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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-11-03
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CALINA, KAN.-1n the breach Of
y promise suit of Miss Alice Bowes
against N. w. Sly, some inside facts
about how travelling man may in
variably get the best there is on the
bill of fare at hotel were made pub.
lie.
Miss Bowes was waitress In To-
peka hotel. Sly, formerly Union Pa
ciflc conductor, and now claim agent
for that road, frequently stopped at the
hotel where the plaintiff was employ
ed. He "jollied" her freely and she
thought he was trying to marry her.
Sly says he was merely trying to get
the best there was in the house to
eat. The jury took the girls side of
the question and gave her a verdict
for $4,000.
The girl says that Sly made love to
her and induced her to 60 with him on
several trips, and wrote her many ef-
fusive letters. She could not produce
any of these letters. Though this state
nent was met by a denial from Sly
that he ever wrote to her, she says
the letters were so warm she destroy
ed them as fast as they arrived. Sly
stood pat on clear denial of every
allegation and insisted the whole
trouble came from Miss Bowes' In.
ability to differentiate between hun
ger and heartache.
During his many years work as a
railroad man Sly took liberties with
his personal locomotive and made
many a flying switch on lunch coun-
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Trimmed by Strangers in Poker Game

under a brick, which Mr.. Morton found
in a small valise when he opened it to
look for $500 he thought he had won
In a poker game.
According to Mr.. Morton he met a
few days ago a man from whom he
won $4,000 playing poker. After the
man had given an Il. o. o." for the
money he told Mr.. Morton Of another
man from whom he could win lot of
money. Mr.. Morton was told the 9TH
er man played a strictly cash game
and that he had better provide him
self with $500. Mr.. Morton did so and
the trio went to nice, clean. vacant
lot outside the town and began to play.
1t was a table stakes game, and each
OF the men put up $500 in real money
before starting. Mr.. Morton bet 500
and prayed fervently that his oppo-
nent would raise him. He did.
RAISE you $780," he said, and Mr..
Morton promptly called" him. The
other fellow said he had flush, and
Mr.. Morton drew down the pot. show
ing his hand. Then his best friend
produced a valise, into which he
placed all the money in the pot Next
he offered to redeem his II O. u" and
put into the valise what he said was
5000 in cash.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-11-03
Steals to Win Honors in Fraternity

Anew YORK.-Richard Pacharz. self.
~ confessed embezzler, who had do
mated most Of the $4,000 he stole to
the lodge of which he was the chief
officer, and contributed the remainder
to various charitable enterprises, met
clemency on every hand when he was
arraigned before Judge Swami. The
court suspended sentence and the
young mans employers-from whom
he had stolen-offered him his old
place as confidential bookkeeper and
cashier. 1t was a remarkable case of
it's kind.
During the eight years previous to
his arrest, Pacharz had been employed
by Darnet Bros. When the thefts were
discovered the bookkeeper pleaded
guilty. In making his plea he amazed
the court by proclaiming that he had
spent every dollar Of the stolen money
in donations to the order to which he
belonged and it's charities. Not dol
lar Of the plumber had he spent on
himself or his little family.
my trouble" said the young man,
rs due entirely to a mad ambition
for fraternal honors. It was the one
great Joy Of my life to attain high
rank in the lodge, 20 stole money to
meks donations and give parties and
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-11-03
Highway Building Soon to Be General

M ORE money is being expended In
V1 the good roads movement through
out the United States this year than
has ever before been utilized for this
purpose. Some results OF the work
being done by the Touring Club Of
America in conjunction with the Amer
lean Association for Highway I'm
provement toward educating the pub
lie to the value of improved highways
throughout the country are illustrated
In a chart just prepared by the United
States office Of public roads. which
shows that nearly fifteen thousand
miles of transcontinenal. interstate
and trunk line roads are contemplated
in various sections of the country.
Although the chart was prepared by
the office Of public roads. it does not
by any means represent all the work
that has been projected or is aided
financially by the government. The
idea in issuing the chart was merely
to show the tremendous impetus that
lately has been given to the nation.
wide movement for improved public
roads.
Practically every state in the Union
is benefited to some extent by the pro-
posed new highways. and the wide
spread interest in the good roads
movement indicates that the time is
not far distant when the United States
will be interlaced by complete sys-
TEN Of good roads,
Estimates prepared by the Office OF
public roads shows that by improving
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Proof That Mine Blew Up the Maine

Of the bottom, experts declare, indi-
Gates that what is now the highest
point originally and structurally occu-
pied position at about frame 18. This
suggests that there was an explosion
OF mine under that part Of the ship,
say about midway between the stem
and the midshlp section.
The explosion, experts believe, broke
the ship into two parts, throwing one
section, including the coming tower.
toward the stern, the coming tower
falling on the superstructure on the
starboard side. From this position, in
cutting away the wreckage, it has
been allowed to settle to the main
deck slightly forward Of the after tur-
ret, which Is on the port side. Thus
the tower is on the opposite side to
that on which the explosion took
place.
1t is a confirmed belief that such a
tearing OF the ships bottom could not
have been produced by an interior e.
plosion. 1t is further said that no reg.
ulation military mine could have
wrought such terrific havoc. IT must
have been huge mine. as Captain
Sigsbee and others suggested at the
time. perhaps sugar mill boiler or a
large cask loaded with explosives.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-11-03
DO YOU KNOW
! JUST HATE tn
STUFF THEY HAND
OUT OVER THESE
BUN LUNCH
\ COUNTERS S..

ter sandwich and cup of coffee. Try
ing to keep up steam on tough steak
and cold apple pie finally had its ef-
feet and by the time he quit eating
his meals In rag-time from the top Of
stool his stomach was laid up for re-
pairs and to get something he could
eat at hotels necessitated some kindly
attention from the mattresses. He
says he was kind to all of them. for
by that method he obtained better
service. In regard to Miss Bowes. he
says he didn't treat her any different
ly from the others.
ly from the others, but she seemed to
take it seriously.
To make his denial stronger he
swore that he had never been alone
with Miss Bowes in his life and told
the jury they could readily under
stand how difficult it would be, even
for man with the nerve of claim
agent, to propose to girl in crowd
ed dining room.
This was the third trial of the case.
Miss Bowes is the daughter of Pot
tawatomie farmer, and is we'll con-
nected.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-11-03

r HE Maine was destroyed by an ex-
! ternal explosion. There no longer
remains any doubt as to the manner
In which the United States battleship
was sunk in Havana harbor on Feb
ruary Is. 1898. The double bottom OF
the ship has been revealed with part
Of the keel standing perpendicular,
some % feet higher than its normal
position. This confirms the report
and testimony which Ensign Powell.
son gave before the Investigating
board after the disaster and which
was based upon the reports made to
him by divers just after the explosion.
Military experts who inspected the
vessel recently found that the bottom
of the ship stands in perpendicular
position, supported by stanchions. The
lowest, or platform. deck is an up
heaved mass Of steel, above the SUBJ
merged bow. The position of this part
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-11-03

rH1CAGO.-From the Graham &
~ Morton dock, at the foot of Wa
bash avenue, three men walked into
the Chicago river the other morning.
Four policemen YEARLY flshed them
out and left them to dry on the wharf.
These three men are daily asso'
ciates of the following distinguished
persons:
A brother Of former presidents
law partner. A son Of a millionaire
brewer. A brother of a stock exchange
operator. A brother Of a Chicago po-
lice officer.
Some day one of these four men
may decide to take a promenade in
the water and perhaps the police will
get them out, and perhaps they won't.
For the four distinguished persons, as
well as the three undistinguished
ones, only wharf rats" and their
deaths would probably trouble the
city as little as their near-deaths trou-
bled the officers who rescued the
three.
There is a story called "The Port of
Missing Men," o. Burke, dock super.
intendent for Graham & Morton.
thinks he knows where the port is.
Hundreds of men have dropped sud
denly out Of sight. Many of these, &C.
cording to Mr.. Burke, are laboring now
along the docks Of the Chicago river.
unloading boats for Is cents an hour,
and, like the three who nearly drown
ed, occasionally dropping, or nearly
dropping, out of all existence.
The casual attitude Is the thing
which draws the men to the docks. At
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-11-03

picnics to the old people and children
who lived at the lodges home"
Judge Swami could scarcely credit
the mans story, but his probationary
officers found that everything Pacha"Z
said was true. When he was arraigned
the trustees Of Pacharz's lodge pro-
duced their books to show that their
officer had contributed $4,000 during
the period he was stealing from his
employers. They also verified his 9TH
er statements about minor charities.
Judge Swami replied that he was
moved to clemency not by mere senti-
ment. From every possible source he
had received the highest praise Of the
prisoner. His employers had urged
clemency and promised to take him
back to his old job. His crime was
not due to avarice or greed, but to =
noble, II misguided, impulse. Thereup-
on the Judge ret the prisoner free.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-11-03

WORKERS, N. Y.-When William
i Morton, who is Is years old, came
out Of his little trance and felt himself
over he realized it was no idle dream
that he had been put back $500 by his
love for poker and his confidence in
human nature. His belief that it was
all going out and nothing coming in
was strengthened when he read the
following note:
Never try to trim wise one. 1t
not only does not benefit a man Of
your years, but 1t has been tried by
thousands before you, and the verdict
Of time is that 1t can't be done.
Publicity would be very bad on
your credit with your banker, and we
feel therefore that we can trust you
to swallow your anger and keep this
afternoons sport to yourself"
So that this Information might not
get lost in the shuttle, it was placed
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-11-03

20 per cent. of the roads of the uation
almost the highest point of efficiency
could be reached. Twenty per cent.
of the roads In each state could be
improved by an expenditure of an aver
age sum of three million dollars a
state and the annual saving thereby
in the wear and tear on horses, wag-
ons and automobiles in the transporta-
ton Of crops and increased land val
ues is estimated at over one million
dollars. This chart, as prepared by
the Office of public roads, indicates the
extent to which the good roads move
ment has taken hold of every part OF
the United States. The roads already
improved, others merely planned and
many now under construction, literal
ly make network covering the whole
country.
With the fulfilment of all these
plans 1t will be possible to drive wag-
ons and automobiles from the Atlantic
to the Pacific coast and from Van
couver, British Columbia, to Tijuana.
Mexico, and from Montreal, Canada.
to Miami, Fla.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-11-03

submarines already 30 formidable.
BY the plan now being prepared
submarines are to be equipped with
II OF these new projectiles. It 10 not
thought it will be necessary for sub
marines to fire at a longer range than
1000 yards. From that distance it
will be impossible for officers on a bat
tleship to locate a submarine, and
there has not yet been devised any
way to attack these boats. Omcers
of the ordnance bureau declare that
at distance of 1000 yards a sub
marine could drive its IL monster tor
pedoes under the armor belt of bat
tleship and sink her without giving
the battleship the least opportunity to
reply to the attack.
The new fighting machine is a com
plex and delicately constructed
mechanism. It will require a highly
trained crew Of officers and men to
fire these powerful engines OF de-
struction with any degree Of accuracy.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-11-03
REJECTS TITLED SUlTORS

Though her fortune and great beau
ty call forth persistency on the part
Of her many titled suitors. Mrs. Will
liam B. Leeds has turned them all
away and will come back to America
to live. She Is the youthful widow of
the Tin Plate King" former presi-
dent OF the Rock Island system,
woman whom Tellu, the French artist,
enthusiastically testified had SO of the
100 points that denote physical perfec-
ton. She has had a successful social
season in London and several offers
Of marriage, among them being one
from Prince Murat, but she wishes to
return unfettered to America that she
may attend TO the education of her
son.
Mrs. Leeds wants her eight-year-old
son, William Bateman Leeds, to be
brought up under those conditions that
best tend to promote good American
citizenship. More particularly she
wants him taught how to conserve
and manage the $4,000, 900 estate left
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-11-03
SEES RISE IN LIVING COST

George E. Roberts, director of the
mint, who has recently returned to
Washington from trip through the
west predicts that the cost of living
will advance.
He says that while agricultural de-
velopment will be noted, he does not
expect 1t to keep pace with the in
crease in population. Farm rentals are
advancing, he finds, because many
farmers are being forced back to till.
ing of the soil. The consumers must
realize. he says. that the day Of cheap
free land has passed, and with an ad.
vance in the cost Of everything enter.
ing the production Of foodstuffs there
must be an increase in prices to the
consumers.
Mr.. Roberts points to the fact that
the census shows the population OF
the country increased 81 per cent be.
tween 1900 and 1910. while the farm
land area increased only ~ per cent,
and says 1t means higher living cost.
"The fact is." said Mr.. Roberts "that
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-11-03
Chicago Has a Port of Missing N

! 3 o'clock every morning a Graham &
Morton steamer comes in loaded with
fruit. The fruit must be moved into
warehouses quickly. Two or three
hours Of working time is as much as
can be spared. Two hundred men are
necessary.
The two hundred men are always
there. They begin drifting down to
the dock at nightfall. and by midnight
they are spread along it's length, sleep
ing the untroubled sleep Of the ire
sponsible. When the boat comes in
they awake and, forming in long lines,
transport the cargo, in the manner Of
bucket brigade. to the warehouse.
When the boat is unloaded they are
paid on the spot. If they have worked
two hours they have so cents. Fifty
cents, says Mr.. Burke, will last a
wharf rat for two days. Then he can
come back and make another fifty.
Occasionally one Of the workers dis
appears. After q week or two his fel-
low-workers notice that he is gone.
They make no inquiries. Perhaps he
1Xd6 1d11cu 1AtO LILO AAVVAs HSA AAs~ks~ e~~
has taken freight train to other
countries. perhaps he has quietly re-
sumed his place in a former life. The
subject is Of small interest to other
men.
On the dock origin and disposal are
alike without Significance. That a
man is of good family is of Importance
only in so far as the family sends him
remittances. Under such circum-
stances he has had "fall," and may
be cultivated as a prolific source OF
drinks.
Occasionally the rats" become too
thick and the police make a wholesale
raid. In the winter, Mr.. Burke says,
they live on odd jobs and general la
bor Every one knows their activity
in ward politics at election time. 1t Is
an eventless life and an inconspicuous
time.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-11-03
Famous Statue Again on Barney Lawn

five years her junior) has returned
from Europe with her husband.
Mrs. Barney. the mother. was much
put out by the stir made by the
statue. The Barney family pooh pooh
the idea that the statue was inspired
by or represents Miss Natalie Barney.
They say professional model was
used by Miss Laura Barney. as she
then was, who maintains studio In
Paris. Some acquaintances insist.
however. that Miss Natalie did pose
for her sister. The Barney family
were so much annoyed by the fuss
made about the work of art that It
was said they proposed to wipe Wash
ington OF the map as far as they
were concerned. II so they apparently
have thought better Of it.
With the idea Of preparing a fitting
surrounding for the statue an elab-
crate garden will be laid out about
the Barney home. Unique plans, re-
flecting the originality and artistic
taste of the mistress of the mansion.
have been drawn. The statue will oc-
cupy the place Of honor In the cen
ter. Massive white marble columns
will rise about the garden, forming
pergola of rare beauty. Climbing vines
will Irvine about the columns and the
Old World beauty of the garden will
be enhanced by a sun dial. Here the
marble form will find an abiding
place.
Washington will in future see little
or nothing of the former Laura Bar
ney, who has been welded in Paris
during the past year. Miss Natalie,
the second Amelie Rives," who
writes plays and sonnets, will accom-
pany her mother and her youthful
stepfather to Washington.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-11-03
GOES TO WAR UPON OPIUM

F.. A. Carl Of New York wRs appoint
ed by President Taft to represent the
United States in the conference called
at The Hague to consider ways aid
means for the restriction Ct the t1f-
f1c in opium. The greatest evil In
China today is the opium curse. The
government is laboring hard to com.
bat it, and to a certain extent has
succeeded. But the evil in China is
still pronounced and for several years
past it has been spreading over other
countries. among the the United
States.
To restrict this evil an international
conference was called at the capital
of Holland in which the representa-
tlves of the various world powers par
ticipated. The representative of the
American government was present
with the others.
While opium is useful medicine.
used under a doctors prescription. 1t
is a dangerous agent when other
wise employed. It has more human
wrecks to its credit that any Of the 6
now directing its energies.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-11-03

Ladies' NUTS will, according to ad-
vance notices from the fashion EN-.
poriums, be much larger during tho
coming winter than ever before. This
being the case, 1t may be necessary
for the young man who takes a girl
out in a cab or an automobile to hire
an extra vehicle for the purpose OF
Transporting her mum.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-11-03
Victims Of Own Machines.

Victims of Own Machines.
Haman devised a gallows fifty Gu
bits high for Modecai in the days OF
King Ahasuerus. But on this towering
gibbet Haman himself was hanged.
The bishop of Verdun contrived an
iron cage, too small to allow person
confined within it either to stand up
right or to lie at full length, for the
torture Of heretics. The bishop OF
Verdun himself was the first victim
to suffer in such q cage. -
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-11-03

Arithmetic is taught in some schools
by means Of baseball averages Tom
Edison suggests that geography be
studied by means Of moving pictures.
All that remains Is to teach reading
and spelling with a photograph.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-11-03

ny his father died
Among those who
Mua. the Prince
kntore Lord Alexander Thyme Bath
Abe Bailey, the South African millionaire.
missed Them saying she preferred remain single because of her small
until only Prince Murat
Mura Prince
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-11-03

A Kansas City girl stole S., 900 which
she gave to the man she loved. and he
spent it on another girl who "peached"
on the one who did the stealing. It
seems useless for a girl to steal s., 1000
for two such people as the fellow and
the other girl
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-11-03

Judge Petit has ruled that Reno d..
vorces are invalid in Illinois. but peo-
pie who have them need not be expect
ed to hurry into the courts for the
purpose Of having things righted.
What do they care for a little old
thing like a ruling?
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-11-03

A pure food authority says that
bottle Of pop contains 100000 MI
crobes. Now it Is understood why the
fan in the bleachers sometimes mani
tests an uncomfortable longing to
throw it at the umpire.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-11-03

from republics acted
director 1890 until 1885, and
historical Of the Co
lumbar special commissioner Of
Columbian Regent OF
Spain and Kill in 1892
He author and historical pamphlets
OF all
Washington
at
O
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-11-03

A Boston woman beauty doctor has
discovered that the way to be beauti-
full is to make faces. Now the true In
ward meaning Of Mother Nature In
that strange feminine impulse is fully
explained.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-11-03

A census Of the birds is to be TAX.
en-: but 80 fast does fashion STAY that
1t will be necessary to count the
ladies' hats II records are to be &C.
curate.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-11-03
Indian Hair.

In the old Indian days the hair used
to grow to a wonderful length, and to
this day families having a strain of
Indian blood often late in life have a
full suit Of hair with little or no gray
in it. The hair Of some Of the Indians
used 20 grow to the great length of
twelve feet, and on the men at that;
and those old foxy 'olk often Eade II
look thicker and longer By weaving in.
to It certain db09B. .s.a. - ..s.s..s
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-11-03

A Connecticut man has succeeded In
making his COW drunk by feeding her
sour apples. The scientific value of
his experiment has not as yet been ex-
planned.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-11-03

Paris is promising us a revival of
the hoop skirt With woman just
emerging from the hobble, 1t is a case
of jumping from one extreme to an
other.