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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-04

G AN ANTONIO, Tex.-That this city
- owes its great distinction as
metropolis Of the wonderful state of
Texas to the Bermuda onion as grown
in Rio Grande bottom lands, the resi-
dents are proud to admit
Seven years ago a man named Nye,
who thought he had been cheated in a
land trade, asked the agricultural de-
partment what he could raise on the
land. It was dry and sandy soil near
San Antonio. Bermuda onions, was
the answer. This year the Bermuda
onion crop marketed from this dis
trict exceeded 100000 in value.
As soon as Mr.. Nye demonstrated
that the so-called desert land near
San Antonio would return a profit of
$500 to $500 an acre in onions, II
slightly irrigated, someone tried cab
bage. The cabbage shipped from this
district brought 100000 this year.
Then other garden truck followed nat
urally and this brought back 3d.
O00, 900.
When truck growing with river ir
rigation proved successful, an effort
was made to get water through bored
wella, Artesian wells have added
u1oeo than q million acres to the cul.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-04
Credit Due Foreign Health Officer.

and the penalties which attach to all
attempts to evade them put effective
repressive weapons into the hands Of
these officials, so that no attempts are
made to escape from compulsory COM
pliance and securing a clean bill of
health at the point of departure and
ports of call. A vessel that starts
from port with no appearance of in
fictitious diseases among her crew or
passengers, and which is again sub
jected to rigorous examination on her
arrival at any American port, stands
little chance of bringing any infected
passengers past the several inspectors.
AS there is no way Of measuring
what might happen II this force were
not employed, its members do not al
ways receive the full amount of credit
to which their unremitting care and
attention entitle them. They stand
among the many preventive forces
which the country utilizes to safe
guard tho people and to whom the
debt Of the nation is greater than the
public II In the habit q acknovlsdx-
x0Kr~.. .-.: =. -,s
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-04
Soldier of Fortune May Lose Rights

of a professor in the University of
Athens and returned to America in
time to take up newspaper work at
the outbreak of tho Spanish-American
war.
He was able to speak several lam
guages nuently, and especially Span
1sh. There was great demand for
news from Cuba, and the genius of
Nelken led him to make translations
from Spanish and Cuban newspapers.
for which he found ready market with
the Washington correspondents. His
success prompted him to fake" when
his news sources became exhausted.
One of these fakes" was a dispatch
which he put forth all over the coun-
try, telling in most dramatic manner
of the attempted assassination of Cen
eral Blanco, who was then governor
general of Cuba, and which caused q
great deal of excitement at the time.
Not long ago the captain turned up
in Constantinople and became involved
in some trouble there which prompted
him to demand the protection of the
the American flag. He presented his
case at the embassy, and in endeav-
oring to establish the fact that he was
a naturalized American citizen, some
disclosures came to light regarding his
papers which led the American charge
to refer the matter to the state de-
partment
The department in turn made in
quiry lat the district court, with the re-
suit that an order was issued requiring
him to show cause within sixty days
why his papers should not be can
celed
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-04
Puzzlers for the New Customs Court

be induced to decide that the hen is
a bird. down will go the price of eggs,
for the present tariff par makes every
importer Of edible eggs pay five cents
dozen for all he brings into the
county. Birds eggs are on the free
list.
Another puzzling question is wheth-
er hens eggs that have been broken
up shall be taxed as eggs or albumen-
Chemically, the mess ready for the
maki4g of omelets is albumen, but If
the court holds that they should
take the albumen duty it is feared
every importer will see to it that every
imported egg is smashed before it
gets to the custom house. The crack
or trust would doubtless be pleased
to have such a decision made.
Is half duck, imported from China
two years ago, and still used as an
exhibit in the courts, bit OF pre-
served meat or dressed poultry? The
government insists it is the former
and the Chinese importer insists that
it is not.
Another nut to crack: Is an auto
mobile household effect? Patriotic
Americans returning from motoring in
Europe will be pleased to have the
court say it is. Under such a deci-
sion they could take over with them a
few real household goods, set up light
housekeeping for a while, buy
French automobile, and then return
to this country and do it all for less
than the amount Of duty on a high
priced automobile made in Europe.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-04

LEW persons realize to what extent
i the welfare of this nation is pre-
served by the splendid service Of the
medical forces which are stationed
at all the danger ports abroad to pre-
vent the introduction of plaques and
pestilences into this country through
shipping agencies. This force of pub
lie health officers is we'll equipped.
Moreover, in all places the work of
these trained experts is further sup
plemented by the efforts Of the con-
sular officers. In places that are too
small to support trained force, but
are quite large enough to transmit dis
ease by emigration, the consular off,
GERS do splendid work unaided.
The stringent laws of quarantine
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-04
n JUST WONDER J
lF J AN WEARING
|SOME ChlNAMANS
\ HAIR J. ~

HH1CAGO.-According to the mana
~ ger of one of Chicago's big hair
factories" his plant is doing a mil
lion dollars worth of business a
year. Said Mr.. Manager: why, the
foreign dealers who used to make
colonial wigs never began to have
the trade we have. You can see this
letter from a well-known firm rushing
US on with an order for 5000
switches, and those ten band boxes
over there contain exactly 100000
worth Of first quality hair all to be
sold to department stores. A wom-
an up in Wisconsin has made nearly
$4,000 simply by selling the hair she
has bought from country women all
over the state.
''All hair that is not Chinese is first
quality hair, but IS per cent of the
false hair now worn is from a China
mans queue-second quality hair we
call 1t. When Chinaman dies or is
sent to prison his queue, which aver
ages 40 inches in length, is cut off
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-04

NEW YORK.-A number of business
~ houses in New York are using the
telephone instead of circulars for ad-
vertising purposes. Probably this will
meet the approval of Uncle Sam. II
adopted wherever practicable it might
extensively relieve the strain on the
postal service. A r-tail dry goods
merchant receives a consignment of
choice laces. 1t takes only few min
utes to ring up two or three dozen
of his best customers who would be
especially interested in such goods
and ask them to call and examine the
laces. The flattery of such an invita-
ton appeals strongly to many persons.
GENERALIZATION has been carried to
such an extent that much of it's ef-
fectiveness is frequently lost and
many circulars never reach the buyer
to whom they are addressed, whereas
the telephone call can usually be
direct communication. A haberdasher
telephones his patrons to note his
latest importations in neck scarfs, the
newst shirtings or special offers in
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-04
Uncle Sam Has New Ward In Liberia

known chapter of that perilous enter
prise which attributes the martyrdom
of life in this effort to open a new
world to the slaves to Rev. Samuel
Bacon, an American minister of the
Episcopal church.
BY act of congress, on March 3,
1919, the president was empowered to
create an agency in Africa for the
purpose of providing an asylum for
such Africans as should be liberated
by our ships of war from vessels
seized for violation of the law sup
pressing the traffic in slaves.
The government decided to send out
the ship of war Cyane and the trans
port Elizabeth with mechanics and la
borers under two agents for the pur-
pose Of breaking ground for the re-
ception of liberated slaves. On Janu-
airy 8, 1920, having previously been In
the service Of the colonization society.
Bacon received from President Mon
roe the commission making him the
head Of the proposed expedition.
Thirty-nine families comprehending
SO families made up the company.
Great difficulty was experienced In
finding not only a place of settlement,
but even one of debarkation.
A species Of African fever appeared
among the members of the little band
of settlers. Soon rs Of the party were
brought down with 1t. Breaking I'm.
der the labors he had assumed Bacon
presently discovered symptoms Of the
malady in himself. The remedies
administered were of no avail and he
died.
Bankson and others Of the party
survived. The founding Of tho colony
went forward. But on the sacrifice Of
Bacon's life Liberia was built
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-04

Thieves have been known to steal
hot stoves, but even this feat is sur
nassed by that of robbers in New
Jersey who stole six cars loaded with
merchandise by cutting a freight
train in two and escaping with the
booty, So far, this holds the record.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-04
HEADS THE WOMAN TEACHERS

In 1905 Miss Grace c. Strachan placed herself
at the head of the army Of women teachers at
Brooklyn, N Y, in their fight for better pay.
Her ambition was to see the day when her associ-
ates would receive much pay for their services
as the janitors. She made her point palmer by
demonstrating that the average pay of women
teachers at Washington D. c., not equal to
that received by the city dog catcher
She is now president of the 1nterborough AS
sociation Of Women School Teachers Of the City
of New York. and has perfected an ideal organiza-
tion AS the head of $4,000 women school teach
ers she is trying to have the state of New York
place male and female teachers upon an equal
pay basis. Three bills to bring about this were
vetoed, but the fight is still IN progress.
been to make the organization work as a unit
by business men and politicians, but champion
AdcCarren who intrnducod hor anst
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-04

A St. Paul burglar has returned
money he had stolen three years ago
He has evidently reformed-partially.
When he completely reforms he will
insist on paying the penalty he in
Cured by violating the moral and
criminal law.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-04

According to the bears, the musk
rats, the chipmunks and other natural
weather prophets. the coming winter
is to be a severe one. 1t really seems
unnecessary to go to the expense OF
establishing, eQuipping and running
weather bureaus with such 1nfallible
weather wisdom to be had for moth
ing.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-04

Why should there be so much ex-
citement when an aviator breaks the
record for attaining the greatest
height? The thing to become en-
thusiastic over. it seems to us, is in
getting safely down from the greatest
height.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-04

Isn't there fine touch Of uncon'
scious humor in the preachments on
American extravaganza which Ameri'
can millionaires deliver when they
come home from motor tours through
Europe?
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-04

Why is it that the man who Gun.
ninglv plans to murder his wife or his
sweetheart and brutally carries out
his plan always "breaks down and
cries like a child" when his guilt is
fastened upon him?
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-04

An early and severe winter Is pre-
dicted but while the thermometer
holds it's own as it does at present
it is impossible for us to become even
mildly excited over 1t.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-04

When a man of ninety-six walks
ten miles to get a marriage license
the truth that live is ever young gives
another Knockout blow to the o.
lerian theory.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-04
NOW GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK

Lieutenant Governor Horace White of SYRIA
cuse became governor of the state of New York
when Charles E. Hughes retired to go upon the
Supreme court bench at Washington For three
months Mr.. White will be governor OF the EN-
pire state and, logically, he should succeed him
self, the chosen of the people. But though unani
mously nominated two years ago for lieutenant
governor, his name not mentioned at
the recent nominating convention at Saratoga
The new governor will do his work fox brief
three months, but bis political career, once so
brilliantly promising, his friends feel, is closed
in all probability.
Belonging to Of the most prominent and
respected families in the state, possessing all the
advantages Of education and social position and
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-04

A Pittsburg bridegroom of five
weeks deserted his bride because she
was "a block of ice" Naturally, she
Immediately proceeded to make it hot
for him.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-04

wealth.
a o public
the lieutenant
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-04

public
"a
council aldermanic
He active
policies
like Ohio political
in Of
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-04
fltneGa In l-lfa.

Build new domes of thought in your
mind, and presently you will find that
instead of your finding the eternal
life. the eternal life has found you.-
Jenhn Lloyd Jones.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-04

An Ohio judge rules that pretzel
Is not a dangerous weapon. Whether
he will be SO confident concerning
the exhibition Of sliced cucumbers re-
mains to be seen.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-04
LEADER IN PUBLIC AFFAIRS

One of the recognized leaders in public affairs
is the Rev. Washington GLADDEN.. For half cen
fury in New York, Massachusetts and Ohio DR..
GLADDEN. has been a great influence in the church,
society and politics. His friends declare that it
is due to his influence and efforts that public
morality in Columbus was advanced to higher
plane
Prior to 1884 the state election in Ohio al
ways preceded the national election by month.
Every four years this account there
condition Of vast turmoil when the different po-
litical influences were at work. DR.. GLADDEN. was
pastor of the First Congregational church Of Co.
lumbus when he set at the work of public reform.
His first appeal for a change in the cleo.
ton o1U He ah0l1t tho oIlc Of tho
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-04

With the Bible still leading the list
of best sellers, the morals OF the
country cannot be so very much de-
Perforated, after all.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-04

An Italian has invented an aero
plane which cannot fall. This Is an
improvement even over those which
can swim and climb trees.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-04

There is a man in Virginia who says
that to marry after fifty means
trouble He is an optimist What
does he think il means to marry be-
fore fifty?
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-04

If there is any argument in favor
Of letting college boys haze them
selves it must be that they need to
get it out of their systems.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-04

Someone has written an article on
1.-THE Duty of the Dollar" this being
something that our American tourists
have been trying to dodge.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-04

A New York woman who obtained
a divorce IS years ago has just APP
piled for alimony. When Is poor
devil safe?
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-04

New York street car conductor
breaks his arm ringing up fares.
Talk about strenuosity in doing ones
duty!
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-04

These are fine days to find mush-
rooms. If you feel ill the next day.
you'll know that you didn't.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-04

In New York there is a woman one
hundred and two years old who has
lived ninety-six years in Manhattan.
Well, it must have been in Harlem.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-04

New York man, forty years old.
and about to we'd says he has never
yet kissed girl. He'll still be
''about to wed" forty years from now.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-04

A French duke has invited his
friends to an aeroplane tea. Could
any high tea" be higher than that?
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-04

Extremes Equally Wrong.
The girl who studies her dress tc
the detriment Of her mind Is nearly
as bad as the girl who polishes her
mind to the neglect Of her appsav
ance.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-04

San Francisco Is waging relent-
less war against rats. but it doesn't
seem to have any effect on Paris
coiffures, so far.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-04

The new five-dollar bills will be
smaller, says an exchange Easier to
break, too, we presume.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-04

Wild grapes are very scarce this
fall, says the Boston Globe, but the
sour variety are still plentiful enough.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-04

New York waiter buys 100000
worth of government bonds. All
things come to him who waits
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-04

been to make the organization work unit
Patrick Mcaen who introduced her first
n movement
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-04

King Alfonso is afraid he may lose
his throne. Foolish boy!-why didn't
he put it in his Wife's name?
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-04

Detroit goat eats a SO bill. Well.
what goat ever got Indigestion from
swallowing ten bones?
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-04
in. THE LlMELlGHT
.WELLMAN OF BALLOON FAME

Walter Wellman. who failed in his daring at
tempt to cross the Atlantic in the big dirigible
balloon America has had career of thrilling
adventure. He was: born in Mentor, Ohio No.
vember 8. 1850, and is of English descent When
fifteen years old he established paper at SUIT
ton, Neb. In 1876 he went to Philadelphia and
abandoned the country newspaper field for the
metropolitan. He had barely attained his major
ity when he established the Cincinnati Evening
Journalism.
In the early eighties for year or two he was
city editor OF the Chicago Herald He covered
the legislative sessions at Springfield and was
sent to Washington as correspondent. At the
nafio III he II
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-04
Appropriate.

Contributor-What has become OF
that poem, ''The Turtle Dove" ! sent
you?
Editor-I've placed 1t In Z pigeon
hole.-Boston Transcript
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-04

Further, an aeroplane, judiciously
handled lays golden eggs.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-04

Summer keeps running back for
just one more parting word.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-04

Possibly the society smuggler is
only kleptomaniac.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-04

Portland cement is to be cheaper
have you tried digesting it?
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-04

Isn't it strange how automobiles
won't take joke?
The Globe-republican., 1910-05-05
BIG DAM SLOWLY BURNING
LowIands Of Mississippi Below Brain.
erd, Minn., Are lmperiIed by
Fire-People Desert Homes.

Duluth. Mimi, April 25.-The low.
lands on the upper Mississippi river
for fifty miles below Brainerd, Mimi,
are imperiled. The big Weyerhauser
dam, holding back immense head
water in the height Of the manufac-
turing season, is slowly burning. Its
center piers were afire when the last
word was received from there.
The city water plant was destroyed
by fire of unknown origin. The city
is dark, water service paralyzed and
the citizens reported panic-stricken.
Residents of the lower quarter have
deserted their homes, couriers report,
and women and children line fiame-lit
banks, while the men fight the fire
hopelessly with buckets.
The Northwest Paper company's
pulp plant was catching afire when
the last mounted courier left Brainerd
downstream to warn settlers to fee
to the surrounding hills.
The Globe-republican., 1910-05-05
AWFUL BURNING ITCH CURED
A DAY

''In the middle of the night Of March
goth woke up with burning itch in
my two hands and felt as II I could
pull them apart. In the morning the
itching had gone to my chest and dur
ing that day 1t spread all over my
body. was red and raw from the top
of my head to the soles of my feet and
l was in continual agony from the
itching. I could neither lie down nor
sit up. happened to see about Cuti.
cura Remedies and thought would
give them trial. l took good bath
with the Cuticura Soap and used the
Cuticura Ointment l put 1t on from
my head down to my feet and then
went to bed. On the first of April |
felt like a new man. The itching was
almost gone. l continued with the
Cuticura Soap and Cuitcura Ointment
and during that day the itching COM
pletely left me. Frank Gridley, 325
East 43rd Street, New York City, Apr.
27, 1909" Cuticura Remedies are sold
throughout the world; Potter Drug G
Chem. Corp, Sole Props, Boston, Mass.