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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-06-20
A M0dernized Green Goods Game
Copyright, by w. g. Chapman.)

At last l grasped one close and held II
closer to the light. l read:
Sunset and evening star
And one clear call for me.
And may there be no moaning of the
bar
When l put out to seal
i Whirled. Something had flashed
through my head. Here on the eyi.
dence of thievery, someone had writ.
ten stanza of Tennyson's Crossing
the Bar I approached the captain,
for a wild idea had come.
If you please, l would like a little
expense money on this case,' I told
him. I may be wrong in my belief.
but I've got little lead that may turn
out something
Il received the money, and then
started out. The loop district looked
like the best chance for me and so I
started around there. The first day l
made eight barbershops and j."
Made them?" interrupted. 81
don't believe quite understand"
"Why," Miss Clement answered. II
simply covered them like a salesman
would cover line of stores. And in
cldentally, I had become a salesman,
l had figured it out that my man would
be either a poetic barber or a poetic
candy merchant of some kind. knew
someone who had something to do
with tissue paper of that size was
either barber or a candy man. In
one place it would be used for the
shaving. In the other, it would be
used in putting the dressing in candy
boxes. And SO, got a job with a
candy manufacturer knew and start
ed out to drum up trade
And you know" Miss Clement
added with smile, lin walking around
Chicago, where the wind is always
blowing, ones face gets mighty grimy
and dusty. There is nothing that takes
the dust away like massage. And
so, between every candy store, would
manage to become grimy enough to
need the assistance of barber. l al
ways did hate to go to these feminine
hairdressing establishments, she
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smiled at me, land so just acted like
a man, walked into the barbershop,
sat down in the chair and ordered a
massage.
when the night of the first day
came, my face was as sore as a boil.
The next day I decided that had bet
ter change my method until my face
got over the various rubbings it had
received the day before, and so found
that my hair was giving me a head
ache and needed a good combing.
Ten times that day I went into barber
shops and had my hair combed, then
dressed by the manicurist. No luck.
Nor were the candy stores any
more enlightening. The men l saw
were sordid brutes. They had no more
poetry in their systems than a block
Of wood began to realize that was
working on a mighty slim clue, to be-
gin with, that it was wild in the ex-
IRENE and that there was little chance
of me winning out in my fight to catch
man simply through the fact that
!! there had been some poetry written
on tissue paper. But persisted just
the same.
"And things steadily grew worse.
The loop district was covered, I did
every barbershop and every candy
store in the radius of the confines OF
l. structures which go to make up the
real business district of Chicago. In
not one Of them could l find a man
whose face or whose personality at all
tailed with that of the one l sought.
After all, l had been foolish. l had
spent lot of good money on a quest
that I should have known, before l
started, would be fruitless. Yet some
thing impelled me to keep on.
Il visited every shop in the tougher
districts Of the city. Not an item of
evidence did I find. I went out into
the residence districts; and then, in a
small, two-man shop, saw some
shaving paper of exactly the kind of
which the fake money bundle had
been prepared. l took hope-then lost
it again. The owner of the shop was
small and dull-eyed and a glance at
him showed that by no possibility
could he the man described by the
various victims. The other barber
was nearer the size I sought, but it
seemed that there was plodding
something, characteristic about him
that never had been described. But
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-06-20
Eordotten Novelist.

Ninety years ago there died nov
elist of whom it would have been con-
sidered sacrilege to suggest, in her
own time, that she would ever be for
gotten. The friend of Mrs. Montagu,
Mrs. Piozzi and all the blue stockings,
she married William Radcliffe, editor
of the English Chronicle, and set the
town on fire with her novels. Scott
wrote Of her that "the praise may be
claimed for Mrs. Radcliffe of having
been the first to introduce into prose
fiction beautiful and fanciful tone Of
natural description and narrative
which had hitherto been exclusively
appropriated to poetry" For 'The
Mysteries of Updolpho" she received
$500, and later book produced
&800-great sums in those days, and
beyond the reach of many excellent
noyelists today.
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for 3 few moments we walked along
in the mist, s. whistling, she taking
in the bright freshness of the trees
and the grass and shrubbery with he1
swapping, liquid eyes. BY and by she
took up the thread of her narrative.
IT resolved that If it took me
month, would get that man to talk to
me. And the next day l began my
campaign by walking into the barber
shop and climbing into his chair.
"I believe you are WIZARD said
to him.
"Whyr
"'Why?' I laughed. For three months
l have been suffering from afternoon
headaches. Yesterday l came in here
and had you comb my hair. And when
I walked out, my headache was gone
I'm back for another dose OF the same
prescription"
"Oh, fattery!" laughed Miss Gle
ment, your power is greater tnan
even gold! My little speech pleased
him. He laughed and there came 9
bit of the light to his eyes that had
seen in them on the street.
"'Live in the city?' he asked after
a long time.
EYES, answered, I just came here
from Louisville. had always lived
there, but when my husband died,
just determined that I'd sell out every
thing and move away to bigger city
1t took q great deal more time than
imagined l added innocently, be-
cause when we came to look things
up, my husband had about three times
as much property as had thought
''That was just another bit of bait
upon the hook and 1 was wondering
whether or not he would swallow It
He gave no evidence of interest. How
ever, there was a smile of geniality on
his countenance as he finished the
brushing of my hair and stood to one
side while l dressed it.
"Does your head feel better now?
he asked.
Every much l answered.
-"'Then perhaps you will come back
tomorrow
Assuredly So I laughed in an
swer. You are the best doctor ever
knew reached into my bag and
handed him $40 bill. He did not 60
to the cash register with it. Instead
he took from his pocket three IS bills
and four ones and handed them to me-
I saw that they were absolutely clean
and new, evidently just procured from
some bank that morning. And ]
walked from the shop with a little
thump of gladness in my heart. ]
knew he had been impressed by my
story of wealth and had decided that
he would get portion of my supposed
fortune.
"And he began to play on me a game
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-06-20
HAIR CUT By A SQUIRREL
Rodent Barber Gets Busy on Thatch
of Sleeping Oregon Pho
tographer.

Ernest J. Bloom, a photographer
of Hood River, Ore, who has been
passing the last two weeks at the
ranch of R. E. Scott, secretary of the
Commercial club, returned hc1e with
a portion of his hair gone.
Mr.. Bloom had been working in the
garden and making a lawn on the
ranch. He was taking nap after
lunch when a squirrel that had been
making it's home in the house this
winter, evidently thinking his long
black locks would make an excellent
lining for nest, trimmed off a por-
ton of the hair while he slept.
"The rodents teeth must have been
sharp" says the photographer, ''for
could scarcely feel him at work there
cutting away the hair. I must have
moved in my sleep and in his excite
ment he evidently pulled some of the
hairs out instead of cutting them.
This awoke me and I let out yell
that almost frightened the squirrel to
death. Oregonian.
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Then l gasped. l heard him begin to
whistle the first few bars of The
Melody in F.
And then l understood. I was on
the right track after all. Putting two
and two together, judging from the va
rious descriptions of the men who had
been fieeced, here was man who had
the power, seemingly, of not only
changing his face, but his whole
bearing whenever it suited his pur-
pose. I had studied his appearance in
the barbershop, I had taken in every
detail of his clothing, and had it not
been for that and for that fact, too,
that had seen him leaving the shop,
never would have been able to rec
ognize him. But now I was sure!
"A great feeling of relief surged
through me; / ]new now that could
go to the captain and tell him a diff
ferent story from the one l had ben
planning a short time before. More
than that, would be the means of
bringing in a criminal who was dan.
gerous in the extreme, who would rep.
resent all the finer arts OF trickery
and whom it would be q triumph to
put behind the bars of penitentiary.
Hurriedly I started toward my car,
that l might hasten to police head
quarters and arrange for the arrest
the next morning
Then, just as suddenly, l halted,
and although queer fear ran through
me, I could not help laughing at the
funny possibilities of the situation.
Just suppose" Miss Clement began
to chuckle as she thought Of it, "just
suppose that this man should have
still another face which had never
been used, so to speak, and no one
I could identify him? And that iden.
tity would be all upon which 1 could
have my case. had none of his para,
phernalia, not witness had been able
to tell where he was taken when the
money machine did its work and
ground out the supposed fortunes, and
SO all l would have to show to q
court would be a group Of disgruntled
men who would swear that they had
been robbed but in a place they could
not point out and by man they could
not identify. I decided all at once
that this was not time for making
arrests. There must be evidence and
it was up to- little Alice to get it."
She smiled % she said that, am
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just the same, I determined 70 take a
chance. got into his chair and called
for massage.
>. "As he worked, tried to study his
face whenever could keep my eyes
OPEN to see If there could find the
criminal lines that would depict the
kind of man sought; or If I could
find that softer something which
would show that he was the sort of a
man who could appreciate poem of
the depth and the beauty Of Tenny-
sons Crossing the Bar But 1t was
useless. For once in my life I was
stumped. I have always prided N.Y.
self that I can read faces and see the
character outlined there, and in every
case with the other man had studied
had even been able to tell what
their best girls looked like. But
here"
Miss Clement shrugged her shout
ders, pursed her lips and spread forth
her hands to the drizzling rain. l
turned a pair of inquiring eyes to her.
What was the trouble?" asked.
"Simply this: that mans face might
as well have been dough, as far as any
expression was concerned. There did
not seem to be single bit of express
sion to the eyes, and his face did not
change once. 1t interested me, that
countenance, I studied it and studied
it, yet could derive nothing from it.
determined that as soon as the mas
sage was over, would get my hair
combed for about the 900th time and
see if conversation would do any good
"And for half hour I talked, trying
to draw him out, endeavoring to learn
whether or not he knew anything OF
literature; but his answers were al
most invariably in monosyllables.
gave up the attempt and left the shop.
''That night as l was returning to
my apartment, I CHANGED, in changing
cars, to again pass the little shop
where I had wasted SO much of my
good time. I was tired, more than
that, was weary, ready almost to go
to the captain and tell him that had
made failure of everything and that
my great clue had been nothing more
than the wild dream of a woman's
brain, intangible, impractical. 1t was
just about at that moment that I
noticed my shoe string had become
united. I stopped to retie it, and as I
rose, a figure approached aud passed
me. That figure knew, there was
something about the general bearing
of the man that was familiar, mighty
familiar to me. And yet, it seemed
had never seen the face before. True,
the contour was similar, the color of
the hair and the eyes was the same as
that Of the man in the barbershop.
But that was all. Almost involuntarily
I turned and followed him a few steps.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-06-20
Eertilize the LANGUAGE,

Surely there must be something the
matter with the vocabulary of our
young people when they have to de-
pend so exclusively upon such words
as "Sure!" "Dandy!" and wonder
full" to express their principal emo
tons. What Is most extraordinary
about all this is that the Vocabulary
of young women does not seem to be
improved by college career. One
would think that it would be quite i'm.
possible to study Latin and French
and German, literature and philosophy
for a number of years (even though
studied in the most superficial man.
ner) without acquiring enough variety
of words to carry one through any
common experience. The method of
studying English in our schools is
entirely wrong. There should be
classes in adjectives.-Life.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-06-20
Nav With Most of Us.

Mayor Gaynor, at dinner in New
York, discussed the arguments of
very young and very cocksure lawyer.
This young chap from the country"
said the mayor, would do we'll to fol-
low-instead Of trying to lead-older.
wiser, and more experienced men than
himself But
The mayor sighed whimsically.
"Heigho!" he said. "Some men never
have any respect for gray hairs till
after they've acquired a few of their
own"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-06-20
Where Tommy Came In

Saucy Tommy had been listening to
the talk of his elders, and when his
stern father, angry over tho young.
sters neglect of his simple farm du-
ties, took him to tasN Tommy was
ready with his provoking reply: You
don't do thing that you should, and
almost everything that you shouldn't
do you delight in," stormed papa. I'D
like to know what good you are In
the world, anyway" What good am
II" retorted the naughty lad. putting
q safe distance between himself and
his parent. why, dad, I'm . con-
sumer, and I'd like to know what
would become Of the farmers II the
consumers were not around?"
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of love. The next day when l came in
for my usual headache cure he asked
! if l was not late.
81 hardly think so,' answered,
'why?'
Nothing he said slowly, only it
just seemed had been expecting you
for good while, that's all
"Cute, wasn't it," Miss Clement
laughed. Let me tell you that Ter
ence Laffan (Which wasn't his real
name at ally certainly knew the game
of love. They tell me that barber is
the most dangerous love-maker in the
world, anyhow; at least, that's what
the new detectives down at headquar-
tiers always have said. And certainly
Terry didn't miss out on any of the
fine points when he was going to COL
lege-."
"Barber"college, of course" 1 sup
piled.
"'Here, we're getting away from
the story Miss Clement broke in.
What l was trying to say was that
within the next two weeks, Terry LAT
fan managed to work up the finest
case of love at first sight you ever
heard OF. The fact that he was only
barber while 1 was supposed to be a
rich woman, didn't worry him in the
least. And then the poetry began to
spring forth. And all the time, under
stand, he was changing the bills I
gave him and handing me back clean.
new money. Once or twice, just to
see what would happen, I asked him
what it meant, how he happened al
ways to have new money. He only
smiled at me. Then he would recite
little strain of mystic verse to me as l
sat in the chair, something that
would show he was far better read
than I. And then one afternoon came
the cl1ncher. He pulled bit of tissue
paper from his pocket and handed it
! to me.
1T was thinking of you when I
wrote that this noon. It's a bit Of
Omar's philosophy. often pick up q
scrap Of paper here and scribble on
it,
"And then, read:
All love! could you and with Him
conspire,
To grasp this sorry scheme of things
entire,
Would We not shatter it to bits and
then,
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The Fall Scared the Usually Gentle
Horse.

Then Prince kicked. His right hind
foot struck Miss Wirth every time he
lashed cut. Still unable to release
her, the men lifted her unconscious
body from the ground and so held it
that only her left leg received the
kicks until at last she was wrenched
free.
DR.. Grabill found the left leg ter.
ribly torn from foot to thigh, her
body battered and bruised, her face
severely lacerated, a deep hoof cut
over the right eye. She will remain
for some time in the circus own hos
pital
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-06-20
The LURE OF THE WEST
WESTERN CANADA ATTRACTING
# THOUSANDS OF SETTlERa

Writing on the Canadian West an
eastern exchange truthfully says:
The West still calls with imperar
tive voice. To prairie and mountain.
and for tho Pacific Coast, Ontario's
young men and women are attracted
by tens OF thousands yearly. Tho
great migration has put an end to the
fear, freely expressed not many years
ago by those who knew the West from
the lakes to the farther coast of Van
couver Island, that Canada would
some day break in two because of the
predominance Of Continental European
and American settlers in the West"
This il true. While the immiera-
ton from the United States is large.
running close to 100000 year, that Of
the British Isles and Continental
Europe nearly twice that number. max
ing total Of 100000 per year, there
Is a strong influx from Eastern Can.
ada. 1t is not only into the prairie
provinces that these people go, but
many Of them continue westward, the
glory Of British Columbia's great trees
and great mountains, the excellent
agricultural valleys, where can be
grown almost all kinds of agriculture
and where fruit has already achieved
prominence. Then the vast expanse
OF the plains attract hundreds of thou
sands, who at once set to work to cul-
tivate their vast holdings. There is
still room, and great opportunity in
the West. The work of mans hands,
even in the cities with their record
breaking building rush, is the small
est part of the great panorama that
is spread before the eye on journey
through the country. Nature is still
supreme, and man is still the divine
pigmy audaciously seeking to impose
his will and stamp his mark upon an
unconquered half continent.
The feature that most commends
itself in Western development today
is the 'home-making spirit" The
West will find happiness in planting
trees and making gardens and build
Ing schools and colleges and UNIVERSE
ties, and producing a home environ
ment 50 that there will be no DISPOSE
ton to regard the country as tenn
porary place Of abode in which every
one is trying to make his pile prepar-
atory to going back East or becoming
q lotus-eater beside the Pacific.
The lure of the West is strong. Ii
will be still stronger when the crude
new towns and villages of the plains
are EMPOWERED in trees and vocal
with the song of birds.-Advertise
vnant
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Remold it nearer to the Hearts De,

Remold It nearer to the Hearts De.
DO you mean anything especial BY
thatr asked In half joking way. He
turned quickly, saw that the proprie-
tor was out Of the shop, and then
came close to me.
Eyes, I do he whispered.
What? appeared surprised.
Mrs. Marion he said, (that was
my name, you know Have you
noticed anything queer about that
money I have been giving you for the
last two weeks?'"
emo. Why?'
Because it has all been counter.
felt, that's ALL
He was mine at last! My eyes
danced as he hurried1y went into his
bogus confession Of how he had
learned the secrets Of the Bureau of
Printing and Engraving at Washing
ton. He told of his money machine,
how it could turn out cash like so
much printed calico-and then came
the real nubbin of the whole affair.
He told me of his poor old mother,
blind, dying. She was about to be
thrown out of her home for debt of
$4,000. He could make the money, it
is true, but If he went to the bank
with that many fresh bills they would
suspect And so, could let him have
$4,000 providing he would turn me
out $4,000 on his trusty machine?
Wouldn't do this for him? Couldn't
I see that he loved me, that he held
me above all other women on earth?
"'1 would talk like this to no other
woman he pleaded. But l love you.
Some Of these days am going to ask
you that most important of questions
that a man can ever ask. l have con-
fessed to you what l never would have
confessed to anyone" he added, and
his eyes shone with a passion l could
hardly believe was feigned 4 have
confessed to you; it is within your
power to have me put behind. bars.
But you won't do it, will your he
pleaded. You'll help me-just for
this last time, and then l will be
through forever. l will be straight
from then on, I will lead the life that
should lead. And won't you help
meg
"I gazed at him steadily a moment
Then held out hand.
Terry said, I'll help you
HE sprang forward
"'Tonight then, at o'clock, meet
me here. There will be taxicab to
take us to the place where can make
the impressions of the money. VIII
you have the $4,000 with your
81 WILL I answered."
Then Miss Clement stopped and for
ten minutes as we walked along, she
added nothing to her narrative.
"Well?" l asked finally, whats the
rest of it?"
"The rest?" Miss Clement turned to
me and laughed. What rest need
there be! There was only one more
detail, you see. I met him. had the
$4,000 and we went in the taxicab.
But,"-and there came that mischiev-
Gus light into her eyes again, there
were certain persons who tagged
along behind, who followed that taxi
cab, who fingered outside of the door
to the room in which he took me, and,
at the crucial moment, walked in. And
when they walked in, Mr.. Terry Laf-
fan walked out, with a couple Of
decorations on his wrists. He's still
walking-in lockstep."
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HOW THIS WOMAN
FOUND HEALTH
Would not give Lydia e. ink
hams Vegetable Compound
for All Rest of Medicine
In the World.
Utica, Ohio.-"1 suffered everything
from a female weakness after baby

came. / had numb
spells and was dizzy,
had black spots be-
fore my eyes, my
back ached and I
was so weak I could
hardly stand up. My
face was yellow,
even my fngernails
were colorless and I
had'displacenent. I
took Lydia E. Pink
hams We BILE
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Paid Her Fare.

Brockton, Mass.-A bewildered hen
picked of the fender Of his trolley by
q west Bridgewater motozman laid IN
oGx which 10 worth s cents. The ps3oa
q her fare.