davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
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ing you undress and get into your ham,
mock, with a calm stare that must not
be considered impertinert. for a white
man is not an everyday visitor
rarely undressed completely. Some
times / would only take off hat. coat
and boots: sometimes only my hat, for
sleeping in ones clothes becomes second
nature after awhile, and bathing and
changes of linen can be better INDUCED
in along the roadside
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Hammock a Necessity.

"As rule. the night will be spent in
a native house. sometimes little more
than a hut, built of mud, thatched or
rooted with tiles. One Is apparently
always welcome to the best the house
accords, but hammock as part of the
travellers outfit is a necessity, for the
beds of thatched bull-hide or canvas
are usually fully occupied, il not by
those at whose home you are a guest.
then by other residents greatly to be
feared.
Everybody sleeps in one room-men,
women and children together. Your
hosts are curious. but politely so, watch
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please Frank Morrison of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor. who argues
that the policemen want to organize
for their own peculiar needs and
without regard to other bodies. But
the Potential difficulties have been
foreseen by the local Commissioners
not only. but by mayors of other cities.
who have come to Washington for
advice. 1t is felt that in the event
of strike public confidence in the
police authorities would be weak
ened because of the apprehension
that the police would be one-sided.
Strike breaking by the use of other
employees might be subject to OBJ
stacles involving the sympathies of
policemen because of disqualification
or outside allegiance, and the opinion
seems to prevail that irrespective of
whether strike breaking is good or
bad for a community. irrespective of
the merits of any future controversy
that may arise in industry, the visible
arm of public authority should not be
in any way subject to outside fnf1u-
ence or restraint.
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May Be National Precedent.

Probably the example of the Dis
trict Commissioners will be followed
elsewhere in the United States and
be regarded as national precedent,
because it was adopted with the the
critical sanction at least of the Presi-
dent, who appoints the Commission
ers. The objection here is not against
the possibility of a sudden strike by
the police, because federal troops
would always be available for duty
in the District of Columbia. Nor is
there the slightest objection TO the
affiliation by government clerks. fire.
men or employees of the federal de-
partments in Washington with the
American Federation Of Labor, as
many Of these organizations already
have afhliated. But the police must
remain entirely free.
They can have an organization Of
their own to secure benefits In pay
or working conditions. apd such an
organisation will be formally recog-
nized by the Commissioners. But the
police authority itself must remain
Independent and inviolate.
/ Copyright, 1912
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Near Pennsylvania Size.

The country is just a little larger
than the state of Pennsylvania, yet
it has a population of only little
more than half a million. 1t has the
largest per capita debt of any coun-
try on the face of the globe except
New Zealand-at least it had before
the present European war upset all
statistical conditions. 1t owes 1920
per capita. Most of this debt was
created by loan-shark methods, how
ever, for Honduras would agree to
pay $40 to get one-or some such
ridiculous proportion.
THE name of the country is said to
be derived from a Spanish term mean
ing depth the early explorers having
found difficulty in striking water shall
low enough for anchorage. They were
SO delighted when they reached the
Nicaraguan shore nearby that they
called the headland Cape Gracias a
Dios' (Cape Thanks to God), a name it
still holds.
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ESQ Miles of War Medal Ribbon

LONDON. August IL Correspondence
OF the Associated Press).-Two hun
dred and fifty miles of British war
medal ribbon are to be issued to the
men and women entitled to these
decorations through recent edicts Of
the king.
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Federation View Explained.

the meshes of rival organization of
radical labor agitators some day and
that possible friction could be better
controlled if the policemen were af-
example. with an 1. W. w. organiza-
tion. But no matter what the purpose
of the labor organization-bei it con-
sentative or EadicalEthe District Of
Columbia Commissioners are uneQuiv-
ocally in opposition to afiiliation with
either. Commissioner BrOwnlow, after
conferences with representatives of
the police here, made 1t clear that an
organization of policemen as such was
not Objectionable, but no membership
in any outside labor movement would
be tolerated.
Commissiopers' Statement.
He says in a deliberately worded
statement:
consideration of the whole question of
the organization of a policemen's
union affiliated with any other labor
organization. have reached the con-
clusion that they must take the nee
essary steps to assure entire and
complete independence of the police
department.
They approve heartily Of the prin-
ciple of collective bargaining and they
NJ fhe nolice force for nnrno.a. - 81
Iective renresanf.t;on rp,,f,,.I 80
no-t 80 HrHar;.as -. - s-
III; s' ~ ncIe e@So
ing conditions.
iney must however, WitnhoIo their
consent from any project to connect
sucn an organisation OF members OF
the police department with any other
labor organization.
EtNo Strike" Provision Explained.
Ine 1act tnat the pohcemens union
fsOound oy q no-strikeS provision Is
an earnest OF the intention OF Its
weapon of compelling its demands.
ganizatfons which do contemplate the
Evening star., 1919-08-25

One of the best animal swimmers
is the horse. Horses have been known
to swim a river nearly a mile wide
simply to get back to their old
q HES
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Naturally the foregoing doesn't
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SPECIAL NOTICES.

6FBCIAL MEETING OF PLASTERERS AND
Comant Finishers' Local e6. Monday. Angus.
., 101o. ut pm Business Of iinpor ssice.
GEO. ROCK, Pres.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-06-26
Lithuania and Its People.

Lithuania is situated in the basin
of the Niemen and Dvina rivers on the
southeastern coast of the Baltic sea:
The capital is Wilma. Its area is ap-
proximately 10000 square miles, the
population about 100000, of whom
1000, 900 are L%ithuanians 3,50O,OOO
Lithuanians proper, 100000 using
Slavic dialects and 100000 Let's. The
country also contains a third Of a mil
lion Poles. The rest of the population
consists of Jews, White Russians, Ger
mans and Mongols. 1t is said that
there is no trace in the worlds history
of any other people having lived in
these regions. Although situated be-
tween the Slavs and the Teutons, the
Lithuanians are in no way related to
them. They claim that their language
is one of the oldest now spoken in the
world. 1t is said strikingly to re.
semble ancient Sanskrit.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-06-26
Many Tyrants.

He was a high school pupil, and was
mbibing many bits Of philosophy. At
home he watched the women folk and
the ways they devised for doing as they
pleased and for getting every other
person to do as they wished them
to do. And from these he drew con-
illusions which he later voiced.
"Times have changed since my his
tory was written" he told his father
one night. "Then the tyrants were
the men who used to stamp around
and kill and frighten people into sub
mission. Today the tyrants have drop
ped those weapons and use much more
subtle ones-tears. I think a woman
who cries in order to get her W way
Is a bigger tyrant than ever those ole
fellows of long ago We're"
Anyway, it set father to work think
Ing.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-06-26
on Grass Roots

n great part of the relief work there.
MIR. Heinz says reports that some of
the refugees, driven frantic by hunger
and suffering, have resorted to canni-
balism are true In his opinion. He
adds that food for 100000 In that ter
ritory will have to be provided by out
side sources for another year.
'The lack of food is so Serious"
says the telegram, 'that the women
are forced to go into the fields and
obtain grass roots, which they cook
into a kind Of broth and serve as
boiled green's. occasionally getting a
bit Of rice to mix with it. This con-
stitutes the principal diet OF many.
The little children, naturally, get the
worst Of this situation, because they
cannot eat such material, and 1t is
among the children that the death rate
Is the highest
at Is difficult to make comparisons
MS TO the degree Of dcstitution and dis
tress In different districts Of towns
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-06-26

the grain control committees at each
market. and in view of the very COM
prehensive data and information in
their possession as to storage facill-
ties, anticipated movements out OF
markets, the needs of different Sec
lions of the country, not only as to
wheat but as to other cereals that flow
coincidentally with wheat, etc., were
Of invaluable aid in the accomplish
ment of the permit system with a
minimum economic disturbance. The
same character of assistance is being
arranged for from the grain corpora
ton, or the wheat director, In antlcl-
patton that it will be necessary to re-
inaugurate the permit plan within the
next one or two months.
The wheat director is as vitality IN
terested as the railroad administration
that the grain tonnage shall be nan
died with the least possible friction as
between all interests concerned, ana
is In entire harmony with the railroad
administration as to the plans pro-
posed in that direction.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-06-26
Plan Moving of
Big Grain Crops

ever, TO be expected that the system
will again be inaugurated with the
opening of the new wheat season, and
in view of that possibility the railroad
administration is already preparing
the necessary machinery so that it
may be prepared to act without delay
at the proper time. Conferences
have already been held with represent
atives of the grain corporation.
AS graphically illustrating the ne
cessity of regulating the transporta-
ton of this tonnage, and the results
obtained from such regulation, the fol-
lowing facts are of value and interest
ing: For the nine months of the crop
year, July 1, 1918. to May l, 1919, there
passed through the grain handling fa-
cilities of the country-elevators and
mills-a total of 3,440,236,000 bushels
of all grains, although the highest
point of grain storage of all kinds at
any one time in that period was AGO.
100000 bushels. That Is, in nine
months the flow of grain was seven
times the quantity which accumulated
in storage at the highest point during
that period. This is a direct illustra-
ton of the necessity of keeping the
grain-handling facilities of the coun-
try liquid to avoid the distress to all
interests that would follow the block
ing of this flow of grain.
R%einaugurate Permit Plan.
The permit system as operated last
year contemplates the closest cooper
alton between the railroad administra
ton and the United States food ad
ministration grain corporation. The
local representatives of the grain cor
poration were in daily contact witt
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-06-26
POOR WAY TO WOO SLEEP
Man Who Experimental Pronounces
Insomnia "cure" to Be at Least
Of Doubtful Value.

A new cure for insomnia. we reaA is
to '1lst the first names of all your
friends and acquaintance, taking each
letter of the alphabet In order"
OF course this is only a variant Of
the old device of counting imaginary
sheep jumping over a wall. Personally
we never found that to work at all.
We counted between 1000 and 1900
Of these alleged soporiic sheep n
night, and then the alarm clock went
off and it was time to get up, which
we did with a groan, a headache and a
pair of astigmatic eyes.
Making an alphabetical catalogue of
your friends first names is an even
more stimulating and n~erve-exciting
process. We would be willing to wager
that no normal persons could get fur
Their than the Ms before being inter-
rupted by the first call for breakfast.
It is doubtful, at least, if the night con-
tains enough time to go through with
the whole list from Alfred to Gorilla.
We should say that this might be the
surest way to Danish sleep altogether.
The best way to WOO slumber, we
have been told, is to go into the ST.
lence, relax all muscles and nerves, and
then in a mental way, pull all the edges
of the mind into a dead mental center
and fold them in. 1t is hard to say
Just how this is done, but it sounds
plausible. Frequently, of course, there
are some difficulties merely in going
into a silence. Somewhere on the prem
Uses, perhaps in an adjacent apartment,
there may be someone who has gone
% sleep without going into the silence.
This interferes materially with the
working of all a~nti-insomnia devices.
If there is no n~eighboring obstacle OF
this sort 1t is a much easier matter.
And yet, even after the silence Is ar
ranged, the mind is apt to go on pro-
viding its own disturbance. Arithmet-
lcal and alphabetical diversions only
accentuate the tumult. The only thing
to do is to regard the very center Of
the mind as a hypothetical hole, or vac
uum, contract the mind until it Is all
pulled into this hole, and then pull the
hole in after it. And there you are.
Of course if there is a certain degree
Of reality in this imagined condition,
one does not have to exercise the n.y.
pothesis, and that makes it so much
easier.-F. Fl. Young in Providence
Journal.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-06-26
Primroses of Picardy.

Nature in her ownsway is looking
after the solitary war graves seat.
tered throughout the shell-shattered
Picardy countryside, according to q
writer in the London Daily Chronicle.
Those that lie in the thrice-fought-over
ground between Albert, and Combles
are covered with early spring grim
roses. III Lieramont the daffodils are
blooming, and the brambIes on the
graves in Bernafay wood ire green
with new leaves. The lonely war
riors are to be gathered together in
the central cemeteries under the care
of the imperial wal graves commits
sion. The French government, in COM
pliment to the British soldier. has pur'
chased the necessary land, and has
presented it for all time to England.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-06-26
Railroad Administration Giving
Careful Consideration to Nee
essary Measures.
EXPECT GREAT WHEAT YIELD
Tonnage of Grain viii Exceed That
of Last Year by Large Margin
May Try Permit System
Again.

Washington.-The railroad admins
tration is giving careful consideration
to the measures necessary for the sat
isfactory transportation of the antici-
pated large crops of grains, according
to q statement authorized by Walker
d. Hines, director general of rail-
roads. The department of agriculture
has estimated that the yield of winter
wheat will exceed 900,000,O00 bushels.
A fair estimate Of the yield of spring
wheat approximates 300, 1000, 1000 bush
els. The total yield OF wheat this
year will in all probability exceed the
total of last year by from three to
four hundred millions Of bushels. No
estimate Of other grains is, of course,
possible at this time, but, barring
unusual climatic conditions, it can per-
haps be properly expected that the
tonnage In grain that will be pro-
duced this year will exceed that of
last year by a considerable margin.
The stable price fixed last year by
the government on wheat naturally
provoked a desire on the part of the
producer to realize his earnings as
quickly as possible, and since a stable
price has again been fixed by the gov
eminent for this years crop 1t is as
| sumed a similar condition will obtain.
Last year this economical condition,
coupled with more or less disarrange-
ment in ocean tonnage and consequent
disruption In shipping, resulted in
such an acute situation at the interior
grain markets and at seaports, that II
became necessary to install the so
called permit system" which was
early made operative at the ports, and
in September, 1918, at the principal in
terror markets.
Controlling Traffic.
The permit system is a highly bene
fetal system of controlling traffic a.
the sources to prevent serious conges
ton on the road and at destination
This system prevented in the fall O
1918 a serious transportation paralysis
of former years due to widespread
congestion of traffic which had beel
shipped but which could not be dis
posed Of at destination. This paraly
sis Of traffic in former years was mos
apparent in the East. but it's injurl
GUS effects were felt throughout tn
country.
While the permit system ut tn
ports is still in operation, it was sus
pended a few months ago at the in
terror markets, due to improved ocea.
shipping and the fact that the bulk Q
the grain had been moved 1t is, how
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-06-26

It have been giving the matter of landlord extorton consideration" said
Senator Sherman. "After peace has been proclaimed, I do not see how a
law can be passed which will limit a landlord in the amount of rent he may
charge any more than it would be possible to pass a law saying how much a
man may charge for wheat or any other commodity.
at has been reported to me that there will be a general and heavy I'M
crease in rents by the landlords. If that happens, l shall Immediately intro
duce a measure transferring the capital of the nation to some other place.
possibly ST. Louis.
81 do not think that many persons here realize the extent OF the feehng
which has been aroused among the members of congress by the exorbitant
charges for rent and food and clothing they have been compelled to pay in
Washington. A bill Of the kind 1 have mentioned will have strong support
From a military point of view, Washington is about the poorest place
that could be selected for a capital of the nation, he says.
Nor is it centrally located so far as the interests of the country are
concerned. @
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-06-26
Most Deadly of
All War Gases

later known as 'tmethyl," because the
latter name meant nothing to curious
persons, was being manufactured by
the war department at the rate of ten
tons a day when the armistice came.
The gas is being ~variously described
as "the climax Of the country's
achievements in the lethal arts" and
as "the most terrible instrument Of
m~anslaughter ever conceived" The
department itself declares that 1t is
the most deadly of all war gases
Most Deadly of All.
1t is said that ten airplane loads OF
"methyl" would have been sufficient to-
destroy oil life in Berlin, If such ex-
IRENE measures had been necessary.
and that a single days output would
have been sufficient to snuff out the
100000 human lives on the island Of
Manhattan.
This gas was not only discovered by
Professor Lewis, but was also devel-
oped by him to a point where it was
ready for production at the American
university while those laboratories
were still under the control of the bu-
reau of mines, one Of the organizations
of the department of the interior.
When this work was first taken up by
the bureau in behalf of the military
authorities Professor Lewis was called
from his civilian duties as professor Of
chemistry at Northwestern university,
Evanston, ILL.,, and at the request Of
the bureau was commissioned as cap
tain in the ordnance department and
assigned to the gas warfare service of
the bureau of mines. While acting in
this capacity Professor Lewis discov-
cred and developed this gas, and IS
days after the gas work of the bureau
of mines was transferred to the juris-
diction of the war department an IL
acre plant for its manufacture was
started near Cleveland, O.
"Mouse Trap Plant.
This plant, which was dubbed by the
workmen the ''mouse trap" because,
in order to prevent the leakage Of in
formation, it was understood that the
men who entered would not leave un-
til the war was over, was in operation
within a miraculously short time, and
plans we're made by the wal depart
ment to have 5000 tons Of this most
diabolical gas at the American front
by March ], 1919. When the armistice
came the plant was well ahead Of its
production schedule, but the opportu-
nifty had not come for the use Of the
gas at the battle front.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-06-26

but I think the worst situation thar
came to my knowledge was in Igdir,
where there is a larger proportion OF
sickness and a higher death rate than
In either Erivan or Aleyandropol.
Regarding reports Of cannibalism
which have come out of this district
from Goa | have been forced against
my will to believe these reports to be
true. | saw with my own eyes mutt
lated remains Of corpses which had
been exhuined from newly-made
graves. did not see anybody who
had actually witnessed the eating Of
human flesh, but there is SO much cir.
cumstantial evidence that | personally
came to believe 1t true.
'Typhus has been epidemic during
the winter, and has taken awayithou-
sands, but with the moderation Of the
weather 1t is now decreasing: but
cholera is making its appearance. and
the outlook Is threatening"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-06-26
Tale Of Cannibals in Armenia Is
Confirmed.
Starvation and Misery Prevail Among
Armenian Refugees In eau
casus Region.

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES and mis-
cry prevail among Armenian refugees
in the Caucasus region, according 10
a telegram sent to Herbert Hoover In
Paris by Howard Heinz, American
food commissioner for the near East,
who is in this city.
MI. Heinz has returned from a trip
Of inspection In the Caucasus, on
which he was accompanied by Walter
George Smith Of Philadelphia. former
president OF the American Bar assoc
citation and q commissioner Of the
American committee for Armenian
and Syrian relief. which has charge OF
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faces Just before we entered the war the coast and geodetc survey cee"
brated its one hundredth anniversary and went through some other mouonS
DESIGNED TO atuact the public attention to itself and TIC the need or a e3
tension of its work. But with the declaration of ar against Germany all TINS
cooa 10 IN end. Five u of the dozen or 10 small boats which n survey
nossesses were taken over by the navy for use as PATROLS and more han haH
of the officers and men went with them, while those VINO renamed were pusy
making pecial maps and surveys for the army and navy.
Now that the war is over the coast and geodenc survey is going pah "
it's nroner work with energy. It's largest and best boat ID Survey, Is now
~ bar uav to Alaska via the Panama canal, and others are being repaired
and reftted for work O. the Pacific coast
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needs. To make this point clear it may safely be stated that a zone, ten
miles in width and $4,000 miles in length, will reach more than 50 per cent
of the population of the United States, more than So per cent OF the taxable
estate and more than IS per cent of the tonnage of farm products.
"Such a system would protect with a military highway having an aggre-
rate length of about 10000 niles u Atlantic, Gulf, Mexican, Pacific and
Canadian borders: would give access to III national forests, our national
parks and open up much of the public domain not now easily accessible and
would afford trunkline routes for parcel post in the territories where this
form If TRANSPORTATION is most intensive in character"
He also as that if a a condition to the building of the national nigh
way in each state a constructoneof an equivalent mileage of state highways
should be required, this would add $4,000 miles of state highways.
This. with the national system, would aggregate 10000 miles