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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1894-11-23
IlnnOrtant News. I.

IA contributor to Vogue says that the
Hast time he saw. the Prince Of Wales and
THE Duke Of York both wore trousers
Egniltless of creases. TO the anglo-maniacs
that will rank rs the most important
foreign news Of the dny.-lTrov Times,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1894-11-23
His Mistake.

This may not be new, but it was new
to the reporter who overheard it on an
East Providence car on Sunday, so it is
likely that there are others who have
never heard it. The young man who told
it was evidently il collegian, as was his
companion.
Il heard good one on Prof. - Of
Andover," he said.
What was it," queried the other.
"Well. you know he was married dur
ing the winter and went to housekeeping
just outside the village. This spring he
thought he would add Il few hens to his
stock; he already had dog. He set Il
couple of the hens and in time had two
large broods of chickens. He was very
proud of them, but in il week or two the
chickens began to die. He called in Il
neighbOr to look at the chickens and offer
advice. They were certainly pretty
scaly lot of chickens that the neighbor
viewed. They were skinny-looking and
apparently without ambition.
What do you feed them?' asked the
neighbor, after brief survey.
Feed them? responded the professor
as though he didn't hear Alright. why,
| don't feed them anything. l thought
the old hens had milk enough for them y
Providence Journal.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1894-11-23

Il Europe can raise Nh army Of 0,36f,-
900 men, the duly expenses Of which
would be $50, 600, 600.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1894-11-23
Strong and Rich.

last week ! asked CavsIn TIboriHg
n,sn how far il was te y plres tn whieIf
was hound Two miles, Your rsver-
encc. tive miles and little more
said !, Knowing by long experience that
my cUuntrymen don't Ike ta discourage Il
Traveller by letting him know that h.
has still n long walk before him. We'll.
your reverence. it's two miles strong and
rscn, 50 to spake. The Spectator
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1894-11-23
Take Things t.asy

prpsupposing that all our preaching in
regard to learning to take things easy has
resulted in hundreds of tired housekeen-
ers enjoying a pleasant season of rest,
we wish to supplement the little sermon
with a postscript. knowing that the yist
Of woman's writing is supposed to lie in
that extra bit of Wn-and-ink conversa-
ton.
You have been away. the burdens of
home have for Il time slipped from y"ur
tired shoulders and you have felt free
from care. In the morning you have
awakened to biissful consciousness that
the breakfast, dinner and tea will be
served without Il single thought of yours
being given to it. If you nave felt tired
you have stayed in bed until you were
quite ready to get UP and the delightful,
lazy days have passed all too swiftly.
bringing the time for the return home
long before you feel ready to once again
resume domestic responsibility.
Now. just her" is where the postscript
comes in. The summer vacation has done
you much good, don't let the autumn
house cleaning upset it all. or course
the house will look perfectly dreadful to
your tidy eyes when you once again in
wade its dust depressed precincts. The
weeds will be high in the small and large
plainly that the caretakcr has been away
This is only the natural result of alb
sence, therefore let it not torment You,
even though your neXt-tIuor neighbours
well-kept possessions put yours to shame
Your rounded form and rosy cheeks com,
terbalance these trivial details that can
so soon be set right BUT do not try to
restore order too soon. Take the .ccu
mulated labor easily. Weeds have not
grown i'll a day. dust has not settled in a
night, and neither the one nor the other
can be balfshed i'll minute. Put up
with little Inconvenience. smile resign
edly over the accumulated disorder, work
ing cheerfully and Systematically. and
you Will soon restore order out of chaos
and not lose an ounce of the summers
good thereby. This is the right way to
come home. but. alas! how few there are
willing to reasonably accept the conse-
quences of their absence and take time
to obliterate them. Thus. by October
the blessings of August are lost sight Of
and the summer outing has gone for moth
ing: Be sensible. sister mine, and if you
feel like rushing pell-mell into vcrtahlr
vortex of accumulated houSework just
STOP, and think. saying: Here. again, is
il place where it pays to take things
easy. '-l>hiladeIDhi;l Times
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1894-11-23
A Nice grandmother

There are advantages in beug related
to royalty. Princess AIix o: Hesse would
acknowledge that in these lays. Queen
Victoria il providing her with her trous-
seau, which is to- he Of magnificpnce
suited to her future exalted position IL
is very different from the one which A.
companIed tae present Czarina from her
frugal Danish home to 81. Petersburg.
for that was of the most me.iger dimen-
sinns. Among other articles the tlueen
has chosen some superb Irish poI,Iins.
One is quite lovely, being white. with a
Louis XIV. pattern Of scrolls and ribnbns
in pale blue. and the whole IL powdered
with shamrock leaves in real woven gold
bullion thread Another is srvered with
most Iife-like maiden hair ferns. raised
i'm relief on white satin, i'm their natural
shades and tied with golden ribbons.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1894-11-23

r. One Mans scheme for Flying.
: A Rochester inventor thinks he has
solved the natter Of individual aerial
navigation BY the use of new chemical
compound he thinks he can overcome
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1894-11-23
AlbinO Bats.

tAIDluo
IF you wish to know the most curious
Il colony of white bats" said an Arch
street artist. just returned with others
from 4 Sketching tour along the capes of
the Delaware. ''One day we found in
the woods Il deserted old hut with Il huge
chimney. which we We're told had been
an illicit whisky still. and we made ii
our headquarters and slept there one
night.
Judge Of Our surprise when. at twi-
light, we saw numbers of white objects
tiutterins in the air over our heads. and
identified them. from their manner If
flight, as bats. We traced them tn their
home in the dil:,pidate,l chimney. Wh"tit-
er they We're natural albinos or artificial
ly bleached by the fumes OF the still was
a question that puzzled It's considerably
but they were bats-of that we were all
certain. One of our party thought they
were all covered with chimney lime or
ashes. hut they were too intensely white
for that Philadelphia Record
Cattlcmcn Bothered by Wolves.
A meeting of cattlemen was held re-
Gently in Jackson county, $. H., to dis
c,,Ss the matter Of ritkling the ranges Of
the nnmbrrlcSs wolves which now infest
them, much t" the ANNOYANCE and dam
age of the. cattlemen. 1t has finally been
decided to assess each owner of cattle
or horses | cent per head. the money
thus raised to be converted into fund
and paid out in bounties Of - for each
gray VOLTS scalp brouyh. ill., This plan
is believed to he the only solution of this
question. and it is believed it will result
in the number Of wolves heing greatly
diminished. Great damage has been done
by wolves Oh the ranges of south Da-
kOta this season. AMI these pests are
practically the only serious obstacl.
against which the stockmen have to con-
tend.-St. Paul Dispatch.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1894-11-23
The sans Souci Musicale.

a private letter from one of the guests
present mt the musicale "a In Frr.ierick the
Great. which the Emperor IF Germany
gave at Sans Souci short time ago.
says: I'VE first had supper in The dining
room. where Frederick so often had Vol
taire. d'Alenbert. d'Argenson and other
celebrities around him. and then we adj
jOurned to the music Ftrm where th.
concern was given. The flute. the ceII,
and the violin We're used in D trio. III.
same one which Quantz Frederick the
Greaf'S teacher. wrought for him. and
later Oh the quaint old spinet-tHne,i and
made as good as new for the mrasnu-
was introduced into u moroccan i'm the per
fnrman't of which the Empress and one
of her ladies took part.
lhprr were twenty-"n" nf us in all and
everyone was atiired in the costume If
the last century wigs and all Nothing
but the old silver chandeliers. bearing
WAX candles. wer" used in lighting the
apartment and the furniture was riace,
exactly as in 1856; and even tin, old IMAM
uScrIpt sheet music belonging f.. the En-
pernrs great ancestors was ,IiSpIaye,! dur
ing the evening
''Sn"r the days Of Frederick William
~. this was th" first time the apartments
were actually made Use Of by the Pr1S-
SIAN royal family. The EMPEROR was
delighted and expressed his ,!etermina-
ton to give similar entertainments in the.
future.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1894-11-23
The Daily Menu.

SO much health depends upon having
good food in proper variety that the uueS-
ton of the daily menu is an important
one one, to every housekeeper. Miss Frances
Willard is said to have recovered her
strength and vigor from the English GUS
tom, adopted by her during her recent
visit. of taking five meals Il day 1t
must be understood. however. that of
these hve meals at least two were but
slight reflections sandwiched between
more serious affairs. Five o'clock tea.
when limited to a single refreshing cup
accompanied by thin bread and butter.
and perhaps sailed wafer or IL bit of
sponge cake. takes: off the cd &c Of hunger.
but does not interfere with the full enjoy
ment of dinner two hours later. Supper
before bedtime, if consisting of very
light repast. often induces sleep and gives
tired nerves the repose they need. We
Americans An women especially. are apt to
1sat less than we should and physicians
frequently suggest that food taken at
short intervals and in small quantities
will do much toward tOning and building
up physical system which has run
down.
But whether we follow Miss Wizards
example or not, we who are charged with
catering for our families know that it
is no tritie to order three meals IL day
seven days :, week, 3ti1 days year.
Mail! vi us -Diesth uONn at tUIS point.
wearying of the monotony Of our task.
and so far as we are concerned we grow
so indifferent to our own tables that any
meals taste better to us than those which
come from our Kitchens
II always eat more when away from
home than when there said 1, farm
ers wife, not long ago, addressing city
boarder. by the time | have thought
what to have and seen it cooked my in
terest i'll the thing is gone
This was very natural. But even
when Il woman does not cook with her
own hands or personally supervise every
part of the process of dinner-gettins,
she must if she keeps house, arrange
the details, select the viandS, and make
up the daily bill of fare
Her great danger is that she may fall
into Il trOdden rut. and, as too many: do.
fancy it of 10 special Importance whether
or not her meals are varied. Thus. !;
woman of little Imagination and small
capacity will permit Sundays roast to
appear and reappe;tr on the table i'll the
form of cold meat. growing scrapper and
less attractive at every fresh prcsenta
ton. After the second entrance upon the
scene of any dish. fish, flesh or fowl. Il
skillful cook should proceed to metamor-
semblance to it's original form. Trans
formations of dishes are often so appe-
thing as to be preferred by the epicure
to the first estate of the edible. but it
goes without saying that brains and pains
are needed to produce satisfactory results.
Intelligence tells in housekeeping and
catering as much as in any other depart
ment of work known to mankind or wom
:(nkind.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1894-11-23

;, henI!n=f"n Palace Sept - 1>:'t =
Regarding operas being wr57r-- - "
HamlSh Net IN. ~ Iihrar-,- = 1ilr,.-
true that Mr. Met mn has H.. t.,.F-,.- 70 ...
forward state "f preparation tt. .-l.,-rl..~
ar" worthy Of tho author If he v-tl-kls.., .
ctntati- Land II III" N"u0-aiI hi ~
Flood they ar frTIn't.I .,7l -H. 49,
F:Ii"S :" we'll known in Ireland au.i S,-,---,rt
They are iinke'l with those II Ea-larlf ,.r'
ar" fully equal in Interest -iss,<,. -, ~
rrsSfu!ly rr-are'! IN &c -1lan by W'-n~- =
trama$ have been PM into iiI.rt-r-. +nr-7, q,
retfy. | rPnain. yours fI.fhfTIl.
T"RNF.
II Is not impr"h;tI,le THAT ,,fI.. .. lbs.
works will he seen al rhe T.nn,!nr -r:,....
ueyt spring. leading inrFFt-~>.l-.., ..
somewhat impressed with rhr ~,IhJerr :.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-11-27
The Board Of canxas.srs.

The Republican congressional confcst-
| ants YESTERDAY threw out a lire OF legal
| skirrnishers against the State Board OF
| Canvassers, hut were easily defeated. The
| fact IL they knew that the board had no.
thing TO do with hearing the complaints
they had to make.
Nothing could have been more absurd
! than the proposition that the judges OF
election of any district should be re-
quired to report for whom the voters IN
tended to vote as evidenced by the re-
jected ballots.
This is n thing that the judges did not
know and never could have learned In
the great majority OF cases the judges
could not even make guesses with any
thing ike success. The ballots In queS-
ton were rejected because they did not
comply with the law. and did not show
with certainty for whom the voters in
tended to vote.
II seems that the successful Democratic
candidates In eight out of nine districts
will have their seats contested. Mr.
Southwark has not yet decided what he
will do. We take II that the noble stand
Of Cartain Martin Meredith Lipscomb in
declining 10 be a party TO any contest
gives Mr.. Southwark pause.
The Board OF CanvasseFs Issued ceruh-
Gates TO the ten congressional candi-
dates-nine Democrats and one Republic
can-who were shown by the returns TO
have been elected. The vote on the ad0p-
ton OF the constitutional amendment VIII
/ be canyassed to-day.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-11-27

see no way of avoiding-namely. the we'll
known views Of the President on cur
rency reform. Il win avail nausht for
Congress to pass y silver bill which that
body knows the President Will veto.
Even II the influence OF the Executive
were in favor OF free coinage. the money
ed interests opposed TO that measure are
20 powerful that they might defeat u
in Congress against the recommendation
OF the President. with the Executive
bitterly hostile to free coinage, we see
no reason for anybody to expect any Leg
islatlon friendly to silver TO be done
whilst he continues In the presidential
chair. The 81. Louis conference may be
a very respectable body. and may erect
n platform pleasing to the silverites. yet
the II forbid" OF the President VIII be
potent.
But IL Will lie said that the silverites
In Congress can 30 antasonize the
schemes of currency reform which the
President will propose as TO compel him
IN come 70 terms with them. This In
indeed a most unpromising suggestion
In the first place. the. President desires
no such currency reform as would result
from the free coinage OF silver d6 TO ID.
lie belongs to the Democratic financial
school OF Boston New York, Philadelphia
&C.. &C.. and would no sooner consent 10
free coinage than he would to the Issue
OF a thousand millions Of dollars or IRE
dcemahle greenbacks or nat money. 80
that all the hopes which the silveri.,s
base upon the proposition TO force M.
Cleveland TO come 10 terms with them
may be dismissed az having no substan-
tial foundation. The St Louis convention
must find something better than this TO
rcIv unon. or else it's members might
as well have stayed at home.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-11-27
A. HU7ZLER'S SOyS.



OUR DRESS GOODS nEpANTN.N.
is stocked With attractive AND ,r
patterns ~ solid, r01gh-tn'sf. .
novelty effects
All Scrges and Uenriettfs th4f r...
formerly soc. now 81 l-9e
An Plain ana Fancy Neayat rrr.-..
DC. now lie.
BLANKETS AND FLANNTIS
are subject 70 the sam treatment
Blankets that are worth 1913 I.o
Blankets that arc worth G. n.. U.
Blankets that are worth s. r I
Atwood TWiiled Flannel reduced .....
3Jc. TO &c.
EXtra-Fine Twllled Fi10r "a rl....
from 50c. 90 2ir
Piain-Whue Flannels ~ l.. Dr.. ...
and &c.
LADIES AND CHlLDREN'S WRAP.
For the first time In many y,tr t.
demand for Choice Wrap s iar n r, ....
81 the supply. All lat .iifI.rs D..
have been made az a neral aI...
Consequently. those who own tn .....
ment purchased az the right rmr af. .r
better position than others O4r t.... .
being rapidly depleted iIt. Hs W. ...t
care 10 carry over single garment .' '.
seasons purchase. We have mfI
which will insure rapid s1'.s SIr.r.
values az g.. $50. onl ilo llr Gage. f u
$50 20 go Chnir,n's School t.
from 90 30 20 s. for tp a. years. .E.
CARPETS AND MATTtNot
with the advance ~ the sels.n v.
are anxious o. reduce TN volume Df ...
stock OF carpets and matuugs. I' u. ..
I'm this effort We rely upon thc }rrf .a
prices al which we offer ths best m.t.f
OF Ingram, Tapestry. and Velvet. s..
choice patterns OF japanese ami DhA.
Mattings.
A. UTTILERs SONS
no ll-Su. Tu&rh ai5 Broad tf.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-11-27
rh. pafalcntion Of seely.

Frederick r. Baker. who was the ac-
compllce OF sseIy m robbing the Shoe and
Leather Bank, OF New York. OF fslcoo,
prcferred TO commit suicide rather than
ny az seeiy did. He was the Older man
az the two. and the greater villain. He
tempted seely and seely yielded.
Baker got most Of the money and lived
IN fine style. while seely plodded along az
poor book-keeper.
The banks loss Is very heavy, and yet
It's officers knew not that they had lost
cent until Seely was missing. true
they had resolved to change their "sys-
tenn OF book keeping" but It does not APP
pear that sedly was suspected. so far
from H. he was given leave OF absence
from Friday until Monday and so got a
good running start on his pursuers.
The bank men would like very much to
lay their hands on Seely II for no reason
than 20 make him witness OF theirs Tor
the recovery from the Baker estate OF
some OF the spoil
secly was advised by the lawyer whom
he consulted last week to give himself
up to the officers OF the law. his counsel
remarking that the chances OF escape
were about one in n thousand Seely an
swered that he would take that one
chance.
Baker told Seely that he himself was
too old to take to flight; that he would
stay and face the music" But upon
reconsideration Baker concluded that he
would rather face death-death by drown
ing-than Judge and jury and the gaping
eyes OF the crowd and the tears OF his
wife and children.
1t is n pitiful story all through. Seely
seems to have been the victim OF Baker
wles The latter planned the scheme
and soon had Seely in his power and
squeezed and squeezed him until seely' 5
mind was well-nigh dethroned. Yet Seely
was always astute enough 10 trick the
officers Of the bank with false entries
upon his books. and this went on for nine
years. The official Of the Shoe and Leath-
or Bank who induced the bank to adopt
a new system Of bookkeeping was wiser
than he knew.
1t is plain that the Shoe and Leather
Bank, of New York. has not been properly
managed, or properly examined by the
examiners. Had either OF these things
been done, we'll done. Seely could not have
escaped detection. To the general public
IT is an amazing thing how a bank, n
rich bank even. can lose as much as
$4,000 without missing It.
1t is not believed that any one operated
with Seely in the bank. but his system
Of concealment IL one that Will interest
financial and clerical men throughout the
world The checks presented by Baker
were almost invariably for the even sum
OF 500. Il was on this account that he
became known to the bank employees
as the 1.-TWO Hundred Dollar Man.
Whenever n check was offered 1t was
necessary for seely 20 make two trans
'fers on depcsitors' accounts. 60 that his
books would tally with the money on
hand. Assuming that every check was
for 800, this made 1.770 bookkeeping
transactions. involving the accounts OF
hundreds of depositors. OF course, II
would have been impossible for Seely to
keep these accounts straight in his men,
DRY alone. so It Is probable that he
kept a separate set Of books In private.
If this IL go no trace OF them has been
discovered
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-11-27
Electricity and the Death Penalty.

If the opinion OF the Attorney General
OF New York prevails, the criminals SEN
fenced TO death In the electrical chair
will not be experimental upon. He says
that, in his judgment, neither the gov
ernor nor the prison superintendent
has authority to grant the permission
asked; that it becomes the duty of the
authorities in charge to bury the body.
and not to deliver the same to any in
divldual for the purpose of experiment.
The Attorney-General is clearly right.
Suppose the experimenter resuscitated a
murderer, what would you do with the
restored man? Execute him again? That
would be very cruel. Pardon him and
let him loose upon the world? That would
be unjust to the public.
In good time the experiment can be
properly tried upon some one who has
been killed by accidental contact with
electrical wires. So there Is no use to
monkey with men who have been
executed for murder. The public doesn't
want any such men brought to life. They
are exceedingly difficult to kill off. and
whenever any one Of them Is made TO pay
the death penalty he should stay killed.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-11-27
Illiterates at the Polls

From several influential quarters comes
the proposition that the Walton election
law should be amended so as to do away
with the special-constable feature-in eff
feet in short. TO put II out Of the power
Of iiiterate men 20 vote.
1t seems TO us that this Is rather more
than a Legislature has authority to do
4 constitutional convention would proba-
bly, be needed to effect that reform.
But all that is now being written and
spoken on this subject goes to show that
our people are determined to have ar
end Of election agitation in Virginia we
believe that il the Legislature hasn't
power to comply with the popular wish
in this respect convention will be called
Meanwhile we urge our people TO con
tent themselves as far as possible with
the Walton law.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-11-27

This thing Of 100000 Of Japanese
tbrashing and smashing 9c0.ooo.0Oo Of Chi
neee isn't fair. The disparity in numbers
TO too great. No wonder China besouSht
President Cleveland to plead for her
Richmond Dispatch.
Probably II China had noticed the man
nor IN which Cleveland pleaded % for
Hill during the recent campaign. the En-
peror OF the Flowery Kingdom would
not have been so anxious to have him
act In the matter.--The Roanoke Times.
II the Emperor OF China understands
what it was that brought about the de-
feat Of the Democrats at our late cleo
lions. he knows more than the average
American does. and more than the En-
peror knows about the campaign now
going on In his own Flowery Kingdom.