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floor beside the sparkling vein of ore, a
queer shaped wine vessel of glass; stopper
ed with crimson wax Inside were papers.
/ drew them out and read them by the
shifting light of the lantern. The hair
ripplcd on my scalp us ] spelled through
the Grabbed sentences The words were
written by one Thomas Field, steward to
the D'Evlin who founded my family. They
began with II description of the writer's
station, and then there followed list of
his woes, and hate glowered from each
faded letter
"In every carnal thing" $50 the letter
RAM 'has this man. Chauccr d'Evlin, done
me wrong. He has gained cattle and
horses that should have possessed, farms
that l should have had and that by rights
were mine. He stripped me of moneys till
/ had no dirt left. He made me his serv-
ant who should have been his master. Yet
these things could have been forgiven.
But for one matter wherein he ousted me
the man has earned my hate, undying.
He won for himself the woman l loved and
made her his wife who should have been
mine.
"For this write here my curse against
ullll anu ugtllllSu Ills I'LL 'lIb
and dust as he is now. For this l have
taken away the last sheet of the writing in
the iron box, wherein he told how to draw
away the noxious vapors which fill this
pot, and have left in their place other writ
ings which shall form snare. Hereby
know my soul is damned to all eternity,
but l care not. Through ChaucCr d'Eylin
l have known my hell in this life, and so
that this, my curse, may spread on all his
spawn which is to follow | willingly take
the portion of flames which will be mine
in just rcCOmpCnsG. o Duna, my love, my
lost love, through memory Of thee alone
do this thing"
In that weird mysterious cavern | read
these words, and the thought of that awful
vengeance which Thomas Fields dead
hand had carried out bit into me like u
knife, My chest grew crampcd my head
throbbed; the whispering noises Of the
place increased to clamor it seemed to
my frightened nerves that the steward $
tortured spirit lowered and gibbered in the
black vault above me.
could not wait there longer. fled to
the shaft, treading on that mound of men
in stone, and then lcaped up the rope to
air and daylight.
Dead Duna, your faithlcssncss-or your
coercion, was it? has been fearfully
ayenged.--C. J. G. Hyne in Chambers
Journal
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Venetian Glass.

The glass mosaics are brought from Mu-
rano into the work shops at Venice in the
form of thin plates and are cut up into lit
tie cubes or squares in the latter place.
They are put away and classified according
to color, and this working stock fills sew
cral large rooms. Against all four walls
of these apartments stand huge cabinets,
divided up into what seem to be innumer-
able little drawers and compartments, all
numbered and catalogucd like veritable
museum. Each of the little compartments
contains possibly thousand of these little
glass dice of IL particular shade,
My guide told me, and from what l saw
myself l am ready to accept the statement
as unqucstionably true, that over 5000
different shades and colOrs for the glass
mosaiCs are made in Murano, and that
there arc from IL to 10 tints to each color
and shade. Think of it! And then think
of having this enormous collection so sys-
tcmatically arranged that any bno tint of
any shade can be found without mo-
ment's delay.
This statement may seem startling, but
when it is considered that Salviati's art
lists are able to reproduce in exact shadings,
Colorings and tone any painting it will be
appreciated that this vast number is hard
ly more than adequate. An artist in oils
or water colorS can put one color or wash
over the other, depending upon the OpaC-
ity of one or the transparency of another,
until the exact shade required has been OBJ
tanned. Then by blending several shades
he can soften and tone them down by al
most impcrceptible degrees until actually
perhaps several hundred or more tints have
been produced in one bit Of the painting
say that of hand or face.-Home and
Country
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Ladies' whose systems are poisoned
and whose blood is in an inpJ"e condi-
tiOn, due to menstrual Irregularities,
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critics of p. p. p. -PricE!y Ash, Poke
Root and Potassium.
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THE HARDWARE DEALER

4 MAGALINE brlm IuI u praCt cal ideas from
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FILIAL ANTHEM.

My mother, It's of thee,
Star Of my destiny,
OF thee | sing.
Oh, angel friend to me,
All days that joyous be
From thy soft sympathy
Sweet mother, springl
Each hour l bide with thee
AS bright star | see
Which dark eternity
Brushed from his wingl
Eweeter than liberty
Each smile | gain from thee
Swceter by far to me
Than heaven can bringi
Light of my infancy,
Guiding me smilingly,
All joys of memory,
Thy praises ringl
Loves faircst imagery,
Hopes brightest pageantry
Truths purest majesty,
About thee clingl
Through that strong trinity,
Love, Hope and Truth, that be
But sacred guards of thee,
Mother, ! singi
Over my life to be,
Over the destiny
Fresh years must bring,
Crowned with the consistency
Of sweet maternity,
Reign everlastingly
With God, my king,
John Dwyer in New York World
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and SCrOfuIa

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the weak and debilitCted, lives
strength to weakened nerves, eXpels
diseases, giving the patient health and
feelings ana lassiHude first prevailed.
For primary. secondary and tertiary
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blotches, pimp.es, old chronic ulcers,
letter, scaid head, bOils, erysipelas,
contradiction, thai p. P. P. Is the best
blood purifier in the world, and makes
positive, speedy and permanent cures
in all cases.
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SPRINGFIELD, Mo. Aug. 14th, 1898.
Il can speak in the highest terms Of
your medicine from my own personal
knowledge. was affected with heart
disease, pleurisy and rheumatism for
80 years, was treated by the very besS
physicians ana spent hundreds OF dol
lars, tried every known remedy with
out finding relief. have only taken
one bottle of your P. p. P, and can
cheerfully say 1t has done me more
good than anything have ever taken.
l can recommend your medicine to all
sufferers OF the above diseases.
MRS. NJ. NJ. YEARY,
Springfield, Green County, Mo.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-06-14
sMELLED SOMETHING BURNING.
Startling Experience Of = Young Lady In !

Boston Street.
IsMO young ladies who were walking
up Beacon street in the morning had
passed the Puritan club and were saun-
tering along the north side Of the street
when one Of them fancied she snelled
burning grass. How like spring that
smell Of smoke is!' she said; they must
the grass" Presently a Whit of smoke
came into her face. Dear met she said,
do you see them burning grass on the
Common anywhere? 1t must be very
near. Her companion kept her eyes
fixed OH the Common. 4, 2, a
Just then an express wagon came
wllirling up alongside. The driver looked
at them and hauled up. Young lady!'
he exclaimed to the first of the two,
s.do you know that your hat is all on
/ fire p AT that moment she became quite
aWare of it. for the fire laid hold Of her
hair. She had the presence of mind TO
snatch off her hat and get out of reach in
All instant and also put out the fire in
her hair. 1t was a narrow escape from
a serious matter. ~ <
Where did the fire come from? The
conjecture is that some one threw a
Lighted cigarette or burning match out
Of the clubhouse window and that it fell
upon the young lady's hat, igniting the
straw; ebut that is of course, a con-
lecture. The hour was one at which
there are ordinarily none but servants
iii the clubhouse, so that none of the
young gentlemen of the Puritan club
are in the least likely to be chargeable
with the carelessness. And of course
the burning article might have come
from the window of some private house.
From window somewhere it must have
come, for straw hats are not known to
be subject to. spontaneous combustion
The incident ought to warn people to be
very careful about throwing matches or
other lighted things out Of windows
Boston TRANSCRIPT = 4 =, D..
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-06-14
Silk skirts of the Season

The importation of silk skirts for drpssv
uscs exceeds in beauty of material and
claboratiO of trimming anything ever
before exhibited. These skirts are uH-
usually wide, and in order to aid in dis
tending the dress skirt proper without the
use of stiff interlinings. which have been
abandoned. the skirts have long. deeply
plated fan and shell-shaped festoons.
with usually rows of lace at the edge
of each plating. Paris designers arr.
making costly garments like a low-necked.
closely fitted princcsse dress. This mode
is sort of compromise between a petit
coat and a silk corsetcover. and. being
narrowly gored and beautifully shaped.
makes an ideal garment To wear be-
meath Il handsome day or evening toilet.
as there are neither bands nor gathers
about the waist and hips. One. however
need not 80 to the importers or even to
the fancy dry goods stores for one of
these slips. The modiste can easily
make the garment, or the home dress
maker. by the aid of finc-fitting priR-
cesse dress pattern. can make a slip liz
very little time. with very little trouble
and ut very little cost, as good firEi
quality of white taffeta silk can now b..
purchased for GO cents yard.-New
York. Pest ..5e#-gs
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-06-14
/ A BARONESS SHOT RUDOLPH.
Secret of the Deatl, of the Austrian Crow
80 PrincQ

Secret of the Death of the Austrian Grown
.Ss Az Prince Revealed. I'd, 49,
just before his death in the asylum on
Wards island at New York, Johann
b Tranquilini revealed the secret, history
of the Grown Prince Rudolph's death at
Meyerling, January 80, 1889. Johann
Tranquilini, while he was no more than
id humble fiuker-kutscher, or the driver
of a fiacre, was the intimate friend and
boon companion of Rudolph. For years
all the royal frolics were familiar to
him. He it was who drove the crown
prince OH all unheralded excursions.
Tranquilini gained for himself a place
in the worlds history when he drove the
crown prince to Meyerling the night of
RudOlph's death. When the rumOrs of
the tragedy were whispered stealthily
from mouth to ear in Vienna he left and
came to New York. He seemed liber-
ally provided with money and for time
lived i'll lavish extravaganza among the
sAustrians in that city. His claim was
that the prince was attacked by Baron
sess Eassera, who was in love with him.
She then turned revolver upon herself
and expired almost instantly. A count,
who was her relative, then dealt the
prince a mortal blow on his temple.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-06-14
BraZil's Climate.

Rio de Janeiro, the capital of Brazil,
has a VIGOROUSLY bad climate. 1t is Il
fastness of yellow fever and subtle tropi-
cal ailments, and the death rate is so
alarmingly high as to seriously affect the
commercial prosperity of the city. Some
in hand the question of removing their heir
capital, and appointed scientific comm;,s-
sion to fix a site. The commission has
selected a plateau which should be Il real
land of promise to the tr,nsmigrant,
from the coast. The spot is between the
parallel Of Is degrees 40 minutes and
IL degrees 8 minutes south, and the
81 degrees u vest It is over aooS feet
above the level of the sea, and it's tenn
perature resembles that of middle France.
There is plenty of water for agriculture,
and no yellow fever. The journey by
railway from the coast is matter of
some eighteen hours. This is believed to
be the first occasion OH record in which
science has been called in to choose the
sSita Of q canita1
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-06-14
Joke on Irving.

A good joke is told OH Henry. Irving,
who, being anxious to buy a new horse,
attended an auction sale of blooded %
beasts in London, where he purchased a
tne-looking chestnut mare for f8 $40.
Irving could not imagine how a good
animal could be procured for so small
an amount so he bribed the groom and
asked him how it was. E
"The 'orse as two faults, sir" replied
the man. '"rhe first is, when 'e's hin
the pasture hand you wants to catch
e runs away all over the bloomink
ficld.' * .-.. 80 &
Not bad fault" remarked the great
actor; ''shows he is spirited What
about the other failing, my man, eh r B
The groom scratched his head and
eventually replied: We'll, Mr.. Hirving,
catch the hanimal, it amt worth a
damn. '-Cincinnati Commercial
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-06-14
A Dogs Grief for It's Master.

/ think the most pathetic thing that
has come under my notice occurred when
| was in the ticket Office Of the Grand
Trunk: It was there that one of my
nearest and dearest friends, until his sud-
den death on Monday morning, was pas
senger agent. When / went to INQUIRE
the particulars of "PhiP' Slater's death
his dog came rushing in. hunted every
corner of the building for him, and was
out like a flash. Within fifteen minutes
the poor broken-hearted animal was
there thrice, and would pay no attention
to any hand or voice while his master
could not be found and ut the sad home
on Gerard street nothing but violence
could restrain that faithful animal from
lying beneath the coffin or prevent him,
with his paws on the black box, from
whining mournfully for the word of rec
ognit ton that he would never hear again.
Of the great army of friends that
"Phir,, Slater. had in this city and all
over the .prOvince-and there never was
bigger-hearted. more generous or kind
~ man-how many of us will remember
him or mourn for him as necessarily and
with such Observation-Disclosures as that
poor, broken-hearted dog?-Toronto Star.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-06-14
Mans Weakness.

'1s it weak in man to shed tears g
Sooner mayest thou trust thy purse
to professional pickpocket than give
loyal friendship to the man who boasts
of eyes to which the heart never mounts
in dew. Only when man weeps he
weak. but because they should BE
sacred. "-Bulwer Lytton. Il.
7 Tears spring from no weak and wom-
an source, but flow from the loftiest
fountain Of emotion. Tears benefit q
warrior when his troops desert him
q patriot when his countrymen rush to
their doom-a father when his children
rebel against his love."-Lytton.
There is sacredness in tears They
are messengers of overwhelming grief,
of deep contrition and Of unspeakable
love" --WashingtOn Irving s.....-z..EE..3s.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-06-14
1t Was q Mistake,

An amusing tale of phrenologist's
mistake, is credited to John Burroughs.
the author and horticulturist. Here's
Il boy" said the professor, in examining
the--head of the youthful Burroughs,
''who will amass great wealth. All his
ideas will be of money and money-m
ing. He will be immensely rich and a
power in that line" THE trouble was,''
says Mr.. Burroughs, that he struck the
wrong boy. It's pity he hadn't gone
in next door and got hold of the boy
there, for that boy was Jay Gould. We
used to go to school together
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-06-14
This Story Has Reached Kansas.

A tramp appeared at house in Nartlr
Atchison with eat in his hand this
morning and asked the lady of the house
for little salt. OF course she asked
him what he wanted with the salt He
told her that he was starving. but was
too proud to ask for anything to eat and
was going to cook the cat. OF course.
the woman was touched and gave the
tramp the best she had in The house.
When the tramp got about block away
from the house the cat appeared and
he fed the animal. The tramp told az,
Atchison man eontidcntiMlly that he
worked the cat racket all the time The
tramp then stuffed the cat i'm his coat
tail pocket and laid down under tree
to think-Atchison (,!ohs
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-06-14
Uniform TemDeratupe.

A house of one uniform temperature
summer and winter, is dream of by
gienists which seems to have been real
lied by NJ. Caron at Chamounix ip Up
per Savoy. The secret of construction i.
merely an elaborate system of water
pipes forming the framework and sup
porting the wooden walls and floors. Ii
summer cold water circulates through
these pipes and in the cold season thi.
water is heated to the desired tempera
trre before it enters the pipes There il
little doubt that M. Caron's plan viii
be Interesting for hospitals and publ,
buildings to examine as well as for pri
vatp villas --... =
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-06-14
SHIP CANALS IN PROSPECT,
One Between Baltic and Black Seas will
&Sl.s.L -. =. Cost q 100. 600 OOO - =. o.,

One Between Baltic and Black Seas will
- Cost 800, 900, 900. :, 4..=
The ship canal between the Baltic and
Black seas will be about 1000 miles long.
There are no very formidable engineer
ing difficulties. The estimated cost is
100000 900, and the construction will
occupy five years. The canal will be
5tWenty-seven feet deep, 213 feet wide at
top, and Ia feet at the bottom. 1t is
the Dwina, Beresina and Dnieper, and
end at .Cherson. The canal will be
lighted by electricity along it's whole
length, enabling the transit to be per-
formed in six days, reckoning six knots
as a maximum speed. Other. towns and
districts besides those touched by the
canal will be benefited, owing to the inn
provement Of navigation in the various
rivers. wv 49, ...r: -s
A bill has been introduced into the
French Chamber of Deputies for making
canal between Marseilles and the
Rhone. The cutting will be forty-six
miles long, and is estimated to cost So
100000 francs.-EXchange,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-06-14
An,OId Remedy.

A widely-Guoted remedy for the reIie1
of appendicitis, this old disease with the
new name, is sweet oil taken internally
from one to two ounces administered
every three hours till the pain and fever
are relieved. In addition. the patient
applied over the seat of pain. It is said
that this trouble is not infrequently ex
perienced and recovered from, and the
sufferer never knows it. Of course, il
the inflammation lasted long and spread
it's character would declare itself; but ma
lures first impulse is toward cure when
she finds the bit Of foreign body, which
may be anything, not necessarily seed
and very often she accomplished it with
ont helm
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-06-14
FOurLeafCloyer,

IT'S it lucky to find four-leaf clovcr?"
asks little girl
"You are lucky to find it, are you
not?'' s- -, 49,
Speaking of four-leaf cloyers it is a
pretty idea to hunt for them all through
the summer, press them nicely and mount
them for Christmas and birthday cards
by-and-by. Of course no one believes in
the superstition, but it is a poetical way
Of wishing friends good luck.-New York
I(ooor1or .*st
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-06-14
Where They Live Long.

At Il recent gathering of old folk at
Barwick-ill-E,met some rather remarka-
Bile facts were disclosed as regards the
longevity of the residents Of this village.
The population of the place is under 800
souls. so of whom are over 60 years of
age. The age Of half this number ex-
ceeds 10 years and the aggregate of the
ages of these residents is 1881 years,
which gives an average of Is years each.
is due to the healthy sanitary conditions
of the village, or to the quiet serenity of
everyday life. which, pertains to Barwick
probably both considerations are factors
in the case: but the figures given furnish
4 remarkable record, and we question
whether they can be exceeded by any vii
lage in the county.-Leetls Mercury.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-06-14
An Outrage.

"What do I think Of the income tax de-
cision?" said the young man with. the
thin mustache. II think it's an outrage,
it's robbery of the poor, it's taking the
bread right out of the mouths of honest
men and their families. That's what /
think of it, s-.<s=% E. T.. E5sE# T..
II don't quite understand what you
lnean,'' said his friend.
Don't Ell? Well,I guess if you'd been
hustling for year to get a Job as income
tax collector, and then, just after you'd
been appointed, had it taken away from
you in such a fashion, you would under
stand Buffalo EXPRESS
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-06-14
The Monkey Up a Tree.

see monkey up q tree. He sees me
and gets behind the trunk of the tree.
l start to go around him and he keeps
going around as : do, keeping the trunk
Of the tree between him and me- rca CHI
the place l started from, with the mon
key still opposite ON the tree Now, ]
been around the monkey ~ A Boston
woman is quoted as saying: ~ tried il
on my husband. I had him for the mon
key and | took whisk broom and went
around him, brushing his clothes. He
kept turning around just as did and
when l had been clear around I had
only brushed one side of him and one leg
of his pantaloons. Now, all the profes.
sors OF Harvard university couldn't con-
vince me that I had been around that
man, and neither had the man been
around the monkey in the buffalo
EXPRESS = -. = - -
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Young America,

Percy is a bright Capitol hill boy, who
has occasional attacks of prevarication
which commenced when he was about 5
years old. When about 6 years old be
was called to account by his father for a
whopper, and was told the old. old story
about George Washington and his hatchct
and the cherry tree, concluding with the
remark that George was a. good boy and
never told lie.'' This impressed Percy
very much for minute Then an eN.
PLANTATION occurred to him and he asked
Why, papa, couldn't he talk?"-Wash.
irlrtOn POST 5: e. IL ~ s...5s,E ~
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Saved His Honor,

: The ceremonial of the Chinese. court is
somewhat exacting. It used to include,
# it does not now, complete prostration
before the throne. Last century q Per.
grading ordeal. Directions were given to
the officials to compel him by stratagem
to do so. On arriving one day at the en-,
trance to the hall of audience, the envoy
found no means of going in except by q
wicket, which would compel him to stoop
very low. With great presence of mind
and considerable audacity the ambassa.
thus, saving the honor of his country
London Standard. s5 80
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-06-14
Books First.

DR.. John Hall advises people to buy
books first and clothes afterward. 1t il
painful to assume an attitude of Oppo.
sition to the clergy on any point whatever
but III this instance there is no way Of
avoiding it, In this climate, aud under
the existing police regulations, a combi-
would be the. inevitable portion Of any,
body who followed the doctors ADVICE
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