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Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-04-29
PLUM CREEK DISTRICT.
Strife for the Favors of n Prett,
School Teacher.

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Strife for the Favors of n Pretty
school Teacher.
Uncle Dan had come up froms the
country TO spend a winter vacation
with his city nephews and nieces. Soma
of the younger members OF the family,
says the Chicago Tribune, has been
relating school episode, which put
Uncle Dan In a reminiscent mood
i@srhat reminds me,'eha said. 'of the
teacher we mad down in the Plum
Creek district three years ago this win
ter" Then be went on to tell the story.
She was mighty pretty girl. and ii
wasn't more'n week before every
young fellow in the county was shyins
round trying TO make mp to.her They
took her TO all the church sociablcs, and
one or another was always waiting for
a chance TO walk home from meeting
with her.
She finally seemed TO give up all of
them but Tom Hammond and Bill Big
Glow. Then it looked as if she didn't
know which one of 'em TO htgo.
What made it more interesting was
that Tom and Bill was the worst kind
of enemies. They'd both licked all the
other young fellows around there. bur
somehow they'd never got together
themselves.
Finally they was to be a spelling at
the schoolhouse, and some way it got
noised about that Tom said ne was 60
ing 10 give Bill wallopIng IL they met
there that night. | guess nearly every
body In the district was on hand when
they commenced choosing sides, and
the little teacher up on the platform
looking her prettiest.
Bin and Tom got spelled down before
they'd been at ii long, and slipped out.
Everybody knew the fight would be
started right off. and all except the ores
that were still spelling slipped out,
When | got there they were at it good
and hard, and pretty soon they went
| down, with Tom on top.
Everybody was so excited that nc
body noticed when or how the teacher
got there; but the first thing any one
saw, she'd got through the crowd with
a bucket of ice-water and poured II all
over both of 'em.
The fight stopped quicker'n wink,
and when they stood up she told EN-
they were rowdles and rufiians, and to
shake hands and beg each others par
don. Well, they did it, and she asked
everybody to go back in the school
house
When things got quiet she said, Il
understand this fight was on account
of me. hate fighting and | despise
fighters, If there is any young man in
this schoolhouse that never had fight
in his life, let him stand up. I'm going
! to ask him to take me home"
Every fellow In the house but Tom
and Bill stood up. When they all set
down again she said they was only one
thing she hated worse'n fighter or
ruffian, and that was liar. She rode
home with Deacon Swasey and his
! folks
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-04-29
Brief state Happenings.

Henry Weiamann. one Of the oldest at
torneys of Racine and Kenosha counties,
has been adjutAed insane by the County
Court at Kenosha.
Thirty insane patients from Niroqua
and six others from different parts If the
State were transferred to the Monroe
County insane asylum at Sparta.
Simoa Knowles. an engineer on the
Kenosha division Of the Northwestern
Road. fell from his engine near konosha
and had both les est OFF He died in
a short time. He was 40 years old.
The controversy Q: organized labor and
Dana's Third Regiment Band has az last
been ended and the members Of the we'll
known musical organization became af
fliated with loc2! No 20. American Fcd-
Grafton Of Musicians. al Marinette.
A fire AT the Latin Rand Powder C1fu.
pany mills in Pleasant Prairie. destroyed
TIE pulverizing min. causing loss Of
$1,000.
John Rosenberg was dangerously
stabbed ia a frce-for-all fight on North
Wiscon~:a street. Racine. receiving a
long cni on the forehead, four small cuts
on the face. ,u,s On bis hands and stabs
in his body.
The Wesley bank case win he appeal
ed e. ~ United States Court Of Appeals
Mt Chicago. Il VIII b, carried mp by the
petitioners. who were unsuccessful in the
Federal CO.. at II dison ia their prayer
that she b5lk DE- Duplicated a bank-
rupt
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-04-29
shot by a Ienlons WIG.

Farice Duff, young Kentuckian, en-
ploved in the mills at Crandon, was NOR
tally wounded by his wife. The Duffs
and a. widow came to Crandon about
three months ago from Kentucky. Duff
has been paying attentions to the widow.
The other night Mrs. Duff followed him
to the widows home and waited until
he came out, when she shot him with
a revolver. The ball took effect just be-
low the heart, and Duff ran to a restau-
rant. As he lay there his wife asked
if he had enough The woman stood
over him until arrested She said she
was sorry she had been unable to shoot
the woman.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-04-29
ZestfuI Frankness.

Unexpected frankness now and thea
gives special zest to the humor of
a situation in Congress. When "Gabe"
Bouck was the representative from the
Oshkosh district of Wisconsin. pen.
sion bill came before the House. to
his great veXation of spirit; for. while
his personal convictions were directly
opposed. to 1t, his political interests
were strong enough to whip him into
line. On the day the bill. came M for
final disposal a fellow member met
Bouch in the space behind the last
row of seats, walking back and forth
and gestlculatlng eXci.edly. bringing
his clenched right first down into the
hollow of his left hand, to The accom-
paniment of explosives which would
hardly look well in print
whats the trouble. Gabe|' inquired
his friend "Why all this excitement?
Troubles" snorted the lrate law
maker. Trouble enough! That pen
sion bill is up, and MI the cowardly
nincompoops in the House are going
to vote for it. Its sure to pass-sure
to pass"
But why don't you get the door and
speak against TRY to stop it" sug,
gested the other.
Try to ston IT." echoed Bouck. TRY
to stop It? Why. Pm one of the
cowardly nincompoops myselfr'-Cen-
fury.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-04-29

denounced Michelangelo and was not
very well pleased with Sir William
for presenting the other side When
Ruskin recovered from the illness
which had cause him TO give up the
SIade professorship. Sir William re-
tired, that he might fill 1t again
Touched by this, Ruskln sent. asking
if he might come down and dine with
his former pupil. who was delighted
to have him. At the close of a pleas
ant evening, Rusk!n said:
willy, why did you make that vio-
lent attack upon me about Michelan-
gelo:"
Mr.. Ruskin. because you talked
nonsense" replied Sir William.
Meanwhile Mr.. Ruskin rose to 60
,'You are quite right, Willy" he said
in his candid way. TT was nonsense. 3"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-04-29
SOME STORIES OF RUsklN
lie still Feared His Parents When /,
Was Forty Years Old.

lie still Feared His Parents When lie
Was Forty Years Old.
One gets the impression from reading
of Ruskin's early years that be missed
many of the privileges of healthy boy
hood. When he was man. he and Il
companion were out one day upon the
mountainside. They passed a group of
men, says a writer in the Strand Mag
azine, who were engaged in rough
work with pickaxes.
"HOw / WISH" said Ruskin, 81 could
do what those men are doing! | was
never allowed to do any work which
would have strengthened my back.
| wasn't allowed to ride, for fear Of
being thrown off; nor TO row, for fear
of being drowned; nor TO box, because
it was vulgar | was allowed 10 fence,
because that was genteel."
Sometimes, when he was living with
his parents at Denmark Hin, he would
enjoy surreptitiOus row on the river.
II used to be told,' says the same COM
panion, mot to let his father and moth
er know where he had gone" Ruskin
was then in the forties
1t is easy to read here a womans
fears and prejudice and domination.
Ruskin was always quite properly,
under his mothers control; but IL is
possible that If he had had the out ct
of reasonable athletics his destructive
moods would have I'een less marked.
1t was during h residence mt Den
mark Hill that he was matchmaking
something or somebody most unrca
sonably.
John" said his mother. you talk
too much and you talk nonsense
YES. mother" Ruskin replied, as
humble as little boy. and changed
the subject.
Ruskin was not afraid to admit to
others besides his mother that he was
wrong. In a lecture at oxford when
he was a Slade professor, Sir with ~
Richmond defended the fame wli,h
the world had accorded TO MIche,Ju,
gelo and Rafael. Formely Ruskin had
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-04-29
ALL OVER THE STATE
ITEMS or INTEREST IN BADGER.
DOM.
Milwaukee Financier Ciears Out after
Making Large Dishonest Gains
Widow Attempts Suicide II Jon Loss of
Savings-Two Women Crema ted.

Henry Herman. who disappeared from
Milwaukee owing many hundred thou
sand dollars and with his affairs in a
hopelessly involved condition, is not ex-
pected to come back voluntarily. His
confidential man, Edward IL Raymond.
does not expect 10 see him again or hear
from him. Herman was seen in New
Orleans by f. NJ Post. and ii is thought
that he is now in South America. Her
mans Indebtedness to a large number
Of persons was in sums running all the
way from $500 to $4,000 the latter be-
ing the largest yet reported. He was
engaged in all sorts Of enterprise, han
died large contracts both in Milwau-
kee and elsewhere and loaned money for
many persons, the majority of them in
straitened circumstances. In many of
these cases it has already been found
that money held in trust by him is gone
and that securities given for much more
were worthless. Mortgages appear to
have been assigned more than once. some
of them for large amounts. Most of the
mortgages were not recorded and UP To
date 106 assignments of mortgages. by
him and not recorded have been present
ed at the registry office for record. Her
man appears to have resorted to almost
every means known to the shrcwd real
estate man in trouble to raise money.
He Systematically kit" checks and
nearly twenty cases have been found al
ready by the squad of attorneys who
crowd the registrars office Investigating
where he assigned mortgages after hav-
ing received the amount due from the
original makers
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-04-29
Widow Found Unconscious.

Mrs. Margaret McFadden, who has n
small confectlo nery shop on Juneau ave
nue.. Milwaukee, was found unconscious
in her living rooms back of her little
store the other morning and the room
was filled with gas escaping from an
open burner. \ revolver which she kept
under her pillow usually was found on
the floor. She is widow. who lived
alone, and had by frugalty saved up
81, 400, for which Henry Herman. who
disappeared owing hundreds of thou
sands, had given her mortgage. She
was in despair when she had to con-
front the possibility of the mortgage be-
ing worthless, like many hundreds of
others given by Herman.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-04-29
THE hNELL OF DISASTER

By Rev. d. ,. HaChay.
In spite of the Wanted progress of
the nineteenth century, we are just as
much the slaves of lgar ostentation
as our fathers were when the last
century was still young. Nowhere is
the complex life of luxurious pleasure
seeking extravaganza so visible as in
this metropolis of the New World.
Everywhere the drags are off and the
wheels Of commerce and society are
runniHz Wild When the stoppagc will
come-as come it muster how 1t will
come no one can tell. Already the
shrewd hard headed men in Wal!
street are seeming the approaching
danger from the commercial stand
point.
They tell us that the limit of over
capitalization and head-strong specula-
tion is reached, and the reaction, I'M
less it comes gradually, will spell
panic from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
How true that may be as CONNER
cial prediction | do not know; but
from tie standpoint of religion, in the
interests of morality. the evil results
Of this over elaborated mode of 'liv-
Ing. common even among the poor as
well as the rich. are already with us.
There can he no life of worthy thought
where existence is loaded down with
the yulgarities of luxury. The two
most iIliterate classes in society to-
day are the abjeet poor. who by neces-
sity must think of the needs of the
body. and, therefore. can think of
nothing else. and the idle rich, who by
choice devote every hour of the day to
the trivial problem of what they shall
eat and what they shall drink and
wherewithal they shall be clothed,
one Of the causes of this over elab-
Grafton in the material comforts Of
life is the passion for luxury itself
We beast about our luxury as some
thing that lifts Us above other nations
a second cause is the spirit of social
competition. Glass yles Vfth class
for social supremacy. There Is a vul-
gar ambition everywhere TO go one
better ii. the matter Of functions and
entertainments.
Home lie IS deliberately, yes, and
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-04-29
Aged Women Burned in Home.

Elizabeth and Margaret HeaIey. aged
20 and 50, who lived n hermit like exist
ence on the banks of Bear Creek, five
miles from Tomah, were burned alive
in fire which destroyed their home. The
guests at card party in the vicinity
rushed to the scene and saw through the
window lighted by the flames the wom-
en- lying on the floor of the house An
effort to save them was repulsed by the
fire. In the house was believed to have
been concealed large amount of money.
The belief prevails that they were muir
dered for the money and the house fired.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-04-29
Buried IN wei. Yet Live,.

H. Sn.ait4 of La Crosse was buried at
the bottom of a well for four hours Mon
day, and when dug out was smiling and
unhurt. He was repairing the pump
when the curbinG eaved in and dirt sur
rounded him up to the shoulders j.
Wolf secured garden hose, which he
let down to Straitz, who got it to his
mouth just as the second cave. oc-
cured, covering him with six fee of
sand over his head, On account of the
peculiar condition If the soil it took four
hours to get him out. with the assistance
of the fire department. The hose saved
his life
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-04-29
companv E,amed for Death.

The coroner's jury in the inquest upon
Mabelle Colgrove. who was killed by a
street car in Ashland. brought in a YER
dict charging the street ear company
with criminal negligence. The Mayor
has notified the company that he will
proceed at once to nullify it's charter if
it does not put tenders on all ears. Prior
to the inquest threatSwere made against
the motorihan. bnt the jury exonerated
him
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-04-29

Disease.-The rights Of unborn gen
erations is a branch of ethics which
has been largely ignored, but which
ought TO form part of our moral
philosophy without delay If man
has no right to poison his child with
arsenic or strychnine. he certainly has
no right to bring child into the world
with the poison Of hereditary disease
in his blood. In either case be is
equally responsible and reprehensIble.
Rev. J. $. Seudder. Congregational
ist. Jersey City. \. J.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-04-29

The incorruptible man does receive
the price for his integrity It is the
approval of his own conscience and the
appreciation Of his God. That treasure
he can carry with him at death. when
all the wages of wickedness must be
left behind
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-04-29

turn the sun from
its course than Fa
bricius from the
path of honor" Not
all legislators and
city aldermen can
be bought by any
means. though the
temptation may be
n great one. Christi
anity is not a failure
in demanding obedi-
encc to its primal
moral requirement.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-04-29
I|57[slz ! POPULAR
K4fy\ PULPIT /

eriminally. sacrificed fer the social
life. And social life, so chosen, be-
comes the vestibule through which
many n young husband passes into
the prison house of debt A large city
becomes every evening a vast Vanity
Fair. where irrational and too often
degraded pleasure lures men and
women by the thousand to Its gilded
shrine. and before that shrine high
thinking and plain living are nightly
inundated. The poor man, unable to
share in these wanton extravagances,
chafes beneath the restrictions, and
hatred of his pampered betters bites
at the ropes of separation.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-04-29
shnt hx Unknown person.

Ferdinand Hopp. an employe Of the
Northwestern Railway Company, was
mysteriously shot through the arm while
hanging switch lights on the company's
tracks Mt Marshfeld. 1t is the general
superstition that Hopp was the victim
of someone shooting Gaphazard with a
rifle
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-04-29
Leaves $4,000 TO Church.

BY the provisions Of the will Of Mrs.
Martin Brown. who died at Il g Mendoza
Asylum. aged - YEAR. s.. Joseph's
Catholic Church Of Edgerton is made the
beneficiary of nearly $4,000 Mrs.
Brown left no known relatives,
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-04-29

The sunniest spots in the Euited
Kinedom are the Channel Islands.
which enjoy sunshine during $40 per
cent. Of the time the sun is above the
horizon ia tie course Of the year
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-04-29
EVERYTHING HAS ITS PRICE.
BY Bishop Samuel FaHorS.

Thank God. it is true to-day of count
less multtudeS of men. as it was of old.
when it was said. You can sooner
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-04-29

There are many hot spots in love let
tiers at first, btu after time long be-
fore the marriage-ther are but two
at the beginning, and just before the
signature.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-04-29

If girl can't sing, but her presence
in the choir attracts her proud parents
to church, should she be allowed to stay
in the choir?
New-York tribune., 1903-07-29
ERECTS BRONZE TABLET.
Fall River Woman's Society Commentaries
Finding of Skeleton in Armor.

z has long been the desire Of the Women's Edu-
caronal and Industrial Society Of Fall River to
commemorate the discovery in 1881 Of the skeleton
n arrnor referred 10 In Longtellow's famous poem
and its efforts have at last been crowned with sue
cess A bronze tablet twenty-four inches in length
and twenty inches in width has been placed in the
brick building on Hartwell-st. which occupies the
site OF the finding OF the skeleton.
According TO the story told by Miss Susan H
Wixon. president Of the society. Hannah Borden
Cook, the discoverer Of the skeleton, was resi-
cent OF Fail River. On the morning Of the discov-
cry she had been busily engaged in the spring
hoUsecleaning, and everything was as clean and
sweet lirnewash, paint and hard work could
make it, The pewter, brass and tinware only re-
malned 10 be secured. and Hannah went in search
n clean. white securing sand 70 the "sandbank'
vel and tayorably known in oldeu times TO house
wives FAR and near The spot was between Fourth
an5 Firth sTs in those DAYS but IL is covered by
dwelling houses and other buildings Suddenly, as
she scooped the white. dry sand Hannahs hand
raue m contact with some hard dry substance
Hastily pushing aside the sand which covered it.
she was Mortified al seeing grinning human skulI
living there in the warm sunshine face upward
fastening homevard. she told her husband, Will
IAN Cook. and with his friend, John orswell. he
hurried 10 the spot.
on being unearthed the object was found TO be
fre skeleton OF q human being. clothed in brass
srmor and buried in sitting posture, facing the
east. The bones were those Of tall. large framed
man The knees were drawn up toward the breast
and the Lorearms were drawn the shoulders.
From the head down the figure was wrapped in
sort o. shroud Of woven bark, seven varieties hav
ing been used in its construction. All OF it. how
ever, crlmDled TO dust ana vanished on exposure
% The air The aruCr upon the skeleton was made
~ fine brass and beside it six arrows OF
brass thin, fat and triangular In shape These
arrows were in SORT or CULVER of bark which
dropped 10 pieces exposure the air.
The skeleton was carefully examined by local
physiciaus-Dr. Wilbur and Dr. Glazer-who came
10 the conclusion that II was that of an Indian and
-Eat j. mad lain in rh@ ground one hundred and
MY wears i." bones we're gathered VI and. with
me brass arrow tips were placed IN with
glass cover and deposited in the Fall River
Af-eIa-l-I There the skeleton laE in state an OBJ
-et o. interest 10 al beholders, until destroyed by
IE connection with The identical spot where the
skeleton Wes found Z tragedy occurred few years
--t-- ~ me lie or Hannah Cook. the diScoverer-
rl-r -lIte son eleven years old. while playing
IhfEe .os- ms life. Through the caving in of the
ILL = -. small companlon nere sL1ocated.
New-York tribune., 1903-07-29
FACTS ABOUT OYSTER FARMS.
More Money Made on Them than on Vege.
table Farms

How We Are Fed by James Franklin caam-
herlaln tthe Macmillan Company IS a book for
children but contains much Information that would
he unfamiliar 10 most adult readers one particu-
'Ht-l interesting chapter being on oyster farming
oyster farms. says Ar- Chamberlain. are far more
pcoHta1le than are those upon which corn and
wheat are raised. This is new Industry in our
country but IL IS very old in some parts of the
world As long ago as the seventh century = Ro-
' hi-sl-- 'a-sel oysters for the market and II is
$40 iha- the business made him very wealthy
t---eit Tor Ihe lrS- Few Gays of their lives ov-
Eters are prisoners. being attached 10 rocks -, the
shells OF JheiT dead relatives and 10 other objects
They grow in immense numbers ana crowd one
another more than people DO in the tenement
houses IN fact, most Of them are soon crowded
out and Gle.
oyster beds are not found in ven. deem wafer
nut rather along the shore generally near the
mouth Of some river. The oysters often live where
they are uncovered when the tde goes ont and
Oh this account. partly. mas used Them for
cod for ages When the Pilgrim Fathers landed
Or The shores Of New England they found thar rbe
Indians used oysters very commonly ana all along
The coast were great heaps Of shells AT rhe ,.e-1,
frst Thanksgiving dinner given in America oysters
Ne~e served
ln a single year an oyster Riil produce more than
., 59L ION % oals o. one thT y9uHE 9yssers are called
she currents or deEorred Dy -arEer sea animals
fr-1s -Aat they were very cheap but ay cai herire
7n7n al all times of the year. that they lad ~
'naI'e 10 produce their young veIl a. bv ,ha
al-l-DE or fE- ECuE- fneTlsa se- many r. -ra
natural ae--s destroyed In order to keen ,,r
ile supply Of this food men began oyster farnine
The oyster farmer prepares his farm in ya~iC15s
ways lie places clean oyster shells stones 1ravs
n-Hcles Of sticks and other things tn bottom
70 r1ar the oysters may ind something 10 which
- attach themselves. Then he places the young
oysters. or sDar ou these objects Wnfn rrate
arc used. several are placed ono upon another and
bound together by means Of chain These frsy.s
are iaEel Up from time 20 time I'm order TO gafh.r
'h- oysters that are ready for market Sometimes
-iaa-s -re planted III somewhat circular form
ores are attached 10 the stakes and bundles III
SUCKS are fastened To the cords ia such Way (
10 Keep them little above the bottom Young
oysters attach themselves 10 these sticks which
may pe craWn up wheu tie proper time comes
1tStfF> grow - Fer4 different rates. In two
years they GROW f0 be six inches in length or
- may taae u.em several wears u reach that size
hey grow most rapidly ou The artificial beds and
are also ~ better quality than the natural
Lii- sLarrzn j. one ~ the greatest enemies OF the
sler large numbers Of which il destroys every
year
ones