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

.
For producing the photographic pos
tai card an apparatus is used in
France which records the human voice
upon piece of pasteboard of the form
of the card. According to one report
the phonoca1N possesses numerous ad-
vantages. The recording Of the voice
is done by an ordinary photograph of
simple construction, by means Of a
pencil with sapphire point. This
pencil makes It's impression upon a
suitable substance called "sonorine"
spread upon the surface of the card.
The "sonorine," which can be easily
spread over pasteboard, possesses all
the properties of a wax cylinder, and is
in reality the invention. The signs
are impressed in form of spiral, be-
ginning at the margin of the card and
ending in very small circle, and are
impressed so deeply that the stamping
by postal authorities can only destroy
two or three words. The: card has
room for Is to 80 words. By its aid
people who cannot write may now send
communications through the post that
would be more easily understood than
the written kind.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-04-27

hotel OF his own under his own name,
a name worth money.
An old-timer; yes. When he was
running the Grand Union hotel in Sar-
tago-capacity somewhere about $500
he would meet the bus at the door
and greet every guest by name, that Is
If he had but once seen the guest be-
fore. In the city he made the same
trait invaluable. OF late years, as the
number of Impressions on his mental
photography increased beyond all rea-
son, he sometimes missed a name. A
genuine regard for the comfort of his
people went with his marvellous men,
Dry. Nowadays the proprietor of great
hotel scarcely sees his guests. Usually
he is quite a different person from the
manager: anyhow. Boldt at the Wal
dorf- Astoria, Hahn, Muschenheim, are
of the new type. They look after the
kitchen more than the front Office, and
they are rather financiers than hosts
oscar" is known to ten times as many
people by sight as Boldt. Nor is the
steward Or head waiter a bad substi-
tute in some ways. He gets big sal
airy and a percentage on the. business.
He is diplomat, a tactician, an ex
pert of cooking and service. Louis
Sherry was once head waiter or stew
ard, and so won favor in that place
that his rich patrons practically set
him up in business. But there is a
difference. The head waiter type, as
representing the hotel to the average
outsider, has at times the subtle air
of the turnkey. He is obsequious or
naughty as the> case demands. The
old-time landlord was not much OF an
expert on French cookery, and he' did
not greatly study grace in ushering
people about. He was free and equal
American citizen, too simple to DOW
low before wealth and too human to
snub any decent guest. 1t was the no
tel clerk, not the proprietor, who put
on airs. Now the clerk is >an-humbled
and brought low; made the keeper and
the slave of all manner of electrical
contrivances, naughty only to the bell
boys
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-04-27

and rub your eyes; there away below
the fashionable center of the town are
lot of real drummers, the kind YOU
used to see, and business men of all
sorts, sitting out on the sidewalk in
rocking chairs! And on Broadway! It's
below the theater quarter and there is
room enough after the wholesale
houses close. Some of the chairs are
even in the roadway. That is at lilly
HaiEes' Broadway Central hotel. There
are men who have stayed there at
times for generation. The Fifth
Avenue has been of the same sort. It
must go pretty soon-site too valuable
for five stories-but it has been notable
for generation. Tom Platt for years
lived there, and Republican politicians
naturally followed suit, but there were
plenty of hon-political people who
learned to appreciate the delicate little
attentions, the extra treats at Sunday
night suppers and the like. Down in
CORTLAND street the old Merchants
was long the special resort of Jersey
men. The Ashland House has scarce
ly changed it's character in genera
ton. Southern men 90 there. Many
of these also favor the. Aston House,
the noisiest site in the city by day and
at night one Of the quietest. Z Sim Ford
Of the Grand Union is famous for the
funny after-dinner speeches which he
began making few years ago, after
having lived As years unheralded.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-04-27

The drainage so necessary to reclaim
millions of acres will have to be
handled by the government and Rep.
resentative Steenerson, Of Minnesota,
has introduced a bill for the reclama-
ton of swamps. e.. J H. ..... .. -.
1t is estimated that there are 1O0,-
100000 acres of swamp lands in the
United States, some 100000 OF
which have been surveyed and the
great bulk Of which would make
splendid farms if the excess of water
were drawn of. In the Kankakee
river basin in Indiana and Illinois,
there are 100000 acres of the very
r1chest bottom lands that are SUBJ
5ect to overflow. Where they have
oeen reclaimed through expensive pri.
vate drainage works, they are worth
as nigh as $3.50 an acre. It has been
estimated that this whole track could
be drained effectively at a cost of not
more than SO an acre. -
In Florida, the Everglades alone
would afford an empire of some 2 600.
ooo acres. In New Jersey and Wiz.
gin1a are vast swamps, among them
the famous Dismal swamp. In iii.
nois there are 100000 acres of swamp
land; in Michigan about 100000 in
Iowa. 100000 acres; in Minnesota.
100000 have been surveyed and there
are huge areas not yet surveyed. The
STEVENSON bill demonstrates that the
government can transform swamps
into fertile farm lands and that the
settler or owner will pay back to the
government the relatively small cost
of the improvement.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-04-27

rank is that of captain, but who has
been at the head of this bureau since
it was established and has done the
work of three men, will become briga-
der general. This bureau deals with
so many interests and it's head is the
executive for so many branches of gov
eminent that it has often been seri-
Ously considered as deserving to be
raised to the rank of a department,
with it's chief one of the cabinet off,
GERS. It has to deal with matters in
the Philippines, Hawaii and Porto
Rico and is a little government with
in itself.
Col. Edwards, who has been chief
of the bureau so long is one of the
most energetic and popular officers IN
the service. He served in the Philip
pines and was on the staff of Gen.
Lawton when the latter was killed,
and he knows the affairs Of that archi-
pelago as thoroughly and in as great
detail as anyone in the government.
He has served under Secretaries Root
and Taft and has been the trusted
confidant and assistant to both. They
have relied upon him for information
and for advice regarding the Philip
pines and have trusted the admins
tration of insular affairs almost ex-
clusively to him.
While Col. Edwards is hard work.
er he is also fond of play: He and
Secretary Taft take a good deal of
their diversion together in the way of
horseback riding.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-04-27

and manners. They are just like
other folks in their habits of living"
Mr.. Beverage, said the other day.
Most Of them are as regular in their
hours as the Virginia farmers-ahd
most of them are farmers. Practical.
ly all those from the Indian Terri
tory follow that.
Probably the star boarder of this es.
tablishment is the chief Of the Sene-
cas-, Andrew John. He spends q great
deal of his time here every winter in
the interest of his people. The sene-
cas- are a nation independent of the
United States, and have made several
treaties with the federal government.
Chief John said the other day that it
is a puzzle to the lawyers to determine
just what the Senecas are as a tribe
and what they are as individuals. Un-
der the. laws of New York they are a
corporation existing by special act.
The chief tells some interesting tradi-
lions of the Indians, speaking of whom
the other day he said: r. ...s.:x1,
Several winters ago some 20 of us
representing half q dozen tribes used
to assemble here evenings with inter.
prefers and relate legends Of the va
$rious tribes. was struck with this,
that each tribe adopted as the favor
lite animal Of their. tales that most
frequent in Its own country. 81.
''The Greeks and Choctaws, original
" from the south. were fond Of the
q 81 3 EAN.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-04-27
Moneyless Consumptives.


A general effort is being made in
various cities, it is said, to prevent the
sending of INDECENT consumptiyes to
distant communities, where they can
not be assured proper care. The Asso-
ciated Charities committee on the pre-
vention of consumption discussed the
matter at it's last meeting and decided
to issue letter to physicians and cit
liens Of various cities, calling atten.
ton to the consequences arising from
the practice of sending poor consump-
tives to such states as Arizona, Colo
RADIO and California. It is declared that
difficult as it may be for poor man to
recover from tuberculosis in his own
city, he is better off there among his
friends and relatives. where there are
more adequate hospital and dispensary
facilities, than he has far from home,
where he is thrown entirely upon his
own resources and where the great
number of consumptives willing to
work at the lowest wages make the
finding Of employment especially of
suitable nature, almost impossible.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-04-27

dun 2lO yards long. Then there's
baseball.
People have short memories. Who
remembers Henry Chadwick, thu
father of the game? Who remembers
John Montgomery Ward? AS a base
ballist, that is? He was once the Idol
of New York, college graduate, law
student, husband of a popular actress,
famed short-stop. For, a time New
York bowed low before Amos Russie.
New idols rise. The fan" who can
last like "Pop" Arson in Chicago is
rare Baseball is game for young
men. You draw big money for a few
years, then just as you begin to feel
that you know the game, along about
q years of age, people beg in to call
you a veteran" and the manager ere
leases you to a minor team or poor
er club in a smaller city. The famous
players over 30 years of age who Lold
their own without a shadow of. doubt
are mighty few. To compare unlike
things, John L. Sullivan was a wonder:
he was champ for'12 years before he
went down and out: But he became an
ex-"champ" at 80. That's old, in the
ring or on the diamond. Fitzsimmons
is a young man, comparatively, but in
the ring he's marvel OF survival. not
a champion. The most successful base
ballists are the fellows t::at get plenty
OF fame and succeed in starting sport
ing goods stores before they lose head
way in the diamond Baseball man
ayers have a hard hearted way. Of de-
manding results and ~ the public IL
tickle. Besides, business is business.
Suppose there should be a long coal
mining strike and q bad crop and few
other triaes. Where would the base.
ball cash boxes be at the end Of the
season? . u. .s
Fl .$.=.s= OWEN LANGDoN.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-04-27
=. A WOMAN DOCTOR
Was Quick to See That Coffee Poison
Was Doing the Mischief.

4 lady tells Of a bad case Of coffee
poisoning and tells it in way 80 SIM
pie and straightforward that literary
skill could not improve 1t.
II had neuralgia headaches for
II years. she says, land have suffered
untold agony. When I first began to
have them weighed 40 pounds. but
they brought me down to ITO.
went to many doctors and they gave
me only. temporary relief. So SUI
.fered on, till one day In 1904, a woman
doctor told me to drink Postum Food
Coffee. She said looked like was
coffee poisoned. Ssr "
$50 I began to drink Postum and
I gained - pounds In the first few
weeks and am still gaining. but not
SO fast as at first. My headache began
to leave me after had used Postum
about two Weeks-long enough ex-
pect to get the coffee poison out Of my
system. =
Nov that few months have
passed since I began to use Postum
Food Coffee, can gladly say that l
never knowswhat a neuralgia headache
IS like any more, and it was Moth
{ Ing but Postum that cured me. Be-
fore used Postum never went out
alone; would get bewildered and
would not know which way to turn.
Now I 60 alone and my head is 40
clear as : bell. BY brain and nerves
are stronger. than they have been for.
1 years. = Name given by Postum Co.,
Battle Creek. Mich.
There's a reason. Read the ltttls
book, The Road to Wellyille. !" 8
/ pfss
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-04-27

Gilbert Keith Chesterton says in his
"Heretics:" ''The artistic temperament
is disease that safHicts amateurs. It
is disease that arises from men not
having sufficient power of expression
to utter and get rid of the element of
art in their being. Artists of large
and wholesome vitality get rid of their
art easily, as they breathe easily or
perspire easily. But in artists of less
force the thing becomes pressure;
and produces definite pain, which is
called the artistic temperament. The
great tragedy of the artistic tempera-
ment is that it cannot produce any
art" e. ., s@]' 1,- !
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-04-27

One of President Roosevelt's western
friends applied to him for a. Job. The
president was willing and sought to
find him place. He had about settled
on one when there came a great pro-
test from the western friends state.
They discovered" said the president,
that he had killed four men. l didn't
know that. Still, the homicide record
did not form the basis Of the protest.
The people who opposed my friend on
posed him not on the ground 81 kill
ing people but because they said he
was an agnostic." -. .s.. +.: .sa
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-04-27

master General Madden says if your
stamps don't stick, don't blame the
post office department; blame the
weather bureau. It is not the muci-
lage that is responsible, but the Pc
culiar atmospheric conditions preva-
lent this winter and spring. If the
little red stamp will not adhere to the
envelope there is no comfort until
better brand of climate is dealt out
by Chief Moore, of the weather bu-
reau. There is also another trouble.
The post Office department issues two
styles of stamps, the summer stamp
and the winter stamp.
Mr.. Madden admitted the other day
that there was an. unusual number of
complaints about the stamps not stick
ing, while he said upon investigation
of these complaints were found to be
unjust. "For instance he said,
there is complaint from a business
man in New York. We sent an agent
to Investigate, and found that in his
establishment a man had been in the
habit of wetting the stamp by taking
big sponge and drawing it across the
back of the sheet of stamps, wiping
the mucilage completely off.
while every complaint we have
run down has turned out to be with
out sufficient foundation, there must
be something wrong or we wouldn't
get SO many. The gum is exactly the
same as that used last year, when
there were practically no complaints;
so the fault can't be there. My opin-
ion is that there is something in the
atmospheric conditions which causes
this
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-04-27

VI Dcu TTdukllO
stolen or taken as spoils of war by an
ancestor in Philadelphia 100 years ago
1t was during the British occupation
OF Philadelphia that the p. ture disap-
peared, in spite of the Usual rules
respecting private property; and dur
ing at least 100 years of that time it
has hung on the walls of the Grey an
cestral home in Northumberland. /
suspect that for about 80 years of the
century the Greys enjoyed having it.
Now they are glad to send it back to
its old home. On April 20 it is to be
restored to Philadelphia with digni-
fled celebration. Philadelphia may be
slow about getting what IS coming to
it, but it is sure.
Even monarchies learn in lime. They
send out different men to sit as figure
heads over practically self-governing
colony now from 20 years ago, when a
Durham could come over on the heels
of the Papineau rebellion, bring in his
train a group of drunken and rascally
ne'erdoweels, squander money like wa
ter and in the end issue an illegal war
rant banishing the "rebels" under pain
of death if they returned to their ma
tive land. In Dufferin and Grey and
Mimic the Canadians feel that they
have had the best the home country
could send them. ! suppose mo.t Eng
1ishmen have by this time found out
that the Fapipeau rebellion-and for
that matter the much more recent Rfel
attempt-had at least the excuse of
pretty substantial grievances.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-04-27
Indians in Town.

N THE boarding
house for Indians
kept by B. F..
Beverage, and of
W ich mention
was made in these
dispatches recent
ly, there is at
present quite a
delegation of the
red men. It is in
teresting to visit
this place and no
tice their habits
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-04-27
Better Consular Service.

T LAST there will
be some reform in
the consular serv-
ice. A bill has
been passed and
is soon to become
a law that reor-
ganizes this serv-
ice, does a W a y
with all fees and
is calculated to
improve the per-
sonnet of the con-
SulS and the con.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-04-27
FOR NERVOUS PEOPLE
A Michigan Mother Preserved 70 Her
I f Family by Or. Williams
a Pink Pills. Il

When the blood is impoverished the
nerves starve and neuralgia or something
more serious swiftly follows. Nervous
people are generally pale people. By
supply wing through the blood those vital
elements that the nerves need, DR.. VIII
!iams' Pink Pills for Pale People have
performed those remarkable cures that
make it impossible for any nervous suf-
ferer to neglect them. :
"A recent case is that of Mrs. Peter
Morrissette, of No. S15 Eleventh street..
Alpena, Mich, who writes as follows:
My trouble started with childbirth.
After one of my children was born had
a kind Of paralysis. I was very weak
and my mouth was little crooked. T
was always tired and was so nervous
that could not bear to hear a dog bark
or bell ring-even the little bird in its
cage would annoy me. My heart lut-
tered great deal and had dizzy spells.
I was not able to be left alone.
my doctor gave me different kinds Of
medicine, changing it several times.
When it was evident that he could not
help me he said he did not understand
my case. This was three years ago and
was very much discouraged, when my
brother, who had taken DR.. Williams
Pink Pills, recommended them to me. I
tried them and noticed change for the
better when was taking the second box.
DR.. Williams Pink Pills cured me and I
have been well ever since. Inow do all
my own housework, sewing and wash
ing for seven of u.s."
DIR. Williams Pink Pills have also
cured diseases caused by impure or i'm
poverished blood such as rheumatism.
anemia and after effects of the grip.
All druggists sell DR.. Williams Pink
Pills or the remedy will be mailed, post
paid, on receipt of price, so cents Der
box, six boxes for $3.50, by the DR.. Will
lams Medicine Co., Schenectady, NY.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-04-27
Against Americans.

Against americans.
Reports continue to come to the de-.
partment OF state from diplomatic and
consular agents il China showing an
increase of feeling against Americans
and things American as expressed In
edicts issued by local authorities In
various parts of the empire. For
six months the situation in China has
been the subject of concern to the
department, and MIR. Rockhill, United
States minister at Picking, is under in
structions to keep Washington thor
oughly informed OF the developments
in the situation. While not admitting
that the situation is one of immediate
danger, the officials here will not
be at all surprised at what a month
may bring forth. Although at the out
set demanding only return to the
provisions of the original exclusion
treaty of 1880, which excluded from
this country Chinese laborers, without
specifying the classes Of Cinnamon
which could be admitted, in some
provinces manifestos have been issued
declaring that if the boycott is rigidly
adhered to the United States will : be
forced to forego any exclusion at all.
Although apparently directed against
Americans. the feeling of Ill will that
seems to be growing in various parts
of the empire is declared to be really
Informal representations
regarding the Chinese situation al"
ready have been exchanged between
some of the European powers, but thus
far this country has not called foreign
nations into consultation because there
is very general feeling among the
European powers that the Chinese are
merely re,aliating against the United
States government, and so long as the
anti-foreign feeling is confined to
Americans the Europeans will bide
their time.' T..
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-04-27
Earl Grey's franklin Portrait:

He British cabinet
made "a hit in
sending Earl Grey
over to Canada.
At least they made
a hit in Phila.lel-
phia, New York
and Washington.
1t isn't every Bri-
ton who could
come to this coun-
try bearing in his
boxes as peace
offering a portrait
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-04-27
Pesky Postage Stamp.

! has been
more \complaint
during the past
winter about post
age stamps than
has been heard for
years. The pesky
things just would
not stick half the
: time, and the pos
t al authorities
have been round
ly abused. Third
A ecicfont pocf .
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Athletes Own the Earth.

he whole world IS
&C n g a t h | e t e
crazy. George AIDE
finds England in
midwinter daffy
ov err footb a II.
Down in Greece
they are getting
ready for the
Olympian games,
with athletes from
all the world to
compete in a
white marble STA
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-04-27
IN THE |MET|R0.P OILS.
THE oLD-TIME HOTEL MAN
AND THE NEW. :
AsToR HOUSE UNCHANGED
Earl Grey with Due Ceremony to Re-
turn q Stolen Portrait-Mother
i Country Now Sends
Good Men.

EW- YORK.-James
H. Breslin was an
OF Id tim e hotel
man. He worked
from bellboy to
pri etor, and
when he died in
the hotel WOlcOtt
he was one of the
best known men
in the business:
had been president
of the local and
national associa-
tiOnS and had a
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-04-27
Old-Fashioned Hotels.

} u read much
about the splendid
new caravanseries,
but there are still
m or e OIL d . fash
toned hotels in
New York than in
any other Ameri->
can city; and trey
get business. Walk
a l ng low e r
Broadway Of a
summer evening
about eight O'Clock
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-04-27
WASHING VI m on GOSSIP.
COL. EDWARDS WILL BECOME
BROADER GENERAL.
FOR AMERICAN ! coNsULs.
Practical Civil Service Recommended
Swamp Lands as Well as Arid
Lands Need Attention-Queer
Atmospheric Conditions.
ASHINGTON. It

ASHINGTON. It
is now " the pur-
pose Of congress
to give the rank
of brigadier gen.
eral to the officer
holding the posi-
ton of chief of
the bureau of in
sular affairs in
the war depart
ment. This means
that Col. Clar-
ence, whose real
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Our Swamp Lands.

wv tnat irrigation
has attained so
much Importance
In the west and
attention is at
] tractt ' Ito the
wonderful fertil-
!. 1ilty Of de s ert.
lands u when water
lis. is turned upon
them, interest has,
been revived in.
great sections in
the east that have
: hnA-