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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-11-17

A BALCONY
SCENE
By CAMILLA ]. KNIGHT

TX7HEN Katherine came back to the
w dinner table after answering the
telephone she looked so sober, es-
pecially in contrast with her previous
high spirits, that the family resolved
itself into an Interrogation point at
once
Harry can't come for me-" she
said slowly.
"Is that all? Thought there must
have been death at the very least"
mo, that's not all. He very kind
ly provides me with an escort, and
that escort none other than Mr.. Ran
dolph Payson."
"Well, what's the matter with Mr..
Payson? l thought he was all right?'
That's just what's the ~matter-he's
so invariably and provokingly all
right. He's perfect paragon of pro-
priety, and shall be sure to do some
thing to shock him. I've half mind
not to CO."
"Oh Katherine interposed her
mother, you must. Harry is depend
ing on your solos"
Yes, that's another thing. Some one
has failed him at the last minute and
he wants me to sing another. I hate
these concerts for the benefit of some
thing anyway: they're always in some
stuffy hall, and there's never decent
piano"
We'll, DEAR" said her mother, sooth-
ingly, you must just do the best you
can. l can't imagine why you feel so
about it. Most girls would be delight
ed with Randolph Payson as an es-
cort''
Most girls are scared blue of him.
just the same. It's enough to rifle
anybody just to look at him, he's 80
absolutely faultless"
Katherine was ready at the appoint
ed time, and was alone, the. other
members of the family, including the
maids, having gone out. She was
positively nervous about meeting Mr.
Payson, and started violently when the
bell proclaimed his arrival. She pick
ed up her gloves to go, but to her
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-11-17
HE LIKED REGULARITY.
Publisher Missed the Daily, Dunning
from Lawyer to Which He Was >,
E Accustomed. -. = r

About year ago a junior member
of prominent firm Of lawyers made
departure from his usual line and
undertook to collect a debt due
downtown publisher, relates the New
York Herald. The amount in dispute
was $4,000. 1t had been hanging fire
for a long while and there seemed
very little chance of ever collecting it.
''I've tried every way I can think
Of" said the publisher. Maybe you
can scare the fellow into paying up.
If you can. I'll give you half you COL
lect"
The lawyer took the case and finally
collected the money. Then came a
tussle with the publisher, who failed
to live up to his end of the agreement:
He paid half of the $1,000 fee, as
promised, but withheld the remaining
$500.
: For the first two months the law
yer's efforts toward settlement were
conducted in dignified manner. Con-
sentative methods proving unavailing,
he resorted to system OF petty an
nOydnCeS.
Day after day his errand boy was
dispatched to the publishers Office
with written or verbal request to
settle the account For four months
this persecution continued, but at last
there came a day when in the rush
of business the lawyer neglected thus
to jog the delinquent's memory .
Late in the afternoon he was re-
minded of the cessation of hostilities
in an unexpected manner. Into his
private Office, where he was engaged
in serious consultation, there pene-
trated red-headed, wide-eyed boy.
"Say," piped the youngster. I'm
from Mr.. Blank, the publisher. He
wants to know why your boy amt
been around to-day to dun him for
that $500 he owes you.''
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-11-17
COMING AND he GOT IT..
How q Man Who Wanted the Entire
Seat in Street Car Was
Taken Down. .~

A dapper young man, who acted like
he was a director of the company, &C.
cupied a whole seat on a Brooklyn
avenue car the other evening and
seemed satisfied with life A working
man with dinner basket on his arm
entered the car and made for the seat,
relates the Kansas City Star.
Excuse me, sir, but would you
mind moving over a Bit" he said po-
litely.
The dapper young man looked up
and scowled. He did not bulge an
inch.
Never mind, old man, your time
will come some time, observed SYM
pathetic young man who was damned
over against window by woman
who held a baby in her arms.
Just then the car stopped, and a ne
gro woman who might weigh 800
pounds, entered. She held two squawk-
ing chickens in one hand and a basket
of vegetables in the other. The work
ingman turned, as if he had just risen,
and beckoned the negro woman to the
seat. She sailed along the aisle past
the crowded seats with a grateful
smile on her face. When she sat
down she struck the seat so hard that
the dapper young man was sent fly
ing over against the window. He look
ed miserable, pinned there as he was.
while the passengers giggled and tit
tired and chuckled all the way out to
the end of the line.
The workingman held on to the
strap and looked satisfied. His. time
had come.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-11-17
Peril of the Polar Ice Floe.

The crushing force of the foes that
cover the northern seas is not to be
guessed by those who have not seen
them. They are not such films and
cakes as we see in our bays and rivers,
says the Brooklyn Eagle, but are acres
and miles in extent, often solidly COM
pacted, piled one on the other, each
foe from Is to Is feet thick and rep
resenting not the freeze of a single
winter, but the consecutive formations
Of years. Advance through such a foe
is as impossible as it would be to sail
a ship through city street. The nav
igator must wait patiently for '*leads"
and take advantage of even momentary
openings when tides and currents
break channels through the mass.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-11-17
Yukon steamboating.

Capt. James P. Boland, who is steam
boating on the Yukon river, writes to
Capt. Sam Gregory, of the Eagle boat
store, that q fine business is being done
on that stream this season. The boat
gets from $40 to $125 head for car
rying cattle, $50 q head for sheep and
about $45 a ton for general merchan-
disc. Passenger rates are in the same
proportions, and dogs are charged for
at the same rate as passengers.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-11-17
CONDENSED HINTS.

Season your care with kindness and
NO more affectionate friend you'll find
than the horse, nor more faithful,
" II the mother and her chicks can be
permitted to run at large, do not WORRY
them with too much grain food. Make.
them scratch. They need the exercise.
Hen will lay as many eggs In year,
and likely more, II one let's them hatch
q brood or two. than II none at all. tits.
more natural. A hen Is stubborn.
Doesn't pay to contrary her very much.
See that the hives get the early morn
ing and forenoon sun. II they do not eet
Il, the bees win put In good many les
hours Of work IN = season, o they win
not como out much until t gets about
- uAr1k sss.s.s5ss
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-11-17
POULTRY SOMETIMES FAILS
Twelve Ways in Which the Keeping
Of Chickens May Prove Any,
thing But Profitable.

Here are some Of the reasons &C.
cording to P. Fl. Jacobs, the we'll.
known poultryman and editor, why
some men fail to make poultry pay:
1. Endeavoring to keep two fowls
where room for one only can be OBJ
tanned; that is, saving expenses by
cheapening the cost of houses and
space.
2. Buying fowls from other farms
and thus bringing disease and lice into
the flock.
3. Overlooking. the fowls being sup
piled with the greatest abundance un-
der the supposition, "the more feed the
more eggs"
4. Cold drafts over the fowls at
night, with view to supplying fresh
air, when the thermometer is low.
S. Wasting time with suck fowls,
instead of destroying all birds that
cannot be quickly cured.
6. Disregarding the breeds by keep
ing anything that is fowl.
z. Lack Of exercise, the fowls being
idle, discontinued and consuming food
because they have nothing to do.
8. Failure to provide sufficient
warmth in winter, season when eggs
are highest.
9. Feeding corn and wheat exclu-
sively and emitting foods which SUD.
ply albumen for the eggs.
10. Feeding three times a day, the
result being indigestion and the intro
duction Of disease in the flock.
II. Lice, both mites and the large
lice that are found only on the bodies
Of the fowls and at all seasons of the
year.
II. Failure to keep the houses and
yards clean. Labor is withheld at the
most important periods.
Success, therefore, depends upon the
observance Of certain rules, a neeli-
gence OF the one being almost euufya-
lent to disregard of the whole.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-11-17
Breaks All Records.

Tom Erickson's lady goose has
broken all records in the egg line.
She has laid "a eggs in 30 days, and
is still laying. Tom, who is q student
Of Macbeth" calls her Macduff, be.
cause she is laying on. About Is eggs
is an average setting, but this lady
goose challenges all other lady geese
to do half as well as she will. Bring
on your geese.-Chinook Observer.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-11-17

tions to hive the little visitors. The
bees, however, had already selected
their new quarters, and began moving
through an aperture in the base Of q
hollow column on the veranda
The entire swarm was soon inside
and at work preparing to store up
their next winters supply OF honey.
"Oh, very WE'LL. said Mr.. Clement.
why doth the busy bee, anyhow? Stay
where you are, and next winter I will
remove section of the post and revel
in the accumulated sweetness" And
in the meantime visions of milk and
honey fit through the peaceful dreams
of the Clement household.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-11-17

THE BOY NOT TO TELL YOU"
horror her room door would.not open!
No, it was not locked, and the knob
turned but did not unlatch. Mean
while the bell rang again. What should
she do? OF course she could not
make him hear, and she ratified the
knob and pounded and pulled to no
purpose. She lived in the lower fiat
of an apartment house, and her room
had long windows opening on a small
balcony. She rushed out there, only
to find that she could not see the front
ing.
Boy" she called, come here if you
want to earn a dime" The boy came
with alacrity. "Is there a carriage in
front of the house?" she asked.
"Yes," said the boy.
Then please go around to the en-
trance and tell the gentleman who is
at the door Of this fiat that Miss Har-
rison cannot come to the door just
now, and ask him to please wait a
"Yes'm," said the boy, and repeated
the message. Then he started of.
"Oh," come back a minute. Do you
know where the janitor's rooms are?
Then please go and ask him to come
at once to Flat 1, and fix door that
won't open. Now, don't tell the gen.
treman that" she added. as she tossed
him dime.
A moment or two later, she heard
steps, but instead Of the small boy or
the janitor, it was Mr.. Payson. Her
first impulse was to hide, but the
glare of the street light made her con-
spicuous, 50 he had already seen her.
Lifting his hat, he said, Good even
ing, Miss Harrison" as calmly as if
it was his daily custom to greet from
the lawn young lady on a balcony.
"Oh", began Katherine, II told the
boy not to tell you"
'"The boy" said Mr. Payson, grave
ly, gave me rather confused mes.
sage about the door and waiting and
said he was going for the janitor. l
insisted on knowing where I might
find the young lady who had sent him,
and following his directions am
here"
YES" said Katherine, confused.
MAY I ask what the trouble is, and
If I can do anything?"
Katherine wanted to tell him he
might ask anything if he would only
take of that expression of calm dis
approval which made her feel as If
she were a naughty flve-year-old. But
she explained matters, in an embar-
rassed, hesitating way, which made
her appear more charming even than
usual,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-11-17
Feeding the Hens.

Iney need variety.
Don't feed too heavily.
Q See that they have protein or mus.
cle-making material.
Too much corn and too little exer.
else makes fat, lazy hens.
Wheat teens with the elements that
repair the waste to which laying hens
are subject.
. Remember that oats are excellent
food for egg production, but should be
fed with other grain. =:
Feed your laying hens on a mixed
diet or balanced ration, for hens can
starve on one kind Of grain.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-11-17
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A 3 g 8 st ! $
<E43s
7 BEES IN PORCH PILLAR.
Are Busily Storing Up Sweets for
Winter, Which Alton Qll.) Fam
lily Hopes to Enjoy.

, A swarm of bees paid visit to the
residence Of E. A. Clement, of No. 720
Grove street, Alton, ILL.,, last Sunday
and Immediately proceeded to take
possession of the back part of re
house. Mr.. Clements sweet tooth be-
gan to water, and he made prepara-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-11-17
Orders.

Employer-Well, what did he say to
you?
Clerk-That he'd break every bone
in my body and pitch me out of the
window if I showed my face in his Of
flee again!
"Then go back and tell him that
he is vastly mistaken if he thinks he
can intimidate me by his Violence
Life
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-11-17
Sympathetic.

= 4Why in the world did you give that
tramp a whole beefsteak?" demanded
Mrs. Smith, reprovingly.
:. "I've Just got back from three
weeks camping" said Smith, .:and
I'm sorry for any man that has to live
ont of tin can."-Detr6it Free Press.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-11-17
Unity Of Action.

Thousands Of bees pour In and out
of the hive many times 4 day; thou
sands more swarm over the combs,
each untrammeled by rules, and With
no ret task. No bee works for Itself;
the multitude works q though It were
oas bee. :=.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-11-17
His Terrible Accident.

s. Admiring Young Listener-And how
did you lose your leg?
: Old Salt-Well, young man, one
night in the dog watch, while was
carryin' the baby, jib, stepped on .
starboard tack and blood pisln en-.
sooed. -Pittsburg Dispatch. ez=sS-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-11-17
Good.

Counterfeiter-Do you mean to say
that note is not good for anything?
Banker-t is good for ten years II
you are caught passing dt-Chicago
Journal
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-11-17
BEDSTEAD POULTRY HOUSE
How a Discarded Article of House
hold Furniture Was Utilized
for the Chickens.

A house suitable for ducks, geese or
a small flock Of poultry can be made
from an old bedstead, as shown in the
cut, says Mrs. Charles Cotter, of Mon
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-11-17

POULTRY HOUSE MADE FROM BED
STEAD.
roe county, Michigan, in writing to the
Farm and Home. I made one out of
a discarded bedstead. Inside the foot
board at each corner fastened a post
the same height of the headboard anu
nailed boards on these. The roof is
supported by 1x4-inch rafters and an
old drinking trough is used for a ridge
pole: Odd pieces of lumber were used
for the siding and the shingles were
some that haa been taken OF the house
when that was repaired. A small win
dow provided with wire netting was
put in each gable end. - re
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-11-17

A Pittsburg man has been looking
% years for job. Persistent effort
USUALLY wins out.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1905-05-12
La paz del mundO

La buena inteligencia que hoy exis-
te entire Inglaterra y Francia Sc expli-
ca natural y sencilamente por la ra
z6n que determinan siempre los actos
lie los Goblernos: la conyenieneia.
N;nguna extrafleza debe, pues, can
sar la actitud que han asumido en-
perseveran las dos naciones, antiguas
rivales sepal adas pot ell canal de la
Mancha. respecto de la question ma.
rroqui.
El incdente de Tanger, que tanta
resonancia ha tenido ha dado OCCASION
a que ell mundo politico Sc file en- las
proba bles consecuen cias, favcrables d
la paz europea, que Sc derivan de esa
inteige gencia, cada vez mas acentuada,
entire Ell imperio blitanico y Ia rep1
bIica francesa.
Pudo observarse que Alemania
aprovechandose de la actual debilida d
de Russia, ocasionada por la guerra que
sostiene con ell Jap6n y por su gran
agitacion intestina, procuraba suscitar
un grave rozamiento cen Frarcia, co
locandola en- una sltuaciOn de que no
polria s. lir honrosamente. faltandole
Ell apoyo de su antes pcderosa y hoy
abatida aIiada; pero no ha tardado en-
verse que en- sustitucion de csc auxilio
cnenta la repIblica europea con e de
lnglateIra, donde los asuntos mario
quies han dado OCCASION que Sc pro-
diguen testimonies de simpatias viva
mente expresada por la prensa de
Londres.
El Times" ha pubicado un ener-
gico articulo, que dice que Inglaterra
esta frmamente resuelta cumpir las
estipulaciones ajustadas con Francia n
Abril de 1904, relativas d Egipto y Ma
rruecos, prestando todo Ell apoyo en-
elias proNetido a in de asegurar la
ejecuci6n del conyenio.
''El pueblo ingles atribuye la mayor
importancia 4 la intelIgencia anglo
frsncesa, y TODD 10 que :ecientemente
ha ocurrido aumenta su satisf aeei6n
su couhsnza en- que el mencionado
srreglo constituya hoy una de las mas
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1905-05-12
De YabuCoa

IL ofnaso fiblico &c c>ta ca.;a -
hlaci6n IA adcuincrdo csds uis mayor
fealcc. gTaeiAs 81 cello 9, preueido pr
nucs,rs oompc,caie slcaldc don o>s
L Berries. Ae,ua'mcntc e esian r.
parando las aNtra> n Cunc;aS &c las
GALES cue cn tan dcsaStr s. cstaao
u "a 81 hars, IN 0c ; n Oiaaco.
In Ia semsna ppaa. dej6 81 env
;pfa corporal. Scra-andose del mundo
De los viv ruestio cycclenie pairio-
ta Y defcnsor De Ia cauSa unionista
don Manuel dc Jesus Delgado.
81 cutlerro que estuvo muy concu
riido Sc verified con ARE glo a! ritual
mastnico, pronunciando una seutida
oraci6n fdnebrc el doctor don lose +.
Berries .Qae descanse en- la ? del
Senor,
III ediicio escolar que Sc construye
en este pueblo estara terminado para
q mes de Junio entrante. FL sitio
escogido eS una bonita colina llamada
FL Recreo' Ia terminacion de Ia
cale del Sol No puede ser un sitio
mas iJintoresco y delicioso- Para esta
GDrd sc prcSupueStO Ia canuOau ue
1900 dollars. Y es una lastima que la
fachada principal no dc a la calle.
lgnoramos a1a ei nombre conque SC
bautizara el edihcio
En- las elecciones verificadas u'ti
mamente por la Junta general de SO
clos del Centric de INSTRUCTION Re
creo, sallo electa la siguiente dlrec
iiva:
Presidente don Jose de Jeslis Davi
la; Tesorero, Francisco Naldejuli; Sc
cretario, Francisco Colon; Vocales,
doctor Jose Eulogio Berries, doctor
Bajanda, Ernesto v Ramos, Joaquin
Antonio Garcia y Jose p. Be-rios.
Feliz acierto les deseamos,
Nuestro buen amigo don uan b.
Huyke ha obtenido una prueba mas
palmaria del aprecio y estima que
Sc lie tiene en- esta localidad Con
motive de la desgracia ocurrida 4 su
sefior padre en- cl camino de Arroyo,
no ha habido hogar que su familia
haya dejado de telegrafar a nuestro
amigo.
Corresponsal
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1905-05-12
Joaquin Dtcenm.
IL de Mayo de 1893
II de Mayo de 1905

Hace siete afios, TN dit como hoy,
Sc cometio uno de los actos mas abo
minables en- la historic de Ia guerra
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1905-05-12

Ell sol cae plano sobre el hundi- =
miento que ha .ransformado la edif-
cacion en- abismo; un abismo 5lanco,
color de leche, donde los escom bros
hacen gibas gredosas los hierros
torcidos asoman como gsrras de fera,
los alambrados hacen ell efecto de
esos cubrevianlas pues estos encima de
frutas y de carnes para que no las
muerdan las moscas.
Solo que ahora los cubreviandas
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1905-10-19
Snap Conventions Condemned.

Among those who came in Wednes-
day were several leading citizens of the
upper Cumberland country, where the
recent snap conventions have been
pulled off In the interest of Gov. Cox
and the political ring at the capital
These gentlemen report that the voters
OF those communities that have taken
action are indignant that such action
was taken without due notice being
given Criticism is active here in con-
demning practices Of this sort and a
reaction has set In detrimental to those
who were endorsed and most favorable
to General Patterson. And this is an
indication to the people Of sure enough
machine methods; it adds force to the
fight General Patterson is making, and
will be large factor in the future of
his canvass.
Old newspaper men on the local
press state 10 your correspondent that
they have not seen in years such de-
cided reversal of public opinion as has
set in against the present Democratic
machine, and editors of the country
press have written here to editors of
the Nashville papers condemning the
policy of snap conventions as sub.
yefsive of the will of the people and
against the best inter SITS of The Democ-
racy. There is no mistaking the fact
that the people are sore over this mat
ter. Nashville Special to the Memphis
Commercial Appeal.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1905-10-19
Rather Strange Support.

Mr.. Brownlow's own organ, the
Jonesboro Herald and Tribune, is John
I. Cox's most enthusiastic supporter for
the Democratic nomination.
The paper mentioned favors temper
ance legislation. Cox has invariably
opposed it, -@' r
The Herald and Tribune rightly op.
poses the election laws of the State.
John I. Cox is almost alone in defend
ing them.
Then why the support of Cox by the
Republican paper mentioned? Is il
because the Republican leaders are
agreed that Cox cannot poll the full
Democratic strength and his nomina-
ton will result in the election of q
Republican Governor? Or is it that
the charges made by reputable Dem
ocratic candidate against Brownlow for
Congress, these charges being that
Brownlow and Cox understand each
other and work together for. mutual
political advancement, are true?
There is method in such warm sup
port from such a source. And, what
ever it be, it is not in the interest
Of the Democratic party. Gallatin
News.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1905-10-19
Mr.. Patterson Entitled to a Rearing.

The counties of White, DeKalb and
Morgan have called conventions to
meet October 2 to select delegates
to the Gubernatorial Convention. In
view of the fact that Mr.. Patterson has
heretofore announced that he would
open his campaign on October 5th in
Nashville the method of these counties
is Of the disgusting snap variety. Car
mack set up vigorous howl when
Taylor's friends called early primaries
in various counties, but his friend, ally
and co-worker does not scruple to
debar his opponent to be heard by the
Democrats of certain counties. This is
bnt another manifestation of machine
ways. If the people do not revolt
against such malpractice it will be a
surprise to us. Mr.. Patterson's SER
vices to the State entitle him to,
at least, present his claims to the
voters. Brownsville States Graphic.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1905-10-19

It does not seem to have made much
difference whether the insurance com
pany was mutual" or controlled by
stock 80 far as the character of its ad
ministration is concerned. Mutual"
management, as disclosed by the Arm
strong investigation, is as bad as stock
control which was exposed by the
Frick committee. As one reads the
revelations concerning the New York
Life and the Mutual Life, he begins to
feel respect for the moderation Of
young Mr.. Hyde. With all his owner
ship Of majority of the stock of the
Equitable and control of score or two
of dummy" directors, he did not do