The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-17

monkeys have, with a web between The
fingers and toes. The men had to shoot
him twice before he was killed.-Balti-
more SIM.
Burs and Beggars-Ticks.
My setter comes out Of the under
woods after one of his incursiye ram
b,cs. gaTuished with strings Of green
''stickcrs'' and with harsh, brown burs
clnging tenariously to the long. feathery
hairs of his tail and about his legs and
ears. have kept in the narrow path
TO avoid these pests of the autumn woods
only to find that they have laid fast hold
upon my clothes when by some unwilling
step l brushed against the border tange.
In picking them off | notice their curl
Gus forms and the fact that they are not
all alike. Here are some slender darts
that seem TO hold by barbe1 heads: there
a row of tiattened pods clnging by their
whole surface. while numberless tiny
brown hurs are gathered i'll groups or
| scattered promiscuously about trouser
legs and coat skirt.
1t is strange how All interest is sud-
denly awakened about the most common
place objects in life. We move for years
among old, familiar things without Civ
Ing them passing thought, when all at
once some subtle spell is cast about them,
and they become vested with Il charm
ing interest. | have tramped many times
through autumn wooIS and picked off
the '>ticktrs with no good will, but to-
day they strike mt. as more than stick
crs. ] have discovered an Old friend
| among them. Withcred and brown, l
should scarcely have recognized the
| friend of nay springtinlr rambles but for
certain nI"r If the roots and <priS
Of young. green leaves by the side of the
old. dry stalk. 1t all comes back now
| sweet clcrly of the spring woods with its
tlmbris Of white blossoms and that sweet.
anis' like smell of its roots.-Appleton'
! Popular Science Monthly.
Row Bailey Beat Barnum.
One of the elephants that were put
aboard the Massachusetts with the Bar
um-Bailey circus WAS the means OF
making the fortune that Mr.. Bailey il
| credited with possessing. it was as a
baby phenomenon that the pachyderm did
| the good turn for the success Of The
Great and Only Barnum.
| Columbia is the name of the creature
and OF the hundreds of rare animals in
! the aggregation nniIr is treasured more
| highly than she. now huge. ungainly
and overgrown creature with not half the
| wit possessed by the smallest elephant
connected with the circus.
| 1t was away back in 1880. when the
news got around that the first elephant
born in captivity was living and travel
ing with the Bailey show. Mr. Bailey
was struggling young circus owner
then, battling against fearful odds. Bar
mum was at the height Of his most re-
markable carter-Ht the very tOpmost
notch Of circus fame.
! Mr.. Rarnuln, quick TO see the advaRt-
age Of having so important an attraction
as real American baby elephant, tele
graphed to Mr.. Bailey as follows:
| A.Ii1l .r;ya S1fkt (hGl fpr yf,IIr ha nv plp-
plant. Must nave il.
Mr.. Bailey wired i'll answer. Nv i'll not
sell at any price.
This seemed daring thing for Mr..
Bailey to do. for S10o.WW would almost
have purchased the entire show. Even
Mr.. Baiiey's best frien:lS. whem he con-
| suited liz the matter. advised. him to ac-
crDt the offer. Instead of doing that he
refused it and hustled east with his cir
Gus to meet Barnuni on his own ground.
BY the tim" that the Bailey circus
reached the East the whole country was
iilic.! with posters on which was printed
:''What Earnuln Thinks Of the Baby Ele-
plant" Underneath that heading was
printed BarnumS telegram to Mr.. Bal
lev. As the bailey show followed in
the wake of the Earnum circus each
town in which the Barnum aggregation
Iarpcaled was billed with the Bailey
posters.
l. Probably the Bailey advertising did not
affect the attendance at the Barnum cir
Gus. Mr. Bailey has since said that be
| thought that it did not. But the adver-
tisements staring the veteran Snowman
| in the face everywhere he went worried
him. and finally. to dodge the huge post
er>. he changed the route of his circus.
although that route had been determined
upon nearly twelve months in advance
H jumped frGIH New York to Kansas
City and surrendered the whole Eastern
field to the Bailey show. The next year
the two shows were consolidated. and
have been enc Shnw ever SINCE.
Mr.. Rarnu1nS one joke with Mr.. Bal
Icy as long as the shrewd old circus
manager was alive was We'll. have you
any more baby elephants that You do
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