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The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-11-03

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Lanes Family Medicine.

When some men have nothing else to do,
they argue religion. Washington Demo.
crat.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-11-03

l count life just to try the souls strength
on.-Robert Browning.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-11-03
MRS. PETERSON'S STORY.

/ have suffered with womb trouble
over fifteen years. Ihad Inflammation,
enlargement and displacement of the
womb.
The doctor wanted me to take treat
ments, but had just begun taking
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-11-03

AAeAA y
Compound, and
my husband
Said 1 had
better wait =
and see -
how much a.
good that =
would do =
me. 1 was
so sick when l
began with her
medicine, / coul
hardly be on m
feet. 1 had th
backache con-
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AFTER MANY YEARS.
The Point of His Wife's Joke Came
to Him.

The Point of His Wife's Joke Came
to Him.
The old English peer sat alone in his
ancestral halls, and the freight played
fitfully upon his wizened features.
He was a typical British autocrat.
AS he sat there he thought of his dead
American wife, now gone, alas! for
more than so years. He had been one
of the earlier pioneers in the title-sor-
dollars matrimonial market. But she
had been a good wife to him, and be
had loved her in his cold, unsympathetie
way.
What a merry little thing she was
when he first met her in the United
States-alway full of her fun! 1t had
not been the kind of fun tina, appealed
to him, young as he was, too, then, but
still he knew when she wanted 20 amuse
him. There was little of her sayings
that he forgot, whether he understood
them or not, and mostly he diGn't.
And as he thought Of her as she used
to be he sighed softly, and mourned the
dear departed.
Fifty years ago. All, mel
How lonely he was now!
Suddenly he burst into & roar of laugh
ter. He doubled mp in the chair and fell
OF ON to the floor. There he writhed in
the cXubcrauce of his mirth. 1t was for
tunate none Of the servants happened in.
lie rolled around and shrieked with
merrimeut, this usually staid old Eng
fish earl. and he hoWled wildly with
frantic glee. Several minutes elapsed
before he could contain himself. Moth
ing of the kind had ever happened be-
fore TO him. But
He had Just seen the point Of one OF
his late wife's jokes.
Fifty years ago Al, me!-N. X.
Journal
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China's Fnmous Criminal.

K'Ang, whose many crimes in emma
have kept parts OF that country in ter
ror for years, has at last paid the pen.
atty of his misdeeds. Mail adviees
brought by the steamer Rio Janeiro the
other day say that, emboldened by his
long immunity from capture, I'Ang laid
siege to the heart OF the daughter OF
a high Manchu official of the imperial
court, whom he succeeded in inducing
to elope with him early in January.
There was great commotion following
the flight of the couple, and the Pc
king police bestirred themselves so en-
ergetically that he was captured late IN
the month. KAng was taken to Pc
king, where he was tried before a spe-
cial tribunal, and although cruel tor
lures, such as kneeling on heated iron
chains, being pricked with red-hot
needles, etc, were inflicted to make him
confess to 30 robberies, with murder Ill
each case. of which he was accused,
he would divulge nothing. Ncverthe-
less, he was condemned to suffer death
by the slicing process. On the day he
was led to die K'Ang sang songs all the
way to the execution ground, and kept
singing even after several cuts had been
inflicted A stab with dagger in the
region of the heart then silenced the
desperado's voice, and the rest of the
slicing and the fnel severance of the
head from the body were carried out IN
silence.-San Francisco Cor. New York
Sun,
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SHE MADE A GREAT MISTAKE.
Thought She Would Make Tom Hap
by, Hut Both Are Now Miserable.


Daughters of wealthy men who fal.
in love with their fathers employees are
not entirely restricted to novels. There
is Il Chicago merchant whose conf.
dental man has for some time been a
sutton for his daughters hand. There
is another departure from tradition in
the fact that his love affair is mol as
violently opposed as it might be. He is
q thoroughly capable and upright fell
low and his prospective father-in-law
probably doesn't see why he wouldn't
do Just as well as a club man or perhaps
a nobeman for his daughters husband,
OF course, the two lovers like to be as
much as possible in each others com
pany, and try all sorts of little schemes
and inventions to bring this happy state
of affairs about.
The other evening when the young
man, whose familiar name is Tom, called
at the home of his faneee, she was per-
fectly radiant.
ooh, Tom, | have just the best piece
of news to tell you," she said to him.
Indeed" was his reply. Tell it to
me right away"
81 know you will be so glad l did it, u
she continued.
Ibid what?"
I'm going to tell you all about it,
Papa said this morning that he was GO
ing to California to be gone month,
He said I'd enjoy the scenery and the
climate, and he thought there wasn't
any trip that I'd like so much. Oh, he
wanted me to go awfully bad, but just
thought that | wouldn't see you for a
month, and so | took a stand. | must
have made so excuses. Finally l told
him that I'd promised to go to Cousin
Maude's at Lake Geneva, and that just
couldn't break my promise. So at last
he let me eff. 1t was hard work, and I'm
almost afraid made him angry, but
knew you'd be so glad"
"Yes-unl-of course" responded
Tom. t..
"Well, you don't look half as glad as
I thought you would"
"No-I-" he began.
"Then you're not glad" she said in a
tone of mixed surprise and disappoint-
ment,
well, no, darling" he said, you sec
I'm to go with him."-Chicago Times
| Herald.
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SCHOOL AID CHURCH.

The highest church mot eathedfal)
steeple in this country is that of St
Walburg's, Preston, which is 3o3 feet
In altitude.
As many as $4,000 people have been
accommodated in St. Paurs cathedral,
but that has been with temporary gai'
leries. etc. erected. On festivals only
between 5000 and 1000 people find
seats. At an ordinary service about
1000 people will make the cathedral
look quite full.
The average attendance at places
of worship in England and Wales Is
computed to be between 100000 and
II .o0o. 900 persons. There is a place OF
worship for every 500 individuals, talf-
ing the country all through, and a
stated minister for every 700. About
10000 sermons are preached every Sun
day.
The only spot in the world where
women are paid the same salary as men
for identical work in the state schools
is Wyoming, where they have had the
vote for nearly 80 years, and an agita-
ton for the same equalization of pay
is now presenting hopeful activity in
New Zealand, where also women vote
for members of parliament.
blessed Peter Fourier de Matain-
court, who in the sixteenth century re-
formed the Premonstratentian order
and founded the Notre Dame congre-
cations of teaching nuns, is about to
be canonized and made into full saint
Pope Aeo has sent out 40, 900 invitations
fer the ceremonies, which will take
place in ST. Peters. The last survivor
of the saints family, NJ. Fourier de
Baucourt will be present. He was for
merly French charge d'affafres to the
vatican.
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HUMOROUS.

The person who is afflicted with
kleptomania always feels that he eugEs
to take something for it.-Tit-Bits.
-Hazel-"Why don't you like ,ha
stories Mrs. Tallter tells?" Nutta.
"They have no terminal facilities"
Truth.
-Sprocket-"Did your wife run int
anything when she first got her wheel ~
Bloomer-"Yes; she ran into debt"
Brooklyn Life.
--May-"Oh. l hate these magazine
serials!" Edith-"Why?" Mayl"Yon
can never tell how story ends until II
is finished. brooklyn Life.
Nothing MISUNDERSTANDING
is the matter with you this mornings
You look as though you were on your
last legs" Lowe-"0hl I'm not myself
at ALL" High-"Well, that's nothing tn
feel SO bad about. Brooklyn Life.
Il suppose you may say the honey
moon is at an end when the husband
begins to stay out late at night?" Not
exactly. 1t doesn't really end until the
wife can go to sleep again without be.
lieving what he has to say for himself.s
Truth.
My daughters are making very sat
sfnctory progress with their music" re-
marked Mrs. Snaggs to Mrs. Noomoney.
'sThey play four-handed pieces on sim
gle piano. Indeed" replied Mrs. Moo
money proudly. "My daughters don't
need to play on one piano. Each of
them has a piano of her own."-Pitts.
burgh Chronicle-Telegraph.
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New Odors for Flowers.

1t is fad in Paris to perfume flowers
artifcially. Experiment has proved
that it is possible not only to take away
the natural odor of a flower, but also
to make It yield Il perfume derived
from some other vegetable product.
Some violets, for example, are perfect
in form and coloring, but without fra
GRANGE, while others, very insignificant
to look at, emit a delicious fragrance.
The transfer of the odor from one spe-
cies to the other has been accomplished.
Those who have been most successful
in this branch of horticulture refuse
to tell their secret. 1t is said that the
African marigold has been robbed of
its disagreeable odor and endowed with
a perfume that makes it much sought.
The fad has been carried TO the extreme
of giving to the sunflower the odor of
the rose and 10 the chrysanthemum
that Of the violet.-N. Y. Sun.
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oERM-PRooF DIR. BURGESS.
Guards the United States Against
Epidcmics from Cuba.

Epidcmics from Cuba.
DR.. Burgess is a remarkable man. He
has been in Cuba for many years. He
has sailed through epidemics of all sorts
cholera. yellow fever, and smallpox
without the slightest fear or nervous
ness, and insists that he was born to be
hanged. Disease has no terrors for him.
With a disposition as kindly and man
ners as gentle as those of Florence
Nightingale or Clara Barton, be can be-
come roaring lion if anyone attempts
to interfere with him in the perform
ance of his duty, and he has the courage
to defy the captain general and all the
armies of Spain if his official rights are
infringed upon, because he realizes
that the public health of the United
States depends upon his vigilance. just
now Cuba is suffering from an epidemic
of smallpox. In several places on the
island the disease is raging, and in Ha-
eana the death rate from that cause
alone averages 100 a day. When the
rainy season begins, and the summer
heat comes. yellow fever will break out
again, and DR.. Burgess stands between
those epidemies and the people of the
United States.
The harbor of Havana is eesspeol
which for years has received the drain
age of the city, and is virtually Guide
sac, with no means of being secured by
tides or fresh water streams. The
docks of the citysidc of the bay are To-
torious as foci of infection. Under one
of them the sewer from the military
hospital, where contagious diseases Of
soldiers are treated, discharges its filth
and germs into the bay. 1t is said that
10 ship has ever tied up at that wharf
without disease breaking out among
the crew. and the sailors call it dead
mans hole" DR.. Burgess eompels all
vessels bound for the United States TO
anchor as far away as possible, at the
extreme end of the harbor, where the
currents from the ocean keep the water
in motion, and no person is allowed to
board one of these ships without per-
NIT with his signature. No steamship
agent is allowed to sell ticket until
the applicant produces such permit,
and none can be secured until DR.. Bur
CESS is satisfied that he is in good health
and has not been exposed to con-
tagious disease.
During the smallpox epidemic he has
required all persons desiring to sail for
the United States to show evidence OF
recent vaccination. If they cannot do
so he yaccinates them and compels them
to remain in Havana until the virus
"takes." This is often annoying, but
DR.. Burgess is memorable. During the
last winter people who have gone to
Havana for a two days stay have been
required to prolong their visit for II
days. But he argues that the incon-
venience of one person is not to be con-
sidered when the health of n whole ma
ion is at stake.-Chicago Record
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HAM AND EGGS.
CHARMING MUSIC.


man with an eye for the odd went
in, took seat and was waited upon by
young woman.
you have music here?" he asked.
From eight a. IN. until II, and from
four p. m. TO six" she said.
why not all day2'
"From about 11:30a. m. to one p. m Is
the rush. We have to keep the Gust m
ers moving If we had music then The
customers at the tables would linger
and we wouldn't do as much business
Your sign indicates that music IS
furnished with ham and eggs only. II i
should order bean soup would get any
music with ?"
The young woman became confused,
but the customer assured her that he
was not trying TO be funny.
''Does it make any difference how the
eggs are ordered?' he asked, "as to the
music that is furnished? | know that
when you speak of ham and eggs you
think of the eggs in that state which IS
described as turned over or sunny side
up. But in my own case | should not
want them that way. l want my eggs
hard-boiled. In that case what would
the orchestra play?'
at amt an orchestra"
"Well what is the music which you
furnish-it makes no difference to NE.
like even jew's-harp."
do you want ham with your hard
boiled eggs?" she asked, evadiag the
customers query.
THAT is what / wish to know. Goul
sign conveys the information that youl
ham and eggs and music go together. j
there is anything in the meat line
abhor it is ham. If | do not order the
ham l suppose do not have the music
OF course, could order the ham and moi
eat it, but that would rot be fair. Yol
certainly do not wish me to pay you fol
anything I do not want
1.-THE music plays just the same, NJ
matter what you eat" said the young
woman, having got second hold on hel
spunk. you don't have to have ham i.
you don't want it,
"But the sign says ham and eggs ant
charming music"
"Well, just told YOU that you didn'
have to have ham if you don't want it. .
"'rhen the sign does not mean what i
says?n
You can't get no music, nohow, thi
time O. day." she said. mo dfferene
what you order. 'Tain't the time o da,
for music. If it's music you're looking
| for you'll have to come in later"
"Then you have deceived me. I shal
have to go to the opera for my music nm,
get my hard-boiled eggs elsewhere. d.
you know that your place is obtaining
money under false pretenses?"
And this is why there was sign.
is not there now The proprietor re
moved it after he had heard OF the funG,
| mans idotic remarks.-N. Y. World.
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More Than Yhat.

"Why is it," lie inquired, that you
persist in referring to Morgan's wife az
his better half?"
John Henry" she returned, indig-
nantly, "if you think you can argue OF
brighten me into abandoning the use OF
that excellent descriptive phrase better
half you are mistaken"
''But, my DEAR" he persisted, Gin thi.
case it is so absurd"
"The reference to a wife as the better
half is never absurd she asserted.
Well" he said, resignedly, "frou
your point of view that may be so, but
when the wife weighs ESQ pounds to tbs
husbands 1875 it seems TO me Ike gooC
deal of an arithmetical absurdity.
should call her more than a better half ,
Chicago Post
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Quick and Witty.

Lord Young is said to be one of the
ablest Scotchmen on the bench or at the
bar. At least, he has ready tongue.
One day in September he was driving
into town from his place in the country
when he met an acquaintance. "Hallo!"
said the latter. what are you doing
here? ] thought all respectable people
were out of town" ''Well," said the
other, ''have you seen anything to make
you alter your opinion? ! haven't"
At the time of the general election of
1892, he was visiting at Dalmeny house,
and the report came that Lord Wolmer,
now earl of Selborne, had been returned
for the Western division by majority
of three, over Mr.. T. r. Buchanan. Soon
after some one came in and said that the
majority was 200. He added that Lord
- and Lord - had voted for VOL
mer. "Ah," said Young, that accounts
for the two ciphers. "-Youth's Com
paniOn
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TREES THREE INCHES TALL.
Cornell Secures Several Good spect'
mens from the ARCTIC negIOns.

Cornell Secures Several Good Spect'
mems from the Arctic Regions.
The most interesting feature of the
forestry and herbaceous collection OF
Cornell university is one recently added
consisting of specimens of perfect for
est trees less than three inches high,
They were brought to the university
from the Arctic regions by party OF
explorers sent out by the institution
itself. The most notable features of the
collection are the Arctic birch and the
owberry.
The specimens which Cornell has were
found on the Greenland coast, some at
Godhaven, on the Isle of Disko. Others
were discovered at Wilcox Head, where
the exploring party that secured speei.
mems did most of its work.
a curious difference between this
liliputian birch and the ordinary forest
tree of the same species is that the
Arctic specimen bears fruit. The trees
On the island of Disko were covered
with fruit when the explorers found
them What is more, this fruit is edi'
BILE. It has a taste not unlike the juni'
per berry, and is said to be exceedingly
| healthful.
The second notable specimen is known
as the crowberry, or, as the scientist
terms it, the Emporium Nigrum.
A third specimen of the dwarf trees
which was brought back by the Cornell
party was the Arctic willow. There is
the Arctic willow proper, and then what
| is known as the "bear" willow.
These little trees which have beer
described are of exceeding interest
apart from their rarity and place of dis
covery, from the exact resemblance II
every slight detail to the great trees
! of the same species found in the forest
of the United States. For instance, tn
leaf is precisely the same, and the gen
eral appearance of the wood exhibit
no difference. With the willow it i
curious to note the leaf formation ant
the quality of sap that exudes from
twig when the bark is removed there
from. The texture of the wood is pre-
cisely the same. One can make yer.
fair whistle out of the trunk of any o
the Arctic willows equal in quality t.
that which the youngster evolves from
the branch of the willow of ordinar.
| Zp-N Y Herald
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cuPlD'S CORNER.


Away ap IN tire attic where the wind says
..Hoo-ool"
And the boards are warped and shrunken
and the breeze steals through.
We wero seeking after treasure in a rainy
day In June,
That her sunny smiles we're changing 10 d
golden afternoon.
loved her. yes. worshiped her. but really
did not dare
To summon up my courage and declare II
then and there.
And of my beating heart / asked. oh.
what am l TO do
Away up In the ttic?"-and the wird said
'soo-oo!'
She heard the winds low whisper and
within her smiling eyes
] seemed TO read the hidlen words: He
only wins who tries
Ny heart sprang up g ell Its love, and
kneeling at her feet
/ won the cherished vew that made NJ hap
piness complete.
And now I say to lovers who are eager to
possess
A promise from the dear ones who their lot
In life may bless.
II you would gain the happy prize You ar
IDENTIFY pursue
Go linger IN the attic where the wind Gays
'.woo-oo!"
Nixon Waterman. IN L. A. W Bulletin.
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Color harmony, space or PLAIN surfaces
of color, is what is needed to transform
20 out of every 100 inartistie rooms.
Painted woodwork is more desirable
than natural finish for bedrooms, OF
wherever especially dainty effects are
desired
A single large rug is less troublesome
than several smaller ones, but if the lat
ter must be used, do not arrange them
fantastically, as though the object YVES
to display them rather than to make IN
effective foundation for the furniture.
The coloring Of oriental rugs is less
likely TO be out of harmony with wall
decoration than amy other foor-coyer'
iUg.-Chcago Record
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APE WE MiCROBES2
A Theory That Human beings ana All
ira .ro Ay.revo tions af Them.

A Theory That Human beings ana All
Life Are Aggregntions of Them.
NJ. Paris, who succeeded to the seat
Of the great Pasteur in the French acad-
envy, referred in his inaugural address
to the interesting theory that human
beings and all life are aggregations OF
microbes.
"The Microbes he said, "were known
before Pasteur, but the part which they
played in nature was not clearly dis
cerned. They penetrate into the tbs.
sues of the human body and produce in
fictitious disease; they people the air;
they fill the water; they satIrate the
soil; dwell in animals and plants; they
develop us, serve our purposes, and
threaten us from all sides.
"Nay, they are perhaps ourselves
The life of superior beings appears tc
science as the result of myriads of these
elementary existences. Theii colonies
more and more populous and differen
tiated, composed from the merest in.
sect to the rose, the cedar, the eagle. The
whale, the man, the immense and daz
cling network in the meshes of which
they ceaselessly circulate, destroyed
and yet renewed, ever since there La.
been produced and without doubt pro
duced by them on this globe of our.
the mysterious dawning of life. This
therefore, is what the study of microbes
has revealed to amazed Humanity
| n. Y. Journal.
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Against BantIsm DISPLAY,

Very recently in England and France
as in the old days long gone, the hap
tism of infants has grown into the pro
portions of important social functions
The most elaborate ceremonial decora-
ions. splendid luncheons and extrava.
CANT frocks are paraded, especially on
he occasion of the christening of a
first child or an heir to estates. The
rites of baptism and feasting afterward
occupy at least half day, and the baby
5 brought forward with undue prom.
nence.-St Louis Republic.
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a Mrnnr Imnrcssinn-

as that you, Frank?' asked Mrs. Ten
pot, in q nervous voice, as she heard
some one moving about in the dark
ness.
ut is, " replied Mr.. Tenspot.
81 gave me such a shock. thought
It lirst there was g ma1 IL the house "
N. I. World.
The Van Buren press., 1897-06-19

Witness-Your honor, ! can't read or
write.
Judge-As the witnes can't sign his
name, the clerk viii fiji out q blank set
ting forth that the undersigned pro-
iesses to be unable to sign his name, to
read or write, and declares himself ut
terly illiterate.-Journal Amusant
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TheParson-Your neighborlools ike
L very persistent man. He doesn't
look as If he would give up anything
The Deacon-Well, I've been passing
The plate for hard on ten Jcars, ard l
never see him give up anything yet
Yonkers Statesman.
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TrouhIc I'oIioYyed, of Course

"No," said the gentleman to whom
The question had been submitted. Jim
mieks is not yet in the heavyweight
class, though ! think he will grow. In
the meantime / think be will do Wetcr-
weight
And that is the reason Of the riot call.
-Typographicai Journal.
The Van Buren press., 1897-06-19
Amending II.

Cumso Ito Threds)-Nct counting
you, how many cltsks are there in this
store who can tell the truth?
Threds (highly indignanD-Sir?
Cumso-Oh, well, dom be cross about
Il. How many are there, counting YOU
then Harlem Life.