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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-01
Egg Mystery Has Led to 20 FIGHTS

Now, 1t appears that she wants the
egg. and so do we. We are fighting
for the principle involved, and so il
she. she says. But the egg-there's
the trouble. judge. Then, on Monday
we are hailed to court to prove We
own the egg. Matilda left her coon.
and we do not know exactly when she
laid the egg. The Penningers claim
the egg was laid by one of their hens.
Naturally. we resent their denial.
which almost says we are lying. Last
night l opened a window which COM
mands a view of the Penninger hen
merry. AS l did so Penninger point
ed finger at me and exclaimed to
Joseph Taylor. who was with him:
THAT'S him! That's the meddler!
He butts into the affairs Of his neigh
bors and can't let his wife fight her
own battles
THAT was too much, your honor, so
l fought them both In turn. Look at
Penninger! l guess l beat him to it,
hey. judge? And he hit me first. at
that.
Here's another point. judge" added
Gemar. Il have possession of the egg
pending your official determination Of
Its ownership. Should you decide that
that man Penninger owns it propose
to charge him storage on it for every
day have kept it.
think of it, your honor! One ese
has been the cause of 16 fights be-
tween our children, four between Pen
ringer and his wife and me and my
wife and several domestic tiffs, to say
nothing OF our pugilistic encounter
last night"
Magistrate Nash held Pennincer and
Gemar each in $500 bail
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-01

People who have received with alb
solute Indifference reports that ten.
twenty or fiftydollar counterfeit bills
were in circulation are now seriously
disturbed. A counterfeit 81 silver GER
tificate Of good workmanship has been
discovered.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-01

annually the breerooms
The vscoun % DID,
society
S
English genealogis
United States
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-01
Sad Wtnninoa

Sad Winnings.
Maude-What's the matter, Mabel?
Mabel (sobbing)-I had a bet with
Fred on the election. II lost. was
to marry him.
Maude-There. there. dear. Fred
VIII not take advantage of the bet to
force you to marry him.
Mabel (sobbing harder)-That's not
it IL won.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-01


right the
have the courage to face public Reyburn.
The said he
refused the general opinion prevailing Philadelphia
the differences ought to be arbiraed ''' 800.
Still the stood to his lent his influence
State Senator John p Nichol Joined
Mayor Reyburn to change his attitude without
which elected
strike the
when mobs Business affected
Of demonstration.
Consequently
the position he took Few
with be a
doesn't get on any
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-01

The decision of the appellate divis-
Ion that divorced man need not pay
alimony to a former wife when she
marries again should strike the Sec
ond husband favorably in his self-re-
spect
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-01

Thirty-two pancakes at one sitting!
That Des Moines story sounds like
that Of the man who ate flannel cakes
and woke up to find half the blanket
gone.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-01

A New Jersey man threatened his
wife with divorce because she Joined
the boycott and would not give him
meat. The beef magnates should
make some substantial recognition Of
SO determined a stand in their inter.
ests.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-01
Suspicious Appearances.

Suspicious appearances
did you find anything wrong with
tho milk?'' demanded the milkman.
when he had been told his services
would no longer be needed.
NO." confessed the suspicious won.
an, but noticed the paper on which
your bill was made out had a water
mark, and / didn't want to take any
chances."
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-01

The plan Of the California supertn.
tendent Of education to require less
work for school children at their
homes does not, Of course, apply to
doing the chores and keeping the back
yard clean
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-01

A Raiser Of Hogs.
Ashley.-"Notice that man who lust
passed."
Seymour.-"Yes." IT @s-"
Ashley.-"He raises more hoEs than
any other man in the United States"
Seymour.-"Where does he raise
them?"
Ashley.-'1n the stockyards: he
runs the elevator there" =
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-01
SALARY FOR BEING HUSBAND

How would you like to be husband at $50 900
year?
II reports are true, that is the part the
Viscount Maidstone is going to play. Nor is he
to get the full amount the first year.
Sometime in June the viscount is coming over
to this country to wed Miss Margaretta Arm
strong Drexe] of Philadelphia He is going to be
placed on his good behavior by his papain-law.
who reads the newspapers and knows something
of what happened to Anna Gould when she be-
came the Countess Castellane and to Alice Thaw
when she became the Countess Of Yarmouth
So Papa Drexel has decided that it is we'll to
be wary. He has devised an ingenious marriage
settlement by which he will allow the viscount
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-01

Senior Pedro Calarenas. the richest
man In Mexico. is also trying to die
poor. He gives away more than q
million dollars a year.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-01

This year all spring poets will be
forgiven; for the winter has been
such as to almost justify an exuberant
outbreak into song or theo semblance
thereof once it is over.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-01
Aia R0vAnoA.

HE Revenge.
:"How do you feel" asked the stee.
plejack, when you are working ON top
of high steeple?"
How do feel1'' he repeated, a mur.
deroum CLEAN shooting from his steady
eyes. Il feel that should like to look
down and see the man who said There
is always room on top climbing up to
prove his statement"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-01
NEW SENATOR CALLED DOC"

William E. Purcell. Democrat, is now the ju-
ntor senator from the State of North Dakota The
governor Of Senator Purcelrs state is a Demo
Graf, and. pending the converting OF the legisla-
ture 1t fell to his lot to senator. He gave
his preference to Fountain L. Thompson of Can
do, man Of Illinois birth and education, who
went to the Dakotas good many years ago.
Senator Thompson had been in Washington
only short time when his health failed to such
an extent that he was compelled to resign his
senatorial Office and then Gov. Burke named Mr.
Purcell.
The new North Dakota senator was born and
reared in the east country. When he went west
he was very much of tenderfoot. He landed in
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-01

There is nothing the matter with
New York's subway except that it is
overcrowded. It's tubes will also be-
come congested. 1t is town that al
ways outgrows public conveniences.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-01

How would you like to be a poor,
doWn-trodden farmer with nothing but
few droves Of higs to sell at record
breaking prices?
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-01

When colored eggs are in vogue we
can expect the turkey to lay black
ones at Thanksgiving time, tokens OF
mourning for departed sisters.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-01

Uncle Sam has new gun with a
bore 16 inches in diameter. AS it jars
the earth six miles away it cannot be
called concealed weapon.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-01

Belgfum's new king is an enthusiast.
&c collector Of stamps. This is less
expensive than the fads of his pre-
decessor on the throne.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-01

The rush Of Americans to Euro
pean resorts may be due partly to
the number of grand juries which are
probing
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-01
A GIrl's 0inlno-Room.

a GIFTS 0ln1n0-Room.
Bolts tells me he kissed girl last
night in the hall in the dining-room."
You mean he kissed her In the
hall and then in the dining-roomr
mo; he kissed her in the hall and
the dining-room at the same time"
II don't understand" ~.
"They were out in the hall and he
smacked her in the mouth"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-01

sort
he Of
ny they have had
They'd decided to ct b American legation alone
The
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-01

Detroit man has eloped with his
w1fe's mother. He will find this Is no
mother-in-law Joke.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-01

All those explanations about the
cause for high prices do not seem to
lower them any.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-01

The price of beef appears to have
fallen into its same old bad habit Of
going up
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-01

We begin to suspect that the ground
hog stayed out to see the comet and
not because he thought spring had
come.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-01

1t takes more than fire to break up
bridge whist party when the ladies
get fairly started.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-01
A CHALLENGE.

You chemists. who like to put
Your knowledge In q book.
I ask you. have, you ever. seen
4 hdokworm that would hookl
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-01
Very Pleasing

Very Pleasing.
He'll gladly tell you how to win
The man who has the pelf:
It gives him such q splendid chance
To talk about himself. .,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-01

One trust after another is making
the discovery that the laws Of the
United States must be obeyed.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-01

1t is cold day when packer can't
draw first page head.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-01

Corn may be king. but he comes In
the shape of pork.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-01

An Annual Apprehension.
Though resolutions made last yaas
T We're generous and true ones.
Ny same old faults al sreappear.
Together with some new onesi
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-01
All are turning to higher things
the higher cost of living in particular.
A spring without spring poets would
be delightful but impossible season.

Have you ascertained the truth of
the statement that kissing is danger
Gus?
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-01

The United States has minister in Colombia
who Is equal to an emergency. His name Is
Elliott Northcott. Mr.. Northcott halls from the
state OF West Virginia and is friend of Stephen
B. Elkins
Down in Bogota. the capital Of Colombia, the
street railway system is operated by an Ameri-
can company. The citizen Of the United States
who manages the affairs of the street-car COM
pany got into an alteration with policeman,
just like citizen might do in this country This
alteration led to a riot.
The Colombians are a hot-headed people and
after they had wrecked few street cars and
stopped the traffic they thought it would be the
proper thing to stone the United States legation.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-01

MAYOR OF PHILADELPHIA

They have been having some pretty hot times
over In Philadelphia. ,Streetcar strikes always
are marked by violence and pistols. stones, po-
l1cemen's clubs and. not infrequently, stick of
dynamite or two. play an important part in a
days happenings. - -".t
: Philadelphia has had all of these, just did
st. Louis and Chicago when the car men went out
In those cities
But to get down to the subject. 1t is of Mayor
John Edgar Reyburn. former school teacher. law
yer, state senator. presidential elector and men,
Der OF congress, we intend to write.
When the strike started politicians went to
the mayor and told him the stand he had taken,
that Of supporting the transit company and siding
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-01

That proposed copper merger seems
well lined with gold.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-01

Those Candid comments, 80
Those friends with criticism pat ~
But scant regard VIII win. s--..,.
Who either say: You're getfi.g fa4rs
or: NY. but you aro sthin!''
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-01
Not 40 Pleasant.

P2tSonl8o your 0e14noOEo,
Says q western paper. Gee.
I'd hate to. have the neighbour
Start to patIonixing- met
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-01
Hard to Learn,

In speaking. drinlking-evofythin
That fellow makes q hit, go. -.
Who stops before: he goes too fa1
And knows Just when to quit, :.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-01

Let the aviators who talk of the
heights to which they have scared
look at the price of hogs and be silent.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-01

Warshfps don't say in fashion any
longer than women's hats.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-04-01

How cruel of one French duelist to
run another through the arm! How
now can the poor man talk?
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1910-02-18
Vote Of Thanks to Prot. Scott.

At meeting of the Augusta County
Fruit Growers Association held in
Staunton on the 18th of February, 1910,
the following premable and resolutions
were unanimously adopted:
Whereas Prof. w. M. Scott OF the
Department of Agriculture of Washing
ton, D. G., spent some time in our
midst in the summer of 1909 doing ex-
perimental work in some of the orch
ards in our county and giving valuable
information to this community, There
fore be it resolved,
lst. That this Society desires hereby
to express its high appreciation of the
growers of this county by Prof. Scott,
the past season and earnestly hopes he
may see his way clear to return to Vir-
ginia and give his whole time to the
work is this State and to give this So
ciety some of his time and service and
assures him that our members will
render him their hearty support.
End. That the secretary be requested
to furnish copy of this paper to Prof.
Scott.
Respectfully submitted,
w. f. GILKESON,
j. N. MCFARLAND,
W. A. McCOMB,
Committee.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1910-02-18
A NEW EXCUSE.

The high prices of food stuffs and
other things are now attributable we
hear, to the increased production Of
gold. This accords with much that
comes from similar sources. There are
efforts to throw the blame from the
shoulders of the Republican party and
its tariff policy, and this is one of the
efforts. Whenever thing pinches,
then it must be gotten rid of. The in
creased production of gold is so remote
but so difficult of understanding by
the average man, that leading Repub-
lican politicians and journals have
commenced pulling wool over the eyes
of the common people by promulgat-
ing that faleshood as an excuse. Ii
this be true, we must stop the produc-
ton of gold, else trouble of worse ma
ture will follow. When we see prices
of certain things increased which we
KNOW is done by the tariff, is it not
more plausible to believe that other
things are affected by the same cause?
We think so, and the average man will
believe his troubles arise there, no mat
ter what astute politicians say.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1910-02-18
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Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1910-02-18

The Rev. James Cannon has been
putting his oar in deeply over a pro-
posed change of the divorce law of Vir-
giEia. The change simply allows
EITHER PARTY to decree of divorce
from bed and board, to apply after
three years for an absolute divorce.
AS the law stands now the AGRIEvED
PARTY is the only one who can apply
after three years. The proposed change
has given that virtuous and religious
gentleman paroxysms of fear. He is
the same who has undertaken outside
the pulpit to regulate all the morals of
this portion of the world, so that moth
ing now escapes his vigilance.
To those who regard marriage as
civil contract, the gymnastics of Mr..
Cannon over bill which permits di-
vorce to people who will not live to-
gether, after years of separation, must
be amusing. 1t is by such platonic ut
terances and actions as he made before
the Committee on Courts of Justice
that takes the sanctity out of marriage
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1910-02-18
Fight to Make Chicago Dry.

Chicago, ILL.,, Feb. ia campaign
fund of at least 100000 and perhaps
more is to be raised for the "dry Chica-
gon campaign. Every ward in the city
is to be thoroughly organized, every
precinct is to haveits sub-organization.
The dead walls and the advertising
stands will be plastered with posters in
many different languages in the course
of few days. Mass meetings in every
ward will be held nightly until cleo
ton night in April. Ministers of the
gospel will sound the battle cry from
their pulpits.
Business men will be canvassed and
asked to lend their aid in the fight that
is to make Chicago ''dry" city. These
are few Of the things that were de-
cided upon by foes of the saloon and
the liquor traffic at a meeting held in
Willard Hall.
sWe are determined to strike at the
whole whiskey line from now on, and
we will continue fighting until the bat
tie is won," said Chairman James X.
Shields.
s'The liquor crowd has got double
headed fight on Its hands, and it will
know that it has been in mighty hot
fight before we are through with the
battle.
"We will have literature IN many
different languages prepared, and will
use advertising as one means to our
end. We will plaster the city with our
ads. and we will have many speakers
of national fame and of many different
nationalities here to help us out"
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1910-02-18
President Helps Orphans.

Hundreds of orphans have been help
ed by the President of the Industrial
and Orphans Home at Macon, Ga,
who writes: tWe have used Electric
Bitters in this Institution for nine
years. 1t has proved most excellent
medicine for Stomach, Liver and Kid
ney troubles. We regard it as one of
the best family medicines on earth. +"
1t invigorates all vital organs, puri-
fies the blood, aids digestion creates
appetite. To strengthen and build up
pale, thin, weak children or rundown
people it has no equal. Best for female
complaints. Only SOC. at B. F. Hughe.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1910-02-18
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondent.

From Our Regular Corrsspondentl
Washington, d. G., Feb. 12.-There
has been lull all the week in the Bal
linger investigation, but the investiga-
ton will be resumed in few days with
vigor and matter of Importance and it
is said, of sensational character will
be spread before the people. There is
no doubt but there was a deep lNid plot
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1910-02-18
DOUBTFUL POLITICS.

Mr.. Aubrey Storde is the patron of
the Statewide prohibition bill in the
Senate. Unfortunately gentlemen seek
ing political advancement seem to
think it can come onlyio more quickly
by Selling upon some fad. Just now
this subject has fallen, we roget, into
the hands of persons who are pushing
it for the politics which they think
surround it, and the money that comes
to them. They think they see advace-
ment and great political reward in its
advocacy. Tine sad experience of per-
sons who have lived on this kind of
charity and hypocricy ought to warn
others that whilst morality is great
and good thing, and can be fastened on
a community by precept and example,
it cannot be driven in by law. ST.
John, the great advocate of prohibition,
became governor of Kansas by press
ing the prohibition idea on that State,
and yet after all his pains, he was later
spewed out or the mouths of those peo-
pie, and after his name was fixed to a
county the people rose in their might
and wiped it off the map, and few tears
were shed when he was no more MIR.
Strobe is said &c Ut probable candi-
Gale for Congress in this district. He
is unquestionably young man of bril-
liancy, but he counts without his host
when he expects to ride into Congress
on that hobby.
Unlike many others, however, who
are now preaching prohibition, Mr..
STROBE has always been a man of the
most exemplary habits. He does not
belong to the reform drunkards club,
nor to the delirium tremens brother
hood, as do some of our shining lights.
he did not have to get in the gutter or
graduate in Kelley Institutes before he
got moral ideas in his head, or went
about preaching purity. He is not of
those who once wore the cloth, but laid
it aside to devote himself as a votive
offering to higher calling than the
ministry. He is splendid fellow. He
has always been moral and temper
ate man. But he is going into the
field of fanaticism when he becomes
the champion of Statewide Those
who live by agitation are making a
cats paw of him. He is simply play
ing into MI. Floods hands.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1910-02-18
Stone Nearly all Lime.


Lexington, Feb. 16-Some time ago
DR.. Harry Campbell, geologist of w.
& l.. University, discovered very
valuable bed of limestone on the aims
house farm in Rock bridge county, and
although he has not given any recent
information concerning the matter it
is rumored that in a short time the
land will be bought and lime kilns
will be built, opening up another big
source of lime. The bed is one of the
most valuable masses of limestone ever
anywhere, as it is said to
contain over 81 per cent. pure lime. 1t
is seldom that any rocks are found as
full of valuable material as this mass.