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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-09-02

proaches. Within there are the usual
groups Of figures. Most startling and
striking Of all Of these is q very eff
fective piece representing the famous
passage in the old mythology Of
Uxum dancing to please the gods.
The gods look sadly like Ainu gentry;
they have long and heavy boards quite
unlike what might be expected Of true
Japanese. They are represented as
sitting in a semicircle on the ground.
The background is q magnificent mass
ing Of green and blooming flowers.
broken at the middle by the opening
Of the cave In which the sun goddess
has hidden herself. Several of the
gods. supplied with characteristic
japanese instruments, seem to be
playing the accompaniment to the
! woman-of neutrality-suspicious. as
she dances. The god-of-the-strong-
arms has seized the great stone at the
entrance to the cave of the sun god
dess and is dragging it aside. reveal
ing the goddess herself against bril-
liant rising sun. After passing
series of finely executed groups. most
~ traditional, although one comic
piece is distinctly modern, we come
to final performance which is curl
GUS and Enthusiastically Japanese. It
represents scenes in Yoshitsume's
life. In it there is a great vessel sup
posed to represent Chinese pirate
junk composed of flowers. The hero
Is seen In. canoe. The vessel re-
wolves in the apparent water to the
great Joy of the crowd Of spectators.
When it has completed its revolution
it suddenly falls to pieces. while new
actors brilliantly illuminated with
numberless small electric lights of
different colors come into the scene.
At the same time the ceiling Of the
space above the spectators disappears
and one seems to be standing be-
meath a trellis covered with pendant
clusters of wistaria. This whole cell
ing lowers over the head of the crowd
in curious and striking way, simple
but effective. At the wrestling hall q
very notable competition is taking
place in chrysanthemums. The prize
flowers have been carefully collared
with white paper collars to separate
them from their surroundings and to
give an opportunity for critical judy
ment upon the elements which have
made them the winners of the prizes
offered.
Another chrysanthemum display is
on near Shiba park. Here the chrysan-
themums in bloom are the attraction.
There is also a great display Of the
little dwarfed trees for which Japan
is famous. Here one may see ancient
pine trees a little more than a foot
or two in height, some Of them
gnarled and twisted in the most fan
tastic fashions, initiating the widest
freaks Of nature; little naples, the
delicate foliage of which is turning:
little plum trees, whose leafess trunks
and branches tell that winter comes.
Here, too, are stone gardens-but
stone gardens are another story.
Copyright. 1910. by W. g. Chapman.)
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sented by them as tokens of aprecia-
ton. The Imperial chrysanthemum has
16 petaloids. If you will notice the
next decorative chrysanthemum you
see, you will find that it has any num-
Der Of petaloids except 16; that num-
Der it must not have.
Apart from the displays of fine
plants in notable bloom, remarkable
for their character or quality. there
is curious kind of chrysanthemum
show which is very popular. Perhaps
the best known Of these is Dangaza-
ka- At Dangazaka there are four
chrysanthemum shows in competition.
They occupy both sides of street
which Guns steeply downhfll--two on
one side, two on the other. In front
of them are curious box platforms
scarcely more than yard square, and
to height of three feet or more
above the ground. In each one Of
these-and every show has several
is spieler whose noisy cries would
do credit to Coney island or a Pike
show. The din made by these fel-
lows is prodigious, as each one seems
to make a special appeal to each and
every passer to patronize his show.
They hold out to the possible patron
a great handful on which are repre-
sented in crude wood-cut pictures
some of the attractions to be expected
within. When lunch time comes, the
spielers do not quit their box plat
forms. but unconcernedly eat rice and
drink tea in the presence of all, STOP
ping between sips and mouthfuls to
cry out their shows. Three forms of
attractions are usually presented:
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-09-02
Preserving Cut Flowers.

Preserving Cut Flowers.
Cut flowers will keep three times
as long as they otherwise would II a
few simple precautions are observed
in their care. Always take of the
string or wire with which they are
bound, unless it is inserted through
their stem barbarous custom to
any flower lover. Do not crowd too
many in a vase; rather utilize pitch
ers and flngerbowls than give the ap-
perance Of one of the tightly packed
"posies" of the seventies.
Really the Japanese custom Of just
one or two flowers in vase Is the
prettiest, especially If they are large
and distinct in form. Put a pinch of
salt in the water and change it daily
Finally, char the end of each stem
with the fire from piece Of wood
not match, for the PHOSPHORUS is
bad for the howers-and never, new
er touch pair of scissors to them.
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leaves, however, are to attract our at
tention on this occasion. The third
of the autumn delights is the chrysan.
themum. Just now one sees chrysan-
themum everywhere. Plants are Of
fered for sale on every street, and
particularly in the morning one meets
great push carts filled with growing
and blossoming plants. On the whole,
the highest taste finds satisfaction in
pure whites and bright yellows; there
are, however, of course, any quantity
of other tints. most Of which have
their admirers. The names given to
the different varieties are poeticai
and often indicate quick apperception
and interesting association of ideas.
Flowers in which the outer coloring
differs from the inner color of the
petaloids usually call up damasks to
the Japanese mind. Personally. those
which best please us are the dark
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS verging al
most to black-and the damask-sug-
costing flowers with outer tint OF
golden yellow and inner of maroon. It
is not only the larger plants with
enormous blooms that please, but
very many times the little Powered
forms covered with blossoms not an
inch across are charming. In our
garden Cooksan set out two little
plants which we have watched with
wonder. One of them is a mass OF
small flowers, not an inch across. OF
sunny yellow. The other plant, scarce
ly foot In height, has borne many
scores of .ich maroon blossoms scarce
~ three-uuarters of an inch across.
Yesterday we saw the chrysan-
themums at Marta. The place is IA
nous for its displays. and the show
was brilliant. The favorites appeared
to be flowers of snowy Wilderness ~
inches across, with narrow tattered
petaloids., The massing Of the plants
at such displays IL striking. Thou
sands of plants are crowded closely to-
gether SO as to give q very sheet Of
bloom
The pervading fondness for chrysan.
themums 10 indicated in many popular
; fashions. Thus few names for women
are greater favorites than Kiku-
chrysanthemum. The flower IL used.
of course. In decoration everywhere.
Every one knows, too, that It IL the
imperial flower, and appears not only
on the national fiag. but on the stamps
and coins q we'll. It IL true that the
decorative II q highly convention
allied chrysanthemum-as. indeed. the
representations Of flowers used In
decoration generally are. But do not
for 4 moment think that the chrysan-
themum used in decoration Is I'm
perial The use Of the Imperial
chrysanthemum IL prohibited by law.
IL may be used on objects made for
the imperial faulty Of q objects pre-
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it could not be wasted in view of the
fact that over so acres of his corn
went at once into his enormous silos
and was In good condition to afford
the greatest amount of feeding nu.
trients in the most palatable and d.
gestible form. The remainder of his
corn was cut up at once and put into
shocks to be shredded and the better
portion Of the shredded fodder used
to supply dry matter for the COWS in
conjunction with the silage, and those
portions which might be termed as
waste were used as bedding to absorb
the heterogeneous waste from the ami.
mails and returned again to the
field during the late winter or early
spring in the form Of fertilizing con.
stituents for the upbuilding Of the
fields from which the crop itself was
taken.
siia9e Is succulent.
There is one distinct ADVANTAGE in
corn silage which is not enumerated
in its feeding analysis. That is the
moisture or succulence which it con.
tains. The American feeder has not
realized in the past the great value OF
succulence added to the ration of his
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And They Wondered

Judge Nicholas Longworth, who
used to sit on Ohio's supreme bench.
looked unnaturally grave, and q
neighbor, in recognition Of his facial
depression, named a pet owl Judge
Longworth." 1t was the very next
day that an excited maid broke up his
wife's garden party. "Oh, madam
said she. Madam! Judge Longworth
has laid an egg"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-09-02

out one or more silos, and the day 10
rapidly coming when the man without
a silo will have difficult time in ma
king a profitable competition with tho
one who resorts to the use Of the silo.
This is true of all farm products and
especially is it true of dairy products
if the consumer has been led to the
point where he is paying extremely
large prices. AS matter of fact. he
is paying for dairy products almost
as much as he can afford to pay and
the dairy farmer should begin to real
lie that he Is receiving extremely
large prices for the commodities
which he is producing. It is shame
and a disgrace for the farmer in the
corn belt to be compelled to say that
he cannot afford to produce butter for
an average price of from Is to 80 cents
a pound the year through, or milk
averaging when it reaches the con-
sumner more than five cents a quart.
This statement is in view of the fact
that farmers in older countries are
doing this very thing on land which
rents annually for as much as large
portion of the land in the corn belt
sells for. It is possible to make great
profits out of the dairy business at the
present prevailing prices of both dairy
products and food stuffs, but it Is
necessary for the farmer and dairy.
man to surround his efforts with bet.
ter conditions In the form of better
cows, better feed produced more in.
telligently and combined more thought.
fully. In other words, the time is close
at hand when the up-to-date farmer
will be vastly different from the farm.
er and dairyman that we have known
in the past. He will place himself
more in a position of the business
man, the merchant or the manufac-
turer. He will be acquainted with
every individual animal upon his farm
even as is the merchant acquainted
with everyone of his customers. He
will be acquainted with every feature
pertaining to every acre of ground Of
which his farm is made up, even az
the manufacturer is acquainted with
every machine In his factory. When.
ever this time comes conditions on
the farm will not only be more inten.
sive but methods will be more diversi.
fed and although it is difficult to pre-.
dict that prices of farm commodities
will be much greater than they are at
the present time, it Is a certainty that
farms will be more valuable and the
commodities that are now being pro.
duced upon the farm, especially the
dairy products, will be produced for a
much less cost per pound than at the
present time.
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self.Foroetful.

An automobile came whizzing
through a small town and bowled over
a prominent resident. Among those
who saw the accident and were ex.
cited by 1t was q young physician just
beginning practise.
20 doctor! doctor!" he cried.
Somebody run for physician"
"How about yourself?" suggested
an acquaintance who happened to be
at the scene.
Sure enough" said the young prac.
titioner; Il never thought of that
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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-09-02
Only Perfect lneulator.

Thomas A. Edison prophesies tho
disappearance Of the horse and the
disappearance of the shop assistant, -
said the editor. Transportation will
be electrical some day, and shops will
be automatic, slot-machine concerns.
"Mr. Edison is always original and
striking. l remember the first time
I ever interviewed him.
Mr.. Edison, said, in the course
Of the interview, what is the very best
insulator?'
The only absolutely perfect insu.
lator;: he replied. Is poverty" =
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-09-02
Longest Railway Journey.

Longest Railway Journey.
Planning to take the longest con.
tinuous railway Journey possible on
tho earth, Secretary Of War Dickinson
has decided. in returning from the
Philippines, to use tho Trans ibedian
railway. He VIII then be In q posi-
ton, on his return, to understand how
much Of = factor that great railway
viii be in determining the part Rus
sia will play In the far east and to
what extent it Will be possible for
the road to figure a. 4 military factor
In shaping the affairs Of the future In
that part of Asia.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-09-02

points to be considered In formulating
rations for the herd. They must be
palatable so that the cow will eat in
large amounts and waste very little
of the feed. They must contain suf-
flcient amount of digestible nutrients
and for this reason concentrates must
be fed in addition to hay, straw and
grass. They must be inexpensive in
order to insure profit. There must
be a sufficient amount of variety in
order that the feeder may change his
ration from time to time and keep
the cow always ready for her next
meal There must be certain amount
Of succulence summer and winter II
the ration Is to accomplish the best
results.
The SiIo.
One of the chief sources Of all Of
these points is the silo. There is no
feed more palatable, more easily d.
gested, affording more of variety
and costing as small an amount in
the corn belt as does corn silage and
1 am confident that the time is close
at hand when silos on the farm will
be as plentiful as corn cribs are
at the present time. 1t has other ad-
vantages in that it is useful in feeding
other farm animals. It supplies in
the winter time the succulence of the
June pastures. It is convenient in
that the feeder is not compelled to go
to the cornfleld and pick the dry corn
stalks out Of the snow on cold, frosty
mornings. Experiments prove that
milk and butter fat can be produced
for at least one-third less cost where
corn silage Is used than where the
COW must subsist wholly on dry feed.
The farmer Of the corn belt. has during
the past year, demonstrated that he
is aware of the fact that silage is one
of the very best and cheapest feeds
that can be supplied to farm animals.
In Iowa there are to be found up to
this year in the neighborhood of 1900
silos on farms and during the present
year there have been sold and erected
on other Iowa farms In the neighbor-
hood Of 1900 more and likely it is
that during the coming year the num-
Der Of silos in this state will be again
doubled. The chief objection to the
silo at the present time. and, In fact,
the only objection that the writer has
heard for some time. Is that the first
cost Is q considerable expense which
10 true. However. II one stops to CON-
pare the actual cost Of storage space
of foods for farm animals 1t Is readily
found that the silo 10 the cheapest
structure that can be built upon the
farm. AS a matter Of fact, one Of tho
great losses of the farmer in the corn
belt at the present time 10 the loss of
foodstuffs which remain In the fields
exposed during tho entire winter to
the elements of the weather. and any
method by which these same feeds
can be: taken indoors out Of the wealth
~ and saved rather than wasted adds
greatly to the producing capacity and
to the net profits of the farmer.
Capacity Of the silo.
It IL a well-known fact that 400
cubic feet Of barn space is required
icr the storage Of one ton Of clover
hay: so cubic feet of silo space win
suffice for the storage Of one ton Of
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A Treasure.

= treasure.
Your new maid looks very dis
Greet"
Indeed. she is. She even knocks
at all the drawers before opening
them"-Pele Mele
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-09-02

Good intentions are always hot
stuff; that is why they are used for
paving material in a certain locality.
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DR.. Pillen-There must be some
thing radically wrong with your sys-
tenn to have your hair fall out SO.
You will have to diet.
Skantlox-Dye it? I'm afraid, doc.
there's not enough of it left to dye.
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saved from fatal Bright's disease by
Doan's Kidney Pills and my health i'm
proved wonderfully"
Remember the name-Doan's. For
sale by all dealers 80 cents box.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo. N. Y.
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:. s 8
passed too freely. !.
Otter staggered as II
drunk. I could not
lie In bed over half
an hour. My side was
numb, sight affected,
and a tingling sensa-
ton covered my,
body. It actually
seemed as II L would
20 crazy. was
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-09-02

A business mans leisure Is simply
the time he doesn't know what to do
with.
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2 Mrs. H. W. Heau, 1915 l. St., Ba-
kersfeld. Cal, says: Doctors failed
to help me and was In despair. The
kidney secretiOns scalded terribly and
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Ars. Gabbie-Nearly everything /.
nay to you goes in At one ear and out
the other. ee..s.g .-...s 81. IS
Gabbie -Lucky thing. too! Do 20
want my head 70 harst1 ri. SIS SIS
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You Know Tnem.

YOU KNOW nef1.
rs that new hobby he is riding?"
mo; same old frayed boss. It's
tention."
Bisbee daily review., 1910-06-09
OFFICERS PUT
 LITTLE FAITH
 IN AEROPLAAE
Army Men Inclined to Laugh at the Claims Made for the ln- vention Under Actual War fare Conditions,

SAN ANTONIO. Tex. June S.- With the War Department still in- yestigating the aeroplaue and with one Of the investigators busy at Fort sam Houston. army officers quail fled and inclined to criticize that eontriyance in the light of a military means have to be somewhat care ful- But while not anxious to rush into print they have humble opinions
 of their own. h the language that passes over the tables at the Off cers' club the aeroplane in warfare will have as much chance as the proverbial snowfall has in the neth- CT region.
 Said ore Of the officers who guides the destinies of an artillary organi- zation.
 "Modesty for bids me to say that share the views of the Commander of the department of the east Still his view and mine coincide to a re- markable degree. Contrary to the opinions of aviators and the part of the general public that swears by their theories. the aerOplsne will never be serviceable as a mea~s cf aggression or defense. Sooner. or later, no doubt. the armies Of the world will use it in their intellig- ence departments and that will be all We shall hear Of it for a long time
 Aviator Curtiss after the ocm- pletion Of his Albany to New York flight made a number Of sweeping statements which be would not make did he know as much about explos- ives as he does about flying ma chimes. He proposed to wipe all New York of the face of Rlanhat- tan Island with dynamite and pie lis acid 10 be carried over it by { aeroplanes. Theoretically this would be possible only could an aeroplane or a uumber of them carry more explosives than they do now or 1t explosives really had the wonderful power they are credited with in the mind Of the person not familiar with them The fact of the mat ter is that the average person hear ing the word dynamite secs concel- trated in one-iuch by eightinch stick power enough to rip Pike 8 Peak from it base. The very m ntion of the word picric acid gives the iayman the shivers though there is not the slightest cause for goose flesh in the combination or picric acid and the aeroplane. The great truth in the case of picric acid is that as an explosive to be used by ! an aerial bombardist it is of no value whatever for the reason that a spc- cial firing devise and not cone 's- sion will explode it. How the avIa. : tor hopes to effectively lard a bomD { from the height at which he Will have to sail 10 avoid our shrspnel Is beyond me
 Meanwhile Lieut.. B. D. Foulois. who is operating at Fort Sam Hcns- ton with the Government Wright ma
 chine puts in most of his time repair ing his flyer.
Bisbee daily review., 1910-06-09
YAVhPIA COUNTY MINER
 SET UPON BY THUGS
DAN TAIN RECEIVES A PAINFUL WOUND BY BEING sLASHED ACROSS THE BACK

Dan Fain a well known citizen of Yavapai county was assaulted at Humboldt on Tuesday and escaped death solely through good fortune. Two AustriaEs were the offenders and from what can be learned no pro vocation was given tc justify the cowardly act.
 Mir Fain received a painful wound through being slashed across the back with a dirk. According to the physician attending him, he will re- cover. but he had very close call
 It is said that Mir Fain. with sev- eral of his employees at Dewey. went 10 Humboldt to transact buisness and while in a business house there with his companions, two intoxicated Austrians entered and soon a dispute followed. ir which one of the intrud- CTS was knocked down by one of the cowboys Of the party. MT. Fasn was not a party in the trouble, but while passing in the rear of the room was assaulted by another Austrian with a long and ugly dirk.
 The wounded man feH to the floor and was later taker out of the build
Bisbee daily review., 1910-06-09
GHOST STORY SCARES
 YUMA DOG CATCHER
cOLORED MAN GIVES UP AFTER
 HIS CHARGES ARE TURNED LOOSE TWICE

YUMA, June S.-The move which Marshall Godfrey inaugurated some weeks ago to abate the dog nuisance. came to Ihught The negro who. after having twice filled the pound with useless canines oniy to have the gate broken and his catch set free. finally 9guy it up" and has luck will deal more kindly with him
 After his prizes, 2S in number. were turned loose for the second time, he went to the mayor and asked advice His honor suggested that as the pound was alongside the penitentiary graveyard maybe a ghost was to blame for the broken door It was easy for a negro to accept this the ory and also for him to discover a means of preventing future trouble He went to Councilman Parks and asked to have an electric light put up at the pound. confident that a ghost would never monkey around a strong light. but the irreverent councilman suggested that Old Mother Hubbard was buried in that graveyard and that her fondness for dogs would put her up against any of the powers of modern science But the dog catcher was not going to give up until he had tried for further aid. and he called on Councilman Alexander
 An what do you suppose he told me-" he asked dolefully Why. he said: old Mother Hubbard. she rig
 up an rubbered
 At twenU-eight dogs in the pound. She got a biz rock, an busted de lock
 round
 An dat's where he missed it. Oats more'n I can stan an I ain't eoin roun' no mo. I jest aint an that settles it. quit