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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-11-03

than they have done the past few years
Of business stagnation. 1t is the increas-
i ~ employment and prosperity of work
ihghieii iii the Eastern states that make
n better market and higher prices for all
AGRICULTURAL products this year than in
lsHO and 1SD7. We believe that this
prosperity will continue. and that after
q time the wages Of labor will advance
to CORRESPOND with the increase Of living
expenses. Land values and labor are
the last to rise when good times begin.
and they are the first to fall III eras Of
commercial DEPRESSION, If this country
is wisely governed, what proportion Of
prosperity our people now have should
he continued and Increased during the
next few YEARS. When the parts OF the
country u,isuitch to dairying return to
the, production, OF other farm staples, it
will Increase tile, value of all dairy prod
ucts, not only here hut in Europe as
well. and the questions as to the cheaper
keeping. of COWS and the more economical
production of all dairy prod ucts will be
among the MOST important that farmers
can discuss.-.Americ,in Cultivutor.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-11-03
5000 Guitars at $2.65.

For those who are accustomed to send
ing away from home for their goods it
is Of the greatest Importance to know the
character and relia bility of the esta blish-
ment selling goods to families from cat
alegues. The great emporium of the
John NJ. Smyth Co., located at loo to 100
West Madison street, Chicago, has been
esta blished for q third Of century, and
has furnished over half a million homes
in Chicago and vicinity alone This firm
enjoys the confidence OF the public by its
many years of fair dealing. 1t issues an
immense illustrated catalogue that should
be in every family. as it describes and
gives the price of every article required
for household use. A sample Of the ex-
traordinary values offered by this firm is
shown in the illustration of the guitar at
S2.05 in another column Of this paper
These instruments are indeed wonderful
values, and yet they are but sample Of
the thousand and one useful articles H.
Illustrated and described in the beautiful
catalogue of the John NJ. Smyth Com
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-11-03
Poultry as u Bread Winner.

Cam an inexperienced person make Il
living from poultry? This question is
often asked. but seldom answered salts.
factOrily to the beginner. That it re,
quircs experience as we'll as practical
knowledge to successfully raise and mar
ket poultry i'll any considerable quantity
is certain, especially since the introduce
so largely suppanted the time honored
hen in her maternal duties of caring for
the young chicks.
The fnult with most people when en-
gagihg IN the hen business Is Il desire to
possess large Humber Of fowl before
they learti to care for and protect them
from disease. They assume that 1t is
nothing to hatch chickens: and in this
th'y @rS IS e19e s r S SX %ssns
after the young chicks are out Of the
shell, iii properly ministering to their
voracious appetites and preparing their
systems for the severe task of putting
forth their dress of. feathers, this, as all
breeders know, being the most critical
period in the lives CT the young chicks.
NUMEROUS persons, both male. and fe-
male, have taken up the business and
made success of it without any pre-.
cases they start in IL modest way with a
few hens the. first year, and work into it
gradually, thereby ginning knowledge
that no amount, of reading could impart
A good PAPER. devoted wholly or in part
to the subject. is a. great aid. but "'prac-
tice makes perfect" aid it is essential to
begin at the bottom and work out and
prove yourself the ideas CLEANED from
your books.
Poultry raising in it's various phases
is science, but we can answer the
question that heads this article in the af-
firmative provided the would-be poultry
man has capital sufficient to equip a
small plant. and patience and diligence to
enable him to work cautiously. and build
up his business as he attans to knowl-
cdge.-G. \. Q. in American Cultivator.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-11-03
MINI versus Sadness.

| suppose there are people who know
enough about psychology and the curious
eccentricities OF unconscious or suh-cun-
scious cerebration to understand why one
50 Frequently has 4 hysterical impulse
to laugh at funeral, or why Sad inn
ages so frequently drift across ones mem
tai retina when scenes that are bright
are doing the little charm act, writes a
woman in the New York Dramatic News.
l don't understand these things myself,
and therefore I jumped almost out of
my boots when l heard Oscar Hammer
stein. at Miss Russell's elbow, ask in
his gutturalest tones: "Vot ISIS the sad
dest thing on earth?' George Lederer.'
answered the irrepressible idiot, cheer
fully. NO. 1t is a lost dog" said l.
Or superannuated soubrette trying to
be kittenish," said Miss Russell. Little
Marie Dressler had been so busy with
three straws and a seltzer-lemunade that
nobodys thought she was paying the
slightest attention to the conversation
GIVE Marie three straws and the right
liquid at the other end of EN- and she
doesn't care which way the wind blows.
However, at this point of the conversa-
ton she surveyed us all darkly through
the bottom of her empty glass, and with
a wild and comprehensive wave of her
strawS. muttered: "Theres nothing half
so sad in life as loves old dream'
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-11-03
THE WORD 81"
Personal Capital Letter is Used in the
Eug1ish Language Only.

Personal Capital Letter Is Used in the
Eug1ish Language Only.
M lola, when In England. was much
impressed with the English use of the
capital ''t'' "Why Is it," he says. that
the Englishman, when he writes of HIM
self, should Invariably use q capital let
ter? That tall T. which occurs SO often
in a personal narrative strikes me as be-
ing very arrogant. A Frenchman, re-
ferring to himself, writes je' with a
small j. German, though he may graf
ify all his substantives with capital let
tcrs, employs small t. in writing 'ich;'
Spaniard, when he uses the personal
pronoun at all, bestows a small " ON
his 'yo,' while he honors the person he
addresses with capital w. l believe
ihdced-though | am not sufficiently ac-
qtlaihted with foreign languages to speak
with certainty on that point-that the
Englishmun Is the only person in the
world who applies a capital letter to
his contrasts still further by referring
to the japanese. who really have no
word for IT, In speaking of oneself
in Japanese elf-depreciatory terms are
used, sucl, as "servant," the awkward
person. "junior;'' while in speaking Of
or to other people complimentary terms
are used, such as "senior,' master"
''prihce''' fused by young men in address
Ing each other familiarity. The most
usual Japanese equivalent for 81 is
''wata kushi,' which means literally
'selhshness." Buffalo Commercial.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-11-03
Some EncliSh CraDkS,

"When lived at Newport, r. l.. from
1864 to 1875" says Col. T. W. Higgin-
son in the Atlantic, there was con-
slant procession of foreign visitors, vary
ing in interest and often quite wanting
in it. l remember one eminent literary
man who, in spite of all cautions to the
contrary, appeared at a rather fashion
able day reception in what would now
be called golf suit, OF the loudcst pos
sible plaid, like that Of the Scotch cousin
in Punch who comes down thus dressed
for church. to the terror of his genteel
cousins In this case the visitor also
wore spyglaSs of great size hung round
his neck. all through the entertainments
Another highly Englishman.
attending an evening reception given ex-
pressly for him, came into the parlor
with his hat and umbrella in his hand
declining to be parted from them through
the whole evening: which suggested to a
clever Newport lady the story of the
Snowman who exhibited picture of
Daniel in the lions den and pointed out
that Daniel was to be distinguished from
the lions by having blue cotton umbrel-
la under his arm. In this case, the lady
remarked that the conditions were re-
versed, since it was the lion that carried
the umhrclla
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-11-03
IRREVERENCE OUR PERIL.
Vulgarity Ia Causing Us to Regard
Few Things IA Sacred

"Mischievous is the irreverent and
scornful use of the tongue that often
vulgarizes the very temple of sweetness
and purity" writes Rev. Newell Dwight
Hills, p. d., in the Ladies' Home Jour
nal. mo person of refinement and cul-
ture can doubt that irreverence is one
OF the perils Of our day. In former times
men entered the cathedral, rich with col
ored glass, with marble and pictures and
rare tapestries, to whitewash the fres-
Goes. smash statues, and use the paint
'ings and tapestries for doormats. But 1t
mas been reserved for our generation to
enter the temple of reverence and destroy
all ideals, to rob the noble names Of their
grandeur and the noblest places of their
majesty. Today vulgarity permits sane.
5lty e to attach to few objects or ideas.
IN 1S96. when Athens revived the Olymp.
IAN games and America sent it's repre-
sentatives, there journeyed to that an
cient iand vendor of patent medicines,
VINO was discovered sticking an adver.
walls of the Parthenon,"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-11-03

Mrs. Clara Makemer, houSekeeper for
the Florence Crittenlen Anchorage Mis-
sion Of Chicago. writes the following let
ter FROM So Chestnut street Chicago:
'Peruna is the best tonic have ever
known for general debility, a sure cure
for liver complaint. and never failing
adjuster in cases of dyspepsia.
Il have used it in cases Of female ir-
r~sn.arities and weak nerves common to
she sex, and have found it most satisfac-
Sesy."
From early girlhood to the end Of the
rhild-bearing period few women are en-
TREY free from some degree Of catarrh
Of the pelvic organs
With Peruna the thousand and one all
ments dependent upon catarrh of the
pelvic organs can be wholly averted
Health and Beauty sent free to wom-
en- only. by The Peruna Medicine Co.,
Columbus, Ohio.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-11-03
War Makes Strange Stories.

a young surgeon of one Of the, Massa-
chusctts volunteer regiments did his duty
during the. terrible days that followed
the surrender Of Santiago and gave ND
his life saving the lives of others. When
at last the transports came to carry the
soldiers to Montauk the surgeon was too
weak to be taken away. \ few hours
after his comrades left him he breathed
his last.
Ills effects were sent to the Borrowing
father and mother and sister i'm Nassa
chusetts, and later the body was brought
home to rest in eternal peace in the beau
tIfui cemetery which the surrounding
Berkshire hills seems so faithfully to
guard and protect.
When his pc rsonal property was looked
Oyer one thing wax found to be missing
That was the watch which the young
mans fnther had given him on his TWEEN
ty-frst birthday. Government aid was
secured, and thorough search was made
for the missing article, but it was not
found
A week ago the nurse that cared for
the young surgeon during his last illness
died. When the trunk of the dead nurse
was examined a pawn ticket was liscov-
cred, BY mrails of this the surgeon $
watch was recovered and returned to his
family in Massachusetts.
Shortly utter the reburial of the young
mans body Il stranger called on the ia
Their The stranger was surprised to see
hanging on the wall of the office into
which he was shown, Il portrait, the fea-
lures of which seemed to him familiar.
''Pnrdon me-" he asked, but will you
tell me whose picture that is?'
That is my son who died at Santa
CO." was the reply.
II played football with him once when
he was at school," the stranger declared
II remember he stumbled over ME and
fell i'll such il way as to break two Of
his front teeth"
I'VE have reason to thank you for that
accident" said the father, ''for it was
by those two front teeth. which had been
built down with gold, that his body was
positively identified. Boston Journal.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-11-03
Scarcity of Tall Men.

The Norwich City police force has for
a long period consisted Of a race If
giants, and few years ago not single
member was under six feet in height
Now, however, the watch committee
find themselves unable to obtain consta-
bles of the same fine physique, and re-
Gently they advertised for men st FIVE
feet eleven inches. Even at the reduced
height sufficient men We're not forthcom-
ing, and now advertisements are issued
specifying five feet nine inches as the
standard. The dearth of Sons Of Anak
is locally attributed to the depopulation
of the country districts, which has been
going on steadily for several years past.
The births in the village are, moreover
becoming fewer every year, SO that the
police force seems in no Immediate like
lihood of recovering its former prestige
for exceptionally fine men.-Pail Mail
(raZettp
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-11-03
FOR THE FARMER.
The First Fire Of he senson.

The First Fire Of the Season,
How leaps, IN dance excited,
How 1t sleeps, iii traiite delighted.
How It lUoihs IN lluuld shinilr
How 1t glbOMs III Wati decilniiir,
While arouild tho hearth we uuthpr
One and All,
Iii thu blsak ind windy weather
Friendly flame, remote Chuidtai,
SNers or ilamt etIaced, Snhean
Shepherds liz thr elder ages,
persiah batis Ill mystic pages,
Thee ulOrtu. fol- 20 tliviiitS
strtaihed thy light;
llnlf we follow, uiiu tilshiiiie thtr
Spirit bright
bear the frieiids each heart remembers
As, In cheer we stir the embers,
Blu the ash fpiiew It's beauty.
Sparkle. finish and glow, ,till duty,
Through the comfort Hf the hUut;
WHO'S our S3ul.
And we deem It's stcriier dover
LIES best gonl.
So WE dream not visionary,
When we deem the missionary
Household fire. once more rclightct,
RlaZtns higher the whole united.
Round the hearth of home we gather,
Ono ana all.
In the hlenk and windy weather
Of the fall!
Kitchen Magazine.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-11-03
Sweet Grass Baskets.

Nearly every traveller in the woods of
Maine, northern New York and Canada,
brings home specimens of the boxes and
baskets of scented grass made by the
Indians. The delicate odor of new-mown
hay, which lasts until the basket drops
to pieces, makes it delightful for use as
a receptacle for handkerchiefs. laceS or
stationery. Bunches of the dried grass
are not infrequently put into bureau
drawers to give fragrance to linens.
The Indians are beginning to answer
the demand for soft tints in their weav-
ings, and fewer baskets are seen in the
early fashion of staring reds and yellows.
Now one may procure lovely pale blues.
lavenders and pinks, or. prettiest of all,
the native ecrus and silver grays of the
uncolored grass.-New York Tribune.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-11-03
BLACK EYE FOR CHAMPAGNE.
Sad Experience Of Newt midland
Fi-hermen.

Sad Experience Of Newt midland
Fi=hermen.
On the southeast cO;iSt of NcwfOuntl
land, about half WHY between Cape Race
ahd st. Johns, lies the wreck Of the
Scottish Kihg. She was British trad
ing steamer, and it is now almost a year
since SHE was driven in a storm upon that
inhospitable, rock bound shore. in spite
of this catastrophe, however, fortune ia
vored the ship to a considerable degree.
Thanks to the precise spot on the coast
where she struck and the marvellous
manner in which she slipped in between
two protecting reefs. instead of grinding
directly upon them, she still lies with her
hull almost intact. At little distance
she scarcely resembles wreck; and. in
decd, Il plan is now on foot for salving
her.
The fact that she did not go to pieces
at once, as most vessels DO which have
the misfortune to strike that coast line.
was a subject for great rejoicing among
the fishermen in the neighboring villages.
\ most seductive rumor went abroad
that she -'carried large quantities of
champagne in her cargo. The Newfound
lander's steady drink is, Of course, rum,
but he has heard of champagne and its
powers. Nets and hooks were almost
dDdHuOItu lVI u"lIllC Ill tHt SIl y VI
cii1ity, owing to the more fascinating fish
ing to be obtained i'll her hold.
Now. although the fishermen had not
heard of it: and would have been no
wiser if they had the Scottish King car
ried just about rs much al,ollnaris as
champagne. and the cases containing the
mineral water We're OIL top, and hence the
more accessible \ glimpse of bottles
was quite enough for the Newfoundland
erS. The cases Of apollinurjS went mcr-
rily ashore, and the Sanlpling began with
out delay
DisilluSionment and despair! Where
were the virtues Of this celebrated drink :?
Bottle after bottle was patiently, grave
ly disposed of, with no approach to the
desired result. One Of the men summed
it up tersely to a visitor afterward with
this half-pathetic. half-scornful remark:
Sure. we tried ii fair; drank quarts of
it and kept on dl!r;nkin', but no use; we
got no forrarder"
The reputation of champagne is prob
ably lower now in that part of New
foundland than anywhere else In the civ
ilized world.-Npw York Tribune.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-11-03
CANNON BALL PILLS.
Big Balls of Poison Given
as Medicine.
Thousands Are Suffering from Mercural PILE
Poison Taken in Youth Days of
the Pills Are Past.

Do you want hcalth7
liver lively!
1t has always hecn known that constipa.
ton Is the cause OF nearly all disease, but
the way Of treating it has changed.
The Old way was to make up n sicken.ng
BLACK draught' o., st II worse. an explo-
Slve "shOt-gnn'' cartridge VI rAlOmel, alOes.
)alap, gambtgp. Gro on oil. blue III ISIS,
colo, ynth--tEc larger the bullet til. better
and after the pat ent had swallowed the
dose, thrown the bowels Into srasms and
turned The II, or inside out. he was settled
for Il few days-fequently forever.
The most dangerous ''mcdcne" of all
was the mercurinl pill-polson which lodged
in the blood aud joints, producing lifelong
aches.
Force IS folly, II you have any regard for
your we'll being. When it becomes neccs-
sary to stir ~ your liver and have Il gen.
cral Internal cleaning up. take Cascarets
Chniy C"thart c, anu y. oduce natural &C.
lion in nlcc. gentle. quiet. positive way.
Cascarets are up to date, nntiscptic, taste
COED. never grip or grippe. mild but effect
Buy and try Cnscarets to-day. You'll find
that it's What t: cy do, not what we say
they'll do TINT proves their merit. All
druggists -lOr, zoe, zoe, or by matt for price.
Send for booklet and free sample. Address
the Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago: Mon.
ireal, CAN, or New York.
- This Is the CASCARET tablet.
Every tablet of the only genuine
iAAHe Cascaret bears the magic letters
Ek9 "CCC." Look at the tablet before
you buy, and beware Of frauds,
- limitations ana substitutes.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-11-03
FOUND A NEW GAS.
Grizzly Gulch Miners Have an I'm
usual Experience.

uouhA IApcT1EHCcs
Near Lead, S. d., two miners named
William Smart and Cha rlie Brown, while
running tunnel from a shaft in Grizzly
gulch met with peculiar experience.
They had put in a heavy blast Of powder
at the end Of the tunnel and after it
had been fired they went down to ex-
anime the work. they found that the
wall had been broken through into a
large chamber about twenty feet square.
Their candles commenced to burn more
brightly and they felt peculiar exhilara-
ton in the air they breatbcd. After
working five minutes, they went up to
the surface and there both tainted away,
and it was some time before they re-
some sort of gas; what it was the miners
could not say. 1t affected them several
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-11-03
Try Grain-O! Try Grain-O!

Ask your Grocer to-day to show you
package of GRAIN-O, the new food
drink that takes the PLACE of coffee. The
children may drink it without injury as
we'll as the adult All who try it like it.
GRA1N-O has that rich seal brown Of
Mocha or Java, but it is made from pure
grains, and the most delicate stomach re-
ceives it without distress. "A the price Of
coffee. 15c and 25c per package. Sold
by all grocers.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-11-03
ON THE FIELD,

God can give ME strength to conquer,
He will give me grace to lose!
l am bound to fight his BATTLES
In the way that he shall choose,
Beaten back and lying wounded,
With no weapon IN my hand,
| am Just as much his soldier
AS the foremost Of the band.
Dying, still bear his rulura
In this orifamme of pain,
And the triumph Of the nges
Is the triumph OF the saint
He has filled the need OF service
Who but leaves u broken sword,
And the sorrows Of the vahuhlshed
Are the glory Of the LOrds
--MtClure's Masaslhe.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-11-03
OY6ter Cocktail.

Mix together eight drops Of tobasco
sauce, one-half teaspoonful of horserad-
ish, one-half teaspoonful vinegar, one
teaspoonful Of lemon juice, one-half tea
spoonful Of tomato catsup; add eight oys-
tiers. Serve in cocktail glasses.
SWANSON's IS DROPS" is the sun
Of the sick room. 1t has saved the pub
lie, in less than five years, more money
than the national debt Of this country,
when you measure the value of health re-
stored, suffering humanity relieved of its
agonies and diseases. Money which 9TH
erwise would have been expended in flu
nerals, doctors and drug bills, loss Of
labor, etc.
SWANSON'S IS DROPS" never fails
to cure. 1t has cured and is curing mil
lions of people afflicted with ACUTE and
CHRONIC RHEUMATISM. SCIAT-
ICA, NEURALGIA. ASTHMA, LA
GRIPPE and CATARRH of all kinds.
IS DROPS has never failed to cure
these diseases, when used as directed. 1t
sized bottle $1.OO. sent on receipt of
price. charges prepaid: 25-cent sample
bottle sent free, on receipt Of 10 cents
to pay for mailing Agents wanted
SWANSON'S RHEUMATIC CURE
COMPANY, No. 164 Lake street, Chi
cagO, Ill.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-11-03
What Do the Children Dr 1nk2

Don't give them tea or coffee. Have
you tried the new food drink called
GRAlN-O? 1t is delicious aud nourish-
ing. and takes the place of coffee. The
more Grain-O you give the children the
more health you distribute through their
systems. Grain-O is made of pure grains,
and when properly prepared tastes like
the choice grades OF coffee, but costs
about n as much. All grocers sell it. 15c
and c1c
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-11-03
Melbourne's First Snowstorm.

Melbourne has recently had it's first
taste of Il snnwstorm, and to the great
minority Of the citizens it was as much
of a novelty as an earthquake. The fall
Melbourne found quite enough snow on
the: ground to enable it TO enter with
enthusiasm into the novel sport of snnw-
milling,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-11-03
The whalerS that Nrintered off

The whalerS that Wintered off the
mouth of the Mackenzie river last year
did well. Every one of them made Il
good catch and the Beluga phenomenal
one. At one time Capt. Bodish had ten
and, as the men could not spare the time
to cut out the whalebone. In all the
Beluga has taken enough whalebone and
oil during two seasons to rua the value
of her catch close to STM, 600