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

A Sad Homecoming.
Homeward the YEARLY toiler wends his
way,
His thoughts on a good dinner bent;
Sadly he hears his sobbing wife say:
"Oh John! The cook has went!"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-25
tn kAMTlh

what . Pity In that murder c,
tho Jury was hung III
II think 1t ought 10 be.~
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-25
Care-free Bliss.

Care-Free Bliss. L,
SmIth-How do you remember to ,
ter the plants when your wife is ava
Brown-Oh, I leave the windo%
open so the storms can wet EN-
Harper's Bazaar.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-25
Thoa1Eef<,al.

. Been to the show l.tslya"
No. ! amt seen . moving pieh
ID q month"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-25
,s,rh< H.xe aatd: ..roo u..x,

The sultan Of sulu says one wife
y enough"
.Hs 70 vsey eoaeeevo4tv~-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-25
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The Wedding Cake.

Oh, you little god of Hymen!
You're delightful rake;
OF all the gods and goddesses,
You alone take the cake.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-04-07
Temperament.

No man can escape his tempera-
ment But he can do better than
that; he can transmute it. None of
US is better than he should be. But
let him look that he is as good as he
could be- If he is a busybody, let
him distribute aims. If he is sulky
brute, let him have the strength of
silence and endurance. If he falls
short often and his heart fails, let
him aim high, and cheer another on
where he cannot go. If the game IS
lost, even-yet are games ever lost2-
let him look on serenely as one that
has no further stake in the game. II he
is the prey from time to time Of
something all too like despair, let
him have the courage of despair. In
brief, We may all have, if we will, the
qualities of our defects. Incidence
may turn into repose and Impotence
into wit, gratitude be born Of help
lessness and noble prudence of ig-
noble fear, sympathy grow out OF
weakness and protecting care out of
selflshness. Life is like puzzle;
we can not change the pieces, but
We can change them about till the
pattern is plain and the colors har-
monious-Harper's Weekly.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-04-07
Other leading endvorIng betunndlng

obtain
country has established
conditions will
humidity wholly
realizes
them ingenious
a
three miles, and instances records have been made by
the kite
@ KNOWN 10 the maVouy recording to
height II
low high veots which
yards capacity
filed that
o
time with the object
widely
points carrying
all
country
and that an understanding this mechanism the oae
weather elevations
Investigators Weather
below this
miles
tested with liquid air ascertain they will actually record extreme de-
o purpose
really
revolving kite she'd administration building and observatory
Marvin kite meogra2h with thermometer Marvin with
argraeNIartn kites the
theodoite
to any one OF the bureaus buildings at Mount Weather would regard
exceedingly
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-04-07

United States By 1887 the Baltimore Ohio had been
absorbed the result of financial troubles experienced
by the railroad of the name, which had backed it.
and then the PostaFfound itself alone to fight its
petitor. That fight has gone in lively style during
all the intervening years to the present.
The number of miles of wires and the number of mes
sages sent annually by the two big telegraph systems
may be eyeopener to some laymen to the extent
of these systems The following are the figures
Miles of Messages sent
wire. annually. Offices.
Western Union .........1, 900 680000OO 24760
Postal -. ............. 100000 25,0O0000 25507
While the elder Mackay and the elder Gould were
building up the two telegraph companies which in late
years have been under the general direction of their
sons, Clarence H Mackay and George j. Gould, they
were being aided by two who hold posts of
much prominence in the Geographic world and who
started their careers together.
Mr. Mackay did something than found of
the great American fortunes He took leading part in
the making of the Pacific Coast States, and the name of
Mackay will always shine out the scroll of early
coast history of the pioneer fathers of that splen
did expanse territory First he had large share in
the founding of Nevada as an orderly community and
then he had important influence in the welding of
California great State. At the time of the Civil
War he did much to preserve the Pacific Coast States
to the Union.
First he went to California. He tried placer mining
at Allegheny. But it not in California that he
to find his initial wealth. He swept into the
tide of prospectors and adventures which set toward
Nevada With the small amount of money he had made
Allegheny he began development OF prospect
of the Ophr at Virginia City He failed to strike pay
rock however, before his out, and then he
again found himself penniless
little thing like that did not discourage of
Mackay's resolution He had gone west to make for
tune and fortune he proposed to make.
Not being able to do anything in mining for the mo-
ment he took employment timber man at 81
day By the hardest kind of fight he finally succeeded
in getting together enough money start mining his
account again.
Years passed He made some considerable of
money then played back" the money into the ground
Finally in 1868, the turning point came, when he
formed a partnership with J. NJ. Walker, brother of a
former Governor Walker of Virginia. Mackay had,
short before made cleanup from his Kentucky
mine Gold Hill, and this money he put into the part
nershp. In 1854 the firm enlarged by the taking
in of Flood and O'Brien. Four years later Mr. Fair
took Walkers place in the firm which later became
known all over America the famous Bonanza firm.
The first strike of the original partnership of Maekay
Walker Flood & OBrien made in 1865, when sew
era hundreds thousands of dollars were taken out OF
the Hale and Norcross mine.
In 1872 the Mackay judgment and the Mackay "huneh
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-04-07
Great value Of Insect Study

DR.. Henry Skinner delivered an IL
lustrated lecture on entomology at
the Academy of Natural Sciences,
Philadelphia. He said: There are
$4,000 known species Of insects, di-
vided into $4,000 beetles, 10000 but
terf1ies and moths, $4,000 ants, bees
and wasps, $4,000 flies end $4,000
bugs They are of interest on &C.
count of the extraordinary beauty Of
some and their interesting anatomy,
and as objects for the calculation OF
many important biological problems.
From the economic standpoint they
are most important, as in the United
States alone the yearly amount OF
damage from injurious species Will
reach a billion dollars. Many fatal
diseases are carried to human be1ngA
by insects, and in this relation alone
they are of very great interest to
man and their study becomes
necessity"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-04-07

Do women smoke? Listen! notable example of
combination smoking stand and numdor recently sold
by New York City jeweer to Of his Fifth avenue
customers is made of rosewood nlad with gold
Far handsomer table cabinet in hammered
silver enerusted with Jade and delicatey tinted crystals
in cloudy pinks, blues and volets These little
cabinets with their fittings cost from 5000 and real
cigarette fadst has table upholstered in chintz
brocade for her boudor and another of terner stuff
like mahogany rosewood or silver, for her drawing
Do smoke? Just imagine yourself in of
the 'smartest" New York drawing Here charm
ing young matron is giving luncheon in honor Of a
decorator just back from Paris Here is the very
latest in luncheon effects Pink amid ruchings of
pink ribbon in the CENTER pink in frozen cream
for the dessert and absurd little log cabins built from
slim sticks of pink candy But the sweets neglected
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-04-07

The candy log cabins stand untouched and the guests
trail off to the drawing where fascinating
is unfolded before their delighted eyes.
The afternoon is closing in darkly but the electricity
has yet been turned and at the side of each easy
chair there is tabourette which stands ash tray
and small candlestick Of heavily chased silver in
which burns slender pink candle These strange little
spots of light throw the Of the drawing
deep shadow and presently from the shadows emerges
back-gowned maid, carrying candlelighted tray with
coffee and cigarettes in two lengths.
The guests include several single girls, couple of
marons and several who have reached the age
white hair and mauve But declines cigar
cites. The maid slips in with cigarettes
most one might close her eyes and see the figures in
semtaiored frocks melting into the swathed and yelled
forms of the Oriental harem. Do women smoke? They
do-lots OF them. Yes, Women srnoke.-Utica Globe.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-04-07
NOTES AT RANDOM.

Advertisements first appeared in
newspapers in 1852.
The British Welsbach Company has
begun manufacturing electric lights.
Half of the worlds production Of
nickel comes from the United States.
The worlds estimated steam power
in use to-day is 100000 horse power.
The mines of Butte, Mont, have a
combined pay roll of s5,000,000 a
year.
There are in Argentina four broad
gauge railroads, three narrow gauge
and two English gauge.
It is just being realized that the
Trans-Siberian railroad was poor
job from an engineering standpoint.
New York has followed the example
of Philadelphia and established free
permanent exhibition of building ma
terials.
The New York Equal Suffrage So
ciety, of which Mrs. Clarence Mackay
is the president and leading spirit,
has reduced its annual dues from $500
to $500.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-04-07


of
the of the is likely
The
station daily observations
Al buildings
annually There half
their to the general public through the columns
Outside Washington
$4,000 weather bulletins
value
period
hand this
promise
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-04-07

George if haven't done anything else in my life,
I've succeeded in making the Western Union be decent
That the characteristic utterance of the late John
W Mackay, whose backing made possible the success
of what is now the Postal Telegraph Cable Company,
many years to George J. Could who succeeded Jay
Gould as the dominant power in the Western Union.
Mr. Gould laughed at the remark, as did Mr. Mackay
himself Then both men told of the episode and it
flashed the country by the wires of the rival COM
panies commanded by the two captains of industry.
The story of why it is that have in this country
two great competing telegraph companies is the story
which lies back of the ackay utterance 1t is the story
Of determined, successful man of action who had al
ready made millions in mining and turned to the tele
graphic field as a personal issue between himself and
the dominant force in the field at that time 1t is
also the story perhaps the only successful business
enterprise on record which founded motives of
revenge
Mr. Mackay as a banker had much telegraphing to
do The only way to do it over the lines of the
Western Union. This company, enjoying monopoly,
gave to its patrons those days service which stood
the other pole of efficiency from the excellent Western
Union service to-day,
The Western Union service is slow and rotten,
said Mr.. Mackay in his banking days. that can
beat it by letter Besides that they're discourteous
and insolent that it makes mad every time have
anything to do by telegraph"
He saw several smaller and weaker companies at
tempting to do battle with the Western Union giant
None of them were making any very important head
way number of smaller companies had already been
absorbed by the Western Union which had been doing
business under that since 1896, and since 1891
under the name of the New York & Mississippi Valley
Printing Telegraph Company.
The Western Union had hungry eyes set those
companies which it had yet gobbed One of these
was the Postal Telegraph Company, it then
called, a corporation formed under the laws of New
York June 81 1881 Mr. Mackay decided that this
company was the which stood the best chance of
successfully "buekng' the Western Union, and he
bought large block of its stock. The company was
capitalized at S21,o00,000.
two-line wire was very thoroughly constructed be-
tween New York Chicago and thence to st. Louis.
two-ne wire also built to Washington and other
dig centers This construction S3000000, but
Mr. Mackay faltered
BY this time the Western Union officials realized that
they were facing their first really serious competitor.
They knew of the Mackay anger against the company;
they knew of the Maekay business acumen they knew
Of the Mackay millions And with this realization of
what they were up against a betterment of the
Western Union service.
One by the Western Union kept swallowing the
small competitive companies, and by 1884 the Postal
found itself aud the Baltimore Ohio to be the only
Western Union opponents the telegraph map of the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-04-07
Noses of Our Ancestors.

Ancient white man had immense
bony buttresses like a billygoat's
bulging out above his eyebrows, he
had brow and no forehead, and no
bony bridge of the nose to speak Of.
So when such an evoIutional grand
daddy got a sockdolager over his
eyes and nose with a fist or club
1t didn't much matter He did not
have to have the bridge Of his nose
raised by a surgical engineer, nor
have his eye painted by BLACK eye
artist" The same kind of clubbing
today would not only spoil mans
looks for life, but might end him
then and there. It is pretty clear
that the white mans nose is a type
of the white mans mind in every
thing bespeaking gentle manners.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-04-07
ERRORS OF HISTORY.

Coriolanus never allowed his mother
to intercede for Rome.
Nero did not kill his mother or i'd
die over burning Rome.
Wellington, at Waterloo, never cried,
up, guards, and at them
The Pass of ThermopyIe was not
held by 500 but by 1000 Greeks.
Blondel, the harper, did not dis
cover the prison in which Richard l.
was confined.
Cleopatra could not have dissolved
her pearls in vinegar, because vinegar
does not dissolve pearls.
Alfred the Great neither let the old
hays cakes burn, nor did he venture
into the Danish camp disguised as a
minstrel
Fair Rosamond was not poisoned by
the jealous Queen Eleanor. She died
in the odor of sanctity, in the Convent
of Godstow.
Charles TX. did not fire upon the
unfortunate Huguenots from the win
dow of the Louvre, during the Massa
ere OF st. Bartholomew.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-04-07

An eminent scientist says that 20
learn how to insure daily regularity
of the bowels conduces far more to
a mans health, happiness and sue
cess in life than a complete classical
education; and, when once the habit
is properly established nothing, alb
solutely nothing, should be permitted
to interrupt it. Keep the bowels reg
ulated, the liver and stomach in
proper working order, and there need
be little fear of illness. Sluggish
liver, bihousness, feverish colds, or
any Of the more serious ills which
are like too follow in their train, are
all often times avoided by the SIM
pie precaution of taking an occa-
sional dose of proper purgatiYe, and
so keeping the digestive organs in
perfectly efficient condition. New
York Press.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-04-07
UnIifeIike Folk in Fiction.

A critic writes: There never
were such persons on earth as Mi
cawber and Mrs. Camp and Peck,
sniff! We know that there never
were such people as Don Quixote,
Sancho PanZa and Panurge; and,
therefore, they enchant US. We are
enthralled by them, not in spite OF
the fact, but because Of the fact that
under no conceivable circumstances
can we ever meet such beings in the
flesh" Didn't Dickens say that soma
people on being introduced to hif6
the very first thing asked: 'Do you
really believe any such man existed
as So and SOP" naming one of
Dickens's characters. Invariably, said
Dickens, these people were as much
like the character they inquired
about as it is possible for one man
to be like another.-New York Press.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-04-07
SPLINTERS.
Ash receivers-Town dumps.

Ash receivers-Town dumps.
Just because the road is smooth is
no reason why you should go fast.
1t is only the rich that can afford
to have brain flag.
It is easy enough to sow the seed
after some one has grubbed the
ground.
You can't Judge the width of the
world by the width of your back
yard.
There is a good bit of human nature
in the dog that bowls all night and
won't let other dogs sleep.
Benners-Did that old man leave
anything when he died? Jenners-
Several of his distant relatives got
left.
Bowers-They say it was a case OF
love at, first sight. Powers-It looks
to me more like case of love is
blind
Biggs-Was Smith on the water
wagon the last time you saw him
Wiggs-Just as bad, he was wearing
pumps.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-04-07
No Use.

There was once a man who had
great scheme of philosophy to pro-
pound He became so engrossed in
his idea that he allowed his hair to
flourish unrestrained, wore out-of-
date clothing and generally went
around in a slipshod manner.
t'Humph!' said those who heard
this. HE is only posing. He
doesn't mean what he says"
So he had his hair cut and acquir-
ed clothing of the latest style and
pattern. Having remodeled himself
thus, once more he started forth to
spread his new doctrine
"Humph!" said the same people.
"He is only bluff1ng. He doesn't
know what he is talking about.
This shows us that the best way to
be philosopher is to do it by mail.
Chicago Post.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-04-07
Good Word for "BIack Bread.v

BLACK bread'-that is, rye bread
is not famine ration, says the Lam
Get, but just as good a food as white
bread, and the staple form of the
staff of life in several civilized coun-
tries. There is almost no difference
chemically between the two breads,
although the wheat contains slightly
the more gluten Black bread "keens
fresh-that is, moist-much longer
than white bread. 1t has a slightly
greater irritant effect upon the fntes-
final canal, which is also an advan-
tage under ordinary conditions. The
whole rye bread, or pumpernickel, is
the preferable form.-NeW YORK
Press
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-04-07

made good In that year the whole world startled
by the of the discovery of the Comstock lode
of the marvels Of mining history The was of high
gradethat is, it carried large values in mineral to
ton of ore-and was in gold and silver.
Of the interests of the Bonanza firm Mr.. Maekay
two-ffths. Thus the value of his personal share
of the Comstock lode have been in the neighbor-
hood of S6000O000
the early years of Mrs. Mackays appearance in
Europe there great deal of illnatured gossip
to who she and where she had from, with
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-04-07

stories of her early years, which calculated
her harm in her social campaigns.
Mrs. Mackay used to be laundress, keeper of
boarding house for miners and she is the daughter of
a journeyman barber"
The facts appear be that Mrs Mackay in the early
years of her marriage to her first husband Dr. w. G.
Bryant, was obliged to do her homework and do
the family washing many another woman who has
pioneered in the mining country had to do Her IA
Their Colonel Hungerford, of good California fam
lily, who fought in the Civil War.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-04-07
An Annreciafed DISTRACTION,

so you think the automobile has
made life much pleasanter?"
ct has for me" answered the COM
Portable citizen. Il drive a fast horse
and my son rides a bicycle. The auto
mobile has taken the minds of the
police off both OF s"-Washingto
Star
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-04-07
Curious Remedies.

In some parts of England one of the
best cures for a swollen neck is to
draw snake nine times across the
throat of the suffering one, after
which the snake is killed and its skin
sewed in a silken bag and tightly
sewed around the neck. Another way,
almost as good, is TO put the live
snake in a bottle, which is tightly
corked and buried near the roots OF
rosebush, and as the helpless snake
decays the swelling in the neck of the
patient will disappear.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-04-07
Per and Pa per.

Paper" whether of rags or of
wood pulp, still takes its name from
the papyrus. A book" is the beech,
the wooden rod on which our fore
fathers cut their runic letters. And
a pencil is still by derivation pen
e,eilius.' a little tail, having been
originally the name Of the Roman
painters brush.-London Chronicle.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-04-07
Natural UPRISING.

do you believe any one can bring
about the levitation of tables by
means of spirits?"
Certainly if they get to falling too
heavily under them and try too hard
to get up."-Baltimore American.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-04-07
A Certainty.

"A mother who wants to appear
young can keep a son in kickerbockers
indefinitely
Say the rest of it."
But the daughters skirts just have
to be heightened some time"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-04-07
a Misunuaer.

Miss Flashleigh is very fond OF
winter sports
We'll, l would scarcely call Tommy
Bingle a winter sport even if he does
wear a red necktie and green hat"
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-04-07
His Masters Voice.

Il will not stand it, Doyle, and I
give you to know quite plainly that If
it wasn't for the years and years that
you have been in my employ you'd
have gone long agoi'-London Opin,
ion
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-04-07
Every Man to His Taste.

Il can't quite grasp your idea that
the alderman in our ward was elected
by Italian votes; he's Irish, isn't he?
yes, but his name is MacArony."-
Boston Courier.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-04-07
a Mn%hertc hnxia+u

Willie-Ma, can't / go out on the
street for a little while? Tommy
Jones says there's a comet to be
seen.
Mother-Well, yes; but don't you
go too near-Boston Transcript.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-04-07
Ours. Too. Confound 1t.

Benson-This antitrust movement is
spreading rapidly everywhere.
DeBroke-Yes; my tailor has caught
the fever now.-Boston Transcript.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-04-07
No Organ RecitaIs.

Going up to hear that lecture on
appendicitis to-day?"
Nav. I'm tired of these organ re-
citaIs. Cornell Widow