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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-31
life full of Philosophy.

found her mp In New York state neal
the border. and delightful find she was
such kindly, hospitable old soul, always
ready for a chat with the summer board
er. She had lots Of common sense. and
good judgment, but her proverbs and an
isms were source Of continual amuse
ment to her hearers She had one son
for whom she saved and scrimped and
of whom she said one day: "He reads
all the books he can find about foreign
countries and he wants to go abroad him
self, so l told him if he would promise
me not to go by water would try to save
up enough to let him CO.,
She was in dire distress one day be-
cause an itinerant Uranium" artist had
cheated her out of SIS. L thought at first
that this was a unique way of referring to
a phrenologist, but soon discovered that
she meant crayon artist who had taken
a precious tintype of her late husband
and had collected IS "on account had
promised to send her large ''cranium,"
and had departed, never to be heard from
again.
She had beautiful passion flower vine
growing on the wall of her house. When
1 admired it she said: ''They call them
passing flowers, but they don't pass
quicker than other flowers as far as can
see."
She asked me to take tea with her one
night, and as she handed me my cup she
said: IF they was more tea-totalers
there wouldn't be so much whisky drank.
The poet says tea cheers, but doesn't irri-
tate"
She said she had always tried to be a
good Christian. II don't think sexes
makes no difference; it's the way you
live makes the Christian
Speaking one day Of marriages and
how apt young people who grew up to-
gether were to marry each other, she
said: ''It is the consanguinity that does
it,
She had great contempt for worldly
people and their doings. ''It's all very
well while health lasts" she said, ''but
when they come to die they will realize
the innocuousness Of everything earthly"
st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-31


While there is doubtless much waste of
manure by washing when it is spread thin
ly in the barnyard, that in piles is in not
much danger ffom this catise, Unless it is
where it is exposed to the leakage from
eve-troughs or roofs. So much water will
then come on the pile that it's valuable
properties will be largely leached out.
But when manure is only exposed to or
binary rain and snowfall the danger of
ting so little moisture that the fermenta-
ton of the manure burns it dry, or, as it
is commonly expressed, fire fangs it,
The manure piled out of doors does, how
ever, need some other good absorbent of
the ammonia liberated by its fermenta-
ton. Few people realize how much
water three-foot depth of manure will
absorb before any of it teaches into the
soil. Much of the strength of the manure
will be carried down to the bottom of the
heap, and the soil beneath will be en-
riched, though not by the manure leach
ings passing into it. The soil itself is
able to absorb fertility from the manure,
even if not drop of water passes into it.
Soil is enriched even if covered by a dry
board for a twelvemonth. Under the
manure pile as under the board, chemical
changes are going on, decomposing air
and doubtless thus supplying some ammo
mia to the soil beneath. If water-tight
box were used to hold manure, and it
were fermented. the soil beneath would
be enriched to the same degree. In such
case test would show that manure in
piles could take half it's bulk in water
twice a week without leaving any water
in the bOX.-American CultivatOr.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-31
Winter Habits of the Quail,

Sportsmen, epicures and the birds
CHEEKY whistle have made bobwhite one
of our st-known birds. AS the most
northern representative of family
which has it's center of abundance in sub
tropical regions, bobwhite is more sus-
ceptible to the rigors of Northern Will
ter than more truly boreal birds. Being
eminently terrestrial, heavy SHOWS some
times completely bury bevies of birds,
roosting, as is their wont, on the ground
They seem, however, none the worse for
living interment, and have even been
known to seek shelter in snowbank, div
ing into it while in full flight It is when
fall of snow is heavily crusted that
bobwhite is in danger. Escape from be-
meath his snowy coverlid is then ilnpossi-
bic, and whole fiocks have been found
frozen where they had roasted Chau-
tauQuan.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-31
Winter Bird Life.

On a winter morning when one has
been vanly listening for some sign of
life, what a welcome sound is the tap
ping of u woodpecker! Doubtless it is
doWny excavating his breakfast of
larvae, and we follow his tap:tappinng
black and white fellow at work: or he
may be repairing his winter quarters, for
he fashions a home in which to pass. the
colder months as well as one in which to
nest. The male has red band across
the nape; in the female this mark Is
white
The hairy woodpecker Is as a rule less
states. He may be known chiefly by
his larger size, the downy measuring 81
inches in length, while the hairy is about
2A inches longer,
With the dpwnS, we may often find as
ISOLATED in the winter, another climbing
bird, the White-breasted nuthatch. Seen
creeping, over tree trunks: he has at first
but closer observation will show that he
differs in many points, the most strik-
ing of which is that he climbs down.
ward as we'll as upward and that he does
not use his tail as a support. The tail
feathers, therefore, instead of being
s6 and and r@nd Pointed ha tbH END
mode of progression, black cap, blue
gray back, white cheeks and character
istics note of yank yank combine to
render his Identification both easy and
certain.
If one finds the downy and white
breast in partnership it is quite probable
that third member of the firm is the
chickaddee; During the winter, these
three birds seem to have something in
common which draws them together,
Perhaps it may be feeling of loneli-
ness which prompts them to seek each
others companionship. However, they
seem to be on the best of terms. and one
of the pleasant experiences of a mid
winter stroll is to encounter this trio
The chickadee will doubtless announce
himself in perfectly ineligible English,
and to the usual chick-a-dee notes.
Frank NJ. Chapman i'll the Chautauquan.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-31
SFooD FOR THE WORLD
Eviienos of the Enormous Productive
Ef>sxAN M thu lInitAst SfAtAaA 49,. n.

lvidenOs of tho Enormous Productive
Powef Or tho Unitea States
Ii appears that as regards quantity
three Americans now export as much as
Ave did twenty years ago, which suiiicies
to show how groundless are the predic-
tons of some writer's who tell us that
as population increa SEES so the surplus
products for expectation must diminish.
In the last twenty years the population
has risen from 45,OO0,0O0 to Il ,0OO,0N
souls, an increase of IS per cent, and at
the same time the weight of exports has
risen 175 per cent: that is, three times
as fast as the popula ton.
The quantities of food yearly exported
are sufficient to feed 10000, 600 persons
in Europe, from which it appears that
American farms raise food for 1000
600 people yearly. The Western prairies
are capable of carrying double the pres
ent number of livestock, and producing
ten times as much grain rs they do, SO
that, for at least 4 century to come. there
is every probability that the eXportation
Of food will increase with population, The
same is true as regards cotton, the crop
having risen 125 per cent. in twenty
years.
The world is only beginning to have
evidence of the enormous productive pow
er of the United States.-From ''Thirty
Years Of American Trade" by, Michael
G. Mulhall, r. s. s., in North American
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-31
500 Reward SfOO

The readers OF this paper VIII be pleased
TO learn that there 10 at least one dreaded
disease that science has been able TO cure in
al Its stages, and that IL Catarrh Halls
Catarrh Cure is the only positive core now
known to the medical fraternity. Catarrb
being constitutional disease, requires a
Cure 10 taken internally. acting directly
upon the blood and mucous surfaces Of the
system. thereby destroying the foundation
Strength by bniding up s the eonstisutfon and
assisting nature in doing Its work. The pro-
prietors have 80 much faith in Its curative
powers that they offer One Hundred Dol.
lars for any case that Ii fails to cure. Send
Tor list OF testimonials
Address. r. ]. CHENEY & CO..
Toledo. o.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-31
Hard Winds,

When the Californian tells you that he
has seen the wind blow so hard that it
blew the grass out of the ground, you
will smile in spite of yourself, it is SO per-
fectly ridiculous. And yet it is true. I
once planted lawn in March, sowing
Kentucky blue grass. 1t came up beau
tifully and fourished until May. which is
the month in which the norther is preva-
lent. l think it was the middle of the
month and the grass was about three
inches hi 9Th when the norther came along.
In two days | had no more lawn; the
grass had been blown out Of the ground
As previously mentioned, the norther is a
desiccating wind and it dried the loose
soil about the grass roots until it was
reduced to a powder. and thus unable to
resist the wind, which dispersed it. The
roots, having no further hold in the
ground, gave way, and the wind carried
off the grass. This is how the wind blew
the grass out of the ground. It is a Cali
fornia yarn, but simple enough when ex-
Dlained IT ;nDincott's =.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-31
FARM AND GARDEN.

~ GAkO0fStssM ChOrOks
There Il beauty In a beefsteak
Rich and rare; s. ..555...r
There Il a culture In a chicken
Young and fair; 7.s}%@5#
There d eloquent Outpourlng 81
When the gas stove 10 a-rOaring,
And the lucions frying onion -: -
Fills the air! -
oh! You'll never hear us kickin' --
When we set 4 tender chicken;
And we dearly love the onion
In the air!
Fried n qStat +, have bays, a splendor
And we. 20 for fender turnips
$1 With a vim;
! But to him who's scientific
There is something beatifc
In stew In which the modest
a- Oysters swim!
r. we have a little weakness
IT'S for the modest oyster
III the swim!
There y 81 beauty a.;yyu n extreme
There Is happiness in lamb and
Plenty peas;
Information we're requesting
On subject interesting;
Does 1t fatten one to eat
Turkeys knees?
Throughout our small dominion
Ills the landlady's opinion
That 4 turkey ought to have
Hundred knees!
Can you tell us when an egg
Begins to fade?
Is it ancient when it's eighty
In the shade?
There's fascination frantic,
In Il fried egg that's romantic,
But we'd dearly love to know when
1t was laid!
TO this matter that we mention
We have given much attention,
And we'd like to know the date some
Eggs were laid!
C, Y: Hobart In Baltimore News.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-31
Draining vs.. Grading.

The idea of filling in wet holes in fields,
so as to make them dry land, comes nat
ural to men who hive not tried it. The
amount of work required to fill in a sur
face of two square rods in extent to the
depth Of II inches is something that only
begins to be appreciated when the at
tempt is made, and it is seen how little
space team and scraper can fill in a
day. And after it is done some other
good land must be deruded of it's sur.
face soil and made barren, or if the soil
is drawn from an excavation there is an
ugly hole that is as much a nuisance as
was the wet spot that has been filled.
Run tile drain into this wet place, even
if there has to be deep digging through
a ridge to accomplish this, and the wet
spot will be permanently cured. The wet
places in fields are always, after they are
drained, the richest parts. After under
draining, too, the soil appears to rise,
and, in fact, does rise, as it is then every
winter expanded by freezing, as the soil
could not do while it was covered with
water.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-31

number Of rows ut the tip end al It has
at the butt Eighteen Or tweiity rows are
preferable to d less number. IL d much
larger number ii sodyht the ears are in
clined to grow too stnbby, that is, large
around the butt and short, and the grain
is apt to grow too much on the shoe peg
order. A good shaped grain Is about
twice as wide as it IL thick, and about
twice az long as it Is wide. The size of
the cob ought to be sufficient to support
the requisite number of rows. It cannot
be expected that an ear of twenty rows
would have as small cob as one Of four
teen or sixteen rows. If the seed corn
is selected while husking, more or less
attention can be given to the nature of
the stalk. An unusually coarse stalk sell
dom produces an ear of good quality The
that are large around and slightly above
the average in height, Allowance should
be made for fertility of the soil, for the
more fertile the soil the more rank and
coarse the corn is likely to grow. While
larger number of well-formcd ears will
be found on the more fertile parts of
the field. a finely developed ear grown on
poorer soil would be more valuable, be-
cause il would seem that it's better deyel-
opment would be due more to it's own
strength or vitality than to the fertility
of the soil. Seed cofii should be kept in
a dry place protected froln extreme cold,
and mice. One Of the most secure places
is to bury it in oats All seed corn ought
to be tested before planting. A good way
is to take few grains from forty OF fifty
different ears. Fill a shallow box with a
couple of inches of soil. Over this place
piece of white cloth; place the corn to
be tested. on this cloth, then lay on an
other cloth little larger than the box.
On this put layer of dirt an inch deep,
then water and put in warm place. If
the seed is good, in few days it will
have sprouted. Take hold of the corners
of the upper cloth and lift off the covering
of dirt; the corn will then all be exposed
and perfectly clean, and all that have
sprouted will be easily seen. If it is
shown signs of life.-Prairie Farmer.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-31
Polite in Death.

OF all the stories Of exquisite polite
ness, that of the French countess about
to breathe. her last is the most pathetic
AS she approached her end an acquain-
lance. ignorant Of her serious illness,
as her life fast ebbed away, sent. down
the message: The countess Of Dashe
sends her. compliments to Nine, Blanke,.
5but. hegs to be excused, as she il engaged.
5in dying.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-31
One Way Of Serving Peas,

At a dinner party the coachman had
come in to help to wait at table. Among
the guests was very deaf old lady
Jehu. No answer. "Peas, mum?' Cloud
err. Still no answer from the deaf party,
but, placing her ear trumpet to her ear,
lifts it interrogatively at the man, who,
CHANGING down and seeing the tube, ejac-
ulates: ''Well, it's rum why of tax
ing them, but suppose she likes it. Here
goes" and down went the peas into the
oar tr,1mnot -Tif-Rits ,
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Sold by Druggists. 75c

The Cleo (Ok.) Chieftain has this
among its society items: 1.-THE widow
next door is no longer counted among ,he
citizens of Cieo-she is gone Perry
Pucket is really the cause Of it. He was
at her house SO much. trying to steal his
love letters and occa sionally trying TO put
his artns around her. that she got bilious
and had to leave to protect her health.
She was d good neighbor. and we are
sorry on Perry's account
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-31
Emergency Doctors in Paris.

In Paris a list of doctors ready to at
tend in case of emergencies occurring in
the night is published for the convenience
of the public Originally, we learn fee
of 10 francs was the standard payment,
but more recently pool has been in
stituted, and the result divided quarterly
among the doctors. This system has
alienated the better, class practitioner, and
now the employment of the whole class
has become endangered by the death of
Il patient treated by one of the members
who lives OH Els per annun, with stock
of instruments as scanty as his income
London HosOital.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-31
Cara Of Sead Corn. :,

The field from which seed corn is select
ed should be one in which the corn is we'll
lnatured, for the reason that larger
number of suitable ears can be found. It
crop. The best-shaped, best-filled ears
ought to be selected, for like produces
like III corn. as in any other form of life.
the ideal ear of corn should be large
for the variety. I should hold it's size.
from the butt to the top, haYing the same n
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-31
"CIean|iness Is Nae Pride, Dirts Nae
Honesty" Common Sense Dc
tates the Use of
SAPOlIO
Animals Fright is Short.

A question that has often been asked is,
How long does frig-.l last in wild
creature? The close observer will be sur
prised at it's brief duration. They are
not subject to NERVES like human be-
ings. A partridge after running (or rath-
er tlying) the gauntlet of half dozen
guns-if we may be allowed mixed
INTERPRETATIONS on the other side of a
hedge and begins calmly to peck as if
nothing had happened. You would think
Il rabbit, after hearing a charge of shot
whistling about its launches and just
managing to escape from a yelping span
iel would keep indoors for a week, but
out it pops quite merrily as soon as the
coast is clear. A fox pursued by hounds
has been known to halt and kill fowl
in it's flight, though we may assume that
his enemies We're not close to Reynard
at the time We have been led into think
ing about the matter by noting what took
place ut cover after being shot over
Pail Mall Gazette.
OF the 100000 inhabitants of New
York. only 100000 are of American
birth.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-31
BOstOnian Always.

Strange to say, there are boys in or
near Boston who sometimes descend from
the upper regions of intellectually to the
plane occupied by ordinary people, and
actually 60 a-fshing! But even while
they sit in contact with the common
earth that forms the bank of the stream
and watch the little bob as it dances on
the water, the ethereal influences of that
upper life surround them.
For instance:
Ordinary Man-"Are the fish biting to-
day, my SOM"
Boston Boy-''The fish do not bite, sir.
They attempt to swallow the bait, and
the hook embeds itself in the mouth. But
the fisl, are unusually wary today. sir"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-31
AT the Urssuline convent at Bologna

AT the Ursuline convent at Bologna
lives q nun who has proved very con-
clusively that an occasional change Of air
and scene are not, as physicians would
have us believe. necessary to sound
joined the Ursuline sisterh0od eighty
years ago. when she was just 20 years OF
age. Since she took the veil she has
never crossed the threshold Of the roii-
vent nor held intercourse with the world
oi1tside it's walls & =
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-31

Henry Barhart of Stockton, Cal, 4
pioneer. died last week. He owned TWEEN
ty-fiye farms. or total of 1900 acres,
in San Joaquin county, and was the
heaviest taxpayer in the county. He also
owned one ranch of 1900 acres in Soiano
county. and another of 1880 acres i'll
ErpSnA county.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-31

-Legrand Larow. of Lamar. No. has
beard which. perhaps. is the longest
worn by any man in the world. it is
now seven feet in length and has meas
ured seven and or,e-iran feet. Mr.. Laryw
is six feet in height and weighs 11o
pounds. When standing with his beard
down il extends tw0 feet UPON the 6Oor.
He has not shaved for over twenty yca1s.
He wears his beard braided and wosrnd
around his body. or else wrapped and
lodged inside his vest.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-31
Civil Engineers Needed,

In his address ON the occasion of the
opening of the new house of the American
Society of Civil Engineers, Joseph H.
Choate stated in the most emphatic terms
that the clear duty of the incoming ad-
ministration of the city of New York is to
appoint civil engineers only to those posi-
lions to which are entrusted the construc-
ton and management of the public works
of the great city. We believe that no act
which the mayer-elect can perform would
commend itself more strongly to the city
as 4 whole, or show more clearly an hon
est desire to give wise and efficient adj
ministration. This is not the first occasion
on which we have advocated the appoint
ment of professional engineers to the adj
ministration Of municipal public works,
but it is not vet policy much followed,
although in a few cases it has been pro-
ductive of great advantage to. the cities
in which such appointments have been
made. 1t is one Of the most pressing
questions of good municipal government.
Engineering Record. y%
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-31

Death valley has, to large extent,
lost it's terrors to travellers now Miners
and prospectors cross and recross it with
out fear of death, although human re-
mains are still found scattered about. It
is now known that water can be found
in Death valley, at almost any point by
digging down a few feet, so parties cross
ing it go provided with shovels and
do not die of thirst.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-31
1t Makes Cold Feet Warm

And is the only cure for ChiIblains,
Frost Bites. Damp, Sweating Feet.
Coris and Bunious. ASK for Aliens
Foot-Ease, powder to he shaken into
the shoes. At all druggists and shoe
stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Ad-
dress Allen S. Oin,sted. Leroy, n. Y.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-31
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:
John, A. Kuster, Plymouth, adjustable
Lake, assgr., steam traps.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-31

Shake in your shoes Aliens Foot
Ease, powder for the feet. 1t makes
tight or New Shoes feel Easy. Cures
Corns, BunionS. Chilblains, Frost Bites
aud Sweating Feet. At all druggists and
shoe stores. 25c. Sample sent FREE.
Address Allen S. Olmsted, LIE Roy, N. Y.
a Russian can plead infancy for a
long time. as he does not come of age
until 20 years Old.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-31
Feed Fowls Slowly.

The. great trouble with most fowl fam
p produ e. they feed f6S heavily, and tie
fowls fatten instead of laying. Corl1 also
is bad feed for fowls, especiallyif shelled
and thrown where the fowls can eat it as
rapidly as they can pick it up. If one
person shells by hand an ear of corn and
throws it among thirty to fifty fowls the
active ones will get it fully as fast as
they should. The better way il. to mix
the grain and small grain as we'll among
cut straw and let the fowls earn their
living by scratching for it:
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-31
Germany has made street laid With

Mrs. WinsI0w'x SOOTHING SYsUr for chill.
dren teething. so'tens the gums, red uces inasln
ma tor allays pain cures wind collie &c boesie