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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-08-15
FURNISHING ONE ROOM.
Made Available for Sleeping as Well as
Sitting Apartment.

Another woman whose single large
room serves as sitting room as we'll as
sleeping room has made an extremely
good effect without this possession Of
pictures. What bric-a-b rac she allows
to appear in her room has a definite
reason for being. She chooses eacl,
piece for its color or shape, which adds
much to the appearance of the room.
Starting with a nondescript and char
acterless grayish wallpaper, she has fol-
lowed the necessity for using warm
tones, and has made q great success
with small expense. Her cot-bed has
a valance of dull red denim, the cover
being Turkish striped curtain, and
one long window being curtained with
two more to match: Three hat-top
under high mullioned window, the na-
ture of the seat being concealed by red
denim covers and warm-colored soft pill
lows, and the same plan Of extra bed
coverings and shaWls being used to
soften the lines. A simple bookcase,
with shellac tinted with bit Of nm
Der, holds enough books to make the
room very coy, and quantities of pic
lures fill in the wall spaces. \ few
portraits and rather large pictures were
already in this young woman's possess
sion when she started out to make a
one-room home for herself. From the
beautifully printed magazines OF the day
she chose prints in black and co]ors.
and framed these in passe-partout. The
colors Of the bindings were chosen to
suit the tones of the pictures.
Following5the rule we'll known to art
lists, that a brilliant bit of color is well
repeated in picture or in room. size
used her bric-a-brac and books to take
away any look of monotony and cheer
lessness the room might show. The
warm reds of a Satsuma jar and some
cups on the teatable gave an answer
ing note to the red denim covers and
valance, and the copper of the well-pol-
ishea teakettle made it's whole corner
Of the room alive.-Harpers Bazaar.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-08-15
Germ-Pr0of House.

A germ proof house is the latest ad-
dition to the hygienic terrors Of life. 1t
is not yet actually in existence, but
medical congresses are busily and even
hopefully paving the way for it's ad-
vent. When it arrives and We are all
thoroughly scientific and uncomfortable,
our homes will be single-storied, without
stairs, built on gravel soil, destitute Of
cellars, with concrete and blocks Of
earthenware pierced for ventilation
placed under the floor, and the ordinary
bricks will be superseded by glazed and
tightly fitting hygienic bricks" The
roof will be tiled, not slated, and the
windows will reach from top to bottom
of the walls. The dining table will be
Of polished mahogany, the chairs cush-
ionless or stuffed with medicated wool.
The walls ought to be made of cement
that takes high polish, can be stained
to any color and washed. frequently.
Curtains and draperies Of all kinds will
be abolished; pictures will be permitted
only when let into the cement wall; for
artistic touches we shall be depending OH
"plants of the india rubber and eucalyp-,
tus type" In no room will there be
corners to harbor dust and bacteria, and
the skirting will always curve into the
hardwood parquet floors instead Of strik-
ing them at right angles.-London
Chronicle. S@@ - t.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-08-15
FROM "MIDSUMMER'S DAY."

Whence comes he? He is all distraught,
A bramble in his hair Is caught,
And there are dreams within his eyes
From regions of the upper skies,
Found In deep forest pools that browse
Under low interlacing boughs
And FOR moment wake to paint
Unreal parallels when faint
With breath of hectares blown bare
\ wind steals fl ON one knows not where
In that obscure where he has been
What are the wonders he has seen!
IN steam of marish spots and springs
Touched by the noon. what startled things
What great eyes glancing through green
gloom.
What faces fashioned out of bloom
Where creatures of the azure mist
Weave their enchantment, what strange
trySt
Or airy shapes, and what strange flight
Up the long pencils Of the light,
What phantoms turning as they~fied?
What voices lured, what reckoning led?
And YOU will know him by the look
or men by happiness fo-sook-
SINCE he had been that time made free
or the first court of pocsy,
Nor till midsummer's day return,
Aru skies are blue and roses burn.
Shal! he set foot within those dim
Delightful ranges, nor for him
Those vlpcrcus barriers be stirred
For hc has lost the magic word.
Harriet Prescott Spofford in Atlantic
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-08-15
Where Prayer Never Ceases.

There is one spot in the United States
where the voice of prayer is never still.
For more than twenty months the ''tur-
ret of prayer" that surrounds the Tenn
pie of Truth, near Lisbon Falls, Me-,
has never for an instant been without
the sound CT a human voice in supplica-
ton. 1t is the intention of the people
who attend to this remarkable form of
worship that prayer in the turret shall
never cease so long as the building shall
stand. Those who take part in the serv-
ice compose the Holy Ghost and Us So
cietyy. The society afiliates with no de-
nomination and tries to conform strictly
to the teachings of the, Bible. Starting
without a penny, it has in a few years
achieved such success that it has built
four buildings. the Temple of Truth
among them, which form a rectangle ca
pable of seating 10000 people.-Metho-
dist Magazine. 49, -. +,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-08-15
A GREAT KANSAS FARM.
One Man Directs Cultivation on 1000
Acres.

One Man Directs Cultivation on 10000
Acres.
The agriculturist who carefully cult
Yates forty Or sixty or eighty acres and
calls it farm is likely to look upon
''quarter section"-the regulation home
stead of 1G0 acres-as large estate; an
entire section "a mile square} he would
doubtless regard as a tremendous area,
and & half dozen sections would seem
like whole province. What would
such n man think of farm on which
from 100 to $50 men are employed; a
farm whose furthest corner is seventeen
miles from the faIrm house; a farm that
requires three Dookkeepers and stenog-
raphers to make record of it's activity
That is the scale OIL which NJ. NJ. Sher-
man conducts his farm in Central
Kansas. He has more than 10000
$500 fat beeves. If a man were to start
to ride around his farm on horseback,
following the fence line and riding fifty
miles a day, he could not make it's cir
cult in two days.
Mr.. Sherman is now trying to devise
method of blowing by power by the
the field, propelling cable between
them, to which the plows may be at
tached. He believes this to be the best
solution Of the blowing by power prob
lem, provided a gasoline EN- CINE can be
made with sufficient weight to propel the
plows and still not be too heavy for
practical utility. In fact, every expert
ment which is made in the work of the
farm is commensurate with the size of
the farm and it's crop. But nothing is
unwieldy, and the entire little state
which the Sherman farm makes swings
along with better system and with
greater profit than commonwealth a
century old.-WOrld's Work.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-08-15
4 Waitress Gets a Fortune.

Marie de Mons, % years old, was the
favorite with the patrons Of a Court
street ice cream parlor in Brooklyn,
where she was waitress. All the
patrons therefore rejoiced with her when
u lawyer from Oregon visited the place
opc day a few weeks ago and after
cautiously questioning her about her
lineage and looking over papers from her
trunk, finally informed her that he be-
lieved she was the heiress to $4,000 left
by an uncle who died in Oregon eight
pletely established Marie s claim to the
fortune, and there was n large gathering
Of her Brooklyn friends at the depot
when the pretty, ice cream girl set out
for; Oregon to claim her fortune. She
was born in wealth, her father once be-
ing a rich farmer and land owner near
Stuttgart, Germany. Reverses overtook
the family and Ma rie came to this coun-
try to make living as a waitress.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-08-15

The Germans have phrase for a GER
tain class Of telegraphed intelligence
which is ludicrously accurate Re
porterphantasies' Some of the dis
patches from England on the subject Of
the Kings health appear to belong in
this class. King Edwards reply to them
is not formal denial, but a declaration
that he approves of the arrangements
for the coronation procession, and does
not want it shortened. The King is
game and the world hopes that he is
growing well.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-08-15
PLUCK SAVED HIS LIFE
An Exciting Incident of the Opening Of
the Yukon.

The upheayal of the ice that binds the
Yukon is always fascinating and ex-
citing, but no greater and more spectac-
ular scene in connection with the break
ing has been chronicled than that at
Five Fingers rapids several days ago.
The high, rocky pillars that stand as
barriers at the rapids choked with ice,
and for days sustained weight Of hun
blockaded water, which, when it broke,
tore through the gorge with terrific force
and speed of thirty miles an hour in
widest tumult
ALI the rocky barriers that form the
channel and the "Fingers" were sustain
ing, an untold weight of ice and water,
gathered there as the result of the flow
OF days from the upper Yukon. The
water spread far up the stream, and
threatened to overflow the banks, and
there is no telling what might have been
the result had not the government blast
ed the keystone Of ice from the lower
portion and opened the gorge:
Pass Company, fired the charge which
front of the FINGERS" and vet on a
piece of ice when the telling shot was
fired. With unexpected suddenness the
great mass Of matter forced the situa-
ton, and Williams was sent swirlipg
down the stream before the cracking,
maddening tumult Of escaping waters
and chaotic ice foes. Fortunately, he
was swept to the base of one Of the
cliffs. and there found a narrow niche
in which to cling. He seized the pro-
jecting wall and sprung to the niche
and with his back turned to the bluff
and facing the wild procession of the
clements. he stood in fear and trembling.
One solid hour he stood Oh that rock,
and the grinding, crunching and plung-
ing ice went past him in merciless roar.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-08-15

Andrew Carnegie has paid half mil
lion dollars for the late Lord Actions IL
brary, and presented it to John Morley.
1t is munidcent gift, entirely unprece-
denied, and does credit to Mr. Carne-
gie's enthusiasm for literature and schol-
arship. But there are 10000 volumes in
the library, and if Mr.. Morley feels bound
to read them all as soon as possible, in
courtesy to the donor, he will have but
little time to keep up with the news Of
the day
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-08-15

The get-rich-quick schemer at Pitts
burg who offered 100 per cent. took a
rathe: loose measurement Of the creunlity
prevalent in some sections concerning the
ability of promoters to promote the in
tereSts of people other than themselves.
But this honesty is not below the level
Of that OF the promoters who offer much
less in the way of interest on contribu-
lions to their own material welfare.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-08-15

Wont you tell an amused public"
asks a. correspondent Of the New York
Times Review, ''why Mr.. William l.. AL
den has his knife into poor George Ell
iot?' And then this correspondent
undertakes Il defense Of George Eliot,
though his language at setting out would
seem to better qualify him for discuss
ing prize fighters than for discussing
authors.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-08-15

The story that the souvenir postal card
habit has so reduced the demand for pa
per and envelopes for letter-writing that
the stability Of the stationery business
at Vienna is threatened may probably be
matched with story OF reduced postal
revenues incident to the smaller item
Of postage. But the souvenir fad will
have it's day, and then the stationery
trade OF Vienna will no longer be sta
tiOuliY
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-08-15

Miss Mary MacLane Of Butte, Mon
tana, was last seen in Chicago. Moth
ing has been heard of her since her
departure for Boston fortnight ago.
Perhaps the Eastern publishing houses
have not used their influence with the
newspapers to get her interviewed and
written about because they didn't bring
out her book.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-08-15

Old World buildings seem to be tumb-
ling on every hand, in response to the
announcement Of the organization of an
American skyscraper company for a
building campaign in Europe.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-08-15

When street railway cars are teles-
COPIED by collision, as at Elgin, Illinois,
they must necessarily come together at
telescoping speed. Some street railway
motormen seem to believe that street
cars are exempt from the dangers Of fast
TRAVELLING
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-08-15

cattle cannot be grazed on the same
ranges, owing to the close-cropping and
all-devouring habits of the sheep, makes
it necessary in the interest of peace to
either put an end to the general use OF
lands or to define the limits for the
sheep and cattle herders.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-08-15

1t was a great day for the University
of Wisconsin when the board of regents
secured the late DR.. Charles Kendall
Adams. May they be equally fortunate
in the selection of his successor!
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-08-15

The Milwaukee men who were "easy"
enough to be led into betting large sums
on a put up job are probably as anxious
to keep out of print as they are to re-
cover their lost money
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-08-15
A Wooden Chimney Stack.

A wooden chimney stack 16O feet high
is in operation at Mapimi, in the prov
ince of Durango, Mexico. The inferior
is lined with corrugated iron, and there
are platforms at intervals to throw wa
ter on the wood if it catches fire,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-08-15

Now it is known that Explorer
Baldwin went north to find the
pole or never again set eyes upon the
benign countenance of his partner in the
hyphenated pole-seeking corporation, the
world will no longer question Mr.. Bald
wins courage.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-08-15

The modern scow skimming dishes
which figure as yachts are variations of
the plank-on-edge, or narrow and deep
yacht with heavy keel ballast They
represent the plank on-its-side.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-08-15

is reported to have bought beautiful
Tum Yum Of Chicago isn't the first man
who has purchased bride within the
boundaries Of the United States.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-08-15

Fitzsimmons won over the mayor of
San Francisco in one brief round; and
he did it entirely with his face. But
the mayors "say-so' was not necessary
to acquit the ex-champion OF the charge
Of ''faking' in the fight with Jeffries.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-08-15
SONS OF BQER LEADERS,
These Boys May Play Leading Part
in the Development of New
South Africa

These bright-looking youngsters are
the sons of famous Boer leaders, and if
they inherit the patriotism and energy of
their sires may play leading part in
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-08-15

Pierpont Morgan finds no difficulty in
succeeding when he goes up against Eu-
ropean competitors; but in his strife for
London franchises his opponent was a
Chicago man.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-08-15

Mayor Lows declination of Emperor
Williams proffer of the badge of the
Red Eagle of the third class, put upon
the ground that he. did not think the
people of New York would care to have
him accept and wear a foreign decora-
ton, was what might have been ex-
pected of a sincere incumbent of an
American public office.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-08-15

Russell Sage is credited with the belief
that he has attained his eighty sixth year
because he has never tired himself out
in looking for holidays. But russ
sometimes jokes,-when he can spare the
time
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-08-15

The Canadian yachtsmen who have
seen the Tecumseh sail are beginning to
fear that the Seawa nhaka challenge cup
will be taken to the United States on Il
moving sidewalk,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-08-15

The Kaiser's explanation in regard to
the meager bestowal Of decorations in
connection wi:h the Prince Henry ameni-
ties is evidence that he has added the
American p:ess to the only power he has
heretofore ftared.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-08-15

The story about a Milwaukee actors
dog that left him because he gave it a
glass of beer would have more point
if the narrator could name the brand Of
the beverage that aroused the CANNES
disgust
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-08-15

The Chicago electric cars which are to
be geared for a speed Of 100 miles an
hour. ought to be able to get away from
all city speed ordinances.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-08-15

A story from the West of the killing
of a sheenherder and the slaughter Of
1000 sheep, by exasperated cowboys, re-
veals the bitterness of the friction be-
tween the cattle and sheep grazing in
terests. The fact that both sheep and
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-08-15

Andrew Lang has written unappreciat-
lively Of Dickens, which provokes Swim
burne to refer to Mr.. Lang as "a writer
dSentitled to express and disqualified to
form an opinion on the work of an Eng
fish humOriSt"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-08-15

William X. Vanderbilt mile in IS %
seconds sets a pace for automobiles that
may be killing for somebody.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-08-15

From 4 common-sense standpoint both
PUTTY" and Yohe arc rather ordinary
stock to command the interest OF two
continents,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-08-15

Express safes are not freproof, wher
the firing is done with dynamite.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-08-15

With the reporters in their present
mood, May Yohe could not disappear if
she tried; but it is evident that she isn't
anxious to get out of range Of the public
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-08-15

The Michigan fruit-farming couple
who have adopted twenty-five orphans
are evidently used to doing Il wholesale
business
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-08-15

The earth is presenting new wrinkles
in Southern California also.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-08-15

1t appears that the White House, also
has had it's skeleton in hiding
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-08-15

the development of the new South Africa.
The boy in the upper picture is Mathys
Johann Dewet, nephew of the great lead
er. The ether is Joubert Reitz, son of
the TransvaaPs former secretary of
state.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-08-15
2>-l2Z1Z GEN. cl4l1C!EL BH. EOLzzG> >

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The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-05-29
HOW SHE SCARED TRAMPS.
Lone Postmfstress in Eng CLAN d X ept
PoIiceman's Helmet In Sight
In the window.

Tmid, unprotected ladies who look
under the bed before counting the
sweet restorer, and who have been
known to keep masculine hat hang
ing in the hall to keep away bur-
glars, will be interested in the do
vice Of postmistress of 50 in Eng.
land, who has taken a still more dar.
ing flight of imagination. The only
door OF tho house faces the main
street. Opposite the door is table,
and in the middle of the table rests
"a policeman's helmet.
An inquisitive surveyor, who tells
this story in London publication
asked if ahe had policeman lodging
with her. She explained with some
Indignation that the helmet was q
blind, for so many tramps came beg
cling that when they saw the helmet
they passed on. THE helmet there
concluded the aged spinster, affords
me greater security.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-05-29

birth of little SON. 1t Is his hrst porn
Assessor Zander is at work assessing
the real and personal property OF TN
city.
Mr. Bruno Mueller and daughtel
Manda of Manitowoc were In 1--WE
Rivers last Thursday.
The Ct. L. b. A. club spent very
pleasant time with Miss Carrie Hudson
last Friday evening.
Mrs. Eldridge of Erie, Pennsylvania
is visiting her sister, Mrs John wills
man Sr., of the town of Two Rivers.
Supervisors Finch, Gratz and Croft
man came down here last Wednesday
to enjoy a ride over the inter urban.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Stangel, OF
Kewannee, spent last Thursday night
in this city, the guests of Mr.. and Mrs
Frank Hasheck.
Franz Magavia, well-known farmer
and old settler of the town OF Two
Rivers, is having large new barn l25
by 40 feet erected.
Mrs. E. H. Young and daughter
Bessie of Sheboygan, visited in this CITY
u portion of last week. They were
guests of Mrs. W. Hurst
Supt. Christensen and wife and MISS
French came down here from Mantle
moo 1ast Sunday
Mrs. Peter Mueller of Calumet,
Michigan, who has been visiting at her
old home in the town of Two Rivers
the past month, will return to her
home in Michigan today. Mrs. Mueller
is daughter of Mrs. II. Funk.
H. Schwauke, ok-keeper at the
Bank of Two Rivers, was released from
quarantine last Thursday. No sickness
followed his exposure, for himself or
family.
Frank Eggers of this city has given
up the idea of building II residence IN
this city, it is reported and has pur-
chased the residence of the late Carl
Endress in MaDitowoc.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-05-29
BRANCH.

The meeting Of the b. l., s. has been
postponed, on account Of bad weather
10 Friday evening June @.
MISS Ludy Kealy who has been visit
ing here the past week, returned to her
home ut Manitowoc Monday morning
Miss Julia Shatfer is on the sick list
Mrs. f. w MeisneBt of ManitowoC
visited with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs
Frank ShafTer. the past week
Mr.. and Mrs, Louis Kunz Of Mantle
woe spent last Sunday with Mr. and
Mrs Peter Herman.
Mr. and Mrs John Meisnest celebrat
ed last Sunday the tenth anniversary Of
their wedding.
The Branch Dramatic club will pro
duce The Man from Maine Mt Shaft
er's hall on Saturday evening. juno IA