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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1915-07-09
!BY ASSOCIATED PREss.)

LONDON, July Tone of the latest
and most popular recruits in the ranks
of those who are "doing something for
their country during the war" has ap-
peared in the person of Lord Norbury,
now turned the fifty years of age
mark. He commenced his self-imposed
task recently in the fitting shop of an
aeroplane works attired in a coarse
blue calico smock and cloth cap. Near
by the works in a small lodge occu-
pied by a butler, Lord Norbury has
engaged little simple-furnished bed
room and is doing his own valeting.
The butler says his lordship is paying
workman's rent, and is taking his
meals with the other workmen in the
general canteen. His lordship had put
in few hours work and was sitting
with the after-breakfast crowd in the
canteen before being recognized by
blue-suited laborer who came over
and spoke to him. "How do you do,
old chap, glad to meet you," said the
workman, putting out his hand which
the peer cordially shook. Another
workman was heard to remark: II
guess he's good enough and we will
put him flying to thing or two if he
only shows half an eye"
At the close of his days work, 6
am. to 6 pm, Lord Norbury seemed
we'll content with his first efforts as
laborer. "Things are turning out top
hole,'" he said. ut is really very en-
joyable and there is something noble
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1915-07-09
LEAD~VIRGINIA BAND =
TWENTY YEARS AGO

Oscar Castren of Eveleth, who yes
terday played cornet with the City
band is one of the pioneer bandsmen on
the Range. He was leader Of the
Virginia band 20 years ago and yes
terday related to his friends a little
story in connection with that celebra-
ton. The story in substance follows:
1--WE marched through several inches
of mire and gumbp to what is now the
village Of Franklin, where a picnic
was held. The sport events were
pulled off there and the greater part
Of the program held on that ground.
II was playing a simple solo with
band accompaniment when my brother
came over and in a joshing way told
me to let one, who could play take
my place. | had a gold plated cornet
and offered it to the person on the
grounds that could play better than
I did. l then played a very simple
solo. That was the end of it." =
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1915-07-09
BANKERS, FARMERS, EDUCATORS,
MEET IN MISSOURI CONFERENCE
(BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.)

CHICAGO, July 7.-Bankers, farm.
ers, educators from various state agri-
cultural schools and experts from the
federal department of agriculture met
here today for the first session of q
two days. conference on the relations
between bankers and farmers. Con-
sideration of economic and practical
difficulties in the extension Of the work
of the Agricultural commission on the
American Bankers association was
taken up.
F. B. Mumford, dean of the college
of agriculture of the University of
Missouri, said that the farmers prob
lem was essentially economic.
"The solution of the economics of
agriculture as related to the actual
business of farming will carry with it
the solution Of many of the other prob
lens of the rural community" he
said. "But because European coun-
tries produce much larger yield per
acre than the United States, it does
not necessarily follow that the Ameri-
can farmer would find it profitable or
possible to produce yields as large or
to bring under cultivation land rela-
lively so poor. The factors of labor,
price of product and many other con-
ditions must be recognized. But TAX
ing all factors into account, it remains
true that the American farmer can
largely increase his profits, better
maintain the fertility of the soil and
incidentally materially increase his
crops"
Prof. Mumford pointed out that the
M 70 n1o
slow to adopt new methods and told
of the difficulties facing the agricul-
tural colleges when the institutions try
to get the results Of their experiments
adopted generally. He said that the
bankers of the country "are peculiarly
we'll situated to help in advancing the
cause Of better agriculture" and he
added
"Recent investigations have clearly
indicated that agriculture in America
is under-c capitalized. The very first
step in farm betterment required a
much larger amount Of capital in our
agricultural operations than has been
utilized in the past half century. Fer
tilizers can not be purchased without
money and money can not be obtained
except through the bankers. Neither
can the American farmer buy the best
types of domestic animals without
money. The real reason in many cases
why agricultural improvement has not
been more rapid is because the farmer
either has not been able to get money
or did not feel justified in borrowing
at current rates.
"The bankers of America then can
promote the cause of better agricul-
ture by cooperating with the agricul-
tural colleges, by promoting the To-
eating Of county agricultural agents
and by lending money at low rates
for the purchase of fertilizers, build
ing of silos, seeding to alfalfa, pur-
chase of registered sires and for all
other enterprises which have been
demonstrated to be in the interests
of permanently prosperous agricul-
ture"
Somewhat similar points were ad-
vanced by H. l.. Russell, director of the
college of agriculture Of the Univer-
sity of Wisconsin. He devoted his
paper to a discussion of the work of
county agents and urged increased
agricultural extension service by state
schools.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1915-07-09
INDIANS GETTING
READY T0DANCE
Gathering On Couderay Reser.
walton for Their Annual
Event.

COUDERAY, Wis, July Most
of the LOO Chippewa Indians on the
Couderay reservation are assembling
at Chief lake, near the Indian village
of Reserve, on the reservation for their
annual war dance, which they will
hold for the next ten days.
Nearly every Indian tribe and reser-
walton in the northwest will send their
best dancers.
Several years ago white visitors to
the dances were looked upon with dis
favor by the Indians, and picture TAX
ing was forbidden, but of late they do
not object and settlers for miles
around and tourists from the nearby
lakes never miss witnessing the fes-
rivals.
Only Pagans Dance.
Christian Indians attend, but do
not dance, only the pagans do the
dancing. Dog soup is delicacy dur
ing the celebration, the soup being
passed around after few hours dane
ing and then the chief passes the peace
pipe and all take puff of smoke from
the long-stemmed pipe of peace. Old
Indians from the different reservations
relate war stories through an inter-
prefer, and prizes are awarded to the
best dressed tribe, the Winnebagoes
as rule being awarded the honors.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1915-07-09
BRITISH PRISONERS IN
GERMANY SENT FOOD

LONDON, July THE war office
has issued the following notice:
Among the articles most asked for
and most appreciated by British pris-
soners in Germany bread stands first,
but some of the bread which is sent,
even before it leaves England, is in
bad condition, and delays on the jour-
ney make it UNBEATABLE before it
reaches the prisoners. Accordingly,
those who are sending breadstuffs are
asked to take special care in the prep
aration and packing of the bread. The
bread to be sent to Germany should
be very we'll baked. It should not be
packed in tins, but carefully wrapped
in paper, grease-proof if possible, then
placed in corrugated cardboard or in
stout cardboard boxes. Under the
best conditions it takes from 10 days
to three weeks for parcels to reach
prisoners of war in Germany, and in
most cases parcel post packages reach
their destination IN 1 shorter time
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1915-07-09
KEEPER OF PUBLIC CONSCIENCE"
PARAMOUNT FUNCTl0N0FPRESS

that the exercise of his liberty is con-
ditioned upon his due regard for the
liberty of others. In his first exalta-
ton upon being delivered from the
shackles of his old life he is apt to
suppose that, since the order Of things
he has left behind him meant the de-
NAL Of individual freedom, therefore
the state of freedom into which he en-
tiers here implies correspondingly an
absence of all necessity to submit to
the exigencies of the social order. He
has to learn, in other words, that,
while order may exist without liberty,
there is no liberty conceivable without
order. 1t is the task of the foreign
language newspaper to bring this fact
forcibly home to him, and am making
no idle boast when l say that it has
succeeded in accomplishing this self
imposed task in remarkable degree.
II have characterized that task as
one Of making true American of the
foreign-born immigrant. Whether,
after becoming merged in the general
citizenship of the country, he remains
a true American or not, depends, as
it depends in the case of every one Of
uS, NC uc AO4cAS1A-UO1u VI udI1Ve, UpOu
our press that of keeping the
mind Of every citizen of this country
unalterably fixed upon those funda-
mental principles Of government laid
down by our immortal forefathers."
In conclusion Mr.. Andrae said:
ut is fit and proper that the press
should bow to the public, because the
public is sovereign. But, when we so
bow, let us first be sure that it is the
sovereign public We are bowling to, and
not mere bogy, ingeniously dressed
up to resemble it. And, above all,
even in bowling, let US remember that,
though right or wrong, the public ever
remains the supreme sovereign, the
press, too, can never divest itself Of
its own supreme responsibilities to-
wards that sovereign, upon the faith
full fulfllment Of which he relies, and
for the neglect of which he is ever
ready to exact stern accounting: it's
responsibility as the keeper Of the pub
lie conscience"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1915-07-09
CAMBRIDGE HAS
H0SPlTALREC0RD

CAMBRIDGE, England, July T.
Cambridge is the home Of the most
successful hospital experiment that
has been attempted in England since
the beginning Of the war. The First
Eastern General hospital, built early
last fall, was an attempt to enlist the
largest possible amount of fresh air
and sunshine into the treatment of in
valided soldiers. The wards are with
out a wall on the south frontage, be-
ing wide open to wind and sun.
After six months experience, the
managers of the hospital declare it an
unqualified success. Eleven thousand
English and Belgian patients have
been received from the front and from
military camps in England, with only
IS deaths-an average of ITO Of one
per cent. This is regarded as re-
markable record in view of the con-
siderable proportion Of septic wounds,
tetanus, pneumonia, typhoid and spot
ted fever among the patients.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1915-07-09
C0L0NlSTSWlLL
WRITE HISTORY
lBv ASSOCIATED PRESS,

BERLIN, July 7.-For the rounding
out of sort Of auxiliary history Of
the war regarding the German colon
les, residents Of the empires territor-
ial possessions have been asked to sub
nit short sketches Of their experience
since last August. The papers must
be between 800 and 1000 words in
length.
To induce large number of such
sketches the organization planning the
history has offered several prizes-a
first prize of IS marks, a second Of
100 marks, third of Is marks and
two fourths of SO marks-for the best
that are submitted.
The articles are to touch on the life
of the colonists, the officials, the troops
and of the native born. Those of ar
tistic bent are asked to send accom-
panying sketches, or to turn in pictor-
ial rather than written descriptions of
colonial life.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1915-07-09
(BY ASSOCIATED PRESs.)

SAN FRANCISCO, July 7.-Percy
Andrae of Chicago, president Of
the American Association of Foreign
Language Newspapers, addressing the
International Press congress here to-
day, asserted his belief that the para
mount function Of the press in Amer
lea was to act as keeper of the public
conscience.
"This is no mere metaphor" he con-
tinued. There never was time when
men as we'll as women were so fiercely
intent upon appealing to the public
conscience, and assuming to speak in
it's name. And who is to distinguish,
amid this babel Of tongues wagging in
the name of the public conscience,
which voice is truly the voice of the
people and which is not?
1t is the incessant conflict between
the contrary winds of alleged public
opinion that does more lasting DAM
age in our day than even those colos-
sal social upheavals which occasionally
result from the clashing interest) of
race and race. Not because the conflict
of human opinions is in itself injur-
ious, for we know that it is not, but
because, when opinions, however hon.
est, masquerade in false guise, they
are misleading, and perplex and be-
wilder the public conscience instead of
clarifying and strengthening it.
"Who, then, is better qualified than
the trained and experienced newspaper
editor, to point the distinction between
the mere passing winds that bend
and twist the public mind for fleet
ing moment and the real storm wind
that originates in the public mind it.
self, searching it to its uttermost
depths, and giving it a new and last
ing shape?"
The distinction between the foreign
language press in America and the
American press, Mr.. Andrae thought,
lay in the efforts of the former to
make a good American of the immi-
grant and the duty of the latter to
keep him a good American. In this
connection he said:
81 am not at all sure which of the
two tasks is the more difficult. The
foreigner when he reaches these shores
comes in many cases with that one
sided conception of American liberty
which renders him blind to the fact
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1915-07-09
HORSES HIGH
IN BERLIN CITY

BERLIN, July TAT the "horse
markets" established by the govern
ment, where animals are offered for
sale to the army, prices of late have
gone up so far that many Of the most
valuable animals have not been
bought. Many owners appear also
to be holding back their horses in the
hope of a still higher price.
The government is avoiding until
the last possible moment the use Of its
final weapon against price extortion-
confscation. It is freely predicted
however that this will be necessary
if horse owners do not come to reason
and do not offer their animals Ut prices
somewhere near commensurate With
the value Of the horses. -.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1915-07-09

promise between England and Ger
many. Mr.. Wilson stated in his re-
joinder to Berlin that he would ap-
proach Great Britain on the matter
again if Germany should request such
action. 1t now appears certain that
Germany will include such request
in it's answer.
Advices received in Washington are
to the effect that southern business
men and bankers are greatly wrought
up over the suspension in the cotton
export trade that has been brought
about by Great Britain's blockade of
neutral commerce. 1t is understood
here that a protest in behalf of south
ern cotton men will be lodged with
the administration, supplementing the
one made some months ago by Senator
Hoke Smith of Georgia.
The feeling on the subject is said to
be particularly bitter in view of the
certainty that continuance of the
blockade threatens hard times in the
south, where taste of prosperity was
experienced just before the British
policy became effective.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1915-07-09
nan parcels bv other agencies.

than parcels by other agencies.
The Imperial Merchant Service guild
have lately represented to the foreign
Office that the German authorities at
the Ruhleben camp have now stopped
the consignment to our prisoners of
provisions such as chocolate, cake, con-
fectionery, fancy biscuits and "deli-
cacies." The guild have submitted
that such an order places the relatives
and friends who are sending parcels
to the prisoners in very difficult po-
sition, for the new instructions bear
a very elastic Interpretation and would
mean that almost anything in the way
Of provisions might be confiscated by
the Germans.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1915-07-09
R0SSA,FAMEDAS
IRISH REV0LTER,
DEAD IN GOTHAM

NEW YORK, July 7.-Jeremiah
O'Donovan, the Irish patriot known to
the world as O'Donovan Rosa, died
at St. Vincent's hospital on Staten
Island. Death was caused by COM
plication Of diseases from which he
had suffered five years. He had been
a private patient in the hospital for
two and half years.
Nearly all the Irish organizations
joined in a request long time ago
that in the event of the patriots death
his body should be sent to Ireland for
burial.
The family have consented to this,
but it is understood that the body will
be placed in a vault in St. Peters GEM
etery on Staten Island until after the
war, when it will be taken to the land
Of O'Donovan's birth.
O'Donovan Rosa spent the last half
of his life in the United States, twenty
years Of which were passed under an
edict of Punishment from Great Brit
was granted full pardon by Queen
Victoria for his revolutionary activi-
ties in freeing Ireland quarter Of
century after the Fenian uprising,
he remained to the end an uncom-
promising foe to British rule.
When he was q years old Rosa
and several other members Of the
Phoenix Literary society were arrested
on charge of conspiracy, and after
nine months Imprisonment were re-
leased on suspended sentence in
1857.
Then he became associated with
James Stephens and Col. John O'Ma-
hony in the Fenian movement, and
worked ardently as an organizer of
the Irish revolutionary brotherhood
until his arrest in Dublin Sept. Is,
1865, when the office of the Fenian
newspaper, Irish People, was raided.
He was sentenced to penal servitude
for life, but six years later he was re-
leased and banished to America.
From that time Rosa was identi-
fed with the "extremists" in this coun-
try and he advocated the use of dyna-
mite-or, as he called it, "the re-
sources of civilization'-again eve
rything British. He founded a news
paper here, the United 1rishmen. The
subscribers Rosa called his tenants
and he always acknowledged the re-
ceipt of their subscriptions in the col.
umns of the United 1rishmen as the
"rests."
In Chambers street, New York, in
1885, an English nurse, Lucilla Yseulte
Dudley, shot and slightly wounded
Rosa. -Four weeks prior to this Capt
Thomas Phelan, member of the Fe-
MAN brotherhood, had been stabbed in
Rossa's Office on Chambers street, fol-
which Richard Short was arrested.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1915-07-09
MANY DOCTORS
DEAD IN SERVICE.
{BY ASSOCIATED PREss,)


BELGRADE, Serbia, July 7.-Ohi-
cial figures show that rs per cent of
the Serbian doctors have died in the
past nine months. Most Of them were
victims Of typhus; only one was killed
in battle.
In the war between Serbia and Tur-
key in 1912-1913, only two Serbian
doctors lost their lives, out of a total
Of three hundred employed on war
duty.
Of the foreign doctors who have
come to Serbia since last August, IS
have died, all Of typhus or typhoid.
The list of dead includes four Ameri-
cans, three British, two Belgians, six
Austrians and a number Of Greeks.
These figures of course do not include
the considerable number of medical
students, nurses and other Red Cross
workers who have succumbed to the
epidemics.
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logical circles is seventeen-year ci-
cada.
"Where did it come FROM" Ento-
mologist Washburn asked with inter-
est.
Devils Lake, Wis, he was told.
u see no reason why it should not
appear in Minnesota" Prof Washburn
said. "They appear just across the
line in Wisconsin and in Iowa. This,
however, is the first time in number
of years I have had referred to me
one which thought came from Min
nesota."
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1915-07-09
-.
AUIHORll ON
CONSERVATION

Nothing in recent years has aroused
more intense enthusiasm In the rural
districts than the doctrines Of commu
nifty interests. Mr.: c. II. Plattenburs
is coming to Cbautapqua this year to
discuss the relation, Of the town and
the country and the conservation of
business and community life.
Plattenburg is the terror of the cata
logue house business and shows in his
masterful address the necessity for
maintaining the town, with. its shops
and stores and factories, its postofice
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1915-07-09
Visited Range.

Mrs. Ford Greer of La Fayette, In
diana, and Miss Olive M. Kreitter of
Duluth, were visitors here yesterday
on the private car "Olivette," of Sup
erintendent Kreitter of the Duluth,
Missabe & Northern Railway COM
pany. They visited several of the
mines in the city and public buildings.
Mrs. Greer, who is a sister of Mr..
Kreitter, was very favorably i'm
pressed with Virpinia.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1915-07-09
(BH ASSOCIATED PRESS.)

ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey, July
7.-West Virginia has been so success
full in the enforcement of it's drastic
prohibitory liquor law, which went into
effect just year ago, that the state is
permanently committed to it's new pol
icy, and not in the slightest danger of
giving way to the anti-prohibition
pressure which has been brought to
bear upon it, according to Fred O..
Blue, the commissioner Of prohibition
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1915-07-09

and its rural delivery. In order to main
tain civilization at its highest flow and
give the younger people who are born
and brought up In the community the
best possible advantage. His lecture
1s a brilliant contribution to the
thought Of the times and of vast In
terest to the community's live wires.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1915-07-09
WASHBURN IS INTERESTED.

ST. PAUL, July 6.-"Where did it
come from ?" F. L. Washburn, whose
job it is to protect Minnesota from
harmful bugs, wanted to know yester-
day. A reporter called on him with
large, healthy locust alias grasshop-
per, whose family name in entomo-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1915-07-09
Issues Beer Cards.
<BY ASSOCIATED PREss.)

BERNIE, July Beer cards on a
system similar to that of the bread
cards are now being issued in Munich.
Owing to the shortage of malt, I'M
limited quantities of beer can no
longer be sold. The consumption in
one large beer garden, which formerly
used 1900 to $500 gallons daily, has
been cut to LOO gallons by the au-
thorities