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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-02-02
EDUCATIONAL ERRATA.

The retirement of DR.. William A.
Packard as Kennedy professor of
Latin language and literature and tho
science of language at Princeton
marks the close of IS years Of active
teaching.
Granta, the Cambridge undergrad
uate organ. urges reform in the Eng
lish university education. 1t says:
Rendered unfit for business, the only
places open for the graduates are
schoolmastering and the church, and
in the uttermost parts of the earth
are to be found graduates of Oxford
and Cambridge, nov become laborers,
beggars and o%utcasts.'
Prof. E. w. Clark, Of Ripon COL
lege, Wisconsin, has been honored by
the bureau Of university travel IN
Rome in a manner which will make
1t possible for him to 60 abroad each
summer and secure a new stock OF
material for the lectures he is deliv-
ering. He has been engaged to con-
duct the teachers excursions to the
homes of the ancients and will spend
the next ten years in this manner
A step has been taken toward the
organized athletic training of Amer
lean schoolgirls by the forming Of q
girls branch Of the Public Schools
Athletic League, of New York city.
Speaking OF this movement, Miss
Grace Dodge said that the methods
of training must be different from
those applied to the boys. A prize
Of $50 was offered by Mrs. Henry
Siegel for the best method of combin-
ing the essentials of moral and ath-
letic discipline.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-02-02
GOOD GUESSING CONTEST.
Programmes 0rnamented with Cats
Each Word in Game Begins
with Word Cat"

After all have assembled. pass pro-
grammes Ornamented with cats, and
tell the guests that the questions are
to be answered by one word, the frs:
syllable of which is cat.
A waterfall and a disease? (Catar-
act.)
IN instrument OF torture and an ami.
NAL? (Cat.)
A deluge? (Cataclysm.)
A burial place? ~(Catacombs.)
Sometimes used at funerals? (Cata-
falque.)
An unconscious state? (Catalepsy.)
A list Of names or things? (Cata-
logue.)
An animal found in the mountains?
(~Catamount.)
A great calamity? (Catastrophe.)
A disease that af1icts many? (Ca-
tarrh.)
A boat rarely seen? (Catamaran.)
A class or order Of ideas? Cate
gory.)
One who provides for the inner man?
(Caterer.)
What becomes a butterfly? (Cater-
pillar.)
A cry oft heard in the night? (Cat-
erwaul.)
A religious edifce? (%Cathedral)
A beam at a ships end? (Cathead. }
An instrument OF torture? (Cat O.
Nine Tails.)
Domestic quadrupeds? (Cattle)
An article used in illness? (Cata-
plasm.)
A book of questions and answers ?
(Catechism.)
For prizes a copy of the Black Cat
magazine and a penwiper ornamented
by a stuffed kitten may be given. For
refreshments. spread the table with a
red cloth, use black. cat candy boxes
for ~favors, red candles in black
wrought iron holders. and the effect
will be unique. Shades may be made
from red paper with black Eats pasted
Serve deviled crabs. sandwiches. cof-
fee, olives and a mulled cider if no one
objects.-Madame Merri.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-02-02
CALL OF THE
CANADIAN WEST,
fhe Greatest Wheat Crop Of tho.
Continent. :

The year that has just closed has
lone a great deal towards showing the
possibilities Of Western Canada from
All agricultural standpoint. The wheat
crop has u very near to the 100, 0OO, 900
ousnel limit that was looked upon as
TOO sanguine an estimate only a short
Time ago, and the are that has been
broken to fall wheat for tho coming
harvest will go a long way towards
enabling the farmers of the West to
overlap on the 100, 1000, 900 bushel esti-
mate next year. And while the spring
and winter wheat have been doing so
well during the past few years, the other
cereals have been keeping up with the
procession. Rye and barley have made
immense strides, and peas and fax have
been moving steadily along. Dairying,
also, has been successfully carried on
IN the new provinces, and in every stage
the farmer has been striking it rich"
10 such an extent has the success of
the West taken hold of outsiders that
the rush Of Americans to Saskatchewan
and Alberta, which was looked upon as
marvellous last year, bids fair to be
largely exceeded in 1906, and as there
are still millions of a>res of free home
steads available, which the building of
the new railways will render accessible
to the markets, new wheat lands will
be opened up ere long. Amongst the
hrst to avail himself Of the opportunity
presented will be the American settler.
IN a large number of American cities
dominion Government Agents are To-
Gated, who are able and willing to give
the latest and best information in re-
gard to the new districts which the rail-
ways will open up, and there will be no
abatement of the rush to the Canadian
pralries during the coming season,
some time since a poet in the columns
OF the Toronto "Star" had the follow
Ing stirring lines, which throb of the
Western spirit: :
There's a stir in the air, there's a thrill
through the land, there's a movement
toward the Great West;
And the eyes Of all men for the moment are
turned to the country that we love
the best;
For It's Canada's day in the worlds cal
endar, and to this merry toast let us
sup: T.
Here's to the land, the young giant of the
North, where the prairies are open
ing up!'
They come from the East and they come
from the South-they come Ger the
deep rolling sea-
Ehey come. for they know they will dwell
meath a flag that makes all men equal
and free.
Then. once more the toast, and let every
man rise, and cheer ere he sips from
the cup:
Here's to the land, the young giant Of the
North. where the prairies are open
ing up!"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-02-02
LOST EYESlCHT
Through Coffee Drinking /

Some people question the statements
that coffee hurts the delicate nerves
of the body. Personal experience with
thousands proves the general state
ment true and physicians have records
of great numbers of cases that add to
the testimony.
The following is from the Rockford,
ILL.,, Register Gazette: .
DR.. William Langhorst of Aurora
has been treating one of the quee1est
cases Of lost eyesight ever in history.
The patient is o. A. Leach OF Beach
county, and in the last four months he
had doctored with all of the specialists
about the country and has at last re-
turned home with the fact impressed
on his mind that his case is incurable.
A portion of the optic nerve has
been ruined, rendering lis sight so
limited that he is unable to see any
thing before him. but ne can see plain
" anything at the side Of him, There
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-02-02

have been but few cases of it's kind
before, and they have been caused by
whisky or tobacco. Leach; has never
used either, but has been q great cof-
fee drinker, and the specialists have
decided that the case has been caused
by this. Leach stated himself that
for several years he had drank three
cups Of coffee for breakfast, two at
noon and n at night. According to
the records of the specialists of this
country this is the first case ever
caused by the use Of coffee.
The nerve is ruined beyond aid and
his case is incurable. The fact that
makes the case a queer one is that the
sight forward has been lost and the
side sight has been retained. Accora.
ing to the Doctors statement, the
young man will have to give I'D COT
fee or the rest of his sight viii fol-
low and the entire nerve be ruined
Register Gazette.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-02-02
Well Groomed.

Remember that to be well-dressed or
W~ell-groomed or even considered a
careful person in your toilette, you
must to-day present to the world a
shiny, Well-brushed. well-kept head of
hair. There must be no sag over. the
ears, there must be no stray ends and
flying locks. There .lust be nothing
OF the blow-away couture which was
popular five years ago. The hair must
be close to the head, and if it is not
naturally neat, it must be made SO by
Invisible net and Invisible pins, .
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-02-02

Let it be remembered that the eyes
may be attacked in one case and tho
stomach in another, while in others it
may be kidneys, heart, bowels or gen.
eral nervous prostration. The remedy
Is obvious and should be adopted be-
fore too late. = ..j
Quit coffee, If you show incipient
disease. -.
1t is easy If one can have we'll
boiled Postum Food Coffee to serve for
me not morning beverage. Tho
withdrawal of the old kind IT cotfas
that Is doing the harm and the sun
ply OF the elements in the Postum
which Nature uses to rebuild the
broken down nerve cells, insures =
quick return to the old joy of strength
and health, and it's well worth wills
to be able again to "'do things and
feel well. There's a reason tor
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-02-02
Did 4 WORLD Of GOOD
Dr.. Williams. Pink Pills Cure Hear
Pains, Dizzy Spells and
Weakness.

Easy to get, hard to get rid Of; that il
what most sufferers think of dyspepsia.
They are astonished when their stomach
begins to trouble them seriously.
They had been eating hurriedly and
irregularly for a long time, to be sure,
but they supposed their stomachs quite
used to that.
Some people know that the strength
Which h weak stomach needs, and for
the lack of which the whole body is SUI
fering, can be found surely and quickly
in DIR. Williams Pink Pills. In hun
dreds of instances these pills have sue
ceeded where other remedies failed.
"My indigestion" said MI. J. r. Mil
Ter, Of Dayton, Va, "came in the first
place from the fact that a few years ago
l worked a great deal at night, and ate
at any odd hour whenever the chance
came, and always very hurriedly. One
day 1 found myself q victim of terrible
dyspepsia. It kept me miserable all the
time for several years.
II always had a great deal Of distress
after eating, and when I got up from my
sleep my stomach would be so weak that
it would hardly take any food. I had
very uncomfortable feelings about my
heart, and was dizzy and, whenever I
stopped over and then Strengthened up,
my eyes would be badly blurred.
II read the statements Of several ner.
0 who had got rid of obstinate stom.
ach troubles by using DR.. Williams
Pink Pills. I bought some and thew
did me a world of good. They acted
promptly and did just what was claimed
for them. I have no more distress af-
ter meals; the bad feeling has gone from
the region Of my heart; the alarming
dizzy spells have disappeared, aud I am
strong again"
DR.. Williams Pink Pills are sold BY
all druggists and by the DR.. Williams
Medicine Co., Schenectady, N. Y,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-02-02
Not on the Bill.

He was a stout, pudgy individual liable
to be i~rritated early in the morning, evil
IDENTIFY subject to indigestion, and he
walked into the dining-room in anything
but good grace. The hotel was new and
the prices were not mellowed. Their stiff
front "riled" the guest still more.
Turning to the freshly imported, white
shirted mummy at his side, he said:
Haven't you people any conscience
here?"
Citing nc answer, his face grew red,
and he blurted out:
"Conscience! Conscience! Have you no
Observation-Disclosures here?"
"Eef eet ees not on re bills eet ees
charge extra for" suavely replied the i'm
MISUNDERSTANDING Dispatch.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-02-02
Important Movement in Advertising

~ " IL 44OVS 1A0A III AOVcIC1SlnQ.
The creation of a General Advertising
Department for the New York Central
Lines, and the placing in charge Of that
department the veteran railroad adver-
tiser, George H. Daniels, who has been
for nearly twenty years the General Pas
senger Agent of the New York Central
Railroad, marks an era in the history of
advertising in America.
The New York Central Lines are the
hrst great system to create an advertis.
ing department which covers all the rail
consequences of such a movement cannot
be appreciated at first sight, but this &C
ton on the part of the management of
these lines emphasizes the value of adver-
Using generally, and forces the conclu-
sion of a strong belief in the efficacy of
railroad advertising in particular.
some idea Of the Importance; of this
understood that it will control the gen.
eral advertising in America and in foreign
countries of the New York Central, Bos-
ton and Albany, Lake Shore and Michigan
Southern, Michigan Central, Cleveland,
CINCINNATI, Chicago and St. Louis, Rut-
land, and Lake Erie and Western railways
and their leased lines, having their west;
Cincinnati, and their eastern terminals at
New York, Boston and Montreal, and en-
bracing more than twelve thousand miles
Of the best equipped railways in the world.
Mr.. Daniels has for many years been a
firm believer in newspaper and magazine
advertising, and, therefore, the organiza-
ton of the General Advertising Depart
ment Of the New York Central Lines is
of importance to every legitimate publica-
ton in America, daily, weekly or monthly.
In an address before the New York
State Press Association a few years ago,
Mr.. Daniels made the point that the rail
road is the advance agent of commerce,
and that railway advertising had been of
immense value to American manufac-
turers in calling the attention of the
whole world to the excellent work done
by our inventors and mechanics, as illus
trated- in the; Empire State Express; the
Twentieth Century Limited, and other
great trains that connect the east with the
west; the average foreigner arguing that
the men who are able to turn out such
machines must be able to build anything,
and that the farm machinery, and all kinds
of industrial machinery made in Amer.
lea, must be Of the very best quality. Rail-
road advertising has certainly been the
means of bringing thousands of men here
from foreign countries to investigate our
manufactures and has wonderfully in.
creased our foreign commerce..
Every legitimate newspaper and maya.
zine publication in America will have a
direct interest in the General Advertising
Department of the New York Central
LINES, and every advertising agent on the
continent will cake a new lease of life
because of this endorsement Of tho value
OF advertising.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-02-02

material of the tight-titting part of the
is slightly draped on the lin
ing, the pointed wrists being finished
with gallooc. The putfs are cut in
one piece. but are gagged up a few
inches from the lower edge to form a
puff below the larger one.
Materials required for the bodice:
and one-half yards 46 inches wide.
three-fourths yard crepe-de-chine, t,e
yards galloon. two yards lining.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-02-02
RELIGIOUS REPORT.

There is only n ordained mission
airy in the world for 900,0 900 heather.
At Fulbourn, England, the poor are
paid sixpence apiece for regular church
attendance.
The Methodist Ministers Relief as
ISOLATION, of Boston, has paid out dur
ing its history the sum Of $642.259 to
the widows and orphans Of deceased
preachers.
Rev. w. G. Swearer, who is on his
first furlough after seven years Of
service in Korea, reports q most re-
ity among the Korean people.
A correspondent to the New York
Outlook writes: "The Young Mems
Christian association of Seoul, Korea,
has a membership of about 400, drawn
from the young men OF high class"
The Sacred Congregation of Rites is
receiving petitions daily for the can
oniza+ion of Plus TX. It is likely the
initial process will be inaugurated
soon, especially as Plus x. has given
the movement his explicit sanction.
Rev. Frank Okazaki, pastor Of the
Japanese Baptist mission in Seattle,
supported by leading Christian Japan
csc residents, is planning to establish
a colony of immigrants from his coun-
try somewhere on Puget sound. He
desires to establish the colony in or
der that he may better spread Chris
tan teachings among his people.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-02-02

School dramatics are very common
now. They afford a great deal of di.
version to those who form the cast,
to the rest of the class interested, and
to he spectators. In our colleges an
event of the year is the rendering of
a play of Shakespeare, such as Mid
summer Nights Dream" or Much
Ado About Nothing" The properties
are usually simple, and the stage set
ting is necessarily whatever the girls
can manage with screens and portieres'
and their own clever wits. But there.
is far more than diversion secured
in the care and pains with which tire
characters are selected, in the mauv
~rehearsals under the supervision IF
teachers, and in the fidelity with
which the girls repeat the lines on-
signed them.
Whatever part a girl may take, she
is expected to prepare for it with dit.
gence and accuracy and to regard il
as important, whether it be that Of
a leading lady or of a maid in watt
ing. On the mimic stage of the school
room there must be respect for the
work for the works sake; there must
be due consideration of the honor of
the school as a whole, and there must
be also great patience and %forbearance
among the girls > themselves, because
when a group of people are r%ehearsing
for a play there may be impulsive
criticisms Of those who blunder n
little f%rictions which, for the moment.
hurt the sensitive and annoy the
quick-tempered. Girls rush to superla-
tives at such times. We have to put
temper wholly aside, whenever we
are working towards a common end.
One of the most important lessons
in life, n that girls need to learn.
is how to work in harmony. with 9th.
ers. In. this life we are all somehow
bound in n bundle, and if anybody
declares that she is going to stand
all alone and do her work all alone.
and have her pleasures all alone, she
is making a great mistake, one that
she will find out to her cost after
awhile.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-02-02
PRETTY ALPACA WAIST.
Trimmed with Galloon and the Vest
Should Be of Crepe de Chine
or Like Material.

The tight-itting lining fastens up
the front; on this is arranged the vest
OF crepe-de-chine, which is draped
horizontally. the right edge being
neatly finished, and made to fasten
over 10 the left side; the material
fronts are also gagged horizontally. the
edges being finished by galloon. The
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-02-02
Don't Wait.


Hanna, Wyo., Jan. 18th (Special).-De-
lays are dangerous. Don't wait until all
the awful symptoms Of Kidney Disease de-
velop in your system, and your physician
shakes his head gravely as he diagnoses
your case. If you suspect your Kidneys,
turn at once to the. great Kidney Specific
-Dodd's Kidney FILLS. You can do so
with every confidence. A few of Dodd's
Kidney Pills taken in time have saved
many a life: The early symptoms of Kid:
ney Disorder may be the forerunners of
Bright's Disease, Diabetes and Dropsy. Mr..
w. H: Jeffries, a resident here, tells below
how he treated an attack of Kidney
Trouble. He says
"Before l commenced taking Dodd's
Kidney Pills, l had always a tired feel
ing; every morning when l got out of my
bed, and my Kidneys were in very bad
shape. There was always a dull heavy
pain across my loins, and I had hard work
to stoop: L took two boxes of Dodd's
Kidney Pills, the tired feeling and back
pains have entirely gone, and I am now
curede."
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-02-02
HOW KINGS HAVE DIED.
Henry I. of gluttony.
Edward vi. of a decline.

Henry I. of gluttony.
Edward vi. of a decline.
Charles I. on the scaffold.
George III. as he lived-a mailman.
Henry VIII. of c]arbuncles, fat and
fury.
George Nv. Of gluttony and drunk
enncss.
Henry VII. wasted away, as a miser
ought.
James l. Of drinking and the effects
of vice.
Charles II. suddenly, it is said, OF
apoplexy.
Henry II. Of a broken heart, occa-
stoned by the bad conduct of his chill
dren.
William III. of consumptive habits
Of body, and fror the stumbling OF
his horse.
George I. from drunkenness, which
his physicians politely called an apo
plectic fit.
Edward III. OF dotage, and Richard
II. of starvation, the very reverse Of
George Nv.
Henry vi. in prison, by, mean
known then only to the jailer, and nov
known only in Heaven.
William the Conqueror from enor-
nous fat, from drink and from tho
violence of his passions.
Henry Nv. is said to have died OF
fits caused by uneasiness," and I'M
easiness in palaces in those times was
q very common complaint.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-02-02
BY MARGARET E, sANGsTER

Copyright, 1905. by Joseph B. Bowles.)
When l was a schoolgirl We used to
look forward with great anticipation
to our annual school exhibitions. | do
not know why the powers that were
then in authority made a distinction
between a girls reading her own essay
and a girls reciting a poem by some.
body else, but this they did. Boys
we're required to declaim and great
stress was laid in their education on
the cultivation of ease before an audi.
ence. But we girls, as a rule. sat
modestly in the front seats. of the
chapel, in our white frocks, while
members of the school committee or
local clergyman read our compositions
for US. In the ideal of that day WON.
ans place was in the sweet shelter
and beautiful background of her home,
and young girls were not encouraged
to take part in public exercises of any
kind. The exception was in favor of
the smaller girls, who we're dressed
like fairies and came tripping out to
sing a solo or. recite a bit of verse,
and who we're taught to curtsey deep.
ly in response to applause from the
listeners.
In my later schooldays there came
a change. I remember very we'll the
first time | stood before what seemed
to me a crowd of attentive faces and
read a composition of my own The
Cnhioot woc tTorrororoo,, orl e. u,o.
treated with great force by the a.
year-old girl who had chosen so big a
In the middle of the reading
she became frightened, lost her place
and her voice, and could hardly have
gone on, but for a kind gentleman
who came and stood by her side, say
ing: Never mind them, my dear.
Read straight ahead. III stay right
by you" I still remember that man
most gratefully.
Still later, we had in our school
what to-day might be called a venture
in school dramatics. We of the senior
class decided that we must have a
May Queen, with court attendants,
fairies, elves, trolls, queens of flow.
ers and Of grains, a Ceres, a Flora,
. Persephone, and a train of people
representing different phases of the
earth and the sea Our scheme was so
ambitious that we could not find any.
thing in print by which we could carry
it out, and the girls with one consent
to me, saying: You must
write a play for us, or else our May
Queen will be a failure" Looking
back, I have always been surprised at
the way the teachers acted in the mat
ter, but our lovely principal when ap-
preached was really most gracious.
why, yes" she said. Miss NJ
may be excused from all her classes
for the next week, while she is writing
the May Queen play"
I wish l had it now, but it long
ago was lost in the limbo of forgetful-
ness. The thing l can see with my
eyes shut is the beautiful pageant,
with the prettiest girl in school as
Queen of TIE May, and everyone from
the Oldest to the youngest taking some
part in her coronation. either singing
a song or making an address while
the whole school, drilled by the mu.
steal director, broke forth into fire.
quent chorals.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-02-02
New Office.

Orville Nemiss-How do you know va
are going to have a storm?
Capt. Salter-We have a man in the
forecastle forecasting it.-Pittsburg Chroa~
icle-Telegraph.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-02-02

A woman is sure her husband can be
trusted if he goes downtown without
being shaved.-N. Y. Press,