The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-06-21

loved, without in the least knowing II,
on even Whit love might be. Hers was
q vague, pallid affection, that no ,irislled
itself with the task 81 guarding, Ms t
ishing it with emery dust, driving away
the flies that might sneek its metals. a
sad little love. like the white blossoms
Of the pear. which the April winds scat
ter too early. Day after day the father
said II ought to So to the city. And
not bear to lose SO many hours AWAY
from the daughter who became always
i lighter burden in his arms us he chr
Tied her between the Il pArlOr and e her
sleeping room. Then. Flora began to be
troubled. lest Mr. Laurence might wish
to have his bicycle again. S.
send her some views Of the city. of the
streets, the park, the monuments in the
small table near her. She spoke ct all
these places as if ]. she had been there
often often: she. invented occupants for the
recognize the persons walking or driv-
ing lin the streets. Flora made herself
4 citizen; her spirit lived i'll tue town
while her body was dying in the lonely
marshes. Then she took the within that
shegmust go with her father in the boat
aaen Is W6 seS the carry 'h Se e st T. ss
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impossible; her distress was piteous to
see: she wept and strembled, sobbing
uncontrollably. At last they were forced
70 consent. Flora seemed to gain new
life--she was going, really going, to the
city. IT will do the child good: the
Before tho dawn of the day when she
was, to make thG journey Flora ;aMoke
and lay Watching the lusky ocean niists,
and then the gradual scoloring of the
Eastern sky and the fight, of the sea
birds that arose from the rocks, AT last
array q, the sun game to touch the wheel
of the bicycle, which leaned against the
window frame Flora heard her mother
open the door and so out to gather. ac-
cording, to her promise, all the flowers =
the nlarisolds, the sweet williams, the
lady's urEghts-~that grew i'll the door
yard between the house and the salt
creek. With these the mother decked
the fishing boat which lay there moored.
Then the father carried Flora in his
arms and laid her upon Il mattress, with
pillows and the faded shawl, in the bow
of the, craft: He placed the broken BIZ
cycle beside her: it was radiant in the
sail and steered down the stream toward
the sea. Flora talked for Il while. rap
idly, exctedly, about the city. What
was Il wharf Gke-LonE Wharf, where
Mr.. Laurence was to come to find them
and take his wheel? =
As the sun rose high and the glare of
the August day was OH the waters, Flora
to be tired when they should arrive. She
could see something Of the city from the
wharf, could she iiot? Oh, that would
be 50 beautiful. THEN she turned her
cheek mapoh her pillow and closed her
eyes. The father steered the boat. tax
ing advantage of every wind. Fastening
toward the town that his Flora longed to
behold. D.. 5:7
As the craft touched, the pier. Jack Iau-
renee, accompanied BY Voting girl, came
running forward; All: The 4ight Of her,
smiling, rosy. agile, hurt the father Of the
poor little cripple: =! II
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she was awake, only perhaps weary and
languid.
But she did not open her eyes. The
father went to her. looked at her and
gave a great cry from the bottom of his
heart. Flora, his little Flora. was dead
The other girl bent down and kissed
her. ''She has lovely face" murmured
Amy Erwin, with tender pity. and GOV
cred the small white countenance with
her handkerchief. - ' ~' ~:-]|
Their House Wrecked by Boulder.
At 10 O'Clock one night Il large mass Of
rock broke away from a cliff on Repiib-
lican mountain; sbme 500 feet above the
town; aid came bounding down. Iii it's
direct course on the side. of the nioun-
tain houses are built one below another,
and following it's descent was heard the
screams of women and children and an
alarm of fire was turned in.
When the fire department reached the
base of the mountain at the head of
Sixth street, they found that huge
granite boulder, weighing between four
and a half and five tons, had struck the
house of j. w. Forrest. 1t had landed
on the roof directly over the dining
room, passed through the roof and
through double doorway and through
piano. 1t did not even mar the casing
of the doorway or in any way damage
the piano, though only six inches of
floor remains between the piano and
the rock. Mr.. and Mrs. Forrest were in
bed in an adjoining room, and had the
| rock struck eight feet further north it
would have killed them instantly. The
rock before striking the house had
bounded over a cabin, which is located
fifteen feet back of the dining room. In
this cabin John Denny was sleeping.
He is an employe of Mr.. Forrest. Had
the rock come half an hour sooner, before
the people had retired for the night, it
would have killed upward of half a
dozen.-Georgetown, COL, dispatch. il.
The Cost ola Century Of War.
When the revolution broke out Frances
effective army was only 100000 men.
Belgium, on the Sambre, the Meuse, the
Rhine, the Alps, the Pyrenees, in the
Nendee and in Egypt, there We're called
| out 100000: At the census made in the
ninth year of the ,republic there. remained
Of these only G77, 1913. In the killed and
republic cost France 2,122,4O2 men
From 1901 to Waterloo, 3i,57,39S men
scarcely sufficed to fill the blanks, which
in an lncessant war against combined Eu-
| rope France incurred at Austerlitz, Jena,
Auerstadt, Friedland, Saratgossa, Eek
,nuhl, Essling, Wagram, Taragona, Smo>
lensk, Moscow, Lutzen, Bautzen, Dres-
den, Leipzig and Waterloo.
Under the restora ton Louis Philippe
and the second republic, in spite of the
war in Spain 1929 the conquest of Al
gicrs 1880 and the taking of Antwerp,
France passed through a comparative
calm. The army numbered about 213,-
74S, and the mortality averaged % per
1000: In 1885 commenced the epoch
ns39-6O), China (1SGO-D, Mexico 1862
- and the disasters of 1870. In the
Crin1ea, out of 3OO,269 men, 9J,G15 sue
cumbed; in Italy, out of 100000, there
died 1S,G73; in China, $50, and in Cochin
China 4S per 1000. The second empire
cost France about 100000 soldiers. Ac-
! cording to DR.. Langneau's Topographic
tables, the century from 1895 to 1895
| witnessed the death in battle or by dis
ease of 100000 French solders.-Lon-
don Lancet.
Sport in Alaska. ,5=m !
Doubtless Alaska will before long. be-
come a favorite hunting and fishing
ground for sportsmen that are content
with nothing less than primitive nature
The journey to the coast Of Alaska is nc
longer serious matter, and while the in
terror is still difficult to reach, it has an
agreeable summer climate, and is nc
worse region for camping than many
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