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Douglas Island news., 1902-03-12

150O people viewed the remains of the man-eating shark recently captured in Skagway harbor.
 The congressional committee on ter ritories estimates the population of Alaska at 100000.
 Rev. J. J. Walters has secured enough capital in Portland to build fish can nery on Lynn canal.
 The Arctic Brotherhood of Skagway celebrated the third anniversary of the order on the 26th ut.
 The Grafter mine at White Horse has just made shipment of 10 tons of ore to the Everett shelter.
 MT. Everett and associates of skag- way have established logging camp at Mud Bay on Lynn canal.
 It looks as if Judge Moves had come to the end of his rope. He has been dismissed by the president.
 The Trans Alaskan R. R. Go. will op- crate three steamships this season be- tween Seattle and Iliamna Bay.
 Gen. Greeley, chief of the US. signal corps, is in favor of the completion of the Valdez-Yukon military road.
 Sixty Dolphin passengers landed at Haines on her last trip in February, en route to the Mush creek diggings.
 H.O. Peterson, we'll known busi' ness man of Skagway, has decided to embark in trade at Everett, Wash.
 The territorial court which convened in Dawson during the early part of last month had 800 cases on the docket.
 Brophy, the man who held up the Dominion saloon at Dawson a couple of months ago, has at last been cap, tured.
 The White Horse Literary society has decided that it is not right for woman to enter into commercial competition with men.
 sergt. Geo. Renier, who was recently honorabIy discharged from the Marine Corps, at Sitka, completed his 27th year of service.
 The w.P.&Y,R. R. is preparing folder containing maps and descriptive matter of the Big Salmon district, fol general distribution.
 F. Phiscator is taking in 12 tons O machinery for the development O quartz properties in the Klondike il which he is interested.
 MT. Commisky, wellknown mission ary teacher and trader among the na tives, was recently arrested at Skagwa! for selling liquor to Indians.
 It is reported that M. s. Heney, th' W. P. Y. constructor, has received th' contract for building the Hawkins sys tenn of railways in the Yukon.
 Capt. F. W. Kilgore, of the revenu cutter Rush, has been transferred to al Atlantic station, and Lieut.. s. V. Wind rum succeeds him in command. !
 It is now believed that F. T. George a waiter on the Al-Ki, whose body, no long since, was found under wharf a skagway, was the victim of foul play.
 The Lucky Chance mine at silye Bay has made two shipments of bullio to the U. S. mint and has also sent se7 eral tons of concentrates to the smelte
Douglas Island news., 1902-03-12

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Free gold has just been struck in the Grafter mine at White Horse. This is the property recently bonded by the Moore Investment Co.,, of Seattle, and of which J. A. Haman, formerly super intendent of work at the Yakima on Douglas Island, is now in charge.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-05-23
Rain Which Burned.

Our consul at Naples mentions in his
latest report a singular phenomenon
which occurred last year and caused con-
siderable damage around Vesuyius. The
volcano is constantly pouring out large
cloud OF steam from its summit. This
steam is highly charged with hydro
chloric acid, and shower of rain fall
ing through it becomes impregnated with
this acid, and, falling on the growing
crops, burns all the young shoots. No
doubt some special atmospheric or other
conditions must have been present, be-.
cause the mountain has poured out it's
steam. and the rain must have fallen
through it for centuries without the
same result occurring, and, in fact, the
phenomenon only lasted for about a
month in the spring. During this month.
however, the sprouting vines suffered
very severely, both leaves and buds be-
ing shriveled up and having the appear
ance of being burned in the cases of the
villages nearest to the mountain. the &C.
reals growing below the vines were Sc
riously damaged, and in some cases de-
stroyed. The vines which were most
forward suffered the least: but the dam
age was so widespread that it reached
Palma, near Nola. where the produce
consists Of hazel nuts, which are in
digenous to the district, and are grown
for export in large quantities. These
have been practically ruined, all the
young shoots being destroyed. It Is
hoped that the mischief will not extend
to the plants themselves, and that only
this years crop will be lost-London
Times
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-05-23
GXF0RD's FAMOUS LIBRARY.

Tercentenary Of the Eodleian Which
Rhodes will Open to Americans.
Oxford men from all parts of the world
are expected to return to their alma ma
ter to take part in the great functions
which are preparing at Oxford.
The university is going to celebrate the
tercentenary Of it's famous library, found
ed by the munifcence of Sir Thomas
Bodley in 1902. The Bodleian is the
second library Oxford possessed, the first
being the fine library presented to it by
Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, son Of
Henry w., about 1850, which was brok-
en- up in less than hundred years. The
Bodleian, of course, is one of the most ia
nous libraries Of the world
Men Of fame in science and learning
are being invited from every center of
civilization, and arrangements are being
made to give them the fine favored hos
pitality of the ancient colleges. The vice
chancellor will give state dinner, and
numerous other festivities are being ar
ranged.
The Bodleian library contains a rich
hoard of some 100000 bound volumes,
among which are 10000 volumes of man.
uscripts and literary treasures beyond
price. They are. at the service of tbs
world, for anyone may use them. 81:
Thomas Bodley ransacked the world TO.
books. He spent fortune upon it, and
most wonderful of ALL had the foresigh:
to secure TO the library the right to re-
ceive from the Stationers Company
copy Of every book published in Enc
land. This is right shared by the Bri@
lsh Museum.-London Mail.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-05-23
Heavy Responsibility of the Carpet.

Beautiful May is here and the good
housewives who are endowed with wis
dom are taking up. their carpets and
hiding them away for the summer, and
the. glory of naked floors, flecked here
and there by a small rug perhaps, may
ways be taken up and put away early in
the spring. They should never be put
down until very late in the fall, or, bet
ter they should never be put down at
all. The carpet is the home of disease
producing dust, and it is always colonized
by millions of deleterious microbes. 1t is
safe to say that more deaths have been
caused by the carpet habit than by rail-
road wrecks, disasters at sea, or by light
ming and tempests, plague, pestilence
and famine. Coughs, colds, catarrhal at
flictions, bronchial and pulmonary trou-
bles can nearly Always be traced to the
carpet which holds and breeds and null
tiplies the germs of disease. The paint
ed and waxed floor. is clean and whole
some, and it is surely quite as attractive
to the eye as stuffy, Justified carpet.
Memphis CTenn) Commercial Appeal.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-05-23
English Cures for Colds and "Shing
les,

Doctors have never succeeded in gain
ing the confidence of the uneducated
who regard them covertly as the intlict
ors of suffering for their own pleasure
and profit. And the mystic remedy il
still the popular one. A few days agt
the vicar of an Oxfordshire village wat
called upon by parishioner, who, being
afflicted with shingles, asked that he
might be supplied with some of the
grease upon which the church bell swung
He was dissenter, who had becolns
the leader of the local Salvation Army
Regiment But his confidence in tha
grease of the church bell had survived
generations of anti-clericalism.
Perhaps the quaintest remedy is that
which is administered for cough, and in
the opinion of thousands of English wom-
en- invariably cures it. It was mentioned
to an English lady by her housekeeper,
a Londoner born and bred, who had tried
it with success upon her own daughter.
You take the hair of the sufferer and
wrap it in a piece of meat, which you
give to dog. When the dog has swal-
lowed the sandwich the cough disap-
pears. Nothing could be simpler or
easier. so long as we are not bald.-Lon-
don Chronicle
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-05-23
Missed a Million and a Halt.

Lawyers will hardly find wireless
telegraphy so productive of fees as was
the telephone, litigation over which put
millions into their pockets. Prof. Bell
had strenuous time, recalls Victor
Smith in the New York Press. He took
the first working model Of his instrument
to John A. Logan and offered "Black
Jack" half interest for $4,000, saying
that it would do away with the telegraph
and that there would be millions in it..
Logan replied: II dare say your ma
chine works perfectly, but who would
want to talk through such a thing as
that, anyway? advise you to save your
money, young man." Bell then offered a
tenth interest to an examiner in the pat
ent Office for 500 in cash. 1t was re-
fused. That tenth interest was worth
$1.6OO,OOO in fifteen years. The giant in
tellect that refused it is still examining
patents. :
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-05-23
End OF "IGnnhaeuSer."

A Berlin paper recently republished
an amusing announcement that appeared
on the programme of a posthumous play
duced shortly after Wagner's opera Of
that name The announcement was
made by the playwright's widow, as fol-
lows: II beg the audience not to con-
found my late husbands .Tannhaeuser'
with the opera of Richard Wagner, with
whose views my husband never wished
to have anything in common. My hus-
band has in his play treated love as he
felt it-deep, strong, beautiful, rs l am
best qualified to attest; above all, in or
der that every hearer may be affected
sympathetically, as is apparent from this
fact alone, that the hero Tannhaeuser
and the heroine Elizabeth get married
at the end instead of dying, which en-
sures our patrons a pleasant evening"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-05-23
THE WRECK OF THE MAINE.
How the Weasel Appeared to Recent
Visitor to Havana Harbor.

AAo" shC C~SSl ppcIECu tO u NCCGHI
Visitor to Havana 'Harbor.
About the center Of the bay, and just
IN front Of the city. conspicuously lies
the wreck Of the Maine. Our steamer
anchors within 500 feet of it, The I'M
fortunate vessel was apparently headed
toward the city at the time of the explo-
sion. Her mainmast with the standing
rigging remained intact. Then just for
ward Of it is a confused pyramid of iron
work, all bent and twisted and misplaced,
probably twenty-five feet in each direc-
tion and twenty feet high. This, no
doubt, marks the spot where the princi-
pal explosion occurred. The great SUR
faces. of iron plate thrown up are prob
ably the ship decks, but if so are COM
pletely turned inside out. for the ribs are
apparent on the upper side. The only
piece except the mast which bears any
resemblance to it's original form is a
heavy crane on the port side, which
stands out red against the black mass be-
a small boat, but found it quite impos-
sib1e to guess where any piece belonged
in the original ship. All is confused
heap of scrap iron. All the forward
part of the vessel is entirely submerged,
but buoy and a few detached frag-
ments mark it's outline. There are no
Indications of any attempt to remove the
wreck, and indeed there seems to be no
necessity for it's removal, as there is
abundant sea room all around it and
deep water even close to it. It will prob
Spanish perfdy, as the wreck of the
Oquendo will as a monument Of perhdy,s
Observation-Disclosures Letter to Detroit
NpWS-Trihune
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-05-23
The Scnate's Solid Mahogany.

''Solid mahogany is term that is
very deceptive when it is applied literal
ly to mahogany furniture that is ':com-
mercially solid. The furniture which
adorns the Senate Chamber is very
heavy and massive in it's effect. and is
known as solid mahogany But the
fact is it is not solid in the sense that
that word appeals to the minds of most
people, who think of "solid'' as meaning
single pieces of wood. The heavy ma
hogany furniture of the Senate Cham
Der is made up of numerous strips of
wood. seasoned and put together so that
the force of any further shrinkage will
be exerted in a way that one piece of
the wood will counterfeit the shrinkage
Of another piece. 1t is declared that
were the furniture made of single pieces
of mahogany no seasoning in the world
would prevent it from warping.-Wash-
ingtOu Star
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-05-23
1t is Easy to Talk Chinese.

1t has long been the popular impress
sion that the Chinese language, like the
Chinese people themselves, was curious
compound and almost beyond the COM
prehension Of an Occidentalist. But it
is a matter of interest to know what
some Of it's peculiar difficulties are, as
len Giles, the English Orientalist, in q
recent lecture before Columbia Univer-
sity. It seems, according to this author
ity, that there are really two distinct
Chinese languages the spoken and the
written. The former may be easily ac-
quired, but the latter. the ttbook Lam
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-05-23
Baseball Fans in Congress.

The baseball contingent in Congress is
quite large. Representative William AL
den Smith, who is crank on baseball,
says that there are at least 100 members
who would rather see a baseball game
than eat dinner. Certain it is that on
the opening day of the season in Wash
ington fifty representatives, headed by
Speaker Henderson and Chairman
Payne, We're in the grandstand. On the
Senate side Culberson of Texas and
Dietrich of Nebraska are just as wild
over the game as Senator Kittredge, and
that is understood to be saying a great
Times.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-05-23
The AerOism of Living.

ut is easy to die" But to live and
live rightly, loyal to truth and cour-
ageously steadfast to duty, with an hon
est, constant effort to see truth and duty
clearly and intelligently- is another
and harder task, says the Nashville
To escape death is impossible. But what
a fine, brave thing it is to live for the
truths sake, in face Of the maledictions
Of the ignorant and the ISLANDERS of the
malevolent. There is a heroism in such
living which the base mind cannot know,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-05-23
Dentistry for Dogs.

1t is nothing out of the common for pet
dogs to have their teeth filled or extract
ed. One intelligent French poodle that
has several dollars worth of gold in his
mouth has been taught to grin in a way
that displays the filings to good advan-
tage. A farmer in New South Wales
owned valuable ram, which found
great difficulty in masticating its food
owing. to loss of teeth. Artificial ones
were inserted and the animal has since
vigorously attacked his fodder.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-05-23

+: AS Il feeble tribute to the value of
: all that could be lost in the wife, the
: mother and the friend. this stone is
: reared i'll memory of ELIZABETH,
: the spouse of Samuel S. Borrowc,
F.: who departed life in the comfortable
hope OF IL better. on the 18th Scptcm-
: Der, 1872 aged IS wears
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-05-23

guage," is a study of lifetime. Few
people can read Chinese book or write
Il Chinese letter, and women in particular
seem to fail in this. The Chinese never
possessed a grammar.-Leslie' Weekly.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-05-23

III the old churchyard of St. Paurs,
off Broadway. there are no inscriptions
breathing more humanity than that i'm
Dedued in the wall Of the southeast cor
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-05-23

1t has always been a mystery to some
people how some horses owned by the
''smart set when at one of their ''driv-
ing socials'' in big riding academy. or
horses i'll some theatrical production.
manage to ''keep time" with the music
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-05-23

The tablet is worn, so as to render it's
reading barely possible. but the feeling
prompting the perpetuation of the men,
DRY Of one who possessed ''all that could
be lost in the wife, the mother and the
friend must have been genuine.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-05-23

The "Smart Set" have a new fad.
They not only drive, but actually take
strolls in Central park at night time. In
former years, if a society man by acct
dent was passing through the park after
9 p. m. and happened to see his own
father daring to walk there, or so lost
to all the proprieties as to occupy one of
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-09-30

deviating obedience to his will, this
was what God required of Joshua,
and he makes the same requirement
of us today.
It is true that to walk in conform
ity with the law of God requires a
heart filed with the spirit of loving
obedience. But God is ever ready
to bestow upon us the grace which
we require to enable us to walk in his
way; and just as surely as he was
with Moses and Joshua, so will he be
with us, if we are strong and of good
ourage and turn not to the right
hand or to the left.
Meditation a Means of Spiritual
Growth.-We sometimes speak of
the Quiet Hour movement as IT splr-
itual meditation were a modern de-
velopment of the spiritual life. But
we find in the Lords charge to Josh
ia an injunction to the observance
of the daily morning and evening
watch, for Joshua is distinctly com
manded to mediate day and night
upon the book of Gods law.
What Joshua needed in prepare
ton for his arduous life as the leader
of IsraePs hosts we need today in the
rush and turmoil of our twentieth
century civilization. Quiet medita-
ton upon the eternal truths con-
tanned in Gods Holy Word will aid
US as nothing else can do in the
faithful performance of our duty to-
ward both God and man.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-09-30
The Sufferings and Wanderings of the
I~sraelites.

There is something i~nexpressibly
sad in this wasting away in the will
derness of a nation of nearly two
million people, with no hope to the
full-grown men and women of ever
seeing anything better than their
present condition in this world.
There was hope for the young but
none for the m~iddle-aged. The con-
sequences of sin are always sad and
the consequences of that incompe-
tence, that lack of courage and faith,
which is the result of sin, are no less
sad. The pitiful sadness of it, to-
gether with the reviving faith and
hope of the more spiritual are re-
fected in that wonderful Goth Psalm,
doubtless written by Moses during
this period. He could see among all
these desolations that Jehovah was
the home, the dwelling place of His
people throughout all generations.
In this people, however, whose eld-
ers we're thus fading and wasting
away, was the hope of all future civ
~ilization. All forms of religion
which have any vitality, any capacity
to lift men to higher things, have
sprung from the religious faith and
convictions of this people who we're
wasting away in the wilderness. The
principles of righteousness embod-
led in their laws have since been en-
bodied to a greater or less degree in
the laws of all ~virile, progressive ma
tions, and the more fully they have
incorporated and obeyed these laws,
the o virile and progressive they
have been. It took all these year to
Undue these people with the spirit of
these laws, to incorporate them, so
to speak, in the life of the nation
DR.. Henry Wallace, in Wallace's
Farmer.
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THE CHRISTIAN LIFE
NOTES ON THE SUNDAY SCHOOL
LESSON FOR OCTOBER 9.
Joshua Encouraged.
Joshua I'LL.

SOON NOOA OSS' OOAN
The book of Joshua, from which
our lessons for the next six weeks
are taken, is practically a continual
ton of the Pentateuch. The book of
Deuteronomy closes with the people
of Israel on the border of the land
of Canaan, and the book of Joshua
tells how they entered that land and
proceeded to conquer it in accord
c with the divine instructions
which Moses had given them.
A New Leader.-Moses was dead,
but the Lord never leaves his people
without a guide, and in the person
of Joshua we find the new leader who
was divinely commissioned to carry
forward the work which Moses had
left to be completed.
At the time of Moses's death Josh
ia was about eighty-four years old.
He had been brought up under the
Egyptian bondage, and, with his fell
low-countrymen, had shared their
varied experiences in escaping from
Egypt and wandering in the wilder
ness. He first appears in the Scrip
ture narrative as the victorious lead
er of the ~Israelites in their fight with
the Amalekites. He then became a
close follower and attendant upon
Moses, and was one of the twelve
spies sent to investigate the Prom
ised Land.
With Caleb he made a favorable
and courageous report, but the cow
ardice of the other spies and the
faint-heartedness of the people re-
suited in their long sojourn in the
wilderness, and for thirty-eight years
we read nothing further concerning
Joshua. Then, when Moses is told
of his approaching death, Joshua is
pointed out to him as his successor,
and in obedience to the divine init
nation, Moses ~consecrates him to the
great work which he should shortly
be called upon to do.
Divine Encouragement-The open
ing verses of the book of Joshua are
filled with the message of good our
age. There is no minifying the task
which Joshua is to accomplish. The
conquest of the land of Canaan
throughout it's length and breadth is
the goal which was set before him.
1t was a formidable undertaking,
and Joshua knew that to accomplish
it would tax all his powers and all
the resources of the people. But with
the command to possess came also
the promise of divine aid in securing
possession.
The Path of Good Success.-The
pathway to true prosperity has ever
been clearly indicated by God. There
is no sure road to material wealth.
but there is an absolutely certain
way to attain true prosperity, and
hat way is the way which was point
ed out to Joshua. True prosperity
lies in coming into harmony with
God, and this harmony is attained
by conformity with his law. An un-
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~ bushel or lOO-pOund cotton sacks for FlG
yer, timothy and fancy herds grass, Is lct
each, extra; prices of other seeds inclfud
sacks. Prices subject to market fuctuati5n
Cabbage, turnip, and all other seeds 6
market prices. G~ranulated sugar., $4.65 Ipee
100 TBS. Keg Soda, in III tb. kegs, las cts. T2ts
ID. Best Leaf Lard, in t~eirces, 11% cts. per u
Other quantities and qualities in proportiQPl
Tobacco, Snuff, etc, at market prices. LOAF
ed shells, powder and shot at whOlesaA
prices, by the 1000, keg and sack.
Orders of all Al1fancemen or ex-Alliancf
men, who contributed to the Business Agenc
Fund, solicited. Let me know your Wanf
and 1 will get prices.
Order Cane Mills and EvapOrators now
Corn Huskers and ShredderS at lowest Drices
Star Pea Huller a speciality. Fruit Trees al
wholesale prices. Wagons, Carts, Buggies
Harness, etc, etc. Pianos, Organs and Sew
Give me a list of your wants and L will ge
you prices.