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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-09-23
Appearances Deceive.

An old bachelor, who had long sought
to find q. woman who, as he used to say,
her in d railway carriage, aud took q seat
beside her. She was young and innocent
in appearance, aud after q short time the
bachelor so fly AZ hisnered to her: SIS
Z. Are you married y : -
81 IN e marriedn' she cried, In tones TINT
rang through the carriage stme married!
No, but I've sued d Teller for breach of
proniise. 8
,rhe bachelor leett the train at the first
stA tlon Bite.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-09-23

best presentati Ion of good material In sim
pie form; and in that sense 1t ID the best
and highest of living, The Introduction
of cookery as q branch Of our public
school training will start the conipp gem
6 Of S y the rs 81
5ent, next to q knowledge OF materials, is
for housekeepers to better understand the
zimllortancs:!of the high art Of simple
cookery. 81 81 4. 81 .. .a
Many d woman viii take infinite pains
in making cake who probably could Htn
tell Of the. vegetables in Common snse
Water a snSa Which Rs IN cold Wh Geh shoa G1
be sailed at first and which later, and
why; how each should be dressed fer sserV-
ing, and the difference in dressing them
when young and cid. Among shousekeel-
ers there are more good pie makers than
bread makers; twenty who make pretty
desserts to one who is expert In cooking
meats, and fifty who make fine cake to
one who understa nds good soup milking.
Do not, because you have kept house ten
twenty or thirty years, feel Your house.
wifely dignity would be compromised by
beginning all over again in,certain things,
for that is being progressive. A narrow
mined woman would not do it, be sure Of
that. The really useful knowledge yop
already possess will count for its full
value; your experiences in the non-essen-
tails is very desirab lea a supplement- to
more important knowledge. Of course you
can cook a potato. But how? When
you have really exhausted the fine art
of cooking potatoes you nave finished one
fundamental branch of splendid educa-
ton; There are Others of equal impor-
lance, and each alike necessary, If one
would be an Intelligent :housekeeper.'' 4
+ r. i.s IL :--TT---.sts, sfa..-E.t s&r. :
.z'' HOmc. ~ ri. :
:. Here lisa greeting for those at shoihe-
the home which many of us possess,
some Of us have missed, but for which
the doorstep his bed does not desire it
more than many a luxurious ;wHnderer in
foreign lands, whose very prosperity, it
may be-, has divorced him from the place
he once called by that dear name. The
child who strays from the. familiar door
weeps till be finds it again. the ,miaa ,who
leaves it feels himself d suppliant to fate
till he CAN once more speak thesiwoM my
tant Of life. Deprived Of it. she misses
her best happiness and her finest dignity.
Even her. beauty suffers, for It is true Gs
it not I? that part of a sWonian's lbYeliness
lies in her environment; and that; in her
chosen and fit surroundings she has a
charm which is lacking when she is 9th.
erWhere. home is, moreover, her field
Of enlargement her jousting ground the
Strength and her abili H as men test st
themselves in business or in battle: How
ever brilliantly: she may succeed elsewhere
and in other things, if She does not. sue.
coed at home, she is, iii d sense, a failure,
nor will her heart let her deny. this fact,
however passionately She; may sprotest
against ,,it:-W oman and the Home in
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No Wonder Wilhelmina is Loved.
"Erom earliest childhood" says Prof.
J. FL. Gore in the Ladies' Home Journal
I'M regard to the coronation of Holland S
llupaIlst :ttWilhnllalin1 haS
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towns that sprang up along the new railroads working westward. That was a trifie over thirty years ago. Not only did they work" the newcomers In these little boom towns, but they assiduously piled their nefarious trade on the emigrant trains bound west. At that period these trains were crowded with men who had their say ings wrapped around their bodies or secreted in some portion or thelr cloth- ing Card games, dice games, pledglng [ false articles, any kind of game even to plain robbery was played on the unwary and simple minded of these travelling folk; whatever game would relieve them of their little stores of money. At one time the set of sharpers was composed of such men as Canada Bill, George Duval, Tom Tracy, Dave McCord and Rebel George"
 With the westward construction of the Union Pacific from Omaha, Knowlton's operations increased in fre- quency In a short time the authori- ties considered him as hard a char acter as any with whom they had to deal He was a man fully 6 feet in height, of powerful build, and bore the reputation among his associates of having wo1fish propensities. Knowl- ton was feared by the weaker mem bers of the various gangs" as on different occasions he had severely
  Another habit of Knowlton was to frequently beat his associates in crime out of the plunder. This habit ac- quired for him the sobriquet of Rebel George" Some of hiss other aliases were Morgan, Rae, Harvey, Alexander and Bailey. Knowlton is the name under which he most ire quently travels.
 Drifting from the Northwest to the Southwest, Rebel George" worked through New Mexico and Arizona.
 About this time Knowlton joined forces with the murderer, confidence man and gold brick swindler, Lou Houcke. That worthy killed commer- cial traveller on a train not far from Columbus, O., after beating the drum mer out of all his money He escaped arrest and made his way to Arizona.
 The next trouble of serious nature that Knowlton met with was in Chey- enne, Wyo.. in 1883. There he was in dicted by the Grand Jury for working a confidence game in which he assumed his favorite guise, that of rich fur buyer
 Rebel George" left Cheyenne before however and landed in Sacramento. Here Knowlton assumed the alias of Roe and perpetrated heartless trick on an aged Canadian over 70 years old The old man was leaving Sacra- mento to return to his former home in Nova Scotia. With him he carried $16o, which was all the money he pos sessed in the world; it represented the savings of years of toll. ''Rebel George" made the old man believe that he also was going to Nova Scotia, and finally the scoundrel inveigled his vic tim to buy of him a worthless 5000 bond taking the last cent of the poor old mans hard earned little hoard in exchange for it. When the old man realized that he had been robbed the shock was too great for his aged mind His reason gave way and he spent the remainder of his days in a lunatic asylum.
 Rebel George" was speedily con- victed of the crime.
 After his pardon Knowlton attempt
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A MODEST AUTHOR.

TIM AND MRS. TIM-By R. T: Lance
 field. New York: The American News
 Company. For sale at DoXey s.
 This little book is a sort of social skit told in a very amateurish way. The, au- thor has evidently heard of Mrs. Caudle 5 famous curtain lectures, for he glves us something of similar kind, applied to American town life. MT Dim acquires the fatal club habit and entirely neglects his home. Mrs Tim talks to him until the reader grows tired of the whole busi- ness, and then, by way of revenge, takes to frequenting feminine clubs and socie- ties. This evens up matters, and of course there is a reconciliation at the end. The book is modestly. described on the covers as Witty, Sarcastic, lnstruc- tive" This is the only humorous remark to be found in the whole volume Fur ther we are told that it is "the nit or the season. Whom did it hit, and when and how? Wild, mendacious statements of this kind are sufficient to ruin any book at the outset of it's career, ana the author would do well to cultivate a httle Self-SuppreSsion.
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AN ITALIAN IN ENGLAND.
THE DAGGER AND THE CROSSE! Joseph Hatton. New York: R. F Fenno & co. For sale at the Elm

THE DAGGER AND THE CROSS-By
 Joseph Hatton. New York: R +.
 Fenno & Go. For sale at the Elm
 porfum.
 MT. Hatton is always thoroughly at home when dealing with English country life of the old-fashioned order, and Tn thls case he has added piquancy to ms story by introducing a strong contrast. An Italian artist is brought into a peaceful Derbyshire village in order to execute an altar piece for the Manor House, one ol those fine old dwellings of the Haddon Hall type, of which there are stlll lew to be seen in the English counties.
 A stronger racial contrast could hardly be imagined. and the peaceful DerDyshlre villagers, accustomed to the primitive rural life of the seventeenth century, do not at first take kindly to these swarthy, dark-browed aliens from across the seas. But love knows no distinction of race and class and the artist and his Italian com panions commence f1irtations with the VlI- lage belles, and all materials for intrigue and murder are at hand.
 Mir. Hatton handles his subject skill fully, one Italian murders another, and an innocent Englishman comes near be- ing hanged for the offense Fortunately as always happens in the good old melo- drama, the murderer confesses on his death-bed, and everything ends happily with the conventional marriage bells
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Cleve, 01zcAs 1y Whlch e Neecea Ms Wic~ films Out ofOhe1.
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satisfaction to be gained in placing & man behind the bars
 Frequently such a letter as the fol- lowing has been received by one of Knowlton's gold brick victims: My dear friend, you have been SWlndled by those who were apparently so solic- itous for your welfare But word to the wise is sufficient. Should you re- port your loss, you will be unable to find us, for we have left the country. Friends and neighbors, when they hear your story, will call you fool or slm- pleton. Your family will judge you mentally incompetent to handle your business and private affairs, and have a guardian appointed for you Silence about this matter will be to you more than golden"
 Minor business then occupied Knowl- tons attention until he was heard from in Los Angeles, less than year ago. There, with the aid of a companion, Anthony Mullen, alias Tony Kelly. Rebel George" obtained several thou sand dollars from J. w. Lord, Tor whom the town of Lordsburg was named, and G. Bowen, wealthy Eng lishman.
 This was the most elaborate scheme Knowlton ever worked He fitted up fine office in the Southern metropolis, and represented himself to be recently from the Alaskan gold fields. lie was introduced to Lord and Bowen py peo- pie of high standing in the community, who were confident that He was all honest old miner.
 .sRebel George" interested Lord. He pretended to have mining property or value in the northern country, put ne did not care to sell any or It, ne said. He claimed he had been in Alaska for years. and knew little of office ways he was a mining man, ana satisneo to be one and nothing more.
 Would he form a company? he was urged. We'll, some day he might en- certain such a proposition If any one should take an interest With him, he would prefer people Of standing, who would give a showing of stability to a company rather than people with money alone. Yes, he had brought some gold with him, and 1t was good gold, too. Perhaps he might sell some of that to raise a little money to be used at the mines. In fact he would rather like to sell few nuggets and would do so, to desirable parties, at considerable discount on their actual value
 And so the sale was made, but just exactly how and under what circum- stances, why secrecy was factor in the sale, who made the assays, or why the suckers refused to prosecute after Knowlton and Muller were ar- rested, has never been made public. Reasons there were, no doubt, but what they were has never been discov- cred.
 Lord and Bowen were like the Oak land victim. and although the confi dence men were captured In Seattle and returned to Los Angeles the prose cution fell through. Lord said from the witness stand that he considered Rebel George" his best friend on ac- count of the large amount of experi- ence which the confidence man had given him.
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Rsnua,kabh Career of "eber' Geo1ye Con>2aence an.

1 erton visited the City Prison. At the suggestion of member of the St. Louis force he stepped down the corridor to take look at the furswindler of whom the local detectives were all suspicious. As he reached the cell, he exclaimed
 Hello, George" and the answer came as readily, Hello, Bill" The prisoner was ''Rebel George" Pinkerton's s schooImate.
 Well" said the detective. where in sin have you been? We have been looking for you for some time."
 And the outcome of the discovery was that Rebel George" was taken to Washington, convicted of the crime for which he was wanted, and sentenced to serve two years in the States prison at Walla Walla.
 Again Rebel George" turned toward the Pacific Coast On his way to Cali fornia about four years ago he en- West to settle.
 As their acquaintance grew George stated that he was going West to join his partners, who were interested with him in one of California's richest gold mines.
 Soon after the travellers arrived in Oakland KnoWltOn and two associates had their plans laid to relieve the tour ist of his money. The Fastener was told of an Indian, who was one of the
 original owners of the mine, and had been compelled to sell out and accept a brick of virgin gold in exchange for his interest. The tourist further learned that the ignorant Indian would part
 with the gold brick for an amount of money far below it's actual value In response to an invitation from George and his confederates the stran- ger went with them to the Oakland
 City Cemetery one night. There they ~c | impersonating Poor To-" with the aid | of a Siwash makeup and a pair of In | dian blankets. After considerable par 1 ley, the bogus redskin consented to show his treasure to the stranger They
 retired to a secluded spot in the grave
 yard, and after digging in the ground | for a few moments, the Indian pro-
 duced the cube of yellow metal
 The brick was placed on the ground | before the Fastener, and KnoWlton
 bored into it with an auger The bor- ings were carefully brushed into an en-
 velope as they fell, and when enough
 borings had been obtained, the envelope
 was sealed and the victims name writ
 ten on it. The envelope was then | handed to him for safekeeping, or at least, he supposed it was
 | The truth of the matter was that at an opportune moment, when a quick exclamation from the Indian drew the l gudgeon's attention, an envelope con- | taining real gold borings was substi- tuted for the one in which the borings from the gold brick had been placed
 The next day an assay of the gold, no matter by whom it was made would of course have been satisfactory For safety. however, member of the gang, introduced as a Government assayer. | did the work The victim parted with
 his money, and in exchange for it re- ceived the brick, which proved to be of brass.
 Rebel George" was arrested, but the case involved such a large amount of money that it was not difficult to avoid prosecution. Very few men are will ing to refuse an offer of several thous- l and dollars restitution merely for the
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FOR PASSING NOTICE.

PAUL RALsToN-By Mrs Mary. J.
 Holmes. New York: G. w. Dilling-
 ham &, CO For sale at the Emporium. THE NEW MAN-By Ellis PaXson Ober-
 holtzer. Philadelphia: The Levytype
 Company.
 These are two novels which rise barely above the standard of mediocrity, and, therefore, require but passing notice. In Paul Ralston, Mrs. Holmes expands some commonplace incidents of a mining camp into nearly 400 closely printed pages. The story, such as 1t is, turns upon the threadbare theme of a murder and a false arrest, the hero, who occupies the title role, being, of course, the victim of malicious misrepresentation
 Of MT. Oberholtzers New Man." the less said the better. If this modern Adam be the work of the modern Eve, she had better betake herself to her spindle and distaff in all haste. Of plot there is none, and 1t is difficult to discover what attempt at story underlies the au- thor's pages of didactic verbiage. The moral seems to be that, if a man refuses to marry from a mistaken sense of duty to his descendants, his placid ladylove will
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ed to make a livelihood by honest means, in keeping with the promises of good behavior his wife had made for him. He received a position as trav- cling salesman for Sacramento firm and was highly recommended by his emloyers as a singularly efficient sales man. But a drummers life was too tame for him.
 At Pendleton, Or, Knowlton robbed a man of several hundred dollars, and was unable to escape the hand of the law.
 This victim was relieved of his cash by the simple old "top and bottom" game.
 For this job Knowlton was convicted and compelled to serve an eighteen month sentence in the Oregon State
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matter of time, however, before he would drift back into the old haunts of earlier days. and, knowing this, the detectives bided their time and waited for him. Finally he was captured in St. Louis, and there is an interesting story in regard to his capture.
 The St. Louis authorities arrested an elderly man of intelligent appearance on swindling scheme connected with the sale of furs. The police did not know who their prisoner was, but felt sure that they had more than an ordi- nary crook locked up. At that time a convention of Chiefs of Police was be- ing held in St. Louis. Among other notables in attendance was w. A. Pink erton of Pinkerton's National Detective Agency. During the convention Pink
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Sumner, Jefferson Davis A. H. Stephens, Douglas, Buchanan, Lincoln.
 Volume IV.-Grant, Andrew Johnson, Conkling, Blaine, B. F. Butler, Carl Schurz Garfield, Sherman, Cleveland, Harrison, Mckinley.
 As will be inferred from the title, the work, which is to be in several volumes, is based on the idea of presenting rapid survey of the great events of American history during the century now drawing to a close, by presenting in vivid outline the lives and characteristics of the chief statesmen who, whether for good or for i'll, have influenced American political life since March 4, 1891. To each states man included in the plan will be devoted a single chapter, wherein the scale and method of the portrait will be somewhat like that of the same authors work in his little book called Three Men of Let ters."
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her plot and she certainly makes the most of it. The scene is laid amid fa- miliar California surroundings. The hero, Rex Darlington, is a wealthy young resi- dent of Los Angeles. In his other state he is Gottfried Jagcr, a poor German artist and between the two characters he manages to surround himself with some very singular complications. AS Rex Darlington. the petted son of a wealthy mother, he lives a life of debauchery, and when he gets drunk, a frequent oc- currence, he turns automatically into the sober, hard-working artist, Gottfried. He dwells in humble lodgings, paints hard for his daily bread and generally conducts himself respectfully until after an inter val of uncertain length, his brain swings round and brings him back again to the personality of the vicious Rex.
 Probably this sort of thing might have gone on forever, and no one been any the wiser had not Gottfried, unknown of course to Rex, taken it into his head to fall ardently in love with charming lit tie music teacher, Constance Wilbur The courtship between the two is very prettily depicted; Constance, full of true maidenly feeling, stands out as the one strongly drawn character in the book. Then, in an unfortunate moment Gottfried paints a portrait of his lady love and having in the interval changed back to Rex, falls in love with the picture and purchases 1t from himself at a fabulous price.
 This leads to some rather humorous compncations, for the two rivals, striving vainIy to meet each other, indulge In much abusive correspondence. They even go so far as to challenge each other to mortal combat, but naturally the dual never eventuates. Of course to keep up this farcical condition of affairs an ac-
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K T ILL the wife of Rebel"
 A 1 George Knowlton succeed in
 IVY clearing him from the meshes
 V v of the law again? Time and
 again has that willy old con- f1dence operator been brought to the bar of justice, and time and again has his faithful wife procured means to help him out of jeopardy; time and again has he been behind the bars with long terms in store for him, and time and again has his steadfast and un- daunted wife besieged lawyers, jurors, judges and witnesses till she had oD- tained a pardon or a communication of sentence. The last notable case Of a pardon was when Rebel George" was convicted of swindling a half-demented old Canadian in Sacramento out of his small savings of a lifetime. Press, public opinion, evidence and everything appeared to be against the prisoner, but his plucky wife never stopped in her labor for his release till she car ried his pardon, signed by Governor Stoneman, to his cell and turned him loose again to work his nefarious games on the unwary.
 Up in Siskiyou County the officers of the law think they have netted Rebel George hard and fast on the charge of Swindling a Klondike proSpector out of several hundred dollars. How many times Rebel George" has been brought to the prisoners dock on just this kind of a charge Cnly the criminal calendars of a score of cities East and West can tell How many hundred simple gud- geons he has ffeeced nobody knows. Probably George himself cannot recol- lect them all any more than he can rec ollect the numbers of aliases he has used in business. For forty years he has piled the trade of confidence opera tor up and down the land, and in that time he has made a record as an in corrigible crook. Through it all his wife has stood by him as steadfastly as she is standing by him in his present plight
 Captain of Detectives Bohen says "Rebel George is the cleverest confi- dence man in the West. Chief Detect i've c. c. Crowley of the Southern Pa cif1c Company regards him as the fore most confidence operator in the world.
 With his quiet and sometimes al- most clerical dress, his long beard and ordinarily modest and retiring manner, one would invariably take Rebel George for a respectable old miner or rancher Even experts in crimin- ology would rarely select him as a mo- torious sWindler.
 Curiously enough, one of the early schoolmates of Rebel George" was w. A. Pinkerton, the well known Chicago detective.
 According to the police records the career of Rebel George Is hardly more than a succession of confidence games. When he wasn't in the meshes of the law the police gave him credit for being at the bottom of most of the mysterious confidence games they could not solve.
 Rebel George" first came to light among the crooks who worked" the
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Penitentiary at Salem.
 The wife knew nothing of her hus bands fall from grace. Not hearing from him in long time she started a search for him, and at last discovered that he was again behind the bars.
 When Knowlton had served his time he made no pretense of reform ation. but went to Seattle and com menced his confidence games as un- concernedly as of old. Assisted by confidence man named John Russell, Knowlton swindled a man out of S6Ooo by selling him a gold brick.
 Both crooks escaped from the State. and for some time Rebel George was not heard from. It was afterward dis covered that he had gone to Mexico or Central America. It was only 9