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rage of Miss Roosevelt and Represent
alive Longworth, members of this
celebrated party, has brought the lat
ter into prominence. and for several
weeks past there has been a Success
sion of dinners, receptions and other
functions held by this com pany OF
ladies and gentlemen who travelled
some 10000 or more miles together.
The party is known in social circles
as the 'Tafters." This is in honor Of
the jolly secretary of war who orig
mated the idea of the trip and who
had charge of the ladies and gentle
men in sort of personally conducted
tour across the Pacific through the
Philippine archipelago and in Japan.
At the gatherings this winter Mr.. Taft
has always been the chairman or
POSTMASTER, and seldom have more
enjoyable informal affairs been given
than those of this party, all of whom
got so we'll acquainted with each 9TH
er and have so many jokes and per-
sonal experiences to relate at their re-
unions.
Naturally the two young people
whose engagement occurred on this
trip have had to stand a great deal of
chatting from the other members of
the party, but they both have accepte
it gracefully and as they are gu OK
witted and good-natured, they have by
no means had the worst OF the
repartee and encounters at the dining
tables and in the reception parlcr,.
One of the most treasured of the we'd
ding gifts received by this young cou-
pie is the testimonial from their fell
low "Tafters," and one of the nrst
social functions to be given by them
Will be to their old friends of the Phil
ippine tour.
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need of hotel where self-supp0rt ng
women might find residence and where
transient visitors would feel no need
Of chaperonage was obvious long be-
fore the Mother of her Country fur
nlshed a name to this comfortable
house with it's blue and yellow colonial
decorations. But the memory OF A. T.
Stewards attempt to subject grown
women to boarding school restrictions
in what is now the Park Avenue hotel
was slow to die and the advent Of the
Martha less than three years ago. was
chiefly important to the funny men as
furnishing chance to picture it's lob
by Inhabited by amiable elderly wom-
en- exchanging knitting patterns.
Yet from the first the Martha has
had a waiting list of applicants for
the rooms it sets aside for dodgers,
and Of late reading rooms, writing
rooms-half the little attractions 1t Of
Tered as bait-have been swept away
by the pressure for bedrooms, the
same pressure that keeps all New
York hotels over-full.
The first hotel for women has sue
ceeded and a second has now been es-
tablished uptown on the west side. It
is in charge Of the widow of a south
ern United States senator, thus soing
the Martha Washington one better, the
first hotel for women having a man as
manager.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-03-02

he set his price at two cents and estab-
lished his own delivery system He
dropped half a million there. But
what Is one the result of the cut rate
war? The World is making big money
at one cent. The Times is doing we'll
at the same price. The Sun stays at
two. The Tribune went to three cents
with an apology. Bennett went to
three cents without an apology; just
went. Figure the difference between
three cents and one every day except
Sunday on an edition of say 10000,
and you have only the beginning Of
Benefits income.
Even Benefits fads pay. He took
up the cause of the automobiles when
everybody else was swearing at them.
He likes motor cars himself and offers
prizes for road contests which are
world-renowned. Now he has an enor-
nous amount of auto advertising and
q position as the daily organ of the
trade, of course unofficial. Again al
most alone among American papers
he espoused the Russian side in the
late unpleasantness with Japan, and
his Paris paper won valuable support
from French sympathizers with Rus
STA. Once in mood of impatience and
inebrity Mr.. Bennett cabled orders to
stop the Telegram, his evening paper.
1t was stopped, with the editorial an
nouncement cabled for the purpose.
When Bennett had recovered from his
sulks, he cabled to start the Telegram
going again. The town laughed at the
performance but the shock to it's sy.-
tenn did the Telegram good.
Mr.. Benefits desk in the Herald
building is always ready for BIN, the
papers at his hand, the summoning
bells in working order. With the Ly-
sistrata on this side of the Atlantic
it will be strange if he does not drop
in unannounced to take a look at the
business that pays him an easy mil
lion or more year. 80
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great struggle. Lieut.. Gen. Chaffee
has just retired, and mas been succeed
ed as lieutenant general by Mai. Gen.
John G. Bates. The latter will be sue
ceeded In a few months by Maj Gen,
Henry G. Corbin, and he will retire
and be succeeded by MAJ Gen. Arthur
Macarthur, all within the next IL
months. The lieutenant generalship
will then 60 to member of the
younger generation, one whose mill
tary record has been made on the west
ern plains, in Cuba, the Philippines
and China.
When Gen. Chaffee retired one of
the best soldiers ever in the American
army went. out of service. He was
born with the instinct of soldier and
worked himself up from the lowest
rank to the highest. At the outbreak
of the war he enlisted from Ohio in
the Sixth cavalry of the regular armv
He said that he Wanted< to have real
g ghting and to be a real soldier and
thought he could accomplish his desire
better in the regular than in the VOL
unteer service. He, served > in this
command as private and as non.
commissioned officer and was then
made second lieutenant, reaching -.
grade of first lieutenant in 1861. IA
was an ideal trooper and in love with
the cavalry service. During the civil
war he was in 50 pitched engagements.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-03-02
THE REALM OF SCIENCE.

Prof. Wilhelm Wundt, the creator
of experimental psychology, now in
his seveEty-fourth year, recently cele-
brated the fiftieth anniversary Of his
graduation with the doctors degree.
A family luminous mist in the bulb
and on the fingers has been noted by
Prof. SoEmers on rubbing electric light
bulbs that have been not long in use.
No satisfactory explanation has been
given.
Palladium, a rare substance little
used, is the active agent in automatic
gas lighting devices. Flame is pro-
duced as soon as the Illuminating gas
strikes a pellet of asbestos covered
with mixture of palladium and fine
ly divided platinum, known as plat
mum black.
In an attempt to iquefy helium,
Prof. Olszewski recently produced the
remarkably low temperature of 455 de-
grees below zero, Fahrenheit. 1t was
done by suddenly expanding ma SIS
of gas helium which had been SUI
jected to pressure of about 2,70a
pounds to the square inch, in a tenn
perature so low that it nearly solidi
fed hydrogen. The helium showed
no sign OF liquefying.
It used to be that astronomy, with
its stupendous magnitudes, incredible
velocities and inconceivable distances.
seemed to make the greatest demand
on mans belief. To-day it is physics.
We read, for instance, that Hertz's os-
citations give rise to 500,00O,000 os-
citations per second. Where is the
man who can conceive of anything
happening in the five hundred mil
lionth part of a second? -London Tel
egranil ="
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-03-02

Speaker Cannon once paid a tribute
to the young man on my right" Mr..
Cannon made reference to Asher C..
Kinds, whose modest title is that of
clerk at the speakers desk: He
knows more parliamentary law than
any member Of the house, and is fa-
miliar with all the rules and prece
dents. No speaker could have the
knowledge he possesses, and in a whirl
OF parliamentary motions, when quick
decisions are necessary, Mr.. Hinds
stands near the speaker and prompts
him at every turn. The speaker re-
Qies upon him absolutely.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-03-02

She carries a couple OF cows to pro-
vide fresh milk, without which no
Partisan can long exist, chickens, a
model dairy and bakery, French
laundry such as Trilby worked ina
veritable '.blanchisserie de flne."> Lux
ury in the cabins is taken for granted.
The party is Scotch, English, French,
American and Belgian. Bennett is
Scotch-Irish.
At 60 Bennett is young looking
man, tall, slender, active, possessed of
great strength; his face is long and
in response almost melancholy. IIe is
devoted to sport. and never forgets
business for long. Bennett is a bach
elor. His father married in 1910 Henri
eta Agnes Cream; first printing in the
herald an eccentric notice of the en-
gagement, in which he stated his in
come from the Herald at nearly $:5,-
900, returned his thanks for the pat
ronage of the Herald and hoped that
the holy estate of wedlock would in
crease his desire to be still more use
full. The wedding notice concluded:
What may be the effect of this event
on the great newspaper contest now
waging in New York time alone can
show
The "great newspaper contest now
raging in New York" is between the
Herald and two papers of which the
elder Bennett took slight account-for
the American includes the old Adver-
tiser; the World was in Benefits day
4 religious daily, and later an ultra
intellectual daily for the elite. The
old Tribune and Times are still here
but neither would be regarded as
rivals by the present James Gordon.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-03-02
Mtu Hilary Nmmick

Pinkham, Of Lynn, Mass, is fully quail
6edto give helpful advice to sick women.
Read Mrs. Dimmick's letters.
Her first letter:
Dear Mrs. Pinkham:-
have been a sufferer for the past eight
years with trouble which first oripinafefl
from painful periods-the pains were excruci-
atlng, with Inflammation a1iC: liberation of the
female organs. The doctor says must have
an operation or I cannot live. I do not want
to submit to an operation if I can possibly
avoid it. Please help me.n-Mrs. Mary
Dimmick, Washington, D. G.
Her second letter.:
Dear Mrs. Pinkham:-
" You will remember my condition when I
last wrote you, and that the doctor said
must have an operation or could not live.
received your kind letter and followed your
advice very carefully and am now entirely
well. As my case was SO serious it seems q
miracle that am cured know that owe
not only my health but my life to Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and to yorr
advice. 1 can walk miles without an ache or
a pain, and lavish every suffering woman
would read this letter and realize what you
can do for them. Mrs. Mary Dimmick, Seth
and East Capitol Streets, Washington, D. C.
How easy it was for Mrs. Dimmiclz to
write to Mrs. Pinkham at Lynn, Mass.
and how little it cost her-a two-cent
stamp. Yet how valuable was the reply!
AS Mrs. Dimmick says-itsav her life.
Mrs. Pinlham has on file thousands
of just such letters as the above, and
offers. ailing women helpful advice.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-03-02

eEcOurag ed to do their own washing,
too, a thing which no hotel permits
women to do. The Mills hotels recruit
their guests to some extent from
young men just beginning work and
in much larger part from older men
who have missed success a---d need a
respectable>halting place before start
ing again.
Mills hotels for women would OCCUPY
a different field. New York has more
than quarter of a million working
women, few of whom earn wages that
would permit them to live at the Mar
tha or it's rival. The average wage;
of the $4,000 saleswomen is reckonei
at about five dollars per week. Many
OF these women live at home. The
many. who do not are pinched tighter
by poverty every year as the cost of
living increases. To pay for a fur
nished room and to- get wholesome
meals and such neat dress as is re-
,quireh in the modern shop out of the
average salesgirl's salary is next to-
impossible. There is a moral menace
here as well as the physical danger of
starvation.
Paris, of all places, has already Mills
hotels for women with rooms at 20
cents a night for transients: New York
needs: two grades of them, one for
women whose earnings enable them to
pay from 81 to SO per week and the
other providing for women who earn
from IS to 81. A part Of the money
needed for a hotel Of the first grade is
professionally subscribed, and it may
not be long before such a house. is
opened.
But where in New York is the girl
to live who does not-and cannot get
more. than So asweek? &e !
: tu> q %"FOWEN LANGDON.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-03-02

The vitality and the influence OF tho
Jews are one Of the marvels OF the
modern age. Prosecuted almort ev.
erywhere, except in England and the
United States, they still keep up their
identify all over the world and in
crease In numbers. Without q govern
nlent OF any sort, and without a sin-
gle person to speak for them, COL
aectively and officially, they WELD a
powerful influence in nearly every
government. Even Russia, through
the czar and Premier Witte, is obliged
TO defer to tho views Of the Jewish
bankers and merchants.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-03-02

Now comes Prot. DR.. Emil Fischer.
the celebrated chemist OF tho Berin
university. announcing that he has
succeeded in concocting an alb,men
- pure and wholesome as that con.
Gained In the egg. In a learned lee
ture before large audience Of savants
he demonstrated a protest, and he
promises to give to the world the re-
suit Of his experiment in 8 carefully
prepared treatise. Coming from such
= source the announcement may be-
taken az a. solution Of the problem, tor
which the civilized world has waited
10 long !. TT
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-03-02

Among the wedding presents sent to
Miss Alice Roosevelt was one from
Abilene, Kan. Charles Parker made a
tiny mery-go-round of the latest de-
sign. and decorated in white and gold,
with little gold.plated engine to pro-
pei the machinery. The horses are
only two inches long, but are perfect
IN every particular, and flaxen-haired
dolls are the passengers. The toy will
run as smoothly as any carry-usall or
carnival features. and was sent to
Miss Alice with Mr.. Parker'sr compli-
ments
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-03-02

Frederick de Martens, who was ono
Of the Russian commissioners at Ports
mouth, has just resigned the professor
ship Of International law in the Uni
versity of st. Petersburg, which he
has held for many years. Prof. do
Martens is q member of The Hague
court, is one of the most eminent
authorities on international law. and
has served as an arbitrator in the set
Element Of a large number of import
ant controversies.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-03-02

No South American country has
made such strides in every respect in
recent years as the Argentine repub~
Tic. For the first nine months of 1905
imports were $155,651 400 and exports
$247, 11o,133, showing an increase of
imports Of $16,SS9,197, and of exports
Of $43,917,214, over the same period
for the previous year. This enormous
export trade was substantially all az
ricu]tural and pastoral, while the i'm
ports were miscellaneous.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-03-02

Out Of 4,217 arrivals of all classes
Of vessels from foreign ports at New
York last year the American flag few
over 760 ships. According to figures
given out at the barge Office recently,
478 of the 760 vessels were steam pow
cred, six briggs and 246 schooners
among the sailing vessels. In this
time there were 2,S44 steamships un-
der foreign flags entered at the custom
house. OF which 1855 were British
and SCI German.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-03-02
TWITGHING NERVES
a Serious Hereditary Trouble Cured
BY o.. Williams Pink Pills.

Sufferers from ailments that have af-
f1icted in regular succession one genera
ton after another Of their family are, as
rule, inclined to submit to them as i'll
evitable. The case which follows proves
that such hereditary difficulties are not
beyond the reach Of curative forces and
should inspire hopefulness and readi-
ness to try remedies that have effected
signal cures, such as that which is here
given.
Mrs. Elizabeth Rannells, of No. 4OS
East Seventh street, Newton. Kansas,
gives the following account of her all
ment and her cure:
"For two years I suffered from trying
nervousness in my lower limbs from my
knees down, as my mother and my
grandmother had suffered before me.
The situation was for many years &C
cepted as unavoidable because heredi-
tary. But about two years age, when my
son was realizing benefit from the use of
DR.. Williams Pink Pills, i thought there
might possibly be some good in them for
me: My trouble had then become SO
serious as to make it difficult for me to
sleep. / often had to walk the floor in
restlessness the whole night. After talk
ing some six boxes the twitching disap-
peal ed and ceased to use the remedy
/ evidently stopped q little too soon for
Nervousness came back after month or
SO and used the pills again for a short
time Relief came at once and since I
stopped using them the second time I
have been free from any return of the
twitchings or from any interference with
my Sleep" Z
DR.. Williams Pink Pills have cured
the worst cases Of bloodlessness, indiges-
ton, influenza, headaches, l1mbago, sci
atica, neuralgia, nervousness, spinal
iweaknessand the special ailments of girls
and women. For further information,
address the DR.. Williams Medicine Co.,
Schenectady. n, 7.
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passage of a bill which he introduced,
providing for larger salaries for the
president, vice president and members
OF the cabinet. 1t is considered a very
graceful thing for a member of the
party opposed to the present admins
tration to take this initiative, as It
puts the question on an absolutely
non-partisan basis. Mr.. Sulzer is
meeting with very strong support from
newspapers from all over the country,
and he is earnestly endeavoring to
have congress take action on his bill.
In this bill Mr.. ,Sulzer provides for
salary of 100000 year to the pres
ident, $4,000 to the vice president.
and $4,000 a year to cabinet officers
There can be no objection to these SAL
aries from anyone who knows the
great personal !: expense these officers
are all under in maintaining their po-
s1tiOns In Washington. Mr.. Roosevelt
is not lavish in his entertainment, but
his democratic method of Omcial living
eats up every cent the government
pays him, and 1t is said that his very
modest private fortune has been Sc
riously trenched upon since he became
president. A cabinet officer cannot
possibly make decent showing on his
salary of $4,000 a year, and many a
poor man Of the highest ability and
capacity has been compelled to leave
the cabinet, where his services were
Of the highest value, because his
meager salary would not permit him
to maintain his position with the dig
nifty that is expected from so high an
official. =.
Another feature OF Mr.. Suffers bill
is a pension of $4,000 year to e.
presidents. This is meeting with very
general favor. as it is considered I'M
just and unbecoming that a man. who
has held the high Office OF president
should be compelled to afterward
earn his living in some of the pro-
LESSONS.
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he hardest worked = men in public

the hardest worked men in pubilc'
life" .s,..., .sS. .s..st5s: /
Mr.. Knox does not know whether he
wants to continue as q United States
senator orsnot. There is no question
about hissdoing full days work every
day the senate is in session. With the
possible exception of Mr.. Pettus, Of
alabama, Mr. Knox is the earliest riser
in official Washington. He gets up
before six o'clock every morning, and
after a light breakfast sits down, no
later than seven o'clock. to his work.
He goes through his mail hastily, Sc
Letting a letter here and there that
looks as though it were from some one
inl whom he was particularly interest,"
ed, and after reading this part Of his
correspondence he gets down to the
work of studying legislation and other
matters that his senatorial duties I'M:
pose upon him. About nine O'Clock
his secretary and stenographer put in
their appearance, and then the SEN
ator dictates his correspondence, which
averages over 100 letters day. ii
His time is fully occupied with his
correspondence and an occasional call
at the White House until the senate
meets, where he is very prompt and
conscientious in his attendance. He is
q member of three very important
committees, those on Judiciary, inter-
oceanic canals and privileges and elec-
lions. They all have big questions be-
fore them, and Mr.. Knox will not
slight any of the subjects. His PROM
inence as great corporation and con-
stitutional lawyer carries with it the
penalty of being appealed to by his
colleagues on all great questions that
come before the senate.
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The Martha; Washin eton Rival.

aE martina wash
/ n 6 t o n, New
York's first at
tempt at a hotel
for women, has
arrived. It has
been pat upon the
stage in a farce
comedy, a l O n g
with a woman
bOuncer and other
things it does not
boast; and it has
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ways IN rest for tilt with the Stand
ard Oil company. A year ago he Of
fered resolution in the house to in
vestigate the production and price of
petroleum, which was directly aimed at
the Standard Oil company and it's
operations in the state of Kansas.
Recently in his speech on the railway
rate bill Mr. Campbell took occasion
to further attack this corporation and
introduced an amendment to the bill
which would prevent railroads from
carrying the Standard Oil company's
tank cars.
Mr.. Campbell does not impress one
as being crank Or demagogue, and
he is not. He is one of the vest
dressed men in the house and loohs
like the prosperous lawyer that he is.
He has good strong face, with clear
cut features, a prominent nose, deter
mined jaw, but withal a pleasant,
genial expression of countenance.
The record of this Kansas congress-
man is one that was more common so
years ago, when frontiersmen rose by
their own exertions from humble sur
roundings to a high place in states
manship, than in the present day. At
the age Of ten years, owing to the
death of his father, he was compelled
to help support his mother and six
brothers and sisters. He piloted a
yoke of oxen that broke up most of the
land on their prairie farm in Kansas
and for several years he Was a hired
man among the neighboring farmers
in order that his wages might help out
his mother and family. Under the
most adverse circumstances he secured
a college education, read law and built
up practice. He is little over 40
years of age and is now talked of for
United States senator, a posi- ion he
scarcely dreamed of when driving his
oxen across the Kansas prairies 80
years ago.
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Mills Hotel for Women.

1T no capitalist has
yet invested mon
ey' In the sort of
hotel women most
urgently need. At
the Mills hotels
for men rooms are
20 cents a night,
breakfast 10 cents,
dinner: and lunch
con Is cents; and
four per cent.
profit is paid on
the money invest
ed The men arc
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Equitable May Build.

~ : Equitable build
ing was long one
of the seven Won
ders of New York.
1t contained the
Lawyers club res
1taurr;a 5l it. it was
massive and i'm
posing; it cost a
lot of; money and
it was actually
ten stories hight
So high that the
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