davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1921-01-22
Free Seeds.

Is the nan against 1ree SEEDS really
to go this time? Or Is this to be an
other case Of laundering in the index?
The House committee has voted to
cut them out, but that has been done
before, and year after year the ap-
preparation bills have carried the
items for free distribution and the
people back home" have done their
annual guessing about the results Of
their planting and have enjoyed some
surprises and some real verincation
of the labels. Sometimes the House
has sternly voted no seeds only to
have the Senate restore them. A sus-
picion has occasionally arisen in the
public mind that there is an excel
lent working understanding between
the two houses on this subject, and
that no danger really exists on the
score Of the seed distribution. But
this is probably unfair to the legis-
lators. Many Of them are convinced
that the government should not be
in the business Of competing with the
seedmen and florists in tho distribu-
ton Of valuable materials. The old
idea Of free seeds was to scatter wide.
ly the means Of soil cultivation, to
start things going. to get people into
the gardening habit, to make them
put the ground to work. It was ex.
pected that when they were once
started they would 90 ahead on their
own hook. Then. too. there was an
idea Of Introducing strange seeds and
odd varieties into general culture by
this means. But In the course Of
tinae tho free seed proposition came
down to purely . perquisits basis.
Evening star., 1921-01-22

A system sufficiently drastic to care
for the arrest at one time or another
Of every person who drives win in
evitably bring some Of the bootleg
talent, momentarily at least, into the
clutches Of the law.
Evening star., 1921-01-22

1t Is proposed In Lynchburg. Va,
to require voters to pay 81 each. If
It were no more than a pecuniary
matter. the District Of Columbia
would regard the privilege worth very
much more than the price.
Evening star., 1921-01-22

Although q patient and industrious
man. Mr.. Harding declines to under
take to be President Of the United
States and the editor Of q newspaper
at the same time.
Evening star., 1921-01-22

London dealers in whisky say they
sand a large amount to the U. s. A.,
but do not know how it gets in. John
Bull Is strictly a wholesale CONNER
cialist and not a bootlegger.
Evening star., 1921-01-22

Reconstruction may make well.
compensated work SO plentiful that
the discussion Of open or closed shop
will become only a matter Of tech
nical distinction.
Evening star., 1921-01-22

One Of the most perplexing prob
lens Of distribution deals with the
cost Of a ton Of coal when IT leaves
the mine and when it arrives in the
family cellar.
Evening star., 1921-01-22

Paris editors are among those who
have availed themselves most liber-
ally Of Mr.. Harding's invitation to a
general contribution Of advice.
Evening star., 1921-01-22

Col. Bryan considers prohibition the
main issue, but is willing to favor an
occasional denunciation Of high
finance on the side.
Evening star., 1921-01-22

II ind It dmcuit," said Senator
Sorghum. ''to understand tho laws
Of supply and demand. I can't got
people to print my profoundest
thoughts free d& charge. but q maga-
zine offers mo most lberal eompsnsa-
ton for an essay On lounge Nzards."
Evening star., 1921-01-22

Jud Tunkins says the simple in.
auguration arrangements are going
to give the good listeners Q prefer
ence over the good dancers.
Evening star., 1921-01-22

C0lQnIny IN tu0 C0Iou08Ss
DO you regard Friday a. IN un-
lucky day?
Most assuredly any day with such
q bad reputation II unluclky, whether
it deserves It or not"
Evening star., 1921-01-22
Forced Hilsrity.

Forced Hflsrity.
II see you laughing uproariously
at the small boy pictures In the comic
supplement"
Yes. feel It my duty to make
every possible demonstration to pre-
vent my youthful son from taking
them as serious suggestion for his
own conduct"
Evening star., 1921-01-22
Color Schemes.

Old Cactus Joe IN sorrow said.
What are We coming to?
We used to paint the old town red
But now tho laws are blue!'
Evening star., 1921-01-22
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHII.ANDER JOHNSON.
One Way Traffic,

One Way Traffic.
We win not sorrow for the past,
Nor view the future days with
dread.
The seasons change with action fast.
This world Of ours must 60 ahead.
The skies arc blue or overcast,
Each mood in turn has quickly fled
Through sunshine warm or wintry
blast,
The world has got to go ahead.
Evening star., 1921-01-22

There are many novel features
about the new cars, but they all re-
auirs the same oid-fashioned mort
gage ON tho house.-Baltimore Sun.
Evening star., 1921-01-22

Tho ex-crOWn prince conEosses to q
longing TO be . farmer: In his CASE
the desire 10 regarded - part Of .
badcdko~th0-father movoment-
Philadelphia North Ams43oan.
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BIOGRAPHY AND POETRY

, used to scold Honey, his dog, for kill
ing raccoons He was heartbroken
when his pet goat died. He received
| a severe beating from his father for
spelling a hunt. He defended his point
of view to his companion by saying
that perhaps God cared as much for
some wild animals as for some people.
In spite of his love for animals he
had a hard side. When a man caught
in the act of killing sheep was sum-
marily shot, Lincoln was the least
moved of any spectator. He realized
the justice of the act.
If fate did intend Lincoln for a
certain definite task, it was perhaps
fortunate that his mother died while
he was young. She encouraged in him
tendency toward introspection, and
| brooding and an excess of tenderness.
These qualities are good in themselves,
but If the adult Lincoln had developed
too much in the direction of his child
hood bent he might have been spoiled,
as we see so many noble characters
spoiled by an excess of one particular
virtue.
Mr.. Gollaher draws rather an un-
pleasant picture of Lincoln's father.
His wanderlust was responsible for the
hardships of Abes boyhobd but. there
were noble elements in it. He was no
worshipper of Mammon, and his urge
to see new regions had much to do
with the development of his sons char
acter.
Abe was very studious. He tried to
make his chum, Austin, as enthusi-
astic over learning. He used the argu-
ment that If he ever sold horse ne
should be able to count the money.
Mr.. Gollaher often regretted his lack
of education. If he had become law
yer, perhaps he might have been Sc
lected for some important task. In
stead, it was his fate to be merely a
trapper all his life. However. fate was
not really unkind. There are fewer
first class woodsmen than there are
politicians
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Greece is warned to "cast the false
worship Of the past aside and, angry,
to flee toward some unknown god who
will be her redeemer and avenger."
In his 'Trilogy Of Wrath" the first
poem is "The Monks:
We are the haters of the sun and all
That finds delight in sunlight. love that
burns
In hearts. and children's laughter and
we hide
The Gospels living word in shrouds of
death.
And in "The Great Dream:
With ruthless anger strike on memory
AS on a viper. and blow out the flame
OF history and when all ancient temples
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FATHER TABB. BY Jennie M. Tabb.
Boston: The Stratford Company.
HROUGH his graceful lyrics the
late Father John B. Tabb was
known and beloved by all
readers of American poetry. But of
his life in general very little has been
known owing to his retiring nature
That in addition to his priestly duties
Father Tabb was for many years
teacher of English in st. Charles Col
lege, Maryland, may not be generally
known; and 1t is of this phase OF his
career that Jennie NJ. Tabb gives so
many interesting and humorous pic
lures as the novel part OF her admir-
able little biography of he- uncle.
Father Tabb entered st. Charles Col
lege in 1874. and remained there until
his death in 1909. Twelve years be-
fore his death vas published his Bone
Rules. or TIE Skeleton of English
Grammar" In which he gives comic
procession" Of sentences to be cor
rected, of which the following are
characteristic examples:
"TIe said II I seen you before II was
took,
To tell you the physic- had ought to be
shook
Lay STILL his mother often said
When Washington had went to bed.
But little George would reply:
set up, but cannot liel"
Father Tabb's friendship for Lanier.
the poet, was the result of an acquaint-
ance formed in prison during the civil
war. Young Tabb was a captains
clerk on the Confederate steamer Rob-
ert e. Lee. which was captured in 1854.
and was in prison for eight months in
the company of Lanier. One Of his
best known verses is "Lanier's Flute"
the melody that suggested this hav-
ing been arranged by Il. L. Turnbull,
and played in many concerts in the
United States. In addition to giving
all the details of Father Tabb's life
his niece has reproduced nearly 200 of
his poems illustrating the successive
phases of his career.
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ITWENTY-FIVE years ago, as a
reporter on the La Rene County
Herald, Mr.. Gore was privileged
to gather the memories of Austin
Gollaher, Lincoln's boyhood playmate
on Knob Creek. 1t seems a pity that
so much time has elapsed since then
before the book was published. 1t
bears the true stamp of the authentic.
The author however, feels the need
of aflidavits. He is not like the toll
keeper who allowed the clergy to pass
over his bridge. A friend said: How
do you know that a man is a min
ister?" He replied: II ask every one
who comes by. II he says he's a min
ister l let him pass. Ministers don't
lie."
So much of the miracle Of human
nature has been compressed into Lin
coin that II would shame our higher
nature IL we did not do him reverence.
Every item that can be added to our
knowledge of him ought to be guarded
as shrines were guarded in the Middle
Ages. These memories Of Austin Col
/ laher are weather DeateN, Dut time mas
spared their vitality. 1t is the privilege
of the aged to see the past in a roseate
hue. To have lived in close proximity
to Abe the boy and not look for signs
and wonders would have shown a lack
OF perspective.
Mr. Gollaher firmly believes that the
hand OF Providence protected Lincoln.
When he came into the world. i'm the
midst OF storm, II was almost n
miracle that he did not perish. He had
several remarkable escapes. He was
almost buried in a cave. Mr.. Gollaher
believes that any other small boy
would have been lost, but that a spe-
cial fate watched over Abe.
The chief quality Of Lincoln as a
boy was his sympathy for animals. He
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OF white and crimson marble lie in ruins
Before you and all cleaning images.
Then breathe again and shout trium-
phantly
And let your song of victory resound
Like startling thunder to all loving souls.
And like a young and untamed horse
that snaps
It's rein. throws down its pride. the
princely rider.
And with wild neighing gallops fast
away
Toward the familiar air of endless
steppes.
So flee you, too. with Anger as your
mate,
Toward a god unknown who will be to
Redeemer and avengeri
The third part of the volume con-
tains two long poems from "The Great
Vision" and "The Chains"
The fourth part is made up of "A
Few More Songs" In lighter vein.
His poem ITO the Body:
praise the glitter of the eyes and face
The power of the soul. the angry words
That loudly spring upon the human lips
The youth of fair Antinous.
This book is a thesaurus of passion
ate beauty and hymns by man who is
a Pantheist, one who utters the Ever
lasting Yea" of Nietzsche to Nature and
all her works. In the original Greek
his poems ought to be a priceless and
immortal treasure. The translation of
Mr.. Phoutrides is as perfect a thing
as can be done. 1t is work of love
and understanding. Mr.. Phoutrides
has enriched our emotional and intel
lectual worlds.
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A great modern Greek poet

A HUNDRED VOICES. AND OTHER
POEMS. BY Kostes Palamas. Trans
lated by Aristides e. Phoutrides.
Harvard University Press.
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Keats in one volume

THE POLITICAL WORKS OF JOHN
KEATS. Edited With an Introduc-
tion and Textual Notes by III. Buxton
Forman. Oxford University Press.
TN the Oxford edition of standard
authors now appears IAN author
Keatss poetry" Nearly five hundred
clearly printed pages would make too
bulky a volume but for the thin.
smooth paper used. In an extended
Introduction" the editor sets forth
his aim In preparing this newest edi-
ton among many. Many photograph
ical details Of the various editions of
the poet are given, and the frontis'
piece Is the portrait from Joseph
Severn's drawing. Also a print of
Haydn's life mask of Keats is given.
placed in the position of Severn's
drawing.
The title pages of Keats's three pub
lished volumes are reproduced in fac
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volume with selection of variorum
readings. Also sixteen lines of The
Eve of st. Mark" found by the edi-
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In the introduction" which have not
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student as we'll as the general reader
finely inclusive. yet kept in bounds
with great mechanical skill OF printer
and binder.
On their recent stay at Paris, both
Mr.. and Mrs. John Drinkwater took
part In Hackett's production of MAC
BETH" Mr.. Drinkwater playing the role
of Bdnquo, while Mrs. Drinkwater
walked on" In playing Bdnquo the
modern poet is following in the foot
steps OF Shakespeare himself. for
william was the Ghost In Hamlet"
DR.. Linwood Taft, director of pag-
eantry of the Drama League of Amer
ica has prepared "The Technique of
Pageantry." book that will interest
those engaged in the production of pag-
eants A. s. Barnes & Co. will publish
the book.
Zane Grey has planned and will
leave shortly for a trip to the coast of
The New York herald., 1921-07-31

Zane Grey has planned and will
leave shortly for a trip to the coast of
Sonora to gather material for a new
story.
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Chateau Thierry
and La Fontaine
BY PANAME.

w 7 AR and peace have given the
w little town by the Marne best
known to Americans double
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Reviewed by w. B. MCCORMICK.

IN EANNING'S long and event.
lNl full life was thrust into a
parting of ways and an
opening of eras. He was at a Georgian
Harrow and a pra- Victorian Oxford
IIe was a High Churchman outside the
Oxford Movement and Sussex parson
before railways. His wife died in the
same year that Queen Victoria came
TO the throne, and he himself became
a Catholic in the year of Lingard's
death. He wore the prelatical purple
"a the last days Of Papal Rome. He
The New York herald., 1921-07-31

HENRY EDWARD MANNING: HIS
LIFE AND LABOURS. BY Shane
Leslie. New York: p. J. Kennedy &
Sens.
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Tabb was a friend
of Sidney Lanier

FATHER TABB. BY Jennie NJ. Tabb.
Boston: The Stratford Company.
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Reviewed by
BENJAMIN DE CASSERES.

rarest thing in literature is
a dynamic, revolutionary, lyri-
cal poet of the first order. The
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His playmate was
young Abe Lincoln
THE BOYHOOD OF ABRAHAM LIN
COLIN. BY ]. Rogers Gore. Indian
apolis: The Bobbs-Merr Company.
Reviewed by JOSEPH GOULD.

II WENTY- FIVE years ago, as a
reporter on the La Rene County
Herald. Mr.. Gore was privileged
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ert Randolph for pure pleasure and
subsequently sell the remarks for cold
cash. Five minutes to spot q lively
cab, five minutes TO ticket the driver
and pile him on the discard. two more
to find her purse, three more to look
innocent; then start all over again.
Divide seven times sixty minutes by
all that. and you've got her number.
Let us leave the statistical fiend and
pass on to v o'clock of the near
Christmas evening when Miss Thorn
ton was m%omentarily out Of a cab
and strolling down the slope Of the
hump in West Fifty-seventh street. A
mushy snowman had just begun to
fall, giving anyone with the price a
splendid excuse for taking a cab any
where for anywhere. Before the portal
Of the Great Northern Lights squatted
four taxis In q line. In the drivers
seat Of the rearmost Of these, and con-
sequently the last OF the rank. q lank
human being was buried in an enor-
nous turned-up collar rooted by q
chauffeur's cap set at an angle Of
slumber.
Pamela, the very moment her eyes
fell on the recumbent figure, felt that
short quick leap Of the blood in her
veins which is ordinarily termed a
'hunch." She longed to step forward
and raise the yelling headgear. but she
dared not, for not only was the hotel
starter on the job but also the window
shades of the Poppy club next door
were still elevated by special request,
owing to the slippery statN Of the side
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safety Net" Worked Well.

The thrilling rescue OF a f~Our-year-
old boy occurred in Brooklyn a short
time ago. The boy had his tonsils
and adenoids removed and was on the
third floor of a hospital. The nurse
left the ward for three minutes and
when she returned she missed the
child. The little patient had climbed
to one Of the windows, squeezed
through the bars and was hanging
outside. The flutter of the child's
nightie attracted the attention of pass
ersby. Two young men stripped of
their coats. knotted them together by
the sleeves, and stretched them out
as a makeshift saftey net. A moment
later the boys grasp on the window
ledge relaxed and he went hurting
down. But the safety net proved ef-
fective and he dropped into 1t unin-
tured.
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purpose that you want to find hin

purpose that you want to find him
for?'
Mr.. Milyuns did not pretend for one
second that he did not understand the
preposterously wOrded query.
You bet / would" he answered
promptly and emphatically. Now tell
me what you've got up your sleeve.
Please, Madge; that's a dear girl! If
o only knew how I'm worried seven
times a day"
I'm trying to tell you" broke in
Miss Van Teller, but you talk so
much l can't get in anywhere. Last
night, q taxi brought me home from
er-frOm a drive, and the cabman was
Bobby, looking simply stunning in n
of those awfully high-collared, khaki,
waist-effect wOOlly coats, chauffeur's
cap, tan puttees, boots, and all"
YES, yes" interrupted Mr.. Milyuns 4;
II know now just how he looked. What
was the li~cense-number of the car, and
to which company did it belong?"
A long pause.
"Why, | didn't notice"
Thanks awfully, my dear"
Sound of hanging up the receiver.
$50 there you are" said Mr.. Milyuns
to the very much excited Pamela.
We've got this far and, by a fluke en-
tirely uncOnnected with the twenty-five
Sleuths l have been pensiOning in AL
vance Of their lifelong service, Robert
is driving n Of the siXty-three thou
sand taxicabs that infest the streets
of New York"
Poor dear" said Pamela, tears ris-
Ing to her adorable eyes. Then she dis
missed Mr.. Milyuns, who would gladly
have fingered. II have to go out now.
I'm so sorry, but thank you very, very
much"
Cant I drop you wherever you're
going?' asked the very human mind of
the leading legal authority on corpora
ton ~hedge-rows and byways.
"Oh, no." said Pamela, translucent
as love itself II shall 90 in taXis."
How many vulgar vehicles for hire
were blessed by the transient presence
of Miss Thornton during the mex seven
hours is a matter of gross mathematics
and consequently beneath the ken of
an intelligence that can chat along
about nice things like Pamela and Rob
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Passing the Third Floor Up.

Passing the Third Floor Up.
"Us women are going to vote and
30 / thought I'd read up on the law"
she said ~confidentially.
eyes. ma'am," expectantly.
"Can l look at it?" inQuiringly.
"What department Of state, madam,
are you looking fOr?" a%nxiously.
"Why, the museum" cOnvincingly.
"Quite SO, quite so. That really Is
the place where quite a number of
them should be found, but we are so
crowded for space that they still are
all up in the aw library. Mr.. Bailey,
take the lady up to the third floor"
Richard Lieber, director of the de-
partment Of conservation Of Indiana,
was the eXpectant, anxious and meek
person In the story. - Indianapolis
News.
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PEOPLE Lacking Curiosity.

If there Is a skeleton in your closet,
rest assured that the few inhabitants
of Easter island, 1890 miles on the
coast of Chile and the e~asternmost in
habited Polynesian island, will make
no etrort to bring 1t forth n the
light as one traveller says OF them that
thew are not curious enough to turn
around on the dock to look at the a
that calls there about once in eighteen
months. Gigantic statues, stone houses
and sculptured rocks, relics Of an an
eient people, are found on the island.
National Geographic Society Buile-
tin.
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Valuable Material From Waste.

A new Australian material, named
"KeltOna," is stated to be worked w
entirely from vegetable waste, and L.
suggested as a promising means Of
utilizing large quantities Of sawdust
The composition is recommended es
pecially for veneers and wall panels
but also for chair backs and othes
parts Of furniture, and for many other
purposes. 1t is said to give excellent
limitations Of marble. II takes nails
readily, is easily sawed and worked
with tools, can be polished with sand
paper. and may be shaped by bend
Ing.
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Decorative SpIendors.

"Riches have wings"
TRUE" replied Miss Cayenne. But
the effect depends on the intelligence
with which they are utilized. The
most beautiful ostrich feather Is like
ly to look a trife shabby on the orig
inal bird"