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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-07-21
NEWS OF minnesota.
Hay.

Minneapol,s.-Scarcity of hay may
be felt this fall as result OF the flood
ing of the low lands along the Missls.
sippi river. Thousands of acres OF
good meadow land lie along the banks
of the river below the Twin Cities and
along the headwaters. The July Hood
will make it impossible to get crop
from these, as the river has been high
for so long that the growing grass has
been converted into seaweed.
Coming so late in the season, the
second crop will be light. The first
crop, usually made in the latter part
of June or first of July, is an import
ant part of the Northwestern supply:
With this cut off, the price OF hay
grown on the higher grounds probably
will be much higher than it has been
within recent years. Farmers near the
Twin Cities who are fortunate enough
to have good hay crops are expecting
higher prices than those now pre-
vailinr
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-07-21
Blois' Beautiful Staircase.

New or old, Blois is an amazing
achievement of the human brain and
the human hand, says Richard White
ing, in Century. The great staircase
in the courtyard, an outside one, form
ing an essential part of the elevation
is. of course, the masterpiece of won-
der and delight. There is nothing like
it in the world, and probably there
never will be. The staircase of the
Paris opera-an interior one, by the
way-would have everything to fear
in the comparison. The other is a
mass of the richest and of the purest
ornament, with beautiful proportion
between it's shadows and it's lights. It
is characteristic of the spirit in which
such work was done that it is not al.
ways easy to give due gratitude to
architect or to stone carver.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-07-21
News Notes.

Grand Rapids-A new iron ore dis
trict is discovered southwest of here
St. Paul.. A. Rosing of the state
board of control objects to locating the
administration building at the school
of agriculture on low ground
Minneapolis.-A campaign against
slaughterhouses located near the resi-
dence portions of some of Mime
sofas beautiful cities and villages has
been started by the state board of
health.
Moorhead-At especial meeting of
the city council, the saloon license of
Carney Bros, was revoked. The &C.
ton of the council was brought about
by the charge of the Moorhead police
that the saloon had been conducted in
a disorderly manner for several
months. -
Anoka-The city council by resolu-
ton has admitted the state hospital
for the insane and the 125 Sc acres Of
land of the institution into the como.
rate limits of the city.
ST. Paul-An order is issued prohib-
iting policemen from smoking viii lie
il uniform.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-07-21
PRO vlDENcE PEOPLE ANGRY.
Barber Says That Rhode Island City
Has an Epidemic Of Left-Hand-
: ed Collars.

Alter much urging and an intima-
ton that the broom boy you'd be re-
warded for whisking a hat that didn't
need brushing the barber reluctantly
consented to talk, relates a writer in
the Providence Journal.
we've had a queer epidemic here
In Providence during the past week or
two" ne began. II call it an epidemic
OF left handed collars. Most of my
customers prefer to remove their COL
lars, but lately they've been asking me
if can shave them if they keep their
collars on.
eyes, tell them, and I can cut
your hair If you keep. your hats on
(That's little joke of mine. I heard
that Life copied it. They're bald
headed, these customers)
But what I'm coming at is that
after awhile began to get curious and
l inquired why they didn't want tc
remove their collars. We have nc
drafts here. That transom's generally
closed and we always keep the door
shut. In summer the electric fan
20, Tor heavens sake" sputtered the
man who was being put under the in.
f1uence of lather, throw over the
switch and get back to the collars"
"Well,' continued the barber, II
questioned them and they explained
that consignment of left-handed COL
lars came to town the other day; turn
down-lap-over- tuck under collars, you
know. Instead of tapping over and
tuck1ng under from left to right, these
| collars lap and tuck from right to left
the wrong way, anyhow, whichever
way it is-and they've made no end of
trouble. Those collars aren't easy to
put on when no mistakes made in
cutting them, and right-handed man
buttoning a left-handed collar'll throw
fits and get red in the face.
"Once they get them on they don't
dare to take them off. One man who
comes In here is sleeping in his, and
three of my customers gave me bit
of shock, They had these left-hand-
ers buttoned in the back, so that they
looked like clergymen. Best they
could do with the BANKED things, they
said.
"And when they complained to the
haberdasher who sold them, and tried
to return them, he told them there was
a big demand for left-handed collars
this spring and that most everybody
wanted them that way That's made
them so mad they're nearly crazy"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-07-21

yet gray, 2Ou bottles of champagne
would be opened in night But most
orderly. Lyons saw to that with his
quiet, schoolmasterly voice. Holland,
the daredevil Irishman who invented
the submarine boat, had another such
voice. Holland really was schoolmas-
ter, by the way.
But Lyons has found his key. Here
after the famous place will be shut at
midnight. The glory is departed. Tim
Sullivan and all the Sullivan clan are
faithful, sitting together at long table
nearly every night; but one clan does
not make Bowery Delmonico.
Away at the other end of the Bowery.
where it doesn't call itself that, is an
other famous institution in the restau-
rant way-Dolan's. Dolan is dead.
Every soul who goes there knows it;
knows that Johnny Meehan, the slim
man with square beard, most unlike
other New York political lights who
stands slicing corned beef behind the
counter is Dolan's nephew and sue
cessor; knows that the two took for
tune of half million dollars out of the
tiny place, selling beef and'' (The "and"
means beans) at ten cents plate. On
Meehan's wall hangs large portrait of
thu dead Dolan; another of Tim Sulli-
van, very much alive and much admired
at both ends of the street; another Of
"Dolando' and another of "Meehanus,"
the two race horses whose adventures
at the tracks fun-l9ving reporter of the
New York Sun has made known wher-
ever that paper is read.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-07-21
MASSAGEFoR OLD WOMEN
Alleged Revelations Of Vanity Among
Wealthy Grandmothers Whis-
pered by Expert.

Shakespeare puts the lean and slip
pered pantaloon and the shrunken
shank before second childishness and
mere oblivion, sans teeth, sans eyes,
sans taste, sans everything, remarks
the Los Angeles Herald. But we
have often observed aged women of
perfect figure long after their faces
are furrowed, their teeth gone, their
eyes sunken, their necks stringy.
West of Central park one may account
for this among the elect, for there is
a most accomplished massagist who
reduces age to youth, whose fierce
manipulation removes all wrinkles and
stringiness and converts the sallow,
bloodless cuticle into complexion of
such pinkiness as might confuse
veteran masher. Scores of rich old
women, many of them grandmothers,
and some great-grandmothers, visit
the parlors daily and go through a
course of sprouts that would brighten
young girl or ripe matron into con-
niption fits.
my old customers" whispers the
massagist, "are far worse than the
younger ones. We sensibly expect
vanity in the young and in those who
have not passed middle age, but it ia
really shocking to me to see how
very, very vain these veteran women
are. And they are so hard to treat
have to pound and pinch, and squeeze
and roll, and rub, and stretch, and
press, and paint, and calsomine and
enamel. In my manipulation I am
obliged to use alcohol of 100 proof
(Which means, theoretically, but no,
absolutely, spirits containing 80 pei
cent. of alcohol and ten per cent. OF
water.) "Alcohol being of an astrin.
gent nature, tightens the skin tenn,
porarily, stretching the old parch,
ment over the bones, as it were, and
causing it to appear youthful. Most
of my customers are wealthy women
of society. 1 can do up young WON.
an in 20 minutes, and send her forth
like rose, but the haggard female
of 60 or 70 takes half day.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-07-21

the key. Never until now has it closed
at midnight The Bowery has changed,
and Line" changes with it. Gone are
the lusty boys that did wierd battle up
and down it's reaches. Foreign tongues
are babbled in the street where once
echoed the dialect differences of the
County Tyrone and the County Cork.
Lyons, a gentle-spoken Irishman of
medium height, was soldier in the
southern army during the war. The
Bowery hummed with life when he
reached it. And the corner of Houston
street was not yet downtown.
Even then the Bowery had changed.
The big double house in which the Bow
cry DelmonicO's was started was in it's
earlier days the home of Catherine
Lorillard Wolfe. Her father owned it.
They were very great swells indeed, and
if you should go to the Metropolitan
museum you may see their portraits,
along with many another good picture
better than those Vanderbilt bought
because taste went Into their col
lection.
Lyons has always sold good food. His
prices are high for the Bowery; mod
crate anywhere else. The walters are
able-bodied, and toss the plates from
distance. They mean no harm. 1t is
just their way.
The Bowery Delmonico is demo-
cratic. The proprietor and his family
dine in little alcove directly in front.
After, the white-haired old man him.
self may wait upon any guest of dis
tinction. So he used to wait upon Po-
lice Commissioner Roosevelt when he
came in with his friend, then and since,
Jake Riis, reporter. So he waited up
on Lester Wallack, Booth, Barrett,
Brougham, Tony Pastor; so upon Ches-
ter A. Arthur, when he was New York
politician. So he waited upon slender
young girl who used to come in some
times and dine frugally for Is cents,
whose name was Lillian Russell.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-07-21

tear down DR.. Parkhurst's church, fur
nishing him another site equally as
good" on the corner just above.
Now the new church is rising with a
strange fat dome like that of the heath
en- Pantheon in Rome; and where the
old church stood the insurance company
is to Guido the spire that has fallen with
site 100 feet by 112 they propose to rear
great shaft springing through the air,
taller far than st. Peters wondrous
dome, taller than the Washington mon
ument, taller than the Park Row build
ing, which is, with it's IS stories, one of
the worlds wonders to builders. The
height of the Metropolitan tower is not
yet determined. Five hundred and 60
feet is possible limit, and on a base so
broad that gives shaft no slenderer
than Giotto's Campanile, in Florence.
Incidentally, that is so stories or more.
In the early days of sky-scrapers the
rooms were made with high ceilings;
but nowadays, beyond the first floor
with its ornamental entrance and it's
counting-rooms for bank or great COM
pany, the ceilings are made ten feet or
thereabuots. Even perpendicular space
must be economical. 1t burnus up
more coal to lift people 400 feet than to
lift them 300.
Even in the matter of elevators,
though, the 50-story tower is practical
BILE. 1t would pay interest upon the cost,
if there weren't too many such towers
to divide the patronage of the adven-
turous. And old Manhattan's bedrock
foundation cannot be improved upon.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-07-21
The Lane Of Palaces.

) To that, the cpl
taph of Sir Christie
pher Wren might
be repeated Of New
York architects:
Lie heavy on him,
Earth, for he
Laid many a heavy
load on thee"
l have described
in these letters the
tremendous fnan-
cial sacrifices GER
tain wealthy men
are making to keep
trade from creep
ing IN Fifth ave.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-07-21
Highest of Skyscrapers.

HE metropolitan
Insurance com
pany is an indus
trial." 1t insures
servant girls for
sums just about
big enough to pay
their funeral ex-
penses. Of course,
for larger sums, if
they will. 1t is by
degrees covering
an entire block
f a c in g Madison
square-say t W o
ooroc on1 a ho1f
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-07-21
Feminine Intuition.

"A woman should know without
asking whether her husband is hap
py,' said the model wife.
9 Il can tell,1 answered young Mrs.
Torkins. when Charley comes home
late to dinner and can't speak above a
whisper, 1 know the home team has
won another game. "-Washington Star.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-07-21
HANGING POSTPONED.

Elk River-C D. Crawford will not
hang Aug. Is, the time set for his ex-
ecution, judging from present indica-
tions.
He has secured the services of w. II.
Place, the Minneapolis attorney who
saved Arthur C. Losee, alias Farmer,
from the gallows, and will ask for
new trial.
In the meantime, Sherburne county
is paying $40 per week for his board
and the death watch.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-07-21
IN THE METROPOLIS
BOWERY DELMONICO NOW TO
CLOSE AT MIDNIGHT.
ONE OF CiTY'S LANDMARKS
How Dolan Made a Fortune-Insur-
ance Company to Rear Shaft Taller
Than st. Peter's-The Anx-
ious Rich Man.

E w Y OR K.-U p
and along the Bow
cry an d across
the news w e n t.
Mike Lyons has
found the key"
Only it sounded
much like Lines
is f GU n d
Lines j" is short
for 1.-The DelmOric0
of the Bowery.'
Mike opened his
place on st. Pat
rick's day, 1872,
and threw away
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-07-21
Fabulous Profits in Banks

HE Fifth Avenue
bank cut a melon
the other day, de-
claring a special
dividend of 12O per
cent. 1t had a
pretty good right
to do it, too.
When this bank
was organized a
surplus was SUBJ
scribed to with the
shares. For Is
years thereafter no
dividend was paid,
the profits going
The regular dividend
which. as the capital
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-07-21
Politicians and Wine OPENERS.

CIV YORK pOliti-
clans have always
dallied long at
table and fed fat
upon good things.
The b e e f S t e a k
championships Of
the town are ia
m o us. Ly o n s.
steaks went by the
ton. Sometimes in
the days when
Croker would drop
in, silent, impas-
ciyo hic hair not
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-07-21
Accidentally Shot.

st. Paul.-Matt Bernhard, fourteen
years old and living with his parents
at 754 Locust street, was shot in the
left knee while he was playing on the
bank of the river. The boy did not
see who shot him.
Young Bernhard and some compan-
ions started for the Crosby bottoms on
their wheels. Bernhard was standing
on the bank of the river in the after
noon when the report of gun was
heard and Bernhard sank to the
ground. The bullet entered in the
front of the leg just below the knee
and fractured bone.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-07-21
clude the grain.growing province s.

clude the grain.growing province 81
Manjtoba. 81 .ss 81. DID.
The second great branch Of tho agri.
cultural industry is live stock. It Is
conceded by stock men all around that
Alberta and Southern Saskatchewan
constitute tho finest ranching country
in the world. Here is an immense area
of grazing land on which sheep, horses
and cattle remain out all winter max.
ing their livings themselves on the open
prairie, the Chinook" or warm winds
from the Pacific coast melting tho snow
almost as soon as it falls and never
leaving it any depth for more than "a
hours at time.
The reader will understand that It IL.
much more difficult to get an accurate
estimate Of the cattle of the country
than it is Of the grain trade, but after
conferences with dealers, railway
agents and others connected with the
trade, quite accurate statistics are pro-
cured.
These show that last year 1904, be-
tween the first of May and the 31st Of
October, the exports and local sales
were:
9oISes '.''''..'..'............... z,6n
Cattle ,183
6ueep S8I
hugs ...................~v.... .S6,oIo
Estimating the horses at 500, cat
tie at $40, sheep at SIS, all low values,
the total receipts were $2,S35,516 add
ing in the sales for the rest of the year,
&h4 >l~
$4,000,000.
The Canadian west is especially
adapted to the successful prosecution
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-07-21

into the stocking. The regular dividend
is now Is per cent. which. as the capital
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-07-21
Improving the Capitol.

st. Paul.-An imposing entrance to
the grounds Of the new capitol, which
may require the vacation of that por-
ton of Wabasha street from Central
avenue to Rice street, will probably be
the next important task undertaken
by the state capitol commission or its
SUCCESSOR
The capitol commission has practi-
cally decided not to undertake the con-
struction of an approach this year, and
it is possible that the matter will be
deferred until after the next session of
the legislature. The plan that has
been suggested would require the ex-
penditure of considerable money, more
than the commission has left out of the
81, 500, 900 tax levy.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-07-21
Fish.

Minneapolis. Minnesota fishermen
need not worry about the stock fish in
lakes and streams of the state, if the
efforts of the state game and fish COM
mission are as successful as they have
been this season.
The commission will plant more fry
this season than ever before. It Sc
cured 40, 600, 900 pike eggs and is dis
tributing 5000, 900 trout fry to various
points throughout the state. Both
figures are far in excess of any previ-
Gus year.
The distribution of the pike fry was
finished about the middle of June, and
since then Oscar Davies, formerly
clerk of the commission, has been en-
gagged distributing the trout He has
stocked the lakes in the vicinity of st.
Cloud, Clear Lake, Anoka, Winona and
other points in the southern part of
the state during the last few days.
The commission aims to treat every
section Of the state fairly.
The independent., 1905-05-04
6bs NebraskoA Independent
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nfacion of the constitution.
blocks the
Notwithstanding
dating other provision
plain specific that upholdng biennial
motive
shield
troll institution the public
man influence Of partisan politics Under the practice nominating
these unlikely
them
the university onstuional elected much independent than
time with the
political
of there better
there marked tendency
which their annually elect their
recently
elections Ohio will
liar
The independent., 1905-05-04
A FAULT or FARMERS.

Almost the
the agricultural prairie
Nebraska tho Dakotas, they apow
Nebraska, they really the
practical Legislature
o interests of the state.
through inexcuabe
gence, political
them
function the
the Nebraska that
corporations putting
any
benefits which this corporation while
the fewer get railway rebates Whether
themselves their they the freight
IN
affair
others these
Wdeawake attention
action sA
Miss Tarbells the local oprodu
elerism crushing, is advice
company
devise
Ny advice then the Kansas
Standard Oil
with which Kansas play but play It like gentlemen
Only when this will
undertaken Stop sizzling and the
&>&&&$$$&$$$&$&
The New York World not disposed
contracting on it's merits
millionaire distinguished
young Jewess who had
earned her living cigar factory
work Mr. Stokes fails to understand that when millionaire
are justified in treating the affair as sensational"
The independent., 1905-05-04
eRATuITous coNsrIrurloN-sMAsHlNc

The late legislature had little
that
without
elections the
constitution,
Section 13 of Article 16 follows:
Judges of the elective
and officers
election which
election
the time of the termination of their of
hereafter chosen
arbitrarily heightened where
The chief justice of the board
this The
according to the constitution
is possible that the court with the
which nowadays chacees bodies the new
The independent., 1905-05-04

MAY = 1905 6bs Nebrask,
ard OIL monopoly the World said becoming most
eloquent ef all the converts in day
nan all the curbstone agitators together
The trust upon franchises most of
which have from the people Of
new YORK 90 per cent in annual
and has issued Of nearly ten
Dunno should claim may upon pledge move
by the most direct trust and to the
recamauon by the people Of its voded franchises?'
People who attend the lectures Union New York.
nave been Jumped off socialists Of
progressive character Recently audience at one Of
these soalc lectures which appaudd dis
closed that out OF 1900 really
commenting on this incident the Chicago epubcan
II was typical audience typical of the
DDS by which Enshmen
problems ana built up their typical
this country today seeks remedies II is
not improbable that 1000 men and
women
tns OF sentiment Cooper Union audiences do well
to ponder on them seriously using to them
opprobous ephe socaisc' to the cure
OF existing evils will their
Until City STAR the chief newspaper Of the Mis-
souri, valley had been champion
ana now supports the policy of the
owned by the
with the most strenuous Here is
sample OF the mder which,
populstic eye
The fight organized greed and oppression
is on is time Republic ancty all the
Of strong period fruitful with
glory and lasting honor
Kansas against the standard oil cmnnv n
very radical and the
bill agricultural implement trust which
establishing
the state at the
Both Of these republican politics
nor really representative
are all radicals by the
their somewhat sudden changing economic and moral
conditions
o course this that
repses into reaconay
or adaism may not run uniformly high
not subde the former
ought to subside will on at healthy
GRATUIToUs CoNsTITuToN-sMAsHING
The legislature
that
without rhyme change
general elections Of the
o system.
Section Ii OF Article l6 OF the constitution follows:
Judges of the elective
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1905-05-23
COTTON REPORT.
Reduction in Acreage by Latham
Alexander & Co.

New York. May 2o:--Thc following
is the report oi Latham. Alexander &
Co., issued today.
The total estimated decrease of cot
ton acreage in ;he United States 1ot
1905 is II IL per cent. or S.55S,S7o
acres less than last year. and the
average planting OF the crop is about
two weeks later than normal.
Considerable cotton remains TO be
planted in the western portion OF the
cotton bell or account OF uniavOrable
rainy weather. and proper cultlva-
ton has been retarded also on this
account in the same section.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1905-05-23
In the A. r. P. Church.

Elder ". 7. Bradley asks us to say
that DR.. F. y. PRESLEY will Conduct
RELIGIOUS services in the Associate
Reformed church next Saturday even
inc Sabbath morning and Sabbath
night. He requested us particularly
not to say Sunday. and, IN difference
to his wishes the error appears
Properly speaking Sabbath IS the IN
stitution. Sunday is the ChrlSuoh
Sabbath. Saturday s the Jewish Sab
bath.-Abbeville Press and Banner.
Brother Wilson is himself IN error
about the name OF the day. The
New Testament, which OF course Is
authority. calls it the Lords Day
That day is weekly commemoratlon
of the resurrection OF Jesus and as
the sacrament of the Supper is styled
the Lords Supper so the day OF his
resurrection. the first day OF the
week. is the Lords Day.