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The Detroit times., 1908-04-21
WILLIAMS "sAssES"
UNCLE JOE" CANNON

WASHINGTON, April 2i,--osinins
the floor by unanimous consent 10
speak TO a question OF privilege, John
sharp Williams. minority leader In
the house. spoke on what he called
the speakers breach OF privileges In
arbitrarily adjourning the house Sat
urday after he. williams, had demand.
Cd a roll call, He declared Speaker
Cannon to be despot, The speaker al
LEVIED him 20 Introduce resolutions
condemninH the chairs ect.
The Detroit times., 1908-04-21

what you are when no one Is look.
Ina IL what you are.
The Detroit times., 1908-04-21

Mrs. Charles G.. Jennings and Mrs.
wadsworth Warren VIII entertain
their friends In the home OF the for
mer, No. 437 Jefferson-ave.. Friday ar
fernoon from TO o'clock.
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send for booslet BANKING BY MAIL.
Address correspondence
sold o.. Mich
FRANK Island President
The Detroit times., 1908-04-21

A musicale and entertainment, un.
der the auspices OF the young ladies'
OF the Blessed Sacrament church takes
place Tuesday evening in the school
bali. Woodward and Belmont-aves. A
splendid program has been arranged.
The Detroit times., 1908-04-21
Interest at 4 per cent per annu

of withdrawal
The Detroit times., 1908-04-21

A special purchase OF Is Combina-
zion Bookcases and Writing Desks
enables US to offer one of the best
Furniture bargains ever known.
Only $3.50. Handsome styles I'm solid
oak, with large writing table, adj
Unstable shelf in bookcase. glass
front and French plate mirror In
top; sl6 ~ the regular price. Wed
nesday, while they last. $3.50. None
sold 10 dealers.
The Detroit times., 1908-04-21

Boston Leather couehes, 80
long best steel constructor
and diamond tufted top;
regular price $3.50;
special at ............
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-05-29
House Remembers Cannon's Birthday

appointed time, he was summoned
from the floor of the house by the en-
tire Illinois delegation, he was genu-
inely surprised.
Representatives Graft and Rainey,
one a Republican and the other a
Democrat, spoke felicitOusly and pre-
sented the floral piece, which was six
feet high, of dogwood blossoms and
American Beauty roses. AS the
speaker started to reply, a tear trick,
led as he said:
THE sweetest flowers Of all
Bloom above the parting WALL"
He then spoke of his long career in
congress, thanked his q colleagues in.
dividually and collectively, and a few
minutes later was called back to the
floor of the house. A roll call was
being taken on motion to recess un
til the following day, but when it was
half over Champ Clark jumped to his
feet and said:
1T seems to me this is the speaker s
birthday
This was the signal for general ap
plause, and the speaker blushed
smiled and bowed like a schoolgirl as
he waited for it to subside Then he
gave voice to his appreciation.
Il move that in honor of the occa
sion the roll call be suspended" said
Representative Macon of Arkansas
This motion was passed with whooI
| and the Democratic filibuster was re
laxed for few minutes at least.
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-05-29

4 N INTERESTING report on tattoo
IA ing in the navy has been made to
Secretary Metcalf by Surgeon Ammon
Farenholt as a result of his observa-
tions while serving on the receiving
ship independence at the Mare island
navy yard IN California.
The enlistment records of 1872 men
were examined by Dr. Farneholt, this
being the enlistments on the Independ-
ence for eight and half years. These
records show that the percentaee
found tattooed on examination for sec.
ond and subsequent enlistments was
1851. and the percentage found tat
tooed on examination for first en-
listment was 23.01. The opinion is ex.
pressed that about 60 per cent. of the
sailors who have served over ten years
in the navy are tattooed.
DR.. Farenholt says it is not fair to
assume from the figures that % per
cent. of the male citizens are tattooed
as a considerable proportion of appli-
cants for enlistment are sea-faring
men. He was surprised to find so
many, probably eight per cent. of the
recruits, who are tattooed and who de.
MED having been at sea or even hav-
ing lived in seaport towns. In DR..
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-05-29
"Court of Tears" Aids Jews in Trouble

cept by moral suasion, he stated that
his court does more to mend broken
hearts and reunite separated families
than all of the police courts put to-
gether.
AS an outcome of the experiences in
the court Of tears, movement has
been started by Mr.. Robbino, under
the direction of the alliance, looking
to the establishment by the legislature
of court of domestic relations, to
deal exclusively, in a judicial capac-
ity, with family troubles.
Such tribunal would stand in the
same relation to desertion and like Of
fenses as the children's court does to
| juvenile wrongdoers. 1t would re-
]ieve the regular police courts of that
class of cases.
I'VE keep up a number Of costly
courts for the enforcement of our
civil rights" says Judge Robbino. I'VE
spend hundreds of thousands to COM
pei the payment of money debt, or
to send a culprit to prison. But where
is the public tribunal whose duty it is
to look out for the welfare of the fam
lily, to prop the tottering walls of the
home, and restore it, if possible, to the
normal functions which God intend,
ed it to perform in and for human
| SOciety?"
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-05-29

THE president is not only a good
! churchgoer himself, but deserves
the thanks of at least two Washington
preachers for his aid in boosting the
size of their congregations.
With his prediction for having
everything reformed it is no more than
natural that his church also should
bear the magic label. 1t is Grace Re-
formed, rather small, gray stone
building on Fifteenth street, not quite
a mile from the White House.
Grace Reformed is not fashionable
church. The congregation is unas-
suming il appearance and would be
decidedly modest in size if it were
not for the president. He fills GER
tainly two-thirds of the pews. So far
as audiences so the preacher may
have to look for lean years after
March /, 1909.
While the president fills dozens of
the pews by the mere fact of his ex-
pected presence he occupies his own
seat in solitary grandeur Once in
while he goes with his wife and
family to st. Johns, but they don't
seem inclined to reciprocate the at
tention. St. Johns rejoices in the
local title of "the church of state,'
and always reserves a pew for the
president of the United States. though
It, had not been in demand for a good
many years when Mrs. Roosevelt be.
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-05-29

At last the woman's club has ar
"A rived at mans estate in New York
at least. The new style woman's club
is modelled on the same lines as those
followers in the exclusive mans or
ganizations, with its own quarters, in
cluding restaurants, library, l0unging g
room, and, so it is whispered among
those who disapprove the new idea,
smoking and card rooms.
The start in the direction of estab-
fishing woman's clubs on the mascu-
line model was made year ago, when
the Colony club, exclusively for wom-
en-, opened its handsome new building,
with membership that includes many
women of the -four hundred" Now
the Eclectic club, another fashionable
organization, has gone the Colony one
better by leasing quarters in the Wal
dorf-Astoria and announcing that it
will provide sleeping quarters for it's
members, so that they need not go
home at night if they feel otherwise
inclined. This step was taken only
after bitter fight, for the husbands
of some of the members objected
s,renuously to the prospect Of sitting
up till the small hours of the morning
waiting to hear wifey fumbling with
the latchkey.
Another woman's club that has its
own house is the Three Arts. COM
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-05-29

NEW YORK.-Mrs. Hetty Green does
~ not like the limelight and threat
ems to give up her luxurious apart
ments at the Plaza. Since her re-
moval there from her simple fiat in
Hoboken she has been pestered with
all sorts of cranks, who believe she is
carrying too heavy load of the me-
yuma and want to relieve her of some
of the burden. They think, too, that
she has no more regard for filthy
lucre than the Gaikwar of Baroda or
the Nawab Of Rampur, and fleets of
would-be borrowers are cruising
about the hotel They have the mis-
taken impression that Mrs. Green has
tapped an unexpected gold mine
The richest woman in the world,
however, has avoided in every way
making any display But she finds
that she cannot get away from the
widely published fact that she is liv-
ing in hostelry famous for it's lux
uriousness, its many millionaire
guests and its possibilities of spend
ing money with both hands and a
shovel Mrs. Green could dine on rare
wines and exotic foodstuffs if she
wished, but she has only an appetite
for simple foods. Strawberries are
IS cents dish at the Plaza, but she
is not overfond of strawberries; at
least she does not have more than
one dish for breakfast. She does not
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-05-29
Misfit Education.

The educators and parents who are
now renewing the old struggle for a
thorough revision of the high school
curriculum have taken as their guild.
ing maxim "A place for everything.
and everything in its place." An ex.
cellent principle it is, especially de-
serving Of application to the task of
high school education in these days,
when impulsive apostles of liberal
education are trying to find a place
for everything in high school cata.
1ogue without concerning themselves
very seriously over the vexatious
problem of putting courses in proper
places. The appeal must be needed,
says the New York Tribune, not sim.
ply for the sake of the young people
who are seeking an education, but
also in order to check the wholesale
desertion of city high schools, which
is disquieting teachers and school
boards all over the country. Plainly
written on the face of enrolment sta.
tistics is the warning that unless mis-.
fit courses are dropped the magnifl-
cent establishments adorning the high
school systems of a hundred large
American municipalities may soon be
tenanted only by the relatively few
pupils who wish to prepare for col
lege
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-05-29
Great Wealth Passes Corner Every Day

Ever since an express company
bringing a shipment of $7000,000 in
gold to the subtreasury forwarded it
in wagons on which sat men armed
with rifles the old method has gone
out of vogue. Such mob collected,
attracted by the sight of the armed
men, that it was impossible to un-
load the coin. AS result a new style
of guarding the treasure has been
adopted. Few people realize that
when they pass the subtreasury they
are passing veritable fortress. Such.
however, is the case. Gold and other
forms of currency averaging $780,
100000 are deposited behind doors
which weigh 100000 pounds each and
cost 100000. Within the subtreasury
is an armament of 100 rifles, with,
$4,000 rounds of cartridges; 100 re-
volvers, with 1900 rounds, and, chief
of all, four gatling guns, with 10000
rounds of ammunition. With this
armament any attacking mob could be
repulsed in a few moments. In addi-
tion there are in the chamber of
wealth 1900 bombs, with cunningly
arranged peepholes through which
they can be dropped. A single shot in
Wall street would call out company
of protectors and a fusillade would
summon regiment
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-05-29
Big Weekly Pay Roll of Wage Farmers

599 were women and 90,167, or 2.7 per
cent, were children. The pay rolls of
the 123,307 establishments for one
week aggregated $33,1S5,791, and of
this amount the men received $29,24O,-
2S7, or 88.1 per cent. of the whole;
the women received $3,633,481 or II
per cent, and the children $312,023, or
l per cent.
More than half of all the wage earn.
ers included in the bulletin earned 50
and over during the week. The earn.
ings are classified for totals of states
and of industries, while 25 industries
are shown in detail by states and ter
ritories and 25 states by leading in.
dustries. Average earnings are also
computed for all the states and indus
tries shown
The figures show that in 1904 the
average wage Garner employed in man.
ufacturing received $1,000 per week.
The average man received $11.16, the
average woman $6.17 and the average
child under 16 years of age $346.
In the figures showing the average
wages by states Illinois is fifteenth
with $11.65. The highest is Montana
with $1S.19 and the lowest is South
Carolina with $4.68,
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-05-29

M ORE money passes the corner of
N1 Broad and Wall streets in New
York's financial district than any 9TH
er single point in the world. Accord
ing to an estimate just made the
amount moving past this corner every
minute of the working day is 100000
or 100000 for every tick Of the clock.
This tremendous wealth is the daily
contribution from Wall street to the
subtreasury Of the United States Ap-
proximately one-third of it goes by in
gold and currency.
The precautions taken to guard this
tremendous store of wealth are as
little understood as they are unob-
trusive. Messengers carrying millions
pass this corner every moment unob-
served except by the paid shadows"
employed to guard the money-bearers.
While all this cash is at large the old
method of safeguarding it is no longer
in evidence.
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-05-29

VNASH1NGTON.-Speaker Cam o n
w was 72 years old the other day,
but being presidential candidate, he
was not aware of the fact until the
anniversary was half over and then
reminders came thick and fast, and
brought tears of emotion from him.
The first hint was contained in a tele-
gram from a constituent in Danville,
ILL.,, who is the family Bible expert for
that part of the country.
What day Of the month is this, Bus
bey?" he asked of his secretary.
Here is fellow who has the nerve
to say l have turned another mile
stone"
A calendar was consulted, and
Uncle Joe" acknowledged that the
boys back home had one on him. In
few minutes Mr.. Busbey was called
out to the corridor and notified that
about the biggest floral piece ever
seen in the capitol would arrive at
four o'clock, and that there would be
big doings in the speakers room.
Uncle Joe" was kept in ignorance
of the arrangements. and when, at the
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-05-29

Limelight Unpopular with Hetty Green

select the most expensive things on
the card, nor has she shown any dis
position to frivol away her coin on
entrees with long, mysterious names.
From Hoboken to the Plaza is a
dizzy climb and the contrasts are
worth noting. In Hoboken the woman
VINO has cornered the long green mar.
ket got along with $3.50 a week for
expenses. Her rent was $19 q month.
At the Plaza she spends $500 a month
for her suite. When she lived in her
Hoboken fiat Mrs. Green spent II
cents for muslin curtain in her kitch-
en- to keep out the eyes Of prying
neighbors. The curtains that screen
her from the vulgar gaze at the Plaza
are of the finest Valenciennes. Her
grocery man in Hoboken never con-
templated retiring on the proceeds
of Mrs. Green's custom. A quart of
milk lasted her three days. he said 1t
was kept on the window sill to save
ice bills. In Hoboken the richest
a backyard inhabited by dingy cats
and across which were strung long
lines of ragged washing. Any time she
feels like taking stroll through the
hotel corridors Mrs Green can bump
into people who count their money by
the hundred thousands and in some
cases millions, and to whom the lux
ury that to her seems SO wonderful
at her first sip has grown to be sim
pie necessity of life.
Mrs. Green has not yet set a day
for her departure from the big hotel.
She has not decided where she will
go from the Plaza or whether the lure
of Hoboken is still upon her. Her chief
desire at present is quietly to slip out
of the limelight.
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-05-29
Overeatinu.

When prudently followed, the prac-
tice of fasting is most beneficial.
Many people really never feel the SEN
sation of natural hunger. All they
have is a morbid craving for food,
which comes Of habit rather than
from any actual need felt by the
stomach. Natural hunger declares
the New York Weekly, stimulates the
palate, and is felt in the mouth as we'll
as in the internal organs. 1t makes
the plainest food seem delicious and,
when being satisfied, is source CT
such enjoyment as the average we'll
fed man rarely experiences, Some
suffer, it is true, from insufficient
food but not so many as those whose
Ills arise from excessive eating, their
digestion being continually overtaxed.
"A habit Of judicious fasting would do
wonders for them. The system would
recover its lost tone, and-in the case
OF mental workers-the brain would
work with an ease and hghtness that
would surprise them, for the brain is
one OF the chief sufferers from the
practice of overeating.
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-05-29
Tattooing Very Popular in the Navy

Farenholt's opinion, the custom is
more common in camps and in places
where men are collected in large num-
bers than is imagined.
The report contains statistics re-
garding the location of tattoo marks
and the frequency of various designs.
Letters, notices, initials and allied de-
vices lead the list and constitute about
26 per cent of all ink marks. Coats of
arms and national emblems follow
with about 25 per cent, then flags,
anchors, etc. Female figures are
shown in IS per cent. of all tattooing.
The usual types were found among
them, such as "Holdfast" Ga letter on
the back of each finger); apprentice
knot; pig on dorsum of foot, which,
among the older men, was supposed to
shield it's pOssessOr from death by
drowning; crucifix, which in case of
death would insure burial in a Chris
tian country, and Jerusalem cross"
| which would answer the same purpose
on Moslem shores. OF the latter DR..
FarenhOlt found IA, all in re-enlisted
men. One man was adorned with a
sock covering each foot and extending
| above the ankle; another with a fox
hunting scene. In one case the entire
back was covered by a large Masonic
| column and globe. Little Egypt fig
ured in two cases and copy of beer
trademark in one. Designs showing
the Goddess of Liberty, ships, eagles,
pigs and apprentice knots were found
| to be more popular on re-enlistment
than among those who came directly
from civil life
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-05-29

wHEN the bureau Of the census
" took the census of manufactures
in 1905 it also undertook the task of
classifying the weekly earnings of the
employees in all kinds of manufactur-
ing establishments. Questions as to
the actual earnings of all employees
were asked of each manufacturer in
the country and the surprising num-
Der of 123,307 establishments replied.
This number of establishments is 62.9
per cent. of all enumerated in the
census and they employ more than
One-half of all the wage earners en-
gagged in the factory industries in the
country.
In bulletin just issued by the cen.
sus bureau, containing compilations of
these statistics it is shown that of the
1927 ,S19 wage earners covered by the
investigation, 2,619,O53 were men; $685..
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-05-29

TO keep poor Jews out of court, the
1 Hebrew Educational alliance has
established tribunal for ghetto resi-
dents known as the court of tears"
and to this come all Jews with dis
putes, especially family troubles, to
SETTLE
The chief purpose of the court is to
settle matrimonial difficulties, and it
is becoming harder and harder pressed
owing to the great increase in deser-
ton, due partly to the hard times and
partly, as is believed by the managers
of the alliance, to the brusque manner
in which domestic differences are
treated in the police courts
The court of tears sits every day,
holding one long session in the after
noon and another at night The Sun
day sessions are the most crowded.
Though this court has no legal au-
thority, and none of the DEGREES of
Judge" Robbino can be enforced, ex.
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-05-29
Their Universities.

Oxford, having lost the boat race,
RECEIVERS the premiership, which it is
permissible to regard as an equal or
even greater distinction. The list
of Oxford prime ministers, to which
the name of Mr.. Asquith is now
added, already includes the names Of
Pelham, Chatham, North, Shelburne,
Addington, Grenville, the duke of
Portland, the earl of Liverpool, Can
ming, Peel, the earl of Derby, Glad
stone. Rosebery and the marquis of
Salisbury. The Cambridge list is a
little shorter, and perhaps a little less
distinguished. Among the names
which figure On it we find those of Sir
Robert Walpole, the duke of Newcas-
tie, Rockingham, Pitt, Spencer, Per-
ceval, Earl Grey, Melbourne, Palmer
stone, the earl of Aberdeen, Mr.. Bal
four and Sir Henry Campbell-Banner-
man; Edinburgh is represented by
Lord John Russell, and the other uni
versities are not represented at all.
The two nonuniversity premiers are
not the least illustrious. They are
Benjamin Disraeli and the duke of
Observation-Disclosures (Eng.) Ca
zette.
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-05-29
A Question Of Aqe,

The great Napoleon began his won
derful career when he was little more
than a youth. When he was offered
the command of the troops in Paris,
during the troubles that beset the Di-
rectory, some one objected to him on
account of his youth. His answer to
that objection is famous: "One grows
old quickly on the field of battle" A
ready-witted lawyer made good use of
that age question once, after Napoleon
became emperor. The lawyer had
been recommended for appointment
CO the first Judge of appeals. and some
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-05-29
Went Back for Name,

The name Lusitania is now On the
lips of everyone, but how many of us
could tell where this district is, or,
rather, where it was, after which the
mightiest passenger ship of modern
times has been called?" asks the Dun
dee Advertiser. Emperor Augustus
divided the whole Iberian peninsula
which the soldiers of Wellington sim
ply knew as the Peninsula
three provinces, one of them being
Lusitania, corresponding almost ex-
actly with the present kingdom Of.
Portugal. Considering the connection
of Columbus with Portugal and the
fact that this kingdom produced so
many daring sailors, including Henry
the Navigator it is a happy circuln-
stance that our greatest marvel Of
ship construction should have been
called by that country's Roman name"
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-05-29
The Enterprise.
w. E. HANNAFORD, Pub.
VIRGINIA. MINNESOTA.
Who Owns the WATERWAYS?

WHO OVWOS Ino VAIST"oy04
One of the most intricate problems
involved, and one which must be
cleared before we have gone far with
the management of water power, is
that of the ownership of running wa
ter-a matter to which both congress
end the supreme court have given
considerable time with very incon-
elusive results. Under a;d conditions,
when the erection of a aam was the
whole apparatus of power develop
ment, the man who owned the dam
site was considered by that possession
to own the power in the water during
the time it was passing his land.
When water power was the only pow.
er, and larger development was neces.
sary, this dam owner was given the
right to take for flowage the lands OF
his immediate neighbors, for a fair
price. But now that we have passed
far beyond that stage, to a time when
the Improvement Of a river begins at
the fountain from which it springs
and in the forests which cover the
slopes of the surrounding hills, we
can no longer follow this old proce.
dure The work which is done at
head waters actually creates a power,
declares ]. L. Mathews in the Atlantic,
since it enlarges and steadies the
flow; and that power is possible of
utilization over and over again, for
every foot of fall from the fountain to
the sea. The supreme court has often
held that the government has but a
navigation right in streams, and that
the states themselves own the water,
and the landowners the use for pow.
er. But old usage must give way to
new needs, and new body of law de.
scribing and establishing the owner.
ship and the extent of the several
rights in a river is one of the urgent
needs of the new movement.
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-05-29


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