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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-09-21
Lincoln as a Lawver.


A leader Of the Lincoln party told
the other day in Philadelphia a story
Of the astuteness of Lincoln as a
lawyer.
When Lincoln was practising law"
he said, he had a case involving q
disputed will. The opposition claimed
the will was genuine and for several
hours adduced proof Of this. For
Lincoln, who had to prove the will a
forgery, things looked black.
Lincoln, however, only called one
witness, a retired paper manufactur.
er, renowned the country over for
his wealth and probity.
|'Mr. Dash Lincoln said to this
witness, handing him the disputed
will, please hold that paper up to
the light and tell us what is the water
mark on it.
The water mark of my own firm.
Blank G., Co.. the witness answered..
When did your firm begin to
manufacture paper?' .,;r*.
'."'In 1s41.' -.
And what's the date Of the docu.
ment in your hands?' -#~5~ =" x
August II, 1885, .5;zse -.
That is enough. Gentlemen, so1
the jury our case. is closed IT., Il
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-09-21
THE CORNISH TIN DEPOSITS.
Great English Industry Still Capable
Of BIO Productions

Though the Cornish tin deposits
have been worried from the dawn OF
history, experts hold that vast guam
titles are still to be found in this
metalliferous soil. In the past twenty
years Cornwall has been badly hit by
the development Of tin mining in the
Straits Settlement. The fall in tho
price OF the metal caused the closing
OF many Of the Cornish mines, and
incidentally led to the migration of
Cousin Jacky," as the Cornish miner
Is known, to every quarter of the
globe. 1t seemed indeed as If mining
in the duchy had received a blow
from which it could by no possibility
recover. A few mines managed to
survive, notably Dolcoath, which
earned a modest profit even in the
lean years when tin varied between
ECO and &70 per ton. With the
metal nearly treble that price, it is
not surprising that spectators and
prospectors are turning avid eyes to
this westernmost county.
The enhanced price of tin is likely
to be permanent, for it is due to
natural, not artificial, causes. Tin is
the rarest of all the metals, and the
worlds consumption has now out.
grown the supply. The worlds pro.
duction has averaged, in recent years,
$4,000 tons, of which more than one.
half has come from the Straits Set.
Elements. About $4,000 tons per an.
mum come from the Dutch East In.
dies; 5000 tons from Cornwall; s..
900 tons from Australasia, and q
similar quantity from Bolivia Tin is
scarcely found at all in Europe or in
the United States.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-09-21
= 8. Y as The Aaa az Iead.

We are wont to speak of this era
as the ':age of iron, !" and there IL no
gainsayingt that. industrially speaking,
iron is precious metal" r !,
Nevertheless, few people, realize
how useful, If not absolutely. neces-
sary, to modern civilization, is that
other metal, lead. Soft, yielding,
pliable, it is not much like its sister
metal, but those distinguishing quail
ties are what give it such prominent
place in the arts and industries.
Modern plumbing, requiring many
turnings and twistings, but withal
tight joints, would be almost impos-
sible without. lead pipe. The great
est civilizing agent in the world-the
printing arts absolutely dependent
on lead. Hand-set type, linotype
"slugs," monotype type-al are
made Of compositions Of which lead
is the chief component-to say moth
ing Of the bearings in the presses as
we'll as all other kinds OF machinery
In which "babbitt'' metal is used.
Solder is another lead product.
what field Of usefulness that one
form opens up. =
Then there is the most important
use Of all to which lead is put-paint,
that necessary material which keeps
our. houses looking pretty inside
and out-and preserves them from
decay.
How many of US thank metallic lead
| ho 4fe ~ %11
best house paint is nothing but me-
tallic lead corroded by acid to a white
powder known as white lead" OF
course, there are many limitations of
white lead,'' some of which are sold
as white lead and some which are
offered by the name of ready-pre-
pared paint under the familiar pre-
tense that they are "just as good" as
white lead. But all good paint is
made of the metal, lead, corroded and
ground to a fine white powder and
mixed with linseed oil.
White lead is also used in the coat
ing of fine oil cloths and for many
purposes besides paint.
Red lead" is another product of
metallic lead and. is what is known as
an oxide of lead, being produced by
burning the metal. Red lead is the
best paint known to preserve iron,
steel or tin, and is used largely in
painting metal structures, such as
skyscraper skeletons, mills and
bridges.
There are many other products of
the metal lead, such as litharge,
orange mineral, etc., which are 'es-
sential to many of the arts in which
we never imagine that lead would be
of the least use:
Verify, we live in an age Of lead
as we'll as of iron.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-09-21
Seeking Only Bare Justice.

Creditor-So you've come around at
last to pay me what you owe me, have
you?
Debtor-Not at ADJUST the con.
trary. You made a statement at the
club last night that I owed you 600
marks. AS matter of fact the &C.
counts show only owe you $50. I've
come around to collect that balance OF
40.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-09-21
in attendance.

In attendance. 1 thought surely I
would die. I changed medicine and be.
gan using, Doan's Kidney Pills when l
was still in bed. The relief l found
was so great that kept on until I
had taken about ten boxes. The kid.
ney secretions became natural and
after years of misery I was cured.
have increased in weight, and show
no symptoms of ny former trouble"
Sold by all dealers. so cents box.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-09-21

years l Sunered from
kidney disease. :. The,
third year my feet
and. hands would
swell and remain
pulled up for days at
a time. I seemed
to have q constant
backache. Finally !
got so bad that !
was laid up in bed
with several doctors
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-09-21
! Cleaning the Cookstova.

To clean the inside Of the cookstove:.
soak some corn:cobs in coal Oil. Place
two or three cobs under the top lids
and under the oven then close damp
4ers and light the cobs. They will burn
the SCOT out clean. a damp day is
the best time, as then danger OF fire
is less. 4. i a n. {: .'. sz4
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-09-21
War on Liquor and Tobacco.

The Kansas Anti-Eiquor Society has
adopted new plan to fight the liquor
traffic. It is mailing free a recipe for the
cure of the liquor habit. It can be given
secretly in coffee or food. Also one for
the tobacco habit that can be given Sc
cretly. The only request they make is
that you do not sell the recipes, but give
Room 10, Gray Bldg, Kansas City, Mo.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-09-21
Subject for Another Lecture.

"Oh, DEAR" exclaimed Mrs. Slap.
dash, when they were finally seated
in the carriage, 1--WE only got one Of
my earrings on. I left the other on
my dressing table,"
"Huh!" grunted her husband, "just
like my lectures on your carelessness
in one ear and out the other"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-09-21
Physicians Recom1ne end Castoria

AST0RA has met with pronounced favor the phma
oucal societies and medical authorities is used BY physicians with
results most gratifying The extended Of Castora
result Of three @c fa-e mdisputable evidence It harmless:
not only lays stomach pains and qes Che but a
a the food t agreeable and perfect Castor Oil
absolutely safe It does not contain Opium Morphine other narcotic
and does not u is unlike Soothing Syupe Bamans Drops Godes
Cordial This good deal for Medical Journal say. Our dutt how
danger and record the advancing health The day
for innocent children through greed ignorance ought to end To
knowledge Casto remedy which produces health by
regulating the by SIMPLIFYING itand entitled
the infornation:-HaW,s Joeu71n of Health. 4
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-09-21

Many a man who asserts that he Is
not a hypocrite Is so disagreeable
that his acquaintances may wish he
was.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-09-21
Brilliant sEeIt.s..

The new belts, although created III
Paris, are very Scotch ii effect and Of
extreme smaTtness. Made as they are
5of brilliant plaid silks edged with vide
bands 81 white kid land having white
kid buckles, they are. very effective
with both dark and light gowns.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-09-21
SICK FOR TEN YEARS.
Constant eackache, Dropsy and. So
r. r'>s vero Bladder Trouble. ><t

Fred w. Harris, Of Chestnut St., JET,
ferson, Ohio, says: For over ten
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-09-21

Charged for Using French.
For speaking French to him, land.
lord Of a Dusseldorf hotel recently
charged a guest extra in his bill.
The Breckenridge news., 1906-06-20
HINTS FOR YOUNG GARDENERS
Boston Public Library Trustees Issue
Valuable Free Pamphlet.

For the purpose of assisting amateur
gardeners, and especially boys and
girls who, at this season begin to feel
an interest in plants and flowers, the
trustees of the Boston Public Library
have printed a little book for free dis
tributiOn. 1t is called " A Brief List
of Books About Gardening" Its con-
tents are classified under the heads Of
THE Making and Care of q Garden, ="
magazines thatare to be seenin the IL
brary which aredevoted especially to
gardens: collection of books containing
descriptions by famous writers such
as Homer's Greek Garden" from
THE Odyssey" Pliny's "Tusculan
Garden Sir Francis Bacons Eng
lish and French Gardens;" Haw-
thorne's american Gardens" and
Thoreau's walden" There is also
list of books which give information
about school gardens, outdoor art
agriculture for beginner. mature
study" and publications of the United
States Department of Agriculture.
Most of the publications Of the depart
ment can be had free upon application
to Secretary Wilson at Washington.
and several of the school garden series
are very interesting and attractive
little documents.
The Breckenridge news., 1906-06-20
Beats Carnegie's Spelling.

"Saylil," exclaimed the girl at the
handkerchief counter.
"Wotsmatter nowY asked the girl
at the ribbon counter.
"AintchOogittin nuftoet?"
"Wojjaskin thatfur ,"
"Yooralookinllina thin"
"Aintneether"
"YartoO. Betterficksher back hair.
Scummin down."
Quitcherrubberin Mine jeroan biz"
"Saylil."
"Saycherseff."
"Jevvergitcherforchu toldY'
"Yeh-wunsertwice. Ever git
choorsT'
"Yeh. Ootole juh"
"Erdkitsmith sayinso. Cumtroo?"
"Notchett."
"Thinkitwill?"
'Lykaznot. Letchoono fit does"
"Sayjen. Juno Kittenbills keepin-
cumpnyW
"Awka moff."
"Troo sima stannineer."
"HowjeeritY
"Sallright. Yooleerabout 1t soonuff.
Sayjen, canchOoketch on"
Say, there, you girls" interrupted
the fioorwalker, go back to your
customers"
The Breckenridge news., 1906-06-20
ORDERED BY GOVERNMENT.

Little Italy has two mysteries
cleared up, and breathes more freely.
One is why Angelina Pascalini worked
so hard and spent so little, and the
other is why Angelina Pascalini al
ways insisted on seeing the papers
that are printed in English, which Ian
guage everybody knew Angelina could
not read. Angelina is now married
and the two mysteries deal with this
marriage.
In order that 1t may be known who
Angelina is, let IL be stated that he
hailed from Genoa, in Big Italy-from
Genoa where the sun shines brightly
and the sky is tinted blue and red;
where men work slowly and live easily,
the money is very scarce. In the
course of the eighteen years which had
rolled over Angelino's head before a
far-seeing padrone packed him into
the steerage of q very uncertain ship
and sent him sailing over the hilly
water to America, it may be doubted
If Angelina had seen altogether of his
own as much money as the equivalent
of five dollars. Nevertheless, he had
been happy in Genoa until he met
Nina-Nina, whose mother came from
Spain.
After he met Nina, by his own ac-
count, Angelina was no longer happy.
He realized then how very poor he
was, and how far away was marriage
with Nina. He worked as hard as he
could, and ate even more sparingly
than was the wont of his countrymen
of the black bread and garlic, and
drank less of the bitter red wine.
Nevertheless, his hoard increased
but slowly, and Angelina grew desper-
ate. He sought Nina. and told her OF
the padrone. He would go to America.
She looked at him wonderingly with
her big black eyes, and promised to
wait.
Angelina, having made his adieus
and stuck one last candle under the
portrait of his patron saint, went
away to America.
His welcome in this country dis
pleased AngeliLJ. He liked ice and
snow little, but the jeers Of the people
he liked even less. True, the land
was discovered by one of his country
men, named Columbus, four hundred
years before. But Angelina did not
know this, and it would not have made
much difference If he had. Those who
had profited by Columbus discovery
disliked Columbus countrymen, and
Angelina was made to suffer their dis
like.
However. he work on railroads,
and in other way, until his debt TO
the padrone was paid, and then he
began to work for himself. Despite. his
The Breckenridge news., 1906-06-20
Washington No Place To Die.

While in Washington on her last
visit Sarah Bernhardt commented up
on the tendency to run the nations
capital in the puritan blue law fash
ion that has gone out of style nearly
everywhere else. She said that in
many respects Washington Is more
beautiful than Paris. But" said
Sarah, why do you make Of your
beautiful capital country village!
You have no amusements here-no
gardens, no places where the working
men can go on Sunday or in the
evenings. At midnight everything Is
closed. 1t is then tina, Paris wakes.
l would rather not die i'm Washington.
1t is not a place for even so hilarious
an event"
The Breckenridge news., 1906-06-20
THE GLORY OF TEXAS.
CELEBRATION OF HER SEVEN.
zZEzH ANNIVERSARY OF
INDEPENDENCE.

Every Defender of the Alamo was
$lain-Characteristi Message OF
oid General Houston to Mexican
General Santa Ana.
The State of Texas, born some sixty
years too late to assist in the revolu-
tionary events of '76, has its own In
dependence day in addition to the ma.
ti0nal Fourth of July, which it shares,
however, with its sister states. This
patriotic state celebration occurred on
April 21, the SEVENTEEN anniversary of
the fight at the San Jacinto, where 800
Texans gave double their number of
Mexicans one of the completest drub-
bings in military history.
Every schoolboy knows the story of
San Jacinto as told in the books. But
there is in the Southwest fire-side
tale about it which deserves to be bet
ter known. 1t is that the night before
the battle, the Mexican general. Santa
Ana, sent flag of truce to the Texan
camp with a summons to surrender
and an offer of pardon. Grim old Sam
Houston, the father" of Texas, heard
the message and said to one of his
aids:
"Tell him to go to hell Put that
Into Spanish" And the aid. trans
lating the answer into the language of
Spanish military diplomacy, made or
alton as it appears in the books:
General Houston prays that you
will have the kindness to present his
compliments to General Santa Ana,
inform him that General Houston re-
grets to be constrained to reply that If
General Santa Ana desires our com
pany it will be necessary for him to
condescend to give himself the trouble
Of coming and getting u.s."
The biggest celebration of San ia
cinto day was at San Antonio, for
there is the Alamo, and there was the
fight which came before San Jacinto
and turned the blood of every Texan
engage 10 fire and his nerves to cold
steel.
The defenders Of the Alamo, though
bound by no law like those of Their
mopylae, disdained to surrender. They
knew too well, from the fate of Nolan
and his hunters a generation before
The Breckenridge news., 1906-06-20
THE OLD ALAMO.

md a score of later butcheries of
prisoners, the character of their foes.
Cor twelve days they held their post
against thirty times their number and
then they died, still fighting.
How they died-how Travis fell a.
cross the cannon-hOw Davie Croc-
kett lay in the courtyard in a ring of
foes-how the intrepid Bowie, the in
ventor of the terrible bowie knife,
fought to the end on the bed from
which he could not rise--how not one
man, by the testimony of their enemies,
even tried to escape-how the half
dozen that were overpowered and dis
armed were then cut down-is a tale
with which the world still rings and
will ring so long as dauntless courage
Is admired.
1t was deed from which no man
among its Texan doers came to tell the
tale. 1t is a tale whose truth is as
sured by the fact that it could be told
only by the victors whose shame it
was, and not by the vanquished whose
glory it was. 1t ranks above Their
mopylae in the annals of manly forti-
tude. As has been well said: "Ther-
mopylae had it's messenger of defeat:
the Alamo had noner'
Texas is indeed fortunate that her
history, as all the world knows it and
as it lives in the hearts of her own and
all the American people, began with
the Alamo. As a battle, the Alamo
was a defeat. As an inspiration to
brave deed and patriotic achievement
for generations of Americans yet un-
born, it is the splendor and the glory
of Texas.
The Breckenridge news., 1906-06-20
WIFE LEADS BLIND<CHAPLAIN.
One of The Touching Sights Ia the
House of Representatives..

Few persons, who, on visits to the
House of Representatives, see Mrs.
Henry N. Couden, wife Of the blind
chaplain, fail to be impressed by her
gentleness and dignity. With unfail-
ing fidelity she accompanies her hus-
band to the door of the House, and
after resigning him into the hands Of
a page she waits in the lobby until
the end of his prayer. Then she ac-
companies him home. Mr.. Couden
seldom fingers in the House after his
prayer is finished, but few Of the
legislators, from the speaker down to
the youngest recruit, fail TO salute him
and his gentle little wife. Mrs. Couden
resembles q Dresden figure In her
lowered silk and old-fashioned bonnet.
she cares not for changing styles, but
year after year she wears simple
gown of silk, with black bonnet tied
under her chin with lowered ribbons.
The Breckenridge news., 1906-06-20

It e computed that the amount OF
water Wa1fod ~ New York amounts
The Breckenridge news., 1906-06-20

A portrait of the son and heir of the
Czar of Russia recently made public
seems to belle the statements issued
from abroad that the infant Czarevitch
is a deaf mute and an IDIOT. The baby
prince is unusually bright and has
never had a days illness in his %
months of existence, though many
papers have often reported him as be-
ing in an extremely critical condition.
Czarevitch Alexis, as he is officially
known, was born on August IL, 1904,
at the very darkest moment of the
fortunes of Russia during the war
with Japan. Notwithstanding the
trouble sometimes through which the
Russian government has passed, the
infant who will some day succeed to
the throne of the Russian government
has thriven in adversely. The ac-
companying portrait was taken at the
Russian Palace at the express wish Of
the Empress.
The Breckenridge news., 1906-06-20
Fond Memories.

A hard-headed old Pittsburgh manu-
facturer who made his fortune, as he
expresses it. "with his coat off," was
induced by his daughters to accompany
them to a Wagner concert. the first
he had ever attended. The next day
he happened to meet an acquaintance
who had seen him the night before,
who asked:
II suppose you enjoyed the concert
last night, Mr.. Brownr'
"Yes: 1t took me back to the days Of
my youth" the old man said, with a
reminiscent sigh.
"Ah, summer days In the country,
girl in lawn dress, birds singing and
all thatY'
''No. the days when I worked in a
boiler shop In Scranton. Success.
The Breckenridge news., 1906-06-20

Every Defender of the Alamo was
ain-Characteristic Message of
aid General Houston to Mexican
General Santa Ana.
The Breckenridge news., 1906-06-20

"rhey say Mrs. Krankley makes reg
ular dolls Of her daughters"
We'll, it's true. She fairly stIns
them with breakfast food.
The Breckenridge news., 1906-06-20

The Bear anu Thesis. ships used IN
the Greely polar relief expedition, are
still in the service Of the United States
as revenue cutters.
The Breckenridge news., 1906-06-20
The Wise Rndyard.

If only myself could talk to myself
As knew him year ago,
I could tell him a lot
That would save him a lot
OF things he ought to know.
---Kipling.
The Breckenridge news., 1906-06-20

There are 407 mountain peaks 10
Colorado OF an altitude of more than
10000 feet
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1906-10-11
MUzzLtD REPUBLICAN RtfORMtRs.

The tariff revisionists in the republi-
can party are pretty we'll muzzled.
Taft has been banished to Cuba: Cum
Minis is too anxious to be elected COVER
nor of Iowa to be too outspoken on the
tariff fostering the trusts: Foss OF
Massachusetts, will be beaten by trust
money and the Lodge machine corrup.
ton; and so it goes. The republican
voters who do not believe in protecting
the trusts and who are tired of paying
high trust prices have only recours fol
relief by voting for democratic candi
dates for congress. If a few lone tariff
reform republican congressman art
elected, they would be helpless Will
Cannon as speaker and the committee;
fixed against them.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1906-10-11

The supreme court of this state is in
a dangerous position owing to the pres
ent political situation, and should knauf
be successful at the coming election
there is little to save it from being Nc
Kenzieized and becoming a part Of the
notorious and maladorous machine.
The success of the republican candidate
would mean the %resignatian of Judge
Engerud, whose place would be filled by
appointment. 1t could not be consist
emily expected that the appointment
would be of any different nature than
was that OF Knauf, and in this manner
the machine would secure control of the
majority Of the supreme court without
difficulty. Colorado has long been
cursed with political grafters and just
such highest court in that state as tho
machine tries to get here. 1t is up to
the voters of the state this fall to exert
themselves and turn down the Mckenzie
machine.