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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-07-18

Those Missourians are a supersensi-
tive lot. Here is a Warrensburg man
killing himself because he is In debt.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-07-18

What effect will penitentiary inn
prisonment OF its founder have on the
Absolute Life cult?
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-07-18

In the interval, only few days left
yet to sign up on these commission
plan petitions.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-07-18

IL King George visits Canada he
will see country that has advanced
about as rapidly as he has since he
last saw it as prince of Wales.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-07-18

The American girl who is to marry
a Turkish diplomat must have heard
that no American girl had ever done
such thing.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-07-18

In fighting DR.. Wiley. let nothing
but the pure and unadulterated facts
be used. ,..
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-07-18

All right Check off the hyphen-
ated as opposed to the commission
plan of city government.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-07-18


Keep COOL" exhorts the Philadel-
phia Inquirer. In other words, come
to Omaha .t
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-07-18

The sting Of ingratitude makes
strange bedfellows.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-07-18

Truth, as the second entry in the
race, seldom overtakes false rumor,
as the first.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-07-18

Admiral Togo is finding an open
door in the Occident, also.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-07-18

More Alaska Scandals. Head
line. Scandals, or Just ugly rumors?
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-07-18

The potato is the forbidden frui,
Just now.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-07-18

The man who has least to say is the
one who too often talks the most.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-07-18

Yes, it was the tamest lecture ever
given here, and the house was GROW led"
What! With the thermometer at 30!
How did that happen?"
why, we all knew the talk would be a
frost and everybody went to enjoy the leo
turers chilly reception. cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-07-18

To auto drivers: Whatever you do,
don't run into a police motorcycle.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-07-18

They could not have been otherwise than
rather young, though ! could not see them
on account of the screen.
You're the only girl for me-" he told
her-'you're all my fancy painted you-the
very paregoric of anknd!-Success
Magazine.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-07-18

First Dentist-My work is so painless that
my patients often fall asleep while am at
their teeth.
Second Dentist-That's nothing. Mine all
the expression of delight on their faces
Boston Transcript.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-07-18

Even sun-kissed Kansas has cooled
of.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-07-18

Yes, I'm a trifle slow" reflected the tor
toise, as 1t passed the sleeping hare; 81
get there eventually, but I'm no speed
maniac. Chicago Tribune.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-07-18
Stop
Wakefield's
Blackberry BAlsan

Quickly stops Diarrhoea, Dysentery,
Cholera Infantum and all bowel trou-
bles without constipation. No opium
nor other habit forming drugs. Accept
only Wakefield's. 1t cures after other
remedies fail. 35c or bottles for
500. Everywhere.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-07-18

is there any uplifting force in this com
munity to enable men to use self-protectiou
in stormy times?"
Sure there a new umbrella manufac-
tory started "-Baltimore American.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-07-18
LINES TO A SMILE.

What pleasure do you derive from being
a pessimist?'
"A great deal" replied Mr.. Growcher
When the worst happens l at least have
the satisfaction of posing as a prophet -
Washington Star,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-07-18

II think that ball team is very incon-
siderate," said young Mrs. Torkins.
you dor
Yes 1t abuses hospitality. It comes
making home Observation-Disclosures Star.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-07-18

Some say there is a sucker born every
minute"
Il don't know anything about that" re-
spunded the eminent trust magnate Il
cater to ultimate consumers and the birth
rate is very satisfactory as to them. -
Louisville Courier Journal
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-08-11
Dies While Posing for Picture Films

gunwale and stretched her hand to-
ward another of the lilies. As she
put her weight on the side of the
boat it tipped and went over, throw
ing her into the water.
1t was part Of the play that the girl
should scream for help and throw up
her hands to attract the attention of
Brighton, who was strolling along the
shore of the pond in immaculate sum-
mer flannel. When the girl screamed
Brighton threw off his straw hat and
his coat and dived into the water.
The young woman in the water con-
tinued her acting of the helpless
drowning girl. The actor splashed
toward her, apparently half swimming
and half wading. Then he began to
shout for help as if appealing to
those on shore to come to his assist
ance in rescuing the girl
AS he shouted he disappeared and
then reappeared and shouted again.
The others of the company made no
move, thinking that he had taken
notion to impart an additional appear
ance Of reality to the act. So for
few seconds the film ran on, but
the rescuer sank and did not reap
pear. Then Miss Murray swan ashore
herself and Brighton's body was after
wards found.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-08-11
Sun Victim Spends Summers in Cave

came to Kansas City, Kan, about
hfteen years ago and one Of the first
improvements he made at his home
place was a summer cave. The cave
resembles a cyclone cellar. It is a
large excavation in the yard at the
rear Of his home. Grass has grown
over the cave for many years and
one must look closely to discover it.
The entrance to the cave is a door
like that on an outside cellar and
steps lead to the interior of the cave
at one end. The temperature in the
cave never gets above 60 or IS and
day after day, when everyone around
him is suffering with the heat, James
reposes on a cot, reads his Bible, to
which he devotes most Of the time, or
paints pictures.
Mrs. James and children live in
the house. Mrs. James prepares tho
meals and the children carry them to
their father, and on hot afternoons tho
entire family gathers in the cave to
escape the heat, and neighbors also
drop in often.
On cool nights James leaves the
cave and walks about the neighbor-
hood or visits his own home, but the
approach of sunrise is the signal for
him to hasten to the retreat During
the winter James works as laborer.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-08-11
Inspectors Are Busy Watching Frauds

THE efforts of the government ana
! the various states to provide pure
food for the people Of the country
has brought about higher quality OF
foodstuffs, but it has not deferred the
inventive genius Of the country from
trying to work out schemes for sub
stitutes and authorizations.
State food and drug inspectors re-
ceive scores Of letters and circulars
from alleged chemists and get-rich-
quick men who would make grocers
and butchers their tools.
Probably the worst adulteration
that has come to the attention of the
department is butter emulsion
which will cause the butter to absorb
it's exact weight in water and still
prevent the butter eaters knowing 1t.
Take a pound of butter and pound
of water and spoonful of this emul-
sion, work the three together for
about ten minutes, and there is two
pounds of butter and no water. The
average housewife could not tell the
difference between this watered but.
ter and the real article.
A man in Tennessee has developed
a scheme by which he can make
pure apple cider vinegar at an actual
cost of four cents a gallon, and using
one apple for each gallon. The fraud
could not be detected except by an
actual chemical test The same chap
also has a scheme for making apple
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-08-11
Servant in One Family for Fifty Years

THICAGO.-Fifty years in the EN-.
~ ploy Of one woman, whom she has
served with rare intelligence. eager
ness and devoted loyalty, is the won
derful record established by Miss
Barbara Ritter, who has worked the
half century for Mrs. Samuel Faulk-
ner, 4746 Madison avenue.
While thousands of women in Chi
cago have changed servants at the
only has retained the invaluable as
sistance of her helper, but has won
her stanch fealty for herself and her
family. Miss Ritter, known as Bar
bic" to the hundreds Of friends of
the Faulkner family and as famous
among them for her personality as
for her ginger cookies, has been Mrs.
Faulkner's first lieutenant in the rails
ing Of the Faulkner family of eight
children.
Miss Ritter entered Mrs. Faulkner's
service fifty years ago as nurse
maid for the one little Faulkner of
that time. She was tireless, she
liked work, she looked for work and
she accomplished work faster than
two other ordinary maids could have
done it. And all the time she was
happy in its accomplishment.
Miss Anne Faulkner, speaking for
her mother, gives all the credit for
the loyalty and length Of service to
"Barbie" But "Barbie," who looks
twenty years younger than her sixty
three years, being small and wiry
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-08-11

w ASH1NGTON.-Every crank in
w the country that doesn't know
what fool thing to do with himself
ductor to put him off at Washington
thinks he must see the president.
II the wheels in the head of some
lunatic in Bangor, Me-, or Tombstone,
Ariz., get to working overtime he
heads for Washington to show the
president the mechanism. If some
long-haired lunatic in Oshkosh builds
wheelbarrow out of a soap box and
a sitter rim he won't be happy till
he's trundled it cross country to
Washington and has the president
come out on the front porch and look
at 1t.
Every summer, before the presi-
dent leaves, there's perfect deluge
of cranks that have ridden horseback
from Dawson City or driven an OK
team from some town out beyond the
Rockies. says a White house attache
Recently we had two of these idiots
In one day-three. to be exact. One
was a man riding a burro from San
Diego to Boston on bet, and the
other two were a man and his wife
from some insane place out west.
They had sworn on the bones Of the
saints or something that they would
walk into every state in the Union
within a twelvemonth; they had al
ready been in seventeen, and, having
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-08-11
Scurrying Little Senate Messengers

session or not. The pages are never
removed on account of politics. The
boys of the senate wear knee
breeches, neat little round abouts, silk
stockings and well-polished shoes.
Their faces and hands are clean, their
hair carefully brushed and each one
of them looks as il he had just come
out of a bandbox. The duties Of a
page today are substantially the
same as were required at the begin
ming of the government.
Sometimes the boys are not dis
missed when they reach the age
limit Exceptionally bright pages
have been retained as riding pages.
whose duty it is to carry messages
for senators to executive departments
and to all points in the national CAPT
tai. Others have been promoted to
the position Of deputy sergeant-at-
arms of the senate, or as superin-
tendent of pages on tho Democratic
or Republican side of the senate. The
boys attend night school and by
listening to debates and by reading
the congressional record are receiving
educations on national affairs and on
economics such an no university in
tho world could afford to provide for
it's students.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-08-11

butter with one apple to the gallon
Of butter and at a cost of one-fourth
the real article.
A man In Rochester, N. Y, devel-
oped plan of treating sawdust with
molasses to use In adulterating spices
One part of the real spice and three
parts of sawdust made the product,
which could not be detected by the
eye or tongue.
Frauds in favoring extracts and
maple syrup have been common. A
Vermont man has offered a recipe to
grocers so that they can make the
maple syrup they purchase into an
adulterated product, three gallons Of
fraudulent syrup to one-half gallon
Of the real syrup.
There are numerous other schemes
for increasing the weight of parched
coffee. preserving eggs, useless bak
ing powders, making mincemeat and
tomato catsup at reduced cost by
using little meat or tomatoes. The
grocer, to get the recipes, must pay
for them. The price is usually SO
and a pledge to secrecy.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-08-11

for what in civil life would merit
merely discharge from their employ
ment. Most of the prisoners are I'M
der sentence for desertion or disobedi-
ence of orders, and many Of them vol
unfairly surrender for punishment. Az
rule they average higher in the scale
of manhood and Intelligence than civil
convicts and, accordingly, will ~
ceive better treatment.
In the old prison there are now
nearly 800 men, and many Of them
live two in q cell. In the new prison
it is doubtful whether all of the cells
ever will be occupied, unless the army
should be increased greatly.
The men now convicts are erecting
the new buildings, burning the lime,
making cement blocks. cutting and
saving timber, fitting the plumbing,
erecting the steel, in fact. doing prac-
tically every part of the work under
civilian foremen. Practically all mate
rial entering into the construction Of
the new prison buildings is beins
made by oonvicts.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-08-11
Army Convicts Building Model Prison

Fort LEAVENWORTH, KAN
Work on what is intended to be
the largest and finest military prison
In the world-an institution which tho
war department plans to make a
model for all future penal establish
ments-has been begun here, to re-
place the prison built in 1877. The
cost Of the new prison is estimated at
only $643,O00, but the completed
structure will be the equal Of $3,000;-
600 buildings erected by contract
This saving Of more than $4,000, 900
will be represented by the work done
by convicts. the material manufac-
tured in the prison, and the parts of
the old prison utilized in the new
The entire work, it Is expected, will
be completed by January /, 1914. BY
the end Of next year, however, a large
part Of the new prison will be occu-
pied.
When the new prison is completed
it will have accommodations for 2,182
convicts, and each will have a large
cell to himself, fitted with every mod
ern convenience. The cell houses are
to be built on the radial plan, each
tier of cells radiating from central
rotunda, from which the watch off.
Ger can, by merely turning his head.
see the entire frontage.
Military prisoners differ greatly
from convicts in civil penitentiaries in
that most Of them are under sentence
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-08-11

and black-haired, emphatically de-
clares that she has known any num-
Der Of families where she would not
have stayed so minutes. And 80 the
credit seems to be equally divided be-
tween Mrs. Faulkner and her devoted
companion.
For several years the Faulkners
have been trying to retire "Barbie"
from active work. But she retains
the same energy that has always domi'
mated her work and she refuses to be
retired. The Faulkners are going to
celebrate "Barbie's" fiftieth apniver-
sary Of her coming to them, although
she herself declares she cannot see
why the event should be celebrated.
since it was so natural that she
should stay.
But some hundreds of society wom-
en- and prominent professional and
business men in Chicago. whose child.
hood recollections are indissolubly
connected with memories Of the Faux
ners' "Barbie," will aid the family in
giving tribute to Miss Ritter's aflec-
ton and loyalty. >1
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-08-11
Washington Has a Plague of Cranks

thus acquired fame, came to Washing
ton to show themselves to tho presi-
dent.
Then there's the lunatic who tramps
across country on wager that he can
go from ocean to ocean on a dollar
and thirty-seven cents. There must
be hundred of him every year, and
he generally brings a letter to the
president from the mayor Of the little
town he comes from. And these
are just a few Of them; IL I'd put
down the names Of all this breed Of
cranks that turn up here to see the
president in six months it would be
longer than the list Of applicants for
vacant consulship. The trouble is,
the president, in many instances.
can't get out of seeing the crank.
With the cunning of one of his kind.
he generall? goes straight to one OF
the local papers. The paper takes
him up. prints his photograph and
publishes his vain-glorious interview
about his eccentricities, in which he
always states that he's going to see
the president at certain time. It's
wired to every paper in the state the
lunatic hailed from by their Wash.
ington correspondents, and. of course,
printed there. If the president re-
fuses to see the crank, that's wired,
too, and then the papers have .
chance to fall afoul of the admin.
io&r oh hA n
whose naughty exclusiveness misrep.
resents the great democratic spirit OF
the nation. So, oftentimes, the presi.
dent must take his mind from i'm.
portant matters to shake hands with
some paretic who ought to be over in
an insane asylum instead OF buzzing
around q busy president.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-08-11
New Senators Laugh at Silence Rule

4 LII the new members of the senate
"a seem to have "lit talkin'," as the
southern mountaineers say of a gar
rulous stranger with ready how of
conversation. In other days it was
considered the proper thing for a new
senator to sit in silence through his
first term Of six years.
1t is only a few years since lot
of precedent-bound senatorial digni-
taries expressed their indignation at
the intrusion Of new members by
walking out Of the senate chamber
when Beverage began to talk few
days after taking his seat. The same
treatment was given La Toilette, who
remarked as the coat tails of his
colleagues vanished through the door
that they would come back and lis
ten, and that he probably would be
in the senate when most of them had
been retired.
OF the recently elected members
Of the senate. many are young men,
caring little for Anticipated traditions
Luke Lea of Tennessee, thirty-two
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-08-11
MILLlONAIRE'S wife BROKE

Mrs. Theodore Perry Shonts, moth
er of duchess and wife Of an Ameri-
can millionaire, recently found herself
in Paris unable to leave her apart
ment which she must vacate at once,
according to the lease, on account Of
not having money to pay the usual
charges made when a tenant quits.
Mrs. Shonts rented an apartment on
the Avenue Hoche several years ago
at an annual rental of $4,000, exclusive
of taxes and other charges which
would run the figures much higher.
Obeying an urgent imperative sum-
mons from her husband to return to
America, she gave notice that she
would not renew the lease when the
time expired.
The difficulty with her husband
caused him to stop sending the usual
remittances and when bill for $500
was presented by the landlord to pay
for damages done to the apartment
during the term of the lease, Mrs.
Shonts found herself without money
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-08-11

VISITORS in the galleries of the SEN
' ate chamber are always interest
ed in the bright little messengers who
scurry about bent on errands for the
senators. These pages live officially
in an age limit. They must be no less
than twelve nor more than sixteen
years old. His seventeenth birthday
is usually sorry day for the page
boy for it may be long before he can
have 80 good an income; certainly
many Gears before he can earn so
much with so little physical and
mental effort.
The boys are employed during the
sessions OF the senate $3.50 a day;
and that means 60 or 81 days a
month, whether the senate Is in ses-
sion every day or not. There are now
fourteen pages on the floor Of the
senate, and four riding pages. The
latter receive $3.50 year, their pay
going on whether the senate is in
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-08-11

Y ANSAS CITY. Kan.-Alons in an
II underground cave, studying the
Bible and occasionally painting
little in oil, H. H. James of this city.
sixty-f1ve years old, passes the hot
summer months, afraid to come out
into the sunlight. He knows that the
blistering rays Of the sun will cause
his death If he is exposed to them.
James suffered q sunstroke while
at work in a wheat field near Otta-
wa, Kan, ~ years ago. The prostra-
ton was so severe that for weeks
it was thought he could not recover.
He finally recovered, but doctors told
him that exposure to the hot sun
would aggravate his case and prob
ably kill him. James resolved to keep
out of the sun, and for 26 summers he
has escaped the sweltering heat that
other persons in Kansas have under
gone
James had saved a little money. He
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-08-11
| GREATEST
| on EARTH
! DEPICTING
| AN ACTUAL
|TRAGEDY

M EW YORK.-A moving picture ma
~ chine set up to make film Of
the rescue Of young woman from
the waters of a lake in Staten island
the other day recorded instead the
drowning of the actor-rescuer and the
saving of the actress by herself. The
actor drowned was Albert Brighton.
The play which ended in the trag-
edy took place at Brady's pond, Grass
mere. The pond has an area of about
six acres. Mary Murray, an actress.
rowed out twenty-five feet or so from
the shore. The young woman, in a
fluffy white dress and alone in the
boat, was to pick water lilies, and.
In reaching too far for one Of the
flowers, was to upset the boat and be
rescued.
The picture machine was started,
and Miss Murray picked several of the
flowers. Then, at a signal from the
operator, she leaned far over the
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-08-11

years old, and the youngest man ever
seated in the senate, began talking
very soon after taking the oath Of
office and has on several occasions
notified his colleagues that when ira
ditions of the senate and business
methods conflict the traditions will
be ignored. Senator Kenyon of Iowa
is not much older and is a ready and
aggressive talker. with no disposition
whatever to play thinking part
through six years.
Senator Pomerene of Ohio relieved
himself of speech within a few
weeks after taking his seat, and Sena-
tors Williams, Works and Hitchcock
are all talkative new members.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-08-11
CHOSEN RULER OF THE ELkS

John p. Sullivan Of New Orleans
was chosen grand exalted ruler OF the
Order of Elks at Atlantic City, N. J.
He is a member of New Orleans
lodge No. 80. Shortly after he Joined
the lodge he was elected esteemed lee
turing knight While holding that Of
Zee he gained the name CT "Thanatop-
SIS Sullivan, because Of his magnif-
cent voice and his mode ut delivering
Bryant's poem.
The third year Of his membership
Sullivan Was elected exalted ruler of
the lodge, and on the night of his in
stallation he declared that it was his
ambition to get new home for No.
30. There was not a dollar In the
exchequer and the membership was
about 700 At the end of Sullivan's
second year as exalted ruler OF the
lodge New Orleans lodge had home
that is second to none in the country,
and membership in excess of l,70O
Sullivan is a man of magnificent
physique standing six feet three