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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-10-07
Lumbering.

To-day Canada is virtually master
of the lumber situation of the Ameri-
can continent. The mills of the United
States are turning to her forests for
their supply of logs. Especially is this
true of the mills on the great lakes,
where water transportation is possible
Ii these northern Ontario forests, stu
ated on the water shed that drains in.
to Georgia bay, millions OF feet of TIM
Der are each year finding their way in
to Bay City and other Michigan points,
where they are cut into lumber for use
in the states.
This demand together with the
ever-growing demand in Canada, is
filling the forests with lumbermen. In
a section so covered by lakes and
swift running streams as this is, lum-
bering operations are simplified to a
minimum. The Moon, the Muskosh,
the Magnetawan and the French riv-
ers have become log highways.
Through them are driven each year
millions of feet of pine, spruce and
hemlock to the mills of Michigan, and
of such places as Penetang, Meaford
and Midland, in Ontario. The hun
dreds of creeks through these forests
are damned for logging purposes.
Sluiceways may be found in the little
channels between the hundreds of
lakes, and every evidence points to the
rapid destruction of the forests.
Canada's wealth of forests will last
for many years, but not that portion
of it which lies just at the back door
of Toronto. Wild though it is as yet.
it has seen the beginning of the end.
and should reciprocity treaty with
the Dominion take the duty off Of
lumber it would but hasten the de-
structiOn.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-10-07
NO DOLLARS FOR JACK
Brother William Got Them by the
Barrelful, But the Artist Went
Home Penniless.

When the Irish poet, w. B. Yeats.
was in America, rumors of the great
success he was making here with his
lectures reached his Irish home, and
these stories were not lessened by the
distance they travelled The poet was
simply putting his money away in
barrels for the home trip relates the
New York Times.
His brother Jack" determined to
pack up and get over here before all
the money in America fell to William 3
share. So Jack" says, in telling the
story. Jack" is an artist of no little
renown, and in addition to the sar-
torial arrangements he annexed his
wife and his pictures to his outfit, de-
termined to stay long enough to sell
all his pictures, get as much money as
William did, and, incidentally, get or
ders, and have high old time
He did not announce his coming to
Brother William. 1t is a well-known
rule in families that if one of the
members finds good thing the others
should not interfere. Jack" was true
to his principles in at least keeping
his intention of breaking the rule
dark
He already saw the facile American
dollar in his grasp. He didn't want
to interfere with Williams gold mine,
but as long as it was wonderfully pro-
life, he felt it only just and right that
he should get his fingers in the pie.
When he arrived he discovered that
William was already on his way home
with the barrels of money in his pos
session, and nobody in America had
ever heard of Jack" for, apparently
the poet had been too busy with his
lectures to take his audience into his
confidence concerning the talents OF
the other members of the family.
The picture season was over, there
was plethora of unsolds on the
walls of galleries, and the picture buy
ers were on their way across or in
their country homes Jack" with
canvas and wife, was left high AMI
dry.
He told the story to the friends he
made with an Irish humor that made
them roar, and announced that he was
going to pack up and get back before
the barrels of money again eluded
him. The next outgoing steamer saw
Jack" with face pointed toward the
Green Isle.
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of US. A few steps further on and VS.
broke into a clearing made by an old
lumber camp. From one of the rude
log shacka the smoke was coming, and
sitting in the door, his head in his
hands, his eyes wandering vacantly
into the forest, was man. He did
not see us until the guide spoke, and
then he rose and advanced to meet us
with smile that was the very essence
Of welcome.
I sat for some time with him, and
he told me something of himself in an
swer to my query as to how he liked
the life in the forest.
Necessity is the mother of many
virtues" he said, land just now neces-
sity is the mother of patience with me.
l call London, England, home. Petit
coat Lane was my favorite Sunday
strolling place for years. l was think
ing OF it when you came. l like the
life there. You can realize the con-
trast between that life and this, and
when you do you can also realize the
patience, or at least the necessity, thai
keeps me here. l have been here for a
little more than six months. During
that time you and your guide are the
first people who have passed this
door. During that time / have been
out of these woods on visit to my
family, living on a small clearing &c
miles northwest of here, just four
times. In that six months have not
seen dozen people, including my fam
lily. And all Nlis within year of the
time when Petticoat Lane was my ia
vorite strolling place. II it were not
for the fact that my family needs the
wages l earn here as Waterman fol
this practically abandoned camp
would have been in an insane asylum
weeks ago. But necessity keeps me
sane, and keeps me here with nothing
more exciting to do than count the
ducks that fly over my head, or follow
the deer runways that lead to no.
where"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-10-07
ART OF KEEPING YOUNG,
Acquire the Habit of Cheerfulness
and Take Plenty of
Fresh Air.

Sunlight has no equivalent. Keep
sunshine in the home and in the heart.
How very much like delicate plants a.
human being is. Keep a plant in the
dark, and struggle as it will to grow,
it will be at best but puny, sickly
weed, says Medical Talk for the Home.
The close observer can tell by the
countenance if person is in the habit
of saying evil things or kind things
about people, No matter what the re-
suits, the person who has formed the
questionable habit of speaking unkind-
ly of people, will gradually come to pos
sess cruel, hard expression, which in
a short time deepens into fixed ugly
lines Nothing is more conducive to
youth and beauty of face than the habit
of seeing the best in people and lov-
ing it into more loneliness. The
thoughts assume kindly bent and
shaping themselves into kindly words
and deeds mold the countenance into
beauty and sweetness. The late divine,
Rev. Joseph Cook, by experiment and
investigation, found that our habits
leave scars on the brain. Do we realize
that every harsh word our lips utter
leaves an unfavorable impression on our
brains, which is quickly reflected not
only in the face, but in the very move
ments of the body? Nobody can hurt
anyone by cruel remarks as he hurts
himself.
Fresh air is a free gift, and yet some
people take of it as though it were more
expensive than the Alaskan gold. 1t is
necessary to the clear brain, well-round-
ed form and grace OF movement. There
is close relation between the shallow
breathing lungs and the mean thinking
mind. Practice deep breathing until
you can count Is aloud in one breath.
Then notice the improvement in your
appearance and thoughts.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-10-07
HOUSEHOLD LABOR = SAVER
An Easily Made Continuance Which
Makes an Effectual Cut
lery Cleaner.

To do away with the greater part
of the fatigue in securing steel knives
and forks, and to secure better re-
suits, says Good Housekeeping, try
this: Get piece of smooth hard
wood, eight inches long, six inches
wide and one inch or one inch and
half thick. Take a piece of old Brus-
sells carpet, not very heavy, 16 inches
long and seven inches wide, turn it bot
tom up and cut off one inch of width
for half it's length in such way thai
the piece will be six inches wide on
the left half and seven inches wide
on the right half, the uneven side be-
ing toward you. Lay the carpet, bot
tom up, on the board, the back and
right margins fitting exactly and the
extra inch of width at the front Tack
the carpet around the margin of the
board and tack the extra inch on the
edge, putting the tacks at the bot
tom only. In use, dampen the whole
wrong side (now uppermost), put the
securing material over it, place the
knife or fork on the slab, fold the
free portion of the carpet over, and,
pressing with the left hand, push the
article back and forth. In this way
both sides are polished at once. The
manner of pressure can be shifted
from the fingers to the palm, at will,
preventing nearly all strain on the
fingers, and the work is done in a
more Clearly manner. To clean the
back of the blade, ":saw" it on the
slab. To clean the butt of the blade,
rub it where the carpet turns over the
front edge. Forks can be cleaned bet
ter than by the common method
double the carpet in the left hand with
the fork inside to reach the inner
edges of the tines. Many adaptations
Of the contrivance will suggest them
selves after using it a few times, and
it will soon prove a household bless
ing" to any housewife who has many
steel knives and forks and has rubbed
till her fingers seemed "ready to
break off, in the old-fashioned method
Of securing
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-10-07
INTERESTING GEOGRAPHY.
Variety Furnished by
the Geographers Of the
Olden Time.

I'm the good old times geography was
much more fascinating study than it is
to-day. Stanley had not then followed
Livingstone through Africa; the Eng
!ish had discovered nothing interesting
about "the roof of the world" nor had
hey begun to speculate on the probable
Identity of the chief Thibetan river with
the Brahmaputra; Pike had not found
his peak, nor Lewis and Clarke the
Stony Mountains" So little was posi-
lively known about the distant world
and SO much depended on the tales Of
seamen that each geographer chose his
;acts to suit himself. Thus, says the au-
thor of "Old-Time Schools" there was
2 never-ending variety about the geog-
raphy books.
"The joint snake period" declared the
author of Topography Made Easy
more than hundred years ago, "is a
great curiosity. Its skin is as hard as
parchment and as smooth as glass; It
is so stiff it can hardly bend itself into
1 hoop, and so brittle that when it is
struck it breaks like pipe-stem. You
may with whip break it into pieces
not an inch long and not produce the
least tincture of blood
I'm California" runs a later para
graph, there falls in the morning
great quantities of dew, which, settling
on the rose-leaves, becomes hard like
mama, having all the sweetness of re-
fined sugar, without it's whiteness."
I'm the Friendly Islands," the student
was told, their great men are fond of q
singular kind of luxury, which is to have
some one sit beside them all night and
beat on different parts of their body un-
til they go to sleep; after which they
relax little of their labor, unless they
appear likely to wake, in which case
they redouble their exertions until they
are again fast asleep
1.-The diversions of the Scots are dane
ing, golf and curling. The golf is a spe-
cies of ball-playing performed with a
bat and ball, the extremity of the bat
being loaded with lead, and the party
which strikes the ball with fewest
strokes into hole wins the game"
In answer to the question: what
curiosities are there in France?" ap-
pears this incredible yarn"
"A fountain near Grenoble emits a
flame which will burn paper, straw, etc.,
but will not burn gunpowder. Within
about eight leagues of the same place is
an inaccessible mountain in the form of
pyramid reversed"
So the writer's ranged afield, describ-
ing the odd manners of the inhabitants
OF the earth, from Guinea to New Eng
land.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-10-07
HAUNTS OF WILD ANIMALS
Solitude Of the Woods-The Dominion
Is Feeding Logs to American
Nil1s-Playground for Amer
lean Pleasure Seekers.

Tor onto-Another line of railway is
now being built from this city to tap
the traC]Iless forest of the north, for
ests that extend in almost an unbroken
line from Allendale on Lake Simcoe to
Hudson lay.
1t is, however, not the railroad but
the country which is interesting. 1t is
county that represents both the
wealth AID poverty of this great prov
ince Of Ontario. Who would attempt
to estimate the value of it's forests
filled, as they are, with pine and hem
lock and spruce? But take the forests
away, and what is left? Poverty. A
poverty represented by rocks and Wa
ter. Nature was in an unruly mood
when that section of the American
continent was born. but she later COW
eIec the unsightliness with an abun
dant growth of green that has made
OF it q paradise So long as the green
rem aims; so long as man does not TN
do the work of nature
Hundreds OF square miles of practi-
cally untrodden forest Hundreds of
square miles over which the red deer
the elk, the moose and the black bear
may roam at will. Trackless forest
No. They are crossed and crisis
crossed ty the trails of the wild ami
mails, the trapper and hunter, and tbs
sketge ways of the lumberman, fol-
man has already begun his work of de-
.structiOn in this wonder-world, and
from it is sending lumber to the
worlds markets.
The tracks of the forest form a be-
wi!dering network, a maze in which
the uninitiated might wander for
weeks without hope Of solving the rid.
die they present, but which to the ini-
tiated are as plain as an open book
and over which they travel with the
same degree of assurance that is char
acteristic of the city man on his city
boUlevards.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-10-07
Sinking Of Rev. Blank.

Down in Virginia town the aged
pastor of one of the churches fell i'll
not long ago. He was beloved by all
the neighborhood, and constant
stream of anxious friends rang the bell
to make inquiries. The nurse in
charge was an intelligent negro wom-
an, and she decided to issue bulletins
at frequent intervals. She wrote them
herself and pinned them to the front
eoor, and this is the way they read as
they appeared successfully:
T. REV Blank am very SICK
"Later-Rev. Blank am worse"
"Night-Rev. Blank am sinking"
Washington Post.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-10-07
Memorials to Americans

Many American boys and girls visit
Europe nowadays, but perhaps few
even Of these fortunate young folk are
aware that the greatest of English cit
les contains memorials to five distin-
guished Americans; president, pa
troit, poet, preacher and a phil
anthropist. These five great men are
Abraham Lincoln, James Russell Low
ell, Henry Wordsworth Longfellow
Matthew Simpson and George Pea
body-five names written high in the
Hall of Fame, names immortal in life
and letters, names forever illustrious
in character and achievement. st.
Nicholas.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-10-07
Green Corn Pudding.

This is the old Nantucket recipe, and
one we'll worth copying into every fam
lily recipe book. Select short, thick ears
of corn, with husks green and tender.
silk dark and kernels so juicy that as
soon as cut the milk flows freely. Score
the rows lengthwise and scrape out the
pulp. To two cups of pulp add two cups
of milk, one egg, a scant third cup of
sugar and level teaspoonful of salt.
Mix very thoroughly. Grease baking
dish generously with butter, pour in the
mixture and bake two and half hours
in slow oven.-Washington Star.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-10-07
From Society to Solitude.

From the thronged thoroughfares of
London, England, 70 the forests of On
tario. No greater contrast can be
imagined, and yet it is not fiction, but
fact
1t was on Sunday morning of the
past summer that was following in
the footsteps of a guide as he picked
his way over blazed trail when I dis
covered some smoke rising through
the trees some little distance in front
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-10-07
Lost.

But a comparatively few steps from
quarter of million people as we
reckon distances in this age of rapid
transportation, and yet-lost."
Such were the thoughts running
through a gentleman's mind when |
hailed him one evening, several years
age, as he sat on stone beside lit
tie lake in these Ontario forests How
we'll remember the picture he made
as ] watched him, and as he looked
first out over the stretch of water that
barred further progress in one direc-
ton, and then backward into the tan
gled forests from which he had Just
emerged.
Looking for anyone?" 1 asked, jok-
ingly.
Looking for anyone? no." he re-
piled. Il am looking for the world,
for the people of the world l would
like to have the city of Columbus, O.,
stretched out right here in front OF
me SO that might know where l am
at Friend, I am lost"
knew the experience. l had had
the same but year before The
gamey bass of that particular lake had
enticed me into unknown paths, and
l had paid the penalty of the over-san-
guine novice.
They told me there was trail
through these woods" said the lost
stranger.
so there is" replied.
Yes, not one but so, and l have
Travelled all of them, and all lead to
the same city of nowhere. A dozen
converge at this very point. l have
followed them, and here am at-no-
where"
Deer runways, to be sure, but paths
so plainly marked that the novice fo:-
lows them almost thoughtlessly, with
a heedlessness that pays no attention
to the way out as we'll as in 1t is, oh
so easy to get into these Ontario for
ests; but hard, so hard, to get out
again. And this is but the teachings
OF experience, assure you.
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The Pleasure Seekers.
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l have said that the wealth of this
northern land was in it's forests; it's
poverty in it's rocks 1t has still an
other source of wealth which 1 have
neglected to mention-its lakes and
rivers. They make of this territory
the pleasure ground of the people not
only of Ontario but of the eastern and
central states as WELL
Hundreds of thousands of pleasure
seeking tourists are crossing the bor-
der line each year and journeying into
the Lake Simcoe country, the Muskoka
lakes country, the Lake of Bays coun-
try, the Magnetawan river country, the
French river country and the Georgian
bay country. Take the little steamer
at Penetang and sail northward
through the 10000 islands, and over
one-haf of the hundreds of summer
homes to be seen one will find the
Stars and Stripes floating. The same
is true of the Muskoka lakes and the
Lake of Bays.
The American pleasure seeker has
become the pioneer in this country.
The Canadians have been satisfied to
remain along the lines of the railway
or boats, but the American has
searched for new fields, and in doing
so has driven his canoe into the
smaller lakes and up the little streams.
The shores and islands of Six Mile
lake, of Blackstone lake, of Crane lake,
of Kah-pee-kog lake, are being pur-
chased by people from the states as
places for summer outings.
And yet there is room. Great as the
influx Of tourists and lumbermen have
been during the past few years, the
wilderness seems scarcely to have
been touched when one considers it "a
whole.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-10-07
Wood-Pulps in PAPER.

Fifty years ago practically all the
paper in use was made from rags
preferably linen rags. To-day most Of
it is made from wood pulp. Now, If
the plans Of certain experimenters are
carried out, the linen itself, or a good
substitute for it, will be made from
wood pulp. Artificial silk made from
pulp has for some time been on the
market, and the demand is said to ex-
coed the supply. A new process has
been patented for spinning many DIFF
ferent sorts of fabric from moist pulp.
The fiber SO obtained is called silva
lin'-"wood thread"-and a company
has been formed to manufacture it in
*merica under license from the Euro
pean inventor. .@5r II
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-10-07
A DUBIOUS JAP DELICACY.
An Americans First Taste of the Fa-
vorite Raw Fish and Wasabi
Of Nippon.

The Japanese are very fond of fish
they like it picked, they like it dried,
they like it canned, they like it freshly
cooked and they like it raw. With this
last taste we Of the occident find it hard
to sympathize; yet at least one Amer
lean has been converted to it's ac-
ceptance," says Youths Companion.
Mr.. Harold Bolce has recently related
how he was skilfully and gently urged
along the difficult path of experiment
by the Japanese author and diplomat,
Mr.. Tumio Yano
Zone night at the Nippon club" says
Mr.. Bolce, The led up to a delicate SUBJ
ject on the menu with much diplomacy.
He finally got my assent to the state
ment that a cosmopolitan appetite is
one of the distinguishing marks of Guilt
waited travel. Then he passed me raw
fish
Il confessed that was willing to be
a stick-in-the-mud or any other variety
of Silurian rather than take place with
the international elect by eating such q
dish. My host, however, was painfully
insistent, finally adding that with raw
fish they, of course, ate wasabi. Now
did not have even vague notion of
what this might be, but with that raw
proposition before me it was comfort
ing to know that at least it was to be.
diluted with something. I figured out,
also, that, with my awkwardness with
chop-sticks, I might manage, without
exciting suspicion, to drop the fish be-
fore the fatal moment, and eat only the
mysterious wasabi But whether
through cowardice or courage, I cannot
say fish and relish made quick and
simultaneous journey to my reluctant
palate, and in that never-to-be-forgot-
ten instant there flashed into my con-
seriousness the undeniable truth that in
all my occidental years had been de-
MED one of the most savory dishes in
the world.
Charles Lambs Chinaman had jubi-
liant delight over his first taste of roast
pig; but that is degraded passion COM
pared with an Anglo-Saxon's initial
ecstasy over an oriental morsel of raw
namasu garnished with the roots of
Eutrema wasabi"
Raw fish anyone who desires to try
the same experiment need not import;
he need only-a very large only-learn
to like it, and perhaps he will not need
to import the wasabi either, in a short
time, for experiments are being made
with view to growing it in America.
1t is valuable condiment with other
dishes than fish, and is source of much
profit to Japanese farmers The plant
belongs to the mustard family, and can
be grown in moist soil or in running
water, like cress, an acre of land often
yielding two tons of the edible root
Curry and chutney came from the east
long ago; soy sauce is fast following;
now wasabi is on the way. Perhaps it
is the cooks of the orient, rather than
our own, who will finally redeem our
race from the reproach of the famous
French epicure who thought little of
English civilization because, although
it had 81 forms of religion, it had but
one sauce.
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Crabs. Creole.

Use one green pepper, chopped fine:
one Glove of garlic, chopped fine; one
small onion, chopped fine; one table,
spoonful of butter, one cupful of toma-
toes, one cupful of crab meat, pepper and
salt; put the butter in the blazer; when
melted, add the garlic, onion, salt, pep-
per and tomatoes, and let cook ten min
utes; add the crab meat fresh or
canned). Serve when hot on Sippcts Of
|toast.-People's Home Journal. sz: "a
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A Careful Father.

james, our son Arthur is coming
back from the dental college this week,
and he wants to practice on some
teeth"
well, you can let him have that old
saw hanging up in the garnet, if he'll
promise not to break the teeth off,
Chicago Journal.