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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-24
TENNYSON AND THE SEA.
The Famous Poets Incompatible Study
of Great Bodies of Water

The Famous Poets Incompatible Study
of Great Bodies of Water.
In his preoccupation with ideas of DO
etc workmanship, Tennyson walked
about the world forever prepared to seize.
with delicate eXactitude, impressions of
physical beauty. In ali his journeyings.
he was watching for effects, for condi-
tlons, for phenomena, which he could use
as the Illustration or the ornament of
moral ideas. And the first place must be
given to his Incompatible study of the
sea. 1t is evident that the movement of
water was the physical fact which, in the
whole of nature, gave Tennyson the most
quisite. and we may have thought the
somewhat bold image with which aud
ley Court Closes Here is the source of
it, in a note made at Torquay in 1912:
II saw star of phosphorescence made
by the buoy appearing and disappearing
in the dark sea-" The sea on the coast
of the English channel displeased him;
it's mot grand" he wrote, "only an an
CRY, curt sea-"
'1The finest seas have ever seen are
at Valentia, on the west coast of Ireland
Mabfeth0rpe; IN Lincolnshire, and in
Cornwall. At Valentia the sea was
grand, without any wind blowing, and
seemingly without wave; but with the
momentum of the Atlantic behind, it
dashes UP into foam, blue diamonds it
looks like. all along the rocks, like ghosts
playing at hide and seek. When l was
in Cornwall it had blown storm of wind
and rain for days, and all of a sudden
fell into perfect calm. l was little in
land of the cliffs, when, after space of
perfect silence, a long roll of thunder,
from some wave rushing into a cavern, |
suppose, came up from the distance, and
died away. l never felt silence like
that"
But at Mablethorpe, too, he had his
grand phrases about the ''interminable
waves rolling along interminable shores
of sand" And at Bonchurch he notices
"a little salt pool fluttering round stone
upon the shOre;;" and again in Ireland
"claps of thunder on the cliffs, amid the
solid roar" and at Babbicombe, in Dew
onshire, the marks of the tide dixie SER
pent-coils upon the deep."-From 1.-THE
Life of Tennyson," by Edmund Gosse, in
North American Review.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-24
An Oregon Indian Stove.

Many sorts of stoves have been invent
ed for: the convenience of camping parties
and miners bound for Klondike, but none
have been so simple and cheap as one in
vented by an Indian, says the Portland
Oregonian. A gentleman who was recent
~ fishing in one of the streams entering
into Gray's harbor, came across an old
Indian and his squaw camped out. They
were cooking two salmon heads for din
ner, and had for stove a common coal
oil can, with a small aperture cut near
the bottom, which served for door and
draught. An old tin lard can was set in
an irreegular-shaped hole in the top of the
can. The squaw was poking bits of twigs
into the stove, while the Indian was
breaking dry branches off fallen tree
to replenish the supply. The kettle was
boiling merrily, showing that the best re-
suits had been obtained from the fuel
used When the heads were cooked, sup
per was ready. There was no bread, NO
potatoes, no salt, mo nothing" except
the salmon heads, and on these the pair
Toasted luxuriantly. People living in this
manner should save a great deal, and rap.
idly become wealthy.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-24

love the shade, while every crevice will
bear aloft beautiful and gracefully-way-
ing ferns.
The forest floor on the sunny side Of
hills, ridges, clumps of trees, bushes, big
rocks ETC., is more noisy under the foot
fall than ON the northern side of such
places, where the dead leaves and litter
are soft and damp, holding more moisture
than in places exposed to the light of
the sun.
In an open country nearly void Of tim
Der clumps of small bushes during sum-
mer will furnish all the conditions found
to exist among the leaves of the trees,
being equally sensitive to light and shade
as are the monarchs of the woods. The
landscape green, with moving grasses
and beautiful to the eye, which feasts on
the countless numbers of wild flowers
representing every form and hue known in
the flowery kingdom, also furnishes a re-
liable guide for locating the. cardinal
points, as most wild flowers, especially
the long stemmcd variety, hide their faces
from the north. and, like the sunfower
turn toward a southern sky. Large
boulders, clumps of small bushes, mounds
and small hulnmocks-all testify, too, fol
the ground around such places exposed tt
the sun will be burned nearly bare OF
vegetation, or parched up until of a dead
grass color; while on the shady side il
will be found quite green, and often here
there are growing moses and ferns Of
rare beauty, which thrive only where they
have moisture and shade.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-24
Dogs for Gold Hunters.

A second carload of dogs consigned to
the Seattle Yukon Dog, company at Seat
tie, has arrived from Chicago. The dogs
in the first shipment are rapidly being
broken to harness, and are daily visited
by prospectors. Already one team of ten
dogs has been sold and gone north. AL
ready 400 dogs are in training. Another
carload Of 200 will arrive in about three
weeks, to be followed by still others.
There are 600 dogs at the yard, and the
sight is a never-to- be-forgotten one.
The matter of dog feed is serious
question with the promoters of the enter
prise. Salmon are too scarce. For the
present, horses and mules are killed and
the meat cooked with ground feed. It
makes a food that could satisfy the
tastes Of the most dainty canine, and all
are growing fat on it. 1t is difficult to
find dogs in Eastern Washington. The
agricultural sections have been thorough
" canvassed, and few can be found.
Even in the thickly settled states of the
Mississippi valley, considerable time is
necessary to pick I'D a carload,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-24
.sThe Night Before Chrfs,mas.v

William s. Pelletreau, in the interest
ing account of DR.. Moore's life, which he
has just published, tells that the "Visit
from St. Nicholas was written in 1922,
as Christmas present for his children;
and that young lady visiting the family
copied it into her album, and sent it, I'M
known to DR.. Moore, to the editor of the
Troy Sentinel, who printed it. without
the authors name, in the issue of that
journal for December %, 1923. From
the newspaper it found it's way to the
school readers, and speedily became a
great favorite with children all over the
country.
Mr.. Pelletreau tells us that DR.. Moore
was at first annoyed by the appearance of
the poem in print, as he had not intended
it for the public and thought it a mere
trifle with but slight literary merit No
doubt it was with some misgivings that,
twenty years later, he gave it place in
the volume of his collected poems. With
the proverbial blindness of writer's, he
probably thought this playful sally, writ
ten to please his youngsters at their
Christmas merrymaking, far inferior to
it's all-f0rgotten companions, OF which he
says in his preface: "Some of them have
cost me much time and thought, and
have composed them all as carefully and
correctly as could. Century Magazine
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-24
Found After Twenty-Seven Years.

G. p. Warner has recovered the gold
watch which he had lost twenty-seven
years ago. He remembers all the cir
cumstances regarding it's loss, and said
that it was in the town of Taylor, Cort-
land county, in October, 1870. He said
that he looked at his watch at ten min
utes to II O'Clock, while he and his hired
men were husking corn. Then he said
that he guessed that they would husk an
other shock. The cows had wandered
into the meadow and he went to drive
them off, and then he missed his watch.
They searched the field, and could find
no trace of the watch. Mr.. Warner val
ued it highly. 1t was made in London
by F. H. Cooper eight years previous,
and was worth $65. A few days ago
Willie Parks was digging potatoes, when
he dug the watch up out of hill. His
folks remembered that it belonged to Mr..
Warner, and he at once obtained it. The
bearings were rusty; the glass face and
the hands were missing, as was the ring.
The remaining parts were gold and were
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Herald.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-24
Big Moose of Maine.

The biggest deer seen in Bangor for
twenty-five years was brought here this
week by a man named Stevens, who lives
in Dedham, twenty-five miles from this
city, says the Bangor, Me, correspondent
Of the New York Sun. The buck weighed
animal was an attraction at a local mar
ket for several days. The present season
has been good one for killing big game.
Two bull moose, weighing nearly half
ton each, have been killed during the last
few days at Norcross. One of them was
shot by s. w. Fairchild, New Yorker.
who passes a great deal of his time dur
ing the fall in the Maine woods. The
moose had the most peculiar set of antlers
ever seen in the city, and q local taxider-
mist says that they are the queerest set
ever taken in Maine. One side had grown
out entirely, and the blade was foot or
more wide, and bore eleven points. The
antler on the other side was nothing more
than a spike, with one prong. The head
count of its oddness, Mr.. Fairchild will
have it mounted.
George Decatur of Portsmouth, N. H.,
brought to Bangor this week the head Of
the largest moose ever killed in the prov
ince of New Brunswick, and it was much
larger than any ever taken in this state.
It spread S feet 6 inches, and there were
lOuItceu VII d SluS. IL 10 cSllulutCu
that this head will bring $3.50 when
mounted. .., 49,
The king of the moose tribe in Maine
has been seen in the region around
Moosehead lake, and the hunter who gets
this animal this fall will have the finest
moose ever killed in this part of the coun-
try. The guides and hunters who have
seen the big fellow say that he will surely
weigh 1900 pounds, and he has antlers
that will spread feet II they spread an
inch. He has q double name that falls
on each sids Of bis neck and bel! that
reaches nearly to the GROUND. a few
day4a eo d New York spogteMAH aaW this
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-24
Coca Crop Ruined.

Some of the latest papers from Lima,
the capital Of Peru, contain information
calculated sorely to distress the ;nnum-
cradle drinkers of a certain medicinal
wine, whose base is the Peruvian coca.
These papers state that in the district of
Huanuco' the plantations of coca arc
suffering greatly from the invasion of an
insect, unknown before, which has al
ready caused such devastat ton that The
business in coca has been paralyzcd III
the whole district. But thtsadisaster,
somewhat similar 70 the yllaxeFa,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-24
SOUTH DAKOTA PROSPERITY.
What the 1897 Harvest Has Done fol-
Dakota Banks.

Dakota Banks.
A circular, that will soon be issued
from the office of State Examiner Lang
lie of South Dakota, proves the prosper
ity that has come to the state through
the improved business conditions and bet
ter prices that have prevailed this fall.
1t is - summary of the reports of state
banks in the state made July % and Oc-
tober 5. 1t shows increase in total re-
sources of S1.2S0.OOO, the figure now be-
ing $5.779,941; cash and due from banks
is $2,O9S,77 which is an increase of ST.
$4,000. Capital stock and surplus is in
creased $4,000, to $1,516OOO; and de-
posits, $1,3O4.OOO to $4,15S, 900; and re-
discounts and bills payable are reduced
sol 900 to $4,000. The cash on hand
increased from 1858, O23 to $6SO,667, or
over 81 per cent The amount due from
banks increased from S552,794 to ST.
41S,111, or over 1856 per cent. The
amount on demand and time certificates
increased during this period $157, 1856, or
about ~ per cent The bills payable
were reduced from $3.50, 1873 to $50, 500.
over 50 per cent. Particular attention is
called to the fact that the above results
were accomplished in sixty-three business
DAVIS
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-24
The Birds Christmas.


In the distant land Of Denmark;
At the holy Christmas time,
There's q custom so poetic
That it's worthy better rhyme;
'Mong the peasants poor and humble,
Who our dear Lords birthday keep
AS a day of thankful gladness,
With a JOY that lieth deep;
While the grass and tender heritage
Hidden are beneath the snow,
And the rudest blasts of Winter
With sharp, icy GOODNESS blow,
Brightly deck they little gift-trees,
Glittering with their gilded fruit
Tapers, nuts, and waxen angels
Pendant from each dark-green shoot;
And while thus they show each other,
By these tokens Of their love,
How they value beyond praising
The great gift Of God above;
They forget not humber creatures,
Who their gladness cannot share,
Fen the little birds Of Heaven
.Twitt'ring in the wintry air:
High against q wall are mounted
Unthreshed oats bound on a pole,
Ever this their Christmas dole.
And think the little snow-birds
Must repay them by their mirth-
Singing sweeter song Of Spring-time,
Making glad the barren earth.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-24
The Use of Disinfectants.

a house in which people are living with
all manner of disinfectants is not he
thing to do. If patient is suffering
from malodorous disease he should. il
possible, be placed in room which may
b: shut off from the rest of the house
and be given plenty of fresh air; while
even then the apartment and everything
connected with it should be kept as fresh
and sweet as possible. 1t is never neces.
sary to keep the sick room in such con.
dition that a we'll person can scarcely
breathe the atmosphere.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-24
Shah Fond of Fclines.

In enthusiasm for cats the Shah of Per
sin surpasses all other royal devotees. He
has fifty of them and they have attend
ants of their own with special rooms for
meals. When the shah goes away they
late Car of Russia was very fond of the
feline tribe. When visiting the King of
Denmark on one occasion he alarmed the
menials by rushing out very early one
morning to the gardens. From the win
dow of his sleeping room he had seen a
big dog attack his favorite black cat, and,
without staying to complete his toilet he
had fled to her rescue. The famous royal
cat of Siam is large white short-haired
variety. with black face and n peculiar
formation of ear. Its preciousness may
be judged from the fact that it once took
three gentlemen of influence three months
to procure one for an English consul at
Bangkok. ,...5.s:~ q, b, T. zz@s.s,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-24
Natures Compass Signs.

The many different methods to deter
mine the cardinal points while on the
mountains, in both heavy timber and
small bush, or upon the featureless ex-
panse of a great marsh, are exceedingly
numerous and reliable enough for all prac-
teal purposes during an everyday life in
the bush, unless a very long journey is to
be made, which would require number
of days, and would make it necessary to
hold on a very fine point while making
SO long distance.
We will first take notes on the confer
GUS trees, pines, frs, spruce, cedars, hem
locks, etc The bark of these is always
south side of the tree; while it is in color
much darker, is also damper, and often
covered with mold and moss on the north
side. The gum that ooZes out from
wounds, knot holes, ETC., is usually hard
D., and often of beautiful amber color on the
south side, which OH the northern side it
remains sticky longer and gets covered
to more than dirty gray in color.
On large trees that have rough bark,
especially during the fall and winter
months, the nests and webs of insects,
! spiders, etc, will always be found in the
| crcvices on the south side. A prcponder-
ance of the large branches will also be
| found on the warmest or southern side
Of the trees. Also, the needles of all the
| aforementioned trees are shorter, dryer
and of yellowish green on the southern
side, while they will be found longer,
more slender and pliable, damper to the
touch and darker green in color on the
north side. The cedars and hcmlocks, as
| if trying to Guido the others, always bend
their slender tops of new growth toward
a southern sky. =
| The llardwoud-trees are equally Us com
municative, and have all the character
istics, as far as regards their trunks,
as the coniferous trees, except the alb
sence of gums: but this is more than
made up by the fungous growth of mold
and mosses that is very noticeable OH
the north side of these trees. ; fys$ssa
The lodges Of rocks, which may be
part of stupendous mountains, or mere
ly an occasional cropping out here and
there in the woods, or, perhaps, some
great boulder alone by itself, 4 silent
witness Of the glacial period, all alike
testify to the effect of light and shade.
! The sunny side will usually be bare, or
at most only boast of a thin groWtl, Of
harsh, dry kinds Of mosses. that will
4 grow only when having the light; while
| the northern sides will be found damp
and n1oldy, and often covered with Il lux
luTient growth of soft. damp i,,csses that
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-24
Japanese Birth Trees.

At the birth of Japanese baby a tree
is planted, which must remain untouched
until the marriage day Of the child. When
the nuptial hour arrives the tree is cut
down, and q skilled cabinetmaker trans
forms the wood into furniture, which is
considered by the young people rs the
most beautiful OF all ornaments OF the
House Meehaa's Monthly - -.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-24

plague which destroyed SO many yintages
in France, is limited to small district,
and the precious coca is secured from
other districts in Peru itself, as we'll as
from Bolivia, Ecuador aud other South
American countries - 5:'}
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-24
Helen Grey-Pagc
Wild Pigeons in Nebrask u.

A recent report from Nebraska stated
that a flock of from seventy-hve to one
| hundred wild. or passenger. pigeons had
been seen in that state. This will be in
terrsting news to those who remember
the birds when they flew in countless
thousands. like dark rivers, across the
sky during the spring misra tons. Some
grizzlcd old trapTerS. who regularly fol-
lowed the flight Of pigeons and netted
them by thousands per week. have for
years gone on hoping against hope that
the flights of pigeons had mercy been
diverted from the old routes, and that
the birds would some day reappear in all
their former numbers. This idea, of
course, is erroneous: the pigeons arc not
country-they have been destroyed. Dur
ing the early autumn of 81 | shot lone
pigeon. Il male of that year. near the
city of Eau Claire, Wis. and a few
days later saw Il flock Of perhaps TWEEN
ty-five birds flying low near where [
had shot the single one. In March. 1871.
while travelling by train near London,
Ont. l saw four pigeons flying east The
day was very mild. with a warm rain
falling. and the pigeons passed in plain
view from the car window. 1t was just
the sort of day we used to deem the
best for pigeons in the long ago, when
one gun could bag more birds than a
man could carry.-Outing.
Shooting ducks for the market is in
creasing SO much each year that the
water fowls around klamath Falls. Or.
are steadily decreasing, and it is said
there seems to be less than half as many
as there were very few years ago.
Lake Minnequa. near Pueblo, Col,
is yielding large Quantities OF tish, which
are being taken from the lake with a
seine. It frequently happens that q full!
boatload Of fish is taken from the lake
at 9 s!ngls haul Of the seine, s..
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-24

and tails. The same trimming is seen
upon the bust The cape is lined with
a brilliant cherry satin and is hooked
down the front with small jetted orna-
mentS.
\ tiny cherry co!ored toque is worn
With it, at the hack of which are set
punches of red berries nesting in their
leaves.
The greatest latitude is allowed i'll
capes, but, generally. with the one pro-
viso that they he cut short so as not
to conceal the figure.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-24
s X Young FOLK Column x


monarch on the shore of Lobster lake, bu
was too far away to get good shot a
him.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-24
A Cape of Mink.

1t is a good thing that tai! bearing ami
mails are numerous. because there is such
a call for them this year that the demand
would be difficult to supply were they not
plentiful.
One of the newest models in capes is a
mink affair cut with a very large sailor
collar at the hack. The front is extend
ed below the waist with two long stole
ends, on the tips of which are mink heads
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-24

A Christmas drive on Christmas day,
With Christmas boy, who's been away,
And his Christmas gift-to her Christmas joy
Was the heart and the hand of this Christmas boy.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-24

The Merry murder case at Chicago
ii,uy be called a para ox.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-09-09
GALLINGER TO SCHURZ.
The Senator Replies to the Reformer on
 Civil Service Reform.

Concord, N. H., Sept. S.-Senator J. H. Gallinger of New Hampshire, has made public an open letter in reply to a communication from Carl Schurz recently published, in which MT. Schurz took issue with MT. Gallinger on state ments made by the latter, bearing on civil service reform. MT. Gallinger's S letter contains lengthy quotations from James G. Blaine and others, giving as Senator Gallinger says, the estimate of contemporaries in public life of Mr. SchurZ of the latter's character and fidelity to principle" each of which con- tained many cutting references to Mr. Schurzs political career.
 Continuing Senator Gallinger speaks for himself in much the same strain and charges MT. Schurz with many acts of political disloyalty.
 Tn regard to civil service reform, , Senator Gallinger says, ''as the re- publican party gave to the country the present civil service law, that party is its best interpreter.
 At best the present interpretation of the present civil service law is not a fundamental political tenet, but simply a question of opinion.
 'If you will carefully read the plank in the last republican platform, which you quote in your letter, you will ob- serve that it demands that 1t the civil service law) shall be thoroughly and honestly enforced That is the very is- sue I have raised I have contended and still contend, that Grover Cleveland did not honestly enforce the law, but prostituted it to partisan ends amid the applause of men, who claim super for morality in public affairs over that professed by their neighbors.''