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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-05-14
ANOTHER BORING QUESTION.

II say, pa, Is a man from Poland
called Pole?"
Yes; my son." -.
Then, pa, why isn't q man from
Holland called a Hole?"
A Natural Mistake.
A teacher in a Pennsylvania pri-
mary school instructed her pupils one
composition day" that they might
each write her letter making excuse
for not inviting her to an imaginary
birthday party.
The following effort of one little girl
was decided to be the best:
my Dear Miss Alice: It becomes
my duty to apologize for not inviting
you to my birthday party last week. I
had fully intended to do so, but-as I
always do in everything-1 postponed
it till the last minute. When I at
last started and reached your gate,
saw the doctors carriage standing
there, and thinking some one was i'll,
I did not think it best to 60 in. What
was my modification and consterna-
ton to learn the next day that the doc.
tor was counting your sister!"-1llus.
trated Sunday Magazine.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-05-14
COUNTRY IN MOVEMENT.
Meeting Of National Association for
Study and Prevention Of Tuberculo-
sis Will Be Largely Attended.

The fifth annual meeting of the Ma.
tional Association for the Study and
Prevention of tuberculosis will be
held in Washington, D. c., at the New
Willard hotel, on May -, IA and Is.
Owing to the present interest in the
campaign against tuberculosis, the
meeting will be Of unusual interest
and Importance. The membership Of
the national association now numbers
nearly 1000, and is distributed in al
most every state in the United States.
The national association has also a
considerable membership in Canada,
Cuba, Porto Rico, Philippine islands,
and in several Of the European coun-
tries. Ex-President Roosevelt and
DR.. William Osler are honorary vice.
presidents Of the national association.
DR.. Vincent Y. Bowditch Of Boston il
the president; Mr.. Homer Folks Of
New York city, and DR.. Charles L.
Minor of Asheville, N. c., are the vice.
presidents; Gen. George NJ. Sternberg
OF Washington, D. c., is treasurer; DR..
Henry Barton Jacobs OF Baltimore, 10
secretary, and DR.. Livingston Farrand
of New York is the executive secre-
tary Of the association.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-05-14
The Puritan Collar.

The high stiff linen collar has had
its day, and with summer shirt waists
will be worn soft stocks or the cool,
pretty turned-down collars in Dutch or
Puritan style. These collars are very
easy to make, and, as the distinction
of handmade neckwear is always
recognized. . supply Of turned-down
collars should be made up at home
Fine linen lawn is the proper material
to use, and the collar may be worked
with heavy white dots, a dainty seal
Looping finishing the edge, or it may be
trimmed with cluny or torchon lace.
Sometimes there is merely a narrow
lace edge with little embroidered
pattern above. Other pretty collars
show an edge Of the lace, with mar
row insertion running around an inch
above.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-05-14

LIVES IN STATE or SIEGE WHILE
!. SUING MAN WHO WON Her
HEART EIGHT YEARS AGO. ~
WooE0 BUT WOULD NOT WED
In Turn She 10 Being Sued BY Her
Own Family for Rocky Acres Left
by Father-stiIl Loves
FaithIess Man.

Montville, Conn.-Alone in the bun.
galow ON her six acres Of rock-strewn
cedar grove hillside, Myra Church Co.'S
tello, the most beautiful brunette in
the Valley of the Thames, awaits the
outcome of her suit for paltry st, 900
recompense for a broken heart. and
eight years Of waiting for him who
woed and won, but would not wed.
She is also defending herself against
her own mother and four sisters, who
live in the big family homestead at the
foot of the hill and who would break
her fathers will, by which she inher-
tied her stony pasture land.
For 20 years she was the belle Of the
valley, and no dance or husking be-
tween Norwich and New London was
a real success in the eyes of the men
unless she was there. She won a
husband when she was %. She be:
came widow at %, and again the
young men of the valley sought her.
But now, at 80, but still beautiful,
she's recluse, reading her Bible by
night and gazing down the valley
through her spyglass by day, because
Samuel Darrow, to whom she plighted
her troth eight years ago, would not
let her name the day. Darrow is rail-
road agent at New London. He is six
feet two inches tall, looks like Glib
son picture come to life and is an heir
to much real estate.
Just why such a handsome man
should jilt such an attractive woman
after jealousy guarding her from all
other aspirants all these years is the
problem that every village store parlia.
ment and every sewing society in the
valley is trying to solve.
It is a romance merely to call on
Mrs. Costello, even if you are not en-
gagged to her or being sued by her.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-05-14
The Popular Foulard.


At the showing of gowns that Pa-
quin made for spring half of the frocks
were in foulards. These were all of
Inherent styles made on different
plans to suit morning and afternoon
occasions.
This looks as though this charming
fabric would have an immense revival
this year. !,
The shops are showing the material
In double and single width. There is
the French twill and the satin finish:
both will be fayorites.-.:
Next to this material silk cash
mere for house gowns will be in first
style and in great favor: It comes III
the new tones of: Corinth, Canard,
Florentfne, lichen and ivory
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-05-14
MADE NEAT BIBLICAL RET0RI
Writer Who Expected to Score, or %
Editor Met with a Really Witty
..~ Counter,

Few editors have the humor and
good nature which characterize Robert
II. Davis, chief of the Munsey star
and author Of the play, THE Family"
a writer who had submitted 4 story to
him received a courteous rejection,
stating that the tale, although charm.
Ing, was not suited to the Munsey pub
locations. In the course Of a few months
the story won a prize in contest, and.
highly elated, the writer dispatched
the information:
Dear Mr. Davis:
"Psalms 1882. See -'s an.
nouncements In the current ISSUE"
The Scriptural reference was: The
stone which the builders refused h be-
come the head Of the corner"
The next mail brought Mr.. Davis
answer:
Dear -:
"Psalms 1928"
The chagrined writer found that tho
fatal juxtaposition reads: This 10
the Lords doings; it is marvellous in
our eyes,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-05-14
JEAN LOUIS RUDOLPH ACASSlZ
.. ACharacter Sketch Of This Famous
Naturalist; Lecturer and Teacher.
By John E. Feuer.

A traveller going 80 miles directly
north from the northernmost point of
Lake Geneva, Switzerland, would ar
rive at theHretired and Interesting VII
lage Of Motiers. He would also learn
by inquiry that he is just 40 miles d.
rectly west of Bern, the capital of the
Swiss republic. This little village Of
Motiers looks very much like other
villages In Europe, but II the traveller
happens to be an American, he will
soon learn that he has found friends
who know how to welcome him.
In this little town the celebrated
Swiss naturalist, lecturer and teacher,
Jean Louis Rudolph Agassiz, was born
In 1907. His greatest fame was
achieved after he came to America in
1886. That year he was given a pro-
fessorship in Harvard college, Cam
bridge. His great abilities were
readily recognized by the leading lit
erary men of the day, and he at once
took prominent place among the
educators and authors of the world.
The kindness with which he was re-
ceived by the people of the United
States is remembered to this day with
gratitude by the Inhabitants of that
unique Swiss village. They are the
descendants of the people who knew
Agassiz when he was boy. For over
fifty years the children of that village
have been told again and again the
story of Louis Agassiz, who went
away one day to school, found his way
to the United States and there made a
name so great that thousands each
year are attracted to Motiers as they
are drawn to the early homes of
Shakespeare and Robert Burns. That
is why the inhabitants of Motiers re-
serve the best for the American trav-
eler.
Agassiz was the son of a Swiss
Protestant clergyman. He had the
very best advantages offered by the
schools of Europe. He improved all
his opportunities. The biographies of
al learned men do not tell us of Z
more untiring worker. He won the
confidence and love of all classes
easily. The common people gathered
around him to learn the simple things
which he taught them 80 readily. The
most learned came to learn more. He
left the literature Of the world richer
far than he found 1t.
Many of his philosophical aphorisms
have become classical. One of his
wisest sayings was, Every great
scientific truth goes through three
stages. First, people say it conflicts
with the Bible; next they say it has
been discovered before; lastly, they
say they always believed it."
His faith in the school of nature
was passion with him. The one am
bition to which he held tenaciously
throughout all the years of his busy
life was the establishment of a perma.
nent school where geological science
could be studied, not from dead speci-
mems, but from the everyday life OF
the animals in their forest haunts.
Through the generosity of his
friend, John Anderson, a wealthy man
Of New York, he was able to establish
an institution of this kind in 1873. Mr..
Anderson gave to Agassiz for this pur'
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-05-14
Making Himself Solid.

"9tep this way. ladies and gentle
men," exclaimed the lecturer in the
dime museum, and gaze upon one of
the greatest wonders known to modern
science-the ossfzed man, human be-
Ing, perfectly normal in every other re-
spect, but who has truned to stone"
"How did he get that way?'' came
voice from the awe-stricken throng.
Love-" replied the lecturer, low
erfng his voice, confidentially; "love
did It. He fell in love with a beau
tiful maiden, tried to make himself
solid, and overdid it. We will now
pass on to thu"
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pose the entire Island Of Penikese.
which Is located in sBuzzard's bay, and
also gave him as an initial endowment
fund, the sum Of $50, 900.
Another wealthy friend presented
him with a fine yacht Of so tons bur-
den which he used in marine dredg-
Ing Of the water surrounding: this
beautiful summer home Of the in
habitants Of the forest. If Agassiz
had lived long enough to bring to full
fruitage all his plans, he would have
left the physical sciences with rich
harvests to be garnered. He died on
September IA. 1873.
On the evening of May %, 1857, the
literary friends of Agassiz surprised
him by calling at his home in a body
to celebrate his birthday. It was for
that occasion that Longfellow wrote
his wellknown poem entitled "The
Fiftieth Birthday of Agassiz." II Agas-
siz loved to study the geological for
nation of the rock and the class to
which it belonged, he loved more to
contemplate the deeper meaning Of
the Rock of Ages. If, under the serene
and silent sky, he held communion
with the stars, his spiritual eyes saw
beyond them all the life-star of Beth
lehem and he knew the message it
brought to waiting world. II in the
woodland or glen he coaxed the lily
to tell him few secrets, he knew
that the Lily of the Valley taught
deeper things than man ever yet had
learned.
TRIBUTE TO THE WORK AND
MEMORY OF AGAsSlZ.
Ills soft, warm heart Astounding in
expression of a refined and tender ma
ture, gave him at once the mental
grasp of giant with the gentleness of
child. Tablets have been reared to
his memory in some of the great uni
versities of the country, and one of
the granite boulders from his own ma
tive Switzerland covers his dust at
Mount Auburn; but the most enduring
tablets yet consecrated to his i'm
mortal being are craven on the hearts
of those who assisted him, and who
have helped to distribute to later
times the fruits of his spirit which
ripened in their labors.
PHILIP r. UHLER,
Johns Hopkins University"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-05-14
CURED ITCHING HUMoR.
Big, Painful sweIIines Broke and Old
Not Heal-9uffered Years.
Tortures Yield to Cutlcura.

Little black swellings were scat.
tered over my face and neck and they
would leave little black scars that
would itch 80 !, couldn't keep from
scratching them. Larger swellings
would appear and my clothes would
stick to the sores. Invent to doctor.
but the trouble only got worse. By
this time it was all over my arms and
the upper part Of my body In swellings
as large as a dollar: It was so pain
full that could not bear to lie on my
back. The second doctor stopped the
swellings, but when they broke the
places would not heal. I bought a set
Of the Cuticura Remedies and in less
than week some Of the places were
nearly well. I continued until had
used three sets, and now I am sound
and well. The disease lasted three
years. o. L. Wilson, Puryear, Tenn,
Feb. 8, 1908"
Peter Drug Chem. Corp. Sole Props, Bosom.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-05-14
His Conscience.

win you have a cocktail, Mr.
Snidgerly?"
mo, my wife does not permit mo to
drink intoxicants of any kind"
Let me buy you a cigar
my wife has made me promise that
I will never smoke any MORE"
well, we'll. wish there was some
thing could do to make it pleasant
for you"
rs there q naughty show of any
kind in town? II SO, take me to it.
My wife will not be able to smell It
on my breath"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-05-14
ing soap, the treatment will be found
both refreshing and invigorating.

cretonne Used for Embroidery Baa,
A nice little !: embroidery bag is
made Of cretonne covered with two
embroidery hoops, and finished at the
ends with cardboard covered with
cretonne just the size Of the hoops. In
other words, the bag is built like q
barrel, with an opening at the side.
This opening is held together by lac
ing with ribbon or by two buttons.
The bag is carried by ribbon loops,
which are fastened at each end to the
embroidery hoops. RI Il =: -
It is pretty and the sewing materials
do not get lost when thus protected.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-05-14
PAUL THE APOSTLE.

It may have escaped general notice
that the word Paul means little,
humble" This was the name Saul
took to himself as soon as he dis
covered that, although long life
might yet claim his service in the min
istry of the Christian religion, it would
be all too short to atone for the
wrongs he had already inflicted upon
others.
In the year So A. D., while stopping
with some tent-makers at Corinth,
Greece, to which he had gone in dis
gust from Athens, he found himself
without sufficient funds to visit the
different churches he had established,
and he set to work writing those
churches the letters, which have so
Influenced Christian nations from that
time to the present.
The first letter was to the church
in Thessalonica. From Ephesus he
wrote his first letters to the Corinthi-
ans. From Philippi he wrote his Sec
ond letter to the Corinthians, and from
there near the close of 81 A. D. he
wrote his letters to the Galatians and
the Romans. From Rome during the
year 81 to 63 A. D. he wrote most all
the other letters recorded in the New
Testament.
For 20 years or more this man
preached in the principal cities Of the
old world, the Gospel, which, when he
was 20 years of age, he started to
Damascus to suppress, but he suffered
all the cruelty, ingratitude, suspicion
and hatred which he had once sought
to impose upon others. What he meas
ured to others was measured back to
him pressed down and running over"
The prosecutor in turn became the per-
secuted, and he drank the cup to its
dregs.
No thinking person can escape the
responsibility of Paul's life, his sui
fering and his work. He left the hui
man conscience reformed, informed
and Illuminated, and that conscience
must give an account of its steward
ship. Passing from Saul to Paul. he
has written himself in history as an
Epoch, and as the man Paul drops
from sight without a grave over which
| the ages might build tomb, the end
less Epoch comes to show men the
way from sense to soul, and enables
them to put off the old man Saul with
his deeds, and to put on the new man,
Paul, regenerated, humble, loving and
true. "Old things have passed away,
behold all things are become new"
Paul was the one missionary who
made possible the work of John Wick.
life, John Huss, Martin Luther, John
Knox and Mary Baker G. Eddy, and
his splendid spiritual heroism has CIV
en- hope to the followers of the cross
throughout all the years.
Before he died many of his friends
deserted him and he seems to have
been alone. No one knows how or
when he died. nor where is;body was
laid. About the last We hear of him
is: II have fought a. good fight. 1 have
finished my course. Il have kept the
faith"
Copyright, 1909, by Joseph B. Bowles.)
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-05-14
FOOD FACTS
What an NJ. p. Learned.

A prominent Georgia physician went
through a food experience which he
makes public:
1T was my own experience that first
led me to advocate Grape-Nuts food
and I also know, from having pre-
scribed it to convalescents and other
weak patients, that the food is a won
derful builder and restorer Of nerve
and brain tissue, as well as muscle. It
improves the digestion and sick pa
tients always gain just as I did in
strength and weight very rapidly.
II was in such low state that I
had to give up my work entirely, and
went to the mountains of this state,
but two months there did not improve
me; in fact was not quite as well as
when I left home.
my food did not sustain me and
1t became plain that must change.
Then I began to use Grape-Nuts food
and in two weeks I could walk q mile
without fatigue, and in five weeks
returned to my home and practice,
taking up hard work again. Since that
time I have felt as well and strong al
ever did in my life.
AS physician who seeks to help
all sufferers, I consider it duty to
make these facts public"
Trial 10 days on Grape-Nuts, when
the regular food does not seem to sus'
tain the body, will work miracles.
There's a Reason"
Look in pkgs. for the. famous little
book, "The Road to Wellville"
Ever read the above letter. A new
one appears. from time to flm0s*I They
are genuine, true, and fuu Of human
11tef00ts
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-05-14
Dressy Bows Of White Net.

To make bow which is very dressy
to wear with a linen waist, select
pretty piece of white net and cut
strip one-half yard long and six inches
wide.
Hem it on all sides and trim the two
short ends with narrow lace rufle.
Gather it through the center and
form three gathered loops on each side
Of the central line, making them in
graduate depths, the central ones
smallest; bring the ends out straight
with the third loops.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-05-14
Cat Won't Leave Chicks.

Winsted, Gonna cat which acted
as mother to brood Of young chicks
In the barn of Frank J. Wade refused
to leave the building when 1t burst
into flames.
After the fire had consumed all but
a portion Of the barn frame. the cat,
drenched, but unsinged, was discov-
cred high up on acharred rafter. For
half an hour the heat was so intense
the 1remen could not. get. within 20
feet Of, the fire, and how the cat ca.
capped: death is . mystery, as, every.
thing In the barn, as well al the
chicks, was destroyed.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-05-14

She is in a state of siege in her little
castle on the hill, because she is being
sued as we'll as suing. OF all the folks
in Montville and the nearby villages,
her own folks alone are giving COM
fort to the handsome enemy in New
London. The family trouble antedates
the lovers abandonment. Joseph
Church, father Of Myra, who was of a
long line Of prosperous farmers, found
his home unhappy four years ago, so
he built himself shack on the other
side Of his pond, and there lived the
life Of a hermit on his own we'll
stocked farm and within sight and
sound Of his family. That little pond
was as wide as the Atlantic and PACT.
dc combined for the farmer and his
women folk.
But last fall the old man was not
seen on his side of the pond for sew
eral days. The women were indiffer.
entail but Myra~ She went around
to the shack and found her father
stricken with paralysis. She forgot
the family row and stayed to care for
him till he died, last December. He
gave her the land in his will. The sis.
tiers want to take it away from her.
That is why it is romantic to visit
the widow. A brook divides her domain
from her mothers and there is a draw.
bridge over the brook. Everyone who
comes Is scruttnized by the woman on
the hill before she comes down to drop
the bridge and bid him welcome. She
uses the same old spyglass through
which she used to watch for the COM
ing Of Samuel Darrow.
Mrs. Costello was hospitable the
other day when reporter called and
led him up the hill to her tiny castle.
II am not pretending to be pious,"
she said as she put away her Bible,
but this Bible ind this History of
Man were the only books that father
took across the pond with him, and so
brought them up here to read when
he died. enjoy them both, but in the
1000 pages Of that History of Man. I
don't find any excuse for a man like
Samuel barrow. Neither can find
any reason for my still loving him as I
do. But think am doing right to
sue him. II it had not been for him I
could have married long ago.
Nov it is too late. I am 80 years
old and all the boys that I grew up
with have gone away from the village"
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HISTORICAL SETTING.
1907.

A late writer has said, when the
pendulum that ticks of the centuries,
swings back to its starting point, peo-
pie talk about what happened a hun.
dred years ago." The year 1907 left
its report, from which we find few
interesting incidents, and we talk so
Familiarity about them, We can scarcely
realize that hundred years have
come and gone since they each asked
history for a page.
That year Agassiz, Whittier and
Longfellow were born; the slave trade
in the British empire was abolished;
Napoleon entered Spain; Robert Full
ton sent the first steamboat up the
Hudson; Aaron Burr was tried for
treason and Webster's dictionary made
its first appearance and bid for pop
ular acceptance.
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7erlna Sea Volcanic Islands.

The Bogoslofs are a group Of three
small volcanic islands in the southern
part OF Boring sea, and 81 miles north.
west of the island OF Unalaska. One
of these islands: Castle Rock, has
been known since 1896: Fire island
has been known since 1883, while the
third one. Perry island, rose from tho
sea about. the time of the San Fran:
cisco earthquake, in. 1905 According
to a letter to Silence. this fslanl
has now sunk.