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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-10-21

ranging IRON the Sl,4VO OF the young
second lieutenant to the $4,000 of the
colonel after 20 years service. He has
house room free in most cases, travelling
allowances and the privilege of buying
supplies at cost in commissary stores.
Ten, per cent. is added to his pay if he
serves outside of the United States
proper.
These sums do not sound so small out
side of New York. 1t is probable that
Gen. Corbin was speaking with the New
York standard Of living in his mind;
perhaps even from the standpoint Of one
whose marriage with a wealthy woman
has made luxury familiar. AS mat
ter of fact, the second lieutenant's 1,400
is not very big here A New York
police patrolman gets that sum, lives
in a tenement if he likes and has no
exacting social standards to maintain.
Under the circumstances the policeman
is more likely to save money than the
young army officer who marries on his
salary. +, -
Yet even in New York public senti-
ment is overwhelmingly against the
Continental idea which practically re-
quires an officer to marry girl with a
fortune of from $4,000 to $250,000, ac-
cording to the grade and regiment of
her affianced 1t has always been tie
theory that poor boy has a chan:e
in our army or navy. Has he, if the
government says he may not marry
upon his salary?
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-10-21

AO"Oo, lo IL LII
merly was, but the excitement and
hurrah of such demonstrations are re-
served for the last few weeks or
days before the election. Twenty or
80 years ago, and even before the
war, there were months of campaign
excitement, and political gatherings
were held throughout the country,
where issues were fought over, pre-
sented and refuted, and the voters
talked TO for the purpose Of CONVEX
sion.
So far this year it has been dem
onstrated that the voters of the coun
try take little interest in the public
addresses, and in the old-style "joint
Debates" by means of which political
doctrines were formerly disseminated.
1t has been demonstrated that these
only attended public meetings who
are interested in sending noted men,
and bearing the oratory of noted
speakers. They do not attend to hear
arguments, and care little for what
is presented on either side. They go
to public meetings to be entertained
and diverted. This change has been
fully grasped by the political man
ayers of the two great parties, and
they are directing their efforts to edu-
cate the people by other means. They
have not abandoned altogether the
public gatherings, the barbecues.
marching clubs and torchlight pro-
cessions. but nrOvide for them more as
means of exciting public interest
than making political converts.
Chairman Babcock, Of the republic
an congressional campaign committee,
declares that the most effective work
is now done on election day, not lille
gally, in the way of bribery or any
fraudulent work, but by persistent
personal efforts in getting cut individ-
ual voters.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-10-21

all the guests dress as babies of the
story books.
By the time this letter is read, if n,
citizen has had the courage to protest
the automobile race for the Vanderbilt
cup will have been pulled off, on the
public highways of populous Long
Island, from which the "peasantry'
have already been directed to keep their
children and themselves for ten hours,
and to "chain up their dogs and lock up
their fowls
The fairs in every county near New
York have been captured from the
farmers by rich suburban estate owners
who go to them to see and be seen and
to caper about in infantile pleasures
Long Island has not yet ceased to Cos
sip about the Hospital fair" at Mrs
Nackay's great house on Harbor hill.
when the common people" were prac-
tically invited to pay admission fees to
see the members of the 400 at close
quarters; when ''Ollie' Belmont mixed
drinks behind the bar and Mrs. Mackay
herself, Mrs. Belmont, Mrs. Vanderbilt
and other great ladies donned peasant
costumes to sell toys and trinkets at
fancy prices.
At Bernardsville, at Westchester, at
Mineola, the summer people invent the
devices of the idle to kill time, as if it
were the great enemy. Always there
is asrace meeting going on somewhere;
and the automobiles of society jostle
at the entrance the haggard clerk who
has fingered the money in his employ er's
till to back the little ponies against ODDS
that amount to certainly for the
''booky." 49,
Ali this is very English, no doubt.
But isn't there danger that the sound
and the flashing of it all hide too much
the humdrum millions who simply do
their daily work, of the thousands who
devote wealth and leisure to philan-
thropy? And these there are, even in
New York. $50 ~ $sss 4
l. OWEN LANGDoN .
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-10-21

From TZaritzyn, town on the VOL
ga, comes the report that a new in
dustry has been, discovered, that Of
making caviar from the spawn of a
large species of frog which is found
there. 1t is stated that in appearance
and taste there is no difference be-
tween frogs caviar and the best prod
uct Of the sturgeon. A big inland
trade is going on in this article, and
it will soon be exported.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-10-21

Dogs trained to catch fish are
among the features of everyday life
on the barren shores of that distant
part of Labrador which belongs to
Newfoundland. The cod fisheries
along the 1,100 miles of Labrador
coast yield about one-fifth of New.
foundland's total catch and furnish
employment annually to thousands, OF
fisher folk. They fish with lines from
$50 to- 200 fathoms long, two men to
boat, and each man using swo hand.
lines. The usual bait is capeiin.
When fish are plentiful it takes very
short time to fill boat with cod.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-10-21

to Philadelphia in 1876 and started there
at the Centennial the Vienna bakery.
1t is no secret that Yankee bread was in
those days upon the average pretty bad.
Fleischmann succeeded, came to New
York and in the shadow Of Grace church
established real Vienna cafe like those
of his native city. At this point the
Hungarian quarter reaches almost to
Broadway from it's center over near the
East river. To-day there are so Hun
garian cafes in that region less pros
porous and less famed, but equally Eu-
ropean.
There was much poverty in 1877, the
ebb of the great panic, when Fleisch-
mann began giving out every midnight,
after the days business was over, a
loaf of stale bread and mug OF hot
coffee to any man that asked. He was
never afraid of *faklrs'' waiting in all
weathers for that inconvenient hour.
AS matter of fact, most of the men
who came to the Bread Line" are gen.
uine enough. The line is always longest
on Sunday nights, because on Sunday
men without regular work can get no odd
Jobs to do.
Never was a mans death more dra-
matte than Fleischmann's. The
Bread Line" forms long before mid
night; it is a sort of club to the men,
whose time is of no value and who talk
together in low tones while waiting the
dole. Fleischmann died about 10
o'clock of a Sunday evening when the
line is longest and earliest in assembling
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-10-21

The long-pending plan to connect
Singapore with Penang by railroad is
about to be carried out. Part by
part the road has been built through
the Federated Malay States, but I'M
til recently the sultan of Johore,
ated Malay States from the Island of
Singapore, has not favored railroad
connection. The sultan's objections
having been overcome, it is expected
that the road will be completed with
in four or five years.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-10-21

A contrivance which enables one
to catch the gamest trout with mir
TOR has been patented by man in
East Greenwich, r. l. The idea of the
invention is to make the fish see him.
self in mirror behind the bait. I'm
agining that the bait is to be snapped
up by another fish, he hastens to Sc
cure it himself, and the hook at the
same time. At present there is no
testimony to the value of the inven.
ton in practice
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-10-21
no Outcry
News Notes.

Delegations of Minneapolis business
men appear before the state board OF
equalization to object to an increase in
their assessments. =. =
Amos Woodman of Baldwin is the
victim Of a mysterious stabbing affair
and IS lying at the point of death. 80
Frank Fl. Hamilton, who was sent
to tie penitentiary in February, 1901,
for the killing of Leonard Day at the
West hotel, Minneapolis, has been re-
leased from prison. ~,-~-
The steamer Knute Nelson has been:
launched at Warroad Mrs Gladys
Moody broke a bottle of champagne
over the prov, and Albert Berg made
an address. -
The killing of George Judnich while
he was hunting on farm three miles
west of Eveleth still remains mystery.
A deer hunter, it is generally believed
fred the shot, installing his victim for
the game he sought. ..
A small fire in the elevator shaft of
the wholesale house of Lindeke, Warm
er & Sons, was the cause of an alarm
sent in st. Paul. The blaze was ex-
t.nguished with chemicals There was
no damage done. . s..5 RI .s ... (. 81
Officer Jarvis arrested four men who
are charged with robbing two passen-
gers at the Northern Pacific depot in
st. Paul ST. .s
Engineers Luethgen and Winkhaus,
in employ Of the German government,
"a IN . fot1r IF Tho -: -: !.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-10-21

come perhaps to feel thankful
that they are not as these, and who
often end by pressing trifes of money
into trembling and unnerved hands.
Among them, too, passed this night the
news of death. AS midnight struck
there were 500 men in that army of mis-
fortune. doubt if dead man had ever
more sincere mourners. More than one
cf these men had been cheered and en-
cOuraged by personal words of hope by
MIR. Fleischmann. More than one who
now sees the Line no more was drawn
from it back to better days by his quiet
aid.
The Bread Line" has figured in lit
erature a. hundred times. Once at least
by Albert Bigelow Paine it was made the
title of a novelette,. In his story one
of the most successful of American au-
thors now is described as he was in his
weekly paper. The story was so nearly
true in the large and in the little de-
tails that it was hardly fiction. Paine
himself was one of the thinly disguised
characters, and three we'll knownartists
are minor characters. The hero, who is
represented as an invincibly optimistic
Col. Sellers of man, perhaps it is as
we'll not to name. In the story, the five
men who have just agreed to found the
paper happen along by the Line just as
it is forming and in their golden dreams
of wealth give generous largess to the
men that stand there. And again they
cSme to it after the last issue of the
paper has been printed-this time them
selves to take the loaf and the mug of
coffee. That part was of course an ar
tist:c exaggeration.
According to the staid Philadelphia
Public Ledger a dinner was given in
that city to 18 persons recently by the
Hon. Charlemagne Tower which cost
$10C per plate, where the menu consisted
only of oysters, chicken soup, mutton
and lettuce-costly simplicity. Simple
lty of another sort is the Bread Line"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-10-21

The average quantity of wine pro-
duced in Spain annually in the last
ten years is 557,251,00O gallons. In
1900 the product was 596,866,0O0 gal
Ions. This decrease in the vintage
represents a loss of nearly $30,0O0,-
600 year to the wine growers, which
explains the crisis in the wine-produc-
ing districts. Fortunately, this years
vintage promises to be abundant and
to compensate for past losses.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-10-21

that the h1ghWater
mark in campaign
expenditures has
been passed. Mel
Their party expects
to spend so much
this year as in
former national
campaigns. This is
due largely to the
change in t h e
public mind re-
municipalities. 1t
is not necessary
to spend so much
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-10-21

campaign, a n q
that is a change
in electioneering
methods. T h i s
change has been
gradual during the
past dozen years,
but in this ma
tional campaign is
more marked than
ever before. The
old brass band,
torchlight process
siCns, and barbe-
cue style of cam
paign is not fol-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-10-21

In 1908 Denmark exported 24,441
horses, 62,929 head of cattle, $780,
900 pounds of beef, 165,330,0O0 pounds
of ham and bacon, 10000 pounds of
mutton, 20,154,00O pounds of meat
products tongues, sausages, fat, etc.
and 156,560,00O pounds of butter. The
great bulk of these exports of Danish
agriculture products went to England.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-10-21

WI JILL " ~ l
three years ago, and has been dis
cussed to some extent since 1t is just
IL miles from the boundary lines Of
Arlington national cemetery to the old
Mount Vernon mansion. The way lies
along an elevated ridge, bordering the
Potomac, from which beautiful
view of that noble river and surround
ing country can be had The idea as
it has been discussed is for the states
now representing the Is original colo
MES each to take in charge one mile
of this avenue, build the road, and
suitably beautify it.
Such project, if carried to COM
pletion, would mean a perfect and
handsome driveway from Washington
City to Mount Vernon, and it is be-
lieved would become exceedingly popu-
lar In addition to it's historic signifl-
cance- There is now splendid road
from the limits of the city to Arling-
ton cemetery, the ancient home of the
Custises and the Lees. Adjoining Ar
lington is the military reservation of
Fort Myer, now one of the best-ap-
pointed military posts in the country.
If the avenue of the 13 original
states were built, it is suggested
tht memorial arches and other means
of perpetuating the history of the
first confederation could be built,
and the driveway be lined with shade
trees representative ct the various lat
itudes, as nearly every form of tree
will flourish in these parts.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-10-21

The total quantity of rubber export
ed to Europe from the Amazon river
during the year 10000 was 36,061,-
482 pounds, against 33,643,537 pounds
during the previous year, and $685.
100 pounds were exported to the Unit
ed States, against 32,112,116 pounds
during the previous year. The total
export figures are 67,314,591 pounds
for 10000 and 65,756,O48 pounds for
l9O2-O3.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-10-21

The total values of the sewing ma
chimes and parts thereof which were
imported into Germany during the
first six months of 1902, 1903 and 1904
were $745,S92, $1,036,450 and $1,417,-
52S, respectively. The exports amount
ed to $2,550,170 during the first half
Of 1902, $3,040,450 during the first six
months Of 1903 and $3,163,O2O during
the same period in 1904.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-10-21
Army Officers: Wives.

STORM OF abuse
has descended upon
the .high-held. head
of huge Gen. Cor
bin for daring to
suggest that army
officers should get
the consent Of the
army department
before marrying
such consent, as in
Germany, presum-
ably being condi-
toned upon the
financial prospects
Of the happy pair.
An army officer
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-10-21
Five Hundred Real Mourners.

ORE than usual the
poor wrecks of hui
mainly. were obliV-
ious of the little
knots of gayly
dressed and pros
porous ones who
had gathered to see
the Line. 1t is one
of the sights of the
city; and not sell
dom some faunt-
ing red automobile
brings down a load
Of merry men and
" ON en- w h O
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-10-21

A plantation belonging to J. c. Hor.
ter, situated in the Pearl Lagoon dis
trist, Nicaragua, about thirty miles
north of Bluefields, is the oldest Of a
number of estates devoted to the cult
walton of the kind of rubber known as
"CastillOa classical"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-10-21

surrounding his
torfc territory, the
attention of many
patriotic organiza-
tons has been
called to a scheme
for the construc-
tiCn of a national
avenue connecting
theArlington GEN.
etery with Mount
Vernon, the home
of t h e immortal
Washington. This
idea was first sug-
gested by Gen.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-10-21

question of whole
some, healthful
drinking water.
Epidemics Of ty-
phoid fever in
various parts of
the country have
called the atten-
ton of the people
to methods of
purifying alter
supplies. In the
agricultural de-
partment are noted
scient'c's 8, whose
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-10-21

when the array of
oratorical talent,
most of which is
produced from Of
fetal circles in
w s hington, is
considered. Con-
gress furnishes the
largest corps from
which these pub
lie speakers are
drawn. The cab
met circle con-
tributes a num-
Der, a nd other
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-10-21

Owing to the dry hot winds that
have prevailed during the past three
weeks in Smyrna the estimate of the
coming Sultana raisin crop has been
reduced to $4,000 to $4,000 tons,
against 62,500 tons last year. At pres
ent the berries are unusually small
and have an unhealthy appearance, so
that the outlook in general is not ia
YOrahle.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-10-21

Competition in the German medical
profession has become acute. The
German Association of Doctors has is
sued a notice of 61S higher schools
for boys, warning the graduates from
becoming doctors.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-10-21
Burned to Death .

Fire broke out in the residence of W.
II. Dickinson at Rochester, and for
while the entire block of residences:
was in danger. :
Miss Clara Dickinson was the only
person in the house when the fire broke
out and burned to death, Before she
was known to be there, having made
no QutcrY.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-10-21
The Madness of Wealth.

HE fact is, there is
something in the
air Of New York
that drives many
people wealth.
crazy.
A millionaire
hOrseman gives at
his country home a
nursery party"
where the father Is
his wife appears as
a Little Lord
Fauntleroy with
gray whiSkers and
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-10-21
The Mayors Of New York.

HE death of Frank
lin Edison so soon
after William R.
Grace leaves as liv-
ing ex-mayors,
Low, Grant, Gilroy,
Cooper and Van
..Wyck. : $3.50.
Is there bad luck
in being N e "
York's m ay or?
Lows political
prospects W er e
clouded for 20
years by his sue
cessful iaayoralty
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-10-21
California produces more dollars
worth Of oranges than of gold-or-
anges over $1SOOO,00O and gold ST..
OOO, 900.

The intellectual life Of Russia may
be said to be centered at st. Peters,
burg and Moscow. And yet as much
as one-third of the population of the
former can not read or write.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-10-21
GOTHAM n CH.ARAC FRS |: R.
GOSSIP OF INTERESTING PEOPLE
OF NEW YORK CITY.
"BREAD LINE" MAN DEAD
Louis Fleischman Was a Philanthro-
pist in Practical Way and is
Mourned by Many-oth-
er Gossip.

ND the man who in
vented the BREAD
Line" is dead.
Louis Fleisch-
man was a brave
officer in the Aus
trian army that
M0ltke broke at
Sadowa; his medal,
won there and be-
slowed by En-
peror Franz Josef,
was his most
proudly valued pos
session He came
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-10-21

The Political Press Bureau.
Political managers of the republican
and democratic headquarters believe
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-10-21

government furnish some eloquent
speaking. The democrats draw FROM
congress. as Veil as DO the republic
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-10-21
WASHINGTON 5 / N | N LETTER. L. t
NEW AND OLD POLITICAL CAM
PAIGN METHODS COMPARED.
GROWTH OF PRESS BUREAU
Days of Spellbinder Not Yet Passed-
Magnificent Driveway Proposed to
Mount Decentralization of
Drinking Water.

Washington.-One thing seems to1
have ebeen developed in this years
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-10-21

Spellbinder Still with Us.
It is too much to say that the day
Of spellbinders has passed. esDeciallv
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-10-21

The Question Of Drinking Water.
The city Of Washington has been
greatly stirred this summer on the
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-10-21

Of Brooklyn getting tangled Up with the
Blaine light Il TIE republican party ct
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-11-05
THOS. DUNcALF THIS TIME.

The junior editor of the Teller
denies that he is democrat. lie
says that no one is justified in max
ing affidavit to that effect. A week
ago, | met the junior editor and
said to him, ''Burne, I see by to-
days paper that you claim to be re-
publican" He said, YES" | then
asked him how long he had been a
republican and he replied that ne
had always been a republican. Then
j! remarked, II heard you say that
you we're democrat and will make
affidavit to it," The junior editor
then replied, II will make affidavit
that I am not" ''Then," I said,
''you will be swearing to a lie. :
Then he excused himself by saying,
eff I said that I said it in jest. .
''But you said it," I insisted, land
there was no occasion for jest. :
Then he said, IF said it I did not
mean it." I then told him that he
said it in the schoolhouse and re-
called the time.
During the state convention, Mr..
Powers, the Junior editor and my
self were in the office. Mr.. Powers
said in his usual jolly way, well,
they will have a hot time at Madl-
son, but I don't care how it goes,
for [ am a democrat" Pollock
then said, $50 am l." | said ''Burne,
I did not know that you were a
democrat. He said, II have al
ways been a democrat" This is
true statement of the conversation,
just as it took place.
In regard to Tom Orion, | had
not spoken to him in reference to
the matter, though I did to his
brother, Will.
When I engaged in my present
work, Mr.. David Schreiner, Mr.. j..
P. Lewis and DR.. Barber were on
the board, and they did not ask me