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The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1910-05-12

Ihe Charleston Courier says there
is Is iikely TO be trouble in regard to
the shooting Of blackbirds in that
town, as soon as the authorities take
hoid OF the matter. Hundreds haye
oeen Killed within the past few
weeks.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1910-05-12

Charleston is busy organizing a
chapter of the American Womens
League, and nine members were al.
ready secured.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1910-05-12

Glover, timothy, red top and blue
grass seed at Klein's.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1910-05-12

Baby chick feed-it saves the it.
tie chicks-at Klein's.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-05-20

TH1CAGO.-There is at least enc po-
~ liceman in Chicago who is abso-
lutely on the square In fact, he is
so honest that an attempt to present
him with part of the proceeds from
net job of 'frisking" startled him,
and he simply gasped for breath The
doctors say his heart may have been
injured by the shock
The policeman is Honest Pat"
Duggan of the Desplaines street sta
ton. Duggan was standing at South
Jefferson and West Madison street
talking to Henry Habalt, an old friend
of the honest copper.
Knute Gabrelson, a friend of Hahalt,
but evidently stranger to Dugaan,
approached and joined in the CONVEX
satton. Now, even If Pat is honest,
his eyesight might be a little bad.
At least he did not see Gabrelson OK
tract $50 from Habalt's pocket while
directing the latter's attention to a
pretty girl in a window across the
street.
AS Habalt walked away Gabrelson
approached Duggan with perfect con.
fdence and flashed the $50 before his
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-05-20

ct rs up to you," said the suffragists
1 to congress, and it took so auto
mobiles and ton of paper to carry
the message to the capitol. Those who
expected to see a suffragette demon
stration, as often occurs in the halls
Of the English houses of parliament,
were disappointed.
With banners afloat and finery aflut-
ter, in procession of taxicabs nearly
mile long, the suffragists moved on
Capitol hill and presented to congress
100000 individual demands for votes
for women. The mammoth national
petition was divided into little ones,
each nicely tied with a bit of yellow
ribbon and grouped into little bundles
of just the convenient size for a suf-
fragette to carry under her arm.
Senators and representatives from
every state received some part of that
petition.
Some of the Iowa delegation were
frightened when they heard some
members of the house had refused to
present the petition. They sent for
Senator Dolliver.
Il would advise those members to
take day of and study the Constitu-
ton of the United States" declared
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-05-20
Biscuits Not Harmful, Saws Wilson

from the little brown loaves as they
come hot from the oven. We mind
the time. indeed, when they went very
well with maple SYRUP.
There has always been a suspicion
that Doctor Wiley, who, Cannon has
complained, wants a man to know
just what he is putting into his stom.
ach when he goes to take a drink
doesn't live up to his pure food no.
tions: And now it comes out that
Wiley takes his luncheon at a restau
rant known as "The Dirty Spoon" I'VE
never have eaten there, so that we
can't tell about the usual condition
of the pewter ware; but it is a fact
that the other noon Wiley was seer
In this restaurant munching a ham
sandwich, washing it down with large
gulps. of coffee. An accused preacher
once said: Don't do as I do, do AZ /
tell you" Hence the practises Of
Wiley probably have nothing to do
one way or the other. with where he
eats or what.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-05-20
Thief's Arrest Reveals Honest "Cop"

eyes.
Gee, but that was dead easy. Say,
l feel like I had grabbed baby's bot
tie. That guy is so green that he will
loose his balance if he loafs around
here long.
And you ought to see the roll. l
bet he's got 200 beans in his inside
pocket, which won't worry him by
night. Here, you take $25 CT this and
when I get the roll will split Have
a drink
When Gabrelson began to talk the
policeman smiled a wise smile and
tWirled his club as he assumed a
pose. OF course the fellow was only
fooling. He wouldn't dare tell po.
liceman anything like that.
But as the fellow proceeded with
his line of talk something began to
loosen up in Duggan's head and he
turned pale. Then he gasped and
finally grasped beer sign for support.
BY the time Gabrelson had finished
the policeman had recovered enough
to connect Gabrelson's head with a
night stick and call patrol wagon.
In his cell Grabelson could realize
that he was not dreaming.
Can you beat it?' he asked. "And
that guy had on a uniform just like
any other copper. Say, 1 wonder how
he got on this beat. I'll bet he didn't
mean it. Probably a little dippy. He
must have lost something from his
dome. They ought to have that guys
picture taken"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-05-20

NHICAGO.-Even policemen are hui
~ man, although they do not always
show it. If anything can bring out
their human qualities it seems that a
lot of fair but sometimes recalcitrant
"co-eds" would. This is why some one
has advanced the theory-just theory,
mind you-that some of the girls at
Willard hall, the girls dormitory at
Northwestern university, have so
placed themselves in the good graces
of the night policeman stationed at
the door that they may come in lit
tie late and not be reported.
The theory came to the notice Of
Miss Mary Ross Potter. dean of wom-
en-, and she lectured the girls collec-
lively and some individually about the
rule that they must be in by 10 p. M,
unless having special permission
otherwise. She also has enforced
more strictly the rule governing young
men callers.
Each night when the young women
leave the hall they are required to
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-05-20
Night Waterman wv orked" by "Coeds''

register their names in a book with
the maid. When ten o'clock comes
the maid writes in smaller book the
names of those not yet in and hands
it to the policeman. He, Frank
Kruger, is supposed to check off the
tardy ones.
Nobody, so far as is known, has
charged Officer Kruger with neglect
Of duty, but it is known that some of
the girls have staid out late. Miss
Potter admits this and says she knows
more than the girls suspect.
'Of course" said one, Il can't recall
the names of any girls who stay out
after closing hours, but there are
plenty of then that have a 'stand-in'
with that policeman and they make
good use of it, too"
Some of them have done things
which I knew of but of which 1 did
not speak to them," she declared.
Recently one girl was caught stay
ing out until after midnight and
spoke to her about it. I talked to all
the girls about the same time and told
them that we did not insist that they
never should stay out after ten, but
that we did insist that we know where
they were. 1 know q lot Of things
they don't know I do" - -
The coeds-some at least-think
differently. e.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-05-20

NEW YORK.-A credit man, upon
~ the beginning of his connection
with large wholesale grocery house,
found on the books an account of long
standing, amounting to some $500,
against the proprietor Of general
store In a western state. The mer-
chant was man financially able to
pay the bill ten times over and never
miss the money. On account of some
grievance against the house-they
were unable to straighten it out be-
cause he would never tell them what
it was-the old man fatty refused to
pay and told them to sue for their
money.
The new credit man was a fellow
who believed that every man-like
Achilles of old and his heel-had
vulnerable spot somewhere, and he
set himself to the task of discovering
the weak spot in the makeup Of the
old merchant. He found tit was
parrots! The old man had a banker
ing for parrots He loved parrots,
owned round half-dozen of them and
could talk parrot from six o'clock in
the morning until the tinkle of the
supper bell and still know something
else that he would like to say about
them.
The credit man thought the matter
over; then he went out and bought
parrot and, giving certain directions
about it's tutoring, left it with the
bird-store man for 60 days.
Two months later the old merchant
received a handsome South American
parrot with the compliments of the
firm with which he was at outs-a
beautiful bird, finely feathered and in
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-05-20

Is THE tune of the hickory stick" in
/ the teaching of reading and writing
and 'rithmetic" to be given the moral
support of the Supreme court of the
United States?
That is one Of the questions the
court will be called upon to decide be-
tween now and vacation days.
If the court gives it's approval to
this ancient method of discipline, An
ME Kelley, an Illinois school mistress,
will escape from a school squabble
with no greater punishment than hav-
ing been declared bankrupt. If the
court, possibly with a memory of the
days of old, puts its foot down on cor
poral punishment, she probably will
have to go to Jail for fogging one of
her pupils.
Never before in the history of the
court, it is said, has it been confronted
with such a question.
In 1906 Miss Kelley was teaching in
the primary department Of the public
schools Of Tolono. Champaign county,
Illinois. According to a brief Miss
Kelley has just filed in the Supreme
court, Michael Burke, an eleven-year-
old lad in her school, was not as good
as he could be.
In the presence of the school, on De-
cember s, 1906, SO Miss Kelley tells
the court, he committed breach of
proper decorum by using indecent, vul-
gar and profane language at and
toward your petitioner and jerking her
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-05-20

WASHINGTON little while after
w automobiles had come into gen.
eral use, those newspapers which con-
Germ themselves more with fancy than
with fact began to worry in their
columns about what they termed ''the
automobile face" They had cartoons
showing faces lined and marked, with
squinted eyes.
These came, the papers said, from
the habit of speeding cars. The papers
figured that when a motorist gripped
the wheel and started ahead at the
strip of dusty road that was spinning
under the car, there was so much
tension that the lines and squint came
without the drivers being aware of
them.
The papers have ceased to worry
about that now; for such papers do
not worry about any particular thing
for long. The automobile has estab-
lished itself. and the human counte-
nance remains about the same, &C.
cording as the individual thinks and
feels.
Which is apropos of horseback
riding. Here in Washington the auto
mobile is in more or less general use,
but it is not crowding the horse as it
is doing in Cleveland. Though Roose-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-05-20
Suffragettes Mildly Storm CONGRESS

the senator, as he shouldered an arm.
full of petitions. Il construe that hon
orable instrument to make the pre-
sentation Of petitions mandatory, but
would present them gladly even If nc
such duty were imposed upon me-"
The senator made a sweeping bow
and the women applauded loudly.
1t had been intended to carry the
petitions to congress in an automobile
truck, making a very impressive-look.
ing load.
Goodness, no; some of them might
get lost!" exclaimed half dozen dele.
gates. So while the procession was
forming at the Hotel Arlington the pc.
titions were unloaded again and dis.
tributed among the delegates. Mean.
while some Of the enthusiastic did a
little electioneering.
Admiral Schley passed by on his
morning constitutional. Two suffra.
gettes hoped out of a taxicab and
pinned Votes for women" button on
the admiral.
Thank you. ladies'" said he. II will
cooperate"
DR.. Anna Shaw, who had been re-
elected president of the National
American Suffrage association few
minutes before, rode in the first auto
mobile. About seventy-6ve others fol
lowed in single file down Pennsylvania
avenue and on to the capitol
The Indiana delegation rode in q
"rubberneck wagon" proud of it's mum
bers. The New Workers went In nine
automobiles. Hawaii squeezed in with
some of the other territories. A Iona
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-05-20
Chicken Explodes,

NEW YORK.-It would disconcert
~ anybody to have a roast chicken.
nicely Drowned, explode with a loud
noise just as the knife was inserted
in it, and it would startle the most
intrepid epicure if the explosion was
followed by a gas that drove every
body from the room.
Therefore, it is not to be wondered
at that Mrs. Elizabeth Jones of Brook
Ign was much agitated when chick
en- she had bought from Butcher
David Kahn and which was bought,
dressed and cooked under her person
al supervision, should burst like a
black hand bomb just at the instant
she was about to carve it.
Mrs. Jones had invited company to
dinner and got the chicken for the es-
pecial benefit of her guests. Mrs.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-05-20
Parrot Used as Collector of Bad Bill

men than any Of those which he al
ready owned.
1t took the parrot about week to get
used to the surroundings, then, one
morning when the old man was play
fully stroking the back of it's head
and admiring its beautiful rlumage, it
cooked one eye up at him knowingly
and in cultural, croaking tones in.
CURED:
why don't you pay Banks bill?'
The old man nearly Cell from his
chair. At first he was furious, but
little by little the fuzzy side of the
situation grew upon hi11, and it final
II awakened even his dormant sense
Of humor. He smiled, then he
grinned, he chuckled, xhen he actual
~ laughed! The ice broken, he kept
on laughing, until the tears rolled
down his rugged cheeks and his sha.
king sides ached from, their unaccus-
toned use; and the parrot, evidently
appreciative, joined il with gleeful
cackle alternated at frequent inter
vals with the plaintive repetition of
it's one accomplishm ent in the con-
ve!sational line:
~Why don't you pay Blanks bill?"
The next day the old merchant sat
himself down and penned a letter to
Blank & Co., whose credit man gave
every evidence of excessive pleasure
when he opened, for it read:
sFind inclosed check to balance my
account. Send down your travelling
man and we'll kiss and make up again.
I guess, after all, that you're no big.
ger robbers than the rest of them.
That parrot is -bird!''
Now, the firm didn't want to go to
the trouble and expense of bringing
legal action against the old man, but
they did want to regain his friendship
and trade, and at the same time they
wanted their money and wanted it
badly. This was the rather compli-
Gated status of the case when It was
wrapped up in new bundle and
handed over to the new credit m&n.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-05-20

Ideas concerning how Uncle Sans matters should be handled
Uncle Sam is
explained
these foreign complications had disappeared
started class
and industrial which taken the
ernor doesn't a cabinet
MANY OF of
enment he sad
appalling
itself
administration.
senator Adich
could 30oco0oo
managed as efficiently
40 OF the whole
than all
ITO the high government attributed
duties
high living
existing evils
While this
should
which will bring
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-05-20
Butcher Is Sued

Jones jabbed the fork into one of the
wings of the fowl to steady the bird.
brandished the carving knife aloft.
and in her most winning way asked:
Mrs. Smith, will you have some of
the white meat?"
Mrs. Smith smiled her acquiescence
and Mrs. Jones plunged the point Of
the blade into the chicken Just below
the breast bone.
Instantly there was an explosion
like that Of big flrecracker, and the
interior decorations of the bird were
scattered to the ceiling. Mrs. Jones
and her guests pulled away from the
table Immediately and looked at the
chicken with bullying eyes.
Mrs. Jones went out and got a DO
1ceman and told him to go into the
dining-room and see for himself. He
did so, and by an exhibition of un-
paralleled heroism got the fowl into
bag and took it to the station house.
Then Mrs. James got out a warrant
for Butcher Kahn and he was ar
raigned in the New Kersey avenue
s%ation. Magistrate Hylan held him
in $500 for explanation.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-05-20
Hickory Stick "Tune" in High Court

upon the floor and, while in that posi-
ton, striking and kicking your petit
TONER"
The teacher took Michael to the
principal, according to her statement,
and asked him if he was sorry.
NO." she says the boy responded.
When she asked him if he would be
good boy he made no answer, she
declares.
Then, after the principal had or.
dered her to chastise Michael, she
logged him with a pointer, and the
state courts of Illinois found that she
did not stop with the job half CON-
pleted. In fact, when the Burkes
brought a suit for damages against
her, alleging trespass and other things,
the state courts, in a general verdict
rendered judgment against Miss
Kelley.
After a judgment was procured
against her Miss Kelley was declared
a bankrupt. On the ground that the
national bankrupt law does not dis
charge person from payment Of a
debt incurred through the committing
of willful and malicious injuries to
the person or property of another"
Miss Kelley was arrested under an ILL.,
nois statute for failure to satisfy the
judgment. She went into the federal
courts and asked to be discharged.
The district court of the United
States for the Eastern district of ILL.,
nois admitted testimony offered by
Miss Kelley to show that this was not
a debt incurred through willful and
malicious injuries, and the court found
1t was not. Such a procedure did not
meet with the approval of the circuit
court of appeals, however, and the
judgment was reversed.
Miss Kelley now has asked the Su-
preme court to review her case.
CO EU
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-05-20
CECRETARY WILSON of the depart

CECRETARY WILSON of the depart
- ment of agriculture has assailed an
old-time food notion. We have always
been told-at least since food began
scientifically to be studied-that hot
biscuits were almost indigestible. VIII
son has permitted to come from his
ofice pamphlet which sets forth that
hot biscuits will never keep one awake
o. nights because of a dull, heavy feel
ing in the stomach. =.
."As far as now known" says, the
bulletin, the changes ordinarily &C.,
curing in, good bread a. it ages do
not affect its digestibility unless it be-
comes 30 dry a to be unappetizing."
so,that Ne need no longer run away.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-05-20
Automobile Face" Scare Vanishes

welt is not here to keep the fashion
going. to insist upon it by his ex-
ample, horseback riding is much in
vogue. And majority of the riders
are women. This brings us to the
horseback face" 1t is the haughti-
est face we have seen. When the
daughter of diplomat, say, goes
forth-riding astride by the way-she
look neither to the right nor to the
left She poises her bare head erect.
and spurs over the hills and far away
She makes mostly a queenly figure as
she dashes by. Her horseback face"
is serene and satisfied. She may
know that she is little conspicuous,
but she gives no evidence that she
knows. Her eyes are wide open, and
she is serene, without pucker or line
in her face. She makes an ordinary
pedestrian feel that he looks upon a
Gibson picture something that has
class and difference, little out Of
the ordinary. Probably she is nice,
jolly girl, but she makes those quail
fications with her dignity
Mrs. Herbert WadswOrth started
from Mount Vernon, with party of
friends as her guests, recently. After
luncheon they began a 300-mile jour-
ney, visiting Manassas, Shenandoah,
and other places of historic interest.
This announcement was made:
1T has been Mrs. Wadsworth's GUS
tom for the last six years to ride to
her home in Livingston county, Ten
nessee. This spring, however, she has
arranged for a short trip"
AS stated, this short trip will cover
300 miles,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-05-20
Was Taking No Chances,

was Iakln9 NO Chances.
Once upon a time a fond mother
disapproved of her daughter marrying.
This was the more awkward because
the young lady had picked the young
man out. Also he had wealth. And
the mother, who was widowed, had
not the wherewithal to furnish her
daughter with the variety of frocks
and things which her youthful heart
craved. Il might not object to the
man so much" said the mother one
evening. If you would only let me
see him. But here is a man whom l
have never set eyes on, and yet one
whom you insist on taking for a hus-
band. don't understand such Sc.
crecy!" The daughter replied: III
/ ever introduced him you'd insist On
marrying him yourself,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-05-20
NEWEST DEMOCRATIC HERO

Great Scott! Why, if this thing keeps up,
even 'onn Dalzell and Gen. Harry Bingham amt
SAFE"
1t was Republican member Of congress talk
Ing the day after James s. Ravens, Democrat,
was elected representative of the thirty.second
district OF New York. Following so soon after
the election OF Foss in one of Massachusetts,
republican strongholds, the election Of Mr. Ha>
Vens' VINO was not known outside of his Own
STATE, naturally created more than ripple in the
Republican ranks
Mr. Ravens, who made the high cost of living
MS battle cry, just as lot OF other Democratic
candidates are going to do in the campaign that
is to come this fall, sums up his election like
this:
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-05-20

I'LL the caused by the
making for his family
much practising
the honor him
Root and other party leaders it. - ~
Governor Hughes " April H. 1862 H,a
David Hughes
ne was graduated from Brown university
1881 received
He was married December s, 1888 Antonee Carter ~
Mr. Hughes and roce,vod
fellowship
New York city until chair
OF la" cornell He
investigation He reelected 1908
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-05-20
At or About This Time,

At or About This Time.
"Why do they call them ocean
liners?" she asked.
They're getting new terms every
day." he said without looking up from
the sporting page. II never heard it
before, but an ocean liner is probably
a hot one that isn't f1elded we'll and
rolls into a puddle or something"
She made no answer, but when he
had gone to business she 'phoned the
doctor about him.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-05-20
A Reprimand.

Mrs: Brown was on her way to
prayer meeting, and as she passed tho
Jones home she saw Bobby sitting on
the porch.
Aren't you afraid out here alone.
Bobby?"
I'm not Alone" was Bobby's IN.
swer.
who is with you?" asked Mr..
Brown.
Nov, Mrs. Brown" said Bobby i'm.
pressively, If you was a good woman,
you would know who was with me-"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-05-20

This not wholly partisan victory the tbfnga
typhes" -~1eAeo
Ravens lawyer OF
1859. irony o'1e-
Immediately
par 1885 ane mas practsed law Although
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