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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-12-18
Handling Manure.


One method of handling manure which
l have observed, seems to me to be a
mistake from beginning to end, says a
writer in the Practical Farmer Here
in the cold North sheep are kept in
closed pens during winter, and the drop
pings which collect on the floor are
cleaned out only once a year. Being
under cover and closely packed by tramp
ing, there is 10 loss from teaching or
field and spread at once, there would be
little loss of fertility. But instead of
doing this, the manure was left until
summer or early fall, when it was
thrown out in loose pile directly under
the caves, where it was left to leach and
heat until later i'll the fall, when it was
drawn to the field, thrown in large pile
the next spring. Then the corn ground
was prepared. plowed out in burrows and
the manure dumped in little piles where
the hills We're to be. 1t was then covered
with little soil and a bill of corn plant
cd Oh top, to suffer from lack of moisture
if the season was dry, or quite likely to
be blown over if exposed to heavy
wind \ farmer who takes but little
stock in ''book farming and would not
lished, dug down in his barnyard where
manure has lain for years, but where
every particle of vegetable matter has
been removed by successive scrapings.
and because he does not find the soil
black and mellow, as he fancies all ricl,
soil should be, he concludes that after
all there may not be as much loss from
teaching as people have thought. He
therefore goes on year after year. letting
the manure saved during the winter lie
around the barn all summer. then piles it
in the field. so that it does not get onto
the land until just a year after it should
be there. This farmer knows his meth
DDS are all right @ but fails to see why
farmers cannot get better pay for their
work
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-12-18
WHAT A BILLION MEANS.
1t Would Take Nearly 10000 Years t


1t Would Take Nearly 10000 Years to
Count It.
The following remarkable calculation
on the length of time which it would
take person to count 1000, 100000 re-
Gently appeared in an issue of an English
periodical: What is billion? The reply
is very simple. In England billion is
a million times million. That is quick
" written and quicker still pronounced
But no man is able to count it. You will
count 100 or ITO minute. But let us
suppose that you go up as high as 200
minute, hour after hour. At that rate
you would count $4,000 an hour; 288. 600
a day, or los, 100000 in year. Let
us suppose now that Adam, at the be-
ginning of his existence, had began to
count, had continued to do so, and was
counting still. Had such, a thing been
possible, he would not vet have finished
the task of counting a billion! To count
billion would require person to count
200 minute for a period of 9512 years.
o42 days, 5 hours and 20 minutes, pro-
viding he should count continuously. But
suppose we allow the counter twelve
hours daily for rest, eating and sleeping.
Then he would need 1S.025 years, 319
days, 10 hours and As minutes in which
to complete the task!-St Louis Repub-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-12-18
COmDOund Engines.

A compound engine may have slide
valve or other valve motion, and, wheth-
CT with or without slide valves, the
method of starting is essentially the
same, and it has two or more cylin-
ders to utilize the steam; the first cylin-
der receives the steam from the boiler
and is a high-pressure cylinder; from
this, after performing a certain amount
of duty. the steam exhausts into a re-
ceiver. from which the second cylinder
takes the steamer the steam may ex-
haust from the high-pressure cylinder
into the steam-pipe of a low-pressure
cylinder. Where there is a second low
pressure cylinder, the engine is styled
a tripleexpansion engine. In the SIM
pie engine the steam, whatever the pres
sure used, exerts it's force in only one
cylinder, and exhausts directly into the
air. In a condensing engine, instead of
being exhausted into the atmosphere, the
steam is condensed, forming a practical
vacuum on one side of the piston; but i'll
compound condensing engine, the
steam is first used in high-pressurc cyl
inder, taking it from the boiler, then in
one or two low-pressure cylinders. then
condensed, forming vacuum Oh the OK
haust side of the piston.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-12-18

q tried to when I heard you were
fond Of someone else.
Il never Was.' 5sst
Why did you write as YOU did r.
II thought you did not care any more
BY the same mail ! got Il letter from
my cousin saying you We're engaged to
that lanky Irishman, Malone.
(Which co,lsin?'
Gertrude Gray. -" @@i n y
why, Cecil, she must have wanted to
part It, us IS. Yes, l always thought she
He Pushes. and says: "Was there no
truth in the report about Malone,
Madgey" a .=s. AZ. .1.= =.ssz IS
mot word. indeed: and indeed
"Madge-little sweetheart that used to
love mel was going to see Gertrude
lonely man in the far East. Shall ! go?'
He has to bend low for the answer.
But it is "No," emphatic, though whis-
pcred, and he Is satisfied. .E~.4 r.. H..
w. -
Every one has heard of the night out
i'll the Great Wheel. :,
Sixteen hours! A wearisome time to
many, but we had the story of five years
to tell each other, and plans to make for
the future. 1t was none too long. God
frey's band below brought close. to the
of imprisonment, playing wild, sweet
waltz music, formed fitting accompani.
ment to the talk ON which do you re-
member?" was ever OH our lips.
The brave tar who did climb the grid
ers, bringing refreshments to the pris-
oners. seemed to take in the situation,
and offered us his congratulations in the
heartiest manner imaginable. Cecil WIS
half inclined to be angry, but happiness
won the day, and he ended by giving the
sailor most wildly extravagant "bak-
sheesh.''
We sent a telegram to Aunt Mary,
which she never got, for she did not 90
home, as had hoped she would, but she
spent the night in the gardens close at
the foot of the inert monster.
When at last the word was passed up
that all was right and we should soon
move, it was to lis Il subject of regret;
and the descent was all too rapid.
Aunt Mary was on the spot to receive
me. full of regrets and commiseration.
II shall never forgive myself for not
coming. Fancy your spending all these
hours alone on that most terrible wheel"
II was not alone. l met friend.
You have heard of Mr.. Farquhar, aun-
tie?'
She had, as having behaved very bad
ly to me! She gave him look which
was quite healthily vicious.
II have not tlrr pleasure Of his ac-
quaintancc."
eve must remedy that, Mrs. Earle"
he says, pleasantly. ''because it is my
good fortune to be your prospective
nephew"
She looks at me, fairly puzzled
Its all right. Aunt Mary. Up there
people understand one another better.
Perhaps the raretied air sharpens their
perceptions"
Cecil laughs and we all go off to break
fast at the expense of the Earl Courts
exhibition roprietors.-Answers.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-12-18
A HERMIT OF THE HILLS.
A Rip Van Wrinkle Prospector in the
Soap Gulch District, Montana.

Rip Van Wrinkle Prospector in the
Soap Gulch District, Montana.
up in the mountains above Soap
gulch, near where the big strike of gold
was made year ago last July, there is
an old prospector who is a strange char
acter," said John Helehan of Melrose
today: He looks like veritable Rip
Van Wrinkle, with white hair hanging
down his shoulders, and snowy beard
dropping far down his breast. The old
man has a cabin up in the mountains,
where he has lived alone for several
years, digging for gold.
He has small seam in tunnel from
which he apparently takes enough ore to
enable him to purchase enough to sustain
his existence and purchase powder to
work the tunnel. He is one of the
strange characters found in the mount
aims. and is apparently possessed of a
peculiar history. but he is unapproa CHI
able on the question of his family history,
and has on more than one occasion re.
sented intrusions of that sort Butte
Inter Mountain
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-12-18
Our Way of Handling Corn.

We raise about forty acres of corn
each year, and plant III drills with an
ordinary grain drill three and one-half
feet apart. and aim to have the kernels
dropped from six to eight inches apart
in the rows. writes X. Bartlett of Michi-
gan in The Prairie Farmer. This gives
only one stalk in a place, and no large
hills in which weeds can grow and not
be cut out or covered with dirt by the
cultivator. AS soon as the corn begins
to prick through, we go over it with
siXty-t0oth iron harrow across the
rows to kill all small weeds that may
have started. We then use a weeder
lengthwise of the rows until the corn is
four or five inches high. Next we start
as close to the corn as possible. We
use two-horse rigid-tooth cultivator as
long as it will pass over the stalks with
out breaking them. Then we take one
horse and avoid cultivating deep enough
near the corn to break the roots. When
it comes to harvesting the corn crop. we
use a horse-cutter, consisting of boat
without wheels ON which are tWn knives
sds ed to tho cut sd F TSe on corn eaih
caught set up and bound by
two men who ride on the boat. We
make small shocks and when they are
we'll dried out we tie them around the
middle with binder Irvine so that they
will hold together when pitched on the
wagon. In threshing corn. we find that
an ordinary vibrator thresher will han
die fifteen acres of good corn in day.
We have teams with enough wagons
with hayracks to keep load at the sep.
while the third may help in case shock
is too big for two. The loader catches
the top of the shock as soon as he can
reach it. and loads the back end of the
rack first, avoiding to tread OH the stalks
more than necessary: then the shocks
will go to the machine unbrokcn. The
feeder does not divide the shocks, but
feeds a shock at time. top first. We
have left stack of oats that we feed
alternately with the corn, thus mixing
corn and oats in the bin. and also stalks
and straw in the NOV: (The carrier
runs in at the end Of the barnD This
prevents heating of grain or coarse fod
der. The grain is in good shape tc
grind for cows. and the oat straw and
corn makes excellent fodder. We have
practiced this method for several years
and find it very cheap way to handle
the corn crop.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-12-18
FOR THE FARMER.
Feet Of t1Iav

-
burned my heart as Incense night and day
Itsf0Fe q shrine where scOrners turned away
L Upward gazed, and only cared to see ~
The glOrions face that showed q god to me-
ldasad the garments hem E
That swept about the feet and covered them
But hands uRhAll0wed tore the robe aside
"EfelioM thine Idol" knocking voices cried;
He whose winged flight thy blind embrace
..@ Hath feet sah, hear!-of clayi"
Pass bitter hearts. the smile Of scorn is
The worship HIS, whom, still j deem divine.
What If the touch OF earth, Its base desires,
Its dross unpnritied In passions lres.
Cling to the feet kiss -
On. light were love, to forfeit faith for this
What loss were his, what wofnI gain were
mine. ~ - -
II from that sun-and-star illumined shrine
One hearts poor candle should take away
/, who am all Of clay!
Happy our homage had NOT seemed 30 dear;
HAPPY he had not sought temple here, ~:
Nor In his service had known such Jos,
But for the mingling Of that earth-allOy!
o soul that woke for him,
What larger hope hath lit thy prison dim!
May not rise from these unqufckened clOds
To claim eternal knship with the gods?
70 godlike stature grow, though bearing
yea.
Like him-the print of clay?
Louise Belts Edwards In Harper's Maya.
zine.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-12-18
"A FUNNY FOUNTAIN.
The Surprise Water, Works ~ Ca1tte

Ihe s'Surprise" Water Works sat Castle
| IeI.brunn. ss
a few miles south Of Salzburg Aus
IriQ. 0Ir Of the most curious castles at
lne early part of the Eighteenth centdry.
gnu gnu IFS beautiful park form a fayofite5
7 sunday resort for the good citizens Of
1nls provincial capital. Built originally
ny bishop Of Salzburg, Castle He'll
hfunn is full Of odd contrivances. and
the me, Waterworks of the park are partictl,
AIRY unique. In the labyrinth Of rocks,
raVihes, shady hooks and lawns, ponds
and brooks. a very complicated system
| or WatcrWorks has hcen distributed BY
/ pressing stone with the foot, by touch.
ing some hidden lever. stream of wa.
ter viii suddenly shoot ont upon or in
front, OF the unsusnccting visitor. A
guidehook warns tourists to keep close
| behind the attendant showing them
| through the park for n small sum:
It's not advisable for anybody TO walk
through the park unless provided with
a rubber suit and good umbrella. As
much pleasure will be derived from be-
holding Sunday crowd on fine sum,
mer day visiting the park, when every
now and then somebody will jump aside
with shrek to avoid waterspout sud-
denly emerging from some corner. as to
see the waterworks themselves. One
particular place. where most people get
caught, even whcn, they know. or think
IVY N'to" Tue tllCks Is IL Sulull passage
| over. stcac flags in front of the side gate
of the castle. Here the walk narrows
down to about 8 feet between the gate
| and basin. and by stepping over this
passage one is almost certain to catch a
shower bath: every other stone in the
pavement is connected with lever turn
ing on the shower. and since these
stones are arranged on the bias. it is al
| most lmDOssible to pass without bringing
forth the spray
The finest of all these water surprises
is the "Neptune's Grotto.' The lever in
this case is at some distance from the OBJ.
ject itself, and hidden behind balus,
trade surrounding the grotto. When this
lever is. touched by an attendant the
statue of old Neptune mods it's head and
fire streams Of water cover the piazza
i'll front of the balustrade pretty thor
oughly.
But the trick that catches most vic.
Tins is a seat made of marble slabs in
imitation of a stool, having hole in the
top, apparently for the purpose of lift
| ing 1t up. This seat is loratc tod at poin!
whence there is Il beautiful view. and
invites the weary pedestrian to take at
least short rest. But woe to him who
will thus give in to his inclination! A
nretty powerful snout. rising vertically in
the air to all eight of 10 feet. if unob-
sstructed. will prevent the tired visitor
from enjoying a rest for any length of
time
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-12-18
Fans in Winter.

1t is curious fact that the real sea-
son for fans is in the. winter, and not
York Times. 10 toy with at a midwin-
ter dance, to lay on the railing of her
opera box in the season, milady chooses
her fan of quality and cost; for actual
service in July weather she picks up a
small palmleaf or a silvered disk of
Japanese paper. The new fans are still
smaller than the short Empire fans so
much in vogue last winter. a. So pro-
nounced is the craze for tiny fans that
some of the latest importations are only
seven inches deep. They are made with
ebony and ivory mounts, and are often
est covered with black or white gauzc
studded with pallettes of u single color.
Some of the new fans have black wa
tered ribbons carried down the stems,
worked with steel spangles or gold or
silver, and there are some lovely repro
auctions of the old painted silk fans,
with figures made in ivory and gold
work upon them, and sometimes inlaid
with gems. =
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-12-18
A Poultry Hint

A writer in Farm Poultry gives !. rem
edy for scaly legs She says: Il take a
quart can full of lard. coal oil and crnde
carbolic acid and set the can in an old
bucket. piling hot ashes and some Goals
around it. Then with a swab, made by
wrapping rags to the end Of &. stick: l
proceed to the hen house, and holding
each perch over the bucket. sliding it
along as grease, l completely fill every
lard cools rapidly, leaving the perch very
greasy. and the legs of fowls roosting on
suc1 perches look bright and clean. 1t
serves twofold purpose; Kidding the
perches of lice. and preventing scaly leg.
+ have never had a case of it among E,'y
fowls. This work can be done in cold
weather, as the grease will keep hot. and
it is less troublesome than treating even
one fowl after it gets the disease.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-12-18
OWNERS OF FIXED INCOMES.
They Comprise Majority of tho Aneri-
can Voters.

They Comprise a Majority of tho Alneri-
can Voters.
The savings banks in this country alone
have nearly 100000 depositors, which
is about 40 per cent. of the number of
votes which will be cast in the election.
When to these are added the depositors
in state and private banks and in the ma
tional banks, the number approaches TO-.
100000. If each deposit represented a
voter, more than two-thirds Of the voters
would thus be bound by self-interest to
oppose the depreciation of the value of
the dollar. This vast army of deposit
ors. doubtless. includes many women
and minors, with few unnaturalized
foreigners, but even with these deduc-
tons, and with due consideration of the
insurance companies. the cooperative So
cieties, and the building associations, it
would seem that a safe majority of
American voters are enrolled in the
privileged class who are persistently held
up to ridicule and hatred as ''the owners
of fixed incomes.'
1t will be striking triumph for democ-
racy in it's broader sense if the diffusion
of wealth has become so general that its
holders are the majority of the people,
Boston Herald
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-12-18
NEW USE FOR REINDEER,
Yukon Miners Wish to Use Them as Draft
Horses.

Horses.
Rev. Sheldon jackson, United States
government agent of education in Alas
ka, returned to Seattle recently. Mr..
jackson left Sitka June for Point Bar
row. but it was not until the latter part
of July that he arrived there, owing to
the ice, which was unusually late in
melting this season.
The revenue cutter Bear made four at
tempts to reach port at Point Barrow
and finally tied up at point five miles
from the settlement to an ice foe six
miles long and two miles wide that had
grounded in October Of the previous year.
One whaler was crushed by the ice and
totally wrecked. Her crew was brought
down by the Bear. The steam tender
Jennie was crushed by the ice, but not
wrecked. The reindeer at the four sta
tons were found to have largely in
creased in numbers. They are in splen-
did condition. Mr.. Jackson says lie has
received requests from Yukon miners
for reindeer to be used in transportation
to the gold mines adjacent to that river
He cannot supply them for three years,
unless Congress gives big appropria-
ton. He believes the government could
help the country a great deal by appro-
priating few thousands for this. rather
than millions for patrolling against seal
poachers, as reindeer will be of meal
culable value to miners in the Yukon
basin. They then could reach rich ccun-
try now accessible.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-12-18

Elmer Gibbs of Ramona. San
Diego county, CAL. got out of his wagon
on mountain road to get something to
teams way. But he found nothing. and
when he got back into the wagon the
snake was there too. Instead of striking
at him, and Gibbs had only pocket
knife, it coiled around one of his legs
until the pressure was maddening. Then
ensued fearful struggle. The snake
tried to hit him in the face, but he
finally got it by the back of the neck
and cut it's throat. His leg was purple.
The snake had twenty-one rattles and
was seven feet long.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-12-18
Hawks Darker the Sun.

1t is never dull in Western Maryland
One of, the liveliest snake seasons on
record has Just closed, and a brilliant
respondent of the Baltimore Sun: Farm.
ers from the lower section of Allegany
county report the passage in a south.
westerly direction of a flock of hawks
that was two miles wide and was fully
three hours i'll crossing the valley. The
sun was obscured for while by the
moving black cloud. One farmer, not
satisfied as to the species of the birds
fired into the flock and brought down
six. They were found to belong to the
bird, and not chicken-hawk, Species
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-12-18
Left Destitufes

Not OF worldly goods, but Of all earthly
malaria. The fell scourge is, however, sbori
Of Its thong In advance by HOsfetter's
Stomach Bitters, it's only sure preventive
and remedy. Dyspepsia, biIiousness, CON
stlpatlon, rheumatism, nervousness and kid
ney complaint are also among the bodily af-
elections which this benefcent medicine
overcomes with certainty. Use 1t systemat-
lcaIly
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-12-18
THE CHORUS.

! We're pretty girls, we know. ss
- Our pretty selves we show s:
: In the chorus; s$5$< z.Sss9. y. IA
In front are rows and rows
Or eMpty.headed beAus, (.
+ Who adore us. ID zs.5. :S H. 4 ~ "a
A troupe Of pretty things:s .-<Sss=
We glide out from tho wings
That conceal us. = -. H. =.
We dote on pretty hose, <.@
And wear the kind Of clothes
That reveal us! :, ~. E
Not all Of us are bad, n ~ss.s .-,l>.,s-. /.
Though people tell such sad
Tales about us; ~ ~
but whether bad or good, r "
We don't believe YOU could, ~
Although, perhaps, you should,
Do without us! Town Topics.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-12-18
Don't Tobacco Spit and Smoke Your
Life -t

If you want to quit tobacco using easily
and forever, regain lost manhood, be
made well, strong, magnetic, full of new
life and vigor, take No To- ae, the won
der-worker that makes weak men strong.
Many gain ten pounds in ten days. Over
400, 900 cured. Buy No 10 Bac from your
own druggist, who will guarantee a cure
Booklet and sample free. Address Ster-
ling Remedy Co., Chicago or New York.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-12-18
"A Churchman'S Liberation leag,

"A Churchman'S Liberation leagne,
composed of clergymen and laymen, has
been formed in London to promote the
separation of church and state in Eng
land by means of disestablishment, on
the ground that the connection "has be-
come injurious to the spiritual interests
OF the church and a hindrancc to the
nrogreSs of true religion :" = Z = -
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-12-18

Henry Van Nostrand, a New York
retired merchant. who died recently. was
one of the most noted conchologists in
the world, and leaves a collection of
shells of great value
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-12-18
SAND as an Observation-Disclosures,

:s, Water will not :. extinguish burning
kerosene oil, but dry sand will, and it is
wise precaution to keep box Of it in
some convenient place to be used in an
emergency If this is not at hand, the.
flames should be othered by throwing
some heavy rug, wooden substance, ur d
damp towel over il opular Science,