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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-02-07
Making Farm Buildings of Stone.

When the country was new most farm
buildings were necessarily built Of wood.
which was then so plentiful that nothing
could he cheaper. Now there are many
places where the lumber for dwellings
and barns has to be purchased. while the
farm affords plentiful supply of stone
that can be had without other cost than
labor. a stone building. if kept in re-
pair and we'll built originally. will last
for generations. II is not more ex-
size made Of wood, and is much less
exposed to danger from fire. The farm
erS who have built basement barns say
that the space thus secured and walled
with stone costs less than any space
above ground. 1t is not Il difficult task
to use the trowel and lay stone in cndur-
ing walls. Most farmers with some prac
tice could do much of this work. and
thus save the heaviest part of the ex
Dense for labor.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-02-07
Carrots for Horses.


However cheap oats inlay be- the horse
man will not neglect getting supply Of
carrots to feed with them to horses It'll
winter. Only Il few daily are needed.
\ gentleman of our acquaintance once
remarked to us that he would rather
feed two quarts Of carrots and four of
oats to horse at Il feed than six quarts
of oats without the carrots. There is
not so much nutrition in the roots as
this wUtlld inQicate. Our friend believed
there was oil in the carrot: because feed
ing them made the horses coat shine
Just as feeding linsecd meal would do
But it was the good digestion which
either feed helped to secure that promot-
ed this sickness of coat The food of
most horses in winter is entirely too
constituting. Ordinary hay is very much
so. Clover hay is not o2cn to this objcc-
ton. An occasional feed of cornstalks
for horses not ut work is better than
exclusive feeding with any kind of hay.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-02-07
Home.GruMn Reef.

Almost nll farmers grow and fatten
to beef they rely on the butcher. whu
himself usually butchers nothing. but is
the agent for Chicago dressed beef
wholesalers. In this way when he buys
beef he pays two or three profits, and
it makes pretty dear meat On almost
every farm one or more beef cattle can
be grown or at least fattened. Those
who are skilled in judging weights can
cheaply than they can grow 1t. If the
beef is killed early in tho winter good
deal can be frozen and used while fresh:
but that intended for sailing should be
put in brine soon after the animal is
killed. Beef that has once been frozen
becomes filed with air. and will not
keep 50 we'll afterwards. however treat
ed
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-02-07
Shelter for Sheep.

Sheep can endure cold without injury,
provided that they are sheltered from
storms. This is especially true IF fat
tening sheep, which will feed much bet
ter when they can breathe air that is
cold and bracing. Such air has a greater
proportion of oxygen in it. and this uses
up the carbon in the blood. and thus pro-
notes a vigorous appetite. But when
sheep get wet their wool holds the moist
ure, and it is very much like person
sitting in the cold with wet clothing on.
Old sheep quickly succumb to conditions
like these. In fact. it does not pay to
keen sheep that are past their prime.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-02-07

There is a
cause,
And
There is a
remedy for all
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-09-04

IN Europe, Asia. Africa. Australia
and America. the i've great continents.
Shaker medicines are being used by
Sutfrrirg humanity for the cure of
sickness and disease Never was there
such universal demand never such
wonderful results shaker Digestive
Cordial. cure Tor indigestion is pre-
pared from herbs and roots and Is 4
natural remedy, which cures by aiding
nature and not nv lighting her. Shak.
er Digestive Cordial makes those ia.
Vho have become thin by not digest ms
their fold. II restores the spirit an
the appetite Of those who are detected
and tagged out from the wearing eff
fects of Indigestion. 1t relieves tbe
symptoms Of dyspepsia. and, after US
ng for reasonable time finally cures
The complaint. Sold by druggists.
Trial bottle. 10 cents.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-09-04
RVl In q g

Cures, not once or twice or a hundred
times, but in thousands and thousands
of cases. We know it cures, absolutely,
permanently cures, when all others fail to
do any good whatever.
Hoods Sarsaparilla is known to possess
merit or the power to cure disease; it is
known to be the best building-up medicine
on earth; it is known to be honestly adver-
tised, and for these reasons the people
buy and take Hoods Sarsaparilla almost
to the exclusion OF other preparations.
In fact, Merit Made and Merit Maintains
the confidence of the people in
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-09-04
Merit

Made and Merit Maintains the confidence
OF the people in Hoods sarsaparilla. If
medicine cures you when you are sick; IL
it cures your neighbors and your friends
when they are ailing; II it makes wonder
full cures Of many diseases everywhere,
then beyond any question that medicine
possesses merit. That is just the truth
about Hoods Sarsaparilla. Prepared by
accumulation, proportion and process un-
known to other medicines, it has curative
powers peculiar to itself. We know it
possesses great merit because ii has
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-09-04
.ASToRIA.


Charles Moore, clerk in the Adam.
express Office, possesses a parchment
deed issued az the Zauesville co. land
office on June 20, ISL 10 Thomas
Honeboard, granting him the northeast
quarter section of lot ~ Of township Is
in range Is Of he lands directed 10 be
sold al GAINESVILLE by the act Of congress
entitlce An act providing for the sale
Of United states lands in the territory
northwest Of the Ohio and above thf
mouth Of the Kentucky river. " To the
deed are attached the signatures Of
President James Madison and Secretary
Of State James Monroe, and on the OPP.
posite lower corner is affixed the official
seal of the government Cincinnati
Enquirer
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-09-04
THE RAGMAN.
On. OF the distance far and faint,

ont OF the distance far and faint,
Up from the vale like a flowers pisint
Nearing slowly until il seems
To die away like call in Dreams
Swelling again TO leap with a bound
To whimsical crest like "A wave of sound
Now quavcr and now a quirk,
Now twist like a vocal smirk,
Comes the cry
rags! Oh, rags! Any rags TO buyY"
See him driving along the road,
Singing and shouting above his loadi
A tawny, grizzly, odd little elf,
Just a bundle Of rags himself
With eyes that sparkle under his lashes
Like living Goals in the whitened ashesl
Eager, alert, with his word Of cheer
For his raglikc horse Of the shaggy ear,
1.i.d still the cry
"Rags! Oh, rags Any rags TO buyf'
On and on through the sun and rain,
Lifting ever his sole refrain,
Cp and over the hills and down,
Counting the country side and town,
Always chirk rs a merry grig
Tuning under a lilac twig,
Always free as the wind 10 roam,
The whole wide sweep Of the land his homei
And ever the cry
"Rags! oh, rags! Amy rags 90 buyS"
Clinton Scoliard in Youths Companion.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-09-04
How to Smoke a Cigar.

DR.. Depew is an artist in cigar smok
ing Note his directions. First clip
the end of your cigar. Don't bite it off
Then, taking the cut end, blow sharply
through the cigar, thus expelling all the
dust l. is understood there is tobacco
dust enough in the average cigar to rot
the lungs Of an ordinary man i'll a few
years. Light evenly and there you are 1"
New York Journal.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-09-04

Which is worse, Imprisonment for
life or lifelong disease, like scrofula,
fer example? The former. certainly.
would he preferable were il not that
Ayers Sarsaprlla can always Gene TO
the rescue and give the poor sufferer
health. strength and happiness.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-09-04
Pic Nino's Fad.

Pope Plus TX vas collector OF slippers.
He always had "A pairs! in his wardrobe.
made o. red cloth, embroidered with gold
and ornamented with solid gold cross,
his chamberlain being strictly enjoined
not TO part with single pair, however
well worn they might be, 60 any of the
many dovout applicants Tor thaD
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-09-04
To Increase Roy Reronias.

II you wish TO raise a number of new
plants OF Rex or other large lcafed be.
gonias, take a sharp knife and make cut
at the intersection of the veins. Then lay
the leaf, veined side down, on saucer Of
wet sand, place in a sunny window and
keep damp. Tiny plants will form at the
outs. When an inch high, they may be
lifted into thumb pots. This is very
fascinating way to grow begonias. WON
ankind
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-09-04
Women oreraeer. of the rt,ar.

Why it is desirable that women be
&, lected on the board of overseers of the
poor in The towns of Massachusetts needs
no argument That is the kind of work
in which good women are naturally in
terested and active, and their special fit
challenge. 1t will be for the public good
in any community 10 put at least one
competent woman on all such boards
Springfield Mass. Republican.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-09-04

When YOU buttonhole scallops in your
embroidery, says an expert necdlewoman
hold the concaye edge toward you, and IN.
stead OF knotting your thread which may
cause trouble later, take few RAINING
stitches TO s'art tho thread.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-09-04
Authors.

Authors my be divided .ughly into
three groups, the good, the bad and
the popular. The first make fsue, the
second make looks, and the third make
money. New York Evening Sun
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-09-04
GODS
SarsapariIIa
The One True Blood Purifier. All druggists. 81.
~ -, D, cure liver Ills; easy to
French I'm glish.

Perhaps the following may amuse your
readers some years ago at Cannes In
passing the small shop of "a tailor / read
this notice. Orders executed with stage
ooaoh and dispatch. london Spectntor
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-09-04
Dumas Prediction.

The last time Sarah Bernhardt saw
Alexandra Dumas she congratulated
him on the fact that the thousandth per-
Torrance of La Dame aux Camelias"
was soon to be given with proper cere-
monies.
"Ah, madam" said the dramatist,
II am very willing that the event
should be celebrated, but on one condi.
tion-that l be not present" And DE
was not
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-09-04

Many Of the East Indians, particularly
among the HindOos of south India believe
that monkeys can speak but will not do
so for fear they will he put to work
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-09-04

Are YOU suffering from rheumatism?
Thomas Eclectric Oil has cured thous-
ands of the worst cases OF this terrible
disease 1t only costs - cents TO try
it,
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-09-04

udnReI lUlO SdlGtY anu pam INTO case. III IS
a medicine which has but one object. II is
good for but one thing. II strengthens and
invigorates the organs distinctly feminine,
il promotes regularity of the functions,
allavs irritation and Inflammation, checks
unnatural, exhausting drains, and puts the
whole delicate organism into perfect condi-
ton. Almost all of the ills Of womankind
are traceabie to some form of what is known
as female complaint" And this gener-
ally begins either at the time Of puberty or
childbirth or at the turn of life"
There are not three cases IN hundred Of
womans peculiar diseases that DR.. Pierce's
Favorite Prescription will not cure. Thou
sands of grateful women have been rem
dered healthy and happy by its use, and
the experience and testimony Of many of
them has been included in Dr. Pierce's
Common Sense Medical Adviser.
When Dr. Pierce published the first edition of
his work The Peoples Common Sense Medical
Adviser, he announced that after $4,000 copies
had been sold AT the regular price 81 90 per cSny
the profit on which would repay him for Ne
great amount Of labor and money expended in
producing Il, he would give away the next half
million |tee He is now distributing ABSOLUTELY
free, SOC. 900 of this most complete Interesting
and valuable common sense medical work ever
published-the recipient only being required to
mail to the Worlds Dispensary Medical Associa-
ton, at Buffalo. n Y, twcuty-one (zT) one-cent
will be sent postpaid. II is a veritable medical
library, complete in one volume. II contains
over 1000 pages and more than 100 Illustrations
The Free Edition is precisely the same as that
sold al fi.so except only that the books are
bound in strong manila paper covers instead
Of cloth. Send NOW before all are given away
They are going OF rapidly, therefore do not
delay sending Immediately If you want one.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-09-04

Avoid him who, for mere curiosity, asks
three questions running about thing
that cannot interest him -Lavater
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-09-04

Before the finished
fruit come bud and
blossom. Bud grows
into blossom and
blossom into fruit.
And so girlhood
merges into woman
hood and the woman
into motherhood.
The two most crit
ical times in a NO.
mans life are the
times which make
the girl a woman,
and the woman a
mother. At these
times, DR.. Pierce s
Favorite Prescrip-
ton is Of incalcula-
BILE value II turns
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-09-04

In 1880 the gross product Of the wool.
en- mills was valued az $267 coo 600 :
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-09-04

'Daily. tDaily with Sleeping Car,
Drawing Room Cars batweeu Saginaw and
Detroit and Saginaw and Ludngton.
Pullman palace sleeping car between Saginaw
md Chicago daily.
w G. BRITTON. Agent.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-09-04

s9fant Nlman Sleeperstrom Duraudto Oh
ca 20, and east to Toronto, Montreal Nisy.rs
Pa II, Vow Y'rkand Boston. 80
n. 4. HUGHEs BEN. Fr.Kroarp
L 4.P. u TlcketAgt. Trav lass Az,
r'csYo.ID Detroit Mich
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-09-04

Several species Of sea anemone can
form their jollylke bodies into boats
and float on the surface of the water,
propelling themselves with their anten-
DN
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-09-04

lnconnection witnJrains OF Ann brbor R'y.
Lv. Durand ~ Durard
O5 N for Chicago :O3 m for port Vnrsn
9:35 m for Chicago q.3da m FOR Port Inc
:55 m for Chicago
,. 6:50p N for Port Huron
0 g ~ for hicagc
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-07-30
BLAINE ON SILVER.

Silver dem ocrats are industriously
engaged in quoting James e. Blaine
and trying to make it appear that that
great statesman was in favor Of the
free coinage Of silver.
The speech from which they quote
was made in the United States senate,
February Z, 1878, in opposition to the
Bland bill, for the free and unlimited
coinage of silver, and was made offer.
ing substitute for that bill. The
silver men quote correctly as far as we
have seen, but they very conviently
overlook much that is contained in
speech. In that same speech, Mr..
Blaine said, "If we coin silver dollar
of full legal tender, obviously below
the current value Of the gold dollar,
we are simply opening our doors and
inviting Europe to take our gold.
With our gold flowing out from us we
shall be forced to the single silver
standard, and our relations with the
leading commercial countries of the
world will be not only embarrassed,
but crippled.
The question before congress then
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-07-30
SILVER A LEGAL TENDER.

Statements are continually being
made that the silver dollar is not legal
tender. The law of 1873 is certainly
very plain OH that point, and one read
ing will settle the question. The title
of that law is "An Act TO Authorize
the Coinage Of the Standard Silver
Dollar, and to Restore It's Legal Tender
Character" 1t was enacted February
%, 1878, and the very first paragraph
reads:
"Be 1t enacted, That there shall be
coined, at the several minis of the
United States, silver dollars of the
weight of four hundred and twelve and
a half grains Troy of standard silver, us
provided i'm the act of January eighteen
hundred and thirty seven, OH which
shall be devices and surerscriptions
provided by said act; which coins
together with all silver dollars hereto
fore coined by the United States, of
like weight and fineness, shall be a
legal tender, at their nominal value,
for all debts public and private, except
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-07-30

many districts the representative
would be lucky il he escaped merely
with defeat ut the polls. Yet it is
almost automatically demonstrable
that the same effect would follow the
coinage of an inferior silver dolla."
Such was James q. Blain's opinion of
free coinage of silver when the silver
in dollar was worth ninety-two cents.
Does any doubt his position on the
same question when the silver dollar
contained fifty-three cents worth of
the metal.
Were James G. Blaine's alive today
he would stand just where the repub-
lican party stands, and the platform
the republican party now offers the
people of the United States is in direct
accord with the sentiments of the
speech which the silver men love to
quote
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-07-30

where otherwise expressly stipulated
in the contract.
The act further provided for the
purchase of not less than 100000 mol
more than 100000 ounces of silver
per month to be coined into standard
dollars.
In 1890 the law changed was in re-
spect to the purchase of silver, and that
change obliged the secretary of the
treasury to purchase 100000 ounces
of silver bullion, the same to be paid
for in the treasury notes, made es'
pecially for this purpose.
Another change was made in 1893
This was the repeal of the silver pur-
chasing act.
And the act further declares it to be
the policy of the government to main,
tain the two metals at parity.
Silver dollars are full legal tender
and any statements to the contrary
are either in error or made with in,
tent to deceive.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-07-30
Copied by Permission
From the New York Herald, July z, 1896.

sharply defined in the pending house
bills, whether it is now safe and ex-
pedlent to offer free coinage to the
silver dollar of 4121a grains, with the
minis of the Latin Union closed and
Germany not permitting silver to be
coined as money. At the current rates
of silver, the free coinage of dollar
containing 1925 grains, worth in gold
about ninety-tWO cents, gives an ILL
getimate profit to the owner of the
bullion, enabling him to take ninety
two cents worth of it to the mint and
get it stamped as coin and force his
neighbor to take it for a full dollar.
This is an unfair advantage which the
government has no right to give to the
owner of silver bullion and which de-
frauds the man who is forced to take
the dollar. 1t assuredlY follows that
if we give free coinage to this dollar of
inferior value and put it in circulation
we do so at the expense of our better
gold coinage; and unless we expect the
invariable experience of other nations
to be in some mysterious way sus-
pended for our peculiar benefit, we in
evitably loose our gold coin.
Were congress to pass a law today
declaring that every legal tender note
shall hereafter pass for only ninety-six
or ninety-seyen cents on the dollar
there is not constituency in the
United States that would re-elect a
man who would support it, and in
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-07-30

Senator Shoup, of Idaho, one of the
leading "silver senator's" and one OF
the most prominent silver men in the
country, in an address recently issued
to his Idaho constituency said: "What
assurance have we that the abandon,
ment of the Republican party will con.
tribute anything toward the desired
result? Only this: A naked demo
cratic promise made in face of the fact
that but recently. though democracy
was in full control of every branch OF
government, it made no effort in that
direction. Shall we repudiate the
wisdom and integrity of the republi
can party because democracy, sinking
under the weight of its own mistakes
grasps wildly at silver while still
clinging to its oft exploded free trade
policy"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-07-30
"SIXTEEN TO ONE ----WHAT IT MEANS,

"What is the meaning of all this talk
about free coinage and sixteen to one?"
This question was put by Western
farmer to the cashier of his bank, The
reply was:-"Why, John, it means that
in this part of the country there are six
teen men who think they know all about
finance to one who does"
Farmers are not the only persons who
are asking this question. Letters are
every day received by the Herald from
otherwise intelligent men of various oc-
equations requesting a plain explanation
of the phrase sixteen to one.'
Although most readers are thoroughly
familiar with the controversy, it may be
we'll to briefly outline the facts for the
benefit of those who are only now awak-
ening to it's Importance The pure silver
in the big dollar weighs about sixteen
times as much as the pure gold in the
gold dollar. The exact weights are 1922
grains of gold and 371.25 grains of sill
YER Hence sixteen to one"
When the mint was founded Hamilton
and Jefferson agreed that pound of gold
was worth in the markets about fifteen
pounds of silver, and accordingly the
ratio for the coinage was made fifteen to
one Anybody could bring as much of
either metal as he pleased to the mints
and have it stamped into coins. This
free or unlimited coinage of both metals
is called bimetallism, and the country
was said to have a double standard Of
values. The bullion in either dollar was
intrinsically worth as much before being
coined as it was afterward, but the gov
ernment's mint stamp was guarantee Of
the weight and fneness of the metal and
made it legal tender.
Subsequently it was found that fifteen
pounds of silver were not worth as much
as pound of gold, and in order to con-
form to the relative market value of the
metals Congress decided that the silver
dollar should thereafter weigh sixteen
times as much as the gold dollar. In
doing this Congress went to the other
extreme and put too low an estimate on
silver. The European nations composing
the Latin Union made their coming ratio
fifteen and one-half to one, and the owner
of silver here would not exchange sixteen
pounds of it for pound Of gold because
he could obtain the same thing in Europe
for fifteen and one-half pounds Of his
silver. In other words, the quantity Of
silve n a dollar was worth more than
one hundred cents. Consequently hold
ers of silver bullion ceased to send it to
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-07-30

Those who are pinning their faith
to Mr.. Bryan as the savior of the
country this year, should remember
that four years ago he very eloquently
asserted and argued that if the people
would adopt free trade and vote for
Cleveland they would be prosperous
and happy and good times would pre-
vail. He was a false prophet then, and
now that he has new remedy for the
ills we have, more nauseous than the
other, is there any evidence he is any
nearer right now than he was thenq
Predictions won't do nor experiments
win-the people want facts not wind
nor prophetic logic based on theory
Atlantic Telegraph.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-07-30

Suppose that Mexican farmer, who
bought 100 bushels of wheat to market
and paid off his 800 note at the bank
wants to buy supplies for himself and
family, and has to borrow the money
to do it. How much of Mexicos
cheap money will he have to borrow
in order to get as many goods as the
American farmer can get for the price
OF 200 bushels of wheatp