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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-11

Chas. Parker and niece, Miss Cor
nelia Wagner, returned Tuesday
evening from their former home al
Buffalo, New York, where they had
been called by the death of a niece
of Mr. Parker
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-11

John Owens, first president of the
village of Virginia in 1892 but now
one of the leading farmers in the
rich Little Fork valley, was in the
city today on his way to Two Har-
bors and Duluth. 1t is always a
pleasure to the old.timers to meet
Mr.. Owens, who is an extreme op-
timist anent the possibilities of
this north country and whose faith
is based upon results, he reporting
wheat yield this season of q to "A
bushels per acre, barley yield of
upwards OF 40 bushels per acre and
an oat yield of close to SO bushels.
Considering the backward spring
and the dry season, which affected
crops in all sections, the valley of
the Little Fork evidently has some.
thing on the best of them.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-11

And just now it IS time for the
Virginia city council to consider
the passage of an ordinance against
the use of soft coal within certain
limits. Even the pristine beauty Of
the beautiful snow is dilnmcd by a
layer OF SCOT, 10 say naught of in
Jury to clothes and the dirt that is
tracked into every business house
on the street.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-11

E. ]. Steuerwald. jeweler, has
moved into the Backus building,
recently vacated by the Royal Can
dy Co., where he will occupy one
side of the store after Casey & Pas.
ternacki open their new drug store
therein. For the time being Mr..
Steuerwald has the entire store to
himself, while the druggists await
the building of necessary fixtures.
The location is central, and Mr..
Steuerwald considers himself in
great luck to obtain such loca-
ton so shortly after opening in
business in this crowded city.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-11

George L. Brooks, of the Enter
prise force, returned Saturday
evening from a fortnight's visit
with relatives and friends in the
Twin Cities and other points, get
ting as far south as Kansas. Says
it seems rather tough to come
back to picking snow-balls after
being in a section where ones col.
lar melts while walking a block
but he'll get use to it again between
now aud June.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-11

The freezing over of the lakes will
put quietus on the arrivals from
Pelican and the north country lakes
with a small string of ducks and a
big string of duck stories.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-11

Mr.. aud Mrs. Murdoch Mcdonald
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. D. Lamont and o. II.
and Leslie Griggs will be among
Virginia attendants at the Min
aMichigan foot ball game,
leaving for the Twin Cities yester.
day.
The Experience Social at the
home Of Mrs. Jos. Roskilly on Wed
nesday afternoon, under the auspices
of the NJ. E. Ladies' Aid, was a
very pleasant and successful affair
the ladies realizing about $780,
Mrs. J. W. Parker, who met with the
ladies for the last time before re.
moving to her new southern home
was presented with the handsome
brooch and many good wishes.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-11

FIG. Cutter, representing Warren
Bros. and the Bitulithic pavement,
dropped into the city the first of
the week for brief visit with local
friends and to look after the settle
ment Of the tail end of business af-
fairs for the season at this point.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-11-11
Overflow local.

or yesterday.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. McDougall left
Tuesday noon for a visit at Mr..
McDougall's former home in lower
Michigan and at northern Mich
igan and Wisconsin points.
The Iuka vidette., 1910-04-21
HAVE TOO MANY CHILDREN
Mrs. Larein Baker Says 80 Per Cent of
Infants Are Nat Wanted.

Washington.-"Ten years hence to be
the father of ten or twelve children will
be as much of disgrace as being a con-
firmed drunkard at present." declared
Mrs. Larein Helen Baker, of Spokane,
WASH, suflragette who will be heard
along original lines of thought at the
convention of the National Woman Suf-
frage Association. Her studies of chill
dren all over the world, she said, had
convinced her that mot more than 10
per cent of them are children of love and
the other 90 per cent are not wanted.
Roosevelt, poor, ignorant man," she
continued, urges large families, but
tell you it is quality in children, not
quantity.
Woman suffrage will better children,
for it will produce better thinking. 1t is
the mental, not the physical, that rules
progressive action today and teaches us
that the greatest crime of the agas is
too many children.
"When' they 1.-THE parents) have learned
that fully nine-tenths of all the babies
born every year are nothing more or less
than human culls, believe the birth rate
will decrease and we will be better
and stronger race.
The Iuka vidette., 1910-04-21
!. C. REPORT is OPTIMISTIC
Excellent Increase Over a Year Ago Is
Shown.

Chieago.-Traffc conditions through
the South, as reflected by the expe-
rience of the Illinois Central, show an
excellent increase over a year ago, say
officials of the road. March especially
showed a remarkable gain over the year
previous. Figures just completed, show
ing estimated gross earnings for the
month, indicate an increase of $s16,26s
for the Illinois Central alone, and of
S913,3 1893 inclusive of the Yazoo and Mis-
sissippi Valley. The first week of April
shows an increase of $S5,600 for the
Illinois Central and of 500, 700 for the
two roads.
Lumber demands in particular, which
are generally regarded as the barometer
of conditions in Illinois Central terri
tory, are extraordinary, it is SAID, and
the movement of early vegetables from
the South to Chicago is also heavy.
The Iuka vidette., 1910-04-21
woa arHLEss FARMS.

American agriculture shows strange
contrast. With the price of farm prod
ucts higher than ever before. farm
land has deprecated in value. and the
number of abandoned farms steadily
Increases. Figures gathered by the con-
servation commission are surprising.
II is shown that there are 10000
square miles of abandoned farms, chief
iy in New England, New York. the
southeast and the middle central states.
That is, there are in the United States
at present 10000, 900 acres of abandoned
farm landau area as large as the cul-
tivated part of the Canadian north
west, Is times the size of Rhode Is
land, four times the size of Connect
cut, twice the size of Massachusetts.
or half as large as Ohio, says Cleve-
land Plain Dealer OF the many rea-
sons advanced to explain this deser-
ton of farms, two or three are espe-
cially worth noticing. Most impor-
tant of ALL perhaps, is the wasteful sys-
tenn of cultivation that has so long
prevailed in the United States. A
fertile soil has in countless cases been
exhausted by taking everything from
1t and returning nothing to it. Add
to this the fact that there is marked
trend of population from city to coun-
try. and that farm labor has become
so expensive as to leave little profit
from the work of laborer, and it is
little wonder that so many owners OF
farms do not care to cultivate them.
The Iuka vidette., 1910-04-21
BLACKS LYNCHED IN GEORGIA
Negro Women Charge Ashburn Citizens
with Lynching.

Ashburn, Ga.-Quite sensation was
created here today when the news of
killing of two negro men near Amboy,
about four miles from here, reached this
place Later on in the day warrants
were sworn out by two negro women
charging five prominent white men in
that section of the county with lynch
ing.
The trouble is said to have started
over an alleged criminal assault near
here about two weeks ago. Charley Jack
son, one of the negroes, was arrested at
that time, charged with criminal as
sault ON a white woman, but was re-
leased on bail The other negro, Albert
Royal, is said to have signed the bond
of the accused man.
After having kept silent about the
matter for time, the two negroes, it
is charged, began to openly boast of the
brutal deed, and spoke of it with pride
to their fellows. They kept up their
talk until the matter was brought to
the ears of several white men in that
community. The two men were chased
down and captured, and then the killing
is said to have followed.
The local population is greatly excited
over the matter.
The Iuka vidette., 1910-04-21

News of grim. red-handed war comes
to us from New Orleans. where the re-
tail grocers, backed. we suppose. by
the moral influence of the druggists,
the marketmen, etc, are about to ap-
peal to the legislature for a law pro-
hibiting lagnappe and making its
practice a misdemeanor. says New
York Sun. Lagnappe is picturesque
survival. the bestowal upon small pur-
chasers of trivial donations, regulated
by the size of the transaction, of gum
drops. candy, and the like. They have
tried to fight it by combination and
mutual agreement, but have failed.
Some of them would not tote fair"
The institution is more than hundred
years old. and 1t dies hard, so after
the modern fashion of running to the
government on every trivial provoca-
tion, the grocers are about to ask the
legislature to protect them against a
custom OF century and half's stand
ing. of inconsiderable Importance in it.
self and SO easily 'evened up" In prac-
tice as to make 1t negligible.
The Iuka vidette., 1910-04-21

Relic hunters have been breaking
into the church where President Taft
worships In Washington During the
past year it has been twice necessary
to rebuild the presidents pew, and it
is no longer safe to leave the hymn
books in the rack or the cushion
on the seat after the chief executive
has attended services. says Chicago
Record-Herald. So many books and
cushions have been carried away that
officials of the church now take every
thing that is movable from the pew as
soon as the president finishes his de-
votions. Cannot something be done to
lessen the hardship that is thus put
upon the relic hunters? Why not fur
nish plank for the president to sit
on when he goes to church, and then
leave it for the relic hunters to whittle
up and divide among themselves?
BY having it made of some kind of
soft wood the comfort of the presi-
dent and the convenience of the relic
hunters would both be provided for.
We are great people and ought to
be able somehow to keep our, relic
hunters from feeling that they are be-
ing deprived of their rights.
The Iuka vidette., 1910-04-21
CANNON DEFIES HOUSE
WILL HOLD CHAIR UNLESS INSUR-
GENTS JOIN DEMOCRATS.
Auto Is Not Allowed Him-Mann Brands
Action of the House as Child's Play.

ashington.-Speaker Cannon again
showed his teeth in anger and defiance
to the house when combination of sin
surgents" and Democrats defeated the
provision in the legislative bill appro-
priating $4,000 for the maintenance of
the speakers automobile. When the
vote of Ill to 1872 was announced, the
speaker took the floor and defied the
insurgents to depose him from the
chair
With a resounding whack on the table
he declared unless the Republicans who
do not approve of the personality of
their speaker have the courage to join
the solid minority, l remain speaker un-
til March 4 next
Mr.. Sims of Tennessee was among the
leaders in opposing the appropriations
for automobiles for the speaker and the
vice president, declaring it cost $40 daily
to bring the speaker or the vice presi-
dent to the capitol.
With intense interest the roll call was
listened to, in order to determine how the
insurgents were voting, as it was real
lied their attitude would settle the out
come. The result was soon foreseen, and
the announcement provoked assent on
the Democratic side.
Then Mr. Mann of Illinois arose and in
sarcastic tones declared that this is
mere child's play"
IF this is Democratic leadership" Mr..
Mann added, Il hope to be delivered
from it in the future"
You WILL" came from score of Dem
ocratic members.
Minority Leader Champ Clark gave the
house a statement of his purpose to work
for economy, whether that was denomi-
mated "child's play" or anything else.
IF we ever get possession of the gov
ernment," he said, addressing his Demo-
cratic. colleagues, 81 propose to make
good Senator Aldrich's declaration that
this government can be run for $500, 0,000,-
600 less per year than it now COSTS"
The Iuka vidette., 1910-04-21
PINCHOT SEES ROOSEVELT
Former Forester Completes Case Against
Ballinger.

Porto Maurizio.-Gifford Pinchot, for
mer chief forester of the United States
department of agriculture, was again
with former President Roosevelt Monday.
Despite the reticepce of both men, it
is accepted as a matter of course that
Mr. Roosevelt is in possession now of
Pinchot's complete case against Secre-
tary Ballinger's conservation policy and
of what has been described here as an
alleged reactionary tendency in fores-
try matters of the administration of
President Taft.
Most significant was the announcement
made at the end of Pinchot's visit today
that Mr. Roosevelt had accepted an in
vitation from the former chief forester
to address the national conservation con-
gress late this summer at time and
place to be fixed.
The Iuka vidette., 1910-04-21
Tornado Hits Gracey. XIV.

Hopkinsville, Ky.-Shortly before mid
night Friday night the town of Gracey,
ten miles west of here, was heavily dam
aged by tornado, hardly house es-
Gaping injury. II. C. McGeehe, merchant,
lost $4,000 when his store house was
practically wrecked and his residence
unroofed and otherwise damaged w. +.
Cox, farmer, lost three barns and con-
tents, and his residence was SO badly
damaged it will have to be rebuilt.
Many stores We're unroofed and rain
which fell in torrents poured in on the
stock.
The Iuka vidette., 1910-04-21
ROOSEVELT AT VIENNA
AMERICAN RECEIVED IN CoURTLY
STYLE BY AGED EMPEROR.
Never Before Has Plain Citizen Been
So Honored-vivid Contrasts in Tri-
un 2hant Tour Begin to Appear.

Vienna.-Today has been another
twenty-four hours of vivid contrast, such
as can only be obtained by travelling
with Col. Roosevelt. Last night he was
an epitome of democracy, dining at a
wayside railway station with the news
paper correspondents and spending the
evening on the train in the fullest spirit
of camaraderie. Today he was the guest
of an aged emperor, Francis Joseph, and
was treated with all the honors of a
royal parsonage by the head of the dual
empire. His every step was marked
with respect and honors never before
accorded to private citizen of Il great
republic.
The moment the train arrived in Vi
emma gold lace appeared and the colonel
was obliged to divest himself of the
toga of democracy and submit to invest
ment with the dignities and attention
which surround monarch. The station
platform was surrounded with dignita.
ries in frock coats and shining silk hats.
1t was a rush of royalty, nobility,
gold-laced equerries and the highest emil
leaving cards for the colonel. He had
scarcely bathed and changed his clothes
when an equerry from the emperor, gor-
geous in imperial habiliments, intet-
rupted his breakfast with call. BY
this time a crowd had gathered outside
the hotel entrance and it required the
services of a dozen policemen to clear II
passageway.
Despite the rush, the colonel managed
to secure few minutes to attend to his
mall going through the bag with such
speed as to almost give the stenographer
another attack of nervous prostration.
Through streets thronged with people,
police saluting, crowds raising their hats,
the colonel drove to the ministry, where
he was received by Count Aehrenthal.
The conversation lasted an hour. While
neither consented to even intimate the
nature of the interview, it is reasonably
assumed that neither was discussing the
weather.
The Iuka vidette., 1910-04-21
Commemorate Gettysburg.

Washington.-Ve of the Civil
War, both those who wore the blue and
those who wore the gray at the battle
of Gettysburg, will meet again on that
famous battlefield this year if the move
ment started by Lieut. Col. j. A. Wat
rous, U.S.A., is carried out. Owing to
the fact that the veterans of both armies
are responding in large number each
year to final TAPS" Col. Watrous be-
leves it would be better to hold such
reunion this year rather than wait
until the fiftieth anniversary of the
battle.
The Iuka vidette., 1910-04-21
TIE Important
Problem

confronting anyone in need of laxa-
tive is not a question of a single ac-
tion only, but Of permanently bene-
fetal effects, which will follow proper
efforts to live in q healthful way, with
the assistance Of Syrup Of Figs and
Elixir of SIENNA, whenever it is re-
quired, as it clcarses the system
gently yet promptly, without irritation
and will therefore always have the
preference of all who wish the best of
family laxatives.
The combination has the approval
of physicians because it is known to
be truly beneficial, and because it has
given satisfaction to the millions of
well-informcd families who have used
1t for many years past.
To get its beneficial effects, always
buy the genuine manufactured by the
California Fig Syrup Co. only.
The Iuka vidette., 1910-04-21
DRUNK WITH POWER
SENATOR LA TOILETTE SAYS NOR
GAN is A RED-FACED BULLY.
Declares Mellen and Byrnes Are But
Megaphones Repeating Morgan's
Orders.

shington.-Incidental to the consid-
Grafton of the administration railroad
bill, the merger of the Boston and Maine
railroad with the New York, New Haven
and Hartford railroad, through the rail.
road holding law, enacted by the AIassa-
chusetts legislature in 1909, was dis
eussed at length in the senate Monday.
The principal speech, attacking the con
solidation in unstinted language, was
made by Senator La Toilette and con-
sumed the larger part of the days ses-
sion.
Mr.. La Toilette practically charged
that the enactment had been consum-
mated as the result of the dictation OF
President AIellen, of the New Haven
road, who, he intimated, represented the
Morgan-Rockefeller interests. He quoted
from a member of the Massachusetts
legislature a statement to the effect
that Governor Draper has disposed to an
ultimatum from the New Haven inter
ests. He undertook to show that the
federal merger suit, which had been in
stituted during the Roosevelt administra-
tion had been dismissed at the dictation
of Attorney-General Wickersham, under
the Taft administration, for the made
quate reason that the Massachusetts leg
islature had passed the holding bill
under which the consolidation was eff
fected
'Think OF it," Mr.. La Toilette shouted.
This great case, involving the transpor-
tation of New England and all the peo-
pie of the country engaged in trade with
New England, after eleven months of
preparation and successful prosecution on
the part of the government, reached
stage where the defendants are compelled
to take the stand and make their show
ing, and then, like thunderbolt from
clear sky, comes the order from Wash
ington: Dismiss the governments case :"
"And," he said, 'thc attorney-general,
the highest law officer of the federal gov
ernment, sworn to preserve, protect and
defend the constitution and enforce the
laws of congress, gives his official ap-
proval of this legislative compact be-
tween the New Haven Company and the
Massachusetts legislature to nullify the
law of congress, and declares that it ex-
pressly authorizes what congress has ex-
pressly forbidden.
IF the door of the federal court may
thus be closed in the face of wronged
and outraged public by the attorney-gen-
eral of the United States, then the law
becomes black art and justice mere
juggler's pawn"
Speaking of President Mellen and Vice
President Byrnes of the New York, New
Haven and Hartford railroad, Senator
La Toilette said
'The mask is off. We have all of us
done injustice to Mr.. Mellen-gross in
justice. Nor is Mr.. Byrne, in his private
capacity or in any capacity except as
corporation employe, the truculent
braggart that he seems in the press re-
ports of the railroad hearings.
Both of these men and others of
their kind are but hired megaphones
through which beefy, red-faced, thick
necked financial bully, drunk with wealth
and power, bawls his orders to stock
markets, directors courts, governments
and nations.
1--WE have been listening to Mr.. Nor
gam"
The Iuka vidette., 1910-04-21
Mark Twain Seriously III.

New York.-Samue Clemens, who is
suffering from angina pectoris, was taken
ashore in an invalid's chair carried by
two stewards and was assisted into a
carriage to take train for Redding, ac-
companied by physician. At the car
riage door Mr.. Clemens was asked how
he felt. The reply was so feeble it could
scarcely be heard ays'Pretty tough, isn't
it?" When Mr.. Clemens reached the rail-
road station he tried to assist himself
as attendants took him IN wheeled
chair to Pullman car.
The Iuka vidette., 1910-04-21

A Utica boy died while laughing at
the comic supplement of Sunday pa
per. OF course, this will be taken as
a terrific retribution by the acidulous
portion of the population opposed to
the comic supplement and the Sunday
paper. But with SO much cause for
signing in the world, the majority will
still take chances of laughing them.
selves to death.
The Iuka vidette., 1910-04-21
1t Seemed So.

The little son of the family hap
pened to be idling his time in the
kitchen when the colored porter came
up out of the cellar, where he had
been shoveling coal into the heater,
the door and passed into the hall. For
an instant the youth gazed awe
struck at the coal dust impressions left
on the towel, then yelled after the re-
treating negro:
oh, Sam, your color's coming off,
Judge.
The Iuka vidette., 1910-04-21
Freezing weather prevails.

Omaha, Neb.-Freezing weather was
general over Nebraska Friday night. At
10 o'clock the thermometer registered
two degrees below freezing. Reports
from Western Iowa and all through Ne
braska show temperatures ranging from
two to six degrees below freezing. All
early vegetables are cut down, and or
chard men state that the fruit crop is
totally destroyed. The season has been
two or three weeks earlier than usual,
and fruit trees of all kinds have been
in full bloom for the past week or ten
days.
The Iuka vidette., 1910-04-21
Foodstuffs Exports Lower.

Washington.-Exports of foodstuffs
from the United States for the fiscal
year 1910 will amount to about $780,
100000 in value, according to the esti-
nate of the department of commerce
and labor for the nine months ending
March last, as against more than $780,
100000 in 1906, $500, 100000 in 1900 and
over $55000O,O0 in 1908.
The Iuka vidette., 1910-04-21
SIOO Reward, SIOO.

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ing nature In doing its work. The propretors have
much faith in Its curative powers that they offer
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Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
The Iuka vidette., 1910-04-21
Watson Political Renegade.

Washingto ngton.-Representative Sims of
Tennessee introduced into the proceed
ings of the house an animated contro-
versy with Tom Watson, Of Georgia,
who had criticised Mr.. Sims because he
had circulated speech advocating long
length of service by members of con-
gress in order to enhance their influ-
ence. Mr. Sims read from various
statements by Mr.. Watson, denying
many of them and concluding by re-
ferring to Mr.. Watson as 'the oft-re-
pudiated political renegade from Geor-
gia."