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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-05-22
: Single Men Laid Off.

=. Owing. to the fact that the non
arrival of vessels at Ashland re-
tards ore shipments from that port
about|one hundred single men have
been laid off at the Tilden mine, at
Bessemer. 1t is expected that as
soon as the vesselmen's strike is
settled work at the property will be
resumed with the old force. r.5=.z e.EI
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Viii Finish Connectioo Link.

Under the supervision of County
Commissioners Connots, Of Hibbing,
work was this week commenced on
the stretch of ungraded road be-
tween ut. Iron and Buh1, and the
highway will be put in first-class
shape as quickly as men and
money can fi1 it. The completion
of this strip of road, about three
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-05-22
Will Handle Albany Ore.

A traffic agreement has been en-
tered into whereby the Great
Northern Railway company will
haul the output Of the Albany mine.
on sections 2 and II, 57-21, for the
season Of 1903 and 1904. The Al
bany isa property Of the Pitt Iron
Mining Co.
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vafying in thickness in different
hefes from 73 to 121 feet, the laet
he{e TO strike the ore penetrating
lOa feet of taconite. The ore is of
excellent grade, and the owners of
thA1easee have a fortune in their
finh
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-01
To-DAY's PROGRAMME.

To-day at 10 a. III. the business ses- sion will be resumed and in the after noon there vii! be a drive about town and to East Rock. The banquet comes this evening, and in Music hall. Follow ing are the toasts and the speakers:
 oastmaster-Colonel N. G. Osborn. Sons of the American Revolution,'' by President General Warfeld of Balti- more
 Men of '76 and 19O8," by President Hadley of Yale.
 Virginia and the Revolution" by the Hon. John Goode.
 George Washington" by Lieutenant Governor Curtis Guild of Massachusetts.
 Patriotism and Public Service" by the Rev. Dr. Watson l.. Phillips of New Haven.
 Connecticut in the Revolution by Professor Henry Wade Rogers of Yale.
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BADGE LOST AND FOUND.

Colonel Samuel Daskam of Norwalk.
 ex-mayor of that city, delegate to the national convention of s. A. R. in this city, lost a fine masters badge of the order last evening and deploring it's loss was relating the circumstance to Gen. eral E. S. Greeley and other friends at the New Haven house. At the great reception at the art gallery last even ing ex-Postmaster B. R. English, per sonal friend of the colonel, accosted him and apprized him that a lady had pick
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ed up badge and had left it at the New Haven house. It proved to be Colonel Daskams badge. The colonel was delighted to recover it. Colonel Daskam, Who is now over eighty years, lived in New Haven when lad and att tended the famous Lowell, or Lancaster ian school here. The late ex-GovernOr Harrison was a monitor at the school at the time. and MT. Daskam was one of MT. Harrison's pupils and old and warm friends. Colonel Daskam is an uncle Of George T. Bradley, the coal merchant, firm os Benedict & Co. Col onel Daskam is an old friend Of Con- gressman Sperry and well remembers hoW they ran to fires in this city togeth- CT in days of yore.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-01
MRS. ANNA MARIA BEECHER.

Mrs. Anna Maria Beecher, eldest daughter of the late Huldah Foster Yale and Benjamin Beecher, died suddenly at her home, 33 Sylvan avenue, Tuesday
 April 22 of pneumonia. She was sev- enty-two years of age and leaves two sisters, Mrs. Judge Ford of Tacoma, Wash, and Miss Florence H. Beecher of this city. Also two cousins, Edward
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MRS. EMILY WALKLEY.

The funeral of Mrs. Emily Walkley, widow of Solomon Walkley and mother Of Mrs. George Todd, of this city, was held Wednesday in Middletown, the in torment being in the same place. Mrs. Waikley was visiting her daughter in this city, when she received fall that caused congestion of the brain and par alysis. In addition to Mrs. Todd she leaves son, Elbert Walkley. of Hart ford.
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SHOES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS.

Beecher, of Beecher's exchange, and Mrs. John c. Anderson.
 Mrs. Beecher was born in New Haven July 8, 1881, where St. Anthonys hall now stands.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-01

He (bashfully)-"MayI I-er-kiss your baby sister,"
 She Gin disgust)-"Oh, l suppose so-- if you are too cowardly to tackle a girl nearer your own size e''-Chicago News.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-01

Burnett's Vanilla Extract has outIi1ed criticism. It Is the finest and purest vanilla extract that can be bought. Once tried, al- ways used: :.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-08-14

Up in the peaceable, law-abiding
State Of Maine there is a family feud
in progress which equals in bitter
ness and dire results some of the
famous and bloody strifes which oc-
cur in Kentucky. In the town of
Crawford, in Washington county, live
the Magoon and Hanscom families.
For many years bitter feeling has ex-
listed between the Magoons and the
Hanscoms. The feud is of such long
standing that no one seems to know
how it originated, but the feelings of
the opposing factions are no less bit
ter on that account. A number of
controversies and minor fights have
occurred at frequent intervals, which
served to make the bitterness more
intense, and but little was necessary
to kindle the sparks of hatred.
The two factions came together re-
Gently at the Crawford schoolhouse,
where the pupils of the school, assist
ed by their teacher, we're to give an
entertainment and an ice-cream
sale. Frank Magoon was acting
as d%oorkeeper, and before the enter
tainment had begun he had engaged
in an alteration with Fred Hanscom,
the eldest of the younger generation
of Hanscoms.
locked in combat, ~whereupon Harry
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Shortly before midnight he would
go on deck and extract several plump
fowls from the coops he had pre-
empted.' The chickens were dis.
patched without a protesting squawk,
the entrails removed, but the feath-
ers left intact. Seasonings were then
inserted, and the fowl inclosed in a
heavy casing OF soft clay to the thick.
ness of two inches. They were then
cast among the hot embers in the
ashpan and permitted to roast to the
queens taste. When thoroughly cook
ed, they were removed, and the clay
casing broken from about them. The
feathers came away with the clay,
leaving clean, smoking hot fowls
ready for the dish of hot butter await
ing them up stairs. Estep with a
fork stripped the flesh from the bones
into the melted butter, and while the
rest of us stood about and smacked
out lips in anticipation. Dear, dear,
but they were good! In cooking them
in that way all the rich tlavors were
retained-I a almost taste them
now, and I wish l could as a matter
of fact"
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-08-14
ON THE OLD MISSISSIPPI

Recently Major John B. Downing,
of Middleport, Ohio, was discussing
army chicken stealing and the various
ways the boys had of preparing them
to be served. The major was a Mis-
sissippi river pilot in his young days
and stood at the wheel as a cub I'M
der the watchful eye of Sam" Glenn
ems, the Mark Twain of the present
day.
Speaking of chicken stealing" said
the major, who is now gray and rem
iniscent, 1--WE had great times on the
Mississippi when Mark Twain, Jake
Estep, and myself were together. Jake
would have made a typical soldier.
He could locate a fat pullet in a whole
coop of half-breeds.
I'm those days we carried a great
deal of poultry from points along the
Mississippi river to New Orleans, par.
~ticularly during the holiday season.
At many places the coops were four
and Ave deep on the levee> when we
landed. Estep always had IN eye out
for a particularly promising coop, and
usually kept in mind the place where
1t had been stored away.
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PUMPS GOLD FROM WELL

Henry Kaiser, living on an island in
the Yellowstone river a few miles east
Of Livingston, Mont, is one Of the
few men in the world who can sit on
the front steps Of his house and pump
gold from his we'll. This is precisely
what he does every day during the
summer and fall, and in the winter
he spends his time washing over the
sand of which his island Is composed.
Mr.. Kaiser purchased the island for
q mall sum and erected a home there
for himself and family. AS Mrs.
Kaiser is not strong. the husband dug
a well near the front Of the house SO
she would not have far t. go for water
in case he should be absent. His little
daughter while pumping water one
day noticed that the bottom of the
pail was covered with fine yellow
particles that had come up from
the we'll with the water.
Mr.. Kaiser, when his attention was
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-08-14
Pie and Puritanism.

The decadence of Puritanism is
chiefly due to various preparations of
saw dust being eaten for breakfast
throughout New England, instead Of
the cold pie which was formerly the
piece de resistance of the matutinal
meal there.
Cold pie eaten for breakfast gets
in its work while yet the nervous
force, recruited by sleep, is largely
unspent. The result is the fierce, ag-
gressive, hatefulness that is the very
life of Plritanism.
But cold pie for lunch or dinner
merely brings on a gloomy and profit
less apath. 1t might as well never
be eaten, from the religious point of
view.
1t is worth any mans while to eat
cold pie for breakfast a time or two,
if only In order to appreciate the fine
irony Of Bakers Saints Rest.--Life.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-08-14
WHAT MAKES A GENTLEMAN.
Qualities That Neither Wealth Nor
Education Can lmpart to a Man.

Qualities That Neither Wealth Nor
Education Can Impart to a Man.
/ Archbishop Temple. the recently
deceased primate Of the established
church Of England and a man OF the
highest character, gave a short time
before his death the following outline
OF what he considered really gentle
manly conduct:
1.-The man who Is thoroughly unset.
ihsh in all small things, he Is the man
lin regard of whom 1t Is quite impcs-
isible for you not to feel, that man Il
q gentleman. Let his rank in society
lbe what 1t may, let him be ignorant Of
the ordinary conventionalities Of
social Intercourse, still. II the man
tbe truly self-sacrincirg. II in. his ordi.
nary relations with his fellows there
lie true and genuine unselashness, 1t
liz impossible for any man who has
imuch to do with him not to feel That
imam il q gentleman don't care
whether he is educated or not, wheth.
ter he is learned or not; I don't care
,how ignorant he may be or how low
Inc may stand; ! don't care II he be
lever SO poor; the man wlo constantly
that he II constantly giving
himself up for other people, that man
lis at heart and in reality n OF
natures gentlemen and this is the
lway in which he shows It,"
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-08-14
ODD VAGARIES OF TOPERS

1T is interesting to study the con-
tradictions involved in the drinking
habit" said a downtown saloonkeeper.
For twenty years l have closely OBJ
served my patrons and even to this
day l can discover new ideas and
thoughts In the drinking habit. The
thing that has impressed me more
than any other characteristic of the
drinking mar is the fact that whisky
is held up as a universal antidote.
For instance, on a cold day a man
will rush in with his coat collar
turned up, shiver once or twice and
order whisky. It's bitter cold to-
day. he will usually remark. If the
weather is dry and hot and perspira-
ton is rolling off his brow he will
plant himself under a fan and order
a julep. If it is a damp, dismal day,
with low-hanging mists, that depress
one, a fellow will glide with sluggish
movement up to the bar, lean heavily
against 1t, pay the weather a doubt
full compliment and order whisky.
This weather is enough to drive a
man to drink he will say.
observe probably the same man
on a bright, cheerful morning when
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-08-14
HELPS BY THE WAY.
Her Lovers Wandering Depressed Elk
pectant Damsel.

All men who have passed through
the ordeal will agree that proposing
marriage to a young lady is not the
easiest task on earth. Nor are all
women so inclined to help the ardent
swain as the young lady mentioned by
a contemporary. The young man was
embarrassed, but he began bravely:
ut cannot be a surprise to you, Miss
Eupherbia," he said, that is, you must
have suspected from the length of
time | have been coming here, that
i say 1t must have been apparent to
you for some time that | could have
had but one object in view, although
of course | can't claim that you have
given me any to be confident.
Still, you may have asked yourself
what other motive, if any, | could
have had, when it must have been
evident-and yet"
MIR. Billmore," she interrupted,
please be more direct and explicit, if
you can. You wobble painfully"
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the atmosphere is too light and thin
to support a feather. With quick
ened pace, almost as fantastic and
dreamy as a waltz, he will prance in.
smiling gleefully, pound the bar with
a fist to indicate how well and glo-
rious he feels, and inform the bar
tender that the mar who would not
celebrate such a glorious day by TAX
ing a little dram should be forced to
live in a damp, dark dungeon all his
life.
And thus it goes. It is good for
the chills, good for the toeache, tooth
ache and headache, a refuge in a
storm and a destroyer of oppressive
calm. 1t will produce the blues and
then cure them. 1t is guaranteed to
get a man in debt and then make him
forget it. In love it is a solace, cur
ing heartaches as readily as it pro-
duces them. It builds tragedies and
comedies in the same day, makes the
old young and the young old and
And lets a man down when he scars
and makes him soar when he's down.
Give us a drink" said one of the
listeners.'-New Orleans Times-Dem.
ocrat.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-08-14
Dinner With the Rector.

The other day l vas out OF toNn,
said a smart churchman IN Dioo
street, with my rector. We stoppo.
Tor dinner at a farm hotel, II ~.
know what that is. When we !.
down to the repast 1t was about -
worst / eve saw, and my spiritual
rector agreed with me. In fact, ~:
too much for me, and l simply pa'ho :.
But the rector laid to, and was
IDENTIFY relishing it when | said W -
In the language of Paul to tne
mans: J.
"'L.et not him that eateth deSp
him that eateth not =.
TWhereupon the rector, VINO
quicker in the Book than |, repiea.,
And he that doubteth is aaln ~.
II he eat-same chapter Paul %
Romans, last verse;. -.
Before l could command my V'ns.
/ had said, I'll be damned II IN ee 4
He had the best of me accoruine :,
st. Paul, but I had the best OF hiu u.rr
cording to the way l felt."-New L.
Herald.
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FIERCE EEUD IN MAINE

Hanscom . Teared and started TO ala
his brother. Roy MagOon was the
next to enter the melee, and IN a
short time fully twenty CCmbatantS
we're struggling in and near the little
sChOOl-rOOm.
Knives were soOn drawn, several
men were badly wounded, and worse
seemed bound to come, when a large
number of t~OwnspeOple interfereu
and stopped the fight. Some ugly
wounds were inflicted principally
upon those who were trying to stop
the fight. One man had a knife drlv-
en- through his arm and turned
around, terribly mangling the flesh
before the weapon was withdrawn.
Other men received wounds equally
| severe, and a large number received
bruises and minor cuts. One woman
received a serious cut on her arm
while trying to eXtricate her brother
from the melee.
The battle ragged fiercest inside the
school-room, where women and chill
dren escaped injury with difficulty.
When order was finally restored the
interior of the building was SO
wrecked that no attempt was made
to carry out the program. 1t is eX-
pected that the feud Will be thorough
ly aired when the matter gets into
the courts.
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VOICE OF HIS CHILDHOOD.
Why Mr.. Brown Quit Complaining
Abou. the Baby.

It Is a good story, and Mrs. Brown
had to tell it--confdentially. Then it
leaked, until Mr.. Brown himself heard
Of its true inwardness, and since then
he has found no fault with his crying
baby.
Charlie Chats Mr.. Brown was
awfully annoyed by the crying of u
dear little Tommy" said Mrs. Brown
and the fact is that his complaining
was harder to endure than the baby's
bowls. Finally | had an inspiration.
"One morning, at the agoniZirg hour
of four o'clock, Charlie was awakened
by a most unearthly baby yelling and
screaming, and sat UP in bed with a
start.
Cant you stop that baby?' he de-
manded. Did you ever in your life
before hear such a racket from a pair
of lungs? l don't think that there
ever was a mortal, or an immortal,
who made such an earsplitting, sleep
destroying noise since babies were in
vented until this blessed moment
eyes there was, Charlie l n
swered, quite calmly, and you were
that very baby. l have prepared a
lesson for you. You are now listen
ing to your W voice
"'You are crazy he exclaimed.
"'Not a Bit l replied. When you
were the age of Tommy you were just
such a bowling terror as he is, and
for future use your mother set up a
photograph to preserve your voice.
She sent me the cylinder yesterday,
and you will find it in our graphic
phone
HE made no audible reply, but he
did apparently mutter something In.
der his breath, and then turned over
and went to sleep. He hasn't com
planned Of Tommy's voice since, and
1t has occurred to him hat there was
no such thing as a photograph until
long after he was a baby"
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called to the matter, saw at once
that the particles were gold, and since
then he has been steadily at work at
the pump and has averaged a cleanup
of about 500 a week. This fall, when
cold weather comes, he will proceed
to wash the sand of the island.
1t is believed that a vast mount Of
free gold has been washed down from
the mountains by the spring freshets
for many years past, and that these
have caught on the island and re-
NAMED there, until the island has be-
come a rich mine.
Kaiser had intended going into he
ranching business, but now he has
given up that idea and will devote his
time to placer mining at his front
door. He has employed several men.
who have fitted put a small raft, on
which they will proceed slowly down
the Yellowstone river, washing the
various %sandbars, which are known to
contain more or less free gold.
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Wanted the Dogs Place.

Counselor M. A. Lesser says that
n Of the most pathetic pleas he ever
heard was made out of court, and 1t
was not delivered by a lawyer.
One afternoon a fashionably dressed
woman came spinning down Riverside
Drive in an automobile. On the seat
beside her was q small pet dog. A
beautiful little girl In charge of q
nurse was playing with . go-cart nea
the roadside. When the child saw the
approaching automobile, she held up
both hands and exclaimed:
ooh, mamma"
What is 1t, my dear?" inquired TIE
woman.
Say, ma" pleaded the little girl,
looking rather %enviously at the dog:
III Fido died would you take me out
with you in the auto? I don't like al
ways having to 60 In the baby car
riage with Annie."-New York Times.
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United.

Our single lives are circled round
By an embracing sea;
Are Joined to all that has been, bound
To all nat Is to be;
The past and future meet and cross.
And in life's ocean there is no loss,
The music Of the summer dawn,
The silence Of the midnight sky.
The stars, In azure deeps withdrawn,
Reveal a single mystery;
And blent with these come Nhispertngs
OF spirit in each shy retreat,
And link the soul with viewless things,
In union close and sweet.
Failure itself may be u gain
In aspiration: paved with fire
May be the path that leads from pain:
And u%nfulflled desire
May guide to that content, above,
Whose name o n earth is-love.
FLORENCE Earle Coates, in the Reade
for June.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-08-14
AN OLD TIME FLOOD
5OATMEN TELLS OF ExPERl.
ENCE ON THE RIVER.
He Piloted His Boat Over Rail Fences
and Country Roads and Tied Up
for the Night to the Top Branches
Of Trees.

THE food which sent the Ohio river
sprawling all through the woods in
l848 was about as nigh the one that
Noah encountered az / ever saw" said
an old boatman who Qlit the river ten
years ago and who spends his leisure
time about the ship store concern Of
his sons in South street in this city.
Il was captain of a steamer tina. piled
between the upper landings Of the
Ohio and Cairo.
Cairo was the big port where we
always took on stores. 1t depended on
business as to how far up we went In
the food of AS we run about as we
pleased.
THE government had no charts Of
the Ohio then, and if there bad been
any We would have paid no attention
to them. | piloted the Tuscumbia right
over rail fences and country roads in
that flood. We hadn't many landings
to make, for there was no place to
make fast the head lines.
II distinctly remember tying up the
Tuscumbia one night to a big tree that
stood in a waste Of water extending as
far as the eye could see. The night
coming on | found we could not make
the port l wanted to make and navi-
cation by night was altogether too
risky at that high stage of the water.
30 l e out the mate and d~eckhandS
In the yawl with tow lines which they
made fast to a huge tree, which was Z
landmark on shore, near Rockport.
THAT vas not far from the place
where Lincoln is said to have run his
fatboat. All night long the Tuscumbia
tugged at her ropes and chains and l
expected every minute that she
would either break EN- or pull up the
tree.
Among my passengers were sew.
eral Cumberland Presbyterian preach.
ers who were bound down to Smithton
to take a boat to Nashville, where
they we're going to attend the General
Assembly of their denomination. It
looked pretty squally, and invited the
preachers to have a meeting in the
ladies' cabin.
Everybody aboard took more or
less interest in the service except the
fellow who ran the bar. | had quite
q time of it in keeping him quiet. He
said the preachers aft were interfer-
ing with his business for'ard, and that
II | didn't stop the prayer meeting he'd
cut the ropes that held up to the big
tree. | soon convinced him that such
an, act would be worse than the meet
ing, as in case he carried out his dia-
bolical plan everybody would go to
praying, and he would probably be in
the lead.
"The meeting lasted nearly all night.
The next morning we cast off, and by
cutting across fields and through the
woods we made our first landing the
next day, pretty well up on the side OF
q bluff. We let down the smoke stacks
of the Tuscumbia in order to keep
them from getting tangled in the
branches of the trees.
Il don't think there was as great a
loss of life in that food as there has
been In the floods this year, partly ow.
ing to the fact that there were not SO
many people. But it was the greatest
food I ever saw while | was in the
business."-New York Sun.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-08-14
Pay of European Statesmen.

On the continent of Europe Spain
and Italy alone do not remunerate their
legislators direct. On the other hand,
travelling expenses and other privileges
the French houses have SIS a day,
which places them On an equality in
the matter with their Austrian con-
TEN poraries. The Belgian representa-
tive is $40 a week the richer for his
Office: members of both the Portu.
guese houses are content with $500
weekly. Switzerland awards it's ma.
tional councillors $3.50 a DAY, thcss
of the council of state realizing $40 a
week.