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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1894-10-05
HE WANTED TO TALK.

Why Gen. Sherman Came to Reside in
l. the Metropolis. : ;
Gen. Sherman was always making little
speeches. He had to; it was demanded Of
him. He was no orator, but he said orig
| inal things. His words were crisp, to the
point, and never to be forgotten.
| When the family were preparing to re-
move from st. Louis TO New York, Sher-
man said: Il must see people; I must
talk"
He loved st. Louis. but there was only
his little room before he went-that room
in which had so often. late at night, sat
alone with him. and listened to the magic
| of his talk. He took Il bronze paper
weight from his desk.
1T is the image Of Americans greatest
| captain he said. and gave me little fig
| ure Of Gen. Grant that had been on his
desk for many years.
Gen. Sherman's appreciation of Grant
| knew no bounds.
lie was the one leved-headed man
among lis all, he said one night
He wrote us he talked. sometimes at
radon, but always brilliantly. Often
late in the night, as he walked up and
| down the little room among the letters Of
as if he might be in communion with their
spirits. They were nearly all dead: he
had outlived most of the heroes Of the
war North or South, and he seemed at
| times like one who had ben in the world,
seen its, glories and it's follies, and was
ready himself to depart
''Some night as l come home from the
| theater OF a dinner" he once said. "a
chill will catch ME. l will have Il cold.
be unwell day. and then
1t all happened at last, just as his i'm
aginatiOn had fOreseen it.
He always seemed to me younger than
he really was. He had to the last Il buoy
| ancy of spirits that usually belongs only
Ito youth. l never saw him Spea K
I to Il young person without smiling, and as
to his ways toward women. he was Il
Bayard of the Bayarls.- lure s
| Magazine
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1894-10-05

Prof. III ". Slingerland Of the entomology
ical division Of the Cornell experiment
station has been investigating il. The in
jury. to stock is found on the extreme end
OF the shoot, which appears as il blighted.
4lt was ut first thought that some fungus
liseasc caused the trouble, but Prof.
Slingerland soon found eggs ut the point
where the blasted part Of the tin began,
HE worst attacks We're made on young
peach trees. The growth was stopped by
blasting the terminal shoots, and in some
cases the lateral tips were blasted also.
closer. Investigation showed that the
\ insect which laid the egg. Ii one known
as the furnished plant bug. 1t is less
than u fourth of an inch long and one
half as wide Its color is variable from
& brown to, q greenish yellow. The bug is
lively and very shy. As the
insect is torpid in the morning it is sug-
5gested that it may be destroyed by shak-
ing the trees then and catching the bugs
US they fall Cutting off the tips and
burning them to destroy the eggs will
check the increase of this pest, which has
been known for some years. Its attacks
on nursery stock, and especially on young
peach trees, are Il new development, and
It Is likely that this bad habit has come
to stay.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1894-10-05
Columbian STAMPS.

The extent to which the Columbian
stamps have been bought up by collectors
and dealers is shown in the increased
value NOW, set on this issue. 1.-The invest
siMent is the safest one can imagine" says
IL Chicago SPECTATOR. "A you buy the
stamps and put them in d safety-teposit
vault until you are ready to sell them
.atSa good profit. i If you, need money at
aiiv time. the banks will loan on them
.neurly ato their full value, or You can go
to the postoffice and trade them for
stamps of lower denominations. This
man, fOreseeimg that the Columbian
stamps would command high prices from
collectors in il few years, began last De
eemher to buy ill the 81 and 5O-cent
stamps that he could find for sale. After
buying hundreds of dollars worth ut the
chicago 1iostoffice. he employed agents
80, other cities to secure stamps for him..
sF'ina1lv ie sent out 1000 postal cards to
pdetinasters inquiring whether theys.had
3Hlly Columbian stamps left. In most
cares the answer was, We have none:
s0fs tho stamps on hllld. = The lowest
quoted rnte In ChicagO for the 81 stamp
and some dealers hold them ii, ii
ifligll ns 5 ~. The stamp collecting firms
here and abroad hive gone into the husi.
ilesss tensively, and there liz now talk
III IS combination between the largest
Three firms to create q corner and send
lpticee very much higher Jew York
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1894-10-05
THE HIGHEST AWARD.


Royal BaklaK Powder in Strength and
Value 20 Per Cent. above its
Nearest Competitor.
The Royal Baking Powder Has the en-
yiable record of haying received the high
est award for articles of it's class-great-
est strength, purest ingredients. most per-
fectly combined-wherever exhibited in
competition with others. In the exhibi-
tons Of former years, at the Centennial,
at Paris, Vienna and the various other
State and Industrial fairs, where it has
been exhibited, judges have invariably
awarded the Royal Baking Powder the
highest h0nors. s.-.8 ( Au4 -
At the recent Worlds Fair the exam
ination for the baking powder awards
division of the Agricultural Department
OF Washington: The official report of the
tests of the baking powders which were
made by this department for the specific
purpose Of ascertaining which was the
best, and which has been made public,
shows the leayening strength of the Roy
al to be 100 cubic inches of carbonic gas
tartar baking powders exhibited at the
Fair, the next highest in strength thus
tested contained but 1873 cubic inches of
leavening gas. The other powders gave
an average of Ill. The Royal, there
fore, was found of 20 per cent. greater
leayening strength than its nearest com
petitOr. and A per cent. above the aver
age Of all the other tests Its superiority
in other respects, however. in the quality
of the food it makes as to fneness, deli
cacy and wholesomeness, could not be
measured by figures.
1t is these high qualities, known and APP
preciated by the women of the country
for so many years. that have caused the
sales of the Royal Baking Powder. as
shown by statistics, to exceed the sales
of all other baking powders combined
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1894-10-05
BIT OF "BLEAK HOUSE"
Exposed to View by Demolition of O
Houses on the Strand.

Exposed to View by Demolition of Old
Houses on the Strand.
By the demolition of some old houses
in Catherine street, Strand. and in Drury
Lane, what may be regarded as classic
spot has been exposed to view. This is
the old churchyard which Charles Dick
ems graphically described in "Bleak
House," and which is approached by
narrow. passageway leading from Russell
court. The churchyard on the left hand
side Of Drury Lane, higher up. has fire.
quently been talked of as 'Joe's Church
yard.' but the miserable burial ground
which received the remains of poor ''Ne-
mo- is that on which the sunlight is now
allowed to shine through the clearing
away of the rookeries which previously
hemmed it in on the east and west. At
the end of the Russell court passage the
gate with it's iron bars, through which
Joe pointed out to Lady Dedlock the
grave of his benefactor, still hangs on it's
rusty hinges, although the graveyard itself
has been asphalted over and turned into a
playground. Some thousands of the ad-
mirers of Dickens works, including Il
large number of Americans. have visited
the spot within the last few weeks,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1894-10-05
"Hail to the Chief!"

This is half the title of an old song. The
balance is, "Who in triumph advances "
The public, the press and the medical pro-
fession chant this refrain as especially ap-
plicablc to Hostetter's Stomach Bitters,
chief among American remedies and pre-
ventives for malaria, constipation. dyspep-
sia. liver complaint, nervousness. unquiet
sleep, rheumatic twinges, and the troubles
incident to advanced age. 1t Is also univer.
sally recognized as a reliable tonic and appe-
tlzer. As family medicine particularly
suitable to emergencies it. has no equal
The nervous, the feeble seek its aid. aud the
happiest results follow. The conyalesccnt,
the aged and the intirm derive infinite bene-
fit from its use Against the influences OF
overwork and exposure it is genuine pre-
vontivn - -
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1894-10-05

The Wild Despersdoes Have All Been
Killed.
"The cowboy of the story writer's, if
he ever existed. is practically extinct"
says \. r. Frenzell of Texas to De-
troit Free Press man.
Il have been among them under all
circumstances. and as rule they differ
but little from farm hands elsewhere
They wear sombreros as. a protection
from the sun. and these give them a pict-
uresque appearance. but, beyond a pistol
and Il knife in their belt, made neces-
sary by the nature of their work, there
is nothing ferocious-looking about them.
When they go to town. as they seldom
do. most of them perform their errands
and go home as meekly as farmer in
Ohio.
"A fow of them will get drunk. but you
can find much wilder characters in a
city than you can among these much
talked-about men of the plains They
usually drink quietly and go to sleep in
chair. remain there until morning and go
home. There have been cases where men
have terrorized Western towns. and they
are invariably reported as cowboys. when.
as matter of fact, they seldom, if ever,
are''
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1894-10-05
ARM AND HOME.
m,ner's Do,uc.

81 81 So summers Done.
Along the Wayslde ana up the hills
The g9ldellrOd names III the sun;
TIE 9lne-e eyed q gentlan mods good.by
s And SO summers done, said ],
~ SHmmer's done! iES ( 2ysssss
In. following woods the chestnut drops; 8,
~ The squirrel gets galore;
Though bright-eyed lads and little maids
Rob him Of half his store:
And so snnlMersa dOne,f said j, SG&sf / ~
5s.55f Summers done! ~. s.s' ES
The maple In the swamp begins
To Haunt In gold and red, Ill
And in the elm the tire-bird's nest
Il Swings empty overhead; 9s 1af&E e. Y
J And so summers done, said ],
@3At e ~ 4 Summers done!sg - S.Tts.' ~
:: The burberry hangs her Jewels out,
And guards them with a thorn; -
2 The merry farmer boys CUT down
The poor old dried-up corn; ~
Z AND 10 summers done. said l, q, s.tzzs
= --~-.- Summers done!
The: swallows and the. bonolink 81
Are gone this many day; I
But In the morning still you hear | !
The scolding. swaggerihg jay! ; r
/ And 50 summers DONE said !, go -
Summers done! -
a wonderful glory fills the air. J ~
And big and bright is the sun;
loving hand for the whole brown earth
=, A garment Of beauty has spun;
But Tor all that. summers done, said I, u =
Summers lOuei f..-, .
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1894-10-05
Latest on Oscar Wilde.

Another Oscar Wilde story is bein:
told. The present legend is concerned
with dialogue by telegraph between Mr..
Wilde and newspaper gentleman who
wanted to CLEAN few particulars about
the new play for the Haymarket. The
latter wired: MAY l interview you about
Haymarket comedy?" To which the
dramatist, whose morbid objection to
self-advertisement is we'll known. replied:
Every many thanks, but quite impossible.
No one should read the newspapers
Oscar Then the interviewer, scouting
copy. telegraphed again: Many thanks
for your wire. What should one read:'
And the inevitable answer came: my
own hooks. of course
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1894-10-05
Realities of Nature.

Il love all that is beautiful in art and
nature" she was saying to her aesthetic
admirer. II revel in the green fields. the
babbling brooks and the little waysidc
flowers. feast on the beauties of earth
and sky and air. They are my daily life
and food and ''Maudie!' cried out
the mother from the kitchen, not know
parlor. "Maudie. whatever made you go
and eat that big dish of potatoes that
was left over from dinner? told you
we wanted them warmed up for supper.
i declare il your appetite isn't enough to
bankrupt your pa.'-1id- Bits.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1894-10-05
DISCOVERER OF TOBACCO.
A Spaniard Named Pane Used it Before
Either Moot or Raleigh.

Either Nicot or Raleigh.
Though Sir Walter Raleigh was the
first to introduce tobacco into this coull-
try, inquirers into the history of the
weed are familiar with the fact that it
had already been imported into Europe
long before Raleigh was born. The facts
are retold i'll an official summary by Sir
George Bonham of the recent financial
statement Of the Spanish minister of
finance. Naturally, the subject of inter
est to the controller Of the national
finances of Spain as to the tobacco mo
nopOly is al important one, and brings
i'll large sums to the state Golfers. The
first European who became acquainted
with the plant was Spaniard named
Pane. who remained in San Domingo OH
Columbus return to Spain after his sec
ond voyage. He found it used by the ma
tives principally as a medicine. The first
specimens of the plant were sent by him
to Seville in 1889: but its use in Europe
was mainly due to Jean Nicot. Il French
man of Mines, who was French ambas-
sador in Portugal in 1860. It's introduce
ton into England by Sir Walter Raleigh.
who brought it from Virginia. dates from
15SJ.-I.ondon Daily News.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1894-10-05
Cutting and Stealning Food.

The effect of the drouth in creating q
scarcity of grain and fodder will undoubt-
edly increase the demand for appliances
to cut and steam food 50 as to make it's
nutritive value more available. A great
deal of coarse fodder will he used this
winter that usually goes to waste. Even
the butts of cornstalks that are rejected
when fed whole. or even when cut into
small pieces. will be greedily eaten when
steamed. There is much valuable nutri-
ton that can be saved by the use of 4
good steaming apparatus.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1894-10-05
Gu rant and Gooseb.rry Cutting.

So soon as the leaves have fallen cut
tings may be made from the present years
growth of the ,currant and gooseberry
bushes. If possible have a piece of last
years wood ut the lower end. If planted
while the soil is warm roots will put forth
this fall, and the plant will be; ready to
make rapid growth next spring. But it
cutting, to prevent it from freezing too
deeply this winter, which will admit air
and kill the plant =
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1894-10-05
Freezing a Quicksand.

: { A colliery shaft was sunk recently at
the Houssu Collery in Belgium in an
interesting manner by the Poetsch pro-
cess, which has been employed once or
twice i'll this country for similar work.
A number Of metal pipes were first sunk
outside the limits Of the proposed shaft
to a depth lower than.a stratum Of water
bearing sand nearly 40 feet thick. which
These tubes We're quite large md closed
others open ut the ends, 50 that the In
terror .ofseach main tube was divided into
two chambers. A very cold solution Of
chloride of magnesium was then forced
down the smaller tubes, and. rising ont
side them in the larger ones, it graduaily
froze the water iii the quicksand until Il
became hard enough to be worked like
rock. SO thai. i shaft could be sunk
through it The water flowing through
the qnicksaild when work begun alnonnl-.
Cd TO oyer yer, 1000 gailons IN hour, and to
sets of tubes, which, were sunk on the
circumference Of q circle about Is feet
iii diameter 3s.s'.s.S77'sss''
& 4. a - aa q
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1894-10-05
impossible Grain Yields.

big stories about grain yields than come
from any other quarter. Some of these
are SO large that they are plainly false.
In the Weekly Oregonian there is a re-
port, for example, that IL farmer has
grown 1000 bushels of barley from thir-
ty acres, or ut the rate of 1:}3 Is bush
els per acre. We have seen some very
heavy barley, but sixty bushels, or less
than half this Oregon YIELD is the larg-
est we ever positively knew to be grown.
With oats yield of 100 bushels per
acre has been grown ON /, small field. but
a head of wel(-filled oats will give more
bulk of grain than will any head of bar
ley ever grown.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1894-10-05
BETTER TIMES.

/
The times. ms you say, may be awfully hard,
Hut don't keep OH grum6ling about 1t;
For. butter yon'it get nothing better than
liz ySa Keep 0l erunibltng xleutSiE
A thistle was me a. liSNiGssi rose by asscowl.
And hsattssdo not happily beat for i sglNwl:
The hard ruins may Nrencl WV ana ~ mud lu
Hut don't Keep on srunbllng about 1t. s,
If you owe bill. 50 and pay when YOU
- CANr-- .,ss i ss%$
Don't Keen upsa sraAibling about 1t:
Just &trytSita You'll hnd kit n much better
Than ,growling and srumbling about it,
Don't hide behind poverty that Is pretense.
For others shortcomings are not your de-
| Tense.
Go. scatter fresh sunshine with dollars and
And don't think Of erumbling about 1t.
II you want the times better Just help
them along -.
Don't keep up n grunbling about it.:
One note iSn't-mNch,S but it's part Of a
So don't keep on grumbling about it.
The cheerfulness that YOU. business dis
w,ii R,ax the burdens ii al, on tne way,
Aud times viii grow hettersa little each day
T. If you don't. Oon grunbling about 1t.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1894-10-05
She Made a Grievous Mistake.

You horrid. mean. detestable. old
thing" said a young woman in brown
stepping up behind a young woman in
blue, who was enjoying solitary ice
cream soda ut drug store counter.
"Your're perfect pig The young
woman in blue turned an astoniShed face
toward the speaker and the speaker was
covered with confusion and bushes.
''Ohv' she exclaimed. II beg your par
don! l thought you were friend OF
mine." To which the young woman in
blue replied amiabIy: "Of course. knew
you did from the way you spoke.
fru poSt
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1894-10-05

In December next Henry Irving and
Ellen Terry are to bring out MADAME
Sans-Ciene'' at the Lyceum theater, Lon
don. In this play Mr.. Irving personates
the great Napoleon. At first ;;s!c does
not express surprise at this. 1t would
seem that such versatile actor as Mr..
Irving might we'll play any part. We
must bear in mind, however. that nature
endowed that actor with physique vast
ly different from the one our minds as
sociate with Napoleon. But Mr.. Irving
is always at his best when overcoming
difficulties and he recently gave his audi
ence Il few physiological facts as to his
actual adoption of this new role as calm
ly and coolly as if he were discussing
the costumes and stage mountinys of
the piece. Having consulted eminent
authorities, he finds it possible to eur
tail my height and enlarge my girth.
and to do this he is to follow out most
vigorously the severe regimen necessary
to acquire the requisite amount of tissue.
We may be sure that if it can be done
he will do it, and it will open up l, new
chapter in the history of the stage. We
have heard of actresses. athletes and
jockeys reducing their tissue for some
special reason. but Mr.. Irving's plan
seems far more difficult. and its success.
to say the least, doubtful However.
we are assured in his own words that
''this matter will receive my most earnest
attention. Troy Times.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1894-10-05

Prof. J. Estlin Carpenter of Man.
chester college. Oxford, England, is the
guest of the Rev. Francis g. Peabody.
D. D.. Of Cambridge at bis summer home
at Bar Harbor.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1894-10-05

chow SERAPHICr exclaimed
young gentleman as an angelic creature
swept by. The heavenly glow on her
cheeks was due to the use of GLENN'S
SULPHUR SOAP
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1894-10-05

DR.. George r. Shrady says that
Dimsdale, prominent physician Of Lon
don. was called to vaccinate the En-
press Catharine II, of Russia In 1852.
when Jenner was a lad of Is.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1894-10-05

Mark L. Gilbert, who began follow
ing the sea with his father at the ase a.
10, is now, ut the age Of II. master Of
the schooner Addie Vessels. running be-
tween Rockland, Me-. and New York. and
is probably the Youngest sea captain in
the, merchant service
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1894-10-05

Toast Water-Toast a slice of bread
very brown, break it into pieces and pour
over them one cupful of boiling water.
When cool this will be found nourishing
drink .t- -
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1894-10-05
UNREST IN FRANCE.
If the Republic Falls it Will be Under
the Heels of Anarchy.


The long. lingering death which the
spirit of monarchy is dying i'll France is
pictureSquely revealed in the romantic
appeal of the exiled and dying Comte de
Paris to the surviving royalists in the
French republic. France is beginning
to yearn.' he eNclainls. with all the solenl-
nifty of his dying voice. ''for strong gov
erDment to end scandals and to avert
dangers arising from the existing regime.
Experience proves that she will never
find such government under the repub-
lican form" Republican France has
shown herself strong enough to reduce
royalty to such Pickering hope as this.
If the republic shall fall, it will be un-
der the heels of anarchy, not under the
scepter of monarchy and that peril is more
to be dreaded by the true patriots of
France and the civilized world than even
a restoration of the throne of Louis Phil
ippe.-Philadelphia Record.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1894-10-05
The Modern Beauty.

Ihrives on good food and sunshine, with
plenty Of exercise in the open air. Her
form CLOVIS with health and, her face
blooms with its beauty, If her. system
needs the cleansing action Of a laxative
remedy, she uses the gentle and pleasant
LIQUID laxative; Syrup Of Figs
Two large specimens Of the American
aloe. or century plant, are now showing
their flower spikes in the gardens of the
Royal Botanical society of London. The
last time this took place was in 1859. 1
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1894-10-05

According 20 the Eng Gazette
the oldest nnt ticat hook In the
world which dates some 40 100 years back
and was written 10 cont aims 4
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1894-10-05
A Bright Eve

Is a sign of good health and if the stom-
ach is not in the best Of conditions tho
eyes will show it: Ripans Tabules will
make the stomach right and keep tho
eyes bright and clear. t5 at3 n =,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1894-10-05
Pirat.e.

& why do you call old man Johson u
pirate
He kicked me Oh the place the other.
's,T Eoen't makea pirate of him y
s#ssp 2S.zeh Well, Whit is Il sr,atr
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1894-10-05

The price Of Dobbins' Electric Soap has
just been reduced in order to put it in the
reach of every one. Quality same as for
81 years. Insist upon your grocer keep
ing it. Premiums given for wrappers.
-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1894-10-05

r. -, Q: Blunt Of Neshua, N: H., sailed
last Thursday on the steamer Fuerst
ster. and Stark. which are completed. and
ready to ship from Carrara, Italy, and are
to represent the state of New Hampshire
in Statuary hall in the capitol at Wash