Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-09-13

but the women of the town refuse to
let her teach and insist on a male
teacher. The unquiet set is a difficult
n to please and just as the world is
getting down to being ruled by women
1t appears that woman won't have it.
As the saying gees. God made the
world in six days and then rested. Soon
after He made Eve, since which time
no one has rested.
Country People Not So Shreua.
A woman in Barron county has is
sued in a Rice Lake paper a warning
TO the public against purchasing a note
given by her to one of the steel range
concerns. She says that the note was
obtained by deception and misrep1e-
sentation. The rogues go through the
country selling a range that cost $14.15
at wholesale. for SOS, allowing the vic
tim to pay for it in notes. The III
cess OF the enterprise shows that
try people, while proverbiaIly close"
and shrewd in small transactions, are
eullible when confronted with a good
talker from the city with a big thing
to lay before them.
Judges and the Railroad Pass.
People in this state at least are get
ting sensitive as to travel on passes"
by Officials who still have the rigtt to
do it, despite the new law federal Off
cia!sl. TWO Milwaukee judges took a
trip to the Pacific coast recently with
a high railroad official. They presum~
ably travelled free. At all events when
a peoples" newspaper sounded one Of
the judges his answer in substance
was that it was none CT the newspa-
per's business.
| see that Judge Beeman of the forty
fourth judicial circuit of the state of
Indiana has returned his passes to the
railroads with a letter saying that he
cannot be true to his path aud duty
ii under the slightest obligations to a
corporation.
To Empty Cars in q Hurry.
Eastern papers are advocating with
considerable earnestness the establish
ment and enforcement of a rule to
make passengers on railroad cars get
on the car at one end and get off at
the other. 1t will readily be seen that
if people learn to enter cars at the rear
and leave them at the front, those get
ting on and those getting off will not
get in each others way. the operation
can be much FASTENED and a good deal
Of discomfort avoided. Much time also
will be saved. Most railroad men adj
nit that the idea is a good one. A
notice in the cars to leave by the front
exit would settle that. part of it before
long, and the brakeman standing at
the car steps could regulate the en-
trance.
The Matter with Louisiana.
The New Orleans Picayune has been
wondering why Massachusetts with
onl twice the population OF Louisiana
Il, 100, 000) and only one-fifth the area,
has yet twenty times more money to
lend than has Louisiana, and why have
the people of Massachusetts more than
200 times as much money in savings
banks? The ~Picayune's conclusion is
that Massachusetts has been made rich
by manufacturing.
Massachusetts has ATS. 900 persons
engaged in manufacturing while Louis
lana has but Al 600. The Picayune
concludes that Louisiana people occupy
themselves in producing raw material
at a low price for their yankee fellow
citizens 10 convert into articles OF
greatly multiplied value. The Plea
yune is good enough to observe that
it requires some enterprise TO do this.
Enterprise is a very important factor
in all material progress and prosper
ity.
| marvel, however, that it does not
take into consideration the leisurely
habits of southern whites and the
shiftless mass of its great white pOpu-
lation. 1t makes not the least mention
of these crucial factors which suggests
that the writer OF the Picayune has
never visited Massachusetts. Practi-
cally every a~ble-bodied man and d
great body of its women are hard
workers, eight and ten hours a day.
To this grim. long-cOntinued habit of
industry, rooted in centuries, is due
Massachusetts prestige in wealth.
getting. The sun must temper its
rays the genial. easy southern temper
ament must change its mood; the ne
gro race will need centuries 10 make
itself over before these two common
wealths, at the antipodes of economic
status, can be intelligently compared.
Wisconsin's chief claim to superior
ity among our western states is its di-
versity of resources. Farming is only
one of our activities. If crops fail up
north. the farmer can go to work in
the pinery, manufacturing, mining,
transportation. fisheries.
Wisconsin has twenty strings to her
bow. ORLANDO BURNETT.