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Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1902-02-05

him. One child seized his hand and shook
1t. She was favored with a fatherly ca
ress. He was then escorted to the wat
Ing room, where Alderman Fowler, as
representative Of the Council, presented
the admiral with a copy of resolutions,
and Mayor Harrison extended TO him
Chicago's greeting.
Accompanied by committees from the
Hamilton and other clubs. the admiral
was driven to the Auditorium Annex.
Bands of music, companies of army vet
Grams and naval militia followed his car
rage. Two bodyguards Of detectives fiat
always protected the late President Nc
Kinley rode and walked before and be-
hind the carriage
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1902-02-05
CUPID UP TO DATE.

said Cupid, this year
know what TN do.
III show the "old fossils"
A new thing or two.
I'll haste me and purchase
An uncomfortable.
Then Valentine day
/ won't have the least trouble
In making the rounds
OF each house In the land,
Where smoldering heart-hres
Need To be famed.
IN have everything new,
My own toys as well;
Oh, ] tell you, my boy,
I'll be nothing but swell.
Now. poor Santa Claus"
Can sit on the fence,
For IN make his old sleigh
Look like thirty cents"
And when I'm not using
My mobile myself,
Ii won't be put up
Nor laid on the shelf.
But I'll rent II TO folks
Who want to 20 "Fidin',"
Though my price viii be
On scale that is slidin'."
To any old freak
Who says love is snare,
III let II, l s'pose,
But I'll soak him for fair
And whenever | let
To a charming young maid,
I'll Just take a kiss
Aud feel more than repaid.
Now, all you good people,
On Valentines day.
Just keep your eyes open
Along the highway.
And take care lest your hearts
Dan Cupid may steal
AS he whizzes along
In his automobile.
GlobeL Amocrat.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1902-02-05

Of the new State
would be Dennis +.
Flynn, who has
long been the terri
torial delegate TO
Congress and who
is pushing the bill
for statehood with
great vigor aud en-
thusiasm. Okla
homa has no more
loyal son within her
borders and no
more brilliant citi-
zen. His native
fnwu il phneniY-
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1902-02-05

went four miles to
school and had to
walk. The boy read
lily grasped the in
struction given, and
within MIN were
born the ambitions
which mace him
President. After all
the influences of
those high in polit-
zeal authority, af-
ter all of the ac-
quirements of the
man nllnSeiI, allef
all that might be
C On S i d e r e d are
weighed, it becomes
evident that it was
this woman, with
hnr rnlinr h. 1--we
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1902-02-05

sunday night a gaze, carrying heaTy
snow. was raging through Michigan.
with blizzard in the upper peninsula.
and the thermometer was dropping rapid
ly from the straits to Memphis. Illinois
escaped the worst OF the cold wave. but
low temperatures are reported from all
over the State
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1902-02-05
ABE'S HOOSIER HOME.
1T WAS ALMOST rs PRIMITIVE
As AN INDIAN HUT.
Were 1t Not for His ''sccond Mother"
the Immortal President Would No
Doubt Have Lived and Died an init
crate Rail-Spiitter.

The birthday anniyers. :. OF Aoraham
Lincoln furnishes occasion TO 4. l. Lewis
writing in the st. Louis Globe democrat
to discuss the Lincoln family in their
early home in Lincoln City, Ind. Inc
pictuf- he draws is far from pleasing IN
many particulars.
There are many histories Of Lincoln,
he writes, many stories of his boyhood
and tales of his priyation in early life.
but still, after reading all of them, when
one enters this little village and stands
surrounded by the landmarks OF his early
days, another and more interesting story
than ny that has been published comes
to a visitor. Lincoln City is lost away
among the hills of Spencer e.'nty-inac-
cessible almost to the traveller. 1t did not
boast of a name until after the poor boy
who spent his boyhood-from TO Il
years-here had become President of the
nation and took his place in the brightest
pages of the worlds history. Then peo-
pie down t the county seat began TO
refer to the settlement as Lincoln City,
and now it has a recognition on most
maps of Indiana. Here, on a knoll, lies
buried Nancy Hanks, Lincoln's mother.
Over there in forgotten grave lies Sally
Bush, his step-mother and guiding angel,
and all around are the landmarks of in
terest, each referring 10 story of his
boyhood days.
1T was along in the early part OF the
year 1S16-a few months before the
State was admitted to the Union-that
Thomas Lincoln, Nancy Hanks Lincoln
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1902-02-05
A Royal Painter.

The Empress Frederick has always
been an admirable artist. Az Windsor
one room is entirely hung with ex-
qoisite water colors done by her. ana
at a great charity bazaar two paint
ings done by her sold for $1,000 apiece.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1902-02-05
Curious old Tradition.

There is a curiorS old tradition that the
birds select thd;r mates on st. Valentines
day. which is more interesting IN the at
tention accorded it than in itself. ShalS
speare in his Midsummer Nights
Dream" makes Theseus say when he
suddenly stumbles upon the quartet OF
lovers asleep in the wood:
ST. Valentine is past
Begin these wood-brds but TO couple now?
One of CHANGERS stanzas pictures Ma
ture reminding the "foules" Of her mex
orable laws:
Ye know well how, on s.. Valentines day,
BY my statute and through my goyermnee,
Ye do choose your mates.
DR.. Donne also has indited an ode to
St. Valentine:
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1902-02-05
unn RIshnn Valentine,

All the air Is thy diocese,
And all the chirping choristers
And other birds are thy p0rishioners
Thou marryest every year
The lyric lark aud grave whispering dove,
The sparrow that neglects her life for love,
The household bird and his red stomacher.
Thou mak'st the blackbird speed as soon
As doth the goldhnch or the halcyon
st. Valentine, as a hierophant Of the
heart, has no more devoted disciple than
our ancestors.
The very children in the country towns
of England decorate themselves with
holly wresths and true lovers knots and
move in professions. from house to house,
singing.
Good-paorrow TO ) ~, Valentine;
Curl your locks as | d mine
two before and two behind
Good-morrow TO you, Valentine.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1902-02-05

Ny wife used sew
era1 bottles Of S. S. S.
as a blood purifier and
TO tone up a weak and
emaciated system, with
very marked effect by
way Of improvement,
We regard 1t o
great tonic and blood
purifier. ~. i. DUFF,
Princeton, Mo.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1902-02-05

ana their cniIuFen,
Nancy Hanks, aged
8, and Abraham,
aged {, appeared at
the mouth Of An
derson creek, on
the Kentucky side
of the Ohio river.
Nancy and Nancy,
Jr.. sat in the rude
frontier wagon, in
which were packed
III - Ats.. 30 50 j. ~
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1902-02-05

first made me feel like a human being
sally clothed Abe and Nancy cleanly,
and as well as her limited finances would
permit and put them in school. They
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1902-02-05
DELEGATE DENNIS 7. FLYNN.
OkIahoma's Able aud Popular Repre-
sentative at Warrington.

Should the project to make Oklahoma
a State prove successful. it is not inn
probable that one Of the first Senators
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1902-02-05
No External
Symptoms.

The blood may be in bad condition.
yet with no external signs, no skin
eruption or sores &c indicate it. The
symptoms in such cases being a variable.
appetite, poor digestion, an indescribable
weakness and nervousness, loss Of flesh
and general rundown condition of the
system clearly showing the blood has
lost its nutritive qualities, has become thin
and watery. 1t is in just such cases that
S. S. S. has done some Of its quickest and
most effective work by building up the
blood and supplying the elements lacking
to make it strong and vigorous,
New-York tribune., 1902-03-13
BLACKWELL'S ISLAND.

After his appearance before the Senate Com
mittee on Cities at Albany on Tuesday Presi-
dent Cantor Of the Borough of Manhattan said
that he felt assured of the prompt passage or
the bill authorizing the Sinking Fund Commits
sion to lease BlackwelIs Island to the national
government for a naval station and public
park. Possibly the fact that no one appeared
TO oppose the bill led him TO assume that no
opposition exists: but that is a mistake though
it is fair to admit that the project seems to
have the necessary support both here and at
Albany Yesterday Mr.. Cantor made public
communication from Admiral Taylor. who, we
believe was the first to suggest the of
BIackwell's Island by the Navy Department,
containing some additional arguments in favor
of the plan. The admiral is a man Of excellent
Judgment and his disinterestedness is unques-
toned. We see no reason 10 doubt that he is
right when he says that the island would be eX
ceedingly serviceable to the navy; but we still
think that the city of New-Yorll ought not
hastily to adopt the navy's point of view.
Blackwell's Island can be converted at COM
paratively small expense into public park, and
is probably worth more to the city for that pu.
pose than for any other. But no particular
harm will be done by a little delay, if the money
required TO make the change is not immedi-
ately available. Moreover, it is by no means
will be gained by making a lease to the gov
ernment, which seldom moves in such matters
with remarkable rapidity; whereas we do see
strong objections, which we have already
stated, to a surrender of possession and control
for a period of ten years by the municipality
One of those objections is that II the govern
ment should carry out the arrangement pro-
posed in its name, make q considerable invest
ment and find the island conspicuously useful
for various naval purposes the city might be
seriously embarrassed and practically hindered
in any future attempt to reclaim its property.
That is a risk which in our opinion it is mad
visable to incur. On the other hand, there
would probably be nothing to prevent the city
from giving to the government the use of part
of the island for drill ground and place of
exercise, which the object originally
sought. No step in the direction Of a virtual
alienation of land belonging to the city should
be imprOvidently taken. As for Blackwell's ISL
and. il exhibits extraordinary claims to jealous
care-because of its location, size and potential
attractions.
New-York tribune., 1902-03-13
THE BOSTON STRIKE.
attractions

Nothing could be more unreasonable than the
demands of the wOrkmen who have precipitated
the great Boston strike. Only on the theory
that a labor unions wishes take precedence to
all law and that the whole country must with
out interest or knowledge, instantly on the de-
mand of a few labor leaders take up contro-
versy can such a proceeding as that taken in
Boston be justified. No other body of men IN civ
ilized society presumes to hold up whole nation
for the settlement of the petty grievances of a
handful Of persons. The dispropOrtion of cause
and effect is simply grotesque. The whole
trouble arises out of an insignificant quarrel
between organized labor and a local trucking
company of Boston. What the merits of the
question originally at issue We're we do not
attempt to determine. No matter how justly
bitter the labor unions may have been against
this concern, they were not in the least JUS
tilted IN venting their i'll will on the public at
large, as they have done, causing suffering to
thousands who never heard of the carting COM
pany and are perfectly helpless to influence
the struggle.
Having declared boycott against the cart
ing company, the strikers demanded that the
railroads and steamship lines should refuse to
handle any goods brought to them in this com
pany's trucks. Such a demand. of course
could not be granted. The railroad and steam
by law obliged 20 handle the freight that is
brought to them. They may dislike the bringer
and sympathize with the strikers against him;
nevertheless, his right to the equal privileges
of public transportation is absolute. It is a
right which those who proclaim themselves the
special friends of labor are always seeking to
surround with additional safeguards Trans
portation corporations it is demanded must
make no discrimination between customers,
they must charge the same rates to all, they
must favor nobody, whatever his power or his
relation to their business. But If they must
favor nobody, they must also punish nobody
II they can refuse to handle one mans goods
because he Is boycotted by a labor union, they
can refuse to handle another's because he is
competing with some friend OF the railroad
managers II a railroad can do what the Bos-
ton strikers demand, telegraph company can
refuse to transmit the messages Of any person
on the request of his enemy who has influence
with the telegraph directors. The next step
is TO establish the rule that the Postoffice De
partment must close the mails 10 any person
on petition OF organized labor. Nor is 1t much
of a step, either. Labor unions have gone
much further in other directions. They have
long proclaimed the doctrine that a person
under their ban was not entitled to the equal
protection OF the laws. and declared it out
rageous that policemen sheriffs or soldiers
should guard him from violence save his
property from destruction.
This is anarchy. The Boston strikers are
acting just as much on anarchist principles as
the men who throw bombs. They are demand
ing that persons against whom they have a
grievance be outlawed and that others be freed
New-York tribune., 1902-03-13
RBpUBLEcAN1sH AND RECIPROCITY.

The question of relations with Cuba, involv-
ing. as II does, both national honor and ma
tional interest, should have been dealt with
on national and not on partisan grounds. The
reimbursement of affairs at the close Of a war
should be effected with no more partisanship
than was shown in thessupport Of the govern
rnent during the war 1t is lamentable that
this should not be so. But, since some have seen
fit 10 determine otherwise and have raised party
shibboleths where only the voice Of the nation
should have been heard. the friends of reci-
procity have no cause TO dread or TO shun the
issue thus forced upon them. II loyalty to
Republican principles be the issue. the beet
sugar ring will find in il no ground for ad-
vantage.
The opponents Of the administrators policy
are fond of citing Republican declarations in
favor Of protection. Yes but how about the
Republican declarations in favor Of reciprocity? I?
Reciprocity is as much and as truly a Repub-
ncan doctrine is protection. 1t is all very
well 10 say that the Democratic Wilson tar
if reversed the Republican policy OF fostering
the beet sugar industry. But &c also reversed
the Republican policy of reciprocity with Cuba
and Of tariff concessions TO Cuban products.
Let it not be forgotten that it was while Gu
ban sugar was being admitted to our markets
free. under a sound Republican policy, that the
domestic beet sugar industry began to take
notice" To speak of the Republican policy Of
protection to- beet sugar and TO ignore the con-
temporaneOus Republican policy OF reciprocity
with Cuba IS 10 distort the facts of history.
Representative Long, OF Kansas, put the
matter in the true light at the caucus on Tues
day evening, when he declared that a refusal
of reciprocity would mean a desertion of the
leadership Of Blaine and Mckinley. That is
indisputable. The names and policies of Blaine
and Mckinley are inseparably connected and
identified with reciprocity with Cuba There
is no thought OF prescribing any Republicans
VINO see fit TO depart from the policies Of those
leaders. But neither can we tolerate for a
moment prescription Of those who stand by
those policies To say that a man is false to
Republica1ism because he strives to follow
where Blaine and Mckinley and Harrison led
is TO talk nonsense and worse. If the question
Of Republicanism be involved the advocates
OF reciprocity have the overwhelming adTan-
xage.
The Republican party owes something to the
Farmers. men say. That is quite true. so far
New-York tribune., 1902-03-13
THE GERHAN SUGAR RING.

The work of the International Sugar Confer
ence has yet to be passed upon by the govern
ments of the countries concerned. That it will
be approved may be taken for granted But in
at least one country there will be vigorous or
ganiZed opposition to it. 1t is in Germany that
most beet sugar is produced and that the
sugar ring, or cartel, is strongest. Accordingly
1t is In Germany that the strongest opposition
is offered to the ratification of the agreement.
The sugar ring, the National Society of Sugar
Producers and the Agrarians generally are
raging against the Brussels agreement
The reason why is obvious. The bounty sys-
tenn has meant a proft-Over and above legiti-
mate profits on actual busIness-of some S26.-
250,00O a year. xhat is a tidy sum, which is
not to be relinquished without a struggle. Here
are the figures: The price of raw sugar is
S3S 10 a ton. If to this the excise duty of $50
finished product could still be sold for S1O7 %
ton and pay reasonable profit But the
sugar rings price for refined sugar is S144 IS a
ton, showing profit of S37 so a ton over and
above the legitimate demands of business AS
Germany uses about 100000 tons OF suear n
year, the total extra profits of the ring are
about S26,250,0O0. This sum is divided he
tween the refiners and the manufacturers Of
raw sugar
The loss of this rich bonus will not be relished
by the sugar ring, but there is no reason To SUD-
pose it will prove fatal to the sugar industry.
New-York tribune., 1902-03-13
NOTES OF SOCIETY IN WASHINGTON.

Washington. March II (SpeciaD Hay
and Secretary Root left this city to-day the
Presidents naval yacht. the Sylph for few days
rest and recreation. The Sylph will cruise in
Chesapeake Bay and edjacent waters. and prob
ably will make short stop at Fort Monroe. They
expect to return 10y Monday at the latest
Mr. and Mrs Reginald de Koyen entertained
about two hundred guests at a musical this even
ing II was Of the series of Wednesday even
ing parties which have been greatly enjoyed by
their friends.
Mrs John Tileston Granger gave a luncheon to-
day at her home, in Connecticut-ave, 10 com
pauy asked to meet Mrs. Shaw. the wife of the
Secretary of the Treasury. The table flowers
pink roses. Among the guests were Nine. Perez.
daughter OF the Mexican Ambassador; Mrs. Bur
rows. wife of Senator Burrows: Mrs. Charles y.
Fowler. Mrs. George B. Williams, Mrs. E. ]. Som
ers. Mrs. Rudolph Kaufman. Mrs. Myrou VI.
Parker. Mrs. Theodore Noyes. Mrs Victor Kauf-
mann and Miss Emma Scdgwick
Mrs. Audenred entertained a company at luncheon
to-day.
Mr. and Mrs. Payne Whitney who South
after their wedding. in Washington with
Mrs Whitney's parents. the Secretary of State and
Mrs Hay.
Senator Hanns's wife and daughters, who are in
Thomasville Ga. will return Washington at
Easter
The Secretary OF War and Mrs. Root. who are
giving series OF dinner parties. entertained din
last evening the Ambassador of Russia. the
Minister of Austria Hungary and Nine Hergel-
muller. the Assistant Secretary OF War and Mrs.
Sanger, Senator Depew. the Counsellor of the
French Embassy and Nine. de Margerie. Mr.. and
Mrs. John w. Foster. Representative Moody. Mr..
and Mrs; Thomas Richardson. Mr.; and Mrs Charles
Mum, Mrs AudenTied, Mrs. Charles Phelps, of
New-YOrk; Mrs. James w. PinchOt Miss Josephine
Patton and Clifford PinChot.
Charles G. Wauters, counsellor of the Belgian
Legation, has gone to Cuba for fortnights visit.
The evening before his departure Mr.. Wauters
entertained a small company at dinner in honor OF
the Minister of Belgium and Baroness Moncheur
The other guests We're Dayrell E. NJ. Crackan-
thorpe, of the British Embassy, and Mrs. Crackan-
thorpe; Ludwig Callenberg. OF the Austrian
Legation and Nine. Won Callenberg, MIR. and Mrs
Edward PadelfOrd, Mr.. and Mrs. Chatield-T Taylor,
Miss Wetmore and NJ Hermite. of the French EN-
basSy.
The Boer delegates. c. H. Vessels and A d. w
Wohlmarans, have been entertained at number
OF dinners Last evening General Anson Mills en-
tertained them The other guests were senator
Sinclair, Major Carter Henry Watterson ex-Sen-
ator John Il. Henderson. Representatives Hopkins
Cochran, Shafroth and Burleson and Montagu
White.
New-York tribune., 1902-03-13
SHLFT WORK TO BE DONE.

The Rapid Transit Commissioners tell us that
we may surely count upon the moving of sub
way trains before the date originally appoint
ed. The members of the syndicate which has
taken in hand the task of running trolley cars
under the Hudson River declare also that their
under water tracks will be in use in less than
two years. 1t Is certain, too, that the ener-
getic Pennsylvania Railroad management will
put through its plans for tunnel service which
will extend beneath both the North and East
rivers with the characteristic energy always
seen in connection with the enterprises of that
great corporation.
Then, too, our city government means to
bring the strongest possible pressure to bear
for the completion of bridge No 2. from this
borough to Brooklyn. and there will be more
than one tunnel under the East River in use
in a few years. This century will not be far
advanced before our local transportation will
be developed on a truly metropolitan scale.
Then the marvellous growth of NewYork will
be rapidly accelerated.
New-York tribune., 1902-03-13
PERSONAL NOTES

Lora Durerin always said that the happIes.
years or his long official life were those spent IN
calcutta. He revelled in the sunshine A friend
one day exDostulated with him for his reckless
exposure OF himself TO the weather ..Weu YOU
see said the viceroy, they've always sent me To
0EIu h places. They sent me as vceroy 10 Canada,
tslS one must live twO-thirdS OF the wear In
ouHaIo furs. They sent me to 81 Petsrsbllrg
where one has to hibernate like a hear So when
Iusy ordered me to India 1 rubbed my hands and
dry '' "S''is HSseA up ~
Dr. j. Edward Hayes, an American bv birth and
a surgeon major in the Siamese navy for the last
thlrteen years, has recently had conferred upon
udm MN oy the King of Siam the Royal order OF the
White Elephant.
Commander John Powles Cheyne who died the,
other day. served in three arctic expeditions in
search OF Sir John Franklin. He wrote the only
history OF the Enterprise expedition and Cheyne
'sidhds ana Cheyne Point were named after him.
Prince George of Prussia. seventy-sx years old Is
the oldest member Of the house OF HohenzolIern.
and is known as the "Hohenzollern poet" He has
written under the pseudOnyme OF George Conrad
NUMBER or tragedies, notably ''Phedra."
lila j. Repn. the Russian artist, celebrated few
days ago the silver jubilee OF the founding of his
society OF Secessionists in ST. Petersburg He is
ciose friend or Tolstoy whom he has painted
dozen times, and has illustrated all OF his works
General Lloyd Wheaton is very popular with his
soldiers In the Philippines. who speak OF him
arons themselves 'Old Dad" II IL a favorits
Joke that ne needs no staf because he can nlaka
himself heard half mile without straini himself.