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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-05-05
Great Sums Spent in Luxuries

and girls of the country and the old
er people, too, spent $25,000.000 last
year on chewing gum.
The country's confectionery bill for
1910 amounted to $7S,000,O00.
The $S0,000,O0o spent on jewelry is
twice the amount required to build
the Panama canal
Our soda water bill was $320,000,-
900.
The representative says: Take
the egg, for instance; it doesn't cost
the hen any more to lay an egg today
than it did 100 years ago. but We pay
more than our grandfathers did be-
cause we don't let the hen lay the
egg where we can get out the back
door ourselves and pick it up. The
farmers wife in Idaho goes out and
gathers up an egg, keeps it till man
comes along with a buggy and takes
it from or. He crates, sorts and
packs it along with others and then
carries it to the railroad It is laid
in April, May or June; you don't get
it until the following Christmas, and
you have to pay for it's keep all that
time, pay for the cold storage pay
the railroad rates. the expense of the
man who went around in buggy and
gathered it and the initial price OF
the farmers wife in Idaho. 1t is the
same all along the line"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-05-05
Brides Feet Cause Sensation
e T. LOU1S.-Miss Young Oy became

G T. LOU1S.-Miss Young Oy became
- the bride of Yeong Wing Jow at
the city hall.
Attaches of the marriage license Of
flee say that, though she is a Chinese,
Miss Oy was one of the most attrac-
tive young women who ever went
there. Dainty and graceful of carriage,
she was vision OF coy loneliness as
she stood at the desk, blushing and
screening her face from the view of
the curious by drawing about the soft
folds of the Chinese silk automobile
veil which she wore in lieu OF q pic
ture hat
Her long gray travelling coat was
tailor-made and up to the minute in
style and finish, and her gown, also in
American style, was of blue silk. From
beneath the hem of her skirt peeped
the tiniest of feet, not bound and de-
formed like those Of many Chinese
women. but perfect in outline and
shod in American shoes.
Clerks at the marriage license of.
flee say her feet are the smallest they
ever saw-her shoe, according to their
expert estimate, being not larger than
No. 10, children's size.
Yeong Wing Jow, also clad in Amer.
lean style, wore tailor-made dark
sack suit, patent leather shoes and q
a fedora hat
Both gave their address as 931
Clarendon avenue, where the bride
groom has laundry. He explained
that two of Miss Oy's cousins are his
partners in business, and that she has
been living there under the chaperon
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-05-05
Passing of Old-Time Janitor

learn that this yielded in a big build
ing as much as $1,000 a year, while in:
some of the very large ones it would
bring in very much more, up to $4,000
at the highest. Then there was the.
matter of a commission on the ice,
and towels supplied to patrons, which
would run anywhere from Is per cent.
upward.
Christmas was naturally the occa-
sion when everybody around the build
ing would be in quest of present.
and the janitor was invariably the
most assiduous searcher after gratu1-
ties; in fact, some of them were ar"
lists at the practice.
Nowadays under the new system the
janitor gets $50 to 500 month. He
is under the control of the assistant
manager of the building, and he In
turn is subject to the manager where
there are several properties under one
control.
There is purchasing agent directly
under the eye of the manager, who
buys all supplies, and these are
checked carefully.
The system of tipping has been re-
duced to a minimum in most of the
best corporations, no Christmas pres
ents from anybody with an Office in
the building, though that doesn't
mean that no presents are made, for
gratuities than these same corpora
lions, and faithful service is invariably
rewarded, but the petty grating that
formerly prevailed is a thing of the
DaSt
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-05-05
DuRh IT -10u\
HAVE 70 KEEP
on IT,
FER THAT
HIGHLANDER
| ALL Tk'TiME J
swings the
short weight

r. H1CAGO.-Wabbly swings the
~ steelyards of the short weight
crook" in Chicago
No more do grocers, butchers, can
d;emakers, coal dealers and cordwood
men give short weight to the purchas.
ing public
In the early days short weighing
was popular in the ranks Of the short
weight people, but Pro Bono Publico,
the prize kicker, has had an awaken.
ing and today he is looking for sixteen
ounces to the pound and 1000 pounds
to the ton, as a result of the work of
the retiring inspector of weights and
measures-John HIGHLANDER. exploited
as the terrible Swede."
There are tricks in all trades but
ours"
That's an old story.
It was King Solomon who said: "A
false scale is an abomination unto the
Lord, but just weight is his de-
light"
For many years dishonest dealers
went unpilloried in Chicago. Fees
were collected by this official and an
other, but until HIGHLANDER went into
Office and with the assistance of VIII
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-05-05

might find. Any association with
plants and flowers cannot fail to have
an elevatfng effect on the human
mind.
Regarding the way to interest a
hayward boy in flowers, an absorbing
question is opened, since a general
liking for flowers is not generally
found In children. The fondness for
flowers generally comes later in life.
Still. If a hayward boy was set II
work under the elevating direction ii
a gardener or florist, who would IN
press upon him regularity of habt(..
together with working knowledge 81
plants and their culture, it would 10 !
great way toward putting q boy On
the Night track" 9
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-05-05

is true, though not to so great an ex.
tent, of the post Office department.
Whatever abuse exists under the
laws which permit officials and en-
ployes to travel at the expense of
the government did not spring up un-
der the present administration. Un-
der the preceding administration no
effort was made to hold in check
travel expenditures.
The injunction that has gone out
simply is that travel pay must not be
authorized except where travel on
government business is absolutely
necessary.
Soon after President Taft entered
the White House, and long before the
present economy and efficiency board
was created, instructions went out to
the heads Of the executive depart.
ments to curtail travelling expenses
wherever possible. Under that gen.
eral order considerable saving was
effected during the first two years of
this administration, but the economy
and efficiency board thinks it sees
how still greater saving may be
brought about.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-05-05
Flowers as Antidote for Crime

ID OSTON.-The wayward boy-the
u boy with criminal or mischievous
tendenc1es-may be served with great
er advantage to himself and his future
development by being apprenticed to
a gardener or florist than by going
into any other line of work, is the
opinion held by Prof. Charles Sargent
of Harvard.
There is no doubt that the line of
work in which man engages acts
upon his personality and that garden
ing has an elevating effect upon the
men employed in it," he says. II am
told that surprisingly large percent
age of murderers are men who have
at one time or another been employed
as butchers. That Is an extreme in
stance of occupation, but might say
that at the other end Of the PROPOSE
ton is gardening. No man can make
a success as gardener unless he
loves his plants.
"A hayward boy thrown into work
among growing plants would be
brought under a better influence than
under almost any other occupation he
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-05-05
is A WIZARD AT FIGURES

Representative John J. Fitzgerald
of New York, who has come to the
head of the committee on appropria-
tons in the readjustment made neces-
sary when the Democrats took over
the control of the national house of
representatives, will have as his right
hand man James C.. Courts, who for
over a decade has been officially
designated as clerk of this most i'm
portant body. His mastery Of figures
is rothing short Of wonderful; he has
had years of experience in which to
perfect himself, and there is little do
ing in the way of committee business
that he can't reduce to cold figures.
Congress annually votes an extra
$1,000 to his regular salary in recog-
milton of his extraordinary efficiency.
Mr.. Courts is generally referred to as
the mathematician Of the house."
and what he doesn't know about the
governmental finances isn't worth
knowing. He is always ION deck" at
committee meetings, and his usual
place is by the side of the chairman.
appropriation for some obscure matte
at his tongues end and reels of fact
daze the layman. Mr.. Courts serv1c
ciated by the new chairman as they q
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-05-05
GUN
|&25.ooo,ooo
CANDY
$4,000. 900
JEWElRY
100000
" ASHINGTON.-W it comes tC
U keen understanding of domes

WAsH1NGToN.-When it comes to
" keen understanding of domes-
TIC economy, there is no man living
who has anything on Representative
J. Hampton Moore of Philadelphia.
He has completed a list of luxuries
which shows that the candy con-
sumed In single year represents
the cost Of a complete chain of canals
from Boston to Key West; that the
jewelry sold represents twice the cost
OF building the Panama canal, and
that the nickels annually dropped on
soda water counters are sufficient to
establish a complete inland water
way system.
The statistics with which Represent
alive Moore backs his assertions are
colossal. They represent his investi-
cation into the reason for the high
cost Of living, and prove that the in
dividual himself is in a large meas
ure responsible for the decline of the
dollars value.
According to Mr.. Moore. the boys
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-05-05

proposal Secretary of the Navy Meyer
feels that it would be inadvisable for
the government to undertake the send.
ing Of the Portsmouth to the Pacific
coast. 1t is probable that she will
be turned over to the Marine Hospital
service for use as a floating hos
pital.
The old sailing vessel independence,
now at the Mare Island navy yard,
will also be disposed of soon. A board
of survey has been ordered to inves-
tigate her condition and recommend
what disposition should be made of
her. The Independence sailed in 1915
for the Barbary coast under Commo:
dore William cambridge to arrange
the difficulties between the United
States and the Barbary powers. She
has been used as receiving ship at
the Mare Island navy yard since 1858.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-05-05


daey after graduation he
founder
$25o In 1905 when the Board State School Examiners
organized
rural schools During Mr. Thomas tenure this
raised
erection buildings
direct efforts
pupils
though high
those taking the public schools shall their
studies
thousands scientifically trained strongly
afcia those
educational faces
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-05-05
KENNEDY TO GET RED HAT

Right Rev. Thomas F. Kennedy,
Bishop of Indianapolis, president of
the North American college at Rome,
Italy, and a personal favorite of the
pope, shortly will be appointed by the
Holy See as an American cardinal, to
share honors with Cardinal Gibbons,
of Baltimore.
This statement is made upon the
authority of Roman Catholic, SO
high in church affairs that it should
be taken without hesitancy, and &C.
cording to the same source the ap-
pointment will be the direct result Of
the suffragan bishops refusing to
abide by the pope's desire to see
Bishop Kennedy recommended as a
successor to Archbishop Ryan of
Philadelphia, who died recently.
The pope's wishes were made
known to the suffragan bishops by
Cardinal Gibbons. Instead of select
ing three names the suffragan bishops
submitted one, that of Bishop Prem
derqast. Of this diocese. who did
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-05-05


cray Kept the negotiations
officers the St.
had been
Gray
At Portland
Hill Nothing
He declined
Pacific
this
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-05-05
new HEAD FOR HILL LINES

Carl Raymond Gray, senior vice.
president of the St. Louis and San
Francisco line, with headquarters in
st. Louis, has resigned to become
president of the steam and electric
railroads of the Hill system, with
headquarters at Portland, Ore, sue
ceeding John F. Stevens. The ar
rangements were made by James j.
Hill.
w. c. Nixon. vice-president and
general manager, will succeed Gray
as senior vice-president of the Frisco,
with Charles M. Levy and w. V. H.
Rosing as assistants to the vice-presi.
dent and with w. 7. Tyler as general
manager
The offer from Hill to Gray was
pending while Howard Elliott, presi-
dent of the Northern Pacific, was
considering the proposition for the
chief executive office of the Missouri
Pacific railway and the st. Louis,
Iron Mountain and Southern Shortly
after Elliott left St. Louis Gray met
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-05-05

A young woman in a Michigan city;
who wanted to wear a harem skirt in
public, got a police permit, including
police protection, before she ventured.
The harem skirt fills long-felt want
with those who can do nothing to win
fame and are anxious for notoriety.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-05-05

While handling bills amounting tc
$4,000 New Jersey man contracted
blood poisoning from some Of the
dirty bills. But many would be willing
to take the chances of infection from
dirty money In blocks Of $4,000 n
"a time.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-05-05

A Pennsylvania Judge has decided
that 1t Is no part Of a woman's house.
hold work to milk COWS. But where
was his consistency when he also de-
cided that she might collect the eggs
and feed the chickens?
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-05-05

Archbishop DEATH.
Prior
archbishop
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-05-05

Fighting duels by proxy Is the latest
pastime in Paris. Possibly the game
was invented by man with a sense
of humor who feared that personal
participation in a duel might cause
him to laugh himself to death.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-05-05

A health lecturer advises people
who wish to live long to eat sauer-
kraut, as it contains the longevity
germ. But perhaps the desire to live
long might be somewhat checked by
a steady diet of sauerkraut.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-05-05

We move that the New Yorker
who is running an agency to dispose
of titled foreigners to American heir
esses be thrown into jail for peddling
gold bricks.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-05-05

New York authorities threaten to
place ban on "cuss words" on the
stage. This will be a heavy blow to
the deep dyed villyun. Can you i'm
agine a respectable villyun mutterine
fudge" or 'fiddlesticks
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-05-05

Daisy Cornucopia Pauline" is tho
name of the cow that has established
new worlds record by producing
34% pounds of butter in seven days.
The cow with the crumpled horn OF
plenty, as 1t were.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-05-05

Two dinosaur footprints won the
finders way through college, and he
has sold another pair for a fancy
price. Il it turns out that he has
struck the trail made by a dinosaur
after hard night there will be a now
millionaire in Colorado.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-05-05

One woman. unmarried, is OF the
opinion that If women were allowed
to do the counting and proposing
there would be more happy marriages.
1t might be worth while tc try 1t, any
way.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-05-05
BOOST EDUCATION IN SOUTH

Parents and teachers in the south
ern states will be interested TN the
fact that on June LIST James Shelby
Thomas, dean of Virginia Christian
college of Lynchburg, will become
commissioner of education for the
Southern Commercial Congress. His
work for the congress will carry him
into all states of the south, for the
purpose of bringing about a quicker
exchange among all educators of edu-
catiOncl ideas and of school improve
ment suggestions. He will also work
out plan for the Southern CONNER
cial Congress, whereby it can assist
college and other students of the
south to secure or complete their edu-
cation along scientific lines.
Mr.. Thomas is young man with
an unusual educational record. He
was born in Saltville, Va, in 1880. He
received his education in public
schools, then prepared for college at
Tazewell and the city high school at
Catlettsburg, KY. He took his degree
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-05-05

A transatlantic liner which recently
arrived in New York with big cargo
of Paris f1nery would have filled Diog-
enes with surprise and delight. for
everybody on board was honest.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-05-05

A church about to disband in New
York has membership worth about
$750,000,000. The task Of getting that
treasure laid up in heaven seems to
be a difficult one.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-05-05
All the Attraction

All the Attractions.
This seems to be quite a progress.
i've town." said the stranger.
"Oh, yes" the native proudly re-
piled. the big cities amt got nothing
on US. We've just finished a hotel
that has q mezzanine floor"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-05-05

A Boston clergyman says women
have lost the art of blushing, and this
may be why some are wearing the
hobble and some the harem skirt.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-05-05

Prof. Perrier. a French astronomer.
tells US emphatically that there Is no
life on Venus or Mars. When astrono-
mers disagree, etc.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-05-05

Wherever 1t has appeared the har-
EN- skirt seems to have caused a riot.
1t is going to be hard on the timid to
be fashionable this spring.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-05-05

A new aviator whose name Is Mars
has dawned on the world. For once
a birdman has been found who has q
name that fits his calling.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-05-05

Pride goeth before fall. When an
automobile tries to knock freight
train of the track the pedestrian is
tempted to chortle within his sleeve.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-05-05

A Philadelphia public man thinks
the harem skirt will uplift the race.
1t seems to have more the tendency
to upset it, as far as practical results
can be relied on for judgment.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-05-05

The population of India is 315,000,-
600, an increase Of 20,500,000 since
1901. No race suicide there.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-05-05

An aeroplane carried thirteen men
in flight in France the other day,
but the average citizen still prefers
to cling to mother earth.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-05-05

The harem skirt is being taken Sc
riously in Rome. One father has CON-
mitted suicide because his daughters
wore them.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-05-05

It was Queen Elizabeth who said a
lie Is an intellectual method of meet.
ing a difficulty.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-05-05

Absolute independence consists,
says one writer, in eating onions and
not giving a-darn who knows it.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-05-05
SuperIattve.


Smith Ito member of vested choir)
II hear you've got a new tenor In
the choir. What kind Of q voice has
he-good?" Jones-"Good? should
say so! It's so good none of the other
tenors will speak to him."-Iifa.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-05-05

A Chicago minister says that some
marriages are planned by Satan, and
we thought they were all made in
heaven.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-05-05

Sandow, the strong man, is trying
to build King George up to his own
standard as against coronation week.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-05-05

The bungalow" hat is the latest fol
women. Can it be bought on the in
stallment plan?
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-05-05

"COnvicts are not the worst men"
says Chicago preacher. Still, there
are lot of good men out of prison.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-05-05

1t wouldn't seem fair to tax bach.
elors and let the young widowers es'
cape.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-05-05
And here comes the four-slit skirt
The trouser skirt is the only one
that needs police protection.

The price of Holsters has gone up,
but this is no excuse for being one.
The daily Alaskan., 1911-07-10
4 PROFITABLE
 INVESTMENT

The most appropriate and at the same time the most attractive sou yeuir one may take from Alaska, is that which was instrumental in focus. sing the attention Of the entire world ou our great country.
 Ever since the magic year of 1897 gold has poured from the creeks and beaches of Alaska and been convert ed into money reckoned into millions. Hence the sight of gold either mint ed or mounted at once directs ones mind to the land of the midnight sun.
 What more appropriate then, than piece of nugget jewellery, either as a frame for the beautiful mastOdon ivory, stained by the countless years it has endured, or nuggets joined in chain work by skilled artisan. A brooch or solitary nugget of curious natural shape is a souvenir which tells the story of the mad rush to the klondike,
 The fact that a purchase Of nugget jewellery is in reality an investment in an article that cannot depreciate seems to be dawning upon the yis- itors to the Northland and the sales are rapidly increasing in this line of goods.
 II. D. Krmse has made study of the art of nugget jewellery mounting, and has the finest display of the
 yellow metal ever gathered to- gether in one salesroom.