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The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1902-07-12

Notice To Hemesteadsrs under a
new ruling: u. s. Commission
ers can now take filings and proofs
for land in any county in the land
district at their home Office.
E. "A. Lamb,
u. s. Commis'r.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1902-07-12

For Satterlund School District, County Of
Mclean. State Of North Dakota. for the year
lo0l-l002.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-12-12
A Perfect Shop.

Special details in a boiler shop, recent
ly built in Alsace. Germany, may he
noted as follows: The floor Of the shop
is made Of clay mixed with cast iron
chips and turnings, the mass being
tamped in place; only in front Of the
work benches. which are ranged along
the side walls, is flooring provided.
this being Of pine plank on oak joists.
The roof of the shop is Of interlocking
tile. and the inner surface is covered
with hard plaster; numerous skylights
are provided. A special arrangement
was adopted for the uptakes from the
hoods over the FORCES, III order to avoid
cutting the roof for them: The FORCES.
are set in the side bays, near the outer
wall, and the hood over each forge pro-
jects out from the wall awning fashion,
connecting with an uptake flue formed
in the wall. The hue has ,cleanout
opening on the outside CT the wall. A
system Of conduits IL formed in the floor.
serving in common for all the distribu-
ton systems, viz: a low-pressure air sup
ply for the blast Of the FORCES, a high
pressure (forty-6ve pounds air supply
for pneumatic hammers. service-wnter
supply, pressure-water supply (15OO
pounds) for the hydraulic machinery, md
a return for the Observation-Disclosures
News. - - = .-.,,.% r. r:.' "" =
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-12-12
A Penniless King.

1t is pretty well understood that it is
etlquette-or at all events custom-for
royal personages to 60 through the world
with empty pockets. No doubt the occa-
slons upon. which monarchs require to
handle ready cash are rare: but a purse
would obviously. sometimes be useful
resource. A curious instance occurred at
the THANKSGIVING service at St. Paurs on
Sunday. The King and Queen could not,
to use very ungenteel phrase, "raise a
COIN between them, and instead of con-
tributing to the offertory his majesty was
compelled to explain the situation to the
Bishop Of London. DR.. Winnington-In-
gram evidently believed that the naked
ness Of the land was only temporary, and
made tactful suggestion, to which the
King responded by promising to "send
something.'- London Daily Chronicle.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-12-12
A TYPICAL PARTISAN.
Death of a Representative Boulevardier
After an Interesting Career.

Count Louis de Ponteves, whose death
is announced at the age of 81, was
almost the sole surviving representa-
tive Of the generation Of true boulevard
iers. which not only Is becoming ex-
tinct in the course Of nature, but has
failed to find in its successors. heirs to
its traditions. The courtly old exquisite,
who has passed awy after the first illness
he ever experienced throughout his life,
was typically Partisan in a sense which
Gan be applied to none of the well known
figures Of modern Paris. He was not in
the least bohemian. and his birth: and
his position distinguished him from the
| happy-go-lucky and occasionally 'out-at-
elbow wits of the boulevard under the
second empire. But he was one with
| them in his exclusive alteration Of Paris
and things Partisan.
to look, beyond the boulevard, even
though he may perpetually gaze through
! boulevardier spectacles. Count de Pom
tevess and the men of his day and set
considered that there was absolutely
h1 ,o,,1dL!g worth seeing outside the four
cines; des 1taliens and Montmartre, and
possibly few yards up the Boulevard
Bonne-Nouvelle. Born in the year. Of the
battle Of Waterloo, he had been one Of
| the prominent Parisians of the old and
exclusive school for over half century.
lie had been a member of the Jockey
Club for the past fifty years. He never
missed, throus hout his life, going every
where a Partisan ought to 60. During
half a century never a Monday, Wednes-
day or Friday opera night in the season
passed without his putting in an appear
ance in the Jockey Clubs box on the
ground floor of the house. He was the
Oldest Of the, habitues of the opera but
one, M. Charles Bocher, who has had the
latter part of Louis Philippe's reign, the
second republic, the second empire, and
the third republic, to the present time.
Count de Ponteves, up to the last, had
been an arbiter of elegance and pattern
of courtly gallantry.-London Telegraph.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-12-12
Stockings with White Feet.

A physician, in a published interview,
says the indianapolis Journal, urges that
the wearing Of stockings with white feet
will do more to promote ease in walking
and relieve foot ills than anything else to
be suggested. Socks or stockings Of cot
ton or Isle thread in black bind the feet
and make them swell, He says, no matter
how, fine and open they may be. The
black dye with the hard thread of the
Isle variety is a combination that is par
ticularly torturing to tender feet. Thin,
nnbleached balbriggan he recommends.
Preferably the whole sock or stocking
may be white, but at least the foot
should be. A further caution is added
that new cotton hose, as we'll rs all new
cotton undergarments, should be WASHED
before being worn, to take out the sizing
used by manufacturers.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-12-12
About Ostrich Feathers.

MANY persons in this country believe
that women should not wear ostrich
feathers because taking the feathers
from the birds is supposed to be very
painful" says Fl. A. Holmes of Eliza
BEETHOVEN, South Africa, in the Washing
ton Post. Nothing could be further
from the truth. Feathers are taken out
once year, and the birds suffer no pain
from the plucking. The ostrich is raised
for commercial purposes on great tracts
of land. which are fenced in and called
camps. It is easy to raise the birds.
They are quite hardy and multiply rapid
". Some ostrich hens make as many
Der of eggs in a nest varies from twelve
to seventeen. Ostrich raisers make their
profits almost exclusively from the sale
Of feathers. There is little market for
the birds"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-12-12
THE VICES OF BRITTANY.
Strange Condition of Inhabitants So
Near to Paris.

Having spent two summers in Brittany
l find myself wondering that one can be
so near and yet so far from civilization
that in this day and generation, in 9
country whose advanced thinkers lead
the world, there can be people so ignorant
Of all that makes life acceptable to al
enlightened people. Their semi-civilizeG
manner Of life and thought, however
will not be changed until the new gener-
ations are taught in public schools that
life is made up of duties which each god
ly person owes to himself. Take, for in
cleanliness. The Bretons have not the
least notion Of what it is. To get into
their homes, which more properly should
De called hutS, one must step through a
deep mire of muddy manure, which rots
there from years end to years end. The
pigs live with the people, and if the cows
and oxen do not it is because they either
take up too much room in the small
houses. The children grow up like little
sAvages until they are put in the hands
OF sisters to be taught their letters: then
the teaching that concerns soul and body
is done by sisters who know about life,
health, the disciplining of minds, the
teaching of truth and righteousness hard
dren do. Thus generation after genera
ton goes on with the same habits, with
the same vices, utterly ignorant Of prog
ress, of enlightenment.
Drinking in Brittany is scourge. The
soberest have their days in. which they
usually get dead drunk. In Pont Aven
l had woman come an hour in the
evening to do some work. She told me
from the beginning that she could not
come on Thursdays because She was
Obliged to go and get her husband from
the marchand de vim, for that was the
day he got drunk. You will find a COM
mon bedroom in each house in which
the whole family sleep. I have seen
these rooms with bed in each corner
in which mother, father, grandmother
and grandfather and six small children
sleep, and the pigs and their family had
q sty in the middle of the room. And yet
it is said that Brittany is a moral coun-
try: but doubtless their idea of morality
IS broad oIe.-Brooklyn Eagle.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-12-12
THEATER MANNERS.
Old Lady Contrasts Those Of Long Ago
with the Behavior of a Mod
ern Audience.

An old lady who seldom goes to the
theater was enticed to see David Har-
uin' one night recently, says the Milwau-
kee Evening Wisconsin. She enjoyed the
tlay, very much, but she was greatly
shocked at the behavior Of the modern
audience.
when used to go to see Booth and
Barrett in the old Music Hail. she said,
I'VE did not see such style as we do
now. but we saw better manners. The
women in those days did not dress in
silks and satins and fine laces and have
their hair frizzled until they looked like
snake charmers and obstruct the view
OF the people back of them. We wore
hats. to be sure, but they were modest
little affairs, and if we had simple
delalne gown with bit of lace at our
neck, we thought we were dressed well
enough.
tinued, did not stare around at the
audience as they do now. After taking
their seats they gave their undivided at
tention to the: play or their escort, but
dent desire to attract all the attention
she can, and after getting into her seat
she twists and turns and stares in a way
that would have been considered very
rude when l was young And, worse
yet land here her indignation waxed
warm?, lit seemed as though nearly half
the girls at the theater were chewing
gum-a thing that was unheard OF in the
days of the old Music Hail."
This dear old lady saw and heard
many things that severely shocked her,
and she thinks she will not be enticed to
60 again very soon, preferring to retain
the impressions Of long ago rather than
supplant them with the stern realities of
that she tried to catch fragments of the
converse ton going on around her, but
she failed in this: mot because the girls
failed to talk loud enough, goodness
knows, but because they used so much
slang that their conversation was not
understandable" she said.
But, great as she found the shortcnm-
inss OF the modern girl to be. the fail
lngs OF the opposite sex were even great
or. She says that the men do not begin
to he as chivalrous as they were at the
old Music Hall. She was scandaIized at
the way they stalked headlong down the
aisle, leaving the lady to follow in the
dim light as best she could, in most cases
looking after her own wraps and carry
ing her own inky programme, greatly to
the detrlment of dainty kid gloves. She
was mortified to see a man expectorate
in the aisle, and this, too, from a man
who was in company with lady. When
It came to speaking of that latest step in
theater progress-going ont between acts,
her indignation fairly dubbed over. With
her luea OF propr1ety, she could not recon-
Gle the idea of man going ont and
leaving lady alone, at all. ~
Would you believe it?" she said, 81
actually heard man back of me ask
the lady he was with to hold his hat and.
umbrella while he went out between.
acts. = She told this in an incredhl0ns
tone. as though she half expected her
word to be doubted. but her listeners
were theater-goerS and found il eag to
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-12-12

man in the middle seat of the row, with
girls to the right of him and girls to the
left Of him, yet this fact did not prevent
him from going out between every act;
disturbing the girls, crushing their hats
aud stepping on their toes. As he passed
out at the conclusion of the second act,
the girl at the end of the row remarked
very sweetly: II hope we do not dis
commode you too much, sitting here?"
but the sarcasm was wasted on the man;
be went out at the next intermission
just the same.
And the old lady shakes her head in
dubious sort Of way and murmurs,
whittier are we drifting?'
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-12-12
RECIPE FOR SUCCESS.

FIRST, If you are in business.
With goods that you would sell,
IT'S not enough that they be good
Their virtue you must tell.
Don't LAY your goods upon the SHELF"
But straightway. II you're wise,
Invest in some good medium
BEGIN TO ADVERTISE.
NEXT, after you have advertised,
Don't just sit down and dream
That nothing more Is to be done
TO carry out your scheme:
But think up more convincing talk,
Such as you used before,
Invest again in printers ink,
AND ADVERTISE SOME MORE.
THIRD, now that you are on the road
That leads to fortunes goal,
Pursue the plan that guided you,
With all your heart and soul;
And tell the people Of your wares,
Strive hard their wants to fill.
And as your fortune doth increase,
KEEP ADVERTISING STILL.
Annie Smith in the Ad-Writer.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-12-12
Microbes and CoIks

1t is sad, but true, that even the wine
bottle cork is as hunting ground for the
bacteriol0gist. 1t used to be maxim
that wine destroyed all microbes, bu,
NJ. POTTER, French scientist, dissipates
that comforting illusion. The doctor
finds that old cerks are as '.6eldsn where
fructify myriads Of larvae that become
bacilli, of which the most common Il the
tyroglyphus. He also gives details ~ to
not he described as tn any sense III.
tractive. If old wine needs no bes8. r.
corks need 4 great deaL--La sPTtsse,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-12-12
Sell Locations at Auction.

1t was stated yesterday, just previous to
the regular meeting of the board of d.
rectors Of the chamber of commerce,
desire or intention on the part of the
board to establish the system Of dis
posing at auction annually of the trade
tables and portion of tables to grain
dealers on the floor. These privileges
were auctioned off to the highest bidders
year ago, and it is expected. as far as
officers and members of the board know.
that the same system will be repeated
for the coming year. - =
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-12-12
Anthracite Coal Production.

Three hundred and sixty-five tons rem:
resented the entire amount Of antlira-
cite coal marketed in this country il,
1870. In 1889 the country produced
over 53,OO0JO00 long tons Of Fennsyl-
hard coal was practically unknown, e.
.cept - few CRATES In the houses Of
people Of meanA
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-12-12
= g IN IA ~ y 81 ET 2. "a. ~ T3 p
| \ GAY NEM YORK: :, y y
Scenes and Incidents Of Everyday
Lie In the Pasi, Of America. y

A SONG OF SUBWAY. !
Sing a song of subway,
City full Of dirt,
-Four and twenty dangers
Keep one all alelt.
Where the way is open
Chasms yawu below,
If you want crossing
Up the block you 60.
Every sort Of rubbish
Lies along the street.
Traps all set and waiting
For unwary feet.
Heaps Of stone and iron,
Pipes of every size,
Dust in the clouds that's blowing
Down into your eyes.
DerricEs loom above you
With their heavy load:
You must walt in patience
While they block the road.
When you're safely over
Just give thanks. and then
Fray you'll live till New York
IS itself again.
"A. q. +. in New York Sun.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-12-12

fIost the gem. g ON q Il indications
it appears that the mysterious diamond
will furnish web and woofssfor one iof
those unpublished \sensAtions which
newspaper offices are stuffed with. Il
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-12-12


nb omsm
wnson
in the be picture ~"NNN"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-12-12

Thomas Kerrigan, newsboy, who
made quick sales Of his papers by an
nouncing the death of President Roosc-
welt by assassination, was fined $25 in
the court of special sessions.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-12-12

Who owns that ring found in the Van
dcrbilt box last week at the horse show
A charwoman found it and tried to sell it
to a pawnbroker for $50, and thereby
got herself arrested. It's worth about
$500, but no one has appeared to claim
it. Mrs. Vanderbilt says it is not her
property. and all the visitors to her box
disclaim its ownership. 1t is fair ha7-
ard that the woman who lost it simply
prefers to count herself as so much a
loser rather than to appear as 1.-The mys-
terious woman who owns the mysterious
diamond" Certain afternoon newspa-
pers are just squatting back on their
launches prepared to spring a picture of
the owner, together with a highly or
nate, tale Of the manner in which she
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-12-12

Richard Stockton Emmett, the Oldest
member in this country of the famous
family which was identified with the re-
bellion in Ireland in 1898, resulting in
the martyrdom of Robert Emmett, died
Of heart disease at his home in New
Rochelle in his eighty-second year. He
was a grandson Of Thomas Adds EN-
met, brother of Robert Emmett Thomas
Adds Emmet fed from Ireland after the
execution of his brother, and came to
Baltimore and afterward to New York
The deceased's father was Robert EN-
met, 4 judge Of the court in New York,
who died in New Rochelle in 1867.
Richard Stockton was educated at Co.
lumbia College, and began the practice of
law. For fifty years he was the senior
member Of the firm of Emmett & Robin
son at SO Wall street. His interests in
the firm in the past few years have been
managed largely by his son, William
Temple Emmett
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-12-12

Evacuation day, which is the anniyer-
sary of November %, 1888, when Wash
lngton and his forces marched from Har-
lem into New York, just before the city
was evacuated by the British, was OBJ
served November 25, 1902,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-12-12

The death Of Francis G. Meyers, aged
s. years, chief of the coin division at the
subtrcasury, is announced. He was con-
sidered one of the best coin experts in
the country.
Tho engagement of Miss Edith Cray.
daughter Of Judge John Clinton Gray, to
Reynolds Hit Of Washington, sou OF
Representative Hit Of Illinois, is an
nounceu at Albany
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-12-12

Now there is a woman cyclist looping
the loop in vaudeville house here. This
feat was hair-raiser when a man tried
it on about year ago, but it is doubly
so with a woman on the wheel At Z
performance the other day a number Of
women and girls tainted when the feat
was performed.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-12-12

To make pleasure Of shopping is the
newest object of endeavor among pro-
prietors of department stores. Concerts
all day are now being given by two of
the big uptown stores, and we may con.
hdently look for vaudeville next. Any
thing that will make it a pleasure for
women to part with hubby's hard-earned
money seems to be the thing these days.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-12-12

have declared forfeited the $26, 5000 neck
lace which was seized from Mrs. Harri.
SON Dulles when she landed from the
Kronprinz Wilhelm July IL was decid-
ed in the governments favor in the Unit
ed States district court. The necklace
will now be sold at public auction.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-12-12

Father Ducey, one of the most popu-
lar Catholic priests in New York, has
written an open letter condemning what
lie terms Hall Gaines false representa-
ton of spiritual authority as embodied
in the papal character in The Eternal
City,"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-12-12

An important Battery place transac-
ton in real estate, which eventually
means a large Office building. has just
been concluded. Edward F. Searles is
the buyer. The plot includes the whole
Washington street. and about 115 feet
on each street. The price paid is in the
neighborhood Of 81 100000.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1902-02-15

There are any number Of little GUS
toms and fashions which are survivals
of primitive times. or have a more
modern historical genesis which has
been forgotten generally, but which
can be traced readily. Gate posts, be
they wood or stone, standing in front
of a house, frequently have round balls
at their tops. This is said to be a
survival of the time when our ances-
tors had a barbaric fad Of decorating
their gates with the heads of their
enemies taken in battle. Such a pleas
ant little custom could not be allowed
to be forgotten altogether, SO we have
kept the round knobs on our gate
posts as reminders Of the good old
times.
The wearing of 'spats" or overgait-
ers is traced back to the days of the
Indian mutiny. The Highland regi-
ments employed in that war wore spats
rs a distinctive part Of their uniform.
and those troops, for the relief Of
Lucknow and other brave deeds. be-
came most popular in England, so that
their custom was much affected.
Children were clothed in Highland
costume, a practice in vogue in those
days. AS staid and portly merchants
would not have looked we'll in kits,
they compromised by wearing spats,
and thus started q fashion which has
become universal.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1902-02-15
Lh(sh'S Great Heat
neutrality-suspicious.

NE cold winter day. Lin.
o. ! !; : ! :; :: :: !: : !; : ! ! ! ! !: !: !; !; ! : :: :: :: ! ! !
I coin saw Q poor fellow
vert into hrewood. Alb
was ~barefooted and SHY.
cred painfully while he worked.
Lincoln watched him q few moments
and asked him what he was to get for
the, Job. Alb answered zone dollar"
and. pointing to his naked and suffer-
Ing feet, said that he. wished to buy
ii pair 81 shoes. Lincoln seized the
axe, and. ordering the boy toscomfort
himself at the nearest fire. chopped up
athe house, so fast that Alb and the
owner were both amazed when they
saw il done. According to Nj. Rut-
ledge remembered this act with
the liyeliest gratitude. Once he. being
ascast-iron. Democrat, determined 70
vote against his party and Tor Mr.:
sLincoln;gsbnts the friends. &c: he after
wards saidsswith tearssins his eyes,
made HIM drunk, and4heyofed against
Xbs. Thus he did NOT even hayo an
opportunity retusn the noble con,
duet of lGlr:.SfIlncoln hySsthis small
gmssailsuluuis5 y thankLs ''Ss & S5 n
&,ueGN-tyTtfa ~ -