davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-06-16

So no matter what came up, appropria-
ton bills or everything else, Lentz OBJ
iected to It's consideration till that
testimony was printed. And he man
aged to block legislation and nag
every body TO the pitch Of desperation.
The republicans, some of them, we're
privately Offering fabulous rewards,
al expenses paid and DO questions
asked to any man who would take
Lentz out and cultivate his taste for
stimulants. II heard of il too late)
The testimony wasn't printed. There
was no special objection to Is except
that Len,z simply took the house By
the throat and bullyragged 1t as a
member can by obiecting.
about srmor plate. 1 don't know the
merits of the armor plate business
nobody does except specialists in steel
but It certainly kicked up bobhery
The house and senate refused to con-
cur and there was a deadlock which
the senate Hanna appeared as the
champion of the armor people and
made a running fight for several days.
1t was a good thing for Hanna.
The senator from Ohio Is good busi-
ness man and an able politician, but,
like most of US, at times he finds it diff
fcult to make his verbs and nouns
agree. There are two sty les of Eng
lish, the spoken dialect and the writ
ten. We all know and use the former,
and few of us use the latter-when
we come TO put our remarks On paper.
It happens that Hanna never philosC-
phized on the subject, and when the
democratic papers followed the good
old journalistic rule "if you want to be
specially nasty, abuse the other fellows
grammar" he took the matter to heart.
And he certainly had some reason to
be discouraged. He is not loved by
every body and besides has been pro-
fessional target for all the people who
do not love the Observation-Disclosures
are such. Wherefore being nervous,
Hanna has hardly opened his mouth to
speak on the floor since he became
a senator, combining his activities to
the committee rooms, and dreading a
possible conflict with mebody whose
only function in life is talking, of whom
there are several in congress.
But his policy OF silence had to be
abandoned q week or so since when the
Popod ms started in to draw him on
armor plate. Being once on his feet
be found the process of hitting back
was not 30 difficult as be had anticipat
g / and he has been gaining in con i'd
ence ever sipce. Moreover it has dawn
ed on hi N as glad surprise that the
| debates on the floor can be, aud fire.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-06-16

Cannon and not Grosvenor. After
which Henderson decided that there
was other business OF equal import
auce. and the house slould come
to order. Subsequently Cannon cam
in and he didn't like it, aud he and
Cummings joined issue, nominslly over
something else, which resulted in
Cummings calling him "toy musket."
Congress has managed to spend
800 600 900 at this session, include z
"a .OO0, 900 for the department. of agri-
culture. That Is good deal of
money for $4,000 600 people. but it is
not so much pro rata a. others spend.
France believe taxes her people
about $3.50 head, and uses it all. The
gold standard bill, the Porto Rican
tariff bill, and the Samoan treaty we're
about the most important measures
which became law. The Nicaragua
canal bill got through the house and
WAS fsvorsbly reported In the senate
but y. ent no further. The Philippine
bill failed to go through and the Hay
Pauncefote treaty was killed.
The uncertainty regarding
the second names on the two
tickets, republican and democratic,
is worrying the campaign button PEG pie
and their representatives have been
infesting town, hunting for tips. They
think the chances of Mckinley and
Bryan are enough to warrant their lay
ing in sock of buttons with those
names on, but they would like to have
come idea about the rest of the pro
gram.
There was the usual crop Of more or
less bright remarks in the house. One
man quoted from Cato the remark
that ne had no use for ''soldier who
moved his hands In marching, his feet
in battle, and who snored louder 10 his
tent than he yelled in com bat. 1" Which
sounds as II 1t meant something.
Another said that If Bryan cav the
tall OF kitten sticking out OF q basket
he Immediately proclaimed that he
saw elephants. Which was q metaphor
regarding Mr.. Bryan's remarks on
trusts.
The oleomargarine aud butter people
have been trying to do the Cain and
Abel business to each other with
some uncertainty as to who was
whioh-in connection which q proposed
Pure Food" law. Ditto the alum
baking powder and cream of tartar
baking powder folks. Luckily for
every body the bill was one of those
tina. failed. Probably it will come ur
again at the next session.
D. OF.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-06-16

queptiy are, edited before going into
the Congre ssior al Record. Wherefore
jumping en- Hanna has become less of
a popular amusement among the sena-
tors.
The armor row started over an
ale CATION by popodem senator that
Crsmp, the ship builder, in private
conversation had stated that he had
co tribu,ed s4oO, 600 to the republican
campaign fund in 1892 and 1t had
been lost in the shuttle, somewhere.
The whole story was ridiculous. Per
sonslly 1 know quarter Is no more
to me than 100000 would be to
Charles Cramp and 1 don't let 8
quarter get away from me without
full de tails as TO its destination. But
It was the kind of fairy tale both the
popodems and the hard shell DEM
ocrats were looking for in their bus
10 ess. and they went for Hanna on
the popular assumption that he 10
responsible for everything In history
from Julius Caesars unwsrrsntable
assum p,ion of power over his fellow
Dsgos down to the new kind of potato
bug the agricultural department is In
reducing. Pettigrew fsthered the
legend and flung himself against the
republican ramparts with q rattle and
a bang. For once he had followers In
his gyrations and the melee became
gen ersl, but Hanna stood right up to
It and met all Corners.
Naturally the house took Its innings
days resem BILE nothing so much IS
photograph factory with all the
cylinders talking at once. But finally
house and senate concurred In bill
which showed all the responsibility
off on the secretary of the navy, in
structing him to buy armor if he saw
fit and to build q factory II he didn t.
One OF the representatives from
New York, Amos Cummings, is also
newspaper correspondent and one Of
his letters happened to be headed
''Grosvenor and Sulzsr in Close En-
BRACE" Grosvenor saw 1t, naturally,
and rose to a question of personal
privileges and had the clerk of the
house read IL from the desk. Then he
started to indicate himself from the
charge, saying there were come crosses
In pu bile life that q man should not be
compelled to bear and that was one
of them; it hadn't been he who EN-
braced Sulzer, 1t was Cannon. AT
which point up popped Lentz and OBJ.
jecte to considering anything while
the Occur d'Alsue testimony was
unprinted, but was ruled out OF order
glad 1t was made evident that Is wat
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-06-16
WASHINGTON
Ending OF Congress-Statesmen
play At pillow Fighting The
Everlasting Armor plate RoW-
Hanna Stood Them Off-Con
eressional Courtesy.
BY D. OF.

Special Correspondence of the HERALD.
WASHINGTON, June 9.-Congress
adjourned yesterday 10 blaze Of
something or other. On the house
side, iust before winding up, q recess
was taken and q number of members
sang, frat "America" and then "Auld
Lang Syne'' to an accompaniment OF
aying books aud papers-not thrown
At the singers be it understood; 1t was
merely the congressional equivalent Of
pillow fight. The pages were hav-
ing their own little time On the eide,
the galleries Joined in the singing; the
newspaper men made various noises
more or less undesirable and mix
ture of panharmonium and pandemon-
ium reigued.
The excitement was 500 much for
one old gentleman in the gallery and
he shouted in shrill voice that he
had message from the sovereign OF
the universe Whereupon he was
pat out Then O'ey started in with
. Dixie, " while Mississippi N IN patsed
jut with feet and hands. Somebody
Bottom OF the Sea-" and then a lot of
Grand Army men began on 'Star
Spaugled Banner" with q cordial in
yisa,ion everybody on the floor and
IN the galleries to join in. Which
they all accepted. "Tenting on the
Old camp Ground "''Suwanee River. F."
and Maryland" followed before the
gavei ended the recess. Then the
house formally adjourned and Hender-
son delivered q short valedictory,
which was greeted by Sulzer with q
netrical remark about "For He's q
Jolly Good Fellow" in which the
whole house concurred. Afte- which
Hepburn and Grow started the "Dox-
otogy'' and the concert was over.
The senate was more placid and shut
down With general vote OF thanks to
everybody.
The week has been q busy one. la
the hrst place Lentz, of Ohio, made up
his mind that he wanted the Occur
n'Alene testimony printed. 1t Is DC
trouble at all to Lentz to make up his
nind and thereafter II "grows that
Way; as people used TO threaten that
my ed, a.ing countensnce would when
/ started to relax It by making faces.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-06-16
MOOueV.

Before you close out your household
goods Gee Mooney. Cor. Stanton and
St. Louis streets.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-06-01
Growing an Umbrella HandIe

guest at one of the principal hotels
yesterday exhibited curious and beau
tiful umbrella handle to a party of adj
miring friends. 1t was crook of silver
maple wood bearing the natural bark and
its ornament consisted Of three heavy
gold bands or rings, encircling the shaft
at equal distances. What made it re-
Darkable was the self-evldcnt fact that
the bands had been put on when the
branch from which the handle was made
was part. of a living tree, and much
smaller in diameter. The wood had
grown through and around the confirming
metal, and bulged out at either side, pro-
ducing an odd and striking effect
1T took me four years to get the ma
terial ready for this umbrella handle"
said the proud owner. Il live in the sub
maple trees on the premises. In 1893
the idea occurred to me, and l had
jeweler make me these three rings, which
l slipped over small branch and tied
at the proper distances with cords.
had to select very diminutive branch.
because otherwise the twigs would have
prevented the rings from going on, and
l picked out one pretty high up, so it
would be out of the way of pilferers.
Then l waited patiently for nature to
clinch the bands by process of growth.
said nothing about the experiment and
the family often wondered why in the
wcrld l climbed that tree so often. l
an. travelling man, and whenever re-
turned from the road 1 would lose no
tire in taking look at my prospective
umbrella handle. 1t was slow work,
however, and the fall of 1897 had rolled
around before | finally cut the branch.
They l turned it over to an expert, who
KEEP: it ten months longer, seasoning and
polishing it and bending the upper end
into the crook, which was done by a
process of steaming. The result is what
you see. l am convinced it is the only
thing of it's kind in the world; and I
take good care to keep it away from UNI
brel)a thieves. New Orleans Times
Icr lGcrat
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-06-01
AN ANGEL UNAwARES.

Suppose for every act Of love and duty
An angel In the path of life should law
lovely rose OF sweet perfume and beauty
All, even then how bare would be the
Why:
Suppose for every kindly word unspoken,
Cor every fault which careless hands had
done,
For every resolution made and broken.
"A thorn beneath our erring feet had
grown;
All: then the way would be one stretch of
With only here and there flower to
cheer.
Our feet would falter and our spirits Ian
) And life would be a burden hard to bear.
But seldom are we outwardly rewarded
According to the deeds which we have
THE pure in heart" are by the world dis.
carled;
The wicked harvest where the good have
And yet to every heart in darkness hidden
There comes an angel, whom we cannot
Who strives to keep Us from the paths for
And in the narrow way where faith may
be.
His name name is Conscience, and he brings us
Sweet roses, borrowed from the brow of
Peace:
Or lhorns, which renorseful thought re-
poses,
Regrets whose sharp tormentings never
cease.
Then let us strive temptations storm to
weather,
Let every thought and every deed i'm
prove,
Till Conscience finds 10 cruel thorns to
gather,
But crowns the soul with JOY, and peace,
and love.
II. Il. Shelton in Richmond Religious Her
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-06-01
Miss CkolmOndeley.

Jeannette Glider in the current num-
Der Of Harpers Bazaar gives us some in
teresting information concerning Miss
Mary Cholmondeley, the author of the
much-talked-of RED Pottage."
Miss Mary Cholmondeley," says Miss
Glider, belongs to the younger branch Of
the Marquis Of Cholmondeley's family,
which has been established in Cholmon-
the Conqueror. We in America are, how
eyer, more interested in the fact that
MISS Cholmondeley is Il great-niece of
Bishop Heber, and it was in the house
where he lived as rector of Hodnet that
she was born. Miss Cholmondeley was
brought up on solid foundation of Eng
!ish literature in the very library where
her great-uncle the bishop used to write
his sermons, and no doubt the very vol
umes that she read were those whose
pages had been turned by that poets fin
gers: Miss Cholmondeley has great pop
q!arity. in America, where The Danvers
Jewels was first published anonymously.
in serial as we'll as in book form"
"Red Pottage," By the way, is still
maintaining its popularity against all
corners. In the Bookman's reports on the
best selling books for the past month
'''Red Pottage" stands second on the list,
having passed such books as 'Richard
Carvel," 'Janice Meredith" and "When
knighthood was in Flower" In England
it still maintains the first position on the
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-06-01
D'ANNUNZIO AT WORK.
He Avoids Interruptions by the o.

He Avoids Interruptions by the Use
of a Ladder.
Gabrielle d'Annunzio's method of work.
Ing Is as original as his work itself. A
student and at the same time a man of
the world, he resolutely abandcns pleas
urc at certain scissors and devotes him
self wholly to literary work. That moth
ing may distrub him, he goes to the coun-
try house of his friend, Michetti, the
painter, and there, in large room, he
labors strenuously over his romances. No
staircase leads to this room, neither has it
any door. In the morning a ladder is
placed against the window, and Dan
nunzlo climbs up and thus reaches his
desk. Ihereupon the ladder is removed
by Mlchetti, and the novelist works at
ms ease until noon, when his friend
Climbs up to him with light luncheon
1he entire afternoon is also devoted to
work, and not until evening does Dan
nunzio descend the ladder. He then
JOINS Michetti in short walk, after
Which the two friends chat together un-
I'll late in the night. In this way Dan
nunzlo forces himself to work steadily,
Ior no matter how much he may be
tempted to. wander away and enjoy him
ser IN society, the absence of stairs and
renders 1t impossible for him to escape
HIS romances have been written under
such conditions, and their success has
been so great that the author is becom-
Ing yearly more attached to the large and
clolstral room in his friends country
house.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-06-01
In Defense Of Light Novels.

The 'wishy -washy novel fills certain
emptiness. The good public is a great
baby and must be fed OH spoon victuals
at first. This is why Mary j. Holmes or
Amanda Douglas or '',rhe Duchess is
more popular than George Eliot. George
Eliot demands some thinking, and the
deyotee of fiction does not want to think:
Thinking is mental anguish. She just
wants to glow. The weak stomachs of
the average public will not bear the con-
centrated extracts served by Walter
Later or George Mer ed or Macaulay
rich for some readers. Their provender
must be thin, with plenty of cheap filling
and sweetening in the way of sentiment
and moonlight and hairbreadth escapes
and impossible heroes and impossible VII
lains and especially impossible young la
dies. For this large but delicate class of
readers we have the multitudinous novels
that are skinned today and skinned
milk tomorrow.-Librarian e. S. Wilcox
of Peoria.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-06-01
The Scythe in the Tree.

=, "Ihirty-eigh years ago." says the
Springfield Republican, young Angus
tus Bliss of Warwick quit cutting brush
on his fathers farm, hung his scythe on
a pine tree and went off to the war The
soldier boy never came back, and the
scythe has never been taken down from
the tree where he hung it, but has be-
come imbedded in the growing pine until
it is a fixture. This pathetic reminder
of the great civil struggle is a familiar
sight to members of the Sheomet club
of this city, as the tree stands near the
clubs comfortable quarters in Blissyille,
a hamlet Just across the North Orange
line into Warwick. Blissville was a
busy center Of small industries, traces of
which remain to tell the story Of the
shifting of the scene of manufacturing
from the small country hamlet to large
centers: The tree has witnessed ali
these changes, has seen the mill standing
near slowly falling into decay, the popu-
iation changing, but still the scythe
hangs there, summer and winter, a mute
testimonial to the devotion to duty that
animated young Bliss"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-06-01
Want to Exclude JAMS,

The movement to exclude Japanese
coolies from California is increasing in
strength. This week large mass meet
ing was held under tho auspices of the
labor unions, and among the speakers
was Mayor Phelan, who clearly pointed
horde of labor. The Japanese do not
form as good body of laborers as the
Chinese, as they are physically inferior
to them, and they are given to frequent
strikes ever trifling OF imaginary griev-
ances. The experience of the Hawaiian
sugar planters is that the japanese are
borers they are the poorest material ever
imported into the islands. Another
source of trouble is their demand for DO
litical rights as soon as any large num-
Der are settled in any district.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-06-01

8. The prosperity of a colony depends
upon the fertility of the queen. If weak
colonies have not become populous in
one season, kill the queen and give them
another.
4. Toads, skunks and mice are great
enemies to bees see that they do not
have access to the apiary.
.. Increasing or dividing should be
done as early as possible, but not I'M
III stores are coming in abundantly.
g. Dromes are just as essential as any
other bee, but too many are a nuisance.
This may be controlled by cutting out
drone comb and substituting worker
comb or foundation.
=. Drones may be prohibited in obicc
spring. '' INC
.. Keep all colonies strong.''-Rob-
ert Davis in Farmers Advocate
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-06-01
American Celebrity.

NJ. Raffaelli, the famous French artist,
has come back from America, where he
first went to act as an adjudicator at the
Pittsburg exhibition. He has been con
siderably astonished at the rapidity with
which Americans translate thought into
action and the regard they show to for
eigner's advice. One day he was walk
ing in Chicago with the mayor and a
leading architect of the city. Opposite
the fine art institute near Lake Michigan
NJ. Raffaelli lamented to his companions
that it should stand in huge, ugly, open
space with no view but that of far-off
railway. "A pity he said. you haven't
turned this into park" Three months
afterward, as the artist was going on
board his steamer to return, telegram
was handed to him from the mayor of
Chicago:. '.rhe Art Institute park is
finished Which has impressed Nj.
Raffaelli deeply with the belief that
Americans do sometimes allow the grass
to grow under their feet.-London Lead
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-06-01
SMALLEST SHEEP IN WORLD,
1t Lives in Brittany and is No Bigger
than Ian Dog.


The very smallest of all thu kinds of
sheep is the tiny Breton si>1ep. 1t is too
small to be very profitable to raise for, of
course, it cannot have much wool, and,
as for eating, Why hungry man could
eat almost a whole one at a meal. 1t is
so small when full grown that it can hide
behind gOod-siZed bucket.
1t takes it's name from the part of
France where. it is most raised. But. if
not profitable sheep it is Il dear little
creature for pet, for it is very gentle,
and, because it is so small, it is not sucl,
nuisance about the house as was thu.
celebrated lamb which belonged to a lit
tie girl named Mary.
Any little girl could find room in her
lap for ii Breton sheep.
One of this little creatures peculari-
ties is it's extreme sympathy with the
feelings of its human friends, when it
has been brought up a pet in the house,
and has learned to distinguish between
happiness and unhappiness
If any person whom it likes is very
much pleased about anything, and shows
il, by laughing, the little sheep will frisk
about with every sign of joy; but if, on
the contrary, the person shed tears, tbs
sympathetic friend will evince it's sorrow
il an equally unmistakable way.-Stray
Storips
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-06-01
How Armies March,

Some curious statistics have recently
been collected, showing the speed at
which the soldiers of the various Euro
pean armies march. The normal length
Of mans step is BIZ inches. and about
125 steps are made in a minute. In the
German army the step is reckoned at
a minute at 112, in the Austrian at 29X
inches and the number at 115 to 40, in
the Italian at 29H inches and the num-
Der at 100, in the French at 29h inches
and the number at 115, and in the Eng
lish ut 30 inches and the number at 1i6
steps minute.-New York Herald.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-06-01
kipling's Tribute to Joubert.

Rudyard Kipling, whose South African
cable in a recent number of Harpers
Weekly has aroused such general COM
ment, contributes a poem on Gen. Jou-
bert to the current number of that pa
per.
Mr.. Kipling's verse has much of the
swing and vigor that marks his work in
'The Seven Seas" and his tribute to the
dead soldier is in every way worthy
one and untouched by national prejudice
The final stanza is as follows:
He shall not meet the onsweep Of our yan
In the doomed city when we close the
score;
Yet DER his grave that holds a man
Our deep-tongued guns shall answer his
once more.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-06-01
ATHLETIC SPORTS.
Nationally Pursued They Promote the
Manliness of Our Youth,

Nationally Pursued They Promote the
Manliness of Our Youth.
The great growth in the love of ath-
letic sports. for instance. while fraught
with danger if it becomes one-sided and
unhealthy, has beyond all question had
an excellent effect in inreared manlness.
Forty or fifty years ago the writer on
American morals was sure to deplore the
effeminacy and luxury of young Ameri-
cans who were born of rich parents The
boy who was we'll off then, especially in
the big Eastern cities, lived too luxu-
riously, took to billiards as his chief in
nocent recreation and felt small shame
in his ability to take part in rough pas
times and field sports.
Nowadays, whatever other faults the
son of rich parents may tend to develop
he is at least forced by the opinion of all
his associates of his own age to bear him.
self we'll in manly exercise and to develop
his body-and therefore, to a certain ex-
tent. his chara cter-in the rough sports
which call for pluck, endurance and ply
sical address.-Theodore Roosevelt in St.
\ichOlaS