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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-04-09

THROUGH syeceasives inheritauces
i Miss Olga Roosevelt, only daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Robert B. Roose-
welt Of 116. East Fifty-f1fth street, be.
comes, one Of the youthful heiresses Of
the town. Although only II years old,
Miss Roosevelt is nearly million
airess in her. own right, not to count
possible future inheritances.
Through the will of her maternal
grandmother, the late Mrs. Stephen
s: Cummins, the young woman re-
ceived an additional 100000, the in
come to be hers now and the prin.
cipal when she becomes of age.
The numerous marriages of the
Roosevelt and Woodhouse families
make an intricate genealogy. Robert
B. Roosevelt, the elder, who died a
few years ago after most active life
in New York public affairs, was twice
married. Likewise his youngest son,
the present Robert B. Roosevelt.
The first wife of the latter Mr..
Roosevelt was Grace Woodhouse, only
child of the late Lorenzo G. Wood
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-04-09
Olga Roosevelt a Youthful Heiress

house. Mrs. Woedhouse married Mr..
Cummins for her second husband, who
survives her.
It was from the Woodhouse estate
that Miss Olga Roosevelt has re-
ceived her largest bequests. In the
will of her grandfather was legacy
of $250,000. Her mother left an estate
which has increased considerably in
value and is now estimated at more
than quarter of million dollars.
Mr. Roosevelt applied to the courts
several years ago to determine the
amount of annual income to be paid
his daughter out of the estate, and
$4,000 year was decreed.
The income from this latest bequest
Of the grandmother, Mrs. Cummins,
adds another $4,000 a year in income.
1t is estimated that the three be-
quests, all held in trust for the young
woman until she becomes e., are
yielding her at least $4,000 a year.
When the principal is turned over to
her it will probably amount to
100000.
All this sum comes through her
mothers family. The Roosevelt fam.
lily is very well-to-do, and as an only
child additional inheritances doubtless
will be hers. Mr.. Roosevelt is q
cousin of the ex.president. He mar
ried Miss Hamersly half a dozen
years ago for his second wife. They
have no children.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-04-09

WASH1NGTON.-The leaders in the
w 1nsurgent movement against the
rules Of the house Of representatives
must have been desperately in need Of
recruits when they tackled Represen-
tat1ve Walter Brownlow of Tennessee
and tried to make him q. convert to
their way of thinking
The committee explained its mission,
Mr. Brownlow listening ,courteously
the while. Finally, when the explana-
lions had all been made and the three
members Of the committee were com.
pletely out of arguments and breath,
Mr. Brownlow spoke for the first time.
You say" quoth he... that this is a
movement to reform and liberalize the
rules of the house of representa-
tives?" 49, IL,
1T u.s." the committee agreed. with
unanimity and eagerness.
well, them" said Mr.. Brownlow;
you can't expect me to take much in
terest in this fight, for I have never
read them. don't know what they are,
except that they're blamed good rules
and no mistake. II you know any men,
Der OF congress who's got more for his
district since he's been in congress
than l have why just you trot him
around. Id like to look him over"
I: Whereupon the insurgent committee
returned to headquarters and reported
to their big chief that Mr.. Brownlow
was hopeless" Mr.. Brownlow's state
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-04-09
Enormous Increase in LEGISLATION

last decade the increase has been as
tonishing.
During the first and second ses-
sions of the F1fty-fifth congress 1,473
bills were passed by the house and
senate and 'messaged' to the president.
In the third session of the same con-
gress ga measures were enacted into
laws. In the Fffty-sixth congress, 1862
measures were passed; in the Fifty
seventh. 2,7S1; in the Fffty-eighth, L.
041;@ in the Nfty-ninth, 6,940, and IN
the sixtteth, the congress which
ended on March 4, the number of bills
enacted into law reached the great
total Of 9,711."
Col. Palmer, who prepared and car
ried to the White House all of these
bills, not one of which was ever lost
or mfslafd,, was appointed to the COM
mittee on enrolled bills of the senate
13 years ago from New Jersey by the
late Senator Sewell. Col. Palmer pre-
diets that the number Of measures
passed by the present congress will
exceed those of any preceding con-
greeS.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-04-09

WHEN the magazines were publish.
W ing learned theoretical disserta.
tions on how to make home happy and
keep a servant, some ten years or
more ago, the German women of New
York city began to work out the
theories in actual practice. Some five
hundred of them joined in the German
Housewives association located in
East F1fty-ninth street, New York
city.
The Housewives club undertook to
adapt the European customs of serv.
ice to American needs, and took up
regular quarters to work out their
theories. From the beginning they
tried the German system of premiums
for length of service. Twenty dol.
lars bounty was offered any maid at
the end of two years consecutive
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-04-09
Crowds Go to Natural History Mus,ee1,1i

oped are in particular the Children's
museum the Museum for the Blind,
the Philippine exhibition and the
Congo exhibition presented by King
leopold of Belgium. The last is the
most complete. collection outside Of
that which is to be seen in the Congo
museum near Brussels. AS result Of
the tuberculosis exhibition immediate
steps will be taken to make a special
exhibition of the, life and habits Of
the smaller organisms in relation TO
health and disease. :
During the year 1908 and at the
present time the, museums explora-
tions extend to the Mackenzie, river
and the shores of Beaufort sea, to
Alaska, Vancouver, Alberta and Sas.
katchewan, the west coast Of Hudson
bay and western Labrador; In tho
United States parties have been
spread in Wyoming, Montana, Idaho,
North Dakota, Nebraska, Colorado and
Florida, also in Central America and
in the south of Nicaragua, the West
Indies and Bahama islands; in, Asia
special agents are working in Kash-
mir, China and Korea; among the
islands of the Pacific the museum IL
working in the Philippines, the Solo,
mon islands, Tahiti, New Zealand, tho
South Shetland islands and Kerguelen
island
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-04-09

Wealthy, Englishmen have provided
the funds necessary to open a radium
institute in London, where for a long
time the London hospital has been
devoting especial attention to the
treatment of disease by radium.
Striking results have been attained,
and although Sir Frederick Treves,
the famous surgeon, begged his med
1cal friends to be cautious as to the
way they spoke of permanent cures"
he recently declared that many affec-
lions Of the skin, including BIRTH
marks, together with tumors, cancers
and certain types of ulcers, have been
removed by radium, land have not re-
turned" The remedy is applied from
a fiat surface. One of the Instruments
In use, which is about as large as a
postage-stamp, and contains 80 MILL
grams-about one and one-third grains
-of radium, cost eighteen hundred
dollars-a statsment that throws an
interesting light on the commercial
value Of this extraordinary substance.
Happily, 1t is added that the new insti-
tute, which is designed for 19tb: cura-
tive and research purposes, will treat
the poor as well as the rich, and the
needy will not have to pay.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-04-09
THE White House tennis court is
j doomed.

THE White House tennis court is
! doomed.
President Taft, who does not care
anything about tennis anyhow, has
told the men who are to add to the
executive building that he will not
stand for two-story structure, but
that II more room is needed in the
building 1t can be spread out to the
south. To the south is the famous
spot where Mr.. Roosevelt battled with
his tennis cabinet.
The architect who designed the Of
flee building, Mr.. McKim of New York,
made 1t Is inconspicuous as possible,
that 1t might not interfere with the
White House proper. Congress, how.
ever, added $4,000 to the cost of the
ONCE building that its foundations and
walls might be made strong enough
to bear the weight of another story,
or several Of them If necessary, in the
future. Now the congress has appro.
priated so, 700 to add to the capacity
of the executive Offices.
Mr.. TAFT, remembering the points
made by architects In the past, a.
though not of an esthetic nature him.
.self. has sacrificed the tennis court
aud ordered an extension on the
ground. hoor. ,.* :"
The "undesirables" are stu return
Ing to the White house. Rough Riders
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-04-09
Servant Bounty Plan Fails in Practice

service. The club opened an employ.
ment agency, where applicants might
register free Of charge and get a
chance in the household of some club
member.
That was ten years ago, and now
the secretary is quite willing to
acknowledge that the German system
will not "go" in this country. Pre-
miums have been paid regularly, and
although one faithful soul receives the
amount now multiplied by five, and
some few others have three or four
years to their credit, still it cannot
be said that the 500 housewives who
are members have been supplied with
uninterrupted service.
The secretary believes that there is
something in the air here that soon
renders the recent immigrant from
Grmany fractions and bumptious,
and so independent" Here the secre.
tary wrung her hands. They also
gave the girls a "kaffeklatsch" at
times. But to no effect.
Now the German housewives are
looking for a new scheme to secure
domestic peace and quiet for the club
members,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-04-09
The Enterprise En- !: Err Il: s :: :,
w. E. HXNNAFoRD, Pub. )
VIRGINIA. MINNESOTA.
~ - - - -
Medal we'll BESTOWED.

"eoaS "9D '9ootOWSo. .
Among the last acts 1oof congress was
the voting of a medal Of honor to Miss
Helen I. Mccain of New York for her
heroism- in the General .alocpm disas-
ter Of June Is, 1904. when she. saved
nine children from a terrible DEATH
Medals' OF honor are thus granted more
commonly TO men, and TN most cases
TOR conspicuous gallantry on the field
of battle. There: lis an organization
called the Medal Of Honor Legion, and
it is composed Of officers and enlisted
men Of the army and navy of the UNI
ted States who have been decorated in
the manner indicated. At the present
time the legion has more than $50
members. The comforting of these
medals was authorized by resolution
adopted by congress in 1862, in the
early part Of the civil war. The list Of
medal of honor men is given q con,
spicuous place in, the official Army
Register. The granting Of a similar
medal to Miss McGann is recognition
OF bravery quite as commendable as
that of soldiers and sailors in action.
She worked fearlessly, herself in immi-
nent peril, in rescuing others. What
deed of valor could surpass that in
merit?
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-04-09

LEGISLATION by congress has in
Il creased almost incredibly during
the last decade. Thousands of meas
ures are introduced at every session,
but the number enacted into laws or
dinarily is comparatively insignificant.
The development of the country's re-
sources and the increased demands Of
the people are indicated, however, by
the immense increase in the number of
laws passed.
This increase" said COL w. M. Pal
mel, In charge of the enrolled bills Of
the senate, has beer particularly nota-
Bile during the last ten years. Prior to
that time there was little variation in
the number of measures enacted into
law by successive congresses. In the
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-04-09
: SNUB inflicted years ago upon a

A SNUB inflicted years ago upon an
IA American couple who were spend
ing their honeymoon abroad has been
paid for at last: Slight as the affair
seemed at the moment, it has devel-
oped enough importance to lose Henry
White, ambassador at Paris, his post
In spite of his long experience in vari-
GUS important capitals of Europe and
his other claims to notice. The resig-
nation of Ambassador White has been
received at the White House and it
was accepted In the usual stereotyped
fashion.
It was back in 1886 that William
Howard Taft and his bride, a pair of
comparatively unimportant but blissful
Newlyweds, were doing their honey
moon in Europe. In the course of their
rainbow rambles they came to Vienna.
where Diplomat White was then secre
tary of legation. There was some af-
ternoon function of the unimportant
sort coming of within a day or SO,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-04-09
The Fate Of the Fancy Set.

James, aged seven, was promoted q
few weeks ago. In recognition Of this
great event his father purchased for
him the following things that James
insisted were necessary:
A box of one dozen pencils, assorted
leads; one ink and one pencil eraser;
one pencil box with a marvellous roll
top; three copy books for home work,
two penholders, a patent strap that
was marvel of ingenuity, but some.
how or other didn't seem to hold the
books very firmly. /: 1.r IT,.
- The father examined the outfit 4
few days ago and found that It con.
tained: -"
One much-chewed lead pencil. fur.
nished by the city; a scribbling pad
with few sheets on It; a tin fountain
pen that did not work and never could
have worked, and a skate strap to hold
the things together. ..-,
The father asked no questions. He
instinctively knew what had become
Of the fancy implements of education
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-04-09
Rulers Of the World.

Apropos of the birthday Of the
kaiser, Paris contemporary com.
piles the ages of the principal rulers.
Among those who have passed so
years of age We find the following:
Francis Joseph, 70 years; Leopold H.,
"a; Charles Of Roumania, 70; Edward
VII, 81; Frederick WILL, Sc; Abdul
Hamid and Menelik, IS: George l. Of
Greece, 65, and Gustav v. 81 years.
In the list of, those who have not
reached. SO years are: Ferdinand Of
Bulgaria, 4s years; Victor Emmanuel
H. and, Nicholas H., 10: Haakon VII
and Mahomet ,Ali-Mirza, shah of Per
sia, 81; Mulai Hafid, SO; the khedtve
Of Egypt, IS: the queen Of Holland,
8: Alphonse XIII, %, and Manuel
II. Of Portugal, 20.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-04-09

ing the malls relenty
Kansas is is
biggest kind
busers o
was Murdock who first made the late Congressman Jerry Simpson
world a
antpathy that guest
until
years Murdoch
He the Republican
Justly
Victor represents the old district Long elected
Victor
Long paid the penalty with his political
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-04-09

work began to increase. Like the OK.
tension Of hours, it did not come all at
once, but here and there in different
mills, the hour for beginning opera.
tons was pushed backward.
A few years ago one Of the last
mills to adopt Sunday night work in
duced the men to come out ON account
OF being behind in their orders Once
established in this way the custom has
continued and in this plant men are
discharged il they refuse to work on
Sunday evenings. Beginning as q "a.
vor, It Is now a; fixed :, policy, and
competitive conditions tend to hold Il
% such.-Charities and the Commons,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-04-09
Sunday Work. IN the Steel Mills.

Sunday Work In the Steel Mills.
Another tendency In all of the Pitts
burg steel mills In the last Is years
is the extension of Sunday work. Blast
furnaces, with few minor exceptions,
have always been operated seven days
in the week in this country, but be-
fore the elimination of unionism the
rolling mills used to be Tide from Sat
urday evening until Monday morning
Of each week. The union stoutly OPP
posed all Sunday work and succeeded
IN reducing 1t t. = minimum in. Ill
plants where It had influence. With
the decline in union strength Sunday
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-04-09
Tackled tie Wrong Man in Tennesseean
va *ss; vnt

ment about having done more for his
district probably than any other man
in the house is no joke and he wasn't
Dragging when he said it. His capacity
for making congress take care of his
constituents is a proverb in Tennessee.
He isn't a man who gets up on the
moor of the house every day or so and
tears off about eight yards Of purple
and gold oratory. Neither does he in
troduce a bill a minute and wander
round the capitol waving them in the
air and demanding that he. be recog-
nized, at once Tor all Of them.
No, he doesn't DO these things, but
as committee woskerthe'is In class
by himself. Why, it has come to be a.
saying around the. capitol that every,
time Walter BroWnleM discovers = neg
lected graveyard TN his district he i'm
mediately imbues it with historic in
terest and proceeds to give it to a
grateful federal government absolute
~ free, gentlemen, absolutely free"
The said grateful government wakes
up the following fiscal year to find
that it is saddled with the expenses Of
that, particular graveyard for the rest
Of time and while the face of the
earth shall endure
Until recently the members Of the
house appropriations committee were
very much worried about this grave
yard gift business and one Of them led
Mr. Brownlow aside and told him the
government didn't need any more Ten
nessee burying grounds in its busi-
ness-had no use for them-couldn't
consider them even as present. They
all felt better when they learned there
weren't any more. For he had made,
personally, a census of them all. Mr..
Brownlow told them SO himself, and he
ought to know.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-04-09


Chicago
golfer
when President his cabinet
tennis cabinet will
member University club the Chicago Athletic
appointment
President
emined the construction of important legislative
the Philippine tariff other
lam ind the commodity
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-04-09

The new woman in China, instead Of
following the example Of her English
and American sisters in railing against
the tyranny Of men, has revolted
against her relations.in.law. One Of
the women's clubs in Shanghai pro-
claims a. its object rebellion against
mothers-in-law."
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-04-09
Woman in Charge of Wireless Station

ice. She has altered the lines of tho
coat, giving it a feminine cut while
preserving it's strictly service appear
ance. The cap also has been slightly
altered, giving it smarter look, and
it also differs from the regular cap of
the company in that It is held in
place by hatpin. Miss Nevins is an
expert in wireless Instruments, and
was selected for the post partly by
reason of her practical knowledge Of
the system she operates.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-04-09

President Taft went into Office with
the record Of the worlds greatest ttav-
eler. A tabulated statement of the
distance he has Travelled since 1900
fixes the total at more than ,202, 900
miles. These travels have not been
Tor pleasure or curiosity. In every
case they have been in the public in
terest, and they have also served to
make Mr.. Taft a familiar personality
In foreign lands, and help to explain
his popularity abroad and the strong
confidence felt in his capacity to
strengthen international amity.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-04-09
To Build on Noted Tennis Court Ground

nave disappeared from the landscape.
negroes no longer have a chance to
hold Office in the south, automobiles
have displaced horses and the tennis
court is to be obliterated.
Residents of Washington are asking
what has become of the Roosevelt
policies.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-04-09

daughter of prominent
Of praised writer America
took
a and a
relatives to him declared
of that
to
lin
aloner
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-04-09
IN. t.: THE /! II E EIMELIGHT
HOUSE INSUFFICIENT LEADER:~>

Congressman Victor Muydock, the reed.head!
ed, Kansan who led the ,insu1rgent forces III the
war against Cannonis4 in the organization OF
the present house. is a Wichita newspaper NAH
and in all respects one of the lvest wires in con-
gress. He lays his first election to his blazing
locks Tdlch he says drew him the support Of
every redhaired man in the Seventh district re-
gardless OF party or previous condition of servi-
tude.
the side Of Speaker Cannon, Murdoch has done
good many things that earned him unpopu-
larity with the influences at Washington He
put up war on the mail-carrying plunderbund
among the railroads. which finally resulted in
lessening the expense to Uncle Sam of transDort.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-04-09

John Armstrong Chaloner, or Chanler, as he
was until he took legal steps to change his name
year ago, maintains his occupation for striking
and sensational originality. His very latest ad-
vent into the limelight was by way of the fatal
shooting Of brutal husband who had beaten
his wife and was trying to kill her in the parlor
of Chaloner's Virginia home. The coroner's jury
promptly exonerated Chaloner, who will not be
prosecuted.
1t is not generally known-or it has been
generally forgotten-that Chaloner was the hero
of the erotic and quite remarkable novel which
made his former wife, the strikingly beautiful
and brilliant Ameie Rives now the Princess
Pierre Troubetskoy. famous in a month 1.-THE
Ouck or the Dead" suddenly transformed Mics
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-04-09

Friends and admirers Of the Ameri-
can Indian will be glad to know that
the Carlisle school is making a system
attic effort to foster and develop native
Indian art, as manifested in drawing,
decoration, s1lverwork and basket and
blanket design. The head OF, the de-
partment is an indian woman tofS great
cultivation and ample education,
trained in the best schools Of the east.
Two of the most promising pupils have
received scholarships, which enable
them to study at the School of Indus
trial Art in Philadelphia. The effort
at Carlisle is not to graft the art of
the white man upon that of the Indian,
but to preserve the primitive art ma
tive to the red mal-an art that. was
simple. sincere and direct, and had
other admirable qualities.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-04-09
Not 70 Her KNOWLEDGE.

"Your husband is travelling man,
isn't he, same as miner
Yes; he's travelling pretty much all
the time"
"Gets regular salary, I suppose?"
YES"
80 does mine; but when he has 4
good trip no gets something az com
mission besides. Does yours!''
Not 70 far - I know. He Z ratl-
road conductor"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-04-09

Two suhrragettes mailed themselves
to Premier Asquith, in London, the
other day and were refused. But the
postal authorities were kind enough
not to send them to the dead letter
ONCE.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-04-09

The japanese government 10 wagina
Q successful war on rats by paying for
every dead one, brought in and giving
each rat slayer ticket to q lottery
with valuable pri1es.