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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-02-19
Millions of Cook Books Given Away.

There is one large house in this coun-
try that has taken business on it's turn
and means to ride in on the rising tide.
Alive to the signs of better times and to
the best interests of the people, they are
now circulating among families valua-
bic publication known as The Charles A.
Eogeler Company's Cookery Book and
Book Of Comfort and Health, which con-
tuia- choice information ON the sub
ject of cooking. Receipts for the prepa-
ration of good, substantial and dainty
dishes. prepared especially for it by a
leading authority, will be found in it's
pages. Much care has been taken in its
preparation and distribution. with the
hope that it will be just the thing needed
for housekeepers. and just the thing
needed also for the care of the health
and household. AS a Cookery Book it
will he invaluable to keep on hand for
reference.
1t also contains full information in re-
gard to the great remedies of this house,
which provide against bodily ailments,
especially the Master Cure for Pains and
Aches. st. Jacobs Oil.
TO give some idea of the labor and ex-
pense of this output, more than 200 tons
Of paper have been used in it's publica-
ton, and at the rate of 100000 a day, it
has taken several months for the issue.
The book can be had of druggists
everywhere. or by enclosing &c. stamp
to The Charles A. Eogeler Company,
Baltimore. Md.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-02-19
Lime in Cellars.

Most cellars are not only too warm,
but too damp. The latter evil is easily
relnedied by putting few humps of I'M
slaked lime in various parts of the cellar
where it will absorb the surplus moist
ure. It will also help to absorb the
odors Of decaying vegetables. which arc
held in the moisture of tho air, which is
keep roots in cellars some dirt should be
thrown over and sifted among them.
This will also protect them from being
frozen. if the cold weather causes the
thermometer to sink below the tempera-
ture for freezing. %.i; - !: s.;..< : =.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-02-19
The Wearing OF Scarfs,

The wearing of scarfs as graceful
and becoming headdress is likely to be.
come fashion with slender women who
know how to wrap themselves pictur.
esquely iii airy folds and draperies.
The thinner and softer the material the
more beautifully it drapes, and the scarf
is fastened to the headdress or the hair
and comes down about the back of the
head and throat and over the shoulders
and floats airiy down to the hem of the
gown. But it is trying fashion for
any woman who has not style and grace
in her nature and dress,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-02-19
Swedish Christmas Cleaning.

Speaking of Christmas, woman who
has had Swedish maids says they are
almost perfect servants at any other sea-
son in the year. Christmas with them,
she says, is religion in itself. One of
it's rites is the cleaning of every cup
board and corner in the house. There
arc no extra half-hour snoozcs for any
one in the house, for the maids are up at
hustle of their scrubbings can be heard
in all quarters. There will be 10 luck
for them through the year. they say, if
there is not the most scrupulous cleanli-
ness EVERYWHERE
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-02-19
How Snakes Climb Trees.

A snake moves by means of the ribs
and the scales OH the abdomen. to which
each rib il. attached by n set of short
muscles. These scales take hold of the
surface over which the serpent may be
passing, and in that manner aid the
creature to glide, often very rapidly,
around the trunks of trees and along
frees with wonderful agility, gliding up
the straight trunks with much ease, as
if they were moving along the level
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-02-19
Origin of the Three RS,

The origin Of the oft-quoted expression,
the three RS. was contained, in a hand
bill issued by, James Williams, who
kept Il, shop not far from Lancaster,
which reads as follows: d james Will
liams, parish clerk, Saxtone, town crier
and bellman, makes and sells all sorts
of haberdasheries, groceries, etc, like
wise hair and. wigs drest and cut on the
shortest notice. n. B.--I keeps IN even
ing scool, where teach ut humble rates
reading, riting and rithmetic and sing
Inn - SO. Est&:aEf - s, 49, 5g-FE.i2$5 q
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-02-19
STOP, WOMENi

"A nd Consider the Ali-Im portant..Fac
1. That In addressing Mrs. Pipkham you
are confiding your private ills to
Woman-a woman whose experience in
treating woman's diseases is greater
than that Of any living physician-malea
or female.
You can talk freely to a woman when
1t is. revolving to relate your private
troubles to man; besides, man does
not nderstand-simply because he is Il
man..
: Many women suffer in silence and
drift along from bad to worse, knowing
full we'll that they ought to have inme-
date assistance, but natural modesty
impels them TO shrink from exposing
themselves to the questions and proba-
bly, examinations Of even their family
physician. 1t is unnecessary. Without
money or price you can consult a wom-
an whose knowledge from actual expe-
rience is greater than any local physi-
clan in the world. The following invi-
tation is freely offered; accept it in the
same spirit:
Mrs. Pinkhan's Standing Invitation.
Women suffering from any form of
female weakness are invited to prompt
ly communicate with Mrs Pinkham at
Lynn, Mass. All letters are received,
opened. read and answered by women
only. A woman can freely talk of her
private illness to a woman; thus has
been esA blished the eternal confidence
between Mrs. Pinkham and the women
of America which has never been
broken.
Ont of the vast volume of experience
which she has to draw from, it is more
than possible that she has gained the
very knowledge that will help your
case. She asks nothing in return ex-
cept your good will, and her advice has
relieved thousands. Surely, any wom-
an, rich or poor. is very foolish if she
does not take advantage of this gener-
GUS offer of assistance.-Lydia f. Pink
ham Medicine Co.. Lynn. Mass.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-02-19
The Nursery Breakfast.

The bacon, which is one of the most
popular nursery dishes in English house,
holds. is quite different from that usual
ly eaten here. 1t is not smoked and is
homc-cured, sweet and delicious. 1t is
sliced very thin, cooked very quickly to
be just done. through, and is eaten hot.
but not dried up, Oh slices of bread
English physicians consider this the best
of food for growing children and as
valuable as cod liver oil in tissue build
ing. \ typical nursery breakfast in a
well-to-do English household is oatmeal
porridge with rashers of bacon, mar
malade and cambria tea and coffee made
with much rich milk and very little
sugar.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-02-19
EARLY POtatOes in Gardens.

Almost every farmers garden has its
patch of early potatoes. planted there be-
cause usually the garden is plowed earlier
than any other land equally rich. 1t oft
en- happens that these garden potatoes
come year after year OH the same soil
No amount of manuring will make this
successful. In fact. the excessive amount
of stable manures predjsDoses the pota-
toes to rot. especially as the spores Of
the disease may be left i'll the. soil from
the previous years crop: Besides, these
garden potatoes are always an carly
mark fer the potato beetles, which have
probably wintcred under the rubbish and
weeds that the garden too often furnish
es, or under the fence that surrounds it.
The better way is to plant potatoes, OH
some rich land away from the, garden
choosing a clover ley. with which. not
much manure will be needed to make a
good crop. On a clover ley the early po-
tato beetles will be only the scattering
ones that have flown from a distance.
The crop will also. in most cases. be more
easily cultivated and kept from weeds
than in it's cramped quarters in the gar
den.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-02-19
THE RAT ATE OYSTERS.
Its Capture Finally Solved Long Stand
inr Mystery

AHS
The proprietor of a West Philadcl-
phia oyster saloon has just solved a
mystery that has for some time been
causing him no little worry. For long
time bivalves were missing from his
stock. and the curious thing was that the
thieves did not carry away any Shells
but opened the oysters OIL the spot and
left tho shells behind.
The thcfts were explained the other
day when a terrible squcaling in the
cellar attracted the attention of the
young man i'll charge of the place He
hurried down stairs to find rat en-
deavoring to get away with an oyster
which had closed around it's foot 1t is
lar to open. The rat had taken advant-
age of this and was thus waxing fat.
while the oyster mans stock was pro-
portiOnatcly dwindling.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-02-19
Celery for rheumatism.

CELERY is said to be excellent for the
nervous system and is a fine remedy for
rheumatism and neuralgia. 1t may be
taken in the natural state or in salads,
soups and in tea. OF course quantities
must be used to be of effect. For dis
eases of the liver and kidneys. spinach
and dandelicn, served as cooked salads,
are considered simple but efiicacious rene
dies. Onions, garlic and olives promote
digestion by stirring up the circllatory
system, with consequent increase of the
<uperinducc sleep and the French are
fond of onion soup for general debility
and stomach troubles.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-02-19
DESTROYING Plant Pests.

To destroy tho grcen-tly or aphis, syn
iinge Will, tobacco tea or alum water.
Kerosene ser ' esion r. erad H the WITT iit
tie white worms which harbor in the
soil near. the surface apply hot tobacco
tea or hot pepper tea: hotter than the
hand will bear To keep down red spi-
der. syringe with clear water and oc-
casionally with soapy water or kerosene
emulsion. Trap. slugs and sow-bugs with
pieces of turnip and potato Ibid about
troublesome. -" - - = -1T'-'-: ~
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-02-19
Horse and Cow Manure,

While manure from the horse stables
is commonly used for gardens because it
heats more quickly, we think that quite
as good results for most crops will he
COW, manure. Horse manure is always
much too dry unless it has the liquid cx-
crement mixed with it. The absence of
moisture rather than excess of nitrogen
is what makes it heat rapidly. But it
also makes the manure firefang even
when it is buried in the soil. Partly de-
composed cow manure will furnish some
available plant food at. first, and will not
season.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-02-19
The True Shamrock,

There is some foundation for the be-
lief that the Irish people can trace their
origin to one of the lost ten tribes of
Israel. Shamrakh is Arabic for trefoil
and it is an easy distance to Shamrock
the. little thrce-leaved clover indigenous
to Ireland. 1t may be of interest in this
connection to know that the shamrock
leaves are only one-fourth the size of the
smallest American clover; are also pure
green in color and without any of the
brown shading of our clovers. On st.
Patrick's day the true shamrock has to
he searched out among the grass. for
though & comparatively plentiful at that
ter. it bears tiny ''whitey- brown" Bios
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-02-19

200 Bushels Oats, 1873 Bushels Farley
NJ. NJ. Luther, East Troy, Pa, grew
200 bushels Salzers Silver Mine Goats,
and John BREEDER, Mishicott, Wis, 173
bushels Silver King Barley per acre.
Don't you believe it? Write them!
Fodder plants as rape, teosinte.
vetch, spurry, clovers, grasses, etc, in
endless varieties, potatoes at $3.50 a
barrel. Salzer's seeds are bred to big
yields. Americas greatest seed cata-
logue and IL farm samples are sent
you by John A. Salzer Seed Co., La
Crosse, Wis, upon receipt Of 10 cents
stamps, worth SO, to get start.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-02-19

The correct way is to buy goods from
the manufacturer when possible. The
Elkhart Carriage and Harness Manufac-
turing Company, of Elkhart, Indiana,
have no agents. They make tirst-class
goods, ship anywhere, privilege to exam
inc. See advertisement.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-02-19
:, Swallows FLIGHT.

Experiments made in Antwerp have
shown that a swallow separated from
it's nest by distance of 255 kilometers
returned to it in an hour and eight min
utes, while a carrier pigeon required
three hours longer to make that dis
lance. This confirms the opinion of or
nithologists that swallows in their mi
grations need only half a day to 60 from
Germany to Africa
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-02-19
Raising Cabbage.

While market gardeners are finding
late cabbage sold too cheaply to allow
them any profit, this does not appear to
be the fact with farmers, who have
cheaper land. The excess of fertility in
the market garden does not count for
growing late cabbnge, as the heads have
to be turned down in order to prevent
them from splitting, ANY good corn land
with q dressing of manure will be rich
enough for the late cabbage crop. The
secret is i'll manuring and blowing the
land carly, and then thoroughly working
it until the last of June or first Of July,
when the cabbage are to be planted.
This fills the soil full of plant food and
the plants will grow better at first than
will those of the market gardener follow
ing some early crop. -Four thousand
mead OF cabbage per acre ut 2 or 3cents
head make Il return larger than most
farmers get from I'm acre by average
farm crops.-Amcrican Cultivator.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-02-19
LOST CONTROL OF HER NERVES.
A HELPLESS. PAINFUL CoNpi.
TlON. =

From the Tribune, Minneapolis. Nin,, {
=. 1t is said that the present generation is
living in an era of nervousness. Some
attribute the cause to the climate of our
country; il there is an gtmospheric effect
it certainly@is the least of the causes that
produce nervousness. The great freedom
enjoyed by tho American people is in a
large measure to blame for the high
Strung condition of our nerves. There is
rustic and hustle on every hand.
We work days and plan during the nights,
and IN our hurry we bolt our food, sleep
with irre"ularity, with seldom a thought
IF our nerves.
Mrs. c. H. Guise, of 40 Central ave-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-02-19
Early Eggs for Setting. j:

All poultry growers know thatei is the
early. eggs that produce the strongest
and best chickens, and the ones that will
be most profitable for egg production.
But two cautions are to be observed in
setting the earliest eggs One is to be
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-02-19
Butterhy'S Tongue,

Prof. George s. Moler of Cornell re-
Gently succeeded in photographing but
terfly's tongue. Nobody has hitherto
known what the tongue of Il butterfly
was like. Now we know that a butterfly
carries his tongue coiled up. like the
handspring of Il watch. and that when
spread out it is several times longer than
bic bo1y
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-02-19
e Waste Land on the Farm.

There arc OIL almost all farms some
bits of land naturally as good as the rest
that remain unproductive for lack of cap
ital. 1t may not be more profitable to
bring these into productiveness than it is
to put the bulk of the manure and labor
on the best land, but it makes the farm
look better and sell better. Quite often
when these places are too stony for
cropping trees planted there this will
prove the best use such places can be
made to serve.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-02-19
Rurying Loose Rubbish.

1t is well to have in the garden in Will
ter an open trench. into which may be
thrown the waste from the house that
would otherwise lie around as rubbish,
The earth thrown out of this trench may
be used to receive the waste from cham
hers, and being exposed to frequent
freezing and thawing, this soil. when
will be an excellent place to plant the
very earliest vegetables. BY having
these trenches made in different parts of
the garden each fall, in time the soil of
the entire garden will be deepened thus
greatly increasing it's productiveneSs.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-02-19

Frederick Saunders of the Astor IL
brary is the Oldest living librarian. He
was assisted to his place by Washington
Trv;pr
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-02-19

Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally
and acts directly on the blood and mucous
surfaces Of the system. Send for testi-
Il. !. CHENEY 4 CO., Toledo, o.
. Sold nv Druggists, 75c.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-02-19

An Auxerre woman has had seven
children within year, four recently,
three girls and a boy, all alive and well,
and frjDlets less than a year ago. Her
name is Drouet, and she. is descended
from the postmaster who stopped Louis
XIV. ii his flight at Varennes.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-02-19

sure that the egg is impregnated. When
fowls are closely confined, as they are
likely to be in cold weather, some Of tie
early eggs may fail TO have the germ
Such eggs can be easily detected by
holding them to the light. Ii the germ,
is present, it will show a dark place in
some part Of the egg. Those not show
Ing this speck should be rejected. The
second caution il against letting the eggs
be badly chilled, either before or after
setting. 1t does not need freezing
temperature to destroy the germ. When
TINS u killed, sitting on the egg makes
1t addle very quickly. *>t
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-02-19

During last year New York con-
sumcd 4,910,OOO barrels of beer and Chi
cago 3.3SS,0OO. but the greater increase
over the preceding year was in Chicago.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-02-19

According to 4 record kept by the
Waterbury Republican there were only
twenty-five homicides in Connecticut in
1898
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-02-19

According to the Salt Lake Tribune
ore running from 5000 up into the thou
sands per ton has been struck in the
Grand Central.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-02-19

Another robbery of Tom Boy ore is
recorded. Barney Fronto and Dominic
MusSo quit work. rolled up their blankets
and left for Telluride. An investigation
was instigatcd. with the result that there
was found in the blankets of Musso ore
to the value of $1,000
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-02-19
1867 BUS. POTATOES PER ACRE.

1867 BUS. POTATOES PER ACRE.
Don't believe it, nor did the editor
until he saw Salzer's great farm seed
catalogue. It's wonderful what an ar
ray Of facts and figures and new
things and big yields and great testi.
monials it contains.
Send This Notice and 10 Cents STAN d.
to John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse,
Wis, for catalogue and IL rare farm
seed samples, worth $40, to get a start,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-02-19

Kemp's Balsam will stop the cough at
once, Go to your druggist today aud get
a sample bottle free. Sold iii Is aud 50
cent bottles. Go at once; delays are
dangerous.
now living in Minneapolis. was the first
white child born in the vast Northwest
ern territory. She will be IS years old
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-02-19

-Tenpin bowling among the women is
growing popular in st. Louis. Many of
the big alleys have tenpin clubs com
DOSed of women
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-02-19
No-to.Bac for Fifty Cents.

Over 400, 900 cured. Why not let No-To- BAG
regulate or remove your desire for tobacco?
Saves money, makes health and M -nhood. Cure
guaranteed, soc and 81, all druggists.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-02-19
Cold Soil.

What is usually called ''cold" soil is
due mostly to excess of water which
finds no outlet by sinking into it, and is
forced to evaporate from the surface.
This takes so much heat from the soil
that vegetation will not grow readily in
it. Hence the cold soil is very often
thin as well. coming quickly to the clay
enabling deep-rooted plants to penetrate
the soil and enrich it. So long as soil is
filled with stagnant water it will only
support ferns and mosses, whose roots
run near the surface.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-02-19

~ ~ A San Diego man who. has made
small but successful experiments .in pine.
plant a large tract Of land with these
plants. 81: =Ss Ga .sS.. =~ss. {: 5#
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-02-19

CAscARxrs stimu alto liver kidneys and bowels. Nov
er s!cken weaken or grlre. 1Oc
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-02-19
THAT spLENDIn c0EErE

Mr.. Goodman, Williams County, ILL.,,
writes us: From one package Salzer's
German Coffee Berry l grew 300
pounds Of better coffee than l can buy
in stores at 80 cents pound
A package Of this and big seed cata-
logue is sent you by John A. Salzer
Seed Co., La c. osse, Wis, upon receipt
of Is stamps and this notice.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-02-19

Mrs. WinSlOw's SOOTHING SYRUP for chill
dren teeth1ng, sOftens the gums red uCes inflam
ma ton ,allays pain cures wind collie 25ca bottle