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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-10

The death of Tom Coffin this week at
Lowell removes well-known character
from Names list of eccentric people.
The stories of his strange doings are end
less. His valuable horses were shot dead
when they displeased his royal highness.
His furniture has furnished material for
making bonfire. He carried away the
front steps of his house once because
some passerby CHANGED to sit down on
them one day. He has been known to
keep $4,000 in money in basket in
his parlor, and would go away for days,
leaving it in charge of his servants.
Sometimes he carried about with him a
grip stuffed with $4,000 in bills, and on
one occasion, before starting for Boston,
not wishing to be bothered with so much
money, he carelessly emptied it upon the
floor of a closet, and there he left it while
he was gone. The same gripful of
money he once overwhelmingly left in a
village store over night. never thinking
to hunt it up till the next day And so
he rolled in wealth and scattered it to the
four winds. and died penniless and friend
less, the victim of the morphine habit
Lewiston (Me.) Journal.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-10
PreDarine sheep for Winter.

The small amount Of extra food fed to
sheep in the fall to put them in such con-
dtion as all breeding sheep should be IN
to go safely through the winter, should
not be regretted as loss, because as the
sheen make the most out of the pasture,
it's deficiency must be made up in order
to give the pasture it's greatest value 1t
sometimes happens that only small part
of the flock remain thin, the pasture hay
ing been sufficient for the best feeders;
in which case. the thin sheep should be
separated from the rest and fed this ex-
ira food where they will not be molested.
This reduces the amount of extra food
required, and produces also better re
suit Those focks that are intended to
be fattened for the spring sale, or to be
turned at the best opportunity, should
now have careful attention. The warm
weather is the time to push them. The
better their condition becomes in mod
crate fall weather the less food will be
required in the cold season. But care
must be taken not to overfeed those that
are fat in the warm season, and in such
cases no corn should be given but their
condition simply be kept up by a little
bran, even that given in great nlodera
ton, as any pushing of such is likely to
develop febrile diseases, which are very
dangerous.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-10
Cheaper Sleeping Cars.

There is no question that the cheaper
sleeping car must soon be a fact. The
present charges are exorbitant. They
amount to about Is per cent. of the rail
road fare, and in many cases they are
more The same is true of the chair cars
There are exceptions to the rule, of
course, but they are few in comparison
with the heavy rates over most of the
railroads.
While travelling, the passenger is paying
for a seat and adding Is per cent. to his
fare in order to get other accommoda-
tons; the total is too large. The compa-
MES would lose nothing by reducing the
prices. They would have more patrons,
and in the end the returns would be in
creased and their patrons would have Il
kindler feeling for the corporations. The
enormous income of the sieeping-car mag
mates shows very ndisputab bly, that the re-
auctions could be made. AS it has been,
the company has been growing wealthy
beyond the dreams of avarice, while the
railroad companies who have been haul
ing the cars have grown poorer.-Leslie's
Weekly.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-10
PREVALENCE OF SUICIDE.
Crime of Self De struction Growing More
Frequent.


Frequent.
A person would naturally suppose that
sclf-destruction, under the conditions gen.
orally prevailing in this country would
become proportionately less frequent year
after year; that the reign of the school
master and the command of those appli-
ances and comforts which science and civ
ilization have placed at the service of man
would make life more easy and happy and
tend to reduce the number of such cases.
Unfortunately the reverse of this is true,
relatively greater than would be warrant
ed by the additions to the population.
1t is sad to think that civiliza ton, or at
least conditions existing under it, should
result SO often in producing that utter
WEAKNESS of life which finds no relief but
in death. The deep pathos of it all is
heart-rending, and the pity is that in the
majority of cases the tragedy ends life
deserving a happier close: 1t is rare in
or those who have nothing to lose mot
even self-respect), feel inclined to antici-
pate fate and rush unbidden into the pres
encc of their Maker. No: this is re-
served for people with social adhesions,
who have lost the feeling of harmony
with their environment, through reverseS
of fortune or other causes, and have not
tAIC ulOl III W lIlttC llltlE IrOuDtS,
or to face the world under less favora BILE
conditins.
1t is moot question whether suicides
are compos mentis or not. The large
majority of people would doubtless decide
in favor of the negative in this inquiry. It
admits, however. of little doubt that nei-
Their an affirmative nor negative answer
would be correct, if applied to all cases of
self-destruction. Some, possibly the
fncf hon, Ill,
sions, or mental unsoundness of some
kind, while others can be attributed to no
cause of this nature.
Suicide has not been without it's apollo
gists in all ages. In modern times
Hume, Gibbon and Nine. de Stael have
defended it: and doubtless there are
many even imbued by Christian senti-
ment who can conceive of contingencies
which, if impossible of avoidance by any
other means, would largely extenuate the
offense of self-inf1cted death.-N. Mac
donald in Leslie's Weekly.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-10
The SubediCOr.

Let no man run away with the idea
that the subeditor represents the inferior
side of Journalism: on the contrary, it is
harder to get one good subeditor than to
discover a dozen good Underwriters.
The subedtor is man of whom the
public knows little; of whom, as rule,
the public has never even heard but to
those inside the mighty machinery of a
great newspaper, the hand and brain and
thought of the sube,litor are seen under
meath every line of the hundreds Of col
unlns that make uD the daily issue. To
few men is given the gift of knowing the
exact proportion of things-whether this
item should get a column, or half a
column, or paragraph; who will instinc-
t t seize on the interesting and central
liners" copy of all the rest; in short,
the subeditor, like the poet, is born, not
n1ade.-From the London Sun.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-10
A Missionary Medicine.

Cleanliness begins within. If man
isn't clean inside, he is far from God!i-
ness. \ constipated sinner is stencil in
the nostrils of the Deity. A man whose
food sours in his stomach. and whose liver
is leaden, can't help looking ut the world
hatefully with jaundiced eye, and con-
juring up evil thoughts in his tortured
brain. Cleanliness of person begets clean
Illness of thought. Cascarets, Candy Ca
thartic are the missionary medicine which
puri6es mems bodies and minds. Pure,
fragrant, palatable, mild and positive,
they clean out the intestinal canal, stimu-
late the liver and strengthen the bowels.
Then a man enjoys again feeling of char
ity and brotherly love for his fellows and
recommends others to take Cascarets and
be as happy as be.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-10
Better than All of Them.

Mocha coffee, from Yemen In Arab
Is reputed to be the best; but the princi-
pal supplies are now obtained from
Ceylon, Java, the West Indies, Brazil
and Central America. No matter where
it comes from, every berry Of it con-
tains caffeine, which is a slow poison.
The more coffee you drink the more
your nerves are disordered and your
digestion injured. Coffee makes you
fidgety and wakcful, then you take sed-
atives to quiet you. \ bad business all
around. Break it up by using Grain-O
instead Of coffee Made from puro
grains, it is a true food and body
builder as we'll as delightful bever-
age. Make this change and you will
soon cease to realize that you have a
nerve in your system. The coming ia
bic drink is Grain-O. Packages 15c. or
25c. each-one-fourth the cost Of coffee,
"A midget reprint of the Kilmarnock
edition Of Burns poems was recently
presented to Andrew Wahless, Detroit,
by a friend who brought it over from
Scotland. 1t measures an inch long and
half an inch wide.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-10
The Potato as a Cleaner.

A prize offered BY the society of arts for
without discoloration or injury has been
awarded for preparation, of which po-
tato is the base. Two good sized potatoes
are grated into pint of water, strained
through a coarse sieve into another vessel
containing pint of clear water, and al
lowed to stand until thoroughly settled
when the clear liquor is poured off and
washed in clean water, dried and ironed.
The sediment can be used tor cleansing
carpets, etc, s.. 3 s:5s ): i. !.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-10
Reindeer in AlaSKN.

DIR. Sheldon Jackson for twenty years
Il traveller in Alaska, says the govern
ment'S experiment of importing reindeer
from siberia is 4 success. and that the
l'rohlcm of winter travelling in the. interi-
or is practically solved. Three hundred
miles per day can be made over the snow
with relays 1T reasonable Intervals and
best of all the reindeer will rustic his
own food.
The best map of the Yukon londike
mining country has been printed i'll folder
form by the Northern Pacific Ry: Send
:, 1-crnt postage stamp to Chas. s. Fee,
Il. 7. A.. ST. Paul. MINI. The folder Is
full of up-to-datt information regarding
rates. and r,,tcS "a AlnSka
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-10

The food of support-th necessary to
supply the constant waste OF the system
and keep the animal without gain or
loss--increases to a large item at ma
turity. From the beginning to the end
there is = constant increase In the
amount of food required to produce
pound of live weight.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-10
Poultry Points.

For the floor of Il henhouse we know of
nothing better than filling in from six
inches to one foot deep, or more if the
ground admits, with the Stag or cinders
that can be found almost anywhere that
there is a furnace or steam plant using
hard COAL says an exchange. 1t not only
makes a hard surface that the rats will
not come up through, but it lies loosely
enough to allow all surface water that
may collect around the house to pass
below the surface and drain away quick
ly.
If upon this can be laid cement floor
about an inch thick, and this kent covered
with two or three inches of sand or
gravel, it is an ideal floor The cost of
the cement should not exceed the price
of one barrel to 100 square feet, and the
other material, including two barrels Of
sand to mix with the cement, is usually
only the carting, thus generally making
it less expensive than board floor.
Then keep such a floor well covered
with clean, dry straw or leaves, among
which the early morning and noon feed
are to be scattered. that the hens may
find exercise in scratching for the grain,
and they will keep busy all day
a cement floor never should be used
if it must be put so low that water from
the outside can run in above it. nor
should it be used without being covered
with some more yielding material, like
the sand and straw spoken Of above. The
writer laid such a floor in a henhouse
more than twenty-five years ago. and
when last l saw it. twenty years later,
it was as sound and firm as when first
laid
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-10
Old Comes Melted Tn.

The United States treasury is retaining
all the United States coins received in
the ordinary course of business bearing
the figure of Liberty seated. These coins
are sent to the mint to be melted up.
Over $3,OOO,OOO worth in subsidiary
coinage has been melted and recoined
during the past year. Of course the new
dies are used. This is but drop in the
bucket to the mass of old silver which is
still in irculation.-Harper's Round Ia
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-10
Raising Fall Calves.

There is great unwillingness on the
part of most dairymen to allow calves
dropped in the fall to reach maturity. 1t
is really the greatest objection to the eX,
tension of winter dairying. That in all
cases takes the best COWS, as no one
would think of keeping Door mixers
through the winter, with I'LL the extra
trouble that winter dairying involves.
But if all the calves of these winter COWS
are sent to the butchers it must mean a
great deterioration of average dairy
stock. No one should begin winter dairy
ing unless he has warm barn, which
frost will not enter, in which to keep his
COWS. and succulcnt feed of some kind to
feed them. These are just the conditions
for successfully rearing fall farrowed
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-10
FOR THE FARMER.

Fragment,
Only a wOmen's hair, ~. >#.,5ss -
Long, delicate and slender;
Light as the SPIDERS silken lair,
Sort as mOOnbeam tender.
One that some hapless swain
Might carry as Il token
OF her he loves, yet loves in vain.
With constancy unbroken.
For such as this, ween,
Knights dead and gone have battled:
When lance met lance In tourney keen,
And sword Oh buckler ratified.
And yet 1t makes me swear
At our confounded slavcy,
For I'll be hanged If l can bear
Such relics In the gravy!
Pick Me-UD
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-10
HOV'S This

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for
any case Of Catarrh that cannot be cured by
Halls Catarrh Cure.
F. J. CHENEY Il CO.. Props. Toledo. O.
We. the undersigned. have known +. j.
Cheney for the last Is years. and believe
him perfectly honorable in all business
Transactions and financially able to carry
out any obligation made by their firm
West 4 Truax. Wholesale Druggists, To-
ledO. ..
Valding Klnnan & Marvin, Wholesale
Druggists Toledo. Ohio.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally.
acting directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces Of the system. Price, 75c. per bot
tie Sold by all Druggists. Testimonials
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-10
Whole Grain Tor Fowls.

All kinds Of poultry have, very strong
digestive organs. provided they have TIE
gravel with which to fill their gizzards,
and have enough exercise to keep in Wig
orous health: They are positively injured
by having the bulk of their food ground,
mloistened or cooked so as to make its
digestion easier. Young chicks are most
lar idea being that as they are very small
their gizzards cannot digest hard sub
stances. We always began feeding young
chicks with cracked wheat, giving in adj
dition some milk curd pressed hard.
which is quite as difficult Ct digestion as
the wheat. They will not eat much
wheat at first, and it is best they should
not: Little and often should be the rule
with all young animals, chicks included.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-10
Full Feeding from tho First.

swine breeders that to obtain the most
profit the pig must be fed to it's fullest
capacity from the time it is dropped until
marketed. The points in favor of full
feeding and early maturity as noted by
a well-known breeder are these: In the
young, immature animal. the appetite,
the digestive and assimilative functions
are most active, and they grow less and
less so as maturity is reached, the ami
NAL eating and digesting only an amount
necessary to supply the waste of the
body and keep up. heat and respiration.
The percentage Of waste, while in the
young and active stage of growth, is
much less than it Is at and after ma
tuFlty, This point Is quite important,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-10
Qualities Of Porpoise Leather.

Concerning porpoise leather, the Shoe
and Leather Reporter says that it is Pc
culiar in this that instead of stretching
it shrinks when it has been wet. 1t is
practically waterproof, and is, therefore,
as hard on the feet as rubbers would be
when worn constantly. 1t is made up in
to shoes for winter wear, and shoe laces,
it's strength and other qualities fitting it
particularly well for this purpose.
Utah has the only deposit of pure
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-10

1T has just become generally known
that the Illinois Lesisla ture at its recent
session adopted an act making it unlaw
full to employ in any capacity in stores,
workshops or manufacturing establish
ments children less than II years of age
under Il penalty of no less than $40 nor
more than 500 for each OffenSe
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-10

DR.. Harper of the University of Chi
cage, asked that graduates of his uni
verSity be accepted as eligible. without
eNamina ton. to become teachers in the
Chicago public schools. but the high
school committee refused to comply, say
ing the graduates must stand eNamina-
tiUn just the same as everybody else.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-10

Piso's Cure for Consumption has saved
me large doctor biis.-C. l.. Baker, 1923
Regent So, Philadelphia, Pa, Dec. s.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-10
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. % and Soc
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-10
Fading tho Work Horse.

In feeding the working horse l would
feed corn and oats, equal parts, either
ground or whole, and if convenient,
change from marsh hay to clover. Corn
meal should not be fed without some
dilutent. The bran of oats is sufficient,
says Rural New Yorker, to prevent it be-
coming Il pasty mass in the stomach. If
meal is not mixed with ground oats or
with bran, it should be fed with damp
ened cut hay or cut sheaf oats. With il
ration of corn, oats and timothy hay or
marsh hay, either bran or oil meal or
sprouts should be added, say six pounds
of bran a day, or, if oil meal, two
pounds day, or three to five pounds of
fed three times day, with oats and bran
added at noon and night with less corn.
A good days feed for 12OO-pound
horse is fourteen pounds of hay, ten
pounds of cornmeal, six pounds of oats
and six of bran. In place of bran, one
may use two pounds of oil meal. If he
feeds clover hay, he does not need either
bran or oil meal. Corn should never be
omitted from the ration of horse at
hard work, just as meat is essential in the
food for laboring men. l once knew a
teamster hauling gravel to say that ten
ears of corn at a, feed thirty ears day.
did~not keep his horses up. He was told
to quit counting corn, and feed with
scoopshovel. This he did, and they
stopped losing flesh. This was, of course,
in the seyerest kind of work, long con-
tinued.-Prairie Farmer.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-10

which was opened by the lord mayor on
October -, is said to be one of the finest
buildings of the kind in Europe. 1t has
been built and fitted at 4 cost of 100000
mounds
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-10

Phoenix park. Dublin. is one of the
finest cycling grounds III the world. There
are seven miles of excellent roads.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-10
ROhlinger's Restaurant

Up-to-date, central, reasonable. Head
quarters for state people. 413 East Wa
ter, third door north of Wisconsin street.
There was wedding in Kansas last
week between Newell Staples, aged ia
years, and Ethel James, who is Ii. The
wedding was described as a red-letter af-
fair among the elite of the county.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-10

Milwaukee is the best place to buy
Dry Goods. Gimbel Brothers is the
best place i'll Milwaukee, You can buy
everything to advantage here-Silks,
Dress Goods, Millinery, China. Carpets.
Toys. Dolls, and fifty-nine other stocks
Three and a half acres of merchandise
at your service. \ postal will bring
quick response. Trade by mail. We
promise as good results as if you come
IN
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-10

ETC Permanently Cured No fits nervousness after
ITO first days Of DR.. KIines Great Nerve Re
storer Send for FREE 1900 trial bottle and treatise
Dr. r II. KLINE, Ltd ~ Arch Street. Philadelphia, Pa
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-10

The people of India are the most
prone to litigation of any On the globe;
there are 1.5OO.NU lawsuits every year.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-10

TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY.
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets- Al Dru9g1sa
refund the money II IT fails to cure Csc
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-10
The British. Bar Shocked.

Justice Darling continues to give Of
Tense to certain susceptible members of
the legal profession by appearing in court
wearing one of the tall 'stand-up turn
down. collars commonly seen about town
in company with center parting, a suck
ing-knobhed stick, an eyeglass, and q
vacant expression London Daily Mall.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-10

verified bicycle into an ice cream freez-
err. Mounting his wheel. which, Of course.
is stationary, he pedals away at good
rate, the chain being connected with the
freezer causing it to turn very quickly.
He can freeze a 17-gallon can Of ice
cream in twenty minutes.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-10
Wisconsin Patents.

Patents for the following Wisconsin
inventors are reported for this week by
Erwin, Wheeler l. Wheeler, IS and 50
Loan and Trust building, Milwaukee,
Wis. These attorneys will furnish the
Inventors Handbook free:
G.. Borgenschild, Racine, nursing bottle;
+. Bower, Dancy, mower; A. B. Burns and
]. r. Kctchum, Green Bay, steam boiler;
J. NJ. Cotey, West Superior marine life
saving messenger; Il. Evans, Milwaukee,
Milwaukee, repairing railway track rails:
w. d. Hall, assgr., Beloit shoe; G. ]. Lit
zen. bingham, cheese vat; G.. J. Luther,
aSsgr., Poynette grinding machine; T. G.
l.. Marvin, Mansion, rod for cleaners;
K. 3. Patton, West Superior, assgr., pick
up bucket; H. w. Pease, Milwaukee, assgr,
kee. gas stove burner; A. J. Vollrath, She
boygan, >enameling surfaces; J. P. Dousman
Milling Co., Depere, roller or patent flour.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-10

All. that twinge: Why you're rheumatic Seek
relief instanter from GienD's Sulphur Soap.
Halls Hair and Whisker Dye. black or brown.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-10

The languages in Palestine are Ari-
bstan and Hebrew, even the smallest
children speaking the purest Bible He
brew