davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-12-15
Indian Girl Has $500 a Week Income

OF all these Indians, the Chickashas
of Oklahoma are the richest, and Ell.
len Ellen Is a Chickasha. She holds
the distinction of being the wealth..
est girl in college or, for that matter.
in Kansas at present. Ellen Ellen is
a fiat contradiction to the stories that
are written of the Indians. She Is not
a beautiful Laughing Water, for her
facial characteristics are those of the
real Indian.
Every Saturday the Haskell students
are permitted to come to Lawrence tc
enjoy what pleasure they may find.
The girls are brought In a big carry.
all, with a teacher to chaperon them.
Ellen Ellen Is an exception to her
sister students. She spends Is cents
a week In town, SO her money Is sim
ply resting until the time when she
will spend it all. There is no telling
where it may end. Maybe Ellen FL
len will bring dowry to her hus-
band that will rival that Alice Thaw
gave the Earl of Yarmouth. This hus.
band may be one of her own race, and
then he may not be. Daily there are
Caucasian visitors at Haskell Institute
who know of the wealth OF these girls
and for this wealth are willing to be-
come "squawmen."
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-12-15
Each Ship May Carry Own Aeroplane

A MOTHER year will see the hydro
~ aeroplane developed to such an
extent that each battleship of the
American navy may have it's own fly
ing machine, in the opinion of Capt.
Washington l. Chambers, who has
charge of the aeronautical work of the
navy department.
Captain Chambers believes that as
soon as a solution is found for the
motor problem, on which practically
all aviation experts now are working,
the installation of hydro-aeroplanes as
a part of the equipment of battleships
will be begun.
It is not considered probable that
the navy aeronauts will follow the
plans of the army and move their
equipment south for practice during
the winter. When the weather at An
napolis, where the navy hydro-aero-
plane experiments are carried on, be-
comes too disagreeable for flying pur-
poses, the aeronauts will give atten-
ton exclusively to motor problems.
They believe that by the time the
flying season opens again In the
spring they will have perfected mo-
tor peculiarly adapted to their pur-
poses.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-12-15
Babies Play While the Mothers Pray

n OLUMBIA, Mo-That age-worn
- problem, What to do with baby
while mamma goes to church." is in
process of solution by the women OF
the Methodist Episcopal church in
this city. Under the leadership OF
Mrs. c. NJ. Aker, the pastors wife,
the women of the congregation are
making enthusiastic progress in the
establishment OF what might be called
the most unique of all day nur-
series, If that expression were gram
NAUTICAL.
The idea is a Sunday nursery in
the church edif1ce, and the pastors
study has been chosen for this novel
institution. During the Sunday school
and preaching services those mothers
who heretofore have had to explain to
Pastor Aker why they attended
church so seldom now sit with their
classes and in their pews, happy in
the consciousness that the youngsters
of the household are in good hands,
which will prevent them from setting
fire to the house, falling of the front
porch railing or otherwise endanger-
ing their precious little lives.
Miss Loretta Ferguson has been
chosen as head nurse, with several
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-12-15
Turk and Potato Bug Cause Wedding

ID REWSTER. Wash.-A charming ro-
ID nance has ended here in the mar
riage Of Philip Strange and Miss Hell
en- McGraw, the wedding being locally
styled a union of the Washington
State Potato King and the Turkey
Queen of the Northwest
Mr.. Strange last year sent special
train of forty cars of potatoes to east
ern markets-the first exclusive po-
tato train to cross the continent. This
year he increased his potato area to
$500 acres and his crop is in the hun
dreds of thousands Of bushels.
Miss McGraw for years had taught
country schools in the vicinity of this
town, but two years ago she began to
raise turkeys for the market. The
land she selected for her turkey ranch
adjoined the potato farm OF Strange.
Here the romance started.
During last summer a scourge OF
bugs raided the potato fields, and
Strange foresaw that unless he fought
the bugs his crop would be lost. About
this time drought spoiled the feed
ing grounds of Miss McGraw's turkey
farm. The grass and alfalfa fields
dried up, and the insects accustomed
to Turk therein vanished.
Unable to find food at home, the
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-12-15
Nations Great Annual Loss by Fire

lie attention because of the heavy loss
of life with which they were accom-
panied, were due to the carelessness
and Indifference of the owners. occu-
pants. or municipal authorities.
New York has been spending $lO.-
900, 900 a year for fire extinguishment
and only $4,000 for fire prevention.
The recent shirt waist factory fire
aroused the public and the authori-
ties, and fire prevention is to be made
much more prominent hereafter.
The most important consideration Is
the development of sense of person.
al responsibility on the part OF prop
erty owners for the excessive fire
waste, which is draining the resources
of the country and weakening Its In"
surance capital A score of fire IN
surance companies have retired from
the field already this year, because OF
the heavy losses last year and the
unfavorable outlook.
Disasters like the recent factory f1re
at Newark, N j., in which 20 girls
were killed and so seriously injured
are chiefly due to carelessness. IN
this case both municipality and own
er are responsible.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-12-15

7 AWRENCE, Kan.-An income OF
L. $500 a week should be enough for
almost any schoolgirl of fourteen, but
it is about $599.75 more than the only
Lawrence schoolgirl of that age who
draws 1t ever expends.
A nickel's worth of gum drops, a
dime for a pencil or two and 10 cents
more for general expenditures usual
ly represent the extravaganza of this
lass, although she might buy almost
anything else she pleased. The young
lady of the large income and Of the
small outgo is Miss Ellen Ellen, an
Indian student at Haskell Institute.
At Haskell, the second largest In.
dian school in the world, there are
many girls, perhaps more girls than
boys. The parents Of many Of these
children are rich, enormously so, but
their riches are not used to buy the
things that delight the soul 9: the
paleface.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-12-15

w ASH1NGTON.-so menacing have
W conditions on the Texas border
become that patrol of United States
troops has been established on the
Rio Grande to cooperate with the
civil authorities In the enforcement
OF the neutrality laws. Secretary Of
War Sttmson has authorized General
Duncan, commanding the department
OF Texas, to enforce the laws with
vigor and to move the troops under
his command within divisional Him.
Its without waiting orders from
the department. The United States
has 5000 troops on the border
and 1t Is not probable more will be
sent south. Orders to mobilize $4,000
men in the zone paralleling the north
ern boundary Of Mexico have been is
sued by the war department of Mexico
to capture any bands of revolutionists
who may be successful in crossing the
border from Texas and to suppress
any trouble that may arise.
The arrest of Gen. Bernardo Reyes
at San Antonio, Tex, on charge Of vio-
lating our neutrality laws, and other
steps taken by the United States au-
thorities to prevent the organization
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-12-15
THEY SHOULD y
,FEED THE
|l'rILe BEARS
l6EFORE COfllhC
| TO CHURCH,

other young women as assistants. Up
on arrival at the church mamma
places her baby or small child in the
care of these young women, who take
the tot into the study where Pastor
Aker prepares his sermons.
During the services the children
must be amused, lest perchance one
of them set up howl calculated to
disconcert Rev. Mr.. Aker In the midst
of his most flowing passage and to
distress the particular mamma who
may identify the infantile wall.
Miss Ferguson says the plan il
working splendidly. Mrs. Aker de-
clares that hereafter If any mamma
member Of the Methodist church stays
away from Sunday services, she will
be called upon to do still more ex.
planning than heretofore. Pastor Aker
has not been interviewed.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-12-15

Free entry into this country for ex-
perimental purposes is being sought
by the navy department for an instru-
ment designed to indicate the direo-
ton from which wireless telegraph
messages are coming. Although the
navy would be willing to pay for set
of these instruments, it has baked at
the heavy duty and is looking to the
treasury department for relief.
In time of war, naval officers say.
this instrument would be invaluable.
Although messages being sent by an
enemy would be in code, it is said that
it would be possible to ascertain
whether the waves going through the
air were from the enemy's vessels.
and with the Indicator pointing the
direction, it would be comparatively
easy to locate hostile fleet.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-12-15

u RESENT indications are that the
I fire losses in the United States
and Canada for 1911 will exceed $780,
100000. The figures for the first
seven months of the year show to-
tai of $154,992,9oo, as compared with
s126,067 800 during the same period
last year. The losses for 1910 were
1924, 4O6,650. and if the present ratio
of increase continues throughout the
year, the 1911 losses may approach
$500, 100000. This will exceed any
year in the history of the country ex-
cept those of the San Francisco and
Baltimore CONGREGATIONS.
Government officials, underwriters
and fremen agree that the majority
of these fires are due to carelessness
and are easily preventable. All of the
recent fires, which have attracted pub
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-12-15
PRESENT VICEROY OF INDIA

Lord Hardinge, the present viceroy
of India, being the direct representa-
tive of the crown in the eastern EN-.
pire, with his young and charm
ing wife, took rank next to their ma
jesties in the splendid ceremonies and
festivities which graced the corona
ton celebration at the Delhi Durbar.
The whole of his active career has
been spent in the diplomatic service.
He was born in 1859, became for
eign office clerk in 1880, and three
years afterward was appointed third
secretary at Madrid. He served five
years in St. Petersburg, to which
cour, he was appointed in 1885. Aft
er two years at Constantinople. he
was for time charge d'affaires at
Bucharest. He saw further service
at Cairo and Zanzibar, and was min
lister at Teheran from 1900 to 1905.
From Teheran he went to Brussels,
and from there was appointed viceroy
in succession to the Earl of Mimic.
He went to India with the prestige
of a great name, being descendant g
East India company, who was rewarde
chm for nooet diotino1,ishod Sorvicoa IN
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-12-15

horde of several thousand half-grown
and half-famished turkeys invaded the
potato field of the northwest potato
ling. The potato bugs decreased in
number every day as the v0racious
turkeys advanced through the long
straight rows. At night the poultry
rested beneath the vines and at day
break again continued the onslaught
against the plague of bugs. When AL
gust came, and with it nice warm
rains, the potato fields freshened up
and the biggest crop of tubers ever
harvested matured.
The turkeys were loath to leave the
potato fields, and Miss McGraw and
Strange held several councils to plan
methods to get the turkeys back tc
their home land. It was finally de-
cided to let turkeys and potatoes re-
main on the same farm and the re-
suit was the wedding.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-12-15

erently called "Hitching Posts by the
army has long since expired, but
few have been abandoned. Around
these garrisons, during the long years
of their existence, settlements and
towns have grown up which are prin-
cipally dependent upon the pay Of tho
soldiers.
Every effort by the army to have
these useless and expensive establish
ments abandoned have been bitterly
contested, and in most instances sufh'
cient pressure has been brought to
bear to defeat every effort to with
draw the troops. Apart from the treas
ure waste incident to the erection and
up-keep of these properties, they are
the chief source of inefficiency in the
army. ,-; go.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-12-15
Your Uncle Sam Is Watching Mexic'

Of another revolution on American
soil, indicate the attitude Of Washing
ton. The steps were dictated as much
by domestic economic considerations
as by regard for the stability of the
Madero regime In Mexico. - - ~. IF
The United States does not want
another war in Mexico The last revo-
luton, which lasted about nine months,
cost the United States about 100000
900, not including the damage done to
American property In Mexico. Amer
lean capitalists who have invested in
the neighboring republic do not want
to see another series Of disorders.
Federal authorities have seized
great quantities of arms and ammuni-
ton at Laredo, Tex, and other points
along the border. The officers were
led to the cache by Juan Meriga.
shortly after his arrest on the same
Indictment as that found against Gen.
eral Reyes. He confessed the arms
were collected in Texas and were to
have been used In a revolt against
Madero. He stated the revolution was
to be in hehaf Of General Reyes and
that the general was the leader Of tho
plot. Three other alleged ReyeistS
were arrested at Laredo and all con-
fessed they were implicated in revolt
tionary plots.
The Mexican authorities are still
sceptical about the threatened revolu.
ton, but President Madero and h1o
cabinet are taking every precautton
against letting it get a start in the
border states.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-12-15
American Sunshine.

American Sunshine.
Until a man has made the expert
ment it is impossible to believe how
vivid and how severe on British eyes
IS the glare Of the American sun. and
also how impossible it is, no matter
bow strong British prejudice may be
in that regard. to play golf in the coat
which all the traditions of Scotland
prescribe as decent Very eocx ts>
Briton golfing in America will have
cast from him that worse than super
nuous garment, and will be going with
light heart and raiment-so-calle in
shirt sleeves''-like the American
himself.-London TELEGRAPH.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-12-15
Daniel and the Lions.

Daniel and the Lions.
And it came to pass that Daniel was
cast into the den of lions by order of
King Darius.
Early the next morning King Darius
went to the den, rolled away the
stone and called out: DO the uonI
bitter"
Not unreasonably," replied Daniel.
who was well up in the legal vernacu.
lar of the day.
"Good," calculated King Darius Al
he rolled back the stone. Thereupon
he went forth and proclaimed to tho
multitude that the lion quostloa 1od
been solved.-Puck.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-12-15
in: TIE ll M ldt1+I |
ARREST or GENERAL REYES

The arrest by United States FEEDER
al authorities of Gen. Bernardo Reyes.
q former member Of the Diaz regime
In Mexico. on the charge Of violating
the neutrality laws Of the United
States has brought prominently be-
fore the public the efforts which are
being made by Mexican refugees in
this country to precipitate civil war
across the border. Ever since Gen.
and President Madero succeeded in
Kidding Mexico Of Diaz and ending the
close corporation which stood around
him and which had been exploiting
the country for its own interests there
has been a conspiracy on foot to GUST
Madero and restore the old Dtaz
regime to power.
The center Of this conspiracy ap-
parently has been in Ell Paso, Tex.
while another junta was established
in San Antonio, where Gen. Reyes
had taken up his quarters and where
he was placed under arrest. Soldiers
- A~~A,.-- kI~~oI II +hAo0 y,1onoa
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-12-15
MOVER IN A new SHIP Line

As a result of H. G. Haugan's trip
to Norway last summer, from which
he returned to Chicago recently, the
first steamship company to run line
OF ships between Norway and the
United States was organized. At a
banquet Of ship owners in Christiania
some time ago Mr.. Haugan showed so
plainly the profits that could be made
by such a steamship line as the Nor
wegfan-American Steamship company.
with capital Of 81, zoo, 900, was organ
lied.
Mr.. Haugan's family always has
been active in Norwegian affairs. His
brother, H. A. Haughan, former presi-
dent of the State Bank of Chicago, was
made knight of the Order of St. Olaf,
the highest order of Knighthood in
Norway, shortly before his death in
1909.
The formation of shipping COM
pany to take care of the trade be-
tween the Scandinavian countries and
the United States without the vexa-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-12-15
Red Hoods.

Red Hoods.
IF you have taken a degree in d.
vinity at Oxford. you are entitled to
wear a red hood" The speaker was
Ethelbert Reed, the Duluth psychol-
ogist. He continued: wearing
red hood myself. take a natural in
terest in hood stories. There is one
about a man Who complained to his
bishop that So-and-So, though not Of
Oxford. was wearing masters hood
"'And ! call it, bishop said the COM
plainart bitterly, wearing lie on his
back "'Oh, don't use SO strong 4
word as that said the bishop. Just
call It q false hood IS +
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-12-15
The Unexpected.

The Unexpected.
The automobilist had stopped at the
humble cottage for a drink On the
table lay a penciled sketch. The
stranger looked at it with interest
why, that's quite good" he said
Our son drew It," the woman told
him.
Indeed! It certainly shows prom
Use. The little fellow should b en-
couraged. I'd Hike to talk to him.
Where IL ho1 At school?"
mo, sir. He's In New York
Tn New York; r..
Yes. sir. Hes been q maGaa1as
illustrator for ten yaaSs.s s
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-12-15
Late DOMINICAN PRESIDENT

The assassination of President Ra-
mon Caceres Of the Dominican Re-
public by political malcontents in
San Domingo city as he was leaving
the house of a friend where he had
made call. is the climax to series
of political tragedies with which he
had been Intimately connected The
first of these occurred in 1884, when
Caceres' father was put to death by
the order of President Heureaux be-
cause of his supposed sympathy with
political dissenters.
Caceres, then a boy of ten, vowed
vengeance. His father left large
estate and. with unlimited means at
his, disposal, young Caceres came to
the United States, where he attended
and graduated from the Rensselaer,
Polytechnic Institute, at Troy, N. Y.
Here he met and married Lillian, the
adopted daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
James Hakes, of that city. Upon the
death of Mr.. and Mrs. Hakes, few
years later, Mrs. Caceres converted
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-12-15

American men have decided to re.
fuse to obey any edict Of fashion from
Paris about wearing knee breaches II
the emanc!pated women Of the land
would only initiate the men In this,
what promenedes Of grace. beauty and
independence our public streets might
h!
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-12-15
Minister and Priest,

Times have, indeed, changed from
the days of the immigration Of the
Puritans to that Of their old-time an.
tagonists. The earlier warfare has
died away, and many a minister Of
an old Puritan church on this side of
the water feels an affection for the.
faithful priest of the humble multi.
tudes Of his own town which he does
not feel for some ministers who bear
the name Of Protestant. In the mem
tai and spiritual spheres attraction
often decreases with tho nearness a.
two bodies and repulsion incrsasss-,
The Christian Register. 81
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-12-15

The Philadelphia matron who
smoked a cigarette in public says it Is
none Of the public's business. As far
~ We are concerned she can smoke
ANY time she feels like 1t, as long a.
she doesn't try to borrow our tobacco
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-12-15

Two guides wer shot by mistake
on the opening day Of the hunting
season In New Jersey. One Of the
strange things in connection with our
civilization is that men continue 10
wish to be guides
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-12-15

The price Of opium has dropped as
Now We know why the war CORE
sponients are Strengthening so many
thousands every day
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-12-15

cons1dera
Many the foremost official circles Norway financially inter
and Christian Mchasen xpime minister among the largest stock
country
o
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-12-15

1t may be possible to catch fish with
noise. as a Harvard professor claims.
but most anglers conserve their noise
until they have returned from the fish
ing trip.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-12-15

An eastern woman Is about to take
unto herself a sixth husband after
having buried five OF them 1t be-
hoovcs the organist to play a funeral
march during the wedding
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-12-15

A Connecticut school requires the
boy pupils to learn how to cook It Is
but natural to believe that the girls
are taught to lay brick or carry the
hod
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-12-15

dynamite ammunt
ton has fact that plot against Madeo
contemplated
The
the
chiefly
needs
oudon which a ba on
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-12-15

Connecticut cab morse which was
struck by an automobile became de-
spondent and deliberately committed
eucidc Evidently he figured that fate
vas rubbing 1t in
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-12-15

A business man in Toronto has an
eighty-year-old stenographer. From
the point OF view OF a business mans
wife, that Is the proper age for ste-
nOgraphers.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-12-15

Mule in New Jersey drank a gallcn
OF whisky and then Kicked itself IN
death Human jackasses seldom car
ry their penitence that far
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-12-15

Street car conductors are to an
nounce the names of streets through
horns to save opening the door. They'll
be singing them next.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-12-15

husband
Domingo
he death OF his
49, 1892 He
possible for Jim
presidency.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-12-15

The smugglers who were caught in
New York with $1,000 worth OF glass
eyes evidently were blind to the
1niQuity Of their ways.