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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-02-05


''oo' the lawyer gets his
profe ssiOnal education. There can be
no doubt of the value of the technical
schools, but whether or not the gradu-
ates Of these schools are superior work.
men to those who served apprentice
ships under the old system is de-
batable question. The head of one OF
the largest Chicago manufacturing es-
Establishments says he much prefers men
who have gained their knowledge and
ability by actual working experience to
those who have studied textbooks This
man employs thousands of trained
WorkIen. men who must operate intri-
cate machines and build other intricate
machines, and he gives it as his expert
ence that while the graduate OF the tech
nical school is moro thorough scholar,
and has far wider range of book learn
ing, he is not nearly so competent
workman as the graduated apprentice,
and at the same time his textbook
knowledge is very apt to make him so
conceited as to make his services even
less valuable than they otherwise would
be.
A resident of this city was recently
arranging to go west to inspect some
mining properties, and was consulting
a western mining expert During the
conversation he said to the expert that
he had arranged to take with him man
OF trained ability in mine engineering,
graduate Of loc.. technical school,
Don t do it, said the expert. when
you get out there, ask for Jerry White
he is not much on book learning, but he
knows more about a mine in one min
ute than Jour graduate does in a month.
he is product of the school of expert
ence.'
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-02-05
CHANGE IN CALF RNIA..
The Last Few Years Have Drought
About Many Things New and
Strange ON the Coast. =

That was an interesting-nay, epoch
marklng-item of news buried in the
treasury department budget recently,
to wit, that heavy and unprecedented
shipments of copper cents have recently
! been made to San Francisco and other
PACING coast cities. These shipments,
; says the New York Commercial Adver-
tiser, coming as they do on the heels of a
;, bill introduced into congress by Cali
: fornla member for the coinage of one
cent pieces at the San Francisco mint,
leave but one opinion possible, an end
, has come to that fine largeness of pecu-
! mary view which so long forbade any
son, or even resident, of "the coast" see
ing any coin smaller than five cents.
An. irresistible force for conformity is
ironing out the peculiarities which one
time pleasingly differentiated regions
and peoples. Everywhere, even in the
remote islands of the sea, women are
wearing hats and dresses fashioned &C
cording to Partisan models; the tall hat
and the frock coat encircle the globe;
mankind, except where China has sue
cessfully fenced out progress, eats alike,
drinks alike, thinks alike; journey
around the earth and you will find no
port where you cannot use your golf
sticks, no retreat where the prevailing
mode has not penetrated, no land which
has not been touched by the hand of uni
formity. A new commandment has been
given to the sons of Adam and it is that
all men shall approximate to pealike
similarity and repose in ordered rows in
the same kind of pods.
California, which started out with the
theory that there should be no money Of
account smaller than. the ''two-bit"
piece, persisted therein during the brave
days of the argonauts, but grudgingly
granted admission to the nickel and
vowed this was the limit of concession.
For more than a generation it stood it's
ground nobly and barred the intrusive
penny with concerted opposition. With
what fine sarcasm did Californians ask:
"What's that?" when tourists ventured
to lay a copper coin on a counter. 1--WE
make only even change" was the answer
when alien thrift, even when it bought
postage stamp, sought to give or re-
ceive it's copper due. It passed into a
tradition that it was disloyalty but little
above anarchy to recognize the existence
of the coin which bears the visage and
carries the color of the Indian.
But the tides of change have beaten
on California and it's resistance has
ccumbled under the insidious advances
The women, it appears, have betrayed
the state. When the department store
came their virtue was not proof against
the allurement of placards such as:
''This size for $685." Tbs disintegration
of the once robust custolh once begun,
it soon icrumbled, with the unhappy re-
suit noted above, that all the coast is
now clamoring for copper, while the
present day San Franciscan demands his
penny changed with all the energy of a
New Yorker who splits nickel to buy
! a penny paper.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-02-05

passing VI lue 1AuAE4u'ol SAApAoJ u
marked the opening Of the contest be-
tween capital and labor.
The whole manufacturing interests
of the city has not yet been consolidated
into trusts. There are still hundreds OF
individual employers, but the rules OF
the unions are applied unfortunately,
and the individual employer who would
much prefer the old system of give and
take with his employees finds the new
system is at work in his plant quite as
much as it is in that of the trust, and in
sheer self-defense he is forced to drop
the democratic ways of the past and in
stitute rigid working rules to combat
the rules of the unions.
The same spirit has invaded the offices
so far as the city-born employe is con-
cerned. 1t is for this reason that the
merchants, the brokers, the La Sale
street interests are seeking intelligent
young men from the country more than
ever
The head of the Chicago branch of a
big insurance company said to me a
few days ago that the most trustworthy
clerks he had in his office were from the
country. Men who had remained on
the farm or in the villages until their
life habits had been formed. "They do
not have to be watched to keep them at
work." said he. "Fhey are interested
in what they are doing. Their depart
ments are never behind I cannot say
nearly so much for the city-born man."
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-02-05
ARMOR OF THE ANC1ENTS.
Means of Protection That WereEm
plOyed by the Soldiers in the
Earlier Ages.

In the earlier ages armor was used to
the attack of the enemy, says writer
in the New Orleans Times-Democrat.
The english word for it was harness;
but we must look to the sacred writings
for the first memorials of :><mor, where
we find the shield, the helmet and the
breastplate used by the Israelites. Co
Hath of Gath wore greaves to defend his
legs. Achilles the shield. The golden
armor of Glaucus was said to be worth
100 oxen. The Romans wore the he'll
met, shield, lorica and greaves. The
lorica was heavy, its weight was made a
subject of complaint. 1t was frequently
enriched with embossed figures, on the
breast with gorgon's head by way of
armlet, on the shoulder plates with
scrolls of thunderbolts, and on the
leather border which covered the tops
of the pendant flaps with lions heads.
The knights began with the feet and
clothed upward; namely, sabatynes or
steel clogs; the greaves, or shin pieces;
the cuisses, or thigh pieces; the breech
of mail; the tuillettes, or overlapping
pieces below the waist; the breast plate,
or cuirass; the vambraces, or covers for
the arm; the rerebraces, or ariere-bras,
the covering for the remaining part of
the arm to the shoulder; the gauntlets;
then the dagger was hung; the short
sword; the cloak or coat, which was
worn over the armor; the bacinet; the
long sword; the pennoncel, held in the
left hand; the shield. From these facts
a general notion will be gathered of the
kind of body armor used among the an
cient nations.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-02-05

part, to the trades
unions. Another
part may be attrib-
uted to the employ
ing classes. When
combinations be-
gan to be the order
of the day the indi-
vidual employe was
lost sight of by the
employer. He was
one Of 10000 per-
haps, and he was
not 81 d e r ed
w b e n a cut in
wages was thought
= RI Vi G a hln The
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-02-05

tected general bust
n e S s conditions.
The clamor for
permission to re-
open has come from
the retail mer-
chants, the whole:
sale merchants, the
restaurant and ho-
tel proprietors, the
railroads and the
liverymen quite as
much as from the
theatrical inter-
ests. All lines are
suffering because
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-02-05

true Of the men
W h o learn their
trade at the bench
in the city than of
those who get their
training at the
technical schools.
When the student
goes into the me-
chanical depa ar t.
ment Of the latter
he gets at least a
smattering of all
branches connect
ed with the trade
which he is learn
Jf l;c 1l~onr
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-02-05

much to develop
t h i S system of
competent special
lists and lessen the
supply of compe-
tent general men
fitted for superin-
tendents.
Trade unionism
is also responsible,
to a large extent,
for the growing
lack of loyalty on
the part of employee
for employer. This
is not said, in any
spirit of .enmity
for the trade
part of the con-
being wsged be-
labor. Union rules
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-02-05

system. In Chi
cago this class of
schools is turning
out each year large
numbers of So
called specialists
in all lines of me-
chanical and SCI
entifc pursuits
young men who
have secured their
knowledge ON
t e X t-b ook S and
pal d instructors
much as the doc
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-02-05
FOrCe of Habit

Lawson-What did the convention of
BARRIERS say when you addressed them :?
Dawson-Why, do you know, hadn't
been talking three minutes before they
all began shouting Next!"-someryille
Journal, go go, II 81,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-02-05
A Poor Guess.

A Poor Guess.
Son-What does Congressman Popul-
lem mean by saying that the money of
the country is unevenly distributed?
Father "a carpenter)-Don't know
exactly. Maybe he means that it isn't
right for blatherskite like him to be
drawing $3.50 day, while carpenter
like me is often thankful to make that
much week.-N. Y. Weekly.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-02-05
Masculine View.

ut isn't the real troubles of woman
that worry her." he said
Then what is it?'' she asked.
tits the troubles she gets up clubs
about" he replied. Chicago Daily News.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-02-05
A Born DiDlOmat.

"Can you tie a true lovers knott"
asked the coy maiden.
"Not me- replied the young man,
"but T know clergyman who would
be only too glad to do t."-Cincinnati
Enquirer.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-02-05
In the 400.

Fuller-1 understand You said looked
like monkey. What do you mean by
such talk as that?
Waller-Oh, it's all right; no harm
done, you know. There wasn't any mon
key within hearing when I said it.-St.
Louis World.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-02-05
The One Thing Needfu1

Can you make bread, cake and pie,
Miss De Type?"
Certainly, Mr.. Cautious, If you can
furnish the dough."-N.s$Y. Times.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-02-05
An Iowa Classic,

Way up here in Ioway
We've had a kind O. blizzard:
It's cold enough both night and day
To nearly freeze your gizzard.
Sumner Ga) Journal
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-02-05

Stork-Say, Monk, what's become of
The cuckoo bird that used to live in the
third bough back?
Monk-Oh, he's moved to the city.
He's got job as model in a clock fac
tOry.-N Y Sun.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-02-05
HGetfinr 0ns>

well, Tommoy, how are you get.
ting ON at school?'' - u = ~
=, "First-rate. I amt doing so well as
some of the other boys, though I can
stand on my head; but have; to put
my feet against the WALL want to
do it without the wall at all!'-Judge.
- - Likes Hot Air.
New Maids the Imissus hard to
please? - 4 4 49, If sszz@. Il
Old one-Yes, indeed! II you don't
tell her every day in the week how beau
tiful she is, she's as cross d hear
Chicago American. szs v
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-02-05
What are you doing now?"
Writing fiction. And you?"
Selling mining stocks"
Lets form partnership. Chicago
Tribune
So Sympathetic.

Sportsman (wishing for fresh fields to
>conquer)-1 should like to try my hand
at big game. J.. ..I,
Fair 1gnoramus-Yes; suppose you
find it very hard to hit these little birds.
Judge. ..-..,...-- -. .-~-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-02-05
Not Very Deem YET.

He hasn't been in politics very long,
has he?" ss -. ;. :.
No; put how did you know?''
II was walking along beside him
to-day just as a police patrol wagon
dashed up behind us and ne didn't
start guiltily or look nervous at ALL
Philadelphia Press.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-02-05

When either fools or wise men
Buy something nice they show it;
But when they buy experience,
They don't want folks to know it.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-02-05

Competency and Loyalty.
Working conditions brought about by
the operations of trade unions has done
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-02-05
OLD AND new Ways
Technical Schools Are Replacing
the Apprentice SYSTEM.
THEY BOTH CLAIM ADVANTAGE
Some Chicago Employers Find the Old
Way Produces the Most Practical
WOrkmen - Changes Wrought
by Trade UniOnism.

Chicago.-The technical school is the
successor of the old trades apprentice
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-02-05

Father-What are you doing up at
this time Of night?
Son-What are you doing up this early
in the morning?-Tit-Bits.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-02-05

The Demand for Specialists.
The tendency Of the day is the devel-
opment CT specialists. This is nearer
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-02-05

Their Meat.
If every book the writer's write
Were faultless in all ways,
And if the dramatists wrote none
But Aawless, perfect plays,
If all the pictures painters paint
Reached grand perfection, too
If blemishes might ne'er be found.
What would the critics do?
Chicago Record-Herald.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-02-05
Business and the Theaters.

Never before did Chicago realize to
what extent the theaters of the city af-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-02-05

Classes That Are Loyal.
I have said that the trouble of which
this employer complains was due, in
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-02-05

He-What a splendid disguise your
husband has adopted
She-Disguise?
He-Yes; as bear.
she-1 don't call that Disguise
Ally Sloper.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-02-05
The Gui1ty con science.

Mrs. Gramercy- She must have been
surprised when her husband gave her
such an expensive. present.
Mrs. ParkNot surprised. my dear.
but suspicious; Judge $500,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-02-05
Combination of Solos

!" Combination of Solos. !
:" "You called those men playing on
the street band, pop" 8
Eyes, my son. !.
They're not band"
"Why yes, my son., ;.
What is a band, pop?" :
"Why, it's number of men who
play together :.
''Well, pop, I'm sure no two of those
men were playing ogether!"-Yonkers
Statesman.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-02-05

How dare you turn around to stare
at me?"
II couldn't very we'll stare at you
without turning, could I?''-Chicago
American.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-02-05

unions. 1t is a part of the
test that is being wage,
tween capital and labor. Unio]
The Washington times., 1904-08-28

where who will declare that 81 was bet
ter that the guilty wretches should meet
their fate unprotected rather than a
dozen or a score or half a hundred white
citizens should die in their opposition TO
constituted authority
Might Have Saved Men.
There are not lacking those who de-
clare that a determined stand by the
militia with loaded guns from the be-
ginning would have saved the negroes
for their sentence. Others assert with
equal certainty that a single shot fred
would have precipitated wholesale mas
sdcre. Others declare that an entire reg
iment, or Two. II needed, should have
been at States6oro on Sunday, 70 remain
through the trial and to escort the p-is-
Oners to a place OF safety after the trial.
Whether the sheriff did his full duty or
not is to some a mooted question. The
evidence OF those who know him and
who watched him through the entire af-
fair. is that he was an efficient officer,
who fInched at no point. and did all
that could be done TO uphold the law.
The spectacle is presented OF an out
ragged community rising in its might and
asserting its power against a class that
had worked only harm and wrong and
that threatened life and property. the
sanctity of home, and ell that men hold
most dear In life. The moral effect so
far has been 20 subdue this class. Those
The Washington times., 1904-08-28

negroes who have resented the treat
ment from the white population or have
criticised them. have been whipped, men
and women alike.
Negroes Take Fright.
Not only IN BuIloch county, but IN
neighboring localities, have reports OF
similar whippings been heard. Warn
ings have been served on obnoxious
blacks that their conduct must be
changed. or they will be punished. These
threats have not been idle. The negroes
have been leaving for parts unknown.
and already some planters fear a
scarcity OF labor to work in the cotton
fields. which are whitening for the har-
vest
Public resentment against the Offend
ing class has gone further. and since
the death Of Reid and Cato reports have
been received OF the killing OF two other
negroes near StatesbOro. whose presence
was not appreciated. The reports have
not been entirely authenticated, but
there seems no reasosable doubt that
the killings occurred. Naturally the
ayenging class has gone to excess and
the shooting OF Albert Roberts. an aged
negro. and his son. have caused wide
spread regret II not condemnation Both
were unohending negroes and have only
the best OF reputation for observance OF
law. They are being given the most
careful medical attention and e is be-
lieved they viii recover.
The Washington times., 1904-08-28
WATERS STILL BAR
PROGRESS TOWARD NORTH POLE

: follow the ice edge toward SpItzhe-gen,
IN the hope OF finding an opening 10 the
north in that direction
His hope was evidently realized; but
his further fortunes are problemzttcaL
He may have beer lucky enough TO
reach Franz Josef land last fail. hut
II so # was too late for the America,
according TO the plan, to return 70 Nor
way that season
Considering the Zee conditions. We
need not be surprised 70 hear some day
that the vessel was frozen in the pack
and spent last winter helplessly IN the
Ice between Franz josef Land ana
Europe.
-Tegetthof Expedition.
This was exactly the experience Of tbs
INST vessel that went 90 that a-ch3-
pelago. The Tegetthof. OF the Austrian
expedition. was caught fast In the clos
Ing foe IN the summer OF 1872 and her
party had a most miserable tine drift
ing slowly northward through the dark
ness OF the following winter. The YES
sci never escaped tho grip OF the ice:
but on August 50. 1873. she reached ths
unknown land which was named IN
honor OF the Emperor OF Australian
gary. and IN the spring Of 1874 the party
made fits escape southwark by drag
ging boats to the edge Of the open SEA-
II the expedition was adrift all last
winter its plans for establishing supply
stations 10 the north for the benefit OF
the sledge party that was 20 attempt
dash for the pole last spring must. Of
course, have been defeated. Such delay
would require at least another year IN
the Arctic 70 give the northern sledgs
journey the best possible chance for sue
cess.
Must Wait a Year.
Whatever fortune the party has met.
no news is now likely TO come from it
for another year, unless il returns home
this fall. As Baldwin left large supplies
in Franz Josef Land and the America
was also well QUILTED, the explorers are
in no danger from suffering from lack
OF food and clothing.
There is more likelihood that the coal
OF the America Is exhausted, and Il IL
coal that the relief expedition Is anxious
20 carry North
Mr.. Champ cabled that the conditions
are now more favorable and that his
party would sail again on August o.
BY so doing he win run considerable
risk OF being caught IN the ice for the
winter; and II he has the good luck TO
reach Franz Josef Land he cannot pos
sibly return this season.
So there will be two parties in me
mysterious North region from when
cablegramS never come TO allay anxiety.
and next spring other relief measures
the best that can be devised. will ~
in order.
The Washington times., 1904-08-28

( At The top the private was stationed
with orders to allow no one to pass.
From the top he commanded tho ap-
/ preach. Several men had come 20 -he
last turn. four or FIVE steps from the
top. The soldier ordered them 70 halt
saying he would shoot II they advanced
another step. They deued him. saying
he dared not shoot. that he had orders
not to shoot and they knew he had no
cartridges in his gun. The soldier has
tily slipped a cartridge into his gun
raised Il 10 his shoulder. when he was
pulled into the courtroom, and the last
human barrier between the mob and the
prisoners was removed. Hastily they
bombarded the door separating them
from the negroes They forced it open
and Immediately the prisoners were in
the hands OF the mob.
Previous 20 this the mob had gained
an entrance TO the court building by a
vigorous onslaught on the few troops
that surrounded the building. A few
guns were taken from the soldiers and
IL was discovered that these were
empty. The moral effect OF the pres
ence of the militia was lost Yet with
some exceptions. the troops were treated
with an appreciation Of their position.
Some angry spirits beat and thrashed
them. but the leaders OF the mob came
TO their protection. One who had a
prominent part in the management Of
the mob's action. insisted that only such
force as was necessary to take the guns
from the soldiers should be use6. and
that the guns must be restored, as State
property, to the soldiers as soon as the
lynching was done. Six men were as
signed TO each soldier, and, TO a large
extent the Orders OF the leader were
followed.