davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
, 1905-12-29
GETS USED
TO A CITY
LARAMlEiTE'S BROTHER VISITS
OMAHA AND BECOMES FAMiL-
lar WITH THE BUILDINGS.
Warden of Finest Penal Institution in
United States Preparing for Visit
to His Old Home In Keystone and
Old Dominion StatesiHad Fine
Christmas Dinner.

The Omaha Bee of yesterday thus
refers t o the brother of Hon. Horace d.
.Beemer of this city:
Warden Beemer of Lincoln, n of
the biggest man physically and mental
|ly, at the head of a penal institution
anywhere, and whose pe%nitentiary was
said to be the best kept in the United
States by delegates attending the ma
tional prison congress at Lincoln re-
Gently, is in Omaha getting used to the
tall buildings and street car prepara-
tory to visiting old friends and rela-
ltives back in Pennsylvania and Virgin.
ia, for which places he soon will leave.
Everything is quiet at the institu-
tion," said the wardeny "and we are
congratulating ourselves that VIC are
to handle United States prisoners in
the future. A big Christmas dinner
was served to the prisoners Christmas
day and Governor Mickey called upon
each of the inmates and talked to him
1t was a big day for us"
, 1905-12-29

1t is strange how ~well-meaning fools
throughout the country persist in an
moving President Roosevelt by but
ting" into his family affairs. The lat
est idiot to distinguish himself is an
imbecile haillng from Baker City, Ore
gon, n claiming to be a mining man.
This genius las conceived the brilliant
idea of raising 100000 in ten cent sub
.scriptions and presenting the same as
a dowry from the American people to
Miss Alice Roosevelt on her wedding
day. President Roosevelt, while not a
rich man, is certainly a proud one, and
he will be excused IL he forgets his
exalted office and roundly cusses the
Baker City man when he hears of the
latter's proposition. Mr.. Nicholas Long
worth, whose fortune amounts to three
or four million dollars, doubtless will
indulge in a few turquoise remarks
when they break the news of the Ore
gon FOOLS scheme to him.
The cause of the whole move is per-
haps, lack of tact and good taste, or
else an owe powering desire to secure
a little cheap n%otoriety. The president
is amply able to provide a trousseau
for Miss Alice and there is no doubt
as to Mr.. Longworth's ability TO support
his fair bride. Why, then, annoy the
great president of this nation by such
a questionable project which,
If successful and if the gift was &C
cepted, would make Miss Roosevelt the
recipient of what would practically be
charity and would only expose her, her
father and her husband to be, to ridi,
oule and humiliation? Somebody
should take the proposer of the scheme
out into some quiet, secluded, moon.
lit alley, there reason with him, and il
he failed to allow common sense to in
fluence him, he should be beaten into
a state of insensibility and not be per
mitted to until after the wed.
ding.-Leader.
, 1905-12-29
WHISKY NOT MADE TO DRINK.
Sea Captain Asserts Its Proper Use Is
Externally.

Sea Captain Asserts Its Proper Use Is
Externally.
The man who puts alcoholic beyer-
ages into his stomach with the idea
that it is the proper receptacle for in
vigorating beverages has been much
mistaken. Whisky is not made to
drink. The proper way to use it is to
let it soak into the system. The de-
rivation Of the word soak" meaning
a topper, is t~raceable, perhaps, to the
external method of Indulgence.
There is an old salt in the port here
who soaks up the liquor. He is Capt.
Swami of the British steamer Anglo
Chilean.
I'm my early days I was a sprinter,"
says Captain Swami, land l kept it up
long after l went to sea whenever
there was an occasion to try out the
stiffness of my joints ashore. | am
a good walker, because of having al
ways used whisky in my bouts when
ever l felt uneasy about my feet. 1t
Is not a new idea, but one | learned
when a young man.
Il remember when l vas spending
a time ashore in Scotland | went on a
walking trip and stopped at a pub
in the Highlands and asked for the
usual ration of the best In Scot
land the portion is not mean. l took
off my shoes and poured one-half Of
the measure into one shoe and the
remainder into the other. The pub
lican expressed his horror at the vast.
ing of such valuable liquor on a mans
feet, but as l had paid his price it vas
none OF his business about the desc
Grafton of the liquor.
II can say to any man who swalks
much that ii he uses whisky on his
feet, as | have explained, and not in
his stomach, he will find refreshment
which will increase his ambition and
enable him to walk with a freshness
which was unknown before the appli-
CT" ION. baltimore American.
, 1905-12-29
TURN A NEW LEAF.

Few if any Republican readers are
~unacquainted with the writings of Will
liam Allen White of the Emporia Ga
zette. il few years ago he jumped into
national prominence by writing that
famous editorial, What is the matter
with Kansas" and since that time he
has been in great demand as a maya
zine writer. Incidentally he knows
how 70 make a community prosperous.
He knows that one half of the com
munity cannot ignore the other half
and succeed We must all stand to-
gether. In discussing the patronage
of mail order houses, Mr.. White says:
The man who buys his goods of a
mail order house and expects his
~neighbors in Emporia to buy goods Of
him, or buy labor of him, or to buy
professional services of him, is eco
nomically a leech. He is sucking in
dustrial blood out of the town and
gives zone back. He sends his profits
out of town like a Chinaman. He has
no more right to a standing in the CON-
munity than a foreigner. We are all
neighbors industrially in this town,
and the man who sends away for his
goods is not one of us. He is of an
other industrial system, and deserves
no mans support in Emporia.
The fact that this is economically
wrong is recognized by all mail order
houses themselves. They protect their
customers by Offering to keep people
from knowing where the goods come
from, as the mail order houses have
no tags on their goods. They say in
their catalogues that no one knows
where they are bought. If is is proper
to hide the place of purchase of an
article. it is wrong to buy the article
at that place. Only a man who steals
is a man who is ashamed to say where
he got anything he has. There is such
a thing as tainted dry goods. tainted
groceries and tainted furniture. All
of such articles as are not bought at
home, of men who befriended you of
AlCA W MAOih sOu " SOul iAfAh1, oS
tainted because they come unfairly.
THE trouble in Emporia is this. So
many merchants buy their goods away
from home that a systematic jealousy
has sprung up. The furniture dealers
don't feel that they have to buy their
dry goods at home because the dry
goods mems wives buy their goods
away from home. The same quarrel
exists in every line of trade. 1t is dis
~heartening n distressing Inc para
lying to the business interests of the
town.
ut is time to change and get togeth-
err 1t is time to begin to reform our
selves and not our neighbors by buying
everything at home, whether tie neigh
bors do or not. And now is the time
to begin.
''rhe thing to do is for all of US to
turn over a new leaf"
, 1905-12-29
Has Heart at Each Side.

A man with two hearts-one at each
side-has just been married in Rome.
Notwithstanding this strange freak of
nature, the man enjoys vigorous
health, and the physical system is
working e~xceiieutly. His peculiarly
has made his fortuna, for he has been
much exhibited on the Continent, and
has settled in Italy owing to having
fallen in love with a young woman of
the district where the wedding took
place. In consideration of a sum of
$4,000 the man with two hearts has
sold his body after death to the ana
tomical museum of Madrid.
, 1905-12-29
SUBJECTS OF
ENV|0US TALK
DELEGATION IN CON
GRESS GETTING PLENTY OF
GOOD THINGS THERE.
Each Member is Chairman of Import
ant Committee, and Though State
is Smallest in Population, Nothing
Like it Occurs in Any of the Other
Delegations.

The following from Thursdays ON
aha Bee, in it's department, Bits of
Washington Life,' will tend to set
Bill Reid's teeth on edge again, and
we may expect to hear something more
in his Rawlins Journal about Congress
man Mondell taking a back seat after
the next congressional election"
Members of congress from Wyoming
are becoming the subject of envious
talk in the capital. The state has only
97, 900 population, but its representa-
tives in the national legislature are on
several highly important committees
Senator Clark is chairman of the great
judiciary committee and be is on for
eign affairs, Indian affairs and public
lands. Senator Warren Is chairman of
military affairs and is on a number of
other committees, including a%ppropria-
tons. Mr.. Mondell, the sole represen-
tative, is chairman of irrigation and on
several other important committees.
This small state has the land commits
sioner, the most important bureau
chief in the interior department, except
the commissioner of pensions, and ii
has Judge V~andeventer on the circuit
bench.
, 1905-12-29
ORIGINS of Fashions Whims.

Fashions in dress often have their
origin in the wish to hide disfgure-
ment. The voluminous trunk hose
r by English gallants at the begin
ming of the seventeenth century we're
introduced, says the British Medical
Journal, by James I, as a means Of
~conoealing an unsightly malformation.
Slaves of fashion to whom Nature had
refused an adequate curve of the hip
had to supply the deficiency by art.
Readers will remember the Story told
by Carlyle of the discontinue of the
unlucky courtier who sat down on a
nail, and on rising to receive his mai
esty instantaneously emitted several
Jecks of bran, and stood a pitiable
figure with his hreeches hanging in
folds about his shrunken person.
, 1905-12-29
Prosperous Meeteetse-

A stranger from a small Nebraska
town looking around Meeteetse streets
on Saturday, proudly boasted of the
fact that in his home municipality
you could see fifty teams tied to the
racks any Saturday" His deduction
was that his home town docs twice
the business of Me%eteetse." Asked as
to the approximate figure on the year
ly sales Of his largest mercantile es-
Enlistment there, the stranger swelled
up in telling that $4,000 would be a
reasonable figure in a good year" He
was allowed to see the totals in the
monthly balance sheet of a local gen
eral store-for nine months these fig
ures footed up over twice forty thou
sand dollars. He changed his mind
Big Horn County News.
, 1905-12-29

over at G%reybull, Big Horn county,
the business mems club is receiving
no end of inquiries from women re
lating to the recent advertisement to
the effect that there were ten men in
Big Horn county to one woman and
that good women were needed. They
are now compelled to file letters and
answer them in turn. although postal
card recognitions are sent out imme,
diately. Another strong evidence that
it pays to advertise.
, 1905-12-29
Proud Of the DELEGATION

Wyoming is as proud of her Wash
ington delegation as any peacock of its
colors and justly SO. Senators Warren
and Clark as chairmen of the military
and judiciary committees, and Con-
gresham Mondell chairman of the
committee handling irrigation matters
with second place on the public lands
committee, are in a position to show
fasteners that We are somebody. The
first two committees are the most cov
eted of any by eastern senators but our
esteemed statesmen are there by eff
ficient and continuous service and will
stay there as long as they are mem
bers of that body, as will also Con-
gresham Mondell in his committee
places. This gives our young state a
wonderful prestige in national affairs
and nothing should be allowed to inter
fere with the good work they are doing.
Republican.
, 1905-12-29
An Arabian Druid in Paris,

Strange mystics are discovered in
Paris every now and again. The lat
est is described as an Arabian Druid
who inhabited the Rue de la Micho-
diere, a street in the center of the
city. His neighhors were startled at
midnight to hear weird and "discordant
sounds issuing from the dwelling of
All Bonem, followed by ritualistic In.
carnations and l%iturglcal chantings, al
Tentatively plaintive and fierce. The
reflection of flames was also observed.
When the door vas burst open by the
police a man of huge stature was seen,
clothed in a long white sheet, his eyes
rolling wildly, and in his hand u
bloods,ained knife. Around him a
number of wax candles shed a mystic
light, and OIL a piano, which had
served as an altar, lay a disembowled
lamb. AS a of precaution Ali
Bonem, the high priest, has been
taken into custody.-London Globe.
, 1905-12-29
WHITE BEAVER STILL

SICK AT OMAHA.
DR. Frank Powell, the cousin of But
ialc Bill" and himself a noted scout
and plainsman, is still at the Mer-
chants hotel, says the Omaha World
Herald. He came here with his wife
from Cody, Wyo, where he had been
i'll with heart trouble, hoping for relief
from the altitude of Cody. But he has
failed to derive much benefit from the
change. He had thought he might pos
sibly go to Chicago, but now intends
going back to Wyoming. His doctor
will not permit friends to talk with
him.
, 1905-12-29

Greeley has voted bonds TO the
amount of s35O,OOO for the purpose OF
extending its water works. There
were only 10 votes against the propo-
sition. A pipe thirty miles long to the
Poudre canon will be laid, The pro
posed system provides for adequate
-sedimentation and filtration basins.
one-sevepth of this sun would put
Laramie in excellent shape,
, 1905-12-29

Congressman Sulzer says that Croe-
sus with his paltry ten millions could
not have sat in a poker game with
John D. Rockefeller. And he is doub-
ly right. John d. was known to
play a game in which the other fellow
had the least show. Croesus might
have sat in the Wall street game for
a few days, however,-Denver Repub-
lioan.
, 1905-12-29
soapsud. KIN currant Worms,

Reuben G. Clark of Berwick, Me.
says that for years he has fought the
tent caterpillar and the currant worm
with a spray Of soapsuds made from
old fashioned soft soap. The remedy
has proved most satisfactory, the in,
sects never moving after the solution
strikes them
, 1905-12-29
STATE PRESS

Husbands Cause Wrinkles
Some one arises to assert that love
is the greatest joy OF earth and that
those without love are the ones that
accumulate wrinkles. Let's see. Love
causes husbands, husbands cause wor-
ry and worry causes wrinkles .-Rock
Springs Miner.
, 1905-12-29

The building association idea is on
the increase in Wyoming. Cody has
an association in process of organiza-
ton and other small towns are consid-
ering the matter. They will find they
have made no mistake.
, 1905-12-29

The newspaper men of Big Horn
county are to have an association OF
their own. There are more newspapers
in that county than in any other coun-
ty of the state, but not a daily as yet
, 1905-12-29
CHEYENNE MERCHANT WILL
MARRY OMAHA GIL

e. 7. BARLEY of Cheyenne, a member
of the hardware firm Of Hopper & Bart
ley, and Miss Eta Whipple of Omaha
will be married in the latter city Feb
ruary 20.
, 1905-12-29
MISS WATSoN's FUNERAL
HELD THIS MORNING.

The funeral of Miss Lizzie Watson,
who died at Cheyenne on Wednesday,
was held in that, city this morning from
st. Mary's cathedral. Mr.. and Mrs.
Logan of this city were present.
, 1905-12-29

Why not have your magazines and
music bound up? The Republican
bindery will do good work at fair
prices and will call for your books
upon request and return them when
completed.
, 1905-12-29

The ezar writes to his friend, en-
peror william, to the effect that times
are trying. They are likely to get
worse, too, before they get better.
, 1905-12-29
STRETCH OF SMOOTH ICE
TWO MILES In LENGTH.

The best skating at Cheyenne is said
to be on the Granite Springs reservoir,
where there is a two-mile stretch of
smooth ice.
, 1905-12-29
NEWSPAPER WILL HAVE
ITS ANNUAL MEETING.

The annual meeting of the stockhold-
ers of the Leader Publishing company
will be held at the company's office in
Cheyenne January 8. There are share
holders in Laramie.
, 1905-12-29
WIFE OF LATE GOVERNOR
VISITING IN CALIFORNIA,

Mrs. DeForest Richards, wife of the
late governor of Wyoming, is visiting
with her daughter at Coronado Beach,
Cal.
, 1905-12-29

AT any rate Tom lawson will have
an opportunity of soaring them up to a
considerable extent.
, 1905-12-29

Laramie has had a merry holiday
time thus far and promises to wind up
with a glad New Year.
, 1905-12-29
He's a slayer, All Riaht-

IL JfuJCTI MT NTyTV-
The Monitor today starts out on its
eleventh year, having all this time been
under the ownership n personal con-
troll of the present publisher.-Sun-
dance Monitor.
, 1905-12-29

The Same to YOU
Compliments of the season to the
newspaper bunch of Wyoming.-Sun-
dance Monitor.
, 1905-12-29
BOUGHT SOLDIERS GUN

AND is ARRESTED.
A Greek merchant at Cheyenne
bought a pistol from a soldier in that
city and has been placed under arrest
by United States officers.
, 1905-12-29
UNION PACIFIC TIME TABLE.
West Bound.

In effect at the Laramie station at
the present time:
The Virginia enterprise., 1905-07-14

fallen down, killing more than 10000
Romans, and the animals cages are
busted and the animals are loose. look
ing for freea meat, and we better get
right back to Rome, too quick, or we will
be eaten alive. Come on if you are with
me! Do you hear the lions after us?"
said he, as the hired villains roared.
Well, you'd a, died to see dad get up
out OF that prickly cactus, and take the
lead for good old Rome. didn't know
he was such sprinter, but we trailed
along behind, roaring like lions, and
snarling like tigers and yip-yapping like
hyenas and barking like timber wolves,
and We couldn't see dad for the dust, on
that moonlight night.
We slowed up and let dad run ahead.
and he got to the hotel first, and we paid
off the villains, and finally we went in
the hotel and found dad in the bar
room putting and drinking a high-ball.
Pretty near hell, wasn't it," said dad,
to the soap man. did the lions catch
anybody?" 20 a few of the lower
classes" said the soap man, "but none of
the nobility. The nobility were in the
boxes, and that part of the Coliseum
never falls during an earthquake" and
the soap man joined dad in high ball.
After dad got through putting and had
wiped about two quarts of perspiration
off his head and neck. and the soap man
had told him what great thing it was
to perspire in Rome, on account of the
Roman fever, that catches man at
night and kills him before morning, dad
turned to me and said: "Hennery, you
go pack up and we get out of this in the
morning, for I feel as though I had
been chewed by one of those hyenas.
Not any more Rome for papa," and the
high-ball party broke up, and we went
to bed to get sleep enough to leave town.
Do you know, the next morning those
hired villains made the soap man and I
pay ten dollars extra on account OF
straining their lungs, roaring like
lions? But We paid for their lungs all
right. rather than have them present a
bill to dad
Well. good-by, old man. We are get
ting all the fun there is going. Your
only, HENNERY.
The Virginia enterprise., 1905-07-14

AND 1T BROUGHT ON A REVOLUTION
tused of crime in the states. | thought
they would burn me at the stake, but
dad came out OF the hotel and threw a
handful ot small change into the crowd,
and it was all Off,
After they picked up the coin they
beckoned me to come out and play some
more, but not any more for little Hen
merry. l have been in love in all coun-
tries where We have travelled. and in all
languages, but this Italian love takes
the whole bakery, ana do not go around
any more without. a chaperone. The
girls are ragged. and wear shawls over
their heads. and there are holes in their
dresses and their skin isn't white, like
American girls, but is what they call
olive complexion. like stuffed olives you
buy in bottles. stuffed with cayenne pep
per, but the girls are just like the
cayenne pepper. SO warm that you want
to throw water on yourself after they
have touched You. Gee, but I wouldn't
want to live in a climate, where girls
were torrid zone. cause should melt,
like an icicle that drops in a stove, and
makes steam, and blows up the whole
house.
Well, old man. YOU talk about
churches, but you don't know anything
about it. Dad and | went to St. Peters
in Rome, and it is the grandest thing in
the world. Say. the Congregational
church at home, which We thought SC
grand, could be put in one little corner
of St. Peters, and would look like so
cents. St. Peters covers ground abou,
half mile square. and when you go in
side and look at grown people on the
other side of it, they look like flies, ant
the organ is as big as a block of build
ings in Chicago, and when they blow it.
you think the last day has come. and
yet the music is as sweet as melodeon,
and makes you want to get down On
your knees with all the thousands of
good Christians of Italy, and confess
that you are fraud, that ought to be
arrested.
Dad and l have been to all kinds of
churches, everywhere, and never turned
a hair, but since We got to this town, and
got some of the prevailing religion into
our systems, we feel guilty, and it seems
as though everybody could see right into
us, and that they knew We were heath
en-, that never knew there was a God.
Sure thing, never supposed there were
go many people in the world that wor-
SHIPPED their Maker. as there are here,
and don't wonder that all over the
world good people look to Rome for the
We get home we will set an example that
The Virginia enterprise., 1905-07-14

off the boards for over 1000 years,
that the eating OF human prisoners by
wild beasts in the presence of the
Roman populace was played out, and
that the Coliseum was a ruin and did not
exist as place Of amusement. He
thought everything that he had read
about the horrors of Roman holiday
was running to-day, as side show, and
he wanted to see it, and had encouraged
him in his ideas, because he was nervous,
and | didn't want to undeceive him.
He had come to Rome to see things he
couldn't find at home, and it was up to
me to deliver the goods.
Gee, but it made me sweat, cause l
knew if dad did not get a show for his
money, he would lay it up against me,
SO l told him we would go to the
Coliseum that night and see The hungry
lions and tigers eat some Of the leading
citizens, just as they did when Caesar
run the show. Then found an Ameri-
can from Chicago at the hotel *El
sells soap in Rome, and told him W i1ae
dad expected of me in the way of amuse-
ment,, and he said the only way was to
take dad out to the Coliseum, and in
the dark roll barrel of broken glass
down the tiers of seats and make him
believe there was an earthquake that
had destroyed the Coliseum, and that the
lions and tigers were all loose. looking
for people to eat, and scare dad and
make a run back to town.
didn't want to play such scandalous
trick on dad, but tie Chicago man said
that was the only way out of it, and he
could get barrel of broken glass for a
dollar. and hire four ruffians that could
roar like lions for few dollars, and it
would give dad good exercise and may
be save him from run of Roman fever,
cause there was nothing like a good
sweat to knock the fever out of fel-
lows system. The thing struck me as
not only good experience for dad, but
life saver so whacked up the money,
and the Chicago soap man did the rest.
After dark We went out to the ruin of
the Coliseum, where a great many tour
lists go to look at the ruins by moon
light, and dad was as anxious and blood
thirsty as young surgeon cutting up his
first stiff" When we got to the right
place, and I told dad we were little
early. because the nobility were not in
their seats. the villains began to roar
three dollars worth, like hungry lions,
and dad turned little pale. and said
that sounded like the real thing.
I told him we better not get too near.
because we were not accustomed to see