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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-04-14

seat He has Indicated that his accept
ance OF this election must be conditional
and if the present legislature does not
carry out his policies and enact the laws
he has recommended he will hold his
place as governor and give up the SEN
atorship.
The critics of Mr.. La Toilette declare
that he is undecided what to do because
he is not certain whether he could make
stronger canvass for the presidential
nomination as governor of Wisconsin
or as senator from that state. That
he has the presidential bee buzzing in
his bonnet everybody seems to admit,
and in the speculations for 1908 he plays
a prominent part as a western radical
candidate for the republican po1pina-
ton. The closest friends of La Toilette
are unable to iatcom his designs aud
ambitions. and no one has undertaken
yet to say whether he will wear the SEN
atorial toga or continue to be the leader
of radicalism in the northwest as gov
ernor Of Wisconsin.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-04-14

vicinity, though Mr.. Clemens Is little
seen, owing to the recent death of his
wife, which has greatly stricken him.
Mr.. Conway writes his work out very
carefully, and then turns it over to a
typeriter, who furnishes him with a
clean copy with the lines spaced we'll
apart for interlineation. Then he crosses
out. adds, changes, corrects. interpol.
ates. Then the typewriter again copies
the manuscript in fair pages; again the
revising process is completed, and again
a fair copy is made. Any fair penman
can write a book" if that were all, ir
ten days. know star reporter" who
permanently ruined his handwriting
by once reporting a political conven-
ton for both a morning and an after.
noon paper, doing $4,000 words Of long.
hand in single day. have myself
written rather trashy bit OF fiction
lo:O0O words. in one day. But really
writing anything that may be called lit.
erature is different matter. 1t takes
Mrs. Ward, as it took George Eliot be.
fore her. two years to write book. AL
lowing for Sundays and holidays. that
would not be more than 800 words oay
say page of not very finely written
foolscap. F. Marion Crawford can write
a story, and good one, in two months
but in the long periods of rest before
writing he thinks out the plot and treat.
ment so thoroughly that the pen does
the smallest part of the work. do not
know on either side of the water a
writer of the first rank WHO does not
take infinite palms,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-04-14
News Notes.

Thieves raided the first Presbyterian
church, Minneapolis, and stole about
$1o The police think boys in the
neighborhood committed the theft.
Harry $. Mitchell of Minneapolis, is
the successful one among the Minneso-
ia candidates for the Cecil Rhodes
scholarship at Oxford.
John Beverly Jones, a fourteen-year-
old Duluth lad, who shot and killed
his companion, Peter Thompson, was
rearrested and charged with man
slaughter in the second degree
The police are trying to solve the
solve the mystery surrounding what is
supposed to have been crime COM
mitted upon the person of Mrs. Emma
Schmidt, aged so. On Saturday her
unconscious form was found on the
tracks of the Great Northern a mile
west of st. Cloud by farmer Her
head was covered with bad contus-
tons.
Danial McNaughton, day pumpman
at the Albany mine, was accidentally
killed by falling into a hole eighty feet
deep The day miners coming from
work missed McNaugton at the dry-.
house, and a search resulted in the
finding of his body at the bottom of
the shaft. He was 35 and unmarried.
Frank Brabender of Adrian, who
was indicted in Rock county last fall:
for abduction, was acquitted in the.
district court at Luvurne on directed
verdict m ~
There are bills before the legislature
to appropriate $500, 900 for. roads and
bridges and only $4,000 in the fund.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-04-14
To Raise Lake Level.

The Itasca state park commission,
composed of the governor and the at
torney general, had a conference with
Mr.. Billiard, superintendent of the
park. A number of the property
owners on the lake llud asked to. have
the level Of the lake raised so that
they could float their logs. Mr.. Bull
lard stated that the lake is now con-
siderably below its normal level and to
raise it eighteen inches would do no
harm to the state reservation. There
is dam below the lake and the level
can thus easily be raised. The appli-
cation was granted.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-04-14
the British army

the British army. So Mark Twain in
these days seldom moves his pen except
where his heart is touched. So Rider
Haggard. who made such success with
She" and King Solomon's Mines, has
come to this country to make report to
the British government upon the Saliva
ton Army and other experiments in
farm colonies. A big. slow-spoken man
is Haggard, thoroughly in earnest, a
member of parliament, like Sir Gilbert
Parker. For years Haggard has not
touched novel; his earlier earnings
suffice his needs, and he devotcs himself
10 the splendid dream, in which Ruskin
would have sympathized of restoring
green England from the grimy.
Notwithstanding towns that now
swallow up her people.
We shall soon need enthusiasts of that
sort in this country. Read Miss Brandt's
report upon consumption There are
sections of New York where the death
rate from consumption is above so per
10000 living. There are death warrens
in the Chinese quarter where the yellow
men stifie in close rooms, more crowded
than any other race. and pay for it in dis
ease. Next come the native Indians,
next the negroes-the descendants of
the field hands of the south and the
hunters of the forests. Then. and far be-
low the colored races in frequency of
death by phthisis. come the white peo-
pies. beginning with the Irish and end
ing with the Poles, who are least of all
affected
Back to the land:" is cry that may
yet be raised in New York with as much
reason as in the "black country of
Merry England"
~: OWEN I.ANGDON. j.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-04-14

structures, as congress has not viewed
with great favor a larger scheme for
the Identification OF the national cap
ital This latter scheme was worked out
some three or four years ago by COM
mission appointed under resolution
of the senate secured by the late Sena-
tor Mcmillan, of Michigan. 1t included
in the future development OF Washing
ton practically the improvements which
are now being made adjoining the cap
itol. But it went further in developing
grand esplanade. or mall, to occupy
the government reservation stretching
from the capitol westward past the
Washington monument to the Potomac
river, where splendid memorial
bridge was to span that stream and con-
meet with the national cemetery at Ar
ginia Lees.
This wide park, or succession OF parks,
was to be bordered by public buildings
to be erected in the future, and its de-
velopment contemplated the clearing
out of considerable portion of the city
11ON DullI Up. IL was du t&peuSlpG
scheme, and IT'S full completion would
mean the expenditure OF probably $780,
100000. The advocates ct this park sys-
tenn urged that it need not he carried
into execution for half a century to
come. but that the general idea should
be adopted and future Improvements be
made in conformity to it, President
Roosevelt has taken up the scheme and
is firm believer in it. He has already
directed that two new buildings, one for
the department of agriculture and the
other for the District of Columbia, which
are soon to be under construction shall
be located to accord with this park sys-
tenn. and their exterior design to har-
monte with the style OF architecture
that the projectors Of this scheme have
determined.
Were the whole scheme 10 be carried
out one could stand on the capitol steps
looking west and the Whole group OF gov
eminent buildings would lie stretched
out before him, bordering a most beau
tiful park filled with miniature lakes
and fountains. statues and impressive
memorials with delightful drivewavs
and walks. This beautiful picture is not
likely TO be unfolded for many years to
come.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-04-14
An All-the-Year-Ro Circus.

& DUN
dy are two young
ish men who have
made a fortune in
amusement enter
pl'ises by never
waiting until next
month or next year
to do things. All
New York has been
interested in the
d e S p e l. a t e at
tempts they have
made to get their
hippOd r o m e fl n
iShel fOrthe" grand
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-04-14

Prof. Jacques Loeb, OF the Univer-
sity OF California. has made a new dis
covery in his experiments in produc-
ing life artiicially in sea urchins
which is of the greatest Importance
to students of heredity. In fertilizing
the eggs Of sea urchins he discovered
developed peculiar membrane which
he could secure by means of chem
icals. Finally he found that by use of
common vinegar and salt he could
produce a membrane, and that the
eggs f1oatel on the surface of the
water exactly as they do in nature.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-04-14

cry other country in the production Of
copper and consequently is less vital
~ interested in the discovery of new
foreign sources of supply than are
some Of the European nations. They
have about doubled their consump-
tion since the great development of
the electrical industries began, and
have been little anxious because,
meanwhile, the worlds total produc-
ton has increased only little over
une-third. 1t last accounts. Russia
was doing her best to develop her cop
per region in TurkeStan.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-04-14

amount tina, has been turned into the
conscience fund.- in the history OF the
government Several years ago a re-
pentant government empoye who hal
succeeded in robbing Uncle Sam with
out having been found out mailed to
the secretary of the treasury from some
place abroad the large sum of $4,000.
The money thus received is called
conscience fund.- but that is merely
fictitious designation. as there is no
particular fund to which these contri-
buttons are placed. All this money is
turned into the Treasury.
The origin of the "consicence fund"
was away back in 1911. when President
Madison received letter telling him OF
commission of crime against the
government. and inclosing a sum OF
money as restitution. Since that time
almost century, it is estimated that
about 100000 have be&l turned into the
treasury by conscience stricken people.
One OF the most interesting letters re-
Gently received was from a man in Chi
cago, who wrote about year and a half
ago as follows: Years ago I took
small apple tree from the government
orchard at Fort Sheridan. and. wishing
to rake compensation for the same. |
herewith inclose one dollar Sore
years ago man sent contribution ii
$4,000. He sent the money in the shape
of eight $1,000 notes. cutting them ex-
actly in half when he sent the first in
stallment. He wrote that he would
send the other half when the first part
had been acknowledged through the
newspapers. This was promptly done,
and the other halves of the notes were
received
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-04-14

The fact is that his bureau is entitled to
be department and it's head to be
cabinet officer. COL Edwards has charge
Of all affairs relating to our insular pos
sessions. and when the extent OF the lat
ter is considered, the responsibilities he
has to shoulder can be appreciated.
While the Philippine government is ad-
ministered by governor general and as
sistants and sort of territorial legisla-
ture, congress has general supervision
OF all the affairs and the carrying into
effect the laws enacted by congress rests
largely in the bureau of insular affairs
here in Washington.
In addition to experimenting the fis-
cal affairs of the Philippines, Co.. Ed
wards is charged with a good deal of
the administration Of the government
in Porto Rico, Guam and the Hawaiian
islands, and now the Panama strip is
added to his field Of labOrs. as his bu-
reau will audit the accounts OF the Pan
anna canal President Roosevelt is
pretty we'll tired Of the Panama canal
commission. and has concluded ii any
thing is to be accomplished the smaller
Of the number of employees and officials
the better chance there is to get work
done. He will therefore prosecute the
work through the war department, and
Col. Edwards bureau will have the
handling of accounts and probably the
letting of contracts. etc
Col. Edwards is regular army Off
Ger, but he is a better mixer and has
more general business sense than usu-
ally goes with one who wears an army
uniform. He has adopted the policy OF
publicity in his bureau and every trans
action is done in the light Of
day. such as the awarding is
sues OF bonds and certificates
in open competition.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-04-14
Writers in Earnest

RlIERS are quite
as apt as lawyers to
leave money max
ing for what they
conceive to be pub
lie service. The
publishers had to
plead with Conan
Doyle a long time
before they-gOt him
to the point Of
resurrecting Sher-
lock Holmes. He
preferred to write
unheeded treatises
on the reform of
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-04-14

opening" They have cheerfully vel
coined as advertisements the attempts
OF the police to prevent working on Sun
day inside the huge building.
You can call the hippodrome fairly
large permanent circus, or you may call
it "Earth's Most StupendOus Theater."
think the proprietors would prefer the
latter; and as they have paid out 81 $780,
900 for the choice, and as it is strictly
true. they ought to have their way. To
be precise. the place holds $500 people.
and as the stage is 200 feet wide and
curves we'll out in front, while the seats
are we'll arranged, the farthest auditor
has good view OF the stage, which
isn't true OF some of the smaller thea
tiers.
The circus makes great point of dis
playing loop the gap" feats more COM
plicated than ever before. The hippo
drome is prepared to food the forepart
OF the stage space in few minutes time
for water feats. Electric cranes do the
lifting and moving. They need their
strength; the movable stage is made
strong enough to bear the weight of
eight elephants acting as chauffeurs of
eight automobiles containing several
times eight chorus girls Animal feats
will be foremost in interest in the hip
podrome, which is about three times as
big as the permanent circus in either
London or Paris. Only of course it
isn't exactly circus.
And the &c regular theaters of New
York, not to count those of. the suburbs.
will go right on just the same. hardly
affected by the competition. More than
100000 people are in the Gotham thea
ters every night of the season.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-04-14

The people of he United States ar,
still land hungry. Notwithstanding
the fact that, according to Commits
siOner of the General Land Office W.
A. Richards. there are approximately
$4,000 acres of vacant unappropriated
land, excluding Alaska. pressure is
const antlr brought to bear upon con-
gresS for the opening of lands hitherto
set aside for the Indians. One Indian
reservation after another is being
thrown open to public settlement, tn.
aboriginal occupants being given
farms in severalty if they desire to
live the lives of white men.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-04-14

WISH that some of
the young writer's
w b O occasionally
ask me how they
can sell to the best
magazines t h e
stories they have
dashed Off" could
listen to the vet
eran Moncure D.
Conway describ-
ing the process
which, has turned
out the finest book
of "reminiscences OF
the wear Mr. Con-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-04-14

\ sea level canal at Panama has
grown in favor since he date of the
purchase of the French company's
rights, and the engineers of the 18TH
man canal commission now submit
recommendations for the construction
of such a canal with 4 minimum
depth Of 81 feet, the estimated cost
being $3.50, 500 900. At a level Of GO
feet above the sea the canal cost
$17S,O13,4O6, but would he more OK
pensive to operate on account of the
locks
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-04-14
Work of Burglars.

While the family were attending
grand opera in the Twin Cities gang
of burglars entered and plundered the
residence of A. d. La Due in Luverne.
Over 100 pieces of solid silverware, a
beaverskin coat and Il ladies' seal Jack.
ct were among the booty. The rob-
berry was committed last week.
The raid, it is believed, was made by
an organized gang which Of late has
committed frequent depredations in
that vicinity.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-04-14

way mas been in New York for the win
ter. and will soon publish new volume
which was omitted from his recent auto
biography in the unnecessary fear of
making that book too long for the aver
age reader. His tall form: his fine fea
lures, and his name of gray hair make
conspicuous figure wherever he ap-
pears; he and Mark Twain are the two
most eminent literary men now in the
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-04-14

The population of England and
Wales is about 33.O00.0OO. showing
that there was one petition for dissc-
luton OF marriage in some form tilAl
in the courts in 1902 for about an
$1,000 population. Experimental, Or
trial marriages. seemingly are not or
rouragcd by the ease OF securing di-
vorce. The sentiment OF the people,
sustained by the courts. is clearly
against divorces or the divorced.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-04-14
CIRCUS AND SPRING
SOME REGRETS ON GOOD OLD
DAYS WITH BARNUM.
HlPPODROME IN NEW YORK
This Season Sawdust Folk Again to
Fore-Veteran Writers and Their
Methods-Literature Finan-
cial Returns.

IY, truly. one of
the disadvantages
OF being young is
that you can't have
X n o W II Barnun.
When circus time
comes round with
e a. G b succeeding
April, the memory
Of that good bald
head, that expan-
sive smile, that
kindly presence, is
alive with me. l
don't doubt that
the new circuSeS
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-04-14
and two splendid marble buildings for

and two splendid marble buildings for
the use of the house and senate.
The capitol building is to be enlarged
aud improved SO as to conform with the
original conception OF what it should be.
The old part ct this fine structure, which
was originally erected and which is
built of ordinary Virginia sandstone, is
to be extended flush with the.tWo mar
BILE wings at the north and south ends
of the capitol building. This will bring
the main, or center building consid-
cradle distance out from the present
front and the extension will be con-
structed of marble, SO that when fin
ished the whole building will be OF
that beautiful material. The stvle
of design will conform exactly with the
architecture of the house and senate
wings.
Just southeast of the capitol work is
now being pushed on the house Office
building, which is to be erected for the
use of the members, each one OF whom
will have fine suite OF Office rooms,
On the corresponding square to the
northeast of the capitol similar build
ing will be erected for the senate.
These two great Office buildings will
harmonic in architecture with the cap-
itol and the national library, so that
when completed a finer group OF four
government buildings cannot be found
in the world. Within the next two or
three years Grand Union railroad sta
ton will have been completed a short
distance north of the senate end of the
capitol, and it. too, will be in harmony
with the government buildings.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-04-14

The Indian rhinocerOs is slowly be-
coming extinct There are only four
nent, and the rhinoceroses in the
jungles are becoming 50 rare that one
is seldom seen, even by the most ar
dent hunter.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-04-14
The Paw of Writers.

ND they can well
afford to do so. A
great change has
come over the lit
erary market in 20
years. In 1885 the
standard rate for
copy in the best
magazines was one
cent per word for
unknown writer's;
two or three cents
made good pay for
anyone. S O III e
magazines paid in
round numberS:'
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-04-14
Killed by Cars.

Miss Mary Harmed, daughter of Carl
Harmed, farmer, residing five miles
north of Faribault, was instantly kill
ed by the southbound Chicago Rock
Island passenger train.
Miss Harmed was walking beside the
track when the train approached. The
engineer gave his signal, but when the
train was within twenty feet of the
young woman she stepped onto the
the track. She was thrown about
twenty feet and instantly killed.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-04-14

Some high speeds are achieved on
the continent. The Northern Of
France Railway has I trains which
arc timed to do 81 miles, or over, per
hour, platform to platform. The
greatest speed ever recorded was
made last year by an electric train on
the Berlin & Zossep Military railway
147 miles long,, when a speed of ISL
miles per hour was attained
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-04-14

The completion Of the Slmplon tun
mel through the Alps is an event that
attracts universal attention as one of
the greatest engineering feats Of his
tory. The ancient wonders Of the
world are dwarfed into insignificance
by such an achievement as the boring
of this mighty hole through the
rugged mountains. 1t is ~ miles
long, and is double compartment
bore
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-04-14

In France encouragement to join
the merchant marine is supplied by
the government in the form OF small
pensions paid to French sailors after
protracted service. The French re-
public maintains what is practically
naval militia, the French sailor be-
his private employer and take his
place under the flag.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-04-14
A Grand Esplanade.

HESE magnificent
improvements on
Capitol hill illus
trate the willing
ness of congress to
beautify Washing
ton when the new
buildings are to be
for the personal
use Of the members
of the two houses.
Some people think
there is no little
selishness eXhib-
tied in the author
s11%s@~ ~ +L~~@
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-04-14

The bulgarian government contem-
lies, similar to those in Greece, in re-
gard to salt, matches, cigarette paper,
tobacco, petroleum and playing cards.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-04-14
Mr.. La Toilette

D V. L A F OIL =
LETTE. of Wis
consin. is keeping
the leaders of the
republican party
guessing as to
what he will do.
He has been elect
ed a member of the
United States SEN
ate from WiscOn-
sin. but no one
knows whether or
not, he will take his
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-04-14

S. G. r. Dodd, who has resigned as
general solicitor of the Standard Oil
Co., probably drew the largest annual
salary of any individual in the United
States-$25O,O0O