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Omaha daily bee., 1906-06-12
Five Thousand Domestic Fuel Burners
soon keauy Tor Delivery.
More Tank Cars Secured.

Uncle Sam has secured option on ten
more tank cars with which to haul oil
from the north end OF the completed pipe
line to Atchson, refinery and then to haul
fuel oil in latter to western and central
Kansas
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-01-05
LIKE AN UNBLA zED TRAIL.
Intricate Plea at the Bar Of Justics
That Was Too Deep for
the Judge.

- Soon after the late Gilman Marston. Of
New, Hampshire, had been admitted ia
the bar civil suit was brought to him.
1t involved somewhat complicated cues.
ton OF inheritance, says the Boston Her.
aid. But the young man, in no wav
daunted, took the case, looked up author.
tiles all the. way back to julius Caesar.
and prepared an argument of few hum,
dred pages which seemed to him unan;
swerable. His only fear was that /
might be beyond the comprehension Of
the court.
When his case was called Mr.. Marston
tose with inward assurance and plunged
IN boldly. The Judge seemed interested
and he took heart. But at the end Of
an hour and a half, in the midst of the
most intricate part Of his plea, he was
panied to see what looked like lack Of
attention on the part of the court.
It was as he had feared; the tedea
was unable to appreciate the nice points
Of his argument.
"Your honor" he said, IT beg your par.
don, but do you follow me?"
II have so far" answered the judge,
shifting YEARLY about in his chair, "but
I'll say frankly that if l thought 1 could
find my way back. I'd quit rig ht here"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-01-05
ALTOGETHER TRUSTFUL
A Guest Who Was No Respecter Of
Persons in a Case o.
Steal,

Hemery, the winner of the Vanderbilt
cup, was condoled with on the destruc-
ton Of + his superb car, relates the New
York Tribune.
Il was too trustful," said the young
Erenchman, with rueful smile. II let
the people crowd around me, trusting
them implicitly, never thinking that any
one would be so careless as to throw
lighted matches about, and hence pouf-
my car went up in a mass of Hames.''
he lighted cigarette. He slipped his
coffee.
ITO be too trustful," said Hemery, "is
fault of the French people.
"A stranger once visited merchant of
Marseilles with letter of introduction
from Alexander Dumas. 1t was a glow
ing letter. The merchant welcomed the
stranger warmly, and entertained him
with great hospitality for three weeks.
Then in the night the guest disap-
pearad, taking with him his hosts best
horse, and quantity of silver plate
'The merchant, on his next visit to
Paris, sought out Dumas.
"A pretty guest you sent me- he said,
bitterly. The fellow Gecamped with my
best horse and plate worth 5000 francs
What! cried Dumas, horror stricken.
Did he steal from you, too?"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-01-05
GRAVEL OR HARD ROADS.
Too Expensive in Some Localities
Not Necessary If King Drag
Is Used.

Something like a year ago there was
quite an excitement in our county on
the road question. The farmers of
Knox county, Illinois, writes the cor
respondent Of the Farmers Review,
want good roads, but gravel or hard
roads are out of the question. We
have no gravel or rock, and to ship
stone would break up all the small
farmers in the country. Our soil is
such that if the roads are graded prop
erly we will have good roads nine or
ten months in the year. There are
places in the United States where such
roads can be built. Even oiled roads
may be built in some places. But in
this part of Illinois the frost goes so
deep that the expense would take the
big end of little farms to pave the
roads it contains. 1.-THE use of the King
drag has shown how the difficulties
mentioned may be overcome and a
good road obtained-Ed.l
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-01-05
More Than a Chair.

When Prof Eliot, of Harvard, was
touring on the Pacific coast, he visited
the University of Washington, at Seat
tie. Prof. o. B. Johnson was at that
time one of the leading lights Of the col
lege, and President Eliot became much
interested in him. During the course Of
a conversation the eastern president
asked the western man what chair he
held. "Well,"' said Prof. johnson, Il am
professor Of biology, but I also give
instructions in meteorology, botany,
PHYSIOLOGY, chemistry, entomology and
a few Others" Il should say that you
occupied a whole settee, not a chair"
replied Harvard's chief. Z
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-01-05
He Doesn't Curse Now.

> Washington, Kans., Dec. 25 (SpeciaD.-
Jesse E. Mitchell is telephone lineman, and
also well-known resident here. Every
body acquainted with Mr.. Mitchell knows
that he was man who held very positive
views about Patent Medicine. Hear what
he says now:
II used to curse all kinds of Patent Medi-
cines, for they never did me any good, but
Dodd's Kidney Pills have caused me to
change my mind. For twelve years l suf-
fered from Kidney Trouble. There was a
hurting across my back that made it posi-
tive agony to stoop, and as am in stoop-
ing position nearly. all day, you can imagine
how I suffered. After days work that
any man would think nothing of, I would be
tired and worn out. In fact, I was always
tired. I began using Dodd's Kidney Pills
and after taking four boxes feel like a new
man, am as fresh at night as when I be-
gin work in the morning. I have no pain
in my back now, and am stronger than
ever"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-01-05
FIG. LICE HOUSE AND COOL ROOM

FIG. LICE HOUSE AND COOL ROOM,
large enough for . moderate family,
as an Ice house Of that size will hold
about 20 loads or tons Of ice.
The main point is the division be-
tween the ice house and the room be-.
low it. This must be perfectly air.
tight, and a moderately good ccnduc.
tor of heat. The floor may be laid in
the following manner:
Beams of sufficient strength are laid
across and the ends we'll bedded in &C.
ment. A floor of zinc sheets is then
laid upon the beams, the sheets being
closely nailed to the beams upon
strips Of rubber sheeting, to make the
joints water and air tight. The beams
should be dressed smoothly. The zinc
sheets are bent, as shown in the illus
tration Gig. a.. This is for the pur.
pose of causing the moistura, which
will condense upon the under side of
this ceiling, to flow downward to the
lower angle, where it will drip. The
drip is caught in the little cutters of
zinc shown in the figure, attached to
the ceiling, and is carried off by a
proper drain.
1Aoove the zinc ceiling, thin layer
OF dry, fresh sawdust should be laid
smoothly, and a floor of matched pine
boards should be laid upon that, and
thoroughly coated with melted pitch.
This floor should slope a little to one
corner. so as to draw the waste wafer
from the ice there, and an S trap
drain should be laid from that to
carry off the water into the drain
above mentioned. The usual layer of
sawdust is laid upon this floor to pre-
vent too rapid conveyance Of heat
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-01-05
FIG. 8-ANOTHER PLAN OF ICE
HOUSE.

FIG. 3.-ANOTHER PLAN OF ICE
HOUSE.
from below to the ice above. Small
double windows should be used in the
cool chamber below, to prevent access
OF heat from the outside, and they
should be fitted alright Ventilation
should be provided for by means of
a wooden pipe with a slide, by which
the opening can be regulated.
We add another design, on the
same general principles, says the
Country Gentleman, but more in de.
tail, furnished by a New Jersey cor
respondent from a building in sue.
cessful operation.
The drainage Of the ice is carried
off by series of V-shaped tin or iron
trokshs, which run between the joists,
all of which carry the water to one
point, where it is conveyed outside by
a trap pipe. These troughs reach over
to the center Of the top Of the joists,
and are soldered together, so that no
water will drip on the floor below. It
will be seen that in this plan there
is no sawdust or other preservativ.
in contact with the ice, and the air
Of the room circulates around and
over the ice. AS long as the temper.
allure Of the goods stored is above the
temperature of the room, there will be
a gentle draught around the mass of
ice, and Of course all the moisture in
the air, vapors and odors from the
goods, will coldense on the ice and
pass OIL, SO that you can keep milk,
cream, butter, fruit and meat all in
the same chamber without danger of
injuring the favor Of either. The at.
n,osphere of the room Is always dry,
sweet and pure.
The ice does not rest directly on the
joists; but there is bed of oak lath,
about 13x3 inches, laid across the
joists, about four or five inches apart,
on which the ice is laid. The opening
for putting in the ice, shown just
under the pulley in the cut Gig.
81, has two doors, with a space be-
tween-each door foot thick. The
window in the cold room mas threa
sets of sash, we'll packed or cemented,
The walls are 13 inches thick, lined
with II inches Of sawdust. Thirtq.
six inches Of ,sawdust are put on the
floor over the ice. The building shown
is rs feet square, inside measure, ana
20 feet from floor Of cold room to cell.
ing over the Ice. The ice room Is II
feet high, and the cold room nine feet,
Pillars are required under the csate;
of the ice. W., :. 3 &ss.sI,:s=~s. s.Es
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-01-05
A WORD TO THE WISE.

Give the hen meat.
A scent (tainted) spoils the face of
. dollar.
OF course the hotbed soil has been
made ready.
New land or sod land should be
plowed at the first opportunity.
The farmer who uses the poorest
part Of his place for pasture is likely
to lose by it.
You can raise the frame of a calf
without milk, but not the picture of a
good animal.
Hold the red-hot tongs on a rusty
bolt to loosen it. Heating screws in
the same way will make them come
easily.-E. B.
Don't leave the plows or other farm
machinery exposed to the weather. A
little ordinary care now will save
money and trouble in future. <.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-01-05

attention Of the man who had done
the treating. In many instances the
latter would notice what had occurred,
but inasmuch as he had perhaps only
recently met the distinguished looking
parsonage, rather than cause him the
slightest humiliation. and believing it
q mistake, he said nothing about it.
During his first stay in Jackson he
was fairly lionized by the best young
people there, and had successfully
played his graft for four or five weeks
before any of the boys had dropped
on to his game. After they, began to
discuss the matter several of the bar
tenders admitted that they had OBJ
served his methods, but as he was a
good mixer and profitable to have
around, they remained silent.
-. One bartender declared that he kept
account of the amount he had raked off
In one evening, when a dozen or more
of the FOUNDERS" of the city were
buying drinks at his bar, and it
amounted to over ten dollars within
a space Of three hours, and not a soul
suspicioned thing wrong.
The next morning after the barroom
ARRAY, I had a long talk with my old
neighbor, and wormed from him a con
fession of his methods.
The next time I saw him was at
Adrian, Mich.
AS came out of the dining-room I
met him in company with the Toledo
baseball team, who were to play the
Adrians there that day. He had been
at Toledo for some time, and had only
recently come to Adrian.
That afternoon the hotel clerk said
to me:
Say, Johnston, that friend Of yours
is in trouble
"HOw sO?''
"Well," said the clerk, ut seems
that through some Misrepresentation
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-01-05

- oAAtOy yOu oAu
make you irritable; you can't, sleep,
perform your daily tasks or care for
your children.
The relation Of the nerves and gen.
erative organs in women is so close
that nine-tenths of the nervous pros
tration, nervous debility, the blues,
sleeplessness and nervous irritability
arise from some arrangement of the
organism which makes her a woman.
Fits of depression or restlessness and
irritability. Spirits easily affected. so
that; one minute she laughs, the next
minute weeps. Pain in the ovaries and
between the shoulders. Loss of voice;
nervous dyspepsia. A tendency to cry
at the least provocation. All this points
to nervous prostration.
Nothing will relieve this distressing
condition and prevent months of pros.
tration and suffering so surely as Lydia
e. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
Mrs. M. E. Shotwell, of 103 Flatbush
Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y, writes:
II cannot express the wonderful relief
have experienced by taking Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound. suffered for
long time with nervous prostration, back.
ache, headache, loss q appetite. could
not sleep and would walk the floor a. most
every night.
~ Lad three doctors and got no better, and
life was q burden. was advised to try
Lydia f. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound,
and it has worked wonders for me-
am well woman, my nervousness Is all
gone and my friends say 7 look ten Year,
younger" - ',..>4-
Will not the volumes of letters from
women made strong by Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound copvinces
all women of it's virtues? Surrey you
cannot wish to remain sick and weak
and discouraged, exhausted each day.
when You can be as easily cured .
other women.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-01-05

he procured credit for suit of clothes
in Toledo before he came here, and
when the Toledo baseball team found
him here one of the members wired the
Toledo tailors of his whereabouts, and
they arrived only few moments ago,
and he and they are upstairs in his
room.
Il understand that they have brought
with them an old suit of clothes (the
worst they could tind), which they are
going to force him to take in exchange
for the fine suit he beat them out Of"
The clerk had no sooner finished his
explanation than the CRATER appeared
at the head of the stairs, and mounting
the banister, slid down to the office
floor in jiffy, and shot out of the
back door. A worse looking hobo l
never saw. He had on an old pair
Of stogy boots, pair of trousers, a.
vest twice too large for him, an old
fashioned long-tailed coat, and the
worst looking old plug hat one could
Imagine. Had he been paid $1,000 a
week to do "the hobo" on the vaude-
Vile stage, he couldn't have beaten it.
At least two years after when / cues.
toned him as to what he did on that
dreadful occasion he said that he knew
of farmer living several miles out Of
Adrian, who was formerly from his
town, and by evening of that day he
had arrived at this farmers house,
He made a clean breast of the affair
and worked hard for the farmer six
months at SIG per month to get on his
feet again.
He wound up/his career in a Chicago
charity hospital where he died with
tuberculosis and was buried in the
pauper's field, ;.
y -
When I was engaged in the whole
sale jewelry business in Chicago. an
elderly man, who appeared like a la
borer, began calling at my store. He
always made inquiries for old gold
spectacle frames. * Y.
Having sold him several lots / be-
gan to wonder what he was doing with
SO many old gold frames. He couldn't
possibly sell them to dealers and were
he to offer secondhand frame to q
customer, as retailer, he could hard7
lysexpect to interest him. -.a ::
7 finally asked him and he ex-
planned to me, although he said he
had never told anyone before, not
even his wife or his children.
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TWO METHODS OF WORKING A.
ROADSIDE.


ROADSIDE.
allows the cultivation of all the land
not in actual use for the road, it has by
experience been found that roads are
improved by having all the land, in
Guiding the shallow bitches on the
sides, plowed and cultivated. The &C.
companying sketch shows public
highway where one side of it was left
without cultivation or care for years
and all is overgrown with coarse weeds,
while on the other side, even the ditch
is carefully plowed and cultivated with
a good stand of wheat, growing up to
the wheel track. OF course the farmer
could not collect any damages if the
grain thus grown on the right of pub
lie highway should be destroyed, but
there is an unWritten law which all
will respect, that no one will wantonly
destroy any of the grain so grown.
Where this practice is continued for a
number of years, the roadbed will be
gradually raised until it becomes high
and dry and little or no, grading is re-
CURED.
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dancer; he sang and played the piano
and was in short just such a chap as
would win the admiration of the up
to-date young folk
None of his acquaintance, old OF
new, could ever furnish the slightest
information as to his means of sup
port. No one ever heard of his being
in any trouble, or of his having caused
anyone else trouble.
When asked what he was doing he
answered.: II walk nights to keep
from sleeping, and sleep days to keep
from eating" and with no further ar
gument he managed to change the sub
ject.
His stay in any particular town did
not exceed two months, during which
time he was, as rule. the "lion' of
society. AS a round dancer, he had
few equals. When "out with the boys
he could execute Jig or clog dance
superior to the average professional!
and was an all-around entertainer.
One time happened to run across
him at Jackson, Mich. While sitting
in the hotel Office l heard loud talking
in the barroom, and moment later q
rough and tumble fight was in
progress.
The first person saw was this man
standing with his back to the bar, and
two young men standing in front of
him, both executing blows upon his
already battered countenance. Observ-
ing that the poor fellow was ready to
collapse, quickly interfered, and soon
had him out of reach, after which
I returned to the barroom. Several
men told the cause of the rumpus.
This, it seems, was his second visit
to Jackson. On his previous stay the
"boys" thought they had gotten on to
his graft and now they were sure they
we're right, the result of which was a
sound thrashing.
He was always on hand when any
one was treating at the bar, and never
failed to be one of the party, when the
boys Of the town were out for a
"time"
When some man ordered the drinks
he instantly began telling some inter-
esting story or singing a song, in the
meantime keeping an eye out, as to
the amount of currency tho man laid
down with which to pay his bill
When the bartender brought the
change and laid it on the counter this
CRATER instantly raked it off and re-
sumed his antics, thus detracting the
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-01-05
Gopher Done.

To destroy gophers, dissolve strych.
nine in water, to which a little vine.
gar has beer added. Soak corn in this
and place three or four kernals down
all the holes. Repeat every few days
until you have the pes1 eradicated.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-01-05
Must Have Been the Flour

II want to complain of the flour you
sent me the other day." said Mrs. New
lived, severely. The grocer assumed
an anxious expression, says the Phila-
delphia Ledger, and inquired what was
the matter with it. ut was tough" re-
piled the housekeeper, accusingly. my
husband simply could not eat the bis
cults made with it." -s~.'g@ r<%.,s33
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-01-05

To Cure Cold in One Day
Take LAXATIVE BRoMo Quinine Tablets.
Druggists refund money if it fails to cure.
E.W. GROVES Signatures on each box. Csc
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-01-05
A SOCIETY MANS" GRAFT.
By
]. p. JOHNSTON

Interesting Career Of "Good Fellow
Grafter-When Out with the Boys
He Proves an All-Round Enter
tainer-His Neighbors Treat and
He Politely Gathers In the
Change-Ends in Charity Hos
pital- So-Called "Painter" Begs
Loan for Dying Mothers Sake
Arrested Fifty Times-Graft Sup
ports Family for Fifteen Years.
Copyright, 1905, by Joseph B. Bowles.)
For many years used to met occa-
sonally young man who was raised
in small town in Ohio, near
my old home. He became some
what hayward in early life and
got beyond the control of his family.
He drifted about the country, coming
and going at will, and usually we'll
supplied with cash
He was handsome fellow, a fluent
talker, good story teller, an excellent
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-01-05

FIX UP THE ROADSIDES.
BOW Farmers in Minnesota Utilize
the Otherwise Waste Land
~ r. in Crop Growing.

The law Of Minnesota calls for pub
lie highway four rods wide and it has
been the general practice to leave the
full four. rods uncultivated. In most
cases this space has been overgrown
with weeds only, that were not even
cut down once a year. In this way
many of the most obnoxious weeds
have filed the adjoining fields and
been spread over the adjoining coun-
try by sticking to the wagon wheels
whenever the roads were wet. This
has not been the only trouble-there
were thousands of acres lying idle ev-
cry year, because overgrown by weeds.
But Lewis Olsen writes to the Farm
and Home that gradual change for
the better is being worked out by the
rapidly growing tendency among farm
ers to utilize all waste land along the
roadsides by cultivation and growing
grain Or grass up to the very road
track actually in daily use. AS the law
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-01-05

Americas political bosses and Russia's
grand dukes are in position to exchange
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-01-05

and coffee can on that, pack hay in
the corners and lay two or three thick
nesses Of cloth on top. This, declares
Farm and Home, will keep your dinner
warm in the coolest weather.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-01-05

Great men do not drop out of the Sky
In evening dress.-Life.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-01-05

home, have a box
just large enough
to hold the dinner
box and coffee can.
Make a tight COW
er, put some hay
in thebottom of
box, then a large
hot soapstone. Set
your dinner box
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-01-05
A HOTDINNER.
Arrangement for Retaining the Heat
Of Food and Drink on the
Coolest Days.

TO keep your dinner hot in cold
weather, while working away from
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7 -
nat cellar In q
pert e tly dry

which the surface slopes Tor may be
made to slope) in all directions, SO as
to prevent danger of moisture from
want of drainage. A stone or brick
wall Is built around this and laid in
hydraulic cement. The floor is CO
mented. A frame or other building
IS built upon this basement to contain
the Ice. Twelve feet square will be
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-01-05
icEHoUSE AND COOLER.
Plan for the Building Which viii
Prove . Wise Addition to y
Any Farm.

An ice house and cool room may bs
constructed as follows: Excavate q
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-01-05
Nervous Women
Their Suferin6s Arc Usually
Due to Uterine Disorders
Perhaps Unexpected
A MEDICINE THAT CURES

Can we dispute
the well known
fact thatAmerican
women are ner-
vOus =?
How often do we
hear the express
sion, II am so ner-
vous, it seems as if
I should fly; " or,
" Don't speak to
me-" Little things