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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-12-09
Minister Wonders Where He Is At

self in the safest, sanest and most con-
servative manner. 1t has not been
possible to find a flaw in his comport-
ment or department since he found
himself diplomat without a country.
He does not know whether he is mis-
ter" senior" or "viscount" Possibly
he may be all three, as tae pruning
knife of the Republicans has not yet
Topped of any of his titles.
Senior de Alte has not resigned his
post, for. as he has been perfectly &C.
ceptable to all parties concerned and
as Portugal, republic 0: monarchy,
wants representative in the United
States and has a very good man on the
ground, thoroughly established and
acquainted with the ina and outs, 1t
would be right good diplomacy to
leave him here. The Portuguese min
lister has been consistently "out"
whenever newspaper people have
called upon him. In fact, the policy
Of lying low or sitting tight, just as
you care to put 1t, is the diplomatic
one which Senior de Alte has found to
best fit the situation.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-12-09
Chicago's Clubs for Working Girls

snls pay nve ce1tts an hour. This does
away with washing in the rooms and
may save, If thu girl is clever with
shlrtwaists, whatever her laundry bill
would amount to, minus the nomin,,
laundry fee to the ;:ouse.
There is no dosmitory system a..
though in a few large rooms there
may De three or evea four single beds
Nost or the rooms, however, are for
t*o. and there are number of SINGLE
rooms in every clua. Maids do tho
chamber work and tie general c,oon.
ing, for the housework there is M
cooperation. some girls must he at
their desks or their shops or the;r
counters early. There IS also sow.
>ng machine in every club for the free
Use of the girls.
In these Eleanor CLUBS the ro,nc
women have much of the freedom If
home, perhaps all that would he nos.
sible in so large family. Thew have
the parlors and verandas for receivino
their friends and, so far as noss;h,e
the clubs are ruleless. The household
bills are posted every month II each
club, for, as the girls own money nav
them, it is only fair that they shall
see where and how the money ooe.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-12-09
Women Sweep the Streets of Atlanta

cleaning and sanitary department
turned over hundreds of men and its
teams and wagons to the officers Of
the Federated Women's Clubs.
These women, with the assistance If
aele heutenants, chosen from among
the bellies of the city, directed a -,
hour campaign, which had for its nh.
Ject the cleaning up of odd little cor
ners and out-of-the-way streets which
had not always come in for their fu]]
share of attention under the routine
dispensation of the forces.
Other officers and members =, The
federated clubs, brooms in hand
showed by their Individual examines
how much could be accomplished nv
individual effort, and when the SIM
set it was upon a brighter, cleaner
city.
So effective was the onslaught that
in the first few hours more dirt and
trash was carted of to the CITY dunn
piles than had ever been carried there
within 4S hours before.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-12-09
This Murderer SO Years in One Cell

heat them until they were unconscious,
stuck pins into their tender flesh and
stabbed and jabbed them with knives,
When this boy with the demon heart
was finally run down and forced to
confess he barely escaped lynching.
Only his youth saved him from the
hangman's moose
Pomeroy's letter to the public ir
general and to the governor of Massa-
chusetts In particular is lengthy
document. He cites many reasons why
he believes he should not have been
convicted of murder and concludes
with an appeal to the governor
In his plea he says: Il respectfully
suggest that this prisoner may have
some encouragement in doing we'll. He
is no worse than his neighbors. Kind
ness Is never lost on anyone, and this
prisoner has all his life shown him.
self responsive to kind treatment.
Public feeling against me is respons-
ible for the deeply rooted and persist
ent newspaper Misrepresentation all
these years, and that public feeling
was due to newspaper exaggeration
and notorfety in 1874. OF course II
cannot be denied that. the crime was
dreadful and that public justice re-
quired satisfaction; but the truth is
no effort has been made from that
day to this to better this prisoners
condition "
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-12-09

Under the pure-food laws of the
~ United States it is as much a
fraud ON the public to give an incor-
rect impression regarding the origin
or place of production of an article
for human consumption as it is to give
a wrong impression regarding the
contents, nature Or composition Of
such an article.
Foreign goverL ments have been CO.
operating with tlle government of the
United States to prevent the mis-
branding and 1ucorrect labelling of
food products originating In those
countries. France las ;Aea very &C.
tive IN this respect, and it is now IL
legal In Fra ice to label as cham
pagne any Vine produced outside of
certain we'll Jefned boundaries. A
sparkling wine produced elsewhere
than in the Legally defined champagne
country cannot legally be sold as cham
pagn% even though experts might de-
clare that 1: possessed all the quail
tiles OF win. so grown and even was
superior to them. The same thing
holds as regards cognac, and it is
probable that similar regulations will
be adopted regarding certain popular
brands of cheese and other things
which the public associates with trade
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-12-09
Costly New York Living Apartments

can be found in a private city dwelling
occupying the regulation city lot, and
the number of houses in New York
that occupy more than one lot even in
"Millionaires' Row. do not exceed a
score. The four, principal rooms Of
each apartment-the salon. dining
room, living room and gallery-cover
$500 square feet, and they are so ar
ranged that they can be turned into
practically one immense room for en-
tertaining. Each apartment will have
at least three or four real freplaces
where real logs can be burned; an in
GENERATING plant for the disposal of
garbage; vacuum cleaning system ex-
tended to every room; the latest heat
ing, ventilating and refrigerating sys-
TENS, and both electric and gas ranges.
In the basement there will be, be.
sides the individual laundries for each
apartment, large washing and ironing
rooms equipped with laundry machin-
cry. There will be wine vaults, cold
storage rooms and two large storage
rooms for each apartment as we'll. Two
floors below the ground will be de.
voted to these and the power plant
which will heat and light the building.
In addition there will be machinery to
manufacture ice for use in the kitch-
ems of apartments.
Those who have studied the condi-
lions of Manhattan island, and who
have been most emphatic in predicting
the era of overcrowding, will take this
sumptuous tenement as real sign, Of
that ultimate time when they believe
only business houses and the homes Of
the rich will be left in Manhattan.
Other students of the city life will see
IN this effort sign of that time often
Predicted when all city dwellers will
live in cooperative apartments.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-12-09

WASHINGTON.-The Supreme court
W of the United States has decided
a case which involved the proper
treatment of jurors. Because jurors
had been permitted to separate and
to read newspapers during a trial
the court was asked to set aside the
verdict. The case was a conviction
for murder at military barracks in
the state of Washington, where the
jury had been allowed to be present
while counsel argued about the ad-
mission of alleged confessions as evil
dence. The Supreme court holds.
In an opinion written by Justice
Holmes, that the presence Of the jury
during the argument was not wrong,
and that the members might rightly
read newspapers and need not be kept
together as body.
The decision upsets the common
practise Of trial courts In important
cases, notably those for murder,
jurors are kept under surveillance,
almost as prisoners. In their selec-
ton their intelligence IS questioned
and knowledge of current events
made ground for challenge Then
they are marched I'D and from the
court room after the fashion Of a
chain gang in custody of an officer,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-12-09
High Court Decides Rights of Jurors

forbidden free converse with family
and friends. In theory jurors are
ministers of justice. part of the
court. They are chosen as honest
men from the worthy citizens, and
they serve not as suspects, but as
honorable officials. They lose no priv
ileges as members of the community
when they are called to assist the
Judge by rendering a verdict Expert
ence shows the need of guarding
jurors from tampering and sinister
approach, but this must be done with
out sacrificing their liberty. That
rural juror had much sense on his
side when he asked: IF we can't
read the papers and must be kept to-
gether incommunicado' why should
not the Judge be treated in the same
way?"
The tribunal of final resort decides
that jurors do not cease to be free
citizens and do not leave their con-
sciences at home when they enter the
box. If they are fit for their duties
at all they can be trusted to read pa
pers and listen to lawyers and they
need not be herded all the while in a
mass while case is on.
The Supreme court thus gives its
influence in favor of proper privileges
and courteous treatment to the picked
men who are summoned to help hold
steady the scales Of justice
Often jury service is irksome and II
cannot be wise to add to it's hardships
beyond what is necessary. The sys-
TEN is vital part of the defenses of
society and of property.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-12-09

ID OSTON.-Bent and marked with
II prison palor, Jease H. Pomeroy,
serving life sentence in Charlestown
Mass, has written HIS own story of his
crime and his efforts. to better his con-
ditions shut away from the freedom Of
the world. He is nyw so years Of age
and was convicted uf double murder
when he was only fourteen years of
age. All these yea5s have been spent
in solitary confinement and the pris-
oner declares he has never felt a
touch Of human sympathy or kindness
and no effort has ever been made to
better his condis Jon. Il have no
friends" he writ.s. II cannot get a
hearing from tie governor. l have
been left 20 my cwn devices in my cell
all these years.
Pomeroy kill&d two children, a boy
and a girl, after treating them with
barbaric cruelty. He inveigled other
small children into isolated sections,
stripped them of their clothing, tied
them to trees Or upon boards and then
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-12-09
Foreigners Help Enforce Food Laws

names. Olive oil labeled Lucca has
been found by the pure-food inspec-
tors coming from Greece and from
Spain and from other places aside
from Lucca itself
The government is now taking up
the question Of requiring the numer-
Gus varieties Of coffee imported into
this country to be honestly labeled.
A recent meeting of the pure-food
board was held for the purpose Of
taking testimony regarding the label
ing of Brazilian coffee. After hear
ing testimony from experts present
showing that the practise has grown
up of labelling coffee with the name
of the port whence it is shipped re-
CARELESS of the place of origin, Doctor
Wiley stated that an effort would be
made to reform this practise, which
the importers admitted to be wrong,
and that the matter would be proper
ly taken up in due form with the
government Of Brazil through the
state department, to the end that the
Brazilian coffees, which form by far
the greater part of the coffee used in
the United States. should be sold
under their proper designation.
Prominent importers from New
York testified that Brazilian coffee
had been shipped to Arabia in order
that it might be reimported from
Alden as Mocha coffee, and they said
that the practise was still in force, al
though, as DR.. Wiley remarked, the
dealers did not always go to the trou-
BILE Of shipping coffee to Arabia for re-
export before branding it as fine Ara
bian coffee
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-12-09

THICAGO.-In Chicago there are
~ what are cal1cu Eleanor clubs,
where girls of all so.ts and conditions
find homes. Among. them are of1i:e
clerks of all descriptions, telephone
operators. milliners, 2ookkeepers, fe-
partment store and otl.er clerks, mucic
and art students. These latter are
encouraged to live, a few at every
club, since it helps the clubs and le
club girls in general
At these clubs the wee:.ly board rate
pays for two meals, breakfast and din
ner. If a girl wishes t. take her
lunch with her she pays fise cents for
three sandwiches and either fruit or
cake, for which downtown she would
pay about fifteen cents. Thtre is the
laundry also, which saves m.lney for
the girls. For it's use, with tubs, hot
water, irons, starch and bluing, the
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-12-09

ILOW many government officials are
II honest and what it Is worth to in.
sure their honesty are questions that
Will be answered on a scientific basis
shortly Experts in the service Of the
congress have passed much time re-
Gently attempting to reduce the an
swers to few concrete figures. Their
work is safe to be drawing to close
1t will cost about $4,000.
The question arose in reference to
the bonding of governmental officials.
About year ago several officials ap-
pealed to congress to raise their sal
aries because the bonding companies
had Increased the cost of their bonds
to such an extent it made their sal
aries look like withered autumn
leaves. For instance, one mans prede-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-12-09
NJ HEN the frol!icky little monarch
" of portuoal h.f tn fec before the

NJ HEN the frolucky little monarch
w of Portugal had to fee before the
uprising insurgents he left one OF his
most loyal subjects In Washington up
in the air, and he has been wondering
since where he is at. Senior de Alte,
known as Viscount de Ate, Is, or was.
the regularly accredited minister to
Washington from Portugal. He is a
gentleman as we'll as a diplomat. one
not always following the other, unfor-
tunately, and has been very we'll liked,
indeed, in Washington, but he would
give something pretty right now to
know whether he is diplomat or just
a plain gentleman of leisure.
Since fat little Manuel was deposed
Viscount de Alte has comported him
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-12-09

A TLANTA, Ga.-Atlanta's society
"A leaders and club women put on
white aprons one day recently and
armed themselves with brooms to lead
militant crusade against dirt in the
city's streets and back yards They
raised a prodigious dust, and found
the experience no less interesting and
no more strenuous than their accus-
toned bridge parties or dances. Incl
dentally, they accomplished a real
good, for they obtained the assistance
of five or six thousand housewives,
each of whom agreed in advance to
set apart the day for general clean
ing of their respective premises.
For this one day the municipal street
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-12-09
Whv He Didn't.

PA, son writes for enough money
to come home on"
AN if it wasn't fer one thing. I'd
send it to him, b'gosh!"
AN what's that, pa?"
It'd be just like him to take it an
come home"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-12-09

A Chicago professor has discovered
that women gossip because gossiping
gives a pleasing shock to their vase.
motor systems. Having discovered so
much, it ought to be possible to dis.
cover substitute and thus save
many innocent regulations.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-12-09

With 5000 inventors at work per-
fecting the aeroplane it might be ex-
pected to solve all the difficulties of
aerial travel shortly. But when we
remember how many have been at
work on perpetual motion we are not
so hopeful.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-12-09

Conspuez the Coune.
Geraldine Farrar says: "Gut unon
counts!"
And hands them jar and a slam.
By telling the world: You can taka
it from me
That a count never is worth n mn
ment of any girls tina.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-12-09

Somehow, we find it almost impossi-
BILE to get rid of the feeling that the
man who married the lady who was
attended by three dogs as bridesmaids
ought to be sympathized with even if
be did go into it with his eyes open.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-12-09

A dirigible balloon that recently
travelled from France to London with
seven passengers has been bought by
the British government. Englishmen
agree that a craft with such interest
ing possibilities calls for full inspec-
ton. '
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-12-09

SKINNED the water ased the into the aviator
five miles five
which
Albany New York fitted
of $500 by
his
all his flights
Mrs Ely
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-12-09

Harvard professor declares that
the late and loveless marriages are re-
sponsible for the disappearance of real
Yankee blood. Most persons Lave
thought this was due to the Wholesale
importation of other blood
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-12-09

A Los Angeles woman used a stick
of dynamite on her washboard, sup.
posing it to be soap. The fact that
there was no explosion indicates that
the wretched makers of dynamite are
adulterating it. Can't we have any,
thing pure any more?
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-12-09
He Wanted It Safe.

Townley-Your' friend, the old sea
captain, seemed to be little tim1d
about going in your auto?
Wimstrong-Yes; the fact is, he alb
solutely refused to go at all until !
had the machine equipped With an
anchor and q compass.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-12-09

Every little while somebody wins
the worlds championship at typewrit-
ing, but for some reason champion
typewriters never get splendid offers
to 60 on the stage.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-12-09

MEMBER
she president OF the Womens
Of the Nineteenth
member the Chicago Womn
the chicago Chapter of the Daughters
ner family she has brought
delightful
scholarly
in civic history her
dshes off argument swiftly
Mrs Trout is with
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-12-09

Another aviator has broken the
high-fliyht record for acroplane3. 1t
happens even more frequently than
the launching of the largest ship or
the death of the oldest Mason.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-12-09

Horace Fletcher says that if che is
to get his moneys worth out of a
glass of milk he should chew ii. 1t
might be asked what kind of milk
Horace is in the habit Of eating.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-12-09

Aeroplaning to Europe is the latest
upon the aviator's schedule. 1t would
be we'll to put off the attempt till
after Winter-say about fytime.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-12-09

Thirty-fOur aviatOrs have met with
Still, some of them might have
stepped on rusty nails if they had re-
manned on the ground.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-12-09

Somebody says that the way to
lem is to manufacture hydrogen gas
en- route If he had only said hot air,
now, it would be simple.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-12-09

According to statistics there are
100000 telephone stations in the
world, and yet somehow or other you
can't always get the one you want
when you want it.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-12-09

The population of the Philippines
has decreased Is per cent. since We
took them over. Does race suicide
also follow the flag?
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-12-09

Dirigibla balloons are dirigible
only when they move with the wind.
They cannot buck the wind as a real
man-bird does.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-12-09

A New York judge has decided that
Nevada divorces are no good. Just
like New Notwithstanding
things because they're inexpensive!
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-12-09
LEADING SUFFRAGE CHAMPION

Mrs. Grace Wilbur Trout, president of the
Chicago Political Equality league, was born and
educated in MaQuoketa Iowa. Discerning early
that certain qualities Of voice and mind espe.
clally fitted her for platform speaking she spe.
cialized in that line Of study. That she might
not be spoiled by instruction, her work was al
ways carefully superintendent by a highly cul-
tured and wise mother, who believed that the
highest art is to be natural. Her father, law
YER drilled her on conciseness of expression and
often said. when you talk-say something"
Instead of entering the profession for which
she had been prepared she married George W.
Trout and few years later they moved to
Chicago. She was at one time president of the
LA of he Achla
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-12-09

The man who never sees a 500 bill
has no reason to worry because of
that very dangerous counterfeit which
the Washington authorities say Is in
circulation.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-12-09

Pockets in women's skirts are COM
Ing back, says an exchange, if ever
they can find the place where they
used to be-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-12-09

That fringe Of puppy dogs at New
York wedding has become almost as
famous as the monkeys that dine with
1.-The 400' at Newport
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-12-09
DID NOTABLE AVIATION FEAT

To Eugene Ely, the aviator, belongs the,
honor of making the first successful flight from
the deck of naval vessel to land in an aero
plane. The feat accomplished from the deck
OF the scout cruiser Birmingham which was
anchored in Hampton Roads, off Old Point Com
fort. When Ely climbed into his machine he
faced biting wind driving cold rain and occa
sional furries of hail. The bluejackets who
were holding the machine on the launching
platform were ordered to let go, and the biplane
glided gracefully downward until the wheels
and propeller touched the water about 100 feet
ahead OF the Birmingham. Every spectator
breathed hard for moment when it looked as
though the machine would not be able to arise
from the water, but Ely sent it upward by skill
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-12-09

Canada levied no duty on the bal
looms that started from St. Louis and
went northward across the border
It did not know how to do it.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-12-09

The statement is made by Swiss
doctor that drunkards live longer than
total abstainers. But even if they do,
what's the use?