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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-05-21
Everybody swears by Him.

Everybody swears by Him.
who's the best-known man in this
township" queried the advance agent
for the medical show.
well, young feller," answered
Uncle Silas Seaver, slowly, as he care.
fully packed the tobacco in his black
pipe, Jake Seymour holds that record
about now, by eatin' the fust new po-
tatoes from his own garden, tho Hank
Calkins is a close second with his
new peas. Aunt Sarah Stanton is at.
tractin' considerable attention with
her flock: of: 1s light Brahmas, with
an egg record of II dozen in eight
days. the same bein' writ up in the
Smithville Banner. An Wallis Weav-
er's buildin' q new hip.roof barn. But
I guess, everything considerin'; Squire
Hamilton's about the most popular
man about these parts. Everybody
seems to swear by the squire, seems
he's Jest been elected assesso:."3 :. ,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-05-21
One Recently Built at Hamburg, Ger
many, the Most capacious Of
Ito Kind.

The largest floating dock In the
world is at Hamburg. Dock v, as it is
called, has bearing capacity ex-
ceeding $4,000 tons-nearly twice as
great as the American dock Dewey,
hitherto the most capacious OF its
kind in the world.
This is the fifth floating dock built
by the Hamburg yard, the present
giant's immediate successor carrying
but half the above mentioned tonnage.
The dock consists! of separate pom
tooAs combined by the lateral cases
to 4 solid unit. These several pom
toons can also be ,docked in the
dock.
At each of the side cases the dock
possesses complete steam engine and
boiler plant with dynamo and air COM
pressors, 80. that it is wholly indie
pendent from the land and can be an
chored anywhere. Electric cranes,
with their arms reaching to the middle
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-05-21
LIFE / SAVED \ | By A
!. TIN TOMATO | || Gan Al!
4 81 - ssSsEaa&SsS
WITH IT cAsTAyvAY FARMH1lap
I Balls BOAT FOR 20 HOURS :
! & 5EFoREREAcHINe LAND; 49,
BLOWN 81 MILES BY STORM
unable to Row IN Great GAZE, Edgar
L. Brown 10 Driven Across Lake.
0ntario-None the Worse ssz.:s
for Experience, X a

Rochester, N. Y.-Edgar L. Brown
who was blown across Lake Ontario
in recent big storm in flatsbottom
punt, walked down the gangway Of
the car ferryboat Ontario at Charlotte
at five o'clock few days later and was
cheered by half the population of the
village. The famous boat was on the
ferry, and was Immediately claimed
by Michael Burns, a farmer, who
owns it. A neighbor offered to give
Burns and the boat lift home in his
wagon.
E"Not on your life," said Burma; that
boat has a record now and it would be
q disgrace to it to put it on wagon.
I'm going to row it around to the pond
Tomorrow"
!; Neither Brown nor, the punt shows
any i'll effects of the weird experience.
Brown says he entered the boat in
Round Pond about seven o'clock Mon.
day morning. He fell asleep, and when
he aW0ke. half an hour later, was near.
ly out of sight of land. From then until
he landed on the Canadian coast, three
and one-haf miles from Grafton, about
noon Tuesday, he was mostly in the
bottom of the craft bailing for his life
with tomato can.
His clothing was soaked in the first
hour at sea, and was sodden when he
landed. He says the waves looked as
tall as church steeples. ..
:: What did l think of" echoed
Brown, when asked about his expert
ence. Il simply couldn't think Every
faculty seemed concentrated in that
tomato can. 1t was only Almighty God
that brought me through. Man alone
could not have survived. l suffered
from cold terribly. and the exercise IF
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-05-21
THE SIGNATURE.

The old style required some member
of the firm to sign all letters with the
firm name, without any indication as
handwriting was supposed to indicate
the official character of the signature
Now firm names are almost univer-
sally typewriter, and the actual
writer of the letter signs on the line
below after the word BY" The old
word was per-" but as it is objection
able to mix Latin and English. and
by is just as good if not better, care
full writer's now taboo per" except in
connection with Latin words as in per
annum."
In mail order houses, where thou
sands of letters are handled every
day, on regular system, and the per-
sOnality of the writer cuts no figure,
the writer of the letter is usually in
dictated only by the initials at the left
hand side either above or below the
letter. The rubber stamp for sigma
lures of letters is going out of favor
Somebody takes the trouble to sign a
letter with ink, as sign of courtesy
and consideration. Even circular let
ters are best signed with ink, as a
man can be hired to write the name at
very slightly higher cost than that of
any of the imitation processes, which
Immediately betray the circular and
make it look cheap.
1t is the duty Of every woman to in
dictate in writing to stranger whether
she is married or single. This is done
by writing her husbands name after
Miss" or Mrs" to her signature, al
ways putting it in parenthesis. To
omit the parenthesis is considered vul-
gar, to sign the name without indicat-
ing the condition is really discourte-
Gus. and to sign initials as man does
is ridiculous. OF course when a woman
writes TO person or firm where her
condition is we'll known there is no
need to keep on inserting the Mrs. -
or Miss" This is only for strangers,
sGd il letters to large business firms,
to ill of whose employees one person
cannot possibly be known.
In a contract letter, or letter con-
veylng a credit order, typewriter
signature is not loked on as legally
binding Though as matter of fact it
is), and the omission Of all ink sigma
ture is disliked. Sometimes the type
written signature is vised by an ini-
tial in ink, hut this looks cheap. If the
narle is not printed on the letterhead
it should be so written that it will be
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-05-21
Locations Of Promotion,

Elena, aged four, reveled in kinder
sarten lore, and each day impaired to
her young mother the many interest
Ing things that the sweet-faced teach:
er had told them. Among the vicissi
tudes of school life to be encountered
was that of vaccination, which was
new to the little one. After much ex
planning and reassuring this difficulty
was safely passed. A few weeks later
she returned one day from kindergar
ten in a whirl of excitement, exclaim
ing: Mother, mother, I'm going to be
promoted-mother,w will I be promoted
on my arm or leg?"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-05-21
is LARGEST FLOATING DOCK

of the dock, run from end to end of
the two lateral cases.
Its keel and fundamental arrange.
ments are such as to accommodate the
greatest merchantmen or heaviest
warships afloat.
Blohm & Voss, who made the dock.
will shortly launch Germany's first
cruiser ship-of-the-line, q type or ar
mored vessel called forth by England's
building Of the Dreadnought class: and
inaugurating new building period for
the category Of German armored
cruisers. She will be driven by tur-
bines, not by the reciprocating steam
engine. She is costing German tax.
payers $9,165,000 '''.''>' - 49,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-05-21
DO YOU ANSWER EVERY LETTER
you RECEIVE?

It would seem as if out of courtesy
any business man would reply in
some form to every letter he receives.
Surely no business man would allow
customers to stand around his store
indefinitely without attention, and go
away without being attended to.
But it is fact that many business
letters are wholly neglected.
In certain well-known New York
publication the advertisements are
followed by inquiry coupons which are
perforated so they can easily be torn
out and sent to the advertisers. The
writer filled out some thirty of these
and mailed them to the advertisers,
all well-knOWn business concerns that
were paying high prices for this ad-
vertising. Only 40 per cent of them
made any reply. One followed up the
first letter with a second, and one fol-
lowed up the first letter with a second
and third.
Other experiments show that hun
dreds and thousands of letters to bust
ness houses are actually dropped in
the wastebasket and never answered.
The houses that have built up bust
ness by mail, however, make it a rule
that every letter, of whatever kind,
shall be answered, and if possible an
swered the same day it is received.
One firm receives about 10000 letters
day, and about 10000 orders. The
orders are acknowledged by postal
card and filed in due course, and
every letter is answered within a few
hours after it is received. Another
house receives about 10000 letters a
day, and 10000 pieces of mail in all,
and gives the same prompt and scrup-
ulous attention to every piece. It is
the man who receives few letters who
is most negligent.
You never know whether an in
quirer is important or not, or when
the unimportant inquirer will become
important. Any business man who
neglects his correspondence is taking
grave chances. When he thinks 81
lence conveys the idea, II am not in.
terested in what you write,", he for.
gets that he is a gentleman, and that
somebody is waiting patiently day
after day for an answer to his civil
inquiry. A printed circular letter may
safely be thrown aside, for it's very
form indicates that it. is general ad.
vertising and not a personal letter.
Yet when the advertiser asks for a
specific reply, or specific information.
it should be given as business
courtesy.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-05-21
HOW TO WRITE TO A SUPERIOR.

There is scarcely one of us who
does not have occasion more or less
often to write important letters to our
superiors, and We find it difficult to
get just the right tone.
Excessive brevity in letters from
his subordinates is annoying to a
business man. He wants to know the
facts about his business, and all the
facts. OF course he doesn't want
wordy letters, but he wants full de-
tails and plenty of information.
He wants suggestions, but he doesn't
want dictatfon. Subordinates should
act like subordinates and not like the
boss. Modesty and reserve are ap-
preciated, but hesitation and timidity
only annoy and irritate. Some SUBJ
| ordinates in their fear of giving Of
Tense, beat around the bush, vaguely
hint and seem afraid to say anything
clearly, definitely, and frankly. They
tantaliZe ard annoy until they lose
their positions.
Try to strike the happy medium be-
tween an offensive freedom and a
cringing reserve. Success usually
! comes from real interest and abb
sorption in the business. That natural
enthusiasm for the work is what a
! business man usually likes to sec
best of all.
To learn to write letters to superiors
with the proper tone, it is IN excel
lent idea to try several different YER
sions of an important letter, and
choose the best one. To form the
habit now and OF writing an i'm
portant letter over several times, let
ting it lie over night, and coming to it
fresh after a rest, helps to develop
the moderate and medium style. Yet
such letters will lack the spontaneous
| enthusiasm which is the best element
of all, and so usually should be laid
aside as mere exercises. They give
the ability of free and satisfactory ex.
preston, they develop the proper
habit and command of language; but
in the end the spontaneous enthusi-
asm of a quickly-written letter, die
tated by genuine interest, will beat
| any studied form all out of the field.
Yet we must study so that when our
enthusiasm is on us We do not let it
run away with us. The studied letter
Is the finest possible preparation for
the correct and effective spontaneous
letter when occasion calls it out.
Copyright, 1909. by Joseph B. Bowles.)
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-05-21
HOW ADVERTl4E a DRUG
-.3 :, E...E ST0RE..,s ~ Z: Is ~ - i

It is a good deal harder to advertise
q drug store than a grocery business,
|, for the reason that there seems to be
less news to tell, the stock remains
about the same all the time, and peo-
pie can't be forced to take medicine.
But neither a drug business nor any
other will grow fast and big by itself.
1t has to be pushed, and there are ways
to push it.
Proprietary medicines that some
body else has advertised well, and for
which a natural demand exists, show
small profit. But there are other lines
of medicines just as good which are
not advertised, and on which the manu-
facturer will give very large profit
il: the druggist will push them. Good
circular matter will be supplied which
can be distributed from house to
house, but the druggists own little
handful will make far more impression
than any foreign. printing. 49,, .,i:;
| And there are many things people
would buy and use If they knew about
them and had them called to their at
tention at the proper something
to kill the little green bugs on the fiow-
ers, a cure for colds that is really safe
to give to children, something convent
ent to take out grease spots or clean
kid gloves, etc., We may know about
these things, but we forget about them
and need to be reminded three or four
| times year.
oh nk% n%}vn M ~ ~
cry with everything complete. at low
price; send out the news of the receipt
of a new lot of toothbrushes; a fresh
| and particularly tasty assortment of
candies; display of fireworks or val
entines in season, novelties for Christ
mas, and ingenious little devices of one
kind or another like pencil sharpeners.
While the grocer can send out his
news every week, the druggist will per-
haps find distribution once a month
sufficient; but the seasons offer him an
endless variety of little things of which
people will be glad to be reminded.
| 1t is lot of trouble and expense the
first time, you are too busy the next
time, and then you dread to pay the
bill.
| But form the habit. &c. started.
Work hard on it. Anybody who keeps
at it three months and watches the
business grow would never give it up.
He will soon come to dread the falling
off of sales when the advertising fails
to 60 out, and the narrowing profits
will be sharp reminder to get busy
again: The advertising habit is hard
to start, and equally hard to break up.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-05-21
All Over.


While work on a new building was
going on in a southern town not long
ago an old negro employed as a hod-
carrier suddenly slipped while near
ing the third story and plunged head
long to the ground. Several passers-
by rushed over expecting to find a
man dead with a broken neck, as the
old fellow had struck squarely on the
top of his head. Finding the old man
still alive some one emptied the con-
tents Of whisky bottle down his
throat. In a few moments the old
negro sat up and looked around.
How do you feel now, uncle?"
asked a bystander kindly.
well, sah," came the reply, Il wuz
sorter confused when I fust started,
but now dat Is hit rs all right"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-05-21
PhiIanthropic.

Elderly Bachelor-Mrs. Burnside,
will you marry me-? :: T.. :,.l . -
Attractive Widow-Mr... Wackford.
are you forgetting. that ] have six
children? ....,<: ...! -, 81. ,,,: :.
Elderly bachelor Not at: all: : i
want to help you train up the young
sters--darn 'eml : ..ssz.=5s.s s
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-05-21
How TO APPLY FOR A POSITION.

, The general manager of one of the
largest publication offices In Chicago
has said that he advises all applicants
to answer blind advertisements in
newspapers when applying for a posi-.
ton by writing simply, Il feel I am
just the person you want Please
grant interview" He says the inter.
view seldom fails to materialize.
Some persons can present their case
better by letter than in an interview,
while others know they can't write a
good letter and are likely to spoil
their chances If they attempt it.
When you know you can't write a
good letter. by all means write a
brief application like that suggested
above. But a well-written letter often
does more to get a good situation
than any interview.
A former advertising manager of
Marshall Field & Co. was occupying a
humble position in the state of Ne.
braska, when he conceived the idea Of
writing to the big city firm stating
just how he believed he could be use.
full. He was encouraged to go to
Chicago to see the manager, a place
was made for him, though no vacancy
then existed, and he gradually rose to
be head of the advertising depart.
ment.
An application for a position should
never be written on scraps of paper,
with poor pen, or in a slovenly-look-
ing hand. Any hint of self-conceit or
Generalization of self, is particularly
obnoxious to the employer, yet an
honest analysis of self, and a frank
statement of worthy ambitions are es-
sential to making an impression.
What the business man wants more
than anything else is facts. Tell him
what you have done, tell him if you
can what others say of you, and don't
talk about salary until you are asked
Frankness about the qualifications
really important to the business man
in his business, and a fine reserve on
all other points, please the busy bust
ness man best of all. Some say too
much, many do not say enough; but
there would be little trouble about
knowing what to say If you could put
yourself in the place of the business
man and consider just what he wants
to know. In this way you really show
him how well you understand the re-
quirements of the position for which
you apply.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-05-21
Ewes Are Relieved By Murine

Strain, incident to the average School
Room. A recent Census of New York
City reveals the fact that in that City
Care. WHY WHY not try Murine Eve Remedy "
for Red, Weak, Weary, Watery Eyes,
Granulation, Pink Eye and Eye Strain?
Murine Doesn't Smart; Soothes Eye Pain.
clans; Contains no Injurious or Prohibit
ed Drugs. Try Murine for Your Eye
Troubles; You Will Like Murine. Try 1t
in Baby's Eyes for Scaly Eyelids. Drug
Remedy Co., Chicago, Will Send You In
tereSting Eve Books Free
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-05-21
A CURE FOR FITS.
The Treatment To- to Accomplish
What Science Has Been strua.
CLING to Attain for centuries.

The intense interest that has been mani.
tested throughout the country by the won.
derful cures that are being accomplished
daily by epilepticide still continues. It r
really surprising the vast number of peo-
pie, who have already been cured of fits
and nervousness. In order that everybody
may have chance to test the medicine,
tory Of Epilepsy and testimonials, viii be
sent by mail absolutely free to ali who
write to the DR.. May Laboratory. 6l8
Pearl Street, New York City,.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-05-21
Do it Now

Tomorrow A. NJ. too late. Take
a CASCARET at bed tine: get
up IN the moenms feeling fine and
dandy. No need for sickness
from ouer-eating and drink
ing. They surely work while you
!eep and, help nature help you.
Millions take them and keep well.
CA5cARETS 1oc q box for q weeks
treatment, ali dIuEKists. Biggest seller
In the world. Million boxes q month.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-05-21
Gardens with Schools,

The schoOl-garden idea has been re-
markedly developed in San Antonio,
Tex, which is said to have more
gardens attached to it's schools thar
any other place of it's size in the
world. There are 949 of these cult
waited plots attached to the 20 schools
the gardens varying from one-tenth t.
one-quarter of an acre.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-05-21
STATE OF ONO CITY OF TOLEDO. I


partner OF the firm Of F. J. CHENEY Il Co.. doina
business In the City of Toledo County and Stata
aforesaid. and that said firm will pay the sum Of
ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every
case OF CATARRH that cannot be cured by the use Of
HALLS CATARRH CURE.
FRANK J. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence
this 9th day Of December. A. D.. 1886.
A. W. GLEASON.
NOTARY PUBLIC.
Halls Catarrh Cure IS taken internally and acts
directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces OF the
system. Send for testimonials. free.
+. j. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo, O.
Sold by all Druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-05-21
The Great Necessity.

She laid down her Ruskin YEARLY.
1T says here" she unused, that
man should resemble river l won
der what that means. Do you know
dear?'
Dear looked up from a batch Of
bills.
Sure I d." he growled. 1T meanl
that you don't amount to shucks these
days unless you own couple Of
banks"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-05-21
NEVER SAY DIE.

She-But If you nave completely
cured Mrs. Tooter, you have done
away with one of your most lucrative
sources of income.
The Doctor-Ah, but I'll present her
with my bill, and then I'll have to
treat her for nervous prostration.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-05-21
Different ProInositjon.

NO." she said firmly. Il cannot
marry you: l will be no mans slave"
: Then marry me and be my boa"
the young man pleaded. .,ss2sez :
WheTeupon she fell to .meditating,
tor there*swas something alluring In
this proposition. s. ,. ...
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-05-21
Use Aliens Foot.Ease.

It is the only relief for Swollen Smart
Corns and Bunions. Ask for Aliens Foot
Ease, a powder to be shaken into the
shoes. Cures while you walk. At all Drug
gists and Shoe Stores, Csc. Don't accept
any substitute. Sample sent FREE. Ad-
dress, Allen S. Olnsted, Leroy, N. Y.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-05-21

bailing undoubtedly prevented me from
succumbing from exposure.
Il tried to use the oars, but saw it
was impossible to make Roadway
against the wind. The only course
open to me was to 60 with the wind
and keep her afioat until was blown
to the other shore.
II alternately rowed and bailed all
day Monday. At night stopped row.
ing and bailed all night. About ten
o'clock Tuesday morning 1 looked up
from bailing and saw the blue haze of
the Canadian shore. 1t was blowing
gale then. The wind was southeast
when I started, but afterward blew
from the south. l got near the land
about noon.
1.-THE boat was swamped several
rods from shore, and it took my last
ounce of strength to get her in and
pull her up on the land l collapsed,
but managed to hang onto the painter.
when l got so could walk made
my way to a farmhouse, where / got
food and dry clothing. I had eaten
nothing since supper Sunday evening"
Brown rested a little W. lie and then
walked to Cobourg. He was too weak
to finish the seven miles to his wife's
house in Port Huron on foot and went
by train. Mrs. Brown had heard moth.
ing about his being blown out to sea,
but his first thought was that she
would have heard it, and he wanted to
relieve her mind. A letter announcing
his supposed drowning reached her
brother the night of Browns arrival in
Port Hope. He was a hero in Port
Hope, and the Canadian papers of the
section were full of the story of the
62-mfle voyage across the lake.
"I'll get him and the boat a good
engagement at show house in Roch.
ESTER" former Village Clerk John Keen
proposed to Browns employer. p. 7
Rigney, when the hero was being con.
graduated in Charlotte.
There's a: pillow out on the farm
that just fits Edgar" Mr.. Rigney said.
decisively. Come on home, Edgar"
Brown laughed and started for the
farm. He is self-possessed but mod.
est chap, 81 years old.
Brown went to the place where he
landed, near Grafton, Friday night and
rowed the boat ten miles to Cobourg,
TO get it aboard the ferry.