davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-01-17
The Thi1N1,lo.

A thimble was originally thumb-bell,
because it was worn on the thumb, as
sailors still wear their thimbles. It is
Dutch invention, and in 1884 in Amster-
dam the bi-centennial Of the thimble
was celebrated with great deal of
formality. This very valuable addition
to my lady's work-basket was first made
by a goldsmith named Nicholas Van
Benschoten, the ancestor of the Ameri-
can family Of Van Benschotens. And it
may further interest colonial DANES to
know that the first thimble made was
presented in 1854 to Anna Van. Wedy,
the second wife Of Kliaen Van Rens-
selaer. the purchaser of Rensselaerwyck,
and the first PATRON. Nine. Van Rens-
selacr's memory was duly honored in
Holland on the occasion Of the thimble
bi-centenniaL ~ a@4R ~ r. l.'$>SS IS
In presenting his useful gift Van BEN
schoten begged Nine. Vnng, Rensselaer,
f.to accept this news covering for the
protection Of her diligent fingers as d
token Of his esteem. :" u: s.,
II was not until 1896. Just 200 years
ago, that the thimble was introduced into.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-01-17
GOSSIP FOR THE LADIES
a Dnce,Ahar ser,nnn

A Decctfb sr Sermon. ~
III siinmah time, de wBpds dey laugh
Beeatlse dey eoiildn' see ~
ND DlDssDfils pDr no fruit ter count
4. Upon de cedar Tree: =
hut he les keib Oh a-gfBwiu'
An, he tlidh't WY word
! Ter de slleefiI' an de Deerln' - entrzss.
An de f6Illf' dat lie Heard. h II
An' he saved his leaves in autumn
When dc udlahs threw 'em of,
An ne minded his own business
An he let 'em scowl an scoff.
But de patient mostly prospah, +
An dem woods II gwlneter groan
With its Christmas se girs Sg 1l hsn,
o." Washington Star
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-01-17

Old Lady--"That parrot l bought of
you uses dreadful language" ~.
Bird Dealer-"Ah, mum, you should
be VERY careful what you seq afore it;
it's astonishing how quick them birds
pick up anythink Spare Moments.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-01-17
St. Nicholas White Horse.

In Holland ST. Nicholas is a reality.
but he comes driving white horse and
not reindeer. The children are taught
white steed, and on Christmas eve each
pair of little shoes is carefully cleaned,
and being filled with oats and hay they
are placed on the hearth. The hay and
oats are for the good saints white horse
In the morning the hay and oats are
gone, and in their place are found toys
ana U me tho for %d the good chidfHn
COuricr-.J ournal. .
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-01-17
Thought tho Kaiser stupid.

An amusing little story about the pres
ent Emperor of Germany, William H.,
and Il Vienna coachman was narrated
at a banquet lately given at Vienna by
some diplomats the narrator being
himself a we'll known and prominent
member of the corps diplomatic. /.
William III. Of Germany, then, Prince
William of Prussia, came to Vienna,
visiting his particular friend and chuln,
the late Crown Prince Rudolf Of Aus
tria. Joined by the Prince of Wales,
who was at that time also a frequent
visitor to the Vienna court, the three
princes took a fancy to mingle with the
commons of the Vienna population;
places which are not in the least regard
ed as suitable for princely guests.
One day they entered hotel, but in
stead of going into the dining room
they walked into the "Schwemme," a
place which answers to some degree to
the bar-room Of an American hotel; in
this room coachmen and the servants of
the hotel guests take their meals. u
+. The three princes took seats at an
empty table. and listened, highly
amused, to fierce debate about politics
between several stout members of that
class of fashionable Vienna coachmen,
who are known all over Europe as
''Fesche Wiener Fiaker." The distinc-
ton of those charioteers is kind of
good-natured boldness and droll famil-
iarity towards their customers as we'll
as to perfect strangers. -.
After listening awhile Prince William
put in word, and soon was drawn into
the excited discussion. Suddenly q
stout, red-faced coachman walked up to
the table where the three princes were
seated, and, tapping Prince William gen.
tly on tho ShOnlder S9id. HNnsu E;f Wi,
should ever have anything to say in poll
tics, you wouldn't set a river on fire,
I'm sure!'
, AS every public coachman in Vienna
wears II number. this coachman was
upon a special request of Prince William
easily identified. The prince sent him
a handsome scurfpin with his initials as
thanks for the amusement he had fur
nishcd. and thus the man learned in
amazement whose political abilities they
were that he had so belittled.-New York
Press.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-01-17
Have the Fever.

The pictures of American girls pub
lished BY c. D. Gibson, the artist. have
had singular effect upon many young
women, who have become possessed with
the longing. to appear like Mr.. Gibson's
ideal creations. One Chicago girl tried
the experiment. and although she did her
best to succeed she failed. This is the
way she tells of her experience: "What
| have been trying to do lately is to mod
ii myself Oh the lines of Gibson's girls,
and all have learned is that pride goeth
before destruction. You know how
those girls look-knees in. toes out, shout
Iers back, arms limp. chin up, eyes on
the armament, # out of doors, or the
cha ndelier, if in the house. Well, tried
it. | got downstairs by counting the
steps, boarded a car and never took my
eyes off the ventilatOr in the roof; gave
the conductor dime, rather than look at
my pocketbook. You don't know how
lofty and superior I felt. The throng in
State street was dirt beneath my queen
ly feet that scorned to note what they
were treading on. When crossed Madi-
son street heard people yelling around
me. and in moment a policeman had
pulled me from under grip car.
haven't tried it since, but have gone back
to Chicago style, hurrying and lodging
and getting stra bismus trying to look
six ways at once and wink a cinder out
Of my eye at the same time. Gigson's
girls may do for the Acropolis at Athens,
where the marble gods run over them.
but they won't do for Chicago
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-01-17

ship, and nothing else, between men and
women. You don't want TO be II folly
gqod fellow. YOu want TO be n wDInai
whb IL respected. not bHly Beca,isc bf
her sex but because of herself, and .ihe
free and easy life In which a man offers
tders to get for him something that. re
counts more cheerful than d cup OF ten.
js one which my busy girl does not want
to live. II for no other reason this would
be one. In Bohemia all women must be
young and beautiful. and you are not
going to be that forever. So make for
yourself q social world that will be en-.
j0yable, that will be pleasant, but where
you will be liked when youth and beauty
have gone, because of the good that Is
in yen mentally and spiritually
Ashmore in Ladies' Home Journal.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-01-17
Woman Excels in Languages.
One of DIR university EuhfS ,yhn

One of our university lights who is
deeply interested i'll the study of Ian
guages declares that what woman loses
in prOfundity she gains in quickness
She rXcels i'll tact and cxtricates herself
from a difficulty with astonishing adroit-
ness. In language she is more apt than
man. Girls learn to speak earlier than
boys and old women are more talkative
than old men. Among the uneducated
the wife can express herself more in
diligently than the husband. Expert
that women are more faithful and punc
tilious than men, and at least equally
apt. In colleges where a record of stand
ing is kept the women gain probabi;
a somewhat higher average. In the
years Immediately following graduation
the men make much greater intellectual
progress. Women reach their mental
maturity at an earlier age and develop
relatively less after maturity. In many
kinds of routine work, especially that
requiring patience, women are superior
but they are less liable to endure pro-
tracted overwork. We have seen that
woman is less modified physically than
man and varies less from the average.
The same is true mentally. Women
are more alike than men and more nor,
mai, as it were. The geniuses have been
men for the most part; SO have the
cranks. Woman's thought pursues ole!
rather than new lines. Her tendency
is toward reproduction, while mans is
toward production. Woman loves the
old, the tried and the customary. She
Is conservative and acts as society's bal
ance wheel. Man represents variation
He reforms, explores, thinks out new
way.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-01-17
A Won,an,s w.ist.

1t is matter for rejoicing that fashion
Is 10 longer to- decree a. slender waist
as something Indispensable to propriety
and grace. The natural waist of the
woman of average height is about TWEEN
ty-ejght inches, and any less size is at
tanned only through arrested develop
ment, or compression by means of whale
inside these twenty.eight inches is abso-
lutc!y needed for the proper working
of the machinery of the internal econo-
my. In spite of this fact girls very often
bind the yielding ribs into such narrow
compass that the waist meausres twenty
or twenty-five inches only, and you will
now and then hear some mother of 81
family, With a very different waist now.
boast as if it%were something to be proud
of that when she was 10 her waist meas
ure was nineteen too. 1t is, however, of
no use to talk to young people about
the injurious effects of COMPRESSION OH
stomach, heart, lungs. liver and the ar
terial system. They are not anatonists
and they do not comprehend the matter
nor want to do SO; they observe that
they feel as well now as they did before.
and without weighing the thought that
it requires time to work ruin, take il
for granted that they always will feel
ais well, although they have been told
and taught that in post-mOrtem examina
lions it has been found that wher-
ever tight lacins has been the rule, ev-
cry organ was ONT of place and seriously
injured. But although it does move
them a trifle to be told that red noses
and cruptive skins and fat chests are
to be laid to the account Of the too sIen-
der waist, yet on the whole neither COM
mon sense nor atlld-wife wisdom nor doc
tors have the power Of conviction that
fashion does, and when fashion says
that there is no beauty in a wasp's waist.
but that the lines of nobility and health
made by deep breathing are the really
lovely lines. fragility being something
rather to be feared than loved. why.
then fragility begins to be avoided and
the lines of the Venus de Milo, of the
Diana, of the Palas, begin to come in
Harper's Bazaar.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-08-26
IMPORTANCE OF PUBLICITY.

The courts are public. Publicity is
their life. From it they derive their
authority. Without it their decisions
would be null. Except as they repre-.
sent it they are unjust or useless
This publicity is not mere notoriety.
1t is the submission to the entire
commonwealth Of all that concerns
the common welfare. The moment q
man or woman appeals to the public
as the arbiter Of private difference,
in that moment the affair.". what
ever it is. ceases to be private and be.
comes public. 1t is necessary that it
should be reviewed first by the courts
and then by the public, to which the
courts belong.
Through publicity appeal is made
to the Judgment Of the public, which
is always more conclusive and more
binding than the judgment Of court.
This is sugges ted even by the protests
against it. People who are not afraid
to get into courts are so much afraid
Of the criticism of the public that
they keep out of the courts.
This is as 1t ought to be. 1t is only
through publicity that the restrain
Ing force of organized society can be
used to check disorganization and de-
moralization. It Is only through pub
lfcity that public opinion, the greatest
force in the preservation Of sound
morals. can be brought into play. It
has done more than all other causes
combined to make the Nineteenth
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-08-26
REFERENDUM IN ENGLAND.


Did you ever think that England
has sort of Referendum? When
the government fails to command a
majority Of the House Of Commons
the Prime Minister and Cabinet re-
sign, Parliament is dissolved, and the
question or questionssat issue are re-
ferred to the people In the new elec-
tions. AS a consequen nee, England is
making more progress toward govern
ment by, the people, and justice to-
ward the masses, than we are. They
already have government telegraph,
government savings. banks. ETC., and
we, too. would have them without fur
ther delay II we had anyway to get
the expression Of the voters on these
questions. Why can't we have way?
crosses, "boodle" Legislatures and
doodle" City Councils that should
have been dissolved. But no; we elect
man for a certain term, and all the
legal powers in the country can't get
him out until his term expires.
Here is where the Imperative Man
date comes in. 1t gives the people the
power to recall any public officer at
any time In the following way:, Any
constituent may. at any time, draw
up document demanding the re-
moval Of. said officer. When this docu-
ment is signed by majority of vot ers
in the territory which elected such Of
ficer his Office shall be declared va
cant. It can be filed again. BY ap-
pOintment or by new election. Shall
we have it?-Dr. C. F. Taylor-in The
Medical World.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-08-26
THE MONEY QUESTION.
(Minneapolis ARGUS \

(Minneapolis ArgusJ
In compliance with the request of a
number of our readers we publish in
serial form extracts from the cOnsti-
tutions of the United States and un-
disputed authorities on this question,
to be followed. as space permits by the
coinage laws.
The following Is true copy of the
constitutions of the United States
giving Congress the power to coin
money.
Article 1, section 8. says; The con-
gress shall have power
ITO lay and collect taxes, duties,
imposts, and excises; to pay the debts
and provide for the common defense
and general welfare Of the United
States: but all duties, imposts, and ex-
cises shall be uniform throughout the
United States;
"To borrow money on the credit of
the United States.
ITO regulate commerce with foreign
nations, and among the several States,
and with the Indian tribes;
ITO establish an uniform rule of
naturalization, and uniform laws on
the subject of bankruptcies through
out the United States;
"1o coin money, regulate the valaee there
OF, and OF foreign coin, and fix the stand
ard of weights and measures;
ITO provide for the punishment of
counterfeiting the securities and cur
rent coin of the United States.
ITO make all laws which shall be
necessary and proper for carrying into
execution the foregoing powers, aud
all other powers vested by this constl-
tuition In the government Of the
United States or-in any department
or office thereof"
In addition to the cons titution we
quote authorities no one will attempt
to gainsay, as follows:
Tiffany on Constitutional Law,
chapter IL, section 400, page 221, says:
'There is legally no such thing as
Money is the sovereign authority i'm
pressed on that which Is capable of
taking and retaining the impression.
That upon which the stamp is placed
is called coin. The coin may be metal
parchment or paper; the value is in
the stamp and not In the metal or ma
terial."
Judge Martin says in his work,
"The Money Of Nations historically
and Legally Considered" ''Money is
made by law and law onlv. That law
often demonetizes that which has
been made money regardless of the
material out of which 1t Is coined"
Sir James Stewart says: It is q
scale of equal parts invented to meas
ure the respective value of things
vendable."
Attorney General Alderman says:
''It is not a substance. but the i'm
press authority, printed legal de-
cree"
Kellogg says: "It is legal exist
ence, made national representative
of property"
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-08-26
IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION.

Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, who Is
now the real head Of the British en-
pire, recently said that the keynote Of
his whole career was "that all mon
opolies, which are sustained in any
way by the state, ought to be in the
hands of the representatives of the
people, by whom they should be ad-
ministered. and to whom their profits
should co." from which it seems that
the rankest kind Of Popullst is in
charge of the British government.
Mr.. Chamberlain began his career
by securing the enactment into law Of
| his theories. He began In Birming-
ham and carried through four
schemes.
l. The town bought up the gas
works, which now represent a capital
account of $11, 150, 900, reducing the
price of gas from 10 cents to 26 and IS
cents. and making an annual profit OF
| $15O, 900.
2. The town bought up the water
works, paying over $272, 455 per annum
to the shareholders. The result was
creation of a property valued at $l1,-
OOO, 900, the improvement OF the supply
and a reduction Of water rents By
$149, ITO per annum.
The town bought up the central
slums, borrowing $7,0OO,OOO for the
purpose, and constructed corpora
| tion street through the improved
area. The area was rebuilt on leases
| Of Is years. When they expire Birm-
ingham will be the richest borough in
the world.
A. Birmingham formed drainage
union with surrounding towns and es-
tablished a model sewerage farm of
200 acres in the Thames valley. It
cost $275, 900 to work 1t.
Notwithst tanding all the benefits
conferred upon the people,. the tax
ago. That is what one PoDulist has
done in England. OF course he Is q bi-
me tallist also.-Oshkosh Advocate.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-08-26

pluy of gold can. In both cases the
mines in old, long settled communi-
ties have been worked out, or nearly
so. For our future supply we must OF
necessity look to the newer and more
sparsely peopled regions of the earth.
In those regions we are quite as like
ly to find large deposits Of gold as sill
yer, but judging from past experience,
there is no danger of our getting too
much of either On the contrary, it. is
highly probable that there never will
be enough. Mr.. Enrich is deeply con-
cerned about wages. He is afraid
that they may be reduced if we have
free coinage. ''s.
That is doubtless the reason why
the Rothschilds, the Morgans, the
Belmonts, the Simmonds and nearly
all the great money kings. of the
world are opposed to free coinage.
They are afraid they will have to pay
the hired man with cheaper dollars.
II SO, it may not be Irrelevant to sug-
gest that they can easily mend mat
ters and save the poor man, harmless,
by raising his wages-by giving him
more dollars. II silver can be pro-
Enrich seems to think it can, the sup
ply of "dollars" must certainly in
crease, and IL they are only going to
be worth half as much as q dollar is
now, it should only be half as hard to
get one.
The absurdities and Inconsistencies
of the goldites would be amusing il
the subject we're not so serious.
One declares that under free coinage
gold will leave the country and we
will have only scant supply OF silver
money, which is going to be "cheap. -
Oh, so ''cheapv'
Another is going to have the supply
of silver incre ase so that the metal
will be superabundant, and still the
wage-earner will not be able to get
any more Of it than he does now, and
SO on. with contradiction upon contra
dfctiOn until we are involved IN "c0n-
fusion worse cOnfOunded." r-ss <,.ss.s... =.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-08-26

pie OF this country are expected to
and are willing now to pay rates that
will give fair income on the cost Of
the railroads, and that Is all they
would have to do under government
ownership.
AS to the question of political pat
ronage and corruption. we believe
that the matter could be guarded by
proper civil service rules and safe.
guards whereby this evil could be OBJ
waited; in fact, 1t is generally believed
that under even the present system,
the railroads take quite a hand in
politics and political patronage.
We believe under government own
erShip labor troubles on the railroads
would be less frequent, IL not cease
entirely, to the great advantage of the
employees, the railroads and the pub
lie"
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-08-26
THE NUMBER of this 4zN
issue Of the paper is.... nA+
! II the number opposite your name ON the
COl0red Label Is less thai. this number
1t shoes that your subscribtion is IN az
rears and should be paid up at once.
CLERICAL EXPRESSIONS.

(By J. Greenleaf Whittier, 1852
Just God! and these are they
Who minister at Thine altar God of
right!
Men who their hands with prayer and
blessing lay
On 1sraeps ark Of light!
What! Preach and kidnap men?
Give thanks and rob Thy own afflicted
poor?
Talk of Thy glorious liberty and then
Bolt hard the captives' door?
What! Servants Of Thy own
Merciful son, who came to seek and save
The homeless and outcast, lettering down
The tasked and plundered slave!
PLATE and Herod, friends!
Chief priests and rulers, as Of old, COM
bine!
Just God and holy, Is that church which
Strength to the spoiler Thine?
Paid hypocrites, who turn
Judgment aside and rob the holy book
or those high words Of truth which search
and burn
In warning and rebuke
Feed fat, We locusts, feed!
And, IN your tasseled pulpits, thank the
That from the toiling bondman's utter
Ye pile your own full board.
How long, o Lord! how long
Shall such q priesthood barter truth
away.
And. in Thy name, for robbery and wrong
At Thy own altar pray?
Is not Thy hand stretched forth
Vfsfbly in the heavens to awe and smite
Shall not the living God of all the earth
And heaven above do right?
Woe, then, to all who grind
Their brethren Of a common father down:
10 all who plunder from the immortal
mind
Its bright glorious crown!
Woe to the priesthood! Woe
TO those whose hire Is with the price of
blood
Perverting, darkening, changing as they
The searching truth of God!
Their glory and their might
Shall perish, and their very names shall be
Vile before all the people, In the light
OF worlds libertyl
Oh! speed the moment on
When wrong shall cease and liberty and
love ar--
And truth and right throughout the earth
be known
As in their homes above.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-08-26

to say, The people have more than paid
the national debt, but &2,356, 76O. .931
has been interest which has gone into
the pockets Of the boad holders, and
still the debt now approximates $500,
OO0. COO, and is increasing.
SHARKS AND SHIRTS.
The battle of the sharks and shirts
is now on-old shylock demanded his
pound of flesh;" it was in the bond
the toad shylock want the poor mans
shirt and John Sherman and the gold
bugs say he shall have it, but it is not
In the bond.
Thousands of workingmen still re-
tain their shirts. and if they vote
right in the campaign. may boast that
while wages are reduced, and their
homes darkened by the shylock policy,
that their shirt, possibly their last
possession. is on their backs.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-08-26
The Middle Of the Road.

An ardent Ohio Peopae's party editor
wrote to Robert Schill1nE as follows:
/. I'VE are in the middle Of the road and
red hot, and I propose to fight it out on
that line. sink or swim. This fusion busi-
ness will kill as sue as1hell."
Mr.. Schilling replied ~ follows:
Don't despair-don't give up. and above
all things don't have the metal stomach
ache. went through The same experience
we are having nom. With the Pendleton-
Ewing crowdsin ohal = years ago. After
their defeat on that issue they never men,
toned currencs reform gain. If the DEM
ocrats should BE defea4e1 this fall, we will
1t to keep quiet, vote u We please-I sup
pose shall vote FOR B1yaa-and as soon as
election is over reorganfxe for renewed ef-
forts. We have lost 10 years, but revolu-
tions never go backHaydA Ad-
vance, e