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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-02-28
A CURATE'S LETTER.

I've taken the service, jimmy, I've preached
I've knelt at the bed Of navy who
I've married a dozen costers to a dozen O.
roaring girls y ~ !.
I've rescued a brat from his mother and
hathed the blood from his curls:
And now I have bolted my dinner-your
pudding no praise can tell!
The bottle OF port from your father came
out Of the. journey well;
And now am free of the parish, I'm smok-
ing my days first pipe,
odor Of gin and tripe!
All mG Ike but m forg!Te dh old fret
could fight with the hosts Of Legion, but
not with Hunger and Cold;
I could fight with hell and it's devils. but
not with the pitiless laws
That leave to a shivering curate the widow
and-fatheresS cause.
But peace! While the smoke curls upward
dream Of the days to come,
When my back will be turned forever on
dog-hOle, kennel and slum:
When far from tn the cutters Of tondon-this
OdOr OF hollands and tripe!-
In rectory clematis-covered l shall pull at
my martial pipe.
And yet in the midst of my dreaming, when
grooming and grumbling cease,
wonder if there, in Arcadia, really shall
come on peace;
If there, where the mills grind gently, and
lazily fall the hours,
shall find God can pray to-ambrosial
maker Of flowers!
For, Love, when desertion tempts me, for,
Love, when I sicken of strife,
When cry to be cleansed and shriven
from this welter Of bleeding life.
1t seems-fOr Vision I'd barter God who
is flesh and bone,
Since the God Of this goddess Limehouse Is
God / have touched and known.
Harold Begbie in Westminster Gazette.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-02-28

the bottom Of the fact that he is so
reluctant to acknowledge the equality Of
the sexes.
Pericles thought "a woman's chief
glory was to be known neither for good
nor evil Socrates thanked the gods
daily that he was "a man, not BRUTE"
and that he was male. not female"
Erasmus prayed that all people might
come to read the Bible, "even women
and Turks"
Yet we are becoming civilized, though
slowly. Even now, in some parts Of
this republic. women enjoy full voting
privilege with men; yet it was only a
century ago that France guillotined a
woman for daring to assert woman
right to the ballot. 1t was only twenty
five years ago that we in America be-
gan to think woman worth educating.
AS student in the theological semi
nary, remember the professor saying of
wolnan's place in the church: "Women
may sing in praper meeting and play on
the piano OF organ, and if the meeting
is not too public they may offer up
prayer.' He forgot to say that they
might also contribute to the preacher S
salary.
Robert Browning asserted that of the
two it was his wife who had creative
genius. yet to him and not to her, Eng
land accorded the honor of a burial in
Westminster.
Our Bible is not responsible for this
ungenerous treatment Of woman The
cause is back of the Bible in the nature
of man. But there are Scripture texts
in which this egotism of the male has
entrenched itself.
On the woman question Mazzini was
more orthodox than Paul. He told the
young men of Italy: Love and respect
women: Seek in her not merely COM
fort but force, an inspiration. the re-
doubling Of your intellectual and moral
faculties. Cancel from your minds ev-
cry idea Of superiority over her. You
have none whatever."-Rev. Herbert S.
RirnlQw in PILGRIM
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-02-28
Andrew Carnegie has addressed

Andrew Carnegie has addressed to
Henry B. Herbert, chairman Of the
Canal Association Of Greater New
York, letter in which he says that ali
the recent railway consultations operate
against New York City in her fight to
retain her commercial supremacy. he
says that at the present time New York
state is not progressing 80 rapidly as
the state of Pennsylvania, and that the
hope Of New York lies in developing her
manufacturing facilities through the
Erie Canal.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-02-28
RABBITS FOOT LUCK.

Der rabbit he sat by der live-oak tree
An dat rabbit he say ter hesse'f say he:
"Ali yea long I heah der niggah man SAY,
Whenever he's walkin' along dis way,
Latf1in 'Ki-yi-yi! as he siaps his knee,
cut dat rabbits foot off wiz ma knife!
tex dat rabbits foot home ter ma wife.
say, Ma honey, now der good luck's here:
When yoMse got rabbits foot, den 10
fear!'
Latin 'Kiyi-yi" as der banjo thrum
An der hoccake on der griddle gins ter
hum,
sing,
'Oh a rabbits foot is der luckiest ting" "
Der rabbit he sat by der live-oak tree
An he say ter hesse'f. der rabbit say he,
Use had TO- rabbits foots all ma bon days
But didn't pear ter bring good luck ma
ways!"
-Ashleigh Mathews in the Century.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-02-28
THE THORNDIKE DIAMONDS.
Presented by Egyp,s Knetiivc to
Gen. Sherma1l.

presented ny EEypps n neGlvc to
Gen. Sherman.
The most interesting diamonds in
Boston belong to Mrs. Thorndike, daugh-
ter Of the late Gen. w. T. Sherman, and
long favorite in diplomatic society at
Washington. The general was greatly
admired by the Khedive of Egypt. When
Mrs. Thorndikes sister, Minnie Sher-
man, was married to Lieut.. Z. w. Fitch,
ms majesty, DESTROYS of expressing his
friendship for the old warrior, selected
from his treasury diamonds valued at
S2OO,OOO, bad them set as a necklace,
and sent the gorgeous ornament to the
bride. But an unfeeling United States
customs department fell upon the we'd
ding gift and held it for a ransom of
$4,000, the amount of the legal 10 per
do, for neither the bridegroom nor the
genera! could scrape together the sum
demanded. The bride wept, the news
papers gossiped, and the husband grew
pale with modification. But there was
naturally a sympathetic feeling on the
thought of a poverty.stricken bride una
Die to gaze upon 100000 in diamonds
that actually belonged to her. a public
subscription was started: then the ma
tlonal government became interested and
finally Congress stepped in. and. goaded
- cnlValOFuS rescue by It's wives and
daughters, RENTED the duty by special
enactment.
"Can you not imagine the rejoicings
of the Pitches and Shermans when the
splendid gems were at last placed on
the beautiful neck for which they were
intended, and the pride with which their
owner allowed them to be placed for
safe-keeping in the United States treas
ury? But you certainly cannot imagine
her horror when a great, ugly brute of
tax collector from some Pennsylvania
county in which she lived sauntered in
and demanded an annual tax more than
equaling the lieutenant's salary for an
entire year! That settled it; there was
nothing to do but send the white ele-
plant back to the Khedive Conceive the
mental condition Of an American woman
obliged to give up one-fifth of a million
dollars in diamonds! But, if you will
believe me, she couldn't get rid of them
even in this way. Back they came, by
return mail or something Of that sort,
with a letter from his Egyptian majesty
suggesting that the necklace be taken
apart and the diamonds divided among
Gen. Sherman's four daughters, delicate
" insinuating that thus the burden Of
taxation would not be so heavily felt.
And that 10 how Mrs. Thorndike happens
to own one-fourth Of them.''- Ainslee's
Magazine.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-02-28
To be a Popular Hostess.

The lot of a would-be universally pop
ular hostess is by no means happy one
in society, for the snare of the pitfalls
spread on every side for the unwarv en-
tertainer is legion. In trying to avoid
Scylla she .straightway encounters
Charybdis, and unless she has the tact
Of diplomat, the patience Of a saint and
the energy of a general, she will never
win her way 20 the desired goal of her
ambitions. If she tries to satisfy the Sc
lect few. she offends the many-while to
recognize the many is hOpelessly to alien
ate the few, who refuse to attend her
functions on the ground that they are too
mixed. On the other hand, those very
people for whom she has sacrificed her
smart friends ungratefully criticise her
EFFORTS for the reason that the select
few are not present.
Mr.. Nobody, for instance. who receives
an invitation to dine with the Tintons
feels fattered at first, but when he gets
to the dinner and finds that the smart
ones are conspicuous by their absence he
feels anything but grateful to the Tin.
not to have asked him at all. "Who
was there? he exclaims wrathfullv
''Why, just the people that they thougHt
they ought to be kind to. 1t was a most
obvious case of the highways and by.
ways. consider such invitations an
insult!''
The dinner dance. which has become
such an institution of late years, where
by society leaders have succeeded some
what in curtailing the number of thei1
guests, should be nose tactifully man
aged. Many hostesses seem to go on the
principle that half loaf is better thar
none, and invite in afterward those
whom they do not wish to ask to tn,
preliminary dinner. This is a fatal mis-
take, which no woman who wishes to bt
consider popular should ever commit
She should make the dinner large enough
to have enough dancers, and it sht
wishes to include every one she should
give a second or third dinner dance. &
not, she should never try to patch III
wounded feelings by an invitation which
is. obviously not a. complimentary one
= There is very plain rule to observe il
= such cases.-New York Tribune,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-02-28
THE CAR AT HOME.

How lie Passes A1nay the Time in the
Bosom of His Family.
Amy ono who has had the privilege Of
staying at a palace belonging to the
reigning house of Russia Immediately
recognizes it's nightly n1agnifcence, and
soon experiences its hearty hospitality,
and yet, if his stay has been even only
of brief duration. neither CT these fea-
lures will impress him more than will
his imperial hosts home life. 1t might
almost seem that the Gar does not real
ly care to be potentate; his tastes are
much more academic than monarchic.
and he appears to avoid all kinds of pub
lie display. On one occasion, while re-
turning from the family annual holiday
at Copenhagen, conversation turned up
on a difference that had, just at that
time, sprung up between the Danish king
and his Parliament.
''Well!' exclaimed the then carewitch,
"a Kings bed is not always one of roses;
that is plainly to be seen. There are
many more pleasurable occupations than
ruling refractory subjects; and so far as
l am concerned have no great desire
to be either emperor or car" The
Cars sociability extends to his servants,
and he initiates the late Queen Victoria
in having colored attendants. One Of
these, James Hercules, halls from the
West Indies, and is very anxious that
no one should forget-not even his i'm
perial master and misrress-that The is
British subject" The faithful black
fellow is a great favorite with the Cars
children, who frequently commander
Jimmy as they call him, for partici-
patton in their nursery sports.
The Gar is always considerate to his
servants. "You are not looking so well
today" he will say; ut pains me to see
you like that. You had better take a
rest" And forthwith the attendant is
excused from duty. One cannot remain
long in the palace without noticing the
English atmosphere that pervades it;
and Christmas is not allowed to go by
without indulgence in these essentially
English dishes roast beef, plum pudding
and mince pies-which are specially pre-
pared by an English member of the
household. The Czarina is expert with
both brush and pencil; this latter &C.
complishment, backed by taste of car
feature. is often used for the purpose of
at times, receive from her deity painted
cards as silent reminders that she has
not forgotten them.
Although no boy has, hitherto, blessed
their hearth, four girls have been born
to their imperial majesties-Olga, the
eldest, Tatiana, Maria, and the more re-
Gently arrived baby, whose sex was such
disappointment to the Russian nation.
The care Of these children devolves up
on Miss Edgar, all Irish lady, and two
Russian under-nurses. In their playroom
the mighty ruler of all the Russias is
frequently to be found gamboling with
his young daughters; while he never al
lows night to pass, when he is at home,
without making his way to kiss them be-
fore seeking his own room.-Pearson's
NEo1oz;no
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-02-28
Minister Endorses ''KOmmers'' for
Students,

Boston, Mass, Feb. 1S.-President
Pritchetts idea Of student social gather
ings. made interesting by stems Of beer.
after the German custom, was endorsed
last evening by the pastor of Berkeley
Temple Congregational church, Rev.
William A. Knight
IF I were to choose" said he, ''bn-
tween social gatherings amid good int1u:
meetings under conditions that should
drive men ultimately to evil associations.
would choose the first and trust TO the
good environment to eventually lead the
student away from evil habits and
tastes.
Moreover he added, "a man who
of students. as President Pritchett has
tried, is Christ-like man, and is doing
a more Christ-like work than men who
stand aloof and criticise him.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-02-28

Thieves have never been respecters of
persons, creeds or sanctuaries, and the
theft of the jewels from the altar of the
Tiffany chapel in the Cathedral of St.
John the Divine, on Cathedral Heights,
New York, is what might have been ex-
pected We're the cathedral unguarded.
When it is necessary in some cases to
put the remains of the dead in steel
cages, and imbed the cages in blocks of
cement, there is no safety for valuable
jewels which enrich the affairs of cathe-
tlralS
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-02-28
Rich Dodge CONSUMPTION,

1t is possibly only a coincidence, but it
is to be remarked that we do not see
the names of the sons of our richest and
most influential people in the list of con-
he Argentine army.
This is unfortunate, for it gives occa-
sion for nasty remarks about the ing
glery of the drawing or the application
Of the law. Either there should be q
general provision for substitutes, OF
there should be none allowed. Or is it
that the sons of high life are excepted
because of physical disability, or be-
cause they fill the bill sof exceptions IN
the law? Buenos Ayres Herald.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-02-28
RICE WATER JELLY.
A Nourisl,ing Food Product that is
Usually Wasted.

A Nourishing Food Product that is
Usually Wasted.
1t is probable that few Occidental
cooks vino prepare rice in various forms
for diet are aware that in discarding the
water in which it is boiled they are
wasting what is regarded by the Orient
al as the most nutritious part of the
food. This fact was curiously proved
some years since, when detachment Of
Europeans and native troops in India
found themselves beleaguered in a fort
with insufficient rations, even of rice,
to enable them to hold out until force
could march to their relief.
1t was when the officers were seriously
debating this problem that the natives
approached them with what was regard
Il, proposed the latter, the Europeans
took all the rice, they, the natives, would
be quite content with the water in which
it was boiled. The suggestion, in place
of any better, was adopted; when it was
remarked that while the Europeans
found it difficult to maintain their
strength OH full rations Of rice the na-
eral weeks diet on the water. When
the proposal was made the action Of the
natives was praised as one of great de-
votion to their superiors, but the senti-
ment was somewhat Inclined When the
discovery was made that the natives
were quite aware that the principal
nourishment lay in the water.
Since that time Europeans in the ORR
ent, following the custom Of the ma
tives, have given ricewater to patients,
particularly in cases of cholera, as last
resort when no other food can be re-
tanned in the stomach, and usually with
good results. But the natives always
value this water so highly that it is never
thrown away.
In fact, it would surprise many cooks
to discover how much may be done with
this apparently worthless stock. If the
rice 10 cooked in the Oriental fashion,
that is, boiled only so long that each
grain comes out Of the pun separate and
not as a sodden mass, the water when
strained off and permitted to cool will
become jelly approaching the consist
dental palate the water should be fla
vored with an extract, or otherwise the
jelly may have rather an insipid taste.
Then if served with cream and preserved
fruit, you have a most nOurishing and
palatable dessert, with still the boiled
grain for other purposes. Evening Star.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-02-28
Woman and the Clergy.

If we turn now to the condition. of
woman in Christendom we shall find that
her progress has been long impeded by
false ideas of her relation to man. and
in defense Of these ideas the Bible has
been freely quoted: EE nv - - :}*zz.ss +
The besetting sin Of human nature is
the lust of power. Man is an egotist.
1t takes culture long time to refine
that away. Man loves to f1atter him
self with the thought Of his superiority.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-02-28

A heavy purchase of Mexican timber
lands by Mencminee capitalists suggests
Il longer range of view by those who are
in the lumber business than that en-
joyed by optimists who imagine that the
pine Of Wisconsin and Michigan can nev-
er be exhausted.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-02-28

The only strange thing in connection
with the pranks of the Princeton stu
dents, at Trenton, is that they used
yellow instead Of red paint; yellow is
generally considered the distinct property
of the reporters of certain newspapers.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-02-28

The ransom for Miss Stone has been
paid, and the United States is experience
ing something akin to the feelings which
the Tripolitan pirates were in the ransom
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-02-28

The battleship Illinois achieved only
1871 knots an hour on her trial trip, but
this did not deprive her of the proud
right Of being heralded as the ''1ueen Of
tho navy" Every new ship is SO an
nounced after her trial, without regard
for speed or behavior.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-02-28

Spain's ability to manage her home
affairs does not appear to have been i'm
proved by her release from the necessity
of maintaining law and order in distant
colonies
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-02-28

The friction which has resulted i'll the
issuance of all order disseminating the
light on Liberty's torch, in New York
harbor, should be corrected, and the light
replaced. A moral obligation to keep the
light burning was assumed when the
gift was accented,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-02-28

Jeffries and Fitzsimmons have agreed
as to their percentages of the swag, win
or lose, and now they are both ready to
work the combined percentages out Of
tho n11hl;o
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-02-28

There is no sympathy for the robbers
who "held up gambling institution at
Clinton. Iowa, and stripped the keepers
and the habitucs; but in this regard they
are no worse off than their victims.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-02-28

Marinette's discoveries Of natural gas
will surprise biologists, who have never
advised boring through sawdust for the
natural fuel and illuminant.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-02-28

1t can be said of the proposed i'm
proved clock enterprise for Milwaukee,
that grandfather's clock has certainly
had long inning.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-02-28

Hatless linking" may be an old fad
at Groton, but the age of the fad has
no influence on it's results when practiced
in midWinter
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-02-28

Two fresh wars in Kentucky bear wit
ness that shooting the shoots is still the
popular sport on the "dark and bloody
ground"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-02-28

Jan Kubelik lost only the buttons of
his raiment during his scuffle with adj
miring hysterical women, but Paderewski
lost $1,000 watch and chain.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-02-28

The 81" trains are not above getting
together disastrously, like the ordinary
trains which run on the level or dip into
tunnels.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-02-28
Many Switzerlands in One.

The vast ranges of the Canadian Rock
les are, in the opinion Of Whymper, zap
palling in their immensely; for there are
fifty or sixty Switzerlands rolled into
one"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-02-28

Dundee is to send second heavy
consignment Of Scotch potatoes to New,
York.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-11-30

A. L. RIKE, ENGINEER ON THE
COTTON BELT Railway: l have
used Walkers Liver Tablets and can
state without hesitation that they are
far superior to anything l have ever
taken.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-11-30

GRAY KEY, PLANTER AND MER
CHANT: Walkers Liver Tablets is
about the only medicine 1 can sell.
They are the best sellers ever hal.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-11-30

MAX GOTTLIEB, JEWELER, Pine
Bluff, Ark: Walkers Liver Tablets is
certainly a good medicine for malaria
and biliousness. cordially recommend
them to my friends.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-11-30
Rev. Thompson Acquitted.

The committee appointed Saturday
10 hear the charges against Rev.
Thompson, reported that they had
did not warrant trial of Mr.. Thomp
son ON the charges preferred.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-11-30

CAPT. MAT DOWNS, Pine Bluff
After using all other liver medicines
find Walkers Liver Tablets give bet
ter satisfaction than any have evel
used before.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-11-30

W. L. JONES, CONDUCTOR ON
THE COTTON BELT RAILROAD,
Pine Bluff, Arkansas: Walkers
Liver Tablets have given me
better satisfaction tAan any liver med
icine or pill ever used. There is no
comparison between them and the u.s.
ual remedies found on the market.
cordially recommend them.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-11-30
What Consumers Say of
Walker's 1iler Tablets.

WIN, CRAIG, CHlh1' OF POLICE,
iue Bluff, Ark: Walk y . Liver Tablets
are the best that l We ever used.
They are mild but very thorough. |
use them in my family all the time.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1902-09-27
THOMAS w. RATES.

The recent death of Thomas w.
Bates closed the career of a man who
did much for this part of Idaho. and
up to the time OF his passing away
his mind was filed with projects that,
II carried out, would have been con-
dusive of still greater good He
was man of sincere convictions. and
seemed to realize more than Others
the grand possibilities of this coun-
try, and also that only by the cons
tructlon of railways could the results
he hoped for be realized: and to this
end he toiled, and, the greater part
of the time, under the most adverse
circumstances, with insufficient means
at his command. He still carried on
the contest, and bravely advanced
the cause he champloned, meeting
rebutfs and refusals in a brave way
The many bitter dssappointm ents
and discouragements are matters
well known to people of the county
generally, among whom he is held in
the kindest remembrance. Always