The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-03-18

3 X Young Folks Column Il 8
Johnny's Com plant,

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Johnny's Complaint.
Our preacher says-an' Course he's right
It's very wrong to tell fib,
$50 mothers taught me ever since
She rocked me In my little crib.
That's why can't just understand
Why In his sermons he will run
Along like sixty when he's said,
but one word more and / have DONE
When first heard him say those words
They made me glad, for !. you see.
Was tired, for half -hour sermons seem
=, Enough for little folks like me;
But, gracious! l was quite surprised
TO find he'd only just begun,
When, pausing for breath, he said,
''But one word more and have done"
I wonder what he'd think if
Should say, when at his home I'd sup,
lust one plum more and ] have done"
, Then Then. eat his wife's preserves all up:
I'd have to say was in fun,
Just like he must be when he says,
But one word more and / have done"
Wade Whipple in Richmond Dispatch.
Garfeld's Struggles.
Garfield was said to be only one of a
very few who kept up their literary
studies while in Washington. He never
did SO well but it seemed he could easily
do better. He always gave the impress
sion that he had much more power than
said of his Parliamentary hero, Garfield
succeeded because all the world could not
have kept him in the background, and
because, once in the front, ne played his
part with an intrepidity and a comma, lid
ing ease that We're but the outward syiEp-
toms of an immense reserve of energy
on which it was in his power to draw
/ in,
college," said Garfield, Il looked out one
night and saw in the window of my only
competitor for first place in athena ties
a light twinkling few minutes Dngcr
than l was wont to keep mine burning.
then and there determined to invest little
more time in preparation for the next
days recitation. 1 did so. and passed
rivalry, but I am thankful for the way
my attention was called TO the value Of a
little margin of time we'll employed.
have since learned that it is just such a
margin, whether of time, or attention, or
earnestness, or power that wins in every
battle, great or small
spray, Papa"
A pathetic incident occurred in connec.
ton with the killing of George Caudle by
train at st. Louis recently. George
was 16 years Of age and was on his wa.
to school with his 12-year-old brother
when he met his sad fate They were
running u race with a railway train. try
ing to beat it to the crossing at King.
highway. When they saw the train CON
ing the younger brother proposed a race
He was ahead Of George, but the elder
boy was swifter. and he soon passed him
| Irwin was running head down and die
| not see his brother when he was struck
| He only heard his cry as he was struck
and saw his bleeding body lying beside tn,
| track.
Engineer Hull saw the boy. however
| and he is confident that he saw he coul,
not cross the tracks before the engine
reached the spot. But the boys momen
tum was SO great, he thinks. that he VA
unable to stop in time, and before tn
engine could be brought to standstil i
had struck the young fellow and flung hin
to one side.
When the train crew reached the DO,
his brother was leaning over him. cryin;
as if his little heart would break Boil
were taken Oh board the train and brough
to the city. the little fellow aternatel,
sobbing and praying. This he continue'
to do until the hospital was reached. whel
he began t.? pray that God would hel
Just before the boys death his fathe
arrived. A big. fne-looking man. hi
magnificent hands stained still with tn
signs of his craft, he broke down am
cried. He sat in chair beside the co
and buried his face in his hands. his bod
shaking with sobs.
Irwin tigged at his coat.
| pray, papa;' he said.
And the father kilclt down and sent II
his ple; that his sons life might lie spare,
AS he did SO every patient i'll the war
bowed his. head iii silent .siipplicatiol. blu
| even as the man prayed the light wen
out, and when he arose the boy was dead
| Glass Skates.
The newest feature of interest in tn
| New York ice Kinks is the use of glas
skates. 1t is found that skates wit
glass runners are far better, both 70
speed and ease in gliding for pleasure
! than are the skates with metal runners
and several pairs are now being used il
| one OF the metropolitan Kinks. The in
ventor has succeeded in reducing tn
glass to hardness that inSurcS an cdg
| which practically never becomes blunt
The tempering process remains Il secret
but it is a fact that severe contact wit
hard ice does not fracture the glass. T.
look at these skates one would not sun
pose they were made of anything els
than metal, for the runners are Away
co.ored, in order to disguise the sub
stance of which they are made. Til
coloring process is arbitrary. and tints il
the case of ladies' skates are Away
made to correspond with the coIors 0
the Wearer'S costume. The runners o
| these glass skates are attach directl
to an especially made shoe which lace
from the heel up the back The combina
ton not only gives Il skate which is per
fectly easy in motion. but the high sho,
stiffens the ankle to an extent which
greatly aids in the enjoyment and adds t,
the safety of the exercise.
| Slept All Winter.
| Carl ketchenstein. a farm hand, e1n
ployed by Halsey Berry, a farmer o
| Vantage. caught a young wooden lcl
last summer and made a pet of it. l. be
came very tame. 1t was fed not cal.
grasses, tender vegetables and seed food
| This fact had been taken advantage O.
in teaching the animal some tricks fol
the doing Of which it was always rewu. d
ed with a bit of cake. Late in the fall
| the WOOdchuck disappeared and no:i,ins
was seen of it until the other day. Thcl
| it came into the kitchen. and as if It ha;
! been gone but a day began doing tilt
| tricks which brought cake as his reward
Tracks made by the woodchuck in silt
| snow and mud showed that it had bcel
! enjoying its winter snooze under iii,
! wagon house. Domestication and Tho
| warmth and comfort of the farm kitchen
could not prevail against the hibernatin
habit.
Mount Vernon's Guard.