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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-01-14
A NOCTURNE.

II will rise and 60 unto my Dear,
And at her tiny mouth this longing slake;
Ihough she IL sleeping and a chanticleer
Marks nights meridian. I'll bid her wake
feed
Where fauns Of cid heard Pans o'ermaster.
Ing reed"
Then went out beneath the naked sky
Naked because her vap'ry covering
Lay In that void where Lost Endeavors lie,
Which, when the fur of gods see lowering,
Like wraithe below the edges of our world,
Their lips at Man In proud contempt are
Curled.
As though the universe knew Mary slept
And silence reigned deSpotic in the spheres,
So motioniess was ev'rything except
My heart, whose throb made discorl In
my ears,
Nor moved there aught in Heavens blue
afar,
Save, twitching noiselessly, one nervous star.
1t was night such as the first night was,
When God, sole witness of the darkened
Before dividing by omnipotent laws
Those elements akin to death and birth
Stood mcdtating on what Shold be done
Ere He conceived the image of the sun.
Then all desireless I walked alone.
Long In the mighty awe midnight In
spires:
l heard a tremor from the dim Unknown
Felt Hope repleniSl her low altar-tires,
And dying faith in Man new life-lease take,
"Awake!"
Ralph johnson In the Chap-book..
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-01-14
Providing Winter Cows.

Many farmers who would like to breed
cows so as to have them farrow in the
early fall are unable to do so, because
it is difficult to get COW which is CIV
ing milk to come in heat at this season.
1t does not pay to dry off the COW, in
which case she would come in heat quick
" enough. but might become too fat to
breed well. The better way is to feed
extra with oats, wheat bran and mid
dlings mixed with ground rye. If this
rye has some ergot in it there will be no
trouble about, the cow coming in heat.
Rye in any form has the effect of in
creasing proliticacy in all animals that
will eat it. There are many advantages
in having calves dropped in the fall, pro-
vided there are warm quarters for them
the first winter. They will make the
best winter cows, as they will naturally
come in heat when little more than a
year old: and may be bred then. Spring
calves also coming in heat in the spring
make cows which will give the bulk of
their milk during the summer, when milk
and all dairy products are cheapest
American Cultivator.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-01-14
Dana was q Fighter.

When Charles Sumner was interrupted
in the midst of fierce philippe against
slavery with the request that he would
not forget the other side he Numbered,
''There is no other side" In his make
up Mr.. Dana was allied to Sumner rather
than to Raymond. He wrote on con-
troverted matters SO as to suggest that in
his opinion there wasn't any other side
just as Greeley wrote. This quality COM
bined with the af1luent resources of ar
gumcnt, illustration and repartee, rendered
him most powerful antagonist. Con-
sequently prudent people disliked to "try
falP' with him. Some years ago at
dinner Mr.. Depew paid a humorous trib-
ute to Mr.. Dana, illustrating this dislike.
"When I was good deal younger than
I am now" said Chauncey, "Mr. Dana
took issue with me on a certain point
and l ventured to talk back. l haven't
repeated the experiment, because no raan
likes to have his skin taken off aud hung
IN tho fnnoo - .-, .-.,.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-01-14
WOMEN IN FRENCH FICTION:
Distorted Portraitures Of French Wive
and Mothers Prasental hY Nnxelisfk

Distorted Portraitures Of French Wives
and Mothers Prssentsi by Novelists.
Miss Anna l.. Bicknell. who lived for
some years in the Tuleries as Il gov
erness in the household of Napoleon Ill.,
contributes to the January Century an
article on ''French wives and Mothers"
This is richly illustrated by drawings by
Boutet de Monyel. Miss Ricknell says:
Those who have gathered their opinions
as to the real character of the average
Frenchwoman from the romantic litera-
ture of the present century, more espe-
cially that of the last few years, would
necessarily bear severe Judgment,
tinged with a considera BILE amount of con-
tempt. Such an opinion would, however,
impartial observer, having been privi-
legged to share French home life, could
truly tell them. The average English
woman is very graphically depicted in
English novels, and d foreigner can form
Il fair estimate of her merits and de-
merits from the description Of English
domestic life presented by popular
writer's. But it is not so in France Or in
French literature. The real French gen
stood, for she is totally Unlike the hero
ines of modern novels whose writer's
know about as much Of aristocratic life
as the author of ''The Lady Flabella" in
''Nicholas NicklebS.' The pictures pre-
scented in Octave Feui1let's writings are
perhaps the truest to nature as it is seen
in some melancholy cases; but he him
self certainly would have been ready to
admit that the women he MET in daily
life had nothing III common with his
morbid heroines. AS he belonged to a
good old family of the upper bourgcoisie,
he had better opportunities of knowing
the society which he depicted so power
fully in his novels of fashionable life than
have the upstairs who describe salons Of
which they have never crossed the
But even in the works of Feuillet, al
though the frame Is accurate, the ror-
traits are those Of exceptionally diseased
minds. Women like Madame de Cham
pallon in "Monsieur de Ca1nors,' or the
dreadful Julia de Trecoeur. may exist in
France or elsewhere: but those who know
French society will certainly recognize
more readily women like Madame lie
Camors and her charming mother. or the
Suzanne of la Clef DOR with the
home of Sibylle and the dear old people
so delightfully."- described there. Many OK
amples might be quoted equally sweet
and pure among the neroines of Fcuillet's
impassioned narratives, and one is con
vinced that these have been more faith
fully copied from IA ture than the others.
The fact is that the great majority Of
French novelists belong to the Bohemia
of literature. and are not admitted within
the precincts either of aristocratic circles
or of the less refined. but equally strict,
bourgeois homes. They know only the
borderland, peopled in general by The
wealthy and adventurous foreign set
which budded and expanded during the
Second empire. and has now taken its
place by the side of French society. but
not within IFS male
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-01-14
MegalOulaniu.

Mr.. Gladstone is credited with having
originated the work megalomania, or a
mania for what is great, but Lord Sails
bury's Albert hall speech has served to
very extensively advertise the expression.
Lord Salisbury then expressed his belief
that the inhabitants of London have
fallen victims to "a common intellectual
complaint of the present day, megalo-
MANIA" This mental disease is further
defined as ''the passion for big things sim
ply because they are big" 1t is supposed
to be an "un-English human weakness"
essarily failing. remarks the Observer.
1t may be source of strength. Man
grows mentally and morally by con,em-
P1 tha Is Sch nt e 1soo
many men is simply material bjgness.
A thing that is continental in it's proper
tions they are ready to hurrah over, hut
of the great things of the unseen world,
the maiesties Of God and the hereafter,
they have no appreciation.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-01-14

our feeding in the spring We raise all
.of our own Bleeding ewes, buying moth
ing but pure-bred rams, and they must
PC the best there is Of the kind. We have
followed this plan of breeding for NUT
ton sheep for about five years, and it has
proven successful in every respect. Our
lambs are all tirst-class and are spoken
Tor before we are ready to sell We Sc
!ected seven buck lambs and sold them
in October: they weighed 100 pounds
each. The wool shearcd from 112 ewes
was 1855 pounds.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-01-14
ShrNnken Wheat for Poultry.

There is probably no better nor cheaper
FOOD for fowls than shrunkcn wheat. It
Is better for them than the plump grain.
as 1T contains all the gluten and mineral
n Z! It that the plump grain does, the
difference being that the latter has more
starch which poultry has no use for OK
cept to make fat. Shrunken wheat free
from weed seeds ought to be the main
nutriment almost equal to the fresh bone
which should be used as it's supplement,
and which serve not only as food but to
help digest whatever else besides itself
is in the fowls gizzard
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-01-14
FARM AND GARDEN.
Weather Prophets.

Il. -r:-, Weather Prophets. -. q" II
Fellers prophesyin' snow ,.~, - ~
Western blizznrds, too,
Course. these fellers allus know -.
What the L0rd'll dOD
When they tell me I'll be fr0ze,
Then hunt my summer close! Il,
Long In the spring, they looked an said
All the signs wuZ plain,
by the queer skies overhead
Forty days Of rain!
But we hAd.-fOr all our fears
Dryest weather In ten years!
Then In summer we'd be dry,
Not drap 'ud fall!''
But the rain came from the sky
Like 'twOuld drown us all!
An some weak, believin' fellers
Didn't have no rain umbrellas!
Allus settin' on the fence
Tellin' us Gods will!
Ruther trust III Providence
And take my chances still!
When they tell me I'll be- .frOze,
Wasch me hunt my summer close!
Frank l.. Stanton.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-01-14
Keeping Grade Fowls.

The grade fowl is all right for poultry
Keepers who keep poultry for eggs or for
sale as poultry, without trying to begin
as breeders for sale alive. The grade
can never be depended upon. and the
grade ROSTERS should be killed off every
year. and only the pullcts kept. When it
is desired to replenish the flocks a full
pred cock of one OF the other of the
breeds from which the cross is made
should be used. If a third breed is in
ttroduced into the strain the progeny will
be mongrels and good for nothing for
any purpose. Most farmers try to ex-
pertinent with too many breeds. More
than two will result III practical ruin to
their flocks.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-01-14
Hogs In Small Lots.

It is neither profitable nor always ell
tirely safe to keep great numbers of
hogs together. Besides the liability to
disease getting among them, there is al
ways certainty that the stronger will
crowd the weaker from their feeding
places, so that the inequality in size will
increase instead Of decreasing. In every
litter there are always one or two weak
lings that were born runts, and unless
given a better chance than their fell
lows, they will always remain runts. The
best way to manage this is when the
pigs are seven or eight weeks old, take
out the stronger ones and wean them,
giving them plenty of the best food that
can be got to make growth. Then the
runts left to suckle the SOW alone will
in two or three weeks more take a start
that may make them as good as the 9TH
CTS. so that in later life all can be fed
together. No other feed, without the
sow's milk, will do this, though such
other feed should be given and the pigs
be encouraged to eat all they can be
made to eat.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-01-14
Double Walls for Warmth.

In building for warmth it should never
be forgotten that. tight double walls, en-
closing dead air space, are much bet
ter than a solid wall of any material.
These are equally useful to keep out cold
in winter and the excessive heats of sum-
mer. Air Is one of the poorest conduc-
tors known, and when it is confined so
that no current affects it, there is greater
uniformity of temperature than can be
secured by any other method.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-01-14
Survives HIS Funeral Forty Years,
Deafness Cannot be Cured

by local applications. as they cannot reach
the diseased portion of the ear There is
only one way to cure deafness, and that is
oy constitutional remedies Deafness Is
caused by an int1amed condition of the NH
cous lining Of the Eustachlan Tube. When
this tube is infaned you have a runbling
sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is
entirely closed. Deafness is the result, and
unless the Inflammation can be taken out
ton. hearing viii! be destroyed Forever; nine
cases out of ten are CEASED by catarrh,
which is nothing but an inHamed condition
OF the mucous surfaces
We will give One Hundred Dollars for any
case OF Deafness Caused by catarrh) that
cannot be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure.
Send for circulars: free.
Sold by Druggists I5c
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-01-14
Reaelin1 of Mnffnn Sham

Our plan of breeding mutton sheep is
to cross the Cotswold eve with Merino
ram; from this ram we get constitution
aud staple of wool. and from this class
of lambs we select breeding ewes to
raise mutton lambs from. says writer
In the Prairie Farmer. We cross those
eve lambs with pure bred Shropshire
ram, which should weigh not less than
200 pounds. Here we get quick growers
and mutton qualities. Lambs bred an .sthis
way, dropped { in I March. gain half 90
pound q day until we are read sto sell,
which is about the frst III September
These lambs are not fed 90 Krain after
sbsing turned on astprss
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-01-14
n Big Barn.

The new barn recently completed for
Col. Blees. Macon's millionaire, is one of
the most expensive buildings in north
Missouri. and undoubtedly the finest barn
in the, state outside the largest cities.
More than $4,000 feet of the best lumber
that could be procured was used in its
construction. The roof required $4,000
shingles and more than $4,000 feet of
ceiling lumber and nearly 10000 fee, of
Notwithstanding were used The inside
is finished with hard pine and is oiled and
vanished. the floor space is nearly al!
covered with granitoid pavement. and
the entire building is heated with steam
and supplied with all modern convent
enceS.-kanSas City Journal
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-01-14
Wnrrylnp the Cnw.

A rough, quick-tempered man should
never be tolerated around COW stable.
The cow loves quietude. Any disturb
ance which excites her lessons. if it does
not stop, the secretion and flow of milk.
It is very easy for All employe. by kick
ing and beating a cow just before or
flow by one-half. This is called "hold-
ing up the milk. It is really proven
ton of milk secretion: and the milk thus
lost does, not come down at any subse-
quent milking.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-01-14
Only a Private Mark.

"A literary man in Boston has son
who is to him as the apple Of his eve.
The other day he noticed square hole
in the trousers of his well-beloved, u,
shrieking hole just above the knee.
How ID this q? asked the sire. And the
boy replied You know / have two
pairs, my best and the other. ] couldn't
tell them apart, 80 cut hole in. the
best, and now u can tell EN- aud know.
which to nut 81. Boston Journal,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-01-14
A New Species OF Fish.

Another of those queer fish has been
Village, Conn. 1t somewhat resembles a
German carp, but has head and mouth
like sucker. The mouth is barbed. the
lower part of the body without scales,
long back fin, and weighs three pounds
and FIVE ounces. 1t has been sent to the
Smithsonian institution at Washington for
Classification
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-01-14
Fine Quality of Marble.

A fine quality of marble has been dis
covered near Puerto Cabello, Venezuela
which is being turned out so rapidly as to
have almost destroyed our commerce in
that line. A plant costing $4,000 has
been erected, frst-class work is turned
out and reputation is being established.
Our brooms, too, no longer find ready
sale there. as the natives have built up
their own industries along that branch of
trade
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-01-14

1t Keeps the Feet Dry and Warm
And is the only cure for Chilhlains.
Frost Bites, Damp, Sweating Feet,
Corns and Bunions. Ask for Aliens
Foot-Ease, a powder to be shaken into
the shoes. At all druggists and shoe
stores, Csc. Sample sent FREE. Ad-
dress Allen $. Oimstcd. Leroy. \. Y.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-01-14
The Chinese Porceiain Tower.

The porcelain tower in China was con-
structed as a gift to an Empress and was
always kept in repair by the government.
Lightning struck it in 1901 and tore
away the three top stories The injury
was repaired as soon as possible. II
would probably be standing to this day
had not the Tapping rebels imagined It's
lights and bells most disastrous to rheir
cauSp
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-01-14
Try Grain.O! Try Grain.O,

Ask your grocer to-day to show you a
package Of GRAIN-O, the new food
drink that takes the place of coffee. The
children may drink it without injury
as well as the adult. All who try it,
like it. GRAIN-O has that rich seal
brown Of Mocha OF Java, but it is made
from pure grains, and the most deli
cate stomach receives it without dis
tress. n the price of coffee. 15c. and 25c.
per package. Sold by all grocers-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-01-14

The largest mule in the world Was
bred in Missouri. is 10 hands 212 inches
high and weighs 1890 pounds. He is to
be sent to a London mona gerie.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-01-14

San Jose, Cal, when footpad grabbed
her the other evening, struck him a fist
blow in the eye that took all the enter
prise out of him and enabled her to make
her escape
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-01-14

The failure of the crops in the East
Indies has caused an advance of 100 per
cent, il the price ct cubsb berries aud
lemon grass oil,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-01-14

Osaka Japan, Including suburban viii
lagos, has population of about 1,OOO,-
(NAj
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-01-14

The circulating public libraries Of
London have 10000 patrons and 1000,
| 600 books
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-01-14
Do You Dance To-Nieht?

Shake in your shoes Aliens Foot
Ease, a powder for the feet. 1t makes
tight or New Shoes feel Easy. Cures
Corns, Bunions, Chilblains, Frost Bites
and Sweating Feet. At all druggists and
shoe stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE.
Address Allen S. Olmsted, LIE Roy, n. Y.
The population of Crcfeld, Germany.
increased from 53.975 in 1867 to 10000
in 1887. but since that date the increase
has been only 5000.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-01-14

Two bottles of Piso's Cure for Con-
sumption cured me of bad lung trouble.
Mrs. J. Nichols, Princeton. Ind.
Mar 2G, 1885,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-01-14
Farmers Aandy Feed Cooker,
We desire to call our readers atten-
uon to the Farmers Handy Feed Cook,
es: winch - sold at the low price OF
$125O for 6O-gallon capacity.

ny feedmg poultry and stock with
cooked food during the winter months
at least one-third Of the food is saved:
also having stock in a healthy condi-
tloh' preventing hog cholera among
your hosS, and insuriuS the hens laying
freely during the winter months when
eggs are always wanted at high prices.
rms Cooker will pay for itself in one
weeks time and is without doubt the
BEST and cheapest on the market-just
what its name implies, a Farmers
Handy Feed Cooker. Upon application
10 the Empire Manufacturing Co., 614
II street, Quincy. ILL.,, Il catalogue, Civ
ing full description, may be obtained.
They are made in all sizes.
Duck Eggs in an Albumen Factory.
Near Chinskiang, China, is Il great al
eumen factory, for the utilization of the
duck eggs which are produced in that re-
gion in enormous quantities, tlocks of
uncommon. The eggs are broken at the
rate of FROM 10000 to 10000 per day by
women who separate the white from the
yOlk, the formeM being carefully cleaned
and dried until they resemble fish glue,
when they are packed in 400 pound eases
lined with zinc. The yolks are passed
Through sleeves into twenty-tive-g gallon re-
ceptacles, mixed with salt and borax
solution, packed in 5OU-pound barrels. and
used IN Europe for preparing and dress
ing articles of superior quality. The al
b1men finds ready market in England,
France and Germany for dyes for the
best cotton soods.-Philadelphia Press.
Survives HIS Funeral Forty Years.
Paul Pelkey of Fillmore is still living,
and is 10Y years old. He took sick and
died forty years ago was dressed in
grave clothes. and was placed in coffin
IN an upstairs room at his home. The
funeral was ready to start, and the stairs
We're very barrow and old-fashioned, and
but two men could handle the coffin They
started down the stairway with the COZ
I'M. and one OF the men slipped, and down
went the cotiin. bumpty bump. The COT
I'm broke open, and the corpse sat up and
rubbed his eyes and asked for drink of
water. and Paul Pelkey's funeral was
put off indefinitely and has not since been
announced, and it is said is not likely to
ne for some time to come-Maryville
tMo) Review,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-01-14

TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY.
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets All DrngE1so
refund the money If 1t fails TO cure. 25c
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-01-14

France consumes every year 1879
100000 gallons Of wine, beer, cider and
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-01-14
A LETTER TO WOMEN.

A few words from Mrs. Smith, of
Philadelphia, will certainly corroborate
the clam that Lydia E.. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound is woman's ever
reliable friend.
81 cannot praise Lydia E. Pink
ham's'Vegetable Compound too highly.