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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-05-27
HIS EARLY LIFE,
Excellent Home Influences and Coco
Schooling.

Excellent Home Influences and Good
Schooling.
The very early life of William Ewart
Gladstone did not differ materially from
that of any other English boy of that day
and station in the world. After Sir John.
William Gladstones father, had become
firmly established in trade the family
took up its residence at Seaforth, and it
was there that William spent his boyhood.
His home life was such as to shape his
character in firm and desirable mold.
His father was lowland Scotchman,
whose dominant characteristics were can
niness, unbending will, imperious spirit
and inexhaustible energy, each one of
which was inherited by the boy and SUBJ
sequently displayed to marked degree.
His mother came from the highland clan
Of Donachie and from her the boy got
the imagination and poetry, and perhaps
most of the deep religious spirit which he
afterward showed. Williams wits began
to be sharpened at :! tender age, for it is
related that the family was prone to argu-
ment, and participation was not denied to
even the youngest liz the family. They
argued about everything whether the
window should remain open or be closed;
whether the day was likely to be wet or
fair; whether the trout should be fried or
boiled-and William was soon able to hold
his own on any point. Nevertheless the
boy was taught to listen attentively to
his elders, and he liked particularly to
hear the discussions of his father and
George Canning, noted member of Par
lament at that day, and who was a regu-
lar visitor at Seaforth. The extent to
which the early influence of the states
man may have served to impregnate
young Gladstone's mind and inspire his
fancy for politics it is not possible to de-
termine, but subsequent events lead to
the belief that the association was very
beneficial to the young man who was to
bear such great honors: 900
w. p. Gladstone's twelfth year found
brother, subsequently Sir Thomas Glad.
stone, and to q great friend of the latter
named Parr. 1t is said that William was
declared to be "the prettiest little boy
that ever went to Eton.' He was q
thorough scholar, God fearing, conscien-
tious, pure-minded, courageous and hu.
name: He was never seen to run, but
came 80 characteristic of him in after
years. He cared little for sports, except
that of sculling, at which he excelled.
He distinguished himself early in his
Elton career by turning down his glass
and refusing to drink to coarse toast
proposed at an election dinner, and later
attracted general attention by protest
against the torture of wretched pigs,
which were considered fair game for
school boys on Ash Wednesday. He took
prominent part in the debating society,
and ut the age of IL contributed to the
Elton Miscellany under the nom d.
plume of Bartholomy Bauveire.
At the age of 10 he went up to Ok
ford and became a model undergraduates
Ten years after he left it was said tina,
undergraduates drank less wine in the
'4Os because Gladstone had been so alb.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-05-27
AMERlGO 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 a 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. It was enlivened
with curious details and vivid descrip-
tons of manners and customs, written in
a 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
D1e, that the new continent was baptized.
some scholars, priests or professors, had
HNA..Nu a. Liz WudC Iuey called
the FOsgien gymnasium-a sort of scien.
tifc and literary association. In work
that the members of this association pub.
i!shed, entitled Cosmographiae Introduce
tho, the writer was led to speak of Yes
pucci.
Contrasting the six climates described
by Ptolemy in the northern hemisphere
with the six others in the southern hemi-
sphere, he adds: "The fourth part of the
world, which may well 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, rs 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, a man of sa.
gacious genius, it should be called Ameri-
&c, 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
GLADSToNE'S ANCESTRY.
Came of Good Scotch Stock-Endowed
with Fine Traits.

Came of Good Scotch Stock-Endowed
with Fine Traits.
William Ewart Gladstone, the record OF
whose life may almost be said to be the
political history of England for half 8
century, first saw the light Of day on De.
cember 20. 1903, in Rodney street, Liver.
pool: He. was the fourth son of John
Gladstones-for such, until 1885, when
the final IS" was dropped by royal Ii.
cense-was the family name.
1t is necessary to 80 back to the days of
his grandfather to show that the Mr.
Gladstone of the present generation was
brought up under conditions which were
fayorable to the best development of the
child. The grandfather was Thomas
Gladstones. 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
ticular kind of Scotch cake or scone called
"baps." 1t is further related that some
of the boys ana girls who patronized the
shop were unkind enough to allege that
the 'baps'' sold by Thomas Ghdstones at
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
luted 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
ckn1
fore John Gladstones was promoted and
finally was dispatched to Brazil in charge
of a cargo. Upon arrival in South Amer
lea it was found that the cargo could not
be disposed. of except at 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 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
cargo Of Brazilian products, including
coffee, which, found ready and profitable
sale in Liverpool. His sagacity was re-
warded by the firms taking him in as a
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
the head Of exporting firms: He became
known as tile merchant prince" and the
his death in 1851, when Sir Thomas, the
eldest son, succeeded to Kincardineshire,
worth f15,O00 a year, and each of the
three other sons had an income of from
10000 to $1,000. Like many other ex-
porters of the day the merchant PRINCE
was connected with slavery in the West
Indies, and when England abolished serf-
600, 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
HIS HOME LIFE.
A Most Devoted Wife and Affectionate
Children.

A Most Devoted Wife and AfectiOnate
Children.
Hawarden castle, near Chester in
North Wales, with which the name@of
Gladstone has for years been inseparably
fixed in the public mind, first became at
tractive to Mr.. Gladstone late i'll 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. II. 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-
band. Forty years ago the mineral prop
erty of Sir Stephen Glynne, mismanaged
by an oversanguine agent-the only man,
as Mr.. Gladstone was accustomed to say,
whom his father ever misread, entailed
heavy pecuniary loss upon it's respected
owner, and Mr.. Gladstone advanced a
considerable sum of money to preserve
the estate of Hawarden from falling in
to other hands,
The house being far larger than the
requirements of Sir Stephen Glynne de-
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 in 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 a 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, no.
lltlcal and otherwise. and Joined in gen.
uine pleasure over his triumphs. When
ne made great speech she was ut 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 very happy fami-
" at Hawarden. In all eight children
came to bless the home--foHr sons and
four daughters. One of the sons is rec
tor of the quaint old chl,rchsof Hawar-
den. another is member of Parliament,
another is more or less Interested in
politics and thesfonrth is ins commerce.
/ One Of the daughters IS dead, two Of the
others are married, while Helen, the on
" unmarried oae,:is known as one Of the
best.educated women In England aud has
done much for the higher education 81
her ser.
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
intended the building, as he understands
the builders trade. The Gear of Rus
sia is a 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
in Japan, and several periodicals are de-
voted entirely to the subject. Queen Vic
toria prefers brettspiel, a German game
resembling backgammon, which she
learned from the prince consort. The
new kind of golf game; she is also CAPT.
tai golf player, and belongs to several
clubs, to which she presents valuable
prizes. The Princess Victoria Of Wales
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
SPANS pet pastimeS IL Kite H8htin9, q
contest between two kite flyers to see
which can capture or disable the other
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 a reputation as a
pedestrian; for relaxation she turns to
chess.
Queen Christina Of Spain is an expert
fencer and a good piquet player. Piauet,
since the early ages under the name
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,
poleon in exile on the island Of St.
Helena. ~
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-05-27
PREMATURE GRAY HAIR.
Looks OF American Women Luse Color
Sooner than o her.

Locks OF American 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.
To two things may the cause of the ten
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 ac-
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 Notwithstanding
things. It is declared to be largely 4
matter of temperament. That it should
be q characteristic of American women
is in keeping with most other trials of the
active, nervous lives led by many modern
American women. 81.
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 1878.

The Gladstone ministry was defeated in
1873 by a coalition of Tories and home
rulers on the education question and, hav-
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
British Parl!ament: During his retire
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:
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 phen0menally active of his
whole career. During his retirement he
conducted Il 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 a 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-seven over To-
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 a 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

church question, and carried through the
Commons 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. 1t
was during this adminstra ton that the
settlement of the Alabama claims was eff
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 yigor of Irish
resistance to the existing order of things.
In one of his speeches he used the fam
GUS expression about "the intensity of
tenianism" making him realize the neces-
slty of governing Ireland according to
Irish ideas.''
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-05-27

the classics. His fathers reply was that
he didn't think man was man unless
he knew mathematics. With due filial
obedience young Gladstone promptly be-
gan to apply himself to the distasteful
study and came out double first. Never
theless he found time to excel at all
times in the classics, and great was his
strongest point. He finished ut the
Michaelmas term of 1881 and came out
a double first-class honor man in 1881.
After graduation he was sent on the
then customary tour of the continent
and on his return was ready to enter up
on his career in earnest.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-05-27
The Popularity of Violet


There is practically but one perfume, -
said fashionable chemist the other day.
eve sell more violet fifty times over,
than all the other perfumes together -
Every imaginable toilet preparation is
now perfumed with violet. Not only the
sachet powder. the toilet water, and the
soap, but tooth powder. nail salve and
cold creams, for massasing the face, all
are favored with the omnipresent violet.
1t may be surprise to many persons to
know that most violet perfumes are ar
tifcial. That is, they are formed by COM
pounding chemically certain. elements.
Violet perfume may be extracted from
the flowers themselves, but 100 pounds
of violets produce only one ounce of the
finest extract. The beautiful Valley of
Grasse, in the Alpes Maritimes, has hith-
erto yielded the worlds supply of violets.
In Paris, violet, as color, is the success
full rival of green, and both hats and
bodices are exactly the color of the blue
spring hyacinths. The latest novelty in
the capital is soft, thick, violet-colored
flannel, which exhales the most delicious
perfume. This flannel costs the neat lit
tie sum of 40 francs a yard. Not less
than quarter of yard will be cut into
small strips and sewed into Innings of
sleeves, waists and skirts, and into the
crown of hats and of bonnets. The odor
from it is, perhaps, the most exquisitely
delicate to be obtained.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-05-27
Shake Into Your Shoes

Aliens Foot-Ease, a powder for the
feet. 1t cures painful, swollen, smart
ing feet and instantly takes the sting
out of corns and bunions. It's the great
est comfort discovery of the age. AL
lens Foot-Ease makes tight-fitting or
new shoes feel easy. 1t is a certain
cure for sweating. callous and hot,
tired, nervous, aching feet. Try it to-
day. Sold by all druggists and shoe
stores. By mail for 25c in stamps. Trial
package FREE. Address Allen S. Ohm
sted, lie Roy, N. Y.
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
johnson, Milwaukee. apparatus for elevat-
ing, etc, material; E. f. Matheny. Milwau-
kee, assgrs., passenger car appurtenance;
John McCallum, Chippewa Falls. grass clip
ping device; Alma A. Pool, Waukesha, iron
ing board; A. Stransky, Gravesville, swing
ing hammock chair; A. Zwiebel, Burling-
ton, windmill; Fl. w. Bolens, Port Wash
ington, sickle grinder base design; F. A.
bennett, Sheboygan, brentwood chair seat
design; F. Seaver, assgr., Lake Mills,
steam motor,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-05-27
Mrs. Cleveland in PICTURE and Story

MIS-. C1eVe1anu IN F1CtuFes ana Story.
The Ladies' Home Journal announces
that in an early issue it will present an
anecdotal biography of Mrs. Grover
Cleveland and illustrate the article with
portraits of Mrs. Cleveland and views of
her Princeton home The anecdotes have
been contributed to the Journal by Mrs.
Cleveland's closest friends Each one re-
veals some characteristic trait of the for.
mer mistress of the white house. The
photographs will be publicly shown in the
Journal for the first time. They are the
first pictures made of Mrs. Cleveland since
This unique form Of biography adopted
by the Journal has proven exceedingly
popular and satisfactory.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-05-27
Our American Policy.

The policy of this country regarding for
eign complications seems likely to remain
conservative. The Monroe doctrine will
be sustained, but patience and prudence in
official quarters will restrain public opin-
ion. The wisest and most prudent course
for the rheumatic and the malarious is to
use Hostetter's Stomach Bitters
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-05-27
did you hear about Belle Jones?'

NO, WHdt was II
"When the soldiers went by her home
she didn't have any flag so she hung one
of her new red, white and blue stockings
out of the window"
eyes"
give minutes later man came to
the door and wanted a haircut"
"Well, war is certainly barberous."
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-05-27

Coughing Leads to Consumption.
Kemp's Balsam will stop the cough at
a sample bottle free. Sold in 25 and So
cent bottles. Go at once; delays are dan
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-05-27

When a marriage takes place in
China the wedding party enter the temple
and light quantity of fireworks, includ-
ing a number of crackers. This is sup
posed to wake the Great Joss" from his
sleep. The priest repeats the service at
express speed. the bride and bridegroom
take two little glasses of wine and are
then declared man and wife.