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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-07-14
The Girls the Country Needs.

these are commencement days, and in
thousands of schools all over the country
sweet girl graduates are receiving blue
rlbboned diplomas and being harangued
on "Woman's Influence" and "Woman's
Duty and all the immemorial platitudes
deemed suitable to the occasion. Ages
ago, at time when the memory of man
rl!nneth not to the contrary. the pattern
OF the commencement Grafton was cut,
and though now and then it has been
more frilled with sentiment and EN-
broldercd with flowers of fancy on one
occasion than another, no one has dared
to materially alter it, and it remains the
most 1mmutable and unsatisfactory thing
Of life.
"A woman commencement orator has,
however. arisen in the person Of Mrs,
Russell Sage, who sets all the sacred ira
ditions at naught. There is in New York
an admirable philanthropic institution
which furnishes free instruction in sew
ing to girls, and which stamps them
when they finish it's course as "competent
dressmakers,' and it was to these girls
that Mrs: Sage made her little speech.
She didn't, after the manner of other
commencement speakers, generalize all
over history and political economy and
then adduce the fact that it was a wom-
ans duty to stay in her own sphere,
and be contented there no matter how
uncomfortable she was. Neither did she
waste any time in abstract speculations
about woman's right to work, and to
make for herself any career she could.
She was addressing class Of working
girls who had served their apprenticeship,
and learned their ofession, and she
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-07-14
Vest Ready to Greet Vestcott

7 Here's good pun by Senator Vest,
when a gentleman by the name of West
colt sent in his card: Il do not know the
gentleman" said Vest, ''but judge from
his name that he must be a relative Of
mine" s. ss5<5 .S ! ~. a1x. - '.1
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-07-14
Woman in the. BuaiueSa World

l have never found a woman battling
her way in the world who has not grown
more sympathetic with human suffering,
more patient with the little trials of life,
more lenient and forgiving with the err
ing, and more appreciative Of home and
family ties. Independence, self-reliance
and the adoption Of honorable business
methods need not destroy the inherent
gentleness Of wOmans nature, uniting
her for the exalted station of al affec-
tomato wife and tender mother. And as
the lessons Of the practical realities of
life must come sooner or later, must be
learned by most women, If they be
learned in early womanhood, the dream
life displaced by real life, no rude
awakehings'' to the world as it is awaits
trials and disappointments that confront
business and professional men the wife
can more fully appreciate the wear upo11
the nervous system due to the constant
grind Of daily cares. Knowing the real
work of life, she becomes d COMPANION
indeed, fully approaching the joys Of stic-
cess and the disabpointments Of failure
sharing in both alike with her husband,
and when thus approaching the feeling of
nervous exhaustion and irritableness she
quietly passes over these manifestations,
which to the inexperienced woman often
prove the beginning Of enlargement, as
between such and a detected husband
there can be but little real companion
snip and sympathy.-Emma Leonidas
Nelly IN the Woman's Home Companion.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-07-14
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6 GOSSIP FOR THE LADIES. !
Observation-Disclosures

sent them on their way with these words
needs YOU"
1t was worth a million Of the rhetorical
bouquets that the girls in other schools,
from Vassardown to the Squeedunk acad-
envy, are having flung at them, and the
fact that it was addressed to a~lass
OF dressmakers is the mercst detail. It's
truth Is far and away broader than that,
and brings home to every girl that she.
as much us her brother, has duties Of
citizenship, and that her country has
need of her as we'll as him.
That the country has need Of good
dreSsmakers is self-evident fact that
millions Of women struggling with in,
Competent scamstresses will not deny.
mat it has need of good cooks the hosts
or dyspeptics equally testify. 1t has no
less need of the college girl with her
higher and broader education to keep
alive the love Of learning for learnnp's
sake, and inspire high ideals of culture ia
every community. 1t has need of the
girl athlete to preach her crusade of good
health and to teach hosts OF complains
ing and ailing women that they need ex-
crclse and fresh air and good food in
stead of drugs. And above all it needs
the girls who are not going into any
profession, who do not have to earn their
bread, but who are needed to make good
homes, where intelligence and thrift shall
reign instead Of disorder and wasteful-
ness. At every turn of life there is a
pressing demand for the competent work
of competent women to help on the
worlds progress. Girls, your country
needs you.-New Orleans nicayune.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-07-14
IN GAY NEW YORK.
IN THE SWIM.

" 7 "
l would be a mermaid;
l couldn't ride Il Wheel
But when the sun was hot i'll town
How nice and cool I'd feel!
No bathing suit to bother,
No Bradley to evade,
No work the blessed Summer long,
No board bill to be paid!
Yes, | would be mermaid;
How happy then I'd be,
AS several thousand sailor lads
Would sing their love to ME!
They'd give me all the money
That ever they could get,
And as I'd be a wise mermaid,
I'd sink it all, you bet!
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-07-14
Plea that Men Should Wear Engage
ments Rings.

Should an cnga ged man wear an en-
gagenlent ring? is a question which most
probably arises from the present age Of
equality between the sexes; and, for my
part, l answer it unhesitatingly ana en-
phatically in tho affirmative.
Women have gone Oh for ages past
wearing their signals of engagement and
marriage, never asking why their tianccs
and husbands should move unmarked
midst men and maidens. This is state
Of things which calls aloud for altera-
ton, and it is Il contamination devout-
ly to he wished that men should start
with us the custom of wearing first the
jeweled circlet and then the plain gold
one-outward and visible signs of engage
ment and marriage, says the Commercial
Tribune
How many heart pangs would be saved
and how much real harm avoided if this
was customary among men!
A girl meets man at a dance, per-
haps she is attracted toward him, and
he appears greatly attracted toward her.
They meet again, and yet again, per
chance. In the interval she thinks a
great deal about him; perhaps, innocent
ly enough, misconstruing his interest in
her because of the interest she has in
him.
How easy the transition to love! How
is she to know he is bound to another?
IL Is llOl an easy tulHS lOF Il man TO ma
an opportunity on slight acquaintance to
make known the fact of his engagement,
even did he desire to do so; and however
rlght-mlnded the man may be, and how
ever sincerely in love with his fiancee. it
does not prevent him from being battered
and far from averSe to the interest and
liking he may inspire in other girls.
Far be 1t from me to say unjust things
of the lords of creation.' but | hold it
true that man is generally far more
lax in his views on an engagement, and
what it entails in his attitude toward
other women, than a woman is in what
1T entails i'll her attitude toward other
men, and the fact that, except by his
friends and old acquaintance, he is not
known to belong to another, may, even
with what we are pleased to call thor
emprcsse than, as an engaged one he
has any right to be with any girl but
the one; whereas, if he wore the sign of
what has been prettily termed his gold
ell bondage marked attentions would
not be accepted by girls, nor would he be
likely to offer them.
l feel that appear to be putting things
on Z, low basis. | don't mean to do so
at ALL but one must be, above everything,
practical, and we are all SO very human
that allowances must be made for weak
nesses and the fckleness of fancy, even
when at heart there is real, honest love
If it We're not so, such mundane things
as rings and ceremonies would not be-
loves vows alone would suffice.
They cannot object ON the score of not
liking such decoration No man objects
to wearing the badge of a particular Of
flee, or a cross or medal won for some
heroic act. Let men, therefore, when
they have won it, wear loves badge with
greater pride and gladness than any
other.
Let it be worn, however, with this
one difference-not ON occasions only, but
for the eternal ever"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-07-14

There is d new motel in town. 1t is in
This was discovered when one OF thu
lessees of the roof garden was charged
before magistrate with violating the
liquor tax law. IIe declared that he had
Il hotel license for the tower and was
DISCHARGED
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-07-14

Philadelphia has supplied the latest re-
crut for millionaires' row on Fifth ave-
nue.. Isaac II. Clothier now OWNS near
ly the entire block, his purchases having
cost him $270.O0O. 1t is another instance
of the desire of rich men from all parts
of the country to take advantage Of the
rising values on Manhattan island.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-07-14

Atlantic City, n. J., is to nave MARCH,
Gras, or Festival of Atlantis, as it may
possibly be called, next spring The
prospects are that it will be a grand af
fair. 1t has been decided to issue $780,
600 worth of stock. from the proceeds Of
which 100000 will be devoted to tn" ercc-
ton Of an immense auditorium or con
vention hall which will scat $4,000 per-
SONS.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-07-14

Sultan. Newfoundland dog, has
just died in France. He was noted for
having arrested thief, capturing an
assassin, rescuing child from drowning
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-07-14

At last there has been long enough
interval between the births Of Have
meyer babies to allow an accounting Of
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-06
EVAslvE TACTICS.

Our morning contemporary invariably
resorts to its customary tactics of
evasion when asked how it .harmonizes
its endorsement of McKinley's policies
with that past record into which it fees;
for refuge whenever the silver question
is mentioned nowadays.
1t says that a certain leading citizen
OF Utah could not sit down and write
a lucid explanation of his support of
free coinage. This is one of our neigh
boris peculiarities, which seems to grow
with years. 1t pretends to know all
about financial issues, and becomes in
sulting if anyone else dares to mention
the word silver
And yet there are young men and old
men in this state who may have written
never a line on the subject. who NAV
not be gifted either with the power of
oratory, yet who make uD in loyalty
and in action what they may lack in
gift Of. gab.'
And, after all. the one who claims to
know everything, to understand this
question thoroughly, to sense the needs
of the people, the position of the par
ties, the grave necessity for the reha-
Utilization Of silver, the Importance of
every bit of announcement the cause
can get, the enormity- of the crime of
aiding and abetting its enemies, di-
rectly or indirectly, for spite or local
advantage-the one who knows all
these things and yet works for the
single standard party and endorses
and applauds McKinleys policies" is
either a knave or a hypocrite, and the
difference is small.
There might be some excuse for a
man who knows little or nothing of the
question to turn to the enemies Of free
coinage and join the party of the ad-
rninistration in order to spite some man
or get even with some local organiza-
ton. But what excuse can be offered
for one who realizes the danger to the
people and to the nation, in assisting a
goldbug party, under whose rule silver
was demonetized twenty-six years ago,
and whose present avowed policy is to
further debase it and destroy its legal
tender value for any amount?
Before members of Mark Hanna's po-
litical organization, those who still
make a pretense of interest in bimetal-
Hsm. call attention to notes in the eyes
of silver men, let them cast out from
their own eyes the beams of inconsist-
encv and hypocrisV
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-06
EVOLUTION OF HANNA.

When the first complaints were made
concerning the putrid food supplied the
army by the richest nation on earth,
Hanna said:
Things like that are for political eff
feet"
When the officers reported that their
men We're starving, or sickening from
the meat furnished them, or dying for
lack Of medicine or want of adequate
attention and accommodations, Hanna
said:
Things like that are for political er-
feet"
Then the boys came marching home,
one at a time. on sick leave, and their
pale faces and wasted forms aroused
the people. who wanted to know what
was the matter; and Hanna said:
They didn't take care Of themselves;
they are TO blame; they drank pop after
the water was all gone"
But the public would not be put off
and an investigation of the war de-
partment was demanded. Hanna said:
There viii be no investigation; there
is nothing for the president to investi-
gate. Why, 1 was there nearly all the
time, and ] know that Secretary Alger
consulted with President Mckinley
two OF three times a day."
But the charges have been proven.
The responsibility has been fixed. The
guilty officials are known. And what
does Mark Hanna say now?
y desire TO say that 1 never had
anything to do with any meat contract.
nor even exchanged a word with any
official of the war department on this
subjec.."
in other words, he is not anxious for
anyone to connect him with the McKin-
ley-Alger- Eagan embalmed beef COM
bine until after this Investigation is
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-06
CONFERENCE AGAIN.

Conference begins today. 1t is the
sixty-ninth annual conference of the
dominant church in Utah. The city will
be fun of visitors from all parts of the
state. and from adjoining states. They
never fail Rain or shine, good times
or bad, the people come to general con-
ference. Rich and poor, young and old,
men and women, every train bears in
its load Of conference visitors. There
are The tottering forms of age and the
stalwart strength OF manhood and Wo-
manhood in their prime. Young moth
ers with tender babes. or half-regretful
looks if they have left the little ones
behind; devout old ladies from affair
looking, as they fear, upon the temple
ard the city for the last time; patri-
arc9Is wandering about between SER
vices in reminiscent moods; boys and
girls, youthful lovers strolling hand in
hand oblivious to the smirks and
smiles of spectators; returned mission
aries, with long, black coats and high
hats; prUselytes from other lands, with
their foreign dress and ways; farmers
from the. valley driving in to town in
the morning and out again at night;
and, circulating among them all, shal-
ing hands, looking well-fed, prosperous
and pleasant, are the general and local
authorities of the church.
And thus the faces come and go, surg
ing up and down the streets Of Salt
Lake City N conference time.
The people Of this intermountain re-
gion are fairly prosperous, too, this
year, and there will be a larger at
tendance than usual unless all signs
fail Then the weather gives promise
Of baing decent, a very unusual thing
for conference time, which will afford
the bonnets a chance that the storm OF
Easter denied them.
1t is good to see the people congre-
gate once or twice q year as they do
here. There are family reunions, and
old acquaintance renewed, and an eX-
change of sentiments, and a commun-
ion of souls-bound to make the people
better and happier. And, after all, what
are we here for?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-06
CANADA'S WEALTH.

The great sources of wealth in Can
ade are four, viz, fisheries, mines, for
ests and farms. The amount annually
derived from them is, in round figures.
$40 100000 from the fisheries, $4,000, 600
from the mines. sSO,0OO,0OO from The
forests and $6OO,OOO.OOO from agricul-
ture.
United States capital is largely in
vested in the mines of the Dominion, so
that we are more Interested in its min
ing resources and development than in
its other sources Of wealth.
The Canadian Geological survey has
just issued a bulletin of the mineral
production of that land which contains
some facts of extraordinary interest.
While the returns are not all in. and
the statistics for last year are necessar-
lily incomplete, unofficial figures are
taken in connection with the official
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-06

statistics. These show the total
value of the mineral product of Canada
for 1898 to have been ss7,757,197, as
against SIS, 661, 4SO fer 1897, an increase
of over s., 100000.
This includes an increase of SO FER
cent in the output of copper in Ontario.
While of the total output of metallic
products-$21, 622 ,6O1-s13. 900 was in
gold, and of this gold $40, 100000 repre-
sented the yield of the Yukon district.
Compared with 1886. the first year when
such statistics were issued. Canada has
experienced an increase in the value of
mineral products of nearly go per cent,
although the increase in population has
been only about IA per cent. In other
words, the per capita value of mineral
output has advanced from about 1920
to $500
When it is considered that the mining
districts of the Dominion have been lit
tie exploited as yet and that the older
fields have been barely scratched over,
the advancement has been wonderful
and the possibilities are incaloulable.
While we are expanding why not in
clude Canada?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-06

each may have a secret ambition tc
take a place on the next presidential
ticket
If the election returns may be used
to measure their respective popularity
Mayor Harrison has little opposition in
his leadership.
AS matter of fact Altgeld. as q
party man. had no business to become
candidate under the circumstances
an opinion in which he will probably
col cur today. but he is too intelligent
and too useful to be sacrificed as a
leader of q. faction, as an obstructionist.
He could not help knowing that his
candidacy was calculated to defeat this
regular choice of the party, and thai
his refusal to bow to the will Of the
majority was undemocratic, unwise,
and injurious 10 the organization he
seeks to lead
Besides, Carter II. Harrison repre-
sented every political principle, every
thing that Altgeld stood for in his cam
paign. except Altgeld's personal ambi-
tons
From the ex-governor's fate factions
should learn a lesson. individuals can
not honestly claim to know the people,
to represent the party better than a
majority of the party's delegates or its
regularly chosen representatives do.
Altgeld was IN the minority at the con-
vention. He claimed that it was right
and that the majority was wrong. He
went into the race to prove It. WHAT'S
the result?
Garter H. Harrison. .146, 914
John p. Altgeld .................... 45,40l
zina r. Carter ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Jos, 904
And yet John P, Altgeld is personally
popular. He has always had a. great
following in Chicago. And he would
have kept it if he hadn't fought the reg
ular organization with his faction, if he
hadn't bolted the party convention.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-06
LESSONS FROM CHICAGO.

Carter II. Harrison was reelected
mayor Of Chicago by an overwhelming
majority. He was the Democratic
nominee, had been a supporter Of the
regular ticket and platform of 1896,
and was withal the logical candidate
Of Chicago Democrats in the municipal
campaign just ended.
His Republican opponent was Zina r.
Carter who is prominent business
man with an excellent record in city
politics.
Yerkes, the Republican boss. Induced
the former governor of Illinois, John P.
.Altseld, to enter the race as an indie
pendent Democratic candidate, hoping
thus to divide the strength of Democ-
racy and elect the Republican. And
Altgeld was easily persuaded, for he has
long cherished a personal animosity
aeainsa Harrison, whom he regards as a
rival in the leadership Of Illinois De-
mocraey.
Each wishes TO be recognized in the
national councils of the party as the
bead of the organization in Illinois and
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-06
ALGER AND THE PRESS.

Whenever a public official becomes
utterly Indifferent to the opinion of his
neighbors or people, or insensible to
their rights and wrongs their wishes
and their sorrows, he is only fit for
"treasons, stratagems and spoils."
Last summer when the public press
was filled with letters from returned
volunteers, and from fathers and
mothers protesting against the action
OF the war department in exposing
the boys to the tender mercies of the
vulture contractors who made millions
OF profit and hundreds of sick soldiers
on their deals, the secretary of war
gave the people to understand that
their appeals and complaints We're i'm
pertinent and that he wouldn't deign to
notice them.
I care no more for what the news
papers say about me than l do for the
breezes which blow through the
branches OF the trees outside" was
Secretary Ayers reply to the evil
dences of his incompetency published
in the daily press of tic country
They can say what they like, and do
what they like, but 1 am absolutely
Indifferent to their comments"
This is his attitude now as he cruises
around among the West Indies in a
pleasure yacht while evidence of his
incompetency and criminal neglect is
being piled mountains high.
When Secretary Alger snaps his
fingers contemporary in the face of
the public and says that he cares moth
ing for what the newspapers publish,
he is no longer worthy of place in
the cabinet.
But Mr. Mckinley doesn't dare dis
charge him.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-06
Notice of Assessment,

Principal place of business, at Salt Lake
CITY. Utah; location of mines, Eureka,
Utah. Notice is hereby given that at a
meeting of the board OF directors OF the
Snowflake Mining company, held March
9Th 1883. an assessment of two ~ cents
per share (being assessment No. 12) was
levied on the capital stock of the corpor-
alton issued and outstanding, payable i'm
mediately to William Hatfield, treasurer
Of the company. at his Office. room u.
Walker Bank building. Salt Lake City.
Utah. Any stock upon which this as
sessment may remain unpaid on April Z,
1888 will be delinquent and advertised for
sale at public auction, and unless payment
is made before, will be sold on April Is,
1899. TO pay the delinquent assessment, to-
gether with costs of advertising and ex-
penses of sale. e. B. CRITCHLOW,
Secretary
1868 Mccormick Block
Dated March Sth. 1899.