davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1903-02-28
Mexican Cvstome putles.

Eagle Pass Texas February 27.-Minister
Llmantour by wire today, liked a theoret
zeal rate Of eX ,hauge for calculating duties
on imports INTO Mexico for March. The
mode Of computing Is as before namely
First deduct 20 per cent from amount %
duty ascertained under existing tariff smrl-
tipy above rate by the remainder; divide
product hy 100 ana result will be amount
Of duty actually payable.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1903-02-28
Rennhlioan ResoIutions.

RepuhMcan Editorial association today
adopted resolutions eulcglzlng President
Mckinley ana President Roosevelt saying
that their administrations, together with
the unparalleled prosperity OF the country
ons. ituted the highost npucal for rrpuh
licar supremacy. Mr, Hannn spoke and
was enthusiastically received
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1903-02-28
BIG ENGLISH COMPANY
May Establish Plants Throughout tho
South


Boston. Mass. February IA $1,000
0CO corporation, the British Cotton and
Wooden Dyers association, limited, o. Brad
ford. England. Is preparing for operation
tllrough the South and East The company
has a newly Invented American process for
mercerlzing yarns which It is claimed Will
reyolutionize the cotton yarn Industry
Throughout the world, Besides merrerzlng,
the company viii operate dyelng, bleaching
winding aul coming plants plant is now
under construction at Holmesburg, Pa
which Is the first of a chain to be estall-
lisled In all the large manufacturing cen
ters of the United States. Adolf BQesgon
the president ANA Joshua Murgatroyda,'. D
British director are here In consultation
with James c. Forest and Horny G. For
est. the American directors The company
operates hfty-one plants in Great Britain
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1903-02-28
CONFESSED 10 MURDER.
Murdered Woman's erether Attempted 10
Assault Prisoner ii Court Room.

Tolean oAl9, February 2'-A Wade to-
day confessed 20 the uipfder Two years ago
of Kate sullivan rlie confession came Mt
the close OF one Of The most sensational
trials ever held ~ this city. Wades al
torney. Novelist Brand whltdck, offered TO
pnter plea Of guilty 70 second degree nnr-
der l,ul this was refused by the states at
toruey The cusr WIN ga 30 ihe jury this
ryeninr Two desperate attempts were
nade lbs The hrothrr Of the murdered wo,
man 10 assault the prisoner IN the court
room ioaaS. ntt hcth failed. The prisoner
fain,ed nud thr emN,y phys'cian Is OF the
tQlnion thal iie = msing his mmd
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1903-02-28
A SYNDICATE DISSOLVED.
Unable to Float Large Issue 81 Cod
Bonds.

New York. February 2i.-1ihe syndicate
formed last August bS Brown Bros Co,
Hallgartcn & Co aud sNermllye Co, TO
float the Hrst consolidated mortgage per
cent gold bonds Of the, atlantic coast Iine
railroad. total authorized eaplral issue so.
oOOO00. has been dissolved. Nolice 10 that
eject was received by meubers of tho syn
dictate today. No reason FOR the dissolu'
ZION Was given. but II Is said that only one
nth Of the bonds was marketed
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1903-02-28
ADVANCE IN COTTON
Continues ard lNully Predicts
Even tinher Prices.

Especial to- The Postl
New York February ~. Tho ex.
cltement In the cotton market con
tinues and l0H cents Tor spots was
reached here todny Daniel J. Nully
who Is the recognized leader 81 tho
huh forces here, predicts q cotton
famine and says that while sprcula
tion undoubtedly has had It's effect
In forcing the price Of thr staple up
the greater part OF tho advance is
,rgitimotc and is due to tho fact that
there Is net cotton enough in sight
To- supply tho -dnlnnnh.
Some OF the New England cotton
goods manufacturers nre inclined to
take gloomy view Of the situation,
claiming that they can not nay the
present prices for raw cotton, the
prevailing high wages to labor mud
get out whole ON the present market
for hnlehed goods II is not believed,
however, that they viii shut down
the mills,
The strength and activity OF the
Liverpool markets have had n good
erect here. II is held that this mdl-
cntcs short supplies iu the hands ot
English spnners and that depleted
stocks will have to be rrplcnishcd
even if the starlo..raeehcp stnl
higher range an event which is free.
ly predicted here.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1903-02-28
ON THEIR WAY BACK.

United States Consul end WIte Afraid Of
Yellow Fever
Guayaquil, Ecuador, February n United
States Consul General sawter ana Mrs.
snwter, who arrived here February 25, have
started on their return 10 the United states
GA the same steamer which brought them
South. Mr. Sawter It is alleged, became
nfrald Of yellow fever when he saw the
room at the consulate where Thomas Mast,
the former consul general, died OF the
foyer
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1903-02-28
THE coLIMA VOLCANO.
Earthquakes Reported at Several Points
IN Mexico.

Colima, Mexico, February o. The vol
cano yesterday poured forth auan.4s OF
white hot matter, but there was no out
How OF lava I'll late Mt night when great
quantities flowed down the sides OF the
volcano.
Earthquakes are reported at Acapulco,
McSocalia. Chilpancingo and AGuas Blan-
cas- There was no alarm In this city over
the activity Of the volcano.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1903-02-28

| Extras! g ! s s,' s: /: ~ (
Isep your garments in
y buttons sewed on.
'ns s,tra for smoothing
SO - !, n collars and cuffs.
'a 's,ting your bundie.2
fr',i,aId's Laundry FL PSo ";i'' 81
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1903-02-28

was duly raised upon the vote 81 each nf
said resolutions. and that the slme in each
instance was ovcrruled by the speaker pro
tem In violation of the constitution, the
rules OF the house and the practice ~ all
parliamentary bodies;
Resolved. That the announcement by the
speaker pro that said resolutions We're
adopted WI, fact, untrue aud that tn
said James J Butter is etlu entitled to his
scat IN this house, aud that the said c. p.
Wagoner is net now entitled to the same ="
Ntr Payne the majority leader was rec
olugcd, despite the proteste " Mir. Fl'm-
ing that he could NOT he taken on the floor
9gd he moved to lay the resolution on the
fable. The democrats forced roll call on
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1903-02-28
PronInent Kenlueklan sulold.a.

Lexington, Ky. February ~ Benjamin
Goodwin. aged 80 one Of the richest farm
as m CrHual Kentucky, was,ed mto 4
saloon here Today aud Killed kAseL
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-24

self at the moment. The proportion thus
added seems to have varied considerably;
IL was large In the early time, say TO about
1916, and sometimes very small in the later
essays"
AS one reads Emerson steadily he Is like
~ to note certain mental characteristics
in the writer which mark all his work. An
important and pervading one is his loyalty
TO idealism, and his belief in the power of
the soul TO work out a noble place for itself.
The openness of his mind to new thought,
his loyalty TO high ideals. his eager advo-
cacy OF the real, and his insight into the
nature OF things, have separated him and
made his words sometimes unintelligible;
but the serenity of his life and the cour-
age OF his speech have endeared him to
men, even when they have thought him
oblivious TO some aspects of human life.
The fullest, as IL is the authoritative, life
of Emerson is that by his literary executor,
Mr.. j. Elliott Cabot; but there is shorter
one in the american Men of Letters
series by DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes. and
a personal sketch, Emerson in Concord,
by DR.. Edward w. Emerson, a son of the
poet Mr.. George Willis Cooke, in his
''Ralph Waldo Emerson, His Life. Writ
ings and Philosophy" supplies many inter-
esting facts. and helps the student TO an
understanding of the philosopher. There
has also been published Emerson's corre-
spondence with Thomas Carlyle, with John
Sterling. with friend" and with Her
man Grimm.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-24
The Emerson Centennial Celebration
Mag
Nor .rowes, ,bou what argument

Nor knowest thou what argument
Thy life 20 thy neighbors creed has lent
All are needed by each one;
Nothing Is fair good alone.
thought the sparrow's note from heaven.
Singing at dawn the alder bough;
brought him home. in his nest. at even;
He sings the song. but 1t cheers not now.
For did not bring home the river and sky;
He sang to my ear-they sang to my eye.
The delicate shells lay on the shore;
The bubbles OF the latest wave
Fresh pearls to their enamel gave.
And the believing of the savage sea
Greeted their safe escape to me.
wiped away the weeds and foam.
fetched my sea-born treasures home;
But the poor, unsightly. noisome things
Had left their beauty on the shore
With the and the sand and the wild uproar.
The lover watched his graceful maid.
AS mid the virgin train she strayed,
Nor knew her bcauty's best attire
Was woven still by the snow-white choir.
At last she came to his hermitage.
Like the bird from the woodlands to the cage
The gay enchantment lndone.
A gentle wife. but fairy none.
Then I said. 'I covet truth;
Beauty is unripe childhood's cheat;
leave 1t behind with the games Of youth"
AS spoke. beneath my feet
The ground pine curled its pretty wreath
Running over the club-moss burrs;
inhaled the violet's breath:
Around me stood the oaks and frs;
Pine cones and acorns lay the ground;
Over me scared the eternal sky,
Full of light and OF deity;
Again saw. again / heard.
The rolling river. the morning bird;
Beauty through my senses stole;
yielded myself to the perfect whole.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-24

Go with mean people. and you think life is
mean. Then read Plutarch. and the world is a
proud place. peopled with men Of positive quail
ity. with heroes and demigods standing around
US, who will not let US sleep.-Books.
II makes a great difference TO the force of any
sentence. whether there be a man behind it. or
no.-Representative Men.
The secret of genius is to suffer fiction to
exist for us; to realize all that know; in the
high refinement OF modern life. in arts. in SCI
ences. in books. in men. TO exact good faith.
reality, and purpose: and first. last midst.
and without end to honor every truth by use.
Representative Men
There is no luck in literary reputation. They
who make up the final verdict upon every book
are not the partial and noisy readers of the
hour when IL appears; but court as Of angels.
a public not to be bribed, not TO be entreated.
and not TO be overawed, decides upon every
mans title to fame. Only those books come
down which deserve to last.-Spiritual Laws
Life is not short but that there is always
time enough for courtesy.-Social Aims.
Every act OF the inscrfbes itself in the
memories of his fellows, and in his man.
ners and face.-Representative Men.
Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that
around every circle another can be drawn; that
there is end in nature. but every end is a
beginning; that there is always another dawn
risen on midnoon, and under every deep lower
deep opens.-Circles.
Nature paints the best part Of the picture;
carves the best part of the statue; builds the
best part of the house: and speaks the best
part of the oration.-Art.
And what is originality? 1t Is being. being
ones self. and reporting accurately what we
see and are. Genius is. in the first instance.
sensibiity. the capacity of receiving Just i'm
pressions from the external world. and the
power of co-ordinating these after the laws of
neutrality-suspicious. and Originality.
The less government we have. the better-the
fewer laws, and the less confided power. The
antidote to this abuse Of formal government is
the influence Of private character, the growth
Of the Individual-Politics.
A friend may well be reckoned the master
piece of Enthusiastically.
The great Pan of old. who was clothed in a
leopard skin to signify the beautiful variety of
things. and the armament his coat of stars,
was but the representative Of thee. rich and
various Man! thou palace of sight and sound,
carrying in thy senses the morning and the
night and the unfathomable galaxy; in thy brain
the geometry OF the City of God; in thy heart
the bower Of love and the realms Of right and
wrong.-The Method OF Nature.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-24

very close to the administration are bound
to be affected by a general collapse OF rail-
road values. A great many prominent
men to-day sent kilograms to members
OF the Cabinet, urging the administration
TO desist from any further attack at the
present time. They have been asked to
intercede with the President to prevent fl
nancijl disaster 10 the country In the midst
of the great prosperity. These kilograms
beg the President to let well enough alone"
This quoted utterance proceeds entirely
on the theory that this proceeding TO en-
force the law of the United States on the
subject is policy of the administration
An attack" which the President for some
reason has chosen 10 make on the corpora
ton in question. The prominent hnanciers
and the corporation lawyers seem to ignore
the fact that the Presidents oath requires
him to enforce the laws he finds them,
and that, when the United States govern
ment Institutes a proceeding TO enforce the
law il is not matter of politics or policy.
or OF intent to attack" the defendant but
merely an attempt TO perform the sworn
duty of the executive In enforcing the law.
These financiers. according to this report,
make their request of the President to
suspend the operation OF the law without
any apparent appreciation of its impro-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-24

Mrs. Julia Ward Howe in the Critic.
1 first visited the Emerson house on the
occasion OF anti-slavery tea party given
at the Town Hall In Concord. Mass. The
speakers on this occasion were Wendell
Phillips, Edmund Quincy ano the elder
William Lloyd Garrison. Later IN the even
ing, a few friends were entertained at the
Emerson residence. II seemed almost gro
tesque to see its master drawing corks from
bottles. and waiting upon his guests, which
he seemed 10 do with right good will. His
wife, stately and mild-eyed, appeared, per-
haps. more remote from common life than
he did.
In company with the distinguished trio
already mentioned, had been invited TO re-
main at the house over night Our return
train did not leave until early afternoon
and our forenoon was passed in Mr.. Emer-
sons library, and in his delightful COM
pany. We were seated around table. with
our host at one end and Mrs. Z. at the 9TH
er. Many themes of interest were discussed.
Mrs. f. fully expressing her opinions which
often did not coincide with those of her hus-
band. She was tall OF stature and grave OF
aspect, dressing simply. but in good taste.
muslin, garnished on either side with a sprig
of forget me-nots. whose color well matched
that of her eyes.
Although simple in their style of living.
the Emerson couple were very hospitable,
and entertained many people. I think that
one of the husbands maxims was: Defend
your mornings" but. the days study over,
he did the honors OF his table with a grace
ali his own.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-24
As n Nature Lover.

Hamilton Wright Mabie in the Outlook.
There was a garden on the south side Of
the Emerson house. and apple trees brought
the most ancient fragrance and domestic
associations to the place; but Emerson was
more at home in the broad landscape which
inclosed his own acres. What the old road
over the hill TO Grasmere and the Lough-
rigg Terrace were to Wordsworth In the
long years at Rydal Mount, the great fields
and meadows. the shores and groves OF
white pine about Walden pond. Peters
woods, and the level stretches through
which the Musketaquid. most quiet OF riv-
ers, flows, were TO Emerson during the most
fruitful period OF his life He found endless
delight in the ownership OF a tract of land
from which he could look down on Walden
pond and away to the farther hills:
my garden is forest ledge
Which older forests bound;
The banks slope down 20 the blue lake-edge.
Then plunge to depths profound.
self-sown my stately garden grows;
The wind and wind-blown seed
Cold April rain and colder SHOWS.
My hedges plant and feed
Emerson was not successful farmer,
though he had the respect OF the practical
farmers about him, and was known as "a
first-rate neighbor and one who always kept
his fences up" his business was not with
the acres, but with the landscape. No ore
ever LOOK dlupleT OF noDler 0drNeStS OF the
spirit off the land than Emerson. He had
keen eye for the small facts of natural life.
but he cared chiefly for the vital processes,
the flooding life, the revelation of truth,
the correspondence of soul between man and
Nature; he was, in a word, the poet in the
woods and fields. With serene faith and
loyal fellowship he kept friends with ma
ture from youth to age. and the joy of his
intimacy suffered no shadow of estrange-
ment as the years went by.lA walk in the
woods, he declared, was lone of the secrets
for lodging old age" and in an address ITO
the Woods he wrote: Whose goeth in
your paths readeth the same cheerful les
son. whether he be young child or a hun
dred years old. Give me q tune like
your winds or brooks or birds, for the songs
of men grow old. when they are uprooted:
but yours, though man have heard them
for seventy years, are never the same but
always new, like time itself. or like love"
To the very end this devout lover of ma
ture lived in daily intercourse with her. and
1t was during a walk In a cold April rain
that he contracted the illness which proved
fatal after few days of sitting In his chair
by the fire calmly waiting for death. In the
quiet place where he lies near Hawthorne
and Thoreau. the pines seem to be always
whispering among themselves; but, alasi
there is no longer one who understands
them.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-24

priety. A request that the executive dis
regard or suspend the operation of some
obnoxious statute, if made by members of
a labor union. would be deemed display of
either ignorance or of effrontery, or both
So 1t is in the present instance, though
neither the financiers in question nor the
leading corporation lawyer seem to be
aware of the fact.
Another idea, partly expressed i'm the
statement of the corporation lawyer with
out seeming to realize the insult suggested
is that the Presidents action will be con-
trolled. not by the law and his duty. but by
1.-The interests of men very close to the adj
ministration." 1t may be we'll for his per-
sonal safety that he did not himself get
Every close to the administration" when
offering this suggestion
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-24

idea of God from his manifestation In ma
ture and his presence in the human soul
He would doubtless accept this passage In
Matthew Arnold's "Empedocles on Etna."
as a fair statement of his position:
'AH things the world which Ill
OF but one stuff spun,
That who rail still.
With what we rail at one:
one with the O'erlabOred Power that through The
breadth and length
OF earth. and air and sea,
IN men. and plants. and stones.
Hath toll perpetually.
And travails. pants and means:
ram would do all things well. but sometimes
fails in strength"
Or II IL be objected that this denies the
oNlne omnipotence, then perhaps Words
worth has given a nearer expression 10 En-
ersons conception in the oft-quoted lines
written near Tintern Abbey:
And have felt
presence that dlstuTbs with the toy
OF elevated thoughts: sense sublime
OF something far more deeply interfused
Whose dwelling Is the light OF setting suns,
And the round ocean, and the living air
And the blue sky and in the mind OF man:
motion and spirit that impels
All thinking things. all objects OF all thought.
And rolls through all things"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-24

made thousand hearts still as the grave.
For five minutes there seemed but two
things in the world, the silence and the
voice which was passing through it,"
Gilfllan's Portrait" concludes with sor-
rowing comment on the "cold, vague, shad-
owy faith" which he found manifest in the
Emerson lectures; and praying that a
clearer light might dawn upon this moon
of genius-admired author and loved man"
the kindly-hearted and brilliant George
Gilfllan-with 'our best wishes and those
of thousands" waited Ralph Waldo Emer-
son on his homeward way.
In 1875 Emerson wrote: 1.-THE ground of
hope is in the infinity of the world .
l know against all appearances that the
universe can receive no detriment; that
there is a remedy for every wrong and a
satisfaction for every SOUL" Surely THIS
voices no vague and shadowy" conf
dence in the Master Of the universe"
EMMA CARLETON.
New Albany, Ind, May 90
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-24
The pillared armament Is rottenness
And earths base built on stubble."

Elizabethtown. N. Y. one afternoon back
in the eighties She came in a rather mys-
ferrous way. and the reason for her select
Ing her present home In the mountains be-
fore Lake Placid has never been told. either
In the neighborhood, or to her Philadelphia
friends. The woman simply says she en-
tered the Adirondacks with the object of
making sketches, and, being pleased with
the place. decided upon IL as her future
home.
Her 1000 acres are valued at about $4,000.
and through her efforts she has cleared
over 200 acres For years Miss Newman
worked like a man on her farm. She cared
for her own horse, did her own driving. as
sisted the men in harvesting the crops and
was active in the various duties OF the farm
until she fell and broke her hip two years
ago. She Is busy woman to-day in the
management of the affairs OF her estate.
Close to her estate, Miss Newman has
erected a little church. which is named
after her, and here regularly each Sunday
afternoon at o'clock she conducts Sun
day school. and has been keeping up the
custom for many years. some OF the chill
dren who now attend her Sunday school are
children OF boys and girls whom she used
to teach.
Miss Newman has an interesting person.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-24

Charles Batteli Loonlis. in Saturday Even-
ing Post.
had always heard that Bostonians were
readers. and that they were loyal to the lit
tie band of litterateurs who made a crown OF
glory for the city on the three hills, SO It
did not surprise me to see a man. evidently
a business man, reading Emerson's Essays
on Boston and Cambridge electric. (They
call them ''electrics' in Boston. They have
to be differently I was curious to know some
thing of the history of this typical Bos-
tonian. and so under pretext of asking him
whether the car went through to Arlington
/ entered into conversation with him when
he had finished the essay on .'Self-reliance'
and was, presumably, in a position to look
out for himself
Pardon my inquisitiveness," said I. but
] could not help seeing the title OF your
book, and as l am a stranger In Boston IL
pleased me not little to learn that Bos-
tonians are really as cultivated as the joke
writers would have us believe"
"oh. yes" said he; there are cultivated
well, can you tell me II II is a general
custom for business men 10 read Emerson
on the street cars?"
With great courtesy, but with half-con-
cealed smile, he said:
question as i was never in Boston before
am professor in Columbia University and
i am on my way TO visit my brother. who
is a professor in Harvard. was born and
brought up in Jersey City and never hap
pened TO read Emerson until to-day. when
i see that / have missed an intellectual
treat"
1 retired. apologizing. and fell to rejecting
on the danger Of generaIizing.