Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-01-26
THE JUDGES PLAY FAIR
Two of the Five Pay Clerks Less
Than 500 Month.
IF WISCONSIN ONLY HAD COAL.

IL Would Make the Iron Country Rish Be
yond Dreams That Live Under
GrounG-Coilege Women Succeed What
Blaine Said About Mothers--Women's
Insurance Orders Two Important Meet
ings Soon to Occur.
Madison, Wis, Jan. 25.-Not all the
men in the public service are grabbers
at the state treasury. When the last
legislature voted to allow the supreme
court judges to have assistants doubt
less the cynics expected to see every one
OF the judges put their appointees on
the payroll at 800 a month-sI, 200 a
year. The act is worded that this
amount shall be the maximum, the in
ference being that If the judges do not
need high priced stenographers or legal
assistants the pay should be fixed at
less than the maximum. Three Of the
Judges chose older assistants we'll worth
the maximum. Judge Winslow has a
niece as assistant (the only LADY,;
Chief Justice Cassoday has young fell
low who helps him.
The list as reported by the treasu.ers
office is as follows: Judge Marshall-G.
G. Glazier. (per month"; 500; Judge Pin
ney-Ed H. Smith. 500; Judge Newman
w. S. frazier, 500; Judge Winslow-
Clara Lathrop, s75; Judge Cassoday,
Paul c. Thorn, $50,
Biggest Mine I'm the World.
In the coal mines Of Pennsylvania
are mules that live under ground all the
| time. They work, feed and sleep down
| In the mines: indeed it is said some of
them are born down there and never
| see the light of day, but are buried in
the bowels of the earth when their
weary life is ended.
| 1t may surprise some to know that In
| Wisconsin there are mules that work
| in the iron mines, though the four in
| the Montreal mine, six miles west OF
| Hurley, are brought TO the surface ev-
| cry night They are let down in the
skips," which carry cage for them, to
shafts 500 feet deep. Here they drag
cars of ore from the rooms, where the
| miners are at work, to the shaft. One
| mule does the work OF six men. The
cars run on toy railroad tracks laid for
| the purpose. The ore Is lifted up to the
| surface by means of the engines located
| at the top and sometimes 1000 tons are
| pulled up in day.
AS is well known, the famous Norrie
mine at Ironwood, forty miles from
Ashland, has been bought by Carnegie.
| 1t now gives work to about 400 men.
| In the flush times it employed 1,400
men, and was said to have surpassed
the worlds record for annual output
| 100000 tons of iron ore. Ironwood was
laid out in 1885, and in less than two
years the community numbered 1900
| people. At first one could scarcely see
a painted house in town. OF course,
with so many men hurriedly brought
together from every cline, there were
| dives and saloons galore and dancing
| houses. But Hurley, just across the
little Montreal river. enjoyed the repu-
tation for being the toughest place in
creation.
When the Dance House Thrived,
1t was in those days that Kate Bush
nell made her Investigations and star
tied the country with variations which
Jerry Rusk and other officials disa-
vowed to large extent, The Norrie
mine was operated by the Illinois Steel
company and 1t must have made lots
of money. Much of the ore went to
Va
but now 1t goes by lake to Cleveland.
The fall in the price of ore and other
causes operated to break the importance
of this industry for the present. Then,
too there was an absurd boom In much
OF the mining-some properties without
any ore in the ground being listed at
100000 value. OF course, If this min
ing territory to the north of US had coal
at command, so that the ore could be
worked UP on the spot, 1t would IA
tigue the Imagination to conceive of the
prosperity that would befall it. For
years the mining companies kept pros
pectors hunting for coal, and even now
there are occasional rumors that the
b ok diamonds are found on the Brule.
But the biologists say 1t is impossible,
and in the meantime must be brought
with a big freight bill from southern
points.
Smart Men and Their Bright Wives.
College women are making themselves
felt in Wisconsin. The state university
is proud of Miss Rose G. Swart, the
Oshkosh normal teacher who was re-
Gently elected president Of the state
Teachers association. This was an
honor that real merit won and refuted |
much politics in the association. Miss |
Ellen C. Sabin, who is at the head Of |
the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. college, is an
other graduate. She is a self-made |
woman; but 1t is good stock. A sister, |
another college girl. was superintendent |
of the schools In Dane county for two |
years. There was some opposition, es- |
pecially from the Germans, who hold |
tive fG 20 thn 30
women; but she did such good work |
that they sustained her. The Sabin |
girls come from Windsor, Dane coun-
ty, the home of Ella Wheeler Wilcox. |
They have an especially fine mother.
James G. Blaine once said he had /
known a good many inferior sons of /
strong mothers; but he had never |
known a forceful man, a strong man /
of character and success. who did not /
have behind him remarkable mother. |
BY this he did not necessarily mean
highly educated woman, but what they
call in tae country a smart" woman
of energy, character and ambi io1 for
ner boys. And this law is as ,rue as
that of gravitation. 1t is impossible for
a weak, vain, light-headed women to
bear successful sons. And 1t seems to
be True VI SuCCeSSlul OduSutSIS DIS wei.
But even when a mother does give
good material to the world, the father
is pretty sure to step in and claim the
credit. They tell the story of Scotch
man: Some one was congratluating
him on his two sons. one minister and
the other lawyer. Yes" the old man
said in the DIALECT, but had known
was to have two such fine boys, Jennie
McCosh would never have been their
mother"
College Women of Note.
Our Madison college women who have
achieved note are Mrs. Mary Howe
Shelton, once county superintendent in
Oneida county: Carrie e. Morgan. city
superintendent in Appleton; Mrs. Clara
Baker Flett of Merrill and her sister,
Mrs. Cakes of New Richmond, who
have been visitors" to the university.
Mrs. Kate Pier and her three daugh- I
ters, all graduates of the law depart
ment, take high rank at the Milwaukee
bar. To the daughter, Miss Kate II.
Pier, belongs much credit for recent
changes in the laws of the state ad
vancing the rights of women.
Strangely enough, some of these
smart women have bright husbands! |
Mrs. Flett's husband cut brilliant fig
ure in the last legislature, and he is a
candidate for attorney general on the
Republican ticket. Mrs. Gertrude Girls
void Buckstaff, whose husband was
speaker, and a candidate for the sem