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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-07
Pythian's Twins Now Join the Order

lodge and was officiating at an i'm.
portant meeting when a courier called
MIN from the meeting and announced
that ne was wanted at home-tha+
the stork had left two sons at his
house. Then, for the first time Fred.
erlck asked to be excused from a lodge
meeting.
Two hours later-the meeting held
late-the chancellor commander "a.
turned to the hall and reported that
the mother and boys were sleepin9 A
resolution prevailed that the 1odgo
adopt the twins as honorary memhere
and that The parents be requested to
name them Damon A. and Pyth1as A
Frederick. Mrs. Frederick consented
and the boys became known as the K
P. twins.
When the Frederick family removed
to Indianapolis, Frederick retained his
membership in the Vincennes iodqe
but became a frequent visitor at In
dianapolis lodges, and is one Of tho
widest known lodgemen in the c,+v
When his sons became of age thev
sought membership in No. Sc. Their
story was known to the members and
they were welcome. Several Vim
cennes friends were present at tho
initiation.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-07

THE Postof1ce Department daily re-
! ceives hundreds Of complaints
caused by the losses Of packages and
money. Mails are easy to rob. but few
postal thieves ever escape final de-
lection; they are sure to be entrapped
and punished in the end. While speak
ing of these numerous complaints, an
old detective, called inspector, of the
Postoftice Department said:. mo
thief is harder to catch than the one
who robs Uncle Sans mail. The
methods of such thieves are ingenious.
the plumber is easily hidden or de-
stroyei, and their rascality is well
masked by the honesty and integrity
of associates.
"Postof6ce thieves are not arrested
every day, although valuable letters
and other articles are stolen almost
daily and an army of shrewd inspec-
tors are on the alert: Positive proof
of guilt must be in the possession of
the inspector before an arrest is made.
Circumstantial evidence does not 20
at any time with us. It Is an estab-
lished rule that the evidence must be
positive and direct. In almost every
case an arrest means conviction.
:. "A postofice employee never knows
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-07
Kansas Chickens Meet Motor Train.

chewing, green, red, yellow, streaked
striped and spotted grasshoppers
Bunches of 'em, fat and juicy from
feeding in Kansas corn and whea:
fields.
All the motor cars have pilots, fend
ers or cowcatchers of a big scoop-likt
pattern. They are made of heavy stee'
bars and covered with wire screen
ing. AS the cars go hiking through
the country these tenders gather uI
thousands of grasshoppers. Going the
six or seven miles between stations
a motor car will often gather bushe:
Of grasshoppers on the fender.
These are the big T-bone sort OF
grasshoppers that are found only In
the fields. They are the porterhouse
and sirloin cuts of the hopper family
and they make very delectable re
past for the chickens. The chickens
cannot catch very many of them If
the fields and gardens, as the hopper<
are quick and make long flights.
The grasshoppers are not any more
plentiful this year than in forme,
years, but the chickens never had {
way of catching them as they have
this year, this being the first season
Of the motor cars on most of the lines
The chickens Of the small town, wher
the whistle sounds, make quick dive
for the depot, ready to pounce on the
hundreds of stunned hoppers lying or
the fender.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-07
Much-Read Social Science Bulletins

the use of cheap cuts of meat, that 1t
was the first government cook book
ever printed.
This was not altogether so. 1t 10
true that it was the nearest approach
to real cook book, but the depart
ment has printed all sorts Of receipts.
The social science series has been
running for more than decade. and
has, incidentally. taken in various do
nestle problems in the food line un-
der the head of Nutrition Investigar
tions." The earliest of these was one
on the composition and cooking OF
meats, issued nearly IA years ago. OF
this there has been something over
half million copies distributed.
But the most popular of all the bull
letins was the recent one on 1.-THE
Economical Use of Meat in the
Home" This has been out only a few
months, and there have already been
distributed 100000 Calls are still
coming in rapidly.
The series comprises books on all
sorts of subjects preserving of
fruits and vegetables. fish as food, the
care of milk in the home, the value of
peas, beans and legumes in general az
food, the cooking Of vegetables, and
more than a dozen other subjects.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-07
Postal Thieves Comparatively Few

when he is being Swallowed. Even
when not under suspicion Of theft he
may be watched outside Of business
hours to see If he is spending more
money than his salary will permit. It
sometimes happens that an inspector
may not be able to prove a man a
thief, and the fellow is turned loose
with a verdict Of not guilty as his
certificate Of honesty, but he is not
wanted by the department any more.
From one point Of view it is won
derful that there are so few thieves
among the many thousands of clerks
who handle the mails first and last.
for great temptations surround them.
as they handle millions of valuable
parcels. It IL known that these clerks
soon learn to tell by the very touch
of letter whether it contains money.
II 80 inclined it would be an easy mat
ter for the dishonest clerk to sin
letters into his pocket and open them
in the privacy of his room. That the
cases Of dishonesty are comparative
1y few is a high tribute to the moral
qualities of the postohlce clerks.
"There are but two successful wavs
to catch postofice thief constant
watch and decoy letters. With these
and large supply of patience, the
game will be landed, though it often
requires months, and sometimes years.
It is one of the most annoying and dit.
fcult lines Of detective work, and re.
quires the most earnest application.
Not single circumstance or detail
must be overlooked. :.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-07

WHETHER the high price of food
w is causing the public to take an
uncommonly keen interest in domes-
tic problems now, or whether the
cause is something else, the officials
Of the Department of Agriculture do
not undertake to say. The fact re-
mains that there has been greater
run up to date on the so-called social
science" series of bulletins than on
any other pamphlets the department
has ever produced.
Up to the present there has been a
total of 16,672,000 bulletins distribut-
ed. Some now out Of print have been
applied for so often that it is prob
able the estimates for next year will
include provision for reprinting.
This government is the only one in
the world that has gone into the bust
ness Of printing cook books. It was
stated, when the Department Of Agri-
culture recently issued the book on
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-07
Hall of Fame Statuary Not Artistic

quisite piece of work. The rest of
the statues are practical caricatures.
There is one Of Fulton, who is seated
in a chair with piece Of machinery
in his hand. He lops all over the
chair, his legs are sprawled in all
sorts Of ways, and it is about as WOO
begone a piece of marble as can well
be imagined. There Is marble OF
Webster, whom everybody knows was
not large man, but the statue makes
him a regular giant. There Is Q
statue of John J. ingalls,, the only one
as yet sent. by Kansas, and excepting
that it is like a line, has neither
breadth nor thickness, which was q
good description Of ingalls,. It is the
limit for ugliness. There is a statue
of Frances Willard in a basque and
ill-hanging dress, which bears not the
slightest resemblance to that dainty,
sweet-faced woman. There is a statue
of Phil Kearny In bronze, which is
very pretty to look at, but has very
little artistic merit, and there is one
of Shoup, of Idaho, which looks as
though it might have been sandpa'
pered out of piece of marble. And
then there is Washington, dapper-
little darling with sloping brow. as
fashioned by Houdon.
The Washington newspapers some
time ago began a crusade to have
the law placing statutes In Statuary
hall by the states repealed. 1t is to
be repealed on the ground that the
hall is already damned to overflow.
ing, and If any more statuary is pro
second and inner row.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-07
Frisco Has Child Linguist PRODIGY

coclous rate in other studies and has
had her full share of outdoor romp-
ing. Dolls are still her companions
when the weather keeps her in.
her advancement Is simply due to
the way she was educated" her moth
er said. Il began when she was three
weeks of age by placing beautiful pic
lures on the walls of her nursery.
From the first she was accustomed to
the best literature. We did not &C.
cite silly nursery rhymes to her. Tut
only the best. Instead Of giving her
the stories usually told to children /
read to her from the Bible and from
mythology. She had Latin from the
cradle.
AT three months l read to Che,fe
from the Latin writer's and recited for
her from such poems as Crossing the
Bar. At eight months she began to
talk. At the age of one year. she
could scan from Virgil and she read
before she was two. I was teaching
her the language all the time.
AT three she could operate type
writer. BY its use she learned 10
spell and also to memorize what she
was writing. 1t was by copying DO
ems and articles on the machine that
she learned much that she knows
When she was at this age Patk &C.
cepted and printed a little poem of
hers. Afterward she became a regu-
lar contributor to st. Nicholas. She
did not learn to write with the non
until she was four. We bave ALWAYS
made play Of her work. Games sim.
liar to authors were devised for his.
tory and mythology"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-07

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES A. and Py-
/ thias A. Frederick, "the K. P.
twins" have become members Of the
Knights of Pythias order. They were
given the first degree by lodge No. Sc
OF this city as soon after their twenty
first birthday anniversary as possible
and on that occasion each was pre-
scented with watch fob, the latter
decorated with the emblem of the
order.
The Frederick boys are sons of Louis
A. Frederick, who has been prominent
in K. of p. affairs in this state for
many years. Frederick was an en-
thusiastic member of Dioscuri lodge,
No. Al, at Vincennes, before his mar
riage and even after his wedding was
able to continue his boast that he had
never missed meeting" It is said
that the high rank of that lodge in the
state was largely due to his work.
He was chancellor commander of the
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-07

M EW YORK.-1t has become a sort
~ of madness in New York, the de-
sire to see dancing Some Is years
ago Spanish dancer like Carmencita
might create something of a seven
days wonder, besides having her
name written down as an artist in the
books which posterity is supposed to
read. But nowadays dancing of all
sorts is fairly worshiped.
1sadora Duncan brought the Greek
dance, which later was kept. alive
by Maud Allen and other imitators Of
Miss Duncan. Ruth St. Denis intro
duced the Hindoo dance; Mistinguett
and Max Dearly at the Moulin Rouge
IN Paris created the Apache dance,
which has since been given in every
possible form in America, ending with
Polaire's vivid performance, and the
Salome dance was a craze of itself
for a summer
For three seasons no vaudeville bill
has been deemed complete unless
some dancer appeared in the list of
performers. More than generally that
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-07

e AN FRANC1SCO.-Leland Stanford
- university is to acquire a child
prodigy Of whom quite as great things
are expected as of Harvard's boy won
der, William James Sidis. In this case
the prodigy is a girl, Winifred Sack
vile Stoner, better known to her
familiars as Cherie. Her mother is a
daughter OF the late Lord Sackville
West, ambassador from England In
one of the Cleveland administrations.
and her father is COL J. B. Stoner of
the Marine hospital service.
She Is now aged eight years, and
rs linguist is In class by herself.
Her knack for poetry enabled her to
print book Of So pages called "Jin-
gles' when she was five At the age
OF four she was proficient enough in
Esperanto to receive from the founder
of that composite language a medal
FOR proficiency. She had heard this
tongue from infancy, as her mother
Is a recognized authority in it.
In addition she speaks and thinks in
English, French, Spanish and Latin,
and she can speak we'll enough for
conversational purposes Japanese,
Russian, German, Polish and Italian.
While accommodating this varied vo-
cabulary she has gone along at pre-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-07

TOPEKA, KAN.-1n any one of 20
Il Kansas towns today one may see
hundreds Of chickens running and fly
ing, with many squawks and cackles
and calls, to meet incoming motor
trainss :: at every station along the
Lines where motor cars are operated
the chickens have learned to hike
with all their might to the depot
whenever they hear the sharp blast
OF the siren whistle of the motor cars.
Chickens usually run away from
steam trains, but they run for the
motor cars. The chickens are as reg
ular about meeting these cars as the
bus driver and the postmaster. Every
old hen. pullet, rooster and cockerel
not penned up answers the call of the
motor car siren. This whistle sounds
more like fog-horn than a railway
whistle, and can be heard long dis
tances. When the siren sounds the
chickens take the shortest cut to the
station.
What's the reason? Grasshoppers,
just, plain. old, ordinary, tobacco
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-07


made Americas attitude
nation
and breadth OF the ~
wrote it, he ito give all the facts about
nchef
Them
could not have mind
mind
which has soote the injustice
Furherm did
colonial das
Iustrous
unchatably he sced
perusal Of the
moder
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-07

one of the old forms of obligation by
the District Of Columbia, to present
the certificates for redemption. Mr..
Ricketts, took the four certificates to
the treasurer's Office, Endorsed II here
by assign the within certificates to
the treasurer of the United States for
redemption, on account Of Eliza "A.
Ricketts,"
The treasurer refused redemption
upon this Endorsement. Mrs. Ricketts,
then asked the first auditor Of the
treasury, as he was known in those
days, to approve the Endorsement, but
he refused. She appealed to the Of
fee of the then first controller of the
treasury and obtained the desired ap-
prevail.
Accordingly the treasurer paid Mrs.
Ricketts, $4,012 principal and 1928 In
terest.
In 1894 Julia A. Burnell, formerly
Julia A. Little, the daughter OF Sam
uel J. Little, made claim for the 49,
02123, alleging that it had been er-
roneously paid to Mrs. Ricketts,, who
had a life interest only. The claim
was disallowed by the treasury. Mrs.
Burnell and her husband then entered
suit for the amount before tho court
of claims. A year ago they obtained
Judgment for the amount, and in the
deficiency act of June Is. 1910. ap-
preparation was made to pay this
claim, along with others.
Mrs. Burnell has been fighting for
sixteen years to secure the money
she thought was hers and is just now
coming into her own, while the gov
eminent Is out over $4,000.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-07

The bird-men have not learned yet
to fly as surely and to light as safely
as the birds. When Brookins at AS.
bury park himself took q tumble and
crashed into crowd of spectators, in.
juring a large number, It was again
perceived that. as in the flight OF
Vision, 1t is the coming back to earth
That hurts. Air navigation Is still ex.
tra hazardous.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-07

We learn from London that the silk
hat is dying out Occurs it's been an
uncommon long time dying. There's
no more pathetic sight on earth than
a silk topper on its last legs. Some
body ought to put it out of its misery.
Maybe it's only one of those hot wealth.
er stories, though. In London, when.
ever news Is dull, they send out a
hardened reporter to kill the plug
hat,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-07

III
Michigan regiment
in
the Office Immediately he war;
AS his
gained political prosecuting attorney
the 1873 the opportunity that he wanted IN the
FORM OF his first 0
the mouse OF
his a
tent parLamenarian
senator Burrows
ea @ the Utah senator accused Momonm
said Michigan
oeet growers Senator Burrows
Chicago
House. The defeat of
uona Importance
Senator Burrows chairman
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-07

A New York court has declined to
permit literary society to call itself
the Souse club. Occasionally a New
York court losses aside technicalities
and legal verbiage and gets right
down to business and common sense.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-07

The United States forest service is
advertising for a xylotomist. We are
not quite certain what a xylotomist is,
but the man In the fat overhead plays
something that sounds like 1t every
night.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-07

aborous
charitable activity
amounting $625
the In and around Moscow
Not content with directing
her various institutions
sometimes as visitor to the
harbored
duties without revealing her identity
identity that In this
the the stan
esneca1v with to treatment Of the patients
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-07

Prizes have been offered for the
best poems in Esperanto. This ought
to give the magazines a much-needed
rest, and it ought also to cheer up
the unappreciated poets.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-07

When mans wife has gone away
for the summer he ought to have the
decency at least to look downhearted
in the photograph which he sends to
her.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-07

A young lady says it does no good
TO hitch your wagon to a star" for
the darned star don't stop to let you
get in!
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-07

If man had had as complete com.
mand over the seas as he has had
over the forests they would all be
dried up and crying for irrigation by
this time.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-07

Chicagoans will now be expected to
carry around microscope to see
whether their ice cream contains moro
than 100000 germs, the new limit,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-07

The woman who slashed nine per-
sons when she saw her husband slip
a quarter to girl in church must
have thought that particular act of
charity covered an unusual amount
of sin
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-07

An airship line is to be established
between Baltimore and Washington.
Those two cities are so near together
that the ground between them can be
padded all the way.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-07

1t is a harsh and hasty judgment to
assume that every handsome young
woman who is seen walking with
crutches has been .rashly intimate
with hobble-skirted gown.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-07

A New York policeman recently ate
81 ears of corn at sitting. Our only
hope In this connection is that he did
not have an overhanging mustache,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-07

A Chicago man defeated woman
In a dishwashing contest 1t were
better for his sex had he considerate-
~ lost.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-07

It is hard to predict occurrences
from day to day further than that
an aviation record of some sort will
be broken.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-07

Now that the Balkan war cloud has
begun hanging around again it is
time to send up a flock of alrships
to invite it to go hence.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-07

Sauerkraut is SURPRISING beans in
popularity in Boston. Now, that
shows the progressiveness of the
Hub.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-07

Another naval hero. A captain of a
warship has been seriously wounded
In action. His ankle was broken while
he was dancing at Newport.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-07

While wooden leg may be the
sad result of an accident, the hobble
skirt is q woman's own fault,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-07

Wealthy Americans now coming
home in the steerage could not wait
for the flying machines.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-07
BUTCHER WRITES A BOOK

With an objectionable lack of tact or sinis-
ter sense of humor Gen. Vaeriano Weyer has al
lowed the publisher to print the title of his
sational book mi Mando in Cuba" ("My Com
mand in Cuba') in letters Of CORY scarlet on
paper cover of nvid gray.
Whatever the motive may have been that
prompted such choice, that bloody "eye catcher"
of line fifty symbolizes the man and his work.
Weyler has been on trial before public opinion
for butchering his enemies instead of fighting
them; and he faunts in our faces the ugly stains
that show where he wiped off his knife.
Captain general OF the most fertile province
of Spain (and province which more than once
manifested her intention to throw of the Bour-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-07
Scales Of Justice.

Grocer's Widow-"Could you please
inform me when my late husbands al
fairs will be wound up? It's now over
a year." Attorneys Clerk-"Oh. youA
and NO short waits here. Life.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-07

And now, since men have proved
themselves the best dishwashers the
women want them to retain the Job.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-07

A'married man informs us that one
who tells his wife, all he : knows
doesn't know much.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-07


\ passion and Competition
We living
being exchanged expediency when
what believe but what do and
provided
Vaughan
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-07
A Quiet Berth.

IF I buy seat in the stock ex.
change will you agree to 60 to work?"
Il amt crazy for work, dad. Make it
a seat In the senate."-Iloyisville
Courier-Journal
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-07

Scandal is the one thing that never
gets worn out at the edges by being
passed around.
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Few.

Few men are happy as their neigh.
bors think them, or as miserable as
they believe themselves to be.-Wash-
ington Post.