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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-07-26
POISON IVY'S ANTIDOTE.
Spotted Touch Me-Not Said to Coun.
teract the Vines Effects.

Poison ivy belongs to the sumac fami-
~ and derives its botanical name from
the ancient Celtic "rhudd,'' red, and the
Greek "toxocodendron,' or poison plant
The origin of the poison, which causes
a long while mystery: as the plant
itself contains no active poison, as do
many plants, but it now seems to he
certain that the plant nourishes deadly
bacilli, which enter the pores Of the skin
and give the poison parts their charac-
teristlc appearance. The three leaves
are pale green and the creeping plant is
Of Montreal. 1t is closely related to the
Rhus Venenata, or "polson sumac,'
sometimes also called "poison dogwood."
Poison sumac, however, is a shrub, with
the drupe greenish yellow and only grows
in swamps. Its flowers are green and
it is very poisonous. The ordinary su.
mac, with red fruit and crimson hairs,
is not dangerous.
1t is said that some people cannot go
into the neigborhood of poison ivy with
out suffering from the poison of the
plant, while others can handle it with
out any i'll effects. Many antidotes to
the poison have been recommended, as
it affects, different people. differently, and
strong soapsuds and bicarbonate of soda.
One peculiarly painful result of rhus
toxicodendron poisoning is that with
many people the parts poisoned are liable
to be affected for several years afterward
at about the same period the disease was
originally caught. This plant grows
erect as we'll as decumbent, and in the
former case is known as poison oak.
In addition to the aids Of the druggists,
however, nature is said to have provided
a most efficient remedy for rhus toxico-
dendron poisoning, in the shape of the
widely spread flower known as "spotted
touch-me-not," or "Impatiens fulva." It
is also called the Jewel weed,'' and is
very abundant in the water courses dur
ing June and July, when the rhus toxi-
codendron and the rhus venenata are
most poisonous. The color of the flower of
spotted touch,me-not" is deep orange
and the spots are of reddish brown.
The lip forms a sac, not very much un-
like the moceasinI flower, and it ends in
curved spur. The seed pods burst il
slightly touched and scatter the seeds ali
around. To this peculiar property the
plant owes its common name. It is also
called "noli-me tangere' and my
tounchez pas" The remedy is applied
by expressing the juices Of the plant and
applying it to that part of the skin
which has been poisoned.-Montreal Wit
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-07-26
West Point Not an Easy Berth.


In no institution in the world are the
requirements greater and the discipline
more exacting than at the United States
Military academy at West Point, though
the enforcement Of penalties is inflexible
rather than severe. From the establish
ment Of the academy, in 1902, to 1911.
the percentage Of cadets admitted who
the next ten years the percentages fell
to $50. In the following decade It rose.
to 37.7. From 1882 to 1871, 47.2 out
Of every 100 graduates who entered Sc
cured commissions in the army. Dur
ing the subsequent ten years up to 1851
81 per cent. graduated. During the dec
81 the percentage increased to 52.3. In
these latter days, in period Of thirty
six years, the average percentage of ca
diets entered at the academy who eradu-
ated was 59.4.-C0llier's Weekly
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-07-26

Los Angeles, which may once have
been the home of the angels" is now
having sewage troubles which Indicate
that it is now not even q safe home for
those who are Of the earth earthly. The
sewage which in one section of the city
has been running in open bitches has
been sold to Chinamn who use it to irri-
gate their vegetable patches, and the con-
sumers Of the garden sass" are protest
ing vigorously to the board of health.
Milwaukee has had sewage and garbage
troubles. but none as disgusting as this.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-07-26
The Gallant Cabman.

Nothing, perhaps, produces quite SO
being underpaid, which in most cases
means that he has been justly paid. A
lady who had been guilty of this kind of
justice experienced the usual sense Of
discomfort when her driver Strengthened
the palm into which she had Just dropped
her shilling and looked at her speechless-
~. She was weakly about to add another
NOR prevailed. He transferred the shil-,
ling to his pocket and smiled sweetly
down at her embarrassed fare, COURSE.
Missy" he remarked, "there was the
pleasure O drivin' your London Chron-
ic1o
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-07-26
THE PROMlS OF THE HAw.
THOkNE.

Spring sleeps and stirs and trembles with
desire
Pure as babes that nestles toward the
breast.
The world, as yet an unstricken lyre,
Feds not tho snn,s han5 vnt hit feels liz
breath
And yearns for love made perfect. Man
and bird.
Thrilled through with hope OF life that
casts out death,
Wait with a rapturous patience til his
word
Speak heaven, and flower and tree by tree
Give back the silent strenuous utteranve.
Earth.
Alive and joyful as the sea,
Laughs not aloud in joy too deep for
mirth,
Presagefu Of perfection of delight,
Till all the unborn green buds be born IN
white.
A. c. Swinburne in Saturday Review.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-07-26
Lightship without a Crew.

A novel Nghtship is to be moored off
the Otter Rock, Islay. It will have NO
crew, and will be worked by the COM
pound gas system: Two large gasholders
the lantern for several months. The gas.
escaping from the holders to the lantern.
will operate the clapper Of q bell placed
on deck belfry, and the rocking cf the
yesse; vii: set q tongue going as well.
The Otter Rock marks q particularly
dangerous part OF the west coast, and
the new plan will be submitted to a Sc
we're test.-London Globe. ss
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-07-26

In paroling the Younger brothers, the
Minnesota state pardon board has in
creased the hope of ''lifers" that eventu-
ally the same good fortune may come to
them, after unbroken exhibitions of good
behavior; in other words, the pardon
board has done an act that ought to re-
suit in Improvement in the behavior of
lOng-term prisoners 49,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-07-26
the A1nCf1VI cup.

Instead Of having one 'world-beater,'
the yachtsmen of America seem to have
three. The performance Of the crippled
independence, yesterday, was a revela-
ton to those who were quick to form
opinions based on her early failures.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-07-26

Kaiser Wilhclm's apology to a German
naval captain who had attempted to re-
sign because lie had fallen under the i'm
perlal displcasure, was an exhibition Of
manliness that will make many people
favorably revise their estimates of HIS
Imperial Majesty
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-07-26

65,699,75O

A "South American writes to the
London Mail: 1T has been stated that
Sydney, with population of 1856 900, is
the largest city south of the equator. In
the Pocket Atlas for 1891 Buenos Ayres
and Rio de Janeiro are respectively Civ
en- as 561 ,1GO and 100000. They have
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-07-26

A revival Of the oft-repeated statement
that the Niagara Falls will be worn
out thing some thousands of years hence
may be laid at the doors of the promoters
of the Pan-American Exposition, a side
show that would profit to some extent
from stampede to see Niagara for the
last time
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-07-26

The expected effort to break the will OF
Jacob S. Rogers, the Paterson locomotive
builder who left the bulk of his fortune
to the New York Museum of Art may
end in a way that will convince people
generally that it is harder to make a
will that will stand than it is to construct
an engine that will not break down.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-07-26

Thomas w. Lawson mag swallow his
pride and charter the Independence to a
member Of the New York Yacht Club, in
order to give his yacht chance to humil-
late certain people by capturing the hon
or of defending the America cup.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-07-26

Physicians may be interested to learn
that the caldron post mortem in the case
of murdered San Francisco Chinaman
was entirely successful. After the Chi
naman had been strained through cheese
cloth, fourteen missing buckshot and one
44-caliber bullet were found.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-07-26

China claim for indemnity for alleged
outrages upon Cinnamon at Butte, Mon
tana, fifteen years ago, brings the Amer
lean Boxer into the financial calculations
incident to the settlement of the indemni-
ty for the recent outragcs upon Chris
tians in the Flowery Kingdom.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-07-26

King Edwards sale Of junk as a result
Of his renovation of the royal palaces and
residences, will, give purchasers of old
furniture chance to stock up their
houses for future junk sales. Curios arc
handed down to posterity in that way.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-07-26

In timing their departure during the
hot spell, Messrs. Bridgman and Zieg
Ter, who are respectively going in search
Of Llcut. Peary and the North Pole, have
evidently endeavored to cultivate envy
among their sweltering citizens whom
they leave behind
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-07-26

The presence of 900 lepers in the Unit
ed States gives American doctors an op-
portunity to show what they can do in
the way of subduing the disease, which
has had prominent place in medical his
Tory since the dawn of time.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-07-26

The craft in which Carlisle D. Graham
went through the Niagara rapids differs
from the conventional boat almost as
much as the freak yacht does from the
sailing craft which was once the pride
of amateur sailors.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-07-26
No keg Parties There.

City Marsha! Seymour of WELLINGTON.
kas.. the other day discovered an old
dusty ordinance under which he viii he
able to break up ''keg parties" The ordi-
nance prohibits more than three persons
from congregating together to drink beer
Or other Intoxicating liquors, even
though the stuff be given away. It pro-
vides for fine Of $25.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-07-26

The lottery plan is said to have robbed
the rush of ''sooners" to the Kiowa-CO-
manche lands of much of its picturesque
ness. 1t also undoubtedly robbed some Of
the ''sooners" Of opportunities to do a lit
Ito bloody land graSping
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-07-26

Strangers in New York during the hot
weather will attract attention if they ask
to be directed to the Tenderloin district,
notwithstanding that they may have
heard it is full of shady places.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-07-26

A re-revision of the New Testament!
Yet there are some folks who act as if
they had never read even the first trans
lation out of the original tongues.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-07-26

The Philadelphia capitalist who took
home long-lost son from an Indiana
iron works is probably now enacting tine
role Of the pl odigal father.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-07-26

All the jokes that have been cracked
on the subject of the Turkish debt to the
United States have been made obsolete
by the simple act of the porte in paying
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-07-26

doubtless increased since then; Buenos
Ayres certainly has, numbers of immi-
grants settling there. I imagine that
Buenos Ayres is entitled to be called the
largest city south Of the line"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-07-26

The fire loss in the United States
and Canada for the first half of the cur
rent year amounted to $SS,935, $50
which is smaller figure than might have
been expected. The June loss was only
$9,599,OOO. The loss for the first six
months of each Of the three years last
past compares as follows:
10l NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. SIS. 935, $50
!:SN ............-...... 1O3, 229S 800
1888 NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. $3.50, $50
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-07-26

They look like elders. and it is to be
hoped that experience has taught them
not to behave in future like the Young
ers of the past
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-07-26

BY the way, the title Of King Edward,
which Chamberlain proposes to change,
is not his title to the English throne.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-07-26

If there is anything in theosophy, Pat
Grove, who has been sighted in Montana
and South Africa at the same time, must
possess an astral body.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-07-26

Has it occurred to anybody to remark
that the more heats there are in sum-
mer, the worse it is for the race?
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-07-26

Graham's object in shooting Niagara j!
to obtain recognition as big gun.
Connecticut western news., 1901-11-28
SUBMARINE WONDER,
Torpedo Boat Fulton surpas.ss Ex-
 uactntiaus

pectntionx.
 Commanders Nishi and Sata and Lieutenant lde of the Japanese navy witnessed a trial of the Holland sub marine torpedo boat Fulton in New York harbor on Friday. When asked what he thought of the boat, Con- mander Nishi said he would recom- mend the adoption of the Holland boat by the Japanese navy. Successful tests In diving and running under water were made. and the accuracy of the steering gear was demonstrated satis- factorily.
 party of naval officers spent Sat urday night in the Fulton at the bot tom of Great South bay. After being submerged for fifteen hours the boat rose safely to the surface of the bay, where all night fierce storm had been raging.
 Rear Admiral Lowe. who was of the party spending the night in the Fulton, said:
 Not once did l notice any sign of bad air. gas or other impurity. Con- sidering that we did not draw on the tanks at all, I think this Is wonderful. It upsets all the theories of the physi- clans and scientists who tell us that what we did was impossible.
 'There was no rock or roll of the yes sel during the fifteen hours we were submerged. The only indication of the storm we found was that the water as we saw it through the headlights was very dirty"
Connecticut western news., 1901-11-28
Fight With Fiitpinoa.

Second Lieutenant Louis J. Van Schaick of the Fourth United States in- fantry, while scouting with few men of that regiment, met 150 insurgents who had attacked and sacked the ham, let of Siaraca, near Cavite. Upon see ing the Filipinos Van Schaick ordered his men to charge them. The command was obeyed, and Van Schaick, being mounted, reached the insurgents sixty yards in advance of his men. He killed three of them with his revolver. In q hand to hand conflict which followed the lieutenant sustained two severe wounds before he was rescued by his men. Van Schaick Is in the military hospital at Manila and is doing well. He has already been recommended for a medal of honor for bravery in a pre- vfous engagement.
Connecticut western news., 1901-11-28

some nave not, then may God hel those who have to hand over to thos who have nat! Clear the track fer tha rail trains that rush OH bringing the wheat and the cotton und the rice and the barley aud inc cats and tine hops and the lumber and tie leather and ev- erything for man and everything for beast!
 Lift up your eyes. O ratiJu of Gods right hand. at the glorious prospects, Build larger your barns for the har- vests; dig deeper the vats for the SD III of the vineyards; enlarge the ware houses for the merchandise; multiply galleries of art for the pictures and statues. Advance, O nation of Gods right hand, but remember that nation al wealth, If unsanctified. Is sumptu- ous waste. Is moral ruin, is magnificent woe, is splendid rottenness, Is gilded death! Woe to us for the wine vats if drunkenness wallows In them, Woe to us for the harvests If greed sickles them! Woe to us for the merchandise If avarice swallows 1t! Woe to us for the cities If misrule walks them. Woe to the land If God defying crime de bauches 1t, Our only safety is In mere Bibles, more churches, more free schools, more good men and more good women, more consecrated printing presses. more of the glorious gospel of the Son of God. which will yet extir- pate all wrongs and Introduce all bless edness.
 But the preachers on Thanksgiving morning will not Getaia with long ser mons their hearers from the home group. The housekeepers will be an- gry If the guests do not arrive until the viands are cold. Set the chairs to the table-the easy chairs for grandfa- ther and grandmother, If they be still alive; the high chair for the youngest but not the least Then put out your hand to take the full cup of thanksgiv- ing. Lift 1t and bring 1t toward your lips, your hands trembling with emo ton, and If the chalice shall overflow and trickle a few drops on the white cloth that covers the table do not be disturbed, bIt let 1t suggest to you the words of the psalmist and lead you thankfully to say, My cup runneth Eerw
 [Copyright. 1901, Louis Klopsth. N. VI
Connecticut western news., 1901-11-28
THE COLOMBIAN WAR
ALBAN DEFEATS LIBERALS AND MOVES
 ON COLON.

United States Marines Protect the
 RaiIway-Forefgn ConsuIs' Protest
 Prevents Bombardment of Colon by
 Government Gunboat.
 The capture last Tuesday of the city of Colon by the Liberals resulted in a recrudescence of active warfare in Co- lombia. The government gunboat Gen eral Pinzon arrived off Colon on Sun day, and her commander notified the foreign consuls that he would Lombard the city at noon on Monday. The con suls protested against the bambard- ment, and the Pinzon left the harboI Monday night. United States marines from the Machias who landed at Colon and marines from the Iowa who landed at Panama are protecting the isthmian railroad, but are not interfering in the warfare.
 General Alban, commander of the government troops, advanced from Panama on Tuesday and drove the Lib erals who were moving to attack that city back toward Colon.
 The train from Panama that was due at II 80 a. m. reached Colon at o'clock Tuesday afternoon, bringing the news that General Alban, with about 300 government troops, had crossed Barba- coa bridge and was continuing his march toward Colon. He is now at Tavernilla, where he is resting. The Liberal forces continue to retreat be- fore him. They explain their retreat by saying they have no ammunition.
 All of the fighting Tuesday occurred at Barbacoa bridge. Passengers by the delayed train assert that fully 100 Conservatives were killed and wound ed during the fighting there and that the Liberal losses were insignificant. The Liberals are now approaching Ga tun Station, about five miles from Colon. It is believed decisive engage ment will be fought at Monkey Hill cmetery, one mile from the city limits.
 The Liberals retreated from Elm perador owing to a lack of ammunition. They admit having lost sixty men there in killed and wounded. Among the number was Colonel Oyas. It Is claim ed that the government loss was more than 150 men in killed and wounded.
Connecticut western news., 1901-11-28
RIGHT UP TO DATE.
(Beason's Plaster Is Pains Mastsf.,

'rheas Gro Jays of records and of tho boat ing ol records. Benson's Porous Plaster, for quiokness of action and thoroughness of cure, has no records to beat except its own.
 Benson's I lasleT, always the best, always tls loader, Ii to-day better hda epsr. lt st.gls 10 the skin but never sticks in its trucks. IL marches on.
 The people not only want to be cured but cured Qtiokiy and nenson's Plaster does it. Coughs, colds, lumbago. asthma, bronchitis, hyor anl kidney complaints, ani other ills appioachable hy an external vleeiv, yield Co llenson's as icodoes to hoat.
 Neither Belladonna, Strengthening or Capsicuni plasters are Co be compared with Benson's. People who hayo once tested tllS merits ot BSnsons Plaster have n3 nso .1r " other external re nody.
 More than 5000 physicians md drug gists (and thousand thnua as many non- professional porsons) have called Benson's Plastois ono of the few (, home remedies ;liut cai be trusted.
 fiay-Hve highest awards have been made to it in competition with the best known plasters of Europe aud America. Better proof of its merits is inconocivable. Be sure to get the genuine.
 For sale by all druggists, or we will pre- pay postage on any number ordered in the United States, on receipt of 25o. each.
 Seahnry & Johnson, Mfg. Chemists. NY.
Connecticut western news., 1901-11-28
DEMOCRATS PROGRAMME.
nichardson States Points on Which
 Republicans May He Opposed.

Republicans May He Opposed.
 Washington, Nov. 2T.-Representa tive James b. Richardson of Tennes. see, who expects to be renominated on Saturday by his Democratic colleagues as minority leader in the house, has this to say about the probable Demo cratic programme for the coming ses. sion:
 Speaking for myself alone and not attempting to define the issues for my party, I should think that the Demo crats would find several clearly defined issues upon which they could meet the Republicans.
 'First.-I think we should stand foi reciprocity and demand legislation up. on this subject that would be practical and of benefit to American producers and American consumers.
 'Second.-That Democrats should ad. vocate reduction of the tariff-the re moval of the prohibitive features at least
 ''Third.-We will certainly work foI retrenchment in expenditures and en. deavor to prevent extravagant waste. iuihesS III tue use OI the peOple money.
 "Fourth.-We will demand legislation for the suppression and control of the trusts. The Republicans of the house passed an antitrust law last congress, but it was pigeonholed by the Repub. licans in the senate"
 Do you look for any practical legis. lation on trusts?' MT. Richardson was asked.
 Il do not" was the reply.
 Fifth" Mir. Richardson continued, lin my opinion there should be reduc. ton Of the war taxes. A large surplus has been piled up, and it should be re turned to the people through curtail- ment of the internal revenue taxation to which they are now subjected. We are ready to join hands with any party to do these things"
 What will be the attitude of the Democrats toward the Philippine ques. tionY'
 "I should judge it will be determined by Democratic caucus when the time arrives"
 How do you feel toward possible Cuban annexationG"
 That is a subject I do not care to discuss"