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Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-08-19

be in accordance with the new army bin,
which was so ~strenuously opposed by the
retiring general.
Gen. Miles entered the army as a vol.
unteer officer of the Twenty aa Mas.
sachusetts infantry when only % years
old. He served with distinction during
the Civil War and at the Z Of % was
in command of a brigade. He also won
fame as an Indian fighter on the plains
after the close Of the war. He was
placed in charge of jefferson Davis when
the latter was a prisoner of war. With
his command he forced the surrender of
Geronimo and of many other noted In
dian chiefs.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-08-19
To Decide on State Hospital

Gov. La Toilette has appointed a State
tuberculosis commission, composed of Or
Gustav Schmitt, Milwaukee,; Prof. IL. L,
Russell, bactoriologist at the State uni
versity. and DIR. Michael Razin of Mer-
rill. The commission is appointed in ae-
cordance with the direction of a joint
resolution passed by the Legislature. Its
duty is to determine the ACCESSIBILITY of
the establishment of a State hospital for
the treatment of tuberculosis in human
beings. select a Site and report TO the
next Legislature. A move is also OF
foot for the establishment of a State
health park. where cor sumptives who
cannot afford TO go to warner and dryer
climates may find a home, il being ctan2-
ed that portions of Wisconsin are as
beneficial to those affected by p1.morary
trouble as Colorado or California.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-08-19

of course. to commeuse selling, and
this FASTENED ana a~ccentuated the in
eyitable end. BY March 1, the price
had dropped to less than It was when
Thibault commenced operations.
Altogether the gigantic gamble cost
him $50,000,000, Of which sum fully
one-half was lost between noon and
five minutes past on February 2s. 1889,
when the bottom dropped out of his
corner = tray Stories.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-08-19
Found His Long Lost Slater.

Craig Brown of Beaver Dam found a
long lost sister by attending the sessions
of the grand lodge of Elks in Baltimore.
They had not seen each other for TWEEN
ty-seyen years. each thinking the other
dead. Mr.. Brown came west twenty
seven years ago. He continued to CORE
spond with his sister until ten years ago.
Then he lost his sisters address. In the
meantime he removed TO Beaver Dam,
and Dis sisters letters failed to reach
him.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-08-19
.Find the Ensineer KiIled,

Walter Bates, second engineer of the
Goodrich steamer Georgia. was found
dead with his head crushed by some ter.
rife blow as the steamer W. leaving
her dock at Milwaukee for Mackinae
Island. The body was lying face down
ward on the grating of the engine room.
NJ one saw II accident about the ma
cliinery or anything else to cause death.
He was 26 years old, unmarried. and
lived at Spring Lake, Mich.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-08-19
PROBLEM Or PROPORTIONS.

Civilization has use for the money
maker. The shop and the ship and
the railroad train are all permanent
aud lasting features in the elevation
AMI development Of man. but they are
only instruments and not the end. The
eye cleared Of the fogs of seIfshness
that penetrates through the mists Of
passing and transient forces has a
right 10 ask Of Us. What do you do II
fcr and how do zen do its In le
p~erspecdTes OF life the words 1ros
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-08-19
MILES. CAREER AT enc.
Commanding Geaeral of the Army
Reaches the Age of Retirement.

Secretary Root has announced the re-
tirement of Lieut.. Gen. Nelson A. Miles
as head Of the United States army. Gen.
s. b. N. Young succeeds him as com
manding general for the space of six
days, after which time he will take up
his permanent position as chief Of the
general army STAFF. Practically the Office
of commanding general ceases with the
retirement Of Gen. Miles, though Gen
Young will be the last to bear thar titls
and will be the FIRST to wear the dignity
Of chief Of staff. The new regime will
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-08-19
Death Releases Prisoner.

James Tobin. who was to be arraigned
at the ley term of the municipal COURT
in Milwaukee as the alleged murderer Of
his aged VIC in their home in Granville
GeIter, July 10, srss found dead in bis
eel in the couaty Jail. The county ply
siaian gave as his opinion thet Tobin's
dealH was due to old age end natural
rauses
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-08-19
Death Ends Pleasure Trip.

As the result of a runaway at Rich
wood, Louis Welkert of that place was
seriously injure-f, his wife was killed in
stantly and their children fatally injured.
They were on a visit 10 friends and the
hotse ran away on a hill. dashing into a
tree and wire fence, throwing them ort.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-08-19

According to English law, a child
under Z years of age is incapable of
committing a crime. If oyer Z and
under IA it is left TO the jury to say
whether he had guilty knowledge of
doing wrong. Persons over IA are, OF
course, held fully responsible.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-08-19
RELIGIOUS IDEALS OF TODAY.
BY Rev. Wilson N RacEux

1t is as ignorance gives way to
knowledge and fear becomes love that
religion becomes expressed in higher
terms until it reaches the highest point
the educated man of to-day knows
which is faith in a moral government
of the universe. The man who is pos
sessed of this faith knows no fear. he
freely and boldly does that which his
hand finds to do, never questioning but
what it will be well NTH him in the
end.
But this progress means a constant
change in the elements of belief. n
shifting from lower to higher ideals.
Men have never laid aside the great
problems of life. We preachers m
times feel that because men have in a
measure deserted the church that they
have also deserted their religion.
but it is because we do not nm
derstand. Men feel to-day that re-
ligion is human ~Ilelpfulness and be-
cause they have mistaken the effect.
for the aus it does not impugn their
honesty.
The difference as a religion between
heathenism and Christianity is the hu-
man element of Christianity. The
words of John, "he who loveth not his
brother whom he hath seen, how can
he love God, whom he hath not seem
have gradually won upon the Chris
tian conscience until to-day they are
dominant. The result is that charity
and b~rotherly love prevail to a greater
degree than ever before. 1t may be
that in the process personal righteous
ness has become less. but the next sep
in progress is for men to see that any
form of evil, even of the most personal
nature, is an offense against human
ity.
1t is through new knowledge that
new ideals are formed. Ont OF pres
ent unrest better things shall come.
Until the imagination perishes the Wis
ion of some higher good will form and
reform in the heart of every age. 1t
is the inspiration of art, the aim of
every noble employ. the glowing hope
of every soul Ind. above all, an evil
dence of abiding life that shall fulfill
its purpose.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-08-19
Il51nIB{ S69YyIhEI2
~ PULPIT

perity'' and success are words of no
significance. They condemn perhaps
more often than they commend. 4. c.
Harnsworth. the proprio or of the Lon
don Daily Mail and thirty other pa.
pers and magazines, Is reported to
have said. "As to the word success.
/ detest II. The more | see OF success
the better | like failure. How many
earnest, brave men one meets, men of
splendid head and heart. who lack the
small combination of fortune or wits
that brings money and 1sputation.
What people call success is a poor
standard by which to judge a man.
Taken as a %'hole. successful men are
persons to Asep clear of, Opportunity
largely Makes the man, and the poor
creature 4lould remember that
1t might be added that the oppor-
tunity which brings the ~so-calied sue
cesses of life oftentimes contains as
one factor a duh conscience. that is
saved from nice determinations of
duty; a cold heart, not susceptible to
the holy agonies and divine sympa-
thies that most humanize the human
soul. The true perspective of the
business man puts the final test be-
yond the bankers footing, beyond his
bonds ard his real estate. Sooner or
later. in health or in sickness. In joy
or III sorrow, in triumph or defeat, in
time oil eternity. the business mans
money will be put into this longer per-
spective of God, and win be judged
not only by the motive and the meth
cd by which 1t was acquired, but by
the end to which 1t was devoted and
the condition in which the fortune
leaves the fortune-maker.
The same delusion goes with the
word prosperity" as with the word
success" Is he prosperous who
starves his heart in order to feed his
stomach? Is he prosperous who loses
his sleep in order to find his business?
Is he prosperous WHO is impaled upon
the financial spit, suffering daily a
m~artyrdom like st. Lawrence on his
gridiron? Is he prosperous who, grow
ing weary of the ever-changing mira
Gle of dawn and darkness, of summer
and winter in his w land, tries to
hide himself from his WEAKNESS in
foreign lands. and there finds that
what was not beautiful at home can
hot be beautiful long abroad? He is
prosperous whose soul is f~orehanded.
He Is prosperous whose life is linked
to lasting interests, whose heart is an
chored in permanent joys and grow
ing inspirations. He alone is prosper
GUS whose healthy body is a cradle to
a healthy mind. whose diligent hand
is open to the best causes. who never
Ih~esitates between the lower and the
higher issues. who first pays for these
things that have first claim upon his
life, who lives here as in the constant
atmosphere of heaven.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-08-19
IT MEANS A DEAD CHURCH.

- W KIT W. o. Leach
The conception Of Christ held by
church or Individual determines the
power and Influence of hat Individual
in Christian work. Dead churches
have not q living Christ. Dead men.
in spiritual things, have not the life
in then. 1t is safe TO say that 40
per cent of church members are TO all
appearances Christians. 1t does not
take long to drive the Son OF God
out Of a church. The fads and no.
tions and show have no real Place for
worship these days.
Christ in the church is a conserva-
tive force. holding, controlling the en-
ergies In proper channels. until the
highest and best results. It is an at
tractive force. gathering all the trends
Of human actions around the one cen
ire and launching them against evil
or lifting toward God The powerIess
ness Of Gods csurch to-day Is the mis-
application of applied practical Chris
tianity. Theoretical religion is doomed.
Dogmatics are Of the past.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-08-19

When in doubt 90 to church, for
there's nothing that lets a ma think
better than a long prayer and a slow
sermon. Samuel Salt Ii Adam
Rush"
The Seattle Republican., 1903-04-03

pany-stood up an said, "Amen!
Amen" an OF said: May Oh say
word or two, Fayther Abraham" He
sed: Sure go on Bro. Doogan." ;"
Then Oh sed: Bro. Abraham, whin
you tould me you wus havin' the
Shuffieton franchise SO prepared that
no kompany could accept it but the
Seattle Electric Company, didn't ye
say the sivin NV us must have wan or
two more honest councilmen to stan
wild us, because it wus like biddin' to
git in the penitentiary?" "Oh, Moike," !"
seb he, 'phat does yez want to bring
that up now for? Didn't we settle that
in full?" Then he went on wild his
spache. He said: "Phwen Oh see so
much virtue an honesty in one club
Dim Dustin wild pride because Oi'm
the president Oh promise yez to try
an kape all of yez as honest an pure
an virtuous as Oh am" Then Parry
sung a sang called Little Drops of
The Seattle Republican., 1903-04-03
TALES OF THE TOWN

we ride. The Il walk" badges have
been filed away as souvenirs of a
great big mistake and a blunder. How
ever, it is over now, and by-gOnes
must be bygones, except so far as
we may learn wisdom out of the fias-
co, for some Of us only gain lnowl-
edge through the mistakes we make.
We would like however, if some one
would wise us" as to what the strik-
ers gained out OF it. OF course, it
would be unkind to intimate that it
was a complete backdown and loss
on their part, but we are too obtuse
to see it in any other light.
1t is evident to all what their losses
are. First, a weeks wages; next,
self-respect, for no one can play at
a foolish, loosing game without loss
of self-respect, then loss of respect
from disgusted, discommoded pub
lie, for every one recognizes they had
The Seattle Republican., 1903-04-03

The minutes Wus rid by Secretary
Parry We elected 8 new members
Argoale, Klancy an Shuffleton.
The new members has to kiss the pris
ident whin they take the oath to be
virtuous, onest an true. Klancy said
Did the President take this oath?"
Sure" said Oh Phat difference does
a little thing loike that make to the
fayther of universal religion. So they
oil TUX the OATH but the kissin' of Fay
ther Abraham made Klaney swear to
bate the divil. Brother Shuffeton
kissed siveral tonnes, an set in his
lap long tonne. They will be slapin'
in little room togither before long.
But Oh must go back now an give you
Fayther's spache whin he was illicted
President of the Universal Religion
Club.
He sed: Dear Brothers NV the Uni
versal Religion Club: Dim filled wild
commotion an religious virtue when Oh
The Seattle Republican., 1903-04-03
POLITICAL POT = PIE

81 noticed the Pie-maker in your
issue of March goth, in which you
urge King county to line up for the
election of U. S. Senator to succeed
Senator Foster. This suggestion will
meet with warm approval by the rank
and file of the Republican party of the
East Side, and we are not, as you in
innate, opposed to a Seattle man.
King county will have the support of
many of the small East Side counties
in it's efforts to secure the next United
States senator, provided he be man
with some reputation for ability to
accomplish things. Seattle is recog
nized as the business metropolis of the
state, and her claims to a representa-
tive in the upper branch of Congl ess
viii! be admitted and recognized pro-
vided she is wise and puts forward
man with some reputation for being
able to command some influence
among national men. Gov. McBride's
stock has dropped several notches
among what is termed the Cow coun-
ties since the adjournment of the
legislature, particularly in the coun-
ties comprising the new judicial dis
trict, of which Victor F. or Charles
V. or C. Victor Martin was recently
appointed Judge. While the people
have smothered their feelings over
this appointment, there is a settled
undercurrent of bitterness over the
determination of the Governor to
wholly ignore the wishes of the peo-
pie, and this bitterness will manifest
itself at the very first opportunity to
the disadvantage of Gov. Mcbride.
The people claim they have been un-
justly treated by the Governor in hav-
The Seattle Republican., 1903-04-03

history scholar he knows without re-
ferring to his notes that the street
car men made nuisances of themselves
when they went out on that strike.
When the strikers finally reduced
their grievances to writing and the
company likewise reduced theirs to
writing, it was plain to be seen even
without your glasses that there was
no difference between the warning
monopolies. The strikers discovered
early in the game that they were
doomed to ignominious defeat if they
persisted in the fight and they soon
began to hedge, that they could get
out of the dilemma as gracefully as
possible without acknowledging de-
feat outright. All in the city, now
ever, are very glad that the contest
has been settled and The Republican
believes that ninety-nine per cent of
the citizens of the city are truly glad
The Seattle Republican., 1903-04-03

look on your honest, pure faces. O1
feel that the objects of this club will
be accomplished. We will put down
korruption and bribery (grate ap-
plause grated this. Bro. Semple and
Bro Parry both sed Amen! AmenD
We will stan together fur honesty in
the City Council, an no sellin' fran
chises an saloon licenses by the Coun-
cil.D The sivin NV us stood up an sed
Con the side) Hear the ole darlin!
Amen, Amen!" I'VE will stan to put
down gambling an have no grafters
between the city haul an the gam
blers." At this Klancy, Argoale, Piper
and Fayther Abraham clasped hands.
Each "winked the other eye" an they
all sed amen! Amen!"
1--WE will stan together to put down
korrupt an thaving soulless korpora-
tions an kape them from stating the
hole city" Then the sivin of US
the frinds of the Seattle Electric Com
The Seattle Republican., 1903-04-03

1t is remarkable how much goner-
osity there is in the human heart
some hearts, we mean. Right here in
Seattle we have an exhibition of gen.
erosity that puts Rockefeller, Wander
bilt, Carnegie, ct al, away back in the
shade. They give for the satisfaction
and glory that comes to them, but
here we have a brace of liberal heart
ed citizens, who, out of the largeness
of their generous natures, propose to
give to the city six valuable CD lots,
for the site of the proposed new pub
lie building. A peculiar feature of the
situation is that they are spending
so much time and money in trying to
persuade the public that they should
accept this generous offer. The fact
that these large hearted citizens have
other property in close proximity to
that they propose to give, which will
be greatly enhansed in value, is only
incidental 1t of course has nothing
to do with the philanthropy that so
suddenly seizes these men. Debased
be the man that would hint at such
thing.
Once more, by the grace of the en-
ployees of the Seattle Electric Co.,
The Seattle Republican., 1903-04-03

There is now a good deal of talk
over in the state of Washington, par
ticularly in Tacoma, Senator Fosters
home, that he will be shelved a year
from next winter, at the end OF his
first term, and State Senator Ed Ham
ilton substituted. While Senator Fos-
ter is a very amiable man, the change
suggested would be good one. Mr..
Hamilton would soon take high rank
in the senate as a man of great abil-
ity and who knows no such word as
either fail or fear. Though living in
Tacoma, he also has large property
and business interests in Seattle, and
so would come nearer being accept
able to both cities than any other
man. Mr.. Hamilton is large en-
workingmen, but he is no demagogue,
and led the fight in the late Legislature
against the governors anti-railroad
schemes. He also was the strongest
and ablest champion in the Legislature
of a liberal appropriation for the Lew
is and Clark fair, and so made friends
not only in all the Columbia counties
of Washington, but in Oregon also.
Since Mr.. Ankeny, who was elected
senator last winter, resides in Eastern
Washington, the next senator should
The Seattle Republican., 1903-04-03

The Seattle Times hands it to some
one pretty hard when it says that
Owners of property might as well
understand now as ever that certain
labor leaders in this town have made
up their minds to put capital and en-
ployers under their feet" But who
will say that it does not look that
way. While there is apt to be misun-
derstandings and differences between
labor and capital there is no reason
for the bitter enmity that exists, nor
would there be if it were not for the
professional agitator, the leach upon
the body polite of the laboring class
es those that "toil not, neither do
they spin" but are kept on the fat
of the land at the expense of the
toilers The true friend of the labor
ing man is he who furnishes him en-
ployment at reasonable wages.
The Seattle Republican., 1903-04-03

When men and politicians charge
John L. Wilson with only making ap-
pointments when he was United States
senator who were personal friends of
his, they speak things that they can
not substantiate and things they
would fade away like snow in June
before an investigation. The records
will prove that Mr.. Wilson did not
make a single recommendation in this
state, barring that of Col Hustise
for a federal appointment for which
the applicant had not been recon-
mended and endorsed by majority
of the leading and most influential
Republicans of the county in which
the applicant was to serve, or who
was not endorsed by a majority of
the Republicans of the state when the
position was one of state character.
Talk is cheap, but it is just as easy
to be fair and state the truth in your
opposition to a political aspirant as
to be unfair and state untruths in or
der to defeat him, or put him in a
false light The Pie-maker does not
know whether Mr.. Wilson will or will
not be candidate for United States
senator at the hands of the next legis-
lature, but whether he is or is not
there is no use of deliberately lying
on the man because you personally
dislike him. If the records will show
where he in a single instance took
The Seattle Republican., 1903-04-03

Senator Warren w. Tolman, of Spo-
kane, is being groomed by his friends
for congress. Mr. TOlman is recog
nized as one of the Democratic leaders
of the state. The reputation by the
Republicans in the late legislature of
the platform on which they were elect
ed ought to make the state Demo-
cratic next election, and in view of
this fact, it has been announced that
Mr.. Tolman will accept the nomination
which he refused last fall.-KettIe R1v-
er Journal.
The legislature failing to divide the
state into congressional districts, Sen
ator Tolman has no more show of be-
ing elected than would Siwash were
he nominated by the Democratic
braves.
The Seattle Republican., 1903-04-03

that the strikers lost because they
struck without just cause and with
out sufficient provocation.
Wild eyed labor agitators have been
counting a strike like the one the
street car promised to be for months
and made their boasts almost daily
that they intended to tie up the en-
tire coast by calling out every man,
woman and child that belonged TO a
labor organization. 1t seems to be
pleasure beyond measure for or
ganized labor to try to demoralize
business as though such a proceeding
would help them in a single instance.
Their efforts to tie up the business
in Tacoma and Seattle has proved a
disastrous failure and unless they use
more judgment in the future than in
the past it is just as well that they
make such failures until they do.
Negro root doctors, fortune tellers
and clairvoyants, if the Associated
Press reports be true, are reaping a
veritable financial harvest from the
poor benighted whites all over the
country. From such educated black
imposters something should be done
The Seattle Republican., 1903-04-03

no case and no excuse for infiicting
the physical discomfort and pecuniary
loss sustained by the thousands who
were thus affected, and last, but not
least, they have gained nothing for
themselves in the estimation of their
employers.
To be sure, they gained the plaud
it's Of a certain element in the COM
munity; but that is of very doubt
full value. They also have union,
which of itself is all right, but they
could have had that without striking.
One thing, however, they have to be
thankful for, whether they realize it
or not, and that is that the company
was so easy to deal with, and allowed
them to go back to work on such
liberal terms.
Seattle's big street car strike is now
history, and if one is anything of