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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-12-06

transatlantic travel may be still! re-
ieved Of the last Of it's attendant dis
comforts by the adoption of some of the
modern systems such as that recently
installed On the Japanese mail steamer
the Humane Maru. The heating and
cooling of the cabins in the vessel are all
that can be desired. A thermo-tank sys-
tenn has been adopted by which air of a
given temperature is supplied to al, liv-
ing apartments. Each cabin has it's own
adjusting apparatus, SO that the amount
Of air to be admitted can be regulated
to a nicely and without the usual at
tendant dscomforts of either drafts or
steam pipes. Refrigerating pipes are
fitted in the central air supply reservoirs.
40 that when desirable the air supplied
to the cabins can be cooled to a COM
Portable temperature. A similar provis-
ion Of steam pipes will take care Of very
low temperatures.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-12-06

\ new and ingenious irst-aid appliance
has been fitted up on public square in
the neighborhood Of the Etoile in Paris.
AS in the case of the fire-alarm post, a
glass must be broken before access is
gained to the apparatus. On this being
done, a key is discovered, which unlocks
the door Of a Oox, containing the stretch
or and the necessary materials and in
struments for bandaging wounds which
may require immediate attention. A tele-
phone is also disclosed, which communi-
Gates directly with the nearest office of
the municipal ambulance carriage service.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-12-06

In reply to inquiries, the officials of the
ordnance bureau, war department, have
stated that about 10000 Mauser rifles
and 10000 Remingtons captured from
the Spaniards during the war with
Spain had been disposed of by public
sale. These guns were mainly purchased
by dealers in New York and elsewhere,
who sold them to curiosity hunters as
relics. 4 few of the captured rifles are
still in possession of the ordnance bureau
and are sold singly or in small lots at the
uniform rate Of $3.50 each. without the
bayonet. 4 popular mistake has been
made concerning the Remington rifles
with which the Spanish sharpshooters
were armed. 1t was supposed that those
pieces were manufactured in this coun-
try. AS a matter of fact, they were man.
ufactured Mt the government armories III
Spain, as were the poisonous brass-cov-
cred bullets which were fired from them
in violation of the international rules of
warfare. The rifles in question were
made from a Remington pattern which
was appropriated by the Spanish govern
ment, and hence were called Remington
rifles.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-12-06

One of the great packing houses of
Chicago has prohibited profanity upon its
premises. The primary purpose of the
order was in itself excellent, namely, to
protect employees against abuse by swear
ing foremen or overseers, but it cannot
fail also to exercise good influence over
all those who work for the company,
especially the younger men. In COM
menting on the order the Chicago Post
truthful!y says: 1T is one of the better
signs of the times that in these days the
men at the head of affairs are presumed
to be, If not Christians, at any rate gen
tlemen. They fnd ways enough of max
ing their wishes ineligible and effective
without resort to buster or swagger or
the indecencies of blasphemy.''
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-12-06

was blotted. The traces of the fine tex
ture Of the blotting paper are unmistak-
able. Besides, look here, in that thick %
there to the right? There's a bit of the
fiber dried in the ink, and it's blue. That
writing was blotted with blue blotter,
l say. But what of it %
only, sir, that they didn't use blotters
sixty years ago."
Oh" cried Harry Main.
Yes, SIR said Abe Cronkite, land to
double up the assurance, I've got one
to old Bradford, when he was boy,
and knows all about his habits" And
ne ushered into the office an aged man.
Key. Jabez Cranston was rejecting
comfortably in his study on the glories
Of his future, when a postman's whistle
without. caused him to start somewhat
nervously, and moment later the maid
brought him letter. The handwriting
was stranger, the postmark that Of. a
town where he had no acquaintances-
features that caused his bland express
sion to deepen into one of care. And
this care darkened into rage, not exult-
ant, but baft1ed. as he read as follows:
Reverend Sir: am requested by our
mutual friend. Judge Josiah Marcellus. in
tween you, to inform you that sixty years
ago such a thing as blue blotter vas not
f in use; anc that thai; my old master, John Brad
sand. which he shook from a yellow box
Respectfully yours JAMES WINNIE.
Whatever else Rev. Jabez might be.
he was not fool. He recognized that
this letter was a warning, sent to him
through the instrumentality of the
judge, whom he both knew and feared:
and so, recognizing, he retired discreetly
from the game. On the desk before him
lay call to distant church. It now
presented spiritual advantages which, in
the material darkness of the hour be-
fore, he lad not seen. He wrote a
prayerful acceptance with a pen, not a
quill, and the places and people, includ-
ing Aunt Jane, that had known him
knew him no more.
Martha Bradford wept little when
she learned of this trial of her faith,
Then she smiled, as if from some inner
consolation, and having purchased a new
bonnet paid a visit to Mrs. LeMoine.-.
New York Sun.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-12-06

There is in Lower California a strange
colony of which the outside world rare.
ly hears. 1t is made up of outlaws, and
some Of the most notorious escaped Grim
inals have taken refuge in it. They live
in strange, rugged stretch of country,
with the Gulf of California ON one side
and range Of foothills which spread
down toward the Mexican border on the
other. There are no ports at this Doin.
on the coast Of California, and no rail
roads reach:n: in from the other direc-
ton. so the men are completely isolated.
They are practically prisoners, because.
they dare not venture out, but no effort
has ever been made to disturb them in
their chosen refuge, though they have
been cOngregating there for years.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-12-06

Montreal. Toronto and Quebec retain
their old places at the head of the city
l;st in the Canadian census. Quebec,
however, is hard pressed by Ottawa,
which goes up from fifth to fourth place,
with the handsome gain of Is, 74S. Ham
ilton is fifth. and then comes Winnipeg.
which has increased from 5000 to 49,
1877. and has passed Halifax, St. John
and London, although the last has made
very substantial gain. Another young
g:an: of the West is Vancouver, which
has nearly doubled its population, and
has passed Victoria. Calgary has grown
from 1876 to 1912; but the most re-
markab!e gain is that of Sydney, which
has increased from 2247 to 1908.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-12-06
LAUGHTER AND LONG LIFE.
Cheerful Persons Have tho Chance of
Becoming Old.

>heef1ul PERSONS Have the Chance OF
Becoming Ola.
1t may be that some enthusiastic and
laborious German statistician has already
accumulated figures bearing upon the
question of length of life and it's relation
unacquainted with his results and Yet
have a very decided notion that people
who enjoy. life, cheerful people, are also
those to when longest life is given. Com
monplacc though this sounds. there is no
truth more commonly Liz ignored in actual
people live to be DID," we are all ready
to say, and yet how many people recog-
nize the duty Of cheerfulness? Most per-
sons will declare that if a man is not ma
turally cheerful he cannot make himself
so. Yet this is far from being the case,
and there is many man who is at pres
cradle through the carking care of some
bodily ailment perhaps or some worldly
misfortune, who, if he had grown up into
the idea that to be cheerful under all cir
cumstances was one of the first duties Of
life, might still see a pleasant enough
marked that the world is for each Of us
much as we show ourselves to rhe world.
If we face it with a CHEEKY acceptance
we find the world fairly full OF cheerful
people glad to see us. If we snarl at it
and abuse it we may be sure of abuse in
return. The discontinued worries Of a
morose person may very likely shorten
his days, and the general justice Of ma
lures arrangement provides that his early
departure should entail no long regrets.
On the other hand, man who can laugh
keeps his health and his friends are glad
to keep him. To the perfectly healthy
thonph nc childhood ia loft hah;nd tho
habit fails. and half-smile is the best
that visits the thought-lined mouth of
modern man or woman. People become
more and mere burdened with the accum
ulations of knowledge and with the
weighing responsibilities of life. but they
should spare time to laugh. Let them
never forget, moreover, and let it be
medical mans practice to remind them
that "a smile sits ever serene upon. the
face Of wisdom: "-London Lancer:
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-12-06

Tourists who have returned from the
summit Of Mount Shasta, Cal, report a
phenomenon which may have an impor-
tant meaning. Every summer heretofore
in which men have scaled the peak a
spring has dubbed boiling hot in rock
basin close to the monument. Eggs were
often dropped into it to boil Near BY
was mud lake. Now both the spring
and the lake are absolutely dry. The
disappearance Of the water is attributed
to volcanic disturbances within the noun
tain. There are many in the vicinity
who believe that the ancient volcano is
not as lifeless As it has seemed.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-12-06

The prtritied forests of Arizona were
recently examined anew under the d.
rcction Of the general land Office. The
Sliciticd logs lie in the greatest album
dance within an area of eight square
miles in Apache county. In some places
they lie more thickly than they could
have stood while living as trees, and it
is thought that they must have been
carried there by swift current of water
in the mesozoic age. Some Of the agat-
lied wood was found to resemble the
araucarian pines Of the Southern hemi-
Suhnrf.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-12-06

An effort is to be made to remove a
Ec:r2c red oak tree from the widest SEQ
ton Of Arkansas to Forest park, St..
I,n;s. for the Louisiana Purchase expo-
s':ion. The tree is 100 feet high and
IL feet in diameter at the base. A dou-
be tramwav will be built from the tree
to the river where it will be foated and
f"wed TO st. Louis. 1t is estimated that
sh!s viii occupy six months. The tree
VIII be dug up by the roots instead Of
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-12-06
The Value of an EmtRrant.

Those who have contended that the
United States is losing its Anglo Saxon
foreign immigrants will be surprised to
learn that for the five months ended
May 81, 1901. there arrived on Ameri-
can soil 39,823 persons from Great Brit
ain. as against a grand total Of all other
nationalities Of only 1926. OF the first
birth, 2078 Scotch and 1850 Irish. One
American journal appraises each able
bodied Immigrant as worth about $1,000
to the United States. This represents
the surplus wealth he creates in an av-
erage life over what he receives in the
way of wages.-London Daily Moil.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-12-06

All the Alpine clubs Of Europe have
agreed to a uniform set of danger signals
drafted by the French Alpine club for
use by mountain-clmbers in peril. Sig
nails of distress are to be given by shout
ing, whistling, waving handkerchiefs or
filing guns during the day, and by Ian
tern or other lights at night. 4 signal
repeated six times indicates extreme per-
il, and its return three times by the re-
ccvcr signifies that its meaning has been
understood
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-12-06
Worth Initiating,

The young queens of America would do
we'll to emulate the example Of the Queen
Of Holland, who is an excellent house
wife. Once in three weeks the young
Queen makes tour Of inspection of the
royal kitchen to see~if the cupboards, the
These beautiful. FURNISHED copper pans
are the deligh; Of every Dutch house
wife, and tarnlsh on them she would
regard almost as a stain upon her repu-
tation. Economy and thrift are marked
characteristics Of Queen Wilhelmina's
the Queens mother has often been made
quite angry by her daughters determina-
ton to have a dress renovated when she
ought to have q new one
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-12-06
VANITY, SAITH THE PREACHER.


I love my little gowns; g. ss&s
love my little shoes -
All standing still below them, n
Set quietly by twos. \ 'y -:
All day wear them, careless,
But when l put them by,
They look so dear and different, -
And yet don't know why.
70
OF all, the white, with, ribbons 4ss-,
Gray-green, If l could choose;
The fichu that helps everything
Be gay; and then my shoes
My shoes that skip and saunter,
And one that will unite,
They look SO funny and so young,
I hate to put them by.
wonder If some day
All this will be The Past?-
Poor Hop-the-Book and Dance with me
They cannot always last.
Preston Peabody, in the Draw.
err, Harper's.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-12-06
Snail. Growing i'm France.

As is we'll known, certain species Of
snail form favorite dish with French
gourmets, and the cultivation Of these
land mollusca is conducted on q large
scale in the outlying suburbs Of Paris,
particularly in the department of Aube,
where there are large snail gardens, with
plantations of thyme, mint, parsley and
chervil for the animals to feed on. When
a Frenchman takes snails wild he leaves
them, if prudent, a few days to digest
their last meal, for there is current be-
lief that they may be dangerous il they
have recently fed on poisonous plants.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-12-06

The announcement from Paris Of a sue
ct>>ful test Of anti-typhoid serum is OF
Importance TO the entire civilized world.
If Il cure or preventive has been found
for typhoid fever, military campaigning
will be relieved of a grave danger, and
the mortality in cities where water facili-
ties are questionable will be largely re-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-12-06
Depth Divers Can Reach.

Submarine divers have not yet succeed
ed in reaching 200 feet below the surface
with all the advantage of armor, air sup
ply and weights to sink them. The ef-
fort has been made to reach a wreck in
24O feet OF water. The accounts state
that at 100 feett he diver began. to expe-
Renee serious trouble. At 200 feet after
suffering terribly, he lost consciousness
and was hauled up. Divers cannot work
much below 100 feet.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-12-06

The masts Of the new seyen-masted
schooner are styled respectively the fore,
main, mizzen, spanker, jigger, driver, and
pnShcr. When the eght-masted schooner
makes her appearance she should recog-
nizc the pigskin experts by styling the
added mast the kicker
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-12-06

Although football players are quick in
expressing themselves with their toes,
there is mo kick coming" from them
against the weather clerks. as the match
days have been just the weather for
football, as 4 rule.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-12-06

The Hollanders are much rejoiced that
their young Queen Wilhelmina has re-
covered from her illness, and will soon
be back again at The Hague to attend
to public business. Meanwhile her hus-
band, Prince Henry, has gone to Prussia
for Il vacation. He is certainly not as
popular as when he was first married to
the Queen.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-12-06

\ big office building is going up in Lon
don, mainly on America capital. This
is not due to lack Of money over there,
but to the fact that they are not used
to >kyscrapers, and need an American
introduction of the same
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-12-06

The proposed law to punish careless
hunters who kill their fellows in the
deer wood would increase the dangers of
the sport by putting the hunters be-
tween the penitentiary and an open
grave
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-12-06

When Bob Fitzsimmons enters the ring
to tight Jeftrles he will leave behind him
the false reputation for good judgment
he has cultivated by repeatedly declaring
that he would never fight again.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-12-06

The Reading, Pennsylvania, parson
who warns young women against the So
cial hyprotist should be specific; that is,
if he can do any better than the aver
age girl in locating the hypnotists.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-12-06

y Roer colonel with an Irish name
has entered the British Parliament
through Ireland, and in due time will
make demonstrations in harmony with
those Of the commanders in the field.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-12-06

1t transpires that although Mrs. Ma
tons could smash saloons she couldn't
compel her husband to get up and light
the. fires on cold mornings
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-12-06

\ Cincinnati Spiritualist has discovered
that the Chinese exclusion act does not
operate in spirit land or else Earl Ii has
sneaked across the border.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-12-06

Tripler's loss of liquid air takes the
motive power from his lecture bureau.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-12-06

Even the family affairs of royalty
sometimes drop to the vulgar level OF
''cold poison"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-12-06

The question now is whether the Co.
iombian government, having lost its Co.
lon, will come to q full stop.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-12-06
W. E. HANNAFORD, Publisher.

The stork that visited the Vanderbilts
made a play for big tip.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-12-06

being cut. and none Of its branches will
be trimmed. so that it will appear on
exhibition just as it now stands in the
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-06-07
RUMoRED DOUBLE LYNcH1NG.
A Mob at GaIena. Mo-, Said to Have
Hanged a Woman and Her
StepScn.

Aurora, Mo-, June 6.-Mrs. Stallion
and her stepson have been arrested
and placed in Jail at Galena, the coun-
ty seat, on the confession of the wom-
ans seven-year-old son, who said they
killed Alice Stallion, aged 16. A ru-
NOR has it that the mother and son
have been taken from Jail and
lynched, but, owing to the prostra-
ton of telephone wires to Galena, it
cannot be confirmed. The Stations
lived near Cape Fair and the girls
body was found in the river by fish
ers. The supposition was that she
had committed suicide on account of
love affair, which her mother OPP
posed, but the child of Mrs. Stallion
confessed, claiming that while Mrs.
Stallion held the girl her stepsou
broke her neck with poker. After
ward they wrapped the body in IA
comfort and threw it in the river.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-06-07
SERVANT GIRL PROBLEM.
It Was Considered by the Woman Suffrage
Convention Yesterday-NIiss Laugh
Inns Address.

Minneapolis, Mimi, June 5.--A pro-
gramme of great interest was pre-
scented last night at the woman sut-
frage convention. The principal adj
dress of the evening was that of Miss
Gail LaughIin, of New York, on the
servant question. can Industrial Lag
gard" was her topic. Miss Laughlin
is the young woman chosen by tho
government to investigate the serv-
ant question, and she has made n
thorough study of it. She stated that
household labor is the laggard in
economies and industry. The root of
the evil is that household labor is
not on a business basis. 1t is not
even treated or at all considered as an
industrial problem. Miss Laughlin
believes in putting the matter on
strictly business foundation, with
stated hours and pay, and in putting
household labor on a par with other
industries.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-06-07
NO SCHOOLS FOR WHITES.
Indian Commissioner Jones Declares Edu-
cationaI Conditions in the Indian TT
ritOry Are DepIorabIe.

Washington, June 5.-Indian Com
missioner Jones says the condition of
the white children of Indian territory
is deplorable. Thousands of them
are growing up in vice and ignorance,
and already are feeding the United
States jails at Muscogee and the
other points with youthful criminals.
The reason he assigns is that the til
tie to all lands being vested in the
Indians, no lands can be set aside
for school purposes, and outside of
the incorporated cities and towns
there is no legal way by which pub
lie school districts can be organized.
There are about 100000 white per-
sons living in Indian territory, and
about $4,000 of this number are chill
dren. The parents are scattered all
over the country, in towns, villages,
and fields, engaged in all occupations,
from that of loafng or something
worse, up to that of banking, mer-
chandise and so on. In the early his
tory of that country it was the habit
of men and women who were too OBJ
jectionable to inhabit more polite
parts of the country to take up life
in the territory. This has left lot
of orphans with no known relations
to be provided for or to drift into
want and crime.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-06-07
PLAN VIGOROUS CAMPAIGN.
Woman SqffraSists in National Convention
Arrange for an Organizer in Each State
To Petition Legislature.

Minneapolis, Mimi, June 4.-Mon-
day, the fourth day of the conven-
ton of the National Suffrage 6Esocia-
ton, was busy one and a great deal
was accomplished. Five thousand dol
lars was pledged by the delegates and
visitors during the afternoon session
for the suffrage work next year.
A plan of campaign for the coming
year was adopted after long dis
cussion. It's main features are as fol-
lows: Each state to keep an organ
izer in the field at its own expense as
far as possible; junior suffrage clubs
to be formed, especially among wom-
en- wage-earners; county organiza-
ton; at least one sermon a year by
clergymen; women's day at fairs,
Chautauquas and the like; urging
upon women in states with partial
suffrage to exercise thei1 rights; pro-
tests by women taxpayers; the sys-
tematic distribution of literature; fire.
quent publications in the press; petit
tions to state legislatures to raise the
age of consent and to make mother
co-guardian of children with father,
and to appoint police matrons; petit
lions to all kinds Of national and
state conventions and to congress for
a sixteenth amendment.