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before the Birmingham university, in
which he claims that gymnastics are
injurious. Prof. Muirhead of the same
university has enlarged on Prof.
Mosso's theory and has made a sweep.
ing condemnation of gymnastics.
Prof. Mosso by a series of experi-
ments with an instrument called the
Ergograph contends that he has estab-
lished the fact that the brain is
brought into operation by every act OF
physical exertion, and there is a strain
imposed upon this organ by physical
exercise, mental study and the play of
the emotions. Prof. Muirhead, taking
Mosso's experiments as a basis, de-
clares that gymnastics are the most ex-
haustive and demoralizing kind of ex-
ercise that could be engaged in. His
contention has aroused quite a feeling
and his position has been severely as
sailed by the advocates of gymnastic
training of scholars. In defense of his
theory, Prof. Muirhead says:
II think that what we now know as
to the physiological effect of different
kinds of exercise demands an over
hauling of the older systems of gym
nastic training. Gymnastic trainers
are often ignorant of the real princi-
pies on which physical exercise should
be based, and our existing system is q
compromise for open air exercise. In
door gymnastics are very exhausting.
and in my view one of the best forms
of gymnastics is the outdoor games.
such as the public schools have in their
field SPORTS
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Among tho conspicuous examples Of
newspaper men being called by the
president to high Office might be cited
the following: Secretary8of State John
Hay. who was q writer of great
strength andsvirility on: the New York
Tribune before he entered :.he 1iplo-
matte service and began a career that
has made him the premier of the adj
ministration. Whitelaw Reid, now am
bassador to Great Britain, has been a
newspaper writer and editor all his
life, and served several years as a
Washington correspondent.
These two are both frequently spoken
OF as newspaper men who have made
their mark in the public service. but
there is an extended list of men of that
profession in other departments. There
is Robert J. Wynne, now consul gen.
eral to London, who occupied a seat in
MIR. Roosevelt's cabinet for several
months. He was a Washington corre-
spondent of more than quarter of
century's experience. The two civilian
commissioners of the District of Col
umbia, Henry L. West and H, b &.
Macfarland, were both prominent MEM
bers of the Washington corps of CORE
spondents and newspaper writer's be-
fore they were called upon to run tho
district government. Francis e. Leu1D,
for 80 years writer on the New York
Evening Post, and for more than 20
years its Washington correspondent. is
Mr.. Roosevelt's commissioner of In
dian affairs.
Then there is the venteran Gen.
Henry V. Boynton, so long connected
with the Cincinnati Commercial Ca
cite, who is now at the head of the
Chickamauga park commission. Other
newspaper men who served as Wash
ington correspondents and are now in
the public service are Assistant Secre-
tary Of the Treasury Reynolds, Chief
of the Bureau of Statistics Austin,
Chief of the Dead Letter Office Young,
H. Conquest Clarke, connected with
the rural free delivery, George w.
Rouzer, in the employ of the senate.
and George E. Gilleland, also EN- loyed
in the senate.
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ding of the month is celebrated, that Of
Miss Helen White Stevens and Gilliat
GheQuiere Schroeder. The Whites are
Of the OLD order. Among these Older
families, whose names are less often
printed, but who pride themselves upon
their quieter dignity, you hear little OF
divorces or of Haunting extravagances.
II any republic can have an aristocracy
these people come rather nearer it than
the often advertised AGO."
Take family of the latter type now
much talked of by reason of an alliance
with the high British aristocracy. The
Dodges of New York own scion, w.
Phelps Dodge, who has just married in
England after divorcing his first wife,
an English circus rider. This young
man In his youth at Yale got into
trouble by advertising his marriage with
an heiress whom he hoped to coerce
into having him by this original method
The girls family hunted down the fraud
ana lodges boy friends, whom he had
accused falsely of inserting the adver-
usement as joke made the country
too hot for him. Now in England he
writes to Vanity Fair about the cloud.
voiced, dingy-looking'' Yankee ladies
that travel in Europe-and that are
there appreciated. Then there is Flora
Blgelow Dodge, who married Charles
stuart Dodge, and got a Dakota decree
to marry Hon. Lionel Guest. She is the
daughter of John Bigelow, of Gramercy
Park-American diplomat and friend of
Dana and Tilden-and the sister of
Poultney Bigelow, the writer. Poultney
Blgelow himself married Jaffray, one
OF the famous Handsome Jaffrays" of
New York, and though four children
were born to them, Mrs. Bigelow got a
divorce from him. Here are three di.
vQrces within a pretty small family
range. Nor is the record unusual.
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suit of his profession to meet govern
ment officials of every grade, and he
becomes acquainted with the YORK If
every department and bureau. In nine
cases out Of ten the disclosure of
wrongdoing in the public service is
made by newspaper men in tie ordi-
nary practice of their profession. They
are quick to discern any unuluat de
parture from routine methods, a4r; it
is an open secret that the ll4atry
and acuteness of newspaper correSpon-
dents were mainly instrumental in
compelling an overhauling of the post
Office department and brought about
the disclosure of crimes and fraudulent
practices.
The newspaper man is also we'll post
ed on political matters, and, although
under the Roosevelt administration ac-
tive politics are barred in all the de-
partments, the president is very will
ing to have about him men who are
able to size up a political situation and
who appreciate the significance Of
government policies in politics in the
highest sense of the latter term.
New senators and representatives
coming to Washington are very glad to
secure the services of trained newspa-
per men as their private and confden-
tial secretaries.
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ing up man honestly for an honest
price paid by the mans enemies, the
Tammany senator from Eastman's dis
trict went to the Jersey courtroom to
take oath of Eastman's respectable"
character. Eastman is now in Sing Sing.
The biggest pitched battle of the gangs
in years occurred one midnight as the
Kellys and Eastmans were returning
from the Devery district, where they
had been repeating in primary fight in
the interest of the Tammany regular"
against the picturesque Big Bill"
These men are the legitimate sue
cessors of the "gas house gang, in which
Richard Croker rose to power by the
weight of his fists, and of many
another.
There are fewer gangs now, they are
confined in smaller quarters of the city
and even in the East side the holder po-
litical leaders like Tim Sullivan essay
to keep them within bounds; but their
strange ways of private vengeance and
their savage code of honor which for
bids every man to go to the law for ven
geance were grimly shown by the armed
and confronted ranks at McManus'
funeral and by the bloodthirsty oaths
that were taken upon his coffin.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-06-30
HON. JOHN IlGHE.

Assemb!yn7an Tighe's letter should
be read by every brain worker Ieadina
q strenuous life. -.
Hon. John Tighe, No. SO Remsen st.,
Cohoes, N. Y, Member of Assembly
from the Fourth district, Albany county,
N. Y, writes as follows:
"Peruna has my hearty Endorsement
as a restorative tonic of superior merit.
At times when 1 have been completely
broken down from excess of work, 50
that my faculties seemed actually at q.
standstill, Peruna has acted as a healing
restorer, starting the machinery of mind
and body afresh with new life and
energy. "
- recommend it. to man tired In
mind and body as tonic superior to
anything / know of and well worthy
serious considesation.""-J.T ighe.
Excess of work 50 common in our
country causes impaired nerves, leading
to catarrh and catarrhal nervousness
disease that is responsible for half Of
oil nervous troubles. ~r
Peruna cures this trouble because it
cures catarrh wherever located. + -.
If you do not derive prompt and salts
factory results from the use of Peruna.
write at once to DR.. Hartman, giving q
full statement of your case, and he viii
be pleased to give you his valuable adj
vice gratis. XIII. .lr.z -
s Address DR.. Hartman, President Of
The Hartman San1taIium. Columbus, @.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-06-30

The raw material for future Ameri.
can citizenship is pouring in on US at
an astounding rate. Can we convert
it into the finished product! In the
past nothing has impressed foreigners
more than our marvellous assimilative
power in Transforming immigrants
from Europe into loyal Americans.
But did they come then at the rate OF
10000 a week. and were they from
Southern Europe and from lands
where republicanism has never been
tested? 1t is this change in the type
Of immigration that is causing some
alarm
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brick and stone into the sky that looked
down upon everything about. 1t was
called daring. Already the Tower build
ing is far surpassed in height by many
structures about it, and it is to come
down to make room for taller ones still.
Built at utmost expense for all time, as
it was thought, it has proved mere
Taxpayer, as New York calls tenn
porary building cheaply erected to re-
turn some revenue while the character
of a neighborhood is becoming estab-
lished.
Tie main building of the New York
Tribune was the last and tallest of the
old-style structures of masonry. Its
thick walls take up much room from tho
interior. The annex to the Tribune is
Of the new skeleton steel frame con-
structio.. Now the old landmark of
Park row is being extended and mod
erniZed, and is to be raised several
stories, as the former Times building,
across the narrow canyon was before it.
Really the first steel building to be
torn down was the Fabst restaurant, on
hesite of the new Times building. This
was very beautiful little affair of ten
stories, doomed by curious circum-
stance. The Subway was to run direct
" under it, and there was no way to
hold 1t up easily, ef so it's owner thought,
and the subway contractor had to buy it
and cut it away. Then he built the
Times building literally around the sub
way; four tracks. and heaven knows
how many people day dash through
the middle of the foundation of shaft
nearly 400 feet high.
The Flatiron building is not so very
TALL only % stories. 1t is to be raised
story or two. What makes it impress
sive is the sharp angle which looks dr.
lily down upon Broadway. j Just -
blocks further north the Times building
is a shaft, square-like and Italian BELL
tower. About as far north again new
building is projected which will be true
spire, astesple without church.
5ss.'7, -s''S'sS .@7'>S Sa'"2* OWEN LANGDoN.
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Nothing in the history of religious
cults equals in breadth and boldness
the plans just set on foot in Old Next
co by John Alexander Dowie for the
trial colony. Dowie will dig into the
craters of extinct volcanoes to tap vast
Lakes Of water that now fill the one
time mountains of fire; he will build
his own merchant marine to navigate
the Soto La Marina river and a rail-
road to convey the products of his
colony to the sea-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-06-30

Sonora Alvarado, who died in Chi.
huahua. Mex, was the wife Of Pedro
Alvarado, the richest citizen of Next
co. Senior Alyarado was born a
peasant. and his wife was Of the same
class and possessed the same thrifty
characteristics which enabled him to
rise to such wealthy prominence that
he recently offered to pay the entire
public debt of Mexico. The couple re-
Gently completed house which is con.
sidered one Of the most palatial homes
in America.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-06-30

The main-track mileage of the Unit
ed States railways would circle the
earth along the equator eight and a
half times. Their revenue in 1904
100000 1000, would pay the interest.
bearing debt of the United States
twice over, and leave surplus which
would support the government OF
Spain, with it's 100000 inhabitants
for year. On the pay-rolls of the
American railways there are moe
men, 100000, than were in the armies
and confederate commanders at APP
pOmattOx.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-06-30

1t is matter Of history that many
of the colleges in this country we're
founded or endowed with tainted
money The United States in early
days, raised funds by running a lot,
terry. Some of the sectarian schools
in the west sold stock which was re
deemed by annual drawings. A great
deal of it never was redeemed, and the
money so acquired still bears the
stamp Of irregularity. Its possession
is unlawful, because no service has
been rendered in return.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-06-30

The Portuguese have adopted auto
mobile traction for a new battery of
four quick-fring howitzers of the
Schneider-Canet system of $50 MILL.
meters They were made at the Creu-
sot works, France, and the motor is
designed to draw all the four, one be.
hind the other, a load, that is to say,
OF about fourteen tons, at a speed of
at least five and half kilometers an
hour for al slopes. The automobile
besides carries five tons Of munitions
etc,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-06-30

Indiana, Wisconsin, Nebraska and a
few other Western States have laws
directed against the smoking of cigar.
cites. Bills of the same sort have been
before several states in the same sec.
ton, including Illinois, Michigan and
Minnesota. In most cases these laws
are so strong that they are weak. They
are so sweeping and so harsh that the
offenders are taking their cases to the
higher courts, with the hope of having
them declared unconstitutional.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-06-30

A new law, which will gradually re-
suit in the entire disappearance of
slavery from Siam, has come into ef-
feet, says the Bangkok Times. No one
can now be born a slave, and no one
can be made a slave.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-06-30
Dark Days for Newport

URPR1SING things
usually happen in
a hurry and in q
huddle. In New
port ere is
mourning a b GU t
many things. Mrs.
Stuyvesant F j S h
was nearer right
than l and others
thought her when
two years ago she
announced the
waning glory of the
city by the sea.
But it took a tax
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-06-30
Evils of Indoor Exercise.

N1TED STATES
Consul Marshal
Halstead at Biz.
mingham> E n G =
land, has sent an
extract from one
of the English pa
pers describing q
rather startling
theory regarding
gymnastics. This
theory is promul-
gated by a Prof.
MOSsO in a lecture
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cludes that of officialdom, clearly on
the side of the Japanese, the count has
been able by his own genial personali-
ty to retain the respect and affection of
all grades in official and diplomatic
circles. The blunders, the misfortunes
and the incompetency that have
marked the Russian conduct of the
war in the east on land and sea have
almost made the Muscovite name re-
proach in this city. Count Cassini has
had to meet all the disgust, disappoint-
ment and ridicule that his home gov
eminent have inspired.
AS the dean of the diplomatic corps,
his position has been doubly trying.
The embarrassment that his nations
misfortunes have brought are greater
than if he had occupied less cGnspic-
uous place in the list of ambassadors
and ministers. AS dean he has had to
take a prominent part in official and
social functions. This he has done,
and that immobile countenance and
imperturable manner have hidden any
anxiety and shame he may have felt
over the disasters that followed the
Russian army and navy in the orient.
The counts many friends have out
done themselves to show him courtesy
and pay him honor before he leaves
for his new post at Madrid. Dinners
have been the order of the day and
nothing but compliments have been
shoWered upon the cool headed and
popular Russian.
After the fall of Port Arthur, Count
Cassini was prepared for any sort of a
blow. That was the sorest disappoint-
ment to him Of any occurrence of the
war. He had a special interest in Port
Arthur, as the place was named after
him when Russia grabbed it at the
close of the Chinese-Japanese war. The
counts first name is Arthur, or Arturo
and the Russian government named
Port Arthur after him in recognition
of his services when minister Of Pc
king.
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Tearing Down Sky-Scrapers.

e w YOR K h a 8
reached the second
generation of sky
scrapers. Fifteen
years ago the So
c a | l e d Tower"
building in lower
Broadway was one
Of the wonders of
the town. The ar
chitect, h a v i n g
only a 20-foot plot
of valuable land ~
his disposal, threw
up rom it a
straight. shaft of
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-06-30

Hiram Maxim, on being asked how
he came to think of the idea of an
automatic gun, said that it was kicked
into him at the end of the civil war
after firing an old-fashioned Spring
field rifle.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-06-30
"Maior" John M. Carson.

HE ranks OF news
paper correspond
ents in Washing
ton have again
been invaded by
the administration
to secure desirable
m a t eri al with
which to fill a pub
lie Office. Maj.
John M. Carson,
the correspondent
Of the New York
=
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-06-30
Marriage and Divorce.

ALA Uuc uOitu from
the Paul Kelly's
fort, in a tenement
block so foul in sin
and disease that it
is to be RACED for z
public park and you
presently come to a
broader way, Sec
ond avenue, lined
with tall tenements
and occasionally by
stately old houses
dating back to the
time when this was
New YOrk's most
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-06-30

After having long been monopolized
by the corner saloon the free lunch
has been adopted by a church in Grip
pie Creek, Col. The pastor of the
First Christian church placed among
his Sunday notices the following
Lunch will be served Immediately
after church in the Endeavor rooms
Free to all who attend services
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-06-30
MITES OF MERRIh6ENT.

Mrs. Waunta Coyne-"The parrot
talks all the time" Mr.. Coyne-"Yes,
but he never asks for money"
Mrs. Watts Trumps didn't attend
tic last session of the whist club, did
she?" "No; she can't talk very well
yet with her new set Of false teeth"
r. NO." said Mrs. Housekeep, my
husband is not at home. He's out
hunting, as usual" Hunting? Why.
this is the close season." "He's hunt
ing cook. That season is always
open."
Growell Tin cheap restaurant)-
"Here, waiter! Are these mutton or
pork chops?" Waiter-"Can't you tell
by the taste?" mo" "Then what
difference does it make what they
are?"
Proprietor of Travelling Menagerie-
Are you used to looking after horses
and other animals?" Applicant for
Job-"Yessir. Been used to 'orses all
my life" what steps would you take
II lion got loose?" "Good long uns,
mister!"
"An the room in a sleeping car ap-
pears to be used for the passengers,
said the inquisitive old gentleman to
the Pullman porter. where are your
quarters?" well, suh," was the an
swer, "Ah totes 'em in a suit case till
we comes to de end OBJ de trip, an den
All invests 'em in real estate"
Mrs. Mudge-''1 do admire the wou-
On you draw, Mr.. Penink They are so
beautiful and so refined! Tell me. who
Is your model?" (Mrs. Nudge rises in
Mrs. Penink's opinion.) Penink-"Oh,
my wife always sits for me-" Mrs.
Nudge with great surprise)-"You
don't say so! Well, think you're one
Of the cleverest men I know" (Mrs.
Penink's opinion Of Mrs. Nudge falls
below zero.)
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-06-30
i'm THE METROPOLIS
STRANGE SCENES AT5FUNERAL
OF M'MANUs. ~
SAVAGE CODE OF. HONOR
The Record Of One New York Family
Assessing the Tax-Dodger-
Lenox and Bar Harbor
Gain

EW YORK.-T b 9
funeral of Eat
'em-Up Jack" Nc
Manus was one, of
those S t r a n 6 e
scenes that can be
witnessed in New
York, and in few
places beside, I
should hope. There
were the mourn
ers" IS i n c e r e
enough, the wife
and child, grimly
sincere the gang
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stranger to New
York understand
what the city's few
remaining gangs
mean to it. They
seem impossible,
but they are to be
t a k e n seriously.
When Monk East
man and ont or two
OF his men were in
trouble with the
New Jersey courts
for merely beat
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Faith in Newspaper Men.

RESIDENT Roose-
welt believes in
n ew s p aper men
and has chosen
many of them to
fill positions of re-
sponsibility Il and
honor in the pub
lie service. He be-
lieves in t h e
Washington CORE
spoudent. He has
had expe r fence
with the latter
class of newspaper
men for 16 or II
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-06-30
WASHINGTON GOSSIP
THE TRYING POSITION OF THE
RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR.
COUNT CASSlNl Is ADMIRED
New Head Of Bureau of Manufactures
-Congressmen Seek Services Of
Trained Newspaper Men
GYMNASTICS Condemned.

ASH N G 7 o NJ
Nothing but ad-
miration is ex-
pressed for Count
Cassini, the Rus
sian ambassador,
during these last
days of his stay
in. Washington.
Few diplo mats
have ever had a
more trying role
to fill than he.
With public senti-
~1~& -hioh IN
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Six million pounds of adulterated
and harmful foods were destroyed by
the health department of New York
In the last IL years.
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lAI pAcolucHL uA
f e q u e n tly re-
marked that he
has seldom failed
to get the highest
service from news
paper mer. He
chooses them be-
cause of their gen.
eral knowledge of
public affairs. The
Washington CORE
spondent is accus-
L
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The state of education in Russia
may be judged from the fact that there
is only one village school for every H.
600 persons
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years, Or since he first came to Wash
ingto0 as civil service com missioner.
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Mrs. Waunta Coyne-"The parrot
talks all the time Mr.. Coyne-"Yes,
but he never asks for money"
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The Rule OF the Gang.

T IS hard to make a
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MRS. Watts Trumps didn't attend
the last session of the whist club, did
she" mo; she can't talk very well
yet with her new set Of false teeth"