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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-01-20
STEALING FROM GOLD COINS
Secret Service Agents Trying to Trace
Robbers With New Form Of
Gold Trimming.

Secret service agents of the United
States government have been working
for some time in Maiden lane, New
York. In an effort to trace robbers who
have devised new form of coin trim
ming. Gold coins are put in burlap
bag and shaken briskly for an hour or
two. The result is that tiny pieces of
the metal are knocked of the surface
and edges and cling to the bag. The
coins are then put into circulation ap.
parently no more worn nor battered
than most money that has been in use
for a year or two. The bag is burned
up and this leaves the melted gold,
which is gathered up and sold to the
jewelry manufacturers. The subtreas-
ury and the treasury department at
Washington have been receiving large
quantities of gold coins of recent date
which are short in weight from S to
IS per cent. and which seem to be
worse battered than coins subjected to
the usual wear and tear. On micro
scopic investigation they discovered
that the gold pieces had been subject
ed to some violent treatment and they
sought clews and discovered the meth.
I'd of stealing from the coins by sha-
king them In a sack.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-01-20
Oisduisinu Crooks' Teeth.

Slick criminals nowadays have 4
certain class of dentists make for
them thimble crowns to put on and
take of In the bat of an eye. Such
crowns" can be swallowed without
putting the fingers to the mouth.
Some mechanical crooks take thin
sheet of gold and make their own
nippers. Others wipe the tooth dry
and then put on gold foil. something
like the way painters put on window
signs in gold lettering. This makes
Identification difficult If not impos.
sible. because compliments and wit
nesses give the description of an Of
fender with one or several gold teeth,
and when the right crook is caught by
the cops and brought in for inspec-
ton, 10 and behold, there Is not a
sign of a gold tooth. so out he goes
and makes up again with thimble or
foil teeth. Other crooks have fine
set of naturallooking china teeth and
slip them in or out to suit the occa-
sion.-New York Press.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-01-20
Boiled Cheese.

Take nice, thick sour milk and let
it get warm. but not hot. Stir so it
does not get lumpy, then pour into a
clean flour sack, tie up and place I'M
der heavy press to drain all water
out. Crate it or rub it between your
hands very fine and put in an earthen
dish or crock (do not press DOWN.
Put cloth over the crock and a plate
on top and keep it covered and in a
warm place for three or four days to
ferment. Put in a double boiler and
to one gallon of grated cheese add
butter the size of an egg. and let boil
till all is dissolved; then put in salt
and caraway seed. Let boil till it
forms skin on top; let stand for a
minute, then stir and whip while
steaming. Do not use cream instead
Of butter, as it will not keep II
made as directed it will keep far
weeks.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-01-20
High Degree Smoke, but Don't
Study.

A. S. Roe, in his book called China
AS l Saw It," gives an odd pen pic
ture of a school, many of whose
pupils, from eight to~forty years old,
were the wives of high officials.
Eager to display her knowledge of
western customs" he says, the prin-
cipal, Chinese lady Of rank, herself
we'll educated, dressed herself a
;l'anglaise in a purple, sacklike tunic,
belted in at the waist, a shiny black
sailor hat lined with tlannelette and
trimmed with real flowers that had
;withered away, and lastly, brown
boots on her poor little misshapen
feet.
What do you teach them?" asked
my friend.
"Oh," whispered the little lady, con.
fdentially, they don't really learn
anything, you know, but they like to
come, and their husbands like them
to come" -....
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-01-20
Rewards and Punishmenta,

The late David B. Hill," said an
Albany editor. used to take a good
deal to heart our loose American talk
about American political corruption.
He claimed-and he was right-that
American was the most honest coun-
try in the world.
LAS to the distribution Of patron,
age, he said that it was only reason
able and right. and it went on every
where.
Look here he once remarked to
me, is the victorious leader to treat
his supporters as the old Cuban slave
holder used to treat his slaves? This
STAKEHOLDER ruled his slaves up ths
following principle--" ''If zey no
work, zey be dog-zat is re punish
ment. If zey work VARY hard, zey
no be flog-zat is &c reward.'''
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-01-20
Chestnuts With Macaronl.

Roast dozen fine chestnuts in their
lhells, peel and pound them to a paste.
Season with small teaspoon of salt
and put them into stewpan with
eight ounces of macaroni, previously
boiled and drained according to the
recipe for boiling macaroni Add three
ounces Of butter and large onion I'm.
cut. Shake the whole well together
and stir round in pan for ten or twelve
minutes. II dry. pour in a tablespoon
of milk and mix again until hot, then
remove the onion and dish the maca.
roni. Cover it we'll with equal quaint.
ties Of grated parmesan and, fine bread
crumbs and brown lightly In the oven
or before the fire. Butter should be
run over the top.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-01-20
GLORY or OLD SCOTLAND
Famous Old Castles Where Kings
Dwell Look Down on Changing
Generations.

Edinburgh has been called the mod.
ern Athens and Is In many ways one
Of the worlds most beautiful cities.
History and legend unite to make
Edinburgh fascinating to the traveller.
With its towering eminences of Cotton
Hill and Castle Rock, with it's pictur-
esque old town and its beautiful new
town. it forms an impressive sight.
The castle. an impregnable strong.
hold before gunpowder was invented,
stands on a precipitous rock about 300
feet above the valley. 1t is now an
infantry barracks. Here the Scottish
kings used to live, here the Inflated
Stuarts dwelt.
The location of the castle is wonder
full. towering as it does above the city,
resting on its black, steep, rocky cliffs,
looking down in majestic scorn on pass
Ing people and changing generations.
1t speaks aloud of Scotlands glory.
certainly Edinburgh Is the Majestic
On the battlement of the castle call
ed the Kings Bastion. ia the famous
gun Mons Meg, a huge piece Of ord.
nance forged from bars of iron weld
ed together. with 20 inches bore, now
burst and useless. On the same bas-
ton is located the chapel built by Mar.
garet, the Saxon queen of Malcolm
Canmore in 1850, the oldest and small.
est sacred edifice In Scotland.
1t Is. however. In the Grand Parade
or Square of the Stuart palace that
greatest interest centers. Here are
located Queen Mary's rooms, the
Crown room and Parliament hall.
Here in the palace is shown the
tiny room where James the vi. was
born, also the larger room occupied by
Mary, Queen of Scots.
Here in the same old Crown room
somewhat restored) rest the crown
jewels of Scotland. her most precious
possession. The story of their loss
and recovery through the agency OF
Sir Walter Scott, after being hidden
over a hundred years. is of interest;
but, as Kipling says. that is another
story. Here in the Crown room stands
the ancient chest in which the crown
jewels reposed, here protected by q
glass case may be viewed all the an
Client Scottish regalia, including the
crowd of Bruce, the unconQuered
Scottish crown.-Edith Everett, in the
Los Angeles Times.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-01-20
TIPS FOR THE KITCHEN
USEFUL SUGGESTIONS FOR TIE
PRACTICAL HOUSEWIFE.
Wrinkles That Will Make Work Easier
and Help In Keeping Things Clean
-, Some Helps for
the Cook.

Candles burn better and more slow.
~ If they have been stored in dry
place six or seven weeks before thes
are used.
II grease is spilled on the kitchen
table, cover the spot at once with salt,
which will prevent the grease soaking
into the wood.
To prevent gas stove from rustins>
as they will do If care is not taken.
rub the entire inside with a flannel
cloth which has been saturated with
sweet oil.
When there Is much coal dust in the
cellar it should be mixed with sawdusA
mo1sten with paraf1fn. Form this into
balls the size of an orange. and usV
for banking up a fire.
To keep sandwich cakes from rising
In the center spread the mixture awax
from the center Of the tin towards
the sides, and the cake will come out
of the oven beautifully light and quite
even.
For restoring sponge that has be.
come Shiny to it's former cleanliness,
dissolve tablespoonful of sea salt IN
quart Of hot water. Soak thespongv
in this mixture until it is quite cold,
then rinse out in several clear wa-
tiers.
To clean frying pan after fish o.
onions boil out the pan with soda wa.
ter, wash it clean, then put on the fire.
and shake a little oatmeal in; leave
this to brown; after, wipe out with &
dish cloth; all unpleasant taste or
smell will have vanished.
When We put new oilcloth on the ia"
bic In less than a week the corners
are cut, and therefore make the cloth
look shabby. Now, to prevent this just
paste piece of new calico under the
corners OF your cloth, and you will
find in six months later your cloth will
be no worse.
Te remove the deposit from the in
side of tea kettles, fill the kettle with
water, add to 1t draw of salam-
moniac. Let it boil for an hour, when
the fur, or petrifled substance found on
the metal, will be dissolved and can be
easily removed. Rinse the kettle out
we'll. then boil out once or twice before
using the contents
Celery should always be allowed to
lie in cold watetr to which a little
salt must be added for an hour before
1t is required for the table. This will
make 1t very crisp. When peeling
onions begin at the root end and peel
upwards. and they will scarcely affect
the eyes. Always put the sugar used
In pie in the center of the fruit. not
at the top, as this makes the pie
sodden
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-01-20
Lunaless and Rloodless.

At an inquest held at Brixton on the
body Of Annie Ward, aged twenty
three, a domestic servant, q doctor
stated that she was in very curious
condition. Both her heart and lungs
were very much undeveloped, and she
was practically bloodless. The body
altogether did not contain pint Of
blood. There were little bruises all
over the inside Of the stomach. It
was stated that the girl was to have
sailed for Canada to join her father.
The doctor said that he did not sup
pose she would have stood bad at
tack of sea-sickness. The jury re-
turned a verdict of natural death. -
London Times.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-01-20
CHINA HAS UNIQUE SCHOOL
What do they do, them"

What do they do, them"
They just talk, and play and
smoke their water pipes, and il there
is any matter Of dispute their hns.
bands sit in committee and decide the
question"
But what pity" said nv friend
Gould you not urge them to male
better use of their timer
We'll, there was one,' said tho
little lady, sadly, who had plenty Of
ability, but when I pressed her to
study, she complained to her husband
that she was being i'll treated and
that was an end Of it,
There is certainly a pathetic side
to this new craze in China for educa-
ton and western knowledge in any
shape and form. Even the man who
advertised that he could teach tho
English language up to letter G, nroh-
ably did not lack for pupils"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-01-20
Muscles Breathe and Eat.

Our muscles are like sponge
except they are tse. the opposite.
When you squeeze sponge out runs
all the wet it has in it, but when you
squeeze up and shorten your muscle.
then all the blood it can hold soaks in.
to it from every blood pipe. big and
little, running into it, SO that every
tiny cell in the big muscle is fed full
of rich beeg-steak juices, oxygen and
all other kinds of dinner that healthy
muscle cells crave and hunger for.
This squeezing up and frightening out
is the way muscles breath~ and eat.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-01-20
arabant Potatoes.

Cut the potatoes in dice and fry
them for few minutes in hot lard.
Long before they are done take them
from the lard and turn them into fry.
ing pan with generous lump Of fresh
butter; fry them until a golden brown,
after which sprinkle some chopped
parsley over them; season with salt
and pepper, and spray them with
lemon juice.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-01-20
Scalloned HAMBURGER.

Take one pound hamburger, two
large potatoes or three or four small
ones. slice and lay half of the potatoes
in bottom Of granite pan, next
layer Of hamburger broken IN small
bits to which add small slice of on.
ion, a cracker rolled fine or bread
crusts put through a chopper. Repeat
the layers of potato, meat and crack.
ers, seasoning each layer, dot with
very small pieces of butter, I'LL with
milk and bake until potatoes are done.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-01-20
Peach Rice Pudding.

Steam one cup Of rice with three
cups of milk until the rice is very ten.
der and soft, Add one-hah teaspoonful
of salt. Take the cover of and let
the steam escape, leaving the rice
dry and separate. Stir carefully with
a fork. Keep it hot until time to
serve. Then place on a shallow dish,
make several slight hollows in It and
slip into each whole canned peach or
apricot. Mix the strip Of the peach
with an equal amount of cream. Add
sugar to taste and serve as a sauce.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-01-20
To Clean Embroidery,

Dip camel's-hair brush in spirits
of wine and brush all over the en-.
broidery until it is quite clean. The
brush should be frequently rinsed in
some spare spirits, in another glass,
to remove the dirt.
The embroidery need not be taken
of the garment or piece. J
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-01-20
Strange,

''The trouble with Tommy Bonds
horseback riding seems to be that his
movements do not correspond with
those of the horse"
That's strange Tommy learned
how to ride in correspondence
school. Cleveland Plain Dealer,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-01-20
Then and Now.

How the world has advanced! Just
think of the times of the Romans,
when people fairly went wild over
bloody sports!"
Hold on. there! What's the mat
ter with football?"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-01-20
Slow.

Slow.
II had not talked to him more than
Is minutes when he called me an
idiot"
Gee! He didn't violate any speed
limit in getting next, did her
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-01-20
Incredible Brutality,

Willis-Under this years football
rules you can't assist man with the
ball.
Gillis-Great Scott! What do thew
do-stand around and let him die?-
Puck.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-01-20

The automobile race Is not alvav.
to tbs swift" says the PHILOSOPHER Of
Folly. Sometimes its to the ho..
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-01-20
Most SAVAGE EIah,

waters is said to be the most savage
of all fishes.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-01-20

After the lambs are a few days old
they begin to look around for some
thing to eat, and they should be given
an opportunity to 60 out in search Of
food, by making creeps which they
can go out and in as they please and
have access to such foods as oats
and bran with some of the finest and
most tender hay that the farm az
lords; nothing is too good for the lit
tie fellows.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-01-20

The fall season Offers splendid op-
portunities for general improvement
on tho average farm.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-01-20

Now is the time to keep in mind
that the dairy COW drinks 60 to 80
pounds of water daily.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-01-20

There 10 a great need for intensive
dairying this year. especially with 4e
high priced feeds.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-01-20

Sheep raising is new thing to
almost every prairie state farmer, and
as long as cattle and hogs prove mon
eymakers and furnish all the choring
the average man cares to do, there IL
no likelihood of any radical change.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-15

Hebrew writings in the eXcaNa tions or the ancient city Of Samaria in Palestine. Dating back to the period of King Ahab, fully 90 B. C., these inscriptions are 10 oe considered one of the Harvard Palestine expedition.
 The importance of these new inserip- tons to the archeologists is such that they promise to bring about a revision of scientific opinion as to the form of carly Hebrew writings, and will set at rest doubts that have been raised for a score of years as to how early the scribes used the Phoenician letters from which the alphabet was derived.
 Professor David G. Lyon, head Of the Harvard Semitic museum, pronounces these inscriptions to be the earliest speci- mems of Hebrew writings known and the first Palestine records of this nature to be found"
 These Inscriptions which were excavated are labels which were employed as seals on wine and oil jars. They mention the years in which the wine was laid down in the cellars of the palace storehouse and they state the vineyard from which the wine came. On the oil jars the labels run, "A Jar of Pure Oil" with the 1nen- tion of the district from which the cil came.
 These labels, about 75 in number, have been dug up on the ruins of the store house attached to the palace of King Ahab some 3000 years ago, and the names of the owners as given indicate that not | only the king himself, but other men, stored their wines and oils there. Professor Lyon says: ..fhe script in which they are written Is the Phoenicldn, which was widely current in antiquity. It is very different from the so-called square characters in which the existing Hebrew manuscripts of the Bible are
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-15
SHETLAND'S TAME GULLS
Each Family Has Its Own Flock and
 the Children Feed Them
From the Fruit Magazine.

From the Fruit Magazine.
 There are many small villages in the world that have only one street; Out Ler- wick, in Shetland. besides having only a single street, possesses only one tree, and it is not very tall one either. There are no birds there, not even a sparrow, but the seagulls are plentiful.
 The inha bitants of Shetland are very proud of their tree and very kind to the gulls, of whom the children make pets Children who are brought for the first time to see the wonders of one-streeted Lerwick are always shown, as a great curiosity, the only tree in Shetland"
 The seagulls are the sparrows of Ler- wick. and as such they have a greater share in the towns life than the sparrows of London In the morning you will note that seagull sits on every chimney pot. Seagulls swoop and hover over every roof in town. The air is full of their strange, high, plaintive, haunting cries.
 Every house has its own familiar sea gulls and every street its own band of them. But they never mix. The chil- dren in each house have a pet name for their own particular seagulls, and, hay ing called them by those names, they feed them every day.
 Each seagull knows what is meant for him. No bird attached to one house cxer seeks to eat the food scattered from the house next door. He does not dare to do so. So all day long the seagulls hover and call over the roofs of Lerwick.
 The people of the town, if they come across a little pile of rice laid upon tine roadway, step over it with care. They know that 1t has been placed there for some seagull. And at night the seagulls leave their appointed chimneypots and fly gracefully away to their resting places on the rocks of the Isle of Moss.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-15
WILL GROWN
 KING OF SIAM

London, October 14.-(SpecialD The cor
 onation of the new King of Siam, Mana
 Va Juavudh, according to letters from
 Banllok, promises to rival that of George V in splendor. It will last for eight days and will include religious ceremonies, the public ascension of the throne by the king. numerous pageants and process sions, dinners to the royal Siamese fam fly and the state guests, various balls and theatrical performances and the pre- sentation of new colors to the various regiments. The whole city will be illu-
 minated very elaborately, medals will be struck to commemorate the occasion and new coinage issued.
 Probably the celebrations will take two
 days in January, but the exact date de- bends on the convenience of a number of European royalties who will attend the Delhi Dunbar, and who the Siamese hope will take in Bankok on their way home. It is believed Prince Arthur of Conaught will represent the King of England at the coronation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-15

with the request that a series of chess manuals, which they themselves have se- lected, shall be distributed with other books and prizes at the end of the school term to the pupils of the various lycees. The chess players are anxious that knowledge of their favorite game should penetrate among the younger gen. eration, conscious as they are of the importance of chess in building up char acter and forming the mind. The min ister has granted the request and France may expect to see grow up among them a generation of chess devotees, just as
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-15

This section of Ontario county will pro- duce more peaches this year than at any time in the last 10 years. and of prime quality, too. One firm will harvest 3o,000 baskets and have plenty for their own use besides Tt is so all over the county, and the rains of the last three weeks have put the finishing touch to the qauli- ty and size.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-15
French Youth to Learn Chess

Paris Correspondent London Globe.
 A quaint petition has just been pre- sented to the French minister of pub lie instruction. At the famous Cafe de Ia Regenoe there meet daily and night ly groups of chess players who have formed themselves into an association known as the Chess Federation of the Cafe de la Regence. Here the most im- portant class championships in Paris are decided. The committee of the assoeia- tion have just approached the minister
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-15
FIRST PURE FOOD LABELS
Found in Ruins of King Ahab's Palace
 and Are 5000 Years Old
From the Bakers, Weekly.

From the Bakers Weekly,
 The first pure food labels in history and the first instance on record of keep ing wines in a government warehouse lin- der seal have come to light, with the discovery by Professor George A. Reisner Of Harvard of the earliest specimens of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-15

written, dating far ahead of that time. The inscriptions are written in ink with reed pen in an easy flowing hand and show a pleasing contrast to the stiff form of Phoenician inscriptions cut in stone
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-15

FROM THE "MAGIC CITY" TO THE GREAT METROPOLIS (NEW YORK CITY) ON THE "BIRMINGHAM SPE- CIAL," THE CLASSY TRAIN EASy'. SOUTHERN RAILWAY.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-15
A "Cl,aser"

A Chaser" From the Toledo Daily Blade. Pa" What is it9' Why does the orchestra play between acts?' 50 the audience will go out
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-15
New York Peaches

if is now nurturng generation of foot
 Eall players.