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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-05-10

Andrew Carnegie is now comman.
der of the Legion of Honor, having
been made such by the French gov
eminent in recognition of his eminent
services in behalf of peace. This is
not only merited distinction. but
one in which it is easily conceivable
the recipient takes justifiable pride.
AS was remarked by Baron dEstour.
nelles de Constant, who conferred the
decoration in the name of the presi.
dent of France. Mr. Carnegie is now
a citizen of the world, made such bv
his devotion to the cause of promot.
ing amity among the nations, To he
a commander of the Legion of Honor
under such circumstances as those at.
tending the decoration of Mr. Car.
Iegie, says Troy Times, is to be
singled out as one who particularly
typities the growing humanity and the
higher civilization of the age.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-05-10

Walter Wellman, the Arctic explor.
er, who was expected last year to
make an attempt to reach, the north
pole by means of an airship, has
sailed from New York and will try to
do the trick this summer. Mr.. Well
man, who knows the frozen north,
having led an expedition in that d.
rection, while convinced of the practi-
cability of the airship method, SEN
sibly declares he will take as few
chances as possible, and will make
thorough test of his apr aratus before
beginning his aerial flight Andree,
the only man up to date who has
started for the north pole by balloon,
has never been heard from. The
hope Is universal, says Troy Times,
that the plucky American will have
better fortune. Yet there are a whole
lot of people who put more trust in
the coming expedition of Commander
Peary, which will go by the good ship
Roosevelt.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-05-10

Col. Edward Morrell, of Philadelphia.
and they have more than a dozen serv-
ants, with twice that total several
days a week. Over the Fairbanks
kitchen now presides John Rock, the
chef who was the joy of Levi z.
Letter and his friends.
Rock has so much money to spend
that he gains precedence in the mar
ket over Pinckney, the buyer for the
White House. Fairbanks has given
his man free hand to stock the pan
try with the choicest luxuries, and
just what this means may be gathered
from the fact that at two receptions
nearly 1000 guests partook of a buf-
fet supper at which tarrapin, every
kind of shell fish and the finest i'm
ported wines were served. Lavish
ness is the keynote of the Fairbanks
establishment, and to her regular en-
tertainments Mrs. Fairbanks now has
added frequent and large theater par
ties.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-05-10

UR1OUSLY enough there are many
~ old-fashioned hotels in New York.
many of them out of the belt where
gay life reigns, which are still coin
ing money for their proprietors.
When John Jacob Astor built his ia
nous hotel at Barclay street and
Broadway his friends told him it
would be disastrous venture as the
hotel was situated too far up town to
catch the trade. Well, the hotel is
still doing business and the lessee is
said to have made a great fortune
out of it.
Thousands of people who come to
New York every year would not think
of stopping anywhere else, any more
than their fathers and grandfathers
would in spite of the fact that it is
now in almost the heart of the bust
ness and financial district.
Then there is the Broadway Cen
trail at Third street, which used to be
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-05-10
Cable Aids Weather REPORTS.


The completion of the submarine
cable under construction between Ice.
land and the Shetland islands is ex-
pected to afford facilities for a great
extension of the area covered by the
existing system Of weather prediction.
Iceland in the winter time occupies
about the center of the Atlantic low
pressure, or storm area, and the alb
sence of telegraphic communication
with that island hitherto has prevent
ed the collection of information of
great value to meteorology.
BY utilizing the Iceland cable and
the reports from the Central Physical
observatory at st. Petersburg, cover
ing the vast stretch of Siberia, the
United States weather bureau hopes
hereafter to possess knowledge Of
the state Of the atmosphere completely
around the earth in tl1e-northern hem
isphere, fact of great Importance in
long.period weather forecasting. -
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-05-10
OLD FASHIONED HOTELS
STILL MAKING MONEY

the Grand Central, the hotel in which
Ea Stokes shot Jim Fisk. 1t is still a
flourishing institution. When lilly
Haynes, the proprietor, died year
or so ago he left more than 81, zoo, 900.
He also ran a hotel in Boston. 1t was
in the Broadway Central that the
Thaw jurors ate their meals when
they were kept together.
Smith & McNelIs is another old
time hotel, which has kept it's enor-
nous business in spite of the march
up town. It. is near the Washington
market and close to the ferries that
bring the passengers from the various
lines entering Jersey City.
The partners started in with COT
fee stand in the market. Both of
them became millionaires. Smith &
McNells has the reputation of feed
ing greater number of people than
any other hotel or restaurant in New
York.
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this he would not do.
Personally the head Of the Shonts
household wants to see his daughter
happily married, and, If he had any
objections to the French nobleman,
was willing to put them aside IT Miss
Shonts was satisfied with the duke.
So, according to some of the wise
ones, the match will never come of,
as the duke is reported to need the
money" for while he is long on
lineage and incumbered estates, he is
short on cash.
To all appearances the two young
people are really in love. But what
can a duke and duchess do without
sufficient means to keep up their end
of the social game?" asks Washington
society. Still, some believe the young
people may yet decide to marry with
out the settlement and take their
chances on papa's determination not
to rehabilitate the De Chaulnes es-
tates.
While in New York the Misses
Shonts will help their father in select
ing home for the family, to which
they will move from here some time
early in June.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-05-10

Two new railroad lines have been
opened into the Congo Free State in
Africa. One runs from Stanley Falls,
where the River Congo ceases to be
navigable, in an easterly direction to
Mahagi, on the Albert sea, distance
of 1870 kilometers (kilometer, O.62
mile), and the other route starts from
Stanleyville, the city by the falls, and
running from north to south, partly by
boats on the navigable portions of the
upper Congo and partly by a railway
for such portions of the stream as are
not navigable, ultimately is bound for
the district of Katanga, in the ex.
IRENE southern portion of the Free
State, where there are great copper
and gold fields. OF this latter line the
road was opened last autumn from
Stanleyville to Ponthierville and is
new in operation for a distance of 1877
k;lometers
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-05-10

r HE real reason for the estrange-
1 ment between Speaker Cannon,
eight other members of the con-
gressional party and the canal zone
officials was not because of the quar-
antine regulations but because Speak
er Cannon and his party did not be-
lieve they were properly treated.
When the steamship on which the
Speaker and his party were arrived
at Colon the men who are digging the
canal and caring for the canal zone
did not even send a rowboat out to
meet them. The party boarded a
train at Colon, going to Panama and
after it had started and was nearing
Culebra cut Speaker Cannon went
strolling through the coach ahead.
In it he found Chief Engineer Stevens,
who recognized him and talked with
him few minutes.
"Well, good-by," the chief engineer
said, waving his hand, as the train
approached Culebra cut. This is
where I get off,"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-05-10
HOTEL LIFE Bee COMING A
FAD AMONG THE RICH

AZ EW YORK.-The rich people of
~ New York are not only music mad,
but they are hotel mad. Hundreds and
hundreds of people who have luxuri-
Gus town houses, as we'll as country
homes, are now living in hotels, and
the demand for more and costlier
hostelries continues undated.
The building of the Waldorf and
it's subsequent merger with the AS
tor1a, was responsible largely for the
hotel life fad. This hotel, as it stands,
cost more than $14,000,000, and it
would puzzle one to figure out how
such large investment could be made
to pay. The taxes alone are more
than $4,000 year, and this does not
include water rates, insurance and re-
pairs.
But /: must pay, in spite of the size
OF the investment, for George Boldth
has grown rich in it's management.
Even Oscar the chef has made his
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-05-10

pile. Besides the Waldorf-Astoria, the
Astors have invested many millions in
hotels in recent years. Since then
they have built the Hotel st. Regis III
Fifth avenue, which has the name of
being the most expensive holstery in
New York, the Hotel Astor, magntf-
cent pile in Long Acre square, where
not so long ago cows were wont to
browse, and the Knickerbocker at
Forty-second street and Broadway.
At present they are also building
at cost of $6,000,000, an apartment
hotel at Seventy-ninth street and
Broadway, which covers a whole city
block, and in which the rents will run
as high as $4,000 year. One of the
features will be two-story apartments,
that is, the living rooms on one floor
and the sleeping rooms on another, the
floors being connected by private
stairways.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-05-10

tapers slightly. Such is it's appear
ance when hungry.
AS it swims around in the somber
Yep 1t espies a fish many times
larger than itself. Darling upon it's
prey, it seizes it by the tail and slow
ly but surely climbs over. it with
its jaws, first using one and then the
other. p s.,.' -.
Gradually the prey is taken in, the
stomach and integuments of the swal-
lower stretching out, and at last the
entire . fish is passed through the
mouth into the stomach and the dis
tended belly appears as great bag,
projecting far out backward and for
ward, over which IL the swallower.
looking very small in comparison.
The walls Of the stomach and belly
become 50 stretched they are trans
parent and the species OF. the fish with
in can be discerned. But III swallow
ing such large prey the captor come
times overdoes the matter and retribu-.
ton follows swiftly in the shape Of
acute indigestion, which causes its
death. I..s. ssh.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-05-10

go back on the stage if it ever became
necessary for her to earn her living
again, Evelyn replied with a smile:
mo. indeed, l would do anything else
first. Dan O'Reilley told me a mana
ger almost wept on his neck and said,
Think of all this notoriety going to
waste"
Mrs. Thaw added that the stage had
lost its attraction for her, and told of
her early stage aspirations, saying:
In Pittsburg, even as a child, I had
longed to be great actress /
thought I was going to be Sarah
Bernhard No. 2. My first rehearsal
cured me of that.
"Mr. Jerome told the jury I was a
great actress. l wish he could have
seen that rehearsal. had one line to
speak. 1t was something like Here
comes the BRIDE When said it, Mr..
Lederer looked up and laughed.
lisped little then and I would say
'b-wide.' It took him all morning to
teach me that one line"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-05-10
EVELYN TIRED OF CITY;
WANTS TO GO OUT WEST

d RONCHO busting is~the sport
ID which Evelyn Nesbit Thaw has
set her mind upon as the thing she
would most enjoy. The solitude of a
western ranch, surrounded by snow
capped peaks and nesting in some
valley far from the abode of others
of her race, is where she plans to
spend the remainder of her life with
Harry Thaw, when he is free to leave
the grim Tombs cellroom.
Il am so tired of this; oh, so tired"
she said the other day. II want to
leave it all-the crowds, the smoke,
the big buildings, the lights, every
thing that reminds me of the past.
II want to 60 west with Harry-just
Harry and land when he is acQuit-
ted we shall go. l have been in the
west. I know what it is. I want to
get away from this dressing, dressing,
eternal dressing, and wear short
skirt and sweater and ride bronchos
astride"
In reply to a question, If she would
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-05-10
FISH THAT ARE. cANNlBALS.
Can Swallow Other Fishes That Are
Many Times Their Bulk.

The waters adjacent to the coasts of
the United States contain some of the
most extraordinary fishes to be found
anywhere In the world.
There is a fish able and willing to
swallow whole other fishes which are
from six to IL times. its superior in
bulk. This fish sinhabits the deep sea,
living, it is supposed, at a depth of
i 500 fathoms., yr%
= In the latter half Of the last cen
fury three specimens:--oneo Of them be-
Ing now in the national museum of
chiasmodon niger, orIblack swallower,
the species referred to, were found,
in each instance with fish from six
to II times bulkier than itself in its
stomach. No &. 5@. 5 So
This fish had an elongated body OF
nearly Uniform thickness to within q
short distance Of tho tail, into which II.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-05-10
The Pulpit's Failure.


The loss of moral leadership by the
clergy is often deplored; but what
else is to be expected, when so many
clergymen appeal to the feminine
rather than to the masculine con.
science? To-day the virile, who see
In graft and monopoly and foul poll
tics worse enemies than beer, Sunday
baseball and the army canteen, scoh
when the pastor of the indicted boss
Of San Francisco pleads, He never
was known to smoke or take drink.
He never was seen in front of a
saloon bar" In political battles, the
sinister interests easily rally the reli-
gious people by standing for a lid
on policy. In the struggle of city
to free itself from corporation bond
age, Is not the psychologist moment al
ways punctuated by hectoring depu-
tatiOn of clergymen to summon Mr..
Mayor to enforce to the letter the
Sunday closing ordinance, followed by
a blast from the pulpits when the
mayor declines to play the traction
company's little game? Not long ago
reform mayor was discredited be-
cause, emerging late from his Office.
he descended into basement lunch
room and ate at the same counter
with street walkers and night birds,
says E. A. Ross, in Atlantic. The pas
tors Of the straight-laced magnates
who had never stopped to anything
worse than stealing a street were
scandalized at the mayors elbow
touch with disreputables, and ap-
pealed with success to the ossifled
Puritanism of their flock.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-05-10
Washington: Day by Day
News Gathered Here and There
at the National Capital
MISS SH0NTS WILL NOT
WE'D FRENCH NOBLEMAN
yuASHINGTON.-T departure of

w ASH1NGTON.-T departure of
W Theodore P. Shonts, former
chairman of the Panama canal CON-
mission, with his two daughters, for
New York, where he is now head of
the Metropolitan traction interests,
has again revived talk concerning the
engagement of Miss Shonts to the
DUO de Chaulnes.
II there ever was an engagement
it is now off, as Washington society
has the story, and the reason for this
failure of another international alli-
ance is said to be the refusal of Mr..
Shonts to grant the ducal demand
for settlement.
1t is accepted here as the correct
version of the departure of the duke
without bride that Mr.. Shonts stood
firmly for the American idea of mar
riage settlements. He is reported to
have told De Chaulnes that he would
give his daughter stylish wedding,
provide her with trousseau fit for a
princess, and substantial wedding
allowance that would keep her in pin
money for long time, but to enter
into any agreement to settle an in
come on her for life before marriage,
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'u'O f1AVE tuc proper duU leSltludte
] expenses of national campaigns
paid from the national treasury for
the different political parties, and to
permit in presidential campaigns only
a closely limited use of money other
than that drawn from the public
funds, is the striking project which
the president has in his mind as a
means of purifying national politics
and preventing improper use of money
drawn from improper sources.
There has been much doubt wheth-
er the scheme of publicity, afterrelec-
ton, of campaign expenditures would
be very effective. Practical politi-
clans have protested that it is locking
the barn after the horse is stolen.
It would be required, Of course that all
money should be carefully accounted
for, vouchersf should be made and
carefully audited, and the purposes
for which it could be used would be
limited to speaking, literature and or.
ganization.
1t is understood that the amount
made available from the public treas
ury would be apportioned among the
parties on some such basis as the rel
alive votes polled at the last proceed.
ing national election. This would let
In the small parties for their share.
Politicians regard the scheme al
Utopfan, but are not at all certain
whether it could be defeated If seri-:
ously presented to congress by the
president. - %''' =, .. !,
The president has not developed de-.
tails. Of the plan, and may be =, con-
vinced yet Of its practicability, but
he has talked of it with much inter-
eat, and is thus far DISPOSED to re-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-05-10
FAIRBANKS AMBITION
OPENS HIS POCKETBOOK
WITH a presidential bee buzzing
W merrily in his bonnet. Vice Presi-

WITH a presidential bee buzzing
W merrily in his bonnet, Vice Presi-
d. vt Fairbanks has entered on a So
cfal campaign that has made the whole
capital rub it's eyes in surprise and
wonder at his extravaganza.
Since the Fairbanks weather eye
was fixed steadily on the White House
the expenses of the family, it is said,
have jumped from $4,000 to 500, 900.
Mrs. Fairbanks now is one of the
most popular hostesses in Washing
ton, and from the occasional recep-
tons of two years ago has developed
to two formal affairs a week.
Formerly the Fairbankses lived in a
modest house at Eighteenth and Mass
achusetts avenues, the rent of which
was $4,000 year. Then they had
only five servants in all, and they
were without a carriage, hiring ve-
hicle whenever needed. Now they
pay $4,000 a year for the mansion of
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-05-10

While
William Kenyon
art
galleries of old
winter while husband
followed
charitable She much in
gallery Montpelier w. which
products
CALLER it's
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-05-10

VI1ILLIAM B. LEEDS divorced wife
w is having a 100000 laugh. The
joke is on and the expense borne by
Mr.. Leeds present wife, who was Mrs.
May Stewart Worthington, of Cleve-
land, when she married the million
aire tinplate magnate.
The $36O,O0O is what it cost, Mrs.
Leeds No. 2 to attempt to outshine
Mrs. Leeds No. in single article of
jewelry at the watering places of
Europe. .. - 2.
Mrs. Leeds no. /. was divorced in
1895 with "dowry" of cold million.
After her husband married Mrs.
Worthington the two women became
rivals for society's highest honors.
While both were abroad Mrs Leeds
No. 2 bought a magnificent necklace
of pearls for $225,000, which she wore
to the discontinue of No. 1, dazzling
all beholders.
But when Mrs. May Stewart Worth
ington Leeds came home to New York
she had the pearls unstrung and
Bernard Citroen, named as the i'm
porter for Mrs. Leeds. swore the
baubles were liable to duty OF only
ten per cent, not being q necklace,
but only 10 many unstrung pearls.
The trffing duty Of $22, 500 was paid
and Mrs. Leeds seemed to be in full
possession of her necklace.
The government officials however,
demanded . reappraisement, declaring
that it was a necklace end liable to
an additional so per cent. duty, with
interest. The necklace was seized.
The case was carried i into the.
United States circuit court, where It.
was held that Citroen must pay the
amount Of the protested duty before.
he could appeal from the decision Of
the local board Of appraisers.
The agents for Mr.. Leeds were
forced to pay into. the treasury de
Dartment It Washing ton, under pro-
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TO HAVE GOVERNMENT
PAY CAMPAIGN EXPENSE

gard it as more than an impractical
vision.
Politicians say that if the idea
should be followed to it's logical con-
illusions it would eventuate in moth
ing less than the creation of a great
election board possessing unlimited
opportunities for corruption.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-05-10

al
Besan
Central Hindu College for Girls India
The Theosoph
Point presided
from the body The Philosophical
BaVatsky COL
all the principal cities the civilized
Benares,
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I During the year 1906 Europe snan+
81, 000, 100000 on it's armies. and "a
O00. 100000 on its navies. The peonle
of Europe are nothing less than fea.
;ble-minded imbeciles, exclaims tho
Los Angeles Times, to allow them.
selves to be soaked like that for
feathers and brass buttons.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-05-10

OF the income tax collected from
securities in Great Britain. s18 Ooo oon
was from American securities. Scot
land during the last ten years has
grown wealthy in business more ran.
IDLY than England, the rates of in.
crease being so per cent in Scotland
and Al per cent. in England
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-05-10

A well-known actor had his pocket
picked and his wallet abstracted from
it. AS it contained real money and
not stage jewels the advertising bo
gets out of it is not the usual gratuit.
GUS variety.
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TO HEAD THEOSOPHlSTS

Mrs. Annie Besant Of Benares, India, has
been nominated as world president of the Theo-
sophical society, to succeed the late Col. Henry
Steele Olcott, the presdent-founder of the or
ganization. COL Olcott, who old New
York newspaper man and a veteran of the civil
war, died recently following his return to India
from Chicago, where he had attended the annual
convention of the American section. On his
deathbed Col. Olcott formally named Mrs. Besant,
vino had for years been his co-worker, to succeed
him, a prerogative he held. The nomination must
be ratified by two-thirds vote of the societies of
the world and the vote is soon to be taken.
Mrs Besant is noted writer and lecturer
She was born in Ireland. Her brother is Sir
Henry Wood, secretary of the Society of Arts of
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Keeping on the Safe Side.

NSePIU0 on tneE save Side.
Caller-pd think that your fathers
duties as building inspector would be
awfully dangerous, going around un-
safe buildings. :SE..... MI 4. .#
Small Son Of the House Oh, no;
he. doesn't 60 near 'em till sitter they
fall down.--Life. &