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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-05-15
OOUBlE-HEADERS,

The Attitude Of the Trainmen Reviewed.
AS rule, of late, railway employees,
trainmen especially, have been pretty
reasonable in their demands upon the
employing companies. The railways
have been enjoying period of I'M
usual prosperity, and it was not inap-
propriate that the employees should
ask reasonable increase in wages as
their share of the prosperity. For the
most part, railway managers recog-
nized the justice of the demand, and
wage scales have been raised quite
generally without anything serious in
the way of a strike. A strike is now
threatened on the Great Northern
Railway, which was one of the first
roads to grant liberal increase in
wages. The strike is now threatened,
not as result of wage disputes, but
over a matter of economy in the rum
ming of train. AS the gravamen of
the dispute has been presented in the
Minneapolis newspapers, the Great
Northern trainmen are wholly wrong
in their contention and should be able
to count on little popular sympathy if
they make the refusal of their de-
mands the preteXt for strike.
The dispute is over the use of
'double-headers." A "double-header,'
in railway parlance, is train to
which two locomotives are attached.
The Great Northern Company desires
to use two locomotives to pull. over
the heavy grades trains which on
more level track need only single
locomotive. The trainmen contend
that when two locomotives are used
two complete train crews must be en-
ployed, or that the single crew shall
receive double pay for the service
The company, reasonably enough, it
would seem, argues that it has use for
but single train crew and has no
desire to employ more men than are
really needed. 1t argues, however,
that as. the use of the extra engine
requires no extra work on the part
of the crew employed, the company is
not disposed to pay double wages to
that crew.
| 1t is not difficult to see what the
trainmen have in mind If they can
prevent the company from using
| ''double-headers" the company must
run two trains instead of one to get
the same number of cars over a heavy
grade. Thus two train crews instead
Of one will be given employment. The
| trainmen insist that it the ''double-
header" be used the crew employed
shall be paid double wages, so the
railway may not be able to find any
economy in the use of the double
header"
This is clearly case in which the
labor organization is contending
against the logical economy of things
1t is the same old protest against
labor-saving methods which has SO
often brought organized labor into
disrepute. The trainmen are insist
ing that the railways shall handle
their transportation of freight in a
more expensive way than modern in
gennity has been able to devise. In
| so doing, the trainmen are arguing
against the interest of the railway
| and that of the public as well. 1t is
the right of the railway to transact
its business on the most economical
methods. 1t is to the interest of the
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-05-15

The most unique of any of the moon
shine stills ever broken up by govern
ment agents was one captured in Geor.
gia in September last year. 1t was SO
small that the moonshiner carried it
about in a valise and had plenty of
room for several bottles of mash. All
he had to do when he found customer
was to f,4u=a secluded spot, set up his
still andRsrqe his drinks. 1t came to
grief becaake he failed to select thick
enough tfuhp, of bushes. The operator
! fell into TIL hands OF revenue agents
lat the same time the miniature still
was captured d +:
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-05-15
Coming Strikes.

1t is not only the strike upon the
Great Northern Railway System
which is scheduled to occur soon, but
of others, also, that are to occur from
time to time, to accomplish the ends
sought by the high strike authorities,
and by the walking delegates who do
the open work. that we would speak.
To the multitude of common people
who judge by what they see and hear,
it is a cause of wonder and surprise
that an immense body of employees of
the Great Northern Railway Company
who are being paid all they ask, and
with their families happily located,
and with the most agreeable relations
existing with the company officials,
should permit themselves to be drawn
or voted into a serious strike over q
question or point that don't amount
to shucks to them; into a contest
likely to cost the employees their posi-
tions, and consequently the loss of
their homes, which they cannot at
ford, and on the other hand may cost
the company many millions of dollars
which it can afford, because all such
losses or burdens will be figured into
the cOmpany's expense account to be-
l1ss'" ~ CAlN AutuAC oIipIIClS I'll LIC
line-the ultimate end of all charges,
and in making which payments the
farmer has the lions share.
But in blissful ignorance of his bur1
densome connection with the exciting
game, very many of the farmers ard
constantly sympathizing with tho
strikers, mainly because one of thu
parties is a corporation.
But passing by this threatened
strike upon the Great Northern Com
pany with it's probable bad result4
upon the country, it would be we'll fol
the farmers and especially the largo
farmers of western Minnesota and thu
two Dakotas to understand that Ill
the epidemic of strikes which is upoA
the country, those farmers may be hi
directly as well as Indirectly. As 4
prelude to the game that will Interest
them, quite a number of them durina
last wheat harvest season were coni
fronted with the walking delegate'E
among their harvesting crews who
readily exceeded to demanding an ex-
ira dollar or half dollar per day-a
demand there was no resisting. When
such organized movements cover the
country, and the demands are so ex-
horbitant as to absorb all profit in
the crop, then, the striking business
will not be amusing to farmers nor to
those who depend upon trade with
farmers. 1t makes u difference whose
OK is being gored. AS the epidemic
spreads, the employers of smaller
numbers of men will be threatened.
That is not all. When there is adopt
ed system under which those who
have nothing combine against those
who have excessive wealth, the popu-
larity of the thing spreads, and the
ground between those making the
raid to grab what they have not
earned, and those who are compelled
to resist and fight to keep what they
have earned, will become very narrow,
and in short time people of ordi-
nary means may have struggle to
save themselves from organized plum
der. Old-fashioned law will be found
in end safer than the combinations of
today.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-05-15

Of all the giants that have appeared
before the public within the last 80 or
40 years none can be compared with
the imposing Russian who has recently
been on exhibition in Berlin, Germany.
Feodor Machow, of Kustjaky, Russia,
is now about % years of age. He is 7
feet 9 inches in height and can there
fore be classed with the largest giants
that have ever lived. He exceeds in
height all the known living giants by
at least head, and is in many respects
of great scientific interest.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-05-15
RAILROAD NEWS AND GOSSIP,

Two locomotives, the largest in Eu-
rope, have just been turned out .t
Basic, Switzerland. The boilers are
twice the ordinary size, give force of
1000 horsepower, and speed of over
Is miles an hour. -. ~. 5
russian experts now declare that
! the ne Manchurian railway traffic is like
u 70 be often interrupted because the
pnlld ers did not sufficiently allow for 81.
.m 70. geological occurrences such q
yphoons and inund lions.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-05-15

The elevation of Sir Charles White
to the rank of field marshal puts Ire
land in the position of furnishing three
field marshals out of nine to the Brit.
ish army. or four if the duke of Con.
naught is included. Sir T. Kelly-Ken.
ny, an Irishman, is Acknowledgement;
Sir Ian Hamilton, Scotcaman, is quar-.
termaster-general; Sir Edward Ward,
permanent undersecretary of the war
Office, is also north country man, and
Lord Kitchener, the Indian command.
er-in-chief, is of Irish birth.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-05-15
FIND INDIAN BURIAL GROUND.
Laborers at Fort Riley, Kan. Dig Up
Skeletons with Pottery and
Other Relics.

Laborers grading in the vicinity Of
the new gun sheds at Fort Riley.
Kan, have unearthed over a dozen
skeletons. probably Of Indians, and
many flint hatchets and spearheads.
oddly-shaped pieces of pottery, and
stones probably used for grinding
corn. The bones of the skeletons
are larger than those of the average
sized man. The relics are thought
to be at least 200 years old. 1t is be-
lieved that the spot was once bury
ing-ground.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-05-15

AS long ago as 1853 it was attempted
by study Of French statistics to
prove that marriage is healthy es-
tate" In recent series of articles in
London paper Frederick L. Hoffman
makes a similar claim and believes
that he has clearly proved that the
mortality of single people of both
sexes is greater than those who are
married, excepting only that of women
between the ages of Is and A years.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-05-15

One man in Battle Creek, Mich, Is
spending $4,000 day in advertising a
cooked cereal food which eight years
ago, this same man was peddling by
the bag to the grocers of the immedi-
ate neighborhood. He got an idea.
chung to it with answering tenacity,
developed it with interchangeable energy
and overcame obstacles by sheer grit
he advertised-and now his idea
pours into his Golfers, almost automat
ically, an income of several thousand
dollars a day.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-05-15
PULPIT AND PEW.

The Rev. H. P. Perkins, of Pao-tinc-
III, reports to the American board Of
foreign missions that there is relig-
ious movement such as has never been
seen before in that field in north
China. =. ~ y s: J.
Rev. r. Calvin Dobson, a Presbyte-
r !; M minister Of St. Louis, preached a
sermon sermon in the worlds fair grounds on
Sunday 'l1e1 to an audience Of workmen,
beng ~ the first relig ious services held
on. the exposition grounds s.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-05-15

One of the newly discovered con-
stituents of our atmosphere, the gas
krypton, displays, when examined
through the spec.roscope, a character
istic group of green lines, which are
the same as those observed in auroras
under similar circumstances. The fact
leads Prof. Ramsay, the leading Brit
ish authority on the gases of the at
mosphere, to believe that the auroral
color may be due to an accumulation
or concentration of krypton near the
poles.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-05-15

Savage races are popularity credited
with great acuteness OF vision, but re-
cent observations by DR.. w. H. Rivers
on the primitive tribes of Murray
Island show that the superiority is
only slight, although on his native
heath" the savage's familiarity with
his surroundings gives him an advant-
age over civilized man. 1t is to this
familiarity with the minutest details
of his environment, rather than to any
natural visual acuteness, that Dr..
Rivers attributes the superior ability
of a savage to recognize distant OBJ
iectS.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-05-15
WOMEN SHOULD HAVE MONEY.
Chance to Learn the.Lesson
+, II !. , tS# OF Econ omy.

~ = !, Z - ii
|. Having the bills paid is all very well.
It's much better than not having them
paid. But women like the handling Of
money as well as do men, They liketo
pay for their own purchases and open
their own parcels. Ii you men cannot
sympathize with this eccentricity, con-
slider how well you like to clip the ends,
from your own cigars and open your
own mail, writes Lavinia Hart in Col
ier's. Consider how we'll you'd have
liked going through. college with all
your bills paid, but not a cent in your
pocket. Consider, while you are con-
sidering, how you would like being
asked to a banquet, and having some
body else eat for you. 1 know women
whose fathers were milionaires and
whose bills were paid without ques-
ton, who were compelled to wait for
the carriage, whatever their errand or
its distance, because they never had
carfare. Invariably these women were
reckless in extravaganza. They rarely
asked the prices of things they Or
dered, as it was matter of no concern
to them. Yet with the rare and pre-
cious cash dollars that came their way
they were economical to the verge of
stinginess. The moral whereof is
plain.
If you would have your womenfolk
economical, let them handle money
and learn to respect its value. There
may be women who have not sufficient
womanliness to honor the confidence
this trust implies; but they are excep-
tions. If such be your daughters it is
your business to teach them otherwise.
If they be your wives it is your own
fault for having married them.
When a father gives his son an al
loWance he should do the same for his
daughter; not as a matter of material
favor-for the daughters bills might
double the sons allowance-but as
matter of discipline. of financial ex-
perience and education. Yhe girls
who dress and keep themselves within
the limits of a stipulated allowance
are usually the best dressed; yet their
bills are invariably smaller. It is to
their interest to get all they can for
their money, and their dollars go
twice as far as the girls whose bills are
paid.
And these are the girls whose
training is fitting them to be good
wives and helpmates of men, provid-
ed the men they marry have snffi-
cient shrewdness to share their
condolences and their incomes, and to
trust their wives to aid in making
the family fortunes solid.
In the humber walks of life.
where the husbands earnings are 50
scant it is incredible that they can
cover the mean necessities of life.
those households are uniformly
more thrifty where the husband
turns over his entire: earnings to the
wife: His days are full of toilEand
his evenings of fatigue. He has
neither the time nor the energy to
figure and plan to make "'both ends
meet" But somehow she manages
to supply their wants and keep the
bills paid, and somewhere, though
he cannot see just how she does it,
there's nest egg growing by hard
saved dimes and dollars for the in
evitable "rainy day"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-05-15

A. twenty-five-story building is to be
erected in New York, one hundred feet
square and on land worth 500 a
square foot, or 81, 900, 900 for ten thou
sand square feet. The building, 1926
feet high, will cost only $1,400,000,
only 40 per cent more than the land.
Offices are expected to rent for 81 a
square foot-$800 for a room twenty
feet square.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-05-15

The varieties of food and drink that
can be made from fruits, nuts and &C.
reals are almost infinite in number.
Already there are more than hundred
on the market. Within few years, it
would seem, this scientific preparation
of foods will be an immense industry,
and the present remarkable output of
nearly $50,00O,O 900 worth year will be
increased MANY times.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-05-15

There is no barbaric splendor about
the court of Japan, nor does the en-
peror insist on fantastic forms of hon.
age. He is just plain Individual.
His guests he receives standing, and
he enters freely into conversation with
all. There is scarcely a subject that
does not interest him or one on which
he is not well informed.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-05-15

Stockholm claims the largest school
house in the world, which has accom-
modations for $3.50 children. In the
basement are 100 bathrooms, where
the children are required to battle if
their teachers think they are not
taught habits of cleanliness at home.
Soap and towels are furnished free by
the city,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-05-15
He Wa. Thoroughly Aro,...,

A man in an apparently moribund
condition was recently taken into a
hospital in Melbourne, Australia, and
in order to revive him al electric
shock was administered. The results
were startling and unexpected. A
demoniac energy was instantaneous
1y infused. He sent the doctor
sprawling on the floor and flung a
couple of assistants out of the VIM
dow. Then he proceeded to wreclx
the ward, while nurses ran aw,v
shrieking and barricaded themselves
He had done $500 worth OF damapr
before the police arrived:
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-05-15
n To supplement their meager in
comes the priests in Switzerland ara
becoming proprietors and managers Of
inns in their parishes.

Orders have been issued by the young
amir of Afghanistan forbidding the
transparent or bright colored wells
which were becoming fashionable
among women in Kabul.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-05-15
News Notes.


nTransfers of real estate aggregated
over $1,ooo,OOo in Minneapolis during
one week. I
Clemens Hofer, weM known resi-
dent, of Winona, fell in 10 the Missis-
.sippi river at Fountain tIity, and was
drowned. ..ss -:
j. D. Sabin, who was arrested on q
charge of violating the Naw by lille
gally fishing in Lake sheteck was
fined 500. =.
Frank Cummings, who us accused
of stealing $1,000 worth IL watches
and jewelry from trav@ ling ma n
named Anderson at Black Duck,
Mimi, is now locked up mi the central
police station, Minneap6 u
The mayor of Nort,hfield issued a
proclamation design ating May 4
as cleaning up day. The pupils Of
the public schools Were given d Holt
day to assist in the work. 5ss
prominent mercha ut of Mankato
went mad and was shot by the police
but not until it had bitten the dogs
ct q! some Of the most prominent Is! s:
Iss:1enfs ssss
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-05-15

street III west 81. raul. swallowed
nine strychnine pills. A physician
was summoned and administered an
antidote which may save the child's
life.
Peter J. Smetlen. who sustained 2
fracture of the spine by fall from a
barn loft at Hastings. is dead.
Julius Fl eud of the National Mill.
ing and Evaporating company of De.
troit has been in the Twin. Cities
looking ov Err the situation with a
view of sta rting potato -four mill
:: The barn and blacksmith shop Of
W: c. Bonn at Brookfeld burned. All
the tools and the horses were saved
Loss, $500: insurance, 500.
The fiftieth anniversary of Method
ism in Red Wing was celebrated in a
way which will be long remembered.
Uri T.. Lamprey of St. Paul wins
his long drawn out fight. with Russell
Sage for. $4,000 acres of the old St.
Paul & Chicago land grant. The
supreme court handed down it's seq
ond and final decision in his favor.
by which the land must be turned
over to him on payment Of $62, S2O.
T The Minnesota-W Wisconsin spring
track meet has been called off. At a
meeting of the board Of athletic. CON
troll 5pf the university twas decided
that the Gopher team should not 90
ito Madison to meet. the Bad gers be-
scausk Of the obstinacy Of the Wiscon-
ssin ithletic aut horities.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1903-09-11
sSfE HIiil-El 6>S HEART.
I'm the Rowing Man II Is Strong and
Wen DcVea ,urd.

Wen Developed.
y prominent member Of the faculty
OF the University of Pennsylvania Med
zeal school has made study Of the
heart action of athlctcS lie has OK
amined a large number of men III ath-
letics, especially rowing mpn and he
has come to the conclusion that no man
in perfect health who has been proper
ly trained is injured by rowing, but
that. on the contrary. his heart is so
strengthened that, with Il moderate
amount Of exercise after he has finish
ed his rowing career, thorc is no rea-
son. 50 far IS the heart and lungs are
concerned, that he sh0i~t not live 10 Il
very old age.
The heart" said he. ''i; both il very
delicate and very strong organ-th"t
is, if it is We'll developed it will stand
an enormous amount of strain without
any permanent injury. but if it is not
we'll developed it is very easily weak
ened Violent exercise, like rowing,
places Il great deal of strain on The
heart because whom the body is being
eNcrted it requires 50 much more pres
sure to force the blood through the
body. Like any other muscle that is
worked, the heart under the added Ia
Dor becomes larger, and most athletes
have extra large hearts, just rs they
also have larger muscles throughout
the body.
If the strain is put upon the heart
suddenly it dilates-it becomes larger,
but not more muscular-and that is the
danger in athletics. If man exercises
gradually then his heart also increases
in size gradually because the muscles
become larger. and this is a perfectly
normal condition. 1t simply means
that the athlete has Il stronger heart
than the average and can cope with
the extra strain that is put upon it. \
man needs larger heart to row Il
race, and if gradual exercise has so
provided him with one then he can
safely undergo the most severe tests
1T is the same way with the lungs,
and they must be developed gradually
until they can undertake the extra
work. A man with his heart and lungs
we'll developed is in no danger no mat
ter how hard the race. He may COM
pletely keel over at the end of the race,
but it will likely be from sheer eXhaus-
ton, and his heart is so strong that the
effect is not at all injurious He will
be as good as ever in a few moments"
Philadelphia Record.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1903-09-11

ments. The world is richer because
they lived. their unfinished tasks
have been put into our hands and
while war no longer threatens our
nation other dangers none the less
real are to be met. To my mind.
legislative and official corruption is
by far the worst danger and one
which will require the best effort of
every good citizen to overcome. The
commercial spirit of the age may.
perhaps. be responsible for the fact
that some men have sought to make
Of those elected to office If left to
themselves this element would sub
Stitute the sign of the dollar for
the stars upon the flag and
very office and every privilege would
be sold to the highest bidder This
evil must be destroyed or it will de-
stroy this republic. even as it de-
stroyed the Roman republic and the
Roman empire. Honesty is the basis
of patriotism. and honesty and brib-
y
| believe this evil will be stamped
out by the same spirit of American
patriotism which prevailed at Bunker
Hill, at Gettysburg and at the battle
OF Manila bay. And so | say all
honor to the men who have stood in
defense OF our country's flag. AS
they have carried it through the dan
gers OF war so will they preserve it
from the perils Of peace.
All honor to the men who fought
to preserve the union; all honor to
the men who hauled down the flag of
Spanish oppression and put in its
place the emblem of liberty. May its
free folds float upon loyal winds until
the final reunion. when mingled to-
gether the blue and the gray shall
pass in the last grand review before
the supreme commander above.