davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
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While There YVES 4 considerable advance in
the yalue Of the coceo shipments from Mar
Unique during 1907 the sugar exports were
less than usual, owing partly to reduction Of
the area under cultivation. and portiy TO
drought. .
In 1906 the sugar exports wore 70, $50
metric tons L metric ton = 2,200 fb} val
uad at e438,048, while IN 1907 they fell to
86,922 metric tons, OF the value Of 1870, 500.
Owing to romunerative prices, rum is being
produced III increasing oG2nsjtY at Martini
iquo. a considerable amount T. m%olasses is
being imported TaA Huale.oupe, as.the To-
cal supr9 is insuficient to meet the require
monts Of the distillerios. The. rum exports
from Martinique during 1907 show an in
crease of 319,24G gallons in quantity, md
G35, 634 in value, as compared with those in
1906.
'Cacao cultivation is being slowly extend-
ed III the island. The quantity Of eacao
shipped abroad in 1907 was l,10G, 1876 h. Of
on advance of G5,7G3ib. on the exports 0
this product in 1906. The increased value
however, was ego, 204. Coffee was exported
to the quantity of 8,587fb., while III ,499ib.
were imported.
martinique imports considerable quantities
of artificial manures. In 1907 the chief
manures of this kind brought into the island
were superphosphate, 2,103 tons nitrate CT
soda, 1920 tons s~uipLate Of ammonia, 828;
nitrate OF potash, 7a8 tons and suiphate Of
potash, 149 ons.-4gr5cat~1ui Neaos, No.
Uen6@r 28jh.
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optoget paa Plant"een Diamond den lode
ds. og opsta!det Frederiksteds Politista-
tions Gaard vi, hvis sammo like forinden
b!iver ;ndlost af Ejeren, blive bor,solgt we'd
on Auktlon, som VII bliye afholdt sldstnayn-
te sted- NlANDAGEN, den 28de DIS. Efterm.
Kl. 2.
Freaeriksteds Po}itikammer, St. Croix,
g, den Fl December 1908.
AXEL OLSEN.
, 1908-12-26
Translation.
Notice.
s K,E z.

taken up on Estate Diamond the 10Th inst.
and impounded in the Police Station Yhrd5
Frederiksted will, if not redeemed before n
the owner, be sold at an auction, which wiz
be held at the last'mentionJ place MOS
DAY the 2Sth inst. at 2 o'clock p. III.
Frederiksted's Police Office, St Croix,
DIST December 1908.
AXEL OLSEN.
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The CABINET rlAKER5 5IOP

down another flight o stairs, straight
ahead to the first turn, then to the right.
up six steps. to the lett. down eleven
steps. turn to the right
Right you are: you would never get
there unless you had a guide, so why
com plete the instructions.
Once in the engine room you would INA
a nice looking man dressed Immediately
sitting at roller top desk in a clean
office with a good brussels carpet on the
floor and number of oil paintings on
the wall This. ladies and gentlemen is
the chief engineer of the side of the Cap
itol you happen to be on. He is great
parsonage and a fine man and he can tell
you all about dynamics and thermostats
and heat units. and he draws-wel, he
draws salary that would make the peo-
pie in his old home town gasp with aston
ishment. And he's worth it, every cent.
So are they all-the man who has charge
of the electric lighting department. he in
the yentilating department. and all the
rest You will think so too after you
have been told that on that side of the
Capitol alone there is manufactured every
wear 1663O 900 amperes of electricity
even if you do not know what an ampere
is. Also that there are 22.OOo electric
lamps In the Capitol, and that to keep
them running-that is. to be accurate. to
keep lust one end Of the Capitol lighted
takes j, 49, tons of coal. 10,076 gallons OF
oil (from West Virginia)-do you know
that. you Duke of the Abruzzi-and DDS
gallons of cylinder oil (Which may inter
est Mr.. RockefeIler). Perhaps it's funny
but II takes more coal for electric lights
than if does for heat. the latter item fol-
one end of the Capitol only requiring
900 tons of coal.
Step now into one of these long. white
washed, subterranean galleries, and pur
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ly inspected every day. Restaurant for
the public, with rooms for members, is
upstairs.
Now. you're passing right by the bar
Der shop; it's down that little alleyway,
and there's special shop for employees,
and baths. some Of 'em chiseled out of
soli.l blocks of marble, with marble steps
leading up to 'em. Yes'm; it's grand
to tell about it. but notice that many
of the members prefer the new porcelain
lined sort, and that is the kind that's
being put in nowadays. too.
That is about the way the guide eX-
plains things to you. He is sure to be
a very intelligent young man, who is
quite willing to take you into all the
dark corners and dusty bypaths-for there
are some of both. in spite of the care
of the superintendent and his efficient
corps of assistants-that you may care to
explore.
If you wish to do SO you can visit the
machine shop, where you will see man
turning some iron contraption on a big
lathe, just as IL he were in some big
iron manufacturing plant. And you can
snoop into the toolroom, where there are
all kinds of tools that are required about
the buildings and grounds, except. per-
haps, the automobile lawn mower, and
probably there are repair parts for that
there. Anyway, you will see a number
of small lawn mowers such as keep the
suburbanite busy during the joyous sum-
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tice before the minor courts was not
enough for this ambitious pair, who grad
uated from Washington School of Law
a few years ago. Their final ambition
was TO have the right to go before the
very highest legal tribunal in the land.
and So great was the knowledge they
manifested that they were heartily rec
commended by the Department of Justice.
The uncle of the sisters, f.. Clarence
Colford is a lawyer of reputation. Inc
girls were born In Nova Scotia. but CAME
to Washington when young Both early
manifested unusual skill for oratory and
kindred exercises and after taking up
the study of law were swift and accurate
in dealing with the varied problems that
Blackstone presents.
In view OF this great victory for the
Portia OF today ii is an interesting
thought that il is less than thirty years
ago since the first woman was admitted
to the practice of law before the Supreme
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TIN blACK5rnIH5 Shop

mertime And If you are particularly Gu
rous you can amble down the narrow
stone stairway into the little dungeon
known the riggers room, where are
coils of rope, pincerS. augerS. cold chlsels
rubber boots. buckets, wrenches and sun
dry other things which. presumably. rig
gers use in their business.
And now, your guide is likely to re-
mark. If you Will turn in here and pass
down this gallery and enter those doors
YOU will see the village smithy. trans
ported. enlarged and improved. There Is
a brick forge, right in front or you. very
much like the one you used to get as close
to as possible when you were going tn
school, and the spark from which caused
YOU to have fine shivers as you jumped
out of the way when the smith MT the
glowing iron with his hammer The
bellows over the forge and the anvil ard
all the rest look just as they should
look and, in short. the stage setting
seems perfect. even to the smith hlmselt
with the redhot bar of iron on the anV'
and his right hand grasping the hammer
Maybe YOU will not care to go into the
plumbing shop. The plumber is really Il
busy man. even If he has cane-seated
swivel chair which he hasn't much use
for except to offer to visitors.
The cabinet makers shop is q cleaner
Mace and even a buster one They do
some mighty fine work here. and nothing
is too fine for them to tackle. You can
see some of the furniture turned out OF
this shop # YOU want to, but 1t is ali m
the committee rooms and offices upstairs
There are other dwellers in this subter-
ranean city, but ii would take long
time to visit them all. and enough has
been shown to satisfy the ordinary tourist.
Only an investigating committee would be
likely to go more thoroughly into the de-
tails of the community which makes It's
home. during working hours. In the dim
byways and electrically lighted cavernS
beneath the meeting places of Congress
1t should not he imagined, either, that
these haunts of the Capitol staff of artl-
sans firemen. engineers. and other en-
ployes are insanitary. They are not. The
light of day may never enter them. but
the electric light makes every portion of
them brightly illuminable. and the fresh
air, such a S is pumped through the Senate
and House chambers and the office and
committee rooms. is forced by great fans
down into the deepest chambers and the
most remote corridors. while the sanitary
arrangements are either the best that
modern science can provide, or they are
rapidly being made such.
Moreover, the employees are all we'll
paid. and while many of them ire not
hard worked during portions of the year
all of them are ready whenever called on
to work overtime and nights TO meet
emergencies that are likely to arise any
time.
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sue it's tortuous course to the carpenter
shop.
Here will be found small section of
the community living happily in Mole
vile beneath the dome of the Capitol.
There is quite some carpenter work, as
New Yorker would say, about the Capt.
toll The force of carpenters varies. but
the shop is never closed even in the most
serious seasons of industrial depression,
when Mr. Debs and others are most &C
tive in pointing out the wrongs under
which citizens labor. 1t never seems to
occur to Mr. Debs ct al, by the way, that
there are times when 1t is bad enough
to have a deep-down inner consciousness
of said wrongs without having some one
come along and bawl us out from a ruuic
stadium or through the columns of his
newspaper organ. What's that2 Is this
a philosophical dissertation or al Oh.
we'll there are people who would prefer
to hear that the carpenter shop has
combined rip and cross-cut wood trim
machinery, which has rather given a
black eye to the local mills which for
merly did all the woodwork for the
Capitol They can blame Supt Elliott
Woods for that. He's always introducing
improved methods or machinery some
where. Those old congressman of a
generation ago would not know the Capt.
toll now. Why formerly they had to de-
pend on CRATES for heat and generally the
air currents caused by the backdraughts
from the dome would blow every bit OF
the smoke down the chimneys and drive
the honorable gentlemen sneezing from
their offices. This article is not discussing
the ventilating and heating plant now, or
more might be said on this subject. The
way you do now is tn shove the little
sliding indicator on your thermometer uI
to the point you want the mercury to be
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TWIN SISTERS ADMITTED !

Court of the United States. Belva Lock
wood was that pioneer. and 1t was not
until after heroic fight that she achieved
her victory.
II is said that 10000 women have been
granted permission to practice before the
minor courts of this country. but less
than forty have been rewarded with the
higher distinction of d right to go before
the high tribunal that sits in Washing
ton and settles the disputes which come
up from the minor courts
Belva Lockwood was admitted March
3, 1879. but this by no means broke the
ice or opened chance to host OF
women anxious to break in There was
no constitutional excuse for refusing adj
rnission to the gentler sex, but in order
to keep them out an examination so rigid
was instituted that not one male lawyer
out OF every ten in good standing could
have COPIED with it, and thus IN the
eighties only two more succeeded in get
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Fig. 2. The solar eclipse OF December IS'

group Andromeda, with its wonderful
nebula at /, Fig. /. the group Perseus
with its striking variable star at T., ana
the Charioteer, with the bright, white
star, at c. The early Arabians called
this last beautiful star the Driver, be-
cause it appeared In the north in the
evening sky before the other stars pc
came visible, and so apparently GUIDED
and watched over them. II was also
known as the Singer. who rides before
the camels and cheers them on, the
camels being represented by the stars
of the Pleiades. This distant star and
our own sun are almost 1dentically OF
the same constitution. but Capella emits
$50 times as much light AS our sun. 1t
is so far away that it's light requires
more than thirty years to come to US.
In the northwest, the brilliant au-
,lmn star Vega has sunk almost to the
horizon. and nearby the beautiful north
ern cross now apparently stands IN an
upright position on the ground. In the
southwest the great square of Pegasus
is the most striking figure. and below
this there shines out the planet Saturn,
which, throughout the month. is in cX-
cellent position for observation The
rings slowly widen out during the
month but we still see them so nearly
edgewise that they will appear as Il
single ring in small telescope This
is the only planet visible in the early
evening; toward midnight however. the
pIanet Jupiter will be seen we'll up from
the ground in the east, almost in line
with the pair of stars at and the re-
markable beehive cluster at B. Jupiter
rises two hours after the cluster. Pos
SCISSORS of small telescopes may observe
interesting eclipses of the moon Deem
Der TO- 5 hours A minutes, am. Decem-
Der IL hours 81 minutes, am; De
cember 10, 0 hours minutes. am, and
December %. / hour 80 minutes. am.
On the morning of December l.. but one
nf tho moons is visible the other three
all being hidden behind the planet. At l
hour As minutes am, the inner, swift
ly-moving moon will appear at the edge
of the disc; at hours q minutes, An,
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ting inside the barriers. One was Mrs.
Laura de Force Gordon of California.
the other Mrs Ada NJ. Bittenbender Of
Lincoln, Neb
Mrs. Carrie Burnham Kilgore attained
her ambition in 1890, and was the first
woman admitted during the decade. but a
number of others followed, and by the
time the new century bowed it's way an
even score of women had earned the
highest possible privilege possible to
lawyer.
And these women and those who fol-
lowed have not been content with the
empty honor. but have had frequent oc-
casion to appear and argue. Mrs. LOCK-
wood appeared fully a thousand times,
and Mrs Marilla NJ Kicker, most tai
ented pleader. has been very frequent
in her appearances.
Mrs Kicker is also said to be the only
woman who ever sat on the bench with
the lord chief justice of England.
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x PEEP THROUGH THE

pletely cover It, A brilliant ring of the
suns disc will then be seen surrounding
the black disc of the moon, and the
eclipse is called an annular, or ring
eclipse. The eclipse of December % be-
gins as an annular eclipse, next changes
to total, and finally becomes annular
again The moons shadow first falls on
the swiftly turning earth at A. Fig. 3.
at hours % minutes. am: it sweeps
rapidly along the path from A to D. the
shadow leaving the earth at D and the
eclipse ending at hours is minutes.
am. 1t Is only that part Of the path on
the round earth between b and which
is sufficiently near the moon to be
brought within the shadow. To observers
along the portions ALB and CD the moon
will appear too small to completely hide
the sun; to those at the points B and c
the moon and sun will appear to be Of
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rilla Kicker She has been practicing
since 1852. and has made a speciality of
criminal cases.
1t is related of Mrs. Kicker that after
a lawyer opposing her had made a two
hour speech she addressed the court in
these words:
Your honor and gentlemen of the jury.
j follow the example of learned counsel
without argument"
The jury laughed. while the court sup
pressed a smile and decided the case in
her favor.
Years ago Mrs. Kicker went To England
with letter of Introduction from Chez
Justice Chase TO the Chief Justice OF Eng
land She was welcomed by the justice.
and was Invited to sit with him during the
trial of cases, Il privilege never accorded
to any other woman.
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which have faced almost every woman
who developed the aspiration. are ex-
ceIlently illustrated in the case of Mrs.
Kileore. She was the first woman TO
practice law in Pennsylvania.
For ten years they withheld from her
the permission to enter the law schools.
but even when this had been accomplished
she faced only the beginning of her trou-
bles No Philadelphia court would admit
her to practice. Finally. in 1855. through
the efforts of Damon G.. kilgore. her hus-
band, a Philadelphia lawyer. she was ad-
mitted to practice in the orphans court.
In 1886 she was admitted to the Pennsyl-
yania state supreme court. 1t was largely
through the fight she made that women
came to be admitted to practice in the
courts of Philadelphia and to be allowed
to study in the university law school.
one of the most interesting of all these
women pra ctitioners has been Mrs. Ma
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Fig. 6. Path of the new comet.
7@S%S

that this comet seems 10 vary Irregular
" in brightness, becoming suddenly
brighter. and then fading away again.
The brilliant. naked eye comet which
appears in the sky at Intervals of every
seventy-stX years is known to be now in
the position M. Fig. i. and during De-
cember it Will move over the path MI.
Though this comet is rushing toward US
ut the rate of more than 2,00o,0O0 OF
miles a day. il is still beyond the orbit
of Jupiter, and up to this time has es-
capped discovery. although ii is being sys
tematicdily searched for at several OBJ
serVatorieS. 1t will probably draw near
enough to become "A conspicuous naked
eye object by the beginning of the year
1910.
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And yet few years after the civil
war. when Mrs. Carrie B. Kilgore ap-
piled for admission to the law depart
ment of the University of Pennsylvania.
she was told by the then dean that when
''niggers and women are admitted to the
law school, he would resign Mrs. Kill
gore herself relates this incident.
Women in general have been admitted
to law colleges, to membership in school
boards, and to suffrage in many states
through the hard work of women who
have attained the hearing of the highest
legal tribunal.
The dean of the women practitioners
in the United States the gifted Mrs.
Lockwood. won the most noted case ever
placed to the credit OF woman attorney
when the United States Supreme Court
gave a verdict of five million dollars in
favor of six thousand Cherokee Indians.
The difficulties of getting way in law
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wear above ;.s constellation OF the
Twins was rC;;iSccVcred in its appointed
place. and is now under observation.
but it is far too faint to be seen iii Il
small telescope.
The brightest comet of the year is
still visible in the early evening. though
it is now moving rapidly, toward the
southern hemisphere. October 1t was
at II. Fig. / October % at X and No
vember y it crossed the equator at the
point G.. Fig 4. During the first two
weeks of December it enters Sagittarlus:
the possessor of a small telescope may
be able to find it with the help of Fig. 4.
1t is now rapidly approaching the sun
and receding from the earth, and, there
fore growing fainter. 1t is remarkable
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faster. until he will finally reach the ce-
Iestial equator at V. Fig. l, in March,
and winter will be over.
The sky is already brilliant with the
beautiful winter considerations, and the
long nights bring unusually favorable
opportunities for astronomical obserNa-
ton The magnificent groups OF Orion,
the Twins and the Bull are high up III
the east while Sirius. the Dog Star.
which is the most brilliant star of the
entire heavens, shines out with its beau
tiful display of scintiliating colors in
the southeast. In comparison with this.
the royal star. Fomalhaut, which Tor so
many months has been our brightest
south star, looks insignificant. indeed
Just as Sirius enters our sky this sum-
mer star sinks from view, To be seen no
more until next June.
The Winter Consultations.
Almost in the zenith is the bright
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The PLUr1BlNG. SHOP

men. Any one must know that a building
like the Capitol must be heated. and ven
tilated, and lighted.
As matter of fact the heating and
ventilating and lighting of the Capitol
are not small matters For each of these
purposes there are duplicate plants at
each end of the big building, one set to
serve the House end and another set to
serve the Senate end.
Various reasons have been assigned
for the duplication of wants. Some per-
sons think they were duplicated to keep
the senators and representatives from
quarreling about the employees and the
service If the Vice President got his
rooms warm quicker than the Speaker
of the House. or if the chairman of the
finance committee of the Senate found
that while he was ringing industrlously
for the chief engineer to ask why in
R-r-uddilend he had a gale of wind blow
ing down the back of his neck he finally
found that the aforesaid C. f. was build
ing a fire in the CRATE for the gentleman
from Montana, a parliamentary rumpus
might ensue.
What's the odds, anyway; why the
plants are duplicated?
One set might break down. and then
where'd you be. if the other set was not
ready to take up the burden?
Did you ever visit the fireroom and
engine room and the other places in that
subterranean world under the Capitol?
IF one would try to give directions for
getting there from the east front Of the
Capitol it would remind an Englshman-
the real kind or the Cooks brand or
tourist to old Albion--of Lunnon bobby g
directions. Barring the h'accent, it would
be something like this:
Right in that door, sir and turn to
your right: third door to your left, sir.
and go down one flight O. stairs. then turn
sharp to the left and then first door to
the right, and then follow the passageway
to the right, to the left, to the left again,
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Fig. 4. Appearance of the sun seen
from the moon during a lunar appuIse.

exactly the same size. so that for an
to observers between Il and G the sun
will be completely hidden for a short
time: at no point will the total eclipse
last for more than about eleven seconds.
What is known as lunar appulse oc-
ours on the afternoon of December I. On
this date an observer on the moon would
see the earth pass over the face of the
sun, but it would not completely hide the
sun from view. Observers in Europe
Asia and Africa will see the brightness
of our satellite perceptibly lessened at
this time, but the whole phenomenon
will be over before the moon rises to
observers in the United States.
The little comet due to reappear thi
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gen. and Mr.. Debs, and Mr. Chatin-and
us. L. s. in fact?
1t sounds a good deal like the tales OF
oppression by some medieval lord, who
employed himself in the profitable pastlme
pf rObbing travellers through his terri
tory and then casting the robbed into
dungeons beneath his donjon keep, or
whatever he called it, where they could
not file complaints with their sovereign's
ronSuI or send a scathing communication
to the press denounCing the robher bar
pns, and asking why the interstate COM
merce commission did not get after the
conscienceless owners of the right of
way.
This may he getting away from the
chaps who shut up in those dungeons
under the Capitol. Did you say poor
fcIlows?"
There is where you would be wrong.
The underground toilerS hidden away
from public view are not badly off at all.
In fact. they are proud of Their servi-
tude. and they wax prosperous. following
their mo,es' lives in the service of the
nation.
Who are these semi-prisoners. giorylng
In their catacomb-like confinement?
OF course, there are engineers ana nre-