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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-10-14
THE FIELD OF ELECTRrCS

To an electrician one horsepower II
TAG watts.
Whenever 4 plant is wounded posi-
tive electric current Is established he
tween the wounded part and the intact
parts.
Argon, the recently discovered element
Of air, Is. as was expected from it, e.
istence In the chromosphere, very light
and apparently monatimic.
The enormous increase in the produc-
ton and sale of copper, especially in tho
United States and Europe, Is due to the
general increase Of electricity used.
1t is usually imagined that the mean
descent electric light gives out very lit
tie heat. AS matter Of fact only six
per cent. OF its energy goes to make
light, while "a goes into heat.
The electrometer is so acutely sensi
tive that It will detect in one minute
IN amount of matter which must &C.
cumulate for 100000 years before there
is enough Of it to affect the most sensi-
tive chemical balance.
An interesting collection of about 7oo
incandescent electric lamps, including
the first experimental lamps, is beina
made by the st. Louis exposition. The
collection Is unique, and includes a
specimen Of every kind of filament lamp
sver made In Europe or America.
The twenty-ffth anniversary Of the
introduction Of electric traction into
Germany will soon be celebrated In Ber-
lin. On October l, 1903, there were no
fewer than $500 kilometers Of rails used
for electric traflc and $3.50 electric
motor cars, with $50 ordinary cars At
tached to them. In use In Gefmanx
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THE PASS WAS GRANTED.
Young Man Of Facile Reasoning
Ability Has Only Once to
Ask for It.

A young man who was working for the
railroad company went to one of the direc-
tors and asked for pass to some distant
point relates the Philadelphia Public Led
:. You have been working for US some
time?" inquired the official.
"Yes, sir" the young fellow answered.
make?'
No, sir" answered the employee.
well, If you were working for farmer,
would you have the nerve to ask him to
harness his horses and take you to a Ger
tam part of the country" the director
asked.
No, sir. But if he had his horses all
ready, and was going to that point, I would
call him very mean farmer if he refused
to take me- was the young fellows reply.
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Rates Lower and Service Equal to
the Rest. to All Points East

via. the Nickel Plate Road. Up-to-date
train SSryes SS Of Three THRU E
coaches and superb dining and sleeping
cars offering a quick and comfortable trip
to Fl: Wayne, Cleveland, Erie, Buffalo,
New York, Boston and intermediate sta
tons. Individual club meals served in
Dining Cars at prices ranging from IS cents
to $l.O0 per meal for each person. Also
erve to er seat. Sv
walters. Special attention given to ladies
travelling alone or accompanied by chill
dren. No excess fares charged on any train.
Stop over at Niagara Falls and Chautauqua
Lake allowed on all tickets. All trains
arrive at and depart from the new La Sale
Street station; Chicago. For rates, routes,
Agt., No. Ill Adams St., Chicago, m.
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Toilet Hint for Housewives

Apple, potato and most other stains
can be removed from the hands by rub.
bling them with oatmeal moistened with
lemon juice or vinegar. A nailbrusn
should be used all around the fingernails
When the stain is quite removed wash
with warm water and soap. Never use
soap before removing the stain, as it will
be ten times more difficult to remove.
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Looked That WaY.

When young woman at Allentown, Pa,
day and asked for marriage license, the
clerk. naturally inquired: "Where is the
young man." Eve got him at home,'' re-
Joined the woman. and the license was
granted. Wonder if she had him chained
Boston Globe
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1nsurmouutable.

An indignant letter dictated by a clever
old gentleman runs thus: "Sir, my stenog-
rapher, being lady, cannot take down what
| think of you l, being gentleman, can
not express it; but you, being neither, can
readily divine t."-Argonaut.
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Facts to Be Remembered.
It is we'll to remember that q pound
Of sugar is one pint. an ounce Of liquid
is two tablespoonful and pint Of liquif
weighs 16 ounces. sss-zs#:> ~.
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Charcoal for the Refrigerator.
Keep good-sized piece Of charcoal IN
the refrigerator until frost comes, re-
moving the charcoal every ten days a
two weeks. - +. III
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Do not believe Piso's Cure for Consump
F. Boyer, Trinity Springs, Ind, Feb. Is, 1900
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That Horrid Smell Of Fish,.
To clean a f1shy frying pan fill with
cold water and place on the fire to BOIL
When boiling put red-hot cinder IN
then wash in the usual way.
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Either think twice before you speak, or
speak twice before the other fellow can
think.-Chicago Tribune.
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Straw votes show which way the hot lii
blows.-Judge
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Kansas City Southern Ry. Specia
Excursion

Sept. 13, 20 and q, Oct. 4 and Is, 1904,
to Arkansas, Indian Territory, Louisiana
and Texas, very low one: way and round
trip rates.
For further informal ton, write to S. G..
CITY No
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DROP WOULD NOT WORK.

Prisoners Release After Nineteen
Years Recalls Weird Story.
walking out Of prison a free man,
nineteen years Of servitude, the. com
ing back to the world of John Lee has
recalled story as dramatic, as wildly
improbable, as anything ever conceived
by a sensational novelist-yet a thing
of fact. Convicted Of the murder Of
his woman employer and sentenced to
be hanged, this man went to the gall
lows three times in a day. But never
did the drop fall Apparently perfect
mechanically, the trap remained fixed
in its place, despite all efforts Of the
jailers.
When as climax to this mysterious
perversity of wood and metal, white
dove was seen circling about the prison
yard, even the callous attendants felt
thrill Of superstition, while the con-
demned man said calmly: You see
my Maker will not let me die
No further attempt was made to put
him out Of the world. His sentence
was committed to imprisonment for
life. That was in 1885. Now, as the
result Of exemplary conduct, he has
been released.
A dispute about wages alleged to
have caused the crime Of which he was
convicted. He was 20 years old when
a woman named Keyse, living in Bah
bacombe, hired shim as a servant. He
received small pay and was dissatis-
lied. Following his employer 1t was
asserted he had taken her by surprise
at night, killed her with Ratchet, nlu-
tilated the body, set fire to the house
and raised an alarm of burglars.
At the trial the Judge commented on
Lees calmness.
1.-THE reason lam so calm is because
| trust to my Lord, said Lee, and my
Lord knows I am innocent.
The evidence, almost wholly circum-
Istantial, brought verdict Of murder
| in the first degree, and three weeks
later the day of execution arrived. In
| the half light OF an early February Lee
was led into the yard of Exeter Jail.
From the scaffold he declared his in
innocence calmly. The executioner
pulled the lever. The drop did not re-
spond. Lee prayed, with no sign again
and again to spring the drop. but to no
purpose. It was said afterward a pure
white dove circled about the jail yard
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both Russian officers. who were Rus
sian by birth and members OF the Or
thodox Church. General Stoessel him
self. who was born in 1s4s, entered a
cadet corps at ten years Of age, and left
the Pavloff Military Academy as an
officer in 1866 at the same time as Cen
eraI Kuropatkin. He served in the
Russo-Turklsh war. having command
of a company in the Bulgarian army.
In recognition of his services he was
raised first to the rank Of captain and
afterwards to that of major. After the
war he Travelled throughout the length
and breadth OF the empire. He held
different commands in different parts
of Siberia, where he was raised to the
rank of general in 1899 and placed at
the head Of the Third Brigade Of East
Siberian sharpshooters at Port Arthur.
He served with that brigade during the
Chilli campaign, and since then has not
left Port Arthur.
If General Stoessel has to surrender
the courteous japanese viii probably
give him ''the honors of war" He de-
serves them. and if he does or doesn't
have to surrender he will get them.
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"Push-Don,t Knock

Upon the door saw a sign;
/ cried, "A mottol And It's miner
A wiser thing never saw
No Median or Persian law
Should be more rigidly enforced
Than this, from Verbiage divorced;
Its logic's firm as any rock
''Push-don't knock"
Twas simply meant to guide the hand
OF those who wished TO sit or stand
Within the unassuming door
This weight of sermonry that bore.
Twas never meant to teach or preach,
But just to place in easy reach
The ear of him who dealt in stock
'Push-don't knock"
But what a guide for life was that
Strong, philosophical and pat;
How safe chart for you and me
While cruising DER Iife's restless sea:
Push, always push, with goal in view;
Don't knock-avoid the hammer crew.
This rule will save you many a shock;
'fPush-don't knock"
When on that door see the sign,
/ say, Great motto, you are mine!o
No stronger sermon ever fell
From human lips; no sage could tell
The hOthead youth more nearly how
To point Away his vessels PROV;
There are no wiser words in stock:
"Push-don't knock"
Baltimore American.
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when this was taking place. settling on
the scahold for moment.
After ten minutes of fruitless EFFORT.
Lee was reyoved TO a shed and the
=scaffold mechanism was tested. It
worked perfectly. The Warders put
the condemned man back under the
rope and adjusted the moose. But
again they could not bulge the trap.
Once more the wretched man stood By,
listening TO the workman's hammerand
saw. Crying, 'Oh, God, help me-
stood over the hinged platform a third
time.
Failure again. 1.-THE execution win
not take place to-day" said the COVER
nor. Back behind the bars once more,
Lee fell upon his knees. thanking God
for what he called miracle.
Faithful to Lee from the first day of
his imprisonment was his sweetheart,
who vowed never to marry should he
be put to death. 1t is not known GER
tainly whether she is alive. Lee to-day
went to the home of a charitable So
ciety. He said he did not know lust
what he would do, but he twas sure
the Lord who had saved him would
guide his steps. New York Express.
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his emperor Moreover. to him his
country does not mean simply group
Of islands with about fifty millions OF
people living on them. His forfathers
and descendants are also taken into ac-
count. To him the past, present and fu-
ture generations are commingled into
one, 50 that If we anaIyze the idea Of
his kuni (country) as understood by
him We find It composed Of the follow
ingelements:
First-The imperial ancestors.
SecOnd-The reigning emperor. .
Third-The imperial family.
Fourth-The imperial descendants.
Fifth-His own ancestors.
Sixth-His own family and relations.
Seventh-His descendants.
Eighth-Hfs fellow cOuntrymen, their
families and their relations.
Ninth-Thefr ancestors.
Tenth-Their descendants.
Eleventh-The extent of land or
lands occupied by his race.
The japanese knows that his own an
cestors served those of his emperor.
Nay, he knows that if his own geneal-
ogy be traced to bygone ages il will be
found more or less connected with that
|of the imperial household. In short,
the Japanese are members Of one vast
imperial family with the emperor as
the head and representative Of its main
stock. The emperor is by birth the
head of the nation. Neither he nor
any of his ancestors came to the throne
by ruse or violence. Suppose Abraham
had founded an empire in Palestine
that his heirs in an unbroken line ruled
over the twelve tribes, themselves de-
|scendants Of Abraham, and that the
empire continued powerful to. this day;
suppose this. and you have an idea
somewhat similar to that of the empire
|of Japan. Nobushlge Amenomorn in
the Atlantic Monthly.
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ULTIMATUMS.

The sIuggard will tell you that a soft
answer isn't in 1t with a soft aunt, sir.
Philadelphia Record.
She-What is the use of Greek?
The sophomore Why er-you know,
they use it in the names Of the Greek
letter societies. Puck
Mother See here, Tommy, how often
do you want me to speak to you?
Tommy--Ill leave It all to you, ma.
You know what's est.--Philadelphia
Press.
That Thomas cat must be very old, =
said the first feline.
i guess he is replied the other.
"Oh, he must be, or else he's just us
ing his imagination. He claims to have
seen a bootjack once in his young
days. Philadelphia Press.
''Yaws," said SapIeigh, "IAaw--had
typhoid feyah when / was a boy and
they were aw--afwaid / would lose me
mind, doncher know
And did you lose it, them" asked
Miss Caustique innocently." Chicago
Daily News
Are you free trader, Uncle Jason %
inquired some one.
Yes, sab! Dat is, was ontiI de
merchant what was s'plyir1' me said my
Icrop wasn't that 1t oughter be and toll
me ter slack up on dat account at de
sto' New Orleans Times Democrat,
Briggs What a fellow you are!
don't believe you thought OF your wife
once while you were away.
Griggs-On the contrary, I couldn't
get her out Of my mind for a minute,
I was afraid she'd get onto the racket,
don't you know.-Boston transcript
I"I'll try to steal her heart, quoth he.
And win her sweetest smiles
I'll try to steel my heart, said she,
Against Loves subtle wiles."
So both in steel began to deal,
And, as you may opine,
Love soon declared dividend
And started a combine.
Smart Set.
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General StoesseI, who has been so
long and CALAMITY holding the fort at
Port Arthur, has his fame made, and
unless he upsets it in some way not
now in sight it will probably be lasting.
He has certainly shown himself stub
bornly brave man. There have been
statements about this heroic
officer but the facts seem to be now
clear. He is descended from a military
family with a long record of service.
His grandfather, a general in the Swe-
dish army, settled in Russia in the reign
of the Emperor Paul, and had two sons,
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OPENED.

A great time in Greater New York
Yesterday. What was once regarded
as wild dream has become reality, and
Yesterday the Rapid Transit Subway
Railroad was formally opened. Started
four years ago, after six years Of sci
|entific boring and measuring and plan
ming, the subway is to-day in complete
operation from the City Hall up the
west side to one Hundred and Forty
fifth street. 1t is a great work, greatly
done. and all who had to do with it are
naturally feeling good over it. There
lis more to come, and this Is the way
Mayor Mcclellan talked about it: If
this new underground railroad which
1--WE are about to open proves as popular
and as successful as I confidently ex-
|pect it to be it will be only the first of
MANY more which must ultimately re-
suit In giving us an almost perfect sys-
tenn Of interborough communication.
When that day arrives borough boun-
daries will be remembered only for adj
ministrative purposes, and New York
ers, forgetting from what part Of the
|city they come and only conscious Of
the fact that they are the sons Of the
|mightiest metropolis the world has ever
seen, will be actuated by a common
hope and united in a common destiny.
The whole country will congratulate
New York and will wish the new Sub
way well. Especially will they wish
that no dreadful accident may happen
lin it. In his prayer at the opening ex-
'ercises Coadjutor-B Greer asked
for protection against harm to those
whose duties should call them to use of
the new road. He also besought
strength, skill and courage for those in
whom the direction and operation of
the road should lie. This is prayer
in which all can fervent1y unite.
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REGULARITY OF JAPANESE PA

The love of ones fatherland is COM
mon to the natives of all countries, but
in the Japanese patriotism there are
certain things peculiar to itself.
When we consider Japanese patriot-
ism we must never lose sight Of Its
great concomitant, loyalty to the EN-
peror. These two passions are SO
closely united in the breast of an ordi-
nary Japanese that he can hardly con-
ceiVe of one without the other. When
a Japanese says, Il love my country
q great or even the greater part Of his
idea Of his country is. taken up by
the emperor and the imperial family.
His duty to his country. as conceived
by him, includes, first of all, duty to
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sorE MIr.aArKD eooD VIEWS.

SOME MlgsGArKD GOOD NEWS.
Good news. The Silent Man of ESQ
pus is going to talk. And better news!
one of the places in which he is going
to talk IS Connecticut. OF course there
is a ny in the ointment. There always
is. In this case the fly is the an
nouncement that the Silent Man win
speak either at New Haven or Hart
ford. why either? Why not New Ha-
ven without qualifications? New Haven
lis the largest and grandest city in the
state. There are more hungering and
thirsting Democrats here than In any
other city of the State. Everybody
who amounts to anything and has had
anything to say to Connecticut in this
campaign has talked here. This Is en-
|phatically the place to talk if anybody
has anything to say. And it is en-
|phatically the place to talk to Demo-
Gratis. for the Democrats here are SO
Disguised at not being talked to right
that they may not vote right unless
they are talked to right.
Another reason why we hope Brother
Parker will talk here is that if he does
he will probably do the Republican
cause as much good as he has in other
places where he has talked.
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Some crafty doctors in Chicago sent
out an insinuating letter to many other
members of the profession asking what
commission they would give for case
turned over to them of a rich patient,
able to pay. the writer purporting to be
"a country physician near by without
facilities for properly treating the pa
tient. 1t is reported that eighteen Chi
cago physicians accepted and made an
offer, twenty-six declined and f1fty-six
failed to answer. The Chicago Medical
Society is going to follow it up.
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KANsas - RIenr AeAIN

Kansas is all right again. She was
a long time wrong, and a long time in
getting right. but she has come out
clear, sound and rich, after her strug-
giles with the blighting effects of grass
hoppers. drought and Populism. In 1887
there were 1,514,57S inhabitants Of the
sunhower State, but they began to flee
from adversely soon after that and
though after 1890 they began to come
back or others take their places. even
as late as last year the population was
smaller than it was at its maximum in
the ninth decade of the last century.
But this year, according to as accurate
an enumeration as the local authorities
have been able to make, the total is
i, $50, o3s. The crops are good, the money
returns from them will be large. and
the cattle and pigs are many and fat.
queer old Kansas! Full of cranks
and vicissitudes. May it be long be-
fore she has to go through another
such slough as that from which she has
Just emerged.
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ADVERTISING RATES.

Situations. Wants. Rents. and other
small advertisements, One Cent Word
each insertion. Five Cents a Word for
full week.
display advertisements. per inch one
insertion, 1920; each subsequent inser-
tIon. 40 cents; one week. $500; one
nonth, SO: one year, $40.
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Or. Z. .. Clark Of Boston is another
convert from anti-imperialism. spent
seven months in the Philippines, he is
quoted as saying, and am now fully
convinced Of the wisdom Of our action
there. Seeing is believing. The Phil
ippines will return us hundred fold
what they cost us
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the Tibetans eat meat freely, and
square their conscience with their APP
petite by the pretext that the sin rests
with the outcast assassin. the public
butcher, who win be born in the next
reincarnation as some tantalized spirit
or agonized demon. That, however. is
his own affair.
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Professor Agassiz pays $4,000 out Of
his own pocket for the equipment and
the expense of the expedition just sent
out to take deep sea soundings in the
Pacific, rather than to accept part Of
the amount from Mr.. Carnegie on con-
dition that the expedition bear Mr.. Car
negie's name. Good work. ~
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There are two kinds Of reactions in
wall street. One is the healthy one,
ana the other IS the SICK and sickening
one. Pay your money and take your
choice.
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Roland Hunnewell of Peterson, Iowa,
has brought suit for $1,000 against
members Of the Woodman lodge. Hun
newell says that he bears on his per-
son the brand Of a red-hot iron, inflfet-
ed in initiation, and ayers that he has
never fully recovered from the shock.
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It is asserted that Cincinnati has fur
nished more bishops for the Methodist
Episcopal Church than any other city
in the United States. The list contains
seventeen names, as follows; Morris.
Hamline, Simpson, Clark, Thompson,
Kingsley, Foster, Wiley, Merrill, Ninde.
Walden. Joyce, Cranston, Moore, Ham
ilton and Hartzen.
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DELIVERED By CARRIERS IN THE
CITY, u CENTS A WEEK, 50 CENTS A
MONTH, So FOB SIX MONTHS. 50 A
YEAR. THE SAME TERMS By MAIL
SINGLE COPIES. CENTS
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For state Senators.

#DiSLS.
Sch whitney, Of New Haven.
9-Minotte e. Chatfield, Of New Haven
10-John Whitaker. Of New Haven.
11-Edward j. Maroney, of New Haven.
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For Representatives,
John @. Tilson and Frederick 4. Lehr,
OF New Haven.
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Electrical power houses are about to
be constructed at the zambesi Falls.
which are estimated to represent s5,-
100000 horsepower and should be able
70 do great deal of the work of Mid
die Africa. The electrical power will
be delivered to long distance transmits
sion lines and distributed to the COP
per, gold and coal fields in the region
which are already In process of devel-
opment, besides performing other work
which progress there is cutting out for
il