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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-11
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marvel of cheapness. In volume
and In extent OF territory covered
there is nothing to be compared with
it. The reduction in rates since the
days when rs cents was charged for
a letter from New York to Columbus.
O., does not cease to be a wonder.
The system which for two cents de-
livers a message in writing weighing
an ounce from Maine to San Fran
cisco not only but to the Philippines,
or from the southern point OF Florida
TO the northern extremity Of Alaska,
is model of efficiency at the mini
mum of cost. When we consider also
the burden of mails oversee to GER
tain countries where the foreign rates
are the same with our domestic
charge, the challenge is bold that the
world presents no parallel to the
economy and to the achievement.
Europe is compact in population
with distances measured by hundreds
of miles only. This is especially true
of Great Britain. There penny post
age Is proclaimed as a triumph and
an example. Americans forget that
the British penny is the equal in cur
rent value of two cents of our money.
The cent is often called a penny. but
it Is only half a penny, and thus the
term Is a misnomer. Our postal rates
on letters are now just those of Great
Britain. Penny postage has long pre-
vailed here as we'll as there. That
with free rural delivery and with
transmission over the continent and
to the islands, the earnings are to
cover the expenses, may we'll crafty
officials and citizens.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-11
Attention Given Women Bank Patrons

The substantial growth In the de-
posits made by women and the talk Of
the matter attracted the attention of
other banks, not only in New York,
but In other cities, which sent repre-
scutatives to look into the matter and
the Second Nationals plan, widely
copied everywhere, met with success.
1t was only few years after the
Second National bank established it's
Avenue bank did the same thing. 1t
has today probably the largest num-
Der of women depositors of any bank
in New York-between four and five
thousand.
At the time of the panic, three
years ago, the number of women de-
posttors in the banks was emphasized.
Many stood In line as doggedly as the
men and others hired substitutes to
keep their places. On the whole they
behaved neither better nor worse than
men under stress of panic. They were
just human beings who did not want
to lose their money.
III CAIy Uduh VIC VIII uOt1Co tudt
the women who put in and draw out
money are of all classes. Women OF
great wealth are conspicuous but not
predominant.
In some Of the banks which cater
largely to women the young men as
signed as tellers to the windows set
apart for their use are chosen as much
with regard for their good looks and
winning manner as for their knowl-
edge of the banking business, al
though, of course, they must have
that, too.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-11

WHAT is considered a real step to-
W ward greater economy and more
efficiency in the management of the
governments business was taken
when President Taft appointed DR..
Frederick A. Cleveland, director OF
the bureau Of municipal research in
New York city. as the head of q Gen.
trail stan that will work on the econ
omy and efficiency problem under the
direction of the president Announce
ment was also made that each Of the
cabinet officers will organize In his
department a committee or commits
sion to be known as an economy and
efficiency organization.
These steps were taken under the
law passed at the last session of con-
gress directing the president to con-
duct an investigation into the bust
ness methods of the several executive
departments, and giving him 100000
with which to carry forward the in
quiry. The final plans were not ap-
proved by the president until he had
consulted with a large number of
business men and had received writ
ten suggestions from numerous audit
companies.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-11
Chicago Is Not Such a Wicked Civ

them. Men and women do not do this
unless imbued with piety and the
necessity for public worship.
The Chicagoans are manifestine
this religious spirit just now In the
eagerness of the church-goin to pro-
mote this practise among those who
pay little or no heed to it. The for
mer are going about seeking out the
latter and finding why church attend
ance is neglected. How thorough ia
this movement Is borne out BY the
fact that $4,000 men and women are
engaged in it and that they have
reached 100000 persons. They find
that 100000 regularly attended church
and that $4,000 were irregular attend
ants, making total Of 1856, 900 that
were more or less under the influence
Of Christian preaching.
The census proves that Chicago ia
more religious than any other Of the
metropolitan cities of the country and
that few of the smaller cities relative
ly can match her in attendance upon
and devotion to the church.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-11

THE great movement for the con-
1 servation of the natural resources
OF the country, at the present time
e1ert1ng salutary influences upon
every important national activity, has
embraced new field. A safe, sane
and successful method of conserving
and finding method Of caring for our
ex-presidents is the latest idea in the
conserving line. A provision in the
constitution Of the national conserva-
ton congress is responsible for the
proposal, and serious consideration is
being given it, not by the political
dreamer or theorist, but by the great
public figures of the country.
Bernard N. Baker, retiring presi-
dent of the congress, by virtue of
clause in the constitution, becomes a
member for life of the executive CON-
mittee, and will, so long as the con-
crosses are held, continue to give the
benefit of his counsel and experience
to the president
The suggestion has been made, and
has already crystallized into an or
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rH1CAGO.-Chicago IL proving to
~ the world that she is not as black
as she has been painted! Long has
she been held up as the wickedest city
in the nation, place for the righteous
to avoid II this line of conduct was to
be persevered in. On the surface she
was so bad that good people outside
thought that whoever entered her
gates left hope behind so far as the
virtues and the practise of religion
were involved. All this time the heart
of Chicago was sound even If vice
fourished openly in parts of the city.
If the queen city Of the west we're
as inky as she has been pictured she
would never have reared 1000 temples
for divine worship and maintained
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-11
Mourns for His Mythical Sweetheart

and there were certain details Of rid.
ding 1t Of legal membranes and tan.
giles and need for money, and Osborne
sent her all his SAVINGS, through
Barnes, and counted every sacrifice
for her delight.
The, village watch tinker prepared
for her coming as his bride. Through
the years she had set dates and even
named trains. But always there was
something to prevent her coming.
He had become so insistent for q
sight of the one he adored that even
the resourceful Barnes had run out of
excuses. There was only one way out
Of it. He would have to kill Gladys.
He hated to do it because she had been
very profitable to him, but there did
not seem to be any other way out Of
it. So he went down to Philadelphia
and wrote letter to Osborne, telling
him that Gladys was dead. He was
staggered by the blow. She had never
been born in flesh and blood, but she
had lived in his mind and heart.
There were days of mute mourning
and nights that knew no slumber. 1t
needed not the bit of black around the
hat to tell the depth Of his woe. Then
he went back to his tinkering.
There was now no need for him to
go to the postoflce when the mail
came and ask if there was anything
for Osborne, because nobody but
Gladys Wilson had any interest in
Osborne and she had gone to the land
whence no letters come.
Somebody asked him .about the bit
of black bound around his hat and he
told a little about Gladys Wilson.
loved and lost, and showed the letter
that Barnes had sent telling him that
she was dead. Somebody was suspi-
cious and told the sheriff about it and
it did not take him long to learn that
Gladys was not dead because she had
never lived. Barnes was arrested and
is now under bail awaiting trial.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-11
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WASHINGTON estimates of
W Postmaster General Hitchcock
for next year show that the postofflce
department promises fair to pay it's
own way. The mail service comes
nearer to the people than any other
branch of the government, for 1t
reaches every home as we'll as shops
and Offices. It costs a lot of money.
Mr.. Hitchcock asks for $3.50, 733, 943,
and the appropriation for the depart
ment always is set forth in the ex-
pend1tures for each year. but the earn
1ngs from the malls bring back the
outlay to the treasury. This business
Is not reported in the current daily
statement of the treasury which set
forth only the deficit paid. This
amounted last year to 100000 and
Will be 100000 less for the current
twelve months, while it is predicted
that 1t will disappear in the next
fiscal year. The department gets no
pay for the vast tons of matter which
1t carries for other branches of tho
government. If 1t did the Offset
against the deficit would be very
large. The rent Of offices In Wash
ington and in public buildings else
where does not cover this traffic.
The work done by the postofice is
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-11

THE war department is advised that
opium, the insidious enemy of the
armies of the world, has invaded the
ranks Of the United States troops sta
toned at the Preside, near San FraE~
cisco, to such an extent that a strong
campaign, in which are involved more
than $500 men, has been launched in
an effort to crush it out-
The officers admit the seriousness
of the situation, and declare it to be
the gravest problem they have been
called upon to settle. Drastic meas.
ures are now being taken to rescue
those Of the troops who have fallen
victims to the subtle opiate. With
all the energies of the department of
war bent, to the battle. an appeal has
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-11

nos Missouri
and train From
1862 to
was during the latter period that Hught performed operating
ne road large detachment when the road
OF the
later he found that
tenden
1870 Mr. Hueh left the service the Illinois Central to become
manager OF the st. Paul M Pullman
induced him to become
railroad
the constantly
One OF the remarkable things chairman the North
Westerns board Is the that
does days railway
Is from
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-11


haifelow,
astounded He remains bundle
successfully of public
he appeared aborous specialist Of
Born the
Would
$4,000 play VIOLIN sing admirably
politics? He OF the
possible certainly
understood him and him.
Buying secondhand in Paris he took
alone with
ruling
barred a
He quit St. Nazare his
socialists
subjects His articles the Lanene
self as If it were the workingman who them.
frsn
1906
It's head NO one realizes how he it. All
diHcule with
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-11

In a couple of noted cases it has
been resolved to debar from society
the persons who have figured in scan
dals. This is the one effective way Of
reaching such offenders. Social o.
tracism can be used where the law
and the church fail to punish, for it
is a weapon whost attack few can
withstand. no matter how strongly
they meet other methods Of punish
ment for moral wrongdoing. u = 80
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-11
Not Much of a Prize.

The first prize in lottery held at
fete at Ableiges, in France. was
kept secret until the drawing took
place. when the winner found. to his
horror, that it consisted of two
graves, OF which flowers were to be
planted at the expense Of the giver.
The giver is a florist and also the
l0eal grave digger. $50:
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-11
RESEMBLES "FIGHTING BOB"

John c. Hartigan, BrBigadier-General of the
Nebraska National Guard frequently DESIGNATED
as the prototype of "Fighting Bob" Evans. is a
conspicuous figure, particularly in the West at
the present tine Forty years of age, native
of Missouri, he is described as natural born
fighter who never knows when he is beaten.
From boyhood Hartigan was always Ticking"
somebody. After his school days were over he
licked his opponents in two races for the MAYOR
atty at Fairbury. In 1897 he went to the Philip-
pines private soldier and came home a cap-
tain. He did some gallant work IN active serv-
ice, and on his return was successfully promoted
to his present position of honor and usefrl1 esq.
Hartigan is known as knight of the mailed
fist. and he is one-to-ten shot as a faHortte CON
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-11

The bares tructur
n Montan
penniess com
her progress marked to
her studies during
While nearly
w. his wife, 80 ~ ~ a.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-11

That incident in Naples where two
strangers trying to give candy to chill
dren were suspected by the panic
stricken people of spreading the chol-
era and mobbed with cries of Death
to the prisoners" shows how little
progress has been made since the DAYS
of the plague, In some places.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-11
True Praise and fIatterv.

The unctuous hypocrite is in such
contrast with the man of honor as IL
the slanderer and scandal moneer.
The fair and open face of honest
praise. the caress Of true affection in
speech. the thrilling verdict of solid
fame and real glory, are as far sway
from hattery as the stars arc from
mud puddles. .. i.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-11

A woman of sixty years swan five
miles in the Mississippi river at St.
Louis the other day. 1t is needless tc
say that she did not wear hobble
skirt
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-11

Chicago man marries for the first
time at the age Of ninety-two. He'll
have to do some tall hustling to catch
up with the average Chicago record
from now on.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-11

It may be none of our business, but
we trust that the sororities will deal
gently with the eighty
woman who has entered the Ohio
state university as a student.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-11

A Connecticut man fired ten bullets
in his head without fatal results. 1t
Is hard to tell which was greater
the persisting force of his determlna-
ton or the resisting quality of his
brains.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-11

That Poughkeepsie society woman
whose pearl necklace was confiscated
by the customs officials might have
had it yet if she could only have kept
it under her hat.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-11

The walters now ask to be divided
into classes Excellent idea! Walters
who wait, walters who make custom
ers wait, walters who are polite and
walters who are otherwise?
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-11
MISTRESS OF BIG MANSION

After nine years the most costly house in
America has been finally completed, and presid-
ing over 1t will be a petite young lady who has
won her way to this queenly position through
courtship which once threatened to upset a Sec
ton of Washington politics. The house is that
OF Senator w. A. Clark Of Montana and New
York, and is situated at the corner of Fifth ave-
nue. and Seventy seventh street, Manhattan.
The house, when viewed from the exterior,
appears rather heavy and massive for the space
occupied, but, once within, one appreciates the
real harmony of it all. Each of the nine stories
is massed with every conceivable adjunct of CON-
fort and luxury; from top to bottom is store of
stored wealth and mechanical device unsur-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-11

AS a general thing when girl
wears such an extreme hat that a man
has to dislocate his neck to look un-
der it her face is not worth the effort.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-11

The doctor who thinks that the
Adams apple Is responsible for insan'
1ty may be on the eve Of a great dis
cOvery.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-11

Bob Evans tells US that an airship
is plaything and would be of no use
in war. But what will Bob do when
those bombs begin dropping down the
chimney?
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-11
Mnemonic&.

MnemonicS.
Memory improves and strengthens
with use. The systematic endeavor to
improve the efficiency Of the memory
is known as mnemonics, and is said
to have originated with Simonides, q
Greek poet. Most systems Of mnemon-
les include artificial associations a. an
aid to recollection. -S
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-11

A Kansas City woman, suing for di.
vorce. charged that her husband quar-.
relied with her for going to funeral
Some men are so mean they hate their
wives to have any pleasure at all.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-11
No Demand.

No Demand.
why don't people write poems ike
Paradise Lost or 'Dante's Infernor
asked the sincerely literary person.
whats the use?" rejoined the con.
hdent scribe. All the people know
OF who bought the works you mention
had to be persuaded to buy them Tor
the sake Of the pictures.'' = = :, !.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-11

Eighty-two pounds of sugar for
every man. woman and child last
year! The men may offer thanks
that the women and children got
theirs.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-11

If shark meat ever crowds beef in
the worlds markets shortage Of rain
on the great plains will make no diff
ference in the quality.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-11

A little while ago the cheering
word was passed that Holsters would
become more plentiful. Now it is
threatened that there will be a short
age of salmon and sardines.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-11

When the aeroplanes dash around
the course at the rate of mile a min.
ute they never kick up any clouds Of
microbe- laden dust.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-11

The greatest authority on love in
the world IS dead Calm yourself, la
dies-it's an italian professor. The
authoress of Poems of Passion" still
lives.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-11

Joy riding in the air has this advan-
tage-there are no chickens to be run
over The birds have so far succeed
ed in lodging.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-11

venezuela consumes 100000 gal
lone of kerosene year." Why doesn't
somebody start an electric light plant
down there?
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-11

That war in Nicaragua cost 1000
lives. Men have not yet discarded
the blood-letting system in politics.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-11

In South Norwalk, Conn.,, lives a
heroic young woman who played ten
ris in a hobble skirt. Naturally she
broke her leg.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-11

All the pessimist can see in an aero
plan flight is big crowd and stif1
neck.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-11
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT
RAILROAD HEAD RESIGNS

Marvin Hughitt, who has been president of
the Chicago and Northwestern Railway company
for nearly "a years. has given up that position to
accept the craftsmanship OF the board OF direc-
tors Mr.. Hughitt. who Is in his seventy-third
year, is In many ways one Of the most remark
able men in the railway service. There probably
is no man in the railroad world today who is
more widely known and yet about whom little
is known In detail Mr. Hughitt. This is the
result of a lifelong policy Of doing things rather
than of talking. ~ 49,,
He was born in Genoa. Cayuga county, N. r..
in 1897 and began his career as telegraph oper-
ator at Albany for the. New York and Buffalo
Telegraph company in 1852. In 1854 he located
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-11

Someone has estimated that the
earth weighs seven trillion tons. But
cheer upl You're not carrying It,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-11

So far none of our aviators has beer
successful enough to break into vaude
vile.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-11
FRENCH REPUBLICS MASTER

The great railroad strike In France brought
more than ever to the notice of the world a
markabe man. On the reassembling OF the cham
Der of deputies Premier BRAND created some
thing of a sensation by declaring that he had
proof, through confessions of the leaders of the
recent railroad strike that there was deliberate
plot to ruin T7asce by violence. anarchy and civil
war.
BRAND, now prime minister and master OF the
French republic, nobody ten years ago. At
thirty-fve he was outsider and, worse, seem
ingly failure even as lawyer. Suddenly he
willed, and all came easy to him. Easy is the
word that to characterize him now and
then.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-11

A Buffalo man was given five years
for stealing a cent. Something of a
centence, that.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-11

A New York man ate 365 steamed
clans. Why don't the clam conserv-
ers get after this sort of experts?
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-11

New York bank thief collapsed when
he was arrested. He was close sec
ond to the bank
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-11


demonstrated to his thai
Jennings admire pluck ana it is
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-11
Are the auto races trying to maxi
bull fights appear humane? :.

Still, at its new prizes. radium vii
hardly be substitute for coal.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-11
The new IS bills will be smaller
That's appropriate-they act smaller.

Connecticut woman earned $10,00(
last year selling eggs-the real thing
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-11

Let US have only denatured automt
bile races Hs $3.50