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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-02
john Drew's Distinction.
-Gippincott's Magazine !


/ Joseph Jefferson and Wilton Lack
aye were in the same company one sea
son. It was the custom of Mr.. Jeffer-
son to respond to curtain calls and
make a speech to the audience. He
enjoyed it and the audience enjoyed
it also. Mr.. Lackaye, however, always
commended that an actor should not
step out of his part in this manner. H.
One night after Mr.. Jefferson had
made his speech and was going to his
dressing room he met Lackaye. 81 W.,
81 We'll, Wilton, = said Jefferson, "how
did i do tonight?" b.. :, 1TZ.4:S.
"Oh, replied %Lackaye. ''the same
old story. You went out before the
audience and made the usual blum
der <$sss =, ~. : Ok ~ sss
.Blunder!''.s !. exclaimed Jefferson.
What did l. do or say that>you would
|call a blunder?''- s. ~. 80 y =
why" said Lackaye, .tyou said, ''As
I look into your faces i feel that 8
Fsflou1d like to shake hands with each
and every one. i : :s 49,, :&=z
ELI, what's wrong with that?..''
asked JEFFERSON. - zs.1t 81
.tIt's perfectly absurd retorted
Lackaye. 1 The only face that I ever
saw that you could shake hands with
lis John DreW'a = 5s= s.3 ISL 800
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-02

formal ions. have not superv ened - For
q period as long an a decade French
physicians have said it is possible to
restore the action Of the heart after
rdeath" by means of hypodermics in
|jections. 81, Even in Sso-called sudden
death there is a period which in
French medical literature is called
psychic twilight = q S BIZ ~ ~: Is
the case most in point, bearing upon
the whole subject; is that of a late
spicuous figure in the old :legitimist
club life Of the French capital. He
died recently at 10 o'clock at night
His younger son would be Of age at
midnight. For the sake of the two
Ehoilrs-the younger son being still an
infant in the eyes Of ! the law-it
seemed as if the whole Of the dukes
estate must be tied up; in endless liti-
cation. But the family, lawyers-they
were at the bedside pinned their faith
in the new discoveries regarding
death. They made manifest to the
physicians the tremendous legal con-
sequences of the dukes death before
midnight. Ie>.s@t
Hypodermic injections were resorted
to. The heart began to beat again,
the temperature Of the body went up,
breathing was restored. In fact the
body came back to life" and in this
state it was kept until a quarter of an
hour after midnight. A magistrate
had been called to the house to see to
the interests of the "infant ward"
He witnessed the revival from SEEM
ingg death to life.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-02
YOUR HAT IN RING?
One Hat From Every Woman for
Endowment Fund Wanted.

CNeW York POst)
Texas senator wants to punish
in public gatherings >(and they need
punishing) by penalty provision that
will prevent their buying new hat
for three years. Now, II Is an easy
matter for a man to introduce a bill
with a hat forfeiture clause, but his
action has been antedated by a WOm-
ans suggestion that all the women
who are going to buy new hats shall
stick to their old ones for one season
and turn in the salvage to the endow-
ment fund of the General Federation
of Women's Clubs. Figuring the fed
GRAFTON membership at 100000, and es-
timating that at least half the men,
bers would have at least one. new hat
year, it can be seen that a tidy sum
of 100000 could be rolled up by this
free will offering, if every hat were
figured at only 81. But as the hats
that some women would give up would
approximate: $100. the average is fig
ured at 81. and "a total endowment
fund of $1,600,O00 is dangled before the
eyes Of the club women as the reward
of their sacrifice.
The suggestion is backed by a sound
and logical showing that if approx
mately half a million women over the
country are, wearing unlashionable
mats, uu1dSHlOndUle HdIS Will De IdSu-
ionable hats. IF there are enough
people backing custom it goes,
doesn't it?' asks the prepayment and
then she shows that she is capable OF
applying the acid test by adding, Il
who write this am going to try it and
see. Who's afraid? Who can be
frightened by a monster made of wire
and bits Of straw, feathers and chif-
fon that you could read Holy Writ
through a half mile away. You are
not! I know you are not!''
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-02
BOYS AND RYE BREAD.
How Russian Cadets Convinced Re-
forming Colonel Of His Error.

New York EVenig Post.)
The Boy Scouts of America may find
occasion to thank their stars that
there lis a new understanding of dis
cipline," if they will take the trouble
to read some Of the stories told of the
military cadet corps of Russia, as it
was in the first half of the last CEN
fury. Boys were brought in when six
years old by fathers who were for the
most part military men with the mill
tary idea of the disciplinary force in
hardships, and boys from 10 years old
upward had to fall in line for inspec-
ton from visiting generals. On the
night before such visitor was ex-
pected the boys put their white tights
on wet and slept in;them. That was
to make the tights fit tighter on par
AIDE. When Alexander II. was crowned
the first cadet corps fell in after five
mile march. They Were not allowed
to go to bed over night, or even to lie
down. They could only sit on pre-
pared pieces of leather
Back in the fifties one of the col
onels developed a theory that the
corps boys ate too much rye bread. 1t
was the only thing that had been al
lowed them without stint, and the
colonePs decision that it hurt their
health was dealt with strategically by
the boys An order went forth by the
grape vine route that interlinks boy
and boy that on a certain night, as
soon as the dormitory watchmen were
asleep in their chairs, every one was
to find his way to the larders and eat
bread until he could hold no more By
some miracle the performance went
through without a hitch. Next morn
ing there was not crumb Of bread
to be found anywhere.
OF course the only explanation was
that the boys had eaten it, and very
little arithmetic showed that each boy
had eaten about four pounds. Best Of
ALL from the boys point Of view. not
a boy was made the least SICK. Prag-
matism as such had not come into
existence in those days, but the proof
Of the pudding even then vas in the
eating. and after that the fussiest COL
onel could not say that rye bread was
bad for the boys"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-02
GO SLOW AFTER AGE OF IS.
Mortality Among Men Has Increased
in Last Half Century.


On the question of why we grow old,
discussed in connection with the in in
quiry being carried out by Dr.. An
dreWes, pathologist to St. Bartholo-
news hospital, on arterial decay, a
doctor says:
-'1t is very important for men to
recognize that the danger period is
from the age of so or SIS EDWARDS. Up
to the stress of ordinary life, but about
that age man must ease off decided
ly or he will find himself going quickly
downhill. This warning applies not
only to physical but also to mental
work. :
There are some exceptionally sound
men of more than IS who can do a
days hunting or shooting or work
their brain at high 0ressure for eight
or ten hours day Without apparent
hurt, and there are also men who can
eat and drink as freely at this age as
when in full vigor. Probably they
shorten their lives by few years. The
vast majority Of men certainly cannot
act in this way without bad conse-
quences. ".~.,. - r =
cat so a man should begin. to- go
slow in every way; he should dress
more leisurely. eat less, reduce his or
binary work by Is per cent and never,
in any circumstances, make an extra
ordinary effort, physical or mental"
DIR: Andewe's inquiry has been made
because Of the tdisquieting fact that the
mortality among men Of more than IS
has increased in the last half CEN
fury At all ages less than As there
has been vast Improvement. II Ess
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-02
WIRELESS PHONE A SUCCESS.
Professor Vanni at Rome Talked te
Tripoif With Ease.
Chicago Tribune


Paris - Prof. Vanni of the Rome
Wireless institute, who telephoned by
wireless from Rome to Tripoli, visited
Paris recently. In an interview he
gave the details Of how he was able to
send telephone message across the
Mediterranean sea, distance Of nearly
TOO miles.
Prof. Vanni said in his experiments
he uses a liquid micropnone. the idea of
which was given him by Chichester
Bell, Alexander Graham Bells brother.
With this and Moretti generators the
members of the Tripoli wireless station
heard him with perfect distinctness,
and those who knew him personally at
once recognized his voice..
He also told how, as an interesting
experiment, he placed the horn of a
talking machine near the liquid micro
phone, and then tunes and songs
played by the instrument were heard
clearly.
Prof Vanni said he is following up
these results with further experiments.
He is confident ne will soon be able to
telephone by wireless from Rome to
Paris Although the distance between
the two capitals is only $50 miles'more
than to Berlin, the Hertz waves. he
says, find it good deal more difficult
to pass such obstacles as mountains,
hills and forests than to cross the sea.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-02
DRESS AND MoDEsTY.
It. is Matter OF Custom Rather
Than of Morality.
Kansas City Start

Kansas City STAR
The variations in what modesty per-
mts and requires constitute an inter-
esting study. The Heroes Of South
Africa insist that women keep their
heads covered AS to what else they
wear they aren't so particular. A
lady didn't mind posing for a pho
tograph with nothing much on except
the head cloth. But she was terribly
shocked at the idea of. removing that.
1t is the style among the Yakuts to
wear nothing above the waist But
they consider bare feet immodest
Missionaries in China have Written
nome asking that churches that send
them boxes omit picture books show
ing persons barefooted. In China the
exposure Of the foot is decollete.
On the Uganda railroad, near Lake
Victoria, under the equator, Sir Harry
Johnson found a tribe who considered
clothing quite superf1uous. The mem
bers wore ornaments. but nothing
else. But they were regarded as 1.-THE
most moral people in Uganda" Near
them lived tribe, the Baganda, who
were exceedingly particular as to their
clothing. But they had an unsavory
reputation as to morals.
that is considered proper for evening
wear at parties would be regarded as
extremely immodest for street use
Conventional usage permits the wear
ing Of costumes for bathing that
would not be tolerated off the beach
The same differences appear accentu-
ated in other parts of the world.
In Japan, for instance, until recent
years. hot baths were taken by every.
body in public. What no one could
help. everybody was expected to ig.
more. But Japanese wpmen who would
battle in public with no embarrass.
ment We're shocked at the dress which
European women wore at evening
parties.
1t may be noticed that while we are
shocked at the idea of promiscuous
bathing by the Japanese our ancestors
did the same thing well into modern
times. Church councils were repeat
eddy condemning the practice, but it
did not disappear from Europe until
300 or 400 years ago.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-02
"DEAcoN" WHITE DIED POOR.
Paid All His Wall Street Debts, but
Had Nothing Left.
New York Tribune

It. became known yesterday that
Stephen V. White of Brooklyn, who
won and lost several fortunes in Wall
street, and who was known to every
body in the street as Deacon" White.
had died a poor man. One of the
members Of his family said yesterday
that Mr.. White owned no realty when
he died. No will Of Mr.. White has
been filed in the surrogate's court in
Brooklyn, and it was said yesterday
that he left none, having had no estate
to dispose of.
Mr. White, who was 81 years old
died on last January IS at the Stand
ish Arms. Columbia Heights, Brook
Ign. Because of i'll health he had
been out of the stock market for about
seyen years. Mr.. White failed in bust
ness three times, but he recovered
each time and paid his dbts in full
His lalst failure followed an attemp!
to corner the corn market In 1891
Standing to make about 5000, 900, be-
fore he could unload and realize the
price dropped and he was carried I'M
der After that he did not figure In
any great operation in Wall street.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-02
TOMB or JONAH.
Sacred Place That Visitors Must
View From a Distance.

View From Distance.
christian Herald)
The site Of Nineve11 is almost per-
fectly level. But adjoining the west
ern wall are two huge mounds con-
cealing the palaces of the greatest
kings of Assyria. The lower or south
ern mound is occupied by mosque
and a village of considerable size.
It's name is Nebi Yunus, or the
Prophet Jonah, for in the mosque is
the tomb in which Jonah is said to
have been buried. The age of the
from long after the Hebrew prophets
time. However, the place Is now sa-
cred, so lsacred that pilgrims visit 1t
from afar.
Its name is Nebi Yunus, or the
of the village to the mosque, and to
the amazement Of the natives I dis
mounted and entered the mosque yard.
A crowd Of excited men quickly sur
rounded me. To a priest I explained
that I had come to see the grave OF
Jonah, and with a motion Of the hand
/ made it understood that. he would
be rewarded Removing my shoes !
followed the priest through a dark
pasSageWay.. T..
There he pointed to a wall and said
the tomb was just beyond L. wished
to enter the prayer room from which
the tomb itself might be seen, but the
place was considered far too sacred
for my profane feet. However, the few
Christians who have been permitted to
see the tomb may look only through
a small window into a dark chamber
IN which d cloth covered mound is
scarcely discernible. It is said that no
Moslem even will. enter the inner
shrine. -, T.. ~ t..
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-02
MIRACLES CAUSED BY SHOCK.
Instances of Strangely Restored Speech
Are Not Uncommon.
{Tit-Bfts.)

(lL-BIS.'
The recent case Of Miss Lily Curl OF
Ashford, Kent, who, after being deaf
and dumb for tWenty-one years, is
slowly recovering both hearing and
speech-the shock Of the tragic end of
her brother. who drowned himself in
the Stour, being regarded as respon-
sible for the miraculous recovery-is
by no means an isolated example of
shock succeeding where doctors have
failed.
Some time ago the narrow escape
of a boy from drowning off North
Shields Fish quay had a remarka BILE
sequel. While efforts were being made
to restore the apparently drowned boy
to consciousness by means Of artif-
cial respiration, man named Thorn
as Cummings, who had been deprived
Of speech two years earlier, as the re-
suit Of the accident, pushed through
the crowd merely out of curiosity. AS
soon as he saw the PROSTATE hoy, al
though not in any way related to him,
the sight gave him such a shock that
his speech suddenly returned. and he
fell to the ground in a state Of COL
lapse. Upon recovering he continued
to speak freely, and has suffered no
further impeachment since.
One of the most amazing cases was
that OF Walter Speck, a resident Of
Gloucester, who eight years ago lost
his power of speech through the shock
occasioned by the death of his father.
Being a football enthusiast, he one
day witnessed Gloucester versus
Cheltenham atch, and when the city
team scored Speck. in his excitement,
forgot that he had been deprived of
his voice, and attempted to cheer with
the rest Of the crowd. To his amaze
ment and that of his friends his shout
was heard above that. Of any of those
standing near. Since then Speck has
been able to converse as we'll as ever
and there is no likelihood of his speech
failing him.
One Of the medical journals tells
how the fear OF. an accident was once
the means Of restoring speech to a
dumb man. Mr.. j. Moore of Gosport
had been dumb for years, when, on
returning home one evening, his bicycle
skidded In his alarm he shouted, and
was SO startled and surprised "a hear
ing his voice that he called out again
and again, until he was convinced
that his long lost voice had come back
to, him.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-02
WHAT SANTA DID.
uippincott's.)


Twas the night before Christmas, and Jacot
and Gretchen -
Lay snug in their bed in the Dornhoefe,
kitchen. r u :. 4
Not a sound save the song that the gay crick.
And a faint. sleepy murrnur, '''Top kickin
= my shins,'' ~ IN
Could be heard in the >Dornhoefer kitchen tina,
But there by the fire. in the, moons silve,
l. light, 49, -. .-,sz5. 4 :; -
In short. struggling row lay four .quee,
little shoes, a-. %*4-I TX !a7&
Left there for the jolly Kris Krinele to use.
Then suddenly Gretchen sat up with a star
And rubbed Jacobs eyes tyou can't tell then
-. apart, - 80 > ~, x - !. g
Those Dornhoefer> twins in the brightest day.
So how could poor Gretchen be sure in til,
And they laughed as they, thought of til.
+ words Santa'd use, gz sE5s IS; =: : .
For they'd hidden mouse-trap in each o.
rs their shoes. y - go.
Well, Santa Claus came, ana the mouse-tra1
went slam, it$;l5t III :GEIS Z
And Santa said something that sounded like
= sham " %se s$44lSs57$E M, So
And the Moon said she saw just the stranges
Twas santa Claus spanking The pornhoete,
twins. III &c sssc,ztzgY
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-02
SOUTH ] | AFRICAN 1 J ! | !,
ELEPHANTS u, /: ; IA !. !; DOOM On |
The Demand for Ivory Is So Great
+, That He Will Soon Be :: =
Extinct. -. =:
TARGET FOR ALL HUNTERS
Their Greatest Ambition Is to Get
Big Tusk-Commercial Be-.
Hunters.

Gondon Correspondence Philadelphia Ledger,
1t is the ambition of most big game
hunters to bag a good "tusker'-an
elephant with exceptionally big
teeth" to use the sportig term; but
that ambition is seldom realized now
adays; for elephants, particularly those
of record age and size, are becoming
scarcer every day. Indeed, it is stated
that the African elephant, from whom
the finest ivory is obtained, is doomed.
1t has practically vanished from South
Africa, and is being slowly extermi-
mated in other parts of the country.
This determination has been brought
about by the great demand for ivory
nowadays.
firm OF billiard table makers used in a
month as many as ninety-five pairs of
tusks. Thus to supply this single firm
not fewer than LAO elephants suffered
death annually. And the demand for
tusks may be gathered from the fact
that about 300 tons are sold in London
alone during the year.
Some Great Tusks.
The consequence is that the chance
Of a big game hunter coming across
such an elephant as that shot by Ma
jOr PoWell-COttOn in the Congo State
eight year ago, whose tusks weighed
372 pounds, is very remote. These were
the finest pair of elephants teeth ever
secured by a white sportsman, al
though they are not the heaviest on
record The heaviest pair of tusks ever
secured are to be seen in museum in
the United States. One Of the tusks
measured ten feet four inches along
the outer curve and scales 235 pounds.
and the other, which Is an inch or
two less. weighs 225 pounds, giving a
total of 1850 pounds
The second Of these tusks is eclipsed
by one to be seen in the British Mu-
scum collection. It measures ten feet
two and one-half inches, and weighs
226 pounds One of the longest tusks
on record was that in the possession Of
the late Mr.. Rowland Ward at one
time 1t measured eleven feet five and
one-half inches over the curve and
scaled $50 pounds. It's fellow measured
eleven feet in length and weighed 143
pounds. The pair now enrich the
American National Collection.
Over Nine Feet.
Sir Edmund Loder is the possessor of
q very fine single tusk, which measures
nine feet five inches and weighs 14S
pounds In 1911 w. w. Greener, the
Hay1narket gunner. had in his window
wonderfully even pair of teeth.
"IiNi oNolCA JuSl OVCI LOT pOuIuS, dIlu
a widest circumference of twenty-six
inches, and an extreme length of eight
feet. They made very fine second to
Major Powell-Cotton's splendid pair.
remarkable tusk in the possession
Of Mr.. Graham Pownall, which came
from Uganda, measures eight feet five
inches, has a circumference Of twenty
three inches and scales 175 pounds
These instances will give some idea of
the magnificent ivory produced in the
elephant in Equatorial Africa. 1t
might be mentioned that the average
weight of elephant tusks is about fifty
pounds apiece
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-02
A DERELICT THE SAILORS HOPE
Every Mariner Hopes He May Some
Day Pick Up Graft in Distress.

DANES G. McCurdy in Wide World,
Salvage is one Of those overwOrked
words with half a dozen meanings. In
marine sense it is indiscriminatelN
applied to the act of saving vessel
from the perils Of the sea, to the claim
entered, and to the final monetary
award. On land it is a term which,
by common usage, has come to EN-
brace the recovery Of goods, of what
ever nature, that have been placed
In jeopardy.
One thing is certain-there are but
rev words that awaken keener antici-
patton in the minds Of those who traf-
nc upon the deep than the magic term
SALVAGE when applied to the rescue
of vessels floating helpless or aban-
doned upon the waters. In sea par
lance the term has much the same sig
mficance as the word treasure troye''
has ashore.
Thfre are but few mariners who
put to s''a without the hope that they
may some day be fortunate enough
TO pick up a valuable craft in distress,
award. 10
Salvage is interesting from legal
standpoint. from the fact that it is
probably the only case in law where a
person may become liable to a. claim
upon him for services rendered to his
property without his consent, expressed
or implied. 1t also takes priority
over all other claims The amount is
oetermned by the admiralty court, and
IS dependent upon the peril involved
the nature Of the service, and the value
OF the property salved
curious point Of law, long OBJ
served, has but little weight TODAY in
determining salvage awards This rul-
ing was mat as long as any domesti-
cated animal. such as a dog, cat or
pig, remained alive on a derelict the
cra1t was not called abandoned, and
the salvage award was materially az
1ected by the circumstance.
The origin of this ruling is obscure
out the view probably taken in such a
case was that if the weather condi-
mons had ben exceptionally severe aft
er the abandonment of a vessel. al
NE would have persisted before the ar.
rival Of the salvors
=, seeking for disabled vessel. wher
Its location is not definitely known !,
much like the proverbial hunting 70,
a needle IN a haystack.' Within re.
cent years us many Of the fat sa1v. y
prizes along the North Pacific cossi
nave gone to tramp steamers that han.
pened along at the opportune mo.
ment as have fallen to the numerous
tusnoats that spend much of then
time cruising off shore.
W the causes that place a vessel ir
such predicament that it becomes ar
object of salvage. first and foremost a.
course, must be placed the force 81
WIND and wave. No matter how large
the vessel, it can never afford to bic
dehance to the elements, for without
warning something may happen t.
send 1t to the bottom or leave it float.
Ing HELPLESS derelict upon the face
of the waters.