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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-02-06
The Impo1iteness of a Railway.

Patrick McCabe, lately section hand
on the Frisco road at Wichita, is suing
that corporation for damages for injuries
received while in it's employ. His plea is
that while working the foreman spoke to
him Sin a loud, profane. and very bolster
Gus manner, thereby causing this plaintiff
to be nervous and excited, and thereby
causing him a, to place himself in 9 position
degree, than he otherwise would have
DONE" The orders were given ''in yerv
loud and boisterous manner, backed mn
by many oaths, such as BE smart .Re
quick and Move yourself etc., Kan
sas section hands seem to be sensitive
plants. -. "a
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-02-06
IRRIGATION PROBLEM.
A Presentation of It's Sociological As.
poets.

- ~~SSS-~S~SAOAA VI AkS oVSAVAOS4NaA 11O'
poets.
In a paper read before the American
Association for the Advancement of Sci
ence, Guy E. Mitchell stated that the
reclamation Of arid America through gov
eminent construction Of irrigation works
will furnish for years to come an effective
outlet for the industrious surplus popula-
ton. of our great cities. The irrigation
sections of the West present almost ideal
rural conditions. The tendency is, where
water is used for farming, to subdivide
land into small individual holdings,
and stability not found in larger farm
ing districts, nor in cities. This is not a
new idea, But while this is being done,
the people of the entire United States
will become 50 educated in irrigation mat
tiers and irrigation methods that there
will be gradual spreading eastward
Of the irrigation idea. This will eventu-
great numbers of large Eastern and
Southern farms and plantations which
are now farmed without thought of arti-
fetal water supply, into smaller irrigat-
ed farms. Never a season goes by,
even in the best watered districts of the
rain belt, that there is not some period
OF plant growth where the judicious APP
pIlcdllOn OF water would very greatly
increase the yield, and in some years
double and treble it. It takes only a
year of excessive drought among East
ern farmers to get them talking about
irrigation, but little comes of it for the
reason that they are entirely unfamiliar
with irrigation methods and have no
idea how to go about the practice of
supplementing the natural water supply.
The irrigation, then, of the 100000, 900
acres of Western plains and valleys,
while it will create innumerab1e small
rural homes Of FIVE, ten, twenty or thirty
acres each, will serve further to en-
courage subdivision of larger areas in
the East and South and tend to make
the small farm and home general rule
throughout the entire country.
Under wise administration arid Ameri-
ca has glorious future. With her
countless small farms and rural homes,
communities where people live in the
open air, till the soil with their hands
and yet enjoy the privileges and advan-
tages Of the city, she. will prove the
sheet anchor of the republic in any time
of national peril; while from her will
radiate eastward the same idea of the
division of the large into small farms,
and the utilization of the stream and the
pond in making certain and increasing
an oftentimes unreliable erop.-Scientifc
American. =, 49,.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-02-06

was in a towering rage. "How dare you
keep such a vicious animal around SIR
he cried: ''1'll have you arrested for
maintaining a nuisance, Ill-I'll-" but
here words failed him.
"But, SIR" broke in the farmer, 'thc
lot is mine, and the bars were up. You
had no right to cross that lot in the first
place, SIR"
The colonel stood amazed, then-"Don't
you know who am, sir?' he asked.
mo, l can't say that do" answered
the countryman.
you.''
The farmer looked thoughtfully at the
perspiring wreck of elegance, and then
into the other lot. .,'
"Indeed, SIR" he said. "Why didn't
you tell that to the bull? ''-New York
Times
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-02-06
MODERN MATINEE GIRL.
of Some Years Since-No More
Mash Notes.

The matinee girl of former days, she of
the mash note and stage door habit, has
vanished from the theater only to reap
pear occasionally in the audiences as
sembleG to witness a performance Of
some popular woman star. Sometimes
read of an orgy of enthusiasm in which
they have participated. 1t is almost in
variably the outcome of the nerve-thrill-
ing performance of genius of the violin
or piano: She has forsaken the actor for
the musician.
The simpering, giggling girl of decade
ago has given place to the serious minded
young woman whose appreciation of
plays and players is tempered with SAM
ty. 10 my mind this affords another H.
lustratlon of feminine progression. 1t is
the manifestation of the same spirit that
has caused them to lean toward athletics.
Life spent in the open air, on the golf
links or on horseback, instead Of hours
suited IN greater physical strength ana
as consequence stronger mental poisc.
Matinee audiences have become a Joy,
not source of amusement: they are now
the OBJECTS of the actors respect-not the
outlet for his "guying" propensities.
Ihelr understanding of the authors in
tent is keen, and they are quick to ac-
knowledge the art of the individual who
correctly interprets it. Details of char
acterization that might escape the notice
OF spectators at any evening performance
are appreciatively observed. They offer
reputation of the statement that women
have no sense Of humor, for each comedy
point, no matter how subtle, wins its
reward of laughter.
And the mash note-how ridiculous the
idea that an atcor's mail is filled with
the sentimental outpourings of silly girls ?
mat custom is truly obsolete. If the
actor does receive communications from
women unknown to him they are as a
rule either requests for autographs or
graceful lines of commentator express
sive of the pleasure the actors work has
given them.
The heroes of the playwright's imagi-
nation are not the subjects Of awe to
the matinee girl. She has the curiosity
to become acquainted with their vitaliz-
ers. Since our little affair in Cuba she
has learned what it is to have real heroes
in her own family.
OF course they have not lost their love
for heroes, but, frankly, have any of us =?
The charmed life of Hercules who
fought villains with one hand and
clutched the pink fingers of his lady-love
with the other no longer finds favor. It
is the modern stage hero who exemplifes
the American man of action that appeals
particularly to our women today, for they
like to sit in front and know that were
the him" in their lives called upon to
face similar conditions that he would do
so as valiantly.
The curled darling of romance is TAX
ing his leave of the theater. The
straight-haired hero has come to stay,
and the new matinee girl with him. -,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-02-06

One of the latest applications of cleo
tricity makes it compete with poison as
sure death to rats. The game birds in
the Zoo at Cincinnati are now protected
from nocturnal rodent marauders by a
trocha which consists of live electric
wire so placed that no rat can reach
Them without attempting to cross it..
SO far the rats that have made the at
tempt have been unsuccessful, and their
corpses have been gathered up and
thrown into the garbage receptacle by
the attendants who clean up the place in
the morning. The electric wire has
been discarded by Marconi, but that
does not argue that it cannot be usefully
employed.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-02-06
Too Many Women.

Australia, it seems, could do with 3OO,-
ana the Cape with 10000. The Family
Doctor says "there are nearly 1000, 900
too many women in the British Isles
Rather ungallant! Not too many" wom-
en-, surely, but more women than men,
London Express. -
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-02-06
A GEORGIA CABIN.
madefa little money

1 made q little money Z -, ~
.. In cotton and in corn,
And spent 1t on a journey : ':sf,
-; From the, State where was born
But Georgia. oh, my Georgia!
Beneath this starry dome
i No place can hold a candle
To the cotton-nelds of home.
The palaces are splendid
Along Fifth avenue; - i: yr.,
The castles up the Hudson.
But fairer are the acres.s- ,. a..
All white as ocean foam.
When snowy bolls are bursting
In the cotton-felds OF home.
ate from silver dishes,
go But smelt the pleasant steam
or 1ohnny-cakes and spare-ribs
In every .homesicE dream; -.
So didn't wait for packing,
But took a brush and comb -
And started back one morning.
For the cotton fields of home. FIG;
hear the banjo strummlng
Beneath the climbing rose: o., -.
The mocking- bird is singing
Farewell to daylight's close.
The purple dusk is fragrant
With whiffs of dewy loan.
Around my easy cabin
In the cotton-felds Of home. =:
=. 80, The melon patch. before it, &C.,
:: The peaches on the wall j.:
'EG;< -. The rows of sweet. potatoes
These are my little ALL
But, I've had enough ofttravel;
=: No more want to roam.
III live and die in Georgia
= And the cotton-fe fields of. home
=, -Ainna Irving in Leslie's Weekly.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-02-06

The ''human fly" who didn't climb the
sides of Milwaukee's City Hall tower
'as advertised" during Carnival days,
has been discovered at Washington, en-
gagged in the steeple buzzy-ness. But he
isn't climbing tower walls any more now
than formerly, probably because the walls
nre not made of sticky fly paper.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-02-06

=. The reported find Of gold on the Lana
ma river, in Alaska, is another timely
jog for the business interests Of the terri
tory, which from the time of the first
rush into the Klondike have been ia
vored by periodical REVEALS of gold ex-
element. Incidentally, the port Of
Seattle, Washington, has been growing
tat on "rush' orders in the Alaska min
ing business.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-02-06

Passengers of the Philadelphia and the
Lucania played chess by the use of wire
less telegraphy while the ships were many
miles apart at sea. This bit of sport re-
calls the complaint of the passengers Of
the disabled St. Louis, who had no wire
less instruments to fash out messages
of more serious import. Soon no first
class ship will be without it's telegraph
instruments.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-02-06
Cheap Postage in Japan.

The cheapest postal service in the
world is that Of Japan, where for 2 SEN
about seyen4tenths Of a penny letters are
the more remarkable when one considers
the difficulties Of transit over a noun
famous and irregular country, where the
railway is still in its infancy and where
wagons alone can pass over some Of the
principal roads, and only few of the;
coast stations are connected by steam
efS -. 80 -. g.-.-.- - Ii.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-02-06

Finland's deplorable condition should
awaken practical sympathy: in 1AIhetea,
among those who are profting largely
from the existing prosperity. There are
large margins for giving in many indus
frioS
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-02-06

The judicial recognition Of kerosene as
kindling, at st. Paul, is based upon an
abundance Of evidence that it never
fails if the match touches the right spot
But no court decision will ever make it
other than blank blank foolishness to in
dulge in the starting of kitchen fires with
kerosene
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-02-06

: A German doctor claims to have dis
covered a rabbit serum that will cure
sufferers from hay fever if they will re-
main indoors from six to eight weeks,
while they are being rabbitized. Perhaps
ii hay fever subjects were to remain in
doors that long every year they might
need no long-eared treatment.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-02-06

The exports from the Unit ed States in
1902 were $3S, 100000 less than they
would have been but for the short corn
crop of 1901. Last weeks corn ship
ments were 2,S56,986 bushels, compared
with 1867 bushels in the corresponding
week of last year. Corn is resuming it's
old rank of king.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-02-06

L 1t is significant Of the age that a
woman-the: late Frances Wilard-has
been chosen by the state of Illinois as
one of the two eminent citizens whose
effigies it is entitled to place in statuary
hall at the capitol in Washington. 1t is
also significant of the age that the sculp-
tor chosen to execute the statue is also
a woman-that gifted daughter of Wis
consin, Miss Helen F. Mears.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-02-06

A few weeks ago it was stated that
farmers in Indiana were burning beans,
finding them cheaper as fuel than coal
and now it is reported that the prospect
of bean famine confronts the; people
of Boston. The Western literary center
used beans to do it's baking, and the East
ern literary center is without beans to
bake. It's very trying winter.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-02-06

. If Uncle Sam takes the Nicaragua
route because Colombia holds out against
the terms upon which he :,is willing to
take the. Panama 2 route, his case will be
stairs. '"'::'A -; ':'''! Ii: H.:
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-02-06

The sixty st. Louis factory girls who
have struck against an order which for
bids them from using chewing gum dur
ing working hours. will probably stick
to their guns if they have to utilize the
gum for the purpose
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-02-06

Judging from. the multiplication of love
tragedies, >Cupid's equipment will have to
be increased by the addition of the revolt
yer, bowie knife: and poison package.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-02-06

A Texas oil company has done some-
thing that is never promised in the pros
pectuses .of promoters; it has. failed.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-02-06

A Massachusetts man Claims to- have
invented a cheap process for converting
seaweed into briquettes WHICH make. "a:
fuel equal to coal. Now let some Iowa
or Missouri man see what he can do with
cOrnSt0fkS - ;'-... ~ ::
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-02-06

j There are 3O1 monuments to Bis
marck in Germany and other countries
of Europe.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-02-06
". E.: AAaNAFoRD, = : Publisher.
): Marconi's wireless telegraph is wonder
full, but Chicagoans are to have hello
girlless telephone

Strawberries at 60 cents box
wouldn't look quite so high if the empty
package had any value as fuel.
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-06-04
Pine Bluff Gets
No Fatal Cyclone
5000 Fugutives from City Must
Return and Bear the Jeers

Little Rock, Ark: Word was re-
ceived from Pine Bluff Friday that the
critical hour of had come and gone
without a cyclone.
Ellen Burnett Jefferson, the negro
woman who had declared the city
would be totally destroyed by a tor
nado at that time, was released by the
authorities from the Pulaski county
Jail here and sent back to Pine Bluff.
The big scare is over and there is
nothing for the 5000 negroes and 700
whites who fed from Pine Bluff to
do but return to their city and bear
the ridicule of friends who were stout
er of heart.
No craze caused by the predictions
of fanatic was ever more serious in
its results than the one Pine Blum has
just experienced. Work of many kinds
has been badly handicapped by the
exodus from the city.
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-06-04
The Rlaht Place to Realn.

When the political history OF Mary
land is written there will be para
graph or two for the McComas-M udd
feud. It Is now in progress, bitter
and unrelenting. McComas was a
United States senator until March A
last, and Mudd is Representative
in Congress. Both are Republicans.
In the old days, though, they we're
bosom friends. McComas was the
leader and Mudd a follower. One
day they were dining together.
sydney" asked McComas, ''how old
is your boy?"
sixteen" replied Mudd, proudly.
my, my" said McComas, Il didn't
think he was 30 old, but, tell you.
Sydney. when the time comes ri do
something handsome for that boy"
Mudd leaned over the table. Mac !"
he said. when you want to do any-
thing for the Mudd family you forget
the boy and begin with the old man
-PhilRdelDhia Saturday Evening Post.
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-06-04
Gen. James b. Smith
TO Succeed Warden Tanner
Col Thomas w. Scott Named Adjutant General OF
the State to Succeed Smith

Springfield, ILL.,: Some Important Of
HcfBi changes are to be made July 1,
nccmding to a semi-ofilcial announce
Enent Friday. j. Mack Tanner on that
aats viii cease to be warden Of the
CHESTER penitentiary, and viii be sue
eeeded by Gen. James b. Smith of
Clay City. at present adjutant general
~ the Illinois national guard Col.
Thomas B. Scott of Fairfield will sue.
eeed Gen. Smith as adjutant general.
The announcement of these changes
came as a surprise to politicians. The
retirement OF Mr.. Tanner from the
WArtienship was not unexpected, but
The appointment Of Gen. Smith to sue
seed him and of Col. Scott to the head
N the state militia, had not been
hooked for. For some months there
has been more or less conflict be.
tween the warden and the commits
sioners Of the Chester prison. and last
winter it was understood that the
commission had suggested to the gov
yernor the .advisability of a change.
Gen. Smith had not been an appli-
zant for the wardenship. Col. Scott
vas In st. Louis when he received a
message from Gov. Yates requesting
BIN 20 come to Springfield. He came,
supposing that his presence was want
ed in connection with the approaching
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-06-04

Il don't know. fear so, for the
visit Il q long one"
Il was near ten o'clock when Doctor
Moran returned and his face was
sombre and thoughtful face OF a
man who had been listening for hours
to grave matters and who had not
been able to throw on their physical
reflection.
Cornelia at once asked; /.
els madame very ill7"
"she is wonderfully well. 1t is her
husband"
Captain Jacobus?"
"Who else7 She has brought him
home. and doubt II she has done
wisely"
What has happened, John2 Surely
you win tell us!"
There is nothing to conceal.
have heard the whole story--a very
pitiful story-but yet like enough to
end well. Madam told me that the
day after her sister-in-law's burial,
James Lauder, Scotchman who had
often sailed with Captain Jacobus,
came down to Charleston to see her.
He declared that having had occasion
to go to Guys hospital in London to
visit a sick comrade, he saw there
Captain Jacobus. He would not admit
any doubt Of his identity, but said the
Captain had forgotten his name, and
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-06-04

everything in connection with his past
life"
"oh, how well can Imagine
madame's hurry and Distress" said
Cornelia.
She hardly knew how to reach Lon.
don quickly enough. But LADDERS
tale proved to be true Her first action
was to take possession of the dement,
ed man, and surround him with every
comfort. He appeared quite indiffers
ent to her care, and she obtained no
shadow of recognition from him. She
then brought to his case all the medi-
cal skill money could procure, and in
the consultation which followed the
physicians decided to perform the
operation of trepanning."
But why? Had he been injured,
John?"
very badly. The hospital books
showed that he had been brought
there by two sailors, who said he had
been struck in gale by a falling
mast. The wound healed, but left
him mentally wreck. The physi-
clans decided that the brain was suf-
fering from pressure, and that trepan-
ming would relieve, If 1t did not cure.
Imagine now what trial was be-
fore madamel 1t was dincult matter
to perform the operation. for the pa
tient could not be made to understand
its necessity; and he was very hard to
manage. Then picture to yourselves,
the terrible strain of nursing which
followed; though madame says It
was soon frightened ard lightened by
her husbands recognition of her.
After that event all WEAKNESS was
rest, and suffering ease. and as soon
as he was able to travel both were
determined to return at once to their
own home. He is yet, however, a
sick man, and may never quite recover
slight paralysis of the lower limbs"
Ito be continued.)
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-06-04
Union Striker Killed.

Kansas City, No: During a quarrel
between union and nonunion men in
Kansas City, Kan, Friday night, Dan
McWilliams, union striker at the
Armourdale foundry, was shot twice
and killed and ]. B. Kentch, non
union boxmaker, was fatally stabbed.
McWilliams and Dick Kilders, also a
union foundryman. were going to a la
Dor union meeting when they met
Kentch and Ed Todd. A quarrel start
ed, in which Kentch was stabbed, and
as he sank to the ground two shots
were fred. killing McWiIlIams.
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-06-04

Montgomery, Ala: oae Of the ne
ErOes who was recently in bondage to
= white citizen of Goodwater. Ala.
arid the grand Jury what he knew Of
HnvoauntAry seryitude Of the negroes.
WhIch has already caused the arrest
/ ~ two prominent planters. The negro
aald me- had been in bondage for more
than = year on chain gang near
'Gossiwater for q debt Of Sc. He told OF
. negro man and a negro woman hay-
7ng been brutally whipped to death.
ne names are withheld until the
u,aIiea States Grand Jury adiourns.
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-06-04

hour or two to your house win come.
There is plenty to talk about"
The next day Cornelia walked down
Broadway to Madame Jacobus' house.
Il was closed and desolate looking and
she sighed as she compared its old
bright spotless comfort, with its pres
ent empty forlornness The change
typifed the change In her heart and
love.
One exquisite day &c they went up
Maiden Lane the Doctor said: my
friend. Gen. Hewitt sails for England
to-day and we will 30 and wish him
q good voyage" So to the pier they
went, and the Doctor left his carriage
and taking Cornella on his arm walk
cd down 70 whero the English packet
was lying.
Soon Cornelia became conscious Of
tile powerful magnetism Of some hu-
nlaa eye, and Oheylng It's Irresistible
attraction sho SAW Georges Hyde STEAD
~ regarding her She waa enthrailad
Mexico Missouri message., 1903-06-04
President Visits
Home of Mormons
Speaks to Enthusiastic Audience
at Salt Lake City

Salt Lake City, Utah: The special
train bearing President Roosevelt and
party pulled into the Oregon Short
Line station from the north at $3.50
Friday morning. After speaking a
moment to the children the President
reviewed the long parade and then,
reentering his carriage, was driven
In the tabernacle.
The president spoke enthusiastically
or the Utah pioneers, who he said
rGame here not to exploit the land ana
: then so somewhere else, but to build
hUmes-
Leaving the tabernacle, the Presi-
dent was driven to Senator Kearn's
residence for luncheon and rest.