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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-10-20

amount, cause was no hog. What
down and wept. "Oh, was thinking of
poor Andrew Carnegie; the dear old
case of Scotch whisky and Quaker oats, -
said dad, as he wiped his eyes and read
more about the Chadwick case. Here,
this woman charges that Carnegie was
her father, and gave up the notes to
square himself with his accidental
daughter, so she wouldn't squeal on him,
and queer him with the library beg
gars, who might refuse to take his
tainted money"
1T is too bad about Andrew" says /
to dad, "but don't you remember what
a wink he had to his left eye, that time
we saw him, even in his old age?"
"Well, that woman is no gentleman,
or she never would have told on An
drew" said dad and he dried his eyes
and looked at another paper, and told
me to hush, and he kept on reading, and
finally he said:
"Well, if that wouldn It skin you," and
he put his hand to his head, and sighed
as though his heart would break.
What is it, dad; out with it, cause
we might as we'll know the worst. Has
Chauncey Depew attended another
banquet, and told that old chestnut
about"
ooh, Hennery, it is worse than that,
if possible" said dad. 'LOokahere, a
church organization has refused to take
a hundred thousand dollar gift from
Rockefeller, for use in the missionary
business, because they believe John
came by his money dishonesty, robbing
independent refneries of kerosene, and
John is heartbroken for fear all the re-
ligious and educational grafters will
boycott him, and refuse to take his
money, and it will accumulate on his
hands until it ruins him. BY ginger,
that is hard on john" continued dad
as he kept on reading.
"Oh, don't you worry about Rookie
feller," said to dad He has only &C.
cumulated billion dollars, and his son
has not got gay yet. A rich man can
always get rid of his money, in one OF
three ways; by paying taxes, starting a
newspaper or letting his son get gay
Rockefeller's young man has been kept
in Sunday school until he is full of texts
and parallels, and hymns, and he is
about due to get skin full of the water
Of joy, at SIS bottle, and give dinner
to the chorus of an opera, and when thai
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-10-20
ABOUT FORTY YARDS OF LACE
AROUND HIS STOMACH

AROUND HIS STOMACH.
him, pointed to the statue of Liberty
and said:
My son, look at that female with the
torch. That torch says all are welcome
to come to this country who are honest
and willing to help bear the burdens of
our government, but to the dishonest
man that torch means that he is not
welcome. Be honest, my boy, if you
, don't lay up cent. An honest man is
the noblest work of God," and dad
rolled up his eyes like DoWie, and said:
Peace be unto you," and then the in
spector asked me if dad had any goods
on him that he hadn't paid duty on, and
told him he coulu search me, and that
all knew was that dad had used extra
precaution in making his toilet, and
that he had to wind about 40 yards of
lace around his stomach, which had
been troubling him since he had touch
OF cholera at Havana; and dad looked
at me as though he would like to electro
cute me for telling the truth.
The man told dad to peel off his out
oANC sal anu w uCA uc COuc " luC
lace and began to unravel it from dad,
dad was more comfortable, cause his
clothes didn't fit so quick. When they
had got the lace off, and the gloves, dad
looked hurt, and said: The Lord
giveth and the Lord taketh away" and
the man said it would cost $40 dollars
fine, and dad paid it, and they kept the
lace. And when the inspectors left dad
and began to search fat woman, he
took me to one side and said: "You
show the poorest judgment in telling the
truth of any boy ever met. Don't you
remember the verse in the Bible which
says: The truth should not be spoken
ut all times,'" and then he was going to
give me a swift kick, when l told him
to be careful or the diamond ring he
had in the toe of his shoe would cut a
hole in the leather, and be lost, and he
let up on kicking me, and finally we
got of the boat and went to a hotel, and
dad lectured me on the subject Of COM
mon sense. He said boy that hadn't
common sense enough to prevent him
from talking when he ought to keep
still, and giving away family secrets,
would bring his fathers gray hairs in
sorrow to the grave. am going to try
to lead a different life from this out.
Well, sir, you don't realize the changes
that have taken place in our beloved
country since we left, almost year ago.
We have been reading the back numbers
of the newspapers to find out what has
happened since We left, cause you never
hear anything in Europe about what
laalsns in Az ,:ica. unless president
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-10-20
The Bad Boy Arrives in New York
Dad Is Caught Trying to smuggle
Merchandise-They Are Surprised
to Hear About Cassie Chadwick and
the Chicago Strike.

BY HON. GEORGE w. PECK.
lEx>Governor Of Wisconsin. Formerly Ed
itor of "Peck's Sum-" Author of
"Peck's Bad Boy" Etc)
Copyright, 1905, by Joseph b. Bowles)
New York City.-Dear Old Pardner in
Crime: have more trouble trying to
do the right thing than any boy you ever
saw. When lie to keep dad from be-
ing pulled by the police of a foreign
country, seem to be all right, and then
dad will tell me to always be truthful;
and when 1 tell the truth, and dad gets
III trouble by my doing so, then he wants
to kick me. Every boy ought to have
conscience that will prevent him from
doing wrong, not one of these vaccil-
lating consciences that have to have an
alarm clock to tell it when to work prop
erly, but conscience that is like a de-
tective, which never sleeps, or like pills,
that work while you sleep, and regulate
your conscience so it will keep time
whether it is wound up or not.
On the way over from Havana, dad
had several talks with me about turning
over new leaves, and he said now that
we are about to land in our own country,
let us be honest, and tell the truth. l
said would try 1t, but maybe it would
kill me, and then dad concealed about
his person all the things he intended to
smuggle without paying duty, and then
he put on pious look, just like minis
ter who is on his return from vacation,
and we stood on deck as we came up
from Sandy Hook looked at the statue
Of Liberty and swelled up; looked at the
Stars and Stripes flying, and wept, and
acted like fools d l was pussier than
ever, with over 40 yards of lace wound
around his stummick under his shirt,
and lot of kid gloves tied under his
arms, and more things than you could
count, and when the revenue officers
boarded the ship dad broke out in a per-
spiration, which was so noticeable that
the inspectors piped him off at once,
and when he saw that they suspected
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Reelected.

st. Paul -Without exception the
general officers of the state organiza-
tion of the W. c. T. U. were reelected
at the morning meeting of the annual
convention which was in session at
Minneapolis They are: Mrs Bessie
.Laythe Scoville, president; Mrs Kate
Kercher, vice president; Mrs. Ella F.
Hendricks, corresponding secretary;
Mis Belle Welsh = recording secre-
tary, all of Minneapolis, and Mrs De-
liza r. Mandigo OF st. Paul treasurer
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-10-20
A new Competitor.

Minneapolis BY clever deal,
while the other interested parties were
mapping in fancied security, the Twin
City Telephone company, or more cor
rectly, the Tri-state Telephone COM
pany takes over 800 miles of line in
northern Minnesota, covering sixteen
exchanges and rural lines, and giving
the purchasers practical monopoly of
the telephone situation in ten coun.
ties. The property, formerly owned
and mana ed by the: Minnesota Mu-
tual Telegraph & Telephone company
and the Maple Leaf Telephone COM
pany, with general offices at North
Branch, Mimi. has been in operation
eight years ~
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-10-20
Held Up.

Minneapolis X. Foss of Ser
geant, Minn., was held up, at the
point of a revolver, in the Great West
ern railroad yards and robbed of $40 in
cash. He was walking through the
yards alone when two men, with
handkerchiefs tied over their faces,
ran out from behind box car and
covered him with their revolvers. He
was ordered to deliver and he did so
to the extent of $40. The robbers left
his railroad ticket back home and the
next morning he boarded train that
: took him away from a city of vice and
turmoil
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-10-20
A Preiudiced Oninion

Suppose the government insists on
fixing railway rates?''
Well," answered Mr.. Dustin Stax.
It'll be hard job. Under the present
system tn stockholders are content,
1t the government takes hand neither
the stockholders nor the public will DO
satisfied "-Washinston Star
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-10-20
PRIEST is. BURIED
& ALIVE IN RUSSIA
Mob Of PEASANTS Thrust Him Into
Grave With Resu11ected Body
-, Of Reputed Wizard.

Odessa, Russla.-A pope, or Rus.
sian village priest, has been buried
alive by mob Of peasants at svino
Krivza, in the Crimea.
The people have ascribed the pro-
longed drought which has ruined their
crops this season to the death of a
certain old man who had been regarded
as an "opyr.' or wizard. No rain Ehav-
ing fallen since his burial in March
}oSf ~as~
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-10-20
THE CHICAGO TRANSFERS ARE ON
A STRIKE

time comes, and the youngsters back
teeth are af1oat, and he sees double, an d
begins to realize that he is the greatest
case of it in the English language, and
the chief chorus girl comes and sits on
the arm of his chair and leans over so
she is almost all in his arms, and her
two blue eyes look to him like the show
case in glass eye store, and her breath
comes in short pants, close to his ear,
and she puts her soft, manicured, veal
sweetbread hand on his fevered brow,
and strokes his hair away from the fore
head that is beginning to ache from mix
ing the canvass back and bulge, terra
pin and champagany water, and tells
him he is too good a thing to be boss
ing a Sunday school, he will look
cross-eyed from trnnh'o in ls~
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-10-20

According to the popular supersti.
ton, it was necessary. in order to ap-
pease the sorcerer's spirit, that his
remains should be exhumed at mid
night, and, after being sprinkled with
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-12-22
The Crescent Comedy Company.

The Crescent Comedy Company
now in the city is giving some of
the very best performances each
night in the opera house that have
ever been shown in this city. This
company has q troupe Of the best
artists in the profession and COM
pare most favorably with the cele-
brated high class, high priced COM
panies now on the road. The lady
members of this troupe are charm
ing and enhancing in their every
role, realistic in displaying the
weakness of women and their spirit
Of endurances9v fidelity in every
act in what lsA6y appear. The
scenery and costumes are superb
flashing and appropriate to every
change of scene, typifying every acl
performed on the boards. This j,
the best company with populal
prices now on the road and is wei
worth seeing. There will be mos
interesting performances Friday anc
Saturday nights.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-12-22
CHRISTMAS FESTIVITIES AT SANTUC.
The Red Noses" Have Not Been Defeat.
ed, Says Hey Denver"

The outlook at this minute is
that Christmas will be rather dull,
but it may livcn up when it comes
round on the home stretch" I
hope SO, anyway, but not on the
whiskey line, and no doubt it will
be rowdy there, Judging from the
jugs coming in every day.
Rev. w. H. White filled his ap-
pointment here yesterday. That
was his last sermon here. He ten
dered his resignation as pastor here,
and will 60 to Selma, Alabama.
He has a number of friends here,
and all regret to see him leave this
field.
/ hear there will be Christmas
Tree out at the school house near
Mill Hill next Friday night, the
closing of the school taught by Miss
Gibbs, of Union, for the holidays.
There will be q Christmas tree at
the Methodist church here Christ
mas night. These Christmas trees
give the little folks a great deal of
enjoyment, and the bigger young
folks good chance to get off some
taffy, if not presents.
Miss Clara Gilmore will be at
home" to quite number of hor
friends Wednesday evening, Dec.
9th, and most pleasant time is
anticipated. Her brother, Mr..
Aubrey Gilmore, and Mr.. Parham
Jeter and the Messrs. Paul and
Wilson Gee, Clemson cadets, will
be home for the holidays, and very
likely Clemson colors will be worn
by several in their honor.
| Last week Progress had an
editorial to this effect. In 1776
the battle of Trenton was fought,
resulting in the defeat of the British
Red Coats. In 1905, the battle OF
ballots at Trenton, S. c., resulting
in the defeat of the Red Noses. f"
Ito which, / will say, let no man be
ldeceived, the "red-noses'' are not
defeated by any means. The dis
pensary has been defeated in several
counties, but not q Single red.
nose' nor any one else who wanted
liquor. Did any one think for q
moment that the red noses
would be defeated. | did not.
knew the &c. M. L." as some
called it, could be voted out, thu
State stop selling it, but the con
sumption would not be lessened
Voting out one "G. M. 10 hal
created q big one, through the mai
order system, and Santuc seems II
be the dumping ground, even, on
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-12-22
LOCAL LACONICS.
Happenings of Interest
About Town.

The show windows of the Mutual
Dry Goods Company are very taste
fully and beautifully decorated with
evergreens and holly. The Bailey
Copeland Company have also some
handsomely and artistically ar
ranged decorations in unique. dis
play of their trade.
The Bailey Copeland Company
are sending out the most exquisite
and artistic calendars for 1906 that
have ever been given by any COM
pany in this city. These calendars
are works of art and serve as a de-
sirable Christmas present and SOU
venir Of this wide awake clothing
company.
THE UNION TINES is the oldest
and best paper in the county. Con-
tains pure, solid and up-to-date
reading matter each week. Is taken
to nearly every home in the county.
Goes>to nearly every state in the
United States, to China, Japan,
Korea, Russia, England, Scotland
and Ireland, South America, Cuba,
Mexico and the PHILIPPINES, Homo
lulu, Alaska and Canada. Sub
scribe for THE TINES and get the
home news and the news OF the en-
tire world every week.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-12-22
COTTON CROP CINNED.
Report Of the Census Bureau Up TO
December IS, 1905.

Washington, December 2O.-The
census bureau today issued bullc-
tin showing the quantity of cotton
ginned from the growth of 1905 to
December Ii to 9,2S2, 191 bales,
counting round bales half bales, as
compared with II, ,971 AT bales on
the Same date in 1904, and S,562.-
244 bales on the same date in 1908.
The amount of cotton ginnod by
the several cotton growing States for
1905 up to the date named is as
follows:
Alabama, 1,131, ,S21 bales; Ar
kansas, 474,35O; Florida 50, ,GG3;
Georgia, 1,62O,S59; Indian Terri
tory, 275,S13; Kansas, -;
Kentucky, 1858; Louisiana, 414,-
715; Mississippi, 949, 2O3; Missouri,
33 ,53S; North Carolina, 59S, ,5O4 !;
Oklahoma, 257 ,4O3; South Caro-
lima, 1,O42, ,SO6; Tennessee, 226,-
47G; Texas, 2,172,613; Virginia,
14,374.
uo oVdIisIiCs arc accompanied Dy
the following explanatory statement:
In this report the statistics are
in running bales, i. c., bales as
pressed at the ginneries, except that
two round bales have been counted
as the cqivalent of one square bale.
Linters obtained by the cotton seed
oil mills from reginning cotton seed
are not included in this report.
The number of sea island bales in
cluded are 80, 146 for December 13,
1905; S5,72S for 1904; 59,24S fol
1903. The sea island cotton ginned
to December 13, 1905, distributed
by States is: Florida, 81, 1856; Geor.
gia, 46, ,019; South Carolina 1881. u
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-12-22
Auditor j. G. faT VIII Not Resign.

1t has been currently reported
that Rev. J. G. Farr, our efficient
county auditor, will resign this po-
sition before the expiration of his
term of Office. But he has informed
us that lie will not resign, but on
the contrary serve out his time.
Lhat he has accepted the charge OF
the Kelton churches and will not
be in politics in 1905.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-12-22

told, to large extent for Union
and Carlisle people or those who
would order from there. I hope
Progress will see this, and copy it
too, if it sees fit. Oh! the G. M. /.
are of many shapes and colors.
HEY DENVER.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-12-22

WALTER DOWNING KILLED
IN KASKIUSC0, MISSISSIPPI.
The Fortune Teller With the BarkOut
Amusement Company told Mrs. Down.
lng'S Fortune and Said She Would
Receive a Telegram Containing Un-
pleasant News.

Mrs. Ida Downing, a daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. w. d. Parks, of
West End, received telegram from
DR.. A. G. Coleman, of Kasciusco,
Miss, on Wednesday, that her hus-
band, Mr.. Walter Downing, had
been fatally shot the night before,
and Thursday morning Mrs. Down
ing received another telegram from
DR.. Coleman saying that Mr.. Down
ing died Of his wounds at 4 O'Clock
the afternoon of December Goth.
Mr.. Downing was a native of
this State and lived in Union sever
al years at the Union Cotton Mills.
He has been gone for several years,
working in different places, being a
good machinist. Mrs. Ida Down
ing says the woman who was with
the Barkout Company here last
week told her fortune, and among
other things that she told Mrs.
Downing was that she would get
telegram in few days, and she die
as the foregoing account shows.
We sympathize with Mrs. Down
ing and her little girl, the oily child
of her marriage with Mr.. Walter
Downing.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-11-26
BRITT AND NELSON TO CONFER
Iightweights to Meet in Cleveland
Today for Consultation Regard
ing Mutual Affairs

Special to The Herald.
PITTSBURG, Pa, Nov. 25.-The chat
ter between Jimmy Britt and Battling
Nelson, which at first extended over
5000 miles of wire, will have narrowed
down to heart-to-heart conference by
Sunday.
The two little fighters have been
gradually drawing to a meeting point
for over a month by conflict Of dates
they will be with rival shows in Cleve-
land for the week beginning tomorrow.
Billy Nolan, Nelson's manager left
today for Cincinnati, where the Britt
aggregation now is. He intimated that
he was going to confer concerning the
financial trouble which grew out of the
last fight between Britt and Nelson,
while Nelson confers with Britt's
hackers in Philadelphia. The two prin-
cipals will get together in Cleveland.
Nelson smiled tonight in anticipation
of the meeting. Britt has said some
pretty hard things about me during
the past month";" said he, but believe
his talk was for advertising. 1 don't
expect any trouble with him at Cleve-
land nor do / believe he is looking for
any. 1 expect we will have a better
understanding after a straight talk
Even though Britt does talk fight
shall positively refuse to pay any at
tention to it until he comes up
Los Angeles herald., 1905-11-26

Notice of the Filing of the Amusement
for the Opening of CrOcher Street,
from the SOutherly Line of Gus b.
HIPS Vernon Avenue Tract to the
NOrtherly Line of FOrty-sIxth Street.
Together with the Diagram of the
Assessment District for said Inn
prOVement.
Notice is hereby given that the Street
superintendent has filed with the Clerk
of the Council of the City of Los An-
geles the assessment for the opening of
Crocker street from the southerly lime
of Gus b. Hill's Vernon Avenue Tract
to the northerly line of Forty-sixth
street as contemplated by Ordinance
No. 1922 (New Series), together with
the diagram of the assessment district
The date OF the first publication OF this
notice is November 90 1905, and all
parties interested are hereby required
to file in writing their objections, IL
any they have, to the confirmation of
said assessment by the City Council
with the said Clerk of tho Council
within thirty days after the said date
OF the first publication of this notice. to
wilt: on or before December 20, 1905.
Persons signing objections must
give postoffice address
IL. ]. LlcLANDE,
City Clerk and ex-oniclo clerk OF
Council l1-20-29 lot
Los Angeles herald., 1905-11-26
WILL REVISE FOOTBALL RULES
President Wheeler of University of
California Says College Officials
VIII Reform Game
BY Associated Press.


CHICAGO, Nov. ga dispatch to
the Herald from San Francisco says;
President Benjamin Ide Wheeler of the
University of California, in an address
to the students yesterday discussed
football and used very plain words. He
said:
1.-THE game has outgrown its inten-
ton. The trouble with it is it is too
highly developed and specialized for
the average student. Men have to be
i'm an artificial state of preservation to
play the game as it is played today.
II never objected on the ground that 1t
was rough but that 1t is not within the
spirit of usefulness for the ordinary
student. The trouble is that the game
is in the hands of a self-appointed, self
organized committee Of rules. / refer
to Mr., Camp and his assistants, They
have promised reforms but have done
nothing, Now the college presidents
have lost patience. We will revise the
rules ourselves"
Los Angeles herald., 1905-11-26
RANCHERS RACE FOR RAILWAY
Duarte and Ell Monte People Hurry
Right OF Way Project to Clear
TITLES

MONROVIA, Nov. 25.-The Duarte-
Monrovia Fruit Exchange has issued
notice that 1t will ship Christmas or
anges to the east on Nov. 49, and no
titled the growers that it will leave
them to attend to their own picking.
The receipts will be taken at the upper
packing house at Duarte.
The Azusa and Glendora right of
way for the Pacific Electric has seen
a step towards its completion. The
Azusa ranchers have subscribed $1O-
600 toward the damages which will ac-
crue to Duarte lands, and some of the
ranchers have been willing to slightly
reduce their demands. Huntington has
signified that he will build as soon as
the right of way is given him. Two
routes surveyed to Ell Monte are has
tening to see which will get their title
clear first. The southern route takes
in Ei Monte, but the northern route
runs mile from the town. The
ranchers along the Duarte-Azusa extern
sion and Ell Monte are watching each
other Jealously and the fear that the
other man may get his way perfected
spurs each set of men toward hurry
ing the matter. 1t is considered that
Huntington will commence to build
on the first one ready for him,