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Evening journal., 1905-12-06

the past i've years has held a clerlSship
IN the Wholesale department of r. Ken
yon. tobacconist of Wilmington, has re-
signed Mr.. King has been offered
lucrative position with another firm and
is now considering the proposition.
Evening journal., 1905-12-06
School Dresses

The prettiest dresses for a child of
aight for school wear are the sailor
.uits. if correctly made, or the one
piece suits with a guimpe. Wash
lresses are worn all the year by chill
'ren up to thirteen.
Evening journal., 1905-12-06
For the Christmas
Illumination and After


That centre table has long
been y arning for a new
lamp to give the room that
warm, soft glow that makes
the lamp always a favorite
even in the days Of gas and
electricity.
We have a lamp stock
that makes selection easy
and safe.
Perfect soods, well Sc
lected, with many odd and
artistic ideas not to be
found elsewhere.
Evening journal., 1905-12-06
Ribbons for
Holiday Use
On Gift Things, Christ
mas Trees, Etc.

Hundreds of pretty Ribbon
bows will be used to decorate
Christmas glove boxes. haudker-
chief boxes, fancy blankets, etc.
We have ribbons, narrow and
wide, in every shade and every
color. Bring in your gifts that
need ribbon trimming and let
us match them up.
Evening journal., 1905-12-06
Linens
A Linen Gift Is Always
Pleasing TO the
GOOd Housewife

Here is a subject that is
interesting to hundreds Of
our housekeeping friends.
You can touch the right
spot with them by the gift
Of a handsome tablecloth
and napkins, far more ef-
fectively than with some
snowy trinkets of little
utility.
For those who will favor
linens for holiday gifts VIC
have set aside unusually
tempting values.
Evening journal., 1905-12-06

MoCallin, $3.50; George G. Mcdaniel. s.;
Ellison a Bro, $3.50; pump supplies;
Henry Madden. IS; Isaac Black. $50.
Peter Doris, s.; George Williams. s.; VIII
liam Deakync, $3.50; coal FOR Lenape Fire
Company; Eliason Bro. $500 lumber for
repairing culverts and trunks; Eliason
Bro. SO for tons of coal for Lenaue Fire
Company.
Honesty Was Rewarded.
on Thanksgiving Afternoon Robe. New
love conductor for the local trolley line
found a reticule which had been left ON
his car by some party unknown. Mr.. New
love placed a tag ON the bag and laid it
on the seat next the rear door While pro-
ceeding to Delaware city he MISS the
Evening journal., 1905-12-06
This Store Does the Unusual.

The Umbrella story to-day
tion of Umbrellas shown
Umbrellas uuderpced-theres reason good ea-
why every friends umbrellas
gift giving should look this money
be saved-and NEW GOODS at that.
Evening journal., 1905-12-06
It's Usual to Reduce
Umbrella Prices After Christmas

because from to December looked upon harvest
in Umbrella profits in the average store
Evening journal., 1905-12-06

No 174Lade Waist of raspberry red aetas with stock and
baby Irish lace and soon lace This
fitted lining the waist puff,
tucked give box pea and novel shaped
applied the silk the neck reveal the tiny chem
and high collar This pattern in sizes 81 4 So
80 and inches bust and size SO inches requires
silk SIS yard Of IS inch alover and yards of
ton. Price IS cents
Evening journal., 1905-12-06

We select this holiday ewoy with great care,
to 80 to get the best-we offer for inspection.
Fancy Back Combs, Brooches Scarf Pins Cuff Links, Pins
Belt Buckles Gold Neck Chains, Gold Beads Svmoun Combs
and Brushes, SveTmouned Cloth Brushes Hat
Scissors, Candle Sticks New Clocks Ink Stands Pu Boxes
Nail Files and hundred and other pretty and
ticles Silver God Enamel Metal dull bright finish
plain engraved and jeweled.
We quite your holiday jewey expenditures pro-
duce the most satisfactory results here.
Evening journal., 1905-12-06
JeweIry

The first requisite of a perfect piece Of
gift iewelry is that it shall be artistic unique
perhaps, showing the touch Of the artist
craftman in many little details Of finish
mounting or design, distinguishing this jew
Try from the ordinary.
Evening journal., 1905-12-06

In
The
Wilmington Delawar Pattern Depart
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-06-09
great political master, the late Senator
M. S. Quay. =-@s

great political master, the late Senator
M. S. Quay.
Col. Andrews is fine example OF the
self-made man, and those who know his
worth believe that the governorship;
of Pennsylvania is not too great a re-
ward for the work he has done. He is a
man of less than.average stature, rather.
spare of form, with clear complexion
and kindly, but piercing eye, and gives
no outward evidence of the tremendous
amount of work he can perform. It is
no unusual thing for him during the;
busiest days of the session or in the heat
of campaign to work 20 hours out of the
"a. He can keep three or four stenog-
raphers busy taking the dictation nee
essary to dispose of Senator Penroses
heavy correspondence.
Col. Andrews is brother of the wide
ly known ''Bill'' Andrews, now of New
Mexico, but lately Of PENNSYLVANIA,
where he was recognized as the late Sen
ator Quay's first lieutenant. There is
wide difference, though, in the character
of Wesley r. and William H. Andrews.
The latter is the typical political boss,
while the former is the efficient and able
public servant. The boss, or as he is bet
ter known, 'Bill" Andrews, is now dele
gate-elect from New Mexico, and expects
to be a United States senator if state
hood is granted that territory.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-06-09
OREGON EXPOSITION NOTES.

Suffers Fort, where gold was FIRST
discovered in California, 81 years ago,
will be reproduced at the Lewis and
Clark exposition by the Sacramento
Valley Development association.
There will be riot of roses in bloom
on the grounds Of the Lewis and Clark
exposition the opening day, and for
many days thereafter. The rosc ex-
hibit will show forth the glories Of the
Oregon climate as a producer OF hues
and perfume. - - ..-. -.
Abraham Lincoln's old home at
Springfield, ILL.,, the only piece Of real
estate ever owned by the martyred
president, will be reproduced as tie
Illinois state building at the Lewis and
Clark exposition. Many Lincoln relics
will be exhibited.
Every day during the four and a
half months of the Lewis and Clark
exposition one or more excursions to
Portland, on account Of special events,
will be run. It is estimated that 1000
visitors will reach Portland daily on
excursion trains alone.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-06-09

any rate. they have ruin wild courses,
ending for one in a sudden death from
narcotic poisoning in the west. An
older brother was killed by being over
turned in a racing auto in Florida last
winter. Two are left. "
The younger Crokers belong to a
class OF rich young New Workers. who
furnish most of the fatal automobile
accidents and who give the impression
that all the younger generation is
FAST which is not the case. Two or
three OF the young Vanderbilts- are of
this description, caring nothing for
business and much for sport, but they
are Handicapped in a riotous life by
slender physiques. The Croker boys
inherited their fathers physical cour-
age and strength. No bulldog ever dis
played greater grit than Frank Croker
in his automobile, even in his last
conscious act, swerving to avert col
lision with bicyclist.
Richard Croker, Jr, the oldest son,
is now the stay and hope of the Ameri-
can branch of the family. He is more
busiaesslike than his brothers, and is
making money. 1t is not an uncom-
mon arrangement in New York fami-
lies OF great wealth to tell off one son
to work while the rest play. The VAN
derbilts of the passing generation un-
loaded their cares upon the late Cor
nelius, who toiled manfully at his
tasks while w. K. went yachting, and
George and Frederick courted travel
and grew trees in North Carolina.
The list of railway directors contain
few names of Vanderbilts to this day.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-06-09

the electrical trust without a dollars
recOmpense to the state. Why such
sums were paid in spite Of the fact
that Gov. Higgins is an honest man,
sincerely trying to do his best, I don't
attempt to say. In game of millions
the trusts may be willing to take
chances. They may have. relied upon
political pressure.
All this is in the planning for next
fall. The control of the city is the
prize for which the Odell republicans
were good The fact that the
metropolis in ordinary times has such
a huge democratic plurality induced
Boss Murphy to take longer chances
and let part of the Tammany delega-
ton join the McCarren forces from.
Brooklyn for the defense of the Stand
to get an annual salary from the
Standard Oil and the sugar trust He
manages their legislative campaigns
with skill. The gas fight was conduct
ed by him on the floor Of the senate.
He is either a bolder or less ambi-
tious man than Murphy. The latter,
after conveniently absenting himself
from the city at the crisis of the fight,
has solemnly scolded the men who
voted for the trust
II don't care whether I go back to
Albany or not said one of them.
''This session was enough for me-
1t would look as if there were a
good chance of downing Tammany on
that record, would it not? But that is
not certain to follow. Murphy, who
has nerve and judgment, did not think
that he was running any risks. He will
have the support of a considerable
NUMBER of old-fashioned rich men who
would vote for the devil rather than
for municipal ownership. The opposi-
ton may be divided.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-06-09

Der, and a lawyer besides, and he took
the unusual trouble of looking up the
law. He found that the joker had put
him up to repeal the penal code and
leave all crime a peccadillo.
The legislature might even have
"stood for" that if it could have got
away with the goods. Post mortems
are still being held over it.
It was the first wide OPEN session
in some years. Fifteen years ago the
fame Of the "Black Horse Cavalry"
to put it out of power. Since then the
lobby has had less to do in Albany, and
arrangements for legislation have been
made with the central power in the
party that happened to be in control
Such arrangements have taken the
shape of political agreements rather
than direct personal enrichment; poll
tics has been a more decent game, but
the big corporations have got what
they wanted as surely and quite as ex-
pensively. The fat fell into the fire
last year with the split in the republi-
can party, manifested over Senator
Depew's reelection and the misunder-
standing about the ''gas grabs" The
Plat faction understood. like the Tam
many boss, that the bill giving the
Standard Oil gas magnates pretty much
everything they wanted was to go
through, to pass the mayor, who must
sign local bills, and also to pass the
governors scrutiny. Mayor Mcclellan
injured his political prospects by sign
ing TIE bill, when Gov Odell beautiful
ly euchred him by vetoing it with a
flourish of virtue No one accuses Mr..
Mcclellan of being a bad mayor per-
sonally; he was caught by trickery.
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sylvanla and chairman Of the republican
state committee, is said TO be slated for
the nomination for governor in the Key
stone state next year. Col. Andrews is
q quiet, modest man, but his intense en-
ergy and his absolute devotion to public
business has made him one of the best
known men in the senate end of the cap-
itol. As secretary of the Pennsylvania
state committee for number of years.
he has established personal acquaint-
ancs that was not eQualed even by that
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-06-09

Recent cable dispatches convey the
information that Germany is about to
begin a tariff war against the United
States, with the main object of shut
ting out from her market many mill
lion dollars worth of American agri
cultural products. and that "a strong
syndicate of foreign business men has
been formed" in Germany with unlim-
tied means to oppose in Great Britain
Mr.. Chamberlain's policy in every
way" This is significant. as it shows
how Germany is lining up her forces
in the worldwide struggle for COM
.nercial supremacy
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-06-09

fngs and other important bureaus of the
department. Mr.. Taylor has about con-
cluded that his private interests can no
longer be sacrificed for $4,000 govern
ment job and the chances are that within
the next few months he will withdraw
from the public service.
The assistant secretary, who is afrec-
tonately known as Uncle Hod," Is one
of the plain people" whom President
Roosevelt likes and talks so much about.
He was governor of Wisconsin, and in
his time perhaps has been the shrewdest
political leader in that state which
turns out past masters in the art Of po-
litical manipulation He is somewhat
picturesque character, a man of homely
He looks like prosperous farmer or cat
tie grower, who had invested consider
able money in banks and acquired little
of the polish Of city. He wears a heavy
suit of almost white hair, his face is
smooth shaver and full of healthy color,
and h. usually dresses in sack coat and
trousers of light-colored material He
has a shrewd but kindly eye, and al
though very near" in making bust
ness bargain, he is a bluff, big hearted
western business man.
Like SO many popular statesmen in
Washington, Mr.. Taylor is devoted
fisherman. He has caught every kind
of game fish from the rainbow trout to
the mighty salmon Of Canadian waters.
He is never so happy as when, with con-
genial comrades, he is off to the north
ern woods for month s fishing for bass,
pickerel or salmon. He has a cOllec-
ton of fishing rods that would make
the eyes of old Izaak Walton bulge out
with envy if that gentle sportsman were
on earth to catch a glimpse of them.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-06-09

David Briggs, a Brooklyn farmer,
the ninet eenth member of his family
10 Kill himself. was found drowned the
either day. He threw himself into a
mill pond ON the outskirts of Bridge
port. c. The suicides of the family
have followed at intervals of a few
years for nearly half "a century. Six
years ago Andrew Briggs. rich
farmer. weighted himself with a stone
tied TO Il dog collar fastened about his
neck and walked into pond. His
ncighbors found a stick fastened at
the edge of the pond pointing to the
Elace where the body lay.
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lor to remain in the treasury depart
ment. Secretary Shaw, a westerner him.
self, was not long in discovering the
worth of the ex-governor Of Wisconsin.
When puZzling questions would arise
about the construction of public build
ings or the proper application of the
immigration laws, Mr.. Taylor had the
faculty of going right straight to the
main point of the question in a way that
pleased Secretary Shaw very much.
When Mr.. Taylor first preached the sub
ject of retiring from the public service
a short time ago. Mr.. Shaw said: Look
here governor, don't want you to leave
the treasury. What will l do without
you? I want you to stay in until the end
Of my four years term, at least"
The dependence which Secretary
Shaw has on Uncle Hold" is apparent
when the records of the department
show that Mr.. Taylor has been acting
secretary of the treasury more than half
the time since Mr.. Shaw first took Office.
Secretary Shaw feels perfectly conf
dent that while he is away Assistant
Secretary Taylor is conducting affairs
as they should be, and he does not hest
tate to take advantage of this fact.
Mr.. Taylor, when he goes out of Of
fee, will go of his own volition. Some
few years ago the assistant secretary
believed he saw great possibilities in
business way in Alaska, and he estab-
lished bank at the City of Nome. His
foresight has been justified, and the
business of the bank has grown so great
and mining interests with which he is
connected are so important that he now
feels compelled tc give them his undi-
vided attention.
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completed. 1t is only in this way
That the house of Mrs. Cornelius VAN
derDilt can be said to represent s8.OOO,-
o0O-the house and it's contents. Reck-
oned in that way New York has per-
haps half a doze,, $5,00O,OOO houses,
some not yet completed and laden with
their freight of furniture.
Clark's latest freak is to buy out
right one of the greatest and Oldest
bronze fOundries in the country. that
OF the Henry-BonnarG company, SIM
ply 70 cast the bronzes for his new
house, the architects plans recurring
some hundreds of statues round about
it. 1t is said that half million dol
lars worth of such bronzes have al
ready been set up in and on the house,
and that delivery is more prompt than
would be the case if the orders of Clark
competed with those of the common
herd for the attention of the artist pro-
prieto1s.
The joke is that the house when
completed will be a $10,OOO,00O failure.
Clark has insisted upon being his own
architect. Where Carnegie's house is
quiet and dignified, Mrs. Vanderbilt's
at least consistent, w. K. Vanderbilt's
ornately beautiful, and while even
Schwab had sense enough to let his
architect produce pleasing exterior,
Clar;1s house is a nightmare of con-
fusion. 1t is huddle of unrelated
and warning parts each good enough
in itself but pitchforked together
without pity upon stone. People walk
miles to see it and horses laugh.
All this in a time when the average
of beauty in high-cost houses is higher
than ever before. Some day when I
retire from daily toll I'm going to
write an essay upon the blessings of
fashion as a preventive of something
worse. The average millionaire in
want of a palace bids his architect
produce something in the style which
happens to be in vogue at the moment.
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ing. 1t is situated in low-lying dis
trict, much of which had for years en-
joyed the more or less euphonious name
of "Swampoodle," where negroes of the
lowest class lived and where crime was
rampant. This low ground is to be filed
up and the big union depot will almost
be on level with the capitol, and the
group of magnificent public buildings
that are located and to be built about
the capitol plaza.
The earth necessary to fill up this hol-
most, and it is being obtained from the
excavations already made and in prog
ress for the house and senate Office
buildings and from the tunnel which the
Pennsylvania railroad is digging under
Capitol hill. The rapidity with which
landmarks have been removed and form
er we'll built-up squares Of the city have
disappeared has taken away the breath
of the old Inhabitants. The big square
adjoining the northeast corner of the
capitol grounds less than three months
ago was covered with rows of houses,
some Of them luxurious mansions. To-
day big steam shovel is rapidly con-
verting that square into a big hole in
the ground. The dirt and the debris as
it is being scooped out is loaded on cars
and quickly deposited On the ground
around the new depot so that by the
time the walls of the latter have been
built, the surrounding squares will have
been raised to the height of 50 feet or
more.
The new depot will be in keeping with
the magnificent government buildings,
of which it will form an addition 1t is
to be of white marble, and will be in har-
mony with the capitol when that old
building has been remodeled, as is now
intended.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-06-09

1t is not known generally that New
York City is by far the most cOslno-
gDlitan pace in the universe. as may
be- seen from the fact that there are
one hundred newspapers and maya
zines published on Manhattan Island
III languages other than English. OF
course. by far the greater number Of
these are in German. A long way be-
mind comes the Italian tongue, with
five or six dailies and six or seven
weeklies There are six daily newspa-
pers in New York printed in Hebrew.
and there are seven or eight Spanish
periOdicals-twO of them weeklies.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-06-09

According to Mr.. +. E. DaWley, Sec
rotary of the New York Fruit Growers
association, the empire state leads the
union in the production of apples. al
thought it does not have the largest
number Of apple-trees. Missouri heads
the list in this respect, with total OF
2O,O4O.3 99 trees. New York has but
15,O54.S32 But the New York trees
show an average production of more
tnan three bushels for each tree, while
in Missouri the average is about one
buShCl
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-06-09

Greece attempted to raise her rev.
enue by making every smoker take
out a. license, but as he smokers OBJ
jected and made riots in the streets
she compelled her people to purchase
the national emblem in the form of a
small flying swallow. These she had
manufactured in bronze in very large
quantities, charging few cents for
them, any person not having one in
his or her possession being liable to 4
penalty
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-06-09
Lobbying Extraordinary.

HE lobby's deal
ings with t h e
legislators wei re
Direct after the
good old fashion.
AS high as $4,000
were said to have
been paid for the
deciding vote in
each of two meas
ures, the 75-cent
gas bill alluded to
and the scandal
Gus measure to
drain Niagara dry
for the benefit of
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-06-09

very much wrought
up over the deci-
sion of the presi-
dent to have the
body of Paul Jones
inferred at Annap-
oils. This city be-
Ii YES that the
great revolution
airy naval h Ell 70
should have found
a resting place in
historic Arlington
which, of all the
national &c m e :
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-06-09

After five years work and at a cost
of $cc,50OOOO. ITO acres OF the richest
iron deposits in England have been
land coast. by means of semicrcular
sea barrier almost 1000 feet long, 210
feet wide at the base, So feet on top
and 40 feet high. An old sea wall,
constructed in 1890, 600 yards further
inland, made 5000 600 tons of ore avail
ahIe
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-06-09

place, the constitution of the state pos
itively prohibits betting or poolselling.
Only the legislature forgot to provide
any adequate penalty when the offense
is committed on a race track. The
booksellers trust is limited to 100 men,
bers, each seat valued at $5,000-or it
was SO valued. 1t is not worth so much
since the Belmont Park opening. when
the management ran in some outside
bookies on the first row because the
trust wouldn't guarantee 80 paying
members day.
Eighty paying members! Each man
pays 500 day for his privilege. I
beg pardon, of course he does not! The
rules of the Jockey club prohibit bet
ting! The bookmaker generously pays
for 500 worth of admission tickets
each day; the gentlemen managers en-
tirely overlook the fact that 80 men
each day, pay 800 each for many tick
cts they cannot use, and then proceed
to break the rules against betting by
Offering odds to the crowd. Every mai,
must average $3.50 day to pay his ex-
pensive help, to hire touts, to buy his
tickets and to tide. himself through a
long winter. There is $4,000 day
that the dear deluded public must put
up besides paying car fare and the like
to see races that wouldn't draw 100
people but for the betting. For in
these vast grounds, a mile and half
long, and grooming under the biggest
grand stands ever constructed, the run
ming horses, seen only once and at a
distance. look about as |big as mice.
It's no fun. OWEN LANGDoN.