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lowance, to their wives. But many more
dole out what they think will be needed,
and apparently imagine that their wives
can get what change they need in some
mysterious, unexplained fashion, with
out having resort to:the ordinary money
making means. :: -: - -
If. women were not long suffering crea-
lures there would have been an organized
revolt long ago. No man has a right to
submit his wife to the humiliation she
must often undergo when she is obliged
to- decline to make small contributions
in church Or club, because she has not
the ready money. She may have IN ac-
count in half dozen shops. Her cloth
ing may be the envy of her friends, her
house may be finely appointed, but when
it comes to a call for chance quarter
or half dollar she has not the cash in
hand.
Let the husband, at any rate, give the
wife chance to prove whether or not
she is to be trusted with money. There
are few women who are unworthy Of
having the charge of their own spending
money. AS rule, they are quite as
careful as their husbands in the matter
of small expenses, and have horror OF
bills that is often unknown to the lords
Of creation.
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IN HIS WOODEN Leg

Was Found $4,000 After the Junk
/ / Dealer Died.
For twenty-five years Gideon Mason.
junk dealer Of Trenton, carried his
savings around in his wooden leg, and
when he died he was. worth $4,000 in
cash. Mason lost his leg in a railroad
accident years ago. He never would
tell. whence he came. He had known
better; days, he: said,. and rum had
caused his downfall. When he was
able :to"get out on crutches' he took the
pledge Friends bought him a wooden:
leg and push cart. gave him few
dollars, and he began buying and sell
ing junk. Mason prospered., When the
first wooden leg was worn, out Mason
appeared with one of his own manu-
facture. 1t was, very, clumsy, bullying
at the top. During tie. past six years
Mason was ACCOMPANYING on his rounds
by a dog that was equipped with a
wooden leg made by Mason to take the
place of one it had lost. The dog and
the man were inseparable: Mason was
found stretched on his bed, dead, the
other day. The county physician found
cavity in Mason's wooden leg, In
which We're concealed will, $15,OOO
in bills, and the pledge he had taken
and kept for twenty live years. The
will was photographic; It set aside 81
certain amount to pay the expense roi
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~ 900 \ B OK ES FR EE.!

John q. Smith Of Milwaukee can sym SYM
.pathize. with rheumatic sufferers, because
5he, was himself tortured: BY this disease
for years.: He kt., made u thorop eh: Study
sof his own case and of the causes Of the
disease following this with the expert
mental use Of remedies suggested BY the
knowledge thus gained. n. Ultimately: he
found q combination of herbs which COM
>pletely rid: his system of every trace OF
rheumatism, and, though years have;
elapsed, he is still perfectly free from
any symptom of the old ailment. Neigh
,bOrs and friends to whOmssMr. Smith
gave the remedy were cured with equal!
thoroughness and permanencesand s'Glo-'
ria Tonic,s as Mr.. Smith named the
Scovery. began to be in demand. Since:
that time many thousands have by it's
use been relieved of the terrible Attic:
ton of rheumatism. Mr.. Smith has u.s.
600 sample packages of this remedy
which he desires to. distribute, free of
charge, among rheumatic sufferers. He
therefore authorizes the announcement
that any reader Of this paper may OBJ
tain free trial package of "Gloria
Tonic" by addressing John A. Smith,
No. 80 Germania building, Milwaukee,,
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keeping busy. If man is in good health
the keynote Of vacation should center
around the mind. The ideal vacation ia
the one that rests and improves the mind
at the same time
Now the best thing for mental rest is
a change of scene. speak, Of course, Of
myself now, but every man must choose
for himself his own plan of recreation.
What would be a very agreeable occupa-
ton for one might prove very stupid and
fatisuing to another Of opposite tempera-
ment and tastes.
The successful or hopeful man who is
interested in his business gets real slim
illus from that business. He gets real
enjoyment from it. Obviously, unless he
runs his system down, all he needs Is a
change of scene. The man who takes
good care of himself. has the proper
amount Of sleep and il net run down,
has no special need for physical recupera-
ton. change Of scene and air will
freshen him and have the effect Of MAX
ing him see life from a new viewpoint.
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oh. l. ~ :h->0A19n. when he was only
II years old. In 1880 he was gradu-
ated in medicine at the University of
Pennsylvania, but after a short prac-
ttee he turned his attention to law, and
was admitted to the bar in 1912. In
the following year he wrote the ia
nous song, Ben Bolt, which enjoyed
an immense popularity, and which came
again. into vogue few, years ago, when
De Naurier, revived it in his Trilby,
wroHEfully using is as an. old English
poem. Singular to say. DR.. English re-
garded it asa :scrappy piece Of work,
and we believe 1T one time regretted
having writteii'it. =. :;
For time Dr. English was connec ct
ed with a New York paper, and then
'the Aristedean in Philadel-
phia. 1T was ort-lived, and Dr.. Eng
lish went to Virginia., where he lived
five years, and where lie wrote a novel
depicting southern life. IN 1850 he
settled in New Jersey and began the
practice Of medicine. He also entered
into politics, and sat. in the New Jer.
sey Legislature in 1863-64. Those
among whom he dwelt thought 50
much of" him that they sent him to
Congress two terms.
Meanwhile DR.. English kept mis- pen
busy, and turned out several Volumes
besides writing pamphlets and essays
1t is safe to say that Of all he wrote
Ben Bolt will be the longest remem
bered:
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Narrow Pabst Hotel to be Torn Down.

After two years of successful but
tempestuous existence the tall, thin spike
New York. known as the Pabst ho-
tel, is to be torn down to make way for
station on the rapid transit road. The
hotel was so cramped the manager had
to violate city ordinance to make
room enough to keep his fat patrons from
scraping pictures on the waits when they
moved about. Suit was brought by the
city to compel the removal Of the portico
which covered the sidewalk. and which
really was part Of the building proper
and extended to the roof. The city won
and the obstruction was ordered removed
some time since. The sale Of the hotel
site was Il great surprise. as the public
had no knowledge Of the deal. Every
thing in the hotel will be sold at auction
IriIn1,
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TwO-ThOusand-Year Sentence.

To be sentenced to an imprisonment
for the term of ones natural life is
hard enough, but to be consigned to
a dungeon for a couple of thousand
years is indeed narrowing. Yet for
eign judges not infrequently impose
sentences of several centuries without
it being considered anything remark
able:
A young man was arrested in Vienna
a couple of years ago who, upon his
own showing, should have been SEN
fenced to two thousand five hundred
years imprisonment A total of four
hundred charges was brought against
him, and he was convicted and SEN
fenced on all of them. But the judge
was a 1nerciful man, and in passing
sentence he threw of one thousand
years in consideration of the mans
youth. ,.,-4''
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must, Of course, be decided by circum-
stances.
Though the husband may pay the
butcher and grocer, the milliner and the
dressmaker. he should not run into the
blunder of fancying that his wife has
no call for any money beyond thehocca-
sional dime or quarter he grants, *I1er.
There is convincing testimony tha1 the
majority of women have to ask their
husbands for spending money, or hypot:l-
ecate their household accounts in order
to get it.
l know one ideal husband who has
never in married life Of thirty years
obliged his wife to so to him for money
There is a certain drawer in her desk
where lie places what he can afford to
let her have every week. The drawer
is never allowed to get empty. More
over, he never asks her to account for 4
cent Of it. That man should have i
halo for his daily wear.
Plenty Of other husbands make a
household allowance, or even a dress al
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-05-02
Worship by Machinery.

A story is told of one of the ,old-time
pillars of a New England church who
held out firmly for long time against
the innovation of an organ, but when
he finally yielded did so without re-
serve. From violent opposition he be-
came the most strenuous of all the
congregation as to the fineness of the
instrument to be purchased. e.. -
Seems to me you aren't consistent"
said one economical brother, re-
proachfully. Here a month ago you
couldn't speak hard enough about or
gans, and now you go to advocating
extra expense in getting the best that's
to be had" 49,
"See here,'' said the deacon, grimly,
iii. we're going to wordship the. Lord
by machinery. I don't want to pulitzer
around with any second-rate running
gear. = YOUTHS Companion. u :. Ss' I.
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Palma and his cabinet
The income Of the island is fully equal
to its financial demands at this time,
and l believe the Cubans will keep it
so. l think they are capable Of govern
ing themselves now, and it is certainty
that if they fail it will not be because
they did not have the opportunity to
show what they could do. The people
are depending upon the United States
giving them market for their two prin-
cipal crops, sugar and tobacco. and they
have every reason to expect. that this
government will give them the relief.
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d large proportion OF the race neeOS luat
education which will make the youth re-
turn to the farm and produce fifty bush
els Of corn where only twenty-five grew
before, rather than yield to the tempta-
ton to go to the city and attempt to live
by their wits. For $50 years the negro
was worked. What he wants to learn
now is to work. For one to learn that
work is honorable and to be idle is dis
honorable is at the foundation Of civil
ization.
1t is not the negro who has been prop
erly trained in hand, head and heart
who commits crimes. 1t is the ignorant,
shiftless negro who has no regular occu-
patton, who has not learned to love labor
and who does not own home who is
usually the criminal. When a man be-
comes the owner of a piece Of land and
decent house and has bank account,
he becomes, notice. at once conserva-
tive, law-abiding citizen.
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paper undertakes to do more than collect
the news, it becomes intrusive. When it
misrepresents the news, it is disloyal.
When it falls short of collecting the
news, it is inefficient. The great court
of public opinion. with all the facts be-
fore it, is abundantly able to reach its
own conclusions, and it's judgments are
irrevocable and irresistible.
The newspaper that attempts to fore
stall them or control them fails, and
brings discredt upon itself. The news
paper that records them becomes an
effective instrument in enforcing them.
The moral Of all this is that the news
paper that collects the news assiduously
and publishes it faithfully is performing
function Of the highest Importance to
civilization.
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law furnishes no remedy for the poor
You cannot get into court in the first
place without money, and once you get
in, you certainly won't get out with any
money. The lawyer will see to that, out
you'll get justice if you pay enough for it,
There is no commodity that l know Of
that is regulated so much by what you
pay for it as justice. l don't mean by
that that you can get a great deal Of
justice for great deal Of money, but
You will get very little justice for little
money.
The courts are like a nicl1el; in the slot
machlne-you put your money in and
await results. Suppose a poor man gets
his legs cut off by street car. The rich
never get their legs cut off, because they
can afford to wait and let the car get
out of the way. The first thing the poor
man has to do is to hunt up lawyer
who will take his case for one leg. or
nalf leg, according to agreement. Then
the money is dropped in the slot and the
man sits down to wait.
If he is lucky his case may come up in
two years. 1t may take three or four,
but have known instances when it did
not require more than two years. The
case is tried in the Circuit or Superior
Court, and, if the plaintiff RECEIVERS the
price Of his legs, the matter goes to the
Appellate Court. The function OF that
court is to pass judgment on what the
other court has done. and the poor mans
case may be reached in two years. OF
course it will then 90 to the Supreme
Court, unless the man loses. and it will
take another year there. If everything is
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-05-02

sufficient vitality, an operation for
ovarian troubles. Not a very cheerful
prospect, to be sure. I, however, was
advised to try Lydia e. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound and Sam
alive Wash; I did 50, fortunately
for me. Before month had passed I
felt that my general health had i'm
proved in three months more I was
cured, and I have been in perfect
health since. I did not lose an engage
ment or miss a meal.
Your Vegetable Compound is GER
tainly wonderful, and well worthy the
praise your admiring friends who have
been cured are ready to give you. I
always speak highly of it, and you
will admit I have good reason to do:
so. "-MRs. G.. BRUCE, Lansing, Mich.
$4,000 forfeit if above testimonial is not genuine.
The fullest counsel on this
subject can be secured without
cost by writing to Mrs Pinkham,
Lynn, Mass. Your letter will he
entirely confidential.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-05-02

burial. and provided for the care Of
the dog as long as he should live, gave
$1,000 to friend, and the residue to be
spent in buying artificial limbs for
worthy cripples in Mercer County. Two
days after the death of Mason the dog
was found dead on the grave. of it's
master. In accordance with Mason's
wish, expressed in his will. the dog was
buried at his feet.-Newark News.
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physician, lawyer,
editor and legisla-
tor. He was OF
Quaker ancestry
The family name
originally being
Anyelos-and he
was born in Phil
adelphia in 1919.
He began his liter
airy career as a
writer for the Phil
adelphil pre- S S
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-05-02
CUBAN GOVERNMENTS OPPORTUNITY.
BY Gen. Leonard Wood.

VSSss ASO680S " VOOQs
The Cuban gov
eminent will have
the finest opportu-
nifty to show what
they can do that
any people have
ever had before
them. They come
into a government
with 100000 in its
treasury and with
its people loyal and
law abiding, who
will do all they can
,--1~A E>,k-,1n
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Coughing Leads to Coas;iaal muptton.
Kemp's Balsam will top the cough at
4 sample bottle free. Sold in Is and So
cent bottles. Go at once; delays are dam
CerOuS.
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From an Authority,

The gentleman from Indiana smiled
an unbelieving smile. ''This story of a
lot of oysters being drowned off the Vir-
ginia coast by fresh water floods sounds
tishy to me-"
The gentleman from Kentucky shook
his head. ''An oyster is not fish, sub,
if you will allow the correction" he said,
'''but there is nothing surprising in the
statement. The foolish oysters. sub,
probably endeavored to drink the water,
suh.'-Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.
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Mistakes of the Weather Man. !,

ITS dreadfully hot. isn't it, mammy?''
said Mr.. McWaGe. ''Deed it IS chile, =
said the old woman, "deed it is. faint
right for it to be lot this-a-way. l tell
you, forty years ago when the blessed
Lawd made the weather, we didn't have
these stewing days, honey--no, deed we
didn't; but now these biggety men up at
OF. the weather. they does send us any
thing they pleases, and they amt skill
full. chile, they amt skillful"-
Journal
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-05-02
SURGICAL OPERATIONS
How Mrs. Bruce, a Noted Opera
Singer, Escaped an Operation.
Proof That Many Operations
for Ovarian Troubles are IN
necessary.

"DEAR Mrs. P1NKHAM :-Travelling
for years on the road, with irregular
meals and sleep and damp beds, broke
down my health so completely two
years ago that the physician advised q
complete rest, and when had gained
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-05-02
NEEDS OF the NEGRO.
BY Booker r. Washfn9fon

Negroes should be taught that
their salvation is in learning to
own and cultivate intelligently
and skillfully the soil. Agricul-
ture will prove our salvation,
and the race should be slow to
abandon the farm. Just now
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running smoothly the man stands a
chance Of recovering for his legs in-about
five years, if he is not dead before that
time. Then, when he divides with his
lawyer, after having existed FIVE years
without being able to work, want to
know where he comes in, in the matter Of
justice.
Take my advice. and don't try to get
Justice: you are better off without it,
unless, Of course, you have plenty Of
money
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-05-02
Expensive Coro,,ations.

It may he of interest to point out at
this time that the most expensive cor
onation on record was that of the pres
ent Car Of Russia. Upward Of $15,-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-05-02
VALUE. OF A VACATION.

n"' II. D.. T0rdAeF.
We hear "a. great
deal of talk about
the value of a va
cation - vacation"
being used in the
sense. Of doing
: nothing I don't
believe in9 that kind
of a vacation. l
think that. the
great majority OF
business and pro-
fessional men de-
rive their greatest
~ - N-@~~
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-05-02
GREAT COURT OF PUBLIC OPINION.
BY ". B0urke Cochran.

The, modern newspaper in col
lecting the news assemblies the
civilized world in mass meeting
every day to consider the events,
of unusual Importance that have
occurred in the preceding TWEEN
tv-fOnr hours. When the news
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-05-02
COURTS LIKE SLOT MACHINES.
By Clarence 8, Da,

There are good many tricks
in the legal profession. Some
people imagine that the law was
made by wise men for the pur-
pose Of dealing out justice to
all men alike, but there never
was q greater mistake The
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-05-02

-Vickers, Sons & Maxim, the British
shipbuilders, have decided to erect mo-
tor car mandatory.
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The highest of all navigable rivers is
the Tsang Pc, which flows for nearly
1000 miles at an elevation Of from II,
900 to $4,000 feet
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-05-02
INIFE'S SHARE IN HUSBANDS INCOME.
BY Mrs. Vim. Tod Helmuth

The married woman has a
right to a certain proportion Of
her husbands money. When he
gives it to her he is not grant
ing her a privilege, but ackno vi
edging claim. The amount
that should come to the wife
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-05-02
Trees: z, on 81 Western Pratries.

In some Of the Western prairies trees
are now being planted for shade. pro-
lection and beauty, il areas OF various
sizes up to humid reds of acres.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-05-02
HE WROTE BET BOLT.

DR.. English Was Poet, Doctor, Law
yer and Legislator.
Dr.. Thomas Dunn English. who died
at his home in Newark, n. j.. recently,
led 4 Yersa tile career being a poet,
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-07-27
A SPEAKING CARTOON.

The papers tell us that the President
has given instructions to Attorney Gen.
eral Knox to make a speech on trust
smashing. This suggests a fine cartoon
to Opper. He represents meadow
public Utilities) and field of growing
corn-(Public Commodities) into which
the COWS (Trusts) have broken and de-
stroyed. Attorney General Knox, dressed
as Little Boy Blue, is asleep under the
hay-rack and Uncle Sam cannot wake
him up. These lines appear below the
speaking cartoon:
Little Boy Blue come blow your horn,
There are Trusts in the meadow and
Trusts in the corn!
To curb the fat Trusts not an effort he'll
make,
AS champion sleeper he captures the
cake!'
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-07-27
MISS TAYLOR'S PLUCK.

In June Miss Rebecca j. Taylor, an
efficient employe of the War Department,
wrote communication to the Washing
ton Post criticsing the administrations
Philippine policy. She was dismissed
without notice from her position. She is
asking the courts to re-instate her, and
Justice Hagner has issued a rule order
ing the Secretary of War to show cause
by July 2Sth., why a peremptory order
should not issue requiring him to restore
Miss Taylor to her position.
1t would be refreshing if the Judge
would rise to the occasion and prevent
this piece of injustice against an efficient
lady clerk. We hardly dare to hope, how
ever, that a Washington Judge thinks
more of the right of free speech than for
the favors of this brutal and ungallant
administration.
Whatever the issue, We rejoice that
Miss Taylor had pluck enough to fgh:
for her rights. In her petition Miss Tay-
lor thus states her case strongly:
"It cannot be possible that officials
such as one of the Civil Service Com
missioners may be permitted to make
public addresses in advocacy of the So
called Philippine policy and an humber
employe of the service, like myself, de-
MED the right of publicly opposing that
same policy.
IF these distinctions are to be per-
mitted, then is it not clear that an ad-
ministration may practically use the
whole force of Civil Service employees t0
strengthen it's position of power. either
by converting them into active opponents
and supporters of it's policies or, mega
| lively, by silencing every person among
them who is opposed to its policies?
Surely it never was intended that q
person in entering the government SER
| vice of the United States should surren-
der his rights as a citizen-among them
| the right of holding and expressing po-
! litical and religious opinions"