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fti' P" JIS. THE ENTERPRISE. W. E. IIannafokd, Publisher VLBGINIA.. MINNESOTA The gold production of Australia in 1904 Avas 1903. R.v 4,194,822 fine ounces, valued at $86,760,000, against 4,296,237 fine ounces of a value of $88,857,500 in Dr. William Henry, an English phy« sician, states as a result of experi ments that in all forms of animal life, insects included, exists the taste for alcohol. The French government has pro posed to the chamber of deputies to create a universal exposition in Paris in 1920, to commemorate the founda tion of the French republic. Unprecedented as was the produc tion of gold in 1904, amounting to $350,000,000, the production in 1905 is almost certain to exceed that total, and it is not unlikely to reach the $400,000,000 mark. The new railway that is being built in Arabia will pass close to the rock hewn town traditionally believed to be Aaron's burial place. A buried and long-forgotten city was discovered re cently near by. During the last three months no fewer than 80 British officers have se cured leave for the purpose of study ing Russian, which is now the lan guage for which highest rewards are given in the army. The earl of Southesk, who died recently, was very proud of a pic turesque herd of Highland cattle he owned. When he was dying he wa.s carried, at his desire, in a couch to a window and the cattle were paraded past it that he might see them once more. Mrs. Henry White, who will suc ceed Mrs. Meyer in Rome, has per haps the highest social position of any American woman in Europe. She was a favorite of Queen Victoria, and the present king and queen of England regard her almost as a member of the royal family. At the Whites' home. Wilton Park, just outside of London, some of the most notable en tertainments of the past decade have been held. American lumber is in steady de mand in Germany. Although more than 70,032,000 cubic fee of black wal nut were received at Hamburg in 1903, the supply of this variety of Ameri can lumber does not equal the increas ing demand. Virginia whitewood, pitch pine, and cedar find ready mar* )ets at good prices. The cedar that is most in demand is that which may be used in I he manufacture of artistic furniture and lead pencils. Mrs. George Von Lengerke Meyer, wife of the newly appointed ambassa dor to St. Petersburg, is favorably known in every court of Europe. He:* fcocial triumph in Rome, where her hus band was formerly stationed, was com plete. Mrs. Meyer is the persopul friend of Queen Helena of Italy. Efere again is an instance where an ambas sador's wife actually accomplished more for her country than would have been possible under the opportunities open to her husband. Wolves have been exceedingly fero cious during the last winter in many parts of Northern Canada, according to the reports which are being brought, in to the headquarters of the Hudson bay. One of the most serious of these reports has reference to the instruc tion wrought by wolves among the surviving bands of the wood buffalo, and has been sent by mail from Ft. Resolution, which is a Hudson Bay company post on the Southern shore of the Great Slave Lake, in the vast, imexplowtd district of Mackenzie. In the patent office reports one is struck with the multitudes of small inventions which are constantly being patented in Washington. And a glance at. the records would show how many of them have been put into use all over the world and are practically in dispensable. Enormous fortunes have been and are made from these simple contrivances. Take, for instance, the copper toed shoe. This is seldom seen to-day except in the rural dis tricts, but during the year it was in use the inventor made $50,000 to $100, 000. After a long experience with mor tality tables, Mr. Frederick L. Hoff man. a writer upon insurance subjects, demonstrates the influence of marriage on longevity. Interesting figures show that the mortality of married males has been considerably below the mortality of single males at all ages, the difference being most noticeable between the age periods of 45 and *4 years. Between those ages, roughly speaking, three single men die to two married ones. The record of females also gives a result favorable to mar ried women. Surgery has been triumphant in the case of Albert B. Tripp, the young medical student of Mt. Pleasant, Mich., who was shot in the spine two years ago. and who went to Philadel phia, Pa., a few weeks ago in the hope of an operation saving him from paralysis. To-day Tripp started for his home with a silver wire binding together his spine, and, with feeling already returned to his legs and the lower part of his body, the physicians say in six months he will be himself again. Tripp risked his life in the operation. PHILIPPINE PARTY DWINDLING CONSIDERABLY IN NUMBER. EXPEDITION NOT A JUNKET Senate in Recent Years Has Lost Many of Its Distinguished Old Men Majority of Our Presidents Have Been Masons. 1II.6S NlHM A S I N O N Secretary Taft has caused consterna tion among the congressmen who have been contem plating a trip with him to Ihe Philip pines. The con gressmen had sup posed that their ex-' pensek would be defrayed from some public fund or other and they are some what surprised to learn from a recent statement of the secretary that they will only be furnished with transportation. They will have to pay for their meals and Pullman fare to San Francisco for their meals on board the transport icross the Pacific and for their subsist ence while in the Philippines. The sec retary calculates that this means an out lay of about $500 per man. As this trip was proposed for the pur pose of enlightening the prominent statesmen on many questions affecting the Philippines and the general govern ment, and the results .of the expedition are to be shown in general legislation, a number of the congressmen cannot un derstand why they are called upon to give up good money of their own for the benefit of the Philippine government. Secretary Taft believes that every cent expended on this trip will be well invest ed, and also that all the expenses of the party should be defrayed either by the Philippine government or out of the United States government. He is re stricted, however, in the extension of the hospitality of the Philippine govern ment, as some very finnicky auditors of the treasury department might question the accounts, with bills to come in for feeding and otherwise entertaining the ptatesmen. It now looks as though the party would be much smaller than at first an ticipated. It is very doubtful if Speaker Cannon will be a member of it. although the declaration of Secretary Taft that the trip cannot in any way be regarded rs a junket, removes a very serious ob jection that "Uncle Joe" had to it. Senator Newlands. N THE hearings now in progress be fore the interstate comm^ commit rtf^Le/senate a pretty wide range of questions is per mitted. This free dom is taken ad vantage of by Sen ator Newlands of Mr. Newlands hps invested may mil lions of money in the development of Washington, and especially its sub urbs. Through his wife much of the Sharon estate came to him, and he has in \ested it about the capital city where re turns are reasonably certain. The Late Senator Piatt. 0 MAN will be more missed from the SstiliSw half dozen gave more time and though! to the country's interests than did Mr. Piatt. His deep study of every question and his sound, common-sense judgment made him the most trusted of all the leaders. There were many men more brilliant in the senate, but none more honMt or able. Mr. Piatt had no vanity, and he never tried to learn the tricks of an ora tor. He was somewhat ungainly in ap pearance, and when he arose to address the senate he seemed to get out of his seat in sections. He was very tall, and as he came up out of his chair slowly he seemed to unlimber a section at a time. He had a somewhat querulous voice and spoke in jerky fashion. His gestures were strained and awkward, but he was never at a loss to find the proper lan guage in which to express his ideas, and they were always listened to with the closest attention. Mr. Piatt was very fond of out-door life, and not long before his death he re marked that in the previous 25 years he had probably lived five years out of doors. He had a lodge in the Adiron dacks, being first attracted to those de lightful surroundings by the talks and writings of the late Rev. W. H. H. Murry, who was for some years pastor of a Con gregational church in Connecticut, of which SenatorPlatt was a deacon. Some of the Older Men. HE death of Sena tor Piatt emphas izes the rapidity with which old and famous men are being taken out of the United States senate. One year ago there were 14 men of national reputation on the rolls of the senate who were above the scriptural limit of three score years and ten. To-day there are just nine sen ators who are over 70 years of age, over one-third of last year's number having crossed the Great Divide. Those who have passed away in the last 12 months are Senators Quay, Hoar, Bate, Hawley and Piatt. This mortality among the older states men inspires the question of "Who will be the next?" There are now serving in the senate at more than three score and ten years of age Senators Morgan and Petus of Alabama, Teller of Colorado, Cullom of Illinois, Allison of Iowa, Frye of Maine, Piatt and Depew of New York, and Proctor of Vermont. The weight of increasing years is plainly visible on some of these noted statesmen. Senator Morgan of Alabama has aged very per ceptibly in the last year. He has lost flesh and, although still able to make a prolonged speech, his voice has lost much of its fullness, and after an hour or two on the floor he is compelled to seek the indulgence of the senate while he sits down and rests in the course of his speech. Senator Nevada, who is very fond of poking questions at high a a a and securing all sorts of information. He does not al ways confine himself to the exact sub ject under consideration, but wanders a good deal into general fields of politi cal economy. Mr. Newlands is a very strong advocate of granting charters by the national government to corporations doing an interstate business. In hi« cross-examination of railroad men be fore the committee he is sure to lead up to his hobby. There has been a disposition on the part of Senator Elkins, chairman of the committee, to restrict cross-examina tion to the main subject under consider ation, that of the government fixing railway freight rates. He has not, how ever, checked Mr. Newlands in the lat ter's inquiries, and the reason given is because the Nevada senator is "such a good fellow." Mr. Newlands is entitled to being termed a good fellow, as he is one of the most royal hosts in "VYashing ton. He lives in a century old mansion on the heights overlooking the north west section of Washington, and the broad lawrns and rambling rooms of this old home are ideal for the exhibition of whole-souled hospitality. The senator delights in entertaining here numbers of his colleagues, and no pleasanter eve ning can be spent than at his almost baronial dining table. The interstate commerce committee has had this pleas ure more than once, and it is easily ap parent why Mr. Newlands is given free rein in his line of questioning at the committee rooms. United States sen ate than CJrville H. Piatt," was the re mark of Senator Spooler of Wis consin when the news came of the Connecticut sena tor's death. Mr. Piatt vm one of a hall dosen repub lican senators who virtually controlled all important legis lation in the senate, and that meant its control in congress. Not one of that Maine, presidenthpro tern of the senate, is another wbw is showing the burden of years. Mr. F'rye has had frequent weak spells in the last year or two and is not nearly so vigorous as some of his older colleagues. A long rest this summer, most of which he will spend at his lodge on the range of lakes in Maine, may restore much of his vital ity, but his friends have been watching him with anxious eyes. Senator Piatt of New York is probably the feeblest man in the senate, but as he has been in that condition for some years the chances are he may outlive many of the more robust senators. Teller of Colorado is becom ing bent and stooped with his 75 years, and even the hard-working Allison is be ginning to desire a little more rest. Weil-Known Statesmen Masons. HE great majority of presidents oijthe United States, from Washington down to Roosevelt, have teen members of the Masonic frater nity. Mr. Roosevelt did not become Mason until after he had been elect ed to the office of vice president. In the winter follow ing the election of 1900 he became a member of Matinecoclt lodge at Oyster BaJ. He has been elected to receive sev eral high degrees in masonry, but the pressure of public business has prevent ed his taking them. He will probably wait until he retires from the presidency before going through these initiations. Vice President Fairbanks also became a Mason after his election to the vie' presidency, but it is his intention to taka as maty degrees as possible in the near future, so that when 1908 comes around he will be a full-fledged Mason of the several degrees, including the Knights Templar and the Scottish rite degrees up to the thirty-second. Mr. Fairbanks en tered a lodge in Indianapolis during the Christmas holidays last winter, a special dispensation having been granted in order that he might take three degrees in one day. During the present year he expects to take the remainin'g degrees of the York rite. The best known of Masons among presidents of later years were Garfield, Harrison and McKinley. Garfield and McKinley were Knights Templar, and usually attended the conclaves of that order. Andrew Jackson was at onetime grand master of the grand lodge of Ten nessee. John Qulncy Adams was one president who was conspicuously op posed to Masonry. He was elected dur ing the days of the anti-masonry excite ment and talked and wrote against the order with considerable vigor. A polio! the house made a few years ago showed that 87 per cent, of the members wer* Masons, and a similar poll of the senate showed that 80 per cent, of the lattef body belonged to tb&t order. SSSSSA TURNING TO SOT IMMIGRANTS ON WHOLE ARE OF STURDY,. CHARACTER. HOW THEY INVEST MONEY The Pathetic Dumb Irishman Figure of Past Steerage Conditions Much Better To-Day—Liv ing in New York. South Carolina undertakes to find ag ricultural immigrants homes, land and a fair start. It is only one of a number of agencies that take the immigrant in hand. I believe the time is coming when the different states will all have their agents at Ellis Island and compete for the like liest looking immigrants. It will be no more than South Carolina and the Cana dian-Pacific railway are doing at the very opposite ends of the map. are in ing or scale his of him +.-J EW YORK.—It was left for a southern state to establish the most up-to-date office in New York to attract white a South Carolina fol lows her enterpris ing Cha rle to world's fair with a bustling employ ment agency in the metropolis. While waiting to get hold of the immigrants the agent has tried his hand upon old er residents of the city. He has already sent 1.000 people south. Within a short distance of Charleston is a colony five years old which is already begin ning to pull immigrants thither by t'hc fame of its prosperity. The coloni&ts are Italians. The Italians are among the best farm ers of Europe, and they are no strangers to a hot climate. From everywhere in the south that they have gone comes the same story: They raise more cotton on a small piece of ground than negroes can they make better use of the small allot ments of garden soil about their little houses. Half an acre is a good deal of land to a man who has been accustomed to make a living off a few benches of rich soil propped up on a Sorrento side hill by a succession of wall terraces. The South Carolina experiment is con lined by law to immigrants of the "Saxon race." As nobody knows what the Saxon race is—it assuredly does not mean the inhabitants of modern Saxony only Col. Watson, the director of the new of fice, feels justified in sending down He brew mill operatives and mixed races from the poorer part of the city. 12,000 a Day. HERE was a day re might be marked with a red stone— or perhaps a stone a white like a bar ber's pole for I'm not aureJthat its al together good luck when 12,036 immi grants reach New York in one day. And perhaps even that record is beaten by this time. But for a little time at least it stood, and the people in Eilis island worked 48 hours to get rid of them. No business was ever more systema tized than this letting people into the country. They pass slowly along be tween long railings in single file. The eye-doctor looks for half a second under each uplifted eyelid for traces of sar coma. The general inspection for vac cination marks and against disease has already been undergone twice, and in some cases three times. A wave of the hand turns an applicant aside into the detention "pen," to be decided upon la ter. and perhaps sent home at the cost of the steamship company. Fewer are sent back than you might think. The money test is not conclusive. A feeble person with money is looked upon less favorably than a strong young fellow with three dollars by way of worldly wealth.— After all that is said about the admis sion of undesirables, most of the new comers are pretty good people. This is the unanimous testimony of those that deal with them. Italians are making our railroads Hungarians are digging most of our coal Slovaks, near by at least, are doing much of our farm work. The average ship-load is composed of healthy looking people whose fresh com plexions put to shame the city-mured folk that jeer at them.. In reading the late F. L. Olmstead's account of the border slave state, writ ten before the war, I came upon an ex pression I had not heard for years: "Dumb Irishman." It meant an immi grant Irishman fresh from off the ship, who had not yet yearned to talk English. »ndwho—this part was pathetic—was pet weak and tremulous from the con finement and privations of the voyage, and could not work well until heartened by food. What the Immigrants Do. E immigrants that herd in New York so persistent ly—two-thirds of them hive within 200 miles of the city—have many peculiarities. The least of these Is the striking ten dency of the Ital ians to become railroad laborers, and the Hebrews to become garment makers. If you add that the Greeks are monopolizing the S3S9B sale'of candy and peanuts-and the Ar tenians go to peddling "Turkish" ugs, you complete the common but inaccurate picture of the newcomers' pursuits. For? merly the masons, were largely Irish oii Scottish by birth, the carpenters German and native American. Nowadays th«* Hebrew carpenter and the Italian mason very common. The native American the building trades is in a small mi* nority. Consider the case of a recent im migrant, not yet a citizen, who-is draw-' as a skilled mason 70 cents an hour, $5.60 a short day—and thafcis the new le for the new year—let him write to old neighbors of this fact, and some them are pretty apt to come and look m,up—if they can believe his story! One natural result is that both the Italian and the Hebrew get to owning real estate, the most profitable kind property just at present. They begin city of in ment. La small way, subletting part of a tene ent. Then comes a chance in the di vision of an estate to buy a tenement with' little ready money, giving heavy sec-, mortgage. Prodigies of thrift pay off in part and enable the owner to on another. He lives in one of thfi tenements and has his watchful eye upon the-Avhole. a ond this take The Hebrew has another reason for buying land. He is an intense individu alist. As Dr. piaustein has explained, he wouldn't dream of buying stock in a cor-, poration. He wants something he can see. As a result, he didn't get caught in Steel common in 1903, but bought land and land went up. Of late a flood of 200,000 Jews has poured over into Brook lyn. In the parts they occupy the price of land has risen threefold. They are themselves the buyers. For years the old owners of land at the Brooklyn end of the new Williamsburg bridge have been selling out, afraid of the "deteriora tion of the district." Now that the East "Eiders can see the bridge actually fin ished, they have arrested the downward tendency of prices and shot them up again. "If I'd simply held on I'd have been $6,000 richer," mournfully said to me the former owner of a rather modest little home in this forlorn but now boom ing region. building Extraordinary. I a wages 70 cents an hour, the amount of building going forward is the greatest in the his tory of the metrop olis. For two years a disastrous war in the building trades as in a driven up rents un til they are almosi unendurable. The result of the prospect of peace in the building trades was to start plans for $50,000,000 worth of build ings all at once. I have sometimes al luded jocularly to the poor men's apart ment houses, such as "Charley" Schwab and "All" Vanderbilt live in, where by a little judicious search you can find a few plain rooms renting at only $16,000 a year. But it is no joke to the man who is really poor or merely well-to-do. The old New York rule was that a man might spend one-quarter of his income for rent. That was bad enough in all conscience, but many now spend one-third or more. Why? Ask the man. and he will tell you he has to do it. Perhaps he is right. The first necessity to him is room to live among cultured people and in surround ings not unhealthful. If he is fairly pros perous he may wish sunshine to fall upon his rooms once a day. These things cost money. His food, his clothing, need cost little if any more than in the smallest village. His rent, if he be an educated man in professional life, or moving among professional people, will not cost less than $1,000 a year. He cannot on Manhattan island find a place to live among his kind for less money. This is the literal truth. What may seem in the description like profligacy is really the result of careful weighing of necessities. Considerably less than $1,000 a year, either in rent or in carrying charges as an owner, will provide a home in Brook lyn, or in near-by New Jersey. Add the vast clearing of great spaces upon Man hattan island, the conquest of residence districts by trade, and is it a wonder that the suburbs grow and that within 50 miles of New York's city hall in three states are living 6.000,000 people? With such wages as I have quoted building is expensive, but—it's cheaper than living in Manhattan! mr Tennis the Proper Game. OCIETY has sud denly decided that it is pretty lone so me business tramping about a great field chasing a golf ball. At any rate, the recent signs of the revival of tennis as the fashionable game continue. The most fash ionable place of games in New York is the St. Nicholas rink, where real ice skating has been popular during the wi'nter, and where one of the most redherche tennis tour naments of recent years has been this spring in progress. I don't know that the scores were anything remarkable, probably not, but it makes all the dif ference in the world who makes them. The endurance of the game must have something to do with the American nervous temperament. Young women of the day like to have "something do ing."- The rapid return of the tennis ball close to the net is something like a real game. Ping-pong was very well but it was played indoors. Tennis well, see a game played at the Newport casino, with the. watching throng of fashionables, with the bright but kindly sua of a never fierce seaside August upon, the scene, and with the fresh aii from the ocean rolling in—golf isn'tiike that OW£N LdLNGDQH. GENERAL WEAKNESS-AND FEVEE DISAPPEAR TOO. How a "Wom*ri VTas Freed from Troubles That Had Mado Ufa Wretched for Many Tears. The immediate causes of headaches •ary, but most of them come- from poor or poisoned blood. In anaemia the blood is. scanty or thin the nerves are imper fectly nourished and pain is the way in which they express their weakness. In colds the blood absorbs poison from the mucous surfaces, and the poison irritates the nerves and produces pain. In rheu matism, malaria and the grip, the poison in the blood produces like discomfort. In indigestion the gases from the impnre matter kept in the system affect the blood in the same way. The ordinary headache-curea at best give only temporary relief. They deaden the pain but do not drive the poison out of the blood. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills on the contrary thoroughly renew the blood and the pain disappears perma nently. Women in particular hare found these pills anunfailing relief in head aches caused by anemia. Miss Stella Blocker recently said: "Dr. Williams' Pink Pills did me a great dewl of good. I had headache nearly all the time. After I had taken three boxes of these pills I became entirely well." "How long had you suffered?"she was asked. Far several years. I can't tell the exact date when my illness began for it came on by slow degrees. I had been going down hill for many years." Did you have any other ailments?" "I was very weak and sometimeslhad fever. My liver and kidneys were af fected as well as my head." How did you come to take the rem edy that-cured you?" "I saw in a southern newspaper a statement of some person who was cured of alike trouble by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. My physician hadn't done me any good, so I bought a box of these pili«. After I had taken one box I felt so much better that I kept on until I became en tirely well." Miss Blocker's home is at Leander, Louisiana. Dr.Williams' Pink Pills are sold by all druggists. Besides headache tljey cure neuralgia, sciatica, nervous prostration, partial paralysis and rheu tnatism. Monomaniac. Dan—I wonder if the Koh-i-noor ia still the biggest diamond there is? Fan--! dono where that place Koh-i noor is, but if th' diamond's any more'n 80 feet each way it ain't regulation an' oughtn't to be recognized.—Baltimore American. Breathed More Freely. Uncle Dick—What ia the baby so pleased about? Nurse—I expect he heard Mrs. Ducie say just now that he didn't look a bit like anj of his relations.—Stray Stories. Baseballitis. "-—Employer—So you thinlc your grand mother will die soon. Is her disease catch ing? Office Boy—Yep an' pitching, too.— N. Y. Times. A working politician who has attended some of the sessions of the fas investigat ing committee has coined this phrase: "Give me the by-products of politics and I care not who makes the gas."—N. Y. Bun. "And you promised me you would never speculate again." "1 know it, but it was such a temptation. 1 bought steel at 60 and sold at 68." "Oh, Algernon, how could you? It went to 73!"—Brooklyn Life. When the lobster has become extinct, and its extinction is said to be probable if not certain, it might not be a bad idea to turn its exterminators loose upon the mosquito.—Bingham ton (N. Y.) Leader. Some people just naturally look as if they eat off a red table cloth.—Washing ton Star. Help Yourself. Cure Rheumatism, Weakness, Pains, Impure Blood, Nervous Exhaustion, In digestion or Stomach troubles, Skin dis eases, Catarrh, etc., by taking Pusheck's Kuro. Prove the effectiveness of this remedy by using it after doctors and all other remedies have failed. 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