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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-05-27
WIN, GLADSTONE DEAD.
English Statesman Peacefully.
Passes Away.
GRAND OLD MAN GONE.


Hawarden. May 10, 5:15 a. m.--Wn.
liam e. Gladstone passed away at 5
o'clock this morning. Last night crisis
came. He rallied for a short time, and
then began to fail rapidly. until the end
came this morning.
During the crisis at O'Clock yesterday
morning. Mr.. Gladstone's breathing was
thirty-six to the minute and the members
of his family were summoned. Rev,
stephen Gladstone read prayers and
hymns, including Mr.. Gladstone's favor
lite, "Rock of Ages" When this was CON
cluded Mr.. Gladstone was heard to MUIR
muir "Our Father
Mr.. Gladstone had been unconscious
practically oil day, though at times he
seemed to- recognize for a moment some
OF the watchers about him. Certainly he
did recognize his wife who was beside
him all day, except when the physician
prevailed upon her to rest She tenderly
clasped her husbands hand as she
watched him.
Apparently he slept good deal, and
occasionally he uttered few words in an
lncoherent, dreamy way-words those
VINO were watching were unable to catch,
Their only consolation was that he was
not suffering pain. No narcotics were ad-
ministered.
Though national funeral will probably
pc accepted by the family, there is little
doubt that the remains of Mr.. Gladstone
Will be laid at rest in the peaceful grave
yard at Hawarden adjoining the church
where he was married more than half a
century ago.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-05-27
LEADER OF THE LIBERALS.
Legislative Record Crowded with
Fruits of His Hardware.

Fruits of His HandiwOrk.
Mr.. Gladstone resumed office in the
Palmerston administration in 1859 and
from that time began the practical lead.
ership of the Liberal party which has
continued to the end. The statute book is
crowded with the fruits of his handiwork,
says a biographer, who is generally re-
garded as impartial, making legislative
record such as has rarely. if ever, fallen
to the lot of any one man. Beginning
with the repeal of the paper duty and
the commercial treaty with France, these
parliamentary triumphs included the re-
form of the universities, the disestablish-
ment OF the Irish Protestant church, the
Irish land acts of 1870 and 1881, the
army, the judicature act, the ballot act,
the household suffrage and redistribu-
ton acts-the latter making each mem
per represent separate district-and a
most OF minor enactments. But his strong
est point in legislation was his manage
ment of the finances. His budgets were
admitted by all parties to he the best in
t PRODUCED by any English chancellor Of
the exchequer and were models Of clear
ness and methodical arrangement.
Bur, although ne was practically the
leader In 1859 he did not become the titu-
lar head Of the Liberal party nutil 1868.
he was defeated for Oxford university in
1850, but found seat in South Laica-
snire ana became chancellor of the ex-
chequer. After Palmerston's death he
became leader in the Commons under
tiSn; On the defeat Of the reform Bill IN
1856 the ministry resigned and Disraeli..
coming IL, "dished the wings" BY re.
form bill of his own, which Giadstone
vainly opposed. While il opposition he
commenced the agitation Of the Irish
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-05-27
THE DUTY OF MOTHERS.
Daughters Should be Carefully
Guided in Early Womanhood.

What suffering frequently results
from mothers ignorance; or more
frequently from a mothers neglect to
properly instruct her daughter!
Tradition says woman must suffer"
and young women are so taught.
There is little truth and great deal
of exaggeration in this. If a young
woman suffers severely she needs
treatment and her mother should see
that she gets it.
Many mothers hesitate to take their
daughters to a physician for examina-
ton; but no mother need hesitate to
write freely about her daughter or
herself to Mrs. Pinkham and secure
the most efficient advice without
charge. Mrs. Pinkham's address is
Lynn, Mass.
The following letter from Miss MARIE
F. JOHNSON, Centralia, Pa, shows what
neglect will do, and tells how Mrs.
Pinkham helped her:
my health became SO poor that I
had to leave school. Twas tired all the
time, and had dreadful pains in my
side and back. I was also troubled
with irregularity Of menses. I was
very weak, and lost so much flesh that
my friends became alarmed. My
mother, who is a firm believer in your
remedies from experience, thought per-
haps they might benefit me, and wrote
you for advice. I followed the advice
you gave, and used Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound and Liver Pills as
you directed, and am now as we'll as I
ever was. have gained flesh and have
a good color. am completely cured Of
irregularity."
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-05-27
AMERIGO VESPUCCI.
How His Name WAS Bestowed Upon the
New Continent

How His Name WAS Bestowed Upon the
New Continent.
Amerigo Vespucci is the man whose
Christian name was bestowed upon the
new continent. The manner in which it
was applied is specially curious.
The letters addressed by Amerigo Yes
pucci to his correspondents relating his
voyages and the strange things he met
with in the new land had great sue
cess. Those who received these letters
undertook, probably without his consent,
to publish them.
The first published, addressed to Pier
francesca de- Medici, contained the story
of his third voyage. 1t was enlivened
with curious details and vivid descrip-
tons OF manners and customs, written in
lively and amusing style.
In the public opinion the name of Yes
puccl became intimately associated with
the new world, and in other lands into
whose languages the account of his vow
ages were translated his popularity in
creased, and the people became predis-
posed to give him the honors of the dis
covery.
1t was quite by chance. says one au-
thor, and in little city of Lorraine, Saint
I1e, that the new continent was baptized,
some scholars, priests or professors, had
.ANu a. LIZ WudC IQey called
the Vosgien gymnasium-a sort of scien-
tIhc and literary association. In a work
That the members of this association nub-
lished, entitled Cosmographiae Introduce
tho, the writer was led to speak of Yes
pucci.
Contrasting the six climates described
by Ptoiemy in the northern hemisphere
with the six others in the southern hemi-
sphere, he adds: "The fourth part of the
world, which may we'll be called Amerige,
that is to say land of Americ, since
Americ has found it,
A little further on the following we'll
known passage is found: "Now these
parts of the world, Europe, Africa, Asia,
have been explored in every direction,
and, as this book will prove, Amerigo
Vespucci has found fourth part, I do
not see by what right anyone should be
opposed to this that from Amerigo, the
author of the discovery, man of sa-
gacious genius, it should be called Ameri-
ge, that is to say, land of Amerigo or
America, since Europe and Asia have
owed their names to women"
This, then, is the baptism of the New
World.
1t is, says French author, in an hum
BILE city of Lorraine that literary men al
most unknown, and who never dreamed
of the astonishing success of their pro-
pOsal, have unexpectedly become the god
fathers of this continent and have in
scribed it in the classic family under q
name that is henceforth imperishable.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-05-27
Modern War Preparation.

The fact is, rs far as we know or can
see, observes the New York Evening Post,
the government has been doing and has
done its best, in the time and under the
circumstances. 1t must be remembered
that we have begun what may yet turn
out long war, without the preparation,
which, considering what modern warfare
is, made even military men nervous as to
the result. A little story told of Moltke
in 1870 may serve to give an idea of what
they have in their minds when they laugh
at us. When the war against France was
declared, a staff officer brought him the
news and woke him up to receive it at 2
in the morning. He simply said, 'The
first portfolio in the second drawer of
my table," and then promptly turned over
and went to sleep again. This portfolio
contained all the instructions that were
necessary for what is called in military
technology the 'dislocat tom of the army,
so ready was everything in every depart
ment: The movement of every regiment
and division and corps was provided for.
The route Of every commander was
marked out. By the time Moltke had
risen and dressed, the mighty host was
marching with the precision of the most
deadly science, to that astonishing series
of victories which in two months had laid
France ut Bismarck's feet. The army,
too, was ready from cap to Shoes This
is what military men in our day call
preparation for war" 1t took years to
make
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-05-27
DRUNKENNESS DECREASING.
Was Nsvsr Tune when the Excessive Us,
Of Liquor was 80 InfrsQuent. 1

3
Was Nsvsr Tune when the Excessive Use
Of Liquor WINS 80 Inrrsquent.
1.-THE men and women interested in or
ganized temperance work in this country
are, on the whole, very worthy people"
writes Edward w. Box in the May La
dies Home Journal. "They are sincere,
energetic and well-meaning. But some-
times they lack that nicely and wisdom
or Judgment which is absolutely neces-
sary IN organized effort in order that the
surest success may be won. They some
times, unfortunately, allow their zeal to
run away with them. This tendency was
recently shown in one Of their official
statements which bewailed the startling
growth of intemperance in America dur
ing the year 1897. Many good people, to
whom the circular containing this state
Ment is sent, will be prone to believe this
assertion. They have not the means at
hand by which to verify such a state
ment, and will be made uncomfortable by
It, whereas, in reality. exactly the oppo-
site is the truth. There has never been
a time in America when every indication
pointed so strongly to decrease of in
temperance as the present. There has
never been so little drinking as ut pres
ent, and never such a strong tendency
toward moderation in quarters where al
eohoilc indulgence is general. This is a
tact impossible to controvert, because the
most careful figures bear out this very
hopeful statement"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-05-27
HIS HOME LIFE.
A Most Devoted Wife and Affectionate
Children.

Children.
Hawarden castle, near Chester in
North Wales, with which the nameeof
Gladstone has for years been inseparably
tractive to Mr.. Gladstone late in the
'3Os, when he began paying court to Miss
Catherine Glynne, the eldest sister of the
late Sir Stephen Glynne, the ninth and
last baronet of his ancient race, who,
having died unmarried in 1874, be-
queathed his estate to his nephew, the
late NJ. H. Gladstone, the eldest son of
Maud, Mrs. Gladstone.
Long before the death of Sir Stephen
Glynne, Hawarden castle had been the
country home of his sister and her hus-
erty of Sir Stephen Glynne, mismanaged
by an oversanguine agent-the only man,
as MIR. Gladstone was accustomed to say,
whom his father ever miSread, entailed q
heavy pecuniary loss upon it's respected
owner, and Mr.. Gladstone advanced
considerable sum of money to preserve
the estate of Hawarden from falling in
to other hands.
The house being far larger than the
manded, Mr.. and Mrs. Gladstone shared
his ancestral home with him, and the
cordiality of the reciprocal esteem and
affection subsisting between the brothers.
in-laW was most exceptional although
their political views, when Mr.. Gladstone
became an advanced Liberal, were by no
means i'll accord
Here the larger portion of Mr.. Glad"
stones country life was passed since his
marriage, in 1889, and there arc many
now left to testify to the fascination of
his society and the beauty of his life in
the home he loved so we'll. Mrs. Glad
stone has ever been true helpmeet and
MANY are the stories told of her watch
full care over her husband when his mind
was absorbed with affairs of state. No
matter where he went his wife was at
his side. She shared his sorrows, po-
litlcal and otherwise. and joined in gen
ulne pleasure over his triumphs. when
ne made a great speech she was at his
side, and after it was over it was she
who looked after the little personal COM
forts, wrapped him in shawls and
brought hot tea to refresh him.
The Gladstones are a very happy fami-
~ at Hawarden. In all eight children
came to bless the home-four sons and
four daughters. One of the sons is rec
tor of the quaint Old chirch55of Hawar-
den, another is a member of Parliament,
another is more or less Interested in
politics and the fourth is III commerce.
One Of the daughters; is dead, two Of the
others are married, while Helen, the on
" unmarried one, is known as one Of the
best-educated women IN England aud has
done much for the higher education 81
her rex. l
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-05-27
DIVERSIONS OF ROYALTY.

Some of the Games with Which Reign.
ing Crowned Heads Play.
Many of the crowned heads turn to
games in these days for relaxation from
state cares. The Emperor of Germany
turns frequently to tennis for sport, and
he has constructed one of the best-ap-
pointed tennis courts in the world at the
castle of Morbijon. 1t is appropriately
decorated and the Emperor himself super
the builders trade. The Gar of Rus
STA is master hand at the game of
ieralache, or Russian whist, which is like
our whist, except that there are no
trumps.
The Emperor of Japan, of course, pre-
fers the national game Of go" Schools
for the study of this game are established
voted entirely to the subject: Queen Vic
toria prefers brettspiel, German game
resembling backgammon, which she
learned from the prince consort. The
Princess Beatrice has taken up lofting,
new kind of golf game; she is also CAPT
tai golf player, and and belongs belongs to several
e eS t? S w fn ses VeePa Of Walls
is a skillful hockey player.
The Archduchess Elizabeth of Austria
takes her athletics in the form of long
tramps with her mother The King Of
Span's pet pastimes is kite fighting, a
contest between two kite flyers to see
which can capture or disable the others
kite. A game called the "Knights of
Spain" is also another one of his
sports. The young Queen of Holland is
devoted to badminton and her bicycle
The Queen of italy has reputation as q
pedestrian; for relaxation she turns to
chess. 49,
Queen Christina of Spain is an expert
fencer and good piquet player. Piquet,
or picquet, has been known in Spain
cientos. Bowling is the favorite recrea-
ton of Queen Olga of Greece. She is
also quite devoted to games Of solitaire,
particularly the one called st. Helena,
which is played with two packs of cards,
and said to have been played by Ma
poleon in exile on the island Of st.
Helena.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-05-27
DEFEATED BY COALITION.
Circumstances Which Led to His Re
tirement in 1879

tirement in 1873.
1873 by a coalition of Tories and home
rulers on the educa ton question and, hay-
ing dissolved Parliament in 1874, the Lib
erals were defeated in the first election
held under the ballot act, and Disraeli
again returned to power. 1t was this
election which sent the first independent
Irish party, under Isaac Butt, into the
ment in 1875 Gladstone, evidently dis
gusted with his defeat, announced his in
tentlcn to retire from the Liberal leader
ship in letter to Earl Granville which
contained the following now curious pas
sage:
AT the age of IS and after forty-two
years OF a laborious public life, l think
myself entitled to retire on the present op-
portunity. This retirement is dictated to
me by my personal views as to the best
method of spending the closing years of
my life"
Fifteen years after that letter of resig-
nation had been accepted by the reluctant
Liberals and the Marquis of Harrington
had essayed to step into his shoes, Glad
stone was still the leader of the Liberal
party. And the intervening years had been
the most phenomenally active of his
whole career. During his retirement he
conducted vigorous campaign against
the government, by pamphlet and on the
platform, and never in his whole life
showed greater activity. He stirred the
country and stirred Europe by his expos
ure of the Turkish atrocities in Bulgaria,
he gave vigorous opposition to the
treaty of Berlin by which the Sultan was
still left the ruler of millions of oppressed
Christians, and his famous Midlothian
campaign prepared the way for the defeat
Of the Tories in 1880.
Back in Power Again.
He resumed the reins of power, having
but majority of thirty over To
ries and home-rulers combined. It was in
this Parliament that Parnell came to the
front as leader of the Irish party with a
powerful popular organization behind him
and Gladstone again found himself face
to face with the Irish question. He tried
to stave it off by mixed policy of coer-
ciOn and Cancellation, but failed and soon
began to feel his way for an arrangement
by which compromise might be effected
The Phoenix park murders delayed this
for some years and made break that for
time seemed final. Having passed
household suffrage and redistributed the
seats he was defeated in 1856 by COM
bination Of Tories and Parnellites on the
budget. The Irish vote in England was
cast for the Tories, who were then ready,
if they got into power, to concede home
rule, and the result of the election was a
narrow Liberal majority over the COM
bined Tories and Nationalists. Gladstone
then adopted the home-rule policy, which
led to the secession of section of his
party and the return Of the Tories to
power.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-05-27
GLADSTONE'S ANCESTRY.
Came of Good Scotch Stock-Endowed
with Fine Traifs

~s~AAAS "a 0OVA S\OCCA SCOCk-En0Owe0
with Fine Traits.
William Ewart Gladstone, the record of
whose life may almost be said to be the
political history of England for half
century century hrst s saw the light Of day on De-
pool. He, was the fourth son of John
Gladstones-for such, until 1885, when
the final "s' was dropped by royal IL
cense-was the family name.
IL is necessary to so back to the DAYS of
MS grandfather to show that the Mr..
Gladstone of the present generation was
brought up under conditions which were
child. The grandfather was Thomas
Giadstones. who was what was then
called general merchant at Leith. the
port of Edinburg. Mr.. Gladstones' place
of business was ''laigh," or cellar, shop
of the kind made famous by Sir Walter
Scott in some of his novels. One of his
staple articles seems to have been a par
ticular kind of Scotch cake or scone called
"baps." It is further related that some
of the boys ana girls who Datronized the
shop were unkind enough to allege that
the 'baps" sold by Thomas Gladstones at
a half-penny were smaller than those sold
in other shops at the same price. And
this story became so thoroughly circu-
lated in the neighborhood that, as the
general merchant" passed along the
main street he was not infrequently sa-
lluted by the cry of ''sma' baps," 'sma'
baps."
Be this as it may, Thomas Gladstones
of 'sma' baps" fame, prospered sufi-
GENTLY to enable him to send his eldest
son, John, to Liverpool to enter ship
ping house as clerk. The influence of
the sturdy stock whence he came soon
manifested itself, and it was not long be-
fOro Inhn (HtaHctnnoS
finally was dispatched to Brazil in charge
of cargo. Upon arrival in South Amer
lea it was found that the cargo could not
be disposed of except at q heavy loss.
The young man was at his wits ends to
determine whether it would be better to
carry his unstable freight back to Liv-
erpool or to- sell it at a loss and invest
the proceeds in something that was likely
to be in demand in England on his re-
turn: He chose the latter policy and car
rled back to England a miscellaneous
cargo OF Brazilian products, including
coffee, which found ready and profitable
SAFE IN Liverpool. His sagacity was re-
partner. His one voyage to South Amer
lea proved benefit to him in later years
fully as much as it did when it secured
his promotion. His knowledge of Brazil
and the West Indies enabled him to build
up trade for his house that placed it at
tue head OF exporting hrms. He became
known as "the merchant prince" and the
extent Of his estate was apparent after
his death in 1851, when Sir Thomas, the
eldest son, succeeded to Kincardineshire,
worth fl5,O0O a year, and each of the
three other sons had an income of from
$1,000 to 1900 Like many other ex-
porters of the day the merchant prince"
was connected with slavery in the West
Indies, and when England abolished serf-
dom in those dominions and divided f2O,-
100000 among her slave-holding subjects,
the share which fell to Sir John Glad
stones was 100000.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-05-27

church question, and carried through the
Commons a resolution which was the
basis of the future measure.
At the general election in 1868 he was
defeated for Southwest Lancashire, but
was returned for Greenwich, and sue
ceecded Disraeli as prime minister. In
the course of the next few years, amid
great public excitement, he carried
through the Irish legislation before re-
ferrcd to and many other measures. It
was during this administratio that the
settlement of the Alabama claims was ef-
fected by the treaty of Washington. The
most remarkable thing about his course
on Irish affairs was the frankness with
which he avowed his conversion to a pol
icy of Cancellation by the vigor of Irish
resistance to the existing order of things.
In one of his speeches he used the fam
Gus expression about ''thc intensity of
fenianism' making him realize the neces-
sity Of governing Ireland according to
Irish ideas.'
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-05-27
PREMATURE GRAY HAIR.
Locks Of American Women I.use Color
S0nnar than n lAnr

Locks Of Americas Women Luse Color
Sooner than o her.
American women's hair, according to
frequent assertions turns gray much ear
lier than the hair of women of other
natiOnalities. The change to gray or
white, moreover, is said to be more com
plete and thorough here than elsewhere.
deney be aseribed Amer ie ot a ehe t and
American atmosphere-terms not at all
synonymous. The former turns our
leaves, and why should it not turn our
hair? While what the latter may &C.
complish through the agencies of ice wa
ter, hot bread and worry needs no com.
ment. Early gray hair, as rule, means
inability to cope with misunderstanding
things. It is declared to be largely q
matter of temperament. That II should
be characteristic of American women
is in keeping with most other trials Of the
active, nervous lives led by many modern
American women. ISL. 5ss$
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-05-27
Wisconsin Patents,

Patents for the following Wisconsin
inventors are reported for this week by
Erwin, Wheeler & Wheeler, So and SO
Loan and Trust building. Milwaukee,
Wis. These attorneys will furnish the
Inventors Handbook free:
T. H. Brown, Viroqua. broom; T. H.
Hoyt, and T. Gillett. asgrs., Milwaukee,
means for attaching arms to crank-shafts;
H. S. Johnson, Madison, tool holder; Ole
ing, etc, material; E. F. Matheny, Mwau.
kee, assgrs., passenger car appurtcnance;
John McCallum. Chippewa Falls. grasscip-
ping device; Alma A. Pool, Waukesha, iron
Ing board; A. Stransky, GAINESVILLE, swing
ing hammock chair; A. Zwiebel. Burling-
ton, windmill: H. W. Bolens, Port Wash
ington, sickle grinder base design: +. A.
bennett. :Sheboygan, Brentwood chair seat
design; +. Seaver, assgr., Lake Mills,
steam motor.