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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-08-02

A LARGE number of prominent So
"A ciety women here have banded
together to provide suitable and at
tractive home for cats.
1t is intended to purchase a tract
of land and bui;d handsome home II
possible--if not, house fitted for the
purpose will bt bought-to be fitted
up as a boarding house for handsome
and expensive cats belonging to uer.
sons who regularly leave the city and
must take their pets along.
Among those prominent in promot-
ing the scheme are Nine. Eleanore de
Remusat Guys, Miss Mary A. Peet,
Miss Mathile Townsend, Mrs. Larz
Anderson, Mrs. A. L. Barber, Miss
Mary Robinson, Mrs. Austin, Mrs.
Krouse, Mrs. Solaerg, Mrs. Henry L..
West, the last nR:ned being president
of the Cat c!uD. The wife of Justice
Harlan, who owns three handsome
Maltese cats worth 81 900 each, is also
greatly interested.
Miss Robinson says she was COM
PEELED to stay at home all last sum-
mer because she had no place at
which to board her six cats, all short
haired, to which she is greatly at
tached. The previous summer she
put them out, toNboard while she
passed six months in California, but
the one place available at that time
has since beens closed. sss ~ ~ u, j
Many Of the other women interested
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+ one goes through the Offices Of
! one of the big skyscraper construc-
ton companies these days he may see
roomful of young men all figuring
away in interminable sheets of paper.
The layman is astonished to learn
that &they are weighing 4sHscrapers,
and that the tallest and most extern
sfve buildings, up to the thousands of
tons, are carefully weighed before
they are built. The evolution of the
tsll building has brought forth re-.
markable engineering specialization
along many lines, but = none>Sss more
noteworthy than in the case of the
skyscraper weighers, for this weigh
ing of the skyscrapers is no easy job.
One cannot dump the material, like a
pound of sugar, into pair of scales
and declare there is so much weight,
because, in the first. place, the scale
has never been Invented that will
weigh 100000 tons, and, in the Second
place, the material is not on hand. A
skyscraper must be weighed before it
fs built-before3 the, first caisson is
sunk for the foundation or the first
steel column is set up. The scales
are pencil and paper, balanced by
specially: trained brains. And, final,
u. the operation of weighing mod.
ern tall building may cover, when
completed. as many as 80 or 40 type.
written pages The weight OF Naws
York's largest skyscraper, now build.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-08-02
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YOUNG BARONESS ROSEN
MOST CAREFULLY REARED
WASHINGTON.-The Russian en-

WASHINGTON.-The Russian en-
" bassy closed the season here
when Ambassador and Baroness
Rosen, with their household staff, left
for Magnolia, Mass. the other day
where they will pass the summer. The
departure of Baron and Baroness
Rosen has particular significance
at this time, as they do not expect to
return to Washington for perhaps q
year, and will sail for Europe on q
prolonged leave of absence in o.
tober.
They purpose passing the winter in
st. Petersburg that their only daugh-
ter Baroness Elizabeth Rosen, may
make her debut in that capital. This
young woman, who is just II years of
age, will be presented at court early
in the winter under particularly bril-
liant auspices.
The young baroness is a petite
blonde. She is perhaps the most care
fully reared girl of her age in Amer
lea, as her education has been con-
Quoted along exactly the same lines
as though she had never left her ma
tive land. Five hours each day have
been devoted to hard study, exclusive
OF the time devoted to music and
art. The various modern languages
being considered the necessary euuip-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-08-02

missioner Bingham himself gave up
the problem Of the fair bathers.
In the complaint of the taxpayers,
which was sent to Mr.. Ellison, this
statement was made, - ie~ - =.
The custom of our summer peo-
pie parading through our streets in
their bathing suits, is "a thing that
must be stopped at once, is the senti-
ment of all classes of citizens, for it
is something awful to see between
5000 and 10000 at one time going
through our streets without any con-
cern.''
The only question: Mr.. Ellison
says, "is whether a bathing suit is,
under the circumstances, a crime. If
not, the police should not interfere:
They are not the censors of public
morals, and ordinarily person can
dress as he or she pleases, so long
as the attire worn is not a disguise
or breach of public decency.
To constitute crime in such a case
there must be criminal intent upon
the part of the. wearer. Wearing a
suitable; bathing attire in a seaside
resort, where bathing is almost uni
versal, is not essentially a crime ~
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-08-02
NO NFALLIBLE SYSTEM
TO STOP BANK .THEFTs

NEW YORK.-Chester Runyan, the
~ absconding paying teller of the
Cedar street branch of the Windsor
Trust company, makes it plain once
more than in spite of every effort on
the part of bankers there is no really
efectual safeguard against the occur
renee of such thefts. No matter how
intricate may be banks system,
there is no getting around the fact
that in the long run employees have
TO be trusted. If they choose to alb
scond with the funds in their charge
or secure any part of the banks
money for their own uses by juggling
of accounts there is no infallible sys-
tenn to prevent them from doing SO.
In so far as it is possible, however,
bankers take every precaution. to
guard themselves against thieving en-
pleyes. Foremost among the methods
employed is the surety or bonding
system for employees. Not many years
ago an employer who desired a Sc
curity from an employee simply re-
quired the latter to bring a personal
bond from some friend. Banks or
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-08-02

A NEW departure in postal cards
"a has been decided upon by the
post office department. BEGINNING
August I the consumer will get more
for his penny than heretofore. The
front side, for years reserved by an
memorable rule for the address, will
be invaded by advertisements, pic
lures and messages.
Postmaster General Meyer has pro.
mulgated an order to this effect. A
vertical line will be placed about one
third of the distance from the left
end of the card. The space to the
right of this line will be reserved for
the address,, and the remaining por-
ton of the front side may be devoted
to details of how all the children are,
or any other of the things that here.
tofore have been confined to the back
side.
For years people have been sending
to the United States from foreign
countries postal cards and post cards
with messages written on the front as
we'll as on the back of the cards. al.
though In this country this advantage
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-08-02

ment of young girl Of her rank, are
not regarded as accomplishments, al.
though the literature of three or four
languages is a part of Baroness Eliza
Deth's recreation.
She has taken no part In Juvenile
society, wherein she would be warmly
welcomed by Miss Ethel Roosevelt,
Miss Helen Taft, Miss Bacon and
other young people of the admins
tration families, and has made no
friends of her own age in the two
years residence in America. Her
constant companions are her mother,
her governess and an American friend
some ten years her senior, who was
originally retained as a social secre-
tary.
At Magnolia, where the schoolroom
regime is slightly relaxed, Baroness
Elizabeth joins her parents and mem
bers of the staff at the midday break
fast, always feature of the embassy
life, but never joins her parents din
ner.
Her English is particularly pure
and pleasing, with what no doubt will
be described in Europe as an Ameri.
can accent. French is the language of
her home, and in that tongue her &C.
cent is distinctly Partisan. She also
speaks Italian and German fluently.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-08-02
Medieval Leisure,

The women of the sixteenth century
and earlier times had easier lives
than those Of our generation. To be
sure, there are hundred labor-saving
devices to-day which were unknown to
them. But in at least two important
respects they had the advantage over
their descendants. They waged no
conflict against dirt, such as we carry
on from morning till night. The
El1zabethan had no prejudice against
garbage in his front yard, vermin in
his bedroom, decaying rushes on the
floor OF his banquet hall, or soiled
lace on his sleeves. The strength of
arm and spirit which now goes to
Keeping clean was left to the medieva!
lady for other tasks. Moreover al.
though her clothing was gorgeous
rich with embroidery and lace and
heavy with jewels-it was not subject
to rapid changes of fashion. The cut
OF sleeve or the hang of a skirt was
settled for five years rather than for
tve months. Life was free then from
the modern terror of looking like a
last years ragbag" If cleanliness and
fashion should suddenly go out OF
business, says Youths Companion,
what an air of leisure would spread
over the world feminine, until some
other tyrants should arise to take the
place of those dethroned!
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-08-02

other business houses adhering to the
old personal surety system are con-
sidered far behind the times. One
of the most useful phases of the zac-
tiyity of a surety company is. the
watchfulness it exercises over young
men whom it has bonded who show
tendencies to stray from the straight
road of attention to- business After
such an erring youth has been seen
by some detective Or Investigator fire.
quenting race tracks, or gambling
dens he, receives a summons to call
at the office of the surety company
There one of the officers gives him a
serious talking to-" and~it . often
happens that the young mans .es-
capades have been of an innocent ma
ture, and he leaves the Office with "a
duly contrite heart, resolved upon
speedy reformation. IF an employees
misconduct has been serious, or if he
appears recalcitrant when advised
to give up bad habits, the surety
company threatens to cancel his bond,
which is equivalent to making him
lose his job. This usually brings him
to his senses.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-08-02
SCANT BATHING SUITS
PROPER STREET CARB

I T is not penal offense for a pretty
1 young woman, with shapely limbs,
to walk the streets of Rockaway
Beach clad in a bathing suit, cut low
at the top and high at the bottom
unless "the act be done with criminal
intent" This, after an exhaustive re-
search into all the authorities, is the
official finding of Corporation Counsel
Ellison.
The opinion is a knockout blow for
the Rockaway Beach Taxpayers asso-
citation, which has been shocked by
throngs of pretty young women in alb
breviated bathing skirts - walking
through the town, admired by the
men.
Mr.. Ellison, in addition to being &
great legal authority, has consider.
able admiration for feminine beauty.
He says the police have no business
whatever to interfere with the shape
ly bathers, and intimates if the mem
bers of the ROckaway Beach Taxpay-
ers' association don't like the bathers
parade they can look the other way
First Deputy Police Commissioner
O'Keefe of Brooklyn and then Com
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-08-02
MESSAGES ON EACH SIDE
OF NEW POSTAL CARDS

has been denied the users of govern
ment postal cards. Some months ago
the United States postal laws and
regulations were amended so as to
give that privilege to buyers of post
cards, but such concession was not
made applicable to postal cards. To-
days ruling will remedy this incon-
sistency and so prevent further confu-
sion. A very thin sheet of paper may be
attached, if it completely adheres to
the card and such a paster may bear
both writing and printing. Hereto
fore two cents in postage was re-
quired if this was DONE Advertise
ments, illustrations or writing may
appear on the back of the card and on
the left third of the front.
Postal cards bearing particles of
glass, metal, mica, sand, tinsel, or
other such substances are declared to
be unavailable, except when inclosed
in envelopes or when treated in such
manner as will prevent the objec-
tionable materials from being rubbed
of or injuring the hands of persons
handling the mails.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-08-02
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the American legation ct Picking and
later vice and deputy consul general
at Canton and Dalny, and William
Phillips of Massachusetts,, t,rmerly
private secretary to Ambassador
Choate at London and for tie last
two years second secretary of the
American legation at Eeking.
All of these young diplomats speak
and read the oriental languages, are
familiar with the domestic politics Of
the far eastern nations en6 we'll
versed in questions of Diplomacy now
pending between the Un1ted States
and the oriental countries. che pre-
liminary negotiations between this
country and Japan in dratt1us a new
treaty probably will be referred to the
Far Eastern Bureau.
Another important duty which will
deVolve upon the newly.crSanized
bureau will be to consider Tho numer-
Gus petitions and diplomatic notes"
which are annually prese>ltsa to the
state department suggesting changes
in the existing treaty bet vnen the
United States and China.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-08-02
A Dangerous Pest.

1t sometimes happens in human life
that man who has lived for years in
peaceable if not amicable relations
with his neighbors is suddenly re-
vealed as a great criminal whose pres
ence has been constant menace to all
about him, and whose sins include
tragedies which had long been mys-
teries. Some such revelation as this
has been made about the common do
nestle rat, not suddenly, perhaps, but
with slow and certain piling up of
evidence, until now the biological sur.
vey of the United States government
has indicted the sly gray criminal in
a special pamphlet. The first foreign
rat to reach these shores was the Eu-
ropean black rat, which came over
nearly 300 years ago. The common
rat of to-day is the brown or Norway
rat. He reached America about 1775,
and has multiplied SO rapidly that he
has almost entirely driven out his
black predecessor There is also a
third species, known as the roof, or
Alexandrian rat of Egypt. This rat is
good sailor, and so is found mostly
III seacoast cities. The brown rat is
pronounced to be the worst man.
malian pest in existence. No statis-
tics are available for America, but in
Denmark this rat is estimated to
work 100000 worth of destruction
every year; and in the United States
one rat to every horse, cow, sheep and
hog-a conservative estimate-would
do $1O0,000,00O worth of damage in a
year. Rats destroy eggs and young
poultry, pigeons, game birds and song.
birds. In cities they enter stores and
warehouses, and destroy laces, car
pets, silks and woolens. They gnaw
through lead pipe, and so flood build
ings with water. They eat away the
insulation of electric wires, and thus
cause fires. They are prolific sources
OF the spread of contagious diseases.
They breed SO fast that single pair,
II they and their descendants were
unmolested for three years, would be
represented at the end of that time by
more than 100000 individuals. The
bulletin of the biological survey is is
sued especially for farmers and others
whose premises are infested with
rats. 1t gives the best methods of
poisoning them-the rats-describes
the most effective traps, and gives
other information which makes it an
important aid in the elimination of
what has truly been called "a world
pest"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-08-02

But Congressman N1udd in congress
to fame. - o
FOR three days recently Representative Mudd
OF killing Hubert Posey His was
"unwrtten 1870
This murder justified
Here who ruined the
Ter
our womanoa the honor OF the mother the wife,
what nave LETT?
swift terrible
these defendants"
With
ears walked
verdict OF acqmtal The acclaimed
he he
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-08-02
NEW BUREAU TO HANDLE
MATTER OF FAR EAST

WITH the view of placing all diplo-
W matte and consular matters relat-
ing to Japan and China in the hands
OF officials familiar with conditions
In the orient, the state department
has perfected the organization of the
Far Eastern Bureau" which will
have charge of all correspondence and
preliminary treaty negotiations with
the oriental governments.
This new departure is more or less
In the nature of an experiment, which,
If it proves satisfactory, may lead to
the organization of similar bureaus to
conduct diplomatic and consular cor
respondence and negotiations with
the Central and South American re-
publics, European and Asiatic coun.
tries.
Huntington Wilson, third assistant
secretary Of state, who, for a number
of years served as secretary to the
American legation and embassy at
Toxic, is In charge of the new bu.
reau. His two assistants are Percival
Heintzleman of Pennsylvania, for
merly student interpreter attached to
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Big , l'l; BUILDINGS " Il ING WEIGHED
BEFORE THEY ARE BUILT
ing IN .Cortlandt street, is estimate
at $4,000 tons. i
~ The Amateur aChauffeur

4 The Amateur Chauffeur. =
How" do you adjust your carburet-
ter, Biggins?'' IS
I'll show you. You see that screw"
: - "Yes." >. ~ 7r.,...'5 T. - -
~ carefully turn that. You see thar
ring" 2.t@'::I Il II
Eyes" r.
Il slowly tighten that, II
Yes, but what do the nut and screv
and the ring control? What do. they
mean?' &a=s sss tss. Sssss s. ss
81 ~don't know" ,-,,
-. - Then how can you get a good ad-
justment ss s ss5 s : ~ - ~, 90 -
"You didn't let me finish: After 90
ing through the manipulations already
cited, I turn the crank" ~.
Then what happensggf u
Nothing" 10 -
3, We'll, then whatais the next move?n
II walk carefully into the telephone
room, gently take down the receiver
and pleasantly summon aid. from the
factory. "-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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GREAT fortunes, it is said, have
~ been founded on so slender a
basis as a common pin; but it has re.
NAMED for the Salvation Army to
finance great charity with waste pa
per. Experiments in running it's in
dustrial home without cash contribu-
lions were so successful in several
scattered buildings on West Thir-
t1eth street that the army felt justi-
fed in erecting, at cost of 500, 900,
Its new f1ve-story building on West
Forty-eighth street, which was opened
recently. Here the army handles old
newspapers, magazines, letters and
books.
Wagons are sent all over the city
to collect waste paper of all kinds
from private houses and Offices,
bundle it into bags and convey it to
the home. Men out of employment
separate the paper according to grade.
The sorting is done on the second
floor. and the paper is thrown down
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wAsTE.PAPER OF GOTHAM
KEEPS EXTENSIVE CHARITY

chutes to the main floor, where it is
baled and shipped to mills, in which
most of it is reduced to pulp and
rolled out again into coarse wrapping
paper. Old books are retained for
awhile to give dealers and antiquar-
1ans chance to bid on them before
they are, sent to the macerating watts,
and occasionally the collectors get
discarded furniture, which also is
sold.
In addition to the. paper-sorting
equipment there is ample room in
the building for housing the workers.
There are a large dormitory, a CON-
modious dining-room and a reading,
clothes and exchange room, all fitted
up according to the most approved
methods. Shower baths and porcelain
basins, with open plumbing fixtures,
are provided by. the score In -addi-
ton to boarding and lodging the $50
inmates, it is expected 70 pay them a
moderate wage.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-08-02

extraordinary discoveries were re.
Gently made at Toulouse, Saintes.
Agen, Bordeaux and other towns in
the south and southwest of France, OF
the wholesale adulteration of flour. A
considerable number of the inhabi.
tants of Condom have for many weeks
been suffering from gastric disorders
and serious stomach complaints. The
doctors sought for the cause of this
curious epidemic, and attributed it to
bread. The bakers, by way of show.
ing their good faith, supplied samples
OF the bread the patients had eaten
1t was found to be heavily adulterated
with tale, mineral which is generally
found in rough, brittle crystals, which
can DO sliced with a knife. Other
samples contained large quantities If
marble dust and sulphate of barvta
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-08-02
TO BUILD SUMMER HOME
FOR ARlST0CRATlC CATS
have carried their. pets on long trips
rather than leave them behind &c be-
neglected.
! AaThree-Decker Mustache.

BAN preparing an article on 1ueer
Whiskers,' said barber, for 6ne of
the sduller and more expensive maya
zines. My latest is the three-dacker
mustache. think I'll lead of my
article with it.
This tripartite mustache was worn
in Taras Bulba's time by the Gas.
sacks and the Poles. It WIS, lie 4
ship, in three decks.
"The top deck, directly beneath tht,
nose, was trained to grow inward IL
stead of outward. The hairs, thai IS.
pointed toward the middle of the Gp
instead of toward the corners.
1.-THE second deck was traehet; nat
ura1ly, as our mustaches are, Che hairs
all flowing toward the corners Of the
mouth. -
THE third deck was trained straight
downward. .~.~4 s,..,..... -
These. mustaches were yer. popu.
lar, but you could not wear one 81
them and do it justice unless you had
rather long upper lip %
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The Tomcat Won.

A boastful machinist employed at
the Jessop steel mill, near Washing
ton, Pa, had the conceit taken out Of
him by a big tomcat one day recently.
He was boasting of his strength, de-
claring that he could pull a horse
through the waters Of Charters creek.
Superintendent Wilson Of the mill Of
fered to bet ten dollars that +. he
couldn't pull cat through the wa
ter from bank to bank. The bet was
taken. A big black tomcat was Sc
cured at . nearby house, and the 200
mill workers gathered at the creek
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-08-02

to see the test Of strength. The ma
chinist was on one; side of the creek
with one end of the rope and the cat
and the spectators were on the. other.
The! rope was tied around the cat,
and, when all was in readiness, the
word was given and the tug-of7war
was on. The machinist held his own
for a moment, and then, with q
mighty heave4 against the strafning
hemp, the cat pulled him: into the
water. t*zs t3E sss Isl ifEH@ mr. ..5Fss3 Il,
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The woman's first husband was a Goa,
HEAVIER and her father janitor IN a
tenement house. and the Belgtans say
that they will not submit to tho oco,,
pancy OF the throne by one of Inv
origin. 1t will surprise the outside
world to learn that anyone lower than
leopold is to be found in thai oov,
try.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-08-02

bernard Shaw says he can write all
around Shakespeare, but he hasn't the
nerve TO claim that he can equal the
literary effort of the able gentleman
VINO wrote the! declaration of indie.
pendence