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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-01-01

the power house. as it is only operated
when there is freight train to be
hauled through the tunnel. The manner
in which the load is handled is as fol-
lows: The boiler room is supplied with
blowers in place of stacks. and slow
fire is kept constantly under each boiler.
When a telegram is received that
freight train is approaching, the blower
is started. and ON the arrival of the
train steam has been raised in sufficient
quantity to supply the great demand put
upon the boilers. This Illustrated the
extreme fexibility of the system. and it
would be difficult to handle this load in
any other manner. Economizers are
operated with great efficiency in connec-
ton with an induced draft, as this
system permits the fue gases TO be
robbed almost entirely of their heat.
since it is not necessary to have large
quantity of heat in the tlue gases in
order to Great proper draft.-Electrica
,,ol
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-01-01
A. RESTFUL CHRISTMAS.
a Very Sensible Idea which Might be
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a Very Sensible Idea which Might be,
.& Borrowed from England.
The English people interject d very
sensible idea into. their enjoyment II Of
Christmas, which is in making an out
door day of it as far as possible. Unless
the weather is very stormy some portion
Of Christmas day is spent out of doors.
NO matter how busy the housewife may
be in her household she generally goes
out directly after the midday lunch or
dinner for brisk cross-country walk.
She looks upon at least two hours of the
day as being set aside for this, and she
Walking parues are frequently formed,
and the merriest groups imaginable 20
out for brisk fve-mile walk. With us
we either set before the fire or lounge,
sleep or talk away the afternoon. It
would be far better if we were to copy
the English ideal. Our climate has
changed so much that, asa general thing,
the ground is free from snow on Christ
mas day In most parts of the country.
Walking is rendered good by the frost
hardened roads, and the air is crisn
enough to give just the right vitality to
the exercise. If we live or are staying
in the country at Christmas the roads
are at our doorsteps. If we are less for
tunate and happen to be in the. city,
hour or two-even if more cannot be
spared-of outdoor life on Christmas day
would do much to seyive the spirits of
thousands of women, and bring them
back better equipped to prepare or super
intend the dinner or tea. The Christmas
cross-country walking parties of Eng
land, composed of men and women, ought
to be more widely copied by us than they
are.
All the highest medical authorities
agree that the increasing good health
and vigor Of American women are due
to the growth of forms of exercise and
sports which bring women more and
more into the outer air. The result is
that nervousness among women is on
the decrease, while the average of wom-
ans life was 8 per cent. higher during
1898 than in any previous year. This is
q! tendency in the right direction, and
the stronger the tendency becomes the
better it will be for us ALL A wise
physician has just written in medical
journal that 'as against an hour of sun
shine in the open air for woman's health
the best medicinal tonic ever concocted
by physical skill must bow it's head"
This is the idea to interject into our
Christmas festivities. If the morning is
spent within doors in the distribution and
endowment Of nrpSpntS and tho ovon;nO
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-01-01
smokestacks Abandoned.

Several of the large power houses built
during the last few years have a5an-
doned the use of stacks for producing
draft, and are operating by means of
an induced draft produced by fans
placed in the fiue or short stack. In this
case the stack is Just high enough 70
clear the roof. This system has many
advantages. First, there are no stacks
to blow down or fall down. and this
point is of special Importance; in a region
subject to tornadoes. The second and
most important advantage, however, is
the absolute control which it affords in
governing the fires, and this point will
appeal especially to those power houses
subject to sudden and rapidly changing
loads. As an illustration of this may be
cited the power house recently erected to
great part Of the time there is no load en-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-01-01

Borodino, and he set it on a camp chair
outside his tent, that the grizzled yeter,
ans Of the grand army might see it as
they filed past. Two months later Ma
Moscow. There were plenty Of French
sympathizers in this country, however,
and the pretty incident before Borodino
caused something Of run Of cup-and-
ball. The game, now almost wholly for-
gotten. was simply to toss us the ball
Girls in the old days never had skates,
which was pity. They played at
battledoor and shuttlecock, with rackets
like those used in tennis, only smaller,
driving back and forth q ball of cork,
in the top of which were glued two small
end, was always presented for the blow.
"Grace hoops" too, were highly recon-
mended for 'young misses of the quail
ty,. as tending to develop ease and grace
of bearing. A stick was held in each
hand, and the player was required to
catch on these sticks the hoop thrown by
the other player. Grace hoops are still
board, but they are thrown at stand
ard, in q game more resembling quoits.
And. by the way, grandpapa and the
other boys who played with him always
used cast horseshoes in playing quoits,
just as they used homemade soft
balr' in playing ''barn ball'' ''long hall'
or "two old cat" before baseball was
invented.
Children took life very seriously IN the
old days, and ''flled the station in life
to which God had called them as un-
questioningly as their elders. One little
girl who went from her Connecticut
home to boarding school in Boston,
took with her twelve silk gowns, but
soon petitioned for another of new
fabric "beitting her rank" OF course
everyone knows that silk was cheaper
than print cloth, when the latter waa 4
novelty. Mary Ann Faneuil, the 9;ster
Of Peter Faneuil, who built Faneg;i hall
in Boston, used to send to England her
discarded snuff boxes, buckles and glove
strings to be swopped in London for new
goods. Girls learned to save in their
earliest years, and were careful in trif1es.
IT one of them received an "umbrillo,"
she had given her merely the stick and
frame, and covered it herself. Every
girl had her own needles and sewing
tools: To keep those neatly and in
her. This was a strip of flannel or buck
skin, deliberately worked on one side in
beads or stitching. 1t was square at
one end and pointed at the other. and to
the latter were attached two ribbons to
tie it. On the inside were pocket for
odds and ends and one or two "books'
of flannel leaves for needles. An emery
ball, in the, shape of a red flannel straw
berry with green flannel leaves at the
base, was tucked in the pocket with
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-01-01
"A MiniStep,a Story

'Not long ago. says a Philadelphia
clergyman, Il made an earnest appeal
during a Sunday morning service for.
contributions to support a certain branch
of the church work. The ushers dis
tributed blank subscription cards, which
were to be filed out with promises TO
pay specified sums within Il year, aud re-
turned. One OF our leading members
filed out bis card for So, but by the
time the ushers collected the blanks he
had changed his mind and decided not
to give any thing. He held the paper.
in his hand until the church service
was over, and upon leaving the church
tore it up into little pieces and threw it
into the street. Providence had an eye
on that man, anss SO hid policeman
who stood on the corner. The latter ar
rested the erring brother for throwing
the paper III the street, took him to the:
police station, md had him locked up.s
4 The next morning he was fined 81. so
for violating city ordinance 8 New
York Tribune
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-01-01
CANES OF OUR Grandparents.

-
The great and general court of Massa-
chusetts, more than 200 years ago, for.
babe the sale or use of cakes and buns
except for marriages or funerals. +
Christmas was not worthy of being
made an exception, according to the
stern creed of these early lawmakers,
for, indeed, Christmas found no favor in
their eyes. Nor was it at all likely tina,
they would look with any favor upon the
making of toys. These, in fact, were
almost unknown in early years in New
England, though common enough in New
York and the South.
But human nature is patient, however
severely repTessed, and the children's
children of the early settlers had plenty
of fun at play. In some respects they
even had decidedly the advantage Of
the fortunate. youth Of 1896; for their
toys were almost all homemade, and
represented love and toll and ingenious
cOntrivance in the home circle.
The ''borghten" sleds that are now
made by the million, it would seem, and
sold in their cleaning red paint at "37
cents and upward are not, to any right
the homemade affair which grandpapa's
grandpa made i'll exact imitation of
big ox-sled, even to the cleft tongue" of
hardwood. Grandpa's sled had bent
runners of oak or elm, shod with strips
OF hoop IRON In still earlier times there
were no shoes at all. but the bare wood
was polished until it was as smooth as
glass by friction on the snow. The sled
was fastened together with pegs. The
beams, cut away beneath to the shape of
fiat arches, rested directly upon the run
ners, and the raves and floor directly
upon the beams, so that the complete
sled, no matter how small. would have
borne the weight of an elephants tread
To break it was simply impossible; and
implanted though it was, it would out
last two or three generations.
Grandparents skates were equally prim-
tive. Along in October, his father or
grandfather brought home a pair of
skate-irons hammered out and tempered
by the nearest blacksmith At home,
some rainy day was devoted to whiting
| out wood tops to fit to them, and for
fastenings huckskin thongs were used.
The simplest skate-irons were turned IN
lightly at the toe: others had elaborate
spiral curves. finished off with little
brass knobs, like those they used to but
on cows horns, only smaller
Of course, grandpa's skates were bet
ter than ours. There was time, TWEEN
ty or thirty years ago, when every boy
was crazy for a pair of short, club
skates, with "heel plates and other
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-01-01
HOW TO KEEP CHRISTMAS.
Lessons from the English Poets on the
Holidays Observance.

Lessons from the English Poets on the
Holidays Observance.
To learn how to keep Christmas in its
true spirit, one cannot do better than
to turn to the English poets, old and
new.
England was my England when
Old Christmas brought its sport again.
says Sir Walter Scott, and instead of
giving one little day to this festival. our
motherland devoted twelve days to IFS
commemoration. "
So now has come our joyfulest feast:
Let every man be jolly;
Each room with ivy leaves be drest
And every post with holly.
Without the door let sorrow lie.
And if for cold 1t hap to die,
Wen bury 1t in a Christmas pie
An ,evermore be merry.
writes George Wither, poet of the
Seventeenth century.
On every Christmas eve the bells of
old Cambridge ring out this ancient
coral:
God bless you. merry gentlemen;
Let nothing you dismay.
For Jesus Christ. our Savior.
Was born this happy day,
AS the song runs on. its burden is that
the holy tide of Christmas must efface
all evil memories and unite men in the
bonds of love and brotherhood.
Thackeray thus conveys the lesson of
Christmas:
Come wealth or want, come good or ILL.,,
Let young and old accept their part,
And bow before the awful will,
And bear it with an honest heart.
T. Who misses or who wins the prize
Go, lose or conquer as you can.
But If you fall or If you rise
Be each pray God gentleman.
Ny song save this is little worth,
lay the weary pen aside
And wish you health and love and mirth
As fits the solemn Christmastide,
AS fits the holy Christmas birth.
Be this, good friends, our carol still
Re peace on earth. be peace on earth.
To men of gentle viii.
Charles Mackay's Under the Holly
Bough" hreathes the true Christmas spir-
it by saying to all who have scorned or
injured one another: %
& Let sinned against and shining
Forget their strife's beginning
And join IN friendship now.
Be links no longer broken,
8 Be sweet forgiveness spoken -s
Under the holly bough. ..r-"
.. Tennyson sums up the teachings of
scores of Christmas poets when in verse
addressed to the bells he sings:
Ring out old shapes of foul disease.
Ring out the narrowing lust of gold,
4s Ring out the thousand wars of old.
n Ring in the thousand years of peace,
Z Ring In the valiant man and free,
The larger heart, the kindlier hand.
Ring out the darkness of the land,
Ring In the Christ that is TO be.
Boston Transcript.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-01-01
CAKES FOR CHRISTMAS.
70 Special Dainties Beloved by Juven-
L. E.E...Es lies mud Adnlfa. = =

Two Special Dainties Beloved Dy Juven-
: 81 -, lies and Adults. sss 4.. IL
English walnut cakes are made thus:
Stir to cream one cup of butter and
two Of sugar, and add the yolks of four
eggs, one cup Of sweet milk, four cups
Of -four, and three teaspoonfuls Of bak-
ing powder. Last add the whites Of the
eggs, beaten stiff, and one cup Of
chopped walnut meats. Butter a sheet
of square jumbo tins and half fill them
with the mixture and bake in moderate
oven. When cool frost them and place
on each d hnlfsof q walnut meat.
70 make crullers rub together one
and one-half cups Of sugar and piece
Of butter the, size of an egg. Add one
cup Of milk. three beaten eggs, half d
srat nutmeg and two teaspoonfuls Of
a,s, king powder. Stir in flour enough to
ina dough tllat can be rolled out iii
d sheet half an inch thick and cut it into
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-01-01
HURRICANE for Wire Rope,

Few users of wire rope and fiat cable
realize that these are machines with
many moving parts, each requiring lubri-
cation. The common notion is that a
lubricant for wire rope should be merely
some sort of thick tarry stuff, to act as
a preservative against rust and in part
to protect against wear. AS matter
Of fact every time the rope goes over q
sheave each strand and wire is chatting
against others and the hemp core Tin case
of round rope, hence the need of a thor
sough interior fabrication. It is evident
that Il mere surface coating will not
answer, so thut any substance which,
like linseed oil, hardens and strips is not
ID proper lnbric ant.
arious comp unds and mixtures of DIFF
sferent materials are An use, more or less
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-01-01

the skeins of yarn and other things.
When the hussif was rolled up, one end
formed a cup just big enough to bold
the thimble and the other end was tiny
pincushion. - ,.~.,*l-s. -
But boys and girls in the old days had
nothing like SO many toys as now. They
had toy wagons and wheelbarrows, toy
hoes and rakes and spades, all of which
were pretty early discarded :. for the
serious use of the real articles. The
girls sewed dolls with their own needles.
The boys. with their own knives, whit
tied out windmills and watermills, bows
maryels Of naive carving, boxes and
crossbows. If -. - q. 5.S HI .-3 Hi:
Whiting is almost a lost art; and it
is Il pity, because it was fine art e
49,. John Langdon Heaton. /
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-01-01
Boot-bIacking by Machiner !.

VI A Shelton man has invented q boot
backing machine The cabinet shows
your shoe in one and it comes out with
ID cont Of liquid blacking. Place 1t iii
another, and brushes put on the polish.
The machine is easily run by the amount
of power usually employed to run cof-
fee grind Hartford Times.
s5..1. The Arrival OF santa Claus.
Jp-to-D Date Young Miss tsSay, n.
Santa Claus, hope yon didn' & get those
things of the barg ain counter:
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-01-01
COMING, EVENTS.

The holly, on the wall will soon q.
Display its bright red berry, r. :.
Aid the mistletoe will shortly be
To the lnicrObe helpful. Very. -.
- ~ sasE~sss .s:%- Z s-.I)pfrnft TrfhuDn
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-01-01
81 Don't Anticipate Trouble.

Why destroy present happiness by
distant misery which may never come at
all, or you may never live to see it? Ev-
cry substantial grief has twenty shatl-
soWs. and most of them shadows of your
own ma king IS ydney Smith. &5:s
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-01-01

yer 5000 tons OF ore have been
thirty lay vs., ayerag ing from $50 to $50 to
the ton. improvements and facilities
continue Of ms great u rate as ever.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-01-01
5tropbe first

E&2fSVAlVE us comfort, Apnrodlte, thou art fair,
RSNa Lo the sunbeams light the meshes ofthy hair:
@&&1 And thy car is drawn by doves
To the height of human loves
VIII: thy perfumes float, like incense on the air.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-01-01

NEs5N1ROM Orient's spicy groves we come:
ISM Beyond the desert lies our home
EaeGsH Where, grand with jewels and with gold,
Our naughty kings their scepters hold.
We journey far and not Of choice,
In answer to a warning voice:
."Forsake the purple gates of morn,
Westward the worlds true King is born
Him should our thoughts more fifty deer,
Csadled in groves of Academic,
Or where the circling chariots speed
And b&rds rehearse the vctors need:
Or nursed at Egypts awful shrine
Where wells the wondrous flood divine
But mid the stars our guiding light
Hither doth lead-by day and night:
We follow with unwearied feet
The portent of the fates to greet.
The morning news., 1897-08-26
LOCAL Personal.

Mr.. J. E. Milton of Baxley was in the
city yesterday.
Mr.. w. A. Wilkins, Jr., of Statesboro
was in the city yesterday.
Mr.. NJ ]. Dean came up yesterday from
Darien, registering at the Pulaski.
Miss Georgia Fraser wiz leave Saturday
for visit to Jacksonville and Fernandina.
Fla.
Mr.. w r. B. Whitten of 0akdale was
among the guests registered at the De
Soto yesterday.
Miss Josie Ruth left yesterday far Guy
ton, where she will spend a month with
Mrs. Jewel Cubbedge.
Mr.. C. P. Staples, who is connected with
the Mallory Line at Brunswick, was at
the De Soto yesterday.
Among the guests registered at the
Sereven yesterday was Mr.. j. s. Smoak
of Young's Island, S. c.
Mr.. Leopold Adler returned last night
from New York via the Florida Central
and Peninsular railroad.
Among the guests registered yesterday
at the Pulaski was Mr.. ]. H. Guerry, who
came over from Dawson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph j. Gleason have
gone to New York. They will spend several
weeks in visiting the eastern and northern
resorts.
Miss Minnie Hetterich viii leave for her
home in Albany to-day, after a very pleas
ant visit to her cousin, Miss Georgia
Fraser.
Mr.. c. W. Haskins, controller OF the
Central railroad, spent yesterday in the
city, stopping over for the day while on
his way to Atlanta.
Mr.. Joseph S. Walker. general manager
of the Electric Supply and Construction
Company, left yesterday for Eastman, Ca,
at which point his company has just fin
ished installing an electric light plant
The Eastman plant furnishes 500 incandes-
cent and 40 arc lights, and will be a
great addition to that fourishing town
Mrs. Walker accompanied Mr.. Walker,
and will press the button" 70 start off the
Eastman plant
The morning news., 1897-08-26
WILL GO BACK no AMERIcUs.
The C. and 4. Omces Must BE Moved
hack by sunday.

The Georgia and Alabama railroad Of
ficers must so back to Amerlcus. The
handsomely appointed quarters that have
just been fitted up in the Kelly building
must be given up and back from whence
they came must go the disconsolate office
force of General Freight and Passenger
Agent A. Pope. This is in accordance with
the decision of Judge Littlejohn of the
Sumter superior court. who holds that Mr..
Pope is guilty of contempt of court in hav-
ing removed his offices from Amerieus,
when an injunction against his doing so
had been issued by the Judge
Judge Littlejohn filed his decision in the
two contempt proceedings yesterday He
adjudges that the company and A. Pope
are in contempt of court in violating the
restraining order and ordered the railway
and A, Pope to restore the books, records,
papers and furniture to the Office in Ameri-
Gus within five days from Aug. a. from
which Office he finds they were removed.
Mr. Gabbett, the vice president and gen.
eral manager, he discharged, the contempt
charge not having been regarded as hold
ing in his case.
The judge further stated in his decision
thatupon failure to comply with his order
he would issue such other order as might
be deemed necessary. But there is no
likelihood of another order being neces-
sary. The books records, papers and fur
niture of the traffic department.
offices are to be taken back to Americus
in obedience to Judge Littlejohn's order.
General Freight and Passenger Agent
Pope who was in Montgomery yesterday,
on learning of the decision. wired the Of
fies 10 get everything in readiness to move
back to Americus before Sunday. This
means a lot of work for the force of
clerks They have just moved in and now
Il means that they must move out. All
the records books and papers have been
put in place and now they must be drag
ged out. loaded on drays, taken 10 the
train, put aboard and taken TO Americus,
where the reverse process will have to be
undergone
This does not mean that Savannah viii
not eventually get the Offices Of the Geor-
gia and Alabama, or such part of them as
is considered necessary TO transact the
large business of the company at this
point. Judge Littlejohn's decision yester-
day simply restores the status quo exist
ing before the removal of the offices to Sa-
vannah. The traffic officials were a little
too previous in running off to Savannah
with their books and records while Judge
ittlejohn's injunction was pending and as
a self-respecting judge it was necessary
that he should enforce proper respect for
the orders of the court. The main question
of the right of the company to establish
branch offices where it pleases is still
pending. 1t is believed that as soon as the
injunction case is decided the officials will
be able to move over to Savannah. This
case has been heard and Judge Littlejohn
is now considering his decision.