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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-04-05
Old Mansion May Be Sold for Taxes

HICAGO.-Remnants of what once
~ was the Reber mansion, Chicago's
pride in ante-bellum days, will be sold
for taxes by Cook county some time
in March. For forty years county,
state and city have attempted unsuc-
cessfully the collection of taxes on
this last vestige of the Reber estate.
And the proceeding will not be
without its pathos and romance. BY
1t the home will be sold over the head
Of Gertrude v. Reber Backus, who in
her eighth decade Of life is alone in
the world. In her eighty years she
has seen the mansion of old trans
formed into forfeited howell.
The property is at Ellis avenue and
East Fortieth street, in the heart of a
choice residence district. Lots of So
foot frontage there are valued at
$4,000. Tax complications have de-
stroyed title to the Reber property
and Mrs. Backus has been clinging to
her home in the face of impending
dispossession.
For thirty years tax buyers have
grasped the Reber property at each
delinquent tax sale. In those years
the residence, with its site, was &C.
cepted as good risk by tax buyers.
AS years went by and the aged owner
chung persistently to her abode, even
In defiance Of law, the tax buyerz
abandoned it as bad proposition.
Since 1901 the county has levied on
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-04-05
Society Will Dress for the Cardinal

CARDINAL GIBBONS annual spring
u visit to Washington is causing no
end of trouble in the social world.
The edict recently issued by Pope
Plus that cardinals and high church
men should not attend dinner parties
where low cut gowns are worn, which
edict was taken up and circulated by
Cardinal Farley and Cardinal Bourne.
of London, is, It Is said, causing
women in society to seek their dress
makers In haste.
Cardinal Gibbons is great favorite
in Washington, and is annually enter
tanned here by Mrs. Stephen b. Elkins,
Mrs. William F. Draper, Miss Patten,
the Chief Justice and Mrs. Edward D.
White, Mrs. Henry c. Corbin and
others. His first visit was with Mrs.
William F. Draper, who gave dinner
in his honor. Mrs. Corbin, Miss Pat
ten, Mrs. Elkfns and others will en-
terrain the cardinal, but none of them,
so far as Is known, has followed Car
dinal Bourne's example, when he is
sued invitations to a large reception
and asked the women invited to wear
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-04-05

IF the proprietor OF one OF those
/ Seeing Washington" outfits could
take tourists to see Ollie James eat
dinner he would make great hit.
James, who is representative and
senator-elect from Kentucky, is the
largest man in public life, and to see
him dredge into a beefsteak is an in
spiration. The other day James drop
ped into a Pennsylvania avenue res
taurant and ordered a bite to eat,
which he had perfect right to do.
He ordered without ostentation, pomp
or pretense, and had no thought OF at
tracing attention to his gastronomic
prowess. But little groups OF diners
began to collect near James table to
see what would happen.
The ever present newspaper report
er was included in the anxious party,
whose curiosity to learn what the big
one consumed in the way of food and
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-04-05
Speakers Wife a Strenuous Teacher

In spelling we always occupied po-
sitiols at the foot OF the class, but l
remember that on one occasion We
spelled every word that came to VI,
and when the lesson was over We
stood one. two, three, four, right at
the head.
Then came the expose. Bill Flick
lin told Miss Bennett we had stealth
lily looked at the book each time We
had to spell a word, and that was why
We made such a high average.
1.-THE fun began when school was,
dismissed. We set on F1cklin and
gave him a good licking. The next
day we were brought before the court,
with Miss Bennett as the presiding
judge. l told her that We licked Flick
lin because he tattled on us, and to
give me the whipping and let the
other boys go. (This was not special
heroism on my part. I got licking
every day, anyway
'"The other boys, with the exception
of Bill Powell, put up a good talk
Powell refused to say a word. This
obstinacy aroused the simon-pure
fighting spirit In Miss Bennett. who.
turned the rest Of us loose and start
ed on Bill. She gave him one OF the
best 'whal1ngs' he had ever had in his
life. He didn't awe her a bit. She
had her dander up, and Bill got the
full benefit of It,"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-04-05

respective way apparently undisturbed.
Senator John Sharp Williams,
whose Observation-Disclosures Is notorious,
is also a keen student of practical
jokes.
They were having house party at
the Williams home here, recently, and
some OF the young people asked the
senator to cooperate with them in
playing merry trick on his son. The
plan was to squirt quantity OF ice
water over the transom on young Viii
liams after he had retired for the
night. AS father and son were shar-
ing the same bedroom during the
house party, the senator would get to
witness the result of the experiment,
and he entered into the spirit OF the
prank with much Zest. He indicated
the bed occupied by his son and with
his own hands helped to rig up the
ice water apparatus.
About one o'clock that night wild
snort of dismay from Senator Will
liams echoed and re-echoed through
the house.
He had SYSTEMATICALLY gone to
sleep in his sons bed.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-04-05
Big Senator's Especial for Three"

drink, led them to become eavesdrop-
pers.
The giant senator apparently took
no notice Of the assembled rubber
necks." neither did he look at the bill
of fare.
Bring me steak" James told the
waiter, and that was all the plans or
specifications for the steak that he
furnished. The waiter seemed to un-
derstand. Presently he returned with
an amplitudinous leviathan of steak
that appeared on the scorecard as
special for three"
That's the kind of steak that Ollie
James can masticate with much glee.
provided there are enough side dishes
to whet his appetite.
Do not get the impression, either.
that the colossal statesman from Ken
lucky is glutton. The kind Of q
steak he eats is no more adequate
food supply for him, than a couple OF
lamb chops would be for the average
tive-foot-ten work-a-day citizens.
A million years or SO from now
scientists with side whiskers will get
hold of the skeleton of Ollie James
and try to learn whether he lived be-
fore or after the mound builders. But
they will lever find out.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-04-05

the property regularly. Delinquency
notices were served with no effect.
Court procedure had as little effect
The gray-haired defendant let every
thing go by default and held stead
lastly to her abode.
Tn county's plan to foreclose on it's
tax lien is the first action taken
against the tax defying estate that
can have the effect of dislodging the
old lady. The county can obtain the
right to sell the property through a
master in chancery.
March 20 Peter Schmitz, county tax
expert, will go before Judge Seaman
to have the Reber matter referred to
a master in chancery. With a report
from the master the county will be
empowered to advertise the property
for sale.
After the sale the heirs to the es-
tate have two years in which to make
redemption. Without such action the
entire proceeds of the sale will revert
to the county treasurer.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-04-05
Ants Nests Divert Fashionable Civ

To vary the program the ants are
made to engage in pitched battle as
one swarm is introduced into the nest
of another. Invaders and invaded
lock In fierce combat, and a hastily
improvised hospital and ambulance
service for the injured is organized
by the non-combatants. This idea was
introduced into Paris society by
well-known singer.
Another innovation which is having
an immense success is a dogs train
ing college,. which was opened in the
most fashionable quarter of Paris.
Here a society womans dumb friend
is lodged, fed, and educated in all
that he should and should not do at
the trifling fee of about $50 a month.
though day pupils are admitted at a
lower rate.
Many graceful accomplishments are
impaired in the course, which is di.
vided into school and college grades
and diplomas are awarded on a Ger
tain standard Of proficiency being at
tanned. It Is jokingly said that thu
time-honored French polish 10 e,tss
to the do91. g.,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-04-05

bodices with high collars. It Is prob
able that Mrs. Draper. who II one OF
the stanchest admirers of the cardinal.
will intimate to her women guests
that it will be In good taste to wear
afternoon gowns, whether they are
Catholics or Protestants.
It has long been the custom OF
women when attending a dinner or
reception In honor of Cardinal Glib
bons to wear their most costly gowns
and jewels, and it will require some
change In the fashion of dinner gowns
to conform to the new rule. There
are SO many prominent Catholic
women here, however, that there is
no fear but that every care will be
taken not to offend the churchmen.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-04-05
LEADER in INDIAN AFFAIRS

The new maharajah, Ripu Singh, is
the son of the deceased rajah, Sir
Heira Singh Malvinda Bahadur. G. c.
S. l., G.. C. l. E., of Nabha, whose
death was announced December q,
1911. The state Of Shabha is one of
the three Phulkian states of the Pun
jab, but as the Maharajah Of Nabha Is
the direct descendant Of Bahia Phul.
the great common ancestor of the
Phulkian chiefs, therefore the rajahs
of Nabha are regarded with special
reverence by the two other chiefs of
Patiala and Jhind, and have great in
f1uence among the sikh community
Moreover, the original place of their
forefathers, village named Phul, aft
er the name of their common ances-
tor, Is in the territory of Nabha state.
Nabha state is about 1000 square
miles in extent with population of
100000 and annual revenue Of about
twenty lakhs of rupees. This state is
in alliance with the British throne.
and under the treaty the Rajah Of
Nabha has the right to intlict capital
His Highness the Maharajah Ripu
of age but has already distinguished
T ncv{c1e
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-04-05

the n the most modern the hundred and fifty Haps
ours archdukes that soldering
man the Rainier He made Vienna art and science CITY,
Imperial Academy
ence
ana
Lndons South
Rainer
millionaire princes.
Inc Raner lives small and dusty his palace All the other
filled with He
getting
ancient wife,
dreamer
politics.
politically
then the Raner goahea
which passion
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-04-05
Was Bitten by Bloodthirsty Barbastel

pronounce the name of the blood.
thirsty animal they did not succeed in
getting help.
Rosie Goldstein tried to slip under
the safe, saying tkat the barbastel
was an eagle and that she had often
seen its species in Russia, but the
space beneath the bottom of the safe
was too narrow for Rusie's buxom fig
ure, so she was compelled to crawl un-
der bench.
In the meanwhile Binberg had grab
bed a stick and tried to beat the bar
bastel, who was devouring the hair
tonic on Binberg's curly locks. He
managed to hit the barbaytel once,
after having bruised himself dozen
times
Manager Joseph Blankford was
dancing around in frenzy, crying.
Observation-Disclosures, b-b.beat it,
but the ferocious animal couldn't un-
derstand Yiddish and transferred his
affections from Binberg to Blankford.
Joe won by nose in the race for q
closet
Finally Mr.. Barbastel was cornered
and clapped under an empty box, and
some 5 or 10 people sat on top to
make sure that it didn't escape.
Mr. Fechter returned from bust.
ness call, and found his employees
completely metrogrobolized by the
awful encounter. Cautiously lifting
up the box, he looked within and be-
gan to laugh as though he would burst
a blood vessel. His employees were
aghast when Mr. Fechter grabbed the
animal and showed it into a wide
necked bottle.
What Is it, a-neagle?" asked Re.
becca Zuckerman.
mo, you blockheads; it's only
bat" said Mr.. Fechter.
10y oy," said the employees, and
went back to work.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-04-05

DARIS.-With the approach of spring
1 the rage for novelty has descended
on fashionable Paris On all sides
new forms Of the entertainment of
guests and new ways of doing things
are being subjected to experiment.
One of the most curious of the new
fashions is the ants nest craze. No
hostess thinks a drawing room COM
Dlete unless it contains a glass case
inside Of which are a few pounds of
earth, a large number of ants and
their eggs, and supply of more or
ess suitable food. Guests are pro-
'ided with magnifying glasses and
ire invited to watch the Industrious
Insects carrying on their domestic and
civic duties, much az II still in 4 coun-
~ deld>
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-04-05
Marines.

Marines.
Marines-soldiers serving on ship
board-date back to the year 1864,
when an order in council, dated Oc-
tober 16, authorized 1,20O English
soldiers to be raised and formed into
a regiment. More regiments were
later formed, and by 1859 the marines
numbered $4,000 men. In the latter
years Of the French wars they num-
bered $4,000. The marines are today
a feature of every navy. and in most
countries officers of the marines are
equal in rszk with those in the army
and navy. ....s I. b. r. =.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-04-05


dishes
many
The dressing
made outside
modelling her and those
She
claims
about going a deal.
She thrifty that Of the housekeeping
cvng O. She
month she finds bills
their
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-04-05
TatIor's Cutting Retort.

TatIor's Cutting Retort pr
A newly elected Australian labor N.
P. returns his occupation as '.tailor'e
cutter"-an avocation rarely repre-
scented in parliament. Some time ago.
says the London Chronicle, Australia
had remarkably eloquent and witty
tailor, who became not only an NJ. T. 5.
but a minister Of the crown. To him
new governar made this maIadroft
remark: Il hear, Mr.. Jones, You wero.
once tailor" Yes. my lord. I,
was. " And how are you enesrad
nov Z! Taking your excellencv1e
moAsuro.'' -.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-04-05
EUROPE'S ROYAL HOUSEWIFE

It would be hard to find more capa-
BILE housekeeper than the empress of
Germany.
Her ideal is service: she has de-
voted her life to serving her country,
her husband, ind her children. She
believes that this is woman's highest
and only mission, and that women are
happy, as long as they keep to this
ideal. The empress has never inter-
fered in affairs Of state, and the daz-
zle of court :ife has meant little to
her. But she has always found Joy
caring for the comforts of the emper-
or, looking after her children, and
managing her household.
When the Kaiser calls for his wife
he finds her engrossed in the many
departments Of her housekeeping lore
in which she Is 70 proficient. Though
she does not go into tAe Kitchen and
order her groceries and meats as do
her subjects. the chief steward comes
to her study every morning and they
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-04-05
MAKING PRESS ARRANGEMENTS

Letters are being received daily by
Charles S. Albert, chairman Of the
standing committee of correspondents
in charge Of the Press Galleries of the
Senate and House of Representatives
at Washington, asking for reserva-
tons in the press sections at the Re.
publican and Democratic National
conventions, the latter of which will
be held in Baltimore June rs. The
committee Of which Mr.. Albert is the
chairman has been designated by the
national committees of the two par
ties to receive all requests and assist
in the assignment of seats in the press
sections of the two conventions.
Mr.. Albert has been in the Wash
ington newspaper field for Fl years.
now approximating the deanship Of
the corps in point of service. He was
manager of the Press News Associa-
ton, night editor of the United Press
and in charge OF the New York World
Bureau before, during and after the
Spanish-American war, and has since
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-04-05
BEST LOVE D MAN in AUSTRIA

Undoubtedly the bestowed man in
broad Austria is not cross old Kaiser
Franz Josef, but his still older cousin
and councillor, Archduke Rainer. Rain
er Is very, very old; and he Is known
as "the Rainer." When clerks and
lawyers on their way to the 1nnenstadt
pass his little place in Favoritin-
strasse, and see pressed to the win
dow white face, white hair, a short
white beard and long white mustache,
they do not say, "That is the Arch
duke" They say Look at the Rain.
er," and they repeat some ancient
tale from the Neue Freie Presse about
the Rainer's immemorial antiquity.
The Rainer is indeed terribly old.
He was born and grew up in the days
when Austria owned Venetia, and
there his papa, another Archduke
Rainer, ruled; and this papa was born
away back in 1888, almost in the TO-
coco age Of Vatican shepherdesses,
Rosenkavaliers and George Washing
ton Rut "a If tn mock at his anti.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-04-05

A New York Judge has declined to
grant a 5;vorce 10 an actress, holding
that the charge she made against he
husband was not sufficient to warran
the issuance Of a decree. The judg.
must think marriage is a seriou:
business even as it concerns people O.
the stage.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-04-05

A New Jersey woman is suing for
damages because after a surgical
operation pair of forceps was sewed
up inside her. She is lucky not to
have the price of the instrument
charged against its loss in her bill.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-04-05

A near scientist tells us that when
ever a man tells lie his big toe
wiggles There must be some enthu-
siastic wiggling on the bathing
beaches in summer
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-04-05

A Boston highbrow tells US that II
he had created the world he would
have made every woman beautiful
And what would the beauty doctor do
then. poor thing?
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-04-05

One Of the governments weather
sharks says that ocean currents do not
influence the weather. Perhaps, how
ever. he will permit us to continue TO
believe that the moon and the tide
are affinities.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-04-05

A prominent dentist informs US that
ones, but the man who knocks out his
fellow mans teeth is not necessarily
looked upon as a philanthropist.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-04-05

Those Manchurlan princes do not
make any pretenses to the effect that
they stepped out OF power in order
to devote more time to the uplift-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-04-05

Though a Minnesota man caught
ton Of fish with his hands, others have
made greater catches with their imag-
nations
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-04-05

A New York surgeon says the YER
inform appendix fulf1lls an important
function He is, of course, speaking
from the surgeons standpoint,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-04-05

A Connecticut bank has gone to the
wall because its books had not been
balanced for forty years. 1t seems,
therefore, that the balancing of bank
books is important, after all.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-04-05

A gun made of cement is one OF the
latest devices for war purposes. 1t is
dangerous to stand either at the muz-
zle or the breech.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-04-05

China invented fireworks good
many hundred years before it had an
independence day to explode them on.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-04-05

The Palace OF Peace at The Hague
will be completed in July Of next
year. The work is not being hurried
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-04-05

Fashion notes make it easy to fore
tell that ladies' hats will be high and
p0cketbooks retain their usual shape
Of fairness.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-04-05

The Massachusetts man who has
been on the operating table thirty-f1ve
times may be merely trying to estab-
lish a reputation as cut-up.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-04-05

Don't boast, even II you did have
eggs for breakfast. The man to
whom you feel so superior may have
had butter on his johnnycake.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-04-05

Now a society for promoting eff
cheney has been launched. One Of tie
ways Of doing it would be to waste
less time on forming fool organiza-
tons.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-04-05

We take off our hat to the pul-2otor,
which not only draws suicides back
from the dark shore, but patches up
their lovers Quarrels.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-04-05

We await anxiously the time when
the little ex-Emperor Pu vi will be-
gin making attempts to come back
They all do It,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-04-05

The death of Lord Lister, who dis.
covered antiseptic surgery and has
saved the lives of thousands, recalls
the fact that he was not placed in the
list Of the twenty greatest.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-04-05

Golf balls are to be cheaper. But
We cannot paraphrase Marie Anton.
cite and eat golf balls If we can't
have bread
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-04-05

The couple who get married in fly
ing machine evidently do not desire
elaborate ceremonies-just q plane
wedding.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-04-05

A 27-pound lobster has been caught
at Atlantic City. 1t was not accom-
panied by a chorus girl.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-04-05

1t was with difficulty that Lake
Michigan was kept from freezing from
shore to shore this winter.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-04-05

Automatic starters may be all right
for automobiles, but they would never
do to set a political campaign in mo-
ton.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-04-05

Doctors saved the life of New York
man whose neck was broken But he
will still have to live in New York.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-04-05

What a pity that the average man
has no place to store away Ice for a
dusty day!
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-04-05

Other seeds may be higher this
year, but seeds of kindness will cost
no more.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1912-04-05

Somebody has said I'VE are what we
eat" We doubt it especially when we
eat boiled cabbage and turnips.