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The Virginia enterprise., 1908-03-13

NO WOMAN alone-and in the hotel
" sense of the word a woman is
alone even when she is a crowd-may
satisfy her hunger in a New York res
taurant after 6 p. M.
According to the findings in the
Twelfth Municipal district court in
the suit of Mrs. Harriet Stanton
Blatch, daughter of the late Elizabeth
Cady Stanton, against the Hoffman
House to recover 5000 damages for
exclusion from the roof garden din
inS-room, because unaccompanied by
{, man. an unattended woman is one of
two classes: she is disreputable, or
she is testing question of woman's
rights. and, in either case, open to
suspicion. 49,,
John Caddigan. president of the
Hoffman House corporation, who has
been in the hotel business 40 years.
said it was the unwritten law not to
serve a woman without escort in any
first-class hotel.
The decision was the result of a
test case brought by Mrs. Blatch who
determined to try to break the rule
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-03-13

CHARLES W. MORSE, who once
~ was proclaimed the ice king, ma
rine king and real estate king. isn't
king of anything any more. To-day
he is a fugitive from public opinion,
while deputy sheriffs prowl the city.
levying on every inch of his property
and every cent of his deposits they
can find
The romance of Morse's winged mil
lions is without a parallel. either in
the old or the new worlds history of
frenZied finance. Less than a year
ago Morse stood one night in Broad.
way cafe and boasted that he had s4O,-
"O0,000 and every dollar of it earning
Interest. Morse was at the top of his
wonderful career in high and fast
finance. He had gone up like the
traditional rocket; and the rocket had
reached that dazzling eminence where
its sputtering. sparkling brilliance cut
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-03-13
American Music.

Even the severest critic of American
music-and most of the critics vie
with each other for this title-cannot
deny the presence of an extraordinary
and ever-increasing creative impulse
In American musical art. While, for
reasons to be considered, few Ameri.
can works in large forms come to gen.
eral public performance, and scarcely
to local, every year witnesses nota-
Bile Increase of orchestral works, cham
Der music, piano and ocal-worhs in
large forms, and other compositions
by American composers. OF smaller
piano compositions and songs the sea-
sons bring forth an appalling quantity,
and too often, it is true, an appalling
quality as well; yet in the midst of
this saturnalia, declares Arthur Far.
well in the Atlantic, appear many
works of true distinction, of breadth
and beauty, works infinitely in ad-
vance of those usually chosen to repre-
sent American music on artists pro-
grams. And from time to time An
American opera rises from the CON-
poser's consciousness to completion
never to perfOrmance-and sinks again
into a mysterious obscurity, oblivion,
or temporary neglect-we are fain to
know which.
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-03-13
President Lured Into the Muldoon Test

confirm MIR. Roots story, President
Roosevelt suggested, skeptically, that
he would like to try this stiff athletic
proposition of Muldoon's
Accordingly, Gen. Bell commanded
the expedition, which set out across
the country. The horsemanship test
set for army officers is five miles at a
walk, five miles at trot and five miles
at gallop. The Muldoon test, entire.
ly on foot, is eight miles at walk and
seven on a trot
The going was heavy, for the wealth
er was bad. Gen. Bell went over the
course easily. President Roosevelt
went over the course, but not easily.
The question as to what President
Roosevelt is to do after March 4, 1909,
has been partly answered as result
of this trial under the direction of
Gen. Bell
Before he hunts tigers in India, or
lions in the African jungle, or occupies
house in London, the president will
undoubtedly go to Muldoon's until he
can walk eight miles and then run
seven on top OF that.
He has no intention of giving up on
simple little thing like this. But
until he has Muldoon himself to teach
him how the president will avoid fol-
lowing the treatment with Gen. Bell.
OF course it would have been insub-
ordination, or worse, for Gen. Bell to
have stiffened the Muldoon test for
the benefit of his superior officer. Con-
sequently no one has dared to suggest
that he did, but the boy subalterns
at the Army and Navy club are all in a
broad grin.
Fat officers who bounced about in
the saddle for the Is required miles
last fall are wearing a grin that is
broader STILL
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-03-13

NICE white bread is not so nice,
~ maybe, as bread that is not white.
And then maybe again it is Anyway
this is question which Uncle Sam
has set about answering.
Bread baking, therefore, is the or
der of the day. An oven has been set
up in corner of the chemical lab.
oratory, and when DR.. Wiley is not
busy feeding soft drinks to his
poison squad" he as attending to the
making and baking of bread.
1t is all to determine the effect of
"bleached" -four. Is bleached flour
just as good as flour which is not
bleached? That is what the pure food
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-03-13

The last vestige of the famous old
palace of st. Cloud has been removed
by the pulling down of the railway sta
tion reserved for distinguished and
royal visitors to the Emperor Nicholas
Ill. and the Empress Eugenie when in
residence in St. Cloud. AS will be re-
membered by many tourist, the little
station was thickly overgrown with
grass and weeds. Birds had built their
nests in the imperial waiting room and
lusty young trees had grown up in the
reserved space around the station. No
train had stopped at it for 81 years! 4
Paris correspondent writes that the
last occasion on which the station was
used was on the day of the French
declaration Of war on Germany. when
the officers Of the imperial guards wero
conveyed by special train to lunch with
the emperor.
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-03-13
Migration Of oirds.

No scientific question has been more
discussed with fruitless result than
the object and the significance Of the
migration Of birds, toward the tropics
In the autumn and toward the poles in
the spring. 1t would be easy to suppose
that the autumnal migration is in
search Of food If it were not for the
fact that in the spring the birds leave
abundant supplies Of food in the warm
regions, and arrive in the colder re-
gions even before vegetation is far ad-
vanced. Another suggestion. that the
migration north is for breeding pur-
poses, Is disproved by the fact that the
migratory habit is found in birds that
do not breed until the second or third
year. Prof. E. A. Schafer. in an ad.
dress before the Scottish Natural His.
tory society. has suggested and ar
gued plausibly that the explanation is
to be found in the search for light
The polar regions are dark In winter
and the days are short in the temper
ate zones. On the other hand, the
days are longer in high latitudes than
In the tropics between the spring and
the autumnal equinoxes. Birds are
voracious feeders, and occupy most Of
the daylight in seeking food; and they
are greatly dependent upon their eyes
In the search. Some confirmation of
this theory is found in the fact that
birds do not start on their journeys
southwark or northward impelled by a
change in the temperature, for they
take their flight southwark in warm
autumns and northward in cold
springs, on practically the same days
of the month as in other years. The
theory is at least interesting and
worthy of further study.
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-03-13
Avoid Worryinu.

II you would make your house and
home cheerful, happy and attractive.
and your husband fond of it, avoid the
habit OF magnifying the little vexa.
tions of everyday life until they alb.
sorb your whole attention. The writer
has known many a husband return
home in the happiest mood, to have
his serenity roughly shattered by de-
pressing account of the servant s
shortcomings, the children's naughti-
ness, and the trickery Of the grocer or
the butcher. All unconsciously the
habit grows upon some women, says
the New York Weekly, till their hus.
bands associate their homes with
nothing but complaints and worries,
instead Of being place where peace
and happiness and rest Of mind are al
ways to be found
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-03-13
DR.. Wiley Is Testing Bleached Flour

department wants to find out. And the
only way to find out is to try.
So bread is baked with the bleached
flour. The bread is then put under the
microscope, weighed, dissected,
touched with litmus paper, subjected
to acids, cut with knife, torn with
the fingers, hashed with celluloid,
pressed, made into putty, burned in a
retort. dissolved in a test tube, Gre
mated, tossed in blanket and fed to
the poison squad. At least most of
these things are done to it.
Then figures are put down in a
tabular form on sheets of paper.
members of the poison squad are dag
nosed, and in the end there is a re-
port made which Dr. Wiley will ex-
plain to the house committee on ag-
riculture when asking for renewal
of the appropriation.
The report has not been finished
yet, but when it is DR.. Wiley promises
to warn the public as to what colored
bread to eat.
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-03-13
All Things Taste Of Tin.

IA man may live in the city and buy
a, squash and eat it. That is all he
can do With a boughten squash. for q
squash that he cannot raise, he cannot
store, nor take delight in outside of
pie. And can a man live where his
garden is a grocery? his storehouse a
grocery? his bins, cribs. mows and
attics so many pasteboard boxes, bot
ties and tin cans? Timed squash in
pie may taste like any squash pie; but
1t is no longer squash; and is a squash
nothing If not pie? Oh, but he gets
lithograph squash upon the can to
show him how the pulp looked or God
made it: This is a sop to his higher
sensibilitfes; it is a commercial re-
minder, too, that life even in the city
should be more than pie-it is also
the commercial way Of preserving the
flavor Of the canned squash, else he
would not know whether he were eat
ing squash or pumpkin or sweet DO
tato. But then it makes little differ
ence. all things taste the same in the
city-all taste of tin.-Dallas Lore
Sharp In the Atlantic.
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-03-13


be
of the
future of South Africa If he
will fall to next to nothing and Sir Julius pick them his
S Lemoine
Whatever Wernhe
There something this closely
to
Wernhers the packet.
Iemone old,
He
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-03-13
Significance Of Polar Exploration.


There is now no question as to
the value and importance of polar dis
covery. Their objects are exploration
for scientific purposes. and the encour-
agement of maritime enterprises. The
main principles have been briefly and
clearly set forth by Lieut.. Weyprecht,
who was one of the discoverers of
Franz Josef Land: (1) Arctic re.
search is of the highest Importance for
a knowledge of natures laws; (2) &C.
Ographical research is valuable as it
opens the field to scientific research
generally; 60 the north pole has for
science no greater significance than
any other point in the higher lati.
tudes. Lieut.. Weyprecht thus con-
tends, what the Royal Geographical
society has contended for year, that
the attainment of the highest possible
latitude, or of the pole itself, is not
the object to be sought, but the ex:
ploratfon Of the unknown area, with a
view to scientific results. -
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-03-13
What It Costs to Run the Citv a Year

penditnre in 1890. the total expenses
of our national government were only
double. the present expenses of the
city OF New York; and, ,omitting the
appropriations for the army, navy.
Indians. pensions and the interest on
the public debt, the civil and miscel-
laneous expenses of the government
for: 1905 were about the same as those
for the city of New York for the cur
rent year, while for 100: and many
years previous they were much less.
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-03-13
Presidents Son Plays Part of Clown

Later on the program Quentin took
part in turn in which larger clowns
beat him with blsdders and slapsticks
and almost made football of him.
One of the hits of the show was the
refusal of big polar bear to answer
to the repeated call of Teddy" and
his dignified response to the name
'Theodore."
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-03-13

This hostility Beckham ON his
He
with Goebel for The
defeated
Goebel
The latter
their
took strenuous He
maintained however, that filling
for himself This just the the
Roosevelt
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-03-13


of IA Christian which
lad he displayed
able
fond
education the both of whom spoke English
Italian
will interesting is
hastened
The overjoyed the speaking
at he of the Americ ofice
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-03-13

An English genealogist has discov-
cred that George Washington was a
lineal descendant Of Edward I. He
was, however, a bigger man than his
royal ancestor, and was one of na-
ture's noblemen, who owed nothing to
proud descent.
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-03-13

II the proposed burying ground for
dogs for which Newtonville lady is
trying to get authority becomes a real.
ity. and is open to cats, almost every
suburbanite could suggest some that
he would like to have put in it right
away.
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-03-13

1t Is claimed that Napoleon was not
much Of an equestrian, but no one has
~ yet put forth the theory that his
greatness as military genius was due
solely to the fact that he could ride
. horse over an eight-foot hurdle,
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-03-13


petition prices by violence
SHAH the
privileged the world has known
While the
= '''t
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-03-13

The recognition OF pure air al a
curative agency is spreading with great
rapidity. Unfortunately, however. the
smoke-makers are determined appar-
emily to keep the supply of pure air az
small as they can.
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-03-13
Her Dilemma.

Lady-We are all vegetarians and
should expect you to become one.
Have you any objection?
Housemaid (hesitatingly) - Well,
mum, it depends. Is beer vegetable.
mum?
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-03-13
A GENIUS OR a RASCAL

Henri Lemoine who is under arrest in Paris
on a charge of swindling Sir julius Wernher
one OF the syndicate that controls the diamond
output of South Africa, is either finished rascal
or wonderful genius, and the scientific world
is at loss to decide which. In view of the pc
culiar circumstances under which the money
some $G5,000, was extracted from Wernher, one
would set him down as rank fraud, but there
are distinguished scientists who declare that they
have seen Lemoine making diamonds, that they
watched the crucible from beginning to end OF
the operation, and that it was utterly impossibll
for him to play sharp game upon them
One Of the mysteries which lend peculia,
fascination to the case is sealed packet in a
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-03-13
DENOUNCES WORkINGMAN

Barrett Wendell, 7professor- of English at
Harvard university, who recently startled Chicago
with his hystelfcal 1enunciation of the working
man, is chiefly known to fame as the father of
Barrett Wendell Jr., the athlete. Some of the
statements attributed to him are the following:
Ore Of the most popular caricatures in the
comic papers to-day represents a bigbellied
bald-headed, thin whiskered, brutal, grnning man
trampling on his worthy fellow citizen, and he is
supposed to personfly wealth and fashion, the
upper classes. If there is anything on earth like
the big-bellied monster I have spoken of it is the
laboring man with his pail, who usurps my privil-
eyes,
Again: .,.,,
49, ooeoA ;xad;x da.al L.
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-03-13

yes"
What ,for?"' "',vss.,I ~>st3: tt4s J
: $50 as to make home happy When
one Of the girls got married wanted
the whole family's picture. in the pa
pers, so as to make the neiEhbors
Jealous
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-03-13
NEW PORTUGUESE RULER

Dom Manuel H., the new king of Portugal,
is the second son of the late ruler King Carlos.
He is said to be young man of considerable
force of character, and. unlike his elder brother,
is popular with the masses. He is Is years and
two months old.
Prince Manuel in his early teens, was sent
10 the naval school at Lisbon, where he showed
marked aptitude for maritime affairs. He be-
a skilled yachtsman and owns fine sail
ing vesse! which he manages himself. The young
prince a prominent figure in the most not
able of the regattas along the Mediterranean,
and last year he the kings cup, offered by
King Edward of Great Britain in the yachting
contests off Marseilles.
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-03-13
An Object Of .Endeayor..

- MI 0UJeCt. Ut: 7E''oS101''-, - :
"You say you have. always :longed
70 be rich?" said the philosopher.
i "Yes," answered Mr.. :Cumrox. g
: .a-"And "fameus??" - ":s' >:-'%. :.
Eyes"
"And influantial?"
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-03-13
IN THE LIME!LIGHT II l:!s'l Il
SEEKS kENTuCkY| 'ToGA

; John C. w. Beckham, former governor CT
Kentucky, is at present. engaged In the fercest
kind of a. factional flight for the United States
senatorship for his state. He lacks two or three
votes, but while Democrats hold them they refuse
to give them up to Beckham, and deadlock is
on, for there is no other candidate upon whom
they can agree. William J. Bryan went to Ken
tueky a<few weeks ago to restore harmony in the
party. He made speech to the legislature be-
hind closed doors, urging the Democrats to close
up their ranks rather than run the danger of
letting the Office go to Republican, but it was in
vain. The factions, far from uniting nearly came
to blows, the result of the well meant attempts
of the would be peacemaker /.
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-03-13

4. !. 1':'Thusl We Trust Him. 49, -
And though he promise to his loss.
he makes his promise good.-Tate
and Brady.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1908-05-30

by REV. THOMAS EDWARD BARR.
Milwaukee.

good will its cornerones. Do you square these?
With what building national house? Liberty
and justice equality and BROTHERHOOD bound the circuit
hope.
What kind house your religion make chamber
of where morbid and unjust
An unenced plain with unarted
unknown EARTH What the landmarks great estate
Reverence for God and for all that because God
good and for hope for the ultimate triumph right
selves and in the world love- for all Gods world here beyond the
vail of DEATH specially help those who need Does your religion
easier for resist temptation? Does help be
hy ambitious unrng? Does make patient sympathetic
full? Does bring the and spiritual closer your
with the appeal of its supreme controlling lasting worth?
tabernacle of God let down out Of heaven for each
make tangible for himself In this the peace under
standing and joys forevermore
There f-th house of character Thought and
desire purpose and experience tent the of
which quit and through which look
world What be the poisoned shirt Nessus ormentng Hercules
his death? What be the creative foregeam of the building
the house made with hands, eternal the heayen that
revelation toll and pain are well
worth while. CLLoz11eA |o1t1z1N /3a1h
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1908-05-30
ain God We Trust"

The passage by the house of repre-
sentatives of the h1ll to restore to the
United States coinage the motto In
God we trust" was accomplished by
vote so overwhelming as to be almost
unanimous. Five members only out OF
eco voted against it. The action, which
was the direct result Of widespread
agitation and innumerable protests
and petitions from religious persons
and associations, will undoubtedly be
regarded as disclosing a deep and far
reaching religious sentiment through
out the country; and that view is prob
ably just. The controversy which gave
rise to this vote, states the Youths
Companion, was started by the deci-
sion to omit the motto from the gold
coins designed by Mr.. Saint-Gaudens,
but the coin on which it originally ap-
peared was the two-cent piece OF 1864.
The period was one Of great national
depression and of deep religious feel
ing. The peril of the union lay heav-
lily on mems hearts, and caused the
serious-minded to turn their thoughts
more than was their wont to the Gre
ator for help and comfort. A Pennsyl-
vania clergyman had written to the
secretary of the treasury, suggesting
the recognition of the Deity in some
device on national coinage. The sug-
gestion was passed on by Secretary
Chase to James Pollock, a deeply reli-
gious man, formerly governor Of Penn
Sylvania, whom President Lincoln had
made director of the mint. Mr.. Pollock
suggested as mottos for the new one,
two and three-cent pieces which were
about to be issued, either Our coun-
try, our God" or God our trust" Sec
rotary Chase in his reply said: II ap-
prove your mottos, only suggesting
that the one be changed to read, Our
God and our country and the other Ia
God we trust" Mr.. Pollock was a
close friend as we'll as the appointee
of Lincoln, and it is regarded as quite
probable that the martyred president
himself had a voice In the selection of
the motto finally adopted. The his
tory Of the inscription, therefore, as
well as its sentiment, was such as to
make the omission of it seem to many
Americans a double sacrilege.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1908-05-30
WHAT A WOMAN CAN DO.

She can say mo-" and stick to 10 for
all time.
She can also say NO." In such q
low, soft voice that it means Eyes"
She can sharpen a lead pencil, II
you give her plenty Of time and plenty
of pencils.
She can dance all night in pair
of shoes two sizes too small for her
and enjoy every minute of the time.
She can look her husband square
in the eye when he tells her some
cock-and-bull story about being de
tanned at the Office" without betraying
in the least that she knows him to
be a colossal liar.
She can crumple up ten dollars
worth of dress materials, and buy a
spool of thread, with an order to have
it delivered four miles away, in a
style that will transfix the proprietor
of the establishment with admiration.
She can-but what's the use? A
woman can do anything or anybody,
and do 1t for them well. She can do
more in a minute than a man can in
an hour, and do 1t better. Yes, a
woman can do everything with but
one exception; she cannot climb a
tree, and only very occasionally find
her own pocket.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1908-05-30
Power of the Government.

The arraignment before a United
States district judge in Chicago of sc
men charged with violation of the anti
lottery laws and arrested In different
parts OF the country recalls the extent
of the lottery business until federal
laws rigidly enforced put an end to
the concerns SO far as existence in the
United States was concerned. Lot
teries OF the character possessed in
earlier times, which f1ourished under
the enormous patronage enjoyed and
which were carried on openly, are now
unknown here. The very facts In the
cases under consideration go to show
that the concerns in question were
conducted under false pretenses. They
could not do business otherwise. But
sooner or later, says the Troy IN. ~
Times, the federal power which sup
pressed the great lottery corporations
once supposed to be impregnably in
trenched overthrow the business, and
a demoralizing influence came to an
end. Incidentally the history Of Ameri-
can lotteries goes to prove that nation
al authority can do what states some
times seem powerless or disinclined
to accomplish. And everyone inter
ested in the moral welfare of the peo-
pie Is content to see such power exer.
cised.