The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-06-19
GOSSIP FOR THE LADIES
One Heart.

B One Heart.
j sometimes linger DER the list Il =. -
e Of frlands lost In other days, +
And still the question with me stays
When am gone shall j be missed r. e 4
Il doubt II others think the same,
M Or even Wish to share MY tl,0Ught---s@s@ =
That men were foolish who have sought
TO leave q never-dying name.
hnu tn Mt hast mat rnn thine earthly race
nor VIII men come In after years
TO view thine earthly resting-place.
Thy poor remains will rest as well,
Thy spirit will be no less free,
Although 1t Ii not thine to be
Milton ora Raphael
Fret not thyself, but heaven thank
II all the good that thou canst do
May pc so done that only few
Need ever know thy place is blank
BE thankful II but one TRUE heart
snail feel for thee the moments balm
Ere 1t can say 1--WE meet again.
of knowing what 1t is to part.
One loving heart thou mayest crave.
Lest all thou caredst for ON earth
shou!d seem to have no lasting worth
ana END forever in the grave.
One faithful heart beneath the sky,
II which to leave d seed Of love,
Io blossom IN world above
ANA bear fruit which shall not die
Chambers Journal.
Mrs. Kate Chase sprague a Market Gar
dener.
1t has been only Il few years since
Mrs. Kate Chase Sprague was one of
the most prominent figures in Washing
ton society. and the announcement that
now She has turned market gardener
and will attempt to support herself by
raising vegetables is il curious illustra-
ton of the changes i'll fortune that may
come III less than the space of a short
lifetime. She is brilliant woman whose
whole. life has been passed in close as
ISOLATION with the most gifted men and
women in this country. The daughter
OF Chief Justice Chase. she was his
trusted friend and companion. sharing
his political dreams and ambitions. In
his ho1se in Washington she gathered
together what was the nearest approa oh
to the Partisan salon that America has
ever known. The politicians and lead
ing men Of all parties frequented it, and
among them all she reigned queen by
right of her beauty and brilliance.
Her marriage to the wealthy Gov.
Sprague was considered fitting climax
to such a girlhood but unfortunately it
turned out most unhappily, and resulted
in divorce.
After her divorce Mrs. Sprague re-
tired to Edgewood, a suburb of Wash
ington, the country home of Chief JUS
tice Chase. Edgewood is not far from
the Soldiers Home. 1t was an estate
bought in 1869 from Thomas Magruder.
who built the house. 1t is an old-fash-
Toned place. Mrs. Sprague has been liv-
ing in retirement, endeavoring to cult
vate the land around Edgewood to com
bat the financial ruin that for years had
been threatening her. Ethel Chase
Sprague, her Oldest daughter and sec
ond child, who went on the stage, is a
member of Richard Mansfeld's com
pany. The second daughter. who is
said to resemble her mother in looks and
temperament, has been her mothers
companion.
The payment by the friends of Kate
Chase and her father of the mortgage
that was about to be foreclosed now
puts a woman much beset by misfortune
on her feet, and she proposes to turn her
attention to truck farming and raise
vegetables, chickens and eggs for the
capital, where good living is one of the
principal recreations from the affairs of
state.-Exchange..