The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-08-02

them suffer. You didn't know, indeed!'
Please, sir. I'll never do it any more"
sobbed little Julius very hnmbly, for he
please let me 20 III go right home and
never n stick pins in any. more buttrt-
NO! anot think yon willr,sroared
the butterfly ina voice that made J uli1s
tremble aIf@ over; II do not think you
will stick pins in any more butterflies;
but that is not saying that the butter
flies will not stick pins i'll you.'' --~ ,
"oh, please, wont do it any more"
sobbcd Julius, thoroughly frightened.
"lndecd | won't! l want to go home TO
my. mammal
'Well, you cannot 20 home now" said
the big butterfly, land that is all there
lis ABOUT 1t. We arc the butterfly police,
whose duty it is to guard this paradise
and protect the lives and property OF
the king.s Sub jccfs, and We
have caught you IN his syery dominions
trying tomurderhis own da lighter. Yes
that's it1-nurder, Bloody, wicked mur
der! And dozyon think that we are 90.
ing toSlef yon so, <home? no, indeed!
You will go to Jail until the king de.
cidcs what to do with you!"
Julius cried and begged. but the tw.
monstrous butterflies would not listen IT,
him at all Hc turned and begged thu
buttoril v princess. who still ssat 2 I'M
harmed on the tulip, to make the police
| men let him 20. but she turned her back
on him and would not answer him a
word.
Then the two giant butterflies crashed
him, one each side, by the arms, and
flew away with him through the air as
| easil ~ as though he had been no heavier
than gnat. carrying. too. his net, to
| show it to the butterfly king in proof
Of Ills wickednass. -.
What came Of it all I cannot tell YOU
till next weck.-Nclsonl Ayrcs in New
Orleans picayuue. -
How Beats Are Made.
+ Half Il dozen years ago many ia
dame rode out in her carriage Will
thousands of black and white bead.
| Topped and tassclcd upon her dress
There were pendants of beads ON hcl
hat: beads danglcd from her paraso
and her shopping bag tingled with beads
Children II, school wore them as orna
| ments-necklaces, bracelets and rings O.
| score of different colors
Today their use in the United State!
| has largelyqgone out Of fashion, excep
within certain narrow hxzxs,4 and til.
manufacture of them, still great in
dustry, depends for its SUPPORT mainly
upon South America, AGA and thu
islands OF the sea. In those countries
beads have been worn for hundreds OF
years. and fashion has little influence
upon their use. Indeed, if explorers are
to be believed. many black savage is
| clad in necklace of beads and very
| little else.
Chinese are the oldest bead makers r
the world. They have made beads SC
long that even their historians do no.
| mention Il time when the industry was
! not ancient. :" And the Chinese today do
tho work just as their forefathers did
| and the styles are exactly the same
After the Chinese no people. are sc
| expert as. the Venetians. al presen
| there are more than 1000 workmen il
! the islandspf sNIurano alone who are en-
| gagged in bead making The few. manu-
facturers IN Sother parts of the worIe
| have all learned the secret of the Graf
in Venice.
For bead making there must be 6
rope walk connected with the glas:
factory. a rope walk =isA a narrow
straight gallery about $50 feet long. ant
so situated that the middle is not fal
from the furnaces in which the glass is
| melted. The first process is the making
of ordinary tubes like those used in al
most every drug store. Two Drawn!
| workmen, with bare. brown arms, seiz.
Il huge wedge of the metal, "=1as. tn,
! molten glass lis called. between thci
| blow pipes. and after it has been blown
hollow they gradually stretch it out into
| a long, swinging rope.
When it has been reduced to the proper
size for the beads about to be made. il
is laid away to cool. after which IA work
| man comes along and in a wonderfully
deft manner chips it into fragments OF
! uniform size. Often for small beads
these are not much larger than grain O
| wheat, but so carefully is the work don,
! that the little cylinders are rarely cracked
| or spoiled.
and placed in tub with sand and ashe.
| and stirred up carefully. In this way thu
| holes in the embryo beads are stuffed full
| thus preventing the danger of the side:
hattening together when heat is applied.
They are next placed in a skillet jus
such one as the housewife uses in fry
! ing eggs-and stirred over a very hot fir,
until the. ragged edges where the piece
| were broken from the tube are rounded
giving the bead a globular form. AS sool
rs they are cool the ashes and sand ar
shaken out of them in Il sieve and thcl
they are separated according to size b.,
other sleeves. They are taken next to
long table around which whole flock O
boys and girls are sitting. If the glass l.
rolorrd. as it often is. the piles of head
on the table suggest a rainbow. with ever.
hue. from jet black, through red. green
! yellow and blue up to white.
! Each child $ hasa needle and thread
and by long practice the beads areeplace,
on strings With almost inconcevabl
swiftneSs. And the children keep an ex
act count, too, so that the manufacture
knows just how many beads he is send
ing out The threads are tied into bun
lies and shipped to almost every por
where vessel touches. --Chicago Record