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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-03-21
SENATOR WEBB A DISClPLINARIAN

William r. Webb was elected by
the Tennessee legislature to succeed
Senator Newell Saunders, whose term
expired March 4, and was in turn sue
ceeded by John K. Shields. Mr.
Webb, therefore. served only about a
month.
Down in Tennessee, where he has
taught school for so many years, Mr..
Webb is known as "Old Sawney." and
any Of the boys who have sat on the
benches under "Sawney" will tell you
just what the senators should have
done when he entered the chamber.
There were the desks and the seats
why didn't the senate go into some
sort OF special session and go to
school to Sawney Webb for a while? ?
They could not have done better for
the country than to swallow a bit of
his discipline, which every one of his
scholars has tasted. It would be bet
ter to say digested than tasted, for It
is just there that Webb has made his
schoolmastering famous. in the thor.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-03-21

''Nothingi" barked Burleson. "Ab.
solutely nothing!" 4
solemnly the old man produced a
little red notebook and pencil.
You say you didn't do nothing7"
he repeated, doubtfully.
Absolutely nothing" affirmed the
Texan.
So1emnly again the old man made q
long. black mark in his book.
"One good day for the people" said
he calmly. and passed on.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-03-21
HITCHCOCK WANTS EVERYTHING RED

Postmaster General Frank Hitch
cock has issued orders to employees
Of the postofice department to paint
everything red-Red with a capital
r.
Wine colors and pale. sickly reds
will not do. RED" is the word.
Every delivery wagon, city, parcel
post and rural free delivery vehicle
must be red.
All mail boxes throughout the
United States must be red.
To try cut the new color Mr..
Hitchcock ordered some of the Wash
ington city wagons painted. The
wagons, ready for his inspection,
were brought around to the postofice
building, but instead of being red
they were wine-colored.
Take them back and make them
red, red, without any sort OF blend"
said the postmaster general
And red they are.
The postmaster general wanted to
leave a uniform color, something like
the tail of a comet, when he went out,
to some Democrat
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-03-21
HUERTA INTENSELY PRO-AMERlCAN

United States army officers who
know General Huerta well say he is
intensely pro-American. His closest
acquaintance on this side of the line
declare the Mexican's two heroes are
George Washington and General
JuareZ. 80
Victoriano Huerta was born in the
state of Jalisco ffty-five years ago
He is of Spanish descent. He is a
graduate of the government military
college at Chapultepec. He served in
the Mexican army until 1902, when he
was appointed general staff officer
The same year he was made gen
eral of brigade. In 1912 he was made
a general of division.
His principal war record dates
from August, 1911, when he command.
ed the troops sent out by Provisional
President De Ia Barra against the
Zapatistas, in the state of Morelos,
He served in this campaign until the
latter part Of October, 1911, when he
was recalled to Mexico City, where
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-03-21

Recent rains are partly responsible
for the increase in the cat death rate
according to the chief. The rains have
filed empty salmon cans with water.
and the cats, though accustomed to
dry" Wilmette. must drink. The wa
ter is often poison, death ensuing
within a few hours.
AS far as could be learned, no pedi.
freed felines have succumbed, the
mortality being confined to cats OF
common degree.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-03-21

Possibly She Had Been There.
"A little girl who lived on a street
near 4 dentists Office, where>a shoot
ing ARRAY occurred, happened to hear
the pistol shots and shouts Of the po-
lice. Revolving 1t In her baby mind.
an explanation dawned upon her and,
turning to her father, she said, He
must have pulled the wrong tooth for
0onohotv - = ar - IT.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-03-21
PLACING the Blame.

While preparing her three-year-old
daughter for bed, her mother on the
discovery of a hole in her stocking,
exclaimed: "Why, Betty, there il a
hole in the toe Of your stocking"
Betty replied: Yes mother. but don't
blame me, II my big toe ate . piece
out Of my stocking" 2. /.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-03-21

Heatless light is said to have been
discovered by q Partisan scientist,
which indicates that science is only
about a couple of aeons behind the
modest freely.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-03-21

The meanest man up to date ha,
been discovered in St. Louis. He tried
to evade a bill for advertising on tn,
ground that. being In a Sunday news
paper and In violation Of the blue
laws, 1t was null and void. The cour,
decided he would have to pay, 70 h,
hae the meau'record championship 70,
biz pains.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-03-21

A German who paid a 81 poll tan
in Jersey City last year chopped down
the only pole he had on the premises
and made his wife hang her clothes on
the roof. Now he is studying English
in q night school to find out whethe,
the collector is spooing him.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-03-21

In Switzerland It is held lawful to
call man an ass. Perhaps because
the majority Of men In Switzerland
risk their necks mountain climb
Ing.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-03-21

Philadelphia is manufacturing a mo-
tor truck along lines of locomotive.
Should be equipped with a cowcatch-
er and run under rules governing
railroad train.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-03-21

A British specialist diagnoses the
disease from which Napoleon died as
cancer. Post-mortems have their use.
but one almost a century after the
event is rather more curious than i'm
portant
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-03-21

Government reports show that
horses are increasing in spite OF the
spreading use of automobiles. It will
reassure those who fear that the
march Of progress is causing neglec,
of mans best friend.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-03-21

West Virginia legislator wants to
pass low making it illegal for WON.
en- to wear hats iii tneaters. Why not
include punishment for sticking hat
pins through the back Of the seat
ahead, too?
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-03-21

Chicago pastor advises girls not to
wed until they are twenty-three. SO
they will have something to lay
It on If it proves an unhappy mar.
rage.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-03-21

A baby girl in Boston is being
trained up to become a perfect wo-
man. It's a cinch she'll be a snob
with all that self-consciousness of her
mission.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-03-21

In Berlin persons are not allowed to
keep their windows open while play
Ing on musical instruments. In Amer.
lea the fellow who lives next door Is
forced to put his down.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-03-21

A st. Louis man Is possessed of
leg that has been asleep for eight
months and refuses to awake. Still.
it's not SO bad az if he were left
without leg to stand on.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-03-21

Chicago man announced that he
never would drink again, and then
went out and hanged himself. He
made good all right. but he stretch,
cd things'a bit in order to do it.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-03-21

In Brooklyn, one jury awarded a
woman $4,000 for a loss of her hus.
band. and another jury gave a man
$500 for the loss of a leg. The
jury must have known the de.
ceased.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-03-21

A New Jersey pastor played a cor
net at dance; and his congregation
demanded his resignation. II he's an
bad a musician as some we've heard
we don't blame them.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-03-21

A Pennsylvania burglar upset hive
OF bees, with the result that he was
captured. A case of the busy little
bee improving each shining hour.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-03-21

Nothing better displays the bold
ness Of the Chinese republic than ite
effort to interfere in the matter Of
.Woman's dress.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-03-21

Poor girl in paper mill found $110
In rags, and. then they proved to be
confederate bills. She's been chewing
the rag about it ever since.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-03-21

There are whole parishes in Eng
land that have not a single bathtub. So
1t seems that some Englishmen do get
along without morning "bawth."
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-03-21

Professor Yammer remarks that
everybody emits ray. But the loud
est ones are those emitted by the
college youth at a football game.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-03-21

II We were all baseball clubs We
could all go south, too. But Of course
somebody has to stay at home and
abuse the weather.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-03-21

There are twenty-seven forms Of in
sanity, tut there is no scientific sup
port for the notion that q man may
have several Of them.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-03-21

"A Toronto minister named Shear.
'er refused to turkey trot for a Judge.
It is said he made some cutting re-
marks as well.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-03-21

Now comes a genealogist with tho
announcement that the rightful king Of
Ireland is German. Och, wuTa,
Wurra!
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-03-21

They say that a hare can run 60
feet a second, but where is there q
fat man who would like to be
hare?
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-03-21

An Ohio man was injured by an
explosion of a hot doughnut. Lucky
he hadn't eaten It.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-03-21
Painting Window Shades.

Painting Window Shades.
Window shades that have. become
cracked and broken can be renovated
by laying them fat on the floor and
painting them with ordinary oil paint
bought ut any hardware store in small
cans. Paint one side, let dry thorough.
y before touching the other side. This
treatment preserves the shades and
makes them last years. 80
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-03-21

New York has $50 hotels. and can
accommodate $4,000 people. She also
keeps enough walters to trim them
al.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-03-21

This eight hour 4: day law is an
right for women. but where does moth
er come in?
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-03-21

Line Is recommended as diet to
cure fat feet sQuickens up body, no
doubt, '<' -'':'T =
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-03-21


odds that tells
ste the OF judgment would
he had to seize the book of ordng to
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-03-21
ming over the postoflce department


Democrat
Everybody
the cities
protest from
be chased by all the bulls
along
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-03-21

that Colonel
Colonel Felix O.
Da brother president
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-09

generating electricity. Riding south over
the plateau I saw the steel posts OF
high-pow transportation lines running
for miles through the desert: and am
told that this branch OF industry Is on
the edge OF its beginning.
In this connection come the new fac
tories which are springing up over the
republic. The steel plant here is now
paying dividends, and there are other
steel works of smaller size. Cotton
mills have been constructed in many
parts of the republic, and there are now
142 such factories i'm operation. There are
many large smelters in the chief mining
districts. and oil refineries will be erect
ed in the new petroleum fields along the
gulf coast.
am told that almost ali the cities are
growing and find that the country 10 A
far different Mexico from that which L
first visited. now more than twenty years
ago.
Just now foreign investment is at a
standstill on account OF the revolutionary
troubles, but before they broke out. Con-
sui General Hanna tells me, the trains
passing through Monterey were full or
Americans on their way south TO the va
rous sections. Many Of them expected to
raise coffee. cacao, fruit and other things
along the gulf coast. and others were 10
engage i'm the oil development that s
going on between Tampico and Vera
Cruz.
The people here are sangune that the
conditions will improve within veIN
short time. and they predict that large
immigration from our country VIII 10 =
low. FRANK q. CARPENTER.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-09

like 600. 100000. This is more than comes
fror. the mines. I am told that the live
stock industry is growing. and that
Mexico is about our only hope for cheap
meats in these days of high prices.
Every one knows of the Mexican mines.
They have been producing millions ever
since Cortez robbed the treasures of the
Moniezumas, and they are now turning
out nearly SsO,OO0.O00 worth OF minerals
ever twelve months. In this l include
only gold. silver. copper and lead. But
Mexico also has mountains Of iron: 1t
has coal fields which have hardly been
touched. and it has the greatest oil fields
now being operated in any part of the
worlI. OF all these things / will write
in the future.
Tbs Mexico of 1913 although nov in
the turmoil of a revolution. is inclosed
in q network of modern civilization. Il
is oi.e of the chief railroad countries Of
the earth, and it's trunk lines if stretch
ed end to end would reach mere than
half way around the globe. 1t has about
sixteen thousand miles In operation and
there are over a thousand miles more un-
der construction. IT has been said
that the disorder which has reigned dur
ing she last two years has stopped the
building of railroads. This is true only
of certain sections The National rail-
ways have considerable track under con-
stru ton and | saw men eXcavating all
along the Ane for new tracks OH my way
to Monterey.
AS to electric plants. the water powers
o. tie country are being gradually har-
messed. and with others the falls Of
Juaracatlan, the Niagara of Mexico. are
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-09
PardonabIe GruffneSS.

CAPT. ROBERT {. WARR.' about 10
~ retire from sea life after forty-nine
years OF il. said OH the Campania:
Yes. it is true that sea captains arc
sometimes annoyed by passengers who
think they know more about navigation
than the navigator himself
Il know a captain TO whom a passenger
once said:
What town is this we are approach
ing, cap
'Derwent sir.
No, cap. YOU are mistaken. Look ~
this map here. According Ia this map il /,
Fordham- Tyne.
The captain said nothing. and mo-
ment later the pa ssenger asked:
What channel is that, captain
Egg channel. sir
Why, man. you're wrong again. Tho
map gives II as Mellins channel
Three or four times this sort of thing
went on. Then the passenger, pointing
to gull. said:
What kind of gull IL that, cap
Look at your map and find out tho
captain gruffly answered.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-09

history Of this country called forth tire
same demonstration as did Tho assas-
nation of Lincoln. Several times has tie
country mourned and viii again mos
likely. but i'm no instance Is there 10 he
found a collection such as lis. for - ma
other one man has the country eNer
risen Az a whole aud sent his name
laundering down 10 the generations 1"
come I'm song. verse. resolution. procia
mat ton. official order and sorrow as did
the mon. women and children OF this
country with Abraham Lincoln
There is Vet another collection al tho
Library of Congress which gives further
proof of the place Lincoln occupies in the
hearts OF the people Of this country. An
entire corner OF one room Is devoted 10
them. OF which there are nearly l.:@'
volumes. The works are SO numerous.
in fact. that recently special catalogue
WAS made--a Lincolniania-in which are
listed all those books in the Library OF
Congress collection.
According TO George Thomas RitThi'.
assistant i'm the catalogue division of IN"
Library this is one ot the finest, II no
the finest. Lincoln collection in the conn
try No other library. at least. has mo
to equal it. and. while private collections
are numerous, Mr.. Richie doubts If anF
can surpass II.
More has been written on Lincoln
said Mr.. Richie. than on any other
noted American. and. what Is more. tn
end has not been reached. Hardly a
month goes by that does not bring som"
new work to the Library collection. while
short articles are even more prolific.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-09

lng across the country. we now and then
saw troops of cavalry dashing over the
fields
The lower classes were even more pic
turesque. The Indians wore high hats of
straw and blankets or serapes of all col
ors OF The rainbow. and the women had
dark blue cotton shaWls over their heads
so draped that only the upper half of the
face showed. Not a few had bright red
skirts and bright waists and some were
barefooted. showing d little more of the
ankle than the prudes of America allow.
Thls Is one of the human phases of this
world of Mexico, Il world which was born
when the SpaniardS began to marry the
Aztecs in the days of the Montezumas
hysically there is farer world in
this universe of matter, and in natural
resources there is none richer Let me
give YOU some idea of its extent There
are only four other republics on this
hemisphere which have much land
Mexico is equal to the whole United
its coast line on the Atlantic and the
Pacific is so great that if it could be
joined it would extend from San Fran
cisco to London and leave some to spare
1t would more than reach from Los
Angeles to Manila in the Philippine Is
lands. The country is about d s long as
from New York to Salt Lake City, and
its breadth at the top is great as the
distance between Philadelphia and In
dianapolis. The land is shaped like Il
great horn. the roots of Which are fas-
tened to the United States. and the tip
OF which is Tucatan. 1t slopes from both
sides to the top. and there are ridges with
great mountains upholding vast rolling
tableland. the most of which is a mile
above the sea. The mountains comprise
some of the highest of the Rocky noun
tain system, Mount OriZaba being over
$1,000 feet high and Popocatepetl only a
few hundred feet lower. Mexico has vol
canoes as high as Pixies Peak, the names
of which we hardly know, and it has
hoy, n i.,1e f,-..,y
miles to three and one-half miles in al
titude.
This land Is one Of many climates. and
of almost every crop desired by man. In
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-09

the low coast lands are all the fruits VI
the tropics. and American companies dle
now setting out banana plantations no.
far from the Mexican gulf httie
higher up coffee grows. and in other Sec
tions rubbeY can be protitaDlE raised
Here OH the pla teau the climate Is Ike
an Ohio June all the year rounu: ne an
is pure as the winter winds Wnlch s"eeI
over Egypt from the Libyan desert. ano
Greece can furnish no more oedutii vi
skies.
Where I am now writing is only about
800 feet above sea level, but IN the pa
I have Travelled over the Whoie OF Inns
Mexican plateau and ! DOUBT "hethei
there is a more healthful country any
where upon earth. The air Is so rare
that one can see many miles farmer IMAM
in the eastern parts OF the lnltea states
and it is so filled with ozone that YOU
seem to be breathing champagne Inc
skies seem closer to the EARN imam dt
home, the moon shines with greater
brilliancy, and the diamOnd-llke stars re
mind me of the luminous heavens Wmch
hang low at night over the Amazon or
the Gulf of Siam.
This high plateau grows all the crops
of the temperate zone. 1t has irrigated
regions which produce large quantities
of cotton, fiber which was used by
the Aztecs when Cortez first came. 1t
Yields Indian corn. which is the staple
food of the people and it is claimed tina
Mexico is the original home of this plant.
| have seen soil which produces two
crops of wheat in one year, and where
the grain is pulled root and all from the
ground There is no manure: and the
SUM- the air and the ground furnish all
the plant food AS t" fruits. We have
all those of the tropics and temperate
zones. and that every month l have had
strawberries in Mexico at Christmas. and
even now they are brought to the trains
by peddlers and sold at a few cents a
basket. Sugar cane is grown farther
south, and toba is a favorite crop
with the natives. Altogether the soil
and meat products which Mexico is now
producing annually amount to something