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The Virginia enterprise., 1908-03-06
God to Be Restored to Nations Coins

The responsibility for the omission
was placed at the door of President
Roosevelt, for only through an exec.l.
tive order can change be made in
designs for coins. This responsibility
the president readily assumed, but,
when adverse criticism began to come
from all quarters of the country and
religious and patriotic societies took
up the matter, he decided to issue a
statement setting forth his reasons
for the action.
In this statement the president said
there was no warrant of law for the
inscription. Also he said that his own
feeling in the matter was due to his
very firm conviction that to put such
a motto on coins, or to use it in any
kindred manner, not only does no
good, but does positive harm, and is in
effect irreverence which comes dan.
geroualy close to sacrilege."
The president was firm that he
would not order the motto to be re-
placed unless directed to do so by
congress.
The presidents statement fsiled to
stem the tide of adverse criticism, and
when congress convened numerous
bills and resolutions were introduced
and proposed to make it unlawful to
issue coins without. the Inscription.
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-03-06
! At I the e. National ! Al : J, Capital ia
Gossip Of Of People and Event,
Gathered~in !W.shinetoa.
Senator Delivers Gift to uC uChinaman
II J. . ~

favor possible to bestow that gift be
taken to him. ~.ie.- !, Il
All Nav is probably the best known
Chinaman in washington. 4 He Is per-
mitted to reside in this ecountry by spe-
cial act of congress. He entered the
service of Admiral Dewey when, as
Commodore, Dewey commanded the
American fleet in the Orient. All
Nav was on board when the United
States squadron captured Manila. As
a mark of respect to Admiral Dewey
congress passed law excepting All
Nav from the exclusion laws.
Senator Stone first undertook, last
New Years day, to fulfill his mission
of presenting the remembrance from
the brother in Manila. Upon that day
the Missourian thought to pay call
Of respect upon the admiral and trans
nit the packet, also. Upon reaching
the Dewey residence he found all in
confusion. The heavy lace curtains
in the parlor had caught fire, threat.
ening the destruction of the house and
menacing the safety of women guests
who were present. All Nav rushed
into the parlor, tore down the cur.
tains, extinguished the fire, saved the
house and possibly saved lives. But
he was badly, dangerously burned. He
was taken to the hospital, and the
commission intrusted to Senator Stone
could not be carried out until a few
days ago.
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-03-06
Tom and Tabby Hit by Cruel Cat Law

clutches of the pondmaster must
wear tags, and it is distinctly provided
in the bill that the payment of tax
does not permit any cat to go upon
private property ot per than that oc.
cupied by it's owner. If the author and
friends of the bill have devised a
means of collecting non-taxpaying cats
1t is kept secret. 1t is rumored that a
fence.scaling brigade, armed with lad
ders and butterfly nets, will be turned
loose to gather in the taxdodgers.
The crusade against cats is being
led by Mr.. MacFarland because of the
disturbed state of mind caused him
while en- route home at nights by
thoughtless, indiscriminating cats.
1t is not thought that serious protest
will be entered against the proposed
law on constitutional grounds that
it is class legislation and is aimed at
the poor cats of the backyard variety,
while the cats of the well-to-do fami.
lies will be safe from prosecution, be-
cause of the protection of home.
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-03-06

MARTY KEESE, keeper of the city
V4 hall. is incensed at the hossy gen
ueman with the sandy wistaria trail
ing over couple of Queen Anne
shoulders and the lump of business
acumen on the frontal, who is handing
out to timid marriage-license appli-
cants, in Martyrs city hall, lunches of
cards announcing a closing-out sale
in Third avenue of baby carriages,
rolling pins, potato mashers, skillets,
tlatirons and other woman weapons
that are handy to have about the
house in case of a variance of view
point.
II he doesn't stop it he is going to
get an entirely new set of artificial
Jumps installed forthwith that will
make his business bump look like the
surface of the brides first cake
City Clerk Scully and ex-Coroner
Edward Hart and Stewart Harris, his
assistants, didn't know "A thing about
the card peddling along the line at
the time that the. three thousand nine
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-03-06
Gateses Withdraw from Wall Street

was special partner, was. previous
to it's dissolution, one of the largest
speculative firms in Wall street. and
was powerful factor in market af-
fairs. Its change transactions were
very large and it's personnel of Gus
toners formidable.
: When father and son left for Europe
after the dissolution of their firm Wall
street believed their losses had ran
up into the millions because of the de-
cided turn of the market against the
position which they were believed to
have maintained. The Gateses stated
then, however, that they had not in.
Cured the losses that were attributed
to them.
Although John w. Gates was not a
member of the stock exchange, he was
one of the largest operators Of his
day. Besides the firm of c. G. Gates
& Co., he was connected with several
other commission houses. As for the
Gates firm at the time OF its dissolu-
ton, John w: Gates said that during
its career it had done about eight per
cent. of all the business done on the
stock exchange. In addition it had
done huge volume of business on the
other exchanges and in the outside
market i: -
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-03-06

Canada is doing a great deal to help
its farmers. The latest scheme is to
advance $4,OOO,OOO to those in the
provinces of Alberta and Saskatche-
wan whose crops were q failure last
year and who are therefore crippled in
facing the needs of another season.
The announcement will come as sur
prise to many, however, for the idea
has been sedulously inculcated that
the Canadian northwest was q region
Of unfailing prosperity, and thousands
have been induced to immigrate in the
belief that it was a veritable promised
land. In view of the outcome, says
the Troy IN. ~ Times, the Dominion
authorities may feel morally bound to
go to the aid of the unfortunate ones.
And II the news of the crop failures
gets abroad it will be still more diff
cult to put into practice Rudyard
Kipl'ngs idea of pumping in" immi-
grants from England
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-03-06

NEW YORK.-The divorce litigation
~ brought by Mrs. Nathalie Schenck
Collins against Charles Glen Collins,
formerly of the English army, ended
the other day in an order signed by
Supreme Court Justice Leventritt,
which makes Mrs. Collins free to re-
sumo her maiden name and to re-
marry.
Miss Nathalie Schenck, only daugh.
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Spotswood
Schenck, was a Newport. belle when
she married Glen Collins in 1904. She
met him for the first time at Georgian
court, George Gould's Lakewood
home, where she was attracted by his
dashing play at polo. Mrs. George
Gould introduced him to Miss Schenck
after the game.
There was a rapid courtship. He
was by repute a captain in the
Cameron Highlanders. In reality he
had once been a senior lieutenant in
the regiment and was called captain
by courtesy. By repute again he had
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-03-06
Congressman Has Plan to Help Farmer

the lands for this purpose shall be
provided by the farmers themselves
and that they shall do the work of cul-
tivation under the direction of the
experts of the department of agri-
culture. No additional appropriation
from congress will be required to test
Mr.. SCOTS plan, it is explained, as the
agricultural department has the requi.
site number of experts to carry it out.
Mr.. Scott asserts that enough money
is being wasted by the department in
sending out farm bulletins and other
government documents to carry out his
idea. He says that much valuable in.
formation has been given by the ex.
perts in these publications, but their
contents are so little understood by
the farmers that they do not derive
the knowledge from them which they
should obtain as to the best methods
OF growing corn, wheat, hay and other
crops.
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-03-06

Romance must retire before the
progress of the age. The municipal
government of Venice proposes to
adopt an extensive system of illumin-
ating the canals with powerful incan-
descent gas lamps. 1t is true that the
old mode of lighting gave very made
quate results from severely practical
point of view, but it produced un-
rivaled light and shade effects, the
beauties of which have ever been the
joy Of visitors. 1t is. therefore, hardly
surprising that artists and other ad-
mirers Of the lovely lagoon city are
protesting against what they call an
act of philistinism. The hard, cold
glare of incandescent gas will, they
say, rob Venice of one of it's greatest
charms - that mysterious twilight
which produces the proper atmosphere
for musing on the romance and past
greatness Of the noble palaces of the
erstwhile rulers of the seas.
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-03-06

- HE recent panic served to bring to
/ light in striking manner the
carelessness OF the average New
Yorker in regard to his money. The
largest institution, In the city which
was forced to close it's doors after a
run. and. is now: attempting to reor-
ganize, is seriously ,hampered in its
efforts to get the sanction of its depos-
itOrs for the plans mapped out because
there are more than 500 such depos-
itors, with deposits of more than half
a million dollars, who are lost,
strayed or stolen:
When the. depositors' committee be-
gan it's work of securing consent for
the scheme of reorganization it dis
covered that half a thousand depos-
itors seemed to. have forgotten all
about their money, Two whose de-
posts were; over, $4,000 each were
found after weeks of search and much
expense, and both were surprised to
discover that they had this money on
deposit, since all record Of it had es-
capped their minds: That anyone
should forget matter of $4,000 cash
seems unbelievable, vet the records
show that more than 500 persons have
done, this. In one case a now wealthy
man had deposited $4,000 in 1884 and
had forgotten all about it. He was
therefore surprised whep informed
that he had nearly $4,000 standing to
his credit. S...~. /. + !. -. ..--.s 2
!. :: Still further evidence of the New
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-03-06

A transportation question that has
been agitated in Ceylon for a long
while, and that is now being brought
actively to the front again, il that of
connecting Ceylon to India By a rail-
road across Adams Bridge and the
shallow bodies of water lying between
Rameswaram and Tallaimannar at tho
northern end of the island. The South
Indian Railway company are bringing
their line to the extreme point of the
small island Of Rameswaram, so that
only small gap Of water will inter-
rene between the termini of the In
dian and Ceylon railways. If the con-
,nection is made at all it will make
Colombo the port for southern India,
and will greatly benefit the tea and
rubber industries by facilitating the
transportation of laborers from India.
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-03-06

WITH the veriication of the report
W that Charles G. Gates had sold his
seat on the stock exchange there il
chronicled the last element in the
withdrawal of the Gateses from active
personal participation in the affairs
of Wall street.
Mr. Gates sold his seat for $51 900,
which marks another new level drop
in the price of seats, the last previous
sale having been at $4,000. Mr..
Gates sold his seat for the same
amount at which. in 1901, he had pur-
chased it. Since then seats on the
exchange have sold as high as $4,000.
When the firm of c. G. Gates & Co.
was dissolved last year the quoted
price was $4,000.
This sale by Mr. Gates drops the
final curtain on the stock exchange
career of himself and father, John W.
Gates. The firm, in which the latter
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-03-06

ID EST-DISTURBING feline music of
IL the midnight back fence variety
will be unknown in Washington, says
District Commissioner MacFarland,
when congress enacts into law a bill
he has had prepared.
Mr.. MacFarland is president of the
board of commissioners of the dis
trict and is preparing to submit to
his two colleagues his bill for their
approval. It exercises the taxing
power to exterminate the cats of the
national capital. The midnight Thomas
cats are to be taxed IS per year and
the anti-race-suicide tabby cats are to
be taxed SO. Cats to escape the
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-03-06
A, Around 4 ! | the Metropolis,
What l. Going On in New York
City Told in Interesting Manner
Newport Belle Is Free to We'd Again

an income of $4,000 a year and was
of noble family. In reality he had an
income of few pounds a month and
came from good, but inconspicuous
Scotch family.
Miss Schenck was supposed by Col.
Inns to be wealthy in her own right.
As matter Of fact she had no pri.
vate fortune and her parents were in
moderate circumstances for people in
their social position.
She and Collins were married at
Monterey, CAL, in the spring of 1904.
They started on a honeymoon trip
around the world. They sailed from
San Francisco with a retinue of serv-
ants, string of polo ponies and 3
formidable: load Of baggage. .,r
Honolulu, the first, port of call, was
the terminal point Of the honeymoon.
Their funds ran out, they discharged
the servants; sold the polo ponies and
returned to America, it was said at
the time, by pawning some of the
brides jewels.
After a short stay here they went
to France together, but soon sepa.
rated, Mrs. Collins returned to- her
parents. Collins was declared a bank
rupt and left the English army. 1t
was reported last fall that he had
gone to work as potter in the works
of the Grueby Faience Pottery COM
pany of South Boston.
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-03-06

WASHINGTON. - Senator W. J..
w Stone the other day journeyed
out to the Providence hospital, near
here, where, after long search, he To-
Gated the cot of Chinaman to whom
the senator presented a packet Mrs.
Stone had brought from Manila. The
Chinaman is L. All Nav, valet to Ad-
mfral Dewey, and the packet was a
remembrance. to Mrs. Nav from a
brother. The gift was intrusted to
Mrs. Stone at Manila, who promised
that it should reach the proper hands
in Washington.
Senator and Mrs. Stone were in Ma
nila last fall. During their stay the
Chinaman served as their particular
attendant and was so jealous in his ef-
forts to please that the Missouri SEN
ator and his wife came to like him
very much. When the American party
started upon their return to the United
States their Chinaman confided the
fact that he had a brother in Wash
ington, and wished, as the greatest
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-03-06

r. HE motto I'm God We Trust" will
l be restored to the gold coins from
which it was removed by President
Roosevelts orders. The house COM
mittee on coinage, weights and meas
ures has reported bill providing for
restoration of the motto and it's per-
manent retention. Indications are that
1t will pass both houses. President
Roosevelt will not veto any measure
OF this kind, and has so told several
of his callers.
Representative James, who intro
duced one of the bills to restore the
motto, said hundreds of letters were
still coming in protesting against the
abolishment of the motto.
Immediately after the new gold
pieces of the Saint Gaudens design
were received from the PHILADELPHIA
mint early in November last year. the
discovery was made that the motto
I'm God We Trust" had been omitted.
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-03-06

ID REPRESENTATIVE SCOTT of Kan.
II sas, chairman of the house
committee on agriculture, has con-
ceived novel plan which, he believes.
would enable the farmers of the coun-
try to produce better. and far larger
crops than heretofore.
Mr.. SCOTS proposition involves the
establishment of 100 experimental
farms, of one acre each. in every
county in group of four western az
ricultural states for the purpose of
giving the farmers q practical demon.
stration of the best methods of grow.
ing different crops. 1t is proposed that
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-03-06
Bargains Offered Along Bride Line

hundred and seventeenth license
(since January IL was issued at clos.
ing hours of the marriage shop the
other day. =
The barker has had diplomacy
enough to shun the inner sanctum so
far. Stewart Harris said when told
of the card game he'd just like to see
him come inside.
But Marty is wrought up-Marty.
who never can 60 into even the board
Of aldermen's chamber without taking
off his hat. Clerks Harris and Hart
have troubles enough as it is, they
say, without having new ones laid on
their shoulders.
The man with the baby carriages
for sale defended his position when
Marty Reese said angrily to him,
"Cease, my good man. cease!" on the
ground that he is really philanthro-
pist. -"
These goods, he says, are guaran-
teed to last for many, many years,
and, what is of even more Importance,
so he says, baby carriages will be
much higher the minute all the tun'
nels to Brooklyn, not to mention the
new bridges, are in working order.
Furthermore, the president is likely
to dip into the cause of baby carriage
panic at any moment. You can see
yourself what will happen as soon as
he issues a message on the subject
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-03-06

by Mr.. Kennedy Sunday morning
coming out of Kennedy Brothers
dairy I resolved never to try fate
again.
But on Tuesday morning found
that temptation was too strong for
met was impossible to resist-and
accordingly l stole lot of picked
tongues from the Haas meathouse."
When asked as to why he did not
give bond and obtain his liberty, even
if only temporarily, Schuelle said:
Il don't want to give bond and get
out of jail. I would rather go to the
county Jail and stay there until my
trial comes of. I think it is better for
me to be punished by staying in Jail.
Anyway, I can't face the friends who
trusted me and whom I robbed. The
value of all 1 stole would not amount
to 5000. I could have bought W hat 1
took, but could not fight success.
fully against the temptation"
Whisky also was blamed by Schuelle
for his downfall.
Schuelle has heretofore been so re.
spected and trusted in Alton that
some of the wealthiest men in the city
have backed him in his contracts.
When, some weeks ago, he was de.
tected carrying a ham out of Julius
Haas smokehouse he was so promi,
nent that the man who caught him re.
fused to, report him. A few days later
he was caught coming out of the Ken.
nedy dairy. The person who saw him
told Kennedy, without mentioning
Schuelle's name, and advised Kennedy
to watch himself for the thief, stating
that Kennedy would not otherwise be
lieve who the man was. Kennedy ac'
cordingly watched and finally caugn,
Schuelle. The dairy proprietor, how
ever, also refused to prosecute. Then
the police were notified and they ar
rested Schuelle when he was making
off with the picked tongues.
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-03-06
BIG HATS IMPROVE HEALTH.
Cause Women to Stand Straighter and
Walk Better.

The athletic young man lodged the
millinery creation, which kept bobbing
around beside him, but he said not a
word in protest. Il am awfully sor-
ry," murmured the girl at his side,
but you see the hats are made so
this year and We have to wear EN-"
The man, who was a physical cul
ture teacher, shook his head. I'm not
sorry" he said. "The millinery this
years is doing much to make women
stand up straighter, and walk better.
Yes, really mean it. You see, with
the narrow front brim and the wider
back brim, most of the trimming
runs of the back" 4
The woman gasped at his knowl-
edge of hats and giggled at his way of
describing them. ,sy ..,
80 you see,' he went on, "'this
tends to throw the weight of the hat
backward. Now in order to balance
the weight in that position a woman
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-03-06
Longevity of Medical Men.

Some interesting statistics have
been got together by a foreign con-
temporary on the duration of a medi-
cal mans life during the last centu-
,ries. 1t appears that in. the sixteenth
the practitioner lasted only, SO years
and five months. In the. seventeenth
century this was increased to As
years and eight months The, eigh-
teenth heightened this four years, and
in the nineteenth century we find
that the medical man reached 56
years and seven months.
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-03-06

must throw her head up and her chin
out. With the head up the lungs are
expanded, the woman takes deeper,
longer breaths, and the result is a
better physical development and i'm
proved health"
Just then he signaled the car to
stop, and as they went out the girl
walked proudly and even triumphantly
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-03-06

A million dollar church edifice is
not considered anything extravagant
nowadays in New York. The new
st. Thomas Episcopal church, which
is to cost not less than that amount.
Is reckoned by the vestrymen a mod
est undertaking. Considering the
numser of private residences in the
metropolis that have cost a third or
a half a million, perhaps the vestry-
men are right.
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-03-06
HONEST II ] I BY Day
R0BBER {! NIGHT 81
PROSPEROUS ALTON QLL.) BUILD
.'">* ING CONTRACTOR ADMITS
i; + LEADING oUAL5L'FE.. ." r..
KEPT SET OF DUPLICATE KEYS.
Declares He Could Not Resist Tempta-
tton to steaI-Wife Never Suspect
.5.., ed d-Proceeds Of eurolaries
.. Given to Other Woman.

Alton, 1l.-"What I stole gave to
the other woman Everything that I
provided for my family I paid for.
Temptation came and could not re-
sist it, SO / succumbed."
That, In epitome, is the explanation
of his downfall given by Henry
Schuelle, a prosperous contractor, who
is in jail in default of $4,000 bond,
charged with larceny and burglary.
Schuelle's arrest astounded Alton,
whose citizens for years have regarded
him as man of excellent character,
possessing, as he has, good business
and prominent place in the business
world. No less astounding, however,
is the confession made by Schuelle
from behind prison bars and the rea-
sons given by him for his disastrous
yielding to temptation.
The man admitted leading a dual
life. He explained that to the world
he was contractor; that secretly he
was a thief. Whenever he built a
business house, he said-and he has
built some of the finest commercial
structures in Alton-he retained a
duplicate key, so that he could enter
at any time.
"The temptation came long ago."
said Schuelle. Il had the keys, and it
was easy to get into stores and take
what l wanted. l would go down in
the morning before six o'clock, make
the raids and take what I liked. Every
one merely believed that was an
early marketer. My wife and children
never suspected anything wrong.
AT the same time I paid for every
thing that provided for my family.
The other woman got what I STOLE
When I finished a building l kept q
key to it and no one was the wiser.
It is no use denying it. I am guilty Of
stealing. l did not have to- do it from
financial necessity, but it was because
l could not help it. When was caught
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-03-06
Barber Shaves in Leopard Gaze.

Barber Shaves in Leopard Cage.
Bay City, Mich.-To decide a bet Of
ten dollars, even after a large leopard
had attacked the trainer and scratched
him on the hand, Daniel Lagsden,
local barber, entered the cage con-
tanning the animals and shaved the
manager This occurred at the Bijou
.theater. . 80 - .....
The leopards were behaving badly
all evening. When one attacked the
trainer the barber did not back. down.
but insisted that he would go ahead
and make good. .>. +,
The animals resented Lagsden's en-
trance to the cage. and continually
snarled at him. The barber kept on
and finished the shaving, though not
rs unconcerned az he would be IN
his own shop. He got the ten dollars.