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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-03-13
NEW BEET SUGAR PROCESS.
Does Away with Expensive Machinery OF
Present Method.

Does Away with Expensive Machinery OF
Present Method.
\ plan of great interest to beet-grow-
erS and all persons interested III beet
sugar production is now being formulat-
cd in this city, says the Omaha Bee.
1t contemplates the establishment of Il
refinery at Il central point, probably Oma
factories for the manufacture of the
raw sugar. or 'massc cuite,' located
ut various points in the state. The sig
niicance Of this movement lies in the
fact that the promoters own Il patented
process for the manufacture of the raw
sugar which is much simpler than the
process in use i'll beet sugar factories
now in operation, enabling them to dis
pcnst with the expensive and compli-
Gated machinery required by the old
process. As II practical illustrations, it
is stated that the plants of the OK
narls located ut Norfolk and Grand
Island, respectively, represent an invest
ment of about $2,Gt)O,O0O, which includes
the working capital. The promoters of
the plan under consideration say that
with working capital of the same
amount. $20N,OON, they can establish
Il "hattcry' of thirty factories and re-
hnery capable of handling their entire
product.
The promoters of this plan are W.
G. Mcnouyal 4 co. of New York, who
are represented in Omaha by Harry L.
representative that his people are pre-
pared to enter Nebraska and locate fac
tories and Il refinery, but are awaiting
the action of tho next Legislature ON
the sugar bounty law. "'rhe process
is much cheaper than the one used by
other factories. hat Il plant cannot be
operated during the first five years of
.t han
is due to the fact that the farmers CAN
not raise enough heets to keep Il fac
tory running To it's full capacity dur
ing the short period each year when
the crop is ready to be made into sugar"
Mr.. O\rill said the process of his
company WAS not an experiment, but
hat been thoroughly tested and found
beer, made last December by Prof II. II.
Nicholson of the University of Nebraska,
one of the best authorities on beet sugar
in the United States. This test was
made at the ONnard factory at Grand
Island. Prof. Nicholson made Il repor,
on his test of this process in which he
stated that it would "certainly dispense
with the cumbrouS and expensive apoa-
ratus now in universal use and known
as the multiple effect. thus very material
iy reducing the expense and greatly SIM
plifying the operation of producing the
raw masse cutie from beet juice"
THE plan of the company" added Mr..
O'Neill. lis to locate factories without
asking any local capital to invest in the
concern. any further than to make an
offer in the way of inducement for the
location Of the plant. In farming COM
munitics farmers would be allowed to
become stockholders in the local plant
if they wished to do so. but the com
pany is prepared to locate factories and
Il refinery and operate them all without
the aid of any local capital. except a
bounty on the sugar actually manu-
featured at the same rate now in force"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-03-13
A DENVER WORM FARM.
The Wrigglers Are Raised on q Largo
Scale as Food Tor MockiMg Birds.

The Wrigglers Are hRised on q Large
Scale as Food for Mocking Birds.
a worm farm is one of the features
n n store Il. e. Achert runs at 1918
Seyenteeth street, Denver. Mr.. Acherl
ana his wife have been in the worm
raising industry in Denver for over
twenty years. 1t is the only institu-
ton of its kind in the country.
The worms are chiefly bred to furnish
food for knocking birds, and about 300
Denver people who own feathercd MINI
lcs OF this variety are regular customers
of the A!chcrt farm. All soft-billed birds
-hlghtingales. thrtshes, blackbirds, etc.
eat the kind of worms the Acherts
ralse, but there are not many of these
kinds in Denver, so the Achert farm pro.
yldes delicacies almost solely and entire
~ for the knocking bird tribe.
Although Mr.. and Mrs. Achert call
their r, worm plant farm, there is little
more like Il chiffonier than a ranch.
Standing in the middle Of the little shop
Is large wooden cUulrivaucc. fitted
out with four drawers. Each drawer
is filled to the brim with living. NOV
ing mass. On the top of each wriggliny
heap IS heavy linen cloth, eaten through
here and there into holes. Out Of nearly
every hole Just now sticks the brown,
head OF Wriggling meal worm.
From the worms brought here from
abroad by Mrs. Achert numerous mill
IONS nave since been raised. The staple
diet OF the beasts consists of beer. wool
en- blankets and meal bran. Over the
bottom of each drawer is scattered a
mess, of bran, in which the meal-worm
bug lays it's eggs. Over the bran is laid
a section of thick, wooden blanket. above
this more meal bran, and over ali a
heavy piece of linen. Between the linen
and the bottom of the drawer an inter
esting process of evolution is going on all
the year round.
Where the evolutionary movement
commences is a question for abstruse,
hair-splittng scientists, but in Achert' s
farm it began with the worms After a
lapse IF ahbut three months his Yellow
one: inch-long worms grew hard shell
of brUwnish hue upon them, and ap-
peared to be dead. Before coating thenl>
selves with this armor they crawled out
Of the outer strata of the drawer, and
lay there, apparently without power of
motion. \ few weeks more and each
shell burst, giving birth to an ugly black
hug of small dimensions, and possessed
of horns and feelers in plenty. These
things swarmed in the meal bran until
they nested all over it, and laid eggs,
AS fast as bug laid her due quantity
of eggs she rolled over on her back and
died. If there are male meal-worm bugs
the Acherts have not become cognizant
of the fact; all their bugs lay eggs.-Den-
YER Republican.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-03-13
Pedagogical Hermit.

The pedagog,cal hermit of the White
says the only book he possesses or reads
is copy of Wordsworth's poems. With
such mechanical regimen it is small
wonder that the recluse has wheels in
his head.
With the exception of jar for cook
ing beans and vessel in which he fries
his fish, this schoolmaster hermit has alb
solutely no furniture, nor even a blanket
to keep himself warm in winter. His
cabin is surrounded by dense woods,
and 200 or 300 yards off is stream
which supplies him with fish and water.
Fish and the beans from his garden
form his only diet-with Wordsworth s
varses, which aren't very filljng.-Lewis-
ton Journal.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-03-13
Very ORIGINAL.

a Cleveland family was in court the
other day. a daughter was one of the
witnesses. and she had this cheerful tale
to tell of her father. who is a man of
the most daring originality, if the story
is true:
PA was sitting in his saloon, feeling
lonely. He went to the barn and, put
ting a halter on his horse, brought him
into the house, saying he wanted the
animal to eat supper with him. Pa
made me set plate for the horse.
Then he took hold of the horses front
legs and lifted them up on the table.
We all sat down to supper and the
horse began to eat. Pa picked up a
mug of beer and began to laugh and
threw both hands in the air. The mug
hit the horse on the nose. The beast
pulled it's feet down, dragging the table
cloth and upsetting the table. The horse
backed up and sat square}y on red-hot
stove. This burned it's tail, SO the ami
NAL kicked the stove over and ran out
of the door. screamed and pa threw
lamp at me. The house came near
catching fire and policeman came in.
Pa has been arrested 1903 times.-Indian-
apOlis Sun.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-03-13
WEALTH IN CEMENT.
\ Formation Which Holds Billions
Gold.

Gold.
Present Indications point to one of the
biggest gold strikes ever made in this
country when the Big Horn range is de-
vrloped. says Il Hyattville special to the
Denver News The mining excitement
continues to grow in the vicinity of Bald
mountain. The mountain is on the west
rrn wall of the Big Horn range and over
looks the beautiful Shell creek and
Beaker valleys.
Tha cement formation carrying gold
in quantities of from s.; to SIS per cubic
yarl covers Ill, area Of two and half
Ivy five miles, which has been prospect
cd and proven. An area four times this
size and Immediately adjoining carries
apparently the same formation. hut it
has not been prOspected sufficiently to
determine its value. \ recent cleanup
after Il run of six tons of the cement
gave 4 gold brick worth over 5000. The
average assay value of the whole camp
is about SO per ton. The cement crops
"Ht on the surface and its depth is I'M
known. The deepest shaft is down only
1hirty-hvc feet. but no bedrock has been
found There are twelve and one-halt
miles Of known gold-bearing cement.
The cost Of working is estimated to b.
hollow 81 Der cubic yard. At that low
cost it is estimated that if this area is
worked to Il depth of thirty-six feet.
at an average yield of 81 per cubic yard.
it would produce 81, 4Y 100000 Il sum
in excess of all the gold now in the
United States. But this gold bearing
formation may extend hundreds of feet
III depth, as bedrock has not been found
in any part of the dictrict. Then, too.
the possibility of equal richness in the
larger area adjoining must be taken into
consideration, and there is no prediction
as to what wealth the Bald mountain
camp wilfproluce.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-03-13
Steamer for African Service.

Messrs. Yarrow & Co. have turned out
the stern wheel gunboats Mosquito and
Herald for service in African rivers in
the British service England then had a
little trouble looming up with Portugal
The order was given on the first day of
April. and on the 9th of May following
the trial trip took place. the construction
having occupied just twenty-five working
days In the year 1898 the French gov
ernment found it necessary to give the
Dahomeyans lesson in hurry. Want
ing a shallow -draught gunboat for the
purpose. they naturally first tried their
own native builders. but no Frenchman
would undertake to turn out a vessel
under four months. some asking ten.
They then applied to Messrs. Yarrow &
Co.. who considered that the thing could
be done in a month. They booked the
order. commenced work on April Is,
and in twenty-three working days. or by
May q. the boat had made her trial.
This vessel was 100 feet long by Is feet
wide. and. like the two built for Eng
land, was made in portable sections,
which could be carried on steamer and
put together afioat. She steamed ten
miles an hour and carried 100 troops.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-03-13
Nervous Case.

\ curious case of nervous hallucina-
ton is reported to the London Tele.
graph. At Bordeaux recently a hystcri-
cal Frcnchman visited the tomb where
his beloved was laid. Carrying Il lighted
candle and kneeling by her coffin, he ex-
claimed; pasSionately;;. Would | could
die! Would l could die!'' Just then the
wind closed the door and extinguishcd
the light. The bereaved lover who had
Just prayed for death rushed for the
door; he could not open it; he tore at
it, Knocked. kicked. struggled, calling
loudly for help. No answer, only the ut
ter silence and darkness of the tomb.
His wish to die was forgotten. He sank
down and wept; his tears were not for
his beloved, but for himself. He felt the
pangs of hunger; he thought of his can
die and cut it into four parts. He ate
the first quarter the first day, the second
on the second day. the third on the third
day and the last quarter the fourth day
No more, and he must die of starvation.
He made one more desperate effort to
burst open the door, when it suddenly
opened and the keeper of the cemetery
stood before him; the sunlight blinded
him. and he fell from exhaustion. He
had been there just four hours!
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-03-13
Luminous Grabs,

The Chinese have curious belief that
certain crabs are at times heated to n
white heat and if taken into boat have
the faculty of burning whatever they
touch. To anyone familiar with crabs in
their variety there might seem some rea-
son for this, as. 50 far as appearances
are concerned, some of the crabs are
wonderfully luminous and seem to glow
at every point with an intense light that
in it's radiations illumines not only the
animal itself, but all immediate objects.
One night in rowing my boat along the
Florida reef 1 noticed that the water
suddenly became highly luminous. At
the bow two golden waves rushed away,
breaking into luminous foam, seeming
to ignite the entire surrounding water.
Every movement of the oar was like a
touch of Midas and left a golden train.
Here were great moon-like masses; now
trails of light as fishes dashed away,
and by splashing the water violently to
and fro with my hand, so brilliant light
was produced that print could be read by
it. Investigation showed that this Won
derful phenomenon was caused by minute
crustaceans, cousins of the common
crabs, that while minute in size almost
completely filled the water and by a
combination of forces produced the mar.
velous display Philadelphia Times.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-03-13
Pleasure IN \. Arketinr.

Philadelphia women are not the only
ones who own their market baskets and
butter kettles. It's the fashion among
aristocratic Boston women to do their
own marketing. When one of these
intellectual young persons was asked
what she did to occupy her days she
replied rather haughtily: why. study
and go to market" She is 'co-ed.' at
the Harvard annex, but finds time. it
seems, to go to Quincy market twice a
week for the household supplies. All
the smart set of Boston go to Quincy
market. Most of the women manage
to get along with one days marketing,
however. Friday and Saturday morn
ings the market is particularly interest
ing. Gay carriages. drawn by pranc-
ing horses. with liveried attendants,
stand in waiting while the ladies visit
the stalls within. They come downtown
OH purpose every day. these ladies of the
leisure class, to select the family dim
ner. but OH Friday and Saturday they
turn out in large numbers, a sort of ar
istocratic beef-buying picnic, SO TO speak
Some of them have lists kept in dainty
leather and gold notebooks. which they
consult, and will not divergr from in
the minutest detail. They seem to take
special delight in throwing off the con-
ventionalities for brief time and in
browsing about in a homely way among
the green strings and juicy meats, just
like any ordinary little housewife with
her husbands wages in 4 battered purse
philadelphia Times.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-03-13
A SELF-MADE MAN.
John Fritz, President of the Society o
Mocha meal Engineers.

John Fritz, President of the Society of
Mocha meal Engineers.
John Fritz, who was recently elected
the president of the American Society
of Mechanical engineers, was born in
Chester county, Pennsylvania in 1922,
and the first sixteen years of his life was
spent on the farm of his father. He
then went to Parksburg, near by, and
secured employment in a machine shop.
During his apprenticeship he had most
varied experience. which ranged from
the cleaning of castings up to the man
agement of the lathe. Young Fritz went
to Morristown. Pa, where there were
larger shops and greater opportunity for
improvement. From there he went to
Safe Harbor. Pa, where he put up the
machinery of a rolling mill. He then
began to acquire an experience in the
rolling mill industry, both as an inventor
machinery, upon which his reputation
chiefly rests
He is considered to be one of the fore
most of American metallurgists and is
now superintendent of the Bethlehem
Iron works. In 1854 Mr.. Fritz remod-
eled and rebuilt the Cambria Iron works,
at JohnstOwn, Pa, which was one of the
pioneer iron and steel plants of the coun-
try. In 1857 Mr.. Fritz constructed his
iron rails with an economy hitherto un-
known. In 1860 a company was organ
lied to build furnaces and rolling mills
on the banks of the Lehigh river, below
Bethlehem, and Mr.. Fritz was selected
to plan and build the new works. His
company was one of the first to begin the
manufacture of Bessemer steel, and their
success was largely owing to the ability
and energy of Mr.. Fritz, who has the
distinction of being one of the few Amer
leans who has been honored with the
Bessemer gold medal from the British
Iron and Steel institute.
All honor is due to the man who has
passed through all the rudiments of a
trade and has risen to the highest point
in the profession, and it is handsome
and proper recognition of his worth tc
be elected to the presidency of an i'm
portant body like the American Society
of Mechanical Engineers.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-03-13
Into Our Own Hou.e.

Said a young engaged girl to us the
other day: I'VE are going straight into
our own house as soon as we return
| from the wedding tour; this l insisted
! on, for l firmly believe that no house is
large enough to hold two families"
The air of worldly wisdom that empha-
sized these remarks set very prettily ON
the youthful fancee, and we were forced
to admit that her views as far rs our
knowledge of life went were eminently
proper and correct.
Mothers, the dearest and best creations
of God, never quite recover from the sur
prise that overtakes them when their
daughters whom they have nurtured
| tenderly for nineteen, twenty or twenty
one years, giving them everything that
was in their power, devoting every
| thought, every muscle to attain their
| happinessl suddenly meet one who is
comparative stranger, and, apparently
| forgetting all about the love that has
| been theirs in the past, trustingly, hap
PLY walk out in the future, content N
an affection as yet INFESTED, love prac-
tically unknown.
Under such circumstances it IS not
to be marveled at that the mother is ever
on the alert to note some deficiency in
the devotion that her son-in-law gives
to the precious daughter. She doesn't
mean to be disagreeable, but the man.
derness of a mothers love, feels the
espionage, chafes under the kindly criti-
cism and finally q f1are-up of serious
nature is the result. and the mother-in-
law is naturally condemned and made to
bear the brunt of the whole estrange-
ment.
OF course there are mothers-in-law and
mothers-in-iaw, but as rule the family
| dissensions arise only from overzealous
motherly solicitude, rather than from
any innate desire to mag and pester,'
as one unfortunate described the meth
DDS of his mother-in-law. Under the
| same roof this state of affairs is ag-
| little tempers of the daughter. the pee
cadillos of the husband are patched up
; by the two most concerned. Their men
! age is run to suit themselves. 1t may
| not be as mother did, but it is their way,
and they are the ones to be suited. If
John slams the door and goes off 20 his
.:uh,. leaving weeping wife to spoil
- best sofa cushion with great salt
49,. the relatives of the pair will u, v"r
Am IF anything but calm and hiissful
Hing and cooling when the husband and
VIE go home for a Sunday dinner, or
% Join the family in some, special fes-
'i,ity or sorrow. The little wife n,ay
hr"aten to go home to mother jozen
inns day. but she won't go unless
lu!''y's actions are too fragrant and I'M
,r,l le. Under their own roof-tree
thrv will weather it out together, and in
the years to come he will be quoted as a
model husband and son-in-law, a bit of
commentator that might not have been
bestowed upon him if the mother Of his
wife had witnessed all their little tiffs.
and the bride had been in position to
pour her woes into the ears of mother.
sisters and aunts. who were .lear ut
hand when the mood for fearful conf
dences was upon her.-Philadelphia
Timps
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-03-13
PETS OF HONDURAS.
That Country is Veritable Paradise for
Them


Them.
honduras seems paradise for pets.
Parrots of every size, from that Of !.
sparrow TO the great green macaw, 8
feet long or more. can Chamber all Cver
and about the house and never know
cage. Chachalacas trOt through the pa
tios or courts of the houses in the towns,
and bitterns stalk disconsolate about
Fawns and children play together in
many a yard, and coons and sometimes
an armadillo are playmutes for the lit
tie ones who have few dolls In the
Sambo hamlet of Ulun. Il tame ant
eater was offered to me, and while we
| talked of it Il woman came in leading
Il giheonite. which took occasion to nib
Bile at its owners bare heels while she
bargained.
AS | lay in Il hammock in a Waikna
hut one day peccary came within my
reach. With Il convenient stick l vent
ured to scratch his brown and bristly
back. Down he Topped on his side and
grunted III sweet content as long as the
tickling Went on. From that moment
he was my ardent, much too ardcit,
friend and faithful follower. l could not
go ten steps Without finding him at my
as it was fierce. Woe to the dog that
dared come near me. a sudden rush
a quick upward thrust of those gleam-
ing tusks and there was a bleeding cash
in that dogs quarters. if he was not
agile beyond the average Of dogs. And
the swapping of those tusks was sound
that was most suggestive, particularly
to Il white man cropping in the dark for
the ola that holds the drink. Peccaries
are not really the incest of pets for
people whose visitors are nervous.-Out
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-03-13
InAide the Teakeftle.

4 helpful suggestion is to be welcomed,
from whatever source it may come, and
this bit of moralizing, from the New
York Times, regarding certain kitchen
practices, is just as valuable as though
it appeared for tie first time in some pub
LEGATION claiming to be devoted especially
and exclusively to the interests of Bird
get and her mistress: 1t is often the
simplest details of kitchen labor that are
the most neglected. The hot water ket-
tie, for example-how many cooks pay
any attention to it? Stale water, sim
mered and with all vitality cooked out
is it's perennial portion. with an occasional
filling up and sudden boiling as the need
requires. If every housekeeper who
reads this paragraph should go straight
to her kitchen. lift the kettle and carry
it to the window, where a strong light will
disclose it's interior, nine out of ten of
them will find a rusty layer of lime. iron
and dregs, that effectually prevents any
good avored water from issuing from it.
The kettle needs the same frequent and
thorough care that any kitchen utensil
needs. Into such, having it already
warm, put fresh filtered water, boil
rapidly and use at once. and one of the
large aids to palatable food is secured.