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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-10-29

Companies for operating aerial lines
of travel are multiplying in Germany
and many of the most solid financiers
are among the investors. This an
pears to afford opportunities for liter.
ally taking flyers in stocks.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-10-29

1t Is high time stop was put to
those Spanish swindles, and it is also
high time that Americans grew too
wise to be caught by them.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-10-29

Actors are said to be scarce in New
York, but as this is the open season
for decayed vegetables and aged hen
fruit, there's a reason"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-10-29

Some day the world will really
come to an end. and it will be just the
luck of those prophets not to be on
the job at the time.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-10-29

With 1000 immigrants coming In
one day New York may have to put
upper stories on its parks for lodg-
ing places.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-10-29

One woman says that she stole two
shirt waists because she was hungry.
Still, shirt waists are not very tooth
some.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-10-29

1t will not be long before the sight
of farmers coming to the city in au-
tos will be so familiar as to escape
comment.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-10-29

Here and there a French aeronaut
Queer.lOOktng Whiskers.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-10-29

People continue to fall victims to
the Spanish prisoner" swindle. That
Is what they get for not reading the
newspapers.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-10-29

Less Coal Mined in Ohio.
Ohio porduced 20,270,039 short tons
Of coal last year. a decrease from the
previous year output of about 1927
per cent.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-10-29

Chicago has some fine skyscraper
roofs which should look attractive to
aspiring aeroplane operators.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-10-29

From impending lawsuits it is evil
dent that all persons who wear wings
are not angels.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-10-29

has him through
accepted president dvuged
Mr. Cranes resignation
Washington
of
to formulate it.
Mr. Knox referred the interview a
friends seemed They
Knox given an Official X. o statement
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-10-29
One Of Many,

Ou0 " "OOys
Greening-Had your vacation yet?
Browning-Yes.
0reening-Where did you GOT
Browning-Broko.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-10-29

1t Is gambling when you lose and
speculation when you win. There is
no other difference.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-10-29
THAW'S NEMESIS RETIRES

William Travers Jerome. district attorney of
New York, after filling the Office two terms, de-
c1ded. after he had been nominated for the third
not to seek reelection. With the retirement of
Jerome from Office q person whose name Ia
known over the entire civilized world is removed
from the 1melight.
Had Mr. Jerome done nothing else in his Off.
cial career, his prosecution of Harry K Thaw for
the murder Of Stanford White on the Madison
Square roof garden would have brought him
fame. Consequently one of the first questions
asked when Jerome announced that he would not
seek the Office again was. what will become OF
Thaw now?'
The millionaire slayer, who is prisoner al
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-10-29


out of the
his freedom with greater confidence
decision a candidate
ought no LONGER to con,nu
candidate election
for
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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-10-29
WILL STIR SUFFRAGETTES

Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst. the world-famed
leader OF the English suffragettes, who have
made life miserable for Premier Asquith and
members Of parliament in their fight for votes
for women. is in this country to stir up her Amer
lean cousins. When she arrived in New York
on the Caronia she was greeted by enthusiastic
women and promised them that she would make
her visit lively. She began in staid old Boston,
speaking on the meaning Of the woman's move
ment In England and the reasons for the militant
methods of the English suffragettes as resulting
from the existing conditions of English politics.
An English statesman. himself not of suffrag-
list sympathies. has said that the methods Of the
suffragtsts were the only ones which could be
used with anY effect. that alfhou1h ha h0ned
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-10-29
Heavy German RIrthrate,

During the last year the population
Of Germany increased by 1850 per-
sons. to 1856, 900. according to off,
cial statistics.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-10-29

There are. mighty few idle mills
and factories in this country now.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-10-29
LOST HIS JOB BY TALKING

To be appointed United States minister to
China and then ousted from his job on the charge
that he had talked too much and given away
state secrets before he left the country to take
up his duties. is the lot of Charles r. Crane of
Chicago.
When Mr.. Crane was selected by Mr. Taft as
the envoy to China the appointment was hailed
with delight in certain quarters because, it was
said, he was especially fitted for the post having
spent much thine in the orient and given great
deal of study to affairs of the far east
President Taft, it is said. made the appoint,
ment without consulting his secretary of state
Mr.. Knox. Developments seem to indicate that
had Mr.. Knox been consulted Mr. Crane would
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-10-29

Merit and perseverance win except
In q government land lottery.
The Elbert County tribune., 1909-05-13
NOT DRUGS
Food Did II.

After using laxative and cathartic
medicines from childhood case of
chronic and apparently incurable con-
stipation yielded to the scientific food
Grape-Nuts, In few days.
From early childhood / suffered
with such terrible constipation that
had to use laxatives continuously 60
Ing from one drug to another and suf-
fering more or less all the time.
"A prominent physician whom con-
suited told me the muscles of the d.
gestive organs were partially par
alyzed and could not perform their
work without help Of some kind, SO I
have tried at different times about
every laxative and cathartic known,
but found no help that was at all per-
manent. / had finally become discour-
aged and had given my case up as
hopeless when ! began to use the pre-
digested food. Grape-Nuts.
Although I had not expected this
food to help my trouble, to my great
surprise Grape-Nuts digested imme-
diately from the first and In few
days l was convinced that this was
Just what my system needed.
The bowels performed their func-
tions regularly and am now COM
pleteiy and permanently cured Of this
awful trouble.
Truly the power of scientific food
must be unlimited" There's a
Reason"
Read"The Road to Wellville," In pkgs.
Ever read the above letter. A now
DDe nDpearn from time to time. They
are genuine. true. and full OF human
a1tesest.
The Elbert County tribune., 1909-05-13

broken pair of oxen will do their work
quickly and with all the intelligence OF
good pair of well-broken work
horses, and be pleasure to their driver
and owner
do not think it possible for anyone
to lay down rules for breaking az OK
team. Some are born drivers and love
their team. just as much as good
horseinan does, and when sucn n
driver Is given an intelligent paiy OF
young oxen it win be pleasure to wee
them work. and the amount OF work
they can do is governed only by ;he
leng1h OF the day. Such team will
be alert, the same as the driver. il
VIII obey his commands quickly and
swing along with show of strength
and with o Willingness that cannot ne
eScelled by any working team. Again.
an OK team is entitled to good care
and some grooming. To DO their best
work they want grain and regular
.ccd.-c as vol as horses; they will
also aprreclate g-oomirg the same.
Many yoke draws a plow all day
without a grain feed or even water at
noon. and at night is unyoked and
turned out in the yard with only n
poor iced OF hay or grass. This is not
fair TO the oxen. They cannot under
such conditions co thoir best, and
then Il is said that cattle are no good
for farm work, are too slow and can
not begin TO do the worl, of horses.
Here in Vermont on our hill farms we
can hardly do all kinds of farm work
without oxen When getting up wood
and logs in the winter they can be
The Elbert County tribune., 1909-05-13
OXEN TRAINED TO DRIVE
LIKE OTHER ANIMALS
As Much Science Driving Horses and
Requires Much Patience and SaIfControI
In

Driving oxen Is as much of a science
as driving horses. and in their educa-
ton much patience and self-control
are required to make success and
have what we in Vermont call good
team" Their education for work
should begin as soon at least as they
are six months old; they should be
yoked and handled till they have per-
feet confidence IN their driver They
will learn the words of command as
quickly as team of colts will the bit
and words, says 4 writer in the Breed
ers' Gazette. Always use the same
terms of command. and attract their
attention with light whip or switch.
but never use whip, as the boys say.
to lick them" with. They do not need
It. They are as ready and willing to
obey as well-handled team of horses,
and learn the words of command the
same as dog or any animal.
Some have an idea that an OK team
is made to be whipped and yelled at
as loud as possible. but a yoke of cat
tie can be trained to do their work
without noise or buster. II is all in
the driver and their early training.
Again in their education careful at
tention should be paid to their walk.
As this is the only gait they have it is
very important that they should be
taught to walk very fast. By inclina-
tion they will not do this unless edu-
Gated to it. A careless driver will soon
get an OK team in the way of loafing
along. or in plowing to go so slow as
to Offset all other advantages claimed
for them, SO that team educated to
The Elbert County tribune., 1909-05-13

both laughed off. saying they could
see nothing especially heroic in the
incident.
Bonneville was preparing to leave
at the end of his watch, about mid
night, and stepped into the large vault
behind the counter to place some val
uables in it. Jack Shannon, the mail
clerk, did not see Bonneville enter the
vault and closed it and turned the bolt
Knowing the vault was air-tight and
that Bonneville was the only person
in the hotel at that time who knew
the combination, Shannon became
greatly alarmed. He shouted to Bon
neville, whom he could hear pounding
franically against the steel doors,
asking him the combination, but neith-
er could understand the other.
The situation was becoming desper-
ate when Miss Benson recalled that
Bonneville had been telegraph oper-
ator in his youth and was proficient in
the Morse code. Taking an iron pa
per-weight, she raped a message to
him on the steel doors. Almost i'm
mediately his reply, raped back with
the handle Of his penknife, was heard,
and the combination was translated
by Miss Benson. 1t was then but a
few seconds until Shannon had opened
the doors and released the almost ex-
hausted prisoner.
None of the participants were in
clined to discuss the incident, and
when questioned, laughed it off as a
joke.
Il can't see much to it." said Bon
neville. Anyhow, the experience did
not hurt me-" Miss Benson laughing
ly said: Even If did tap the mes
sage to him. that was not anything
wonderful, was it,"
The Elbert County tribune., 1909-05-13
GARDENERS BEST
FRIEND IS TOAD
Large Portion of It's Customary
Ration Consists of Injurious
Insects.

The toad is very valuable friend,
especially to the gardener. Toads live
for several years and by preference re-
main on the same feeding grounds
from year to year About SO per cent
of the toad's food consists of animal
matter. Among the forms regularly
eaten are angle worms, snails. SOW
bugs, thoussnd-legged worms, spiders.
ants, grasshoppers. crickets. cutworms,
beetles and various caterpillars. From
so to so per cent. of injurious insects
and small per cent of beneficial in
sects go in with its customary ration.
The stomach is filled and emptied
The Elbert County tribune., 1909-05-13
CHILD HOLDS UP TRAIN.
Three-Year-old, Dragging a Battered
Toy, Wanders on Track and Falls
to Hear the Engine.

New York.-A three-year-old boy
held up a passenger train on the
Greenwood Lake branch of the Erie
railroad in the Silver Lake section of
Belleville, N. j., the other day. The
lad, son of Antonio Steffaneln, a
leader in the Italian colony of that
place, had wandered away from his
home and was walking along the
tracks dragging a battered tin horse
when the engine approached in the
opposite direction.
The engineer saw the boy and blew
his whistle, but the child kept on be-
tween the rails. Several times again
the whistle was blown, but without re-
suit Then the engineer put on the
brakes and brought the train to q
stop. The trainman got down from
his cab and carried the child to one
side. The little fellow was belliger-
ent and fought against his removal.
The train contained a large number
of passengers on their way from New
York, and thsy got out of the coaches
when the train was stopped, believing
that there was disaster ahead. There
was great merriment when the cause
of the trouble was seen trying to whip
the engineer.
The Elbert County tribune., 1909-05-13
WOMAN, 68, BRIDE
FOR TENTH time
has. POLLY WEED BAKER ADDS
sHIPPERT TO LONG STRING
OF NAMES.
STILL AGILE, DESPITE YEARS
Marrying Game Has Had Many Turns
and Seven Husbands Are Under
Sod-can't Recall Names
of Mates.

Evansville, Ind.-Mrs. Polly Weed
Baker of Newburg, aged 6s years, is
happy with her ninth husband. Her
tenth marriage ceremony was per-
formed the other day when she we'd
ded Simon Shippert, aged 60 years.
real estate and insurance man of Bur-
lington, la. The reason for the dis
parity between husbands and mar
riages is that she married one man
twice.
Mrs. Shippert, despite her years, is
agile as a girl and she does not look
like a woman who has seven husbands
in the grave, one divorced and one yet
alive. She owns considerable property
in Newburg. She has refused to have
help In her house to assist in the
work and her work preceding the cere-
mony was to milk her COW, feed her
tychickens and then adorn herself In a
plain white dress she had made with
her own needle. Asked why she did
not use one of her previous wedding
gowns she said she feared bad luck.
The ninth husband is man of good
appearance and is the owner of real
estate in Burlington. He has no chill
dren, but has been married before
and lost his wife by death. The bride
has no children, either, to show for
her eight previous husbands. A re-
porter who searched the rooms for
pictures could find none. Mrs. Ship
pert said she had never had picture
taken and that she destroyed all of
the photos of her past husbands.
Mrs. Shippert has had an interesting
career. Five times she has been d.
vorced, one husband died in mysteri-
GUS manner and another killed himself
by poison. Mrs. Shippert can not re-
The Elbert County tribune., 1909-05-13
RESCUED FROM VAULT
BY TELEGRAPH CODE
oUick-WITTEp GIRL SAVES Ho.
TEL CLERK FROM A TER
RIBLE DEATH.

st. Louis.-Cora Benson. telegraph
operator at the Planters hotel, with
rare presence of mind and resource
fulness, rescued S. E. Bonneville,
clerk, from Imprisonment in an air
tight vault behind the counter at mid
night.
Remembering that Bonneville was
familiar with the Morse code. she
tapped a message on the steel door.
asking the combination of the safe.
The answer came back in dots and
dashes struck by the end of a PEN
knife, and he was saved from a pre-
astrous.
Friends of the two were showering
congratulations and praise. which
The Elbert County tribune., 1909-05-13

fast walk is much more valuable
than slow team. OF course 1t is un-
derstood that some of the large, heavy
breeds of cattle can never be made to
walk as fast as the lighter ones, but
even they can be made faster than
their natural inclination.
Often young cattle when first put to
work are overloaded and overworked.
This hurts their courage and will sure
ly lessen their value as a farm team
Never make them try a load when
they cannot start it by two or three
trials, BE-. rather lessen the load. By
80 doing they will get in the way of
doing their best, and will have the
courage to try. A well-matched, we'll
The Elbert County tribune., 1909-05-13

call all the names of her husbands and
dates of marriage and divorce without
referring to a scrap book
Her last husband. William Baker,
aged 40 years, deserted her after two
weeks of married life in the fall of
1906. She secured divorce from him
She accused him of marrying her for
her money. To a friend Baker ad-
mitted that he thought she would soon
pass away and leave him her property.
After living with her for two weeks he
said he was convinced she would live
to be 100 years old.
Her first marriage was to a farmer
boy, Henry Fuquay. After seven years
he left her and secured divorce. She
went back to her fathers farm and
vowed to shun men thereafter and
never marry again.
In a few months James Fuquay,
cousin to the first husband, came
marching home from the civil war and
won her heart. Nine months later he
came home drunk, shot at her three
times and left.
She divorced him. Again she went
back to her fathers. There she met
James Henry Robinson, dashing
young widower. She married him be-
cause her father liked him. Three
days later the sheriff of Warrick coun-
ty put him under arrest on a warrant
sworn out by neighboring girl. She
divorced him.
George S. Boyden, a travelling sales
man for an Evansville firm, was hus-
band No. A. He had a morbid dispo-
sition and after ten years she d.
vorced him because he adopted child
from the orphans home.
Four years later she married 8. r.
Weed Of Newburg. This union, the
happiest of her life, terminated In his
sudden death after four years of bliss.
She then hunted up Boyden, her
former husband, in Evansville and
married him again. They lived to-
gether eight years. He ended his life
by drinking poison and jumping into
q cistern.
Three years later she married r. e.
Edwards Of Newburg. They were d.
vorced four years ago. When she went
to marry Baker three years ago the
ministers Of this state refused to per-
form the ceremony, but she got jus-
tics Of the peace.
The Elbert County tribune., 1909-05-13
Not His Business.

"Pow'ful fertile country daoun theh
In Texas" said the colonel. "Yes, sch!
Why, sch, / know spots daoun theh
where the trees grow so close togetheh
that you-all couldn't shove youh hand
between theh trunks. And game, sehl
Why. sch, I've seen Fehginyuh deeah
In those same forests with antlehs
eight feet spread! Yes, seh!"
At this point some meddlesome idiot
asked the colonel how such deer ever
managed to get their antlers between
such tree trunks.
"Thet, sch" said the colonel. draw.
ing himself up with squelching dig
nity, "is theh business!"-Everybody's
Magazine.
The Elbert County tribune., 1909-05-13

about four times in each "a hours.
Upon the basis of stomach examina-
tons. 1t has been estimated that dur
ing the 90-day period extending over
May. June and July. grown toad will
consume 2.160 cutworms, 1900 myria-
pods or acknowledged worms, 2,16O
sowbugs. 3,240 ants. $50 weevils, and
$50 ground beetles, the last being
beneficial insects. The sum total,
therefore. for the 80 days, is $50 bene-
ncial insects and 9,720 Injurious ones
destroyed. Mr.. A. II. Kirkland, who
made the foregoing computations, OBJ
serves that children are often paid
one cent for each cutworm they kill,
and that on this basis. after allowing
ten per cent. deduction from the total
number consumed. to Offset the prob
able number that would have been
Killed by the devoured ground beetles.
We still have 1914 cutworms to ths
The Elbert County tribune., 1909-05-13
Cow Mover said a Word.

When one Of the tenders of the City
railway cars picked up young heifer
at the corner OF Third and Jersey
streets the conductor filled out the re-
quired report blank to Superintendent
Edward Howell. In answer to the
question:: What did the victim say?"
the employe wrote: "She was car.
ried along on the fender for short
distance. then rolled off and ran away
without saying a word Dayton Co
lumbus Dispatch.
The Elbert County tribune., 1909-05-13

Oats Need Solid Subsurface.-It is a
mistake to SOW oats on newly-plowed
ground, especially where a deficiency
OF moisture may be expected. Oats
like solid subsurface. Ground to be
put n.oats may be plowed in the fall.
If weedy, but ordinarily clean ground
which has been in corn, needs only a
thorough disking and narrowing in the
spring. II the ground must be plowed
in the spring, 1t should be thoroughly
packed soon after plowing. and the
sooner the better. 1t is better to drill
in the oats than to SOW them broad
cast. II large crop is expected, do
not be too saving with the seed; heavy
seeding Is indispensable for heavy
yield. but no amount of seed will pro-
duce good crop on poor seed-bed.
The Elbert County tribune., 1909-05-13

toad's credit, or In money value 1t is
worth 1914 in three months time.
English and French gardeners appre-
ciate the value of toads and as high
as S25 per hundred is said to be often
paid for them. Owing to the dislike
oil the creatures for new and unfamil-
lar surroundings. it is advisable in
many cases to provide a breeding pool
Tor them in order that the young may
establish themselves where they are
wanted. A shallow pool of cement,
having small bat constant water sup
ply, Is sufficient, and the old toads
should be carried to 1t at mating time.
which in this latitude comes in April
and May Stagnant water is better
than running water from the stand
point of the toad raiser
For garden shelters. make shallow
holes In the ground and cover with
fiat stones or boards. The toads will
retire into these in the daytime and
come forth at dusk for their nightly
forays. Toads are specially valuable
to greenhouse men. keeping down
slugs. snails. sowbugs, thousand.
legged worms. plant lice, cutworms,
etc.
The Elbert County tribune., 1909-05-13

How to Fatten PouItry.-An excel
lent mixture for fattening poultry is
made as follows: One hundred pounds
finely ground barley, 100 pounds finely
ground corn, 100 pounds finely ground
oats with hulls sifted out), to which
mixture is added 30 pounds Of beef
scraps. Buttermilk or skimmilk IL
used for mixing, the former being pre-
ferred. The birds are fed twice a day
at intervals Of IL hours and are kept
on this diet for three weeks. Crate or
machine fattening should be adopted.
Another ration Is made as follows:
One hundred pounds ground oats, 10e
pounds ground corn. SO pounds -four,
four pounds tallow.
The Elbert County tribune., 1909-05-13
Big Black Bull on a Rampage.

New York.-A big black buIl broke
away from his keeper the other day at
Washington and Bay streets, Jersey
City, and went on a rampage through
the business section of the town. In
the course Of his flight he charged a
woman. who wore a red waist,
knocked her down and trampled her.
ran over two school children, drove a
couple of hundred children back into
a school building. wrecked fish store
and e tailor shop, and was finally
killed after squad of policemen fred
Is revolver shots at him from the
safe vantage Of patrol wagon.