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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-01-26
THE ROAD Of ANTHRACITE
Popular Because of It's Superb Serv-
ice.
no RAILROAD IN THE WORLD

offers to the traveller more picturesque
route than the Lackawanna Railroad.
Leaving New York the train crosses the
far-famed Jersey meadows into the high.
lands Of New Jersey. Skirting the Della
ware River the journey lies directly through
the Delaware Water Gap, one of the most
not 90. scenic views " IN IN he world Thence
1900 feet above the level of the sea, the
train rushes into Scranton, beyond which
another mountain range is passed before
Binghamton is reached. Here the road
skirts the beautiful Susquehanna River,
running from there into the valley of the
Chemung River and then into that of
the Genesee. The entire journey lies
ping brooks, .leaping eataracts, towering
mountains and hill-shadowed lakes, which
for diversity of interest and beauty of
landscape is not equaled anywhere on the
American continent.
HUMAN INGENUITY
can do no more for the protection of
trains than is furnished by the signal sys-
tenn in operation upon the Lackawanna
Railroad. Brightly painted semaphores by
day and colored lights by night. flash II their
signals divide the line into blocks, and no
train is permitted to enter them until
preceding trains have passed out of way.
Where diverging tracks are met, system
of interlocking switches makes the danger
Of accident impossible. Crossings, grades
and curves are protected by the most
modern equipment for the safety of trains.
If for any reason this wonderful mechan-
ism ISM tails to work, signals are automatically
until the trouble is ascertained.
HARD COAL IS USED
oil So 10
Lackawanna Railroad. This is Of peculiar
interest to the traveller over it's line, for
the 400 miles of beauty lying between New
York and Buffalo may be viewed through
open windows, without danger from flying
cindecs or annoying smoke. The roadbed
being rock-ballasted, there is no dust, and
the comforts of the journey are further
assured by superb Pullman cars and high
backed airy coaches.
"oRDER WHAT YOU WANT;
pay only for what you orderr,'. is the apt
tenn en- the Lackawanna Railroad. Meals
are la carte, which means that the trav-
e]er who does not care to order an elabo-
rate repast may make individual selection
from the menu. The cars are stocked with
the choicest things a great market like
New York affords, while fruit, milk,
cream, eggs and similar articles are Sc
cured fresh every day from the vast DAIRY
and agricultural region through which the
road runs. All through trains carry din
ing-cacs, whose management. is under the
direct control of the company.
ANY RAILROAD AGENT
will be glad to give further information
in regard to the Lackawanna service
which embraces three through trains leav-
ing Chicago at 1925 A. NJ CARRYING at
New York $3.50 P. N.Y.; 2:3o P: M. (arriv
ing New York 1920 P. N.Y.; and OILS P. M.
CARRYING New York 6:l5 P. N.Y., and full
particulars will be cheerfully furnished
upon application to George A. Cullen, Cen
eral Western Passenger Agent, l0l Adams
street, Chicago.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-01-26
Just Wonderful.

Vesty, Miss, Jan. LIST (special):-The
case of Mrs. G. W. Pearson, who resides
here, is a particularly interesting one.
Here is the. story told by Mr.. Pearson.
her husband, in his own words. He
says
my wife's health was bad for a long
time. Last July she was taken terrible
bad With spasms. I sent for the doctor,
and after. making thorough examination
Of her, he said undoubtedly the cause
OF her trouble was a disordered state of
to De doing her much good, SO as 1 heard
about Dodd's Kidney Pills, I got her a
box just to give them trial. Well, the
effect was just wonderful. I saw that
they were the right medicine and I got
two more boxes. When she had taken
these she was so much better that she
had increased thirty pounds in weight.
She is now quite we'll. and we owe it all
to Dodd's Kidney Pills."
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-01-26

had q whole bar Of ordinary laundry
soap, and basin OF hot, soft water
Now watch me. Remember. use only
this tiny piece Of soap. Get out your
watches and time me-"
Dropping the soap in the basin, and
the handkerchief, also, with both hands
he began sc1ubbing.2 Instantly the ba-
sin was full of soapsuds, and, inside
of one minute by the watch, the hand
kerchief was as clean and white as the
day it came from the factory. }
A yell went up from the crowd.
Now" said he, II will pass it out
at Is cents per cake, or three cakes for
SO cents
In less time than it takes to tell il,
the half-dollars were simply pouring
into his Golfer.
keep up the good work." he cried.
Remember, economy is wealth, and
the only road to success-one cake of
my wonderful compound, double dis
titled laundry and toilet soap will go
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-01-26
VITALITY OF YELLOW RACE
More Vigorous Than Caucasians It
Flourishes in All. Gil
mates

Before the foundations of Rome were
laid there was homogeneous people
dwelling in China with form of
government and no mean degree of
civilization. Rome f1ourished for II
centuries and became the empire of
the western world, then decayed and
passed away and her civilization be-
came the heritage of others. But
China remains as united empire to
this day. In this marvellous continuity
in the past lies the promise of the
future.
1t took the nations Of Europe 1000
years to advance from barbarism to
their present position. It took the
Japanese, branch of the yellow race,
generation to adopt and apply all
the best results of this long struggle.
We are told that when the present
emperor of Japan was boy the sort
of training that was supposed to fit
him for the part he was to be allowed
to take in the government of his
country was making artificial flowers.
He is only now just over middle age,
yet he rules as constitutional mon
! arch over an empire with which the
most advanced and most powerful en-
pire of the west was glad to form an
alliance as with an equal. His navy
has driven the Russian flag from the
China seas. On land the tactics and
strategy, the endurance, self-sacrifice
and bravery, the care for the wound:
ed in the field and the splendid hos.
pital arrangements of the Japanese
| army are the admiration of the civil.
lied world.
In the worlds history there is moth.
ing like the advance of Japan in the
last generation. We see some of the
results of the adoption of the civiliza.
ton of the west by 100000 of the
yellow race. Will anyone who really
knows him venture to say that the
Chinaman is less we'll equipped mental.
~ and physically?
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-01-26

No, sir; you have had one cake,
and you can't have another; or you,
either" pointing to still another. IRE
member, gentlemen, you can't impose
upon me; I am watching you. Don't
try to buy but one cake, this must be
fair distribution. 7" Who will have
the next cake?" y
All this by-play only urged them on,
and he was kept busy handing out
soap, until it looked as if he had taken
in more cash than the circus.
When the first ten minutes had
elapsed there was no soap left for the
next ten minutes sale, which The
CRATER had promised.
During the sale, if a man handed
him a. large bill or anything over a
dollar he would refuse to take it, say
ing:
Gentlemen, make your own change.
Don't give me anything over dollar:
if you do I'll not change it, Remem-
her, this is a donation, not specula-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-01-26

farther than a dozen bars of ordinary
SOAP"
When he had finished, every man
was soaped, and the CRATER was loaded
to the brim with half-dollars.
Like all other "grafters," one night
was as long as he could remain III a
town.
A few days after he had gone The
livery man, from whom he had hired
his buggy said to his foreman:
Say, Jack that little red-geared
buggy needs oiling. 1t came in squeak
ing and groaning few minutes ago.
"Oh, yes" said Jack. "You know
that soap man who was here the other
night? Well, he took off one of the
hind wheels, wiped off all the grease
and eli, and put on a lot of tar soap
in it's place.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-01-26

Copyright, 1905, by Joseph E. Bowles.)
When was selling Yankee notions
al auction in Michigan l encountered
CRATER whose special victims We're
the leading merchants of small towns.
His was a shaving soap graft
sheraton. 1t was his skill in palming
and manipulating dollar bills that
brought him success.
He carried a single valise and a
small tin box, the latter filled with
very small cakes Of soap, cut from bars
OF ordinary washing soap. Each CAKE
was wrapped in piece of paper.
Upon reaching town he called upon
the most prominent merchant and re-
quested the loan of a barrel. This he
would roll out directly in front of the
merchants store, and, turning it bot
tom side up in the street, he placed
his tin box upon it. His plan was to
begin operations about two o'clock in
the afternoon, when the merchant was
least likely to be busy.
AS soon as an audience of two or
more persons was secured, he would
expatiate upon the wonderful merits of
his soap. After removing the wrap
per from a cake of soap, he took a
large roll of money from his pocket.
Then, folding $40 bill lengthwise. and
wrapping it around the piece of soap
In plain view of his audience, he folded
up the soap and the $40 bill in the
original wrapper. Usually by this
time the merchant the CRATER has Sc
lected as his victim was an interested
spectator. The CRATER took the piece
OF soap in his left hand and held MS
pocketknife in his right, so that he
could easily clip off one end of the
piece.
Who will give me ten dollars for
this piece of soap?" he cried. "Is
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-01-26

since. 1 used to have such pain in my
back that once I tainted. The kidney
secretions were much disordered, and 1
was so far gone that I was thought to
be at deaths door. Since Doans Kid
ney Pills cured me feel as if 1 had
been pulled back from the tomb
Sold by all dealers. so cents box.
Foster-Milburn Co.. Buffalo, N. Y.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-01-26
Knew Her Grammar,

The judges little daughter, although she
had talked several times through the
telephone to her father, had never gone
through the formalities necessary in call
ing him up. The first time she tried it
she took the receiver off the hook, as she
had seen others do, placed her lips to the
transmitter and said:
"Hello! l want to talk to papa"
Number, please" said Central
Singular" she answered, surprised at
the question, but proud that she knew
something Of the rudiments of grammar.
-YOuth's Communion.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-01-26
Factory.

ton. Don't expect too much of me- v
When ready to close 1.-The Office" as
he drolly expressed it, he had the Top
part of his trunk and every pocket
filled with dollar bills
On returning to the hotel, at noon,
asked him if he had any idea that
anyone got cake of soap with money
in it. w..
He laughed and said if they did it
was a mistake on his part. Then he
explained: In the middle of the tray
OF his hand trunk was trap-door
about four inches square. with a thin,
fiat, steel spring to- hold it to it's place
AS fast as he wrapped the money
around the soap, he would place the
cakes upon the trap door, and, press
ing the door with his thumb all would
instantly be transferred to another
part of the trunk.
Still another soap CRATER, at Mar
Quette, Mich, had a unique method Of
deceiving his audiences.
He was selling what he called "the
most powerful cleansing soap on
EARTH" 1t was "his fathers inven-
tion,' and a piece the size Of a pea
would make more lather and actually
do larger washing than could be
done with a whole bar of ordinary
soap, in much less time
AS I passed by his room on the
,ir1o Of oh
two dozen bars Of washing soap piled
on the table. He was busy cutting
up lot of tin-foil to wrap around
the pieces.
That evening he drove out upon the
streets. and after singing few songs
and playing several popular airs on
the banjo he began very interesting
lecture on the manufacture of soap.
At last he gave small boy a quar-
ter to bring him a basin of water
from the town pump.
Meanwhile he broke of a small
piece from one of these tiny cakes of
soap, and after rolling it to about the
shape of pea, he said:
"Now, gentlemen,I am going to give
you the most wonderful demonstration
of what can be accomplished with a
piece of soap, the size of a pea, that
has ever been shown, upon the face
| of the EARTH
Then he produced a clean white
handkerchief, and, picking up q
| wrench, said:
my friends, you all know that there is
nothing harder to remove from a
garment than axle grease Now, this
buggy belongs to your liveryman, Mr.
-, and to give you fair e~,'cr~
test of the worth of my wonderful soap
am now going to remove one OF
the wheels from this buggy, and afte,
thoroughly cleaning the axle with this
perfectly white handkerchief, I shall
with no more soap than this piece the
size of a pea, proceed to wash the
handkerchief in this basin Of cold. h ard
water, and make perfect job Of it, in.
side of one minute by the watch"
Climbing out Of his buggy, and re.
moving one of its wheels. he wiped all
the black tar and grease from the axle
completely saturating the handkerchief
Replacing the wheel, he climbed
back into the buggy, and opening ur
the handkerchief said:
"Gentlemen, do you believe that
there is housewife in this city who
could wash this handkerchief clean IN.
side of 10 or Is minutes, even If she
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-01-26

II beg your pardon, but you didn't
speak quick enough" Or if no >ne
offered, the CRATER would clip off the
end, and, looking into the face of some
other man, he would remark Gas if the
fellow had offered to take it,: .a~--.
II beg your pardon SIR but you
were too slow. Well, now, we will see
what we have here.'' Whereupon the
500 bill would of course be found. be-
cause it had actually been placed
there. .-..-.-.-.-
After criticising his audience and
Joking them few moments:
well, am going to try it once
more,' he would say. Lets see if
there is a Spectator in the crowd"
Again he folded the 500 bill length
wise. and apparently wrapping it
around the cake of soap, he again fold
ed it in it's original wrapper.
"Now, l wonder If there is specu-
]ator in this crowd with SIS in his
pocket, who will give that amount for
this cake of soap before cut the end
Off Bear in mind, am offering the
soap, and the soap only, for SIS. Say,
quick, gentlemen, or off it comes"
The merchant, eager to make $25.
would almost invariably reach for the
cake, and produce forthwith the SIS.
This smooth CRATER told me at the
supper table that for three months 3e-
fore starting out he practiced the art
Of palming the 500 and substituting a
cne-dollar bill.
He said that at first he had great
deal of trouble with his victims, be-
cause he worked everybody and any
body. However, he soon discovered
that when he landed the leading mer-
chant of town, his victim invariably
went to his private Office to unwrar
the soap, and on discovering the de-
ception. his pride would deter him
from making an exposure.
=
Another soap CRATER whom l knew
was doing a thriving business follow
ing a cheap circus through the north
west.
He carried with him an old-fash-
Toned suit case or hand trunk. Pur-
chasing several large cakes of wash
ing soap, he would slice them up into
small cakes, and wrap each one with
paper. After filling the tray of Ills
hand trunk with these, he would drive
out, in horse and buggy and by va
riOus methods attract a large crowd.
He would place a soap box upon
the buggy seat, and on top Of this his
hand trunk, the object being to bring
the latter up high enough, so that no
one standing on the ground could see
into it.
Taking from his pocket roll of bills
OF large denomination, he would care
fully wrap them around the pieces Of
soap; and rewrapping the latter in pa
per would place them in the trunk.
In the meantime he dilated in a most
interesting manner on how a very rich
uncle had died and left him several
million dollars, part of which was to
he given away within ten years. He
said he had adopted this method of
carrying out his uncle's proviso.
Nov, gentlemen" he continued, Ill
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-01-26
Most Powerful Cruiser.

The Natal, launched in England on
September 30, is the most powerful
cruiser in the world. Her tonnage is
1850, she has speed of % knots and
she carries six 9.2-inch and four 7.5-inch
guns. All her guns are loaded anu
rotated by hydraulic power. ~
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-01-26

a + er day don't
worry. Doan's Kid
ney Pills have cured
thousands of women
in the same condition.
Mrs. A. Holman of
Saltwater, M nm. /,
says: " But for Doan's
Kidney Pills I would
not be living now.
They cured me in 1899
and I've bnen well
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-01-26
SeeP

"Why do you call him worldly man."
''What is the most striking feature Of
the world?"
1T is round; but what of that?"
1T isn't square, is it?-Kansas City
Times.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-01-26
Previous Apology.

$50 sorry not to have heard your lecture
last Light" said the loquacious lady. Il
know l missed a treat; everybody says it
was great"
'How did they find out?" asked Mr..
Frockcoat. "The lecture, you know, was
postponed detroit Free Press.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-01-26

To Cure a Cold in One Day
Take LAXATIVE BRoMo Quinine Tablets
Druggists refund money if it fails to cure
E.W. GROVES signature is on each box. Csc
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-01-26

A Guaranteed Cure for Piles.
Itching, Blind, Bleeding, Protruding Piles:
Druggists are authorized to refund money II
PAzO CONTINENT fails to cure int to 14days. 50o
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-01-26

Barber shop reform is rampant in Ger
many, one of the severe regulations be-
ing that barber must wash his hands
before attending to a customer, instead
Of waiting, as is usual, for shampoo
Puck.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-01-26

I am sure Piso's Cure for Consumption
saved my life thFee years ago.-Mrs. Thos
Robbins. Norwich. N. Y. Feb. II, 1900.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-01-26
DON'T DESPAIR.
Read tho Experience Of a Minnesot;
Woman and Take Heart.

If your back aches, and you feel
sick, languid, weak and miserable day
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-01-26

Don't be msshief maker" said Uncle
Eben. DE mos good you kin do in dis
world aim much, but de mos harm you
kin do is a heap."-Washington Star.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-01-26
Possible EXPLANATION.

Little Willie-Say, pa, why do the mem
bers of trolley party toot horns?
Pa-They probably inherited the habit
from their fsh-peddling ancestors, my son.
Chicago Daily News.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-01-26
THREE GRAFTERS
"SOAP" THEIR DUPES

Shaving Soap Man Victimizes Lead
ing Merchants 800 Paid for
Every Cake - Philanthropist
"Gives Away" Soap Wrapped in
Twenty-Dollar Bills-A Wonder
full Demonstration with Laundry
Soap-Grafter Swindles a Circus
Crowd.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-08-19

where tho departmental system vs. u sec
time enual ITO the full work I. WI W
teachers shall be devoted e hlg ~ seinG va
ilTanehes, and sucn schools shall NY, s'yp
either three or four years Of the z, ,, NET
school course: provided. that the ~ e.
intendent or Public instruction ma x peE-
nit instruction in branches ~ lhe sFa
mar grades whenever.Igin his jude m 7 e u
lie entire time OF one OF the teachers
is not needed for high school WORK,
3. IA school receiving $3.50 sinai! rEays "
least one teacher deyotlng his WHO'S
time TO the high school work, ma sucl,
school shall give the first ana sefonG
years of tho prescribed high sehool
course. 7f ,,
G. High schools established under t r.
law shall he inspected each year BY the
school examiners or BY other persons
delegated by the state Board Of Educa-
tion, who shall make to said board a
careful written report OF the Inspection.
4, "A tirst-Nade high school must main
taia IN average attendance of not less
than eighteen. A second-grade high
school must maintain an average atten-
dance OF not less than iifteen, A thirds
grade high school must maintain LII
average attendance Of not less thapten.
5. A second grade high school may
substitute book keeping and business
forms for either of the elective languages
In the third years course a frst-grade
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-08-19
PAY OF STATESMEN.
Denmark IS the Stingiest Of Al
5ss TO Her Legislators. 4


The Norwegian member Of Parliament
gets only 10 shillngs u day, and ~ the
hard worked legislator. takes day OH
he loses his pay. The same is the case
with members OF the swiss Diet. 9 They
{nre rewarded with 10 shillings q gay,
on q condition that they do VI not N @ psent
themselves from work. 81 ~ "a b ttSS}
~ TO go further East, we find that Rou-
mania thinks her lawmakers worth 90
d day. Sixteen shilings day is the SAL
airy OF those who compose the bulgarian
Bsobran1e, but mombers who live In the
capital get only 10 shillings a day. IN
" Denmark is about the stingtest Of al
European countries. SO far as remunef-
Eatlng her lawmakers is concerned X says
the London Answers. Danish members
Eofl parliament get but 8 shllllngs 8 pence
5aDday; but, on the other hand. they have
the odd privilege Of n free seat n the
Royal Theatre at Copenhagen. Z
the members OF the German
ERelchstag are not salarled, yet the law
makers OF the various German States
do not work for nothing. Sake Coburg
members of Parliament are paid ls sh1ll-55
3lings; Of Bavaria, 10. and Of. Iileesse, .,
At first sight Hungry seems to do
her lawmnking on tho cheap, plan, for
her members got $1,000 a year IN cash, !,
But they are not so badly Oft, after all
for liberal allowance Is made into
tho bargain for house rent, A''stria-f Nn7-
3gnrys two Legislative assemblies cost
the country about 100000 a year In III
Both In Austria and Hungary legisato tors
can travel frst-class with second-classs
tickets. 81 Y! "A sl st5y
Besides tho United Kingdom. Italy and
Spain are tho only countries which pay
nothing to their members Of Par lament.
Nevertheless, the cost OF the Italian Par-E
lament Is estimated at $425, 900 ~ year. 55
In Portugal also the State does not FER
,munerate legislators. but they receive
free railway passes and their constitu-
encles are legally permitted to pay those:
who represent them a sum Of about 10
.shilIngs for each dny Of the session,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-08-19
Cassie Chadwick's $500 Black
"A. Dress, n. X, 4

Convict No. $1,000. formerly Mrs Cas-
sic Chadwick, OF financial fame, has, sent
an appeal to Alton II, Greeley for Just
that one black dress and the hat to go
with It," Greeley Is the general man
ager OF a carriage and storage concern
which purchased the Chadwick property
q couple of weeks aso at uction. (,
can we'll spare that one dress,
/ am sure" writes Mrs. Chadwick, sYou
have thousands upon thousands Of dol
for almost song. Can you not spare
Just the ono dress ] want and the black
plumed hat? ~ 4 h, 5l Ell
1.-THE dress In question IL wortl, $500,
and Is the most modest In the whole
wardrobe. t9 3S
Greeley has not decided IL Mrs. Chad
wick shall have her gown,--cincinnatl
Enquirer,