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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-05-02
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Oh, dawn that pshers. I'M the bridal day, I: I.
And with the twilight brfngssthe bridal Joy,
Yours is the4orch that ONCE would light the
Of that fair pagan boy, Iii Il ~,
Who , gsiaed heart hearts. AN and married their de-
And closed the portals on the nuptial
No more he comes, all winged with desire.
And fambeau burning bright; :
No more he brings his unawakened Tyre,
And makes the strings dance to the blow
No more his careless heart is set on fire
In bower after bower of amorous ease.
~
And You, twin souls, who on this happy
Have married hearts, and mingled the two
Of your own fates in this more perfect way,
Grow brighter with your dreams;
She sets the sun mid showers in the skies,
10 mock your tender tears; and :on the
Through the dank earth, wrapped in curling
The hl9 bio % flower torge5s her winters
In longing for your bridal: May-time brings
Arbutus and anemone. and fills
The woods with perfume, but the April sun
Full-hearted carols when the bride is Won.
Not here within the bridal clasp OF hands,
Put in the Eden of your highest hope,
The perfect future stands;
You do foretoken that diviner day
we eat our hearts in praying for, and grope
Through shadows on the never ending way;
The goal is far, but earth and heaven the
prize;
On this bright dawn let us forget our fears,
And yield to every hope your nuptiaIs
rouse;
For echoing Sinai, Nazareth is wise,
And all the heartache of the grinding years
Is buried in your deathless marriage VOWS.
j. e. Spingarn in the Atlantic.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-05-02
GIANT HAWAIIAN EELS.
Five Feet Long and Five Inches in
Diam eter and Very Good to Eat.

Five Feet Long and Five Inches in
Diameter and Very Good to Eat.
/ There was in the fish market yesterday
the largest specimen of the eel tribe
which has graced the slabs for many
day. The eel was five feet long and
nearly five inches in diameter at it's
thickest part: 1t belonged to the local
species, which most resembles the true
conger, and was gray in color 1t was
captured at low tide in a pool of water
Which it had entered, probably in pur-
suit of prey, and out of which it was
unable to escape.
There are three well-known varieties
of eel found in local waters. The larg-
est is the big gray fellow. which so close
~ resembles his cousin, the conger. He
is voracious and fearless, and the natives
tackle him with caution, for when cor
nered he fights viciously and can infiict
nasty wound with his powerful jaws,
which bristle with needle-like teeth.
The other species are fat. 1labby look
ing customers, with fantastic markings
of black and brown. and many shades
OF gray. On an eel Of this sort the skin
appears to hang loose from the body,
and when disturbed the head swells like
puff adder's. These cells seldom attain
love to locate in the crevices of a stone
breakwater, from which they dart out
necessarily and make havoc among any
school Of small fry which may be limo.
Gently disporting themselves within
striking distance. These hooded cells
have been known to haunt a particular
spot for over year. They are good
eating, despite their ~unprepossessing ap-
pearance.
The natives who live near the sea
marge hunt the "puhi," or eel, week in
and week out. In the daytime they an
gle for him with large hook attached
to a stout line, and by night they spear
him by lantern light, or, coming upon
him as he lies, dazzled by the rays Of
the light. Oh the bottom, break his back
with a piece of hoop iron.
When an eel is hooked the fisherman,
standing knee-deep in the water. swings
the creature at arms length with ro-
tar motion in order to kill him, the body
Of the eel threshing the water every
time the circuit is completed. When
fishing is good the spectacle of lot
of natives swinging cells reminds an out
slider or flock of windmills operating
in forty -mlle-an-h hour breeze acifc
Commercial Advertiser
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-05-02
GIRL MESSENGERS.
They Succeed in the PostoY1ccsxsn II
Express Offices of London.

The recent departure made BY the
London postoffice in employing girls as
we'll as boys for the express messenger
service is meeting with great success.
The girls prove more reliable than bows.
and are quite as able to stand the strain
of the work. There is no examination
to be passed beyond the fact of knowing
the locality thoroughly. All applicants
must be over IS years Of age, have good
characters, be quick walkers, and be
thoroughly healthy. They are expected
to walk with any message which lies
within ten minutes distance of the office
to which they are attached. Beyond that
radius either a bus or underground rail-
way fare is allowed.
The receiver of the express message
has to sign paper stating at what hour
it was received. This acts as an effectu-
al check to lettering. No uniform is Civ
Ell to the girl messenger. but her wages
are at the rate of about l3 shillings a
week.
This opens useful means Of livelihood
to young women who dislike the confine-
ment of indoor work and wish for more
healthful outdoor employment. The com
petition for vacancies will doubtless be
very keen before long.-London Tele-
graph.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-05-02
Seven.

Numerous are the queer beliefs con-
corning the number Z. From the very
earliest ages the seven great planets We're
known and ruled this world, and the
jewellers in it, and their number entered
into every conceiva bic matter that con-
cerned man. There are seven days in
the week, ''seven holes in the head, for
the master stars are seven," seven ages
both for man and the world in which
he lives. There are seven material heav-
ems. There are seven colors in the spec
trum and seven notes in the diatonic oc-
tave, and the *leading'' note of the scale
is the seventh. Be il noted that the sew
enth son is not always gifted with be-
nefcent powers. In Portugal he is be-
ieved to be subject to the powers of
darkness, and to be compelled every Sat-
urday evening to assume the likeness Of
an assist. James Gazette.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-05-02
HIGH ART ITALIAN BAKERY.
Gay Cakes and Brilliant Conservc.
Served, Especially a, Weddings.

Gay Cakes and Brilliant Conserve.
Served, Especially a, Weddings.
French bakers have long enjoyed a
special reputation in New York, though
the German bakeries, and especially
those of the east side Austrian quarter.
make an even more brilliant and tempt
ing: display, of pastry, and cakes than
their French rivals. The Italian bakers,
who are entirely. unknown outside their
own quarter, produce, however, the most
astonishing creations of pastry anG con-
fectionery of all.
With the increased wealth of the sew
eral Italian quarters there has come a
demand for the luxuries of the bakers
art. Accordingly you! may see, in the
with the most elaborate examples of pas
There are cakes of many kinds, odd
looking pies, conserved fruits, loaf cake
thick with nuts and brilliantly colored
creations in sugar. Color, indeed, is the
characteristic quality of the Italian pas
try.
It is splendid with pink and red and
yellow. The conserved fruits are not
only thickly glazed with gay colored sug-
cakes are Of curious forms, and Singular
" tempting to youthful eyes.
The Italian bakers and grocers seem
to be the only persons in New York to
import those curious chocolates made in
the form Of various foreign coins, and
for greater realism covered neatly with
silver and gold foil, through which the
designs and inscriptions clearly show,
with the result that plate of these con-
fections looks exactly like collection Of
gold and silver coins.
These coin chocolates and the gayest of
the cakes and other CONNECTIONS are COM
monty seen at Italian wedding feasts
On such occasions there are displayed
curious sticks of mixed chocolate and
-four stuffed with nuts, queer little mac
caroons made in the form of mushrooms,
cream puffs vanished thick with bright
colored sugar and filed with custard and
cocoanut and conserved pears, peaches
and plums, all in gay colors.
Some of the bakers are of so recent
arrival in this country that they do not
speak enough English to conduct business
with English-speaking persons, but their
ignorance of English hardly interferes
with trade, as their customers are almost
exclusively Italians.-New York Sun.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-05-02
THE ORlNOCO RIVER.
One of the Greatest in the
World.

"OFNs
One of the greatest rivers of the world,
the Orinoco, is also one OF the least
known to Europeans. Its sister, the Am
AEON, has often been described by Wal
lace and Bates, among others, but Hum
boldt remains practically the only writer
OF standing upon the great stream which,
rising on the frontiers of Brazil, runs for
1000 miles through Venezuela, receiving
in it's course such immense tributaries
as the Mela and Apure, and discharging
itself by a hundred mouths into the
South Atlantic opposite the British is
land of Trinidad.
one available for sailing vessels, is the
Boca Grande, to the south, into which
flow, among other tributaries, the Ara
tura and the Amacura, the latter almost
coinciding in its course with the Schom-
burg boundary line between British
Guiana and Venezuela. But most of the
traffic OF the Orinoco passes through
Trinidad, where passengers and goods
are transferred to steamers almost fiat
bottomed, and reach the Orinoco by the
mouth known as Macarao. the open sea
being avoided 1t was by that route
that the writer started in the Apure.
chartered for the occasion. on a trip Of
$40 miles up the great river. forming
probably the first, and certainly the larg-
cended it.
Six hours after leaving Port OF Spain
the entrance Of the Macarao was
reached, and for fourteen hou>s we navi-
gated IL deep. channel, perhaps half a
mile wide, whose attractions surprised
Orinoco as a dismal swamp, thousands
of square miles in extent. tenanted only
by Il few wild Indians who built their
houses in among the trees, by wild beasts
and by birds. The description is true,
though the impression left is not quite
correct. Wel[nigh impenetrable forests
and underground hide ground which is
the year by water. The Guaraoan In
dams, ;,pany of whom padded out to
meet the steamer and beg in canoes
roughly followed from the trunk of a
tree, and who dispute supremacy Of these
wilds with jaguars and alligators, are
extremely low specimens of humanity.
though attachment to their uogs, large,
rough-haired and excellent hunters,
should be mentioned to their credit.
But the .passerby sees none Of the hor-
rors of this great swamp. They are
concealed by magnificent trees growing
to the: waters edge, whose branches may
sometimes be touched from the steamer,
order to avoid the current Sometimes
that splendid parasite, the matapalo. has
wrapped in it's deadly folds several ad-
jacent trees, and, these perishing, it
stands alone, showing walls of green and
resembling a large ivy manteled tower
Upon this and upon the tops of the tall
est trees other parasites fling masses of
blossom. A flock of famingoes makes
a brilliant scarlet patch here and there :;
the sun flashes from parrots of MANY
sizes and various hues: snow-white
cranes gaze stolidly from the banks: ma
caws, green and yellow. or deep crimson
on head and breast, fly heavily past; and
smaller birds Of every color of the rain
the trpes=Caracas Herald
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-05-02
MAD Jack" Perciyal.

Capt. Percival of the navy, whose pur-
trait has just been presented to the navy
department, died in 1862. He was known
as "Mad Jack" Percival, because of &C.
centricities which on many occasions
brought him in conflict with the naval
authorities. The portrait was sent by
Mrs. William Nicholson, but who she is
the department is unable to discover.
Cant. Percival was sent to Morocco with
his frigate to bring back a cargo of
jackasses for the government, and in or.
der to show his contempt for the en-
plOyment of a war vessel for such a mis-
sion, on entering New York harbor he
ran in all his guns and placed the*head
Of a jackass through each port as the
ship sailed in. The sight of double
row of jackasses' heads protruding from
the places where guns were looked for
created sensation at the time and
MAD Jack" narrowly escaped a repri-
mand.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-05-02
A Suffering Cuckoo.

A Reading music dealer. whom every
body knows as Charlie, stammers badly.
Occasionally Charlie, who is married.
stays out rather late at night. He did
80 several nights ago. When he reached
possible and went to the room where
his wife was sleeping. His wife heard
him and woke up. why, Charlie, where
in the world " ere you until SO. late !?
What time is it?''< "No-n-not $3.50
y-v-very late. J-j-just O'clock replied
Charlie. Just then the cuckoo in the lit
coed Zone, two, three" WHY. mummy
id dear" was Charles unblushing in
PERFECTION, "since w-w-when d-d-did tho
c--c--cuckoo b--b-begin tito stutter?"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-05-02
The Crafty Robin Snipc.

The eggs of some common birds of the
present day have never been found
There is the robin SHINE; it's eggs have
never been seen. An English zoologist
kept a man going up and down the coast
of Labrador for weeks purposely to get
The bird is known by thousands of peo-
pie, but it breeds so far north and so
remote from civilization that no scientific
observer can ever get to it's nest ere the
young are hatched,, and have taken to
wing. The frigate bird, that is so common
]y seen at sea on the Pacific and off the
West Indies, is such a solitary bird and
is so seldom in it's nest during the hours
Of daylight that it's egg is rare. 1t seems
strange, but the eggs of so we'll known
a bird as the sandpiper have never been
found, and are almost priceless.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-05-02
Paris POstoffices Worst of All.

The very perfection Of imperfection is
to be found in Partisan postotices. They
are dirty. lily ventilated and insufficiently
manned, and the transaction of business
with Indifferent clerks is a trial of pa
thence. If one wants Stamps it is better
to buy them at tobacco store, where
there is also post box for letters, etc.
There are a great many Of these "b1-
reaux he tabac," distinguished in the day
time by a red double cone and at night
by a red lamp. Here the government
sells tobacco, cigars, cigarettes, matches
and postage stamps, tobacco, matches
and stamps being three Of it's pet monop-
olies. Postoffices are distinguished by
blue lamps, in order that they may be
avoided.-New York Press.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-05-02
The Cars Travelling Cow.

The travelling COW Of the Emperor and
Empress of Russia has just died. This
beneicent animal was taken to Denmark
and Leith in 1896, and then round to
Portsmouth; whence she crossed to
France. She travelled from Cherbourg
to Montparnasse in the imperial train
and from the latter terminus was driven
piled milk to their imperial majesties and
the baby Olga. A French paper says:
1'This COW has Travelled about with the
Emperor and Empress" She was of
English race and highly priced by her ex-
allied owner.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-05-02

to do something for the horses on the
public cab ranks, and has taken the ini-
tial steps. In Copenhagen there are in
general use on the carriage ranks small
trestle. stands. or tables, on which the
horses nosebags are placed, so that the
animals may fee ed in greater comfort;
and, as an experiment, Queen Alexandra
has had dozen Of these tables sent over
from Denmark. Her majesty's notion is
to give them to a few drivers, in the hope
that their practical utility may be dem
onstrated and the system extended. The
trestles are extremely light and compact,
and the top part is formed of strong
webbing. The whole continuance can be
folded into very small compass, and quite
Of cab when the vehicle leaves the
rank. The tables have ben tentatively
used at the cab rank in Pail Mall within
the past few days.-London TELEGRAPH
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-05-02
A Good Deed.

Congressman Robert H. Foerderer of
Philadelphia does many good deed in a
quiet manner. Sometimes they see the
to crippled boy at the Hot Springs in
Virginia, who was 6 years old, but had
never walked, as his feet were reversed
from the time of his birth. He sent for
the boy, and at the Pennsylvania Hos
pital Drs. Willard and Young operated
on him, put his feet in natural position,
and then taught him to walk. Lest week
he went home, cured. All the expense
was borne by Mr.. Foerderer, and no one
would have known it: had not the boys
joyful parents spread the news. Mr.
Foerderer has built several houses in
Frankfort to sell on easy terms to his
wOrkmen, and also organized beneficial
societies for them.-Shoe and Leather
ReDOrter
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-05-02
Mammoth Cave s"For Rent. ~

The question as to who will be mar
ager of the Mammoth Cave property will
be settled finally in June. If decision
favorable to a majority of the trustees,
who want w. Scott Miller Of Louisville
to manage the property, is not secured
in the Edm0nston county circuit court,
they will carry the case to the federal
court and then to the United. States Su-
preme court. Mr.. Blair has been alver
Using the cave ''for rent" and, it Is
understood, will fight, the other: trustees
to a finish.-Kausas City Star. 60
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-05-02
The PatagOnians

Sir, w. Martin Conway, a well-knowr
traveller, says of the Patagonians: ::'Thev
are not giants, as some have supposed
and as the biographies teach. They are
large in comparison with other South
American natives--that is all. But they
are very fat. That is why they can
stand the cold so well. l have seen
unclad while l was wrapped in warm
garments, with the snow falling upof,
them in quantities and the wind blowing
bitterly. They are kept warm By their
fat-and dirt. Patagonia is one OF the
dirtiest places imaginable = 5s Il.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-05-02

The utilization Of aluminium as an cleo
trical conductor is another snub to the
hopes of those who imagined that copper
could so kiting in price to the level of
the so-called precious metals To secure
the same conductivity. aluminium wires
must be onefeurth larger than copper
wires, but such wires will weigh only
half as much as copper, and are also
much stronger An expert figures that
aluminium wires cost from 10 to 20 per
cent. less than copper.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-05-02
Rusty Lightning Conductors.

Recent observations of a German sci
enlist show that lightning conductors,
the connections Of which have become
imperfect through rusting, nevertheless
act in all efficient manner during a thun-
der storm. This phenomenon is said to
be due to the oscillating character of a
lightning discharge: electromagnetic
waves have been produced, which act
upon the imperfect connections as upon
coherer, restoring the conductivity for
a period more or less long. Hitherto
lightning has been considered continual
discharge. which often: becomes appar-
emily osciliatory by quick repetition.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-05-02
How Cheap Baking Powder is Made


+, The Health Department of New York
has seized quantity Of so-called cheap
baking powder, which it found in that
city. Attention was attracted to it by the
low price at which it was being sold
IN the department stores. Samples were
taken and the chemist of the Health de-
partment reported the stuff to be ian
alum POWDER" which analysis showed to
lied rock.
The powder was declared to be danger
Gus to health, and several thousand
pounds were carted to the offal dock and
destroyed.
1t is unsafe to experiment with these
so-called cheap articles Of food. They
are sure to be made from alum, rock.
OF other Injurious matter. In baking
po"ders' the high class, cream of tar
cause they 60 farther in use and are
bealthful beyond question.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-05-02
City in an Extinct Crater.

There is no more interesting or curious
the extinct crater, Aso San. about thirtv
miles from the city of Kumamoto, in
Japan. 1t is inhabited by 10000 peop'c.
who live and prosper within it's vertical
wall 800 feet high. The inhabitants
rarely make a journey into the outer
world, but form, as it were, a little ma
ton by themselves.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-05-02
FORTUNES OF A JOKE.

1--WE might sketch fish on the envel
ope like that on Quo Vadis.:'"
why, to be sure.''
'"That would be as innocent as a new
born trout"
1t was by such vague suggestions that
two or three young professors in the Ly.
ceum School at Clermont- on YOU'VE ell
couraged themselves to mail the letter
They reread the missive composed with
the aid of typewrite:.
Prof. Jean Hannezo.-Dear Sir: I under
stand that you have recently made certain
studies in applied chemistry by which the
tanning business might without doubt
profit. IT you are at leisure tomorrow. Sun
day, invite you to come and dine with me.
We shall be. a family party. l hope this
expression will not frighten YOU. Yours de.
vooedly, EDWARD BRESLAU.
The letter was slipped into the mail
box. Then laughter again. A hoax is en-
joyable a second time as Imagination fol-
lows it on its onward course On the
morrow Jean Hannezo opened the envel-
ope. His face grew pale. The poor pro-
fessor OF physics and chemistry felt a
delicious CONSERVATION.
1t was not Edward Breslau's style of
writing which troubled him. as one may
well imagine. Mr.. Breslau was rich
tanner and president OF the board OF
trade. Jean Hannezo was not naturally
sensitive to millions. When he was told
that Breslau was one Of the most i'm
portant capitalists of that section he re-
piled uncOncernedly:
IF an honest tanner finds a golden
fleece at the bottom of his watts that is
as it should be- and thought no more
| about the matter. But this expression
I'VE shall have family party, drought
ylvldly, to his mind Miss Susanna Bres.
dreams. He had, indeed, seen her that
very morning. In a dark blue gown, a
waist with gold buttons. a sailor hat
trimmed with gray-olue ribbons, she ap.
peared to him beautiful Disqualification
OF the genius of spring. How all this
shade Of her bluest of blue eyes! Hcl
face was rosy as the sunlight of a beau.
tiful morning-a delicate but firm. brave
face. Sometimes Miss Susanna's ewes
had encountered those of Jean and read
in them the devotion, the tenderness of
love.
And so every time she went out. wheth.
er accompanied by her father or by an
old servant, having lost her mother
while quite young, she was always sure
to meet this young man, who seemed
| to hurry out Of her way, but who from
this hoped-for meeting carried away with
him renewed interest in life
IN this Sunday at exactly Z o'clock
in the evening, Jean rang the bell of Mr..
Brcslau's door. His mind was so prcoc-
cupied that he had not noted the three
| silhouettes of his airy colleagues on the
street corner. A servant appeared who
at once informed him that Mr.. Breslau
was not at home. The professor was not
disturbed by this information. He pre-
scented his card, saying:
Mr.. Bresiau wrote me, requesting me
to come at this hour
few moments later the young man
was nshered into the library, where the
manufacturer received him court eously.
while glancing at the card, which read