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

A pet gazelle has inspired deed of
daring in it's owner, Commander Lewis
Blackburn, r. ~, which has made him
famous In England. As he was leaving
her majesty's ship Royal Adelaide the
gazelle, which he had recently brought
home from abroad, ran to meet him, and
in affectionately rubbing against him fell
overheard. The commander. who was in
uniform, promptly plunged into the ba-
sin. although the risk was great, the
night being intensely dark and there be-
ing chains between the Adelaide and 9TH
or ships. Shouting for light to be brought,
be kept himself and the animal aaont.
until both ware assisted TO dry land.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-03-31
Social Pretenders,

Craven souls are the social martyrs.
have met lot more of them lately, and
they all put up the same little wall.
for sympa thy. She has a euchcr on her
hands. She sits down in her misery
and figures on expenses.
Just the one hot dish so kindly permit
ted by the members is going to cost
ter tickets for the winter. And then
she has got to race her legs off to get
together prizes and the man who papers
and the man who stains doors and vari-
Gus other men are getting the martyrs
house ready for the other martyrs, for
bet Q pretty penny that every woman in
the club considers herself abused because
she is mensber. says Dorothy. Maddox
in the Philadelphia Inquirer. : - :
Each season / have my little rail at tina
card player. She is more numerous this
year than last. think the fever grows.
] have never yet had the luck to meet.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-03-31
Sleep for Young People.

A few words for the benefit Of young
mothers OH, the sleep children require.
This is much more than the sleep neces-
sary. to grown-up people, as the little
ones impressionable nervous systems
could not bear during long waking hours
the strain to which they would be sub
jected
Mainly, however, they would require
more sleep, because while sleeping ali the
vital powers are concentrated ON building
them up, instead of being diverted to
muscular movements and other influences
which would interfere with this concen-
tration.
If children are wakeful and restless it
is an indication-that something is wrong;
this wrong the mother should endeav0r
to put right rather than stupefy the child
for a time in order to gain rest for her
self. That something wrong will often
be found to be improper or excessive feed
ing, too tight or too warm clothing or
confined and impure air.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-03-31
The Servant Question.

When presumably capable women give
up housekeeping and betake themselves
to boarding because they cannot get serv-
ants or manage them; when mistresses
are palpably afraid of their cooks, and
unable to prevent waste and even dis
tate to enter, although they are their
own; when half the references given are.
not truthful, or at least misleading; when
intelligence offices are the last places
where an intelligent woman expects to
get SATISFACTORY servants: when wages
grow higher while work grows even
more grudging and careless, and when
SIX months is the average limit of a
servants, stay in one household, 50 that
an old family servant" is practically as
obsolete as the mastodon-when all these
signs show an utterly disorganized state
Oh anairs Ill woman's especial realm. it
certainly does appeal to ones sense of
humor to hear the suffragists assert that
the FEMININE vote would straighten out
an the perplexlties into which mans IN
ability to cope with governmental nroh-
lens has plunged the nation!
II woman cannot rule one servant, or
Two, or ten, how can she wisely. rule n
city! If she cannot formulate with her
slsterhood OF mistresses a working sys-
tenn OF graded wages and reliable refer
ences' ana reform present conditions in
nc netcnenS VI @anerlca, now IS she going
to reform the public service? If this one
question oyerwhelms her SO that she
sometimes breaks down with nervous ex-
haustion, how is she going to lift all
mans burdens and smooth the nations
pathway? Since the earliest syllable Of
recorded time she has been struggling
with servants and the Nineteenth cen.
fury finds her helpless.
There are only two either
the servant question is bigger than any
question which man grapples with. or
woman is less fitted to grapple with dit;1-
cult questions than man. hardly think
that even the most daring suffragist
would choose the first of these as a tenet
of faith; yet the other horn of the d.
lemma certainly is not calculated to con-
vince America that equal suffrage is. ms
it's supporters claim, the solution Of all
problems and the remedy for all ills!-
Harper's Bazaar.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-03-31
A ROYAL Lecturer.

The Queen of Roumania is perhaps the
only royal parsonage who acquits herself
as public lecturer. For some time past
her majesty has been accustomed to give
lectures privately in her palace to the
young ladies of the leading families in
Roumania. These literary assemblies
proved SO attractive that the demands for
admission have grown inconvenient, so
that the Queen has thought it expedient
to lecture in the high school for all pu-
pills who cared to attend. Before. her
majesty could do this, however, she had
to obtain a regular professors diploma
from the King and the minister Of in
struction -,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-03-31
Gre at Works of Art Unearthed.

UreaC WORKS OF Art UneArthed.
Writing of statues worth their weight
in gold, in the St. Nicholas, e. III. House
says:
Several of the finest ancient sculp-
lures have been discovered by pure acct
dent, in comparatively recent times. The
famous Apollo Belvedere,- now in the
Vatican, was brought to light only about
400 years ago, at Antium, where many
art treasurers Of the Roman rulers were
once stored. The group of the LAGOON
was dug from the ruins of the baths of
the Emperor Titus, and the stately We
nus Of Milo, or Melos, lay hidden and for
gotten for centuries, in an island of the
Mediterranean, before it was found by
a lucky chance. Undoubtedly there are
plenty more of equal value under Italian
and Grecian ground, if people only knew
where to look"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-03-31

MRS. COL. HAMIL-
he has 1t. A great TON.
many people think they are suffering
from something else and have tried
many medicines In vain, when If they
could realize that it is catarrh aud take
Pe-ru-na for it they would. improve
promptly and soon recover entirely
There are no substitutes. Let no one
persuade you there are other catarrh
remedies just as good.
Winter Catarrh' is a book written
by Dr.. Hartman, Columbus, Ohio. Sent
tree to any address.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-03-31
WEALTH OF UNITED STATES
What the Figures of 1000 Are Ex-
pectcd to Show.

The statistical table of the wealth of
nations is familiar one among treasury
officials of various countries. According
to the estimate of Mulhall, published in
1892, the wealth of nations was rs fol-
lows for the chief countries, for lands,
farm utensils, bullion, cattle, houses,
furniture, railroads, shipping, merchan-
disc and Snn1rioS.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-03-31
What She Wanted.

Sallie was helping herself rather CO.
piously to the preserves, when her aunt
said, ooh, Sallie, not too much, dear.
You don't want too much, do you?"
"Yeth, does.' said Sallie, land more
too. l want three inuch!'
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-03-31
A Wife Should Insist on an Allow


r. | wish here to emphasize the fact
which so many husbands and wives seen,
to forget-that marriage il on one side
as much a business contract as any other
partnership, and demands exactly the
same business treatment. The husband
is the Garner, the wife the distributor, of
capital, and of the two her work is really
the more complex and difficult. The only
way to carry on this business partner
without friction personally, is to put it on
a cash basis. 1t is right that the wife.
should insist upon having an allowance.
l think the reluctance with which many
q man looks upon giving an allowance to
his wife comes not SO much from selfish
and sordid love of the money itself, MS
from real mistrust of woman's ability
to handle it wisely. He. foolish man,
doubts her knowing the value of dollar
! because she has never earned one
Helen Watterson Moody in the Ladies'
Home Journal.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-03-31

s ~ Gossip for the Ladies =. s


with anybody who really seemed to ex-
tact fun from card parties.
cannot understand .self-intlictel tor,
lures. l was rushing, along in the rain
why, What's Wrongy' f a aoGNta cross
Whats wrong? / am on my way to
one of those horrid bazaars. Shall new
er know to my dying day why am in
it, hut am. | never would, in the palm.
lest hours OF my girlhood, be an aid or
have anything to do with fairs, aud here
am roped in now that I have reached
years of discretion"
You remind me-" answered, "of the
lady and the Lowell paper. She had to
| read it, and such tustered creature a.
she was! She acknowledged she had
no idea on earth why she consented to
mime critics. and she was then turning
and twisting matters over in her mind to
see if she could not wiggle out of her en-
barrassing position"
Girls and Nervousness.
1T is curious" remarked an eminent
physician recently, show many unmar-
ried young women between rs and 80
have nervous prostration. l might al
most say that in my profession it is epi-
demic just now. l have so many cases.
| and nearly all are girls about that age.
l cannot understand it."
My dear DOCTOR" said the elderly
woman to whom he was talking, Il won
der that a clever man like yourself does
not recognize the reason ut once The
cause is ennui, pure and simple. II any
OF these girls married or were suddenly
obliged to earn their own living YOU
would hear no more of their nervous
prostration or other obscure ailments
The whole trouble is in our system of
education. For the ordinary convention
al girl III good circumstances there is no
compelling interest if she remains un-
Misunderstanding that absorbs her mind
and forces her out Of herself. The in
terests of society and home are not ade-
quate to her needs. True, she might
take up philanthropy, and she often does,
or she might endeavor to interest herself
i'll literature Or art, but all those things
are forced interests with the average
woman and cannot satisfa ctorily fill the
void in her life. The consequence is that
she broods over herself and her ailments,
which assume in consequence undue I'M
portance. Her low spirits and ennui ag-s
gravate the symptoms, and she becomes
ILL., Sometimes it is hysteria and some
times it is real ,prostration, but the
causes are about the same" .
=. CiuHI ) ou dIe TASuL Ill the main, re-
piled the medical man, but how are you
to remedy the situation? What cure
would you suggest for my patients?'
"A husband" promptly replied the old
fashioned woman. If one cannot be
had, get them something else to interest
and arouse them. In these days when
marriage is no longer as formerly fore
gone conclusion for nine-tenths of our
girls women should be educated like
men, and should be expected, like them.
after they are % or @ to earn their own
living: If this were done you would lose.
two-thirds of your patients, but as long
as Mrs. Grundy DEGREES that well-to-do
girls are to be coddled aud kept at home
unless they marry your lists will be full"
New York Tribune.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-03-31
When Engaged to Wed.

''The engaged young man is looking
ahead in a businesslike way to the time
when his expenses will be doubled"
writes Helen Watterson Moody in the
Ladies' Home Journal. "He is, if he is
wise and worthy, saving definite sum
each month for the bank account with
out which no young man is a responsible
party to marriage engagement. But,
alas! too Often the young woman, with
her lesser knowledge of the business side
Of life, and with perhaps q subtler femi-
nine appreciation Of the all-sufficiency
OF love, let's the weeks and months sin
by without any move toward fitting her
self for her own special partnership in
the firm Of two which is to undertake
the most serious problems which life Of
fers. She forgets that marriage is a
civil contract as we'll as sacrament:
working partnership as we'll as the
expression of a divine sentiment. The
part played by clothes iii the entire
scheme she understands SO we'll that she
usually overrates it, and her entire prena
ration for marriage resolves itself into
the elaboration of trousseau. Nor is
this love of a tr0usstau of itself to no
depiored. Whit wOmanly woman IL
there whose heart does not dwell with
their own sweet sakes? In clothes. MS
IN all other pretty things, their beauty
IS their own excuse for the love they
win. But the real significance of mar
than clothes"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-03-31

COlu ulat the treat
ment is unimpeded.
All old cases Of
chronic catarrh
should begin i'm
mediately u course
Of Pe-ru-na as d.
rected in DR.. Hart
mans books on this
disease. There are
80 many different
phases and stages
Of catarrh that one
hardly knows when
he has 1t. A great
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-03-31
Indians, Chinese aud Japanese.

Indtans, Chinese and Japanese.
There's funny little fellow,
And his face Ia always yellow,
And he comes to us from across the sea;
@s He has mild and patient ways,
And queer and slanting gaze,
And the name by which we know him IL
4 "Chinee."
There's another little chap
That we sometimes call Jap:
Though heather, he's Il pattern for us all ;
For ills said he never cries,
And he pleasantly replies
When his parents for his service chance to
call.
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 OH our pity not n claim?
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-03-31
Outwittel by His Gardener,

Every lover of art knows of the cele-
brated works of Meissonier, the painter.
Now Meissonier not only could paint, but
he could tell a good story, and he was
especially fond Of relating this little anec-
dote of his gardener, whose horticultural
erudition was remarkable. A smattering
Of learning is a dangerous thing, and
Meissonier's gardener had little knowl-
edge Of the Latin tongue, which he was
fond of using to name his different plants.
Meissonier for long time was skeptical
of the correctness of his gardeners Latin,
so one day he set trap for him by Civ
ing him the roe of a red herring and
asking what seed it was. Without hest
tating the gardener gave it a long Latin
name, and promised that it would bloom
in about three weeks. MISSIONER chuck
led to himself, and agreed to inspect the
blooms in three weeks or more. When
the time came the painter questioned his
learned horticulturist about it, and that
party led him into the dollhouse to an
enormous flower pot. There, sure enough,
were the blooms in the nature of the
heads of six red behring's just emerging
from the dirt in the pot. Meissonier
breathed deep sigh, and shook his gar
dener's hand, exclaiming, "What won
derful man you are!'
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-03-31

before compulsion, tears, sulks and re-
examinations. It may seem to decline
from it's pinnacle of delirious joy after
the honeymoon il over, but what Is best
of it. what is worth keeping. may he
held forever in the hand Of the woman
who knows how to use it.-Carrie u.
Garrett in Womun's Home Companion.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-03-31

Great Britain had heretofore been re-
garded as the wealthiest country in the
| world, owning half the ships, more than
Il quarter Of the railroad properties and
having a capitalized wealth at home Of
$50, DOC, 100000. And, in respect to the
average wealth per capita, England has
been entitled to that distinction, the fig
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-03-31

The Federal census of 1900 is to be a
record-breaking one, according to all
present indications. BY the Federal cen
sus of 1890 the aggregate material
wealth of the United States, compared
with the wealth of Great Britain, was
less i'll ships and merchandise, but ex-
ceeded in many other items. The real
estate of this country was then valued
at 500. 900, 600, 600, the livestock ut ST.
0O0,OOO,OOO, the railroads at $4,000, OOO,-
600, manufactures and their contents at
$1,000, 100000, mines and quarries ST.
100000, 900, and gold and silver coin ST.
2OO,OOO,OOO.
If the present rate of increase is main
tanned, the total accumulated wealth of
the United States will represent, by the
census of 1900, not far from $11O,O0O,-
100000, or more than double that of
Great Britain. In 1860, the wealth of
the United States was estimated at $780,
100000, 600; in 1870, at $25, 900, 900, 900;
in 1880, at $45 zoo, O00, 900, and i'll 1890,
as stated, at $65, 600, O0O,OOO. The enor-
nous appreciation of American products
since then, the vast expansion of trade,
the addition of new territory, all OBJ
servant persons agree, will put the Unit
ed States far ahead of any other country
in respect to material wealth.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-03-31
A BRAVE COLONEL
Recommends Pe.ru-na So q
Family Medicine.
4 Scientific Spring Medicines

Colonel Arthur L. Hamilton, of the
Seventh Ohio Volunteers, 259 Goodale
street. Columbus, Ohio, writes: BE
sides having the merits of Pe-ru-na so
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-03-31

One of the very latest conceits in
watches is dainty little jeweled af-
fair, shaped like collar button,
and is intended to pass through the
button hole of a lady's jacket. They
come in all the cheaper metals, and are
very reaSOnabI in price
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-03-31

a hurlesque company in tissue paper
dresses, is somewhat OF 4 novelty, but q
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-03-31

1t is not necessarily the woman that
hangs who is the best qualified to teach
the young idea how to shoot -Philadel-
phia Bulletin
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-03-31

s. WAY.
The flowers that bloom In Broadway, Ira la.
Don't hide behind glass in case;
But blossom Mt large every day, Tra.la.
In II very respondent array, Tra-la,
OF color and fashion and grace
And they're what l mean when sing or
say,
Long life to the flowers that bloom In
Broadway,
Tra-Ia, la, Ia, In, Ia, Tra-Ia, Ia, Ia, la, la,
Tra-la, la, Ia, la. Ia, la, In.
New York Herald.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-03-31

Lower Broadway is to be graced with
another sky-scraper. The old landmark
of squatty buildings at the Chambers
street corner will be suppIanted with an
eighteen-story structure to cost 500, 600
The Sarah Fl. Andrews estate, which
owns the property, will erect the build,
I'M.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-03-31

Gotham's clcrgymen want competition
in the sale Of beer in price and not i'll
quantity. They are back of bill ell
forcing the sale of beer by government
measure, which, of course, means the
obliteration of the large schooners. The
prea cheers who have investigated along
the Bowery and other sections of the
city say that, under the present condi-
tons, all the way from three to six pints
of beer are obtained upon payment for
one.
George Vanderbilt has become the
owner of thirty-eight fine ~Devonshire
pigs. They will ornament his North Car
olina estate, Biltmore, where he has many
other artistic possessions. The Devon
shire pigs have just commenced a pleas
ant voyage across the Atlantic on the
steamer Manitou. A year ago Mr.. Van
derbllt imported number Of high-bred
calves, which were fed upon diet Of
green peas, celery, and selected grass
blades: Later. when converted into veal,
the calves delightd Mr.. Vanderbilt's epi-
curean friends. The diet in store for the
Devonshire pigs has not been disclosed.
Soon the up-to-date electric cabs and
automobiles will be whirling over the
streets of every city in the country. The
Electric Vehicle company today gave an
order for $1,000 Of the noiseless vehicles,
to be filed at once. This is the parent
company Of the automobiles, of which the
New York company, now operating, Is
branch. Fifteen hundred of the cabs or.
sdered today are intended for this city, as
the demand for the swiftly-moving con-
veyances is very great. Fully half the
cabs now in use are rented by the month,
aud at times it is impossible to hire them
at any price. - ~s.G
s a hurlesque company in tissue paper,
dresses, lie somewhat Of 4 novelty, but q
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-03-31

The war spirit that pervaded last Eas~
ters novelties is again this year in the
uptown windows. Brer Rabbit is in uni
form, Or at least he shoulders a gun or
bayonet, while the downiest of chicks are
drawn up in martial array. There arc
tiny figures Of soldiers and sailors whose
only concessions to Easter are the spring
tlnts Of their clothing and the very green
grass upon which they stand.
New-York tribune., 1899-03-26
THE NEW CHESAPEAKE.
rrNr SAILING SHIP FOR NAVAL CA
DIETS TO PRACTISE IN BUILD
ING AT BATH. ME-

v,-rpy EFFORT PUT FORTH TO MAKE HER Ihh
FINEST CRAFT OF HER KIND AF1oAT-A COM
PARlsON WITH THE OLD cHESAfENNH
washington March q (SpeciaD.-There VIII "'
launched at Bath Me about June l. naNa' N's
sol wholly dependent upon sail power TOT p'o'"'
sion designed and built especially for 'he Pu'p'S
NJ training the young officers OF the Navy III '""sc
essentials Of scamanship which are IN u"nse. :"
Incoming lost arts In these days or steam Inc
vessel hos been named the Chesapeake aiter 'ne
~. ~ chat name near which at Annapohs' ."
tho severn River. the United States Naval Academy
IS located. ....,-
Roar Admiral Wchoorn. the Chief Cohs''u'tol
81, ,b, Navy whose early experience In the service
was confined 10 sailing ships. and who mace NoS
ar,s around cape Horn before steam vessels came
into usc has directed his best efforts to the oes's"
~ the Chesapeake and believes she VIII De 'he
e,cst craft of her kind anoat He has pu' lh'o
h,r h, SAYS rs much study as was ever spe"'
rn,n The most complicated of modern ha'ue-S"'pS,
and nc is confident that in fair breeze she wiz
attain speed equal to that OF the gunDoa's u Nv
sir, In her clean lines she has all the chaId0''i
.s,i,s q yacht rather than Of an Ordinary i"V'
,htntn,ar or stcam-driven cruiser ana her ac
cor,rnolatious are surpassed by no vessel IN ''e
new Navy. -, ,.s
The veteran Superintendent Of the Naval Acad-