davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-07-06
boat is a. follows:

The wind by this time had become quite
strong. end when the second race was ended
This caused little delay, and the third and
last race Of the afternoon was started at 2:52
o'clock. TIL" Palm led again at tho line and
IN" other two We're close together with the
Constance to wndward. At the first mark the
Palm still led. with the Constance second and
the Algonquin third On the second leg the
Constance took the lead. hut the Palm managed
70 keep ahead Of the Algonquin until after the
increased her lead and won by . minutes 45
seconds and the Algonquin beat the Palm /
minute 81 seconds. The tables follow:
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-07-06
Jenries to Fight Mitchell in August

Sseeidl Gable Defpdch 10 THE Sun.
LONDON. July 5.-Brady. Jeffrcs's manager.
has accepted Mtchel's terms to fight Jcfrries
at the end Of August
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-07-06

Baseball. Washington Park. AP. M. To-Day.
Brooklya vs. Philadelphia. Adm. SOC. Il 26e.--Adv.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-02-18
TELEPHONES IN HAWAII.
Islands Kept in Touch With the World
by Lookout Station

Honolulu Correspondence Chicago Herald.
Nowhere In TIE world, perhaps, is the
telephone greater factor in life than In
Hawaii In thu islands there are about
1000 telephones to a population of 10000
or one telephone to every fifty-two inhabi-
tants. On the Island of Oahu, on which
Honolulu is situated, there are 1000 tele-
phones to a population of about $4,000. or
about one to each forty-one of the popuLa-
ton.
The telephone was introduced here in the
latter part of 1880, and soon became an es-
tablshed part of the business social ard
political life of the country. 1t may sound
strange to use the word 'politicar' in this
connection. but it is true in q sober and
literal sense, for in every revolution that
mas been planned or attempted the seizure
and control of the central telephone office
has always been one of the first strategicaI
moves thought of.
The telephone is much more of a puhIc
institution here than il is in most places
isolated as the islands are, the arrival Of
steamship from Il foreign land is of na,.
sonal interest to almost every indiyiduaI
me government maintains q lookout sts-
ton on Diamond Head, from which ar,-
pfoaching vessels in any direction can he
sighted while still from twenty TO forty
miles distant, depending on the state Of
tne atmosphere. As soon as a steamer is
sighted -centraF' is notified, Central
slcian, the board OF health. the custom
house, the post office. the newspaper Offices
ana a Few other persons who have n mar
ucuiar interest in having early Information
or this character. Then the electric Iiebt
company is notified, and ii gives two long
Ministries II the steamer Is from America
ana three II II Is from any other part of
the world. For two minutes after these
Whistles are blown no telephone copnac-
tlonS are made, but the force at Central,
Keeps repeating the name of the steamer
ana IT'S location, as Australia off Koko
Head, or China off Waianae," so thar
an any individual needs to do is to go to
the nearest telephone, put the receiver to
steamer it is. where it is, and If h. has
lived here any length of time he can form,
an accurate judgment as to how long If
VIII be before the steamer will be ar tbe
wharf. w a. tnS
II the steamer brings any striking niece
or news OF general interest scentraI'' ei,.aS
1t to everybody who calls I'D for a coenac9
uoh. In this way the destruction of the
Maine was known all over this island with
IN ten minutes after the Zealandia, which
Drought the news, was at the wharf.
II an important parsonage dies the news
IS distributed In the same way and Cen
e,ai can always be depended on to give
the hour and place of funeral as soon
as the hour has been fixed In New Work
and Chicago, if you want to make an in.
curry, you ask a policeman. In Honolulu
you ask Central"
The meat markets have a list of thar
regular customers at central and at
about O'Clock each evening central, calls
them ali up in order and takes their orders
Tor the next mornings breakfast.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-02-18
The Inquest.

From the Denver Evening Post.
ieadin' hand ;"
sendin' Mexican Rinaldo to the Greaser Promised
lie had given US proyercaton fur doin of that
isy falmn all the aces IN an honest poker game
tlyin n inors of the lynchn' in some unknown
manner got
To the county seat below MS an precinitatolv
biOught
The OIL Coroner saiIin' fur to take the needless
OF hollin of an inquest on the weather chilled
renaius.
said le vas legal duty, an the jury's verdick
Git The reckless perpetrators in tapgie purity
Fur the sudden elevation of mortal to a tree
WAS crime, as per the statutes, of quite serious
We endeayored TO convince him that the statutes
In the squawville jurisdiption, but be wouldn't
An he asked US all tosiisHer in SIGH geutlemanly
That We, we moaesty infgrTned him he could make his
legal play. H. Fit
adt1 e
50 he vs sq~m0nsed up q ju an it started its
BY e l1h! me the fastnab, posish couldn't
An We met in solemn order every face a wearin'
Quite befttin event OF sieh soemnty you know.
linen tae witnesses KaS Questioned, an they all
At the startlin inforaatles Of the Me.ican's de-
An upon their oaths aisssertsd they was more than
satisfied
That sa he just got tired q lvin' an committed
All the ds, skin of the Snsh couldn't shake their
An The i, Coroner wa, puzza at their is'nancs so
Fur twas proved beyond question that we'd
heit her heerd nor read,
feFe t4e CefoDer's arrival, that the Mexican was
lie remarked, in snappy. monner, that he thought
ihat thing like that could happen in the camp
eussed thing about It, an, to bolster up his
BY coincidence, We tof him that US felers though.
SO, TOO. -i,le, -
after due deliberaiioa in a strictly IagaT way
a" e com the evidence brought forward In
read. sTa,-s > 'tsn
We mathis s Jury q aa here assembled find the cold re-
mark y
That some queer things sometimes happen hero in
,r, squawrtlie after dark,
dhat me sun was just settin', an the way his
Hit the landscape down the mountain was a
pieasurable treAti i.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-02-18
China's Mail Service,

From Home Talk.
Difficulties of the civil service examina-
tons are multiplied tenfold in the require
ments set down by law of applicants for
positions In the mail service of China.
In the first place an applicant must have
strength and courage. To acquire these he
goes through a very queer method of train
ing. He wanders through mountains and
valleys, forests and caves. The exact time
to be occupied in a trip is fixed by law,
and a heavy fine Is imposed for unnecessary
delay. He must repeat these trips at night
ana II he listens to the bad spirits and
thereby fails to appear at the required time
at certain place he is sure to lose his
rights to position.
This is not all. He IS obliged to carry an
enormous weight for many miles and re-
turn with ii within a given time No
allowance is made for his inability to de-
fend himself against thieves and highway
men, his road usually leading through n
district thick with bandits.
In training the candidate eats very little
though he is used to this-and he tries
real examination. under the direction of
government officials He is taken into O.
long room. where. suspended from high
beam with strong ropes, are very heavy
sacks flied with rocks.
The candidate must give a swinging mo-
ton to all these sacks and then run to and
fro between them, carefully guarding
against blow by one of the weights
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-02-18
Music of the Sierras,


Travellers in the Sierra forests usually
complain of their want of life, especially
OF birds. THE trees they saw ARE fine
but the empty stiffness is deadly: there
are no animals to bee SEEM no birds We
have not heard song in all THE woods +"
And no wonder, going in large parties, with
mules and horses, making SO much noise
dressed in outlandish, unnatural coIors.
every animal shuns them. Even the fright
ened pines would run away if they could.
But Nature lovers, deyout, silent opeu-
eyed. alert. looking and listening with love
sitting still here and there for hours or
days, as their genius directs find no lack
OF inhabitants in these mountain mansions
and they come to them gladly. Not to men
ton the large animals or the small insect
people, every waterfall has its ouzel. and
every tree Its squirrel, or tamias or bird
tiny nuthatch threading the burrows Of the
bark, cheerily whispering to itself as IN
deity prizes off loose scales and examines
the cnried edges of Hchens or Clarke
crow, or jay, examining the cones, or some
singer-or1oie, tanager. warbler resting
feeding, attending 10 domestic AFFAIRS
Hawks and eagles sail overhead and
grouse walk In happy foeks below. and the
song sparrow sings in every bed of chan
arrai. There is no crowding, to be sure.
Oniike the low eastern trees, those of the
Sierra in the main forest belt average
nearly 200 feet in height, and, of course
many birds are required TO make much of
a show in them, and many voices to fill
them. Nevertheless, the whole range from
to snowy submits is shaken into
song every summer, and though low and
thin IN winter the music never ceases,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-02-18
RANDoM{ VERSE.
Pax Britannica.

Pax Britannica
Alfred Austin In the London Times.
Behind her rolling ranparts England lay.
Impregnable and grit by clf- built towers.
Weaving to peace and plenty day by day,
The long-drawn hours
In peace Spring freed hee; gOcks and showered her
summer safe smiling under peaceful leaves,
And Autumn piled on the anwarlike vain
Her sickled sheayes.
And white-wnSed kee1s f1ew autterinr TO her shore
Laden with Eastern bafE Southern fleece: >
And from the fields of fason labor bore
The spells of Peace. 10
Then seeing Her within her waves so best
The Jealous nations, panoplied alike
Said: Look She wears no armor on her breast
What IL we striker
But She. of their base greed and armed array
Haughtilv needless, moated by her main.
Still across ocean ploughed her peaceful way,
In strong disdain.
Then each to other muttered: "Now, at last
Her splendor shall be ours, and we shall Stake
Our envy: She is piilowed on her Past,
And VIII not wake
Slowly stirs lion from his bed
Lengthens his limbs and crisps his name She
rose -
Then shook out all her strength and, flashing, sad
Where are my foes!'
Thus to herself She did herself reveal
swiftly. yet calmly. put her arnor on
And: round her Empire sentnelled in steel
Like morning shone!
From field and forge there thronged embattIed
hosts,
And that one struck the anvil, this the Tyre,
And from the furnaces of war her coasts
Were friBged with fire.
Dazed and dismayed they veiled their futile vow.
Some fain would be her friend and some would
nurse
Their hate till they could curb the might that now
They could but curse. "
But they who watch from where the west wind
blows, ~
Since great themselves, proud that their kith are
great, 1900 -
Said: See what comes when England with her
foes ~ ei
Speaks at the gate.'
Then back TO loom and share her people poured
Chanting peace paeans they reapad and
CLEANED. ~
While, gazing Woodward on her undrawn sword
Watchful She leaned. ~
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-02-18
An EIectrostatic Pair,
From Hardware.

rom Hardware
lie was the gallant engineer
VI giant dynamo;
sne sang to the wires the whole day long
Win chorus of ''Iello.'
lie loved this telephone maid
I'M his hearts vibrating plate
W AS magEetizeti and poiariZed
Al nliliamperic rate.
HIS love he well expressed In oh,ns,
ana anlcres. orAeyen in volts;
III Votdtc phrases and dynamo figures
or currents, arc lights and bolts
SAM he: by the great broken circuit.
pr more, 10y the Ruhmkorff coil
Antf negative answers will drive me
i" Some subway under the soil
Nof spark of linda tive affection,
Not Il positive Yes have | had;
IN AFRAID the wires have grounded
III favor Of some other lad"
Then regret like galyanometer.
or an astHtic needle. Il sulate her
ANA sh" said: OF love | have ions
As stroies as an Edison motor
so he cfened the circuit and clasped her
III arm-atGre, and held her there;
ana she was the belle electric
VI inns thermo-electric pair.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-02-18
Only One Killed.

Lydia Avery Coonley in the New England Magazine
Only she killed. the headline reads
The glad news speeds
The newshoys cry, Killed only one.''
He was my son!
What were a thousand to this one--
My only son.
Whose blood was spilled
That bells might peal, guns fire men sbout
Only killei!''
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-02-18

From the Somerville Journal
l found them in book last night,
These withered vioiets
A token Of that early love
That no man e'er forgets
Pressed carefully between the leaves
They keep their color still;
l cannot look at them TODAY
Without an old time thrill.
All, me, what tricks does memory nIavi
The passing years have fed
AMI hopes that lived In vigor once,
Alas. have long, been dead
And this is all that | can saw
When all is said and done:
Those flowers remind nie of some girl
L wish I knew which one
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-02-18
ABOUT AMBER.

Interesting Facts Concerning This
Beautifai and Precious Material.
From Harper's Bazaar.
Although amber is not precious stone.
or anything Of the sort, 1t Is nevertheless n
precious material, one full Of picturesque
interest. and very beautiful to boot. Most
OF the amber OF the world has been found
thrown up on the shores Of the Baltic sea
and Is supposed to be the residfuum OF old
and huge forests OF q period before the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-02-18

Recent investigations have shown that the
principal source of the gulf stream Is not
the Florida channel. but the region between
and beside the islands of the West Indies.
At Binioni the volume Of this warm water
is sixty times as great as the combined vol
ume OF all the rivers in the world at their
mouths.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-02-18

Ground oyster shells were given by the
medieval doctors to children suffering
from ricketts, and scrofula- Now II appears
that they were right. The shells contain
lime, nitrogen, iron sulphur manganese.
magnesia, -four. bromide. phosporie acid
and iodine, all excellent for feeble children.
They say thar IL growing children were to
take powdered oyster shells In their food
the teeth would be improved.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-02-18

According to report made to Congress
last year "a per cent of the petty Officers
and 33 per cent of the enlisted men In the
navy of the United States were of foreign
birth. and some of them had never taken
out their naturalization papers The per
centage of foreign-born officers rs very
small-a fraction of 1 per cent-and every
officer In the service is a citizen.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-02-18

A healthy man. with normal appetite
and thirst, living to the age of seventy
ishing solid food and liquids Taking 40
pounds as the average weight of a man he
would, by this calculation, masticate and
digest the weight Of his own body 1880
times.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-02-18
Practical Uses.

Prof. Dewar has shown how liquid hydro
gen can be used as condensing agent for
the production of very high vacua, the
contents of closed tube containing air be-
ing quickly condensed as solid air when one
end of the tube was immersed In the liquid.
When the portion of the tube from which
the air had thus been removed by conden-
sation was sealed OF with A blow pipe, a
vacuum so high was obtained that IT would
scarcely allow ia electrical discharge to
pass Sir William Croolles has stated that
the vacuum produced by liquid hydrogen
In so short a space of time as one minute
was higher than he could obtain with the
ordinary pump after working 1t for several
hours. The first question usually asked
scientific man when he makes discovery
is, What is the use of it?' Liquid air
has already been of very great use to the
scientific man In his Investigations, and
there is no doubt that as time goes on prac-
tfcal applications for IL will be found.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-02-18


The natives are subject to the regent.
tneir natural chief; as to the resident. the
real possesSOr Of power. he acts only
through the regent; but to conceal his au-
thority he appears 70 the eyes of the ma
tives as the elder brother Of the regent
aud It is in form OF recommends fions''
Ihat ne gives orders 10 his brother This
formula. which would De regarded as conf
in"hpiace with US. has an important mean
ing among the Javanese. for as they view
II, the elder brother. after the death of the
father. Is the head OF the family. respected
by TINS title by his younger brothers but
considered always as brother and not as
an othciai chief Since they are brothers
the regent explains his plans to the resi-
dent the European official Is even hound
10 take the advice of the native offictaI
wheH the interests OF the native are in
Vowed. the younger brother is the intin,afa
adviser of the older brother i'm ALI caSaS
where the latter ought to be enIipbtena5
az to the condition of the people. but rvbe,,
the resident has made UP his mind an the
advice OF the regent, the latter, as a drti-
fuI younger brother, ought to submit
Inc regent, who has only the sernhIsnca
OF power, has as compensation All ire .v-
ternal marks which would impress the muI-
titude; IN order that he may keen an his
rank and keep up the luxury of an AsIafic
court he is better paid than the resident
RLnseif; ne ranks above all the European
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-02-18

Alfred Austin in the London Times.
Behind her rolling ramparts England lay,
Impregnable. and grit by cliff- built towers,
Weaving to peace and plenty, day by day,
The long-drawn hours.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-21

in history, was we'll talked of. and the
talk was full of seemingly accurate in
formation. The gentleman became rather
piqued, in fact, at the seeming ON
niscience of the ~presumable curate, and
one day thought he would try him on a
certain historical subject upon which
he distinctly valued himself. l think it
was the papacy during the refOrmation.
To his amazement he found himself a
mere child in the curate's hands, which
heightened his wonder and admiration.
At last he was DESTROYS of sending on his
luggage by one route and travelling 10
meet it by another, and he found that the
curate was going to travel by the lug
| gage route. SO he asked the curate if he
would mind taking the luggage on and
depositing it where he could claim it, to
} which the curate most amiably consent
ed. But then qualms came over the care
full man of commerce. He reflected to
himself that he did not know who the
gentleman was, and that it might not be
safe to trust his portmanteau to him.
He took a walk to think what he should
do. When he came back he said:
BY the bye, it never occurred to me to
ask you, sir, but where are you a
curate?"
TO which the clergyman replied:
well, as a matter of fact l am not a
curate."
oh" said the gentleman, "you are a
vicar or a rector?'
NO. he said; 'the fact IS, I am not. I
have not a bencfice."
BY this time the inquirer was become
ing somewhat nervous about his port
manteau, and 50, with some degree Of
point, he said:
well, sir, but what are you?'
Upon which the gentleman said:
We'll, the fact is, 1 am a bishop"
Tableau of surprise.
and what bishop"
THE Bishop of Peterborough
1t was DR.. Mandell Creighton before
his elevation to the London See.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-21

1t never rains but what it pours, and
there has been a constant shower of
troubles upon Princess Louise of COburg
since she eloped with Lieut.. Mattachich-
keSlevitch, who is now in prison at
ASram, a few months ago.
Besides being separated from the man
for whom she has given up everything
by hideous prison walls, she must in the
near future see him publicly degraded
and sentenced to Imprisonment for five
years with hard labor. The degradation
will be exactly like hat of Capt. Dreyfus.
which took place in Paris four years ago,
and Lieut.. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. will
have his sword taken away from him n
broken, and Will be stripped of his uni
form. In addition to this comes a trial
for charges of forgery and a military es-
cOrt to the prison near Vienna.
Princess Louise is the Oldest daughter
of King Leopold III. of the Belgians. She
is nearly forty-One years old. having first
seen the light of day in 1858. She is the
wife of Prince Philippe of SaXc-Coburg-
Gotha, and a second cousin of Queen Vic
toria, since her paternal grandfather was
an uncle to the queen.
If royal gossip can be taken for a fact.
it is not the Princess's fault entirely that
her marriage life was not one of happi-
ness, for she never loved her royal spouse
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-21

the friends of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Hill.
Planned a surprise party on them at their
nome at the Bateman house. The mazy
waltz and enhancing two-step were par
tlclpated in by some, while others en-
gagged in progressive whist. About 12
O'Clock a delightful lunch was served by
the ladies.
DR.. and Mrs. L. H. Thurston returned
from Sand Coulee Monday.
Harry Blair, of the A. C. NJ. Co. dry
goods department, is quite sick.
Manager David Doty, of the D-B Drug
Co, had business here Monday.
Mrs. j. w. Leland and Mrs. Walter
Kennedy returned Monday from their
visit to Helena.
S. l.. Crane left Saturday to spend a
week with his children, who are attend
ing school at Helena.
Miss Tillie Ingham is visiting her sister,
Mrs. Archie Hutchinson, at Sand Coulee,
who is making preparations to join her
husband in kansa
Deputy Postmaster Len Wegner de-
parted Saturday for a two weeks visit in
the western part Of the state-presuma-
bly, kalispell.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-21

from the beginning. When the princess
had reached the age of marriage, the
story goes, her choice was the late Crown
Prime Rudolph of Austria, who also IA
vored her. In the meanwhile Prince hill
lippe of Coburg admired the younger sis
ter, the Princess Stephanie.
. But such unions for some reason We're
wholly distasteful to the mother of the
charming princesses. so she reversed
matters; consequently Louise became the
princess of Coburg, while Stephanie went
to Austria as the wife of the crown
prince. In her disappointment Louise
sought pleasure, it is claimed, in a series
of flirtations, which finally ended in her
elopement, and S%tephanie found diver
sion in other ways.
Princess Louise is very beautiful, and
could easily be taken for a woman thirty
years of age Her face is round, even
giriish, n her large eyes are trimming
over with mirth,. She has a tendency to-
ward stoutness, and is highly accom-
plished. She has no children.
Very recent rumor states that the
princess's mind is threatened with fall
ure over her misfortune. If such a report
be true it need not occasion great surprise
when one reflects that she is the niece of
the hapless ~eX-Empress Carlotta, who Ia
now a hopeless maniac.