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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-01-10
HARLAN NOT. YET READY
TOLEAVE SUPREME BENCH
1OHN MARSHALL HARLAN aSSO-

IOHN MARSHALL HARLAN, asso-
y ciate justice of the supreme court,
father of Interstate Commerce Com
missioner James S. Harlan, Dr. Rich
ard Harlan and John Maynard Har-
Ian of Chicago, the other day COM
pleted 80 years service upon the high
est judicial bench in this country AL
though Justice Harlan has reached the
age Of "A, or four years beyond the
voluntary retiring period, physically
and mentally he is we'll preserved and
from choice will remain upon the
bench several years more.
Six feet two in height, with the
erectness and vigor of much young
err man. Justice Harlan smiled kindly
when asked concerning his plans Of
retirement, and said he had nothing
to add to his statement made when
last questioned on the subject. At
that time he said that he had made
no definite plan. He could have re-
tired on full pay on June 1, 1903. He
has been tempted to retire by the
thought that, free from his judicial du-
ties. he could give his undivided time
to the completion Of certain work he
has in hand. lie is deferred, how
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-01-10
AirshipS and War.

Eighty years ago Tennyson wrote
of ''the nations airy navies graphing
in the central blue and even the
poet, in a prophecy of aerial battle
ships, placed the time of their build.
ing in the future, far as human eye
could see." No such battleships have
yet been constructed, but the art of
building directable balloons has made
such progress that they do not seem
SO Enthusiastically impossible as q few
years ago. Vice-Admiral Sir Charles
Campbell of the British navy re-
marked in the spring of 1906 that air
fleets might eventually displace water
fleets, and Alexander Graham Bell
said in the spring of this year that
''only very few know how near Ameri-
ca Is right now to the construction
of q practical aerial battleship. Count
Zeppelin, a German aeronaut, success
fully sailed about the Lake of Con-
stance in September, and remained in
the air four hours. His balloon has
been bought by the German govern
ment. Early in October the British
war department made a public test of
a new Siderable balloon, keeping it
af1oat and under control for two hours.
On October Fl there was an interna-
tfonal balloon race, starting from st.
Louis. The controllability of balloons,
properly equipped with motors, is
now 80 evident that war experts are
suggesting new methods in warfare,
says the Youths Companion. 1t will
be no longer possible to surprise an
enemy by forced marches The BAL
]oonist. accommodating in the sky, can
keep his general informed of the
whereabouts of an attacking force on
sea or on land. A French balloonist
a few weeks ago discovered a Moor
tsh army encamped in the hills sew.
eral miles from Casablanca, and en-
abled the Europeans to surprise and
rout the semi.civi]ized tribesmen so
completely as to lead them to sue for
peace.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-01-10
SPACE FOR CIGAR STAND
HOLDS HIGH RENT RECORD

THE leasing of space 81 by 8 feet,
to be used asa cigar stand, at an
annual rental of $40 square foot,
not only has established high rent
record for New York and the world,
but has officially located the choicest
bit of space on earth for business pu.'
poses. The plot, hardly as large as
a good-sized room, which commands
an annual rental of $3.50, is in the
new Hudson terminal, where it is
estimated that more than half mil
lion commuters will pass every day.
In spite of this tremendous crowd on
which to draw for patronage. the enor-
nous rent will necessitate a business
on the part of the little cigar stand
which will occupy it equal in volume
to that of many large store. 1t is
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-01-10
JUDGING from the attendance at a

JUDGING from the attendance at a
u motor school in Fifty-sixth street
New York will see a large increase
in women chauffeurs Fifty women
have enrolled as students at the
school, and the instructors, without ex-
ception, are enthusiastic over the
quickness and ability shown by the
women students in mastering the CON-
plexities of an automobile engine.
The regular term of lessons COM
prises six weeks, with eight hours per
day given to school work, and while
a number of women have taken the
full course, and given the greater part
of every day during the term, a still
larger number have had private les
sons, or have made up a small, class
of from two to four pupils, arranging
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-01-10
New Egyptian Relics.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art
has been enriched lately by specimens
recovered from Egyptian tombs
There is one object of much impor-
lance to Psychologists. 1t is jar of
alabaster, on which is a portrait Of
Queen Tu. The jar was the reliquary
for part of the remains of the queen,
following the embalming of the body
Henry C. Prick has loaned the museum
a primitive painting by Antonello da
MesSina. The picture was painted in
in OTIS was a newly discovered process.
The painting is comparatively small,
and represents the removal of Christ
from the cross preparatory to entomb-
ment
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-01-10

A learned Daniel come to judgment
in Newark has given two decisions in
highly important cases of domestic
peace which should be historic. In a
case before him where a wife COM
planned of her husband the New Jer-
sey Solomon decided that, while It
may be the duty of the husband to
wash the family dishes under certain
circumstances, he is relieved from that
duty when, with sinister design, the
dishes are piled up from meal to meal
upon him. He also decided that when
husband kept only one dollar week
out of his wages for spending money
his wife is not justified, either NOR
ally or financially, in suspecting him
OF leading a double life. Even our
dignified judiciary thus contrives to
get little fun out of daily life.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-01-10
NJ EW WORKERS lose 10000 u

NJ EW WORKERS lose 10000 am.
~ trellas year on subway trains,
surface cars and the elevated lines, or
more than enough to supply the whole
state of Nevada New York people
seem to have acquired the losing
habit almost to the point of q mania,
and while figures for the whole city
cannot be obtained, the statistics of
the lost and found departments main
tanned by the street car lines show
that more than 100000 articles are
left on the cars every year. If to this
total are added those found by dis
honest persons who do not turn them
in, the figure approaches the quar-
termillion mark. and for the whole
city in all it's different activities the
total number of articles lost every
year is estimated at 100000, valued
at $2,500,O0O.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-01-10

estimated by experts that 100000 two
lor-a-quarter cigars, or $4,000 five
cent smokes, will have to be disposed
Of before profit can be made, or at
the rate on the latter basis of 1000
cigars daily.
High as the rent in this instance
may seem, there are other plots which
command amazing rates. Throughout
the new station prices of space for
booths range from SIS to $50 square
foot annually, while stores 20 by 60
feet will bring about $12 square foot.
One ambitious bootblack will pay
$4,000 annually for a space 10 by 8
feet, although this is said to be no
more than once was paid for similar
purpose in one of the life insurance
buildings.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-01-10
JOHN SHARP WILLIAMS TO
AGAIN LEAD DEMOCRATS

DeArmond concluded with extreme
wisdom, so opinion goes, not to con-
test the Democratic leadership with
John Sharp Williams of Mississippi.
Mr.. DeArmond is grave, retiring and
taciturn. However. he is not at all
retiring when some one is needed on
the Democratic firing line. He won't
be the leader this year. and, though
probably his hopes are high, it seems
extremely likely that he won't be the
leader when the Mississippian retires
from the house two years hence.
John Sharp Williams, so it is said,
is bent on having two years in which
to study and rest up before he
enters the United States senate. Sen
ator Moneys term does not expire
until 19,1, when Representative Viii.
liams will take his place in the upper
house.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-01-10
$4,000, UMBRELLAS ARE
LOST YEARLY ON TRAINS

More umbrellas are left behind than
anything else, but hundreds of over
coats, shoes, shirts, coats, vests and
even trousers are turned in every
week. 1t would hardly seem shat a
person riding in a street car %ould
forget a cannon, yet two of these i'm
plements of war have been found in
the last six months. Parrots and ca
naries, to say nothing of four-footed
pets, all go to fill the menagerie Of
the lost and found Offices.
Perhaps the most curious find re-
ported lately was what is officially de-
scribed as "a tin can and it's con-
tents" said contents being very fiat
beer. OF course it is absolutely worth
less, but as the law requires that all
found articles be held for a specified
time it has taken it's official place with
all the others.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-01-10

The German emperor made a Meas.
ant little speech to London newspaper
men Who presented him with an ad.
dress. He alluded to the fact that the
press has great influence and can do
much TO promote the peace of nations.
There. was nothing especially original
in that statement, but it is of interest
as recognition on the part OF one of
the foremost of the crowned heads of
Europe Of the place which journalism
holds in the modern world. It shows
the emperor to be a progressive and
tactful monarch.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-01-10
"DIAsoLo."'

I saw sweet Kate, who's learnt the game
=: Her "devir' deftly throwing;
Into the air above my head
I watched the demon going.
Unused to its internal tricks,
I failed to stand from under"
And shortly, like the very deuce.
I suffered for my blunder.
As Satan did, that "devil' fell.
: We've mostly read our Milton)
Ny innocent and upturned face
The fendish toy was split on.
r muttered; "oh,sthe Dickens!s' and<<&
Since then, by that same token,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-01-10

The more commonly accepted signs
of the quality of the coming winter
are conflicting. The squirrels were
never buster gathering in food for a
long and severe siege. The goose
bone seems to confirm this prophecy,
while the beavers are not fixing up
thei:' nests as if they anticipated any
discomfort from their improvidence.
In view of these contradictory tokens
OF what Is ahead perhaps it may be
we'll to consult the money market.
This betokens rather severe spell
ahead.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-01-10
CHAMPION RIFLE SHOT IS
MADE AID TO PRESIDENT

lures, and as result his list of hits
is not so formidable as are the lists
of hits of some others-that is, for
midable in comparison to the number
of misses. Mr.. Roosevelt is account.
ed good rifle shot. He doubtless
knows he can't beat Lieut. Holcomb,
but that they will shoot against each
other there is no doubt at all.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-01-10

The American consul at Tsine.Tar
says that China offers itself now as a
market for tennis goods. There really
seems tn be something in these re-
ports of strenuous times in that en-
pire
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-01-10

The Missouri husband who got zeal
Gus and killed the wrong man is over
whelmed with remorse. The man who
got killed is also much depressed, and
the only persons who seems to be en-
joying the situation is the right man.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-01-10
Good Catch.

Good Catch.
Eva-lf young man should como
down the road?
Katharine with camera)-I should
snap him.
Eva--Suppose real handsome
young man should come down the
road?
Katharine then I should SNAP
him up.-Chicago Daily News.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-01-10

New York Custom House Receipts.
Officials of the New York custom
house promise the highest annual rec
ord Of receipts for the current fiscal
year that has ever been known. at THIS
port. The figures viii be little under
100000 for each business day.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-01-10
Must Have Capital to Marry.

Army and navy officers in Germany
are obliged to make deposit of $500
with the government before they are
permitted to marry. This draws an in.
come of three per cent, and at death
is refunded to the family or heirs.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-01-10

I 1EUT. THOMAS HOLCOMB, JR.,
Il of the marine corps, has been ap-
pointed to the position of aid to the
president. This marine officer is the
champion rifle shot of the world,
fact which almost unquestionably won
him the White House place.
1t is not at all without the range of
possibilities that President Roosevelt
will take his new aid down into Vir-
ginia with him some day and there
attempt to beat him at target practice.
It may interest sportsmen and some
people who are not sportsmen to know
that the president keeps record Of
his hits and misses when he is in
the field after big game. 1t is an &C.
curate record and no miss is omitted,
no matter how hard the shot was or
how hard were the conditions of
shooting.
Mr.. Roosevelt says that he has met
gunners who would say: We'll, I got
three out of five today" when in
reality they had done nothing of the
kind. The president doesn't charge
men of this kind with telling false
hoods, for he states simply that they
eliminate from the reckoning certain
misses which because of the extreme
difficulties of the case were not to be
accounted as misses.
The tendency, of some sportsmen, &C.
cording to the presidents view, is to
count as chances only those in which
there was a perfectly fair prospect of
hitting the game. A quick shot at a
deer disappearing at bound into the
forest at a distance of $50 or 200
yards is not counted as a miss at all
times by all sportsmen. ,....
The presidents record, however,
takes account of all missing misadven-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-01-10
Verbal Play.

Verbal Play.
Gosh, but I'm jist teetotally played
OUT" exclaimed the hired man, as he
threw himself down in the shade of
the old apple tree.
Il reckon, mebby, yew air, by
grass!" rejoined the old farmer. En-,
nyway, never knowed yew to hurt
yoreself a workin'."-Chicago Daily
News.
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which,
much the application
Although frequently
dmony
the
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-01-10
Limitations.

Needn't shave my upper lip this
time," said Archie, as he took his seat
in the BARRIERS chair. You may start
mustache for me-
Il can't do that, SIR" said the bar
Der. I'll let your upper lip alone, but
you'll have to start the blooming mus
tache yourself, sir"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-01-10


following
banking 5000 individuals
the
of 500 100000
position
branches after serving
While
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-01-10
Dire Threat.

Accept me- cried the lovelorn
youth, land shall smother you with
Kisses >, 4
And if l refuse:'.. exclaimed the
maid. 49,
Beware! If you refuse I shall go to
the ends Of the earth" e.,
8 And then?" Z i
why, will smother you with SOU
venir postal cards. Chicago, Daily
News. '-ss - 49, = e.. -
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-01-10
Not Stintino,

Not Stinttno.
Social Preceptor-1n order to sue
coed in society, my dear Mr.. Comeup,
and to get the fashionable world to
come to your dinners, you must have
plenty of savoir faire-
Social Parvenue-Well, I guess gos
money enough to pay for all I want.
Just order it for me in bulk.-Balti.
more American.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-01-10

Twenty-six Years Of Courtship.
4 Miss McGough, 50 years old, and Mr..
Crissinger, Sc, of Pittsburg, have just
been married after q courtship Of &c
years. 4.4. -. .-.- ... Is =
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-01-10

his useful
small distances of
discovery that many lines the metallic
simple, reality
Prof. Nicholson is German by BIRTH having been seno IS
years ago. United
He
States and gradua in
Heidelberg
College de Ecole
Naval academy to take the chair of physics the
From 1882 to 1892
fessor physics
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-01-10
MORGAN OF THE VEST

James Berwick Forgan, president of the First
National bank of Chicago and head of the Windy
City clearing house. has come to be known since
the financial furry started as the - Pierpont
Morgan Of the west. His recent hurried trip to
Washington was made, it is believed, at the in
stance of President Roosevelt. His conferences
with the president, Secretary Cortelyou United
States Treasurer Treat and others followed those
held with Mr.. Morgan
Mr. Forgan outlined to the administration the
situation in the west, as Mr.. Morgan did the stu
alton in the east. He brought cheering news to
Washington. too, of the desire of the west to get
back Immediately to cash basis, and of the be-
ginning of the movement to the Atlantic and
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-01-10

Mr. Pnho
with scientific
tempt n
His wealth him ample opportunity conditions
mediate action taken the
plain of the
deal with
division of
addition his national Pincho
teaching science
sion IN this Yale School Forestry of which
1900
to the gift
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-01-10
IN THE LIMELIGI1T


Clifford Pinchot, national forester, is earning
the title of savior of the American trees" HE
stands between the forests of the nation and the
ruthless ak Of commercial exploitation, one. man
bulwark, holding back the vast timber famine
which Is threatening the country :. -
Pinchot has succeeded in establishing ma:
tional forests in the Rocky mountains in time to
save the west from the sudden floods and other
evils that follow upon deforestation 1t is in the
east where the danger lies The Appalachians are
practically denuded of their growth of trees and
the floods that cost western Pennsylvania several
millions of dollars last spring are declared by him
to be the result. Yet appropriation Of $4,000
for national forests in the chain met with much
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-01-10

I've wished, the pastime at Old Nick,
Because my nose is broken!
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-01-10
JUDGE REFORMS DRUNkARDS

Judge William J. Pollard, of St. Louis, who de-
vised the scheme to reform drunkards by COM
polling them to take pledge to abstain from in
toxicating liquor for year, has found it to work
successfully that he has applied it to those who
disturb the domestic peace by nagging. 'i'
The fame of Judge Pollard and his pledges has
travelled to England, and when he visited that
country last summer he found many courts fol-
lowing his example. He was feted and lionized by
the temperance societies, which looked upon his
plan as the most practical work a judge can do
for the cause. The Judge himself is total alb
stainer and has been all his life, although he has
never taken pledge.
Judge Pollard is native Missouran on the
sunny side of so. Although his parents were
wealthy slave holders they lost their money in thu
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-01-10
WINNER OF NOBEL PRIZE

Prof. Albert A. Nicholson, head of the depart
ment of physics Of the University of Chicago. has
been awarded the Nobel prize for physics for 1907
by the Swedish Academy of Sciences. His efforts
in measuring the velocity of light, marked by the
invention of several machines to record the light
waves, placed him at the head of the worlds
physicists, with the $4,000 as reward. Recently
he received the Copey medal of the Royal Society
of England for his experiments on light
Prof. Nicholson has constructed several ma
chimes recently for measuring light wave lengths
but it is believed by his colleagues at the Uni
versity of Chicago that the Nobel prize has been
awarded to him for work which he did in the '9Os
His experiments then were in measuring light by
what is known as the revolving mirror method
Rock Island Argus., 1908-11-30
Judge Taft's Luck.

President-elect Taft is singularly
fortunate man, and he admits it. Ask
ed on Thanksgiving day if he had not
much to be thankful for, he said:
Il have much for which to be thank
full and cannot help wondering if there
is not to be some compensatory sor-
row.
when | consider all that has come
to me l wonder, with trembling, if
there Is not to be some great misfor-
tune to Offset it all. We have our
health and our children, with never a
loss of child. My parents are dead,
but they lived to an honored and
peaceful old age. / have not had any
grievous sorrow.
"Then, politically, there were the
Philippines; it was the turn of the
hand whether | should go there. If
had not gone l do not suppose that
should be the president-elect at this
time 1t might be said that opportuni
ty comes to every man, and that it is
to the credit of the man that he seizes
it. Yet, looking back, l cannot see
that l exercised any shrewd discrim
ination. / cannot persuade myself
that 1t was my own wisdom that lee
me into the work.
"Afterward came the offer of &
place on the supreme court bench
This offer was repeated later. My in
clination was to accept it. 1t was no
due. really, to my own judgment thai
I did not accept it."
Things have come Judge Taft's wa.
in rapid succession. The American
people will prayerfully hope that the
president-elect's fears of a compensa
tory sorrow are ill-founded.
Rock Island Argus., 1908-11-30

on us the necessity of expending on
army and navy and in fortifications,
hundreds of millions of dollars which
will yield no return, and which went
into rat mole that will claim more
and more. That we should sacrifice
the lives of thousands upon thousands
additional 10 the lives of the 10000 al
ready offered on the altar of imper-
ialism in the Philippines tragedy, in a
war with Japan, no matter what
should be the outcome of that war. was
consummation to be avoided If with
in the power of diplomacy to avoid it.
The possession of the Philippines
would strengthen the power of Japan
in the Pacific. and they are necessary
to Japan while to us they have always
stood and always will stand as an ex-
preston of retribution in poetic JUS
tice. Our trade with the far east
has not been benefited by any develop
ments in the Pacific, where the COM
pensation for the enormous outlay, if
compensation there be, should be
evident