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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-24
Preparing for Earlv Il. ters.

When we undertake to grow early pigs
the preparations necessary to make the
undertaking success should be complete,
says the Prairie Farmer. No other can
be depended on with any certainty. We
must fortify against all known obstacles,
besides many that are uncertain or unex-
pected. You may consult the almanac, if
You wish to know the proper time to kill
the porkers, but in no case allow the pre-
dictions of fair weather found therein to
influence you in the preparation against
weather conditions. TO prepare for the
worst weather possible is the only abso-
lutely safe way. We have known farm
ers to breed sows for early litters, hop
ing and, to a degree, expecting success
the time of narrowing, making it wholly
matter of chance. This kind of work
only brings failure and disaster The
shelter should be such as to be entirely
safe against temperature below zero. Do
not be afraid of making it too warm.
There are farmers who are afraid, when
they build shelter for their sows, that
take cold when they leave shelter for their
food. If the shelter is perfectly dry,
there is no possible danger in this direc-
ton; still, the belief that there is leads
many into errors that cause serious losses.
Where one farmer makes protection that
is absolutely safe against weather con-
ditions there are scores that do not. Such
protection may be very extensively or
cheaply built, as the farmer may fancy,
or as the conditions of his pocketbook will
allow. When we have made this neces-
sary preparation the brood SOW must
come in for her share. Without the for
mer, it is no use to give her any atten-
ton. A SOW can be bred for an early lit
ter with more promise than she can for
later pigs, for the reason that she is usu-
ally in better breeding condition at that
time than she is later on. AS the winter
months come on, when sows are usually
bred, green fora ge has failed, and the
sows, being fed principally corn, their
systems are not in proper condition to
give satisfactory returns at farrowing
time. This is point in favor of early lit
ters. Another necessary point to secure
success with early filters as important
as the preparation of safe shelter, is to
have the sows perfectly gentle. If kind
ly treated while in farrow they will be
as gentle as desired. She cannot be tanned
all at once, with club, at narrowing
time. Another necessary matter is to
know the date of breeding. and the date
of narrowing. Putting all these things
together, and observing them, the farmer
may expect as good success with early
as late pigs.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-24
IF YOU'RE GOOD.
Santa Claus'll come tonight,

q
Santa Claus'll come tonight,
II you're good, :
And do what you know Ia right,
As you should; -
Down the chimney he will creep,
bringing you a woolly sheep.
And doll that goes to sieep;-
IL you're good. .,a
Santa Claus will drive his sleigh =.
Thro' the wood,
But he'll come around this way
II you're good,
With a Wind-up bird that sings,
And puzzle made of rings
jumping jacks and funny things
II you're good.
He will bring you cars that "go,"
II you're good,
And rocklng-hOrsey~oh!
If he would!
And a dolly, II You please. -
That says "Mama!" when you squeeze
lt-hell bring you one Of these,
II you're good.
Santa grieves when you are bad,
As he should;
But 1t makes him very glad
When you're good.
He Is wise, and he's a dear;
Just do right and never fear;
He'll remember you each year,
II you're good.
The st. Nicholas.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-24
THE YUKON RIVER.
Something About tho Mighty Stream Of
u.

AlNok0s
The Yukon, the great river of Alaska,
is one Of the mightiest of streams Ct the
world. 1t is navigable for large steam
ers, as one unbroken flood 1865 nlilcs
from it's mouth, to where the Lewes and
Pelly rivers unite to form it, or farther
than from New Orleans to st. Paul, and
more than twice as far rs from New Or
leans to Chicago and navigable for light
draft boats hundreds of miles farther up
each of these arms. At its mouth it Is
about sixty miles wide, and 14OO miles
above it is from eight to ten miles in
width. 1t drains an empire of more than
800, 900 square miles and discharges near
ly as much water into the Behring sea
as the Mississippi does into the Gulf Of
Mexico. Scores of mighty tributaries,
many of them navigable streams, pour
their waters into its majestic channel.
About 1880 miles above it's mouth, the
klondike, a clear. shallow river, perhaps
200 miles long, and swarming with fish,
empties into it. Along the bed and banks
of this comparatively insignificant stream
have recently been discovered the gold
placers that have aroused the attention
and fired the cupidity Of the world
Seattle Observation-Disclosures.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-24

than one-half to tw0-thirds the possible
increase from barnyard manure is rec0y-
cred in the first crops grown from it. We
may Therefore safely Offset the residual
effect of the manure against the cost Of
application and consider the immediate
increase as clear profit. In another test
with potatoes, wheat and clover grown in
a three-crop rotation, the increase from
manure applied to potatoes has reached
$3.50 per ton, potatoes being valued at
80 Is cents per bushel.-
Er0nOmist
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-24
Never Awake.

Some people will never wake up till
the last horn blows. and then they'll
ask If that's the horn for dinner. De-
lays are dangerous and ruinous. Thou
sands can say II they hadn't put off An
opportunity, they would have been rich
and happy. Some never know they
have rheumatism until crippled by it,
and all the while in pain, thinking 1t
will pass off. But st. Jacobs Oil never
delays, and is always wide awake. 1t
goes straight to it's work of cure in a
business way, and cures rheumatism
In any form and at its worst stage. It's
q live remedy
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-24
Butter Making,

The science of butter-making is not
hard to understand and learn if one is
willing to take the necessary pains to fol-
low the details, says writer in the Agri-
cultural Economist. One of the first
and most important items to learn
is the temperature of the milk and
cream. In order to SO control this
as to secure the best results, a
separate building should be arranged
especially for the dairy work. 1t
will not answer to use guess work-the
only safe plan is to use the thermome-
ter. Premature cooling of the milk be-
fore setting will injure the butter yield.
Keeping the cream too warm will cause it
to get too sour before sufficient quanti-
ty to churn is secured. 1t is important
that the temperature most conducive to a
thorough separation of the cream from
the milk and of the butter globules in
churning should be thoroughly UNDER
stood. and such management be given as
will best secure this.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-24
ROusseau's Empty Tomb.

An examination of the tomb of Jean
Rousseau, in the lie des Peupliers, which
has just taken place, showed the grave
to be untenanted. no trace of the body
having been found beneath the monument.
In the presence of this disappointment,
three hypothesis present themselves.
Some hold that the body was hidden
elsewhere on the island. Others insist
that the philosophers body was taken to
Paris in 1874, and still rests in the
sarcophagus which lies beneath the dome
of the Pantheon. The minister of Public
instruction has given his consent to the
opening of this sarcophagus. Should it
be found empty, the conviction will OBJ
tain that Rousseau's bones were disin-
tered by fanatics soon after his death
and scattered.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-24
Pistols at Prayer Meetin !,

The Asheyil!e IN. c. Citizen says:
THE thing of swapping pistols just be-
fore going to prayer meeting should not
become prevalent among the people I'M
less it is desired to depopulate the .coun-
try. Down in South Carolina two men
were examining their guns with view
to swap just before setting out for prayer
meeting. One pistol was accidentally dis
charged, one of the men was killed, and
the attendance upon the meeting was
this SfOry''
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-24
The Next Years Wood Supply.

This is one of the best months in the
year to cut trees for the yearly fire sup
ply on farms where wood constitutes the
whole or part of the fuel. Possibly the
wood might dry out better If cut in Au
gust while still in full leaf. But nobody
wants to do any chopping in the woods
at that hot season of year, with mil
lions of mosquitoes ready to eat him up.
There is much less sap in wood in De-
The wood cut now can be split and
worked up more easily in December than
it can be when the trees are cut while in
leaf. There is also less sap to dry out
than during the late winter and early
spring months, so that when the tree is
cut for fire wood less drying is required
to prepare it for the stove.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-24

"A Bucks county man spent nineteen
years of his life trying to get the ap-
pointment of postmaster. Finally he
worked his strings properly and was ap-
pointed. When he learned that he was
counted only as fourth-class postmaster
he Immediately resigned. He said he
had worked long enough to be first-class
postmaster, and derned if he hedn't sesse
enough to know it.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-24
SUGAR INv1GoRATEs THE BODY.
Consumption of a Small Quantity Suf,-
cient TO Revive Tired Muscles.

Experiments of an interesting nature
have lately been made at the instigation
of the Prussian war Office to endeavor to
decide the question as to whether the
consumption of small quantities of sugar
renders the tired muscles capable of re-
newed exertion. In order to obtain a
practical result, the person who was made
the subject of the experiment was kept
totally ignorant of the object of the ex-
perimenters. On one day a sweet liquor
was administered. containing thirty
grams Of sugar; on the next day a similar
liquid, containing sufficient amount of
saccharine to render it indistinguishable
from the other as regarded taste. After
a very large amount of muscular work
had been performed it was found that
better results could be obtained on the
days when the sugar was given than on
the days when saccharine was given. The
blood had become very poor in sugar in
consequence Of the severe muscular eff
fort, and the administration of COM
paratiyely small quantity of sugar had
markedly invigorating effect.-New York
Medical Rncnrd
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-24
German Postal Cards.

The new director-general of the Ger
man postofice has caused to be issued
to the public ''kartenbrief,' or card let
ter, which is decidedly an improvement
most countries. The "kartenbrief" is Of
excellent paper material, tinted pink.
and has four pages With the addition of
a stamp of 10 pfennings (about 2 cen1s)
it can be sent to foreign countries belong
ing to the postal union. The imperial
postoffice in Germany is 50 we'll managed
that an increase Of 3O,OOO,OOO marks
(about 1920, OOO) is expected during the
present fiscal year over the receipts of
1S95-'6
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-24
Wisconsin Patents.

Patents for the following Wisconsin
inventors are reported for this week BY
Erwin, Wheeler & Wheeler, So and 50
Loan and Trust building, Milwaukee,
Wis. These attorneys will furnish the
Inventors Handbook free:
H. G. DOMAIN, Oshkosh. clamping machine;
D. Harris, Star, envelope; A. Huelsmann,
Fond du Lac, machine for making cigarettes;
c. j. Medberry, Fond du Lac, refrigerator;
c. w. Roberts, West Superior, steriliZer.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-24
How to Wash with Ease.

That washing cannot be satisfactorily
done with scant supply of hard water
and inferior soap is not always clear to
housekeepers, and yet it is the cause OF
oft-repeated failure. To wash properly,
assert the clothes. Put the linens first In
rub of hot water, rub with Ivory Soap,
scald, rinse, starch, hang on the line.
Wash the colored pieces through clean
suds in the same way. When dry, sprin.
kle, and lay in a basket over night. Iron
carefully with well-heated irons.
ELIZA r, PARKER,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-24
Value of Manure.

# Results obtained at the Ohio expert
:ment station in a five-year rotation of
corn, oats, wheat, clover and timothy,
$1.25 on the average in increase Of crop,
at recent prices. for every ton Of barn.
yard nanure used. But the long eOl-
stinued experiments Of Lawes and Hil.
tett III Aothamsted show that not more
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-24

Milwaukee is the best place to buy
Dry Goods. Gimbel Brothers is the
everything to advantage here-Silks,
Dress Goods, Millinery, China, Carpets,
Toys, Dolls, and ffty-nine other stocks.
Three and half acres of merchandise
at your service. A postal will bring
quick response. Trade by mail. We
promise as good results as if you come
in person.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-24

The caribou or reindeer of New
foundland roam over an area of some
25,OOO miles of unbroken wilderness
They are magnificent creatures, some Of
the larger stays weighing from 500 to
6OO pounds: AS might be expected, veni-
son is pretty plentiful in st. Johns mar
ket, and has been sold for as little as Is
cents pound.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-24

An and collection agent in Otsego County,
New York. constantly recommends Rpans Tabues to
body whom suspects of suffering from dyspepsia and takes
pleasure relating his experience follows 81 have
from dyspepsia for dozen more and
have medicines that said to be good ora
positive cure of them afforded much relief have
always blessed with keen appetite and have perhaps in
duged too heartily and suffered accordingly Last
winter while travelling through adjoining county first
learned of Rpans Tabues and induced by friend try
them They have done great deal of good and think
that have fair promise of permanent If would be
REGULAR about nv meals now should be WE'LL
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-24

-Colored Britons have formed a club
in London. They come from Demerara,
Trinidad, the Gold coast and Sierra Lee
one,' and most of them are medical or
law students.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-24
ChilkOOt Pass.

President Wallace says that with the
completion of the rail and tramway over
the Chilkoot Pass, February first next,
passengers and freight from Dyea can be
landedat Lake Lindeman in twelve hours,
which means via st. Paul and Northern
Pacific Ry to Lake Lindeman, from Chi
cago eight days. Send two cents postage
to Chas. S. Fee, General Passenger
Agent, St. Paul. Mimi, for the latest and
best map folder on the Klondike and
Alaskan mining country. The Northern
Pacific is the pioneer line in Alaska pas
senger business. and runs solid vestibuled,
steam-heated passenger trains to Tacoma,
Seattle and Portland, with dining cars,
Standard and Pullman tourist, and free
coonist sleeping cars. Berth reserva-
tons can be made through any district
passenger agent.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-24

Lanes Family Medicine
Moves the bowels each day. In order
to be healthy this is necessary. Acts
gently ON the liver and kidneys. Cures
sick headache Price, 25 and 6(c
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-24

1T has been found in Switzerland that
in building a railway laborers could work
only one-thrd as long at i height of 10,-
COO feet as Il mile lower
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-24

The wedding cake served at a recent
Bangor (Me9 wedding was the last half
of the loaf which figured at the wedding
of the bridegroom's mother twenty seven
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-24

The harbor of Adelaide, Australia, is
$500 feet long, and divided at the end
into four arms, is to be built, so that
steamers may be no longer compelled to
anchor in the hav
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-24

Sweden has $3.50 miles of railway.
equivalent to 1211a miles for each 10000
inhabitants, the largest pro rata mileage
in Europe, Switzerland, coming next.
with ~ miles per 10000 population.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-24

ElTc Permanently Cured no fits Nervousness after
r. O first days Of DR.. kiines Great Nerve Re
gtorer Send for FREE i2.bu trial bottle and reafise
DE- 3 q. KINEz Id. 80 Arch Street. PHILADELPHIA, Pa
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-24

The itching caused by skin diseases and tho
pain of abrasions Is always relieved by Glenn's
Sulphur Soap.
Halls Hair and Whisker Dye. black or brown.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-24

Next month the American Express
company will use horseless wagons eX-
c]usiyely in Chicago.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-24

-Piso's Cure for Consumption has been
family medicine with US since 1866
J. Il. Madison, 24O0 42d aye, Chicago,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-24
The Pursutt OF nanniness.

When the Declaration of Independence
INSERTED mans right to this, it enunciated
All immortal truth. The bilious sufferer Is
on the road to happiness when he begins
to take Hostetter's Stomach, Bitters, the
most efIicacious regulator Of the liver i'll
existence. Equally reliable is it in chiiis
and fever, constipation, dyspepsia, rileu-
matfsm, kidney trouble. and Nervousness
Use it regularly, and not at odd intervals.
Most Turkish towns are surrounded
by walls, and officials are usually sta
toned at the gates to collect Il tax on
everything that comes in for sale. re-
cent traveller tells a story Of pea SAINT
for sale. but finding that the tax was
beyond his purse. he sat down and ate
the cheese whereupon, he was allowed 10
take it in free
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-24

The Highgate Eng.) magistrates have
fined the owner of a dog found unmuzzIed
10 shiIlings. though they were informed
the man was dead
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-24

!. About 70. 600, 900 kilograms were sent
in. the United States last year, while the
telephone Has used ten times al otten, i.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-24

Mrs. winsIOW's SOOTHING SYRUP for chill.
dren teething, softens the gums reduces inia n
nation .allays pain cures wind collie sc bottle
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-24

TO CURE A COLD I'm ONE DAY.
Take Laxative Bromo Quin,no Tablets. All DrussisE
refund the money II 1t falls to cure. CSC
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-24

A gold watch has been taken from
tucket. AS the hands of the watch
marked 1915 o'clock they are likely to
have reminded the cod that it was time
for dinner
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-24

Coughing Leads to Consumption.
Kemp's Balsam will stop the cough at
once. Go to your druggist today and get
sample bottle free. Sold in 25 and so
cent bottles. Go at once; delays are dan
gerous.
To clean white silk lace, soak it in
milk over night, and souse in warm
SOaDSutls the next morning.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-24

There is more Catarrh In this section OF
setbep and n th az s ospe fe wps
posed to be incurable For great many
years doctors pronounced 1t local dis
ease, and prescribed local remedies. and by
ment, pronounced it incurable Science has
proven catarrh to be constitutional disease
and therefore requires constitutional treat
by f. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, Is the
only constitutional cure ON the market. 1t
Is ia ken internally in doses from 10 drops
blood and Mucous surfaces aSts of ths system n
They offer one hundred dollars for any case
1t fails to cure Send for circulars and tes-
timonials. Address,
F. ]. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, 0.
Sold BY Druggists 15c
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-24
The deep came,
The merry deep came,
As thou d0st freely Quaff a
Sling,
Fling,
Be as merry as q king,
And sound a lusty laugh-a.

The wassail bowl, however, it but the
topping off of the feast. Before it come
the boar's head, the peacock pie, the roast
beef, the rkey-everything, indeed that
plenty and English soil are capable of
producing.
Quite august ceremonies are connected
with the bringing in of the ''caput april"
These ceremonies date back to the earli-
est days of days of English folklore and
your true-born Englishman would rather
lose crop of corn than disregard them.
The peacock pie was in former days the
principal dish on the table, and its prepa-
ration caused the expenditure of an in
credible amount Of pains and material.
Massinger tells us that it was no I'M
common thing ito bruise the carcasses of
three fat wethers for gravy to make
sauce for a single peacock" and no less
an authority than Kid recounts the fact
that 1.-THE making of this pye, if it be
properly attended, requlreth the services
of four cooks during the space of day
and n niQht,''
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-24
Rheumatism

Hoods Sarsaparilla Gives Complete
Relief, Also Cures Catarrt.
Il was troubled with rheumatism and
had running sores on my face. One Of my
friends advised me to try Hoods Sarsa-
pari!la, which did. After taking six bot
ties 1 was cured. Hoods Sarsaparilla has
also cured me of catarrh." MISS MAMIE
ETHER, 4S0S Motif Ave, St. Louis, Mo.
Hoods Sarsaparilla
Is the best-in fact the One True Blood Purifier.
Aooxye Dill o,,ro oo,ct;,.t;o, os ...+-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-24
British Army Surgeons.

Although the pay is liberal and the mill
tary rank substantial in the army medi-
cal department of the British service, it
is found difficult to get army doctors,
says an exchange. At present the estab-
lis hment only numbers $40, while, in
spite of the lowering of the standard by
aready Failed twice at the s ent m na ex
animation shall not be permitted to COM
pete again, there has been an insufficient
number of candidates for the advertised
vacancies of the present year. This does
not refer to the army medical service of
India, but to the home service. The
whole matter is being very freely dis
cussed in the English papers.
CECIL Rhodes has written to Bulu-
wayo; II have made up my mind to ex-
tend the railway to Zambesi without de-
lay, The magnificent coal fields between
here and there mean much to us. Let
" see the work accomplished duFsnR our
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-24
iIMBEL BROTHERS. Milwaukee.

of Houlton, Me-, have been granted
half holiday in commemoration Of the
birth of twins to the wife of their teach
err. Here's an example for towns in gen.