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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-11-08
A Good Word from Panama.

Leroy Park, European agent for the
1sthmian canal commission, replies to
some allegations regarding Spanish la
borers employed on the Panama work,
and incidentally gives interesting in
formation as to conditions generally
In connection with the enterprise. He
states from personal knowledge that
the Spanish laborers are we'll cared
for, and he cites an official report from
the Spanish consul at Panama show
Ing, as result of the consul's investi-
cation, that the quarters of the labor
ers are entirely sanitary, that the men
are content and are sending for their
families and that those who are going
to the isthmus are taking their wives
and children with them, in full conf
dence that they will be safe, happy
and contented. Mr.. Park states that
there are now $4,000 laborers on the
isthmus, and that more will come
from Europe with the beginning of
the dry season. 1t is evident that the
big undertaking is being pushed as
rapidly as is consistent with effective
ness.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-11-08
MUCHTRAVELINC D0NEBY
MEMBERS OF THE CABINET
w Observation-Disclosures the sum

" ASH1NGTON.-Duri the sum.
W mer months just closed the nine
members Of President Roosevelt's cab
met have spent more than 600 days
away from their desks, and their va.
cation journeyings and business trips
have covered thousands of miles over
land and sea.
OF the nine, Secretary of War Taft
Is the greatest traveller. Already he
has been away from his department
more than 80 days, and, as he now is
on his way around the world, he has
Travelled, including his vacation jour.
neying and his official trip of the
orient, something like 10000 miles,
with much more yet to come.
Next to Secretary Taft, Secretary of
State Root remained from the capital
longer than any other official, and, in
Guiding his trip to Mexico, he will
have been away so long that it will be
hopeless for any other cabinet officer
to attempt to equal his record.
Until Secretary Taft returns, Secre-
tary Straus will hold the palm for
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-11-08

The immigration question has many
sides, and while some Objectionable
persons may manage to obtain access
to this country, it is evident that the
great bulk of the new arrivals is COM
posed of desirable elements. In fact.
1t is certain that, enormous as is the
influx, aggregating nearly a million
and half yearly, it is not sufficient
to meet all labor demands. The bureau
at Washington having the matter in
charge is informed that $780, 900 immi-
grants can be placed at once in local..
ties where workers are urgently need.
ed, and that three states are seeking
settlers and could readily accommo-
date at least 100000. This is still
the land of promise to the honest and
industrious alien who desires to better
his condition.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-11-08
STATESMEN TAKE UP THE
ROLLER SKATING IDEA
A SSISTANT CHIEF CLERK THOM-

A SS1STANT CHIEF CLERK THOM-
"a SON, progenitor of the scheme for
having postal employees skate to work,
undertook to demonstrate the other
day and arrived at his Office much con-
fused and concussed. In rounding a
curve on Pennsylvania avenue he hit
thank you, marm,' and smote the
asphalt with his nose During the aft
ernoon he was disposed to bark at
folks who came in to ask him ques-
tions about the roller skate procession.
His ideas, however, will be taken up
in higher circles. A we'll defined
movement among leading statesmen is
said to be under way for having sena.
tors and representatives skate to the
capitol when the session begins. A
large number of them have been de-
sirous Of skating to work for a long
time, but each has hung back for fear
of being thought singular. Now a
considerable number have agreed to
start the skating movement simultane.
ously, and general movement on the
capitol is announced for the first Mon
day in December.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-11-08

long overseas journeying. Leaving
Washington on June 20, he went first
to Montreal, on one of the longest in
spection tours ever undertaken by a
cabinet officer. He visited immigra-
ton stations along the Canadian line
from Montreal to Winnipeg and Van
couver, going thence to Seattle and
San Francisco and sailing from that
port on July Is for Honolulu, where he
arrived on July 81. On his return he
visited the Yellowstone National park,
but this part Of the trip was entirely
one of pleasure, and was at the secre-
tary's personal expense
On this trip he was accompanied by
his wife, son, daughter and private sec.
rotary, only Secretary Straus' own ex-
penses, of course, being borne by the
government. 1t is estimated at the
department of commerce and labor
that Secretary Straus' trip cost the
government not more than $1,000.
And it is claimed for it that it was of
immense business benefit to the de-
partment.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-11-08

HE loss to the government pension
1 roll, during the fiscal year 1907,
by the death of civil war veterans,
was 31,207, leaving the names of 644,-
1913 survivors of that war on the roll
June 30, 1907. During the year 1898
more soldiers of the civil war died
than during the preceding year.
The total number of pensions on the
roll at the end of the fiscal year just
ended was 967,371. The net loss to
the roll for the year was 1850, which
was the greatest net loss for any year
since Uncle Sam began to pension his
soldiers. The present fiscal year be-
gan with the smallest number of pen
sioners remaining on the roll since
1893.
The amount disbursed for pensions
during the year was $138,155, 49, 6.
This money was paid to the pension.
ers from Is agencies throughout the
country, the largest amount being
paid from the agency at Topeka, Kan,
which includes Colorado, Kansas, Mis-
souri,, Oklahoma, Indian Territory and
New Mexico. The amount paid from
Topeka was $15,S07,63S.24, and the
number of pensioners on the roll at
that agency was 1868, or 2,0S9 less
than June 80, 1906. Missouri, at the
end of the year had 49,335 pensioners,
who received $6,990,729.74.
These figures and facts are con-
tanned in the annual report of Pension
Commissioner Warner. The report
shows that the pension roll reached
the high-water mark January 80, 1905.
An analysis of the pension roll on
June 30, 1907, shows the interesting
fact that there were at that time three
daughters of soldiers of the revolution.
airy war still drawing pensions.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-11-08

poets of having him Swallowed. Comp
troller Metz, who recently refused
to shake hands with Police Com
missioner Bingham, asserts that he
was Swallowed across the ocean and
back again by the. latter's sleuths,
while "Nngy" Corners, chairman of
the Democratic state committee, as
serts that the shadowing emissaries
of his arch-political opponents have
made themselves extremely obnox-
ious. It is also reported that Mayor
Mcclellan is watched by the shadows
of Hearst, and Wall street fairly
swarms with them.
There is no reason why any shadow
should be without job. The number
OF private detective bureaus in the
city has more than doubled in the
last two or three years, and all are
kept busy. The New Yorker who has
not a shadow nowadays is accredited
with little standing.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-11-08
WOULD YOU BE IN STYLE?
THEN HAVE A "SHADOW"

NEW YORK.-The very latest style
~ In New York is to have a shadow,
and there is scarcely a man of prom
1nence in the city, especially in the
great financial district, who is with
out one. While they are worn at all
times, these shadows are not those
cast by the sun, but real detectives
disguised in secondhand frock coats
and false whiskers. Never before
has there been such rage for hay
ing people Swallowed, and with ex-
posures in high finance and politics
coming daily the person who has not
shadow does not amount to much.
Stuyvesant Fish recently asserted
that he has been followed for more
than year, and strangely enough E.
H. Hartman has not the natural al
lowance of one shadow, but i've.
While The public adds two and two
and makes shrewd guesses, each of
these refuses to say whom he sus-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-11-08

G ECRETARY WILSON is another
- of the cabinet to have put in
some strenuous travelling while in
speeding conditions in his department
In the west. He looked into the big
timber reserves, and Secretary Car
field investigated while absent the
public lands, Indian questions, etc.,
forming an important part of the work
of the interior department. He spent
only two weeks actual vacation at
his home in Ohio.
The vacations of the other cabinet
officers were entirely for recuperative
purposes. Secretary of the Treasury
Cortelyou spent the summer on his
farm on Long Island, near the presi-
dents home at Oyster Bay, and only
an hours ride from New York. Hence
he was able to keep in close touch
with the financial situation, and his
actual presence here was not essen
tial.
Secretary of the Navy Metcalf went
to California, his home state, and
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-11-08
New Outlook In Chemistry.


AS is we'll known, the logical process
of inducttve reasoning based upon
carefully planned experiment is rela-
lively new manifestation of the
power of the human intellect. The
philosophers of old imagined, observed
and reasoned, but neglected expert
mentation; the artisans, who alone
came into close contact with realities
were unable except in the crudest fash.
ion to generalize concerning their re-
suits. Because of this separation Of
thought and deed, mans knowledge OF
his environment remained for thou.
sands of years in wholly undevel-
oped state. From this dormant condi-
ton natural science emerged but
slowly, although with steadily increas-
ing pace. Little by little, in spite Of
occasional pauses Of inactivity, or ap.
parent forgetfulness, human acquaint-
ance with the fundamental laws of tho
universe has grown. Each century
has added something to the total, says
The Harvard Graduates Magazine; and
usually each century has added more
than any century before. What con-
trast such development presents to
that Of sculpture, for example, which
reached nearly if not quite is highest
point of perfection more than 1000
years ago. In chemistry especially has
the acceleration been great; and the
effect of recent growth is so remarka-
Bile that, looking back, one is inclined
to deny the existence of any real SCI
ence in chemistry century and a half
ago. If the accumulation of chemical
knowledge is depicted diagrammatical-
ly in relation to the progress of time,
measuring one in the vertical and the
other in horizontal direction, an up
ward-pointing curve with steadily in
creasing inclination is obtained. The
curve stops at the present day; but
unless cataclysm annihilates the
earth's population and it's libraries,
this line is bound to be continued.
Whittier will it lead? What further
insight into his own constitution as
we'll as that of his environment may
man attain? The answer to these
questions is fraught with weighty sig
nificance as regards the future of the
human race.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-11-08
MODEL SUNDAYSCH0OLT0
INCREASE ATTENDANCE

children of ages from the kindergarten
to the high school grade. A tuition
fee of SIS is paid by the pupils, al
though there are also a number of
free scholarships. The teachers are
paid and are women who are working
out new systems of teaching Bible his
tory and ethics in way to hold the at
tention Of their classes and instil
thorough knowledge of the Christian
religion.
Four years ago the first class was
formed as private family affair and
about 20 children were enrolled. Ar
rangements were made to use the
chapel and some classrooms at Teach
ers' College, and as the idea grew in
favor some Of the members of the fac
ulty Of the university and of the COL
lege became interested and a regular
model Sunday school was organized.
There are II teachers employed,
and although their salaries are small,
the expenses. rent of rooms, music,
etc., are not met by the income. The
deficit is paid by subscriptions from
those interested in the development
of modern system to strengthen this
means of religious instruction.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-11-08

And then what America make?
Bara both in his
his with the yellow cloth his Kshna
inscribed with words the Hindu faith wound around his
shoulders,
chised
striking
magistrate his the high Calcutta
editor Lahore Tribune Kpng
writer there But he work become religious a
for IL
of midas holy
of
Americans on leaving sad
1.-THE trouble with America is that it is building
making all
derstand the spiritual We live for to-day
max a &C uista
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-11-08
SOME MEMBERS ABSENT ON
GOVERNMENT BUSINESS

spent his entire vacation tramping
through the mountains around Sacra.
mento hunting small game, while Sec
rotary Root, in addition to spending
some time at his home in New York,
took the now famous cure for several
weeks at Muldoon's.
During his absence from Washing.
ton Postmaster General Meyer, with
the exception of about ten days, when
he was fishing in Canada, kept in close
touch with the postal affairs in Wash
ington, and Secretary Taft, while he
was at Murray Bay, Canada, also
found time to keep up with the more
important matters requiring action by
the head Of the war department.
Attorney General Bonaparte, in ad-
dition to spending about a month at
Lenox, was absent at different times
during the summer at his home, near
Baltimore, but he was at Washington
every few days attending to important
legal business of the government, so
that it is hard to classify him.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-11-08

Z N1CKERBOCKER families still pre-
IL dominate in aristocratic Fifth ave-
nue., Notwithstanding the influx Of
many multi-millionaires from almost
every quarter of the globe, who have
taken" palatial residences in the
most beautiful thoroughfare in North
America during the last decade.
All the talk about Fifth avenue be-
ing overrun by outsiders is without
foundation, although the personnel Of
the city's best society is constantly
changing. Ward McAllisters 400
eligibles may have become 5000 avail
ables, and the residents of Fifth ave-
nue. come from many states, as be-
fits the cosmopolitan spirit of Ameri-
can cities.
But the newer additions to society
do not rule. They do not even pre-
dominate. because the New Workers
still own upper Fifth avenue, and some
of the newcomers would be unable to
break into their society with a cold
chisel : : =
Next in power is the New York fam
lilies of four or five generations stand
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-11-08

Speaker Cannon has been enlisted
in the movement and promises to
skate all the way down the avenue on
the sopening day, with John Sharp
Williams, the minority leader. Mr..
Williams and Mr.. Cannon have been
practicing holding each others hands,
and while this has been a little diff
cult because of Mr.. Cannon's greater
speed, they have now got so that they
can keep step fairly well. Mr.. Will
liams will go to the speakers house
on the opening day and make the start
with him.
Senator Bailey at first held aloof on
the ground that it would not look dig
nified to skate in a frock coat, and
that he declines to remove that gar
ment for any consideration. His
friends, however, have put forth such
strong arguments that in a letter re-
ceived here the other day Mr.. Bailey
promises to skate, frock coat and all,
If his rival and foe, Senator Culberson,
can be induced to do likewise. Cul-
berson wears cutaway, but it is be-
lieved he will consent.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-11-08

AT "The Breakers he is said to
have appeared we'll in livery, and to
have passed the ices and opened car
riage doors with the alacrity of one
born to the place.
Sinclair has in the past made it
a point to write from experience, he
says. Before he brought out "The
Jungle" he lived among the working
folk of Packingtown, and managed to
look into every corner of the big
packeries.
He applied for jobs in different de-
partments and was said to have got
them, talked to foremen and quar-
relied with bosses, loafed about the sa-
looms where many of the toilers spent
their evenings, and at last came forth
with a mass, or mess, of alleged hor-
rible facts, which gave the nation long
teeth for meat. - ~ -
Just what sort of society exposure"
the young man is planning remains for
time to tell, but it is said he has the
titles of three astounders already Sc
lected. 4 =
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-11-08
Siqhtseers in New Zealand.

One of the numerous activities OF
the New Zealand government is a
state tourists department" The re-
port for the year ended June 80 an
nounces that 1854 sightseers were
hustled around the beauty spots of the
colony, as against 7,142 during the
previous year. They left about $780,
900 behind them. The branch Offices
of the department in Sydney and Mel.
bourne have proved SO successful that
others are to be started elsewhere
Moreover, new officer is to be at
tached to the high commissioners
staff in London, and he will specialize
on bringing New Zealand's attractive.
ness as a tourists resort under the
notice of the travelling public of Great
Britain and Ireland.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-11-08
Meteors and Meteoroloqists.

"Meteors' and "meteorologists"
have little in common, although their
origin is identical. Meteor" meant a
good many more things to English
men of few generations ago than it
does now, in accordance with the
meaning of the Greek adjective, which
signified ''up in the air." SO that "ta
meteora,' the things up in the air,
meant the heavenly bodies: Winds
and whirlwinds were aerial "meteors"
formerly in English; clouds, snow and
rain were aqueous meteors, and
among luminous nmeteors" were reck-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-11-08

Caran d'Ache, French caricaturist
has invented toy which bids fair to
be as popular in Europe as the Teddy
pears are IN America. It is wooden
dog painted in fantastic fashion. The
dog-he is not always of the same
breed-was intended as a plaything
for children, but the Paris women
have taken such fancy to it that 40
1nen are working every day turning
out the quaint animals, and the In.
,entor Is getting rich.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-11-08

One hundred and forty million dol.
lars will have to be raised by taxation
to pay the expenses of New York next
year, according to the estimates made
by the heads of the various depart-
ments of the city government. This
is an increase Of $4,000 900 in less
than ten years.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-11-08

of the
delegate
stton he has held since.
educated himself reading he all thirst knowledge
of his although handled
Mitchell for Mitchell prod
ment of the
prevented, but in would yield.
Wilson his debut in politics the Fifteenth
succeeded
substantial
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H
scaloped window
silks enhvened bit
livous n
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-11-08

The man fond of nice distinctions
will now have work for some time on
his hands-or, to speak more properly.
on his brains-trying to give the na-
ton the proper line to be drawn in
d1fferentlatlng milksop, the newly
defined species of the genus homo
from the class of mollycoddles.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-11-08

It is not impossible to express the
marvellous power of the suns heat,
but we can admit without shame that
it is impossible to comprehend it. The
heat emitted by the sun in each sec
ond is equal to that which would re-
suit from the combustion Of eleven
quadrilli lions, six hundred thousand
milliards Of tons Of coal burning at the.
same time. /
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-11-08
Women on French Juriea

A movement is being made in GER
tain quarters in France, to bring about
the representation Of women on the
5uries. It long has been felt that, to
try women for crime before q court
where the jury is composed entirely
OF men is an unnatural and unfair
proceeding. z .s*s
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-11-08
PICTURESQUEH HINDU ASCETIC

Bahia Bharati, Hindu ascetic, philosopher and
apostle of the purely spiritual life, is his way
back to his native India with the fear in his heart
that the peace which he sets his heart more
than on anything else, is to be broken within
very few years by the orient asserting itself and
casting out the white man. He has been studying
the situaton> in America for five years and has
come to the conclusion that, before President
Roosevelt leaves Office, he will sign exclusion
act to which Japan will reply with edict of
nonntercourse. This will inevitably result in war,
in his opinion, and the white man will be driven
out of the east. He says:
America wants to exploit the whole world,
but would shut out foreigners from her borders.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-11-08
Matrimonial Coincidence,

A matrimonial coincidence was Gre
ated by the marriage at Rugby of May
Annie Bluemel, youngest daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. c. w. Bluemel, of Rug.
by, to Thomas dollhouse, of London,
On the same day the parents of the
bride celebrated their silver wedding;
while the grandparents of the bride
Mr.. and Mrs. c. A. Bluemel, Of For.
est Gate, celebrated their golden wed.
ding. p - Ssh. Hi. .ss..
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-11-08

The American Bankers association
wants to have oNr bank notes printed
in bright tints. In that case # will
mean something when a man asks tn
see the color of your money first.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-11-08
King Alfonso Motoring.

King Alfonso Motoring.
King Alfonso, when motoring, knows
no speed limit, but considers only the
capacity of his car. AS he comes tear
ing along at his usual breakneck
speed, the Bystander says, two gen
darmes stand ready for his arrival at
every 200 yards, to keep the way
clear; there is a whiz, a cloud of dust,
and that is all that is seen. Of the king.
At Bayonne, short while ago, he was
stopped like an ordinary mortal, and
answered the usual questions as : to
name, residence and professions before
the poor policeman discovered to
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-11-08
PENSION ROLL OF THE
GOVERNMENT ON DECLINE

The names of 558 widows of the
war of 1912 remained on the roll at
the close of the last fiscal year.
If there were no deaths during the
present fiscal year it would require
$14O,S5O,SSO to pay Uncle Sans pen
sioners. The average annual value of
each pension is $145.60, this being an
increase of $7.42 over last year.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-11-08

Inc statement that the winter will
be warm one does not bring much
comfort to the average woman, as the
price of furs is just as high as usua,
and the furs are just as becoming