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MR. A THE VIRGINIA ENTERPRISE (An Indepwjwt Niwptpet.) YESTERDAY OUT EVERY „P??),H"bed ivery •vcninc tMpt Sunday by th« Cntcrprte* Pristine Publishing Company, First National Bank Boildinc. Tckphoa* 8L Entered as second-class matter, March 8, 1914, at the postatfk* at Virginia, Minnesota, under Act rf March 8. 187».. ... telly by carrier, io eenta wtek 40 cents month I nootti IL Ytrsinte Dally Enterprise accept* advertising contractu with taa distinct ffoarantee that it haa the largest circulation at any dally newspaper on tha Mesaba Banra Subscription ratea—By mall, payable In advance, one month cents, three montha $1.90, six months 92.00, one year 94.00, Weakly Enterprise 82.00 per year. GLOOM! GLOOM! IT MUST BE HIS LIVER. CHESTER A. CONGDON had himself inter viewed in a Duluth newspaper the other day in a rather startling fashion, if he is correctly quoted. Mr. Congdon should learn the value of a "shet mouth" unless he wishes to be classed with those unfortunate im pressarios denominated as jingos. He finds that no matter what the outcome of the great war in Europe-we of the good old U. S. A. are going to be in a devil «f ». fix. If England wins she will rule the seas and we must do what ever she says, according to Mr, Congdon. If .Germany wins we shall have to look sharp whenevepdhe bids us to. Also, we are defenseless, utterly defenseless. Everybody believes we are hypocrites and that our objection to war from the humane stj^ipnint is b&rn of cowardice and not of high motives. d^nit ahd again, Gloom! in gobs. It is difficult to believe that a business man of the re puted shrewdness of Mr. Congdon said much of the stuff that was credited to him in his newspaper interview. If he did not, the newspaper writer who put these words in his mouth should be drawn and quartered and hung from the battlements at sunrise, figuratively speaking, of course. If he didn't and Mr. Congdon said those things he is more to be pitied than censured. Mr. Congdon is declared to be a student of international politics. If his interview represents the fruitage of his research along that line he might more profitably join Sister Susie in sewing socks for soldiers. He is about as smug a fakir as has recently been vaulted into the lime light. He should quiet his nameless fears, partake of the oil of the castor bean, avoid the night air, meats, chops and gravies, and get him down at the dawn of day where a purling brook laughs at the world in the morning sunshine, where the birds sing tra-la-la ad infinitum, and nature fills the heart of man with the pure joy of living. It is good for what ails him, for it must be his liver. JIM BOYLE TO SAY GOODBYE. HOST of friends over all the Mesaba Range and the state of Minnesota as well will learn with regret that James P. Boyle of Eveleth, formerly state senator from this district, is to remove from the Mesaba Range and the state to locate at Douglas, Arizona. The Mesaba Range has never produced a public man of finer calibre than former Senator Boyle of Eveleth. Those who know him best are his firmest friends, which is in itself an enviable tribute. Mr. Boyle goes to a good country, full of virile manhood, and there he will no doubt have a fine future. He is a clean, upstanding, conscientious young man of unimpeachable integrity, with those ideals of citizenship that come from clean living, clean thinking and a large appreciation of the fine talent with which he has been gifted as a successful attorney, as a public speaker and as a business man, and of its conscientious use. As a member gf the state senate Mr. Boyle was of especial value to the state of Minnesota and to the district which he represented. He was constructive, aggressive and able. He was influenced at all times by sincere motives. His defeat for the congressional nomination last fall merely emphasizes the fact that the good public servant is not always appreciated as he should be. The Mesaba Range will say goodbye to Mr. Boyle regretfully, but with him to his new field of endeavor will go the best wishes of many friends and admirers won to him through his fine integrity, brilliant ability and genial personality. Douglas, Arizona, is to be congratulated on securing a citizen of the type of Mr. Boyle. OPPORTUNITIES WE DON'T EMBRACE. $250 time to pay $800 the Duluth News-Tribune carried an interesting story from its correspondent at Tower relating how W. E. Walsten, farmer and logging contractor, once refused to buy the site of the Mountain Iron mine for and how also he declined once upon a for the present site of the First National bank building. The experience of Mr. Walsten, who is one of the pioneers of the Ranges, is akin to that of most of the early residents of this and every other section. He has nothing to feel sorry about. Maybe when he refused to pay $250 for the site of the Mountain Iron mine it wasn't worth it and no doubt $800 was once a high price for the lots upon which the First National bank building of Virginia now stands. There is unquestionably a large element of luck in the thing we call financial success. It isn't alto gether a matter of brains. Look at the people with scant endowment in that direction who have money enough to cremate a wet elephant. Nine-tenths of the men who have accumulated large fortunes will cheerfully admit that at some time or other they were lucky. It would be a nice thing to own the Mountain Iron mine or the site of the First National bank building. However, those opportuni ties are lying all around us today. If we but knew the right direction in which to take a chance—but what's tho use of longing. We never will. TWO-HOSS NIGGERS. in the thrifty little city of Anaconda, Mont., a few years ago, there was a negro character who sang a song and accompanied his vocal effort on a battered banjo, who was known to every resident of the city. This was his song, rendered with no little vain-glory and many flourishes not in the original score: "Lookout fer me and lemme pass I'm a ragtime nigger an' I'm mighty fass. I'll overbet the limit an' I'll throw somebody down. I'm a two-hoss nigger in a one-hoss town." Every town has its "two-hoss niggers." They are the people who take themselves seriously, perhaps for the reason that nobody else does. All of us know the "two hoss nigger." He always seeks a place in the sun out of all proportion to the one to which he is justly entitled. He is the man who likes to see hot local fights over trivial matters going on and is most energetic in setting in mo tion the machinery which starts them. Usually, too, he is the first one to fly up the creek when once they have been started. "The "two-hoss nigger" is always really a "one-hoss nigger." Beavers of his class are pretty apt to jam things up if they are given a free hand, but sooner or later they are properly classified and get their just deserts.' Beware the "two-horse nigger." He is every where. THE CRANK'S DESIRE FOR NOTORIETY. crank of the type of Frank Holt, who at tempted the destruction of the national capitol and the life of J. P. Morgan, seems to desire notoriety. All of them get too much of it. Holt promised yesterday to tell the story of his life today and the newspapers duly heralded the news. Just what there is about the life, of men like Holt that is of surpassing interest it is hard to appreciate. He should be forgotten. It is a national duty to ignore him for the effect such a course may have on other mental deficients who may find inspiration in his example, especially if it is a matter much talked and printed about. Half the readers of this newspaper are today unable to recall the name of the anarchist who assassinated President McKinley. The precedent estab lished at that time of totally ignoring men of his type has proven its usefulness. It is one that may be followed in all such cases with the best results. BEAUTIFUL LAKE VERMILION. (Northern Minnesota.) Stretching away among the pine covered hills of. the far north—far from the congested centers of population, lies Lake Vermilion, the Loch Lommond of America, un manned by the touch of civilization. The Chippewa still builds his tepee beneath the towering pines and drives his birch-bark over her sparkling waters. The timid deer and the lordly moose still come to her shores to drink, and gaze curiously at the traveler paddling by, as they did hundreds of years ago when the French voyageur was the only companion of the red man. It would be quite impossible to adequately describe the beauties of this body of water with its three hundred and sixty-five wooded islands, ranging from a hundred feet square to several thousand acres in extent. Most of the islands are covered with virgin forests of pine, tamarack, cedar, spruce and birch, and with the shore line clothed in the same manner a panoramic view of verdant beauty is presented. The scenery along the shores cannot be sur passed anywhere. Lake Vermilion is more than thirty-five miles long, and in width ranges from two hundred feet to eight miles. Its forest bedecked shore measures more than eight hundred miles. The elevation is over fifteen hundred feet above the sea level. Fogs and prolonged damp weather are un known. The general dryness of the atmosphere makes this region a very healthful one. The heat is not oppressive in the summer, nights are always cool. None but those who have spent a summer on Lake Vermilion can fully appre ciate its wonderful grandeur, its splendid fishing and its invigorating and healthful climate. Its waters teem with various kinds of fish, making it one of the most alluring spots on the globe for summer tourists, not entirely be cause of its splendid fishing and great water area alone, but because of its remarkable climatic condition. The celebrated canoe trip down Vermilion river, winding its tortuous course for 40 miles to Crane lake, thence across Loon lake, Lac La Croix, and Crooked lake to Ely, takes you through 200 miles of wild, picturesque country seldom visited by white men, a country where the Chippewa still roams his native wilds, and paddles his bark canoe over countless lakes that bear no name, and down immense primeval porests that have not known the sound of the woodsman's axe. Near Tower is Jasper Peak, the highest point in the state. Magnificent view of the surrounding country may be had from this mountain, taking in the mines of Tower and Soudan with beautiful Lake Vermilion stretching away in the distance. THE FRUITS OF SOBRIETY. (Christian Science Monitor.) There is a monotony about the statistics of temperance in relation to lawkeeping that is impressive, and that should be persuasive. The closed brewery, distillery and saloon bring to pass the emptied jail, poorhouse and asy lum give the prohibitory law time to work and let it be executed by its friends, which latter is an important de tail. Even where these houses of detention are not emptied they are depopulated greatly, so much so that it is difficult to resist the argument that one of society's chief preventive policies, would she solve many of her problems, is to sup press the liquor traffic. The latest case in point is the state of West Virginia with a twelve months' test of its first prohibitory law. Returns from thirty-five towns and cities show a 50 per cent reduction in arrests since the process of stirring men's passions and animosities with legalized sale of liquors ceased to be tolerated. If the law is enforced for another year the reduction will be even greater, and the same kind of results that have been seen in the prohibitory states of the middle west will doubtless be noted. As a sign that, as time goes on, the temperance ideal in states with legal prohibition takes on more practical forms, the official intimation of the governor of Kansas that all state employes hereafter appointed must be non users of liquor deserves rcognition. There is a logic to it that is unanswerable, and it carries the war into the region of the consumer, where hitherto it has been directed against the producer and the middleman. Gov. Arthur Capper has given a new turn to the issue involved in collective authority over citizens, but he has done it in a state where the prospects are good for a fair discussion of the political and ethical issues involved. With vast manufacturing and transportation corporations standardiz ing their employes' personal conduct in precisely the same way, and making economic tenure dependent upon abstin ence from alcoholic beverages, the custom of applying tests of sobriety to servants of capital is getting deeply rooted. BETTER BE A BOOMER. (Stillwater Gazette.) Better be a boomer be optimistic and cheerful. There's hope and prosperity ahead of us, although before it arrives no doubt the toll of human lives will be awful. But better business conditions are due, as is told by private bankers of New York, Barruch Brothers "The greater part of the civilized world is destroying itself accumulating fabulous debts. Devastation is everywhere, and we are waiting on the sidelines. Awaiting the days of reconstruction which are sure to come. Our factories are now working over time to meet the world's demands. The foodstuffs from our plethoric storehouses are levied upon to the limit of ships to carry the tons of plenty away. Bumper crops in sight and bumper demands for the entire output of our in dustries can only spell 'prosperity.' Money i« seeking permanent investment. Standard securities are compara tively cheap. Railroads must soon show better earnings because of big crops and big business. Do not let war clouds obscure your vision." BOOSTER YS. KNOCKER. (Exchange.) When the Creator had made all the good and beautiful things, in order that they might be fully appreciated He then made the beasts, reptiles and poisonous insects. When He had finished, He had left over some scraps that were too bad to put into the Rattlesnake, the Hyena, the Scorpion or the Skunk, so He placed these all together, covered it with Suspicion, wrapped it with Jealousy, marked it with a Yellow Streak, and called it a Knocker. Then as a compensation for this fearful product, He took a sunbeam and put it in the heart of a child, the love of a mother, the brain of a man, wrapped these in civic pride, covered it with brotherly love, gave it a mask of velvet, a grasp of steel, and called it a Booster. GET IN ON THE CREST OF THE WAVE. (Little Falls Transcript.) The gospel of a great and glorious Minnesota will be effectively spread through the medium of its 600 or more newspapers during the second week of October, according to plans outlined and adopted by the state editorial associa tion. Its wonderful natural resources, its unparalleled advantages, its abundant prosperity and its many, many great points of superiority will be enlarged upon by editors throughout the state. A boosting wave like that should accomplish great things for the state in general. Real es tate dealers should get in on the crest of the wave, as the overflow will extend even to the surroundyig states, HEftW STEEL Output Now Fifty Per Cent Greater Than It Was Six Months Ago. The steel trade enters upon the sec ond half of the year with production about 50 per cent greater than on Jan. 1, and with the increase in produc tion and consumption, which has been more marked in the past two months, still in progress, says the Iron Age. There is a general disposition to look for further expension in the remainder of the year. Steel bars still lead all finished pro ducts in activity, yet the general es timate of the steel industry and the exaggerations as to the percentage of output going abroad are based on the war boom in bars. A new French con tract for 25,000 tons of shrapnel bars has been awarded to the Bunalo mill, and new ^iar inquiry, which is large, includes 50,000 to 60,000 tons for ex port and 42,000 tons of 3 1-2 inch rounds for high explosive shells. Shrapnel and bars have only begun to figure in the export returns. Some structural jobs long in the air are now coming to the fabricators. For a Pennsylvania freight station at Chicago 1£,000 tons has been let to the McClintjc-Marshall company, and 5,400 ^tons for the Burlington bridge at Kansas City. The American Bridge companw is low bidder on 24,000 tons for the St. Louis bridge approach, on which deliveries run to July 1, 1916. Tin plate mills are coming into bet ter operating conditions, thanks to the demand from abroad. A new inquiry from France is for 140,000 'boxes. England and Italy are also buying. The Iron Trade Review says: Heavy shipments by steel makers now rep-j resent the predominant feature of the! situation. The tonnage moving intoj consumption in June has been the larg est in more than two years, with some of the more important producers. Mill operations now are more generally! around 75 to 80 per cent on the aver-1 age, with the steel corporation mills running at about 85 per cent. I YOUNG FOLKS GET TREAT AT CHAUTAUQUA Arrangements are being made to give the young folks at Chautauqua this year a still better time than they have had In past years, although it will be conceded by everybody that a great deal has been done for the children at' Chautauqua In the past year. This year a competent supervisor will have charge of the children's work In the forenoon, and under the able leadership of Miss Myrtle Parkes, who is an expert in her line, a play festival, games and journeys have been ar ranged which will lead the youngsters from six to fourteen years of age through labyrinths of pleasure and profitable pastime surpassing anything that has been attempted in Chautauqua lines before. The question has been asked wheth er additional charge would be made for this feature, but it can be definitely stated now that the Chautauqua man agement will make no extra charges to any child owning a Chautauqua ticket, as It will be entitled to all the privileges of the forenoon festivals. PCTERSONESTATE VALUED AT $20,000 Property of Eveleth Pioneer to Be Divided Among His Children. An estate estimated to be worth up ward of $20,000 was left by A. N. Peterson, Eveleth pioneer, who died July 1, according to papers filed today in probate court. The will devises the property in equal shares to his five children: Roy, Walter, James, Grace and Ruth, all minors. The estate, however, is not to be divided until the youngest child becomes of age. The will further provides that a sister, Christina Peterson, residing at Racine, Wis., shall assume guardian ship over the children until they be come of age. She is also named as one of the executors. The other exec utors are: Peter Norgun, a brother, living at Racine and George W. Peter son, a nephew, of Benton Harbors, Mich. George Peterson, one of the chil dren named in the will, died ten days before his father. The Peterson es tate consists principally of realty, al though it includes personalty to the value of $7,000. The late Mr. Peter son, at the time of his death, was en gaged in the lumbering and mining business. For a number of years he was a merchant at Eveleth. THIS THlN«j "Don't go into the street. "Close all windows and doors on lower floors. A school mistress writes advising parents to accustom their small child ren to the use of the respirator: "It would startle a child considerably," she notes, "to be awakened in the middle of the night and have a res pirator clapped over its mouth." There is no unanimity of opinion even among the police authorities as to the proper mode of procedure for house holders in case of Zeppelin at tack. In most places the police have advised people to go into their cellars, but the chief of police at Windsor is sure this is inadvisable. His code of directions, which reads with a matter of fact common sense almost Yankee in its directness, is as follows: "Do not congregate in one room or in the basement, as has been freely recommended. Some of the bombs recently used crashed through roof and floors to basement and then ex ploded. Again, if gas bombs are used, the cellar with doors and win dows closed is not a haven of safety. "In a few words: In the event of an air raid, put your trust in Provi dence have something efficacious on the premises for coping with afire in its earlier stages clench your teeth and do your best." TURKISH NEWS IN GREAT VOGUE (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.) HAMBURG, July 7.—Turkish news is in the greatest vogue in Germany at the present time. German papers have just printed, as an evidence of the growth of occidental ideas in Turkey, a story of the increasing freedom of women telephone operators in Constantinople. Though there was the utmost op position at the start to the idea of Turkish women violating their cen tury-old traditions by entering the ex changes and "exposing" themselves to the public, this feeling has almost entirely died away. To facilitate their work the authorities have allowed them to abandon the prescribed Turk ish headdress and wear a cap that does not interfere with the telephone headpieces. Women have become so proficient— so indispensable in fact—that a woman, Miss Osman, has ben placed in entire charge of the Stamboul ex change. When the telephone opera tors {attempted recently to conduct an outdoor picnic along occidental lines, however, all the old-time prejudice arose, and a policeman spoiled Hie whole affair by forcing the women to sit down with their backs to Hit FROM BAD TO WORSE ZEPPELIN DRILL USE CARTOON AN INNOVATION IN RECRUITING (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.) (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.) LONDON, July 7.—"Zeppelin drill" LONDON, July 7.—Many London has now taken its place alongside the shop windows are displaying a new familiar fire drill in some London fac- cartoon poster drawn for the recruit tories and business places. In a few ing office of one of the home defense cases respirators have been provided regiments. It shows a typical British by employers and weekly or fort-1 father before the war, resigned to nightly respirator parades accompany middle age, bent and loose-limbed and the Zeppelin drill. the same father today, upright, full- For households, advertisers are! chested, and martial in deportment, furnishing neat placards with "Di-: The cartoon illustrates one of the rections" for conduct in case of air! great topics of the day among the raid. One such card bears the follow- thousands of business men who have ing brief instructions: taken up military training in the home defense regiments. They are all men over 40, who undergo daily a course of training extending over an hour or two, and who are in many cases Keep buckets of water and sand r* DAILY N£WsfeAig,v "fOUBtW if ptORLC W O.sS* (HJV0IO BY CfltBMlto*, fingers LOST* IARS rOHM OFF hair Qu&neo 3RU "to OH, NO-NOTHINQ NEW, JUST the 5AME OLD STORY* Tnnnn marVelling upstairs. thereby wrought in their figures. Have respirators handy in bed- Men at the transformation wh0 rooms. sage, baths, diets, and drugs in vain, A housewife writes to a newspaper I now find that war drill has conquered to describe the steps she has taken to the advancing waist line. protect her household: "Every night the bath tub upstairs is left half full of water. On every landing I have buckets of water and sand. In every bed room there is a bowl of water ready for moistening the respirators, and all my famiy have been advised to keep their respirators under the pillow so as to be within easy reach." neo* fought nature with mas- JAPAN VOLCANO BECAME ACTIVE (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.) TOKIO, July 7.—Great alarm among the nearby inhabitants and interest among scientists was caused by the sudden eruption of Mount Yarigatake, one of the best known peaks in the Japanese Alps. The vibrations of the mountain which were felt for many miles culminated in a considerable flow of lava and a discharge of soot laden vapor. The surrounding coun try to the north of the city of Mat sumoto was showered with ashes. The rivers became discolored and much damage was done to the silk industry through injury to the mulberry leaves. The last eruption of this volcano oc curred in the spring of 1913. You cant make money with the time that has passed nor have a Bank account until you start one" 0SEDTO8E HORRIFIED 6Y FOURTH OF JULY ACCIDENTS NOW, NO HORROR STARTLES. WHATS ir» THE N 6W$. I RIDES BAD BRONCHO DARING COST HIS LIFE WING, N. D., July 7.—Injuries from being thrown from a broncho resulted fatally to Herman Haltunen, a Finn, who recently arrived here. He had been celebrating with some country men and was unable to ride the ob streperous animal he selected for his mount. When ordering your groceries don't forget to ask for John son's Best Loaf. It's good bread. Here's a few comments of our customers on our rough and dressed lumber, shingles, etc: "The best I ever used." "Your materials are the kind that one can depend upon." "There's no chance of being dis satisfied when we buy of you." "Your figures are certainly low." You'll have some comment to make like the above if you patron ize us. Andrew Grande 101 SPRUCE ST. 1 4 SIMS —All the rough places and the deep ravines of despair in life are easily bridged with a Bank account. —It is the safest shield for protection and once you begin to save yon will be convinced it is the' only road to comfort and wealth and we might well say health, because you will be happier when you form the habit of saving. Start to-day with One Dollar. 3% Interest Paid On Savings. State Bank of Virginia