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The Virginia enterprise., 1909-12-31
Her High Heel Gave Burglar Liberty

failing, dragged Mrs. Patterson into
the hall. She had an abundance of
pluck and held fast as she was carried
pressman's shoulders.
She screamed at every other STEP:
On the alternate steps the thief laugh
ed aloud. ruse which proved effective
as shown when women tenants in the
house opened their hall doors, heard
the mingled screams and laughter, and
withdrew with threats to complain to
the superintendent if any more such
frolics took place.
The first chance Mrs. Patterson got
to get her feet on the floor was in
the lower hall after she had been
bumped down three flights. There is
hole in the hall carpet, and as Mrs.
Patterson alighted her heel caught in
the hole. The thief gave lunge and
"r-r-r-ip!" off went the high heel.
Mrs. Patterson took one step and
then almost burst into tears. With
her heel gone, she hobbled ridiculously.
She just wouldn't appear in the street
ludt way. 4ue tnlel, tnefelO2S, 3CL q
good start, and when several men, ct
tracted by Mrs. Patterson's cries, con-
fronted him, he said:
please don't stop me! My wife
is on a rampage. Just look how she's
torn my coat"
SO they let him depart, not knowing
he had gold watch, a diamond ring,
other jewelry of less value and about
$50 in cash.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-12-31
Really Is a Jag in a Georgia Melon

the discovery Of criminal tendency
In the watermelon heretofore unsus-
pected.
I'VE have been experimenting with
every sort of fruit and vegetable that
contains sugar." said Mr.. Wilson, 'the
watermelon, pears, apples, peaches,
plums, pumpkins, muskmelons, Irish
potatoes, sweet potatoes, beets and
other vegetables. The watermelon sur.
prised us. We never expected it of
it. The purpose is to develop the
cheapest kind of denatured alcohol for
use as fuel.
'"The experiments have been made
under the directions of DR.. Harvey
w. Wiley, chief of the bureal of
chemistry. OF course it is impossible
to extract this alcohol in paying guam
titles from melons, but we hope to do
so from sweet potatoes.
'The experiments have been made
to benefit the seacoast portion of the
south, from Virginia down the Allan
tic around Florida and along the gulf.
Sweet potatoes can be grown cheaply
in the sand of these sections. One
bushel of sweet potatoes will make
gallon of alcohol. The product is
better and cheaper fuel than benzine."
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-12-31

p OsTON.-"Yes, men are just like
ID a long row of coffee cups. They
sit in q line empty and we have to
fill 'em up"
This is the way that you look to the
girl behind the counter who takes
your order for eggs and fish cakes.
If. you thought that the lady might
be impressed with your individuality
you are mistaken. the Boston Herald
says. This hustling person with the
bright smile and pink cheeks is far
too busy with her roast beef rare
sausage and mashed potato-hurry up
those eggs - dou2hnuts, doughnuts,
more doughnuts." to see you in your
true light
Land, yes, men are all alike. They
want what they want and they want it
quick. If their order does not come
right up you catch it. If you try to
hurry the chef you catch it again.
But they're all right if you know how
to manage 'em. What we do is just
to jolly 'em up.
"Now there are the grouches, plen-
ty Of them. It is funny though not so
funny, either-that most of them come
in in the morning. You know how it
is yourself when you have just got
up. You feel like fried egg slapped
out of the pan before It got fried.
You go downtown, sidle up to a lunch
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Hides His Misplay by Eating a Card

Gates burst out with:
For the love of Mike, man, haven't
you got a hearth"
mo, haven't" responded Hudson
sharply; don't you suppose know
how to play?"
Then he slyly skinned his hand"
There staring at him from behind an
other card to which it had stuck was
the ace of hearts. He had revoked
five times: they were playing for q
dollar point and as each revoke pen
allied him three tricks and as heart
make counted eight, he and his part
ner were facing loss of $12O on the
deal.
"Gi' me sandwich, quick" he or
dered the waiter. II feel sort O. faint
Jaw, go on, play the game" CON-
manded his partner
"All right" he responded, but as he
reached for the sandwich he let his
cards drop. STOPPING he inserted that
fatal ace of charts between the slices
Of what had been a chicken sand
wich A1d devoured it.
AS he was chewing it he looked at
his cards and broke out: Hey. l only
got two cards."
Each of the others had three.
1T looks like misdeal," remarked
"Huddy," nonchalantly; "too bad, amt
it,? And It was declared a misdeal.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-12-31
| Gossip of WASHINGTON !
What Is GOING On at the
National Capital.
He Calls Mrs. Snowfall a Model Hen

and clucks to find herself famous.
This hen has appeared in Wilmington
and is the property Of 14-year-old
boy, Lilbourne Martin. But she is not
a native of Delaawre. No, she thanks
her feathers she was born at Bynum,
Nd, and thus good old Hartford coun.
ty adds another gem to the diadem Of
the state that made good eating ia
nous. Though black as a colored poll
tician, she rejoices in the name Of
Snowfall, and as such will go down in
history.
For generations Maryland has been
famous for her chickens, and whether
they were fried la Maryland or were
laid to rest in the old-fashioned pie,
they have served their country we'll
and have left pleasant memories be-
hind them. It is all the more crafty
ing to record that out of the heart Of
the fried-chicken belt has come this
phenomenal hen.
According to the records, she not
only lays two eggs day, but some
times varies it by contributing three.
All dAS p01ASCL4y AI0Su t1uu SuAlaOA0
for family use. If she can keep up
her record for year this will mean
730 eggs, with few extra for Christ
mas and the Fourth of July. If all the
eggs grow up into chickens Mrs.
SNOWFALL would soon have enough de-
scendants to cluck around the world.
She deserves a medal from Secretary
Wilson and a cablegram from Col.
Roosevelt for her efforts to prevent
race suicide.
Mrs. Snowfall is a model hen. She
never worries about the fashions in
feathers; she is not forever running
off to some barnyard by the sea or
chicken house in the mountains; she
does not try to shine at bridge or out
scratch her neighbors. She stays at
home, looks after Mr.. Snowfall and
the children and attends strictly to
business. Wherefore will she be re-
membered wherever the egg is held In
honor and the chicken in esteem.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-12-31

N EW YORK.-It wasn't the stake in.
~ volved that caused A. B. Hudson.
Wall street broker, to invent heart
sandwich, for money means little to
him. 1t was the Wanting pride in his
ability to play bridge.
John W. Gates, John A. Drake, Hud-
son, popularity called "Huddy," and a
broker were Willing away long even.
ing in small game in private room
in an uptown restaurant. Six or seven
men, whose names are familiar in
Wall street, were present. Opposite
Hudson sat Gates, Drake was paired
with the broker. Gates temper had
not been improved by the luck in
which he was playing
Finally it came to the rubber and it
was heart make Five leads had
been made when a heart was led.
"Huddy" laid club upon it. Gates
lifted his eyebrows. When more
trumps had been ignored by "Huddy,"
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-12-31

wASH1NGTON.-For 20 years James
W Wilson, secretary of agriculture,
has been sounding the praises of the
American hen. He has shown by sta
tisttcs, pictures, reports, omelets, soft
boiled eggs and spring chickens that
the American hen beats the world.
She Is not the possessor of great per-
sonal beauty, she does not aspire to
be butterfly of fashion, but is a very
fine representative of the housewife
type of chicken. If fine feathers made
fine birds she would not be in it. For
the peacock is dazzler and the roos-
ter struts with an air that cannot be
initiated by his more modest compan-
ion who does the housework and
scratches around for the children. But
the hen, by keeping steadily at work
and doing the best she can, has been
enabled to enrich this country by more
good dollars than all the silver mines
OF the west and all the gold of the
klondike. Statistics show that in a
single generation the American hen
lays eggs enough to make the Allan
TIC ocean one vast omelet and fill the
Pacific with scrambled eggs. Placed
on top of one another they would
make a stack 10000 times as tall as
the Washington monument and almost
as high as the price of beef.
All this has been done by the one
egg day hen. But along with the
a1rsh1ps and the 26,000-ton battleships,
the two-egg hen has arrived. No, she
was not produced by Luther Burbank
by grating Leghorn chicken onto a
roe herring. She is just a plain, ordi-
nary hen, who resolved to do her best,
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-12-31

ana which must be worked national
were nen enunced Corporate tariff must
~ ' OA '~ w w.
Grosscup believes only fail
carry out the policies assuming
attitude which making
and ntolerable than before AS
Grosscup says: ~ wv ~
Inc central figure Of this Pe
see in him Lncon blind enough
his leadership But clearly than
that MS had accomplished little in the actual
% the laws to out its more clearly
at MS chiefly that Righteousness
MS uessowhoy selected by left the constructive
'nat
them as great before whom to frame and to whom to
one constructive
purpose of the awakening left be
framed and submitted
~ st proposals in the supposed series Of pro-
That distinctly framed
that nominated Taft submitted by him poned the
the verdict
real revision and nothing verdict
into judgment at the special session of
Whehe the verdict
asdeSea Adch welding
satisfied
speedily
shows the tariff the ocaed
IF experience shows that this the the admn
don has been brokenthen wha
where
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-12-31

INSTITUTION of criminal prosecu-
/ tions against perpetrators of sleep
er trunk" customs frauds with ramifi-
cations in all parts Of the country:
the pressing of existing indictments
to avoid lapses under the statute of
limitations and the customs investiga-
ton generally were discussed at con-
ference at the treasury department re-
Gently. Secretary of the Treasury
MacVeagh, Attorney General Wicker
sham, Collector Loeb of the port Of
New York, and United States District
Attorney Henry A. Wise Of the south
ern district of New York, participated.
The sleeper trunk" frauds, where
by goods are brought into this country
in trunks with false bottoms to de-
ceive the inspectors, stretch to many
parts of the United States, though
passing only through the port OF New
York in the cases about to be prose-
cuted.
Beyond the generalization Of mil
lions of dollars nobody officially can
estimate the amount OF taxes thus
evaded. Most of the violators of law
in this respect are dressmakers. The
government has a good deal Of evil
denc> along this line, and the prose-
cutions for this form Of wholesale dis
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-12-31

ri EW YORK.-Misfortune in the
~ shape Of high-heeled boo: and a
hole in the carpet overwhelmed Mrs.
Edward Patterson just rs she was CO.
ing strong in a chase for a thief from
her home, $50 Fifth avenue, Brooklyn.
In recounting the facts it is neces-
sary to state that Mrs. Patterson
wears No. "a, or thereabouts, and
the heel of a No. ga isn't much broad
er than spike. She did not give a
pardonable thought to her footgear
when she returned from shopping,
but opened the door softly and dis
covered the thief in her bedroom. He
was bending over trunk in which
were the family jewels and consider
able cash. Mrs. Patterson approached
noiselessly-No. 3's properly trod IN
make little conmotion-and threw her
arms around the thiefs neck
He wavered an instant between re-
sistance and a longing to enjoy the
embrace of his fair captor. Decision
came when Mrs. Patterson put on her
emergency brake clutch and the thief
gurgled. He tried to free himself and,
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-12-31

n H1CAGO. The latest product of
u Packingtown is to be tried
out on the literally. It win
be tried on Eskimo dogs at that.
A corps of experts now is scour-
in Greenland from coast to coast to
find the hundred strongest dogs In
that ice.locked region, and it is the ap-
petites of these dogs that Chicago's
food specialists are to cater to.
Capt. Ronald Amundsen Is to take
these 100 powerful CANNES on ship
board in his seven years. cruise for
the far recesses of the Arctic ocean.
and when the explorer left Chicago
yesterday, after conferences covering
many days with the food chemists
at the stockyards. it was learned to-
day. he carried samples Of a new
delicacy to tickle the appetite Of dog
dom, sharpened by the, already famous
arctic cliamte.
i. Reduced to it's elements in the lab.
oratory test tubes, the new dog biscuit
for it looks rather more like bis
cult sthan any other known article g
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-12-31

THE department of agriculture has
1 come along with some good news for
those citizens in southern Indiana who,
when arrested last fall for conducting
blind tigers" set up as defense
that they had become intoxicated from
eating watermelons. The department
has not yet analyzed the Indiana
brand of melons, but it asserts that
there Is Jag" in the Georgia mel
ons.
OF course t. is carefully concealed,
and much care and labor is required
to extract it, but it is there just the
same. The department has proved this
beyond doubt Out of 100 pounds of
watermelons experts in chemistry
made one-tenth Of gallon of alcohol.
They also have convicted the humble
sweet potato of possessing another
spree. Secretary Wilson announced
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-12-31
CITY Items in Terse Form
Metropolitan News of Interest
to All Readers
Men Like Empty Cups, Says Waitress

counter and growl for something to
eat.
They're all like that in the morn
ing. We have to get the scowl out of
their foreheads and brighten them up
for the day. How do we do it? It
isn't so very hard. Look out that their
orders are taken. Hustle up and put
clean silver before their places and
line it up straight. The lineup makes
a lot of difference.
"Then if you get their order around
all right they begin to feel better. I
always study my customers. Now,
there's a man over there, the fat one
in a high collar. He likes his steak
we'll done. The next time he comes I'm
going to see that his steak is just right
the first time.
"Then there are some that want
strong coffee. I just say to myself:
Now that pleasant-looking man there
likes 1t strong, and the next time he
will get it strong without asking for
1t. A lot of bother to remember all
this? Land, no; it's part of the busi-
ness. We get to know them, if they
come regularly enough; it's easy to
remember what they want.
Eyes, if you were in the business
you could tell time just by the express
sion on your customers faces. In
the morning there are the grouches.
Then when they come in on a rush
and want good solid meal that they
can take in about two mouthfuls, and
want it quick, you know it's noon.
They've got into the working harness
and they feel better Then when it's
evening, oh, they're way up. And after
ten o'clock at night they are way,
wav m"
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-12-31

A HEAVILY yelled woman, we'll
~ dressed and with an aristocratic
bearing, rushed into a Washington
bank and up to the window of the re-
ceiving teller. A number of people
were standing in line waiting to de.
posit money. The man nearest the
window held in his hands large roll
Of bills and before him on the marble
counter lay leather bag in which he
carried his gold coin to the bank.
With a swift glance at the teller
and no word of explanation to the
man waiting she made a quick grab
at the bag and turned hurriedly to
leave the building. The man at the
window cried, "Stop!' a policeman
came running to his assistance one
hand clutched at his pistol pocket,
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-12-31
Immense Elms Centuries Old.

Recently the largest tree in Wins.
low township, Jefferson county, was
cut. It was located in the Paradise
settlement. When lying down it was
found that its height when standing
had been 40 feet; spread of limbs,
72 feet; distance to-. the first limb, 36
feet. It was five feet through, seven
feet above the ground. The tree was
an elm. BY the annual rings 1t was
between 800 and 325 years old.-Phil-
a[elphia Record. = -.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-12-31
Newest Dog Food May Conquer Arctic

diet-promises to supply all of the in.
gradients to sustain canine life, The
formula showing the units of fat and
protein has convinced the scientists
that if the success of Capt. Amund-
sens invasion Of the far north de-
pends upon the strength of his dog
teams, Packingtown is ready to make
that success foregone conclusion.
But Capt. Amundsen is wary. A SCI
enlist himself, he knows the limita-
tions Of science. It sometimes hap-
pens that food product will measure
100 per cent. perfect in the laboratory
test, but fail utterly when its useful
ness Is carried to the supreme court
of gastronomics-the stomach.
Hence he will try it on the dog. al.
belt with great hopes. It will be tried
for some months on dogs in Norway.
who will eat no other diet but a Chi
cago biscuit once daily, and IL at tha
end of the period of the test the AMI
mails show the fresh complexions and
frisky dispositions, the daring Nor
wegian will lay in provisions for the
100 Greenland dogs who may Journey
to 80 degrees north.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-12-31

A veteran captain reports the sea
alive with whales between Sandy
Hook and the West Indies. It is a
hint that would have been as good as
a fortune to the Yankee harpoonists
Of other days. But apparently the de.
cay of an industry once great has
been as good as a game law for the
mammals of the deep.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-12-31

A man in Connecticut bet his good
hired girl against an old horse on the
result of the election. He won, but
on learning of the bet the hired girl
did the rest. 1t was not pleasant for
the winner, for good hired girls are
not as easily picked up as' wagefs:
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-12-31

The treasury department at Wash.
ington has given orders that revenue
cutters shall patrol the waters about
certain Hawaiian islands where poach-
ers are ruthlessly destroying tho
birds. This protection is intended to
prevent such indiscriminate slaughter
and to assure the preservation of
birds the value of which is coming to
be more thoroughly appreciated.
This is another form of conservation
that is to be commended.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-12-31

A Partisan dress designer says with.
in twenty years both men and WON.
en- will wear garments that do not
reach below the knees. Twenty years?
J The way cotton is going up we are
looking for something Of that kind
within q short time.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-12-31

King Menelik of Abyssinia is again
said to be improving. He has been
reported dead so frequently that he
must have choice collection of
obituary notices.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-12-31

fear influence
the nation
in
DanVle Ill.,
before going to Chicago
Calhoun named member
until 1900
doctrine
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-12-31

Women may, as the learned DR..
Hills says, own all the property in
1000 years, but many of those now liv-
ing willingly would discount their
share.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-12-31

Airships are almost as brittle as
gingerbread.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-12-31


retain
Mr. Untermy $500 nothing
worked night
his pocket
her life
IN
Recently the judges of New criticised
occasionally loss.
something
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-12-31

It will be almost impossible to coun-
terfeft the new French bank notes,
but we get this information from the
designer, not from the counterfeiters.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-12-31
NEW MINISTER TO CHINA

William J. Calhoun is to be the new minister
to China. The Chicago lawyer at first declined
the post but later reconsidered his determination
and accepted it.
President Taft was ready to appoint Mr. Cal
houn to the federal bench, to the place given
Judge Carpenter, If he would take it, say those
In touch with things at the White House, These
men were not surprised to learn that he was be-
ing pressed to 60 to China. Mr. Calhoun stirred
Chicago political circles as late as November 6,
when addressing the Marquette club members in
the presence of Senator Cummins of Iowa, he
fearlessly defended the insurgents" at Washing
ton. Politicians generally felt that the speech
brought the Chicago lawyer back into the po-
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-12-31

Word comes that New Yorker Is
to be relieved from the stress of pow
erty by an inheritance of 100000. He
is not much of New Yorker.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-12-31

Virtue does not consist in doing
right. but in choosing to do right. This
is the great distinction between the
animal and man.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-12-31

King Manuel of Portugal has gone
to England to get him a wife, If possi-
BILE. s. Joe, Mich, is also recon-
,nended for that purpose.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-12-31

Germany is now viewing with CON-
placency the Monroe doctrine, which
has all along viewed Germany with
imperturbability.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-12-31

Many man is wearing plush hat
who would shudder at the idea of bor-
rowing feather from his wife's top
piece to make it complete.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-12-31

After reading about mental malprac.
tice and treatment for prosperity in
New York We have more charity for
the ancient New Englanders who be-
lieved in Witchcraft.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-12-31

Just at present we have in the
North Dakota the fastest and best
Dreadnought in the world, but some
other nation may get better one next
week.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-12-31

Vienna has an enterprising mar
riage broker who offers to unite bank
rupt European titles to useful Ameri-
can millions. Judging the present by
the past, he can do it.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-12-31

II in 1000 years from now it will be
possible to live 120 years it is to be
hoped that it will be worth while.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-12-31
GREAT LAWYER SAVES WOMAN

When Samuel Untermyer of New York, one
OF the greatest of the country's corporation law
yers. was appointed several weeks ago by JUS
tice Malone of the supreme court of New York
to defend Augusta Crisinti, charged with the MUIR
der OF her husband, the bar amazed and
wondered what he would do with the case.
Mr.. Untermyer had not been connected with
murder case for years. He had not been inside
courtroom in connection with case of such
minor Importance in a long while and necessarily
his friends believed he had forgotten many of the
tricks that make criminal lawyers successful.
But the "doubting Thomases" didn't take into
consideration the kind of they had to deal
with
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-12-31

The Indians never invented any
thing finer than the Indian summer
that bears their name.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-12-31

OF the markets.
children
keep ~
How they
irsprsne4 bearing children! i d
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-12-31

New York society makes a better
appearance at the horse show than in
the divorce court.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-12-31

The auto is said to promote appendi-
citis, but this will not deter those who
can scrape up the price.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-12-31

Honduras has lost it's navy. The
only warship of that country, a tug
boat transformed into an armed cruis-
er, was run into near Puerto Cortez
by fruit steamer and sunk. Thus
the coast of Honduras is defenseless
against foreign aggression But the
Hondurans can go inland and out OF
range if serious danger shall threaten.