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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-27
MINOR LEAGUE GAMES.
American Association,

At I.ouisville-Louisville, 6; Kansas City. 8.
Second game: Kansas City. 5; Louisville, 3;
Second game St. Paul. s; Indianapolis, 8.
At Toiedo--Minneapois. g.; Toledo, .. Second
game: Toledo. 10: Minneapolis, 2.
At Columbus Ohio-Milwaukee, 10: Columbus,
g. Second game-Columbus. 8; Milwaukee, 3.
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NATIONAL LEAGUE.
ow the Clubs Stand.
Yesterdays Results

Today's Games.
No games scheduled.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-27

Team Batting Average.
B.A. r. 4.
Sent. Sept.
e Ar r BIZ 2S. 10.
Ia All ma 1.O86 223 22J
Note-A loss Of .O02 for the past week
Team Fielding Averages.
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Stolen Bases.

The Nationals have in the $40 games played
during the season pilfered 127 bases and are
credited as follows:
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.<Vte--t gam UI WI past "eeK'
Sacrifice Hits.

The Nationals have made 1856 sacrifice
hits in the games played during the sea-
son, and those who made them are as
follows:
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Eastern League.

At Jersey CIty-Jersey City, g.: Montreal. /.
At Newark-Bufslo, IL; Newark, IL. Second
game-Newark, 2; Buffalo. u innings).
At Providence - Providence Rochester game
postponed; rain.
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Totals Sept. LAC 1921 1894 $50
Totals Sept. 10. 142 3.73o 1874 2sO

Weekly gain. 1S9 80 984 1854
Weekly fielding percentage 1854; no loss or
gain.
Long Hits and Total Bases.
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Any number Of angles might be figur-
ed out by which Mack's men could win
the flag. For nobody can tell just what
will happen. But there are several which
might be considered likely. Here are
two:
Athletics win all and Detroit lose
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-27

If Joe Cantillon springs Walter Johnson
on the Athletics twice-next Saturday and
Monday-there is no telling what would
happen In the old Quaker city.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-27

Out in Pittsburg the sporty boys are
offering two to one that the Pirates will
win the world series.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-27

While playing with the Nationals.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-09-03

ing blood of nation. Art is a sort of
fever and marks disease. Literature
is prescription, and If it don't. help
life fails to do it any good. want
to tell you, drummer Srst set me to
readin'. OF course I knew what books
were. But thought that when a man
got along we'll in life he ought to think
of everything except books. They
were for boys mad girls. But this
drummer that stayed all night al my
house said that the greatest books
had been written by old men. There.
fore they ought to be read by old men.
ne opened up new view of life. He
showed me that as long as man
lived and kept his health he could
develop and expand He left a book
with me, and it want long before I
discovered that had just begun to
live. This man sold things-and in
meeting men came away from them
with a better knowledge of human ma
ture. Knowing so much of the weak
hess Of man, he could Better admire
his strength or pardon his faults
But you are forgetting the Gospel
said Mr.. Nudge.
"Oh. no. The drummer is a good ex-
emplitication of the Gospel. He goes
into all the world. The Gospel was
never commanded to stand still. It Ia
running stream. Stagnant water
breeds pestilence. The Saviour of
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-09-03

But you must agree" MI. Nudge
interposed, that our young men have
been inspired with a spirit of unrest. -
yes, acknowledge that" said Lin.
And a spirit of unrest is the first step
toward advancement. The young fell
lers saw that they needed better, a
more practical education, and they set
about to get it. If there is a better
teacher than experience it is example.
Envy as generally understood may be
a bad thing, but it is active envy that
makes the world move forward: The
drummer brought stories with him.
They illustrated life. A community
that has only old stories lives in the
past. The drummer's new stories
quickened the intellect. They made
the mind jump. Trade. = ~
"Ah," Mr.. Nudge broke in. Il thank
you for the timely introduction OF. that
well-worn word. You. would place
trade above everything" -. m -. y" :
T. well, wouldn't place it below
everything. Trade is the exchange of
matertalized ideas. It is the circulat-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-09-03
BETZVnIE TALES
Will Finch and the Belgian Lapdo2
@R6,~tB3y Ellis Darker" BuHet:5
|E9@ Author of"Pi8s is Pigs Etc":@3
BY PETER NEWELL

VIII Finch gives notice to every
body In Betzville that the party that
stole his Belgian lap-dog is known to
him, and that unless the dog is re-
turned before next Wednesday noon
he will offer S. reward for any infor-
nation leading to the Identification of
the thief.
Will is all broken up over the loss
OF the dog. He paid a dollar for it
to passing tramp who swore he had
stolen the pup, or he couldn't afford
to sell 1t for the price. The tramp
said the pup was Belgian lap-dog,
and to prove it offered to let Will see
1t lap up milk, if Will would furnish
the milk He said he had just re-
turned from a pedestrian tour of Mex
leo, passing through Belgium on his
way to Betzville. VIII sort of sug-
gested that lap-dog wasn't one that
laps, but one that is small enough to
sit in a lap, and the tramp fell right
in with the notion. He told Will that
was what made the Belgian lap-dogs
so valuable, they were both kinds Of
lappers.
Will doesn't often spend money.
and when he does he likes to get his
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-09-03
Some Fishermen's Luck.

Several instances are reported OF
late where fish which have broken
away have been rehooked and caught
one being a trout which had the old
fly and cast in it's mouth.
The other day sea angler at New
haven hooked the same conger three
times and twice had his tackle carried
away. On safely landing the conger
he found the hook and part of one OF
his broken lines attached to it's
tongue.
Quiet a number of swallows have
this season been unintentionally
caught by anglers on the fly and with
worms, the result of the birds dart.
ing at the lures and hooking them.
selves, and one evening while an an.
gler was after colne trout his rod
came in contact with large bat while
he was making a cast, bringing the
creature to the ground and killing it.
And another unusual angling expert.
ence is reported from the Huntingdon.
shire Ouse. Omitting to bring his
plummet, st. Ives angler requi.
sitioned a bicycle trouser clip, and
while he was plumbing the depth a
pike seized it and was hooked and
safely landed-London Globe.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-09-03
Students Answers,


when a student does not know the
answer to an examination question he
does one of three things" said a Uni
versity of Pennsylvania professor re-.
Gently. IF he is a good student he
will simply leave blank space, while
II he Is not he will either try to bluff
1t through or else pass it off as a Joke.
These latter cases are rare, and the
result is generally painful and does
harm to the student who. wrote the
paper. Occasionally, however, there
will be real gem which does the stu
dent good by putting the professor in
good humor and so making him un.
consciously mark the paper less Sc.
verely.
Il came ecross two such gems IN
one paper recently. One question was:
Who was st. Bruno? to which the
student replied: st. Bruno was a
great Dane. brother of st. Bernard
The other question was: What was
the difference between the major
prophets and the minor prophets ?"
Here he answered.: 1T would not be
right for me, a sinner, to make in
vidious comparisons between such
holy men,"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-09-03
The Dog Was as Big Newfoundland by That Tlms.

and become a Mormon, and that right
at first he did not calculate to marry
more than two laps. for he figured
the dog could stretch out and not
much more than fill two laps. in his
present size, but that If he kept on
growing 1t would be easy enough to
annex a few more laps. And Just then
somebody sneaked into Wills house
and stole the dog.
Wills ticket runs out next Wednes-
day noon, and that's why he wants
the lay-dog returned by then, but he
Is all at sea just now. He don't know
whether to go out to Utah anyway. 80
as to save what he paid for the ticket.
or to stay in Betzville and try to re-
cover the dog he invested dollar in.
One way it looks foolish to 20 out
and marry two or more laps when
there is no dog to lie in them, and
the other way it looks foolish to stay
and recover the dog after the ticket
has expired and when he cannot af-
ford to spend any more to secure
proper laps. He says this world is
full of trouble and he will be glad
when he is above, where the cheru.
bin don't have any laps-only heads
and wings.
Copyright, 1909. by W. G. Chapman.)
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bled and whirled away from the
three-mile mark. gasped as we fell
and looked at Mueller for the signal
sand overheard" He had seized the
barometer in his hand. Its point flew
toward zero.
The desert rushed up to meet us.
Sage-brush and cactus that had been
mere dots sprang into vivid relief.
Hills became mountains, while the
watch licked once. Bottomless can
yons yawned under US with Jaws wide
for the prey from the skies. In all
the wilderness of rock and ruin there
was but one tiny spot of yellow sand
where death, perhaps would look the
other way.
My ears seemed to burst. Blood
rushed to my head and drummed in
my temples. My head reeled in the
heavier atmosphere. I saw the hori-
son that had been thousand leagues
away swept out of sight by the teeth
of the peaks that hemmed us in. And
still we dropped as though catapult
had hurled us.
Mueller said never, word. Motion.
less, he watched the patch of level
sand. A reef of lava, sharp as a
knife, bordered it. Yet he made no
sign.
He dropped the barometer and
clutched at sandbag. heard through
the throbbing of my ears a voice that
shouted: Hang to the ring! Don't
jump"
I grabbed at the stout wooden ring
that held the ropes above my head.
We struck. Sand few into my face
and my head roared with the terrific
impact. My body swung across the
basket and fattened Mueller against
the rigging. Then, before I had time
to think, we were racing skyward
again and I was lying limp against the
wickerwork.
AS rapidly as moment before it
had whirled to zero, the barometer
was now dancing over the thousands
toward the black mark that registered
$500 feet, as far as the barometer
would 60. Again we were back in
the skies that tossed us to destruc-
ton one moment, and the next sud.
denly snatched us from the claws of
rock.
So fast did we rise that we shot
through the colder wind in the rush
of second. The barometer needle
cast a shadow on the last mark on
the dial, and still the big bag of gas
careened upward. Mueller had brushed
the dust from his face, and now stood
silent, watching the world drop away.
Eighteen thousand" he figured,
$4,000, 2O,0O0-we're far over 10000,
and still rising"
Here our lost wind gripped us again
and we were kiting eastward. The
San Jacintos were but mere blur of
fading blue and the hollow into which
we had been thrown was far lost
among the desert ranges that our
speed piled behind us.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-09-03

Jucklin, what changes have taken
place since we can remember"
YES" replied old Lin, "a good
many. 1 can recollect when we had
to 60 of a mornin' to a neighbours
house for chunk of fire. Want any
matches"
Miss Nancy Hodge, elevating her
eyebrows, exclaimed: For pity
sake"
"Yes," said old Linn, land the
chances were that the teller that was
sent after the chunk of fire would be
drunk before he got back Everybody
kept liquor in the house, and if fell
Ter stopped and helloed at. the gate
they'd ask him to get down and take a
drink"
In the matter of whisky there has
been great reform and, I may there
fore say, progress" remarked Rev.
Mr.. Nudge. j. 49,
t. Limuel nodded a4sept. But said
he. :'the reform: has beeennMith man man and
not with liquor: The greatest good
that whisky has done is to be so mean
that nobody wants it. But l can re-
member when it was the milk in the
cocoanut of-of paradise, I tell you.
In comparison to what it is now, par.
son." he added, to soften the remark,
which he was quick to observe had
somewhat disturbed the countenance
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-09-03

and worried himself nearly to death,
but there didn't seem to be any way
in which he could get value received
for the dollar he had spent for the
lap-dog.
Then, just when he had reached the
lowest depths of worry, Uncle Ashod
Clute suggested something that
cheered Will up again and made him
as happy as of yore, and the next
thing we knew Will was packing his
goods in boxes and laying in time
tables. And the funny thing, so he
said, was that he hadn't thought of
1t before. So he packed his belong
1ngs, and had them shipped to the
Junction, and bought a new suitcase,
and bought ticket to Salt Lake City,
In talking it over with us he said he
saw plainly enough that no one lap
could ever be big enough to hold that
Belgian lap-hound, even as it was
now, and there was no telling when
it would stop growing, so the only
thing to do was to secure an extern
sible lap, on the principle of Sec
tional bookcase, that could be added
to from time to time to meet require
ments. He said he was going to Utah
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E{@zS& OBJ D. ;lMct1cK,.I IN IN !
kf0yl E1R{90@M1n ER 'q !! i! A !;
\ ~ K%VT>B VOMzZ64D ~, :

At party over at old Brizintine's
one night they were talking about the
progress of the world. There were
present all of the wise men of the
community. Medicine was represent
ed by doc" Peters, horse surgeon;
the law by Anthony Bolts, justice of
the peace; sculpture by Rufe Goodall,
stone quarry man; art by Miss Nancy
Hodge, drawer of map of the coun-
ty; literature by Stephen Blue, writer
of for sale notices and epitaphs; the
ministry by Rev. Gustavus Nudge
and agriculture by Limuel Jucklin. So,
it may be seen, here was assembled a
goodly twentieth century company,
prepared by experience and stimulat-
ed by education to discourse upon any
subject.
THE tire revolves faster than the
hub" said the minister. Mr.. Nudge,
land it is but natural that we. now
on the outer rim of time, should move
with more accelerated motion than
our forefathers, who were nearer the
center, so to speak. All, Brother
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-09-03
IF ONE WERE HONEST.

I cannot give you all the love -
And hearts devotion ..'
That poets call 1.-The measure Of "
The plumbless ocean,
I can be loyal. tender. true,
And love you solely.
But none-no. dear, not even you
Can own me wholly.
think Of you each hour, of COURSE
But IL this flatters
I also think each hour, perforoa.
OF other matters.
You get minute of the time,
My daily task, all =.
The rest. Say, does this prove that Tn
A heartless rascal?
I'd grfeve II you should leave me-ay.
Weep for a season;
And yet I'm sure wouldn't die,
Or lose my reason
I love you-well as any man
Can love a woman,
But I'm built on the common plan
Normally human!
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-09-03

money worm, and as soon as he
paid for the dog he took it home and
began tapping it, as you might say.
He sat down In chair and put the
dog on his lap, but Will is so bow
legged that the dog fell right through
his lap onto the floor. He tried it
eight or ten times, and then he de-
cided he didn't have the right kind
of lap to hold dog on, but he was
not going to waste a dog that he had
paid good dollar for, and the only
thing he could see to do was to get a
lap that would hold the dog properly,
and the more he thought about it the
more sure he became that what he
needed was female lap with a skirt,
so the dog couldn't fall through. So
he thought it over we'll, and he de-
cided that Miss Daisy Plunkett would
do. She was a small-sized person,
and about right to hold small lap
dog.
Will Finch found right then that
1t takes longer to get female lap
into the family than to buy lap
dog, but he was thoroughly aroused
about it, and he went right to work
counting Daisy, and he had just got
to the point where he was ready to
propose when he happened to look at
the dog carefully, and he was all ta-
ken aback. The dog had grown a
lot, and was as big as a good-sized
coach dog. Will saw Immediately
that Daisy Plunkett wouldn't do at
all-she didn't have nearly enough
lap to hold such a large lap-dog.
So Will went about town for q
week or two studying the height and
breadth of all the minated ladies of
our burg, and at last he decided that
Sally Ann Scroggs was about the
rangiest limbed he could find, and
that she would fit the dog pretty well,
and he started in to court her for all
he was worth, and by and by she be-
gan to incline his way little, and
he was just on the point of propos-
ing when he happened to study the
dog again, and he saw right off that
Sally Ann wouldn't do. The dog was
as big as a Newfoundland by that
time.
Well, Will was nearly broken up
over it. He couldn't think of lap In
all Betzville that would be big enough
to hold lap-dog the size Of New
foundland, and yet he hated to think
that he had paid good money for q
lap-dog that couldn't be Tapped. It
was like wasting the money. First
he thought he would write to New
York and get in communication with
an agency that handled Human Curl
osities; he thought he might be able
to find Human Curiosity that ran
mostly to lap, but he hesitated. He
could not be sure the Belgian lap
dog had stopped growing, and ., he
hated to go to the expense Of marry
Ing Human Curiosity only to have
her lap soon outgrown. So he moped
around, and got thinner and thinner,
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lcYs BREEZE MEllcEs -. Il.
:. = : "TRIP ii BALLOON
REMARKABLE EFFECT SUDDEN
90 GUST OF COLD; AIR ON ., -
GAS BAG. w

New York.-1n narrating q trip in q
balloon in California. a writer in Har.
per's Weekly gives the following
graphic description: $685.. .~.~
San Jacinto and San Bernardino
were blue behind when luck forgot
US and our globule of floating gas.
The barometer was firm at $500 feet
when the wind turned tickle. With
the sweep of northern chinook from
the south, where the waters of the
Gulf of California breed GOODNESS, q
whipping breeze clutched the balloon.
Our fight was checked, and. from the
warmth of moment before. we shiv-
cred.
Instantly the gas reacted. The
needle that showed our height trem.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-09-03
"e Has World Up Sample

of the preacher, "but, parson, do you
know what has done more toward the
civilizing of us all than any other
agency"
Modesty restrained Mr.. Nudge from
mentioning what, in his opinion, was
the real cause, so he hazarded the
one word "education.''
That's all very WE'LL" said Lin,
but there's shorter way of gettin'
at it. I should say the-drummer."
The minister WINGED as if he had
suddenly bitten into a sour pickle.
Yes, sir, the man that goes about
and sells goods" said Lin. "He has
the progress of the world buckled up
in his sample case. He is the circuit
rider of trade. He not only brings
what the people already want, but
teaches them to need things; and the
man that shows us what we need
moves forward a good many degrees.
Take our town over here. For more
than fifty years the churches had been
in-full blast pardon the expression
and the schools Lad been in opera
ton; and yet the hotels were so bad
that a hungry dog might be excused
for giving it the go-by. Why, whit
leather was as tender as lambs
tongue compared with the beefsteak.
The biscuits were just about as diges-
tible as door knobs. The salt pork
might properly haveseen labeled the
enemy of mankind The butter looked
as if it had been made of the milk of
a COW that had just seen a ghost.
What's the name of that place where
they used to torture folk-the Inquisi-
ton? Yes. Why, if man had been
snatched out of the Inquisition and
put into that hotel he would have
complained of the change. And the
stores around the square. Here pig
pens, ornamented by a dry goods box
outside. Such was the state of affairs
found by the drummer when he came
along. Mind you, no other reform had
been able to touch it; and why? Be-
cause the people didn't know any bet
ter. But the drummer showed them
thai the other parts o. the world
wouldn't live that way
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-09-03
Lack of Judoment.

so Cayuse Charley met his fate
at the hands of posse?" Yep" an
sWered Three-finger Sam. what was
the trouble?'' His immejit difficulty
was a lack of judgment as to speed.
He helped himself to a horse, but
didn't pick one that was fast enough
to keep ahead OF. the party as went
after him." ~ =. -. r. ~ a Z
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-09-03

man was the most liberal man that
ever lived. He had no home. The
drummer is liberal because his home
is the world. He meets a local preju
dice and turns it into a national liber
ality. He demands a place where he
may spend his leisure hours. and pub
lie libraries mark his course. The UNI
rest you speak of has stimulated trav
Ell, and travel is the picture that goes
in the book of education. The drum,
mer must be active and therefore he
must be sober. His achievement over
drunken competition is the greatest
the most vivid temperance lecture
ever delivered. It makes sobriety q
business rather than a mere inactive
virtue. What are you fetchin' on here,
madam? Lemonade? Well drink ii
to the drummer"
Copyright, by Opie Ready
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-09-03
Breaking in Shoes.

Frederick the Great had tender feet
and used to have an old double who
broke in new boots for him. Hot
weather is Q mad tine to break them
In. Every one should keep old shoes
on trees for wet and hot emergencies.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-09-03
His Little Scheme.

The Bachelor-1'm going to nova
into furnished fat. s:.-: -
The Benedict-Do you think you viii
like It? - $50, ~. ~ ~~' -
The Bachelor Oh, not necessarily;
but It will enable me. TO get used %
dolna without q homo.
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1909-06-25
in Curieux Contrat

Atlanta, George, Un process
en- divorce intent6 par Nine 3. L
Douglas a son mari, richie habitant
de cette vile, a porte q la COMMAS
sance da public un curieux docu.
ment. C'est un contrat pass6 entire
les deux 6poux, r6glant en- "a arti.
cles les relations DIES co%ntractants
dams dlverses circonstan leg de Ia
vie conjugale.
L'article Ia est q retenir.
"Chacun des contractants SEN
gage q ne jamais parler de son
conjo1nt en- termes meprisants; q
ne lui adresser en- aucune circons-
lance la parole dune facon brus-
que on aggressive, ct celia sous pei
ne de se voir condamner: l. A fai-
re d'humbles excuses, publlques
GU priv6es. au choix du c%ontractant
offens6; 2 q 6tre embress6 cent
fois au moins. lie choix du lieu ct
du moment a%pparteDant au dit
contractant."
C'est un peu bette, mails celia ne
fat de NAL 4 personne.