The Virginia enterprise. [volume], July 25, 1902, Image 2

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FORTUNES OF THIS DECADE.
By Chauncey M. Depew.
N in
marks this decade
from others than
the sudden accumu­
lation of fabulous
fortunes. When I
ad at
Yale there were
only two multi­
millionaires in the
United States, John
Jacob Astor and
SENATOR DEPEW.
Commodore Vail.
dorhilt. Neither of them at that period
had reached the $10,000,000 limit. There
wore uot.in the whole country twenty
people worth a million dollars. To-day
there are more than one hundred in Pitts-,
burs alone who have passed that figure.
These vast fortunes, themselves so con­
spicuous, so almost incomprehensible, are
at present more matters of curiosity than
of antagonism. Most of the possessors
of them
have shown a wise generosity in
the distribution of their wealth. In i'.o
other country
in the world, at no other
period, have the rich from their abun­
dance given so lavishly to education, phi­
lanthropy and patriotism. Last year the
known sums which were thus contributed
amounted to the high figure of $107,360,
000.
The sudden acquisition of almost in­
calculable riches by so many in the last
live years has produced many singular
results*. The most ghastly misfortune
which can happen to a man who has been
successfully prosecuting and increasing
bis business until he has passed middle
do is ID be compelled to sell out and re­
tire. lie may receive a sum far beyond
ny value he ever placed upon his plant
.Mid giM)d will. Nevertheless, the sale is
generally
accompanied
iiDt
by
an obligation
to resume and compete. Little cut
side the factory or otlicc interests him
because the cells of his brain have be­
come. some of them, abnormally active,
and others paralyzed through disuse. He
•an
think of nothing and lie cares for
nnt'iing
but the shop and its results.
Knoks, literature, lectures, travel, politics,
siicii'ty, and play bore the life out of
him.
I know half a hundred such men
who have come to this condition within
he last few years.
WOMAN'S DUTY TO SOCIETY.
By Mrs. Donald M'Lean.
The first duty of a woman to
society is to make herself agree­
able to those whom she does
Lot
consider to be in society.
It is easy enough to be agree­
able to one's friends. The test
of breeding, of course, comes in
one's attitude to one's inferiors and one's
enemies—two classes which a woman, in
considering her duty to society, is very
likely in her own mind to exile from so­
ciety. On the contrary, they are very im­
portant members of it. She ought to
know this because they occupy so many
of her thoughts.
An attempt to be agreeable usually
takes a very obvious form—that of flat­
tery. Flattery is exceedingly bad form.
Flattery is the spurious coin, the gold
coin is simple graciousness. A cardinal
principle of being agreeable is to bo gra­
cious. Graciousness includes a negative
talent—the talent of snubbing nobody.
The bane of social intercourse is rtnub
bing. Snubbing is adopted presumably
to emphasize one's superiority to the per­
son snubbed. On its face it defeats its
WAS A ROSY-CHEEKED GIRL
ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO.
This is a picture of Mrs. David B.
Stamp, of Fiuchvilie, Orange County,
N. Y. She is a little, old, almost for­
gotten woman, living in a little, old,
almost forgotten town. You would
scarcely believe to see her that she
was an old woman as long: ago as the
outbreak of tlr Civil War you would
scarcely believe that: one hundred
years ago slio was a plump, red*cheek-'
ed, girl playing on the shores of the
blue Hudson, and the prettiest girl,
at that, for many mile in all directions.
But that is exactly what she did do
and what she was, and now as sh& sits
among the gathering shadow's of life's'
twilight, waiting for the night to fall,
she can look backward across the cen­
tury ayd say that the world with: all
its teeming millions has been^born
again sinee that far distant time-jwrheti
she was a little girl at play.
Mrs. Stamp was born on1 the shores
MRS. DAVID II. STAlir.
of the Hudson one hundred and eight
years ago. She spent her girlhood
there and saw the trial trip of Robert
Fulton's first steamboat. She remem­
bers when the country rang with the
praises of General Washington! She
remembers the day he died. She re­
members the Marquis de Lafayette,
Andrew Jackson, the war of 1812, and
recalls most of ti. principal events
that have taken p.aee in her lifetime.
Mrs. Stamp spends most of her time
at her spinning wheel, which, like her­
self. belongs to an almost forgotten
time. Every garment that she wears,
as well as nearly every piece of fabric
in her humble heme, Is homespun
goods, the work of her own hands.
The Prince and the Paiuter,
When King Edward was still Prince
of Wales, he sat to Julian Story for his
portrait The Prince could gi7e the
painter but a short time, so Mr. Story
worked at high pressure. A little lncl-
THE
own end. For the woman who wishes
to be agreeable to society naturally
wishes to make society believe in her.
But when she snubs any one whom she
considers beneath her she is giving am­
ple proof that either she or her ancestors
have not been used to the grade of society
in which she finds herself and that she
is, therefore, uot what she would have
others believe.
The woman who has aright to the so­
cial position she occupies, and whose fam­
ily for generations has been in the same
position, will find it necessary to snub
no one—neither those whom she meets
socially and whom she does not consider
her social equals, nor those in other walks
of life with whom she is brought into
casual contact.
Graciousness to her friends and to ber
servants, to her acquaintances and to her
sewing woman, to her children and to
every one asking a favor of her. to those
who are gentlewomen and to those who
are not—that is the first rule of conduct
for one who fulfills her duty to society
by being agreeable.
The duty of making one's self agree­
able to society means simply a woman's
duty to let her best impulses rule her all
the time. So this becomes a rule for gen­
eral conduct as well as for social inter­
course.
HOW TO CURB TRUSTS.
By James J. Hill.
The commercial
expansion of a na­
tion is the best in­
dex of its growth.
Next to the Chris­
tian religion and
the common schools
no other single
work enters into
the welfare and
happiness of the
J. J. IIILL.
people of the whole country to the same
extent as the railway. Great Britain
has retained possession of the oriental
trade for the reason that she furnishes
the lowest rates of transportation to and
from those countries. We are now pre­
paring to challenge her for such share
of this business as can be furnished by
the manufacturers of the United,States.
In a country as large as ours, carrying
on enormous undertakings, large amounts
of capital are necessary, and this capital
can be more readily furnished by corpo­
rate ownership than in any other way.
The only serious objection to so-called
trusts has been the method of creating
them for the purpose of selling sheaves
of printed securities which represent
nothing more than good will and pros­
pective profits to the promoters.
If it is the desire of the government to
prevent the growth of such corporations,
it has always seemed to me that a sim­
ple remedy was within its reach. Under
the constitutional provision allowing
Congress to regulate commerce between
States all companies desiring to transact
business outside of the State in which
dent given on the authority of the Lon­
don Chronicle exhibits the manly''sym­
pathy of the present sovereign of En­
gland.
While the Prince walked back and
forth at intervals to rest, the painter
worked at the. background, never put­
ting down his palette. The result was
that his thumb went to sleep. Toward
the end of the sitting the painter was
pulling his thumb to get the blood into
circulation,- when his royal sitter saw
and sympathized.
The next day, when the Prince came
for a second sitting, he said:
"I didn't sleep very well last night,
and I thought of you. I was worrying
about your palette. Couldn't you have
the thumb-hole padded?"
Fruitless Caution.
One of the pleasant incidents con­
nected with tie celebration of Edward
Everett Hale's eightieth birthday was
the reprinting of "The Man Without a
Country," which helped to make him
famous. Dr. Hale wrote a preface fot
the book, and told not only how he
came to write it, but of the way in
which one well-laid plan came to
naught
When the story was published in the
Atlantic Monthly the utmost secrecy
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L0ADING WHEAT BY ELECTRICITY.
they are incorporated should be held
a uniform provision of federal laws. Thej
should satisfy a commission that theii
capital stock was actually paid up ii
cash or in property, at a fair valuation,
just as the capital of the national banli
is certified to be paid up. With that sim­
ple law the temptation to make companies
for the purpose of selling prospective
profits would be at an end. At the same
time no legitimate business would suffer.
AMERICAN FARMERS FOR HAWAII.
ByRobt. W. Wilcox, ot Hawaii,
I am deeply interested in th
bill providing for the divisior
of government lands into home
steads for the farmers and mid­
dle classes, because at present
we only have in Hawaii the
very rich and the very poor—thi
poor being the laborers or coolies.
Out of the population of 1(50,000, near­
ly 90,000 are Asiatic, 60,000 being Jap­
anese and 30,000 Chinese. There are also
several thousand Porto Ricans, but they
are undesirable, as they would rather lie
in jail all of the time than go to work.
The land area of Hawaii is 4,006,00c
acres. Of this area 2,000,000 acres are
in the hands of seventy men engaged iu
sugar raising and cattle, ranging. The
other 2,000,000 acres, which constitute
the government lands, are rented and
leased to tte sugar corporations, thi
leases ranging from five to sixteen years.
These government lauds I want dividec
up into homesteads to encourage Ameri­
can farmers to go to Hawaii. Instead ol
dividing the government lands into home
steads of 160 acres, as in the United
States, the best lands could be divided
into twenty-acre homesteads and the pas­
toral lands into eighty-acre homesteads
either of which would give the Americac
farmer a fine homestead to support his
family all the year round.
To give an idea of how fertile the besl
land is, the sugar corporations produce
an average of ten tons of sugar to the
acre. The rice planters produce twe
crops a year, aggregating between 5,0(K
and 6,000 pounds to the acre. The same
land planted with taro, a plant akin tc
elephant's ears, which is the staple food
of the natives, will produce somewhere
between 40,000 and 50,000 pounds pei
acre, and it sells at one cent a pound.
MILITARISM VS. COMMERCIALISM.
By W. Bourfre Cockran.
This nation has been a world
power—a world power of sur­
passing value to the civilization
of the world. It has assumed
the primacy of civilization be­
cause from the very hour of its
birth it has been devoted un­
swervingly to justice. I believe that this
country is commercial, that this is a com­
mercial age, that commercialism is pre­
dominant but far from regretting, I glory
in it.
The object of every war that was ever
waged, at least in the old world,. wee
plunder—that is to say, profit. Vanquish­
ed countries are despoiled more scientifi­
cally, but more successfully, by tribute.
Militarism is the pursuit of profit by plun­
der commercialism is the pursuit ol
profit by industry. No fortune, howpvei
great, but was produced by peaceful pur­
suits. America has given a shining les­
son to all the world for the benefit o'l
all ages. It has taught that the pathway
to advantage is through honesty and jus­
tice and not through violence and plun­
der.
Behold the electric stevedore! It suffereth not from fatigue and it quitteth
not even at the lunch hour, and yet it loads wheat upon a vessel in a style far
beyond the possibilities of human hands Just watch it. if you please The sacks
ot grain come aboard by a sort of trolley and are dumped into the hold at the
rate of one every two seconds. It is. in fact, the latest achievement of electricity
as applied for power purposes. The picture is from the Year Bo6k of the Depart­
ment of Agriculture.
was used in carrying' it 'through the
press. The proofs were not sent to the
author .they were, given to the editor
Mr. Fields, who forwarded them tt
.Mr. Hale. It was desirable, that the
story should, stand in the name of Cap
tain Frederic Ingham, of the navy,
who purported to tell it. Unfortunate
ly it happened to be published in tht
December number, which was ther
the index number of the Atlantic. The
person who made the index knew
from Mr. Hale's handwriting that he
had been the author of the story and
so, in spite of every precaution, the
index at the end of the volume told the
authorship.
Long-Felt Want.
STABS OF OIIR FUG
fcommentthe
attain
an artistic and
both.
Cr^HE new Grace Reformed
II Church, now in process of con
structlon, will be finished about
Dec. 1, at which time it is expected
ha id
BEV. J. M. SCHICK.
man!
Green—Congratulate me, old
My fortune is made.
Brown—Come on with the explana­
tion.
Green—I have discovered anew kind
of cloth for cheap clothing that •will
fade alike all over.
Somebody ought to protest In vigor­
ous fashion against the foolish habll
of pounding tin pans around a man'l
house when he gets married.
The water invariably escapes when
it is only half tide.
on July 1. The new edifice will be of
Gothic design, the material of Cleve­
land Lower Canon gray stone, and the
auditorium will have a seating capacity
of about GOO. The newspapers always
refer to this little church as the Dutch
Reformed, but, according to the pas­
tor, Rev. John M. Schick, this title la
erroneous. He says this his church is
properly described by the term "Grace
Refomred," and that if it have any
national origin at all it is German rath­
er than Dutch. It is a differentiation
from the Lutheran churches in that
its underlying spirit is republicanism,
whereas that Of the Lutheran churches
is monarchic. Dr. Schick is a pleasant
MACHINE MADE TORCHON LACE.
Austrian Invention Imitates Hand
Made Product.
Some fair Imitations of hand-made
lace are already manufactured by ma­
chinery. A recent invention by an
Austrian named Matitseh renders it
possible to reproduce one more variety,
known as torchon lace. The real ar­
ticle is a moderately coarse but pretty
lace and is used on garments which it
is desirable to put through a laundry.
Herr Matitseh, after being associated
with the lace industrj' In Vienna and
inventing a machine which did not give
satisfactory results, went to Notting­
ham, England, where he perfected the
model in 1899. It was then necessary
to make the jacquards for each,pattern,
that it was desirable, to produce. This
part of t£e work was performed upon
the inventors return to Viennal Hitii
erto
fit'hks
been n'eceSsary
to
+$
NEW ARRANGEMENT OF THE STARS OF THE AMERICAN FLAG
HE lack of symmetry and historical significance in the arrangement of the
stars on blue field of the American flag has for years been a subject of
among observing patriots. Many men have given much time to a
plan of placing the stars in some design which would appeal to the people \o£ the
country, but all have failed in evolving any thing satisfactory until the design
which J. R. Stahlnecker of Silverton, Colo., has. worked out was submitted to
Congress. Mr. Stahlnecker's plan is pictured above. He worked on the idea
fourteen years before he was satisfied with it. The work has required more.*,
thought and study than would appear necessary at first to most people. jBiit
was no easy matter to take a given number of stars and get out a design"wlficli
would commemorate th6 great events the history of the country
symmetrical .effect.
In Mr. Stahlnecker's plan, the center group of thirteen
thirteen original States at the time of the adoption of the Constitution. Around
this group, in a circle^ are twenty-three stars which represent ^he States which
were admitted between that time and the close of the Civil War, the group of
thirteen and circle of twenty-three together representing the great seal of the
United States. These three great features are to be unchanged by any follow­
ing events. The first event brought the flag into existence, the second made the
life of the nation more secure, and the great seal is indissolubly connected
The stars outside the circle of twenty-three represent the States which
were admitted between the close of the Civil War and the Spanish-American
war. This places two in each of the four corners and one midway on each side,
the design as a whole representing the union of States as they are at the present
day. As New Mexico, Arizona, Indian Territory and Oklahoma come in, their
stars may be placed in the extreme corners. Then, if Hawaii and Alaska are in
time, also admitted, their stars may be placed midway on each side of the field,
making an outside ring which, with those recently admitted and with the four
territories which ask admittance, will inclose all the rest, making the whole de­
sign beautiful, historical, symbolical and symmetrical.
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S CHURCH
AND ITS PASTOR, REV. DR. SCHICK.
Roosevelt will
have returned to
Washington for the
resumption of his
strenuous duties as
the head of the
American at on.
This is the church
in which the Presi­
dent worships, and
it was he who laid
the corner stone of
the new building
'have"'a'
separate machine for each design.
With the Matitsehmachine it Is only
necessary to substitute one jacquarjd
for another, as in weaving clotij.
The inventor does not intend to or­
ganize a company to, make lace, says
the.New York Tribune, or even the pro
duction of more machines. H*e has al­
ready put nearly $100,000 into his ex-'
perlments and ft 'now looking for a
company to buy his rights. The Not­
tingham lace manufacturers profess
not to be disturbed by the prospect of
competition and say that the Matitseh
machine will injure French manufac­
turers chiefly. In Vienna the papers
think that anew era. in lace making is
ahead.
Strategic Slang.
The enemies of slang—and we are all
its enemies on occasion—will have to
confess that it sometimes has value, if
only to conceal thought. Harper's
Weekly is authority for a story in
which a single slang word was the
means of accomplishing important re­
sults.
When Lieutenant Gilmore's party
was captured and sent into northern
Luzon by the Filipinos, the prisoners
were all condemned to death. Some
were murdered, and the rest of the
party was abandoned in the jungle, be­
The New Arrangement Is
Commemorative of Many
Great Historical Events.... T*
and
yei
Stars'
represents
the-
GRACE MEMORIAL CHURCH.
gentleman, rather under than over the
medium height, and possesses the se­
renity which learning and experience
give to the professional man. He is
now an intimate of the Roosevelt fam­
ily and is often a guest at the Sunday
night suppers in the White House, tc
which the President loves to invite
those who are especially congenial with
him in their views of life and work.
ing, in the opinion of the Filipino lead­
er, too far gone to be worth killing.
They were eventually rescued but
before they were finally condemned
their captors compelled them to sign a
document declartng. that they we#e be­
ing well treated intf fia!d no reason to
complain of their lot.
The men signedf'Brsft arid then the
paper, written in Sparfishy was taken
t© Lieutenant Gilmore for his signa­
ture. He read It, .and understood its
purport. & Siinilafc papers, signed by
American soldiers and evidently forced
from, them by the wily. Filipinos, had
been circulated before. Lieutenant
Gilmore took the document witli the
remark that he would "O. K." the
men's signatures. Then ije wrote the
"\feortf "riit" after each man's name. f--.
The Filipinos thought this was the
American way of .givihgrofficial appro­
val, ftnd were satisfied. Wheh, along
time after the men were rescu^ the
paper got-, tyacjL jj|*r #ilteat
Filipinos irife#f$preisiofl5
With-'it,
wrong.
Honest Tenant.
The father of Edri FitzWilllam, Who
died.'-jjecently,. ..was.- an excellent.vlpn^
lord. A London paper relates how
once a Tarmer went to film with' the
complaint that the Earl's fox hunters
had ruined a field of corn, or, as we
should call it, wheat.
The Earl, gate man' tyvipoun^js
in payment forvdaihigei After jalvckt
time the, farmer ret\irnej, the money,
saying that the wheat had turned out
well, after all.
Earl Fitzwilliam drew a check for
one hundred pounds and gave it to his
tenant. "This is as things should be
between man and man," said he.
"When your eldest son comes of age
give him this, and tell him how and
why you got it."
He Served Two Master*. ,k
Husband—Hurrah! My employer has
given me a week's vacation.
Wife—How nice! Now yon can take
down the stoves, clean out the «*MI«r
and whitewash the kitchen.—Chicago
News.
Most good doctors are homely.'
Heredity:, "Do you believe in hered­
ity?" "Certainly I know a barber who
has three little shavers."—Ex.
Youngman—I wonder what's the best
w^ty to find out what a woman thinks
of you? Henpeck—Marry her.—Phila­
delphia Press.
Dawson—Bjenks is a great believer
in fate, Isn't he? Lawson—Yes, he has
to blame his incompetency on some
thing.-i-Somerville Journal.
$XL Insinuation. Flora—Yes, I sing in
church where they have an awfully
small congregation. Dora—Then why
don't -.you stop singing ?—Philadelphia
Bulletin.
•SljrSfc. Swellman—I dreamed last night
that I was with a box party at the
ppera. Mr. Swellman—I wondered why
you were talking so loud in your sleep.
—Philadelphia Press.
Miss Eastside—That is a lovely
gown, but liaven't I seen it before?
*rMissv^es$teiafe--bio, I think not I have
only worn it at a few smart affairs this
^easoh^-^p^n and Couritrv^'
uIt
with
says'here, Samanthy, thet Rever­
end Toogood was a saloon passenger
on the Majestic^ Beats all how them
preachers "do cut up when they git
away .from hum."—Judge.
Arthur—Yes. I think Minnie loves
me very much, She's a dear girl she
has a large heart. Harry—A heart like
a London omnibus always room for
one more.—Boston Transcript.
Clergyman (lately come to parish)—
Your neighbor, Smith, says my ser­
mons are rubbish. Farmer—Ah, ye'
needn't mind 'im, sir 'e's a mouth­
piece for other folks.—Tit-Bits.
Flossie—I'm afraid, Bridget, that
mamma is dissatisfied 'fvith you.
Bridget Is she, now? Faith, thin,
she'll soon have a chance to be dissat­
isfied wit' somebody else!—Puck.
Inducements Held Out. Harriet—
What shall I say In the advertisement
for a cook? Harry—Well, say that we'll
take her with us to any summer resort
si: 3 may prefer.—Detroit Free Press.
Nothing to Show. "What is your na­
tivity?" asked the magistrate. "I ain't
got any, y'r honor," said the blear-eyed
inebriate, feeling in his pockets "the
police took everything I had."—Chicago
Tribune.
She—You wouldn't mind saying this
over again to-morrow, would you,
dearie? I am a member of the M. P.
D. O. Club. "Why, what does that
mean?" "Moonlight proposals don't
count"—Life.
Convincing Proof: May—I had no
idea before last night that Mr. Pilcher
was a man of such lofty ambitions and
exalted ideals. Maud—How did you
come to find it out? May—He proposed
to me.—Bazar.
Mother—There were two apples in
the cupboard, Tommy, and now there
is only one. How's that? Tommy (who
sees no way of escape)—Well, ma, it
was so dark in there I didn't see the
other
one.—Glasgow
Evening Times.
Sure Test: "How can you tell real cut
glass from the imitation?" asked Mrs.
Gaswell. "You can't, always," said
Mr. Gaswell, "but when anybody offers
you a piece of real cut glass for fifteen
cents, don't buy it."—Chicago'Tribune.
"Will you please raise my salary?"
"Why, I gave you a raise only last
week, because you told me that you
had your mother to support." "I know,
but my mother got married and now I
have two to support.'—Ohio State Jour­
nal.
Farmer (in cart)—Hi, stop! Stop,
you fool! Don't you see my horse is
running away? Driver of motor car
(hired by the hour)—Yes, it's all very
welifor you to say "stop," but I've for­
gotten how the blooming thing works!
—Punch.
Bobbie—You know them preserves
out in th' pantry wot you told me not
to eat? Mother—Yes. Bobbie—You
know you said they'd make me sick if
I et 'em, didn't you? Mother—Yes.
Bobbie—Well, they didn't.—Ohio State
Journal.
"Belinda, your brother Georgie tells
me that you were sitting on that little
Mr. Thomkins*7 knees last-evening. Is
it true?" "Yes, papa butl'm sure you
^^L
•"n
Haddqck—J met |por old Ruyns
cive^in^ towarcfij his1-Office to-day, and
he 'complained tbittexiy of being all run
.dowix this jsiu^ng. Juddock (defensive
ly)_Weli confound him, he had no
business getting in front Of an auto
mobile.—Harper's Bazar.
The Floor Walker: First Clerk—Poor
Jim! It- -will be a^long time before he
an he
on't you beliwe^it^ Why, toetgdit a
place r.s floor walker. First Clerk—
You don't- say so? Second Clerk—Yes
he's got a new baby.—Judge.
Mr. Williams (Fanny's admirer)—Is
your sistah going to the seaside this
summar, Tommy? Tommy-^ThatCall
depends on you. I heard ma say If
you and Fanny were engaged before
the season opened, there wouldn't be
any sense in her going.—Stray Stories.
The Kind That Get Away: "That lit­
tle minnow," said the first fish, "seems
to have got a tlg opinion of himself all
of a sudden." "Yes," replied the other,
"he managed to wriggle off a hook
this morning, and then heard the flsh*
erman bragging about his size."—Phil
a.iAjphia Press.