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h'ir THE ENTERPRISE. W. E. -II ANN A FORD, Publisher VIRGINIA. MINNESOTA With a baseball pennant and a polit ical upheaval Philadelphia is likely to have prominence for a time. Imports during the six months end ed June 30, 1905, show an item of breadstuffs valued at $3,652,209. The Papuan native village constable, with ten shillings a year and two uni forms, is the cheapest policeman Aus tralia has to pay. This country imported during tlie first six months of the calendar year 42,881,806 pounds of raw cotton, val ued at $6,505,378. If Prof. r#3hring has found the way to cure consumption he might as well say at once which particular niche in the hall of fame he most prefers. The Hamburg-American Steamship Co. has christened the decks of the Amerika, its new vessel, Kaiser, Roose-, velt, Washington, Cleveland and Franklin, instead of (main, lower, etc. Among the crying needs of South Africa are wire screen doors and wire screens for the windows, for the pur pose of keeping out the insect pests. Hitherto screens have been but littla used in that country. Maj. Gen. A. R. Chaffee retires for Age next April as chief of staff, and will be succeeded by Maj. Gen. J. C. Bates, who will in the following June yield to Maj. Gen. Corbin. After only three months' tenure Gen. Corbin will give way to Maj Gen. Arthur MacAr thur, who will have a three years' term. Stockholm is built on a series of Island formed by LoJke Malaren. It Is indeed the city of a thousand island and rock reefs, which are sown broad cast many miles beyond the mainland where the lake and river join the sea. The steamers which ply up and down the lake "afford endless excursions. Seaward you may sail a day among the islands until you reach the long, low reefs on which the Baltic beats. In spite of their cold climate the Swedes delight in the open air. "Jul Lu, a police censor, has been dismissed from office forever lyr an Imperial edict for disobeying the im perial order not to examine by torture, and also for his great cruelty always in dealing with prisoners," says the Pekin Times. "He had been nick named Jul Forty, as he always started out by giving prisoners forty blows. Recently a man died while receiving 100 blows by his orders, which caused Jul Lu to be reported by the Pekin censorate, and the result has been the edict of dismissal." A new and remarkable addition to the useful applications of electricity Is Just now receiving the attention of the postal authorities of several Euro pean. countries—the invention of Count Taeggi, an Italian. It consists of a de vice for the transmission of letters between distant points by electricity. For this purpose it Is proposed to con struct a miniature railway strung on [Wires about the height of ordinary telegraph-poles, the letters being trans mitted in tiny inclosed carriages pro pelled by electricity. London physicians have taken up the laughter treatment and are pre scribing it as an alternative to tonics or drugs. For the time being the raw food cure, electric baths, open air, starvation, Finsen rays, soothing mu sic and going barefoot are set aside in favor of unrestrained mirth. "For one thing," says a London doctor, discuss ing the new remedy, "it accelerates the circulation and so aids digestion. It relieves the brain by quickening the movement of the blood through the veins and vessels." The vaccine for the euro of tuber culosis, the discovery of which was recently announced at the internation al congress %t Paris by Prof. Von Behring, will be brought within the reach of the poorest people in every part of the world within a year, ac cording to a statement made by Dr. E. Bischoff, of the firm of C. Bischoff & Co., the professor's American agents. Dr. Bischoff is satisfied that a cure for consumption has actually been discovered, and denied that Von Beh ring is holding back his discovery for the sake of the money to be gained. The age of the sun has been for many years a matter of controversy between geologists and physicists. The investigators of tidal friction claim that five hundred or one thou sand million years have elapsed since the birth of the moon, and other sci entists, arguing from purely geological reasons, claim the age of the sun to •be' between fifty and one thousand million years. On the other hand, it Is asserted by physicists that, at the rate at which the sun is emitting en ergy, it can not have been active for more than twenty million years. Belzoni and others found in an an* cient sarcophagus artificial teeth made of sycamore wood. A set of artificial teeth on the bridgework system was also found in an Etruscan skull of about 200 A. D. Plaster restorations of the nose, ears and lips are clearly described in Susruta about 300 B. C. But the earliest representation of an artificial limb is that of a satyr who is depicted with a wooden leg on a Graeco-Roman vase in a collection at the Louvre in Paris. In a Graeco-Ro man mosaic there i9 also a sportsman represented with a wooden leg. THE CHICAGO FIRE ANNIVERSARY OBSERVED BY "MAYOR'S DINNER." A LONG GLANCE BACKWARD Commercial Association Plans a New City—Mayor Bids Tax-Payer to Do His Duty—Need of Good Government. I A O other day oc curred the thirty fourth anniver sary of the Chica go fire, with con ditions seemingly ripe for a some what similar ex perience. There had been no rain for weeks, the prairies all about were covered with dust-colered vegetation dry as tinder. As we took a journey along the south western edge of the town the day of the anniversary, the miles of dried grass and numberless shanties at the mercy of the wind from the south and west, we trembled for what a great matter might again be started by a little flame. The day after the anniversary one of the papers displayed on its front page a cartoon that mixed tragedy and humor in the usual American fashion we were shown a scene of devastation, and under the picture the artist had written "Thirty-four years ago Chicago was a smoking ruin." Another scene giving view of tall chimneys pouring out great volumes of smoke and these spreading over the town, was inscribed with the laconic words "Still smok ing." There It was, Chicago's smoking past and her smoking present. We forgot all anxiety in laughing with the clever artist. And fortunately there proved no occasion for further anx iety, a delightful all-night rain falling aild removing the menace of dried, wind-swept prairie. Of course the papers were, filled with review and reminiscences of the 24 hours work back in 1871. Old resi dents came forth from seclusion and repeated oft-told tales a great banquet was held at the Auditorium. Veterans of the Chicago fire department that battled with the flames during those stupendous hours, foregathered, 40 strong, to relate experiences and to speak on changes that have taken place in Chicago since the October night Mrs. O'Leary's cow kicked over the lantern. Mrs. O'Leary's Cow. O S E deeply regret the animal started that $186,000,000 blaze, but must say, now that the fire is over with and cannot be helped, we rejoice the O'Leary cow is really historic, au thentic. We had a O a would be routed some day, that some meddling delver would place it in lim bo, along with George Washington's boyhood truthfulness, William Tell's apple and other darling beliefs. But Fernando Jones—and who knows more about Chicago, both past and present, than this ancient of days, this keen observer—tells us we may cling to the cow. Fernando says: "It is peculiar that such a tremendous calamity owed its start to a cow, but that is the case. Some people have thought that Mrs. O'Leary's cow was a bit of fiction, but that is not so. The cow actually exist ed and it did kick over the lantern. That was what started the whole thing. Mrs. O'Leary's shanty was in the rear of No. 137 Dekoven street, near Clinton, and that is the spot atwhich the flames began their work. The fire thus started on the West side, just beyond the river but very lit tle of that side of the town suffered. The flames jumped the river at Harri son street and the work of destruction was begun on the South side. On and around it sped, and soon that part of town bounded by the river, Harrison street and the lake was all aflame. This constituted not only the whole business portion of the city, but also much of the residence part, for along Michigan avenue were numerous fine residence, one block here was known as Palace Row. The Are turned towards the river again, this time to the northward, and now the North side was overwhelmed. It struck the North side about three o'clock in the morning and bunied there all the next day. Its nortnern limit was what is now Lincoln park, then a burying ground. Mr. Jones tells that the flames did not spare even the burying ground all the wooden slabs were burned. The Days That Tried Men's Souls. HE town then had a population of 330,000 of these 70,000 were ren dered homeless. Of the awful money os a spoken for all that loss only a few paltry thous ands were paid in insurance, such a large proportion of the Insurance be ing in local companies. Somehow we ioften our judgment of the boastful- ness of the Chicago motto "rvtyill people that have arisen from tMAsbes of a fire like that of 1871 may be for given many things. Maybe we realize it more in contem plation of individual loBses than in try ing to grasp the aggregate of almost $200,000,000: Think of shelter, bed, clothing, food, possessions, great and small, everything gone and no hotels open to go to, neighbors in the same state of impoverishment as yourself. But human nature proved itself during those harrowing days something better than rated by the cynics houses that were left, opened wide their doors those that had, gave to those that had not. Ere some system of relief could be put into operation there came pour ing into the town motley stores sent post haste by the farmers along the railway lines, people picked up what there was at hand and sent it generous ly, unhesitatingly. Immediate necessi ties were immediately cared for. Short ly the whole world sent aid, $7,000,000 in cash was reoeived. The dazed people began to hope, be gan to work. And the rest of the story every one knows. In the reminiscei^ces exchanged the other evening at the meeting of the veteran fire fighters, former Chief Musham bore witness that his com pany, No. 6, was the first to get a stream on the fire then came No. 2, and this company kept the flames from spreading to the West side. "Yes," de clared the former chief, "it was old No. 2 that saved the West side and over there,"' signalling out one of the old brigade, "I see Fred Allen, the engineer on No. 2." Of course the veterans looked now to Allen for a speech. He gave it in few, but strong, words. "We worked like that night." The Mayor's Dinner." E HAVE no great time in Chicago to stop and think, but even a hasty per son may have been impressed by two matters closely linked with the past and present of the city the flood of reminiscences of ft the great fire, the a known as the may or's dinner. The thirty-fourth anni versary of the fire was also the first birthday anniversary of the Chicago Commercial association. The mayor's dinner was attended by 1,000 men, interested, as the Record Herald put it, "in the rise of a The decorations of the banquet ta bles were emblematic as well as of au tumnal beauty. Over the speaker's ta ble hung a floral reproduction of the association's emblem, of such goodly size the words stood out clearly from a background of white asters appeared the words "Chicago the," and the phrase was finished below with "Great" in golden immortelles on a background of red rosebuds. The lower half of the design had a background of purple asters from which shone forth, in starry coreopsis bloom, the words "Central Market:" At the mayor's dinner the mayor scolded a little, and of course did not l#t the opportunity slip to at least men tion the question of municipal owner-, ship. And this is how he censured he said if every one did his duty as a taxpayer the city's purse would not be so lean. Among other needs mentioned he spoke of a better fire equipment. Upbuilding of Chicago. UT their thoughts were largely con cerned with the fu ture. They talked of wonderful possi bilities. In grandi eloquent words the mayor thus ad dressed the ban queters: "Chicago, in my judgment, is the greatest city of America, not in population, or in wealth, but in energy, activity and vitalized ambition in both commercial and economic directions. It is the nerve center of America, from which pulsates and, throbs the advanced thought and energy of" the American people." But, as we mentioned pre viously, Mayor Dunne did not spend all his time in eulogy, he spoke of the c?ty as being illy policed, her people illy protected and emphasized the fact that radical reforms will require ade quate revenues, which the city now sadly lacks. The next speaker was Franklin Mac Veagh, president of the bureau of char ities and of the Municipal Art league, who had for theme the upbuilding of Chicago. Mr. MacVeagh declared that the great thing necessary in the de velopment of Chicago was the eradica tion of politics from the city govern ment, and made a plea that the city's higher life have full regard, that this be taken into consideration as well as the question of commercial success. Mr. MacVeagh dwelt on the greatness of spiritual power and argued force fully for good government. To quote directly from his address—until Chic* go does upbuild her government he? other upbuilding must go on with halt ing and lagging. CHRISTOPHER WEBSTER WASHINGTON LETTER SECRETARY BONAPARTE BE SIEGED BY LETTERS. FROM NEY'S DESCENDANTS A Vigorous Son of Kentucky—Admir al Dewey's Energy—After Cen tury of Delay Erect Memorial to Revolutionary Hero. for assistance. :new Chicago." These men broke bread to gether and interchanged views of the city's faults, of the city's needs. The guest of the evening was the mayor of Chicago, it being the aim to bring into closer relationship those representing the commercial interests of the City and those in charge of her mun affairs. The. president of the .as -tion spoke of thedq8ireof *lie tion to cooperate With the locality government, the mayor expressed his appreciation of the benefits accruing from harmony. A S I N O N Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte is paying the penal ty of belonging to a royal family. He is a grand-nephew of Emperor Na poleon and the de scendants of the great marshals who served under the latter are now appealing to him Judging from the number of applications that he has re ceived since his appointment as secre tary of the navy made him known in ternationally, Mr. Bonaparte Has come to the conclusion that all of the great Napoleon's marshals must have died poor. Scarcely a day passes that he does not receive a letter from some one in France stating that the writer has descended from one of Napoleon's generals, and as the emperor's grand nephew is now a man of wealth and position the writer does not doubt that he will be only too glad to render a little assistance. The secretary cannot undertake to respond to all these applications, but he has let it be known that his .'nod est fortune would soon disappear ir he gave even a trifle to each of the appli cants. The majority of appeals aid come from the descendants of Marshal Ney. The Ney family seems to have been very prolific, as members of are popping up all over the republic of France. In their letters to the secre tary they call attention to the great value of Marshal Ney's services to Na poleon and suggest that the secretary in memory of his distinguished grand uncle, might feel like discharging-part of the latter's debt to Ney by sub stantial financial remittances to the present members of the Ney family. One of these letters is from a Ney who has served in the French army. He has sent the secretary a colored portrait of himself, showing that he is dressed in the brilliant French uni form, with baggy trousers of a bright red hue. White-Headed Soldier. IS now Maj. 3en. "Jack Wesf.on." The expected pro motion has *een made and the white-headed sol dier, who will be 60 years of age in N ber, now goes into the line to do'active serv ice. It was at first thought that he would be ap pointed to the general staff, but there was no place for him there, so he will be assigned to command of a division with headquarters at St. Louis. Secretary Taft is not altogether in favor of the policy of putting men of Weston's age into the line, and, with the kindliest feel ings for the veteran, he contested with the president over such an assignment When the promotion was decided jippn. the secretary said to Weston: "General, the president has been try ing to make you a major general and I have been trying to prevent it. The president has won out, and I guess he is right about it." "That's all right," responded Ken. "Jack." "I understand my age is in the way, but I am a pretty lively colt," Anyone to look at the active, rosy cheeked Kentuckian, and who is ac quainted with his record for hard work, can easily understand how the president persuaded Secretary Tafc to waive the policy of not appointir.g old men to the line in Weston's case. Gen. Weston is known as the "Charles O'Malley" of the* army, a» he fills the bill of Lever's Irish soldier hero in most particulars. He is a jMly, light-hearted, energetic, brave officer, and has years of usefulness before him. Only two years ago the army doctors concluded that he was a very sick man, and they thought they had dis covered something wrong with his heart. They put him in the soldiers' home hospital and told him he must not take any violent exercise. Weston did not believe that there was any thing the matter with his heart and one day, when his attendants were at dinner, he jumped up, ran across a meadow and back at full speed and found to his satisfaction that there was not the slightest flutter of his heart. Not Retired on His Laurels. DMIRAL DEWEY is setting an ex ample of activity .that could well be followed by young er officers in the navy. He is still vthe naval hero of the present day, but he does not elect to retire on his laurels and rust out in private life. As president of the genera1, na val board he is on duty every day at the department, and takes the keenest interest in everything pertaining to the improvement 9I the navy. The ad miral is 68 years of age and could 'lave retired, four years ago if he had want ed to, .but he says there is a lot of work that he can-do and-he proposes to devote his epergies to the good of the navy. Just now Admiral Dewey has been brought into the limelight by his per sistent advocacy of big ships' for the navy. He has studied the recent war between Russia and Japan with a view to learning lessons that can be applied to the United States navy, and he maintains that the first lesson of this conflict is the dominance of the big battleship in a naval encounter. He declares that the United States must keep abreast of all the great navies of the world, and as Great Britain nas now laid down an 18,000-ton battlesnip it behooves this country to imitate her example and build a vessel of equal size'. Admiral Dewey believes that the de fensive and offensive alliance between Great Britain and Japan makes it nec essary for the United States to main tain a navy of the first grade. This alliance giyes Great Britain and Japan virtual control of the seacoast from the Mediterranean to the north east ernmost point of the Asiatic ciast. The United States must have a navv that will command respect in order to maintain the Philippines and protect her commercial interests in the ori ent. The admiral's views will be spread before congress at the coming session when the question of a big batt'eship is discussed. Gen. Hugh Mercer. FTER 129 years this government is about to do proper honor to a distinguished rev olutionary he c\ A memorial is to be erected to the memory of Gen. gallant officers in Hugh Mercer, who is a close friend of Washington and one of the mosi the revolutionary war. The continental congress, 129 years ago, passed a resolution for the erection of a monument to this .fleer, but it is only now that this purpose is to be carried out, provision having been made by the last congress for the erection of a statue of Gen. Mercer at Fredericksburg, Va. A prominent sculptor has been given the contract for the memorial. Gen. Mercer was a native of Scot land, and in the early days before the revolution, in fact, before the Frnnch and Indian war, he came to America and settled at Fredericksburg, wiere he became known as one of the ablest lawyers in that part of the country. He forced a ^friendship With Georgfc' Washington when the latter was an of ficer in the colonial service, and en gaged with him in the ill-fated £rad dock expedition of 1755. He vas se verely wounded at Braddock's fields, near Fort Duques:*e, and traveled on foot in that condition to Fort Cumber land, 160 miles east. On the breaking out of the revolu tion, he was again associated vith Washington, and was conspicuous for his gallantry in many an engagement particularly in the battles of Trenton and Princeton. In the latter engage ment he received his death wound. The continental congress, in its en thusiasm over Gen. Mercer's gallantry, upon receiving news of his death in battle,. passed a resolution for a me morial, but the necessary funds were not set aside to erect, one. That over sight of more than a century ago has been reinedied. and now thfc gallant Scotchman who gave his life for the United States will be honored foi all time by a memorial fitting in senti ment and workmanship. The Little Fighter from Wisconsin. NE of the subjects that is interesting United States sen ators just now is the probable con duct of Gov. La Follette of Wis consin^ who has been' elected as senator from .hat state. There have been all sorts of stories afloat as to the radical course 1 of action he is likejy to follow when ho enters the senate. The fact that the railway rate question will be a top liner in the senatorial' program tnia winter has le^ to the supposition that Senator La Follette will jump to the front in a sort of continuous perform ance on that subject One of the old members of the sen ate, in discussing "Bob"-La Follette's probable course, said the other day: "I don't believe that Mr. La FoUette will attempt to run the senate, or unduly occupy its time. He served three terms in the house of representatives, and has a very accurate knowledge of what the senate customs are. "It is very well known that a new member of the senate is expected to keep in the background for the first year or so. I know that that was the way with me, and I had had previous experience in the house of representa tives. The senate has a quiet, compla cent way of extinguishing genius that is too persistent and calculated to of fend the traditions of the body. A sen ator who_ really wants, to be useful to his state will wisely "feel" his way for the first year or two. After he has got his bearings and established a foot ing, if he is a man of ability, there is no place that his genius will count for so much as in the United States sen ate." MRS. EMMA FLEISSNER .3 Suffered Over '£wo Years—Health Wkt A a Precarious Condition—Caused By Pelvic Catarrh. HEALTH AND STRENGTH RESTORED BY PE-RU-NA. Afrs. Emma Flcissner, 1413 Sixth Ave. Seattle Wash., Worthy Treas urer Sons of Temperance, writes "I suffered over two years with Ir* regular and painful periods. My health was In a very precarious condition and I was anxious to find something to re store my health and strength. I was very glad to try Peruna and delighted to find that it was doing me good. 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