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Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-10-28
Iwenty Years Ago.

Gen. James y. Stcednan. famous for
his relief Of Thomas at Chickamauga,
died in Toledo. Ohio. aged 81 years.
Northern Pacific Railroad stock was
cornered in Wall street and the price adj
vanced from 63 toR77M
Sunset Cox declared his election as
Speaker Of the National House and Sam
ueI J. Randall's defeat were assured.
Gen William Tecumseh Sherman,
commanding general of the United States
army. was retired from active service.
Congressman Warren Of Ohio, one of
the fathers" Of the American silver dol
lar, announced that the old trade dollar
was a failure in promoting trade with
China. and ought to be abolished
The United States Supreme Court gave
its decision on the civil rights bill declar-
ing the law passed by Congress prescrib-
ing a penalty for discrimination against
negroes in hotels, railroad trains and
steamboats, was unconstitutional except
for the District Of Columbia.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-10-28
MAKING sANpALwoop OIL.
New Process Has Been Discovered Re-
Gently Purely by Accident.

New Process Has Been Discovered Re-
Gently Purely by Accident.
One of the most valuable of oils
both TO the perfumer and the pharma-
cist, is that extracted from sandal
wood. Its discovery is due, like others
of Importance, to accident, says the
Saturday Evening Post DR. David L.
Day of the United States Geological
Society was making some small chemi-
cal experiments the other day on the
nantelshelf of his office in Washington.
He had some crude petroleum from Il
Texas well and was putting ii through
various processes. more for amusement
than anything else, when he noticed
that the liquid resulting from certain
reaction" had powerful odor. 1t
was too strong to he agreeable to the
nostrils, but he moistened bit of
paper with the fluid, and, waving it in
front of his nose, perceived immediate
ly that the smell was that of sandal
wood oil. He had obtained. quite by
chance an artificial oil of sandalwood
impure, it Is true, but easily sus-
ceptible of publication by refining.
The discovery is believed to be of
great value commercially, but DIR. Day
has too much scientific business on
hand to bother with exploiting syn
thetie perfume. and makes the world
welcome to his lucky find" Inasmuch
as the oil can be got from petroleum
in endless quantities at very cheap
rate it is likely TO drive the ordinary
sandalwood oil, which is obtained by
distillation from the weed, out of the
market.
The destructive white ant of India
and China, which dev0urs nearly ey-
erything save metals, will not touch
sandalwood. and that is one reason
why so much of it is made up in oask-
cts, boxes and similar articles that
come from Asia. Most people are
familiar with the agreeable perfume
of boxes made from this material
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-10-28
One IlunGred Years AGO.

A cargo of artillery and ammunition
was imported by the State of South Car
DINA from England, special rates having
been made by the manufacturers because
of the danger of capture by French war
ships.
American newspapers advised owners
of copper ore to send it TO Europe, as
there were no smelling works in the
Uaited States at that time.
President Thomas Jefferson's message
requesting immediate action on the
Louisiana purchase was read at a special
session of Congress.
Orlers were received at New Orleans
froIl Spain forbidd'1g the transfer of
Louisiana territory Aer 10 France or
the United States.
The United States Senate ratified the
purchase of Louisiana territory by vote
of PAT to T.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-10-28
Hi I POPULAR
KMN PULPIT

and the circus were set forth as con-
traries to lessons and chores and Sun
day school: why candy was sweet and
medicine bitter, and now that we are
men we are still amazed at the sane
moral contradictions. The puritanic
and fanatical philosophy of life says:
Don't do that, you naughty boy and
the youth replies I'm not naughty,
I'm happy What is the reason of
this perversion of nature? A false
doctrine of life We have overemph"-
sized the dangers Of excess and for
gotten the meaning of use The nor
alist has taught us the idea of depri-
walton, restriction and gloom and omit
ted the ideas of possession, enlarge
ment and joy which lie in the purpose
of Jesus to give life and that abund-
antly. The supreme fact in nature
and human society as related to pleas
ure is this; That no physical function
no exercise OF mental power, no skill
or artistic expression but yields its ac-
companying pleasure in the legitimate
act. Nature gives the bee its sip of
nectar for the work of fertilizing the
flower. Nature and man and God
have each their sip OF nectar for SER
vice rendered.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-10-28
Amnrer fhe Sfnte

Willie yThode. aged . years, of Mari
nette, was accidentally shot by his broth
err
Fire destroyed the plant of the Donley
& Schroeder Tannery Company in Ken
osha, entailing a loss Of about $4,000.
Andrew Davidson. who thirty years
ago came to GAINESVILLE to attend u tele-
graph school. serving as stable boy in
the meantime, has returned a million
aire. lie is president of six Canadian
banks. His fortune was made in Cana
dian islands.
Several Youngsters were arrested at
North Fond dn Lac by Office Craig. in
an effort to put n stop to series Of
thcfts which have been going on recently
in the freight yards of the Northwestern
Road The boys were arraigned in JUS
tice court and given lecture by the
judge.
The police arrested l.. w. Hopkins
watchman at the Grand Republic mill in
Superior, on the charge Of dragging two
daughters Of f. J. Ernisse lie board
ed with the Ernisse family and is said
10 have given the girls chlorofol1n while
the rest of the family were away.
William Layman. EDWARD Moran ana
Henry Albright were attacked by WOLF
at the north fork Of the Chippaw River
near Aellen The animal dashed at the
men with open jaws and was met Toy
Layman, who split its head with an tx
Tie wolf was the largest seen in the
vicinity in years.
The State Boar5 Of Control has grant
ed leave to the Boa rd Of Supervisors OF
Maunette County to bHild county in
sane asylum.
The Eastern and Western taunery NJ.
Tomahawk has been sold TO T. 4. Gil
bert. Of Warren. Pa. The plant Is said
to have cost $4,000.
Mrs Rose Sinchetka. aged 30. wife Of
a German farmer living ten miies mort
west Of Cumberland. committed suicide
by taking paris green.
Willie Thode. 8 years old, was shot
and killed near Athelst9ne His older
brother was with him. II IS thought 20
have happened Secide ltally.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-10-28
Thirty Years Ago.

4 second "black Friday" panic occur
red on the New York stock exchange,
Commodore Vanderbilt being among
those reported hard hit by a slump in
Lake Shore Railroad to 60 and New
York Central to So,
Seventeen persons died at Memphis,
Tenn, of yellow fever. and the city was
said 10 be deserted by all but the sick
and their nurses.
The price Of gold fell to 1O73s at Nav
York. the lowest point since the Civil
War.
President L. s. Grant proposed a sys.
tenn of postodice banks by which the
savings of the people could be deposited
with the government and secured against
panics.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-10-28
THoRNs IN SOUL or MAN.

BY pr. PoiemuS n. Swift.
A heart preoccupied with the infe-
rior makes impossible the realization
of the highest ideals The useless is
the deadly enemy Of the useful. De-
votion to the lower sounds the death
lnell of the higher. One may be so
occupied with the temporal as TO be
blinded to the spiritual. Ii one does
not make the highest supreme and
live for it with might and main the
inferior will choke out the superior
and render golden harvest impossi-
BILE.
II there is DO positive good in
thing there is sure to be harm in it.
Account for it as you may. there are
in every soul unholy impulses that
prove to be dangerous thorn roots in
the soil of the heart. Man has a sort
Of dual nature. There is in every
man smaller and larger self. The
supreme question is which shall gain
the mastery.
The beginnings of bad habits exist
as most pernicious thorn roots in the
field of the heart. They must be root
ed out or life will be ruined. II you
desire TO reap a golden harvest in the
autumn Of life you must conquer the
lower by devotion to the higher. win
the victory over the taints of heredity
by the power of self-determination and
the grace of God and root out the
thorns of bad habit with the pick-ax
of self-denial. If you do not live for
the best the worst viii overrun the
fair fields Of life and ruin all at the
last
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-10-28
WISCONSIN'S RECORD.
FAITHFULLY TOLD IN READABLE
SHAPE.
Boat Sinks in Calm Lnke-TniI Deliv-
cry Fooled in Milwaukee, bank Cash
ier Accused Of Forgery -Rossow Gets
Fifteen Years.

Unique in the history of lake disasters
was the sinking off Ashland 81 the
steamer Marquette With hardly enough
air stirring TO ripple the surface of Lake
Superior, the ore-laden vessel sprung a
leak at midnight and despite the efforts
of the crew at the pumps plunged bow
first to the bottom of Lake Superior. So
suddenly did the end come that four
members of the crew who were still ct
their posts had barely time TO jump over
the side of the sinking vessel into the
boats and join their comrades. With a
roar like the explosion Of magazine
the imprisoned air in the hold rushed
out, tearing the decks into kindling wood.
The towering mainmast was lifted bodily
twenty feet into the air by the blast and
then fell back into the jake. 1t was
only by tile most desperate exertions on
the part of the crew that the small
boat was not caught in the maelstrom
formed by the sinking vessel and drawn
below the surface.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-10-28
NEW RULER FOR NEW
COMMONWEALTH or AUSTRALIA

When the new Commo wealth of
Australia, forming the union recently
agreed upon by the various provinces
of this smallest of continents, takes
upon itself the government Of national
affairs, England will send a new Gov
ernor General to represent the mother
country. The present Governor Gen
eral is Lord Tennyson, eldest son of
the great poet. He viii be succeeded
by Lord Northcote. at present Govern
or of Bombay.
Lord Northcote has grown Il ma
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-10-28
Cashier Accused of Forgery.

]. Z. Leimer, cashier of the Princeton
Bank, was arrested and taken to Jail at
hartford on a charge of forgery. 1t is
said that Leimer forged paper to the
amount of $4,000 to make good losses
suffered by him in grain speculation. The
discovery came out through an investiga
ton by Bank Examiner NJ. C. Bergh,
who ordered the doors of the bank clos
ed. Leimer was also vice-president Of
the bank at Montello. and it is said that
some of the forged paper is in the Mon
tello bank. The bank examiner has or
dered that bank not TO open its doors an
til its books can be examined. The de-
positors are chiefly farmers. Chicago
firms are said to be large !os,ls.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-10-28
len Years Ago.

Twenty peneDns were crushed OF
burned 10 death, and forty injured, in a
railroad collision at Battle Creek, Mich
The American Bankers Association
appealed to Congress for the repeal Of
the Sherman silver purchase law.
The steamer Dean Richmond founder
ed in Lake Fri with a loss Of eighteen
lives.
The powerlessness Of the United
States Senate in national crises was
pointed ont in the blocking by ten Sen
stors loyal to President Cleveland's pol
icy Of a compromise on repeal Of the
Sherman silver purchase law, which the
majority favored.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-10-28

turity in the public service, First he
was a clerk in the Foreign Office and
in 1871 was attached to the Lord
Ripon mission that negotiated the
Alabama damage treaty. The follow
ing year he was Secretary OF the
Queen Victoria claim commission I'M
der the treaty of Washington
Since then he has held many impor-
tant positions and sat in the House
Of Parliament as a Conservative for
10 years. He was created a baronet at
Queen Yictorias first jubilee and a
peer when he became Governor ~
RnmhaN.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-10-28
Seventy-five Years Age.

President John Quincy Adams cam
paign managers solicited votes for his
reelection because he never had fought
a duel. sent challenge. given cause for
one, or shed the blood of his country
men"
The fastest trip between Philadelphia
and New York to that date was made
by the steamboat Philadelphia in hours
and 20 minutes.
Managers of Andrew Jackson's presi-
Dental campaign in Pennsylvania threat
ened 10 call a convention and remodel the
constitution aGd State government on
"Jacksorian'' principles.
President John Quincy Adams was ac-
cused in = campaign document of vast
ing $50 zoe on the Panama convention
"humbug."
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-10-28
Fifty Years Ago.

Pennsylvania factory hands struck for
a ten-hour workday.
Seventy-fye Adventures under Col.
William Walker sailed from San Fran
cisco to establish n republic in lower
California where slavery would be al
lowed.
Residents of Matanzas. Cuba. were re
ported dying by scores in a cholera cpl
demie.
President Franklin Pierce reviewed
the military organizations Of Washing
ton in celebration of Corvallis surren-
der at Yorktown.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-10-28
SERMONETTES
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Supreme Law--The cynical observer
of human nature finds some humor l.
situation which. unites all classes
in raid on the railroads. But it
proves that, behind all conventions of
law or politics, we yet recognize that
the safety of the public is the supreme
law. Is the government ownership
of the coal mines socialism? The an
swer is Yes "-Rev. d. Beaton, Con-
gregationalist, Chicago, H.
Wealth.-We all must have some
kind of guide or shepherd What or
who shall it be? Money is selected by
many. Is it satisfactory? Trace the
devotee of money to the end OF the
test was called once to a very rich
man. He was paralyzed. His right
hand and arm had lost their cunning.
What was his wealth when he came
to die? Nothing. Gold is vain, unsat-
isfactory at the end.-Rev. G. F. Sey-
mour, Episcopallan, Springfield, III.
Fellowship with G ,d-If we walk
in fellowship with some favorite au-
thor we are occupied with his
thoughts. Unconsciously his words
come to our lips. This is the common
result of companionship. This law
holds good in our fellowship with God.
We are filed with the thought Of his
love, his majesty and his glory, and
exclaim, 20 Lord. our Lord, how ex-
cellent is thy name in all the earth"
Rev. W. f. Wykof, Methodist,
Akron, Ohio.
Tastes anu Tasks.-& clothing in this
world is so peculiarly Il mans own as
his incidental tastes. One Of the great
moral questions of life, then, as affect
ing our own growth and as bearing
upon our duty to others lies in the
right use of our tastes. And one OF
the subtlest temptations of life is to
let our tastes get in the way of our
tasks, and the relationship OF tastes
and tasks must be one of the import
ant tests of life.-Rev. A. r. Merriam,
Congregationalist, Hartford, Conn.
That Is SUGGESTIVE main spring of
life is success; the shibboleth of this
strenuous world is Get there" Sue
cess and failure are relative terms and
depend on ones particular viewpoint
To be a successful merchant seems TO
be the summum bonum. But as BUSH
ness man said TO me after a toilsome
day, there is something in life besides
making money There is something
more for men han converting them
selves into machines for coming
shekels.-Rev. J, y. Hall, Methodist.
Oak Park, III.
Grazing Grounds. The grazing
grounds of the fleshly-minded are the
lotus meadows Of pleasure and ease
The grazing grounds Of the spiritually
minded are the green pastures be.
sides the still waters" led and Fed
and satisfied by the Shepard Of Life
The difference between the carnally-
minded and the spiritually minded is
the difference between the stan fed
OK comnlao5ntIy chewing his eud and
the creature created in the image Of
God agonizing 70 be worthy OF wear
Ing the white stone and hearing tho
new name>-Eeg. c. J. Greenwood,
Baptist. Westneld, \. J.
Our first impulses are good. gener-
Gus. heroical; reflection weakens and
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-10-28
Superior Wins Point.

Superior wins in still another point in
bond litigation. Judge Bum in his de-
cision IA the case Of Jewell against the
city holds that plaintiff can collect on
special improvement bonds anly such
amount as the city has actually received
in taxes. The court holds that the city
is responsible to tt bondholder only to
the amount that has been paid into the
treasury and all bondholders are to share
alike. Jewell sought to have himself de-
clared preferred creditor, but the court
says he must share with the rest
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-10-28
DC ( "RINE OF PLEASURE.
Nv Pey. David Heston

The world to-day needs a new doc
trine Of pleasure-a gospel Of pleasure,
properly speaking, The tension Of life
IS reaching the limits Of human endu-
rance. and rich and poor alike are IL
norant Of the joy of living. The idea
that pleasure is sinful IS repudiated
by ali wise teachers. but the ghost Of
that falsehood still haunts the mind
of men As children we wondered
why the things we liked to d. were
the things that were always forbid
den; why the woods ard the lakes
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-10-28
White Blackherries.

BY means of cross-breeding Luther
Burbank, of Santa Rosa. California.
has developed a variety of blackberries.
which are perfectly white, as bright as
snow in the sunshine, and 50 trans
parent that the seeds can be seen In
side the ripe fruit. The seeds are said
to he unusJally small, and the berries
are as sweet and meltingly tender as
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-10-28
Plot to Free Fclons Fooled.

What might have been wholesale Jail
delivery was frustrated in Milwaukee
through the sharpness Of a fireman nam
ed poelter, whose house is located next
to the county Jail. Some nights ago he
noticed strangers near Jail window
which opens on an area between the two
buildings. Later he saw them again, and
informed Sheriff Tegtmeyer. The alarm
was given, and several deputies armed
themselves with shotguns and drove the
prisoners into their cells. An examine
ton was made. and the steel bars Of
the windows near where poelter saw
the strangers were found 20 i,c sawed
through and everything made ready for
an escape. A careful search of the pris-
oners and their cells failed TO reveal any
tools with which the work could have
been done, which leads to the belief that
outsiders are implicated.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-10-28
Mennsha Man in Fight with nnrelar..

John Schreibeis entered his grocery
store at Menasha late the other night TO
secure some eatahles and was attacked
by two burglars. A desperate battle en-
sued Schreibeis had succeeded in wrest-
ing a revolver from the bands of one of
the burglars who was trying TO shoot
him and was gathering the heads and
faces of his assailants with the weapon,
when ona of them struck him over the
head with a bottle of root beer. Schreib-
els was temporarily rendered uncon-
scious, and the burglars escaped, leay-
ing behind their hats. which have been
recognized as belonging to two charac-
ters who are members of a tough gang
having a rendezvous in Menasha, but
they have fled from the city. Schreibeis
was not seriously hurt.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-10-28
Robbers Chass Into River.

Edward Reed, fireman on the steam
err Olympia, jumped or fell into tie Me-
nominee River while being pursued by
two other men. His body was recover
ed Y wallet belonging to him. contain
ing SO is missing, bat the police do not
think il is in the river.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-10-28
Rossow Is Given Fifteen Years.

Herman Rossow. who shot his wife
and then attempted to commit suicide in
4 La Crosse church three weeks ago,
pleaded guilty to the charge OF assault
with intent to kill and was given the
maximum sentence of fifteen years at
Waupun. Mrs. Rossow has entirely re-
ao4rora1
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-10-28

the finest of the black varieties. The
familiar Lawton berry is described as
the great-grandparent of the new white
variety, to which has been given the
name iceberg" The white berries
are as large as the Lawtons.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-10-28

Occasionally you meet people who
are unfair, and inconsiderate, but
think of the many nice onesl
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-10-28

Our first impulses are good. geneT-
Gus. heroical; reflection weakens and
kills them.-L. a. Martin.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-01-23
Not i'm the Contract.

speaking OF the Missouri river and
its habit of changing its course re-
marked the man in the macintosh,
says The Chicago Tribune, reminds
me of a curious thing that happened to
me once while I was hunting along
that river. / got into my skiff to row
to the other side, and you may believe
me or not, just as you please, but the
blamed old stream cut a new channel
while 1 was doing it, and when 1 got
across I found I was on the same side
1 had left"
There was silence for a few moments,
and then the man in the corduroy suit
spoke up.
1T seems to me I have heard some
thing like that BEFORE" he said. 81
don't doubt the story, of course, but
I'd like to have 1t eXp'a:ned a little.
If o found yourself on the same side
when you landed the river bank must
have followed you. Then how can you
be said to have got across'"
And If the river bank followed you,"
said the man with his feet On the ia
BILE, sit seems plain to me hat the
other side must have bsen moving
away from you all the time. Of course,
I can't doubt that you roWed across
but 1 think o ought to explain how
1t was"
Gentlemen" said the man in the
macintosh. with some irritation Of
manner, eff there's any explanation
you'll have to think it up. 1 don't
know Of any I am merely telling you
the facts"
There was another brief pause, and
then some one in the CrOup PASSED the
hat around.
one button and one beer check. This
was handed in silence to the narrator
of the story, and the assembly broke
uD.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-01-23
4 Manly Nan.

It is said that all the world loves a
true lover. and in much the same way
everybody loves a manly man. There
is nothing sweeter in life unless it is
a womanly m
All like a transparent character. bat
no one likes things which are covered
up or concealed.
People who are uncertain Of them
selves. who are not sure of their char
acter. are always throwing up a de-
Tense to protect themselves against the
close scrutiny of the world.
Frank people fling the doors Of their
hearts wide per for they have moth
ing to conceal. They are what they
seem. flaws and all: secretive people
whose histories hav not been clear.
who lack the self-con1dence of true
manhood. open their inner doors very
carefully, very guardedly, lest others
get glimpSes of their unholy selves.
There is nothing which will help a
young person to succeed more than q
reputation for a clean transparent,
manly honesty and straightforward
ness. We are afraid of people who are
always on their guard, who do not quite
dare to trust o to look into their in
most SelVeS-SuccecC