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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-08
WHAT ocwE0 Is SAYING.

We do not like to write at night in
Cove City. The coyotes in the suburbs
make such a racket that we can't make
our thinker work right.-GOve City Ad-
VOcate,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-08

An Atchison man will shortly resign
his job, to marry a school teacher.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-08

We hear Of weddings and rumors of
weddings. If any get away it is not
our fault for we are crippled and can't
run mo morn a rabbit. ''-NOrcatur
Register.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-08

Every one should travel: it broadens
his mind to get away from those who
know him
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-08

One Minute Cough Cure cures quick
". That's what you want George w
Stans6eld, 632 Kansas avenue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-08
GLOBE SIGHTS.

From the Atchison Globe)
When a head swells, at doesn't hold
any more.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-08
REFORM SCHOOL ESCAPE.
JOHN SCOTT IN AFRICI

The Long Missing Kansas University
Law Student Heard From.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-02-02
Is 1t Weird?

l know small boy, aged eighteen
months, whose grandfather was once
a union soldier. The old man good
many months ago carried the boy about
the house on his shoulder, singing
Marching Through Georgia." and
waving On American flag. The young
ster soon learned to associate the flag
with the 'Hoorah, hoorah," and when
he was taken out for drive he cheered
"Rah! rah!' at every flag he saw. He
even cheered the black picture of a
flag in newspaper. The family were
proud and amused, but could see Moth
ing specially forward in that. Other
babies had learned to say "Rah! rahr'
at sight OF the stars and stripes.
The other day, however, the infant
snatched his fathers hat, and spying
in the lining a black and white picture
of Il continental soldier with a gun, he
promptly shouted his 'Rah! rah!'
Now, there was something that had not
been taught to him. The child had
never been left alone simple waking
moment, and it was definitely known he
had never seen a soldier He knew
nothing that could connect contin-
entail soldier with the stars and stripes.
Then how did he make the connection
There is something for Mrs. Annie
Besant and the other believers in the
astral body to fit into their philosophy.
1t isn't wonderful; it is weird.-Boston
Advertiser.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-02-02
GOOD LOOKS BROUGHT RICHES.
Titled Member of the Italian Chamber
of Deputies Once Footman.

Altieu MemDer OF the Italian Cham Der
of Deputies Once Footman.
Among the titled members of the Ital-
ian Chamber of Deputies is a man with
truly singular history. Once, not long
ago, either, he was Jean Ventino, and
exercised at Trieste the humble arts of
an ordinary footman. He had no an
cestors, so far as anybody took the
trouble to discover, but he was hand
some and strong, and when he man
aged to secure employment in the
household of certain Principessa
Odescalchi, he displayed these advan-
tages to such effect that the princi-
pessa, who was a maiden of many
years and more sensibilities, bestowed
upon him as a slight expression of her
esteem the sum of 100000 lire. 1t
takes several of these to make dollar.
but 100000 are worth something like
100000, and Jean Ventino readily adj
mitted, after receiving the gift, that
his merits We're not unappreciated.
Instead of remaining at Trieste, how
ever, he betook himself and his wealth
to Naples. There he easily found an
authentic but impoverished nobleman.
and argued with him so persuasively
that az soon as the legal papers could
be made out the ambitious youth was
legally adopted by the obliging aristo-
crat. This turned Jean Ventino into
the Prince of Carovigno, with right
to hold his head high in most places
where he cared to do so. Still he was
not content. He wanted wife and a
career. With characteristic speed he
married an American heiress, and, re-
firing with her to more or less lordl5
estate in PietraSna, he entered earnest
ly upon the task of spending money
and accommodating popularity. Succeed
ing in both directions, he was elected to
the chamber, only to be sent home
again as under the requisite age. Elect
ed again as soon as time had removed
this difficulty, certain peculiarities of
his campaign methods Initiated his
claim to seat among the legislators.
Undiscouraged, he has tried a third
time, has surmounted every obstacle,
and is now a full-f1edged lawmaker.
Who can say that there are no oppor-
tunities in the old world for rising rap
idly from the ranks ?-Boston Tran
scriDt
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-02-02
Silk Mart in China.

Hang Chow, about 200 miles south of
Shanghai, is great silk emporium, not
less than 1000 hand looms being en-
gagged in the manufacture of silk of the,
finest quality, all that is required for
the imperial household being made
here. Although opened TO foreign trade
only since the japanese war, the ma
tives are fully alive to the advantages
of that trade, and foreigners are not
subjected to the abuse heaped upon
them in other parts OF the empire. The
city, which is thirteen miles in circum-
ference, has ten gates, and is clean,
prosperous and beautiful, with temples
and pagodas placed upon the hills and
empowered in honeysuckles and bam-
boo, while the surrounding country is
well cultivated, especial attention be-
ing devoted 10 mulberry culture.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-02-02
The Holiday Barometer.

A holiday trade unprecedented in va
riety and vt'ume is reported from eT-
cry part of the United States. Hardly
without exception the retail merchants
of the cities, towns and villages tell ct
4 trade that surpasses that of the holi-
day period of 1896 by 10 TO 80 per cent,
and all are agreed in saying that the
percentage of cash sales to the total
was never before so large.
There is no more reliable trade bar
ometer than this. This year the mer-
curry of holiday shopping has risen high
in the tube, and there is no installing
its indications. Not only are tines cas-
Ter, but money is more plentiful and
more generally apportioned in the peck
cts of the masses than at any time IN
ths past four years of free trade strin-
gency, Increasing bank clearances
show that this is the case. Money Is
not being boarded In nervous dread and
anticipation Of hard times ahead, but
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-02-02
An Effective Illustration.

There are two Washington girls who
We're not only ardent believers in pro-
tection-in the shape of the Dingley bill
but had the courage Of their convic-
tons, by which they profited. Believ-
ing Mckic'ey'sl cionmeant protection
and consequently high prices for wool,
last November they invested $1,S40 in
a band of sheep. A protective tariff
law was enacted, prices of wool adj
yanced. End the girls profited by their
fait.i and good business Judgment, sell
ing S2,226 worth of wool this yea, and
receiving 1920 for their sheep, q net
profit of $4,000 ON an investment Of
Si,640 year ago. This is only small
illustration of the benefits of the tariff
law to the farmers of this country, but
1t is plain and near at home, therefore
more effectiye.-Tacoma Ledger.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-02-02
An Underground CITY.

In Galicia, in Austrian Poland, there
is remarkable underground city.
which has a population of over 1000
men, women and children, scores OF
whom have never seen the light of day.
1t Is known as the City of the Sale
Mines, and is situated several hundred
feet below the earth's surface. 1t has
Its town hall, theater and assembly
room, as well as a beautiful church dec
grated with statues, all being fashioned
from a pure crystallized rock salt. It
has well-graded streets and spacious
squares, lighted with electricity. There
are numerous instances in this under
ground city where not single indi-
vidual in three or four successive gea-
erations has ever seen the sun or has
any idea of how people live in the light
of day.--New York Herald.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-02-02
Difference in Durability.

1T isn't at ali safe to judge by APP
pearances," said the restless boys faith
er.
"Yes," replied the mother, "peopie
are very deceptive"
And so are inanimate objects. You'd
never think, merely judging from ex-
ternal indications, that the heavy pair
OF shoes l bought that boy was only
going to wear for six weeks, while his
fragile-looking Latin grammar will last
MIN lifetime. Washington Star.
1t is better to keep children to their
duty by a sense of honor and by kind
ness, than by the fear of punishment.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-02-02
The Queens Cigars.

1t is well known that Queen Victoria
has a great dislike of smoke, so much
so that she does not allow smoking in
her immediate neighborhood. And yet
the cigar bill for her guests is a very
heavy one. The principal item is the
thousand of the finest Havana cigars,
which are specially made for her and
sent to Windsor in glass tubes hermet-
ically sealed. 1t is said that the Queens
cigars could not be had even in Cuba at
wholesale prices under five shillings
apiece. The men who make them re.
ceive 80 cents for each cigar, and nore
but the oldest and most skilled work
men are inlrusted with their manufac-
ture At this rate they can earn a
small fortune, for 300 cigars day can
be turned out by the most expert cigar
makers
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-02-02
News of Minor Note.

Prof. Taschenberg, the entomologist,
is dead at Halle.
Secret societies at Denver are waging
war on department stores.
The United States ambassador to Great
Britain, Col. John Hay and family, will
sail from Genoa on the North German
Lloyd steamship Prinz Regent Luitpold
for Egypt for tour up the Nile.
The condition of the health of Empres,
Augusta Victoria of Germany excites
comment. She will go in the spring to
some Southern air cure Her physicians
still forbid her leaving her rooms.
The Dominion cabinet which has had
under consideration the case of Mrs. Olive
Sternaman, under sentence to be hanged
at Cayugn, Ont, for the murder of her
husband, decided to grant her new trial.
At Holhrook, Ariz., wild dogs are caus-
ing great loss to the ranch owners b,
killing stock.
At Ravenna, o., while walking with
his sweetheart, Cornelius O. Eatinger
quaFreled with the young woman. Sud
denly he pulled a revolver and without a
word of Warming sent bullet through his
brain, FILLING dead at his sweetheart's
feet.
a chattel deed of trust has been filed
by NJ. w. Alexander, proprietor of one OF
the oldest retail drug houses in st. Louis.
to Charles w. Wall, treasurer of Meyer
Brothers Drug Company. Liabilities
amount to $4,000. The cause of the fall
ure is not given.
j. F. Draper & Co. of Ashland, n. H.,
who failed recently for $4,000, have set
tied with creditors satisfactorily and a
new corporation has been formed.
Hens are responsible for the outbreak
of a gold craze in Clay County, South Da-
kota. In the gizzard of every one killed
recently were found particles of yellow
metal. Experts pronounce it gold a
karats fine.
A contract for a long term of years has
Just been executed and confirmed by the
Mexican congress between the Mexican
Government and the Western Union Tel
egraph Company for the exclusive inter
change of telegraphic business with Mex
ico
Prof Joseph Austin Romney of San
Jose, CAL, has been adjudged insane and
ordered committed TO the State hospital
at Agnews.
The San Diego, Cal, Common Council
has awarded n railway franchise for a
right Of way 100 feet wide through the
city limits in order TO secure a railroad
directly eastward to the Colorado river.
The last ceremony connected with the
official ina guration of the Rio Grande,
Sierra Madre and Pacific Railway was
performed in Ciudad Jarez, Mexico, when
Gov. Miguel Ahumada, acting for him
self and the representative Of President
Diaz, officially chrlstened the railway the
Sierra Malrc Lire.''
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-02-02
This is what the Dingley law is do
ng, and will do. 1t is a good law.
A Return to Normal Prosperity

A Return to Normal Prosperity.
In the showing of business failures
for 1897 there is made plain a marked
reduction in the percentage of the com
mercial death rate as compared with
every year since and including 1898.
Comment to this effect is made by
Bradstreet's in it's review of the rec
ord of financial disasters for the year
just closed. There is heavy falling
off, alike IN number and in liabilities,
of those individuals, firms or corpora
tons succumbing to the pressure of I'M
favorable circumstances, primarily in
dicating return of prosperous condi-
tons in general business.
The returns show for the year 1897
total of 1900 failures, against 15,112
in 1896 and Il, $50 in 1893. This was
decrease of more than 1900, or 1873 per
cent. from 1896. The comparison is
also made with the panic year, 1893,
and with 1891, year when business
was generally very prosperous. By
comparison with 1898. the failures this
year were less by 10 per cent. and with
1891 by % per cent. The statement is
also made that the liabilities of the
firms that failed this year We're less
than they have been in four years.
No more conclusive demonstration is
possible of return TO the normal con-
dition of prosperity which prevailed up
to 1898, when the advent to national
power of the party of free trade was
followed by the most prolonged and Sc
we're industrial and financial depression
ever known in the history of the Uni
ted States
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-02-02
THEY DO NOT SPEAK.
Man and Wife Have Not Addressed
Each Other for Eighteen Years.


Each Other for Eighteen Years.
John Stewart and his wife, of Mata-
wan, N. j., have Tot spoken to each
other in eighteen yeats. Mrs. Stewart
Is devout Methodist. Her husband,
to whom she has been married thirty
six years, is an atheist, For love of this
man, whose views are so radically diff
ferent from her own she has contin-
ued to live and work that he might
have home, but for eighteen years
they lave not exchanged word. All
this time the two have lived in a tiny
house, where they were constantly
thrown together, and yet each has car
ried on a separate existence. For many
years they lived as happily as any man
and wife could live, and then the SER
pent entered their paradise. 1t came
in the form of doctrines of anarchy,
which the husband began to study. He
became an enemy of law and order
and loved to argue on the points of his
new belief Then, to be still more at
variance with his rural kind, he read
Volta.re and other writers opposed to
the Christian religion and next he was
an atheist These departures into So
called advanced thought were a great
sorrow to The devout helpmeet, and
gently dill she try to win him back to
the belief in which he had been born
and bred. The husband resented these
pleadingS. The wife feared that her
husband would cease to love her if she
continued to play the missionary. She
made compact with him. They were
neysr to speak again. There could then
be no quarrels about anything. He
agreed, glad, he said, to be exempted
from what he called her nagging. That
was more than eighteen years ago, and
as yet they have not exchanged word.
A cat has been their Intermediary I'll
the years of silence. Not the same cat
all the time, for cats would come and
go, but they had always had one cat
or another to act as the go-between.
If the meal was ready the wife told the
cat. The husband heard the message
and sat at the table. If the man want
ed anything at the table he made his
wishes known to the cat, and so it has
been for eighteen years.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-02-02

much has been said and written of
Western Canada, and the new provinces
forming it, he has been led to give the
subject some inquiry, and he has been
shown letters written to the Canadian
Government from delegates sent out by
friends to inspect the country.
One of these delegates who was sent
to Western Canada says: I'm under
taking to give a description | fear
shall not be able to give it justice, for
hardly know where to begin or when
TO end. For a plea for my judgment,
| will assume, for an Illustration, the
experience of man who went from
place to place in search of wife, and
finding so many of good qualities and
attractions, was unable to determine
which to choose, so in looking for a
home in Western Canada | like the
country well, and two of my boys are
going this fall they have siace gone,
and each has a homestead, where
am satisfied they will do well. The
lands which / have seen are far supe-
rior in every respect and beyond my
expectations. Lakes and streams to be
found in all districts abound with innu-
merable kinds of water fowl, while fish
are very abundant. On all sides we see
iunumerable stacks of grain, proving
beyond doubt the fertility of the soil.
On either side of the track can be seen
in addition to the grain herds of cattle,
horses and f1ocks of sheep. l have
Travelled over great portion of the
Western States and | have seen nothing
to compare with this country. One
hundred and sixty acres of land are
given free to actual settlers, and saw
cases where as high as $50 pei core had
bee:l cleared in one year. do not wish
to advise anyone. but as for myself
shall leave as soon as | can arrange my
affairs" The agents of the Canadian
Government are now at work organic
ing excursion parties, and the Depart
ment of the Interior at Ottawa, Canada,
will be pleased to supply the infOrma-
tion TO those who are not within reach
of an agent.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-02-02
Knocked (uf

1t knocks out all calculations of at
tending to business in the right way
for a day when we wake up in the
morning sore and stiff. The disappoint-
ment lies in going to bed all right and
waking up all wrong. There is a short
and sure way out of it. Go to bed after
good rub with st. Jacobs Oil and you
wake up all right; soreness and stiff
ness all gone. So sure Is this that men
much exposed in changeful weather
keep a bottle of it on the mantel for
use at night to make sure of going to
work In good fix.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-02-02
MEET TO URGs REFORM.
National Monetary Conference Called
to Order in INDIANAPOLIS.

National Monetary Conference Called
to Order in Indianapolis.
The monetary conference which opened
in Indianapolis Tuesday afternoon was
the result of movement started by the
indianapolis Board of Trade little more
than one year ago. This commercial body
took upon itself the Inauguration Of q
movement whose primary purpose was
monetary reform. Without any assurance
that the object of its endeayor would be
realized in a national sense, the Board OF
Trade issued invitations to commercial
organizations of the central west, which
brought together the nucleus on which
Tuesdays national convention rests.
The cities sending representatives to the
first conference were Cincinnati, Chicago
Cleveland, Columbus, Grand Rapids, ST.
Louis, indianapolis, Louisville, Milwau
kee, Minneapolis, ST. Paul and Toledo
This conference determined to call gen
eral convention of the trade and CONNER
cial organizations of the country, to meet
in Indianapolis Jan. II, 1897, to consider
the currency question in a non-partisan
way. In response 20 this call there as
sembled in Indianapolis on the date nam
ed 300 delegates, representing the bust
ness interests of 10S cities in II States.
Following the Instructions of this con
vention a committee of eleven was select
ed to formulate currency reform plan
After months of evidence and discussion
in Washington this committee completed
its report, which was made public Jan. B.
Tuesdays convention, which was much
larger than the first, was called for the
purpose of submitting the plan and secur-
ing its adoption. The convention was
welcomed TO the State by Gov. James A.
Mount. Leslie NJ. Shaw of Iowa presid-
ed, and G. Stuart Patterson submitted
the report of the committee of election.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-02-02
STILL, THERE Is MONEY INT


Carl vollen sold $3.50 of Saizer's Cab
bage. Labor, seed, rent and all did not
cost him $50, profit $500. You can beat
that and make lots Of money on Eariyi
Radishes, Peas. Lettuce, Mushrooms,
Onions, Sweet Corn, Tomatoes, P0ta-
toes, etc. SAILOR warrants his seeds
the earliest in the world. Potatoes only
$3.50 per barrel. Millions Of Raspber-
ries, Cherries, Apples and small fruits.
Catalogue tells all about them.
Send this Notice with lac. Stamps to
John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse,
Wis, and get free their big Plant and
Seed Catalogue and 10 packages vege-
table and flower seeds, novelties worth
S10n G. NJ
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-02-02
In oil Sorts of Weather

He tried the best physicians and used
several specific rheumatism cures without
being benefited. About one year and six
months ago he read in this paper of a
case somewhat similar to his which vas
cured by DIR. Williams Pink Pills and
concluded to try this remedy.
After taking the first box he felt some
what better, and after using three boxes
the pains entirely disappeared, the dzzi-
ness left him, and he has now for over a
year been entirely free from all his former
trouble and enjoys better health than he
he has had since his hoyhood.
He Is loud in his praises of DR. Will
Jams Pink Pills for Pale People, and will
gladly corroborate the above statements.
His postoffice address is Lorenzo Neeley,
Horton, Jackson County, Michigan.
All the elements necessary to give new
life and richness to the blood and restore
shattered nerves are contained. in a con-
densed form, in DIR. Williams Pink Pills
for Pale People. All druggists sell them.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-02-02

InYenfnr's Reward.

A young man employed at 81 80 day
in one of the factories in New Britain,
Conn, recently invented an attachment
to n machine on which he was working
which promises to be of great value.
-Four men were employed on this ma
chine prior to his invention, and its use
was about to be abandoned because Of
the expense attending the running of it.
The young man dey rsed an attachment
which, when applied TO the machine.
permitted enc boy to attend ii, and he
can turn out as much work as the four
men could previously. This machine
is run regularly every day, and 1t is
doing good work at a saving Of Sc day
over former cost. The president OF
the company gave the young man n
check for sos.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-02-02
DEAD LINE is PASSED.
DECEMBER REVENUES EXCEED
GOVERNMENT EXPENSES.
Imports Beginning to Resume Normal
Proportions and tie Dingiey Tariff
Is Vindicated, Both as to Protection
and Customs Rec cipts.
Deficit Shouters Are Duu,b.


In the matter of the complete vindi-
cation of the Dingley law as furnished
by the cord of revenues collected dur
ing the month of December, 1897, the
American Economist claims an especial
right to say: I'VE told you sou siren
uously, in season and out of season, the
Economist has insisted that with the
return of anything like normal condl-
tons as to imports the law would yield
ample revenue. In fact, the explicit
prediction has been made in these col
umns that with the month of December
he dead line of comparison between
the Wilson and the Dingley laws would
be passed.
The dead line was passed in Deem
Der, the revenue for that month being
more than 100000 in excess of the
revenue for December of the previous
year. The revenue receipts for the first
five months of the Dingley law and