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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-08-28
MISS EIiE KEEL IERl.
The Remarkable Achiev yemen & q
Remarkable Girl.


sUnquestionably the most remarkable
deaf and blind person In the world ~
Helen Keller. She. is 80 interesting,
indeed; that one. never tires Of reading
about her and her wonderful achieve
ments. She is certainly the best sdu-.
Gated and her, natural mentality sx-
ceeds that OF any blind and deaf per-
son of her day. She was entirely
dumb for: years. but has now acquired
9 surprising degree Of speech and can
be understood by anyone. Indeed.
when the Schermerhorn addition Of
the New York eye and ear inflrmary in.
New York was dedicated last spring
Helen Keller was one of the speakers
and her address, delivered with her own
lips, was a remarkable illustration Of
the success achieved in teaching the
deaf and dumb to speak. While her
speech lacks infections and smodula-
tons, and while it sounds strange and
forced, it can be understood and it is,
an invaluable boon to Miss Keller, as
she must now be called, since she
reached her twenty-third birthday on
the 9th of last June. The same month
witnessed the close of her second year
as student at Radcliffe college, where
her progress has been surprise even
to those most familiar with her abil-
tiles. 49,. 49, ,,.
What this totally deaf and blind girl
has accomplished as a student at col
lege falls but little short of the
miraculous. "A quarter of a century
ago the most hopeful of the teachers
of the deaf and dumb and blind would
have declared the achievements of
Helen Keller to be impossible. In.
deed, some of the most sanguine of
her friends sought to dissuade her
from entering college after she had
successfully passed the preparatory
examinations because they felt that
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and rites of the Koran. This remark
able ceremony took place a: Bayan
after the diplomacy of Capt PERISH
ing had won the submission of that
place. Pershing's conservation as a
datto gives him distinction never be-
fore enjoyed by an American and
should add to his already great power
among the Moro people,
MANY dattos from other tribes
were in attendance at the consecra-
ton and assisted in the ceremony.
The compact of friendship was made
over the Koran, Pershine being first
cOnsecrated as Moro Ndatto. The
other dattos wore the full regalia of
the Office as chieftains of tribes, and
the strange ceremony was conducted
with all the splendrous rites of the
Mohammedans, made even more pic
turesque in the midst of the semi
civilized tribes of Bayan"
Capt. Pershing is a native of Linn
county, Missouri, and his boyhood was
spent in the little town of Laclede in
that county. 1t was from the congress
sional district of which Linn county
then formed a part that he was ap-
pointed to West Point in the early
sos. In 1886 he was graduated from
West Point and thereafter he served
as second lieutenant in the Sixth
cavalry and first lieutenant in the
Tenth cavalry, taking part in the cam
paign against the Apaches and Nava-
jos in Arizona and New Mexico from
1886 to 1889 with Gen. Chaffee and
under Gen. Miles in the campaign
against the Sioux in 1890.
Meantime Capt. Pershing's parents
had removed from Missouri to Lin
coin, Neb., and when in 1891 the SOL
der was rendered the Office of profess
sor of military science at Nebraska
state university he promptly accented
it, remaining there for four years. He
at once became immensely popular
with the students at the university
and made his department one of the
most popular and prominent in the in
stitution. While he was at the mi
versity Capt. Pershing devoted his
spare moments to study of the law and
In 1895 he was admitted to the bar
Soon after the outbreak of the Snan-
ish-American war Capt. Pershine went
to the Philippines and his record there
Is now matter of history. T. "
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The Iransandine RaiINaD.
One of the Greatest Fa Of Mountain Track Laying Has
Attempted When Completed viii Be he HIGH Road
from the West Coast Republics to Europe. **

The Transandine railway will form,
when completed, the connecting link
between the trunk lines of the Argen-.
tine Republic and the state railways
of Chile, giving through railroad
communication to the east and west
coast ports of Buenos Ayres and Val
paraiso. At present the line on the
Argentine side of the Andes (the
Buenos Ayres & Valparaiso Tran
sandine Railway. company, nmited) is
finished up to Las Cuevas, close on to
the frontier, where a tunnel of ~
miles will pierce the summit ridge, to
connect with the Chilean section of the
railway. In Chile progress is arrested
pending an arrangement between the
Chilean government and the owners
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owing to the amount Of heavy gravels
and boulders lit brings down. The
floor of the valley is formed by series
of terraces (the beds Of old lakes or
sea beaches) in which the torrent. has
cut its channel IN places to a con-
siderable @depth. The railway, q far
up al miles, IL built. wherever pos
sible, on the favorable ground offered
by these successive terraces, crossing
or cutting through the rock where the
river changes its side of the valley,
to regain higher terrace, or running
on a part Of the river bed itself where
the alternatives are impracticable. In
the upper portion Of the valley the
nature of the ground changes, and it
was necessary, to surmount the fire.
quent moraines and sudden rises in the
valley, to adopt rack, with maximum
grades of six per cent, making posi-
BILE much shorter line and subse-
Quent economy in traction.
A word about the bridges. OF tho
225-foot girder spans there are four.
and one 1S0-foot, all bridging the
river. These through bridges are of
steel composite, American truss pat
tern, built to English factors of safety
and with pin connections to avoid
riveting during erection. There are
six deck bridges Of 1875 and 120-foot
span, and there are steel .Whipple-
Murphy Orders, all of English make.
For As and 60zfoot spans the same
type is used, the 60-foot being square,
ended Orders. Smaller spans are
plate Orders, generally deck bridges.
The 225-foot spans weigh 1853 tons
each, and the 135-foot IS tons.
AS may be imagined from the ma
ture gifts route. the railway is not free
from interruption by falls of snow
in winter, and sudden rushes of water
from heavy transforms and sudden
rises of rivers cause Interruptions in
summer. An occasional source of
trouble, too, is what is termed a mud
run, when the accumulated debris of
rocky valley is collected by the food
following rainstorm and sweeps over
the track to depth of several feet
A carefully superintendent system of
line watchmen, however, by which
each section is walked over immedi-
ately before the passage of a train,
reduces to minimum the risk of &C.
cident from these causes. The traffic
of tho railway, in spite of it's incom-
plete state, is steadily increasing, some
5000 to 5000 passengers passing over
each summer, besides constant traffic
of some 5000 passengers to the two
:sanitariums of Cacheuta and Puente
del Inca, where there are hot mineral
springs. The route may be said to be
the highroad from the west coast re-
publics to Europe, and, with the rail-
way completed, an all-year service
can be run by which the dreaded sea
passage around Cape Hore will be
avoided.
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(Miss Helen Keller and Specimen of Her
H.. Writing)
the obstacles in the way were too many
and too formidable for her to over
come ~
But Miss Keller's will power is like
adamant. She is not to be moved from
attempting anything she has decided
to do. She decided to enter college
some years ago and where there's a
will there's a way" was all the. argu-
ment she had to offer when her friends
tried to make her feel that a college
diploma was beyond her powers of
achievement. tits now certain that
that diploma will be hers if she does
not fail in health. The Detroit Free
Press states that Mark Twain said
that Helen Keller and Napoleon were
the two most interesting characters of
the nineteenth century, and the merry
Mark did not mean this as joke. He
had had more than one interview with
Helen Keller and has been most pro-
foundly impressed by her remarkable
achievements. ), Miss Keller. has writ
ten of our genial American humorist:
IT. love Mark Twain-who does mo-?
The gods, too, loved him, and put into
his heart all manner Of wisdom; then,
fearing least he should become a pes
sim list, they SPAWNED his mind with q
rainbow of love and faith"
Such men as Phillips Brooks, Ed
ward Everett Hale, John G. Whittier,
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Joseph Jefter-
son and other notables have found de-
light in meeting Helen Keller, and she
has amazed and delighted =. them by
the wonderful scope of her mind. This
taind and deaf girl has learned to
operate an ordinary typewriter with
ease and perfect accuracy. She has
learned, to solve difficult geometrical
problems with bits of wire. because it
is, of course, impossible for her to
see the; geometrical figures drawn on
the blackboard for the rest OF her
class. Her sensitive fingers have had
to take the place of eyes aud ears. The
limitations put upon her by the loss
Of sight and hearing have not daunt-
ed nor dismayed her courageous spirit.
and the day on which she receives her
diploma at the close OF her college
career will be an epoch In the history
Of educational achievements in our
country. r Z. IS. 4:
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the OOlVerSe.J r.
cry was made few months ago scien-
fists in all quarters of the globe arose
forthwith and smote him hip and
thigh. They said it was all nonsense,
just as they had said it was madness
to suppose man had descended from
monkeys-which was the popular way
Of describing the doctrine put forth
by DIR. Wallace and Darwin, and now
almost universally accepted.
DR.. Wallace was living in one Of the
remote Moluccas islands in 1858 and
suffering from violent attack of
fever when the idea of the law of
natural selection burst upon him.
Fever or no fever, he could not rest
until he had worked it out and put 1t
upon paper. He sent it of to his friend
Darwin to ask him what he thought Of
it, little dreaming that his letter would
be a thunderbolt to Darwin.
~ DR.. Wallace, who, at the age Of &c..
is setting forth on one of the greatest
scientific battles of his life, has always
been a tremendous worker. He began
to, earn a living at the age Of Is as land
surveyor, but soon turned his attention
to natural history, setting forth to.
the Amazon on a., scientific expedi-
ton. and going later to the Malay
archipelago, where he was when he.
hit upon Darwin's, great idea He:
lectured in America II years ago and
has written many books that take
high rank in scientific research
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-08-28

GEORGE H. MAXWELL.
Executive Chairman of the National Irri
cation Association.)
vention of the National Irrigation as
ISOLATION to be held at Ogden, Utah.
Recently P. c. Jackson, of Lomita,
Tex, sent communication to a local
paper strongly advocating Maxwell as
the running mate of Theodore Roose-
welt. The communication was pub
:ished and the incident gave raise to a
determined effort of national irriga-
tionists to secure this honor for the
man who has been most active in fur
thering. the aims of the association and
whose views on the comprehensive
plan of western arid land reclamation
are in conformity with those of the
president. Maxwell shares with Con-
gresham Newlands the honors of the
construction and passage of the Hans
brOugh-Newlands act which is estab-
fishing the foundation for great sys-
tenn of storage reservoirs and the re-
clamation of thousands upon thous-
ands of acres of desert land in the
west. 1t is pointed out by his friends
that Maxwell would be a logical COM
plement of the Roosevelt administra-
ton through his remarkable adapta-
bility to one of the presidents most
important policies-that OF national
irrigation: T. E-#
Mr.. Maxwell is native Californian.
sis political record consists merely in
humping the state for the republican
party IN 1894. He was a resident of
Sonome, CAL, but in the devotion of
recent years to national irrigation mat
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- by His SubjectS.)
ceremonies not quite in keeping with
the western character of the new ia
pan. Last year Marquis Ito, the great
est of living Japanese, prounced fun
eral Grafton in the temple over his
murdered political colleague. Mr..
Hoshi.
The next day several of the newspa-
pers, in party spirit, denounced him
for having gone Immediately into the
presence of the emperor in the gar
ments which he had worn at the fun
eral.
In November of each year the en-
peror gives a garden party. Many of
the members of the old regime gather
up the soil where his chair has rested
and take it away, believing it to be a
cure for all ailments Other guests
take away portions of the food pro-
vided by the emperor, as things too
sacred to eat, and preserve them in
the holiest place in the house.
The emperor rarely goes out When
he do s, he is attended in his carriage
by one of two old gentlemen, who
alone enjoy this privilege. The at
tendant sits opposite, and does not
venture to lift his eyes to look at the
emperor: He has a large palace. and
is known as "the man. who drives
with the emperor
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-08-28
Cook Lady Held the Fort.

Mrs. Charles johnson, Of New
Haven, Conn, engaged comely cook.
in New York, and she proved ) jewel.
In her line. On the fourth day II her
new home she paralyzed her mistress
BY falling In an epileptic at on re-
covering, the cook stated that she was.
subject to them Mrs. johnson said
the girl must leave the house. The lat
/ ter declared that % she had been en-.
gagged Tor month she was determineds
to stay. All persuasion having been
useless TO dislodge her, Mr. and Mrs.
Johnson sought . Temporary home &c
e hotel. leaving the cook II possession
for 8 month SSss
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ters he scarcely has been able to claim
any state as his home.
Mr.. Maxwell practiced law in the
state of California for 20 years and
first became interested in the work Of
arid land reclamation while assisting
in the framing OF laws to meet irrigat-
ing exigencies in that state The most
material achievements in which his
efforts have figured conspicuously is
the assured construction by this gov
eminent of dam at the Tonic basin
reservoir site, near Phoenix, which
will create for land reclamation and
irrigation purposes the greatest arti-
fetal lake on earth.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-08-28
GENUINE GEORGIA GIANT.
He Lives at WaycrOss, Tips the Scales
Mt $40 Pounds and Has
Great STRENGTH

The biggest X. P. in the world lives
at Waycross, Ga. The name of this
extraordinary members of the knights
of Pythias is w. T. Brinson, and he is
not only active bQt he is energetic.
Nor has he dreamed his life away as
bachelor, for he has a handsome
young wife and eight hale and hearty
children, ranging in ages from 10 to 3.
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AN AMERIC a N d TITO.
uoros Bestowed Unique Honor on
,.: Capt. ]. J. Pershing.
The Only White Man Ever So Distin-
Guished by the Proud and War
Z: go like Natives Of Mtada-- :
~. = n 49, na0 Island. ~ -

Capt. John J. Pershing. of the FIJI
teenth cavalry, has arrived In San
Francisco from Manila and will go
to Washington to report for duty as a
member of the general staff of the
army.
AS captain of a troop in the Fiji
teenth cavalry this. stalwart young
western soldier has been in command
of department In the island of Min
danao for several months and has
done much by his tactful,s diplomatic
methods to bring about better under
standing between the refractory Moros
and the United States government and
army. Capt. Pershing has led his men
in several sharp engagements with the
bolo men, but he has accomplished
far more toward establishing peace
and good feeling in the island by
diplomacy and craftsmanship than he
has by force of arms. BY his tactful
methods he subdued powerful and
apparently implacably hostile religious
leader and that without firing shot,
BY bold dash he captured fort
which the Moros regarded as practic-
ally ir1pregnable. In that charge he
lost only three men. He constructed
roads through all but impenetrable
jungles and brought the remostest in
terror of the island into close COM
muntcati0n with the coast.
So diplomatic has been the policy
pursued by Capt. Pershing that the
natives of the island of Mindanao
have come to look upon him with great
respect and reverence. Not long ago
he was made a datto with the full
Mohammedan ceremony. Referring to
this interesting event the Manila
Times of few months ago said:
capt. Pershing, commander of the
American forces at Lake Lanao, has
been consecrated datto by the law
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STAND ARD OF VANITY.
senator Platt Has discovered a Man
Whose Capacity for Flattery
IL Marvel.

Senator Thomas c. Plat, on his 10th
birthday, was talking to group of re-
porters at Manhattan beach about a GER
tain politician.
ITO land him, bait your hook with
hattery, said the senator. HE is an ego
fist. His worst enemy, by praising the
cut of his coat, the architecture Of his
house. his skill at steering a boat or
making speech, his grace in lifting his
hat to woman-his worst enemy. by
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-08-28
From Governor to Con.t.b1e.

Just for a joke the friends of Phineas
T. Lounsbury, ex-governor of Connec-
ticut, last spring ran him for consta-
BILE in Ridgedeld, of which town he is
q resident, and elected him. He ac-
cepted the Office and was sworn in.
II get my fun out of it, he says. 81
spend my leisure time in watching the
men who ran me for office and IN MAX
ing them keep of the sidewalks with
their wheels." zts. Ell
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-08-28
BOOM FOR MAXWELL.
Irrigation Men Want Chairman of
Their Organization to Run
with Roosevelt.

Unless George H. Maxwell, executive
chairman of the National Irrigation
association, opposes plans formulated
at Phoenix, Ari., during his absence in
the east, it is probable that a vice
presidential boom will be. formally
launched for him at the October con-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-08-28
THE SERV1AN THRONE.
Should King Peter Pass Away Sud-
denly There Would He Two
Claimants for 1t.

Should King Peter, who is well adj
vanced in years, die suddenly or be:
assassinated, there will be at least two
throne claimants. The. first Is, Of.
course Crown Prince George, the son
of ex-King Milan Countess Cris-.
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Crooked Work i'm Prt.o,.

Detectives lately entered Clinton
prison, New York, as "'convicts.' on
the trail of Irregularities. They discoy,-..
cred that morphine is peddled among
the prisoners, and sold at exorbitant
prices. Some of the keepers added
largely to their incomes by this traf-
dc. n 555s ~
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-08-28
HON. THOMAS c. PLATT.

(New York senator Has Discovered Vain
est Man in America)
praising him or anything that concerns
him, can twist him around his finger. >.
Yes" the senator concluded, he is
an egotfst; a man who would be glad to
die for the pleasure Of looking up from
his grave and reading the stonecutter's
puff on his tombstone" - -
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1903-10-21
Welded IN THE WEST.
MISS DUVALL WEEDS WESTERNER.

A wedding of interest to Annapolitans
and one that came as a surprise to many
was that of Miss Annie Duvall. daughter
of the late Jefferson I. Duvall of this
city and Mr.. Edgar G. White, of St
Johns College man and also wellknown
here. The wedding took place on Octo-
Der ID, last Wednesday, at Salt Lake
City, Utah, where the bride was visiting
her sister Mrs. X. Lee Duvall.
Miss Annie Duvall left here early in
the spring to spend the summer with her
sister at Portland, Oregon and will now
remain and make her home in the West.
The bride, Mrs. Edgar G. White, is sis
ter Of Mrs. Ernest Duvall, nee Alma
Duvall, and Mr.. Joseph Duvall the popu-
lar merchant of Churdh Circle and Main
streets. She also has brother, Mr. Ed
ward Duvall who resides in the West. She
will make her home in Nevada where
Mr. White is engaged in business. The
bride was highly esteemed here. She is
a young lady of strong character, beauti-
full disposition and has many friends who
while pleased at the marriage regret she
will be SO far removed from them.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1903-10-21
NEW POLICE ON DUTY.
Chief Howard Taylor Again Takes Charge
Of The Force And Enters Upon
His Old Dub

Although il had been given out by
the Mayor that the newly elected
police force would not go ON duty
until the first of November, things
took a sudden turn and they went ON
duty last night.
The reason for breaking in ON the
month is said TO be because members
of the City Council had given notice
that if the newly elected police force
did not go ON duty before the next
meeting of the City Council their
offices would be declared vacant.
Ii was not the desire of the force to
press the matter, but the Democratic
members were urgent in the matter.
il is said, and the uniforms being fin
ished, they assumed the duties of Gus
todians of the peace today. Last night
the retiring police force escorted their
successors around the city, giving them
a cue and showing them the ropes.
Patrolmeu Owens and Brooks and
Chief Taylor are familiar with the
duties of the force, they had been there
before many n time. The officers
were sworn in at the last meeting of
the Council, and were today given in
structions by Chief of Police Howard
b. Taylor. All patroled their several
beats today. They are Chief Howard
b. Taylor, Sergeant George Hahn.
Patrolmen William Brooks, George
Freeman, Samuel Owens, Charles II.
Obery, Richard Holiday, John Holiday
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1903-10-21
ORPHANS COURT.
Judicial Disposition of The Affairs Of The
Orphans And Widows,

The Orphans Court met this morning
with Chief Judge Alfred Ijams and Asso
ciate Judges Charles Fl Russell an
Henry Woodward and Sheriff Beasley,
Register of Wills Luther A. Palmer and
Deputy Register Joseph o. Fowler in
attendance. The Court transacted the
following business
Administrator bond of Charles A.
Robinson, administrator of Alice Rob
inson, deceased, was filed and approx
ed and notice to creditors given.
Application of Elias Gather, for
letters of guardianship to minor chill
dren of Alberta Gather, deceased, was
filed and approved by the Court and
bond filed and approved.
Inventory of the personal estate of
Alice Robinson, deceased, was filed
and passed by the Court.
Remuneration in the estate Of Clara
Y. Johnson, deceased, was filed and
approved by the Court.
Release of children and heirs at
law of Joseph Chaney, deceased, TO
Sarah j. G haney, was filed and ap-
proved by the Court.
Letters of administration were
granted to Julian Brewer and Marga-
ret b. Diefel, in the estate of Mary G..
Ziehlke, deceased, notice to creditors
given and warrant to appraise prop
erty issued to John B. League and
Charles Ellinghausen.