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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-07-01
Is YEARS OF SKIN DISEASE

For sixteen long years I have been
suffering with bad case Of skin dis
ease. While child there broke out
red sore on the legs just in back of
my knees. It waxed from bad to worse,
and at last I saw I had a bad skin
disease. tried many widely known
doctors in different cities but to no
satisfactory result. The plague both.
cred me more in warm weather than
IN winter and being on my leg joints
1t made It impossible for me to walk,
and l was forced to stay indoors In the
warmest weather. My hopes of recov
cry were by this time spent. Sleepless
nights and restless days made life an
unbearable burden. At last I was
advised to try the Cuticura remedies
[Cuticura Soap, Ointment and Pills]
and I did not need more than trial
to convince me that I was on the road
OF success this time. I bought two
sets Of the Cuticura Remedies and
after these were gone I was a differ
ent man entirely. I am now the hap
piest man that there is at least one
true care for skin diseases. Leonard
A. Hawtof, II Nostrand Ave., Brook.
Ign, n. Y, July 30 and Aug. 8, 'O9."
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-07-01

.@nu' ~ ein'any' or the eastern half of the
onlteo states, not because Of wool, but because
~ ~ "ut'on' Inc neece Is by-product, just as
the hide OF the steer or of the dairy COW ia q
by-product; the principal value of the animal ia
us hesh. In the new sheep centers of South
America the principal value of the animal Ia
!es WOOL ana fortunes were made from the
Hocks even when not pound Of mutton was
exported or sold
WOOL, as the word is used in commerce. ia
not product alone Of the sheep It may be
WOOL although 1t comes from the backs of sew
eral 'arletles OF goats from the camel, the al
paca, the guanaco, the vicuna or the llama, as
well as from the sheep. 1t is the thing itself
and not the geological classification of the ami
NAL which determines whether the fiber Is
wool, hair, or fur. Since the classification Is
commercial and not scientific the line between
these three classes is necessarily vague and
1ndist1nct. For instance the under covering
OF the camel may be camel's wool or camel's
hair, and so we have alpaca hair or alpaca
WOOL From the sheep there are many varieties
of wool, long and short, straight and curly.
coarse and fine. and, what is generally more
important than any of these varieties in the
serrations or 1mbrications appearing on the
surface of the fbers.
1t Is Important In considering wool as q
commercial commodity to keep in mind the
three different kinds of cloth made therefrom
These are commercially known in English as
felts, woolens, and worsteds. The processes In
making these three kinds of cloth are so Diff
ferent as to make them entirely different in
dustries, employing entirely different machin-
cry. Felt is made from the wool or fur In
mass, the cloth holding because of the lock
clutch of the intoxicated fiber. Woolens and
worsteds are spun from threads, but the
threads in the two kinds Of cloth are prepared
in different manner and the weaving is en-
tirely unlike. Formerly, entirely different
kinds of woods were used for making
tho two kinds of cloths, or rather it is more
accurate to say that only certain kinds Of
woods could be used in making worsteds Al
most any kind of wool could be used for ma
king woolens. although some were much more
suitable than others, and, as rule, those least
suitable for woolens were best suitable for
worsteds. In effect, therefore, certain woods
were used for woolens and certain other woods
for worsteds. With the improved modern ma
chinery used in worsted mills these limitations
are fading away so that worsteds can now be
made from woods formerly not used for this
purpose.
The wool used for making woolens is card.
ed; that for worsteds is combed. The effect of
these two processes Is that in the first the wool
ibers are crossed and interlocked as much as
possible, and in the second they are drawn out
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-07-01
But the Outcome Of the Unfortunate
Incident Was Just A. Depressing
A. II 10 Had Been.

A human interest story of no small
proportions was enacted on Fourth
avenue on a recent afternoon when q
small girl pinched the feshy arm of a
dignified lady, who was presumably a
relative or close acquaintance, and
then hoped back into the narrow
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-07-01
AN ACHING BACK
Means Weak kidneys.

Well kidneyssa filter the blood OF uric
acid and other impurities. When the
Kidneys are sick, waste matter aecu-
mulates and backache. headache and
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-07-01
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breeds. The long-wool breeds are
the Leicester, Border Leicester,
Cotswold, Lincoln, Kentish, Devon
Longwool, South Devon, Wensley.
dale, and Roscommon.
The short-wool breeds-this class
includes among others the famous
mutton breeds-are the Oxford
Down, Southdown. Shropshire,
Hampshire Down, Suffolk, Ryeland.
Somerset, and Dorset Horned.
The mountain breeds are the
Cheviot, Blackfaced Mountain,
Herdwick, Lonk, Dartmoor, Elk.
moor, Welsh Mountain, and Lime
stone.
All Of these breeds are English
except the Border Leicester, Chevi-
OF, and Blackfaced, which are
Scotch, the Welsh which belongs to
Wales, and the Roscommon to Ire
land.
The Leicester from an historical
standpoint is the most important Of
the long-wool English sheep, and it
was the great reputation of tho
wool of this breed that gave Eng
land in the past its prominent po-
sition as a wool-producing coun-
try. Most important Of all. 1t Is the
Leicester blood which is the foun.
dation of many of the other best
English breeds and as such has ex-
tended itself over all the world.
The wool is fine, white, and long
stapled.
The Lincoln is the largest and
heaviest feeced sheep. Many Of
the fleeces will weigh from IS to 20
pounds, with a staple 20 inches in
length. The Lincoln resembles the
Cotswold, but has less-pronounced
tuft on the forehead and the wool
is closer curled.
The wool Of these sheep has a
fine glistening appearance which
has earned for it the name of "lus-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-07-01
ON THE COLLEGE NINE.

"Tain't no use talkin', Cyrus, tibet
boy of ourn certainly do love tn coun.
try. He writ me er letter yesterday
an seq he was overjoyed cause Their
going ter put him in tn right field
next summer"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-07-01

Not the Reply He Expected.
DO you object to smoking?" he
asked.
mot at all. Have you cigarette?"
she replied.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-07-01

tory. Whether these are
derived from any one Of
the existing wild species,
or from the crossing of
several or from some
now extinct species is a
matter OF conjecture
even to scientists. Vari-
atoms in the different
domestic breeds are very
great and in no other
particular greater than
in the wool. Domestic
sheep, not considering
tha Acio&io hrooSc NOV
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-07-01

~ cheerful disposition has a tagged
and dampened aspect and he doesni
dispense quite as much sunshsns q
of yore.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-07-01

Hope is an excellent thing to have.
but it is one of the things a pawn.
broker will not advance anything on,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-07-01

over the Mesopotamian lowlands.
The sheep pelt or the wool plucked
or sheared from it was the principal
clothing of man from before the dawn
OF history down almost to the present
day. Now cloth made from vegetable
fibers. principally cotton, has more
extended use than WOOL But this does
not mean that cotton and linen are
d1splacing wool as an article of hu-
man wear. Far from It; the use of
wool constantly advances by enormous
strides, and the even greater advance
IN the use of cotton is due in no small
measure to the fact that the supply Of
wool can not meet the demand for
clothing. Mankind must perforce wear
the vegetable fbers or go unclothed.
Inc same fact is true Of the product
OF the silkworm; the supply can never
equal the demand. Cotton, of course.
has conquered for itself new field,
the clothing of the unclothed races of
the earth. In addition it has supplied
new articles of clothing to civilized
man, whose ancestors wore but little
else than wool. The European or
american of today does not wear less
wool; In truth he wears more, but he
also wears more articles of clothing.
and these, for the most part, are cot
ton. There is close parallel all over
the world between the cattle and the
sneep industry, but there are some i'm
portant differences as well.
1t has rarely happened and can
scarcely happen again that cattle will
anywhere be raised primarily for their
norns and hides, but the raising of
sheep for their wool Is one of the we'll.
recognized steps in the Industry. # is
the fact that this can be done so as
to pay handsome profit that built IN
the great sheep industries in the west
ern part of the United States in
Australia and New Zealand, in South
Africa, and now is building up a great.
er industry in South America Free
or very cheap pasturage is the funda.
mental condition for this kind Of
sheep raising. Were it not for these
new lands, where the cost of feeding
the sheep is nominal, the price Of wool
would advance to a point where wool
clothing would be beyond the means
OF any except the very rich. Sheen
raising Is profitable industry in Enc.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-07-01

When our names are blotted out,
and our place knows us no more. the
energy of each social service will re-
main.-John Morley.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-07-01
A Wonder Worker

- svOuOSI VSOVNSIs
Sapleigh- speaking of cleo
tricity, that makes me think
Miss Remarkably, Mr.. Sapleigh?
Isn't it remarkable what electricity
can do!
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-07-01
Cheap Extravaoance.

VnoAp 6AtT1Va0Ance.
Say, the amount of capital Of that
new trust won't fill this head line"
How much 10 it,"
ITS 100000, 000."
add another cipher"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-07-01

ANS first clothing
was an animal pelt,
and without doubt q
sheep pelt. It may
be suggested that the
fig leaf antedates the
sheepskin as an ar
ticle of wear. This
may be true, but the
fig leaf can be con-
sidered only as a
temporary expedient
which was discarded
with the first cool
winds which swent
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-07-01

W. l. Douglas guarantees their value by stamping
BIZ name and price on the bottom. Look for It.
Tske NO Suhctitute: Fa;t Color Egelets:
forealeinyour townW ritefor Mail Order Cataog show
ing how to order by mail. Shoes ordered direct from
factory deltvered free. DouQlAs Brockton. MAaa
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-07-01
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w. 1; s R9ye-As
5, 81, $3.50, 90, $3.50 & 81
THE STAN DARD
FOR 80 YEARS.

Millions of men wear
w. l. Douglas shoes be-
cause they are the low
est prices, quality con-
sidered, in the world.
Made upon honor,of the
best feathers, BY the
most skilled workmen,
in al the latest fashions.
w. L. Douglas $500
and $500 shoes equal
Custom Bench Work
costing $500 to s. 90.
Rous'Shoes. IS, S2.6OAS2
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-08-10
Will Use the Pass. Book,

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.-The long
established passbook system used in
ordinary savings institutions will be
adopted for the government postal
savings bank. The committee that
has been pertectiug the plans for the
postal banks had been considering
what is known as the coupon system
for postal bank deposits. but has now
decided that while having some ad.
vsutages, that system might produce
some complications.
According to the coupon system de-
p%ositors would receive with each de.
posit q slip representing their deposit
together with q coupon for the amount
OF interest that would be paid on their
money. The committee decided there
were many objections to flooding the
country with millions OF deposits, with
coupons attached, many of which
would represent value of only a few
cents.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-08-10
Few Settlers Are Leaving,
Helena Record.

IoAouh NoCOEu.
There has not been such a great
exodus OF settlers from northern Mon.
tana as reports and newspaper &C.
counts have indicated, according to
Clifford Eckles, who has been apprais.
ing state lands in northern Montana
this summer.
"The great bulk of the settlers ar.
rived too late in the spring to be able
to grow a crop under the conditions
which existed this year." said Mr..
Eckels, 'but despite this compare.
lively few of the new corners will
leave the state permanently. Hun.
dreds have gone back to their former
homes, but only temporarily.
1.-THE salvation of northern Mon.
tana lies in the six months additional
time granted homesteaders. This per.
mits them to spend the winter at their
former home and then to return next
spring to their claims. Most of them
have erected shacks and have done
such preliminary work that will en-.
able them to resume farming next
spring under favorable conditions"
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-08-10
Washington News Notes.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.-The Bear.
tooth national forest in Montana has
been opened to the grazing of 1900
additional head of sheep. The origi-
nal limit was $4,000 head. The action
was taken in response to an appeal of
the stockmen that the government
throw open the reserve to toeir herds
on account of the drouth.
1t has developed that the mission in
the west of Director Newell of the rec.
lamation service, who left Washington
yesterday was to join the board OF
army engineers, which IL charged with
the exsmiu alton of the governments
irrigation projects. The director will
accompany the army engineers on q
good part OF their itinerary explaining
the early history and the features Of
the work.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-08-10
The Ups and Downs of Politics..
Butte Inter Mountain

Butte Inter Mountain.
Like the prophet of old, it appears
that the politician is without honor in
his own country. William j. Bryan's
experience with the democratic state
convention was no more OF a repudia.
ton than was Theodore Roosevelt's
experience with a republican legisla.
ture at Albany. Both undertook to
dictate; each was turned down with
more force than politeness. The ex.
p%erience was not altogether new to the
Nebraska statesman. who on more
than one occasion had been invited to
keep his hands out Of political fights
outside his own state. Colonel Roose.
welt because of his avowed declara.
ton of keeping out of all political
ructions in other states than his own,
must have been surprised when the
New York legislature passed him up
without ceremony.
All OF which seems to indicate that
the political leader who persists in
drawing the water himself rather than
sending out the hired man after it will
60 once too often to the we'll. In the
Bryan case it would appear that the
pitcher has been too badly shattered
to permit of mendiug. TeddyAs pitch.
er still holds some water. although
badly cracked, and it 10 quite within
the possibilities tn at he will be able to
repair it in good time.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-08-10
THE ANANIAS CLUB,
Another Member Added To Roll By
Col. Roosevelt,

Another Member Added To Roll BY
Col. Roosevelt.
NEW YORK, Aug. 2.-Col. Theodore
Roosevelt yesterday added another
distinguished member to the Ananias
club In the person of Col. George Har-
vey, editor Of the North American Re.
view.
The init alton took place in the Office
OF the Outlook, of which Mr.. Roose-
welt is contributing editor. and the
new member, while not actually pre-
sent, was put through with much vim
and considerable bounce. While Col.
Roosevelt did not use the "shorter
and uglier word," his language was
distinctly blunt and plain.
The r%eopening of the club, which
was closed just prior to Mr.. Roose.
velt's departure for Africa, was
brought about through an article in
the August number of the North Amer.
lean Review, entitled, "Is Roosevelt
an Asset Or q Libability?" and which
was signed "The Editors"
In a paragraph at the top OF page
Isl, this sentence occurs: "But re-
Gently Roosevelt, the man, declared
it q national election we're TO be held
next October he undoubtedly would be
the republican candid ate and would
win"
When Roosevelt saw this his eyes
snapped and his teeth clicked as be
almost shouted:
"That is o simple falsehood: 1 have
never said anything like that"
1t was pointed out to Col. Roosevelt
that Col. Harvey mean to convey the
impression that he would be forced to
accept the nomination.. By that time
Col. Roosevelt appeared to be extreme.
~ angry; and, again repeating that
he never made the statement attribut.
ed to him, made a rush for the wait.
ing elev atOr.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-08-10
A BIG LAND

Eight years ago today the Great
Falls land Office opened It's doors for
business with j. M. Burlingame as its
fret register and G. 81. Benton it's fret
receiver. At that time the district EN-.
braced Cascade, Teton, Chouteau and
Valley counties. aud covered about
q. 1000. 900 acres, says the Great Falls
Leader. Two new land districts have
been created. the Glasgow land dis
trict, including oil of Valley county,
and the Havre land district taking in
all of that portion of Chouteau county
north OF the Msrias river, leaving the
Great Falls land district covering
about 6, $40, $50 acres.
Some idea of the volume OF business
transacted in the Great Falls land Of
fee during the past eight years may
be gained from the following figures
and facts furnished by Mr.. Burlin.
game:
I'm retiring from Office after eight
years as register, I believe that I q
be ]ustly proud of the record of the
Great Falls land Office. When the
Office opened for business August l,
1902, there were transferred from the
Helena and Miles City districts 1919
live entries covering lands in the new
district. During the past eight years
there have been filed in the Office 49,.
7OS applications and entries upon
public lands, making q total Of 40, 837
public land entries that have been
handled by the Office during the past
eight years. OF these entries ID, 179
were filed during the past fiscal year.
During the past eight years 80, 4O2 en-.
tries have been closed either by final
proof, patent, relinquishment. cancel.
lation or transfer to new districts,
leaving at the present time but 10, 435
open entries upon the records.
During the same period the re.
ceipts of the office have amounted to
81, 1927 900. Y of which 1854, 47s.6 81 was
the receipts of the last year."
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-08-10

boycott OF the most popular public
institution in Montana. Arrogance
and stupidity both speak uumistaka-
bly, In this latest utterance of union.
Ism. There is no probability or pos.
sibility OF doing this desired work by
means of organized labor at this time.
Its immediate benefit would accrue to
the wage Garner as we'll as to all other
Montanans. not only as q prompt and
essential adjunct to the states great
annual exposition but as an economic
plan by which the stall.fed idlers of
the state prison can be made to Day
back Ia labor at least q part of the
sum which their keep now costs US all.
The union wage Garner now contri.
butes to the support Of idle hundreds
in the state prison. There is q vast
amount of public work to be done that
organized free labor would not do
even though the funds we're ample and
available for the cost. But there are
no such funds In sight or accessible
or likely to materialize for the next
fifty years. To wsntonly oppose the
employment of the prisoners upon
work that trespasses upon the rights
OF no free man, savors both of cruelty
and w~astefulness.
Humanitarian and economic wisdom
both enter the plan adopted by the
good roads convention and approved
by Governor Norris. The state fair,
which is the common property of all
of the people OF Montana, would be
Immediately benefited. Recompens.
Ing the free public which has sup
ported them in destructive idleness,
the working convict would by the same
effort tighten the burden of the tax
payer, ameliorate his own unhappy
condition and shorten the term of his
Imprisonment. Justice, charity, pru.
dence, public spirit, patriotism and
common sense all speak for this en-
terprise. And yet union labor lead.
ers condemn it and threaten to do
what they to destroy the state fair
If the boulevard is constructed by the
hands OF convicts. Treasure State.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-08-10
FIRE FIGHTERS WANTED,
Situation In Forest Regions Grows
More Serious.

More Serious.
MissoULA, Aug. 2.-Today in west.
ern Montana and Idaho the forest fire
situation has assumed the most serious
aspect since the first fire some go DAYS
ago. The forest officials of district
No. l, with headquarters here, are al.
most overwhelmed with the reports OF
new fires, old fires spreading and the
cries for help from the rangers and
men IN the field attempting to hold the
flames in check.
The service here echoes the cry OF
help by calling for men. an army be.
ing needed and the most encouraging
thing today is the response to the call
which have been active and large
crews have been gotten together and
dispatched to the most serious blazes.
More are needed and more are coming
some from Spokane and points west,
but more from Butte and Montana
towns. Supervisor White of the Bit
ter Root forest, arrived with 80 men
this morning from Butte and took them
up the valley to be used in his district.
About Is more men have been secured
In Butte and will arrive later today.
They will be sent west into the Occur
d'Alene district by a special Northern
Pacific train and distributed at several
points along the route from where they
will be taken into the field.
BUTTE, Aug. 2.-District Forest
Supervisor Mason, with headquarters
In Anaconda, today announced tha
he will suggest to the forest author.
tiles that an appeal be made at once
to the war department to assign regu.
lar troops to fight the forest fires,
which are rapidly getting beyond con.
troll.
1t ts understood that there is no ex.
listing provision for such use of the
army, but it is believed the secretary
OF war might order out the troops in
view OF the emergency. 1t is almost
impossible to secure sufficient citizens
to I'LL the ranks of the scores of com.
panies now engaged in combating the
flames along the Idaho line.