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The Virginia enterprise., 1907-09-06
A Wholesome Chance.

Slavery in its best aspect implied a
moral obligation. The author of "Un-
Gle Toms Cabin" softened the terrible
arraignment by the chapters on the
old-style southern slave-owner, with
MS lngrained sense of responsibility
to his living chattels. With the de-
structfon of slavery this standard
passed. Underlying the upward, eco.
nomlc struggle of the south is a story
OF savage exploitation of the negro
through his fatal self-indulgence.
Drink, drugs and debt-these three
were made the chains of a new and
subtle enslavement. Narcotics sold
by the very employers of labor
served, on the one hand, to return to
1he Golfers of the employer all that
he had paid out in wages; on the
other, to keep his black workman in
suoservlence. Within a few years co
calne had been distributed as a regu-
lar ration to the emergency workers
on threatened levees, ito keen them
up 10 the work. That system has.
happily, passed. The boss" who de.
oauches his men with liquor or drugs
IS to-day despised; in many sections
ne IS not tolerated. The negro NAV
keep his wage if he will but work hon.
estly and, not less important, consist
entity Tor 1t. With the dawning of eco
nomic wisdom has come a recrudes.
cence OF the nobler spirit of slavery
days. the responsibility of the master
10 the servant. The negro who
chooses to be selfsupporting and self.
respecting has a better chance savs
Golfers, than ever before under the
wise guardianship of the new south.
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With this mixture come great quan.
titles of eels and clans which are
strewn over the now waste land and
become the prey of laborers and their
friends. Bushels of them are gath
cred every day.
Tons Of earth are spread over each
block. The sand then is permitted to
drain until it is comparatively dry,
when sedge is placed on it to prevent
it from blowing away. After this
earth mingled with fertilizer is placed
on the sedge and seeded to grass.
Already several blocks are green.
Streets and avenues have been laid
out throughout the property and trees
have been planted. Buyers are taking
up the lots rapidly-some, indeed, in
blocks that still are under water. Not
a few lots have brought $500 to
$1,000
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The ConqeniaI Cocktail.

1T is curious how the morning aft.
er' cocktail often draws together souls
not usually kindred" said the alert
bartender to a New York Sun man as
he mixed a cocktail for a customer
who looked as though he were as dry
as a covered bridge. "A few mornings
ago citizen who is famous for both
his legal and medical knowledge came
in here, and it was easy to; see what
he wanted. He is large, florid man, ma
and, there was that look about him
that was eloquent Of the night before.
/ just as he ranged up before the bar
az tail ghostly looking man With q
very pale face and avery black mus
ta;he which contrasted strongly with
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-09-06

tion of taxes and are retired on Oct. 1.
1t was declared that such is the de.
mand for money in Wall street that
the city has been able to dispose of
only a modest quantity of these desir-
able investments. That the city may
have to increase the rate of interest
in order to provide the money for it's
running expenses is said to be not
unlikely.
A serious phase of the situation is
acknowledged to be the tremendous
demands to be made upon the city
treasury to pay for the $161, 100000
water system. Bills for this improve
ment have scarcely begun to come in
yet. Authority to spend $25,OO0,O00
has been given the water supply board
and contracts for $6,4O0,000 have been
let. The contract for the Ashokan
reservoir, amounting to $11,00O,0O0
more, will be let next week. This will
make $17,000,000 for which bonds will
have to be sold. City officials certain
ly have good time ahead.
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-09-06
BUY VILLAGE LOTS STILL
HIDDEN BY THE WAVES

NEW YORK.-The demand for home
~ sites in the suburbs of New York
city is promoting the reclamation of
thousands of acres of land in parts
OF Long Island which have been moth.
ing but sloughs for generations.
Indeed, in some places, land has
been built right out of the water. AT
Arvoine, for instance, a realty com.
pany is doing work that is as in
teresting to the summer visitors as
the building of skyscraper in New
York is to rustic.
The land is at a point where a
creek came in and has an area of five
thousand city lots, or more than q
hundred square blocks. The contract
or first has his big sand pump dip in.
to Jamaica bay near by and suck up
thousands of gallons of sand and
water each hour.
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ST. GAUDENS' COINS NOT
CONVENIENT FOR HANDLING
the st. Gaudens coins would topple

the st. Gaudens coins would topple
over.
1t was St. Gaudens' idea which
found especial favor with President
Roosevelt, to return to the classical
style of coinage. Ancient coins are
mostly remarkable for strange pro-
jections of the sculptured form. But
in the ancient world banking and the
handling of immense sums of money
in the manner Of to-day were un-
known.
The designs made by St. Gaudens
have been pronounced extremely beau
tiful. The American Numismatic So
ciety has urgently advocated a more
artistic scheme Of coinage than that
which has been in use in the United
States for half century or more.
St. Gaudens, under the provisions of
the act of congress authorizing the
new coinage, retained the chief gen.
eral characteristics of the old pieces,
but gave them in addition an artistic
realization.
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-09-06
THE BIOLOGICAL BUREAU
DEFENDSHAWKS and OWLS
DEFENSE of hawks and owls Is

A DEFENSE of hawks and owls is
"a entered into by the biological sur
vey in a recent report from that bu-
reau. It is declared that both of these
bird families have been condemned by
the farmers of the country without
discrimination because some of their
species are destroyers of valuable
things. Mitigating circumstances are
found for some otherwise harmless
birds because of lack of proper food
In the country where they live.
Incidentally, tales of eagles carry
Ing on children are declared to have
little foundation in fact" but the bald
eagle, the emblem of the United
States, is, nevertheless, said to be
unfortunately fond of lambs, pigs
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-09-06
TELLS OF DREAM OF HORROR.

had horrible dream a few nights
ago. I dreamed that was the sub
editor of a religious weekly. There is
nothing dreadful in that, of course;
the horrible part comes later. Ny ed
itor, just of for a holiday editors
generally are, you know-instructed
me to write to several people of emf
nence and ask them to tell me their
favorite prayer. Il record this little
story in all reverence. yon under
stand.> Well, many Of the eminent
people replied, including q lady novel
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-09-06
FATHER KNlCKERBOCKER
BROKE; CREDIT ALSO BAD
WITH small army of unpaid con.

WITH small army of unpaid con-
W tractors clamoring for their mon
ey and many of them threatening to
suspend work unless they are paid,
and with the comptroller's Office refus-
ing to register any more new con-
tracts except for work absolutely nec-
essary, it is admitted that the city has
been brought face to face with a seri-
GUS problem as a result of it's failure
to sell bonds. Numbers of the bonds
have been given to contractors in pay
ment for work, and some of these men
have put them up as collateral for
loans. One of the contractors COM
planned to-day that such is the pres
sure for money that he had, been able
to borrow only IS per cent. of the
value of the bonds. Another contrac-
tor took his bonds of small denomina-
tions and announced that he was u.s.
ing them to pay off his creditors.
Money for the pay roll is provided
by the sale of revenue bonds, Which
are issued in anticipation Of the collec-
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-09-06
AMUSING ANSWERS BY
UNCLE SAM'S employees

good; my wife is at the point of
death" Yet another insists that his
martial condition is very good, since
he has been a widower for ten years.
One woman announces that her sex
is woman" another says it is "femi-
nine," another says lady," while 4
minister who holds the onerous post
of postmaster says his sex is "Presby-
terian.'' 'iI f
g.. A man from Alaska says his color
is pink" another says he has: Eau
burn hair and blue eyes," while still
more say "Caucasian."
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An Awkward Dodue.

Milton D. Purdy, of the United
States department of justice, said in
Washington of rumor brought to
him for confirmation by a reporter:
"This rumor springs from ignorance,
Grass ignorance of the law. 1 am sur.
prised that you should have credited
it. The originator of that rumoir is as
plainly ignorant of the law as a GER
tain schoolboy was of French. This
boys father said to him one night at
diner:
"'Well, how are you getting on with
your French, my SOM
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-09-06

= Over in England they have discov-
cred that more than $4,000, 900 pen.
nies are continuously locked up in tho
spenny.in-the-slot machines. That
shows where the pennies go to. Now
where do the dollars go to?
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d
club an honor which poaims his class
a.
He studied
The
Latin and Greek
Ter the other members being George Peck Merritt
Mayor Washburn in
which
celebrated
lon OF tracks and the railroads.
He In was
married a
Engaged in
the Standard Oil activities behalf
only
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in
again his influence for
When the country Mortified the
DOOR, The making
packing industry Chicago Dr. Nel
searching
took immediate @ remedy the evil
Nei
served couple terms
labor Roosevelt January 1905 He
in 1863 He studied
University OF Texas Georgetown
place 1884,
political
Johns Hopkins university receiving
the latter institution in 1897 He appointed
Catholic University of America 1895;
sor in 1897
in 1900 and has held this the ume
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1st of great fame: The lady wrote:
Dear Sir: In reply to, your esteemed
favor, have much pleasure in inform
ing you that my fayorite prayer is,
Give US this day our, daily bread"
I placed it at the head Of the column,
put the paper to bed, and went there
myself, feeling pleased Next, morn
ing, when I opened my copy Of the
religious weekly, 1 found that three
letters had been dropped from the
lady novelist's favorite prayer, which,
to my CONSERVATION, now read as fol-
lows Give us this day our, daily.
ad." I woke up screaming.
Keble Howard, in The Sketch.
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his chalklike skin took a place beside
him. Nothing could be more unlikely
than, these two If appearances count
for anything. They studied each 9TH
er for a moment. y
=. !" 'Ha, man of the desert, slayer 81
the Saracens, wilt quaff bowl with
me?' asked the chalk-faced man. j
: "'Ha, man Of the North, 'will!' was
the solemn reply of the florid one.
Then and there they got to. be good
friends, and they often came in togeth@
er; afterWard.''{ &Jtf:: 5$Es#3g$ = p
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-09-06

William Warner of Great Barring.
1on' Mass; Albert G. Herpin of Tren-
ton, N. j., and Joseph Root of Erie
Pa, are to engage in a struggle fo,,
the nonsoporific championship of the
onlted States. Warner has not silent
a wink, so he says, for the past 20
years; the Trenton man says he has
not closed his eyes for the ID wears
Immediately preceding. Mr.. Root has
d 1o.year record as an anti-Rip Van
Winkle.
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-09-06

Inc awful prophecy is made that
cnlcago in the future will be city of
women, as the strenuous life is killing
on the men. This fact may somewhat
oampen the ardor of the young men
OF the east to follow the historic ad-
vice of going west.
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-09-06

Woman certainly has got mo-,
scared in Great Britain. She is com.
ing to the front in every line and bo
does not see any way to stop her. Man
mates awfully to have to take h;s n,,..
as the weaker sex.
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-09-06

"'Very we'll, thank you, SIR the lad
replied.
The father beamed with pleasure.
"'Ask politely in French for some
peas he said.
There was an awkward pause.
Then 80
but father said the boy, I don't
want any peas.''
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-09-06

"Yakkiguma" is the name tho 1.,
anese apply to their "Jingoes," the
persons who are always looking for
trouble with other nations. The word
should be taken over into English. It
means "thoughtless ones.'
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-09-06
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT
INVENTED 'slN0NAUNlTY BATH,,

John stocker Miller had gained substantial
fame long before he attracted national attention
as the lawyer who procured freedom for the pack
ers under his now celebrated Immunity BATH
plea before Judge J. Otis Humphrey His reten-
ton by the Standard Oil company as the cor
poration representative in the case in which the
Indiana child of the parent concern has been
found guilty of receiving concessions from the
Chicago Alton railroad is but one Of many
evidences that Mr.. Miller is regarded as of
the leading corporation attorneys in Chicago, if
not in the country.
Mr.. Miller is a man of wide range of expert
ence, for during his career he has been not only
professor of Creek Latin and mathematics but
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-09-06

show that Capt Dreyus was being made for
that running the French
colonel He procured evidence convict the
secured the acqut of Dreyfus
while the leaders conspiracy
himself reinstated Cmnceau
considerable
Deyus
the head Of go.
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-09-06
LABOR COMMISSIONER
DIR. Charlie.

DIR. Charles P Nel United States commits
sioner of labor who recently tried to effect set
tlement of the telegraph operators strike, has
been in the thick of every labor fight, but he is
far from being the stormy petrol which that state
ment would seem to indicate, for his constant
endeavor has been to restore harmony. He has
been fairly successful, too, for he took con-
spicuous part in the settlement of the great coal
strike of 1902, strike that caused untold misery
and discomfort among the people of the United
States, and he has aided in settling up numerous
smaller strikes since then. He attended the coal
miners convention at Scranton Pa, in 1906, as
the personal representative of President Roose-
welt, and was instrumental in preventing another
and similar strike He was recorder of the arbi-
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-09-06
SCHOOL BOARD TO TRAIN
WOMEN OF THE EAST SIDE

instruct both the mothers and the "lit-
tie mothers in the proper care and
the bringing up of children. And ba-
bies constitute the material by which
the object lessons are furnished. The
mothers are instructed in the care,
feeding and dressing of the little ones,
and when a practical point needs il
lustration a real, live and kicking
baby is provided for the purpose of
demonstration. Real soap, real water
and real towels are brought into play.
1t is all very practical and uti1itarian
The result is bound to appear in clean
faces and bodies, proper clothing, bet
ter food and less sickness in the
crowded tenement districts.
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ltalv Ahead.

Italy NHedo.
what strikes me as peculiar" said
the globe trotter, lis the fact that in
nearly all the small Italian towns you
see so many sewing machines, up to
date American ones, too. You see them
In every little hovel in Naples, on the
road to Pompeii and elsewhere; but
in London they are using either the
little foolish machines you turn with
one hand and try to guide with the
other, or stitching by hand"
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-09-06
LEADS WAR ON MOORS

France, is of the busiest in public life to-
day. Besides the ordinary duties of his depart
ment, he had good deal to do with the enforce
ment of the laws against the Catholic church. an
enforcement which has on many occasions neces-
STATED the use of the military and he has
charge of the campaign against Morocco, for un-
less the Moors make complete surrender it is
likely to be big campaign as that of Lord
Wolseley in Egypt. But if there is any man in
France who knows the difficulty of the task it is
Picquart, for he was at the head of the secret in
telligence department of the French army for
years. and has spent much time in Africa. It
was to Africa he was sent to get him out of the
way when he was preparing the evidence to
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-09-06

1t is the self-reliant girl that is in de-
mand everywhere.
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No Time to Spare

u They. i that make the best spsa ~
their time have none stos spare Ge1.
man proverb.
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-09-06
Saratoga, Chips,

The man who invented Saratoga
chips is dead: The other kind of chips.
however, have always been more pop.
ular in Saratoga. =
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o ship
rocks a battered of metal
ability Judgment
his
with American 1904
Brandt Raiui; who
has retiring
s o n
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TO Write WAR HISTORY
Rear Admiral French E. Chadwick

Rear Admiral French E. Chadwick who, since
his retirement from the United States navy 1S
months ago, has been collecting material in
Spain for history of the SpanishAmerican war
and the causes that led up to it, has returned to
the United States to begin his work He was
captain of the armored cruiser New York, Ad-
miral SIMPSONS flagship at the battle of San
tiago the only occasion in which the Atlantic
squadron engaged in battle, and he was unfor-
tunate enough to be miles away at the time. Ad-
miral Sampson had gone down the coast on Off
cal business when he received the signal that the
bottled up Spanish fleet was coming out The
New York put about and raced back to the scene
of action with dense volumes of smoke pouring
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-22
VOTE TO DIVIDE THE
EQUIPMENT FUNDS
MONEY RAISED FOR LIFE SAVERS
TO BE DIVERTED
Fire Department to Have New uni-
forms, but Beach Town VIII BE
Compelled to Go Without
Necessary Apparatus

Special to The Herald.
VENICE, Aug 21.+Seyere criticism has
been heard on the streets here today at
the action of the volunteer fire depart
ment and life-saving corps organizations,
composed OF practically the same men, In
Jointly voting at meeting last evening
to divide equally between the two bodies
the funds which have been raised for the
purchase of life-saving equipment.
The legal or moral right of the members
of the organizations to divert the funds
has apparently been lost sight of In
their desire to secure fire department uni
forms, which is the purpose. they state,
they had in mind for utilizing the money.
When asked this evening on what
grounds the organizations took the re-
sponsibility of planning to spend any of
the money for purposes other than that
which it was raised, Chief of the Fire
Department Spranklin said the members
of the life corps We're dissatisfied with
the way the funds had been directed up
to the present time.
He said the action of the Kinney COM
pany in substituting brass mortar gun
for the government life service gun that
the life crew members wanted was one
cause of the fund being split.
The volunteer firemen, as an organiza-
tion he said, figured that as the members
had been big factor in creating the
fund they had the right to some of its
benefits and that 1t was their intention
to spend their half for uniforms and
other department fiXings that they may
need. About $91O remains in the fund.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-22
NATIVE WHITE FLY is.
NOW PUT ON EXHIBITION
May Be Seen at the Board Of Trade.
It Is Not the Dangerous
Florida Species of
Insect

Special to The Herald.
PASADENA. Aug. also many reports
have been made to horticultural lnspec-
tor G. M. Day Of supposed white ny
having been discovered, when It is all a
mistake, that with view of educating
the people to know these pests he has
captured a colony on snapdragon
branch, enclosed them in glass jar
and put them on exhibition at the board
of trade rooms.
There are about twenty species OF
white fly native to California and some
sixty varieties catalogued by entomolo-
gists in various parts of the country.
The specimen colony of the insects now
on exhibition at the board of trade IS
said not to be the Florida species which
is so destructive to the orange trees,
but is one of the native sorts feeding
upon towering plants.
Anyone finding these little insects upon
any OF the following named trees, citrus
trees of all species, china berry tree, VII
burnum nisdum, cape jasamine, jap
anese persimmon, California privet, gold
en- privet. mock orange, rubber treesi
water oak or prickly ash will do well
to report the fact to Inspector Day at
once The species are so near alike that
only an expert can determine which Is
the destructive pest and which is the
harmless insect. An invitation Is extend-
ed to all to visit the board of trade rooms
and learn to know a white fly by sight
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-22
BOYS BATTLE
WITH FLAMES
YAcHTsMEN, HAVE THRILLING
EXPERIENCE
FOREST FIRE RACES FOR OVER
THREE HOURS
smolderins Embers Left by Members
of Camping Party Devastate
South End of Catalina
Island

Special to The Herald.
VENICE, Aug. A.-A thrilling tale OF
adventure embodying the details Of a bat
tie by eighteen men who subdued for
est fire that devastated the south enc
of Catalina island, was told here today
by members of camping party VINO
returned on the yacht Aimee from a
weeks outing on the Banning preserves
The Aimee is owned by Innis Kin
ney, and with him on the voyage were
his elder brother, Sherwood Kinney,
Andy Anderson and Harold Marcaux.
The party left here a week ago Satur-
day plentifully supplied with provisions
intending to camp near Avalon. Their
voyage was an adventurous one and for
the most part was through a dense log.
Adverse winds added to their discom-
fort and it was only after having been
on the water thirty-two hours that land
was sighted.
The vessel was quickly anchored and
the yoyagers, wet to the skin and COM
pletely tagged out, rowed ashore ana
stretched themselves out on the ground
where they fell into sound slumber that
was broken by the rays of the early
morning sun.
A fire was hastily made and after
not breakfast the flames were covered
with dirt and the party started afoot
for a point half a mile away where
other campers appeared to be, intending
to inquire the distance to Avalon.
Smoke Attracts Attention
Scarcely had they reached the neigh
boring camp. however, when their atten-
ton was attracted to huge clouds OF
smoke arising from where they had left
their belongings, and with all possible
speed they dashed back to the scene
AS they reached the summit OF nil
overlooking their camp the youths were
confronted with a spectacle that ma1e
their hearts sink.
The fire they had left smoldering had
been started afresh by a party OF young
people who had taken possession OF the
camp and had gotten beyond control.
The flames were travelling rapidly in
land, swept by wind from the ocean,
and We're last gaining headway notwith-
standing the efforts of a half dozen attn
letic young men who were members OF
the intruding party.
With two bronzed youths who had been
mountain climbing. the local party quickly
Joined the fire fighters. For more than
three hours the battle against the flames
was waged before they were put under
control All of those who took part In
extinguishing the fire were utterly ex-
hausted when the last fickering ember
had been beaten out, and 1t was not un-
til late in the afternoon that they felt
sufficiently recovered to show any signs
of activity.
The fire swept large portion Of land
known as Emerald cove and its smoke
was visible for a distance of ten miles.
Young Kinney is planning a second
yachting-campin expedition to San Gle
mente island next Saturday.