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TO excess. Lushforth---l don't believe
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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-03-04
The Growth of Moral Character.

The child. when he comes into the
world. has everything to learn. His
l., ryo1,s system is charged with tenden-
cies to reaction and impulses to motion,
which have their survivals from ancestral
experience. Exact knowledge, by which
his own actions can be made exact, must
come through his own experience. The
experience of others must be expressed in
terms Of his own before it becomes wis
dom. Wisdom. as | have elsewhere said,
is knowing what it is best to do next.
Virtue is doing it. Doing right becomes
habit if it is pursued long: enough. 1t be-
comes Il Second nature" or, as we may
of higher here;lity of wisdom and vir-
tue. Of knowing right and doing right, is
the basis Of character building
The moral character is based on know
ing he best. choosing the best. and doing
the best: 1t cannot be built up OH imita-
ton. BY imitation, suggestion and con-
>entionalty the masses arc formed and
controlled To build up man is no.
bier process, demanding materials and
methods of a higher order. The growth
Of man is the assertion Of individuality.
Only robust men can make history. 9th
trS may adOrn it. disfigure it, or vulgar
IT, it.
The first relation of the child to cxter-
nal things is expressed in this: What can
90 with it? What is its relation to me ?
The sensation goes over into thought, the
thought into action. Thus the impression
of the object is built into the little uni
verse Of his mind The object and the
action it implies are closely associated.
AS more objects are unprecedented, more
complex relations arise, but the primal
condition remains-What can l do with
it! Sensation, thought, action-this is
the natural sequence of each completed
mental process. AS volition passes over
into action, SO does science into art,
knowledge into power, wisdom into virtue.
From the Evolution Of the Mind. by Da-
vid Starr Jordan, in Appletons' Popular
Science Monthly for February.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-03-04
Successful Journalists Creed.

The London Bookman contains most
interesting and authoritative article on
Mr.. Alfred G.. Harmsworth and his broth
ers, says the Critic. Alfred Harmsworth
is 81 years of age and a millionaire, in
pounds, not dollars, and his brothers who
are associated with him are also wealthy
There are six of them, the oldest being
join them. The Harmsworth brothers,
among whom Alfred is the leading spirit
own eighteen weekly papers, one monthly
and four dailies. OF the latter the Daily
Mail is the best known in this country
1t was started in London III May, 1896
and today has n circulation of 3SO.O0C
copies. It's success is the most phenom-
1t is a satisfaction to know that it has
been made on legitimate lines, without
sensa tionalism, but with keen sense fol-
news, and it's service in an attra ctiye
form. We quote below Mr.. Harmsworth's
beliefs as given to the representative OF
the Bookman:
I believe in hard work, but hard work is
not enough.
l believe in travel.
I believe that half the journalistic notions
Of what the public wants to read are wrong.
I believe the public is far better critic
believe that the public does not care one
is preferred to big one.
l believe that price has very little to do
with the success Of a publication.
I believe the attractions of illustrated
Journalism are enormously Overrated.
1 believe the value of colored illustrations
is grossly exaggerated.
believe party journalism to be practically
dead.
l believe in independence.
Coming from man who has given his
beliefs a practical test, and proved that
they have meant success, this creed is
we'll worth considering. Less than ten
years ago Mr.. Harmsworth was a poor
young man, with no capital, but with
brains. AS it turned out, he needed nc
other
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-03-04
NOVEL SPORT.
South Jersey Swamps to be Stocked will,
Guineas.

South Jersey Swamps TO be Stocked with
Guineas.
While the sportsmen who roamed
through the great sWamps of Cane MAY
county, n. j., in search of game last fall
met with fairly good luck, yet they rec
ognize the fact that the cunning in this
section of the state, especially where the
killing, of rabbits, quail and other small
game is concerned. is not what it former
" was or should be. A number Of the
local deyotees of the gun who reside at
Dennisville and Goshen are especially de-
sirous of enjoying better sport, and with
that end in view they propose utilizing
the thousand of acres of swamp waste
land by stocking it with guinea fowl.
These birds, whose harsh chattering cry
is the bane of the poultry raiser's life,
even when associating with the other
denizens of the barnyard.
Those who will try the experiment OF
making them a game bird are convinced
that once they are turned loose in the
swamps they will soon become as wild
as they are in their native country. The
guinea fowl is a prolific breeder, and they
invariably in the breeding season go fa1
from the barnyard to rear their young
oftentimes remaining away for weeks a,
time. The swamps of South Jersey
are we'll adapted to their wants, for Der.
res and green's, to which they are partial
thrive abundantly. 1t is believed tina,
where the birds are set adrift far from
human habitation they will rear progeny
that will be exceedingly wild.
The guinea has as much advantage in
flying powers as either the quail or pleas
ant, while it surpasses either of the latter
birds in the use of it's feet. 1t is Il rapid
runner. 1t is also hardy bird, and
could no doubt withstand the severest
South Jersey winter.
The experiment, for such it will be at
first, may be the means Of introducing the
most novel sport of guinea-fowl shooting.
Sportsmen will be greatly interested in
the trial anyhow. About 100 pairs of the
birds will be distributed in the early
spring in various sections of the country
some weeks before their usual breeding
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-03-04

3 X Gossip for the Ladies =. :


luncheons-the favors are frivolous and
pretty, rather than useful or costly. The
maid may present her partner with big
silver butterfly, whose fluttering wings
are formed of many sheets of shaving
paper. In this way she can pay deli
cate compliment to the pretty youth
whose cheek is us smooth as her own.
Or she can give him gay scarf jingling
with balls, or Il tricOlOr, like that worn
ny the President of the French rcpub-
lie. If he dances very we'll she may re-
ward him next time he comes with min
iature tobacco pouch and clay ""church
warden" For the girl herself there arc
pretty little sewing cases of blue and
pink satin. all fitted out with tiny scis-
sors, needle book, thimble and thread.
Rosettcs, from which depend keyring,
notebook and pencil, are meant for the
busy girl to fasten to her belt; gay little
bags of plaid and bandanna silk and filed
with fine candies, tiny mirrors with slid
ing covers, studded with gems and with Il
long, slender chain attached, are for the
gallant cavalier to give to the maiden
whose face he thinks the fairest. Gro
tesQue bits of bronze, showing perform
ing cats and dogs, studious elephants and
other accomplished creatures, serve as
paperweights after they have done duty
as favors and laugh-provokers Some of
the flower favors are very pretty. Feath-
cry chrysanthemums tied with ribbons
hold wonderful riches of glace fruits in
their golden hearts, rosebuds bloom into
full beauty to disclose bOnbons lurking
amid their soft petals, and lilies and or
chlds hide untold treasures of burnt al
mOnds and candied cherries among their
white blossoms.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-03-04
A Precious Bit of Shamrock.

II. Phelps Whitmarsh writes in the
Century for February of "The Steeragc
of Today his article being illustrated
by Andre Castaigne. Mr. Whitmarsh
draws this picture of one of his com
panions in the voyage that he made:
kneeling in an upper bunk near me, a
middle-aged Irishman was hanging a
pot containing shamrock plant. l en-
tered into conversation with him, and
learned that he was going to join his son
in California, to whom he was taking the
shamrock as present.
II hope it will live he said. looking
wstfulfy at the pot as it swung from The
beam. "'rwas the wan thing the bhoy
wanted. Lave iv'ryting,' says he in his
letther, AN come over. I have enough
for the both of us now says he, fetch
me livin' root Nv shamrock if We can "
All Sunday we We're in smooth water,
running under the lee of the Irish coast.
The day being fine and warm, the steer
age swarmed on deck in full force. Men,
women and children all crowded about
the after hatch, some playing cards, some
dancing, and some already making love.
but for the most part they lay about the
deck, sleeping and basking in the sun.
In the afternoon by friend the Irishman
appeared with his shamrock He wanted
to give it ''taste'' of fresh air, he said.
At sight of it many Of the Irish girls
shed tears; then. seating themselves about
the old man: they sang plaintive Irish
melodies until the sun went down. The
sad faces of the homesick girls, and the
old father sitting among them holding in
presented sight not easily to be for
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-03-04
When Most Fascinating.

When 80 years of age woman is most
fascinating. All the women famous for
power over the hearts of men, from Cleo
patra to Helen down, were nearer 40 than
~ when at the zenith of their power.
At literary salon in Paris Balzac was
why it was he liked women she would call
passc. why, monsieur, even when they
are as old as 40 you seem to enjoy their
society!' Balzac looked at her earnest
~ for a second and then laughed hearti
~. lie bent over to explain matters and
remarked i'll serious voice, as though
weighing every word he said: "Perhaps
the secret lies in the simple fact that the
woman of 20 must be pleased while the
woman of 40 tries to please, and the older
WOmans power consists, not as has been
so often said, in understanding and max
ing the most of her own charms, but in
comprehending and with happy tact call
ing out and making the most of the good
qualities of the man whose favor she
seeks"
There is no doubt that man ALWAYS
himself better with woman who makes
him feel that he is clever Of course, all
the men like being entertained for awhile
by Well-infOrmed woman, but man is es-
sentially vain. and he enjoys much better
the happy tact which makes him believe
that he is entertaining the well-informed
woman.
The woman a man likes best is not al
ways the smartest or most brilliant. No,
indeed. A pair of brown. sympathetic
eyes. sweet voice, will do away with
all the logic and philosophy mans brain
has ever entertained. Of course. tie
woman must have the happy knack Of dis
covering what subject the man talks about
best. Then she must listen quietly and
in an interested manner. Perhaps it
would be good suggestion for her to
draw him out with happy queries until he
is astonished at his own brilliancy.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-03-04
The Eti0ueite Of the Dcsert

Social etiquette among the Arabs is a
factor in life to be considered seriously
if you wish to live among them without
friction. Its obligations are not to be
completely mastered in few months
Sometimes when ! have had companions
with all things Mohammedan, the har-
mony of the occasion has been seriously
endangered by some thoughtlessness or
ignorance on their part, which to the Mos
lem could appear only as contemptuous
want of consideration. Thus, no greater
insult could be offered to an Arab than a
friendly inquiry as to the welfare of his
wife, to us natural civility. but to him
a gross impertinence bitterly resented.
blunder. l was invited by neighbour
ing sheik to go over to see him, and was
on the point of riding up to his tent door
and dismounting there. Fortunately,
however, l recollected in time that ETH
quette demanded that l should halt fifty
yards off, and call in loud voice: Have
I your permission to approach?' This
womenkind who may be about, prepara-
tory to the admission of stranger. 1t
is curious, also, to notice that in spite of
the real affection existing between ia
Their and son, the sense of respect domi-
mates all other feelings. and the sons will
never sit at meat with their father in
the presence of guest, but will wait
upon both until the father, rising. allows
them the opportunity OF breaking bread
with their visitor.
Provided. however, that you recognize
their social customs, my experience has
proved the Badouin to be genuine, warm
hearted friends; and they really become
greatly attached to those whom they
know and who know them.-"My Bed
ouin Friends by r. Talbot Kelly in the
February Century
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-03-04
HISTORIC PIECE OF LEAD.
Controversy Over the Bullet Which Killed
StoneWail Jackson.

Stonewail Jackson.
In '''The Annals Of the War;" published
i'll the weekly edition of the Times some
years ago, the question arose, What had
become of the bullet which slew Some
wall Jackson? The question was present
ed 10y the visit of il man to the Times Of
fee with Il bullet which he wished to sell
to its editor upon the ground that it was
the identical bullet. The weekly edition
of the Times had an extensive circulation
at that time with those who were inter-
est.d i'll and who We're writing their per
sonal experiences or observation of the
events OF the war i'll its columns, and it
was all eminently suitable way to reach
it in it's columns. This was done, and
ELECTED an immediate and authoritative
decision that the fatal bullet was never
found. Nearly every person present at
the time DR.. Mcclure dressed the wound
who was living in 1878 wrote to the
Times to support the statement of Capt
Joseph Morrison. Stonewall Jackson's
brother-in-law, who held the candle for
Dr. McGure, that search was made for
the bullet, but it was not found.
Gen. Jackson'S arm was taken off
above the wound and the limb was at
once buried. The search made for it was,
OF course, not thorough, for when it was
decided to amputate the limb above the
places the bullet had traversed there was
10 longer any necessity to seek for it.
These facts are given here because a
story ls current in the exchanges that J.
=. Wheeler of Highland Falls, N. Y.
claims to have the bullet. and that he
says it was picked up on the floor where
delDhia Times
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-03-04
Woman's Ignorance anu Mans Mis-.
fortune

1t is significant that prolonged and
unmitigated course of girls boarding
school, convent or even WOman's club
may be, in certain sense, unwhole-
some. One may say as much, indeed, of
almost any innocent thing-mashed po-
tato, for instance. But certainly women
who have no men friends-in the SIM
plest, straightest sense of the word
friend-sometimes acquire curiously dis
torted notions Of the other sex. The
manuscript, so unedifying that even Lon
don publishers-who surely "are not shy"
dare not print it, was written by a
young, gifted and good girl who lives in
idyllic fashion in the country. She meets
no men-except the curate-never has
known them, never has had unpleasant
experiences of any sort, and has seen
precious little of life. But out of i'm
pressions she gets from books and her
own rather riotous imaginati she
evolves heroes that are lnonstrosities.
Their laugh of cynical cruelty is the most
startling thing [ ever heard, and their
monologues freeze ones blood. The men
in Carmen Sylva's early stories are also
Of unearthly mold. She, too, had been
reared in seclusion and never, ut that
time, suspected what very excellent,
.considerate and inspiring comrade Go
Hath may be: nor how engaging he looks
when, having mislaid key, he PAGES the
room with long strides and repeatedly
sslaps every one of his twenty-three peck
.ets.-Blanche Willis Howard in Golfers
Weekly. IL. =saa-.s..
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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-03-04
SAIPLOADS OF BIRTHSTONE.
The Enor NOUS Amount of Crude Sulphur
phur Received in This Country.

The Enormous Amount of Crude Sulphur
phur Received In This Country.
Alfred S. AIalcomson has published an
interesting statistical table, in which the
worlds consumption of birthstone is
shown for seven years. This commercial
commodity is of great Importance in many
branches of manufacture, but the fact is
not generally Known in business circles
that 11S,13 tons came to the United
States from Sicily in 1897, and that the
year before the importation was even
larger.
This commodity comes exclusively from
Sicily. and to 4 great extent from the
port of Palermo. 1t is shipped in bulk like
coal, and looks, ~ its raw condition, like
| pieces of broken stone about the size of
| those which are used OH macadam roads,
| 1t is dull gray, and from that to Il
bright yellow, according to it's quality; the
| higher the grade the yellower the stone
| 1t is handled by the large importers in it's
crude form only, and these dispose of it
| to the manufacturers, by whom it is sub
| Jected to processes which eliminate the
! dross and bring to the surface it's valuable
properties. 1t is used by the manufac-
! turerS of fertilizer materials and sulphur
! ic acid, and large quantities are consumed
| by the manufacturers of wood pulp and
paper.
The birthstone goes in great quantities,
| UiSu, ~ Tue ItuutIS, tLu StIteF IL
| becomes sulphur it plays an important
part in the manufacture of vulcanized
rubber. The addition OF sulphur to plas-
| tic rubber. vulcanizing the mass between
| two tin sheets as an experiment, gave to
| the world the valuable commodity known
| as hard rubber: and no substitute has vet
been found for the yellow dust in the
| process.
The birthstone statistics show that the
| United States receives more of the mate
| rial than any other country. For the
| same time that 11S, 1877 tons reached the
ports of New York. Baltimore. Philalel-
phia. Chaeleston> Boston, Wilmington and
| Norfolk the following exports We're made
! from Sicily to other parts of the world:
France S4.S95 tons: Italy, 1862 tons;
United Kingdom, 24.52O tons; Russia,
1852 tons: Portugal 7O54 tons; Ger
many, 1921 tons; Austria, 1898 tons;
Greece-Tnrkey. 1856 tons: Belgium,
9253 tons: Sweden. Norway and Den
mark. 11.226 tons; Spain, 1899 tons; Hol-
| land, $500 tons
The winc-growing districts of Europe
use large quantities of the material to
destroy the insects which attack the vines
and although many substitutes are en-
ployed, the most careful growers never
abandon birthstone for that purpose.
The supply in Sicily ready for trans
portation is larger now than it has ever
been before there being no less than 24O, :
367 tons in storage
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-03-04

ing it is to see the huge brute drop down
upon his knees, in order to wrap HIS
trunk more firmly about heavy log, then.
slowly rise, and solemnly follow the
coolie, who is to show him where to de-
posit his burden. And so cunning do they
become that, when the MONDAY bell rings
for the coolies dinner hour, the elephant
recognizes the signal, and not one stroke
more work can he be induced to do, until
his appetite has been also satisfied. This
seems to border on the exaggerated, but
no one who has seen Il working elephant
at his tasks will marvel at any additional
signs of intelligence the creature may ex-
hibit. The elephant we are familiar with
in the menageries, I'LL dwarfed and ham,
pere1 by captivity and confinement, can
give very little idea of the same annual in
his native country, where he can use his
his intellectual powers to some useful pur
nose "-()utiNr
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-03-04

Fire insurance companies have all sorts
of experiences and their officers can tcll
many curious stories. One of the queer
est fires fell within the business of the
Connecticut Fire Insurance company of
this city recently.
A house was set on fire by bathtub
and the tub was set on fire by poultice.
A man in a Western city was suffering
from bad cold. and his wife. at the doc
chest. When she started to put it on it
proved to be too hot Accordingly she
took it to the bathroom and set it into the
bathtub to cool. This happened to be 4
fine tub lined with celluloid, which served
as sort of enamel. The heat of III"
poultice started the cclluloid a-going, and
the burning tub set things going gencr-
ally. The department was called out,
and the house was we'll wet down, for
which the company had to pay. This, So
far as is known, is the first instance on
record where bathtub set house OH
fire or where poultice kindled bath
tub.-Hartford Courant.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-03-04
Get Rid OF All Illusions.

To those young women who think that
they are sufficiently gifted to justify their
dCvOting themselves to art as their life
work, have, at the otitset; piece Of ad-
vice to offer:
"First of all get rid Of all Illusions on
the subject"
The artists life is often regarded as a
dream of freedom and gayety In the
first place it means the student life in
Munich. for the 1sartown is to be recog-
nized as the capital of German art the
seat of Apollo and the muses. In the
neighborhood Of Munich the Alps raise
their Snow-capred crests against the sky.
and the thousands of paths which lead
to the mountains are so many attractions
lures to herself lovely evenings on the
olue lsar. rowing parties on the Staren-
berger sea: in short. it is like IA vision
Of the promised land. and. like all other
visions. does not materialize. Such
lreams are no nearer the reality than are
other dreams.
AS matter of fact the life of the
young art student is one continual round
OF work. from early morn to dewy eve
One who expects to devote herself with
any degree of success to art. needs: be-
sides the necessary talent. earnest ap-
plication logged perseverance,. good
health and. last but not beast, nioley.
There are. alas. marry students whose,
daily question is: "HoM shah | ever
he able to hold out to the end? And even
# succeed, what is it all WORTH Fo,
it is not to be for one. moment supposed
that it is an easy matter: to find fitting
employment when the student has be-
come full-fedged artist.
Because of sl2!! difficulties students
often have their. times of depression, dur
ing which the beauties of the student s
life fade like the dreams of childhood in
the presence of stern reality. The social
| and other advantages offered by Munich,
which advantages are so great an attrac-
ton to the neophyte. are not for the art
student. Society and the natural beauty
Of the surroundings can be enjoyed but
very sparingly, because the strength has
to be husbanded for study.-From 1.-THE
Study of Art in Munich by Women" in
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