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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-11-07
Three Kinds. Of Work
Is done by our
smooth running
Wertheim Triplex
Sewing Machines,

namely, the Plain Stitch,
the Lock Stitch and the
Chain Stitch. The machines
themselves are made of pol
ished Walnut, beautifully in
laid and come in ONE drawer
and SIX drawer varieties,
with ornamental nickel drop
handles and extension table.
We have only a few more in
stock and will close them
oat at greatly reduced prices.
The machine requires but
little energy on the part of
the operator, but. like a thor
Oughbred race horse, starts
at the tap and will hold its
own against all entries, COM
ing in at the post with an
even stride, after having
done good work. The ma
chine will prove valuable in
| the home. Picture for your
self, your wife and daughters
planning some new costume,
all taking a hand in its manu-
facture and all of them smil-
ing and happy because they
have found a friend in a
IWERTHEIM
TRIPLEx
SEWING
MACHINE
The H0WQiQD HQfdWQfe Go.
AGENTS.
II. Ct. BART,
dGWe|HT 0nd Matchmaker
TIMELY NOTICE =
That he's now at
g sos Fort s,...,
Souvenir Spoons and Hawaiian and
Gold Wire Jewelry to Order.
THE QUEEN HOTEL.
Nuuanu Avenue.
C. BUSCHJOST, /: MANAGER.
Just opened. Large airy rooms. All |
opening on spacious veranda-
Rooms $3.50 to $500 per week.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-12-11
TREED BY A BEAR.
Terrible Experience Of a School Teacher
in sullivan Cotfnty.

Terrible Experience Of a School Teacher
in sullivan Cottnty.
Lucretia Ritter. a pretty little school
teacher OF Sullivan county. Pa. had !,
terrible experience recently. She IS in
charge of q country school in Il lonely
portion of the Skunk mountains, in the
vicinity of Elk Lake, and boards ut !,
farmhouse over a mile distant. For con-
yenlence the young teacher has been
accustomed to take Il short cut through
lonely woods, thus saving herself a
long walk.
AS she was trayersing the path on her
way to the schoolhouse she observed
what she supposed was a yearling calf
lying directly in her path. She brnvely
waved her lunch basket to scare the ami
NAL, but was almost petrified with lor-
ror when she discovered that it was a
full grown bear. The bear made 4 rush
for her and the girl in her fright climbed
partly up a crooked tree. To add to her
terror. her clothing became fastened to
a broken limb of the tree and the fright
ened girl was unable either to ascend or
descend. The bear in the meantime had
dev0ured her lunch basket and the flow
ers off her hat. which were dropped dur
ing the girls flight.
The bear, kept the girl prisoner for
ovet. three hours, and was finally fright
eiled off by. the arrival Of Farmer
Schwartz: After Miss Ritter had been
relased from her perilous position, she
tainted and was carried in Swartz s
arms to her boarding house, distance
of almost mile. She is entirely pros
trated since her terrible experience. and
it is feared that the shock may prove
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-12-11
THE DEEPEST LAKE.
Only One Body of Fresh Water in the
World in Deeper.

Only One Body of Fresh Water in the
World il Deeper.
Crater lake, in Oregon, is the deepest
body of fresh water in America. Only
one lake in the world is deeper, namely,
Baikal. which exceeds it in depth by
asserted that Crater lake was bottomless,
but sounlings have proved that it's great.
est depth Is 1000 feet. It is five miles
in diameter, nearly circular and <occll.
pies the crater of an extinct volcano
No fish have ever been known to exist
in Crater lake. Not long ago u: request
that it be stoc ked with trout was sent
a club Of mountain climbers. having
headquarters at Portland Mazama is
the Indian maine for mountain goat. The
climbers arc anxibts to angle lii this
extinct crater, and the goveTnnlent eX:
perts arc going to find out whether or
not such a thing is practicable. 1t is
easy enough to put trout into the water,
for them there. Trials will be made by
an expedition, for the purpose of ascel-
taining how much food there is, and
whether or not it is of kind suitable
for speckled beauties to browse upon.
This will be accomplished by towing
small! nets of gauZe along the surface
Of thu, water. The water will flow
lh1ouSH tAc s,&iuAC, WHICH VIII "a ICu all
the animalculac that come in it's way.
The quantity of the latter secured in a
given number of minutes or hours win
be an accurate measure of the quantity
of fish food present. They will be bot
tied and preserved i'll formaline for sub
segment examination by specialist, who
will determine the species represented.
A most interesting series of expert.
ments will be made for the purpose of
ascertaining the temperature of the wa.
ter at various. depths. No temperature
observations have ever been taken in
fresh water nearly SO fur. down. With
this end in, view an equipment of self
airy apparatus will be, taken and will be
set down by lieaiis Of sounding lines:
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-12-11

The heated itsn 81 ter IA - time aet fire 10
the table. md the III commandment
to tho surronndinl 81 bustibie & materiai.
q. wagon loaded 0line coll i1ed
With IN electric car goll was
demolished md the oil Hooded the sfrePt.
The accident attracted the ID tentidil Of
m0tOrmali of another en-. who r.sai his
car up to the scene. Seeing flle oil nm
ming under his car, lie turned on Che ciir-
rent to get away. a spnrk from TIN.
wheel Immediately ignited the gasoline
fumes, and instantly the street was
ablaze. -Four people were injured, as,iie
seriously, md one horse was burned to
death. NJ s. 81 IS
B Fire occurred in Il basement owing Il,
dripping water falling ON M electrical
=measuring instrument, thereby sllArt-
scircuiting it, No damage was done be-
You'd the loss Of the instrument.
81 Sparks from are lamps in Il depart
sment store ignited cloaks on a table
underneath. z.@ 81 s 81 E5t
. An elevator motor was burned ont,
having been left running when. the en-
plooyes left the store, the motor brushes
being badly adjusted.
Is A carpenter dropped a nut on the coils
of q rheostat, short-circuiting them with
an iron frame resting against Il gas ripe.
An are was formed between the frame
and the pipe, the latter. was melted End
the escaping gas ignited. Bit small loss.
& Rats gnawed the insulation from IL
I wire which lay on Il gas pipe, an arc
was established between the wire and
I the gas pipe, setting fire to the gas.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-12-11
HOMEMADE LIMBURGER.
New York and Wisconsin the Only State
that Can C0mnete with Germanr

New York and Wisconsin the Only States
that Can Compete with Germany.
1t is one Of the strange facts of COM
tnerce that nearly all the limburger
cheese sold in this country is made here
and not imported from Germany. Wis
cOnsin turns out Il considerable quanti-
ty, but the bulk of the finest limburger
comes from Jefferson county, on the
shores of the st. Lawrence, and, shipped
to New York, is eaten as the genuine
German article even by serious-minded
Teutons, who are gormands when it
comes to cheese.
Though not big industry, it is a
profitable one, and good many farmers
up in that end Of the state own half d
dozen or even more, little limberger
factories, each employing several men
and keeping busy all the year round.
WISCONSIN is New York's only competi-
tor in this line, and by mutual agree
ment the manufacturers have divided
the country the Wisconsin men taking
all the West and the New Workers the
entire Eas; In this way each manages
to sell at a good profit, just low enough
to compete with the German cheese COM
ing into the country. In the markets of
this city New York limburger sells at an
average price of IL cents pound. The
foreign makes cannot be bought over
here for less than 16 or II cents, and so
it follows that even the cheese of this
variety served iii the foreign restau-
rants and bought III the German shops
comes from American cows.
Just why there are only two regions in
this country where limburger can be sue
cessfully produced is something the farm
ers do not know. and no one has been
able to find out. Experiments have been
tried in other places, but they have all
resulted in failure. All that is certain
is that there is some popularity in the
grass of Wisconsin and Northwestern
New York that gives the milk precisely
the right chemical properties for linz
burger In New York the right sort of
grazing ground does not extend much be-
yond the boundaries of Jefferson county.
Exactly the same curious freak of nature
and vegetation is to be noticed in Ohio.
There the farmers can turn out Swiss
cheese equal in quality to any that the
continent of Europe can produce. But
the Ohio COWS will not give limburger
milk any more than the Jefferson county
IN. W cows will give Swiss cheese milk.
Each section thus has a comfortable lit
tie trade of it's own and is secure against
competition.
The making of limburger is Il compli-
Gated matter the process taking six
weeks. Unlike most cheeses, limburger
Is NOT pressed, ana IL is only neateu up
to 80 degrees or Whereabouts. The good,
old-fashioned American cheese is made
at temperature of nearly 12O. People
who do not understand the process of
making limburger, bit who have eaten
it, or at least been close to It, may be
interested in knowing that what causes
the potent smell is the whey working out
through the coating of salt with which
each cheese is thickly covered.-New
York Times
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-12-11
100 EELS IN A TURBINE.
They Checked the Water Power and
Stopped the Whole Factory


Stopped the Whole Factory
The 'Trion cotton factory is i'll the
heart Of the mountains on the Chattooga
river, a bold stream that has it's source
i'll some large streams gushing out from
the base Of the Lookout !; range. Its
waters were formerly as clear as crystal,
but since the clearing. Of the valleys and
mountain sides for cultivation it becomes
muddy after rain. "
\ few days since the superintendent of
the factory discovered that. there was
something defective in the power, which
is furnished by turbine waterwheel.
The water was shut off SO that an in.
vest;gation could be made. The sluice
gates were raised and the water drained
from the canal and pier head, and the
wheel box was opened. Inside was
found a mass of wriggling eels,' weighing
from one to four pounds each. They
were so inextricablv knotted and twisted
around the shaft and among the blades
of the wheel that the force of the wa
fer, although it amounts to several hum
dred horsepower, was insufficient to
Turn the machinery. -
The mill hands were summoned and
the work of removing the cells was begun
There was 100 cells and the entire mass
tipped the beam at 264 pounds. The
stream has long been famous for it's cells,
but this is the largest single catch that
has been made in Georgia: There is no
telling how many smaller ones got
through to the pond beyond the dam.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-12-11
HER LIFE SAVED.
MISS LILLE MANNING CURED or
a SERIOUS AFFliCTioN.

For Several Months, ON Account Of
81 u eart Trouble, she Was Unable to
~ y pstairs, Except Very Slowly
~ Last Finds Complete Recovery
From the Ne,rs. Washb,u,a. Wis,
MI only daughter, Lille, aged is
years., was. until about year ago, tro,l-
bled very badly with her heart said
lrs. fh0mass Manning, of WasIburn,
Wis. TO ii reporter recently. IF she
Went upstairs Ii had 10 be done very slow
" and she Wouid be all tired out when
she got half way UP. She was unable to
no any sweeping or washing, or in fact
any work at all requiring any exertion
whatever. We spent many dollars for
we were told she was incurable, and that
they could do nothing which would be Of
permanent benefit to he, She was grad
ually but surely getting worse, and in
fact after we had fried almost everything
we could think of without relief, we made
UP our minds there was no hope for her.
'One day my son read an advertise
ment Of Pink Pills for Pale People and
said: a. Mother why not get box Of these
we've tried everything and she is as bad
as ever He finally persuaded me to try
them, and as the pills are only 30 cents
a box | concluded to do SO, but with little
hope that they would relieve her after 50
many other remedies had failed and the
doctors had thought her cure hopeless.
To our glad surprise, however, she show
ed an improvement from the start, and
two boxes transformed her from sickly,
Giling child into a perfectly healthy,
strong girl. This was over year ago,
and she has no signs of return of her
trouble, and is as strong, healthy and
vigorous as the average girl of her age,
and can now be Of great help to me in
: the homework. firmly believe we owe
her life to these pills and know that in
her case they did all that was claimed
for them. I cheerfully recommend these
pills, knowing what they have done in
our home"
DR.. Williams Pink Pills contain, in a
condensed form, all the elements neces-
sary to give new life and richness to the
blood and restore shattered nerves They
are also a specific for troubles peculiar
TO females, such as suppressions, irreg-
ular;ties and all forms of Weakness They
build up the blood, and restore the glow
of health to pale and sallow cheeks.
Pink Pills are sold in boxes at 80 cents Il
box or six boxes for $3.50, and may be
had of all druggists, or direct by mail by
addressing DR.. Williams Medicine Co.,
Schenectady. n. Y.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-12-11
Where ShiD'S Knees Come From.

A man who hunts through the Maine
forests at nearly all seasons of the year
is the ship-knee expert. Since the de-
cline of shipbuilding in this country, and
the introduction of iron and steel vessels,
the demand for ship-knees has dwindled
considerably, but there are enough used
in the shipyards along the coast to keep
several hundred men busy hunting for
ship-knees. Very few trees will yield
the proper timber for this work, and ex-
perts are constantly tramping through
the Maine woods to mark trees that will
answer the demands of the trade. When
q good hackmatack or white oak suit
able for the shipbuilding trade is found,
the expert either marks the tree or cuts
it down Immediately. The knees are
cut and seasoned and shipped to the
coast roughly hewn out, but for large
ones the experts receive enough to make
any amount of trouble in securing them
profitable The cypress knees of the
South Atlantic states have in recent
years injured the business of the Maine
men, but the demand for knees suitable
for yachts and small coasting vessels is
such that the experts are never at a loss
to sell their seasons products, even
though sometimes at relatively small fig
ures.-Correspondent New York Evening
Docf
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-12-11
a PEANUT MoNoPo OILY.
4 /, Company Formed . Corner I tho Pred.

Accompany Formed TO Corner tho Pred
The peanut has risen from insisnifi-
canoe to dignity. 1t 5threatens "a. be.
come one Of the staple products of the
country. s3 53s |=,
A company has now been formed by
some Of the leading capitalists Of Pitts
burg to control the peanut market, says
the New York Journal. This company,
which win be known aa the American,
Food and On company and has Il capital
Of SdO, 0NO, will open headquarters ut
NortoIk, W., the. center of the peanut
industry.
The manufacture of food prod nets and
Oil out of the peanut Is practically iii
experiment IN this country, although it
has been one of the great Industries Of
France and especially of Marseilles for
many years. Those Interested iii The
present undertaking are confident Of s,ic-
cess, because of the superiority Of the
product over other oils and meals, and
also because ii, America there Ii. unlim-
peannt-raising industry in the Southern
states, a2 .-E <F: ~ ri t@< - IS M s
The recent statement Of Edward At
kinson of Boston, the political economist
anu statistieian, that within Il few years
the peanut crop will be one Of the prime
staples of the South, was no doubt 4 sur
prise to many. But statistics bear the
statement out, and it is proved that the
Industry is constantly growing. .E.#
The peanut oil is said to be SO like
olive oil that only: the chemist or the
expert. can detect the difference. It's
flavor is pleasant and bland. and it may,
on account of it's purity, eventually sup
plant olive Oil i'll all culinary uses for
the table. Z Wy fz g.. e
The refined forms of tho oil are used as
the basis for all pure toilet soaps which
oil is an excellent lubricant, being equal
to sperm oil besides being nonoxidizing
and free from gum. It's Keeping qualities
are superior to cottonseed oil. ~::.4 IS
Other uses to which the peanut oil is
put are for slab dressing BY confection-
ers and wooden manufacturers, and in
the molds OF plug tobacco manufactur-
nut, in it's properties as a food. closely
resembles the sofa bean, which is used
by the armies of foreign countries as a
ration. and has a much higher nourishing
value. 1t can be manufactured into all
sorts of cakes, biscuits, breads. soups,
griddle-cakes, etc. and is we'll suited to
persons r:s wi, with impairst disestiye organs
shcll.is said to make Il food for livestock
that is much more noiifishinE thai bran
or cottonseed hull. Thus no part IF the
nut is wasted. but all is. turned to profit.
The statement that Marseilles imports
yearly 50, 900 worth of peanuts from
Africa and India gives some idea of
the magnitude Of this industry that
America is so we'll suited to foster. No
country in the world is better adapted to
the raising of peanuts than the South At
lantic states. The crops have been
| steadily increasing during recent years,
and a great development is looked for
in the immediate future ..l
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-12-11
Curious Electrical Fires,

y Several fires of queer origin are de-
tailed below from the quarterly report of
the Electrical Bureau Of the National
Board Of Fire underwriters, all attrib-
,,ted to electricity. ri n VI
+ "A plush curtain in u theater, on being
hoisted, came in contac, with d thirty
two il canlle-powel. + incandescent lamp.
The common size is sixteen candle-power.
The heat from the lamp ignited the cnr-
tain. but the fire was discovered. with
no loss, except the curtain ..zs
II a stnge hand was ordered to turn out
an incandescellt lamp, and not knowing
how. to do it, instead Of turning The
switch lie wrapped Il damp towel around
the lamp. Some time snfterward the
towel sWas discovered smouldering.
a portable incandescent lamp was al
lowed to- remain lighted lying on a mat
tress. The heat from the lamp ignited
the cloth and excelsior Of the mattress,
and the fire. spread through basement
and store. ssse
An electric pressing iron was allowed
to- stand with the current turned on,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-12-11
ICE CREAM FOR OCEAN VoYAGERs
The Big Steamers Take itfrom New York
E .- - for the Round Trip. =

The big Steamers Take itfrom New York
{. ~ mis- for the Round Trip. -
b All the ocean steamers leaving New
\ York city for Europe and for the South
I crn and West Indian ports are supplied
. there with icccream, not only for then
outward, but for their return voyages as
well. New York has a monopoly of
this trade, and it is chiefly confined to
! two, or, ut least, three companies. The
cream, which is to travel thousands of
miles before being used, is made in pre-
cisely the same way as that for the do.
nestle trade, and there is practically no
difference in it's taste after weeks of
freezing. &H -, 4, q " E3 g
Z All steamers have Il "coll room" in the
hold, in which is placed huge refriger-
1 ator, made especially for the purpose OF
holding icecrealn. It consists of a
square wooden box. very heavily built,
and lined with zinc. Within this is Il
square receptacle for the icecreanl, much
smaller than the inside Of the box, so as
it, The icecream is brought down to the
steamer i'll large tubs, each containing
forty quarts, put up in the usual oblong
quart bricks.
The tubs are taken aboard the vessel
and unloaded below. One by one the
quart bricks are packed snugly i'll the re-
frigerator. These cans, as they may
as is used, for instance, on the steamer
New York, containing about $50 quarts.
Previous to the filing Solid mass of
cracked ice has been packed into the
space between the sides of the can and
the box walls. The employees Of the ice
cream company direct the ships hands as
to the proper replenishment of this ice
and salt, a process which must be gone
through each day. The temperature of
the cream is kept in the neighborhood
of zero all the time. When Needed for
the table, the bricks are taken out
through a small door in the top of the
box, that there may be as little exposure
as possible to the comparatively warm
outside air.
Although the icccream thus shipped is
i'll almost every case meant only for use
aboard the steamer, there is at least one
company. i'll, this city which has Gus
tcmers in the West Indies, and thus
actually exports it's wares, in the com
mon meaning of the word The trade is
small as yet. and was brought about en-
tirely through the steamship companies
New York Trih,,np
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-12-11
MACM0NN1Es' FINGERNAILs.
Made Animals Out of Clay, Chewing
Gum and Dough.


Gum and Dough.
Bostoll's rejection of Macmonnies
statue of Bacchante has brought that
clever young sculptor once more before
the public eye. Brooklyn will accept
what Boston rejects His early works
arc i'll This city, and his masterpieces
should join them.
Since childhood Macmonnies has been
interested in art. AS baby picture
books were his chief amusement. In
boyhood he preferred visits to art gal
Many of his relatives in Brooklyn have
i'll their possession specimens of his
early work His mother has the most
valuable, because it is among the first.
This is statue of Barnum's famous
white elephant. -Macmonnies saw the
parade Of the Greatest Show Oh Earth,
which included the elephant. Aftet. the
procession he hurried home and modelled
out Of clay an image of the Animal.
the boy made the. pantry his playroonl.
Here he made with the dough a wonder
ful family Of animals and 11eh. His
playmates were the recipients Of his
work. Mrs. Macmonnies grew famous
as 4 cook
When the pantry failed him he used
chewing gum. This he bought in guam
THY. His pennies were invested in gum,
His aunt has a lifelike statue of Gen.
Washington standing beside his horse.
The finish and beauty of this little piece
of work are remarkable when the age
of the artist and the difficulties under
which he labored are considered.
While working in wax he used his fin
gernails for TOOLS. He could not get the
implements he needed SO he cultivated
nails that would have been a credit to a
mandarin. This habit did not suit his
mothers idea Of cleanliness. The big
gest rows in the Macmonnies household
were on when Fred had to trim his nails.
His mother had to take the law into her
own hands ut times and use the scissors.
With the aid of his nails he made
groups in wax. His tracings of foliage
and the outlines of his fingers foretell the
strength and harmony Of his later
works. While; his fingernails were
growing he. used old nails, hairpins and
knives i'll his modelling. -
After he became Il pupil OF Augustus
st. Gaudens he made a plaster bust of
his father which is considered a remark
able resemblance. His father was a
man, of striking appearance. This bust
and a portrait of him painted by Mac
monnies are among his mothers most
valuable possessions. : -
Macmonnies is famous asa sculptor.
but his work with paint and brush
would have brought him recognition. He
never took lessons in mixing colors or in
painting. AS a boy and a young man he
was always busy, either with his brush
or, his modelling tools. Now. when fame
has come to him. he plays a little after
his work ho,,rs.-New York Press.