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The Virginia enterprise., 1908-06-05
War Department Seeking LEGAL Drink

the laws of Massachusetts it is held
that a beverage containing more than
one per cent. of alcohol at 60 Fahren
heit is Intoxicating.
The law in regard to the nonsale of
lntoXicants in post exchanges, must, of
course, be followed in good faith by
the army. In the absence of any fed.
eral decision as to the question at is.
sue, the authorities must fall back on
the decision of the state courts. These
vary materially, and, therefore, the
department may seek the solution in
a practical way by ascertaining the
view taken in prohibition states as tc
the sale of any given drink.
Where post exchanges are situated
in a prohibition state it is considered
entirely safe to prohibit the sale in
such exchanges of preparations not al.
lowed to be sold under the prohibition
laws of the state. Where such ex.
changes are situated in nonprohibi.
tion states it would be safe to ascer.
tain whether any specific drink is al
lowed sold in any prohibition state
and let the exchange be guided accord.
ingly
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-06-05

D EFORE Jim Tawney got into poll
ID tics up in Minnesota he was a
blacksmith. He was so rough that
they had to throw him down to put
him into boiled shirt, some of his
warmest admirers say
That blacksmith training proved
mighty good experience for him, and,
applying blacksmith methods to his
congressional career he has forged
to the front so rapidly that they do
say down here in Washington that
If Speaker Cannon doesn't look out
some day he will get run over, be-
cause Jim Tawney is coming with
wonderful strides.
Tawney is the man who would be
picked out at glance as the real
ward politician of the house. He is
just the kind Of man the voter al
ways finds ready to tell him how to
vote at the primary; the type of man
who always leads the revolt in a cut
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-06-05
Head Of National Guard Bureau.

At battered old desk in an unpre-
tentious room in the war department
at Washington sits quiet, smooth
faced, practical looking man, who, it
is predicted, will be at the head of
a highly-trained standing army Of
more than 100000 men within five
years. In direct and businesslike
way, he is beginning a scheme to
whip the organized militia of the
United States into troops ready for
the field.
He is Lieut..Col E. NJ. Weaver, ar.
tillery corps, U. S. A., the new chief of
the recently created militia division
of the department. He is at the head
of the bureau which looks after the
national guardsmen from Maine to
California.
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-06-05

Ruskin, it is said, has written more
sentences of inordinate length than
any other classic writer of modern
English prose. Frederic Harrison
some years ago counted the words in
a number Of typical sentences, finding
that in the earlier books it was no un.
common thing for Ruskin to run
beyond the page before permitting
himself and his readers the relief of a
full stop. But in every case the sense
Is clear as day. Wordsworth's poem
on the "Character of the Happy War.
yior' is a notable example of sustained
connections. Apart from the opening
and closing couplets, the poem con-
sists of two very long compound sen.
tences almost entirely comprised of
adjectival clauses. The longer of the
two sentences contains 81 decasyllabic
lines. This is probably a record in
English verse.
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-06-05
Cruadc Against the F.y.

AS the national crusade against the
house fly is now in progress, supplant-
ing temporarily the international issue
against mosquitoes and rats, Prof.
Underwood of Massachusetts declares
that one fly killed this month may pre-
vent the existence of 100000 by
midsummer. Such is the prolific ma
ture of the common fly. Such, too,
is the Ignorance of the past that when
Roman emperor was found killing
flies as habit he was not hailed as
benefactor, but was finally dethroned
as too trivial to be tolerable as a
Roman despot. Still it appears in the
light of history as whole that this
IS a good time to invest as much as
ten cents in a first installment of fly
paper.
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-06-05

THERE is young man in New YORK
who has built up perhaps the
most artificial business that the city
has yet produced. He is professional
escort to rich and unattended ladies'
who long for the sights of gay New
York. Their husbands and fathers,
here on business, weary and worn out
when night rolls around, pay this
young man to escort them to theaters,
restaurants and to see the sights while
they are with business friends.
The young man has Built up busi-
ness in less than two years that is
surprisingly paying and so successful
that he seldom has an afternoon or
evening free. He stumbled into the
familiar friend profession, as he
calls it, purely by accident.
One day he was seated in the Wal
dorf corridor when an old gentleman,
who was in the next chair, asked him
what was the best show in town. The
young man named several. The old
gentleman thanked him, and told him
that he had to take his wife and
daughter to the theater.
But I'd rather be licked than co.
said he "Ill take the job for $25,"
said the young man. The old gentle
man looked surprised. Later he
learned that the young man was all
right That night he earned his $25.
Then the old gentleman introduced
tho yOnng man to friend and the
next night he was the escort of his
wife. One by one his clients kept on
increasing until he found all his time
taken up. New York to the visitor
isn't only the theater, Fifth avenue or
hotel
Some people want to see the bizarre,
out-of-the-way corners that they have
read about; they want to see China
town, the Bowery, the Eastside and
the strange shops. This the young fel.
low soon found out, and he spent some
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-06-05

A st. Louis preacher tells his flock
that the young peoples habit Of hold
ing hands should be stopped. He ex-
plains that there is a nerve running
from the back of the hand to the brain
and another from the palm to the
heart. when man takes a girls
hand and presses those two nerves, she
comes under his control" Scientific
blunder. The youth of the congrega-
ton are studying up on "nervology,"
while the elders who have been
through the mill are chuckling at what
the preacher dosent know about hold.
ing hands.
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-06-05

THE coming summer gives promise of
/ being the severest one in years for
members of the theatrical profession.
1t has been long time since there has
been as disastrous season theatrical
ly as the one just closed and there is
no prospect of any better times for the
actor for many months, in fact, until
after the election next fall. In the
height of the season it was estimated
that more than 1000 actors and ac-
tresses were out of work in New
York, the largest number of unem-
ployed in the profession in years.
Several hundred companies that
started in the season with every pros
pect of success were forced to close
soon after the coming of the financial
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-06-05
Straw Hat Saves Mans Life.

York, Pa:-Gored by savage bull
on his farm near Loganville, William
Miller, aged IS years, is lying at his
home in a critical condition. To his
straw hat he owes the fact that he
is even alive.
The bull chased him about the barn.
yard, and after tossing him was about
to trampie upon his body when his hat
blew off.
The bull started after his hat, and as
It did SO the old man crawled under a
fence. Muscles and ligaments of hia
neck are torn and several ribs broken.
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-06-05
1NE of the forms of entertainment

0NE of the forms of entertainment
~ that fingered longest this spring
was scarcely known until the winter
just passed. This was the luncheon to
which men we're invited. Only few
years ago men at weekday luncheon
were unheard of. But then there was
less business uptown.
1t is the increase in the number of
men at work above Twenty-third
street that has brought into existence
this form of entertainment. There are
architects and brokers scattered along
Fifth avenue almost to Central Park.
Then the number of men who are able
to do nothing is much larger than it
was a decade ago. Another source Of
supply for these midweek gatherings
is the foreigners, who now come to
New York in such numbers that GER
tain representation from them may al
ways be counted on. 1t is now almost
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-06-05

Delaware counties, New York, and
Wayne and Pike counties, Pennsyl-
vania. She had cabins in various
places, and would return home not
more than once a year, and only ap-
peared in the settlements to sell her
game and skins and 20 procure ammu-
milton.
Shattered physically and mentally,
she appeared at Basket Station and
resumed woman's clothing. She said
that in the eight years of her expert
ence as hunter she killed 100 deer,
II bears, numerous wildcats and
foxes, besides trapping hundreds Of
mink and other fur-bearing animals
She had hand d-to-hand contests with
both wounded deer and bears, as ugly
seams and scars upon her body amply
testified.
For two or three years after her re-
turn the woman led mendicant sort
of life through the valley, and finally
entered the poorhouse at Delhi.
In the spring of 1865 young woman
was put off a passenger train at Bas-
ket Station, as she could not pay her
fare any farther She gave her name
as Mrs. Wilson, and said she had been
deserted by her husband at Jersey
City. She was in feeble health and
was taken to the poorhouse at Delhi.
There she met Mrs. Slater. and an at
tachment sprang up between the two
The two women left the poorhouse
the following year. The next summer
a party of fishermen discovered two
strange persons living in a cave in
Barrett township, Monroe county,
Pennsylvania Soon thereafter there
appeared in one of the villages man
carrying rifle and leading a half
grown bear. Accompanying him was
a woman about 25 years old, who he
said was his wife
For two years these vagrants wan
dered about the county. At last they
were arrested and lodged in Jail,
where the discovery was made that
the supposed man was woman. They
were Mrs. Slater and Mrs. Wilson. The
authorities sent them to the aims
house whence they came, but the two
women did not stay there long. The
next winter found them living in a
cabin ten miles from Honesdale. They
wandered into the town one day, were
arrested and again sent to the aims
house, where they both died recently.
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-06-05

The embarrassment of the under
ground electric railways which link
together all sections of London, and
which have now gone into the hands
of receiver for the readjustment Of
the finances of the system, is said to
be due to the sharp competition Of
the motor buses and cheap cabs that
continue to do flourishing business
on the surface, in the open. This
explanation isn't altogether incom-
prehensible even from this somewhat
remote distance. For passengers who
are in no great hurry the charms of
the top of a London bus, as we'll as
those of cab, for shilling are ire
sistible, especially when compared
with the dark. dank and gloomy under
ground travelling facilities of the Eng
lish metropolis.
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-06-05
Not Times Slave,

A traveller, finding that he had q
couple Of hours in Dublin, called a
cab and told the driver to drive him
around for two hours. At first all went
we'll, but soon the driver began to
whip up his horse so that they mar.
rowly escaped several collisions. I
whats the macter?" demanded the
passenger. why are you driving so
recklessiy? I'm in no hurry" F.!
"Ah, g'wan wild yez," retorted the
cabby. Dye think I'm goin' to put
in the whole day drivin' you around,
for two hours? Gitap!"
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-06-05
The Enterprise.
w. E. HANNAFORD, Pub.
VIRGINIA, MINNESOTA.
"Hard Times"

lizard Times"
It must be admitted that after q
period of prosperity which has been
unequaled both in duration and de.
gree, the country is now experiencing
an industrial and financial depression
which comes near to being genuine
hard times" In a great many places
large numbers of men are unemployed.
1t is reported that 100000 are out Of
work in New York city alone, and
throughout the country at large there
prevails a general feeling of uneasi-
ness which is at once a sign of busi-
ness depression and a potent cause of
1t. In this situation it may be cheer
Ing and wholesome to recall certain
facts which differentiate the present
conditions from those which usually
precede or accompany hard times, and
certain other facts which are true of
all periods of depression.
Material conditions at present are
all hopeful. Crops have been and are
good, and many lines of manufacture
Ing, like the iron and steel business,
are in normal and healthy condition.
These things are usually quite other
wise in times Of pronounced dulness.
Moreover, it ought not to be forgotten
that the real wealth of a country in
creases faster during hard times than
IN any other period. Men are not only
driven to work harder, and therefore
to produce more, by the fear of being
thrown out of work, but they save
more. Luxuries are discarded: old
clothes are made to do duty little
longer; purchases are fitted to income
rather than to desire. UNDERTAKINGS
which involve risk are made to wait a
more convenient season, and the coun.
try as a whole emerges from the
period of depression with greatly in.
creased resources, to enter upon an era
OF prosperity which will be somewhat
proportionate in length and intensity
to the duration and depth of the de.
preston which preceded it. This is
the silver lining on which it is we'll to
Keep ones eyes. The country has suf.
Tered no serious wound, says the
Youths Companion, it has no fatal dis
ease. Rather is it in the condition of
a man whose pulse has been arrested
Tor moment by a sudden fright.
There is blood enough in the body
good, healthy blood-and it will soon
start flowing again in it's normal chan.
nels.
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-06-05
Senators Knox and Crane Real Chunmv

sion. 1t was at first marvel why the
two men seemed to have the same
thought at the same moment. and be-
gan to make tracks simultaneously
from different parts of the senate
chamber-one being a Democrat and
the other a Republican-toward that
committee ROOM
1t turned out that they had prear-
ranged signals. The "Old Romans"
signal was to pull out that famous red
bandanna handkerchief and to blow
his nose with clarion loudness.
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-06-05

Porto Rico is booming. A schooner
just arrived in New York brings the
largest cargo of sugar ever shipped
from the island. With tn, United
States giving good government and a
good market for sugar, tobacco, coffee
and other products, Porto Rico Is en-
joying unprecedented prosperity.
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-06-05
Letter lono Afioat.

correspondent writes: While SAIL
ing of Felixstowe on August bank
holiday last year l addressed a post.
card to myself, stamped it and placed
1t in a bottle which l threw in the
sea. l had quite forgotten about it.,
but the other morning l received the
card through the post, bearing the
Tromsoe (Norway) postmark and the
sender's name and address. The bot
tie had been floating about nearly
eight months-London Chronicle.
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-06-05
Saved From Being a Cripple for Life.

Saved From Being Cripple for Life.
almost six or seven weeks ago I
became paralyzed all at once with
rheumatism" writes Mrs. Louis Nc
Key, 913 Seventh street, Oakland, Cal.
1T struck me in the back and extend
ed from the hip of my right leg down
to my foot. The attack was so severe
that could not move in bed and
was afraid that should be cripple
for life.
about IL years ago I received q
sample bottle of your Liniment but
never had occasion to use it, as I
have always been we'll, but some
thing told me that Sloan's Liniment
would help me, so I tried it. After
the second application could get
up out of bed, and in three days
could walk, and now feel we'll and
entirely free from pain.
"NIy friends we're very much sur
prised at my rapid recovery and I
was only too glad to tell them that
Sloan's Liniment was the only med
icine l used"
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-06-05

Mrs. Fiji Potter-Stillman, who pur-
chased at $50 each 30 hats without
wearing one of them, certainly showed
2ne discrimination when she chose a
millionaire for a husband.
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-06-05

A woman doctor in Chicago claims
to have seen soul passing. She de-
scribes it as resembling tobacco smoke
and having passed through solid
wall. We hope no one will be mean
enough to accuse the lady physician of
having a pipe dream
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-06-05

A Cleveland man has been arrested
for striking his wife because she had
not spoken to him for three months.
There are some who will say he ought
to be able to get off on plea of in
sanity if he wants to.
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-06-05
Makes Business of Escorting Women

time looking up odd restaurants and
places of amusement until he has
made of himself the most companion
able person in town.
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-06-05
He Was Practical.

Young man, you write good deal
OF poetry to my daughter"
"Yes, SIR
1T takes q practical man to support
q wife,"
well, it's this way have to write
her an occasional letter, and I'm SO
busy At the office that l just copy
the poetry to fill in"
The explanation was satisfactory.
Exchange
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-06-05
So Polite,

"She hasn't any cause to be snip
py with me. The last time saw her
I'm sure l did the politest thing I
could"
What did you do?"
I'VE were on a car and when q
man offered me seat l said to her:
You take it, dear; you're the oldar.'"
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-06-05

More proof that Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound saves
woman from surgical operations.
Mrs. S. A. Williams, of Gardner,
Maine, writes:
II was a great sufferer from female
troubles, and Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound restored me to health
In three months, after my physician
declared that an operation was abso-
lutely necessary"
Mrs. Alvina Sperling, of 154 Oev-
bourne Ave., Chicago, ILL.,, writes:
II suffered from female troubles, a
tumor and much Inflammation. Two
of the best doctors in Chicago decided
that an operation was necessary to save
my life. Lydia E. Pinlxham's Vegetable
Compound entirely cured me without
an operation"
FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN,
For thirty years Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound. made
from roots and herbs, has been tho
standard remedy for female ills,
and has positively cured thousands of
women who have been troubled with
displacements, Inflammation, ulcera-
ton, tibroid tumors, irregularities,
periodic pains, backache, that bear
mg-down feeling, t1atulency, indiges-
ton, dizziness, or nervous prostration.
Why don't you try it2
Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick
women to write her for advice.
She has guided thousands to
health. Address, Lynn, Mass.
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-06-05
GALLANTRY.

Weary William-Excuse me, miss,
but l see that you have had a tin
with your lover, and he has left you.
Allow me to escort you home instead.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-03-27
A SILLY SAYING.
eft is q common but sillv /,

s:Tt is a common but silly epin.
ion prevailing among q GER
tain class of people that the
worse a remedy tastes, smells CIR
hurts, the more efioacious it is.
So says a well-knoWn English
physician. He further adds /:
ssFor example, let US consider
cod liver oil. As it is extracted
from the fish this oil is so often
sive to the taste and smell that
many cannot use it at all, ne
matter how badly they need it.
Yet cod liver oil is one of the
most valuable drugs in the world
and it is the greatest pity that
we have not thus far been able
to free it from those PECULIAR
ties which so seriously interfere
with it's usefulness" This was
written years ago; the work of
civilizing and redeeming it has
since been triumphantly accom-
plished; and as q leading in
gredient in the remedy called
WAMPOLE's PREPARATION
the oil retains all it's wonderful
curative properties with no bad
smell or taste whatever. 1t is
palatable as honey and contains
all the nutritive and curative
properties Of Pure Cod Liver
OH, extracted by US from fresh
cod livers, combined with the
Compound Syrup of Hypophos
phites and Extracts of Malt and
Wild Cherry: creating a medi.
cine of unequaled power for the
diseases most prevalent and IA
tai among men, women and chill
dren. There is no other remedy
to compare with it. 1t increa<
ses the digestive power of the
stomach and in Blood Impuri-
ties, Throat and Lung Troubles,
Nervous Dyspepsia and Scrofu-
lous Affections it gives quick
and certain relief and cure. DR..
G. G. Shannon, of Canada, saws:
al shall continue it's use with,
: am sure, great advantage to
my patients and satisfaction to
myself" Has all the virtues o.
rod liver oil: none OF it's faults.
Ycu may trust II fully; it cannot
d.sappoint you al all chenista
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-03-27
IN EP|LEPT|C
NOT RESPONSIBLE
Expert Witness so Testifies in
Mayhem Charge Against
a Negro.

! Brady Clements, looking as harmless
as a dove and with apparently not
j enough strength to crush fly, is still
before Judge Robinson on the charge
of mayhem, having playfully bitten of
one of the ears of his wife. The de-
Tense being offered for him is that he
/ is an epileptic and during attacks ir-
responsible and unconscious of what he
lis doing. Brady is packed back and
| forth from prison to the courtroom four
times day on a stretcher and bare
ly manages to sit up while the alienist
gives testimony as to his irresponsi-
his big Inns remain slackly parted and
his eyes show no animation. AS long
as his police record is unknown he
seems rather an object te pity.
Behind, among the few spectators
that are listening to the expert testi-
mony of DR., Straub, sits his wife, a
comely mulatto woman, bright and
alert, listening attentively to every.
word spoken by witness, counsel or
Judge She had so dressed her kinky
hair that the scars of the injry in-
f1icted by her husband are not OBJ
servable.
Another interesting figure in the
trial, which has been on now for some
days, is DR.. Straub, testifying as an
expert in the matter of epilepsy, its
occurrence, symptoms, effect on the re-
sponsibility of the sufferer and its oe-
currence in the prisoner on trial. DR..
Straub is a Berlin graduate, a young
man, with good knowledge of Eng
lish and puts his testimony in lam
guage easily followed and understood
by the jurymen. According to his testi-
mony Brady has been an epiIeptic since
he was four years old, the disease be-
ing probably aggravated by alcoholism.
His testimony further is to the effect
that an epileptic can do anything but
think during an attack and is at all
times during the attack unconscious of
his actions and irresponsible. Any ac-
tion may be done by such one, but
those requiring rational action of the
brain.
Yesterday County Attorney Cathcart
put the witness through a searching
cross examination.
LAST FEDERAL TRIAL
Hayashi, a Japanese charged with
perjury in connection with an oath
alleged to have been taken at the
offices, was on triaf be-
fore Judge Dole in tfHe Federal Court
yesterday, this being the last case of
the term. The defendant was repre-
sented by C. c. Biting, and for the
United states District Attorneys De-
partment, c. w. Rawlins prosecuted.
A considerable time of the afternoon
session was taken up in argument
the right of the Immigra-
tfon Inspector to administer an oath |
at the particular time the offense WIS
supposed TO have. been committed.
SPECIAL JURORS EXCUSED.
Judge Dole yesterday morning ex-I
cused the jurors for the United States
District Court for the special Febru-
airy session, with the exception of
those empaneled to hear the Hayash1
case. The excused Jurors were thank
ed by the Judge for their services and
for the manner in which
they had attended to the business
brought before them. The majority
of these jurymen live on the other is
lands and many of them are already
on their way home.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-03-27
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