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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-14
Puzzle to Trace the Lost Pennies

chase is the smallest that can be
made. But of late there have been
more demands for pennies from the
west, and the government experts
have declared that this Is a sign OF
increased frugality.
In the east, the chief use Of the
penny, outside Of filling the child's
bank and buying the daily paper, is
for the purchase of chewing gum and
one-cent candies. The increase in the
number Of penny in-the-slot phono-
graphs and moving picture machines
in the last few years shows another
way to which the public has taken to
get rid of it's pennies.
Uncle Sam takes in many pennies
for stamps and post cards, and many
of them flow into the contribution box
in the churches and religious societies.
But all these ways in which the penny
is put to use does not explain where
they eventually go or what makes
them disappear in such vast quantities
every year. Even the government
coinage experts do not give satisfac-
tory answer to the problem.
They give the following reasons for
the disappearance Of the coppers-fall-
ing through cracks into holes and dark
places; used in various arts and
crafts; locked up for years in chill
dren's banks, ETC., but these explana-
tons do not seem satisfactory when
the number of new pennies coined
each year is taken into consideration.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-14

THICAGO.-The '49ers of Califor-
~ MIA gold fever fame are pass
ing into history. The epoch of
which they are survivors is closed
and the last of them are becom-
ing too feeble to come to the an
nual reunion which has ben held in
Chicago on "admission day" each
year for the last twenty years.
A notice reluctantly admitting these
facts was issued recently by Secre-
tary George w. Hotchkiss, the young
est of the California gold hunters,
who at the age of seventy-nine is in
too feeble health to take charge of a
convention. The entire executive
committee Of the organization ap-
pointed last year Is either dead or
under temporary disability prevent
ing them from serving, and half of
the fourteen pioneers who attended
last years meeting have since died.
A heroic effort to get trace Of all
sur living pioneers In the middle west
resulted In the return mot found" of
half OF the hundred letters sent out
by Mr.. Hotchkiss, and, while he hopes
to find a few '49ers for a meeting
on discovery day." January 18, the
secretary said sadly that in ten wears
they would all be gone and nothing
but printed pages could tell of
movement whose like the world can
never see again.
1T was picked lot of Young men
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-14

PHILADELPHIA becomes of
1 the vast volume of copper pennies
that are turned out each year by the
government? They are never called
In and redeemed like some kinds of
currency and coins, but they seem to
disappear as fast as they are stamped
and put in circulation.
1t is unusual If the date on any of
the pennies in a mans purse at the
end Of the day is over ten years back,
yet the Philadelphia mint, which coins
all the copper pennies, sends out in
some years as many as $1,O00,O00
worth of them to the trade centers-
100,O00,0O0, one-cent pieces If laid
fiat, edge to edge, in row they would
reach more than one thousand miles.
And still there are some sections of
the country where the penny is little
known.
In many of the mountain districts of
the south the York shilling" 12h
cents, is still spoken of in trade, but
no one ever hears the one-cent piece
mentioned. In many towns in the
south and west the tradesmen offer
nothing for a penny, f1ve-cent pur-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-14
'49ers Going Into History, Unwept

who reached California in those
days." he declared. "Only those who
had the grit to spend months at sea
or across Indian-infested plains and
mountains succeeded in getting there.
The people of today do not know how
much their country owes to the 49,
ers. They did more toward the de-
velopment of the United States than
the men who fought in the revolution
or any other single group Of men.
Most of them were very young. The
man among them who was over twen-
ty-five was rare. And they did not
get rich. The men who came after
ward on the railways, with capital
and improved mining methods, or
who went into real estate were the
ones who reaped fortunes.
The pioneer who &C. enough for his
railway fare and $1,000 more with
which to buy farm considered him.
self lucky. Those who came after
ward on the railway we do not con-
slider real pioneers. They are not
eligible to our society.
1--WE were privileged to take part
in an epoch of history unlike any
thing that had ever gone before, and
it is something whose like can never
be seen again. There may be other
countries still to be developed, but
there is no place left in the world
where such a spreading OF civiliza-
ton over an enormous wilderness can
take place in 80 few decades as 1t
did in the western United States.
The '49ers, as they went west In
their prairie schooners, saw miles
upon miles of fertile country whose
existence had been scarcely known.
and they were the most important
factor in developing the entire west.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-14

NEW YORK.-Spurred on by Acting
" Mayor John Purroy Mitchell, Po-
lice Commissioner William A. Baker
has caused several raids to be made
on the gambling joints of this city,
and the lid has been damned on so
tightly that 100000 of capital in
vested In such places is idle just now,
while the owners are wondering what
next?" Impatient over the vexing de-
lay, Acting Mayor Mitchell in letter,
following several raids, has put square
ly up to Commissioner Baker all re-
sponsibility for the non-enforcement
of laws against gambling and vice. He
charges the police with being grossly
derelict In their duties, and declares
that the situation his secret service
men report could not exist without
police connivance. There is panic in
the ranks of the gamblers as we'll as
with the police
Since the shooting of Mayor Gaynor
placed him at the head of affairs Act
ing Mayor Mitchell has received many
complaints. Some were appeals from
mothers who declared that their sons
were losing money In gambling places.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-14
Circus Lemonade Tabooed in Kansas

these things have been among the
sights and sounds of all picnics, cele-
brations and fairs and circuses since
Kansas became state. But no more
will one hear these sounds or drink
the "lemonade' about Kansas unless
the dispenser has real lemonade to
sell. The state board of health has
put a damper on the noise of the
barker because the board of health
has ruled that tub of water, in which
is put some tartaric acid and sacchar-
Inc and the peel of a lemon is not lem
onade, but the imitation article, and
cannot be sold as the real thing.
In Kansas all lemonade offered for
sale must be made from the Juice of
lemons, water and sugar only. Imit2.
ton lemonade can only be made from
cltr1c acid and sugar and water. The
use OF the most common materials for
making fake lemonade, tartaric acid
and saccharine, Is absolutely prohibit.
ed in this state.
If the refreshment offered is tha
imitation kind, there must be a label
on the tub showing that it is imita.
tlon and not the real thing. Also the
Darker who calls lemonade" and then
mas only the imitation article for sale
IS to be arrested for falsely calling his
wares and that will mean a fine and
a jail sentence. If the barker has i'm.
ltatlon lemonade he must shout the
word Imitation just as he shouts
the word Lemonade
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-14
The Lid Put on Tight in New York

and many were specific In their char
acter
Men from the Office Of the commits
sloners OF accounts, the secret service
department of the city government
found for Mr.. Mitchell the violations
OF the law. The raids began and KEYS
were soon in the doors of 40 eamhline
places along the Great White Way be-
tween Thirty-second and Sixty.ninth
streets, and 100000 of invested ran
ltal went out of business. The mana.
gers VINO were not Grating their rou-
lette wheels, their faro layouts and
their Klondyke sets in preparation for
the exodus were mournfully parading
the streets in the vicinity of their
houses, warning away prospective cus-
toners. 1t was the saddest dav the
gamblers have known since the Az.
neW-Hart racing bills went into force
The acting mayor has made a sue-
gestlon, which is In effect an order. to
the police commissioner that all the
evidence concerning these places be
furnished the district attorney. that
the police notify the owners of the
buildings, and that if violations of the
law continue proceedings be started
against owners. In that list are mem
bers OF prominent New York families.
and when the police have concluded
their Investigation it is the nurnose
OF Mr.. Mitchell to have the names
published for the deterrent effect It
will have on landlords.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-14
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TOPEKA, Kan.-Dr. S. J. Crumbine,
l secretary of the Kansas board Of
health, has put his official foot into
the mixture always present at cir
cuses, fairs, Fourth of July celebra-
lions, picnics and other gatherings of
like nature. This mixture is known
as Notwithstanding to the barker
who spells before the refreshment
stands. Generally it is something that
looks a little like lemonade because
there is lemon peel in the tub, but
it hasn't the taste Of the refreshing
beverage mother makes.
Since the memory of man runneth
not to the contrary, the one chief de-
light of the small boy and girl and the
big boy and his sweetheart has been
to drink circus lemonade at the circus
fair or picnic.
No one knows who invented the
glad refrain Of the lemonade stand
barker, who In stentorian tones, calls:
''Lemo, lemo, lemonade,
Made in the shade,
Stirred with spade
Five cents big glass;"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-14

HALF a dozen resolutions authoriz-
IL ing acceptance of gifts by Ameri-
can military men and diplomatic Of
ficers from foreign rulers were turned
down last session by the house COM
mittee on foreign affairs. Accom-
panying the rejection was a report
tending to discourage any such efforts
in the future.
In strong language the committee
pointed out that the provision of the
constitution prohibiting the accept
ance of such gifts by Americans in
official life was drawn wisely by the
fathers of the country in the interest
of the integrity and perpetuity of the
republic. Underlying the prohibition
is the thought that those accepting
such gifts would be under more or
less obligation to the giver. and to
that degree, at least, weaken his al
legiance to this country.
The most noted exception to this
rule by congress was the authorize
ton of acceptance by former Presi-
dent Roosevelt Of the Nobel peace
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-14

THERE were $50 deaths from
acute anterior poliomyelitis, or in
fantile paralysis, 116 from pellagra,
SIS from rabies, or hydrophobia, and 9
deaths from leprosy in 1909, in the
death registration area of continental
United States, which comprises over
IS per cent Of the total population,
according to the census bureaus
Forthcoming bulletin on mortality sta
tistics for 1909, submitted to Census
Director Durand by DR.. Cressy L.
Wilbur, chief statistician for vital
statistics.
It is reported that of the 500 deaths
from infantile paralysis $50 were of
white and only II of colored persons.
There was a somewhat greater Incl
dence of disease among males and an
increased mortality In August. Sep
TENDER and October.
The bulletin states that no statis-
teal segregation Of infantile paralysis
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-14
Gifts of Potentates Vex Uncle Sam

prlze' amounting to about $4,000.
Colonel Roosevelt turned this money
over to the department of commerce
and labor to form the basis of .
fund for expenses attending arbttra.
ton and the peaceful settlement 81
disputes between capital and labor,
Before granting the authorization IN
this instance, congress had full knovl.
edge of what was to be done with
tho money. The prize was awarded
to Colonel Roosevelt for his effort.
In terminating the war between Rus,
STA and Japan.
The action Of the house committes
arouses new interest in the notahle
collection of valuable and cnr,o,,.
gifts presented by foreigners tn IT.
fetal Americans which this eover,.
ment has not authorized accentance
of by Americans and which are nov
IN safekeeping in the national mn.
scum and in the state. war and nav
departments.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-14
THE United States army has lately
undergone a series of stern and

THE United States army has lately
L undergone a series of stern and
severe criticisms. Authorities have
studied the existing conditions from
every point of view, and in their re-
ports have delivered their opinions
in a fearless manner In report
recently made public one inspector
points out the case of a whole bat
talon Of artillery starting out for the
Philippines without a single field Of
ficer and one of the batteries COM
handed by a second lieutenant of
lc ; than two years. service. In one
department alone a third of the line
officers were absent from duty with
their commands under detail, and al
together, the inspector says, the stu
alton warrants the prediction that re-
suits of a disastrous kind must sooner
or later be realized.
People who think the United States
army stands at the top of the pro-
fession would be rudely Jared to
learn from Inspector General Ball
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-14
/ }e $; g {; J
}ig Harvest From Unredeemed Money

money issued the government escaped
payment on from one-tenth Of per
cent to about one-half Of per cent.
This, of course, means that the gov
eminent makes on the paper money
it issues a commission varying be.
tween the percentages set forth. The
most definite result shows gain Of
approximately one-eighth of l per
cent, total gain to the government
amounting to $13,241,0oo since tho
beginning Of our paper money-about
half century ago.
In its accounts the government. to
be absolutely "safe." puts the per
centage of destruction Of notes at the
lowest possible point, so that there ID
no chance Of It finding itself worse
of than it had imagined in the event
Of run on the treasury. In the
treasurer's statement concerning
notes is always entered under tho
caption unknown, destroyed" an
item Of $1,000,oo0, in spite of it's esd-
mate of $13,00o,OO0. This is entered
in the redemption column and sub
tracted from the amount outstanding
thus preserving the balance
All sorts of causes contribute to
increase the amount of paper money
that will never be presented for 70
demption. Fire IL perhaps the most
important cause, though improved
safes and the more general use Of
safes for holding the cash supply arc
annually reducing the loss from this
cause. Then there is a sort of inertia
that money seems to have which
keeps it out in the country once It
is started in circulation, even though
it be of an issue supposed to mature
at given time. Shipwrecks, too, are
responsible for some of the loss
Lastly, there are the collectors, and
it is probable that every fairly good
collection of United States paper
money accounts for at least one piece
of every denomination that has failed
to come back to the treasury.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-14

WASH1NGTON.-The United States
w government IN fifty years has &C
cumulated $13,000,000 from unre-
deemed money. A long-standing ques-
ton, namely: How much does a gov
eminent make through the failure OF
Its citizens to present its paper for
redemption? is answered fairly &C.
curately for our country in these fig
ures. Expert mathematicians in the
United States have figured on the
problem, and the results they have
obtained by different methods are so
nearly identical as to lead the layman
to feel confident that they have hit
somewhere near the mark.
Obviously the difficulties surround
Ing the statistician wishing to tabu-
late the gains Of the government from
this source are almost insurmounta-
BILE, II accurate figures are what he is
looking for. The destruction of pa
per money of all sorts goes on rapid
~ throughout the country, yet this
loss Is never reported to the treasury
So the mathematicians have had to
take the complete figures of the gov
eminent redemption division, and by
comparing the average life of notes,
the average percentage of actual re-
demption, and other items of that
sort, have been able to work out
fairly accurate percentage of paper
money that is either DESTROYED or is
In such hands that it will never reach
the treasury for redemption in gold.
Well-known authorities who have
worked independently on the subject
found, when they compared notes,
that they had reached substantially
the same result-that of all paper
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-14

a "
prison cell
believe
The
19o wnen William Gobe ruthless shot down ambush
e was walking toward the
candidates
of election
was MS secretary Of state
10 be elected
was ot from the window
naon sensation
factions
foowng the a in
WHICH several
one-f1enry T. Youtsey-s a
CaeD Powers
or NE he appealed and
second sentence to life imprisonment
time he was sentenced to jury disagreed
the majority being for
Meantime eight had rolled
Of
and In 1903 Wilson a pardon
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-14

In actual warfare the dropping Of
a dynamite bomb down the tunnels Of
a battleship from an aeroplane would
doubtless cause serious internal com:
plications on the part of the battle
ship. But also the planting of a one
to three-inch shot in the motor or
steering apparatus Of the aeroplane
would doubtless disorganize the air.
ship belligerent. 1t is all a question
Of which gets its projectile properly
located first
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-14

A Boston girl is to attempt a flight
on an aero kite. It Is evident that now
the conquest of the air seems in sight.
all sorts Of reckless feats will be
tried of no benefit to either science
or individuals. That is the real
drawback to careful and fruitful ex.
Fermentation Of any new force.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-14
His Best Order.

IT had been dull season, and tho
two young travelling statesmen vers
comparing notes. Il had just five
good orders In the las. month";" said
one You beat me. anyway, said hi,
friend. I got only three orders. and
the third one was from the firm ten
ing me to come home. "-Youth's Con.
panion. = $3.50
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-14

A young woman in New York tried
to kill herself because editors would
not publish her poetry. If that were
cause for suicide, half the present
population of the country would long
ago have ceased making a show in
the census returns
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-14
GOTHAM'S QUEEN Of sILENCE:|

Mrs Isaac L. Rice, the New York society wom-
an who fought s1ngle-handed to suppress unneces-
sary noise In the metropolis and who accom-
plished SO much through her determination, is
known as the Queen Of Silence" Mrs. Rice has
long been sworn enemy Of noise. Her beau
tlful Venetian palace Riverside drive is so
located that, until she began her battle and won
out her ears were continually ringing with the
shrieks of the switch engines on the railroad
tracks that line the river front and with the
clamor of boat whistles. Along the East river
are located two-thirds of the hospitals of the city
and this thoughtful woman realized what extra
suffering the sick must endure because of the
nerve-racking clamor. She began to gather evil
n hor nt md with
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-14
STARTED beef TRUST QUIZ

Judge Kenesaw Mountain Lands of the Unit
ed States district court in Chicago, who started
the latest investigation of the beef trust" is the
same who imposed the $29OO0,OOO fine on the
Standard Oil company few years ago. His ia
Their served during the civil war in the regiment
which commanded by Judge Walter @. Gresh-
am, secretary of state under Cleveland, and was
wounded in the battle OF Kenesaw mountain
Hence the peculiar of Judge Landis
When Gresham secretary of state Judge
Lands, then young Chicago lawyer, served as
his private secretary. Afterward he returned to
Chicago to practise his profession and was later
elevated to the bench.
OF the ten indicted meat packers, charged by
thu federal grand iurY with violation of the Shor
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-14

1t has been estimated that the aver
age American eats 50 pounds of sugar
every year. Now we'd like to know
how many pounds he pays for to get
that quantity
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-14

1882
he has
which Tawney had displayed Often
uniting of
claraton Of war; him by the insurge
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-14

A parachute performer in red tights
frightened the Rockefeller estate by
descending on it from the air and
was carefully carried outside the gate.
Perhaps they thought it was the IT.
tian-haired siren, whose recent dis,
covery has so perturbed the oil trust.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-14

The awaiting Joy ride has been in
augurated. This should be nipped in
the bud. With aviation going on in
scientific and respectable manner it
will upset aerial travel at the start
to have reckless aviators darting
along through space, ready to collide
with any other old acceptance which
may happen along, or to drop on I'M
suspecting pedestrians without warn
ing
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-14
J. A. TAWNEY OF MINNESOTA

An fnsurgent victory that has attracted a good
deal of attention throughout the country was the
defeat in the primaries Of Representative James
A. Tavney, who was a candidate for renomina-
ton in the first congressional district of Mime
sofa. Tawney is one of the most influential rem
resentatives in congress, is chairman of the COM
mittee appropriations. most determined
fight was waged against his denomination and the
insurgents had the support and advice of Roose-
welt, Pinchot, James j. Heney and other exno.
nents Of progressive Republicanism
In his early days Tawney was a blacksmith
and machnist, learning the trades in Pennsylva-
nia where he was born in 1855, near the village
of Gettysburg. Subsequently he removed to Wi
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-14

One of the aeroplane experts has
succeeded in taking five passengers
up over the treetops. The most i'm.
portant feature of the performance
was that he managed to let them
down easy
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-14

The astronomers who are trying to
work up another comet scare are
hereby politely but firmly advised
that the public is disillusioned now
about anything coming back
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-10-14

THE grasshopper serves no useful
purpose" declares a scientist. Indeed!
Did the scientist ever go out after
small-mouth bass in August when the
bass wouldn't bite on green frogs?