The Virginia enterprise., 1907-08-23

as second class mail matter.
Terms. 81 Per Year. IN Advance
LOOKS as though winter was get
ting an early start this year. And
our tall plowin' only half stacked.
IHK coal dealers already com.
mence to raise the price. It's time.
The second crop of mosquitoes are
nearly gone.
AT Ely the Finnish Temperance
Society has picked up the did"
issue and prepare to force the hand
OF the administration by signing
and sending bumper petition to
the attorney general.
WONDER if any one of the striking
miners who curse John D. Rookie
teller in seven different languages
ever realized that each and every
one OF them have more dollars than
John D. has hairs on his head?
UPWARDS of two thousand rich
New Workers are recorded in yes
terday's dispatches with having
cancelled orders for automobiles,
because of the stringency in the
money market. What a lucky
thing for the scribes that 80 many
editors got their wheels paid for in
advance.
JOHN D. ROCKEEELLER, who re.
Gently testified before Judge Landis
IN Chicago on his ignorance of the
Standard Oil Co., has made affidavit
that he is entitled to $1.5O for wit
ness fees in the case, and $72.45 for
mileage. Uncle Sam should pay
the man; he proba bly, needs it to
pay for bread.
"WHERE will woman stop?" que
rulously asks an exchange evident
ly edited by man who never knew
what welded happiness meant.
Which leads another of his ilk to
remark that she will stop anywhere
where she can find a $500 article
with bargain sale price of $6.98
marked on it.
A DRUNKEN lumberjack at Hib-
bing was saved from death by
beng pulled from beneath NOV
ing train by Attorney Hughes, and
in place of thanks extended his
benefactor full measure of curses,
When man wants to go that badly
it is time for the rest of the world to
fold it's hands and look on.
SCHOOLS reopen on September 3rd,
and the youngster who has been
putting in his best licks during the
summer chasing sunbeams will
again be cared for several hours of
the day. And if he is as attentive
to his school duties as he is to his
play he will accumulate a fund of
knowledge that will serve him we'll
in after life.
THE EvELETy NEWS asserts that
former representative Dowling, the
same who would have been pleased
to have obtained the championship
of the people of the district to an
extent which would have permitted
the annex OF the word "Senator" to
his name, would now be pleased to
be mayor of the city of Eveleth.
How have the mighty fallen!
OVER at Nashwauk, in Itasca
county, the slot machine has been
doomed ahd is no longer permitted
to knock down the nimble nickle
and the silver quarter. And the
local authorities are not even per-
rnitted to tax the vice at $500 per
machine per month, in order to
make showing to their constitu-
ency of their great efforts to sup
press the evil.
IF the attorney.general means
half of what he says to the mayor
of New Ulm and should take it into
his head to heed complaints rela-
tive to the disobeyance of the
liquor laws, he will be busy man
throughout the balance of his term
of office. 1t would likely have the
effect, however, of redeeming a
a number of Minnesota cities from
the rule of the saloon element.
OVER at Chisholm they seem to
be keeping up the strike. The
arrest of three strikers for an
assault On a man who wanted to
work is a sample of the manner in
which the strikers at that point
practice the theory of peace which
has been 80 profusely expounded
by the strike leaders who are get.
ting the money and who desire to
see the strike continue indefinitely.
"MoTHER JONES'" in an address
at the Duluth Armory, Sunday
evening averred that "the rich peo.
pie of this country are disobeying
the law of the land and overwork-
ing Jesus to forgive them" But if
the sentiments of Taft are made to
prevail and the rich man sees the
! ~r:a@S, Ho En-