
give up for that hat and gown any
way, so what's the difference?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-13

Lord Northcliffe says England re-
CARDS Ford as pro-German. over here
we regard him as pro- Ford.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-13
POOR IN THEIR MIDST

will also leave in the midst of thee
an afflicted and poor people. and they
shall trust in the name of the Lord
zephaniah, S:12.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-13

Over 5000 noncombatants killed or
injured in Zeppelin raids. Isn't it about
time somebody gave the Count another
Iron Cross?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-13
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg makes beds
and bedding for many big hotelsT