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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-04-23
IT THIS WERE FAITH.

God, IL this were enough. S, sas@
I That ! see things bare TO the bur,
And up to the buttOcks III Mlre; 4%s
That ask MOI. hope nor hire,
Nut In the husk, & e*s Y
Nor dawn beyond the dusk, r.
Nor life beyond death: III. -.
God. II this were faith? .. .&.%
Having felt thy wind In my face
Spit sorrow and disgrace. .%-.. r..
Having seen thine evil doom .>..".-
In GOlogotha and khartoum.
And the brutes, the work of thine hands. =
Fill with Injustice lands = - 1921 =
And stain with blood the sea:
If still In my veins the glee ..,
OF the black night and the sun
And the lost battle run:
The Ubiquitous lists still accept
With joy, and joy to endure and be with
And sim to battle and perish for dream OF
good:
If to feel. In the ink Of the slough
And the sink of the mlre,
Veins of glory and fire
Run through and transplerce and transpire
And a secert purpose of glory In every part
And the, answering glory Of battle til
my heart;
To thrill with the JOY Of glrled men,
TO 80 on for eyer and fall and 90 on again,
And be mauled to the earth ana arise,
And contend for the shade of q word and q
thing not seen with the eyes:
With the half Of broken hope for pillow
at night
That somehow the right Is the right
And the smooth shall bloom from the
Lord, if that We're enough?
Robert Louis Stevenson.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-04-23
A Novel Foundation.

The new $4,OOO,OOO federal building III
Chicago will stand on a series of points
instead of resting on foundation eX-
tending evenly along the entire wall line
The weight of the huge structure will be
so adjusted that it will rest on cement
columns thirty-two feet apart, thes,. col
ulnns going down to bedrock seventy
two feet below the surface of the earth
This is the plan adopted in modern
bridge building and represents the most
advanced progress in that field Of con-
struction. The mode of excayating for
the foundation is very interesting and
simplicity itself. A section of wrought
iron tube of the desired diameter is set
upon the ground on its rim and us the
earth within the circle is removed the
tube sinks. When the top of The first
section settles down to the level Of the
earth's surface Il second section is placed
above it and the digging process is con-
tinued. One section after another dis
appears and bedrock is eventually
reached without the slightest disturbance
to the surrounding material occurring
There is no settling of neighboring tpun-
dations. no lettering walls, no alarm or
disquiet of any sort.
When the excavation is completed there
is a clean iron-walled hole into which the
cement is poured and subjected to the
necessary pressure. When the iron tube
is filled the job is finished, the iron cas-
ing being allowed to remain The col
umps which will constitute the founda-
ton for the Chicago building will vary in
diameter from II to Is feet. Through
the wear and tear of ages they will SUD-
port all the weight that they will be
called upon to bear
BY this plan it will not be necessary to
drive piling down to bedrock or to re-
sort to any of the methods for making
broad bases for founlat tons to rest upon.
so familiar to Chicago builders of lofty
edificcs and heavy business blocks. The
element of uncertainty will be entirely
eliminated. Cement columns have been
tried in the construction of all the great
iron and steel bridges built in recent
years and found to be wholly satisfac-
tory. There is no guesSwork. no specu>
latlOn as to the precise weight cement
column of certain dimensions standing on
solid rock will sustain. 1t is simple
mathcmatical and engineering PROPOSE
ton.
The Chicago foundation will cost less
than 100000. Work upon it can be
commenced the minute Contra tor Harris
finishes the removal of the old wreck that
now disfgures the site. The plans for
building and foundations are now Drac-
tically done. some of the details only re-
naming unfinished at this writing. Mr..
Cobb, the architect. says that the new
Chicago postotficc will be the most scicn-
tjfically constructed building in the Unit
nd StnfDS
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-04-23
His Proposition.

There is little suburban town out in
New Jersey and it's inhabitants are very
proud of their fire department. claiming
that it can meet every possible exigency.
AS for the truth of this statement, it is
not advisable to mediate upon, and there
is one thing positive, and that is the ina
bility of the members to prevent fires.
Unfortunately such occurrences were
growing to be chronic affection. and in
desperation the leading officials of the
fire department and the town officials
met to devise ways and means of stop
ping them.
ITS carelessness. rank carclessness!
exclaimed one portly gentleman. Such
things should rarely happen in well-regu-
lated communities
Thus it went on for over an hour.
growing no nearer to solution of the
difficulty. Finally one Of the fire depart
ment members arose. "Gentlemen," he
cried, II have a resolution to propose
which think, it adopted by the honor,
able members Of this board, will entire
ly do away with fires in our town."
Hear! hear" cried the members of
the board. ''What is it? Propose it,"
etc.
Gentlemen, propose that three DAVIS
before each fire some one should 20 to
the house and ascertain if it has been
caused by the inmates carelessness, and
if so enforce a payment of money to meet
the expenses of running the engines to
the scene. .'--Harper's Round Table,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-04-23
The Pace that Kills.

Otis Smith of Atlanta, Ga, who was
arrested the other day for embezzlemcnt.
declares that he committed the crime
throug h his desire to shine in society. 81
have been asked" he says. "why | did
not go along and do the best l could on
my legitimate income, which was about
$500 year. But it takes money to
hold a place in society in Atlanta. II
you do not put up the stuff who are not
appreciated. So long as you pay for the
you do not get in the push with the cash
you are nobody. l was in the push and
| had to get money to hold my own. 1t
took money to pay for theater parties
germans, suppers, flowers and other pres
ents, and was like the fellow who had
hold of a galvanic battery-I could not
let go. After l once started I had to
keep it up. or [ was LOST
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-04-23
Longest Run Without Stop.

The longest regular daily run made
without a stop by any railway train in
the world has just been placed on the
schedule of the Great Western railway
of England.
1t is made between Paddington sta
of 1914 miles, in three hous and thirty-six
minutes. by what is known as the Corn.
wall express. It is remarkable not SO
much owing to the time as for the fact
that not stop is made from one end
of the run to the other. There have
been longer runs made without stop,
but they have been made by special and
attained by the Cornwall express when
making, this run is ST. miles an hour,
although owing to a peculiar construction
of the road at Bristol. 11S miles from
London. the train is obliged to slow
down to speed of ten miles an hour.
This express train is composed of six
long coaches. a tender and engine. An
American would call it a vestibule train,
but the English prefer to call the cars
''bogie clerestbried corridor coaches"
bogie being term applied to the trucks
They are fully as heavy as an ordinary
drawing room car. each one weighing
about 1900 pounds, while the train
without the engine and tender is eighty
one tons, making the total weight of
the train as it rushes along on it's long
| run 221 tons.
During the run it is necessary to take
| water for the engine twice. This, how
ever. does not neccssitate any stop. as it
is taken UP from trench beside the
track as the train speeds along at nearly
mile a minute.
The engine which draws this essential
ly Through train is Il notwithstanding
pondcrous affair, quite unlike any loco
motive seen on American roads. 1t has
on either side a single huge driving
wheel. feet inches in diameter. while
what must by comparison be termed the
small wheels Of the engine, six in num-
Der. known as trailers. are feet inches
in diameter.
The water tank of the engine holds 30
GOO gallons. and when running at full
speed there is a steam pressure of 100
pounds to the square inch. while there is
hearing surface of 1864 square feet.
Each day the run is made. the train
leaving Paddington station at 1925
O'Clock in the morning. and it never fails
to roll into st. David's station. in Exc
ter. exactly on time. The time allowed
by the schedule for this run makes no
allowance for delays of any kind. Even
the time lost in going over the loop
around Bristol and the necessity of slow
ing down when going through Bath is not
allowed for.-New York Herald.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-04-23

Joe held her hand for d few seconds
longer than he needed to-, and tipped his
Int almost reverently us she glided away.
| No, she certainly didn't mean to com.
| NIT suicide. he soliloquized. gazing in
+ tently at her rapidly disappearing form.
shall certainly fall in love with her.
What is all the mystery back Of this af-
fair, WONDER
The Nancy backed water again, then
steamed down the river. Twenty min
utes later the launch was at her berth,
and fifteen minutes after that the fire
was drawn and all made snug about her.
Then Joe .wentled his way home, Ills
pretty craft forgotten in the maze of
thought with which the adventure of that
evening had filled his head. II .-:.A !.
And when, in his bed, Joe Parsons tried
III vain to WOO sleep, these words kept
running through his BRAIN:
II meet that girl again. shall cer-
tainly fall in love with her."
s% -. u
But month after month went by, and
Joe did not once behold the woman that
the river had yielded up to him, only to
let the town swallow her up half an hour
later.
1t was only few weeks ago that Joe
Ind been taken from the books of the
bank and established in a small. cozy
the institution.
A typewriter was necessary, so he adj
vertised for one. There were Il host of
applicants. but many OF them had not
the necessary knowledge for his kind of
work, so they We're rejected.
When the door opened to admit still
another applicant, and Joe looked up. he
conner was the young woman of the river
episode.
The recognition was mutual, but each
strove to ignore the fact. and Joe
plunged ut once into an examination of
her qualifications.
She gave her name as Nora Durwell,
and responded to all his questions so
satisfactorily that he engaged her on the
spot.
81 am sorry the salary is not larger"
he said, apologetically, ''but the bank
regulates that, and I have no control in
the natter
Only few days ago, an observer
might have seen Nora gazing with truly
feminine delight at pretty solitaire
ring on her finger. Joe's hand was rest
ing affcctionately on her shoulder.
Tell me, he said suddenly, and with
something of an air Of proprietorship,
chow you happened to be in the river
that night?'
II was pushed in she replied, turning
pale at the recollection.
''By whom?"
"My husband"
"Your husband?'
Yes; he was Il fearful brute. That
night he inveigled me out on the pier,
with the deliberate intention of murder
ing me. But am trying to forget all
that. Please never speak of it again.
Little girl said Joe. with husky ten
derness. IF you are willing to marry me
after such an experience in matrimony.
what great faith YOU must have in
me-"
II have" she replied simply.
The Nancy has new skipper now
the most delightful skipper imaginable
Minneapolis Tribune.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-04-23
VEGETABLES.

Tine4t. earliest 70 he had.
be beat. Why buy your
seeds In stores Wxal Tor
81 ", nsS s9.Z.,y!9E t g. fAHZ
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-04-23

+. Z. Dawley of New York at New
Jersey institute said that he considered
ninety eggs a year a good average in Il
flock. The cost of food with them aver
aged 80 cents per hen per year. If more
attention would be paid to the selection
of layers, we could secure race Of good
laying fowls. He found that the April
Matched pullets gave the most eggs in
their lifetime. He believed i'll getting
out the pullets early, and for that l,ur
pose used incubators. At this point the
question was asked Mr.. Dawley if he
thought it advisable to hatch the breed
ing and laying stock artihcially. I'D go
out of the poultry business" he replied,
''before I'd give up Matching with in
cubators. First, l would not have the
patience to bother with setting hens: and
second, no man could set and handle
enough hens to get out all the pullats we
need every year" He thought that thir-
ty-tive pullets from one hundred eggs
set was good result. Out of 1000 eggs
they put in the incubators they generally
secure 300 pullets. They rear about IS
per cent. of the chicks Matched and us,l-
ally half of these are pullets.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-04-23
Breeding Dairy Cows.


| l. Select the best COWS in your herd, or
that you can buy, to keep, and dispose of
the others.
?. The best COW for the dairy is the
one that produces the greatest amount Of
butter fat in year (for food consumetD
when being rightly fed
3. Test your COWS by weighing the
milk of each cow for u year, and testing
it occasionally with the BubcOck milk
tester, and know how much butter fat
each one does produce.
t. 10 renew or increase your herd
raise the heifer calves from your best
COWS.
5. Use the best dairy bred sire YOU can
get; one if possible that has long line
of ancestors, and have been iirst-ciass
dairy animals.
q. In this way you can make each gen
GRAFTON better than the preceding one. if
they have at all times the proper care
and feed.
Z. 1t is neither profitable nor necessary
for Il cow to go dry more than four to
six weeks.
8. Especially should your young COWS
be watched and not allowed to acquire
the habit of drying up too soon.
8. Darker the stable in which the COWS
are MIXED through fly time. 1t will not
only ecOnomize the patience of the milk
er, but the cost of milk production as
well.
10. Keep a record of the time when
cows are bred. and have no guesswork
about the time of calving.
Ill. PROVIDE roomy box stall, aud al
low the COW to become accustomed TO it
IL week prior to calving.
II. Rich foods should be withheld for
short time prior and subsequent to
calying:,
IL. The udder should receive prompt
attention. An obstacle may be removed
from the teat the first hour that might
battle science later.
given to the cow rs soon as possible after
calving.
Is. The calf should be permitted to
nurse its mother for two or three days.
1G. After separating the calf from its
mother. feed the natural milk as soon as
drawn, for week or ten days.
II. Then begin gradually to substitute
skim milk with oil meal jelly stirred
into it,
10. Scald the culf's feed pail daily.
10. Feed three times Il day and not
moro than three quarts at. Il time until
the calf is we'll started.
20. Warm the milk by placing the ves-
p. Warm the milk i'll 80 degrees
Fahrenheit;
%. Don't trust your finger but a Their
mometer. 1t will save many Il ca]f's
life.
% The man whose ideal of COW
is high, coupled with good care. feed
and gentleness. is sure to receive the
highest profit in milk and pleasure that
can be made in dairying.
We will add couple of other points:
~. Always clean out the box stall
a fter COW has calved therein. and thor
oughly disinfect it with solution made
of one part of sulphuric acid to nine of
water. This is to prevent septic poison
occur.
p. Do not milk the udder out clean
until the fourth day after calying. This
will often prevent chill, which often
produces milk fever.-EXchange
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-04-23
The Value OF Wild Animals

The small boy who measures the stand
ard of the circus by. the number of it's
elephants is very. nearly right. as to
method. The pachyhrmata proboscidea
is the most costly animal in captivity.
AFRICAN elephants arenow quoted atfrom
about $4,000. Giraffes are worth about
the same price as an African elephant
on account of their scarcity, but as the
elephant is the most popular for exhibit
ton purposes it's price keeps up. \ fine
hippopotamus may be purchased for
$4,000, a big African lion for from $1,000
to $1,000 and a fine lioness for $500 or
$500: Bengal tigers are also worth $500
to $500, and camels from $500 to $500
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-04-23
Tourists and BICYCLES.

The steamship agents report that the
inquiries made by intending passengers
to Europe who are booking now show
very plainly that a very large number of
this year will take their wheels with
them. Half the requests for saloon tick
cts are accompanied by questions about
the accommodation aboard ship for BIZ
cycles, and the inquirers are as eager
to know that the machine will be well
stored as the truest horseman could be
comfortably stabbed All of the com
panies make careful provision for carry
ing wheels and see to their safe deliHery.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-04-23
BLACK-HANDED JACK.
"A Mexican Myth that Terrorized a Cit
for Several Months,

Tor Several Months.
mystery which has puzzled the civic
authorities and terrorized the people of
Guadalajara. Mex. for MANY months
has been solved by the exercise of a little
common sense. Violent deaths are "a th-
err numerous in this city. and it frequent
ly happens that the dead body of a man
or woman is found OH the street in the
morning. having been stabbed to death
during the night.
In some way story started, grew and
was magnitied until THE Black Hand
i'll Guadalajar equaled Jack the Rip
per- i'll London. and all classes of Deoplc
believed in and feared the myth The
story was that in some dark street at a
lonesome hour a man or woman would
be approa ched by a man, closely wrapped
in Il cloak. who would ask the hour On
receiving the reply he would say: 1T
that you are to be made happy by being
sent to heaven and with knife of
immense size, grasped in a hand that
was as black as ink, he would stab his
victim to DEATH
The story was told everywhere. but
the scene of the crimes was always locat-
ed i'll some part of the city distant from
where inquiries were made. 1t finally
occurred to some one to ask how it was
known that the assassin's hand was
black, or what he said, since all his vic
TINS were killed, and then the police
realized, after months Of investigation,
that the story was a fabrication The
strange part of it is that story which
would have been exploded by bright
American reporter in a day terrorized a
year., and will be believed by three
fourths of the people for years to come
San Francisco Chronicle.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-04-23
DOullle-Y0IkAd Tuua

r It il seldom that a double-yolked egg
wili hatch. though instances have been
chicks. When double-yolked eggs are
found it is to be regretted, as they in
variably indicate that the hens are out
OF condition--too fat. A hen in good
laying condition will never produce an
egg other than of the normal size DE-
cni'ar to her breed, and if fat. she is en-
is killed she will be found full of eygs. SO
to speak, but they will be noticed TO be
OF all sizes, and the poultryman yi,l be
amazed over the fact that she did not
lay; but examination will show that OBJ
structions of fat were the cause. and
mat the hen is then more profitable dead
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-04-23
Weather and Crime.

Prof. Willis l.. Moore in Il recent lee
ture, cited statistics to show what Il
great effect the weather conditions have
on crime. There is larger proportion
of crime in the hot months than in the
very cold ones. although there is much
more inducement for crime in the win
ter. From the records compiled by Il
weather bureau official a few years ago.
it was found that. while there were 1000
suicides and $500 murders during the
three warmcst months of the year. there
were but 1900 suicides and 100 murders
during the three coolest months.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-04-23
FOR THE FARMER,
The La,t snow az winter

81 70
Soft snow still rests within this wayside
%. cleft, ~ -.
l. Yelling the primrose buds not yet un.
r..% furled; r. ',...s..
Last trace Of dreary Winter, idly left
On beds of moss, and sere leaves crisply
curled;
Why does 1t linger while the yiolets blow.
And sweet things grow?
4 relic Of long nights and weary days, .
When Al fair things were hidden from my
A chill reminder of those mournfui Why's
J tralersed when the fields were cold and
whltei
My life was dim, my hopes lay still and low
Beneath the snow!
Now Spring Is coming, and my buried love
Breaks fresh aud strong and living
through the sod;
The lark sings loudly III the blue above
The budding earth must magnify her God:
Let the old SORROWS and old errors 20
With the last snow!
Sarah Doudney in the Sunday Magazine.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-04-23
MILK with Dry Hands.

1t is not neat practice to wash tho
tcats or to wet the hands before he
ginning milking. though it is often prac-
ticed. and occasionally is recommended
Brushing off the loose dirt that adhered to
tcats and udder is all that is required. If
hands arc wet some Of this dirt. full of
germs, will be moistened. and adhere to
them. More or less will fall into the
and udder with a dry cloth all the par
ticles that will come loose by dry milk
ing will be removed. 1t is very rare that
milk is injured in this way While milk
ing is being DONE 1t is much moro like.
~ to occur by the odors of fresh cxcre-
mcnt, either liquid or solid
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-04-23
Official Corruption in China.

A striking picture Of the official cor
ruption that prevails in China is af
forded by some diplomatic reports sub
the house of Parliament at Westmin-
ster. Among other things it is shown
that SO great is the stealing that, were
the Imperial government to abolish the
rice tribute from the provinces of King
SUI and Chekiang alone, it would effect
an economy of more than $4,000 900.
which is the sum that its collections
now cost over and above the revenue
that it Yields
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-04-23
H0rseradish for Spring Use.

HorseradiSh needs to be dug up early
in spring to be of much value. So soon
as green grow til begins the root be-
comes tough and stringy What is still
worse. is that if the roots are not dug in
spring. the next seasons growth partakcs
of the woody character and is of little
value for market. Only hy taking out
the old growth every spring. and leaving
a few small roots deep III the soil to
make Il new growth for next year, can
the horseradish bed he kept in condition
to produce every year Il valuable crop.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-04-23

draining il needed. Whoever has under
drained field knows how much more
certain the clover seeding and growth is
thereafter. With an outlet below for
water, and warm air constantly rising
from the snbsoil, it IL easy TO make d
good seed bed for clover seed and get
prevent the clover from being winter
killed by freezing and thawing in win
tor and spring. -,