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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-04-27

time time the question of censorship of the drama has
with like results regards the establishment of but
with occasional developments Of actual suppression
In the police commissioner of New York undertook
this high office and exercised for people, nothing
OF the adjoining states.
In my judgment the drama develop in America wth
this century proportions AS power shaping and
controlling public opinion become force shaping
the destiny of the nation as the press itself.
Can trust this force grow without guidance Imitation?
AS an American citizen believe that
The highest after all intelligent public opinion This
controls the producing with grip Of In
deed the fear of public opinion and the servle fawg with which the
seeks ater his constituency the
Of the stage contraed with the strength Of the press
The American public is tired Of the machine rubbish
has been So long imported from Europe With growth
school system and the spread of universal educaon de-
and for national drama and national literature The books which
now sell IN America written by Americans The plays which
coed to-day those which have them the red rich blood
M Our people wish to be entertained but they have begun
demand element of reality in the message which the playwright
brings Not the realism of cheap vugarbut genuine
tonism OF dramatic ideas into which daily lives
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JA |. PAN| n. ST CHILDREN ! |. ! | !
CHARMING AND QUAINT, OF
GREATEST INTEREST. -
Little Mothers with Babies Strapped
on Their Backs-The Festival
Of Dolls-The, Boys
Holiday.

The foreign visitor finds nothing Of
SO much: interest and charm as the
darling, solemn-faced little children,
votes them the blessedest babies that
ever toddled. Rave all you like over
the bigger Japanese dolls, the women
Of Japan, write poem and story about
their exquisite gentleness and docility;
but give me the Jap baby.
Boy or girl, the Jap baby is quaint
and good and clean and irresistible; Or
binary day. you fall in love, holidays
you fall in love twice over. At the lat
ter season it is decked out in gayest
garments, the treasure flower"
the poetic Japanese call a child "a
very bright-hued blossom indeed. In
Nippon red is looked upon as belong:
ing to youth, and the gala attire gayest
of the gay.
Two days of the year are set apart
in honor of the children; March is
dedicated to the girls, May to the
boys. At the Festival of Dolls (Hina
Matsuri' the whole family pays honor
to the little girls, for whole week
open house is kept, everybody dressed
in. the best clothes: the wardrobe com:
mands. Costly dolls that have beer
handed down from generation to gen
Grafton, are brought forth from seclu
sion, and with them the parapher
MALTA belonging thereto; in Japan doll:
need rice bowls, teapots, tiny tables
orr and fhoco ORC p1oood oopvoniont1r
at hand. In addition to ancient be
longings the happy dolls are presented
with new gifts, and all is merry as 9
festival can be in this festival loving
land. 1t is needless to say the tiny
mistresses, the little girls, live in an
ecstacy during the Festival of the
Dolls.
When the boys have their gala time
the rejoicing is. of a somewhat diff
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-04-27

ferent character, though children's
parties and picnics are not omitted.
At every house where dwells young
boy, a bamboo pole is seen, suspended
from the pole a great hollow paper
carp, symbol of success in surmount-
ing life's difficulties. The boys may
not have dolls, but they have very
good substitutes; figures representing
wrestlers, heroes, generals, gods of
strength; and these figures are fur
nished with the weapons of the brave.
What games do the little people Of
Japan play? We recognize not a few.
There is our old friend, "prisoner's
base;" and something very like *'fox-
and-geese;" and, of course "tag" is
seen, that simple yet exhilarating
pastime favorite with the babies Of
the world. It goes without saying
that the Nipponese indulge in kite
flying, for everyone has heard of their
wonderful kites. The girls may be
seen hunting fireflies with circular
fans, and in summer time a favorite
sport is sharing the semi (cicadaS).
They capture these by means Of rod
and bird-lime, and carry home noisy
grasshoppers in little bamboo cages
brought along for the purpose. They
hang up the semi, and take great de.
light in the chirp of the Gagged insect.
But life is not all play for the baby
Japs. AS soon as the square baby girl
can toddle, she learns by means of her
strapped-on doll how to carry an in
FAINT on her back safely and with COM
parative comfort-for the infant-and
as soon as she herself has graduated
from babyhood, is expected to be a
mother to the babies that have sup
planted her. And she proves very
gentle, thoroughly adorable little
mother. One longs to pick her and her
burden. up and give both a hearty
western embrace; but this would as
tonish and offend both dignified east
erners, and we forbear
Lady Lawson says of Nippon:-<'a
land which is truly, as Sir Rutherford
Alcock. calls it, The Paradise of Ba-
bies.'' They swarm everywhere in the
most crowded thoroughfares, never re-
buked never .ill-treated, never In the
way, with grave formal manners, look
Ing like dignitied burlesques as they
toddle along in their long flowing
gowns and long Sleeves
The children really are more sol:
emn in appearance than their elders,
the latter great chatterers and given
to much laughter. But the solemn
babies Of Japan. are very happy, per
Ehaps are the happiest children of any
land. III. #s. =. ~ g ~
IT,. ELLEN THAYER: :
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DUETS in four years. Since becoming
court tennis champion I have played
only racquets to fill in. My match
was only speedy at intervals, due to
being little out of practice" Latham
has the habit of playing for heavy
sums. At racquets and tennis. he has
always been ready. George Standing
has twice gone to London to play
Latham for the worlds title at rae
quets, each time losing. The first
match was for $4,000 stakes by each
and in the last, played at London and
New York about ten years ago, the
stakes were $4,000. In 1903 a Parsee
named Jamsetjee came from India and
won the title of that year from Bar.
clay at London, Latham standing. out,
but being willing to play the Parscs
for what he deemed proper stakes. For
18 years Latham had held the worlds
championship at. 5racquets against all
corners and from 1896 to last year
Latham was the worlds court tennis
champion; losing this title last October
Il 4 match at Brighton, England, to Z.
/ airs, whose sobriqhet is Punch"
who, having been coach for the past
two winters at the Tuxedo club, is we'll
known to New Workers. a wonderful
fact about Latham is that, he went
from racquets to court tenAis compara-
lively late in. life, although now only
IS years old. .t@. 3: *.z5 !
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-04-27
Public Opinion cannot Cure
Graft evil
BY ARCHBISHOP GLENNON,
St. Louis.

Some yespubc opinion coupled with proper legislation
with those who hold that public opinion mighty force that
where its white light concentrated difficult dwell
and further admit that there evil which
adequate laws be the
remedies will fail they on and arise from,
properly trained individual conscience
The public opinion created by the orator. the press
times the pulpit often o producino
yncng deed Of violence than subsing permitting
its reaction greater evils than first sought while all
know that laws directed against these evils either inactive
only necessiate slight change in the form of the
In democracy above ALL power with and Of the neonle
and where all law rests with them eventually for execution the law
of must be the court of last appeal also is the
OF all the laws the statute books If law Of
conscience there be informing of natural
M then the wells poisoned and the nation
taby fall. :. #@: .:. =5*=
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-04-27

eastern schools, and is the first ven
ture on anything like a large scale OF
professional football: The scheme has
appealed to Heston for some time and
he has finally succeeded in interesting
not only a lot of players of the stellar
variety, both east and west, but also
couple of capitalists, who have prom
ised to assume all the financial risk,
setting aside for the players themselves
certain portion of the receipts The
game, it is now practically certain, will
take place in New York on Thanksgiv-
ing day: "You can bank on one fea-
ture of it," says. Heston. 1--WE shall
have a set of officials who will be so
strict that the least tendency to rough
ness or brutality will be punished more
vigorously even than in a college game.
We mean to make professional foot
ball clean sport. Our players will
all be college men who have learned
clean play, and there will be no devia-
ton from the strictest Interpretation
of the rules. There is no hope for
professional football without this. We
realize it and will attend to that" In
his travels about the country as coach
OF the Drake team last fall, and after
the close of the year as player on
the Canton professional team, Heston
was working continually on the make
ur of his team. He has also written
several letters to prominent athletes
who finished their. college course this
year or who will pe through by
Thanksgiving day of next year so far
as further competition in athletics is
concerned.
Here is the professional team which
he has lined up to represent the west:
Center-Strathearn, Minnesota; guards
Flynn, Minnesota, and McGIgin,
Michigan; tackles--Curtis, Michigan,
and Maddox, Michigan; ends-C2 tlin,
Chicago, and Redden, Michigan; quar-.
ter back-Eckersall, Chicago; halves
Heston, Michigan, and Findlay,. Wis
consin; full back-Bezdek, Chicago.
Heston has also been doing some work
on the eastern team, although his ag-
gregation has not progressed so far.
LILO VI 6oAAAoIAOA VIII NC SOIICA W.
gether by De. Witt, the great Primes
ton guard; Daily, of Harvard and West
Point, at quarter; Shevlin, of Yale, aid
Ralph Glaze, of Dartmouth, at ends;
Hogan or Glass, of Yale, to play the
other guard position from De Witt
Morley and Weeks, of Columbia, as
halves, and Smith, of Pennsylvania, for
full back, have been asked to take part
The center and tackles have not been
picked, and some. of the other mem
bers have not yet consented. 1t is be-
lieved that Coach Yost, of Michigan,
could be induced to take hold of the
western team for a couple of weeks
before the game, as his own team will
have closed it's schedule by that time.
If Walter Camp can be secured Heston
intends to offer him the position as
coach Of the eastern team.
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that the highest rates obtain where largely
poycd in mills for such population there always smaller
percentage of infants that have the good fortune enjoy mothers
and to be fed naturally and not the bottle.
In all populations manufacturing and nonmanufacung, it
from the artihcay fed infants that by far the greater proportion
victims Of daheal diseases drawn This of diseases stands
after pneumonia leading
the general population and first Of death Infants The
necve agents these disturbances the digestive system taken
INTO tie system milk which unwosom because of sickness Of
the Of contamination the place Of
origin in the hands Of the dealer the home of the
we-known that public milk supplies very large
extent derived from places where cleanliness barn.
OF the utensils Of the his employees unknown that dis
eased removed from herd through the
nitavc that the opportunities for contamination during
and storage and the public has, until recently
shown not angud interest in this important subject
have abundance law against ordinary fraudulent
practically against the far danger pollution
II the public would take the interest that it should
legislation would be needed market it would
not be PRODUCED
If the householder would insist that the milk supplied should
derived from healthy stabbed clean surroundings
should be handled by clean that should be delivered clean
and often the from vehicles which
and other offensive materials hauled the it, word
he would insist upon cleanliness every point forgetting his
home and be willing the clean producers
with his patronage and price this practical
OF life Insurance. the role OF dirty milk destroyer life
vastly less important. - -
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-04-27

Gently, Georg e
Standing has ac-
quired the title of
worlds champion.
Standing for some
time has held the
title Of American
champion. Latham
is one of the NEST
remarkable raquet
players in the
world and for 10
years held the
worlds honor at
the game. In an
interview after his
defeat he said:
"Ehis has been my
fret match at rae
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-04-27

The vexatious ques-
ton OF the college en-
trance requirements in
Latin and Greek cannot
be accepted as settled,
and it is most important
that the present move
ment towards uniforni-
ty should not be allowed
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-04-27
SP OR rs AND.
4 TIL e T les
willie" Heston, Michigan's famous
halfback, pronounced by Coach Yost

the greatset foot
ball player the
game has ever
seen, is at present
planning game,
that, if it material
ICES, will bring to-
gether the great
est football play.
ers. of the present
time. The plan ia
TO array a repre-
sentative tie a m
from the west
against a team OF
graduates from the
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-04-27

Have we a means at
Our disposal to offset
this rising tide of COR
ruption? Is there a sure
and safe means where
with to cure the body
polite and commercial
OF this dangerous dis
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-04-27

AS a nation we Amer
lean people are inclined
to take everything, i'll
Guiding ourselves, toe:
seriously. Ii | had the
making of the Ameri-
can character over I
think l should remedy
that national trait first
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-04-27

If a visitor from Mars
alighted on Our CONT
nent he would hear the
pulpits proclaim "Glori-
fy.!God,": but he would
find it the general prac-
ticc to "Glorify Cold"
Are we then in this
twentieth century to re-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-04-27
puhltr @pinin1t tl1f Bfat
GpttHnr 1T thr Dran1a
BY DIR. THOMAS DIXON. JR~,
Author and Preacher. New York.

ROM time to time have efforts establish limit to the
freedom Of the press Such efforts have been success
full in the atmosphere of the American republic "a
No questions the fact that some of newspa-
pers have disgraced their high office purveyors
and leaders Of public opinion And yet the evils of thro
tied press have always been greater to the mind Of the
American citizen than the license of the obscene
journalist And press has remained absolutely
fetered.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-04-27
MapptttraH mt mn&t
by @nney Maktng
By ANDREW CARNEGIE

Of ALL Another improvement might be made in IDEAL and that
something worth while than money work for
Wealth right necessary properly made and used
should end be the end ITSELF By
looking upon losing, people, the best
brightest boons of ife
Happnes? Money it be piled the moon,
make anybody happy best and
the word If poll taken Of the weahe peoplpe in this
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How Could {. sheP

Why did you nta reject that
Frenchman when he proposed?"
Because don't know how. to say
No in French Houston Post.
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staPendously rich country OF ours hardly tthe OF
them could berecorded as happy. Money=makng,
when pursued exclusively without regard to whole
and healthy pleasures is most paralyzing perform
ance. Italnost invariably narrows the capacity for
normal enjoyment, and beyond certain point is
more Of a bane than blessing. .:. ..S.=
The money-making ideal stulti6es us mentally,
artistcay and morally. But am optimistic in this
as in other things. believe we are becoming rich
enough in material things to realize the necessity 81
having othe, and higher ambitions. q
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The, Kind.

Briggs wonder what kind of an
auto CARLETON has? sa IS. q. #. es:s &.
Griggs Describe: the smell, and per,
haps I can tell you. fe. So i. b
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-04-27
Gaaara 1aBhifh Unttrihl1te
III Jnfant mnrtul1tu
BY DIR. CHARLES HARRINGTON,
Sec'y of ~ assachusetts State Board Of Health.

HE many of the universally high nfantile death
rates may be divided into two classes: preyentable and
nonpreventabe OF the former there is which stands
most prominently; it invites public attention, but
ceives, rule meager measure Of recognition although
there present evidence of awakening of the
public conscience and of growth of general demand for
improvement
If one examines the infantle death of any
featuring country will escape observation
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-04-27

By defeating Peter Latham in an ex-
citing raquet match in New York re-
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z.=ss s Self Blind. III. :.. s5.|
Hypocrites deceive themselves most
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-06
SENTENCE HOOTERS
STENSLAND AND HERRING BEFORE
 CHICAGO COURT.
Cashier Of Defunct Milwaukee Avenue Bank Withdraws Plea of Not
 Guilty and Will Go tO Joliet

Chicago, Nov. 5.-Paul O. Stensland former President of the Milwaukee Avenue State Bank. who was arrested fir Tangicr. and Henry w. Herring Cashier of the same institution, were today sentenced by Judge l'inckney in the Criminal Court to indcterminate term in the penitentiary for cmbczzle . ment and forgery.
 These sentences may run anywhere from one to ten years. The new sen- tcnce given Stensland today will not lcngthen his term of Imprisonment. as the new sentence is concurrent with the old.
 Stensland had been brought from the penitcntiary at Joliet to give eSl- d, nee against Herring. Stensland sail that the irregularities in the bank be. gan about ten years ago. when he com menccd to invest the funds of the bank ir real estate. During the last eighI years. he declared, he had lost $400.O01 ir real estate transactions. He als;. lost $21S, 5000 in running d co-operati'. store.
 Stensland declared that he kept in vesting tho money of the bank in rrLl estate deals and to use it for the pay nlent uf his debts. at the suggestion or Herring. He asserted that he had neVsT forged names despite the facts that hs had pleaded guilty to forgery. where lie was brought back to this country.
 "AI transactions Herring khe" about" declared Stcnsland, and they were all credited to my account
 Al the conclusion of Stenslands s tes- tomony. Herring was called to the bar of the court, and. withdrawing his plea of not guilty entered plea of gullt| and both men were then sentenced |" th, penitentiary by Judge ickncy
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-06
COURT AT CENTREVILLE.
Non-.Jury Term In Bibb Completed In
 a Day.

Ccntervfe Nov. 5.-(Spccial )-The non iury term of the County Court TOT thc Ccntcrv.llc Division wassin session here today. There were fourteen con victions and pleas of guilty. -'~
 Four cases were dismissed, but most of the cases on the docket were car ri,d to the January term as the de- fendants asked for trial by jury. The next fury term from indicau tons now ui.I. .hcr i.,r largest ior m'"N H'.afS.
 Forty acres of land in Bibb County was today sold ait public. outrry in front of the court house by w W . Lavender as administrator "t the cS- tate of r. Miller and brought $50 per acre. or $1,200, It was purchased by J NJ. Campbell and Pat shannon.
 Capt and Mrs. J. b. MayberrN and the Misses Mayberry entertained at their splendid country home on the Ccn- trcvillc and Marion Pike on Friday night and Saturday. Misses Ellen Ash lev, Mary Barnes and Fanny Mae Go- rec, teachers in the Ccntr"villc High School, and Miss Tillic Goodson. teach CT in Huey High school. Horseback riding, nutting parties and various games were enjoyed by those who were fortunate enough to attend this house party. The Mayberry home is noted for it's delightful hospitality.
 Everything is in readiness for the election in this county tomorrow, but as the Democratic ticket in this county has no opposition very little interest is being taken in the election and in consequence the vote in Bibb County will be very light.
 The people are slow about paying taxes this fall.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-06
Expenses Increasing.

Reports of the Interstate Commerce Commission afford striking illustrations of the fact that operating expenses on many lines are increasing more rapidly than gross earnings. For instance, while the gross earnings on the South ern Railway are increasing, net earn ings for the present year are declin- ing Where a considerable portion ot the increased gross earnings are going is shown by the increasing expenditures for labor. The amount paid in wages by this road during the year endnd June 30, 1906, to only four classes of em- ployes, enginemen, switchmen. fagmen and roundhousemen. was $4.69541O, an increase of $737.S16, or 1S,67 per cent. over the previous year.
 An illustration equally pertinent IS afforded by the annual report of the Great Northern, which shows that while gross earnings have increased 17. Sl per cent, operating expenses have increased 5Oh2 per cent. On this road single reduction in rates on wheat put into effect at the beginning of the grain moving season last fall, cut the reve- nues for tho nine months ended June 30. to the exteut of s730,00o. practically all of which. it is claimed, went into the pockets of the farmers of the North west.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-06
Methodi.tE Prote.tant Conferencc

The seventy eighth annual session of the Alabama Conference, Methodist Protestant Church. will begin tomorrow at 10 o'clock. d. m., at Union Hill, Pike Circuit. four miles from Troy, on the line of the Atlantic Coast Line Rail- way.
 It will he in session several days, during which time reports from the pastors of the various fields of labor will be received and passed on; address es be heard from d number of connec- tional officers, such as the Secretary of the Board of Missions. planning for the work of another year, and station ing the preachers through committed composed of the president of conference and two laymen.~
 It is believed that the reports of the pastors will show substantial increase on all lines of the church's activity
 Rev J. r. Morgan of Elmore is the retiring president. Rev. J. E. Samplcy of ozark. secretary.