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The Virginia enterprise., 1908-05-22
THE WHIskER IN PARIS.
Frenchn:sn Employ Every Means, Ex
cept Greenhouses, to Get Growth.

It is in Paris that the whisker
reaches its highest state of cultivation
and development, says Everybody's.
The luxuriant verdure on the faces
of some of the Parisians who strut
along the boulevard every day can be
compared to nothing but the riot of
vegetation in the tropics. Every Par
isian has whiskers, much whiskers if
he can, but some whiskers, at any
rate. He supplants natures efforts
with the best aids of the barber and
trains and nurses his hirsute appur-
tenances with anxious care.
The Parisians spend hours on their
boards and educate them into formal
gardens, set pieces, shrubbery, terrace
and vista effects. They lay out hair
scapes with them, arrange them in un-
dulating meadows and twine them on
pergolas. There is the long, spade
concoction much sought by men with
black boards, which consists of about
a foot of hair cut square across the
bottom, and adds much glory to the
wearer, for the whiskers always shine
and glisten in the SUM- There are side
whiskers and pointed ones, the heart
shaped and the curved, the waved and
the plain. A man who can train his
whiskers to grow in new way is as
much of celebrity as a man who
writes good poem or paints a good
picture.
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-05-22
All Servants Affected by "Hard Times"

stenography are now paid six and
seven dollars week, against eight
and nine dollars a year ago. The
same houses which have reduced the
salaries of their employees have since
January reduced in number their
clerical force of all grades from 80
to so per cent.
Referring to the intelligence Offices,
the report says: THE books of 200
domestic servant agencies indicate
that the average earnings of cooks
in private families have fallen
off from $35 to $3.50 a month; house.
workers who were paid from SIG to
$25 month in 1907 are receiving
from $13 to $23 in 19OS
THE average wages paid to cooks
obtained through agencies that supply
the weather. families have been re-
duced from $50 to $45 a month, and in
the same families the wages paid but.
lers have fallen of from $55 to $50
month. Many other families have
reduced the wages of all help en-
ployed by them since last December
about ten per cent, and the number
of servants has been greatly de-
creased"
The remainder of the report, taking
the different classes of labor separate
ly, gives pessimistic totals, showing
that in practically all branches a re.
duct.On has been found.
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-05-22

l T is quite the ordinary thing to say
that the wife of a politician is his
adviser. The politician likes to have
it said, for there is a sort of sentiment
which attaches to it which appeals to
the people. The statement is not al
ways true, but in the case of Senator
and Mrs. LaFollette of Wisconsin it is,
for Mrs. LaFollette is a keen judge of
conditions.
Clear in mind and sound in judg-
ment, it was Mrs. LaFollette who pur-
suaded her husband to choose law
and politics and to give over all idea
of stage career.
The wife the senior senator from
the Badger state met the man who be-
came her husband at the University of
Wisconsin. She was Miss Belle Case,
and her intellectual attainments first
attracted Mr.. LaFollette. A story told
of their student days is as follows:
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-05-22

staring at him out of the darkness,
and made a dash for the door, only
to hear the door, with the spring
lock, bang and snap" Alone in
a cellar with SO snakes!
He had hardly strength to crawl
to the top of the steps and to beat
feebly against the door. To his in.
tense surprise it flew open-for II
had not caught when it slammed.
Hurrying to the Offices of Forrest &
George Adair, the renting agents
he told of his experience. Weak
scratched, nervous and bruised, he
told what he had seen.
Brown" the janitor of the
firm, claiming to be the champion
snake killer in the country, was told
of the experience and dispatched tc
investigate.
He went to the cellar armed with
lamp that wouldn't blow out, and
killed by actual count 63 snakes.
The snakes had been in there
since they first made friends with
"Zulika."
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-05-22
Senator's Neck Broken 35 Years AGO

tered the senate. Neuralgia had taken
a firm hold of him and his eyesight
had grown so bad as to approximate
blindness. He was advised to try
osteopathy. He went to New York,
accompanied by his son. Almost the
doctors first remark was:
why, senator, you have had your
neck broken. l would say you were
thrown from a horse and sustained
the broken neck"
THAT is just exactly what did hap
peh," replied Senator Money, recall
ing the injury at Franklin.
II can cure your neck" said the
physician; 1T will require but a mo-
ments time"
The osteopath laid the senator on
a table, took hold of the misplaced
vertebra with both hands and put
it into proper position.
The physician told Senator Money
that he must take precautions until
the weakened muscles regained their
normal strength. He was cautioned
not to turn his head in looking at
anything, but to move his entire body.
These instructions were observed and
the neck apparently became as strong
as it was IS years before the opera
tiOn
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-05-22
Teaching journalism.

Yale Is not to have the field of
practical teaching Of journalism to
herself. The University of Missouri
also has plan perfected and in
structors appointed for a four years
course, journalism to be on an equal
footing with the departments Of law,
of engineering and the other profess
sions. Col. Harvey's idea of a daily
newspaper as training field will be
followed, an experienced Missourian
editor having been called to the po-
sition Of dean and editor of the col
lege paper. The four years. acar
demic course will include lectures
upon history, economics, sociology,
public law, etc., as we'll as upon the
technical details of newspaper work.
This is the practical plan, remarks the
Boston Herald, and 1t should sue
ceed. Naturally, graduates will still
have something to learn in the vicis-
situdes Of actual newspaper life, some
thing which they could never learn in
the made-to-order environment of the
college newspaper office. But the uni
versity is only training school for
any profession. There is no reason
why 1t should not successfully perform
that service for the newspaper profess
sion.
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-05-22

w H1LE the recent hard times have
W not solved the servant problem,
they have revolutionized it in some
OF its aspects, according to the annual
report of the commissioner of licenses,
John N. Bogart, which was sent to
Mayor Mcclellan the other day. The
servants position is not what it was
year ago, the report shows, and the
change appears to have been brought
about by the law of supply and de-
mand
In the report, which covers the H.
cense year ending with the month of
April, record is shown of the falling
off in the volume of business and also
surprising reduction in the scale of
wages.
Business depression has not only af-
fected the contract labor agencies and
domestic servant bureaus, but it has
been felt in the theatrical agencies,
in agencies supplying stenographers
and in those filling technical and
clerical positions
The report shows that beginners in
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-05-22
THE DEAD "OAT MEAL KING"
Ferdinand Schumacher Conferred Fa.
vor on Posterity.

Ferdinand Schumacher, the dead
"oat meal king" deserves more than
a. passing tribute. He had won a
double niche In the temple of fame.
He will rank with the Morses, McCor-
mfcks and Edisons as a hero of in
ve1tion and among the Havemeyers
and Armours as captain of industry
Schumacher found the American
breakfast table chaos of pancakes,
hot biscuit and pie, and he left it
sweet symphony of cereals and cream.
He was an apostle of predigestion
among dyspeptic people. Under his
deft manipulation the despised grain
which DR.. Johnson said was food for
horses in England and for men in
Scotland was transformed into a gas
tronomic delight. Will Edinburgh have
no monument to the Hanoverfan immi-
grant who carried abroad the celebrity
of it's gran fuid,'' as Davy Balfour's
laird called it? The pink cheeks of
million schoolboys testify to the re-
form Schumacher wrought in a ma
tion's dietary. Thanks to him, corn,
rye, barley and all the farinaceous
grains now supply bone and sinew to
the populace. In a record of Schu-
macher's achievements his contribu.
tions to American literature should
not be overlooked. He was the Mae
cenas of the ten-cent magazine The
muck-rakers may have had the glory,
but the true story of the success Of
many periodical is to be read in the
breakfast-food advertisements. The
muse would have been on short "a
tions but for the cereals. .
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-05-22

GReEN-EYED REPTILES GIVE
GEORGIA PLUMBER AN UN.
PLEASANT EXPERIENCE.
IS SENT TO REPAIR PIPES
Mistakes Wriggler for Waikine-Stiek
Store Above Place Formerly
Rented by "ZuIika, the
Snake SwaIlower."

Atlanta, Ga.-Last fall No. So De.
catur street, formerly the heart of At
lanta's bowery, was rented to a snake
sWallower," and thereby hangs a tale.
The store, for it is on the first
floor, Is located next to the old Young
Mems Library association building,
and In the heart of that section of the
city which likes show and best of all
a side show. Flaming pictures an
nounced the fact that "Zulika eats
them alive" Entering the place
"Zulika' would be seen seated on q
platform where she took wriggling,
curling snakes into her hands and
passed them, seemingly, into her
mouth. Instead, however, there was
a very clever funnel arrangement,
whereby the snakes went wriggling
down the pipe and dropped into the
cellar under the floor. "Zulika" lasted
for about two weeks and the store
was placed on the market for rent
A tenant was secured last week
and q plumber sent to look over the
job OF repairing 1T. Dave Yarbrough
was the man who got the job. Now,
he never attends Decatur street side
shows, so, of course, didn't know.
Taking lighted candle in hand,
he descended the dark steps to the
dungeonous cellar, guided only by
the faint light of the candle. Ar
irving at the bottom he saw a long
black walking-stick lying on the
ground and stopped to pick it up.
1t wriggled, sQuirmed and he dropped
1t In terror 1t was an outstretched
black snake.
Turning quickly to retrace his
steps, the candle was blown out and
he was left in stygian darkness. He
managed to find the foot of the
steps with his shin and began his
way up to where the door stood
open. He caught a glimpse of a
half hundred pairs of green eyes
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-05-22
BOY KEPT SCRATCHING.
Eczema Lasted 7 Years-Face Was All
Raw-Skin Specialists Failed, But
Cuticura Effected Gu,

when my little boy was six weeks
u.u an eruption broke out on his face.
TOOK him to doctor, but his face
Kept on getting worse until it got so
bad that no one could look at him.
His whole face was one crust and
must have been very painful. He
scratched day and night until his face
was raw. Then took him to all the
best specialists in skin diseases but
they could not do much for him. The
eczema got on his arms and legs and
we could not get nights sleep in
months. got set of Cuticura Rene
dies and he felt relieved the first time
used them. I gave the Cuticura
Remedies a good trial and gradually
the eczema healed all up. He is now
seven years old and l think the trou-
BILE will never return. Mrs. John G.
Klumpp, so Niagara ST., Newark, N.
J.. Oct II and %, 1907"
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-05-22
aFollette's Wife a Real Help to Him

Mr.. LaFollette's great gift was
that of oratory. He tried for all the
prizes in sight, and had the air of a
man who thought he could win. Miss
Case had some oratorical talents of
her own, and began to cultivate them
early and late. She won in the end.
for the special prize for oratory at
graduation came to her and not to the
man who later became her husband"
1t was not long, however, before the
would-be winner of the prize won the
winner, and they were married short.
ly after their graduation from the uni
versity in 1879
Mrs. LaFollette is very domestic,
and the social life at Washington has
little or no attraction for her. She
spends much of her time in works of
charity and education.
When her husband was elected to
congress Mrs. LaFollette spent her
first winter in Washington taking a
course in the law school of the George
Washington university. Should it
ever happen to be the part of this Wis.
consin woman's duty to aid her hus.
band in his campaign for the presi.
dency, it is said he will have at his
command assistance he will in no wise
neglect
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-05-22

F you live by the year in one of
I these fashionable apartment hotels
that run restaurant in connection
with the rooms, you cannot take food
into your quarters on peril of your life.
There is big untown hotel Of the
best class whose leases provide that
leasers must eat in the restaurant.
Many of them disregard this clause
In their leases and some of them open.
ly took food into their apartments.
This has been stopped by the mana
ger, who has ordered that all baskets
OF provisions brought to the hostelry
shall be turned back.
A lawyer told me that the hotel
man was counting trouble-that a
tenant in a hotel had a right to take
anything in his room he pleased, so
that he complied with the provision
in his lease that he shall do no cook
Ing In his apartment. Just the other
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-05-22

CENATOR MONEY Of Mississippi has
~ lived IS years with a broken neck
and did not know it until the other
cay. Not until he went to a physician
for treatment 9or neuralgia, from
which he suffered for years, did he
learn of his real condition.
At the first battle of Franklin, in
April, 1868, Mr.. Money was a cavalry
man in the confederate service. While
riding through the streets he was
struck by bullet that circled
around his ribs, doing no other in.
jury. The shock was such that Mr..
Money was thrown from his horse
and struck on his head. Being help
less he was captured and taken with
in the federal lines. He did not ask
for hospital treatment, was exchanged
later, rejoined his troop and fought
until the war closed
Years passed and Mr.. Money en-
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-05-22

Strange to say, women bear the re.
verse Of fortune far better than men.
A woman performs little acts of self
denial as a matter of course: she
gives up her personal luxuries, and
sometimes even necessaries, without
comment or complaint; therefore, her
deeds of unselfishness often escape no.
tice. The average man cannot do this.
He may relinquish some big thing
without a growl; his conduct in a
great renunciation may be character
lied by the same exemplary patience
which marks women at such a time;
but, should the sting of unaccustomed
poverty be so severe as to take from
him any of the trifles which he treats
as necessity, he becomes morose.
and his temper suffers in consequence.
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-05-22

N EW YORK.-Girls at the Horace
" Mann school, Broadway and One
Hundred and Twentieth street, have
been forbidden to wear ultra-fashion-
able or extravagant headgear, false
hair, elaborate adornments of jewelry,
hfgh-heeled shoes and peekaboo
waists. Virgil Prettiman, principal of
the school, disparages the talk caused
by the new rule and says that ques-
tions of good taste in dress frequently
arise.
For months the question of proper
dress has agitated the pupils and in
terested the teachers. A certain CLIQUE
has been in the habit of going to class
In raiment that verged upon the ex-
tremely fashionable types. Finally a
girl showed herself in a hat that be-
wildered her colleagues. 1t was q
Gainsborough affair with untold deco
rattons. She was told by one Of the
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-05-22

A MERRY echo of the shot which
"A opened the battle of Manila Bay
was heard at the Raleigh hotel the
other evening when Admiral Dewey
and many of his officers gathered to
celebrate with banquet the tenth an
niversary of the famous fight. The ad-
miral cut large victory cake as
calmly as he cut the cable a decade
ago and the corks popped not so loud
ly, but as continuously as the guns
popped at the Spanish feet-and with
happier results.
Not all the officers who won dis
tinction at Manila was at the gather
ing. Gridley, who fired when he was
ready, and several others have an
swered the salute OF death, and a
number are scattered around the
world on active duty, but enough were
in Washington to make the reunion a
striking one.
Chief among these present was Ad-
miral Dewey. Another noted figure
was Rear Admiral Coghlan, who won
much fame at Manila and more in the
"Hoch der Kaiser" incident. Other
rear admirals who attended were
Lamberton, Walker and Ford. With
them were Medical Director Wise, Pay
Director Gait, Representative Loud of
Michigan, who was assistant paymas-
ter on the Mccullough; Lieutenant
Commanders Brady, Bodderich, Price,
Irwin, Scott, Kavanagh, Butler and
Doddridge; Col. Bergman, U. S. NJ. c.,
and Pay Inspectors Martin and Price.
When he entered the harbor of Ma
nila Dewey's feet consisted of his nag.
snip, the Olympia, commanded by
Capt. c. V. Gridley; the Baltimore.
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-05-22
ttn FAD Mans Curve" the spot at
II Fourteenth street and Broad

IN FAD Mans Curve" the spot at
u Fourteenth street and Broad
way which for many years has borne
the name of being the most dangerous
point in the city, at last has been
forced to take second place. The most
dangerous spot has now been officially
located at the New York entrance to
the Williamsburg bridge, connecting
with Brooklyn. This entrance, which is
block long, is so narrow as to rem
der it always packed and seething
mass of trolley cars, wagons, automo-
biles and pedestrians.
According to the policeman on duty
there, the daily average of the mar
rowest escapes from death is over TO-
Dead Mans Curve" never came near
this record, but there is no regret
that it has lost it's title to first place.
Situated in the center of the shop
ping district, it was and still is one
of the greatest menaces to feminine
life, with it's various lines of cars
crossing one another.
Statistics show various other danger
centers throughout the city, including
the Grand Central station, Sixth ave-
nue. and Twenty-third, street, and 9th
er points. Just how much this title
of most dangerous spot means may
be better understood when it is re-
membered that major accidents in the
city are numbered not by hundreds
but by thousands. Practically no form
of danger supposed to be peculiar to
various localities but is enumerated
here. and the list of happenings con-
tains all the thrillers Of the dime
novels. Now that the most dangerous
spot in the city has moved from the
shopping to the purely commercial
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-05-22
A National Art Gallery,

President Roosevelt, Secretary Wal
colt of the Smithsonian institution and
the advisory committee of the National
Art gallery, representing the National
Academy of Design, the Fine Arts fed
Grafton and the National Sculpture so
ciety, have just had an important con-
ference as to the disposition Of collec-
tions which already have come to the
national gallery, now valued at 81, ,6OO,-
900. The Smithsonian institution re-
gents have decided to give up the
whole Of the old building for the art
gallery as soon as the new national
museum building is completed, and
the Freer collection will be near by in
a building given by Mr.. Freer. Amer
leans, declares the Boston Herald, can.
not take too lively interest in this in
teresting new phase Of life at the ma.
uonal capital.
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-05-22
Reunited After Many Years.

Lake City, Ia.-AdOrted in infancy,
May Lathrop, now 16, has long been
searching for her father, two brothers
and sister, while they have made in
quiries in almost every city for her.
While the search of years has been
going on, the two hrot hers and the
father have been living in Gowrie,
within an hours ride of The girl, May
Lathrop. The queerest feature of the
family reunion is that May Lathrop,
after all these years, ca1not speak to
her own father.
He is German and speaks not word
of English, having always lived in q
German community.
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-05-22
MEAN TRICK OF THE PARROT.
And Just After Its Mistress Had Made
Neat "eIuff."

Young Hankinson (making a call)-
You have had that parrot a long time.
Miss Laura.
Miss Laura-Yes, we have had him
several years.
Young Hankinson-Quite intelligent.
is he not?
Miss Laura-Very. Can initiate a.
most anything.
Young Hankinson-They have q ro-
markably clever parrot over at the
Casterlins'. Miss Laura. 1t can imi-
tate the sound of kiss to perfection.
Is that among the accomplishments OF
our feathered friend here in the cor
ner?
Miss Laura (indignantly)-No, sir.
He does not attempt an imitation of q
sound he is not accustomed to hear.
Mr.. Hankinson. OF that l can assure
you.
The Parrot-Wait, George, dear. till
I take this bird out of the ROOM
Tatler
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-05-22
Over the Alps by Water.

Over the Alps by Water.
That most wonderfully useful Of all
the servants of men, water, which
seems to have been discovered. as
such, only in very modern times, and
which is now accomplishing marvels
undreamed Of decade or two ago, has
Just been set new task IN little
Switzerland, at which the scientific
world is again opening it, eyes in
astonishment. So writes H. G. Hunt
ing in the Technical World Magazine.
A tube-or rather two tubes-full Of
water, are to be made to lift and lower
boats, burdened with an international
commerce, over the most formidable
mountain range Of Europe, the Alps.
Actually the liquid element is to pick
up the loaded craft in Italy and to
deposit them in Germany by its own
natural power without the use Of
propelling machinery. Balancing the
waters Of the mountain lakes against
each other, Italian engineers propose
to create new road for commerce,
which will become almost literally an
artery of world traffic, with an ebb
and flow that will draw and push the
currents of trade back and forth, like
the beat Of a great heart feeding the
veins of two nations It is a most re-
markable enterprise, and the method
by which the feat Of taking boats over
the mountains is to be accomplished is
IN extraordinary invention.
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-05-22

AS seven men in Missouri have been
sent to jail for peonage, it is evident.
even to hostile critics, that the govern.
ment is in earnest in its intention to
break up slavery in this country. When
reform measures get as far as the iails
they should be taken seriously.
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-05-22

w. X. Vanderbilt, Jr., says: Mar
riage is one Of the things that can only
continue pleasantly with the simple
1ife." But even the simple life doesn't
seem to be positive guarantee that
it is going to be pleasant-if the
troubles Of some Of the simple indi-
cate anything.
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-05-22

A Detroit man wants a divorce be-
cause his wife refused to put porous
plaster on his back. He would have
had q much better case If he had wait
ed till she insisted on pulling plaster
OF his back.
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-05-22

A New York policeman explains that
anyone can stop a runaway horse by
pinching his nose. Perhaps this police.
man is the promulgator Of the theory
that one may capture bird by sprink.
ling salt on its tail
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-05-22

Henry ]. Byron, one of the wittiest
of English playwrights of score of
years ago, remarked on one occasion:
"A play is like a cigar. II it's good.
everybody wants a box. II it's bad.
all the putting in the world won't make
it co.
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-05-22

. critical time Of life
/ was on the verge Of
q collapse with kid.
ney troubles, back
ache, dizziness, puffy
dropsy -swellings and
urinary Irregularities.
I lost flesh and felt
1anguid, nervous or
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-05-22

uubiluuB III tue ume.
As my doctor did not help me I begin
using Doan's Kidney Pills. Ina few
weeks all these symptoms left me. I
now weigh 163 pounds and feel in ex-
cellent health" =
Sold by all dealers. so cents 4 box.
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