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Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1902-07-09
Why Bill Moved.

1t was on a Missouri highway that a
native stopped man driving a load OF
household goods and asked:
Say, Bill, where We gittin' top
"Gittin' out o. this county, Abe" was
the reply.
But ye jest moved a few days ago,
Bill"
Il know it, Abe" said the man ON
the wagon. "but that's long enough for
me-"
WAL Bill, I'm sorry We don't like
our county. Mebbe We wasn't treated
neighborly enough?"
Yes, reckon l was. l hadn't got
settled when a family come in and
borrowed a jug q 'lasses and three
chairs, and another family come in
and borrowed terbacker and cnps and
saucers and then"
But that was jest to be neighborly,
Bill" interrupted the other
~ kinder thought so, Abe he con-
tinued, "but as | was sayin', then long
comes another family and borrows my
mattress, and another got the loan of
my stove, and"
Jest wanted to make We feel at
home, Bill
Il kalkerlated so, Abe, and l wasn't
sayin' word until Jim Brown come
over yesterday and borrowed my gun
and my hunting dog"
Yes, Jim's a neighborly old soul"
"Mebbe he is, Abe, and | let him
have 'em; but, dawg gone my hide,
when he come back an hour later and
said he had accidenshually killed the
uyg and wanted to borrow al her l
kalkerlated it was time to move. Git
up thar Sam. and let's be a-gittin' out
o this neightorly county. Gee-upr'
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1902-07-09
|I5[lfIz 4 POPULAR
|fAHNA PULPIT

and holds hand glass, not Ike that OF
History, but held forward, so that all may
perceive the image of Truth. The choice
of its inscription must have been very
perplexing. After searching long these
words from the pSalmist were selected:
The heavens declare the glory of God,
and the armament showeth his handi-
work" call your attention to the fact
that the two most difficult inscriptions,
that of Religion and that of Science were
taken from the Bible.
here, then. We have magnificent
structure, emblenatical of the whole cir
Gle of our national ideals; its alcoves
and corridors reserved for no heather
divinities or doctrines, but for the living
thoughts of living men. May it stand
forever as the symbol of a state and
society on which the reformers of coming
ages may work. each removing some OBJ
struction, adding some smooth stone. or
bringing some image of beauty to grace
its inches and adorn its spires till at last
it shall stand in the light of heaven. the
model temple of the world. Let us strive
in the willingness of our great patriots
to realize the hope that here the free
spirit of mankind at length shall throw
its last letters off.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1902-07-09
JESUS THE ONLY PERFECT MAN.
BY Rev. George Baker Stevens.

Genius is born Of disproportions. Men
who have fine Intellectual powers are
often impractical Great physical Prov
ess seldom goes with the highest order
Of mental worth. We seldom see a man
who is thoroughly developed.
Christians believe that there was one
man who was perfect A rounded, wholly
developed man, Jesus Christ
Two things are necessary to a com
plete life--harmOny and fgh develop
ment Of all the elements Of character.
Jesus had ~" and harmonious develop
ment Of CHARACTER. He had 10 peculiari-
ties. His peculi~vjty lay in the fact that
be had no peculiarly
The repose. the strength. the balance
Of his character make Him 50 perfect
that there is no other man with whom
He can be compared.
His estimate Of life ". very real very
iu. To Him the worst sin was that OF
selfish heart His bitterest speeches
were against selfishness.
Jesus was universal. He was a Jew
without the ecceutrieities. the PECULIAR
ties Of a jew: He was not local. He was
rot national: He was for all the world.
He did not belong 10 the passing king
durs Of this world, but 10 the Kingdom
II God-the csIangeiess kinyd0r1 IF e;er-
nal trutn. whose law is oDe To- all the
earth.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1902-07-09
PLUMBERS OF LIFE.
BY Rev. Poiemus NJ swift

Some of the blunders of young people
are ito rush into the arena of life with
out the best possible preparation for thu,
battle of the giants, especially such as a
good education would give; to allow ones
self to drift on and take up business,
trade or profession in haphazard way
or to make choice of a life work without
due consideration of the question of fit
ness or adaptation; insane matrimonial
alliances; disregard of the eternal laws
of fitness and compatibility; the mistake
of starting where the fathers left off; ex-
travaganee and living beyond ones
means: the subordination of the future
to the present; short cuts to wealth, es-
pecially yielding to the insane craze of
gambling: the exclusive cultivation of one
department of nature; living as if the
making of money were the supreme thing
and the failure to make choice of Christ
in early years
Speaking to the second point, every
man is fitted to do some one thing het-
ter than he can anything else. In that
he can succeed splenddly. Ir anything
else he will be a comparative failv-e. The
world is full of people VINO simpl drift
and make no honest effort to get out of
tho current They are cast by the waves
Oh chance upon some shore of opportu-
nifty, and there they content themselves
with mediociity when they might have
won distinction in some other field.
There is no sense in trying TO make a
minister out of a boy who is fit only to
pillow corn. \ man will not succeed in
law if his whole soul goes out TO music
What Kind If q fnnphauit. 1ynull I,puvfaI-
low have made? Charles Darwin could
not have been first-class poet. nor could
Edison have made an artist
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1902-07-09
poMssTlcs IN AFRICA.
Nest Work Done by kaffir Boys w
Take 'sWhite" Names.


Nest Work Done by kaffir Boys Who
Take "white" Names.
An amusing picture of domestic con
ditlons in outh Africa is given by Mrs.
Blow in an article in the New York
Tribune. Mrs. Blows husband was
manager of a mine in South Africa, and
both husband and wife lived there for
several years. In recalling the dones-
tic problem as it exists in that region,
she says:
Most of the work is done by Kaftirs,
who, like the Southern negroes in slaY-
cry times. are called boys" no mat
ter what their age may be.
When the Kaffir boys come from the
kraals no one ever uses their native
names. AS soon as they are brought
into contact with the whites they lake
a white" name. This produces re-
suits which are not lacking in elements
of lumor.
Among the house boys knife, 8"
Pork" and spoon" We're common
names. Table" Clair" Carriage, y
Watch and Matchbox" We're other
names that | had in the house at va
rious times. One of my house boys
took the utilitarian name of Ham and
Eggs
The Kaffirs are very fond of rice
when they learn to eat it among the
whites. and our stable boy thought he
had found the finest name in the world
in Rice" But the Kaffirs have the
same difficulty as he Chinese in pro-
nouncing the letter "r," and so poor
Rice always called himself "Lice7
The Kaffirs are the cleanest people
in the world in some respects. They
are always scrubbing themselves in
hot water and amounting themselves
with oil afterward, but the habit does
not extend to their clothes. They will
take an elaborate bath, and then put
on clothes that never saw the wash
tub.
Our home was a typical one of the
UPPER class, great one-story bung-
allow. seventy-five feet long, built of
brick. covered with the inevitable
white corrugated iron, and with n We
randa twenty feet deep. 1t was seven
hundred feet above the entrance to
the mine. and the hills all about were
cut into great terraces. which were
planted with magnificent tropical
plants. l had two hundred banana
trees. besides oranges and lemons,
guavas and pineapples, strawberries,
peaches, all kinds of vegetables and
the most beautiful flowers. We even
had tea-plants in the garden. We rails
ed the finest lemons / ever saw; all we
could possibly USE and barrels and bar
rels for the hospital.
An idea of the enormous supply of
native labor may be had from the fact
that every foot of this great terraced
garden was made of earth carried up
the mountain on the backs of Katfirs,
and the irrigation. without which moth
ing could grow. was accomplished by
watering pots in the hands of Katiir
boys.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1902-07-09
MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE.
BY Rev. hinof J. Savage.

/ elieve with my whole soul that what
God hath put together man has no right
to put asunder. | believe that in the
cases where God has Joined them to-
gether no man can put asunder, no man
ever does or ever can or will; but | have
too much respect for God to feel willing
to hold him responsible for all the mar
riages that have taken place since the
beginning of the world. l believe we
have a right TO turn that saying around
Where God has put people asunder no
man has right to force them to stay to-
gether.
If the husband and wife have both
ceased to love each other and there are
no children, they should be permitted TO
separate Suppose there are children;
suppose husband and wife have lost their
love for the other. If the children's well
fare would be subserved by their mi in
tanning a home, then they are under the
highest kind Of obligation to maintain
that home.
l would make divorce difficult. | would
compel people to take at least one year
in the process of divorce. They should
not be able TO get through in one N NTH
the time a year was ended they might
have had time 10 think it over and re-
consider their intention. / would not
allow them to remarry the next day or
the next week or the next year. | would
have it at least two years, and perhaps
three.
There is no place in the world where
divorces are so easily obtained as in the
United States. and there is no place in
the world where women stand so high,
where women are granted so many liber-
ties and rights. no place whore they are
so free to seek the highest and best
things. where they are surrounded by so
much care, such courtesy, such sympa.
thy, such respect.
The great cause why there are so many
more divorces in this country than any
other is that here, for the first time in
history, women are granted freedom 10
throw off a thousand intolerable burdens
under which they have been borne down
and crushed from the beginning of the
world.
| believe that if a careful investigation
were made we should find that a large
proportion of the divorces granted in this
country means kindliness and considera-
ton toward woman, readiness on the part
of the manhood of America to deliver her
from crushing burdens, set her free. give
her an opportunity to retrieve a so far
wasted life.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1902-07-09

stature nearly forty years ago. 1t was
so when he came as a delegate to Con-
gress from that territ. back IN the
70s. lie was then jug os cs-ain that
be was running the government as he
now is th.t ne is managing the Senate.
Next, there is Burrows. Julius Caesar
Burrows of Michigan. He is the hand
soonest man in the United States Senate.
He is also one Of the most impressive
orators in the Senate. He is called the
Columbian orator Of that great body.
Then there is Knute Nelson Of Mime
sofa. He was born IN Norway. came to
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1902-07-09
d Elkins of West Nir.

loud and long to the correspondents and
others who are about the marble room.
Stephen Benton Elkins OF West Vir-
ginia is the chief of the Boxers and
the most perfect type of boss ever seen
in the United States Senate. He is round
and rudy of face, rctund of body, quick
and aggressive in his movements, and
voluble and positive in his talk. Elkins
never has opinions, He thinks only posi-
tive facts that require no proofs. He
always speaks as one having full author
ity, and what he says is gospel to him,
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1902-07-09

Minnesota and into the Legislature
Of that State He ran the poiit cal
gamut In that great State, filing TIE
Offices Of legislator. Governor. Congress
man and Senator lie is the most popn-
lar man in Minnesota.
Knute Nelson does rot rely upoa his
adherence to political platform for his
hold on his position in the Senate. lie
makes his own platforms. as q rule. He
has always been tariff reformer. and
when 10 the House ne voted for the Mills
bin without losing caste with the Repub-
leans 10 Minnesota lie has been an
earnest q -eocate Of recipr 1fy, but be
IS opposed t. reciprocity with Cuba.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1902-07-09
First American Bible.

The only known copy of the original
issue of the first Bible ever printed in
America in the English language and
the foundation stone for all collections
iof American Bibles, known as the
j"Nark Basket Bible, was sold re.
Gently for Stops. 1t was printed by
KneeIand Green, of Boston, in 1852, a
small quarto. a reprint Of London
imprint by Mark Basket
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1902-07-09

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward foF
any case Of Catarrh that eannoS be cured oT
HslIis CataTrh Cure.
T. J. CHENEY & co, Props, Toledo, o.
We. tie undersigned. have known r. J. Cheney
for the last 10 years, and believe him perfectly
honorable in AL business transactions and imam
claliy able to carry out any obligation neds oy
their Arm
West & Truax. Wholesale Druggists. Toledo. o.
Waldtng, kinnau & Marvin. Wholesale Drug
gists, Toledo. Ohio.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting
directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces q
The system. Price &c. per bottle. Sold By Al
Druggists. Testimonials tree
Halls Family Hoills are the besE.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1902-07-09
more obtrusive than

est efforts of Mr.. Hanna in behalf of a
bill in which he had personal interest,
or, more properly speaking, a personal
conviction and desire to win.
Senator Lodge had charge of the Phil
ippine bill. and he watched the debate
ON that bill week after week, rarely OPP
posing any one. but always appearing
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1902-07-09

Ing in the methods Of Senator AIdrich.
Nor has Senator Plat of New York Civ
en- any exhibition as a boss. He is the
quietest and most unobtrusive member
of the Senat, so far as the open pre-
ceedings so. He rarely speaks and is
never seen moving about the chamber
telling others how to vote. He seems
an onlooke- in ks Senate almost as much
as those in the galleries who are looking
for the bosses.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1902-07-09
Senator Hanna IS l


either of these. He
is aggressive and
cannot help appear
ing SO in the Sen
ate, where the 9th
er leaders are as n
rule quiet and APP
parently indiffer-
ent. Hanna has
given several exhi-
billions of strenuous
e n d e vor that
would meet the ex-
pectations of the
visitors who are
looking for q boss,
but these We're not
SO momentous rs
they seemed. They
were only the earn-
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1902-07-09

this country IL
1S49, and located IN
Chicago, where b
carried a news
route on the North
side and at the
same time learned
something Of uoli-
ties. He then went
to Wisconsin and
became a member
Of the LegiSlat
Two years later be
..-H - 60 -f.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1902-07-09

ginia, Burrows OF
Michigan. Nelson OF
Minnesota, Perkin:
of California. Diet
rich OF Nebraska
Burton Of Kansas,
and several other
Senators who are
called Boxers" by
the older men
would appear like
the bosses, as they
fly about the cham
Der, hold confer
encas and talk
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1902-07-09

to surrender points
for the sake of har-
mUny. Yet he was
ever watching for
opportunities TO set
the bnl forward by
compromises. And
that was the way
he won. 1t is the
way all contests are
won in the Senate.
The leaders do not
show the power
they exert They
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1902-07-09
a I.iteraI Interpretation

why do we say. Give US this day
cur daily breadY" asked a SUNDAY
school teacher after the lesson.
Because we want it fresh answer.
ed a little girL-Little Chronicle.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1902-07-09

HERE has been &
lot of talk about
Republican bosses
in the Senate this
season and the Wis
itors to the galleries
are ever ea ger to
have the bosses
pointed out to them.
These visitors have
heard about Aid
rich, Platt, Hanna
and Lodge as the
bosses who crack
the party whip, but
they have been dis
appointed in the
performance.
There is no boss
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1902-07-09

and in his view
should be to all
others. This is NOT
a newly acquired
characteristic of Ell
kins. 1t is a part
Of his natural self
and has been so for
many years. 1t was
so when he lived
in New Mexico and
was . member Of
the Territorial Leg
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1902-07-09

do not boss. They persuade. and the
greatest persuader is that miidest-man-
nered man from Iowa, Allison. who has
been accused of studying the movements
Of the pussy cat when seeking her prey,
or wearing gum shoes i Senate and
walking backward to dis Sc his move
ments.
To the uninitiated Elkins Of West Nir.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1902-07-09
Harvester. Wanted in Kansas.

Harvesters Of the wheat crop are bad
~ needed in Kansas. Work there awaits
fully 10000 men and the wages are lib
ersl. $3.50 day and board being offered
~ farmers.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1902-07-09
EDWARD Is BETTER.
SURGEONS REPORT KINGS CON.
DITiON FAVORABLE.

Patient Able to Eat and Smoke and IL
Making Satisfactory Progress Medi-
cA Advisors Say Monarch Is Dis
playing Great Recuperative Power.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1902-07-09
THE SENATE BOSSES.
PEN PICTURES OF LEGISLATORS
IN UPPER HOUSE.
Prominent Men Who Are Popularity
Regarded as Controllers of Legis-
Iation The "Boxer" Element and
Their Strong Men.
Washington Correspondence:

10 HERE has been {.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1902-06-17

over, to all his stock he feeds little
linseed meal, which he considers as good
as the best condition powder. In sum-
mer his cows have access to fairly good
pasturage, supplemented with a light
grain ration, and later soiling crops, such
as corn fodder, millet and green oats.
Thus cared for, they average for the herd
trifle less than pound of butter day
10 each COW throughout the year, and
though this can undoubtedly be i'm
proved upon, it is better than was
formerly done with the Dutch belted.
II is true in the Pan-American test
these cattle stood at the foot of the list
as producers, but this does not frighten
Mr.. Sanders at all, nor any one else, he
says, who has bred the Dutch belted.
Rather he thinks it was marvellous that
they made as good showing as they
did, for not until three days prior to the
opening of the Model Dairy was it de-
cided to enter some Dutch belted cows,
and three were taken from one herd not
even tested, of which one COW was nearly
fifteen years old, while all had been Civ
ing milk two months or more, and were
nowise fitted for contest. Added to
this, two Others, which were selected to
complete the herd, did not arrive until
May 2l.
Therefore, all things considered, Mr..
Sanders is exceedingly well pleased with
the Dutch belted, and firmly believes
them to be as profitable breed as any
TO be found. He even predicts that their
dairy qualities, as combined with their
hardness and wonderful breed char
acteristic, the belt, prepare them for
future not exceeded by any other breed,
and that they will always be in great
demand.-New York Tribune Farmer.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1902-06-17
DON'T PART WITH SKIM MILK

There are several reasons why the
patrons of our creamerieS should not al
low their skim milk to be taken from
the farm. Among these reasons we
enumerate the following:
/. No creamery proprietor that we
have yet known of will pay for the skim
milk anywhere near what it is worth to
feed TO young pigs and calves. What is
the skim milk worth to the farmer? AS
a pork-making food at present prices fol-
live hogs it is worth from % to 80 cents
a hundred pounds. the latter price de
pending on the young age of the pig it is
fed to. 1t is worth just as much fed to
heifer calves OF good dairy blood, or to
young beef-bred calves. In both cases
they may be fed till they are year old.
The past winter, considering the high
price of feed of all kinds, skim milk has
been worth several cents more per
hundred than usual.
2. Its value as fertilizer to the farm
is I cents hundred.
3. No farmer that is farmer can at
ford to sell his skim milk for what the
creamery man can afford to pay him.
1. The demand for casein is very
limited and there are already signs of a
glutted market, while the prospects for
pork, beef and likely dairy bred calves
and young stock are as good as ever.
We always take it as sure sign that
the patrons of a creamery do not know
the full meaning Of dairy farming OF
understand how to bring out its best
profits when we see them selling their
skim milk to be taken from the farm.
A shallow-reasoning farmer may be
caught that way, but one who knows
his business as dairy farmer ought to
know it.-Hoard's Dairyman.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1902-06-17
plIRe BRED CATTLE IN IOWA.

Iowa not only has the reputation Of
being the greatest agricultural state in
the union, but, that it leads as well in
the production of fine cattle. In the
breeding of shorthorns it stands first,
and the sale of these cattle clearly shows
that the business is on a good paying
basis. The average of the sales OF Iowa
shorthorns the last year has been from
$500 to S725 head, with the majority OF
sales ranging from $500 to $500 a head.
The breeders of Hereford cattle in
Iowa enjoy good, healthy trade in their
favorites, breeding about one-tenth OF all
the Hereford cattle in the United States,
and represented by over three hundred
breeders, two hundred of whom are
members of the association. Thus Iowa
stands fourth in the production and sale
of Hereford cattle, and the prices obtain
ed at the public sales averaged from
$500 to $500 head.
Although there are ten times as many
shorthorns in the United States, and
three times as many HerefoIds as Aber-
deen-Angus, yet the farmers and breed
ers of Iowa are reaching out for the lat
ter kind, and Iowa stands first in the
breeding of Angus cattle, having nearly
three hundred breeders raising one-third
of all the Angus cattle in the United
States, showing growth and increase
within the state of 500 per cent in the
last ten years.-Agricultural Epitomist.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1902-06-17
The Moslem Creed.

A German Christian missionary who
has worked for many years among the
Mohammedans says: Honesty compels
every candid student to acknowledge
that the old view formerly entertained
in Christian circles concerning Moham-
mechanism, according towhich the teach
hgs of the great Arabian prophet are
nothing but DEVILS doctrines and dog
mas. is altogether incorrect. In reality,
Mohammedanism is nothing but ra-
tionalistic type Of Christianity in the
form Of most unfortunate state re-
ligion. The times are past when scold-
Ing about the Moslem creed as the pro-
duction of the devil will satisfy, and
the struggle against Islam on these
premises is a failure. Practically all
Of the mission literature that In the six
teenth, seventeenth and eighteenth cen
turies was written against Moham-
mechanism IS useless"