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The Enterprise. W. E. HANNAFORD, Pub. VIRGINIA. MINNESOTA. The earth is one big, hard, unchart ed rock to the crippled aviator. When the army balloon corps is or ganized high privates will be in de mand. Don't hesitate to tell the census tafcgr your age/ He has sworn to be discreet. It is estimated that out of a popu lation of 40,000,000 in Great Britain, 12,000,000 are either under or on the poverty line. The world over Americans have a reputation for doing things. That's why the foreign aviators at Rheims accord Curtiss so much respect. Society must be Improving since the various scorching denunciations it has received. The news comes from New port that there is a lobster famine there. People may not be able to explain rationally the popular sympathy with a jury that declares a man insane who recites poetry, but the sympathy Is there, all the same. Women who have won farms in the government lottery 'tin if unmarked doubtless get all the help they need for harvesting their crops without ap plying to the employment agencies. The scramble for social prestige at Newport has caused a French visitor to revive an old Gaelic witticism: "I doubt if the people would take any thing like so much trouble to get into heaven." It has been estimated that 40 per cent of the children under eight in the public schools of London drink al coholic liquor "more or less regular ly." And yet American children are called precocious. The latest calculations on the course of Halley's comet, approaching the earth, exhibit no point of peril for aspiring aviators. Still, comets and flying machines both have been known to do things out of the day's run. In Chicago they have started school for tubercular children. Mo of the, sessions are held in the open air, and the children are said to act as if they were having a picnic. Their routine work takes in systematic care of the teeth, breathing exercises, gym nastics and the shower bath. There is something very pathe.tic in the picture of the little shah of Persia trying to kill himself because, fright ened at his lonely gradeur, he wants his parents. The emptiness of high royal honors in these stormy times strikes even to the soul of a child, when he has to pay for them with his human needs. It might have been supposed that California had enjoyed her share of earthquakes but now while Mexican cities are partly in ruins and Spain Is reporting tremors, California will feel herself fortunate at having es caped with the shake of recent date, which wos so gentle that there were people in San Francisco and San Jose who did not feel it. In his brief experience of the busi ness of ruling an awakened people, the Shah Mohamed Ali has probably learned that there are times when wise people do best to adopt the mot to: "Anything for a quiet life." He has been offered a pension of $75,000 a year if he will restore the national jewels. The likelihood is that he will take the offer and retire into Russia. The work of arresting chauffeurs— when they can be caught—and fining them for speeding goes merrily on, jbut with no appreciable diminution in the speeding. A little change in prin ciple might work a great change In custom in this respect. If the auto mobile were arrested and fined and held for the payment of the fine Ithinga would soon wear a different aspect. A new use was promptly found for ithe new Lincoln pennies. It seems, According to a Washington account, jthat they are in great demand by con gressmen to present to babies in their districts, as the first issue will be come in time rare coins. This use of the penny is significant la pointing the fact that in spite of its great achievements this Is the age of small things—especially babies. A New York magistrate wants the establishment of the whipping-post on account of the great number of wife-beating cases in his district. It Is a pity that there is not the like of ficial sympathy for Ill-treated wives in this state, where the whipping-post has been established by law and prac tically nullified by the sympathy, for £ome occult reason, being given to the wife-beater instead of to his victim. A curious source of wealth Is re ported by the French consul at 3fongtze, In upper Tonkin. It lies in wood mines. The wood originally was a pine forest, which the earth swal lowed in some cataclysm. They lie in a slanting direction and in sandy aoil, which covers them to a depth of about eight yards. As the top branches are well preserved, It is thought the geological convulsion ,which buried them cannot be of very great antiquity. The wood furnished by these timber mines is imperish able and the Chinese buy It for coffins. The people of San Francisco have jtet a good example in giving Capt. Amundsen's sloop Gjoa, which suc cessfully navigated the historic north iwest passage, a place in a pool in Golden Gate park, where she can float ,safely for the benefit of visitors of the future who have an interest in geo graphical achievements. This plan .should be followed wherever possible 'for the preservation of historic war vessels like "Old Ironsides" where •they can lie at rest while they receive [care sufficient to keep them from fall ling into decay. *000 WASHINGTON.—It HAVE Talcing New Census Will Be Big Task will require about 65,000 enumerators to take the thirteenth decennial census of the United States, and Uncle Sam is go ing to pay $4,000,000 for the service. These enumerators, appointed by 330 supervisors throughout the country, will begin work April 15,1910. Between the time of their appoint ment and the commencement of actual work, the enumerators will be schooled in the method of enumera tion and the preparation of the schedules. The custom heretofore has been for the. census bureau to send out sample schedules for the enumer ators to fill in. For the last two months econo mists, scientists and farming experts have been at work on schedules in volving population, manufactures, and particularly agriculture. It is esti mated by the census bureau that fully 6,000,000 farms will be enumerated with a population of more than 12, 000,000 to be collected by the enu merators. you ever sat under the toenign shade of Washington's wishing tree? It has been one of the unique at tractions of Lafayette park for, lo, these many years. It is not described in the official guide books, but it is there just the same, and has been ever since the square was laid out—in the forties. The tree Itself Is a dwarf chestnut, although it has grown out of its dwarfness to a great extent. It is a scion of the famous wishing tree in Hyde park, London. It is located immediately west of the Jackson statue, about 25 feet, and is in full sight of all the windows on the north side of the White House. The wishing tree, as its name indi cates, possesses rare powers, or at least it is supposed to, in that every wish that is made under its branches comes true some time or other. Gen erally it is other, but that does not seriously interfere with the reputation of the tree. «MINISTRE de Suisse, Washington, iVl D. C. was the simple label neatly stamped on an immense box which caused no little curiosity and speculation as to its contents as it passed slowly through the streets of that city on its way to the abode of the new Swiss minister. The minds of the spectators were set at ease by Paul Ritter, the Swiss minister, when he told them that the box contained furniture, and that there were 15 more coming. Furniture and house furnishings collected by Mr. Ritter during the 18 years of his diplomatic career in the far east were to be found in the boxes. The minister's residence will abound with these rare curios and odd art treasures collected in the Orient. RAT CLUBS and other societies for systematic warfare on destructive rodents may leap into popular favor among housekeepers, now that the government has officially sanctioned this method of extermination of the worst mammal pest in the United States. The rat has been recognized by the government as a problem. Its activ ity in disseminating Infectious dis eases has long loomed up as a dan ger signal to the health authorities, and losses from its depredations run into many million dollars a year, ac cording to an official statement just issued by the department of agricul ture. Dr. David E. Lantz of the bureau of biological survey has taken vigorous hold of the question, and thus he pro ceeds to throw a bomb into the camp of believers in the cat as a rat de stroyer. "However valuable cats may be as mouters, few of them learn to catch rats. The ordinary house cat is too well fed and consequently too lazy to undertake the capture of any animal as formidable as the brown rat. Birds are much more to its liking. "Rats have developed so much Intel ligence and such extraordinary caution that attempts to exterminate them have rerely succeeded. The failures have been due not so much to a lack of effective methods as a lack of cer tain precautions and absence of con verted action." Each enumerator is to receive for his work from two to four cents per capita, and in some regions where there is not much density of popula tion they are to receive a per diem of from four to five dollars. Enumer ators are required to work eight hours a day and must have their work com pleted in two weeks in cities of 5,000 and over, and in sparsely settled com munities within 30 days. In districts where foreign languages are spoken it will be the duty of su pervisors to select enumerators versed in foreign languages if possible, and where these are not available, the services of interpreters may be en gaged. Approximately 3,000 temporary clerks clerks will be appointed for the census work, and the date of the first examination will be October 23 next, throughout the United States at vari ous cities. The work required of the 3„000 tem porary employes is, according to the circular, to consist of four classes: The operation of card punching and card tabulating machines operation of typewriters, adding machines and combined typewriting-adding ma chines manuscript tabulation and oth er clerical work sub-clerical work, such as that of messengers, messenger boys, watchmen and laborers. Wishing Tree Where Wishes Come True Rare Curios Fill Home of Minister s^isS* EMBASSY Uncle Sam Urges Campaign on Rodents The department in a bulletin empha There were more believers in the tree some years ago than there are now, but that does not mean that there are not a great many who be lieve in it to-day. Nor is the number by any means confined to the old "mammies," "aunties" and other black folk. Ninety-nine per cent, of the persons who pass under the tree on their way through the square probably never heard or read of it. But there are others, and in this case there are a great many others. The most marvelous stories are told about the tree, and many of the stories have believers. Also many of stories have some element of truth about them. In many cases it is a great deal of story and a very min ute particle of truth. But it is be cause there is some truth in them that the tree has such a clientele.» Faith does not cure all the ills that it is asked to. cure, but its followers are sure that it cures in some in stances. Hence there are faith cures. The thousands of wishes that are made under the wishing tree may end up in only one coming true, but the wisher who has been rewarded by its favor never loses an opportunity to sing its prasises, and that is what makes the wishing tree so much more famous than any of the other trees that are in the same park. The walls and windows will be em bellished by rich embroideries of China, Japan, India, Korea and other far eastern countries. There will be rare old gilt wood carvings from Buddhist temples placed in the dining-room old Jap anese candlesticks of exaggerated de sign will be suspended from the chan delieres coal buckets will be nade out of century-old and fancy-wrought designs of incense burners woven camel's hair curtains for the front windows are among the collection. Throughout the house there will be brasses and bronzes and inlaid furni* ture of remarkable patterns, shapes and forms. When all the goods are set in place the legation will be unique, and one entering its doors might well harbor the illusion that he is entering a home in some far eastern land. Every article in the collection has some highly prized association to the minister personally, or to his family, and his household goods, he says, are priceless. sizes the importance of rat clubs and suggests that interest in organized rat hunts mar he stimulated by offering prizes or rewards in various commu nities to the individual hauling forth the greatest number of dead rats after one of the crusades. Pamphlets dealing with the rodent problem and suggestive of ways in which the rat may be eventually rout ed from its haunts have been scat tered broadcast among the farms and villages all over the United States, and the department expects to make its campaign in this direction one of thoroughness. Favored Home Industry. A Cleveland bookseller tells the fol lowing amusing story of a conversa tion he held recently with a well-to do but illiterate client. "I must have some books," the latter remarked, and went on to explain that he had found an empty library in a house which he had purchased in Kensington. His only condition was that the volumes should be handsome. The bookseller suggested that half of them should be bound in Russia and half in Morocco. "What on earth is to hinder you from having the lot bound in Cleveland?" was the unexpected response.—Drift wood. Area Not the Biggest Factor. Any scientific farmer can tell the modern Malthuses that it is cheaper to raise a certain product on 50 acres well farmed than on 200 poor acres. Area and its present yield may al most be disregarded in figuring what population the earth can support. When the Parson Listened. A local minister who listened close* ly to the hymn caught the lady mem bers of his choir singing: "Yield not to flirtation, for flirting is sin some sister will help you a brother to win." —Lawrence World. 9 ON MISSION OF PEACE ^rflim^WmiHHlTTV There sailed from San Francisco harbor the J| 1 111 |\J other day a squadron of Unde SaWri machines of war sent on an errand of peace. Eight of the strongest and fastest armored cruisers .in the ser vice are plowing their way across the Pacific into oriental waters, carrying to the peoples of Japan and China messages of good will and friendship from the citizens of this country. The second "peace fleet" is not so powerful nor imposing as the. first, but nevertheless made up of vessels representing the very acme of naval construction in their type. The squadron consists of the cruisers Tennes see, California, South Dakota, Washington, West Virginia, Colorado, Maryland and Pennsylvania, all 22-knot ships, ranging from 13,000 to 15,000 tons in displacement. The vessels arrived at Honolulu, Hawaii, September 11, where they will remain until October 5. Their next stop will be at Nares Harbor, Admiralty islands, off the coast of New Guinea, and from there they will steam to Manila, where they are expected to arrive about November 1. Then will come a month of hard work at target practice, upon the completion of which the vessels of the fleet will separate and in pairs visit the ports of the Her mit kingdom and China. On the nineteenth the fleet will reassemble off Yokohama and steam for home. They will pay another visit to Hawaii from February 1 to 8, and are expected to reach San Francisco about February 15, five days before the admiral will retire under the age rule. During this five months' cruise, which will approximate 28,000 miles, the squadron will be under the command of one of the ablest naval officers in the service, Rear Admiral Uriel Sebree. A Missouri man, he entered the naval academy during early war times, graduating when only 19 years of age. He has seen service in all quarters of the globe, including the polar regions, being a member of the Arctic relief expedition on the Tigress, in 1873, and on the Greeley relief expedition under Admiral Schley in 1884. ONE OF HARROVIAN'S AIDS Julius Kruttschnitt is one of the late E. H. Har riman's chief assistants in the management of the many railroads which he controlled. Krutt schnitt was born in New Orleans in 1854 and is a graduate of an engineering school and Washing ton and Lee university. He entered the railroad service in 1878 as resident engineer in charge of construction of Morgan's Louisiana & Texas railroad. After its completion he became road master and later general roadmaster and chief engineer. He became assistant general manager of the Southern Pacific Company's Atlantic Sys tem (lines east of El Paso, Texas) in 1885-9. He was promoted to general manager in 1889 and in 1895 was made general manager of all lines of the Southern Pacific Company, with headquarters at San Francisco. He later became fourth vice- president, and in 1904 was made director of maintenance and operation of the Union Pacific Railroad Company, Oregon Short Line Railroad Company, Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company and Southern Pacific Company. Kruttschnitt is an engineer by training and is given credit for having in 10 years made the Harriman lines the efficient transportation agencies they are to-day. His radical departures from the old railway methods were startling, but his superior upheld every innovation and every cine spelled new success. Upon none other, it is said, did the railroad magnate lean with such confidence, and in all of Harriman's absences from the scene of action Kruttschnitt was the moving mind. A LEADING EDUCATOR Hon. James Yadkin Joyner, state superin tendent of public instruction in North Carolina, who is the new president of the National Educa tional association, is doing as grand a work in aiding to bring the blessings of education to the poor whites of the south a£ Booker T. Washing ton is among the blacks. After graduating from the University of North Carolina in 1881, Mr. Joyner immediately entered upon the profession of teaching and for several years was superintendent of La Grange academy and superintendent of schools in Lenoir county, in which capacity he first showed the ability to uplift the standard of the white schools of the south that has since brought him fame. For one year after this he practiced law in Goldsboro, N. C., but gave it up to return to teaching, becoming superintendent of the graded schools of Goldsboro. In 1899 he was called to the chair of English language and literature at the State Normal and Industrial college of North Carolina. Since 1902 he has been state superintendent of public instruction for North Carolina. As sec retary of the Association of State Superintendents of the South, his influence and activity have been felt throughout that secion. He is a member of the board of aldermen of Goldsboro, a missionary Baptist and a Democrat in politics. NEW DIRECTOR OF THE MINT Andrew P. Andrews, the new director of the mint, is one evdience that the Taft administra tion, like that of Roosevelt, has no prejudice against young men of scholarly aand technical attainments and that the departments at Wash ington are to have the benefit of the public-spir ited services of a good many men who are not merely practical politicians. Mr. Andrews is a teacher of economics at Har vard, who has specialized in the subjects of money and finance and who has during the past year been a working expert for Senator Aldrich and the monetary commission. He has every qualification for a successful director of the mint. Another new official of the treasury department is Mr. R. E. Cabell, who has been made commis sioner of internal revenue. Mr. Cabell was made postmaster of Richmond, Va., by President Roosevelt and his efficiency in that office not less than his qualities of character and personality have gained for him the high regard of President Taft and Secretary MacVeagh. TO DISCLOSE SOCIETY SECRETS British society, especially that part of it which is connected with the court circle, is eagerly and anxiously awaiting the appearance of the me moirs of Mrs. Langtry, the Jersey Lily, who promises to tell the world frankly what she knows about the high personages with whom she has consorted. As the actress was at one time a friend of King Edward, then Prince of Wales, and moved in his circle, the appearance of her book, of which she has already written 60,000 words, is looked forward to with interest by the entire nation. In talking of her intentions Mrs. Langtry says: "It needs a lot of pluck to say what you want to about real people." This is taken to forecast startling disclosures. Mrs. Langtry's first book, a novel entitled "All at Sea," will be out shortly. The actress has signed tMe book both as Lady de Bathe and as Lily Langtry. It is a full length novel, and curiously e'nough the story does not in the least concern the two devouring passions of her life—sport and the drama. It is a light and breezy tale, dealing with worldly people and perfectly unemotional. The plot is fresh and ingenious. A pretty woman and her husband agree to live apart during a sea voyage, the wife posing as a widow, the husband as a bachelor. Here is an excellent scheme for a farcfcal com edy indeed, the stage value of "All at Sea" is very considerable. Has the Sad Conviction. After a man has tried in vain to bor row a few paltry dollars you can't con vince i|im that the world isn't growing wiser. Mrs. Langtry's reputation as an authoress is limited at present to her play, "The Crostways." This was acted before the king and queen at the Imperial theater, a single performance only being given and "no notices" requested of the critics. The actress afterward toured the piece in America, where it was very successful—in fact, she still receives checks for perform ances of it in the United States. xi a Best Milk for Babies. Morning milk is best for babies fresher and fewer germs than the previous night's milk, but slighfly weaker in cream. MFor -ewgfSUar! "Do you know of any woman who ever received any benefit from taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound?" 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How Charming Homes Are Decorated Designs and Stencils Free We have issued a book on wall decorations, picturing and describing the effects now in vogue. It will chow you the charm ing ideas now in fashion. The book also offers to furnish you free special water eolor designs adapted to your particular rooms. It also offers cut stencil^ without any charge, for producing the designs we suggest. Before you decorate any room be rare to ask for this book It is free. AlaWtn* The Sanitaiy Wall Coating Alabastined walls are now the general vogue, in cottage and mansion alike. There is nothing so charming, so healthful, so cheap. Wall paper and kalsomine are now out of fashion. Alabastine is a brilliant powder made from alabaster rock. It comes in packages, in many tints and white. It is mixed with cold water ana applied with a brush. It does not rub off. The tints are combined, or applied with stencils, to create a myriad artistic effects. rVUl Ibis AUastiae Co., Dept. 40, Grud Rapids,Micb. Send the Alabastine book to Cheyenne River Indian Reservation (2,800.000 Acres) Register for a free homestead October 4th to 23rd. The Commissioner of the General Land Office at Washington has designated Le Beau and Aberdeen, S. Dak. as registration points. These cities are reached best by the Iowa Central Ry. and The Minneapolis & St. Louis R. R. Le Beau is the Gateway to the Reservation and the only registration point where the lands can be seen from the town. The country is fertile and well watered—the equal in all respects of land a few miles east that sells for $25.00 per acre. Frequent trains and low fares. Full information on request. For rates, etc., write or aak any agent of the Iowa Central or Minn*, apolis ft St Louis R. R. or A. B. CUTTS, General Passenger and Ticket Agent Minneapolis, Minnesota I