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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-12-25
Thrifty Farmers.

One thing which strikes the traveller
passing through this portion of our state
is the varying methods of different ma
tionalities. The Germans there are
many of them in this and adjoining coun-
ties) first erect loghouse for themselves,
then q good-sized log barn. Just as
soon as their clearing warrants it. or
their crops demand it. up will go fine
large frame burn. Then they may begin
to think Of Il better house. and many
of the older settlers have us good as
are found in the most favored localities.
But they first make sure of enough barn
room to hold all Of their stock and crops,
and with good fences and modern i'm
provements they are we'll on the way
to prosperity. Of others the opposite
is true with few exceptions. A shed
is put up for stock, and hay and grain
are stacked out while a fine house is put
up, if the farmer can raise sufficient
funds by mortgage or otherwise. Ma
nure is thrown, outdoors, and l have actu-
ally seeii farmers building new barns or
sheds i'll order to get away from the ma
nure accumul lated around the old one.
They will tell you they are doing the
best they can finder the circumstances:
but the Germans started in under the
same conditions and by close economy
and Industry have risen to be worth
dollars where other classes are worth
cents
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-12-25
A Lack of Business Methods.

Some farmers are always complaining
of hard times. telling other people how
this government should be run, etc. while
at the same time they cannot run a 40
acre farm successfully. They let their
clover hay out OH halves, some even fur
nishins all the tools. Others hire help
i'll haying and pay in hay, large loads at
about 81 per load, thus selling fertility
off the farm for the sake of getting their
work done without paying out any mon
ey. These men are always scarce of
feed, and are compelled to buy i'll the
spring, paying twice as much per ton for
hay as they sold for; or they let their
stock do without. One farmer told me
that he could have stacked his wheat
when l stacked mine. but wasn't in
much Of a hurry Rains set in and his
wheat was damaged to the extent of $25
upon his own estimate. When will far
mers learn to farm right? We should
plan our work and Use every effort to do
the right thing at the right time. We are
not able to continue farming in All ut=
business like manner. Take care of your
stuff; Cit down expenses: live more eco
nomically; work little harder, and sue
cess will surely c6mt
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-12-25
FED ON HORSE MEAT.
Residents of Los Angeles Ate Broncf
Steaks Instead of Reef.

Residents of Los Angeles Ate Broncho
Steaks Instead Of Beef.
Something of sensation has been
caused in the residence parts of town re-
mote from the markets and where tray
cling vendors, of toothsome steaks and
roasts are regularly patronized, says a
Los Angeles dispatch to the San Fran
cisco Chronicle, by the discovery Of the
board of health that much of the alleged
beef which has been sold for an inletn-
lite period is nothing else than the re-
mainders of Southern California bron-
chos after the period of usefulness of
those equine friends of man is past.
Health Officer Stedtom today laid the
matter before the board of health and a
long and earnest discussion followed the
recital of the sensation by the health Of
ficers. Dr.. Steddom told how his in
spectors had first discovered that horses
We're being butchered and sold as beef
in the city. He said that enough evil
dence had been accumulated to convince
the health Office that horse flesh was
really being peddled about as beef, and
the industry is believed to be large and
growing one. as bronchos are consider
ably cheaper than bovines in that part
OF the country. The evidence, however,
was not of such nature as to admit of
ITS use in convicting the guilty persons
of the offense,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-12-25
Kruger's Great Strength,

Poultney Bigelow tells this interesting
anccdote of President Kruger in Har-
per's Magazine for December: "He once
saw Kaffir struggling in the river,
while other Kaffirs stood Oh shore as
spectators. At once he jumped in for
the purpose of saving his life. But the
black. man lost his head and grappied
Kruger with such violence as to render
it more than probable that both would
drown together. Kruger was a splendid
swimmer, and was able to remain very
long time under water. On this occa-
sion he could only rid himself of the
frantic black by total immersion, and so
he remained under water for a period
who witnessed the performance, but ut
last he emerged upon the surface-with-
ont tho KoffirS
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-12-25
Hale and Hearty

Is the condition in which every human
being was Undoubtedly intended 70 be,
and whenever this is hot the case there
must be something WRONG. Probably in
majority of cases the trouble is i'll the
blood, which has become impoverished
or impure by reason of hereditary scrof-
ula taints or FROM some other cause. In
case there is scrofula in the blood there
will frequently be cruptions of the skin.
though sometimes the disease assumes
a different form. In fact, very large
proportion Of diseases are caused by this
inherited faint. That the cause is in the
blood is proved by the fact that scrofula::
salt rheum,, rheumatism, catarrh, Snd
other like diseases are most readily
cured by purifying the blood. No medi-
cine has such q record Of cures as
Hoods Sarsaparilla, and yet Hoods, Sar,,
saparilla is always advertised as blood
purifier. The way to keep hale and
hearty is to keep the blood pure, and if
it is not in condition Of purity and vi
tally there is no better remedy that can
be used than this same great blood puri-
fer and strength builder, Hoods sar-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-12-25
A THOUSAND LIGHT SIGN.
1t Adorns tire Facade of the New Gran
Theater Building.

AC AOOrDS ire ERcade OF the rev GranO
Theater Building.
The largest electric sign iii New Eng
land, that on the Washington street ia
cade of the New Grand theater, was
lighted on Saturday night, and attracted
the attention of thousands of passersby.
The sign is composed Of 1000 incandes-
cent lamps of 32-candle power each, and
the letters which they make are four
feet high and about the same width.
The sign tells the name of the theater
and underneath gives the prices.
1t took four men a month to make the
sign and it cost the company that erect
ed it about $5OOO.. Unlike other electric
signs in New England, the letters in
which the electric lamps are set on this
one are made Of block tin, instead of
wood and they are lighter and will stand
wear much better than the old style
signs. Three separate currents from the
street main supply the lights and the
sign is controlled from three switch
boards in the theater-Boston Herald.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-12-25
Tastes i'm Connlexions.

What constitutes beauty of complexion
To the negro beautiful complexion con-
sists in ebony blackness. The Tartar
and Monaghan races Of the polar regions
of America see beauty only in yellow
skins. The Indians admire brown COM
plexion. Numbers of barbarous people
conceal the natural tint of their skins I'm
der a staining. of many colors; others are
indelibly marked with a general tattoo
ing. The Greenlanders paint their faces
with yellow and white. The Decanaises
stain themselves yellow and redden their
hands and feet. Of course, the white
people of America and Europe find the
greatest beauty in the white skins bright
ened with touch of rose color.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-12-25
Gladness Comes

With 4 better underss andiny of the
w transient nature OF the many rhys-
ical ills, which vanish before proper cf
forts-gentle efforts pleasant efforts
rightly directed. There i; comfort in
the knowledge, that SO many forms Of
sickness are not due to any uctual dis
ease, but simply to constipated eondi-
ton of the system, which the pleasant
family laxative, Syrup Of Figs. T-o1npt
" removes That is why it is the only
remedy with millions of families. and is
everywhere esteemed SO highly by all
who value good health. Its beneficial
effects are due to the fact, that it is the
one remedy which promotes internal
cleanliness without facilitating the
organs on which it acts. 1t is therefore
all important, in order to get it's bene-
fetal effects, to note when you pur-
chase, that you have the genuine arti-
cic. which is manufactured by the Cali
fornia Fig Syrup Co. only and sold by
all reputable druggists.
If in the enjoyment of good health,
and the system is regular, laxatives Or
other remedies are then not needed If
afflicted with any actual disease, one
may be commended to the nest slsillful
physicians, but if in need of laxative,
one should have the best, and with the
well-informed everywhere, Syrup of
Figs stands highest and is most largely
used and gives most general satisfaction.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-12-25
Dca fhcss Cannot he Cured

ny local applications, as they cannot reach
the diseased portion Of the ear. There Is
by constitutional remedies. Deafness is
caused by an inf1amed condition of the mu-
cous lining Of the Eustachian Tube. When
this tube Is infamed you have rumbling
sound or imperfect hearing, and when 1t is
entirely closed, Deafness is the result, and
unless the inflammation can be taken out
and this tube restored to its normal condi-
ton. hearing will be destroyed forever; nine
cases out of ten are caused by catarrh,
which is nothing but an inhamed condition
OF the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for any
case Of Deafness Caused by catarrh) that
cannot be cured by Halls Satarrh Cure.
Send for circulars; free.
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists 75c
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-12-25
Pianos that Catch Cold,

Half the pianos of this country catch
winter colds exactly as we do. They get
or some similar complaint which cannot
be cured by home remedies, but which
requires tedious and expensive doctoring.
In order to prevent these avoidable all
ments piano should be kept in mod
erately warm room, where the tempera-
ture is even, say 60 or 70 degrees, the
year round-not cold one day and hot the
next. The instrument should not, how
should be kept closed, and covered with
a felt cloth when not in use, particularly
in frosty weather.
Always place the piano against an in
side wall, and q little out from it.-An-
SwarS
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-12-25

Patents for the following Wisconsin
inventors are reported for this week by
Erwin, Wheeler & Wheeler, So and SO
Loan and Trust building. Milwaukee.
Wis. These attorneys will furnish the
Inventors Handbook free:
. G. Hacon, Amigo, spring bed !: John Burke,
GAINESVILLE. saw-sharpening device; N. A.
Christensen, Milwaukee, airpump valve: B.
II. Clement, Chester, assgr., breech-l loading
firearm; w. H. Dayy. Pewaukee: chair; G.
Glidden, assgr.. automatic whistle; j. E.
Patton, Jr.. Milwaukee, interchangeable
color-exhibiting device; G. II: Radke, kau-
kauna, furnace CRATE; William Schueike.
Milwaukee, organ three patents); J. P.
Van Week, Cooksville, cage; Charles Whit
ford, Milwaukee, combination table,
The meeting of the British associa-
ton in Toronto next year promises to
develop great international gathering
Of scientists,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-12-25
BRYAN Man Buncoed.

A Mckinley man in Cleveland wag-
cred with Bryan friend 500 to cent
that New York would give over 10000
plurality for the Republican candidate,
A condition of this apparently great odds
was that if the Mckinley man won he
should receive an additional cent for
every vote: in the plurality above 15O,-
0OO. McKinley's plurality in New York
was over $4,000. The man who had of
fered the odds of $40 to cent there.
fore wins by the terms. of his wager
SLIGO. The Bryan man when he drew
his check for the amount said It was a
bunco game, but any man fool enough tc
get caught like thgk ought to pay for it.z-
Washington Post.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-12-25
The Little Toe tn Go.

A comparative anatomist says that the
little toe has got to go; that it is a use
less appendage, already showing signs of
degeneration or whitening away, says the
Boston Journal. It's proved that the
horse, in the course of several centuries,
has dropped four toes and now travels
on one, and some think that mans pedal
extremities are bound to follow q similar
line of evolution. In the horse it is the
middle digit which has survived as the
fttest. In man it will be the first or
great toe
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-12-25
An Immense Ram

The Pennsylvania Steel Casting COM
pany. of Chester, Pa, has; cast the ram
for the battleship Kearsarge, now being
built at Newport News. This is believed
to be the largest casting of the kind
when ready for shipment, about 10000
pounds of metal, and in five hours it was
ready to be poured into the huge mould.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-12-25
LOSING altogether or nos, 1v 20 t,o ,,,,,a

.losino altogether Or nearly 80 the value
81 OF. the corn stalks. This Is now gener-
valuable feed to be profitable. But some
western farmers think that growing rye
g. iced down is less wasteful than is
corn Tor the same purpose. The rye
straw as feed is undoubtedly not SO raiu-
t,ble as the corn stalks, and where there
y no market for the rye straw the grain
crop may be grown for the purpose Of
trainping it down by hogs and pigs. A
correspondent of the Prairie Farmer
writes that he has found rye thus fed
especially valuable for sows with young
pigs The little pigs pick up the rye
grains scattered by the old sow as she
crunches the rye heads. 1t is an excel,
lent early feed, the rye coming to head
caring, and at a time when old corn In
many farmers cribs is exhausted. Be
sides, the rye is pound for pound worth
more for growing animals than is the
Indian corn, as rye ranks next to wheat
in heterogeneous food nutrition.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-12-25
Fortune seeking Emferants.

+ Many q poor family that seeks the West.
ern wilds In the hopesof winning fortune,
is preserved from that insidiOus foe Of the
emlgrant and fr0nttersman-chiIis and fever
by H0stetter's Stomach Bitters. SO ef-
fectually does that Incompatible medicinal
defense f0rtify the system against the com
blned influence OF q maIarious atmosphere
and miasma-tainted water, that protected by
II the pioneer, the miner or the tourist pro-
ylded with 1t, may safely encounter the
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-12-25
Making Livestock "Hustle -


( AS winter is approaching, I will offer
few suggestions. says Missouri man
i'll the Prairie Farmer. These. hard
times it behooves the farmer and stock
raiser to practice economy. BY all
means do not spend any money or time
liking up the horse stables. Let the
stand the real cold weather when it
comes; they will not be so apt to take
cold if you should go to town or church
and leave them out for few hours.
Horses are getting entirely too tender
by being pampered and housed up so
closely. In regard to the cows: A COW
that will not do we'll with a barbed wire
fence for shelter is not worth her keep
ing. Harden them by all means: When
feeding them ground feed they deterio-
rate; their teeth are made to grind their
feed, so by all means let them grind it.
Occasionally when the weather is not
too bad and you feel like standing around
to let them take the nubbins from your
hands it might not hurt them, but if the
weather is real bad just dump little
fodder to them, or, better still, put the
dogs after them and chase them to the
them up and Go them good. Oh! some
of you scientific fellows may laugh at
this suggestion, but l know it will work
Because l have seen it tried in Iowa
and Missouri. Why, dog is one of the
best cream raisers yet, if you only give
him a chance. Look at the way hogs
have been dying off for the last few
years! It is all caused by their being
too tender; caused by keeping them in
warm houses, feeding ground feed. Turn
them in bare lot and feed them few
no tI,cf
will give them exercise. Do not give
them too much at a time or they won't
scramble for it. Do this and mark the
improvement.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-12-25

"A big strike was reported from the
Lille mime, located between the Vindi-
Gator and the Christmas, on the south
! slope of Bull hill at Victor. Col. The ore
gave assay returns of $4,000 to the
could not be learned.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-12-25

Baron Ferdinand Rothschild pos
originally cost over $15O,OOO. The
mechanism records the day of the week,
month of the year, the phases of the
moon and strikes each hour. The quar-
tiers are chimed with different bell,
and "a rare thing with these clocks), it
has secondhand. The case was made
by Wertheimer, and stands fourteen feet
high: It was originally the property of
IOniS XVI
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-12-25

The Wyoming Press has the follow
ing good story: zone day this week as
George w: Cooper and a young man
named Nieberger were on the road with
their team from Coe & Goes camp to
fremont, big mountain lion jumped
Neither of the men had a weapon save
a; pocket knife, but Cooper sprang ,,on
the beast and seized it by the back of
the neck, while Neiberger, equally
plucky caught the animal by the tail.
After lively tussle they got the brute
down and with the pocket knife man
aged to cut the lion about the neck 50
badly that it bled to death. There were
three other lions seen at the same time,
but they ran away
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-12-25

"A dispatch from Rossland, B. c.,
states that the latest dividend of the LIE
Roi paid yesterday, makes "a total of
$250,0OO paid to date. With the advent
Of the Red Mountain road the shipments
will be increased and it is expected that
soon SOC, 900 month will be paid. Ore
running $4S per ton has been struck in
the Jumbo mine. In the SLOGAN coun-
try the Ruth mine has been sold to an
English party for $4,000, and the
parties for $125, 900. The Sapphire
group has been bonded to Nelson people
for $4,000. Half of the St. Keverne
n "a 8 bee been bonded to California parties for
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-12-25

Excitement was intense at Van
couyer recently among mining men,
owing to the fact that fabulously rich
quartz had been found on Texada ISL
and, on the abandoned Lorndale claim,
Iexada island is some forty miles from
Vancouver, and it is but recently that
gold was known to exist there in pay
ing quantities. The quartz in question
was free milling. and there were chuncks
of gold sticking out all over that could
be cut away with penknife. The spe-
cimenS ran about $4,000 to the ton
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-12-25
Monetary Con lerence Call.

tive committee in charge Of the arrange
ments for the currency reform convention
to meet III this city on January II, today
agreed upon asking boards Of trade or
similar commercial bodies in cities of
5000 or more population to send delegates
to the conference, - s s,5 ss$tEE@-s3 ~
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-12-25

For shells go to some river or pond
them. The chickens will clean them of
meat. Pound the shells fine by using
the thimble of an old wagon hub. Set
the big end down on an iron bottom
bored full of A-inch holes, with the ull-
der side reamed out, so the pieces Of
shell will pass through easily. Then
take an iron bar IN inches through, 20
inches long, to break the shells with
Pound up the broken glass, china and
scrockeryWare for grit. Have used the
above the past year with good returns.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-12-25
Growiur GRAIN "a Foed Down.

Eastern farmers when they grow grain
always adopt the methods of harvesting
rather than allow hogs and other stock
to turn in and feed it down. This last
ill5the West used always to be done with
corn, wasting thereby some grain and
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-12-25
Wintering Vegetables.


With the plethora of vegetables now
usual i'll our markets, we might cease to
talk about ways and means of producing
them. In fact, it sometimes seems we
should talk more about curtaiing rather
than increasing tho, production of gar
den crops, except the talk Of increased
production be the outcome of hope that
better times will bring us Increased con-
sumption and increased demand. In
this hope we will live. and continue to
look for improved methods of produc-
ton. The all-absorbing topic at this time
and every fall, however. is the proper
storage Of vegetables. While production
is pretty well understood the most sue
cessful methods of keeping vegetables
for use during winter and early spring
are vet more or less a terra incognita,
an unsolved problem, for the great mass
OF gardeners. Some suggestions have al
ready been given on this subject.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-12-25

The "forty-foot vein" of gold-bearing
#quartzite found on Cow creek, Wyo., III
the Grand Encampment district, proves
to have been q blowout, and is but
find, however, and will be developed as
soon us spring opens. .sS
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-12-25

Grand opportunities in seasonable
Christmas goods. Special sales in hand
kerchiefs, gloves and fancy goods. Mail
orders promptly attended to.
ESPENHAIN DRY GOODS CO..
Milwaukee, Wis
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-12-25

Ladies' fine cotton hand-embroidered
initial handkerchiefs at cents each.
The grandest line of 25-cent qualities
ever shown.
ESPENHAIN DRY GOODS CO.
Milwaukee. Wis.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-12-25

Coughing Leads to Consumption.
Kemp's Balsam will stop the cough
at once. 10 to your druggist to-day
and get sample bottle free. Large
bottles, 30 cents and $1.0O. Go at once;
delays are dangerous.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-12-25

Great Britain's new cruiser Talbot,
which is to replace the Magicienne on the
North American station. will greatly
strengthen the fleet as she is twice the
size of the vessel she replaces, and has a
much more nOwerful armament
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-12-25
The salmon fishing

The salmon fishing in both the Resti-
gouche and Miramachi has been good up
on the whole this season. The Inch Ar
ran house at Dalhousie opened this spring
under new auspices, and has been well
patronized during the hot spell.