davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Daily camera., 1897-06-07
Striking for an Increase.

Milwaukee, June 7.-Eleven hundred
carpenters are striking for an increase
of wages. They demand Is cents an
hour, and an eight hour day.
Daily camera., 1897-06-07

Constantinople, June 7.--It is reported
that Edhem Pasha, commander-in-chie
of the Turkish forces, will represent the
sultan at the jubilee celebration in
oDd,,n
Daily camera., 1897-06-07
Calhoun Arrives In New York

New York, June Especial commits
sioner w. J. Calhoun arrived here from
Havana today on the steamer Saratoga.
Daily camera., 1897-06-07
Silver Quotation.

New York, June 7-Silver is quoted at
20 today.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-08-21

Tex sam Davis ind Calvin CroEisr'
wefc but TIVE. We had many moro
Just like them. but they were not 50
tried.
But speaking nR tears and war the
most touching lines ever written were
BY I.anghorne, who died more than 100
yeaas ago:
Gold on Canadian hils Or Minden's plain.
That weeping mother mourned her hus-
baud slain.
Bent Ger her babe. her eye dissolved In
The big drops minsiine vtth the milk he
What q sad presage Of his future years
The child Of misery baptized IN tears
What could be more sweetly, sadly
pitiful. No wonder that Burns shed
tears when he looked at the print that
had been made Of the scene. Why has
not some great artist taken the hint
and painted it to the lifc-the mother
seeking her dead husband among the
slain on a battlefield and weeping over
her child as he nursed from her breast
1.-THE big drops mingling with the
milk he drew It is enough to make
an angel weep. II is enough to em-
phasize Gen. Shcrman's pitiless remark
that-
sWar is hell.s
The poet Rogers said the prettiest
thing about a tear. He wanted to End
a chemist who could crystalifze so
that he could wear it as a gem next
to his heart for a talisman. Shakes
peare calls the tears of an old man
Honorable dew that silvers down thy
cheeks" and smother poet describes
man as "a pendulum betwixt a smile
and a tear" So we viii let these old
soldiers weep if they wish to. 1t will
do them good for they are not tears Of
sorrow nor grief. They are the yelling
up and overflow of sacred memories.
1t is like unto a man after years and
years of wandering going back to the
hoIne of his youth and greeting his
kindred and sehoolmates and commun-
ing together about the joys and sor-
rows of the olden time. These veterans
all shared a common peril andHis
but natural that they should love to
get together and talk Of it. So let them
meet and talk and weep If they fec.
like it, and curses be upon the heart
less sell who scott at it and say oh, let
the old war go-we are tired of it
Bill Arp, in Atlanta Constitution.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-08-21

america, frolt australia and Poly
Eesia.
When Alfred Krupp died at last. not
long since, full Of years and honors. be
left an establishment the like Of which
does not exist swhere To-day his
son frfedritH conf an the same
path. aAd 3 few Sat4fds OF gigantic
size have been made since his Access
sion. sde the 4n0rnVns east kteel
works Sc Essen following indus
trial establishments belong to him:
The steel works in Amman. the Gruson
iFnnNorkain RNekan nearM aQdehprr;
three smelling works, three huge coal
mines. q score 81 iron mines in Ger
many, several |arge iron mines 10 Biz
bao. Spains the Sig shooting place ia
Keppen. and another one IN Dulmen,
three sea-going steamers and a number
Oh smaller river vessels. quarries OF
stone. clay. sandstone. and las. but not
least, the huge Gsrmania ship yards in
Berlin and kiel.
The latter are low being enlarged
iEto tha biggest shipyards in theworld,
SO As q enable Germany &uIsl ia
her own yands any and all Vessels for
commerce. p~'easure and the navy snc
uaY need il the future and thus render
wholly; independent Of British
yards. The shooting places, where the
rartilleEy experts Of the world come
from sIn8e vs. time to testnew types 0f
ordnance invented or improved by
Krupp. are the largest IN the world,
not ri one al Ksppen hear Essen
1t was there. on April 2S. 1892. ii tbs
presence Of the German emperor. that
hot wa fred out 81 8 e4eantinsS
gun whose steel-clad she'll (weighing
neatly soc poundsl wag projected a dis
lance of 1D,226 meters. Dr over IS Eng
lish miles. a feat hitherto %unrivaled;
and still later, last fall, The emperor
Witnessed tests with the new quick
firing naval guns which were even more
astonishing.
It was because Of all these triumphs
Of mechanical skill that Krupp received
tie hnftering cognomen Of the 'gun
king" Up to this hour he has sold to
the armies and navies of the world near
ly 10000 guns of large caliber. In his
enormous works in Essen there are IS
kilometers (6O English miles) Of ma
~terial of his own effeeting the internal
communication with 16 locomotives and
577 cars; telegraph lines IS miles in
length teaAphohe lines of 100 miles,
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-08-21

-
-sNo, I never talk g. IS infetior
nBut have youe ever met que
DIES Etats-Gnis.
-'.You protest that you love me.
Emily. but / am stin WAITING 4of The
FIRST Hiss" wei. whyHdo st it3
-Fliegende Blaetter.
- have here q neat and pretty little
letter opener began the so
have 1 at home" said the business man,
sadly; Il am married -~Cnlcinnad
Tribune.
-"I have bitten off more tan ean
chew" remarked the boa constructor
as the young gazelle dsappsaf hin
its capacious juyYs; Tblt thank fos une.
| don't have to ohewl't And It rled
itself up for a six weeks pap-Chieago
Tribune.
Stern Party-"Well, sir. I don't
know as / am ~Earticularly DESTROYS ct
becoming your father-in-law young
mani" Cho1y Seeke-Ef@ehAIn-n
never thought Of that. Youw4wo~veuld
b-be my father-in-law, wouldn't your
i g-guess wen llet the~-er-msmatter
drop; g-good d-day."-Truth
How 1t Came About have been
wondering, said Champion ABDUL
Hamid to his grand vizier vhetl we
had better follow the eNampls L
fellow-champion Fitzsimmons and &c
on the stage" Twenty Thousand cam
die power arc light Of the n~niYense, re-
piled the vizier; ~ fear you would be
unable to square the critics. h#e a
better plan We can foreath Sired 5 to
pay well for the show we have given
them And forthwith the claimior the
earth was frained.APhiladelph iA North
Americnn.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-08-21
DANGERS OF The DEEP.
A Late Survey Exposes Over 20
Rocks and Shoals.

A Late Survey Exposes over 200
Rocks md Shoals.
There has just been completed by the
English government a survey of the
seas and coasts of the world, which has
resulted in the discovery and charting
Of 200 rocks and shoals, all dangerous
to navigation, of which mariners have
heretofore had no general knowledge
whatever. Although England has ac-
complished the task, the results viii be
of equal benefit to vessels of ali nations
in navigating the oceans everywhere.
Ten vessels were employed in this
work, four around the coasts of Eng
land, Scotland and Ireland, and six in
other parts, such as Newfoundland, the
Mediterranean, the South Pacific, Aus
tralasia, etc. Notwithstanding Sthe
progress Of photography, and the con
slant employment Of English and other
surveying vessels in all parts Of the
world, the requirements of modern
steam navigation increase more rapidly
than the advance of surveys. Every
year newly discovered rocks are re-
ported, the number of which shows nc
signs Of diminishing.
OF the 209 rocks and shoals reported
as dangerous to navigation IL were re
ported by surveying vessels, IS by other
English ships, II BY. various British and
other vessels. 81 were discovered by yes
sells striking on them, and 139 were re
ported by colonial and foreign govern
ments. "A good deal of unsuccessful
searching for rocks or shoals is report.
ed, and on the English coast some re-
markable changes + recorded as 90
curing.
For instance, it is stated that a report
having kAen received at the admiralty
that the Prince Consort shoal, off Cowes,
appeared to be wrongly charted, Stair
Commander Haslewood made an exam
nation Of the shoal, the result showing
that It had shifted bodily about a cable
to the southeast Of the position it occu-
pied ia 1881. AS this shoal had no ex-
istence previous to 1864 it will be inter
esting to watch its future movements.
In Australasian waters the English
ship Dart was successful in its search
for the Pearn reef, a dangerous rock re-
ported in 1875 by q small pearling
schooner as seen in latitude II degrees
90 minutes south, near the track recon-
mended for shipping. Fruitless at
tempts hadb been made on several previ-
Gus occasions to find this rock. and it
was generally believed not to exist,
thoughsa warning was retained on the
ehaTt a steamer. however. having
touched something while passing the
locality, further search was ordered.
AAd d small coral rock was discovered.
with a depth Of only ten feet Of water
over II. lying directly on the line Of the
Recommended track.#N. Y. Herald,
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-08-21

APO steam engines III triphammers ana
S,000 engines and abor-sAsing machin-
driven By steaha ers electricity. In
all, there are at this hour 35,70O la
borers and mechanics 10 his employ,
aud with their dependents the army iiv-
ing on the proceeds Of the Krupp works
nalnbazs over 4o0.000
The wealth that has gradually, with.
in three ~gelieVatiDns. accumulated in
the hands OF the Krupps is
In taxes alone he pays to Prussia and
the empire over. 100000 marks (or $5Os
COO per annam. A4ia yet xhe Krupps
have always been most charitable and
liberal. AT the demise of Alfred Krupp
it was figured up that he had spent dur.
ing bis long life something like 10000,
900 marks ia charities alone, and his
son is, due to the larger means and
larger property at his disposal. even
more ~free-handed still. For iron.
workers throughout Germany 1t Is con.
sidcred the highest obtainable boon ia
get a place with Krupp. And no wonder,
since he pays the highest wages, never
goes beyond a certain reasonable rate
In over hours, no matter how great the
pressure 81 hiss customers. and looks
after the welfa4a o. his me and theft
families as u kind fatherwOuld. There
are. besides the moneys paid BY The
state Insurance schema, special funda
cut of which the widows and orphans Of
Krupps' men receive liberal pensions
and out Of which accidents, old age,
marriage. sudden death, etc, are de
frayed. Hardly any nati0nal holiday
or other special occnsidn pa IN with.
out Kfdpp making a fnrther large gifi
Of a million ar 50 into these funds
And the nneehanics' colonies Built by
Krupp for his men in Essen and else.
where are, indeed. models, in a much
higher sense than the tenements Of
Pnllmans AS for the higher classes OF
employees in Krupps' pay, the case is
similar. Some Of his engineers receive
in salaries and commissions, or boun.
ties, $4,000 70 s0,000 marks per annum,
and among them are the directors serv.
ing under the chief Of the firm are re.
tired army ~colonels. and men OF similar
Standing.
WOLF Won gCHIERRRAND.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-08-21
EARLs on ELECTRA
Preparing for the Coming o Thef
Queen.
Scheme for the Grand Pageant . Com-
piete-It win he the First OF It's Kind
Ever Attempted IA Am~ortca-FIAns
for the Trolley Floats.


IN the parade that win celebrate her
visit to st. Louis, Queen Electra. God
dess OF Light n Queen Of the Electric
Spark. has commanded that the subject
20 be illustrated In honor Of her coming
be to some extent set forth, In order that
benighted ~earthlkngs be given opportunity
to study and be prepared TO appreciate
that strand event. To that end. therefore,
her mundane representative has decided.
because OF this command IS well also a.
that the pageant is to take a new line Of
departure into that field 50 little explored
-electricity-.o give the subject to be pre-
scented as well as some Idea Of its treat
ment. as here set forth
''The Planets and Cancellations" the
subject chosen. IS best adapted to II
l~ustrate the worship Of Electra, Goddess
Of Light and Queen OF the Electric Spark.
Every hoat Of the pageant viii be thrown
into the field OF q strong electric Light BY
the footliehts surrounding the lower edge
Of the floats. The power will be taken
from the wire by trolley and running
over the street car line viii present 9
scene Of glory.
The costumes will Re entirely new and
built especially TO meet the requirements
of their novel parade. In truth It WIN
be In all rs splendid Feature q magnih-
cent surprise. and is calculated to arrest
attention az once and bring to st. Louis
mex fall q great concourse or people.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-08-21


During a series of observations made
last summer by a professor OF Cornell
university, it was discovered that there
had been a most amazing change in the
climate Of Greenland since the first rec
ords made concerning that region. II
would appear that there are, on the
Greenland coast, unmistakable evidences
Of ~submergence Of the land. Whether
this has caused o diversion Of ocean
currents is not yet determined. The
explorers found on the Greenland coast
blossoming flowers, rainstoFurh. fresh.
balmy air and birds and insects in
great abundance. On the American
shore thousands OF miles to the south
the conditions were reversed, and there
was every evidence Of wintry weather.
the shores being covered with heavy
sncwbanks and with great foes OF ice
in their vicinity. The professor, IN dis
cussing this subject, makes the follow
ing interesting inquiries: rs Green
land now passing through the stage
Of ice Withdrawal from which the Amer
lean, Labrador and Bafnn Land have SO
recently escaped? And is there any
relation between the d0~wn-sinkinr Of
Greenland and the uprising of Labra-
dor and Baffin Land2 Is the ice with
arawal directly due ia the land move
ment, and is the load OF ice really the
cause for the sinking which allows its
withdrawal? That is, does the ice In
crease in area and extent with no other
result than its own destruction b. de-
pressing the land. and hence removing
the cause Of supply?"-N. x. Ledger.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-08-21

Johnnie Washer has been calling very
regularly az the McGinnis mansion IN
Harlem, but fails to come 70 the point
as far y proposing to Birdie ii con-
cerned.
HE Is such q learned mani" ex-
claimed Birdie. r~apturouslT. HE
knows how 10 explsin everything"
Except bis object in calling here
SO often to see you.' said Mrs. McGin-
mis-, prosaicaly-N. x. World.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-08-21

over the globe. His make stands to-day
as a shining disqualification Of what
that shibboleth Made in Germnhy'
invented by English fear OF Compel
sion. and originally intended to injure
those goods, may really come to mean.
There is today no other establishment
Of imAhr eHafaeter Ia the world of
such magnitude and Of such an ex-
Ansive and varied field Of uHafNlnesas
not eve the state concerns of Wool
forth or Of Toulon or mg can
compete with it. And MhaG makes This
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-08-21
a Genna Rehukn.

a WISH" said the prig at dinner.
that the host had placed a gentleman
opposite me-"
Why answered his disappointed
aeighbor. you could hardly be more
opposite tc . gentleman than you are"
%Ift-Bits.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-08-21

RaH oaks from little aeorns grow
This prpyerb nnds q striking illnstra-
lop IL the RISE and growth Of Krupp's
Worid-laEned establishments "a Esen
and elsewhere Wherever you go co.
gay yon win find some Of the com
moaaes manufactpEed 81 Krupp.a aud
4he name isself, next IA Hismarck's. *
probably best known German name all
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-08-21

al Danish scientist Dr. Johannson, Of
the agricultural high school at Copen-
hagen has discovered that chloroform
and ether have 4 wonderful power in
awakening the vegetable kingdom.
While they put the animal world asleep.
a closed flower can be reopened instant
" by either Of these agents.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-08-21

what is experience. Uncle Sam2"
Experienced II is what we learn
FROM wanting everything we don't get
and getting everything we don't want
Louisville Courier-JournRL
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-08-21
Not AItoee4her N error.

Vaacher-f the founder Of a family
"A called ali ancestor, what is one Of
The presenr generation called?
TonnA de-er-degenerate, siri
Puck.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-08-21

al the more wonderful the feet that
the whole is the creation 81 oDe man,
q private citizen Of small means but
efaormoua ~energysand keen knowledge
81 a8aiRs w. pot things mere
PRECISELY q Isl heereatian 81 thT men,
-~gTandfather, son and grandson.
For ~ ai in 4012Sf Aa2 the grand-l
father OF the present owner, Friedrich
Krupp, founded therfrnf which has
since develEpAd to sbch gigantic pro-
portions. He had small capital and he
pegan, TOO, ina small way. to manufpc-
ure east steel he having discovered.
after many EeaH experimenting 4 new
msthnd af making II, IN 1913 be en-
lafgad the place u Essen, So rs to run
40 smelling f~uknaces. But Friederich
K1app died yanng. not vet 40. in 1926,
and It WINS his son Alfred. then but 4
boy OF IA. upon whom d~evolved the task
OF extending the works.
1t was during the long life of this re-
mhrAabfe man that 15rupps Became a
household word The whole appear
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-08-21

"A1most any man win admit that he's
liable to make mistakes"
"Yes. except when he makes 'em."-
Chicago Journal.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-08-21
LIE %sULTAM.s MorAER.

FulGllment of a martinique For
tune TeIIer's Prophecies
The present sultan Of Turkey Is par
TALLY FFench by descents q cuEious fact.
from which hangs a omanc
Every loiterer in the plensaht bywaya
of history will recall the charming
story told anent Empress Josephine
and her friend Clara Bazillais of how
q mulatto fortune teller prophesied that
each of these young beauties OF Mar
Unique should marry an emperor.Jos
phine, who was then merely Mis- de Ia
Pagerie, laughed at what she deemed
a piece of idle hattery; and So did the
equally incredulous Clara Bazillais.
But nevertheless the prophecy came
true in both cases. Josephine became
empress of the French, aud Mile Ba-
~zillais, by as strange Turmoil the wheel
of chance, ended her life as the first
consort and only actual wife of Sultan
Mahmoud II.
The late Sultan Abdul Madjld, while
in Paris in 1867, told Napoleon III. the
full story of his mothers romantic adj
ventures. Mile. Bazillais was on her way
from Martinique to Marseilles when
captured by a piratieal galley OH Malta
and carried to Constantinople. There
she was exposed for sale in the slave
mart, but Sultan Mahmoud, happening
to pass that way, fell in love with the
fair maid of Martinique, and bought
her for a very large sum- Mile. BAIL
lais acquired an extraordinary influence
over the grand Turk-so great 4 one,
indeed, that he married her formally,
having divorced all his other wives. She
remained a Christian to the last, and
after her consort's death in 1870 she
retired to q beautiful villa on the Bos-
phorus, where she spent her widowhood
under the name of Mime. de Martini.
que" Her eldest son became Sultan
Abdul Madjid, and her g~randsons were
the late and present Sultans Muradv v.
and Abdul Hamid II.
Mahmoud H., consort of the ci-devant
Mile. Bazillais, was n OF the BEST and
most energetic sovereigns that modern
Turkey has known. Heitwas who first
introduced the customs OF civilized
courts at Constantinople, and placed
the Turkish diplomatic service upon q
proper footing. May we not ascribe
some, at least, of these Tendencies
toward civilization to the influence Of
Clara Bazillais, girl friend Of Josephine
de la Pagerie, whose hand the mulattc
fortune teller read so skillfully III far.
of MISUNDERSTANDING Journal
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-08-21


BRNBERFck ALFRED EzRUPP.
Ce1asant Head % the Great KrunD Wcrks.l
ance OF Alfred Krupps however, shows
him to have been a man Of rare parts,
ct clever foresight, boldness n execu-
fion and planning. The first acknowl-
eagment Of the excellence Of the goods
turned out BY Alfred Knapp came in
$685.; at the London universal EXPOSE
ton. when he took first prize Tor a solid
block of cast steel weighing 2H tons
and Hauless III quality IN 1854 he be-
gan to make guns, with which, ID 1855.
81 the Paris exposition he created q sem
dation among the artillery men Of the
World. These two successes, wrestea
0n hA interesting lips o. foreign ma
neothed the way Tor him, and
WIS eyer afl4F plain sailing, although
Industrial crises 81 course, played theifs
na too, Ia the welfare and receipts Of
he fta. GeaseIeasly the Krupp@ made
Improvement after improvement IN the
nlanulacture Of their goods but IL was
particularly liz heavy ordnance that
they began to excel little by little,
every other ARM Ira the universe, 50 that.
the pears went BIZ. orders came from
every quarter 81 the globe, from Iunis
and fhe Cape 81 Good Hope. from Persia
&aa Turkey, from Central and South
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-08-21

DebutanteE wonder II I shall lose
my looks, too, when I get your age2
Seasoned Sister-You win be luckylf
rou dol-Punch
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-08-21
A lIolern I~nstanee.

Weary Watkins-Dis here newspaper
says that half The cause Of de hard times
is de overcrowdin' Of de professions
Hungry Higgins-Tt's gittin' that
way Ia our profession. to a dead GER
tainty.-Indianapolis Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-14
MRS. BEsANT's CAREER.
CFrom the Denver Republican,

(From the Denver Republican,
1t has been the record of Mrs. Besants
checkered career that ner enthusiasm for
a cause soon burns out, and she starts
on an eager chase after some other fad.
While the whim prevails, sac works with
remarkable energy and power.
Mrs. Besant was born of Irish parents,
and she inherited all the eloqUence a-no
enthusiasm OF her ancestors She mar
Tied a Church of England clergyman, but,
finding the canOnS of the church repug-
nant TO her ideas. she renowned 1t and
left her husband and children;
Then she became identified with free
thinkers and radicals OF all Kinds. she
wrote book on population in line with
the Malthusian theory, that population
tends to increase faster than subsistence
There was nothing new IN the theory,
and it was pOweTless in itself to starte,
because very few bothered themselves to
follow the Thought to logical conclus-
ion. Mrs. Besant took the bull by the
horns end advocated the enforced restric-
ton of marriage to prevent an increase
in population. Her book created a sensa>
ton, and many good people We're horri-
fed
Mrs. Besant became a socialist, and
threw her. whole soul into the work She
surrounded herself with a choice society
of university graduates. who became en-
thusiastic to bring about a change in So
Ctal conditions. The cOterie of socialists,
of which Mrs. Besant was the leader,
published great many tracts, which
Britain and America.
It startled many of her admirers when
become a theoSophist- It seemed q long
stride from agnOsticism to the strange
EeilSlOn Oh BlaNaISBy, out she carried
many of her admirers with her.
Mrs BeSant had not utterly repudiated
her old opinions in regard to social re-
form; but she hopes to accomplish all re-
form through theosophy.
She expressed this belief in a lecture
delivered four years ago, in the follow
ing words:
why did I become a teacher of the
osOphy? Because the cause of labor re-
form is comparatively we'll provided for,
while the cause of spiritual and ethical
reform lacks teachers. There are many
Others to work for the labor movement;
theosophy lacks workers.