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The Holly chieftain., 1901-09-27

The first gold pens made in this
country were all manufactured by
hand, the gold being cut from strips al
the metal by scissors. and every sub
seQuent operation being performed by
hand. These hand made gold pens
cost from S. to $50. and were far in
ferior to the machine made article o.
the present day.
The Holly chieftain., 1901-09-27

The tendency among the British
middle classes is rather to live above
their incomes than within them. There
is also passion for luxury in London
and desire to display. which seems
a peculiarly stupid ana useless desire
in huge city, where one seldom
knows ones neighbors. And so. too
the cordial pot luck" dinners OF a
generation ago have given place to
ceremonial champagne functions. in
which man out OF dress clothes is
out Of place.
The Holly chieftain., 1901-09-27
Law ,yln.er Passenger Rates

Chicago. Sept. To large extent
the low passenger rates that have been
In effect in the territory west of Chi
cago during the summer are to prevail
throughout the winter months. indie
pendent action taken by number Of
western roads to-day provides for ex-
cursions OH the first and third Tues
days In October, November and De
cember TO Colorado. Utnh. Wyoming,
Idaho. Montana, Oregon. the North.
west and the north Pacific coast.
The Holly chieftain., 1901-09-27

The sixth contract for American To-
cOmotives to be delivered in Japan has
just been closed with the American
locomotive company and will be filled
from Schenectady. 1t is for eighteen
engines. An order for thirty locomo-
uves for the government railroads OF
New Zealand is being filled at the
Baldwin works In Philadelphia.
The Holly chieftain., 1901-09-27


- rhe l.If tirS @ IN Ts ,rann"ss.a e Mountain %
under control and will hardly do any
more damage. There has been prac-
tically no wind to-day, and with fav-
orable circumstances the fire will
soon ke under control. Telephone
communication was re-eStnblIshed
with the Quigley xawIniil to-day and
the mill is considered safe now as the
fire has burned on all sides Of 1t. 1t
will be n week or more before teams
can reach The Revenge mine and the
sawmill, as n greater portion of the
corduroy road has been burned. The
heavy timber surrounding jasper lake,
southwest OF Chitten,len mountain,
has been burning to-day and much
valuable timber has been destroyed.
The Holly chieftain., 1901-09-27
Gnxs CONC. 10 color.do

Washington, Sept. "a Secretary
Gage will leave Washington Thursday
for Colorado. where he will pass his
vacation. He expects to be gone until
October 18th. Secretary Gage was on
his way to Colorado when President
Mckinley was shot.
The Holly chieftain., 1901-09-27

commercial weekly in reviewing
current prices. says that lemons are
stronger and raspberries ''irmer." "
Unfortunately this does not mean
that a dozen lemons will make more
lemonade or that it will be harder 10
cosvert raspberries into jam.
The Holly chieftain., 1901-09-27
verdict 1. ,r.h..v c....

Gunnlson, Colo. Sept. 22.-The
court received the jury's verdict in the
Mahany case at O'Clock this morning.
The defendant was found guilty Of
manslaughter.
The Holly chieftain., 1901-09-27
YHE HOLLY CHIEFYAIt.
a. ". MILFORD, Publisher.
holly, COLORADO.

Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson hat
had fire-proof vault built in her San
Francisco house. where she keeps the
numerous unfinished or unpublished
manuscripts OF her husband
The Holly chieftain., 1901-09-27

was out Of the city and knew nothing
of what was transpiring here with ref
erence to the selection Of counsel for
the defendant When the circum-
stances OF uy selection were told to
me was extremely reluctant to ac-
cept. But the duty had been imposed,
and considered it my duty In light Of
all the circumstances to defend this
man.
II ask that no evidence be presented
here, that the court will not permit the
acceptance of any evidence. unless 1t
would be accepted at the trial Of the
most mcager criminal in the land"
~ am familiar with these circum-
stances" said Justice White in reply.
land wish to say l Will give you ev-
cry assurance that the prisoner will
have n fair and impartial trial, and
that during the progress Of the trial he
will receive such treatment as the law
demands in any criminal case"
The work of securing the Jurors was
then undertaken with celerity that
was amazing. Before the day was
over the entire panel had been sworn,
the jurors had listened to description
of the Temple of Music, where the
crime occurred, had seen photographs
of the interior Of that structure, and
caused the death of the President and
the effect of the assassin's shot upon
the various organs of the body. They
had also learned why the fatal bullet
had not been located.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-03-01
A Plant that COUGHS.

The vine Eutada tussiens is called
the coughing bean. 1t is a native of
moist, tropical regions. and there is one
thing which it cannot, and moreover
will not, stand, and that is dust. When
the breathing pores of this plant become
choked by dust the gases accumulate
within the leaf for time and are then
forcibly expelled in an audible par
oxysm of coughing and sneezing which
makes the leaf tremble violently. At
the same time the whole plant turns
red in the face, so to speak, through the
sinking in OF the green chlorophyll
grains and the appearance of particles
Of red coloring matter on the surface.
The eutada is sometimes cultivated as
a house plant. Sweeping the room is
apt to set the plant coughing to the in
tense establishment of persons who are
not familiar with its peculiarities. The
respiration Of plants is carried on
through the leaves. On the underside
of leaves are millions of micro
scopic mouths, each of which is opened
and closed by two movable lips. These
openings are the termination of pass
ages which are filed with water
yapor, air, and other gases, produced
by the chemical changes which accom-
pany growth. ..--> -
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-03-01

in team work, something not allowed
them by any other form of sport per-
mitted in girls gymnasiums, and its
popularity became great in the last few
years. Then the college men and the
other gymnasium fellows who had been
smiling in a superior sort of masculine
way at the mild pleasures of basket
ball began to think there might be
something in it and formed experiment
tai teams, just for the fun of the thing.
That settled it.. When men once or
ganize teams" in anything of q COM
petitive nature there is no end to. it.
The team which wins the early contests
thinks itself inyincibley and roams
around looking for "easy" and at1bi.
tious teams which it may wipe on. the
map. The teams which lose are deter
mined they can do better next time and
cannot be induced to quit: The compe-
tltion thus engendefed keeps the game
alive and the spectators of the early
matches, seeing how easy it looks, form
new teams and leagues and things and
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-03-01
go out after trophies and prizes, and
there is no end to it.

go out after trophies and prizes. and
there is no end to it.
In some respects the manner of play
ing the game resembles football-that
is, the teams line up opposite each other
on the floor of the gymnasium with the
ball put into play in the center Of the
hall, the object being to get the ballsto
either end. But it differs in that there
are but five players on q side instead of
eleven; the ball is a great, balIo0nlike
affair, almost two feet in diameter.
very light and soft, and instead Of be-
ing kicked over bar between goal
posts to decide the game 1t must be
passed by the hands into basket hung
at either end of the hall well above the
heads Of the players. Such, in brief e
the manner of playing the game which
is rapidly growing In popularity md
which bids fair to be the rage f0f In
door sport within q year or two. The
ball cannot be kicked or carried as q
football is advanced. It must be tossed
from one player to another and inter
ference Of almost any kind by the oppo.
sition is allowable, although no rough
ness Is tolerated. The interference ID.
stead Of being aimed against the play-
er, as In football, is aimed against the
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-03-01

ball Itself Is It's Tying through the
MIR from one player to another q player
of the opposits side tries to check ita
progress BY intercepting It or he strikes
It from the hands. Of the player who
catches it or jerks the arm which Is
preparing to throw it.. But there is no
attempt to disable the players. as in
football, and as there is no running
with the ball allowed there is no stack
ling Of players, with the dangerous
falls which occur in football. The
player at the goal stands directly under
the basket and it is the object of the
other four players on his side to get the
ball into his hands that he may toss it
into the receptacle. Beside him stands
an opposition player, who uses every
to prevent him from getting
the ball into the basket, and that is
about all there is to it.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-03-01
CITIZEN ARMY FOR AUSTRALIA
New Federation Taking Steps to Pro-
vide for National Defense.

vide for National Defense.
The idea of citizen army for the
Australian Commonwealth is taking a
very strong hold of a large section of the
people, writes the Melbourne CORE
spondent of the London Express. The
scheme which seems most likely to be
adopted, is that formulated by Brig
Gen. Gordon, commandant of the South
Australian forces, under which every
man who is physically fit and between
the ages Of Is and 81 will be taught to
shoot, will undergo an army training for
certain number of weeks every year,
and will undertake to Join the ranks of
the Federal Volunteer army whenever
necessity arises. -.
The federal government would, under
this scheme provide instruction, arms,
accounterments, ammunition and uni
form. and would pay each man who
made himself efficient bonus of G1O to
ESQ a year for non-coms, and regular
army pay for officers. -,
Each state would raise sufficient men
to guarantee immunity against attack by
foreign foe and would: supply the needs
Of the empire in the event Of any such
emergency as that which in South Africa
has found so loyal and: enthusiastic re-
Spouse. Under this scheme it is calcu-
lated that it would not be difficult to
raise within five years a capable and
efficient citizen army of 300, 900 men.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-03-01
time when there are almost as
many fishers as there arc fish

summer time when there are almost as
many fishers as there are fish.
In the mind of the small boy there
is an inseparable connection between
summer time and fishing, but ifs h have
to live in the winter as we'll as in the
summer and consequently they must
eat and swim. The man with the pole
and line throws in as tempting bait on
his hook as he can lay hands on, and
the men with nets let them down into
the water in the. places where the fish
swim the same as in hot weather.
These fishers who keep up their fishing
all winter long make fair, regular lit
tie fortune, it is said. They take their
catches to the keepers of small mar
kets and readily dispose of them, for
the demand for fish keeps up steadily
even through the winter months. "A
number of the fishers do not depend on
sales to the retail dealers, but carry the
fish from door to door and dispose of
them at little less than the regular
retail prices. Some Of these fishers
have established regular line of Gus
toners and know just what they can
sell on certain days to certain custom
ers. Fishing in winter in Lake Erie
Is not confined by any means to the
fishers who use hook and line or wind
lass nets. There are number of small
boats and tugs which are used exclu-
sively in the winter in the fishing in
dustry. The operators of the tugs run
out every day and sing nets not far
from the government pier and on the
following day the tugs run out to haul
in the catch. Goodly catches of hun
dreds of excellent fish are often made
and it is said that taken as whole,
the tug owners are doing quite thriv-
ing business. The fishermen are care
full to lay their nets in places which
are not in the course of the regular
steamers. A buoy is made fast over
the nets so that the fishers can easily
find them again. The nets are sunk
deep in the water, so that even if YES
sells did come by they would not in
jure them in the least. They might
strike the buoy and cut it loose, but the
nets would not be touched by even the
deepest draught vessels on the lake.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-03-01
MAKE HARD WORK OF DINING.

English Statesmen Know Little of the
Pleasures of the Table.
When dining at his club Lord Sails
bury is generally very much preoccu.
pied and seems not to know what
V1ands he is eating. On a recent occa-
sion the Premier and the Duke of
Deyonshire were dining at the same
club, but not together: Lord Salisbury
ordered a mutton chop and potatoes
nothing more. The chop was placed on
the table, but his lordship was so inter
ested in book he was reading that he
took no notice of his dinner Twenty
minutes went by and the chop re-
manned untouched.
Suddenly up he jumped; and, appar-
emily unconscious Of everything and
everybody, hurriedly left the building
without having had bite. Later the
Duke of Devonshire, who had wit.
messed this extraordinary conduct on
the part of his chief, met Lord Sails
bury and quite casually remarked,
=1''Dmed YETI"
"Dined? Dined? Oh, yes, I've
dined," somewhat testify replied his
lordship; ''dined at the club and had
chicken as dry and as tough as a Lon
don policeman" When the Duke after
ward told Lord Salisbury about the
neglected chop he replied, ooh, really,
you cannot make me believe this! I
have not studied the science of gas
tronomy very much, will confess, but
surely I know the difference between
a chicken and a mutton choD!'
Lord Rosebery, although an excellent
judge Of a good dinner, cannot bear to
SIT long over meal. Not many weeks
ago he was dining with IN old friend
of his, Bishop Creighton. AS usual
Lord Rosebery speedily finished his
meal. J.
"Your lordship appears to be in a
great hurry" playfully remarked the
BISHOP. "You ought, if only for the
sake Of your health, to take longer
over your meals"
':Oh," said Lord Rosebery, laughing,
"it wearies me to be long over my din
rer. Two things always upset me-a
long dinner-and a long segmon.''
"Ah!' replied the Bishop dreamily,
al. az every sermon preach he'd were as
palatab BILE as this tart I am now tasting
what Christian country this would
De!'
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-03-01
BASKETBALL is POPULAR.
Game Has Recently Found Much Fav
or Among Athletes.

Game Has Recently Found Much Fav-
or Among Athletes.
1t seems to be the fate of the fair sex
that when anything in the line of sport
or exercise is devised which is especial
~ adapted to girls their brothers look
on in amusement and contempt for
while. gradually realize the advantages
of the new idea and then calmly appro-
pirate 1t, shouldering the girls into the
background or magnanimously allow
ing them to take part under revised
rules and other restrictions. This was
the history of the safety bicycle, origin
ally referred to as the ''woman's wheel'
with much contempt by riders of the
old neck-breaking high machines.
When the riders of the Ordinary
wheels realized the advantages of the
safety" they put the high wheels in
the discard and adopted the "woman's
wheel" r.. ..
Basketball seems to be rapidly fol-
lowing the same route. Designed as a
good exercise for gymnasium classes of
women, which offered plenty of run
ming, reaching and throwing without
the dangerous features Of football, 1t
was looked upon with amused Etolera-
ton by the husky athletes of the col,
leges and gymnasiums for several
years. It was good enough for girls, -
but there was not enough Of the rough
work in 1t to meet the desires Of the
average athlete. Tossing great big
mushy ball around . gymnasium and
striving to pass It into . basket was toe
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-03-01
WINTER FISHING IN LAKE ERIE. Q
Coolest Weather Does Not Stop the lndustry-Fsh AM
Caught Almost as Easily as in the Spring.

On Lake Erie there is more or less
fishing done all winter long. It is very
seldom that the mercury shrinks far
enough down in the tube of the Their
mometer to drive the fishers complete
with poles and lines and with nets, and
any fish that comes near the shore in
the hopes Of finding a little warmer
water for thawing out its fins will
make a bad move, for he doesn't stand
much better show of swimming away
alive and happy than he would in the
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-03-01
CRAZE FOR NoBLE TITLES

An Englishma ans View Of the Americas
Passion for Empty Names. &.
An Englishman, writing from Wash:
ington to the New York Herald, touch
es upon the American craving for tt.
ties conferred by European potentates.
He says: .>.. t.5 ..s s.s NJ.
with time may fathom the mys-
terry Of this republicarism.> So far I.
have found more class distinction than
in Britain, more conservatism that in
Earope, less Individual. freedom than
in any of our colonies. f.. ~ :. I. @5@ I
''Since arrived here there has been
marriage in one Of the great families.
AL around me founl an adulatio1l. of
the happy pair no self:respecting Bril-
ton, German or Frcucl,uan would
yield The noblest of his nation. There
WAS a wider practical gulf between
those who pored over the details of the
trollsseau in the newspapers and the
lridal pair than between a highland
'oI'ager and the queen or all lnvcrary
milkmaid and the duke of Argyll. The
Jaw calls all Americans equal, but
::racnhacks and the ex;gercies Of So
iiety have long since set the classes on
terraces as definite and as accurately
ranged as the oldest peerage of mo-
narchical Europe.
Here in Washington there is con-
slant battle of precedea,s and in the
few days have rested here more than
ono important engagement has been
fou J.. ht and won. Ther% are more titles
here than in = German stattkaltcr's
suite. In every buttonhoie is button
Indicative Of the wearer's right to be
called a Son Of the Revolution, an
officer of the Legion of Honor. a.
Knight Of Pythias and heaven knows
What besides. Last year o. the soath
African veldt ran across one or two
american correspondents whose
L;easts We're barred will ribbons. l
loor ed and marveled, and my astonish-
1nant was not lessened when learned
these denoted that the w ,spondents'
ancestors had fought in the ciyi; war
OF in the war Of the revolutionary
democratic confreres wearing the
la 1ge of hereditary nobility! For
what are our patents of nobility but
tie indication that in the more distant
past Douglas or CanlEcll or
Churchill fought yal:antly for king
aud country?'
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-03-01
A WISE DRUGGIST.
For $500 He Guarantees to Do That for
Which a:Lady Offers Him 100000.

Which a>Lady Offers Him $lOO.OO.
Kansas SCity, Mo-, Feb. Is, 1901.
Especial -Some two years ago local
druggist engaged in a transaction
which was in it's details somewhat re- !.
markable. He was visited by Miss An
ma Z. Nichols, who had Doctors pre- "
scription for rheumatism, which the
druggist was filing In the course of
conversation the good, lady said: Il
would give one hundred dollars to get
we'll"
He Immediately replied: "Give me
five dollars and I will guarantee to
cure you"
She agreed, and he at once handed
her box of Dodd's Kidney Pills, say
ing: "They are soc q box. Two boxes
may cure youy but I am quite sure that
ten will.'
Miss Nichols tells the story as fol-
lows: "Dodd's Kidney Pills are VERT
able life preservers. I: was troubled
for five years with rheumatism, so
that at times my right arm seemed
paralyzed and could only walk with
difficulty, and could not 90 out of doors
if the air was damp or cold. took so
much medicine that think my system
was poisoned rather than helped. One
day when my druggist was putting up
prescription f0r-me I remarked to
him that would give one hundred
dollars for remedy that would make
me BETTER.
"'Give, me five dollars and I will:
guarantee to cure YOU: he said. /
readily agreed, and he handed me a:
box of Dodd's Kidney Pills, saying
They are SOC box. Two boxes may:
cure you, but am sure that ten will
1 left my prescription intact and, In
stead, took these Pills, and I found
them, as I said before, to be veritablei
life preservers. Before had finished
the second box I had my first perfect
nights rest in years. l gradually I'M
proved. had determined to use the
ten boxes before l would give up, but
imagine my surprise to find that before
half that quantity was used was COM
pletely> cured. This was two years ago,
and I have not had twinge since" ,
Miss Nichols. is Vice Grand Baxter,
Rebekah Lodge, +. o. Q. r., and is one
of the best known and most highly re-
spected ladies IN Kansas City, and her
experience will be read with interest
by her many friends. -
Dodd's Kidney Pills never fail to
cure Rheumatism. They are Soc a box,
six boxes for $3.50. Buy them from
your local dealer II you can. II he can
not supply you, send to the Dodds
Medicine Co.. Buffalo, n. y.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-03-01

much like child's play, they declared.
No ones neck was broken and no ribs
were caved in, so far as the baske tabail
records go, and, therefore, the sport
was too quiet for the men to take much
interest in 1t. sSssss,s
But the girls did not mind the criti-
cism of the football players and club
swingers. They liked basketball and
nearly every girls seminary and col
lege in the country has a basketball
team. 1t gave the girl athletes the ex-
element Of personal contest and pride
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-03-01
Odd Furniture.

Perhaps the oldest suit OF furniture
in the world is owned by a certain hotel
keeper. For many years he has made
it his business to collect match boxes,
Of which he has now q collection Of A.
600. He ordered skilled cabinet
maker to equip a room with furniture
made of these boxes. The outfit con-
sists Of a writing table with smoking
apparatus, fire screen, q cabinet, q
chair and other smaller articles.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-03-01
The ''1n,,crease of. 1Citieal,.,.

A comparison of the roll Of cities now
with that at the time Of our first census.
in 1890. discloses some strange mutations
of fortune. In 1870 the fourth city in
the United States was Charleston. s. c.,
now the sixty-eighth. The seventh was
Salem, Mass, now the 10th. There
were. only six cities. of over 5000 inhab-
itants; not even a village west Of the
Alleghenies had a place on the census
roll. and even in the East there was no
Jersey City, Newark or Washington
Saturday Evening Post
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-03-01
SOLD FOR FIFTY CENTS.

Girl Wife Who Was Sold for the Ri.
diculous Sum of Half Dollar.
Frank Fisher, at Easton, Pa. who
sold his wife to. George Gardner for
half dollar, was drowned several days
after his strange deal was made Fisher
stole some railroad iron, was chased
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-03-01
If Coffee POisOns You,

ruins your digestion, makes you nervous
and sallow complexioned, keeps you
awake nights and acts against your sys.
TEN generany, try GrainO, the new food
drink. 1t is made of pure selected grain
and is healthful, nourishing and appetite
coffee, vet it is just as pleasant to the
taste. and when properly prepared can't
be told from the finest coffees. Costs
about Il as much. 1t is healthful table
drink for the children and adults. Ask
your grocer for Grain-O. Is and 25c.