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The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1897-05-01

the slopes of an Hibernian Parnassus-
gay troubadour who prefers to seren-
ade a rustic lassie on the banks Of the
beautiful lakes Of Killarney to pay his
devoirs to high born danes in silk and
brocade. cannot resist the temptation
of giving a charming picture of life in
an Irish village by the sea, in the poem.
Herring is King"
Let all the fish that swim the sea.
Salmon and turbot, cod and ling.
Bow down the head and bend the knee
To herring; their king, to herring.
their king.
Sing Hugamar fein an sour a lin,
IT'S we have brought the summer in.
The sun sank down so round and red.
Upon the bay, upon the bay;
The sails shook idle over head.
Becalmed we lay, becalmed we lay.
Sing Hugamar fein an sour lin,
'Tis we have brought the summer in.
Till Shawn the eagle dropped on deck,
The bright-eyed boy, the bright boy.
'Tis he has spied your silver track,
Herring our Joy, herring our Joy.
The Manx and the Cornish raised the
shout,
And joined the chase, and Joined tine
chase;
But their fleets they fouled as they went
about,
And we won the race, and we won the
race.
For we turned and faced you full to
land,
Down the Colleen, the Colleen long,
And after you slipped from strand to
strand, Z: @
Our nets so strong, our nets so long.
Then we called to our sweethearts and
our wives,
"Come welcome home, welcome us
home,"
Till they ran to meet for their lives
Into the foam, into the foam.
O the kissing OF hands and waving caps
| From girl and boy,
While you leapt by scores in the lasses'
laps. t.'.'.
Herring our joy, herring our JOY.
Sing Hugamar fein an sour lin,
'Tis we have brought the summer in.
His two Irish idyls is also picture
Of rural life in two parts, the first of
which represents the singer and Moll
Maloney "sated on a single pony" and
"trottin' to the fair" while in the Sc
quel we find the happy couple now man
and wife "joultin' to the fair" with the
brother between them. Among his 9TH
er ballads are Saving the Turf" my
Bonnie Cuckoo" "The Low-Backed
Car" "Tack, the Jolly Ploughboy,"
"O'Curnan's Song,' "The Irish Spinning
Wheel Nancy, the Pride of the West
and the Banks of the Daisies
Mr.. Graves is particularly successful
in his love poems, perhaps for the very
reason given by pleasant Ned Lysaght"
that love is the soul of true Irishman.
Mr.. Graves has written thoroughly Irish
courting songs One of them is Fixing
the Day." penned In the shape of a dia-
1ogue betweeen Patrick and Kitty. Mr..
Graves can turn of love madregals also
In the choicest of English. as his lines,
"By Innisfallen's Fairy Isle" more than
amply demonstrate. ''The Fairy
Branch" a bardic tale, is very fine
poem. On, one occasion before the fes-
tivity of st.. Patrick's Day Mr.. Graves
penned the following lines on shamrock
leaves:
Oh! If for every tear
That from our exiled eyes
Has fallen, Erin, dear.
A shamrock could arise,
We'd weave garland green,
Should stretch the ocean through
All the way between
Our aching hearts and you.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-10
Change of Color In Animals,

Observation and experiment go to show
how large an influence food has in deter
mining the color of animals. Everybody
knows how easily the color of the yellow
canary may be altered to an orange rel
by mixing cayenne pepper with it's food.
though it is true that the color change
may be produced only in the very young
birds whose feathers are not completely
matured. 1t is also a matter of expert
ment that all varieties of canaries are not
equally susceptible to the influences of the
pepper. and it is very curious fact that
if the pigment that causes the red color
Of the pepper be mixed with the food of
the bird without the otner constituents,
yellow-colored canaries are not in the
slightest degree affected by it. while
brown birds or the brown feathers of yell
low birds become distinctly lighter in hue.
Here is another interesting experiment:
The large tortoise shell butterfly normally
feeds upon the leaves of the elm, while
the small tortoise shell is addicted to net
ties, but when some images of the large
tortoise shel! were bred from caterpillars
that have been found upon pettles, they
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-10
The Beers Daughter.

The Beers daughter must not become
domestic servant except Oh condition of
having her meals with the family, says
a Johannesburg correspondent of the
London Telegraph. "If my child is not
good enough for your table, she shall not
live in your house," said father. A
poor woman withdrew her son from an
Office because he was learning some duty
which she deemed mental, and, "thank
Cod said she, "my family never yet
did any slavery of that kind" A gen.
tlcman whom knew secured employment
on the railway for a young fellow as por.
ter. On the very first request of II pas.
senger to lend hand with luggage he re.
piled Indignantly, "What do you take Inc
for? Do YOU think I am Kafir?'
These poor folks cannot forget that they
once had farms. and were independent
For two centuries they compelled the
service of lower race, and now they
would rather starve than work like O
Kaftir." For various reasons they have
lost their lands, and it is bitter cry tina,
is being raised throughout South Africa
that these lands are passing into the
hands of strangers, and the erstwhile
landed gentry of the country are face te
face with the dread alternative, "'worE
or starye, n 3s%s 49,: +.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-10

books and universities cannot impart,
All the colleges on earth could not by
combined effort make the kind of man
we call genius. hut such a man may at
any moment be born into the world, and
1t is as likely to be in a PEASANTS cottage
as anywhere,
There is nothing in which men differ
more widely than in the capacity for i'm
hihing and assimilating knowledge. The
capacity is often exercised unconsciously
When my eldest son, at the age of 6, was
in the course of few weeks of daily in
struetion taught to read, it was suddenly
discovered that his 4-year-old brother
also could read. Nobody could tell how
it happened. Of course the younger bow
must have taken keen notice of what the
elder one was doing, but the process
went on without attracting attention un.
til the result annearetl.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-10
PISEN GULCH REVENGE.
1t Came Two Weeks Late, but Not a
ADache was Left

1t Came Two Weeks Late, but Not an
Apache was Left.
THE man who said that the only
good Indian was dead Indian was
about as near right as men get" said
Col Ham .Sploggctt of Arizona the
other evening, as he wrestlcd with Il
mint mash, 'and if any man oughter
know what he's talking erbout in them
matters | guess it's me- went to Arizo-
ny mighty long time ago. Them darncd
Apaches wuz erbout as emery as eny
sort of Indians, and not /; day passed
but what we felers down to Pizen Gulch
heard erbOut men losing their scalps and
women and children being butchered
llke forty, the news coming from way
ting a grip on Arizony jess then, an l
didn't want to lose it, so l jess stayed
away from the line an tended ter bust
ness with one eye open. We had ter get
out an hustle, however. Indians wlz
getting more rampageous every day, and
hnally a band of the measly, numbering
robbers rid inter a small settlement err
Killed evry soul thar, not leaving one to
tell the tale. This riled the boys at the
sulch, an we thought the time had come
to do something. Two hours after we
got the news we WIZ out for biz. We
rode away, an an hour afore shutdown
we reached the place whar the settlement
had been. Wall, sir. Ivc seen many odd
sights in my life, but that little settle
ment wuz crbOut the saddest thing that
ever met these old eyes, not so old then
neither: Ashes showed whar some
cabins had stood, and thar, too, could be
seen what remained of home things, an
jess on the outskirts of the settlement
we found the bodies of folks what had
formed the peaceful village.
Men, women and children alike had
gone to satisfy the awful greed for
blood. They had been dragged together,
and the bodies, must have been about
twenty OF them were piled in terrible
heap, mutilated and horrible to look at
Inc saddest sight Of it all was the form
of little baby. The small criter WIZ
lying on the breast of a woman, maybe
its mother, and it's little fist wuz fastened
IN the long hair that was all tangled and
flowing like. At fust I thought it WIZ
sleepin', but it wuzn't 1t wuz dead, an
a little round. black hole right in the
mldle OF its forehead showed whar the
bullet had done its work Thar it WIZ
monument of Indian ferocity, an the
poor little limbs of the baby WIZ cud-
died up an it's white face WIZ smilin
jest as though death had caught it while
1t Wuz iookln' right into its mothers
eyes. The sight of that little one thar
naked to the skies, made the grim look
on the faces of the boys jess kinder
deepen like until they seemed desperate
and deadly. We left the place without
a word, but when we crept lp on the
band what did the work we paid them
back to the death, even if it wuz two
weeks later. Them wuz bad DAYS, | tell
you. The Mexico Two Republics
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-10
RuSsla's Railways.

Since 1892 nearly all the Russian rail-
way systems have been placed under the
immediate administrative control of the
government. Some Instructions were en-
cointered, but the corporations soon
ceased to offer resistance which could not
be of any avail. Enormous reductions in
passenger and freight tariffs have been
made, the number and speed of the trains
have been greatly increased, and on the
whole the new administration is in every
way a great Improvement upon those
which it supersedes. 1t will. of course,
be extended to the Trans-Siberian road
now being pushed to completion. and
which will soon give the country a free
outlet upon the Pacific and direct admit
lance to the principal markets of the
East. So jealous is Russia of the COM
plete control of this thoroughfare that it
declined the other day to sell Baron
Blechroeder, the great banker of Berlin.
a large block of it's bonds for German ac-
count. Altogether the country is more
deeply engaged in the railroad business
than any other in the world, and has so
far made success of it.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-10

s y Gossip for the Ladies ). :


Lettcr Frae Over the sea.
Oh! 1t nearly tak's my breath AVA
To get a letter frae hame,
An afOre / read a word or twa,
can guess the senderS name!
Thts ane, ken, Is frne Maggie dear,
The lasSie l loe sac weel,
An while I'm readfn' she's stNndin' neOl
Her presence l Seem to feel!
Chorus
It's nice to get letter frae hame,
Flu o. love, an joy, an cheer;
! medina Open't to ken the name
O. the lassie l loe sac dear!
1t minds me O. happy days game by
When We ran ABBOTT the braes,
l scarcely can keep my winkers dry
At the thoughts o. bygane days!
The letter 1t scents o summer flowers,
And the saul seas caller air.
My heart gaes back to the twilight oors,
That Maggie an l spent there!
The best ane o "a l gat the day;
1t made me sac happy an glad;
1t told o. ship that saiPd away
WI lassie to meet her lad!
Moo, l maun AVA to meet my ain!
My Maggie frae over the sea!
I'll marry her 200, an aye be fain,
For she has been true to me!
Chorus
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-10

mechanics that it was time to leave work
and get drink. This custom the young
reformer succeeded in having abolished.
Then he persuaded most of the Portland
employers to discontinue supplying their
men with liquor
After his first successes, Neal Dow felt
that temperance was the most important
cause of the age. 1t was owing largely
to his efforts that the Young Mems Total
Abstinence society of Portland was or
ganized. Its first meeting, it is said was
held in the counting room of distillery.
-l1arper's Weekly.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-10
"A Cure for IndOlence.

Sugar will keep you from getting lazy.
At least that is what medical authority
says who has been making some recent
interesting experiments Oh the source of
muscular exertion. He ad hinistered d
liquid containing thirty grains of sugar
to a person who had heavy daily work
to do, and who was kept in ignorance Of
upon him. On the days when, the sugar
was omitted it was observed that the
laborer was unable to accomplish SO
much work, and that he had Hess ease
in doing it than on the days WHEN he ate
the sugar. It is said by SOME that ID
person who ha bitually eats sweets has
great muscular endura nee, ~
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-10
ShaEespeare's knowledge.

1t is not for Il moment to be de-
MED, says DR.. Fiske ill the Atlantic,
traordinary wealth of varied knowl-
edge. The writer was one of the keen
est observers that ever lived. In the
woodland or on the farm, in the printing
shop or the alehouse, or up and down the
street, not the smallest detail escaped
him. Microscopic accuracy, curious in.
terest in all things. unlimited power of
assimilating knowledge. are everywhere
shown in the plays. These are some of
the marks of what we call genius, some
thing that we are far from comprehend
Ing, but which experience has shown that
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-10
Two Pleasing Accom- plisElnents.

Just now smart women arr wisely re-
viving two pleasant accomplS hments at
which they were once SO prOicient-em-
hroidery and fancy work of a kinds and
the arranging of flowers in their rooms
When Il society woman goes Iout to dine
in Il quiet way she takes her workbag
with her and spends the eve hing stitch
ing at some pretty sofa cushion, bed
spread or mantelpiece border. This has
been essentially Il flower yeaE. Thanks
to the progress in Horticulture, great arm
fuls of bud and blossom anil greenery
arc cheap enough to buy. Fpr the din
ner tables little trees IN pots hire all the
rage. The newest of these e the tiny
olive trees, the scent of whpsc starry
white blossoms is quite delicious. A few
seasons ago in Berlin there wI,s quite Il
rage for little almond trees. lbvely they
were and smelt so delicatcly1 onc mass
of pink and white blossoms. Now that
autumn is with us it is advisable to SOW
acorns, chestnuts, olives, lemon and Or
ange pips in pots. BY and ly one will
be rewarded with pretty p!ulits for din
ner tables.-New Orleans Phayune.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-10
Free Railway Service.

The Railway Review notes that Henry
Georges plan of free street railway
service is said to have worked we'll at
Sydney, N. S. W.. where the city owns
the lines, and runs them without charg-
ing fares. 1t is stated that the people
do not use them any more than they
did before they We're free, and that the
expense of maintenance is cheerfully
borne by the taxpayers. The only pla ces
in. the United States where the public
enjoys free transportation, so far as can
be ascertained, are Oakland, CAL, and
Havre dc Grace, Md, - IL,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-10
The Extinction of the Beaver.

The beaver is now almost extinct in
southwest Missouri. where once the IN
duStrinus and cunning animal could be
found i'll every stream. The presence Of
this interesting creature whose fur has
always been SO much priced through til.
world. caused the early settlers of he
Ozarks to give its name to many streams
that feed White river. South of Srri2g
field the creeks were full of hearers q
vivor of the disappearing family may still
be found. but trappers have ceased to
expect such il desirable catch. The otter
has also about vanished from the waters
Of this country. and Springfield fur deal
crS make Il special display of Il hide when
they secure one.-Springheld (No., Lead
er-I)tmOtrat.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-10
A New Elevator.

An elevator that can be run without
an attendant is being put on the market
of Springfield, Mass. 1t is operated by
pressing button and setting pointer
at figure on Il dial, which indicates the
number of the floor to which the passen-
ger wishes to he carried. The door to the
we'll can be opened only when the elevator
is at that landing, so that no one can
walk into the well, or be hit by Il de-
scending elevator while looking into the
well. The elevator cannot be operated if
IL single door is unattached. The elevator
is called by pressing a button hear the
door, but it will come only if it is not in
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-10
Fence IS Miles Long

The longest fence in the world is prob
ably that which has just been finished by
can border. 1t is sevcnty-tive miles in
length and separates exactly for it's entire
distance the two republics of North Amer
lea. The fence was built to keep the cat
tie from running across the border and
falling easy prey to the Mexican COW
punchcrs. Although it cost great deal
of money it is estimated that cattle
enough will be saved in one year to more
than pay for it. 1t is Il barbed-wirc
Fence company, and for the entire length
it runs as straight us the crow flies.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-10
Neal BOWS First Temperance Work.

Neal Dow was rs years old when he
delivered his first temperance speech. 1t
was at an anniversary supper of fire
company to which he belonged, and his
strenuous opposition to the use of liquor
was effective to that degree that the fire
company adopted temperance as Il prin-
.ciple. Later he prevailed upon the Maine
Mechanics Charitable association to
forego the use of wine at it's annual
dinner. At that time liquor was almost
universally used in Maine. One of the
curious customs of Portland in those
days was the ringing of the town bell at
ii and at 4 o'clock, BY way ofWarningt to
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-10
Cutters for Street Cars.

Charles A. Mann of Bangor. Me. pro-
poses to do away with some of the an
noyance of rainy-weather riding Oh open
street cars by building gutter about the
edges of the roof of the car. Hollow
hand-rails for passengers. at the sides of
the car, are extended to the roof and
conduct the water to the ground. The
tCyicN has been naISntpn.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-10
Ell cctrlc Brakes on Trolley Cars
The Paris ExnoSltlOn.

Twenty million dollars is the sum which
the French government proposes to devote
to the Paris exhibition of 1900 Nearly
SIC. NM.O 600 will he consumed by the con-
struction of two palaces in the Champs
Ulysses and thrS. in the Champ de Mars.
in the Espinnade DIES 1nvaliies. and on
the quay The bridges across the Seine
are to cost S1.OD.hN an.l the mechanical
and electrical services another Sl.Wu,OOO.
In one word, France proposes to do the
whole thing on Il scale of unprecedented
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-10
When.

When cherries grow on apple trees,
And kittens wear lace caps;
And boys their sisters never tease.
And bears wear wooden wraps;
When all the nursery dolls and toys
Begin to dance and play,
Then little boys and little girls
May lie in bed all day.
When donkeys learn to sing and dance,
When pigs talk politics.;
When London Ii Il town In France,
When two and two make six;
When drops OF rain are real pearls,
When coal Is clear and white,
Then little boys and little girls
May sit up late at night.
&. Clifton Bingham In New York Tribune
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-10
Give the OK a Chance.

oxen could become as intelligent and
highly trained as horses if the OK had
the same advantages of breeding was
the assertion of an American clergyman
to the recent congress Of vegetarians in
London,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-10

: II Young Folks Column x s


showed wonderful similarity to the
smaller sIrcies. though the color was
nearer that Of the larger. Quite in th.
same line is the observation that the thorn
moth exhibits variations III color accord
ing as the larya is fed upon oak, baw-
thorne, lime or lilac. Many other expert
inents have shown Il similar effect Of food
in modifying or completely changing the
color of animals.
Among the change. of color that are
most perplexihg. if one would refer their
cause to utility only. il that of the gull.
which is blue and white. and is therefore
generally allowed to be Of protective val
ne. But Of the first three years of their
lives several common species of gull have
Il brownish speckled plumage. which is to-
tally unlike that Of the older birds OBJ
which fact Mr.. BedIard remarks: If one.
color be advantageous. the other must b.
| the reverse. and three years is either 4
considerable period. or it is not long
enough
Another perp]rxing part Of the subject
| is the color Of deep-sca animals. 1t is an
established fact that marine animals can
and do live at the enormous depth of more
than five miles below the surface of the
water. 1t is also certain that the sunlight
does not penetrate to- that DEPTH 80 that
the animals that exist there exist in more
than midnight darkness. Yet, the fact is.
that brilliant rnInyations ara generally
found in them Of what use can it t,.?
How can natural S''letiDn Or sexual So
lection have anything to do with it 1t is
true indeed. that there may be phosphor
psccDt light. emitted by the animals them
selves; and of this there are many evi-
lpnceS. but though the 'ietI-Sea fish may
be guided to IFS prey by series Of natura!
'bullSeye' lanterns. the color Of its prey
could have no protective effect. Int exact
ly the revers".--Dur Animal Friends.
Italian Regard for Animals.
Not long ago / was 4 passenger on one
of the lake STEAMERS which ply between
DeSenzano and Riva 1t was day Of
wild wind and driving storm. At Salo
peasant. of a peculiarly truculent type.
came on board. clad in the shaggy cloak
Of the district and hearing vast blue
umbrella no less Indigenous. With him.
too. he brought his donkey. Now. even
Italian steamers do not knowingly adj
nit IuadrupedS Of this size to the shelter
Of the fore cabin. though. possibly. if
they did. no great harm would be done.
! or sentiment violated The beast. there
fore. was tethered on the open deck and
thus became exposed to the fury Of wind
and weather. not to- mention wave 4
British peasant would probably have az
ceptcd the situation and let him bidp
Not so the Lombard. Hastily divnstiny
himself Of his ample ovcrcrat he spread
it carefully over the ''lGwrr animals"
back, and. unfurling his v"luminons UNI
brella. held that patiently over th"
aSinine head land his OWN all the way
to Riva. Now. here. surely. was d groI
man. merciful to his hcast-Lon,lou
Times.