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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-12-13
Looked Like Cherries.

There are many varieties Of red pep
pers, OF Chill peppers, in the market, of
many shapes and sizes. They are all
''hot T. the tongue but some are hotter
than others. One variety resembles a
cherry in appearance, and these are
called cherry peppers, and are hotter
than all the others; in fact, no ther-
mometer can 90 high enough to show
their holiness. A box of these peppers
was displayed in front of commission
store on Front street yesterday, the ton
layer packed with stems down, so that
even an Oregenian might have taken
or, rather, mistaken-them for Royal
Anne cherries. A passerby stopped to
ask the. price of the cherries" He
was told $3.50 per box. He asked how
much the expressage would be to his
home in Kansas and was told 80 cents.
He planked down $40 and the box was
marked with his address and handed to
an express messenger.
When the Kansas man had gone q
person who witnessed the transaction
asked the dealer what he meant by
swindling him. The dealer asked how.
by selling him peppers for cherries"
was the answer. 1t then dawned on the
dealer that the Kansas man had really
supposed he was buying Oregon cher.
ries, and he began to wonder what
would happen in suffering, bleeding
Kansas when the peppers reached there
and We're tasted. And he is still wond-
ering.-Portland Oregonian.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-12-13
HOLD MOCK TRIALS.
% A NOVEL Entertainment FOR
CLUBS AND SOCIETY.
Legal Proceedings Gives Opportunity
for Dramatic Dlsplay-culture Club
Hears Divorce Case Unrestrained by
Bailiffs.

Seekers after novel entertainment for
winter evenings have caught upon the
mock trial, which is consequently doing
its turn at popular favor. Fortunately
the trial adapts itself to any company
and may be just as amusing or just as
educational as it's managers care to
make it. 1t gives opportunity for play
Of wit which livens the monotony of the
regulation court proceeding and it gives
plenty Of room for such personal touch
es as will add to the entertainment Of
an audience composed Of friends of the
players. Moreover, as a large part of
the company can be subpoenaed for the
trial the interest will be most unflag
ging From the impaneling of the jury
to the final verdict the audience will
receive enthusiastically every stage Of
the trials procedure.
A ridiculous charge is brought against
4 member Of the party; often this is a
club meeting. A young lawyer or law
student is chosen for judge, as he can
at the same time direct the conduct Of
the trial. The greatest care is taken
to have everything in strict accordance
with the legal custom and the slightest
deviation from the regular order Of trial
is zealously guarded against. The law
yers appear with burden Of dignified
leather-bound volumes, which they con-
suit frequently and with ridiculous ef-
feet. The dignity Of the judge is bold
ly overQrawn and his peremptary
rulings intensified until the figure be-
comes a laughable caricature. PINNED
for the occasion, the questions and an
swers Of the lawyers and their witness
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-12-13
THE, S SCR:APBOOK HABIT ].
Many Phases thats the Fancysof Col
%I aslectors Take. u.s. 81 Il lSfS

Il with all the other epidemics present
and threatening, there runs along Ntha15
Of Keeping a scrapbook. Almost every
man, woman and child has it in some
Or other fo S hsre are
buying the best book to be found and
slowing away loosely in it a bundle Of
clippings to be pasted in at the first OPP,
portunity. The opportunity never
comes,> really, but just threatens to set
succeeding stage tells OF his expert
ence. Some persons again let their
scraps accumulate, and have one happy
season of FASTING; while others paste
from day to day, almost from hour to
hour. the subjects suitable for this pres
eryation process.
There is no end to the variety Of
things that may compose scrapbook:
1t may be collection Of ones own eff
fuSi0ns published or refused such honor.
or it may be simply newspaper pictures
or monograms, or hotel letterheads; or
or menus, dramatic criticisms, or book
reviews, or rise to the dignity of a col
lection of opinions on the Chinese stu
alton or the constitutional convention.
Some are capable Of keeping as many
them and thereby become. the possessor
of scrapbook library, to be consulted
once in decade on rainy days by the
compiler, and to be thrown out into the
dust heap when the compiler's heirs and
assigns are faced with the question of
what they shall do with it.
Perhaps one heir and assign in mil
lion will have among his emotional assets
a fondness and respect for anything
which is evidence of the deceased COM
pliers handiwork, and so cherish the COL
lection; but the percentage of folk 80
tine-grained is not larger than: this. As
this rare person is not of: the kind to
live long, probably his heir will be sure
to regard the whilom treasure as rub
bish. This sad fact of the American
average is rather worth thinking on by
all the scrapbook makers as they set
ishly tell fancy will be light and a
JOY down to the third and fourth gener-
ation.-Boston TRANSCRIPT.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-12-13

IN 1893 there We're II ,O19 Hawaiians
in the islands still, even though foreign
crs had already begun introducing civil
ization. In 1872 the native population
had dwindled to 40.O44, to which must be
added 1,4S77 part observation-disclosures of
an Hawaiian mother and foreign h,.s-
band.
The next twelve years saw a further
drop to 4O,144, and an increase of part
Hawaiians to 4,21S, while in 1890 there
were only 34,43G Hawaiians and G,lSG
part Hawaiians. Six years later the Ha-
waians number 31,O10, and the mixed
population 8.4S5. The latest census
brings to light the fact that not only has
the pure native population continued to
diminish. but the part Hawaiian num-
bers have decreased from S,485 to 1886.
The Hawaiian population is now actually
one-thi:d the number Of the Japanese i'm
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-12-13

OF course, some of these people just
''growed that way" When they were
in infancy their mothers spent days and
weeks doing nothing but keeping them in
a good humor. They were never thrown
on their own resources nor had to make
the best of circumstances. On the other
hand are the cheerful folk who are
pleased with rattle and tickled with
straw" They manage to have good
time almost anywhere. A blessing up
on these simple hearts who take the
world as they find it, without murmur
and, always looking for the good and
pleasant, realize essentially what they
expect! They are the conservators Of
sane living in the world.
There is a class which amuses itself
directly at the expense Of others. 1t Is
composed of those who pride themselves
upon their wit Repartee and sharp lit
tie turns that have reference - another
are a sort Of reyel to them. Bringing
into notice the foibles and peculiarities
Of even friend is not beneath their pur
pose to pose as wits. But retribotion in
the form of the loss of friends and the
faculty for perceiving the ludicroYp,< be-
coming at last weakened through over
work, degenerates into caricature, or pos
tive Stiffness.
1t does not need long experience to
show us that those who surrender them
selves to the desire for amusement miss
its realization. The everyday duties, the
close-at-hand service, the longing to be
worthy of the gift Of life, while driving
from the mind the unworthy aim toward
getting good time out Of the world, will
instead supply that peculiar, broad, va
ried, interest, which furnishes happiness,
including that lower order OF satisfac-
ton named amusement.
MARY B. BALDWIN.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-12-13
ITO Yell with Hale. :"

The tradition runs at Cambridge that
when tourist asked old John the or
Christie ct Ecciesiae," on the old Har-
ward seal, meant, he replied that he was
not entirely clear in his mind about it,
but he had heard it meant ITO h
wild Yale" This e-honored joke ex-
plains the curiously profane suggestive
one who met him in company with DR..
Edward Everett Hale 'on their way to
q. Ha,vard-Yale football game on Sol
diers' field. and asked "Whither bound ?"
10 the football game. of course" Pea
body cheerfully responded-'tu yell with
le."-Buffalo Commercial.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-12-13

aginary injuries on the part Of labor,
not by lordly and selfish arrogance on the
part Of capital. A beginning must be
made by conspicuous examples Of a rec
ognuition Of the duty and obligations
which are the conditions upon which the
full enjoyment of our partnership ad-
vantages depends.
These examples should induce conserv-
ative and tolerant counsel; they should be
prominently recognized and appreciated,
and constantly pressed upon the view Of
all who may be .remiss in their obligations
to American co-operation-whateve the
scope and nature of these obligations may
be. GROVER CLEVELAND.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-12-13

al Association, which numbers over
100000 members in various parts of the
world.
She founded the Industrial Farm Col
ony at Duxhurst, which has grown to
remarka bic dimensions. She succeeded
to her fathers vast estates in Hertford-
shire, Worcestershire, Surrey, London,
and since 1884 she has used her wealth
for the good Of her fellowmen.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-12-13
Coid-Wave Warnings for Farmers.

Recently the postofice department,
through its rural mail delivery, has
placed at the disposal of the weather
service one of the most efficient means
of bringing its daily forecasts, frost and
coid.wave warnings to the very doors
Of those who can make the most profit
able use of them. The latest forecast
of the weather is printed on small slips
Of paper, and each carrier is given a
number equal to the number of houses
on his rura. route. Thus does the me-
neurological service insinuate itself into
every avenue that promises efficient dis
semination of its reports.-National Geo
graphic Magazine.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-12-13
Big Engineering Project for Texas.

The irrigable water in Texas is derived
mostly from the Rio Grande, the Pecos
and the Canadian, and enough water
flows down these streams to irrigate the
whole valley from end to end. In the
autumn the water of the Rio Grande
is somewhat exhausted before it reaches
the Texas line, and the farming industry
below Ell Paso is thus threatened, but
the June floods send the water down in
riOt0us abundance, so that valuable crops
are often ruined by it's overflow. The
engineering question Of paramount i'm
portance in Texas is to control the wa
ters Of the Rio Grande by storing the
overflow Of June for the droughts Of
made to do this, but it will be a gigantic
engineering feat that will require years
for completion.-Gunton's Magazine
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-12-13
ARGUMENT THAT FAILED.

How Admiral kirkland Squelchel {,
Would. Be Son.in- Law.
Apropos of the marriage Of an impe'
cunious ensign in the navy short time
ago, some Of the veterans at the navJ
yard recall this story Of Rear-AdmiraI
William Kirkland, who was affection.
ately known in the navy as RED Bill
"A young ensign hesitating found his
way into the admirars cabin one day
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-12-13
TIMBER INCREASING IN PRICE,

Product Becoming More Inaccessible
and Therefore More CostlJ.
In an interesting report on the trade
Of Riga, the British consul writes that
''as regards the wood trade Of the world
in general, one broad fact sis ever be-
fore us. 1t takes from sixty to seventy
years to grow an average convertible
tree and two minutes to hew it down.
Thus each year the supply of timber is
diminished. the forest fringe recedes
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-12-13
Queer.

The prosaic individual who has out
lived romance finds it hard to under.
stand how two people can dawdle away
hours and at their conclusion feel NOR.
ally certain that only minutes have
taken flight. -
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-12-13

LADY SOMERSET. Countess SOmers.
and is now just 80 years old. In 1890
she first achieved considerable import
ance by her election to the Presidency
of the British Woman's Temperance
Association, now the largest company
Of its kind in England. In 1892 she was
elected Vice President of the Worlds
Women's Christian Temperance Union,
and in 1898, on the death of Miss Fran
.ces Willard. she succeeded that famous
woman as President of the Information
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-12-13
Passing Of the Hawaiian.

/ n e civilization
Of the white man is
not always a boon
to the savage; it
means, sooner or
later, his doom.
The red men are
nearly gone, the alb
orlgInes of Austria
liza ara passing, and
the Hawaiian race
is rapidly melting
way before the
sunlight of civilized
enterprise.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-12-13

themselves that no.
body can say Of
them, "'!Oh, they do
very. we'll for wOm-
en- is probably the
foremost leader of
the feminist. move
ment in Great Brit
ain.
She is the daugh-
ter of the Earl and
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-12-13
VICTIM OF HER OWN BEAUTY.
Miss Helen Vanderbilt Wack crman
Slandered Into Insanity.

In st. Giles lnfirmary, London, is 4
young woman in the worst stages of in
sanity. Her eyes have terrifying look,
her once handsome features have lost
,nuci. of their beauty. and she suffers
from dclusions, refusing to eat because
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-12-13
livery WELL FOR WOMEN"

This IL Not Good Euouxh for Lady
Henry somerset's Prototypes.
Lady Henry, Somerset, who has ad-
vised her young women proteges in an
English industrial school 80 to perfect
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-12-13
Ought to Have Pool Tables.

Physiological and
biblical scle nc e
demonstrates that
the primal and uni
versal desire on the
part of children is
to play. The church
ought to provide a
place for it's young
people to hold So
cial dancing par
ties. The modern
church ought to
have billiard and
pool tables and ten
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-12-13
Dancer of ..Educated ignorance"

Our government

Our government
can be no purer
than a majority Of
its citizens. Our
aim should be to
teach our youth
that the first duty
Of citizenship is the
exercise Of the d.
vine right guaran-
teed by our constl-
tuition through ac-
tive participation
in the selection Of
their public SER
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-12-13

The most serious
and persistent evil
that disturbs coop
GRAFTON among our
people is found in
the contentious and
Quarrels between
employers and EN-
ployes. Surely, as
an original PROPOSE
ton there should he
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-12-13
Early Marriages.

Miss Budd-''Do you approve OF earl
marriages." -
Mrs. Malaprop-"Not too early.
should say not before high noon.''
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-12-13

Lots of people are known as wicked
because the towns they live in hap.
pen to be small. - = =. ~. ~ s.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-12-13
Beware Of eentments for C.t1rrh that
Contain Mercury. II

as mercury win surely destroy the sense OF
s%eil and completely derangs the whole system
Such articles should never be used except on
9 gaessPt t%sy 1TS reputable s the
can possibly derive from them. Italia Catarrf1
Cure: manufactured by +. j. Cheney & Co., Toio-
ao T. contains No mercury and IS taken inter
eous surfaces Of the system. In. buyfn9 HaiI's
Catarrh Cure be sure you rot the eenuine. II Il
Iaken Internally. and made II Toledo, Ohio, BY
r: J. Cheney 4 Co. Testimonials free 49,, - -
1-SoId BY Druggist; price 76c. Der bottle. =,
Halls Family Pills are the best, 81 49,.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-12-13

pin alleys for its members. Instead of
belaboring legitimate amusements let the
church recognize their value and their
necessity in life.
R. A. WHITE, D. D.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-12-13

Some men are born poor, some achieve
poverty, and some marry extravagant
wives.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-12-13

II there is anything in lypnotism,
why don't the bill collectors take It mn?
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-12-13
People Who Must Be Amused.

Sorry is the lot Of the man or
woman who must be amused ev-
cry minute Of the time. They
dread a quiet Sunday afternoon
or a rainy evening, when no
one is likely to come in or it is
imDOSSihle for them to 60 out.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-12-13

Mrs Anstin'sj Famous Buckwheat makes
the finest Buckwheat cakes. -Readv- In 4
moment. AK for Mrs. Austin's Buckwheat.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-12-13

Poets may be born, but as a rule
cooks are better paid.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-12-13

- In France duels are most frequent in
winter; in 1tlay, in the spring.
Daily camera., 1901-06-25
So It L..

It's an easy matter to find way,
II a man only has the will;
It's an easy matter to get along
After he starts downhill.
Chicago Daily News.
Daily camera., 1901-06-25
WASTE OF FORESTS.
Annual Penalty Resulting from
Destruction of Trees.
Natural Impedimcnts to River Floods
In Ohio Rccklessly Removed
Leave Rich Lands Exposed
to the RnRing Waters.

The people along the Ohio river
and its tributaries are now paying
their annual penalty for nearly cen.
tury Of forest waste. In and about
Pittsburgh $4,000 men are idle be.
cause of the stoppage of factories by
late floods. The losses OF the rail
ways alone will exceed S., 900, 900. The
damage to buildings, by delay of or
ders, by direct loss Of wages. and in
dozen Indirect walks, will foot up
many millions more. All down the
alley the destruction continues. AT
Cincinnati the food has already
reached the danger line. and may
rise as high as the record-breal<ing
mark of 1884, aays the Chicago Inter
Ocean.
Most people dismiss the ravages
of flooded rivers as unavoidable ac-
cidents. But why did the Ohio in 1854
reach at Cincinnati the highest point
on record? 1t is not reasonable to
suppose that the rainfall that year
was heavier than it had been on sew
eral previous occasions. The great
damage wrought by the flood of 1884.
and likely to be repeated this year,
was due to the abnormal rapidity
with which the water came down the
river. More water did not fall, but
ii came faster. Why?
Because the hills of Pennsylvania
Ohio, West Virginia and Kentucky
had for years been stripped reckless.
ly of their timber covering. Not only
had the large and ripe trees been
taken, but forest fires had swept
away the underground. The natural
iiapcdiments which formerly held
back the water were gone, and it
descended all at once into the val.
lcys. Hence these disastrous floods.
About the middle of the nineteenth
century il began to be noticed that
the Ohio ran lower in drought and
higher in food than formerly. The
federal government was appealed 10
and sought to cqualize the flow by
the construction of dams. But these
measures were only palliative and
did not go to the root of the evil. All
the dams that can be built will not
regulate the waters us the natural
growths upon the soil once did.
OF course these natural growths
cannot wholly be restored, but some
thing can be done in that direction.
Much of the land abou; the Ohio's
headwatcrs is more useful for grow
ing rres than for any other pur-
poses. That forest lands, intelligent
ly managed, will yield crop as reg
ular as n wheat fields has been dem
onstrated. Scientific reforestation.
under public control, will prove
profitable both in the production OF
timber and in the prevention OF
Hoods.
The Ohio valley states now pay n
heavy penalty in flood damages for
the ignorance and recklcssness of
former generations. Until systemat-
ic effort is made 10 reforcst the hills
from which the Ohio draws it's wa
ters navigation viii continue irreg-
ular. and disastrous floods will be of
frequent occurrence. Probably ii
would take at least n century to re-
store something like natural condi.
ticns. but the time and effort would
be amply repaid by the public bene.
fit
Daily camera., 1901-06-25
A Pen atty.

The man who tells the simple truth,
Perhaps is doing right:
But all the world will censure him
For being impolite.
Washington Star, u
Daily camera., 1901-06-25
TOO BIG FOR THE TURRE1.
An Amusing Anecdote Related h,
"fiEhtinx Bob" Evans About
New Gsancr.

Rear Admiral Robley d. ("Fighting
Bob') Evans was one of the speak.
ers AT n banquet given in Boston the
other night, and in concluding his
speech told the following anecdote to
illustrate a point he made, says the
Chicago Chronicle.
I'VE were lying ut Cienfuegos when
l received a draft of SO men. had
600, but thought that possibly some
of them might get killed and then
they would have TO give me some
more. Among that draft there was
one very fine, large fellow from De-
troit. Before we got chance to
drill them we got the men on board.
At two o'clock in The afternoon we
stationed them, did what we call Civ
ing them the billet. That same even
ing before we got a chance to drill
them we got the alarm; Torpedo
boats coming out!'
when ! passed to get on the
bridge | felt tug at my sleeve. 1t
was the big fellow from Detroit. The
electric light was near us.
We'll, my man., | said, being q
little in hurry, what Is it?'
"Well,' said he, Il came down here
to fight, and 1 want to fight, but l
don't know where to CO.
where are you stationedH /
asked.
He pulled his billet out of his
pocket, and, after reading it, said:
"I am stationed in the port of that
eight-inch turret.'
II said Here it is, right here
"Well,' he replied, how in the
blazes do you get into it?'"