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Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-06-29
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STATEMENT of the condition of the
MICHIG AN FIRE AND MARINE In
surance Company. of Detroit, in the
State of Michigan, for the year end
ing December 31st, 1908, made to the
Commissioner of Insurance of the
State of Wisconsin, pursuant to the
laws of said State.
Capital paid up in cash. 100000 90
Income. ................... 4oozSs Of
Disbursements ............ 5SS,5SS 10
.issets.
Total admitted assets. 49,. e27,27S IS
Liabilities.
Total amount Of all liabili-
ties except capital and
surplus :. ........... 347,469 70
Surplus over all liabilities
and capital stock, ....,.. l79sOS SO
Wisconsin, Business
Gross risks written. .... ,415,601 90
Gross premiums received. 29,104 40
Paid for reinsurance and
cancellation ............ $3.50 %
Losses paid. .......... 1920 OF
Losses incurred. ...... 16,416 20
thereby certify that the foregoing is
an abstract of the sworn statement of
the Michigan Fire and Marine Insur-
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-06-29
STONY POINT LIGHTHOUSE.
"And now the lonely sentinel
Looks cut across the water"

The blinking eye of the old light
house at Stony Point attracts the at
tantion Of the passerby to that his
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-06-29

lively, great areas had been unlawfuIly
fenced in by men of large means, and the
home-builder had been excluded, Many
OF these unlawful aggressors have been
compelled to relinQuish their booty, and
more than 100000 acres Of land has
been restored to the public.
The postal service has been extended
and improved Its revenues have in
creased from $T6,000,000 in 1895 to $685.
100000 in 1890 and $l44.O0000O In
1904. In dealing with these vast sums
few cases of peCulation, trihing In
amount, and by subordinate officers, have
occurred there as they occur in every
business. Neither fear nor favor nor
political or personal influence has avail
ed TO protect the wrongdoers Their
acts have been detected, Investigated,
laid bare; they have been dismissed from
their places, prosecuted criminally, in
dicted, many of them tried and many of
them convicted.
The abuses in the carriage of second
class mail matter have been remedied.
The rural free delivery has been widely
extended
The systematic collection and pubhca-
ton of information regarding the magni-
tude and condition of our crops Is mid-
eating the injury done by speculation to
the farmers market. r.i,r
To increase the profit of the farmers
toll, to protect the farmers product and
extend his market, and to improve the
conditions of the farmers life; to ad-
vance the time when America shall raise
within her own limits every product OF
the soil consumed by her people, as she
| mo hos hos
essary product of manufacture-these
have been cardinal objects OF Republican
administration; and we show a record
of political things done toward the ac-
| complishment of these objects never be-
/ fore approached,
The Platt amendment is the sheet an
Choir of Cuban independence and of Gu
| tan credit No such revolutions as have
afflicted Central and South America are
| possible there, because ii is known to all
men that an attempt to overturn the
! foundations OF that government will be
! confronted by the overwhelming power
of the United States. The treaty of
reciprocity and the act Of Congress Of
! Dec O, 1903 which confirmed it. COM
! pleted the expression of our policy to-
/ ward Cuba; which with far view to
/ the future aims to bind to MS by ties Of
/ benefit and genuine friendship, that ISL
and which guards the Caribbean and
! the highway to the isthmus. and must
always be, if hostile, aa outpost of at
tack and, If friendly. an outpost Of de-
/ Tense for the United States.
! When the last national convention met
4 the Philippines also were under military
rule. The insurrection from the noun
tains spread terror among the peaceful
/ people by midnight foray and secret as
sassination. Aguinaldo bided his time
in secret retreat Over 10000 Ameri-
can soldiers from more than 500 stations
held still vigorous enemy in check
The Philippine commission has not yet
begun its work.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-06-29
whu Harry Wasn't Proud.

Little Harry's oldest sister had just
presented her husband with a Jew
baby.
We'll, Harry" said his father do
you feel proud of being an uncle?"
No replied the urcnin.
why not?" asked his father
Cause / amt no uncle; I'm an
aunt. The new baby's a girl!"-New
York Press.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-06-29
Fatal silence.

Tom-She ays you're an 'imperu-
nent cad" What have you ever said
n her that
Dick--N1thing That's the trouble
When we were oct walking yesterday
the wind blew her hair about most
becomingIy. She said. Z know Tn
perfect fright" and ] didn't say a
word. -Philadelphia Press.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-06-29
This Paper
and the
Weekly Wisconsin.

We have perfected clubbing arrangements
whereby we can now offer both this paper
and the Weekly Wisconsin for the lowprice OF
Sl.LS year. The Weekly Wisconsin is
family newspaper unexcelled in reputation.
Particular attention is devoted TO the local
news Of the northwest. Its woman's page
Of matter every week is worth the cost Of
the paper.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-06-29
A nefensive Measure

Marietta, you had better write your
Aunt Jane that we are coming out
there on the Fourth
Why"
If you don't she will be writing
us that she is coming here. Chicago
Reeord-Hersla
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-06-29

Nothing 10 be Ashamed of.
Lady-Aint you ashamed TO he
ing fireworks to that dogs tails?"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-06-29
Practical Rcgulation Of TRUSTS.

At every election tnC regulation or
trusts had been the football of campaign
oratory and the subject OF many insin-
cere declarations.
Our Republican administration has
taken up the subject in practical. seusi-
BILE way as a business rather than 20.
litical question saying what !. really
meant and doing what lay at its hand
to he done to accomplish effective regu-
lations The principles upon which the
government proceeded were stated by
the President in bis message Of Bccem-
her. 1902 He said:
"A fundamental base Of civilization
is the inviolabihty Of property; but this
Is in no wise inconsistent with Tire rights
Of society TO regulate the exercis OF
the artificial powers which il cILf -
upon the owners of property. under the
name Of corporate franchises il such
way as 10 prevent the misuse % these
powers.
we can do nothing % good in the
way Of regulating and supervising 'hese
corporations until we fix clearly Ia our
minds that we are not attacking tire cor
poratinns. hut endeav0ring 70 do away
with any evil in them. We are not hos
tile 70 them: we are merely determined
that they shah DO so handed as 20 sub
serve the public good. We draw the
line against misconduct. moi against
wealth"
The Department Of Agriculture has
been brought TO a point Of efficiency and
practical benefit never before known.
We have at last reached point where
the public wealth Of farA land which
has seemed so inexhaustibie is nearly
gone. and the problem % utilizing the
remainder for the building Of new homes
has become OF vital Importance.
The present administration has dealt
with this problem vigorously and e1ee-
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-06-29

well, Tommy. said Mr.. Tenspot.
at the close of the day, what did you
think of the Fourth of july fireworks
/ got fol you?"
They are en- alfred lot, rapa,"
replied Tommy
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-06-29
situa ION in the Philippines.

The last vestige Of insurrection has
been swept away. With their work ac-
complished over $1,000 American troops
have been brought back across the Pa
citc, Civil government has been estab-
lished throughout the archipelago. Peace
and order and justice prevail The Phil
ippine commission. guided at first by
executive order and then by the wise
legislation of Congress in the Philippine
government act cf July !. 1902 have
established and conducted government
witch has been n credit to their country
. blessing TO the people Of the isis
ands.
The action Of tte United States at
every step has beer in accordance with
the law Of nations, consistent with the
principles Of justice end honor, in dis
charge of the trust to build the canal we
long siDce assumed. by denying the right
Of eve y other power to build il, dictated
by high and unSelhsh purpose, for the
common benefit Of all mankind, THAT
action was wise. considerute prompt,
vigorous and effective. and nov the
greatest OF constructive nations stands
ready and competent 10 begin and 10 ac.
comPlish the great enterprise which shGl
realize the dreams Of past ages. bind
together our Atlantic and Pacific coasts,
and open a pew highway for that CONF
merce OF the Orient whose course has
controlled the rise and fall If civiliz"-
lions, Success in that enterprise gr"d.
ly concerns the credit and honor ii tie
American people and il is for their to
say whether the building Of tie canal
shall be in charge Of the men who made
its building possible. or Of The weak
lihgs whose jHcredUlous objections would
have postponed it for another genera
tiou
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-06-29
a Roysterer.

= HUy5NSfNF'
First Firecracker - Where's VIII
liam?
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-06-29

hereby certify that the foregoing is
an abstract of the sworn statement of
the Michigan Fire and Marine Insur-
ance Company, filed with the Insurance
Department of Wisconsin, this Goth day
of January, 1904.
ZENo NJ. Host,
Commissioner of Insurance.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-04-13
London 200 Years Ago.

Two hundred years. ago, says the
Saturday Review, London was a com
paratively small city of 100000 inhabt
tants. the rough and ill-kept main
roaas to which had been but slightly
improved since Tudor times The ghast
ly spectacle Of many Of the trees OH the
Southwark road bending under the:l
burden OF hanged men had indeed beer,
slightly modified. but none the less the
decomposing heads OF '.trnitorsr still
filled the atmosphere about London
bridge and Temple Bar with myrlads
Of baneful microbes.
Our Immediate forbenrs were evil.
IDENTIFY not over-particulur about sights
and smells. They We're accustomed to
see men sitting in the piilory peited
with rotten eggs and probably included
among their Immediate circle not few
who had been deprived of their noses
and ears for expressing too freely their
opinions, political and religious. &
The drains were IN appalling condi-
ton. The mnumerable churchynrls
were 80 full of cofiins that they often
projected through the turf. Bear and
bull batting. dog fights and boxing
matches were attended even by royalty
as late rs 1920 and five years later all
the CANDIES" in London were paying
high prices to stand In carts around
Tyburn to behold 90 of their fellow
creatures hanged for misdemeanors
which in our time would &c punished
with few days imprisonment.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-04-13

SECRETARY WILSON exports of farm products than
S703O0OO0O LII 1901 they 1852 100000 In 1903 the
surplus which did need in this country and sold
| abroad amounted to SS7S0O0,0OO.
farmer who held the balance of trade with
the United States Excluding the products of the farm
there during the period from 1899 to 1902 annual
adverse balance of trade amounting to $60OOOO lnclud
ing the farm products this balance wiped out and
have left S7500OO to the credit of this country During
1903 there unvorabe balance Of trade in exports
and imports other than those of the farm which amounted
to $560O000 but when the farmers in the interna
tonal included balance favor is just
about 1857 100000
Here you have the tremendous demonstrating
of the farmers of this country They the people who
pay the foreign bondholdcrs
will tell you that the farmers independent of the
banks the money lenders anybody else They
In the East anybody 1t for himself They
are getting good prices for their grain, hay milk, butter,
cheese fruits and other produce Think Of the prices
eggs and poultry! Then they have the advantage over
their Western brethren in not having the long haul
heavy freight rates.
The farmers of the West in such easy cir
cumsances Their crops have been good and the demand
from abroad has been such keep the prices
Portable figure This is true of everything the farmer
to sell-hogs, cattle, wool, etc.
On the Pacific coast the story is the There the
trade opening with the Orient and there the
thing Including fruits which outse the tropical
which be the country and shipped to Eu
rope at profit. They doing splendidly.
In the South the farmer who raises small crop
cotton has provided for himself Tobacco In
greater demand The South rapidly becoming as pros
those other sections the which
the devastations of Civil War.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-04-13
M.S5l
I KPER6 * .fnE REOP1 y

lot bedrooms with their walls taken down. There 10
reason why you should find anything in Japanese
house except mats and charcoal stove for warming your
fingers and the teapot These and cushion two and
quilt sleep with elaborate conventional polite
constitute the furniture of Japanese house. except
the guest chamber And the articles in the guest chamber
consist of a screen kakemone and flower The
Japanese have forks table cloths they
have no sheets wine glasses, no tumbers.
If woman belongs to aristocratic family, and
especially which has adopted some European meth
DDS IDEAS treated with something
given in Europe; she only dresses like
European but she is allowed walk hus-
bands SIDE and even she is allowed to through
door before him. Among working women, the
great freedom, for she is able to her living.
Japanese girl of wealthy parents does not get
dowry and when she is divorced is protected by
mets She has her chance only in families where there
no sons In this case again. the freedom of the
has far wider her husband is obliged her
name, and she get divorce with facility. see
that the position of woman is much matter Of
mics as of sentiment in Japan In other parts the
world
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-04-13
THE COTTON KINGS FALL.
.6ully Meets the Fate of Others Who
Tried to Corner Great Staples.


Tried to Corner Great Staples.
Cotton King Daniel j. Sully has
fallen. He whose effort to coin untold
millions ut the expense of manufac-
turers and thousands of mill opera
tlves Is now bankrupt. He forced
the price of cotton to such figures as
to close hundreds of mills III England
and In this country. with the result
that armies Of humble but honest peo-
pie were reduced to want. Delicate
women and sickly children persisted
before their time through the fact
that their natural defenders were rem
dered helpless by idleness. Great
mills were closed and the hum of ma
chinery was hushed that the specu.
lator might make millions-and still
more millions. But he has met the
almost universal fate OF those who
have tried to corner the market for
great staples.
Sully. under the firm name of Dan
lei j. Sully Il Co., undertook to corner
the cotton market. His efforts result
ed in sending the price of raw cotton
up 10 figures which have not been ap-
proachcd- since the Civil War. suliy
purchased thousands of bales and at
several periods could have gotten out
with handsome profits. He bought
much of tile cotton at low prices, but
every time lie undertook to unload
there came slump in prices and he
was forced to buy to preserve the mar
ket. The result was that he bought
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-04-13

POWDER GLOBE. in all the large
cities. and insurance companies would
so out of business for lack of patron
age. But many fires begin when no
one Is near and are not discovered
until the Roadway is too great for one
man to fight Consequently, it is Gus
tomary to equip buildings liable to
fires with automatic sprinklers, provid-
ing an arrangement which will empty
the contents Of a large tank of water
through series of pipes to drench
the vicinity Of the blaze The water
is turned on by the fusing of soft
metal plug under the action OF the
heat from the blaze, or by means of
thermostat, which works automatic
ally when the temperature rises to a
predetermined degree, regardless Of
proximity to the blaze itself.
The invention shown in the drawing
is operated by the proximity of heat
to the automatic release. but 1t has a
different method of extinguishing a
fire than that used by the water sprin-
kler. The extinguishing agent ls con
tained in fragile globe, which is sus.
pended near the place where fire is
liable to occur. AS soon as the heat
causes its release and the globe falls
to the floor sliding hammer in the
interior explodes the sphere and scat
ters the fire-cxtinguishing powder
broadcast, at the same time making
noise enough to alarm anyone within
the building. The extinguisher can be
suspended ut any point, without con.
Erection with any other apparatus.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-04-13
HOW THE JAPANESE KNEW

1 p"as spies TO watch the Building Of q
stnr, "a ta,.a p, a' rniiaaei phia.
interestina ,,aht ~ .,a ',--'a, ss ~
sIal+ 49,, $50. .ea an -. ia1 VENUS Loie
tho nrano 70 t,ans ~ . .,'a 1 1aaaN
tho nrosant Uas CIV. ~. 'npanese iol
.Tonanese n cont 90 nv ~ ph.ss asv :
with . ,e++an 80 49, w nueipnla
;non+ phi,ada,n,,.aa .'l,.s -. - : prom.
~, WIZ iau lruNeleo
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-04-13
HOME INSTINCT IN HORSES.
Animal Always Started for Old Pms

Animal Always Started for Old Pas
lures When Turned Loose.
l have read with some interest IN
some of the recent issues of Forest
and Stream Of the "back-tracking ill.,
stinct", in horses and am reminded of
n trait possessed by large bay mare
owned by my father when was a
small boy, living on the old farm in
the Ozark Mountains in Washington
County, Arkansas, says a writer in
Forest and Stream.
My father was a Confederate SOL
dier, belonging in cavalry company,
and when lie with his command sur
rendered he was allowed to keep his
mount. He had purchased the mare
from a party from Missouri, who had
taken her from some point in Mss
souri, to the Red River country In
south Arkansas at the beginning of
the Civil War.
She was about years old when
the war ended and we kept her ten
years. and to my certain knowledge
never at any time did she gain her
freedom but that she started north in
the direction of Missouri and Travelled
until overtaken and brought back. We
tried all kinds of expedients TO induce
her to remain, but nothing but con.
tlnement kept her in Arkansas. In
those days the grass was fine In the
mountains and all kinds of stock grew
and fattened on it, with no cost but q
little salt occasionally. But even afte,
three or four Of her colts were grown
up and in the herd and with a colt III
the pasture she would occasionally
gain her liberty and start north on 3
fast trot and had to be caught anG
brought back. And finally when she
had become old and Of small value
one spring day my father ordered mi
to taks her out end turn her on thu
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-04-13

much cotton at prices in excess of its
intrinsic value. He borrowed money
and kept on buying. But he finally
reached the limit of his borrowing en-
pacity and could buy no more. When
he undertook to sell, th0e were no
buyers. No one wanted cotton at such
prices. But lie was forced to realize
on his holdings and threw his cotton
on the market. There was slump.
Prices dropped and Sully was forced
TO the wall.
The failure of the cotton king
caused scene Of pandemonlum on
the market in New York and III New
Orleans. There was no panic, III the
sense of many resulting failures. Rath-
err there was rejoicing on the part Of
the bears who had been fighting him
all along. So jubannt were these op-
ponents Of his that they fairly tore
the clothes from each others backs In
their excitement
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-04-13
Rcmarkablo Rejuyenati zion.

A contributor to the Country Gen.
tleman tells of an old tee having
been rejuvenated in remarkable
manner. 1t was very ancient wal.
nut, with long, gaunt boughs carrying
much dead wood, and hera and there
bearing few leaves. For several sea-
sons 1t had been struggling In this way
to live, but each year manifested sign,
that its life was fast disappearing,
Then wonderful thing occurred. The
keeper In front of whose house the tree
stood took to Singing the body of each
deer he killed on to one of the boughs
for dressing. The following spring
this tree put forth an astonishing crop
Of leaves, and in less than three sea-
sons it was making new wood and
showing all the vigor which had char
actcrized 1t thirty years before. Its
renewed youth was entirely attributed
to the fertilizing properties Of the
blood with which 1t had been so li5er-
ally dressed
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-04-13

1t is estimated, the whole job will be
finished. The wall is built of crushed
granite. sand and cement, resting on
a foundation of piles driven to depth
Of forty feet The cost, for which pro.
vision was made by bond issue, will
be $1.5OO.0O0.
TO complete the work of protection
1t was also necessary to raise the
grade Of the city. and contract has
been let with a Holland firm to per-
form the task for $2,O00OoO. The time
allowed is three years, but the contrac-
tors think they can finish 1t In two.
1t involves the cutting of canal
through the city $50 feet wide and 20
feet deep.
Galveston expects not only TO out
live the effects Of her disaster, but to
become even a greater city than ever.
Her present Importance ms shipping
point is exemplifled by the fact that
hcr cotton receipts for the season ag.
gregate about 100000 bnles, or 450.-
900 more than were handled In New
Orleans for the same time. Since Sep
TENDER the grain receipts make total
of 100000 bushels. There is also
heavy export trade with South AZ
rica
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-04-13

In their pockets. 1t announced that radIum
caused the atmosphere to become conductor electricity
ana that emitted continuously such quantity heat
to raise the envelope containing temperature Of
two degrees above that of other things neighborhood
only last month 1t was shown that radum held closed
eyes Will cause their possessor to have of light
from the uorescence TINT excites substance
the eye itself But Of all the properties of marvellous
metal none is likely to have wide reaching conse
quences than the discovery that In addition to the three
derent sorts of rays which emts radIum heated
VIII give on gas which Is also producing when
scaled up in tube and left alone for days presents
all the characteristics of the gas helum which is
known to be present in the in minerals and in
certain natural waters.
Ihis takes us back to pretty old history The
alchemlsts always declared that possible TO trans
mute or change metal into another Their central idea
was that the constituents Of all known substances were In
fact but different notifications prmordIal sub
stance Now, the chemical clements which are every
year increasing in number, on examination to he
series of groups families of which the different men,
bers have strong family likeness The rare metals polo
While to come down to every day substances barim
uranium and polonium AS lead there is particular
suphde of extracted from complex minerals like
pitchbende he source of radum ceveite mica and tho
like, which is nearly radioactive as radium itself Dr.
Gustave lie Bon asserted year ago that all metals when
clean and radioactive and that the same
lily Is shared by all and many substances sc
as those which compose the human body AS many pbvsj
cists coming to this conclusion there is fair reason n,
guess that If the secret of their combination
learned the composition of metals would be mere matter
of calculation.