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discussing that affair the other day
said:
$50 far from being typical of the gar
rison life in the army, the conditions
brought to light by the Taggart divorce
scandal are libel on the family of every
man in the barracks. Beyond one or
two exceptions. never knew of a whis-
per against the honor of married WON
an in the army. The man who would de-
part from the highest standard of per-
sonal honor could not remain in the
army.
II want to say that there is no place
in the world where a woman's honor is
more safe than in the environments of
an army post. There are no men more
upright, no men more chivalrous, no
men to whom l would sooner trust the
women of my family than the rough and
ready men of the west-army or civ
ilian. Respect for women is a char
acteristic of our American manhood,
and there is no place where that fine
type of manhood is seen to better ad-
vantage than in the rough western coun-
try. where the post life of the army Of
ficer takes him. The public should
make no mistake about the standards
of morality at army posts. They are
not the standards which the Taggart
affair might seem to Indicate"
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yet and some old houses are torn down.
But more than 100000 have come; pos
sibly nearly 100000. The official fig
ures Of the state census may be given
out by the time this is read. Definite
figures are better than forecasts; but
the following statements will at least
be borne.out, and they are might In
teresting:
At it's present rate of growth New
York city will have about 100000 in
habitants in 1910. Old New York will
be quite outstripped by it's newer bor'
oughs. London proper will be passed
by New York somewhere between
1909 and 1912. What is called tho,
London police district, an area consid.
erably more than twice as big as New
York's, will remain larger than New
York plus the nearby Jersey towns fol-
few years longer.
Meanwhile the worlds biggest col
lection of human souls will be for 20
years longer neither New York nor:
London, but that compact group Of
English towns with Manchester as a
center that now numbers some 5000.
600 souls. But by 1880 there seems nc
present reason why New York should
not reach, rival or pass even that giant
human hiye-always with the help OF
Jersey towns within a radius of Il
miles and practically in the city dis
trict. Within so. miles of the city hall
are already dwelling about 5000, O0(
souls.
The growth of New York is perhaps
most spectacular in the Bronx borough
Here at distance of from 10 to II
miles north of city hall gigantic rows
of flats are literally rising in the pc.
tato patches. You 60 away for q
months vacation and upon your return
walls are rising in the green field
where you watched the boys playing
baseball last spring. We do not know
how fast the Bronx has grown. We
shall not know even when the censuf
figures are given out-for they were
taken last June. Last June! Why &c..
900 people have may moved in since
then; and the total population in 1900
was 100000.
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game is always to utilize an August
bull market as an excuse for getting
the lambs into the street. Prices are
going up, up, up-the bucket shop ad-
vertisements know no limit. Every
speculator on large scale knows bet
ter; knows that the September demand
for money to move the crops" will
five times out of six put the kibosh up
on the August bull market before it is
a month older, but each man relies
upon his own agility to get out in
time.
This year by the end of August all
was going as usual. The Index figure"
made by striking an average of 20 rep
resentatiVe railroad stocks and 20 in
dustrials" was higher than ever be-
fore. That of itself was warning
enough for investors. The bucket shop
pers redoubled their frantic cries; even
the bears were inactive, waiting for
higher prices to sell on.
1t was Lawson who spoiled the
game again; that is why Wall street
could not forgive him. Just as the first
timid flock of lambs was venturing into
the street, just as LOO professional
and $4,000 amateur operators were
ready to shout 81 saw them first,' Law
son began again, and the woolly tails
scampered away. Really, it was too
aggravating. Philosophers like myself
felt as the little girl did, looking at
the picture of Daniel in the lions den.
Look, mammal" she cried, there is
one poor lion amt going to get any,"
There was just one true reason why
the market at the end of August was
going up, according to the men with
something to sell. That was that Rus
STA and Japan were making peace The
prosperity of the country-well, that
is something we all take for granted
until it stops. You cannot sell stocks
on that. The lamb is from Missouri
and you have to show him.
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The feat Of writing the Lords Pray
Or upon space which a six-pence
would cover is so familiar as to cease
to be wonderful; but one can not re-
sist tribute of genuine establishment
to man who can write the whole of
our national anthem along the thin
edge of an ordinary visiting card, and
wno has actually penned biographies
Of King Edward and several members
Of his family upon a tiny grain of
wheat. Such a microscopic "calli.
graphist" is NJ. J. Sofer, French gen.
tleman. who, We should say, could safe
" challenge the whole world. s.n.e.
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lie idle in the vaults. Money on call loan
can always be got at short notice if
needed; there is no danger in that.
But when the bottom dropped out in
the first few dass of September, a full
week earlier than the pools had been
counting upon, the banks began ma
nipulating the weekly returns they are
obliged by law to make by turning
over some of their loans to trust CON-
panies. AS early as September good
Judges said that the banks would have
shown deficit if loans had not thus
been transferred. A $30,O0O000 loan
reduction was on the face of it bogus.
A $10,O00,0O0 cash reduction was gen.
uine; that could not be concealed. The
obvious purpose was to give the bulls
few more days to unload on the stray
lamb or two left in the field before the
inevitable calls for money were re-
sumed. What has happened since is
market history.
The December game is still ahead.
It is this: Prices are generally raised
in November; then an annual tip goes
out that dividend payments of some
$2OO,OOO,OO0 have to be made on Janu-
airy l and prices are bound to rise on
dividend buying" early in January.
The New Years rise" it is called, lust
as if there were such a thing. When
the game works right, the lambs begin
to straggle in through December, and
stocks are gradually unloaded upon
them, but not so as to break quota
tons; indeed, they usually rise; then
after January the lambs continue
buying, the operators sell and the
January rise" is like the core of tn,
boys apple; there hain't none" That
is what would have happened last De-
cember; did happen to some exte-L.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-10-20

Within a radius of one hundred and
fifty miles from Los Angeles, Cal,
more varieties of products from the
soil are produced than any one could
imagine. And majority of the prod.
ucts yield handsome returns on the
investment. Every year some new ex-
pertinent is tried in the horticultural
line in southern California, and it is
only question of time when the
orange crop will be secondary in i'm
portance to some crop that will yield
more with less outlay and less work.
Experiments are now being made with
plneapples.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-10-20

There is encouraging evidence that
the lynching mania is dying out in
the South under the pressure of pub
lie sentiment and the vigorous action
Of such men as Gov Vardaman, of
Mississippi. The year thus far has
recorded fewer of these cases of mob
violence than any similar period for a
number of years. Repression of this
form Of violence and lawlessness viii,
be further promoted by the action of
the supreme court of Mississippi, in
affirming the sentence of white man
TO life term in the penitentiary for
assault upon a black girl.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-10-20

with rank of major general, which is
said to be slated for next month. Gen.
Weston is now at the head of the COM
missary department Of the army and has
a most enviable record as the most eff
cient commissary general of recent
years. He is a great favorite of Presi-
dent Roosevelt, who first met him at
Santiago, Cuba, during the Spanish war,
and the encounter between the future
of the United States is a pleasant rem
iscence to both.
Gen. Weston was then only a lieuten-
ant colonel, but was chief of commits
sary in Skaters army, and proved him.
self hustler who did not hesitate 10
cut red tape when emergency demanded.
Col. Roosevelt had come into Santiago
to get supplies for his men, and ran
across Weston while the latter was
wrestling with boxes and barrels in the
commissary stores. Col. Weston was
dressed in very dirty pair of duck
trousers and a shirt, and was throwing
boxes around like roustabout COL
ISOOScVcAL COulu uOt UtllCV0 dt ulSt LudC
this was the chief of commissary, but
was soon satisfied of his identity when
Weston ordered two wagon loads of
canned tomatoes and corn to be dis
patched at once to Roosevelt's regi-
ment
While the future president and Wes-
ton were talking, a driver of team
passed by with a suspicious bulge about
his waist. Weston stopped him and
asked him what he had under his shirt.
''Oh, that's all right, partner" re-
sponded the driver.
Weston called to a soldier and put
the driver under arrest. Il do not ar
rest you for having stolen those canned
tomatoes that I see under your shirt.
but because you called me partner"
said Weston who, having gratiied his
humor, Immediately set the driver free
because, ne said: I'VE are too badly in
need of drivers" The man was then d.
rected to drive one of the wagon loads
of supplies to COL Roosevelt's camp.
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pendent position. He was thorn in the
side of the managers of the United
States senate, no matter what party was
in control. He was probably as thor
oughly hated man as any who has sat
in the senate in recent years, but at tho
same time he had many loyal friends,
and he was always power to be reck-
oned with.
Mr.. Pettigrew is naturally political
schemer and conspirator. and it was the
delight of his life to Illustrate the care
fully laid plans of senate leaders. All
sorts of criticism and charges were
made, but no one was ever able to place
his finger on anything dishonorable or
dishonest in Mr.. Pettigrew's senatorial
career. He was simply not liked. He
would sit all hunched down in his chair
pulling strips Of paper to pieces and
scattering them on the floor and glanc-
ing furtively from under pair of shaggy
eyebrows while the two sides of tie SEN
ate were endeavorine to reach d11 agree
ment regarding the disposition of some
measure. When everything seemed to
be running smoothly and an agreement
about to be declared, Pettigrew would
unlimber his long legs and, straighten-
ing up his more than six feet of body
would, in whining. querulous tone in
ject himself into the proceedings and
spoil whatever game was going on.
This was after he had left the repub-
licans altogether and had become free
silver populist.
There is now quite a fight on in South
Dakota against Senator Gamble, and
Pettigrew is shrewdly trying to ma
nipulate matters so as to secure the leg
islature for himself. If he should
come back to Washington he would at
least liven up the sessions of the sem
ate, for there was scarcely day of his
last four years of service in which he
did not start row of some kind.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-10-20

Hand grena1es, which have been
practically out of date for a century,
have been employed by both sides in
the Russo-Japanese war so extensively
that it seems possible that their use
and manipulation may enter into the
general curriculum of the soldiers
training in our own and other modern
European armies. Time was when
these deadly missiles were carried by
a number OF the biggest and strongest:
soldiers in every infantry regiment.
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yOd1 IuC SdlS0I III
the world in proportion to the
numbers carried If it is less safe
now it is only because of the
needs of really rapid transit, of
running heavy trains of seven cars
upon tracks originally designed for
light trains of three cars. The mo-
mentum at the sharp curves is tre-
mendous. A single mistake, moment
of forgetfulness, may derail train, as
the accident at the Forty-ninth street
corner derailed one car The elevated
lines are not only unlikely to be ex-
tended and reproduced; thinking en-
gineers are looking forward to the
time when they must come down, must
cease to cucumber the streets.
The elevated roads carry a million
passengers day in Manhattan alone
What can take their place? The an
swer is in 10 separate routes of sub
way railway projected for the city.
To-day it has only two running, with
third we'll toward completion. The 10
may not all be built, but if any link
in the chain is omitted it will be be-
cause a better one is substituted. Eight
lines of rails are projected to pass un-
der the Hudson river, and two of these
lines are nearly completed. to bring
trolley cars from Jersey. Three times
as many lines of rails, including the
bridges, are projected for the Brook
Ign side. The original subway has
cost by now nearly $50,O00.O0O: it is
longer than the average, and is really
two separate lines.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-10-20

uOu, lOuuu CEOh0l
looking old, and rescued two or three
yhard-up American prize fighters Well
it was of course a great time.
remember a Tim Sullivan pic.
mic 20 years ago, when the great
Sullivan was a young man, poor,
beginning in politics. Next day a
friend said to him: well, Tim, it
was a great success; there must
have been as many as HOO PEG
pie there"
eleven hundred, is it," said Tim,
drawing himself up proudly; t'ere was
more'n a. tousand.' If people expect
Tim Sullivan to talk Bowery dialect
nowadays they have been misled. That
may do for beginner. Not for a
statesman who has represented his dis
trict:. in congress "better than Gan
Webster could"
This year the Sullivans numbered
not HOO, but H. 900. That is, that
number of tickets were sold at five dol
lars each. Not all the immense throne
went, because the day turned rainy.
The picnic had been postponed too
long, because Of the big fellows alb
sence in Europe Twenty nationalities
We're represented. There were over
Zoo Italians; there were as many hun.
dred Greeks. There were as many
dozen SyTians. szss
= ~ OWEN LANcIoN-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-10-20

IONS OF paper are used for buildina
purposes every year. Garments made
OF paper, spun with cotton, are to be
found on sale in every city in the
land. Collars, cuffs and shirt bosoms,
otherwise known as "dickeys," have
long been worn at one-tenth the cost
OF linen. Bonnets and crepe pape,
hats are made for women. Paper but
tons are a part Of many pieces Of
wearing apparel which you buy. Con.
siderable paper is used as stiffenina
Tor dresses. Shoes and slippers ara
also manufactured of paper.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-10-20

Under the act just passed by the
pennsylvania legislature for the an.
nexation Of Allegheny to Pittsburg thu
latter will become one of the coun.
try's great cities. The annexation
idea will have to be ratified by vote
OF the people of the two towns before
1t can become operative, but this as.
sent seems assured. In 1900 Pittsburs
had 321, 616 inhabitants and Allegheny
1886. total of 451,512 The cities
which had more than that number OF
people were New York, Chicago, Phil
adelphia, st. Louis, Boston and Bal
timOre
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complaint is concerned. beyond

complaint is concerned, beyond 10
knowledging receipt of his communica-
ton. Persons claiming to be creditors
and collectors Of debtsssor claims will
be denied access to employees during the
hours of public business or while the
employees concerned are on duty.
In connection with this warning is.
sounded to the clerks that they must dis
charge their honest debts as the depart
ment will not permit itself to be used
as shelter for dead-beats The order
states that the department does not
consider one who fails without iustifica-
ton, to pay his just debts person suit
able for public employment. Upon re-
ceipt of a complaint of 1on-payment of
debt it will be referred to the proper
chief of bureau for report in writing
from the employee concerned, and the
conclusions reached by the department
will be made part of the clerks Official
record.
Since these orders have gone in$o ef-
feet in other departments there has been
a perceptible improvement in the finan-
cial standing Of government employees.
Business men generally agree that the
government clerk is their best paying
patron, and while he generally lives ,1p
to the salary he receives there are fewer
delinquents in the matter of bill paving
among the government clerks than in
any other class in Washington.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-10-20

According to Mr.. j. D. Dargan. pres
ldent OF an Atlanta, Ca, insurance CON-
pany, the life insurance premiums col
lected In II southern states during the
calendar year 1904 amounted to $50.
S56,O67. The states here included
are the Confederate States, the large
sum paid in premiums, all but a little
more than half million was paid to
northern companies. New York com.
panles collected almost 60 per cent. of
the total.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-10-20
Ex-senator Pettigrew.

u M OR S reach
Washington that
Ex-senator Petit
grew, of South Da-
kota, has.it in mind
to try again for a
seat in the senate.
For many years
Pettigrew was one
of the gadfys in
congress. He came
to the senate orig
inally as a repub-
lican, but of the
free silver variety,
and always MAIN
famed an ;ndo.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-10-20
A PICTURESQUE Character.

NE of the political
traditions of the
south and SOUTH
west seems to be
that when a man
leaves congress to
accept the gov
ernorship of his
state he cannot
again ask to be
sent back as a
member Of the ma
tiOnal legislature.
Ex-Gov. Dockery,
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The Growth Of New York

SPOKE a f,e "
weeks ago of $780,
600 souls as the
number for which
New York builders
W re preparing
houses and flats.
The number is
raised by fuller re-
turns to 300,0 900.
In five years, room
for more than a
million new resi-
dents has been
provided; of course
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not be bound by this tradition, as reports
have it that he expects to run for con-
gress in his old district next year and
come back to the house where he
served for many terms. His district
went republican last year, and the dem
ocrat, Mr.. Dougherty, who succeeded
him. has since died; so that the ex-
governor has tolerably clear field if he
wants the nomination. The district is
normally democratic and Mr.. Dockery
would probably be elected.
His election would bring again to
Washington rather picturesque char
acter. Mr. Dockery was of the typ
ical southern members who insist on the
wearing low cut vests and SLOUGH hats.
He was a good deal of an economist,
and was regarded as watch dog of the
treasury" while here. He was an asso-
ciate of "Uncle Joe" Cannon on tho
house committee on appropriations and
aided the latter in his war upon extrav-
agance. On the floor of the house Mr..
Dockery was an effective debater. and
when warmed up on subject would pull
his coat sleeves to his elbows, get red
in the face, pound his desk and give 9TH
er evidences of his emphatic earnest
ness.
There are many government clerks
here who do not like Mr.. Dockery be-
cause the latter was the author of leg
islation which introduced new meth
DDS in the departments and required
government clerks to give some SEM
blance of service in return for their SAL
aries. Through his efforts commits
sion was appointed that revised business
methods, much to the expediting of pub
lie affairs.
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Concerning Garrison Life.

AAN. w Ed L YIN Is
a Kentuckian by
birth and an Irish
man by descent,
and possesses all
the wit and gall
lantry character
istic of both. He
is very much dis
gusted with the
revelations t b a t
have been made
in the notorious
Taggart divorce
c,,;t ~ Nh:1 c-I;~
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-10-20

The sultan of Turkey strenuously OBJ.
Jects to darkness and his apartments
In the palace and the surrounding gar
dens as well are flooded with light ev-
cry night.
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IN THE METROPOLIS.
LAWSON. AGAIN sPo11s THE
A wAIL-sTREET GAME.
NEW YORK IN THE FUTURE
Underground Roads Must Handle the
Tremendous Throngs-Engineers
Think Elevated Lines Will
90 Be Pulled Down.

EW YORK Every
year there are, or
by Wall street the
DRY there ought to
be, t wo gre a t
shearings of the
handsome in Sep
TENDER, one in De-
cember. It is not
Wall streets fault
t h a t something
went wrong win
the S e p t e m b e r
shearing this year.
The Sentemher
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OF the
N w Bonaparte
does not propose
to make his de-
partment a debt
collecting agency.
He has issued or
ders similar to
those in effect in
the other depart
ments which pre-
vents civilian en-
ployes being har-
raised by bill COL
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-10-20

A curious club has been formed by
certain women Of Berlin. The chief
qualification for membership is that
the applicant must be deaf. A hun.
dred members meet weekly in Will
helm strasse, where they drink tea as
they converse in the sign language or
with the aid OK ear trumnets.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-10-20
IN POOR HEALTH. 4 r.
PAINS IN BACK.
SICK HEADACHES.
PE-R(j-NA CURED.

Mrs. Lena Smith, N. Cherry street,
cor. Line, Nashville, Tenn, writes:
81 have had poor health for the past
four years, pains in the back and groins,
and dull, sick headache, with bearing
down pains.
"A friend, who was very enthusiastic
about Peruna Insisted fhatIfry it,.
IL took it for ten days and was SUR
prised to find that had so little pain.
II therefore continued to use it and
at the end of two months my pains had
totally disappeared.
81 have been In the best of health
since and feel ten years younger. !
am very grateful to y0u."
Catarrh of the internal organs gradu-
ally saps away the strength, under
mines the vitality and causes nervous
ness. Peruna is the remedy. *...s
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-10-20

The ink plant of New Granada is a
curiosity. The juice of it can be used
as ink without any preparation. At
first the writing is red, but after a
few hours it changes 10 black.