davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-10-11
SHIRTWAIST HURT CREDIT.
Drummer Open to Suspicion of Usina
Wife's Apparel.

Drummer Open to Suspicion of Using
Wife's Apparel.
1T was exciting while it lasted" sail
the commercial traveller who is home for
few days. "Now, what people may say
never causes me any uneasiness; so
when l saw 4 good thing in the new
ately fitted myself out with a yellow af-
1alr that rlvaled the famous sunsets that
we mad number Of years ago. As l
look back at it now l am satisfied that
must have left yellow streak through
an the towns that l visited, and l doubt
II the excitement created has subsidized
yet. The candid and open comments |
nearo would nave caused man with less
nerve than have to blush and give way
to public opinion. But 1 am made Of
sterner stuff, and the frank comments
that l heard only made me the more de-
termined to see the thing out.
j., 1T remained for hotelkeeper in lit
tie town that | visited to take fall out
OF me. sailed up to the desk in al:
the glory Of my. shirtwaist. seized the
register, dashed down my name and de-.
manded the best room in the house.
Two dollars down. said the old man
calmly, looking at me without a culver
Of his eye.
whats that?' 1 shouted.
Two dollars down., he answered, as
he rescued fly out of the ink.
See here stormed, what do you
mean by demanding money in advance
Of a man who has two trunks and a
grip? Haven't been here a dozen times
and always paid my bills?'
80 80" Cant help that he answered. IT'S
81 down or git
He runs the only hotel that the town
affords, or I wouldn't have argued with
him as long as I did. There was no
train out that night, and had to stay
where was, so returned to the attack
once more.
"'Perhaps you think I am a dead
beat? said I, mad as wet hen.
"'Perhaps ye are, an perhaps ye
amt he answered with exasperating
sfowness. But if man is so, alfred
hard up that he has to wear his wife's
shirtwaist it is jes' ez we'll not to take
any chances. Two dollars down. please
Lea came do Own; SO did the shir :;
troit Free Press.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-10-11
Quarts the Rule There.

A conjurer was performing before n
rough-and-ready audience in one Of the
prohibition states Of America according
to an English paper). II am now about
to undertake a feat" said he, ''in which
shall need the use of a pint flask Of
whisky" There was dead silence.
Twill some gentleman in the audience
favor me with a pint of whisky?" There
was no response, and the conjurer bega a
to look blank. "Surely," he continued,
lin southeastern prohibition town I
ought not to have to ask a second time
for such thing. l give my word I viii
return it intact. Is there no
stranger" said a tall, gaunt man, as he
rose slowly from a front seat. ''wouldn't
a quart flask do as well?" "Why, Ger
tainly! 1 merely" But before he could
finish, the generous, open-handed audi
ence had risen like one man, and were
on their way to the platform in a body.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-10-11
BASEBALL REPORTING.
Reporter: Grows. I'm thusjSstic ill., De-
scribinx National Game.

Reporter: Grows. I'm thusisstic ill., De-
scribinx National Game.
A heater article Of the National
had never been put up on the
home grounds, and when the visitors
picked up the stick in the final with the
tally standing %, everybody, from the
oldest fan to the youngest paper-seller,
was standing on his seat and yelling to
the local slab artist to serve up his
choicest assortment Of roundhouse bend
ers, and keep whatever guy was hand
ling the ash pivoting at decisions. The
twirler was up to the business. and laid
'em over SO fast that the receiving end Of
the battery, who wears the bird-cage and
liver-pad, looked as if he were Smelling
peas. The first two victims only tore
rents in the atmosphere, but the third
guy connected, and laid off flaming
grasser which would have made a pro-
jectile from a 13-inch gun look like a
bean-bag tossed from one baby to anoth-
er. The man on the difficult corner was
right there, though, and tagged the
horse-hide pill with his sinister talon, as
sisting it over to the initial hassock in
such short order that some one yelled de-
risively: That fellow runs like an
aggregation came to the bat. Everyone
was confident that they were going to
pound the sphere around the lot, but the
opposing team ran in a new guy with q
slow south wing, and before they were
onto the fact that they were not putting
the willow onto the yarn as they had ex-
pected there were two men down and two
strikes on the next guy. But, oh,
Phoebe! on the next delivery he became
the father of a bouncing swat which
landed in the last row of potatoes in the
outer garden and enabled him To nress
down three buttons and scratch the rub
Der. did the crowd go wild? Say, did
you ever see game of ball:''-Yaie- Rec
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-10-11

Paris is to celebrate the hundredth an
niversary Of Victor Hugos birth on Feb
ruary 2G, 1902, and one Of the incidents
Of the celebration will be the opening
of Musee Victor Hugo. This is the
house on the Place des Vosges occupied
by Hugo from 1880 to 1851, in which
year he went into exile The museum is
to contain among other things all the
drawings and pen-and-ink sketches of the
poet, and all the most striking paintings
and Illustrations of various sorts sug-
gested by his works. Tho building is a
gift to Paris by Hugo's heirs.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-10-11

That peculiar structure, the sod house.
attracts much attention at the EXPOSE
ton. A Western paper states that sod
houses. or, as they are locally termed,
"soddies.' are now being built in largo
numbers in eastern Colorado. They arc
made OF oblong pieces of sod cut from
the prairie, about eighteen inches in
length, seven inches broad, and from
three to four inches thick. No founda-
ton is required, the sods being simply
laid on the prairie, and up goes the
structure. "Soddies'' are cool in sum-
mer and warm in winter, and when the
uow-laden wind is whistling without, a
coy sod house, in which there is a good
corncob fire, is not to be despised.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-10-11

From plains that reel to the southwark
The road runs BY me white and bare; I
Up the steep hill It seems to swim * s9%#N
Beyond, ard melt into the glare, ~
Upward. half way, or 1t may be -:sssS3tg
Nearer the summit, slowly steals r H3E!
A. hay cart. moving fdustilyl\ -. 80 "a
With idly clacking wheels. E5$4
By his carts side the wagner #.>#.s..5
Is slouching slowly at his ease, =1z
Half hidden In the MINDLESS blur -
OF white dust putting to his knees, ri :.
This wagon on the hight above, ia
From sky to sky on either hand, (, r..
Is the sole thing that seems to move
In all the heat-held land.
Beyond me in the fields the sun III
SOaEs IN the grass and hath his will;
1 count the marguerites one by one; Il
Even the buttercups are still. :; !:
On the brook yonder not breath
Disturbs the spider or the nudge. 7
The water bugs draw close beneath "a
The cool gloom Of the bridge.
Where the far elm tree shadows food
Dark patches In the burning grass, =;
The cows, each with her peaceful cud,
Lie waiting for the heat to pass.
From somewhere on the slope near by
the pale fn aeph x Ct the es%ra,x
His thin revolving tune.
In interval Of dreams hear
The cricket from the droughty ground;
The grasshoppers spin into mine ear
A small innumerable sound,
I life mine eyes sometimes to gaze;
The Burning sky line blinds my sight;
The woods far of are blue with haze;
The hills are drenched in light.
And yet to me not this or that
Is always sharp or always sweet;
In the 'sloped shadow Of my hat
lean at rest. and drain the heat;
Nay more, think some blessed power
Hath brought me wandering idly here;
In the full furnace Of this hour
Ny thoughts grow keen and clear. =
Archibald Lampman
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-10-11
Better Keep His Prerogative.

when my son went to college," said
the father, Il told him that 1 would not
permit him to join the gymnasium and
waste his time with athletics when + had
sent him there to study
Did he obey your inquired the
friend.
Il told him that if he didn't would
simply exercise my prerOgative of q
father over his child and thrash him."
Did it answer?'
Not after the first year. BY jove,
when he came back after his freshman
course he had some way got breadth of
shoulder and a development of biceps
that convinced me that my paternal pre-
rogative would be safer if I didn't try to
exercise it."-Detroit Free Press.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-10-11

while I spoke he said not word,
but his eyes wandered from the fappinc
sails to the sea at the leeward, and then
to the faces of his men,
"'Gentlemen, ne said. turning to the
officers, you know that in such case as
CHS IL Is customary to consult together
before pronouncing the fate of man.
by hazarding the loss of the shin? Sneak
and in Gods name be quick"
light, immovable: the crew towering near
awaited the final decision. And assure
you that had it been midday one would
have seen those old sailors, those old dogs
Of the, sea. as pale as Frenchmen crossing
the channel. A midshipman made a
movement as if about to speak. We sur
v,eyed at glance the vessel, the horizon,
the waves, and. the black wall of the
shore at a few cable lengths starboard !:
We were rapidly bearing down upon the
ROCKS, and no one spoke word.
choked voice. addressed the crew: on
humanity and our conscience, we declare
that we can do nothing for this man.
May God have. mercy on him! He
turned to the helmsman, and cried in
forced, broken words. 'hard-a-port,'
The great ship righted, swung round,
and delivered her sails to the wind, that
received them with bowls of joy. She
swept over and through the pillows, part
ing them like an arrow.
II ran aft and unlocked a signal Ian
tern throwing the rays out on the water.
At FIVE or six fathoms leeward the top
of waves that every instant threw him
upright:
"As he rose on a crest he perceived
me- and attempted ito: bring his. hand ITO
salute. l saw him raise himself on the
piece Of wreck, fix on me his great star
ing eyes and move his lips as if to speak.
hand to my ear. 1 wanted to hear his
last words-a message to that dear one at
home: Then came to me clear and dis
tinct. as though he had spoken at my
side, Cap'n, -capn, the maintop lift broke
on me-
IAN enormous wave passed, leveling
but blackness and the frigate's white
wake as it lay rolling like a huge ribbon
in cloudy masses far astern.'
The captain sat for a moment in 81
lenee, his coarse, gray eyebrows twitch-
ing, and the wrinkles of his forehead
moon in the ofing had left the sea and
its bright light illumined the water and
shore.
It was the woman who spoke. "What
was the name Of this martyr to duty 2"
The captain apparently did not hear,
for he arose and said: ''Come, let's 20
in. I think a little game would be in Or
der this evening"
But his name"' two or three of US
asked in the same breath.
"What" he exclaimed, as he turned
his great eyes upon us, as though to dis
cover our motive; then he said lightly,
"Oh. his name! In fact l don't remem-
Der it."-W. l.. in New York Times.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-10-11
HumOr in Arithmetic.

A lesson in arithmetic is no joke-a
painful reality, rather-yet a Boston
schoolboy is alleged to have been in
spired to humor by the very worst of
the problems in long division. After he
had failed on the sums the teacher set,
he asked permission to give one of his
OWL: The privilege was granted.
my aunt has eight children" he said,
land she doesn't like to favor one above
another. She was at the market the
Other. day, and she bought eight apples
for them, one apiece; but when she got
home she found she'd lost one apple. All
the same, she divided the apples SO as to
give each child the same number. How
did she do it?"
The class hadn't got aloag:to fractions,
and the boy insisted that his aunt knew
nothing about algebra. So the puzzled
teacher finally asked: SWELL, how did
she divide the seven apples so as to give
each Of the eight children an equal num-
ber?'' A.. ~~..
''She made applesauce. Com
auinn
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-10-11

Surveys made in constructing the
Northern railroad of Guatemala have
nnearthed wonderful sculptured stones,
carved in grotesque forms and inscribed
with text which probably tells the story
or purpose of their erection. Most of
them are rectangular, thirty to forty
feet long. The ruins cover a large area,
and it is presumed that they are the re.
mains of an ancient city. As was the
case with the Egyptians, these primitive
people had marvellous ability to handle
great stones and lift them into position.
The same work taxes the engineering re-
sources of the men Of today.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-10-11
Mr.. Gladstone a Victim.

An amusing story is told of Mr.. Glad
stone, " no loved to loiter round the Gee
ond-hand bookshop windows and finger
the volumes which were there displayed.
II he picked up a book that interested
him he frequently became quite oblivious
casions loafer who must have carefully
studied Mr.. Gladstone's habits whispered
quietly, Half a crown. please. SIR
Without raising his eyes from the book
Mr.. Gladstone put his hand in his pocket
and handed over the half crown. A few
minutes later he was going off with his
prize when the bookseller, who knew him
well by sight stopped him with a de-
mand for. one shilling, the price of the
book. But. have. already given You
half a crown said Mr.. Gladstone, and
explanations followed.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-10-11

Prof. Marsh Of Wisconsin, in speaking
recently Of the peculiarities of Lake
Winnebago, said that it is remarkable
for its shallowness. Although it is about
twenty-eight miles in length, and ten or
twelve miles in width, it has depth of
only twenty-five feet. This is due to the
fact that the lakes outlet is constantly
deepening and that its inlet is gradually
filing its bottom with sandy or earth
deposit. But Winnebago's shallowness
makes it remarkably rich in fish; indeed.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-10-11
A Courage Producer.

Il remember one particularly interest
ing moonshiner who was present at the
last term Of court. He came to town
from Eastern Kentucky loaded down
with mountain dew. 1 think he had a
fellow, too. He wanted everybody to
take a drink. One. day he said to me.
'Pard, have nip Certainly, I said.
but. of course was joking. However
he took me at my word and pulled out ar
bottle about a foot long. It was full Of
the real white corn. .Pard, he said.
go up and spit in dogs face."-Louis-
vile Courier Journal. ~ -. s.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-10-11

The Beers have taught us many ingeni-
paper. Inspectors Of Notifications would
not have dared to suggest before the war
that barbed wire would play so promi-
nent a part in our defenses as it has.
They would not have dared, for their
;reputation's sake, to advise, that we
should make good the ground as fast as
houses from one end Of the country to
the other. Inspectors Of cavalry would
have hesitated before proposing the re-
forms that the light-riding Boer rendered
cOmpulsOrY - ~ : - - -
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-10-11

The new German steamer Kronprinz
didn't break a record on her maiden trip,
but she met wave that damaged her
superstructure and showed the captain
that it isn't safe to negotiate the waves
on the diving bell principle.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-10-11

According to report from Clinton.
Indiana, concerning a disappearance act
by the bottom Of the Wabash, it is safer
to sing ION the banks" etc, than to
wade into the water.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-10-11
TO Keep His Color On. +.

While q certain infantry regiment was
stationed at Aldershot It had among the
recruits country yokel who was such =
great duner that the drill sergeant could
One day,while the recruits were being
inspected BY the officers, the country
man seemed more awkward than ever.
Al last the angry drill sergeant shouted
Man, what IS your head On fo 81 z, z.
orr vas the ready retort-Londo11
Spare Moments. 1880
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-10-11
British Great Tea Drinkers.

The British people consume nearly six
pounds Of tea per head OF the population
or an increase Of one pound per capita
in sixteen years. There is no other
this, Holland is the only country in
Europe where the consumptipn OF tea
exceeds one pound per head. In Russia
and in the United States also, which
are the other two large tea consumers,
the consumption amounts to under one
pound per head. s. SO
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-10-11

The marriage in Rome of an American
woman whose maiden name was Mary
Reid to Prince Don Giuseppe Rospigliosi
is another case Of the joining of opposites,
when viewed only from the standpoint of
the student Of nomenclature. But, what 8
in a name?
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-10-11

Physicians generally will be deeply in
terested in the report from New York
Of the cure of a case Of lockjaw by the
injection of serum into the brain. The
success which has attended the use Of
antitoxin for the cure Of diphtheria has
made therapeutics in this line very at
tractive to the medical profession.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-10-11

The Menomonie man who killed HIM
self after reading patent medicine Git
erature," may have yielded his life be-
cause Of fear that it would be neces-
sary to invest a fortune to cure all his
imaginary ills. Had he been a more
careful reader he might have discovered
that cures for almost every ailment that
flesh is heir to are sometimes offered in
ono hnttlo
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-10-11

Pa" Zimmerman's persistent demand
for security for money that he proposed
to advance to satisfy Manchester's cred
itors finally forced the guardians of the
ducal monetary sock to fetch the knitted
treasury forth and thus keep the debts
more closely in the family.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-10-11

The decision of the Minnesota court in
the case of the estate Of q man who
thought when he came to die that he
had money to burn, will warn other &C.
centric characters from trying to send
their money to the crematory. The
world is too practical to take such Or
ders as evidence of the possession Of a
sound mind.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-10-11

A Methodist minister and his wife were
pelted with eggs and driven out of Wicl-
ita, Kansas. by parishioners who were
worried by church troubles. What would
have occurred if the church people had
permitted themselves to become angry ::
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-10-11

When navigation closes on the Great
Lakes, the Chicago Drainage Trustee;
will, if granted permission, increase the
flow of sewage down the Illinois and
Mississippi from 100000 to 100000 cubic
feet minute, but they do not expect
to SO thicken the water of the Mississippi:
that navigation will be closed there also.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-10-11

1t transpires that the British royal
yacht, which nearly capsized when she
was launched, and upon which 100000
in all has been spent to make her sea-
worthy, has again been condemned.
King Edward will now probably so to
the designers Of yachts for his next royal
craft, and permit the admiralty to de-
vote its entire attention to the construc-
ton of WarshiDs
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-10-11
TENNIS CHANGES.
Substitution of Darker Colored Net
Considered en- Improvement.

Considered an Improvement.
Tennis experts and players generally
are interested in the proposed changes
suggested for another season. The new
style net will be made of fine light
brown Irvine, with top band of white
canvas. When the English players were
here last year they pointed out that the
white nets under the dazzling sunlight
made it difficult to see the ball as it
bounded in the opposite court, trouble
that is obviated with the new nets. The
ball next year will be harder, but the
variation in weight and size so slight
that it will not affect the play in the
slightest
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-10-11

it is, one OF the most productive known.
Shallow lakes always have more fish
than deep ones, chiefly, perhaps, because
there is more vegetation ON the bottom
Of shallow one. Vegetation does not
flourish in deep water, -"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-10-11

The French cientists who are afraid that
Czolgosz may get hurt in the electric
chair are backed by long line Of pre-
cedents in the annals of capital punish
ment in the United States.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-10-11

II beautiful coloeed picture OF Pref.
dent Roosevelt mailed to any address FOR
10 cents. Address The Evening Wiscon-
din Co., Milwaukee. Wis.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-10-11

Rockefeller is loser to the extent Of
100000 by an embezzlement at Kansas
City, but he refuses to be bothered over
the frif1e
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-10-11

The proposed baseball trust may be
said to be ON attempt to corner the dia-
mOnd
Richmond daily palladium., 1901-05-18
new Case.
A Saloon Keeper Sued for
Damages for Selling to an
HabitudI Drunkard.

A case which will excite great in
teres,t is to be brought before Judge
Fox on Tuesday, from the Randolph
county court. 1t is one of the first
of the kind. If not the very first, ever
brought in the state, and certainly
the first ever brought in this section
and on that account will attract
attention among the members
of the bar as well as the citizens. 1t
is the suit of Mrs. Ward vs.. McFar-
land
Mcfarland runs saloon at Ridge
ville- Ward is an habitual drunkard
Mrs. Ward claims that through the
selling of liquor to him by McFar-
land he neglected his wife, his family
and his business to such an extent
that he was ruined. She su. IS McFar-
land for 50, 900 damages The suit is
founded on statute of the state that
Is rather broad; and if she should
win the suit she will establish p-ece
dent which will circumscribe the
business methods of the modern sa
loon very materially. If saloon
keeper is compelled to pay damages
for rniEing man or his business he
will be very careful to limit the
of his sales to the individual
SO as to keep within the pale of the
law. Should Mrs. Ward win her
case she will have done more for tenn
perance reform than Mrs. Nation has
with all her smashing
of joints.