The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-07-14
LONDON SEASON WAVES.
'Brltons Preparing to Go to the
Country Much Earlier than
Usual This Year.


Country Much Earlier than
Usual This Year.
London, July S.-Although few great
| balls are still in sight, the London season
| is already waning. People are fitting in
| to the country much earlier than usual.
Next week will be given over to New
| market, where there are numerous house
parties for the second July meeting. Dur
| ing the following week the season winds
up with the Duchess Of Portlands ball.
| There are still several fashionable wed
dings in prospect, the most notable being
that Of the Earl Of SALISBURY and Lady
| Constance Grosvenor who will have if
| teen bridesmaids, while many persons
are looking forward with great interest
to the reception to be given by the Duke
and Duchess Of Sutherland at Stafford
house, July rs, to the members Of the
Anglo American league and their friends.
| at which Joseph H. Choate, the United
| States ambassador, and Mrs ChOate,
and many prominent Americans and
English will be present.
| After long period of mourning Mrs.
John w. Mackay has reopened her beau
tiful house on Carlton House terrace.
She. gave two big dinners during the
!
music.
| London has been much enlivened dur
ing the week by the visit Of the officers
| and large number Of cadet belonging
| to the United States training ship Mo
nongahela, who have been spending five
| days leave at the Mctropole. encrgeti-
cally sight seeing riding in electric cars
and generally enjoying themselves.
| Celebration Of the Fonrth.
| The Fourth of July was never so uni
versally celebrated by the Americans i'll
| London as was the Fourth Of Tuesday
| last. In addition to the celebrations at
the Hotel Cecil and the United States
embassy, there were larg" number of
| private luncheons. dinners and river par
ties. Mr.. and Mrs. John Meiggs Even
of Chicago took large party of Ameri-
cans i'll steam launch from their place
at Datchet to Maidenhead. while the
employees Of the Commercial Cable com
pany, with George Ward of New York,
| general manager of the company cele-
| brated in a similar manner on big
launch gaily bedecked with American
flags.
| Thursday was speech day at Harrow.
the first under the new head master. DIR.
Wood. and it attracted great crowd Of
Distinguished people to the school.
| Thursday afternoon the last meet OF
Horse Guards parade. 1t was undoubt-
eddy the smarte>t of the season. There
| were twenty-five coaches in line.
The Duke Of Marlborough team was
greatly admired. He was accompanied
by the duchess, Lady Norah Churchill
and Lord Cairns. In the evening nc-
Cured the Duchess Of DevOnShire's ball,
within the beautiful grounds of Devon
shire house. with illuminationS and >n,,-
| per tent eXartly the same as on the oc-
| caSlon Of the famous Jubilee fancy dress
ball. 1t proved to be the most brilliant
OF the season. The musicale given by
Mrs. Alfred Harmsworth. the same even
ing, attracted crowd of fashionable peo-
pie to the Grafton galleries. whose spa
cious rooms We're decorated with such
wealth of roses as never before seen
III London. The programme. which was
also on the most lavish scale. included
PaderewsH. Coquelin. Leonora Jackson.
David Bispham, Susanne Adams and
Maurice Farkoa.
Senator Hanna Interviewed.
Senator Mark Hanna says he regards
former Congressman John De Witt
Warmers announcement of him and 9TH
er prominent men before the Brooklyn
| Democratic club. Tuesday night. as ca
bled here, as being due to disappoint
ment. He adds that it could only have.
gained the public ear through its extrav-
agancc. that when he speaks of Han
mas syndicateS' he knows b., talks non
sense. while when he uses the names of
Gen. Eagan. Capt. Carter and Secretary
Alger to "di>credit President McKin-
ley American good sense "simply
swiShes it aside as clal-trap.
Mr.. Warner. however, the senator
continued. strikes other ground in prais-
ing the Filipino$, and greatly mistake
my countrymen. if, when the time ar
rlves. they do not both clear Congress of
the kind of patriotism exemplified by
Mr.. Warner and sweep the rebels out Of
every nook in the Philippines
Theatrical Goss p.
In spite of the many counter attrac-
tons and the hot weather NEST of the
theaters Jared we'll this week An
American Citizen" is doing 50 we'll at the
Duke of 1ork'S theater that Nat Good
win will pro!on: its run.
AS Il souvenir of the performance at
Windsor July i. when Grau'S company
presented the opera of III Pagliacci' b.
fore large gathering of royalties. the
Queen has presented Maurice Grau with
a handsome silver nkStand with the roy
al monogram and mas III, scented S izannc
Adams with gold bracelet with the
Queens initials.
Owing to the shock of AugnStin Dalv'S
death Ada Rehan will he unable to UNI
dertake the leading part i'll the Drury
Lane drama especially >,itten fo- he.
by Cecil Raleigh 1t is hoped. E,weve.
that Miss Rehan will be arle to appear
at Drury Lane i'll 4 Sh,it ShakeSp"are;,n
season next spring.
The Impression Daniel Webster Made
Upon His Contemporaries.
In one respect Daniel Webster is the
most striking figure i'll our history. and
A. H.,
all history. That is, in the impression
be made Oh everybody-that, great as
were his achievements, he WAS himself
greater than his greatest achievement.
Franklin. Webster and Emerson are
the three great New Englanders. Each
of them was a great public teacher II
Webster did not lack. at least he did not
manifest, Franklins wonderful common
sense, as applied to common things and
common life. He had not Emerson's
profound spiritual discernment or won-
derful poetic instinct. But his intellect
have excavated the great rocks ut the
surface. you know there is an ineXhau>t-
IDLE supply left. When he died. the peo-
pie felt as if the cornerstone of the CAPT
toll had been removed; as if the elephant
had died that bore the universe on his
back.
Emersons portrai1ufe of Webster at
Bunker Hill is made up of a few strokes.
But it reveals the whole secret. Great
as were the things that Webster said.
profound as was his reasoning, lofty AZ
are the flights of his Imagination. stir
ring as are his appeals to the profound
est passions Of his countrymen. there is Il
constant feeling that love is behind these
thunderbolts. That is the contrast be-
tween him and so many other orators.
Even in Choate and Phillips you are ad-
miring the phrase and the elocution. and
not the men. In Webster you are think
| ing of the man. and not the phrases
The best things that he said do not seem
to his listener to be superior, and rarely
seem to his listener to be equal, to the
| man who said them. There is plenty of
| reserve power behind
. Half his strength he put not forth.
| but checked
| His thunder in mid-volley.
Senator George +. Hoar, in Scribner's.
| Wanted to Get Even.
| Tho friopI found tho ,,ro%+r r;rl