davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-06
IMMIGRANT LABOR.
Inquiry Into the Needs Of Various
States and Territories.

Inquiry into the needs of the various
states and territories for immigrant labor
have been instituted by T. V. Powderly,
chief of the division of information. recent
ly established in connection with the bureau
Of immigration. Mr.. Powderly has d.
rected letters to the governors of lAe va
rious states and territories, requesting them
to furnish him such information as will aid
In the proper distribution of immigrants on
arrival in the United States In order to
obtain this information in such. form as
Will be most easily handled, Mr.. Powderly
asks In his letters a series Of questions the
principal ones of which are as follows:
Where Is the demand for workmen most
urgent7
What class of labor is needed?
Are settlers on land needed?
What nationalities or races would be pre-
ferred?
Does your state Cor territory offer in
ducements to settlers on lands?
II strikes, lockouts, or other difficulties
exist, state fully the cause of the same.
Mr.. Powderly also has written to the sec
retares of the various labor organizations
In the United States, inclosing copy of
the letter which he has sent to the gov
ernors. calling special attention to the in
Qu1ry about strikes lockoutS and other
labor difficulties, and asking them to keep
the division Of information fully informed
as to any variations or fluctuations in the
labor market that may affect the employ
ment of their members or of immigrants
who may seek to settle in this country. In
this connection Mr.. Powderly writes:
II you keep us informed of strikes, lock-
outs, blacklists. boycotts, or the probable
coming of same. we will know how to act
should application be made to send laborers
to locality where industrial conditions are
unsettled"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-06
WAR GAME AT THE PRESIDE.
California Guardsmen Participating
With Regulars in Maneuvers.

SAN FRANCISCO. July 8-Two thou
sand California National Guardsmen, who
are participating in the army maneuvers
at the Preside in conjunction with the
regulars. last night slept at the big guns
at the forts which line the bay shores.
For fifteen days the state militia will be
drilled with the regulars in the handling
of big guns.
A part Of the maneuvers will be the re-
pelling of an imaginary night attack from
the sea by a hostile fleet composed Of
launches and small boats. The maneuvers
are in charge of Col. Lunden. In addi-
ton to the troops stationed at the guns. an
infantry support was established yesterday
under the command Of Col. Cooke The
maneuvers proper will not begin until Mon
day. Before the expiration Of two weeks,
1t Is believed that the militia companies
will not only have familiarized themselves
with the Notifications, but will have
learned how to operate the heavy coast
defense guns.
According to the regulations the officers
Of both the militia and the regulars must
live in the camps during the maneuvers,
although the homes Of the latter are less
than half a mile away The regulars do
not conceal their disappointment at the
inadequate equipment Of the state troops.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-06
CHANGES IN TIE NAVY
IMPORTANT RETIREMENTS AND
PROMOTIONS ANNOUNCED.

Orders were issued at the Navy Depart
ment today announcing the following i'm
portant retirements and promotions in the
Navy:
Rear Admiral George c. Reiter, chairman
of the Lighthouse board, retired, and Capt
E. II. c. Leutze, commandant of the Wash
ington navy yard, promoted July u; Rear
Admiral w. H. Brownson, chief of lie
bureau of navigation, retired, and Capt. u
Sebree secretary of the lighthouse board,
promoted July s; Rear Admiral James II.
Sands, superintendent of the Naval Acad-
envy, retired, and Capt. A. R. Couden, lately
in command of the battleship Louisiana,
promoted July II.
Admiral Reiter will remain on his present
duty until October, and Capt. Leutze will
continue his present duty for several months
yet. Admiral Brownson has been directed
by the President to continue his present
duty Indefinitely, which is presumed to
mean a year or more, while Capt Sebree
will be made chairman of a naval board.
Both he and Admiral Leutze will receive
squadron commands within a few months.
Admiral Sands will sail, a few days after
his retirement, for a three months journey
with his family In Europe, while Capt. Cou-
den will be assigned to special ordnance
duty in the Navy Department.
Capt. Charles j. Badger, the new assist
ant chief of the bureau of navigation,
whose promotion to captain became effective
duties of superintendent of the Naval Acad-
envy July 10. and at that time Commander
Cameron MGR. Winslow will succeed to
Capt. Badgers present duties. Commander
Winslow has reported for duty. He re-
Gently relinquished command of the cruiser
Charleston on the Pacific coast. Com
mander William s. Benson, who Is ordered
to succeed Capt. Colvocoresses as COM
mandant Of midshipmen at the Naval Acad-
envy July 10, Is at the Navy Department
assisting Capt. Badger in making up the
list of new instructors for the academy.
The Navy Department has assigned Capt
Henry McCrea, recently in command of the
battleship Iowa, which Is now on the re-
serve list, to the command Of the battle
ship Georgia. Capt. McCrea will succeed
Capt. Davenport, who was one Of the cap
tains selected for compulsory retirement
July /.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-06
Modern Historical Fiction.

Herbert W. Horvin, in Forum.
It is certainly reasonable to expect that
the gains of modern historical study
should in some measure enrich historical
fiction also; that the novelist should bene-
fit by the new light thrown by research
upon the motives Of great men and upon
the conditions with which they had to
deal, and especially that he should not
misrepresent, through carelessness or
ignorance, the main significance OF the
periods he processes to depict. There Is
a level of general accuracy which the
writer of historical fiction should be re-
uuired to reach before being taken into
account at ala qualifying entrance ex-
animation, so to speak, to meet him at the
threshold of his enterprise. But he is to
be judged, in the main, not as historian.
but as a novelist, and he forfe1ts the END
for the sake of the means II he allows
the interest of exact scholarship to OBJ
scure or deaden the imaginative element.
I read the other day, in complacent
eulogy Of the progress of historical re-
search. that 1t would no longer be posi-
BILE for any one to write "Ivanhoe," and
that If by any chance such book were
written. its author would not have the
"imprudence" to publish 1t. That no con-
temporary writer Is as yet In danger OF
being mistaken for second Scott may
readily be admitted, but II there should
be latent anywhere a genius Of this type,
he need not stay in hiding from the fear
that the achievements Of more scientific
writer's will have spoiled his welcome.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-06
Deer Came to Town.
rom the Springfield Union


Strong wooden posts were snapped of
like pipestems and the rest Of fence was
completely demolished by a large buck
deer that became imprisoned yesterday
morning in hen yard belonging to A. H.
Weaver.
The fence is eight feet high and the
supporting posts were set about four feet
apart, but 1t presented a very fimsy OBJ
stacle to the wild deer that was on the
wrong side of 1t. With successive leaps
of its body against the posts and boards,
1t managed to break through, and the i'm
mense leaps 1t took in making for the tall
timber are shown by the distance between
the footprints. After breaking through
the fence the deer ploughed through Mr..
Weaver's pet garden tearing up the vege-
tation and making the place in general
look as If Kansas cyclone had passed
over 1t. Where the deer went or
whence 1t came nobody knows, but that 1t
was around Mr.. Weaver is ready to take
oath.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-06
Strange Antiquity of Egypt.

Many tourists who have crossed the
Mediterranean to Alexandria and have
made the three-hour journey thence by ex-
press to Cairo establish themselves in one
Of the fashionable hotels, do little shop
ping In the native quarter. see a mosque
or two, native wedding, ride a camel the
quarter-mile distance from the Mena
House to the sphinx, and perhaps go as
far as to visit Saqqara-a days excursion
from Cairo-then turn homeward fancying,
and also declaring. that they have seen
Egypt. So they have in a sense; but Cairo
is no more representative of Egypt as
country than New York is of the entire
United States. To see upper Egypt, with
Its fellaheen life, its mud cities, and its
quaint scenery, Is like turning the leaves of
an old history and studying the engravings,
for neither the country nor the people have
changed to any appreciate degree since
the days of Mohammed. unless 1t be in the
accomplishment In which all seem to be
equally we'll trained-that of begging back
sheesh. Egypt Is spoken Of as becoming
modernized, but there Is no indication of
anything more modern than two thousand
years ago between Cairo and Luxor-or,
more properly the little English city of
Kom Ombo, beyond Luxor, where an Eng
l.sh company has been formed and agri-
cultural experiments are being carried for
ward.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-06
Flying Machines.
New York Evening Post

From the New York Evening Post.
The news that c. M. Manley is to make
another attempt with the late Prof. Lang
ley's Inflated flying machine finds the
Wright brothers generally accepted as the
first human beings to achieve successful
mechanical flight. If only the "Buzzard"
had not manifested its total depravity by
diving into the Potomac on its first trial
popular recognition of Langley's service in
this department of applied science might
have been as generous as that accorded to
other workers in the same field 1t must
not be forgotten that smaller machines,
built on the same principles and under the
same auspices, flew successfully time and
again years before any experimenter had
trusted his own limbs to a propelled aero
plane The man-carrying machine has long
lain idle, but Is said by Mr.. Manley to be
so little injured that only few days work
will make it ready for launching. If Full
ton had made six-foot boats steam about
in still water, but died before the Cler-
mont could be made to navigate, his men,
DRY would still deserve to be honored as
that of the pioneer. For all that, the latest
design now ready for construction the
helicoptere of Prof. Wood of Johns Hop
kins, is the first that abandons entirely the
bird pattern, discounting entirely, If 1t
shall succeed, nearly ali the predictions
about human flight whether by scientists
or writers of fiction.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-06
PUZZLED THE OFFICIALS.
Southern Criticism of Study in tn
Field of Sherman's Campatgn.

In reference to the projected ride of the
army student officers from Fort Leaven-
worth Staff School over the route from
Chattanooga to Savannah followed by Gen.
Sherman in the civil war, the officials at
the war Department are at a loss to UNI
derstand why any adverse comment should
be created in the south, as is reported AS
part Of their military studies, and a
necessary part. too, the younger officers
IN the course Of their studies are required
TO analyze every movement made by the
military commanders on either side in the
great campaigns in the world. The studies
begin with the battles fought by Alexander
the Great, include those Of the thirty
years war, Napoleon's campaigns and
revolutionary battles. and finally those of
the civil war-Gettysburg, Antietam and
the Wilderness-all have been studied by
these young staff officers on the field and
with profit, the errors made by the various
commanders being freely discussed and
IDEAL campaigns planned in the light of
their mistakes. Why there should be any
objection In the case of Sherman's march,
which is certainly rated by military his
torfans as worthy of record, while no criti-
cism was excited by other campaign stud
les, is mystery to the officials here for
there was certainly no sectional spirit in
that study.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-06
DEPARTED FOR MANILA.
Sailing Of the 3Oth Infantry on the
Sherman

The adjutant general is advised that the
transport Sherman has sailed form San
Francisco for Manila with the Both In
fantry (33 officers and S0S enlisted mem,
Companies c and D, LIST Battalion of En-
g!neers C. officers, 1913 enlisted men), and
the following military passengers: Col.
Pratt Majs. Byrne, Abercrombie and
O Neil. Capts. Threlkeld. Erwin. Palmer
Castle, Welsh, Stogsdall. Shaw, Nolan,
Lieuts. Stone, Rucker, Sharon, DIN, Garlic
ton, Goodrich, Allen. Corey, Nichols. And
ing R. I. Weeks, Wuest, Guild. Howard,
Harris, Elliott. Morrison, Ward, Turner.
Kelly and ield, Both Infantry: Capts. Wal
ker and Ladue, Lieuts. Barber, Emerson Ga,
Daley, Ardery. Corps Engineers; COZ.
Maus. Medical Department; Lieut.. Col.
Wilder, inspector general; Maj JORDAN.
adjutant general; Capts;; Hathaway, sig.
nal Corps: Lyster. Medical Department
Bundel, 10Th Infantry; Craigie, 9th Cav
airy; Lieuts. Blanchard. Medical Depart
ment: Read. Sd. Cavalry; Chaplain Casey
1st Infantry; Contract Surgeons Koyle, NC
Leod, Langenderfer, McPheeters, Myers,
Contract Dental Surgeon ingalls,, two Hos
pital Corps, twelve casuals and two te-
male army nurses.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-06
State Income From Races.
Paris Cor. London Standard

Paris Cor. London Standard.
The department of agriculture, which, as
the official promoter Of horse breeding in
France. has the supervision of the race
courses. has published today some figures
concerning the amount of money wagered
on the Paris race courses. Since the open
ing of the present racing season. some time
in March. the pari mutuel has received
"a, ,0OG in wagers. In the same period
last year the amount wagered was f3 400,
coo. and the year before about a quarter
of million less. The amount of the gate
receipts has also increased. The amount
paid so far this season is Ella, 400, or E12-
600 more than for the same period last year.
By the law which gives a percentage of the
bets to the treasury NJ. Caillaux's depart
ment has already placed third Of mil
lion In It's Golfers as the product of the state
control of betting.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-06
Three Billions of Water.
From Everybody's.

FROM EVerypOuys.
In the past eleven years there have been
listed on the New York stock exchange
new securities-stocks and bonds-to the
amount of twelve and half billion dollars,
not including government and city bonds.
OF this total % per cent or three and a
half billion dollars In round figures is just
water-a bogus fat creation representing
no legitimate investment of capital in the
properties against which the securities are
issued
There Is a popular impression that stock
watering is monopoly of the 'industrials
or trusts. This is mistake. Railroad Sc
curities listed since the last big panic in
clude more than fifteen hundred million dol
lars of pure water. When the railroads
argue that they are entitled to earn a fair
return upon the investment they include
this bogus billion and a half.
Recent listings ON the exchange do not, OF
course, completely cover the ground. Much
bogus capitalization was listed before 1896
Much is not listed at all, but Is handled ION
the curb" And in the railroad field, espe-
cially. not all mutations of capital can be
traced directly in the listings. But even
three and half billion counterfeit dollars
passed on an easy public in eleven years
will do for test.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-06
Reading Made Easy.

From the New York Evening Post.
In some magazines the short story is now
introduced by a terse eulogy of the author
and an outline Of his narrative. Labels of
this kind are useful because they not only
whet the readers curiosity, but give him an
inkling. If not warning, of what he may
expect. He can consult his own taste, and
decide at glance whether 1t is worth while
for him to read any further. 1t is true that
these predatory notes are sometimes mis-
leading. Insipid narratives may be de-
scribed beforehand as highly spiced;" tales
of tea-drinking curates and prosy old la
dies as admirable character-sketches;"
but generally the reader can avoid what he
dislikes. He need not plunge unwarily into
historical stori, into scenes when knight
hood was not only in flower, but over-ripe;
and he can escape the tedium of heroes who
brag and swagger, using all the favorite
oaths of the middle ages. mixed with COLO
quialisms of the twentieth century. AS a
rule, these advertisements are expected to
attract.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-06
Cheaper Platinum.

few years ago 1t was common GUS
tom to place false teeth on a platinum
mounting. but the price Of this metal has
gone up SO high that the practice has
been abandoned. There has been a slight
decline recently, and 1t is stated that
there will be a still greater fall. Those
compelled to use this metal now breathe
easier.
The greatest factor in sending the price
up was the government restriction placed
On the output from the Ural mountains,
whence most of the metal comes. In the
meantime the search for the metal has
been going on in other directions with
some little degree Of success.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-06
The Need of Two Rifles.

From The Cutters Book.
A few years ago many hunters could be
found VINO were quite content with one
rife, the same being used to clip grouse's
head or to stop a charging grizzly. as &C.
casion demanded. But, speaking for the
majority, 1t is entirely different today-one
rifle filling the requirements of but compar-
atiyely few. OF course there are many
rifles that can be had in various calibers
that are often spoken Of as the all round,
and various charges of shot from them give
very satisfactory results-these various
charges being designated for different pur-
noses Still the fact remains that most
hunters REQUIRE at least two rifies-one Tor
large game, and the other for small. There
fore. in discussing hunting rifles, they may
he classified as two distinct types. Vile one
could use 40 to decapitate grouse or
shoot at a jackrabbit's eyes, the same gun
would be a very poor weapon to stop the
grouse when on the wing, or check the
Career of the Jack when going at rail-
road speed. Simply because instances
could be cited of the % having often killed
deer or under favorable condltlons) even
large game there are none who would
choose such a miniature arm for such work
exclusively. Therefore, as has already been
mentioned, the majority of shooters will
require at least two rifles.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-06
For a Better Campanile.
nice Cor. London Telegraph.

Venice Cor. London Telegraph.
The results of the commission appointed
to inquire into the quality of the materials
used in rebuilding the Campanile at Venice
and the correctness of the work already
done are most satisfactory. The architect,
Signor Baslo. and the subcommission of
three professors from the Polytechnic of
Milan are convinced that the materials
used so far In the erection of the tower
are good. and contain no elements likely to
affect the durability of the building. They
consider also that the charging of the
foundations and the tightening of the con-
struction will have the excellent effect of
reducing the weight per square inch in COM
parison with the old tower by one-half.
They are unanimously of opinion that the
Campanile should be rebuilt, not restored
and that. while retaining the old form and
beauty. II should have the advantage of
all that modern knowledge and science can
teach. In order to avoid the weaknesses Of
the earlier building.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-06
SERIOUS CHARGE MADE.
Railways Accused Of Raising Rates
Against Petitioners in Revenge.

A serious charge was made In a COM
plant filed with the interstate commerce
commission yesterday against the Missouri
Pacific and a number of other western rail-
roads by corporations, partnerships and in
dividuals engaged IN the flour milling trade
of Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri.
1t is alleged that an advance in rates on
flour was made the defendant companies
In revenge against the complainants be-
cause Of a petition which was filed with the
interstate commerce commission a few
weeks ago.
The compliments less than a month ago
filed with the interstate commerce COM
mission a petition against certain west
ern railways doing business from Mis-
souri, river points to Chicago, alleging
that they charged unjust and unreason-
able rates to the Atlantic markets as COM
pared with the rates on flour and wheat
products from Minneapolis and other north
western points.
In retaliation and in a spirit Of re-
venge," the petition filed asserts, these
railroads filed with this commission q
take effect on July 1. 1907, whereby without
reason, excuse or pretended justification,
they have arbitrarily advanced the rates
one and one-Quarter per cent per hundred
weight"
The compliments request the commits
sion to issue an order to prevent the rates
from going into effect, as, IL they should
be compelled to pay the advanced rates
even for a short time. the effect on their
bushes would be disastrous. They urge
the commission to take prompt action in
the case because they are likely on &C
count Of the advanced rates to be barred
practically from the eastern markets.
Thus far the commission has not taken
the peremptory action against the railroads
which the compliments demanded. but has
indicated an intention to hear the merits
of the case at the earliest possible date.
In any event. it is explained, such action
as the commission may take in the future
will be retroactive SO far as these partic-
ular rates complained Of are concerned,
and should the decision Of the commission
be favorable to the compliments the later
will have good grounds on which to base
an action for reparation for any damages
they may have sustained by the advance
ment in the rates.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-06
NO LADIES WANTED.
U. G. v. at Nashville, Tenn, Adopt
Resolution at Meeting.

NASHVILLE, Tenn, July 6.-The Frank
Cheatham Bivouac. United Confederate
Veterans, last night adopted a resolution to
the effect that the sense of the bivouac is
that there be no ladies appointed to repre-
sent Confederate veterans; that woman at
present on the staff of one of the high Off
GERS be requested to resign; and no more
be appointed to such places Of honor. or
any other places within the organization.
The resolution was adopted unanimously.
There is a woman at present on the staff
of one Of the generals who bears the title
Of assistant surgeon general.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-06
Tripped on Quotations.

the TIHSROW NEWS.
Mr.. Gladstone made the mistake Of think
Ing the phrase 1.-The land of the leal' re-
ferred to Scotland, and SO used 1t. And
It was he also who, in one of his Midloth-
ian speeches, referred to the words of the
psalmist. God tempers the wind to the
shorn lamb."-text for which the devout
may search the Scriptures in vain.
Sidney Smith was guilty Of an even more
atrocious blunder when he spoke Of that
beautiful psalm beginning Now lettest
thou thy servant depart in peace" A no
less curious mistake was made by Bright
on one occasion. when he attributed the
common phrase, Cleanliness Is next to
godliness," to the Apostle Paul