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Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1899-01-19
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TUE director of the United States
mint ut rhill iclphia estimates the
stock of gold in this country at 500
Wn,,gN. This estimate, carefully
made, from the best attainahlr infor-
nation, shows the largest sum in gold
ever held in this country. The year
ISIS comes nearer to lS9S in amount
of gold. II being in lNSS S1n5, SIS. SbJ.
According To- the estimates Of the
mint in 1913 the stock al gold held i'm
the principal countries Of Europe. in
Australia and i'm the United States,
was $l.2O9, NOl,uO. The mint osti-
mates IT gold i'm the same countries
in lS9S is S3,7sO,mO,uO. In other
words. in twenty-five yraIS the Wis
iblr supply of gold in England,
America and Australia has increased
more than 81 uo,,Oo.NO.-LouiSNill"
Post.
1t is facts like these that have
settled the hash for Toto |. although
purblind leaders may still desire
to stir 1t up for next years cam
nnirp
Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1899-01-19

WONDERS will never cease in pol
ltics. Jack Chinn. the expert on
the use Uf pocket cutlery as n cut
and thrust weapon in the manly
art of oifcnse and defense, is at
Carson, Nevada, to help elect
Ancient Stewart To the l.. :. Sen
ate. Stewart was one Cf the old he
perpetrators of the "crime Of 1913
10y speech and hv vote, according
To the upmutilYble record. Col.
Chinn gives his help because Stew
art apostatizca from hs gold bug
faith and became IA rip roaring sill
yerite Ivy reason of both personal
and political interest. Stewart is
not the fool though. He plays the
other fellows for that and makes
enough winnings to keep him in
heart and hope. The quickhcss
with which he would change To be
gold bug again if he thought it
was 10 his interest Ia do so would
equal the slcight-of hand mans
ART
Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1899-01-19

The Fourth Kentucky will have
to come marching home now, with
out having smelt hostile powder, to
be}mustered out.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-01-06

Pe-ru-na works harnoniously with
nature to eject the tubercles from tho
lungs, and works SO successfully that
If there is a cure for consumption
Pe-ru-na is the remedy.
Read this letter from Mrs. Fl. A.
Tyner, of Four Oaks, n. c., about her
daughter, Mrs. L. Keene. She says:
Parma Afrdzciue Co., Colnmdxs,O.
DEAR s1zs:-''My daughter had every
symptom of acknowledgements
of menses, night sweats and great ema-
citation. She was SO low that none OF
our neighbors thought she could live.
In May Mr. G. z. Adams, Of this place,
who had taken Pe-ru-na, told me il
anything would help her Pe-ru-na
would. got q bottle of it and some
rock candy and began giving it to her.
During the first few days she was SO
weak she could only take a half tea
spoonful at a time, but gave it to
her as often as she could bear it. In
less than a week she could walk two
hundred yards and back without rest
ing; she kept getting stronger, and in
twelve months she seemed to be as we'll
as she ever was in her life. feel, and so
does every one that knew about her
sickness, that Pe-ru-na saved her life.
NY daughters name is Mrs. L. Keene."
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-01-06
The Last Man to Leave the Maine.

& s-se~ Asss~S AsAsSsA w A>SSs&SO N1AO U10AuCss
Capt. Charles d. Sigsbee continues his
Personal Narrative of the 'Maine,'" in
the Century. In speaking Of the scene
Following the explosion, Capt. Sigsbee
says:
1t was a hard blow to be obliged to
leave the Maine; none of us desired to
leave while any part of her poop re-
manned above water. We waited until
satisfied that she was resting on the bot
tom Of the harbor. Lieut.. Commander
Wainwright then whispered to me that
he thought the forward 10-inch maya
zine had been thrown up into the burning
material amidships and might explode at
any time, with further disastrous effects.
He was then directed to get everybody
into the boats, which was done. 1t was
nm easy operation; one had only to step
directly from the deck into the boat
there was still some delay to make sure
that the ships stern had grounded, and
still more because Of the extreme polite
ness Of the officers, who considerably
offered me steadying hand to step into
the boat. Lieut.. Comma adler Wainwright
stood one one side and Lieut.. Holman
on the other; each offered me a hand.
suggested the propriety Of my being
the last to leave, and requested them to
precede me, which they did. There was
favorable comment later in the press be-
cause left last. 1t is a fact that / was
the last to leave, which was only proper:
that Is to say, it would have been i'm
proper otherwise; but virtually ali left
last. The fine conduct of those who
came under my observation that night
was conspicuous and touching. The
heroism of the wounded men l did not
see at the time, but afterward good re-
ports Of their behavior were very COM
mon. The patient way in which they
bore themselves left no doubt that they
added new honors to to service when the
Maine went down.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-01-06
Would Punish JOckeys.

w. C. Whitney's radical views on the
betterment of racing have brought out
wide comment in the East, and it is en-
tire probable that the stewards of the
Jockey club may be moved to ia Ike some
action sustaining the ideas Mr.. Whit
ney thinks much of the bad racing that
has been seen in and around New York
for the past two seasons has been the
fault of the jockeys. He would do away
with this evil by so disciplining the boys
that they will be most obedient He ad-
vocates the suspension of riders for stated
terms-months and possibly seasons. The
main idea is to take no notice whether
the offending jockey is on a favorite or
an outsider. The punishment for failure
to join his company at the post or for
other Objectionable acts would be visited
upon him just the same.
1t is expected that if the idea is car
ried out a new Office will be created, that
OF starting steward. Mr.. Whitney would
not invest the average starter, who might
be full of prejudices, with the right to
mar or ma Ike a jockey. He would have a
practical racing man appointed and have
him at the starting point. This, it is ex-
pected, would have q wholesome effect
on all concerned.
Mr.. Whitney and his able manager,
Sidney Paget, must claim attention as
the leading horsemen of America at the
present Tina Tho nnarmnns pnrcha ses
by Mr.. Whitney will give him a stable Of
remarkable strength for next season.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-01-06
Electric Cabs in New York.

In general appearance the New York
electric cabs are perhaps somewhat Diff
ferent from any vehicle heretofore con-
structed. The forebody is similar to m
ordinary hanson cab, but rearwardly pro,
jecting from this part of the vehicle is y
box in which the batteries are housed.
These batteries are composed of a multi
tude of lead plates carried in boxes and
immersed in dilute acid. They are insert
ted or removed by taking off the rear end
of this socalled battery box. For obvious
reasons the running gear is composed of
four wheels instead Of two. as in the
ordinary cab, and their appearance, to say
the least is striking. Aside from the
small diameter and extremely massive con-
struction, they are fitted with immense
pneumatic tires five inches in diameter.
made up of rubber stock from tiyc-eighths
to one inch thick. These tires are pumped
to a pressure of about eighty Do,1nis.
Another radical departure from ordinary
practice is embodied in the arrangement
of the front wheels as drivers. the We
hicle being steeeed by the rear wheels.
Each cab is fitted with two two.horse
power electric. motors, one of which Is
geared to each driving wheel The mo-
tors arc entirely encased, and arc at
tached to the axle adjacent to the wheels.
The steering gear is entirely different from
that, of the. horse-drawn vehicle. Zach
steering wheel revolves OH a short axle
pivOted close to the hub on an axle tree.
SO that it turns on an Independent pivot.
The two short steering axles are, however.
connected together by various rods, SO that
both wheels move together. --Harper's
Weekly ri t5s:.5 ~ a5aI 53.z5:2T9s
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-01-06
The True Enjoyment of Art.

truth and beauty represent duties, logi-
cal and lesthetical duties, just as moral
lty represents ethical duties, says Prof.
Hugo Muensterberg in the Atlantic.
Everything in this world is beautiful, and
is a joy forever if it is so transformed
that 1t does not suggest anything else
than itself, that it contains all elements
for the fulillment of the whole in itself.
edo not ask for the arms and legs of
the person whose marble bust the artist
gives lis, and we do not ask for his COM
pIexlon either. We do not ask how the
held and forest look outside of the frame
ask what the persons in the drama have
done before and will do after the story.
Our works Of art are not III our space and
not ID our time; their frame is their own
world, which they never transcend. Real
ART. however, makes us forget that the
painting is only a piece of canvas, and
that Hamlet is only an actor and not the
prince. We forget the connections, we
ABSTRACT from all relations, we think of
the object in itself; and wherever we do
so. We proceed aesthetcally. And if we
ENJOY the great works Of art, the essential
function is not the individual enjoyment
m n in eating and drinking; no, it
is the volitional Acknowledgment Of the
Will OF the artist; we will with him, and
II we appreciate his work as beautiful,
we acknowledg that it is as We feel that
" ought to be, that our will of thinking
tnat particle of the world is lifted to its
5dntles. that we have transcribed tho
sphere at merely personal arbitrariness
and III desires and agreeable fulhllments.
TINT We have reached the snhere of the
yidual Hai ucs. '-'' n ass
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-01-06
WOMAN BURNS A LIVE CAT.
Animal Roasted in a Range Because
it Took q Piece of Bread.

Mrs. Mary Fusser of 1877 West Thirty
third street deliberately roasted cat in
her cooking range on Monday and when
arrested for the brutal act she seemed to
be without sign of conjunction. She
keeps a saloon at that number:
The cat, a small gray dniiiial, little
more than kitten, was playing about
the room and receiving the caresses of
the men who sat taking their beer at
the small tables. A plate with slices of
bread in it had been left on one Of the
vacant tables. In it's frisking about the
cat seized a piece of the bread and be-
gan playing with it. Mrs. Fusser saw
it and, picking UP the cat, walked quick
ly with it toward the range in the rear
corner. The men who were watching
her did not realize ;,;7hat she was about to
do until she had removed the lid and
thrust the writhing animal into the
flames. Then she calmly replaced the
cover and the sickened spectators heard
the cracking and sizzling of the burning
body. The woman was arrested and held
for trial in bail of $300.-New York
Press
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-01-06
Women Insured for Big Amounts.


Life insurance for women is compare
lively new. But everything has to have
Il beginning, they say, and it will not be
long till the number of insured women
reaches into the hundreds of thousands,
instead of only into the tens of thousands,
as it now does. The movement has
grown more rapidly in the East than in
the West, but in some portions of the
West also it has gained at least q strong
foothOld.
\ list published by the San Francisco
Chronicle is headed by Mrs. Phoebe
Hearst, insured for 100000. This list
also includes, Mrs. Il. b. Croker and
Mrs. Wallace of that city. each with
$4,000 insurance. Another Pacific
coast woman. Mrs. W. G.. Hill of Seat
tie. has a 100000 policy. and Denver
lady. Mrs Erkert. one for $135. 900. Two
ladies' in the Chronicles 500. 900 class
reside i'll Chicago-Mrs Sarah Hackett
Stevenson and Mrs: Gage G. Tarbell, the
dent Tarbell Of the Equitable Life Insur-
ance company.
The 100000 class has each of the
Misses Lorilard, Mrs. Martha J. Cramer
and Mrs. J. Sloat Fassett The Mutual
Life's list is headed by an English wom
an, Lady Henry Somerset, with an in
surance of 100000 1t credits Mrs. Sa-
rah T. Duke. with $4,000, to North
Carolina, and Mrs. NJ. w. Lux. Alice
White and Henrietta a. LongIey, all in
the $1OO,OD class, to respectively Calf
fOrnia, Maine and Rhode Island
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-01-06
INDOORS At NIGHT.

Keen and cold Is the wintry blast n
A. the sleet and snow 80 driving past; :.
There's strife In the old trees racked and
4 bent, #ss {S#s
The clouds hang low DER the armament,
But the household gathers safe and warm,
Folded close from the Pressing storm.
The lamp IL lighted, the hearth ID bright,
And the dear ones are cosy Indoors ut
night.
And when shutters are closed and curtains
drawn,
And the tolling hours Of the day are gone.
Sweet words are spoken. good nights are
said 4
To the wee ones tucked In the little he'd,
Gods grace watch over each curly head0
Then with book and talk and the dear old
song lCsz ..5 A., j.. ny. -
We have loved since the days when We
were young, s. 44 FL $s% .a5
We viii an the hours with loves delight,
Cosy and happy Indoors ut night. ~
Margaret r. SangBter In Christian intel
llHenCef, e * ~ - =.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-01-06
The President and the Newsboys.


Hes better Democrat than Grover
Cleveland" sage the Irish policeman, who
has just removed his elbow from my side,
referring to the President as he drove by
in the recent peace jubilee at Chicago.
YES" says l; "he is that"
''Slow to fight" says my neighbor.
Eyes, Gays l.
And hard man to whip" says Coun-
ty Kerry.
He is
"And he don't look like man who'd
give away them islands Dewey found,
either
No mans guess was worth more than
another's on this point.
He's fond of Children" says Dugkan.
YES" says ].
Yes, says Duggan: II see him over
on Congress street before the parade
started. He was sitting in his carriage,
next the walk. A guard of soldiers stood
round the carriage. People were crowd
ing up to shake hands with him. If they
looked like they had bank roll the SOL
diers let them pass. If not, not. A gang
of newsboys stood in bunch near the
horses They looked at the President
with big eyes. Finally one of them
thinks he'll come over closer. A soldier
pushes him back. The President sees it,
and motions for the boys to come on They
fall into line, and he shakes hands with
each one, smiling, and saying something
pleasant to them all. IT'S a pity saws
I to myself. that he has no children
he'd be good father "-Frank Putnam
in the Christmas issue of The National
Ma 90 zino
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-01-06
MIGHT HAVE SAVED PROPERTY,
Absence of standpipes on New York
Il Bui1dluRs Blamed for Recent Fire.

Absence of 6tandpipes on New York
Bui1diuRs Blamed for Recent Fire.
If the great skyscrapers which New
We're eqdipped with the standpipe, with
hose connections ut each t0or, az is the
rule in Chicago, the recent fire which de-
str0Sed the Home Insurance building in
that city might easily have been con-
trolled. Such Is the verdict Of Ave experts
III such matters who CHANGED to be in
Chief !Swenie's Office one day last week
&b %hp t Ws y Sf's ass III Matt " Seone
Chief Swenie's predecessor. who, in COM
pany with his son-in-law, William Kent,
commissioner of public works under May
or Swift, manufactured the iron stand
pipe with fre-escape attachment, tried to
introduce the device in New York. The
test was made In the presence of ex-Fire
Chief Bates and the insurance men, who
were enth bus n Their praise OF the
in the copying business. The standpipe
was a Western invention anyway, and
worst Of all, it was in use In Chicago.
"Why," said Benner, "when 1 was chief
Of the fire department the captain of No.
10 went to New York to show them the
great advantages Of the sliding poles we
erected from the bunkroon to the main
wasted in descending the stairs. They
only laughed at him and intimated he
the island.' they adopted the poles five
years later, however" Another gentle
man spoke Of the painful dose New York
had to swallow when she was forced to
adopt the police patrol wagon system, in
troduced in Chicago under the elder Har-
rison. She adopted this device only. when
she was on the verge Of insanity thinking
up something that would do as we'll.
Fire Chief swenie some time ago got wa
ter to the top Of the Masonic temple-.323
feet high-with the stahdpipe, and threw
horizontal stream over 100 feet. A
pressure of 1925 pounds was used to force
the water up and 240 pounds to throw it.
New York's fire destroyed structure was
only about 200 feet high and New York's
fire chief, Bonner, simply, let the fire burn
its way down to where bis hose streams
could do something, with it. 1T con-
formed with his published theory of hand
ling fires in skyscrapers when they first
built them," chorused the fire experts.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-01-06
WHAT IS RAG rInE7
An Artist Tella How IL In Evolved
from Any Music. a..

An Artist Tella How It Ia Evolved
from Any Music. 49,.
"What is rag time?'" the enthusiastic
artist was asked.
well, the extensive literature on this
subject will explain it best. Now, here's
4 rag-time primer" At this juncture he
produced big piece of sheet music with
the picture of a young man looking very
unhappy in a dress suit. "This young fell
low" pointing to the picture and reading,
claims to be the original instructor to
the stage of the now popular rag time in
Ethiopian song The author guarantees
to teach anybody who can play the piano
Il little bit how to play in rag time. The
preface says rag time Tor negro dance
time) originally takes its imitation steps
from Spanish music, or, rather, from
Mexico, where it is known under the head
and names of Habanara Seguidilla, ETC.,
being nothing but consecutive music,
either in treble or bass, followed by reg
ular time in one hand. In common and
two-four time the quarter note of the bass
precedes the melody In other words, It
is what the musicians call syncopation,
and this syncopation. and this change of
accent in the accompaniment il kept up
continually in the same way as the beat of
a snare drum.
This method shows the pupil how to
play u rag-time accompaniment to any
piece. Here is even an arrangement of
Old Hundred Annie Laurie and the
hymn, Come Thou Fount of Every Bless.
ing. Wonderful, isn't it?"-Baltimore
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-01-06

Girls, to be thoroughly up to date, all
you need do is to resurrect your moth
ers' old jewel case, the one which has
not seen the light Of day for the past
twenty years, and hidden away in it's re-
cesses you will find the prototypes of
the now fashionable long string of beads.
Last year in the most sacred temples
of the -Four Hundred it was the fad to
start a string of pearls, equal in size,
gift Of some dear and intimate friend
This same fad held good among those
of Simmer purses, only the beads were
OF coral or some less expensive stones
than pearls.
This year the fad has reached the
masses and every girl with any preten-
sion to style must own long string of
imitation pearl beads. which will hang
almost to her knees. The string of beads
is purely ornamental, as it is used neither
for the purse or lorgnette.-New York
Herald.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-01-06
Home from School to the Laundry,

"What would a girl in America think
to come out of boarding school and go
right off to work in laundry?" said
Miss Emile S. Hoch, who has charge of
the big laundry. in the bureau Of chart
ties, on Schermerhorn street, Brooklyn,
in a talk. about: laundry work, how it
should be done and ; how she came to
know all about it, the other day. T.. ~
"A girl in Germany comes home from
school and then goes to a laundry to
study laundry work; she goes out to learn
to sew, and she will go into a hotel to
learn to cook. Think of a young lady
here going to the Hotel st. George and
range, learning to cook everything there
is in the place. They hive cooking
schools, but the hotel is the best, be-
cause there they learn from practical ex-
perience.
'That was the way it was in Germany
when l was there; it may not be so now,
for things change 80 quickly. There had
been a great many changes when l went
back i'll 1892. And think of the numer-
GUS changes that have been made since
have been in Brooklyn-the elevated road
and the Brooklyn bridge only just opened.
But the girls were taught in that way
when I was living in Pforzheim, Baden.
Il did not go to learn to cook in Ger
many-my mother. taught iiie that-but I
went to sew and learn TO do laundry
work: When l learned to sew we made
the shirts all by hand, and had to pull
the threads and backstitch the seams l
was three months i'll the laundry; it was
regular laundry, and was very glad to
get a chance to go. l had to pay what
would be equivalent to IS here for three
months instruction, and it was not easy
to get in then, for the WOMAN where l
Went always had five or six names ahead
80 Ih9t was the very incest time in my
life. | worked three months, sometimes
from Z O'Clock in the morning until 10 at
night when we were busy, going home itl
the middle Of the day for luncheon; when
the work came in it had to be done. The
first four weeks we did only the highest
part of the work, the handkerchiefs, and
never thought of touching bosom shirt.
Everything about the laundry i'll Ger
IN ny. is . different from the why the work
laundryw.oman there Us people here do.
She would be thought az much of as
dressmaker.
The washing is only done every three
months, and it is great OCCASION Small
pieces are washed every week, but every
thing else is left, and the washing and
ironing take tive or three days. The peo-
PIE who Go not send out their washing
have big set boilers for their clothes, and
the rich people will have two or three
people in to help and after the washing
ana ironing are done, then seamstress
comes in to do the mending The Ger
man woman prides herself upon her linen
closet, and all good housekeepers have
clothes enough to last more than three
months. The poor people have to wash
every week. just as some of the poor
women here have to wash their children's
clothes that they change often because
they have not enough to last over. 1t is
nard work when the three months wash
ing comes, but then there is long rest
after it,"-Pittsburg Disnatch
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-01-06
The Prince and His Dauehter

A very deep feeling of affection exists
between the Prince of Wales and his only
unmarried daughter, Princess Victoria.
She has always been a grand pet of her
father, who used affectionately to call her
"Torie," partly no doubt as an abbrevi-
alton of her name, but partly also in ref
erence to her quantity conservative opin-
ions and friendships. During the time
that the prince was laid up after his &C.
cident Princess Victoria devoted herself
specially to him, and did much BY her
care and attention to make q time of en-
forced inactivity pass as pleasantly as
possible to her naturally energetic father.