davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1921-06-07

Night Hawks as a rule areSfond Of
Moonshine. This applies, OF course,
only to the high flyers.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1921-06-07

steady trade conditions were shown
IN the sheep and lamb alleys at. North
Portland for the weeks opening busi-
ness. There was a rather liberal run
of 47T6 head over sunday.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1921-06-07
Rclllpcrtnt I,nllnfIs

We buried him with hearty grins.
And held a celebration:
The boob was always horning In
On others conversation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-30

tinue the downward movement but
there are many persons in business
who do not seem to have heard of it.
Bradstreet's index showed a decline of
AIS per cent in March, almost exact
ly equal to the proportionate decline
in February and comparing with a
decline of 2.32 per cent in January.
This index number for April 1 was
3e.s per cent above the figure for
August l, 1914, and ASS per cent be-
low the peak reached February l.,
1920
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-30
George Matthew Adams
Daily Talk
DEAD WEIGHT.

The world has never asked me for
my opinion as to what is the matter
with it. But if it ever does, this is one
thing will say% 1T carries too much
dead weight
have rarely left on long trip
but what soon discovered that was
carrying altogether too much luggage.
AS one sets for his testing race, he
first unloads-that he may carry only
that which shall help him to win.
was pleased when the flat-topped
desk came into vogue. The old style
held too many drawers to bury impor-
tant thing in. A man must clean up
as he goes if he wishes to go far and
fast.
L noted in the newspapers that the
one great thing considered by the
manufacturers of automobiles in their
convention in a great city, was the
problem of making their cars lighter
For it is the light car that consumes
the least gasoline and gives the great
est mileage to its tires.
I read few books that I do rot feel
will add to something to what I know
want to grow at the same time.
The great buildings which tower
hundreds of feet into the air are care
fully planned that not a pound of I'M
necessary weight is added.
Worry is dead weight! And nearly
every one OF US carry 100 much. Re-
greet is dead weight. Undue grief is
dead weight. Dissipation is dead
weight. In some way or other, We all
carry it.
Before you go to bed tonight think
this thing over carefully. How can
you eliminate the dead weight that
slows you up and makes you just that
much less a strong man or woman?
When war was on, the loud call was
for everyone to get to- the essentials
and to do away with that which i'm
peded strength in unity. But how
much more important is this idea of
peace, when there is nothing to tear
down that is useful.
Get rid of your. dead weight and you
will be amazed at the strength that
you will feell
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-30
Observation-Disclosures

Q. Who said "a fool and his money are
soon parted" &c. /. W.
his money are soon parted is an old pro-
verb. 1t is to be found in the Epistolae
Hoeliance in the edition Of 1754, and be
fore that in the letter to Endymion Porter
of January ., 1630-31.
Q. what kind of oil are pimentoes
canned in? L. +. W.
that it is mistaken idea that oil, is added
in canning pimentoes. They say that pi-
mentoes contain in themselves a natural oil
which is sufficient for the purpose. The
real Spanish pimentoes are invariably
canned in their own juices.
Q. Can you give me the origin of Miss
Nancy" in reference to affected, effemi-
nately dressed men? d. V. NJ.
A. This term is generally supposed to
Oldfield an actress of the 18th century.
Her vanity was colossal that on her
death bed she requested that her remains
be laid in state dressed in very fine Brus-
sells lace head dress, holland skirt with
tucker and double ruffles, new kid gloves,
etc"
Boy Stood on the Burning Deck founded
in fact?" I. G. H.
A. Mrs. Heman's poem "Casabianca" is
founded on the death of Louis Casabianca,
a French naval officer. As captain of the
flagship Orient, he commanded the fleet
which transported Napoleon to Egypt. In
the battle of Abukir, Admiral Brueys was
killed and Casabianca was put in COM
mand. He was wounded and the ship
1Ee, Dul SIlll ne I6Iud1neQ at his
post His ten-year old son would not
leave his father and both were killed when
the ship was blown up.
Q. Who is in command of our forces in
Germany2 W. S. W.
A. The war department says that the
commanding officer of the American forces
in Germany is Brigadier General Henry T.
Allen.
Q. What is the name of the machine
which weighs the earth Pr. J.
A. The Naval Observatory SAYS the mass
of the earth has been determined by means
of the Torsion Balance, an instrument for
measuring very minute forces. By means
of this instrument the attractive force of
large metal ball is accurately measured
and by comparing this force with the
earths attraction the mass of the earth
may be aseertained.
(Any reader can get the answer to any
question by writing The Topeka State
Journal Information Bureau Frederic J.
Haskin. director, Washington, D. C. This
offer applies strictly to Information. The
Bureau cannot give advice on legal. medical
and financial matters. 1t does not attempt
to settle domestic troubles, nor to under
take exhaustive research on any subject
Write your question plainly and briefly
Give full name and address and enclose two
cents in stamps for return postage All
replies are sent direct to the inquirer.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-30
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
THE PARK AVE. NEWS
BE LEE PAPE

Weather. The later the darker.
Spoarts. The Invisible played the
ferst game of the season agenst the
Park Wonders last Satidday, the score
being AZ to IS and both teens claim
ing they was the ones that made 43
and the empire ran away in the mid
die of the argewment on account of
believing in safety ferst.
Intristing Facks About Intristing
People. Sam Cross is always on time,
even to places ware he's not invited.
Pome by Skinny Martin.
Its a Habit
I'm glad I am not short and fat,
I'm glad I'm long and thin.
o it may not be the prittiest shape
But its the way I've always bin.
Sissiety Miss Maud johnson was
obzerved picking threds off of Mr.. Ed
Wernicks coat as if she owned him
but they both deny they are ingaged
or enything.
Wy not be as proud of your rear as
you are of your frunt? We will paint
your number on your back gate in eny
shade to match the color of your tents
for Is cents and up. The Lew Davis
and Ed Wernick Number Co. (Avver-
tiZement.)
Lost and Found. Nuthing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-30

another stick is laid across his head
close to his jaws.
Il usually rest my knee on the sec
ond stick to hold it in place, and
then, while the snakes head is held
powerless to move, grasp him around
the neck with one hand in such a fash
ion that the thumb. and second finger
are firm against THE back of his jaws,
and the index finger pressed against
the rear of his head. If your fingers
are a quarter of an inch too far back,
tho, the snake can whip its head
around and strike. That is what gives
the game its thrill, 1 guess. When
you have him like that it is a simple
matter to drop him tail first into the
waiting sack
DR.. Ditmars is a strong, heavily
built man with a quick eye and novel
ment. Agility and steady nerves, he
says, are the principal requirements
in handling wild creatures, whether
they be. monkeys or reptiles.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-30

b California apparently wants protec-
tion against about everything and
Everybody except tourists with money
In addition to demanding exclusion of
Japanese from the state her almond
growers desire the exclusion of for
eign almonds from the entire coun-
try The California legislature will
inemorialize congress for adequate
duties in time for their plea to be con-
sidered in connection with the pro-
posed general tariff revision. In 1918
the Democrats reduced the duty on
hnshelled almonds % per cent, on the
shelled SO per cent. During the three
years Immediately preceding the war,
and under protection. imports of al
monds averaged about 100000
pounds annually. During the three
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-30

Speaking of the attempts at eco
nornic readjustment that are belns
made. Otto H. Kahn says: After all
in the last analysis. these matters all
come down to the fair and foresight
ed use, or otherwise, of power temper
arily residing with one party or the
other. 1t is true there is no intoxlcant'
the 'heady' effect of which human
kind seems less able to resist than
power. Capital had it for many years
and failed to keep within the re-
straints of wisdom and equity; labor
had it for the past six years of un-
limited demand for workers and be-
came inefficient, extravagant ana
grasping; the producer had 1t during
the war and, with some conspicuous
exceptions. gave pretty free reign to
his coverings; the consumer has It
now and is, far from squeamish about
-flsine il ="
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-30
JUST FOLKS
BY EDGAR A. GUEST.
PEANUT SHELLS.

PEANUT SHELLS.
Some may ride in limousines and some in
fine sedans,
But let me have the common car which is
the happy mans.
now is new no more,
The good old car with peanut shells forever
on the floor.
1 do not hunger for a rig which costs SO
very much,
want no polished body which the children
must not touch:
1 like to see the sticky prints emblazoned
on the door,
And see the last rides peanut shells still
strewn upon the floor.
Oh. let me have the popcorn car, with
candy papers, too.
And III not envy him at all whose bus is
ever new;
Tho would be tidy man. somehow when
day is DER
It's good to put the car away with shells
upon the floor.
It's good to have battered car TO drive
along the street.
A car which shows to every eye the marks
OF little feet;
It's good TO have a happy car, with glad
ness running Ger,
And there's no richer sign Of joy than
shells upon the floor
Copyright, 1921, by Edgar A Guest)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-30
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-30

The attorney generals department
mas calculated that the average in
crease in costs due to federal taxation
is % per cent. To that burden, which
lis borne by everybody, rich or poor,
There must be added the less precisely
.ascertainable ill-effect which results
from the action of our tax laws in
causing restraint of business, impede
ment to enterprise, and diminished
opportunity for employment. Yet
dhere remain a few persons who OPP
pose the establishment of a simple
and inexpensive system of taxation
such as is embodied in the proposed
sales tax
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-30

Almost everybody has suffered from
the war either during its progress or
during the period of readjustment.
Probably nobody has been harder hit
in a financial way than have the
holders of railroad securities. the men
who made the building and operation
Of the roads possible. Not only have
their dividends declined or disap-
peared entirely. but what they have
received has been in dollars worth less
than half the value of those they put
into the business.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-30

Members ofdhe Southern Tariff as
ISOLATION, composed of fifty-seven of
the leading industries of the south,
have called upon President Harding
and urged an upward revision of the
tariff. Their arguments have been
presented also to the ways and means
committee of the house, now engaged
in framing a tariff bill. AS the indus
tries of the south grow IN wealth and
Importance, the traditional Demo-
cratic free-trade sentiment of that
section of the country disappears. af-
fording another proof of the truth of
General Hancock's assertion that the
tariff is n local issue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-30

speak your patience We are trying
to try to remember it. And. to make
the foregoing cryptic remark clear TO
the reader, we add the information
that we borrowed Mr.. Jeffries's copy
of "Jurgen" and can't seem TO remem-
Der to return it.
There are many exceedingly diff
cult feats. Returning a borrowed
book is one of them.
One Horace Andrews, who tried the
experiment of maintaining two wives
under one roof, admits its failure and
will make other arrangements. The
experiment was foredoomed to come
upon disaster. That of maintaining
two wives in the same. neighborhood is
a feat almost impossible of performs
ance.
Meanwhile, the West Virginia legis-
lature is considering a bill providing
that a husband or wife who fears that
family happiness may be destroyed by
the attentions of a third person NAV
appear before a Justice of the peace.
swear to the facts in the case and
then send a written warning to the
person believed to be guilty.
We note the incident for the pur-
pose of paying the legislature of West
Virginia compliment. That one
measure gives it precedence over the
legislature of Oklahoma and places n
on almost equal terms win the leris-
lature of North Dakota.
The Hon. Dempsey has gone into
training. Best wear your rubbers.
me slush- is going to run shoe-mouth
deep in the streets. \
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-30

Luck is gong home with me next
month: he has outgrown this town.
just as L have and needs Gods out
doors to find himself in"
How about me? 1 am under the
Illusion of owning him. Morton said
over her shoulder.
She looked at him in mild surprise.
"Of coarse you own him-thats part
ly why I am taking him-so you will
have no excuse for not coming along
(Copyright 1921, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-30
Dorothy Dix Talks
The Girl and the Married Man.,
By DOROTHY DIX
Worlds Highest Paid Woman writer.

AHo Jill @hu INC Married Mani.
young girl writes me that she and
married man are in love with each
other. She says that their affection
Is pure and idealstic, and that she
does not expect, or desire, the man to
forsake his wife and marry her.
! DO you think any good can come
OF such a beautiful love-" she asks.
DO you think any god can come
or 1t? L would ask her in reply.
Leaving out of the question the
wrong that a woman does her sister
woman when she encourages her hus-
band to be faithless to her, and the
irreparable injury she does to thschii-
dren whose father she takes away
from them-for no man can do his
duty as father and be a philanderer
at the same taEne-let us consider the
case of the girl alone.
What good does she get out of a
love affair with a married man?
She will say love. True. But she
gets the lees in the bottom of the cup
of love, not the wine. The few brief
hours of rapture that she knows in
loving, and being loved, do not com
pensate her for the days and weeks
and months and years of black despair
that are the inevitable portion of nurs-
ing a hopeless passion.
Every young girl dreams of love.
but she dreams of it coming to her
as something that will crown her life
with joy, something that will have no
regrets bound up with it, something
of which she can boast and be proud.
And she expects this love to flower
into a wedding bell.
The girl who falls in love with a
married man can never know the
clean happiness of love. Hers is al
ways the guilty passion, something
furtive and to be hidden. Her ro-
nance does not wander down flowery
paths. 1t sulks behind closed doors
and at clandestine meetings at shabby
restaurants, and taking from every
kiss its sweetness, is the knowledge
that one is not playing the game. that
one is not sporting, that in the back
ground there is a helpless woman who
is being robbed without being given
a chance to defend herself.
The woman who has love affair
with a married man must perforce
endure such agonies of jealousy as are
almost punishment enough for her fol-
ly and her sin. She sees another
woman bear the name of the man she
loves, and occupy the social position
that he gives her. She knows that the
man who tells her he loves her would
not ask her to his house, or introduce
her to his friends, or more than casu-
ally greet her on the streets She
knows that while he tells her that his
wife does not understand him, and
that he is tired of her, yet that they
are bound together by a thousand ties
of Mutual interest and that Just be-
cause a woman is a mans wife, sets
her apart for him from all other
women.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-30

It still is being urged in certain
quarters that we cancel the debts
owed to us by the allies. In view of
the fact that congress recently has
made a present of 5000 900. to Co.
aombia, it seems not impossible that
the debt cancelling scheme might be
put thru. if properly launched and
oiled
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-30

yeays 1880, inclusive, imports av-
eraged 29,o0o:oo0 pounds. The bulk
of the competition comes from Spain.
with Italy and France supplying a
considerable quantity. The Califor-
mans evidently are not willing to per-
nit Italy and France to pay their
debts to us in almonds.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-30

Building operations in several large
cities are reported to be at stand
still due to the refusal of mechanics
to submit to a reduction in wages from
wartime levels. Thus the workingman
forces himself to live in small, poor
houses at excessive rents and loses at
one end what he thinks he is getting
at the other.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-30

France has backed up on her pro-
posed further invasion of Germany,
set for May I, and has postponed &C
ton until May Is. What both Ger
many and the entente are trying to do
is drag the United States into the con-
1roversy. Both sides want Uncle Sam
to provide them with place to alight.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-30
a Man Who Likes Snakes.

Like several other well-known ma
turalists, this curator is not only a
great studentNof reptiles-he is a great
admirer of them. IT am never so
happy" he says, 'as when 1 am on
ledge all acrawl with rattlers. 1
take IS much delight in their gorgeous
coloring as a jewel collector might in
the prize stones that come into his
possession
He himself has captured many prize
specimens for the zoo. He knows
about 20 snake dens where snakes hi
bernate, all located within SO miles
of New York, and about this time of
year he starts out on a snake-hunting
expedition from which he always re-
turns with a bag full of kissing rep
tiles. 1t makes him furious, however
to hear of other people hunting
snakes. especially if they hunt to kill
them For this reason he keeps secret
the locations of his snake dens as if
they contained buried treasure. The
most that he will divulge is that they
are to be found largely in the Ram
pace hills of New Jersey.
Last year 1 motored about a thou
sand miles and walked and climbed
1 don't know how many more in max
ing round of my snake dens.'' says
DR.. Ditmars, land 1 now have the
places all charted. I have to keep
them a closely guarded secret or farm
ers living near them would destroy
the dens with dynamite"
The curator's own snake-hunting
weapon is merely a harmless forked
stick, With prongs not.over two inches
long. This is jabbed at the snakes
head so as to pin it to earth. Then
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-30

The Hon. Dempsey has gone into
training. Best wear your rubbers.
The slush- is going to run shoe-mouth
deep in the streets, y
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-30

"As she was being constantly in
terupted,'' we again quote the more or
less esteemed American, Lady Astor
chided the members, saying: Now do
listen. 1 may be rude, but 1 am not
longWinded"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-30

The Americans conclusion that
Lady Astor'S remark killed the bill
seems plausible enough. No mere
drink bill could withstand the force
of that witty indictment.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-30

We trust the young gentlemen of
Pennsylvania Military college do not
go too far. A recurrence of the mid
Victorian young woman would not ex-
actly spoil existence for us. AS an
elderly gent blinking in the sun, we
should still have the glorious MEM
cries of the years lying between 1914
and 1921 to console us. But the young
gentlemen of Pennsylvania Military
college will find that life is drab
enough to those who make the best
of it.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1921-07-28


> the Cun CommaO dy Cyd
Srs hae lie @ to % n h various fun o HoarC t,
rndngJ as
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1921-07-28
NOTICE OF TEACHERS
EXAMINATIONS

Notice is hereby given that the state
teachers examinations for all grades
of teachers certificates will be held
under the supervision of Mrs. Caroline
w. Flood, County Superintendent of
Schools, at the county courthouse,
Bonners Ferry, Idaho, on July %, 20
and 80, 1921. The schedule follows:
THURSDAY.
9:00-10:30 a. m.-Grammar and ele-
mentary composition (third grade). adj
vanced English composition (second
grade and permanent first grade), So
cial and economic problems first
grade.
1O:4O-12:OO a. m. = photography
(third grade).
1:00-2:30 p. photography, includ-
ing Idaho (third grade), educational
psychology (second grade and perma-
nent first grade), modern Europe (first
grade).
2:40-4:00 p. Physiology and by
giene (third grade).
FRIDAY.
9:00-10:30 a. m-Arithmetic (third
grade), a thesis on selected subject
first grade and permanent first
grade), American literature (second
grade, sociology Qife).
10:40-12:00 a. m. = Penmanship
(third grade).
1:OO-2:3O p. m.-Reading third
grade), history of education first
grade and life), school management
(second grade). civic and school by
giene permanent first grade)
2:40-4:00 p. m.-American history
and government (third grade), school
administration Qife).
SATURDAY..
9:00-10: 80 a. m.-Idaho civil govern
eminent and school law.
10:40-12:00 a. m.-Elementary man
ual- and course of study or high school
manual and course OF study.
1:30-2:30 p. m.-Book reviews in
reading circle work (for additional
credit on county certificate).
*The examinations on this day are
for all classes of certificates and GER
tificates by endorsement. Applicants
for state elementary certificates
should take examinations in the ele
mentary course OF study, candidates
for high school certificates should take
examination in the high school course
of study. Candidates for specialists
certificates should take examination in
high school course OF study IL their
work or part of It is to be in the high
school.
An examination fee of $1.00 for all
applicants, whether for state or coun-
ty certificates, will be charged.