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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-08-16
VACATIONS COST UNCLE
SAM BIG SUM YEARLY
w ASHINGTON.-T his hired help

wv ASf1lNGlON.-lO MS hired help
w Uncle Sam is generous to a de-
gree. going down into his wallet to the
extent of something like So, 00O, 900 an
nually to give them 3O-days' outing
at the seashore or in the mountains
This sum is for the army of en-
ployes in Washington alone and does
not include the thousands of others
who are on duty and on the payrolls
throughout his vast domain and in
foreign countries. Liberal lawmakers
decided that ten months each year
was long enough for employees to
work, and that 80 days for annual
leave. At first this law was for the
officials and clerks only, and did not
include printers, pressman and navy
yard workmen. Eventually these
were given Is days annual leave, and
finally, through hard and persistent
efforts, the full 80 days. No sick
leave, however, has ever been granted
them, and, strange as it may appear,
they seem to be the healthiest class
of government workers. The govern
ment printing Office, the bureau of
engraving and printing, and the navy
yard are not classed as Hospitals for
invalids," as the treasury and other
departments are termed Not getting
pay for being sick, those not entitled
to such leave manage to remain in
extraordinarily good health and per-
form their duties with great regular
ity. The employees who are not en-
titled to sick leave must have some
thing worse than a rocky head and
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-08-16
J. p. JR., GRADUALLY
TAKING FATHERS PLACE

tight place, seek him out and beg for
his suggestions.
But J. P. Morgan, Jr, will succeed
his father when he really retires from
his work. The son has been carefully
trained for the important position he
will assume in the financial world, in
college and in the Office. He has been
employed in almost every capacity in
the big establishment and for several
years was the manager of the London
branch of the firm. He is 40 years
old, six feet in height and weighs 200
pounds. He always has been interest
ed in athletics. Football, golf and
riding have at various times engaged
his attention, but his chief delight is
yachting. However, with him it is al
ways business before pleasure, and he
has seldom taken day off to see
yacht race, and it is related that on
one occasion he asked the managers to
postpone a yacht race from Wednes.
day until Saturday afternoon so that
he could be present. (.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-08-16

THE hundred thousand Teddy bears
in the metropolis are on the verge
OF panic. Though the nature-faking
controversy left them unscathed, a
newer and greater peril confronts
them. School teachers are declaring
that the Teddy bear is a menace and
must be abolished, and though the
board of education has taken no Of
fetal action in the matter, and is not
likely to, the agitation against the
Teddies in educational circles is
growing very strong indeed.
The crusade against the Teddy bear
started recently, when a clerical gen.
tleman came out with the statement
that in replacing the doll, the bear
was a pernicious substitute. For,
while the doll appealed to all the ma
ternal instincts of little girl and de-
veloped them along healthy and nat
ural lines, the Teddy bear did no such
thing.
Now the teachers have joined the
fight. Little girls, they point out, for
merly got their first lessons in sew
ing through the natural desire to pro-
vide their dolls with pretty clothes.
The Teddy bear, however, does not
wear clothes, save possibly ribbon
or sweater or cap, and SO the up-to-
date child who has discarded her
dollies for the intrusive bruin, has no
incentive to learn to stitch and make
button holes.
''The Teddy bear is not good for lit.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-08-16

WHEN Miss Ethel Roosevelt makes
W her formal bow to society at the
White House next winter Washington
will see the first of series of en-
tertaiDments such as have not been
held since the days of Nellie Grant
True, the social career of Mrs. Mich
olas l:ongworth, as Alice Roosevelt,
was marked by many notable affairs
in Washington, but with the excep-
ton CT few small dinners which
were given for her shortly before she
was married there was only one large
entertainment at the White House
which, was strictly for Alice, and that
was her coming out ball.
Whether the continuous shower of
attentions from her friends and So
ciety generally precluded Miss Alice
from having many affairs of her own
was meyer made clear.
Mss Ethels first season az a so.
ciety girl will be notable. According
to the present plans, which are being
discussed, brilliant ball will be
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-08-16
PLANS FOR MAKING NEW
.. YORK "ClTY BEAUTIFUL"

NEW YORK.-Plans for making
~ New York "city beautiful" and
obliterating the ugly spots, including
Chinatown and other districts of the
East side, as we'll as to enhance the
famous old Battery, are now we'll I'M
der way Civic, organizations are
making concerted efforts to wipe out
these eyesores,' which have come
gradually, and to which the public
has been accustomed. The Battery
will possibly be the first spot to be
improved. This, in it's present shape,
makes anything but beautiful gate
way to America for ships. The Bat
terry is now sadly torn up as conse.
quence of the construction of the
great McAdoO tunnel and it's green
sWard is defaced by many unsightly
shacks, piles of lumber and what not
These are visible to the eye of every
Immigrant coming into the port and
surely when they view the landscape
they never look for the mythical
gold street, which years ago was
supposed to be paved with double
eagles. Some of the city beautifiers
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-08-16
BANNER THAT INSPIRED
SONG IS NOW ON VIEW

r HE flag that floated over Fort Nc
L Henry during the bombardment by
the British on the night of September
ID, 1914, and which inspired Francis
Scott Key when he saw it still float
ing over the ramparts at sunrise the
next morning to write the "Star-Span-
gled Banner" is now upon exhibition
in the hall of history at the Smithson-
ian institution.
The flag, which is about 28x3O feet,
has been loaned to the institution by
Mr.. Ebea Appleton of New York, for
two years upon the personal solicita-
ton of DIR. Charles D. Walcott, secre-
tary Of the institution. AS the flag
lies drared in the glass case, only one
of the large stars is visible. It is
backed by canvas stated to have been
placed there by the late Admiral
Preble, formerly stationed at the Bos-
ton navy yard. AS little of the flag
can be seen in it's present resting
place, it is the purpose of the officials
of the institution to drape it upon one
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-08-16

r P1ERPONT MORGAN, JR., is
u. slowly getting into the harness
which his father is slowly getting out
of. Last year he. had taken his ia
TIERS place as director in only two
comprehensive International Mercan-
tile Marine company and the Northern
Pacific Railroad company. This year
he is on the boards of two others-the
Arcadia Coal company, of New York,
and the North British & Mercantile
Insurance company.
/ But these facts of public record do
not indicate the extent to which Mr..
Morgan, ST., has shifted to his son
the cares and responsibilities of his
wall street Office For severa.. years
} the older Morgan has been trying to
remain more at. home with his books
and art treasures, or on his yacht, the
] Corsair. It has been hard thing to
do, for the "old man." AZ the street
calls him, has been so successful that
even yet-he was 20 last April -other
] financiers, finding themselves in q
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-08-16

HEREAFTER women clerks of the
- department of agriculture will not
be permitted to act as private secre-
taries or confidential clerks for male
chiefs of divisions or bureaus.
Secretary Wilson has no prejudice
against them, but he deems it due to
them that not one of them be re-
quired to perform services that will
bring her into such relations with her
chief as to enable evel-minded per-
sons to do any gossiping. He consid-
ers it better for the good name of
the women employees in the depart
mental service to make a rule that
men chiefs of division shall have men
as private secretaries or confidential
clerks.
The fact that the secretary had pre-
scribed such rule for his own guild
ance has become known recently
through his refusal to permit woman
stenographer to be detailed as clerk
to chief of bureau. He is perfectly
willing to have the stenographers
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-08-16

Canadian justice now has a chance
to deal with the unwritten law. The
jealous wife in the case became a
storm-brain or otherwise-and took
the law into her own hand, also a
rawhide. She laid Christening stripes
upon a girl in blue, the color of the
suit being immatetrial in the eyes of
the law. The irate wife also attack.
ed under the hair-pulling rules, used
ner lists and had the humiliation of
bringing up second in foot race. Jus.
tlce Is stone blind across the border.
but not deaf. Will it acquit this wife
under the unwritten law?
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-08-16

New York's East side figures in the
minds of many persons, not only in
side, but outside of that metropolis,
as a region of slums, inhabited by
overworked and underpaid toilers in
sweat shops and an otherwise op-
pressed and half-starved population.
But a recent statistical report OF
banking business in the state shows
one savings institution, whose pa.
irons are mainly from the supposed
poverty-stricken quarter, whose de-
posits are in excess of 100000, 900,
belonging to about 100000 persons
From which it will be seen that too
much Importance should not be
placed on the illustrated stories of
East side misery in the yellow maya,
zines.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-08-16
"McCURDY TRAIN" STILL
RUNS TO MORRIS PLAINS

DURING the peculiar eminence that
u the family of McCurdy, of insur.
ance fame, built up, the Delaware &
Lackawanna railroad paid tribute
The McCurdy family lived at Morris
Plains, which is the next station on
the line of the railway named beyond
Morristown. The D., L. & w. ran
reasonably frequent trains as e>-
presses to Morristown, several Of
them without a stop from Hoboken to
the old capital Of Morris county in the
evening and an equal number in the
morning hours from Morristown to
Hoboken.
About four years ago the McCurdys
applied to the railway company for
an express to leave Hoboken at an
hour when commuters could have lit
tie use for it, and that train was sup
piled. 1t leaves New York at 1880,
runs to Summit without stop, and is
due at Morris Plains at two p. m. It's
schedule time is about IS minutes
faster than any other fast train on the
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-08-16


tell a
would did, I all right"
Mr. Martin mentioned leadership
1882
Richard
in
a bachelor
Martin this
Ii
in o the
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-08-16

A physician writes to a New York
paper urging the value of the Turk
ish bath as a remedy for blood poi
soning, and, in fact, for many other
bodily ills. He would have public
Turkish baths established so that
every citizen might take one once a
week or oftener. 1t is so hard to
keep up with these medical men.
After having been told by them many
years that the Turkish bath must be
used by most people with caution and
at infrequent intervals this trans.
formation of it into a daily necessity,
says the Indianapolis Star, is sur.
prlslng, not to say disconcerting.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-08-16
Individual Tastes.

Some parents want to choose the
future calling Of their child them
selves, without regard to his or her
likes or dislikes. A man often wants
his boy to acquire his own particular
trade or profession, when it often hap
pens that the child positively dislikes
the work, and possesses talent for
something else, if he is only given a
chance to cultivate it. This opposi-
tion however, is sometimes more of
help than a hindrance, for the boy
Is filled with ambition, and Is deter
mined to succeed, to show father that
he can make his way in the world,
Notwithstanding the parents objec-
tions, and he goes to work with a
courage and resolution that nothing
can daunt He overcomes objections
after time, and generally gains the
help and appreciation of his father
after he has shown that he possesses
the grit, perseverance and independ-
ence essential to success This d.
versity of tastes is often strikingly
illustrated in family of girls. There
is usually one girl that always helps
mother with the cooking, and at an
early age is skilled in all the myster-
les Of bread and making, putting
up fruit in various ways, converting
it into jelly, jam, preserves and
pickles. She can wash, iron and
scrub and is spoken of among her &C.
quaintances as model girl. Her Sis
ter never has good luck" with her
biscuit, and her cakes always fail to
meet expectations; but she is equally
useful in her way, for she is the dress
maker for the family, and saves many
big bill by her taste and readiness
In using the needle. But there is
another who is at the same time the
pride and shame of the household.
She will not sew, and, if forced to do
so, the work has to be ripped out and
sewed over by some one else. She
despises the kitchen work, and if
sent to wash the dishes is found
perched in an apple tree with book
In her hand, but she always stands at
the head of her class, and steps off
with the first prizes. She is snubbed
in the family circle on account of her
uselessness, but is always brought for
ward when company comes, to as
tonish them with her learning Par
ents should make a study of each
child's disposition, says New York
Weekly, and endeavor to discover in
what direction their respective talents
point, if they have any, and give them
all the help in their power to improve
their natural abilities. Many prom
Using future has been wrecked for
lack of little assistance and encour-
agement at the right moment.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-08-16

The Oldest letter carrier in the
United States is James Delaney of
New York. He is SO years old and
has been in the service so years. Mr.
Delaney estimates that he has walked
more than five times the distance
around the world. He is to retire
from the service this month
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-08-16
minister to England

After
o in the
sakua little Toxic His
careful
His ability while
himself
China
between China which negotiated
of
He created vscount for bringing about treaty.
of a
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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-08-16
GOTHAM CITY CHAMBERL AIN

James J. Martin, the newly-appointed city
chamberlain of New York, who is expected to
join Mayor Mcclellan in his fight to GUST Charles
F. Murphy from the leadership of Tammany Hall,
is one of the most powerful district leaders in
the metropolis. He is pointed out as the last of
the old school of politicians and he says he is
proud of the distinction. The notion that the
cessful politician of the present day is the man
who shake hands, smile sweetly and promise
without either fulfilling offending is scorned by
Mr.. Martin.
politicians should stick more to the TRUTH"
says he u did it, and know that it pays. Now
and then it creates little friction for short
time. but it diSannears. You can never hold the
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-08-16

Summer resorts find that the abo.
lition of railway passes has hurt the
s-otel business. After the average
man gets through interviewing the
ticket seller he hasn't much left for
the landlord.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-08-16

Tony Weller must have had India
in view when he said: "Samivel he.
ware of the vidders," or words tn
that effect, for there are Is, 900 900 re.
licts in that benighted country.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-08-16

A Pennsylvania man and woman
decided one hour after marriage to
try to get the courts to annul the
contract. They were foolish. With
proper patience they might have got
used to it in time,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-08-16
SENT MAGNATES TO JAIL

Lyman Wheeler Wachenheimer, the prosecut
ing attorney through whose efforts % Toledo lum-
bermen and brick men have been sentenced to
Jail for violation of the antitrust laws is As years
old and native of Toledo. He has always been
a Democrat. Nine years ago he nominated
for police Judge. His opponent Scott Kelly,
who had been nominated for a third term Kelly
was very popular Toledo was almost hopelessly
Republican; nevertheless Mr.. Wachenheimer was
elected. Before his term half completed he
was the most popular official in the city. He was
terror to law breakers and the result
perceptible diminution of crime in Toledo. So
we'll liked was Judge Washenheimer that it was
difficult to get Republican to run against him
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-08-16


mas
lei
ice as law
AID TO Clifford
organizing the forest ability
especially
energetic restless planning hung attorney
The acting
welt
connected
the
In his position
Mr. Woodruff
which he
that Office
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-08-16

second
machine which
the Sam
Democratic this
Wachenhemer he
the peoples champion
the BOSSES
fact that counties had prior
fines spending
days in the local bastie
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-08-16

Viscount Hayashi, minister of foreign affairs
in the Japanese cabinet who recently went to
Seoul, the Korean capital in the interests of his
country, which is hopeful that the emperor will
abdicate the throne as requested by the premier
is man much feared by those who would have
the present government continue. After the EN-.
peror had refused to relnquish his power Japan
lost time in sending Hayashi to the scene and
the news Of his arrival spread dismay about the
palace.
The circumstances leading up to the selection
of Hayashi for the important office he now holds
are interesting. Marquis Saionj, the prime min
lister, in reorganizing his cabinet, gave the port
folio of foreign affairs To Takaal1i Kato forroo.1,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-08-16
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT
ATHLETEIN CHARGE

George W. Woodruff, who has been named by
President Roosevelt as acting secretary of the
interior during the absence of Secretary Garfield,
is one OF the best-known authorities on outdoor
games In the country, an all around athlete with
a number of splendid records to his credit and
developed the Pennsylvania university and Car
Isle Indian football elevens
His was the unusual record of having been
for his entire four years member of the foot
bell eleven, the track and field teams and the
varsity crew. He captained the crew of 1885,
After finishing his classical course at Yale,
Mr. Woodruff went to the University of Pennsyl-
vania to study law, and it here that he made
his reputation as one of the foremost football
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-08-15
An Everbearing Grapevine.

T. J. Jones, secretary of the W. O.
w, who resides in Southeast Ard.
more, has a grapevine which bears al.
most constantly MIR. Jones does not
know the variety of grape which the
vine produces, but says the grape is
smaller than the concord grape and
much sweeter. The vine has been
bearing almost constantly since July.
and despite the fact that the family
have used grapes from 1t every day,
the vine now has more Than a hun.
dred lunches of grapes on it. The
grapes vary from ripe luscious fruit
TO the small green grape, and Mr.
Jones says there are also several
.blooms on the vine
Just what kind OF grape it is Mr.
Jones does not know, as he procured
the vine from nurseryman who
went out of business here.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-08-15
SCHOOL BOARD MEETING
REPORT OF PRESIDENT cRUcE
ON NEGRO INJUNCTION
HEARD.

In session this morning the public
achool board heard the report ol
President ". l. Cruce OF the board on
the matter of the temporary iniunc'
ton which the colored residents OF
the city have procured against the
board placing the colOred school
building on certain lot on Burton
street.
Mr.. Cruce has just returned from
Chickasha where he went to see
about the injunction filed by the ne
groes. The injunction was granted
by Judge Dickerson, and date for
hearing II will be set later.
The board did nothing In the mat
ter of the injunction other than Ia
hear the report of Mr.. Cruce, and it
Is said they will do nothing.
The school building which has
been removed from the lot on which
il formerly stood and en- route TO the
lot whereon the board lwas 10 have u
placed Is now within a quarter OF q
mile of the proposed site The in
junction will prevent IT being moved
on the site, and it begins to look now
rs II the colored children would have
% attend school at the old building
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-08-15
LOVE COUNTY REPUBLICANS
MEET IN CONVENTION AT MARI.
sTTA AND NOMINATE A PAR.
TlAL COUNTY TICKET.

Marietta. l. r., Aug 1.-The re-
publican convention OF Love coui,.
ty convened here yesterday and nom
mated partial county ticket There
are no republican lawyers In this
county and consequent mo- uomiua
tions were made for county Judge and
Attorney. Here is the ticket as put
out for representative. T.. H. Arthur
OF Leon. for sheriff, Dr ". II. Nor.
ton Of Marietta; for county clerk.
II. 5 THEIRS; for county commission.
er. ". H. r. Keltner Of Leon. Two
others were nominated for commits.
sioncr but your reporter was unable
to secure their names.
Three delegates were elected to the
congressional nominating convention
which meets next Monday in South
McAlcstcr The delegates chosen
were Jesse Holland of Ovcrbrook.
Mr.. White Of Pike. and j. O.. I1nktord
of Thackcrvillc This convention
will nominate man ON the ropuhr.
can ticket who will oppose the clcc.
ton of Chas. u. Garter of Ardmoro.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-08-15
John Was HuHed.

In the oldrn time II woman In the
north OF Scotland went 10 visit her
husband. who was condemned 10 bc
hanged upon the following day. Tn"
man began to give his last instructions
10 his wife preparatory To bidding he'
farewell when all at once she broke H.
on the conversation ami exclaimed
by the bye, John, whaur will ! plant
the tattles this year, The unfor
tunate man, as may bc Imagined, grew
exceedingly Indignant at the indlnor
encc of his wife and exclaimed augri
ly: Nv hat need ! care whaur ye PLAN
thcuf I'm no likely 10 need ony o
them" "llcch" replied the woman
turning to the warder. with n wug o.
the head, poor Johns hufied becaus,
he's gaun 10 he hanged In the morn
and marched out of the cell.