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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-29

Because home is in the country-be.
cause it is on farm-is only an added
reason why it should be more up-to-date
and attractive, for those who are fortu.
nate enough to live in the country really
those who live in cities.
And it is also true that farm homes and
farm life is daily becoming more and more
attractive. The inside of our house is ou1
home, so why not make it nice and at.
tractive,. homely and cheerful, up-to-date
You wouldn't think of burning tallow
candles, yet why use wall paper?
In order to educate few refined peo
pie in every community to the artistic
beauty of soft Velvety alabastined walls
of solid color, free offer of beautiful wall
stencils Of classic design is made to every
reader of this paper.
It is also possible to secure without any
expense color suggestions for your home
telling you the most suitable colors, to use
the best arrangement, curtains and ovel
curtains, etc.-in fact the services of q
decorative architect are at your disposal
without charge to you.
In cities there are many and most e1
cellent designers of interior decoration, but
it takes money and time to carry out theil
ideas. This same service is at the disposal
of every reader if he asks for it, and bet
ter than all, it tells you how you car
either do the work yourself or direct some
one else. 1t gives you exact shades and
eolors, and the stencils to do the wor1
without charge.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-29
SHORTAGE IN CHEWING GUM
Recent Report from Mexico Of Threat
ened Famine Turns All Eyes to
That Part Of Country.

The recent report from Mexico that
there is danger of a chewing gum
famine in a few years has caused the
turning of startled and inquiring eyes
toward that part of the country from
which the chewing gum. as well as
the butternuts come.
Practically all the chicle gum,
which is the basis for chewing gum,
comes from Mexico, Central America
and Yucatan. The greed of the chicle
growers Is the cause of the threatened
shortage, because they have been tap
ping the trees too often and as re-
suit the trees are dying. Unless new
chicle forests are discovered or a
system of reforestation is put into ef-
feet, several of the states will have
no gum to export In few years.
Chicle is the gum which exudes
when an incision is made in the bark
of the Chico sapote tree. The crude
gum is shipped to Canada and refined
in Toronto before being imported to
the American factories. This is done
because there is a high ad valorem du-
ty on chicle It is worth about 40
cents a pound and loses Is per cent.
in refining, so a great saving is made
by refining before shipment
An explorer who recently returned
from South America reports that it is
curious to note the decentralization
that chicle hunting has worked among
the population of some of the villages
mo one," he says, will plant maize
field, and even the poorest ragamuf1in
proudly refuses to do any work, say.
ing: I am a Chiclero and have nc
need to work for any one The result
| is that famine occurs in some parts
Of the country every season. All the
Chicleros are poverty stricken, and
| being deeply in debt, they no longer
have huts or maize fields or families
| for this unsettled life in the forests
interrupted occasionally by sprees in
! this or that village, puts even the
most unpretentious form of family life
out Of the question"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-29
Treatment for Lump Jaw.

Lump jaw is due to fungus which
is usually taken into the animals sys-
tenn in feed consumed. Lump jaw is
liable to affect the glands of the
throat or the bones of the head, writes
DR.. David Roberts in American Gull
tivator. It is not advisable to keep
an animal thus afflicted lingering in
herd. On the other hand it is ad.
visable to either treat such an animal
or kill it, as such animals invite dis
eases into the herd, owing to the fact
that they are so reduced in vitality
that they have no resisting power.
A remarkably large per cent. of such
cases can be successfully treated if
taken in time by opening up the en-
largement and washing it out with a
strong antiseptic solution, like five of
carbolic acid in water, and putting the
animals on tonic In this way the
afflicted animal is not only saved, but
the entire herd is protected against
disease.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-29
HIS HANDS CRACKED OPEN

81 am a man seventy years old. My
hands were very sore and cracked
open on the insides for over a year
with large sores. They would crack
open and bleed, itch, burn and ache
so that could not sleep and could do
but little work. They were so bad
that I could not dress myself in the
morning. They would bleed and the
blood dropped on the floor. called
on two doctors, but .they did me no
good. I could get nothing to do any
good till I got the Cuticura Soap and
Cuticura Ointment. About a year
ago my daughter got cake of Cuti-
cura Soap and one box Of Cuticura
Ointment and in one week from the
time I began to use them my hands
were all healed up and they have not
been mite, sore since. I would not
be without the Cuticura Remedies.
'They also cured a bad sore on the
hand of one of my neighbours children
and they think very highly of the Cuti
cura Remedies. John w. Hasty, So. Eff
f1ngham, N. H.. Mar. and Apr. II. '09.'
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-29
"DiQits."


We shall never be in danger of for
getting that our ancestors did their
sums on their fingers so long as a.
rithmetic retains the word "digits, =
But modern civilization knows moth
ing Of the elaborate developments of
this method. It takes a Wallachian
peasant to multiply 8 by on his
hands. This is how he does it: The
fingers of either hand, beginning with
the thumb. stand for the numbers
from to 10. So the ring finger of
one hand and the middle finger of the
other are stuck out to represent 8
and 9, says London Chronicle. Count
ing the fingers remaining on the side
furthest from the thumbs, he finds
them / and 2 respectively, and mul-
tiplied by 2 gives him the units of his
product--2. Then he counts from the
thumbs to the stuck out fingers, in
elusive, finds them and 4, adds these
and gets for his tens. Answer-72.
All this to avoid knowing the multi
plication table beyond 4 times 4!
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-29
New Enemy of Trees.

Prof. w. H. Smith of Halifax of the
Nova Scotia provincial agricultural
college, in recent address before the
Canadian maritime fruit growers as
ISOLATION announced the discovery by
himself of what is believed to be
silver leaf in the orchards of Nova
Scotia. This is scourge never be-
fore found in America, so far as known
to experts.
Prof. Smith had doubts as to the
nature of his discovery at first, and
he consulted the experts in forestry at
Ottawa, who, after close examination.
confirmed DR.. Smiths opinion. Fur
Their investigation is now being made.
and the result will be certainly known
in the spring. Prof. Smith describes
the disease as "a fungus in character.
which feeds on the sap, and does not
make itself known for three or four
years. The leaves first turn blush
and then oily white"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-29
FEW CLEVER BOY INVENTORS
Some Of Them Are Making Exception
ally Large Profits from
Strange Devices.

Wireless telegraph and the conquest
of the air have taken a firm hold on
the youths of America, the hundreds
of lads of tender years, but advanced
ideas, devoting their talents to the in
vention or construction of machines in
both these lines.
While these devices are largely for
pleasure, young America has proved
his ability to turn inventive genius
into unitarian channels One of the
most remarkable inventions made by
a boy is a device for signaling on
elevated roads. 1t is in use on part
of the Brooklyn IL" system, and Is
the work of Morris Schaeffer, Is years
old, a public school boy. Morris was
offered $4,000 for his patent, but on
the advice of friends refused it. The
boy expects to be able to get $4,000
for the idea from the railroad com.
pany.
OF quite different caliber Is the
machine invented by Donald H. Mil
Ter, a student at Columbia university.
This, by the mere touching Of keys,
similar to those on typewriter,
translates Chinese into English. 1t
can also be used to translate any
other language. The continuance re-
sembles an adding machine.
From darkest India comes the rec
ord of the achievement of Claude
Moore, the son of a poor coal miner.
Young Moore, who is 20 years old,
was reduced to the sum of two cents
when he received word from the pat
ent Office that it had issued patent
on a corn husker. Thereupon Claude,
who is thrifty youth, sold his patent
to the harvester trust for consider
able real money.
A most ambitious piece of work has
Just been successfully finished by
Francis Lee Herreshoff, the young
nephew of the famous yacht designer.
This is the construction of a high
power racing automobile with which
has been developed the tremendous
speed of 80 miles an hour.
Herreshoff has also patented a de-
vice for subduing the glare of acety-
lene lamps The mechanism does
away with the necessity of extin.
gushing the lamps, for it softens the
glare, making it hardly more notice
able than an oil lamp.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-29
BICYCLE OF NOVEL PATTERN
Machine Arranged with Sails Mounted
on Frame to Catch Breeze
Pedal in Emergency.

This is the most novel kind of bi.
cycle yet 1t Is the invention of a
Frenchman, a member of that race
famous for odd conceits and pioneer
work in new modes Of transportation.
The body of the vehicle is an ordi-
nary bicycle, having pedals to keep it
going if the wind falls or in riding in
the teeth of the wind. The feature OF
the invention, however, is the sail
equipment. Running up back of the
seat is a mast bearing the main.
sail, while over the front wheel runs
a spar which holds the lower end of
foresail.
Both sails are mounted on the frame
in such way that they can be swung
to side to catch the breeze and the
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-29
Younq Soldiers.

All of us who read the daily papers
know that there has been a state of
war between Turkey and Roumania
for the last two years. The Turks
have invaded Roumania and slaugh-
tered thousands and been guilty of the
greatest cruelties. In many instances
the Roumanians have beaten them
back in the mountain passes, and in
the doing of this have had the help of
their children. Boys and girls not
more than ten years old have helped
to roll rocks down on the foe, and
boys of IL have been given muskets
and have fought like men.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-29
MATCH PUZZLE IS. AMUSING
Trick to LIT Three Matches simuita'
neousIy With the End OF
Fourth.

-Four matches are employed in this
puzzle. With a sharp penknife split
the upper end of sne of them SO as
to form a notch, and pare the end of
another to a wedge shape. Insert the
wedge into the notch, so that the two
matches shall form an angle of about
60 degrees. With these two and a
third match placed so as to lean
against the point of juncture form a
tripod on the table, as shown in the
first Illustration.
The puzzle is to lift these three
matches simultaneously with the end
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-29
Far-Fetched Stories,

"Lincoln,' said veteran Chicago
journalist, used to laugh specifically
over that scurrilous book, Mrs. Troll
lopes Travels In America
Lincoln used to say that if Mrs.
Trollope's book were true, then the
story Of the senator and the plaice
was gospel.
This story-Lincoln often told it
was about a certain senator to whom
a Washington hostess said at dinner:
"'Senator, what kind of fish do you
prefer?'
"'Plaice, madam, thank you, the
senator answered, politely
"A gentleman on the other side of
the room then said, with loud laugh:
"'Oh, senator, still a place-hunter,
eh?'
whats that to you, you dern
stranger? exclaimed the senator, in.
dignantly, and, whipping out his revol-
yer, he shot the punster dead.
But afterwards, when the joke was
explained to him, the senator had a
good laugh, and confessed that he had
ben rather hasty; and, indeed, to show
that he bore the humorist no lasting
grudge. he went to the mans funeral"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-29
Bicycle with Sails.

whole principle on which the vehicle
is operated is that of sailing yacht.
1t requires skillful manipulation to
ride this wheel, and without some
knowledge Of seamanship man would
find it a hard job. Persons who are
fond of sailing, but who have no op.
portunity to indulge this fondness, will
find this bicycle-yacht good substl.
tute for the real article.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-29
OYerhenpecked.

Former Governor Pennypacker, dis
cussing at a dinner in Philadelphia
the divorce evil, said with his humor-
GUS smile:
perhaps there would be less d.
vorce If human nature were more per-
feet. Some women, you know, hen
peck their husbands. There is, for ex-
ample, Bucks county farmer who
said the other day that he would Ger
tainly apply for a divorce only his
wife wouldn't let him."
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-29
Thew Can Chew

Five girls in a public school In ,
town in Vermont were ordered by the
teacher to stop chewing gum. They
refused to and were punished. Their
fathers went to law about it, and It
was held that.any boy or girl in school
had a legal right to chew gum Ill da1
II he or she wanted TO-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-29
Individually lnsjoni19can%.

Mrs. Newlywed-Notice how small
all my bills are, dear?
Mr.. Newlywed-1ndeed. do, darling.
How do you manage? -. -.
Mrs. Newlywed-I buy our things at
lot of different stores.-Yonksrs
Statesman. - - .,...--~:, +.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-29

easily added Trad. 1.-THE government
will be tickled to death to pay me,
say, 100000 year just to insure it
against war. Any government would.
And Lawd knows what they'd pay If
they got to bidding against each 9TH
er. But let it stay at 100000. Then
comes war. Gents says l, it'll
cost you just a even four million for
me to stop this trouble tomorrow
afternoon It's dirt cheap and they
agree. go out and meet the foe
and turn on eight lines of gravity
hose. Instantly the enemy is kiting
skyward, 10 miles second" And
Trad paused triumphantly
"Witham amt your man." hoarse-
ly pleaded Edgar. But 1 be-"
Then We'll begin putting up the
air shaft at once" warmly agreed
Trad
Air shaft?" puzzled Edgar.
YES; you see we've got to build a
air shaft, like a chimbly, till we get
above the atmosphere and can tap the
non-gravity ozone and pipe it down
into tanks. Just tank and a hose
is all that We'll need after we git
the ozone. No heavy machinery to
cart around, you see"
How high will these shafts have to
be-" cried Edgar.
"All we need is one," soothed
Trad. Some say the atmosphere
ends at five miles up; while others
say"
"Tll take you by Williams place
early to-morrer morning." promised
Edgar, fiercely.
Copyright, 1909. by w. G. Chapman.)
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-29

Of the third match shall fall forward
into the angle of the other two, as
shown in the second illustration. By
gently raising the fourth match you
lock all three together, and they may
be lifted without difficulty.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-29
The Worried MANAGER.

whats the trouble?" asked the
impressario's friend.
Il can't keep my people down to
their own lines Of work. The prima
donnas will kick and the ballet won't
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-29
History.

History is the witness of the times
the torch of truth; the life of memory
the teacher OF life, the messenger O.
antiquity.-Cicer0. ~ - =.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-29
Queer Attribute of Salmon.

Queer Attribute of Salmon.
Only about 20 per cent. of salmon
spawn before they return up the river
from the sea, and those that do return
after spawning are coarse, and, when
cut up, white in the flesh; in fact, are
known as bull trout, for so-called
bull trout" are not different kind
of fish, but are plainly salmon which
have spawned.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-29

Of the fourth match. One hand only
must be used. The trick is done in
the following manner:
Take the fourth match in your hand
and with it's point gently raise the two
joined matches to slightly more yer.
teal position, so that the upper end
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-29
important to Mothers.

Important to Mothers.
Examine carefully every bottle Of
CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for
infants and children, and see that it
s ssss: ss' lMAZZz;zx
In Use For Over 80 Years.
The Kind You Have Always Bought.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-29

.'oh dear! what shall I drawn
Artist Puss could almost weep.
Certainly something I must do,
For the time has come, when the
Rent is due.
I guess I'll draw a good long breath
And take a little Sleep"
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-06-03
Virginia: Of the
Air Lanes ... % s;:s; s:. d; s.':.

imperfect with the steam-engine of
Hero, and the Margins of Archi-
medes, Calllmachus and Demetri-
us. The new ero is one of great
flying engines beside which the
Virginia was as a humming bird to
a hawk; but which are, every one,
built on the Virginia's principles
the direct thrust of the blades, and
the balancing by the automatic dis
tribution of power by means of
light horoscopes. The new hero
was the miserable young man who
looked like one with his death
wound, and manoeuvered the new
machine like a veteran-TheodCre
Carson. Every school boy knows
these things.
But every one does not know of
her difficulty in getting off. She
cleared from her nest and struck
out like homing pigeon, and sud-
denly, as if by an elastic return
ball cord, she returned to the
launch of Mr.. Waddy and Mrs.
Graybill on Freshwater Lake.
whats wrong?" inquired Mr..
Waddy anxiously.
my mental cargo shifted" re.
piled Craighead, from above. "The
Virginia was leaky and unseawor.
thy! Had to put back"
Shifting cargo" symbolized the
fact that Mr.. Craighead had some.
thing to say-in which he passed
from a forced business converse.
ton to an exchange Of farewells
with Mrs. Graybill, cut short by
Carson's resumption of flight.
The wharves and verandas of the
hotels and villas were filled now
with observers of the new inhab'
liant of the sky. They saw her
take her second flight northward;
but again, with sweep that filled
them with admiration, she fled
back once more to a position a few
yards above the launch.
The crew mutinied," said Craig.
head. Salt horse wormy! And we
ought to work out this Broom idea
a little more, Mr.. Waddy."
There amt no use in your com.
in back for that" said Mr.. Waddy
81 know my business as well as
the next one. I'm handling the
West. You let me alone"
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"Assuredly, Michael" assented
Craighead. "Goodby, Mrs. Gray
bill. The hard part of going to sea
is gOodby."
Again they flew northward; and
again, within five minutes of losing
the launch, Craighead demanded
that Carson put back.
IL would have converse with Sir
Cyrus Waddy," said he. This
time l must My statistical bureau
has dug up the real item that I
wanted to show him. Return, SiSr
Thedo' Cahson, Lord Mayor Of Ev-
erywhar! Return to the launch!"
mol" said Theodore; I'VE have
vacillated enough; too much. I
shall not return"
But, I say, old chap" urged
Craighead, this is the lahst, you
know. Seriously now, Mr.. Waddy
doesn't know the first thing about
my scheme for controlling Middle
West space through titles to high
ways. I've got to talk with him.
Come now. Go back, or I'll jolly
we'll hop into the bay and swim
l will go back. I'll scuttle the ship.
l shall not sleep a wink. I'll be
worthless unless I'm taken back
Back, villain, unhand me I'll buy
a starting in the first poultry mar.
ket, and teach the Internal fowl to
hollo in thine ear, Back! Take
me back!' I'm In earnest. The
farther we go, the more things
think of to go back for. Take
me-"
Continued Tomorrow
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-06-03
GIFTS FOR THE BRIDE

1t takes thought to avoid the COM
monplace in wedding gifts. Too
many duplicates annoy.
Heavy silver sugar tOngs are
good. Brass and copper pieces
should please. A silver tea caddy
is among the attractions.
Try to get something which is alb
solutely good of its kind. Beautiful
plates range from chop plates to
rail plates. A few friends or rela'
tives may buy. together, a brass,
silver or gold desk set.
All sorts of beautiful sets may be
purchased in this way, from table
to toilet ware. Unless one has good
taste. and knows the taste of the
recipient thoroughly. pictures are
out of the question.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-06-03
The Senior High School
Students Present PLAY

Joe Brinkerhoff and Leland Ar
gall were forced into double roles.
Joe Brinkerhoff played the part of
Mercutio and Escalus and Mr. Ar
gall playing the parts of Friar Law
renee and Gregory. They both did
splendid work.
Other members of the cast wor-
thy of particular mention were Joe
Shield, Harry Andrews, Clayton
Evanson, Forrest Garrett, Paul
Hahn, f. Parker, Carl Dunn, Ell
Parker, Mary Buckley and Hazel
Garrett.
The high school orchestra under
the direction of DIN Rice, furn-
ished the music.
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(Continued.)

Every WE'LL" said Carson. Craig
head, we'll start for New York in
the Virginia in the morning."
That night Carson wandered to
the spot on the beach where he
had drawn Virginia down out of
the sky in the runaway helicopter.
The heavens were overcast, the
east winds moaned through the
pines, great gray waves broke thun-
derously on the beach, and from the
marshes came the croak of night
herons. He sat pondering on his
misery, on the temptation to which
he had succumbed, on the hopeless
ness of his love. They-he and
she-had approached each other
like two stars, and flown off into
space, never to meet, in predes-
tined orbits. And after all they
had enjoyed and lived and suffered
together! The hand on his shout
der felt for the moment like hers,
but it was Mrs. Graybill who had
come through the soft sand, silent
as a ghost, to his side.
"Mr. Carson" said she, "this
isn't the last. Don't give up.
couldn't speak to her; I was only a
stranger. But l kept the fragments
of the letters she tore up. Put
them together. They will cheer
you up. What a woman wants to
say, and doesn't dare, means much,
much more than what she says.
Mr.. Carson, don't despair"
And she ran away as silently as
she had come.
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Gpntbta @rep's
gfttfr8

Dear Miss Grey: Give me a
good recipe for chocolate pie. ca
How can l restore the color to a
faded blue linen dress? WAITING.
A.-Mix one cup of sugar with
two tablespoons grated chocolate
and yolks two eggs. Add one pint
milk gradually and bake in open
crust. Make a meringue of the
whites Of eggs and tablespoon Of
sugar, and spread on top of pie
to brown. (2) l fear you can do
nothing for your dress unless you
dye it. Why don't you rip it, turn
the wrong side out, and make it
over?
Dear Miss Grey: (D My elder
sister is married and I am the only
girl at home. How shall my visit
ing cards read? (2)I have been