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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-06-01
Copyright By Joseph B. Bowles.)

It is supposed that a much clearer
understanding of the point of view
has resulted from study in the inter.
vening time and that large amount
of freedom and skill in drawing has
resulted. - T. r..
Now for Nature Work. 49,
Heretofore the drawing has been al.
most wholly creative. Objects have
after observation been reduced to
simple forms and combined into pic.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-06-01

Some men make such a big fuss abou
planning for big things that they over
look the necessity Of attending to tn
little details.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-06-01
Tho Other Way About.

An American, who had spent more time
gathering money than in studying eram.
mar, while coaching in England remarked
to the driver: Il suppose, coachman, all
them trees growed out of them hedges. p
"Oh, on, sir" responded the coachman;
all Of them hedges growed out of thu
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-06-01
seasonable Hour,

! ! Stern Parent hat time did that young
man leave! & zs s IS 5 5ss5s5, 3s d 80 =
S Pretty Daughter Just when you got
home from the lodge, ma returned from
her bridge party and Bridget came back
hom her night out.-N. Y. Sun. - E$
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-06-01

One Kind OF 1nvesdgauon.
''You are taking q great deal of inter.
est in this investigation" - :
YES" answered the statesman. ~
have to give it close personal 4attcntion
I want to make sure it doesn't develop
anything I don't care to have known. . -
Washington Star, = ~. !. 49,. !. :. s.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-06-01
Can't, Hold On

"Are you fond .of yachting, Miss Grsy?'
"Oh, yes! At the very thought of the
inspiring breeze, the straining sail, the
rushing water, can hardly contain my
SELF"
"Y-yes-that's the way it affects me-
Cleveland Leader.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-06-01
Not So StiugY,

She-Did you ever hear the eagle
scream?
He-No. never hang on to dollar
that tight.-Detroit Free Press.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-06-01
The Favorite Route East.

. Passengers from Chicago to #. Wayne,
Cleveland, Erie, Buffalo, New York City,
Boston and all points east, win find it to
their interest BY selecting for their jour-
Chicago. Three through trains are run daily
with Modern Day Coaches and Luxurious
Pullman Sleeping Cars to New York CITY.
also through Sleeping Car Service to Bos-
ton and intermediate points. Rates always
the lowest and no excess fares are charged
on any train for any part of the trip. The
NICKEL PLATE ROAD Dining Service Is
right up-to-date. Individual Club Meals
are served at prices ranging from IS cents
leave Chicago from the La Sale St. Sta
ton. For full information address j. Y.
Callahan, General Agent, l13 Adams St.,
Chicago, III. 49, - -**~ '.....~... - -
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-06-01

Garfield Tea overcomes constipation. sick
headache, liver and kidney diseases.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-06-01

The moment q man perceives that he
has been fieeced then he begins to feel
sheepish, showing how strongly is the law
of association of ideas.-Puck. !
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-06-01

No one is himself when his nerve cen
tiers are exhausted, whether from cxces-
sive use or from lack of proper food. The
quality of ones thought, ambition, en-
ergy, aims and ideals, is largely q matter
OF health.-Success MAGAZINE.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-06-01
One Kind of Investigation.

Complexion bad? Tongue coated! Liver
deranged? Take Garfield Tea. Esf:.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-06-01

A good many modern novels would be
of more lasting value if their authors
only devoted more time to thinking what
to say instead of how to ray it.-Boston
Globe.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-06-01

Be patient; card houses are built in an
take centuries.
Amador ledger., 1906-04-20

The new capitol at Harrisburg, Pa,
is nearly completed and has cost 81.
$4,000,
Amador ledger., 1906-04-20
Stopped the "Fast E1yer.,

At a recent dinner at the White
House, the following story, was told
by one of the guests on Secretary
Taft, who was present, and who, by
the way, tips the scales at beyond the
three-hundred-pound mark:
The Secretary was returning to
Washington from Chicago aboard the
Fast Flyer" that only stops at large
cities. He had urgent business with
an old acquaintance of his who lived
at small station about two hundred
miles from Washington, the popula-
tion of which is about five hundred.
He asked the conductor if he could
stop the train for him at that place,
but he replied that it would be impos-
sible for him to do so-that he certain
ly would lose his job if he did. Well,
after much worrying over his disap-
pointment, Mr.. Taft thought of a
scheme by which he could gain his
end, and when the train next stopped
he sent message to the Superinten-
dent of the road, saying:
viii you stop your Fast Flyer" at
Denizien for a large party on way to
Washington? If SO, instruct conduc-
tor to stop today"
About an hour passed, when the con-
ductor, passing through the train,
stopped at the Secretary's seat and
told him that he would be able to get
off at Denizen as he had been ordered
to stop his train there for large
party going to Washington. The Sec
retary smiled, with that childlike ex-
preston of innocence for which he is
famed, thanked him and settled down
again behind his paper. Two hours
later the porter of the train called
"Denizen. Denizen." much to the sur
prise of the passengers. Mr.. Taft
gathered up his handgrip and started
for the platform of the car, where he
was standing when the train came to
a dead stop. AS he stepped off the
train there was no one in sight but
the surprised-looking station agent.
Amador ledger., 1906-04-20
Cook Could Use Nickname Too.

Hawaiian servants are the best-the
best in the world, but they are strange
ly unsophisticated, strangely naive"
said lady who had lived in the
Islands.
Hawaiian servants insist on calling
you by your first name. Ours were
always saying to my husband, 'Yes,
John, or All right, john" and to me
Every well, Ann, or Ann, am going
out
"At last 1 got tired of this, and I
said to John, when we got new cook:
Don't ever call me by my first
name in the new cooks presence.
Then, perhaps, not knowing my name,
he'll have to say Mrs. to me-"
$50 John was very careful always
to address me as 'Dearie' or Sweet
heart but the new cook-a watchful
chap-at first gave me no title at all.
Very soon after, we had some Eng
lish officers to dinner. I told them
how I had overcome, in the new cooks
case, the native servants horrid abuse
of his employers Christian names, and
I said BY this servant, at least, you
won't hear me called Ann
Gust then the new servant entered
the room. He bowed to me respect
fully and said:
Sweetheart, dinner is served
"'What? l stammered.
"'Dinner Is served, Dearie,' answer
ed the new COOK
Amador ledger., 1906-04-20

friendship is the luck trinket of very
attractive young matron of national re-
nown. Five years ago in reply to her
wedding invitation came tiny white
kid box from well-known jeweler. 1t
contained two beautiful fancy gold
stock pins, each a perfect imitation
of peacock feather. The card en-
closed bore the name of a girl with
whom she had the very slightest ac-
quaintance, but whom she knew to
have liking for her future husband.
Undaunted, the bride-to-be immedi-
ately pinned one of these unlucky
feathers on her dress, and from that
day to this she has never been with
out one of the other of them fastened
somewhere about her costume. Not
long since when this very happy
matron received the wedding invita-
ton of her husbands one-time friend
he suggested that his wife send a
handsomely mounted rabbits food as
present. She decided, however; that
fate had been in the way of this jocu-
lar revenge.
Amador ledger., 1906-04-20
Both Lucky and Odd.

Midway between sentiment and su-
perstition lies a feminine trait which
cherishes odd little trinkets that seem
to bring luck. That any jeweled bauble
can possibly change the capricious
whims Of Dame Fortune remains as al
ways, a shadowy possibility. That a
pleasant memory attached to some
small ornament can be constantly re-
called by the treasured trinket is with
out doubt. So with divided affection
women still cling to the savage luck
charm as closely in 1906 as did their
barbaric sisters whose calendar was the
setting sun.
1t is with the most up-to-date bust
ness women that one finds the most
novel trinkets. Actresses particularly
wear unusual luck ornaments, and not
the least fetching of these is a gold
chain which never leaves the neck of
very pretty leading woman in a pop
ular theatrical company Caught be-
tween the delicate links at intervals of
two inches are all sorts of semi-pre-
cious stones as well as genuine gems.
Each individual stone represents the
gift of some good friend who has been
associated with her in her stage ca
reer, and the chain already holds
twenty jewels as well as a souvenir
pendant gold and enamel brownie with
diamond eyes. The different stones
include a rare yellow diamond and
topaz, several oddly shaped water
pearls, and clasping the chain at the
back a large square garnet Of richest
hue.
Then there is very popular teacher
in one of the big cities who has been
at the head of shorthand school for
number of years. Her luck souvenir is
coin waist belt made entirely of ten
cent pieces. 1t was started by her first
class of girls, every one of whom was
devoted to her. When their term was
over, however, their very meagre pock-
etbooks would allow the majority of
them to give only ten cents apiece. So
one of their members conceived the
happy idea of having the dimes Joined
in the form of a bracelet, and each
girls initial was scratched on Lib
erty's cap.
AS class followed class, the idea took
root and the ten-link bracelet has
grown to a good sized waist belt with
four rows of coins. Some are thick
and some are thin, and many bear hard
ly a resemblance to the newly minted
dime, but they all carry the initials of
some young pupil to whom the CHEEKY
teacher was an inspiration, and the
coins stand for everything in the world
to their owner. In fact so much part
of her has the belt become that she
never thinks of going anywhere with
out it, and she sleeps with it under
her pillow at night.
In contrast to this luck charm of
Amador ledger., 1906-04-20

much drainage as they are irrigation
projects. In the klamath project, 1885,
600 acres, or more than half of the
area of the total project, is rich tule
land covered by eight or ten feet of
water, and is to be drained and con-
verted into over a thousand farms
The topographic branch of the Geo.
logical Survey, of which the Reclama-
tion Service is also a branch has al
ready run its lines over many of the
great swamp areas of the eastern
states and as soon as the Steenerson
bill becomes a law the Geological Sur
vey engineers will be ready to launch
out into immediate activity in drain
age projects.
Would Start with Million Dollars.
The fund provided by the bill would
be small as compared with the irri-
cation fund-it would approximate
half million dollars year and would
start off with about $1,0OO,O00, the re-
ceipts from the sales for the fiscal
year 1905 being included-but on the
other hand the cost of drainage would
not be so great as that of irrigation.
The Importance of this work of
wholesale drainage, in order to pro-
vide homes for the increased popula-
Amador ledger., 1906-04-20

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Amador ledger., 1906-04-20
THE CAMERON ELM.
FAMOUS TREE OF THE CAPITOL
SUBJECT OF A GREAT SEN
ATORLAL GRAFTON.

Don" Cameron's Eloquence Over
came Demands of Architects and
big Elm Blocks the South Entrance
to Nations Capitol.
One of the famous trees of Washing
ton is the Cameron elm, and roman
tic little story attaches to it. The tale
is interesting in itself, but is peculiar
ly so in view of the country's long ruth
less and wanton disregard of trees and
the apparent present awakening of a
recognition of the economic worth of,
and sentimental devotion to them. 1t
should be borne in mind that Wash
ington City is an arboretum of his
toric trees. Most of these are known
as memorial trees" because they
were planted by distinguished soldiers,
statesmen and artists now dead. The
Capitol grounds, the National Botanic
Garden, the White House grounds and
the park of the Department of Agri-
Amador ledger., 1906-04-20

tion, is scarcely second in Importance
to the irrigation work. 1t means that
tens of millions of acres of the most
fertile land imaginable, which has
lain idle for ages, may be converted
from dismal and pestilential swamps
and useless bogs unto highly prosper
GUS homes, to become the garden spots
of the nation.
The Dutch have reclaimed vast
areas in Holland from the encroach-
ments of the ocean. Thousands of
families live and farm below sea level,
gaining their security by magnificent
featS OF engineering and persistence.
They now contemplate the drainage OF
the Zuyder Zee, reclaiming some l.
$4,000 additional acres of meadow
land. American drainage in most
cases would be far more simple and
less expensive; it is simply a ques-
ton as to whether the nation will see
the wisdom of setting its. hand to this
work.
p Another Inland Empire.
In Florida the everglades alone-al-
most solid muck beds-would afford
an empire of some million acres: in
New Jersey and Virginia are vast
swamps, among them the famous Dis
NAL Swamp. In Illinois which is gen.
orally regarded as well settled agri-
cultural state, there are million acres
of swamp land; in Michigan there are
nearly 6 million acres. Fertile Iowa
has about 2 million acres of swamp
land. In Minnesota there are almost
5 million acres of rich surveyed swamp
lands and huge swamp areas not yet
surveyed. Arkansas has tremendous
swamp areas which could be drained
and made habitable, and in all there
is a swamp area in the eastern half of
the United States which is equal in ex-
tent to the great agricultural states
of Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa, with
three or four smaller eastern states
thrown in.
If the Steenerson bill demonstrates
that the government can transform
Amador ledger., 1906-04-20

sure his wife had left for him. After
reading and rereading the letter he
turned to his friend and said, Eyes,
Tom, Yonks Van Dolsen is dead and
l am going in mourning for him; he
was fine old man; my wife has writ
ten me all about it. There are some
matters, Tom, 1 cannot explain in
the family, you know, Tom"
AS soon as possible Richard Van
Dolsen had Grape band sewed on
his hat, but it seemed hard for him
to overcome his natural cheerfulness,
still he tried to enter into the crepe
band spirit and often said to his
friends, eyes, poor old Yonks is dead;
he was fine old man; I can scarcely
realize that l am in mourning for
him"
Ten days after Miss Arsdale's we'd
ding, Van Dolsen sent for his old
friend, Tom Garrick, and after care
fully closing the door to his private
Office, said:
"Tom, I've been thinking things
over, and 1 guess it will be annoying
to Mrs. Van to do all the explaining,
so l am going to do it for her Eliza
beth is the best woman on earth and
thinks of kind things that no one else
would think Of" "You know how
proud Hetty Arsdale is" Van Dolsen
continued. Funny girl, too; she'd
take things no one had any use for,
but nothing she thought anyone could
uSe." Elizabeth was sorry for her
because she knew she had no proper
Amador ledger., 1906-04-20
HIS WIFE WAS A WONDER.

Wnen Jne news OF the death OF the
Hon. Yonks Van Dolsen reached
Wighamton it fell like a wet pail over
the place. Richard Van Dolsen was in
the wild Missouri Mountains looking
up timber tracks that had been offered
at tempting prices, and Mrs. Van Dol
sen had to bear her sorrow alone. She
shut herself in her house and would
see no one but Miss Arsdale. When
she appeared again she was in deep
mourning and fed East with her sor-
row.
There was no one in Wighamton
who could boast of such distinguished
ancestry as the Van Dolsens, except
Hetty ArSdale, and she, poor girl, was
the last of her line. Poor in purse,
but rich in pride, Miss Arsdale was
a source of considerable worry to her
many friends in Wighamton. Being
an Arsdale, she could not stoop to
work, nor could she accept indiscrimi-
nate charity. She was, however, CRATE
full for opportunities to relieve her
good friends of the regrettable neces-
sity Of destroying such things, as they
no longer could conveniently keep. In
doing this she thought she was doing
favor and her friends respected her
pride, but found it extremely difficult
| to keep her alive and clothed.
Everyone said that it was really too
| bad that the death of Yonks Van Dol
sen should occur at just the time it
did, three weeks before Miss Hettys
wedding. Miss Hetty had long been
looked upon as a confirmed spinster,
but, after having passed the forty
mark some distance, had met one Hec-
| tor McGregor, and their wedding day
was soon settled upon. Yonks Van
Dolsen nearly upset everything, and
Mrs. Van Dolsen went into black, shut
up her house and then went away.
Some days after Mrs. Van Dolsen
had left for the East, Richard Van
Dolsen arrived in Wighamton, and
while on his way home met his friend,
Tom Garrick, and the two men ex-
changed hearty greeting, after which
Mr.. Van Dolsen asked about village
news and learned for the first of Miss
Arsdale's approaching marriage.
Garrick walking by the side of his
old friend suddenly said, "Dick, sup
pose you know Mrs. Van Dolsen has
gone East?" ''Well, no." said Van
Dolsen easily, but she rather expected
to leave before got back" He looked
at Garrick curiously. "Why do you
look at me that way, Tom, there's
nothing wrong with Elizabeth, is
there?"
mo, not with Mrs. Van, Dick, but
Yonks Van Dolsen is dead" well, I
should say he was, Tom; it's certainly
time he was" But what is the joker"
Il guess you don't understand me,
Dick, said Yonks Van Dolsen was
dead. Your wife felt his death deeply
and when she left for the East was
in heavy mourning for him.
Van Dolsen dropped the heavy valise
he was carrying and laughed until he
was completely out of breath and
the tears were streaming down his
face.
Elizabeth in mourning for that old
rhinocerous-hided reprobate," he cried,
''Tom. you will kill me with your
talk
They had reached his Office, and Van
Dolsen found the letter which he felt
Amador ledger., 1906-04-20
The Single Woman.

There is in mans nature a secret in
clination and motion toward love of
others, which, il it be not spent upon
some one or a few, does, naturally
spread itself toward many" said Lord
Bacon, three centuries ago. The re-
mark might be applied with good rea-
son to the unmarried women, who with
in the last half century has become a
moving power in the world, as such
names as Florence Nightingale, Susan
B. Anthony, Francis Willard, Clara Bar
ton, Harriet Nartineau, Francis Power
Cobbe, Mary Lyon and Jane Adams, to
quote but few, will show.
Amador ledger., 1906-04-20

clothes for her wedding outfit and NO
way of getting any," Elizabeth is a
corker, Tom; what does she do?"
why, she resurrects old Yonks, who
died in 1879, long enough to go into
mourning for him, so that poor Hetty
Arsdale could do her the favor of re-
lieving her of her unmournful clothes,
of which she had laid in large stock,
both for outside and inside wear
Van Dolsen paused and his friend
said, ''Van, 1 agree with you, your
wife is a wonder. r."-WGShingtOn Star.
Amador ledger., 1906-04-20

Reclaimed
Swamp Land
When Tickled by
the Farmer.
Produces Abund-
ant Crops.
Amador ledger., 1906-04-20

swamps into fertile farm land and
that the settler or owner will pay
back to the government the relatively
small cost of the improvement, there
seems to be no reason why this work
of creation of value out of worthless
waste, should not go on indefinitely
and provide homes for millions more
Of rural population.
Amador ledger., 1906-04-20
Boxer Troubles.

Blessed are the peacemakers, but
sometimes the blessing comes in the
form of stiff jar on the lower jaw
for interfering.
Amador ledger., 1906-04-20

King George of Greece is an athlete
and is said TO be the best muscled
monarch in Europe.
The Tucumcari news. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1906-12-29
A Plea For Small Attentions.

If men only knew how much their
wives appreciate the little attentions
that they consider too small to think
about there would be more Of the cour-
tesies that marked the antenuptial pc.
Rod manifested in the everyday rou.
tine life that N after marriage.
A man when he has succeeded In
winning a woman calmly lays aside
all those delightful little ways that, II
he only knew 1t, did so much to capti-
vate her and with the air Of a man
who has run after a street car he set
ties down and reads his paper without
having an idea that she is eating her
heart out because Of the absence Of
those trifing attentions that mean 30
much to her.
Listen, all we men, to q wife who
knows how much woman's nature Is
alike and how happy we all become
over little kindnesses which may not In
your eyes be worth considering, but
which to us speak Of a sentiment that
has not died out In marriage and a po-
lite regard for the wife that Is as great
as that shown the fancee.
The Tucumcari news. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1906-12-29
CHILE BURNED
BY MOLTEN LEAD.

The little seven year old daugh-
ter of w. G.. Brown, of Carlsbad,
n. NJ, narrowly escaped being
burned to death a few DAYS ago.
In playing about the room a pot of
molten lead was turned over, and
the child "a partly covered with
the red hot fluid. Her hair was
scorched from her head and she
was terribly burned about her head
neck, arms and face. Father Linus
a young Catholic priest, who was
in the house, heard the child
scream and dragged her from the
molten lead, saving her life. She
will be marked for life.