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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-04-28

had laid for summer vacation. Mr.. Elk.
ms is obdurate, however, and is deter
mined to make good his declaration that
he would devote the summer to getting
all possible information on this railroad
question. This is what he told the pres
ident, and he is going to keep his prom
Use. He proposes to hear all parties in
interest and then he is going to ask a
number of distinguished LAWYERS
throughout the country for their opin-
ions regarding the constitutionality of
congress delegating the power to fix
rates to commission.
Mr.. Elkins is rather proud of the law
against granting rebates by railroads
which bears his name. This law has
been up against the supreme court of the
United States, and has stood the test,
and Mr.. Elkins says that any other rail-
road law that he has anything to do with
must be framed with the same care and
with the certainty that it will be consti-
tutional. He says that he is very sorry
to interfere with the summer plans of
any OF the senator's, but he proposes to
have his committee get right down to
work and produce something that will
furnish the basis for action at the next
session of congress. There will be many
a trip spoiled by this programme, but
Mr.. Elkins says if they attend strictly
to business they may get away some
time in June: and all go fishing He is
better situated than most of the senator's.
for besides having an immense mansion
in Washington that is as cool in midi
summer as cellar, it is only a few
hours ride to his West Virginia home.
on top of the Allegheny mountains,
where they sometimes have frost in Au-
gust
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-04-28
EVERY ONE ASKS HIM
HOW HE GOT RID OF HIS OBSTINATE
MUSCULAR RHEUMATISM.
Nr. Jones Tells Of tho Way by Which He
Treated Himself Successfully
When Doctors Failed.


Treated Himself Successfully
When Doctors Failed.
3d. physicians, all of them good, one Of
them q specialist, had done their best
for Mr.. Jones at different times during
three years. and still he suffered fear
fully from the tortures of rheumatism.
The rheumatism that had been DOR
mant in his system was suddenly
brought to an acute stage by exposure
while he was drawing ice i'll February,
1901. From that time on for a period
Of more than three years he was con-
slant sufferer. He tried many kinds Of
treatment, but the rheumatism wouldn't
bulge. When regular doctors failed,
and one remedy. after another proved
useless, many said: II should think he
would give It up and save his money"
+ OF his condition at this time, Mr..
Jones says: my rheumatism started
in my right thigh, but in time it ap-
peared in every muscle Of my body. I
lost the use Of my left arm en-
tirely and nearly lost the use Of my
right one. Ny feet were badly affected,
ESPECIALLY VA0 OOVtVAAS VI bA0 uooASs
When my right side was affected there
was swelling, but the left side didn't
swell when the disease settled there.
The internal organs didn't seem to be
involved at all. The trouble was all in
the muscles and the nerves."
Among the few who still encouraged
Mr.. Jones to think that cure might
yet be found was friend who had rea-
son for great confidence in DR.. Will
liams' Pink Pills, and acting on her
advice he bought a box of them in Sep
TENDER, 1904. The story of what fol.
lowed is brief, but nothing could be
more satisfactory.
"When was on the third box - says
Mr.. Jones, II could realize change for
the better. I felt sure then that DR..
Williams Pink Pills were the right
medicine for my case. kept on with
them for several weeks longer and now
I am entirely we'll, and everybody is
asking what took"
Mr.. William Jones lives at Oxford,
Mich. DR.. Williams Pink Pills effect
wonderful cures in rheumatism, because
they work directly on the blood which is
the seat Of the disease. They are sold
by every druggist.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-04-28

theater. Portions OF State, Wabash,
Dearborn and Armour avenue have be-
come in the course Of time given over
almost entirely to the colored people,
and pedestrian taking her way along
their thoroughfares finds a very de-
cided air of topsy-turvydom. What do
you think of such sign as this: Hair
Strengthened here?' Think Of a beauty
shop advertising to straighten hair! The
beauty shops among the whites vie one
with the other to discover some secret
that will make straight locks kinky;
but our colored sisters patronize the
places where the madame can change
wool into smooth bands of hair, or at
east try to.
Armour avenue north many blocks
from Fortieth street is a Midway of Al
passers-by, nine out of every ten col
ored, and thinks there seems no very
long remove from those ancestors of the
African wilds. Our civilization gives
them saloons on almost every corner,
and we wonder if the modern drinks do
less harm than those native connections
the explorers deplored. We see bestial
faces, Keeling figures many, and Won
der if the city does any fraction of what
she should to raise these people.
Too we come upon a pleasant domes-
tic scene now and then, are reminded
that. as everywhere, good and bad -four
ish side by side. Here is a humble, low
shanty, but in the windows are we'll
cared for plants. we see protruding from
white sleeve dusky hand, holding
the evening paper, an air of home about
the place. Farther on there is a bunch
of merry pickaninnies sliding down
some steep steps that lead up from a
basement; happier by far than many
boulevard child
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-04-28
HONEST CONFESSION.
A Doctors Talk on Food.

"A uocrOT'S xa1k on GOOOs
There are no fairer set of men On
earth than the doctors, and when they
find they have been In error they are
usually apt to Lake honest and manly
confession of the fact. =
A case In point is that Of. an emf
nent practitioner, one of the good old
school, who lives in Texas. His plain,
unvarnished tale needs no dressing up:
II hal always had-an intense preju-
dice, which can now see was unwar-
rantable and unreasonable, against all
muchly advertised foods. Hence. I
never read line of the many ads Of
Grape-Nuts, nor tested the food till last
winter.
while in Corpus Christi for my
health, and visiting my youngest son,
who has four of the ruddiest, health
lest little boys ever saw, l ate my
first dish of Grape Nuts food for sup
per with my little grandsons. I be-
came exceedingly fond of it and have
eaten a package of it every week SINCE,
and find it delicious, refreshing and
oIAeA6IueuluS 1OOus IedSAA6 ~ AL "a
fects whatever, causing no eructations
with which was formerly much trou-
bled), no sense of fullness, nausea, nor
distress of stomach in any way. =.
There is no other food that agrees
with me SO well, or sits as lightly or
pleasantly upon my stomach as this
does. I am stronger and more active
since I began the use Of Grape Nuts
than have been for 10 years, and am
no longer troubled with nausea and
indigestion" Name given by Postum
Co., Battle Creek, Mich. -.- - Z
There's q reason. *ss.5-..
Look IN each pkg. for the famous lit
tie book, THE Road to MELVILLE"
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not hope to save anything out OF his SAL
airy. There is the mission at Buenos
Ayres, for instance, where the compen-
sation is $4,000 a year. An apartment
in hotel in that city consisting OF
parlor and a bedroom with bath and
board costs from $12 to ST day in gold.
Modest dwelling houses of nine or ten
rooms cost 1854 to 1854 per month for
rental unfinished. Maidservants are
paid $22 to $26 month, and it takes
two of them to do as much work as one
American servant. The common bottled
beer of commerce costs one dollar per
bottle. Ginger ale and mineral waters
cost 30 and IS cents pint bottle; shoes
are $40 pair and rubber overshoes are
$3.50 These prices are in American
gold.
Secretary Hay. in recommending that
the salary of the minister to Liberia be
increased from $4,000 to $500 a year,
stated that it costs about $4,000 for the
minister to transport himself and FAM
lily from the United States to his post.
Flour is sold in Monrovia for $12 bar
rel; butter, one dollar pound; lard, 40
cents a pound; ham or bacon. 40 cents a
pound, and kerosene oil, 36 cents gall
lon. The price of wearing apparel is
fully double that in the United States
for corresponding article: In addition,
the climate is extremely unhealthy, and
the constant attendance of a physician
is needed. The present minister during
a residence of Is months at Monrovia
has had Is attacks of fever; for each
visit a physician charges fee of five
dollars.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-04-28

coins to jingle in their pockets. The
past season has been a trying one on
these pets of society. as they have been
luncheons, teas. dinners. receptions, ba-
Ears and banquets. They are compelled
to endure all this society business, as it
is part of their chosen profession. The
strain on their physical system has been
great, and they welcome the present free
and easy season when they can sleep ten
hours a night if necessary, and do not
have to be on parade all the time.
While the strain on their physical sys-
tenn has been great it has not been any
thing to compare with the pull on the at
tenuated pocketbooks of quite large
portion of these young diplomats A
great many of these young men who
wear high-sounding titles and have their
names on the diplomatic list are younger
sons who have been provided for in this
way, and who have very small allow
ances to keep up their end of the game.
The drafts upon their slender incomes
during the last winter were so great
that some of them had to decline attend
Ing fashionable bazars and fairs gotten
up ostensibly for charity. They could
not afford to pay five dollars for rose
or $40 for chance on something simply
because some society beauty solicited
their contribution.
Many of these impecunious diplomats
keep their living places carefully con-
m
fact known that they live in third-story
sack hall rooms and sometimes cook
their own breakfast on a spirit lamp,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-04-28

Several prominent young women Of
Joplin, Mo-, are forming themselves
into a club to protect themselves from
"nashers,' with which the town is
overrun. The club will have no name,
and, as the members are preparing to
violate city ordinance, they are try
ing to keep the affair a secret. Profit
ing by the experiences they or their
friends have had recently, they III
ten to carry pistols when out at night
unattended.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-04-28

With the advent of the new cancel
ing machines, which are now in use
in all the large post Offices of the
country, came many complaints of let
ters being torn and mutilated. An or.
der has gone forward notifying post
office employees that letters containing
an Enclosure of a bulky or flexible ma,
ture must not be run through the can,
ceiling machine, but shall be kept sep.
arate and Cancelled by hand. Out of
the revenue arising from special de.
livery stamps postmasters at first
class offices are allowed car fare for
the messengers who carry them.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-04-28

The Kah-gyur, or Tibetan Bible,
consists of 1oS volumes of 1000 pages
each. containing 1903 separate books
Each Of the volumes weighs ter.
pounds, and forms a package 26 inch
es long, s inches broad and 8 inches
deep. This Bible requires a dozen
yaks for its transport and the carved
wooden blocks from which Il is print,
cd need rows of houses. like a city,
for their storage. A tribe Of Mongo!s
paid 1000 oxen for a copy of this,
Bible. In addition to the Bible there
are 225 volumes Of commentaries.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-04-28

American farm machinery is bring
ing about an agricultural regeneration
Of rural Russia that the government
admits itself powerless to curtail; for
the use of Yankee ideas and ma
chinery in farming Oh large scale,
it is admitted even by the reaction
lists, is all that can save the country
from disastrous famines in the future
more fatal to the autocracy than even
the introduction of our great labor
saving machinery.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-04-28

eminent abroad and to leave the salaries
of most of the positions at the same fig
ure that was paid half century ago
has had the effect of keeping really capa-
bic men out of the service unless they
are possessed of private incomes that
will enable them to live comfortably at
their post.
The more important diplomatic posi-
tons, such as that of ambassador, are
so attractive that really great men are
ready to accept them, but only when
they have private fortune to maintain
the dignity and style which are required
to put the United States on a par with
other countries in diplomatic circles. At
all the important posts in Europe the
cost of living is atleast twice the amount
of the salaries paid by this government.
The compensation of United States
ambassador is SIT 500 a year. Hon.
Whitelaw Reid, who will go to London
as ambassador will pay twice that
amount in the rental of an embassy
building. He is very wealthy. and will
not begrude the expenditure of $500, 900
or $150,000 year to make good show
ing as the ambassador Of the United
States.
In Paris, in Berlin and in St. Peters
burg the American ambassador who de-
sires to keep up appearances and do
| credit to his government in social way
has to spend $50 900 to 100000 year A
poor man cannot afford to accept one
| of these posts. In the case OF ministers
there is SO difference, as they do not rank
quite so high as ambassadors and not
SO much is expected of them in the way
of magnificent entertaining.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-04-28
Some Types.

" II l L r doctor
could never attain
the grandeur the
colored one so cas-
lily accomplishes.
His hat is the shini-
est. .tallest silk hat
to be found, h i S
shoes the M O S t
brilliant ever worn,
his shirt front the
whitest, his broad
cloth irrepr0ach-
able, his diamonds
HEADLIGHTS. A grand
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-04-28

Nine lola has offered her late hus-
bands property at Mcdan to the AS
sistance PubliQue, to be used as a
cOnvalcscent home for the female EN-
ployes Of that administration In MAX
ing this offer to NJ Mesurenr, director
Of the Assistance Publique, Nine. To-
Ia first proposed that the home should
be for needy men of letters and
artists, but she was informed that In
that case the gift could only be &C.
cepted if a sum sufficient for it's up
keep formed part of the donation
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-04-28

Mrs. Covington, Of Hanover county,
Va, who, IS months ago, gave birth to
three girls. has just borne twin boys.
All five children are we'll and hearty.
Mrs. COvington is the mother of Is
living children, having had two other
sets of twins, or nine at four births.
She is "a years old
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-04-28

Though ski running originated in
Norway, Zdarski, an Austrian, is the
champion. He has invented new
method of attaching the ski to the
foot, and has considerably developer
certain methods of turning which are
little used in Norway.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-04-28

The average height of man is
found by A. Dastre to have continued
the same for thousands of years, as
shown in primitive man, prehistoric
man and historic man. The great
size Of ancient man is imaginary.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-04-28
Diplomats Needed.
ROOSE-

6ESlDENIR OOSE-
WELT has expert
enced the old diff
Guilty in getting the
material he wants.
for the minor dip
lomatic positions
abroad and also for
the important con-
sulships. The fall
ure of congress to
recognize the dig
nifty and RESPONSE
bility OF the repre-
sentatives of the
United States gov
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-04-28

The city of Bremen has just ncgo-
tiated a loan of 100000, to be ex-
pended for harbor improvements and
extension of the city's water works
and electric lighting plants
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-04-28

The national plant garden near
Chico, CAL, has received from Japan
large shipment of plants and bulbs,
consisting of bamboo, the Japanese
salad plant, ornamental lily seeds,
Japanese paper plant, cherry trees and
orange trees
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-04-28
South American Posts.

HERE are missions
of the U II i t e d
States, however,
where the salaries
paid are barely SUI
fcient to pay the
cost Of moderate
living. Some of the
posts in S GU t b
America are very
expensive, and un-
! e S S the United
S t a t es minister
consents to live
like a clerk he can
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-04-28

runs along unchanged. The members OF
the cabinet who will remain at their
posts are all doing their daily stunts of
eight hours work, but they have relaxed
to a great extent the dignity that at
times hedges them about. They are all
thorough democrats, with the possible
exception of Mr.. Hitchcock, secretary of
the interior, who at all times adheres to
the niceties of etiquette and carries him.
self more like an aristocrat than any of
his colleagues.
Secretary OF War Taft is the poo bah
of the government. Just now he is act
ing president, acting secretary of state
and secretary of war. He is also to
some extent governor general OF the
Philippines, and comes pretty near &C.
cupying the same position with regard
TO the Panama canal strip. He is in
tensely glad that the exacting social sea
son of Washington is over and he can do
pretty much as he pleases. He dresses
comfortably and not in formal style.
and is on the streets great deal. He
walks home to his luncheon from his
Office, and in the evening is found stroll
ing about the streets. Secretary Morton
is enjoying the same freedom.
Postmaster General Cortelyou is dem
ocratic enough to take his luncheon in a
dairy lunch room, where he mingles
with chiefs of divisions and clerks from
his own and other. departments. He has
buckled down to real hard work, and is
running every branch OF his big depart
ment. Secretary of Agriculture Wilson
is as unconventional as an old farmer
these days, while Attorney General
Moody takes frequent horseback rides,
and is usually found in the evenings at
his home, dressed in easy smoking
jacket with a pair OF old slippers on his
feet
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-04-28

l ~ VI A5AAAotOA VI
the "Pekin" was
advised to build
in the downtown
district, but he
chung to the idea
Of a place right
in the center of
negro population.
The ner OF
Twenty seventh
and State was. Sc,
lected. and here
stands this unique
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-04-28
NEGRO IN CHICAGO.
GROWING NUMBERS OF THIS
RACE IN PRAIRIE CITY.
SOME OF THEIR QUARTERS
The Only Negro Theater in the World
Town Darkies Ape the Styles
Many Idle Young Ne
gro Men.

HICAGO. This
last week we had
our attention called
to a certain for
eign element in
our midst. the ne
gro.
Come to think of
it, is it correct to
speak of the negro
as a foreigner? To
us of to-day the
American II e gr O
seems as cOmpon-
ent a part of the
country as t Il {
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-04-28
Glad When Season Ends

HE cabinet officers
are not the only
ones who are glad
The social season is
past and that a Pc
l'iOd OF relaxation
has come. There
is a large company
Of under secre-
taries and attaches
IN the diplomatic
corps who are feel
ing much easier
now than they did
a few weeks ago,
and who OCCASION
ally have a few
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-04-28
Work for the Summer.

ENATOR ELKINS.
of West Virginia,
chairman of the
senate committee
on interstate COM
merce, notified his
colleagues on the
committee to be
here April II, to
begin hearings on
the question of
government regu-
latiOn of railroad
rates. The men,
bers of this COM
nlttee were not
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-04-28

e WOuucI IL LlloIo AZ
any other Sunday
quite like it.. 1t
means here a great
blatant brass band,
bellies and dudes
pro enading in
bravest array, chill
lren marching. the
streets full-a reg
ular parade day,
S o m e gOi II 6 to
church.
Among these we
notice a dear aunty
and uncle of the
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-04-28

Trials are now being made in the
German army as to whether the blue
and dark uniforms of the infantry had
better be substituted by gray clothes.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-04-28

enamored of the idea of remaining in
Washington several weeks, if not
months, attending to this work. as it in
terferes very materially with plans they
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-04-28

I Always Had a Headache
but since using DR.. Pusheck' -Kuro it has
disappeared entirely. This is the best
medicine I ever used and I have informed
many in Clayton about it.
Robert Gold, Clayton, Wash.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-04-28

The discovery has been made that
good paper can be produced from the
refuse hops that hitherto have been
thrown away in breweries.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-04-28
IudQinp from the Sex.

She-Is~there any difference between =
fort and a fortress?
He-Why, I should imagine that; 1ort-
ress would be-er-harder to silen.e!-
Stray Stories.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-04-28

Microbes, being vegetable growths, they
should never attack any but vegetarians.
Chicago Chronicle
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-04-28
On the Street Cars.

FTEN 1 hear peo-
pie speak of the
South State street
cars as the Afri-
can Central and it
surely is a popular
means of trans
pOrtation for the
colored people of
Chicago. And on
these cars one sees
more dressing of
a certain sort
than a nyW ere
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-04-28

else. How the darby loves to wear finery,
how he and she strut in their clothes of
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-04-28
A QUIET WASH|NCT
RUSH SEASON AT NATIONAL
CAPITAL IS OVER.
ALL CLASSES ARE PLEASED
The Social Season Is Expensive and
Tiresome-Why the American
Diplomats Must Be Men
of Wealth.

A s H I N CT o NJ
w i t h the social
season over, the
president a W a y
from Washington
and few congress-
men here, e asy
democratic times
prevail at the ma
tional CAPT t. a ! j.
There is a general
relaxation in all
circles, and only
the daily routine
government work
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-04-28
Where They Live.

HE originator o
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-04-28
A Negro SUNDAY.

E wonder if there il
\ any other Sunday