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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-01-17
Head Was Taken for Hat Trimming

but evidently being we'll entertained,
the new governess.
Mrs. Roosevelt was in her custom
airy place in the corner. Mrs. Long
worth sat next her but further back
in the box. Miss Hagner, at Mrs.
Roosevelt's request, was in the middle
front seat. and Mr.. Longworth was
just behind the private secretary,
Miss Hagner wore a large black hat,
with broad, fiat brim and dark trim.
ming.
During the performance a woman
sitting in the balcony happened to
glance toward the Roosevelt box, and
as she idly watched the occupants it
suddenly occurred to her that Miss
Hagner's hat was adorned with q bit
of trimming she had not noticed In her
earlier inspection.
Why" she said to her companion,
look at that immense pink rose on
Miss Hagner's hat! I didn't notice
that before, did you?"
Her companion peered at the hat in
question.
NO." she said. isn't it huge?"
Perfectly immense. Seems to be
out in the brim of the hat, doesn't it ?"
And just then-the rose moved!
1t was Mr.. Longworth's bald head.
The relative positions of head and
hat made it seem from the balcony
that the crown of the former was on
the brim of the latter.
+ OF course an ordinary head would
have shown for what it was, but fine,
pink bald head made one of the most
startling pink roses even in this year
of startling hat trimmings.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-01-17

NEW YORK.-victory 10 dawning fol
the thousands of tenants Of the lower
east side who ares fighting for lower
rents. Many landlords have an.
nounced that they were ready. to. make
reductions. Some Of the landlords are
Offering compromise propositions, but
IN the main the tenants are holding
out for material reduction.
Rents in the tenement houses, it is
said, have almost doubled within the
last three years, and have advanced
~ per cent within q year.; To make the
matter worse, the heads of thousands
of families are out of work.
The opening gun in the remarkable
industrial struggle was fired by the
4S families in the double-decker tene.
ment. &c and 10 Stanton street, who
asked for a reduction of 81 a month,
and by the 81 families in PIG and 218
Cherry street, who demanded So q
month Topped of the monthly rental of
$21 to $25 for the front flats of four
and five rooms. and 81 from the SIS
rate for the rear rooms.
The action was followed Immediate
~ by the immense tenement popula-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-01-17
Ex-Hermit's Alluring Financial Club

AS hermit he was discovered q
year and a half ago by the newspapers
out at Winamac, Ind, where he was
described as living in a log cabin with
box containing the story Of his life
and facts about Washington society
that would tear up the capital. In
these dispatches it was stated that he
had been private secretary to Blaine
for eight years. Later in a note to the
Washington newspapers Mr.. Roach de-
MED the whole thing, even to the fact
that he had been Mr.. Blaines secre-
tary, but now he says he was Just
how the transformation from a hermit
in Indiana to a financial agent on
Fifth avenue was brought about Mr..
Roach may later inform the club
which is just forming.
In some of the recent numbers of
Mr.. Roach's weekly paper, Roach's
Financial Facts, Mr.. Roach makes it
clear that all one has to do to join the
club is to sign an agreement to hand
over to Mr.. Blaine's former secretary
SO month for ten months.
The Ten Dollar club, Mr.. Roach an
nounces, is to be limited to- 1000 men,
berships, but a man who would like
to get rich quicker can take out any
number of memberships. Mr.. Roach
is one of the many friends Of the
small investor that have sprung up
hecently and is going to give the club
all the benefit of his financial acumen
and experience in trying to make them
get rich quick. Just how he is going
to do this Mr.. Roach explains in
Financial Facts.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-01-17
Pure Water for

WASHINGTON.-Uncle Sam has
adopted a water wagon for army use,
which, even when it draws it's
contents from much polluted stream,
provides his soldiers with fine fluid
with which to Quench their thirst. The
secret of this is that the wagon in
question is nothing more or less than
complete filtering and sterilizins
plant on wheels. This sterilizing plant
is equipped with boiler for making
steam to operate the pump and the
sterilizer, complete set of bone-black
filters and a reservoir for storing the
sterile water. Along each side are
seven faucets, so arranged that IA
men can conveniently fill their can
teens at one time. Only a few min
utes are required for an entire regi.
ment to obtain its water supply.
From four to six mules are required
to draw this wagon. Its steam pump
will suck water from any stream or
well, and no matter how muddy or full
OF disease germs it may be it will au-
tomatically pass through the system
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-01-17
Duck Hawks Return to Postal Tower

| into the tower, there to devour at
their leisure. Some pipes became OBJ.
structed with the remnants, feathers,
bones and feet of the hawks victims,
and so the death of the marauders was
decreed
The duck howk is none too common
bird, and ornithologists and bird
lovers generally do not think species
so interesting should be forced to ex-
tinction even though it does kill few
game birds. The bird lovers argued
that if killing game were to be made
a capital o1ense good many men
would suffer. There was a protest
against the killing of the hawks and
they were spared.
The postoffice department building
is situated at one of the busiest COR
ners in Washington, but the fact that
the building is in the city has been
protection to the birds It is not
unusual to see them shoot by the win.
dows of the higher Office structures as
they go their way to the hunting
grounds.
The first assistant postmaster gen.
eral is an ornithologist, and the
chances are that if any suggestion is
made that it would be a good thing to
kill the hawks they will find a ready
champion in Frank H. Hitchcock. The
biological survey also is interested in
the hawks
1t is limited also that a well-known
bear hunter, who has living headquar-
tiers in large house on Pennsylvania
avenue, is concerned in the birds and
in their safety.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-01-17
Gotham Now a Wilderness of Siqns

front and the rivers. Take a ride on
the elevated and signs from the house
tops stare one In the face. Drop into
the subway, and incandescent lamps
make limelight for them. The Wis:
1tor when taken for a ride along River
side drive is confronted by colossal
signs on the Jersey shore, and when
he leaves Manhattan his last view of
the city is a wonderful skyline marred
by bfl1boards Haunted from the tops
of the highest towers
To the occupant of the fiat, hotel or
apartment house there is no rest from
the constant stare of these hideous
signs. They are often the last things
seen when the curtains are drawn at
night and the first to appear when
the morning dawns, many of them
burning steady glare to the last
hour of darkness. In the innermost
Businesses of the parks is about the
only place one may escape them. and
1t is due solely to the vigilance of in
dividuals that signboards have not in
vaded even these bowers of nature.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-01-17

The Civic and Art association ia
banding together to check at least any
further entertainments of the sign and
billboard nuisance. 1t has begun it's
work by obtaining an Injunction
against the Fifth avenue benzine
'busses to remove the yellow signs
from the tops of the stage coaches.
The association believes the only way
to check the sign evil is through tax
alton. With this end in view it pur-
poses to have bill passed when the
legislature meets next year.
To get away from the glare of the
blll-boards is no easy task in New
York to-day. They line every railroad
track entering the city, the harbor
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-01-17

A new Metropolitan Opera house
prina donna is Elizabeth Parkinson, 4
young soprano who has created real
sensation in Paris and London. She
is protege of Nine Melba, who pre-.
diets great future for the western
songster. Her life story thus far has
been one of incessant toll and a hard,
bitter struggle for recognition. In her
fight for musical laurels Mile. Parkina
she is billed that way now, with
Kansas City, her birthplace, far in the
background-has had the financial aid
and good counsel of an older sister, a
school teacher; it is this self.sacrific-
ing sister who has made the young
diva's success possible-the sister anil
Nine. Melba.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-01-17
Cigarettes in the NAVY.

In his annual report, Surgeon Gen.
eral of the Navy Presley NJ Rixey
recommends that an order be issued
by the navy department forbidding
the use of cigarettes by all persons
In the navy under 81 years of age. It
1s stated that in three months the
crews Of the battleship Missouri GOO
mem used 1900 books of cigarette pa
pers, 1900 pounds of smoking tobacco
and $4,000 cigarettes. None the less,
remarks the Medical Fortnightly, 5000
cigarettes and $4,000 pounds of candy,
together with 1000 pounds Of navy
plug chewing tobacco and 10000
cigars, were loaded on the Culgoa in
the Brooklyn navy yard as a part Of
the canteen supply.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-01-17

f.rmn.
while teaching while
pe nel during spare moments reading
In October 1892 Bryan the
struck
ne
solicitor
o N ""1AN
ne was in solicitor
that passed the
ned the liquor interests that be
later instituted
prosecuted again. Sunday
gambling
in twote "
~sn the unagged and unterrhed
best senator state had"
Il shall Twill
der any conditions, until after
Without doubt Bryan will
80 the minimum for eligibility
a he
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-01-17

Another step has been taken in the
way of preserving places of scenic and
historic interest. The late owner of
the site of Fort Lee, opposite New
York city, has donated the ground to
the national government, which has
accepted the gift. Fort Lee is at the
lower end of the Palisades of the Hud-
son, was an important post in the
revolutionary war and commands a
magnificent view of the surrounding
region, including New York and the
mighty stream which flows by it to the
sea. Much of the Palisades has al
ready been acquired for public use,
and the intention Of the United States
authorities to maintain Fort Lee as a
national reservation will fit in with
the general scheme.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-01-17

his vacations with the of her Spanish palaces
Prince
his particular branch
disposition of
he is splendid
accomplished
he
Should
husband
Princess Alexander Battenberg will
family The
a and through
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-01-17

of
publication
erent attempts to be complimentary and congratuo instead
nn probably the opposite effect
unadoned his
SERVICE to which he exception.
Mr. Courts of
committee having
Tennessee
secretary the committee revision of the
democrat voted
speedily and oyouy reapponed
nuee whether democrat republican,
hmsen popul Efficient
are Just as mucn IN demand for responsible positions other
courts highest
$4,000 evidence
his salary
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-01-17
"DiaboIo."

~ "DiaboIo."
III Any one who could say why the
world adopts toy, plays with it 4
/. while, and throws it in the corner,
would know more about human nature
than has yet been discovered. A few
months ago 'diabolo'' meant nothing
except to- readers of books about
games, where it appears under its
English name as "nying cone" To-day
the game is being played all over
France and England, and has invaded
the United States. Diabolo consists Of
four or five feet of string tied to the
ends of two sticks. and spool with
. thin waist. The trick is to toss the
spool into the air and catch 1t on the
string. There are picturesque varia-
lions. such as catching the spool be-
hind ones back, tossing it over ten.
mis- net to an opponent, and other deli
cate juggleries. The game was in
vogue hundred years ago, and is
illustrated in the prints of the time. A
French engineer revived it recently,
and now the flying cones are so thick
In some parts of Paris and London
that the police have had to take meas
ures to protect the innocent pedes-
TRAN. Punch represents a diabolist
disguised because she cannot toss the
spool and catch it more than 1000 odd
times while riding her bicycle. An.
other enthusiast is described tossing
up mullins and coal scuttles instead of
the spool. Tomorrow where will the
game be? asks the Youths Compan-
ion. A little while ago everybody was
playing ping-pong. Who plays it now?
Tiddledywinks had its brief, snappy
day, and went to the attic, to lie with
the battledores and shuttlecocks that
our grandfathers once gracefully
welded. 1t is not long since pigs-in-
the-clover interfered with legitimate
business life. Croquet still fingers,
but it has fallen from the days when
no patch of grass was safe to cross in
the dark on account of the treacher-
GUS wickets. And graces, the game
with hoop and sticks-are there chill
dren who play that as their great
grandparents did? The history of the
world at play is a tickle romance
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-01-17
Sets Up Ideal for Wife.

An advertiser in the Hanover Cou-
rier says: Il am looking for a help
meet-a wife. l am well educated
and well-to-do. My ideal is the
Countess Rixa in Kelpe's novel, Nut
terschaft,' and a woman like her I
would take as my wife. Women who
believe that they resemble this char
acter are requested to address, ETC.,
etc. The editorial comment on the
unique advertisement shows that there
is some doubt on the part of the paper
as to whether the "Mutterschaft" en-
thusiast wishes to marry a woman of
the Rixa stamp or to increase the sale
of the book.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-01-17
District Committee Opposes Dry Town

closes the fact that if the question Of
prohibition is presented it will be
pigeonholed by a large majority.
There are 10 members, IL of whom are
from the large cities and eight from
the small towns, three of them being
opposed to prohibition.
A large lobby is maintained here by
the prohibition forces, and immediate.
" after the holiday recess its men,
bers will begin to lombard the mem
bers of the house, and particularly the
District of Columbia committee, with
view to forcing some legislation. But
the antf-prohibitionists have Is votes
out of 10 of the District of Columbia
committee, and, unless all signs fail,
Washington will be wet" for two
years longer.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-01-17

Some cold-blooded statistician has
discovered that $1,000 wives in New
York are supporting their husbands.
Whether marriage would be regarded
as failure in their case would de.
pend much on the point of view.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-01-17
Great Value, of Cottonseed,

From nothing at all few years ago
to $100, 100000 capita! invested now is
the record of our ccttonseed products
industry, according to the bureau Of
manufactures 1907 fiscal year report.
In that year our exports of cotton
seed products reached value of $4O,-
513,400, or $9,344,400. more than In
1906 fiscal year. Only 40 years ago
cottonseed, except that required for
growing the next years crop of cot
ton, was Of little value and cost labor
and money to remove.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-01-17
New Hudson Terminal Is a Wonder

continent 1000 miles, or from New
York to Denver. More than 100000
pounds of concrete will be used in the
completed building, or enough to pave
Broadway one foot thick from curb to.
curb from the Battery to Forty second
street. OF structural steel $4,000 tons
Will be used and the whole mass when
completed will have an estimated dead
and live load of 100000 tons.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-01-17

From Washington comes the start.
ling news that the reserve stock Of
clothing and equipage for the army
has been entirely exhausted, but az
there is no war in sight at present
there seems to be no danger that the
history of the taking of Lungtungpep
will be repeated.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-01-17

Lord Fairfax, an American who
went to England to accept the title of
Baron Fairfax, has returned to New
York. He is member of q firm Of
bankers in that city, and it is under
stood will resume his business career
in New York.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-01-17
TAWNEY'S RIGHT BOWER
James c. Courts, clerk of the appropri

James c. Courts, clerk of the appropriations
committee of the house of representatives, has
been reappointed by Chairman Tawney of that
committee for the Sixtieth congress. This is just
as intelligent and necessary statement<as would
be mention of the fact that the sun rose at
approximately the usual hour this morning, for
Mr. Courts is the right bower of the appropria-
tons committee, and every member of the house,
from Chairman Tawney-who has every minute
demonstrations of the fact-to the representa-
tive who drops in once year to ask about river
and harbor improvement at Jiggs Creek Ark. is
happy to admit the fact
There are simply oceans of nice things that
might be said about Mr. Courts-about his work
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-01-17


finally there nothing the plays According these
it
appointed
submitted
which
beray with
disturbing
which
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-01-17
MUCH ABUSED BRlT0N

George Alexander BEDFORD, examiner of plays
for King Edward, is since his Introduction of Ed
ward Garnett's play, THE Breaking Point" the
most abused man in England Thousands of col.
umns about him have appeared in the press of
late, yet he must take it all, if not smilingly at
least with air of unconcern for he is member
of the kings household, and he has no more right
to defend himself than would his royal master
if the newspapers chose to denounce him. Praise
or blame must be absolutely ignored and the
subject of it must pretend that he never saw line
of it.
There three ways in which playwrights
may offend against the English laws of play
licensing In the first place, playwrights must not
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-01-17
PRINCE SEEKS RICH BRIDE

Another prince has entered the marriage
market and is the lookout for bride with
dowry of millions. This is his highness, Alexan-
der of Battenberg. The prince recently came of
age and big dinner and reception were given at
Kensington palace to celebrate the event. Among
the kings and queens and other royal guests were
many Americans, Miss Phipps of Pittsburg be-
ing one of them.
The Importance of the prince is much en-.
HANGED by the fact that his sister is queen of
Spain and the publics interest is great because
he is the particular chum and "side-partner" of
the former Princess Ena She was much of a TOM
boy and though a year younger than Prince
Allie" was the leader in all manner of mschiev-
nkS II do
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-01-17

ssx DR.. Osler became famous for what
he didn't say, and oiner college profess
sors are trying to butt into his class
BY really saying fool thinga
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-01-17

: At the end of the worst storm is
bright sunshine, and so the worst hui.
man situation is often followed by the
best prospects.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-01-17

, In New York $4,000 men are SUD-
ported by their wives; but, then, al
most anything can pass as a man in
Gotham.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-01-17

Surveying Marks Have Disappeared.
> The United States government and
that of Canada are resurveying the
boundary lines between = the latter
country and ours as far east as Yer
mont. Many of the marks had disap-
peared. : s2zs f.. 30 (
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-01-17
IN THE LlMELIGHT
NEW SENATOR A FlGHTER

William James Bryan of Jacksonville, Fla,
appointed United States senator to succeed the
late stephen H. Mallory until a successor is regu-
iary elected, declares that despite the fact that
ne was born on the border of Kissimmee county.
ne shall overcome that handicap and make that
section a spot with halo above it.
Bryan's early life was spent on the farm OF
his father. John NJ Bryan, who subsequently was
state railroad commissioner for six years. The
son earliest schooling was gained at the Osceola
n1eh school at Kissimmee. This work. supple
mented by the additional study at home during
the evenings, fitted him for Emory college. which
he entered at an early age.
After graduation came year of teaching and
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-01-17

! ; Europe's Output Of Sugar. T.
Europe's output Of sugar for 1907 IL
about 6,288,0OO tons.