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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-09-08

city's guests like a gentleman, not like
4 boor, as did Van Wyck. It was the
proudest hour of the life Of the Batter
when he atfrcnted the polite captain of
a Spanish man-of- war who visited
New York in the ticklishs days just be-
fore the war. sR - .>y
Mcclellan is happy in his name, his
ancestry, his wealthy wife, his friends,
his literary ability, his statesmanlike
gang that follows him! The leaders
he has to placate! The following he has
to satisfy! Jerome's challenge to him
to deny that he had made appoint
ments of unfit men for political rea-
sons remained unaccepted. Half, the
great city departments are headed by
utterly unfit men-men known to- be
unfit by the meanest intelligence. The
city suffers from this; yet Mcclellan
is personally popular and is hailed as
a good mayor.
If to be good is to be personally sat-
isfactory and yet to surrender the city
to the boss, the present head of the
city government fills the bill. Nor
would a partisan republican be much
Improvement at present. The bare fact
is that the best men of the city are
outside the machines of both parties.
If Jerome only could smash 10th ma
chimes, the whole country would be
merry at it's downfall, including many
very excellent machine men.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-09-08
!: AIRED.
1m7azss1ons At NATIONAL
ooNFERE1Noa AT CHICAGO.
A PORTENToUS GATHERING
Not Greatly Heralded, But Largely
Attended by Delegates from New
England to Texas-some
Local Assertions.

Chicago.-The past week was marked
by the presence of an unusual number
Of strangers in the town; delegates
come with RECIPROCITY ak to knock
down the high tariff WALL" OF the
600 delegates gathered from the four
quarters of the country, vt is needless
to say all did not bear the same kind
of ak, there was not perfect unanim-
ity as to the manner of welding the
weapon. But concerning the pros and
CONS of reciprocity, of dual tariff, a
centralized power Of attack or a loose,
large body, word was flashed across
the country days ago, ''stand-patter'
and ardent reciprocity man know what
arguments were employed, what for
ensic utterances made. Let us deal
more or less in the gossip of the occa,
sion-although we realize it is frivol-
Gus to speak with lightness of so serious
q matter as q national meeting for the
consideration of reciprocity of trade.
1t seemed to us before the delegates
arrived the town was as a whole 1g-
norant of the portentiousness of the
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-09-08

While another famine is threatening
India, owing to the scant rain brought
by the southwest monsoon, and while
the crops Of Russia are falling short
Of previous years, it is cheering to Oh
serve the period Of peace and plenty
that this year means to the United
States. The August report tells. q
story of vast stores of golden grain for
the consumer and wealth for tho
farmer. The winter wheat crop is es-
timated at 424,500,000 bushels. The
spring wheat production is placed at
2S5,231,000.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-09-08

Hinter mountain, in the Fit. Davis
region Of Western Texas, appears to
he most peculiar structure. This gi-
gantic mass emits vapors that intoxi.
cate the adventures who climb to its
summit When half way up the noun
tain the climber becomes conscious OF
a perfume like strong ozone, and this
perfume is no less deadly in it's effect
than the Intoxicating constituents Of
alcoholic drinks. No sooner has the
climber reached the top than he stag.
gers, and finally falls in a stupor on
the rocks.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-09-08

The yearly allowance of the Mikado,
which is at the same time that of the
whole imperial family, is now $780,
900. Besides he has the yearly in
comes of 100000 from the interest on
the $10,000,000 which was given to
him from the war indemnity received
from China ten years ago; Of $250,O00
from his private estates, which amount
to $5,000,000 or more; of 100000 from
the forests, covering an area of s.
124,873 acres and valued at $512,4S7,-
800, at 500 an acre; in all, $3.50, 900.
Thus, his yearly net income amounts
to $2,750,O0O.
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Nealth that an alarming proportion of
the children of school age in a poor
section of the city are physically de-
fective. These are foreign born, very
largely The revelations follow the
much misquoted saying of Robert Hun
ter that thousands of New York's chill
dren are underfed. One child in 20 in
the region examined is mentally not
normal and should have separate
teaching not in the common schools.
New York must tackle the problem
practically as trustee for the coun-
try. Superintendent Maxwell of the
public school system long ago advocat-
ed free breakfasts for poor children,
many of whom are too hungry to do
their work in School. 1t sounds un-
American-but what are you going to
do?
On the first Of last January there
were over 100000 all-the-time paupers
in England and Wales; besides hun
dreds of thousands receiving part-time
assistance, a still vaster army getting
private aid, and millions of the self
supporting but underfed. The latter
class rises to one-third of the total
population in town like old York,
whose picturesqueness so many
American tourists admire. And yet the
British are about the best fed Of the
immigrants we get. The Irish, espe-
cially, who so years ago used to come
to us gaunt with famine, are now so
much more prosperous at home that
the still flowing tide of immigration
brings sturdy, well-nourished speci-
mems. But assisted emigration" from
the British cities means immigrants
who have to be assisted when they get
here.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-09-08

Down in Is feet of water, with 30
pounds of lead On either foot and 1876
more pounds around his waist, Diver
Edward Moore has been at work in
the Ohio river at Cincinnati removing
the machinery of steamboat sunk
by ice-foes last winter, when great
ice-gorges broke, passed out, and left
destruction behind. Moore has done
sea and fresh-water diving for 20
years, and probably has spent more
of his days in the past six years I'M.
der water than above it. He has re-
covered scores of dead from watery
graves.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-09-08

ken. A senator of the United States,
Chauncey M. Depew, is to have a
>hance to explain why he took large
retainer from the Equitable for years;
and why he allowed it, while he was
director, to loan money and lose to the
boom town of Depew, in which he was
interested; and why, having guaran-
teed the loan, he WEIGHED upon the
agreement. David B. Hill seeks a
chance to explain why, for no discover
able reason, he drew salary from the
Equitable for years. Jacob H. Schiff
who was treated with as high am
bassador of finance by Witte, of Rus
STA, and other financiers almost as
powerful, are to explain, perhaps, why
they, as directors apparently sold to
the Equitable bonds in whose sale they
were personally interested. Benjamin
B. Ddell, Jr.-
All, there we strike fire! Ex-Gov
Hill may not expect overmuch mercy
from a committee of eight, of whom
only two are democrats. But ex-Gov.
Odell is the republican boss of the
state-is or was; some think that Gov.
Higgins is displacing him. Mr.. 0dell
comes into the inquiry in two ways.
First, it is alleged that money of the
Equitable was used to pay him his
losses through the shipbuilding trust
swindle, which was worked by few
unprincipled scoundrels, some of whom
were and are Equitable directors; Sec
ond, it is pretty we'll understood that a
mysterious loan of $685,000 made on
behalf of the Equitable but not item
lied upon it's books covered, among
other queer expenses, donations both
to the republican and the democratic
state campaign funds.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-09-08

ones Wife's relations does not please
him (the farmer) highly when he con
siders himself the relation" .
Gov. Cummings was very proml.
nent figure at the conference, was one
of the few men able to put through
changes after E. N. Foss, of Boston,
chairman of the resolutions commit.
tee, had reported the resolutions to
the conference: Edward Rosewater.
mings spoke prior to discussion over
the resolutions, said fatty that he did
not believe in the dual tariff remedy.
was who1e-heartedly for reciprocity;
Gov. Cummings, whilst asserting the
conference should take no steps inter
fering with the reciprocity idea, an
nounced he was willing to stand for
the dual tariff as an expedient which
would procure immediate results.
When the first proposition of the reso.
lutions was presented, the governor
succeeded in having the wording
changed to commit the conference at
least partly to the view that dual tar.
i'll is an expedient and reciprocity
cure."..
Senator Cullom was one of the poll
ticians that accepted invitation to speak
before this, to the politicians, rather
doubtful assemblage. Mayor Dunno and
the governor of Illinois were present az
a matter of courtesy, and as matter Of
policy, probably, spoke only words OF
welcome and in broad congratulations.
It was noticeable at one session that
there was goodly number OF gray
haired and white-haired men on the
main floor of the house. Henry B. Black
we'll, of Boston, thus commented on
this: I'm the east a larger proportion OF
the Older men hold prominent and re-
sponsible positions than in the west and
I presume many of the older men sent
here are from the east. Perhaps, how
ever, the chief explanation for the num-
Der of gray heads here is that the con-
vention is composed of men of ripe ez-
perience. such as naturally would be
chosen as delegates to meeting Of this
scope
Mr.. Blackwell was himself the Oldest
delegate at the conference. so years, his
hair snow-white. Another man of adj
vanced age who had shown deep interest
in the conference was join 11sasscz. tho
author Of most Of our sec.rrccity
treaties, He was not present = person,
but 9 letter written, by hi;a vas read,
and the conference listened :aost atten-
lively to the, words OF the greatest au-
thority on reciprocity 81 thescornat e ~
sz @ = @s.. 81 JOHN MAYHEM.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-09-08

The Home of the Hot Devils" is an
island of fire situated in the center
of a, huge lake OF boiling mud and
slime in Java. Gases arise from the
lower depths and form enormous bub.
bles in the sticky mud, which grow
and increase until they attain d.
ameter of five or six feet. These bub.
bles are often carried skyward by tn.
wind, where they finally burst with q
loud explosion.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-09-08

free hide man wanted reciprocity with
everybody who had hides to sell 90
that he and the interests for which he
spoke could set theSraw materials for
boots and caoes at lowest prices.
Equally of#course the live stock man
wanted reciprocity with Germany and
all othe- countries which maintain high
tariff against our meats, but he OBJ
jected seriously to permitting outsiders
to bring their hides to this country and
sell them untaxed in competition with
his own
The Tribune, prophesying, said!
stock raisers, millers, exporters.
users of raw material and manufacture
ers, with the last in the minority, to-
Gay start a programme of raising cain
with the tariff. q The agricultural in
terests and the industries dependent on
them will be heard the loudest and will
De In the greatest numbers" So: , -
Politicians were not numerous. it was
distinctly not meeting Of these gen.
tlemen. The Tribune, still sprophesy-
Ing, gave this forecast: There will be
present some politicians, but they viii
be scarcer than the manufacturers.
The conference presents a troublesome
question to the republican leaders Of
the west. Some have lodged it. 9th
ers have found . impossible to BIO
present. Still: others Will come and
listen. A few propose to talk"
Stephen B. Packard OF Iowa. who
was made permanent chairman of the
conference, made declaration: II am
a farmer and represent the farmer"
He spoke of the fact that the farmer,
unorganized, has not been represent,
ed; and humorously referred to an
added tariff war in these words: This
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-09-08

Sermons in stones have become
common enough since biologists
learned to interpret the secrets of fos-
sils. To awaken melodies and har-
monies in pebbles and rocks would
seem a much more difficult, if not i'm
possible, achievement. 1t has been ac-
complished, however, for there is in
existence a wonderful piano, the notes
of which are given forth by t1ints ar
ranged in a regular scale. The tones
of this geological piano are OF remark
able quality.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-09-08

The sultan Of Turkeys dinner costs
him $4,000 a day. The table is of sill.
yer, and it is said to be the most ex-
quisite specimen of the silversmiths
art that the world contains. The dish.
es are brought in upon the heads Of
jublakiars, or cooks assistants, and
each dish is covered and sealed with
or more dishes and all are set before
the sultan at the same time. He eats.
usually, from about six.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-09-08
anywhere else

anywhere else in the world except, l
have heard, Bombay. And not even
in Bombay, plague-stricken as it is, do
the tall houses shut out the sun as in
New York. The nine-story tenement
has become common feature upon
New York streets; many of it's middle
aged tenements were built under law
that permitted 80 per cent. Of the lot
to be covered by the building; and
upon single floor in 25-foot plot in,
genuity has cheated even the benefi-
able number of people.
At times the population bursts out
of the East side, like water out of
full barrel when a hole is bored in it,
When the great new WILLIAMSBURG
bridge was completed, 1876 feet wide
and a mile and quarter long, piercing
the very heart of the East side, it soon
caught the name of the Jewish Pass
over. A hundred thousand people have
literally swarmed over it into Brook
Ign. Their coming changed. wherever
they went, the very conditions they
sought. Cheap rents? A corner plot
on wide street in Brownsville. a sinh
urb six miles from the city hall, inhab-
tied almost exclusively by Jewish fail,
ors, rose in value from $4,000 to $22. 900
in less than three years: What chance
had cheap rents in a place like that?.3
b If the city presently undertakes the
Titan task of partly feeding the chill
dren of the very poor before they set
out for school no one need be sur
prised. Private charity is already do
ing this upon liberal scale, and zleav-
ing the ethics of; the case for theorists
TO argue about. -.se+..e.s.. s,5s...s =. ~
OWEN LANGnON.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-09-08
The danger of indiscriminate aims

The danger of indiscriminate aims
giving was brought forcibly to mind
the other day when the police Of the
metropolis arrested six men on the
charge of being professional beggars.
One of these men had in his posses
sion cash amounting to nearly six
hundred dollars, and on another a
handbook was found showing depos-
its Of $1,400. The ease with which
these mendicants play upon the sym.
pathies Of the public was emphasized
by the attitude of the bystanders to.
ward the officers making the ar
rests.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-09-08
The People Are Aroused.

UT there are rea-
sons why the COM
m i t t ee ca n not
whiteWash the dis
honesty which has
smirched the Equi-
table company and
others. Polio
holders in every
part of the nation
are interested. The
state of New York
has chartered the
company to do
what it has done.
Th0 ~%0%@ 1c
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-09-08

The moon being much the nearest
to US Of all the heavenly bodies we
can pronounce more definitely in it's
case than in any other. We know that
neither air nor water exists on the
moon in quantities sufficient to be per.
ceived by the most delicate tests at
our command. It is certain that the
moons atmosphere, If any exists, is
less than the thousandth part of the
density OF that around us.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-09-08

on trial. Failure to be thorough will
hurt the state in business way by
arousing resentment against it in the
west-and there is enough already.
Finally, the voters will not have it.
They are thoroughly aroused and de-
termined not to pardon any sighting.
The six republican members of the
committee are of good average ability
and repute; they know the public feel
ing in the matter; and while they may
try for the name of the party to shield
Odell, they will really do their best to
recommend good code Of laws to pre-
vent stealing in the future. Insurance
men themselves are now convinced
though it took a four months cam
paign of brilliant fighting on the part
first of the World and afterwards Of
other papers to bring them to the
point-that the work must be thor
oughly done.
The counsel selected typify the nat
ural hesitation, the irresoluti0n of the
committee, confronted by tremendous
scandals and half retreating before the
storm. Charles E. Hughes, the senior
counsel, is legal bloodhound, relent-
less, alert, resourceful, unconnected
with politics, unpledged to anyone. He
will, from instinct and from sense of
duty and from professional pride, do
his utmost to lay the fostering wound
open. The other counsel, Mr.. McKeen.
was a year ago better known law
per; he is of more snowy oratorical
type and has had rather more to do
with politics.
So, for once, a legislative investiga-
ton is going to be rather dramatic
affair.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-09-08
News Notes.

j. Winona-The Winona Gas company
has transferred its plant and property
in this city to the Winona Gas Light.
& Coke company for SITS, 900. p
Stillwater-A windstorm broke up.
several log RATS in the st. Croix and a.
million feet of timber came down up
on the bridge. - =
Wirt-The high water and conse-.s
quent loss to settlers in northern.
Minnesota, is not confined to the Mis-.
sissippi river, nor to ZAtkin county,
The Big Fork river, in 1tasea county,,
has been out of its banks all summer
flooding the rich meadow lands upon
which the lumber company and set
tiers depend for hay. i, =
4 Winona-The annual retreat of the.
Catholic clergy Of the Winona diocese
opened in the young ladies' seminar s
with almost every priest in the diocese
In attendance. ~...., H IS
La Crescent-One of John Welch'ss
cream separators blew up. Edward
selks and BENJAMIN Lipps sustained
serious injuries about the arms and
body, while others escaped as though.
by miracle. s.ss 3 =sS sss
~ ST Paul Marie Obermauer
has interested Governor John a. John-
son and Labor aCommissionerW ".
Williams il. = plan 6 supplyssdon 6.
servants for limited periods. IS
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The Real East Side.

HERE is no place
in the world like
the East side OF
New York. Com
pare it with Lon
don. The people
are better fed,
more hopeful, less
careless Of appear,
ances than those
one sees in an
English city; but
also they are
more crowded to-
gether upon the
g r O a n i Il g acres
than hum a nit v
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-09-08
Jerome and Tammanv.

.1LE the pushing
of District Attor-
ney Jerome as a
c a n d i d a t e for
mayor is now seen
to have been pre-
mature, it has
plainly shown that
no one cares 80
cents about poll
tics in hot weather
except the profess
SIGNALS.
1t is q queer sit
uation. Most peo-
pie like Mayor
Mcclellan person
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-09-08

A strike among public vaccinators
is the latest novelty reported from
Austria. In one district no child has
been vaccinated for the last three
months
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-09-08
OUR YORK LETTER
M1DsuMMER GOSSIP FROM THE
EASTERN METROPOLIS. 4:
COMING INSURANCE INQUIRY
Investigation Committee Cannot Do
Job Of Whitewashing in Face
Of Public Sentiment-Je-
rome and Tammany.

EW YORK. A
humdrum legisla-
tive inquiry-eight
sleepy statesmen
behind a high
bench, a lawyer
droning long Ques-
tons at a forget
full witness 49, that
is not a picture of
the legislative in
quiry into insur-
a n e corruption
which the state of
NeW~YOrk has re-
l~~%4
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-09-08

A Berlin doctor lays it down that
the piano should never be used by
child under 16 years Of age. Out OF
1000 girls who played before the age
of IL he found 600 cases of nervous
disease.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-09-08
Moorish women consider it compli
mentary for friends to be absolutely
ignorant of their age.

According to Prof. Behring, "the
milk fed to infants is the chief cause
of consumption" He would insist on
the pasteurization Of all milk.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-09-08
The Children Detectives.

HE rest of the
country may think
of New York what
it will, it does one
great service. It
acts as a catch
basin and settling
pool for the huge
stream of im 2:
grafton, much of
which gathers in
New York and
costs it uncounted
millions.
An instance Of
this is the report
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ally. He is honest, preseatable, INTEL
ligent. makes a good speech has. a
good, clean-cut face and meets the
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-09-08
Everlasting Ice Cream.

Minneapolis. -The state dairy and
food commission has sample of ice
cream that possesses wonderful merits.
It tastes deliciously, melts in the
mouth almost as easily as butter, looks
enticing, and retains all it's splendid
qualities just as we'll in a leather
satchcl as on block of ice. It is the
kind of product the housewife can buy
a week before she gives an ice cream
party or ladies' aid societies can keep.
what Is left over from one ice cream
social until the time time rolls around
for similar function.
j. G. Fowler, food inspector of the
department, purchased this wonderful
ice cream from one of MINNEAPOLIS
most popular parlors. It was COM
position of gelatin, starch and custard.
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An Old Relic

Red Wing.-Berpt Eide, while de-.
stroying the old sidewalk of the Schref
property on Sixth street, found a relic
of the time of the revolutionary war.
While digging few inches below the
surface Of the ground his attention.
was attracted by a glimmering bit of
yellow lying partly buried in the dirt 3
STOPPING over, he picked up rare
locket of old gold. Upon one side were.
some unknown designs, probably the
motto or mark of some secret society.
and on the opposite side appeared the
name of Horace Wilder" and~the date
H1776"