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were safe, though their liberties
were more or less restricted; but the
latter year marked the beginning of
active enmity toward the people of
Israel. Really the crime for which
they were to be punished was that
they had prospered, sufficient ex-
cuse for punitive measures on the
part of the ignorant, degraded peas
ants. The envy of the peasants,
added to official intrigue, proved too
much for the victims Not only were
laws enacted against them, but at tho
smallest excuse mobs descended on
the wretched Jews; so long as it was
not stopped by police interference,
violence had sway, pillage, murder,
and worse, rapine, ragged. And the
civil prosecutions brought about re-
suits very disastrous, if not so read
lily shocking.
The new laws interfered most Sc
riously with the welfare of the He
brew subjects. Jews were not to be
allowed to furnish substitutes for
military service, and in that service
they could not rise higher than the
rank of non-commissioned officer. In
1890 the Russians were forbidden to
sell, lease or mortgage real estate to
Jews throughout the empire, and
Jews who had acquired such property
were compelled to dispose of it; Jew
ish artisans, apothecaries' assistants,
dentists, midwives and all appren-
tees were to be expelled from all
places outside the Pale Next, the
same year, there was ordered a gen.
eral expulsion of all foreign Jews
from southern Russia.
Families that had lived for years in
the same place were forced to seek
new homes in foreign lands or en-
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tiously make such statement as that.
TO think of a time when a woman,
who spends much of her time investi-
eating, criticizing and studying sea-
sonable modes being able to say that
she had found none that were not pref
ty. That in itself tells wonderful
tale of what the season now upon lis
is to be-
Lace of every description, from the
finest blonde makes to the coarsest
specimens of crochet and guipure.
adorn practically every model, from
the boating serge or linen to the gor-
geous toilettes for ambitious summer
festivities.
In materials the choice is wide, but
there is no doubt that the best frocks
are made of souple fabrics that lend
themselves admirably to tuckings,
gaugings and beautiful stitchery, such
as fastidious women demand. Voiles
of various makes and in all shades
have been feature of the early spring
and still continue popular. For the
smart toilette de vile Paris is faithful
to big spots, two of her favorite mix
lures being brown and gray, and cream
and red.
The killed and the plated skirts are
much worn in the coarser makes of
wolfe and hopsack, just clearing the
ground at the back with that becom-
ing tilt which is so essen TALLY French.
In all such cases the boleros are very
short and show either a wide belt of
colored leather or draped band of
taffeta, with full blouse beneath.
I have selected a group of waists for
the artist to illustrate to you, and
will add to his pictures slight de-
scription. A charming blouse, which
is known as the Nina, is made in white
glace silk. gracefully tucked in long
lines, which run downwards towards
the waist, and which appear also on
the upper part of each sleeve. This
blouse has a square collar of stitched
white glace silk, piped with green, and
cut out in quaint curves in quite a novel
away above the stole ends, which finish
the collar in front. Similar curves and
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-05-12

forward march of scientific progress,
and have added another to the great
discoveries of the nineteenth and TWEEN
tirth centuries.
The German government authorities,
in granting substantial sum of money
to a young Berlin scientist, Ernest
Euhmer, with which to continue the
experiments SO successfully carried out
by him last year near Berlin, evidently
believe that the day Of wireless tele-
vhOny is near at hand. These' expert
1n'nts proved the ability of the scicn-
list, under varying atmospheric condi-
TONS, to transmit articulate sound
across water over distances VARYING
from q mile to nine and a third miles.
the messages being satisfactorily re-
celved and understood. The earliest re-
ports OF his success, stating that he had
talked over a distance OF four miles,
were extraordinary in their signiti-
canoe. The latest accounts suggest
possibilities which, % years ago, would
have been beyond the thought of san
Huine man.
10 RUNNER, however, is not due the
credit Of the discovery of photophony
or radiophony, as the transmission of
sound by means Of light is sometimes
called. He, like several other scien-
lists who have investigated the subject,
acknowledges Indebtedness to Bell,
who in 1880 devised The now well-known
"photophone." This instrument con-
sisted Of plane mirror arranged to
reflect beam of light upon a seleni-
MN cell in circuit with a common tele-
phone receiver at the receiving end.
The mirror. which served as a tele-
phone diaphragm. was placed in front
OF a resonating chamber and a mouth
piece, so that when any sound entered
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superstititeus, fanatical, not far re-
moved from semi-savagery. "Dense,
hopeless, pathetic ignorance, medieval
backwardness and criminal atheism
are part of the story the rising tells -
The present outbreak is but the re-
suit of the anti-Semitic feeling that
long has had root in the cars do
main; and the Russian government,
judging the future by the past, has
due cause to feel uneasiness as to
continuation of mob rule in the dis
tricts inhabited by the hapless Sem
ties.
The Jew in Russia has felt, with
short intermissions of rest, the iron
hand of the oppressor for over a hun
dred years. 1t is now more than a
century that the holy empire has had
to deal with the inconvertible He
brew. When in the eighteenth CEN
fury the empire added Poland and a
portion of Turkish territory to her
domains of necessity many Jews were
added too. With their anti-Christ
they were hateful to her strict ortho-
doxy, and she thought to solve the
problem by setting aside for these
outcasts a sort of pest place to which
they should be confined. Thus came
into being the ''Pale Of Settlement"
whose area has been enlarged from
time to time, and then again dimin-
ished. Russia outside the Pale, need
ing the cleverness and industry of the
Jew, occasionally invited him out to
help her; when she was through with
him always kicking him back again.
And this has been going on for hun
dred years; for social and economic
reasons the Russians enticing the
Jews to leave the Pale; for envy and
fanaticism driving him into it.
When Nicolas came to the throne
in 1925 he Immediately began his
career of vigorous cruelty, earning
for himself the title of 1.-The Second
Haman"; and by that title his men,
Dry is still darkened for many Jews.
His successor, Alexander II (1855).
was very much Nicolas opposite, and
did great deal to promote the peace
and prosperity of his Jewish subjects.
The ukases of 1859, 1860 and 1861 al
lowed Jews of the first mercantile
guild and Jewish artisans to reside in
any part of the empire-a vast step
forward for the Pale-confined people.
And the quarter century succeeding
is denominated the golden age of the
Russian Jew.
But the golden age was not of long
duration. Persecution OF the Jews
was marked feature of the last
quarter of the nineteenth century.
Though a great part of Europe was
engaged in this strange anti-Semitic
movement, it was in the land Of the
car the most serious religious perse-
cutions were allowed, or at least oc-
CURED. From 1855 to 1881 the lives
and property of the Russian Jews
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Not Yet on Verge of Ruin.

Extravaganza grows gradually
with some men. Although $4,000, 900
has been left to Charles H. Smith. of
East Windsor Hills, Conn.,, he con-
tinued to work for several years as a
day laborer. Then desire to have
4 good time for once in his life in
f1uenced him to draw two dollars
from the bank in Hartford, where his
wealth was on deposit. Not long ago
he bought a piano, and some months
later horse and carriage. Now he
has crowned his extravaganza by
purchasing a 3SG acre farm in Feed
ing Hills for $4,000. He thinks of
giving up working for others.
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later eXperlmenterS succeeded with the
photophone in transmitting sound vi
brations for the briefest distances, but
failed woefully in turning out prac-
teal apparatus. Runner has tried to
complete their Investigations by MAX
ing system that should be of CONNER
cial value. Had he, for instance, not
discovered that selenium is sensitive
to other than red and yellow rays-in
other words, that it is also sensitive to
blue, violet and ultraviolet, or invisible
rays-it would have been impossible
for anyone in the future to telephone
when the sun was shining. The use
to which he has put this curious non
metallic element in his apparatus has
been the chief reason of his undoubted
success,
The experiments which Runner con-
Quoted on the Wannsee, near Berlin,
were SO simple that the proverbial
child should be able to understand
them. Some idea of them may be OBJ
tanned from our illustrations. One of
these, in particular, shows Prof. Rub
mer and his receiving apparatus on the
banks of the Wannsee. At the trans
hitting station person spoke into
the diaphragm of an ordinary tele-
phone, and in accordance with the sim
pie principle of the Bell apparatus the
message spoken was received by the
mirror at the receiving end. A small
mirror was used in the early expert
ments, and it was soon found that
the distance over which the message
of light could be transmitted depend
ed largely on the size of the mirror.
One of Runners experiments was
made in heavy rain. Owing to the en-
tire success of his attempts to talk
over a distance of mile, he deter
mined to test his apparatus on the
Havel, where greater distance could
be obtained. A receiving station was
erected on the Kaiser Wilhelm tower
in Grunwald, and tests were made on
a dull and foggy evening between the
transmitter on small launch and this
station, distance of four and third
miles, or seven kilometers. Though
the mirror was small and the light i'm
perfect. the sounds were distinctly
heard at both places, and the messages
understood. Later a large mirror,
some four feet in diameter, was con-
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IS most lamentable.


The descriptions of the Russian out
RACES against the Jews read like hor-
rible, imaginary tales, too dreadful to
be believed of so-called Christian peo-
pie, and appearingimpossible in these
days of the twentieth century. A
Jew, writing from Russia, says: Eyes,
it is the twentieth century. No dream
about that. But whatever transpires
here will have to be transcribed in
history with letters written in jew
ish blood.''
Attention has been called by NJ. NJ.
Mangasarian to a significant thing in
these prosecutions that they are con-
fined to Christian and Mohammedan
countries. The Armenians are per-
secuted in Turkey because they are
Christians; the Jews are prosecuted
in Russia because they are not Chris
tians. AS there are political reasons
for the slaughter of the Armenians
in Turkey, there are commercial rea-
sons for the Russian Outrages against
the Jews. The cruelties of the latest
ones committed by the Russians re-
mind me of the days of Nero or the
wholesale slaughter of St. Bartholo-
news eve.
The Jews in Russia, many of whom
have prospered, are looked upon with
envy by the people. And as they live
very much to themselves, adhere to
their separate religious practices,
they are regarded also with suspi-
cion by their Gentle neighbors; the
latter, for the most part, credulous,
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structed, and subsequent tests result
over nine miles.
The advantages of wireless tele-
phony over the present system-look-
ing at it from the commercial point of
view-are three in number. BY means
of it messages can be sent more rapid
ly than at present; replies to all mes
sages received can be sent instantane-
ously; and perfect secrecy is assured
The disadvantage of the system is that
the distance to which messages can be
transmitted is limited. The most san
guine investigators assert that it is.
or will be, effective for a distance of
125 to $50 miles. The cost of wireless
telephone would. however, be cheap
enough to warrant it's introduction.
and popular use, for short distances.
OF course it is understood that the
transmission of sound mentioned
above does not mean transmission in
the exact sense of the word, for the
sound of the human voice does not
travel over the IA; of light Neither
can it be said Tat the human voice
travels over a telephone wire. In
either case the primary sound only is
reproduced-in the case of the tele-
phone by means of varying electric
current. and in Runners apparatus by
a ray of changing intensity. To those
who were present at Runners expert
ments. especially during the early
evening, when the flashes could be dis
tinctly seen, these messages seemed
to be mere searchlight flashes with
no particular significance.
DANIEL CLEVERTON.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-05-12
A Curious Time Recorder.

A naturalist, while visiting Great
Sangin, one of those islands of the In
dian ocean known as the Celebes, or
Spice islands, found curious time re-
corder lodged at the house of rajah-
Two bottles were firmly dashed to-
gether and fixed in wooden frame.
A quantity of black sand ran from
one bottle into the other. in just half
an hour, and when the upper bottle
was empty the frame was reversed.
Twelve short sticks marked with
notches from one to IL, were hung
upon string. A hook was placed be-
tween the stick bearing the number
Of notches corresponding to the hour
last struck and the one to be struck
next. The sentry announced the time
by striking the hours on a large gong.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-05-12
Farmer Fined by 'Phone.

The town marshal of Elnora, in In
diana, was called to the telephone re-
Gently by John Ketchem, a farmer. who
lives eight miles away. ''You have a
warrant for my arrest" shouted
Ketchem. "Please be good enough to
read it," The officer did as requested,
and added: "Consider yourself in
charge" '<Certainly," replied Ketch-
EN-. II plead guilty to being drunk
and incapable" The officer then
called Judge Hastings to the telephone.
who severely rebuked Ketchem and
fined him five cents and costs.
Thanks" came the reply. Money
shall be sent on by the next post"
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the mouthpiece the mirror vibrated
and altered the intensity of the beam
Of light. Owing to the presence of the
sele mum, which, as is we'll known, Gu
rio1sly alters it's resistance in the light
the changes in the beam of light pro-
<iuced vibrations in the receiver of the
diaphragm like those communicated
to the transmitter mirror. In this
wa; was the spoken message first
transmitted by means of light.
The Improvements made by Ruhmer
on 'he photophone, and particularly
the important discoveries which he has
made regarding the uses to which Sc
lenium may be put, are the grounds
upon which his present claims to rec
o:uitiou rest Bell and one or two
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neighbor or a distant friend with an
electric flash, and receive from such
distance his luminous reply; we shall
have done away with wires as Marconi
and other experimenters have done
away with them in telegraphy; we
shall have taken another step in the
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-05-12

ASHTON is decidedly elastic
in regard to hats, and lays
down few, if any, hard and
fast rules. 1t seems that
the milliners are nsing: the
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-05-12
Russia treatment Of the
Jews, Past and Present
Why and How q Hebrew Have LONE Been
Prosecuted y Of Car = -

ALT of the Jews in the
world live in Russia. A.
fact that, in the present
appalling condition of
things existing there,
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N A FEW years we may be
able to converse over beams
of light. We may be able
to stand, as we stand to-
day, beside a telephone
tronSmitta, siool1 mp =
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1905-09-28
Scuth's Department Store

j. II. South wishes you to call
at his Store and inspect the
new line of goods just received.
In the Store you can find eve
rything you may want, and at
prices that nobody can beat.
Make the store your headquar-
tiers while attending the County
Fair, as you will receive a cor
dial welcome.
In THE MILLENERY DEPART
MENT, you can find all the la
test and nobbiest creations, in
Ladies and Misses hats. The
"Grand opening" at South's
Store extends from the time
season opens until it closes, and
everything that is first in the
Millinery line can always be
found at Souths. Miss And err
son, the trimmer, and her corps
of assistants will take great
pleasure j n assisting you to
makeyour selections. Remem-
Der that you want the best. the
nobbiest and the very latest
+, styles, you have to go to Souths
Mrs. j. H. South extends a
cordial invitation to all the la
dies in the Valley and vicinity,
to call and inspect the goods
and new styles now on display.
Remember that you will be
made welcome, and the prices
will be as low as can be found
in the county. Don't fail to call
lat South's Department Store.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1905-09-28
CHANGED Places.

George johnson, this morn
ing, took a position in the
State Savings Bank, in this city
to fill the vacancy by Harry
Alexander, who has gone to
Chicago, and Leo K e mn ed y
takes Georges place as driver
for the Peoples Store, and Chas
Wilkins takes Leo's place as
driver for Geo. Beagle.
Col. F. L. Davis drove to Mo-
dale and Mondamin today on
insurance and real estate bust
ness.
K. D. Small now has a run
between Sioux City and Omaha.
Roy Roden, of Salisbury, Mo
is in the Valley the guest of
Peter Cox and other friends.
Charles Larson is visiting
friends in Council Bluffs.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1905-09-28
Loyeland Items.
Mr. Ed RrOoEhouser

Mr.. Ed Brookhouser former
resident of Lovcland have NOV
ed to Mo Valley where Mr..
Brookhcuser will continue his
work in the shops.
Mrs. George Palmer has been
with her mother Mrs. j. Lake
for a few days. Mrs. Lake is
still in a very weak condition
being unable to be out of bed.
Mr.. Charles Wood and family
who have been living at Crescent
for the past two months, have
moved to Loveland and began
house keeping in the Emma
COPELAND property.
The school board meet Mon
day at the Lovelamd schoolhouse
and a few changes were made
in officers Mr.. Lew Jones being
elected Treaurer and Mr.. Bruce
Moorehouse, secretary.
The L. ID. s. will hold meet
ings in the Loveland school
house this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. O. Kelsey have
gone west to visit their son
Hank, and wife, they expect to
be gone until about the seventh
of October.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM Perkins
have decided to try farm life
again, so have just finished
moving on their farm a mile
and a half west of Loveland.
Mrs. w. B. Hough of Crescent
made a short visit this week,
with her sister Mrs. M. j. Fouts
and her parents Mr.. and Mrs.
H. G. Moorehouse. Mrs, Hough
left her two oldest children
Ruth and Clark with their
grandparents for a few days as
she expects to see after Mr..
Warren Hough's interest, while
he visits Portland and other
places of interest in the west.
Quite a number from here
anticipate the trip to Ames to
attend the harvest home Gel
ebration.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1905-09-28

and one TO RuSh Hardy.
Miss Grace Williams leaves
tomorrow for California, where
she goes for an extendid visit
with friends.
The Workingman's Building
and Loan Association has issu-
ed a small circular, a number
of which will be distributed by
The Times Carriers. 1t CON
tains several suggestions Of
value to all laboring men, and
to all business men in general.
Read it and then call on the
secretary and invest in a few
shares. You will find the funds
are absolutely secure. Take
shares for the children, and be-
fore you are aware Of it they
will have a substantial amount
ready for a business investment.
The first thing to be said
about the game at Ida Grove is
that the score was seventeen
to nothing in favor of Ida
Grove.
The Valley team was simply
outclassed and although every
one played a good game the
scores were piled up in a way
that would have taken the grit
out of many a team, but the
Valley played the game for a
touchdown until time was cal
led.
Ida Grove is a fine town and
has a foot ball team of which
they should be proud, and of
which they evidently are
proud as the business men leave
their stores to watch a game
and are not slow in helping the
boys out when they need it
We hope to see Ida Grove win
the championship of western
Iowa this year and if she does
we will yell loud and long and
if not we will groan as the fel-
low did when Ebaugh hit the
line.
Here is to our friends in Ida
Grove, may they live long and
prosper.
SLOPPY
Expressing sentiments of M
Nv. H. S. Foot Ball Team.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1905-09-28

They have passed a law up in
Duluth, Minnesota, prohibiting
the shooting of bear inside the
city limits. Nice town to live
in, that, where you have to.shin
up a telephone pole to get out
of the way of a bear.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1905-09-28
The Farewell Dinner.

The farewell dinner given by
Mr.. w. H. Ramseyer to twenty
six of his old time friends
Saturday evening at the Miller
was indeed a most pleasant af-
fair. At seven o'clock the in
vited guests passed into the
handsome dining room at The
Miller and were seated by place
cards at a table extending the
full length of the dining room
The table was handsomely de
corated with cut flowers, silver
and cut glass. After the fol
lowing had been seated the
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Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1905-09-28
1 had the pleasure Of
making so homes happy by
presenting them each with a
Busy Bee talking machine.
Improve the chance Of OBJ
tanning one by purchasing
$50 worth Of goods.
w. H. FenSler

Next Monday the Harrison
County Fair commences in this
city. The prospects are very
flattering for one of the best
fairs ever held in the county,.
Secretary Withrow, President
James, and other officers, have
been working faithfully for a
month past getting everything
in good shape for a big fair.
Don't miss it. Come and
bring the family.