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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-03-28
FOUNDRY SCHOOL NEEDED.
Lack of Youths to Learn Trade Must
be Overcome.

Lack of Youths to Learn Trade Must
be Overcome.
The necessity for 4 foundry trade
school, discussed at the convention Of the
American Foundrymen association il
Buffalo last summer. was ably consid-
cred in a paper read by Thomas d. West
of SharDsyille before the Pittsburg
Foundrymen's association this week. In
outlining the plan. Mr.. West said:
The art Of founding is suffering keen
" from the antipathy of boys to learn
ing the trade, and the degeneration Of
skill is due largely to the same forces
that are effective in other callings. To
assist in re1nedying these evils foundry
trade school has been proposed. 1t is in
tended that this trade school shall &C.
ceDt, among others. boys having gradu-
ated from the public, grammar or high
school, who would bind themselves for
three years and a half rs apprentices to
learn the foundry trade in all its
branches. The policy of keeping Il stu
dent on one job after he had learned
to dO it well. SO as to make the most
money out Of his labor, as in general
practice. would not be allowed as such
a policy would be detrimental to the
aims and interests Of the school. Such a
trade school should make much better
mechanics than is possible under present
conditions. and even with the best oppor-
tunit!eS IL outside shops would give our
country better workmen in three and Il
half years than would six or seven
years apprenticeship under present con-
uitiOns.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-03-28
Filipino School Children.

Writing from the island of Samar Ell
mer Latson, Kansan, who went to the
Philippines to teach school, tells some
amusing stories Of Filipino children. He
says that when the boys and girls come
into the schoolhouse the boys have on
coats and trousers and the girls are
dressed in quite proper way. But as
soon as they are dismissed they shed Il
portion OF their clothing and go about
the town in scant apparel. II American
women had a custom Of going about the
streets in decollete and wore high-necked
dresses III the ballroom. the Philippine
style would have the parallel. One day
in school Mr.. Latson asked his pupils to
construct an English sentence having the
word ''come" in it, One boy gravely
answered, II shall go to hell" Another
said, II shall 90 to the blessed land Of
the Free Still another answered.
Il will drink boil ber."
The lad who had proposed to
drink bottle Of beer had no doubt been
impressed by American customs, but
there is something Of shock in the re-
ply made by the second boy, when he
was asked to locate the :'blessed land Of
the free 1T is the cemeterio." he re-
sponded. showing that the notion Of no
peace this side of the grave had been
implanted among the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
sas City Journal.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-03-28
DECADENCE OF DANCING.
English women Complain that Me
Are Abandoning the Dance,

En:lishwomen Complain that Men
Are Abandoning the Dance.
This season the complaint of the part
nerless maiden is much more pronounced
than it has ever been before, says the
London Express. Indeed. there is a
something very like revolt among the
neglected fair.
Many girls are feeling it so keenly
that they are. actually refusing to go to
dances. There is no reason why they
should stand it. 1t is intolerable neglect,
they say, and therefore they won't.
1T makes me feel miserable and hui
inflated" exclaimed one Of this winters
buds vehemently, ito be standing up with
a smile on my face and waiting for a
young man who fails to come. I do not
mind going to dinners and very small
dances, perhaps, where I have a fair
chance; but no more balls for me, thank
you.'
1t seems that nice, attractive girls are
left out of dances by the dozen this Win
ter and the consequence is that they
tons. go
Certainly, it must be very humiliating
to be placed in such position at a big
dance, and many mOurnful maidens de-
clare that unless they have partners for
every dance beforehand. which few of
them ever have, such is their predica-
ment. :r, ~
1T isn't as if we like dancing" de-
clared one pretty girl the other day.
''though, Of course, we like it very much.
It is being OH appreciation for young
men to take or leave as they feel i'll
c1ined'
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-03-28
Babies Smoke in Mexico,

\ traveller in Tehuantepet, Mexico
says: Zone evening some of our party
of sixteen were kindly given Il nights
shelter. Mexican fashion. at hacienda,
or farmhouse. Sitting on the wide We
randa to receive us we beheld the entire
family. On the right Of the door was
gown. Smoking a cigar; below here 'V We're
the daughters and handmaidens, also
smoking. On the other side of the door
were the ranchero. or master, himself,
with his sons and men servants. Every
one was employed in rolling tobacco leaf
into cigars and everyone was smoking,
including little boy not quite 3 years
baby mouth, which he puffed at most pro-
fessionally, while in his left hand lie held
banana. from which he took bites be-
tween puffs. occasionally stopping to play
with Il small dog"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-03-28
The Home of the Kindergarten.

The Japanese have the most perfect
kindergarten system in the world In
fact, they originated this method Of in
structing by entertainment instead of by
punishment inflicted. Their play ap-
oaratus for such purpose is ella borate,
but all Of it is adapted to the infant
mind. which is designed at once to amuse
and to inform. The little ones OF Japan
mathematics by seeing and feeling what
!: pretty thing cone. a sphere or a
cylinder is when cut out OF wood with Il
lathe. They make outlines of solid fig
ures out of straw, with green peas to
hold the joints together, and for the in
struction of the blind flat blocks are pro-
vided. with the Japanese chara cters
raised upon them.-Pearson's Weekly.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-03-28
TOrpedojng Oil Wells.

The well-known custom of lowering
torpedoes in the Pennsylvania oil wells
of the we'll seems not to be universally
successful. In the Colorado fields it is
found that torpedoing we'll very fire.
quently either decreases the flow or stops
it entirely. This is explained on the
theory that the oil-bearing strata in the
two districts are radically different in
structure. In the, Colorado field this
ly compacted shales, which, when the
dynamite e1plodes, is compacted into an
imperv ious lining around the we'll base.
through which the oil cannot percolate.
In the Pennsylvania field the strata con-
sists of brittle sand rock. which is
cracked and shattered in all directions
by the dynamite, and new channels for
the outflow Of the oil made.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-03-28
BAD NEWS FROM MAINE,
A Scarcity of Genuine Black Trees
May Cause Spruce Gum Famine.

There is a prospect of a spruce gum
famine in New England this year. The
druggists and candy dealers in the man.
ufacturing cities of Massachusetts and
Connecticut are sending in orders faster
than the lumbermen can fill them, and
the Bangor jobbers, who handle One-half
the spruce gum output of the country,
are at the end Of their wits to make ex-
cuses for the delay.
The price of clear, amber-tinted spruce
nuggets, such as the factory girls delight
in chewing, has gone up from Is cents
to $3.50 a pound inside of six months,
schoolma'am gum are not made at all for
fear that none can be produced. The
distinction between ordinary factory
gum and schoolma'am gum lies in the
fact that the latter is fully two years Of
age before it is taken from the trees, and
is therefore more fragrant and Of greater
benefit to the teeth.
A scarcity Of genuine black spruce
trees in the Maine woods is the cause of
the famine. Prior to the time when the
large pulp mills were built there was no
trouble in securing the gum, many of the
professional harvesterS having retained
large tracts of forest for their own use.
The custom was to 60 through the
woods every year in March and secure
all the good nuggets that were found
hanging from the trunks or limbs. BE.
fore the hunter returned to the ground
from the tree he made several missions
in the healthy bark on the south side Of
the tree, and from these wounds the
gum for next years crop was harvested.
The pulp industry spoiled all these pre-
serves by cutting off the best trees to be
converted into sulphite pulp for paper,
and the gum pickers were forced to seek
other forests further away from the
! routes of travel. AS the new trees had
to be SCARED for several years before
they came into full bearing, the supply
Of gum grew scarce and the price dou-
bled inside of year.
While the harvesters can build up new
orchards in few years, if left to them
selves. the trouble comes in when the
owners of the pulp mills, in seeking new
stock, invade the gum preserves before
| they are in good condition, and the man
with the Ratchet and tree-climber is
! driven still deeper into the woods:
The harvest Of gum in Maine is about
six tons in season, which, taking one
pound. This year the collectors will not
bring in more than four tons. every one
! of which is spoken for at $3.50 pound.
Ten years ago the large dealers in
Boston had habit of Sending agents to
Maine and engaging all the gum they
could secure at from 60 to 20 cents 4
pound and then taking it to their stores
and putting the price up to 81 a pound
or higher. thus bringing great distress
to those who were devotees to the chew
ing habit. This year the middlemen will
get no opportunity to make corner in
eum.-New York Sun
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-03-28

thai loses two of his pet names, namely,
those Of the Navy Yard and Ravens
wood for Nos. and 4, respectively, and
they will be known as the Manhattan
bridge, which is a concession to which
Manhattan's sister borough is entitled,
and the Blackwell's Island bridge, which
is Il concession alike to history and cor
rect topography. The other bridges will
be known as the Brooklyn bridge. rs it
is already popularity called, despite it's
cumbrous official title of New York and
Brooklyn bridge, and the Williamsburg
bridge, which rryives and perpetuates
another point in local history.
It transpires that the alleged jewels
which were stolen from the altar in the
cathedral of St. John the Divine and
simply colored glass settings. The ru-
bies were red, but not rubies; the anne
thysts were pale blue, but they were Iii
fanny glass. No one saw the robbers ell
ter the crypt to return their booty. They
came by night, made an entrance some
now and left the envelope on the altar,
without doing any damage. The sexton
says that they probably had take
back your old glass" look OH their faces,
and he is very much afraid that they
mlsluote,l the prayer-book. But those
seven holes will stare him reproachfully
III the lace no longer, ana he thinks they
weren't such bad robbers. after ALL they
might have thrown the glass away No
body seems to know why the seven bits
OF glass were not replaced by seven 9th
or bits after the robbery.
The old United States hotel in Fulton
street was sold for the Tilden estate for
Il sum Il little less than 1925 900 1t is
understood that the buyer, whose name
was not made public, will build a twelve
story commercial and office building on
the premises. The United States not l
has been standing for about three-quar-
tcrs OF Il century. The hotel was opened
in 1882. and came to be known among
the New Workers of that day as Holt
Folly from the name OF its builder and
owner, who laid out far more on the
place than the demands of the day
seemed to warrant. In his regime the
owner had made for himself and for the
hotel reputation which extended be-
yond the confines Of. this city. 1t was
the headquarters for navy officers and
the resting place of the London and Liv-
erpool packet captains when III port.
For many wears the tower on top of the
hotel was used rs a ship signal station,
for at that period the six stories OF the
United States hotel made it the highest
structure in the neighborhood, and Il
point of prominence throughout the town.
The arrival OF vessels was signaled by
fla"S from Sandy Hook to Staten island =;
thence to Governors island, and from
there to the tower Of the hotel, which
told The news to the citizens.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-03-28
Science and Plants.

In an address before the British asso-
citation at Glasgow, recently. Francis
Darwin called attention to the sense of
gravitation in plants. It is that sense,
for example, that makes pine tree grow
straight upward. A plant that curves
assumes that position because it's sense
OF graVitation makes it take the one best
are very curiously guided by the gravi-
tation sense. The narcissus is an exam
pie. At first there is straight shaft
piercing the ground with it's compact
pointed flower bud. But as the flower
opens the stalk bends close to the top and
brings the flower tube into a roughly
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-03-28
Tillman Initiates Burke.

Senator Tillman's characterization Of
Senator Beyeridge as ''grasshopper'
reminds the Boston Herald of Edmund
Burke's eloquent observations upon that
insect. Said Burke: because half a
dozen grasshoppers under a fern make
the field ring with their importune chink.
while thousands of great cattle repose
cud and are silent, pray do not imagine
that those who make the noise are the
only Inhabitants OF the field, or that, aft
er all. they are other than the little
shriveled. meager. hopping. though loud
and troublesome, insects of the hour
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-03-28
The Enterprising Germans.

Wherever you see Germans you see
thrift We have had evidence OF it in
this country for century. Prince Hen
ry is amazed at it. German enterprise
is making old Palestine blossom anew.
Last year a German bank in Jerusalem
exchanged $15,OOO,O0O. The waters Of
the Dead sea, where no rudder had been
seen. in hundreds of years, are now be-
ing piled by German motor boats. The
Land of Moab has been awakened by
the hum of German machinery from the
sleep of a thousand years. The Ragdad
railroad is civilizing German promo
rion.-\eW York Press
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-03-28
Tobacco Blindness.

Tobacco blindness is becoming quite q
common affection, and a short time ago
several persons were being treated for it.
1t first takes the form of color blindness,
the sufferers who have smoked them
selves into this condition being quite un-
able to distinguish the color of piece
Of red cloth. held mp before them. That
is also more scientific one. Eventual
~ the victim to tobacco blindness some
times loses his eyesight altogether
London Health.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-03-28
Telling the Age Of Coins by Their Ring

The cashier III the light lunch cafe
jingled a silver half-dollar on the marble
counter.
IN bet you cup of coffee l can tell
YOU the decade in which that piece of
money was coined" he said to GUS
toner who was engaged with his mid
night lunch.
you probably know the exact date"
replied the customer.
Take one Of your own, them" said the
cashier. Il can tell from the ring
whether it was coined in the 9Os, the
sos, the los or in whatever decade it
left the mint: Try me and see.'
The young man pulled half-dollar
from his pocket and threw it down on
the counter. The cashier listened atten-
lively.
THAT was coined in the 6Os,'' he said
Sure enough. the coin bore the date
of 1862. Several other persons in the
cafe tried him and in each instance his
judgment was unerring.
Its all III the ring explained the
cashier. I've gotten so I don't make
a mistake once in fifty times. ''-Phila-
delphia Record.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-03-28
PHlLOSOPHlC MlLKMAN.
Unsafe to Judge Human Nature by
What He Sees

What He Fees.
IT. said a philosophic milkman, II
should judge human nature solely by
what see on my milk route I am afraid
L should have pretty poor opinion of it.
"Of course. the only things you can 60
by here 2re the condition of the bottles
yoir get back and the way in which the
people pay; but | wish you could see
those bottles! If. it wasn't for one GUS
toner I've got. l believe should think
of humankind in general that it was
"But when 1 take the: bottles off the /: !:
elevator (she lives in Il 1at) my spirits
revive, and l feel that there's some good
left in us YETI
"Her bottles come down always spot
lessly, scrupulously clean: the glass fair
the tin caps and the wire fastenings, not
only clean, but dry; comfort, these
bottles, to the ,milkman's eye.
"And she always sends down the right
change: always. She thinks Of it in adj
vance and provides herself with the ex-
act change, and she sends it down always
i'll one of the bottles; just the right
amount.
Understand what all that means? No
hosting up the elevator again with
change, no hearing somebody say to you
down the shaft:
"Ill give you the money tomorrow
or It's cents short. I'll pay you that
next time
mo Inconvenience. no bother, no mix
up or confusion about her account what
ever, but simply CHEEKY:
The moneys in one of the bottles
"And such bottles!
Though 1 had never seen her l had
heard her voice and l had seen how she
took care of bottles, and how she looked
after the financial end, and she was
gone particularly wrong with me some
where OH the route I always looked for
ward with a sense OF comfort to the
place where there came down always
clean, shining bottles and the exact
sAnd day after day, day in and day
out, to my great delight, those clean bot
ties, with. just the right change, kept
coming in unbroken succession, for long
time; and then finally, odd as it may
seem, the perfection Of it all began to
"And one morning I found in the
money Canadian dime.
/ EAT first F'thought it got there, as it
were, by mistake; that she didn't know
anything about it; that she hadn't OBJ
served that it was a Canadian: but had
three weeks later / got from her another
Canadian. And then the truth @daWned
OH me, to be confirmed by later events.
casa matter Of fact. she has long
worked off all her Canadians on me; the
bottles are spotless as ever, the money
is always there and always just right,
everything perfect as ever; but whenever
she takes a Canadian dime she gives it
to me. st ""s { . II. SO :z Z: ..< - "a
.T'm away off, and out Of sight; she
sends just the right amount and she
doubts il I'll take the trouble to pull the
elevator all the way up again to ask her
to change it; and SO she puts It I'm the
bottle and, lets It 60; she gives it to the
milkman. see B. 1t sI5 .5z.
"But I don't object, in fact, I'm glad I
to have her send them down 70 mex she IS
really and truly human. after all, this
angel Of the milk route, Ny Lady of the
Shining Bottles.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-03-28
Australia Needs Japanese.

There is q: considerable Japanese col
ony in northern Australia. The Japs are
expert divers and the pearl Smelling in
dustry in Australian waters gives plenty
of scope for their abilities in that d.
rection. But they are locally regarded
as intrusive aliens, and legislative efforts
to check their immigration have been
made from time to time. Quite recently
a Japanese exclusion bill passed by the
Queensland Parliament 4wasyetoed BY
the imperial government on the ground
that it was not in harmony with impe-
rial interastA. -, ~ s IS ia
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-03-28
Russian Cigarettes.

Last year mas Deen record year IL
That trade seven years ago only reached
the figure Of 3O,O00,000, while the re-
turns for 1901 show that during the year
t29, 100000 cigarettes were sent from
Russia to foreign countries. Germany
hppears to be the best customer, her pur-
phases amounting to 100000, Finland
boo. 900 being spread all over the surface
bf the globe.-Sell's Commercial Intelli-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-03-28
A Delightful Freshener.

When arranging for dinner the atmos-
ehere Of the he. house often becomes st%ffy,
Jew drops of lavender in silver bowl or
dish of some kind half filled
With very hot water and set in the dining
room just before dinner is served give a
delightful and intangible freshness to the
atmosphere of the apartment. Hostesses
often put small vessel in the parlor and
dressing rooms when preparing the house
FOR q feStiyity.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-03-28
A Srea m Bath for Horses.

A German veterinary surgeon has just
brought upon the market an apparatus
for the purpose of enabling sick horse
to take a steam bath. The apparatus is
made Of solid wood, coated with sheet
iron; it has double bottom, into which
the steam is conveyed by means Of a
metallic hose. Little iron rollers allow
the apparatus to be easily moved to any
desired place.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-03-28
Why Easter is ''M0veable'' Feast.

During all of March the sun is COM
ing farther north. About the twentieth
it shines directly on the equator, and
the day is just as long as the night. The
time Of the old Jewish passover, and
hence Of ou' Easter, depends on this
day following the first full moon after
the sun crosses the line. This accounts
for it's being so movable feast.-La-
dies Home Journal. 80 q.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-03-28
Meningitis In Horses.

Investigation by the state veterinarian
shows that the high death rate among
horses in Maryland 10 due to cerebro-
spinal meningitis. The disease is the re-
|sult OF poor food, bad drainage and gen.
|erally unsanitary environment. -
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-03-28

bright-colored crown to attract the in
sects, on the visits OF which it depends
for fertilization. The flowers are guided
to the right position by the gravitation
sense, and they increase or diminish the
angular bend in their stalk until the right
position is Philadelphia Rec
ord
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-03-28
READY FOR MoRE.

Ering on another prince! Egad
We've shown that we know how
70 wear conventional attire
And make a proper bow!
We've shaken hands with royalty.
Nor trembled at the touch.
We didn't blush and feel abashed-
At least not very much.
We We're not dazzled by his glance,
We didn't even vince.
in fact, We rather liked it all
Bring on another prince.
Washington Star.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-03-28

The nomenclature of the bridges that
span, or are to span, the East river may
c;sioa Of the committee on bridges and
tunnels reached yesterday. Mr.. Linden.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-03-28
IN GAY NEW YORK.

Poultney Bigelow. the writer and lee
turer, was a passenger on the steamship
Minneapolis, which arrived from London
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-03-28

The board of aldermen authorized an
appropriation OF 100000 for the cree
ton of public baths in the borough of
Manhattan and $1SO,OOO for Brooklyn.
The board OF estimate will issue bonds
for the money.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-03-28

i,ev. DR.. Tulmaye and Mrs. Talmagc
announce the date for the marriage OF
their daughter. Miss Maud Talmage, to
t!&"ence H. Nyroff OF 1thica, y. u, as
Auril O.