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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-08-18
FADS IN SIZES OF CIGARS.
Queer Notions Crop Out Among the
Smokers Who Think They
Know It All.

Two smokers stood in one of the
cigar shops in the vicinity of the
stock exchange, during the rest hour,
says the New York Sun.
"You have all sizes of CIGARS" said
one of the smokers as he surveyed
the stock. Then these questions and
answers followed:
I'm length" replied the shopkeeper,
"the average cigar is from four to five
inches" .-.....s .., "
HAS. the-size of a cigar to
do with the price?"
''Sometimes. Not always. The sto-
gle is longer than the average length
and everybody knows what stogie
costs. They are seven inches long.
II have another cigar the, same
length as stogie, which sells three
for a dollar. The cigar that sells
three for half is about five and a
half inches long, but it is thicker than
the cigar of the same length that sells
for ten cents straight or Is cents
straight
What is the weight of an average
cigar?"
"All depends on the tobacco. One
cigar that sells for ten cents weighs
about one-fourth of an ounce. An
other, the same size, weighs an eighth
of an ounce. and still another of the
same size, that sells at the same price,
weighs half an ounce. The brand that
sells three for dollar is the same
weight"
II suppose there are fads in sizes of
cigars just as there are fads in fash.
ion?"
well, you're on. Just at present
the fad seems to be long cigars of the
panatela shape. They are all prices,
too, from five cents up"
isn't it a fact that the average
smoker don't mean men who run
to fancy prices and buy by the box
buys the five cent cigar?"
More five cent cigars are now sold
than formerly" the shopkeeper re.
piled. "The tive-cent panatela shape
for instance, we sold for ten cents
straight when we paid duty-I am re.
ferring to the Porto Rico cigars.
II have one customer who used to
buy them by the box, at five dollars
When the duty was taken off l gave
him one of the brand one day and told
him it was a new dve-cent cigar that
I had just put on the market. He
smoked about half of it and said it
was enough, and he wanted his old
smoke. Then I told him it was the
same, less the duty"
"Then what happened?"
What usually happens? You smok,
ers think you know more about cigars
than we who make them. That man
wouldn't have it. He insisted CT
smoking ten-cent straight, and ]
gave it to him. Price is what gov.
erned him, just as it governs most
men when they buy. The average
man is not much of bargain hunter
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-08-18
CUTICURA OINTMENT
The Worlds Greatest Skin Cure and
Sweetest Emollient-Positively
Unrivaled.

Cuticura Ointment is beyond question
the most successful curative for torturing,
disfguring humors of the skin and scalp,
including loss Of hair, ever compounded,
it, preceded by a hot bath with Cuticura
Soap, and followed in the severer cases
by dose of Cuticura Resolvent Pills, is
often sufficient to afford immediate relief
in the most distressing forms of itching,
burning and scaly humors, permit rest
and sleep, and point to speedy cure
when all else fails. It is especially so IN
the treatment of infants and children;
speedily. soothing and healing the most
distressing cases.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-08-18

One of the greatest triumphs of Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is
the conquering of woman's dread
enemy. Tumor. y
So-called wandering pains" may
come from its early stages, or the pres
ence of danger may be made manifest
BY excessive menstruation accompanied
by unusual pain extending from the
ovaries down the groin and thighs.
If you have mysterious pains, if there
are indications of Inflammation ulcera-
ton or displacement, don't wait for
time to confirm your fears and 60
through the horrors of a hospital opera
ton; secure Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound right away and begin
it's use and write Mrs. Pinkham OF
Lynn, Mass, for advice. =
Read these strong letters from CRATE
full women who have been cured:
Dear Mrs. Pinkham:- First Lottery
.In looking over your book see that your
medicine cures Tumor of the Uterus. Ihave
been to doctor and he tells me have tu-
NOR. I will be more than grateful it you
can help me, as do 80 dread an operation. :"
Fannie D. Fox, Chestnut St, Bradford, Pa.
Dear Mrs. Pinkham:- (Second Lottery
81 take the liberty to congratulate you on
1no succe>S L uaSo 0o0 WALL yosA "oAAAoAAuA
medicine.
" eighteen months ago my monthGes
stopped. Shortly after felt SO badly1 sub
mitted to q thorough examination by ply
sician, and was told that had tumor on
the uterus and would have to undergo an
operation.
=" I soon after read one Of your advertise
ments and decided to give Lydia E. Pink
ham Vegetable Compound q trial. After
iaking five bottles as directed, the tumor is
entirely gone. I have again been examined
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-08-18
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The Bad Boy and His Dad Arrive in
Cairo-At the Hotel They Meet
Some Egyptian Princesses - Dad
Rides Camel to the Pyramids and
Meets with Difficulties.


Ex-Governor of Wisconsin, Former Editor
of Peck's Sun, Author Of "Peck's
Bad Boy etc.
Copyright, 1905, by Joseph B. Bowles)
Cairo, Egypt.-My Dear Old Irish
Vegetable: Gee, but you ought to see dad
and l right now, at a hotel, waiting for
a chance at room, when bride and
groom get ready to vacate it, and go
somewhere else. This hotel is full OF
married people who look scared when
ever there is a new arrival, and came
pretty near creating panic by going
into the parlOr of the hotel, where
dozen couples were sitting around max
ing goo-goo eyes at each other, and get
ting behind screen and, in disguised
voice, shouting, Il know all! Prepare
to defend YOURSELF"
The women turned pale and some said,
AT last! At last!" while others got
faint in the head, and some fell on the
bosoms of their husbands and said:
Don't shoot" You see, most of these
wives had husbands somewhere else,
that might be looking for them. have
warned dad not to be seen cOnversing
with woman, or he may be shot by
husband who is on her trail, or by the
husband she has with her.
Well, sir, of all the trips we have had
anywhere, the trip from Constantinople
here was the limit For two or three
days we were on dinky steamboats, with
Arabs, Turks, negroes and all nationali-
ties camping on deck, full of f1eas, and
with cholera germs on them big enough
to pick like blueberries, and all of the
passengers were dirty and eat things
that would make dog in America go
mad. The dog biscuit that are fed to
American dogs would pass as a delicate
confection on the menu Of any steam
boat we struck, and l had rather lie
down in barn yard with wet dog for
a pillow and a cast-off blanket from a
smallpox hospital for a bed, than to
occupy the bridal chamber of any steam
boat we struck
And then the ride across the desert
by rail to reach Cairo was the worst in
the world. Passengers in rags, going to
Mecca, or some other place of worship,
eating cheese thousand years old made
from old goats milk, and dug from the
Pyramids too late to save it, was what
surrounded us, and the sand storm blew
through the cars laden with germs of the
plague, and stuck to us so tight you
couldn't get it off with sandpaper, and
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-08-18

All the women wanted to dance with
dad in the hotel dance, and because they
thought must be heit to all the oil
billions, they wanted to hold me on
their laps, and stroke ny'hair, as though
l was it. I guess we are going to have
everything our own way here, and ii
dad does not get eloped with by some
Egyptian princess, shall be mistaken.
The Egyptians are pretty near being ne
groes, and wear bangles in their ears,
and earrings on their arms. You take
it in the dark, and let princess put
her arm around you, and sort of squeeze
you, and you can't tell but what She is
white, only there is an odor about them
like "Araby the blessed" but in the light
they are only negroes, little <bleached,
with red paint on their cheeks. If was
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-08-18

The Maintenance of Way forces Of the
Erie are now engaged in laying $50 miles
Of 90-pound steel rails on the main track.
A larger mileage has never been laid in
any one year before. The Erie has al
ways been noted for its good track, and
the management finds that it is necessary
to use heavier rail on account of the
thae have been neT parehased in the last two
years. Much of the rail being removed
has only been in track four or five years
and will be used on branch lines.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-08-18
STARTED ON A STAMPEDE.

faces at me on my jackass, and finally
dad wanted to change works with me
and ride my jackass, but told him we
had left the stepladder back at Cairo, so
dad hung to his mountainous steed, but
the dust blew so you couldn't see, and it
was getting monotonous when the
Queerest thing happened.
You have heard that camels can fill up
with water and go for a week without
asking for any more. Well, guess the
week was up, and it was time to load the
camels with water, for as we came to
the Nile every last camel made rush
for the river, and they went in like a
yoke of oxen on stampede, and waded
in clear up to the humps. and began to
drink. and dad yelled for a life preserver
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-08-18

would take her to Norway, or up to-
wards the north pole, where it is night
all day, and you wouldn't realize that
you were married to colored woman.
To be around among these Egyptians is
a good deal like having pass behind
the scenes at the play of Ben Hur in New
York, only here the dark and dangerous
women are the real thing, instead of
being white girls with black paint on.
We have just got back from the pyra-
mids, and dad is being treated for spinal
meningitis, on account of riding camel.
l never tried harder to get dad to go
anywhere on the cars than I did to get
him to go to the pyramids by rail, as
millionaire should, but he said he was
going to break a camel to the saddle,
and then buy him and take him home
for a side show So we went down to
the camel garage, and hired camel for
dad. and four camels for the arabs and
things he wanted for an escort, and a
jackass for me. There we're automobiles
and carriages, and trolleys, and every
thing that we could have hired, and
been comfortable for the ten-mile ride,
but dad was mashed on the camel, and
he got it.
Well, sir, it was not one of these
worlds fair camels that lay down for
you to get on, and then got up on the
installment plan, and chuck you for
ward and aft, but a proud Egyptian
camel that stands up straight and
makes you climb up on stepladder.
Dad got along up the camel's ribs,
when the stepladder fell, and he grabbed
hold of the hair on the two humps, and
the humps were loose and they Topped
over on the side, and it must have hurt
the camel's feelings to have his humps
pulled down, so he reached around his
head and took mouthful out of the seat
of dads pants, and dad yelled to the
camel to let go, and the Arabs amputat-
ed the camel from dads trousers, and
pushed dad up on top with a bamboo
pole with crotch in it, and when dad
got settled between the humps he said,
Let er 60" and we started
Dad could have had camel with a
platform on top, and an awning, but he
insisted on taking his camel raw, and
he sat there between those humps, his
trousers worked up towards his knees,
showing his red socks and blue drawers,
and his face got pale from sea sickness,
and the red, white and blue colors made
me think of a fourth of July at home.
We went out of town like wild west
show, and dad seemed happy, except
that every time an automobile went
whizzing along, dads camel got the
jumps aud waltzed sideways, out into
the sandy desert, and chewed at dads
socks, so part of the time dad had to
draw up his legs and sit on one hump.
and put his shoes on the other hump.
The Arabs on the other camels would
ride up alongside and steer dads camel
back into the road, by sticking sharp
sticks into the camel, and the animal
would yawn and groan and make up
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-08-18
His Idea Of It,

'"What is the vermiform appendix"
asked the teacher of the class in anatomy
and physiology.
Its little curlicue on the inside of
7ou,'" responded Willie, "that's all right
until you find out you've got it, and then
you have to get the doctors to take it
out. Chicago Tribune.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-08-18
Sound as a Dollar.

Monticello, Mimi, Aug. 7th.-Mr. J. W.
Moore Of this place stands as a living
proof of the fact that Bright's Disease,
even in the last stages, may be perfectly
and permanently cured by Dodd's Kid
ney Pills.
Mr.. Moore says: I'm 1893, three rep
utable physicians after careful examina-
ton told me that I would die with
Bright's Disease inside of a year. NV
feet and ankles and legs were badly swol-
len; could hardly stand on my feet and
had given up all hopes of getting cured.
when a travelling salesman told me that
he himself had been cured of BriQht's
Disease two years before.
He said he had taken to his bed and
expected to die with it, but that he had
been cured by remedy called Dodd's
Il commenced taking them at once and
| am thankful to say that they saved nv
life: After short treatment I was com.
pletely restored to good health and l am
now as sound as dollar"
The principal difficulty in the way of
making goats an article Of commerce on the
live stock market is that they might bear
the price of those goats which now mas
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-08-18
His Share.

Councilman-I've come to see, sir, if you
will subscribe anything to the town Gene
terry.
Old Resident-Good gracious! I've al
ready subscribed three wives.-Life.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-08-18

Do not believe Piso's Cure for Conssmp-
ton has an equal for coughs and colds.-J.
F.Boyer, Trinity Springs, Ind, Feb. Is, 1900.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-08-18

There is a town in Germany of the name
Of Observation-Disclosures What
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-08-18

If 'twere only conscience that made COW.
ards of us all, there would be no lack Of
bravery in the world.-Puck.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-08-18

You may know thaha thing is thorough
" artistic when you cannot tell for the
life of you why it is artistic-Chicago
Tribune.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-08-18

Vegetable a Remedy WGaans ns
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1905-04-07
Wnere Iiapplness IS Found.

Don't look for true happiness in the
mansions Of the very rich, where high
priced physicians are called In to doc
tor everyailment. But seek It and fin
It too,in the comfortable homes Of
the middle-classes and so called poor
where Greens August Flower is always
used to keep the family healthy-to
cure all stomach troubles, whether in
digestion, constipation, dyspepsia, loss
OF appetite, bilious attacks or torpid
Diver. Trial bottle August Flower,
Sc. Big bottle, 75c. Winner Drug
Col dW
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1905-04-07
LOCAL NOTES

Mrs. J. w. Blue isundsr the doctors
care.
p. L. soper returned home this
mo rning
A fine line Of go-carts at e. o. Stew
enson, opposite postoflice. ll3-tf
Ike Mcdonald is here from upper
Cabin creek.
Fred Miles returned last evening
from Joplin.
Strawberries at the Peoples Gro
Gerry Saturday.
It, G. Cowan had the first strawber-
ries on the market.
Cab viii answer calls at all hours,
day or night. f. NJ. Stokes, phone
46. 92tf
A fine lot Of soft maple trees suit
able for lawn and street planting can
be had at the Mars place.
II you want your furniture uphol-
stored or repaired call at f. o. Stew
enson's Furniture store. Satisfac-
tion guaranteed. Sgtf
0. p. Foreman went TO MUskogee
this morning.
Mrs. J. H. Kinds, OF the Vinita
Fruit company, was in Alton today
Miss Halle Thompson was in Alton
this morning IN the interest OF the
Chieftain.
Miss Carter, Of Arkadelphia Ark,
will arrive here this evening to visit
a short time with Miss Watson.
W. ". Watson, special pension ex-
aminer Of Lincoln, Neb., visited with
W. 3. DePue yesterday and may de-
eide to locate here.
One night is all time necessary to
prove that Pineules is the best remedy
In the world for backache and all kid
ney and bladder troubles. II you have
rheumatism or any other blood disease
a single dose will give relief. Sold by
A. p. Owens. d
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1905-04-07
Citizenship.

II you are entitled to citizenship
and are not on the rolls, or have busi-
ness before the Interior department,
write Immediately TO w. W. Wright,
Restored attorney, Bond Building,
Washington, d. c. l42-l6Stf
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The Rest courh srrup.

S. L. Apple, ex-Probate Judge, OF
tawa, Co. Kansas, writes: "This is
to say that l have used Ballard's
Horehound Syrup for years, and that
90 not hesitate TO recommend il as
the best cough syrup l have ever
used" 25c, soc and sl.00 at Peoples
drug store. DIV
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4 Chattanooga DruEgesI's statement

Robt. J. Mile, Proprietor Of the
Read House Drug store Of Chattanooga
Tenn. writes There is more merit in
Foleys Honey and Tar than in any
other cough syrup. The calls for It
multiply wonderfully and we sell more
Of it tlan all other cough syrups COM
bined. Sold by Peoples drug store.dw
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ond hand furniture. osut
The work of surveying the Mode
addition is being done today.
Mrs. r. J. Wright is visiting rela-
tlves in Seneca, Mo. this week.
Mrs. Dumas, Of Fairland, is visiting
her daughter Mrs. Norma Daniel.
See the prettiest iron bed you ever
looked at in the window at Frazee's.
Thos. w. Ridgeway went to visit
his mother at Springfield yesterday
Remember we are the leaders in
Builders Hardware. Frazee Hard
ware 81 Furniture Co. 138-tf
o: Masters, of the New York
Racket, returned today from a visit
to Missouri.
Rev. Randolph Cook will preach at
Webb City Mo. next Sunday morning
andeyening.
II you want cab phone 4e, day or
night. 92tf
Miss HERNIA Keithly is collecting
the monthly subscription to the relief
union today.
The Vinita Plow company received
carload Of Mccormick mowers and
rakes today.
II is a pleasure 70 take Dr. Dade's
Little Liver Pills and enjoy their tonic
effect upon the liver. Sold by A. p.
Owens. d
The Timber Hill Coal company
have opened an Office ia the upper story
Of the Leader building.
The case against James S. Davenport
which was set for hearing in the Com
missioners court this morning was
postponed until tomorrow morning
J.B. Crosser is moving from The
MaHarney property to the Warren
place in the west part Of towu.
The band gave a concert on the
street last evening which was listened
to by several hundred citizens.
You can apply ManZan inside, right
where the pain is? 1t is put up in col
lapsable tubes with nozzle attachment
for introducing it. ManZan stops
pain instantly and cures all kinds Of
blind, bleeding itching and protruding
piles. Sold by A. P. Owens. d
Good meetings are being held
nightly at the Methodist church,
south. Everyone should attend.
Backache is never known to those
persons who take an occasional dose
OF Pineules The value of the rosin
obtained from the Pine tree has long
been reconized in the treatment Of dis
eases of the bladder and kidney. One
dose Of Pineules will give relief, and
one bottle viii cure. Sold by A. p.
C~ens. d
The Chieftain received more cash
on subscription during the month Of
March just past than any one month
during the life Of the publication.
The surest and safest remedy for
kidney and bladder diseases is Foley's
Cure. Sold by Peoples Drug
Store. DIV
B. +. Myers, general agent for the
Life Insurance company has
opened up an Office in the Ratclifr
building back Of the Chieftain Office
Foley Honey and Tar contains no
Dpiates, and will not constipate like
nearly all other cough medicines. Re
fuse substitutes Sold by Peoples !
Drug Store. DIV I
J, b. Clark, who purchased the DR..
Byrd residence, received a carload Of
furniture from Columbus
Ohio, this morning.
Foley's Kidney Cure makes kidneys
md bladders right. Don't delay taking
Foleys Kidney Cure if taken in time
lffords securely from all kidney and
bladder diseases. Sold by Peoples
Drug Store. DIV
A. G. Marrs has accepted the man
lgement OF the Vinita base ball team
nd the team is getting some good
Practice these fine days Vinita hopes
o have the btst teamin the Missouri
Valley League this season.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1905-04-07

Miss Rose Morning Of Salt Lake
City, Utah after a weeks visit with
her brothers, Delbert and James Morn.
ing, left last night for Cherryvale Kas.
owing to her illness, her sister, Mrs
Dan Gathers, came down last evening
to accompany her 70 their home.
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For Sic

Nine lots, some improved and un.
improved. nett
r. NJ. SWAIN.
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Broken arms and broken legs, or
cripples Of any kind in the furniture
line neatly repaired at r. o. Steven
sons, phone l6S. ll3-tf
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wan s

MEN-The Oklahoma City Barber College
teaches you the barber trade in from 10 weeks
and guarantees positions Write for terms. 1T
s. Robinson. Ss-tf
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1905-10-13
N;uONROE

LOCAL NOTES OF INTEREST,"
Miss Edith Clark of Huntington has
been a guest Of her aunts, the Misses
Beardsley.
Miss Edna Wheeler has been obliged
to close her school in the Center
temporarily on account of illness, and
has gone to her home in EaStOn to
recuperate. A substitute will be pro-
vided to take her place.
Homer Clark is caring for James S..
Cole of Bridgeport who was so serious
ly injured in collision with trolley
car while driving, not long ago.
Mr. and Mrs Wallace Smith of
Yonkers, joined their daughter, Miss
Smith, who has been spending some
time at Hobart e. BeardSley'S, over
Sunday.
F. W. Wheeler and John Hawkins
were on jury duty part of last week.
Miss Minnie De Nyse Brewster, of
Shelton was guest at Frederick
Wheeler'S few days this week.
Mr. and Mrs Paul Griffith of Bridge
port were at the Rectory, Sunday and
Monday.
The usual delegation from Monroe
attended the Danbury fair.
William JudSOn of Bethel, former
| resident Of Monroe, is visiting friends
here.
Edward Curtis lost one Of bis horses
lately. 1t was kicked by another horse
and it's leg broken and had to be killed
Mrs Mary Bennett is again at home
having been away number of weeks