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ONE CHURCH IN GOTHAM
THAT IS ALWAYS FILLED

IN view of the appeal of delegation
1 OF New York clergymen to Presi.
dent Roosevelt to aid them in Undue
ing the people of the metropolis to
attend religious services it is inter-
esting to note that there is one church
in New York that is not troubled by
the problem of filling it's pews, per-
haps for the reason that it is an alto
gether new church, based upon the
doctrine of the brotherhood and in
Independence of man, and uniting
all creeds while advocating none.
The Peoples Church." as it is
called, fiourishes in the midst of the
East side population, under the aus
pices of the Peoples institute. It's
meetings are held during Is or 80
weeks of the year in the large hall
of Cooper Union, and not infrequently
the attendance is 1000 or more.
In this unique church the personal
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-05-03
FAT AND SLIM FOLKS
GET UNCLE SANS HELP
Observation-Disclosures are too

WASHINGTON are too
W many fat people and too many
thin people in the country, and the
government, through the agricultural
department. is conducting expert
ments to show them how to strike an
average. c. F. Langworthy, chief of
the division of nutrition investigation,
is conducting Investigations which in.
clude dietary studies, digestive ex-
periments and various other things
in connection with food.
How to get thin and how to get
fat are being experimental within
a course of dietary studies at the
University of Maine, at Orono, in that
state, under the supervision of Prof.
c. D. Woods, and at the University
of Tennessee, at Knoxville, by Prof.
E. G. Waite.
These experiments were in full
swing before Secretary Taft entered
the cabinet, and therefore it cannot be
charged even in presidential cam.
paign that he used his influence to
get the government to work on the
scheme.
Now is the time to get thin, the
governments experts believe. With
the approach of the summer and it's
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the matter have been sent to the
Congo
: Probably the most used peanut is
what is called the Spanish, an of
shoot of what used to be exclusively
grown in Spain. This is the little
round peanut so much used for salt
ing. In Virginia a greater part of
the crop grown there is called Span
ish No. 1.
When the crop is short in Virginia
the original Spanish is imported from
Spain, but, in fact, it is grown in
northern Africa. The conditions of
the Virginia soil make it superior for
this nut over any other section in
the world except the Congo district.
The jumbo variety brings the high
est price, however, and naturally it
was that variety that Mr.. Ryan select
ed for his crop. He will later grow
the Spanish peanut, which, although
cheaper, has greater sale than the
jumbo. But Mr. Ryan's advisers,
knowing. that the jumbo would have
the greater sale if the price were
lower, have advised him to try that
grade first. And that is the grade
that Mr.. Ryan will grow in the Congo
district, and from the proceeds
thereof he hopes to be able to pay no
inconsiderable part of the expenses of
the working of his rubber plantations,
gold mines and copper enterprises. 1t
is said that Mr.. Ryan will go to the
Congo before very long
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-05-03
One Test of the Teacher.

WV sSoS VI IUc bSdC0STs
The true teacher must have a read
mess to be forgotten. And what is
harder? Many a man is ready to be
generous, if by it he can win a praise.
The love of praise, it is almost our
last fnfirmfty; but there is no more
bathing infirmity for the teacher. II
praise and recognition are dear to him.
he may as we'll stop work. Dear to
him perhaps they must be, as human
being; but as teacher, he is called
on to rise above ordinary human con-.
ditions. A teacher does not live for,
himself, but. for his. pupil and for
the truth which he imparts. His aim
is to be a colorless medium through
which the truth may shine on an open
ing mind. How can he be this it. he is
continually interposing himself and
saying, Instead of looking at the
truth, my children, look at me and see
how skillfully do my work. 1 thought
I taught you admirably today. I hone
you thought so, too" No, the teacher
must keep himself entirely out of the
way, fixing young attention on. the
profered knowledge and not on any
thing SO small as him, who brings it.
Only so can he be whole-hearted in
invigorating the lives committed TO
] his charge.--Prof. G. H. Palmer, in the
Atlanti ts SIS rs AZ
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Italians in America.

Italians in America.
On the authority of the census
of 1900 there were then in the United
States 1,217,124 persons born in Italy
or Of Italian parentage. The Italian
Chamber Of Commerce of New York
city took census for itself in 1904
and found that the Italians in New
York state numbered 486,176. Accord
Ing to George c. Speranza there was
In New York city savings banks at
that time $15,00o,0o0 of the saved
money Of Italian immigrants. and
1000 of them owned real estate worth
$20,OO0.O0O. There were 10000 stores
kept by Italians worth 100000
more, and a Wholesale business in
their hands worth $7,5O0,000. The
property of the Italian colony in New
York city he calculated at 100000, 900,
and according to a newspaper report
before me this is much below the val
uation of their holdings in st. Louis,
San Francisco, Chicago and Boston.
l know, as all know. says Baron Ma
yor DIES Planches in Appleton's Maya
zine, that the only criminality of the
Italian is the crime of quick anger,
unprecedented and open, which is in
herent in the blood and breed, but
which is never committed except I'M
der strong provocation. This is not
written to prove the Italians a nation
of model men, Our enc fault is our
own; we are sons of Adam like the
rest, but our weakness is not of the
crawling, skulking, or conspiring
but we hope to overcome it and to
live it down.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-05-03

zen. BINGHAM has completed the
~ organization of a corps of secret
police, a squad as faithful and watch
full as the secret police of the car of
Russia. Not move can be made by
any member of the police force of
Greater New York but will be re-
ported to the commissioner.
Every member is under the eye of
this secret force, and the commission
er now knows more about the inside
workings of the department than he
ever dreamed of before.
This is the first time in the history
of America that the head of a police
department has found it necessary to
resort to system of spies. The new
force has been recruited from other
large cities, and not one of them is
known to the regular members of the
New York force. Several. large pri-
vate detective agencies were called
upon to furnish members of the force,
and only the best trained plain
clothes men have been accepted.
Just how long this force of secret
police has been at work no one knows
except the commissioner and the men
themselves. The regular members of
the force, captains and inspectors,
know they are being watched, and
they have sent men out on the trail,
but they have. not yet been able to
trace one member of the new force.
. It was declared that the recent raid
upon the headquarters Of the Police
mems Benevolent associate inSwhich
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-05-03

Statistics from the great education
al institutions of the country are sig
nificant as Indicating the extent to
which America is enlightening the
world in this way There is hardly q
university or college which does not
number among it's students some from
other countries, and in several in
stances the number of foreigners is
notable, says Troy Times Columbia,
for instance, reports that it has $50
men representing 80 countries other
than the United States. Canada con-
tributes 81, while Japan is good Sec
ond, with "a. China, Persia, far-off
New Zealand and other remote dis
tricts figure in the exhibit, which also
includes young men from every one
of the leading countries of Europe,
the West Indies and Central and
South America. And there are other
institutions with similar showing.
American education is leavening the
worlds intelligence
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-05-03
WRONG MAN, BUT HE WAS
PLEASED WITH THE SMOKE

A MONG the numerous employees of
"A one of the government depart
ments in this city are two men whose
names, though they differ in the way
of spelling them, are not altogether
unlike in the manner of their pronun-
citation. Both of them have the good
fortune Of being close friends of a
prominent druggist, and the elder of
the two has frequently obtained from
the medicine man 4 supply of medi-
Gated cigars, which he finds to be of
value in giving him relief from a
catarrhal Affection
Recently he called on the druggist
and requested him to have prepared
for him box of the cigars. After a
few days, not having received them,
he wrote note inquiring as to the
cause OF the inattention and received
word in reply that the medicated
stogies had been sent to his Office sew
eral days before his complaint was
made.
The next thing was a call made at
the drug store by the man with the
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-05-03
COREY RENTS HOUSE AND
WILL SOON WE'D ACTRESS

show he is resolved on asserting him
self not only in business but in So
ciety. He has leased the Fifth av-
enue house from Mrs. James E. Mar
tin, who is going abroad for year.
1t is not the most pretentious build
ing in 'millionaires' row." but it is
the best dwelling Corey can get in
New York in the wealthy district and
the fact that he has leased it only
for II months is taken as an indica-
ton that he will provide more elab-
crate home for his bride by the time
they are ready to make their first at
tack on the inner Notifications of
metropolitan society.
The present plan is that Miss Gil
man shall be married to Corey in
Paris. Cable dispatches of recent
days have told of extensive purchases
made by her in the bazaars and jew,
elry stores of the French capitals
most fashionable district and the do
nestle wires have quoted her rela-
tives as saying they would cross the
ocean to see her become Corey's
bride.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-05-03
NEW YORK WOMEN OUT
AFTER ENJOYS SCALP

a cablegram from President Stires of
one of the leading trust companies of
New York I also had a letter from
my cousin, Geheimrat Won Bramann,
as we'll as several other letters. And
defy Mr.. Graves to send to the
United States copies Of the newspa-
pers which he says ridfcule me.
was treated kindly by the papers of
Sweden. I purpose to expose Mr..
Graves intrigues to the president. I
believe he will be interested in what
/ have to say about the diplomatic
service in Europe, particularly at the
Swedish capital"
Mrs. Won Claussen intimAted
strongly that perhaps Mrs. Graves
was jealous of the gowns Mrs. Won
Claussen wore, and that that fact
might have operated to prevent her
husband presenting an American Wis
itor to the Swedish king.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-05-03
SWELL SOCIETY BARS
THE PERRY BELMONTS

Jockey club, Turf and Field, Coaching
club, and similar organizations in this
country, but he is a member of the
Reading room at Newport and was
one of the two Americans elected to
the Paris Jockey club. To cap the
climax Perry Belmont is president of
the Allied Hunt club, of which the
Chevy Chase organization is a sub
ordinate member.
The divorce records of the Belmonts
is believed to have something to do
with their rejection. Mrs. Belmont
was formerly Mrs. Henry T. Sloane.
Sloane sesured divorce from her
in 1899, and she was married to Bel
mont the day the decree was granted.
Perry Belmont also has divorce rec
ord. He married a Miss Sarah Whit
ing when he was young man, and
the two went to Paris on their we'd
ding trip. Mrs. Belmont came back
alone and secured a divorce. A baby
was born after the divorce was
granted
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-05-03

He decided
paid him by
uation, memorial his
thick
he of
promptly in his
The took responsibility seriously butterfly
i'm.
tie said goodby his classmates and
There working
the
ness founded by his grandfather
Dodge
the
he
although athletics
He elected
tandhol for
If highest honor and
business integrity" said.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-05-03

views of the speaker upon controver-
sial religious questions are never
sought to be impressed, not only for
the reason that the rules forbid any
attempt at PROSECUTING or any attack
OF creed upon creed, but because the
audience enjoys the unique privilege
of answering back; and the clergyman
who speaks for the first time from
the Cooper Union platform faces the
novelty of having crude thought or
inapt statements challenged, and per-
haps refuted, by his hearers.
According to the statement of Prof.
Charles Sprague Smith, founder and
director of the institute, an occasional
roll call of the audience by "isms"
discloses philosophical anarchists.
socialists of every phase, single tax
ers and adherents of every creed un-
der the sun as we'll as adherents of
no creed at ALL"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-05-03
Indian Methods.

The great medicine man of the
Greek Indians was asked by United
States commission (of eminent physi-
cians): "Can you cure cancer? We
have a patient who has been dying for
II years, and we are unable to do any
thing for him." The aged red man
called for hot iron, and with it burn
ed a big hole in the leg of the man
where the cancer was gnawing. The
physicians were astounded. He ex-
planned briefly: Indian no cure can
Ger; Indian easy cure burnt" There
fore-burn, burn, burn, when dog
or snake bites you. a.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-05-03

Honey bees are generally credited
with instructive skill in making the
cells of the comb hexagonal in shape,
but it is probable that this construc-
ton is merely the ordinary result of
mechanical laws. Solitary bees al
ways make circular cells. and the
bees in hive no doubt make them
circular also, but mechanical press
ure forces them into a hexagonal
form. A well-known naturalist, in
speaking of the matter, says that all
cylinders made of soft, pliable sub
stances become hexagonal under such
circumstances.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-05-03

IT has developed that the Perry Bel
monts have suffered a rebuke in
their attempt to break into" Wash
ington society. Mr. Belmont has been
rejected as member of the Chevy
Chase Hunt club, and this action has
brought to climax sensational So
cial situation.
The fact that there has been all
winter social campaign for and
against Mr.. and Mrs. Perry Belmont
into which all their New York connec-
ttons-the other Belmonts, Sloanes
and Astors-have been drawn, makes
this social tempest of wider proper
lions than those which are ordinarily
discovered in teapots.
What is, perhaps, the most curious
part of the situation lies in the fact
that Mr.. Belmont is an active mem.
Der of many cubs far and away more
exclusive than the Chevy Chase. He
is not only member of the Knicker-
booker, Manhattan, New York Yacht
club, Metropolitan, Army and Navy,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-05-03

There used to be told a comical
story about a judge who occasionally,
when off the bench, yielded to tempta-
ton and imbibed too freely for his own
good. The tale went on to tell that on
one occasion the worthy man having
dissipated to an extent regarded by
the judge as scandalous, the offender
arralgned himself at the bar, where a
plea of guilty was entered and the jur-
list imposed an exemplary fine upon
himself. There seems to have been
similar working of conscience down
in Mississippi, where a grand jury in.
dicted every one of it's own members
for violating the Sunday law, with the
result that the culprits were arraigned
in court and were fined $40 apiece.
That grand jury certainly furnished
proof of sincerity when it gave up
so readily.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-05-03

AIRS. IDA M. Won CLAUSSEN, who
vi came all the way from Stockholm
prepared to upset Uncle Sans diplo-
matte corps because Minister Graves
would not present her at King Oscars
court, even when Oscar, whom she
had "iollied' at Wiesbaden, was "just
crazy to see her"-got as far as the
waiting-room at the White House with
her complaint the other day.
She couldn't even get as far as
Secretary Loeb, who sent an assistant
out to meet her and direct her suave-
~ to the state department. There
upon Mrs. Won Claussen retired from
the White House, after leaving COM
munication requesting that the presi-
dent appoint a commission to inquire
into her sanity before she proceeds
further.
Mrs. Won Claussen is much in earn
est in proclaiming her grievance, and
believes that what she regards as an
insult to herself was an insult to the
whole American people. She declares
she will return to Sweden and be
presented to the king.
'Mr. Graves stated deliberate I'M
truth when he said l did not offer
evidence of an invitation to be pre-
sented to King Oscar and that I did
not have the proper credentials de.
clared Mrs. Won Claussen, when
shown the dispatch from Stockholm
to the effect that Minister Graves had
written an open letter explaining the
controversy HE knows I was in.
vited to be presented to the king, and
| he says what is false when he states
! I had nothing to indemnity me. had
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-05-03

In England interest has been
shown of late by the army and navy
authorities in a new method of pre-.
serving -four by means of compress.
sion. With hydraulic pressure ap-
paratus the flour is squeezed into the
form of bricks, and experiments are
reported to have shown that the pres.
sure destroys all forms of larval life,
thus preserving the flour from the
ravages of insects, while It is equally
secure from mold. Three hundred
pounds of compressed -four occupy
the same space as 100 pounds of -four
in the ordinary state.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-05-03

public
with honors in of A. b"
Tor Studied law
Amherst college in
being the valedicoan a of So
In the in chancery
rapidly law
Mr. Rney thorough
practice Greene adjoining counties His
appellate
in
part OF the state
He belongs of
Fellows Modern
He active
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There all
hint Of Hon Rneys
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chief in the last revolution he fghtn
Gomez United States
by Liberal
his return was arrested and prison
his
with
the for
accused with the spnads
the Cebelos
dollars and dragged
Gomez member of the
Palma
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-05-03

For the eighteenth time the house
of commons has passed to a second
reading bill to legalize the maria %
OF man with his deceased wife's s.s.
tel, and it is said that there are now
good prospects for its final passage
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-05-03

The English woman Suffrage hill
has been talked to death in the house
of commons. Some of the m.mhor.
have hard time when they return
home trying to prove to their viva.
that it was not mean way of settir.
even.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-05-03

The National Cooperative declares
that there would be more Rockefel-
lers in the world if the young men
would devote as much time to money
making as they do to loye-making."
Perhaps; but is anybody clamoring
tor any more Rockefellers?
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-05-03
WILL WE'D A ROCKEFELLER

Marcellus Hartley Dodge, at 26 a director in
some of the country's most powerful corporations,
is lucky young man. When his classmates at
Columbia voted him one of the three luckiest men
in college in 1908, as much for his personality as
for his inheritance of 100000 900 from his ma
ternal grandfather Marcellus Hartley, young
Dodge vastly pleased. Now comes his en-
gagement to Miss Ethel Rockefeller daughter of
William G. Rockefeller. They are the richest
young couple in the United States
While at Columbia, young Dodge was elected
head of the college Y NJ. c. A. and president of
his class. He was member of the track team
and coxswain of his class crew-quite bit for
any young man to achieve in his college courco
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-05-03

Former President Loubet of France
complains that the people of that
country have forgotten him. It is
evident that he finds it impossible to
get any of the magazines to publish
his articles on fishing.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-05-03


presidency
and to the vice =.
Of Cortlandt NJ. of New York.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-05-03
MAY BE PRESIDENT OF CUBA

Jose Miguel Momex, leader in the Liberal
party, may be the next president of Cuba fact
which may complicate matters for the United
States. The Liberal party is made up of the
masses, the negroes, the iterates. Reports from
the interior of Cuba say that as the cane harvest
ends the blacks are growing restless They are
gathering rifles and machetes for the next revo-
luton.
of Santa Spritu, is ranchman and the son of
a ranchman He has been in the cattle business
all his life except when he has been busy carrying
on revolutions against the government. He has
comparatively little education, but has natural
ability great force of character and qualities for
leadership. He has been in three wars and wears
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Henry r. Rainey, Illinois congressman who
spent eight days on the Isthmus of Panama and
returned with story of graft in the commissary
department and tainted meat served to the men
at extortionate prices, is famous in Washington
for the biography he wrote of himself for the con.
gressional directory of the Fifty-eghth congress-
It was this most modest sketch that Hon.
Henry brought with him to Washington from his
Illinois home. Twas this he had written the night
the votes were counted. And this sketch ap-
peared only once 1t was in only one ISSUE Hon.
Henry got WISE He rewrote it.
Henry 7. Rainey, Democrat" says the orig
inal sketch of Hon. Henry, was born at Carroll
ton, ILL.,, August 20, 1860 and has resided in the
Mace of his birth all his life He WAC 'educatod
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-05-03
SQUAD OF SPIES TRAIL
POLICE FORCE OF CITY

$sz'ooo In cash was uncovered, was
the result of information gathered by
one OF the members of the new force.