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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-09

The house was in an uproar. Two
of the mans friends valiantly shout
ed to him to resist and followed
CALAMITY at some distance. A crowd
from downstairs joined in, the gal
lery emptied quickly at the prospect
of a fight In the excitement the
show was stopped and the curtain
descended. Then the audience,
which had gathered in front, raising
such a hullabaloo that the flying
squadron was called, started back
into the theater, only to find the
show was over. Some one said they
had been stung, and another police
auto and patrol load Of officers came
and dispersed the mob.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-09

IINT1L Washington gets used to the
~ members of the presidents family
society and the attendance at public
places are liable to get right fused
Misses Wilson's at theater alone &C.
Cured one afternoon recently, when
they went to the play house to hear
a noted pianist. They came in the
White House automobile, which has
the coat-of-arms Of the United States
on the doors and on the big ornamen-
tai front piece. They left their three
fur coats in the auto and were shown
by the ushers through the public en-
trance to the theater. Presently some
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-09
This Wise Politician Played the Game Both Ways

<<I T does not pay to try to train
! with both sides In the political
game. You are liable to get caught"
said Representative Morse Of Wiscon-
sin.
In order to understand the point
YOU must know the extremely bitter
fight In my state between the stand
pattero, of which certin senator is
a leader, and the progressives, with
which wing of the party am afdli-
ated.
mo: long ago candidate for the
misunderstanding at the town OF K
sent me the following telegram:
II have always supported your wing
of the party. l have always trained
with the regulars. want your sup
port for the post Office at K. Please
do what you can for me-
Il was very much mystified at the
message. / could not understand why
he should use as an argument for my
support that he was a regular.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-09
E y CnlPi{i&&9@ ~
Air[cAluRS> s - II -
Uncle Sans Postal Machine Performs Wonders
He lets George do it.

He lets George do it.
All the nice clerk has to do now is
to play q little fandango on the top
roll piano, take crisp note from the
oven, turn the organ crank, make the
pedal thing snap round bite out OF
your certificate, and-and-
But. raybe, it might be more rel1a'
bly, satisfactory for you to 60 your
own self to the postal window with a
nice little bill and tell the clerk you
want to belong. You mustn't get
nervous. For while he is clerk who
looks clever enough to write law
book, there is also something about
him that makes you know he could be
tagged for Fairgrounds and scouts
And you can stand up like soldier
and tell your truly age. He will never
breathe it, for two reasons. One is
official reference. The other is that
he doesn't care cahoot
If you are prosaic person with
eyes like that hawk that lends itself
so accommodatingly to sigh-compari
sons, you will see in George merely
an invention which will do things fol
the clerk, but
II your mathematical capacity per
mits you to put two and two together
and make five of it, the new machine
takes on the aspect of that Other
George, who is there to help you down
your wolf, as once he downed his own
dragon.
And to have help in your battle with
the wolf means something. II you
have ever glimpsed the sharp white
of his teeth.
N. Bit is always safest to hedge
Maybe the machine isn't so brand-new
after all, except to the woman. Anc
to Solomon.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-09
Girls Love Song on Stage Starts Small Riot

n ETROIT, MICH.-When Ollie Wal
II ford swayed in the spotlight on
the stage of the Folly theater the
other afternoon and engagingly sang:
Come and love me, for it's SO good
No one could ever do like you could.
Do I like it? Well, should;
For it's so goody, goody good
She expected only the usual applause.
Instead there was a small-sized riot,
4 forcible election, two flying squad
rons, a police patrol, and a badly
scared singer and chorus.
1t all happened because a dashing
youth decided to accept Miss Ollie's
smiling invitation, taking it for the
real thing because she had beamed
On him. The young woman fed in ter
ror as he climbed on the stage and
walked towards her. She and the cho-
rus girls locked themselves in their
dressing rooms, while the heroic CO.
medians faced the bold Lothario Man.
ager Shut came dashing in and from
his six feet two inches reached down
and firmly seized the intruder. With
out ceremony he dragged him up the
aisle and to the door.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-09
KINGS SECRETARY SOON TO Retire

There" said a journalist, 1ndicat-
ing Lord Knollys, calm, suave and i'm
perturbable, at the time when the
coronation Of the late King Edward
had been postponed owing to his i'll.
ness and rumors of probable abdica-
ton and other things were flying
about, Stands the secret history.
What wealth of good paragraphs
there would be II we could only get
him to talk!''
It was a tribute to the man behind
the throne who, after forty-five years
of royal service as private secretary
and friend to three monarchs-Queen
Victoria, King Edward and King
Georges about to retire, says Lon
don Tit-Bits. What an absorbing
story of the inner side OF court life
Lord Knollys could unfold! King Ed
ward trusted him implicitly, regard
ing him as an intimate friend and
companion, as we'll as secretary and
adviser, invariably relying on his
Judgment and having no secrets from
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-09

Il was enlightened, though, very
shortly, for l received second mes.
sage. 1t read: Photographer made q
mistake. Message intended for you
sent to Senator -. He has yours.
"On exchanging kilograms with the
senator, l found them very similar.
His read:
~ have always supported your wing
OF the party. l have always trained
with the progressives. / want your
support for the post office at x.
Please do what you can for me-"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-09

I INDIANAPOLIS, 1ND.-1t was little
l game of "peelaway," with Univer-
sity square for a playground. Prose
cutor Frank P. Baker was it," and
Charles Hamilton (colored), twenty
six years old, 725 Hadley street, did
his best to keep from being tagged"
Persons who were passing Univer-
sity square early the other afternoon
looked with amazement at an appar-
emily demented negro who raced hith-
er and thither, seeming trying to
keep up with an automobile that turn
ed and reversed and counter-turned as
it circled around the park. The negro
was Hamilton, and the man in the au-
tomobile was Prosecutor Baker, in the
role of policeman.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-09
new ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF NAVY

For the second time New YORK
state furnishes Roosevelt as assist
ant secretary of the navy. The Illus
trious Theodore served in that capa-
city under Mckinley, and now his
cousin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, but a
sturdy Democrat, has been appointed
to the same post.
Franklin D. Roosevelt is a fighter,
too, but in a manner different from
thas of our ex-president. The spring
box and the deceitful dik-dik need not
fear him, and it is unlikely that he
will ever lead a charge up San Juan
hill or any other hill. The biggest
game that Franklin D. Roosevelt has
ever attacked was the Tammany
tiger and the striped cat got by far
the worst of the encounter. Roose-
welt in 1910 was elected state senator
from Duchess, Columbia and Putnam
counties and at once led bolt
against the party leaders at Albany.
who were committed to the candidacy
OF William Sbkehan for United States
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-09
WALTER H. PAGE, ENVOY TO LONDON

Walter H. Page of Garden City,
L. l., editor of the Worlds Work and
member of Doubleday, Page & Co.,
publishers, has accepted President
Wilson's offer to be ambassador to
Great Britain
The selection of Mr.. Page estab-
fishes that President Wilson has not
abandoned his announced policy Of
choosing men for his important
diplomatic posts without regard to
their wealth. Indeed it can be stated
that Mr.. Page is another Of the list
of comparatively poor men to whom
President Wilson has offered ambas-
Scholarships.
Although he has been a successful
publisher, as we'll as a Literary man
Of attainment, Mr.. Pages means are
moderate Mr.. Page demurred at
accepting the appointment on the
grounds that he did not have the for
tune to maintain the American en-
bassy in the style which has been
customary in the past The president
that he did not think II necessary for
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-09

Fifty thousand dollars is a neat sum,
useful In old age. But it's long odds
that an aviator so reckless as to be
willing to fly across the Atlantic to
get the money would never live to q
ripe old age anyway.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-09

~" ~ whatsoever state am Herewith to be content
OF patronage to
the Capitol
ana
u omces would lose their
nave seen enough already
dispenser of
nave enjoyed first
senators will learning a
committing the
"nen ooy rather think however, that will
hotel
MY father country physician
nome, even If 1t not much of
Marshall the other
c ASIDE from the pleasure being
ment II should happen to die while
In a was governor of Indiana"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-09
Childish Constancv.

1t only we realized it, if only we cul-
tlvated it more, we could see with
clear-eyed vision that all of a child's
original nature breathes constancy. It
is an essential strength of the unde-
filed child's nature to be constant. Not
until our own false examples have at
tackled the natural purity of the child
does it become 1nconstant-
Harriet Beecher Stowe.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-09
ADMITS HE'S A little GREEN"

Mr.. and Mrs. Marshall are not en-
thusiastic over their new honors and
surroundings at Washington. They.
are trying hard to settle, so that they
can be as happy and comfortable az
they were at Columbia City before
they went to Indianapolis to take pos
session OF the executive mansion.
1 hope to like 1t here after l get
onto the ropes" said Mr. Marshall
the other day. Il am a little green,
and l know that everybody in Wash
lngton knows it, but I really think
III like 1t after l get the hang Of
things.
my life has been made a little
burdensome by job hunters who think
mat am a real pie counter man.
N1ne-tenths of my letters are applica-
tons for positions. .,
But 1t is all right, and in time l
VIII be on the earth again. Back In
Andlana l was sentenced. Here l will
pe' AS st. Paul says, Not that I
speak In respect of want; for l. have
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-09
No Trouble at All.

The Urbanite Visiting the subur-
banite-A mile and half to the sta
ton! Great Caesar! How can you
make q train after a heavy snow
storm?
The Suburbanite (smilingly)-Eas-
lily, my boy; the train is sure to be an
hour late!-Puck.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-09

This seasons hobble skirts are to
be even tighter than ever before. Al
though requiring less cloth, the price,
it is assured, will not shrink in pro.
portion.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-09
She Cauoht 1t,

Sarah, the new maid, was unused to
city ways. One day soon after her
arrival her mistress noticed a pail
hanging from the gas bracket in the
hall. Suspecting the country girl, she
called Sarah and asked what it all
meant. well, you see, ma'am," re-
piled Sarah, the master said the gas
was leaking. so l put up the pail to
catch It."
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-09

A Harvard professor advocates a
law prohibiting marriage on less than
IS a day. II he can show how it can
DO generally obeyed there will be no
dimculty In getting 1t enacted.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-09
A PeriIous Greed.

Don't you think it must be danger
GUS for the people who worship the
SUM-"
How do you mean?"
Il should imagine such worship
would involve a number of heat pros
tratiOns.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-09

Dusseldorf, Germany, is to have a
tower nearly twice as high as the Elf
fel tower in Paris and the man in the
moon will have to watch his steps.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-09
A Cinch.

DO you believe the story now going
the rounds to the effect that q razor
strop foretells the weather."
"Sure. Always when I used to sec
dad coming with his razor strop !
knew 4 storm was impending"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-09

Hundreds Of New York teachers are
said to hold their jobs by keeping
their marriages secret. But have they
no fool friends?
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-09

A clergyman finds that many plays
teach their morals hurriedly in the
last actor during chair-slamming in
the first.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-09

The use of cosmetics is said to be
very old. Apparently that is also
what some Of those using them think
Of themselves.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-09

An eastern physician says that wom-
anhood will supply the drunkards Of
the next century. Rather, lack Of
Womanhood.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-09

Men, here is a harbor of refuge.
A leading Chicago milliner says the
niftiest kind of spring hat can be
built for SO cents.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-09

A dentist is asked to pay $1,000
for pulling the wrong tooth. Some
dentists have to wait a year for fill
ing the right ones.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-09

With onions selling at Is cents a
bushel there's no perceptible increase
in the practice of smothering things
in them.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-09

A domestic theorist advises mis-
tresses to allow their servants to use
the family piano. But why add to the
horrors of civilization?
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-09

st. Louis policemen demand an
eight-hour day. He who runs may
read the time by the stars.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-09

Now that St. Louis police are to
have an eight hour day, the night
force will be provided with more time
to sleep.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-09

In all candor it must be admitted
that 1t must be exceedingly annoying
to thirsty man to get hold OF the
syrup bottle by mistake.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-09

France is in need Of Holsters. They
might take few that are to be found
around stage doors in this country
without the supply being missed.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-09

Ten months is said to be the life of
the average SO bill. But the expert
ence of most Of us is that it fingers
only few days.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-09

Did you ever observe that the peo-
pie who are always clamoring to
''muzzle the press" are the ones who
need the most watching?
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-09

Automobiles would never be driven
fifty miles an hour If none were made
capable of going more than twenty
five.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-09

Women's smoking gowns are on
exhibition in New York stores. And
very likely they hook up in the back,
too.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-09


Aloysius
Roosevelt thirty Theodore
Qua!
Elliott Roosevelt brother Of the president
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-09

People live longer in cities than
In villages. say German savants. May
be city people are more afraid to die.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-09

People who were annoyed by the
beautified nickel will suffer parox-
ysms at the attempt of the reformers
to take the "e' out of money.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-09

In New York an ordinary taxi driver
was arrested on supposition that he
was a robber.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-09

General Sung of China was killed by
assassins who were really looking for
General Sing. Chinese lenses are ter.
ribly fatal.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-09

In Constantinople, deposed high
official dies of apoplexy. In Mexico
City he is taken on an automobile
ride.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-09
Cynic.

Cynic.
Many a girl would 90 through fire
and water for q man. or even through
hiD boak account
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-09
A Great Convenience.

A Great Convenience.
Miss Wombat is the most popular
suburban belle know
"She is only girl in her suburb who
keops the car schedules posted in the
paxlor."
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-09

IS call his 1ordnp
will
association with the
less mo
the late archbishop of Canterbury
ma n
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-09

Farmers in Pennsylvania focked to
a bargain sale of collins. A bargain
sale will excite live interest in any.
thing.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-09

According to the census, there are
$4,000 idiots in the country. But
only one kind were counted.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-09

New York City Crowded.
In the densest parts of Bombay
there are 40 persons to tie acre.
New York has 1000 h the same ara
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-09

Spoil the rod and spare the child
q the modern way.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-09

that did not think
avh regardless of what the custom has been
past H. :#@.<s=..
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-09

Don't count your chickens until
you're sure the incubator lamp doesn't
leak.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-09

Cipriano Castro says he is going to
remain permanently in Teneriffe.
Thanks
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-09

1ngman with tax contemplated on all
incomes over $4,000.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-09
After all. how appropriate that cpl
taphs are usually craven.
A steel famine Is predicted. This
will call for iron endurance.
Perhaps the millennium awaits the
discovery of serum against old age

The great trouble with the Euro
pean status quo is that it won't stay
put.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-05-09

Two German officers flew 372 miles
In six hours. This may be called both
literally and f1guratively going some.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-06-03

venile court. Judge Philpot has ai- ready appointed Miss Julia Houston chief probation officer, a position that pays from $500 to $1,200 year. lIn- der new law Jefferson county IS, with other counties in the state au- ,.horized to have juvenile court to dispose of children, and there are said 70 be a number of cases ill this city and county needing the at.entlcn of the court.
 On yesterday a committee, headed by Dr. Joseph Jasin and in which were Mesdames Lee Fox, H. G. His inbotham, J. A. Mcleod and Mrs. T.. E. Gillespie Gillespie and Miss HouS- ton, called on Judge Philpot and dis cussed the advlsa" .lity ahd neas: for establishing a juJcni'2 court in lhis county. The mlit'' was thoroughly gone into and ;he committee convinc- r.' Judge Phiipc. that such court V s.s needed, despi"a the fact that he has since the pa.sSa.u of the juvenile court law tried to handle such cases i. :aseli, and he has sieccodel as we'll as .culd be expected
 .'roge Philpot an1cunce1 that he would appoint Miss :dous.on Eroba- ton officer. She will most likely have an assistant or assi staCts after the court is well organized. Judge Thil- Jat flso requested the committee .t vi5mi six mares U him for arl ont ment to the advisory board. Anlc! i'll act with ile county jndte il handling the cases in the juvenile court. He will go over the list ant if the persons recommended are cap able and will accept they will be ap pointed. The committee will mee. il few days and the recommendation. will be made to Judge Philpot at tha time.