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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-12-22

:. Senator Pettus is known as the e Chi
nese Mandarin because Of his remark
able physical appearance to the late
Chinese statesman, Ii Hung Chang.
He is trtfe over SIX feet in height,
like the late Earl Ii, and wears a
mustache and imperial that give him
the facial expression of the Chinaman.
To augment the resemblance the SEN
ator wears pair of very large specta-
c1es with steel bows. Senator Pettus
attributes his long life and his ability
to stand hard work to early rising and
regularity of habits. He is up by five
o'clock in the morning at all seasons
of the year, breakfasts between six and
seven and does his work in daylight.
He is ready to retire at ''early candle
light" and only ON rare occasions does
he put on his evening clothes and at
tend dinner or other society func-
ton.
Senator Pettus is almost a connect
ing link between revolutionary times
and the present. His grandfather, on
his mothers. side, was Capt. Anthony
Winston, of Virginia, a revolutionary
soldier of distinction. The senator's
own activities extend over two-thirGz
of a century. He began the study of
law about 66 years age and was admit
ted to the bar 81 years ago and has
practiced ever since except for the
item he served as lieutenant in the
Mexican war and as an officer of the
confederacy in the civil war, which
he entered as lieutenant colonel and
came out as brigadier general. Mr.
Pettus has over three years to serve
of the term he will be vigorous enough
to seek asreelectiOn.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-12-22

"Left-eyed people simple own the
town these days." said Broadway
oculist. If the prominence and i'm,
portance OF that optic continue to in,
crease We shall one day be a left-eyed
race. In more than half the patients
I treat the left eye is already consid,
erably larger than the right, it is
brighter and it Lasts longer. If you
want to find out W ich eye is stronger
try to read with one then with the
other unassisted by its mate Mine
times out Of ten that test shows how
much more useful the left eye is than
the right"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-12-22

It would be an immense benefit to
all mankind If the stores Of gold now
held by individuals in India could be
made available for general use Ever
since the dawn Of history that country
has been gathering gold and hiding it
away. Treasures of almost incalcu-
liable value are possessed by many In
dian princes. When the Maharajah
Of Burdwan died, the stock of gold and
silver left by him was so. large that
no member Of the family could make
an accurate estimate of it.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-12-22

and 10 10 De designed by artists. SO
Hudson need not turn In his grave To!
have it named for him : s III ssss:
-. Some thought that New York ought
to have q worlds fair to celebrate the
four hundredth anniversary OF HudsOn's
arrival. But New York is scary Of
worlds fairs. It tried to get the Co
lumbus exposition of 1892, but the eff
fort was beaten by traitors in the New
York camp. Tom Plat was then in the
height OF his power, and he preferred to
throw the fair to republican Illinois
rather than have it come to New YORK
when the city would be certainly and
the state probably in democratic hands.
Since then worlds fairs have grown q
little onerous to those who get them
up. Also they have certain sameness.
me exhibits are practically kept on the
move from one to the other When you
have seen one fair you have seen a good
part of the next one. .s..u
Hudson would find changes il he came
now: There is a bridge across at Pough-
Keepsie another has long been protected
in the Highlands. "a tunnel under the
river is now complete and Jersey cit
liens will soon be able to travel through
it from their homes to their Offices The
metropolis grows in every direction.
Newark is as much a part of it except
politically as Yonkers, and neither is
technically part. In the Jersey
Oranges almost every able bodied man
nycant tho orooorc ond h,1toborc ooro &C,
to New York to work. The city has the
working population OF more than $780,
600 people.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-12-22

years, and no one really expects them
to be finished for much less than $780,
100000.
The Congressional Library at WASH
ington is the wonder of bridal tours.
The waterworks will cost 80 times as
much. The German emperOr's great
plan for east-and-west canals tying to-
gether the sluggish rivers OF the low
plain of Prussia is to cost for the pres
ent only one-third as much. The Erie
canal enlargement which has split New
York politics for years is big Job. 1t
will cost half as much as the new water
works.
And when the waterworks are finished
In ten years, they will last the city with
out reinforcement just ten years longer!
Do you know what we must do then?
1t is almost worth getting down the old
map to trace out. Well we must either
60 to Lake George or to Lake Ontario
or to the AdirOndacks. Call it $50 miles
to Lake George; the fall is 3OO-odd feet
enough to run water by gravity. Only
as Lake George has small aff1uents, the
solid mountains to the westward must
be tunneled and some higher Adiron-
dack streams diverted to fill it deeper.
Now you see where the state comes in.
Such a water system could supply every
town along the Hudson valley as we'll as
New York. Massachusetts has at Clin-
ton such general supply source tapped
by all the east-coast towns that chip in.
To date. it is the greatest supply in the
world. New York's new one will sur
pass everything. London talks of 60
ing to Wales for water, must some time
do so: But London indeed most large
European cities, use only about one
fifth as much water per head as we Yam
KEGS.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-12-22

Gratis some II or Is places, in order to
accommodate the increased republican
membership. In the last house there
were 21O republicans and 176 demo-
Gratis. With membership of 54 per
cent. the republicans enjoyed 62 per
cent. of the committee appointments,
numbering all told 759.
Speaker Cannon has figured out that
in the present house the republicans
have nearly ga per cent of the men,
bership, and if they were given the
same proportion of committee assign
ments as in the last house they would
receive 7S per cent. OF the total COM
mittee membership. This is too much
and would require too great a reduc-
ton of the democratic membership to
appear absolutely fair. So the speaker
has taken another basis for committee
assignments. He finds that while
there will be 66 new republican mem
bers to be taken care of in the COM
ing congress there will be but Is new
democratic members. !. n :.
Under this plan he has been COM
PEELED to disappoint great many re-
publicans, and democrats are kicking
because they have lost. a dozen COM
mittee places. The speaker. advises
Mr.. John Sharp Williams, of Missis-
sippi, the minority leader on the floor,
to take out his pencil and do little
figuring. He says he believes that
John Sharp" as he affectionately
calls his democratic friend, will find
that the democrats Rave been most:
generously treated. S.. z=ss
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-12-22

Although Japan has revealed herself
rs Eighty enlightened in so many
spheres OF civilization, she has not yet
applied reformatory principles to thu
institution Of marriage. There is as
yet no such thing in Japan as equality
between the sexes. The law relating
to marriage recognizes no wrongs, ex:
cept on the part OF the wife, from
whom the husband may obtain a di.
ve=>< by merely asserting that he is
tired Of her, or upon any Of the fol,
lowing grounds: Disobedience, adul..
terry. barrenness, jealousy, physical
antipathy, tallativeness or theft I,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-12-22

Serpent worship and the propitia-
ton of snake divinities which once
spread all over Asia still maintains
a tenacious hold on the little native
state of Cochin and Travancore, on
the southwest coast OF India. Here
Hindoos high and low revere the cobra
as they did 1000 years ago, and it is
considered heinous crime to injure
the reptile or neglect its interests. In
the district of Travancore alone there
are between $4,000 and 10000 shrines
dedicated exclusively to the worship
Of snakes.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-12-22

According to the English Army and
Navy Journal, Lieut.. Marshall o. Rob.
erts, Of New York. is the only ,Ameri-
can who has received commission
in the Royal Guards. Before an orig,
inal commission 10 granted in thta
foremost Of the crack regiments 81
England, tho candidates name, fam
ily, character. and autecedents arr
submitted to the king and the crown
prince for approval. To have sue.
cessfully passed this risoroas test and
received the appointmentsis certainly
Z distinction ofsNhich any man. Amer.
loan or olherWise, might well be proud.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-12-22
A BRAIN WORKER. ~.
Must Have the Kind Of Food That
Nourishes Brain. -

l am literary man whose nervous
energy is a great part of my stock in
trade, and ordinarily have little pa
thence with breakfast foods and the
extravagant claims made of them. But
cannot withhold my acknowledge
ment of the debt that l owe to Grape.
Nuts food.
II discovered long ago that the very
bulktness Of the ordinary diet was not
calculated to give one q clear head, the
power Of sustained, accurate thinking.
/ always felt heavy and sluggish in
mind as well as body after eating the
ordinary meal, which diverted the
blood from the brain to the digestive
apparatus. Z =. $ &c. 5.= #.z s.. s S
Il tried foods easy Of digestion. but
found them usually deficient in nutri-
ment. experimental with many
breakfast foods and they, too, proved
unsatisfactory, till / reached Grape
Nuts. And then tie problem was
solved. $50 -. =. . ..=zs
Grape Nuts agreed with me perfect
" from the beginning, satisfying my.
hunger and supplying the nutriment
that 90 many other prepared foods
lack. .sa & E n. 80 80 a..
T had not been using It very long.
before I found thatI was turning out.
On unusual quantity and quality 81.
work Continued use has demon
strated to my entire satisfaction that
sGrape-Nuts food contains an the ele-.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-12-22

the placing of flowers in the senate
chamber. Speaker Cannon took the
matter into his own hands so far as
instructed the employees not to allow
any floral display on the floor of the
house.
The giving of flowers had been car
ried to a ridiculous extent. The desks
of members were so piled up with
floral pieces that nothing else could be
seen and the crowded hall looked more
like floral exhibit than a legislative
chamber. 1t got to he so that the
friends of various statesmen attempted
to Guido each other in the size and
gorgeousness of the floral gifts that
were sent in on the first day of the
session.
1t became common practice that
secretaries to members and senator's
would institute regular campaign for
funds from clerks in the departments
who were from the district or state,
and these contributions were in small
way sort of blackmail. The poor
clerks believed they could improve
their standing with the senator or
member by giving up from their hard
earned stipends one to five dollars for
flowers. This practice became known
to leaders in congress and they deter
mined to put stop to it, and there
will be no more ostentatious display of
flowers on the members desks. The
exhibit always detracted from the dig
nifty of congress, and it was common
remark that men of the least promi-
hence and ability usually secured the
biggest bouquet.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-12-22

he does not put so much strain upon
it. MIR. Pettus is not one of those who
indulge in long talks in the senate.
He generally has some pertinent and
Illuminating observations to make on
the principal subjects before that body,
but he has no difficulty in defining his
position in one-tenth the time that Mr..
Morgan occupies in the same duty.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-12-22

All the mills on the Penobscot and
throughout Maine are saving spruce
lumber at top capacity and the lum.
Der is being rushed away as fast as
vessels can be chartered to carry it.
There never was such a demand for
lumber of this kind.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-12-22
Senator Pettcs ct Alabama.

PETTUS,
of Alabama, a col
league of Senator
NJ or gan, contin-
ues to be probably
the most pictur-
esque character in
public life. He is
now in his eighty
fifth year, and is
r e ly possessed
OF more physical
vigOr than his COL
league, although
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-12-22

The commercial (market) value Of
the railroads Of the United States is
$11 ,250 100000. Pennsylvania stands
first in railroad property, having ST.
25,00O,000. New York is second, with
$899,000.000. and Illinois third, with
$500, 100000. Ohio is fourth, Minnesota
fifth.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-12-22

The momentum Of a swiftly flying
bird is considerable. A partridge flew
against window Of the gymnasium at
Williams college the other day,
crashing through the glass and falling
to the floor dead. The force of the
blow may be judged from the fact that
the glass was "triplethick" and not
more than 20 by IL in size.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-12-22
New York a Big Place.

EW 1ORhERS are
suspected of har-
boring large ideas
of their city. But
it is a pretty big
city. Its new wa
terwOrks are to
drain in part 900
square miles. They
concern eight coun-
ties, running as far
north as Albany.
They are to cost
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-12-22

A Zulu named Kwezi, living in AL
fred county, Natal, has died at the ad-
vanced age Of III years. Meat and
milk were the principal articles Of his
diet. His sister, three years older than
himself, still lives.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-12-22
An Old Man of Vigor.

gan of Alabama
is now in his
tWenty-ninth year
of service in con-
gress, and in the
eighty-second year
of his age. He
comes to this con-
gress with a vigor
and determination
that might charac-
teriZe q man 20
years 20 un 6 e r
tbon ho ic uo
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-12-22
AMONG THE LITERATI.

One thousand four hundred and
twenty-five characters are described
in the "a books written by Charles
Dickens.
p. The rule followed by editors of both
the Oxford and Cambridge Chronicles in
the position of the letters A. M. and Nj.
A., for the title master of arts, is that
where the context is in Latin the form
is A. NJ, and where it is English, M. A.
The real name of Gabrielle d'Annun-
zio, the Italian novelist, is Rapagnetta.
His father-in-law was DUO De Gallese, q
Frenchman who received permission to
take that title on marrying the widow
OF former duke. The author is now
trying to obtain divorce.
Once q year or so William Dean
Howells, the distinguished novelist,
drops into the office of the Ashtabula
TO- Sentinel, rolls up his sleeves and
sets type fol. half an hour. Mr.. Howells
began his career as a printers appren-
tice in the Sentinel Office, which was
then owned BY his father His knowl-
edge of typesetting has been of immense
value to him in his literary career.
John Kendrick Bangs; the author, who
for some years has been dividing his
time between Ycnkers and New York, 10
soon to become 4 countryman again. Il
have lue-penciled city lMe," he said,
recently. my eye is on farm in New
England, where hope before long to be
able to provide an appreciative public
with limited editions of quab-chickens,
large paper turkeys and deckle-edged
eggs. And" he added, slyly, no item
In either class will go out without my
signature"
Miss Alice French chose her pen name
OF Octave Thanet in curious fashion.
Octave was the name of one of her
schoolmates and was selected because it
gives no hint as to whether the person
who bears 1t is man or a woman.
Thanet was adopted from a passing rail-
road car that Miss French CHANGED to
see and is pronounced with the accent
on the second syllable. Born and edu-
Gated In New England, the writer has
lived most Of her mature life in the west
and In the south, which has made her
familiar with widely varying phases of
American civilization. Her first maya
zine story was written and accepted in
1878.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-12-22

Japanese form so considerable a
part Of the population of Seattle that
the government finds it convenient to
establish special post Office for
them, where mail is received and dis
tributed among Japanese only.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-12-22

activities. started New York's water
supply on the old Manhattan bank char
ter. Every once in awhile people dig
ging about the lower part OF the city
will fish up piece OF old wooden pipe,
part of one of Burr's long disused mains.
The Croton aqueduct next got it's pic
ture into all the school biographies.
The high bridge" which carries water
over the Harlem river is still the hand
soonest in the city. People didn't know
In those days that water could as easily
be carried under the river in an inverted
syphon. Then came the new aqueduct.
Irishmen built the first; Italians built
the second. 1t made a lake in the val
ley of the CrOtOn river IL miles long,
besides any number OF little lakes. Then
the city was consolidated, Brooklyn
bringing into the partnership moral
thirst and no water supply for the future.
The city kept on growing until the rest
of the state became alarmed at the
menace of it's waterworks Now the
logical result is state commission.
that gives both political parties chance
at the contracts. toto parcel out water
rights so that nobody need be sighted
And the newest new aQueduct Hun
garians will help build that AS New
York reaches farther north for water
it reaches farther east in Europe for
labor.
On the threshold of a $2O0, OOO, 900 en-
terprise how does municipal ownership
figure out in water? Both New York and
Brooklyn began with the supply in prl-
vate hands. Five per cent of the people
are still served by private companies.
Yet the city only owes on it's water debt
some $4,000, 900, less than $40 for each
citizen for water brought 80 miles and
run into his house The works have cost
over 500 100000, but between $50. O0O,-
600 and $4o,000,0O0 of the debt has been
paid OF by water rates applied to sink
ing fund. The rates are not so high
as private companies charge. The city
Is on Easy street.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-12-22

The average value of diamonds in
the rough at New York is $3.50 a
karat. The price to the public is
more than 500 a karat, because of loss
in cutting, labor in cleaving, cutting
and polishing and dealers profits.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-12-22
Speaker Cannon Busy.

P E A X e r CAM
non has his hands
full nowadays try
ing to find places
fer all the new
members fof the
present house of
r e pr e sentatives.
He has been COM
PEELED to take
from the demo-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-12-22

Lar. Soon after l began taking Doan's
Kidney Pills + passed several gravel
stones. got well and the trouble has
not returned. My back. is good and
strong and my general health better
! Sold by all dealers. SO cents "a box.
Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. !. 80.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-12-22

A large centrifugal pump at 4 Brigh,
ton England bath stopped working,
and an examination revealed the pres.
ence in pipe Of pigeons nest with
two eggs. To reach it's nest the bird
had to find its way through a six-inch
diameter pipe-horizontal for six feet
and bending sharply into a six-foot
perpendicular.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-12-22

Not long ago Russia forbade the pur-
chase or sale Of typewr1ters without
police permission. It was done to
check the use Of typewriter revolu-
tionary circulars.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-12-22

T would be inter-
esting to gather UP
t h e instances OF
manors which in
America ret ain
some of the char
acteristics of Eu-
ropean ways. You
would have to in
clude the Bonapart-
lists establishment
at Trenton and in
the AdirOndacks:
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-12-22

~ ~ ~ l. IL 110010
mt Postmaster
General De Graw
is proving to be
the one man in
10000 for the
place. He is the
b u # e r b e t ween
congressman and
t h e pos t master
general and the
man to whom a
thousand and one
irfc on Il
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-12-22
AILING WOMEN !.
Sick, suffering, languid women are.
learning the true cause Of bad backs

and how to cure
them. Mrs. y. G.
Davis, Of Groes beck,
Texas, says: $ Back
aches hurt me SO I
could hardly stand.
Spells Of, dizziness
and sick headach les
were frequent and
the action Of the
s.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-12-22

Several schools in Nevada have
been compelled to close because the
trustees hare found it Impossible to
secure teachers. Almost as soon a.
they arrive and take charge they
marry f.|
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-12-22
The Last of the Patrons.

Ii A e N V A n
r E N S S e LAER,
who died the other
day at the age OF
60, was the nearest
approach to t h e
head of New York's
hereditary aristoc.
racy that could be
named. Few out
side of New York
had ever heard OF
him; few in. New
York cOn16 smell HIS
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-12-22
IN \ |; |: .I|AI / |: 4: { IS
EXAMPLE OF MUNICIPAL OWN
ERsH1P IN NEW YORK. \
The NEWEST NEW AQUEDUc
The Yankees Use Much WATERFORD
posed Hudson Bridge - To Com
memorate 4O0th Anniversary Of
Henry Hudson's Arrival.

EW YORK While
political parties are
squaring. Off for a
long battle upon a
v a g u e something
called municipal
ownership t b e
greatest example in
all the world S OF: mu:
inic1pal ownership
is quietly getting
itself accomplished
Aaron Burr, be-
ci6oc nonU Othor
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-12-22
Henry Hudson,s Dav.

IN H U D S ON
came to New York.
in 1909, the same
year that -, Cham
plain saw the lake
that b e ars his
name. The place
looks different now.
it will be even more
markedly changed
when the eproposed
gr at II u d son
bridge Il thrown.
across the Spuyten.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-12-22
WASHINGTON GOSSIP
LEGISLATIVE CHAMBER LIKE
FLORISTS EXHIBIT.
SENATOR MORCAN'S TALK
A Man with Happy Faculty in Deny
ing Applications and Requests
Patron Saint of the Harassed
Rural Mail Carrier,
- A LAS HIN GTON

4 5 II l N GION.-
Congress has final
ly abolished the
practice Of having
flowers presented
to the. members
OF the house and
senate on the first
day of the session.
The senate took
the initiative last
year when it
passed a resolu-
ton fOrbi dding
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-12-22

Emperor William has ordered that
all his chauffeurs must be total alb
stainers.