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Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-11-22

produced themselves and peaches,
ounces, pears and grapes are in abund-
ance A man who had a stock farm on
the island for some reason abandoned
the undertaking several years ago and
turned his live stock loose. Cattle,
sheep, goats and pigs are now found
in a wild state, so that the colonists arc
likely to have some good sport.
The sea swarms with Goldfish. which
should provide occupation for anglers.
The settlers are likely to be abundant
ly supplied with meat, fish and fruit.
The island. which is in the Pacific
Ocean, has been occupied by a few
German and Gillian families, number,
ing about fifteen persons in all. 1t is
now proposed by the Gillian govern
ment to turn the island into o colony
and about 80 hardy Chilians will form
the nucleus of the settlement, which it
is proposed to christen "Crusoe's ISL
and"
The cottage which Selkirk built and
which Defoe describes still exists as a
broken down shanty.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-11-22
vuLGARlTY or The EXCLUSIVE.

Simplicity and Cordiality Are the True
Signs of Goofs Breeding.
In a very canuid and plain-spoken
article on '"Tne G~raciousness of High
Breeding in the Woman's Home Com.
panion, Ella Morris K~retschmar makes
these pertinent remarks: Men and
women who by contact or travel know
the worlds best society need not be told
thai simplicity and graciousness are the
invariable characteristics of the high
est breeding. If this fact could only
reach the minds of that class of people
who talk of 'exclusiveness,' of four
hundreds of the 'yulgarity of trade
of not knowing any one outside of our
set what a grateful social change
would be wrought. That cold stare
OF the would-be elect is but the expires
sion of an under-bred, poverty-stricken
SOUL What is 'exelusiyeness?' 1t is
that human policy which shuts individ-
uals off from the enjo, ment of their
kind, hy which society gains, since an
inharmonious element S thereby re-
moved. How pathetic Is the isolation
of the determined a~ristoc.at, especially
in a small town where, other stirring
interest lacking, human relations mean
so much. Could even a Divine micro
scope detect the difference between the
naked souls of a bankers and a grocer's
wife? How infinitely stupid it is to
draw lines in small places instead of
honestly enjoying all there is to enjoy.
II one has had superior advantages, is
there no obligation to give pleasure, to
make sunshine in others lives because
Of that good fortune? The time is at
hand when Intelligence will be too wide
spread, progress to a more vigorous
plane of thinking too real to admit of
men and women looking askance at one
another to make mental invoice of So
clal, financial or other probabilities?
VIII 1t not soon nenetrate the dullest
brain that wealth, rauk oil leadership
are powerless as shields against unhap-
piness, or as props to mental, moral or
physical deficiencies: that there is pos
itiyely no honest or sensible basis for
judging individuals excepting individ-
uality?'
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-11-22
Barrel Organ in a Church.

To attend a church where the music
is supplied by a barrel organ must be
very like stepping into a bygone CEN
fury. but it is an experience which the
pa%rishioners of Trottiscliff-a Kentish
village within twenty-five miles of
London-can every week enjoy. It's
adherence to old customs may be par
doued. for a church was standing at
the time of the Domesday Book, and
the existing c~ilancei is more-than 500
years old. Its pulpit is the one that
stood in Westminster Abbey until 1924.
The musical capabilities of ii barrel
organ are limited. but the %parishion-
ers of Trottisclitf have a choice of
sixty, there being six barrels each sup
plying ten tunes-most of them very
old fashioned.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-11-22
Oh, the Pain of
Rheumatism!

Rheumatism often causes the most in
tense suffering. Many have for years
vainly sought relief from this disabling
disease, and are today worse of than
ever. Rheumatism is a blood disease,
and Swift's Specific 10 the only cure, be-
cause it is the only remedy which can
reach such deep-seated diseases.
few years ago I was taken with infamn.-
tory Rheumatism, which became 50 intense
that I was for weeks unable to walk. l tried
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-11-22
Murderer Dead In His Cell.

Ransom C. Wiltse, an old soldier, who
was sentenced to life Imprisonment for
the murder by poison of Mrs. Mary Ed
gar, was founu dead in the county Jail
at Milwaukee. He told one of the ~jailers
after he was sentenced that he would
never go to prison. and wrote letters to
his sisters, leaving them a few trinkets.
The circumstances suggested suicide, but
a post norton showed that he died from
natural causes
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-11-22

France in wal has 1000 soldiers to
15,407 inhabitants, Germany in war
has 1000 soldiers to 1T,427 inhabitants,
Great Britain In war has 1000 soldiers
to 72,413 inhabitants. while under the
House bill during the late wal the
soldiers to about I91.000 inhabitants.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-11-22

Before the Revolution in France il
was customary, when a gentleman was
invited out to dinner, for him to send
his servant with a knife, fork and
spoon; or, If he had no servants, he
carried them with him in his vest
DOckpt.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-11-22
LOCATION OF soLomon.s MINES
Supposed to BE Near Where Transvaa1
War Will Occur,

| Supposed to BE Near Where T~ransvaa1
War Will Occur.
The present prominence Of the Trans
vaal from a political aspect makes
everything connected with that region
of special interest. The country. though
it has only in comparatively recent
times attracted the attention of our
present civilization, has had a past, a
very remote past, civilization of which
all records and even traditions have
disappeared, but which has left it's
a number of stone ruins of peculiar
structure, the purpose and probable
history of which is now puzzling
psychologists.
These buildings are scattered over
the plateau of southern Mashonaland
and Matabeleland, from its mountain
Gus edge on the east to the neighbor-
hood of Tati on the west. They con-
sist of fragments of walls built of small
blocks of granite resembling paving
stones, about a foot long by six inches
high, Clipped or trimmed to a uniform
size. They are built without mortar
or cement, but the stones are neatly
adjusted, and the walls, which taper
from the base toward the top, are SO
thick that stability is insured. The
only characterization consists in placing
some of the stones at an acute angle
to the other layers above and below,
SO as to produce a herring-bone pattern.
The group of ruins which have at
tracted the most attention are situated
seventeen miles from Fort Victoria, in
southern Mashonal.nd. They are
known by the name of the Great Zim-
babnye. This Bantu word is said to
denote a stone building, but has often
been used to describe the residence of
a great chief. 1t is a common noun
and not the name of any particular
place. 1t has, however, been applied
by Europeans to these ruins, which
consist of two buildings, n on The top
of q hill. the other in a valley.
Simple and rude these structures I'M
doubtedly are, but for what purpose
were they built and by whom?
An explanation of a historical char
acter has been suggested. The Egyptian
monuments teach us that in very re-
mote times there was a trade from
southeast Africa into the Red Sea. In
the book CT Kings we find that Solo
mon ard Hiram of Tyre entered into
a trade venture from the Red Sea port
of Ezion-geber to a cou1try named
Ophir, which produced gold and dia-
monds. Other historical facts are con
firmatory of these and indicate at some
very remote time this region was visit
ed by a people in search of gold, who
were much more civilized than the
Kaffirs, but the mystery is not yet
solved. Are they the lost diamond
mines of King Solomon
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-11-22
Three Generations OF vanderpilts

Cornelius Vanderbilt was born on the
9th of November, 1913, and according
" was SO years of age al his death.
His father, William H. Vanderbilt,
was born May s. 1921. and died Dec.
s, 1885. or In his sixty-etighth year.
Commodore Vanderbilt was born May
81, 1894, and died Jan. 4. 1877. or at
SO years.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-11-22
Hydraulic Cement for Peach Borers.

BNlFaHEfN NEH1NIfN taNHI n
Prof. Smith, Of the New Jersey lex.
pertinent Station, was quite successful.
in combating tree borers By mixing by.
draulic cement with skim milk and ap-
plying to the trunks Of trees. This
forms a continuous coss:ng and viii re
main in good condition during the entire
summer. The Larvae can not penetrate
it and a surface Of this kind will not be
selected by adult Insects for the deposi-
ti9n of eggs. In all cases the cement
should be broken up with a stiff brush
when the danger season Is over.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-11-22


several prominent physi-
clans and took their treat
ment faithfully, but was
unable to get the slight
est relief. In fact, M con-
dition seemed to grow
worse. the disease spread
over my entire body, and
from November to March
, I suffered agony. l tried
many patent medicines,
but none relieved me.
Upon the advice of .
E- AnA4lAA A. 49,
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-11-22
Commits Arson for Revenpe.

Frederick Engel, whose home is oppo-
site La Crosse in Minnesota, pleaded gull
ty to setting the FIRE at which Fireman
Sinclair was seriously injured. He stat-
ed in court that it was not done inten-
%tionally, but he had told the detectives
he vas beaten shaking dice in the saloon
of the man who owned the barn, and
started the fire to get even. Judge Wy
man sentenced him TO the penitentiary
for five years
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-11-22
Farmers Build Te1ephone Line.

Farmers in the town of Eagle Point
are organizing a new telephone stock
company to build a line to Chippewa
Falls. where a central exchange will be
put in. 1t is the intention of the new
company to take in capital from the city
and extend the line to other places.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-11-22
The Jap nese Aristocracy.

The better class of Japanese do not
live in the treaty ports of Japan, which
Life in these towns is so different from
the real life of japan that il is impos-
sible-to get an idea of the country from
them.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-11-22
4 pem.rkrhe Titeness.

Mrs. Mctirorrity-Tis a fine pictber
you have Of the ould man, it is.
The widow O'Branaghan-Isn't 1t,
now. II is that nanir.l yez can almost
hear i'm swearlns.,
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-11-22

The men are gradually, by their in
yentions, making all work easier for
the women, except the catching of
them for husbands. which they are
making harder.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-11-22
Two Men Blown Up.

John Mcdonald of Eden and NJ. Flynn
a railway bridge gang, were badly hurt
aud burned and the railway pumping
house blown to splinters by an explo-
sion of natural gas at Eden. Mcdonald
entered the well underneath the pump
house with a torch. intending to make
some repairs. The explosion immediate
~ followed, blowing him out of the wei!
Flynn. who was in the building at the
time, was blown completely through the
roof, landing three rods away. The ex-
tent of injury to the men has not been
ascertained
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-11-22
Disappeared.

Putt-What | want to know. sir, is
If you referred to me as a born liar?
Terr-No. sir. | don't believe you
learned to talk SO soon as that.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-11-22

rather sarcastic respects to the ladies
for their rather precipitate displeasure
n their hasty resolution of n0n-as-
ISOLATION with the men. He disap-
proved of their annual Halloween
dress parties, in which girls masquer-
ade in mems clothes, as calculated to
inspire some lawlessness. He eau
toned the girls against suffering a
blight upon the bloom of their delicacy
by DOMINIC male attire. which, he as
serts, had in other days occurred. He
thought that If the girls really wanted
to apepar in masculine garh, they
should send home TO their fathers or
brothers for said garbs, and not resort
to the mems wardrobes for the needed
garments. Altogether, the tor of his
remarks seemed to he a sort of semi
coDdonement of the action Of the boys
on the memorable parade night; and
many of the girls are indignant. and
think his structures rather unneces-
sary.
Scofeld Going to idaho.
The announcement that Governor
Scofield. Mt the end of his present term
will remove to the state of Idaho and
| that Attorney G.. Il. Roe, the virtual
III ltillntl 1Itt trAutC DOt4lltdi sup
porter of Robert NJ. LaFollette will
sever the partnership and open a law
Office in New York, simpllfies and also
completes the political situation In
this state. 4 new Republican leader
Is inevitable, and there is much specu.
lation upon whom the mantle of au-
thority will fab. On the other hand.
the Roe-Lafollette affair is Interesting.
Who Will become Mr.. LaFollette's
partner and who will be the new lieu
tenant of the IaFollette faction, are
| questions which are being asked Mr..
Roe is conceded to be one of the best
supreme court lawyers of the Madison
bar, and his loss TO the party cause
he so ably supported in the recent cam
paign viii be serious.
When Mr.. Roe made the statement
last spring that he was out of politics
his friends hardly knew what to make
of it. But now that he has announced
his intention of leaving Madison. the
cause of the statement is made clear.
He had already decided to abandon a
field in which no preferment came to
reward long. %unfagging party work.
Mr.. Roe is cold. clear-cut. analytical
and unruffied, and possessing unusual
abilities. ('riend and foe alike concede
that he will be successful in his pro-
fession even in the crowded field of
Gotham.
Miss Gwyneth ID. King of Chicago,
TO whom Mr.. Roe was married in New
York recently, has been a co-worker of
Mrs. r. M. LaFollette here in the
Emily Bishop league. Mrs. LaFollette
IS fin enthusiast on physical culture,
being president of the local Emily
Bishop league, and just now, while the
political gossips are giving her mag
netic husband a respite. she is attract
ing considerable attention throughout
the state by her labors in that line.
ORLANDO BURNETT.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-11-22
EriendIv Commiseratlon.

Proud father surveying his new
born)-Don't you think he looks like
me?
Jealous visitor-Yes. poor little thing!
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-11-22
Tree. H.x hneciaI Gnsrdian.

The trees in the streets of Paris are
looked after by a public official appoint
ed just for that purpose, and there
fore the Partisan streets always look
teautiful.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-11-22
MoTHER,s FRIEND

xOx1kIr1N E0AxzFxN0
will overcome all ills peculiar to the
period preceding childbirth, and will pre-
pare the delicate organism directly in
volved for the final ordeal. Mothers
Friend is not an internal cure-all, but a
scientific liniment approved by medical
authority and established by years of
successful use.
Sold by druggists for il. Valuable
book, Before Baby is Born" sent free
no application.
the BRaDfiElD ~REeulArca Co.. atlanta, Ga.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-11-22

8. 8. 8. Before flowing me to take 1t, how
ever. my guardian, who was . chemist, ana
lyzed the remedy, and pronounced 1t free Of
potash or mercury. / felt so much better after
taking two bottles, that ! continued the REM
edy. and in two months I was cured completely.
The cure was permanent, for / have never since
had q touch of Rheumatism though many
times exposed to damp and cold weather.
ELEANoR M. TIPPELL,
Sill Powelton Avenue, Phiisdelphia.
Don't suffer longer with Rheumatism.
Throw aside your oils and liniments, as
they a not reach your trouble. Don't
experiment with doctors--their potash
and mercury will add to your disabil-
ity and completely destroy your 9iges-
kiou
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-11-22
A Petty Lswsuit.

A suit to recover % cents occupied
the attention Of the court in Geneva,
n. y, for two days.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-11-22
THE BADGER STATE,
NEWS or THE WEEK coNcISELY
CONDENSED.
Brave Motorman Saves Nine Lives-
Lozenge Chokes Travelling MAJ TO
Death Desire for Revenge Makes an
Inccndiary Murderer Dies in Cell.

William Framer. a motorman on the
Racine and Kenosha street railway, saw
ed the lives of nine passengers by stick
Ing to his post in a car Of which he was
in charge. AT the same time Framer re-
ceived injuries which may result in his
death. The ear was soutn bound in
Clinton street, Milwaukee, and was
caught by a train Of freight cars propeJI
cd by a switch engine. The motorman
reversed the current. but not quite soon
enough, as the vestibule of the car was
hit b., she train and ground to pieces.
Framer was seriously injured internally
and terribly bruised.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-11-22

Consumption.
Its prevention and sure q speciality s
dowzLL's MEDICAL AND SURarcAL INsri
gurn, La Crosse. Wis.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-11-22
Meets witb 1 Peculiar Death.

o. r. Ryan, a travelling man in the emf
ploy OF the Lowe Silverware Manufac-
Turing Company of Chicago, died sudden
ly and in great agony at the Athearn. in
Oshkosh. He had been ailing with sore
throat and a bell boy, who answered a
hurried call to his room, found him gasp
ing and writing in agony. He told the
doctors a lozenge he attempted to swai-
low had gone the wrong way" All
efforts to relieve failed and he died APP
parently from s~nffocation. He lived at
Reedsburg.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-11-22

About one German woman IN every
twenty-seven works IN a factory.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-11-22
TWO LIVES.

upon the
strength and
condition of an
e1pectaat moth
er depend not
only her own
life bu, the life
and perfection
of her child.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-11-22
Blood

VIII cure perfectly and permanently.
Il 10 guaranteed purely vegetable, and
contains no potash, mercury, or other
mineral. Books mailed free by Swift
Specific Co., Atlanta, Ga.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-11-22

Bills for expenses at the State charita-
bic and penal institutions for October
have been allowed by the boar of com
troll a~ggregating $53, 7S5. 20. ME ex-
penses of each institution were: State
hospital, $S.493.65; Northern hospital,
$11,115.S3; school for deaf, So, 751.72;
school for blind, $3,401 "a; industrial
school for boys, $5.319.69; State prison,
$9,324.6S; State public school, So, 777.33;
home for feeble minded, $5,501.7S; re-
formatory. $3,o9S.4S.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-11-22

The Supreme Court has reversed the
finding of the lower court in cutting
down the amount of the Judgment given
George f.. Grouse, an engineer at James
vile, against the Northwestern Railway
Company for injuries in al accident. His
engine was ditched at a defective culvert
The lower court gave him a verdict for
$4,000 damages. The Supreme Court
reverses the decision, but gives him the
option of accepting $4,000. Judges
Dodge and Winslow dissented from the
reversal.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-11-22

The State Board of Assessment has
completed the State tax roll for the two
years 1899 and 1900. The tax for 1900,
to be collected next January, will be
$4,000 less than was collected this
year. The tax this year was 81, 492, $40,
and included money for the general fund
for both 1899 and 1900.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-11-22

The Supreme Court has affirmed the
decision Of the Dane County Circuit
Court by which Register of Deeds Rein
dahl is allowed to keep the fees of his
office in lieu of a salary of $1,S00 voted
him by the County Board. The fees are
between $4,000 and $1,000. A law was
passed by the Legislature of 1897 allow
ing County Boards to fix the salary of
the office. This law was omitted from
the statutes by the revising committee and
led to the present suit, which was watch
ed throughout the State as a test.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-11-22

Neenah and Menasha have been trou-
bled by an organized gang of boy thieves
| who have for the last month committed
many bold robneries. The gang seems
to be made up of several youthful rogues,
and the police are at a loss how to cap
ture the boys and put an end to the rob
| berries.
Seier Jorgensen, a Danish farmer 7 40
lives near Valley junction, has received
word from the United States consul at
| Copenhagen that he Is one of the heirs
to an estate left by an aunt who has
recently died in Denmark. The amount
of the inheritance is not known, but will
be a small fortune to each n of the
heirs.
The Appleton hunters who are return-
mig from the neighborhood of Thunder
! river, in Marinette County, report that
there are a number of packs of wild dogs
which are raising havoc with the deer in
that region.
Geols Ziegler, candy manufacturer of
Milwaukee. is experiencing a startling
transformation which leads man. to sus-
peel that he has found the fountain of
youth. His hair is turning black, al
though he is 10 years old. The change
has been going on for six weeks, and it
Is now a well-defned black. although it
has been gray for over forty years. No
dyes or applications of any kind have
been used by Mr.. Ziegler.
Il south bound Eastern Minnesota pas
sengcr train struck and killed IN I'M
known man neal Dedham. The rlan was
evidently drunk.
The little 2-year-old daughter of Prof.
Even. one of the faculty of the Wiscon-
sin Business University at La Crosse,
met with a most singular accident. and
the child's life was oaiy saved by the
meres, sessrt after doctors had exhausted
their resources. The child swallowed a
button, which lodged in its throat. Doc
tors JAILED to remove the obstruction.
Finally the mother removed the bottom
with ar ordinary shot button hook. The
child was then black in the face from
choking. and was unconscious,
Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1899-05-04
Most Costly of Gems.

According to a table showing the rel
alive value of gems and Jewels. pre-
pared by London firm, tine diamond
no longer occupies the first place among
precious stones. Ii has some very dam
gerous rivals for that honor among the
colored gems. Pearls, rubies and sma-
ragds are rated much higher at present.
The most fashionable stone just now is
the smaragd. and this because il is be-
coming more rare every day. \
smaraed of moderate size and clearness
which five or six years ago could have
been bought for $50 commands $3.50 to-
day. \ threc-carat smaragd sold for
Ssi5. while one of six carals brought 81
600. 4 diamond of the same size and
clearness as the latter would bring only
$1,000. The ruby stood higher in price
than the smaray,l last year. II must
not he inferred that diamonds are los
ing their value, for. this is not the case.
The changes are caused merely by the
good or bad finds of precious stoncs.--
y. y. Herald.