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Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-10-05
Important Information for House.
keepers.

keepers.
For those who are accustomed to send
Ing away from home for their goods 1t is
of the greatest Importance to know the
character and reliability of the establish
ments selling goods to families from cata-
logues. The great emporium Of the John
M. Smyth Co., located at $50 to 1855
West Madison street, Chicago, has been
established for third of century, and
has furnished over half million homes
in Chicago and vicinity alone. This firm
enjoys the confidence Of the public by its
many years Of fair dealing. It issues an
immense illustrated catalogue that should
be in every family, as it describes and
gives the price Of every article required
for household use. A sample Of the ex-
traordinary values offered by this firm is
shown in the illustration Of elegant lace
curtains at CSC in another column Of this
paper. These curtains are indeed won
derful values, and yet they are but
sample Of the thousand and one useful
articles illustrated and described In the
beautiful catalogue Of the John M. Smyth
Company.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-10-05

Good breeding Is the result of ,n,,c,,
s souu sense. some good nature, and 4
n1tie sef-denial for the sake Of others
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-10-05

The Deadly Grip Of Pneumonia may be warded OF
with Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar -
Fixes Toothache Drops Cure in one Minute
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-07-05

There was such a violence of demand
for free silver coinage in 1896, backed
by such fervor of ~oratorical effort to
show that Tie way to industrial recu-
peration vas only along the line of par
tial reputation, that thousands of hon
est men of all parties were swept from
their sound money m~oorings. But since
1896 times have changed. The country
has prospered. and a deluge of gold has
swept into the markets of the world.
Mems minds have also changed. There
has been q popular reaction on the
money question similar to that which
followed the Democratic excursion into
the delusiye field Of greenbackery in
1865. Whilst Democratic leaders. with
pardonable human weakness, still talk
OF sticking TO the Chicago platform,
there Is no longer any serious defense
of "16 to L. nor any serious intent to
make the silver issue the paramount
question to be determined in 1900.
Even the majority of the members of
the Democratic National Committee
are no longer rampant. They pass sill
yer By on the other side, and turn their
faces toward real issues. They know
that the Democratic party Is drifting
back to the support Of the J~effersonian
doctrine Of the lnviolate preservation
of the public faith. Despite the efforts
of enthusiasts and theorists and OF
leaders who conceive thsr political
fortunes to be bound up in keeping the
silver issue alive, Mere Is no answer
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-07-05
cLEyELAND STRIKE Settled.
street Car Wen and the Company
Reach an Agreement

street Car Men and the Company
Reach an Agreement.
Cars are running on ali the lines Of tho
Big Consolidated Street Railroad Com
pany in Cleveland. The big strike was
settled Saturday night through the efo1ts
OF the Council peace committee after all
hope Of settlement seemed gone.
This committee drew MP a set Of arti-
Giles OF settlement which both sides read
ily signed, and the trouble was over. Cars
were started early Sunday morning. The
agreement provides for the hearing OF
grievances and a resort to arbitration in
case the men and the company cannot
agree. and it also provides for the rein
statement of practically so per cent OF
the old men at once. the remainder, ex-
cept those who have been guilty of vio-
ienee, being placed on the waiting list.
Only II outbreak attended the resump-
ton of traffic. There was objection in
some parts of the city 20 the retention Of
the %non-union men who were kept by the
company.
A party of twenty-five men assembled
near the Brooklyn bridge, just south of
the city, and whenever a car came along
with a n%on-union crew the passengers
were asked to d~isembark and wait for a
car manned by a union crew. In most
cases the passengers did as requested.
Finally a non-union conductor under
took to argue with the crowd and he was
promptly struck over the head with o
club, and he and the motorman driven
away. The mob refused to permit the car
to be moved until a union crew came
along and pushed it to the barns.
A member of the company says the
company expects most of the %non-union
men to leave now The strike lasted just
three weeks. The men practically gain
ed what they were after, tacit recognition
OF the union and arbitration Of differ
anrac
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-07-05

Acting for NJ. Elisee Reclus, the noted
g~eographer, NJ. Hourst of the French
navy has applied TO the city of Paris
for permission to begin the construc-
ton Of the colossal terrestrial globe,
intended TO be one of the attractions OF
the next universal exhibition.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-07-05
Moody Took Down the Bully.

A few years ago, when Evangelist
Moody was preaching in the slums in a
large city, he was delayed in leaving
the hall till late i'll the evening, relates
the Ladies' Home Journal. The exit
was IN q back street, and as he left the
building he found a number OF roughs
waiting to annoy him. AS he walked
along he heard them say: Here he
comesp.' and they prepared to iostie him
from the sidewalk. Going straight up
to the ringleader. Mr.. Moody held out
his overeoat, and, with self-possession
that commanded respect, said:
"My friend, won't you just help me
on with this overcoat? l am not quite
SO active now as / was Mt your age,a and
some day, when you are as old as 1 am,
I'll be glad to do you the same favor"
No bully WAS ever more completely
taken back with surprise. He held the
oyercoat for the evangelist to get into,
and then, thanking the young man for
his aid, Mr.. Moody went along unmo-
Tested.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-07-05

when nature fails to assert itself, develop
ments result which injure the health and
impair the constitution of the maiden,
The timely use of Bradfeld's Femafs
Regulator, the standard remedy for an
weaknesses and irregularities peculiar To
women, is what retarded nature needs IN
all such cases. Sold by druggists for 81.
Books for women free.
THE BRADFIELD REGULATOR Co.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-07-05

sirable to reduce the number of ber-
rles produced in order to have them
grow larger and finer.
In the drawing, which represents an
old dead cane that bore fruit last sum
mer, a is the main stem or cane, at b
are several bad buds which have
thrown out unproductiye or blind
shoots (e) from small buds at their
base; C, C, c, show lateral branches that
were pruned too short and having only
blind shoots growing from them; d, d,
are lateral branches that We're not
pruned, showing where the berries
were produced last summer by the
hulls still remaining on the short twigs;
at C the main stem was cut, lea wing a
few "a good buds ON it. II YOU want
blackberries to yield large crops do not
plant on rich soil; they arc more hardy
and productive ON rather poor or e,e-
waited land. Give clean shallow cul-
ture, or thoroughly mulch, and last,
but not least, don't prune too closely.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-07-05
BIackbcrry

The mistake often made in pruning
blackberry canes is q ut them too
short, writes Levi Be-. In American
Gardening. There are in most varie-
ties several buds on each lateral
branch nearest the main stem that
very seldom produce any fruit, often
those nearest the main stem remaining
dormant when properly. not severely,
pruned. There are also in many cases
several buds ON the main stem, just
above the highest lateral branch, which
have slightly started to grow in the fall
yet did not make lateral branches.
These will not produce any fruit. The
main stem above the lateral branches
should therefore be left long enough to
secure some coed buds above the
worthless ones above mentioned: If not
it may as well be cut back to the upper
lateral branch. is the lateral branches
are short and stouS, with large plump
buds clear to the tips, they need very
little pruning, except when it is de-
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-07-05
MUD BATTERIES FOR M.klnLey.

Being convinced that President Nc
Kinley Is to be renominated by the Re
publican party, the thick and thin or
gans of Democracy seem to have con
WINGED themselves that the exigencies
of the Democratic situation demand
that the President be abused. AL along
the line the mud batteries are being
opened up.
The st. Paul Globe recently signal
lied its entrance upon this kind of
warfare by making an unusually viru-
lent attack upon the Chief Executive.
It characterizes the President as the
mere complaisant tool OF a number of
professional politicians. 1t says that
no one has thought of him IN any other
character for a year past. 1t declares
that no n In national politics has re-
garded him during that period as hav-
ing any personal force whatever.
Newspapers that talk in this fashion
do but proclaim their Owl desperation.
William Mckinley is to-day the most
popular mar In the United States. He
Is to-day more popular than any other
President since Lincoln. Tie common
people, as Lincoln termed the masses,
trust him implicitly.
Republican newspapers will be but
wasting their time in any attempt to
answer these systematic denunclations
of the chief executive. Their own viru-
lence robs them Of all force. They will
prove boomerangs, every n of them.
"No force in the President say these
detractors. mo initiative in the White
House" Have these worthless forgot
ten how the President maintained him
self against the united forces of mug
wumpery and Democracy. aided by
traitorous and d~isgruntled Republicans.
when they were trying to force this
country to recognize the paper republic
of Cuba in order that certain bonds
might be yitalized, and the American
army and navy put under the direction
of the Cuban %junta? If so, their mem
tories are exceedingly short. Simply
because Mr.. Mckinley has beer a man
of quiet methods, he has often been
called weak, even by his frienGs. But
there has never been any ground for
the charge. He has always stood by
his convictions. When his tariff bill
and all the principles Of protection
seemed to be ~repudiated by the people,
he stood courageously by his standard.
He did not so much as think of apol-
ogy. He simply waited for the turn Of
the tide, conscious that they who at
tack the right but wound themselves.
While it will be disagreeable to have
the Democratic press assailing the
President without sense or reason, Re-
publicans can afford TO be very COM
placent about 1t. They cannot harm
Mr.. Mckinley, and their tactics will be
a benefit to the Republican party from
the standpoint of practical politics.
Cedar Rapids Republic
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-07-05
pooro f ii.

The art of putting two and two to
g%etller' is humorously exempllied in
this dialogue from the New York
Weekly:
Mrs. De Gree-How did you manage
10 get home so early tonight? yoC
said there We're to be a number of inl.
tiations.
Mr.. De Gree prominent Mason
The limitations had to be postponed.
All the regalia, draperies, and SO forth
had mysteriously disappeared.
Mrs. De Gree-Aha! Now I've found
out all about you Masons. So its rue
after all, and you said it wasn't.
Mr.. De Gree-What's true?
Mrs. De Gree-You keep d goat.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-07-05
Dewey ms a Cor, nauder

W
Lieutenant Dewey was the executive
officer Of the Mississippi when she at
tempted to run the batteries at Port
Hudson, on the night Of March Is,
1863. The vessel ran aground, and be-
ing under the guns of the batteries was
riddled with shot, and sunk.
The forethought Of Dewey provided
the crew with a valuable aid for fight
Ing the man-os-war at night. All lights
were out aboard the ship, so that the
enemy might not have an Illuminated
target TO FIRE at But Dewey had tlfe
decks OF the Mississippi whitewashed,
so that the guns crews could see the
smartness marked his arrangement at
Manila.
AS a commander Dewey was popular
with bis men. He could get along with
any man except a liar; could hear or
see what should be seen and heard,
and could be blind and deaf to petty
Irregularities. He had to punish-the
regulations obliged him-but he had
a way of ordering the release of men
he had to sentence before their sem
fences were hall worked out. A mes
senger In the Navy Department, who
made a cruise with him-the gossip is
reported In Watterson's History of
the Spanish-American War'-mys:
Dewey was the best llberty-grant-
ing skipper l ever was shipmate with.
He hated to keep q~uarantined men
aboard when the good-conduct men
were fiocking off to the beach. One fine
Christmas day in Genoa harbor all the
men entitled to shore liberty lined up
at 10 o'clock in the morning to answer
muster before taking the boats for
shore. There were about forty Of us,
myself among the number, who We're
! Guaranteed for having raised Cain
| ashore In Nice a few weeks before.
"Our quarantine was for three
| months, and wasn't half run out on
| this Christmas day. Dewey stood al
the break of the poop with bis hands
on his hips. watching the liberty party
line up.
1--WE fellows that couldn't so were
standing round the gangway, smoking
our pipes and looking pretty down IN
| the mouth. The big liberty party--there
were a couple Of hundred men In Jhe
| batch-inally got away.
Dewey watched US for a while oul
| Of the tail OF his eye. Then he walked
uD and down, chewing his mustache
: and now and then shooting o look al
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-07-05
Haxemerer on the TrnataL

Henry O. Havemeyer, of the sugar
trust, is giving some triumph to indis-
Greet Democratic editors. He is repre-
scented to have said that the true com
munism of pelf is the customs tariff
BILL" He has declared that the tariff
is the mother of the trusts" All the
trusts, he contends are creatures of
tariff legislation. The Democrats who
intimate that Havemeyer talks as an
expert on this trust business are cor
rect, though in a n different from
what they realize. The sugar trust
was allowed by the Democrats to draw
up the sugar schedule of the Mills bill
the bill which defeated the Demo
racy In 1883. The trust framed the
sugar provisions of the Wilson-G German
act of 1S94-the 'perfidy and dis
honor tariff, to use CleveIand's desig-
nation for it, the tariff act which
Cleveland refused to sign, allowing it
to become a law by the expiration of
the time limit. Mills, Wilson, German
and the rest of the Democratic leaders
gave the sugar trust q good many
favoss, which the trust, it was under
stood, reciprocated by subscribing
handsomely to the Democratic cam
paign fund in 1888, 1892 ana 1896.
Hayemeyer ought to feel kindly to-
ward the Democratic party. I'm
doubtedly he does feel that way. He
would be glad to give the Democracy
a lift at this time. but he is mistaken
in supposing that his sort of talk will
injure the Republican party. The Re
publican tariff is not the mother or the
father of the trusts. The Republican
tariff creates home competition, and
thus makes trusts difficult. Trusts
are as numerous in England as they
are In the United States, and England
Is supposed to be a free trade country.
Trusts are sure to arise under all sorts
of a fiscal system, though the Democ-
racy, In the instances mentioned, went,
it is true. a little out of their way to
give fayors to the sugar trust. Have
mayer is a Democrat, and for very
good reasons. He voted for Cleveland
in 1883 and 1892 and FOR Bryan in 1896,
because of the aid which Cleveland's
and Bryan's party gave him In allow
ing him to fix up the sugar schedule OF
two tariff bills to suit himself. In call
ing attention, however, to what Have
meyer is saying now against the Re
publican party the Democrats are n
wise. They VIII revive the recollec-
ton of the offensive and defensive alli-
ance between Iavemeyer's combine and
the Democratscparty in two or three Ia
tional campaigns. and will provoke an
inquiry into the cause of that alliance.
st. Louis Globe Democrat.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-07-05

Notes of Current Events.

Over $4,000 miners, Monceau, France
struck for higher wages.
Slight earthquake shock felt in Sal
Francisco. so damage.
Seven persons suffocated in a burninI
residence, Stetten, Germany.
Rochester, y. Y, street railway com
pany increased wages 10 per cent.
John Sebree, wealthy farmer, Owe
County, KY, convicted Of passing coun
terfeit money.
jeff Dunlop, so, st. Bethlehem, Tenn.
killed by a rock thrown by Stephen c
Meriweather, is. Arrested.
Military order Of the LsYal Legion OF
the United States elected Dear Admira
w. S. Schley commander.
Bennett Lukens, father of Albert Lu
kens, boy murderer, Cincinnati, died from
grieying over his sons act.
Chinese papers are bowling over the &C
ton of the Italian minister in trying Il
grab a nsval station il China.
John G. Wood, Mount Sterling, Ky.
has been renominated railroad commits
sioner for Kentucky, district 3.
Wesley Richard was arrested in London
for attempting to pass money stolen from
Paris bank when 100000 WIS taken.
Harry Wilson, the alleged wholesale
stranger, who escaped from San Fran.
cisco, was captured ar Santa Cruz.
Robbers secured 500 from the Wagner
Palace Car Company at the Grand Cen
trail depot, Cincinnati.
Columbus, Ohio. trades assembly will
demand radical changes in the platforms
of the political parties ID Ohio.
Interstate co s1G.ssion, New
York. is investigating the freight rates
charged on -four to Eastern ports.
Board OF Trade, Portsmouth, Va.
wants the Government to return the
Reina Mercedes to Spain to show Amer
ica's good will
Abbott-Duson Coal Company, Capital
100000, Incorporated ct Trenton. VIII
improve land In Louisiana.
Body of Surgeon John Gibbs. first off,
Ger killed in the Spanish-American war.
was inferred at Newport, X. /.
slaj. John A Logan. U. s. VI. has been
assigned TO duty as assistant adjutant
general, department Of the gulf.
Four bronze guns, relics from Manila.
have been placed at the grave OF Capt.
Grailez, Erie, Pa, late Of the Olympia.
Rev. q. J. DaAIke ran away from Hills
boro, Kan. with Mrs. G. W. Fink. The
lafter's husband arrested and h~andcuffed
him at a rsYiyai, Solstice. Wash.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-07-05
Altogether Absurd.


The complete change in the business
and industrial condition of the eouL
TT. since 1896 makes Bryan an alb
~surdity.-New York Times.
The Times is really beginning to see
light. 1t ought to go a little further,
though, and see that 1.-THE complete
change in the business and industrial
condition of the country since 1885,
which has been brought about by the
restoration of protection in the shape
of the Dingley law, has made the
Times, with its belief in free trade and
its advocacy of the adoption of free
trade by the Democratic party as its
campaign slogan for 1900, quite as
much of an absurdity as it has made of
Mr.. Bryan himself Econ
omist.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-07-05
BIG ST. RIM IN NEW ENGLAND.
Rain, Hail and Lightning Do Great
Damage in Vicinity of Boston.


The southeastern portion of New Eng
land was the center of heavy electrical
storms the other night, in which a com
bination of the elements wrought extern
siye damage, hail destroying crops anf
breaking window glass, rain causing
washouts on lines of suburban street rail
ways and electricity wrecking building.
and causing some loss ofslife.
AT Sandwich, Mass, an electric boil
killed Abram Ellis, but did not injure hi,
wife and child, who were in the same
room. At Fall River several structures
were set on fire, including the Globe yarn
mill, but the losses were not great.
In Wareham, three men in a vehicle
took refuge in a barn. The lightning de.
molished the structure, killing the horse
and two men, Perry and Westgate, and
injuring the third.
New Bedford had a very severe expert
ence, many houses catching fire. A sum
mer hotel at Dartmouth kept by Ben.
jamin Potter was burned and the guests
lost all their effects.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-07-05
AdmireI Makarofrs Ice-Breaker.

The Ice breaking ship Invented by Ad-
miral MakarofY, of the Russian navy,
lately completely at Newcastle, Eng
land, has been completely successful. 1t
has three screw propellers in the stern,
and another screw for ice-breaking at
the bow. Apparatus which permits the
shifting Of 100 IONS of water from one
end of the snip to the ether, and of 100
tons from side to side, enables the navi-
gator to change the lie of the vessel at
his will. 1t is said to have ''cut through
the thick Ice of the Finnish Gulf as cas-
lily as a hot knife goes through butter
On it's way to Kronstadt 1t went
through two and a half feet of ice at .
speed of nine knots.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-07-05
Once Was non

According to the Woman's Journal
this is one of General Miles stories.
In the Confederate army Longstreet's
corps was making a night march.
About 4 o'clock in the morning, when
everyone was worn out, a Georgia reg
iment stopped. A Georgia soldier put
his rifle up against the tents on the
other side of where Longstreet was.
"Well," he said, this is pretty hard
to fight all day and march all night.
But l suppose l can do it for love of my
country He continued: II can go
hungry. / can fight. Ii need be, l
can die for my country, because I love
my country. But when this war is
over, I'll be blowed If I'll eYer love an
other country"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-07-05

1t is dangerous to experiment with
Cancer. Thedisease is beyond the skill
of physicians. s. S. s. is the only cure.
because it is the only remedy which
goes deep enough to reach Cancer.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-07-05

Sheep Dipping -Preparations.
There are a number of most excel
lent dips ON the market. These are
usually more satisfactory than home
made. Get some one of these and fol-
low the directions which go with each
package. Possibly the most satisfac-
tory homemade dip is a strong decoc-
ton obtained by soaking tobacco stems
In water. These stems can usually be
obtained from cigar factories or may
be ordered through a druggist. Dip
the sheep as soon as they are sheared
and then repeat the operation in about
two weeks to get rid of any ticks that
may have Matched after the first dip
ping.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-07-05
E,ectric Cars Slaughter Egyptians.

In the first four weeks after the
opening OF the electric railroad at
Cairo, Egypt, 1t is said that no less than
eighty persons were killed, and since
that time the weekly average of vic
tins has been sever " eight. This
very high rate of casuailie J is supposed
to be due in part to the imperfect sight
OF many natives in consequence of the
prevalent eye diseases, but fully as
much to the fact that they were unfa-
millar with such swiftly moving We
hicleS.