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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-02-08
The Assets OF the Company in the United States
are as follows:

Cash on hand and in the hands
of agents and other PERSONS. S930.0o3.35
Real estate unincumbere ANN. L,S65, $500
Bonds owned by the company,
bearing interest at the rate Of
-. per cent, secured as fol-
lows:
L. 5. 4 per cent. bonds. 195...-.. LIZ. $3.50
State, county and municipal
bonds ......................... L.l6i, SS.3S
Railroad stocks and bonds. z32. 625.O
Loans on bonds and mortgages
of real estate, worth double the
amount for which the same is
mortGaged, and free from any
prior mcumbrance ............... 3.009. sos 90
Debts Tor premiums ............. g62. 59.G 90
All other securities ..... ASSOC
Total assets $40, 49,. 5eOSs
LIABILITIES.
Losses una0justed. net amount Of
unpaid losses ................... $50. sl4.O4
All other claims against the COM
pdng 00U,bJA.t 81
Amount necessary 30 reinsure
outstanding 4.3Os. zs6.22
Total liabilities ..........,.... s5.5sz, SsS 80
The greatest amount in any one risk,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-09-12
CareleSSnesS in Behavior.

The traditional freedom and natural
ness Of American social relations have a
charm and value when under proper
training they are made to promote in both
boys and girls mutual respect and 0naf-
fected modesty. Doubtless, too, that I'M
chaparoned companionship Of young pco-
pl. which so shocks foreigners results
for the most part i'll vrtuous affections
and happy marriages. But this is some
thing far different from the license and
disregard Of decorum which is becoming
alarmingly prevalent, not among the low
err orders in the social scale, but in fam
lilies which are considered intelligent and
we'll bred. The manners Of young men
have degenerated. They will act and
speak in the presence Of women in 4 way
that would not have been tolerated u gen
GRAFTON ago, and young women who are
unquestionably without evil intent will
conduct themselves as no woman could
have done a few years ago without seri-
GUS damage to her reputation.
There is evidently need Of a revival of
the questionable art Of bringing up chill
dren. Boys and girls are growing up to
he lawless. Lacking respect for author
ity and conventions, they easily lose re-
spect for the virtues which authority and
conventions seek to guard. Laxity in
homes and schools, contact under unfa-
yorable conditions Of young men and
women in business life, the rush. self
ishness and bad manners Of our crowded
streets. shops and public conveyances
all tend to the destruction of that good
breeding which commands respect and
nurtures modesty.-New York Tribune.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-09-12
q! EDITORIALS


city hydrant The city of Chicago rem.
dered a bill for $G5, the cost Of a new
hydrant. 4 few days following Commits
sioner Of Public Works Blocki received
1 reply.
The Burlington road held that the val1e
Of the scrap iron should be deducted from
the bill-that scrap iron was worth two
cents a pound. Deputy Commissioner
Brennan figured that Il hydrant sold for
scrap iron would bring about $1.97. So
this amount was deducted from the BILL
You would scarcely expect Il great cor
poration to be so particular about the
pennies. But watching the pennies makes
dividends possible. Big concerns pay high
salaries to men who can save more than
! their salaries by keeping an eye on the
little leaks. Great industrial enterprises
are conducted with success by making
their entire profits from the utilization Of
what was formerly waste.
Take care of the pennies. The dollars
will take care Of Themselves lndivid-
nails as we'll as corporations must learn
this lesson. Most men fail because they
have never learned the oll-fashioned leg
! son Of economy. There is a big differ
cnce between stingincss and economy.
The manager offs business who can make
the distinction. the manager who can run
the line between thriftiness and nigg:cd-
Illness is the manager who succeeds. A
large volume Of business on a small mar
gin Of profit with somebody to look after
| the leakage-that is modern business
St. Louis Chronicle
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-09-12
hydr0phObia SCareS.

There is no special hydrophobia season.
In the hot months dogs suffer from in
tense heat and are liable to heat stroke,
especially if they be unable to obtain
water. No doubt the so-called rabid
dogs are often the victims Of other dis
orders; but the germs of rabies are no
more active and general in summer than
in winter. Although this fact has been
presented to the public repeatedly, every
dog which is not plainly in good health
in July and August is pursued to it's
death by police and public.
1t is almost certain that the popular
fallacies about mad dogs and hydrophobia
have killed more persons than has hydro
phobia ITSELF Fairly sensible persons
when bitten by cross dog often become
panic stricken and die in great agony
after exhibiting many Of the alleged
symptoms Of hydrophobia, although the
dog in each case may have been free Of
rabies. A typical instance was that Of
Chicago woman whose malady was dag
nosed by two doctors as hydrophobia.
After her death the dog which bit her
was hunted up and was found to be en-
tirely we'll. Intelligent people in every
community should stoutly combat every
mad dog scare. Instead of having an al
legged mad dog shot they should shut him
no until it shall be determined whether
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-09-12
TROPICS ARE AT OUR DOOR.

Americans Are Large Consumers of
Products of Warmer Chimes.
Americans live better. perhaps, than
the people Of any other part Of the
world. They are not content with the
products Of their own country, but
draw largely upon the tropics for con-
diments and delicacies that add to the
pleasures Of the table. The increase
in the contributions of the tropics to
the daily life of man has been general
throughout the countries where pros
perity or an activity in manufacturing
and commerce is the rule, but it seems
to be especially marked in the United
States. which now imports more than
$1,OOO,000 worth Of tropical and sub
tropical foodstuffs and raw materials
every day in the year. The increased
reliance upon the tropics is probably
greater. .proportionately, in the United
States than in most other countries,
since q much larger share of our sugar
ia drawn from the tropics than Is the
case with other, and especially the En-
ropean countries, which in most cases
now produce their own sugar from
beets.
F.. The United States has during recent
years consumed nearly one-half Of the
cane sugar Of the world which enters
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-09-12
EARLY RISING,

Benefits that Modern Business Men
Begin to Realize.
A few years ago nearly all wealthy
men, bankers, brokers, the heads Of
great establishments, did their work
between ten and three. The New York
Sun tells us that the younger business
men, who are often accused of being
degenerate sons of Woodworking faith
ers, are making a great change in the
matter Of hours, beginning the day
earlier. The business day has thus
been heightened, not for the paid I'M
derlings, whose hours have always
been from eight or nine until five or
six, but for the men who manage the
great transactions in the worlds COM
merce.
Not long ago the head of a great
house in the lower end of New York
City was asked when he could be seen
the next day.
IN be at my desk at seven-thirty
in the morning." he answered.
There Is no need to get down so
early" said the other.
my regular hour" replied the great
merchant; II am there at that time six
days in the week.
This merchant Is in business in
which quotations from European mar
kets are important to his other houses
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-09-12
Church Entertainment,

The prediction lately made by minis
ter in one Of the Western cities-Chicago,
we believe-to the effect that the only
way in which it would soon be possible
to maintain an interest in church work
would be by means Of 1.-THE continuous
vaudeville startled a great many con-
sentative church gocrs. and possibly
shocked some of them. However, the
stream Of tendency seems to have set
rather strongly in the direction of full
tillment Of this prophecy. Billiards, ping
pong. hops, amateur theatricals, secular
concerts. legerdemain. charades. socia-
bles, fairs, suppers, primarily for pur-
poses of revenue, music Of doubtful sa-
credness-if there is dividing line be-
tween the sacred and secular in music: all
Of these have come to be recognized as
adjuncts Of more or less value in church
work. The underlying idea seems to be
to make the church an attractive social
club, and thus bring within its sphere
Of influence many who value church
connection at the outset chiefly for the
social opportunities it offers. 1t would
be difficult to find serious objection to
this view Of so much Of the work of a
church as may properly be considered Sec
ular. There may be a line which it would
be dangerous to cross, but where it lies
would probably be as difficult to. define
as is the Alaskan boundary.-NeW York
Times.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-09-12
PROGRESS OF MODERN DENTISTRY.
It Makes Plump Those Lean of Face Invaluable
Power of Singers and Cornetists.

into international commerce, and more
than one-half of the coffee of the world
In the year 1901 the importations Of
goods usually considered as of tropical
or subtropical production amounted to
$500 100000, or considerably more
than 100000 for every day in the
year, including Sundays and holidays,
while thirty years ago they amounted
to but $143,OO0,00O, or less than $780,
600 per day.
Humor the Peacemaker.
II the old-time duels were always dis
graceful and sometimes fatal, they had
the merit, like all other human things
full of human error, Of being fruitful
in good jokes. Michael MacDonaugh,
in his book on Irish Life and Charac
ter" gives some cases in which humor
from within or from without, came to
the rescue Of would-be-duelists.
A witty Dublin barrister was con-
suited by physician as to calling out
man who had insulted him.
'"Take my advice" said the lawyer.
''and instead of calling him out. get
him to call you in, and have your re-
venge that way. 1t will be more Sc
cure and certain
An upstart squire went to an old
squire for advice as to sending a chal-
lenge.
"Healy of Loughlinstown," said he,
''has threatened to pull me by the nose
whenever he meets me. What would
you advise me to do?'
''Has he really used that threat?"
asked the squire.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-09-12
Emigration to Canada.

Can American cmigrants be "assimi-
lated to institutions and types Of gov
rrnMent inferior to those of their native
land: That is question raised by the
st. Louis GlobeDemocrat in reference
to the American emigration to the west
ern provinces Of British America.
1t is very much to be doubted whether
the institutions and types Of government
which the American emigrant will find in
Canada will impress him as at all in
fevior to those of his own country. He
certainly will find that they guarantee
quite as large a liberty as those of his
native land. and that the monarchical Gle
ment which is supposed to be injected in
to the Canadian government by it's nomi-
hal relations to the British Crown is.
$" far as its practical influence in the
affairs Of the Government is concerned.
legal fiction. Nevertheless it is quite
possible that any large American emil
grafton to the Northwestern British PROV
faces might prove a disturbing political
factor. Not because the Americans would
be at all disconnected with the political
institutions OF the country, which in some
respects are freer and better ordered
than our own, but because they would
ndd a new impulse to the growth Of the
opinion that the interests Of that region
would be greatly promoted by annexa-
ton to the United States if annexation
shall prove to be the only. means Of re-
moving the obstacles to free CONNER
cin' intercourse. At present sentiment
OF loyalty to the British Crown is so
strong among the British Canadians that
the motives Of self-interest which prompt
their occasional consideration Of the ben
ehts Of closer relations with the United
States are held in allegiance. But this
sentiment would probably be gradually
weakened by large infusion Of the
American element in the population of
Northwestern Canada. So that although
Canadian experience heretofore has cen
THAT American immigrants very readily
as,lnI.ate with their Canadian cousins
aud adapt themselves to Canadian insti-
buttons, they have heretofore been known
in Canada rather as transient visitors
than permanent settlers, and the latter
at least have been too few in number to
have any particular influence on Cana
dim politics. But if they get to going
to Canada in large numbers they are like
ly to precipitate problems which Cana
dian statesmen desire above all things
to avoid, or at least to postpone.-St. Paul
Pioneer Press.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-09-12

are taken out when the creased paint
IS washed off. When used as perma-

are taken out when the creased paint
is washed off, When used as perma-
nent beautifers bumpers sometimes
turn back the clock twenty years.
A great deal Of care has to be taken
in making teeth for public speakers,
actors and singers. 1t is necessary to
have them filed in so there can be no
escape Of air between them. The clear
enunciation can only be had when
there is no air space nor chance for
kissing.
Electricity has made dentistry ad-
vance as it has advanced. There is an
electric oven for baking porcelain that
An electric lathe and an electric en-
CINE are used for all the work in the
mouth. It works so much quicker that
one-third of the time is employed that
was formerly required, and so two
thirds Of the pain and nervous strain is
eliminated. Formerly it took half a
day to make filling. Now an expert,
working with electricity, may fill a
tooth in ten minutes. An electric root
dryer heats up the cavity after it is
cleaned and dries it out almost in
stantly. That is modern invention
and time-saver. An English modelling
wax has taken the place of plaster of
paris, which was a heat-producer, be-
sides being ill-tasting.
Very few first-class dentists now adj
minister chloroform or ether, and
raerly is nitrous-oxide gas given. Any.
thing that reduces to unconsciousness
has bad effect. Local anesthetics are
down to fine point now. Probably
the most popular is ethol-chloride:s This
is sprayed on the part to be treated
for sensitive IDENTIFIES and aching teeth
Among the local anesthetics. injected
hypodermically, is cocaine, odontunder
alvatunder and the many formulas OF
tunder.
The most common disease that the
dentist has to treat is pyorrhea alveo
laris, or gradual absorption Of the pro.
cess below the gums. The gums re-
cede and the teeth become loose and
drop out. This disease is due to neg
lect of the teeth. It can be arrested if
taken in time.
There are specialties in dentistry
Two St. Louis men get 500 fol
STRENGTHENING children's teeth.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-09-12

The use Of porcelain crowns for
teeth has enabled modern dentistry to
do a great deal for art. 1t has made
it possible to improve the voices of GER
tain singers by giving their artificial
teeth crowns with an outer curve, their
natural teeth did not have. The re-
suit is to increase the acoustic effects
OF the mouths bony structure. The
mouth of Trilby was like the dome OF
the Salt Lake tabernacle. Some sing
ers have this mouth. but their front
teeth, instead Of being continuatio
Of the curve Of the roof Of the mouth,
bend inwardly. They break the flow
Of the sound. BY saving off these nat
ural teeth and mounting them with
porcelain or crowns with an outward
curve, great improvement is made in
tone.
Porcelain crowns are used in making
great cOrnet players as we'll as in MAX
ing singers, and in the same way. The
out-curving front teeth are best for the
cornetist, because the tongue can be
used in triple-tonguing the mouthpiece
in the fancy work.
One Of the little devices Of modern
dentistry is the plumper. This is a
combination of gold and hard rubber
for making the face take on a rounded
appearance. Elderly ladies, whose skin
has begun. to set loosely, sometimes
have plumpers put in. In cases like
this they are permanently fixed to the
side teeth by gold crowns. Plumpers
are also made for actresses and actors
for use in making up the face for the
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-09-12
A Benefit to Farmers.

The benefits that will undoubtedly
result to farmers from the recent in
corporation of the International Har-
Vester Company which took over the
business of the five leading harvester
manufacturers have probably not been
considered by large portion Of the
farming community.
The economical necessity of consoli-
dation of the interests of manufacture
ers and those of their farmer custo-
mers must be apparent to any one who
understands the present situation.
The Increased and increasing cost Of
material, manufacturing and selling
the latter in consequence Of extreme
and bitter competition between manu-
facturers and their several selling
agents-has made the business unprof-
liable.
The two alternatives left for the
manufacturers were either the increas-
ing of the prices of machines or the
reduction Of the cost Of manufacture
and sales. The latter could only be
accomplished by concentrating the
business in one company.
AS can readily be seen, the forming
of the new company was not a stock
jobbing operation but centering of
mutual interests. There is no watered
stock; the capitalization is conserva-
tive and represented by actual and
tangible assets. There is no stock Of
fered to the public, it having all been
subscribed and paid for by the manu-
facturers and their associates.
The management of the International
Harvester Company is in the hands of
Well-knoWn. experienced men.
The officers are: President, Cyrus
H. Mccormick; Chairman Executive
Committee. Charles Deering: Chairman
Finance Committee. George w. Per-
kins; Vice Presidents. Harold F. Nc
COrmick, James Deering, VIM. H.
Jones and John ]. Glessncr: Secretary
and Treasurer, Richard f. Howe. The
rs follows: Cyrus Bentley, William
peering, Charles Deering. James Deer
ing, Eldridge NJ. Fowler, E. H. Gary,
John J. Glessner, Richard f. Howe,
Abram NJ. Hyatt, William H. Jones.
Cyrus H. Mccormick, Harold +. Nc
Cormick, George w. Perkins. Norman
B. Ream, Leslie n Ward, Paul D. Ora
vath.
The International Harvester Com
pany owns five Of the largest harvester
plants in existence. The Champion,
Deering, Mccormick, Milwaukee and
Plano-plants that have been produc-
ing nearly or quite 80 per cent Of the
harvesting machines of the world.
It also owns timber and coal lands.
blast furnaces and a steel plant; it has
new factory in the process of con-
struction in Canada.
1t is believed that the cost Of pro-
duclng grain, grass and corn harvest
ing machines will be so reduced that
the present low prices can he contin
ued, and that consequently the results
cannot be otherwise than beneficial to
the farmer. To maintain the present
prices Of these machines means to con-
tinue and increase the development of
the agriculture Of the world, for no one
cause has contributed or can contribute
more to this development than the
cheapneSs of machines for harvesting
grains.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-09-12
Men with Small CAPITAL.

1t has been bjected by some that tech
nical education should not be fostered
with public funds because the fields for
its employment are being, rapidly pre-
cmpted by the trusts and gigantic COM
binations Of capital in manufacturing and
other productive technical industries.
Frequently we are told that the man
who has only skill and small capital is
being put out Of the way Of business and
success by the oversha downing combines
Yet it should be plain to any observer
that there are hundreds of profitable tech
nical industries that the trusts have not
captured and, in the nature of things
could not consolidate and control. The
profit to be made from them in any given
locality is too small to engage the Gu
pidity Of trust and yet is sufficient to
amply repay the enterprise and industry
Of small operator. Now inventions are
creating new industries almost daily and
in the exploiting Of these the man with
technical education and small capital
fluids plentiful opportunities for steady
occupation and satisfactory returns.
We find from the census that in 1890
there were 9,977 manufacturing estab-
lishments in the city of Chicago. There
were 19.2O3 in 1900, or an increase of
nearly 100 per cent. But the average
amount Of capital to the establishment
was 20 per cent less in 1900 than in
1890, which shows that plenty Of men
found chances to invest their brains, skill
and small capital in good enterprises
The trusts do not own all those nearly
twenty thousand factories in Chicago, nor
tue majority in St. Louis, Cincinnati or
Atlanta. The truth is that the argument
for giving varied technical instruction to
the youth Of the land was never stronger
than to-day.-Atlanta Constitution.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-09-12

IN the West, and he is getting quota
lions on the wires while others sleep.
The vice-president Of Wall Street
bank is at his desk at half past eight
every day. The president Of Broad
way bank reaches his desk at nine in
the morning. AS he lives up the Hud-
son, he has to rise at six.
One man said that getting to work at
eight was the greatest help in the
world. He got we'll started on his day
by nine, whereas few years ago,
when he used to arrive at his Office
late, there seemed to be no morning
left in which to accomplish anything
worth while.
Then, too," he added, II get the in
vigorating morning air. BY the time I
get to my Office have heard the birds
sing and have had the early sunshine,
l have met not a few in the glow of
health, which tends to inspirit me-"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-09-12
Marriage Not a Failure.

Is marriage failure? The answer is
in the wide-staring eyes Of that dimpled
bundle in the cradle. Marriage a fail
ure? Ask that young mother as she
croons over her firstborn. Ask the white
faced little woman in black over there
as she kisses the cheeks Of her stalwart
son, and sends him into the world to con-
quer. "All is lost but you, Mary" chokes
out the graybearded victim Of a bust
ness collapse. An arm steals about his
neck, and a wrinkled hand strokes his
brow, and the sweetest lips he ever. knew
whisper words Of soulful sympathy and
courage in his ear. Ask him about mar
riage.-Cincinnati Post.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-09-12
DIED SHIELDING LITTLE ONES.
Storks Voluntarily Burned to Death in
Turkish Fire.

Storks have always been held in great
esteem in Turkey. and their good reputa-
ton has gone I'D considerably owing to
most touching incident that occurred
quite recently.
\ smill village on the Gulf of Ismidt
caught fire and over 200 houses were de-
stroyed. A large number had storks'
nests on them, and at the beginning of
the fire all the birds took flight. Almost
Immediately, however, they returned to
their little ones, of which there were
two or three III each nest.
The old birds settled down over their
broods, covering them with their wings,
and one after another persisted in the
flames without attempting to save them
selves.-London Daily Telegraph.