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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-07-21
hurt my hand badly. You cannot seu

hurt i,G, my l, hand Y badly; Yos cannot SET
| held It to the light, / looked at It
very carefully--the hand wis really
worth looking at bent lower over 1t,
lower still. Then suddenly glanced
upward. She was smiling. l saw a
challenge in her eyes. ! kissed her hand.
"Clotilde," said voice over my head:
1t was a strange voice, and it seemed
looked up and recognized the rigid, sc,
we're hat, Under. the hat was a man.
He looked bpd-tempered when he, regard
ed me: he looked penitent when lie gazed
upon madame.
::Hshsi," she cried. II have thorn in
ny II h9 9gef a Ihis gentleman is clumsy -
She glanced, 1t me, scotpfully, and
stretched her ,perfectly7healthy hand to
the owner Of the rigid hat, who took It,
Then, In that hand, innocent of scratch
or mark. he fund thorn, plucked 1t
out, and kissed the place where it had
been, / think, though, the wound was,
after all, rot in her hand, and if l did
not find it ras not useless in the heal
Then sudL-ni, I remembered that
tilted my forse,t uiness in a violent man
1ner. When mine host entered he was in
time to see the rigid hat bending un-
der a parnsol somewhere down the road.
"Ah, they haze trade it up again." h.
cried, with evident. satisfaction. Il am
glad Of thar, Tor the wedding, is to be in
the early part of next week, aid Lam to
supply tue wine FOR the CEREMONY. :.
l continued my walk to Pourville, having
rcmemner,i my sister who was wait hg.
-Black and White.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-07-21
Feeding New Corn.

1t is the custom Of many farmers to
commence feeding Hew corn to hogs as
soon as it is in the roasting ear, making
it, with the addition Of a pasture fire.
quently scanty, the sole feed from that
time until the hogs are finished for the
market. This is n wasteful practice.
How wasteful, any farmer can see for
h him Elf, says Wallace's Farmer, if he
will pull off an ear Of corn i'll roasting
eur, hang it up to dry, pulling one each
week until the corn is ready to cut up,
and then, about the list of December,
when all are thoroughly dry, shell and
weigh the grain Oh each ear, taking care
that the ears selected be as nearly as
possible of the same length and the same
number Of rows.
He will then understand as he never
did before that up to the roasting ear
stage the corn plant is simply getting
ready for work. and that its work of
storing food in the ear is done in COM
paratively short period. If, therefore,
the fnrmer feeds corn in the roasting ear
stage be does it at great loss. How
great the loss IL we will not say, pre-
ferrihg to allow the farmer to find that
out for himself by the single and easy ~
forget what somebody tells us: we are
sure to remember what we find out for
ourselves. The first objection, therefore,
against this method is that it is very
expensive one. Seventy pounds Of dry,
mature corn in the ear will furnish about
fifty pounds Of dry matter in the grain.
1t will surprise the farmer to find out
how maty more pounds Of roasting ears
will be required to furnish the same
amount Of dry matter and nutrition.
The second objection is that ali oil
corn diet from the roasting, ear period, on
is not the best thing for a hog; The hog
likes rodstii1g edrs; So does his owf1er,
but he. would not relish them greatly if
he had r0dstiag. ears dloi1e for break
fast, diiihet. aiid SUPPER, week i'll and
week out. While there is nothing that
will furnish the nidtufe hog sd cheaply
in the fdil IF the year dis ear c5rH dtd
cold. water, Nevertheless up to this final
finish dll hogs. and particularly y0uhg
hogs, require greater variety Of feed.
A good pastufe will 60 far toward bal
ancing this allc0rii ration, but d feed
of oats dnd barley Or gr6uhd rye will
more, yet. WE are inclined to think that
in due i}r6porti8h with c6rR they DIRE a
cheaper feed than the. all-corn ration,
even WHEN that is but Is CENTS per bush
el.-St. Ldtis Globe Defii6crat:
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-07-21
WARS FROM THRILLING CAUSES.
Petty Quarrels Have Brought on
Bloody Conflicts in the Past,

Many wars have had trifling causes.
A dispatch altered in one or two points
by Bismarck brought on the Franco-G Ter
man conflict. Palmerston said facetious-
~ that only three men in Europe ever
knew what the Schleswig- Holstein trou-
bles which led to the wars were about,
and two of them died before the con-
ficts: began, while he, the third man, had
forgotten. A sighting reference by Fred
erick the Great Of Prussia to Nine.
Pompadour of France was said to have
been one of the causes of the seven
years war, sometimes called the "war of
the Three Petticoats," from the fact
that the France of Pompadour and the
Russia of Catherine II. joined the Aus
tria of Maria Theresa against Freder-
ick.
According to John Bright, England and
her allies drifted into the Crimean war
without realizing it until after they got
in, and they did not know what they
were fighting for even after they started !;
while it is certain that everything which
was supposed to have been fixed by that
result of quarter Of q century Of war
beginning with the commencement of
the French Revolution and ending with
Waterloo pleased nobody and settled
nothing" according to Sheridan. The
average person who lived in those days
knew as little about the causes of the
slaughter as old Kaspar did about the
battle of Blenheim when questioned by
little Peterkin.-Leslie's Weekly.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-07-21
Patents to inventors.

Messrs. Benedict & Morsell, solicitors
Of Patents, Old Insurance building, Mil
waukee, report patents issued to Western
inventors July as follows:
h: H. Brown, Ford du Lac, Wis, hold
back attachment for vehicles; c. w. Cross,
Grinnell, Ia, clothes peuhder; A. Dings,
Milwaukee, magnetic separator; Henrietta
P. Evan, Winneconne, Wis; Sarrnent-cut-
ting scale; c. A. Gray, Kansas Cit2, Kas.,
Rhinelander, Wis, pump governor; Jas.
Millmann, sheboygan, Wis, Calculating ma.
chine; A. G. Mather and F. r. Snyder, Mi
ington, Ia, oil-can; Michael Marbere.
Florence, Wis, window cleaner; Peter
Peterson, Reels, Ia.,. bride bit rein-rins;
tector for shoes; c. c. smaiiey, Manitowoe.
Wis, straw or feed cutter; IL. c. Swan
Oshkosh, Wis. thi!i coupling: G. E. Guen'
tier, kn9 , WIS, saw blade design;
tain named medicines Grade mark
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Plenty Of Gold at Home.

1t is said that two-thirds of the men
who went to the Klondike region in 1898
Globe-Democrat asserts that these per-
sons could doubtless have done better if
they had gone into the mining localities
in the United States. The fact that Col
orado, California, Montana, South Da-
.kota and the rest of the states in which
gold mining is going on are increasing
their yield constantly. is an evidence that
Americans need not go outside of their
great promise. Apparently the rush to
the Kiondike this year has been much
below that of 1893 or the latter part of
1897. There is. in the confines of the
United States, greater wealth of gold
and silver deposits than could probably
be found in any other country on the
plOhe
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Take q Rest.

1t is an encouraging fact that periods
of rest and recreation are finding a larger
place in the life of the American people
than was formerly the case. 1t is ten
dency which we may carry much farther
still with added profit. In this we may
reproach often heaped upon us by OBJ
servers from other lands, that we take
even our pleasures sadly, and devote our
selves too much to the worship of man.
mon. We certainly may learn something
of our English cousins, and more still OF
our German friends, of the way to
achieve success in life by happy ming
ling of honest and fruitful work with
occasional periods of calm and joyous
ease.
1t is a fatally erroneous idea, too COM
mon in many circles of American socie-
ty, and especially among the professional
and working classes, that vacation days,
periods set apart for pleasure and rccrea-
ton, are things out Of the normal course
wisdom for any except inval:ds, the aged,
and the wealthy. The wage-earner, the
struggling professional, the man of fami-
ly who gives himself few days of rest
now and then, is made to feel, ofttimes,
half-guilty sense of having yielded to a
eakness, of having been a little lazy, of
having done something which he had no
right to do in consideration Of his own
worldly interests and of those dependent
on him. He should have remained at
home attending to his business; that is
the prevailing thought. He cannot af-
ford to be idle.
Against such ideas of the workers.
rest-days we set the truer, nobler, and
more rational view that they have as
proper and necessary a place in every
mans life as the work-days. The man
who closes his desk, lays down his ham,
mer, or leaves his plow, and does moth
ing for time every year but give him
self up to rest and enjoyment, is as fully
in the line Of doing his God--given duty
as when he is toiling and moiling for his
daily bread He may, indeed, earn more
bread, and will surely earn it easier and
more happily when his body has been
cleared, his. body energized, and his soul
enlarged under the peace, the freedom,
and the sunshine of days lived elsewhere
than under the lash Of work.-Leslie's
Weekly.
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FOR THE FARMER.
The Old Home.

The Old Home.
In the quiet shadows Of twilight
stand by the garden door,
And gaze oil the old. old homestead,
So cherished aid i6ved, Of tere.
But the, Ivy now Is twlhlfig
UhtrRihsd Oct window aid Wall;
And no more the voice OF tie ehlfdreft
Is ech0ing through the hatl
Through years Of pain and sorrow,
Slice first had to port,
The thought IT the dear DID homestead
Has fingered around Itiy ,hexrt;
The porch embowered with roses;
The gables dropping caves,
And the song Of the birds at twilight
Amid the orchard leaves.
And the fqfmk 81, those, Yho loyed me
In the happy childRdod Years
Appear at the dusky windows,
Through vision dimmed with tears.
l hear their voices calling
From the shadOwy far away;
And stretch my arms toward them
In the gloom Of the twilight gray.
But only the night winds answer,
Is cry through the. dismal air;
From the darkness Of it's, hair:
Yet still the voice of my childhood
Is calling from far away,
And the faces Of those who loved me
Smile through the shadows gray.
Arthur L. Salmon
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-07-21
A Chance for Green MouuriuR.

There are many patches where the oats
the heavy rains of the past few weeks,
these patches will be taken by the weeds.
This is good chance for farmers in all
parts to test the value of green manur-
ing by turning these weeds under now
not less than six inches deep, followed
Immediately that is within a few hours
the disks will sink deepest and turn the
furrow least. The ground should be
double disked twice to make it cons
pact around the green weeds. This con
centrates the moisture around the vege-
table matter and starts decomposition.
It also prevents the soil being held up In
loose form by the weeds and dried out.
Harrow the surface to q depth Of three
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-07-21
JULIA DENT GRANTS GOWNS.
Some of the Costumes Made in raris,
as Part of Her Wedding Trousseau.

SuluS u VIE NOotuuu0S NAOuC IN mrs.
as Part of Her Wedding Trousseau.
New York, July 15.-Miss Julia Dent
Grant, with her mother and grandmoth-
CT, Mrs. Frederick Dent Grant, and Mrs.
y. S. Grant, is at the Windsor hotel in
prospects. and her exquisite gowns are
subjects in which all Saratoga seems to
be interested.
The following are among the many
GOWNS which are being completed in Par
is for Miss Grant, who is to be married
to Prince Michael Cantacuzene Of Rus.
sia in August ut Newport:
is brilliant with threads, Of pure gold
wrought into rich design Of Florentine
iris. Two trails Of this gold work pass
up the front of the gown, while at the
lower part of the skirt 1t widclls out con-
siderably so that all the bottom Of the
gown Is weighted BY its rich burden. On
the softly gathered whist bodice there is
similar gold embroidery, A solid gold
narrow girdle, with a gold buckle Of Rus
sian design, will be worn at the waist.
Another bali gown of Miss Grants is
made of white crepe du chene and broad
Brusse Is lace insertions, made over white
peau de sole. The long trained skirt is
striped horizontally with bands Of the
crepe and lace and meets d simple little
waist bodice made entirely Of fine tucks
of crepe, with band of Brussels lace at
is wonderful embroidery Of green
leaves, starting at the left shoulder and
reaching to the foot of the skirt This
is exquisitely fine hahdwork, and between
the leaves are sprays Of orchids in shades
Of, pink and purple, green and white.
These howers are made so we'll that the
curled petals of silk. velvet and chiffon
deceive all expert. There is a girtile of
mauve velvet, and the tiouiicihg Of white
tulle between the skirt and it's separate
lining makes soft pillows about the feet.
A tish-scale sequin gown is another
evening novelty in this trousseau. The
close-titting princess robe is entirely
formed of overlapping greenish scales and
falls upon flounces of black mousseline de
sole. The decol lete bodice and tops Of
sleeves are finished with a wide putting
of sea-foam green mousseline
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-07-21
The Cancels Eye,

The Nile is essentially river of 81
lence and mystery. Even the camels
turn their beautiful soft eyes upon you
as if you were intruding upon their 81
lence and reserve. Never were the eyes
in human head so beautiful as a CAM
els. There is a limpid softness, an ap-
pealing plaintiveness in their expression
which drags at your sympathies like the
look in the eyes of hunchback. 1t
means that, with your opportunities, you
might have done more with your life.
times in church, when the sermon
touches a particularly raw nerve in your
spiritual makeup. I always feel like
apologizing when camel looks Mt me-
Lillian Bell in the Woman's Home Com
noniOn
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Milk and Cream Differ Greatly.

Milk and cream are not identical. The
first is housekeeping, the second fat-pro-
ducing. The first is best to use for such
cereals as wheat germ, oatmeal and those
which contain large quantity of fatty
matter, while cream may be added to
whole wheat foods, which lack this con-
stituent. Cream, being an emulsified fat,
is easily assimilated by those who cannot
take other animal or vegetable fats, and
who must, for health's sake, depend upon
the amount of emulsified fat assimilated,
particularly those suffering from tuber-
culosis or scrofula. The nutritious value
for the child;sor healthy adult, should be
based upon the solids contained in the
milks, not the fats, although these should
correspond, but not be in excess.
It may be Of interest to know that our
state laws are, usually directly opposed
to this, thus the poor are robbed of that
excellent understanding food, SKINNED
milk. In fact, we are all taught to look
upon cream as the all-important part Of
milk. In this country even the very
poor use butter in large quantities; con-
sequently, cream may be dispensed with
to advantage.
Whole milk, however, should be used
for children where bread and milk form
q meal. - -, IL -.
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Time for Sowing Turuips.

While occasionally, under favorable
conditions, a good crop of turnips may be
grown by sowing as late as the middle of
August, generally the best results will be
secured by sowing not later than the
middle Of July. Have the soil in good
filth and reasonably rich, so that the
plants may get a good start to grow
before the weather gets too hot and dry.
One advantage with turnips is that if
they cannot be eaten or sold to an ad-
vantage they can always be fed to stock
proftably Farmers Voice.
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To Succeed with the Caladium.

tries ae where It Il is grown in lose. rich rich
sandy soils and receives an abundance OF
water. The bed should be made in par.
tally shaded location or where the sun
will not be parching. Incorporate in the
soil large quantities Of well-rotted ma
nure aud some sand. II this should not
be done at the time of planting, it can
easily be worked in afterward with good
effect. As the strength OF the fertilizer
soon is taken up it Is we'll to apply fire..
quent heavy mulches Of manure from
Ing the heat Of the summer apply an
abundance OF water daily, and the extra
effort put forth will be rewarded by extra
large leaves.-Robert r. McGregor in
Woman's Home Companion.
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HAppIN EsS.
sAA i - ~ NcSt
Happiness Is like a crystal,
Fair aud exquisite and clear.

Happiness Is like a crystal,
Fair and exquisite and clear,
Broken In u million pieces,
Shattered, scattered, far and near.
NOW and then, along life's pathway,
10! some shining fragments fall
hut there are so many pieces
No one ever finds them all.
You may find bit of beauty,
Or an honest share Of wealth.
While another, just beside yoN
Gathers honor, love or health.
Win to choose or grasp Qnduly,
Broken Is the perfect ball
And there are so many, pieces
No one ever finds them all.
Yet the wise. us on, they Journey,
Trcasure every fragment clear;
Fit them, as they may. together.
tmaEtng the shattered sphere,
Learning ever to be thankful
Though their share Of It Is small
For 1t has so many pieces
No one ever finds them all.
Priscilla Leonard.
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.4s8 Making Hay.

In making .hay'it is always best to hc-
gin few days before the meadow is
quite ready to cut. The loss from cut
ting a week too soon il not to be conf
pared with the loss arising from cutting
a week too late. There is difference be-
tween dried grass and hay made from
matured grass, but if the stock is al
grass. II we do not begin to make hay
until it is just right, bad weather or
other untoward circumstances may
cause delays that will afford the grass
time to get too ripe, and once this hap
pens it is impossible to make good hay
of it.
There will be very little clover hay in
pendence must be on timothy and prairie
hay. Timothy cutting should begin by
the time the blossoms fall from the
heads.
We prefer to begin cutting as soon as
the dew is off in the morning. If the
day, when it is raked and allowed to lie
in the winrow an hour or two and is then
piled into well-built cocks, where it can
stand until the next day, or two or three
days, if necessary. In these cocks it be-
gins to sweat, and pitching the hay on
the wagon and off into the NOW airs it
out in way that causes it to cure per-
fectly in the NOW, coming out bright
green and smelling as sweet as new
mown hay.
The use Of hay loader hastens the
work of haymaking, but is not conducive
to the making of the best of hay, as it
can be properly cured only by standing
in the cock for time. The writer has
concluded that the average farmer can
not afford to use hay loader if he wants
the best hay for his stock.-Farmer's
Voice.
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Discussing the earnings of Indian
railways last year, the London Econo-
mist declares that certain lines earned
more from the haulage of food-stuffs in
to the famine-stricken districts than they
would get, in normal seasons, from the
outward movement of native-grown prod
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To Clean White Ribbon

White satin ribbons are supposed to be
Reffshable things. However, with care
they can be cleaned and worn indefinite
". Wash them with warm soap and
water and a nail brush, or if not very
After rinsing, let them dry thoroughly
before ironing. If ironed when wet they
are too stiff and will not tie we'll.
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Pruning Vines in Sun, fiier.

The chief art in gardening consists in
not allowing our plants to have their
own willful way, but to make them be-
have as we want them to. Vines, gen
orally, make desperate attempts to get
to the top of bush or tree that they
Irvine around, and the lower portion is
nothing but, series of naked stems.
this proceeding reversed. We desire as
many branches close to the ground as at
the extreme upper portion of the pole
or frame on. which they are supported.
The educated gardener understands how
to do this. The grower of grapes under
glass has to; know how to do it, as 9TH
erwise he would have grapes in the apex
of the roof and nowhere else. He ap-
plies the same principle to the growth Of
Towering vines. out of doors as to his
grapes under glass, or to the grapes in
the outdoor garden. for that matter,
with equal results. Indeed, there could
be few better methods of learning wheth-
er one has a real gardener or only a
wolf in sleeps clothing, than by noting
whether he allows the foneysuckles to
grow in crows nests under the coping
Of the piazza front, or whether the
branches are Of equal strength from apex
to the ground.
And yet, the art Is very simple. It is
simply to pinch out the apex of the
strong-growing shoots that want to get
up still higher, and leave the struggling
f Shoot s at n 0@ cSfs oe v The Erowh
of the upper shoots, has to be expended
somewhere, Just as the sudden stoppage
of water being forced through a: pipe
may burst that pipe. 1t is diverted to
the lower and weaker shoots, which be-
come, before the season is over, as
strong as the upper ones.
In the hands of good gardener a
grapevine trellis will have fruit over ev-
cry part of it's surface-and have as fine
fruits at the apex as at the base But
how rarely do we see these masters of
the art; and how simple the art is, after
all!-Meehans' Monthly.