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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-25

on the soup-painted floor, and handed
the whole plateful Of hot meat to
Tacks.
He reached for one chop with his
left eye and took the rest in his lap.
Malvina rushed out in the Kitchen
crawled behind the gas range, and
refused to be comforted. She de.
clared that some one had "cern'ly
conjahd" her, and then she raised
her voice in lamentation and didn't
stop talking for three mortal hours.
Otherwise our first dinner party
passed off very pleasantly. Mother
expressed herself as charmed with our
encourage, and papa said that with
the exception of our facilities for
landing soup at the right wharf we
were all to the good.
The next day Clara j. suggested
that we give a house-w warming to our
friends.
I'm for it, agreed, but you must
remember that we have quite bulky
bunch on our list, and as we can only
get a sprinkling of them in here at
one time We'll have to give a con-
tinuOus"
Clara ]. undertook to arrange that
detail, and shortly thereafter we gave
our first public performance.
Eight friends arrived at the appoint.
ed hour, and as there was only room
for six of them in the fiat we stood
the surplus out in the main hall and
told them to hold an overflow meeting.
During the first half hour we enter
tanned each other by getting wedged
in the sitting-room so tightly that
Malvina had to pry US out.
After that we made a solemn com.
pact never to try to enter any room
in which four people had already as.
sembled. This plan probably saved
the lives of many present.
After time my wife started to NAV
the piano, and two minutes later tho
man who lived in the fiat above MS
sent down word that his kid was
asleep, and if we didn't stop beating
the music box he'd have Us all
pinched.
sent a nice. diplomatic MESSAGE
TO the man overhead, in which | men.
toned the name Of a place that I'd
permit him to go to.
Then the man sent the janitor after
me. I told the janitor that this is a
1ree country, and he replied: MAYBE
pt 49, but you can't prove it."
so we started to cut out the music
and started a quarter limit game of
poker.
The players were Jim Nelson and
MS WIFE Charlie Payne, Fred Par
sons, Clara j., and myself.
Jim Nelson thinks that when it
comes to poker he's about the warm.
est little bundle OF nerves that ever
tapped ZACH. To hear him talk
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-25

with that she spread her hand out on
the table-four skies and seven-sp,t!
Stung!
Jim framed his face in the sicklieat
smile ever saw, and Mrs. Jim awoke
from her dry goods dream with a
start that nearly upset the table,
Clara j., the bunco girl! Did you
hear her sly ".!ohn, do SKIES beat
f"l:s:@ Ict she wonder, though?
After that the game seemed to
drag, and finally, when it broke up,
Jim was so much to the bad that Mrs.
Jim had made up her mind to dis
charge their servant girl as soon as
she reached home
When the company was gone l said
to Clara j.: where did you get that
fourth six, and who taught you the
ga1ne?"
"Oh," she answered with smile,
i just picked it up"
(which" said, "the game or the
six?"
She never did answer me.
Copyright by G. w. Dillingham; Co..
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-25
ARTIFICIAL EYEBALL OF GOLD
Surgical Feat That Is the Most Diff
cult Performance Known to
the Profession.

Gold, for the first time in the his
tory of ocular science, has been sub
stituted for the natural jellylike sub
stance in which an artificial eye is
ordinarily set In an operation at the
Jefferson hospital at Philadelphia
gold was used to form the eyeball,
with the result that the glass eye
has all the appearance of real eye
The fixed and stony stare which fol-
lows the insertion of a glass eye is
replaced by the life and light asso-
ciated with the sparkling eye =. ma
ture. This surgical feat, one of the
most difficult of performance known
to the practise, is considered by spe-
ciallsts as unique in the annals Of
marvellous operations.
William Senseman, a fifteen-year-
old boy of Buffalo, is the person who
is now carrying gold in his eye with
the same composure as he might car
ry that precious metal in his teeth
Ten days ago he was playing in
the basement of his home. With a
Ratchet he struck the concrete floor
ing. The cement was shattered and
one of the bits flew into his eye. The
tiny bit of cement panied his eye for
time, but as the pain soon vanished
the boy and his parents thought that
the particle had been naturally dis
lodged.
Unfortunately, the sight of that eye
grew fainter and fainter. Then one
day the boy realized that Kindness,
total blindness, had set in
The boy and his parents came to
the Jefferson hospital TIE X-ray
failed to locate the particle. Mathe-
NAUTICAL methods were then employed,
and the exact position of the bit of
cement was determined
Then an incision was made, so that
the magnet could be used to draw it
out. But the magnet had no attrac-
tion for the cement and that plan
failed. Blood poisoning was feared
and it was necessary to remove the
whole eye.
To this the boy and his parents OBJ
jected on the ground that glass
eye was so conspicuous. Thereupon
the surgeons were inspired to at
tempt the daring operation by which
the golden eyeball was set in the
empty socket. Then the glass eye,
or pupil, was fitted carefully into
the golden ball
The trained observation OF the spe-
cialist would be required to detect the
real from the false eye
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-25
Looking After the Eqqs.

Lady Betty. who is years old and
never misses trick, was taken the
other evening to a restaurant for her
supper, and with all the Importance
and yprightly dignity of her years
calmly ordered poached eggs on toast.
While the little family group was
awaiting it's service the "kiddie"
amused herself by looking out of the
window, pressing against screen to
get closer view Of something below.
She was warned by her mother that
the screen might give way and let her
fall to the sidewalk, perhaps injuring
her terribly. She drew away, thought
minute, and then said naively:
would fall If the screen went out?
"You certainly would" was her moth
er's reply. And would l get awful
hurted?" Very likely" Then what
would the man do with the eggs?'
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-25

Clara J. and 1 had taken possession
OF our cute little dent in the middle
of an imposing stone pile with Pull
man car moniker, and for two weeks
we roamed among the furniture stores
measuring chairs and things to see if
they were small enough to go in the
fiat.
Finally, however, the toy home was
ready, and we moved in.
Clara Us delight was boundless
when mamma and papa and Tacks
came up that first evening and took
dinner with us.
It's true we all had to sit edge-on
at the table and get our meat cut in
the kitchen so as to avoid hitting each
other on the funny bone, but the idea
was good, nevertheless.
Surely it makes chaps heart swell
up and beat faster when he realizes
that for the first time in his life he's
paying house rent for himself and a
good mans daughter, even if the
house isn't any bigger than minute
Our first experiment in the kitchen
was a colored lady named Malvina
She cooked entirely by hand, and
talked by machinery.
AS a conversationalist she was a
faster tongue trotter than the janitor,
although his assortment Of words
would probably get him tbs decision
on points.
Malvina was inclined to be stout.
and every time 1t was her cue to come
IN and wait on the table got up and
left the room, so that she could move
about without injuring our guests.
In the first round Malvina spilled
a bowl Of hot soup over fathers cow
lick, which showed a pretty anxiety
on her purt to make his visit a mem
orable one.
Papa expressed a desire to swear,
so | led him out to the kitchen, put
his head in the dumbWaiter shaft, and
told him to cut loose.
He fractured the walls and stopped
every clock in the house, but it made
him feel better.
During the third round Malvina
calae in with the lamb chops, slipped
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-25
Tho Folding Desk.

A great room rarely seems complete
without some sort of desk or writ
Ing table, and the average apartment
guest quarters are too small for the
ordinary writing arrangement; so
some clever person has invented
convenient little folding writing table
that stands against the wall. These
affairs are in the form of mahogany
racks about 16 inches long, and are
slightly higher than the ordinary
table. When shut up they take
scarcely any room, as they are not
more than six inches deep. When the
screw is turned and the rack let down
one has a fully equipped writing ta-
BILE, with all the necessary appoint
ments-inkwell, pencils, penholders,
magazine scissors and large blotter,
with metal or leather corners. These
convenient little folding desks will no
doubt prove a boon to those unfortu-
mates who must occupy small board
ing house bedrooms, yet who love
their own desks.
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An Exciting Town,

Los Angeles is a truly exciting town
to 1.-Two in. To say nothing of its
heavenly climate and it's bombs, there
is always something stimulating in
the occult line going on. Just tho
other day widow Of the angelic city
began to long for a sight of one of
her schoolmates whom she had not
seen for As years. The longing brought
its fultlllment. A spirit told her to
look for him in Brooklyn. She obeyed,
met him on the street few hours
after she arrived, and promptly mar
ried him. It Is worth while to live
In a city where things like this hap
pen, even at tho risk of being blown
up now and then.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-25
Wells of the Season.

Stylish and becoming are wells of
white ring dot net with the rings in
black and a fine black lace border to
match.
The winters wells show large, octa-
gonal meshes, sometimes plain, again
with big woven dots.
Care should be exercised in wearing
the wells or the nose sticking through
the meshes gives a grotesque appear
ance.
The most becoming veil is fins
mixture of black and white, tiny black
dots on white net being better than
white on black. These have become
known as the beauty veil becaose so
many women wear theH, regardless
Of style.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-25
MEN BARGAIN HUNTERS. TO(
Department Store Manager Says That
Women Haven't Anything or Male
Folks in That Came.

The manager of the mems section Of
department store uncoiled little
slam at the he-sex the other day.
THE time has about arrived" said
he, for male persons to stop giving
their women folks the comic supple,
ment chortle over their, the women's
bargain-hunting activities.
"Whyfor? Because In these days
women haven't got a single thing on
the male folks as bargain counter
fiends. Then men are just as keen on
the trail of the marked down stuff "a
the women. and they're every bit as
pushy and scrappy in their method Of
swooping upon the bargain junk al
that.
Cant you see that it won't fit you.
you lob?' growled the grabber at the
man from whose head he had snatched
the hat. And it's just my size,' he
added as he put it on, and he loped I'm
to one of the clerks stuffed s1.25 into
the clerks hand and vamoosed like a
man running away from a cloudburst,
"'Well, OF all the gall!' grunted the
man from whose head the bonnet had
been snatched
He was dead right growled the
fellow in the rear rows who'd OBJ
served the incident. 'Whatchoo want
to do-hang around up front there al:
day and give nobody else a chance?
Its only In quite recent years, yor
see that men have como n oDproo}okc
the cleverness of the woman's idea
In buying bargain stuff out of season.
Eyes, it's time to dispense with this
comedy about women bargain hunters.
They're keen and nifty at that work.
but they haven't got anything what.
ever on the male folks at that kind OF
work these days."
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-25
TRAGEDY OF THE
TIT I'M ~ I" THt@ asrH'
RAINY RIVER FIRE
CYCLONE OF FLAME "ENGULFs
sQUATTERs IN ITS PATH OF
DEVASTATION.
"PARDNERS" FLEE IN VAIN
6Iistering Tornado Licks Up Cabin
As II Logs Were of Celluloid-
Shallow Creek the Only Refuge
From an Awful Death.

Winnipeg, Man.-Chris. and Bill
Jorgenson left Detroit as "pardners"
to take up squatter's claim in the
Rainy River district. Partners there
may be in cities, duly joined in bust
ness by process of law, but "pardners'
have a closer bond-an equal share
in hardship and privation, full un-
ventures
The Jorgensons met Old Man ST.
mons and his son, L. V. Simons, from
Davenport, Ia, and the four men
took adjacent claims on little creek
and built cabin together. They had
an OK team and all summer were busy
jerking stumps from the stubborn
soil. They had hoped to hunt for
recreation and fresh meat, but the
woods were parched and dry and SO
noisy that stalking was impossible.
II wonder why they called it Rainy
River" said Old Man Sipons. Il
don't see nothin' rainy round here"
"Wait till fall" the optimistic Jor.
gensons responded. 1T always rains
in the fall"
But the fall came. and no rain. Off
in the northeast a thick dark brown
mound hung just above the horizon.
BY night, it blotted the stars and each
day was larger. The air in the 81
mons-Jorgenson clearing became odor,
GUS, with a pleasant, wholesome tang.
II bo
tree tops wisps of smoke. The sun
was copper-colored and dull, the air
thickened and rasped ones throat.
That night the four squatters slept
little. They watched the mound in
the northwest, which now filled half
the sky and glowed with a reflected
orange light on it's under surface.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-25

l had to sit there and watch her being
dragged to the SHAMELESS, powerless
to help her.
Every time Jim said his little
speech she was back at him with
raise
l could see a whole months house
hold expenses travelling home in
Jim's pocket.
During those few terrible moments
I'll bet Mrs. Jim bought two new hats
and tailor made with the spoils her
robber husband was going to haul in.
It was cruel
tried to give Clara ]. the bugle
to cease firing, but she never once
looked in my direction.
Jim had nearly all his chips in and
Clara j. had reached over and
touched my stack for a handful.
The pot looked as big as a bunch
of Christmas money, and I began to
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-25
IN CLOUD GRAY CASHMERE
Simple Girlish Dress That Will Set OF
the Charms of the Young
Lady,

simple girlish dress this, in cloud
gray cashmere; the skirt measures
not more than two and one-half yards
round, and is trimmed with two stitch
ed straps with rounded ends in which
buttons with cord loops are sewn.
The bodice and sleeves are cut to-
gether, the fronts crossed at waist,
and forming a "V'' shaped opening
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-25

Puffs Of warm air cut the cool atmos-
:phere and caressed their cheeks. Day
came, but no sunlight, instead vel.
low murk
Star and Buck, the oxen, were
hitched to the plow and strip five
burrows wide was thrown up about
the cabin, which had been meanwhile
drenched with water from the spring.
The oxen were yoked to a stone boat
on which we're piled some of the more
valuable household possessions, in
readiness for a rush to the little
stream.
Every precaution had been taken
ano the four men watched stolidly
the approach Of the smoke cloud. Sud-
denly the sky disappeared behind a
billow of black smoke that rolled into
the clearing and a roar as of a
mighty WATERFALL beat upon the air
Then a hot blast choked the squat
tiers. There was no signal given, but
the four turned and raced for tho
creek, 10 rods away.
Bill Jorgenson stumbled and fell
and before he could struggle to his
feet the fire pressed down on him.
Old Man Simons also fell when they
were near the creek, but got to his
feet and floundered into the shallow
water, where his son and Chris Jor-
genson lay submerged in a pool, with
only their faces above the surface.
For an eternity of minutes the
world was a cauldron of flame. The
cabin had been licked up as though it's
logs were of celluloid.
When the roaring horror had sub
sided Chris Jorgenson found the
younger Simons kneeling in the water,
feebly supporting the old man, whose
face was no longer like a human
countenance. A short distance away
In the creek the oxen, anchored by
the heavy stone boat, threshed about
and beloved. A few yards from the
stream, in the clearing, scorched
something lay crumpled on the scared
ground. It was what had been Bill
Jorgenson.
Chris freed the oxen and the stone
boat, loaded the Simonses and Bills
body on the fiat sledge and started
down creek road toward Baudette
river. That journey was an experiI
ence such as fever victims dream.
Perhaps it is as much to the credit
Of the oxen as to Chris Jorgenson that
the stone boat crawled into the ruins
Of the settlement of Baudette. Old
Man Simons' brave spirit fiickered out
soon after the journeys end
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Extra Choir Space for Hats.

Centerville, S. D.-The building
committee of the Congregational
church of this city is expanding about
$500 in charging and remodeling
the church building, which is about
completed.
An amusing incident In connection
with the charging of the choir space
was experienced by the committee
when it was found necessary to allow
three. feet additional depth to the al.
cove from the original plans or one
and a half feet for each raised deck.
to make room for large hats worn by
women singers. ~.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-25
Easy Marks.

Talk erbout yore easy marks" said
Uncle Silas Geehaw, who had been
passing week in the city. "us rubes
amt In it with them air teown
chaps"
did yew sell 'em emmy gold bricks,
Silas?" Queried old Daddy Squash
neck
Nav, didn't" answered Uncle
Silas, "but seed Teller peddin' arti-
fetal ice-hed tn sign right on his
wagon-an' blamed eff tn chumps
didn't buy it fer tn real thing. by
grass!"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-25

over a white lawn chem1sette with
turnover collar and jabot of en-
broidery; the sleeves are finished with
tiny turned-up cuffs.
Hat of straw to match dress, lined
with darker crepe-de-C Chine, and trim
med with wide ribbons.
Materials required for the dress:
Six yards 46 inches wide.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-25
This Cat Hard 70 Xiii.

When threshing operations were in
progress at a farm in Sherwood For.
est, near London, England, a few DAYS
ago, two workmen heard a faint new
ing proceeding from the inside of the
stack-built seventeen days previous
ly-and presently discovered the farm
house cat that had been missing du-
ring that interval.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-25
~

ed with blood and burned terribly. I
became weak and debilitated. Soon aft.
er began taking Doan's Kidney Pills.
improved and it was not long before
I was a we'll man.
Remember the name-Doan's.
For sale by all dealers. so cents q
box. FOster-Milburn Co.. Buffalo. N. Y.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-25
The Belt Buckle,

With the return of the belt to
favor again, belt buckles in infinite
variety have appeared. The simple
enamel buckles in empire green, ruby.
and dark blue are we'll liked for every
day wear. With dressy gowns oblong
or oval gilt designs in Louis XIV ef-
fects, scintillating with brilliants, add
a smart touch to the toilet.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-25
W0IIld Still Ra Mail

Rusty Rufus-Say, Tom, wouldn't
it be great eff youse could git all de
eat an drink youse wanted by list
pressin' 'lectric button?
Tired Thomas-It shore would---ef
I he'd somebody ter press de button
fer me.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-25

stitches are very noticeable. This ~
true, no matter how coarse the lace.
silk will not sink into a fabric as
thread will. This is a sewing hint
given me recently by a prominent
dressmaker, who expressed herself as
tired to death" of seeing quite plain
ly where her friends had sewed their
lace chemisettes and hatbrim trim
mingS.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-25
Smart TRIMMING.

Artificial flowers play an important
part If evening dress this season, and
many of the smartest gowns have the
are part of the trimming, but so ar
ranged that they can be changed & g.
desired.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-25

brought on my
kidney trouble. I
was confined to
bed for days and
the pain through
my back and
limbs was the
worst I ever expe-
rienced. The kid
ney secretiOns
woro r~0f,,co all
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-25
WOMAN TELLS STORY -:
OF Intense SUFFERING

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I feel as if I owe my life to you for the
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see visions of deputy sheriffs running
off with our furniture.
Jim was breathing hard, and 7
fancied l could almost hear him saw
ing over and over to himself, "This
is a sin and l hate to do it, but 7 need
the money"
Presently, when all his chips were
in, he repented and called Clara
AS he did SC he threw king FIJI,
of bullets down on the table, and with
an apologize smile proceeded to mil
in the gate receipts.
Clara ]. said very coolly, .Won't
you walk slowly, Mr.. Nelson" and
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-25
UnfraArna1.

Unfraternat.
1T seems cruel to slaughter ali
these pigs for the MARKET" said the
Chicago girl.
Il know that it's cruel" replied Miss
Cayenne. But when you think II
what the packers charge for the meat
it does seem a little unfraternal."
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-25

JUST the most beautiful of all mil
=. linery is shown in the exquisite
hat of black velvet mounted over
wired cap Of gold tissue with two
gold roses at the side. Lewis of Paris
won the first prize at the fashion exhi-
bition with a big hat mounted over
lace cap. He must have lost 1t
II this exquisite New York model had
been a competitor But the idea was
new then and seized upon by the Paris
designers as one would seize upon gold
coins lying about the streets. In
fact, a good new idea is the same
thlng-it can readily be coined into
substantial money.
This charming hat Is very large and
apparently very simple. But let no
one be deceived as to it's simplicity