davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Bisbee daily review., 1903-07-19
Calumet, Mich. July Is, 1905.

| tSDecial to ReNle"-J
 Calumet man who is pretty close |, ,he mapagement of the Calumet & Arizona property and is in the conn 5ance of the local financial people vhn own most of the stock in this Bis bae corporation. made the statement yesterday that he would wager that tbe Calumet & Arizona would pay diV- idends of s2.5O a share on its capital- za,ion before January l, lSo4. lie also said that he had his information direct from a high official of the com many and that he knew whereoi ne spoke. He qualified the statement by saving that while the board or olrect- DTS had as yet said nothing about what they would do in regard to dlVl- dends the official was making the statement advisedly and baslns ms claims upon what he knew the con cern to be earning at the present time and what it could be earning in 'he future.
 The same Calumet man said that the company would be able to pay tnis dividend og s2.50 share on January or before that date and then nave over half a million dollars in the treasury. He had all these things figured out to a nicety and at the most conservative estimates. If the nan agement of the Calumet X Arizona pays a dividend of s2.50 by January l. if will fulfill and more than fulfill the expectations of the local stockholders who believed always that the company uonld he in A position to do this but did not think that it would be done figuring that the company would SUCK 10 a, policy of keeping even larger surplus than s50O.O00 in the treasury from the very outset.
 Fioures on Earnings.
 The June product of the Calumet X Arizona was over 2.0O0. 900 pounds of cooper. Figuring on the product re- naining this high and the chances are that if will go a good deal higher as the plant gets in better running order, and with the market price of copper al 13 cents a pound. the profit for the Calumet & Arizona people would pc about seven cents pound, under pres ent conditions. This would mean monthly earning of s14O,00O which IS wha. most local people would consid- CT A most conservative estimate.
 At the rate of s14,0O0 profit per month the profit for the next half month would amount to sS40,OOO. Now it is understood the company has few hundred thousand to the good in the treasury at the present time. The company had an indebtedness of something like s350,0o0 at the first of the year, according to the statement issued by the directors to the stock holders at that time. IL is stated that the proceeds from the sale of copper since that time have more than pald of the indebtedness and piled up a
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-05-27
CARNEGIE is CANNY DPIyER.

BY Rev JOS 4 Merritt.
l am pleased when workingmen re-
fuse to patronize the Carnegie IL
braries. The great steel magnate has
only helped those who had no need of
his help. He has been quite as shrewd
and clnny in posing as a philanthropy
list as he was in coming the sweat of
other mems brows into the colossal
fortune he now claims as his very
own.
No able-bodied man, not even
preacher can accept a charity without
being debauched in doing so. Capital
lists may practice cannibalism among
themselves without greatly imperiling
the republic, but the very moment the
masses lose their healthy pride and
self-respect everything will be lost.
The poor mans choking at the offer
of charity and request for honest EN-
ployment instead is the strongest proof
that he is still man.
Do not be deluded into the idea that
the fashionable avenues and boule-
wards where brown stone fronts and
marble palaces predominant are the
only or the most hopeful fields for
evangelism. Down on the insignificant
streets where the middle classes live,
down in the sO-called slums where
hag~ard faces peer out of the window
and nakedness runs and hides, there
they wait with longing hearts for the
sweet gospel of him who, like them
selves, had not where to lay his head.
The toiling. struggling, often sorrow
ing masses are not agu1stic or atheis-
tic or anarchistic. The millions must
not be condemned for the shortcomings
of the few in the ranks of labor. The
almost numberless masses have too
much head and heart and Immortality
and inherent nobility of soul for such
arrant nonsense and folly as that.
The bigot who said in his heart.
"There is no Cod was a rich fool.
and he said it in his heart because, in
the absence of brains, that was his
only resort.
My young friends. carry the gospel
to the poor. Do not neglect or be I'M
charitable to or-burning shame-for-
get the poor. The poor We have with
you always. Win them to Christ They
stand on the doorstep, in the yard,
at tire gate, toking up and down the
long and dreary streets and alleyways.
looking for you and wondering why
you do not come with the message of
salvation. Alas, some of them are
coming to think it Is because you are
too selfish and naughty and heartless
and because you so much prefer the
rich.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-05-27

cording to the Detroit Journal, it is
good FOR them.
MY prescription, madam, is that you
knit two hours daily" said the physi-
clan.
"Knltw exclaimed the nervous pa
tient. why ON earth should knit?"
The doctor replied, Because ..othing
is more soothing to the nerves: because
nothing conduces to such a calm and
cheerful frame of mind. l could pre-
scribe valerian for you, but knitting
will be better. 1t viii do you much
more good. l believe that a month of it
viii cure YOU
He went on to explain that his atten-
ton had been called to an article in a
medical journal on the beneficial eff
fects of knitting, and he had prescribed
the treatment, with excellent success.
to dozen women.
The shining needless" he said. "pIay-
ing swiftly among soft-colored silks or
woods, engage the eyes pleasantly and
fill the mind with CHEEKY and sane
thoughts. At the same time they may
produce admirable things-golf waist
coats. golf stockings of wool, delicate
evening stockings of silk, shawls, a hun
dred articles"
The woman smiled and said she did
not know how to knit, but that she
would begin to learn at once
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-05-27
SERMONETTES
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Survival of the ttcSt.--The law of
Christianity is not that of the sur
vival of the fittest That is the law
that works in nature with respect to
plants and animals, and it means both
life and death--life TO the strong, death
to the weak; but 1t is not the law God
ordained for the government of his
children in their relationships to one
another. which has for its object more
abundant life for aIl-Rev. w H.
Nicholas, Lutheran. Allegheny. Pa
Truth Assailed many times
has truth been waylaid, robbed, beaten
and left for dead on the highway of
civilization. Both priest and Leyite
have passed by on the other side hur-
rying on to perform their sacerdotal
mummery at the shrine Of pride and
hypocrisy, and it has been left for some
Samaritan to lift up the truth and set
again on its way OF triumph in the
world-Rev. l.. H. Caswell, Presby-
terrain, Greenpoint, \. Y.
To Win Men to Christi seemed
to be difficult in the time of Christ to
reach men, and it is as true to-day.
The church stands as the means to the
end. and he would win men to her that
they may know her Master. Men spe-
cially need the help Of the church, as
they are subject to the seyerest temp
tations A church that wins men is
strong and manly herself. Christ was
first a man. and won men.-Rev. A. d.
Mink, Methodist, Pittsburg. Pa.
All Forces.-Al1 forces are working
for good or for evil The central fact
Of life is work, not play. Some Of the
strongest forces that work for good are
unconscious ones. They are organized
Tor selfish or purely commercial pur-
poses. and are caught Up into the SER
vice Of Christ without their own viii.
Put the church first always among or
ganized forces.-Rev. DR. McAfee,
Presbyterian, Chicago, Ill
What Is What-The age Of fighting
windmills. as described By Don Quix.
ote, has passed away. Men do not care
90 ~ &c war against shadows any long.
ar. Thuz those who are frequently d.
ing yeomAn's service in the cause Of
resi history are men who are neither
Catholics NOR Protestants. They only
want to know what's what and who's
who.-Rev. Father Pardoe, Catholic
New York City.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-05-27
|l77fIz} ! POPULAR
kAy\ PULPIT

we run down. The sleep of the night
is not enough. The seventh day is re-
quired to knit up the rayeled sleeve
of care~ The manual toiler needs ii.
The holy day is the north star OF his
deliverance from Sunday slavery. The
home needs it. The highest type of
home life demands Sabbath obsery-
ance. 1t is no accident that the world
map of safe popular freedom is made
up on the Sabbath keeping nations.
The Sabbath is the Gibraltar of law
and order. 1t is simply patriotism to
keep it.
1t is being attacked by insidious foes.
Sunday mails are wholly unnecessary.
They compel the labor of thousands of
men who are entitled to their Sabbath.
The Sunday newspaper attacks it, 1t
displaces what is vastly more of value
than that which it gives. 1t projects
the secular spirit into the Sabbath. Sc
with Sunday amusements of all sorts.
1t Is not best observed as a day of
amusement Sunday excursions and
Sunday baseball will demoralize any
town. 1t ought to be permanently en-
joined as a violation of an express
statute.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-05-27
ALL OVER THE STATE
ITEMS OF INTEREST IN BADGER.
DOM.
Two Iramps Acquitted of Murder
Grocers Begin War on Department
Stores-Abandoned Wife Goes Crazy
Paper Plant to BE sold for Taxes.

Not guilty was the verdict of the jury
in the case of John O'DonneH and Ed
ward Barry on trial for the murder of
Conductor II. I. Young Of Amigo last
July he jury was out two hours Con
ductor Young, while on a run with his
train near Monico on July l. had words
with trio Of tramps who wished to ride
to Rhinelander One of the number drew
a revolver and fired. Young fell from
the car on which he was standing NOR
tally wounded. The following day an ex-
citing chase took place near Pelican lake.
where the men sought refuge in the
dense woods and one Of the three men
was shot, being tracked for some dis
lance by trail of blood. Two or three
Digs later another one was shot through
the arm and captured. This W. O'Don-
nell. Barry was arrested some weeks
later at Algoma. At the trial the evil
dence showed that neither of these men
fired the fatal shot and the belief is quite
general that the real murderer died from
wounds he received while attempting 10
escape.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-05-27
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! Pete Might Have
Proved al Abb.

All doan' b1ieve in convictin any
man on suhcumstanshal evidence"
said the deacon to a New York Trib-
man.
Oats right" said Uncle Ned. "Ah
knowed of case mahself when All
was a young man, many yeahs ago,
where an inherent man was sent 10
jail 70 stealin' chickings what was TUX
by anudder pusson. His name was
Pete Jackson; he was a married man
an had a family. an de family had
appetite fo' chiekings, an a farmer
In de neighborhood had de chickings
Wal, de farmer missed chickings cherry
wunSt in awhile, an he KEEP his eye
peeled, but he cudn't find ont jes' who
TUX EN-, only he 'spected Pete, case
lie was dc neares' niggah. But one
night when de farmer KEN out of his
house VIII a shotgun he seen a man tes'
gwinc away from de CHECKING coop. an
he chased him. But de man was spry
an de farmer didn't cotch him. an he
los sight of him somewheres la de
dark, an when he KEN to de turn in
de road he didn't know which way to
go. But putty soon he seer man
runnin' an he follered i'm along de
twistin's an turnin's of de read till de
man KEN TO Pete Jackson's house. De
farmer kotched him right at de door
de man was Pete Jaciyson-an' he
yanked him along an had him iugged.
But Pete hadn't no chckings wifi him
when he was cotched, an de farmer
fought, mebbe. he was skeered away
from de coop befo' he got any.
But when de farmer zamined de
coop he made sure dey was chlcklngs
missin' from de day befo'; an in de
mawnin' he went to Pete's house an
dere was Missus jackson gittin' a
choking ready 70 dinner. De farmer
cudn't understan' how she got dat
choking so quick from Pete. case Pete
didn't have time to go into de house
when he was cotehed, but dem was de
fac's in de case. an Pete was sent up
He done tried TO 'stablish alleyby
but dey wudn't listen to him. 50 Pete
did time TO- stealth dem chiekings
what he nebbah stole"
Am yo' shuah ne Want guilty.
asked the deacon.
"Shuah. All was wifi him dat night.
an he didn't steal no chickings at all
He was in graveyard gittin' de lef
bind foot of rabbit, an he done got
it. When we was comm home we
heerd de noiee of de farmer chasin
de man what stole de chlckings an we
got skeered an run. an got separated
In de dark Den de farmer mus hab
lost sight of de man he was chasin
an den he sees Pete an chases an
cotches him"
but why didn't yo' go up an re-
late de real state Of de fac's?'
"Wal, All didn't s'pose deyd b'lleve
me, an All was slleered dat If All said
All was vii Pete dat night All might
be wifi him 70 de mex six mont's."
IAN how do yo' account fo' de chick
Ing what Pete's wife was cookn' de
mex mawnin' 2"
wal dat Clicking an anudder one
Pete stole from an entiahly diff'rlnt
coop de night befo' he got in trouble,
SO his wife had chickings to cook TO
two days hand runnln'."
"But doan' de huh affair t'row some
doubt on de prewallin' opinion DAT de
lef' hind foot ora rabbit am lucky?"
"Ah doan' know as 1t does. De jedge
only gave Pete two mont's. an cherry
body fought he'd get six"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-05-27
State Items of Intereat.

The 3-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs.
Louis Lannoye of MariEette fell in a wei
and was drowned.
At special meeting held in Gratiot
it was voted to raise money TO build a
new school house, with the cost limited
to $4,000 for the building
It is stated that the American Flee
trio Telephone Company will build ex-
changes il Menominee and Marinette
within the next year. A franchise will
be asked for soon.
Fifteen priests oGiciated at the mar
rage ceremony in Milwaukee of Miss
Frances Fraser ad Frank Y. Durnin as
a complimeT 10 the two brothers of the
bridegroom. who nre in the priesthood
Edward Gray OF Chicago. a stranger.
and Frank Williams. also q Chicago, but
known to the police. are under arrest at
Oshkosh charged with being two of the
men who held Up and robbed the Sey-
mour resort The police say some of the
plumber was found on Gray.
Coy. La Toilette has signed the bar
hers license bin providing for the estab-
lishment Of a State board of examination
and licensing of BARRIERS. The law takes
effect July ! next The Governor also
signed the bill amending the school law
by requiring eight months attendance in
city and five months attendance in vii
lage and country districts. II also re-
quires three truant officers in the city Of
Milwaukee and one in other cities having
a population Of 10000 or more.
James Holmes. an employe Of Holmes
& Son Logging Company, was seriously
cut in the neck, face, scalp and arms
with a knife during saloon row at Penn
bine. His assailant escaped.
A snecial election was held in Stevens
Point 10 vote on the question Of issuing
$1,000 bonds TO buy the fair grounds
as a public park. The proposition was
defeated BY fifty majority.
Miss Elizabeth u. Smith died at Me
nasha. aged So years Miss Smith re-
sided in Menasha for the past thirty
years and her many acts pf charity great
II endeared her 70 the citizens.
Railway service has ceased at four
stations, Haydn. Askeaton. Pound and
Fleetwood, On the Superior division Of
the Milwaukee road. Hayt0n has ship
ped a considerable amount 81 lime daily.
and the Union Lime Company, contr0ll-
ing the works. win be- seriously affected.
and the four towns wiil be materially 10
jIred.
Anton Philip, an Oshkosh carpenter,
shat and mortaliy wounded himself just
as the police officers who had been called
20 arrest him for carrying concealed
weapons entered his residence. He was
under tie influence IF liquor. which. with
his family troubles. is given as the cause
Of the shooting
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-05-27
Abandoned wife Is Insane.

Mrs. Emma Lonstorf was committed
to the Milwaukee county insane hospital.
Her husband, heir to the Lonstorf mill
ions, abandoned her. The wife claimed
this was done at the instigation of her
mother-in-law She sued Mrs. Margaret
Lonstorf for 100000 for the alienation
of her husbands affections. Later she
was committed as insane and then re
leased. The doctors reported that her
condition was worse and she was again
formally committed. Otto Lonstorf. the
husband, is with his mother in Europe.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-05-27
Department store War.

Grocers of Milwaukee have opened
war against manufacturing grocers who
allow their goods to be sold in depart
ment stores The Retail Grocers' Assoc
National association, has passed resolu-
lions saying the members will not handle
products of such manufacturers. Henry
" Schwab, president of thu local asso-
cation, says the action is the beginning
of an open warfare against department
stores of the country that conduct gro
Gerry departments.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-05-27

Fred NJ. Reiter. who has been laboring
as a painter in Grand Rapids for the
past four months, was arrested after an
all days chase, and finally lodged in the
county jail. Reiter is said to have forg-
ed the name of o. W. Dodge, a laboring
man working in the Fort Edwards paper
mills, to check for SIS and presented
the same at the Empire saloon. where
he took few drinks and received his
change. The officers captured Reiter at
Rudolph, whittier he had walked.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-05-27
Big Plant Goe. to Tax Sale.

The Tioga and Vulcan paper mills in
Appleton, belonging to the Kimberly *
Clark Company, are to be sold for taxes,
the company having refused to pay about
81, 400 on an assessed valuation of about
$4,000. The officers allege excessive
valuation. The company applied to the
Outagamie Circuit Court for an injunc-
tion restraining the sale Of the property
for delinquent taxes and the injunction
was denied. The sale will now go on
and the company proposes to bring suit
against the city of Appleton for the
amount of the alleged excessive taxation
and for the expense of redeeming the
property from tax sale.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-05-27
FoR A c,,-IET sABRATH.
b. Rev. Charles y

b. Rev. Charles v. TfuSiey.
No n2t-oa is more loyal To the sab
bath than our own. Our foundations
we're. laid in deep reverence for the
holy day. The Pilgrims, IN 1920, hals
starved. shivered in the cold, rather
than begin their work on the Sabbath
From that day 10 this there has been
American Sabbath" The necessity
FOR the day is written deep in man 5
physical constitution. Like q clock.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-05-27
Unsuccessful Experiment.

Tommy are you crying about?
Jimmy-Why, every time Uncle Ned
sees my baby brother he says: What
a bouncing baby" and this morning I
let him drop to see him bounce.-So-
merville Journal.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-05-27
KNITTING AS A NERVE CURE.
1t Is Now Often Prescribed by tn,
Best Physicians.

1t is told of Robert Louis Stevenson
that one of the many things he learned
TO do TO keep him amused when he was
restless or i'll was TO knit. There are
many men Of a generation much older
than ours who improve odd moments
by working with yarn aud needles
But women, to be women, simply must
knit after their hair is gray and ac-
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-05-27
Woman scaided to Death.

Mrs. Flora Pfeuller, aged - years,
died in Kenosha as a result Of being
scalded by boiling water. While carry
ing a vessel of hot water, she slipped and
fell, the water drenching and fatally
scalding her. The deceased was one Of
the best known women in the city.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-05-27
ntininc Omcin1 nrnwned.

George w. Chapman, secretary of the
Nighthawk Mining Company and resi-
dent of Milwaukee for several years, was
drowned at Nighthawk, Wash Mr..
Chapman LEFT Milwaukee a week before
with Henry James, another official OF
the company.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-05-27

C1ara-Does Harry help you with the
housecleaniDgt
Harriet-WelI he hangs the pictures
crooked and does the grumbling.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-05-27

Members Of both houses spent great
deal Of time on the water while waiting
for the Governor 10 either approve or
disapprove 81 measures that had been
passed. There ase many enthusiastic
fishermen and they took full advantage
Of the law which enabled fishermen 20
catch black bass. pike. pickerel and oil
kinds u fish beginning May 10 They
are ali convinced that May 10 Is alto
gether too carly for the fishing season
10 oDen, particularly for black bass, HIM
dre,ls have beon caught fall Of spawn.
In fact. i woGl@ seem as though none
Of the bass spawned before May 10 50
that tie effect Of ihe early fishing sea
son Is going to result d.sastrousiy TO
the game hlh iH the hikes surrounding
the city.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-05-27
Not wholly Idle.

The Killing II the Milwaukee charter
bin has left maHy sore spots.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-05-27
el[gglLZEl 4.
n T,y1~'yT!NN IGEaIs

1t takes asgreat deal TO move the ur.
bane superintendent of public property.
Such things as requests and petitions
from the members of the Legislature and
even resolutions of either house do not
move him. He is the czar of the lesser
State employees. As the custodian of the
State property he feels that a great re-
sponsbilty rests upon him and he is
dischargiug that responsibility with even
more jealous fidelity than if the prop
erty and the interests committed to his
charge were his own. for u I he could
resolve doubts in favor of the applicants
for favor. Now all doubts are given to
the State. Members who came here TO
fatten their belongings al thc States ex-
pense found early in the season that even
pens cost money and nothing was given
TO them save that which was an absolute
necessity. Pens are trifiing things. but
they cost money, and they are doled out
carefully, so carefully, in fact, that at
the opening of the session the clerks in
the Senate had to so scurrying after
some before the proceedings could be
properly noted. Members have received
nothing from the State that they did
not have use for from the superintendent.
He kept the property vaults so closely
guarded that it became necessary for the
Legislature to adopt joint resolution
directing that statutes be furnished two
Of its members who had been overlooked
The request sent dowa from the Assem-
bly, was ignored. A resolution adopted
by the lower house was insufficient, and
not until the formality of Il resolution
Of both houses did the superintendent
move. The Assembly a few days ago
adopted a resolution requesting, not de-
handing, that the superintendent set out
the park benches for use of the members
mornings, afternoons and evenings. There
are many who take much delight in
watching the antics Of the squirrels and
the birds. 1t is the biggest bit of nature
that many of them have ever seen, but
there are no places to sit down excepting
on the capitol steps, they are of stone,
cold and hard. As the session drew near
its close requests for various things pour.
ed into the office Of the superintendent
The members were loading their plumber
boxes. No one knew this better than the
superintendent and for that reason large
iy all of the requests fell on deaf ears,
while orders were given for the watch
men to watch all of the State property
closely.