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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-09
NATURE A LOVING MOTHER
She Teaches Us In Her Gentle Way to
Live On and Grow Wiser, Bet
ter, Stronger, Healthier.

Natures heart and purpose is TEEN
ing with life, love and beauty.
This is just as true of you and me
as it is of fields and flowers
Just to live on is to grow wiser,
better, stronger, healthier.
I know that is a gospel that many
disbelieve. It being a free country,
anyone can believe what he likes.
There are those to whom life is but
an increasing disease, old age calam-
1ty and the whole affair a mistake.
Any who prefer to go wailing and
regretting from the cradle to the
grave may do so. l can only say that
to me it is silly, useless and untrue.
l suppose have made as many
mistakes as the next man; know I
have done 10000 foolish things;
have hurt those who loved me; I
have been betrayed, swindled, lied
about and injured by my fellow be-
ings; I have failed many and many a
time; and if anybody has a right to
want to go out in the garden and eat
worms, or sit in a corner and weep,
or give up and join the down-and-out-
ers, surely it is l.
But out of all this weller of error
and evil there has come to me not
despair but hope, not tears but peace,
not hate but love-
I have put my soul against this old
universe. I have leaned my heart
against this wide humanity, and l am
healed. Thank God! am pretty we'll,
thank you, and propose to remain so.
I do not speak merely of physical
health; that shall be as God wills;
but of mental and spiritual health. I
take the great world as it is, and
find healing.
A lot Of things I have lost, with
youth, but an immeasurably greater
lot I have gained with middle age.
To me Nature and Time have been
great nurses and teachers, nay, low
ing mothers, who have healed me Of
I know not how many evils.-Wom.
ans World.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-09
HAS A PETRIFIED WATERF ALE
One Of the Natural Wonders Of the
World That q Located = In
Country Of Algeria.

With all the beauty OF a cataract Of
living water, there is in Algeria q re-
markable petrif1ed waterfall which re-
Gently has been engaging the atten-
ton of scientists. This is the Ham
mam-Meskhutin, which means "The
bath of the damned" and is located 62
miles from Constantine. This solidified
cascade is the production Of calcare-
GUS deposits from sulphurous and fer
ruginous mineral springs, issuing
from the depths OF the earth at a tenn
perature of IS degrees centigrade.
1.-THE: bath OF the damned" even
from a near viewpoint, looks for all
the world like great wall Of water
dashing into a swirling pool at it's
foot, yet it's cleaning, graceful curves
and the apparently swirling eddies at
its base are as fixed and immovable as
If carved from the face of a granite
cliff.
Many centuries have, of course,
gone to the making of the deposits,
and the springs we're well known to
the ancient Romans The name Ham
mam-Meskhntin was given to the stone
cataract in an ailusion to a legend
that the waterfall was petrifled by
Allah, Furnishing the impiety Of I'M
believers by turning all the members
of the tribe into stone. At night, SO
the story runs, it's stone jewellers Of
the remote ages are freed from their
strange letters, come to life and re-
sumo their normal shapes.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-09

browsing out through the top of the
snowdrift, with Fred clinging to mis-
TAIL
While he was waiting he lifted one
foot to knock the ashes from his pipe
and the other foot broke through the
snow. He was standing directly on top
OF the tunnel. AS he went down his
free snow shoe caught on a snag of
the fir tree and Jack hung suspended
head downward in the tunnel with
snow all about him. Fred had just
about crawled up to the point in the
tunnel and heard the commotion. OF
course he thoght it was the bear and
fastened to the fray.
Fred grabbed Jack by what he
thought was the bears tail and Jack
Of course grabbed Fred in a death
grapple, thinking he was the bear,
The tunnel was now so full of snow
that neither could see and they put
up fight then and there that will 20
down in history as the gem of the
Siskiyous. About that time the snae
broke and Jack fell into the tunnel.
Jack still thought Fred was the bear,
and hung on for dear life.
While Fred was trying to spit the
snow out of his mouth and introduce
himself, the real bear-which had
been asleep a mile and a half down
the tunnel-heard the commotion and
walked up. In its haste to get out of
the tunnel and get back home before
it's wife walked up and missed it, it
ran completely over Fred and Jack
and knocked two more panels of the
tunnel down on their heads. In the
mix-up the boys we're Jared loose
from each other and stood up, but by
the time they had clawed the snow off
themselves so they were recognizable,
it was dusk and the bear was on the
home stretch over near the Hungry
Creek mines, seventeen miles away.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-09
GIVE %sqE$ e.: :::!:: =!
JOHN L.THOMPSON SONS d CO.. Troy,N
REALLY A SOUND INVESTMENT
sanatorium Where Tuberculosis May
Be Cured Is Worth Much to
Any State or City.

DR.. H. L. Barnes, superintendent OF
the Rhode Island State sanatorium,
has recently demonstrated by some in.
teresting studies of patients discharg.
ed as apparently cured" from that in
stitution, that a sanatorium is sound
investment for any state or city. The
gross earnings of 40 ex-patients OBJ
tanned in 1911 amounted to $102,752,
and those Of 211 cases in 1912 to $112,-
OIL. BY applying the same average
earning to all ex-patients of the sana-
forum living In 1911 and 1912, DR..
Barnes concludes that their income in
these two years was $4,000. This
sum is more than three times the cost
of maintenance of the sanatorium in
Guiding interest at per cent on the
original investment and depreciation
charges. DR.. Barnes concludes, how
ever, while institutions for the cure
of tuberculosis are good investments,
there is good reason for thinking that
institutions for the isolation of far ad-
vanced cases would be still better in
vestments."
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-09

lamp or an oil lamp inside. This will
be your moving picture machine"
For the picture strips use white
cheesecloth or muslin. Cut them
about eight inches wide, and sew to-
gether as many lengths as are neces-
sary for the set of pictures you plan.
You will find an unlimited assort-
ment of pictures from which to make
selections, in newspapers and maya
zines.
Before preparing a set of pictures,
select the subject and write out a
synopsis of the story. Perhaps you
can think of a good set of pictures
that you have seen at moving-pic
ture theater. Suppose you choose "A
Dog Chase for the story. Hunt up
a picture showing dog running and
paste it upon one of your cloth strips;
then select pictures Of boys, girls,
men and women, ;afoot, in automo-
biles and other vehicles, and after
leaving a space of about two feet be-
hind the dog arrange the pictures one
after another. You might start the
chase with a small boy, then have a
policeman chasing after him, then a
butcher running behind the police
man. after him lady pushing baby
carriage, and so on.
Fig. 1 shows the boy operator ex-
hibiting just such a strip OF pictures.
Of course the picturss-frame opening
above and below the strip of pictures
must be filled up to prevent the op-
orator from being seen. This may be
taken care of by lacking piece OF
white cloth or cardboard wide enough
to lap one-half inch over the edge OF
the picture strip to the back OF the
picture-frame, above and below the
picture strip. But here is a better
idea. Prepare scenery to fill in those
places. This may be prepared very
roughly upon cardboard. Cardboard
from boxes may be used, and, it this
is colored, white paper may be pasted
over it for a working face.
With scenery, it will be possible to
use one strip of pictures for several
scenes. Taking "A Dog Chase" for
example. you might prepare the four
scenes as suggested in Figs. 8, 4, 5
and 6. In the first scene the dog and
his pursuers should be shown dash
ing down the street and in through
the front door of the cottage at the
left. It would be an unusual sight to
see automobiles and other vehicles
running through buildings In everyday
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-09
A NOMENCLATURE THEATER.

Every boy can give moving picture
shows at home after constructing the
miniature theater described below.
This is easy to build and you will find
the work interesting; while planning
new ideas for pictures will furnish
enough additional occupation to keep
you from growing tired OF the toy.
II you can get an old picture-frame
with about 16 by 30-lnch opening it
will form splendid stage front, but
if you cannot obtain one make
rough frame out of boards four inches
wide.
After producing the frame, prepare
box about 10 inches high, feet long
and 8 inches deep, for the stage
framework. Notch one edge OF the
top lk inches from each end, max
ing the notches one inch square "a,
Fig. p; then prepare the socket
blocks B 3 inches square, bore one
inch hole through each, and screw or
nail them to the stage framework so
the holes will come directly under
slots A. Cut the rollers c from the
straight ends of broom-handles or
from curtain poles, and prepare
number of them. Tack a piece OF
cloth about eight inches square to
each four inches from the lower end
to pin the ends of the picture strips
20. Prepare the two wooden buttons
D and screw them to the top edge OF
The framework in the proper position
to hold the rollers in the slots. Pre-
pare the cranks E as shown in Fig. z.
The purpose of sticks F is to hold
the strip of pictures close to the front
of the stage. Place them close to the
front Of the framework and about
three inches from each side of where
the front frame opening will come.
The Pickering of the light of a
moving picture show can be produced
by preparing a cardboard cylinder
with number of circular openings
cut through 1t, and pivoting 1t at its
center in front of the lantern. When
the disk is whirled rapidly it will pro-
duce the desired Pickering effect.
The pictures should be lighted from
the front. If you haven't magic Ian
tern, get small box, cut hole in
the front for the light to shine
through, and place an electric-light
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-09
real BEAR STORY
sent FROM OREGON
Thrilling Narrative Told [iIl by Two
Boys.
BRulN MAKES. ESCAPE
Animal Digs Tunnel Through Snow
for Miles = Accidents Befat
Youths, and in Melee Bear Make,
Escape and Gets Home to wife.

Ashland, lOre.-The most thrilling
bear story that has leaked out in
Southern Oregon for some time comes
from Jack Bailey and Fred Dodge. 1t
is so remarkable that the boys insist
on changing Jacks name to Davy
Crockett and F>red's name to Kit Car.
son. -.
Jack and Fred heard that bear was
devastating the country over near
Gregory and snoring for fight they
went over to see about it. The snow
was mine feet deep on the level" and
four feet deep on the dead, SO the boys
looks their snowshoes along together
with guns and axes and chewing to.
bacco ana grub.
They found the bears trail all right
and followed it in the soft snow for
eighty rods. Suddenly it disappeared
no bear, no trail, no cave, no hollow
log, no nothing The trail apparently
ended in deep snow. Apparently the
bear was travelling by airship or had
drowned in the snow and sunk.
Just about that time Fred noticed
that there was a hole in the snow
where new trail began. With fear
and trembling and both guns at full
cock they got down and looked into
the hole. It led into a tunnel in the
snow that ran back under a lot of
bushes which held the heavy layer of
snow off the ground.
After consultation the boys figured
that as the trail appeared at both ends
Of the tunnel the bear probably wasn't
in it, and they moved on along the gut
ter in the snow for another half mile.
Here they found another tunnel en-
trance into which the trail disappear
ed. They searched for half day, but
found no outlet or other end to this
| tunnel
The boys drew straws to see which
should crawl into the tunnel and scare
the bear out. The lot fell to Fred, and
he prepared for the Job. Laying off
his snowshoes and clinging his trusty
bowie knife in his best set of teeth
he entered the tunnel. Jack took up
his station on slight rise of ground
beside q small fir tree and kept a
sharp lookout for the bear to come
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-09
Old CathedraIs Near Ruin

Winchester cathedral is not the only
structure of it's kind to have been en-
dangered in the course of centuries.
Italian experts have recently declared
that the cathedrals of Como and
Milan are in danger of collapse, and
that Immediate restoration works are
necessary if they are to be saved. The
main structure Of the Milan cathe-
dral dates back to the sixteenth CEN
fury, but the facade was added by Ma
roleon, and the hurried manner in
which he had the work accomplished
has caused it to be unsafe today,
many of the marbles being soft and
badly set. The upper part is now to
be demolished in consequence It is
ulso the facade Of the Como cathe-
dral which is in danger. This has
been bullying outwards for nearly a
century, and large portion is now
OUT of the Observation-Disclosures
Globe.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-09

life, but not so in moving-pIcture
shows. The effect of the figures 60
ing into the house may be bettered
by cutting window where indicated
so the audience will see the figures
passing it.
Scene shows the dog sitting upon
roof top. In an instant the dog
must leap off, and then his pursuers
must dash across and leap of after
him. A picture showing a dog In a
sitting position must be selected for
this scene, be pasted upon piece Of
cardboard, and pivoted by means of
thread to the back of the roof seem
cry so it may be swung down out OF
sight.
In the third, or forest scene, the
pursuers should be seen passing be-
hind the trees, and In the fourth
scene all should be shown grouped
about the captured dog. For this last
scene you will require a new set of
figures, and a piece of cardboard OF
the size of the frame opening upon
which to arrange and paste them.
Copyright, 1912, by A. Nicely Hall)
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-09
Roses as Medicine.

Roses at one time figured prominent
ly in the pharmacopoeia. Pliny gives
30 remedies compounded of rose
leaves and petals. Sufferers from nerv.
GUS complaints used to seek relief by
sleeping on rose pillows, and one is
told that Heliogabalus used to imbibe
rose wine as pickup after his
periodical gormandizing bouts. The
flower was also served at table, both
as garnish, in the way parsley is
now used, and as a salad, and rose
water was largely used for favoring
dishes. Roses as food have gone out
of favor among western nations, but
the Chinese still eat rose fritters.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-09
All He Wanted,

A Boston man tells of a certain IT.
repressible bore who always made
use of formula when anyone sought
to put him off and thus spare the OBJ
jects of his attention the annoyance Of
an interview with him. This formula
was: "But assure you want but one
word with him-only one world"
On one occasion he sought out a
noted lawyer. The latters clerk met
him very solemnly with: why,
haven't you heard? Mr.. Blank died
last night"
The words we're scarcely out of the
clerks mouth when the applicant was
saying, eonciliatingly: But l assure
you I want but one word with him
only one world"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-09
Kindness Brings Woman Fortune.

Warrensburg, Mo.-Mrs. Albert
Munkers, wife of farmer, has fallen
heir to $4,000 through her kindness
to John Rohan, an aged 1rishman, who
two years ago went to the Munkers
home seeking shelter. The pair cared
for Rohan until he died a few days
ago. On top Of a pile of valuable pa
pers found among his effects was
note directing that everything be
given Mrs. Munkers. Rohan had no
known relatives.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-09


my breath was
short and I had
chills and back
ache. I took the
pills about q year
ago and have had
no return Of the
palpitations. Am
now GO years old,
able to do lots of
,noo~,yo1 1ohor ON
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-09
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From 40 to SO Woman's Critical Period.


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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-09
Ways Of Aunts.

A southern bishop of the Episcopal
church and his five-year-old son were
talking earnestly about maiden aunt.
The boy disliked the aunt The bishop
urged that the son should love her,
for all that
Your aunt is different, my son."
said the bishop, "but she is all right
In her way
Eyes, father" was the reply, but
49, her way."-New York Post.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-09
Arm Exercise

THAT new pitcher is surely Won
der. How do you suppose he de-
veloped. that ARM"
II heard he used to be slide from
bone player with minstrel show"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-09
FINGER Prints in Banks.

German banks, according to news
paper dispatches, have begun to intro
duce the finger print as a mark of
Identification on checks. The method
is already in use in the United States.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-09
Broom for Lion.

Chicago.-Hot irons and revolver
having had no effect, Nine" Margue-
rita, a lion tanner, subdued an angry
lion with woman's own weapon
broom.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-09
A NEGATIVE Merit.

a Negative Merit.
She-Have you any strawberries?
Dealer-Yes'm. Here they are, a
quarter box.
She-Goodness! They're miserable
looking, and so green.
Dealer-I know, mum, but there
amt enough in a box to do you any
harm.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-09

Quite Apparent.
do theatrical angels have wings?"
certainly. That is how their mon
ey flies"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-09

SUO60 0MAAA0A. manual l8OOr, am
well and hearty and weigh about
200 pounds. l feel very grateful that
I found Dodds Kidney Pills and you
may publish this letter If you wish.
am serving my third term as Probate
Judge of Gray Co. Yours truly,
PHILIP MILLER, Cimarron, Kan.
Correspond with Judge Miller about
this wonderful remedy.
Dodds Kidney Pills, SOC. per box at
your dealer or Dodds Medicine Co.,
Buffalo, N. Y. Write for Household
Hints, also music of National Anthem
English and German words) and re-
cipes for dainty dishes. All s sent free.
Adv.
His Business.
There is one man who can be safe
always in taking his customers at
their face value"
who might he be-"
1.-THE beauty doctor"
Mrs. Windows Soothing Syrup for Children
teethng, softens the gums, reduces infiamma-
ton, all2ys pain cures wind collie 25c bottleAGy
Politics is a good game, but a
mighty poor business.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-09
JUDGE CURED, HEART TROUBLE.

I took about 6 boxes Of Dodds Kid
ney Pills for Heart Trouble from
which I had suffered for 5 years.
had dizzy spells, my eyes pulled.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-09

noIne m aIallslnn
business man should never take
his stenographer out to lunch."
'sWhy not?
"Oh, it causes talk"
cot course 1t causes talk, but II
the business man will abstain from
cocktails, he won't talk to her half as
much as he might"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-09
USE ALIENS r0or-EAs]

-. USE ALIENS TOOT-EAsE,
the Antiseptic powder to be shaken into the
shoes for tired. aching feet It takes tho sting
out Of corns and bunions and makes walking
= delight. Sold everywhere, Csc. Refuse sub
stitutes For FREE trial package. address A.
8. Olmsted. lie Roy. N. Z. Adv.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-09

Mrs. Windows Soothing Syrup for Children
teething, softens the gums, reduces infamma-
uOn, alAys pain cures wind colo, 25c bottle Nv
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-09

Many a successful man makes a
noise like big wind.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-09

Politics is good game, but
mighty poor business.