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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-02-21
THE COYOTES WAY.
One Hundred Sheep Crowded Over the
Brink of a Precip:ce.

One Hundred Sheep Crowded Over the
Brink of u Precip:ee.
Recently a number of sheep We're lost
by Rettie 4 Patterson of Grant county.
from a flock of about 1907. In search
ing for the lost ones. Andrew Patter-
son came across the bodies of three
sheep, with their Threats pierced by
coyote teeth, right on the brink of a
sprecipiee, on IRON mountain The cliff
projected over the mountain beneath.
and. getting down on his belly and wrig
Cling half of his body out over the cliff.
Mr.. Patterson was able to see part of a
body of shell rock about 800 feet be-
low, and, although he saw no sheep, he
saw coyote skulking around and de-
termined to descend and explore the spot.
He found a coyote trail leading from the
top of the mountain, with dozens of fresh
tracks to and from the shell rock. and
after that he was morally certain that his
sheep were down on the bench, After
three hours hard work. during which
he nearly lost his balance on several oc-
casiOns,~ Mr. Patterson descended to a
rocky pocket in the mountain side. about
100 yards from the top. and there found
his sheep, to the number of 10, everyone
bursted open by the frightful fall. One
OF more coyotes had got in among the
band. when the storm had blown them
off their bedding ground, and herded
them to the brink of the precipice. then
damned them up so tight that 10 of
them either jumped or were crowded over
the brink-Portland OregOnian
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-02-21
A $4,000 APPLE TREE. :
1t Cost MIR. Smith Fortune to Save it,
and Then He Didn't.

II Cost NH. Smith Fortune to Save 1t,
and Then He Didn't.
An expensive apple tree stands on the
Albert Smith farm in South Strabane
township, near Washington. Pa 1t has
cost it's owner over $4,000. In 1887.
when the Smith pool-gushers commenced
to break the oil market and ruin specu-
lators. the company which held the lease
ou the Smith farm decided to locate Il
well near the boundary line of the Cam
eron and Smith properties.
The owner of the land objected to the
location claiming that. made. OIL the,
spot chosen Il favorite apple tree would
have to be cut down. The manager of
the drilling company, believing that the
location was Il promising one. decided to
gain his end and get even with the tror-
Observation-Disclosures at the same time
He had the timbers hauled few feet,
changed the intended positions of the
derrick and boiler house, placed them
just across the line on the Cameron farm
and drilled the hole within a few feet of
the original location. The we'll 1epro-'
duced 5000 barrels of oil per day. A
large percentage of this petroleum must
have come from under the Smith farm,
but the hole was on Cameron's land,
and he. of course. received the royalty.
The wen is still producing oil and the
Camerons' share of the output has
reached over $4,000. :
The apple tree still lives but has been
ruined by the clOSeness of the@wall =
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-02-21
Coming Woman

In lecture in Boston Miss Susan II.
Wixon gave this description of the COM
ing woman, or rather the one who has
just arrived: "She rides a bicycle, tits
true, and wears knickerbockers or bloom,
ers, but with every turn of her wheel
she leaves the lassoo of theology and the
pastor thousands of miles behind. The
old woman sought her husbands intelli-
gence: The new woman says: He
doesn't know any more than T.. She
marries for love or nothing; she doesn't
care for a title: she is all self tisfying
with her Latin, Greek, her law, her medi.
cine. Woman used, to- faint ut Il drop
of blood; now they catch mice in their
hands and dissect them afterwarl. The
old woman loved you under all condi-.
,tions; the new one only SO long as you
behave yourself. To the new woman
all the glittering,,t untaxed chapels in
Christendom." .-.T5% -
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-02-21


came in Bertha u voice he seems like
. !, new grnndpa: Tint q nice little story
that was he told us last night about the
WY they coasted when he was u boy q
s It's jolly to hear bout when he was
4 n little boy npWaaays, said Jack Then
'. I! what changed grandpa 81? ~ 81
think e he added, in his droll little way.
that the old Grandpa Wynlnn run out
the, door When the new yea i came III,
and new Grandpa NNymali run in !!''$5s-s
8 Out in the hall the new ] Grandpa wy
nun. said softly to himself: s5sE
rllat,a Just about il, my. .oWll little
Jack as You and Bertha nude the Old
grandpp. 50 ashamed nf himself TINT les
did sbia himself gootl ;by as tho old YEAR
went out. and when the new yenr came
n 4 really believe d new Grandpa Wv
man came with it--one who has sense.
enough to remember that when he was 4
little tboi he was very imurl, the same
as little boys are nowadays S,
y: And Grandpa WyMan deserves d COM
pliment,,s for Il Il. a very wise old nlaIl
WHO learns SO well plain, simple lesson.
MT WorlS @&%E - = %1S NA<NAi
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-02-21
RACCooNs IN LOUISIANA
Hundreds 81 Them trapped veal
y Along the Gnlf for sTl,atr SL.n. 9.

Hundreds of Them Trapped weak IL
Along the Gnlf for Their Skins. 80
z,Ihe redemption of the alluvial lands
along the mississippi from overflow nv
the construction of levees,: which has.
Deeh gong on so actively for the last few
is having the effect of filling III
ne q swamp lands and marshes along the
driven out from above. A few wears
ago me woods or swnmps back of the
plantations d oil; the Mississippi. which
lseld0m extend more than two. miles.
from the river We're filled with raccoons.
ipossnQms and other game. to, such an ex,
tent as to prove q serious lllisanre, the.
o ohmai foo playing crna: hay k and
been growing fewer, In that section for,
the last eight or ten years. but wholly
by emigration. They seem to $hava
pushed further south toward the Gulf
OF ct Mexico, and the hunters in the interi-
or settlements or. brules, in Eafourche.
IerreDonne ana other parishes contain
ing large amount Of sea marsh. de-
clare that their; country is oyerrun with
raccoons. There have always been some
there, but the numbers have. increased
there in manner impossible to account
for in any natural way. : = s.,t.>t5}ga
While the 'coons have proved, rather
troublesome in the. matter of clearing
out .cornfields, they are. just at present
yielding the hunters and trappers rich
harvest, and have made up: for the ruin
ct the alligator business. The bayOus
of southern Louisiana were alive with
alligators twenty years ago, but the de-
mand for their skins was so great and SO
large price was paid for them that the
alligators have been well-nigh extermin-
mated. The 'coons now take their place
and are proving even more profitable. y
3, The business of trapping and killing
1cOons has reached phenomenal propor-
lions this season.. and several hundreds
of these animals are brought into
Thibodeaux and other towns weekly
from each of the surrounding brules or
bayous. The: skins sell for from, 10 to
so cents apiece, in proportion to the size
and quality Of their fur, and are readily
sold to Northern dealers engaged in the
fur trade, while the negroes purchase
the skinned bodies ut. from to 10 cents.
The trappers make a very handsome liv-
ing out of the business, which lasts only
during the winter-enough to support
them throughout the year. = ~
The 'coOns' are said to support them
selves principally upon the corn they
steal from the fields and the cray fish,
choupique and other fishes with which
the i streams. of 2 Southern 4 Louisiana
abound, the coon being an expert fisher.
The coon :trapping has almost doubled
the receipts of . pelts- at New Orleans
this year since the hunting season began.
New York SUM- ~.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-02-21
Saw the President.

Not long after Lincoln's election to the
presidency he was in his office in the old
statehouse in Springfield, when tall,
lank eountryman put his head into the
door and asked to see Mr.. Lincoln. He
was from Kansas, he explained, and with
his family was going back to Indiana.
He had voted for Mr.. Lincoln and want
ed to see him. Mr.. Lincoln received his
unconventional caller with politeness,
and presently the man asked: "What
kind of tree is that below there in the
yard?' It was. warm November day
and the window was open. Mr.. Lincoln
looked out and said: 1T is a cypress.
suppose you would have known, it if
you had been on the ground mo, i
don't mean that" said the countryman,
II mean the other one nearer the house.
You will have to lean farther out" Mr..
Lincoln leaned out, and then, straightel,-
ing up, he said: "There is no other one"
''No?' said the man; "well, do you see
that woman and them three children over
there in that wagon? That is my wife
and children. Itold them would show
them the President-elect of the United
States, and l have. Goodby. Mr.. Lin
coln,"'< And so saying, he stalked down
Ntaira ~' = =. - -
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-02-21
A SILVER BICYCLE.
It's Gorgeous fiece of HandiwOrk,
North Between 5000 and 800.

It's Gorgeous fiece of Handiwork,
Worth Between 5000 and 800.
Tifany&. Co. have something new of
Interest for wheelmen in Il silxer9bicycle.
Whichwa putson exhibition at the store
yesterday The, wheel is the first of the
kind ever, made, and Emany bicyclists
stopped to >examine it or to mo uric the
price, yesteNlaI:s The wheel was built
bs one of the large bicycle man ufaet ur-
model. <Ehe trimmings and Ornamental
parts, floweyeE were put on BY Tiffany.
IN order TO insure strength aud tiura=
Oily 1t WasSneceSSary to have the sup
porting rods and the spokes of steel.
Nz4A the rest Of the frame is of sterling
silver: The handlebar is of plain silver,
with FURNISHED ivory handles, The 9TH
er silver parts are finely engraved by
hand. with repousse etching of the Louis
WI. style: The sprocket wheel isa soff
nlains{ssiiveg, ;3and the outright rod sup
poftlngs the heavy leather saddle isSof
steel: with a silver JACKET The saddle
Itself is studded with silver nails. The
cost Of the machine as it stands is $500.
A silver lantern is being made to go
WITH IT., which will add from 500 to
$500 to the price,
The wheel was designed by John Cur
ran. chief silyersmith in the Tiffany
works and President of the Tiffany
Wheeling club, Mr. Curran said yester-
Gay that IN constructing the wheel he had
IN view not only ornament, but utility
and lightness as well. The completed
wheel weighs about twenty-six pounds
y member of the Tiffany company said
yesterday, in explaining the construc-
ton OF the new bicycle & = p -, - =
This wheel was built to supply Il de.
Imand which we know to exist among
some of our patrons for better and
more expensive wheel than can be had
on the market at present. Once the
bicycle was a luxury which only the rich
could afford, but with the gradual lessen,
ing Of the cost of production the best
wheel can now be.had for about s$1OO.
( There are millions Sof wheels iii use ut
present.: and they are sold: So cheaply
that thes millionaire's groom cam ride
one as good as his employers The con,
tlnued popularity of wheeling among
our wealthiest set is likely to depend on
the production of a wheel better than the
ordinary. Such wheel we have tried
to make and | believe that another sea-
son will see many of them at the fash
ionable resorts
j, Although the wheel now oneexhibition
was built as an experiment there have
already been many inquiries about it,
and it will proba bly, $be sohl before
Christmas is a mans wheel, but
a woman s heel is being finished lin
the FIRMS shops This wheel VIII Be
much more richly ornamented, and it's
price will be $1,000. A lantern, which
is being made to- go With it, will be set
with precious stones, and will cost sew.
epal hundred dollars.-New York Sun.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-02-21
The Flower Fad in GotIsa nj.

-. The flower fad is decidedly expensive
For instance, one wealthy woman re-
Gently spent $4,000 for flowers to decorate
her.table, dining and drawing; rooms for
ably pay $1,000 month to their florists,
even during the dull season. When
teas, and dinners and luncheons and re-
teptions are in full swing it is too great
a tax upon the imagination even to try
!o{estimutes the amount of their bill for
dowcrs. A rose bunch given as favor
at luncheon or dance is worth from So
to x1l. while q box of. cut flowers costs
from - to so. For the brides bouquet,
.$$15. $75. $175 and upward and onward,
ehoose to. expend. No wonder the dor.
lists multiply and build mansions. Even
Bouquet Johnnie" can knock a neck off
a cold bottle occasionally without rum
ming any risk of going to the poorhouse.
New York Letter TO. Pittsburg Dis
q : !. ; lob.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-02-21
Didn't Cost a Fortune.

1t is said not to cost IL fortune to enter
: tain the Prince of: Wales-. \ young
American widow, who received much at
tention from him at HQmburg. gave him
2 dinner l last summer there. There We're
only $50. In accordance with his custom,
the prince ordered the dinner himself,
suggesting a clear soup. a SQUAD, hook.
and champagne of :, certain brand. He
invited his intimate friend, Christopher
Sykes. and Il duke, aud DUCHESS. The
widows mother was left out. After the
This is certainly cheap way of enter
tanning a prince. >'S~ -jfE =S''f,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-02-21
Joke on Won Buloyv.

Another anecdoffe' Of THE ,nnch-1paara-s
He was fond Of joke on his friends.
but this time it was on himself, as often
happens in real life, He had just fin
ished q choice interpretation for the
Duke Of Edinburgh. accompanied, by
such violent gesticulations that the
prince was greatly amused thereat, and
expressed his admiration in the following
terms: Il have heard Thalberg"-Bu.
Rubinstein''- rubbed his hands
with satisfaction-.1 have heard List"
the master extllfed-' but none Of these.
! assure you, have perspired asflnuclt as
,-,,,,roaiS ':%t s.a--T- - 2.s-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-02-21
Was Used to Ii.

E, When the Princess Clotildc, the daugl,-
ter of Victor Emmanuel, came to Paris
as the bride Of Prince Napoleon, Eugene,
herself IL parvenu, felt some constraint
in her dealings with the daughter Of a,
race Of kings; but did all that sshe could
ito :; conceal her feelings. Clotiide was
very good, very pious, very quiet, but us
fetes that were arranged to celebrate.
her arrival in Paris, the empress re,
marked to her, with an mir, of one who
has been accustomed to that sort of
thing always: II am awfully bored,
aren't you p es," answered Clotilde,
quietly; shut Lam used To tit" Eugenie
never forgave her for this remark.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-02-21
Knew Her Business.

#. How tired you look, my darling, OK
claimed the littles.sWon1nll sas she met
rest yourself < 8 Eve .ltnnde yo,, ID new
slsair Of slippers and ifsypurs head aehcs'
Iii rub it with t0log poor deaf! III
B. All this time he had been regarding
her sllspici0tlsly. Finally he said:
60 had really forgotten that Christmas
was 30 near. Here's $50; it's the best
y can do. Maria, until collections are
better, Atlanta Constitution
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Had a Pat Hand

There is one postmaster in Ohio who
does not fear the inspector. Recently
an old8 maid informed The Postmaster
gcneraI that there was smoking in the
20 postolSs :, shs MsRt gsEa!gI1
notified Inspcctor-in-C Charge Salmon 10
investigate. and he did He found that
tho postoffice was in a grocery store.
The postmaster was the storekeeper. and
in reply to the detective. said: s. Yes. E
smoke. and my son smokes. And. let
me tell you something Smoking Is d
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-02-21
Not Thought OF.

The late Prof. Blackie was once stand.
ing in front Of the fire at the lodge Of
the famous, plaid and 4 toss of the equal
" famous Wild white hair: ri should
like Ito know, what you Oxford fellows
say of me behind my backr After a
moments pause, Jowett, the master of
B3alliol, replied ed, mildly mil I'VE don't men
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-02-21
The American Woman.

The most interesting of the American
women, by far, are the married ones
from six and twenty to 40; after that
age they are apt to become suddenly
gray and taciturn. Their faces dry up,
and grow sharp and colorless; you scarce
ly ever see anyone approaching the COM
Portable, happy English matron of 40 to
So. Perhaps they danced, f1irted, gadded
about too much when they We're young
to have any fund of enjoyment left
Whatever the reason, whether it be that
or a digestion ruined by tea, iced water
and candy, your best companions and
friends in America will always he the
young married women; so long rs they
are not too much given to cocaine and
French novels of the gray paper type.
They have, as rule, Travelled more.
read more. thought more. and to far
more intelligent purpose than their Eng
lish cousins; nor do they let lt1ieir chill
dren, in English fashion, come between
YOU and their conversation. Who has
not talked to the young English matron.
and, just as you are getting at her mind,
note the distant look in her eye, which
tells you she is wondering what the chill
dren are doing? Whether Gerald is in
bed yet, or Belle has had her milk? Now
the American matron never does that;
when she is with, you, she makes :ahula
rasa of children and household duties,
and gives you her undivided attention
and intelligence. Not that she cares
much about listening; as rule. size
cares only to- talk of herself, her OK
Deriences and thoughts: nor. is she, to
my mind, the less an agreeable COM
panion for that.--Temple Bar.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-02-21
WORTH $2,15o,ooo PER TON.
What Labor Can Make Out of Small
Quantity of Pig Iron.

Quantity of Pig Iron.
At the recent meeting of the South
Staffordshire Institute of Iron and Steel
Works managers Thomas Morris pre-
scented some interesting facts about the
remarkab BILE achievements that have been
reached in the manufacture of wire.
He pointed ont that the Warrington
wire manufacturer who presented him
with many of the specimens got S4.32
per pound, or over 5000 per ton. for the
specimen of drawn Wire. which was
largely used in the construction OF piano
and other musical and mechanical instru-
ments. For the pinion wire he got
S21.GO per pound. or s43200 per ton.
1t took 754 hair springs to weigh an
ounce of 1917 grains. 1t took 2I.0Ou.-
600 of them to weigh ton. and, taking
one to be worth IL cent. the value of
a ton of these apparently cheap little
things ran up to over 100000. The
barbed instrument used by dcntiSts for
extracting nerves from teeth was even
more expensive. representing rate of
S2,1N,OO0 per ton. \ mile length of
No. 10 size wire only weighed II pounds,
and many of the ingotS were II to ii
cwt. each, and after allowing for all
waste they could get 80 miles of wire
from one ingot.-1ron
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-02-21
\ Long Distance Chew.

An Illustration of how space is ann;-
hilated by the telegraph was afforded
a few days ago by two telegraph clerks
sitting opposite each other in a Chicago
office: One of them was sending n mes
sage to New Orleans; the other was re-
ceiving message from the same city.
The sender wanted to borrow Il plug of
tobacco from his coleag que. hut it would
have been a breach of the rules to ask
for it. He therefore wired to New Or
leans and asked the receiver to tell his
partner to hand him Chew" In less
than minute the plug came over the
glass partition which separated the two
operators The message had Travelled
considerably over a thousand miles. al
though IL yard separated ono operator
from the Observation-Disclosures Maga~
yinn S>
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-02-21
Bannocks will Make Troubfe

1. NJ. Yandell, an old-time Hudson Bay
company trapper and buffalo hunter,
who has lived among The Rannnct ~
dams since 1913, was in Pocatello the
other day. In discussing the Indian Sit
uation he said that it would be ne,.es-
sary. to exercise the greatest caution next
spring to prevent trouble with the Ban
nocks. The killing of onesof the Ban
mock bucks in Jackson's Hole last sum
mer. he said. had made the savases very
indignant. Three :Bannocks. he saws. have
been appointed to kill the white man
who killed their brother-one from the
Fort Hall reservation and two from
the Wood River reservation, The, dan,
ger, he thinks, will come from the fact
that these three. avengers will start to
kill and forget to quit. This, MIR. Yam
dell says. is the way the Nez Perez war
begun in 1877. - -
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-02-21

A Pottstown barber has found a new
occupation for spare moments. He has
counted the number of hairs in a mans
beard whom he shaved. When the lather
dried which had been used in shaving it
was not difficult, although tedious, to
count the hairs, which numbered u.
6622. Philadelphia Record.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-02-21

The Duke of York,s stamp album,
which, oddly enough, he has recently dis
posed 81, was one Of the most interesting
iii Europe.
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COSTLY CASE FOR HAYWARD.

Father Of the Murderer PAID s14, 900 in
His Defense.
It is now stated that W. w. Hay
wards expenses i'll the vain attempt to
save his sons life were about 5000. in
Guiding what Harry spent for personal
purposes while in Jail. Although Mr..
Hayward did not hesitate to sspend
money freely in his sons cause, ne did
not propose to have any wasted and for
that purpose retained q lawyer, whose
sole business it was to keep tab on the
expenses in connection with the case,
and see that his client was not ~bled to
no purpose. Attorney Erwin got $500
for his work in the trial and $500 more
for taking the case before the Supreme
court; John Day Smith got $1,000 be-
sides the advertising. Attorney, Sweet
ser received $500; Mr.. Shumaker was
paid by Mr.. Erwin; good deal of
third man. and Mike Quinlan got at
least $500 for this search. The printing
of the ella borate brief cost a good deal
of money. and, together with money
used for looking up witnesses and for
miscellaneous purposes brought the to-
over 10000 The remaining $4,000
We're spent by Harry while in Jail.
b. Brass Ornament.
The junior member of the old law firm
of Goldsmith, Colston, Hoadley & John
son having used the phrase "a shining
ornament Of the Cincinnati bar" in re-
ferring TO some other lawyer, Murat
Halstead seized upon the phrase and
thereafter invariably referred to Mr..
Johnson IS ''the brass ornament of the
Cincinnati bar" At an evening gather
ing Mr.. Halstead saw a handsome wom-
an. He begged to be presented, and was
to Mrs. ] ohnson. It did not occur to
him who the lady might be- He was
curious about her. johnson, johnson p
he repeated; II have never had the pleas
ure of meeting you before, Mrs. John
son: Do you live in Ohio?'' 5'"0h. yes"
replied the lady, trimming over with
smiles; II live in CINCINNATI '.Indeedv'
said Mr.. gHalstead, quite astonished;
"may T. inquire Of what family sofs John
sons you are?" The smiles were more
than merry this time. "Mr. Halstead,"
she replied. "for. fifteen years have
been trying to polish up the brass orna-
ment Of the Cincinnat ii: bar!,,,~ r.-.s