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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-01-08

HE announcement Of the engage
/ ment of Bernard Arthur William
Patrick Hastings Forbes, eighth earl of
Granard, and Miss Beatrice Mills, the
daughter of Ogden Mills and grand
daughter of D. O. Mills, which was
cabled from London recently, has been
confirmed by members of the Mills
family.
The news was somewhat surprising,
though it had been discussed as early
as September, when the earl came
over with Mrs. Ogden Mills and her
daughter from Europe and was their
guest at Newport and again at Stats.
burg at the Livingston mansion, the
home of the maternal: ancestors of the
future countess.
The earl has received the congratu.
lations of the king and queen of Eng
land upon his engagement: He is a
favcrite of both and bears the title of
roy&. master of the horse AS the
wife of the master of the horse, the
future countess of Granard will have
the privilege of riding in the royal
carriages, but under a recent order
only the members of her own family
may accompany her on these oc.
casions.
It is expected that the marriage
will take place in this city in the near
future. It probably will be a home
affair, as there is a difference of re-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-01-08
Women DispIacinq Men.

Woman is putting on her good
clothes and coming downtown. Which
is one of the epoch-nAaking events in
her industrial history. For, while
women are not gaining on men notice.
ably in factories, they are gaining on
them every day, noticeably, strikingly,
overwhelmingly, in salesrooms, CORE.
spondence rooms, auditing rooms, and
all the other places conveniently sum-
married as 'stores and Offices" Never
theless, while it is true in the factory
trades as a whole that men and wom-
en- seem to have reached, temporarily
at least, an equilibrium of relative
numbers, it is also true that here and
there, occasionally, in the constant
give and take between the sexes, men
are being displaced by women. When
this happens, says William Hard, in
Everybody's, it is worth watching, be-
cause the industrial character of wom-
an is then revealed in action.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-01-08

1T TAKES a million dollars day to
/ satisfy Uncle Sans sweet tooth, be-
cause the average citizen in the Unit
ed States consumes half his own
weight in sugar every year.
These and other interesting facts
are given in statement issued by the
bureau of statistics, which reads more
like fairy tale for children than a
government report.
The total consumption in the
United States in 1907, the latest year
for which the figures are obtainable,
was 7,089,667,975 pounds.
''Ca1culating this enormous total at
the average retail price of 51z cents
per pound" the report states, I'VE get
total of 1912, 100000 as it's cost to
the consumer, or more than a million
dollars for each of 1865 days of the
year."
The statement shows that 213 per
cent, or 1911, 100000 pounds, of the
sugar consumption of the country was
of home production, IT. per cent, or
1854 600, 900 pounds, was brought from
our insular possessions and the re-
naming 81 per cent, or 1857 900, 900
pounds, came from foreign countries.
Forty-three million pounds was the
aggregate of the expectation of sugar
from this country.
The United States sugar record for
1907 was unique in that the quantity
of that product Imported from foreign
countries was larger than ever be-
fore, the quantity brought from our is
land possessions was larger than in
any previous year.. the quantity pro-
duced at home exceeded that of any
other year, the quantity exported was
larger than in any year of the past
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-01-08
The Enterprise.
w. E! HANNAFORD, Pub.
VIRGINIA.. =, MINNESOTA.
Torpedoes That Carry Guns.

- 1orpedoes That Carry Guns.
Through the invention, of the armor-
piercing torpedo gun, Lieut. .Comman-
der Cleland Davis has created so ter
rible menace to the 'navies of the
world that revolutionary changes must
follow fast on the trail of it's adoption
by this nation. 1t will no doubt force
the world step nearer to armed neu-
trality or 4 universal peace, for it rem
ders battleships so much more vulner-
able below the water line than hitherto
that nations will be less inclined to
take the risk of war. To Offset the de-
structive effect which experts claim
this new device is capable of, ship de-
signers must revise plans and shelve
precedents by placing in the water
ships radically different from any now
aflOat. Thousands of tons of addi-
tional armor will alone give a maxi
mum protection to the great floating
forts of the world when the United
States has been equipped with tor
pedo that drives a shell loaded with
deadly "Dunnite" deep into the in
terror of another ship and, by a time
fuse, causes it to burst in the vital Sec
tton of the quarry. Therein lies the
power of this new implement, says
Technical World Magazine, and there
also is the radical difference between
the Whitehead, or gun-cOtton, and the
Davis torpedo. Terrible as is the for
mer, it may be called a harmless toy
by comparison. 1t rushes through the
water Is feet below the surface at the
rate Of 40 miles an hour; strikes the
object of attack and explodes the 200
pound charge of gun-cotton in its war
head against the side of the ship
Before the days of water-tight COM
partments and steel containing bulk.
heads that crashing defamation would
have been a sounding requiem over
the graves of the crew, for the ship
would have filled and sunk.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-01-08
Recalled bv Death

shattered. Mrs. Davis went to Kansas
to live and legal separation was fol-
lowed by divorce. A year later, Mrs.
Evans became Mrs. Davis No. 2.
Mrs. William r. Merriam, wife of
a rising politician, was the social lead
er in st. Paul at the time. She was a
devoted friend of the first Mrs. Davis,
and her decree that Mrs. Anna Agnew
Davis must not be recognized socially
was obeyed implicitly.
1t was not long before William R.
Merriam was elected governor of Min
nesota, and his wife assumed her po-
sition as mistress of the executive
mansion. The inaugural ball is the
great social function of St. Paul, and
when Mrs. Merriam sent out her in
vitations the former governor and his
wife were excluded.
Gov. Davis was elected to the Unit
ed States senate in 1887. Soon after
the expiration of Gov. Merriam's term
he was appointed director Of the cen
sus, coming with his wife to this city.
and transferring the scene of hostil-
tiles.
Senator Davis died on November q,
1900, from blood poisoning. While
campaigning in Maine he suffered a
slight abrasion of the foot The dye
! from his silk hose infected the wound
and septicemia resulted. Mrs. Davis
was married to Hunter Doll on July
20 1909.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-01-08

The Importance of trade schools, an
article about which was lately printed
In the Youths Companion, gains new
emphasis from the decision of the ex-
pert superintendent of the. public
schools of Chicago to lay before the
board Of education plan to establish
three technical or vocational high
schools for girls, to correspond with
those already established for boys. It
Is planned in these schools to fit girls
not only for domestic lie, but for many
of such callings-as typewriting and
stenography, dressmaking and MILL
nery-to which women are moving in
greater and greater humbers., The sue
cess OF the few schools where such
practical training is provided has
shown that they meet distinct need
of the times.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-01-08
Editor Wanted-Apply to Uncle Sam

1T was real funny when got to the
postotfice. I was escorted to one of
the rooms by three or four attend
ants. Half dozen more men spent
Is or 20 minutes slipping bars and
bolts and raising windows. Another
bunch rushed at me with a stock of
papers. Then the whole mob got to-
gether and decided it wouldn't pay to
hold the exam. for one candidate"
What do you suppose kept the 9th.
er editors away?' he was asked.
Il can't figure that out" was the re-
ply. ITS a fabulous amount of mon
ey for the modest requirements of
the job, and think of the honor of
singing ink for the government All
it requires is perfect knowledge of
entomology, economic zoology and vet
Urinary science, together with a work.
ing assortment of French, German,
Irish, Hindustani, African, English and
Italian.
"Of course, you are expected to
qualify on the reading, writing and
'rithmetic and letter writing. You've
got to be ready letter writer to work
for the government these days. Ami.
NAL husbandry and dairy philosophy
are some Of the minor subjects in
c1uded in the examination"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-01-08

NEW YORK.-Miss Marjorie Gould,
~ daughter of George Gould, and
granddaughter Of Jay Could. made her
public debut in the social world the
other evening when she appeared at
the opening performance of the season
at the Metropolitan opera house.
Miss Marjorie Gould, first of this
third generation of Goulds to be
brought out, is 1S years old. She need
ed not the magic of her fathers mil
lions; her beauty alone would have
gained her entrance anywhere, for she
is one of the handsomest girls that
have ever catered the portals of New
York's innermost circle.
She is more than a society chatter
box. She can talk about things that
mean much. She has her own ideas
not somebody else's, but her own. She
has read, and read we'll. There are
those who declare that she has Inherit
ed the lnasterful mind of her GRANDPA
ther She is little different from the
average debutante, despite her handi-
cap of money and good looks.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-01-08

n HINATOWN, the home of the tongs
~ whose bitter feuds in years gone
by kept the criminal courts and the
hospitals busy, is going out of bust
ness. 1t is being deserted by the
Chinese, and in a few months, if the
present rate of exodus keeps up, there
will be but very few Mongolians left
within it's precincts.
Many reasons are ascribed for the
general moving of the celestials from
the famous old bailiWick. The mer
chants and leaders say the exclusion
law is responsible. Others say that
the business depression has scared the
Cinnamon who have made money, and
they are going back to China to live
in luxury and ease.
The public officials say their activi
ty in suppressing the gambling dens in
the district is responsible for the de-
parture of many of it's old habitues
who lived on the money they extracted
from their countrymen through games
of chance.
Old Tom Lee, the mayor of China.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-01-08

A n INTERESTING genealogical rec
IA ord of the ancestors of Mrs. Rus
sell Sage has been published and with
in a few days will be distributed
among Mrs. Sage's friends 1t is the
work of William H. Wittemore. an ex.
pert genealogist, whose compilation
and study of the Sage family tree has
occupied more than year.
It has been found that Mrs. Sage,
whose family name is Slocum, is de-
scended from an illustrious house of
Montagu, famous in English his
torical annals; that one of her ances-
tors fought with William the Con.
queror, and that the lineage of her
late husband was also very high, and
dates back to about the same period
as her own
Of further qualification to Mrs. Sage
Is the fact that it was discovered that
she is connected, through the dukes
of Manchester and Sandwich, Lady
Mary Wortley Montague and the earl
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-01-08
Bill for Sugar Is 100000 a Dav

decade, and the per capita consump-
ton was the largest ever recorded, ap
average of S2.6 pounds for each man,
woman and child in the country.
An equally interesting feature of
this record year of 1907 was the fact
that the production of beet sugar for
the first time exceeded the produc.
ton of cane sugar, the product of the
year being, cane sugar, $4,000, 900
pounds, while the production of beet
sugar amounted to 967 100000 pounds.
The worlds production has prac.
ticalfy doubled in the past 20 years,
having grown from 1900, 0Oo, 600
pounds in 1887 to $4,000, o00, 600
pounds in 1907.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-01-08

C,
observatory
sufferers Then
in Colorado the flagship
Duty the Naval for two preceded his
Howel
Greedy expedition
Maryland Naval Reserves Alone
Antonio Lopez
In seae
o decorate him.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-01-08


W held?
This is the question which is agitat-
ing the minds of the inaugural COM
mittee and society folks here. For
many years this has been the crown
ing feature of the installation into
office of a new president, but four
years ago congress reluctantly gave
its consent to the use of the pension
office building and followed this action
up by adopting resolution that the
building should not again be put in
disorder for such purpose.
Properly to prepare the structure
for the ball means the removal from
the great court of millions of valuable
records besides the almost complete
cessation of the government business
for no less than 20 days by the army
of clerks who daily pass upon pension
cases.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-01-08

We are pleased to note that the
judge in trying the case of the girl
who came into his court asking for
$4,000 damages for kiss did not lean
over the desk and ask for sample to
dignity of our courts must be main.
tanned at whatever sacrifice.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-01-08

From all accounts, the funeral Of the
Chinese emperor, with all its barbaric
splendor, numerous animals and tre-
mendous crowds, must be looked on
there as something in the light of a
tremendous national circus parade.
Probably it is the only enjoyment
which the populace get out of the i'm
perial functions.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-01-08
Beatrice Mills to Wed a British Earl

ligious faith between the bride and
bridegroom-e!ect ..
The earl of Granard is the eighth of
his line. He sits as Baron Granard in
ty-fourth year and one of the youngest
peers. In politics he is liberal. In
religion he is a Roman Catholic and
has been the first peer of that faith to
receive a court appointment in 20
years.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-01-08


bitter fight
antiFo Democrats
elected half
chance to make himself Missouri.
ana landed easily looked like honorary distinction but
both kandS
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-01-08

Ebert H. Gary's dinner in New York
to the steel magnates of the continent
brought together an aggregate of
wealth that would have made Croeeus
feel like a piker.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-01-08
Matter Of Statement.

Mrs. Crimsonbeak-An old Greek
law provided that If a man divorced
his wife he could not marry younger
woman than the discarded partner.
Mr.. Crimsonbeak-Oh, we'll, of
course, no woman would be younger.
than the divorced one claired she
was.-Yonkers Statesman. :
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-01-08
How It Went.

The Boy-Boo, boo! Gus has swal
lowed my little engine.
Kind Stranger-Gracious! How coult
that happen?
The Boy-We were playing railway
and he was the tunnel
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-01-08

The Price Of It.
"Politeness costs nothing" said the
man of ready-made wisdom.
Then I reckon" answered Mr.. Cum.
rox, that you never had any expert
ence with those cafe walters who regu-
late their politeness by the size of tho
tip
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-01-08
REAR-ADMIRAL EMORY RETIRED

Rear Admiral William Hemsey Emory, U.
S. N, who was retired the other day on account
of the age limit, began his long and honorable
naval career when he entered the Naval acade-
my in 1862, and ended it when as admiral of
the blue" he lowered his flag last November at
Hongkong as commander of the second squad
ron of the Atlantic battleship fleet and left his
flagship the Louisiana, to return home
In these 46 years Rear Admiral Emory had
II commands, nine of separate vessels, the first
being the Palos when he was &c years DID, one
division of four battleships in the Atlantic fleet
in 1906. and the last squadron of eight, which
he has just left.
Rear Admiral Emory born in Washing
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-01-08
NEW MISSOURI SENATOR

John C. Mckinley is going to be the next
United States senator from Missouri To the av-
erage reader of the newspapers during the re-
cent campaign this announcement will be some
thing of a surprise. That is because none Of the
able editors or political dopesters ever figured
Mckinley in the running at any stage. The
fight seemed to be all between Gov. Joseph w.
Folk and Senator w. J. ("Gumshoe') Stone.
The latter running for reelection and the
former for the toga. Both are Democrats, and
as nobody thought of the possibility that Re-
publican legislature might be elected it seemed
as if the Democratic vote in the primaries would
settle the affair.
In the meantime, Mr. Mckinley Republi-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-01-08
Scared.
Don't WOrrY about John. mother"

Don't worry about John, mother"
We'll, Eph, don't suppose l
should; but when one letter says his
condition is 50 good and the next says
that he'll have to get rid of his condi-
ton before the faculty will let him
play football I'm awful afraid that
he'll make himself sick and weak.
Puck.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-01-08
RICHER THAN ROCKEFELLER

Thomas Barlow Walker of Minneapolis, is
the second man to be discovered who is credit
ed with being really richer than John D. Rookie
Teller. But whereas John DIS wealth is in cash
and stocks that return handsome dividend in
cash every three months, the Walker millions
represented by enormous timber tracts.
In his own name, this plain, quiet Mime
apolitan holds 100000 acres of the finest sugar
pine and yellow pine on the upper Sierra Neva-
da mountains in northern California, while his
holdings in his own state of Minnesota make up
wards of million acres. And still he objects
to being referred to as the timber king" His
timber riches are even more valuable than those
of Frederick Weyerhauser, although the latter
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-01-08
Information Wanted.

Did any man ever win girl by
threatening II she refused him to quit
trying to amount to anything in the
world?
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-01-08


furnish railroad that
a Now
the business
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-01-08
A Certain Fraud.

:Bobbie-Mamma, this shilling you
gave me this morning must be coun.
terfeit.
Mamma-Why do you think SO.
dear?
Bobbie-Well, I hear papa say that
money talks, and I've had this money
whole day and it hasn't said q word.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-01-08

Emperor William remains in bed,
though we'll, the Berlin dispatches say,
being eaten by melancholy because he
is not allowed to talk.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-01-08
Not RuQqed.

The Doctor Your son is too delicate
to attend college,
The Father-Don't you think his
studies might be regulated so that he
wouldn't have to work too hard?
The Doctor-Oh, his studies won't
hurt him. But he couldn't live through
fraternity initiation.-Clevelan
Leader.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-01-08
PITY TiS, IT'S True

Teacher Ito pupils)-What IL the
first meal you eat In the morning?
Smart Boy-Oatmeal.-Judge.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-01-08
Coal Gas.

Coal Gas.
It was in the early part OF the
eighteenth century that coal gas was
accidentally discovered by Rev. John
Clayton, then dean of Kildare. Neither
poraries seems to have thought Of
making use of the new gas for lighting
purposes, and it was not until the year
1892 that It was first so employed
Chicago American.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-01-08
Just the Thinq.

Just the Thing.
my wife is a paragon"
Your enthusiasm is laudable.'
And my enthusiasm, sir, is just. My
wife never talks to me about the fine
men she might have married"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-01-08
A Hard-WorkinQ Man.

Eyes, jedge, Use a hard wo'kn'
man, isl
What do you do?" inquired the
Judge.
well, yo' see, jedge, my wife does
washin' at home an turns de wringer
TO- her, an OATS powerful hard work,
dat is''-Detroit Free Press.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-03-06

the pigeon, OF the same feathered
family, as 1t keeps the bill immersed
while drinking. But the dog laps the
water in its mouth. This animal
moreover, never chews its food, while
the cat, his companion household pet,
always chews thoroughly before swal-
lowing. Why is 1t that failing to mas
ticate does not hurt a dog, while in the
case Of all other animals, Including
man, unchewed food causes dyspep-
STA? Why has a cow q cud and why
can q horse shiver in it's hide to drive
away flies. Those questions and many
moro like them that might be asked
will show us that we are far from
knowing 1t all.
CARE Or THE Ex-CoNv1CT.
[Albia Union.1
Instead Of paroling persons convicted
OF crime and maintaining a useless and
expensive parole board 1t would be
much better for the state to provide
some kind Of employment for dis
charged convicts. Under the present
system they are given a shoddy suit
Of clothes and enough money to get
to the place from which they were SON
fenced. No further attention is given
to them and they naturally drift into
criminal ways and begin at once to
gain livelihood by the commission of
crimes. II the state would furnish en-
ployment for these people until they
could get something ahead or some
other work to do the chances would
be so per cent better for them to lead
law abiding lives.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-03-06

done, and the necessity Of a called ses-
sion might be- In many cases avoided.
AS the country continues to grow. the
demand fer longer sessions will cor
respondingly increase.
Ut would be better to end a session
on a given day Of the week, rather
than to have 1t terminate as 1t does
now by the day Of the month. Wash
ington was inaugurated on Thursday,
the goth Of April; so there Is a prece-
dent for returning to that date. Why
not make the short session end on the
last Thursday Of April? That then
would be the day for the inauguration
OF the president. The warm spring
days would have come: the weather
ct that season OF the year is very fine;
the last Tiursday chosen for the date
OF inauguration would prevent the date
from ever falling on Sunday. as it does
sometimes now, and as 1t will 1t the
fourth Of March is adhered to, eight
years hence, or 1917.