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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-07-07

a large shipment of steel askvts,
double lead coated and covered
with the finest of fabrics are on
display at the big new Chapel at
Mesbergs. Ask Undertaken Hub
bard about them. He has absolute
proof of the merits Of the cases and
he is the exclusive agent for Vir-
ginia. 1l-lStf.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-07-07
Cooking Range fof Sale.

A bran new small range; never
been in use. Will be sold cheap
Enquire at 316 Maple St. 512tt.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-07-07

Virgin ia Lodge No 400 l. O. 6. T.
will hold their first meeting in their
new quarters in the Finnish Tenn
perance Hall on Friday evening,
July 7th, at 8 o'clock. The lodge
meets on the first and third Friday
evenings of each month. All friends
of tenn perance are welcome.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-07-07
An elegant line of fine cigars and
tobaccos at Lusk's & SigePs Billiard

Minnesota and, Canadian lands
improved and uni1nproved. II look
ing for farm we can interest you.
+. J. HUGHES.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-07-07

For RENT-Well furnished front
room, first floor. to person Of quiet
habits. Inquire 2l9 Beech ST. G-23tf.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-07-07

We have special Family Bottled
Beer now on the market. $1,2O per
case. Order by phone No. 81 or stop
bottled beer wagon which will be
around daily.
Virginia Brewing Co.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-07-07

II. w. Ohlsen. factory representa-
tive for the H. P. Nelson Piano Co.
has received one carload of pianos
-16. Located on N. Mesaba Ave
Open from 9 a. IN. to 10 p. m. Call
and see his line. They certainly are
beauties. Sold on the installment
plan. <i~~~.,. 1t
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-07-07

Mrs. Ed. Curtiss, who mas been
quite seriously i'll the past week, is
improving rapidly, to the gratifica-
ton of her many friends.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-07-07

WANTED.-An opportunity to do
book keeping work, after hours.
Address TX" Care Enterprise.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-07-07

When YOU want q smoke remember
you can get the finest at Lusk's 4
5SiRels Billiard Hal.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-07-07

For aCCommo dations and cent
mile rates to Canada where you can
buy chea p land or take a homestead
see F. J. Hughes.
WANTED-To rent an or 10 room
modern house. Address, O. H.
Burns, Gen. DEL, Virginia, MINI. 2tp
Dressmakiug done at 2l5 Maple
street. 3tf.
Furnished room for rent at III
Walnut street.
1t YOU wan, cedar posts for fenC-
ing Of building see +. ]. Hughes.
An elegant line of fine cigars and
tobaccos at Lusk's & Sigel's Billiard
Hall.
WANrED--Young lady to learn
operating. Apply Mesaba Tele-
phone Co. 519tf.
The home of flowers, at Mesbtrg's
store. Ask Undertaken Hubbard
ll-l3tf
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-07-07

w. J. Archer, court commissioner,
returned yesterday from a brief
trip to Duluth and the Twin Cities.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1911-07-07
Virginia B rewing CO.

DR.. Larson, the
eye specials t, will
be at the Hotel Fa !
the Goth and 21st OF
every month.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-10-04
Competition in Dishonesty

Is business man justified in "a
sorting to shady methods because his
competitor does and because II he
himself, did not he would lose trader
Such a question will strike nine
out OF every ten persons as too idle
to ask. yet down deep under the skin
OF virtuous pretense a good many
know very we'll that the question IL
not idle when It comes to having a
tangible basis. The lamentable fact
is that a good many men try 10 fool
themselves into believing that there
is such a thing as competition In
honesty--or dishonesty; that they
are justified in selling fourteen
ounces for a pound, or three and
three-fourths quarts for a gallon, or
putting a double bottom in a busheI
measure because some OF their COM
petitors are doing that thing.
OF course, the whole argument
rests on a false premise, when It Is
reared on one like that. The same
holds true in politics. as we'll as
business. Honesty lie honesty. and
method OF dealing will not change IL.
We have heard much OF the square
deal" The square deal cannot be
made with round corners. Competi-
ton, or what ones rival may do, is
not the gauge Of action for ones
self. at all
-Four pecks should be given for a
bushel because nothing under four
pecks will make a bushel. and the
business man should be honest for
honesty's sake because nothing short
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-10-04
SOME EDITORS SEE THINGS.

st. Louis Republic: A live Kansas IN
dertaker running for sheriff is riding
around and making his canvass in his
hearse OF course he will know where
TO dig up the necessary votes II the worst
comes 10 the worst
Houston POST Wanting an office may
be defined as a form Of yearning which
In republican signifies selfishness and
rapacity and in a democrat an exalted
ambition to benefit his fellow man at so
much per.
Chicago Record Herald J. Pierpont
Morgan has decided to try conclusions
with Wickersham in the Steel trust case
The government may as we'll therefore.
try to delay matters so that the umpire
will call the game on account OF dark
ness or something.
Louisville Courier-Journal: II is re.
ported from Calcutta that a Hindu idol
at Rsjpore has wept copiously for TWEEN
ty-one days. As the former liar OF Chefu
has not reported a Portuguese war via
Badajos for some time IL is probable that
he is earning an outing in India By his
pen.
Chicago Inter Ocean: These be perllous
times for trusts. In Logansport Ind. a
barber and a restaurant proprietor pooled
issues and put up signs reading: Hash
haircut and shine IS cents" and sham
poo and scrambled eggs, 70 cents" Where
upon the city authorities ordered them to
disintegrate their businesses.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-10-04
Alfred Tennyson Dickens

The eldest surviving son Of Charles
Dickens, Alfred Tennyson Dickens,
has come clear from Australia to
visit the United States. He is assured
a most cordial welcome. His name
combines the memory Of two men
very popular In this country, and the
fact that his illustrious father, on his
visit to us In 1912, had very little but
caustic criticism to pass upon Amer
lea and Americans, will not at all af-
feet his hearty reception. II has
never affected the sale OF his fathers
great works, nor marred his memory
In this land, where he found so much
to offend his notions OF refinement
and culture more than sixty years
ago. Americans are very broad In
their views; 30 broad that they rather
enjoy fair criticism, even though Sc
we're, such as most OF them have come
to believe Dickens was in the main.
Now. they will, no doubt, be inter
ested to know what the son will think
of us and how his criticisms today
will compare with those of his father
so many years ago. OF course, some
OF the things the elder Dickens COM
planned of--slavery, for one-are not
here to offend the sensibilities of the
son and In most ways Americans hope
they have improved. We have got so
thoroughly accustomed. however. 10
British criticism that we shall really
feel disappointed II the younger
Dickens does not have some advice
to offer us. II would be most dis
eouraging, moreover, to think that
we have not profited to some extent
In all these years by the ceaseless
curtain lectures from our fathers
over the sea. To what purport could
all their Gliding have been but to
impress us?
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-10-04
Blunder OF Blunderbnsl

With the sole view 10 manufactur-
ing political capital. the democratic
World-Herald has been playing up an
article from a Catholic weekly asking
who Numbered in accepting the in
vitation OF the Young Mems Christian
association to have the Sunday
afternoon meeting which President
Taft was TO have addressed on
World Peace" under their auspices.
In inviting the clergy to participate
in the reception to the president, no
determinations had been made, but
this Catholic paper declared that It
was impossible for any priest to ac-
cept and thus give countenance to
any organization, however unde-
nominational, whose management is
reserved for members OF Protestant
Evangelical churches.
II there was any blunder, we think
the World-Herald should be able to
answer the question as well as any
one else because it's head and front
and chief proprietor, Senator Gilbert
M. Hitchcock. was a member Of the
local committee on arrangements,
and had full voice with other mem
bers in accepting the Young Mems
Christian associations offer, yet
never for a moment gave utterance to
any thought Of improperly. It may
have been the duty OF Catholic clergy
men to abstain fro j participation, al
though the invitation extended to
serve on the reception committee in
cluded more than the Sunday after
noon meeting. At that, however, all
they had TO do was what most of
them did do, namely, to send courte-
Gus regrets. The blunder, II there was
any, it strikes us, was twotold-
first, in the Catholic organ using the
presidents visit as a vent for it's ami
mostly toward the Young Mems
Christian association, and, second, in
Senator Hitchcock'B World-Herald at
tempting to prevent the Catholic pa
per's deliverance to the creation OF
political bias and religious prejudice.
We may all be thankful that the
president is bigger and broader than
all these critics. Although as a Uni
tartan he would himself be barred
from active direction in them, he has
seen no reason why he should not,
upon proper occasions. work with and
accept the good offices of the Young
Mems Christian association, or the
knights of Columbus, or the Chris
tian Endeavor, or any and every re-
ligious and patriotic society, which is
serving as factor for the betterment
OF our social and moral conditions.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-10-04
The Small Farm

Inc small fdIms
The Missouri Rural Life conference
protests against what It calls a farm
octopus, the extension Of individual
ownership Of land. which It believes
has initiated against the back-to-the-
farm movement and the intensive ag-
riculture enterprise, as, Of course,
it naturally would, and operated to
reduce the number Of farms in the
state.
This condition thus complained Of
Is not entirely local to Missouri It
exists in Iowa, to some extent, in Ne
braska and most western states. That
is, the average size of farms or
ranches is increasing as a result Of
the land-owning fever This move
ment which has reached such a mo-
mentum in the last few years has
been mistaken for a movement back
toward the farm often when 1t is
really just the opposite. When a man
buys vast tracts of land for whose
cultivation he must employ an army
OF workers, he is really obstructing
the movement which has for it's dual
purpose the increase of acreage
production and the peopling of farm
ing communities. Usually this pur-
pose can be subserved by the small
farm better than by the large ranch
And the very essence of the back
to-the-farm movement is for one fam
lily to own only what land It can till
The tendency then is to populate the
country and raise the standard of soil
cultivation. In newer states like Ne
braska It will naturally be many
years before the big ranches are cut
up into small farms. We are probably
making as favorable Roadway as we
need to, but down in Missouri, a
much older state, 1t is not at all en-
courAging to find old settlers selling
out their well-tilled, fertile farms TO
land harons" and passing on to
newer states, where cheaper land
enables them to Increase their hold
ings, as the men who bought them
out are doing in Missouri. This, we
say. is especially discouraging, since
Missouri has exerted such great en-
ergy in promoting the campaign Of
intensive agriculture as a means of
instilling new life into the state and
turning the tide of population, which
the last census showed to be ebbing.
But the task is a difficult one.
The man who has a farm has a right
to sell it and probably will sell it
when he gets his price, Just as the
man with the price has a right to
buy all the land he can and will II he
findG that he can make money by
so doing. 1t is largely a matter Of
education, after all. along lines of
profitable cultivation.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-10-04
DON'T WORRY.


W. d. Nesbit in Chicago Post
You say that you are leehng i'll,
That GU have many pains and aches,
That every hour you take a pill
10 recuTy your health mistakes.
Cheer UP, my friend, and do not moan,
Though half an invalid you be;
II does not neip to sigh and groan-
l would not let it worry me.
You say that business is bad,
That every day you meet a loss,
and that this makes you blue and sad,
Likewise Cantanker ously cross.
Cheer up, my friend, and do not curse,
Although there no relief to see.
Remember that it might be worse
l would not let IL worry me.
You say that you are losing friends,
That they are paying Ease the while
ma us.ns you TO serve their ends,
Which simply makes you full of bile2
Cheer up, my friend; do not repine,
But let your soul sing z ad and free.
" hat though they have an i'll design?
! would not let ii worry me.
Hows that? You say that you are tired
OF all this optimistic CUFF.
You think uplfters should be fired
BY some one with a manner rough7
Cheer up, my friend, although you hear
So much pitched in this gushy key
/ let II fit from ear to ear
] do not let 1t worry me.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-10-04
Place for Mi.sionarr Work.

GENOA. Neb.. Sept. 25.-To the Editor
Of The Bee: AS the eastbound train on
the Chicago & Northwestern railway
pulled out OF Omaha a week or two
ago quite a number OF young boys, APP
parently Is 10 IS years old, babe their
parents goodbye and got aboard the
Pullman Shortly after the train started
that peculiar odor--nothing else in the
world like it-of opium, tobacco and
wrapping paper filled the air. Going
forward we discovered the boys in pos
session OF the toilet room, which they
had filled so full of cigarette smoke that
1t was impossible for anyone not used
TO the dope TO stay long enough to wash
The writer has been in a ~...nese opium
den. where men and women we're lying
around hitting the pipe, and the atmos-
phere was none too good there. but 1t
was a pleasant dream compared to the
odor that filled that smoke room One
poor boy found the pills too strong for
him. but to show he was no "piker,"
swore good and plenty. The churches
don't need to send missionaries to China;
they have a broad field on the Pullman
cars about the time school begins, and
you, dear parents" don't worry
willie" Is not half so lonesome as you
think he is. A TRAVELLER.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-10-04
Ten Years Ago

Charles B. Coon returned from Cape
Nome, where he had spent some months.
Frank Murphy returned from New
York and brought back with him no in
formation on the matter OF the con-
soldation OF the Omaha electric car
lines.
Charles J. Greene got back from the
east where he visited Boston. Saratoga.
Rye Beach. New York City and Buffalo.
He reported General Prosperity in COM
mand.
Jack Haskell arrived In town after a
strenuous season OF umpiring in the
American league.
]. Picrpont Morgan blew through
Omaha on a special train OF six cars at
rate too fast to time. en- route to the
big Episcopal convention on the coast.
His train tarrtsd for coal and water
only.
Dr. Ramiciotti had 500 pounds of meat
under inspection. which has been con-
fiscated In Benson shop for horse meat.
w. r. McKeen, jr., foreman OF the
Union Pacific shops at Cheyenne" was
a guest az the Millard.
Mr.. and Mrs. Morris Hussie enter
tanned the Friendly Greeting club at their
home in Bemis park in the evening.
Mrs. ?. J. Corcoran won the first
woman's prize at cards and Mr.. II. c.
Cook the gentleman's prize. The con-
ISOLATION prizes went to Mrs. John F.
Daily and Mr.. P. ]. Corcoran.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-10-04
south Omaha Parks.

SOUTH OMAHA, Neb.. Sept. 30
To the Editor Of The Bee: 1t is with
great deal Of pleasure that l no
tice that the seed of annexation
sown by a few OF us in South Omaha
one year ago has grown so tremendously
that II Is smothering out all opposition
TO 1t. It is time the people of south
Omaha should wake up and take notice.
II seems TO me that. being part or
a metropolitan city, we have very little
TO lose and a great deal TO gain.
If things are not run as the angels might
in Omaha, yet they are not any worse
than In South Omaha and by consoiida-
ton of the two cities we will only have
one set OF officials to 'cuss,"
think one OF the great mistakes made
in South Omaha has been in so much
useless waste of public money In buy
ing parks. There is no sense in buying
a new piece OF ground every time few
people in a certain section Of the city
want the park board to buy them
II would have been better If the city
had bought Syndicate park alone and
fixed It up in fine shape and made II
one OF the finest parks in the United
States, rather than buy strip of land
here and there all over the city and not
fix up any Of them.
People from other states have said
that Syndicate park is one Of the finest
natural parks in the country and It
could be made extremely fine II the city
only owned that park alone and had fixed
II up as II ought 10 be and not waste
so much money for other parks that are
never fixed up and never will be. II we
are consolidated with Omaha think the
best thing that can be done for us the
first thing will be for the greater city TO
sell all OF the parks except Highland and
Syndicate and fix up syndicate park in
the manner that 1t ought TO be fixed.
except Highland for the reason that
il has already been fixed up and not
because Of It's location.
FRANK A. AGNEw.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-10-04
People Talked About

A New York taxicab driver, eagerly
sought by the police, could not be located
until the mayor got busy. BY revokins
the license of the taxi company the fugi-
tive driver was produced. Earnest law
enforoers can always find a way
The coming premier OF Canada has a
Yankee ancestry. The forbears OF r.
l. Borden OF Halifax lived in the old
British colony OF Connecticut until the
revolutionary war, when all OF them
hiked across the border to save their
hides and demonstrate their loyalty to
the tory king.
Mr.. Hearst send word by wire and wire
less over the water that he has picked
two winners for the democratic ticket
next year. Champ Clark or Congressman
Underwood will do the trick. Harmon is
impossible, being too conservative, while
the tickle Wilson might change his prin-
eiples over night Now that the oracle
has spoken let the. steam roller move
Mrs. William B. Leeds, the youthful
widow Of the American tinplate king. has
returned home with her son. whom she
desires 10 educate and train in American
ways Mrs. Leeds is regarded as one Of
the handsomest OF American women and
has a fortune OF S2SoOO.OOo. These mag
netic charms drew a host OF titled male
admirers, all OF whom were handed the
mitten.
The late Senator Carter Of Montana
got into the political game In territorial
days by accident, He was an unknown
and a delegate 10 the republican state
convention OF ISIS None of the we'll
knowners could be induced TO make the
run as territorial delegate, and Carter
was pressed into service as sacrifice.
He was elected and took such a strong
hold on the public crib that he never
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-10-04
LROokinSB Backward
IhisDSSy inOmaha
COMPILED FROM BEE FILES {
Thirty Years Ago
COMPILE
OCT. q.

N"h ~ Atafb ago
At the council meeting among other
things ordered we're that the city clerk
advertise for proposals 10 gutter Harvey
street. that crosswalks be laid at Four
teenth and Cass; that four copies Of the
city directory be purchased; that a house
be built for the deer in the park; that
the city clerk advertise for the grading
OF Sixteenth street between Farnam and
Howard, that a bridge be built across
North Omaha creek at the intersection
Of Twentieth and Clark; that a new
grade be established at Seventeenth and
Douglas.
According to the city physician the
number Of deaths recorded for the month
Of September was forty-seven. and the
number OF births was ninety seven, in
GLIDING two pairs of twins.
The principal item OF business at the
School board meeting was to authorize
the employment of an attorney 70 compel
the police Judge to pay collections into
the school fund.
The border drama The Prairie Walt"
was put upon the Academy boards for
the first time this evening. II was
greeted with a crowded house, fully 1000
persons occupying the sitting and stand
ing room. VIM. r. Cody. Buffalo Bill. i"
figures as the star of the play, and
throughout bore his part in true dramatic
style.
The old Or. Ish property at the coroner
OF Chicago and Twenty-first streets was
sold to Colonel b. F. Smythe for Sc 200.
Several carriages and two tableau
chariots from Barnum's show Arrived in
the city for repairs. having been damaged
in a smashup which Barnums train suf-
fered about five miles west Of Tama
City on the Northwestern. The chariots
are to be repaired in time TO appear In
the grand parade in this city on Friday
next
General Crook went west, his destina-
ton being Medicine Bail.
Percival Lowell, general passenger
agent OF the Chicago. Burlington a.
Quincy road came in this morning in a
special car from Chicago and returned in
the afternoon.
Colonel f. F. smythe left for New York
to join his family. who have been spend
ing the summer in the White mountains
who will return home with him. The
colonel says that his shingle is still hang
ing over the entrance OF its office in Pine
street, and he Is going around to see II 1t
Will recognize him.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-10-04
MIRTHFUL REMARKS.

stella-Whlt do you consider a waste
OF opportunity
Bella-A freight train going through
tunnei-New York sun.
"Blinks used 10 be daft on the subject
Of buried treasure. What's he up to
now?'
Hes got up an expedition 10 try 10
find the place where Methusalem stored
his birthday presents Toledo Blade.
D'Auber-Your daughter paints in the
Dutch school. does she not
Mrs. NewriCh-Not much she don't, We
pay so a quarter 10 give her private
lessons at home. Dutch school indeed"
--Phia. Record.
lie had returned from a long, weary,
unsuccessful fishing trip. dog ran
across the road parking Ilercely.
"Aren you atIa.d he Il attack your
asked the friend"
Il wish he would. Ia take almost any
kind oil d chance 10 be able to so home
ana say l have had just one bite. -
Chicago Record Herald.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-10-04

Of that will stand the test. Integrity
that depends on environment or cir
cumstances is not integrity; it is
doing right under protest.
One of the surest ways 10 purge
business OF dishonesty and inspire
confidence in trade is for the man
who is raising this untenable ques-
ton in his mind to stop caring what
his competitor does and be honest
for principles sake.