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Graham guardian., 1904-02-12
And More fIunkaylSm

1t has been customary in Wash,
ington, heretofore when II retiring
mem Der of the cabinet was about
to leave, his successor appeared in
the Office of his predecessor and
quietly took the oath of office
There was no fuss nor feathers
about it at all. The new official
was introduced to the heads of the
department the employers returned
to their desks after meeting their
new chief, and the latter quietly
sat down at his desk and went to
work. It's different now. We
have spectacular president now,
and we have especially a fireworks
secretary to the president.
The other day Mr., Root retired
from the Office of Secretary of War.
Judge Taft succeeded him, and on
his arrival in Washington, he was
met by full troop of crack U. 5.
cavalry, and by the soldiers escort
ed to his quarters. On appearing
at the war Office all of the army
officers at the capitol appeared in
full uniform to still further make
the ceremony as dazzling as p s.
sible, and then came blare of
music, and the grand pompous dis
play was over, That is, so tar us
Taft was concerned. But the cav
airy troop still remained on duty,
and had to escort Mr.. Root, who
was at that moment out OF a job,
to the depot.
This funkeyism is all the more
noticeable when the same presi-
dent dismissed from the head of
the army, on his retirement, a man
who had climbed after forty years
of service in the army to be its of
fetal head, without even a "thank
you" And now the custom is
supposed to set for the future, fol-
lowing in the footsteps of all the
detestable customs of fnreign
courts and monarchical farcical
hubdubbery.
If there is anything that tends
to make people dislike-yes, even
hate governments. it is the foolish
aping of royal blood, and customs,
and the attempt to make the peo-
ple--iust the common people
feel that their servants are i'm
bued with the ideas of despised
royal mockery
With but one or two exceptions,
occupying the thrones of foreign
countries, the occupants are u
driveling lot of simple minded,
light Drained and scrofulous heirs,
placed there by the "divine right"
of accidental birth, and usually
such as the world snickers at when
seen or heard from.
And yet, in this country, where
all men are taught to believe and
feel that all are sovereigns, and
with a population large in num-
bers, who have left their homes for
the very reason that they may
escape the sight of imperial pom p
and display the president effects to
show his appreciation of a retiring
and incoming officer of his cabinet
by display such as the sickly,
rabbit Drained King of Spain
might employ.
1t would not be far.away guess
that ere long Mr.. Loeb will have
those who call at the White House
wearing bracelets on their ankles,
lace collars and wigs, and pages
carrying some politicians coat tails
into the presence of the "Strenuous
One" Bisbee Reuec.
FOR SALE, Realty MOrtuaVe
Graham guardian., 1904-02-12

The editor of the GUARDIAN who
is prone to give advice to any
body and everybody on any old
subject, is strangely silent on the
question that is just now upper
most in the minds of the people OF
his own town, viz: "wet or day"
Bulletin.
The reason of the GUARDIANS
silence is very easily accounted
for upon the ground that its edi-
tor belongs to that class of men,
few in number to be sure, who
know how to run newspaper in a
manner at once fair and just to the
community that support it. When
the "wet or dry" question arose,
instead of trking up one side of it
as the Bulletin did, it refrained
from agitating the question in the
interests of either side, but opened
its columns freely to both sides,
and gave the advocates Of each
side ample opportunity to present
such arguments as they might de-
sire.
Graham guardian., 1904-02-12
WOULD Be BAD ON GAMBLERS

in which the laws against gam bling
aie ' olated, as follows:
The pool room managers lay
odds against the horses on the race
tracks--odds that invariably mean
ruin in the long run for any poor
fool who accepts them.
The fools crowd in, take the
odds and, in the long run, ruin
themselves.
Just at present the men that
own the pool rooms arc in q gloomy
states of mind--infact, they don't
know what is going to become OF
the country or how an honest man
is TO make living.
Their news Of each race Is sent
to them by one telegraph company.
Through a deal between the two
companies, the Western Union is
allowed to have all the gambling
business, dividing profits with the
Postal on a certain basis, of course,
Hitherto these criminals, defying
the law and robbing the public,
have paid seventeen dollars a day
to the telegraph company for its
gambling information. Now the
company has raised the price to
twenty-five dollars.
1t is announced that some of the
very small pool rooms cannot
stand this raise and will go out of
business.
Rather good news, but suppose
the telegraph system Of the United
States were owned, as it should be
owned, by the United States Gov
ernment?
In that case, NO racing news
would be sent to any criminal
gambling establishment. Ard in
that case the pool rooms simply
could not exist.
The postoffice belongs to the
government. And that fact does
more, perhaps, than any other fact
in our administration to discour-
age, prevent and punish crime.
Swindlers are deprived of the
postofice service, and that destroys
their business.
The criminal, advertising for
dupes, is unable to collect his prof
it the minute the postofiice refuses
to deliver his mail.
The PUBLIC service of carry
ing letters is in the PUBLlC'S
hands, and it is used to DEFEND
THE PUBLIC against fraud and
crime.
The public service of carrying
kilograms OUGHT to be in the
public's hands. Then it could not
be prostituted for the purposes of
gamblers and other criminals.
Then, not for twenty-five dollars,
nor for any other price, could pool
room sharks receive the informa.
ton that enables them to rob the
public,
II you think the government
ownership of the telegraph would
be a good thing, making the tele-
graph companies honest, cutting
telegraph charges in two, and at
the same time paying the employees
well, make up your mind to vote
that way next November. The
great Democratic Labor party will
bring national ownership of nation
al monopolies.-Los Angeles Er-
1miner.
Graham guardian., 1904-02-12

ANrED-sE EvERAL PERSONS or CHAR
actcr and lJod reputation IN each state ,one m
this county reQuired) 70 represent and adVer-
tise old established wealthy business house 81
solid financial standing. salary S2l 90 weekly
with expenses additional all payable In cash
direct each Wednesday from head oillce Horse
aud carriage furnished when necessary. Re
ferenees Enclose slt addressed envelope
colonial S3l Dearborn 81. ChicagO q im
Graham guardian., 1904-02-12

FOR Realty Mortgage
blanks, at this Office bets each.
Graham guardian., 1904-02-12

Remember the place and don't fail be on hand In the lot goods will be
Walking Ladies'
on hand ten o'clock each day the sale will begin that hour
Graham guardian., 1904-02-12

Turtle George the lady's man /.
will make you laugh
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-10-21

ferred from the fact that within period
of three weeks the newspapers reported
70, hold-u2s, IA people wounded and one
murder in addition to more than sc
burglaries.
Chief of Police O'Neil gave two rea-
sons for the reign of crime. He at
tributed part of it to the West side
street fair, which attracted great
crowds to Madison street every evening
and gave the thugs an opportunity for
successful operations. His other rea-
son was the packing house strike, which
he said not only drew the criminal
classes to the city. but necessitated the
police force to the stockyards, and so
leaving the city at the mercy of the
thugs.
But the street fair and the strike both
passed into history and the hold-ups
and robberies continued with unabated
vigor until the business and profession'
al interests of the city organized for
public protection, and forced action on
the part of the police, and now Chicago
is gradually recovering from it's reign
of terror.
The remarkable feature Of the history
of Chicago's criminal classes is the mum
Der of boy bandits the city has produced.
Some Of the most desperate thugs the
police have brought to bay, as for ex-
ample the car barn bandits and the STAY
ers of Hans Peterson, were mere boys
They are the product of the caves and
shanties constructed by boys as lcafing
places in the vast stretches of open ter
ritory within the city. These caves and
shanties serve as reading rooms for yell
low back literature; as drinking places,
and are the primary schools for Grim
inals. Ostensiblyth are innocent play
houses of the boys but in reality they are
the breeding places of lawlessness and
anarchy.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-10-21
HIN rs ON COOKING Tit.
Do Not Destroy the Flavor Of q Pleas
ing and Healthful Dish by
the Use Of Soda. -


A paragraph which has been going
the rounds rather extensively, informs
the housewife that a little soda (sale-
ratus) added to stewed fruit when it
is being cooked lessons the quantity
of sugar required to. sweeten it. =
While this is true, it is equally the
fact that the soda accomplishes this
result by destroying the acidity of the
fruit, and in the process the life and
flavor are, to an extent, injured. a
preserve to which soda has been added
Is rather fiat and tasteless when COM
pared with one which is made entirely
of fruit, sweetened with sugar..
The wise and truly economical
housewife will not destroy the flavor
of healthful and pleasing dish of
stewed fruit in order to effect saving
so very very small.
Fruit that is overly acid, such as
cranberries, red currants, gooseberries,
etc., will call for less sugar in sweet
ening if they are prepared in the fol-
lowing manner: After washing the
fruit, place it in an agate kettle and
cover with clear, cold water. Set the
kettle over the fire and bring the con-
tents quickly to the boiling point; pour
off the water, and then set the kettle
where the fruit will cook slowly in the
usual way, adding only enough water
to keep the fruit from burning Add
sugar sufficient to make the preserve
palatable, and do not add the sugar
until just before the fruit is removed
from the fire, since less is required
than when the sweetening is cooked
with the fruit.
The juice or water that was poured
off the fruit, at first, can be made very
cold, sweetened with sugar and served
as a drink; it may also be used in
place of water or milk for the founda-
ton of pudding sauce, little sugar
being added and the whole thickened
| with corn starch or arrowroot. Apples
or pears may be sliced and cooked in
this fruit juice instead of using water
in the usual way, and it can also be
used in mincemeat, in fruit cakes or
boiled buildings.
Fruit should never be placed on the
front Of the range and stewed like a
vegetable. Its appearance is much
more attractive if It is kept as entire
as possible. Apples and pears should
be cut into quarters or eighths, and
laid in the saucepan carefully, very
little water or fruit juice added and
the cover kept on the saucepan all the
time they are being cooked What to
Eat.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-10-21
Police Laxity.

Police officials are prone to place the
blame for laWlessness in the city to a
lack of numbers in police officers, and it
is undoubtedly true that Chicago needs
much larger police force if the public
are to be given a metropolitan service
But it is doubtful Of the tax-paying pub
lie will willingly stand for greater tax
alton in order that the police force be
increased in numbers until those now in
the city service show what can be done
under proper and efficient police dis
cipline
The unbiased report of Capt Piper,
of New York, made to the City club a
few months ago, showed much laxity ir
police discipline. It was pooh-poohed
by the police officials, but the public al
large and the newspapers accepted it at
face value, and demanded a change
which they did not get. Since that time
the Daily News has never dropped the
subject for day. 1t has kept its news
paper sleuths continually on the track
of the police department. and has day
after day pointed out breaches of discl-
pine and negligence in individual police
officers. Taking, for example, an Off
GER stationed at one of the downtown
street intersections-a crossing police
man-whose duties called for his pres
ence on that one street crossing all day.
A News reporter watched him for eight
hours and gave time and circumstances
to account for his Absence from his
post Of duty for nearly half of that time.
During that time that particular office:
patronized the back door of a near
by saloon and secured liquor not less
than half dozen times.
Reporters for the News have followed
policemen from one end of the city to
the other with like results, finding a
laxity of discipline and disregard Of
standing orders in every police district.
The result is the public demand eff
cheney in small force before it's num-
bers are increased.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-10-21
HOW TO HAVE NICE HANDS
French Manicure Says Much Can Be
Done by Keeping Nails
in Good Order.

Longing for lovely hands is natu-
raj.
It Is a recognized fact that French
women possess the most beautiful
hands. The hand itself is neither too
fat nor too thin, but exactly in proper
ton with the long, slender, tapering
fingers, While the nails are of beautiful
delicate pink, their charm enhanced by
the pretty half-moons at the base of
each.
With the view of learning the secret
of some of the beautiful hands in Paris.
I ouce called upon the best-known mani
cure of the French capital and asked
her to tell me her method of dealing
with hands which had grown thick or
fat, with the fingers short and square,
says a writer in the Philadelphia North
American.
in the first place." she said, II get
a basin of skin food or soft sweet oil
and fill it until the hands are almost
covered. This makes the fingers soft
and oily, and after time lift them
out. ana give them a Thorough wash
ing with very hot water and very good
soap. - !. :. II
"The hands are then dried and little
skin food rubbed in. > = IL 4
IF you want pink pals, a little rouge
is put upon the nail, and It you want
them very bright, the polisher is used.
But If you prefer them dull, then leave
them just as they are. = s5s5..ss.Z.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-10-21
NEEDS CIVIC IMPROVEMENTS
City Is Badly Handicapped with An
tiquated Laws-Suffering from
Reign Of Crime and
Police Laxity.

Chicago has awakened
even this breezy. bustling city so much
within Ting last ten years as the fight for
new Charter that is to be determined
by the voters. not OF the city alone, but
OF the entire state, at the coming cleo
ton. Politicians Of both parties are
working hand in hand with the business
and professional interests of the city to
arouse the necessary enthusiasm in the
subjc| | throughout the state to get the
voters e:uside the city to vote on the
subject at the November election, for
withCu III these votes, or at least some
100000 OF them, the city will fail to
achieve G. cherished ambition; without
then: it must remain simply an over
grown village instead of that which it
aspi.es to-a world metropolis.
Above all things else, new charter
means the means Of raising money for
permanent improvements, and Chicago
neet.S them. The pay as you go prir-
cipaI l!EIer which the city is operated
under present state laws is a handicap
which keeps Chicago out Of the metrop
are without drainage, for the city has
not the money to build the sewer sys-
tens that are required, and the people
of the southern portion of the city, at
least, must continue to make RATS out
of their sidewalks to get to and from
their water-surrounded homes until
such time as the city has authority to
issue Improvement bonds.
Among other things for which Chi
cago needs money are new bridges if she
is to maintain her supremacy as lake
port Money for street car tunnels, it
she is to satisfactorily solve the trac-
ton problem. Money for permanent
lighting plant for the city streets. These
things Chicago must have if she is to be-
come a metropolitan city such as will be
a credit to the state. These things she
cannot have without the new charter
which she is now asking for, and which
the voters of the state can give her
with out expense to the state by voting
'ycs" on the November ballot.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-10-21
FANCIES OF FALL FASHION.
Buttons Will Be the Conspicuous Fea :
t,lra of All Autumn and Win
ter Garments.

Fashion makers are working under the
impression that we will have long and
pleasant autumn season, and with this
end in view are turning out some charm
ing between-season garments. The
Elton coat and skirt here illustrated are
of light brown linen trimmed with bands
of tucking and a little embroidery
around the neck and buttons. With this
suit goes white straw toQue with solid
brim of pale green cut leaves. The sec
ond gown is dainty frock of pale blue
wolfe trimmed with bands, cuffs and
lapels of sapphire blue silk. The white
straw hat is trimmed with shaded blue
plumage.
The New York Times gives some re-
liable hints concerning toilet accessories
for the coming season. Buttons, it says,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-10-21
PATRIOTISM OF JAPANESE.
From Empress Down to Peasant Girl
All Make Sacrifices to Help
Relief Fund.

Societies and associations have been
organized in Japan 70 relieve the fam
lilies of the fighting men, and every one
fund. Some men contribute money or
goods, some their labor, and most of the
lint and bandage used for the wounded
are the works of women, from the en-
press down to the peasant girl, writes
Nobushige Amenomori, in Atlantic.
Little boys and girls willingly forego
their daily sweetmeats, and give the
small moneys thus saved to the relief
societies. A boy II years old in country
school made one day contribution of
two yen. 1t was thought too much for
country boys gift. The school-teacher
and the alderman of the village suspect
ed the money might have been given the
in which case it should be admonished
against An inquiry was accordingly
made, and brought out the fact that the
boy had actually earned the money for
the purpose by devoting his play hours
to the making of straw sandals. Even
some criminals working in prisons have
made several applications to contribute
their earnings to the funds, though
their wishes have not been complied
with. In every village a compact has
been made that those remaining at home
should look after the farms of those at
the front, so that their families may not
be disappointed of the usual crops.
Since the outbreak of the war the gov
ernment's bonds have been twice issued
at home, and each time the subscription
more than trebled the amount called for.
the imperial household taking the lead
by subscribing 100000 yen. Thus the
hardships of the war are cheerfully borne
by every man, woman and child in the
land.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-10-21
The Color of Hair.

From the color of mans hair may
be learned a good deal in regard to his
Intellectual ability, says a professor
who has for some months been closely
studying the subject School boys with
chestnut hair, he maintains, are likely
to be more clever than any others, and
will generally be found, at the head of
the class, and in like manner girls with
fair hair are likely to be far more studi-
GUS and bright than girls with dark hair.
In mathematics and rotations these
boys and girls, he asserts, especially ex-
eel. On the other hand, he says that
boys and girls with brown hair are
most likely to attain distinction through
their individuality and style, and that
those with red or auburn hair do not
often excel in any respect. VI
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-10-21
Some Postal Routes.

Among the many classes that suffer
from Chicago's lack of civic improve
ments are the city postmen. The rural
free delivery carriers of the country dis
tricts have no need to envy their city CO.
workers, or at least that portion of them
that serve the outlying districts of Chi
cagO
In the spring and winter the neat gray
uniforms so familiar in the business Sec
ton OF the city give place to hip boots
and slickers in the southern sections
that is as yet but little more than a
swamp. Here it is that the postmar,
like the householder, must utilize the
floating sidewalks as means of MAX
ing his rounds in the spring, and in the
winter must pillow through great drifts
of snow and slush on unbroken road
ways.
Equally as bad conditions exist on the
North side, though not to so large all
extent. One carrier there, with all
eight mile route to cover, has been sup
enable him to get over the territory
1t is pleasant task in the bright days
Of summer, but for some eight months
OF the year it is harder proposition
than that of any rural carrier in the Sec
tons favored with rural delivery.
Sidewalks or paved streets are unknown
quantities, and in places there is no bot
tom to the mud. To get out Of the buck
board is to invite disaster, and he throws
the mail at the front door and blows
horn to announce his presence. Dan
iels, the carrier, is one of the oldest men
in the service and is extremely popular
with the people whom he serves. His
experiences, including numerous res
cues of his horse from untimely death
in the mud, would make an interesting
book, and he can tell more hard-weather
stories than any other man in the postal
service.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-10-21
How Beauty Is Preserved.

A writer in the Chicago News says
that late hours and the excessive use
of the eyes in poor light or on trains
and cars, worry and ill health are the
prolific source of wrinkles. The wom-
an who is asleep before midnight,
who wears glasses if she needs them
to read with, who does not use her
eyes by poor light and who follows
these common-sense directions can, if
she is still young and wrinkleless,
preserve her complexion for many
years, and she who is already showing
imperfections can prevent their be-
coming more marked-in many in
stances removing them-by properly
cleansing and nourishing her skin.
And that at very small cost, as
these directions are especially for
those possessing small incomes. ~.