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The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-08-03
AS IT is IN INDIA
An Accident to q Hindoo and the Gomez
quonoeS It Entalied.

An Accident to q Hindoo and the Gomez
quonoeS IL Entailod.
The Indian papers report that some
time since, In the neighborhood OF
Fyzabad, n man OF the Ahir, or cow
herd caste, was carrying a young calf
home on his shoulders, when by some
accident II slipped down and broke It's
neck The Brahmins declared him to
be outcast and sentenced him to the
severest form OF Hindoo excommunica-
ton for six months. They further told
him that he could not have committed
q greater sin than causing the death Of
a COW, but, taking into consideration
that he was an uneducated man, they
had dealt very lenIentlV with him.
During the period Of communication
he was ordered TO lead life Of
mendicancy and with a rope round his
neck and portion Of the calfs tail on
his shoulders he was 10 perform pill
grimages 10 different Hindoo shrines.
The members of his family were forbid
den 10 supply him with either shelter
or food under penalty Of undergoing
similar accommodation The Ahir
recently returned to his village, but un-
til the publication ceremonies are over
he must live In q temporary grass
thatched house which has been erected
for his residence. II remains for man
Of one Of the lowest and most degraded
castes to purify him. A barber, after
shaving the delinquent and pairing the
nails Of his hands and toes, will make
over the hair and nails 10 tho low caste
attendant, who will burn them and also
set fire TO the hut. After this the Ahir,
being covered with cow-dung, will take
plunge into the river sarju and come
out purified. But his troubles are even
then by no means at an end. After he
has toasted fifty Brahmins and one hun
dred Of his brethren he will be re-
admitted into caste-fellowghin
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-08-03

PRESIDENT HARRISON has designated by
proclamation October 81 as Columbus day
to be general holiday. The following is
from the presidents proclamation; "On
that day let the people, so far as possible,
cease all toll and deyote themselves to such
exercises as may best express honor to the
discoverer and their appreciation Of the
great achievements of the four completed
centuries of American life. Columbus
stood in his age as the pioneer OF progress
and enlightenment The system of uni
yersal education is in our age the most
prominent and salutary feature of the
spirit of enlightenment, and it peculiar.
ly appropriate that the schools be made by
the people the center of the days demon.
,tration. Let the national flag float over
every schoolhouse in the country and the
exercises be such as shall impress npon
our youth the patriotic duties OF American
citizenship. In the churches and In the
Jtber places of assembly OF the people let
let there be expressions OF gratitude to
divine providence for the devout faith OF
the discoverer and for the divine care and
guidance which has directed our history
and SO abundantly blessed our people"
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-08-03
QUEER WITCH STORIES
eOmo People Who stm Believe in witch
craft

somo People Who stm Believe In witch
craft
What funny stories come out Of Berlfs
county, Pa, about witches and witch
doctors, and those who enjoy them
most are the educated Berifs county
people, who laugh at the superstitious
fears Of foolish and ignorant neighbors.
Not long ago the members of family
In one OF the country districts were all
taken sick, and the first thing the head
Of the family did was 70 consult witch
doctor, who told him the sick people
were bewitched He was told 10 drive
q nail In the sill Of his barn door, with
o single blow OF tho hammer, three
mornings In succession. He did this,
but II Is not stated that the sick people
got well. The man insista, however,
that the woman who bewitched his fam
lily was killed by the nails he drove into
the sill, and as an old woman In the
neighborhood happened 70 give up the
ghost his superstitious neighbors agree
with him that he has killed witch In
another township young girl who was
in love with country youth went 70 a
witch doctor for love-powder TO give
the young man that would compel him
TO reciproc ate her affection. She got
the powder, but in giving II secretly 70
the young fellow she incautiously made
known her desire that he should marry
her, whereupon he seized his hat and
fed out into the wide, wide world, and
he hasn't been heard from since.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-08-03
Singing Birds in the Northern States.


Even in a northern climate and without
the nightingale there is not al, hour Of
the twenty.iour In early summer when we
do not hear bird. The partridge drums
till after nine in the evening; the whip
poorwill, though not common here, sings
al! night; and the nighthawk soaring
above keeps up his eerie cry and the curl.
GUS rattling sound Of his descent until the
morning mathis, The hermitthrush be.
gins about half past three, and have
several times heard the night hawk give
one shrill cry after the thrush'S first chant
and then subside into silence, as II re.
lieved from guard. The wood-thrush and
the veery are both rather rare hereabouts
but the golden-crowned thrush, or oven
bird is abundant, with his comparatively
monotonous and strongly accented song
The whitethroated sparrow or peabody
bird is not so abundant here as IN the
higher mountain regions Of New Hamp
shire, where his reiterated "John G. Pea.
body-Peabody-Peabody" is one Of the
most universally distributed sounds. Hi
name is as widely spread as his chant
extending through Canada and Novs
Scotia-and is so plainly Of phonetic orr
gin that was surprised when Earnest In
gersoll attributed II once in the Bazaar tC
some association with the Peabody river
The little Maryland yellow throa
abounds here, whose name is Of local ori.
gin; and he here, as everywhere, reiterafet
hls endless Which is it' Which is It,
Which is it," as If he were preparing Q
thesis Tor Johns Hopkins university. The
black-tbroated green warbler chants-ai
II Impressed by the monastic ritual OF III,
hermit thrush-its timid little "Hear me
Saint Theresa" And all these are bu
minor performers In the orchestra; they
gradually grow silent, and soon tho chieI
minstrel, also, will be gone.-Harper'i
Bazaar.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-08-03
BICYCLES SIXTY YEARS AGO. co,
They Were Invented By . German Baron
Who Called Them s'TreainAB."

They Were Invented By . German Baron
Who Called Them ''TrosinAS."
Cyclers will be interested In this talk
,from the Baltimore Sun: ut wAs
about the year 1884," said william
Boucher, Jr., one o& our Oldest and
best-known citizens, recently, "that !
visited Baron Won Tresel, q poor noble
man Of Mannheim, n'the grand dpchy
of Baden, my native place, and he
showed me q number Of inventions,
among which was the bicycle.
1.-THE baron was great person for In
ventions. He spent all he had on his
projects, and was in very reduced cir
cumstances. Still, he kept on with
them, living on but very little. His
midday meal consisted of piece Of
bread and a small bit Of sausage. Peo-
pie called him the crazy baron. Among
his inventions was contrivance fol
snuflng out candle when II burned
down to the danger line.
This was for the benefit Of folks
who read in bed. But the bicycle was
the principal thing. The wheels were
of equal size, but had no pedals. The
seat rose up from the middle and could
be regulated like piano stool. You
sat on that seat and propelled the ma
chine by striking the feet against the
ground. He invited me to take ride
with him. He rode beside me on one
and kept mo from falling off the other
until l learned how to get along.
ut was pretty awkward, and re-
member that / scraped the toes Of my
shoes off in the course of the journey.
We rode about two English miles. The
baron never made anything out Of his
inventions, but the government, be-
heve, gave him a little pension to keep
him from want. He called his bicycle
invention the 'tresina-'"
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-08-03
AN ODD CREATURE.
Tho Laughing Jacltass and It's Peculiar
Song.

song
The great oddly at the Golden Gate
park, San Francisco, is the laughing
jackass, which has an apartment all to
himself. He doesn't look O bit like q
humorist, but he looks so homely and
cocks his head In such strangely
solemn way that everybody laughs at
seeing him. Some of the park en-
ployes caught q slim little snake two
feet long one afternoon and it was
thrown alive into the laughing jaclzass
big cage. The bird pounced on the
snake with thrill Of Joy in his heart,
and, grabbing 1t behind the head, he
quickly thrashed the life out of it
against the sides of the cage.
Then he started in at the snakes
head and swallowed 1t all After Civ
ing few extra swallows Of satisfaction
he expressed his thanks with hoarse,
loud Hal hal hal hal hal hal hal" that
was about as musical as his physiog-
nomy is beautiful Superintendent Nc
Laren was visibly touched by the lone
ly birds gratitude for an act of kind
ness. Next to snakes the laughing jack
ass likes lizards. AS the park funds hard
ly warrant getting him a daily supply
of delicious reptiles he usually has TO
put up with chunks of fresh meat and
occasional worms.
In Australia, where laughing jack
asses generally do as they please, they
make constant war on snakes. The
bird will pounce down on one like q
hawk, grab It back Of the head and
quickly rise 10 u considerable height,
when he will let the snake drop 70 the
ground The snake will be stunned by
the fall and will no sooner strike tho
ground than the laughing jaclcass Is
thrashing It about preparatory 10 q
speedy meal Tho bird Is there often
called the ''squatteTs clock" because
st six o'clock every evening they every
whore set up a concert OF "Hal hal hat''
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-08-03

A committee was appointed in the low
er house Of congress last week to inquire
into the charges Of drunkenness made
against certain members. The charges
are grave ones and should be investigated,
and II found true the members should be
expelled. The people will not put up
with such conduct many years longer. II
change is not likely to take place soon,
strong efforts will be made to place tenn
perance men and only such at the head.
Political asplrants should take notice.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-08-03

THE affairs at Homestead, Pa, have
uuieted down somewhat since the en-
ployes accomplished what they termed a
wonderful victory In driving sway the
Pinkerton force. The victors are now
reaping the benefits by being compelled
TO remain idle. A military force Is kept
near by to protect the owners in operating
their works and a sufficient force is now
on hand 10 operate the mills satisfactorily,
When such occurrences take place prop
erty owners should lose no time in apply
for sufficient protection to allow them
to continue their business, then II would
probably have tendency TO place check
upon such bands Of outlaws in attempting
TO take the law In their own hands.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-08-03

In the comments made by this paper
last week on a paragraph taken from the
Elyria Democrat relative TO Mr.. Johnson's
position on taxing college property, we
left ourselves liable TO misconstruc,ion
We do not favor taxing property OF that
KIND. Mr. Johnson, as an editor, IN very
lble manner, advanced reasons for taxing
college property. The taxpayer was then
1t liberty to urge legislation in that direc-
ion If deemed proper. We would not
leem It proper under any consideration.
College property should be free from tax
Ition.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-08-03

more Bible; less romance and more stirr-
ing reality. Many tears are shed over the
death of some weak novel heroine, but
how many over those cropping in the dark
ness of real poverty and sin? The
department OF entertainment embraces
the reception and introduction of memb-
ers, soclals and entertainments, and, as
the years roll by, while wheels are the
fashion, is not the Epworth wheel a good
safety for every young man and woman
10 mount and ride to the best pleasure re-
sort on the coast of the ocean of time, the
happy haven of Christian love and social
equalityT
RESOLUTIONS.
The following resolutions OF respect to
her memory were passed by the Epworth
league:
We, the members of Frances Hoyt Ep-
worth league, meet today to mourn the
first loss of a member.
A strange and sad providence has taken
from us our beloved sister, Nellie M.
Boise, whose memory and whose virtues
we shall cherish, and whose name will be
enshrined as the one from our number to
be first transcribed to the league roll above.
Little did we think, four months ago, when,
buoyantly hopeful for the future, she left
us, that we should so soon bow our heads
in grief over her strangely sad death
How true that
Death, like narrow sea, divides the heaven
ly land from ours"
Comforting ouselves with the thought
that death to her was but the swift cross
ing to happier cline, and touched with a
deep sympathy for her home circle, and
wishing them to know in what love we
hold our departed sister, therefore be il
Resolved, that in expressing our sincere
sorrow, we are conscious of having lost
from our league a devoted member, O
faithful worker, one who graced the social
and literary circles of our league, and who
was known to be an affectionate and duti.
full daughter and granddaughter.
Resolved, that the deep sympathy and
heartfelt coincidence of the Frances Hoyi
Epworth league is hereby rendered to the
deeply bereaved father and grandparents.
May they comfort themselves with the
sweet assurance that though "Death like
an untimely frost lies upon her." yet Mel.
lies faith in the resurrection will give heI
everlasting life and bloom In the Fathers
Kingdom.
Resolved, that copy of these resolu.
tions be sent TO the father and grandpa.
rents, and be preserved in the records Of
our league, aud published in the ENTER.
PRISE. II. H. KINNIsoN,
HARRY B. DAUGHERTY,
FLORENCE E. STARR,
Committee
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-08-03
WORK IN A SWEAT SHOP.
How II ID Conducted In Chioago-rh1
Miserable Wages Paid.

How II II Conducted In ChioAgO-Tha
Miserable Wages Paid.
The Chicago sweat shop Is a place
where, separate from the tailoring or
clothing warehouse, q sweater (mid-
Idleman) assemblies journeymen tailors
and needlewomen, to work under his
supervision. He takes q cheap room
outside the dear and crowded business
center, and within the neghborhood
where the work people live. This is
rent saved to the employer and time and
travel TO the employed. The men can
and do work more hours than was pos
sible under the centralized system, and
their wives and children can help, es-
pecially when, as Is often done, the gar
ments are taken home to 'tanish." Even
the very young can pull out the basting
threads) This finishing" is what re-
mains undone after the machine has
done It's work, and consists Of "felling'
the waist and legend of trousers (paid
at IN cents pair), and, in short, all
the "felling" necessary on every gar
iment Of any kind. For this service, at
the prices paid, they cannot, according
to Scribner, earn more than rs cents to
40 cents day, and the work is largely
done by Italian, Polish and Bohemian
women and girls.
The entire number Of persons en-
ployed in these vocations may be stated
at 5000 men (of whom 800 are Jews),
and from 10000 to $4,000 women and
children. The wages are reclsoned by
''piecework," and (outside the "finish-
ing'') run about as follows: Girls, hand
sewers, earn nothing for the first month,
then as unsliilled workers they get 81
to sLbO a week, SS week, and as
skilled workers, 90 q week. The first
named class constitute so per cent. of
all, the second 30 per cent. and the last
20 per cent. In the general work men
are only employed to do buttonholing
and pressing, and their earnings are
as follows: "Pressers," ss to s12 a week;
''underpressers," "a to 81. Cloak oper-
ators earn IS to s12 week. Four-ffths
of the sewing machines are furnished
by the "sweaters'' (middlemen); also
needles, thread and wax.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-08-03
HUNTING THE PRAIRIE DOG.
Navajo Indians Lure Them from Their
Burrows with Mirrors.

Navajo Indians Lure Them from Their
Burrows with Mirrors.
Living almost wholly on game as
they do, the Navajos cannot be pre-
vailed upon to taste either fish or rab-
bit. A writer In the Rocky Mountain
News has known some very ludicrous
things to happen when meanly mis-
chievous Americans deluded Navajos
into eating either Of those forbidden
dishes, and sometimes there have been
very serious retaliations for the i'll
hammered joke. Rabbits are wonderful
ly numerous in the Navajo country, be-
ing molested only by feathered and
four-footed enemies; but the Indian
who would fight to death sooner than
touch delicious rabbit stew is greed
lily fond of the fat and querulous prairie
dog. That whole region abounds in
dog towns" and they are frequently
besieged by their swarthy foes. A
Navajo will stick bit Of mirror in the
entrance of a burrow and lie behind
the little mound all day If need be to
secure the coveted prize. When Mr..
Tusa ventures from his bedroom deep
underground he sees familiar image
mocking him at the front door; and
when he hurries out to confront the i'm
pudent intruder, whizzl goes a chalce-
dony tipped arrow through him, pin
ming him to the ground so that he can
not tumble back into his home, as he
has wonderful faculty for doing even
In death, or dark hand darts from be-
hind like lightning. seizes his chunky
neck safely beyond the reach Of bis
chisel-shaped teet, and breaks his spine
with nna swift snan
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-08-03

There is more cataTh In this section OF
the country than all other diseases
put together and uutll the last few years
was supposed TO be incurable. For a
great many years doctors pronounced II a
local disease, and prescribed local rene.
dies and constantly failing TO cure with
local treatment, pronounced 1t incurable
Science has proven catarrh TO be constl.
tutional disease and therefore requires
constitutional treatment. Halls Catarrh
Cure, manufactured by +. j. Cheney q
Co, Toledo, o., is the only constitutional
cure on the market It Is taken intern.
ally in doses from ten drops 10 teaspoon.
ful. II acts directly on the blood and
mucous surfaces Of the system. They Of.
Ter 800 for any case Il fails 10 cure
Send for circulars and testimonials. Ad.
dress Y. J. CHENEY & Co, Toledo, q,
e1i- Sold by druggists, Toe. "a
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-08-03
strange Indian Belief

The Mohaves believe that all who die
and are not cremated are turned into
owls. and when they hear an owl hoot-
ing at night they think II Is the spirit
Of some dead Mohave returned After
anyone dies they do not eat salt or
wash themselves for four days They
had formerly an annual burning OF
property. and all would contribute
something 10 tho flames In expectation
Of its going up 70 their departed friends
10 Heaven. OF ''Whita Mountain a
W. call v
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-08-03
A Sugar Hoarder,

A man living In Burke, VI, has saved
all the maple sugar he has made In tho
last fifty years, having now on hand q
considerable quantity Of the boiling Of
1S4e and his entire crop Of every year
since, the whole aggregating 10000
pounds. II is all stirred sugar and has
kept perfectly. Nobody knows why he
boards the sugar and be offers no ez-
PLANTATION.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-08-03

TROUBLE Is reported in the financial
management Of the Iron Hall benefit as.
Sociation II is claimed that Chief Justice
Somerby has been appropriating the funds
70 his own use. The association has had
4 splendid record for the past thirteen
years and II Is tho bad TO break It.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-08-03

BoTH houses of congress have voted 70
close the worlds fair on Sunday. 1t took
long time to bring 1t about, but as a rule
large bodies move slowly, and this will &C
count for the lateness of the action upon It,
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-08-03

SOME Of the citizens Of Cleveland en-.
;ertaiu the idea that an individual cannot
come from another state into this and su.
perin,end school and draw his pay for It.
There must be some very fertile legal
minds among the citizens OF that city.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-08-03

IT is claimed that the shortage OF the
ex.sheriff of Ashland county has been
made up and he IS now free man, The
old time tapgle-foot got to be master OF
the sheriff and he had TO surrender.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-08-03
CARD OF THANKS.

G. C. Boise and Mr.. and Mrs. W. P,
Boise desire to express TO the citizens Of
Wellington their appreciation for the in
terest and sympathy manifested in the
death and burial of their daughter and
granddaughter, Nellie NJ. Boise.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-08-03

JOSEPH Turney, of Cleveland, ex-treas-
urer of state, departed this life Friday.
His remains were inferred Monday after.
MON.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-08-03

THE nominees for president are slow
about penning their letters Of acceptance.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-08-03

No other Sar1parilla has the merlt by
which Hoods Sarsaparilla has won such q
hIIm hold upon The confidence Oi the peo-
pie.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-08-03

Manager Frick, of Homestead iron
works, Pa, is rapidly recovering
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-08-03

Take good care Of your beard and keep
II clear Of gray hairs so as to retain your
young looks by using Buckingham's Dye
for the whiskers.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-08-03

THE death rate in Cleveland last week
reached zoe, figure never reached before
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-08-03
ASHLAND county has new sheriff,

THE political guns will soon be heard.