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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-02-16
An Engineering Triumph.

One of the latest triumphs in the engi-
neering world consists in the construc-
ton, shipment by steamer and subse-
quent transfer to railway transportation
of a steamer Of 1900 tons displacement,
which was finally put atloat in Lake Bal
kal, Siberia. not less than 5000 miles
from st. Petersburg.-NeW York Herald.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-02-16
% GOSSIP FOR THE LADIES. s.

set Oh one side while everything goes on
without you, and confess, honestly,
whether you would be any more amiablr,
any more patient. any more reasonable
You will probably nave to admit that
you would not.
There is another special word to say tt
the amateur nurse who finds herself in :,
trying position, and has to wait until re-
lief from some other quarter can be OBJ
tanned. No matter what the emergency
may be, keep your wits about you and
use your reason and common sense. II
YOU have to meet something new and sud-
den and disagreeable, don't get excited
and ''Hy all to pieces" but calm yourself,
exercise all the self-control of which you
are the mistress, and then think what is
70 DC DONE ana go nhe G"a ana 40 IT, usu
are safe to trust it until you can get as
sistance. Someone has called common
sense the sixth sense, but it ought to be
the first. 1t is the most important one tn
cultivate
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-02-16
LOVE AND RICHES.

AIercenary marriages are not only
wrong per Sc, and fatal to happiness in
the majority of instances, but they are
essentially and inherently immoral, and
strike a deadly blow ut the foundations
of society and the government. The wo-
man OF the man who unblushingly con-
fesses that he or she married for money,
advertises himself or herself as entirely
destitute of those finer feelings. senti-
n:ents and aspirations that distinguish us
from the brute creation. Any woman de-
serves to be looked upon with contempt
who is willing to barter all the sacred
realities and responsibilities of wife,
mother and companion for the holowness
and disappointment TO De found in the
glitter of society and the transient dis
play that wealth can bring. The man
who has not the courage to marry the
woman he loves without regard to her
fortune, deserves no better treatment
than he is sure to get, and no one pities
him when he has over-reached himself
and made a total wreck of his future
prospects. T he mercenary man is not a
whit better than the mercenary woman.
Both are the deadly enemies of domes-
tic felicity, love, the conjugal relation
III its best sense. and together they de-
feat all the higher aims.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-02-16
Wouldn't Die If They Matched.

The following is told in the San Fran
cisco Argonaut by the granddaughter Of
an old lady who lived in one of the
Southern states, and had been known
throughout the neighborhood as one who
had keen sense of the ridiculous After
long illness her final hour was supposed
to have come, and her children and
grandchildren gathered round for last
farewell, when suddenly she opened her
eyes, and, OH seeing the mournful express
sions of those about her, remarked with
all her oldtime vigor: The watched
pot never boils."
Utah gives it's convict murderers the
choice of how they will be executed. The
latest one chose to be shot
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-02-16
On Choosing a Country House.

ON choosing Il country HOUSE.
Il would say to anyone who is thor
oughly i'll earnest about Il country home
make it yourself. Nenophon, who lived
in time when Greeks were Greeks ad-
viSed people in search of Il country place
to buy of n slatternly and careless farm
or, since III that event they might be sure
OF seeing the worst. and of making their
labor and care work the largest results
Cato, on the other hand, who represented
an effeminate and scheming race, ad:ised
the purchase of a country home from u
good farmer and judicious householder,
so that the buyer might be sure of nice
culture and equipments possibly at
bargain. 1t illustrates, l think. rather
finely an essential difference of the two
races and ages-the Greek earnest to
make his own brain tell. and the Latin
eager to make as much as he could out Of
the brains Of other people. | must say
I like the Greek view best."-From The
Master Of Edgewood' donald G. Mitch
e!D. by Arthur Reed Kimball, in Serb
nop'c
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-02-16
'<Nature Abhors a Vacuum.

Vot1ing IN the quorld stands still. II
You are 4uen and strong day by day the
blood supplies its tide of pigor. IF you are
Ill, the blood is zvrong and carries increzs-
ing quantities of diseased germs. You can
rot change Nature. but you can aid her by
Keeping the blood pure. Hoods Sarsapa-
-a;a does this IS nothing else can. Be
gre TO get Hoods. because
J6od3 Sat4qbmM
1zadZ35L232Ezz
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-02-16
Free to Rheumatic Sufferers.

600 packages of a Simple rheumatic e tic rem en-
edy which he desires to distribute free
Of charge to every person afflicted with
this disease. Mr.. Smith had been a suf-
ferer for years from rheumatism. He
studied the causes and then experiment
herbs speedily and effectively drove every
rheumatic pain from his system. He
called his discovery Gloria Tonic
Friends. relatives and neighbors were
given samples Of the newly-found rene
dy and the results were remarkab BILE. That
every reader of this paper may have
will send free of charge a trial package.
r Address John A. Smith. No. Summer
field Church building. Milwaukee, Wis.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-02-16
Patents TO Inventors,

MeSsrs. Benedict & Morsel. solicitors
of PATENTS, Old Insurance building Mil
waukcc, report patents issued to West
ern inventors January 80 as follows:
tube-c!amp A. G. Bierbach. Milwaukee, ad-
Unstable doorhanger: ]. L. Butcher aud r,
c. Mueller. Milwaukee. automatic window
F. r1ektI sp9Snsr ws cabne
s. J. Fletcher. Decar Falls, Wis, stump
S paIn C. ; n H4rtSp West Mgnts Sups5iGr w.
house. Milwaukee. temporary binder: Geo.
K Mrsnen na GaRp1e sgSTsS VII Wiz
fountain pen: {: {. Southwell. Milwaukee.
combined dental engine and chair: J. p.
Wehrer, La Crosse, Wis. (2). automatic
feeder and automatic feeder for mills; +. A.
Haugh, Abba. Ia, tobacco pipe.
So,hern was Angry.
e. a. Sothern Of "Dundreary" fame
was once dining at Portsmouth at regi-
mental mess. After dinner one of the Of
ticcrs asked Sothern to give them a reci-
taton. Now Sothern would not tolerate
being treated as All entertainer when he
was by way of being treated as a gen.
tlenan. He co!dly declined. They
pressed him. He holly declined Still
they would take no denial. At last he
said. i'll Il manner which showed that
NJ was Heltic't, Dut YET !NtullS. w eli,
if you won let me off. must. I'll give
YOU the dinner scene from David Gar
rick. He did. He had never acted it
better. They were delighted until,
springing to his feet he made his wild
tipsy exit. Just as he did on the stage.
and dragged the cloth off the table. and
with it all the regiments priced dessert
china and decanters and glasses, etc.
I'hereuron he calmly resumed his seat,
but thereafter Sothcrn dincd no more
with that repiment
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-02-16

The Minnesota Federation of Won
ems clubs has decided to try to save the
beautiful forest about Leech lake.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-02-16

There are 1900 church-bell ringers in
the diocese of Oxford. This is the larg-
est number in any English diocese. Ex
eter comes second and Devon third.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-02-16

Coughing Leads to Consumption.
once. Go to your druggist today and get
a sample bottle free. Sold in 25 and so
cent bottles. Go at once; delays are dan
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-02-16
STATE OF OHIO, CITY OF TOLEDO,
JJICAS COUNTy CO

STATE OF OHIO. CITY OF TOLEDO, L.
LUCAS COUNTY. j''
Frank ]. Cheney makes oath that he is
the senior partner of the firm Of f. J.
Cheney Il Co., doing business in the city
Of Toledo. county and state aforesaid, and
that said firm will pay the sum of ONE
HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every
case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by
the use Of Halls Catarrh Cure.
FRANK J. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in my
presence, this 9Th day Of December, A. D.
1885,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-02-16

understand the higher forms Of this no,,r;
ishment and protection, so if the father
would speak to the child in a language
he can understand and build up the con.
cept father in his mind from the
beginning, he must sometimes feed, battle
Even the most untalented father will
tind If he try, that he has some peculiar
ability precious in the child's ewes. Let
him cultivate that. Father will be
throwing away his chance if he does not
make it the foundation for great ren,l-
tation. Moreover. there are lines that
are by. nature more paternal than mater
nal.
Outdoor sports-tramps, hunting, nut
ting, wading, swimming, boating-thr
various trades and occupations and
manufactures, mills, engines, steam and
electricity. SEINE naturally to belong in
the fathfs b all tbd oh THY aEe least
YOU ask your mother about electricity
and such thingsy oh, mothers don't
know about such things; fathers are tho
ones to tell about those things.
1T is the duty. and privilege of both
parents to take the boys, and the girls.
of the kind in the neighborhood and else
where when opportunity offers.
THE schools will take care of a good
deal of this, to be sure; more than they
used to, less than they should; but not
enough, by any means. And, besides, in
asmuch as the parent has the advantay,
over the school, why does he not make
the most of it?
"There always has to be first time
for everything,' was the remark of an
was viewing the operation Of milking for
the first time, the time when the bloom is
still on the peach is the best time. It is
the parents prerogative to enjoy it with
the child whenever possible.
The child never forgets such things
the parent?''
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-02-16
THE IDEAL FATHER,

''Of all relations among individuals, in
all combinations which life offers in this
world, there is none that is more won
derful than motherhood, and fatherhood
comes next" writes Barnetta Brown iH
the Ladies' Home Journal. 1.-The mother
may be represented as a dove, with love
and gentle care brooding over the young;
the father as an eagle, strong, eager to
defend and help. The mother should be
an embodiment of sweetness and gentle
ness: the father citadel of strength. 4
father, then, to avoid his failures, must
be CT fine, large quality, strong, sane
and loving; a self-forgetful, pleasant
guide, a chum for his boys, a lover for
his girls, a compromising husband, a
comfortable man; With a father like
this, and a mother such as we have
sometimes seen and often dreamed of.
the pathway Of childhood becomes not
one of thorns, but one besprinkled with
flowers, and life is changed from dreary
round of mistakes and failures into a
comfortable. successful and beautiful
journey, frightened by cheerfuiness.
gladdencd by cOmradeship, sweetened by
love, and enjoyed. alike by mother, IA
Their and children"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-02-16

The construction work Oh the i'm
mense new tannery plant to be built at
Sault Ste. Marie will begin in a few
DAYS
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-02-16

FEBRUARY,
The February born will find
Sincerity and peace of mind;
Freedom from passion and from care
If they the amethyst will wear.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-02-16

(l A. W. GLEASON,
| ZEAL Notary Pebttc.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally
and acts directly on the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system. Send for testi-
mOnialS, Free
i. J. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo, O.
Sold by Druggists, 11c.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-02-16

Capt. ydd.
Almost every boy and girl in our mid
die states especially if they live amy
where near the seaShore-havc heard of
Capt. kydd, and long tales of the mon
ey supposed to be buried by him on diff
fcrcnt parts CT the coast. particularly on
Long Island, and have heard the song
sung by old-fashioned people:
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-02-16
THE NERVES OF women

where my heart was
affected by it, SO that
often / could not lie
! down at all without
almost sufocating.
I took Lydia E.
~ Pinkham's Vege-
=,
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-06-29
Was Hunting New eaIluses.

whats dat dey got me charged
wid? asked Harry Jackson, a citizen
Of Darktown, whose general air was
that Of delapidation.
"You are charged with idling and
lettering" replied the Recorder.
ovid iderilling and luttern," ex-
claimed Henry, with dismay permeat.
ing his every accent. Guide lawder~
massey, hain't de perlice gwine to glib
er poor niger time ter git home frunl
de stockade fore dey seq he am er
iderilling and er lutIerin'"
But the officer says you were walk.
ing around the town late at night, :"
stated the Recorder.
dat am de truf," said Henry. "b,lt
l axes yer eff l hain't got er right ter
go out and git er par of gallussYs ter
hoP my breeches up?'
1--WE will have to suspend n mo.
ment," remarked Judge Broyles. land
get more light on the suspender trans
action"
Eyer see, Judge Briles," Henry OK
claimed, 81 wurked twenty-one days
in the chain gang and jest materially
wurked dem old gallusses OBJ mine in
ter frassulls, and when l got out oh de
stockade | wus bleeged ter git err guide
par OBJ gallusses, an when de COP
cotch me l wus gwine after dem"
Taking everything into considera-
tion," said Recorder Broyles to Henry,
II believe l will give the prisoner a
chance to get his gallusses. 1t is right
and lawful that he should do so, since
he worked out his old ones while in
the service of the city"
Didn't l know dat Judge Briles wus
gwine ter glib ME er showin'?" NUT
tered Henry to himself, as he hurried
out of the courtroom, "fer no man
doan 'spect er pusson to work his gal
lusses inter frassul and den doan git
no more. Atlanta Constitution.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-06-29
DIVERSION IN CENTRAL AMERICA
There Only In the World Is the Ad.
venturous Spirit Happy.

"Central America Is the only place
on this hum-drum hemisphere where
life still runs red" sighed a young
gentleman who holds very good posi-
ton in a Poydras street commission
house. at is the last ditch of ro-
nance, the one spot where the sword
is mightier than the pen. l wish 1
wasn't near-sighted and measured a
little more around the chest. I'd go
down there and break into the seven
teenth century and have adventures
that would make your hair curl"
"Y-e-es, life is very strenuous in
Central America" said the head book
keeper, who speaks Spanish and
smokes brown paper cigarettes q
went down there once myself and
opened a general merchandise store
tother side of Chiquimula. My stock
consisted chiefly of whiskey and cart
ridges, which were the two articles
most in demand in that part of the
country, but l also carried small side
lines of tobacco, sardines and fancy
percale shirts.
"One day big niger came into the
store, smoked what was left of the
tobacco, ate the last six boxes of sar-
dimes and put ON all the fancy per-
Gale shirts, one on top of the other.
Then he introduced himself as Gen
eral Tomasso Somebodyorother, and
told me to charge the bill to the army
of liberation. While we were arguing
about the matter detachment of gov
eminent troops came up looking for
my colored friend, and blew the roof
off the store with a small shell from
a mountain howitzer. The general
went one way and l went the other,
but we both got caught. and the com
mandant promptly put me under ar
rest for harboring Il notorious rebel.
l was taken before the iefe politico,
as they call their magistrates down
there, and in order 10 square himself
with the authorities Tomasso turned
states evidence and swore that | was
the head and front of the revolution.
The scoundrel had on all my percale
shirts at the time he was giving his
evidence, and l was so mad | couldn't
talk coherently.
"Still, l think l would have been
discharged if it hadn't leaked out that
l had a couple of barrels of whiskey
in the store. When the jefe heard
that he ordered me locked up and con-
fiscated my property for the use of
the department. The American con-
sui got me out eventually, and came
home in the steerage Of a banana
steamer"
"And have you never been back
sinceY asked the near-sighted young
man. 8IE1
"No," replied the bookkeeper, 81
think l prefer a country where life
runs light pink, instead of red. It's
less wearing on the nerves."-New
Orleans Times-Democrat.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-06-29
THE WEST.
It Has Been Discovered Great Many
Tim=s.


One is hardly prepared for the
brightness of L. Hough's essay in the
February Century by the ponderous
title. 1.-THE West, and Certain Literary
Discoveries; or, How Fiction May Be
Stranger than Truth" In this paper,
the author of "The Story of the Cow
boy" says: eve observe the state
ment that Columbus discovered Amer
lea to be misleading. The South was
never discovered until after the war.
The East has never been discovered
at all. The West has been discovered
by great many persons-by what n
train of Left Ericsons, nay, of Marco
POlos! Yet you shall not change this
thing! There are many who would
rather read Marco Polo than Macau-
lay"
Let us suppose that one of our liter
airy discoveries of the West holds dis
passionate conversation with one of
the natives whom he has, as it were,
detected in the act of living in the
new-found land. The former finds &C.
casion to remark:
"Of course the West owes to the
East its best principles of living the
moral character of the old Puritans."
mot in the least" replies the other.
"The West was settled from the South
as much as or more than from the
North, so far as an American popula-
ton is concerned. Its people were de-
scendants of the Cavaliers as well as
of the Roundheads."
"You do not catch my thought in its
entirety. l mean to say that l find in
the Western type certain crudeness,
q sort Of-in fact, sort of je ne sails
Quoi~
at is true. Upon the souls of those
men you see the hallmark of the
land"
''Yet the East sent a great many
men to the West. Your vaunted West
is built of Eastern blood, at least in
part"
"True. We kept the best of your
young men, and sent the others back
to you. Yet those whom we kept have
not changed the West. The West has
change them"
But the barrenness of your life in
gentler ways--I mean to say that in
your culture, your art"
"Where has ever been seen art more
gentle. yet more virile, more unsup-
ported and unasking"
'True. we should perhaps grant you
time"
"Grant us no time. We have stolen q
generation of time"
'"Then. after all, your boosted West
is changing, it is going. We"-trium-
phantly-'have discovered that"
Eyes. The West has known and
wept over these changes for score Of
years"
"And your cowboy is gone"
"He is at Washington"
"And your plainsman is no more"
"He is raising section of wheat"
"And your prospector-"
ais in the Klondike. founding FAM
lily tree"
"And all your wild men are coming
to be shOrn."
Friend. where have you slept these
years"
perhaps. then. new day is. after
all. dawning in the West"
Friend, 1t is already noon"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-06-29
THE TlLLAMooK LIGHT.
Perched on the Highest Point Used by
Our Lighthouse Department.

The highest point used by the Light.
house Department of the United Sta,es
Government as a signal station is a
preciptous rock in the northwestern
part of Oregon, called Tillamook Rock.
Its great height and perilOus situation
tend to make this rock the most avoid
ed one on the government list, and it
is only after long and careful search
that men are found who are willing to
go as keepers to the station.
Tillamook Rock Light Station is in
the Thirteenth Lighthouse District.
which includes the coast and rivers of
Oregon, Washington and Alaska. 1t
is situated in the midst of the surging
Pacific, with II nety feet depth of
water on all sides, at the great storm
center of Tillamook Head
1t is eighteen miles south of the en-
trance to the Columbia River, and one
mile southwest by half mile west
from Tillamook Head, on the Oregon
coast The water near Tillamook has
such strong and uncertain current
that vessels unacquainted with the
coast are warned not to attempt the
passage. The rock, which has Il summit
of eighty feet above the sea level is an
irregular column of haSalt. apparent
ly separated from Tillamook Head on
the mainland by untold centuries of
erosion prior to the days when the sea
was receding on the Pacific and ell
croaching upon the land on the At
lantic.
The reason for the difficulty in Sc.
curing keepers for Tillamook Is said
to be that man not only risks his life
In accepting the position. but his rea.
son as we'll At present keeper and
four assistants are provided, for the
double purpose of dividing the watches
and mitigating the awful isolation that
tends toward unseating the reason.
The mere monotony Of seeing the same
face (of a man, of course) day in and
day out for months and years, amid
the same wild scene and in the same
narrow treadmill Of labor, is irritating.
1t begets dislike by its very annoyance
of monotony. 1t is so different when
the face is that Of woman-a wife.
The redeeming feature of Tillamook
Station is its Elysian zephyr, known MS
the chinook wind, flowing with peren.
NAL delight from the northwest in
Summer and imparting unequalled lon.
gevity, and coming in Winter from the
southwest with healing on it's wings.