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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-09-16

not be said that the Catholics or Jews
are altogether satisfied with this ar
rangement, for the atmosphere of the
school and the personality of the
"Evangelical'' schools are not to their
liking, and there is steady move for in
dependent schools. What now is the
value of this religious instruction in re-
ligion?
To have an education permeated with
knowledge of the Bible and the relation
OF the Bible to character and civilization
is certainly good thing. Morally and
religiously it is surely beneficial. Intel
lectually it is also very desirable. An
educated man should certainly be able
to interpret his own literature. He as
suredly cannot do this intelligently il
he be ignorant of the Scripture, which
the best writer's so constantly use.
The German boy is far ahead of the
American boy in his knowledge of the
Bible. Our American boys who come tc
college are VIGOROUSLY ignorant of the
Scriptures. The German method of in.
parting Scriptures seems superior to our
American Sunday school methods. for
the boy is required to know this as, he
does every other subject His teachers
in religion" are thoroughly equipped,
strong men, skillful teachers. This can
not be said of our average Sunday.schoo]
teacher in America.
Yet it must be conceded that mere
knowledge of Scripture history, etc..
does not necessarily make a religious
person. That depends upon the attitude
of the will, which may accept or reject
the religious ideals as guide in prac-
teal life.
There is much unrest over this matter
of religious instruction in the schools.
Radicals in religion claim that the in
struction is old-fashioned and narrow.
not up to date, out of line with modern
investigation. The social democrats.
who are opposed to the state church, are
not in favor of it. Yet it must be said
that the teachers themselves feel the
need of improving the method and of en-
riching their work. At the core how
ever, it is good, and is only to be depre-
Gated if it means that by this method
alone religion" is to be taught. It
must be reinforced by the home and the
church
We are agitating in America anew
the question OF religious instruction
in the schools. 1t is nothing short
of calamity that the Bible is practical
ly cast out of our system of instruction
through fear of .sectarian bias. We are
yet, it must be hoped, to find some
way of placing this classic, along with
the other world classics, in the hands of
all our college men and women as an in
strument of their culture.
AMOS W. PATTEN.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-09-16
News in Brief.

Captain Frank A. Peterson of the
Minneapolis fire department commit.
ted suicide.
Purse snatchers have been working
in Minneapolis for the past few days
successfully.
Judge John A. Lovely will accept
the democratic nomination for Judge.
of the supreme court.
OF the 500 students who have al
ready registered at the ':U'' at least
400 are young women.
Pickpockets began operations at
the union depot, St. Paul, despite the
presence of the corps of extra blue.
coats and detectives who are in wait
for just such thieves. G. H. Coyken-.
dali, uniformed gateman, was one
of the victims. He was robbed of a
gold watch valued at $50.
The famous Minnesota white hrool
trout, which the officials of the fish
cries department. of the United States
government" consider the most inter-
esting fish discovered, are the feature
of the Minnesota game and fish ex-.
hibit. .,*.* $50 80
The aquarium located for Mime
sofas fish exhibit. at the S.. Louis
exposition is to become the. perma-
Aent property of the state fair. After.
Tie fair is over at st. Louis it will be
brought to Minnesota and Installed
at one OF the state fair buildings. a
fish. exhibit will be regular fea ture.
Of the fairs after this year: &
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-09-16
Sucked to Death.

Two playmates with whom he had
been romping about in the grain eleva-
tor of the Sheffield Mill company in
Faribault saw James Anderson, six
teen years old sucked down to his
death in discharging wheat bin.
Anderson, who was son of George
L. Anderson, a laborer, was playing
about the structure with the two sons
of I. B. Murtaugh, the elevator mana
ger. Anderson jumped into a 35-foot
wheat bin and began leaping up and
down.
Several hundred feet below they
were loading cars with grain, and sud
denly the bin in which the young An
derson stood was opened. The strug-
gleing lad was gradually drawn down
until he disappeared.
The victim had sunk fifteen feet, and
it took crew of six men on hour to
reach him.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-09-16

of the Saratoga hostelries. The United
States and Grand Union led it in extent
of dreary ugliness, in miles of piazzas
where dowagers could rock in easy
chairs, in acres of slippery dining-room
floor Yet all three have lost their once
proud prominence. Not one of them
can longer claim to be "the biggest hotel
in the world''-as if that was anything
to be proud of. The rest of the world
has gone ahead, while Saratoga has re-
NAMED, in outwath aspect and as to its
hotel world, little changed.
A few years ago the town seemed
doomed to slow extinction. The recent
fame attending it's race course and par
ticularly the perfectly open manner in
which gambling is conducted> have
brought back it's old prosperity.
We grumble here in New York that
the town is wide open" And tits. But
there is here at FEAST hypocrisy, the
tribute that vice pays to virtue It
family pretends to be shut You cannot
go along the street and enter gam bling
house at will. You must be vouched for
by some one, LED, conducted. There is a
little mystery of door-opening, a crack
first, then wider; password is at
times insisted upon.
Not so Saratoga. Assuming that you
are not resident-in which case "club
houses" are not for you-you simply
walk up, walk in, sit down and say:
Gimme stack O. reds" There is no
other formality.
Visited Saratoga the year it was good.
The piazzas of the great hotels were
Saharas. Women who wear paint and
diamonds to breakfast, sports who wake
at noon, are necessary to make prosper
a town whose population is 10000 and
which has hotel accommodation for
three times that number, besides null
tiplying cottages.
And yet there really are in the EN-
pire state laws that forbid gambling!
OWEN LANGDo.s.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-09-16

Farmers throughout the United
States, especially, in regions traversed
by swift-aowing streams, are begin
ming to realize that close to their
doors is an opportunity to apply cleo
tricity to the work on the farm The
old dams along neglected waterways
which years ago supplied the small
mills with power, are now being re-
built, and the old millraces have been
dredged and cleared of rubbish. Each
dam and race may yield several horse
power, and the generating plants,
poles. wires, etc.. are simple and mex
pensive.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-09-16

The minister of commerce has re-
ceived an official report Of the last
census OF France, begun in 1901. It
shows the population to be 3S,961, 945.
or a gain of only 444,613 in ten years.
Comparative tables disclose that there
is no other European country in which
the population increases so slowly.
many, Great Britain and Russia is al
most a third greater than in France
for the same period.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-09-16

In Wurtemberg, under the law OF
March %, 1895, those who have COM
pleted the common schools must at
tend either general or an Industrial
continuation school for the period Of
two years, unless they wish to attend
some higher school or receive ade-
Quate private instruction. The work
in these schools must cover at least
two hours week throughout the
year, or four hours week during the
winter.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-09-16

There are now about 1000 motor
vehicles in use in Scotland. At the
beginning of 1902 there were only
$50. A man who made a tour of the
country on a motor car in 1900 had
stones or vegetables thrown at him
by men or boys nearly every day; but
since the speed was regulated by law
to 20 miles an hour in the country and
- miles in cities the opposition has
gradually died out.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-09-16
More Money for Butter.

A strong effort will be made next
year to have the prize money offered
for exhibits of creamery butter at the
state fair increased from $3.50 to $1,000.
The idea increasing the prize money is
to make the Minnesota butter contest
interstate in it's character: This year
there were many entries from Iowa
and Wisconsin, and some from the Da-
kOtas
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-09-16

volumes of "reminiscences which should
be the most interesting of the year. AIDE
and "Dooley' Dunno come from Chica-
go to buy houses in the heart of the
metropolis. Hamlin Garland raises
the weathers fine, but the snow beats
on him in Fifth avenue. Churchill comes
from his lordly New Hampshire estate,
Bachelor from his rough rock den by
the Connecticut coast, where the waves
dash beneath him as he writes. Only
Mrs. Deland and Mrs. Elizabeth Stuart
Phelps of the New England contingent
are seldom seen here; since her marriage
Mrs. Mary Wilkins Freeman is an an
nexed New Yorker Marion Crawford,
born in Rome, comes to New York fire.
Quently to remind us that the Wards
and Crawfords were old New Workers.
And Henry Harland, prosperous author
of "The Cardinals Snuffbox'' and other
beautiful work, casts curious eye as
he passes it upon the surrogates Office,
where once he worked as clerk, won
dering, after the publication of LAS It
Was Written" and the yoke of the
Torah," if he could ever hope to cast
loose and live by letters.
The "pot-boiler" is no longer neces-
sary. Mr.. J. Duftield Smith, the au-
thor of Heart of the Rose," no longer
fingers as John D. Smith upon the roll
of the searchers in the county clerks
office; and Mary Jones has given up her
Job in the public school.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-09-16
An English "American Line"

= course it is all
very well to talk of
the Cunard COM
pany as fighting
Morgan's steam
ship trust, with the
Germans as it's
allies. But in a
year things have
greatly changed.
One result of Nor
CAMS loosened Yip
on the mastery
of the seas is
that : his trust is
now owned in Eng
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-09-16
Will Show Profit.

Despite the unfavorable weather the
state fair will make a clean profit of
$50, 900 to $25, oOO,'' declared President
Gosgrove. eve shall not touch the
emergency fund of $50, 200 this year as
the surplus from the fair will be ample
for the permanent improvements we
contemplate making this year. The
success of the fair, in the face of all
circumstances, is surprize and de-
light to the managers
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-09-16

According to the United States cen.
sus in 1890 there were $3.50 members
of the bar in the United States, or one
to every 69S of the population. Ac.
cording to the census of 1900 the to.
tai number was 114,703, or one to ev.
cry $50 of the population. Since 1906
there has been a very considerable
addition to the number of lawyers
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-09-16

here for inspection. Yet steel steam
ship weighing with her cargo some 3d.
600 tons is no small matter to have been
produced from an American shipyard.
The Minnesota is as big as eight of the
Arizona, which, for brief period not so
very long ago, was the champion of the
seas. She is thrice and more the size
of the Etruria, champion ocean grey
hound only IL years ago.
The growth in size of steamships OF
late is startling. Five years ago no ship
had been built to equal the Great East
ern. There are now af1oat seven that.
surpass her. The $4,000 tons of the new
Baltic, if you could imagine her taken
apart for carriage, would fill $50 freight
cars of the largest size-eight long trains
of nearly 40 cars each. Her deck is $50
feet in length, and so arranged that near
ly the whole is available for uninter-
rupted promenade.
Must it not be this insistent building
OF big ships that has brought on the
cut-rate war in Atlantic passage? Is
not the thing being overdone? In par
ticular, are not the British lines getting
together for a patriotic resistance to
the supremacy of Germany in Atlantic
transportation?
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-09-16

land. Even the so-called American
Line" is owned in London, although two
Of it's ships were admitted to American
registry on the score of their owner
ship, and on condition that two more
should be built in Philadelphia. 1t was
done, and they're the american liners"
still; but Britain owns even the Phila-
delphia boats.
Meanwhile the German lines, with the
swiftest ships and very capable man
agement, get the cream of the business.
Kaiser Wilhelm is personally stock
holder in each Of the great German COM
panies. 1t is due to his personal watch
fulness over trifles that German cham
payne is served on the wine list of the
German steamers. That brilliant young
monarch omits nothing, sees everything.
Nothing to him is a trif1e. Ten years
ago nobody knew that there was any
German champagne.
The cutting of the steerage rate has
turned out differently from the dolefui
anticipatiOns of the pessimists. Instead
of. piling up undesirable immigrants
upon our shores it has encouraged poor
Americans of foreign birth to buy cheap
return tickets and take a flying visit
home to see the old folks An unusual
proportion of the steerage passengers
coming ashore from the liners now are
American residents
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-09-16

The demand for umbrellas among
the Abyssinian women corresponds
with the demand for hats among the
male population. Black, white and va
ried cotton umbrellas, which sell at
$40 to 1854 per dozen, are in de-
mand. They are exported from Ger
many and India to the extent of $3.50
annuallv
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-09-16
Appropriate.

sWhat is counter-irritant?" asked
Mrs. Smithers.
ga counter-irritant," replied Smith
ers, lis a woman who makes the shop
man pull down everything from the
shelves for two hours, and then buys a
pennyworth Of hairpins. -Tit-Btts..
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-09-16

The other day, just as the tide In
the Thames was turning from ebb to
flow and the fish were coming up the
river again, a very heavy rain, follow.
ing several days of drought, suddenly
flushed the sewers of London. and the
rush of foul water killed the fishes by
the million, so that the dead bodies
covered the banks for miles.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-09-16
The Prize Farmer.

The fair judges declared D. c. Halle
ton of Cutler to be prize farmer in
Minnesota among the many who made
exhibits in the agricultural building.
Out of a possible 1900 points Mr. Ha-
zleton's exhibit scored the hig figure of
1155.
Orville c. Thompson of Pennington
was close second, his exhibit scoring
1,135 points. His exhibit of vegetables
was better, but in arrangement, and
in several classes of products he fell
down slightly below the leading exhi-
bit
c. H. Murphy of Caledonia was third
with score of 1890. In threshed grain
Mr.. Murphy's exhibit was perfect.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-09-16
annually.

The Korashan Unity. a queer relig-
ious sect, who believe that the earth
is hollow globe, that we reside in it
shell of the globe, are taking steps to
incorporate the new city of Jerusalem,
which is to be located on the banks
of the beautiful Estero bay, in Lee
county, Florida.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-09-16
Congress Hall Goes.

LORY of Congress
Hall! Who has not
heard of it and it's
ill-smelling spring
in Saratoga? The
great hotel cost
nearly a million
dollars to build;
it was sold the
other day for $780,
900.
Of late years
Congress Hall has
been third in size
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-09-16
Editor Suicides.

Grant Riggle, editor of the Madelia
Tribune, committed suicide at the Col
den West hotel, Minneapolis, by swal-
lowing 100 quarter-grain morphine
tablets, which he secured on prescri p
ton. He retired to his room early in
the evening, and in the morning when
he did not appear bell boy made an
investigation and found him fully
dressed, and dead in bed.
The coroner held no inquest, having
pronounced it case of suicide.
Mr.. Riggle was affected with an in
durable disease which had settled in
lower extremities, and the fear that
it would be necessary to amputate his
limbs is supposed to have caused him
to end his life He leaves a wife and
two children.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-09-16
Mark Twain a New Yorker.

kE MARK TWAIN
though he didn't
come in the steer
age.
Mark is to be a
New Yorker. l
wonder how many
of his admirers can
reckon up the num-
Der of residences
he has inhabited,
even S inc e h s
wandering " e S t.
ern days ended.
He has lived
actually lived and
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-09-16
No Need Of Poor Thines

Physician-Madam, find your hus-
band has pneumonia in its worst, form.
Mrs. Newrich-I can't understand
that. We are certainly rich enough tc
afford the very best there is.stray
Stories. =. 81 4
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-09-16

The Chinese name for Port Arthur
was Lushunkow. The town had, 20
years ago, only a few thousand inhab-
itants, and was used as a place for
the deportation of criminals
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-09-16
.MINNESO VA NEWS.
Boiler Explosion.

"a sy 90.
b Five men were killed by the explo-
sionsof a5threshing machine boiler six
teen miles southwest of Wells. :
!" Peter Daley, the owner was sitting
on the drive wheel just putting on the
drive belt when the explosion occurred,
blowing him through the tops of some
high trees and severing one leg. which
was found about five hundred feet.
from where the exp losion occurred. He
is survived by wife and two small
children. 80. 49,. ...t .:-z
Abe Foster, sixteen years old, son of
John Foster, was blown into the wheat
stack, which was ignited by the explo-
sion, and he was burned to q crisp.
Chris Sunde was blown completely
to pieces. He is survived by awife and
four children: James sSeymore of
Bricelyn AMI Willard Gallon of adj
dress unknown were also. kill ed out
right. Several large grain stacks were
destroyed. The heavy castings of the
engine were found about five hundred
feet from the place where the engine
stood
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-09-16
GOSSIP OF GOTHAM.
MwHAT Is DOING" IN THE BIG
EASTERN METROPOLIS.
THE SIZE OF STEAMSHIPS
Wonderful Growth Shown by the Mon
ster "Minnesota' - Successful
Writers of New York-Mark
Twain in the City.

EW YORK.-A new
jockey or an actress
who has made a
hit by cake-walk-
ing twice, speech
less, across a stage
these New York
an understand.
But | am not aware
that many people
went to see jim
HIPS new ship,
t b 9 Minnesota,
when S he W a S
snubbed to a dock
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-09-16
New York and It's Writers.

HE fact is that New
York, needless as
it is of art of any
sort, is coming to
be more and more
t b e inevitable
home Of writing
folk. Moncure D.
Conway, whose
name half a CEN
fury ago was heard
in the hottest of
t h e anti-slavery
debate, is coming
here to issue two
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1904-03-26
The Great Sold

10 he who keeps OF fighting, n,
how great the obstacle. We are OF
lighting TO sell prettier, betteIs
cheaper wall paper than can be :.
else
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1904-03-26

No 81 Pullman Sleeper Green " Wi /
inghAn and Birmingham 20 New 100
Observation car AttElls. Ala. 70 5Tsss- -li
Nc &c carries Pullman Sleeper Ses.,ss1|
70 Chattanooga. connecting ~ - ~.
with train carrying Sleepsr sno - ssssss
Ch1teanoora 70 salisbury withcas
Sleepe- SallSAnry 70 New 1ork
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1904-03-26
REAL ESTATE AG
V. II. Turner,

REAL ESTATE AGE'
Bargains Always on Haoa
Long Distances
Once, ever Clarks Drug SO.
CT
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1904-03-26

No, 50 swashing.oH d Southwestern v
tied Solid Pullman Vestibaled tr1lh ~.
to New York. carrying Pullman sieepl "a
Birmingham 70 New York Dining oM
Atlanta Pullman Lih-arr onxsrvAsoh w N
lanta 70 New York, Pullman Cub CAT -
70 Washington
No 81 Pullman Drawing room SieephI
Birmingham TO Richmond snd Atah -
York, Diaing car SpArtanburg 70 nSAs'
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1904-03-26

Ne - Sleeper Birmingham y
end Atlanta q JaeksnnriIle- ,nu
No Is carries PrllmRn Saeeping
ing car Birming ham - AtiAntA .swen
Ma - FuilmAa Gsspine 81
2inEhHu ena Atlanta
Al trains run dRfly. a
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Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1904-09-28
FOUR KILLED
And Thirty Injured in Train Wreck
at Lewiston.

at LeWlStOHs
Four killed, nine seriously II jured and
twenty or more burned and bruised is the
reau OF a passenger train running into
an open switch at Lewiston Monday
afternoon. The dead:
William f KimbalI, Portland, engineer.
William Cha pmsn, RocklaDd, fireman.
Almon Hodgdon, government mail
weieher.
Joseph T. Cook, Portland, travelling
engineer.
The accident occurred on the Farming
ton branch OF the Maine Central just
opposite OF tue State fair grounds. The
train was made up OF a com olnatiou mail,
express and baggage car. smoker, coach
aud parioc car
The train was running thirty milss an
hour when it ran 1pto the open switch
and crashed into q freight train.
TIE wteckage Immediately caught fire
from the engine, which added much to
the horror of the scene and caused panic.
A eorooer's inquest will not oe held. as
| an Investigation is being made by the
railroad com mmissioness. A meeting Of the
cen miss ieRers is being held to- day, and a
dste TOR a thorough investigation will be
GxeA