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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-05-06

sweeps over the audience, tears fill
many eyes and amid the deathlike
stiffness, half stif1ed sobs are heard,
telling of hearts broken but not hard
ened beyond the touch of love, as the
old, old story of an all tender, all pow
erful Divine message is told. There
has come the moment of decision, the
call for surrendering of the old life
and for pledged uprising to seek the
new. A man stands up among his fell
lows, pale, stern, but dauntless. A
laugh, swelling into howl of derision.
sweeps around him, but he stands
firm, tears coursing down his cheeks.
his lips moving In prayer, and as he
stands, others whose consciences have
awakened, rise and stand with him.
and the laughter and mockery die
away In great hush of awe. TWEEN.
ty, 40, so. have made their decision.
and marching back in the long striped
serpent1ne line to their dark and
dreary cells, 1t is with joyous faces,
to new life where hope and strong
courage are to battle with the curse
and shadow of the past. That was
the starting point of our league.
known to-day as the Volunteer Prison
league. Only 60 men in Sing Sing
when presented the first white stand
ard emblazoned with our emblem. the
Star of Hope, but it was the nucleus
of great things for the future. Since
that day, we have enrolled between
sixty and seventy thousand.
Follow me again. But now I can
show you no hopeless or earnest faces
We have no inspiration from the real.
ization of the earnest appreciation of
the audience. We are In prison
again, one Of the oldest in this com.
try, the Eastern Penitentiary, but our
audience is invisible. Stand beside
me at the extreme end Of the LONG
white-washed corridor, see the iron.
celled doors ajar. Now let US send
ringing down the bare walls and past
those dreary cells the message of free
dom and hope, for behind them there
are eager listeners, and II we cannot
see their faces we can, at least. reach
their hearts that await the touch of
love. Nine times we must enter lust
such corridors, speaking each time to
an unseen audience, If we would reach
them all this Sunday morning. II we
could look behind those bars, or into
those little cells, we should see on
many prison uniform the little but.
ton which Is the badge Of the Volun-
teer Prison league, and hanging on the
wall their name emblazoned on a Ger
tificate of membership, that proves
that they are bound together in a
league Of self-help and earnest living,
even though so wholly separated by
prison barriers.
Once more let me take you through
the heavy iron doors of a prison. This
time we are in Richmond, Va. Pre-.
pare for surprise. AS the doors clang
behind you, look in front of you and
around you. Fifteen hundred men are
gathered in the prison-yard and in the
galleries that surround it on all sides.
A vast throng of striped humanity!
Above us is the clear blue sky, and a
CLEAN of sunlight shines down upon the
upturned faces. 1t is the opening of
the Volunteer prison work in this
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-05-06
Father Tabb on Poo,

akuCE avn VII TO0s
The late Father Tabb was one of
the few literary Americans who real
ly admired Poe.
Father Tabb at a dinner in New
York once said of monument to Poe:
Poe, used to be despised. Prof.
Woodbury. wrote a contemptuous b.
ography of him. Emerson dismissed
him with a sheer as the Jingle phrase
that is immortal William Dean How
ellis in April Hopes made fun of him.
Poe is the only American who has
written things, and TO Poe America
denied a living.
But now" Father Tabb concluded,
1--WE put up monument after monument
in his honor. Verify it may be said Of
Poe:
"'He asked for bread and they gave
him a stone.'"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-05-06
A Ream Of Paper.

How many sheets are there in a
ream Of paper? The school arith-
metics say: "24 sheets make one
quire,, 20 quires make one ream."
That Is, ream is supposed to contain
480 sheets. But the practice in most
paper mills for many years has been
to call 500 sheets ream. It is easier
to calculate upon basis of 500 sheets.
Other mills have kept to the $50
sheets. Paper manufacturers are now
asking for laws to make 500 sheets
a standard legal ream.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-05-06
Baby Pictures at a Party.

A good way to make a party cheer.
full and informal is to introduce a
baby contest. Each guest must bring
the very first picture ever taken of
himself or herself, and the hostess
must arrange these around the room.
Then each guest is to guess who the
various babies are-not an altogether
easy task-and the one who makes
the best list wins.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-05-06

not as an outsider, but as one of the
prison world. Perhaps this is why
they have given me the sacred name
since then, always called them my
"boys." and why. also. in the new
prisons to which go l find always a
loving and loyal welcome, even among
the many l have never met before,
who have heard from others Of my at
titude towards them and who believe
I can understand that which concerns
them.
cannot give my readers an insight
into that which l have learned from
the hearts of my boys" In these years
Of experience. To gain it, they would
have to read the hundreds and thou
sands Of letters have received. They
would have to be listeners at the hun
dreds Of personal interviews with in
dividuals of the prison world, and
they would have to trace back their
lives by visits to mothers and wives.
Above all, they would have to watch
them month after month, year after
year, and see the valiant effort and
steadfast endurance Of the many who
have determined to make good against
almost overwhelming trials and diff
flculties. Then they would have al
so to travel with me in countless long
Journeys throughout the country and
meet, as l do in almost every town,
those whose bright faces I recognize,
and who hail me with the good mes
sage: "All is we'll, Little Mother"
the many who are making good in the
new life Of freedom.
But can give you just glimpse
OF some of the scenes that l have
looked upon, and do look upon almost
every Sunday of the year.
AS the children say, begin at the
beginning" and you shall see my very
first prison audience. 1t is in far-off
California. The sun Is shining on a
fower-decked land, the blue waters of
the bay are mirroring the still more
brilliant azure of the sky, while the
tiny ripples that break on the shore
CLEAN and glisten like the facets of
countless precious gems. The dis
tant mountains are Swallowed by q
purple haze. The near foot hills are
emerald green save where they are
thickly powdered with the gold of Cal
ifornian peoples. Meadow larks rise
from the fields as we pass, with clear
sweet notes speaking Of the glad life
of spring. White seagulls rise and
fall on lazy wings, save for an eager
dash into the blue waters from which
they scatter a myriad liquid diamonds.
The air Is soft and balmy. sweet with
fragrance of roses, violets, and many
other unseen blossoms. 1t Is day
when one instinctively takes deep
breaths and the words "Oh! it Is good
to live" break forth unbidden. But
here in the midst of beauty and free
dom rises a stern grey building. We
pass beneath the Fashioned entrance,
we cross the threshold, and behind us
resounds the clank of the closing iron
door and the echo of shooting bolts
and turning key. What a contrast!
Freedom, life, beauty without, and
here, heartache, loneliness and incar-
ceration. This is the prison OF San
Quentin. In a few moments we are
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-05-06
"euo" No SUGGESTION Of Terror.


I'm connection with 'humbug.' bug,
bear and gold-bug,' 1t may be OBJ
served" says the London Chronicle.
that the last has probably no direct
suggestion of terror to the American
mind. Bug is freely used in American
for any kind of insect. Our English
word, however, is directly adinated
to the Celtic word, which means 4
demon or DOGGY. It Is conjectured that
when the Objectionable insect became
acclimated here. which was not many
centuries ago, the terror of its attacks
earned it its name. We get bug In
its old sense in Shakespeare
Warwick was bug that feared us
all'-and the terror by night is 'bugge
by night in old Bibles"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-05-06
It Made Him Sick.

At Laredo, Tex, merchant of the
town offered to pay the barber If a
boy IA years old, named Wilkins,
would have his long hair cut and get
his face washed. The lad compiled,
and within two hours was taken very
i'll and had to have a doctor, and his
father Is now suing the merchant for
damages. Some boys can't stand it to
DO cleaned up. .,>.~
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-05-06
The Laborcr's Thanks.


A tramcar was going down busy
street one day, and was already com
fortably full, when it was hailed by
a laboring man much the worse for
liquor, who presently staggered along
the car between two rows of we'll
dressed people, regardless of polished
shoes and tender feet.
Murmurs and complaints arose on
all sides, and demands were heard
that the offender should be elected
at once.
But amid the storm Of abuse one
friendly voice was raised, as benev.
client clergyman rose from his seat.
saying:
mo, no! Let the man sit down and
be quiet" The discontinue Of the
party turned to mirth when the drunk
en- one seized his benefactor by the
hand, exclaiming:
THANK ye, sir-thank ye. see
you know what it is to be tight"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-05-06
Champion Mean Man.

A candidate for an exalted position
in the Ancient Order Of Mean Men
has been discovered by "Simplicissi-
mus" He is an apothecary in whose
place Of business young apprentice
committed suicide. When the weep
ing mother called, he said: II am
really sorry for you, and also that
your son died In my shop. You have
my sympathy. Here Is his last weeks
pay. OF course, deducted 80 pfen-
nings for the poison which he took"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-05-06
Must Protect Marine Animals,

WU8I TTOtSVS "dI "'o VU1tId1S'
1t is proposed to hold an interna.
tional congress to take steps to pre-
serve all marine mammals, Including
seals, sea lions, walruses, sea ele.
plants and whales. Some OF these
animals are almost extinct, and it is
necessary to take some immediate
steps to care for them and to protect
them from the inhumanity of hunters,
or they will be wiped out entirely.
It is said that the Japanese are the
worst offenders in the onslaughts upon
the valuable animals. for they seem
to recognize no laws in their work
Of destruction.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-05-06
FRAME FOR CREEPING VINES
Arranged in Shape Of Pyramid, II
Makes Ideal House for Children
In Summer Time,

A very nice frame for creeping
vines is made in pyramid shape Leav-
ing it open to the north, next summer
when it gets we'll covered with plant
foliage, it will be an ideal place for
the children's play house. For the
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-05-06
Creeping Vine Frame.

four corners use 1x4s, setting them In
the ground about one foot, and extend
them up about five feet. One may use
his own judgment about the distance
apart to set them, 1t depending upon
the ability of the vines one wishes to
train, as it Is much nicer to have .
small frame well covered than a large
frame half covered. The frame at tho
top should be 2x4s. Lath or two-inch
strips may be used for stripping.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-05-06
A Paris Flood of Long AGO.

In the year 1895 rose the greatest
food of which history makes any rec.
ord in Paris Men went in boats over
the wall of the kings garden" All
the island was covered, and from the
foot of the hill of the university to the
rising ground beyond the Marrais, the
upper stories of the houses rose out OF
a lake mile wide. In that food was
swept away the old stone bridge that
Charles the Bold had built centuries
earlier-before ever the Normans be-
sieged the town; and in that flood the
Petit Chatelet was destroyed. The
Petit Pont fell into the river also. but
that was nothing wonderful, for it was
the most unfortunate of bridges. and
never stood firmly for SO years at a
stretch, but was forever being de-
stroyed and regularly rebuilt The
waste of this flood was the signal for
Philippe lie Bells rebuilding.-From
Hilaire Belloc's paris"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-05-06
Ideal Social System.

An ideal social system should &C.
cure that each person should be
brought to the task most appropriate
to his powers.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-05-06
stoessel In Profitable Business

Changes in the fortunes of ex-Gen.
Stoessel, the Russian military com.
mander who was not merely dis
graced, but imprisoned, for his lack
of success at Port Arthur, may go far
toward reconciling him to the 1njus.
tice from which he suffered. He is
now a member of big firm in Mos.
cow which imports tea and has a very
profitable trade.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-05-06
The Way,

II wish you would tell me how you
keep your razor in such excellent con-
dition."
1T would not help you If I did tell
you"
"Why not?"
Because you failed to start as /
did; I married a woman who isn't
subject to corns"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-05-06

old prison-a prison planned by JET.
ferson himself and standing to-day, as
1t stood in the old days when Aaron
Burr was confined in one of it's cells.
But time presses, we must travel
far and fast on this last journey, and
find ourselves at length in beautiful
Louisiana. The sun shines down warm.
~ upon *us. Friendly, inquisitive
hooking birds watch us from the
bushes. Grey trailing moss wreathes
the fine live oak trees. We have TAX
en- the road that runs from Baton
Rouge to the river bank. Arrived at
last at our destination, we leave the
carriage and climb to the top Of the
steep levee. What a new strange
sight meets our gaze! Is it a giant
anthill with battalions of those active
little workers to whom the sluggard
was advised by wise King Solomon
to go for an example? No! this is
Levee Camp of Louisiana prisoners
working on that important construc.
tional work that keeps the great Mis-.
siss1ppi within bounds. Here are the
mighty earth-works being built, and
from base to summit, long number.
less plank walks supported by a scat.
folding-like structure. Along these
planks move, with the precision and
order of drilled army corps, sew.
eral hundred men dressed in striped
clothing, wheeling full and empty
wheelbarrows. It is an active scene.
but in moment at the word of COM
mand, 1t is halted and changed.
Wheelbarrows and other implements
are abandoned. The men quickly con.
gregate, and as they perch themselves
on the trestles and planks, we take
our position below them and look up
at wall of beaming faces. We re-
ceive right royal welcome from the
league at the Levee Camp, and 1t ap.
pears that almost every man is wear.
ing the little button of membership.
Songs and prayers and heart to
heart talk in the good free air by the
banks of the great river that CLEANS
silver in the sunshine. form pleasing
contrast to the meetings within the
shadow of prison walls.
Copyright. 1910. by Joseph b. Bowles.)
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-05-06
Not In On 1t,

Heavens going to be very un.
satisfactory place for Binks-if he
gets there"
"Why?"
They neglected to consult him be-
fore drawing the plans"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-05-06
His Plausible Reason.

Seymour looks taller than
he did before he was taken to the hos.
pital. FL
aAshley-No WONDER; he Was car
rded there on Z stretcher. .s3aE.,;s*ss. 81
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-05-06

This queer
little Boy you
will see by a look.
1s-tho' still very young
q remarkable Cook
The Riddle you'll guess
Of clothes he Is chary
And the place he 10 In.
IL high Culinary.
(Cool-an'-airyD
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-05-06
Kissing In Boston.

kissing is overdone," says Boston
woman. Kissing is very rare IN Boz,
ton. we thought. -.,,.E
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-05-06
HOW TO MAKE TWIN SQUARES
Interesting Method Of Arranging Fig
ures So That Sums of Squares
Will Equal Ten.

Fill each square by repeating two
of its figures in the vacant cells. Then
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-05-06
II5Ts = II
Filling Each Square.

Filling Each Square.
rearrange them all, so that the sums
of the corresponding rows In each
square are equal, and the sums of the
squares of the corresponding cells of
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-03-28
KNIGHTS
TEMPLAR
SERVICES

With appropriate rites and ser
vices. the members of De Molay Com
mandery No. 3, together with their
wives and daughters and the ladies OF
Chadwick Chapter No. 81, o. p. s.,
celebrated Easter Sunday yesterday
forenoon at the First Christian
church. It had been previously an
nounced that the knights 'Templar
would observe Easter Sunday at this
church, and the building was crowd
ed with those who had come to wit
ness the Masonic exercises and listen
to the sermon of the pastor of the
church.
The ladies were in charge of Past
Eminent Grand Commander Geo. H.
Burnett. The commandery was in
command of Commander A. r. Strang
and Captain-General j. S. Wyant,
and they proceeded to the church in
a body, the sir knights being in full
inform. The beautiful and impressive
ceremonies with which the knights
Templar observe Easter were con-
Quoted by Prelate Albert II. Steiner,
and commenced at II o'clock.
Upon their conclusion the church
choir rendered a pleasing selection,
and then followed the scTiptural read
ing by Rev. Davis Errett, pastor of
the church. Preceding the sermon of
the day Mrs. Frank Watson rendered
a solo, which was thoroughly enjoyed
Mrs. watson is the possessor of a
charming voice, and was at her best
yesterday. Rev. Errett took for his
theme the subject "If a man die,
shall he live again." He treated it
both from a spiritual and scientific
standpoint, and piled up argument
upon argument to sustain his position
that there was an eternal life after
death in the world. Rev. Errett is
both a pleasing and forceful speaker,
and he was given the closest attention
throughout the sermon by the vast
audience in attendance.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-03-28
GAVE RENO
A VERY LIVELY
EASTER DAY

Reno, New, March 28.-A. Boch-
atcy will appear before a sanity COM
mission today to explain why he be-
lieved evil spirits were after him,
jumped from the Virginia-street
bridge into the Truckee river, and
caused the fire department and the
police much work and a drenching
to pull him out again, all at the
close of a peaceful Easter day.
Bochatcy gave yell and jumped
into the river. When he struck the
water he gave another yell, being
convinced that while the spirits
might be able to swim, he would
drown.
While his cries for help were
floating upward he was floating
down stream caught by the swirling
current and pumped with a thud
against the rocks in midstream.
There he clung while the fire de-
partment and the police splashed
about in the water and finally threw
rope over to the spirit-tormented
refugee and drew him ashore. He
dried out in the city jail
A big crowd stood on the bridge
and cheered the imprompu life saw
eTS.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-03-28

Good Cough Medicine for TII ren.
The season for coughs and colds is
new at hand, and too much care can
not be used to protect tue children.
A child is much more likely to con-
tract diptherla or scarlet fever When
mis- cold the less risk, Chamberlain S
Cough Remedy is the sole reliance
of many mothers, and few Of those
who have tried it are willing to use
any other Mrs. F. F, SJarcher, of
Ripley, w. A., says; Il have never
used anything other than Chamber
lain's Cough Remedy TOR my children,
and it has always given good sstis-
faction This remedy contains no
opium or other narcotic, and may be
given as confidently to a child as to
an adult, For sale by all good drug
gists.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-03-28
THE CHICAGO
ELECTION WAS
EXPENSIVE:
VOTES AT DRY PRIMARIES COST
CITY OF CHICAGO TEN DOL
LARS APIECE.

Saturday, February 26, was pri-
nary day for the prohibition party in
Chicago, and there we're cast in the
35 wards of that city of over two mill
lion inhabitants but IT'S votes all
told. The cost to the taxpayers of
the city of Chicago for this little side
show was about $4,000 or over $40
each to register.
In two wards not a single vote was
polled, in another one, in another
four, and three wards but five. The
highest number registered in any
ward was but IA.
And yet this little party is seeking
to oyerturn the license system in Chi
cago and deprive the city of $70,000,-
900 in taxes, shifting the burden on
the rest of the taxpayers.
Another striking evidence of the
marble cheek of the handful of prohi-
bitionists in Chicago was their de-
mand that the saloons should be
closed throughout this immense city
while their 700 votes were being re-
corded. This would be a case of the
tail wagging the dog with a ven
geance. Could presumption farther
go? 1t reminds one of the proclama-
tion once issued by three tailors of
Tooley street, in London, which com
menced with the swelling words
I'VE, the people of England.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-03-28
GOMPER is
AFTER The
STEEL TRUST
UNITED PRESS LEASED wrRn.I

Washington March 2S.-President
Gompers of the American Fedora
ton of Labor, expects to leave for
Indianapolis tomorrow to confer
with Governor Marshall in connec-
tion with suit which the labor
leader is planning to press against
the steel trust in the Indiana state
courts.
Gompers. in an interview, is quot
ed as having said that the American
Federation will not wait for the de-
partment of justice to attack the
steel trust.
According to officers of the fedora
ton the suit will be brought to dis
solve the steel trust in Indiana on
the ground that the charter has
been violated.
Members of the federation charge
that every stipulation in the char
ter is disregarded and in ADDITION
the alleged conditions of labor in the
mills at Gary are worse than those
at McKees Rocks, Pa, ever were.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-03-28
HANGS FOR
THREE DAYS
NEAR STREET

Phoenix, Ariz., March 22.-An in
quest is being held today over the
body of Mrs. Eileen Torgensen, be-
lieved to have committed suicide.
For three days, while police and
friends searched for, the body was
suspended from a tree in plain view
of a street where pedestrians and
street car passengers went by.
Mrs. Torgenson's foot touched the
ground and her head was thrown back
as though she were looking into the
branches above her. A passerby, who
noted the woman standing in the
same rigid position for two successive
days, determined to investigate.
Mrs. Torgenson came here from
Los Angeles and before that had
lived in Chicago. A note was found
directing that her savings be sent to
relatives in Sweden.