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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-02-22
CROWS NOT TO BE TRUSTED.

A Cunning Birds Stratagcm to Get Food
at IL Hunters Camp.
"A crow is the slickcst bird flying when
it wants to be-" said Lige Thomncr as he
sat OH the edge of a soapbox at Williams
store at Long Hill Center, Conn.,, land to
prove it will tell you a circumstance
that occurred when a party of us were
camping at Canaan mountain pond last
fall.
There was an almighty lot of crows
around the hut we occupied, and one day
| brought out my gun and shot into a
flock. All escaped my shot except one
which was lying on the ground wounded.
| went to the place and picked the wound
been broken by the shot. Taking the crow
to the hut | amputated the leg and taking
hot coal from the fire l burned the
stump so that it would not bleed. The
bird was then allowed to so ut liberty, but
instead Of leaving the vicinity Of the
camp it hung around and the boys would
feed it with crumbs from the table, and it
became quite tame. 1t would come limp
ing into camp just like veteran after
| bis pension.
AT about meal time the crow could be
expected at first, but at last its visits be-
came more frequent. One of the boys
hintcd that the bird we were feeding
| was not the victim of my gunslot and in
| Investigating this theory we found out
| what a great deccivcr the crow is. Up
| the alley leading to the spot where the
| bird had been in the habit of receiving
| it's food there hoped one day fine
black crow. There was nothing about
| the bird to show that it was not the same
one that had been the object of our boun-
ty so long. Ii had only one leg so far as
we could sec.
IN bet that amt our crow said
Charley.
Yes, it is, too I says; it has only
one leg
"'You wait and sec,' says Charley,
and away he hurried and returned with
his gun. Raising it and taking careful
aim he fired, and the bird stretched over
on the ground dead. We made an exam.
nation and sure enough the bird had
| two legs as good and sound as any
bird flying. When it had come into our
camp it had hitchcd the other up under
it's wing so as to deceive us and to Sc
cure food. 1t must have watched lis
| feeding the wounded bird and saw an
opportunity of securing food by initiating
that one. All crows are so near alike
| there is no identifying one, and the only
| way we knew ours was by the one leg
| When such clever imitator attacked lis
we were badly fooled. / do not know
what became of the real wounded bird
| 1t never showed up after the other was
killed. l don't know but that we had been
| feeding the bogus bird for the real one
| for weeks before we found out our mis-
| take as it Was.-NeW York Sun.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-02-22
# small sigh, almost sob-.as it were

Of small sigh, almost sob-as it were
of relief, the secret drawer sprang open. r
l drcw it out and carried 1t to the win
dow, to examine it in the fading light.
Too hopeless had l gradually grown, III
my ,dispiriting search, to expect very
much; and vet at glance saw that my
basket of glass lay in fragments at my
feet. No ingots or dollars were here, to
crown me the little Monte Cristo of a
week. Outside. the distant horn had
ceased it's gnat song, the gold was lMlil,E
to primrose, and everything was lonely
ind still. Within my confident little cas-
Ties were tumbling down like card houses,
leaving me stripped of estate, both real
and personal, and dominated by the de-
pressing reaction.
And yet. as l looked again at the small
collection that lay within that drawer of
disillusiOns., some warmth crept back to
my heart as l recognized that kindred
spirit to my own had been ut the making
of it. Two furnished gilt buttons-naval,
apparently-a portrait of Il monarch UNI
known to me. cut from some antique
my own bold style of brush work. some
foreign copper coins, thicker and clum-
sicr of make than those l boarded my
self. and IL list of birds eggs. with names
Of the places where they had been found
Also a ferret's muzzle, and a twist of
larry StflnG. sui IllntlV aromatic. 1t was
Il real boys hoard. then. that l had hap
pened upon. He too had found out the
secret drawer. this happy starred young
person; and here he had slowed away his
treasures, one by one. and had cherished
them secretly awhile; and then-what?
Well, one would never know now the rea-
son why these priceless possessions still
lay here unclaimed: but across the void
stretch of years l seemed to touch hands
moment with my little comrade of
seasons long since dead.
| restored the drawer, with its contents,
to the trusty bureau and heard the spring
click with certain satisfaction. Some
other boy, perhaps, would some day re-
lease that Spring again. 1 trusted he
would be equally appreciatiye. As /
opened the door to 80 l could hear from
the nursery ut the passage shouts ana
yells. telling that the hunt was up. Bears.
apparently. or bandits. were on the even,
ing bin Of fare. Judging by the character
of the noises. In another minute l would
be in the thick Of it, in all the warmth
and light and laughter. And yet-wha,
Il long way off it all seemed, both i'll space
and time, to me, vet lingering on the
threshold Of that Old-wOrld chamber
The Chan Book
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-02-22
TIGHT LacinE.

The latest victim of tight lacing, says
the London Daily News, is the unfor-
tunate actress who died in the midst of
the performance at the Elephant and
Castle theater on boxing night. She
seems to have been gripped as in wise
by the stays of her stage costume, and
this. aggravating a natural weakness of
the heart, brought OH her death. She
had just finished Il song, and danced off
to the wings, when she collapsed, with
all the signs Of fatal illness. Her hus-
band. who was in the house, was called
to her side, and her agonizcd cry to him
to unlace her dress seems to have been
the last that left her lips. She was dead
in her dressing room before the doctor
came. The circumstances were such as
to constitute every possible aggravatiol
of her danger. Her lacing had para
lyzed every vital function ut moment
when it needed most freedom and play.
A dance in loose costume would have
been trying enough amid all the excite
mcnt of first night. An added dance,
and both in 4 garment that fitted like
the torture-boots of the middle ages,
proved too much for the patience of out,
IN gel mature. - -.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-02-22
ALUMINIUM RACING SHELLS.
An Unsatis fl Glory Fad that Has Spent Its
Strength.

An Unsa is Glory Fad that Has Spent Its
Strength.
Daniel Galanaugh, who for il number
of years back has spent much of his
time building aluminium racing shells,
has quit the business, and says in future
he will confne his bodybuilding efforts
to cedar. When asked the reason, Gala
naugh said to Philadelphia Record
man: aluminium was thought to be-
valuable for boat building because of
it's lightness, touShness and supposed III
destructibility. 1t is light and also
tough, far els standing hard knocks
goes, but it is not indestructible, since it
| cUrrOdeS the same as some other metals
One of my first ventures in the aluminium
line was il shell which built for George
w. Statzell Of the Pennsylvania Barge
club about four years ago. 1t was light
and stiff, and gave general satisfaction
not only to Mr.. Statzell and myself, but
also to the numerous other oarsmen to
whom Mr. Statzell loaned it for races
After several years use | noticed that
little blstcrs began to appear here and
there. and when l rubbed them off lit
tie powder about the color of cigar ashes
dropped out. When put i'll the water
again l found little pin holes where the
blisters had been, which made the boat
leaky and unsatisfactory. That salts
fed me that aluminium was not the prop
err material for boat building, and I want
no more of it. The metal l used was
50 per cent. aluminium and per cent
zinc -
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-02-22

ers, or fathers, as the case may be.
Prints of the days of TON and Jerry"
were ut n premium; old-fashioned seals
were displayed in the best shops; and
nledallions of ladies, whose history and
character were IL blank to us, were pur-
chnsed for scarf pins. Suddenly there
was Il general shame faced scuttle. The
flowing skirts of the frock coat began to
decrease. the waist lost it's narrowncss,
peg-top trousers gave place to those cut
on the "drain-pil~" principle. and the
browning glory Of half century ago
the bcl-sharcd hat---slrunk back to very
mild curves. So that, except for minor
details, we are standing pretty much
where we did couple Of years ago.
Possibly some explanation for the col
lapse is to be found in the fact that
number Of men, who are in the van of
fashion leaders. went to such extraordi-
nary lengths that the average we'll
dressed man fell back appalled,. Jerome
X. Jerome recalls in Today the appear
ancc of two young bloods in the Row,
in exact reproductions of their grand
fathers clothes and the panied express
sion of the crowd, he says, was equal
to that of Regent street when IN enter
prising lady journalist walked about
there in Il crinOlinc
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-02-22
A Prisoners Pet Snake.

Fourteen government prisoners were
released from the county Jail last night
and Immediately aftrrward started on
foot to their homes in the mountains.
John Jones, who has been mentioned
in the Courier-Journal as owning a pet
snake by the name of Old Bob, which
was kept around the Jail during Jones
confinement, was among the number,
and with his snake in box under his
arm he started with the rest on their
long journey. Jones was very much at
tached to his snake and during his i'm
prisonmcnt he was allowed to have it in
his cell at intervals, and at such times
nc would rub it's head and fondle it as if
it were human being and in sympathy
with it's owners fate. The people around
the Jail were even afraid to touch the
reptile, but Jones would allow it to
crawl all over his body. The first thing
he did when released was to see if his
pet was all right.-Louisvi)le Courier
IOurn0l
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-02-22
KNOWLEDGE

Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who live bet
ter than others and enjoy life more, with
less expenditure, by more promptly
adapting the worlds best products to
the needs of physical being, will attest
the value to health of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced in the
remedy, Syrup of Fl gs.
Its excellence is due to its presenting
in the form most accep able and pleas
ant to the taste, the refre hing and truly
beneficial properties of a perfect lax
alive; effectually cleansing the system,
dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
and permanently curing constipation:
1t has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval of the medical
profession, because it acts on the Kid
neys, Liver and Bowels without weak
ening them and it is perfectly free from
every Objectionable substance.
Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug.
gists in soc and 81 bottles, but it is man.
ufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup of Figs,
and being we'll informed, you will not
accept any substitute if offered.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-02-22
Worth While tn Su fer.

Vanity furnishes the inspiration for
many of the inventions of the patent of
fee. One of these is a mask of very thin
rubber. designed to be worn on the face
at night. It causes profuse perspira ton
which washes impurities out of the skin
and makes the complexion clearer. Sun
tan is quickly removed by it, so it is
claimed. Another device for producing
dimplcs is IL woman's idea. 1t is wire
mask. likewise to put on when going to
bed. BY an arrangement of screws. pen.
ellis of wood, very blunt, are made to press
upon the cheeks and chin at the points
where .limples are desired. tncomforta-
BILE? Why. of course. But, as the
French say. it is worth while to suffer fol-
beaWy's sake. False busts, hips and
calves arc made of rubber, to be blows
out like balloons. and in many othe,
styles, while the young lady of build hope
lessly skcletonesque may procure com
plete stuffed jacket, which fills out hei
form ut every point to the extent requisite
for counterfeiting desirable embOnpoint.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-02-22
farm Notes.

A farmer can white plans for next
seasons farming out of Il store box at
the grocery.
When buying seed for the drouth
district this season full half Of the sup
ply should be alfalfa.
Under the most economical manage
ment the cost of picking and packing
grapes is ~ cents per basket.
1t is not the man who raises the most
bushels who is the best farmer; it is the
one who raises the most bushels from an
acre.
Concentrate fertilizers and labor on /,
few acres and give some of the surplus
to grass. Your stock will thank you for
the change.
The surcst way to get good cows is to
raise them. Train up hcifcr in the way
she should go and when she becomes I,
COW she will not depart from it. This is
adopted from Solomon.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-02-22
The Postal Flag

During the strike in Brooklyn these
last few days, it being necessary for the
mails which are sent By the trolley ears
TO certain points, TO De carried az usual
the postal flag vas hoisted and ears
forced along the route 4 search
through the flags Of all nations show 10
postal flag, and several inquiries have
been made az to what flag was Used
Someone suggested that it might have
been the custom house flag, but that =
not so. There is a postal flag. II >
dark blue. is about 8 or 10 inches square
and has neither letter nor emblem B.
meath it sign is always carried bearing
the letters &c. $. NJ
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-02-22

& of the sex. Why is it
so many women owe their beauty to DR..
Pierce's Favorite Prescription? Because
beauty Of form and face radiate from the
common center-hcalth. The best bodily
condition results from good food, fresh air
OF the - Prescription"
If there be headache, pain il. he back,
bearing down sensations, or general de-
biity or if there be nervous disturbance,
nervous prostration, and sleeplessness, the
Prescription y reaches the origin of the
trouble and corrects it. 1t dispels aches
catarrhal inflammation of the lining men,
bran-s. falling Of the womb, liberation, If.
1egulari1ies and kindred maladies
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-02-22
Needed the Licking.

One of the favoritc winter games of
the small boy who lives along the Hud-
son is jumping laddie-cakes.' This
sport reaches it's height just us the ice
in the river is breaking up, and when
with the tide Il dozen or more youngsters
may be seen running from one cake to
another, and sometimes make really
dangerous leaps
One day IL boy. apparently about 8
years old, WAS to be seen standing OH Il
cake which was rocking in Il somewhat
alarming manner, and the little fellow
was crying in fri htencd sort of way.
ger from the shore.
And then came the sobbing answer:
Pm afraid dss cake'll turn over, an if
get drowned me mother'll lick me-"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-02-22
Anxious TO Get n Navy.

Portugal proposes to obtain Il modern
navy in novel manner. First-class
shipbuilders are to be asked how many
vessels of specified types they will supply
a year, for twenty years or less, in con-
sideration of $:5':I),O)O Il year and certain
monopolies. The award will so to the
firm that offers the most in the least
time and for the shortest period Of
monopoly The government shipyar,ts
will be closed and one yard established
ut Lisbon. to which all the existing ma
chinery and operatives will be sent. The
plant, material and fuel will be free
from duty: all repairing work for the
government, both in Europe and the col
onieS, will 70 to the new establishment
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-02-22
A Terrible Visitant.

Pain is always terrible vsitant. and often
domiciles itself with one for life. This in
Fiction is preventible. in cases of rheuma
tism, by IL timely resort to Hostetters St"m
ach Bitters. which checks the cncroach
ments Of this obstinate and dangerous NAL
ady at the outset. The term dangerous is
used alvise,lly. for rheumatism is always
liable to attack the vital organs and term
nate life. No testimony is more conclusive
testify to the excellent effect of the Bitters
In this disease. Persons incur a wetting in
TaaX f Gp ns ~h fT
preventive of i'll effects. Malaria. dyspep
STA. liver and kidney trouble, nervousness
and debility are also among the ailments tt
which this popular medicine is adapted. Fol
the inirmties. soreness and stiffness of the
aged it is highly beneficial.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-02-22
A Point to Remember.

An excellent as we'll as witty reproof,
which might be applicable to some poll
ticians even in these enlightened days.
is accredited to the celebrated Richard
Br;nslcy Sheridan. When his son. Thorn
representation of Cornish borough. he
told his father that if he secured the Of
fee he had a mind to place label on
his forehead with the words ITO Let
printed on it, and side with the party
which made the best offer
very well. Tom" replied his father
drily. but if you do that don't forget to
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-02-22
WHY He Committed Suicide.

4 singular reason for deciding to end
his life was given by Charles jenkins,
whose body was found in the Hunter
river. in New South Wales. In a letter
to friend he stated that he had fixed
opinion that man over s. had no right
to compete in the labor market with
younger men and so he determined to
quit life. He asked that the verdict
should not be temporary insanity. The
jury returned a verdict of found
(lrowned''
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-02-22
Grass Is King!

Grass rules. 1t is the most valuable
crop of America. worth more than
either corn or wheat Luxurious mead
ows are the farmers delight. A posi-
tive way to get them. and the only one
We know, is to SOW SalZer's Extra Grass
Mixtures. Many of our farmer readers
praise them and say they get four to
six ton of magnificent hay per acre
from Salzer's seeds Over one hundred
different kinds of Grass, Glover and
Fodder Plant seeds are sold by Salzer.
If You Will Cut This Out and Send 1t
with &c postage to the John A. Salzer
Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis, you will get
n sample of Grass and Glover Mixture
ond their mammoth catalogue free.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-02-22
All in a Campaign

Nothing in modern times can equal
the yiruence and the apparent exacerha-
ton of the presidential campaign of 1928
when Andrew jackson was formally
entered in the presidential race against
John Quincy Adams. Personal abuse
was rife Adams, the impeccable, the
friyidly just, was accused Of variety
of crimes. one of the least Of which was
that he acted as Il procurer for the Gar
of Russia. Clay was branded as an UNI
Drincipled adventurer, professional
gambler, n libertine and an accomplish of
Aaron Burr. Jackson was stigmatiZed
as murderer, Il dueling manslayer, u
cock-fghter and a turf sportsman.-Noah
Brooks in the Century.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-02-22
The Lower Four Hundred

Little Miss Backcourt-"Don't you
dare speak to NC. Youse don't belong
in our set any moro. Youse is just no.
bodies. Your dad has been sent up fer
larceny
Little Miss Alliway-"Huh! Your dad
is there too
Little Miss Backcourt (haughtily)-
1.-The charge agin my dad was grand
larceny. Good News.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-02-22
An iowa AcrOlitc.

The aerolite which fell near Oxford
Junction, la., in April, 1894, has been
dug up by II syndicate. which was formed
for that purpose. 1t proved to be some
thing unique in the line of air stones,
being almost as round as a cannon ball
md only about ten inches in circumfer-
encc. II is of some unknown metal
which bears II strong resemblance to
bronze. 1t is evidently fragment of a
larger body which pissed over the United
States and fell in Canada ut about the
anne time. -. - g.. H. .~av
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-02-22
"A Pertinent Pararranh.

Our country if right, should DC kept
right: if wrong should be put right" is
a political maxim which paraphrased ap-
plies to other conditions of life, thus:
Our health if right should be kept
right: if wrong should be put right,
especially. in bodily ailments, such as
pains and aches, which st. Jacobs Oil
promptly cures. Many out of work
should heed to give it \ chance to cure
and it will give them 4 chance to 50 to
work cured. Another adage is: ''He
doeth best who doeth WELL" Well, Of
course you want to be well from all sorts
Of aches, and the best thing to do is
to use the great remedy. He who does
so is doing we'll indeed.
Found u Needle in His Shoulder.
While Mrs. Eagan, wife of Sergeant
Thomas Eagan of Newark. N. J., was un-
dressing her 4-year-old son, Willie, last
night, something projecting from the
boys right shoulder blade pricked her
finger. Upon examination she found il
to be needle. but failed to remove it.
\ physician was summoned, and he drew
from the boys back needle an inch
and Il quarter long. The boy is supposed
to have swallowed it in his infancy.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-02-22
Strong Cigars.

Inventor Edison, when he is deeply alb
sorbed in work, consumes about twenty
cigars day: when he is less active men
tally, about ten. They are always strong
cigars The inventor says that this cx-
cessive smoking has never, 80 far as he
can discover, done him any harm. His
fnmily has been one of smokers, his
grandfather, who lived to be los, having
been an inyeterate smoker and chewer
If fOharrO 1s we'll
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-02-22
Afraid Of Females,

It has often been said of Robert Louis
Stevenson, great story-teller and creative
genius as he was, that he failed in draw
ing female characters. His books have
no hcroines. When young lady, a great
friend of his, once asked him why he did
not create some really nice woman, II
have tried my best" he answered, "but
they turn to barmAids on my hands"