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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-03-06
Lenrninr How to Farm.

More than IN any other business it is
necessary for the farmer to learn some
thing new every year if he would make
his farming successful, says the editor
Of the American Cultivator. The old
idea. that. Anybody who, was willing to
work could siictctd ill farming has had
it's day. 1t never had indrli truth in
it. though it is still true that 10 great
success in farming can be attained un-
less the farmer, with accurate knoWl-
edge of his business, gives his full at
tention to its multiplied details. But the
majority of farmers who fail are unwill-
ing to acknowledges this so long as other
reasons which bear less hardly on them
selves can he pla,,sibly urged. They arc
apt to say that bad seasons and low
prices for products are the cause of
failure. These are wholly bcyong farm
er>' control. This acts as Il discourage
ment to the business of farming. If
it were understood that by growing a
greater variety of crops some profit
might be made even in bad years, there
land and to work hard IN bringing a
profitable result from cultivating it.
The first thing that the beginner in
farming has to learii is the routine meth
DDS that have BEET MOST stteeessfhl in
his neighborhood. In this he can get
valuable advice from old farmers when
he has thoroughly mastered the routine
methods it will be time to begin making
improvements. The majority of anna
tellr farmers begin the other way. They
introd urc novelties in crops and in meth
bic under other conditions. Nine.times
out, OF ten these novelties prove to be
,Aftrolituhlc. In any old farming region
are enough shrcwd farmers who would
long ago have introduced these novelties
if they could have madG them pay The
best school for farming is on the farm
itself. The young man who has OBJ.
tanned practical knowledge of the details
of ordinary farming will be ready to
make good use of a II that the schools can
teach him. If he begins the other way
it is usually with Il contempt for estab
lished routine methods. which only costly
experience can remove
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-03-06

Sarah Bernhardt's salary is $500 a
week. Yvette Guilbert receives, under
her present contract, $1,000 week, and
Calve earns $1,000 for each of her APP
pearances. Olga Nethersole earns $3.50
a week. What with his salary and per
centage of the receipts, John Drew
makes in good TIMES $500 d week. a
competent leading man or woman, like
Henry Miller and Herbert Kelley, Viola
Allen or Isabel Irving, can be had for
$500 a week: The only player that has
ever received, even in this prodigal coun-
try, salary equal to that of Bernhard
was Nine. Modjeska. Edwin Booth.
who knew nothing about the value of
money, once engaged the Polish actress
at a salary Of $500 week.
Mr.. Grau's contract with Guilbert
lasts only two weeks, after which she re-
turns to the cheap prices of Paris.
Calves contract lasts five months, but
during that time she sings only twice or
three times week, after which she re-
turns to the moderate salaries of Europe.
Melba receives $500 night in this
country, but in Paris she is content with
$500 a performance. But Sarah Bern
hardt's contract continues through sum-
mer and winter. and every Saturday
night she pockets $780, Taking one
thing with another, the actress is better
off than the singers. Avera ging the en-
tire income of each performance. we
should say that Calve earns $4,000 a
year, Guilbert about $4,000, while
Bernhardt is sure of $4,000 annually
for hive years.-Gothamite,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-03-06

Mrs. Winslow's SOOTHING SYRUP for chill.
dren teething, soitens the gums, reduces inf1am-
nation allays pain, cures wind collie. 25c bottle
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-03-06
inst Turned Around

The Gaylord Herald wound up a com.
pliment to young school ma am with a
good word about ..'the reputation for
teaching she bears" The next day the
school ma'am met the editor and chased
him down the street with Il blue UNI
brella and every jump in the road she
screamed that she had never taught Il
she-bear in all her life.-Kansas Breeze.
/. "You are the only doctor who advises
me to stay at home. All the others say
ought to go to a winter resort" II
suppose they have all the patients they
want, liegende Blaetter,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-03-06
MERCHANT ouTWITs HIS RIVALS.
Soils Thorn Salt for Sugar and Thus Ends
Lively War of Prices.

Sells Thorn Salt for Sugar and Thus Ends
Lively War of Prices.
A sugar war between rival grocery
firms III the village of White s. D., has
terminated in curious manner. The
war was occasioned by one of the mer-
chants offering twenty pounds of sugar
for 81. A couple of rival business men
entered into scheme to punish the mer-
chant for offering sugar so cheaply and
sent confederates to him to secretly bus.
sugar for them at the reduced prire:
After ren,pvihg d couple Of roithds but
of each 81 package they sold the re-
mainder to their own customers, thus
beating their rival out of two pounds on
each Investment of 81. The victim
learned of the scheme, and in retaliation
filled some packages about half fill of
salt. put sugar on top of It and disposed
of the packages to the parties whom he
knew were buying the sugar for his
rivals. These packages were then sold
by the rival merchants to their custom
ers, after deducting the customary two
pounds. After the man who made :, spc-
cialty of sugar had sold his rivals about
a dozen barrels of salt at cents pound
some of the customers of the drpcs EN-
tered protest against paying sugar prices
for salt, and the trick was exposed and
the war brought to a sudden end.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-03-06
Good Bacon Hogs Wanted.

Our live stock and farming contempo-
raries would do we'll to impress upon
their readers in the hog raising business
that it would be to their advantage to
pay more attention to present require
ments in the mar kcts for products. The
is that he is only half up III his business.
and raises his hogs anyhow atll sells
them for what they will bring. This is
rather Il happy: go-luckv' policy, and in
the end when the shipper finds that the
day of the great fat hog has passed be-
yond /; doubt, he will be sorry that he
did not endeavor to comply with the
needs of the markct;' sdys the National
Provisioner.
The American consumer has, to
great extent, become bacon eater, but
abhors the article which is almost
wholly fat. The European consumer has
the same fault to find with our bacon,
and is emphasizing the fact by sending
his orders to Denmark aud Canada
The farmers of these countries have
realized what is requisite, and are, to
their pecuniary advantage, paying a
great deal of attention to both breeding
and feeding. The results are very ap-
parent and convincing. OF course. Eng
land is the great competing market, and
we will cite it as criterion. In 1893
the exports of bacon from Denmark to
that country were. III .S45 cwt., in 1894
76G,S28 cwt.. and in 1895, 1,O13,93O cwt
Canada's exports for the same years
were-1S93, 193.7 1873 cwt.: 1904, ::l!34 4 Is
cwt.. and 1895. 2G8.SS6 cwt. The figures
from the United States werc-1S93. g.
1929 cvt.; 1904. 2,G61.2 O3 cwt.; 1895
2,ti49, 1872 cwt.. These figures show a
gain but nothing in. proportion to Can
ada and Denmark's Increase.
These figures tell their own story and
provide an object lesson for the Ameri-
can farmer. We want him to under
stand that quality is wanted, not guam
tity. The American and Euronean con-
sumner today wants his bacon we'll
streaked with lean, and the sooner the
American breeder makes quality his goal
and ambition, and not weight. the better
it will be for the perpetuation If the
American hacking industry"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-03-06

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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-03-06
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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-03-18
MISS KEuLY,S LOVE LETTERS.
They Come In Bushels Since the Story Z
Her Inheritance Was Published,

They Come In Bushels Since the Story Of
Her Inheritance Was Published.
II ever there lived modest maid, she Is
Miss Elizabeth Kelly of Philadelphia, who
believes that she is about to como into
possession of fortune of SIS. 600, 900. She
Is the eldest daughter of William Kelly, O
more than middle aged gardener.
The notoriety that came to her when
the announcement was prematurely made
that the immense fortune left by her IA
theirs cider brother, who had persisted by
shipwreck on his way home to England
from his Australian gold mines, was all
to be hers is not at all gratefully borne.
Letters from all points of the compass
and from all sorts and conditions of men
and not few women have fairly deluged
the gardeners daughter since the news of
her good fortune was published a month
ago. Here is sample letter from Bristol,
X. l.:
"Dear Miss 1 am a farmer AZ years, but 1
think coold learn to love You and also learn
you to love me. We coold live here which my
Mother owns the farm and coold help you
keep House and SO save the expense of Hird
Help and we coold buy more farms next to us
and mako this Farm bigger and that will be
something for farming is a good business now
that our glorus country which the baetiful
stars and stripes floats over it is getting woke
up and not allow any skeming politicians run
things to suit theirself any longer. But enous Oh
OF this you are probably say to yourself. Yes
I'll right but what kind of q man are you Well
amt one to brag about myself but know
will be a good husband You not being young
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-03-18
Some Royal Crowns.

The crowns of Spain, Portugal and
Poland are all three of the same form,
and are described by Colonel Parsons in
his Genealogical Tables of Europe" as
''ducal coronets heightened up with
eight arched diadems supporting a
mound, unsigned with a plain gold
cross" The crowns of Denmark and
Sweden are of almost similar shape,
consisting of the eight arched diadems,
rising from marquis coronet Ga circle
Of gold bordered with ermine, set round
with four strawberry leaves and as
many pearls on pyramidical points of
equal height, alternately, which conjoin
at the top under mound unsigned with
a cross botonnee. The kings of most
other continental countries are crowned
with circles of gold, adorned with pre-
cious stones and heightened up with
large "trefoils," and closed by four, six
or eight diadems supporting a mound
surmounted by cross. The trefoil upon
the crown is thought to be of Gothic in
PRODUCTION.
We find it upon the coins of Clovis
and his sons, which has induced anti
quaries to call it the Flower de luce"
(the lily Of France represented in gold
On blue ground), but, the fact is, these
trefoils were used on Constantinopolitan
crowns before the time of the Franks,
and afterward on those of German
princes in no way allied to Charlie
magne. Aubrey, a celebrated authority
upon heraldry, was of opinion that the
flower de luce is really nothing more
than spearhead adorned, no flower of
the lily kind having the middle part
solid. The sultan of Turkey bears over
his arms turban, enriched with pearls
and diamonds, under two coronets, the
first Of which is made of pyramidical
points, heightened up with large pearls.
and the uppermost is surmounted with
| crescents. Chambers Journal
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-03-18
pRoposArs FOR FRESH BEEF AND NUT.

PROPOSALS FOR FRESH BEEF AND NUT.
ton-Office OF Chief Comnissary, Chicago,
H., March IL, 1895 Sealed proposals in tripli-
cate, accompanied by written guarantees Tin du-
plicateJ signed by two responsible persons, Will
be received here until ~ O'Clock. NJ. Friday, April
Ia. 1886, and then opened In preseGcs of bidders,
for furnishing and delivery OF euch quantities OF
fresh beef and mutton may be reqnir,d by n e
Subsistence De- artment at Fort Brady. Mich :,
jefferson Barracks. No. FoFt Leavenworth.
Hans. fort Reno. Okla Fort Riley. Kans.. Fort
sheridan. H.. Fort sill. Okla, Fort Wayne,
Mich. In 1ianapos Arsenal. Ind, and Rock ISL
and Arsenal, H.. during six months commencing
July ]. 1896 Proposals received up 10 and opened
at Inc same hour ct the several posts By commits
sa.ies of nch Posts. each poet commissary
ceiv'ng pro2o, ais for ais own post only. Fresh
beef shat be good In quality and condition, f, for
immediate use, and from fore ard hind quarter
meats proportion,lIy. inclufing all best cuts
thereof. Fre-h mutton shall b. Of good fat and
marketable QUE lily, from weihers oser one and
under three years old Beef and mutton 10 be
dressed and trimmed aud delivered as pre-
will be also received stating price ct which bid
der will de liver freth beef or motion Of character
above stated, and TO be delivered OF Temperature
not greater than 81 degrees Fahrenheit. Full IN
formst.on furoiehed on application here to
commit safy Ut any post. Government reserves
right 10 reject any or all proposals. Envelopes
contxiGiLg propo sails should be marked "Propo-
sails for Fresh Beef aud Mutton" and addressed
to undersigned or Comm.sary at post bid for
fhos. c. sullivan, Col. i A. &. G. 8.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-03-18
MISS ELIZABETH KELLY.

and skittish like n young colt but settled down
and a church member. go to the methdist
church, but guess if you don't like that
could so where You go. 1t amt your money
I'm after, but think could learn to love you
because I had dream about you which l
dreamed it three times. won't say nothing
about my looks fur am to go to git my pic.
ture took next week and send you one. Ny
mother inclose n few lines of reference and
so good-by till 1 hear from you. Yours re-
spectful, JOSEPH HAZEN
IN. B.-I have knowed Joseph Hazen fur A
year. He is good and never done q bad act.
"MRs. SAMUEL HAzEN."
Mr.. Alfred S. McKenney of Penn Van,
N. Y, seems to have developed q sudden
and sublime affection for Miss Kelly, If
the following letter can be taken at its
face value:
"DEAR ELIZABETH-Please pardon the use
OF your Christian name, but feel SO strongly
for you in your unprotected condition, with so
much to attract the heartless and insincere,
that l have unthinlingiy used the familiar
name which only loving friend should use.
My dear. could do much to make you happy
If you would consent to be mine. and mine
alone. and would protect you from every
care and annoyance. do not expect you 20
act without some knowledge of myself and
will appear in perso, if you will but send me
word that your kind and loving heart is still
your own. Don't think me presumptuous.
only ask to see you once, and if it then be
Your wish will depart forever. am rot an
old man, but have passed beyond the follies OF
youth. yearn fer womanS love, aid all
that man can do will DO to gain yours"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-03-18
POWER OF THE JAWS.



zion of Meat Food.
According to the investigations of DR..
6. V. Black. the muscular strength of
the jaws compares favorably with that
of any part of the body.
To crush a piece of steak, according
to Dr.. Black, bite of 40 to 45 pounds
is necessary-that is, if the proper ma
chine were SO rugged that, by eeizing
double lever between the jaws, an OBJ
ject could be lifted from the floor, a 40
pound weight could be raised by the
steak. Repeat this effort every time you
chew, and you get an idea of how much
exercise is required to eat ones dinner.
And what makes it harder still is that
most people habitually use much more
force than is necessary in chewing their
food. For instance, in chewing steak
whose crushing point is at 40 to 45
pounds. the persons tested by Dr.. Black
used force of go to so pounds-from
Is to 40 pounds more than was neces-
sary. All this extra force Of course is
worse than wasted, but probably the
generality of manhood will keep on
wasting strength just so till more sys-
tematic method of eating is adopted.
But DR.. Black did not confine him.
self to steak in his experiments He
tested all kinds of meat and found that
mutton chops may be crushed with an
expenditure Of % to 40 pounds of
strength. Broiled ham and roast beef
require the greatest amount-45 to 60
pounds - while pork chops may be
chewed with force of 90 to 90 pounds,
and the choicest parts of cold boiled
tongue with 3 to pounds. These of
course are averages. Tough meat Of any
kind is still harder to crush-for i'll
stance, tough beef and mutton tested by
DR.. Black required in some cases a
crushing force Of 90 pounds.
The smallest pressure recorded on DIR.
Blacks gauge, that of q little girl 2
years old, was 80 pounds. This was with
her front teeth, which are not used for
the crushing processes of mastication.
With the molars, which do the chewing,
properly so called, she could exert force
of 60 pounds-quite enough to crush all
but the toughest parts of toughest meats.
Several persons exceeded 100 pounds
with the front teeth, or incisors, and
200 with the molars. One mana ply
stefan of 80 years-has such strength of
jaw that it must for the present remain
a mystery, for it exceeded the testing
power of the instrument. The gauge re-
gistered only 270 pounds, and when this
remarkable chewer shut his teeth ON it
he closed it with no apparent effort
How far above 270 pounds he could
have gone is therefore a subject for
speculation.
It will be observed that the doctor
measured only the force exerted by the
jaws and not the work done by them.
This latter is really more important,
and it remains for some one, perhaps
the doctor himself in second series of
experiments, to ascertain it.-Buffalo
Express.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-03-18

band with orange colored ribbons and
around the ankles they are tied with lit
tie tapes. Imagine the shirts and double
breasted coats, and you have q bundle of
humanity Of which the clothes form the
larger part.
But this abundance of clothes does
not disturb "Baba, (which is the baby's
pet name. from thoroughly enjoying
himself in his infantile way. He is
very good natured, hardly ever cries,
and amuses himself with little Chinese
figures Of gold, against which he rubs
his gums. Then he has rings of gold
and precious stones, and little round
balls of gold adorn his clothes, although
they are not visible. Foo Kong Shu-
that is the baby's full name-can sit up
right like a drum major, though he is
only months old. His stiff and padded
clothes help him materially in this.
His diet also is somewhat different from
that Of babies of the gentle races. He
sips tea and rice soup, and probably by
reason of Incredibly they agree with his
little Chinese stomach very we'll.
In July his mother will take him
with her on visit to China. When he
is cid enough to want an education, he
will be brought back here, and all his
learning will be of the American sort.
New York Letter.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-03-18
FOR LITTLE FOLKS.
HAS GOLDEN TOYS.
Tho Chinese Baby Boy Who Lives In n
York, but Is Dressed In Chinese Fasl,io

Tho Chinese Baby Boy Who Lives In New
York. but Is Dressed In Chinese Fashion.
Chinese babies, as well as infants of
other nations, are fond Of playthings.
But there is a vast difference between
the toys set before Chinese consul's
baby son and these with which q Celes-
tial baby in Dope alley, for example,
might amuse itself.
In their toilet also some difference is
made. A Dope alley baby may shrek
itself hoarse in rags and swaddling
clothes, but consul's child can go in
trousers even at the tender age Of 6
months. When the little son of the Chi
nese consul in New York made its ap-
pearance in the world, he had to content
himself with American baby clothes.
But this didn't last long. A little trunk
came from over the seas filed with
shirts and coats of padded silk, made
double breasted and held together by
ribbons instead of buttons. Trousers of
two separate pieces, one for each leg,
came with these coats. They cover the
foot, as well as the ankle and thigh.
They are made Of wadded cotton with a
background of green and gorgeous Easter
flowers are embroidered upon them in
yellow and pink. A sole Of heavy black
wool is sewed on to fit under each foot.
The trousers ere fastened to q red waist
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-03-18
THE ANGELIC HUSBAND.

There are husbands who are pretty.
There are husbands who are witty,
There are husbands who in public are as surfl-
ing as the morn:
There are husbands who arc healthy.
There are famous ones and wealthy,
Bat the real angelic husband-well. he's never
yet been born
Some for strength of love are noted.
Who are really 50 devoted
That whcne 'er their wives are absent they ara
Lonesome and foriorn,
And while now and then you II find one
Who's n really good and kind one:
But the real angelic husband-oh, he's never
yet been born.
So the woman who is mated
To man who may be rated
As "pretty fair" should cherish him foreve,
and a day,
For the real angelic creature,
Perfect quite in every feature,
He has never been discovered. and he won't be,
50 they say.
y L. Aldrich in Boston Budget.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-03-18
The Discovery saved His Life.

G. Caillouette, druggist. Beavers
vile. ILL.,, says: ITO DIR. Kings New
Discovery owe my life. Was taken
with la grippe and tried all the ply
sicians for miles about, but of no
avail. and was given up and told i
could not live. Having DR.. Kings
New Discovery in my store, l sent
for a bottle and began its use, and
from the first dose began to get bet
ter, and after using three bottles was
up and about again. 1t is worth its
weight in gold. We won't keep store
or house without it, Get q free
trial at Hartz & Ullemeyer's drug
store
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-03-18

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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-03-18
Woman rs an Inventor.

1t has long been stock argument
against the originality of the feminine
mind that, while women are excellent
in the initiative arts, they cannot in
vent. Now the chairman Of the commit
tee on women's inventions of the At
lanta exposition says that the number Of
women's patents she has collected is too
large to be accommodated in the space
set apart for them. As it is reasonably
to be assumed that these selected inven-
lions were good ones the woman of the
century has scored another point against
her traditional critics. - Baltimore
American.