davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The colored American., 1902-11-29

against him gives evidence of a col
lapse.
W. c. Martin-That he is in the l.
{. Sheafe class as an authority upon
HOLY Writ.
Emmett J. Scott-That in the most
'rylng situations his diplomacy never
slips cog.
James c. Matthews Grover
CIe'eland is again filling a large space
III the public eye.
Rev. w. L. Taylor-That the Free
IeIormers have the call in the practi-
'"I work of the race.
roscoe Slmmons-That he is to reach
,"e proud distinction of being edi-
'oI OF the New York Age
/. McCants Stewart-That Fate ere
".ea Hawaii as a place for his expan-
S-'e legal operations.
, Col. W. a. Pledger-That he is now
,le nominal head Of the National
-A1'o-American council.
Hooert y Do slsz-Tbat the Metro
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politan club f1ourished like unto the
traditional Green Bay tree
T Thomas Fortune-That honor
able recognition, though tardy, ulti-
mately halted at his door.
John w. Paterson-That he has the
finest law Office occupied by an Afro
American on the continent.
H. P. Cheatham-That he has a fine
The colored American., 1902-11-29

political cyclone never cracked
shingle off the Recorders Office roof.
Lee PersOn-That he was the re-
cipient of the Clarkson letters that
nxed" Pritcnard in North Carolina
Rev. L. C. Sheafe-That he has been
able to set the Washington preachers
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tends to dc herself proud on the oc-
casion of the visit of the National
Negro Business League next August.
Rev. B. J. Bolding his fame
as a financier rests upon such a secure
foundation as the possession of the
prettiest house of worship in Wash
ingtOn.
judge Robert H. Terrell-That as
the District political leader, he is the
logical nominee for delegate to the
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farm to fall back upon when there is
nothing doing" in politics.
Whetfried McKinley-That South
Carolina may be granted a. crumb
from the White House table.
DR.. Booker T. WashingtOn-That he
has given the world its most remark
able institution of learning.
Bishop Alexander Walters-That he
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DN NIX l. !" 4oF1IE' . 7 ONi
have plenty Of claims tC be adjusted.
II. A. Rucker-That Georgia is be-
having herself in admirable fashion.
President Because he is
indeed and in truth the first Ameri-
can"
William Monroe Trotter-That the
Boston Guardian manages to keep
alive.
Richard Cole-That the conspiracy
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AT THE HIGH TIDE OF LOVE.


ebb and flow entered the life of Victor
Irvine. The story OF his mothers last
moments had never been told him. He
was, however. not grown to manhood
when he first felt and recognized the
strange influence of the ebb and the flow.
It came to be to him that only in the
iow-a few hours at midday and at
midnight-could be accomplished any
thing. Then he conducted his chemical
experiments. made his analyses. With
the rush OF the flow of thoughts. ideas,
conceptions, suggestions burst tumultu-
ously upon him. pounding on the surf
of his brain. 1t was a work of fever
ish intensity to grasp and save them.
If he failed to catch them, with the ebb
they went Work was a drudgery the
remainder of the day. At the midnight
flow it was his habit to put in perma-
nent form, in writing. the work he was
engaged upon. Any treatise finished
then was usually received as brilliantly
scientific. The moment the ebb was on
the pen became impotent.
Into the tides of this mans life floated
two objects which became of absorbing
interest 10 him. One was a woman, the
other a chemical mystery.
He had come upon an element in his
chemical studies that he could not sat
isfactorily explain to himself. He real
lied that 1t might be a new element
He might be the discoverer of that
which would startle the scientific world
SO far the element had eluded him. He
had not only been unable to satisfy him
self of its existence. but also what its
characteristics were, or whether il
might not lie known element in a new
form.
The woman-Mary Ames-was a
warm hearted. whole-souled woman; a
woman who, with a broad, tender, hu-
man sympathy, read life and the various
species of natures that possessed man
kind she knew; woman who could see
good where others saw dross. She un-
derstood Victo.' Irvine. She gave him
credit where others had given ridicule
She respected the man. the student She
found a man who could be honest and
true, a man who could love.
le love OF Mary Ames became staff
tor him to lean on. Through her eyes
he took new view of the earth, of
mankind. He was irresistibly drawn to
Eer. Then Il was. when the rush of the
incoming flow was flooding itself through
him, that thoughts. feelings. affections
for Mary possessed him. 1t was then.
" hen the flow pounded upon the surf o;
is heart, he cried % himself, This is
life. life"
Victor was so situated as only to be
able to see Mary in the evening There
was always an inclination to remain
late with her, which he never yielded
to. He had always gone before the
rush of the midnight high tide. For
this reason he had not spoken of the
love that possessed him, had not had a
chance to pour it out in rush of words
in the flow. The ebb brought him a
timidity that was painful. There was
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an eyer-present fear that she would
| slip away from him in the undertow.
One day he came to her in the morn
| ing. II was holiday. AS he fingered
ne felt the coming of the midday flow
Their conversation grew exceedingly
bright. In the waiting for the highest
tide he was overwhelmed with the
love he had for her. that consumed him
He broke out:
'Mary-darling. you are so sweet-so
sweet-you are so grand-so grand.
have something l have been going to
tell you-tell you. dear" then he stop
PED. The ebb was on. He felt it. He
could get no farther. He stammered.
The-ebb-Mary-I will tell you at
another time
Several weeks passed 1t was not
the time of the vernal equinox. Great
storms ragged on the ocean. The tides
were running high.
One night in the worst fury Of the
storm Victor was in his laboratory, busy
at work. He was experimenting. The
element he had been hunting for had
turned up. He had made several sue
cessful analyses. 1t seemed to him
that he almost understood the secret
that had been eluding him. 1t was not
yet 10 o'clock. 1t was more than two
hours until the ebb In that time the
mystery would be known. the problem
solved. and the world would credit him
with a discovery.
The flow rushing On in great surges
brought other Inspirations. There was
Mary. How sweet love was. how glori-
GUS! 1t was almost his. Would it ever
be his? Life without 1t was dead,
empty thing. 1t must be his.
Away out came two great waves to-
ward the shore of the soul of Victor
Irvine. They rolled, tossed and pitched
as they moved in. On one perched the
secret of chemistry that he had been
diligently searching for. On the other
love rode.
The two waves were in fearful strue-
gle the one with the other. They raised
their high heads and broke into angry,
feathery caps. They chased each other.
one seeking to swallow the other. The
contest was wild. tempestuous one.
At last, with roar. they went together
and, breaking, flew far up the beacn.
love riding triumphantly in.
1t was then that Victor fled through
the rain to the home of the woman he
loved. Higher. greater swells were ris-
ing out on the waters. following each
other to the shore. AS onward they
came he poured out to the woman the
tale of his life the misery of its loneli-
ness. its pathetic strangeness, the
sweetness of the love he bore her. The
wealth of happiness there was in It,.
Before the ebb came he had the answc~
of the woman. 1t was satisfactory.
There was no regret for the lost secret
of the laboratory.
AS the moons waxed and waned the
secret came back to the inmate OF a
happy home. 1t returned as jetsam of
that night of the storm.
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Y VICTOR IRVINE vas a man of
NJ decidedly peculiar appearance,
habits and thoughts. He was
large in frame He had long,
straight hair. that fell around his head
like so many strings. His little dark
eyes went skipping from one thing to
another. On one occasion he greeted
friends with effusive pollteness; on the
next, passed them without recognition,
occupied with his thoughts. People call
ed him crank. They smiled when his
name was mentioned, intimating that
something was not quite right in his
upper story" He was known, however.
to be man OF Intelligence, scholar
His neighbors said he made his living
with some horrid smelling stuffs he
called chemicals.
Victor had hobby that overshadow-
ed all other peculiarities. which he
confided to those with whom he was in
timately acquainted To these he in
variably explained a strange philosophy
that possessed him. He would intro
uuNt II ny Va tue IN StfI lOuS
attraction of the sun and moon upon
the great oceans; how under their in
fluence there was the ebb and flow of
the tide twice a day. Then he would
conclude by saying that the greater
part of the human body was a liquid
formation: that this same overwhelm-
ing waterly composition was subject %
an ebb and flow as in the oceans; and
that 1t was fact that he recognized
daily in his own body.
There was cause for this philosohy of
Victor. His mother was of highly ner-
vous temperament and very delicate in
health. Her physician had ordered her
one year TO the sea. She had gone early
In the spring. In a cottage by the sea she
passed many weeks, most of the time
with her face toward the great expanse
of water.
As the flow OF the tide came with
roar and a boom, there was an exhilar-
alton In It that was conveyed to her that
gave her hope and courage. 1t was a
stimulus TO her spirits. Life was richer
than at any other time. linen would
follow the ebb, with its muff1ed break.
with its subtle slipping away of waters
1t brought a change TO the woman.
There would be a relapse. a passing
away, a tameness. spiritessness.
Each day of the whole summer the
ebb and flow of the tides brought IN ebb
and flow In the woman, in her spirits. In
the fall a baby was born-Victor-he
came at midnight at the greatest roar
and rush of high tide. Then the ebb set
in. AS the mother lovingly gazed at her
child she family murmured, "He came
at the flow of the tide; go at the ebb."
So 1t proved.
Thus the strange philosophy of the
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quiet gray eyes, and they met mine for
moment. then Fell before my frown
on a big book.
"A queer thrill ran through me. II
wasn't love. but 1t was queer. | turned
to my duties, and took no further notice
But in few days the other girls be-
gan TO plague me about this constant
visitor. who. they said. always took
out the same big book and never turned
more than one leaf from day to day
and watched me like a faithful dog.
81 saw that what they said was true
and / grew very angry. but what could
| | do? / couldn't complain to the au-
thorities of the library. for the man had
done nothing but look, and looking is
not a crime, though it's often an Of
fense to a woman.
Then I bethought me of Cousin Jim,
big six-footer from Vermont. who
could easily take up my little perse-
cutor by the scruff of the neck and drop
him into the frog pond before any one
had time to interfere. So appealed to
Jim.
AT first Jim roared-Jims always do,
think, at first. when you tell them
anything important.
But when / biubbered about it. that
fetched Jim around quite serious, ana
he said he'd come to the library and
watch my cowboy q had told him the
fal WI ha h{ :. >
to leave the place. looked like a West
ern NAM and see whether the charge
against him was a true bill or not
e Girls are SO blamed vain,' said Jim.
they often think man is eyeing them
when he's only wrapt up in thought OF
stewing over business problem
But Jim was convinced after he had
watched that person couple of hours.
and what do you guess Jim did? He
didn't wait for the starcr to leave the
library. but went right up to him and
laid heavy hand on his shoulder
MY. how all the girls and 1. too.
would have given our little fingers to
have heard what was said then; but
nOei' lh'H slohc III d"iuiiy iuW tOues
Look here. sir began Jim, 'wha.
do you mean by coming here day after
day and staring at that red headed siri
over there? She's my cousin, and this
thing has got to stop
~ can't help it, stammered the
stranger, with bewildered but no.
frightened look. I'm sorry II I've an
noyed her, but I've f-f-f-allen in love
with her. I'd give all I've got to get
acquainted with her, but l don't know
how.
THE absolute simplicity and SINGER
ity Of this reply staggered Jim.
" Core out on the Common said he.
and we'll talk it nver'
The stranger rose with evident Gag
erness on his face. and they went out.
Just imagine how the hearts Of us
library girls were futtering. What
would the Een do?
Fight? II didn't seem possible; yet
we all agreed the little man looked
eager and plucky, and Jim. the giant.
somewhat perplexed, though determined
"ODe girl said something about bowie
knives, and another thought the police
ought to be notified at once; but we all
The Washington times., 1902-08-10
TOLD ON THE BANKS OF THE NILE.
A Love Story. By HENRY AUSTIN.

did nothing but talk-which was some
thing of a relief.
when they reached the Common
they sat down, and Jim offered the
stranger a cigar-men are such funny
things-and then Jim said; Who tbs
devil are you. anyway"
| - I'm James Lawson. brother of Sii
Wilfrid the famous temperance man
of England. I've been farming in Colo
RADIO for ten years. and I'm well Off
| (His clothes didn't look 1t. but some
men, you know, can shine through their
clothes, or In spite Of bad fts.)
| Do you know anybody here in Bos-
ton.' said Jim. who can vouch for the
| truth of your story?"
Let me see' said the Englshman;
the last ten years. and 1 haven't kept
up my former acquaintances very we'll
He paused In brown study, and jim
grew suspicious.
Cant you think of somebody he
asked. rather impatiently.
The only name remember just
now is Wendell Phillips
Wendell Phillips,' gasped Jim. with
look OF awe and reverence. Heav-
ems. man. If Wendell Phillips says
you're o. X. thorrid commercial slang
Jim uses) why. you shall be introduced
to that young lady within twenty four
hours. and If you can win her-weli,
that's your funeral.
~ think Wendell Phillips will re-
| member me. Let's go find him right
off,
They went at once. and Wendell Phil
lips was as gracious as prince. He
not only identified Mr.. Lawson, but with
twinkle in his eyes, made a suggestion
me-
Cousin Nell he said, rig up in your
smartest toggery and look your tarna-
tion prettiest. You and | are going 20
call on Wendell Phillips this evening
I'VE went Mercy on me, how fuster-
ed l was! The great man introduced
Mr. Lawson to me, and then with ten
der gracefulness | shall never forget,
left us alone in the solemn parlor.
Mr.. Lawson made some remarks Of
a somewhat incoherent character, and
replied-we were both as shy as two
partridges-that | would think them
over, and he might call on me the next
evening, but must never come again to
the library.
THE next evening became every even
ing, and in three months we were mar
led. What do you think OF that for an
international episode? This is our
honeymoon trip. and as you're country
man. and a dear, good fellow, just had
to tell you all about it and share our
romance with you. James likes you just
as much as | do. and he won't mind my
blabbing"
This Is the tale she told me there un-
der the fair Egyptian moon, and l still
can see as clear as then-though it was
twenty years and more-the innocent,
girlish happiness in her gentle, friendly
face, and the moon -eciipsing glory OF
her adorable red hair.
But he was her first ard only love.
and she was his first and only iove-and
he was her husband.
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IT. THANKSGIVING night beneath an
Egyptian moon the sweet red
i headed lady told me a curious

Egyptian moon the sweet red
i headed lady told me curious
tale.
Twas a magical night. full of vague
suggestions of strange perfume and
faint zephyr tones OF mysterious music
and the full moon did not look like a
moon in any other land. 1t seemed
rather as If it might have been a plat
ter of gold which. flung at the purple
sky by Cleopatra in some festive freak
had stuck there for a symbol and a sign
to lovers in the aftertime.
Had 1 not been in love with the glo-
rious red hair of the lady 1 should have
worshiped that Oriental moon but the
oddness of the Occidental revelation she
made me-the lady. that is, not the lu-
minary-soon absorbed my attention.
Twas the tale of how they met. her
first and only love and his first and only
love-and he was her husband.
marked him now and then, strolling
placidly at scme distance, putting a
cigar of doubtful virtue in the majes-
TIC lace OF nature.
He didn't mind my dancing attend
ance on her, for he knew | was but a
scribbler of impassioned verses, and
was only in love with her rich red hair
ly an American, while he was her Eng
lish lord and master. So it was all
right all around.
"You think we never met before this
trip up the Nile" she murmured but
we have. Several times in the last four
years. fHere she laughed. and her
laughter was as warm and full of vital
color, though low in key, as her beauti-
full. profuse hair.) II have handed books
to you over the counter of the Boston
Public Library. and you have thanked
me in a dreamy. faraway manner that
made me think you must be most in
teresting boy"
did not particularly like this refer
ence to my being boy. but | made nc
protest. She continued:
you look surprised, but since We have
DttOlllt ouNH Al SOihb ~ 49,
you my romance as a mark OF my
special esteem. | was a poor girl from
the Berkshire Hills working in that
great, splendid library, and, strange as
1t may sound, had never seen man
cared for.
We'll, one day a stranger. very badly
almost shabbily, dressed, came up and
got book, not from me, but a girl neaI
by. AS he turned our eyes met. and
he gave me slight stare. and the
thought flashed through me, What kind
eyes that rough-looking fellow has!
Then l forgot all about him the next
minute.
Several days after this one of the
girls said to me, Nell. have you noticed
that man who comes here day after day
gets a book and sits at that table
facing our corner and stares and stares
over the book at me or you, and l guess
you must be 1t this timer
Il was nettled at this nonsense. but
looked in the direction she had in
dicated, and there. sure enough. was the
roughly dressed stranger with the kind
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VERY CUTTING.

Dittysmith-I am offered five hundred
dollars for my latest sentimental song.
Grimshaw-Hush money?-Smart Set.
The Washington times., 1902-08-10

That. sir concluded, ''is all the
explanation | have to make
Well" was the city editors COM
ment, "as an explanation it leaves little
to be desired, but as Journalism 1t is
atrocious. l don't mind the joke on this
paper; on its face. the story is too
Fictitious to carry much weight; but
am afraid that you are scarcely likely
to make a success in newspaper work,
if you allow the other man TO get ahead
of you like this.
"oh. don't know I replied; sue
cess may sometimes lie in knowing
when to sacrifice temporary advan-
tage for big scoop. Now. in this case.
the other fellow got the story hut
got the girl
The Washington times., 1902-08-10

Y VICTOR IRVINE vas a man Of
" decidedly peculiar appearance,
habits and thoughts. He was
New-York tribune., 1902-08-23
CAREER OF ". JUSSERAND.
NEW FRENCH MINISTER To THIS CoUN-
TRY MARRIED AMERICAS.
Special to The New-Yors Tribune by French cahle)

-
,Coryriaht. 1902: By Tho Tribune A8socia'ton1
Paris Aug Oh Jusseraud the newly ap-
7,ointed successor ia Jules Cambon as French
Ambassador to the United States. viii be a vel
come acquisition to Washington society. NJ.
Jusserand was born in 1870. The greater por-
tion Of his diplomatic career was passed in
England where he was for several years at
tached TO the French Embassy at the Court OF
St James. Notwithstanding his strong liter
srv and classical tastes he devoted especial at
tention to political economy commercial ana
industrial subjects
NJ. Jusserand speaks English with great
,,rritv and huency and without a trace OF for
eipo accent He has written several books III
ENGLISH hearing upon English poets OF the Eiza-
betban era He is bright and witty CONVEX
sationalfst and a capital impromptu aiter d'h-
nor snaaker. He has been minister at Copeh-
hagen for four years.
,11ra Jusserand like Lady Herbert the WIZ
of tho british Ambassador at Washington. ana
1;l,o tho r,,cress d'Arcos and the Baroness Mol-
oh.,,- wives of the ministers of Spain anu
1,oti,r, je an American. Nine Jusserand was
formerly Miss Richards. the daughter OF d P" :
nor in the banking house of Munroe q Co. o"i
;.. tho lifetime of the late Mr.. Munroe, father
&c Iobr, Nfunroc the present head OF that lili
\, md Mime Jusserand are at their post DIT
Cerbaeen. and are not expected IN fdIls |
Iopel''"6 ~ c. /. b.
fora October.
New-York tribune., 1902-08-23
IRELAND FOR CARDINAL,
URGENT RECOMMENDATIONS AT ROME
FOR HIS APPOINTMENT
.sna.laI % Tho Nem YORK Trlbune by Fren-h caolel

special 20 The New York Tribune by French cahep
tco7yrisht. 1902. Ry The Tribune AssociationJ
Rome. Aug. 222-TEe recommendations and So
rcItations to the Vatican to have Archbishop
Ireland nominated as cardinal have now as
sumed imposing proportions. setting forth that
the red hat would he due reward for the sue
cess the Papacy obtained through him by the
Taft mission coming to Rome
some of Archbishop Ireands friends are so
influential that the Vatican would like TO sat
isfy them. notwithstanding the reluctance TO
have America have more than one cardinal
The plan of having Archbishop Ireland a card'-
nal of the, Curia residing at Rome Is opposed by
the other cardinals of the Curia, who find HIM
too clever. too progressive and too American
A project that is whispered is that, bishop
Ouiglev of Buffalo having refused the Arch-
hishoprfc Of Chicago Archbishop Ireland ne aP-
rotnted there as a fit field for his activities ana
being created q cardinal. he would nave 'he
West under his jurisdiction, while, Caru'i"'
C;ibbona5wouId have the East.
New-York tribune., 1902-08-23
INSTRUCTIONS TO PAPAL DELEGATE
KEPT SECRET. But CARDINAL RAMPoLL-
IS HOPEFUL
nRr The AssocIated Pressl

Rome Aug. 1.-The Vatican authorizes nave
completed the collection of documents referring
TO the Philippines question for the use OF tlie
Apostolic Delegate at Manila ana II Is ooii-
iectured that his appointment Is imminent =
complete history of the negotiations Oh 'he SUI
ject of the friars' lands rs gwen nv ''u'',s s.
,.r of tho ,oluminous report of Monsignor
5,,,,,eIIa the former Papal Delegate in the Phil-
innines and the full text of the notes eXcha'seu
retu.een Governor Taft and the Vatican. lhese
are supplemented by precise instructions re-
garding which secrecy is maintained thouSh
cardinal Rampolla the Papal Secretary ol
state expresses the hope that the lnstruc ,s1
80 ca framed as to enable the delegate TO iuliii
tbe Pone's promise to Governor Tatt, naniely' 10
ech @ y eoIiItion satisfactory to both parties
New-York tribune., 1902-08-23
p1suOP BLENK PREFERS PORTO RICO

ca, Juan p r. Aug. 22.-Bishop Blenk. OF the
porto Rican diocese. whose name mas peen men
toned in connection with the appio'ci'5
" - 80 a,oetoIic delegate in the Philippine
IsIaods saws he has no information on the sun
ct further than the report contained in the press
disnatchcs He added that he was not nchnfd t 70 10
st@ Porto Rico explaining that the Porto hlcdiiS
Ere his people and that he wished TO ,n W3rk
among them and assist in instructihs ana ensn'
ting
New-York tribune., 1902-08-23
,,-s,e.rp,vD TO SUCCEED CAMBON
OFFICIAL ANNOUNcEMENi 'i
CHANGE MADE.
OFFICIAL
Ry The Associated Press.

,F,. The Associated FrfsSl
paris. Aug 22.-The correspondent OF me , HTco
- rross was Informed at the Foreign oili'e
to-dav that the successor OF Jules tah,po" 4 a. a.
to-'"S ,,taseador at Washington had not yet
rie'' .o1 h,gt that NJ Jusserand, the French
,,itar AZ Copenhagen. had been selected Tor inc lIle
MI NJ Jusserand has been proIniiTtIrSS innSant Of
pos.., ,,tb the movement for the deVeIopiieH' VI
athletic sports in France ,.to. t- going to ST
1t is not true that deseor M oF the Marquis de
IIftntebeII6 French Ambassador to Russia, Iii IL h Is
aaIu aooioted U French Ambassador at Madrid sue