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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-04-15

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Tho Angels Rca6

Tho Angels Read.
Never are kind acts done
To wipe the weeping eyes,
But like the flashes Of the sun
They signal to the skies;
And up aboye, the angels read.
How we have helped the sorer need.
Never day Is given,
But 1t tones the after years,
And 1t carries up to heaven
Its sunshine or its tears;
While the tOm0rrows stand and wait,
The silent mutes by the outer gate.
Henry Buxton.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-04-15
To Keep a Good Figure.

Women who wish to keep slender must
learn to do with little bread, and that
should be dry toast or brown crust. One
third bread and vegetable food, with two
thirds meat, is the rule of the Salisbury
treatment, which reduces flesh and re-
stores vigor. This food must be thor
oughly ground in chewing which benefits
in more than one way. 1t gives the nerv-
GUS force less work in digestion, and it
develops the muscles of the face, pre-
serving their fulncss and the firmness of
the skin. Enthusiastically fine women who
mince their food little with their front
teeth and bolt it genteelly, not to interrupt
the ceaseless chatter which engages their
mouths, always have early lines about the
lips and corners of the cheeks for want of
this exercise.
With fish in place of meats and very lit
tie bread, one must learn to use may
onnaise instead of butter where tolera BILE.
says the New York Journal, and adopt
the good old rule that butter is not to be
used at all with meats or fish. The free
use of butter undoubtedly has much to
answer for the intolerable avoirdupois of
our women-as one calls it. The amount
of butter some women can eat with
steWed oysters, for instance and in every
possible dressing for fish, flesh or fowl, is
enough to fatten them for the favor of a
Hottentot chief. Lemon, chives and pars-
lcys Win d trace Ol SWEET OI, Is tuc SldI-
dard dressing for fish or broiled meats
for stout persons and epicures.
For those who would lose flesh or keep
it in bounds, exercise on foot is far pre-
ferable to horseback riding or the bicycle.
A brisk walk of mile III fifteen minutes
to begin, gradually quickened to mile in
ten minutes, is as good practice for TAX
ing the pounds off ones weight as any
that can be named, unless it is running.
Our women are so saturated with belief
In the beauty Of slow, deliberate move
ment, poise and queenliness that gen
Grafton more will have to die Of cancer,
tubercle and obesities of every sort before
they awake to the fact that the finest
things in nature move with as much eel
Gritty as grace. Angels. who are supposed
to be peg above queens anyhow, are
pictured as darting, flying, in motion
quick as thought, and the most wonderful
women one sees, in whom the mental and
electric far outweigh the physical and
feshly, haye this quality Of moving by
impulse, without effort. Your heavy
moving women no matter how smoothly
they glide, are nowhere in attraction be-
side them. The slim girls whose waists
clasp in 16-inch belts too often have a
suspicion of rheumatic effort or want Of
use in movements which good walking
would speedily improve Gymnastics
have their benefit, but outdoor. gyn1n ST
ums are not as common as restaurants.
although they ought to .he.--Excha npp =.7&,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-04-15
Must be an ORDERLY ARMY

Gen. Bradley r. johnson was in Ha-
yana some eighteen months ago, says the
Richmond Times, and while sitting one
evening in the military cafe, where, sew
eral hundred officers were dining, one
Of them, whom he knew, left group
and came over to him, saying; General,
those officers over there are discussing
war with the. United States, and gen
eral - says he could land column in
you think he could do yit?'' .'If the
column went peaceably along the road, =
said Johnson, "and behaved itself, it
could do it. But If it got to- stealing
pigs and chickens the police would run
them all in a sSS: Y = Sss. 5szf
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-04-15
DR.. Hume Ought to Know.

A good story IS going the rounds on the
genial DR.. \. M. Hume, who thoroughly
the west side met boy OH the sidewalk
one evening recently and the lad was cry
ing as though his heart would break. The
good man stopped to inquire the cause
of. his grief, when he was informed that
the boys father was dying His efforts
to console the boy by saying that perhaps
his father would get better We're in vain,
since the discouraged young American re-
piled, "'Tain't no use. DR.. Hume says
sfather won't live until mornin', aud
guess he knows what he gave HIM"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-04-15
A German EpiCaph.

There is a German epitaph OH monu
ment in Mount Hope cemetery, Rochester
that is much admired by the editor of the
Post Express. 1t runs as follows:
Ich werd' enst Theurer zu Dir Gehen;
Ach wiedersehen, ach wiedersehen;
O himmelreiche Stunde!
Damn ellen wir einander zu.
Unsterblich ich. unsterblfch du,
& o Balsam meiner Wunde! ~
The following translation is given:
Thy path, beloved, shall trace; 49, =.
. = Once more, once more behold thy face,
q hour of heavenly gain!
- Each moment brings us nearer now,
Immortal /, immortal thou,
o balm of all my pain!
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-04-15

can take my oath that it was among those
taken with the balloon.
The bird had flown about 100 miles
from the balloon toward Stockholm. and
some "A miles north again. from the near
est land TO the whaIer, on the gaf Of
which it sat down, so utterly tired that
it at once put it's head under its wing
until it was shot. 1t could of course
have been easily caught alive, if the cap
tain had known that it was carrier
pigeon.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-04-15
Bowery Lodging Houses.

The BoWery lodging houses are called
names, such as Windsor. Oriental, Palma
Pacific, Columbus, etc, The one iii ashes
was, a fair type of all. Its four upper
floors were filled with rooms, 3x6 feet,
the partitions running up to height Of
six feet, each containing two addresses
ranged one above the other. like sleeping
car berths. Each floor contained thirty
3conpartmen These one-night places
The 2.cent place IS cond ucted ~ al. Ital-
Ian He has benches from wall Is wall.
front set thsAe benchss d rope 10
Isfrsteh beg, 81 81 csntl man can
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-04-15
Andree's Messenger.


In the November Century Jonas Stad-
ling, Swedish journalist, gave an ac-
count of "Andree's Flight Into the I'm
known To the January. Century he
sent facsimile of the only message re-
ccived from Andree since his departure.
brought back by carrier-pigeon. In the
March Century Mr.. Stadling has an ac-
count of the capture of this pigeon and
photograph of the bird. He says:
1t may perhaps interest the readers of
the Century to know some details about
it's capture, condensed from the report of
the captain of the whaler Aiken. On
July Is, the Aiken was OH the border of
the drift-ice. in 80 degrees Al minutes
north latitude, 20 degrees 20 minutes east
longitude. Between l and 2 o'clock in
the morning the helmsman called out to
the captain, who was sleeping in his
cabin: "A strange bird has lighted on
it looks so queer!
The captain, who had been sleeping
soundly, gave rather rough reply. but
the next moment his curiosity brought
him to his feet and up on deck. The
bird resembled a ptarmigan. but as it was
sitting close behind a block. the captain
could not shoot without risk of injuring
with his rifle, and shot it, the strange
bird falling forthwith into the sea. The
captain commanded the man on the look
out, iii barrel fastened near the top Of
the mast, to come down and lower 4
boat and fetch the bird. The man OBJ
jected to taking so much trouble for Il
miserable little bird which probably was
of no use.
So the captain went to bed again, and
the bird was left in the water. Having
sailed for some distance, following the
ice, the Aiken met with another; whaler.
+ On hearing the story of the strange bird,
the captain of the second whaler ex-
claimed:
Perhaps it is one of Andree's carrier
pigeons" n .% g.. s-
The captain of the Aiken. who did not
know about Andree's ascension, ut once
returned to the region where the bird was
shot, and sent out two boats for care
full search. After while one of the boats
returned. having been lucky enough to
find .the strange bird" which indeed
proved to be one of the carrier-pigeons,
carrying the dispatch of which have
sent the Century facsimile.
There can be no doubt whatever Of the
commences Of the dispatch. It is IN
doubleday written Ii Andree's hand. on
the special paper which be took with him.
md % which Z line was printed, and :
.recosrisss the pigeon SO completely that {
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-04-15
AN AFFLICTED MOTHER.
From the Times, Pa.o Pau.

From the Times, Paw Pau. III.
A resident of this town who has lost
two children during the past six years
by violent deaths has been utterly pros
trated by the shock, and seriously sick 40
a result Of it. One child (aged 81 wa
killed by cyclone in 90 while at school:
another, three years later, was run over
ny Burlington r. r. train. That griefs
and misfortanes may 50 prey on the mind
as to lead to serious physical disorders
has been we'll demonstrated in this case.
AS result of them, her health was shat
tered and she has been constant sufferer
since 1880. Her principal trouble has
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-04-15
Are Red when They Are Green.

s An Irish railway guard had for a tray-
cling companion one day gentleman. who
had never seen branlbles.
AS they passed long string, Of the
bushes the gentleman asked Pat what
the berries We're.
Pat answered that they were blackber-
ries. 81
But said the gentleman, ''these Der.
.ries are red. 2
Arrah z said Pat. Don't you know
/ that BLACK tasgsss ars always rod when
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-04-15
Dcpew and Wcf3oaf,. Z.

The late DR.. Gosh Of Princeton uni
yersity was an excellent hand at securing
was always hts boast that he never asked
any man fof a cent. ID connection with
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-04-15
A Noted AutkOress' WorkshoD

Mrs. Florence Morse kingsley's study
is at the top of her Staten island home
Under the caves and from the windows
she can look out far. over into another
state and see the great ocean. About. her
are the pictures painted by herself, Is
we'll as by her artist parents. Books of
reference-those in Greek and Latin, as
well as in English-books that are simply
a delight, not merely tools, and pretty
bits of bric-a-brac that collect themselves
i'll the room of refined woman, sur
round her everywhere But the door
of this room is never closed against any
member of the family, and the busy work
err is never too busy nor too tired 10 listen
to some childish story of woe or happiness
from any one Of her five children.
With her, while her work with her pen
means much, still her duty as a wife and
mother, and clergyman's wife, comes
first. Two afternoons in the week are
devoted to teaching poor girls how to sew
Much time must necessarily be given to
her home and the little people in it, and
vet she finds time for social duties, and is
always a charming, intelligent companion
to her husband. With smile she tells
how, when in doubt as to Greek and
Latin, she goes to him for help.-Mrs.
Laura NJ. +. Lake in Ladies' Home Jour
no1
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-04-15
What is Lese Majestic

Under the wicked heading DE Mini
mis-, Punch prints these lines: . 5 s.:
o. Lese-majeste! And what, dear sir,
is that? s, "a s5 &: 3 3 -
I'd thing. S$ 7s1
The nearest one is able to get at, ss W..
1s--telltng truth OF emperor or king.
To sAyS German emperor 10 not Great,
Which would not after, not q lot OF tittie,s
E 81 only Gerraan en- psrote were lsss alittle.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-04-15
Preached to One Ola Negro.

DR.. Payson. the famous and beloved
preacher of Portland, Nc, used to tell
the following pointed story:
One. very stormy Sunday he went to
church. more from habit than because he
expected to find anybody there. Just aft
er he had stepped inside the door an old
negro came in and asked if DIR. Payson
was to preach there that day, explaining
that he was. stranger i'll town and had
been advised to 90 to his church.
Upon that" said DR.. Fayson. Il made
up my mind to preach my sermon. if no.
body else came.
Nobody else did come. SO the doctor
preached to the choir and the old negro.
Some months afterward he ha;rphed to
meet the negro. and. stopping him. asked
how he enjoyed the sermon that stormy
Sunday.
Enjoy dat Sermon replied the old
man. Il 'ciar. doctor. l nebber heerd Il
better one You see had seat pretty
we'll up front, an whenetber you'd say
somethin' I'd jess look all rGun' Ter see
nobody on'y jess me. An I says to
m'self. He must mean you. Pomp. yous
sech a dretful sinner Well. doctor. dat
are sermon set me a-thinkin' what a big
sinner l war. an | went an jined the
church down home Use d deacon now"
Christian Endeavor World.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-04-15
North American Birds.

North American Birds.
There is no bird in this country said
DR.. William Z. d. Scott in a recent lee
ture. (which exactly corresponds to any
in Europe. When our ancestors came
here they transferred the names of Eng
lish birds to those which most nearly re-
sembled them, but the birds are not the
same. Our robin is not the English robin,
and our owl is not the owl of literal ur,.
the nearest relation of the latter in this
country being the barn owl. The birds
OF the West are more nearly related to
the European birds. because the connec-
ton with the Old World came through
the West
Speaking of tropical birds, Mr.. Scott
said that he considered the general idea
of their superiority in beauty and bril-
liancy of color an erroneous one.
There are more kinds Of hishly-col-
ored birds in the tropics" he said, than
in our own latitude, but there are none
that are more highly colored than some
of ours. On the whole. ours seem to
me more conspicuous feature of the
landscape. because the southern ones har
monte with their environment. Our birds
are also made more conspicuous than
those of the South by their songs
The difference between our birds and
those of the extreme north is not so
marked as between ours and those of the
migrate and spend much of their time
with us. One popularity is that they
have taken on a characteristic in color
which is undoubtedly, protective. They
are nearly all white
Mr.. Scott. in answer to 4 question about
the difference between killing birds for
decoration and killing them in what
seemed such unnecessarily large numbers
for scientific purposes, said that it was
most important that the ornithologist
should know exactly what Il bird is, and
in order to learn that he must compare Il
large number of specimens. To Illustrate,
he said that the quails of Virginia. Flor
ida and Texas were so different in appear
ance that they had been classified us dis
tinct specimens until thousand speci-
mems had been collected from various To-
calities, and it was found that the varie-
ties all shaded into one another so that
no one could tell where one began and the
other ended.
In spite of this, however. Mr.. Scott
thinks that 100000 would be wild
estimate of the number of birds in all the
collections, private and public, in the
world, whereas nearly 100000 are inn
ported annually into this country for dec
orative purposes-New York Tribune.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-04-15
A Mule Isn't a Horse. Is 1t?

A Mule Isn't a Horse, Is 1t?
The man about to be strung UP looked
hard at his Stern-faced executionerS.
Scents. amt y maxim mistake?" he
asked.
"Reckon not" said Trick-Trigser Sam.
Caught y i'll tn act o stealin' tn hoss."
"Bnt kin you gents prove tibet l stole a
hoss?''
''Hes anybody examined TIL crectur:"
asked the judge.
"Why. no said the chairman Of the
committee: thar warn't no need t.
Trick-Trigger Sam locked worried.
oval. see har, yew gents go over t tn
barn an investigate tn anemul. while l
takes charge o the prisoner" said lie.
Ten minutes later the committee re-
turned. looking grave and solemn.
Sam. cts OH us said the judge. I'VE
hain't got no case agin this cuss after
ALL"
"What:'
''Nope. Y see. tn prisoner is charged
with stealth a boss. an es tn creetur in
tn barn is Il mule. why. we ha;n't got no
case. TIL prisoner is honorably dis
charged. Come an liquor
And the crowd, including the prisoner.
sauntered over to the grogshoo discussing
the technicalities Of the law.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-04-15
Sunlight and sh adows,

-. #a>.. SuMsAS At MMW 1UWWOWUs5 -
FIXED truth 1t Is, and has been ever "a =
Since first this earth was formed;
Events that are Forthcoming
BY their shadows are forewarned. =
We look far down the ages, -. :.
Through Shafts cloud Of smoke, " -i~*
70 lsrael's great deliyerance
BY the words Jehovah spoke.
And through the mists Of centuries .
Our eyes may dimly see
The brightness Of the vision ~
That shone from Calvary.
Thus onward through decades of years
We can praise with loud acclaim
The birth of Nations victories,
Mid dark shadowings Of pain.
While In our own heart histories
How clear the sight by day;
If dark the gathering clouds appear,
There Is light along the way.
TITS when the shadows deepen
Our faces we would hide;
We love the early morning,
But we fear the eventide.
Affair on the mountain tops shlne.:l
A radiant, bOuntiful sun.
Throwing pathways of light into Valleys
Proclaimfng the new day begun.
And our lives may rejoice in the shadows,
Tho accomplishing hopes brightest ray,
We know that the sunshine but fingers
Awaiting the summons of day.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-04-15
Don't Let Go.

A trait of character which mothers
may well impress upon their children es-
pecially their sons, is that of holding OH
to any purpose to which they have COM
mitted themselves. This trait is well
illustrated by all anecdote told of the boy
hood of Kipling, the novelist. The story
goes that young Kipling went on sea
voyage with his father, Lockwood Kip
ling, the artist. Soon after the vessel
was under way the father went below,
leaving the boy on deck. Presently
there was a great commotion overhead,
and one of the ships officers rushed down
and banged at Mr.. Kipling's door, "Mr.
Kipling," he cried, ''your boy has crawled
out on the yardarm, and if he let's go he'll
drown EYES," said Mr.. Kipling, glad
to know that nothing serious was the mat
ter, "but he won't let co. That charac-
teristic is a good one for young men ev-
cryWhere to emulate. The easily -discour-
aged and the vacillating never amount to
much in life anywhere.-Good Housekcep-
ing.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-04-15
Learned His Lesson Well,

Philadelphia may be slow, but they
raise ingenious youths down in that sec.
ton. A Philadelphia grocery clerk tells
this story to the Record of a smart boy
in the Quaker city: "1t happened III
our store. A little boy came into ou1
ed for someone to notice him. He car
ried a sheet of writing paper in his hand
at which he glanced from time to time
One of the idle clerks came to him final
ly, and the boy, reading from his paper
announced in singsong voice: My
mother wants ten pounds Of rice, fifteen
pounds Of sugar, twelve pounds of oat.
meal, twenty pounds Of Hold on!
interrupted the clerk; mot so fast. Sup
out the order But the boy insisted on
calling off the articles himself. Two
other clerks We're pressed into service
and the three men proceeded to do uC
the various packages as the boy called
them off. He wanted all kinds of things
and he asked the price Of each article
as they went along, making a note of ii
Oh his paper. The clerks had the coun,
ter stacked with packages, when the boy
One Of the clerks called out the price,
and the boy continued III his sing-song
voice, and how much money does my
mother have to pay for her groceries :?
One Of the clerks counted up the total,
and announced it as $1S73. The boy
made a note of it and started out Come
back here; where are You going? cried
the clerks in chorus. why, said the
boy, as he made for the door, that's jest
me arithmetic lesson fur Monday. l
have ter know it or I'll git licked.'"
Couldn't Do Better.
Justice ROhinsOn'S encounter with John
Philpot Curran has been stated by Lord
Brougham to have been the most success
full instance of repartee on record, re-
cords Law Notes. Judge Robinson was
known to be the author Of some anony-
nous pamphlets, circumstance which
gave Curran an opportunity of retort
when the judge made brutal attempt
to crush him when young and inexperi-
enced man at the bar.
Il have searched all my law books"
said Curran, land 1 can find no prece-
dent on the point" "Your law library"
said the judge, ''is rather contracted"
my books" replied Curran, may be
few, but the title pages give me the
writer's names. My shelf is not dis
graced by any of such rank absurtlity
that their very owners are ashamed to
own Them "If you say another word,
sir" said the Judge. 'I'll commit YOU
''Then, my lord,' replied Curran, "it will
be: the best thing you have committed
this term" The judge cndeavored to get
Curran diSbarred but failed