The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-03-31

Then there Is still another
That we term our Indian brother,
And he lived here long before our fathers
came.
But they took his pleasant land,
Drove him from his forest grand
Has the red man on our pity not Il claim?
The Scotch Collie.
As a working dog-a wage-earncr--the
Scotch collie or shepherd dog is more
valuable than any of his race. james
Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd, saw that
without the collie the highlands Of Scot
land would be almost useless for sheep
farming, and by sheep-farming the peo-
pie who dwell there have long chiefly
lived. Some authorities, on account Of
the wolfike appearance of the collie,
think that he more nearly approaches the
original dog than any other breed. This
appearance, however, is more likely to
be due to the purity of his descent.
Where he has been valuable he has been
quite part of the family to which he be-
longed, and there have been fewer ac-
cidental crosses and admixtures with 9TH
er breeds than with other dogs.
A collie ut his masters bidding, will
round up large flock of sheep and drive
them home. And while they wander in
unfenced pastures, he keeps them out Of
mischief and away from danger. 1t is Il
misfortune that this dog should have at
tracted fashionable notice and become
popular as pet. He is a very hand
some fellow and full of sagacity and
attention to him. But he is never real
ly happy when unoccupied in some useful
work, and it is waste for him to be
used merely as a pet. His intelligence
enables him to quickly learn almost any
trick.
While learning, he takes great interest;
but after he knows it and h9 = done it a
few times. and learned thatt is only
play, he generally refuses to do it any
more. These dogs, when bred for pets
and not instructed and kept occupied in
the field, rapidly deteriorate both in intel
ligence and in hardness of constitution
They should never be kept in town, and
in the country should be employed with
sheep. In the absence of the latter, they
should have large run.
There are many beautiful specimens i'll
this country, and in some places they are
is natural to them. In Scotland they are
said to be very fond of going to church.
A Scotch dominic, not liking dogs at
church, once asked his congregation to
tie their dogs up on Sundays. After a
few weeks he found as many dogs at
church as before demonstrating with
his congregation for their inattention to
his request, he was Informed that the
dogs no longer came home on Sundays.
How Cicero Got His Name.
In the third installment of his story,
Bright Sides of History in the St..
Nicholas, E. H. House, writing of AN
Gent Puns and Repartee," tells how Cic-
l may tell you, grew out of play upon
word. It was fastened upon one of his
ancestors because he was marked by a
dent in the nose resembling the nick in
IL tool called a cicer. His famous de-
scendant was urged, when he became
powerful, to take less vulgar name: but
he replied that, vulgar though it might
be, he would try to make it as renowned
as any in Roman history. 1 think that
answer was worth hundred cheap
jokes; and if were you. Percy, l; would
take Cicero as a model for better things
!. than punning."
Il won't do it again while I ana here,
uncle, If l can help it. I suppose even
Cicero sometimes made jokes without
stopping to think"
Il believe you are right, Percy. When
he took time for reflection, he saw how
many enemies he had needlessly made.
He was really the soul of kindness and
generosity, but he could not control his
quick tongue, and if anything touched
his sense of the ridiculous, he did not
know how to keep it to himself There
was less malice in his mischief than peo-
pie thought. He would make as much
fun of members of his own family as if
they We're strangers. His daughter.
whom he loved with all his heart, was
married TO man named Dolabella-
rather worthless creature who hap
pened to be very short of stature and in
significant in appearance. One day,
when Dolabella came to Cicero's house
in full soldiers dress. his father-in- la W
made him excessively unhappy by in
qulring who it was that had tied him so
nicely to sword! In private or in pub
lie. it was always the same with Cicero.
The younger Cato did not hesitate to re-
buke him, in the Senate, for his levity,
though Cato himself, like all his family,
had knack of smartness, and was rath-
er proud of the inherited gift. They
were. all in the stiff and labored Greek
style, such as was taught in ancient
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