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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-09-22
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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-09-22
WALRUS HIDES VALUABLE.
Worth from Dollar to Three Dollars
Pound When Tanned,

Worth from Dollar to Three Dollars
IL Pound When Tanned.
In front of John street store, hang
ing idly ON an iron rod. is Il very peculiar
looking piece of leather. From short
ol>t"lrs 1t has the appearance of large
Mrathsrttatrn piece Of planking, but on
tl">'r scrutiny it presents the rough,
W',lrI appearance of an elephants hide.
ai'd L leather grain is discernihlp. An
inquiry brought cut the fact that it is an
rru~ually- good piece of walrus' hide.
hr>r hides are usually taken from wal
ru>r> ON the coast of Norway, and it
is said that the best ones are English
tanned,
ih' tanning consumes from one to
three years when properly done, and in
rr'',S> is similar to that used on horse
or cow hide. The hides are eight to ten
trrt long, and four to six feet wide.
Their thickness varies from seven-eighths
Of an inch to three inches. The three
inch hides are becoming much rarer than
they were few years ago. an inch and
half being good thickness today
The average weight of "a side O walrus''
is 100 pounds, and the maximum about
300 pounds
The hides are sold by weight, but q
pound of three-lnch hide is worth about
three times as much as a pound of one
inch hide. The present price Of one-inch
hide is about 81 per pound.
Nalru>' hide is extensively used for
metal polishing. 1t is almost indispensa-
bic 70 jewelers., bicycle factories or stove
works, where wheels of the hide reyolv-
ing rapidly are used to remove mars and
scratches anu tn polish the finer metal
surfaces.-New York Mail and Express
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-09-22
Progress.

With time. comes progress and ad-
Vancement in all lines Of successfully
conducted enterprises. Success comes
to those only who have goods with
superior merit and a reputation. In
the manufacture of laundry starch for
the last quarter of century J. G..
Hublnger has been the peer of all 9TH
ers and to-day is placing on the market
the finest laundry starch ever offered
the public under our new and original
method.
ASK your grocer for q coupon book
which will enable you to get the first
two large 10-cent packages of his new
starch, RED CROSS, TRADE MARK
brand. also two Of the ehildren's Shaks-
peare pictures painted in twelve beauti-
full colors as natural as life, or the
Twentieth Century Girl Calendar, all
absolutely free.
All grocers are authorized to give ten
large packages of RED CROSS
STARCH, with twenty Of the Shaks-
peare pictures or ten Of the Twentieth
Century Girl Calendars, to the first five
purchasers Of the Endless Starch Chain
BOOK. This is one Of the grandest
offers ever made to introdv :e the RED
CROSS laundry starch, J. G. Hubin2-
erS latest invention,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-09-22

discovery, which he considers the
browning event of his wonderful
career, and which is embodied in a
new article of commerce, known as
Red Cross Starch Cred Cross trade
mark.) He is planning to distribute
millions of packages of this starch to
the housewives of America, at merely
nominal price to the consumer, in order
to make its merits known without de-
lay. Thus, for but cents two large
10c packages of Red Cross Starch may
be had, together with two magnificent
Shakespearean views printed in ~
beautiful colors, or a Twentieth Cen
1ury Girl Calendar; or for only 20
cents 10 packages of the starch and
the entire series of eight Shakespearean
views and one Twentieth Century Girl
Calendar-views alone easily worth
$1.oo. Watch this paper for future
premium announcements, of which
every lady will certainly want to take
advantage.
While Mr.. Hubinger will devote his
best energies to the manufacture of
this new and wonderful starch, he will
not retire from the various financial
enterprises in which he is interested
street railways, electric lighting plants
and the Mississippi Valley Telephone
Co., with 10000 telephone subscribers
in Minneapolis and St. Paul-nor will
ulS aug AASA.I~o 80 .-4.rf,,o ..~:4l.
his social obligations and exercise Of
the splendid hospitality which he dis
penses at his palatial Keokuk home
Mr.. Hubinger's family, consisting of
himself, wife and four children, is the
pivot around which his activity re-
wolves, and while fond of promoting
great enterprises, he is still fonder of
his home circle, where he spends every
moment of time not taken up by bust
ness or public cares,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-09-22
Lowcll's Little Friends,

James Russell Lowell had a tube laid
on from the main for supplying with
fresh water such dish (of water for
squirrels and BIRDS as l have described,
on the lawn in front Of Elmwood, and
about his house the squirrels and birds
were only disturbed by the cats. In
front of his bedroom window pair of
gray squirrels had nested, and in his last
illness he took great pleasure in watching
their gambols in their elm tree home
1t must have been one of the last pleas
ures the outdoor world gave him, and the
incident was told me by his dying daugh-
when saw her last autumn, just before
she died, and the descendants of the
squirrels he watched were playing still in
the same trees. The same water dish
served the thrushes and the orioles, which
prompted some of his finest nature notes
w. J. Stillman in the London Specta-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-09-22

days II don't hear her at first; that is,
at night, or soon In the morning
i keep my record on the hive cover On
the swarm l mark say, "S-5-20-99C,"
which means, "Swarmed May 20, 1899,
and queen clipped" On the old stand
| mark, Cast S-5-2O-99," and when
look in due time for eggs or brood. and
still, l look her up and clip, and mark
''C'' on cover.
always keep a few entrance guards
around handy and it second swarm
starts forth | put Oh in front to keep
the queen back. | hardly ever fail to get
1t on before she gets out. / have no use
for queen traps. never owned but one
and l sold it to a beginner and l never
would use another. Throw them away
and clip your queens and leave the en-
frances so the bees can air. Raise the
front i'll warm weather.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-09-22
How the Choctaws Are Faithful Unto
Death.

Probably there is no other class of peo-
pie in the world in this respect like the
Choctaws. They believe in each other as
a child believes in its mother. When one
Choctaw Indian tells another that GER
tain thing will be done, it can be depend
ed upon that it will be done. This GUS
tom of turning a prisoner loose without
bail commenced among the ChoctaWs
half a century ago. An Indian murdered
his sister. There was no Jail, and the
Choctaws had no money to hire guard:
After the Indian judge had sentenced
him to be shot, the former said: Now
you can go free until your execution day.
Then want yqr i, to o eSme without h Rfi9es
your family The Indian gave. his
promise and appeared at the appointed
time. Ever since then it has been the
custom to allow condemned Indians to
run loose Never but once has prison
er failed to come freely and alone to his
execution. The number of Indians thus
shot within the last half-century is over
one hundred.--Leslie's Weekly.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-09-22
The Cyclone.

Ever see a cyclone, say? Bite the
world and MUNICH away? Eat I'D houses
fences trees, just as easy as you please
Get hustle on it's jaws? Swine the
earth with fiendish claws? Humn its
back and take turn through the orchard
just for fun? From hill to hollow fit
seeming to get strength from it? Never
seen one? Well, jung! It's pesky
sort of thing.
Ever see cyclone, say? Take its
track and speed away? Swith it's tail
and snort and bound, just like lightning
DER the ground? Get a swift move with
it's feet, racing for the winning heat
Then cavorting up and down. needing no
laws of the town? Pushing everything
aside? Out upon gayly ride? AS
though owning all the track, even on
ward, never back? Never seen one ?
Well, I swow! It's buster, anyhow
kingsley Ual Times.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-09-22
SEA soNNE1s.

Where viii the wide dark take a'' us, Won
and me
The darkness and the tempest and the
sea?
How long we waited where tho ton shine
Diseonsolate and safe within the bar!
ocean forever calling us, but We
"oa, now we stttled there nor dared be
With sharp knife and night and the
fSt now; the hawser cut, adrift, away
Mad with escape, what care we to what
The bitter night may bear us? Lost. alone,
IN vague world Of roaring surge astray,
Out with the tide and into the unknown,
COMPRISED about with rapture aud the
We two, waits, wide-eyed and without fear.
with the dark swirl Of life about our
Prov,
Tho hollow. needless swash of year on year
ih9t pears us on, and rocks not where or
Our skin Is but feather on the foam,
\" mighty galleon strong to meet the
An open hoat-God'> gift to us for home,
And but each others arms to keep us
What port for us to make? Our only star
Our only haven where the kelpies are
Yet you great merchantmen with freight
cd bales,
Rebel and lost and aimess as we go,
We keep JOY Your pride can never know
Moon Of my midnight! Moon Of the dark
sea,
Where like petrel's ghost my sloop is
driven!
Behold. about me and under and over me-
The darkness and the waters and the
heaven
Huge. shapeless monsters as of worlds in
birth,
Dragons Of Fate. that hold me not In
Bar up my way with fierce, Indifferent
mirth,
And fall in giant frolic on my hope
Their next mad rush may whelm me in the
wave,
The dreaded horror Of the sightless deep
Only thy love. like moonlight, pours to save
My soul from the despairs that lunge and
leap.
Moon of my night, though hell and death
assail.
The tremble Of thy light is on my SAIL
Richard Hovey In the Bookman.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-09-22
CaDtucHl a. Biz Turtle,

William Morey and Albert Barton, while
fishing ut Popolatic pond yesterday morn
ing captured what is considered the larg-
est turtle that has ever been taken from
the water in this vicinity. They pulled
the turtle to the surface of the water
as soon as he showed his head two bul-
lets were discharged from revolver into
the same, which stunned it so that it
rolled over, when the two fishermen
seized its tail and pulled it into their
boat and brought it to town, where it
was weighed. 1t tipped the scales at
80 pounds: Two Frenchmen purchased
1T for $3.50, which was considered but
News |
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-09-22
THE CAPE NOME MINES.
Original Pros; ectors Say There i
Go i'm Great Abu,letance.

Original Pros ectors Say There is
Go i'm Great Abuudance.
u have purposely avoided reporters"
said Gabe Price to a New York Sun rep
resentative at San Francisco, because
there is apparently an idea that the
Cape Nome country is nothing more than
n boom scheme on the part Of Transporter
ton companies, when, on the contrary, it
is nothing of the sort. l was member
OF Charley Lanes party, outftted two
years, ago for exploring the kotzebue
Sound country, and we went in we'll pro-
vlsloned for two years. We drifted down
into the Nome country late last fall and
discovering the great merits of the co,ln-
try, | sent out word to Lane. On my
representations he sent out five vessels
with provisions, machinery, etc, and ac-
companied the expedition personally. All
this is on our own responsibility, without
reference to individuals or transportation
companies. | put up $4,000 of my own
money on the venture and have taken
out S71, 900. sent down $4,000 on the
first steamer from st. Michael and
brought down with me this trip SCI 900,
which l sent to San Francisco. l think
there will be fully $1,500,0OO taken out
though we didn't begin operations until
the first of June. a large amount of
this gold will come down this fall, while
considerable Of it will remain in the
camps to transact current business.
Fully $500 men will remain in the
diggings this winter and there needn't
be all idle man in the lot. We paid 81
day and board to miners, which is equal
to $40. But miners foun they could do
better by working for themselves in the
beach diggings where they are taking
out not less than $40 day and many of
them go as high as 500 to the man.
These beach diggings have been god
send to men who did not have claims of
their own. They can obtain water to
wash their gold from the ocean within
to prevent them working until December.
They can begin work in June and that
gives them plenty of time for mining.
The gold is found from the surface to
depth Of six feet and the beach diggings
where good pay is found extend for TWEEN
ty or thirty miles along the coast.
Il have only alluded to the portion of
can set up his rocker or take pan and
go to work, taking out gold with little
streams are Snake and Nome, which
empty into the sea about three miles
apart, paralleling each other for miles,
the former has from twenty-five to thirty
tributaries, all showing gold, while the
promises equally well. Most of the work
has been done on Glacier and Anvil
creeks, and it is from them that greatest
amount Of gold has been taken. On
Glacier the diggings are located in Snow
gulch; on Anvil they are in Quartz gulch.
There are plenty of supplies in the
country for all who winter there and
there will be no occasion for suffering.
intend returning in the spring and have
no doubt of the result. have the most
implicit confidence in the mines and
think the output during the next year
will be something that will astonish the
most sanguine."
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-09-22
Was ROrn Not Made,

One was from Kentucky, and, of
course. colonel, and the other had
served in the Northern army during the
Civil war. says the New York Tribune
They had been discussing with rising
heat the conduct of the Philippine cam
paign, when some remark of the coloncl's
raised the Northerner's ire and he said:
"What do you know about military
matters, anyway?'
Il am colonel replied the Ken
tuckian. with dignity.
Il don't see what that's got to do with
it," rcjoined the Northerner; you were
born a colonel"
And then for FIVE minutes their mutual
friends were extremely busy trying to
Dry them aDart
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-09-22
Wiuterinv Stock.

The farmer who simply winters his
stock until spring loses valuable time,
unless his object is to gain in weight of
product. Many farmers are satisfied to
have the stock come out in the spring in
as good condition as the animals were in
the fall, but something more should he
wn than Eyer the n nSSE t. b kf G
not make a gain cailses loss, Us labor
is required, and the most profitable plan
is to feed literally and endeavor to gain
as much as possible.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-09-22
Longest Burrows Ever PIowed

Ryan Bros. Of Laramie, Wyo., have
been awarded contract for the longest
furrow ever plowed in the world. In
fact, they will plow four burrows, the
ccoomnblneed length of which will be over
2oo miles. These burrows are designed
to serve as fire guards for the property
of the Union Pacific between CHEYENNE
and Wyoming station, distance of sew
enty miles There will be two burrows
on each side Of the track, 200. feet dis
tant from the rails. The heavy plow to
be used in the work will be drawn by six
large horses, and when the start is made
they will be kept going right along camp
ing on the road wherever night overtakes
the outfit instead Of completing the job
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-09-22
"A Lobster Kills IL Rat

A hungry rat got in a Bath kitchen
the other day, and >espying some live, lob
sters. seized one and started with Il for
his hole. The lobster, in his turn, seized
ster was found on the kitchen floor and
the rat was there also, the lobster alive
and the rat dead. There are dangers in
the lobster business. for one who doesn't
fully understand what he is about
kennebec Journal ". IT,. .,'$' - ~
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-09-22
Hugh Grant.

A writer in the New York Press says
Of Hugh J. Grant. ex-mayor of New
York, and Ulysses S. Grant. Jr.: 1t is
not bit odd that they should have been
chums at college Name often draws men
together. One day, long after they had
cut their political eyeteeth, after Hugh
was sheriff, Buck" said. as they strolled
down Broadway: Hugh, why is it you
are SO modesto With sly twinkle the
future mayor replied: ''Modcsty doesn' t
do a man any harm in politics." Hugh
Grant may have an easy look about
his face, but he can hold his own with
the shrewdest. Naturally warm-hearted
he is as cold at business as Russell Sage.
At poker he is recognized postmaster.
| have yet to see the man who can out
hold him, lay EN- down quicker when
he's beat, bet 'em harder when he's got
'em, and gather in the pot with a moro
regretful air. His skin being clear and
his blood clean, he can blush like sensi-
tive girl still tied to mothers apron
strings. But. brethren, don't let that
blush fool Won!
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-09-22
Bernhard,'s Brilliant Retort.

NJ. Huret, in his monograph on Sarah
Bernhard, tells the following anecdote
of the great actress:
Zone day Nine Bernhardt happened to
enter Il Protestant church and heard the
minister denounce her as an imp of dark
ness, a female demon sent from the mod
ern Babylon to corrupt the new world.
Before the day was over the clergyman
received this note:
"'My Dear Confrere: Why attack me
so violently! Actors ought not be hard
on one another. Sarah Bernhardt.'
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-09-22
Two Weeks
Treatment Free.

to readers Of this PAL
cures rheumatism, S
Bowel Complaints. B
germs from the blood.
tiers like the above O
are proving this ever
Of 500 Dollars in Go.
anyone who can prove
genuine.
A book telling all 4
cures and a free sar
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-09-22
Fail l'i.winy.

There may be disadvantages in fall
blowing. as it is believed by some that
the blowing of the land in the fall per
mits Of the loss or soluble plant food in
winter by teaching, but when the land is
plowed late i'll the year and then cross
plowed early in the spring there is
brought to the surface the larvae of in
sects. which perish on exposure to cold
at the surface. TO prevent teaching OF
be done early in the fall and the land
seeded to rye
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-09-22
A Biscuit SUPP er.

A shirred-wheat biscuit supper that
was to have been given at the Press club
tonight by Mrs Ethel Lavon Peck of
Chicago has been postponed until Octo-
Der Is, to enable Mrs. Peck to arrange a
more elaborate banquet than would be
possible to present tonight. Mrs. Peck
lcctured at the Grand Avenue Mctho.
dist church this afternoon upon How to
prODerly Use Food"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-09-22
The Finish Of Newspaper Men.

We look into a cradle and behold a
male child. At the age of 10 he is a noisy
kid. with half the buttons off his pants.
and an eye for meanness. AT the age of
Is he is a devil in printshop; at Is
the publisher of country newspaper,
at the head of every enterprise caiculat-
ed to improve the town or enrich: the
and WORKOUT man, with holes in his
packets and a bald head at the age of
80 he is a corpse in a cheap coffin, and
his only resources left behind are two
cases Of long primer type, Washington
han'lpress, and subscription book with
800 delinquent subscribers, who line up
and march past the coffin, saying: HE
was a philosophical fellow, but he
couldn't save anything. "-RocheIle Her
al1
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-09-22
A Hot Shot.

An Austrian princess once asked the
Duke of Wellington, How is it that we
in Vienna speak French so much better
than you English?' To which the duke
replied: We'll, princess, if Napoleon had
twice visited London with his armies, as
he has Vienna, | have no doubt we
should be much more familiar with the
French language"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-09-22
!. FARM AND GARDEN.
At a Country Dance.

At a Country Dance.
Tread Of the thistledown
Lighting on heather
Curls III dancing crown
Bursting their tether-
Laugh Of Il bohollnk
SwnylnE OH rushes,
Breath Of the mealoW-pink
Born of her bushes,
Free as Il swallow dips,
Moving TO ylol-toneS,
Over the floor she trips,
Mems hearts her stepping stones.
Arthur Guitermnn in The Criterion
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-09-22
WE WANT
EYeryhody

That's interested in furnishing their
home and saving money to write for our
big catalogue. IT'S FREE. Wiscon-
sins biggest home furnishing store.
THE NEW ENGLAND STORE,
Cor. West Water and Cedar Streets.
Milwaukee, Wis
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-09-22
We're Utilized Long Ago,

Natural gas conveyed in bamboo tubes
was utilized in China years ago and one
Of their writer's mentions boxes which
repeated the sounds Of persons voices
that were dead-a machine similar to
Edison's phonogruph. 80
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-09-22

The Hidden Treasure mine in Me-
thow district ist making a record as the
richest gold mile in the Cascade range.
says a Seattle dispatch. 1t has pay
streak II inches wide, extending from
the surface to depth of $50 feet, car
rying gold values from $500 to $1,000 a
ton: The vein is feet wide. carrying
gold values outside the pay streak from
$40 to SIS a ton. ;,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-09-22

News from the Princess Maud, near
Republic, Wash, continues to be sensa-
tional. An average sample across three
and half feet of the bottom of the
winze returned 1919 ounces of gold and
112 ounces of silver.