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are Bright's disease and heart disease
the specially of the man about town.
Consumption kills fewer people now
in New York than pneumonia Peo-
pie have learned to sleep with their
windows open; they haven't learned
to avoid the pace that kills. And the
pace causes heart disease and
"Brights.' 1t makes pneumonia more
apt to hit man and more apt to kill
when it does hit
Partly the pace and partly climate
kills about $4,000 more in a year than
would die in St. Paul. And partly it
Is that bad risks" morally and
physically, gravitate to the city, The
folly that one sees in the all night
resorts; the messes swallowed in res
taurants; the anxious faces in Wall
street; the unsmiling mien of the
Broadway throng: the meaningless
gayety of the theaters! 1t is a fact.
perhaps not strange. that in some of
the poorest parts of the town the ten
ement jewellers, especially the Jews,
protected by their dietary rules, and
those of the Lent-keeping churches.
have lower death rate than in the
'brown stone wards Because IN
these wards much red liquor is swal-
lowed, much gormandizing INDUCED in.
much gambling done | have seen a
man and woman. both fat, pasty and
unwholesome in complexion, sit over
a long course dinner, during which
they consumed four quarts of wine
Rude of me to notice it, perhaps but
Pitt drank two quarts of wine every
night. and he died at 46-"of over
work.
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One of the greatest battles in his
tory occurred on October IS. 1913, at
Leipsic, when Napoleon was defeated
by the allied European armies. Dur
ing the last few years funds have been
collected all over the German father
land in order to provide for means for
the erection of an immense monument
in commemoration of this great battle.
This gigantic monument. which will
he the greatest in the world, is now
under construction, and it will be fin
ished to be unveiled on the day of
tie.
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the house and also in the senate. He
had as his colleague in the senate Mr..
Coke, and they were picturesque pair,
both being large, massive men physical
ly. and very ponderous in their manner
of speaking.
Mr.. Reagan will be remembered more
particularly because he was the last
member of the confederate cabinet. and
on his death all that body have passed
away. He was postmaster general un-
der Jefferson Davis, and was the only
one OF the cabinet who was captured
with Jefferson Davis. He was confined
for many months in the military prison
at Fort Warren. He had many confer
ences with President Johnson. Secretary
Seward. Henry Wilson, afterwards vice
PRESIDENT; James Speed and others on
the subject of reconstruction. In the
light of the history of that period and of
the years since. the wisdom of many
of Mr.. Reagan's suggestions is appar-
ent. He wrote an open letter to the
people of Texas advocating laws for
the protection of negroes. which should
81 dAI IhAoiA SA'1 11SLIS anu l1"IIcu pO-
litical rights, with an educational quail
fication. His own people misconstrued
his ideas, and he was retired from poll
tics for several years. but was elected
to congress in 1874, and for the two sue
ceeding terms.
Mr.. Reagan had many friends in pub
lie life in Washington. and old COL
leagues in the senate. like Morgan. of
Alabama; Berry, of Arkansas: German,
of Maryland. and Bate of Tennessee.
are profuse in their eulogies CT his
strong character.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-03-31

The length of time mali has been
known to inhabit the earth has been
proved to be 5000 years. A. NJ. Amen
lincau has issued the first volume of
the history Of his excavations at Ably
dos. the sacred residence of Osiris.
Here he has found prehistoric tombs,
and from their contents he knows that
they date back 5000 years. Fortu-
nate!y for the explorer. the Egyptian
of that day thought of death as a state
so closely allied to life that he would
have need of all the necessities and
comforts to be used here, and these
were entombed with his body
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in on the 4th of March two or three ad-
ditions to the corps of little men. One
of these, George S. Nixon, of Nevada,
is probably the smallest man in stature
in the senate. He is even smaller than
Alice, of Delaware. and that is saying
good deal. Mr. Nixon comes to the
senate, however, bearing reputation
of unusual ability as lawyer and a
man of affairs, and he is counted on to
take place in the front rank of the
strong men in the senate
Another short man who has just come
in is Bob La Toilette. of Wisconsin,
the strenuous governor and the success
full fighter of the stalwart wing of the
republican party. He matches his COL
league in stature, as Senator Spooner
is also below the normal height of man.
If La Toilette: had had two or three
more inches in height he would never
have been heard of in the political
world and would never have come to
the senate. His earliest ambition was
for the stage. and he developed histrion-
ic ability of rare quality. but as he
wished to play tragedies, his diminutive
height was an insuperable bar to ca
reer in that line. A hero on the stage
of some five feet four inches in height
would have hard time to achieve sue
cess. no matter how fine his elocution-
airy qualities. La Toilette gave up the
idea OF going on the stage and went
into state politics. and he is now pretty
nearly the top of the heap
Other small men in the senate are
Piles, of Washington; Martin, of Vir-
ginia; Alice of Delaware. and Knox. of
Pennsylvania. The latter has always
been represented as an extremely d.
minutive man. physically. but he over
tops In stature at least four of his COL
leagues in the senate
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With it's SO 900 400 inhabitants in 1905.
which arc growing at the rate of IT,,
100000 every decade now, the United
States is the largest civilized country
in the world except Russia. With II:
$4,000, 0O0, 900 Of property in 1905, as
compared with $4,000 100000 for
Great Britain and Ireland. $5O,OO0,-
100000 for France, $4SOO0,O00,OO for
Germany, and smaller fignres for the
rest of the countries, it is immeasur-
ably the wcalthiest of the worlds ma
tons
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islands. This is long step in the prog
ress of humanity, when the habits OF
the orient in the treatment of animals is
remembered The natives have always
regarded the dumb hrutes as legitimate
objects of torture and abuse. Now that
the better class of these natives are be-
ginning to appreciate the barbarity of
such conduct. the advance of American
ideas becomes apparent.
The incorporators of the society in
clude ladies and gentlemen, both native
and American, who occupy prominent
positions in the social life of Manila,
and a good degree of authority has been
granted them in order to further the OBJ
jects of the society. The. organization
is authorized to appoint five agents in
the city of Manila and two in each prov
ince of the archipelago: who shall have
full police authority to make arrests for
violations of the laws enacted for the
prevention of cruelty to animals. and
they can also call upon the regular POI
lice force to- aid in enforcing the law.
The society is required to make q
full annual report of its transactions to
the governor general each year. and
shall maintain a principal office in the
city of Mania, but has authority to es-
tablish branch Offices in other parts
of the island. One half Of the fines i'm
posed are collected through the efforts
of the society shall belong tosit, and be
used to further its objects. The dill
gent application of the laws is expected
to be productive of consid erable revenue
at first, as there will be no lack 1T ma
terial on which to work.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-03-31
Veterans of the Mexican War.

HILE the veterans
of. the civil war of
both the confeder-
ate and federal
armies are still
found in public life
d o ing splendid
service. although
40 Y e ars h a V e
passed since the
close of that con-
tlict. they seem as
boys, almost. COM
pared with yeter-
ans of the Mexican
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-03-31

But few people have any conception
of FlOrida's extent Jacksonville is
about as far north Of Miaiai as it is
south of Charlotte. N. C.-ahout as far
north Of Key West as it is south of
Danville. Va. Ignorance OF the extent
of Florida leads to many amusing mis-
takes. IT. takes over "a hours to go
from Pensacola to Miami. A land trip
from one end Of Florida to the other
is as long as from the lokes to the
Gulf
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SEEDING IN PROGRESS
IN WESTERN CANADA.
Mild Weather Is Bringing Thousands
Of Settlers.

Inc splendid yields OF wheat, oats
and barley produced by the farmers
Of Western Canada and the excellent
prices received for the same, have
been the means of giving an increased
AS result the inquiries made of the
Agents Of the Canadian Government
have nearly doubled over those Of the
same period last year. Railroad CON-
panies are putting on increased carry
ing capacity to meet the demand made
upon them for carrying passengers
and freight. Everything points to
most prosperous year. There is room
for hundreds of thousands additional
settlers, much new land having been
opened up for settlement this year.
It is quite interesting to look
through the letters received from the
Americans who have settled in West
ern Canada during the pastfew years,
and considering the large number it
is surprising how few there are who
have not succeeded. An extract from
letter written by Mr.. Geo. M. Girls
void, OF Red Deer, Alta. formerly of
Erever, Montana, written on the I'd
of January, is as follows:
II am located one and one-half miles
from beautiful lake ten miles long,
where there is church, school, three
stores, creamery and two post offices.
The fine stock, both catt1eaNcows and
steers), horses, hogs and sheep are
rolling fat, grazing in pasture to-day,
just little snow, hardly enough for
good sleighing, as we just had Chi
nook which has melted the roads and
laid bare the fields and pasture. There
are fine wheat, oats, barley and fax
raised here, also winter wheat and
timothy hay for export to British Co.
lrmbia. This is mixed farming and
dairy country. This is the right time
to get foothold in the Canadian
West, as It was some years ago in the
United States. We are free from wind
gumbo and alkali here and have fine,
clear, soft we'll and spring water at
depth of from to Is feet, and )ots of
open ever flowing springs"
Telegraphic advices from Medicine
Hat say that seeding has commenced
at Medicine Hat, Lethbridge, and 9TH
er points. At the former place the
temperature moderated gradually un-
til on the 10Th the maximum was As
and the minimum 26. Thermometer
readings since then have been as fol-
lows: goth, AZ and SO; 21st, "a and
"a; 22d, Sc and 80: 23d, 48 and 40;
oath, 48 and 26.
During the last few days in Febru-
airy considerable blowing was done
near Lethbridge. P. A. Pulley, a re-
cent arrival from Montana, plowed
and narrowed Is acres and e. Lali-
borty about the same amount. Rev.
Coulter White has also been harrow
Ing his farm. All report the ground
frost free and in excellent condition.
Bricklaying has also begun In town.
At Hartney, further east, on the 25th
OF. February the sun was warm and
bright, wheeled carriages were in use
and the plowed fields look as il they
are ready for the press drills. There
is every appearance that spring has
arrived, but farmers do not wish to be
deceived by appearances and conse-
quently have not commenced to use
their bluestone and seed wheat.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-03-31
. An English scientist says that insects
are fond Of whisky He seems ITO agree
with that other English scientist who says I
that man Is only an nsect.A tlanta jour
nal gS*5

rs Your Strength What It Used 60 BET
Can you work as energetically, or walk
as far, climb the stairs as rapidly as you
used to? Are your nerves as steady, and
your memory as good as formerly? Pains,
Weakness, Nervous Exhaustion, Weak
Memory, Rheumatism, Indigestion, Ca:
tarrh, Misuse and the various Blood end
Nervous troubles cause prema ture old age,
shorten life and destroy happiness Re-
gsnr yof sor bas ered
thousands whose case was much worse.
than yours. Pusheck' Kuro can be had
in most drug stores for $lOO, or sent for
this price from DR.. Pusheck, Chicago.
All advice free. ~ W. a.
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the old "city' of $4,000 inhabitants
and lord mayor; the metropolitan
district of six millions and half; the
county, of London. with over 1000
600 inhabitants, leading New York by
but few hundred thousands. The
latter London, Of course. is meant
Anyone would suppose that London
with it's perpetual rain would be a
deadly town, but the climate is milGer
than ours in winter, cooler in sum
mer. 1t is the extremes that kill peo-
pie in New York; these and one other
thing which | shall come to. Double
the amount of snow has fallen the
past winter than we usually see; and
while it was fresh upon the ground
disease was slight. Now that it has
melted. into unfathomable oceans OF
mud, neglected by the city. disease is
common.
The lowest death rate New York
ever had came in the last year of the
best government it ever had, that OF
Mayor Low and the fusionists. Then
it was Is and fraction, nearly down
TO the London level The coming into
power of Tammany Hall was signalled
by an immediate rise in the number
of people dead. Politics instead OF
business in the health, the street clean
ing, the tenement departments, had
something to do with it. And the peo-
pie are paying pretty dearly for their
political whistle The addition of a
point" and a half to the death rate
under Tammany means an additional
death list OF 5000 souls, a small city
in itself. Put that number of unnecrs-
sary dead in procession, tours front
and the usual spaces. and it would
reach mile; a pathetic column, men,
women and children. Just the addi-
tional point and half alone means
that!
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Progress in the Philippines.

HE pro gre S S o I
American civiliZa-
ton in the Philip
pines is we'll exhiH
tied by the enact
ment of a law by
the Philippine
commission au-
thoriZing the ill.,
corporation Of the
Society for t h e
prevention of Cru
city to Animals in
l., DR.
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of public men who wore the gray and
served with distinction in the confedei
ate army. Nearly all of the southern
states have representatives or senators
in congress who were confederate sol
diers. Alabama contributes In the sen
ate two distinguished brigaGier gener-
ais of the confederacy in the persons Of
Senator's Pettus and Morgan. They both
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-03-31

According to the bureau of statistics
of tho department of commerce ard
labor, the worlds coal production in
1908 reached the enormous total of
8G4,O0O,00O long tons, of which the
United States produced $4,000, 900
tons, Great Britain 100000, 900, Ger
many 100000, Austria Hungary 3d.
100000, and France $4,000. OOC.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-03-31

When Gen. kuropatkin was a young
man he was asked to undertake the
editing of military newspaper. He
declined with the words. "Fighting
battles is much less dangerous"
Fighting battles may not really be
less dangerous. but it is certainly less
veXatous than conducting Il newspa-
per in the cars dominions The edi-
tor must lay himself out to please,
firstly. the imperial court: secondly,
a dozen ministers of state. individu-
ally and collectively: thirdly. half a
dozen censors, and fourthlv. the pub
lie.
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Iondons places of entertainment
would hold all the inhabitants of Mil
Waukee-about $4,000 - and then
there would be several thousand va
cant seats.
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Money is scarce at Aris' ook, Me-
now. A peck of potatoes is the small
est change. They used to pass for a
nickel, but they are only worth post
age stamp now, and the mail carrier
won't take them at that.
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cents an hour. This result is compii-
Gated by some considerations as to
freproofing that are concession 10
employers. Nine thousand men will
profit by this record rate 6: $500 FIR
an eight hour day, $3.50 for the NOM
inal "half-day'' on Saturday. and extra
for overtime. These are not New York
rates in general. They are the rates
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-03-31
Wearers of the GRAY.

.ILE the death of
Reagan wiped out
the members of
Jefferson Davis
cabinet and the
death of Senator
Vest a few months
ago took out of
public life the last
member of the cOn-
federate congress.
there are still in
the house and SEN
ate ulrito. r..e~;o
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served In Alabama regiments and have
been highly honored ever since.

served IN ALABAMA regiments anu nave
been highly honored ever since.
From Arkansas comes the one legged
confederate veteran, Berry, while Flor
ida furnishes two .ex-confederate SOL
diers In Senators Mallory and Ta1ia-3
ferro. Senator Mallory saw service in
both the confederate army and navy.
He was comparatively young man
when the war broke out, BUT went into
the war early, and near the close was ap-
pointed a midshipman in the confed-
crate navy. Senator Bacon. Of Georgia,
served all through the war, most of the
time as "a captain on general staff duty.
Senator Blackburn, of kentucky,
served throughout the war, as did Sen
ator McCreary, of the same state. The
latter attained the rank of lieutenant
colonel of the Eleventh Kentucky cav
airy.
Senator McEnery, of Louisiana. had
his full share of the war; serving in the
confederate army as a lieutenant.
Money, of Mississippi, entered at the
outbreak of the war. and continued in
the army until 1864. Senator McLaurin
OF the same state, enlisted as private
when only Is years, old, which was in
1864, and served until: the end of the
war. Bate, of Tennessee became ma
1or general in the confederate;army, and
Daniel, of Virginia, had reached a, Ina
jority when he was crippled by severe
wounds in the battle of the Wilderness.
His colleague, Martin, was cadet at the
Virginia military institute during the
war, but spent good deal of time in the
military service in the confederacy with
a battalion of cadets.
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Canned tomatoes and other red
vegetables and fruits are often co.,
ored with eosin; preserved peas and
beans, as is we'll known, have the
green color fixed and acceniuated Dy
the use of very Objectionable sub
stance, namely, snlphate of copper.
Added rcd coloring matters are often
found in wines. Preserved cherries
are first bleached so as to become
white. then colored beautiful red,
and many other object ionable prac-
tiCCS OF similar kinds arc INDUCED in
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-03-31

Hungarian blacksmith recently
sent, as present to the emperor of
Russia, a horseshoe. a pair of pncers,
file and a knife, all ;ngeniously
nailed to a SOoses egg. without the
egg being broken. The emperor sent
in return his photograph, a gold medal
and 80 ducatS
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-03-31

Welding by electricity is brought to
such perfection that welding appa-
ratus can be carried to a railroad
track and two rails joined as solidly
as if they had come out of the rolling
mill in ore piece
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-03-31

The San Francisco poiico arrested,
the other day, three men and three
women in what they said was a shop
lifting school. 1t had counters and
shelves, and the women we're being
taught to steal.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-03-31

In Germany policemen TN duty can
stop children in the street in school
hours and ask them why they are not
at school. 1t is suggested in England
this be made the law there
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-03-31
Passing of Historic Southerner.

he recent death of
John H. Reagan. Of
Texas. removes an
other of the old
t i m e democrats
who made an i'm
press on public al
fairs in Washing
ton and elsewhere.
Mr.. Reagan was
we'll k now in
W a S h i n & t o n =.
u-horo no co,.x,od in
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-03-31
New Erie Locomotives.

The Erie Railroad has ordered 1877
very heavy freight locomotives and $500
freight cars. The company is also hav-
ing built three of the new and fast type
of passenger engines known as t'bal-
anced compounds" These locomotives
will pull more passenger cars at a high
er rate Of speed than any other kind
The company is also having built three
heavy Pacific type of passenger engines.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-03-31
The Great Land Prizes.

OW much is such a
site as that the
Post is abandon
ing worth? The
question can only
be answered by
c O m pa l. a t i yes.
Such plots do not
often come upon
the market. 1t is
five blocks above
Wall street. which
makes a 6iMQ1..
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A Five-Mile Newspaper Row.

HE Evening Post
has bought three
lots downtown for
a new building,
thus further CON-
plicating the prob
lem where News
paper Row" is in
the end to be. AT
present it is five
miles long and
only hits t h e
ground in the high
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The Fortunate Bricklavers.

F YOU want an
example of New
Workers at their
best. look at the
bricklayers, who
work out of doors
and get plenty Of
exercise. They are
pretty happy now,
besides. T h e y
have just made
their spring con-
tract for the sea-
sons wOrE OF m
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Victims of Worry.

EFT it may not be
all the fault of bad
government; a1d
when all is said.
New York is a
healthy city com
pared with many
of our own that
have hotter CHI
mates, or with
Berlin or Vienna
or St. Petersburg
And fho~ <hn~1
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men ' I At WASHING J |: &c Ton.
NEW SENATORS SMALL IN STAT
URE, BUT BIG Drained. b
Ia TOILETTE OF WISCONSIN
Passing of John a. Reagan, of Texas,
Old-Time Observation-Disclosures of
Gray in Public Life-Prog-
ress in Philippines.

A SH | N GTON
The United States
senate is acquiring
a large number of
men of small stat
ure. They are di-
ninutive only, OF
course. in physical
stature, as most OF
them are intellect
ual giants, famed
for their ability in
and out of the SEN
ate. There came
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A bad habit resembles porous plaster
on mans inner consciousness.-Phila
delphia Record. zss