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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-08-18

Flowers and bushes were trampled
down and great patches of grass have
been destroyed beyond the chance of
early repair. The great public has left
its mark. The same story applies to
the other spaces thrown open by the
order of the park commissioner when
New York was gasping in the hot wave
and scores were dying daily as result
OF the thermometers awful climb. No
one will complain SO much of the other
ruins. But Central park-most New
Workers dote on the park as an ex-
panse of unsurpassed beauty. A threat
to hurt the park is a thrust at which
multitude rises up in highly audible re-
sentiment.
Nevertheless the park commission
er's order, transmitted by the police,
and rescinded as soon as the cool wave
was known definitely to have arrived,
was a good thing-it was life-saving
device. Without regard to any senti-
ment, it relieved thousands of people
from peril as>real as any with which
they might be confronted. On those
evenings of frightful heat whole caval-
cades of tenement jewellers trooped
across town to the park, carrying pill
lows, and sometimes ground blankets.
1t was curious sight. And at mid
night the park itself looked asst never
had looked before. The figures for the
most part lay in punches, families hud-
ding together on the green. Bushes
blossomed with strange garments. The
early sun-not to mention the earlier
fashlight camera-saw a wonderful
variety of sleeping attitudes. AS the
sun rose the sleepers began to do the
same, and the parks night population
drifted little by little, back into it's
usual haunts. These Were great nights
for the tramps who, in all parts of the
city, could for once, without fear.
stretch themselves where they would
until another dawn. Z
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-08-18

A Massachusetts judge has officially
decided that an umbrella is property
and fined a man $40 for appropriating
to his own use one belonging to an
other person. Unless this opinion be
reversed by higher court it's effect
may be salutary in checking an abuse
which has grown chronic Of late years
and causes much inconvenience, in ad-
dition to a certain pecuniary loss. The
appropriation of other peoples UNI
brellas has become so common that it
has ceased to be a joke
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-08-18

might be adopted in the army. These
stoves are in use in German households.
and are guaranteed to save worry, work
and fuel, and never to scorch the food.
They never blacken the pots and do
away with all Objectionable odors.
According to Mr.. Murphy's de-
scription these stoves or ''hay boxes"
are merely alright chests lined with
felt or paper and packed with hay
or straw. The close fitting lid is COW
cred with a cushion of some sort to
exclude the air. An old trunk or
even a large valise may be pressed
into service for "hay box" Tho
process of using is even simpler than
that OF construction. The vegetables
or meats are started cooking in the
ordinary way over a fire, and then
transferred in the pot to the box, care
being taken that the lid of the cook
ing utensil is not removed while the
change is made.
I'm general says Mr.. Murphy 1T
will be found that two of-three min
utes of actual boiling on the fire is
amply sufficient for vegetables, while
roasted meat requires 20 to 80 min
utes. Most articles should remain
tightly closed in the box for two or
three hours, although they can be left
there to keep hot for ten or IL hours,
If necessary. Rice, dried beans, len
ills, dried fruit, ETC., should first be
we'll soaked in cold water. After be-
ing allowed to boil for some two to
five minutes, one or two hours in the
box will prepare them thoroughly for
the table. Cauliflower and other soft
vegetables should merely be brought
to a boil and then placed for an hour
or two in the box. Compared to the
old way of cooking the saving of fuel
by the use of the "hay box" is very
apparent. 1t cooks while you sleep.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-08-18

the antitrust law, the prosecution Of the
beef trust and several other important
matters have kept this brilliant young
lawyer, very busy. In the midst OF all
this legal work he has also undertaken
war against an enormous system OF
human slavery In the south known as
the peonage system. =
Mr. Moody has won the first battle in
his campaign, but there are many more
to be fought. The peonage system, It ia
believed, keeps hundreds of men in actu-
al serfdom, and the attorney general is
trying to uproot the evil, and has his Of
fcials at work securing evidence against
those who play the part of slave owners
in 4 number of states. The victims OF
this peonage system are not all colored
men, although a majority are. In re.
cent statement made to the department
or justice by one of its agents. white
men are shown to be the slaves.
4" This case came to light in South Caro-
lima, and the men were Italians. They
had been engaged in New York, but
when they arrived in South Carolina
they. discovered they were to work in a
phosphate mine. They refused to do 50.
but the master said they could not aban-
don the work, as they owed for their
transportation, and must work out that
debt. Guards were stationed over them.
and in the face of weapons they were
compelled to work out this alleged debt.
One of the men escaped and made known
the terrible condition of his comrades
which led to the interference of the
government.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-08-18

her horse in imitation of the exploit Of
Gen. DeWet. The horse baked, Just as
the horses were always doing IN front of
the pool at the hippodrome last winter
and she was thrown a distance of 20
feet, breaking several bones. This re-
peated the experience of Sergt.. Jack
Prescott, who used to perform the
same feat at the same point in the
show. =
The Boer war spectacle has taken a
place in the affections of New York
once held by Buffalo Bills wild west,
to which it bears SO many points of re-
semblance. The show itself, made ia
miliar to so many Americans and for
eigners at the st. Louis fair, is supple
mented by camp by the sea, which il
itself the object of much interest to
New Workers. Briton and Boer sleep
within sound and sight Of the ocean.
The kits of the Gordon Highlander
fash on the board walk. Though there
are sometimes four shows in day, the
people of the, show seem to have time
to enjoy Coney Island. They speak
well of 1t, as they should, for Coney
Island is good to them. It |. is q COM
Portable place for the most part, GER
tainly as comfortable as any place IN.
the temperate zone could be IN the
summer season.
s OWEN LANGDoN
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-08-18

Frank W. Pettygrove, of Seattle
has the penny that named the city OF
Portland, Ore. On the toss of this
coin depended the question whethe,
the Willamette metropolis should be
known as Portland or Boston. Twice
the coin turned tails" and the town
was named after Portland, Me-, the
former home of Mr.. Pettygrove's ia
Their. A. l.. Lovejoy, of Massachusetts
a member of the party that laid out
Portland, desired to Mans it Boston
after the most important city in his
state. Pettygrove wanted to name i,
Portland for the same reason.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-08-18

A resolution whose author is State
Senator Edward C. Curtis has passed
the Illinois legislature memorializing
congress to erect in Washington q
monument to Abraham Lincoln that
shall rank among the great monu-
ments of the world, standing as long
as this government shall endure, as
a memorial in honor of the man who
gave his life that government of the
people, by the people, and for the peo-
pie might not perish from the EARTH
The intention is to have the monument
Lincoln's birthday.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-08-18

The rain cure is now being tried by
number of persons in Austin, Tex,
whenever opportunity is offered for
taking the treatment. Some of those
who have taken it say that it is a
panacea for all chronic diseases as
we'll as many of the lesser ills of the
body. There is nothing complicated
about the rain cure. All that is re.
quired of the patient is that he shall
stand in the open, with his body bare
of all clothing, and let the falling rain
pour on him. The sensation is said
to be very agreeable and very
strengthening to the nerves.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-08-18
News Notes.

Cokato-The building owned by
Isaac Neimi, of Calumet, Mich, and
occupied by Mike Jokela as general
store, was destroyed by-fre.
Hinckley-Oscar Hanley, the young
man who disappeared from his farm
three miles north of here has not yet
been found, despite the additional
search which was carried on.
Duluth-The attorney, general is
threatening to bring suit to recover
$40, 900 alleged to be due for tim Der
trespass 80
Minneapolis Phil Carlin has been
appointed general organizer of the In
ternational Brotherhood Of Carpenters
and Joiners of America. /; .. g
Fertile-Hans .Juelson, member of
the house of representatives of this
state in 1898, from Norman county.
died at Blackjack, where he was on a
visit to his son. Mr.: Juelson had been
a resident Of Sundal, Norman county.
for over twenty years ~ ,<
Pipestone-George B. Brickert and
daughter Josie, through their attor-
ney, have served notices of claim for
=
damages in the amount of $500 each
upon the city council -. ~ !.
st. Paul-Gladys Starr, the 7-year-
old girl who was burned while play
ing around bonfire, died at the city
hospital. z*a z5.. ss.-..
stillwater-In the whole city there
Is only one dog, according to the conn
ty assessors report Of tax valuations
TO the state board of equalizatfon.
Winona- During . thunder storm
the barn Of Albert Shields, Of the town
OF New Hartford, was struck by light
ming and the place burned to the
ground with Ill the co1tenta In.
clnded il the loss we're four horseS, 100
bushels Of oats and the entire new hay
crop.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-08-18

President Castro, of Venezuela. has
been credited Of late with feelings of
Bitterness toward Americans, but ap-
parently he has not yet blacklisted us
all For at least one citizen of this
offending republic he has quite recent,
]y displayed discriminating regard.
ms American honored with his favor
is no other than Gen. Sherman Bell,
northumberland of Colorado, who
states that Castro has proffered him
the position Of commander of the
Venezuelan army.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-08-18

Although the circus is an institution
peculiarly and typically American,
over 80 per cent. of the circus per-
formers and specialists are foreigners
In Europe the struggles for existence
is so sharp that people will attempt
things in which failure means death,
and which no American would think
of undertaking, in order to fit them.
selves for the trapeze or the ring OF
some American circus, where they are
certain Of a good salary
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-08-18

town, and when few millions still re-
main within the wide circle of the CITY
the summer camping possibilities of
this region of the world are being in
terestingly tested. On the Hudson
shores, on the East river front. on
both shores of Long island, are a null
titude of small camps in which people
are seemingly finding all the attrac-
tons attributed to places much farther
away from the city hall. OF course If
is not astounding that there should he
rocky coves, fine beaches, good fishing
and bathing within sight of the skv-
scrapers, but it is a novelty to find 50
many people realizing the opportunity
to enjoy such summer privileges with
out going great distance to attain the
same things. There is as much
"change' in these scenes as if tho
round trip ticket had cost $40. Market
ing is not difficult; there is always
plenty of good water in or near New
York, and boats cost little more than
at the average populous summer place.
Some OF the most picturesque canps
are at the foot of the frowning pail
sades. Small cities of tents spring up
at Rockaway and the other beaches. A
tent in New York is cool in cool
weather, but rather hot in hot weather.
Many thousands seemingly find them a
satisfactory experiment for the sum-
mer weeks. More than in the far coun-
try there is necessity for precautibn
against thieves. Tramps are plentiful:
also casual and curious intruders-in-
Guiding the amateur photographers. =.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-08-18
Beauty and the Law.

DON'T know how
it may be in other
cities, but in New
York the beauty
makers are not
having an alto
6 e t b e r beautiful
time. 1t seems
quite likely that
no other city in
the world has
more beauty-mak-
ers than New
York. 1t is hard
to believe that all
the people in the
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-08-18
Killed..

Duluth William Haburt of West
Duluth ;t1aged seventeen years, who
with companion named William Lit
tie, a lad of the same age, went berry
ing near. the city, is dead as result of
accidental shooting. The boys had ex-
pected to stop ina shack but they
could not find the building. Becoming
alarmed at noises in the woods, they
climbed. trees when darkness set in.
Each had revolver, and at intervals
they fired the weapons to drive away
real or imaginary dangers. One of
the shoots from Titles revolver en-
tered Haburt's heart and he fell from
the tree, dead.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-08-18

H. F. Wilson, the sweet potato king
OF Oklahoma, last year raised 5000
bushels Of sweet potatoes and this
year he will plant so acres to that
crop. Mustang township is the great
est sweet potato raising region of
Oklahoma, and the acreage will be
much larger this season than in any
previous year.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-08-18

Australia is considering the intro
duction of the metric system and a
bill providing for it's use will be in.
troduced at the next session of The
commonwealth parliament The idea
is to make the system permissive fo2 4
certain time, reserving the right tc
make it compulsory at a given period.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-08-18
profession

associate of the railroad king, Tom
Scott, and Of Andrew Carnegie, the
ironmaster, is clerk in the pension
Office at Washington.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-08-18
IN !. THE METROPOLIS u !. ? / 5.
BEAUTIFUL CENTRAL PARK TN
JURED DURING HOT WAVE. ;:
TENTINo INSIDE or TOWN /
During Awful July Days, Subway
Hotter Than the Surface - -: 4,
Beauty-Makers in &c.,
New York. -

EW YORK. You
can't eat your ap-
pie and have it.
New York could
not sleep in it's
parks and have
the parks - have
the parks as BEAU
tiful as they were.
The report is that
Central park is
ruined for this
season as a result
of it's use for sew
eral nights as a
S ! e ep j n e place.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-08-18

At GERMANTOWN, South Africa, a
Pair of ostriches were sold recently
for $4,000, which is a record price.
The plucking from the chicks of the
pair realized from $50 to $62.5O a bird.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-08-18

American ladies in London have or
ganized club called the american
Women's Club" They have furnished
clubhouse, which is conducted ex-
actly like mans club.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-08-18

Bradley Pratt, a prominent citizen
Of Rutland, VT, has just died in that
city at the age of "a. His father lived
TO be 101 years of age, and four sur.
viving brothers and sisters ages ag
gregate 1873 years.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-08-18
City Camps.

HE night camps in
the m e tropo oils
were a great nov
city. Yet there
are hundreds of
camps that add to
the summer pic
t II r e squeness OF
New York which
are not the result
of official indul-
gence. At a time
when the society
columns are tell
ing us that every
BODY is ont If
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-08-18


occupy the entire square lying southeast
of and diagonally from the capitol
When completed, it will be three stories
In height and will contain 1876 offices,
which are to be forever dedicated to the
use of members of the house of repre-
sentatives.
The building is to be classic in style
and ornamented with "a columns, in
pairs. The main rotunda will be elab-
orately decorated in bronze, marble and
decorative plaster, and it's splendid ef-
fects will be heightened by a monument
tai staircase. The interior arrange
ments will make it an ideal workshop
for the members of the house. There is
to be caucus, or assembly, hall 81 by
81 feet, to be used by the party organi-
cations of the house. Then there will be
q dining hall on the second floor, which
will be one OF the finest rooms of it's
kind in the country, and will be a great
improvement over the stuffy, ill-smell-
ing rooms that are now used in the base
ment at the capitol. The kitchen for
this restaurant will be located in the at
tic over the dining-room; SO that the at.
mosphere of the building will not be bur
dened with the odors of cooking.
The building is to be equipped with
barber shop, bathrooms and everything
necessary to the comfort and convent
ence OF the members. 1t is in this build
ing that the members expect to receive
their many callers and conduct their cor
respondence. They expect to be relieved
from the opportunities of callers who
have heretofore besieged the doors in the
corridors about the hall of representa-
tives. Hereafter, the visitors will he
referred to the congressman's quarters
in the Office building.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-08-18

panying the squadron's evolutions.
Since he became head of the
department Of justice however, he
has been kept closely It his desk
and every hour of his time nearly has
been occupied with big legal problems.
The investigation of railroads for VIC
lat1on of the anti-rebate law, suits
against corporations for violations of
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-08-18

he bOer war is not
yet over. That
the plucky Boer
woman, Jeanette
Wagner, should be
injured in the big
show at Coney
Island is a re-
hinder of the
strenuous progress
of that interesting
p e r p e t uation of
the South African
S t ruggle. Miss
Wagner was to
hovo 1oo~& I'LL
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-08-18

Beneath the floor of a Roman dwell
ling which a peasant has discovered
at Mende, Lozere, in the south OF
France, was found casket containing
coins dated in the third century.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-08-18
Fireless Cook Stoves.

tMY authorities are
very much inter-
ested in a report re-
Gently made by
George H. Murphy,
a United States
consular clerk at
Frankfort, err
many. The report
is regarding what
is called "freless
cook Stoves" and
the army officers
are Investigating
the subject, with
tho Sdoo fhok 4ho1r
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-08-18
House Office Building.

HERE is gradually
rising out of the
ground southeast
g of the capitol build
ing a magnificent
marble pal a c e ,
which is to be
known as the house
Office building, but
which in beauty
and impressiveness
will compare with
the national Ii
brary and with the
capitol itself.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-08-18

A man with lots of time on his
hands has figured that $25,0O0,O0O is
spent on cabs in London each year.
He further figures that over 100000
of this amount is for tips and over.
charges
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-08-18
The Attorney General.

'IIORNEY GEN.
ERAL MOODY is
about the busiest
man in the cabinet.
When he was Sec
rotary of the navy,
Moody had a pretty
good time of it.
travelling about on
fast cruisers and
dispatch boats, Wis
iting naval sta
tons and accom-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-08-18
Cannibalistic Fish.

HERE have been
startling instances
Of cannibalism re-
vealed in Washing
tom. The govern
ment is very much
agitated over the
d is Gov cry. The
crime has devel-
oped in the propa-
eating fish ponds
near the Washing
ton monument, and
the criminals are
the young b a SIS
raised there for
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-08-18
Soda Fountain Bursts.

Minneapolis. - The bursting of a
tank highly charged with carbonic
acid gas attached to the soda fountain
in the drug store of A. B. Crowell, 1912
Hennepin avenue, caused the death of
W. L. Hughes, young clerk.
The young man, who was only
eighteen years age, was in the base
ment attachinga cylinder of carbonic
acid gas to the gas and water tank of
the fountain. It is not known how
the explosion occurred, or what caused
it, but the young clerk must have
been bending over the apparatus. At
any rate the lower part of his body
was terribly torn, and both his thigh
bones were broken, and the combined
injuries resulted in his death just as
the police ambulance got him to the
city hospital.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-08-18
news Of MINNESOTA.
NSw Kind Of Trout.

z ST Pa ul--Black spotted trout SINH
lar to those seen in the Yellowstone
Park ars about to be introduced in
Minnesota. Executive Agent Fuller
ton received 10000 eggs from the
game and fish commissioner of Colo.
RADIO The eggs will be Matched at the
st. Paul hatchery and the fry will be
distributed about the trout streams in
which it is thought that the black
spotted fry will do the best. f.
8 ''We have never had any black spot
ted trout in Minnesota, but believe
that they will thrive here" said Exc
cutive Agent Fullerton. "They -four
ish in Yellowstone Park, and I see no
reason why they should not flourish in
Minnesota. They are of the cut
throath variety, having two red
blotches under the gills, causing the
appearance of a cut throat.
The game and fish commission has
distributed about 100000 trout fry
this summer: OF this number S, 900, 900
were Matched at Indian Mounds and
1000, 600 at Glenwood.