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The Virginia enterprise., 1906-10-26
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THE ENTERP RISE.
W. E. BAxsAroRD, Publisher.
VIRGINIA. MINNESOTA
GrapholoqxlTesIted.3

Prof. Alfred Binet of the Sorbonpe
has been making some experiments in
graphology which reveal that science
in an unkind light. AS beginning,
the handwriting of Renan was circu-
lated. A famous graphologue gave
the following analysis of the great
skeptic philosopher: "A mind original
ly mediocre and little cultivated. Lit
tie reflection. On the other hand, the
credulity and loquaciousness Of the
subject are noteworthy" With an
other expert Renan came of little
better, as "a clear and fine mind, but
hardly reaching talent" Graphology
suffered most when it fell foul of the
manuscript of the brutal assassin vi
dal, who had slain many women. One
authority declared the writing to be
that of a young girl who must be
cfassed among the gentler charac-
ters." Another doctor in the scieuce
observed "although we have never
seen the handwriting of Taine, we
imagine it like this In any case he
i. who wrote these lines was a thinker -
If this be true the essay on Murder
as Fine Art" should be rewritten
with a view to proving it an exact sci.
ence, allied to so-called evolutionary
criticism. The total result of Prof.
Binet's experiments is to suggest that
in graphnolos<> fair field and no ia
vor is the rule: Most of us would
have struck rather nearer the white
than the adopts in the above-men-
toned cases.
The Virginia enterprise., 1906-10-26

Though the ancient Greeks and
Romans used ice for table purposes
to get through even hotter weather
than we have been having lately, they
knew nothing of "ices." These were
introduced into France from Italy
about 1900, and known at first as
'fromages glaces," iced cheeses, al
though they were made of strawber
ries, apricots, and so forth, and con
tanned not drop of cream, says the
London Chronicle. From 1852 the use
of "glaces" in the plural was sane
toned by the academy, but not before
1926 did "une glace' force it's way
into recognized acceptance. Ices
are referred to from time to time in
the eighteenth century in English peo
pies letters from abroad. Iced
creams" however, were known as
early as the year when William of Or
ange came over, and by the middle OF
the eighteenth century ice cream
figured in cookery books.
The Virginia enterprise., 1906-10-26
Women Sacrificing the Birds.

Let the world bid it's sad farewell
to it's feathered folk if millinery
modes continue their slaughter. Ger
tain species of the rarest and most
beautiful birds are threatened with
determination at no distant date. In
one market alone lately were sold at
one time 10000 humming birds, $4,000
parakeets, $4,000 kingfshers, 10000
aigrettes and thousands of other gor-
geous southern birds of different
kinds, as we'll as doves and even spar
rows. France receives every year from
America, Tonkin and India millions
of birds which are exchanged for mil
Icns of dollars. The number of small
birds annually imported into England
and France may be computed at 1,500,-
600. Germany exports nearly 20,000,-
900 feathers which are worked up in
England into hat trimmings. In Lon
don there are held every month sales
of birds skins and feathers, India
alone supplying some 30,o0O,Oo0 feath-
ers. The South American republics
are awakened to the danger of the ex-
termination of their most ornamental
birds and have passed laws regulating
their slaughter. In America has been
formed league whose members for
swear the wearing of feathers.
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i Treasures for. the Louvre.

sreaSuro0 Tor. tne Louvre.
Attention is called by the Travellers
Gazette to recent acquisitions by tho
Louvre. notably Of life size bust in
chalk, primitively colored, of the her
NIT king OF the eighteenth dynasty,
Akhoumalon, or Amenophis w., one of
the strangest figures in the long line
OF the Pharaohs. The bust is a re-
markably fine specimen of the art of
the period, and is well preserved. Be-
sides this, there are four sepulchral
urns In blue porcelain from the tomb
OF Rameses II. In these urns was
found. besides funeral: linen, certain
organic matter, which is being chem
ically examined.
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COPPER SAFE FROM LIGHTNING.
Belief Firmly Held In Many Parts ot
the Country. .5

This matter of superstitions is q
queer thing said the man as he care.
fully avoided walking under ladder,
"for even those Of us who are skeptics
have at least one superstitious failing,
and mine is walking under ladders.
"ln>thes countrythis summer met
a new one, which was firmly believed
in by several farmers, and that was
that q thunder storm never passed
over copper mine or copper vein.
The old fellow who told me about it
pointed out again and again that al
though black clouds might roll up and
lightning flash, the storm always went
around a certain spot in his farm.
"Such actions on the part of thun-
der storm could mean but one thing,
he said-that there was copper vein
there. So sure was he of it, that he
was putting by a little each year to
have the spot Investigated to see If
there was copper enough in IT to
work"
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NO DAWDLING.
A Man Of 70 After Finding Coffee Hurt
Him, Stopped Short. II;

When man has lived to be 70 years
old with a 40-year-old habit grown to
him like a knot on tree, chances are
he'll stick to the habit till he dies.
But occasionally the spirit of youth
and determination remains in some
men to the last day of their lives.
When such men do find any habit of
life has been doing them harm, they
surprise the Oslerites by degree Of
will power that is supposed to belong
10 men under 40 only. : -.
r. <."I had been a user Of coffee until
three years ago-a period Of 40 years
-and am now TO-" writes N. Oak.
man. Il was extremely nervous and
debilitated, and saw, plainly that I
must make a change. ..I T.. ~
II am thankful to, say had the
nerve to quit coffee at once and take
on Postum without any dawdling, and
experienced no i'll effects. On the con-
trary, commenced to gain, losing my
nervousness within two months, also
gaining strength and health otherwise
z5E"For g man Of my age, am very
well and q Igi |, hearty. I some netimeg meet
persons who have not made their
Postum right and don't like It. But
tell them to boil it long enough. and
all their attention to my looks now,
and before I used II, that seems con-
vincing. f5:; ;tt,5S sf> IN s.@ sg24: E4=.
u Nov, when I have writing to do,
or long columns OF figures to cast up,
~ feel equal to It and can get through
my work without the tagged out feel
{ Ing Of OLD. .'H5 Name given bys Postum
20, Battle Creek, itch. Read the
book. The Road sf to Vellvtlls, I, i
pkgs. a here's I, reason. = u 8
The Virginia enterprise., 1906-10-26
ADOPT American Ideas.

The Russian military authorities are
considering the adoption OF khaki
uniforms, the car having been espe.
cially interested in one recently worn
by an American army representative
at st. Petersburg. The military au-
thortt1es are also considering Amert.
can accoutrements, including web car
fridge belts and cavalry saddles, With
q view to their adoption.
The Virginia enterprise., 1906-10-26
ENDORSES PHONETIC SPELLING.

Charles A. Stillings, public printer for the
United States government, who was the first to
be notified of President Roosevelt's adoption of
the phonetic or simplifed style of orthography
urged by Andrew Carnegie and number of lead
ing educators and literary men, has enthusiastic
ally indorsed the presidents decision. In a let
ter to the president Mr.. Stillings said that only
recently he had appointed a commission to revise
the public printing Offices manual of style"
Mr. Stillings expressed himself as having no
doubt that all departments of the government
would take their cue from the president and ad.
vocate the phonetic changes. To provide the
printing office with uniform code of spelling
would, he declared, reduce considerably the
necessary force of proofreaders and so lessen to
an appreciable extent the cost of the Offices
The Virginia enterprise., 1906-10-26

composition will
appecaby lessening
siing Uncle SAM
President Roosevelt
secretary of the Tpohea of the
The Virginia enterprise., 1906-10-26
RELATES A QUEER EXPERIENCE.

A few days after Chester I. Long, Of Kan
sas, had been elected to the senate, he returned
to- his seat in the house of representatives to
serve out his term there. ~ = < =
II Long was talking to some members in one
Of the and after awhile the conversa-
tion switched to palmistry. WITTY IKE 4> %4 &G
Some of the takers thought there might be
something in il, but most Of themNpronounced It
fake and a. fraud. ~ fa>@S'. ZEN fs#H2
* :1Of course" said Long, IT do not believe in
it.. It is absurd to think it more than an amuse.
ment, but had g queer experience, nevertheless
! wouldn't have this known for the world / 1T
must not get out and tell It to you IN the strict
@egt confidence, but before q was elected, was
my palm read bys palmst there Strangely emo
was soon lobe elected to the senate. Now don't
don want fit to set out am quite ashamed VII
ing on what happened. EFsf i t Sssfss
said Representative shattuc, product
paper lmist isn't ashamed of it
had for Ito top line: III
The Virginia enterprise., 1906-10-26

The The New York Mail says: h sirmtluulta,
neously with the Inception Of the foot.
ball season 'o Harvard has dedicated i
new S5.99o,ooo medical school y rhis.
Ike ], Ar ckwic a 4 \, warrain,ss pan ], ii. L
fusion. e cont @ \ atins hidd len meanins u u
The Virginia enterprise., 1906-10-26

The island of St. Helena, where Ma.
poleon was six years captive. lis to
be abandoned as a garrison by Great
Britain. Since the opening Of the
'Suez canal it is no longer important
as stopping place on the route to
India. IT, '#t$r% = $5,4:s
The Virginia enterprise., 1906-10-26

believed by Mr. Hitchcock be rightly termed huiat
degrading definite applicable
specific cases Of dc their imposition solely matter
wide variation
the relative different The
frequently
which enables the clerk full credit the
of the liability Under Mr.
that will
The of reduction delinquent
utilized b deserving
The Virginia enterprise., 1906-10-26
More Than Society Butterf1ies.

These are the days when women
OF national celebrity vie with each
other in housewifely accomplishments
Mrs. Philander G. Knox has just dis.
patched to Mrs. Roosevelt firkin OF
butter, made with her own hands, at
the Valley Forge farm. Mrs. Roose.
velt has sent delicious branded cher.
ries to her intimates, and to the Epis.
copal Home for Old People in Wash.
ington. Mrs. Bonaparte, wife of the
secretary Of the navy, has preserved
some toothsome mangoes.
The Virginia enterprise., 1906-10-26
TO SEEK QUIET OF cLoIsTER.

History will be repeating itself if the reports
which reach here about Countess Marguerite
Cassini have any foundation in fact. It is alleged
that the beautiful chatelaine of the Russian EN-.
bassy is soon to retire from the world and assume
the black garb of the Sisters of Mercy in Paris,
at whose convent she was received in the Cath.
olc church some time ago.
Countess Marguerite, who was for three
years the most intimate friend of Mrs. Nicholas
Longworth and one of the most fascinating
women who ever figured in Washington society,
is remarkably handsome and talented. She is
barely rs, but she has drained to the dregs the
cup of international popularity. + 1.*
She became chatelaine of the Russian EN-.
bassy in Washington when she was less than II.
While in Washington she sat for no less than
than 20 oil paintings and crayon sketches. -
The Virginia enterprise., 1906-10-26

where under the direction of empoy the bureau they will through
and which will
significance the public. y
1T estimated that between $oo and $4,000 recorded for
20
ph that recorded for the entire country for this period
viii remember will look through
particular and then would
will divorced
statistics
else"
subject OF divorce
Baltimore propotionate
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300 20 oil
chatane
officers
eturn o
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Some Things o Interest from the National Capital Assistant Post
master General Hitchcock Stops system Of Filming Postal E
ployes Means of Enforcing Discipline Department

ASHINGTON.-Fining of employees as a
means Of enforcing discipline in the postal serv-
ice, system that has been in operation for
many years, is to be abolished First Assistant
Postmaster General Hitchcock, who has jurisdic-
tion of all post Office employees, after<a years OBJ
servation has reached the conclusion that ityis
detrimental rather than helpful. He proposes to
establish a uniform system of efficiency records.
To that end he has started Assistant Superin-
tendent John A. Holmes of his bureau on tour
of inspection of the largest post Offices of the
United States Dr. Holmes will confer with post
masters and their assistants regarding the
change. H. -: ..
The practice of subjecting 250O00 or more
employees to the liability Of being fined for max
ing errors In handling mail or for misconduct is
The Virginia enterprise., 1906-10-26
NO DIVORCE SCANDALS TO BE PUBLISHED.

The report about the bevy of young women
collect statistics of divorce, sent shudder
through the circles of Pttsburg, Newport, New
York and South Dakota. It was at once sur
missed that this meant taking of the lids of
scandal in every divorce Protests were
heard by the census officials The acting director
of the bureau, Mr. Rossiter, felt called upon to
say:
1T has been reported that the census agents
will have interviews with divorced persons and
ask them all sorts of personal questions. Moth
ing of this kind will be done. We simply
sending corps of clerks from our Offices in this
city, as we continually do in collecting various
kinds of statistics, and they being installed
in the courthouses of 20 of the larger cities,
The daily sentinel., 1906-11-14
REWARD TRACKnEN
rhe MISSOURI Pacific Railroad Insti-
tutes Premium Contest for Its
Roadmasters and Section
BosseS-COmmend-
able Action.

The Missouri Pacific management
is inaugurating the system of award
ing premiums in the fall of each
year for roadmasters and section
foremen based upon inspection of
the best results attained on the tracks
of the two lines. the Missouri Pacific
and the Iron Mountain. Division engi-
neers Will make n general inspection
of selected portions of the track, and
the chief engineer of maintenance
of way, NJ. l.. Byers. will announce
the result from st. Louis headquar-
ters. The following premiums Will be
awarded at the close of the inspec-
ton. First premium $500, to the
roadmaster having the best average
line and surface; second premium,
400 to the roadmaster having the
second best average; third premium,
$50 to the roadmaster having the
third best average. Section fore
mans first premium. s25, to the sec
ton foreman having the best average
line and surface on each superintend-
ent's division included in the lnspec-
ton; section foremen's second prem
ium. ten days leave of absence at
full pay with transportation for him
self and immediate family to any
point on the system, to be awarded
the section foreman having the sec
ond best average line and surface on
each superintendent division cover
ed by the inspection. In addition to
the system inspection, each division
will make track inspection, as a
result of which the following prem
iums will be awarded: First prem
ium for section having the best
average line and surface on each
roadmaster's district: the section
foreman will be given one weeks
leave of absence at full pay, with
transportation to any point on the
system and board marked prem
ium section will be placed on his
Toulouse, this board TO be maintain
ed until the ensuing annual inspec-
ton. The foreman having the best
section on the superintendent di-
vision will receive a board marked
First Premium Section" and Will be
given ten days. leave of absence in
stead of one week.
The daily sentinel., 1906-11-14
THE MoNTRoSE RETURNS.

The vote from Montrose county OF
Judge Stevens and his opponent MI
Shackeford is still considerable o
of n mystery. at least to those who
keep in touch with statistics of elec
tions.
For n number of days the unoffic
ial returns gave Judge Stevens /;
plurality of 223. This remained the
same for pretty nearly a week. All
the returns from every other portion
of the district were In and It was
known Just how many votes Were
needed to defeat Judge Stevens and
then 1t is suddenly discovered thai
there was a great discrepancy between
the unofficial and the officials returns
of Judge Stevens in Montrose county
from 223. where It remained for a
long time. down. according to the Of
fetal count to 1876.
Last Saturday Mr.. shackleford wir-
ed 10 a friend in this city that he wa.
defeated by a vote of three.
Mr.. Shackleford had exhausted
every means of information and had
accepted the unofficial vote of Mont
rose as correct.
In all the district there has not
been the marked change in the vote
of any county. to equal the change
In one precinct in Montrose county.
We don't charge that there has
been fraud committed. but even the
veriest tryo in election returns musi
acknowledge that it looks very mys-
terious. the discovery all at once that
there was a difference of 81 votes on
Judge Stevens alone in single coun
ty In which he had large majority.
If we were Judge Stevens we
should demand an official investiga-
ton of the vote and If there has been
any skullduggery in the manipulation
of the vote everlastingly go after
those whom he thinks responsible, if
II took him the rest of his life.
There is something so palpablS
wrong in the Montrose vote. that for
the ends of justice it should be in
vestlgated.
The daily sentinel., 1906-11-14

A hat pin as a weapon of defense
is almost as unique as was the lead
pencil in the hands of the young engi-
neer in Arizona several years ago.
The engineer was told to dance to n
cowboy and on refusal measures 10
make him were undertaken. He was
standing near one of the cowboys and
suddenly drawing a sharpened pencil
from his pocket he jabbed it into the
eye of the cowboy and the point
penetrating the brain the cowboy fell
dead in his tracks. In defense of her
honor n Scranton. Pennsylvania
young woman used a hat pin. which
she Jabbed through the fifth rib
penetrating the heart of n young
man. She charged he was annoying
her with questionable attentions. He
showed that he was man afterwards
by refusing to divulge the name OF
the woman who had killed him and
acknowledged that the blame was all
his own. He was somewhat of hero
after all. Strange indeed under what
heroism develops.
The daily sentinel., 1906-11-14

What sort of a friend or pervert
must the man have been, who could
deliberately drag his wife to place
convenient and deliberately nall her
to the floor. Drive nails through the
backs of her hands. so that she
tainted from the severe torture
This was done In the enlightened city
of Pittsburg. We never have given
assent to mob law in our own minds,
but we should gleefully applaud the
capture of the devil who did such n
thing and see him given a touch of
his own cruelty. Such a crime, re-
voting. unnatural. a genuine cruci-
fixion, has no real measure of pun
ishment. There should be meted out
to the fiend such torture that it would
be a warning to other wife beaters
and human fiends that they can go so
far and no further. in the torture of
their wives. Such men are not fit
to have women in their power. Such
men, 1t would almost seem to be nee
cessary. should be deprived of all
power to attract women to them and
he branded. as was done In old scrip
tural days.
The daily sentinel., 1906-11-14
Barefooted in Winter

II you saw a person walking with
out shoes or stockings in the snow,
you would doubt the soundness of
their mental makeup. People as a
rule care for their feet in and out of
season as the case may demand. but
their eyes can strain and ache. pull
and water and they never seem to
think their eyes are as precious as
their feet. Can you understand now
why people have such strong limbs
and feet and weak eyes when they
grow old?
Between feet and eyes the average
person has more brains in their feet
than in their eyes. II You doubt that.
watch people crossing the street or
dancing.
II you would like your eyes to be
strong spend the care on them you
do on your feet and have them prop
erly examined to be sure they're right
DO 1T NOW.
DR.. II. II. SCARBOROUGH
230 Ute Ave. The Angelus.
Phone Black 244.
The daily sentinel., 1906-11-14

William Adams of Mack. is in town
Messrs. Cooper and Brlen, of AS
pen. are in town today.
There was busy session of the
Odd Fellows last night.
Ralph Ellis. of Cedar Rapids. Ia.
is visiting with friends in the valley.
Mr.. and Mrs. David Wood. of ou-
ray. are the guests of Grand juno
tion friends.
G. N. Calllster and Thomas Adams,
of Manhattan, Kansas are new ar
rivals in Grand Junction
New dressmaking parlors at 54s
Grand. Stylish garments for ladies
and misses. All work guaranteed
T. C. Wilson. F. s. Gregg and f.
G. Dean of Kansas City. en- route to
the far west. have stopped OF in
Grand Junction for few days.
This evening the city council will
meet in regular session. The appli
cation of the light company for an
extension OF their franchise. and sew
eral other important matters will be
given consideration.
DR.. D. NJ. Nottingham and ]. C. Lit
tier. both of Westwater. Utah, the
former connected with many large
land enterprises in that section are
looking after business matters in
Grand Junction today.
Ninety acres one-fourth mile south
west of the Frulta depot. II acres
in Alfalfa. 60 acres of cultivated land
small orchard. As inches of water
that is now worth s2.250. This is a
snap at $4,000 The Rich-Hutchln-
son Realty company.
Forty acres of land miles north
east of Fruita, 3 room house. 10 acres
in alfalfa, 5000 worth of water
stock. All stock and machinery on
the place to go at $4,000. Such snaps
never last long. See the Rich-Hut-
Crimson Realty company at once re-
garding 1t.
The daily sentinel., 1906-11-14

II Is an absolute fact that the war
horses of the Republican side in this
county did not anticipate that one
single candidate would be elected on
the Democratic ticket. OF course now
they say that they saw such would be
the case. Personally. we inquired
from more than dozen gentlemen
before the election day and they
insisted that it would be impossible
for single man on the Democratic
ticket to be elected. We do not
think that it was ever anticipated
by but very few that such a condition
would arise as that the Democrats
would elect two of their candidates
and perhaps three. Ii the truth were
known.
The daily sentinel., 1906-11-14

The prophecy of James j. Hill. the
commercial king Of the great north
west, as to the future of Chicago Is
almost beyond belief. He states that
with trade relations with Canada.
which know no boundaries on tariffs,
Chicago may become a city of seventy :
millions before 1850. We should
like James j. Hill to cast his phophe-
tic eye over the Grand valley and
make a horoscope for us of its future.
We believe he could tell us some
things of the future of this VALLEY
That would make real estate take an
upward boom which would frighten
us.
The daily sentinel., 1906-11-14

About all the things which can be
done locally now, in relation to the
supply of water for lands. has been
accomplished and that other great un-
dertaking has yet to be brought to
completion-we refer to the High
Line canal. We should not be for
getful of this great scheme, which
we desire the gvernment to build
for us. Therell be new set of con-
gressmen in the Colorado delegation
to cngress and we shuld make de-
mand upn them at once to do some
thing for the western part of the
state before they are crowded with
other schemes. Mr.. Hogg did moth
ing whatever. His representative ca
reer amounted to nil. so far as Sc
curing anything for his constituents
of any consequence. Hogg Is all right
as n story teller. but he is not of
statesmanlike mould. We should be
alert to do all in our power to make
the delegation from this state see
the necessity of doing some work for
the western slope and not confine
their efforts to the other side of the
range