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Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1902-09-20
Lots on Easy Pay
ments.

In order to give every one an op'
portunity to own a lot In Parkers-
burg, we have decided to put TWEEN.
ty lots on the market on easy pay
ments. The price Is $500 per lot.
The terms Is SIS downIand balance
S per month. They are located
close to Tarrapin Park, about fit-
teen minutes walk from the busi-
ness part of the town, and three
blocks from the electric car line.
The title Is perfect, and we give
you a general warranty deed.
Get one of these before they are
all gone. Remember there are only
twenty tor sale on these terms.
Ten acrss of beautiful land on
Parkersburg & Marietta car line.
one of the finest situations for a
home along the line; price $500.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-04-18

The March fire loss in the United
States and Canada aggregated $12,056.-
600. Ii the figure looks small, it does
so merely because it is compared with
months III which the fire loss was alb
normally large. The year 1902 has
started out badly. In January the fire
loss was $15,OOO,0OO, and in February
$21 100000. The March loss added to
these makes the total for the first quar-
ter of the year $4S, 100000. Last year
the total for the first quarter was $45,-
$1,000; in 1900 the total for the first
quarter was $4O,5OO,OOO. The New York
Journal of Commerce, which complies
these statistics. remarks that the rigid
enforcement of regulations controlling
the use Of electricity would cut off mil
lions of the fire loss every year, and
that vigilant prosecution of incendiaries
would make a still further reduction like
ly. There is another thing needing
to be done, and that is to develop spirit
of precaution in the American people.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-04-18
Oil OF Tobacco.

. Some interesting Investigations have
Just been published BY the analysts of
the governments laboratory with respect
to what is known as the "oil Of tobac-
CO." In making up raw tobacco leaf into
the article with which we fill our pipes
manufacturers use olive oil, and at one
time they made use Of it which, like
Sam Weller's knowledge of London, was
extensive and peculiar. In order to pro-
tect the smoker paternal legislature.
has enacted that not more than a. Der
cent. Of olive oil shall be used By manu-
facturers for making up or ssflavor-
ing" and the business-like manufacturer
has sometimes complained that this 4 per,
cent. is not a sufficient allowance, be-
cause the tobacco leaf itself supplies an
oil which might be mistaken for the
manufacturing product. The government
ANALYSTS have, therefore, experimental
with forty.six tobacccs, and they find that
the essential oil eof tobacco. nsuaay.. Lex
lists only in the smallest sof quantities,
sometimes not more than .05 per cent.
fin hydrocarbon. london, Post.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-04-18
Depew's Fight Against the Blues.

Senator Chauncey M. Depew; the nat
ural humorist, is victim of the blues.
He declares he has had to fight against
melancholia all his life. In answer to an
interviewer he said: II never knew a
man who, by temperament and heredity.
seemed marked equally with myself for
a victim of melancholy.
MY family history and associations. -
continued Mr.. Depew, his gravity tenn
pered with cheerfulness, "predestined me
from boyhood to suffer horribly from the
blues. Oh, if anyone in the world has
cause to know the meaning Of that af-
fiction it is l.
"Al my life I have fought against it..
Realizing my own danger, l have made
it practice to pursue gayety on every
possible occasion and to avoid sadness as
would the foul fiend.g l seek the So
ciety of those who are light hearted and
shun that of the woe-begone. 1 frequent
gay scenes as much as possible and stay
away from mournful ones. When I 70
to the theater it is to see something
happy and laughable. I have no use for
tragedy. There is enough tragedy III
life-1 dare not be reminded of It. And
by following these principles from early
life I have succeeded tolerably we'll in
escaping what would otherwise have
been my bane-the eb1ues:'"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-04-18
HAVE BROUGHT FORTUNES.
a nous One-Act Hays that Have
Achieved Great Success

famous One-Act Hays that Have
| Achieved G reat Success.
Perhaps no one-act play has brough,
IS author a richer harvest than has tho
FEDERATED farce known to all English
peaking playgoers throughout the world
5 BOX and Cox This clever little
lece has produced many thousands OF
punds in the shape of acting fees, and
though its duration is little more thar
pr an hour it has earned ten times as
ian triple it's length
Another one-act play which has led its
aptAor on to fame and fortune is Henry
Art4lr Jones' Clerical Error" Until
the production of this pathetic little
dral by Wilson Barrett it's talented
proanitor was unknown to theatrical
aud hces, but the success OF the piece
was great that Mr.. Jones was encour-
ageto make further effort in d more
Felatfate direction The result was 1.-The
Silly King" which he wrote in collabu.
rath with another dramatist, and which
PLAID him at one bound among the fore
mos of English playwrights.
Tristan playgoers are at the present
tim being thrilled by a one-act drama.
emitted AAu Telephone" lat the tele-
phdc). and it is said that the lucky au-
tho of this piece of work is rapidly
mang a fortune therefrom Already
thd1nglish rights of the play have been
puhased by one of our leading man.
age, and offers from America and the
co1ies are said to be pouring in upon
thp1aywright. There can be no doubt
tn long before the piece has ceased to
athct the author will have secured
my thousands Of pounds thereby-a
fa which is all the more remarkable ID
viz of the rumor that the entire drama
W conceived and written within the
sIte of single week.
he well-known farce called ''The Spit-
Aids Weaver undoubtedly brought a
c&iderable fortune to it's author. This
otact play was enacted by J. L. Toole
aNarious periods throughout his bril-
lit career, and it has figured, more
or, at countless amateur entertain
nnts. Equally, the amusing farce, "Ici
oParle Francais," has been responsible
& the piling up of very large sum in
t way of authors fees, seeing that
J \. Toole alone enacted the same more
tin 1000 times, and it has,
lreover, been played by amateurs in
cry section of the Anglo-Saxon globe.
Truths Romance" the pathetic and
drming ''curtain raiser which is fire.
emily performed at West End the
FRS previous to the play of the even
(, realized for its lucky progenitor
hdsome sum, and the amount earned
ifees by such one-act plays as with
ed Leaves" "Boots at the Swan"
>elicate Ground and "A Case for
iiction'' would probably amount to u
,ll-nigh incredible figure. '-Tit-B
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-04-18
NEW WAY TO KILL MUSKRATS
Maine Man Di.cards Traps for Beer
Bottles Filled with Fresh Lime.

Maine Man Diacardo Traps for Beer
Bottles Filled with Fresh Lime.
In March and April. Just before the
muskrats shed their winter coats. the
boys and men who wish to earn money
and have short outing, camp along the
muddy ponds and sluggish streams of
Maine and spend a few weeks trapping
these animals. the pelts of which are
worth from 20 to 25 cents each when
taken from their bodies, but when
tanned and dyed for furs are sold as
high as 81.
The usual way to get the rats is to bait
a small steel trap with bit of raw
parsnip or sweet cake and set it on log
or stone in deep water. The trap should be
weighted with a stone. so when the ami
NAL is caught it will leap into deep wa
ter and drown. for if caught above wa
ter the rats readily amputate their legs
by biting them off above the traps, leay-
ing worthless foot for the hunter.
This spring James Sukeiorth intro
duced novelty in the way of catching
the rats. which has yielded large profits
and which promises to revolutionize tine
business. While the water is coated
with ice the muskrats make their homes
IN rough houses of mud and sticks, built
the previous autumn, and so constructed
that the roofs are above the ice while
the walls run down to the mud at the
bottom The mud walls keep the ice
from forming on the inside and leave a
hole through which the animals can go
and come at all seasons.
Sukeforth, who had kept a bar-roonl
in Bangor a few years before, was the
owner Of 400 or 500 ancient beer bottles
with rubber caps and patent wired
fastenings. When the new style bottles
came in. he could not sell his stock and
took the lot to his farm in Dedham. In
his intercourse with wild animals he had
noticed that muskrats were much an
noyed by the presence Of lime, quitting
their dens as soon as any of the powder
was left near by. Two weeks ago he
brought home cask of fresh lime, and
having broken the Jumps, filled them into
the beer bottles, put in as much water
as the spaces would hold, and closing
the caps. sunk them inside the muskrat
houses. Then he laid out box of
loaded shells and stood at attention,
with his shotgun in hand.
The wetted Quickllme soon began to
swell and bubble within the bottles, and
when the pressure grew too much for the
glass to stand the bottles exploded with
noise that Jared the ice and set the
pond in culver. The muskrats, star
tied by the noise, sought their homes for
safety, but meeting the lime in the water
maze haste 20 reach open air. AS they
emerged on top of the ice Sukeforth shot
them as fast as they came. By using
eight bottles of lime in four homes he
was able to capture 154 muskrats in one
forenoon.
1t is declared that the new way of
killing muskrats will enable one man
with gun to gather more pelts in a day
than six men and 1000 traps could by
the old way. The lime, which the rats
take into their lungs in trying to get
skinned mort rapidly than if they were
lank from long Imprisonment in traps
New York Sun
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-04-18
Make the Most of Your Talents.

Surrounded by every comfort and lux
ury that money can buy, there seems to
be no necessity for daughters of wealthy
parents or even those in comfortable cir
cumStances to concern themselves about
means of livelihood, but cruel fate has
habit of playing sorry tricks at times.
A sudden decline in values may turn
fortunes most fascinating smile into the
darkest of frowns in single day and
compel the petted child Of plenty to
make her own living and perhaps to as
sist in the support OF her family. So
every girl should take stock of her &C.
complishments and cultivate any special
talent she may possess. To to sure,
there are thousands who are not gifted
in any particular line, yet have the
knack of doing a great many things
equally well, but this is rather a misfor-
tune to the "all-round girl'' of whom we
50 often hea1 parents proudly speak, for
she will never be- real, genuine sue
cess at any one thing unless she drops
her role Of Jack Of all trades" and de-
termines to devote her energies to mas
tering one Of them. You may have no.
ticed that it is always the girl who has
a talent ~ for dong everything that
will eventually evolve into the family
no one can market, buy furnishings or
attend to the numerous details that re-
quire personal supervision half 50 well,
and she is generously allowed to do these
things. Should she belong to the other
half every household duty falls to her
lot. because she has always made her
self useful: and in whatever walk of life
you may find her, she is sure to be living
sad and melancholy, friendless and alone,
when her days of usefulness are over.
Don't trif]e with an uncertainty, dear
girls. Look for the best, prepare for any
emergency and let the wheel of fortune
turn whatever way it will.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-04-18
FIRE ENGINE FUEL.
The London Brigade 10 Planning to
Substitute Oil for Coal.

The London Brigade 10 Planning to
Substitute Oil for Coal.
For some time past experiments have
Metropolitan fire brigade with view to
ascertainlng whether it would be advisa-
pie to use oil fuel in place of coal with
fire brigade appliances.
AS the result of an extended trial. both
with river steam engines and land steam
engines, he reports that, although as re-
CARDS expenditure the economy is not 50
great as he anticipated, the advantages
derived are such as to make it absolutely
certain that it would be we'll for land
hre engines, at all events, to be so con-
structed that oil fuel may be used there
with.
The principal advantage is that with
OF! fuel working head Of steam is OBJ
tanned much more rapidly than With coal
The fire brigade committee of the
county council reports: 1.-The chief off,
Ger is DESTROYS OF using on the land en-
gines low-dash oil, because it is much
better for the purpose than high-fash
b bn:,;. me iatter OIL - very liable to car
come clogged.
''This was demonstrated recently in a
steam fire engine which used oil of los
degrees flash point. A fireman, finding
the tn ~. burner did not burn properly, was
when the oil fired back with force.
sctorching his face and left arm and
singing his hair and clothing.
THE chief officer is of opinion that
no danger will result to the men riding
on the engines, inasmuch as the fire in
the engine is shut off by a tank from
the reservoir containing the oil. Under
these circumstances we consider that
low-fash oil may be used for heating
purposes. on fire brigade appliances
London Mail
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-04-18
Weil.Bred Women.

The best bred women do not FUSS
They take their gowns and their fur
niture, their jewels and their children as
scious of their wells and their gloves, and
they expect everyone else to be equally
so. If they see an intimate wearing i
handsome gown they refer to it ad-
miringly, but they also preface their
comment with an apolvgy. Their differ
ences with their husbands are not aired,
neither are the domestic upheavals
caused by the desertion Of the cook on
wash morning. The repose OF the we'll
bred woman is not the quiet Of weak
ness. It is the calm Of trained faculties,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-04-18
"HowDY."

kind O. like to hear 'em say it, s.-
'HOWdy, hOWdy! ~1saa
Know who's who right there an then, ,,
That's the moral truth. now, men,
Put my trust right in him when -
Man seq, 'Howdy:"
Eyes, sir, sounds like Oh times COMM
'Howdy, howdy!'
Hez the heft. an makes you feel :.
Like yore rely in the deal, -
An yOre friend kin sort O. SPIEL -
Sayin', 'Howdy""
Folks all say it in Mizzouree:- =:
Wal, wal, howdyv ':@
Hearty, honest, homely, gruff, -
Gentle, kindly, yard-wlde stuff
Man that SEE it's good enuff,-
or boy, howdy!' =
Yes. sir, like to hear 'em say It!
'Howdy, howdy!
llez CHEEKY, earnest ring,
No put-on, the Al thing,
Gives yore own goodwill a swing
y You say, 'Howdy!
Charles w. Stevenson in Lppincott' 5
Magazine.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-04-18
Herbert Spencer and Billiards.

Herbert Spencer used to love his game
Of billiards, at which he was exception
ally skilled. and his was a well-known
figure about the billiard tables Of the
Athenaeum Club. In one of his charac-
teristic letters Youmans, while in Lon
don, gives an amusing account of his
experience with Spencer at a game of
billiards: II play billiards here with
Spencer every night, after dinner.
Scratches here are called f1ukes. Spen-
once in three. But I do a stupendous
amount Of fuking, sometimes to Spen-
GERS great disgust. We started the 9TH
er night. and fuked up to so before
he got one. He stands aghast. I assure
him it is my usual way."-Sewanee Re
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-04-18
Meat is High in Manila.

Manila's supply of beef, mutton, pork
and lamb is drawn chiefly from Aus
tralia. The meats retail at the following
prices: sirloin steak, IS cents a pound;
lamb, IS cents. Other prices are:
Smoked cod, 80 cents a pound; bacon,
60 cents; ham, 65 cents; cheese, SO cents:
lard, 40 cents; turkey, IS cents; salmon,
IS cents; mullet, 80 cents; Holsters, 81
each; butter, 81 a pound; grouse, $3.50
each; rabbits, 60 cents: hares, $1.25:
fowl, $1.5O; tame duck, $1.35: condensed
milk. Is cents q pint.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-04-18

God, an when she say to me, Dick, is
my chile happyY what I gwine say,
marster? What 1 gwine tell her? Mars
John, please you an Frank shake hans.
Please let me tell ole missus dat l see
you all shake hams, so she kin know
Miss Nancy gwine be happy
The tall figure Strengthened up, and a
hand was held out to the younger man,
and the hand was grasped and held
across the dying negro, whose face was
lighted by smile and look which did
not belong to this world; and as their
hands met the younger man said:
II came to tell you. sir. that my IA
fher has discovered that he was wrong
hbout the land, and that it belongs to
Fou; and I was told to find when he
hight come and crave your pardon sir"
ENew York Commercial Advertiser.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-04-18
Virginia Constitution Oaks.

Harry Lee Maynard the agricultural de-
partment at Washington will supply each
member of the Virginia constitutional
convention with young oak tree for
them to set out in commemoration Of the
convention: 1t is q happy thought, and
we hope the trees will all grow and be
We believe in everything that will bring
to mind the planting of trees, which the
people of this country will, before many
years, have to look after systematically
or suffer serious deprivations.-Staun
Nal News =.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-04-18

Great Britain has invited this gov
eminent to send but one vessel
to join in the naval celehro-
ton on the occasion of the corona
ton. This is something of a surprise to
this government. as it must be to the
other recipients of similar Invitations.
1t was expected that the British govern
ment would invite each of the foreign
was also expected that there would be
Keen rivalry on the part of the powers
invited.
The Illinois will represent the United
States as being the best vessel which we
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-04-18

can furnish for the occasion. The naval
officers have figured out that the limita-
ton of naval representation from foreign
powers to one vessel is due to a desire
OF the British government to permit no
unfayorable comparisons to the home
squadron. which< might, be possible, If
France, Germany and Russia sent large
Meets. The state department people say
limited invitation comes from economical
reasons. 1t is necessary, of course. to
entertain the visiting representatives of
foreign nations, including the naval Of
hcers, and large fleets with their officers
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-04-18

would entail q great deal of expense or
the British government and make it diff
cult to adequately entertain officers prop
erly. The naval officers themselves are
satisfied with the Limitation in the in
vitation. since lit. does. not. impose the
individual expenses which would be
forced on them il all the naval nations
sent large fleets. There is more or
less entertaining between officers, and
the presence of large number of ships
would mean good deal of expense to
omcers in maintaining the proper social
intercourse.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-04-18

Poultney Bigelow will convince people
that he is losing his head if he continues
to insinuate that the German-Americans
aspire to assist Emperor William to
found German state on the North
American continent.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-04-18

ably Miles himself is the cause Of the
movement to give the President an op-
portunity to have a general at the head
Of the army during his term who is in
harmony with the administration,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-04-18

Atlantic City's reflection that her fire
will make room for needed improvements
is akin to observation in a good many
cities that have tumble-down architect
ure over centrally located property. If
early-day fire departments had been as
good as those Of the present, many cities
would still be away behind the times in
h,,ildinvc
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-04-18

The fact that no American yachts are
entered for the Kiel regatta may be due
to desire on this side to give the new
Meteor more chance for first place. But
the Kaiser would like to have q try
with the best af1oat.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-04-18
apreme Court Objects to Removal.

Apropos of the talk of erecting a new
hiding for the supreme court of the
eEnited States, it is said that the men,
Ers of that tribunal seriously object to
~ plan which would take them outside
the capitol. The opposition Is so strong
to be likely to prevent any change.
b one seems to know the ground upon
hich it is based, but the silk-gowned
(stices probably fear that there would
no crowds to daily witness their i'm
ressive entree into the court room every
Nv at noon.-Washingto Post.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-04-18
An Irishss Fishing: Story.

There is a good fishing story in an
sh contemporary. Two enthusiastic
glers arranged a fishing match to de-
lie the respective merits Of the worm
d the minnow as bait. For hours they
patiently Oh the bank without get
,g as much as a nibble. At last the
onrietor Of the worm suddenly said
at he had got a bite, and, jerking his
lie out of the water, discovered at the
d Of it the other mans minnow, which,
wing by this time grown hungry, had
Ivoured the worm.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-04-18

In view of Sir Thomas Lipton's sports
manlike encouragement to yachting in
America, J. Pierpont Morgan can hard
ly refuse to grant the request by Cork
that he send the Columbia over to race
for the Kings cup at the time of the
Cork exposition.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-04-18

The proposition to keep the lakes open
for navigation all the year round, by
the employment of ice-crushing steam
ers, is somewhat visionary. The perils
of long-run winter navigation are not all
in the ice. Icing during gales, and
steaming through snow storms constitute
risks that ice-crushers cannot remove.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-04-18

The Lake Superior fishing boats rec
ord Of five tons at one haul of the seines
shows the extent of the pulp which
lake fishermen have on the fnny tribe,
and should encourage the enforcement of
all restrictive measures designed to con-
tinue the fishing for those who make a
business of it.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-04-18

Farmers in this section are hoping for
warm rains, while the farmers in other
sections are carrying their movables
above the reach of high water. Some
thing has gone wrong with the meteoro-
logical distribution.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-04-18

1t is to be hoped that there is no truth
in the report that the President intends
to veto the revenue cutter service bill,
because he objects to the retiremnt sys-
TEN. The revenue cutter officers should
be treated the same as the officers of
the army and navy.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-04-18

Gen. Schofeld differs with Gen. Miles
as to the proposed army staff. He yes
terday argued in favor of the War De-
partment bill as measure in the in
terest Of economy and efficiency. Prob