Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-06-19
BuRNETY'S LETTER. :.
Board OF Control, Not Governor,
Making Changes In In
stitutlons.
Is HEART DISEASE ACCOUNTABILITY
Senator Stebbin's Death-Too Much
Silver Piate-Grand Army I'm Sess
sion-No Spanish War
Pensioners. .ss

Pensioners. .ss
Madison, Wis, June 1S.-The furry
over the failure of the board of con-
troll to reappoint superintendent at
the GAINESVILLE blind and the Delayan
deaf schools is abating. My informa-
ton is that Governor LaFollette IL
keeping his hands off these matters,
though the board of control IN their
acts of course are DESTROYS OF pleas
ing him, to whom they must look for
reappointment. Some say the board
is trying too hard to please him and
as a consequence is embarrassing the
executive. Some changes which should
have been made some years ago, the
board has recently gotten around to.
thus giving the malicious grounds to
suspect the governor himself.
While the factionalists are charging
the governor with rewarding Editor
Bowron, of Oshkosh, by his appoint
ment as superintendent OF the Green
Bay reformatory, there is pathetic
side to it, if the governor had disap-
proved she choice of the board, he
(LaFollettel would have been in the
position of migrate, for the Northwest
ern has done him splendid service. On
the other hand if Bowron secured the
position (as he did hard fighter was
taken from the contemporary press,
and the Northwestern left to Colonel
Hicks, its owner, who is not so strenu-
GUS for the governor as was Bowron,
although fair man. No one need envy
the governor of the state; it is trying
enough to be abused for what one
does, but it must be rasping to be
abused for what one dfd not do and
perhaps did not wish done.
DO Men Know Heart Disease?
1t is believed that the late Senator
Stebbins, of Algoma, suffered injury
to his beart while travelling through
the high attitudes on the way to San
Francisco in 1898, where he had an Of
fetal part in the launching of the bat
tleship Wisconsin. lie had complained
some of late of pains in the chest. but
the final attack was of not over an
hours duration.
Physicians often enough say to peo-
pie in a reassurjng way, "Oh, If you
have heart disease, you'll know it,"
This may not always be SO, People
often have pains in the chest, and we
always encourage them by calling it
| indigestion, which almost always it
! Is. And the heart pains are not al
ways directly on the left side, but may
! be more central, where it is said the
nerve centers lie. 1t is said that "a
perfectly healthy person does not know
of the existence of IA heart-that is,
| even its quickened pulsation is not
noted unless one feels for 1t. But
| there are probably very few who could
meet this definition. The doctors I'M
derstand pretty well how to treat this
loca. trouble. The heart is built up
now like any other organ, aud it does
not follow because one has weakness
there that it is permanent.
He Was Rough but Kindly.
| But to revert to the gruff and kind
| ~ old senator, who with Fearne, of
Adams county, leads the Legislative
dead list; he was with Farragut In the
latters expedition in the Gulf of Next
CO. He was close friend of Isaac
| Stephenson, and conservative In all
his voting and habits of mind, and SO
an incongruous, but influential sup
porter of Governor LaFollette. julius
Bleyer, who took the Pacific trip with
him, said:
Senator Stebbins gave utterance to
many patriotic sentiments, particular
ly III conversation with English travel
ers on the return journey, homeward-
bound from the Orient, but in no In
stance were these utterances distinctly
| anti English or offensive to those to
whom they were addressed; on the
contrary, they We're nodded by the feel.
ing of brotherhood which is binding
the two great speaking ma
tons with closer ties"
Was This Money Wen spent?
And by the way the silver service
for the battleship Wisconsin was sent
recently. 1t consisted of thirty-fiv
pieces which cost $500 The pig
punch bowl cost $3.50; the cups. cd
which there We're twenty-four. cost
about $34 each. Even In prosperous
times there are enough people who
need bread to raise a question as tc
whether this Is the best way to spend
So considerable sum. Five hundred
dollars for silverware perhaps, but moi
tifty-dye hundred.
scofteld's Name Used.
The Grand Army of the state Is
in session at Sheboygan this week
and by this time Ii may be known how
serious is the movement to elect ex
Governor Scotield as department com
n,ander. One thing is certain. he i,
not a man to push himself for tn.
place, Others mentioned are DeGroff
of Buffalo county, for whom consider
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