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The Embroidered Fact.


A righteously irascible editor has just
shown me a collection of newspaper clip
pings in which the correspondents see At
to embroider fact The word fact"
mean, not the thing. What reporter ever
did that? And in those curious clippings
I read Of the accomplished fact" the
assured fact" the assured fact of the
near future" the almost assured fact"
and the already now assured fact" The
editor contemplates such elaboration with
deep anguish. To his mind facts are facts.
and there's an end on t the Correspondent
would have said "a final and ultimate
end'D, 30 why those useless rhetorical
catstitches and French knots7
For space. simply and solely. The cor
respondent gets paid by the inch. There's
money in redundancy. His little game II
to make a paragraph out of a stickfull,
half column out Of q paragraph. Hence
never fact" but always an accom-
plished" or assured" or known" or I'm
conference.-the" fact. And meanwhile the
press employs editors to cross those words
out, since the reader wants nothing but
brevity.
1t is reported that once upon q time a
correspondent wired his editor, Terrific
confiagration in our town. How much
shall send?" To this the editor replied,
"One thousand words" The boy wired
back: VERY terrific con1agration. Three
houses, four barns. Want 5000 words"
Whereupon the editor Photographed, Cree
alton of world told In 900. Try It."
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"Oh. illustrious one, am a poor man, as
thou dost see. Alas! My father is dead.
and his bones lie in this land Of the infidels
Ny mother weepeth for them by the waters
OF Tes Kiang, and Ale! have no money to
send them. / supplicate-"
But thy father was not of the Suey
SingT'
NAY, heavenIborn, but
The secretary entered again and kow-
lowed:
Another vile coolie, with a tale of woe,
graciousnessr'
Fling him down stairs!" roared Chong.
now"
But the supplicator fell upon his knees
again, inlploring:
1T Is my brother, wonderful one. He
hath brought his tears to aid my prayers
that the divine-sprung Suey Sings-may
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his breast. Instantly the pleading child
turned into an Infatuated little beast. She
screamed like a tortured kitten and flung
her pointed nails into his leering yellow face
with all her furious strength.
Chung Wo hurled her from him to the
heap Of mating, and coolly walked to the
door. His skin smarted with the sting Of
her scratches, but he was smiling.
1t was late that night when Chung Wo
sat in the inner sanctum of the Suey Sing
Tong, smoking the pipe of peace with him
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THE Brotherhood
of Six NJ -

with single knife blow. He caught the
squirting jets of blood in the bronze bowl.
The Brotherhood of Six then took the
hypodermic needle and each extracted from
the ball of his thumb a single drop of his
own blood and mingled 1t with the ROSTERS.
Then one by one, they quaffed from the
bowl.
The light from the court outside filtered
in between the interstices of the iron bars
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come to thee thou art the slave Of Chung
Wo and art bound to his will?"
Loo Puck slipped on her knees at his
feet:
"Oh, gracious lord, pray thee let me go
to Nah Neng. Illustrious one, I shall die
here, 1 shall die here! I pray thee, it is
that want the little mother, Nah Neng"
For answer. Chung Wo caught her under
the arms and swung her up to the level Of
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Police Inspector--"Haven't often In
structed You that you are not to allow the
public to pick the flowers In this park?
Parkkeeper-"Yes, that Is my wife, who
used to be your cook. Perhaps you Will try
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-27

Imperial Cathedral Art Rugs-All-
wool rugs In Brussels effects-woven
without seams. In Old Blue, Red, Green
Terra Gotta and the wood shades-guar-
anteed to wear.
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kensingtOn Art Squares.

This is fine Allwool Art Square
woven in a solid piece-no seams. A
large variety of designs and colorlngs
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~ ~ All KENG, the little mother. sat
NH among the cold embers wailing
N and scattering handfuls of ashes
over her head, while Fong
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-08-23
WORKINCMEN SAID TO BE
SHARING IN PROSPERITY

around and leave a comfortable mar
gin for export.
IF the railroads could only get the
labor the investment of money in bet
terments this year would exceed any
thing ever reported" says John T..
Marchand, assistant to the president
of the Rock Island system, who until
recently was a highly valued employe
of the interstate commerce commits
sion. "The trouble is that the labor
can't be had at any price. We are do
ing everything possible, for instance,
on the Rock Island lines to establish a
strictly first-class condition. 1t has
been only by the greatest exertion that
we have been able to get ties, of which
we had hundreds of thousands bought,
delivered to us. No labor.
But it can be set down as certain
that next fall and winter will not see
a repetition of the troubles of last win
ter. The railroads have their tracks
in condition, have more cars, more
power, more of everything and have
put it all into the best possible state
of efficiency. Tonnage is so big that
the prospect of small reduction,
which seemed to be promised during
the spring, was really rather gratify-
ing to the operating departments, for
it gave them chance to catch up with
business. But the reduction evidently
isn't going to take place, for crop con-
ditiOnS are vastly hetter than anvhOdv
dreamed was possible at that time"
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-08-23
Bringing Up a Boy.

Is the average village the most diff
ficult place in which to bring up" a
boy? The farm boy is sent alone
with the team into the wood lot two
miles back in the hills, and told sim
ply to get wood. He deals with
broken harness, balky horse, trees
neW-fallen across the road; fails,
gives up, cries, arises, and two hours
late for dinner comes out with load
OF wood and an increment Of charac-
ter good for life. The city boy sees
every one doing something intensively,
feels, like the farm boy, the isolation
OF his own personality, and finally
takes off his coat and goes in to play
the game. The village youth, how
ever, is likely to lean on one foot
for years in group of his kind, Won
dering what they would say If he had
made a move. Having the farms
cloddiness, without it's daily call to
the individual mastery of problems,
and the city's social closeness without
Its lncessant urge to achievement, is
not the village, says Golfers, in special
need of identification and healthful
stimuli?
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-08-23

IT is predicted in official circles that
L the forthcoming bulletin of the bu-
reau of labor will show that the in
creases In wages this year have broken
all records and that the prosperity
which is so much heralded is tangible
and that the working people are fully
participating in it. Whether they are
receiving their full share is a question
which cannot be answered officially or
otherwise to the satisfaction> of all
concerned, but it is stated that official
figures will show that the advances in
wages during the last II months have
been unprecedented.
Along with the increase in wages
has been experienced an increase in
the cost of living. The purchasing
power of money has decreased both
when applied to labor and to living.
While trusts and monopolies have in
some instances destroyed the power of
supply and demand to affect prices, it
is promised that normal and natural
rules will apply when the department
of justice completes it's programme of
attacks upon the combinations. So far
as supply affects prices Secretary Will
son says that he will produce bounti-
full harvests. While he cannot promise
bumper crops he says emphatically
that there can be no crop failure, and
that the yield of the principal crops
will be abundant, large enough to go
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-08-23

The bulletin in part says: From
the time of the first settlement of the
country this has been one of the great
est sources of loss to the rancher and
farmer. The country is not suited to
cultivation, and always furnished ref
uge to cougars, wolves, and other ami.
mails of their class. Now that the gov
ernment has undertaken the admins
tration of land of this character, active
work has been started to exterminate
such animals.
1T is part of forest rangers duty
to hunt predatory animals, and with
the addition of skilled hunters the
force, whose business is to hunt, ex-
cellent results are expected.
THE appointment in the Dixie ma
tional forest was made directly in re-
sponse to petition to the forester by
the citizens of Pine valley. Conditions
there are so bad farmers are afraid to
allow their children to go after the
mich COWS in the evening and the
losses from stock killed were heavy"
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-08-23
The Sexes In America.

America is the field in which will
be harmoniously adjusted the differ
ences of das -Weibliche and the
eternal domineering male. Woman
is not inferior to man but different
from him, as Stendhal would say.
Nevertheless, the two sexes are slow
ly approaching, declares James
Huneker, in Every ybody's Magazine.
The man of to-day is more fem
inine than his predecessors; that
Is, he is more gentle, civilized :;
while the woman, casting away old.
fashioned incrusting prejudices, is
more masculine, i. e., she is not only
more athletic in her tastes than her
grandmother-she is mentally broader
and f1rmer in her judgments. (Some
day she will be so far "evolved" that
she will be charitable to her own
sex). The franker association of the
sexes has proved tonic to the woman,
refining to the man. These are school.
boy truisms, but they will always
stand quotation.
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-08-23

When the war of the rebellion be-
gan, and the erstwhile secretary of
war became the executive head of the
confederacy, the name Of Jefferson
Davis was chiseled of this tablet,
and to-day a glaring blank occupies
the space.
AS sectional prejudice has disap.
peared, this little expression of ami
mostly has been regretted by many
who approved and who might have
cheered the deed at the time of it's
commission. More than once replac-
ing the name has been suggested.
A few days ago the president re.
cefved letter on the subject from
Walter P. Phillips of Bridgeport,
Conn.,, and this document he referred
to the war department.
This is the first time the agitation
has been put into any definite and
official form, and it is believed steps
may soon be taken to restore the
tablet to something resembling it's
former SELF
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-08-23
THE ENTERPRISE. !
W. E. BANNAFoRD, Publisher:
VIRGINIA. MINNESOTA
Science Of rIckIishness.

When one has found suitable it,
tie playmate, preferably child be-
tween three and eight years of age,
and commences to tickle it, what hap
pens? In the first place, replied DR..
Douis Robinson, famed for his re-
searches into zoology, it becomes
quite evident that unless the child is
in a playful and responsive mood it
cannot be tickled. If it be unwell, or
if stranger or one whom the child
fears or dislikes attempts to tickle IT.,
there is no response except resent
ment at an unwelcome interference.
But as soon as a satisfactory under
standing is established, the little one
laughs and wriggles with delight. AL
though each movement is an elaborate
avoidance of contact, there is a con-
tinual invitation to repeat the tickling.
Practically all children, in fact, both
by word of mouth and act. show plenty
of evidence of enjoyment Of the game,
and invite its continuance indefinitely.
Hence, one may say that there exists
a distinct appetite for tickling. This,
upon close investigation, proves to be
as marked and real as any of the rec
Ognized animal appetites (all OF
which, by the way, have an immediate
bearing on the continuance OF the In
dividual or of the race). This appe-
tite for tickling has this in common
with the other appetites, declares Cur
rent literature, that there are times
when desire is absent and provoca-
ton fails to take effect. Like the re-
aexes associated with the gustatory
nerve, which makes part Of the appe-
tite for food the activity Of which de-
pends upon whether we are hungry or
the reverse, the reflexes that accom-
pany ticklishness are intermittent.
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-08-23
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HE wife Of J. G. Phelps Stokes, the
/ millionaire, who was Rose Pastor,
cigar factory girl on the east side,
has decided to do more journalistic
work.
When she lived in a stuffy tenement
and shared with her neighbors the in
conveniences and simple pleasures af-
forded by the east side streets and
parks, she amused herself by writing
little pieces for Yiddish papers and
early developed keen insight into
the problems of her quarter and rea-
soning mind that suggested many SEN
sib]e remedies. For long time after
her marriage she and her husband re-
manned on the east side doing helpful
settlement work, but later they STOP
ped it.
Now, however, she is going to re-
sumo writing, but in another vein.
''Bintel Brief' will be the heading of
her column in Yiddish paper. It
means bunch of letters" and Mrs.
Stokes answers to those letters may
be properly designated as balm for
lovers" The paper has developed it's
advice-to-the-lovelorn department until
it is now read by all the east side.
The Yiddish method of conducting
such department is much the same
as that employed by English papers,
and Judging from the letters received,
there is just as much unrequieted love
east of the Bowery as there is farther
up town. It is reasonable to suppose
that Mrs. Stokes. as editor, will be
asked many times how she. captured
her wealthy husband.
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-08-23
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A MONG the women of New York So
"A ciety there is just as much compe-
tition in charitable work as there is in
their social doings. Perhaps it cannot
be said that they have selfish motives,
but it is certain that there is bitter
rivalry for the honor of the highest
sales.
The other day at Newport there was
fair to raise money for church, and
the devices conceived by the matrons
of society to get the money from their
neighbors were almost marvelously in
genious. Miss Pauline French is said
to have cast all her competitors in the
dark with her booth, the contents of
which were a strict secret until the
fair was we'll under way. When she
unveiled the booth there was a big
crowd of curious women present. The
goods offered for sale were nothing
more than cushions shaped like sau-
sages, but with the aid of clever pro-
fessional demonstrator Miss French's
pillows went like hot cakes on a win
ter's morning-of course, at tremen-
dously fancy prices. But who among
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-08-23
MRS. STOKES TO ADVISE
GIRLS IN LOVE AFFAIRS
In addition to dealing out advice 20
her Yiddish sisters in their love af-
fairs, Mrs. Stokes will write weekly
articles on socialistic subjects.
A Gritty Aeronaut.


Rene Cashier, who will race under
the blue and .buttercup ensign of the
Aero Club de France in the Bennett
cup race next October, is one of the
coolest aeronauts on record. Up to
the time of Lieut.. Lahm's capture of
that cup last year the English chan
mel had been crossed only six times
by balloon. Right after that race
Cashier crossed the channel as pilot
for Lady Harbord, who went to France
in a balloon.
They crossed back quickly, start
ing to land on the downs beyond
Dover castle, but the valve stuck open.'
The balloon, pitching and swirling.
was dropping at dangerous rate, so
Cashier clambered up the rigging and
in the nick of time closed the valve.
AS he was climbing down the side of
the bag, still jumping dangerously.
Lady Harbord asked him to stop while
she photographed him. Although IN
momentary danger of being hurled to-
the ground the French sportsman
hung on to the netting "by his eye:
lids while a snapshot was taken of
him. -
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-08-23

the society, had told her about the
plan for a new home for Jack ashore"
down on the water front, but the mat
ter had not been discussed by them
for several weeks prior to St. Patrick's
day, when she and Col. Slocum were
sitting in window of the Sage resi-
dence, opposite st. Patrick's Cathe-
dral, watching the parade, when sud-
denly Mrs. Sage turned to Col. Slocum
and said:
Il have been thinking about your
plans for home for seamen. It seems
to me that it is an excellent idea, one
that is sure to help many poor man,
and have decided to give $125, 1000 for
it, :.
Col. Slocum, who had expected that
when he made another appeal to his
sister she would make contribution
toward the fund, did not expect as
much, and, least of all, did not ex-
pect to hear her mention it when ap.
parently her thoughts were on the
marchers in the street.
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-08-23

ECRETARIES CORTELYOU and
~ Garfield have laid the foundations
for fine quarrel. Some time ago
Garfield issued regulation for the
officers and clerks of his department
which permitted them to file expense
accounts without swearing to their
accuracy and truth.
Garfield figured that If the govern
ment could not trust the men it sent
out to look after it's business to rem
der true bill of expenses it had
better get other men.
Robert J. Tracewell, comptroller of
the treasury, who passes on all ques-
tions of law relating to disbursements
of money, and George B. Cortelyou, his
official superior, think otherwise. They
think the jurat is necessary because
they believe the law requires verifica.
tfon under oath.
Tracewell and Cortelyou have put
out new method of accounting for
money disbursed by the government.
In which they set aside the Garfield
regulation without mentioning it or
without having consulted the most
prominent member of the tennis cab
met.
In view of the standing of Garfield
at the White House, this shows won.
derful temerity on the part of sCorte..
you. The only way Garfield can pre-.
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-08-23
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site, especially the fine view up and
down the Hudson, and he decided to
build a small lodge on the land across
the road from the stable
Eventually not alone the view but
the ease with which the cottage
could be reached, the opportunity to
use horses and automobiles and to
keep a yacht in the river below con-
vinced Mr.. Billings that the site of
the revolutionary Fort Tryon offered
an ideal place for summer home,
and Mr.. Lowell was instructed to
build complete country place. The
finished house is said to represent a
cost of half a million dollars.
Of the Louis XIV. style, the house
proper is three stories high, while
the tower is five. There are high
roofs with peaked turrets, and the
entrance is under porte-coche from
formal esplanade in front.
Mr.. Billings expects to spend half
of each year in Tryon Hail. He also
has a residence in Fifth avenue, but
until recently he has been living in
Libby Castle, once the retreat OF
BOSS Tweed"
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-08-23
RIVALRY AMONG SOCIETY
WOMEN IN CHARITY WORK

the Four Hundred care about the
prices at church fair?
They say that Alfred G. Vanderbilt
said things about the church fair idea
the other day when he returned to his
Oakland farms and learned that Mrs.
Vanderbilt had donated to the fair
nearly all of the large stock Of maple
sugar which he had specially made
somewhere up in the woods. Mr.. Van
derbilt, it is said, is as fond of griddle
cakes as a farmers hired man, and
this maple syrup for them was sort
of hobby of his. But Mrs. Vanderbilt
had wanted to make a good showing
at the fair, SO she put nearly the whole
consignment up for sale.
Not to be outdone by Mrs. Wander
bilt, Mrs. John Nicholas Brown will
throw open her estate on Malidon Hill
next month for the benefit of the
Brown memorial, Emmanuel church.
It has been suggested that she can
easily make million if she will an
nounce that her much exploited baby
will do something as absurd as the
newspaper stories are making this
richest baby in the land do.
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-08-23
GOVERNMENT OPENS WAR
ON PREDATORY ANIMALS

WASH1NGTON.- - The government
W has obtained an Off cial "hunter,"
not mere mollycoddle of an octopus
slayer or special commissioner who
seeks the money devil in his sky
scraper lair, but the genuine, pure ar
ticle, who will go around with a real
gun with the intention Of killing big
game at SO much per, to be paid for
out of Uuncle Sans treasury. He is
J. M. Moody, and the appointment,
which was made by the United States
forest service, took effect on July /,
when the official nimrod assumed his
duties in the Dixie national forest in
Utah.
The appointment, according to a
statement made by the forest service,
has greater significance than appears
on the surface" To this explanation
IS added that lit is fultillment of the
promise of the forest service to do
something to help settlers all over the
west to lessen the losses they have
suffered from predatory animals''
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-08-23
Gettinu His BEARINGS.

Chris Tracy, wireless wiretapper
whose reputation for separating easy
marks from their money is second only
to that of Larry Summerfield, visited
Inspector McCatfery, chief of the New
York detective bureau, a few dayz
ago.
Il came to see where STOOD" said
Tracy in matter-of-fact tone.
What do you mean?" asked Nc.
Caftery.
well, I want to know whether ]
can work or not said Tracy.
The best thing for you to do,
Tracy, is to get out of town." replied
McCaffery. Il will tell the men in
the bureau to pick you up every time
they see you. Now get out"
Tracy went away with a look of in.
jured innocence.
II WONDER" mused the man who
heard of this visit, IF Tracy didn't be.
lieve he was following out the old
precedent of going to the front to get
permission to carry on his business
have heard of such things, and often
wondered how it was done."'
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-08-23
BEAUTIFUL "ClTY VILLA"
ON BANKS OF THE HUDSON
N EW YORK.-Tryon Hall, the new
~ residence of G. K. G. Billings,

M CIV YORK.-Tryon Hall, the new
~ residence of G. K G. Billings,
we'll known as a breeder of trotting
horses, which has just been CON-
pleted at Fort Washington road and
One Hundred and Ninety-sixth street,
marks a novel departure in home
building in New York 1t is virtually
a country place in the city. Sur
rounded by spacious grounds and
commanding wide views of rural
scenery, it is nevertheless on Man.
haitian Island, on the edge of the
crowded metropolis and within reach
OF the theaters, the hotels, and the
business district.
There is an interesting story of
the development of the idea which
resulted in the establishment of
Tryon Hall. Mr.. Billings bought
several acres of land some years ago
for the purpose of building a stable
for his famous trotting horses, which
he raced on the Speedway, and he
gave the commission to his architect,
Guy Lowell.
AS the scheme progressed, Mr.. Bill
lings took an active interest in the
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-08-23


The New York Bible society is
authority for the statement that no
immigrant ship arrives at the port of
New York that is not promptly Wis.
tied by one or more of its agents,
who are authorized to put into the
hands of every immigrant who is
willing to accept the gift of copy of
the Bible printed in either one of
"a languages. The society announces
it's purpose to push this good work
even more vigorously, and to try to
persuade the unwilling or Indifferent
immigrants to take them. It's a
great missionary work, done where It
is calculated to accomplish the most
good