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Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-01-28
TRIED TO KILL a KING.
Sensational Attempt Made on the Life
of spaiN's kuler.


An unsuccessful attempt was made
Sunday to assassinate King Alfonso Of
Spain. AS the King, Dowager Queen
Christina and the cour. were returning
from church 4 man who afterwards gave
his name as Feito fired a pistol at one
Of the carriages in the loyal procession.
The bullet went Wild and no one was
injured The King heard the shot and
pat his head out Of the carriage window
hut he was Immediately dragged back
into his seat by the Qneen mother. The
escort Of civil guards threw themselves
upon the would-be assassin aud oyer
powered him.
Feito was taken to tbS police station.
where he said he did not desire to Kill the
King, but the grand chamberlain. the
Duke of .Sotomayor, st whose carriage
he had aimed. He was searched and in
his pockets were found unmaiIed letters
marked Registered" and addressed to
President Roosevelt, King Edward, the
Emperor Of Germany sud the president
of the high court Of jas re at Mexico and
also receipts for a numJeT Of registered
letters and visiting card Of the MayOI
Of MsdriA
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-01-28
AMERICA AMONG THE NATIONS
Com merciaIly. the United States Has
an Unparalleled Situation.

OuparalREAGu SttuathOhs
Uncle Sam has a better business stand
than any of his competitors. b. Tar the
greater part of the worlds popnatlon Is
to live around the Pacific ocean 1t is to
be the Mediterranean-the midland sea
of the future. At present England has
n commercial advantage in the Paeific,
but the cutting of the isthHlian canal
will transfer that advantage to the Unit
ed States. If a British ship should sail
from Liverpool for Cape Horn. and an
American ship should sail from New
York for the same point, the latter would
have to sail $50 miles farther than the
former to reach The cape; and that means
that every port on the western coast OF
South America. Mexico and North Amer
lea. Mexico and North America is, by
water, nearer to Liverpool than to New
York. BY sea San Francisco is day
$50 miles farther from New York than
from Liverpool.
Suppose that the two ships sail from
New York and Liverpool for the Suez
canal. The latter ship would have an
advantage of 1000 miles over the former,
which means that all Asiatic and Indian
ports are. by the Suez canal, 1000 miles
nearer to Liverpool than to New York.
But when the isthmian canal shall be
cut New York will have an advantage ct
about 1000 miles on the average to the
ports of north China, from 800 to 200
miles ito the principal ports of the cen
trail and western Pacific, and from 2,I0O
to g. 800 miles to the ports of the eastern
Pacific. That is. commercially speaking,
the Pacific is now a British ocean. By
reason, therefore. of the location of the
United States, we shall always have bet
ter access TO the markets Of the world
than any other people. Not only does
our location give US a great commercial
advantage, but it also saves US hundreds
of millions of dollars every year by free
ing us from the burden of a great stand-
ing army, such as well nigh brushes the
life out of every great continental power
of Europe. As the London Spectator
says. ours is "a situation on this planet
unparalleled
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-01-28
Short News Notes.

Germany's population is 56,345,0l4.
Cold wave didn't kill Florida crops.
Dow Academy, Franconia, \. H.,
burned
Mine explosion. Fayette City, Pa, kill
ed four.
Mary Galeano, Is, and Ange Cafferata,
ST. Louis, drowned while c0asting.
Reedy Harris. d negro, shot his wife
TO death near Rosser, Texas, because the
woman refused to live with him.
The bar Of the United States Supreme
Court took appropriate action in memory
of the late Judge Horace Gray
The Maxwell Raiford Jewelry Com
pany Of Tuscaloosa, Ala, was robbed
of a tray of diamonds valued at 1900.
While giving a Ere alarm with a six
shooter, John Secrist shot and fatally
wounded Tell SchIeup, aged 2G. at Haus-
ton, Texas. the bullet going through the
stomach.
The appraisement Of the estate Of A..
C. Hutchinson, late president of Nor
gan's Louisiana and Texas Railroad. at
New Orleans shows it's value 10 be 1891
100. The bulk Of this property viii go
to the medical department Of Tulane
University
President Roosevelt is accorded the
honor OF n portrait in the Almanach de
Gotha for 1905. which has just made its
appearance. The edition is the one hun
dred and fortieth in the history Of this
compilation. Along with the Presidents
appear portraits Of King Edward and
Queen Alexandra and ole Of Prince Won
stoIberg- wernigerode, vics-president OF
the Union Of the Mediati8ed Seizneurs Of
Germany.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-01-28

Adjt. Gen. Jumel Of Louisiana has dis
banded the First regiment of that State
because it refused to turn out against
strikers in a recent street car strike.
The bill providing for a summer In
stead Of a winter session of The egisla-
ture of Georgia was passed by that body
over the Governors veto, by a vote of
12S to 81.
The New Hampshire constitutional
convention voted, l4J to %, in favor Of n
woman suffrage amendment, eliminating
the word male" Later motion to re-
consider prevailed.
President Schurman of Cornell in IN
address at Cooper Union. New York, ad-
yocated buying the land of the Philip
pine friars. and asserted that the fill
pinos were as capable of independent self
government rs the Cubans.
Secretary Of War Roots desire 10 re-
tire from the cabinet as soon as certain
reforms in the military service have been
completed has been known for some time
and it is now reported that he will resign
in April
T. Thomas Fortune. the negro commits
sioner to the Philippine and Hawaiian
Islands, in an interview u. Honolulu said
he believed the Importation of negroes
formed : natural solution Of the difficulty
which una, oidably followed the absorb
ton of tropical or semi-tropical coua-
tries by the United States.
Following the introduction by Senator
Gallinger Of a resolution to amend the
constitution and make State of the Dis
trict of Columbia, a mass meeting was
held in Washington, demonstrating the
popularity of the idea Many prominent
citizens spofc. 1t was shown that ia
population, and general intelligence the
district goes far ahead of several Of the
States. 'fhe chief difficulties to be over
come are the large negro vote and the
jurisdiction involved on account Of the
neutral eeded ground on which the city
is hnilt
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-01-28
AGRICULTURAL NEWS.

A company was formed in Salt Lake
City to reclaim 2710O0 acres %. land
along the Snake river, in IdaEy, by irri-
CATION.
1t is estimated that the sugar beet crop
Of Kansas will reach 1000 tons. more
than twice that Of Lust year. The State
has offered bounties to encourage this
industry, and $500 viii be claimed by
farmers this season.
The con- nittee selected by the CONNER
cial institutions Of the country to RECON-
mend to the government 4 method for IN
surfing greater accuracy in crop eports
has recommended a farm census every
FIVE years. and the establishment Of
schools Of instruction Tor census enurner
HtoEs.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-01-28
AGAIN eomsARp FORT.
Three German Warships Shell san
Carlos Fortress in Venezuela,

Carlos Fortress in Venezuela.
Three German warships. supposed TO
be the Panther, Vneta and Fake, be-
gan Smelling the fort of san Carlos, Ven
ezRela, Wednesday morning. The fort
returned the fire. The engagement lasted
several hours This is the same fort
shelled a few days before by the Pan
Their. Fort San Carlos is at the entrance
To Lake Maracaibo, in the extreme west
prn part of Venezuela. The fort is
equipped with modern rarid-fre guns.
4 correspondent of the Associated
Press in a rowboat approached to with
in three miles of the fort The roar of
the guns was terrific. The Panther APP
peared to b. not more than 800 yards
from the fort. Her guns We're being fired
every minute The fort could not be seen
for the clouds OF smoke. bur il was plain
that the Venezuelan gunners were an
swering the German fire hrayely and
with great rapidly,
At ! o'clock in the afternoon an eXplo-
sion occurred, apparently in the fort, and
a cloud of smoke covered part of the ram
parts. 4 number OF Indian fishermen
were intercepted fleeing from the direc-
ton of the fort in their dugout canoes.
They reported that the smoke seen was
from the burning village of San Car
los, which had been sheled by the Ger
man ships and was in flames,
The Smelling of San Carlos caused
much excitement among the German res
idents of Maracaiho. who have protest
ed as ainst the action of the warships
- the foreign Office in Berlin and ut
TIE German navy department it was de-
clared that no orders We're given to bonn
bard the fort. The navy officials admit
they knew the Nineta was proceeding
To Maracaibo, but they did not anticipate
a hombardment. The officials admit that
the incident is likely to renew anti
German agitation in the United States"
and say they recognize the disadvantage
Germany is placed in through the impos-
sibil ty of getting prompt reports from
Venezuela. The foreign office does uot
even know what was the purpose Of the
Panther in its first action against Fort
san Carlos.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-01-28
M safo station.

Leave 81. 2. Exp. except sunday.g 1903 . 10
G0lng) ia Crosse Exp. ex. Sunday, 4 IA D N
North Accommodation te.s. Sun 3:65 D nc
Leave lChi & 81. Louis Exp. en-. SUM- I:Oa a
Going Dubuque Exp, texce % SUM- 100 n
South accommodate Eek. Sunday $50 . 10
tzg- For tickets, rates, maps, etc apply to
Local agents at above stations
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-01-28
Chicago.

| HiiIuIliIH tu EEEaN HlfthBtu
- a material advance during
the week. Conditions favored strength
and the advance appears warranted.
There were reports of good business at
the seaboard and large sales Of wheat
and -four TO 60 out later 10 Europe. Here
in America, and more especially In the
Northwest, sentiment has favored higher
prices for some time. But the foreign
markets. Liverpool especially. would not
follow the advances on this side With
a good crop in sight In Argentina wheat
importers in Liverpool are slow 10 antici-
pate their wants, and viii naturally hold
off as long as possible. During the week
there was evidence that there was wheat
needed abroad for immediate use. At
present it looks as If there would be de-
mand from Liverpool Tor good &meri-
can wheat In any event while * IL should
develop that the Argentina crop is not 50
large or the quality not so good rs has
be n figured upon. the demand for Amer
lean wheat would be great.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-01-28
Canna afntlon.

Leave ST. r. Exp Except Sunday 7:79 q m
Going La Crosse Exp. lex. Sunday 3:oi o n
North Accommodations. Sunday .40 D m
Leave Chi. & st. Louis Exptsx. Sun 1897 N
Going Dubuque Exp. except SUM- 7:12 . NJ
South AccommOdationlsx. Sunday e:23 IN
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-01-28
Nlcforx station.

Going La Crosse Exp. tex. sunday $50 y M
North Accommodation lex Sunday ssis . M
Leave Chi. & Sc. Louis ExJtex. sum- 1873 M
Going Dubuque Exp. fe>cepe sum- 7:22 . IN
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-01-28
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Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-01-28
HONOR FOR MITCHELL
MINERS PRESIDENT is LIoNIZED
AT INDIANAPOLIS.

Enthusiastically Received by Follow
ers and the Public Opening of
Great convention-Re Report ON DISPOSE.
tion of Strike Relief Funds.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-01-28
WHAT ATTORNEY GENERAL KNOX RECOMMENDS.

That al discriminatory practices affecting interstate
trade be made offenses to be enjoined and punished
Such legislation be directed cke against those who
give those who receive Illegal advantages and to
discrimination in prices against competitors in parcu
localities resored for the purpose of destroying
competition.
In order to reach producers guilty of these oenses
who are producers beyond national control pens y
should be imposed upon the interstate and foreign trans
poraton of goods produced by them and Federal courts
should given power restrain such transportation at
goYernments Suit.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-01-28
TWELVE SENATORS CHOSEN
Five States in Which Elections Could
Not lie Obtained immediately.


Albert j. Hopkins will succeed William
T.. Mason in the Senate: Russell \. Al
ger of Michigan fills the vacancy caused
by the death of Iamcs Mcmillan; Charles
w. Fairbanks Of Indiana is reelected for
his second term; Orville III. Plat of Con
neeticut viii enter upon his fifth term
as the result of the ballot; James L.
Clarke's election closed sensational con
test in Arkansas, with James *, Jones,
the present member, and chairman of the
Democratic national committee during
the past two campaigns; William ].
Stone of Missouri goes to Washington as
Senator for the first time in n long POI
ltical career; Henry &. Hunsbrough of
North Dakota has already served two
terms; Boise penrose Of Pennsylvania
has occupied a seat in the Senate cham
her for one term; Thomas g. Platt the
New York boss, has been honored three
times by being elected Senator; Reed
Smoot Of Utah is a leader in the Mormon
church. whose election has created much
discussion; Jacob II Gallinger of New
Hampshire is reelected for his third
term; Alfred Il. kittredge of South Ba-
kota il elected. after baing appointed in
1901 to succeed the late lanes II. Kyle.
In Delaware, Oregon Washington,
Kansas and North Carolina there we're
two q, more candidates for the senator
ship with strength enough to delay the
election.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-01-28
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Ad. and Toe. to cover cost ~
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Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-01-28

Such legislation
ship
should be investigate the operations of
authority inquire
any oncer business
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1903-03-06
A WOMAN'S INFLUENCE.

Miss Octavine Briggs is brave woman and good
very good. She had some money, and wanted to
help that half of the world that needs all the help
ing hands that be held out to it. So she moved
from her pleasant home into a little house in the
crowded tenement quarter of San Francisco.
1t not a nice place for a woman-for any one.
There were smells and sick folks and crying babies
and the odor of poor food and the damp atmosphere
Iof dark rooms. Most tenement people live that
way, because they can not afford to live where air
and sunshine IN cities are more easily found and do
not know of the opportunities which are open to
them in Florida
Miss Briggs didn't try any Boston culture schemes
on the people. She didn't tell the poor that she
had come to drag them from their ignorance. She
simply lived her way and made friends.
Her house was clean. Her food was plain but
well prepared. Her clothing was simple and made
to fit her. Her windows were full of flowers, and
she was Just like bit of sunshine herself.
She sat up with the sick, had jolly talks with the
young folks, took care of babies and exercised in
tuence, silent and powerful. Is it any wonder that
the plan worked?
| The tenements soon blossomed with window boxes,
because they looked so nice in Miss Briggs win
dow" Soap and water did their work Who
wants to have a dirty house when spotless one is
where it meets the eye often? And the street Is
kept cleaned the children seldom stay out of school,
and life i'll this tenement district is said to have
been almost completely transformed.
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1903-03-06

of human nature. In investing them with high
qualities that command admiration we must divest
them of all the little human weaknesses that make
them of ourselves.
In the perfect embalming of body 1t is consid-
cred necessary to the viscera and brain; and
III popular estimation something of the same pro-
cess must be gone through with to make great hero
There is nothing tyrannica as public opinion
among free people. To the American citizen, po-
litical feeling embraces all the fascination of gam
bling and all the fanaticism of religion. In time it
creates gods and devils
Right and wrong are white and black, with no
shades of gray between, and the popular favorte is
preserved in cold, white marble, without blot or
blemlsh to hint of human life.
We piousy close eyes to the fact that James
Parton, the eminent blographer after gathering a
vast amount of material for life of Washington,
gave up the task on the ground that, if he wrote
the whole truth the American people would detest
him for having despoled an idol to restore man.
Abraham Lincolns rail-splittlng and his coarse
ests marked real red blood in his veins and brought
him into reach of mems sympathies. They marked
him as made of common clay, like the rest of us.
But the historical ghouls have stolen him from us
and given us in his place marble statute, without
veins viscera.
And now we learn that Daniel Websters one great
fault had no existence. He, too, was of godlike
purity, and the touch of death has but brought him
into his natural estate a deity.
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1903-03-06
Published at Paatka, Fla, on Fridays, by
RUSSELL g VICKERS
COLLEGES AND CENSUS.

President Elliott of Harvard has made another
startling observation. He has discovered that col
ege educton is liable to cause extinction of the peo-
pie of the United States. He shows that, in pro-
portion to the increase Of universities, the pop
ulation will decline and disappear.
He would shorten the college course to enable
men to quit school earlier and marry before they
become enervate.
Harvard graduates. he says don't marry, or, if
they do they contribute slightly, if at all, to the
population. He says the same is true of college
graduates in general.
If all this is true-and there is no apparent reo-
son to doubt tt-something ought to be done about it.
Higher education is fine, from the collegian'
standpoint at least but Of what avail it if there
is to be no posterity to transmit its benefits to?
1t is broad question. 1t has long been remarked
that rich people have fewer children than the poor
Yet the world worries along, just the same, and the
fact has not served in the least degree to discourage
the accumulation of wealth. And perhaps people
if permitted, will go acquiring higher education
Just as others 60 on accumulatng wealth. at the ap
parent expense Of offspring, without regret.
1t is quite possible that if all who are unfit for
higher education, and who will not absorb it how.
ever thoroughly it be rubbed on, could be in some
way cut out of the colleges. the danger OF depopu
laton might be greatly diminished.
If all the unnecessary subjects were eliminated
from the preparatory schools and more time were
given to a few elementary studies, many young mer
not intending to be professionalists specialists
might be enabled to feel themselves fit for practi
cal life without entering the colleges at all. Thu
there might be less education but more education
There might he less high stunt scholarship bu
more successes in life, more marriages, more chill
dren and more wholesome cOntentment.
But the alarm is groundless. The falling off il
population because of college education does not
ticeably affect the census. Only small proportion
of the young men of this country go to college
Most of them are content to take the substance
rather than ssek the shadow of happy life. Tht
great army of them marry and build homes, th
greatest institutions of real learning in the world
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1903-03-06
THE ESTATE OF ZOLA.

1t is reported from Paris that Emile ZoIa the au-
thor died comparatively poor. Beyond the house
in which he lived ard fine collection of pictures
he left little or no estate. That statement seems
strange.
Zola made hundreds of thousands Of dollars with
his pen. His books have been the vogue i'll France
for many years to say nothing of their sale in this
country and elsewhere. His royalties enor-
nous.
There was good reason why some of the immor-
tails of English literature ''of whom the world is not
worthy should die poor.
Think of Milton selling Paradise Lost for fifty
pounds! Shakespeare could find no market for his
Hamlet" or Macbeth" save his theatre audiences
Grub street traditions tell many sad tale of the
wearsome travels of genius up and down the stair
cases of aristocratic patrons. That was the day
when the man behind thepen made but precarious
living.
Zolo made several fortunes and spent them He
was a high-roler and eXtravagant. Knowing want
in the days of his beginning, having made money
he went to the other extreme and spent it avlshlv
Besides there ''irreguIarites," as the French
say, in his life. He kept up two family establish
ments aud this with the full knowledge aud con-
sent of his wife. French ways are not our wavs
thank goodness.
1t is said that while the sale of ZoIa's books has
fallen OFF since his death, the royalties will be sufi-
cient to maintain his Legitimate family
lola had no vision. He has left no ideal for the
world to worship. He was simpIya realistic hsto-
ran of his times. The only time the world ever ap
plauded him was when he bravely spoke in behalf
of the prosecuted Dreyfus And that was about the
only time he ever deserved applause
The Palatka news and advertiser., 1903-03-06
HUMAN BEINGS vs.. MARBLE GODS.

preacher up i'll Cleveland, Ohio, is said to have
collected an irresistible array of proof that Abra
ham Lincoln never split rails.
Parson Weem's good old story of the boy Wash
ington chopping his fathers favorte cherry tree
with his little hachet and being unable to lie about
it is also generally discredited in this day
But now DR.. Edward Everett Hale comes forward
with the positive assurance that Daniel Webster
not drunkard; that he knew him intimately.
HIM thousands of times, read thousands of his
letters, in and out of his house constantly and
never saw him under the influence of liquor.
And thus the good old superstitions perish We
are not content to have great men, we must have
them gods. We must remove them from all trace