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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-05-19
DREDGING IN CHINA CANAL 8
boatmen Gather Rich Fertilizing Ma
terial for the Neighbour
ing Farms

Along the canals in China at any time
may be found bOatmen gathering muck
from the bottom of the canal. This muck
is taken in much the same manner that
oysters are taken by hand on the Allan.
tic coast. In place of tongs are largo
baglike devices on crossed bamhoo
poles which take in a large quantity of
the ooze at once. This is emptied into
the boat, and the process is repeated
until the boatman has load, when he
will proceed to some neighboring farm
and empty the muck. either directly on
his f1elds-especially around the null
berry trees, which are raised for the silk
worms-or in pool, where it is taken
later to the fields. From this muck the
Chinese farmer will generally secure
enough shellfish to pay him for his work
and the fertilizer is clear gain. The fer
tilizer thus secured is valuable. It is
rich in nitrogen and potash and has
abundant lumus elements. This drede-
ing of the canals for fertilizers is the
only way by which the Chinese have
kept their canals in reasonably good con-
dition for centuries The fertilizer has
paid for itself both. ways. Recently
there were complaints filed at Picking
that the ashes from the steam launches
plying on the canals were injuring the
muck for fertilizing purposes, and the
problem has been considered a serions
one by the Chinese government.
In addition to securing feri Ilizers fron,
the canals, and thus keeping the canals
in condition, the farmers help keep them
purified by gathering all floating weeds
grass and other vegetable debris that
they can find upon them. Boatmen will
secure great loads of water plants and
grass by skimming the surface of the
canal. The reeds growing along the
canal are used for weaving baskets of
several grades, and for fuel. In short.
no plant life about the canal goes to
waste.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-05-19

She who would become a designer or ar
illustrator must equally spend years OF
her precious youth in mastering details
and learning the essentials of her call
ing. | have known young woman
without previous training, with nothing
but clever brain, a keen eye. and the
ability. to write, to come from her home
in the far south. and in city like New
York reach the position of assistant
editor on weekly paper, in less than
IL months. l have known another
young girl, this time from the west, who
discovered in herself aptitudes which
she fancied might be utilized in news
paper work, and reached place most
enviable in six months. No extremely
long novitiate is required if the girl her
self have the cleyerness, pluck and
perseverance essential. and it ciicum-
stances prove favorable.
The amount of money earned by the
newspaper woman runs from five or six
dollars week up to $40 or $50, the aver
age perhaps being between SIS or $40
by the rank and file. Few women ever
attain what may be called the great
prizes, but there are periodicals, partic-
ularly in the line OF fashion, which are
exclusively edited by women, at salaries
not far from munifcent All the great
monthly magazines which make an es-
peclal bid Tor women readers have Wom-
en- editors on their staff, newspaper
women of the brightest and most whole
some kind. Many educational publish
ing houses employ women in one OF the
lines of reference-study or verification
or classification which come within
their scope. The great daily papers have
their corps OF women who do the So
ciety news, write of the various char
tiles, and turn their hand to anything
else that is needed Real maids of all
work, you see
Mrs. Cynthia Westover Alden, one of
the foremost newspaper women in
America, says on this subject: ANY
young woman of ordinary sense, who
pays attention to the requirements of
the profession, can make a good living
as reporter. She will find that the
range OF her understanding and her
sympathies is being increased with
every month of her work Her daily ex-
perience will be continual education
for the field of legitimate fiction. If she
has talent or genius or executive ability,
her future is secure. Meanwhile, her
daily bread is provided for. What more
could be asked Of any vocation in life ?"
One word may be added in reply to the
question: Where shall the aspirant find
an open dOOr?' l answer, let her try
the newspaper Office nearest her. If in
the country, let her seek to become a
helper on the local paper. A country
newspaper is the best of training
schools, and on it one may learn a lit
tie bit of everything. Any newspaper
Office is good school. One learns the
profession somewhat after the world
renowned manner of Mr.. Squeers who
set his boys learning how to wash win
dows, and then told an admiring visitor
that it impressed it on boys mind, to
spell "winder" and then spend little
time in cleaning the same.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-05-19

tacks of kidney disor-
ders which kept mo in
the house for days at a
time, unable to do any
thing. What I suffered
can hardly be told.
Complications set In,
the particulars Of
which I will be pleased
to give in q personal
interview to. any one
who requires informs-
ton This I can con-
scientiously say, Doan's
Kidney Pills caused a
general improvement
IN MN health Tha-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-05-19
At q Child's Party.

A charming way of serving ices at a
child's party is to line common flower
pots, two inches and half in diameter
at the top, with paraflne paper, after
wards filling nearly full with ice cream.
Sprinkle with grated sweet chocolate to
represent earth, and stick a flower in the
top.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-05-19

or pearl buttons. The entire edge of
coat is machine-stitched; the collar is
faced with velvet shade or two
darker than the cloth.
Materials required: Two and a half
yards so inches wide, three yards lin
ing. one-fourth yard velvet and six
buttons.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-05-19
Merely 4 Mutton Carver.

Furious Hubly--1 want you to under
stand that | an, the head Of this table
Fiery Wife-lf the belief comforts you
any, indulge in it. It makes little Diff
you do a. want you to do.-Cincinnati
Tribune
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-05-19

brought great relief by lessening the
pain and correcting the action Of the
kidney secretions." -
Doan's Kidney Pills for sale by all
dealers. Price, so cents. Foster-Mil-
burn Co., Buffalo, n. Y. Fl
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-05-19
COVERT COAT FOR BOY.
This Trim Little Garment Is Suita BILE
for Child from Eight to Ten
Years of Age

Light shades of fawn, drab or gray
face cloth are generally used for these
coats, and lined with Italian cloths
the same color or finely striped lining.
The fronts are faced with the same ma
terial as the coat and fasten with bone
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-05-19

It is high finance when somebody else
does big things with your money for him
self.-N. Y. Press.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-05-19

In q Pinch, Use Aliens Foot-Ease.
Shake into your shoes Aliens Foot Ease,
2 powder. It cures Corns, Bunions, Painful,
Smarting, Hot, Swollen feet. At ill Drug
gists and Shoe Stores, &c. Sample FREE
Address A. s. Olmsted. lie Roy, n. Y.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-05-19

Piso'e Cure for Consumption 10 IN infalli.
bic medicine for coughs and colds.-N. w.
Samuel, Ocean Grove, N. j.. Feb. II; 1900.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-05-19

Practice makes purgatory-for the neigh
bors.-N. o. Picayune.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-05-19

The teaching of music has always
been a profession of the blind in japan.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-05-19
A VOICE FROM TIE PULPIT.

Rev. Jacob D. Van Doren, of 81 Sixth
street, Fond Du Lac, Wis, Presby-
terlan clergyman, says: II had 1T.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-05-19

Bread il the staff Of life, and it fire.
quently is the indigestion Of life, slso.-
Sunset Magazine.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-05-19

hauSeaCeo l had an acrtd discharge and
pains down through my limbs 20 t could
hardly walk It was as bad a case Of female
trouble as I have ever known. lydia Is.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, however.
cured me within four months. Since that
time have had occasion to recommend it to
q number Of patients suffering from all
forms OF female difficulties, and I find that
while it Is considered unprofessional to rec
ommend a patent medicine, I can honestly
recommend Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound, for l have found that It cures
female ills, where all other medicine fails It
Is grand medicine for sick women"
Money cannot buy such testimony as
this-merit alone can produce such re-
suits, and the ablest specialists now
agree that Lydia E. Pinkham's Veee-
table Compound is tho most univer-
sally successful remedy for all female
diseases known to medicine.
When women are troubled with IT.
regular, suppressed or painful men
situation, weakness, leucorrhoea, dis
placement or liberation of the womb,
shat bearing-down feeling, infamma-
ton of the ovaries, backache, bloat-
ing Tor aatulence). general debility, in
digestion, and nervous prostration. or
are beset with such symptoms as dizzi-
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Con
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-05-19

Write to s. G. Warner, G. P. l. T. A..
K1ansts City Southern Ry., Kansas City,
Mo, for information concerning free
Government Homesteads, New Colony
Locations, Improved farms, Mineral lands.
Rice lands, and Timber lands and for
copy of Current Events" Business o..
portunities, Rice book, X. c. S. Fruit
book: Cheap round trip homeseekers'
tickets on sale first and third TUESDAYS Of
each month. The short line to the "fand
Of Ful6llment,"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-05-19

The girl who would succeed as a
musician must be contented to devote
years Of arduous study and incessant
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-05-19
"A Remarkable sEact-


about 'Pusheck's Kuro" is that it does
what no other medicine can do. It affects
the grand trio-the Stomach, the Blood
and the Nerves-that controls and regu-
lates the whole body, every organ and
every function. It corrects the digestion
and assimilation Of food that keeps up the
and corrects, regulates and strengthens
the nerves. This explains why one medi-
cine permanently cures SO many appar-
emily different diseases. Other remedies
work on one of the organs only and can
not cure completely; Pusheck's Kuro re-
generates the entire system. Good health
will assist. to happiness and wealth more
than anything else. Pusheck's Kuro will
iifes This remedy is 81 at Druggist Of
sent from DR.. Pusheck, Chicago.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-05-19

The treasury reports that there il
42,5S8 1872 1888 in circulation. Most Of it il
circulating so fast, however, that few
can catch it.-WashinRton Post.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-05-19
A. TRAINED NURSE
After Years Of Experience, Advises Women In
Regard to Their Health,

Mrs. Martha Pohlman
of IS Chester Avenue,
Newark. N. j., who is 4
graduate Nurse from tho
Blockley Training School,
at Philadelphia, and for
six years Chief Clinic
Nurse at the Philadelphia
Hospital, writes theletter
printed below. She has
the advantage of personal
experience, besides her
professional education,
and what she has to say
may be absolutely relied
upon.
Many other women arc
afflicted as she was. They
can regain health in tho
same way. It Is prudent
to heed such advice from
such a source.
Mrs, Pohlman writes:
II am firmly persuaded.
after eight years Of experiences
with Lydia e. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound, that it
is the safest and best medicine
for any suffering woman to
use.
''Irnmediately after nv
marriage I found that my
health began to fail mo. Ibe-
came weak and pale, with So
we're bearing-down pains, fear.
full backaches and frequent
dizzy spells. The doctorspr
scribed for mo, yet I did not
improve. I would bloat after
eating and frequently become
naussated. I had an acrid
pains down throuph NV lin,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-05-19

is the price OF personal conservation
The work must be put before pleasure,
before social engagements, before Wis.,
it's to dear ones at household ami
versaries. A great deal of ones self, of
ones vitality must be layishly given if
one would earn more than a very sub
ordinate place in ones profession. If
assigned to Office work, Office hours must
be strictly observed, and nothing in the
days routine must be considered I'M
important. Take, for example, the
never-ceasing food of correspondence
that comes to the woman's department
of newspaper. In two instances re-
Gently, l have known young women to
be dismissed from very attractive desks.
where they received a generous4weekly
wage. because they did not and would
not understand that every letter and
scrap of paper which passed into their
hands was valuable. One of these girls
apologized for tearing up and waste
basketing letters which it was her duty
to acknowledge, on the ground that they
were nothing but rubbish. The other.
equally unaware Of the value of the in
dividual subscriber, pigeon-holed letters
for weeks, and then declared that she
felt no interest in them, and could not
be bothered by people SO silly as the
writers. Neither of these young women
at all grasped the fact that in Office
work nothing is unimportant.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1905-01-27
IELaRSKAD!!()
IS S De ! AID
Prominent Prohibition Leadsr passe,
Away At His Home At K,gyssr
After Linghrin3 Illness. u

y Hon. Thomas R. Carskadon died 1t
his nome in Keyssr. He had been crit.
ically III with pneumonia 1T 81. Iuke's
hospital Chicago, for several weeks
Though he mad not improved, the doc!
tors yielded to his great desire 70 gel
home and he was brought to Keyse,
last Thursday, where he fingered until
Saturday morning.
Mr.. Carskadou has bsen one Of: Yves,
ivirgfnia's most prominent citizens nav.
ing been an influential member Of the
constitutional convention and Of the
legislature in the earlier history Of the
state: For several years he has been
one Of the foremost men IN the National
Prohibition party.
Mr. Carskadcn was one Of the leading
members Of the Methodist Episcopal
caurca. "A wife, one son and one daugas
ter survive him. The funeral occurred
Monday.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1905-01-27
a BARBARous MARRIAGE.

~. . IS
From Brighton, Iowa. comes The dis
patch to tae newspapers taat Gertrnde
Trusty Leepcr, IN eleven yearSold girl,
has Just been granted decree Of divorce
from John Lecper, siSty-aye years Of
age to whom she. was married two
years ago. The child VINO became a
wife when she was only nine years Of
age and becomes Divorce mt eleven,
the dispatch says, j. still in skirts TINT
fall scarce to her knees and wars luz
nrious brown chair in epigtailss down
her back. Tile very idea Of a nine year
old child being married to an old man
is rspngmnt to the thoughts of a
civilized Christian being. It is in
credulo,is. II 1t possibls that snca an
atrorions and barbarous, contamination
is sanctioned by our laws in tais day
Of progress and civilizationi No. we
cannot believe it,. The man who by
civil authority sanctioned such mar.
riagc ongat to be tarred and featnered.
or pnt in hlnatic asylum. On the
face of 1t the dispatch looks as if some
correspondent mad used gross exaggera-
ton in order to make his sstory'' more
Sensational and thereby more acceptable
$50 as to lengthen his ssttingn which
draws MS meugre enough remittance at
thu end Of each month.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1905-01-27

lthsTe u saed gent variation II eSsts
that there can hardly bs <sis u 81 aliy
average and amount II product Ion az.
pears also 70 nave IN important bearing
upon the most 81 4 Thousand Sl,l,it fset:
fThs camporis cn ndlri,8Ss ti'sf WITH :sn
output of less hat Il; Qpo. 900 c1bic fest
municipal plants nm more costiy than
Iptiyate plants but Ii larger daantitiss
the cost 4 Thousand II iess 4
There ii mo- rcss on Wv licatine
should cost less on publ account thai,
on private account, ana eiiisisneS "a
service might b expect Ia u ii lsss. n,
| fact, It Is mot doubted f6sit private
plants are run more economically and
THAT cost Of production Il hi tdan with
municipal plants. me hiea rates
charged by corporations sfe due Is khsl
Ineaxy capitalization. creatinS 1 burden.
Of fixed charges for which tl,s cciisnmerl
must pay. Thus the proiiieacy Win
whica public franchises are cont erred
upon corporations ms id 81 attaining
good service for the people aas precisely
the contrary effect. TIE ffsnchises I'D
capitalism at such inofainat1 amounts
that exorbitant profts tnust be exactsd
to meet the interest acccuat ana pay
dividends. The success 81 Canadian and
English cities in getting eaeaper ser.
l. .
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1905-01-27

NE Book q ths Royai slass fot Io6s
1as January nnmbsf 7l3eql oi ~
Rcys = Blusg staEts tias NV sesf ris4
most interesting collection 81 skste',>-
|and poems BY several Of 9ae BE-.
krosn nfi IN The uaited stae>-'
The Illus "a POEM, Coin HON 2
|ey ~. GilIilian ot Baltimore, eistl :
|delisnttul inp1ss slsn y ths ssaadss.
4 hica Is kept up 10 tsle End q i.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1905-01-27

The "brcadmindclv fellow VINO is pos
ing as the editorial writer of tac Fair
mont Times says a degenerate school
master is narrow minded. The infer
cnce is ne himself is schoolmastr
but not degenerate. That, however, is
the first definition Of the kind we ever
saw advanced for degencracy, but posi-.
bly, that Observation-Disclosures can con,
ceive OF nothing else. 1t is not strange
TINT a crazy fellow should think about
sanity and hence thar accounts for, t,2
siflsion of the @broadminded' fellow.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1905-01-27

Look our M cotlgns, CONS, group and
whcoping cough. They are dangerous
at this season of tae year and lead to
pneumonia or consumption. You can
prevent on cure al such complaints
with Bees Laxative Honey and Tar-
an improvement over all cough. lung and
bronchial remedies, and tine best eougs,
lure. Sold BY Stone & Mercer. eodsm.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1905-01-27
THE PRESIDENTS lNAueuRA1.

Extensive preparations are being made
for the ceremonies to take place at the
nations capital on the fourth day of
March on the occasion OF the Inaugural
,tion OF Theodore Roosevelt ms Presilen.
of the Unitlsl States to fill tn, fonr
years term TO whica tire people elected
him by an Overwhelming and approyin.,
majority. As it customary upon so i'm
portant on occasion in our government
the ccrsmoniss will be. quite elaborate
Many conspicuous feataircs will mark
the event. There viii be Representatives,
rnere from the East, the West the North
the. South and the insulat possessions
af'the United statets. There will be a
ssand displaysof the military ami naval
forces. Dignitaries from all parts Of
~ ForA AMI ministers from all nation.
VIII witness the imposing event. 4
As usual, however, there is howl
from some people in various parts II
the! country who think the inaugural
l'tion Of a president should BE- marked
With extreme simplicity AMI without
show or ostentation Of any sort. Yet
snow of tnis kind mas its value in the
diplomatic relations of toe world gov.
ernments. The United States is a
world power and the dignity AMI i'm
pres ivencss of its government mist be
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1905-01-27

The Hopslale district, Harrison coun.
~. this STATE. is a new one on US. We
nave heard of such a district in Har-
rison county, Ohio. Tae fact is the
name is sufficiently Buckeye TO convince
the casual observer That it belongs to
tine Buckeye state.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1905-01-27

From the looks of some OF the metro,
politan newspapers yesterday, blood not
only flowed in the streets Of st. Peters
burg but all over tneir printing presses
and paper
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1905-01-27

II is certainly gratifying to the Rs
publican party of this senatorial district
that Democratic papers. whica bitterly
denounced Senator A. K. Thorn during
the campaign are loud in praising mis-
course in the legislature. Taey vir.
t,'ally admit That taay were mistaken
and at the sans time make the Repub-
licaps feel good for having made such
q wise selection.