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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-12-18
WITHOUT LANGUAGE.
Why Deaf Persons Arc Naturally I'm
able to Talk.

10 be deaf is to be unable to hear, and
to be dumb is to be unable to talk. The
lack of hearing is remedied by teaching
the child to use his eyes and understand
either signs or the motions of the lips,
and the lack of speech is cemedied by
teaching the child to use his vocal Or
gans or his hands to make others under
stand, and, behold! the task is accom-
plishcd and he is ''just like other folks.
Not one thought is given to language,
to the wonderful medium of exchange by
means of which the business of life is
carried on, that is supposed to come
by nature or instinct, or miracle, but new
or by teaching. A cultured lady. a lit.
crary woman, said to me once, after see
Included every elementary sound in the
English language: "Now, if these chill.
dreH can make all these sounds correctly
why don't they go right on and talk
What hinders them?' She was brigh,
woman, and when a very short explana-
ton had been given her, the reason
what a fool l am! [ see, they've got
something to say, and the mechanical
ability to say it, but no language to say it
in" And in that one sentence she ex.
pressed the reason for being of all the
institutions and SCHOOLS for the deaf in
the country. NO language TO say 1t
ill.," that expresses the. condition Of a
very WE'LL but perhaps "and no language
to think it in" should be added. Let the
reader try for himself and see how much
consecutive thought he can accomplish
without words; and if, with his mind
trained by years of intelligent thinking,
he can do little unless the words come,
let him imagine, if he can, the state of a
off fro, In, >,
Popular Science Monthly for November.
Tips for Visitors.
This is the season, par excellence, of
country house parties" writes CORE
spondent in the Westminster Budget,
land it may, therefore, be as we'll to
remind visitors to these delectable places
that there is as strict etiquette concern
ing such visits as there is about any one
few of the clauses of the unwritten law
concerning country house visits, which
every guest should remember:
Never let your visit exceed even by
half a day, the time set in your hostess
invitation.
Never take friend or child with you,
unless they are specially asked.
DO not take great amount of luggage
for short visit
Ascertain the hours for meals, and adj
here to them rigidly.
When no special arrangements are
made for the morning, do not dawdlc
about as though lying in wait for your
hostess. Occupy yourself.
Always aid the hostess in any pleasure
project she may inauguratc.
Never accept a general invitation to a
house party. -
Do not sit silent at the dinner table.
If you are not good talker, at least
appear interested and amused by what
is going on around you.
On receiving an invitation to house
party reply at once, and, if you accept,
state the day and hour of your arrival.
Never ask to be allowed to postpone
your visit-either acceptEas asked, or give
1t LID. = - ~. Is = u.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-12-18
The Young Man and Marriage.

Marriage to certain degree a young
man is to look upon from a utilitaria Il
standpoint. A good wife is so much
capital. She makes him to be, by Il
kind of grace, great deal more than he
is by nature. She contributes the quail
ties needed in order to convert his yigor
into safe as we'll as productive eff
cheney. She introduces. for instance.
into his intellectual nature that ingredi-
cnt of sentiment which intellect requires
in order to be able to do it's best work.
Heart and brain need to conspire in Or
der to the attainment of the true, and
without caring to assert that man is
naturally heartless any more than |
should wish to assume that woman is
by nature brainless, vet heart in it's way
is Just as precious as brain in it's way,
and woman. so long as she is untainted
by the passion of wanting to be man,
will be that member Of the connubial
corporation that will in particular con-
tribute to the capital stock it's affec.
tional element. Some women may re-
sent this, but l would like to caution
young men against cherishing matri-
monial designs upon any woman who is
a wife, and not merely Il housekeeper.
yOn must keep your eye we'll open for
warm bundle of femininity that will
be to you in a personal way what the
fire on the hearth is to you in physical
way--a fund of tropical comfort that
will keep the stiffness out of your think
ing, the frost out of your feeling, and
the general machinery of your life in a
condition Of pleasurable activity.-Rev
Charles II. Parkhurst in Ladies' Home
Journal.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-12-18

part without risk to body and mind.
Cheerfnlness, sincerity, industry, perse-
yerahce and unselfishness may be ac-a
CURED by practice and constant repeti-
non, as much as the of correct speak
ing or OF playing the piano.. and are far
more necessary to health. GOOD House
keeping. ~ s. = =
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-12-18

Miss Gracea Fairweather is believed
to be the champion lady billiard player
of the world. She is native of New
castle, England, and is described as tall
and ladylike, and not yet y years of
age. s@szSs -
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-12-18
NAPOLEON ATTEMPTS SUICIDE.
But for Promptness of an Attendant H
Would Have Succumbed.

But for PrOmptness of an Attendant He
Would Have Succumbed.
Since 1903 he had worn about his neck
IS :. Einyl of amulet little bag said to
contain a deadly poison, one of the salts
Of prussic acid. That night, when the
tcrrors of a shaken reason oyerpowered
him. it is believed that he swallowed the
and his valet. rushing to his masters
bedside, at the sound of bitter cry,
claimed to catch the words: "Marmont
has struck Inc the fatal blow! Unhappy
man. | loved him! Berthier's desertion
has broken my heart! Ny old friends
my comrades il arms!' Ivan. the EN-:
and administered an antidote: the spasm
was allaycd, and after short sleep rea>
son resumed her seat. 1t is related in the
memoirs of Caulaincourt, and probably
with a sort Of Homcric truth. that when
the. reputed writer was admitted in the
early morning Napoleon's ivan and
s'lnken eyes seemed struggling to recall
the objects round about; a universe Of
torture was revealed i'll the vaguely DESC
late look Napoleon is reported as say
ing: "It is not the loss of the throne
that makes existence uncomfortable; my
military career suffices for the glory Of
a single man. Do You know what is
more difficult to bear than the reverses
rihle ingratitude of men. Before such
acts of cowardice. before the shameless.
ness of their egOtism, l have turned
away my head in disgust and taken my
life in horror. What I have suffered
for twenty days no one can understand"
Century.
Had a Right to 1t.
The Washington Star tells of caller
who an attorney in that city had the
other day: "He was an uncouth looking
individual and said he hailed from
Montgomery county, Mary land. Judge,
words O. advice well, what is it?
'rhar's a sto'keeper up my way, an
I've he'd good many dealin's with him.
fust and last I reckon I've seed him
put his right thumb in the scales hun.
dred times when he weighed things
bought We'll, you ought to have
stopped him. You can't collect damages
for that interrupted the attorney. 4
you want?' ssYo' see, we got in fout
yestiddy and I bit off that thumb, an
l. want ter know if, as many times as
bought it, don't own it. so that he KANT
git damages fer my bitin' it off,
Stopped Too short.
One Of the peculiarities of Prof. George
Henry Emmott, who has just left the
faculty of Johns Hopkins university to
return to England, was early nipped in
the bud by an irreverent youth. When
the professor came to an important point
i'll his lecture. he was in the habit of die
tating it TO. his students verbatim, an
nouncing every point of punctuation. and
using the phrase ''full stop for period at
the end of a sentence Another habit
was that Of briefly reviewing each day
the points Of the previous lecture. "Ah,
Mr.. P" he said one day, shortly
liter coming to Baltimore, "can you tell
me the lawst thing was saying yis-tid-
day?' The reply was: "Full stop.
sir. After that the professor rarely
uSad "full ston" ~
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-12-18
How to Use Channels.

Never use a dry channels for rubbing
polished wood. no matter how soft it
may be. rs it is material which col
lects and retains dust. For this reason
the idea that it is good for wiping eye
glasses and spectacles is most erroneous.
GLASSES which are habitually wiped with
d chamois-skin wiper will soon be
shopelessly scratched,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-12-18
A Mans Greatest HAHN

Noting, the tendency of mothers to
escape the care and responsibility of
training their own children, resorting to
nurses, g0yernesses. kindergartens. etc,
Edward W. Box. in the Ladies' Home
journal, vigorously contends that woman
should consider her God-given "duties"
to her children vastly paramount to every
ciaim' that can be made upon her time.
1T is one of the most baleful tendencies
OF the times" writes Mr.. Box, that
young children are placed so much and SO
entirely in the hands of nurses, and SO
TAR away from their mothers. do
not think that women exactly realize
what the early teachings and influences
OF mother mean to a man when he
reaches years of maturity. The time
which boy spends at his mothers knee
is never forgotten by the man. Our
morality is learned there: Our charac-
tcrs are formed there. We are most i'm.
questionable when we are in stage Of
absolute dependence upon others. What
to look back to Il line of nurses or gov
ernesses? What moral stimulus does he
receive from the recollection of mother
inevitably reading some novel and rest
ing in a languid stupor with fan and
smelling bottle? What moral fiber is in
stilled into child who sees his mother
only as she fits before him between
blHS tuIIo. 1tt1lCuCOuS. meetings., teas.
drives, dinners and theater parties
What does a boy learn at the knee of a
nurse? Good? Perhaps. But just as
often he learns that which is not good.
Many man has stood at the
forks of the good road in his life. broken
hearted and perplexed, only to have his
mothers words. uttered to him when a
child. come before him and point him
the way. 1t is then that he realizes
that the best thing=in the world to man
is to have had good mother, watchful.
tender and anxious. as only mother can
he where her child is concerned. In
those supreme moments the lesson
taught-rot by the nurse, not by stran.
ger. not at the kindergarten, but at the
mothers knee-becomes a precious rec
objection and benediction It means
then a mans salvation. And in that
quiet moment a man thinks of a good
mother as he never thinks of any other
woman \ look of tenderness comes
into his eyes. feeling of softness creeps
into his heart. and the attitude of his
earliest infancy comes to him as. uncon-
sciously, he looks upward and breath to
himself the most precious of all words:
Mother 1t remains for the mothers of
today to determine how much that word
will mean to the men of tomorrow
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-12-18
Beyond the Seas.

Among the illusions wh..n are hard
to give up none is more strongly cherished
than that which imputes to foreign travel
and European residence and study pc
culiar virtues which alone impart the
very quintessenee of refinement and Gull
ture. TO receive this stamp of Derfec-
ton astonishing sacrifices are sometimes
made, the hardest but not most ,lncom-
mon being the brea king up of homes
when wives leave their husbands and
take the children abroad. There they
settle down in one of the great capitals
or in some humber but educationally at
tractiye town: new languages are learned
people grow up amid alien customs and
Influences: but let us hope that not many
are so forlorn as Miss Woolson's Trans
planted Boy" who, poor little fellow, did
not even know his Fourth of July!
Hawthorne has well said that the
years, after all, have kind of emptiness
when we, spend too many of them on Il
thought, showing that Il prolonged resi-
dence away from the native air tends to
destroy the reality of existence. and that
eventually. between two countries, we
have none at ALL" This was found to be
literally true by at least one returned
Wandercr, who thus expressed her feel
ings of the disadvantages of such exile:
AAAoAA1St lOOh Ills ~ Ho"ltZerliuu Wien
l was only ~ years old, and I made
many friends among my schoolmates
there, but had to leave them when l was
IL. l came back to find my child
ish companions grown and caring nothing
tor me, SO that l am stranger at home.
and looked on as a bird of passage
abroad. This young girl spoke huentiy
three foreign tongues, but there was lack
ing that familiar language of every day
life which glances from theme to theme,
sure OF mutual understanding, and which
touches lightly on topics of common in
terest.
There was 4 time when the conditions
OF this country were such that only for
eIgn study could give that completeness
for which bright minds sighed, but the
last few decades have changed all that.
Our dear native land has grown in every
direction and notably in that of cduca-
tional advantages. Facilities for the ac-
qulrement of foreign languages abound,
and we can learn as many as time and
braln-poWer permit. and find within our
own borders countless opportunities to
practice the accomplishments with our
adopted fellow citizens. Still, the belief
IN the wondrous virtues of foreign travel
continues in full force. Perhaps it is the
longing for the mother country which
stlrs the blood of the descendants of Pill
grim and Cavalier, and makes the heart
thrill with the thought of that new
world which is the DID," and which we
OF the really new must ever long to be-
hold.-Harper's Bazaar.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-04-22
RAILROAD VALUATIONS ARE FIXED
Practically the Same Figures Last Year
are Decided Upon.

Topeka, Kan. April 2i.-The state
board OF railroad assessors held a meet
ing today and fixed the valuation
OF the Burlin gton. the Kan
sas City, Fort Scott and Memphis. the
Hutchinson and southern, the Kansas
City. Pittsburg and Gulf. and the $.
Joseph and Grand Island railroads al
practically the figures OF 1855. A slight
reduction was made IN the valuation of
some OF the Memphis short lines. The
valuation Of the Pittsburg and Cur
machine shops al Pi1tsourg was re-
5uced from 1850 20 $1,000. and the
machinery for the shops vas valued a.
$500
The valuation of Pullman and WaE-
ner palace cars vas fixed al $500 each
the same as last year The valGa zion
% tourist sleepers Eas reduced from
500 each - s. zoe.
TIE valuation - The A-chison u-Ioa
depot WAS Increased from - s75 -
SS2io4. while that Of The I.ssveu worth
union depot was left ne same as ln Iss5
The board decided % asses telegraph
Hr,es a. 50 nile for the frzf W-.re ana
so A mile FOR each additional wt-e. IT.
Guiding poles. Instruments. etc she
sane a. last year
Al t--eoo a mile. me same as last ysaT
except AZ terminal poists. where the
valuation VII % increased slightly.
TIE board VIII meet OF Thursday q
assess tie santa Re. Cn.oa Pacific. Als-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-04-22
Dress Reacts in Character.

There is such a thing as carrying re-
publican simplicity to an extreme,
Dignifed robings-as of a judge upon
the beDch--are calculated to empha-
size the idea Of judicial dignity. and
serve as object lessons in, veneratioD
and respect Apart from the aesthet-
les Of theithing. dress has certain NOR
al eficRncies and effects. When q
ward politician dons silk hat he il
no longer regarded by his associates
as possible participator in brawls
and prize fights. John Stuart Mil
notes il his Political Economy" that
one of the first evidences of progress
noticeable among certain black pee
pies of a southern cline was q desire
for ribbons and fancy articles of dress
which ina rude way a-guedthescoDing
of a new culture. No man rs a better
Christian for dressing in a sgovenly
fashion. Dress reacts On character
whether il be the-character'of the dUds
or the disciple.-N. Y. Observer
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-04-22
a LITTLE NONSENSE.

-"Oh, you are not so hot said En-.
snow. To which the sun merely
deigned TO answer: ~Come OF "a,
roof"
advertisement IN a Cleveland pA.
pr: ~Fanted-Cooking in private fam.
liz, where second girl Is kept without
washing. Address box 49,"
-Theodora-''They say Miss 3. oeIs
brated Der 10th birthday BY attending
the Leap Year ball" PrisciIl.-
WHAT A female medical student 20
young?" Tbeodor7--The bail was
.beid on February =. you knO~."--
Wrinkle.
-Nr. CriIasontcak-'sTise time for a
person 20 learn II when liz - YONG.
A a proof % this. reneEabe- that =
man never forrets his bett-z.- Nh.
Crinsoabesk--Ie may 10. forT-t IA
OWL. but take notice D. ofh=l forzr.A
those Of his wife "-Yoakers States
man
-Bro~D--Jur- bad 3 tax with
Thunpuasnn, Ire pianist. He szyz
that IN tie early part q ia carer
the critics zsEzilsd hin Wfthous
merry." RoblrAoo--~MrEs have bssra
5lcou raging Bro1a-~It Nza. At
ooe the be Wa az ths posni u kzEsng
rs bar ez---Brooklya Life.
--Chsriey is - tender-h~s-te<s. =
sid yozng M Toxins - ke< hus-
bands fr-rd.- Is hsg- Yes IAs.
. ghf. ~tca II cane bone late, I bard
hirn tel Hozssbody sbo ha8 rslks.l
TIA; far VIII BIN Thar ~ kisfy vas DO
fnx vii Iusf thfnk ef = r-Lza a. bzsy
a. Re Is ;akiny 80 uEch izierx&I n
yoor dumb ANIMAL
--Nr. CruzA;---IEis Is IL snasx.r-
E4-3 of orr wedding ~ LssA To
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-04-22
Think There Is Nothing la the y Ray Kill
ing Microbes

Chicago, III, April 2i--Ch!cago scien-
fists are breathing normally with r.
show Of feve-ishusss and but common.
everyday heart action. n spite q the
bulletins which Profs- Pratt and Wight
man are sending from their laboratory
20 herald me passing OF the wicked BAG
Illus
L Is said on good authority the bac-
Illus SUI lives The world : Offer
ing congenial soil and climate % whole
colonies. il IS claimed, either Of con
sumption. diptheris. or typhoid germs.
willing 10 locate and work FOR a liviu-
Europe also Is calm.
Professor Rotengen Up 20 midnight
expressed no fear over his Y ray be-
coming dimmei BY It's journey wish
ne Pratt comet through the realms %
bac;erioiogy and tbera qsutlcs-
Indeed. since the German sclezEs.
learned that M-. Il 3. Pratt tie e,ec-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-04-22
DESTRUCTION OF FORESTS.
The Vandalism of Lumbernen inSCslifer
MAS Timber Land.


MAS Timber Land.
In the University of California Maya
zine Mr.. Charles II. Shinn, in writing of
the lavish way in which the best parts
of the California forests have been
cleared away. states that in the Com
stock mines alone enough timber has
been used to build ell the houses needed
for a city of $4,000 inhabit-
ants. He has seen the bottom
Of O canyon crowded for miles
with the trunks of pines from each one
Of which few.fume blocks or a log of
butt timber had been cut, while the rest
Was left to decay. Not 20 mention the
thousands of acres,of the most magnifi-
cent coniferous timber known to Eran
destroyed by fires which have burned
out of the coil itsolfhnto great pits, it is
stated that the waste Of timber in the
redwood districts Yves even more ap-
palling than it hassbeen in the Sierras.
More than once the'worid's record for
the number of feet curt in a day has been
broken by some one of the sawmills of
the coast redwoods- So much lumber
is still produced by rival mill men that
it has not paid for cutting, and some Of
the large California firms of lumber
men have become bankrupt. Enor'
nous trees which represent from 500 TO
1000 years of symmetrical growth have
been sawed up with no profit, or with
act=:al loss, when, if they had been left
70 stand = few decades longer the profit
might have been $1,O00anacre.
At the time of the American occupa-
ton of California the forests covered
perhaps, $4,000 square miles. Half OF
this has been cut over or is inaccessible
or consists of species ofiless value than
those which have heretofore been cut.
It is often asserted california still
has 10000, 900 of magnifoent forest
lands; but the truth is that there is
left hardly $1,000, 900 acres. and much of
this has been cut away. Scientific
American
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-04-22
Do You Know

That the Frisco Line EST. Louis and
San Francisco railway is positively
the only line running two daily through
passenger trains from Wichita 20 st.
Louis, without change. leaving Wich-
tia at 1925 p. m, and 10:40 p. m, arriv-
ing in st. Louis at $50 p. m. and IFS
a. m. The equipment of these trains
is first class in every particular. con-
sisting of elegant reclining chair cars
(seats free) aid Pullman Palace Draw
ing Room Sleepers.
If you are going beyond ST Louis re-
member that connection with all lines
for the east, northeast and southeast
is made in the magnificent new Grand
Union station, st. Louis. the largest
and handsomest passenger station in
the world.
For sleeping car berths and all infor-
nation relative TO rates, routes, etc.,
call on or address
w. TORREY. Agent,
Santa Fe Union Depot.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-04-22
souri, Pacific. Rock Island and Missouri,
Kansas and Texas roads
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The present constabuiary strengu
Of Scotland IS but one policeman "a
every 1878 o. the population
The Official executioner of the sui.
tan of Turkey uses a silken cord in
strangling persons ordered to be put to
death
in the government of Saratov. in
Russia, horse thieves and cattle raiders
are lynehed when caught The latest
case Is the beating 30 death With sticks
of four men By the peasants ofLBiklei.
-Horseshoers in SaxOny are COM
PEELED to pass public examination ere
they are permitted To work at the busi-
ness. They must understand the care
and treatment of horses or they'will
not be licensed to shoe the animals.
Large bits of stone are falling from
the Paris Grand opera house, which has
been built only 20 years. A,survey of
the masonry of the building has been
ordered by the departmental fine'arts-
I'm opposition TO the bourgeois
::'Boeuf Gras" procession in Paris, the
Bohemians, artists, writer's and n5usi-
clans of Montmartre are going TO have
q festival of the "vache Enragee."
'nad cow" the proverbial diet OF
French prodigals.
French law favors the drivers and
carriage folk, and not the pedestrians,
and as a result, it is said, there were
more people killed in the streets OF
Paris last year than died from all the
diseases that Pasteur devoted his scr
ence to combat
I'm Great Britain and Ireland, from
1889 to 1893, inclusive, some 1925
strikes occurred. They affected 1882
1913 persons. The successful strikes af-
fected AS per cent. of this total num-
Der the partially successful, $40 per
cent, end the unsuccessful, 21.6 per
cent
The silent cab call is an invention
much 20 be esteemed which isnow com
ing into general use in London. Two
lamps. one red and the other green, are
suspended from the door of club sr
other public building. The porter
within has merely to press knob in
the entry hall, and either the red or the
green lamp may be illuminated, the
one to call four-wheeler and the other
q hanson.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-04-22

Mrs J. r. Bell, general agent for DR..
A. P. Sawyer's remedies, assisted by a
friend, will speak Ito the ladies of
Wichita at the Sons of Herman hall in
Getto block, on Thursday, April %, at
o'clock p. m. Admission 10c. En-
trance fee refunded TO purchasers.
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