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The Virginia enterprise., 1909-02-05
J. B. Duke Buys Fine Home in Fifth Ave-

own houses, and the result has been
one of the best developed residential
blocks in the world.
Adjoining Mr.. Dukes purchase in
Seventy-eighth street is the residence
OF H. II. Rogers, and in Fifth avenue
that of Mr.. Payne Whitney. At the
corner of Seventy-ninth street and
Fifth avenue is the home of Mr.. Isaac
u. Fletcher. Other owners in the
block are Mrs. Mary B. Ripley, Mr..
George w. Haven, Mr.. Charles W..
ogden and Mr.. John G. Barnes.
The house is surrounded by a spa-
clous lawn and it is Mr.. Dukes inten-
ton to build an extension in SEVENTY.
elghth street. The general interior
and exterior of the building will be re-
modelled along classic lines.
Mr. Duke, who married Mrs. VIII.
liam H. Inman of Atlanta in 1u]v
1907, leased the James A. Burden
dwelling, at Fifth avenue and Seventy
second street, in the autumn of that
year, his lease being for two years at
an annual rental of $4,000.
Mr.. Basil N. Duke, his brother. DUP
chased last year from William r.
Leeds a plot at the southeast corner
OF Fifth avenue and Eighty-ninth
street and later an additional plot in
the street, which he Is now improving
with fine dwelling.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-02-05

HE director of the mint has made
money" for the United States in
more ways than one. He is rejoicing
because the government made a profit
during the fiscal year ended June 30,
1908, of $10,541,371 on the coinage of
silver, nickel and one-cent bronze
pieces.
This represents the difference be-
tween the price paid by the govern.
ment for the metals and their coinage
value.
The original deposits of gold bullion
In the mints and assay Offices during
the fiscal year amounted to $2O7,415.-
9S4 and uncurrent United States gold
coin of the face value of $4,020.668
was received for recoinage.
Silver bullion purchased for SUBJ
sidiary silver coinage during the year
aggregated 1S,S19,279 standard ounces.
and mutilated and uncurrent United
States silver coin of the face value
of 81, ,162,9S2 was recoined.
The coinage executed by the mints
during the fiscal year 1908 amounted
to $197 .23S,377 in gold, of which $780,
1872, ,420 were in double eagles, and $4,-
$4,000 in eagles of the designs pre-
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-02-05

HE government has now opened it's
L alcohol school in the city of Wash
ington for the instruction of the peo-
pie of the United States in proper
methods of making and using the de-
natured product.
For this purpose a model still has
been erected close by the department
OF agriculture which is big enough to
work up rs bushels of corn a day, con-
verting that quantity of grain into IS
gallons of 95 per cent. alcohol-that
Is to say, IS per cent. pure. The plant
represents the smallest outfit that can
be conducted profitably on a CONNER
cial scale.
The farmers cannot very we'll see it
for themselves, so arrangements have
been made by which they may learn
about it. Agricultural experts from
the experiment stations in every one
of the states are to go to Washington.
examine the alcohol-making outfit, see
how 1t works and listen to a course of
lectures explaining it's management.
1t will be their business when they 20
home to teach the farmers how to put
up and how to operate plants of this
character
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-02-05
New Cult Expounded by Exclusive Set

added together, make eight: and all
the principal events of his life have
been on the second, fourth or eighth
of the month"
The new and strange cult numbers
among its disciples widely known 80.
clety folk. Among those present at
the Dunlop Smith home were: Lee
Oeforrest, inventor of the DeForrest
wireless; Paulding Farnum of Tiffany
& Co.; Lady Gridley of the English
court, Mrs. Elizabeth Lindsay. Miss
Florence kea and Lieut.. and Mrs.
John Howard.
with hardly an exception the given
names of those mentioned were found
not In accord by Mrs. Cochrane and
were altered to suit For instance,
Mrs. Elizabeth Lindsay is no longer
Elizabeth, but Ovada, and Miss Flor
ence Kea's name is now Velma.
Mrs. Cochrane explained that each
number up to nine was represented by
vibration and each number CORE
sponded to letter in the alphabet.
I'VE can't change our last name. but
we can change our given ones. If orr
names are out of harmony things must
be adjusted. Life and health and han.
piness are mathematics. Therefore
we can be successful if We adjust our
names"
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-02-05
Gleanings of Gotham
Interesting Bits Of News from the
Great Metropolis.
Gentle Sex in Gotham Biz Tax PAYERS

one hundred and odd new names on
the personal tax rolls for more than
100000 belong to the sex the suffra-
gette is trying to emancipate from
the thraldom of man. The list reads
like the roster of fashionable tea
party.
In the real estate roster, too. the
women are we'll to the fore. Mrs. H.
Z. Potter, widow of Bishop Potter,
with $500,O00 assessment on her Riv-
erslde drive home. Miss Helen M.
Gould and Mrs. Sage figure in it. Mrs.
Ida A. Flagler, the divorced wife of
the Standard Oil millionaire, who has
been under the care of DR.. Carlos r
Mcdonald for over fifteen years be-
cause of mental trouble, is added to
the list this year for $2,000,000. Why
she has not been assessed before is not
explained. Mrs. Flagler lives in West
chester county at an expense Of $685.
900. year.
Two other women added to the mil
hon Dollar club" are Mrs. Florence C.
Satterwhite and Mrs. Lila B. Gilbert,
daughters of the late William v. Bro
kaw, who inherited a fortune from
their father. Each is put down for
$1,500,000
The sudden acquisition of wealth
among the feminine population of the
city is shown in the tax list Mrs.
Katherine T. Braker, widow of the late
Henry T. Braker and formerly Mrs.
W. H. Gelshenen, is assessed on $780,
900.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-02-05
Alcohol School Opened by Government

1nasmuch as such a plant could not
be erected for less than $500 it is
obvious that the ordinary farmer
would not be able to afford to con
struct one of the kind. But-and here
is the point-a group of farmers rep
resenting small neighborhood might
do so.
Then they would bring their corn
stalks and other such refuse to the
"milr' and receive in return the al.
cohol. 1t is simple method which
farmers have long been accustomed to
adopt where flour and other neces.
saries were concerned.
The farmers are eager to find a
cheap source of energy. Nowadays
multitudes of them use gasolene for
such purposes as grinding feed, cut.
ting fodder and running the corn shell
Ter, circular saw, horse clipper and
grindstone.
A farm in these times is more OF
less of a factory. But gasolene is ex
pensive. Alcohol is comparatively
cheap, and when manufactured from
the farmers own vegetable refuse i,
would cost next to nothing.
In France there are $1,000 farmer
distillers who make alcohol for in
dustrial purposes from molasses and
sugar beets. 1t is high time that this
idea was turned to profitable account
IN the United States. Rotten apples
trost-bitten potatoes, stale water
melons, cornstalks and cobs and
every other kind of vegetable refuse
are available for the DurD0se
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-02-05
1earty Welcome for "Joe" Blackburn

and forget as he is to fight, and once
the hatchet is buried, it is never
resurrected
1t was with regret that Mr.. Black
burn left the senate, but he has been
almost as happy in his new field as on
his old stamping ground and in the
short year and half of his service
as one of the commissioners of the
1sthmian canal he has become as
popular in Panama as he was in
Washington, and the style of life in
the old Spanish city is especially
pleasing to the silver-tongued Ken
tuckian. AS everybody knows the
United States government houses the
public servants in Panama in mag.
nfficent style. The state in which
they live, indeed, approaches that
formerly enjoyed by the Spanish
grandees in that part of the world. and
the role of Spanish grandee admir-
ably suits the former senator from
the Bluegrass state, who is so adjust
able and so versatile that he is al
ways at home no matter what his sur.
roundings and so much at home is he
in Panama that his friends both here
and there hope he will be allowed to
remain during good behavior"
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-02-05

NEW YORK.-This city's tax assess.
~ ment rolls for 1909, which were
opened for public inspection the other
day, as the charter prescribes, form a
mine of ammunition for the militant
suffragette.
They reveal the fact that the sex
which has no vote is called on by the
male oppressor in the person of the
tax assessor to pay more than half the
money the city expects to collect on
personal taxes, and also is conspicuous
among the wealthy property owners,
who must pay increased taxes on their
real estate.
Six Of the ten members of the
Million Dollar Tax club" whose men,
bers qualify by paying taxes on 81 ,000,-
Ooo or more of personal property, are
women. They are assessed for $12.-
100000 of the $22,000,OO0 the club
members are called upon to produce.
Mrs. Margaret Olivia Sage, widow of
Russell Sage, shares with Andrew
Carnegie the distinction of being the
highest taxed member. Each l.; ex-
pected to pay on $5,000,00 valuation.
considerably more than half of the
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-02-05

MIR. WILLIAM A. PRESSER, 1722
1v1 Third Ave., Moline, ILL.,, writes:
shave been suffering from catarrh
In the head for the past two months
and tried innumerable so-called RENE
dies without avail. No one knows how
have suffered not only from the dis
ease itself, but from modification when
in company of friends or strangers.
II have used two bottles of your med
icine for q short time only, and it
effected a complete medical cure, and
what is better yet, the disease has not
returned.
IL can most emphatically recommend
Peruna to all sufferers from this dis
ease."
Read This Experience.
Mr.. A. Thompson, Box IS, r. R. I.
Martel, Ohio, writes: ''WAen l began
your treatment my eyes were inflamed,
nose was stopped up half of the time,
and was sore and scabby. l could not
rest at night on account of continual
hawking and splitting:
II had tried several remedies and was
about to give up, but thought would
try Peruna.
''After had taken bout one-third Of
a bottle noticed difference. I am
now completely cured, after; suffering
with catarrh for eighteen years.
II think if those who are afflicted
with catarrh would try Peruna they
would never regret it"
Peruna is manufactured by the
Peruna Drug Mfg. Co., Columbus, Ohio.
ASK yosr Druggist for q Free Peruns
Almanac for 1909.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-02-05

VISION OF VICAR Is PROJECTED
ALL THE WAY FROM ALGERIA
TO NoRFoLksHlRE.
ALLEGED PSYCHIC PHENOMENA
Disembodied Spirit in Bodily Shape
Seen by Preacher, Aged Woman
and Maid-Man Unconscious
at the Time.

London.-One of the chief topics in
London recently has been the Ashley
ghost story, which from the state
ments made by persons concerned, the
circumstances of the alleged appari-
ton, and the effort made at prompt
investigation, deserves special place
in the chronicles of alleged psychic
phenomena.
AS a rule, spook stories rest upon
secondhand evidence. In this in
stance three persons have made affi-
davfts of what they saw. One is Rev.
Robert Brock, who is acting as locum
tenens for Rev. DR.. Hugh Ashley, vicar
OF East Rudham, who is wintering in
Algeria and whose disembodied spirit
is stated to have made its appearance
In bodily shape at his Norfolkshire
vicarage.
The first news of the alleged ap-
partition was published in the London
Times in a letter from Rev. Robert
Brock. The Times assigned a we'll
qualified correspondent to investigate
and while this correspondent has been
unable to see the apparition himself
his circumstantial reports have been
plausible contribution to the case.
Rev. Mr.. Brooks story follows:
Owing to the fact that his wife
was not In good health, DR.. Ashley,
vicar OF East Rudham, decided to VIM
ter in a warmer climate, obtaining q
chaplaincy at Biskera, Algeria, and
left England with Mrs. Ashley on De-
cember 10. 1t was arranged that
should act as locum tenens.
Il met DR.. Ashley for the first time
In London on December and spent
not more than half an hour with him
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-02-05
&&}E&$F2A&o&G$|ES$!;
EB ~ ~

John D. ROCKEFELLER is cited as
living proof of the truth of a new
cult expounded recently by Mrs. Aso-
Meth Cochrane to an exclusive gath
ering of society and business men and
women at the home of Mrs. James
Dunlop Smith, "a Gramercy park. Mrs.
Cochrane is founder of the Aso-Neith
cryptogram, which, by the mere chang
ing Of persons name to accord with
the date of his or birth, insures sue
cess. Mrs. Cochrane merely estab-
fishes harmonious vibrations, and they
do the rest
The figure eight is the most harmo-
NOUS one of ALL" she said 'The sue
cess of John D. Rockefeller was due
to the prominent part that the figure
eight or its multiples have played in
his career. He was born on the eighth
day of the month, started business on
$4,000 borrowed capital, does business
at 26 Broadway, the numbers of which.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-02-05
New Ships to Make Our NAVY Lead All

The report that Great Britain was
building 1875 gun has been run down
by the naval authorities here and they
state that it is not true. It is also
stated that there is no foundation
whatever for the report that Germany
is building, or projecting even, five
battleships, each of which is to carry
IL 12-inch guns.
It is admitted now that the United
States stands second on the list of
naval powers, and this is largely be-
cause the United States naval relative
power depends on modern ships
against which twenty or more of the
British so-called battleships do not
count and are not to be taken into
count, because not one of them could
approach within five miles of any of
the United States battleships even of
the Alabama class. Above that class
in the United States are the South
Carolina, Michigan and, of course, the
American Dreadnaughts are all above
that class. In other words, the
United States has ship for ship,
built and building, better and more
powerful ships than Great Britain has
built and is building for the next
three years.
The navy department confidently
expects to see the prediction of the
experts realized in 1911 and the
United States will lead the world in
naval power. The experts declare
that when the statement is made that
Great Britain has at the present time
81 battleships against 20 of the
United States, it only means an ap-
parent numerical excess and that
when the ships are compared one with
the other, there are more dead or
obsolete types and classes in the
British navy than in any other navy.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-02-05
WENT BACK ON HIS SONG.
exasperated Composer Glad to Provo
Words Were False.

George Christie, nephew Of tho
noted minstrel man, and himself
well known composer, says that he
never was sorry but once that he
helped write song.
When Bert Fitzgibbon came to him
with the lyric of song called "You
Can't Stop Your Heart from Beating"
young Christie most. enthusiastically
set to work to put music to it, but
now he's sorry. 1t happened this way
Christie occupied the adjoining room
to newly married couple who were
very much in love.
The husband had learned Christie's
song and all day long he sang it to his
bride. In the morning before break
fast his accordion plated tenor voice
warbled "You Can't Stop Your Heart
from Beating for the Girl You Love-"
After lunch it was the same and as q
good night solo he rendered it.
The last straw was added to the
camers back when the bride learned
the song and the love-struck couple
sang the song in barber shop harmony.
This was too much for Christie and he
left the hotel, sorry that he had ever
written the song.
Passing neighboring drug store,
an idea struck him, and he entered
and purchased a bottle of carbolic
acid. Wrapping it up in neat pack
age he presented it through the bell
boy to the honeymooners with q note
that simply read:
"This will stop your heart from
beating. Use it,"
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-02-05
The Right to Kill.


Considerable excitement has been
aroused in Paris by the question raised
by DR.. Bosredon of Brive and taken up
by his Paris colleagues, whether a doc
tor has right, under certain circum-
stances, to take a mans life.
DR.. Bosredon was the first medical
man who arrived on the scene of the
railway accident in Brive tunnel. The
stoker OF the engine, a man named Le-
fort, was caught under the wreck and
slowly burned to death.
when l reached him." writes DR..
Bosredon, 1.-The man was screaming
with agony and begged me to xii! him.
There was no possible hope of saving
his life. He was being slowly burned
to death, and his body was horribly
crushed.
Il considered that my conscience
permitted me to put an end to his
agony, and asked a gendarme for his
revolver. He said that he had none
and the stoker was slowly burned to
death, instead of being put out of his
pain there and then.'
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-02-05

prior to coming on here; and l heard
nothing more of him until December
rs, when received letter from Rev.
Herbert Muril, the English chaplain
at Algiers, announcing that DR.. and
Mrs. Ashley had sustained injuries in
railway accident on December 16.
On the same evening l got the let
ter l was seated in the dining-room
when Mrs. Hartley, the housekeeper,
came to me and said: Come and see
DR.. Astley,' and led me into the study.
Looking through the glass window
on the lawn, I myself distinctly saw
the figure of DR.. Ashley in clerical at
tire standing against the wall which
adjoins the dining-room. It certainly
was not a reflection of my own face,
for l am clean shaven. and the face
of the figure l saw wore beard and
mustache. 1t was distinctly DR.. Asst
ley as l saw him in London. I
rubbed my eyes and looked again.
was not dreaming. The figure was
not looking at me-
Mrs. Hartley had a candle in her
hand, and l told her to take it away.
l still saw the figure most clearly. A
housemaid who had joined us also
could see the figure.
l will go and have a look in the
garden I said, and l did CO. There
was nothing to be seen there; and
when l returned the vision had gone !"
On the following Tuesday, necem-
ber 20, Mrs. Hartley again saw the
apparition.
AS on the previous OCCASION" con.
tinued Mr.. Brock, Mrs. Hartley went
to close the shutters of the study,
and came running in to me, saying:
Come quickly! Here it is again!' I
went rapidly to the study. Looking
through the window l again saw
distinctly the vision on the lawn. al
belt 1t was not 50 distinctly visual
lied as before, probably because of
the strong moon shining"
After the first apparition telegrams
were sent to Algiers inquiring about
the Astleys. The response came that
both DR.. and Mrs. Ashley were prog
ressing comfortably, but, curiously
enough, letter written December 26,
which arrived in England later. re.
vealed the interesting fact that DR..
Ashley was suffering from concussion
OF the brain, and presumably was un.
conscious at the time of the apDari
tion.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-02-05

M r. JAMES B. DUKE, president Of
AVA the American Tobacco Company.
has purchased from the H. H. Cook es-
tate, at price said to be in the
neighborhood of $1,300,OO0, the resi-
dence formerly occupied by Mr.. Cook,
at the northeast corner of Fifth ave-
nue. and Seventy-eigh street.
The dwelling, which is one of the
most attractive in the Central park
section, is five-story structure of
white marble and sandstone, occupy.
Ing a plot 102.2x15O feet.
Mr.. Cook, in 1884, purchased the en-
tire vacant block bounded by Fifth
avenue, Seventy y-eighth and Seventy
ninth streets and Madison avenue. for
price said to have been $500, 900. The
land value to-day is estimated to be
worth considerably more than $1O,000.-
900.
He placed very. stringent restric-
tions upon the property, selling only
to persons who would occupy their
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-02-05

A correspondent of the Boston Her.
aid writes, deploring the careless man.
ners of some men who dine in public
places, especially the man who places
his hat on the table while he is
wrestling into his top coat. She says:
Il don't suppose you have to feed in
restaurants for the million" (heavens!
why not0 "and are not distressed bv
the association of ideas when a we'll
worn derby is put on the table cloth
at which you are to sit moment
later. But I wish you would mention
the improperly of it in the Herald.
where offenders will be sure to see it."
One would imagine reforms in this di.
rection were not necessary, but 1 glad
ly start one for the new year. Either
keep covered or hang up your hats on
the floor If there's no other peg pro-
vided.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-02-05
The Common Strain.

The stress of life may touch some
lightly, may appear to pass others
by, but most men whom we meet,
with whom we deal, who work for
US or for whom we work, know we'll
the common stress of humanity. II
In all our human relations this
thought could be kept before us it
would revolutionize life. We would
be humanized- -ennobled. We would
care for men as men. We could
not escape the Transforming realiza-
ton Of an actual brotherhood if we
recalled and thought upon the un-
deniable fact of our own part in the
universal brotherhood Of the COM
mon strain.-Schuyler c. Woodruff, in
The Bellman.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-02-05
How. He Knew,

In the senate barber shop one day
two grave and reverend solons had
met, when one asked the other:
did you ever study the faces of
those waiting to be shaved here?"
Not particularly" replied the sec
ond senator. why do you ask?"
Simply because it has Just oc.
Cured to me-" was the response,
that one may, from the expressions
on their respective countenances. di.
vide them into optimists and pessi.
mists"
please particularize.'
The pessimist," continued the philo-
sophie senator, "is the patron who is
waiting for six others to be shaved,
while the optimist is the one distin.
guished by the appellation of next"
-Harper's Weekly.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-02-05
Gives Rewards for Marriages and Births

ty of his employees, who express their
gratitude by giving the best service of
which they are capable. Mr.. Martin
has found, he says, that married men
are more contented and remain stead
lily in his employ.
That benefits shall not cease at the
altar or the crib, Mr.. Martin instituted
the custom this year Of sending to
each couple on the anniversary of
their wedding case of liquors with
which to toast the occasion.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-02-05
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~ Us 81

CHECKS balancing the account of
~ Martin, the restaurant keeper,
with the firm of Cupid, Stork & Co.,
have been forwarded to his employees
who qualified for prizes last year.
Il regret that the sum was not
greater, but l rejoice in being able to
distribute as much as l have" Mr..
Martin said as he closed his check
book. His account ran as follows:
CUPID, sToRK & CO.'S BILL AGAINST
MARTIN.
1905
To 8 marriages, at 500. 800
No twins. at 500, or triplets, at $50. 900
1907
To rs marriages. at 500 ................ $500
To 40 babies, at $50. Observation-Disclosures. 2, 2,450
To one pair twins, at $780, ............ 100
Total for two years.................... Sc, 700
1T was inevitable that this years
record should fall far below 1907"
added Mr.. Martin. AT that time,
when I announced the competition,
was employing many new cooks, clerks
and walters who married in the year
and had children born to them, there
by winning awards for marriages and
births, to which all my help are elig-
ible. The old men have kept their
places, the number of newcomers is
small, and the result is necessarily a
decrease in the number of COM
petitors.'
Mr.. Martin is enthusiastic over the
success which has followed his philan-
throDy. 1t has won for him the loyal