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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-07-20
Points of q Good Dairx Cnw.

At the last national creamery,nen'~
convention, Prof. T. l.. Hacker Of Min
nesota explained the principles involved
Ill the selection Of the dairy COW by the
use OF living models. He did not care
whether the udder went we'll back or
not, or will forward or not. or whether
It was large or small. He looks first at
the body or barrel. to see if that is large
and deep. as this is the measure of the
cows ability to digest and assimilate
food: Next he looks at the thigh, to see
what disposition she makes of the food,
beyond the amount necessary for sup
port; The more the rear line of the
tnlgh curves in, the cheaper will the COW
produce each pound of butter If she
has a large barrel, he knows there is a
communication from the throat to the
barrel. that the food will 20 there and
something will be done with the food nu-
trlents. If the cow is tleshy and blocky,
she puts these nutrients away as tallow
in her tissues. If she is spare. angular,
ewe-necked and cat-hammed, he knows
she turns the nutrients into milk solids
and puts them in the.udder.
If the udder is large, she puts large
Quantities of water in it with the fat and
other solids. If the udder is small, she
puts the fats and other solids in the I'D
de-. becaues there is no other place to
put them, and puts less water in the
milk. This is a startling assertion, but
Prof. Hacker asserted that for six
years every pound of food given to each
COW has been weighed and every pound
of milk and butter fat produced from the
food has been weighed and recorded, and
the facts, without single exception, are
as stated. Prominent milk veins, dished
faced, yellow ears inside. slim tail, full.
square udder, etc, he declares are points
Of no value. The only thing to know is
and small, thin quarters.-Orange Judd
Farmer.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-07-20
A Wartime Ditty.

When Lord Roberts officially censured
Butler. Warren and Gatacre for their
failures in the field, all the stay-at- home
strategists promptly began to wag their
tongues in clubs and bar-rooms, and all
the arm chair scribes dipped their pens
in aciduiated ink, says the London cor.
respondent of the Washington Post
This war has been a war of surprises all
around, and some generals haven't come
out cny too we'll from it's ordcals While
music hall patriots still extravagantly be.
laud the patriots in the field the newspa
per wits are beginning to ridicule the
military heads of affairs. Only the 9th
er morning one rhymer went for the gen.
erals i'll kind Of nursery doggerel
thus:
One asked Il p'liceman and then there were
Nine little generals wiping off a slate:
One lost his cavalry, and then there were
eight.
Eight little title generals wishing Paul in
One made a mess of it, and then there were
seven.
Seven sd little Esaeres b all IL T Tho,
were six
Five little generals going for the Boer:
Ono thought him far away, and then there
were four.
-Four little generals one OF them set free,
Came away to London, and then there were
Three little generals. Roberts said. "1l
Then.-tut where's he gone to:-there was
only one.
Never mind the generals-now he's got the
men.
'.Bobs'' won't miss the nine, boys; "Bobs'
as good as ten.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-07-20
One
'Won,an,s
Letter
81 vs.

81 aocf0s'ed with two Of
the best doctors In the CITY
Tor two years and had no
relief until ! used tho
Pxi,klbas,, remedies
<<My trouble was ukoos'-
alton of the ufes'us- gsuf-
fos'0d terribly, could not
sleep nights and thought
801,efin7es that death
would be such q s,okIef.
"70-dayI an, q we'll ~o-
man, ahke to do my owl,
work, and have not q pain.
"Iusod four bottles of
Lydia e. Pii,ktl1as,,'s Noqo-
table Compound and three
packages Of Sanafjve
Wash and cannot praise
tho medicines enough. -
MRS. ELIZA THOMAS,
ga Pine ST., Easf0n, Pa.
Mrs. Pf1ktl5as,t advises
suffering women without
charge.
Lydia E. Pinkham Med Co., Lynn, MasA
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-07-20
TO INDIA BY RAIL.
Less than Six Hundred Miles of Road
Are Now Lacking.

All that is wanted is an agreement be-
tween Britain and Russia as to Afghan
istan. Already the enterprising Musco-
vite has extended the scope of the Trans
caspian railway to such degree that
Russian cars are actually running we'll
inside Afghan territory. Kushk, an AZ
CHAN frontier town, is practically in Rus
sian hands, and light railway is already
under construction to famous Herat.
This is the situation on Afghanistan's
northern frontier. On the south British
India is apparently not less active. The
Beloochistan railway system, terminating
at Gulistan Karez, on the Afghan border
is to be extended, and already work is
Delng pushed forward in order to connect
kandahar with the Indian railroad sys-
tenn.
In Central Asia Russia is actively en-
gagged in surveying and constructing.
When this is completed all that will re-
main in order to make it possible to go
by train from Calais to Bombay will be
to link up the chain between Herat and
Aandahar-an insignificant distance Of
$50 English miles.
That link being made, and the Central
Asian railway finished. London to Bonn
bay will mean that the only chance for
seasickness will be on the twenty one
mile strip of channel between Dover and
Calais.
By the Straits of Gibraltar and the
Suez canal the distance is $500 miles,
| and the time occupied by the fastest Pc
nins and Oriental steamer is twenty
one S.
BY The land route, allowing the average
approximate speed to be twenty miles
an hour by the express trains, the jour
ney would occupy only eleven days, four
hours over distance approximately esti-
mated at 600 English miles. This speed
is on the average considerably exceeded
even on Asiatic railways. and, of course,
doubled on European lines.
Two changes of cars would be neces-
| sary on the journey from Calais-at the
frontier on entering Russia and at the
Indian frontier. This would be occa-
stoned by the fact that the Russian lines
have gauge nearly a foot wider than
the rest Of European NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Mail
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-07-20
Handling Clover Hoy.

The curing of clover hay is one of the
arts Of farming, and the reason so many
farmers depreciate it's value is because
they have never realized the good re-
suits to be obtained from feeding we'll
cured clover hay: Immediately after clio
yer is moved down it will begin to wilt
and then dry" as it is termed The
process of curing clover hay requires
more time than some farmers can con-
yeniently give it. If it is moved down
in the morning it will not be thoroughly
cured so it can be taken in the same day,
and if it is cut later in the day it must
remain out over night and absorb the
dew. This is where the mistake is made.
Clover after tbs cut should never be
allowed to lie spread over the ground in
falling dews or rain. / NOW clover hay
in the morning as soon as the dew is
gone and let it cure until toward evening,
then rake it up and make it into doodles.
In the morning / spread the hay loosely
over the ground again, and in an hour
it is perfectly cured, then it IS hauled
into the barn. Clover hay. should not
be stacked, as It will not keep III wet
weather, even dampneSs will spell IT,
j. 81. y. Jacot III Prairie Farmer.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-07-20
HOrsellesh as a Food.

The gradually -extending use Of horse.
flesh as food in Germany has led Prof
Phuger, leading psychologist, to pub
fish an article on the subject in a recent
number. of his Archiv. fuer Physiologie
He tried a number of experiments on
dogs, and found that diet of horse,
flesh invariably produced digestive dis
turbances, oftentimes very severe in char
acter. He then made inquiries at the
Cologne Geological gardens and found
that the use of horse1esh as a food for
the animals had been discontinued for
the same reason. The trouble with the
meat seems to be It's poverty in fat, and
not any specific toxic agent, and Prof.
Pfuger found that by mixing either OK
or mutton fat with the horsehesh all d.
gestive disturbance was avoided. He
concludes his article with some sugges-
lions for cooks in beleaguered cities who
are reduced to horseaesh as a food. In
one mode Of dressing the horsefesh is
converted into pulp, and for every two
pounds about three-quarters of an ounce
Of OK fat or mutton fat, taken from the
region of the kidneys, is served up, with
a sauce of meal, as a hash. Another is
to add to the pulp tenth of it's weight
Of rice and fortieth of it's weight of fat,
and cook by steaming
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-07-20
A VOICE FROM THE TRENCHES
JULY f., 1000.

Here In the steaming trenches,
In the town of Dagupan,
In tunic of tattered khaki
And coat Of trOpic tan,
Weary with midnight marches,
Fevered and weak and Ill,
l see it shining before me-
The sword of Bunker Hill.
They are burning a lot of powder
Way of In the States today;
Rockets and Roman candles
Are dropping their fiery spray;
But here, with the bolo-hunters
And bullets whistling shrii
We are close to It's sacred glory
The sword of Bunker Hill.
l hear the call of the bugle.
The roll of the drummer's sticks,
And my sold,er-blood goes dancing
TO the tune Of 'seventy-six.
With the strength Of its steel immortal
l feel my pulses thrill,
Colnmbin's blade Of freedom,
The sword Of Bunker Hill.
When the Maxims hold their thunder
And the Mausers cease to rain
We seek for our fallen comrades
In jungle and field of cane,
And over their bleeding bosoms
And faces white and chill
We see In its silver splendor
The sword Of Bunker Hill.
Wrought in the heat Of battle,
Forged by the llghtnings breath,
Unsheathed by patriot heroes
For liberty or death.
God of the nation keep it
Bright and untarnished still,
To guard the flag of our fathers
The sword of Bunker Hill!
Nina Irving In Leslie's Weekly.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-07-20
Served on the Green.

When the Long Link Golf club cele-
brated its anniversary the other day every
one came to the Open-air breakfast in
golf costume. 1t was amusing to see the
diversity Of ideas as to what golf cos
tune is. There We're girls in sweaters,
girls in jerseys with brass buttons and
silk sleeves, girls in white duck skirts
and flannel shirt waists, and girls in
muslin shirts and cloth skirts. Most Of
them wore helmeted hats that dropped
over their eyes, and nine out of
ten had loyalty fastened their belts
and cravats with gold or silver
golf stickpinS. The men were quite as
nIctures1ue and in quite as many ways.
and on the club piazzas, at small tables
with polished tops and no cloths. First
there was grape fruit, with rum and
cracked ice. Then came eggs done in the
most marvellous fashion, with tomatoes
and parsley. There was an entree of
shad. with pretty accessories in the way
OF bits of lemon and fresh beets, A salad
OF beans and peas. stuffed olives and Ro-
maine followed. y macedonia of fruit
and sugar and cordials and maccaroous
was the dessert. and there were long cool
drinks of all kinds. climbing with ice md
attractlvcly decorated with mint and
other fragrant things.
One of the drinks deserves to be canon
1Zed' as one thirsty man profanely put it
IL was served in pint glasses. and was
made OF ginger ale, the juice of one lem
on and wineglasS full of sloe gin. sugar
10 taste, and crushed ice ad lib. The
s"e gin should be put in last, and 1t will
n1at on top IN the most ornamental and
ailnring fashon.-New York CONNER
Slal- \ ,1yortiSar ASA
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-07-20
OutlaWry in Los Angeles.

Citizens Of Los Angeles are seriously
considering the formation of vigilance
committee to deal summarily with tho
footpads and robbers who now infes1
that city. In the last two months ther5
have been eighteen "holdups" and in
several cases those who resisted the de-
mands. of the robbers have been shot
down in the streets. In two cases men
were waylaid and MORALLY wounded al
most at their own doors. The police are
apparently powerless to capture the rob.
bers or to prevent the crimes, and it is
suggested that vigilance committee
would be able to patrol the town efficient.
ly, and few lynchings would have a
wholesome effect in deterring desperate
characters from turning highwaymen
The city covers forty-nine square miles
and has only ninety-two policemen to
natrOl If 6. = '-'-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-07-20
QUEER VACATIONS.
What was Unearthed by the New
York Census Enumerators.

York Census Enumcrators.
There can be no better illustration of
the truth of the moss-grown expression
that "one-half the world does not know
how the other half lives' than is found in
the discoveries made by number of GEN.
sus agents of this city. Occupations that
were never known to exist have been UNI
earthed by these questioners, and have
given the students of odd jobs and unique
hyellhoods food for much thought.
:, For instance, mans sole business is
the making of monstrosities. He turns
out sea serpents and mermaids as readily
as the tailor cuts pair of trousers.
Une or the census takers in East Forty
nfth street found professional spanker.
HIS advertisement in a German paper
said: ,"Unruly and hayward boys dis
clRdined at parents residences"
There was discovered close to Fort
greene park, in Brooklyn, man named
Bremen, with sign reading: Cock
roach killer to the United States navy
The cockroach killer made his "reputa.
ton" when he removed twenty ne bar
rels OF c0ckroaches from the old, wall
sided PENSACOLA. He does it with sort
OF paste and Is an expert.
another queer occupation discovered is
conducted by man who "calls people"
His chief customers are those who have
=" SSe NY ~ UNUSUALLY early uUuIS, SuCu
as Dartenders, policemen, motormen and
the like
The woman whose business it is to col
lect corks, and who is said to make $40
a day, is another queer one on the long
list OF oddities. She gathers all the whis-
KY, champagne and mineral water corks,
through number of employees. and sells
them to the firms that originally cut
them.
Close to Bellevue hospital is woman
who sells bottles. The poor who go to the
dispensary for medicines usually fail to
take bottles along. The "bottle woman
sells for l or cents each glass bottles
OF all sizes, ranging from the half-ounce
vial to the one big enough for the horse
liniment.
Still another odd business is that of an
east side firm which is down in the books
as an "ejectment company" The firm
does nothing except get rid of tenants.
Up on Broadway, near Fifty -seventh
street, is man whose business it is tc
bite off dogs tails. He says the animals
must be of an age at which their tails
are tender. He doesn't believe in knife
because every dogs tail has worm in it
and the only way to remove it is to bite
the tail off.
A man named Kelly charges $3.50 fol
destroying bad trees, woman in Harlem
trains college men for plays, three firms
furnish clean jackets for bartenders and
charge them from so cents to 81 pei
week. Even the women on the east side
who make business of lighting fires on
holidays, are remembered in the list
New York Cor. st. Louis ost-Dispatch
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-07-20
Persistence of Race Traits.

The recruiting officers Of the French
array in Algiers report the probable sur
vi,al of hill DIV ellers descended from the
adventurous vandals that conquered
No',tcrn Africa 1900 years ago. They
are blue-eyed, oval-faced and appreciably
much more intelligent than their Kabyle
neighbors, whose language they have
been induced to adopt. The suns Of
many hundred summers have bronzel
their hides, but dark-brown boards fun
found in every shepherds cabin of the
Algerian tlas.-Indianapolis Press.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-07-20
Hair in a Tree,

Harry Brown Of Brooklyn, Susquehan.
found lock of dark human hair in the
very center of the tree. A small hole
had been bored in the tree, the hair
placed therein and peg driven in tight
ly. The tree is said to be over 60 years
old.
1t is thought that some superstitious
person placed the lock of hair in the tree
as a preventive of disease.-Susquehan
ma (Pa.) Spe. Philadelphia Inquirer.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-07-20
"BOBS" AND THE LIONS.
Dublin Proposes to Honor Him with
Geological Building.

Geological Building.
The Royal Geological society of Ire
land proposes to build a new lion house
in Dublin and to call it the Lord Rob
erts house. They want $4,000 to carry
out the scheme. The Queen has gra-
ciously contributed f25 and the council
of the society has voted $1,000. The
public is asked to find the rest Lord
Roberts is the president Of the society.
His two years of Office have been the
most progressive in the history of the
gardens. Through his fundamentally
many valuable additions have been
made. A pair of splendid Bengal tigers
were presented by the Nizam of Hydera-
bad, and very fine leopard from Tri-
vandrum.
The new lion house, the council points
out, would be a permanent memorial of
''Bobs"' presidency. 1t is intended to
present Lord Roberts with an album
containing the signatures of those whose
money will pay for the cost of the new
house. During the last fifty years over
200 lion cubs have been born in the gar
dens, and their sale has realized f5OOO.-
London Daily Mail
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-07-20
School Discinline in Municr

A judicial decision which has Just been
rendered at the court of Munich shows
that corporal punishment is still regarded
in Germany as an indispensable factor
Of education. "A school teacher" says
the judge, has the right to inflict cor
poral punishment as well on the pupils of
his own class as on those of other classes,
AS pupils are amenable to scholastic
are over, they may be punished by the
teacher even outside of the school,
New York Herald
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-07-20
An Effect of Cam onading.

A German scientist has been making
some observations in South Africa on the
subject of the influence of repeated deto-
nations on the ear. He examined the
ears of ninety-six soldiers before and
after battle, and found marked changes
in no fewer than forty -four, or nearly
so per cent, In seven cases he found
case a large bleeding, while the firing
caused the edge of the ear drum to be-
come red in thirty-seven cases.-New
York Post
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-07-20
FARM AND GARDEN.
COwsliDs.

When mists beside the river kneei,
Like still gray nuns at matins
And catkins DER the willows steal,
All dressed in silvery satins,
Before the .soldier-reeds unbind
Their swords to tilt against the wind.
Before the grass begins to toss,
Its pretty fancies trilling,
Or bultercups find yellow floss
Enough to make their frilling,
The cowslips sit in golden crowds
Beneath dim April's frowning clouds.
But still, as brave and glad are they
AS any summer beauty.
They ask no rosy holiday;
They smile, for that's their duty
And all the meadows giuGness lies
Within their brave and shining eyes.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-07-20
Try Grain-O! Try Grain.O!

Ask your grocer today to show you a
package Of GRAIN-O, the new food
drink that takes the place OF coffee.
The children may drink it without injury
as well as the adult. All who try it like
it. GRAIN-O has that rich seal brown
OF Mocha or Java, but it is made from
pure grains, and the most delicate stom
ach receives it without distress. One
fourth the price Of coffee. 15c and csc
per package. Sold BY all erocers.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-07-20
The British Emergency Ration.

Every soldier in the British army car
the emergency ration This consists
Of small tin cylinder, similar to peck
ct spirit flask, divided into two compart-
ments. One Of these is filed with four
ounces of cocoa paste and the other con-
tains similar quantity of concentrated
beef (pemmican). As it's title implies
the ration is not to be used except in
the case Of direst necessity, and Il con-
sunled IN small quantities It will NAM
tain strength for thirty-six houre.-In-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-07-20
Queen Elizabeth,s Autoeranh.

An autograph signature of Queen Eliz-
abeth of England was recently submitted
state for his opinion y to it's authentic
ity. 1t has been in ..4e possession of a
prominent Washington family and was
about to be sold. Mr.. Allen is a recog-
nized expert in such matters, and after
comparison with copies of the Queens
handwriting to which he has access pro-
nounced it genuine. 1t is very rare
specimen. 1t is on small square of
parchment framed in an old-fashioned
daguerreotype frame, and was presum-
ably clipped-perhaps stolen-from some
old patent of nobility.-Chicago Chroni-
III
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-07-20
About Lightning.

II lightning strikes a tree after a long
period of heavy rain, when the whole
surface Of the tree is damp, it generally
does very little harm to the tree and
often none at all. If, on the other hand,
it is more severely damaged, because
then the electric spark will descend by,
line of lower resistance along the damp
wood under the bark. In this case the
heat of the spark instantly produces
steam to- a very high pressure under the
bark, and it is generally blown up.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-07-20
Rest of Excuses.

A teacher in a certain school recently
received the following note from the
mother of boy who had been absent for
day or two: "Dere Mam-plese eggs.
cuse Willy. He didn't hav but one pare
Of trowsers, an KEEP him home to wash
and mend them, and Mrs. O'toole's COW
come and ct them up off the line, and
nose. Yours with respecE~Mrs: b.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-07-20
The Telephonograph.

The telephonograph is a new Invention
which comes to us from Denmark. Not
quite for the first time, for we had heard
of it about year ago; since then,
though, the inventors have made prog
ress. The telephonograph is a combina
ton of the telephone with newly-con-
structed photograph, which makes it
tons in the absence of the intended hear
er, so that he can listen to the message
after his return. But the Importance of
the invention reaches much further,
Through the use of magneto-phonog-
raphy it is possible to multiply the effect
of the sound and to give the sound
greater force.-London Daily Mail.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-07-20
What Do the Children Dr;nk .

Don't give them tea or coffee Havo
Fon tried the new food drink called
GKAlN-O? 1t is delicious and nourish-
ing, and takes the place of coffee. The
more Grain-O You give the children Tho
more more health You distribute through their
systems ys ZEN Grain-O is made Of pure
tastes ike the choice grades Of coffe.
out c?tostII about, y as much All grocers