davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-09

Juarez Is a pretty poor excuse for a
city, I'm the American acceptance Of the
word Crossing the bridge from FL Paso
that marks the international boundary on
the Rio Grande one comes upon few
public buildings that are worthy OF the
name. There is one of some prominence,
in which President Taft and President Diaz
sat down to table together and exchanged
oratory concerning the love existing be-
tween the peoples Of the two countries.
Juarez boasts one OF the best bull rings
in the republic, and every sunday in sea-
son the Spanish national game is attended
by hordes Of poor natives, few Mexicans
OF intelligence and a crowd OF American
toughs and gamblers, with a sprinkling
Of Yankee tourists and sightseers, who
like to boast Of having seen the bloody
spectacle, this boast usually taking the
form Of souvenir postcard addressed to
the friends at home
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-09

The stage setting for the northeastern
division OF the Mexican revolution meas
ures up to the outward characteristics OF
the scrap and the scrappers. JuareE Cpro-
nounced WharezD lie a tumble-down town.
II cuts more OF figure in print just now
than on the Mexican landscape, because
Mexican rebels and Mexican troops are
camped in the vicinity eager for fight.
but carefully avoiding a collision. Close
by Is El Paso, one OF the principal cities
Of Texas and the American gateway TO
the republic Of Dia1. The fact that the
town lies close to the border affords war
correspondents a near view OF the moving
picture Of revolution as free from thrills
as the Hsitien burlesques.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-09

What is called a fiesta" draws big
crowds, to Juarez Nomlnally 1t Is sort
Of country fair, but in reality nothing Is
placed on exhibition and the entire grounds
are given over to gambling devices and
licentious spectacles in Enthusiastically
operated by Americans who would not be
allowed to pitch their white tops in this
country. The gamblers spread out their
machines. varying from roulette to cards,
| "spinners' TO dice, she'll games TO any
thing else that can be operated to get a
dishonest dollar C'MexD and the crowds
promenade in holiday attire down the
avenue thus formed, stopping at each
stand to lose money that is in reality
blood money. for the gambling instinct is
Inherited by the haf-breeds, and they
come in from far back in the country to
wager their plantation earnings with the
sharps and crooks who are certain to take
It away from them.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-09

This elevation
Before the patton
Makes me as proud
As all creation
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-09

There is one principal street the build
ings Of which are mostly tumble-down af-
fairs in Spanish style, devoted to the sale
OF souvenirs such as rugs, minerals and
opals which purchasers are encouraged
to attempt to smuggle across the border.
Opals, for instance, which bring a pretty
good price in American jewelry stores,
are here piled into trays and drawers and
may be purchased at prices ranging from
cents to 81.
The town is wide open" and favorite
rendezvous for the followers OF the race
track, who are permitted to carry on
their operations in a manner that would
not be tolerated the American side,
They live in America, because after the
races each day they cross the river to
FL Paso and enjoy the comforts OF Ameri-
can hotels and boarding houses, which
are not to be found across the river.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-09
M1RTHFUL REMARKS

Il never saw q more solemn face than
your friend, the lawyer, wears. And yet
you claim he has a sense Of hurnor2''
Sense OF humorl Say. you ought to hear
him read love letter In open COURT
Cleveland Plain-Deeler.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-09

There is one thing which Is funny
about a stag dinner"
What is it7"
That 1t rolls up dear expenses.r--BAlti-
more American.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-09

Judge-Whats the charge. offioer3
Policeman-Your honor, he stole brace
from a carpenter shop.
Judge-Discharged There is no penalty
for taking a brace.-Judge.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-09

That fellow is merely sowing his Wild
oats" said the apologetio friend .a
Maybe replied Farmer Corntossel;
but when you get 70 sowing Wild oats
you seem to lose sight of the value OF
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-09

my hero dies in the middle of my latest
novel said the young author.
That's q grave mistake replied the
editor. He should not die before the
reader does."-Atlanta Constitution.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-09

Did Thompson tell you that storyP'
Yes" So.
well, a triflinE tax on Thompaon's dali!
output of imagination would pay the ma
tional debt and provide the seventeen gen
erations of Esquimaux with gumdrops."-
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-09

That man seems to be regular icon
Oclast Nothing Is sacred 10 him.
Well, you can hardly blame him, when
he was q boy, he was badly gored by 4
sacred COW In circus. Chicago Record
Herald.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-09

Reuben--Josh says that city Teller RSv
him a hundred an some odd dollars fur
tibet horse O. hisn.
Silas-You amt heerd the hull of II.
When he took the dollars to the bank he
found they was all odd. -Philadelphis
Catholic Standard.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-09

ITS too bad. Henry" said Mrs. Lamb
kin, amiaby. II don't know what to do
about It. Perhaps you'd better ring her up
on the phone and tell her. She sent Il
over this afternoon. "-HRrper's Weekly,
Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-09

in places where they can do the most good,
II we are TO persist in this habit OF keep
ing the legislature in the hands Of the
democrats.
Nebraska City Press: What a splendid
opportunity the members of the Nebraska
legislature have just now in their consid-
Grafton of the resolution commencing
reciprocity with Canada! Nebraska has
the reputation for being a progressive state,
a state that desires a reduction OF the
tariff Reciprocity with Canada will re-
duce the tariff on several articles that
enter into everyday use and consumption
and the members Of the Nebraska legisla-
ture should remember this when they con-
/ slider the Cotton resolution on February g.
/ The democratic members Of the legislature
are pledged TO support tariff reduction We
shall now see how much consistency these
men have.
Albion News. State Auditor Barton has
/ proposed that the law which prohibits the
sale OF Nebraska school land be repealed,
and that the lands be sold and the proceeds
/ invested In securities which will yield the
state a larger revenue than IL derived from
( the lease OF the lands Whether this Is a
/ good business proposition or not depends
on whether the price OF Nebraska land il
going 10 continue 70 advance as II has been
doing for a number or years. II these lands
had not been Withdrawn from sale they
would have been disposed Of as 81 TO So
per acre Now these lands are easily worth
double this price, and We believe they via
continue 70 advance In value We believe
Il will pay to hold onto this IanS
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-05-23

things thoroughly. Finally he went to
the Chesapeake and Ohio ticket office
and l saw him buy a ticket. Just as
he stepped out ran up to the window.
~ promised to meet my uncle here
right now, l said. He's big, tall man
here I gave an accurate description
of Ulrich. Did he get his ticket?'
Yes said the agent.
Give me one just like it,
He handed me ticket to New York
and l got on the train just moment
before Charley. For the first couple
of hours he sat very close; then he
walked out into the smoking car to
smoke his pipe. l managed to look
over his baggage-a paper box-and
found a complete outfit for engraving
plates. When we arrived Charley went
into q telegraph office and sat down to
write a telegram, commencing, with
the body of the message, without writ
ing the name of the person to whom
II was to be sent.
Have just arrived, he wrote, and
then realized that somebody was look
ing over his shoulder He looked up at
me. looked down at him.
Are you interested in this?' he
asked.
Yes l answered.
well he said, maybe you had
better write it,
"'All right, will l took the pen
and wrote in the name and address Of
the fellow the message was to and
signed Ulrich's name.
Charley sat back looking at me.
You are interested, aren't you"
That was all he said.
Yes 1 replied. And I want you
to come with me-
May ask your name?'
Burns Is my name
"'Burns?'
"'Yes, Burns
William ]. Burns?"
Yes, William ]. Burns
well, Mr.. Burns, I'm very glad to
meet you, but not under these circum-
stances. l know of you, but have new
er seen you before
Are you quite sure that you never
saw me before this?
Never in my life
"Do you remember engraving a
picture of Governor Allen on a circu-
lar saw blade in Columbus?
Yes, / remember that very we'll
very WE'LL
"T used to live in Columbus and l
used to go out to see you there And
we shook hands."-McClure's Maga-
zine.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-05-23
TRAGEDY OF THE ELK.
Hundreds of Animals Starve Every
Winter In jackson Hole.

Hundreds of Animals Starve Every
Winter In jackson Hole.
AT the point where forded the Ho-
back the first indications of dead elk
were seen, and all along the trail from
the Hoback to the Gros Ventre were
scattered bones and tufts Of hair OF
animals that had starved. Bark-strip-
ned willows and quaking aspens ana
twigs and limbs as large as ones nm
gers knawed down by famished ami
mails in a vain attempt to find susten-
ance in dead sticks told the story OF
misery and suffering
ION the fields wherever / walked
and through the foothills, were the
bones of innumerable elk that had
perished within two years. At some
points the bones literally lay In piles
about punches of willow with knawed-
off limbs and groves Of quaking aspens
barred of bark.
"a ranch owner told me that there
had been times when he could walk
half mile on the bodies OF dead elk.
Others reiterated this statement. one
ranchman was prepared to make an
affidavit that with a small area In the
lower end Of the Hole he had actually
counted the bodies of 1000 dead elk
In the spring of 1909. Another stated
that when the snow Of that spring
melted 1000 bodies lay within radius
of one mile of his house. Another
said that within a like radius at an
other point he had seen 5000 bodies.
Many other reputable ranchmen' IN
describing the awful stencil arising III
early summer from the putrefying
bodies of dead animals, asserted that
several families had been compelled
temporarily to abandon their homes,
made uninhabitable by the odor. Ev-
ery one told of the water in early sum-
mer, Shiny and reeking with decaying
elk flesh, and made unwholesome for
man or beast. One ranchman assert
ed that within period Of 20 years res
idence in Jockson Hole he had seen
upward of $4,000 elk perish from star
vation."-Dillon Wallace, in Outing.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-05-23
chanainq the Constitution.

Except for the three amendments
adopted as a result OF the domestic
revolution which the civil war brought
to pass, the constitution has gone un-
changed for more than hundred
years Americans had begun to be-
lieve that a peaceable amendment OF
that instrument was almost lmposSi-
BILE; the positive statement that noun
ing less than another war could ac-
complish a change In the fundament-
al law was often heard.
But it now appears that the coun-
try is upon the verge of making TWO
important amendments to the consul
tuition, one giving to congress power
to lay a tax on incomes, and the otner
taking the election Of United states
senator's from the legislatures ana
giving it to the people.
The income-ta tax amendment has al
ready been ratified by thirty states
its passage depends upon the accept
ance by only five others. The other
has not yet been submitted 10 tne
states, but congress Is pretty sure 10
submit 1t In the immediate future'
and the prospect Is that 1t, too' VIII Ut
ratified.
Whatever one may think about the
wisdom of these changes, they are IN
teresting as demonstrating that the
constitution is not beyond the reacn OF
a determined public opinion. Ihe
method of amendment Is, and Is meant
to be, difficult But If the people want
a thing and want it hard enough and
long enough, even the cumbrous ma
chinery of the Fifth Article Will re-
spond.
1t Is fortunate that this Is so. There
in lies the strongest guarantee OF the
permanence Of our government. a
perfectly infiexible constitution must
sooner or later burst in pieces. II
cannot forever bind the growing and
changing views and purposes of a
great nation. An instrument which
yields, although slowly, will long pre-
serve its essential form, and contain
within itself the political life and en-
ergy of the people which enacted IT.
Youths Companion.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-05-23
An Adaptable Neqro.

Il have fallen heir to an ancient
colored messenger, who has a remark
able military record" said Representa-
tive Francis of the Fourth Ohio dis
trict. Just as soon as l was assign
ed to my new office he came in and
introduced himself and to solidify him
self further in my regard informed me
that he came from old Democratic
stock
"'Ah has a fine reckud in duh Con-
federate army he said cause, All
went to wah wifi nah young mastah
an fit all thu it wifi him.
But l argued, If you have
such a fine Confederate record, how on
earth did you manage to get job un-
der the Republicans here in the house
office building?
"'Oh, you see, boss, All has Union
army reckud, too
"a Union army record?' l echoed,
How did you get that?'
We'll, hits LAX disaway, cap'n,
Long towahd de en- of de wah All
goes ovah to the Yanks.'
Then you are turncoat?' said.
mo, sab. All amt dat he replied
'Ah was ketched and twant no way t
git back to de Confederates. Doan
you see, boss, dey amt no way you
kin look at me but what Ah'm a good
no'thun er a good su'then niggah!"-
Indianapolis News.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-05-23
SHE WAS A CLIMBER.
Young Man Tried to Show OF Before
Girl and Was Discounted.


Girl and Was Discounted.
The daughter of former Congress
man James of New York, though she
lives in one of the smallest cities up
state, Is an enthusiastic mountain
climber and has spent several seasons
among the Swiss Alps. While she
was in New York city recently a
young man, who did not know Of her
Alpine prowess, invited her and q
small party of friends to visit the top
of one of Broadway's skyscrapers by
moonlight.
When they were on the roof
the young man, who had no great idea
of feminine prowess and had said so
with much humor, deliberately set to
work to impress the young women
with a sense of their altitude. He
pointed to the stars so close above
them and he showed them the human
ants moving in the street, 400 feet be-
low them. The members OF the par
~, except Miss James, were visibly
impressed.
Think of falling" said the young
man, elated at his success. Think of
standing on the edge of the cornice
there and looking straight down with
nothing beneath your feet-and then
to fall"
There was a general shudder, out of
which came Miss James voice saying,
"I'll dare you yourself to stand on the
edge of the cornice."
The young man was caught unpre-
pared. AS a matter Of fact his efforts
to frighten the young women had set
his own imagination to work.
It's "a little windy, perhaps" he
,aid.
"A mere breath" said Miss James.
Besides. If it were blowing half gale
you would not hesitate, surely, after
all you've said about the superior
bravery of man? The girls, here, will
get to think you are afraid"
The young man climbed part way up
the parapet and looked over. A pass
ing automobile seemed no bigger than
cigar box. He did not go any far
ther, but hesitated.
Come on" exclaimed Miss James.
Follow the leader. I'll set the pace
and you follow-if you don't want to
acknowledge that girls are braver
than men-some men, anyway"
Whereupon she climbed agilely to
the top of the parapet and stood with
her toes out over Broadway. She fol-
lowed with a series Of hair raising
feats that left the others breathless.
The final result was a more humiliat-
ing defeat for the contemptuous young
man than she had anticipated. The
latter suddenly was seized with that
sickness of altitude which so affects
some individuals. He wilted down on
the roof with his arms around a girder,
and it was necessary to summon help
before he could be got downstairs.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-05-23

the south, IL possesses the greatest
possibilities as a cattle producing
country of any section of the United
States. The tendency IS in the direc-
ton Of live stock, and many hundreds
of small hog farms are being put in;
counties and states where formerly no
hogs were ever shipped to market are
now producing them for shipping pur-
poses; silos are being built and dali
ries on a small scale are being estab-
lished here and there all over the
south. These are but the indications
of the future great growth in that di-
rection.
This is my ideal for the southern
farmer of the cotton belt: To have a
good home with pleasant surround
ings: to produce the home supplies; to
keep a plenty of good chickens; a
little dairy: some live stock, especially
hogs; to produce all the grazing and
feed the live stock will require; to
produce his own corn and grow his
cotton as a cash crop. 1 believe 1t Is
perfectly possible Tor the Soutn 10
main her supremacy in cotton, cotton
growing under such a system. These
are my ideals and hopes for the Far
mers' Cooperative Demonstration
Work in the south. l need not say
that they were the hopes and ideals Of
DR.. S. A. Knapp in his great efforts
for rural uplift in the south. All I
have sought to say is that these hopes
and ideals still exist and that it will be
my earnest effort to work for a reali-
zation of the ideals by carrying on
demonstration work in the same way
that it has been carried on heretofore,
carefully cooperating with every
great force that is striving to benefit
the common farmer.-B. A. Knapp.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-05-23

Sweet ReVense.-The frequent and
and unsuccessful candidacy of certain
men in this town for public office re-
minded George (Scotty) Dore of sto-
ry of his old friend Hogan.
Hogan was rafting a clock" said
Mr. Dore. He was fairly successful
in disposing of tickets in the shop
where he worked, but he ran up
against trouble when he caRvassed his
neighbors.
Dropping in at neighbor's house,
he tried to sell ticket on the clock.
Its a fine timepiece, and it'll LUX
foine on yer what not er mantel,' says
Hogan, cajolingly.
"'Gwan, the old clock doesn't run!'
replied the neighbor.
well, drawled Hogan, changing
front completely, well, perhaps yez
won't win it, and then yell have the
laugh on the fellow who does Mil
waukee Free Press.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-05-23
farm and firesiae.
Why He Didn't,

Bud Hawkins jist sold out his onions.
by gum!
Fer six hundred dollars an acre, yum;
He planted 'em careful an thinned 'em
by hand
An paid with one crop fer nigh half of
his land.
An Jim Willetts heerd it an said that
las spring
He made up his mind that he'd grow
some, by jing!
An was jist about to go at tan
then
He got plumb knocked out by lum-
bago again.
Bud Hawkins jist cut his alfalfy an
says
He's got nigh four tons to the acre.
he guess;
His sheep's rollin fat an he turned off
some lambs,
An his hogs brung ten cents t make
special fine hams.
An Jim Willetts heerd it an said that
had thought
OF plantin' alfalfy an picked out tn
spot,
An jist on tn day he had picked out,
las spring,
To plant it, she rained-an' he could
mt, by jing!
Bud Hawkins turned over forty of
land
An made a cold thousand 'thout turn
in hand;
1t jist went a-beggin till Bud bought
tn slice
From Homer Gray's widow an paid
her own price.
An Jim Willets heerd it-said he had
his eye
On that very piece an was goin' t buy
1t himself; an was goin' t see Wild
der Gray
But his old mare took lame an he
couldn't that day.
Bud Hawkins turkeys dressed heavy
as lead
An brung him nigh on to three dollars
head;
An Elmer Dow bought 'em fer cash at
his store
So True Perkins told mean wished
he had more.
An Jim Willets said he was goin
to set
Some turkeys las spring, but his hay
was all wet
When he went t make nests, an he
let ii go by
An clean plumb forgot 1t when II
come on dry!
j. w. Foley, in Saturday Evening
Post.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-05-23

The Best Play.-The young man in
the third row of seats looked bored.
He wasn't having a good time. He
cared nothing for the Shakespearian
drama.
What's the greatest play you ever
saw" the young woman asked, OBJ
serving his abstraction.
Instantly he frightened.
Tinker touching man out between
second and third and getting the ball
over to Chance in time to nab the
runner to first!" he said.
But
The elderly man in the grand stand
yawned.
The national game did not interest
him greatly, anyway.
"Wroxley," said the enthusiastic fan
by his side, what was the greatest
play you ever saw"
"Sardou's Diplomacy by all odds!'
exclaimed the elderly man, his eye
kindling with the recollection of it,
Chicago Tribune.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-05-23

Greenville, May II: On returning
this morning from New York city,
where he attended a meeting of a
committee of the Peabody educational
board, ex-Gov. M. F. Ansel announced
that the committee had agreed upon a
plan to be submitted to the full board
at the November meeting, looking to
the final distribution of the funds OF
the board, and that the committee will
recommend a donation Of 100000 to
Winthrop college at Rock Hill, the
amount to be used in the erection of
buildings on the campus Of the insti-
tuition. No announcement was made
by Mr.. Ansel as to the amount recon-
mended for other states, but 1t is un-
derstood that $4,000 was set aside for
the state of Georgia. Mr.. Ansel Is
South Carolina's representative on the
Peabody board, associated with him
being Theodore Roosevelt, Hoke Smith,
Andrew Carnegie and George Foster
Peabody and others. OF the Peabody
educational fund $1,30O,OOO Is for dis
tribution this year among fourteen
southern states, a large part Of which
will go to the Peabody College for
Teachers at Nashville.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-05-23
humorous department.
One of Them Was Mixed.

A popular young newspaper man re-
turned to town last week after an eX-
tended absence. His friends hailed
him with repeated acclaim-and he
failed to return the acclamation when
1t came his round. The other after
noon, after a convival morning, he
met a longtime acquaintance, and to-
gether they strayed into place where
you could get a glass Of water without
leaving your seat.
About an hour later the young jour-
nalist softly pushed his way through
the door of the private office of a
noted specialist on mental diseases.
Wrinkles of anxiety furrowed his brow
and black care was plastered over his
countenance an inch thick. He care
fully closed the door behind him and
thus he spoke to the medicine man:
Doc, 1 wish you'd get out your
stethoscope and binoculars and other
medical machinery and find out what's
the matter with my brain box. 1
dropped into a place of rest with a
watch, while we discoursed on Portu-
gal and Roosevelt and other revolu-
tionary topics, the conversation natu-
rally drifted to my late visit to the Pa
ciflc coast. upon which my friend says
to me, and this is what he said:
Ibid you ever notice in these large
western towns where there are more
men, women and children than there
are inhabitants, that the population is
greater than in smaller eastern towns
of the same size where there aren't
near so many people?'"
Say that over again." asked the
physician.
That's just what 1 said to him." re-
piled the young journalist, and re-
peated the remark.
Now write it down-and write 1t
slowly" said the doctor after listening
carefully a second time.
"And that's just what 1 told him,
too," exclaimed the young man. Here
is what he wrote" and he handed the
physician a sheet of paper.
The doctor read and reread the
mystic remark half a dozen times.
Then handing 1t back to the newspa-
per man he said, after deliberations:
send your friend up here; he's the
one who needs to see me" e."-Philadel-
phia Public Ledger.