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New-York tribune., 1911-12-20

fN'sodrgh, Dec. l9.-The appointment Of
receiver for the Wabash Railroad at St
.1'-is Is Of particular interest to Pittsburgh
sha the surrounding country because the
'aoash has stock ownership Of the Wa
,,,asn'Plitsourgh Terminal Railroad, the
"ss' side Belt Railroad and the Wheeling
LAKE Erie Railroad. These companies
nave been IN the hands Of receivers for
'one tine.
!" D. Up,egran. of the Westinghouse in
~ 'e'S IN Pittsburgh said the action Of the
,,~uhsh0Use Air Brake Company in apply
'O' q recelyersaip for the Wabash Rail
~ Nas In accord with plans Of interests
'''snoly 10 The Wabash.
New-York tribune., 1911-12-20
NEW YORK CITY BONDS

jru,shed by~W. = C0ler Co.. no ~ cedar
street,
New-York tribune., 1911-12-20
BOSTON CURB STOCKS,

.Interest 10 be added
New-York tribune., 1911-12-20

Chicago Dec 19.-Plans for the appoint
nent Of an independent committee TO rep
resent the independent bondholders Of the
"aoas1- Railroad became known here to-
cay following conferences between James c.
Chaplin president Of the Colonial Trust
company Of Pittsburgh: George NJ. Reyn-
olls, OF the Continental and Commercial
national Bank and others.
, Ahcllary proceedings in the Wabash
Railroad receiyership case asking the ap-
io'h'ment Of the same receivers named by
we 81 Louis court were brought. to-day in
'us United States Circuit Court here 20
,o'eF the Wabash properties in this jurls-
tction
New-York tribune., 1911-12-20

ecouUons inteTcHan9eaIle IV5glsIorod. tCou- 7
mons. sReCizteged ana coupon.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-05-26
Postal Banks In France.

The record of the postal savings
bank system in France has been Que
o: continued progress. In 1882, when
this institution was established, the
total number Of postal banks in op-
Grafton was 1924 with 211,5S0 deposit
accounts remaining open at the close
of the year. These accounts, including
interest due depositors, amounted to
$9,187. ZIG, the average sum of the de-
posits being $4341. On December 81,
1909, the latest year for which COM
plete statistics are available, the num-
ber Of banks had increased by nearly
$500, the deposit accounts numbered
5,642, 1882, and the deposits, including
interest, represented an aggregate
amount of $316,456.S66, averaging
$5708.
The expenses of administration dur
ing 1900 amounted to $1,504.678, and
the net profits to $526,7S6. 1t may be
recalled that individual accounts are
limited by law to 1900 francs
($c89.5O). When an account exceeds
thie the surplus is invested by the
bank in national bonds The total
value of the bonds purchased In 1909
was $2,080,575. The Withdrawals, in
Guiding these purchases, amounted to
$10s,916,150.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-05-26
In Danger of Starvation in Jack.
sons Hole.
Government Will Furnish Cavalry for
Removal of Animals to Better
Ground-Scene Will Be Spec.
tacuIar

Salem, Ore.-At least 10000 elk
must be moved from Jackson's Hole
or they will die of starvation For the
last few years the state of Wyoming
has been appropriating large sums for
hay to keep these animals from starv-
ing, and each winter finds conditions
worse. 1t is estimated that at least
10000 elk winter in the Jackson's
Hole country. a large area south Of
the Yellowstone National park The
elk scatter during the summer months,
many of them grazing in the park, but
as winter approaches they converge
toward their old winter quarters.
These quarters were ample before the
hOmesteader came to fence the lands.
The elk would feed on the rich grass
of the valleys in the fall, work up on
the sheltered hillsides in the winter.
and, when necessity urged, descend to
the creeks and browse among the
young willows and other foliage until
the spring grass came. The home
steader's fence has made this impos-
Sible now, and each year lessons the
amount of open range. The result Is
that despite the large amount of feed
furnished them by the state. each win
ter sees an enormous death loss of
this fast-disappearing game animal.
Driven to desperation by hunger,
the elk will break down the strongest
barbed-wire fence surrounding a hay
stack. and during a portion of the win
ter the settlers must guard their hay
night and day. The elk have been
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-05-26

the last hours of congress, was the
prelude to what must undoubtedly
prove the most interesting and ex.
citing spectacle of the kind ever wit.
messed in any country
The Warren amendment means that
some time next summer government
troops will attempt to herd 10000 OF
more wild elk from the crowded
ranges of Jackson's Hole to better
feeding grounds on the Big Horn
range
When the range cattle business was
in it's palmiest days in that section OF
the west it was not an uncommon
sight to witness immense herds OF
half-wild cattle, numbering 5000 and
even 10000 head, being driven a hun.
dred miles to the railroad. But even
the widest conception of the most
enthusiastic cattlemen of the Colder
West fails to grasp the immensely OF
the problem Of herding more than 3d..
600 of these wild, fleet elk distance
Of almost 100 miles over a rough for.
est country.
The elk can outrun a horse, has
greater endurance, is surer footed and
will travel over precipitous trails over
which the most venturesome horse.
man would hesitate to follow. In.
stinctively perfected in the art OF
lodging the hunter he is only caught
during the hunting season by stalking.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-05-26
As the Wild Geese Fly.

There can be no more impressive
sight than straining line of wild
geese moving in the clear air with
steady strokes, their rigid necks point
ing to their northern summer home,
theic outlines slowly diminishing un-
til, SIS row of floating dots, they van
ish in the uncertain distance.
AS they scan the continent in their
northward sweep the feeble efforts
that dot it here and there with cities
must seem to them helpless presump-
ton. They call in the joy of their
strength and the poor prisoners OF
gravftation fancy that the resonant
tones from the vast, airy dome are a
special message to their own little
worlds. More impressive than this
voice of the open day or the sight of
the vigorous and steady forms cours-
ing the air is the sonorous mingling
cries In the starry dome when the lofty
way IF travellers is concealed by the
enshrouding night.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-05-26
Our Wonderful Lanuuaoe.

Speaking before the American Phys
zeal Education association in Boston
Prof. John NJ. Tyler of Amherst COL
lege warned his hearers emphatically
against allowing girls from ten to fif-
teen years of age to over-exercise, ham,
mering his ideas home with this scin-
tillatirg nugget of philosophy:
TOO much of nothing Is good"
That may be true in Boston, per-
haps the less of its greatest notoriety
seeking product the better: but we
hope the professor won't seek to apply
his self-reversible theory to Johnny
Meehan's Park row doughnuts, nor
yet to our debtors bank balance.
Which reminds US of the old word
play:
1T rains or it does not rain. There
fore, If it does not rain, it rains" .
The Sun once called this logical
Iallaoy of reciprocation of mutually ex-
elusive terms" That's just what
Professor Tyler's nugget is, a fallacy.
If you don't believe it, get too much
Of nothing and see If it will be good.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-05-26
Stuffed Beefsteak.

Select a two and a half inch thick
round steak With very sharp point
ed knife made a deep cut at one side
working the point of the knife back
and forth until a good sized pocket is
formed. Fill this with seasoned oy-
sters or a bread or cereal stuff1ng
made savory with herbs, then lightly
pin the edges together. Arrange on
some thin slices of fat salt pork in a
dripping pan and cover with more
slices. Pour round it cupful each of
good rich stock and strained tomato.
Cover closely and braise in a moderate
oven for two hours Thicker the gravy
remaining in the pan.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-05-26
New Sea Sport.

An athletic program, including an
exhibition football game and feats of
strength. was held one night recently
in the smoking room Of the White
Star liner Adriatic; at least 80 some
Of the passengers reported, declaring
that some Of the feats Of strength con-
sisted in lifting chairs up by the roots
and hauling doors from their hinges.
At least one door was missing from its
place IN mute evidence Of the keen
sport.
One Of the most successful competi.
tors in the smoke room games was 4
famous Princeton athlete who oncs
kicked & field goal for his team Just In
time to beat out old Eli. No omcial
score Of the games was kept except BY
The CHIEF steward, who presented III
| bin NEXT morntng. .ssss..s42,ss sss zssss.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-05-26
Celebrated "Emperor" Stradivarlus
Offered to Famous Player for
$50,000-May Buy.

London.-Jan Kubelik, the violinist,
expects to revisit America in the au-
tumn of 1911. In conversation with a
correspondent, Kubelik said that he
had several offers from America, in
Guiding one from Daniel Frohman for
120 concerts.
There is nowhere in the world
where I enjoy life so much as in
America" said the famous violinist,
land l shall be glad to accept Mr.
Frohman's offer, although l cannot
manage 120 concerts. Sixty is my
limit. A concert artist should not ap-
pear too often, especially an instru-
mentalist; besides, it would leave me
no time to study.
II like America very much. The
audiences are SO appreciative, and,
while they have not the old musical
traditions Of Europe behind them,
there is the instinct. and where there
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-05-26

is instinct one does not want educa.
ton"
Kubelik Il trying TO make up his
mind whether he will buy the cele-
brated Emperor" Stradivarius violin,
belonging to the late Mr.. Haddock of
Leeds, and which has been offered to
him for $4,000. He is torn between
two emotions; one the intense desire
to become the owner of this perfect
specimen Of the great violin makers
work; the other, the tremendous
price asked for it.
Il have not made up my mind yet,"
said Kubelik, land want another week
or two to think it over. already
have a splendid Strad. Hitherto $15,-
900 is the biggest price ever paid for
violin, and consider $4,000 a very
fancy price. Mr.. Haddock wanted me
to have it in preference to accepting
another offer, made by a man who
wants to present it to the British
museum. but it is an awful price to
pay.
Il have seen the violin, and played
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-05-26
WILL TRANSFER ELK

known to mount upon the fallen bodies
OF their companions and thus climb to
the top of thatched-roof shed, where
they would voraciously devour the rot
ten hay or straw used as roof cover
ing.
10 attempt to drive them anywhere
and in band numbering thousands,
seems an impossible task, yet the gov
eminent appropriation is sufficient evil
dence that this feat will be underta-
ken. Senator Warren has also Sc
cured promise from the war depart
ment for sufficient cavalry men to
herd the elk. A tentative plan sug-
gested is to have the vast herd sur
rounded by, a Gordon of troopers on all
sides, save the one in the direction
1t Is desired to drive the elk, with two
additional lines of cavalrymen strung
out along the course. A closing in OF
! this circle must start the elk on the
course-and the unique race would be
on.
At a given signal the outriders
along the course would also move for
ward, keeping we'll In advance of the
| fleeing herd. Detachments to serve as
relays for these riders would have to
| be stationed at intervals along the
proposed route, and the surging, strug-
Cling mass kept moving until the goal
was reached
Picture 10000 wild elk in full flight,
pursued by mounted cavalrymen firing
their revolvers into the air to further
terrify the fleeing animals, score or
more of the riderless mounts-for
many bold horseman will be thrown
in that wild flight, with broken bones,
If not loss of life!
A telegram from Washington says:
Senator Warren's amendment to the
agricultural bill approprating $4,000
for feeding and removing elk from
Jacksons Hole to better feeding
grounds in Wyoming" passed during
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-05-26
KEEP BOYS ON FARM
English School Plans to Arouse
Interest in Farming.
Twenty Youngsters Selected to Work
on Haf.Acre Plot Are Happiest
and Proudest Of Whole
Institution.

Ripley, England.-With a view to
venting their entering the overcrowd-
ed clerking and allied professions in
towns, the school children of Ripley
are being taught to work on the land
as part of the school course.
The happiest and proudest boys in
Ripley at present are the 20 who have
been chosen out from the rest of their
fellows to work on the half acre OF
land which the Dowager Lady Love-
lace has let to the local village school
authorities.
Twice a week these sturdy, bright
faced youngsters-all of them between
the ages Of eleven and fourteen-take
their spades and forks and measuring
instruments and go out and work on
their plots under the superintendent
of their head master, William Blax-
land.
These embryo farmers and garden
ers have already fenced in their
ground, dug most of it up and por-
toned part of it off into square rod
planted the roots which will hence
forth be their special pride and care.
This work has been made regu-
lar and serious part Of the school cur
nculum." Mr.. Blaxland said, "and it's
object is to give the boys an intelli-
gent and, we hope, useful interest in
what should be their true sphere in
life
I'VE want to keep them on the land,
to prevent them further overcrowding
those already hopelessly overcrowded
occupations of clerking and serving
in shops.
TO boy taught young enough and
properly trained there is more money
and better life in farming and gar
dening than in the town work into
which he would probably drift.
II think we shall succeed in our
aim, too. At any rate, all the boys are
tremendously keen on their digging,
and when they begin to see some
thing coming out of that digging they
should be keener STILL
But 1t Is not so much the how of
farming that hope to teach them, but
rather the why
Most Of the fathers here can teach
their sons the donkey work. but what
few of them can teach is the why and
wherefore Of things.
The reasons Of seasons, the science
of manuring. the rotation Of crops
these and similar matters are what
few parents can touch on to their
boys. Indeed, most of my pupils al
ready know more about the theory of
farming than their fathers do.
AT first we shall devote most of our
attention to vegetable growing -road
beans, runners, peas. onions and so
on
Then there will be flowers and
fruit boarders to attend to and, later
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-05-26
SAVED FLOCK IN BLIZZARD
Aged Wyoming Shepherd Followed
Sheep for Five Days Without Food
or Fire,

Five days in a snowstorm, without
food, fire, rest or sleep, William Nc
Cormick, sixty-year-old sheep herd
er, arrived at the Murdoch camp,
Wyoming, in deplorable condition,
but still guarding tho three thousand
sheep with which he had left the
camp. His collie dog underwent SINH
lar hardships, but assisted him in
bringing the flock back to the corral.
Mccormick is employed by George
Murdock. prominent sheepman.
Murdock's sheep range over the
great Red Desert" which, instead of
Icing desert, is one OF the finest
sheep ranges in the world. While out
IN this great plain Mccormick and his
big herd OF three thousand sheep were
oVertaEen by bowling blizzard OF
wind, snow and sleet. AS is usual
during such ttorms, the sheep immedi-
ately turned their tails to the wind
and drifted with the storm, despite
the efforts of Mccormick and his. dog
to prevent the ANIMALS from going too
lar from their range. For three days
tho band drifted, the herder and dog
trying all the time to stop the animals.
which moved slowly in a great body
before the wind.
Mccormick had no food with him,
and there was no way to cook it even
. nat he been supplied. On the open
prairie he was unable to procure any
1nf1ammable substance He dared not
lie down to rest or sleep for fear of
tossing his sheep as we'll as from fear
IT being frozen to death.
On the evening OF the third day the
Storm abated and the sheep came to a
standstill, many miles from water or
range. Mccormick knew his life de-
pended absolutely upon his ability to
reach camp, and although now three
days without food, water, fire or rest.
re started on the return trip, driving
Ills sheep before him. At the end of
snother two days The aged sheep herd
er arrived at the camp and was taken
III charge by his companions. During
the five days he had sucked snow for
water and had gone entirely without
food, rest, sleep or fire. His face,
hands and feet we're frozen. Sur
geOns report that he will live.
About one thousand of the sheep
were missing, but these were rounded
10 by other employees and brought to
camp. McCormick's feat is looked
upon as one of the most extraordi-
nary instances of endurance ever
known in Wyoming.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-05-26
A Stronu Attachment,

Apropos of beautiful young wife,
worth SAC, 900, who had just d.
vorced her penniless husband in or.
der to marry again, Henry E. Dixey,
the noted comedian, said at a dinner
In New York:
"The young man who marries for
money has none too easy time of it.
His rich wife is apt to tire of him
and throw him out in few years, OF
else she is apt to limit his allowance
to Is or so cents a day.
81 married money! man once
said to me.
"'Wasn't there . woman attached
to it, asked.
Yes. you bet there was he ex
p'oded. so much attached to 1t that
she 1evoI parted with penny"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-05-26
Life Ia a Dream.

Translated from the Chinese philos-
opher, Chuang Tzu: Those who dream
OF the banquet, wake to lamentation
and sorrow. Those who dream of
lamentation and sorrow wake to join
the hunt. While they dream, they do
not know that they dream. Some will
even interpret the very dream they
are dreaming; and only when they
awake do they know it is dream
BY ard by comes the great awakening
and then we find out that this life is
really a great dream
Focis think they are awake now,
and 11atter themselves they know ii
they are really princes or peasants
Confucius and you are both dreams,
and l who say you are dreams, l am
but dream myself. This is a para
dox. Tomorrow a sage may arise to
explain it; but that tomorrow will not
be until ten thousand generations have
gone by.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-05-26
Orange Shortcake.

Sift one quart of fine white flour,
rub into it three tablespoons of cold
butter, teaspoon of salt, a tablespoon
of white sugar. Add beaten egg to
a cup of sour cream, turn it into the
other ingredients, dissolve teaspoon
of soda in spoon of water, mix all
together, handling as little as possible.
roll lightly into two round sheets.
place on pie tins and bake from 20
to Is minutes in quick oven.
F1lling-Peel two large oranges.
chop them fine, remove the seeds.
add half peeled lemon and one cup
Of sugar. Spread between the layers
of shortcake while it is hot.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-05-26
Fruit Cream,

Make a rich boiled custard, flavor
with wine and vanilla; pour into a
freezer; when half frozen add pound
ed almonds, chopped citron and BRAN
dy, peaches or chopped raisins; have
the freezer half full of custard and
fill up with the fruit; mix we'll and
freeze again; almost any kind of
fruits that are preferred may be sub
stituted for the above.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-05-26
SOME DESSERT HINTS
DAINTY CONNECTIONS TO END
THE DINNER.
Noodle Custard Will Be Found an E.
peeiaI Favorite With the Children
-Apricot Pudding Both Deli
clous and HealthfuI.

Noodle Custard.-Boil in boiling salt
water for twenty minutes about half a
pound of dry noodles, drain, cover
with cold water and drain again. Now
in another dish make custard of two
eggs beaten, two cups sweet milk, two
tablespoonfuls sugar, butter size of
walnut. Put this over the noodles
and bake about half an hour. Serve
warm. Extra nice If eaten with sweet
cream.
Sage Custard.-Boil sage, in double
boiler, with milk (as you do rice) I'M
til done. In a bowl beat one or two
eggs, add two scant teaspoonfuls
-four, one-half cup milk, a little nut
meg. Add this to the boiling sage,
and let it boil until thick. Serve hot,
with or without milk or cream.
Apricot Pudding.-A dainty pud.
ding can be made in the following
manner. Boil one pound dried april
cots until tender; press through a
sieve; return to the fire with one cup
full sugar; cook thick, then add two
tablespoonful keystone silver white
gelat1ne dissolved in three tablespoon
fuls cold water, and stir until gelatine
is dissolved; remove from fire. Pre-
pare a boiled custard, using one quart
of milk, three eggs, half a cupful of
sugar; cook until it thickens, then
add two tablespoonfuls of gelatin,
dissolved In three of cold water; add
one tah1esnOOnful Of vanilla Put the
apricot jelly and the custard into a
mold in alternate layers; allow each
layer to become thoroughly set before
adding the next. Serve with either
plain or whipped cream. This looks
pretty when nodded in sherbert glass
es and served with a large spoonful
of whipped cream on top.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-05-26
Nut Bread,

Beat up one egg and beat into II
one-quarter of cupful of sugar; add
one teapsoonful of salt and two cup
fuls of milk. Mix four teaspoonfuls of
baking powder with four cupfuls OF
flour, and sift this into the other in
gradients, adding at the same time
one cupful of chopped nuts. Stir these
all together until smooth and then
make into two loaves; let them rise In
pans for twenty minutes and then
bake for twenty minutes in hot
oven.-Harper's Bazaar.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-05-26
Fall MAY Silence Woman.

Atlantic City, N. J.-Through in.
juries sustained in stumbling in a
boardwalk playhouse, Mrs. W. B.
Smith, proprietress of the Hotel Wal.
lingford, may lose the power of speech
Mrs. Smith was attending perform.
ance with several friends, and while
making her way down the aisle in the
balcony she tripped and fell, narrowly
escaping death. Her chin struck the
brass rail surrounding the balcony
with such force as to affect her throat
so that speech is almost impossible
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-05-26
Mint Sauce.

Mint sauce should always be made
an hour or two before it is used at the
table, as then the vinegar receives the
full aroma of the mint. Dissolve two
tablespoonfuls Of fine sugar in one ta'
blespoonful of boiling water; add
three heaping tablespoonful Of finely
chopped mint. Set away for half an
hour. Drop in one tablespoonful OF
olive oil and half cupful of good
vinegar.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-05-26

on, several of the boys will have hives
of bees under their care.
"The twenty boys who have been
picked out on account Of their bent
for the work are the envy of their
schOOlfellOws."
Those of the twenty young agricul-
turists who intend to remain on the
land were asked to hold up their
hands.
Twelve unhesitatingly and enthusi-
astically signified their intention of
doing SO, while several of the remain
ing eight were emphatic in their in
tentions to have gardens" when they
grew up.