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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-01-29
70 APPEAL TO VARIOUS RACES,
Missionaries Provide "Holy Families"
OF Different Aspects.

A colporteur, delivering a New Year
address before Sunday school, dis
played a number Of pictures and
images Of the Holy Family.
Here is Holy Family for export to
China" he said.
The children laughed, tor the Mary
of the group vas a China woman, with
dwarfed feet and slanting eyes; 10.
seph was On old Chinaman with
long, thin mustache and a queue; the
sacred infant had the fiat nose and
oblique eyes of China.
Here" said the colporteur, ''is
Holy Family for the Congo people,"
The children laughed again. Mary
was now fat and black, with woolly
hair; Joseph was stalwart black war.
rior, spear in his hand, girdle OF
feathers about his waist; the infant,
too, was black.
"Our Holy Families for missionary
use," the colporteur explained, "are
always made in the likeness of the
people they are to go among.
Those simple and childliAe people
would be estranged by white Holy
Family. Only this sort shows them
the Deity's real kinship with them.
Selves
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By Saturday March II, the gener-
al had regiment of men at work. The
mildest hammered person in St.
Petersburg was considered fit subject
for suspicion. Innumerable arrests
were made and some of these were
upon such fimsy basis that even the
rigor of Russian policedom could not
justify their detention. Hourly reports
were handed in to Gen. Trepoff. He de-
voured these with eager interest, purs-
ing up his shaggy eyebrows-and
thinking all the while. Presently one
of his officers brought in printed cir
cular-a sort of northumberland
this bit of paper was given more at
tention than any Of the regular re-
ports. After that he sent out other
squads of police and they, in return,
brought in other reports. There was
great activity at the secret service
quarters but, it must be confessed, not
much positive evidence of the alleged
conspiracy.
1t was the eve of Sunday, March 10.
One of the personal attendants of the
car called on Gen. Trepoff
Don't :ou t:?in@: it would be wise
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-01-29
LET the procession proceed"

LET the procession proceed"
The route over which the car trav.
eled was lined with police They stood
alone, in pairs, and in squads. They
were conspicuous and yet not unduly
so, for hundreds of them in plain
clothes mingled freely with the peo-
pie.
Just before the parade started
Trepoff arrested four students. They
were young men waiting to see the
royal show. The people protested
against the arrest as an outrage, but
the grizzled head of the St. Petersburg
police grinned-and said nothing. In
deed the calm demeanor of the pris-
oners seemed to justify the protest Of
the people. One of the men carried a
book under his arm, evidently, from
the gilt lettering on the outside, a de-
votional volume; another had a green
bag containing legal documents; the
third, apparently with desire to get
a good look at the car, carried pair
of opera classics, while the fourth had
nothing unusual about his person. un-
less a roll of music be 50 regarded.
They were hustled of to the nearest
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In and found Lubkin, the consumptive
compositor, in the death agonies. He
had shot himself.
IN half an hours time the remaining
prisoners and all of the facts in the
case were in the possession of Gen.
Trepoff. He rubbed his clumsy hands
with satisfaction.
Move the second in the game of
life and DEATH" he muttered. I'VE
shall postpone our third move until
morning. Not because we like to, but
because We must
In the morning, as already stated,
the arrest of the four students oc-
Cured. Their fnnocent-looking posses
sions were taken from them at the
police headquarters. The book, the
green bag, the opera glass, and the
roll of music each contained bombs
which were to have been thrown at
the emperor. They were stripped. On
each student was found a small vial
suspended with a string from his
neck and resting against his breast
These frail bottles each contained
most active poison. The purpose was
evident. Failure or refusal to do their
frightful work on the part of either
OF the students would have brought
forth secret agents of the nihilists,
whose duty it was to strike the unsuc-
cessful or delinquent conspirator on
the chest, thus smashing the bottle
and permitting the poison to enter the
wounds caused by the broken glass.
Little wonder that the unsuccessful
students took their arrest stoically
They were merely exchanging one fate
for another.
Gen. Trepoff had made other ar
rests of those who were directly con-
cerned in the attempted assassination.
He counted them over.
Mine fish in the net; we need
more"
His chief Of staff and squad Of
his trustiest men had already started
of for Paulvonia on the Finnish rail-
way. He wired them to act immedi-
ately. They found what he had sus-
pected-a bomb mandatory It was
there that the deadly missiles of the
four students had been devised. Six
more arrests were made in connection
with this private arsenal.
On the day following March 10, Gen.
Trepoff had Is prisoners in all on his
hands. Each one represented a stage
in the conspiracy; the compositors
and pressman who published the proc
lamations; the girl who distributed
them; the students who were to throw
the bombs, and the men who manu-
featured the deadly missiles.
The IS were condemned to death,
but, on the recommendation of the
court, eight escaped hanging and were
sentenced to penal servitude for life
in Siberia.
The car learned all of these de-
tails later. On the evening of the 18th
of March, as he entered the Winter
palace, he was credited with say.
ing:
"The people were very polite and re-
spectful. The details were nicely
planned-and by the way, tell Trepoff
I was pleased with the police arrange
ments.'
Copyright, 1908, by W. G. Chapman)
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the sporting cartoonists, whose work
I study carefully. They are unani.
nous in spelling it bunk
1T appears to me that the southern
version is based on a belief that the
word is diminutive of 'buncombe. ,
The northern spelling may be due to
the belief that person who may be
bunked is person Of sleepy or dopy
nature, who might as we'll be lying in
bunk, wrapped in slumber. There
fore when a person is bunked he is
rendered sleepy. That is merely con-
lecture"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-01-29

Railroad Company. An investigation
committee appointed by congress re-
ported February Is, 1873, recommend
ing the expulsion of Cakes Ames of
Massachusetts for selling to members
OF congress shares of the stock of the
Credit Mobilier below their real val
ue, with intent thereby to influence
the votes Of such MEMBERS" and of
James Brooks of New York for re-
ceiving such stock. The house modi-
fed the proposed expulsion into an
absolute condemnation" of the con.
duct of both members.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-01-29
Gasoline Baths Win Divorce.

Los Angeles, Cal.-Because gaso-
line was the only fluid she would use
to wash their two children Cyrus San.
ford was granted a divorce from Min"
ME T. Sanford.
my wife," he says, "drenched rag
with the gasoline and in two minutes
had given each of the children bath.
1T takes too much time and is too
much trouble to scrub those young
ones with water she said. Gasoline
is the quickest way to clean them
with and the least trouble"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-01-29
The Credit MobiIier.

In the campaign Of 1872 1t was
charged that the vice-president, tho
vice-president-elect, the secretary OF
the treasury, several senators,
the speaker of the house and
a large number of representatives had
been bribed during the years 1867 and
1868 by presents of stock in corpora
ton known as the Credit Mobilier
(organized to contract for building the
Union Pacific railroad) to vote and act
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is reminded that for a period of
years the nihilists Of that unhappy
country had been making determined
efforts to take the life of the emperor.
Only three months before it was an
nounced that the car, while out hunt
Ing, met with an accident in which
he was seriously injured 1t is signifi-
cant that several persons who were
near the scene of the "accident'' were
Immediately arrested One was hanged
and the other transported to Siberia.
Again there had been an accidental"
explosion in the Winter palace while
the car was attending a state din
ner. Nothing ever came of this Incl
dent although it was proven later that
nihilists had entered the palace dis
guised as plumbers.
Now, however, it was believed in
high official circles that the country
was to enter upon an era of internal
peace. The emperor issued a mani
festo OF Cancellation. Arrears of taxes
were RENTED; certain criminals were
released from prison; exiles to ST.
IBERIA had their life sentence COM
muted to 20 years of prison servitude.
The nihilists, on hearing this, were
passive but unsatisfed They had
clamored for certain constitutional
rights which were denied them.
Nevertheless, it was determined by
officialdom that the car should cele-
brate the return of "the era of good
feeling" by public appearance in the
capitol of the nation. The time agreed
upon was Sunday, March 10, 1887.
Five days before that date a cadet
in one of the military schools-a
young man with royal blood in his
veins, and prince of reigning house
of Europe-killed himself. The tragic
act was attributed to melancholia due
to hopeless love affair. It would be
supposed that small romance Of
this sort would be left to the district
police.
Not so. At this stage of the nara
tive there enters upon the scene M.
Trepoff, a general in the army, the
chief of the secret police of st. Peters
burg, and. one Of the favorites of the
car. He was q burly man, brusque in
manner and not oyer nice in his
methods. Hated by the people, he
treated their attitude with supreme in
difference. Whatever his disposition,
he possessed the unerring instincts of
the real detective. His investigation of
the little cadets suicide was charac-
terist1cally prompt. It developed a
startling fact. 1t can be stated in a
single sentence.
The nihilists of St. Petersburg had
determined to assassinate the car on
Sunday, March 10, 1887.
One of .ethe functionaries attached to
the palace heard rumors of the plot
and rushed to Gen. Trepotf.
1T is unsafe for his majesty to ven
ture out Shall we countermand the
order for the processton?"
The chief of the secret service an
swered with an expression Of annoy.
ance:
(: :. The program Is to be. carried out as
arranged down to; the smallest de-
TAIL"
~ Hut" rric" la 'Hr>*,
~, Trepon INTERRUPTED the speaker by
banging his heavy fist on the desk
before him: =: +: >;..'
- II take all of the responsibility. If
1t Is necessary to make any change
shah inform the czar in person."
~,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-01-29

Gen. Trepoff. one time chief Of the st.
Petersburg police, ranks with the most
famous detectives in the Russian empire.
He was In control Of the secret service
department of the police of St. Peters,
burg during the lawless period extending
from 1875 to 1880. He seems to have been
successful in this difficult position be-
cause he won the warm commentator Of
the car. and at the same time, the
hearty detestation of the people. His
immediate predecessor was assassinated
and his own life was in danger on more
than one occasion. Vera Zassolic, a young
nthilist, shot at him while he was seated
IN his office in the early part of 1880.
Trepof was seriously injured but re-
covered and soon after that was honored
by the car who made him a councillor
of state)
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-01-29
The Former the Northern, the Latter
a the Southern Spelling.

1T never occurred to me that there
could be any two ways of spelling the
word bunk" said the scholarly ap.
pearing person who was, studying the
sporting section of the newspaper.
'But I happened to pick up a Mem
phis newspaper the other day and as
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-01-29
Used Dolls to Set Fashions,

Long before women's newspapers
were started, and fashion plates in
their modern form We're thought of,
women derived their knowledge of the
fashions from dolls dressed in modern
costumes, which were sent from one
country to another, more especially
from Paris, which then, as now, was
the leading center of the mode.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-01-29
MIX FOR RHEUMATISM

The following is a never failing rem.
edy for rheumatism, and If followed
up it will effect complete cure of
the very worst cases: mix one-half
pint of good whiskey with one ounce
of Toris Compound and add one ounce
Syrup Sarsaparilla Compound. Take
In tablespoonful doses before each
meal and at bedtime" The ingre.
dents can be procured at any drug
store and easily mixed at home.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-01-29

this valuable med
cine, Lydia E. Pink.
hams Vegetable
Compound. I suf-
fered from terrible
headaches, pain in
my back and right
side, was tired and
nervous, and so
weakIcould hardly
stand. Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegeta-
BILE Compound re-
ofnro1 mo fnhoo1%h
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-01-29
lnconslstency,

Isn't that Jones over there-the
man who writes the bitter articles
about abolishing the tipping nui-
sance?"
Eyes, that's JONES'" :
what's he talking about?"
he is raising sarcastic howl
over the fact that a noted millionaire
is alleged to have given a waiter .
nickel tiD,"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-01-29

N the early part of March,
1887, the car of all the
Russians determined, as a
mark of confidence in the
loyalty of his subjects, that
he would drive in state, in
full view Of the populace,
from the Cathedral of St.
Sophia to the Winter pal
ace at St. Petersburg.
The Importance of this
statement may be under
stood whom tho roodor
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-01-29
MORE
PINKHANl
CURES
Added to the Long List due
to This Famous Remedy.

Camden, N.J.-'1t is with pleasure
that I add my testimonial to your
already long ist-hoping that it may
induce Others to avail themselves nf
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-01-29
SHALL 1T BE 'BUNK" OR "BUNG''

head to a speech made by Commits
sinner LOOMS in Tokyo recently l
read: LOOMS Hands Out the Bunc.
Nov, without endeavoring to go
into the merits of the case so put l
want to say only that the headline
meant that Mr.. Loomis was accused
of softsoaping the Japanese he ad-
dressed. The only other authority for
the spelling of the word comes from
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-01-29
Home-Lovinq Monteneurins.


Nowhere is love of country more in
tense than among the Montenegrins,
to whom exile is the greatest of pun
ishments. When w. J. Stillman was
there in the seventies all the men
were away fighting, and he observed
that when messenger was wanted
the official took a. man out of the
prison and sent him OF, with no fear
that he would not return. One such
messenger was sent to Cattaro, in
Austrian territory, with a large sum OF
money for the bank, and he duly came
back
Another asked a Russian at Cattaro
to intercede with Prince Nicholas for
his release from prison. But you are
not in prison!" said the Russian.
"Oh," said the man, II have only come
down for a load of skins for So-and-So,
but I must go into prison again when
I get back to Cettinje."
One prison guard watched all the
prisoners when they summed them
selves out of doors, and If he was
called away a prisoner would take his
rifle and act as sentry for the time.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-01-29
American Teachers Life in Japan.

An American teacher, Mas Helen
Hyde, is now living in Japan and using
the life there as material for her
prints. Miss Hyde has her house and
studio at Akasaka, where she lives in
Japanese style, but still retains "all
the comforts of home" Into the little
Japanese house, with its bamboo
frame, and walls of sliding screens,
Miss Hyde has introduced the Ameri-
can push. button bell, American chairs
(the Japanese prefer to sit upon floor
mats), and even the unheard Of luxury
of an open crate fire. By designing
most Of her furniture herself, along
Japanese lines, and having it made
by Japanese workingmen out of their
native material, Miss Hyde has made
a house and studio equally compatible
with American ideas of comfortable
living and the Japanese standard Of
art.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-01-29
Gen. Trepoffs Great "March 3" Coup-s ACCOMPLISHMENT

Face to Face with
Death the Most Ea-
nous of Russian Detec-
tives illustrates Plot to
Take :; Nicholas Life
Blood-Monarch Sees
Only Quietude of
Crowd as Evidence of
Vicious Plans Being
Nipped How Chief
Did It. 4 4 q f
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important to Mother,

The Kind You Have Always Bought
He's No Player.
Bronson-Im sorry the golf season
has closed.
WoOdsOn-Why?
Bronson-It is better to have people
go and play the game than to have
them sit around and talk about it.
Pettit's Eye SaIve for Over 100 Years
has been used for congestcd and inhamed
eyes removes film or scum over the eyes.
All druggists or Howard Bros, Buffalo, Ny.
Many a man has lost his good name
by having it engraved on the handle
of his umbrella.
ONLY ONE "BRONIO QUININE"
That is LAXATIVE BROMO QUlNINE Look foa
the signature Of =: w. GROVE. Used tho World
It Is not what we intend, but what
We do makes US useful-Mpre.
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It is not what we intend, but what
We do makes US useful-MQre. {.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-07-14
Bic STEAMER
The John B. COwIe Goes
Down With Fourteen Men.
RAMMED BY THE ISAAC {. SCOTT
Some of the Grew Escape to Deck
of Less Injured Vessel, While
Others Leap Into Lake
Superior.

Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. July 49,
Three minutes after the steel steamers
Isaac NJ. Scott and John b. Cowle had
collided in Lake Superior in heavy
Whitetlsh Point lighthouse, the Cowle
went to the bottom in fifty fathoms Of
water, carrying with her fourteen
members of her crew. The Scott. al.
though badly damaged about the bows,
put back to this port, where she ar
rived with part Of the crew of the
Cowle.
The Scott new boat on her maiden
trip to the head of the lakes, had just
passed the light at Whitefsh Point
and Strengthened out her course up the
lake when suddenly the John B. Cowle
loomed up through the fog broadside
on to the Scott and only a few feet
away. The Cowle had 5000 tons Of
iron ore IN the hold
The ships were so close that it was
impossible to avoid a collision, and the
Scott crashed into the side Of the
heavily laden Cowle. For fifteen feet
the bow of the Scott penetrated the
side of the Cowle. Tons of water
rushed into the great opening.
Immediately after the collision a
line was thrown from the deck of the
Scott to the forward deck of the Cowle
and three members of the crew es-
capped to the deck of the Scott by this
means.
The rest of the crew who We're
saved jumped from the sinking steam
cr into the lake, some without life pre-
servers. and were picked up by the
Scott and the steamer Goodyear.
The men who perished with the
Cowle include both engineers, four
flromcn, four deckhands, the second
cook, Il porter and an Oilcr.
Captain Macarthur of the Scott de-
clares that the first intimaton he had
of the Cowle's presence was when the
great huh loomed up through the fog,
so close fl the bow of his ship that it
was impossible to prevent the two
steamers coming together
The John b. Cowle was 445 feet long,
80 feet beam and owned by the Cowle
Transit company of Cleveland. The
! Cowlo went into commission in 1902.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-07-14
WRIGHT AIRSHIP FLIES AGAIN
orville Circles Fort Myer Parade
Grounds at Forty Mile Clip.

Srounds at Forty Mlie Cilp'
Washington, July 13.-Orvillc Wright
made very successful flight in the
Wright aeroplane at Fort Mycr. Va,
remaining in the air five minutes and
thirty seconds, during which time the
machine attained the exceptional
speed of forty miles an hour and cir
cled the parade grounds half dozen
times, total distance of about three
and Il half miles.
Before the flight Mrs. Nicholas Long
worth. daughter of eX-President
Roosevelt, enthusiastically examined
the aeroplane with the inventors. and
the secretary of the navy, George Won
Meyer, gave it careful inspection.
Others who congregated about the fly
ing machine and its makers We're Sem
ators Lodge, La Toilette and Shiveley.
When the breeze had died down suf-
ficiently to permit flight the motor
was started and Orvllle Wright mount
ed into the seat. Mr.. Wright guided
the f1ier to the lower end of the large
parade ground ana circled around to-
ward the starting point, gradually ris-
ing higher. A burst Of applause greet
ed him as he passed the starting point
and sped away on the second round.
Six times he rounded the course, the
machine attaining an average speed
of about forty miles an hour, accord
ing to Mr.. Wright himself.