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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-02-10
Open-Air Treatment,

Time was when doctors used to
bleed weak and emaciated patients.
and thus make them weaker and more
emaciated. In those same "good old
days" consumptives we're kept in
close, unventilated rooms and slowly
put to death by misdirected kindness.
And in that same era schoolchildren
who lacked muscle and strength and
were less vigorous and healthy than
their fellows were coddled at home,
and in school we're kept near the hot
stoves and away from every draft Of
fresh air. They breathed the vitiated
atmosphere Of the ordinary school
room which had been breathed over
and again by all the other scholars
in the same room. Every avenue to
good health was closed against them,
and most of them died.
What a change has taken place in
the pant few years. Doctors rarely.
if ever, bleed patients now. Consump.
tives aye turned out Of doors, away
from heaters and stoves and regis
tiers, and puny school children are
now taught in tents, in warm wealth.
er and in cold, with no fires to burn
the oxygen out of the air and no other
walls than those Of thin canvas to
protect them from drafts.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-02-10
Plans Wonderful Trip.

Around the Earth IN Five to Seven
Days" is the headline Of circular let
ter sent broadcast by man in Esslin.
gen-on-t he-Rhine, who wants 10000
marks to defray the cost of a model
airship with which the earth circling
fight may be accomplished. "The in
ventor, who has worked at the airship
problem for years." says the circu-
lar, lis Al years old, practical me.
chanic, and am his business mana
ger" The ship, the promoter adds,
will have speed capacity of ESQ kilo-
meters an hour, its passengers will
take no risk as to safety, stops will be
made without any difficulty and as
many as 100 persons will be accommo-
dated. All that the promoter wants Is
10000 marks to build the model.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-02-10
INDISPENSABLE.

Three camels presented themselves
at the dock where the ark was tied
up, whereas but two animals of a kind
had been called for.
"One Of you fellows will have to
step aside!" shouted Noah, very per-
emptorily.
But the three ships of the desert
smiled knowingly.
"1,'' said the first of them, lam the
camel which shall pass through the
eye of needle sooner than a rich
man shall enter the kingdom OF
heaven"
49, said the second, IAN the camel
which so many people swallow while
straining at gnat."
And l." said the third and last, lam
the camel whose back was broken by
the last straw"
Whereupon Noah, perceiving that
posterity could Ill spare any of these,
and would be lost for illustrations with.
out them, gratuitously made an excep-
ton in their favor.-Puck.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-02-10
! LOOKING UP BIBLES PAST
Bears Marks Of Authenticity Stronger
Than Works Of Homer and
All Classics.

The Old and New Testaments como
to us bearing marks of authenticity
UNNECESSARILY stronger than the works
OF Homer. Horace, sAeschylus, Thucy.
dldes-almost all the classics Of the
ancient world. Let US first consider
the older book. To the preservation
OF this we are, of course, indebted to
the Jews. But they have not merely
preserved It.; such is their scrupulous
regard for 1t that they have preserved
1t intact. There are no alternate rem
oerlngs In the Hebrew scriptures.
Since the third century, at latest,
most minute rules have existed for
the guidance of the scribes who
copied them, and every letter or dia-
critical mark has been faithfully rem
dered. The earliest extant MS. of the
hebrew Old Testament is copy of
the Pentateuch, now in the British
museum. and assigned to the ninth
century. The earliest MS. bearing
precise date is copy of the Prophets
at st. Petersburg, dated A. D. GIG. Be.
tween the text of these copies and
tnat OF the Hebrew Bible as it is
known today there is no essential Diff
ference.
Inc Hebrew Pentateuch was re-
garded as the verbally inspired COM
mun1cation from God to man: it's text
was preserved with the most sedulous
care. The books of the New Tesla
ment, however, were not regarded as
being anything more than the nara
t1ves OF various authors; in conse-
quence vast variety of manuscripts
was written, which, while tracing back
the New Testament to date not very
remote from that of the first Chris
t1ans. afford great divergence in
text.
discoveries Of these early docu-
ments- Sayings of Christ" and COS.
pels of Peter-ccntinue to be made du-
ring every decade. The epistles of St.
Paul are paralleled by numbers of
similar communications that have been
found OF recent years in Egypt, and
these, incidentally by their structure
bear witness to the genuine charac-
ter of st. Pauls writings. It was only
during the course of the second GEN.
tury that the gospels of the New Tes-
lament began to be singled out from
among these numerous records, to-
gether with the remaining books, and
to receive recognition as the authentic
records of the life of Christ on earth
and OF the earliest history of the
church.-Frank Fleischmann in Har.
per's Weekly.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-02-10
Dancer of the Rays May Soon Assume
Proportions Formerly Un-
dreamed Of.

The subject of ultraviolet rays and
their effect upon the human nerve sys-
TEN has been one Of no little discus
sion of late years. Heretofore, it had
been discussed with various mystical
references to certain varieties of elec-
trio lamps not commonly known and,
in short. the whole topic was tinged
with Indebtedness in regard to the
real cause and the actual effect Ex-
periments on large scale, just con-
cluded in one Of the foreign labora-
tories, indicate that the danger from
ultraviolet light may soon assume
proportions formerly undreamed of.
The principal source of danger is said
to be in the ordinary species of car
bon arc light, like that formerly in
general use for street illumination.
The danger from the other known
lamps is very small, and their effect
IS said to be overshadowed by the de-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-02-10
Great Man Of the AVERAGE Class.

It is one of the first things to be
said about Macaulay, that he was in
exact accord with the common average
sentiment of his day on every subject
on which he spoke. His superiority
was not of that highest kind which
leads a man to march in thought on
the outside mar gin of the crowd, watch
ing them, sympathizing with them, hop
ing for them, but apart. Macaulay
was one of the middle class crowd in
his heart, and only rose above it bv
splendid attainrnents and extraordinary
gifts of expression. He had none of
that ambition which inflames some
hardy men, to make new beliefs and
new passions enter the minds of their
neighbors; his ascendancy is due to lit
erary pomp, not to fecundity of spirit.
John Morley.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-02-10
Her Description Of Flying.

The Countess La Bragiere, sister Of
Count de Lesseps, who made the
second cross-country fight in the
Halethorpe meet, has been up in the
air with her brother several times,
says the Baltimore News. This she did
at the Belmont park meet, and would
have done the same thing here had
not the storm interfered with her
plans as we'll as with the meet. She
was compelled to leave Baltimore for
her home in France without seeing
her brother fly the Halethorpe course.
Its just lovely and foolish and
wonderful, this flying" she said. my
brother never seems to mind me
when am up in the air with him. He
looks after his biplane and look aft
er myself. There is no interference
on my part.
"Oh, no, really I am not afraid when
I am with him. But l don't think 1
would care to fly alone. I have no
ambition to become real, accredited
aviator, even though I do like to 60
up in the air. 1 mean this expression
literally, not as you Americans fire.
quentlJ uss st.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-02-10
TO MAKE. RICH BISCUIT
VARIOUS RECIPES FOR MIXING
THE DOUGH.
A Measure Of Flour, Add Salt, Baking
Powder, Milk and Lard-HandIe
Mixture as Little as Possible
Mix With Knife.

America seems to be peculiar in
It's impromptu bakings Of Parker
mouse rolls, biscuits, and Johnny
cake." says recent writer, summar-
1zing the experience of a round-the-
world traveller with breads, brod, etc.
Just why the biscuit, and particularly
the baking powder biscuit, should be
considered such dainty I could new
er understand. Perhaps it is because
1t really does require considerable
skill to make it. Cream biscuits were
my own first proud accomplishment,
but their making was forced upon me,
albeit my efforts were rewarded with
bouquet which did not deserve, be-
cause so much had been done for me
that they could not be failure. 1t Is
easy to understand why beaten bis
cult should be considered something
fine, but as for the other, it is easy to
see why the unsophisticated Eng
lishman, accustomed to calling all
forms of crackers biscuits, should not
be altogether satisfied with some OF
the things he gets in America called
biscuits.
Hot Biscuit Ito one pint of stft-
ed -four add a half teaspoon of salt.
one teaspoon of baking powder, and
sfft again. Work in very lightly with
the fingers tablespoon of lard. When
thoroughly mixed cuts into it with a
knife about one cup of ice cold milk.
Roll out on a we'll Toured board about
three-fourths of an inch thick and cut
with biscuit cutter. Bake in hot oven.
The secret of good biscuit is to have
the dough very soft, to handle it as
little as possible, and to bake In
very quick oven.
Hot Biscuits I.-One quart OF flour
a pinch of salt, two tablespoons OF
lard, two teaspoons of baking powder.
Wet up with cold water, roll out SOFT
" an inch thick, and bake in quick
oven. Biscuits made with lard and
water are much lighter and better
than when butter is used.
Quick Biscuit.-Two cups OF flour,
one-half teaspoon of salt, three table
spoons of lard, three teaspoons OF
baking powder, one cup Of water. Sift
all the dry ingredients into bowl
and rub the lard lightly through them.
Stir in the water, drop the dough into
CREASED gem pans, and bake In a
quick oven.
Emergency Biscuit 1.-Two cups of
flour. four teaspoons Of baking pow
der, one-half teaspoon of salt, two
tablespoons of snowdrift, one cup Of
milk. Mix shortening with flour to
which salt and baking powder have
been added. Add milk. Drop mixture
from spoon, allowing about one ia.
blespoon to each biscuit. Bake 20
minutes in moderate oven. This
makes from IL to IA biscuits.
Emergency Biscuit 1.-Two CUPS of
flour, four teaspoons of baking pow
der, one-half teaspoon of salt, two
tablespoons of butter, one-half ct,p of
milk, one-half cup of water. Sift dry
ingredients, cut in butter, add milk
and water gradually. Drop MIXTURE
in creased muffin tins and bake In a
hot oven IL minutes.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-02-10
THE TRA- VIOLET LIGHT

trimental effect Of even the glare from
artificial light upon the eyes. There
nave been attempts made at one time
OR another to have the globes inclos-
ing the street arc lamps removed on
account of the greater amount OF light
that would then be available; but
"hen 1t Is realized that the lead glass
entirely 1ntercepts the dangerous I'll.
tra-violet rays which proceed from tho
arc in great abundance, the wise pol.
ICY which has retained them in place
Will be appreciated.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-02-10
Steamed Pudding.

One cup molasses, one cup sour milk,
three cups -four, one cup raisins, one
half cup -four, one teaspoonfu1 soda,
one teaspoonful salt; steam two and
one-half hours. Sauce for steam pud-
ding: Two tablespoonful butter and
two tablespoonful hot water; stir in
pulverized sugar and beat till as stiff
A desired and serve on pudding
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-02-10
Sweet Picked Apples.

A delicious pickle is this, made from
sweet apples: Cut in halves through
the stem, leaving the core in and the
skin on. Put three cloves on each half
as in picking peaches, then make a
strip, allowing for every six pounds
of apples three pounds of sugar and
pint of vinegar Add a few cassia
buds or pieces of stick cinnamon, put
the fruit in and cook it until it can
be pierced with splint. Pack the
apples in jars, cook the strip a little
longer until thlcaened and pour over
the fruit
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-02-10
Slightly Over-Drawn.

Gadsby-A month ago my wife de-
c1ded to set aside just one day of each
week for shopping.
Galey-How's the scheme working
out?
Gadsby-F1ne: except that so far
she has borrowed II shopping days
from future weeks!
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-02-10
Kicks ComIno.

BILL see blacksmith has intro
duced photograph into his work
shop.
J1ll-Well, If he shoes mules it
might be just as we'll to make 'em face
the music if he wants to preserve the
Observation-Disclosures Statesman.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-02-10
Oriental Proverb.

Whose carriage is greediness his
companion is beggary.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-02-10

An important feature of profitable
mutton feeding lies in the breeding of
feeders, and all experienced feeders
OF sheep recognize the value of the
sire in building up the mutton flock.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-02-10

You can start in the poultry bust
ness with a dozen fowls at cost Of
about five dollars for house and yards.
A piano box will cost a dollar and
the wire fencing about four dollars
more
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-02-10

green bone cutter will pay for
itself in one season. Besides being a
very healthy food and a great egg
producer, cut bone is a cheap food
compared to present high prices for
grain.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-02-10

Those who have young beef steer!
on hand or can get them at reason
able price can do no better than give
the matter of cattle feeding during the
winter very full and complete consid
Grafton.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-02-10

1t takes some extra care to have
nest boxes all clean this time of the
year, but it pays. If you can't afford
to give your hens clean boxes, they
can't afford TO lay good eggs worth
two or three cents apiece.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-02-10

One breeder says that he can wean
his pigs in six or seven weeks if they
have good care and keep them grow
ing as fine as any litter and still have
the next litter six weeks sooner.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-02-10

If COWS come fresh in the fall, they
produce a good flow of milk during the
winter months and in the spring when
they are turned on grass this acts as
a second freshening and thus length
ems the period of milk production.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-02-10

A turkey hen usually lays from
ono to three eggs after she shows a
desire to sit.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-02-10

Damp quarters often cause leg weak
ness, which may run into rheumatic
troubles. ~
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-02-10

There SQOulQ uOL Uc "luc uloCIoP-
ancy between the value of the hog
house and its occupant. 1t is'as wrong
to nut a 800 sow in $40 house as 1t
is to put a $40 SOW in 500 house.
A pullet that has had all the bone
it will eat will mature month quick
er than one that has had none. 1t
may be fresh bone or burnt bone-anyi
kind of bone-just so it is bone.
In purchasing new male birds, So
cure those that have something back
of them In the line Of good ancestors!
The males are worth considering, for
they are half the flock. ::
The droppings from the lambs are
rich in fertilizing value, and 1t has
been found that spring wheat does;
better after lambs have run in the
corn.
Sorghum, kafflr corn and Johnson
grass are often poisonous, when
REO"u "lIuOut 6u"SAOAI "dCSI ouV
fed green.
Good, fresh, pure water is proflta-
Bile addition to milk, as milk is large
~ water, but the COW should do the
mixing.
In Denmark, eggs are carefully as
sorted and sold by weight The big
ger the egg, the bigger the price.
Treat your teams considerably and
feed them we'll and you will get back
your care a hundredfold.
There is more feeding value in
skimmilk when It comes directly from
the separator. s@~.
j. Like poultry, sheep Pay large 70
turns for the amount of capital IN
vested.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-02-10

Like poultry, sheep pay large re-
turns for the amount of capital b.
vested.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-02-10

Notwithstanding the large number
OF students being graduated each year
from the agricultural colleges all over
this continent, there seems to 5e a
continuous shortage of qualified men
for the work of agricultural teaching.
One high school in the search for a
teacher of agriculture, has gone the
length of sending out mimeographed
letters to the various agricultural col
leges in the hopes OF securing such a
man.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-02-10

One of the most encouraging devel-
opments in the growing of garden
vegetables is the increasing recogni-
ton of the practical importance of
using pure and uniform stocks of
seed whose varietal characteristics
adapt them to distinct local condi-
tons and market requirements.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-08-31

abyss of metropolitan night. The hot
breath OF the city famed up In stifline
waves into his face, from the street
below, upon whose painted pavements
men crawled like insects-round NOV
ing spots, to each his romance under
his hat
The window was on the corner. over
looking the junction of three great
highways OF humanity: Twenty-third
street, with its booming crosstown
cars, stretching away into the dark
ness on either hand; Broadway, fork.
ing on to the left. its distances merg.
ging into hot glow OF yellow radi.
ance; Fifth avenue, branching into the
north with It's desolate sidewalks oddly
patterned in areas of dense shadow
and cold clear light. Over the way
the park doomed darkly, for all its
scattered arcs. black and silent
space. a we'll of mystery.
1t was late, quite late: the clock
in front OF Dorlon's the craned his
neck to see) made the hour one in the
morning: the sidewalks were COM
P-A~et'Si- tcu, even tue plllAre0
portico of the Fifth Avenue hotel des-
titute OF loungers. A timid hint of
GOODNESS. forerunning the dawn. rode
up ON the breeze.
He looked up and away northvard
for many minutes. over housetops
stenciled black against the Glowing
sky. his gaze yesrning into vast dis.
tances OF space. melancholy tingeing
the complexion of his mind. He fan
cied himself oppressed by q vague un.
essiness, unsccoUntshle as TO cause
unless
From the sublime 10 the ridiculous
with vsagesnce, his thoughts tum-
oled- Gone the glamour Of romance
in twinSling, hsnished by rank ma
terislism-. He could have hlushed for
shame: he got slowly TO his feet ir-
resoluTe. trying 10 grapple with a con.
dition that never before in his exis-
tence had he been called upon to con-
slider
He had just realized that he was
fiat-strapped for cash. He had given
his last quarter to the cabby. hours
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-08-31

back. He was registered at strange
hotel, under an assumed name. IN
able to beg credit even for his break
fast without declaring his identity and
thereby laying himself open to suspi
cion, discourtesy. insult.
OF course there were ways out. He
could telephone Zimmerman. or any
other Of half dozen acquaintances. in
the morning; but that involved expla.
nations, and explanations involved
making himself the butt of his circle
for many a weary day.
There was money in his lodgings
in the Chippendale escritoire; but to
get 1t he would have to run the gaunt.
let of reporters and detectives which
had already dismayed him in prospect.
O'Hagan-ahl
At the head of his bed was tele-
phone. Impulsively. inconsiderate of
the hour, he turned to 1t.
Give me nine-o-eight-nine Madison,
please" he said; and waited, receiver
to ear
There was slight pause q buzz;
the voice of the switchboard opera
tor below stairs repeating the number
to central; centrals appropriately
mechanical reiteration; another buzz:
silence; prolonged buzz; and again
the sounding silence.
"Hello!" he said, softly, into the
transmitter, at venture.
No answer.
"Hello."
Then central. irritably: Go ahead.
You've got your party"
Hello, hello!"
A faint hum of voices, rising and
railing, beat against the walls of his
understanding. Were the wires
crossed? He lifted an impatient finger
to 1iggle the hook and call central to
order, when-something crashed
heavily. He could have likened the
sound, without strain of imagination,
to chair being violently overturned.
And then a woman's voice. clear. ac-
cents informed with anger and pain:
mol" and then :.
Say, that's my mistake. That line
you had's out of order. I had a call
for them while ago, and they didn't
answer. Guess you'll have to wait"
Central! Central" he pleaded,
desperately. 81 say, central, give me
that connection again, please"
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-08-31
HAD DONE WORK THOROUGHLY
Corporal Literally obeyed Orders Of
Post Commandant.

Gen. Clarence Edwards. chief of the
insular bureau Of the war department
tells how an Irish corporal got even
with an unpopular post commander
In Cuba This post commander.
though an excellent soldier. was some
thing OF crank. He had two hob
bies. One was that the liberal use of
whitewash was the best possible pre-
ventive OF disease, and the other WAS
pet hamingo, an ill-natured bird that
was disliked heartily by the enlisted
men because 1t never overlooked an
opportunity to nip one of them.
One day the post commander had to
go to Havana, but he could not On
dure the thought that anyone should
be idle In his absence. 1t had bean
fully week since any whitewashins
had been done, 80 he issued an order
that all articles pertaining to tho
camp not sheltered from the weather"
should be whitewashed The Irish
corporal was intrusted with the execu-
ton of the order.
The post commander returned nert
day, and pretty soon the air was fair
ly blue with his cursing. The sol
diers heard the noise, but they were
not curious. They knew what Il WA
all about. The post commandsrs
brilliant famingo was white q q
snowy heron.