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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-07-14
Philadelphia "Sucker" Not So Easy

ID PHILADELPHIA gentle.
i men from New York, who thought
1t would entertain a gentleman from
Philadelphia if they would do little
wire tapping for him and show him
divers ways ways of obtaining rich
rewards from money ventured on the
horse races, were forced to the unani-
nous conclusion that thirteen is an
unlucky number and that Philadelphia
men are not so slow after all.
The adventure began for a we'll
known man whose fictitious name is
Charles Mcdonald. II say, old man,
have you got a match?" was the way
it all began. 1t was asked on one of
those slow-going ferryboats that take
Philadelphia folk over to Camden and
back again.
Then there was a general conversa-
ton about horse racing. Say" whis-
pered the pipe smoker with an air of
great secrecy, I'm a Western Union
manager in New York branch Office.
I run the racing information bureau.
can hold up Information about races
for eight inmates. Get that?"
McDonald--that is the man whose
police alias is McDonald-did get it,
and exchanged cards with his friend.
They made date for the Hotel WAL
ton, in Philadelphia, and then another
date for the Breslin, in New York. Be-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-07-14
Would Label the Unspoken "Speeches'

uscript intended for the consumption
Of his constituents, at the expense of
the United States government.
1T is the only honest way" de.
clared Murdoch to the correspondent.
THE Record, under the present sys.
tenn, is not true report of the pro-
ceedings of the house. 1t may well
be that an article of value, prepared
by a member of congress, should be
printed in the Record, but it should be
so designated.
1.-THE first result of labelling things
in the record by their right names
would be the abandoning of the pres.
ent abuse by Individual representa-
tives. When a mans constituents be-
gin to ask him, Did you really deliver
this speech. or did you just have it
printed?' he will quit the practice.
Congress could not possibly afford
the time that would be necessary for
the delivery of all the speeches that
appear in the Record. Therefore,
speeches will have to be shortened.
and they ought to be.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-07-14

this painting of the 'Farthest North
of the Greedy expedition said Mr..
Fitzgerald, referring to the enormous
canvas in front of him, which. mas
sively framed, covered most of the
west wall of the big appropriations
committees room. DR. Wiley is right
when he says this worrying about the
heat is largely the result of ones
mental attitude. I've been sitting here
looking at this picture for an hour
and l am thinking of resuming my
winter flannels. l wish I could carry
it around with me-"
This auto-suggesting business is
fine," Mr.. Fitzgerald remarked to a
visitor. I'm going to install a pic.
ture of the burning of Rome in my
home next winter and see how much
can save on coal bills"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-07-14

REPRESENTATIVES. VICTOR MUIR
N DOCK, insurgent Republican, Of
Kansas; Swager Sherley of Kentucky
and Frank Clark of Florida, both Dem
ocrats, have been fighting to have
every unspoken speech" printed in
the Congressional Record labeled
something like this: mot delivered in
the house Of representatives"
These men believe that the Record,
as it now leaves the press, perpetrates
fraud on the reader every time it de-
clares that Congressman de-
livered the following speech on such
a date, when all Congressman --
did was to get permission to insert In
it's columns a carefully prepared man.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-07-14
Gets Water Supply ESQ Miles Distant

I OS ANGELES.-Six years ago the
L. people Of Los Angeles voted an is
sue of $24,000,00O in bonds to pay for
what they consider the finest supply of
water furnished to any city in the
world. The first issue Of bonds was
made in 1907 and the last will be made
this year. The aqueduct, which is $50
miles long, will bring sufficient
amount of water to supply city of
100000 inhabitants across the coun-
try from Owens lake.
The first 20 miles of the aqueduct is
open earth canal which follows the
canyon of Owens river. The next 80
miles is an open concrete conduit, laid
upon the mountain sides. which follows
their contour like a mountain road.
For 20 miles the conduit rests in
bitches carved from the rocky walls.
and for an equal distance Is sustained
by artificial causeways of rocks. 1t
next passes $50 miles through the Mo-
jave desert, on the edge of Death val
ley, the most desolate and forbidding
spot in the United States, and passing
under the Sierra Madre range of
mountains energies into Los Angeles
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criticism because it has not taken
more interest in cases of dismissed en-
ployees. Witnesses have pointed out
to the committee that the commission
will not act in the case of dismissed
employee unless it has prima facie EVIL
dence that the dismissal was because
of politics. 1t is next to impossible.
say the dismissed employees who have
testified, t. prove that men were re-
moved from the service through polit-
ical influence.
Some of the new members of the
house who have become much interest.
ed in the grievances of the postal en-
ployees believe remedy Of some sort
will be found in the committee on civil
service.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-07-14
Postal Clerks Ask Right to Organize

MPLOYEES of the postal service.
l. particularly the men employed ir
the railway mail branch, are making a
determined fight for legislation under
which they may organize and affiliate
with the American Federation of La
Dor. Samuel Gompers, president of
the federation. is supporting the move
ment.
Many men formerly in the postal
service, but who were let out because
they were active in encouraging en-
ployees of the service to organize, have
told the committee of the wrongs
which they assert are done the en-
ployees. In a general way, the griev-
ance of the employees is that men are
frequently dismissed for purely polit-
ical reasons, men let out of the serv.
ice have no recourse.
1t is pointed out that the postoffice
department now forbids the Individual
employee from laying any complaint
he may have before his senator or
member Of congress. The civil service
commission has come in for much
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-07-14

WASHINGTON.-A army that does
W not exist is being differed by the
war department in obedience to the
mandate of congress. Fifty and more
men versed in the profession Of arms
are already on the eligible list for COM
missions in this army. Three new
boards of army officers, composed of
seasoned colonies, experienced majors,
captains and first and second lieuten-
ants, were recently named to pass upon
the qualifications of other candidates
ambitious to direct imaginary military
forces
Artemus Wards shoulder strap COM
pany of warriors, assembled to take
part in the big family feud of 1865,
had at least one private-the humor-
list himself, who was in command; but
the army Of the United States volun-
teers is to have none. Don Quixote
armed with a big stick, his head pro-
tected by "Malbr1no helmet" mount
ed on his charger, "Rosinante," and
followed by the faithful Sancho Panza
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-07-14
Auto-Suggestion Way of Keeping Cool

4 WILTED representative. John J.
II Fitzgerald of Brooklyn, N. Y,
chairman of the house appropriations
committee, is the first distinguished
convert to DR.. Harvey w. Wiley's
theory with respect to the effect OF
auto-suggestion on the temperature of
the body. Mr.. Fitzgerald sat at his
desk all through a sizzling, swelter-
ing day, wearing a smile of perfect
peace. His coat was buttoned tight
ly, the collar of it turned up around
his neck, and every now and then he
shivered with unreasonable delight.
Right in front Of Mr.. Fitzgerald
large person with bushy black whis-
kers lay on his stomach on snow
bank squirting through transit or
some other funny looking instrument
of that sort. To his right another
large person, clad in furs, sat on a
cake of ice and scrubbed busily in
notebook. In the middle distance
three Eskimo dogs fought over dead
fish. In the background dozens Of
stately ice barges floated round casu-
ally.
I'm certainly happy that found
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-07-14
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fore going to the hotel Mcdonald
tipped off the police and advised that
couple of detectives be put on the
job.
Together the two men went
to modest looking brownstone
house away from the central
part of the city and into
room where twelve other men were
busy with telephones. telegraph in
struments, etc. All told they made a
stable den. Mcdonald staked $40 on
a bet and won. Then he was taken to
another house where he talked gayly
of his millions and in a bantering way
suggested he wouldn't mind trying
$4,000 on a single horse. This took
Mccormick by storm, but the money
was there and so were New York de.
tectives and before the wire tappers
knew what was up both their resorts
had been raided and the entire com.
pany was under arrest
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-07-14
Women Rule Roost in Lone Star State

for years. Women in this state lead
the country In dairying. In a number
Of instances women carry the mail on
rural routes and half-dozen or more
Of them have made the record of not
missing a day in the year.
Women. many Of them who ride as
we'll as men, assist in the roundups
on large ranches and are as handy
with the whip and the rope as the
men. The outlaw steer, which has
escaped the cowboys. mas a poor
chance to beat it back to the brush
when two or more Texas cowgirls get
on his trail. One Texas girl has
roped, thrown and tied a steer in less
than one minute. Her feat became
the subject for painter of national
reputation and she Is done in oil on
canvas ten feet square in the Menger
hotel in this city. Women in Texas
operate oil wells and are moving
forces in coal mining. Some of the
steel skyscrapers in this city were
built and are owned by women, these
having taken the lead in twentieth
century steel and concrete construc-
ton.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-07-14

NEW YORK.-Gypsy, an American
~ bull pup belonging to Miss Mabel
barnes. a surgical nurse, is rejoicing
over the removal of a hatpin 6h
inches long which had been circulat-
ing in her system for more than a
month.
Gypsy was a month old when Miss
Barnes first acquired her and reci-
procity of affection promptly resulted.
Like most puppies, Gypsy had habit
of eating at random without reading
any pure-food labels or caring much
whether the thing was digestible. so
long as it could be swallowed.
She began on handkerchiefs, lace
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-07-14

CAN ANTONIO, TEX.-A Georgia
- court may decide, as one did the
other day, that poor, henpecked man
is the head OF the family and stand
for that old custom of woman obeying
in all things. That may be true in
Georgia, where the sweet potato and
the goober pea lead the procession
and the blind tiger" has lair in ev-
cry jungle, but it is different in Texas.
A Texas court might hold that man
is the head of the family, but no court
on earth could clinch such a decision.
In Texas women have done almost
everything in the catalogue of COM
mercial possibilities. In number of
instances women own large ranches
and have operated them successfully
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-07-14

valley, and there rests in storage res
ervoirs 1000 feet above the city of
Los Angeles and 20 miles away:
Fifteen months was necessary for
preparations before the work was be-
gun. The upper part of the aqueduct
passes through a very rough and what
was then an unknown region, with no
inhabitants within so or 60 miles. In
order to convey machinery and con-
struction material it was necessary to
build 120 miles of railway. 225 miles
of wagon road, 148 miles of water
main, 218 miles of transmission line.
cement plant with a capacity Of
1000 barrels day and more than 300
buildings. such as bunk houses, mess
halls, warehouses, hospitals. engineers'
Offices and residences.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-07-14
Gotham Girl Operates on Her Pet Dog

curtains, gloves. slippers, and once
she ate a cuff link These did not
seem to interfere with her enjoyment
of life. Next she tried several pins
and needles. and these upset her for.
a few days.
Quite awhile ago, Miss Barnes says,
she noticed one day that Gypsy kept
her head projected straight in front
of her. She seemed to be unable to-
move it, and when it was turned for
chilly the dog whined with the pain.
Then swelling started on the dogs
left side Recently while examining
this swelling, Miss Barnes felt sharp
point. She surmised that Gypsy's
trouble was due to foraging In
her darning basket. She brought
home hypodermic syringe, some CO.
caine and pair of artery forceps.
Gypsy's faith in her mistress was SO
great that she did not make 4 move
while the hypodermic was being in
serted. Then Miss Barnes seized the
sharp point with her forceps.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-07-14
SENATOR STONE OF MISSOURI

One of the best parliamentary tao
ticians in the United States senate is
William Joel Stone, of Missouri. He is
veteran in legislative experience,
having sat in the house from 1885 to
1891. Then he was elected governor
of his state and in 1903 was sent to
the Federal senate.
Senator Stone is an uncompromising
Democrat and believes that his party
will be successful in the next presi-
Dental campaign. However, he be-
lieved the same thing in 1900, when he
managed Bryan's campaign.
The senator is one of the most pict-
uresque figures in congress. He is six
feet in height, is as slender and
straight as poplar. and wears dress
characteristic of himself. His face
Is wrinkled, his skin somewhat
like parchment, his speech, when he is
calm and without excitement, slow and
deliberative. But when stirred by an.
ger or emotion, his words flow with
the dash and fury of a mountain TORE
CIV 80.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-07-14
Unique Lighthouse.

Lighthouse keeping from the main.
land is possible in the case Of new
light house on the coast of Guernsey.
one of the Channel Islands. The light.
house contains a powerful fog siren.
as we'll as an acetylene light. and the
lighthouse keepers are stationed at
the electrical plant on the shore. more
than q mile distant
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-07-14
PLEDGES IRELAND HOME RULE

Assurances, the sincerity of which
there is no doubling, were recently
given by Premier Asquith in the house
of commons that full measure of self
government would be granted to Ire
land, after the veto power of the
House of Lords had been dealt with.
In replying to the statement John Red
mond, leader of the Irish Nationalists,
proclaimed his willingness to accept
the government measure as full set
Element of Ireland's claims and said
that with this concession of national
justice Ireland would acknowledge En-
glands king as the ruler of Ireland.
Hitherto the Nationalists have con-
sented to accept whatever England
granted as step toward final separa-
ton, but the Irish leader, in indorsing
the prime minister's statement of the
measure of home rule to be granted,
astonished his hearers by applauding
the autonomy granted to South Africa
by King Edward and expressing the
rich no ri q m ont or1 ca no c+on <ho low
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-07-14
An Old Maine Bear Trap:

T. B. F. Bates of Oakland has bear
trap made by a Lubec blacksmith in
1887 to catch bears. The present own
er has also used It for this purpose.
The trap has two large springs. one
on each side Of the Jaws: on one of
the jaws are i've large teeth and on
the other side six. The jaws have an
opening of IL by II inches.--Lewiston
journal.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-07-14

Seventeen Baltimore medical stu.
dents offered to submit themselves
to incubation with cancer. in order to
test a supposed remedy. That showed
the proper spirit. The doctor making
the experiments with the supposed
remedy has refused their offer. That
also showed proper spirit.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-07-14
Originality.

Strictly speaking, it is impossible.
of course, to be original. Originality
consists in perceiving the permanent
behind ephemeral, he old behind the
new. in tracing the everything spring
Of human motive from its latest mod
ern faucet deep down and back to its
hidden source IN consciousness and
will.-Allen Duvall. he Atlantic.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-07-14
JAMES MARRIES FOURTH WIFE

Although past his 80th birthday.
General Thomas L. James, once post
master of New York and postmaster
general of the nation under Garfield
and Arthur, recently married his
fourth wife. The bride is Mrs. Flor
ence Gaffney, of Rochester
General James was born in Utica
in 1881 and served his apprenticeship
as a printer. After serving his ap-
premiership he published Wing or
gan at Hamilton, N. Y. and took an
active part in opposition to the Know
Nothing movement. In 1861 he en-
tered the customs service and in 1872
was appointed postmaster of New
York by President Grant. Later he
became postmaster general and soon
after the assassination of President
Garfield became president of the Lin
coin National bank. His investiga-
lions while postmaster general re-
suited in the star route" trials and in
ten months of administration he
saved the government $2.000,000.
General James first wife was En-
wear after her death, which occurred
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-07-14
The Child lco the Zee.

Charity is a naked child. giving
money to a bee without wings: naked.
because excuseless and simple: .
child, because tender and growing:
giving honey. because honey Is pleas
ant and comfortable: to, a bee. be-
cause q bee is laborious and deserv
ing; without wings. because helpless
and wanting. II thou deniest to such.
thou killest a bee: II thou givest
to other than such, thou preservest .
drone-Quarles: Enchirfdion.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-07-14
Whistle to Dodge BerQs.

These are the days when icebergs
worry the transatlantic steamship
shippers. 1t isn't pleasant to run along
through fog on murky night and
smash into one Of those floating noun
tains of ice. The liner captains have
way of finding ice that at first strikes
the landsman as curious. When it is
suspected there are bergs in the neigh
borhood the whistle is kept going. II
there is an echo the navigator slows
down and keeps sharp eye out. for
echoes don't grow in the open ocean.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-07-14
A Good Thine.

Dr. Clausen, the most eminent Of
German surgeons. says that tho only
reason birds and animals and beasts
don't talk is because their tongues are
not hung right It's a blessed thing
tnat they are not II they were. man
would have dogs and cats and crows
and coons and foxes calling hello to
him every time he walked out. and IL
be didn't stop for a chat, he'd soon
get the name Of being an old crank.
There's talk enough az It Is.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-07-14

A noted philanthropist, in denounc-
ing the devil Of sneering cynicism"
who sits in the editorial chairs of
modern journalism, declares that
newspapers need young men who pre-
fer SIS week and to stay honest than
$50 week to doing otherwise. Why
newspapers alone need band of such
noble martyrs he does not specify.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-07-14
BEGINS WAR ON CONSUMPTION

With the same energy which marked
his operations in grain, cotton and
finance, James A. Patten, the Chicago
multi-millionaire. has set about the dis
bursement of his wealth in financing
the biggest war on disease that has
ever been known in the history of the
world. His daring speculations, which
attracted wide attention few years
ago, won for him a fortune estimated
at $20,00O,O00. With this fortune or
large part of it, Mr.. Patten now pro-
poses to carry on personal campaign
of social service. During the past six
months he has donated 100000 for
such charities and public works as ap-
peal to him
He has given Northwestern Univer-
sity 100000 as basis on which to
begin medical research into the pre-
vention and cure of tuberculosis and
will increase this sum to 100000 as
fast as the money is needed. Other
millions will be devoted to battling
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-07-14
Makes World Better.

No man or woman Of the humblest
sort can really be strong. gentle. pure
and good, without the world being the
better for it. without somebody being
helped and comforted by the very
existence of that enthusiastically
Brooks,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-07-14

London is to have a dock that will
accommodate vessels 1000 feet long.
OF course Germany will have to pro-
coed to construct one for LOO foot
vessels But that is more sensible
than the Dreadnaught competition,
since the docks will be useful for 9TH
er purposes than those of destruction.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-07-14
Webster's Most Profitable Book.

Noah Webster" says the book OF
copyrights, probably got more for his
spelling book than was ever paid for
any other book In the United States
We are unable to state the entire sum
that was paid him for the copyright OF
that little book. but think 1t must
have been more than $4,000. His
large dictionary. a work on which be
spent the greatest part of his life. did
not yield him a tenth part of the
profits of his spelling book"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-07-14

Scientists say flies hate blue paint
and will not remain where the walls
have been coated with it. II your
kitchen Is painted blue and flies con-
tinue to congregate there it Is prob
ably because your flies are color
blind.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-07-14
Monarch Never Writes Letters.

1t is the accepted etiquette that tho
ruler Of Great Britain never writes a
letter. Those who need to correspond
with his majesty who are aware Of tho
right procedure usually write to tho
kings secretary or q member Of the
household. asking that the matter in
question should he placed before the
king. but petitions for the exercise Of
the prerogative in any form on mat
ters of state are required to be sub
mitted through the home Office.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-07-14

A Chicago woman wants a divorce
because her husband called another
lady Morning Glory" and Honey
Bunch. The Morning Glory" might
have been overlooked. but Honey
Bunch!" Oh, putty!
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-07-14

Files and mosquitoes are to pass a
strenuous summer, If all the plans for
crusades against them are carried in.
to effect. What they are preparing
for the public may only be surmised,
hut unless the plans materialize it
w. also be something strenuous.