davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Wichita eagle., 1889-07-07

all styles of human dwellings of all times,
from the cave and brush and bark hut to the
palace, are in good form, and the ''restau-
rants Of all ages arc cornically complete
On these last the Partisan satirists have
turned themselves loose, though the CORE
spondents indicate that their widest carica-
tures scarcely surpass the facts LTlustra-
ton, the illustrated paper, gives a series Of
views from the first fun meal recorded ia
history that Of Adam and Eve down 10 tho
wild Indian dining at the Vienna clie. In
the prehistoric Restaurant the waiter il
dressed to represent the original man Of the
''Stone Age and the Partisan exquisrtes who
dine in the cave consider him 'fbowllng sue
cess" The mammoth tun Of champagne,
which required twelve oxen 70 draw il into
the grounds, is always surrounded by curl
Gus crowd, and the choice Fpernay sovS in
an almost continuous stream for the thirsty
and curious.
Similarly the local customs Of various IA
tons and races are wonderfully well repre-
sented In the Algerian department sits
Kabyie girl spinning In the same primitive
fashion the Orisntals have kept up for 4 600
years, and by her Sits an Arab boy 10 the
same costume, no doubt, a. ~Bs worn by
young IshHlael when he played al the feet of
the spinning Hagar. The wprlau Of the
SoadAB wcrks n native products. tie Wild
Wichita eagle., 1889-07-07
THE chIPPEWAS.
Something About the Indians Who Have
Broken Ont in Minnesota

Something ABOUT the Indians W no HAVE
Broken out in Minnesota
The Chippewas have 'shroke out,r which is
almost as much Of q surprise 10 Minnesota a.
an Outbreak among the QuaAers would be
in Pennsylvania. The Chippewas have been
peaceable so long that many people would
have forgotten their existence but for the
names they scattered on he geography from
Lake Eric TO Winnipeg; but tho late mtnders
at Mile Laos show that the Wild nature Il
stiIl hereditary in them
There was time when these Indisns, more
properly called Ojibbeways, were the esrror
Of the northwest, and in their long wars With
the Sioux they had roll of heroes equal to
that OF Homer, ending with the great Pals-
yah Gocnseh, the red Napoleon OF TIE north
west. The two tribes have been az war from
a time whereof the memory OF man runneth
not to the contrary. The Chippewas were
generally victorious In the timbered region,
but the Sioux prevailed ON the prairie and
so the Red river had become sort Of boun-
Diary when the whites began 10 settle north
ern Minnesota For many years the Indians
Of one tribe would venture To a town or fort
only on one side, as the Others came up hss-
hitually on the other side, each party senfing.
in scouts to SEQ that the other did not take
snap Judgment on them. As late as 1856
they had a regular battle in ShacSopce, max
ing it very lively for the white inhabitants.
Mile Laos is a lovely lake, some sixteen
miles long, and is the head Of Rum river.
Along its shores Is the Indian reservation.
and fish and game have been quite abundant.
but of late years there have been too many
white hunters, and many farmers have tres
Wichita eagle., 1889-07-07

than had the victims of the more appalling
Pennsylvania disaster
EIANY LIVES WRECKED.
Itlnay, after time be possible to count
with some measure of accuracy the number
of lives wiped out by this unnerving catas-
trophe; but no man can ever estimate how
many hearts have been broken and how
many lives have been shorn of hope and
ambition. TINS is not the least sad feature
of the disaster. Unless q man be buoyed u
by the hope OF a martyr he can scarcely
withstand the loss OF his entire family; he
considers his life purposeless and he lives
under protest. BY the sudden deprivation
of ell that was dear TO them, how many
thousands Of human beings have been cast
adrift on a sea Of desp2lrl True, many viii
emerge from the gloom Of their affection in
q spirit OF slddened resignation, and will be
able to say, though not without tone of half
dissent, 1T was all for the best"
But experience has shown that a far great
er proportion of human beings Is elnbittered
rather than softened by great griefs; how
ever, this is more often tho case when indi-
vidrIals conceive that they have been unjustly
Stricken, and in instances of the overwhelm-
ing affection OF thousands the afflicted ones
find a certain solace in the contemplation OF
the grief OF others; there lis comfort for them
In the knowledge that not they alone have
been selected as the especial objects of sorrow
striking visitaIiOrs. Such spirit as this
rules IN the eTsFwhile beautiful valley of the
Coaensaugb, and there have been such in
Wichita eagle., 1889-07-07
GREAT DISPLAY AT PARIS.
AS A SHOW MERELY 1T Is THE
GREATEST ON EARTH.

Ths Useful Not Well Represented Yet-rne
Curious and the Beautiful Abundant.
The Home Life and Work of Al Races
In All Ages Wen Portrayed.
The American workman, TO whom the pas-
sage money is an unsttainable fortune, IS in
vited TO see the Paris exposition by proxy
and at triaing individual expense.
This is substantially the proposition Of Mr.
Edward ". Scripps, who proposes TO leave
for Paris on the oath of July with forty rep
resentative and genuine woEkingmen, each
chosen by the associations OF the trade he
represents; and these forty are not only to
see the exposition, but 10 investigate the con-
dition Of European laborers from the south
of France to the north of Scotland and make
a full report. The claim is made that many
valuable suggestions viii be Gained, even as
Americans learned 10 do many things better
by seeing how the foreigners did them at the
Philadelphia exposition Of 1876. Only practi-
cal workmen will be taken, each master IN
his own craft, and as each would naturally
take most interest in the foreigners in his
own lines, the variety OF opinions returned
would be amusing as well as instructive.
In the meantime an army of reporters are
giving all readers view by proxy, and as
they are on the ground before more than
half the visitors get there and while the
exhibit is incomplete their views are anus
ing and contradictory enough. Each one
naturally writes of that feature most inter
esting to him, and so we get the impression
that the exposition Is an odd tumble of sue
Wichita eagle., 1889-07-07


ant would take them TO al the tables and lift
the rough cloth covering from each body. If
the searcher recognized body and cried out
in agony-well and good; the enbalmers
moved never a muscle; they were surfeited
with horrors IF the searcher did not find
the body he sought he would pass on sorrow
fully to the next morgue. Every one became
as used 10 the sight of dead human beings es
butcher is TO the sight of slaughtered
becves, and, unless the dead were of their
family or friends, they looked stohdly on.
Nothing could be sadder or more pathetic
than the open air religious services attended
on Sunday by little bands Of men and wom-
en-, all Of them bearing heavy weight of
affection. but faithful through it all Some
curious scenes, many Of a very dramatic
nature, took place. While what was left of
the congregation Of ST. Johns Catholic
church-which, It viii be remembered, was
damaged by both Ere and water, and in
which the statue of the Virgin Mary re-
manned unharmed-whle the little remnant
Of this congregation surrounded small open
air altar upon which tbs service OF the mass
was going on, loud explosion was heard,
end looking in the direction whence the
sound proceeded, the worshipers saw the
walls of the Old church which they had at
tended for many years tumbling to the
ground. Ii was pitifIl TO see the pain in the
faces Of the saddened and dazed men and
women In the little throug.
\ DIS5RACEFCL NATIONAL GUARDSNAN
The deputies who were appointed TO patrol
what was left of the streets and TO preserve
order In the camps were nearly al men who
had been bereft of some members of their
femihes. -Four or five days after TIE disaster
one OF these deputies, Peter Fitzpatrick
name, was standing guarding one Of the
lines hew alnlost craaed bv his own grief.
but maintained sIngularly noble self pos
session ana tenderness in looking after the
safety and comfort OF others lie noticed
coming down the Cambria road a drunken
young eiIicer az the National Guard His
long military cloak vas cut open. and he was
leaning heavily for support upon two private
soldiers he was crying in 3 Mandolin v,,y.
on iuStta6e me soGae place and III drink
soft stuff" the privgteS eatreafed nun 10
return at once 20 the reyiIilental quarters,
but be cast them aside AMI went staggering
down the road towards Deputy Fitzpatrick.
The grave faced deputy looked 1T him and
said:
You can't pass in here, sir"
Gait pass hereT he cried, waving IFS
arms in drunken fashion "Yoa dare 70
challenge an officer. Stand aside"
You can't pass here" this time quietly,
but firmly; mot while you're drunk"
Stand aside!" yelled the lieutenant do
you know who / amt Yon talk 10 an officer
Of the National Guard
Yes: and Istan-a saia slaA aanztr- VI
Wichita eagle., 1889-07-07

Marching il double column, and the columns
very close together, it required considerably
over an hour for this body Of men to pass a
given point. The number of people who met
death in the cruel cataclysm was somewhat
greater than the number of soldiers COM
prising the splendid National Guard of Penn
lsylyania.
! 1t is difficult to grasp a numerical idea of
human beings when the numbers run into the
thousands. This is why over estimation is
SO common. When one sees an audience
pouring out of q theatre in continuous crowds
for five or ten minutes an altogether exag-
gerated idea of tho vastness of the audience
is entertained. 1t seems as though there must
be many thousands Of people In the crowd,
whereas it is rare, except in the largest the
atres Of the great cities. that an audience
numbers more than twelve or fifteen hun
ldred persons. On the other hand, when there
is an exceedingly vast concourse one is
rather prone TO under estimate. 1t was diff
cult to conceive, for instance, that when
Grover Cleveland was delivering his inaugu-
raj eddress'in 1884, he was facing crowd of
at least 100000 persons.
The destruction of Pompeii, nearly two
thousand years ago, has stood until this time
as the most terTibleof all calaInities Yet it is
"a matter of doubt that twelve thousand
lives were lost, and even if this liberal eSti-
mate is accurate, the people OF the ancient
city had tenfoid better facilities Of escape
Wichita eagle., 1889-07-07

OF Tcof1zTs1 ssnso sas-4 S,Ns4 rz02a rTIIs- ~
ssscFs~rsssod uso -Is1 = S~Dsyl % s>-l-Sfd 80
81 EJlzo-@ szs1 q SzLaLs psFe N sssSs.1l r<Sc1
SurSs. 'sSzSro y 'rg7FIs1s s2l 'Ess-ssz 4gIF-zSp
Cos pS7S sstrn u s-7ossssa psz7--s l-frFsss IN
rsofI sI=~rfos - s--zs-J.zS I'll TzisGEzss1suz
~ q Fss.s-1a.rs 1IIETg Szz Asy1sT2 uTvsTrsog
raEofoo at y S7-xrnz 81 prs 'r4sEzssIzY 81
"a a md @zT7-q 3 zssGar FaEyg @cs ~ 1894
80 S-sL = y zxw4 l1srs = szn1fss s%1zz1
~ sfS-i E7SzsAI5 ssa przz ,SyTZgs s1,si - -
81 Sos3s~odzs ssgl 'zs@sso9 'kssgEafTu1 q
zSgFI.sud s-sotrvA
u rEssTEs=,sSaz T,ss 6ly--sis $ sra7ysz1 ~ A
lzea - @uESzzT, VSzs ssszri s2s F'EY vz1szsas
'zsz4zss-F - xssf.4rB ~. = xsoo.z1. @sssso
1ESzS FTzS sxoSElsfss so ssyfuxs % Sssrz,
sEs EzzSssss'szg zss5 100 psS %sEysEss %
sSxn-xSs s.sSrv=p Isxza sgzESqSJ sySnL 81
'x-SxssxEpx7
Wichita eagle., 1889-07-07
OF the land. They hate their fathers and DE-
spise their mothers They would sell us 10 the

OF the land. They hate their fathers and de-
spise their motherS They would sell Us 10 the
foreigners"
One by one, but rapidly, the rich and edu-
Gated colored were destroyed, and in 1915,
under pretense of plot, he ordered q
general massacre of the colored caste in
Port au Prince. Many escaped to the
shipping in the harbor and others
were protected by the foreign minis
ters The rest were butchered. He then de-
clared war against San Domingo. but it
proved "war of races" The ordinary
practice Of the Haytian soldier was to shut
bis eyes, turn away his head snd fire his
piece once, then break for the nearest noun
tain, screaming 80, Jesu-Marie-M amaloiI
misericordel naisericorde!'
AT length the Dominicans captured de-
tachment, and straishtway mutilated every
man in an unspeakable manner. Thereafter
the Haytians ran without waiting for the
first fire, the whole army of II 900 being
driven by less than 1000 Dominicans
MANY SUCCESSIVE REVOLUTIONS.
In 1852 Soulououe made himself emperor
Wichita eagle., 1889-07-07

ghouIs Tor little gold-we are not AFRAID 70
talk for what is right, even to an officer
Of the National Guard or to an officer Of one
of hell's legionsI"
While he spoke another great dark man, on
whose face was the deep imprint of suffering,
came up, and upon taking in the situation
every vein in hisforehead swelled purple with
rage, and the muscles of his immense arms
quivered.
"Curse you, you drunken dog" he said, ''if
it were not for the sake of peace I'd kill you
where you stand"
''Come on" yelled the maudlin lieutenant,
with an oath.
The big man sent out terrible blow that
would have left the lieutenant senseless had
not one of the privates dashed in between, re-
ceiving part Of it and warding it off. The
drunken officer got out of his military cloak.
The privates seized tAe big man and held him
back. The lieutenant put his hand on his
pistol pocket, Deputy Fitzpatrick seized him,
and the struggle for the weapon began. For
moment it was fierce and desperate, then
another private came to the deputys assist
ance. The revolver was wrested from the
besotted lieutenant and he himself was pushed
back painting to the ground. Thedeputy lifted
him up, took the military cloak from the
ground and threw it on the disgraced officers
shoulders, and pointed his finger down the
road:
ITO your quarters"
The officer looked at him moment, then
obeyed.
INTERNATIONAL FRATERNITY.
Many tales of unutterable sadness have
been and ever will be told of this appalling
cataclysnic visitation; around many FIRE
side will children shudder at the grandam's
recital of its horrors; but for the present it
must make any mans heart bound with en-
thusiasm to know that the afflicted people
have borne their sorrow in q noble spirit, and
that all the people of the civilized world, with
out regard to national anjmosities or lack of
common interest, have deeply sy1npathized,
and shown practical evidences of their sym
pathy, with their suffering fellow creatures
of the valley of the Conemaugh, which, it |
may be hoped, will even yet spring phoenix
like from her ruins and become as thriving
and as beautiful spot as it was before that
fateful dam opened and let forth the wave of
destruction.
Wichita eagle., 1889-07-07

newspapers were never before In such Close
competition for honors. Their reports have
been extremely graphic and for the most part
reliable, but 1t Is not pleasant reading, and
many people have been unnerved by study
Ing too closely the accounts Of the manifold
horrors Any one who has ever seen news
paper correspondent work during such a time
as this VIII understand the strain to which he
is subjected
be Is sent off to the scene at a moments
notice, and he regards his instructions as i'm
perative as does a soldier on the field of bat
tie. he gets scarcely any sleep, and what
time he can spare from travelling around and
looking up facts is occupied in writing his re-
ports and, at times one of the most difficult
tasks of all, "holding the wire'-that is, fur
nlsh:ng enough matter to the telegrapher- to
keep him at work, SO that no other CORE
spondent can take the wire away from him.
The correspondents resort to all expedients to
hold the wire and ON one occasion an attache
of great New York newspaper, being unable
to secure enough matter to keep the operator
busy, sent in to his paper column after col
unn of extracts from the Bible until he could
get his report ready. A flock Of other re-
porterS were in the telegraph Office waiting
for a chance at the wire, and they were
furious, but it awaited them not, and the en-
terprising correspondent was the only one to
get his report in in sufficient time.
A DESoLATE SPECTACLE.
Were it not for the vast number of bodies
of women and children strewn everywhere,
the valley of the Conemaugh would have
looked like a battlefield. But there was
q desolation that could have been wrought by
no human means. Johnstown could never
have been swept SO clean by cannon, and
nothing but the mercilcss power of one of ma
lures elements could have, in SO short time,
so completely obliterated all marks of where
once stood populous, prosperous and happy
town, and the water that, like remorseless
giant, hurled itself on this beautiful vallcy, is
now tapping the wooded banks Of the Missis-
Wichita eagle., 1889-07-07


stances OF heroi7n and noble unseifshness
during the terrible days in that death ridden
valley as would Fefute the paltry cynicissils
of the most fstiIens iconoo!ast that ever
Owed
BOW THE CORRESPONDENTS WORKED.
The newspaper correspondents have done
invslRable work on the s>ane Of disaster
They have 6-zyed hardship and disease in
getting reports Ger their papers, and the out
side world could never Eaye termed an ade-
.quate conception of the magnitude OF the
catastrophe bad it not been for their lahurs
Never befoss has the press Of the country
been so ssszs ss-ved Il aa emergency, and the
reports OF The United Press, the associated
Press end the american Press Association
.iaye web earned the appreciation Of the pub
laic. The spscial correspondents Of tue great
Wichita eagle., 1889-07-07
~sssszs
y ne Eagle
THEPATED VALLEY
Ruin Undesirable and Grief
Unspeakabie.
DESTRUCTION AND DESOLATION.

D1fhcuit to Realize the Magnitude of the
Disaster-Scene Between a Drunken Off
Ger and Deputy-Scenes in the Morgues.
What May BE Hoped.
Some idea Of the extent of the Pennsyiva-
MA disaster may be gained from the fact that
Ii all the people who were drowned, killed
and burned were placed in Indian fle, three
feet apart, they would form a procession
eight miles long. Those who witnessed the
military parade during the centennial ceIe-
bration in New York city win remember the
naagnifcent showing made by the Pennsylva-
MA National Guard, about 5000 in number.
Wichita eagle., 1889-07-07

II IS DOW question as 70 whether toers
VIII be any race for the America cup this
year at ali, but most people VIII be interested
In the accompanying crt of the yacht Val
kyrie from photograph taken during one
q tie English races which was built by Earl
Wichita eagle., 1889-07-07


sippi, glistening IN the sunlight, or rejecting
the rays of the starsI The Conen1augh runs
on as smoothly as before, its surface spread
with blandly innocent ripp1es.
Nothing could be more desolate than night
fall in the valley after the disaster, the steady
tramp Of the carriers Of the dead never ceas-
ing. and the pickering light of lanterns in
tensifying the pallor of the agonized searchers
for the bodies of dear ones. The silence was
oppressive, and no one talked in loud tones
Tho voices Of the workers sounded like far
of nurmurirgs, and when it rained the
drilling water fell upon the ear like a gentle
rnstling of the leaves. Subdued sobbing of
women was everywhere heard, and at inter
walls piece Of wreckage would become de-
tached from the pile and fail with a crash.
But the dull gray clouds rolled away one
night, and the dazzling radiance of the next
mornings sun, as it danced in the golden
east, was in sad contrast with the dull, dead,
soggy surface OF the valley Of the dead. The
little cottages that, standing on the sides of
the hills, escaped the torrent, shone brightly,
and on those bills the air was filled with the
summer songs of the birds and the droning
of the insects.
WORK OF THE UNDERWRITERS
AT the mofgueS (and all the large buildings
left standing were turned into morgues)
many scenes showing the very depth of
human misery were taking place The EN-
bamers We're cutting and s!aslling with an
apathy born Of days and nights of the work,
and such as they had never experienced be-
fore. On table beside several dead bodies
some of these embalnfers were eating their
lunches, and many of them could only find
time to pull off their working gloves and
hastily snatch bite, then resume their work
The morgues were always full Of searchers of
lost bodies When they came in an attend
Wichita eagle., 1889-07-07

brant tone OF mingled anger ana SORROW N
his voice, II talk to an officer of the Ma
tional Guard, who have lost my wife and
my children and al IN this food, nc man has
yet or ever Will describe; we, who have seen
our dead with their bodies matilated and
their fingers cut from their hands BY accu{sed
Wichita eagle., 1889-07-07
A Book with a History.

A Book with a History.
Mrs. John Ogflvfe Roorback, Of Mystic,
has one Of the t*eoty-two copies Of the Epis-
sopai prayer book. and administrator Of
ssscranentS, il the Mohawk language. print
ed by special order Of the Rev. John Osilria.
assistant minister OF Trinity church, New
York under whose auspices the so.ire work
was published in I762 Thssefew copies were
ordered BY him 70 be bound n calf end gold,
10 be used as presents to particular friends
The book m Question came into the hands Of
Sir William johnson. superintendent o. In
dish s:Fa:rs, and WIS given 70 Thomas, q
chief of the Oraidas, for whom hch2i a grea.
regard jan 6. I7711a, it came INTO the hands
Of Eleazer WilliaIis Tepused daaphin Of
France, and WAS presented By him to The
present ovner.-HarEord Couranl
Wichita eagle., 1889-07-07

groun q s on the
other side of the
Seine, besides the
Champ de Mars,
Ecole Militaire,
Esplanade DIES In
valides and other
noted places and
open squares. In
deed, one has 10
study the mapcare-
fully, III connection
with the descrip-
tons to see where
the show ends and
Paris begins. The
spectacular part Of
the exposition is al
ready a great sue
cess. All the struc-
ilrr,..S rnr.r.n-rrrAiner
Wichita eagle., 1889-07-07
EAYTIAN EnrnIFRa

Ism and anarchy. The Haytian army mp
pears like buriesque-1,5o0 generals TO less
than 1900 private soldiers As the fine
buildings left by the French decay the people
domicile in hHts. Vsudouz worship is dis
placing Christianity, and stealing "a ubic
money is 50 common that 1t Is not co dered
theft. Such, according TO impartial autbori-
ties, is the condition Of Hayt
Wichita eagle., 1889-07-07

ceses and failures. 1t is agreed at the start
that the grand opening" by President Car
not was little more than farce. Even the
French soldiers in ranks on that occasion
could not repress their smiles and sneers
NJ. Sadi-Carnot is far from being an nnpos,
ing fgure. His duty on that historic date
and eventful day was to typify something,
to personify a grand idea and he couldn't
His progress was on a plan all his own-to
strike medium between gorgeous royal or
imperial equipage and plain republican sim
pficity; it therefore combined the absurdi-
ties Of both and was ten fold more ridiculous
than either.
The point that impresses every one is the
immense size of the affair Warned by the
crowded condition in 1857 and In again in
1878, the managers this year gave up the idea
of a symmetrical inclosllre, and SO the boun-
diaries wind in and out on both sides of the
Seine, and the antenne OF the exposition, 80
to speak, stretch into quiet quarters long
ways from the Champ de Mars and strangers
ignorant of the city often leave the grounds
and go along q street, which they suppose is
leading them directly from il, only to come
square upon another section of it. There is
a vast amount Of walking to do, and delicate
visitors who can afford it have themselves
wheeled about in regular invalids' chairs.
There are three miles Of outdoor walks pro-
tected by awnings, and many more not
protected. The grounds take in the whole
DUAL dOrsay and large section Of
the left bank of tho Seine, all the
bridge of Jena and all the Trocadero
Wichita eagle., 1889-07-07
THE YACHTING SEASON.

1t Is Now in Full Swing, and Here Arc
Some Interesting Cuts.
The yachting season is in full swing now
and everybody on tho seaboard is excited