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DAGO AND PAIL MIXED UP.

ing failed to produce as formerly.
'I'u soon find out if a milk thief is
around" said Mrs. Cooley. She then
changed the stall of the Jersey cow
and put vicious Jersey bull in the
stall next the door. Early next morn
ing there was great commotion in
the cow shed. The bull was believing
loudly aud kicking viciously. The air
was made blue by string of oaths. A
sound as of tin milk pail being
banged against the side of building,
and an occasional humping as if a
human being was being slammed
about WAX heard
The summer boarders rushed to the
cow shed. There they saw Dominic
Musanno, with the milk pail clutched
tightly in both hands. Musanno and
the pail were mixing it up with the
hind feet ct the Jersey BULL The bull
was angry. Musanno and his milk
pail were rescued and he confessed he
had been milking the Jersey cow in
the first stall. That night he thought
he would milk the COW. When he at
tempted to 10 50 he soon learned the
cow was bull. Musanno says he
will never forget his blunder
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-09-16
THEY'RE HAPPY NOW \
OLD SWEETHEARTS MEET AMI
WE'D TWO HOURS LATER.
Kafar King Accidentally Comes Face
to Face with Love of His Youth
and Becomes the Happiest
Of Mortals.

They met on the sands of the beach
near the Cliff house in San Francisco
last Monday. AS children they had
been sWeethearts in America He had
drifted to South Africa and became a
kathr king, miner of fabulous
wealth, and, incidentally, a husband.
But he never forgot Anita Mallory, his
California child sweetheart. He accu-
mulated millions in the Rand, but he
was not happy. His. wife and he could
net agree. She drifted away from him
and he got divorce. In the far land
OF the neither realms of Africa, with all
his wealth. with all his power, Jim
Burslem could neither buy nor sum-
mon happiness. His dreams were OF
an American sweetheart, and las,
spring he came to America
In New York he learned that his
Anita had married Los Angeles
banker, Hugh Glassell, and in an aim
less and yearning frame of mind the
rich young widower set out for the
Pacific coast. He had made up his
mind that he would not seek out his
old sweetheart of childhood, but he
could not resist the temptation to re.
visit the scenes of the early happiness
of his boyish dreams. He went to San
Francisco, got room in the Cliff
house and. day after day, from his
lonely window watched the seals sport
ing on the rocks far out in the harbor
One day in the dining room he saw
a young woman who recalled his child.
hood. She was beautiful, distract
lonely, and-she knew him. She smiled
upon him. and in five minutes he was
exchanging the experiences of decade
with the girl whose heart had been his
for all that time. but whose life hat
been not less adventurous than his
own. He learned that she, too, wa:
alone in the world, her husband having
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-09-16
LETS START RIGHT NOW"

crossed the great divide, and left her
a widow year previously. She had
not forgotten the old, simple, guileless
days of their childhood, nor had the
years effaced or diminished the tender
regard in which she held him. For
half an hour they talked over the in
tervening years, and then he said:
Anita, we have both made our mis-
takes. We are sorry, are we not? But
let us quit grieving and start It all
over again. Let's start right now.
Let's be married"
A sympathetic hotel clerk summoned
Deputy County Clerk Baker, who &C.
companied the groom-to-be to the
county clerks Office, where the license
was made out. Rev. John Rich, of the
First Presbyterian church of Oakland,
was summoned and within two hours
after their meeting this lover and
sweetheart of an old romance were
made man and wife. Mrs. Glassell be-
came Mrs. Burslem, and the delighted
couple set out for St. Louis, whence
they will 60 to New York, returning to
the western coast to make their home
in San Francisco
II did not know that she had been
married and she did not know that |
had" explains Mr.. Burslem-Jim Burs-
lem, the multi-millionaire Of the veldt,
II had never forgotten her, and my
own failures and disappointments had
brought her memory back with re-
newed affection and regret. Her story
was so like mine; we met so unexpect-
eddy, we sympathized SO readily and So
sincerely that there seemed to be
something fatefully happy in our re-
union. proposed marriage five min
utes after I knew her story. She &C.
cepted me promptly and we were mar
ried within the hour. 1t was the hap.
piest hour of my life. l was a boy
again. know that / am the luckfesl
man in the world. Suffering seldom
works to the end that it's victims shall
be doubly happy. But that's what it
did for me-"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-09-16
WANTED TO Be A MERMAID
Her Lover, However, Persuaded Her
- to Become Mistress Of His
Little Home Instead.

A Rochester IN. " girl had
choose butween being ! wife or a mcr-
maid, AMI, being a sensible girl, she
decided sue would be happier in a
home than in swimming around in a
glass tank full OF water, wearing a
papier mache tail instead of walking
skirt. 1t came about in this way:
A photographer who makes a. spe-
cialty of quaint pictures advertised
for a pretty girl to pose as a mermaid
one who would not be afraid of
water. This particular Rochester girl
could swim like a mermaid, and she
was willing to pose as one for $12 a
week.
Just as the bargain was about to be
sealed a big, broad-shouldered young
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81 =
THE OLD RED scHoOuHousE.

All. little old red schoolhouse on the hill!
In freckled days, in cowiick days Of
yOre,
Ny heart it used to bump and Jump and
thrill
When I was called to mount the plat
form floor,
little maiden used to pose sedate,
Her seat it was the first one front, you
know.
Her eyes they dazed me while I ranted
great
About Demosthenes or Cicero
She used to wear a pretty tucker gown,
Twas trimmed with pink about her
dainty neck;
Her golden hair in pigtails hanging
down.
All, me. that vision sent my heart
awreck.
But, heavens! how I used to tremble
The while her eyes they bored me
through and through;
used to march a hundred thousand men
In quavering before those eyes Of blue.
And when my mighty effort had been
made,
And I went marching back unto my
TO my dismay I saw her eyes they
strayed
Down to the region Of my clutt' ring
feet.
There from the vantage of my royal
throne,
I'd note how very nicely and precise
The pretty golden pigtails they had
For I was brave-behind my paradise.
All, me! There came day Of parting
there;
no fho,r 49,
the tune
OF life it bore a sombre sounding air
Long years ago one afternoon in June.
And | was standing in the same old spot,
With eyes fixed on pretty maiden
trim,
Each pulse within my being throbbing
hot
While detained with more than
wcnted vim.
All, me! The sweetness Of the school,
house bell!
My ears they hear your calling notes
again.
Anon I'm trooping at your beck and
With kindred spirits down the shady
lane.
The clover flowers splitting on the air
The essence Of it's sweetness and per-
fume;
<Ahu Ny LILY SAue q uidlueN "2nuefS tnere
Along the fields of sunshine and Of
bloom.
Fond memory recalls the winding ways,
The daisy chain, the sunny brook that
flows,
Each throb and thrill Of childi,h rounde-
lays,
The grapevine swing, the orier path,
the rose.
All sweeter to my heart than all the
rest
OF life's delightful pleasures Of the old
Was one who laid her head upon my
breast
And whispered-what? I never yet
have told.
Horace Seymour Keller. in N. Y. Sun.
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Discovery being inevitable, it Wel0
better TO % prepared for defense, he
thought, before the alarm from tho
exhaust pipe came: AS quietly as%pos-
sible he pushed the shelf upward on
its well-olled hinges. Fortunately, IL
made no noise. He rose slowly on his
benumbed limbs and stood upright in
and lower and he had but a moment t.
decide upon plan of action.
He could now see the burglar, who
was engaged in devouring lemon pie,
a sort which Mrs LOOMS made espe-
ciaAy we'll, and of which Mr.. LOOMS
was particularly fond, and which had
been intended for their Sunday din
ner. 1t was as yellow as gold, and
topped with beautiful, thick, frothy
meringue. If the blood of Mr.. Loomts
had not been so chilled, it would have
boiled at the sight of the rough-look-
ing robber wrecking this masterpiece
Of pastry, and feeding with knife at
that.
The time for action had come. Mr..
LOOMS felt around for a weapon, but
could find none. He was in despair.
The last wave of the retiring water
floated the big sponge against his
ankles. He reached down and grasped
it.
AS he Strengthened up with It poised
in his hand, he was dismayed to hear
a light step on the back stairs-Mrs.
LOOMS was descending to see why he
had not come to bed. It was a fear
full crisis. At that very moment the
bath-tub exhaust emitted a CHASTITY,
gurgling groan, followed by a sucking,
swirling Shrek
The very worst had come, and Mr.
LOOMS, steadied by realization OF
the critical situation, raised the satu-
rated sponge with careful aim, and let
it fly. With a soggy swash it struck
the burglar squarely in the back of the
neck, forcing the villanous face VIC
lently into the center of the lemon pie
to the very bottom of the dish.
When the burglars countenance was
Withdrawn it wore mask of yellow
fringed with frothy white, from which
two beardy eyes protruded with hor-
rible stare. They fell upon the open
doorway Of the back stairs, where d
plump matron in snowy white just
then sat forcibly. down upon the bottom
step, still clinging to a smoking lamp
whose shattered chimney fell upon the
floor.
Then, as they turned in the direction
from which the cold, paralyzins missile
had come, and beheld the stark form
of Mr.. LOOMS, their owner gave utter.
ance to a cry very like that just emit
ted by the bath-tub, and disappeared
through the open window. The clock
struck two.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-09-16
mo CURIOs IN MINE"

man. grimy from honest toll, entered
the office.
oh, John, I'm going to bs 4 mer-
maid and get $12 a week." she cried
mot on yer life," he growled,
promptly. r
Then he added: II heard what you
was: up to, SO 1 came here. Say, think
I'm going to marry an aquarium!
Which would you prefer-to BE an old
maid mermaid or my wife? Think I'm
going to agree to your clinging to the
sides of a tank all day and dodge pea
nuts thrown at you by peoplew
Were engaged to be married, you
know" she explained, with a painful
blush, to the photographer. ;.
Il see." he remarked, shortly.
We were engaged to be. married. u
corrected John, .bluntly, s"but you must
choose now between me and the brinv
deep. No curios in mine, you know. y
Il guess I won't take the job" she
said, smiling tearfully, but withal
bravely. Il guess; John, I'll 70 home
with you. But did want the none,
so.'' -. -. = -. 2
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-09-16

Dominic Musanno is in q hospital at
Trenton, N. j., suffering from two
fractured ribs. three broken fingers. a
sprained ankle and 21 bruises because
he tried to milk Mrs. Mary Cooley's
prize cow too often. Mrs. Cooley con-
ducts country boarding place at
Trenton Junction. That she may have
a novel country place, Mrs. Cooley has
sought to supply her boarders with
real fresh milk. To this end Mrs.
Cooley kept several Jersey cows. For
several weeks this summer boarders
have been shy on milk, the fresh prize
cow in the first stall of the stable hav-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-09-16

T HE cleverness of Lemuel c. LOOMS
was ingenuity raised to a very
high power. and if he had any local
rival it was certainly his ingenious
helpmeet, Lucinda l.. LOOMS, born
Laurence, When they were married
the groom had reached his fifty-second
year and the bride had hidden farewell
to the frivolous thirties.
AS nothing will develop a latent tai.
ent for labor-saving devices more
thoroughly or impart more intimate
knowledge of ones own peculiar traits
than living alone, the couple entered
upon their own experience unusually
we'll equipped in both these respects,
and their house-hunting was rendered
both easier and more difficult. They
examined a number of houses in their
little village, and made the real estate
agents a great deal of trouble, but
they knew so well what would and
what would not answer their purposes,
that they were able to give prompt
and decided decisions after one inspec-
ton.
two houses, at about the same price.
Each was three squares from the
church which they attended and four
from the postofhce, and the interior
arrangements of both were, in the
main, satisfactory. Each, however.
had one great defect. The house on
Locust street had no hall, the front
door opened directly into the sitting
room, while the Elm street dwelling.
with an ample hallway, had neither a
bathroom nor any space that could be
converted into one.
:; Witch shall it be, Lucinda:"
"What do you think, Lemuel?''
Y would rather that you would say,
my dear"
And I should prefer that you should
decide, darling"
well, then, without either of us de-
Gliding it, said Mr.. LOOMS, diploma
tically, "let us each write our opinion
on a piece OF paper, and exchange
them"
All right" agreed Mrs. Loolahs.
Mr.. LOOMS unfolded his wife's opin-
ion with much curiosity and read:
have always said would never
live in house which did not have q
front hail."
Mrs. LOOMS read on her husbands
slip:
1T has always seemed 10 me that II
l were building house, I'd build q
first-class bathroom, and with what
money I had left build the best house
could around it."
Both laughed heartily and rose with
one accord to give the houses another
Inspection. :
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-09-16
WEATHER SUITED PATRICK.
Thorough Drenching Had
No TerrOrs.

The weather often calls on the cour-
age Of the philosopher, and he is: but
a weak-hearted one who cannot find
some charms even in it's least winning
moods. Perhaps prolonged drought is
the most trying test of the MARK
Tapley" spirit. When ones favorite
roses, Strawberries and laborious lawns
are burned day after day by relentless
sun, it is hard to be patient with the
cloudless. sky. Still worse is it when
the fields of grass and wheat and corn
are threatened with total destruction.
The means of life are as dear as life it.
self. But fortunately in our climate
the severest drought is tolerably sure
to end before hopeless damage is done.
Then follow the long days of rain. in
which both man and field may revel
in the refreshing moisture.
Hot and cold, wet and dry, fair and
foul have their own charms for one
who loves nature. One does not need
a highly imaginative spirit to do that.
A truly religious man is sure to be a
grateful one. and gratitude has the
secret of finding every day good day.
An American lady was walking alons
a muddy Irish road in a drenching
rain, with some discomfort, in spite of
overshoes, rain coat and umbrella. She
met an old man without the le:.st pro-
lection from the downpour, the water
dripping from his hat and beard. and
evidently soaking him to the skin.
Good morning, Patrick!" SIZE said.
"This is bad weather, isn't it,"
"Good luck to We, miss! A fine. saft
day. tank God!"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-09-16
Counterfeit Coins for Coffin,

The making of counterfeit coins is
permitted by law in China. They are
only intended to put in the collins Of
the dead, as superstition prevails that
they make the dead happy. The coins
are supposed to be used to pay ferriage
for carrying the deceased across the
streams that lie between earth and the
realms of the blessed.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-09-16
The Staple Food of Cnba

Rice is an important food in Cuba.
All classes, rich and poor. eat it.
Among the country people, who seldom
eat wheat bread, rice is vertically the
'staff Of; life" 1t is eaten at every
meal, and no one knows better than the
Cuban housewife Its varied and &C,
ceptable uses.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-09-16

Fits stopped free and permanently cured.
No fits after first days use of DR.. Kline >
Great Nerve Restorer. Free 81 trial bottle &
treatise. DR.. Kline, 93l Arch st., Phila., Pa.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-09-16

Do not believe Piso's Cure for Consump-
ton has an equal for coughs and colds.-y.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-09-16

Every, cloud has silver lining, but the
trouble in clouds never comes to US inside
out.-Chicago Tribune.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-09-16
Kansas City Southern Ry. Special
Excursion

Sept: Is, 20 and q, Oct and Is, 1904,
to Arkansas, Indian Territory, Louisiana
and Texas, very low one way and round
trip rates.
For further information, write to S. G.
Warner, G. P. & T. A., K. c. S. Ry., Kansa.
City, Mo.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-09-16
No Gas,

Not long ago an old colored woman, OF
Virginia, visited doctor and informed him
that her husband was seriously ILL., The
doctor hastened home with her, and upon
making diagnosis of the mans case in
formed the wife that he had hopeless case
of gastritis
"Gastritis!" calculated the old woman.
DE lawd knows I don't know how he
ever got gastritis, cause I don't burn
thing but coal and lie in dis house, an but
powerful little of that. - Philadelphia
Ledger.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-09-16

Most men who are looking for snaps are
hacking in ginger.-Chicago Journal
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-09-16

Russian ikons do little good against such
notorious igonclasts as the Japs.
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- Get tho yacation habit Drop your work
and take strip to some Of the Famous East
ern Summer Resorts % easily and quickly
reached by the: Nickel Plate Road. Stop
overs allowed ct Niagara Falls and LAks
Chautauqua on all tickets. Three elegant.
" equipped trains made up Of modern Day
Coaches, Dining and Sleeping Cars, running
thru from Chicago to Fl. Wayne, Cleveland,
Erie, Buffalo, New York, Boston and in:
termediate points. The Dining Car serv-
ice of the Nickel Plate Road is up-to-date,
Inexpensive and as good as the best. Indi-
vidual Club Meals are served at prices rang
ing from IS cents to $l.00. Meals are also
served "a la Carte" Passengers using the
Day Coaches of the Nickel Plate Road; re-
CARELESS of the class of, ticket held, may be
assured of the most courteous treatment by
our Colored Porters in Uniform, who are
instructed to give every attention to the
welfare Of our patrons. Tickets via the
Nickel Plate Road are from 50 cents to
$500 lower than tickets of the same class
between the same points via other lines.
All trains arrive at and depart from the
New La Sale Street Station, Chicago. For
full information. regarding tickets, rates,
routes, sleeping car reservations, etc, call
on or address j. Y. Callahan, General Agent,
No. Ill Adams St., Chicago, Ill.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-09-16
IronicaI.

,Mother--Elsie, would you please stop
playing that ''slumber- song" for a little
while? Your poor old grandfather is try
ing to take nap-Cassells Saturday Jour
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-09-16
| THE YELLOW MASK. !
n0oooooocecece.ece7ocaoeco.eo0 u.can0
BY Charles Newton Hood.

Copyright, 1900, by The Shortstory Pub
fishing Company. All rights reserved.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-09-16

holder heard the burglar tiptoe across
to the pantry and back. Waiting as
long as he could restrain his curiosity
and alarm, he again peered cautiously
between the table-shelf and the tub
rim
The burglar was sitting In the mid
die OF the room, With his back toward
Mr.. Loomis. By the faint Ii ght of the
tiny lantern he could not see what the
man was doing, and wriggled little
higher up. As he moved his feet there
was slight disturbance in the water,
and Mr.. LOOMS realized only too we'll
what it meant. Pending the perma-
nent location Of the bath-tub, he had,
with his accustomed ingenuity, utilized
large cork as an exhaust plug, and
this, loosened by his foot, had bobbed
to the surface. The water was running
out rapidly. When 1t was nearly all
out the exhaust would make hideous,
gurgling wall, startling the burglar,
Mr.. LOOMS would be discovered, and
in his helplessness probably muir
dered.
He fumNel, wildly for the cork, but
1t elnded every clutch. and he dared
not make a noise. He tried to check
the flow of the water by inserting his
toes in the orifice, but this only slight
" delayed The end. Nothing could
stop the water-his moments were
numbered,
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1904-03-03

derstood or cared what he snid or in
the general excitement even wondered
why he was going away. When the
train had dwindlsd to dot and dis
appeared and the noise of its rush
grew faint the courthouse bell was
beard ringing, and the mob was rush
Ing pellmell into the village to form on
the square. The judge stood alone on
the embankment
"That settles it," he said aloud
glOomily watching the last figures. He
took off his hat and pushed back the
thick white hair from his forehead
"Nothing to do but wait. Might as well
go home for that. Blast it, he ex-
claimed impatlently. II don't want to
60 there. It's too hard on the little
girl II she hadn't come till next week
she'd never have known John 1larkless :"
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1904-03-03
CHAPTER IN.

Ii morning horsemen had
been galloping through Six
Crossroads, sometimes sin
ely. oftener in company. At
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1904-03-03
CHAPTER VIII.

/" HE courthouse bell ringing In
the night. No hesitating
!S~s28Sl stroke of Schofelds' Henry,
VsSSSy no uncertain touch, was on
The Brunswick daily news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1903-1906, 1904-08-09
FOR THE WEST.

Trains arrive at Brunswick daily as
follows:
No. Ia arrives at $3.50 a. m. with con
nections from Savannah and the esat
and also from Atlanta and west.
No 16 arrives at $3.50 p. N. from At
lanta and the west.
THROUGH CAR SERVICE.
No. 80 carries through Pullman cars
from Jesup for New York and also fer
st. Louis via Asheyille. Knoxville and
Louisville.
No - carries through Pullman car
from Brunswick to Atlanta and also
from Jesup to Cincinnati via Atlanta
nd Chattanooga.
No. Is carries through Pullman car
from Macon for St Louis via, Atlanta
Chattanooga and Louisville.
S, II. HARDWICK, P. T. NJ. Wash
ngton, d. G.
W. Il. TAYLoE, C. P. a.. Washing,
ton, ID. G
BROOKS MORGAN. A. G. p. A.
Atlanta, Ga.
E. II. HoUsEMAN, General Agent
Brunswick, Ga.