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The Sauk Centre herald., 1908-12-03
BIRCHDALE

Dora Stegner is working for Mrs.
Deyoe.
Goldie Sunwsld is staying with Mrs
II. Hart.
Miss Clara Hsrtung spent Thanks
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-10-09

The last trace of connection be.
tween the famous East India Company
and the government of India disap-
peared when Sir Philip Hutchins re-
tired from membership in the council
of India on July 81, this year-50
years, within two days, from the date
of the passage of the act transferring
control of East Indian affairs to the
British crown. Sir Philip entered the
old company In 1857, and was en-
ployed in its civil service in Madras,
where he continued after the transfer
of control. He rose to responsible po-
sitions in India until he was called
home as secretary of the judicial de-
partment of the India Office. He was
made one of the members of the cOun.
Gil of India in 1898, the body which ad-
vises the secretary for India in the
cabinet, in his administration of the
indian empire. All other men who
had been employed by the old CON-
pany had disappeared from the India
Office, and for the last nine months of
his tenure Sir Philip was the sole sur
viving servant of the old regime. AL.
though it's political power ceased in
1858, tho East India Company itself
did not go out of existence until 1874.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-10-09
ice King" Morse Wins Back Old Power

long. Every resource was gone, and
he had apparently no place to turn for
aid. He took little Office at No. 1
Nassau street. Time after time he
put before the comptroller of the cur
rency one plan or another looking to
the rehabilitation of his institution,
but every one was turned down.
Then he began paying up the clai1,<
against the bank. Where the money
came from was not revealed, but all
claims were sought out and settled.
Now the receiver has been in
structed by Comptroller Murray to
take the final steps necessary to
turning over the big bank to Morse.
He will give a 100000 bond for the
banks contingent liabilities. He has
already bought back from the receiv-
er, at book prices, the various loads
of securities he had sold to the bank
in its palmy days at figures that
have been the subject of more or less
difference of opinion since the smash.
The new conditions will place
Morse once more in his old command
ing position on Change, and make
him as before dictator in the same
Wall street which applauded his utter
defeat when his bank was closed By
the clearing house banks seven months
ago. In seven months he has whipped
fofo
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-10-09
Society Woman Renounces the World

returned to adopt religious garb for
life. After impressive services partici-
pated in by several priests and sisters,
Mrs. Hyde was induced by the mother
prioress with the black veil.
Mrs. Hyde, or Violet Buel, was a
convert to Catholicity as we'll as her
entire family. Through her mothers
family, the MacDougals, she has many
Affiliations with the army. Oliver
Prince Buel, her father, was senior
partner in the firm of Buel, Toncey &
Whiting, counsel to the United States
Life Insurance Compay, Her brother
is president of Georgetown university.
January II, 1899, Miss Buel was
married to George Merriam Hyde, a
literary man, son of DR.. James T.
Hyde of the Chicago Theological SEM
mary. She was sunny girl, fond Of
social life. She had talent for paint
ing and her canvasses were accepted
by the academy and the Society of
American Artists
Oliver Prince Buel, her father, was
taken suddenly i'll some time ago and
suffered greatly. This and his death
greatly affected Mr.. Hyde, who disap-
peared and later was found dead.
After that Mrs. Hyde decided to re-
nounce the world.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-10-09
Government Clerk Is Sadder But Wiser

which is one of the pathetic features
of the story. His headquarters were
at St. Paul, where he moved his fam
lily after disposing of all his household
effects in the capital city. For short
time-less than month, in fact-he
enjoyed his new field of work and his
increased salary, for, with the addi-
ton to his responsibilities there had
also come an increased amount in his
semi-monthly pay envelope. In the
evenings he was wont to stroll out
and mingle again with his old-time
cronies He talked to them knowingly
about matters pertaining to the ma
tional government, and incidentally
impressed on them that perseverance
is the only requisite of success under
the civil service.
One day Stephen received a letter
from Washington. 1t was couched in
formal language, but from reading it
Stephen gathered that the government
had no longer any need for his serv-
ices, or words to that effect. The gov.
eminent was very, very sorry, so said
the man whose signature was attached
to the letter.
1t was this way: Congress had
failed to grant the amount required
and expected for the service, and it
would be necessary to dispense with
the services of the new appointees. 1t
meant laying off of number Of en-
ployes in each of the II districts, into
which the service is divided.
Stephen is now back in the bureau
of census. His salary is only $1,000
a year, for his place had been filled
as soon as he left, and it just hap
pened that Director North had va
cancy in the lower grade. 1t cost him
something to move out to Minnesota
and back again, but, taken all in all
and in the light of experience had by
others which turned out less fortunate.
ly, he considers that, at least, it might
have been worse.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-10-09
Talk or /! i NEW YORK /, r
Gossip of People and Events Told
in Interestind Manner. ~~s~
Chameleon <Girp' Forgives Exiled Sister

Before going to Rutland Mrs. Schil-
ling divorced her husband, who en-
tered the United States Marine corps.
Only the three daughters, the two
sons, several of the servants, and tho
overseer heard the services read over
the bankers body. None of his bust
ness associates, lawyers or few friends
was there.
Giulia, who has been the insepara-
BILE companion of her father since her
sisteh fed whit the coachman, is ia
miliar with the terms of the will, and
let it be known that if Vittoria desires
to share in the estate she may. The
brothers and sisters will amply pro-
vide for. her. She may leave the con-
vent, If she will, and live in luxury.
Concerning the younger sister Of
the family, Amelia, complete mys-
terry has been maintained. She is
never seen outside the grounds, or
without the house, except accompa-
MED by maids. Since she was very
little girl she has never been permit
ted to speak OF man.
All of the men servants on the es
tate are housed in building far: back
in the terraced grounds. When a child
this girl was attacked and terribly
lacerated by tame bear that roamed
within the grounds. 1t was said after
ward that the shock had unsettled the
child's reason. None IF her sisters or
brothers would ever mention this sub
ject, nor would the banker ever per-
NIT it to be mentioned in his presence.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-10-09
The Wronu Shade.

Before trying to match the sample
of silk, says writer in the Philadel-
phia Ledger, the clerk asked: rs this
piece of something you want or don't
want?" Something want, of course"
rerplied the customer. "You don't
suppose, do you, that I would 20 to
all this trouble for a thing l can't
use?"
"Some folks d." said the clerk. IL
have met number of them. The
first woman ever saw with that point
OF view had a square inch of blue silk
that she. wanted me to match The
scrap was so small that it was hard
to make comparisons, but after haul
ing down half the bolts on the shelves
and running to the door several times
to test the color in broad daylight, 1
found the exact shade.
How many yards do you want,
madam l asked.
"'Oh,' said the woman, I don't want
any. Almost any other shade will do.
That particular shade is very unbe.
coming. just wanted to make sure
that l don't get it, that's ALL
The customer laughed. Whist did
you say?' she asked.
Nothing" responded the clerk, with
. patient smile, taking up her sample,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-10-09

NEW YORK.-Over the body of Clio
~ vanni P. Morosini, the wealthy
banker and philanthropist, who would
not forgive, an erring sister was for
given by Miss Giulia Morosini, the
chameleon girl" daughter Of the
banker, noted for her mastery Of
horses. her leadership in society. and
for her statement that no woman can
dress on less than 100000 a year.
The forgiven sister was Vittoria
Morosini before she married her faith
ers coachman, Ernest Huels-Schilling,
In 1884. Since that time Miss Giulia
had been her fathers constant COM
panion. The aged banker never for
gave the girl who disobeyed him. .
Mrs. Schilling has lived in Rutland,
VT, for the last six years. First she
was an inmate of st. Joseph's convent
there, but later she went to board with
family named Williams, on the out.
skirts OF the city. She divided her
time between visits to the convent
and giving music lessons, by which
she helped provide for herself, though
she let it be known that her family
sent her funds to live on.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-10-09

There Is no mistaking the fact that
the dirt is flying at Panama. The en-
gineers are hitting their pace now in
a manner to cause the pessimists to
sing very small. In August the total
excavation was 3,252,506 cubic yards,
against 3,16S,S40 in July and against
1,288,692 in August, 1907. Thus the
work is going ahead not merely more
rapidly this year than last, but with
distinct gain from month to month.
The end of the digging will soon be in
sight at this rate OF course when the
excavation is finished the dams and
locks will remain to be constructed,
but these present no insuperable diff
culties and preparations are now un-
der way to reduce the workings to
scientific basis. With assured santa.
ton, competent administration, an
unfailing labor supply and abundant
appropriations the completion of the
canal is only matter of a very few
years.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-10-09

A NEW YORK society woman has
IA forsworn the world and become a
nun in the Dominican monastery Of
Corpus Christi at Hunters Point, L. I.
She was Mrs. George Merriam Hyde,
daughter of Oliver Prince Buel, but
now by promise to the mother
prioress Of the monastery, involving
the VOWS Of poverty, chastity and obe-
dience, she is Sister Mary of the Ia
bernacle in the convent of Perpetual
Alteration.
A year ago in such finery as bride
wears she crossed the graveled path
from the monastery door to that of the
church, followed by her matron of
honor, Mrs. Thomas F. Ryan, the CAPT.
talist's wife, clothed in black.
That was Mrs. Hyde's last appear
ance outside the monastery, for she
pronounced her VOWS, after months of
ascetic probation on that occasion and
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-10-09
Ellins Won't Stop Marriage to Duke

royal family so naughty, his daugh-
ters position at court would be rather
equivocal
Senator Elkins is said to have given
the matter careful thought and de-
cided that on account of the dukes
high position, the young women would
soon force merited recognition.
Queen Helena is one of the most
uncompromising enemies of the mar
riage. Her majesty, princess OF
Montenegro, seems anxious to show
her devotion to the dignity Of the
house of Savoy, which her own mar
riage imperiled, as disappointed match.
making royal mothers saw when it
was celebrated.
Save among Republicans and So
cialists, public opinion in Rome, &C:
cording to a dispatch, reflects, dis.
tortedly, the royal opposition. The
Italians are angry because the Ameri-
cans, instead of loudly rejoicing that
Miss Elkins was to marry into the
royal house, have taken an unenthusi-
astic attitude toward the love affair.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-10-09
ROUND THE HI CAPITAL :
=. ~s--- IS III ~ :
Information and Gossip Picked Up Here
and There in Washington. s-.z
Lost-Material for One Armv Officer

AZ pounds-the lost 180-would make
at least one good-sized general or al:
most two the size of Gen. Funston. B.
The officers all came back the same
day. This much was expected when
the ambulance drove into the post
empty about 1890 a. m. There were
eager inquiries concerning the where
abouts of the officers, and the driver
waving an arm, said: "Oh, there or
thereabouts. We was in hurry, so
we walked back"
Undoubtedly the 40 were "out there
somewhere" but they were long
time crossing the finish line.
Everybody was in good spirits at
the finish or said he was. There was
little doubt about Gen. Grant. He was
as hard as nails to start with, having
done some 800 miles of saddle work
this season.
There was corps Of surgeons In
waiting at the hospital for the re-
turned prodigals. A minute examina-
ton was made of all the victims, and
the results, comprising pulse, temper
ature, weight and respiration, were all
t9hulate6
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-10-09

G ENATOR ELKINS will not oppose
~ the marriage of his daughter Kath-
crime to the duke of the Abruzzi after
all. The wedding probably will be
solemnized in November.
If the duke were as sure of this as
is Washington society, he would be
spared lot of worry. AS matter of
fact, the duke is about to start for
Washington, fearing all the while that
the senator will withdraw his consent
to the marriage on account of Queen
Helena's unrelenting opposition.
The duke fears Senator Elkins will
play the part Of a high spirited Ameri-
can and endeavor to prevent the mar
riage, fearing that with the Italian
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-10-09

WASHINGTON.-L Somewhere
W in Virginia, 1870 pounds. Finder
please return to Maj. Gen. Fred Grant,
commander of the department of the
east, who will attend to it's distribu-
ton pro rata among 40 army officers.
II all the detritus, cellular and adj
pose tissue, cuticle, epidermis and
derma matter could be collected from
along the route of the test ride that
finished at Fort Myer the other day
the United States army would be the
richer by one highly efficient officer.
All the 40 officers came back, but
there was hiatus somewhere. There
had been one member, or his equiva-
lent, left by the way, for the command
averaged AZ pounds lighter to the
man than when 1t started. Forty times
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-10-09

HE down-on-his-luck story of
Stephen K. Booth, government
clerk. is no more aggravated than
many another story that might be told
by persons who have come to Wash
ington to settle down in a federal
berth for life of happiness and peace
if not luxury and aft1uence-only to be
rudely awakened to a condition of af-
fairs that would cause an ordinary
person to turn pessimist even to the
point Of wishing that there were no
such thing as a government.
Considering everything, Stephen
Jared remarkably we'll. In the end he
as good a one as he had builded on,
perhaps, but government job, just
the same Thousands have not sur
viyed so fortunately.
Stephen comes from Minnesota. For
eight years he labored, if that word
can be used properly in connection
with the things that government
clerk does in order to draw his salary.
He worked in the bureau of the cen
sus. Gradually his compensation was
increased during that time until 1t
reached the figure of $1,000 year.
Then Stephen became fired with an
ambition. He took look around him
and decided he could do better in
some other department of Uncle Sans
service. So he accepted" position
as a special agent in the immigration
service, under the department of jus.
tice This was in May of this year.
Stephen is a man of family. His
new work took him back to Minnesota,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-10-09

Z OLLOWING the application of Mrs.
Elsie French Vanderbilt, through
her attorneys, for final decree of d.
vorce from Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt,
made to Justice Gerard in the supreme
court, there is report which has
gained wide circulation that Willing
Spencer son of J. Thompson Spencer,
vice-president of the Pennsylvania
railroad, is the accepted sutton for her
hand.
There are those who say a formal
announcement of the engagement will
be made as soon as the legal formali-
ties have been carried out, which will
make Mr.. Vanderbilt free to marry
whom she chooses. It is said further
that the marriage will not be long de-
layed.
Spencer has been attentive to Mrs.
Vanderbilt since last June, when her
domestic troubles were being aired,
and that he is her accepted sutton was
told a few days ago by one of his init.
mate friends. t.
Before Mrs. Vanderbilt and her for.
mer husband had differences which re-
seulted in her filing divorce proceed
Jugs, young Spencer and Alfred
Gwynne Vanderbilt were fast friends.
After Mrs. Vanderbilt fled her suit,
she and her mother took, passage for
Europe on the Kaiser Wilhelm II. At
the same time young Spencer sailed
for London on the Caronia. During
the trip he was In constant communi.
cation with Mrs. Vanderbilt by wire.
less, .;-~...:- Az&.:. .s..a~, -.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-10-09

r HE marked general interest in
/ aeronautics aroused by the Yep
pelin and other dirigible balloon
flights in Europe, aeroplane flights in
France, and Baldwin motor balloon
and Wright aeroplane tests at Fort
Myer. has been noted by officials of
the Smithsonian institution and Ma
tiOnal museum.
Prof. S. P Langley, who built the
first successful power driven model of
an aeroplane, was secretary of the
Smithsonian institution and his vari-
Gus models, the famous Langley aero
drome and the numerous aeroplane
parts used in his experiments in
aero-dynamics are now in possession
of the institution. These and other
exhibits in the institution are being
arranged into a special exhibit by
George c. Maynard, assistant curator
of the National museum.
Octave Chanute, the father of aero
nautics in the United States, has of.
fered to build one of his gliding ma
chimes for the aeronautical exhibit,
and it is understood that the Wright
brothers will present the institution
with a model of their latest flying ma
chine, and one of their earlier Gid
ing machines.
AS soon as the new building for the
Smithsonian institution is completed
the aeronautical exhibit will be ar
ranged to show each step in the
progress of aerial navigation from the
hot-air balloon of Joseph Montpelier
in 1882 to the Wright brothers' aero-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-10-09

w ALL STREET gasped the other
W day at the news that Ice King"
Charles w. Morse, hurled from his
place of power in the money market
by the collapse of his string of allied
banks, and defeated in several efforts
to regain his old prestige and power,
had finally won his long fight. He will
have even greater sway in the world
OF bank-notes than he possessed be-
fore his overthrow.
How he has won his old place back,
nobody seems to know positively. His
National Bank of North America was
the keystone institution of great
chain of banks. The central bank
exerted ruling influence over the
chain-and C. w. Morse was the CEN
trail bank. He ran it as though It
were an independent corner grocery
with nobody to consult about any
thing that was to be DONE
Then came the crash The Ma
tional Bank of North America went
to pieces, and Morse was hurled head
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-10-09
1.-The eetterment Of Farm Life.


President Roosevelt has appointed
q commission Of five men to report on
methods Of improving the social con-
ditions Of farm life. Next to the con-
servat1On OF national resources, he re-
CARDS the well-being of the farmer as
the chief problem before the iation.
On the. man who gives us the materi-
ais for clothes and food the entire ma
ton depends. Through him society is
rooted in the land. Many of the great
economic improvements in late years
have been directed to the betterment
Of farming. The department of agri-
culture has been working to increase
the productivity of the land, to in
struct farmers in the best methods
of cultivation. All the development or
irrigation, the establishment of rural
postal delivery, the improvement of
waterways and railroads over which
the product of the land is sent to the
cities, the good roads movement, the
creation of state agricultural colleges,
the regeneration of the district school
sysxem, have tended to make farming
more prosperous and the farmer
heanhie: and better instructed. But
most of this work has dealt in land
AID crops and tools and roads; it has
in large measure missed the human
being. The presidents most inspir.
Ing idea, his most statesman-like mo-
tive, Is the belief that it is the man
that counts. We must help and i'm
prove human beings. We must make
farm life so attractive that the best
strength of the nation will live it. At
present the brilliant prizes of life
seem to lie in the city, and too many
':anable boys are tempted away from
the SOIL To bring to the farm the es-
sential comforts and intellectual inter-
ests of the cities, to give farm boy and
farm girl every chance for self-im-
provement, to secure to the farmer his
p1OpeI SudTe VI TIE pTOIlC OI his LABOR,
to make life in the country most worth
nving-this is the problem the solu.
ton of which will strengthen the foun-
dations of national prosperity. Meas
ures to be considered by the commits
sion, says the Youths Commpanion,
are the establishment of postal
savings banks, the creation of rural
parcel post, by which the farmer may
more easily get the products of manu-
facture, the increase of "co-operation
between farmers for buying, selling
and borrowing" and the better adap.
tation of rural schools to the training
of children for life on the farm"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-10-09
Elsie Vanderbilt to Wed AGAIN IT'S Said

Spencer took quarters in secluded
part of London and stayed there sew
eral days. He was then summoned
to France, and there lost no time in
joining Mrs. Vanderbilt and her mother.
In August Mrs. Vanderbilt and Mrs.
French left Paris for a tour of the
provinces and Of Germany. Spencer
was their escort.
Spencer is regarded as one of the
most eligible young bachelors in the
country. He is lawyer by profession
and has an Office in Philadelphia.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-10-09


and
the of Maine
electng
times didn't quite
election
campaign the possible
Mr. Gardner who the G.
shewd
of the Pine He the
the farmers Maine fraternity
farmers
the national political issues of the prohibition question:
redhot fight which
he carried cities
the the Kent
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-10-09

revisited the Maor Is later when Sir George
friendly
al
the
a
witnessed
in
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ment of men fronah ow
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Outwitted the Landlord.

When recently leasing house in q
fashionable suburb Of Philadelphia the
lessee failed to examine closely the
terms of the lease. After a time his
landlord called and reminded him
that he was bound to do all the out
side painting at certain intervals.
The tenant protested in vain: SO he
engaged painters and ordered them to
paint the whole front Of the house red,
white and blue-in stripes.
When it was finished the neighbor-
hood rose up in arms and the land
lord was frantic. The tenant polite