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The Virginia enterprise., 1908-09-04
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Information and Gossip Picked Up Here
and There in washintton.
Gen. Rucker Beats Mortality Table

that age to expect that Father Time
will dole out to them an average Of
more than six months apiece. More
than that would be overdraft, for hon.
oring which the guardian of the hour
glass and the scythe should be held
directly responsible.
According to these same mortality
tables life is seen to be thing of uncer-
tainties. They prove unquestionably
that the longer you live the older
you are likely to be before you die.
That is to say, while the expectation
of life decreases as the age advances,
it does not fall away nearly so fast as
that advance
The youngster of ten can count on
living to be nearly So, but when he
has reached the manly age of 21 his
chances are better. He can now
count on rounding 62. At 48, rotund
and jolly, his chances are the best
for living out the allotted span OF
three score years and ten.
But that is not the end of his hopes
by any means When he gets to be
6O MS expectation increases to 70,
edging away just like that elusive pot
of geld at the end of the rainbow
But at Is the chances of life still give
him six more years. At 80 his chances
are cf the best for seeing "a, but it,
on the gambling chance that is his, he
marches on to 80, there is still year
and half to his account in the ma.
tional bank of life.
But at IS you come to the end of the
mortality tables. The account mas
dwindled to six months, and if you
are obstinate enough to 60 right on
living, the statistician simply don't
know what to do with you unless he
pays the claim, calling you dead,
and thus keeping the tables correct
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-09-04

NEW YORK.-Mrs. Thomas Fortune
~ Ryan. who already is famous for
her lavish generosity to the American
Catholic church, is contemplating an
other magnificent gift to Georgetown
university, Washington.
This college is the alma mater of
Mrs. Ryan's sons, and she is devoted
to its interests. She has built fine
hall, called Ryan hall, which serves
as the college refectory, and she has
given magnificent china and silver
with which to furnish it. Recently she
expressed the wish to have the COL
lege entrance more in keeping with
the dignity and standing of the insti-
tuition.
At present two streets filled with
sQualid brick tenements crowd to the
very door of the campus. She will
purchase these two entire squares,
transform them into a park and place
handsome iron railing with a mas.
sive gate, a copy of some famous gates
in Florence, to guard the entrance.
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Nature may as well prepare to give
up her secrets. Thomas A. Edison
Is going to quit the moneymaktng
game and devote the rest of his life
to Investigations in the realms Of
pure science. Now we shall know
why is hen and all those other in
tricate and hitherto unanswerable
problems. The vermiform appendix
that heretofore has laughed when
questioned as to it's purpose will have
to sit up and give straight answers or
1t will be ruthlessly exposed. Univer-
stty professors who have been making
starfish may as we'll throw up their
hands. The electric wizard doubtless
will make sunfish or moontish at the
first attempt. AS for kadium. prob.
ably he will show how each family
can make supply for home consump-
tion out Of a pair Of old shoes. Pro-
ceed, Tom, exclaims the Chicago Daily
News. May you live long enough to
find out all there is to be known, and
write 1t out for us in a neat, if rather
large, book
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w 1TH simple funeral rites, and ac-
" companied only by, few faithful
friends of his declining years and a
single representative of the German
embassy, the body of Baron Alexander
de Pury-Herve, an aid-de-camp to
Bismarck and member of one of the
Oldest houses of Germany, was laid to
rest in a little cemetery here the other
day. Two lilies and single red rose
repOsed on the plain coffin 1t was his
dying request.
A friend and comrade of Bismarck,
he was numbered with the pride of the
German army that participated in the
Franco-Prussian war. He married a
princess of royal blood, but he erred
once, it is said, and, rather than have
the finger of scorn pointed at him by
his comrades, he quit the army and
came to America. That was % years
ago. His princess wife divorced him.
In New York he married an actress
with whom he fell in love. The fam.
lily pride of the De Purys is great, and
he was disinherited and his allowance
of $500 week cut off.
When he was disinherited he turned
to Journalism. working on the New
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-09-04

Sir Thomas Shaughnessy, the pres
ident of the Canadian Pacific railway.
was the guest of honor at banquet
given in Toronto on June Is. In the
course Of his speech Sir Thomas re-
ferred to the fact that just 26 years
have passed since his arrival from
the United States to assist in the
management of Canada's new trans
continental railway. The influence Of
that line on the development of Can.
ada is beyond estimate. England has
recognized the service rendered to
Canada by this Milwaukee-born Amer
lean railroad man. and it would be
hard to say how much has been done
for the United States by Sir Thomas
Shaughnessy and by that other Amer.
ican-born railway builder, Sir William
Van Horne.
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TOUNT 1GNATZ and Count Carlos
~ Gombossi are twins. Their friends
at the Waldorf, which they frequent,
say the Gombossis look as much alike
as two Hungarian hussars in uniform.
Miss Loretta Phenney has begun
suit in the supreme court against
Count Ignatz for $4,000 damages, al
leging breach of promise. Her counsel,
Louis Schwartz, gave the papers in
the case to J. w. Staff, a process serv.
er. The other day Mr.. Schwartz, his
clerk, Kerr Taffe, and STAFF went to
the Waldorf cafe. Twirling his mus
tache and talking to friends, stood
Count Ignatz. A little distance from
him was Count Carlos, twisting his
mustache and talking to friends.
AS Staff, papers in hand, hurried to-
ward Ignatz Gombossi, the count
grasped the situation instantly.
do not bother me-" he said, haugh-
ttly waving Staff away. II am Count
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-09-04

A FTER the horseless carriage, the
"a playerless piano and all the other
less things that modern invention has
devised, this city is to have waiter
less restaurant, and, OF all places in
the world, it is to be on the site of the
old Saranac hotel, in Broadway near
FOrty-second street.
John L. Murray, backed by a syn.
dicate of wealthy tobacco manufac-
turers, has obtained a 21-years' lease
of the building. His plans are elabo-
rate and unique.
Mr.. Murray, who has other restau-
rants in this city, has been trying for
a long time to think out some scheme
to do away with the time-honored nui.
sance of having waiter stand at your
elbow while you are discussing pri.
vate affairs with a friend. He thinks
he has it at last
In the new restaurant all one will
have to do will be to give the order
upon entering Then the most init.
mate and confidential conversation
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-09-04

A THOUGH only short time has
IA elapsed since President Roosevelt
appointed the national conservation
commission. the work of taking stock
of the nations resources has been
begun. 1t will be carried on vigorous.
ly to enable the commission to make
it's report to the president by Janu-
ary l, 1909.
A large amount of the material on
waters, lands and minerals is avail
able in the executive department, the
heads of which have offered their CO.
operation in the task the commission
has undertaken. Other important data
will be collected through special chan
nels, including state conservation CON-
missions now being formed and sew
eral of the national organizations rep
resented at the White House confer
ence
By early fall the commission expects
to have sufficient material to begin the
study Of the inventory of the country's S
resources and by the middle of Oc-
tober IL hopes to have the greater part
of this material in hand, so that the
full commission, which will hold it's
first meeting December l, may take
up at once the study Of data which the
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-09-04

r HE wife of the Republican candi-
! date for the presidency has many
valuable possessions, gifts from the
mighty ones Of earth, kings, emperors
and princes, but her most cherished
treasure is round mahogany table,
black with age and showing daily
use.
This table is used by the Taft fam
lily whenever their household goods
are set up and has been ever since
Mrs. Taft attained the dignity of the
married state. 1t was the table on
which the wedding breakfast of Will
liam Howard Taft and Helen Heron
was served some odd years ago.
Judge Heron and Mrs. Heron,
parents Of Mrs. Taft, were lovers of
old mahogany, and they had many
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Descendant of Kings a Gotham Cook

to work. Work with the head or the
hand, and always with the full heart.
is glorious. The position that women
hold here is wonderful and inspiring.
l was here in a convent school as
little girl, and again as a rich woman
of leisure, when my husband was alive
but now l find new side to American
women.
we have our own domestic science.
handed down through generations OF
people from the time of Cortez and
Montezuma, and l know something OF
European domestic science, but l
think that nothing can be ahead of
Americans system-the system you
are teaching and practicing in your
schools and homes"
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-09-04

William Redmond, the Irish lead,
er in the British house of comfnons.
recently in a genial mood and in play.
full allusion to the birthday honora
list asked whether "as a matter OF
general convenience and in order that
honorable members might know how
to address their colleagues with be-
coming respect it could be arranged
that honorable gentlemen who had
joined the titled classes should wear
rosettes for at least one month after
the conferment of the title" No min
lister was bold enough to answer
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-09-04

A DAUGHTER of the Montezumas
IA is in this city mastering the art
of domestic science She will carry
1t back to Mexico and at the bidding
of her government introduce it into
that country of romance and tradition.
Nine. Guadalupe de Haro is the
name of this beauty, who has coal
black hair, deep brown eyes and a
complexion of creamy white, and who
proudly says she is thoroughly Mexi-
can and a descendant of the Monte
zumas. She has been in New York a
year and half studying household
arts night and day as taught in public
and private schools and colleges. She
is now studying in the summer school
of the University of New York.
Nine. Guadalupe de Haro is the
daughter of great financier, born to
wealth and luxury. Through adver-
sity her husband lost his fortune and
died and the widow had to work for a
living
Mexican women of degree take little
interest in the economy of their house
holds. Such things are left to the
servants. So when Nine. de Haro
faced the necessity of earning a liv-
ing she awoke to her helplessness.
Through study and inquiry she found
that there was a woman's world of ac-
tivity that she had never dreamed ex-
listed. Then came the offer of her gov
eminent to send her to New York to
study domestic science and she accept
ed it gladly.
II am enthusiastic over American
women she said. ''They are beauti.
full souled, intelligent, active-and they
have taught me that it is not shame
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educational
capable
will
occupying assignment municipal building
of 30
institute with
will with
historical
the whole artistic
institute
restricted the
until the demand satisfied.
superficial problem
public rather catering
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-09-04
The Enterprise.
w. E. HANNAFORD, Pub. r..
VIRGINIA. MINNESOTA.
10 the Pole.

70 the Pole,
Commander Peary is on his way TO-
the arctic, confident that this time he
will reach the north pole. Whether
he succeeds or not, he IL without
doubt the best equipped arctic ex.
plorer who has thus far appeared. He
has spent more years and more
thought upon the problem than any
other man. He has reached q point
nearer the pole than any other exiI
plorer; and IL he had known as much
as he now knows about the direction
of the ice drift above Greenland, he
would at least have come pretty near
reaching his goal. This time he
starts with that knowledge. He is
planning to establish his base of sup
plies, not on the land, but on the ice,
125 miles farther north, and will
travel northwest with his sledges,
hoping that the eastward drift of the
ice will be the same as he found it be-
fore. II this should be the case, he
ought to be able to- make good
progress in the direction of the pole
itself. He has adopted an ingenious
way Of carrying a house north with
him for use as headquarters. 1t will
be built of the boxes containing his
supplies, explains the Youths Com.
panion. Each box is eight inches
high and ten inches wide, and of such
length as is convenient. These boxes
will be piled up to form the walls of
the house, with the end to be opened
turned to the inside. When a pack
age Of crackers is needed, he can
knock out a panel in the wall of his
house-that is, open the end of box
reach in and get all the crackers
he needs, and so on with bacon, penn
mican, oatmeal, sugar. tea, coffee,
roast-beef hash or condensed milk.
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-09-04
Dolls In Church Collection.

A service for children was held in
st. AIMS church, nottingham, Eng.
land, and the vicar appealed for gifts
which might be distributed to the sick
and afflicted. The collection taken at
the close of the service included 215
eggs, 253 bananas, 40 pots of jam or
marmalade, 8 dolls, parcels of
sweets, "a bags of biscuits, 1 cake, s
packets of tea, bottles cf raspberry
vinegar, 10 toys or books, l packet of
rice, 2 packets of cocoa, IA baskets
and tins of fruit, besides quantities
of flowers.
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Distributinu Millions.

It is estimated that 10000, 900 Amer.
leans change their residence for a
week or more every year during the
vacation season, and that in making
the change they spend in railroad fare,
board, recreative amusements and in
cidentals something more than $780,
100000. The vacation habit has grown
up during the last 40 yea=s, in great
measure since the centennial expos!-
tion OF 1876. No other country ap-
proaches our own in it's summer phe.
n0mena.-New York Nail.
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-09-04
Would Have Women Judoee,

Miss Martha Van Rensselaer,, super
visor Of the reading course for farm
ers' wives conducted by the agricul-
tural college of Cornell university, be-
lieves that there should be a woman
judge in juvenile courts where girls
are tried. She bases her opinion on
personal observation of various juve-
nile courts, notably those in New York
city. She believes that there are many
questions which girls would answer
truthfully if there was a woman on
the bench, but which they now in
variably lie about when questioned by
a man. This is one of the very few
instances in which Miss Van Rens-
selaer believes segregation of the two
sexes would be beneficial.
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native cobppe a
playing
O.
said the backing of
the
St. assist
hands, OF the local.
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which at the polls the
and the Maro stands the plane
than
his ife foot Of the
Sir Joseph is Englhman
Wehaped head Wdeopen He
and genial for meritorus services
0aonet 1t In acknowledgment his
he when the duke
and
Sir Joseph is in The of
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-09-04

Not that Mhmed Ali untitled for his position He Of
the chief
America
His father
his fortune and
New
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Have Bio Gain in Fish Catch.

TdVe Big Gain m Fish Catch.
The total quantity of fish taken by
the Scotch in 1907 Exclusive of she'll
fish,, according to an official report.
was 9,078,059 hundredweight, of the
gross value of $15,425,525. These fg-
ures exceed the preceding years totals
by 20 per cent: and six per cent, re-
spectively, and are in each case the
highest ever recorded in the history Of
Scottish fisheries. :=7 ...
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in English ears" admitted the Phila-
delphian. Then, after a pause, he
inquired:
do you live in London the year
round?'
"Oh, no." responded the unwary
Britisher, Il spend a good bit of my
time at Chipping Norton. sometimes
visit in Upper footing, and I've also
a place at Wigmore Terrace.
per's Weekly.
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-09-04

Adjudication devoted to femininities
asks what has become of the fair
haired people we used to admire7
Where are lovely blondes, the straw.
berry blonde and the blonde cendree,
or even the red-headed girls, where
are they? Look where one will, brown
hair or dark hair predominates. Sci.
ence tries to account for it. We
are told that the time is coming when
the genuine golden haired beauty will
be as rare as the copper butterfly"
and that head like a wheat sheaf
will be to proclaim aloud the coiffeurs
artful aid. The best of it is, exclaims
the Boston Herald, the peroxide
blonde has "passed away" so much
so, in fact, that the very name is
spoken in derision. And what means
this darkening of the race? One
theory is as good as another, and a
favorite answer is, intermarriage; tho
different countries, with their distin-
gushing types, are blending more and
more. Scandinavia and Italia, the
north and the south, mingle in the
west, and the degree of latitude, the
temperate zone does the rest.
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-09-04
AnoIo-saxon Poetry.

An English merchant who has been
visiting a friend in Philadelphia dur.
ing the present summer was contend
ing that Matthew Arnold was in the
right when he condemned as vulgar
and unpicturesque the American nam
ing of towns.
Certainly you give odd names to
your towns here in the states," said
the Briton. "Just consider Weehaw'
ken, Poughkeepsie, Hoboken, and ever
so many others, you know"
mo doubt they do sound strangely
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-09-04
Commission Getting Data on Resources

summers work has brought together
One week later the commission will
hold a joint meeting in Washington
with the governors of the states or
their representatives, with the view
of closer cooperation with the state
commissions.
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-09-04

Whatever may be thought of the
wisdom of some of Andrew Carne-
gie's gifts, he certainly put the $780,
900 donated for the erection of Cen
trail American court of justice, to try
international cases, where it is sore
ly needed.
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-09-04

Doubtless Abdul Hamid hopes his
people will not overwork their new
constitution, in its tender and pre-
carious infancy, but there are NO
child labor laws in Turkey.
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-09-04
TO DIRECT NEW THEATER

Donald Robertson, who is to be director of
the new municipal theater experiment in Chi
cago, is equally we'll known as an actor and a
manager He has from the inception of the
Chicago idea been an ardent supporter of the
experiment, and it will be carried out upon his
own lines.
There is little similarity between the new
theater project In New York and the municipal
playhouse in Chicago. The former is essentially
a private enterprise, founded by group of
wealthy men who, seeing the need of an un-
trammeled stage for the perpetuaton of the
classic drama, banded themselves together fur.
nished the money to put up magnificent build
ing, and announced a scale of prices in keeping
with the superior quality of the entertainment
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-09-04
SEEKS FOLKS PLACE

William S. Cowherd, who received a plu-
rality of the votes in the primary as Democratic
candidate for governor of Missouri, will have to
fight for his place on the ticket in the courts
of the state. Walter Ball, who landed second
in the running has started contest, and has
placed before the prosecuting attorneys of three
counties evidence tending to show that many
of the ballots cast for Cowherd were fraudulent.
One peculiar feature of the campaign which
closed with the primaries was the fact that
Cowherd secured his plurality in the three cities
of st. Louis, Kansas City and Springfield. Every
other county in the entire state went heavily
against Cowherd, yet he piled up such enormous
majOrities in the three cities named that he
&ha adu load nd hod
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LATE TURKISH AMBASSADOR

Mehmed Ali Bey, the Turkac;h ambassador
to the United States, who has jus: been uncere-
moniously dumped out of his position by an
order from Constantinople, is victim of chance,
just as he was favored of that goddess when
he received appointment. For Mehmed Ali Bey
was made ambassador through the influence of
his father, 1zzet Pasha, who was private secre-
tary to the sultan and one of his most trusted
and influential advisers. 1t is an eloquent illus.
tration of the whirlgig of time that even while
the son is recalled by his government and, pre-
sumaby, reduced to the ranks, his father is
declared at this moment to be hidden in
New York, fugitive from justice and sought
by the young Turkey leaders in Gotham, who
hated him durinx the sunny daxs when his word
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-09-04
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT
AMERICAN TARS
Sir Joseph George Ward, K. G., M

Sir Joseph George Ward, K c. M G.,
premier of New Zealand, showed the tars of the
American battle feet during their recent visit
to that country, that all colonial oficials are
not OF the Swettenham type He had charge
Of the entertaining of the bluejackets and he
acquitted himself royalty. In addition to din
ners and balls in the city he took them for a
two-days' trip into the interior and showed them
the natural wonders that have made New Zea-
land known throughout the world
He had the American admiral stir up a
sleeping geyser with a cake of soap, and he had
the tars peep into the blazing pit which the
Maoris have always regarded as the place of
final torments. He showed them the most
The Virginia enterprise., 1908-09-04

The usual way for a man to learn
how to propose to girl is for her to
teach him.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1908-07-02

the extravagances of the idle rich bless
ing, in that they thereby put in circula-
ton trihe of the colossal fortunes they
unjustly acquire. Not in the exercise of
prudence, but i'll the iniquities of Our class
legislation lie the dangers of boarding.
The people are entitled to their own saw
ings banks, their parcels post and all SINH
lar accommodations, just as much SO as
they are to their mail service. 1t was many
year before we got the Rural Free De-
livery, which has blessed and frightened
our country life, and we did not realize
our inconvenience to nearly the same ex-
tent that we now appreciate it's comfort;
and so it will be with the Postal Savings
Bank and Parcels Post
AS to graduated land tax | am not
aware of any discussion of question of
this sort 1t hardly seems feasible, Grad
uated income taxes and graduated inheri
lance taxes are both measures strongly
and wisely advocated as means of equal
izing our present grossly biased method
Of raising revenue, whereby the cultlvator
Of land and producer of real wealth bears
the BURDEN while the possessor of per-
sonal property evades the law and the
beneficiary of a swollen estate receives
riches which he did nothing to acquire
and pays to the government which pro-
tects his life and property nothing for the
service it renders.