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The Virginia enterprise., 1908-03-20
Latest Romance of w. Gould Brokaw

Is said to be at the home of her ia.
ther in Chittenango..
1t is announced in Highpoint that
Mr.. Brokaw has sold his mountain pre-
serve to his uncle, William Gould, of
New York, for $250,000. He told
persons to whom he talked before
leaving Highpoint that he would
never return to that part of the coun.
try.
Following the departure of Mr.. and
Mrs. Brokaw most of the servants at
Fafrview started for New York. From
their gossip it was gathered that the
honeymoon of the millionaire and his
wife was stormy period.
During the Christmas holidays Mr..
Brokaw gave a house party to a
crowd from New York. The servants
told of scene one night at dinner,
before the guests, between Mr.. Bro
kaw and his wife, because Mr.. Brokaw
insisted that she should drink ginger
ale instead of champagne
After every one in the house had
retired, the servants said, Mrs. Brokaw
got up, dressed, and made her way
to Highpoint, where she engaged &C.
commodations at little hotel. The
next day guests at Fairview persuaded
her to return to her husbands house.
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-03-20
Well Groomed Sports Wearing Vertical

Louis Onativia never amounted to
much. Lee Taller might have walked
In Walls shoes, but he wears No. 6
hat. Al Claggett's stomach killed his
chances. 1t is evident that there Is an
effort among the gay young blades just
now to find leader. Young Fish, who
was killed in Cuba, was the very youth
for the kingship-a youngster of fine
breeding, fine tastes, fine features.
fine front, fine deviltry, fine courage,
fine stature and fine Indifference.
There was not his like in all Man.
haitian. Several of his admirers met
in solemn confab in chophouse near
Forty-second street and Broadway the
other night and discussed the spring
fshions. Some wagers were made on
stripes.
These gilded youth determined to
make test of courage. Anybody could
wear the horizontal stripes in Jail:
and all could wear the vertical out of
jail; but was any one brave enough tc
wear the horizontal out of Jail? One
in the party bet $500 against 81 900
that he would within two months ap.
pear in Broadway in suit of hori-
zontal stripes, strolling from Forty
seventh street down to Fourteenth on
the east side of the thoroughfare and
back again to Forty-seventh on the
west side.
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-03-20

EVER since a magazine article roast
Il ing the art of the great paintings
in the rotunda of the capitol has been
given circulation, the pictures have
been receiving more attention than
ever before from the capitol guides.
Even the oldtimers in Washington
who regarded it as green" to listen
the pictures and statuary, are going
over the paintings to verify the &C.
curacy of the magazines criticism.
And the criticism seems justified in
two instances. The great painting by
John Trumbull, depicting Washing.
tons resignation of the command Of
the army, is found to contain the pic
ture of q young girl of a freak variety.
Two little children gazing in
tently at the heroic figure of the IA
ther of his country are seen to be we'll
equipped with hands and arms. Be-
tween the two of them the little girls
have five arms. 1t is asserted in the
magazine article that one girl has
three hands, but careful examina-
tion of the picture shows that the two
little girls have Ave hands and to
neither of them can any two of the
five hands be properly charged. II
Another oddity of the rotunda pic.
lures is that found at the great illus
tration Of the baptism Of Pocahontas.
Among the Indians Of Pocahontas' i'm
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-03-20
Woman Frail Thing, Says Supreme Court

ployes, the court perhaps for the first
time in it's history, told woman just
where she stands. And a laundryman
is responsible for this official pronun-
ciamento as to the rights of the fair
sex. This thrifty Oregonian made his
women employees work ten hours, the
same as the men on his pay rolls. He
was prosecuted under the eight-hour
law, which was upheld by the state
courts and again by the country's high.
est tribunal.
Holding first that women's rights
can be no more infringed than those
of men, Justice Brewer, who an
nounced the decision, went still fur
ther and held that on many accounts
woman is entitled to greater protec-
ton than her brother.
"Legislation designed for her pro-
lection may be sustained even when
like legislation is not necessary for
men and could not be sustained" he
said.
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-03-20

ID ECAUSE it is reputed to be the
ID greatest discovery of twentieth
century days for the development Of
the human figure, New York's 400"
have espoused the Merry Widow"
waltz.
Mrs. w. X. Vanderbilt, Jr., and Mrs.
Harry Payne Whitney are most en-
thusiastic exponents of the waltz. 1t
has become the "rage"- among other
society people and is the latest draw
ing-room amusement.
Young Donald Brian, who takes the
part of a prince in the opera, was in
vited to the Vanderbilt home to tea
recently. After the tea the society
leaders present tried the famous waltz.
Brian complimented them, and showed
them some of the intricacies of the
dance which they had not acquired.
There was another tea . few days
after, at Mrs. Whitney's, and another
waltz rehearsal.
Brian has had so many requests
from people who wish to be taught the
dance that he is half inclined to con-
slider leaving the stage and opening
a dancing school. It would be a kind
of gymnasium, too, because the Merry
Widow dance is q strenuous affair.
II one is at all in need of figure devel
opment he should try the dance. It
is more effective than dieting or
treatment and much pleasanter. .., +:
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-03-20
Other Professions of Our Conqressmen

will be more nearly correct. 1t is the
honest truth that many of the men
listed in the senate by these writer's
as worth all the way from $1,000, 900
to $60,000,000 each would be willing
to take ten per cent. of these esti.
mates in cash to-day"
Another senator, probably as rich
as Mr.. Elkins, but who would not al
low his name to be used, declares that
fully one-fourth of the 80 senators
have little else than their salaries of
$500 a year. Another fourth of the
80 have somewhere between $4,000
and $4,000. The personal fortunes
of another quarter of the senate range
between $4,000 or $4,000 and $780,
600. Most of this class of twenty.odd.
the senator thought, were worth be-
tween 100000 and 100000. The other
quarter comprised senators all worth
$500,OO0, and probably 10 or IL only
entitled to be called millionaires, not
multi-millionaires. but simply worth
from $1,000,00O to 100000
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-03-20
N EW YORK.-The free lunch habit
~ Is breaking into New York soci-

NEW YORK.-The free lunch habit
~ Is breaking into New York soci-
ETY., according to proprietors of well
known hotels, and as a result neil
worth millions, who, five years ago,
would have hesitated to be seen talk
ing bite at the lunch counter in
The cafe, now think nothing of get
Ting their midday luncheon at these
priceless" restaurants. The panic
has nothing whatever to do with this
practice, nor is it a plan to save
money. The hotel people regard it
as another development in the split
second method Of American business
another chance which the financier
is selling to save minute or two for
stocks or deals in the middle of the
DAY. frequently the tips given by
these men to the walters in the free
lunch department would serve, with
the additional sum spent for bever.
ages, to purchase very good lunch
con in nearby dining-room.
There is another factor, however,
the hotel men believe. This is the
TACT that the meats and other dishes
served at these counters are common.
~ cooked in plain American fashion.
and many men whose palates are
wearied by the foreign dishes served
to them by the hotel chefs or by
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-03-20
Three CURES OF ECZEMA,
Woman Tells Of Her Brothers Terrible
Suffering-Two Babies Also Cured
-Cutlcura Invaluable.

my brother had eczema three diff.
ferent summers. Each summer it came
out between his shoulders and down
his back, and he said his suffering
was terrible. When it came on the
third summer, he bought a box Of
Cuticura Ointment and gave it a faith
full trial. Soon he began to feel better
and he cured himself entirely of &C.
zema with Cuticura. A lady in In.
diana heard Of how my daughter,
Mrs. Miller, had cured her little son
Of terrible eczema by the Cuticura
Remedies. This lady's little one had
the eczema so badly that they thought
they would lose it She used Cuti-
cura Remedies and they cured her
child entirely, and the disease never
came back. Mrs. Sarah E. Lusk. Cold.
water, Mich. Aug. IL and Sept. 2, 1907"
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-03-20

I T is said by some leading tailors that
l striped suitings for men will pre-
vail this spring and summer, as they
are now all the rage in Paris and Lon
don, and New York is not much be-
hind those capitals in styles. There is
a class OF wellgroomed men who have
in most seasons affected perpendicular
stripes; l mean the gamblers. Tom
Gould, of all divekeepers the most
dangerous, was a Beau Brummell in
attire. Hungry Joe" was as natty as
a fairy princeling. There is not a
banker or broker in New York who un.
derstands the art of dressing as well
as some of the racetrack touts. These
fellows wear 81 cravats and have a
knack of adjusting them that bewild-
ers the gentleman of refinement.
Who sets the fashions in New York
to-day for the young swells? There
is no king of the dudes. Evander
Berry Wall is in total eclipse and
Freddie Gebhard is altogether de trop.
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-03-20

One OF the ways, it is said, to "cor.
rupt' an anarchist is to make him
rich. One way to cure a "leader" of
men out of work is to offer him a Job.
In Boston recently an >agitator collect
ed band of unemployed, singularly
well-dressed and not disorderly throng.
When they were led up to the free
employment bureau which Massa-
chusetts maintains, only one-quarter
of them filed applications. There are
four classes of unemployed--those
who will not work, those who will
work only at special kind of task,
those who cannot work, and those who
are willing to do any honest work.
The first two classes owe an immense
debt to society. With respect to the
other two classes, the debt is on the
other side. We have to divide the
classes pretty carefully before we be.
gin to solve the problem of the unen,-
ployed
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-03-20
JUDGING sY THE RESULTS.
Villagers Conversion Had Not Been Of
Great Avail.

I'm our business we get many doubt
full compliments" said Col. John F.
Bishop, deputy surveyor of the port,
the other day, "but do not think
ever received a compliment such as
my grandfather got down in my native
state of Tennessee. My grand father
was a minister and was very small
boy when We both strolled down the
road one day. One Of our fellow vii.
layers came along toward us.
"'Good morning. said the villager,
who apparently had looked upon the
cup. 'I-sh conver-hic-ted, parson,'
he stammered with difficulty. AN
twashyou-hic- con-hic-con-
verted-hic-me'
"'That must be so,' replied my
grandfather, for it's certain the Al
mighty had nothing to do with your
conversion New York Evening
Telegram.
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-03-20
oOC1ETY is eagerly discussing re

oOC1ETY is eagerly discussing re-
- ports that the honeymoon of Mr..
and Mrs. w. Gould Brokaw has gone
into eclipse. Brokaw, who was d.
vorced from his first wife, Corallie Ed
munds Coudert, in 1898, was sued
five years ago for $3.50, 900 for breach
of promise by Katherine Poillon, and
was mentioned by George Lederer,
now of Chicago, in his divorce suit,
denies that there is a separation.
Mrs. Brokaw was Mary Morris
Blair, a daughter of Joseph A. Blair,
a broker of this city. She was mar
ried to Mr.. Brokaw September II
last at the Blair country home in
Chittenango, N. Y.
The couple parted a few days ago
at Mr.. Brokaw's country estate, Fair
view, Highpoint, N. c. They came
north separately. Mr.. Brokaw is sup
posed to be in this city and his wife
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-03-20
THE DOCTORS GIFT.
Food Worth lts Welaht in Gold.


We usually expect the doctor to put
US on some kind Of penance and give
us bitter medicines.
A Penn. doctor brought q patient
something entirely different and the
results are truly interesting.
1.-TWO years ago." writes this pa.
tient, Il was q frequent victim of
acute indigestion and biliousness. be-
Ing allowed to eat very few things.
One day our family doctor brought me
q small package. saying he had found
something for me to eat, at last.
He said 1t was food called Grape
Nuts, and even as it's eolden color
might suggest. 1t was worth its weight
IN gold. l was sick and tired, trying
one thing after another to no avail.
but at last consented to try this new
food.
well! It surpassed my doctors
fondest anticipation and every day
since then have blessed the good
doctor and the inventor Of Grape
Nuts.
Il noticed Improvement at once and
In . months time my former spells OF
indigestion had disappeared. In two
months felt like new man. Ny
brain was much clearer and keener.
my body took on the vitality OF youth.
and this condition has continued
There's = Reason" Name giyen by
Z Postum Co. Battle Creek, Mich. Read
Tho Road 20 Wellvile. = a plLEe
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-03-20

Mostly Of Chicago" is the way a
man recently described his residence.
His Characterization seems reasonable.
When he was six years old he cut off
one OF his toes with a scythe. When
he was eight he shot of two joints of
one OF his fingers. He ran away from
home when he was IA, and the frost
OF q winter night took off three more
toes and the tip of his nose. At 35 ne
lost his entire right foot. A drunken
halfbreed bit off an ear in the Klon.
dixie, a Dakota corn-sheller took his
LETT forearm, and since then he has
lost three fingers, a joint from another
finger and one eye.
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-03-20
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uJASHlNGTON:-W else are con-
W gressmen besides congressman! !!
II they are not in congress-, drawing
salary from a grateful people, what
would they be doing for living?
When the official questioner went
around and asked the Sixtieth con-
gress what it's business was when it
wasn't congressing Sc members of the
senate and lower house-15 Of one
and IL of the other, replied point
blank that they were public officials. {"
OF course, in both houses the law.
years far outnumber everybody else put
together. There are 81 professed law
yers in the senate alone, and no less
than 235 more in the house-just II
less than an even 900 all together.
In this category reads the names
one has heard before-Senators Tel
Ter and Bacon, Hepburn, Borah, Hop
k1ns, Hemenway and Beveridge, Frye,
Nelson, Depew, La Toilette, Foraker
and Dick, Penrose, Culberson and Bal
ley. In the house the lawyers are le-
gion, with Nicholas Longworth, Bur-
ton, Tawney, De Almond, Littlefeld,
Crumpacker, Overstreet and the New
York triumvirate of Bourke Cochran,
Herbert Parsons and Serene Payne
Bankers rank next in number, al
though there are but five in the en-
tire senate, which seems like news
1aliaferro Of Florida, Nixon of Neva-
da, Kean Of New Jersey, Ankeny of
Washington, and Reed Smoot of Utah.
The house boasts % bankers, making
q in all.
The two senators from South Caro-
lima confess that they are farmers,
though that is more than anybody else
In the senate will admit. These are
Senators Latimer and Tillman. Thus
the latter remains loyal to his pitch
fork. Two are merchants, Aldrich and
Perkins. Buckley of Connecticut says
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-03-20

e ENATOR STEPHEN B, ELKINS Of
- West Virginia, rated as a multi
millionaire, has arisen in protest
against the current lists showing the
wealth of the men who make up the
American house of lords" One of
the latest Of these lists, printed a few
days ago, set down Senator Guggen-
helm of Colorado at $60,000,00O. Isaac
Stephenson of Wisconsin came second
with $30,000,000 and Senator Elkins
was put third with modest
$25,000,0O0.
Discount those figures by 80 per
cent said Senator Elkins in all seri-
BUSINESS, as he surveyed the names of
his very rich colleagues, "and they
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-03-20
ALONE SIX DAYS: Il
WITH |. CORPSE ||| }
GREWsoME. ORDEAL IN LIGHT
HOUSE THREATENS TO MAKE
VICTIM RAvlNG MANIAC.
FlEES IS MILES OVER ICE
Keeper Of Light at Toledo, O., Sue
cumbs to Pneumonia and Assistant
hae Awful Expertence-Hts
Hazardous Trip. ,

Toledo, O-Alone In the Toledo
lighthouse for six days with the corpse
of Capt. Delos Hayden. keeper of thu
light, who died February 13, and .
thrilling journey of 10 miles ove1
treacherous ice on Lake Erie to break
the news of Hayden's death was the
terrifying experience of Joe Berner
who, it is feared, will become maniac
as result of his horrible ordeal
With eyes bulging from their sock
cts and his body almost a wreck from
exhaustion, Bernor staggered into
Toledo and told his shocking story
On Saturday, February 8, Capt. Hay
den and his cousin, Joe Bernor, start
ed for the Toledo harbor light to re
lieve Hayden's assistant, McNulty, ani
a man named Jennings, who had beer
keeping the lonely vigil with McNulty
while Capt. Hayden was in this city
for few days visiting his invalii
wife.
Capt. Hayden was not feeling vel
when he and Bernor arrived at thu
lighthouse. The strenuous trip across
the ice had weakened him to a great
degree and that night he fell Ill with
pneumonia.
Upon Bernor fell the duty of beine
physician and nurse. Such medicines
as he had at hand were administered
Capt. Hayden was placed in a hot
bath by Bernor, who did everything
possible to save the captains life.
His efforts proved unavailing, and
early Thursday morning Hayden ex.
pired in the arms of his trusty com.
panion, with these words on his lips:
Il don't believe I did right by Mary
in coming out here"
Mary is the name of his wife.
Placing the body in a cool room OF
the lighthouse and opening the win.
dows to secure a good circulation OF
air. to retard decomposition as much
al possible, Bernor began his pro.
longed wait for an opportunity to
reach shore. The ice surrounding the
lighthouse was soft and mushy and
full of air holes.
Wednesday afternoon at one O'Clock
Bernor made the attempt to cross the
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-03-20

Musings Of the Metropolis
i :z>*:. Newsof New York Town H.. !. ~. ~
i Outlined in Brief Form. - =
Gotham Getting the Free Lunch Habit

their own Gordon bleu at home are
glad to get ham American style with
out champagne sauce or roast beef
without mushroom ffxings or rich
gravies.
The evolution Of the free lunch,
which, it is figured, now costs cafe
proprietors over $1,500,o00 a year In
New York city alone, has brought
about reversal in caste for all free
lunchers. Not many years ago the
free lunch was to be found only in
little drinking places, where beef
stew or potato salad, served in huge
platters, was eaten with commercial
fork taken from a glass of water. And
the man who patronized it was looked
upon as "broke,' and a sort OF graft
er. To-day the free lunch is a regu-
lar institution in many of the lead
ing hotels. Its menu is prepared by
the head chef and it's dishes are as
dainttly prepared and served as ia
milady's luncheon in the palm room.
Frequently the lunch is presided over
by an assistant chef and has its own
corps of walters, just as attentive as
those who serve turtle and canvas
back.
The free lunch also has progressed
in the smaller places, and probably
three-quarters of the 1000 cafes in
New York now serve fairly elaborate
lunches. consisting of soup or meat
and variety of relishes.
The free lunch is an American in
stitution. Beyond the confines of the
United States you will look for it in
vain. 1t is development of condi-
tions which exist nowhere else in
the whole world.
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-03-20
Senators Are Not as Rich as Reported

insurance is his business. Lodge
claims literature as a profession and
Platt is labeled, boldly enough, "Presi!
dent Of Express Company" Warren Of
Wyoming is stock raiser. Stephenson
Of Wisconsin . lumberman, Elkins of
West Virginia a miner, and Hans
brough of North Dakota admits to an
editorship. ..
There are 13 farmers In the house,
including J. Adam Bede; nine manu-
facturers, four merchants, four insur-
ance men, seven real estate dealers
and as many lumbermen. There are
also seven editors. There are five
journalists, four miners and three pub
fishers. There were two planters, be-
cause John Sharpe Williams was one
before he graduated to the upper
house. There is one mining engineer,
one railroad constructor, one fruit
grower, trustee" (probably the only
professional one in existence), build
er, an everyday contractor, one lone
capitalist, miller, a stock raiser,
surveyor and tanner. One says his
occupation is railroad and another
says his is "stone" There are two
nurserymen and four physicians, be-
sides Hobson, who is put down as a
naval constructor" and Champ Clark,
who keeps on trying to prove that he
is a lecturer
How much are they worth in money,
these lawyers and public officials and
merchants and insurance men and
farmers, who serve their country at
Washington?
Every third man in the senate is
worth million or more. There are
90 millionaires in the senate and II
in the house. Thfrty.two senators are
worth, together, $210,500,000. The II
house millionaires are worth $83,00O,-
600. Retired" Senator Guggenheim is
worth about $60,000,000. Lumber
man" Stephenson is worth $50, ,000, 900.
Express President Platt receives $780,
600 year in salary alone. Merchant"
Aldrich is worth $12,000,O00.
Do they all draw salary and every
cent Of perquisites they can get, these
46 mtllionaires who are worth the stu
pendous sum of $293, 100000?
The answer is, they do.
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-03-20
Youna Men'a Chief Fault.


The fault with most young men to
that they are indolent and inclined to
enirk their duty. The man who always
tries to get OF ~ easy as possible, and
when working for others does as little
~ possible for the wages that he re.
ceives, will never advance, and never
amount to anything in life. Every
young man should through all his busi-
ness career constantly keep in mind
the parable Of the faithful servant and
che reward given to him: Because
thou hast been faithful in . very little.
have thou authority over ten cities"
How many young men nowadays pay
any heed to this? asks the New York
Weekly. They all want to be great, to
be successful, but they will not take
pains with little things and work their
way gradually to the top. They want
to jump to the top rung Of the ladder
right away. They all desire to be-
come Vanderbilts or Rockefellers or
Morgans, but they throw away fool
1shly whatever money they earn be-
cause they hope some day to make it
In great quantities. A young man am
bilious to succeed in life should from
the very start make it clear for him.
self that he must work hard and plod
along, every day accomplishing the
duties belonging to that day, and if he
does this and leaves no duty undone,
he will be sure to lind his reward,
first in clear conscience, and ulti-
mately In success, but he must not ex-
pect success or wealth to drop down
into his lap without any effort on his
part.