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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-03-18

revolution broke out--that there had
been no need for the people to act with
violence, that he had intended all along
to grant them the liberties they desired.
IL had done nothing people would have
said, Now the affair il finished; Ester
hazy has been acquitted. Let us say
nothing more about it. / had to keep the
agitation going, because nobody with any
sense Of justice and of humanity can rest
until this fearful error has been rectified,
Az to, the consequences to myself, in the
first place, je men m0que, and, secondly,
they cannot be very serious. With re-
gard to the criminal prosecution, the pen
alties imposed by the law are not very
heavy, and as to the other suits that are
brought against me, l know that it is not
the wish Of the government to drive me
to extremes. From q pecuniary point of
view l am Indifferent to consequences
and supposing that an attempt to ruin
me were successful, which can hardly be,
l have had offers Of support from numer-
Gus friends. and did this week receive
such an offer from correspondent in
Switzerland. I have no knowledge and
no care what effect my act will have on
the sale of my books. l have never in
my books sought after anything but the
truth. My life shall be as my books, an
ardent quest for truth and for JUSTICE
From IN. lola on French Anti-Semi-
tism," an interview by Robert H. Sher-
ard in American Monthly Review of Re-
viawS
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-03-18
Liability Of EMPLOYERS.

The employers liability act, which goes
into effect in England July l, embraces
all persons engaged in any employment to
which the act applies, Wv neither by manu-
al labor or otherwise" thus including of
ficials, clerks and assistants. and as The
new measure extinguishes the doctrine of
''common employment" as well as the de-
Tense of contributory negligence, and the
application of the maxim Of "volenti non
fit injuria,", heretofore relied upon by EN-
ployers, the only defense will be the
:serious and willful misconduct" of the
workman himself. Half wages must be
paid to persons incapacitated for work by
injury, and in case of death the minimum
compensation is three years wages when
dependents are left who were wholly de-
pendent upon the earnings of the de-
ceased; when partly dependent the assess
ment is proportionately reduced; and
when there are no dependents maximum
of $50 is allowed for medical and funeral
expenses, all of which will react seriously
upon the employment of married men.
Employers are already preparing to Or
ganize mutual insurance companies u di-
vide the liability.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-03-18
SleDt All Winter
Mount VernOn's Guard.

Edward Parker, the little old colored
man who occupies the sentry box at the
tomb of Washington at Mount Vernon.
lives in Washington. That is, his family
lives here, and he comes over by special
permit of the organizati ton which has con-
troll of the old home of the first President
of the United States.
For years the tomb of Washington has
been constantly before this old colored
mans vision. He has never missed a day
from that dingy sentry box since Mount
Vernon passed into the charge of the Ia
dies, and before that, dating from 1871,
he had lived on the place. He was q slave
of John Washington, and is the last of the
old servants now living.
Every other Saturday Parker comes
over to Washington, always carrying with
him an old-fashioned carpet bag, so com
mon in the days of reconstruction. The
following Monday morning he may al
ways be seen half-hour at least before
the first train starts for Mount Vernon,
waiting around the corner of Pennsyl-
vania avenue and Thirteenth street. He
has never missed the first train since the
electric cars began running to Mount
Vernon. Before that the first boat to
Mount Vernon, OH alternating Monday
mornings, always found him a passenger.
Parker is, indeed, Il character. He as
sisted in burying the last person con-
signed to the vault i'll Washington's tomb.
After that the key to the vault was
thrown into the Potomac. This was in
the early fifties.-Washingto Star.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-03-18
Self-mado Men,

Christopher Columbus was the son of 4
weaver and also weaver himself.
Claude Lorraine was a common soldier,
Homer was the son of a farmer. De-
mosthenes was the son of a cutler. Oil
YER Cromwell was the son of a brewer.
Howard was an apprentice to a grocer.
Franklin was journeyman printer and
son Of tallow chandler and soap boiler.
a butcher. Cardinal Wolsey was the son
of butcher. Lucian was the son of a
maker of statuary. Virgil was the son Of
a porter. Horace was the son of shop
keeper. Shakespeare was the son of a
wool stapler. Milton was the son of a
money SERVER. Pope was the son Of a
merchant. Robert Burns was the son of
q plowman in Ayrshire
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-03-18
Criminal Journalism.

For nearly two weeks something like
half of the newspapers in the chief cities
Of the United States have exhausted ev-
cry resource of Journalism in the wicked
effort to lash popular sentiment into de,
mand for war over the Maine calmity.
The two rival yellow papers of New
York have We'd with. each other in the
manufacture of verbal and pictorial war
views and news. They have given their
special correspondents from Havana
and in every capital of Europe carte
blanche to cable every odd and end of ru-
NOR calculated to inflame American opin
ion on this subject. In a worthy cause
the energy and ingenuity of the New
York World and New York Journal would
have been admirable beyond praise. In
the selfish, sordid and base pursuit of
circulation. in Unreasonable menlacity,
in startling violation Of the responsibilities
of journalism, the course Of these two
journals has been a criminal betrayal Of
their trust.-Chicago Evening Post. -
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-03-18
outward BY turning the rod and adjusting

the sockets,
our present supply Of strontiuln,
principally employed IN the manufacture
of fireworks, comes chiefly from Ger
many. Lately it has been reported that
a large bed of strontiuln has been dis
covered at Put-in- Bay island. and Ameri-
can manufacturers are looking fora de-
scided reduction in price.
&C., The most remarkable book in the
world. SO far as it's appearance is con-
eerned, is neither written nor printed, 1t
is in the imperial library of Paris, and
the letters are cut out of tissue paper
With pair Of scissors. A sheet of blue
tissue, in which the letters are cut, is
placed between two pages Of white, and
so the matter is read. - + =.
in East Indian schools mental arith-
Metlc is 4 vastly more serious matter
than it is in the schools of this country.
Cach questions are numerous in the ORR
emit, and the multiplication table is swol-
len inta 4 mountain of difficulty by ma
tive teachers. Pupils of 10 years are
taught to carry the multiplication tn bic
up to forty times forty.
-Vizcaya is not a name of good omens,
The lost vessel bearing that name which
attracted the attention of Americans pre-
vious to. the cruiser was the Spanish
steamer Vizcaya, from New York to Ha-
vana, which was sunk in collision off
Baraegat, in 1890, carrying down with
her many Of her passengers and sailors.
Sizcaya is way the Spanish have of
spelling Biscay.
DIR. Dawson, chief of the Dominion
geological survey, in an estimate of the
amount of gold obtained from the Yukon
district of Canada. laid before the House
of Commons at Ottawa. places the total
at $4.10o,5oO. Or this, $2,5OO,0OO was
mined in 1887, 100000 in 1886, $3.50
600 in 1895, $125,OOO i'll 1894, $4,000
in 1893. $S7 600 in 1892, $40, 900 in 1891,
STE, 600 in 1890, $175.O6O in 1850, and
various small sums prior to that time.
Our pension list exceeds ali Ger
many'S army costs by more than $4O,-
10000 Il year, and is $3O,OOO,O 900 more
than that of France. Only Russia's mil
itary expenditures upon her giant army.
patrolling Europe and Asia, from the
Baltic to the Yellow sea and the Indian
ocean, exceed the sum which, thirty years
after the close of the war. we still an
nually pay over to our pensioners. Rus
sia's military burden, all told, is $176,-
$4,000; our pension list is not quite
puua( to this
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-03-18
Wonderful Arresian Well.

The attention of the United States bu-
reau of animal industry has been called
to the remarkable qualities of the water
which flows from an artesian well situat-
ed on the ranch of Col G.. NJ. Terrell,
two miles north of San Antonio, Tex.
Experiments with the water show that it
is sure preventive Of Texas or splenetic
fever, and it is probable that dipping
station for all South Texas will be es-
tablished at the well. When the water
was first struck the large pasture in
which it is located was filed with cattle,
al Of which were covered with the fever
tick. A short time after they had COM
menced drinking the water it was found
that the animals were entirely free from
ticks. The water has temperature of
1O6 degrees, and has peculiar medicinal
qualities, which prove beneficial to the
animals when dipped. In all the dipping
experiments heretofore made, a chemi-
cally prepared water was used which
was very injurious to the stock, and for
that reason cattle-dipping has not come
into general practice. Ut NJ. ). r.az
The artesian well here is 1900 feet deep
and has q flow of 800, 600 gallons per day.
It's principal constituents are sodium sui
plate, calcium sulphate aud calcium chic
ride '@ ny.9, - ss IIGlI.EF l.
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well us the advantages, of any scheme.
1t gives leisure to get acquainted with
the whims and foibles, the politics and
religion. the meanness md prejulices of
the beloved one, as we'll ass the great big
virtues to which he will call your atten-
ton himself. If, after you have thought
the matter over that long, you are still Of
the opinion that he is the only man in the
world for. you, 60 ahead with the we'd
ding. 1t Is pretty apt to be an affection
that will stand the wear and teQr of
everyday life, and not the kind that will
show signs of frizzling ont around the
edges before you get through the honey
moon. But don't get married on the spur
of the moment. Take time to think it
over. III -"..f> T.. g.. ~ s: 4.'5sz<
Most Of our extravaganza comes from
the same cause. We are attracted by. a
novelty, or something that has been
marked down from 81 to 90 cents catches
our eyes, and we purchase it, and in the
calm hour of reflection and repentance
that follows bargain hunting we wonder
what on earth made us do it. We have
no place to put it, no possible use for it.,
while we can think of dozen other needs
for the money it costs. 1t is always the
same story. We didn't take time to think
1t over. ~
We join societies of whose objects we
are ignorant, we commit ourselves to
get into difficulties that. like Humpty
Dumpty's we'll, are so deep it takes all The
kings horses and the kings men to draw
us out again, and all because We don't
give ourselves time to think. We do it on
impulse and repent at leisure.
Saddest of all our mistakes are things
we say in haste. We don't think, and we
say a cruel word, or start some little
scandalous story on it's round, and n1ill-
ing i'll heaven or earth can undo the
wrong we have done. Who has not said
something idly, unmeaningly, that they
would have given worlds to have recalled
the minute it was uttered. but it was too
of saying that you did not take time to
think. Alas! that fate, like the mercifu!
judge, does not give us six months time
to think over our mistakes and follics.
and to make reparation for them.-Phila-.
delphia Times.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-03-18
Time To Think II Over.

Not long ago the newspapers told of
woman who, in fury over wrongs that
were partly real and partly imaginary,
appealed to the courts to set her free from
her marriage vows. The judge before
whom the case was tried, after hearing
the evidence on both sides, exercised q
power he had under the law, but which
had never before been used, and granted
d separation for six months III which the
parties to the suit might have time to
think it over, and see if there was not
some way in which they might become
reconciIed. ;g "a : Is 8 ~.
- Such man is second Daniel come to
judgment, and such decision is beyond
value, if only as precedent Time to
think it over! What world of misery
we might save ourselves; what mistakes
we might have avoided; what unavailing
regrets we might have prevented, if only
we had taken time to think it over. Men,
as well as women, do things on the spur
Of the moment that they spend the ball
ance of their lives in repenting, but wom-
en- are 50 peculiarly the victims Of their
impulses. one is often tempted to wish
that some sort of al injunction could be
gotten out restraining them from taking
any irreyocable step until after they had
time to think it over .:4SS;a.
It is, of co1rse, platitude to say that
If they took time to think marriage over
before the wedding instead Of afterwards
that the divorce court would cease to- be
necessity. Six months gives one time
tor q good long think dispassiou
confederation of the disad Yantsge as
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-03-18
SIXTY POUNDS OF NUGGETS.
The Graves Brothers Arrive with SI6,-
900 Worth of Raw Gold.

900 Worth of Raw Gold.
A record of S1G.WD for the labor Of
two men working for four weeks amid
California pines is not calculated to in
| spirr trips to the auriferous ice fields Of
| the Yukon. says the San Francisco Cali.
| No. the Graves brothers and Henry
Carter are not going to the klondikc.
They have just come out from Coffee
creek. Trinity county. ON another trip to
| the mint. and they arrived yesterday OH
| the train from Redding. which brought
| in the express car about sixtytw" avoid
dupois pounds of yellow gold fresh from
| the famous Blue Jay mine.
| Their return with another star story of
| California mining recalls the sensation Of
| last August. which made these men and
! the Blue Jay mine famous. There were
| the eight years of patient prospecting
mixed with work for wages to kccI, the
pot boiling. the long intermittent trailing
| of evidences of pocket mine in Morri-
son guich the sudden finding of thou
sands. and then the strike few feet I'M
derground of the worlds biggest nugget.
about four feet long. though it was
broken up in getting it out The boys
said they took out $4,000 altogether
| from one 15-foot tunnel. and then fol-
lowed the Coffee creek rush. which re-
| suited. Of course. in several hundred be-
ing disappointed and diSgusted and 4
few finding prospects which may turn
out to be valuable.
When the Graves boys Went lack they
bought new huggies and watches. and for
some reason or other hest known to them.
selves they didn't do any more, work i'll
the Blue Jay until last month Mean
time John Graves had put up xawnIiI.
where Coffee creek eInpticS intH the Trim
ity river. about sixty miles from the rail-
road. and has been getting out lumber.
| while Richard Graves and Henry Carter
| resumed ooera tons at the, mine FIX,
| three hold placer claims OH Morrison
| gulch amounting to over ninety acres.
and ON this ground they have two quartz
claims: one the Blue Jay. 4 blind ledge
of refractory ore was found. and accom-
panyins it a peculiar vein of soft matter.
hearing black manganese. tale etc. This
soft vein is full of pockets, and the gold
has been taken in chunks of all sizes
from it as the tunnel has followed it,
when Dick and Carter went to work
again about five weeks ago they started
a tunnel down on a level with the creek.
fifty feet below the other ONE said John
Graves yesterday. ''They found the first
gold before they had got in three feet and
as they went, and the tunnel is in forty
feet. The biggest piece is worth about
$500, and it is all sizes from that down
! to dust. which was PANIED out at the
creek. The quartz III the ledge is four
feet thick. anu that | reckon to be worth
$1,000 ton on the average, but we
haven't worked any of it yet. VIII put
up some sort of mill this year and will
| sink Il shaft from the tunnel We've got
as good Kloldike as We want
| Bars. a paddock and a Waterman in a
cabin guard the Blue Jay tunnel while
the lucky owners take 4 weeks vacation
in the city and cash their raw gold.
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One Of Ltfe's Misfortune q.

Never mind. father, blindness shall
not interfere with my success in life,' said
the young law student, Henry Fawcett,
when his father reproached himself for
carelessly destroying all his sons pros
poets Of advancement
Zone pleasant day in 1868 the two had
gone hunting together. a flock of part
ridges flew over a fence where the father
had no right to shoot: but as he was NOV
ing forward. they flew back toward his
SON.. The father, so eager to bring down
bird that he did not think of his son S
danger. fired. Several shots entered
Henry's breast, aud one went through
each glass Of q pair of spectacles he Wore.
In aIs instant he was stone blind for life.
But within ten minutes from the time
Of tie accident which deprived him Of
eyesight forever this hoy Of iron nerve
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-03-18
Feminine Martvrs.

sAAsAAAAO "A@ESyHOs
Why do women deliberately 60 to work
to cruelty their feelings? They are con-
stantly getting OH boards" and as surely
getting into hot water. They never rest
easy until they have been made president
of this or secretary of that. The fatal
step taken they set about to see how they
can worm out of the. position.
They court trouble in mistaken efforts
to become philanthropists. Tolls spread
their unwary steps and from the hour
of their ENHANCEMENT they are strangers
to happiness. The whist tend, for in
stance, is their undoing, the petty jeal-
ousies of the card table compelling them
to swallow many bitter social pill.
Their poor hearts are torn with an.
guish over the fancied Sights, and sights
that are real if ever asked to work in
unison with other energetic souls. |
squabbling in depressing fashion over Il
charity. A concert was OH hand. Ev-
erybody wanted to be boss The meeting
at an end a selected coterie of injured
spirits put their heads together and al
lowed their tongues jolly word race
How they did traduce, not each other
They pointedly referred to themselves as
lish 'roped into the horrid old thing"
Lately it has been my misfortune tc
receive the confidence of a number OF
whist players. Not woman of them
but worked with might and main to be
elected as member of her club. Il
seems the ordeal is something terrific be
fore one can enter a really crack whist
club.
Now they arc in they are longing tc
get out. The way the members tall
about each other is something wild ani
awful. Never is game played thai
feminine feelings are not torn to tatters
Being a candidate for any Office is q
dangerous experiment unless the woman
running has nerves of steel and a sou
as free from sensitiveness as an Indi,
rubber plant.
Talk about the men not being able t.
say No, to each other. We hem ant
haw and against our better judgment
we finally yield to opportunities which
compel us to do the things we would
dearly love to leave undone. This cuts
us off from doing the things we woulG
like to do: Then there is trouble.-Bos
ton Herald.
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NJ, Zola on Hts Trial.

With regard to his present position
Zola is supremely confident. II had to
net as have done, otherwise matters
might have been allowed to drop, and
that was what, as a firm believer in the
Innocence Of Dreyfus, could not allow.
Liter on people will say, Z he government
meant to grant q fresh trial, and there
Has no need for sszola to be 90 yiolent.'
That III what Louis IS v ]. said M Nm he
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No Female Voice in 81. peter,.,

There is not single woman's voice in
ths choir Of IS. Peters at Rome. and yet
music ever written are rendered there in
such manner that one might ina CINE
Adelina PATHS high soprano to be lead
ing, There are sixty boys in the choir
and they arc trained from the time they
get control over their vocal cords. Some
.of the best singers are little boys OF
years Old t the ase OF 10 the boys
lS6yx The choir, M
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-03-18
The Rise of II State

The Denver Times calls attention to the
fact that only seven years ago. about the
time of the Barring panic. the first par. of
what is now Oklahoma was thrown open
to settlement. Two years later in the
midst of the panic of 1893. the Cherokee
Outlet was added and the throngS is set
tiers who rushed there to get a last slice
of Uncle Sans farms revealed the land
hunger of the people.
Oklahoma now embraces about half of
what is known on the map as the Indian
territory. The tribes still retain the other
half. But the Oklahoma half of the com
ing state already contains 275,OO0 people.
or more than Montana. Wyoming and
Idaho combined. 1t is assessed for So
100000. Rea lvalue. S10O.00OOOn. Last
year it produced 2U.mn.GOO bushels of
wheat and 100000 bales of cotton 1t
was settled during the depression and the
people are not in debt.
SiIvnr nnnnv oI0 voorx old still in
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Mary's Lamb.
A Knife Grinders Useful Dog.

There is a one-legged knife grinder in
town who is particularly proud Of his
dog. and no wonder. for the intelligent
animal aids him greatly in his daily toll.
The man plies his trade in Southwark.
and it was formerly his custDm-bis Grip
pied condition preventing him from work
ing pedal-to pay stray youngsters to
turn his wheel for him. This. of course.
greatly cnrtailed his profits. SO BE- set
about training Il Newfoundland to take
their place The canine pupil was aid
and is now installed as his masters resn-
lar assistant The rrindstone is very
small one. and by standing on two boxes
the dog is able t" rear,l! the handle and
-philadplphia REGARD
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had determined that even blindness
should not swerve him from his purpose
"'Will you read the newspaper to meT
were his first words to his sister When
they carried him home.
'Hc was obliged to abandon law. but
he began the study Of political economy
with zeal rarely egualed, meanwhile
having friends ~kead to him III bis mo-
ments of leisure the works Of Milton.
Burke, Wordsworth all of Geerge ELECTS
novels, and wide cOtlrse Of general lit
erature, for he was determined that his
blindness should not limit the breadth Of
his cul1ure''-Success.
Mary'S Lamb.
The one single contribution OF not, thaf
America has made to this tIeref-.i. ing
literature of childhood is The trhe story of
Mary and Her Little Lamb. Perhaps il
is because of its truth that it has taspp
such strong hold upon the popuIaf
fancy, for some of the verses are crude
enough. written as they were by young
John RolIston, bog student at the same
Massachusetts school attended seventy
years ago by Mary and her devoted pet,
But the poem was completed long after
the demise of the sheep, by Mrs. Sarah
Hall, a quite celebrated author: Ihaf ITS
admirers are legion WAS shown at . fair
in Boston, as many will remember. 4
stocking knitted from the woven fleece Of
the famous lamb was rayeled out and
pieces sold with the autograph of Mary.
then an aged lady. attached: and so great
was the demand that $40 was thus Won
for the Old South chuFrh-Agues Carr
Sage in March LppincVtts.