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Timber Becoming Scarce.

Prof. Somerville's paper before the
British association on the timber sup
ply shows that the world is steadily
approaching a timber famine. AL.
ready Britain pays each year e27O0O.-
900 for wood; Germany, with nearly
twelve times the area of forest nos.
sessed by Britain, annually pays s12.-
100000 for imported timber; and, al
though the United States of America
exports wood and wood products to
the value of e20,0O0,0OO per annum
she has to pay as much for imports.
In Europe, Sweden and Russia are. of
course, the chief Understanding
countries, but in both cases the vast
inroads on supplies is seriously felt,
and exports are being appreciably re-
duced. There are, of course, Canada
and Siberia, but in Canada, at all
events, wood is being used up at a
rapid rate.
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perspires two pints per day, but old
Andrus hustled so over his horse-rad.
ish job that he was perspiring about
a gallon day right along, and he was
weeping a gallon of joy tears and
three gallons Of horse-radish tears,
and he was losing a good deal more
water than any man could afford to
lose. Even the teeth, which are the
dryest part of a man. contain ten per
cent. of water. Old Andrus began to
feel that he was getting pretty dry,
and he took to drinking water copious.
ly, but to save his life he couldn't
drink five gallons of waite? day.
Three gallons was all he could posi-
bly, manage, and that left ksm two gal
Ions short every day, and no man of
the age of old Andrus Gobble can at
ford to shrink two gallons a day any
length of time. In three weeks he was
so dry that he rustled when he walked,
like an autumn leaf, and he kept get.
ting dryer and dryer. Two or three
times a spark from his pipe fell on
him and set him afire. and If it hadn't
been that his hands were wet with
tears he would probably have gone up
like fash. He was mighty careful
about sparks after that.
BY the ninth of November he was so
dry that he could not weep any more
He had wept all the weeps out of him.
There was no more moisture in old
Andrus Gobble. On the tenth of No.
vember he was perfectly desiccated
Even the moisture in his ears, that
made hearing possible, had dried up,
and the old codger was as deaf as a
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-03-18
THOMAS CARLYLE AND JANE WEI SH

strung. He was coarse and incOnsid-
crate. Neither seems to have taken
the pains to sacrifice personal whims
and unpleasant traits for the sake of
the other. Neither should ever have
married. Yet, strange to say, both
were really in love. They quarreled
frequently and furioIsly.
Once Mrs. Carlyle tried to sew in
the same room where her husband
was writing. He growled that her
needle made too much noise and dis
turbed his thoughts. She stopped
sewing and sat still. Soon he roared:
Jane, l can hear you breathing!" AS
breath was not easy to suppress she
had to give up staying in his study.
Carlyle hated to shave. So he raised
beard. His wife told an acQuaint-
ance that the time he formerly spent
,,. 49,. in shaving he la
Endless ouarre's. complaining of
the world in general. At one time
Mrs. Carlyle had a headache. Car
lyle, being busy, forgot to ask how
she felt; so she reminded him of her
presence by throwing a teacup at his
head. She was also absurdly jealous
of his innocent admiration for clever
Lady Ashburton; and this jealousy al
most caused total separation.
Yet there are letters that show how
tender and affectionate each could
sometimes be and how devoted they
secretly were to one another.
Mrs. Carlyle died suddenly in 1856.
while driving in Hyde Park, London.
Carlyle's grief was crushing. He
wrote wildly sorrowing letters to his
friends and filled the air with loud,
despairing lamentations. His anguish
was heightened by reading in his
wife's diary series of bitter CON-
plants against himself and an &C.
count of her sufferings at his hands.
The dead woman thus had the last
word" in the 20-year quarrel which
had comprised the Carlyles' married
life.
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GREAT LOVE STORIES
- OF HISTORY g.
BY ALBERT PAYsoN TERHUNE
Andrew jackson and Miss Robards
By ALBERT PAYSON TERIIUNE
(Copyri9ht hV the Author.)

A raw-boned young backwoods law
yer, Andrew Jackson by name, went
IN 1888 to Nashville, Tenn, to practice
his profession, and boarded at the cot
tage of the widow Donelson. His
landlady's frontier husband had re-
Gently been murdered and her pretty
daughter, Rachel, was living with her.
Rachel had just left her own husband
under rather unfortunate circum-
stances. Thus the atmosphere of the
Donelson home was not especially
cheerful. Young Jackson readily
slipped into the position of family ad-
wiser and confidant to the "manless"
household. Thus began his LIES ro-
nance.
Jackson was a brilliant, stubborn,
honest, illiterate youth, who by sheer
pluck and determination had worked
his way up from AFFECT poverty. He
knew little law; he could never write
or speak correct English; his own
honesty often blinded him to the
faults Of others. Nevertheless, his
logged courage and masterful will
power were one day to make him a
military hero and later to raise him
to the presidency of the United States.
Rachel Donelson was born in 1857.
She was just Jackson's own age.
While living in Kentucky she had met
Capt. Lewis Robards, a jealous, bru-
tai fellow. Rachel was not only pref
ey and clever, but the best rider and
dancer in the new territory. She was
p,.., induced to marry
e. Robards and at
II went to live at
his mothers boarding house. Richards
III treated her and at last so perse-
cuted her by his unreasoning jealousy
that she could no longer endure mar
r1ed life with him. He sent her back
to her mother, in Tennessee, where
she and jackson first met
Jackson was fascinated bv the
charming young woman. She was un-
educated and lacking in refinement, it
is true; but so was he. His bravery
and his masterful manner were equal
ly attractive to Rachel Neither let
the other know by word or deed of
this mutual attraction. Soon Robards
came to Nashville and patched up
some sort of temporary reconciliation
with his wife. But before long his
Jealous eye spied out Jackson's secret
love for Rachel. Jackson and the
husband had fierce quarrel, and the
former, to prevent gossip about him.
self and the unhappy girl. moved away
from the Donelson house. After max
ing life miserable for Rachel for some
months longer, Richards left her and
went back to Kentucky.
Hearing, in 1890, that her husband
was about to come to Nashville again,
Rachel fled in terror to Natchez. The
journey was through wilderness in
tested by hostile Indians and beasts OF
prey. So Jackson and some friends
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First Living Creatures.

The first organized living forms are
extremely minute, and can only be
recognized by a powerful microscope
A filtered infusion of hay, allowed to
stand for two or three days, will liter
ally swarm with living things, many of
them not exceeding the forty-thou-
sandth part of an inch in diameter.
And yet, minute as these anfmalculae
are, they are thoroughly alive. Thew
dart about and digest, shooting out
their jelly-like substance to seize their
food. The way in which these living
things began is as great a mystery.
however, as it was when the mind If
man first applied itself to the task Of
investigating the subject The moment
when something that was lifeless be:
came alive was the most wonderful in
all the history of the planet, but how
the thing came about nobody knows.
Life is mystery, and such it is likely
to remain for long time to come.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-03-18
GIRL IS THE HEROINE = ->.-'. i.
; Of 4. MONTANA MISHAF
DIGS A DRIVER OUT OF SNOW,
DRIFT AND THEN FALLS
IN A FAINT.

Helena, Mont.-Mary Smith, . 10.
year-old Carbon county girl, proved
that she is heroine in a recent expe-
rience and. incidentally, one Of the
most unusual straw-ride spills ever re-
ported in southern Montana happened
the other night on the highroad be-
tween Washoe and Bear creek.
There was a dance at Bear creek
and several couples started from Wa
shoe, few miles away, in a bobsled
drawn by four horses driven by Clar-
ence Delhi. The snow was deep and
the night was clear, but not illumi-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-03-18
Increased Use of Rat Skins.

Use of rat skins in the manufacture
of fancy articles is increasing. Last
year the trade in Great Britain alone
amounted to $250,000, and supplies o1
brown rat skins are being sought IL
lots of from 100 to 10000. It is proposed
to start business in Calcutta for "a
curing and preparing the skins of thu
brown rat, to be used, among a variety
of purposes, in the binding of books
and the making of purses, gloves, and
various articles for women's use and
wear. The supply Of rats in Calcutt,
is said to be inexhaustible.
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right to have a telephone instrument
in his house and connection with the
1nter-farm Telephone line. Every time
old Andrus Gobble telephoned him
about the debt Orone would begin a
hard-luck story about eighteen fur
longs long, and his grating voice
would file a little more off old An
drus's ear drums, until the old man
had to slap up the receiver in self-pro.
lection. But the telephone line was
composed, part of the way, of the top
wire of old Andrus's barb wire fence,
and one day when old Andrus went
out to look at the fence he found that
every barb on the top wire had been
filed off close. and it. did not take him
an instant to realize that it was Or.
ones grating, rasping voice that had
filed off the barbs as it passed over
the wire.
So old Andrus, who is cute old
codger, saw at once how he could get
even with Orone, and he got right to
work and planted his ten acre south
field in horse radish. AS soon as the
horse radish was ripe he dug couple
of roots and went in to the telephone
and called up Orone and asked him
when he would pay up. When Orone
began one of his long explanations.
old Andrus took the receiver from his
ear and held the horse-radish roots
up in front of the receiver, and the
result was like magic. AS soon as Or.
ones grating voice struck the horse
radish roots it began grating them,
and the ground horse-radish fell like a
shower. So old Andrus knew the plan
would work all right. From that on,
as fast as he dug his crop of horse.
radish, old Andrus would take it in to
the telephone and call up Orone and
ask him about that hundred dollars,
and Orone would begin explaining,
and old Andrus would turn the tele.
phone receiver on the pile of horse.
radish roots, like the nozzle of hose,
and Orone's grating voice would crate
up the horse-radish. Old Andrus Gobble
used to stand by and weep, and he
was never exactly sure whether he
wept most for Joy or whether he was
weeping a plain horse-radish weep
He would stand there and the tears
would run down his face in streams
The fact was that he was weeping 4
full quantity of horse-radish weep, and
"a full quantity of Joy weep too.
=, And that was why old Andrus Cob
bic over-reached himself. as 1 said
The human body should consist of two
Haixts water and an average man
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-03-18
Suddenly the Party Was Plunged Into
Ravine.

mated by the moon. 1t was hard pull
up the hill, but after that the journey
was resumed with quickened pace,
While the merry company sang and
shouted like children. Suddenly the
party was plunged into a ravine filled
with snow. The horses had missed
the bridge that spans gully about
Is feet deep. The song was rudely
broken off. The heavy bass and clear,
ringing soprano, with the altos and
tenors, were silenced.
There ensued an exciting scramble.
At least ten of the party we're under
the big sled box. They wiggl, I'd OFT
and scrambled for high ground The
horses had broken away and were
dashing madly down toward Washoe
The uninjured applied themselves
to the task of assisting those who still
remained beneath the wreckage Two
women suffered sprains of a slight ma
ture and one man was considerably
bruised about the head. However, all
agreed to walk to Bear Creek and en-
JOY the dance. Six couples bored their
way through the snow and reached
the hall where the dance was proceed
ing.
Suddenly one of the company
thought of the driver. He had not
been seen since the spill and no one
had thought of him. Immediately a
party was organized and set out to
find Delhi.
The jewellers did not think of the
absence Of the little girl who had
started with them and had been res.
cued uninjured from the wreck. They
had fastened on to the dance; but not
the little girl. She walked a few
PAGES, and then, thinking of the dri-
yer, turned back to the scene Of the
spill. There, in the bottom of the "a.
vine, 20 feet or more from the sled
box, she saw two heavy boots wiggling
in the snow. soles upward.
The little heroine dug up with her
hands and feet and tugged and
strained every muscle. She worked
heroically and finally succeeded in re-
moving enough snow so that Delhi
could help himself, which he did. He
managed to get out before his breath
was cut off entirely. After he emerged
from his tomb Of snow he fell over in
swoon. The girl rubbed his hands
and slapped his face and the man was
revived. Then the girl, realizing that
life had been saved by her own ef-
forts, promptly keeled over in a faint.
Mr.. Delhi picked her up in his arms
and carried her to Bear Creek, where
assistance was found and the heroine
restored to normal condition.
BY this time the dancers had
learned of the sequel of their spill and
they promptly carried the girl into the
dance hall and showered her with
praise, candy and paper flowers. Clar-
ence Delhi went after his horses and
found them in a corral.
The Washoe party returned home in
another sled. Mr.. Delhi did not drive,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-03-18

IL is 8OOQ tn1nG Carlyle and Jane
Welsh married each other" said Ten
nyson, once. For If each Of them
had married some one else there
would have been four unhappy peo-
pie instead Of two"
This remark sums up. in few words,
the queer romance of boorish,
cranky, brutal genius and nervous,
delicate, fll-tempered woman. Quar-
relsome and miserable as was the
couples married life, their story is
we'll worth the telling.
Thomas Carlyle, one of Europe's
foremost historians, essayists and
men of genius, was the son of a poor
Scotch stonemason. Thomas oddi-
ties led his schoolfellows to tease and
bully him. This and later troubles
soured nature that had never been
very sweet After struggling along for
some time as a school teacher, in ut
ter poverty. Carlyle began by degrees
to win fame and a living by liter
allure. His French Revolution, -
"Sartor Resartus" and other works
I, IL
always live as such. rejecting at the
same time their authors crabbedness
and his distorted views of life. It was
in the early flush Of his fame that he
began what was known as literary
correspondence" with Jane Baillie
Welsh, an intellectual woman, who
for years would not allow the CORE
spondence to take a more intimate
personal tone.
Miss Welsh was not Carlyle's first
love; nor was he hers. While he was
teaching school in Scotland he fell in
love with one Margaret Gordon
fair complexioned, softly elegant,
grave. witty and comely." The girls
aunt refused to let her listen to the
suit Of the uncouth, penniless school
master, and the affair came to a sud-
den end. Carlyle later portrayed
Margaret's alleged f1ckleness in "Sar-
tor Resartus." Jane Welsh had been
in love with her tutor, Edward Irv-
ing, a noted clergyman. He married
another woman, and Carlyle took his
Neither Married W Ve as tut M,1s
"s' -o'o' When the Scotch
man proposed to her she wrote:
II love you Were you my
brother should love you the same :.
But your wife? Never!"
Carlyle. in anger, wrote to a friend:
These women Of genius are the very
DEVIL" Nevertheless. three years la
ter, in 1926, the two were married.
Carlyle was 81, his wife Is. AS the
time for the wedding drew near. each
confessed to the other a deadly fear
OF being married; and each tried to
keep up the others courage. Miss
Welsh spoke Of the preparations for
the ceremony as ''horrid circum-
stances" Carlyle. in turn. asked her
to make their wedding trip less dis
agreeable for him by allowing him to
smoke three cigars. az occasion
serves, without criticism" and begged
that his brother might go with them
on the honeymoon. Nor was their
dread Of married life unfounded.
She had wretchedly bad nerves. So
had he. Her temper was doubtful.
OF his there could. unfortunately. be
no doubt She was sensitive and high
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-03-18
The Finest Flavo,used Tea

THE pure ceylon fragrance and davoe
- Of "Salada" attest its own rare
quality and purity. Always nniform and
standard ceylon'sz choicest: tea leaves
and buds are unequalled in the world,
prepared BY modern methods = spaciou.
factories, rolled BY machinery and not b
Mongolian hands or feet
Modern Anglo-Saxon skill, care, clean
illness, superseding the primitive, unsani-
tary, unwholesome methods Of handing
that still prevail IN all other Tea-erowing
countries, have made Ceyion Tea the
standard Of excellence throughout the
Oriental ~ well Is the Western World
"Salada" is for sale by III grocers, b
sealed lead packets only - : ;
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-03-18
Hard to Piease

why are you and your wife quar-.
reling?"
"Oh, I acknowledged that I'd made
fool of myself in my latest deal, and
she's mad because she has no chance
to argue with me about it."-Clevelsnd
Leader.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-03-18
The Family Forecaster

Wife-rm going into town TODAY.
my dear, to my bootmaker's, milliner's
and dressmaker's. What does the pa-
per say about the weather?
Husband-Rain, hail and thunder
storms.
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Accidental.

1ACCI00UIN1s
"A great deal sometimes depends on
the point of view man takes"
Indeed it does"
II knew a man once who fell Off
the point Of view at . summer hotel
and broke his neck :. :
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-03-18

Bear your own burdens first, after
that help to carry those of other PEG.
ple.-George Washington.
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bat, but he went right on with his
horse-radish Job. He brought in a
basket of horse-radish and called Or.
one on the telephone and asked him
when he meant to pay that money,
and Orone began answering in his
grating voice, but old Andrus could
not hear sound. He kept yelling at
Orone, and Orone kept talking, and all
the while Orone's grating voice was
getting in it's work on old Andrus,
grating him down and grating him
down, and in five minutes old Andrus
was all grated to pile of white dust.
Then he gave a last yelp at Orone
and passed away entirely.
Copyright, 1909 by W. G. Chapman.)
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-03-18

There are any number of women
violinists, but did you ever meet a
woman who could play the fiddle?
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-03-18

WE PAY HIGH PRICE FOR HIDES
and Furs, and sell guns and traps cheap.
N. w. Hide & Fur Co., Minneapolis, MINI.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-03-18

A crab-eating monkey in Siam swims
like fish.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-03-18
Her Anklet.


She put her slim feet on the fender
and the young man uttered a shocked
cry:
"An anklet!''
For her round ankles were extended
from beneath her gown, and on the
left one was an anklet in the form Of
great gold snake with ruby eyes
On the slender ankle the snake gilt
tered against the cobweb stocking Of
black silk.
do you like it," she asked.
Eyes," the young man admitted.
$50 do l." she said. "It's a Christ
mas present from the countess-my
sister in Paris, you know. All the
smart young married women in Paris
are wearing anklets this winter. I an
not married, but an American girl Is
quite as free and untrammeled as any
foreign matron-so my anklet goes.
what?"
1T goes" said the young man.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-03-18

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup.
For children tsething softens the gums reduces in
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-03-18

BREAK UP THAT COUGH
with Allen s Lang Bulsam, the popular family rem.
edy. cures where other remedies fail. All deal.
ers. 2Sc, SOC, 81 90 bottles
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-03-18

1t isn't every prodigal son who gets
Whack at the obese veal.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-03-18

PILES CURED IN TO IA DAYs
PAZO OINTMENT is guaranteed to cure any c..>
OF Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protrudine Piles in
6to II days or money refunded. 500 ~
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Dr. Pierce 8 peasant Pellets nrst put up 40 years
ago. They regulate and invigorate stomach liver
and bowels. Sugar-coated tiny granules.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-03-18
The Philosopher Of Follv.

There's nothing in name," says
the Philosopher Of Folly. They have
dog watches on other ships beside
barks." :...s., ~. '- !.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-03-18
A Partial Success.

rs his airship a SUGGEST"
well, it's practical, at any rate. He
uses the motor to run a wood-sawing
machine"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-03-18

Every night Waterman is entitled to
his day Dreams
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For sore throat, sharp pain
in lungs, tightness across the
chest, hoarseness or cough,
lave the parts with Sloan's
Liniment. You don't need to
rub, just lay it on lightly. It
penetrates insta ntly to the seat
of the trouble, relieves conges-
ton and stops the pain.
Here's the Proof.
Mr.. A.W. Price, Fredonia, Kans.,
says: 1--WE have used Sloan's Ini-
ment for year, and find it an excel
lent thing for sore throat, chest pains,
colds, and hay fever attacks. A few
drops taken on sugar stops cough.
Ing and sneezing instantly"
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tsPink EveD i Enidansaas,,:s; - y,

Attacks the Eyes in the Springtime. Is
Contagious and Calls for linn ediate Ac-
ton. Murine Eye Remedy Affords Reli-
able Relief. 1t Soothes.s Apply Murine
Freely and Frequently. Doesn't Smart.