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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-02-18
Suicide Among the Germans.

Another social phenomenon has been
laid at the door of the Teutonic race Of
Northern Europe; one which even more
than divorce is directly the concomitant
Of modern intellectual and economic prog
ress. We refer to suicide.~ Morselli de-
votes a chapter of his interesting treatise
upon this subject to proving that 1.-The
purer the German race-that is to say,
the stronger the Germanism (e e., Teu-
tonism) of Countrywide more it reveals
in its physical CHARACTER cha an exttr,aordinary
other hand, the Slavic peoples seem to
him to be relatively immune These con-
illusions he draws from detailed COMPARE
son of the distribution of suicide in the
various countries of Western Europe and
it must be confessed that he has collected
data for very plausible case. There can
be no doubt that in Germany the phe-
nomenon eliminates in frequency for all
Europe, and that it tends to disappear in
almost direct proportion to the attenua-
ton Of the Teutonic racial characteristics
MISREPRESENTATION z. Ripley in Apple
tons Popular Science Monthly for FEB
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-02-18
The Coming Literary Genlus

Ihe question is whether the coming
genus will be native to the East or to
the West. says J. s. Tunison in the At
lantlc. The case Of Japan makes the stu
dent OF literature and literary POSSIBLE
ltles pause. Compare the situation of
TINS empire with that of England in the
time OF the Tudor sovereigns. The like
ness IS noteworthy. All the influences of
civilization from West and East are
focused, so to speak, upon a political and
SOCIAL organism which is not only wonder
fully receptive, but which also displays
the capacity of reaction in it's own orig
maj elements. Looking back at the his
tory OF genius, and seeing how largely it
belongs, to the people as distinguished
from what may somewhat irreverently be
calied the blooded stock of nation, one
reels like inquiring how deeply into the
substrata of human life in Japan the
a ahnaa , nnau have penetrated. When
these reach the depths where folk tradi-
ton turks and the popular imagination
slumbers. then the world may well look
for reaction in which the nation win
show all that it is capable of in literature.
Meanwhile, observe, by way of presage,
that two of the most striking literary phe-
nOmena of the present day are Rudyar,l
kipling, with his overlay of Hindooism
on English human nature, and Lafcadio
Hearn, with his varied experience, pa
tiently inquisitive about everything jap
Dante and Goethe rises from Asia or
from the West, all the light of the past
shows that he will speak, not the thoughts
Of a nation, but Of worldwide culture;
that he will at last unite the divided
thought of humanity, and combine in one
. view two civilizations that have been in
antagonism for thousands of years.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-02-18

will be modelled after your example. In
imagination, put yourself often in hei
place. 1t will help you to be fair and
kind. 1t you have already had unpleas,
ant experience of your mother-in- laws
presence in your home, if her peculiarities
CRATE upon you, if she is intrusive, irrl.
tating. apt to interfere with your man,
agement of children or household, I can
only repeat the same formula-'Make her
love YOU 1t may SAVIOR of the old copy.
book precept, BE good and you will be
happy but to overcome evil with good is
the divine prescription, and nothing can
long resist Christ-lke methods At least
the experiment is we'll worth the trial."
Il Jeaiously Conductive to Happy Life.
That is the question that bothers many
a wife. To he loved deyotedly is the am
bition of every woman, but to have that
love take the form of exacting suspicion.
or sort of affectionate jailorship, is not
always desirable. Opinions galore are
given Oh this topic and we can only Judge
from the lives that come closest to us,
in fact the lives that are lived under our
observation.
TO begin with, there is couple happy
as two young lovers, the husband, how.
he has broken Off even her women friend
ships. If she were to walk as far as the
gate with another man IL tragedy would
be the almost certain result. Yet, as we
said before, they are both serenely hap
py. Would they be so if circumsta noes
brought about new existence and set
up new conditions? Let us hope so, for
it would be pity to spoil their illusions,
From them the thought wanders to an
other couple, who see no reason, beca,isc
they care more for each other than any
one else in the world, why all the other
pleasant people should be excluded from
their companionship. The wife dances,
talks and drives with other men. The
husband dances, talks and drives with
other women. There is no question of
jealousy because there is perfect conf
dence. When they are together they arc
not bored. The husband is pleased to
have his wife admired and she is happy
to find that she has not married frea k
whom no one else would want.
1t is hard question to decide and one
upon which the parties themselves alone
should sit in judgment, but, gracious
sakes! you might as we'll try to dip IN
the ocean with a teaspoon as to try to
arrange that code, for Tables will talk
and Jealousy will exist until the end of
time, and if we were asked to give oul
opinion on the latter we would be as bad
as the rest III the matter of talk, though
differing in sentiment, for it is our belief
that jealousy is but another name for
selfshness, rather than an indication of
any empowering -Philadel.
phia Times.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-02-18
CZAR'S EAR CAUSES A STRIKE.
Remarkable Credrlity of the Russian
Peasants Quality Illustrated.

nomorhaDle CredGnty OF the Russian
Peasants Quality illustrated.
In the western districts of the Cherson
province of Russia there recently oc-
Cured a strike of peasants, who resolute-
~ declined to do any more work for the
local landowner. The police investigated
the matter, and, according to a st. Pc
tersburg correspondent, gave the follow
ing extraordinary reasons for the out
break:
A picture of the present Gear was re-
Gently sent to all communal councils in
Russia, including, of course, those in
Emerson. AS the picture only presented
a side view of the Car, only one ear
was visible. This led the peasants to be-
'ieve that the Gear really possessed only
one ear, and the loss of the other they
thus accounted for: When Alexander
III: died (say these peasa nts), his widow
and old adviser began to confer together.
atterward inviting Nicholas II. to Join
them. AS soon as Car Nicholas en-
tered the room he declared that all land
in Russia must be equally divided among
the peasants. One of his councillors re-
pied: AS sure as you cannot see your
own ear you won't divide the land"
The Car thereupon cut off one ear, and
remarked, "As surely as l now see nv
ear l will divide the land"
The peasants in Cherson were so con-
WINGED of the truth of this legend that
they believed a strike against the land
owners would be followed by the inter
vcntion of the Gar and the division of
the land among themselves
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-02-18
AN EGYPTIAN NEWSPAPER OFFICE.
CoInposftors and Freshmen in W hi,s TaY-
bans nd Bare LeRa.

bans and Bare Legs.
! went the other day to see the editor Of
an Arab newspaper in Cairo His Office
is a distsed. palace; all rev kbediyes
build new palaces in this country. so that
it is difficult to find house of any size
that has not begun life az a palace In
the middle wing sits the editor writing
his leader-a string of Arabic tpbwefr%
down a narrow slip of paper. The editor
is a stout man in feZ. blue serge and TeI-
low elastic-sided boots. with two warts.
on his nose and deep blue dimple OF his.
chin; he writes in a light overcoat and a
rug over his knees. for it is very cold'
winter-clouds halfway over the blue
sky. and you must shut your windows
by ).
He has just finished slip of copy; be'
rings bell and there comes in a littk'
brown-faced devil in fez, blue gown.
tate brown legs and slippers. May you
see the Office: OF course''-and out we
So to the left-hand wing of the palace.
there from the high walls. Here stand
the cases Of curly. Arab type-bigger than
ours, because the Language has more
symbols; here are the bare-legged cou-
positors at work. In the next room the
paper is going to press Oh the oldfasl
toned sort of machine: as the white-tur-
DdHed. DrOWn-tegSeQ. Wn1te UCyCIe-skIrf-
cd native turns at the wheel for his life,
the half printed sheets swing slowly over
one after another, maze of twirIs and
dots and qhi ggtes that you would say 10
man Oh earth could read.
And not many can. The four sub-ed:t-
ors can. Of course-four grave-faced
young men iii the inevitable fez and over
coat, solemnly trahslating from the
Times; they salaam respectfully. and
ha rGcb
he had money, returns their salute. as
being brother journalists, it surprises
them much. But" says the editor,
''our circulation is az large as any in the
East. but not large enough to necessitate
a rotary machine; yet We sell $3.50 copies
daily; it is something in place like this
1t is difficult; other native papers are SUR
sidized By France or Turkey or others:
we. because we are independent. must
shift for ourselves. Still it grows and
grows; our paper is read in India aud
SOmalila nd "
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-02-18
Firemen Count in Their Sleep,

Flr0men count In 1ne1F Sleeps
Jacob a. Riis writes of Heroes Who
Fight Fire in the February Century
Mr.. Riis says:
How fremen manage to hear in their
sleep the right signal, while they sleep
right through any number that concerns
the next company, not them. is one Of
the mysteries that will probably always
remain unsolved. Il don't know said
Department Chief Bonner. when l asked
him once. Il guess it is the same with
everybody. You hear what you have to
hear. There is a gong right over my
bed at home. and | hear every stroke of
it, but l don't hear the baby. My wife
hears the baby if it as much as stirs in
its crib, but not the gong Very likely
he is right. The fact that the fireman
can hear and count correctly the strokes
of the gong in his sleep has meant life to
many hundreds, and no end of property
saved: for it is in the early moments of
4 fire that it can be dealt with summarily
l recall one instance in which the failure
to interpret signal properly. or the acct
dent of taking wrong road to the fire.
cost a life, and, singularly enough. that
of the wife of one of the tiremen who
answered the alarm. 1t was all so pitt
full, so tragic, that it has left an intleiible
impression on my mind. 1t was the fire
at which Patrick +. Lucas earned the
medal for that year by snatching five per-
sons out of the very jaws of death in Il
Dominick street tenement. The alarm
signal rang in the hook and ladder COM
pany's quarters in North Moore street.
but was either misunderstood or they
made wrong start. Instead of turning
cast to West Broadway. the truck turned
west and went galloping toward Green,
wich street. 1t was only few seconds.
the time that was lost, but it was enough.
Fireman Murphy's heart went up in his
throat when. from his seat on the truck
as it flew toward the fire, he saw that it
on the fifth floor he found his wife penned
in. She died in his arms as he carried
her to the fire escape The fire, for
once, had won in the race for life.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-02-18

s X Gossip for the Ladies II s
,.,.,

A Query.
A dainty damsel out one day
For exercise and air,
Led by his chain her darling pug
She took him everywhere.
He moved with naughty dignity,
His lips with pride did pout;
In fact, he simply could not run,
For he wAs wOndrous stout.
The harness clasped so tight about
His canine lordship's waist,
That If one saw it on a maid
He'd say. "Why, how she's laced!"
ragamuffln's eagle eye
.Spied Pug the Corpulent;
He frankly asked the maiden why
The harness round him went.
What did you thinkT' the maiden asked,
With gaze somewhat august.
II thought" replied the clever lad,
"'Twas so he wouldn't bust"
Harlem Life.
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folds across the bust The sleeves have
slight puffs at the shoulders, caught I'M
derneath with Il fall of lace. below which
the sleeves crinkle to the wrist. The vest
of white lace is fastened over the silk
yoke and is carried with small folds to the
belt line, where it is crushed beneath /;
big fold to the belt line, where it is
crushed beneath big fold of magenta
velvet, which gives a novel relief to the
yellow fabric.
The skirt is Of yellow Grape laid in tiny
sun-plaiting over silk lining. For the
lining near" silk is used instead of taf-
feta. This comes at 25 cents yard and
is very wide.
This same bodice can be worn over a
different skirt, and in fact would look
very we'll over black, magenta or green,
and the bride will vary her skirts, sub
shutting different belts of different col
ored velvets. Helen Grey-Page.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-02-18
A Home on the Sea:

uOIDe Oh Sne sea:
Hanging in his room in the cabin 6f ain
American bark loading for South Africa
at Il South street wharf; was Il picture of
the captains home ashore, in Long Isl
and town, not far from the city. But
easy of access as this home is, the cap
tain spends very little time in it, for his
wife sails with him, and, even in this port,
they live mostly aboard the ship. At sea,
and in foreign ports, when they speak of
home, they mean, of course, their home
On Long Island; but practically they
make their home in the ca bin of the bark
and d comfortable home; too:
Upon the walls of the maih tbGH1 tf
this cabin, which is a room of spacious
dimensions; there are two pictures of the
bark itself. These are distinctly nautical:
but, aside from them, the furnishing of
the room is such as might be seen in any
room devoted to like purposes ashore III
an alcove on one side is piano; upon
the other side is sofa. In the celiter of
the room is table. upon which there are
books and sewing and, here in port, where
the ship stands OH an even keel a vase of
flowers. The room is lighted at night by
lamp like a piano lamp. with broad
spreading shade, but which. instead of
being upheld by standard with feet rest.
ing on the floor, is here suspended from
the deck beams running across under the
skylight overhead. There are here deer
upholstered armchairs and other easy
chairs, and there are rugs on the floor
1t is a homelike and attractive room.
Forward of this room is the forwa rtl
cabin, which is also the ships dining
room. The mizzenmast comes down
through the after part of this room, going
down also through that end of the fixed
table, giving to this cabin decidedly
marine touch: Opening off the mail
cabin there are number of rooms, III
| Guiding the captains rooifi, which is ot
ample size. There is here also a room
for the captains daughter, who sometimes
sails with him. As is customary OF
American deep-water ships, there are
two or three staterooms for passengers
who are carried when they offer. Or
her last voyage to Africa this vessel car
| RED three passengers.
The captain has sailed for many years
he is acquainted in ports all around the
| world, and wherever he goes there is nc
lack of social life for himself and bis
wife. They have more invitations ashore
than they can accept. and they entertain
guests aboard the ship. which is Indeed
| their floating home; but that they do not
forget their home ashore may easily b.
imagined from the fact that the shit|
name is made up in part of the name Oil
| the captains home town-New Yett
Sun
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-02-18
ABOUT SLEEP WALKERS.
Queer Things About Them and Thei
Narrow Escapes,

Queer Things About Them and Their
Narrow Escapes.
The mention of sleep walker standing
upon the street railway track the other
night and barely escaping being run down
has brought to the minds of many people
incidents in this line that have come
under their observation, and it is simply
habit, says the Hartford Courant. One
person mentions the case of member of
the household who was found wandering
about on the housetop, all unmindful of
his danger, while the observer was at his
wits end to know how to get him in be-
fore he should make mis-step and fall
to the ground. Usually the eyes of tie
somnambulist are wide open, and now
and then story indicates that the vision
must be fairly good at times For in
stance, a gentleman remembers that when
he was young man an acquaintance
was badly given to the habit, and he
would often go out into the yard and
wander about. One night number of
them lay in ambush for him just to watch
his operations. By and by the door
opened in businesslike way and out
came the young man. He went straight
way across the street into lot where
there was a nut tree, and proceeded 10
pick up nuts and put them in a pile A
few moments at this task, then he started
toward the house. In spanning the fence
he made mis-step and fell. This awak-
ened him and while he was in the first act
of collecting his thoughts he saw in the
darkness the young men who were watch
ing him. Just at this time their appear
ance so startled him that he fled like 4
deer. The circumstance was so impressed
upon his mind that he never afterward in
dulged in the habit.
A gentleman told an amusing incident
that happened in his early life. He was
sure that he could not have been more
than or years old at the time He
often found himself at the far end of the
long, unfinished chamber where he
slept, and usually could not awake sutfi-
GENTLY to find his way to bed again, so
one or the other of his parents would hear
him crying and come to his rescue Mt
urally they got little tired of the bother,
and no one should be blamed for what
followed. AS stated, the chamber was
an unfinished one, and in place of the
guard rail at the danger end of the stair
way a number of barrels had been placed
When the nights somna mbulist tour cul-
nina ted that left lasting impression on
his mind as we'll as his body-he was near
those barrels. and it seemed had been
struggling to get through them. when he
must surely have been killed by falling
down the stairs. The noise aroused the
parents, and on this memorable occasion
the father visited the chamber and just
in time to save the lad from getting
through
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-02-18
A TURQUOISE for Tatis,nan.

The superstition concerning the change
able color of the turquoise denoting good
or bad fortune to the wearer is well
known. The Germans say the variable
ness in color indicates capricious ma
ture in the owner. The great Italian
physician. Cardau, declared that tur-
Quoise set in a ring would prove tails
man against disaster to any lorseman
wearing the jewel, but at the same time
he said that though he possessed such a
ring he never tested its value in preserv-
ing his life. Shakespeare makes Shy
lock say che would not have given his
TURQUOISE for q wilderness Of monkeys.
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Appropriateness.

The well-dressed woman is without
doubt that woman who understands the
eternal fitness of things. When the beau
tiful Duchess of Devonshire was painted
and the artist made her famous, nobody
dreamed that such hat as hers would
be worn except in the daytime In those
days magnificence was the keynote of all
dress, and undoubtedly her ladyship had
just come from q walk in the garden the
day her picture was painted, although
she was dressed in brocaded petticoat
and satin jacket for her morning stroll.
But when she went to the theater to
laugh at Nell Gwynn, or to the opera to
hear the French singers her beautiful
hair was deliberately dressed with feath-
ers and jewels, and she took off after she
entered her box the quilted hood that pro-
tected her head from drafts as she trav-
eled through the streets in her sedan
chair.
Nowadays hats and gowns suited to the
street are worn in the evening, laces and
jewels proper for evening wear are con-
spicuous in the morning, and the law of
good taste seems forgotten. But there
are some women who dress well. Occa-
sionally one does meet woman who in
the morning is gowned in the simplest Of
cloth frocks, who in the afternoon goes
visiting ID a rich silk and velvet and d:
tiny bppnet. and who In the evening is
EtIs and eay il bright cologs and lace,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-02-18
A Code of Honor for Women.

The advanced woman needs code of
honor. If she is to compete with men in
mems work she must adopt the one which
men have found effective and practical.
She must learn to hold her tongue, to re-
spect other peoples business, other peo-
pies secrets, other peoples letters, She
must not pry, or tell white lies, or do lit
tie mean, underhand actions. In fact, a
mans honor must be woman's. This
will necessitate a complete change in
woman's prejudices, opinions and con-
duct For while in quiet heroism, in
steady performance of duty, in unselfish
sacrifice, even in moral courage women
bear the palm, they decidedly have not
that keen sense of honor, that conviction
that certain courses, not necessarily
wicked per sc, would be accounted dis
honorable, which possesses the soul of a
public school man. Women are too apt
to be Jestitica1, and justify the means by
the end, to gloss over slips and errors Of
judgment and small unfairness so long as
the result is good. They are much harder
in their judgments, more tickle in their
households, narrower in their rejudices,
than men who have seen the world and
learnt to respect others liberty and
others individuality as much as their
own. A keen sense of honesty will
certainly strengthen and beautify
women's character, and probably make
them easier to live with: whether it
may alter other vital qualities of their
nature remains to be seen.-Exchange.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-02-18
So the Japs Believe,

The origin Of tea, according to an an.
cient Japanese tradition, was as follows:
Prince Darma, in the remote ages, was a
holy Asiatic who spent day and night in
meditations upon the Infinite. One night
his ecstasy was interrupted by sleep. On
awakening he was SO dismayed at his in
trinity that he tore off his eyelids and
spot spot later, Prince Darma found that his
eyelids had grown into a shrub He had
the wit to take some of the leaves and
pour boiling water upon them. Ever af-
ter, by simply drinking little of the
precious liquor, he was able to keep sleep
at bay and pursue his thoughts with
added zest and profit.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-02-18
Summer Friends.

Two wealthy Americans, millionaires,
recently died in Paris-one the widow of
a famous patent-1nedicine man, the 9TH
er a noted dentist. A correspondent re-
ports that while they lived they were sur
rounded and courted by sycophants who
sought a share in their wealth, but that
when they died none were left to mourn
for them excepting few faithful serv-
ants and retainers. How much better
the lives of these persons might have
been, how much happier and full Of sat
isfaction, if they had dismissed their ar
istocratic sycophants and devoted them
for the Imagination to picture. But the
sad story again emphasizes the we'll
known lines of Thomas Moore:
The friends who in our sunshine live
When winter comes are flown,
And he who has but tears to give
Must weep those tears alone"
-Leslie'S Weekly