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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-04-21
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An Excellent Combination,

The pleasant method and beneficial
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In the process of manufacturing figs
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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-04-21
/" Trust Not to
Appearances"

appearances.
That 4vhich seems hard to
bear may be a great blessing.
Let us take a lesson from the
rough veather of Spring. It
IS doing good despite appear
ances. Cleanse the system
thoroughly; rout out all
Impurities from the blood
evith that greatest specific,
Hoods Sarsaparil1a.
Instead of eepl IS nights, with con-
sequent irri,ablene and an undone, tired
feeling, you wi have tone and bracing
air that will enable you to enter into every
days work with pleasure. Remember,
Hoods nercr dtsdppotnts.
Coitre-"G was so expensive in medi
cal attendance that let mine 60 1t made me a
perfect wreck. until l took Hoods Sarsaparilla.
VIII Oh entirely cured me-" MRS. THOMAS JONES.
100 South St. Utica, N Y.
Running Sores" Five years ago my
affection came, running sorr on my leg, caus-
ing me great anguish. Hoods Sarsa parilla
healed the sore, which has never returned"
Mrs A. W. BARRETT, 80 Powell St, Lowell Mass.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-04-21

The tents of the Bedouin Arabs are
usually black. They are made of dyed
goathair cloth.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-04-21

\ because You Love Me -
4 RecAusefyou love me have found
New Joys that We're not mine before;
New stars have lightened up my sky
with Siories growing more and more.
Because you love me l can rise
Hs ne,sh! g, Of aans ana rsams o1 Power;
The highest use Of every hour.
Because you love me | can choose
70 look thro your dear eyes and see
Beyond the beauty Of the Now
Ear onward to Eternity.
Because You love me 1 can wait
With perfect patience we'll possessed
Because you love HE, all my life
Is circled with unuuestioned rest:
Yes. even Life. and even Death
: Is all unquesti0ned and all hlest.
~ 2"'* j. Pail Mali Magazine. =
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-04-21
The Art of Dinner Giving.

Dinner giving, very sensibly says wri-
ter in What to Eat, is an art in which
few excel. 1t is easy enough to select
number of dishes from a cookery book,
and have them prepared in a more or less
appetizing manner by ones cook, or to or
der a dinner complete in all its details
from some caterer; but to make each
guest feel that he has dined we'll with
out giving him the conviction that he has
complished even by the most particular
hostess. The American entertainer is
prone to excess in the quantity in which
he offers to his guests. He does this out
of mistaken idea of hospitality, not
from any fear of being called mean if
he should give only small repast. AS
rule. dinner should consist of not
more than five or six chief courses-that
is, soup, fish, entree, roast and vegeta-
bles, each one served separately, FOLLOWED
by an entremet of some sort, and fruit.
ropean entertainers, who seldom give
more than that, and whose guests would
be shocked to see four or five vegetables
on the table at the same time. With the
entree are often served two vegetables;
but the chief dish of that kind always
comes on as separate course, either just
before or after the roast. The celebrated
dinner given in London by Mr.. Walker,
which has been referred to in gastrOnom-
ical treatises for over fifty years, con-
sisted simply Of clear turtle, whitehall,
grouse, apple fritters and jelly. Anoth-
er dinner given by that renowned enter
tainer comprised spring soup, turbot, ribs
of beef, dressed crab, and jelly. And the
amateurs who were asked to these sim
pie repasts were all satisfied with the
result.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-04-21

The largest building is the Coliseum
at Rome. 1t is G15 feet in greatest diam
eter and 100 feet high.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-04-21

To Cure a Cold In One Day
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All
druggists refund the money if it fails to cure.
Csc. The genuine has L. B. @. on each tablet
The largest building is the coliseum
at Rome. 1t is 615 feet in greatest diam
eter and 100 feet high.
l shall recommend Piso's Cure for Con-
sumption far and wide.-Mrs. Mulligan,
P'umstead. Kent. England. Nov. 8. 1895.
Hotel chambermai,ls are unknown in
Mexico. Men make the beds and keep
the rooms in order.
A DOSE IN TIME SAVE, NINE OF HALEs HONEY
OF HoREHorND AND TAR for coughs. OF Druggists.
PIXIES TOoTHACHE DROPS Cure In one Minute
japanese do not care much for nov
els. Among $1,000 new books printed
last year only 1852 were works of fiction.
Mrs. Winxlovv's SOOTHING SYRUP TO, children
eething, softens the gums, reduces Inflammation
allays pain, cures wind collie &c n bottle
Field rats are esteemed as a table
delicacy in Cuba.
wANTED-Case Of bad health that R.I.P.AN Ms will
not benefit Send cents to Ripans Chemical Co.,
Wooden legs are used by over 1,OO0.-
COO English-speaking men.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-04-21

shall recommend Piso's Cure for Con-
sumption far and wide.-Mrs Mulligan,
P'umstcad. Kent. England. Nov. 8. 1895.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-04-21

DOSE IN TINE SAVE. NINE OF HALE's HONEY
OF HoREHorND AND TAR for coughs. OF Druggists.
PIXIES TOoTHACHE DROPS Cure In one Minute
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-04-21

Hotel chambermailS are unknown in
Mexico. Men make the beds and keep
the rooms in order
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-04-21

of the one which carries ambition with
it.
After all, personal happiness, as dis
tlngulshed from the content which may
or may not succeed it, is transient
thing, whereas an author who really
loves her work, and does not create I'M
der pressure, is thoroughly happy every
time she writes book. 1t is sort OF
mental passion, and, unlike a succession
Of love affairs, is equally fresh and keen
each time. One makes ones own world
IN creating novel, for instance, and the
nneXpected-in which I never found the
traditional pleasure, for I hate to be
Dothered--dOes not exist. If you have a
love affair the man can die, or transfer
MS affections, or you tire-which is
more tragic still-or other people worry
YOU about ito say nothing of the fact
that you are mass of sensitive nerves
OUT If You go and shut yourself up IL,
some old European city, with your work,
the world and all it's details cease to ex-
'st, and YOU become so detached from
pract'cal life that You are incapable of
receiving personal impression.
When l am in the middle of a book I
might hear of the death of every relative
L have in the world, and it would mean
nothing to me whatever. or course, this
means that in time one is less and less
capable of receiving personal impress
sions; one becomes more and more a
mere faculty in an increasing state of de-
veiopment; your sense of your own ego
becomes smaller and smaller, and your
one desire and determination is to do
your best by the peculiar twist your
brain has taken, and let everything else
go.
Now, all this would BIZ very hard on a
husband. and do not think that won
an whose ambitions rise as high, and
whose powers Of concentration are as
great as those have Just described, has
any right to marry. When man offers
A woman his name, his affections and his
support, he has a right to expect equal
measure in return. If a woman Of talent
is prepared to give this measure, she
must resign herself to being dilettante.
II she wants to be great she must rs the
pace alone and hope for the other happi-
ness in another life. 5..s 5 81
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-04-21

wANTED.-Case OF bad health that R.I.P'AN s will
not benefit. Send cents to Rfpans Chemical Co,
New York. for 10 samples and LOO testimon
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1899-11-24
Pussy Understood.

This story may sound a little bit like
a fairy story, and you may think it
safer not to believe it, but it is just
as true as can be, for the owner of the
cat said so himself. He was a fine,
black Persian cat, and came proudly
marching into the house one day with
a poor, little sparrow in his mouth, for
pussies will catch birds, no matter how
fine their family blood may be. After
showing his prize, Pussy went to the
front door, and, thinking the mat there
would make a nice table, commenced
his meal. Of course he scattered a
great many feathers around and made
the front entrance look anything but
tidy, and the cook was not pleased at
the litter Pussy had made, and told
him so, and said that the next time he
chose to dine there, he must turn the
mat over on the wrong side. And fol-
lowing his own text, cook turned the
mat over. About two weeks afterward
Pussy brought another bird to the
front door, and, though the mat was
quite heavy for him, took his claws
and turned it over as cook had told
him to do. Then he proceeded to en-
Joy his feast.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1899-11-24
A Boy Who Helped.

In every conflict with foreign pow
ers, some Of those who perform the
most important services are persons
who for n reason and another have
been compelled to remain at home. AS
a striking illustration of this truth, the
Pilgrim Teacher recalls an anecdote OF
revolutionary times. Luke Varnum
lived in a small village among the
Green mountains. He was fifteen years
old, and was lame in his left foot. So
when every other boy and every man,
old and young, shouldered his firelock
and marched off to join Gen. Stark and
fight the Hessians az Bennington, Luke
was left behind. He limped out and
held the stirrup for Lieut.. Chittenden
to mount, and then he had to stay at
home with the babies and the women.
The company had been gone an hour
and a half, more or less, when three
men galloped upon horseback. Luke
went down to the rails to see who they
were. rs anybody here?" asked one
OF them. YES" said Luke, 81 am
here" II see that" said the man,
laughing. What | mean is, is there
anybody here who can set a shoe?" II
think | cam" said Luke. 81 often tend
fire for Jonas. 1 can blow the bellows.
and | can hold a horses foot. Anyway,
l will start up the fire." So Luke went
into the forge and built a fire. He
hunted up half a dozen nails, and he
had even made two more, when a
fourth horseman came slowly down on
a walk. What luck" said he, ito find
a forge with a fire lighted" The
speaker threw himself off the horse
meanwhile, and Luke pared the hoof
Of the dainty creature and measured
the shoe, which was too big for her.
He heated it white, and bent it to the
proper size. Its a poor fit," he said,
but it will do" "It will do very WELL"
said the rider. But she is very ten
~der-footed, and 1 do not dare to trust
her five miles unshod.' For pride's
sake, the first two nails Luke drove
were those he had made himself. When
the shoe was fast, he said, Tell Jonas
that l lit up the forge and put on the
shoe" 1--WE will tell him." said the
colonel, laughing, and he rode on. But
one of the other horsemen tarried a
minute and said: boy, no ten men
who left you today have served the
country as you have done. That is
Col. Warner" And when we read how
Col. Warner led up his regiment just
in time to save the day at Bennington,
we may think of Luke Varnum, who
bravely helped his country.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1899-11-24
what the Chimney Sang.

Over the chimney the night-wlnd sang
And the Woman stopped, as her babe she
tossed,
And thought of the one she had long
since lost,
And said. as her teardrops back she
forced,
Il hate the wind In the chimney"
Over the chimney the night-wind sang
And chanted a melody no one knew;
And the Children saiu. as they closer
drew,
Ills some witch that is cleaving the
black night through,
IT'S n fairy trumpet that just then
blew,
And we fear the wind in the Chin
ney."
Over the chimney the n~ight-wind. sang
And chanted a melody no one knew;
And the Man, as he sat on his hearth
below,
Said to himself: at will surely snow,
And fuel is dear and wages low,
And I'll stop the leak in the CHM
ney."
Over the chimney the night-wind sang
And chanted a melody no one knew;
But the Poet listened and smiled, for he
Was Man and Woman and Child, all
three,
And said: at is Gods own harmony,
This wind we hear in the chimney"
Bret Harte.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1899-11-24
Jack and Jill.

The Icelandic Edda contains a leg
end about Mani, the moon. 1t is said
that Mani once stole from the earth
W children, a boy and girl, named
Hjuki and Bill, who had been drawing
water from the spring Byrgr and were
carrying it in a bucket suspended from
a pole which rested on their shoulders.
Mani placed these two children, to-
gether with their bucket, in a con-
spicuous place in the heavens where
they could be see by all men. This
undoubtedly refers to the spots on the
moon, and it is said that to this day
the Swedish peasants point to two of
these spots as a boy and a girl carry
ing a bucket of water between them.
Now Mother Goose"-whatever may
have been the age in which this de-
lightful old lady lived, and this matter
is as uncertain as the age of Homer
undoubtedly had heard this story of
Mani, and that is how she came to
make up the rhymes about Jack and
Jill. She changed the name Hjuki into
Jack and turned Bill into Jill, to pre-
serve it's feminine character, and the
story about the mishap which befell
the children was easily invented. In
deed, we can see, the accident happen
in any month, If we will watch the
moon through its various phases, for
as the moon wanes it's spots success
sively disappear: Jack falls down
and Jill comes tumbling after"
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1899-11-24
Taxes on Patented Inventions.

A. G. L., Steamboat Rock, Ia: Your
inquiry concerning taxes due in towns,
counties, cities and the state from in
vontors who make and sell their pro
auctions is received.
Materials used for manufacturing lii
ventiOns and thereby increasing the
value of such personal property is tax
able. Towns and cities may therefore
have ordinances TO regulate sales.
Pedlers are subject to a license tax.
But county supervisors may remit tie
tax On articles of an educational nature
or on account of the age and infirmIty
of the sellers. But persons selling
their own work OF production, either
by themselves or employees" VINO have
served in the Union army or navy are
exempt from license tax as set forth in
Section 1347 OF the Iowa Code.
Your patent clothes FOUNDER is your
own invention and manufacture; you
can therefore sell it without a pedicrs'
license.
Where town and city ordinances call
for a license fee the tax may be re-
mitted upon petition or proper prescn-
tation of the case to the mayor. But it
will cost less to comply with such or
dinances as a rule than to ignore
them.
Consultation and advice free.
THOMAS G. ORWIG & CO.,
Registered Patent Attorneys.
Des Moines, Ia, Nov. II, 1899.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1899-11-24
Wilson nnrrert.s New rlnr.

In "The Sign of the Cross" Wilson
Barrett reversed the usual process by
first writing a play and then making
a novel of it. Now in producing n new
novel, IN Old New York"-in which
he has the collaboration of Mr.. Elwyn
Barron, of Chicago-he returns to the
customary plan of procedure. If, indeed,
1t is customary TO look forward deti-
nitely to dramatizing a novel of your
own production. This is what he pro-
poses doing with his "In Old New
York" soon to be published, and fur
Their intends to act the resulting play
when next he comes to America.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1899-11-24
a Big FIJI

On the DeadWocd, S. D., branch of
the Burlington Railroad is a gulch zoo
feet wide, known as Sleeps Canyon.
This was crossed, until recently, by a
wooden bridge, 126 feet high, which
took over 240 600 feet of lumber in the
building. Recently this trestle was
filled in, and the great undertaking at
tracted the attention of railroad men
all over the country. 1t took twenty
weeks to accomplish the task. 1t was
necessary to haul 2,SS0, coo cubic feet
of earth one and one-half miles UP a
two per cent grade and unload off the
high bridge. This required 1886 trains
of fifteen cars each; 2 1000 carloads in
all. 1t was a stupendOUs undertaking,
but now the bridge can't burn, and 1t
doesn't cost a lot of money every year
for repairs and watchers.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1899-11-24

Mr.. Four Miles OF Bridgeport.
Conn, has made application to the
court to have his named changed to
Frank Miller, on the grounds that his
present appellation is frequently used
to hold him up TO Tidlcule. His father
had five children, all boys. and instead
of giving them ordinary Christian
names he called them by the first Ave
numerals. One and Three Miles have
already had their names changed by
the courts; Two Miles seems to be
satisfied with his unique cognOmen.
and Five Miles can not take a new
name until he shall have become OF
age.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1899-11-24
Finano,ers Fond of Funny stun.

The man whose daily life uns in the
channel Of finance frequently resorts
to diversions which are a%ntipodal TO
his business. The head of the finance
of the nation, Secretary Gage, is fond
Of humorous literature after he has quit
his Office. The writings of several of
the more prominent authors of this
class are marked as they appear in the
daily prints and are laid upon the sec
retary's desk. Ghe work of the clever
cartoonists of the day are also clipped,
credited to the paper in which it ap-
peaTs, and put under the proper paper
weight on his desk.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1899-11-24
JASON CROW. oscARvILLE. CA.

JASON CROW, OSCARVILLE. CA.
Writes us, May 81, 1899: Il feel it my
duty to write and let you know what
your medicine. Is Drops has done for
me. l have had rheumatism about
eighteen years, but was able to be up
most of the time until a year ago last
May, when I was taken down and not
able to move about. About six weeks
ago l saw your advertisement and
wrote for a sample bottle. After TAX
ing a few doses it did me SO much
good that ! ordered ONE more for
myself and friends, and in every case
1t has done wonders and given perfect
satisfaction.
"Dr. Woodlif, ny family physician,
who has had rheumatism for fifteen
years, is taking the 5 Drops and says
it Is the most efficient rheumatic med
icine he has ever used"
SO Drops" is the most powerful spe-
cifc known. Free f.pm opiates and
perfectly harmless. 1t is a perfect cure
for Rheumatism, Sciatica, Neuralgia.
Dyspepsia, Backache. Asthma, Catarrh.
La Grippe, Neuralgia headache, etc.
If you or any of your trends are SUI
fering, do not delay, but send for a
bottle of "5 Drops" Large-sized bot
ties 600 doses), 81. For the next
thirty days we will mail a 25-cent
sample bottle for 10 cents. SWANSON
RHEUMATIC CURE CO., 100 to 1874 E.
Lake Street, Chicago. III.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1899-11-24

In a recent talk about the Algon-
quin language, DR.. Edward Everett
Hale observed that 600 words of any
language are enough for human COM
munication. six hundred words"
he said, ARE said to be sufficient for
the couriers of Europe, and it is the
outside limit of the vocabulary of
Italian opera. 1t is true that this is
the minimum of human intelligence,
ir both cases, but still it answers for
the conveyance of thought. In the
book of Judges, for instance, there
are not 200 different words.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1899-11-24
r-rnnsranl stnmns More Costly.

The price of old Transvaal stamps
seems to be rising in value. Among the
First Republic TransYaal stamps dis
posed of at a sale in London a few
days ago were a Sd t1S77) stamp, SIR
charged at back, ct; a Id error,
~(1S77-79), surcharged "Transvaal,'
&29; a Sd lilac on green of the same
period, without surcharge, Els los.
Among the Second Republic stamps
was a half-penny on a Sd stamp with
queens head, SIC. At the same sale a
15c reunion, first issue, brought 833, a
30c reunion, first issue, SAC, md a pair
of I'd Mauritius, G43.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1899-11-24
HOW'a This2

We offer One Hundred Dollars reward for any
case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Halls
Catarrh Cure.
f. ]. CHENEY & CO., Props, Toledo, @.
We, the undersigned, have known F. J.
Cheney for the last Is years and believe him
perfectly honorable in all business transactions
and financially able to carry out any obliga-
tions made by their firm.
West g. Truax. Wholesale Druggists. Toledo,
o.; Walding, Kinnan & Marvin, Wholesale
Druggists. Toledo, Ohio.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally, act
Ing directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces
of the system. Testimonials sent free. Price
15c per bottle. Sold by all druggists.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1899-11-24
There IL a Glass of People

who are injured by the use Of coffee.
Recently there has been placed IN all
the grocery stores a new preparation
called GRAIN-O, made Of pure grains,
that takes the place of coffee. The most
delicate stomach receives IL without
distress, and but few can tell it from
coffee. 1t does not cost over one-fourth
as much. Children may drink it with
great benefit. Is cents and 25 cents
per package. Try it. Ask for GRAIN-O.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1899-11-24
HOW to Save Mone, ON shoes.

Members ofthe United States Cooper
alive Boot & Shoe Purchasing Associa-
ton save 1919 percent on all purchases
of shoes.
Mr.. Z. II. Tilton, Secretary of the As
ISOLATION, los Summer ST., Boston, will
send an illustrated book on shoes, in
structions how to join the association
and flu. information concerning it to
anybody upon request.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1899-11-24

The sewing machine bargain adver-
tised by the John NJ. Smyth Co. in an
other part of this paper should IN
terest every housekeeper. The firm is
thoroughly reliable, having been es-
tablished in Chicago over 80 years
and anyone dealing with them may be
assured Of square treatment. Get their
mammoth catalogue of everything TO
eat. year or use.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1899-11-24
Small for His Age.

"Grandfather," said a saucy little
boy the other day, how old are your"
The old gentleman, who was much I'M
der the ordinary size, took the child
between his knees and said: my dear
boy, 1 am IS years old, but why do you
ask" The little fellow replied:
We'll, it seems to me you are very
small for your age"