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The daily morning Alaskan., 1901-10-22
Proposed Electric Light Rates
SKAGWAY, ALASF

This new schedule of rates to go effect whom new plant starta-about vember lst.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-11-15
People who Must be Amused.

Sorry is the lot Of the man or woman
who must be amused every minute of the
time. They dread quiet Sunday after
noon no, or rainy. evening, when no one is
likely to come in or it is impossible for
them to 60 out. OF course, some of these
people just "growed that way" When
they were in infancy their mothers spent
days and weeks doing nothing but keep
ing them in good humor. They were
had to make the best of circumstances.
On the other hand are the cheerful folk
who are ''pleased with q rattle and
tickled with straw" They manage to
have good time almost anywhere A
blessing upon these simple hearts who
take the world as they find it, without a
murmur and, always looking for the good
and pleasant, realize essentially what
they expect! They are the conservators
Of sane living in the world, writes Mary
B. Baldwin in the Interior.
During the outing season the people
who must be amused at all hazards are
much in evidence; they crowd popular
resorts, invade even the secluded sacred
spots that belong through the highest
ones. There is a class which amuses it.
self directly at the expense of others.
1t is composed of those who pride them
selves upon their wit. Repartee and
sharp little turns that have reference to
another are a sort of revel to them.
Bringing into notice the foibles and pc
culiarities Of even friend is not beneath
their purpose to pose as wits. But retri-
button in the form Of the loss Of friends
and the faculty for perceiving the ludi-
crous, becoming at last weakened through
overwork. degenerates into caricature, or
positive Stiffness.
1t does not need long experience to
show us that those who surrender them
selves to the desire for amusement miss
its realization. The everyday duties, the
close. service, the longing to be
from the mind the unworthy aim toward
getting good time out of the world will
instead supply that peculiar, broad,
varied, interest, which furnishes happi-
ness, including that lower order of salts
faction named amusement.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-11-15
Old Magazines Made New.

Clever women who prefer to make their
Christmas gifts are fashioning art book
let's from the magazines that are to be
found in most households and the &C.
short stories and half tones are taken
from these periodicals by bending the
wires at the back and slipping of the
pages and the leaves are then put to-
gether in effective combination. The pic
lures are used to cover up the reading
some of the story pages and an artistic
little souvenir is thus easily compiled A;
serial story may be bound in this way
and is apt to prove an acceptable gift.
The covers for these gift books may be
as simple or elaborate as the given de-
priateIy lettered grenerally providing sat
isfactory selection. The cost. of binding
if one does not wish to undertake that
part of the work will be very small. =
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-11-15

According to a ruling Of the Massa-
chusetts Supreme court, one who main
tains a passenger elevator in an Office
building is not a common carrier. 1.-THE
modern liability Of common carriers Of
goods" said the court, lis a resultant Of
the two long-accepted doctrines that
bailies were answerable for the loss Of
goods in their charge, although happening
without their fault, unless it was due to
the public enemy, and that those exercis-
ing common calling were bound to ex-
ercise it on demand, and to show skill in
their calling, Both doctrines have dis
appeared, although they have left this
hybrid descendant. The law of common
carriers of passengers, 50 far as peculiar
to them. u.s. a brother OF the half-b blood.
1t also goes back to the old principles
concerning common callings. Carriers
not exercising a common calling as such
are not common carriers, whatever their
liabilities may be. But the defendant
did not exercise the common calling of a
carrier, as sufficiently appears from the
fact that he might have shut the eleva-
tor door in the plaintiffs face and arbi-
trarily have refused to carry him without
mourning any liability to him.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-11-15
ARMLESS, BUT IS DEXTROUS.
Hooks Fastened to Stumps Enable Man
to Perform Astonishinc Feats.

to Perform Astonishing Feats.
John Fox Of Middletown, N. j., has
reached the conclusion that man can get
along just as we'll without arms as with
them if he will but adapt himself to his
work and learn over again. Fox is the
mail-carrier at MiddletoWn, a place he has
held since he lost his arms in a mill
accident thirty-two years ago. He has
hooks fastened to the stumps of his
arms and with these he can do as much
as good many men who have the use
Of their arms and hands.
Fox is the champion fisherman of Mid
cast his line with the skill of an expert.
He can reel in any fish that inhabits
Middletown waters. When he was asked
IT he had any trouble taking a captured
fish off the hook he replied that it was
not half so much trouble as getting him
on. Fox also cultivates a small patch
of ground adjoining his house for gar
the plow, holding the plow in position
with &. rope thrown over his shoulders
and guiding the reins by the hook arms.
He is also an accurate shot, being able
to bring bird or rabbit down with
shotgun: He cuts his own supply of
tirewood with a bucksaw.
Fox is an accomplished mechanic. He
has constructed, without the aid of any
one, a large cider press. He cut out
every part, bored the holes for the bolts
and fitted the parts together without the
least difficulty. He is now Y years of
age.
Speaking of how he gets along, the old
out his arms if he las to. Every s time I
row. fish, hunt or pillow find better
way to do it, and it continually grows
easier to get along.'
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-11-15

One Of the most interesting feats Of
modern architecture in London has now
been successfully accomplished. For
many years there stood in Great Or
mond street, Bloomsbury, an hospital
dedicated to St. Elizabeth of Hungary,
with which was connected an exceeding
ly beautiful Roman Catholic chapel, built
at the expense of the late Sir George
Bowyer, well-known member of Par
lament in his day, and dedicated to St..
John Of Jerusalem. The site of the in
stitution was sold to the Hospital for
Sick Children two or three years ago and
with the money thus obtained a hand
some new building has been erected in
St. Johns Wood. The Pope sanctioned
the transaction on condition that the
chapel should be transferred exactly as
it was in Great Ormond street to the
new locality, and this has now been
done. Every stone, window and decora-
ton was carefully preserved and nun,
bered, and the building has now Deen re-
erected precisely as it formerly stood.
Considering the distance, and the deli
cacy Of much Of the carved work. the
feat may be regarded as a remarkable
ono
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-11-15

The public library building in Bryant
square. New York, which will be one of
the architectural features Of the city, is
to be constructed Of Dorset marble. Dor
set is a little town in Bennington coun-
ty, VT, beautifully situated in the Green
mountains. From its soil is Guarried a
marble that has the desirable quality Of
not fading. A notable example Of it's
staying quality, after years Of use, is
shown by the Drexel building, ut Wall
and Broad streets. That is the reason
why it was chosen for the library build
ing, notwithstanding the protest Of the la
Dor unions, which are said to be at en-
nifty with Senator Redfield Proctor, who
owns the quarry, from which the Dorset
marble will be taken.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-11-15
BlOWeth the South Wind.

Lovers of nature rejoice in little thrills
of pleasure when the south wind blows.
1t is the welcome wind of autumn and
the favorite wind of American poets. AS
balmy and perfumed with the incense
smoke of burning leaves and dried grass
es it sweeps across the city, it seems to
bring the spirit of the woods on it's wings.
Does one ramble abroad in the transfie-
uring light Of the southwark faring sun.
the lines of Bryant, the nature poet Of
America. return to the memory:
My steps are not alone
In these bright walks; the sweet south
Flies rust rustins e Where the painted leaves are
strOWn
Along the winding way.
Others may recall his charming verses
on THE Death of the Flowers:''
The south wind searches for the flowers
whose fragrance late he bore,
And signs to find them In the wood and by
the stream no more.
In the poem of Hiawatha I1ongfellow
relates q fascinating legend Of Shawon-
GUS and pleasure loving:
From his pipe the smoke ascending
Filled the sky with haze and vapor
Filled the air with dreamy softness,
Gave twinkle to the water;
Brought the tender Indian summer,
To the melancholy northland,
To the dreary moon Of snowshoes
Gazing earthward, Shaw ondasee saw a
golden-haired maiden wandering through
the fower-decked prairies. Indolently
he loved her and dreamed of her beauty
until as time went by the maiden's
tresses became silvery white, then stirred
from his idleness, the lovelorn god rushed
earthward and before his tempestuous
breath floated clouds Of dandelion down
white as snoWfakee.
And the south wind DER the prairie,
Wandered warm with signs of passion.
With the signs of Shawondasee.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-11-15
The Paris Matin announces that :

The Paris Matin announces that a new
fog fighting instrument has just been in
vented which will enable sailors to as
certain the precise position Of other boats
even in the thickest Of mists. The in
strument is called the 'topophone,' and
registers sounds Of volume too slight
to be heard by the human ear. When
the captain or other member Of the crew
hears a sound somewhere out on the wa
ter he has but to point the instrument in
the general direction from which the
sound comes and move it until it's vibra-
tons reach their most rapid rate. When
that point is reached the precise distance
and direction Of the approaching vessel
is registered by means Of an ingenious
mechanical device.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-11-15
Fashions in Golf Implements.

There is fashion in the implements
Of golf, as in other things. When Harry
Vardon came so prominently to tine frohs
a few years ago it was observed that the
shafts of his clubs were unusually short
and the club heads somewhat light. Tay-
lor also favors short shafts, and although
not such long driver as Vardon, he is
exceptionally accurate and seldom off the
line. The consequence is that most Of
the English makers are now turning out
play clubs and brasseys with shorter
worked for good.-I4ondon Telegraph.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-11-15
THE AUTUMN HAZE.

Oh, the glory Of the marshes - ID
In the smoky autumn haze, t
With the tangle of the -sedges, ssez-4&., =.
And the gOldenrOdS ablaze!
The fOaming of the thOrOughWOrt.S ssss.G4.
That cat-tails stately, fair,
And the stlngtng nettle swinging .'e<sey.
While 1t plainly says "Eeware!"
Now the cardinals are posing j za*:s#E
AS in ar idle dream, Nz5#@r
While Their. scarlet caps are waving 81
F., In the mirror Of the stream. @*' Fl
And the knightly warder 'briers |.,qT
Give q challenge sharp and meet. Z
And the cleavers spin q tangle Gss5saS
10 hold the passing feet. $t&ssss
Here a yellow maze of dodder szs
With the grasses Is entwined- $s>$S
A seedy. floral vagabond,
That lives upon his kind:
His knotted chains are holding fast 2"
The jewel-weed agleam
While its blossoms lean and tremble
Ger the beauty in the stream; :.
And the wocing of the waters -
Is song that will not cease.
Though the yellow blossoms slumberf
Upon its heart of peace;
And the fair blooms drifting downward
Seem like argosies of gold, b (
Or the ships Of Cleopatra s. y
On the lOtOS-stream of old. =, =.
Benz. F. Leggett in Ieslie's Weekly.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-11-15

Ernest Seton Thompson, the writer Of
stories about animals, has changed his
name to Ernest Thompson Seton, be-
cause he believes it to be difficult for one
Of the common name of Thompson to
achieve distinction. He is not the first
American Thompson to abandon his pa
tronymic. More than century ago
Benjamin Thompson became Count Rum
ford. However, a man can achieve dis
tinction by conspicuous excellence, what
ever his name. Jones is a commOner
name than Thompson, but Americans
will never forget John Paul Jones.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-11-15

Recent accurate observations at Peter
head, North Britain, during storm, in
which the wind had velocity of from
fifty to eighty miles an hour, have shown
that the height of big waves from trough
to crest is about forty feet. The wave
crests were twenty-five and one-half feet
above the saltwater level, with periods
of from thirteen to seventeen seconds
If the troughs had been as far below the
saltwater level as the crests were above
it the total height would have been forty
five feet, but there were indications that
the depth of a wave trough is not equal
to the height Of the crest.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-11-15

When Napoleon directed the scientists
to devise method Of extracting sugar
from the beet, the worlds sole reliance
for sugar was the sub-tropics. This year
Europe's production Of sugar amounts to
5,92S,264 tons, an increase of 212,841
compared with last year. What is done
in Europe is in prospect Of accomplish
ment in the United States. The great
Napoleon altered the course of mundane
affairs in many directions. One of the
most marvellous Of the changes he effect
ed was that which made Europe for the
first time in the history of the world a
competitor with the hot countries in
the production Of sugar.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-11-15

The owner Of slate quarry in Wales
recently applied to British naval ar
senal for a number Of old cannon balls,
chiefly II and % Founders. 1t was
case Of turning swords into plowshares,
for the quarryman wanted them to use
in getting out his slate. The officers ut
the arsenal were naturally much sur
prised at the inquiry, and asked the quar-
ryman how he utilized the balls. He
told them that when a large slate has
to be detached slit is opened behind
it, and small cannon balls are dropped
in. The workmen then ''joggle'' the
partly-loosened block with their crowbars,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-11-15
Rich Mines, but No Railroads.

where railroads could do so much toward
opening rich country as in Northern Mex
leo. The ore is there, and it is we'll
known by capitalists, but the great prob
lem is that Of transportation. The diff
culties of getting railroad across the
mountains from: Pacific coast port to
the min aral region have, up to the pres
ent time, discouraged every capitalist who
has thought of it. Several railroads are
l.eing built through the country west Of
the Sierra Madre, but hardly near
enough to the mineral district to be very
valuable-NeW York Post.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-11-15

According to the London Express, there
is boom in emigration to Canada
among the: British farmhands, the great
demand for laborers in the Dominion be-
ing the cause Of the exodus from the
mother country. Some time ago the
farmers of Manitoba, finding themselves
short Of workmen, offered special induce
ments to the Britons, and since that time
the emigration has greatly increased.
In fact, it is stated that the movement
to Canada has been so pronounced that
the British agriculturists find themselves
decidedly short of hands.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-11-15

The industrial distress in Germany is
so severe that $4,000 wvrkmen are said
to be idle in Berlin alone. Yet the
agrarians are demanding the enactment
Of laws that will make the cost of living
higher. The Kaiser has hard problem
to solve, as he needs the support Of the
farmers, but cannot afford to starve work
ingmen in the cities in order to get it.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-11-15

The Kentucky clippers who were mar
ried on a bob-tailed street car are proba-
bly, satisfied with the rapid transit facili-
ties which enabled them to leave their
Dursuers in the lurch.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-11-15

Lipton's neighbors meant we'll when
they unhitched the horses from his car
riage and pulled the vehicle; but their
welcome suggested the need Of towing,
which is something an ambitious yachts
man always hopes to give the other fel-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-11-15

The announcement of the prohibition of
football by the faculty of the high school
at Marshall, Wis, simultaneously with
the announcement of several casualties,
affords room for suspicion that the
game was abandoned only after the avail
able material had been crippled.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-11-15

It was expected that the Minneapolis
snow record Of few days back would
soon be eclipsed, but not by Arizona,
which reports ten inches Of winters fleece
in it's mountain sections
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-11-15

The two Canadians who are voyaging
in dug-out, in the South Seas, on the
way to Australia, have by their remark
able example of canoe navigation put the
navigators Of small decked boats entirely
out of the class from which dime muse
UNI freaks are recruited.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-11-15

Louisville's breweries have combined to
guard themselves against the weaknesses
Of the ''gcntlemens agreement" which
have been particularly manifest in the
railroad business also.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-11-15

across the canyon is 1850 feet. Between
the two terminal towers the space is
1850 feet. Two parallel cables span this
immense gap, without support between
the towers. On these cables runs a
cage conveying a car capable of carry
ing 5000 feet of green, and. therefore,
very heavy. timber on each trip. The,
solid rock. supporting the cables.-New
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-11-15

The man who is always worrying
about his health has one consolation at
the present momcnt-and that is that
it won't take much kerosene oil this
month to protect him from the danger
Of incubation with yellow fever by
anopheles mosquitoes.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-11-15

Now that it has been authoritative!y
denied that Mrs. Roosevelt has not been
able to dress on $500 year, the world
Of femininity will draw sigh Of relief
and settle down to its regular shopping
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-11-15
Another Edible Lobster.

Below Miami we have a substitute for
the lobster that lives in the crevices
of the coral rock until his season comes,
and then he sprawls over acres Of sand.
is Of excellent flavor. grows to four
pounds in weight, is abundant and easily
taken. He is not only, the equal of the
lobster, but better. It only remains that
he be introduced to the gourmand with
proper preparation and he will immedi-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-11-15

The appellate division Of the New York
Supreme Court holds that married
woman must pay her husbands tailor
bill, if he fails to pay it himself. And
still there are women who complain that
the law does not fully recognize the
equality of the sexes!
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-11-15

The statement Of the Berlin telephone
girls that "ein," ''zwei'' and ''drei' SOUND
the same over the telephone is warn.
ing to abstemious Germans not to Or
der their beer over "the wire"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-11-15

A hunt for mosquitoes by hundreds Of
employees of the Havana health depart
men lowered the yellow fever death rec
ord to 339, and an average of SIT dur
ing the past ten years. This is more
profitable hunting than that INDUCED III
hY SnOrtSmen.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-11-15

The treaty with the Fort Totten res
ervation Indians, in North Dakota,
which will eventually open the reserva.
ton to settlers. is another gratifying
step under the fundamentally policy
Of the Indian bureau.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-11-15

Prof. Willis l.. Moore's official opinion
against the theory that hail can be pre-
vented and rain invited by dischargirig
artillery into the clouds, may prevent
enthusiasts from shooting the sky full Of
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-11-15
A Notable Bridge Feat.

+ In the transportation Of logs from the
heart of the California timber belt to
the mills, an important engineering feat
has been accomplished. a canyon on
the south fork Of the American river had
to be traversed, and as it was 1000 feet
deep it was determined to build q steel
wire suspension tramway. The distance
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-11-15

WI, who has been recalled by China
because they don't like him over there,
will often be recalled by those who have
known him in the United States, be-
cause they do like him, over here.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-11-15

The exposition of the Buffalo Pan
American finances is an exhibit that was
not catalogued, but it's educational value
is certainly not less than the majority of
those that were.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-11-15

The Boer colonization scheme in
Wyoming is ray Of hope for Great
Britain. If the burghers could ali be in
luced to get out, the war would soon be
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-11-15

Here is matter Of fact announce
ment that may do much for the cause
of domestic science: "a New York girl
has won a husband by her cooking"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-11-15

Ii Hung Chang will live if he doesn't
fall into the ways of the "Heathen CHI
nce' in dealing with the ultimatum of his
rhvsicianS
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-11-15

Whenever the Sultan wants to treat
his people to a marine pageant, he re-
fuses to pay bill to one of the naval
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-11-15
". {. HANNAF0RD, Publisher.

Mr.. Grove Of Omaha is making rec
ord in the seclusion business that weary
officials cannot hope to surpass.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-11-15

Il, The foot of horse is one Of the
most ingenious and unexampled pieces OF
mechanism in the whole range OF animal
structure. s&# i 81. zz ! #
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-11-15

Buffalo doesn't know just how the E<-
position "came out" but nobody is ex-
pecting quarrel over the division of