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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-07

Mr.. William A. Radford viii answer
questions and give advice FREE OF
COST on all subjects pertaining to the
subject of building for the readers Of
this paper. On account Of his wide expe-
rience as Editor, Author and Manufac-
turer, he is. without doubt the highest
authority on all these subjects Address
all inquiries to William A. Radford, No.
1874 Fifth Ave.. Chicago, ILL.,. and only en-
Gloss tWo-cent stamp for reply.
There is no form of construction
better suited to the demands Of artis-
tic taste and economy than the con-
crete block. In the first place it is
portable and easy to handle. The de-
velopment Of the block in the past
two years has been marvellous, and the
material of that nature produced now
In accordance with the accepted rules
and regulations is all that could be de-
sired both in durability and appear
ance. In fact, 1t is superior. There
has been more or less objection, and it
apparently has been well founded, to
the sameness Of the concrete block.
One was just like another. But now
In many parts Of the suburbs of the
large cities and in country towns beau
t1ful houses are to be seen. in which
this objection has been overcome.
There is variety of faces, and the
courses alternate so that the monot-
ony Is relieved.
The concrete block house is cooler
In summer and warmer in winter than
a house built of any other material.
The bugaboo Of dampness also has
been overcome. All that is necessary
is to have a block in which plenty of
cement has been used, with good wa
erprooflng compound. thorough mixing
In wellgraded gravel or crushed stone,
and sufficient curing. This assures q
block that will be moisture proof.
II you are going to build q concrete
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-07
DROPPED IN At RIGHT TIME
Burglars opportune Visit Enabled
Woman to Rid Herself Of Much
Undesirable "Truck."

The burglar hesitated. Back of him
was a sheer drop of Is feet to the
ground. In front of him was a deter
mined woman, grasping in her hand
huge revolver. She covered him
steadily.
Il won't shoot" she said, If you
will remain STILL"
She advanced upon him and poking
the muzzle of the gun in his face
reached into his pocket and pulled out
his revolver.
Come in"
The burglar obediently stepped In.
side the room. All his courage was
gone.
"Sit down." said the woman.
He sat down.
She got huge ball of cord from her
bureau and spent the next 20 minutes
in tying him up.
Then she pointed out of the window.
rs that your wagon out there be-
hind the barn?"
Yes, ma'am."
The woman called her husband, who
was hiding behind the baby's crib in
the next room.
Here, john" she said, take some
Of this furniture out"
John came in and got to work. The
burglar watched with curious eyes.
Suddenly his face blanched. He looked
out OF the window and saw in the light
of the moon what John was carrying.
what are you doing to me?" he
asked.
The woman began cutting his cords.
I'm going to load you up with all
OF the old eyesores that we have had
In the house for these many years."
she said, merrily-"all the furniture
presented to us at Christmas by kind
hearted relatives. all the prizes we
have taken at card parties, all the
family portraits everything that we
have been simply dying to get rid Of"
Life.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-07
Health Certificate for Hair

Health Certificate for Hair.
Any woman who changes doctors no
doubt has her own reasons for making
the change. The woman in this case
was threatened with fever. Her first
question was: "Shall lose my hair"
Most likely" said the doctor.
The next day he found man with a
pair OF shears standing at the bed
side.
Doctor" said the man. II wish you
would write out certificate that this
hair is healthy. The lady wants to sell
It.
she says IL she's bound to lose it
anyhow in this spell Of sickness she is
in for she might as well get rid Of it
now while it will bring good price.
If she waits till It falls out nobody will
buy ii. Women with nice hair and not
much money are smart enough nova
days to sell their hair a. soon as they
fall III. Most dealers take It and no
questions asked, but I'm too conscien-
tous. I want q doctors certificate
every time in 4 case like this. hope
you'll be obliging."
The doctor was not obnging, and
the next day 4 new doctor was called
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-07
PeriIs of the Haircut,

"Ouch!" cried the barber, and some
thing besides. He stuck the end Of
his thumb in his mouth and began
sucking it.
"Cut yourself?" asked the man in
the chair.
mo, it's an ingrowing hair" replied
the barber. IAN ingrowing hair under
my thumb NAIL"
The man in the chair laughed.
Fact" said the barber. 1T isn't
an uncommon thing, either. In giving
a customer a haircut a bit Of hair
often lodges under the finger nail, and
If it isn't removed it is apt to tester
and get sore. Sometimes we don't
even know it's there until it begins
to get in its fine work. It hurts like
the dickens sometimes. II you don't
believe me, ask any barber. and he'll
tell you the same thing"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-07
PAYS TO ENCOURAGE BIRDS
Assertion Made That Farmers Would
Find It to Their Interest to
Protect SonQsters.

What may be done in the encourage
ment OF naturally migratory song birds
to remain north during the winter has
been demonstrated at the farmhouse
OF George E. Hoxsie during the last
winter, where a colony of II bluebirds
have contentedly lived and apparently
enjoyed their quarters in the bird
houses where they were reared last;
summer.
1t Is quite interesting to watch their
modes of living. as their habits of pro-;
curing food have to be entirely differ
ent from what they are in summer.
Every fairly pleasant morning by,
the time it is light they fly away and!
are not seen again until near sunset,
when they return individually and go
into the bird houses, several occupying
one house, and all on the same build
ing.
Mr.. Hoxs1e has about his place %
bird houses, all of which were accu-
pied last season, there being TWO nests
of bluebirds and 20 nests of stump
swallows.
Besides these there were raised
about the buildings four nests of barn
swallows. one nest of chimney swal-
lows, and seven nests of cave swal-
lows. AS these would average four
young birds to each nest, the number
raised, with the old ones added, would
make approximately 200 birds.
Then there were within 500 feet Of
the house ten robin nests, one oriole,
one waxwing, one house wren, two
ch1ppins, two ground sparrows and one
king bird, making IN all 10 nests, and
with these young and old added would
make a total of 800 misunderstanding
songsters that were not only contin-
ual JOY, but a source of rare profit in
TIE great number Of gnats, lies, bugs
and worms daily consumed.
Mr.. Hoxsie attributes big yield c(
apples last season to the destruction
by the birds of the insect pest that in
fects the apples from bloom to finish.
II every farmer would put up q few
suitable bird houses it would soon
make q vast difference to the raising
OF farm products Sun.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-07
Benefits Of Hard Work.

1t is q fine thing to see q man at
any kind Of labor who takes an upright
pride and feels q cordial interest in
what he is doing, and never thinks he
has done so well that he cannot do
better. A man hard at work finds that
his occupation crowds out of his fife
many side issues that are evil. He has
no time for brooding melancholy or
imaginary ailments. He has no time
to indulge in morbid sentiments, to
nourish in his minds garden the weeds
of destructive passions. He is wholly
engrossed in putting into the world
some finished product Of permanent
value, and there is no room In his
scheme of existence for anything that
interferes with the one fixed 'pxrJ<s<
of his life.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-07
Island Of Many Names,

The political notwithstanding OF
streets in Paris is outdone by the
case of the island of Reunion, which
changed its name four times in Just
over half a century. In 1893 it was
Bourbon, as it had been for a century
and half; but the convention then
changed it to Reunion. Under the
empire it became lie Bonaparte, at
the restoration it reverted to Bour-
bon, and finally in 1S48 it became
Reunion one more. So the septuagen7
arian islanders of this last year could
recall an unparalleled series of COM
pulsory Vicar of Bray changes. They
must have thought themselves lucky
few years later when the second
empire refrained from Bonaparttzinx
this island again.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-07

Emigration OF Children From England.
The other day two large parties Of
children left Liverpool BY the Allan
liner Corsican. Captain Cook, for Que
beo, says tho London Times. One
party, consisting Of boys and girls.
was from the Brit home, and the
children were under the care Of Miss
Brit. who Travelled In the ship. This
lady has been engaged for 81 years in
rescuing children and has taken out
over 5000 and settled them In the
Dominion Of Canada. The party In
the Corsican WAS the eighty:first
which has gone out Under the au'
Spices q the homo.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-07
Hs Liked Life Term Best,

Nv ~sVVO @"0 0S0Ss
He was one Of Magistrate Gala
gher's regular" prisoners. His ready
tongue had generally contrived to ret
him of with reprimand, but ono
day the magistrate. holding the scales
OF justice from the desk in the FIJI
teenth and Vine streets police station.
decided to take severer measures.
you'll take the pledge or go to the
house Of correction" he told the ap-
parently penitent prisoner. (Which r.
pledge for life?' said the man.
WELL" said the magistrate. lenient-
ly. better make it for q year f,rst.
Then you can renew It,"
"oh. that's all right" the prisoner
remarked. cheerfully. II always take
It for NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Timea.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-07

the land. All the correspondence
passed through her hands. She opened
all letters addressed to the company.
The first letter from Ferris had
been jubilant announcement of the
discovery of coal on his land. In that
frank way which people unused to the
ways of the world have of mixing per-
sonal affairs and business he told how
long he had been hoping to find some
thing under his farm, as he never
could get it to grow much on top.
There had been some correspond
ence, and in each letter young Ferris
naively revealed something of his
home, his family, himself. Biker and
the junior made much sport over these
personal things in his letter, but they
were cot funny to Miss Ingle. She
saw instead frank, generous young
man struggling against odds to make
a living on the poor soil for his or
phaned younger brothers and sisters.
She could even see the weather-beat-
en-, implanted farmhouse and the
bleak, unproductive fields. She saw
the great tumult of excitement in the
little family when the coal was found !:
saw the flame of hope leap up in the
young mans face-and now he was to
be cheated out of it.
The reply came on Friday. The
stenographers hands trembled as she
opened it. She was glad no one else
was in the Office. The letter said In
part:
Il was powerfully disappointed by
your letter. 1 had hoped-but guess
a fellow is alwas hoping things that
won't happen. l don't care much for
myself, but was real anxious to send
all the kids-there are four besides
me-away to school. guess If that is
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-07
Always Late.

They had gone to a thea&er NJ
eight and found it empty. The people
strolled In about haK after, and BY
nine the house was filed.
The next night they went to a club
dinner At seven. and the diners A.
rived at half after eight and nine.
It was the same at a hveo'clock ten
that did not start until seven.
Il believe" he said, that these New
Workers would come In late to their
own anerels.zNeW York PresA
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-07

maintenance. No paint is required,
and no repairs will be necessary. The
house shown in this connection is a
fair sample Of what may be done with
the concrete block. 1t is of attractive
and substantial design and we'll adapt
ed for the needs or requirements of a
small family.
The size Of the house is adapted to
almost any size lot. 1t is 23-feet 4
inches wide, and "a feet long. The
design is enhanced by the treatment
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-07
On Partino.
On Parting.
The kiss, dear maid, thy lip hath left
Shall never part from mine,

The kiss, dear maid, thy lip hath left
Shall never part from mine,
Till happier hours restore the gift
Untainted back to thine.
Thy parting glance, which fondly beams,
An equal love may see:
The tear that from thine eyelid streams
Can weep no change in me.
I ask no pledge to make me blest
In gazing when alone:
Nor one memorial for a breast
Whose thoughts are all thine own.
BY day or night, in veal or woe,
That heart, no longer free,
Must bear the love it cannot show,
And silent ache for three.
Byron.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-07

able and that If the visitor of a short
time before wished to add anything to
the dollar he had given the governor
short time before the governor
would never "tell' on him.
A liberal check came by return mail
and Governor Jones has never told
Philadelphia Times.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-07
SET FUDGE ON HIGH
THE STANDARD OF CIVILIZATION
HAS BEEN SET.
Femfninity In Absolute Accord on
the Subject-Inventor Merits More
Approval Than She Has Yet
Been Accorded.

At last a standard of civilization
feminine civilization-has been set, &C.
cording to the Cleveland Leader.
The masculine one has not as yet
been reached, and the difficulty of ar
irving at general standard is at once
apparent.
With fem1ninity, however, there was
little or no trouble. The sex unites
upon a single test. That made. the
examination is passed with honors.
The case of the Misses Chang, whose
father is the new Chinese minister to
the United States, is a most pertinent
illustration. According to their gov
erness, who has had wide expert
ence with outside barbarians, these
young Chinese girls are the most in
telligent students of English she has
ever known and are showing mar.
velous results. Most significant of all,
they have not only fallen a victim to
fudge, but they are experts in It's man
ufacture.
Nothing more is needed to admit
them to equality, social, moral, reli-
gious and intellectual, with the girls
of this nation. They have become
Americanized in the biggest sense of
the word. And they will stand in the
very first rank of feminine civilization,
because the records show that they
make fudge three times day, and
only heaven knows how often they
nibble at 1t.
It doesn't need this celestial ap-
prevail to show the heavenly qualities
Of fudge. It is the most popular
course in every feminine boarding
school or college, and while not off,
cially recognized in the curricula of
public schools. it is there just the
same.
History knows that Dolly Madison
invented ice cream, and a grateful
world talks of raising statue to hor.
But all that is known of tho discov-
erer Of fudge Is the slight fact that
she was Vassar college girl and that
she hit upon the delicious compound,
like so many other inventions Of great
uOWcuL " lilo WO1Au AdVO OSCA AAeAA0S
in casual way.
From another point of view her
discovery is unique. Improvements
have followed upon other inventions;
the basic idea has been expanded and
developed. But the original fudge is
still the best of all, though there have
been countless variants of it.
To a mere man it seems that there
is an unconscious ingratitude on the
part Of fudge lovers, not at all con-
sistent with the big-hearted apprecia-
ton we expect from the sex. If there
should be concerted action to discover
the girl who invented the delicacy,
and to reward her as she deserves, it
would be better than a number of
the other plans which women are agi-
tating.
And as a slight beginning, as an
earnest of the reverence womankind
should feel for fudge and its inventor,
we would suggest that the exclama-
ton: "Oh, fudge!" so common among
goods, be dropped altogether or
robbed of it's sneering irreverence.
After that, the pension for the dis
covery and then a statue.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-07
ORIGIN o. chrlstenlna 4shlpe.

The ceremony Of christening ships
Is a survival Of 4. barbaric custom
when sacrifices were made to tho
gods, and some living victim or Offer.
ing was held up and it, throat cut 20
that the blood flowed over tho PROV
OF the ship being launched. The YES.
sci was baptized In warm blood. Now
sprinkltng wine or pure water Is used,
and the change has many advantages,
though the symboliam remains.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-07
Forest Waste.

Inc amount Of waste In our forests
Is 1ncalculable. In the wood. bark and
sawdust that We uselessly burn. A
specialist In industrial chemistry has
told VI that sawdust can be mixed
with coal-slag, spent dye-wood. turf.
peat and compressed into bricks Of
artificial stone. while by dry distilla,
ton It yields gas, wood alcohol, acetic
acid. this latter industry being now q
dourtshtng one in the western part Of
New York state.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-07
Modern improvements.

observation-disclosures to me this
house isn't very we'll built The floor
shakes when we walk.
Agent-Um-y-e-s:t that's the new
kind of spring floor for dancing.
Househunter-Andt these stairs creak
terribly.
Agent-Y-e-s: we furnish the new
patent burglar alarm staircase WITH
out extra charge.-Punch.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-07

under the caves, commencing with he
base Of the second story windows.
There instead of the blocks cement
plaster Is to be used on either lath or
expanded metal, with a panel effect.
The strips used here can be painted or
stained dark color to mark strong
contrast with the cement. First q
coat OF lime paste should be used, and
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-07

block house the bes method is first to
get your plans and then consult
contractor who is familiar with the
subject. Insist in the specifications
that the requirements for the blocks
be such as laid down here as to the
Of their making. If you do this
there Is no doubt about the result
Now you can see that a concrete
block house will cost very little for
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-07
Shall Children Go Hatless7

onaS1 InjJofon 60 HAtJeSS7
Many parents think it a eood idea
to let their children go bareheaded In
summer. There may be some adI
vantages in this, but the objections
fully Offset them. At least two ara
very strong ones. =
The first Is that the head ID unnrr.
tected from the sun. This 10 q seriou.
danger to children, q they arc pecu-
LARRY liable to be affected By stro.,~
sunshine falling on the uncovered ha.6
-sunstroke has often been c,usad 10
this.
The other objection 10 the VAN -
shade to the eyes. It 10 painful To -
the amount Of suffering caused n ~
tie children by the carelessnae. e
those in charge of them In allo~,ns,
slaring sunshine to fall directly ~
their eyes. :,
Mothers and nurses seem in m.,v
cases quite oblivious to the ah.c1,,tH
torture that may in this way be in1lict.
ed on infants who cannot raise thesr
hands to their eyes to protect the, ,.,'
4 shady hat Il one Of the arst n.ee..
stiles for every child IN s,,nmer
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on this, after 1t is scratched to make
holding surface, coat Of cement
mortar is to be applied.
1t will be noted that the central part
Of this design is the living room. The
parlor has not been thought OF. It is
a house to be lived in all over. This
living room Is entered OF a wide porch
which extends partly around the front
and the right side Of the house. The
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-07

the mandibles makes q writer think
he Is talking? At all events, there's
the fact.-The Clerk in Boston Tran
script,
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1909-1915, 1910-10-14

Sam Small formerly of Devils Lake,
proved that he. could come back. Re.
Gently in his Judith Gap (Mont) Jour.
nal he offered some cooling sugges.
tons for hot weather and the Inter.
Ocean called his attention to the fact
that he was rather out Of season. Sam
insists that it was alright however
and adds that the players in a recent
football game at Judith Cab had to
wear bathing suits for fear that they
would suffer from prostration If they
played in heavier toys. Sam evident,
ly has not been reading up on the new
rules for It requires little more pro.
lection than bathing suits to play the
game now, since it's dangerous featur.
es have been eliminated. 81:
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1909-1915, 1910-10-14
JUDGE E. r. BURKE.

Judge E. T. Burke, candidate for
the Supreme Court, is North Dakota
boy, who has lived in this state for
nearly forty years. He is a self-made
man who worked his way through the
common schools of this state and thru
the law department of the University
of Minnesota. .. . .....-
AS a farm hand, country school tea
cher, lawyer, states attorney and judge
he has always been honest, fearless
and faithful; his private and public
life is above reproach and none can
truthfully say Ill Of him.
AS Judge he has shown rare judi
cial ability as is shown by his Su-
preme Court record of 60 aflrmances
out Of ninety appealed cases and the
fact that during his six years on the
district bench he has tried over two
hundred criminal cases and has never
been reversed. a~:.
His sympathies have always been
with the common people and that is
the reason that the corporations and
few eastern lawyers are trying to
down him. ss=>
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1909-1915, 1910-10-14

the law business coming here, other
business profits and all will be benefit
ed generally. Increased jurisdiction
has been tried elsewhere and not found
wanting. 1t has not proved burden
some and expensive as some would
have you think that the fact that it is
backed by majority Of the business
interests of Devils Lake and many at
Crazy, Edmore, and Hampden is sig
nifcant that it must be of some &C.
count, for people are not putting their
names to petition now days without
considering. 1t is a matter which the
people of Ramsey county can not we'll
afford to let slip by for it is not only
advantageous to the lewyer, but 1t is
as advantageous to the farmer and
business man, perhaps not right now,
but it will prove SO when the neces-
sity for quick action falls to their lot
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1909-1915, 1910-10-14

While it would be hard to forget,
nevertheless the 1nter-Oceap allowed
the opportunity to slip by last week,
inadvertently, and neglected to COM
mend the Grand Forks Evening
Times for its splendid edition that
it dedicated to President McVey of the
University of North Dakota. The in.
auguration number showed the pro.
gressiveness Of at least one of the
state newspapers which cope well
alongside any daily paper of the large
cities. North Dakota is no longer a
back number in metropolitan news
papers and not only the brains back
OF the Times in the get-un of the var
ious articles by the recent edito,
should be praised, but even the nea,
arrangement and superb makeup IL
deserving Of credit, even in the matter
If artistic and valuable advertising.