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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-02-23
JACK STRAWS.

Keeps open house-the toll-gate tender.
Bound to turn up-the retrousse nose.
The composer of music does piece work.
The overthrow of the Spanish--tha
mantilla,
Sometimes a little tiff makes big DIFF
ference.
As lifcboat the ark was gem of the
first water.
We doubt not even the successful judge
has his trials and tribulatiOns.
Sometimes it's when he gets ''skate'
Oh that man doesn't cut much ice.
Many of the most attractive features
at the Exposition will be Paris-sights.
1t is the juggler's steady work that en-
ables him to keep his balance in the bank.
The man who owns a solid gold watch
is inclined to think that his time is very
valuable.
When lot of employees get discharged
in bunch, no doubt they are all fired
mad.
often believe that 1.-The truth shall make
you Free"
The strawberry may be one of the old
est on record, but there's all elderberry.-
PHILADELPHIA Bulletin.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-02-23
SOME MUSICAL DON'TS.

The London Musical Herald offered a
prize and certificate for the best set of
twelve "Don'ts' fer pianists. Many pa
pers were submitted. and they presented
graphically the vagarieS of all sorts and
conditions of pupils. veritablc musical
mlcroc0smS. The prize winner. Miss
Janet Lawson, sent the following:
Don't thump.
Don't begin until you arc ready.
Dent count to your playing, but play
to your counting.
Don. t jerk ycur hand when you put
your thumb under.
Don't play one hand after the other.
Don t play with your arms
Don keep the pedal down all the time.
Den gallop over an easy part and then
stumble over the more difficult.
Don. t neglect posture when practicing
Don't nod your head when you play
an emphatic note.
Don't pass over difficult bar until it is
mastered.
Don't be late for your lesson.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-02-23
HIS VALENTINE,

To Maud I'll send il valentine
All tinSel. bows and gilded lace:
Shes such young sweetheart of mine
That gifts like these will he in place:
She'll dance for joy, because. you see
My sweetheart Maud is only three!
TO my old sweetheart. grandma dear,
IN send Il parcel, trim and neat;
Contents | need not mention here
Something to wear, or drink, or eat
No matter! She'll consider it
The valentine for her most fit.
For quiet May I'll buy and send
pretty book to read Defines
(She my good conrade is, and friend);
10 saucy lii some saucy rhymes;
10 Ethel flowers: and then--ah, well,
TO her whose name l will not tell,
Whose tender eyes before me shine,
Whose sweet face haunts me, angel fair
l dare not write valentine
l breathe. instead. trembling prayer
$50 dear she Is. so far apart,
And send her. silently, my heart!
Madeline S. Bridges
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-02-23
A CuriOrs Canal.

Running from. Phillipsburg to Newark,
n. J., there is remarkable canal. It is
60 miles long and was operated before
any railroads were built in the state.
Locks are not used, the boats being
drawn up and down elevations on great
cars on a truck Is feet wide. This is
likely to be the last year of it's operation,
as an effort will be- made at the next ses-
sion Of the New Jersey Legislature to
secure it as a means of furnishing Jersey
City with an additional water supply
New York. Telegram.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-02-23
Seven Miles Above the Earth.

one of the most daring balloonists of his
time 1t was in 1862 that he and Mr..
Glaisher reached the height of seven
miles above the earth's surface. On that
occasion he had his hands frostbitten,
while Mr.. Glaisller completely lost CON
seriousness Press
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-02-23

tory has the Library of Congress sent a
representative abroad in it's behalf. In
that instance it shared with the Smith
sonian the expenses of an agent sent to
collect European documents and stimu-
late international exchanges The direct
result of his trip was the acquisition of
over 1000 volumes. But there have been
no funds available for other such under
takinpS
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-02-23
BREAkF FAST HINTS,

If you must omit either fruit or meat
from your breakfast menu, omit meat.
Unless you are counting dyspepsia avoid
hot pancakes, however delicious.
Make the breakfast early enough to
avoid the rushing of the men to business
and the children to school,
Remember the crust of bread is more
coarse-grain breads are better than
smooth flour ones
DO not invariably serve oatmeal. 1t is
the least wholesome and the least appe-
tizing of the breakfast cereals. 1t evil
IDENTIFY thickens the complexion.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-02-23
A FABLE.
Good Example Taught the Chief b,

Good Example Taught the Chief by
al Ant.
Timour, the famous Asiatic chief, hav
ing on one occasion taken shelter from
his enemies i'll a lone building, saw lit
tie ant trying to carry grain of wheat
larger than itself. up a high wall Sixty.
nine times did Timour see the grain fall
to the ground, but the next effort the
ant carried off the prize. Il was in de-
spair," said the chief, but the sight OF
the ant gave me new courage, and ]
have never forgotten the noble lesson
which it taught me-" There is an old
proverb which says: perseverance con.
Ouers all THINGS
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-02-23
The Eims of Cambridge.

The old elms of Cambridge, Mass. will
always be dear to Americans for their
association with the great men and the
historical events of the nation. The
Washington elm, under, which Washing
ton took charge of the American army,
was found recently to need more nourish-
ment Upon examination it was discov
cred that the pavement of the street
caused the water to flow away from its
roots. To overcome the difficulty the
commissioners decided to surround the
tree with raised plot Of earth about so
feet long and 16 feet wide at it's widest
part. This has all been Enclosed by curb
lAg.-New York Tribune. I
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-02-23
LET LOVE BE TOLD

IE ! COVE 3 E TOIO.
Have you loving words to give me?
A kiss or clasp of hand,
To tell me of the friendship
l scarcely understand?
Oh, give them now, 1 pray you.
Wait not till l am dend
When the heart Is hungrI for them
Let your loving words he sald.f
Oh, this hiding from our loved ones
OF the love that's in the heart;
Oh. this strange and bllghting silence
Keeping us so far apart.
oh. the hearts that look and listen,
For the signs Of love that come not
Ere too late, alas! too late.
-Eben Il. RexfOrd.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-02-23
--latest New York Fad

Left-handed parties are a fad in New
York. Guests are requested to come
with their right hand securely bound up.
They must register their names, play the
piano, make all gestures and eat with the
assistance of the left hand. 80 s.:
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-02-23
Eater TO A CHILD'S TALENTS.

CATER TO A CHILD'S TALENTS,
1t is pathetic to see woman start
out in the world to secure living with
| out the least idea for what she is fitted
and ready to take the first kind of EN-.
ployment that comes to hand, because
she is painfully conscious of her OWL
SHORTCOMINGS.
There are SO many wrongly-placed peO-
pie in the world, and so much unhap-
piness because Of it, and vet in the
face of all this many mothers allow
their children to grow up without tax
ing the pains to find out their special
gifts or Of considering them when they
are too plainly shown to escape even
casual notice.
1t is deadly wrong to a child to ig-
mere it's future in this manner, and one.
unfortunately, in which only the child is
the sufferer. If even small part of
the misfortune would react upon the
thoughtless parents the wrong would be
less. selfish; it would even be partly
eARlated, says the Philadelphia Times.
Every human being has talent. be if
ever so small, and that gift ought to
have its chance in the world Even
when the question of bread and buttpr
is not pressing, care is not taken to
make the most Of what has been given
by nature.
The girl with absolutely no ear for
H1uslc anu nO ueSlfe 10 master the sci
ence, is pinned down to daily penance
at the piano and forced to learn dis
tasteful lesson. When she grows IN she
will drop it all, and there will only re-
main the memory Of the many hours of
practice and the waste of money.
a boy with distinct talent for me-
chanics is sent through college and
made into professional man because
mechanic does not hold social posi-
ton cOmDatihle with tho f.no;l, .+a1
ing.
The result is an overcrowding of the
professions, where the young man sell
dOm achieves even moderate success.
lie might have done something brilliant
in his own line.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-02-23
Poverty of the Library of Congress

Comparing the Library of Congress
with the British museum, we find con-
trasts at various points, as might have
been expected, says Hercrt Putnam in
the Atlantic. Begun nominally with the
century, it's practical beginning. was not
until 1915; and the slow accumulations of
the succeeding thirty-tve years were in
which reduced the library to collection
Of but 10000 volumes.
The regular appropriations for the pur-
chase of books have aggregated since
that date less than $25O.OOO (only one
half the sum expended by the British
museum during the ten years from 1915
to 1855 alone, when values in certain
lines were perhaps no more than third
as great. In the entire one hundred
years of it's existence, it has had 81 but
eight grants for special purchases. The
total amount of these has been less than
$165, 600. One of them was for law
books. Only three have exceeded $1O,-
600 in amount,-the grant in 1916 Of
S23,9 $50 for the purchase of the library of
Thomas Jefferson (Of which but 1000 vol
umes survived the fire of 1850; that of
100000 in 1867, for the purchase of the
Force collection; and that of $4,000 in
1883, for the purchase Of the military
papers, maps and letter-books of the
Count de Ia Rochambeau.
Excepting the Smithsonian collection,
which, though an accession, was not a
gift but deposit, and the Gardiner
Greene Hubbard collection of engravings,
not yet transferred, the Library of Con-
gress has, in the, course of it's entire his
tory, received but a single eminent gift, =
that, in 1882, of the Toner collection. In
it's entire history it has not received a
single gift Of money. = 8
rIN,I lot Of <ol1nct fr,,
of books requires not merely the mainte-
nance of regular agencies in the chief
book marts of the world, but the dis
patch from time to time of special ennis
saries to investigate possible opportuni-
ties for acquisition by purchase, and to
utilize persistently every influence for ae-
=quisition by gift. Only once in. its his
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-12-02
toys +! toys!
dolls! dolls!

Dolls for girls, Dolls for boys, Dolls
that go to sleep; Dolls that walk,
Dolls from Klondike, Dolls from
China; Kid Body Dolls. French joint
ed Dolls; boy Dolls with woody hair;
Doll Shoes, Dol Jackets. Doll Hats,
Doll Jewelry, Doll Wigs, Doll Nurs-
ing Bottles, Doll Tam O. Shanters,
Doll Stockings, Doll Hammocks,
in fact everything a doll could find
any occasion to use.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-12-02
fine fur
Jackets

Ladies Electric Seal Jackets lined with
our $1,000 jacket, O/A I'LL
Ladies Finest Quality Near Seal Fur
Jackets; our $500 CIR an
quality, ON Hill
dG...'....' '....'... ...........
Ladies Finest Quality Near Seal or
Electric Seal Jackets; collar and down
front trimmed in bea- an RI
YER . also Is p Persian Lamb; u/-HI
our $3.50 quality. rEsOV
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-12-02
our dress
trimmings.

The elegance of our Dress trimmings
was commented most favorably
upon by the thousands who favored
us with their presence last week,
and why shouldn't they? Such a
wealth of shimmering, luminous,
brilliance has never been seen here
1t is wonderful season for garnish-
ment of dress, Fashion has used a
lavish hand. She never demanded
greater brilliance than now, and
our trimming store illustrates our
allegiance to fashion and our loyal
ty and service to you.
Every conceivable kind and style of
dress decoration is displayed on our
counters. The scintillation of span
giles and jet, the simmer and sheen
of silks and satins all marvelously
decorated go far toward making a
show such as you have seldom if
ever seen.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-24
Hollis MEETINGS.

Friday, Sept 18th. II a. m, Berkeley
Springs; 1880 p. M, Keyser.
Monday, October Sth. at p. M, Mail
nington; 7:30 p. M, Fairmont. -,
Tuesday, October 9th. at 3 p. M, Phli-
ipgi. 49,, =. M
Buckhannon; 1880 p. M. WEIGH
Thursday October 18th, at ii a. M, west
Union 7.30 .. M. Harrisville.
Friday, October 18th, at p. m, Eliza
beth; 7:30 p. m, at some point IN WIFI
Saturday, October 18th, at II a. M, Spen-
Ger; 1890 D. M, Point Pleasant.
Monday, October 18th. at IL a. m, Mt.
Hope; 7.S0 p. m, Thurmond.
TUESDAY, October 16th at p m, Union;
1870 D. M Ronceverte.
Wednesday, October 18th, IL a. M, Hur-
ricane; p. m, WINFIELD; 7:S0 p. M, Raw
Thursday. October 18th, at p. m, ST.
Marys; 7:S0 p. M, New Martinsville.
Friday, October 18TH 2 p. m, Mounds
ville 1880 D. M, Benwocd
Saturday, October 10Th. p. m, New
Cumberland; 80 p. m. Wellsburg.
Monday, October 22d, p. M, Matewan;
1880 p. m, Williamson.
Tuesday, October sd, p. m, Logan; al
7:30 D. m, in the county.
Wednesday, October oath, 2 p. m, Madi-
son; at 1880 p. m, in the country.
Thursday, October 18th, p. m, Hamlini
7:39 D. m, Milton.
Monday, October 18th, in Jefferson
tuesday. October sOth, in Berkeley
county.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-24
ANOTHER PHASE OF THE QUESTION.


The Register, since the inception OF
the great miners strike, has touched
upon some phases of the conditions
prevailing in the anthracite coal fields,
and to a probably less extent, in other
mining regions. We now desire to pre-
sent another view of the situation, as
afforded by the recent investigations
of corps of medical men, sent into
the mining regions by the State OF
Pennsylvania to look into the meth
DDS of life there. and while recording
the facts, suggest some remedies.
These physicians, members OF the
Pennsylvania State Medical Society,
are to be presumed to be without pre-
JUDGE. They visited the homes of the
miners throughout the great coal re-
gions of the State, and made careful
inquiry and impartial observations. In
their report they say they found the
living conditions Of the miners cutter
ly inadequate for the securing of a
| normally healthy existence, both in
food supply and hygenic home arrange
ments." When the medical men con-
shutting the corps of inquiry returned
to Wilkes-Barre, it is stated, they wore
grave and studious faces. LAS far as
we have been able to ascertain" their
official report concludes, "by conversa-
ton with the families in question, their
deplorable condition is due to the fact
that they cannot obtain living wages. y
Herein lies one Of the potent reas-
ons for the present strike. The miners
cannot live and support their families
upon a plane much above that Of pigs
in pen. They are at the mercy of
immense corporations, who rob the
workman upon the one hand AMI the
public upon the other, not only with
impunity, but conduct their operations
with an arrogance both devilish and
insufferable. In commenting upon TINS
report. the ST. Louis Republic wall
says:
This CHASTITY truth should not be
possible in American life to-day. This
is the richest and most prosperous
country in the world The corpora
tons employing these men on starva-
ton wages are multimiIlionare corpo-
rations. Their many millions have
been made from the labor of the men
whose living conditions are now re-
ported as being utterly Inadequate
for the securing of a normally healthy
existence" 1t is not that the miners
are idlers and Migrants. They work
hard. and are glad to be allowed to
work hard. But they are not paid the
worth of their work. The significance
of the report of the Pennsylvania med
ical men is ominous."
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-24
one of Bryan. strong Points.

New York World.
This pledge of Mr.. Bryan goes directly
to the point: IF elected | shall appoint
an Attorney General who will, without
fear or favor, enforce existing laws This
Is what the country needs more than new
laws-and what 1t has never had under
any administration, Democratic or Repub-
lican. And this is the strongest point in
Mr.. Bryans favor. No one questions that
he would appoint such an Attorney Gen.
eral and sustain him with all the great
power Of the executive office. Nor does
anybody doubt that If President Mckinley
shall be reelected we shall have the same
or another corporation lawyer and trust
promoter as the Attorney General
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-24
HOW PEOPLE ARE DEFR.UDED.

The Register has, upon many occa-
sions, pointed out the robberies perpe-
trated by the trusts, brought into being
through the protective tariff tax and the
agencies Of the administration at Wash
ington, and has sought to impress upon
the people generally, but particularly
upon wcrkingmen and farmers, the fact
that for any or every benefit the tax
and trust system extends it exacts a
heavy profit, leaving the masses worse
off than they were before That this is
true, is proven conelusively by the ex-
istence Of combines. If they were not
only profitable, but immensely profit
able. there would be none in existance
The trusts are good thing-for those
who own and control them-but for no.
body else. The big corporations were
not formed for fun. They were brought
into being that the public might be
mulcted, persistently, roundly and with
out the power in the people to change
the condition and system except
through change of governmental adj
ministration and thus a change of gov
ernmental policy. Having reached that
point, the influences of the combines are
with the Republican party, for as long
as that party is in power the trusts will
have things their own way, and the
people will continue to furnish the
money for dividends upon watered
stock and fictitious values The case is
very excellently set forth in the follow
ing, from the Louisville Courier-Jour-
nal, and it should be carefully read:
The question for the workingman
who is to vote In November Is this.
If Mckinley prosperity has increased
the cost of everything he eats or wears
% per cent, while his wages have not
increased at all, or at best not exceeding
10 per cent, what will become of his
family at the end of four more years of
such grinding by the trusts? The oper-
alton by which is effected this robbery
OF the masses. which includes all but
| the protected few who have license to
rob. r = simple process. = txu6t buys
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-24
Lawlessness Among Wine owner.

Philadelphia North American.
These men, however rich they may be-,
however powerful, however respectable in
their own sight, have deprived themselves
of the right to rebuke the poorest and
most ignorant miner should he defy the
law. They can ask nobody to sit at their
feet and learn respect for statutes. for
they themselves have been w-breakers
on system in specially mean and sordid
and cruel way. They have broken the law
providing for semi-monthly payments Of
wages. They have broken the Law for
bidding the existence of company stores.
They have broken other laws designed for
the protection of miners. and broken them
in order to steal from laborious poverty.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-24
striking a weak spot.

Kansas City Times.
Mr. Bryan strikes vulnerable spot In
the armor of the adversary when he fixes
upon the tariff the responsibility for the
trusts This charge is 50 unanswerabie
that Il is surprising that it is not reiter-
ated with greater persistence BY the DEM
ocratic campaign managers. It appeals to
a sense of injury which has created great
dissatisfaction among the people and II
proposes a just reform which the Demo-
cratic party under the leadership Of CIeve-
land advocated with signal success. The
tariff is the point OF attack where the Re-
pubIfcans are weakest. and al which the
Democrats can make the most substantial
Roadway
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-24

ument No. 81, ! ana styled Treaty a.
Peace Between the United States and
Spain. Signed at Paris. December 10.
1898, accompanied by Protocols and
Other Papers" It appears In the exam
nation of Commander r. B. Bradford,
u. S. N, Chief of the Bureau of Equip
ment, Navy Department, before the
United States Peace Commission at
Paris, that eminent naval authority
was of the most decided opinion that
Aguinaldo was AN ALLY of the
United States. On pages 1859 OF the
Official record referred to the follow
ing question, in itself very suggestive
of an alliance, was asked Commander
Bradford by Senator Frye, of Maine,
one of the Commission: Suppose the
United States, in the progress of that
war. found the leader of the present
Philippine rebellion an exile from his
country in Hongkong, and sent for him
and brought him to the island in an
American ship, and then furnished him
with 1000 or 5000 stands of arms. and
allowed him to purchase as many more
stands of arms in Hongkong and ac-
cepted his aid in conquering Luzon,
what kind of nation, in the eyes OF
the world, we would appear to be, to
surrender Aguinaldo and his insur-
gents to Spain to be dealt with as they
please?"
Answer-'we became responsible for
everything he has done. He IS our any,
and we are bound to protect him.
According to The above extract from
the Official Record" there seems to be
a variance between the fact and Captain
Doyener's "fiShal reck-ords.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-24

Affldavits printed in another column
of this issue show that Senator Elkins
has been using his high Office to cir
culate political documents through the
mails under his official frank, when he
ought to have paid postage to the
amount of $4,000. 1t is up to Senator
Elkins to settle this little bill, and
then make an adequate explanation.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-24
THE WAY TO STOP 1T.

There are at last indications that
the administration is going to get out
of China, yielding to the demands of
the American people to that extent
We are informed from Washington
that one regiment of infantry, bat
terry Of artillery and troop OF cav
airy will be maintained at Peking, to
be eneamped within the American con-
cession, where they will not be sub
ejct to the orders of Field Marshal Wal
dersee, and that the remainder of Gen
eral Chaffee's FIVE thousand men will
be sent to Manila. Once there, how
ever, they are to preserve their identity
as separate corps, to go back to China
should occasion require it. As we are
still sending troops TO Manila from
this country, the strength of our forces
there, upon the arrival of the bulk Of
General Chaffee's command, will be
about seventy thousand. If the Repub-
licans, by any chance, should succeed
in the general election, there may be
another administration change of front,
and an American army may again land
on Chinese soil, where some of them
will remain until the judgment day.
The best way to stop this foreign fool
ishness for good and all Is to have a
new deal at Washington.