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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-08-25


in depth. All this accumulation had to be
scraped away before the work of paint
ing the huge dome could begin. Ever
since congress left the capitol last
March force of men have been at
work on the rotunda, and more thrill
ing sight than half dozen painters and
cleaners at work sitting on frail seats
suspended by ropes from the upper part
of the dome could not be imagined. It
makes one dizzy to look up and see
those workmen with nothing between
them and the floor of the dome. $50
feet below, except a slight board at
tached to two ropes suspended from the
rim of the dome.
The sight of these workmen was a
fascinating one, despite it's blood-chill-
ing character. The thousands of tour
lists that thronged to this old building
during the summer have carried with
them memory as thrilling as those who
witness the most daring mountain
climbing feats. A >misstep or an un-
sound strand in the rope meant a horri-
BILE death for these workmen. The rem
ovation of the dome has worked a great
change in it's appearance.
The dome is to be further improved
by 5000 incandescent lamps which will
illuminate it. Heretofore this has been
a ghostlike place at night, when only
few faint gas jets supplied the light.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-08-25

eral of them calming New York as their
habitat.
One handsome New York girl who
does not claim to have been married to
Carlton is accused of being his partner
in one of many picturesquely criminal
enterprises. She is said to have posed
for figure photographs to which the
heads of respectable women were af-
fixed for purposes of blackmail. Carlton
confesses to a knowledge of photog-
raphy. Evidently he does not count
upon Photographic knowledge in any,
one else, for he explains his possession
of certain poisonous chemicals by say
. ing that he used the elements in photo
graphic work.
Throughout the excitement produced
by the discriminating revelations Carl
ton has not only been cool; he has been
gay. He has talked freely to anyone
who cared to talk with him.
He is profuse in ingenious explana-
lions. His latest explanation is that he
has double-a sweeping explanation
This double, says Carlton, looks precise
~ like him-even to a broken finger.
"ae broke the fingers himself" Carlton
declares, to complete the remarkable re-
semblance. This double, Cartons
cousin according to the Bluebeard, has
been doing all the wicked things of
which Carlton is accused Acting upon
his deluding resemblance he even de-
ceived Cartoons wife for a week.
Carlton does not say which wife.
The case has occasioned much dis
cussion. The facility with which wo-
men may be deceived seems to. have
been one of the most frequently ira
versed subjects brought up by the Blue
beard story. If the accusations against
carton are true women seem to have
been easy to him-and murder also,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-08-25

the careful study of the bird-and
other flying machines. 1t was all very
Highland strong. 1t didn't weigh
over 80 pounds or so. There seemed to
be no way of preventing it from soar
ing gracefully over Manhattan. The
inventors new idea-I'm not sure that
this didn't come at the last minute
was to put his machine in an automo-
bile and thus get the thing started.
This was done. And more-another
automobile volunteered to take a lead
rope, kite style. In this way, with a.
young balloonist in the stirrups, the
thing started Upland came down.
hard. The young balloonist lost part
of his trousers. The inventor who
stood by said he was greatly encour-
aged. It doesn't take much to encour-
age an airship inventor.
Meanwhile New York is awaiting
with expectation the fulfillment OF the
promise made early in the year that
Baldwin would sail his ship over and
under the Brooklyn bridge. This would
be a great spectacle if it could be
brought to pass. l understood that the
intrepid and successful balloonfst.
Tracey A. Tisdell, was to sail the Bald
win ship here. Knabenshue has hfth-
erto made ascensions for Baldwin, and
has been very successful. There is a
good deal of confidence in the Baldwin
ship. 1t seems to work, and a definite
announcement that it was to attempt
the Brooklyn bridge feat would be met
with greater expectation than any
other balloonist's announcement could
hope to evoke. What New York really
wants is an airship that will carry
people from New York to Brooklyn
and Of course back again in the morn
ing-and put the bridge cars out of
business. = tx Ez: ....ss. !. ID
Z - OWEN LANGDoN. :
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-08-25
A Little City Farm.

1GHT in the midst
of New York there
is e farm, a real
farm, with a little
model farmhouse,
and we'll planted
rows Of thriving
vegetables. This
farm is the first
of an experiment
by an agricultural
S Oci e ty which
wishes in a practi-
cal rather than in
a sentimental way
to teach city
c h j | dren how
things grow.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-08-25
Scrubbing Statues.

PRACTICE which
some artists rated
as little less than
vandalism has not
been followed of
late in the care of
public buildings
a n d S t a t u e s in
Washington. A few
ye ar 8 ago SONS
bright genius with
a love for cleanli-
ness conceived the
idea of scrubbing
the allegorical fig
ures and S t a t u e s
about the capitol.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-08-25
Would Stop the Tips.

HERE is a promis.
ing field in WASH
ington for the op-
Grafton of an anti
tipping S &C i e t y.
The E ur op e a n
practice of giving
tips for every serv-
ice rendered has
grown to sch an
extent in the ma
tional capital that
strong protest is be-
ing heard and prop
:itions advanced to
have congress pass
some sSw regu1a-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-08-25
4 Theatrical Gambling Storv

He charge Of ex-
tortion a g a n S t
| a W yer Champe
Clark brings out
a gambling story
such as 6 might
make a theme for
a venturesome TO-
mancer-One who
was willing to be
accused of define
ating the impGssi-
BILE. Or a farce
comedy might be
built around the
theme with per-
feet t h e a zeal
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-08-25

The celebrated statue of Washington.
by Greenough, which stands in the
plaza Immediately facing the capitol
was the first dark tinge to this piece of
marble, ana it was assuming the charm
Of IN old world antiquity, but the gen.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-08-25

Plural.
Belle-There goes Miss Olde.
Bob-Is she summer girl, too?
Belle-Not a summer-about forty.
one summers.
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ton to prohibit the nuisance. The ma
jority of servants in public and private
capacity in this city are colofed, and
they have long since acquired tue tip
ping habit in all its offensiveness. Soma
people offer excuse for this on the ground
that the official atmosphere of Washing
ton is in favor of tipping or, some would
mare harshly call it, bribing There
is no ground for this charge, however,
although in the former days there may
have been system of bribing in public
departments, and in congress to secure
favors and legislation. Diligent search
and investigation in the present day,
however, shows that this system has
gone into disuse.
According to the report of Consul Gen.
eral Guenther, at Frankfort, Germany,
bribing is greatly on the increase in COM
mercial circles in Europe. In a recent
communication to the state department
he says: "Bribing employees who act as
buyers for mercantile houses, or who, in
the capacity of statesmen or sakeswom-
en-, attend to customers in retail shops,
especially in department stores, is an
abuse which has grown in Germany for
some years, and has caused many COM
plants in business circles. 1t Las be-
come so serious that the chambers of
commerce and other mercantile bodies
have considered it necessary to discuss
measures for relief.
"The commercial traveller who wishes
to sell to the retail dealer will in many
cases pay employees of the latter COM
missions in consideration for giving the
goods of the bribing house the prefer
ence, s showing them to customers in the
shop, and keeping the goods of other
firms out of VIEW
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-08-25
Woman and Cigarettes.

VERY once in a
while we are in
formed, gravely or
gayly as til e
chance may be,
that New York
women are really
going to smoke
cigarettes, as q
common thing
and quite as a
matter of course.
And then tn e
thing does not
happen.
It is just as true
as ever that Wo-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-08-25
The Cabinet Makers.

Of amusement fail
in Washington, po-
litical SPECTATORS
turn to cabinet
making. There is
scarcely a fortnight
passes that ew
gossip does not crop
out about cabinet
changes. President
Roosevelt at first
was a trife sensi-
tive about these ru-
mors and specula.
fiOnS and wac die.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-08-25
.D / j 6 OF Q new YORK
HAPPENINGS OF DAY IN EAST.
ERIN METROPOLIS.
DEEDS OF A BLUEBEARD
The Most Amazing Criminal New
York Has .Known-A Unique
Gotham Gambling Story
Other Gossip.

EW YORK.-Of all
the '"Bluebeards"
ever enrolled in
the criminal lists
of the metropolis,
Carlton is one of
the most amazing.
The man is still
untried; he is still
only "the accused, "
but the array of
evidence against
him is astOnish-
ing. Wife after
wife appears from
different parts of
IT, L -~s ~~~e
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-08-25
Renovating the Capitol.

OR the first time in
a great number Of
years the rotunda
of the capitol is be-
ing thoroughly rem
Ovated. The accu-
mutation of dust in
t h i S magnificent
structure has been
so deep as to hide
many of the beau
ties of the fresco
and other decora-
tiOns. I n S ON e
places the black,
fine dust was found
To no covyoro1 ;~aL
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-08-25
RECENTLY RELATED.

President Sprague, of the Union
Dime savings bank, of New York, says
that he was called up on the telephone
one day and addressed thus: els
this the Union Dime savings bank?"
EYES," well, I want to know if q
non-union man can deposit in your
bank"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-08-25

and even conven-
tional women-smoke in London and
Paris, and Berlin. They smoke great
deal in Russia, and in the best society.
In Austria they not merely smoke. ad-
dourning to the smoking room after
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-08-25

A well-dressed man who registered at
hotel in St. Joseph, Mo-, casually
remarked that he never travelled with
out his own flre-escape, at the same
time exhibiting the continuance he
carried. I'm case OF fire." he said. Il
can let myself down from any hotel
window" The landlord said, gravely:
sour terms for guests with frees
capes are cash in advance"
William H. Crane, the actor, says he
drst learned what true love is by &C.
cidentally overhearing a brief CONVEX
sation between young man and a
very pretty girl. "And you're sure you
love me?" she said. Love you?" echoed
the young fellow. why, darling,
while was bidding you good-by on
the porch. last nightssyour dog bit a
large piece out Of the calf OF my leg,
and I never noticed it till got home"
Abe Gruber, the New York lawyer,
tells of a southern friend who was
visiting him. Mr.. Gruber, wishing to
be hospitable, brought forth a whisky
bottle and placed it on the dining-room
table. He went to the china closet
to get some whisky glasses. On his
return he was surprised to see that
his friend had filled up an ordinary
water glass to the brim and was
about to drink it. "Say," said Mr..
Gruber, what are you doing? You
drink that as if it were cider" "Cider?"
said the southerner, draining the glass,
"do you think I'd take that much
cider?"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-08-25
More Air Ships.

nee more New
York has failed to
solve the airship
problem. T b i S
time the inventor
had a new idea
not, mind you, in
t h e construction
of LIS ship. A new
idea in the build
ing of an arttfi-
Cial bird would be
a miracle indeed.
There were the
same old cOntriv-
ances made from
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-08-25
Washington GOSSIP
SOME INTERESTING CHATTER
FROM NATIONAL CAPITOL.
PAY IN NAVlES OF WORLD
American Jack;es Get More Than
Those Of Other Navies-Clean-
ing the Capitol Building
New Electric Lights.
. HIN GTON.-

A S HI N TOM
Compared W 1t b
men of other navies
in the world the
American jackies
have a pretty good
time and receive
high compensation.
The pittance that
some of the foreign
ers receive for their
services is pitiful,
and then the allow
ances made to the
enlisted men do not
compare with those
Of the enlisted men
IN %ho11nifo6 Nfofoc
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-13

.@*. IN and FourthFo

beyond her shores..'' But this, laments
Mrs. Adamson, was before the great
trading nations, learned in little save
the wonderful bachine power of enor-
nous production came on the scene
to trample out unconsciously the
flower Of art. Now "cockney deal
ers, German curio merchants, American
drygoods agents are all beguiling the
Japs for gold into cheap production,
and, worse, insisting on an adaptation
of the worst western ideals Of design,
which, handled by Japanese, produce
q villainous mongrel compound offered
in America and Europe to the world
as Japanese. art. ,, The writer alleges
that we have nearly killed in. twenty
five years the real decorative art Of
Japan, which has taken centuries to
develop. We do all sorts Of mad
things in these days. he suggests,
then why not form society for the
preservation Of art in Japan9''; He
is convinced that the dealers and buy
ing agents who demand specialties to
suit supposed American and European
tastes are the real criminals, and that
the: public, if left to choose from good
alone, would be content. How far, ap-
.parently, the evil influence has already
spread we may gather from the follow
ing statements Gin Leslie IS Weekly,
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extract is like I,ature's influence the
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sColonist Rates Northwest,

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New York;:
"Bad enough it was to turn out
cheap limitations Of Japanese paper and
metal work in Birmingham and Paris;
worse still when the 9enterprising'
trader moved his workshops for the
manufacture of this tawdry ware to
Japan. But vilest of all is this latest
insolence, exposed to me all uncon-
sciously by a leading curio- dealer in
Kobe, when he told me that he insisted
on his artists following his designs,
conforming to European taste, you
know "a e
ttI Had wandered through his large
rooms filled with the greatest conceiv-
able crimes against art and nature,
asking vainly if he had nothing really
Japanese to show me. I told him frank
~ that his store was filed with abom-
Unable rubbish. He admitted it, tho I
believe to this day he does not know
the difference. wanted to buy some
good Japanese prints. He called his
manager, a Japanese, and to them both
I explained infinitely what kind Of
prints I meant-those' cut on wood by
the artist and printed in colors on pa
per. He appeared ignorant of the ex-
istence Of such art, and appeared, to
consider me mild lunatic. I then
asked who were the leading artists in
Japan; they did not know. In despair
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-13

We do not live on what we eat but
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up in the blood. The blood in turn
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NATURES ESSENCE
Extracted from the Roots of Native, Forest Plants
10 Straight Back to Nature for Your Health.
There is Your Strength

Consider your body as an engine
which supplies you with all activity Of
mind and body. Keep the machinery
we'll oiled and it. runs smoothly. 1t
does not groan in doing it's work. But
let the stomach, which is the fre-box
to the human engine, get vout of Kill
ter" and we soon meet with disaster.
The products of undigested and de-
composing food Is poison to the system.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-13

You hardly realize that it is medi-
cine, when taking Carter s Little Liver
Pills; they are very small: no bad eff
fects; all troubles from torpid liver are
relieved by their use. q.
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WIFE LURED AWAY AS
MEANS TO A DIVORCE
Journal Special Service.

Journal Special Service.
Chicago, Oct. 13.--Mrs. Annie Kent
Of Iron Mountain, Mich, wife Of Ed
win R. Kent, president Of corporation
that bears his name, has fled a bill
in the superior court containing serious
charges. Mrs. Kent alleges her hus-
band sent her to Iron Mountain from.
Chicago four years ago on the pretext
that he was going to the Izlondike, that
he then secured decree Of divorce,
and that he. has lived in luxury with a
second wife. at 5249 Calumet avenue,
while she vainly sought to find him
The bill alleges that fraud was prac-
ticed on the court in obtaining the di-
vorce. The present bill is a suit for
the proper, care and maintenance Of
Kent's three children, Edmund, Della
and Albert.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-13
QUOTATIONS ON SLAVES
Philadelphia Human Livestock Marke'
Report In 1854.
Milwaukee Free Press.

milwaukee, Free Press.
81 Hummaged in Philadelphia sec
ond-hAnd bookstore recently,' said
Henry Ives, "and found in pile Of
old papers full-sheet poster adver-
Using slave sale. dated Saturday, Aug
5, 1854. It's specific mention is unique
and made copy Of it: Best men,
IS to % years old: $1,000 to 81 300;
fair do, $3.50 to $1,000; boys, five feet,
5000 to $3.50; do four feet eight inches,
$500 to $500; do four feet five inches,
$500 to 5000; do, four feet, 1915 to
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-13

I asked if they had any Utumaros
They apparently had never heard of
the greatest of Japanese masters. Once
before, in Nagasaki, I tried the same
experiment. There, after much explain
ing Japanese dealer in Satsumas and
ivory admitted that he had seen such
prints, but had no idea where they
were made or where one could buy
them: Vaguely, he suggested perhaps in
Yokohama ~ .o- l,