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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-09-15
Making Money RAPIDLY,

A French newspaper has been CAL
culating what various champions gain
by tho hour or by the mile. The gains
Of Andre Beaumont. the aviator, work
out at almost SGT a mile. He cannot
compare with the winner of the Grand
Prix at Longchamps, AS d'Atout, who
won money at the rate Of $4,000 q
minute, or $3S,400 a mile.
Automobile driving in 1905 paid a
winner, Thery, at the rate Of $58 .
mile. or $3,857 an hour. The chief b.
cycle prize Of France pays about ST.
06e a mile, or from 5000 to 500 a
minute, but the tour of France for
bicycles. whrein men have just cycled
more than 5000 miles around France
during the hot wave. only pays IS
cents mile.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-09-15
Book That Won Writer a Bride

Cady Stanton; and Mr.. Stanton Is
also authority for the story told here
Of how his life Of Greeley won Parton
a bride
II had the story from the lips Of
the lady who became Parton's wife the
year after his life of Greeley was pub
lished-the widowed sister Of Nathan
lei P. Willis" sand Mr.. Stanton. "She
was then Sara Eldridge in private life.
though known from one end Of the
country to the other as Fanny Fern.
Up to the time Of the appearance Of
Uncle Toms Cabin Fanny Fern stood
pre-eminent among American women
authors, her sketches in the New York
Ledger bringing her in q handsome
income.
Not long after James Parton had
seen his life of Greeley leap into in
slant popularity, winning him per-
manent place among American biog.
raphers, Fanny Fern visited her broth
er at his estate, Idlewild,' near New
burg, N. Y. There she met for the
first time James Parton, an old en-
ployee Of her brothers and friend.
Naturally, the subject Of Parton's sue
cess came up In the ordinary course
of conversation-the book was the talk
of the day-and the poets sister
evinced lively interest in the man.
ner in which the material had been
collected for the life. Parton had spent
weeks travelling all over New Hamp-
shire, Vermont and Pennsylvania in
terviewing persons who had known
Greeley In the days Of his obscurity,
and Fanny Fern became so interested
in Parton's story Of his travels that
she laughingly declared to him that
If he wrote a book entitled How
Wrote My Life Of Greeley she be-
lieved it would be quite as popular az
the life itself.
THUS Parton entertained the IA
nous Fanny Fern, whose collected
sketches sold over 100000 copies be-
fore the sale dropped off; while she, in
turn, found Parton deeply interested
in her stories Of her own career
how, for example, after the death Of
her husband she was in such strait
ened circumstances that she decided
to open sewing school, a venture
which was not very profitable. Then.
one day, she wrote out little sketch
and sent it to newspaper, which pub
lished it and sent her dollar. But
is was not the pay that impressed
Fanny Fern; it was the fact that she
found the little sketch copied into a
great number of newspapers; and.
Judging from this that she had struck
popular chord, she went on her way
writing, and so wrote herself into
fame.
IN this way. and over Parton's Life
of Greeley as it were, the courtship
of the two writer's began. And when
their betrothal was made it was mu-
tYally agreed that each should go on
as he or she had gone on in the past
that each would maintain separate
literary identity. That agreement was
perfectly kept, neither interfering in
the slightest degree with the others
literary work. And their married life
was ideal, and it was ideal because
Mr.. and Mrs. James Parton we're one,
while James Parton, biographer, and
Fanny Fern, popular author, were two
entirely different persons"
Copyright, 1911. by E. J. Edwards. All
Right, Reserved.)
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-09-15
Time Given by Wireless.

Two French naval officers have d.
vised scheme which they are work.
ing, under the auspices of the govern
ment, by which they claim to be able
to supply all chronometers at sea with
the exact time at noon, 8 p. m. and
midnight, by means of wireless mes
sages from the Eiffel tower. BY its
means the longitude of any vessel can
be computed almost instantaneously,
and in foggy weather Especially in
places where there are irregular cur
rents) the advantage will be enor.
nous.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-09-15
Omelettas or Rrijes,

Senator MARITIME Of New Jersey-the
farmer senator" as 1t is his pride
to be called-was relating in Washing
ton memories of his farm life.
What quaint minds" he said, have
those New Jersey colored folk who
work New Jersey farms!, remember
an old uncle who once paused in job
of potato hoeing to sing in my ears
the praise Of chickens.
'Chickens,' he said, ii 50 accom-.
modatiu'. Dey's 30 accommodating.
sub. To- can ct 'em befo' dey's
bawn, an yo' can eat 'sm sftah 6s1s
asaA
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-09-15

gu e er history"
says q writer in
the Railroad. Mans
M a 6 a zine, b u t
the mystery is still
with us, and whirls
its hundred ques-
ton marks before
our eyes every
minute of the day.
OF course ev-
cry one believes
that the edge of
the wheel goes
around the axle.
But does it? Take
the end of any
spoke near the
tire, or any part of
the tire. and on a
atill. MINDLESS
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-09-15
How James Parton's Life Of Greeley
Aroused the Interest Of "Fan-
ny Fern" in the
Author.

Recently told the story of how an
obscure writer on Nathaniel p. Will
lis Home Journal-James Parton
made himself famous as biographer
by writing an anecdotal life Of Hor-
ace Greeley in the middle fifties, when
the name and deeds of the great Whig
editor were on the lips OF every Amer
lean, north and south. My authority
for the story was Parton's friend, Hen
ry B. Stanton, husband of Elizabeth
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-09-15
Train Stopped by caterpilIars.


Black caterpillars so thoroughly
"greased the track" for short South
ern Pacific train near here that the
engine came to dead stop three
times. The engine was drawing only
one coach up the heavy grade be.
tween here and Sisson. When about
a mile north Of McCloud the first
hold-up was made by the caterpillars.
The engineer was forced to turn
on the sand to make the wheels grip
the track. Immediately upon the sand
being shut of there was another stop.
This was repeated again, so the man
at the throttle kept the sand running
until he had passed the caterpillar
belt.-McCloud Correspondence, San
Francisco Chronicle.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-09-15
Did He Need Any?

The Masons Of Manhattan gave =
banquet. The POSTMASTER called up
on one brother whose name was not
on To program. It rather confused
him. J. 81
Look here, Mr. Toastmaster,' said
-, this isu't sx1etly fair. You have
'ea1lsd mo q make IN rs Of myDe]f
U1thppt M pgepaT1tton NhateNsE. 81
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-09-15
Living and Learning.

"Why, Tommy, Tommy" walled a
startled mother. soothing her young
sons battle wounds, after tight with
a larger warrior, you should have
known enough not to fight that huge
Smith boy" well, mother" phil
osophized the lad, gamely, II don't
know that have made such big
mistake after Ill. Dad says We must
live and learn, and I'm stu alive and
I've learned that cant lick JiDma
SMITH = 49,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-09-15
His Source of HAPPINESS

penny saved from the tips which our
customers leave on the table cloth
among the crumbs"
Unconsciously Adolph had been
proving that happiness Is often a con-
dition of mind rather than of circum-
stances.-National Magazine.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-09-15
Left.

"(harley. dear" said young Mrs
TorHins, "the cook We took without .
recommendation has left us. .s@szz
Y suppose" was the weary reply
the: is because we are among thu
things she didn't consider of suaicien
value to take with her"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-09-15

Speaking of the servant girl prob
lem, we contend that man who can't
keep cook by marrying her should
board <<
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-09-15

1t is always dangerous to try to
get something for nothing. You might
get what you deserve.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-09-15
As The WHEELS TURN
MYSTERY INVOLVED THAT HAS
PUZZLED THE WIsEsT.
Railroad Man Describes Queer Things,
but Cannot Attempt to Explain
Thom-Does the Edge Go
Around the Axie7

The wheel that turns under the 10.
connective or the car has q long and
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1911-06-16
ASK FOR LORIMER EVIDENCE
Are Issued by u. S. Senate In
vestigating Committee.

Washington.-Subp for num-
Der of prominent men to testify here
in the new Lorimer Investigation have
been issued and special officer from
the office of the senate sergeant-at-
arms has been sent to Chicago to
serve them The greatest secrecy is
attached to the action by the special
committee having the investigation in
charge
it is understood, however, that
among the men to be summoned are
these: Lee O'Neil Browne, Democratic
leader in the Illinois house; Edward
Hines, president of the Edward Hines
Lumber company of Chicago; Edward
Tilden, whose name was connected
with the 100000 fund alleged to have
been collected for use in electing Sea-
ator Lorimer; Clarence S. Funk, gen
eral manager of the International Har-
vester company, whose disclosure of
an attempt to have his corporation
subscribe to the alleged fund was
feature of the investigation by the
Illinois legislature.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1911-06-16
GALE SWEEPS GOTHAM
FOUR PERSONS KILLED; PROP
ERTY DAMAGE 100000.
Lightning Causes Many Fires In New
York City and Suburbs-Wine
Blows 80 Miles an Hour.

New York-It was a $1,OO0,0O0
storm that swept over New York, &C
cording to reports received of the dam
age done at sea and ashore by the
80-mile wind, the nearly inch deep rain
and the many fires which the lightning
started
Almost every section of the city and
almost everyone of it's suburbs SUI
fered severely, although fortunately
the loss of life tota1ed only four per-
sons, two in Brooklyn, one in Jersey
City and one in Paterson.
But there were many thrilling es-
capes from death. both on land and on
the water.
Among the largest losses were:
Standard Oil tank at Bayonne, NJ
j., $4,000.
Police training stables at Flushing,
L. l., $4,000.
Electric sign at 1915 Broadway
blown over by wind into Days bill
lard rooms. $4,000.
Amusement tents on site of Dream
land, Coney Island. $4,000.
Trees, UuliuiuSS, lSACCS, CCS.' AA
Bronx zoo, $4,000.
New houses blown down in West
Hoboken, Union Hill. North Bergen,
ETC., $4,000.
In addition to these damages there
were hundreds of houses in and out OF
the city unroofed, hundreds of plate
glass windows smashed, thousands OF
trees and fences fattened to the
ground and many telephone and cleo
trio lighting systems put out Of bust
ness.
Never in the history of the local
weather bureau did a northeast gale
blow at such a velocity Seventy
miles an hour was what Forecaster
Starr measured it in The heart of the
city. The marine observer down the
bay said 80.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1911-06-16
JAILs SCHOOLS FOR CRIME
DR.. Wines, Addressing Charities Con-
ference, Scores Present Methods
of Treating Petty Offenders.

Boston-A complete revolution in
the treatment of misdemeanants and
petty offenders throughout the United
States was proposed by DR.. Frederick
Howard Wines, statistician of the
board of administration of state in
situations of Illinois. at the opening
session of the National Conference OF
Charities and Correction here.
DR.. Wines characterized the aver
age county or municipal Jail in this
country as a school for crime, cess
pool of moral contagion, a propagating
mouse OF criminality, feeder for the
penitentiary, public nuisance and
disgrace of modern civilization. The
public indifference to the situation he
attributed partly to ignorance. The
county officials" he said, do not
know what a Jail should be and the
people do not know what their jails
really are. In plain Anglo-Saxon, the
truth Is that wherever there exists
local graft and political dishonesty,
the county prison IS its center and its
stronghold. The sheriff or the jailer
makes a personal profit from crime
by charging a per diem for board for
prisoners and by the receipt of fees
for locking and unlocking the jail
doors That profit is live wire. No
local politician. possibly no member OF
the legislature Or even of the state
administration dares monkey with
it."
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1911-06-16
CARRIE NATION DIES
DEATH ENDS CAREER OF WOMAN
WRECkEE OF SALOONS.
Prohibition Worker, Succumbs to
Paresis in Sanitarium at Leav-
enworth, Kan.

Leavenworth. Kan.-Mrs Carrie E.
Nation of Ratchet fame, who devoted
her life to fight on the sale of liquor
and cigarettes, died in the Evergreen
sanitarium here of paresis. aged six
ty-six years She had been suffering
from a nervous breakdown since jan
uary last.
Although it has been reported sew
eral times since ghe came here that
she was dead, her death was not ex,
pected until several days ago.
Mrs Nation in the sanitarium was
incapable of even managing her own
business affairs, all trace of the bold
prohibition worker had disappeared
when her iron constitution began to
fail, and she spent the last five months
of her life in seclusion. no one but
relatives and hospital attendants be-
ing allowed to see her. When told
several days ago that she would die.
Mrs. Nation made no comment. Only
! DR.. A. L. Suwalsky and nurse were
with her when death came,
Mrs. Nations entry into fame was
made at Wichita, Kan, several years
ago, when she demolished a saloon
with a Ratchet. Later she repeated
the performance on several other Kan
sas towns Kansas. however was too
small for her proclivities and she car
ried her sensational fight against the
saloons into some of the larger cities
of this country.
Washington-The will of Carrie A.
Nation was filed in the probate court
here. 1t was dated in 1907 and in 1t
Mrs Nation declared herself resi-
dent of Washington.
1t is estimated the estate disposed
of by the will is valued at $4,000. con-
sisting Of houses and lots in Guthrie
and Shawnee, Okla, an account OF
81 900 in an Alexandria (Va.) bank,
and life insurance policy.
To the Woman's Christian Temper
ance union of Kansas Mrs. Nation be.
Queathed her Book Of My Life" and
all rights Hereunder. Charlton A. Nc
Nab, her only child, is bequeathed $50
month If not in an insane asylum.
After the death of Mrs. McNab her
children are to receive $500 each. The
remainder of the estate is to be given
to the Carrie Nation Home for Drunk
ards Wives and Widows at Kansas
City for home for children twelve
years old and under.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1911-06-16
Ne1Us Notes of Wisconsin

Grantsburg.-A log jam of two
miles in length, containing 10000
600 feet of logs, has formed on the
st. Croix river, beginning at the
mouth of Wood river and extending
up to the Tennessee flats. More than
100 men have been struggling for
several days to get a drag on it..
La Crosse. La. Crosse was prac-
tically without water service or hre
protection for nine hours recently,
when shifting sand bars clogged both
of the city mains. Water was finally
secured by breaking one of the IN
takes, near the shore, but the neces-
sity of providing a different system
of securing water from the MISSISSIPPI
ri river confronts the city.
Washington, d. C.-Among the
fifty postal savings banks authorized
were the following in Wisconsin;
Grand Rapids, New London, Platte
Vile, Shawano and Waukesha.
Florence Warning OF the
Florence County court has rendered
a decision in the Marshall Field IN
heritance tax case, finding for inc
state.
Madison. Gov. McGoyern refused
pardon to Henry Miller of MlLWau'
kee, sentenced last January 10
term of eighteen months IN On'
house of correction for burglary; u
Edward Cannon of Milwaukee sen
fenced last August to three years ID
the state prison for statutory VI
tense; to Ernest Jerome OF Mohio'
county, sentenced last March 10 wv
years in the state prison Tor auui
terry, and to Veil La Belle OF MO-
inette county, sentenced seVel@'
months ago to five years in the sS'"
prison for burglary.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1911-06-16
FARMING WITH DYNAMITE.

From an eloquent pamphlet issued
by an eastern railroad we learn OF
new and unsupported uses for dyna'
mite on the farm. Besides its familiar
tasks of extracting stumps, starting
log and ice jams and breaking up
boulders, dynamite is just the thing,
it seems, for digging bitches, telling
trees and excavating cellars. Blowing
q hole to set an apple tree is cheaper
than digging one and 1t kills bugs and
loosens the ground so that the tree
grows better besides, says the New
York World. Dynamite charges set
off eight or ten feet apart to break
up subsoil restore fertility to worn
lands. If a swamp has no outlet for
ditching you may sometimes drain 1t
by boring a deep hole and blowing up
it's hard pan bottom The dynamite
left over may be used anywhere. The
crops dote on it. Dynamite detona-
tons, the red flag Of warning and oc-
casiona1 hired men sent skyward In
installments may seem inconsistent
with the idyllic calm of rural pursuits,
but it is too late to complain. The
farmer already threshes and saws
wood with his automobile motor, vac
cinates the soil for fertility, lures the
cream out of fresh milk by centripe.
tai force, educates butter with chem
ical germs, marries staid and respect
able fruits to produce strange mon
grels, fights insects with master in
sects, frost with smoke blankets and
blight with reconcile acids. He is a
chemist, physicist. mechanic, physi'
clan.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1911-06-16

Football as a fatal amusement falls
into insignificance compared with Al
pine climbing. The Austrian and
German Alpine clubs have just pub
lished statistics showing that between
1901 and 1910 inclusive $50 Alpineists
lost their lives in the central Alps OF
Europe, an average of nearly 100 a
year In 1909 there were IA climbers
killed and in 1910, 100, not including
% persons who met their death while
picking edelweiss. Of this total Of 12S
fatalities, AZ were Germans, "a Aus
TRANS, 10 Swiss and 4 English. Eight
we're guides. The largest number of
fatal accidents in the Alps took place
In the month of August. 1t is esti-
mated that the army of Alpinists now
numbers 100000
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1911-06-16
GREATEST OF HORSE SHOWS
International Exhibition in London A.
tracts Entries From Every Civilized
Country in the World.

London. - The horse is king here
London and it's thousands of corona
ton visitors can talk of nothing but
the great international horse show
that opened at Olympia with the elite
of the equestrian world from every
civilized country entered
All grades of horsefiesh from cab
horse to charger we're represented ;
every known method of handling
horses, riding, jumping, driving and
on through all the varieties. prac-
teal and impractical, has a depart
ment, and the winners will share IN
the fund of $4,000 which has been
gathered for the event, The entries
fromAmerica are nearly double those
of any previous year
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1911-06-16

Telephone linemen have discovered
a new use for rats. F. H. Lawrence.
Of the engineering department of the
Chicago Telephone company, is re-
sponsible for this description of how
rats are employed in placing cables:
"A rat is loosed in a pipe through
which a cable is to be placed. Then
& string Is tied to ferret, which pur-
sues the rat, carrying the string
through the pipe. On the small string
a large one is attached, and on that
a still larger, until a big wire cable
Is pulled through" Perhaps when all
the rats have been killed off, to pre-
vent the possible spread of the bu-
bonic plague, the trick will be turned
by the use of white mice.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1911-06-16
SELECTS TWO AIDES
REYES AND DE LA BARRA TO BE
MEMBERS OF MADERO'S
CABINET.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN ISSUED
Understanding Between Three Mexi-
can Leaders Is Reached Which
Simplifies Presidential Election
ViIjeon Warns Against Anarchy.

Mexico City-"If | should be elect
ed president, Senior De La Barra will
be minister of foreign relations and
General Reyes will be minister of war
in my cabinet" said Francisco l. Ma
dero following a visit to the presi-
Dental residence at Chapultepec cas-
tie. where he talked 18th both Presi-
dent De La Barra and General Reyes.
Both men have consented to accept
these portfolios and their decision was
announced in an official bulletin issued
at the National palace.
Americans here accept the report
current that Henry Lane Wilson. the
American ambassador to Mexico. has
asked that he be transferred to some
other post as true The nature of the
ambassadors troubles. if any exist,
are not obtainable.
kilograms from ucatan report the
condition of affairs there as being
worse than in northern Mexico. The
Indians are banded together under the
command of renegade members OF the
National Guard which revolted last
Friday. They have captured ranches
and small towns, putting all Spaniards
to death and driving other foreigners
out of the country.
San Diego, Cal.-Culiacan, in the
state of Sinaloa, surrendered to the
Maderists May 81. after nearly two
days of fierce fighting, in which hun
dreds are reported tc have been
killed. The city was nearly destroyed.
Mazatlan, in the same state, surren-
dered without resistance June 2.
These advices were brought by the
steamer Brito Juarez, which has just
arrived from MaZatlan.
Juarez, Mex.-That the United
States is becoming tired Of the shoot
ing and other acts of anarchists on
the California Mexico border and steps
must be taken at once to stop 1t is
the burden of messages sent to the
Mexican war departm by Gen. Ben
jamin Viljeon, military adviser to
Francisco l. Madero.
General Viljeon expressed the fear
the Washington government may with
draw it's offer 10 allow Mexican troops
to travel through the United States to
Lower California unless the privilege
is promptly taken advantage Of.
The former Boer general bases his
advice to Mexico City on many com
plants of residents of California, who
threaten to take measures Of their
own.