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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-04-10

ulation Of Brooklyn. He was reflect
ed in April, 1881, for a second term;
in April, 1883, for a third term, and in
April, 1885, for a fourth term, and he
ran in 1891 in one of the most exciting
canvasses ever known in Chicago
with five m~ayoralty candidates in the
field. -
The campaign terminated as fol-
lows: Washburne Rep.), 46.957; Gre
gier .(dem.), 46,5ss; Harrison (ind:),
42,931. Harrison was defeated.but.he
ran again in 1908, a much more impor-
tant. municipal election thansthe one
which preceded it, for the term of Of
fee covering the period of the Chicago
fair. ,
In this contest Mr.. Harrison re-
ceived $4,000 votes, his republican adj
~versary $4,000, and his antagonist of
two years before, Mr.. Cregier, 5000.
Mr. Harrison was assassinated while
mayor on October 20, 1893, two days
before the closing of the fair.
Mayor HARRISON, his son, was born
in Chicago in 1860, and was gradu-
ated from the Yale law school in 1883.
He practiced law until 1888, when he
formed a real estate partnership with
his brother.
When the father secured control of
the Chicago Times,~the son acted as
business manager, managing editor and
proprietor until 1894. In 1897 he made
his first a for the mayoralty and
has run twice since, successfully.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-04-10
WHITE HOUSE RULER
Miss Isabelle Hagner, Mrs. Roose.
ve1t's Social Factotum.
Her Life IL One Round OF Social Func-
tons - Considered by Society
Matrons the C~leverest Girl
in hing s. ~

Miss Isabelle Hagner, social secre-
tary to the wife of the president of the
United States, is the one woman identi-
fed with the administration circle who
has sailed through the arduous waters
of the gayest social season on record
and landed upon the shores of Lent. as
buoyantly energetic as in the begin
ming of social days. J..
Miss Hagner is a marvel OF. tactful-
ness and efficiency. She is to Mrs.
Roosevelt what former Secretary to
the President Cortelyou was to the
chief executive, the power. behind the
throne, the invaluable friend, the pro-
moter of social harmony, the manual
of social tactics and the smoother of
the social way. =
Miss Hagner is not a Roosevelt prod
uct. She belongs to Washington and
is deep-rooted in the soil of smart So
ciety.
Miss Hagner was not more grateful
to secure the position Of secretary to.
Mrs. Roosevelt than was the latter
grateful to secure Miss Hagner as, her
So~AAA VIC ONSouS0 lAC4C 10 liz II
who better understands the social
structure of Washington than this
clever, invincible girl, who was born to
aHuence and position and who, when
the necessity came, proved herself
equal to a personal encounter with the
world.
Eight years ago the most popular de-
butante, the toast of the season and.
the leader of cotillons was Belle Hag-
ner, and ever then she possessed a
woman's courage despite. her girlish.
years. She presided over her fathers
house, advised her motherless. sisters
and brothers, attended more luncheons,
dinners, teas and balls than any girl
in her set, and she was never mentally
nor physically fatigued. Her wonder
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-04-10
MAN WITH a THEORY.
Indiana Philosopher Thinks the Sun
Is Inhabited.
Says the Big Luminary Is Not q Mass
OF Fire, MS Has Beer Generally
Supposed-Reasons for -.
HIS Belief"

"An eastern astronomer for whom
have the profoundest respect" said
Alexander Young, the aged philoso-t
pher of Laporte, Ind, who clings TO
the belief that the sun is inhabited,
declares that the sun is a~ball OF
fire encircled by a shell which gener-
ates the heat; that he has proved that
the sun is too hot to allow of any hab-
itation there, and that the existence
Of vegetation OF that planet is to any
Intelligent astronomer beyond the
range of possibility. In taking this
view the eminent scientist has mere
ly adopted the conclusions of his fore
runners during many centuries and
has committed the fundamental er-
ror of attaching the results of his
valuable observations to a prehistoric
theory instead of examining that the
DRY itself in the light of his discover
les, and those of Others"
With this introduction, Mr.. Young
proceeded to elaborate his own views,
which are based on a long study of
books, including the latest, and on ex
tended observations made by himself.
He does not intend or expect to reyo-
%lutionize the science of astronomy by
his recent announcement of reasons
for believing there is life on the sun,
but neither does he feel that his OBJ
scure position places him under a
command of silence if he has opip-
ions and can advance arguments in.
their support.
Putting aside the fire notion and
seeking a theory with which all the
established facts could be harmonized.
Mr.: Young was: led ,irresistibly to the.
result that the s. un= is .nota central
source of heat and light, that it is not
a globe of fire, that it's surface is not
a i~ame-swept waste: Instead of being
a flaming or incandescent sphere of
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-04-10

That lemon juice is fatal to the
bacillus of typhoid fever is asserted
by a London physician. On the
strength of this discovery, which has
been widely reported and commented
upon, we are advised to stop boiling
suspected water and simply make lem
onade with it. Medical authorities,
however, are somewhat cautious in
speaking of the matter. A medical pa
per remarks that if there is pro.
lection in lemonade, it is hardly
fair to assure us that we may eat in
fected oysters with safety, merely by
sprinkling yer them the customary
few drops of lemon juice.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-04-10

The last relic of the white house
gardens. was removed the other day.
1t consisted of the white painted office
building which was formerly occupied
by the head gardener and which ad-
Joined the camelia conservatory. It
fell just outside of the line for the new
executive Offices of the president, and
was not disturbed before. Then it
was lacked up onto a dray wagon and
hauled through the streets of Wash
ington to the Smithsonian Institution,
frightening the horses all along Penn
sylvania avenue IN route to it's new
location.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-04-10

"There is not a part of the world"
says an English traveller, where you
can not get an egg" While in west
ern China, however, he at first had
some difficulty in getting even eggs.
The natives could not understand him
and refused to recognize the pictures
he drew as pictures Of eggs.,""The
way got out of the. difficulty" he adds;
"was that I squatted down. on my
launches, tapped my wings and cock
a-doodle:doo'd until the entire nation
grasped what I wanted, and | was SIM
ply deluged with hundreds of eggs"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-04-10

~lifeless matter it is a habitable and
therefore of necessity an inhabited
planet, much as the earth is. Observa-
tions with the solar spectrum, the
solarscope and the solar electroscope
have given him a new and beautiful
idea of the universe and of Gods hand
work therein.
In brief, without laying down his
line of reasoning step by step, Mr..
Young has reached the conclusion that
the sun is the universal source and
center: of electrical energy, not of
heat. Immediately. surrounding the
sun is a. conductive atmosphere, out
side of which and surrounding nyis
a nonconductive atmosphere, the same.
being true of the earth and some other
planets. The converging. streams Of
electricity passing into the sun and
the diverging streams passing odt
into the. vast regions of interstellar
space meet with resistance in the outer
solar. atmosphere and evolve light and
heat, the illumination thus caused be-
ing the glare that we see in looking
at the sur and that scientists. have
enormously supposed to be the light
of that orb itself, attributing it, by
imagination purely, to inconceivab1y
hot fires, burning but not consuming
the body of that planet.
In the anne way the electrical cur
rents passing in and out of earth il
illuminate and warm it's outer non
conductive atmosphere and to other
planets our little globe appears as a
ball of everlasting fire in the same
manner, but to a far less extent, as
the sun appears to them and to US.
The light and warmth that shed their
benign influences upon us and make
our globe a fit habitation for animal
and vegetable life in all it's varied
forms cannot by any scientist be
traced beyond the terrestrial atmos-
phere, asserts Mr.. Young, except by
pure assumption. The fact is that
they are evolved in that atmosphere
by means of the resistance it offer
to the great ~permeating streams OF
solar electricity passing in and out.
According to this theory the sun sends
forth electric currents, not rays of
heat and light 1t is warmed and il
Illuminated by the heat and light
evolved by the passage of those cur
rents through its own resisting at.
mosphere and not by any fires Of its
own.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-04-10
THE CHICAGO HARRISONS.
Record Of Father aud Son Hard Go
Match in the Political Annals
OF, the United States.

Carter b. Harrison has recently
been nominatedzfor the fourth time
for:the same .ofice5to which his. father,
Carter 81. Harrison, was elected five
times--that of mayor of Chicago. The
record of the two Harrisons, father.
and son, in connection with this Office
is certainly ~unexampled in the his.
tory of municipalities in the United.
States. s"~
The senior Harrison was a native of:
Kentucky and was elected mayor of
Chicago in 1879, "A years go. The city
had at that time a population of AGO.
600, less than one-half the present pop
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-04-10
MINNESOTA NEWS.
State Fair Races.


Secretary E..W. Randall Of the Min
nesota state fair has completed the
racing program for the state fair of
1903. There will be one more $1,000
race this year than last. It has been
customary to drop q rae on Friday:
afternoon on account of the cattle
parade, but this year the full number
Of races WILDE run o friday.
Among the events are the two So
900 races, purses guaranteed by the
st. Paul and Minneapolis business
men. The Minneapolis purse will be
hung up for 2:21 class trotters on
Tuesday, and on Friday the st: Paul
purse of a like noun. will be Of
fered to 2:13 class PAGERS.
The novelty this year will be a free
forall pace for Minnesota horses and
a similar ace for Minnesota, trotters,5
the winner in each instance to receive
a silver cup. The pace will be on
Tuesday, Minneapolis day, and the
trot on. Friday, st. Paul day. The
running races have been increased in
number so that the program for the
week contains in all twenty-three:
races.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-04-10
MELVILLE ". MILLER.
Indiana Lawyer and Newspapef Man.
Appointed Assistant Secretary
"a Of the Interior.

Mr.. Melville w. Miller, of Lafayette,
Ind, who assumed office as assistant
secretary of the interior the ether
day, is another of the appointments
of newspaper men to public Office that
have characterized the administration
of President Roosevelt. Mr., Miller is
known throughout Indiana as one Of
the most astute lawyers and n of5the
best editorial writer's in the state. He
was born at Lafayette 46 years ago
and received his preliminary education
in the public schools of his native city.
Later he entered Du Paw university,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-04-10

A suggestion has been received at
exposition headquarters for the repro
duction at the worlds fair of the old
fort at Boonesboro, KY, with a real
istic reproduction of the capture of
the Boone and Galloway girls by the
Indians, the pursui. and rescue by the
fathers and a sham battle represent
ing the later attack on the fort by the
Indians and their repulse. NJ. Boone,
of Danville, KY, further suggests that
the old home in Missouri, where
Boone died in 1920, be also repro
duced.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-04-10

full vitality proved a stimulus t o her
natural ambition.
To-day, with an infinitely more
strenuous life to be lived, Belle Hagner
is as beautiful and as much a society
favorite as formerly and, withal, she
performs the duties of secretary to
half a dozen women of fashion who
swear by her talents and advice.
Mrs. Marcus A. Hanna admits frank
ly that she is the cleverest girl in
Washington, and Mrs. Dryden, wife of
the millionaire senator from New Jer-
sey, could v have reached the dizzy
heights of leadership in one brief sea-
son without Miss Hagner's guiding
genius. There is hardly a social aaspi-
rant or a climber up the official ladder
who would not sacrifice. the half of her
wardrobe to be taken under the wing,
so to speak, of Isabelle Hagner.
-. To Mrs. Roosevelt she is .well-nigh
indispensable; says the Washington
Times, and the two women are the
closest friends At Mrs. :Reosevelt's
private teas and musioales it ,is.*Miss
Hagner who is "the second in: com
mand." She presides over: the tea.
table and exercises great care that con-
flicting elements never tread upon each.
others sensitive toes. She prevents
many a heartache by. arranging the
white house lists of guests so that diff
ferent sets and cliques will dovetail
with social nicely. She knows every
one by name and rank and reputation,
and nothing seems like work to Miss
Hagner. She simply glories in the re-
sponsibility that rests: upon her, and it
is her pride, apparently, to assist Mrs.
Roosevelt in making historically ia
nous the social record of this adminis-
tration.
els it not odd," people say, "that
Belle Hagner does not marry? With
her attractions and opportunities and
the attention she receives, one would
think"
It is not difficult to imagine what
they think, but it is not odd at all that
she has not married. At present she
has everything-the social fruit that
does not have to be gathered, butsim-
ply falls into her clever hands-the
Emission in life" for which most:Amer-
lean girls are crying-a congenial
*ssraison d'etre," as the French say
and the sum of all this is nothing more
or less thap a game of absorbinginter-
est to a young woman of strength and
brain. The time for the matrimonial
move has not yet arrived. y7:E%:g &C., ~
You will see Belle. Hagner- by nine:
o'clock every morning walking in natty
tailor garments or a little later shop
ping with Mrs. Roosevelt. By 10 she
has dispatched more business than any
two official clerks on Uncle Sans pay
roll. She has answered and sent out
Invitations, arranged menus, suggest
,edssdecorations for half a dozen busy
socciietySwomen. At 1885, she is a serene
guest at a smart luncheon, and from
four o'clock on she shakes hands in the
NEST exclusive drawingsrooms, dimes
with famouspeopie and attends re-
ceptions and balls. 49,.
50 go
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-04-10

The Invisible Man." ACCOMPLISHED
his purpose by discovering a method
of making his body transparent and
giving it the same refracting power as
that of the atmosphere. Unfortunate
", his secret persisted with him, but
an ingenious British army officer has
discovered. what may be regarded as
q substitute under certain conditions.
He finds that, II objects are painted
with irregular streaks or daubs Of
vAffots .eo1ors, they 80 melt into the
HKdseape, at comparatively short dis
fah6es, tbat they are lndistinguisha-
BE, =. !
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-04-10

Charles Wingate, who is the oldest
alumnus of Dartmouth college, recent
1y passed his ninetieth birthday at his
home in Brooklyn. He was graduated
from Dartmouth in 1882. MI. Wingate
comes of a long-lived race. His father
lived to be 81 years old, and a men,
Der Of the family, Moses Wingate, Of
Haverhill, Mass, lived to be 102. Mr..
Wingate is in good health and says
there is 10 reason why he should not
pass the century mark.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-04-10
From Michigan to Boston.

A costly removal is about to be
undertaken by J. M. Longyear, of
Marquette, Mich. At a cost of $780,
600 he built a palatial home in that
city. He has become so embittered
against the city for allowing a rail-
way to run near his property that
he will move his house, stone by
stone, to Boston, which project will
almost u reach the original cost Of the
structure.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-04-10

den, in Regents park, london, England,
and the Philadelphia Geological gar
dens has the proud distinction of pos
sessing the only pair, male and female,
ever exhibited or ever kept in captivity.
The animal is solitary in its habits,
and is about the size of alarge sheep,
with long white hair, we'll suited to
harmonic with it's snowy surround
ings. The hair is very abundant around
the throat and neck and stands erect
like a name down to the center of the
back. This hair was esteemed Of great
value by the Indians for making blan-
kets. The hoofs and horns are black.
The three Specimens Of Rocky
mountain goat now captive were OBJ
tanned by killing their mothers and Sc
curing the kids, which have been prac-
tically reared in captivity. 81
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-04-10

According to Mrs. Frank Armstrong,
of Nevada, Mo-, Cole Younger, the
noted bandit recently pardoned from
the Minneapolis pe%nitentiary, was 4
great Bible student during his youth
and committed a large portion of the
New Testament to heart.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-04-10
RARE IN CAPTIVITY.
Only Three Specimens Of Rocky
Goats to BE Found in
the Zoos Of the World.

The scarcest animal in captivity is
the Rocky mountain goat. Only three
of these wild and untamable creatures,
it is said, are now or have ever been
held captive. One, a very fine speci-
men, is in the famous Geological gar.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-04-10

Two French doctors have been in
vestigating the case of bearded wom-
en- and they have discovered about 200
out of every 1000 sane women are
bearded. OF these 23O have only a
slight down; 40 have a quite visible
beard and ten are Enthusiastically
adorned with a. hirsute appendage.
Among 1000 insane women examined,
491*had slight boards and Sc had them
we'll grown.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-04-10

the new yacht, as she has all the yachts
her husband has sailed.
The boat is modelled on the lines"of
the independence, which was built in
1901.
The new Herreshof creation cannot
be called an independence, so-far as
the whole shape is concerned, but there
are elements in her hull, perhaps, strik-
ingly similar to the Crowninshield de-
sign and of a character to stamp the
craft as one in which her designer
showed a departure to a degree from
the basis upon which the Columbia and
the CONSTITUTIONS models were:
evolved. &
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-04-10

The funeral of the late Count Otani
Koson, lord abbot of the Hongonji,
took place at Kyoto on March 7. Many
hundred thousand priests and lay peo-
pie were present. The following
casualties were reported by the police:
Injuries, 311; Paintings, rs; fights, Z.
thefts, 121; pickpockets captured, 374;
lost articles, 1921, while 70 persons
fell into creeks or bitches.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-04-10

Some time ago a custodian of the
Archaeological museum in Florence be-
came suddenly insane and smashed a
world famed old Greek vase. Some Of
the fragments disappeared and were
advertised for. The other day the thief
brought them back and left them on q
table in the museum. The vase can
now be reconstructed.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-04-10
News Notes.

- -EJ&~. - It2
DR.. Edwin Murray of Minneapolis
reported to the police that his auto.
mobile had beenrstolen.
The two.story residence Of Philip
Hid, IN Hastings, was burned early
a morning, together with contents.
The family barely escaped cremation.
The burglar giving his name as IL.
p. English, who is-in jail at Red Wing
forareaking into Josephson's clothing
store,sturns out to be a criminal who
has:passed under various aliases. The
record Of q Chicago detective agency
shows that he served in the Illinois
penitentiary forssrobbery under the
namesofJames Renners
The ffty-fifth anniversary Of mod.
ern spiritnalismwas celebrstedsbv tbs.
ST. Paul Spiritual alliance.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-04-10

For the first time, it is believed, in
the history of surgery a taby has been
operated upon for the removal of the
vermiform appendix. The infant is
two months and 20 days old, and is the
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Fourres, Of
New York. DR.. Canac-Marquis, chief
surgeon Of the French hospital, sue
cessfully performed the operation.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-04-10

M. Roger Ballu, a French deputy,
proposes to have all art works bought
by the government every year sent
upon an exhibition tour to the chief
cities of the country before they find a
permanent home in the Luxembourg
or other national galleries.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-04-10
NEW CUP DEFENDER.
Almost Ready for Launching and
Will Be Christened "Reliance"
by Mrs. Iselfn.

The newcup defender at the Herres-
hoff yards, Bristol, r. l., is rapidly
nearing completion and it is thought
she will take her maiden dip the last
week of April. !. I
Mrs. C. Oliver Iselin, of New York,
wife Of the commodore, willchristen5
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-04-10
A Complaint from Kansas.

The Kansas City journal states that
Things seem to. be sadly out Of pro-
portion in Kansas. AT the idiot asylum
one employe, takes care Of nine idiots.
At the penitentiaryy one officer safely.
guards 16 ma~lefactors. But with the
Kansas state senate it takes four
guards or attendants to each inmate =
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-04-10
.Records Broken.

All records of the: Irvine manufac-z
turing industry at the Saltwater Peni-
tertiary have been swept out Of sight
by the business done. this year. Up to
this year the greatest amount ever
turned out was five and one-half mill
lion pounds and the earliest that it
had all been disposed of was May IS.
The output Wit be. o than seven
million pounds TINS year and. it is al
ready. sold with the exception of a
small amount which is being reserved
for the benefit of those farmers that
have not joined any. of the clubs for
the purchase of the Irvine and find it
hard to- get their orders in so early
in the season 49,. -.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-04-10
A Narrow Escape.

Harry Gardiner, nine years old and
residing in st, Paul had a narrow es-
cape from serious injury. He climb
a telephone pole on East Seventh
street and attempted to perch out on
of the arms. He lost his balance
and fell.
He had fallen about thirty feet,
when his coat caught suddenly on one
of the iron hooks whicHar used for
climbing the poles. The coat did not
tear and the boy hung suspended and
yelling to his companions to secure
aid. A man who was passing saw the
boys predicament and@climbed the
pole and rescued him.