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Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-03-23
FAULTS OF LIFE IN LONDON.
Social Changes Have Been Great, but
Nos Always for the Better.


Sot Always for the Better.
One is constantly hearing jeremiads
about the condition of society ut the
present day, about its immortality, its
extravaganza, its vulgarity and all the
other sins in either the social or the
religious calendar. / do think that
there has been a growth of extrava-
gance in living in London during the
last decade or two which has IT'S dan
gere. As an old Londoner of thirty
four years standing l have seen
changes in the manners of the city
which amount TO complete transfer
nation / remember well the time
when there wasn't really good restau
rant in all London and when men had
to be content with dining and supping
in the back parlors of public houses
You got very good food in those dark,
Iow-ceilinged, stuffy rooms. and | re-
member when Won were considered to
be doing very well when yon handed
the somewhat time-wOrn and ill-clad
waiter twopence or threepence as tip
Nowadays you go into a restaurant
which is palatial and you see men
especially if they belong TO the Stock
Exehange-giving huge tips that in
olden times would have paid the price
of a whole dinner for half a dozen
friends And the tipping never seems
to ends You tip one waiter for one
-nine and another for another, and you
tip the carver and then you tip the
man who gives you your wine. and as
you are leaving you tip the porter who
puts on your coat and the other porter
coming almost Impossible for men of
moderate means to go TO most of the
restaurants OF to-day.
Society has been transformed--and
not altogether for the better-by two
things that have been going on togeth-
er. The first is the impoyerishment of
one great class ami the other the en-
richment of another. There is not so
pitifu or helpless a being in the world
as the English ariStCcrat who has fall
en- on evil days, and countless numbers
of them are in that position. The re-
duction of rents to half or q third
of what they once Were is not accom-
PANIED by the power to abandon titles
and several country seats and town
houses; and armies of servants and all
the other things which appertilin to an
aGoient family.
Thus there comes that economical
profile a. which is quite the same in es-
sence. whether it deals with large sums
or small, whether the people who are
assailed are splendid paupers in Bel
gravia or sordid paupers in Whitechap-
ell. Side by side with this impoverlsh-
ment Of n section of the upper classes
there are the gigantic fortunes which
have been made in the course of few
years. especially in South Africa and
Western Australia. and it is this com
bination which is accountable for some
of the evils of our time.-London NJ.
4 u
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-03-23
Sheen for Mutton.

Mutton as human food is gaining
rapidly in reputation. SO much i'm
,rovement has been made in the meth
DDS of breeding. fattening. slaughter
ing and ripening mutton that great
army of people who were once preju-
diced against it no longer find any
thing the matter with it. Good au-
thorities predict that the time is rapid
ly approaching when as many sheep
and lambs will be slaughtered in this
country as there are hogs and cattle
slaughtered now. History shows us
that in old countries mutton is the
poor mans meat. The reason Cor this
is that it can be raised at less cost.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-03-23

Those who possess the knack of max
ing butter that has that fragrant
flavor that distinguishes the produce of
many farm diaries, often make the mis-
take of keeping the butter on hand to
long after it is made before marketing
it. 1t will be found that however pal
atable it may be, and however good
the favor it possess when first made,
it will have escaped after too long
keeping. Eve. Yhen transported long
distances it loses its distinctiyeness
while in transit. In fact, it seems that
butter which possesses TO Il large de-
gree this much-uesired flavor deterio-
rates much quicker than an inferior
kind. As consequence of this. the
farmers wife who makes a superior
article which has a local reputation for
excellence should endeavor 10 dispose
of the product to local trade. o" at
least sell it so near home that it will
be but a day or two between the churn
and the customer. This can be easily
managed in almost any locality where
there is a market for4jt by securing a
list of private customers and furnish
it to them direct as they need It. This
class of patrons are much more profit
able year in and year out than the city
hotels or the commission houses or
those customers who buy in the gem
eral market
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-03-23
Wedding ont the Cows.

! ope rate n farm dairy, make but
ter speciality, and wish TO say that
in my opinion you cannot too strongly
urge the farmers who keep cows to
keep a daily record of what they are
doing, weighing each mess of milk
and testing often enough to get an
average of its butter-fat, so that at
the end of the year they can tell just
what each COW is worth, from butter
point OF view. For more than two
years we have done so. At the end
of the first year. although we thought
our herd was all good, we found
twelve out of twenty-five cows that
did not pay. We sold these and re-
placed with others; some of our own
raising and some by purchase. This
year we find 80 per cent profit over
last year We have not found the
daily record hard to keep. Few farm
ers stop 10 figure. A cow that pre-
duces POO pounds of butter per year
from $50 worth of feed, which sells for
20 cents per pound, leaves only $40
for care and the risk. The COW which
makes 400 pounds of butter from $50
worth of feed leaves $50 for care, risk
and profit besides a whole lot of sat
isfaction to her owner. You never
know which COW makes this profit for
you except by using the scales and
the test.-F G. Shepherd. in National
Stockmau
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-03-23
nirn.tihiIitr of Fonds.

The value of cattle foods depends
largely upon their digestibility There
is more protein in straw than in corn
fodder, but the latter is more digt sti-
BILE. Some coarse foods are vaiuab e,
however. in assisting TO digest the con
centrated foods by giving bulk to the
mess and separating the materials, es-
peciaIly when the coarse foods are re-
duced to a fine condition. Even If but
d portion of the straw foods is di-
gested, they are .'-eFarel for f,.e ma
nure heap by the aims ald are thus
increased in value compared with
wastefuI use
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-03-23
Some Kansas Wheat Yields.

The banner yield Of wheat In Kansas
is sail to be that Of Joseph c. Ort, In
Cove county, who thrashed DDS bush.
els Of 621pound wheat from three acres
Of an old corral. and 4,563 bushels (ele-
vator weighti from 1O0-acre field.
The seed was Turkey red, one bushel
to the acre. Tie three-acre piece had
been heavily fortified for vegetables.
and after these were gone he again fer.
tilted and plowed ii four inches deep.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-03-23

Although the population Of Great
Britain has increased largely in r"
last thirty years. yet she sells about
s11G, 100000 worth Of goods a year less
to foreign countries than she did thirty
years ago. while her imports have in
creased in the same period more than
ssO0OOO.O0O a year, which is nearly a
net loss OF a billion dollars a year, or
s165 for each adult male in England,
Ireland. Scotland and Wales. No won
der they are thinking seriously about
adopting protection as a national poll
iZ.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-03-23

One hundred plants will furnish the
average family with a supply of this
most delicious early vegetable. They
should not cost over 81, and hence in
stead of being looked upon as a luxury
it should he common in every family
garden. Rich sandy soil is best, but
it will thrive in any soil If given a
reasonable show Palmetto, Conov-
er's, Colossal and Baris Mammoth are
recommended as very satisfactory va
rieties. The plants should be set as
early in the spring as possible. in rows
80 inches apart and IS in the row.
Plant in holes or trench, six inches
deer. filling it up gradually, and do not
GU. the stalks. except sparingly, until
the third season. 1t readily responds
to good care and fertilization and
should be lbera2!y top-dressed with
manure each fall.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-03-23
ne-Man Corn Sled.

Maze two runners, one 5 feet and
one : or s feet long; use 2X6 stuff;
place . feet apart and nail boards on
top as shown in cut. Fasten scythe
blade on for knife. 1t is better than
.ha steel plate knives. Knife should
run high on edge and at an angle of
about 45 degrees from the runners.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-03-23

animal is unruly and strong, the end
which us shown over the back of the
hog extending to the hand of the one
who is driving it, may be slipped over
his rump and into the lower loop and
tied, leaving a long loop in tho drivers
hands for better control. The illus
trations show clearly how the contriv-
ance is constructed
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-03-23
This Paper
and the
Weekly Wisconsin.

We have perfected clubbing arrangements
whereby we can r7w offer both this paper
sn5 -.e Weekly W SC Jnsin for the low price Of
Si.Zo year. The Weekly Wisconsin is a
family newspaper unexcelled in reputation.
I. rticuizr attention IS devoted TO the local
news Of the northwest. It's woman's page
Of matte. every week is worth the cost Of
the paper.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-03-23
MERGER rs DEFEATED
SUPREME COURT DECIDES FOR
GOVERNMENT.
Northern Securities Company Loses It's
CTse-Court Holds that Congress Can
Control Commerce and Has Full Pow
err to Regulate Interstate Traffic.

The government has triumphed over
the merger In a decision handed down
By the United States Supreme Court the
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-03-23

Northern Securities
Company, the great
est railroad combina
ton ever formed, is
dissolved, and to-
business world has
received the dietum
of the highest tri-
bunal on the author
ity of the govern
mani RI paut4lofa
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-03-23
New York.

| nav YORK Weekly Review Of Trade
L--- says: More seasonable
weather has brought increased activity
in business. normal conditions existing
for the first time this year at many
points and there is evidence of an effort
TO recover lost ground. and prepare for
a large spring trade. Collections also
are improving. and structural operations
revive with the higher temperature. slim
Uniting the markets for building materi-
ais and increasing real estate transfers.
There has been great damage from
floods. although the severe winter has
caused unusual preparation for troubles
of this nature. Manufacturing returns
are favorable as 10 steel and footwear,
but textile mills are not active. and a
further curfailmcnt of cotton spanning
is probable. Settlement Of several i'm
portant labor controversies has been ac-
companied 10y new strikes. and soft coal
miners have not yet reached an agree
ment with the operators.
The percentage OF idle machinery
steadily decreases. and conditions are
not only much better than seemed posi-
BILE whom the year opened. but some re-
ports state that the outlook is brigl ter
than at any time since last spring. The
only disturbing element pertains to fuel.
Movement of coal is retarded by made
quate transporting facilities.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-03-23
On Sowing Clover.

Sowing clover is an absorbing ques-
ton with farmers who desire to keep
up the fertility of their land. When
seed is high there is always q disposi-
ton. with some, TO defer sowing clover
until another year. and plow up the
fields again. Seed may he cheaper
next year. you know This manage
ment may have kept these same fields
under the pillow for years. making it
more uncertain 10 secur a catch, and
requiring more acres. every year, 10
secure the requisite amount of grain.
1t is unwise and foolish to fail to sow
clover because seed is dear.
Diversified Farming in the Extreme.
The managers of the Maryville (AIo.l
Street Fair offered a $40 prize to the
Nodaway County agrieulturist who
should exhibit the largest number Of
farm products grown on bis farm this
season. W. r. Hosley, OF Ravenwood
drove up with a wagon load of stun
and took the prize.
His wagon contained p stalk o. corn
thirteen and one half feet high: white
red. Tellow ard speckled corn in ear
wheat rye. buckwheat rape, timothy.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-03-23


trusts and combinations.
Justice Harlan read the opinion af-
firming the order Of the Federal Circuit
Court OF Minnesota sustaining the con-
tention that the Sherman antitrust law
applies to railroad combinations.
Justice Brewer concurred in affirming
the merger decision but for different
reasons than those of the majority
Justice Harlan said that in the merger
of the two roads the stockholders dis
appeared and that they reappeared in
the Securities company, the two thus
becoming practically consolidated in q
holding company, the principal object be
ing TO prevent competition. No scheme
or device could certainty more effective
ly come within the prohibition of the
antitrust law and it is within the mean.
ing of the act trust"
State Rights Not Hit.
Replying in detail for the securities
company, Justice Harlan said that the
contention that the law is an interior
enee with the rights of the individual
States by which the companies are in
corporQted was not well founded. In
such cases, he said, the authority of Con
gress is supreme. He declared it TO be
unnecessary TO determine the right OF
owners of railroad stock to sell the prop
erty. Nor was it true. he added, that
the right of the securities company to
own and hold railroad stock is the only
question involved. Such contentious are
wide Of the mark-mere men of straw
All that the government complains of is
the existence of a corporation TO repress
commerce, and it is not concerned with
the other points
Justice Harlan said that in thi;
day there should be no doubt Of
the complete power Of Congress tx
control interstate commerce. All ap
propriate means mighl be resorted to fol
that purpose. All the prior trust case'
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-03-23
CHICAGO


.---I turn of more seasonable
weather conditions and lessened difficult
~ in the movement of commodities We're
favorable factors. Reports show gain il
the distribution of goods ana larger re-
ceipts OF farm products. while the man
afacturing industries advanced in ac-
tiSity. New business improved in the
volume of finished iron and prices were
strengthened. although commitments
We're mainly confined to present require
mentS.
Notwithstanding the high average cost
the final consumption of necessities has
continued strong and buying was heavier
in leading retail lines. Jobbing sales of
spring wares reached a satisfactory ag
gregate, with frequent requests for early
shipment to western points. Large
transactions were closed in the dry goods,
millinery, clothing and footwear diyis-
ions, and dealings were increased in
suits aud cloaks. mems furnishings and
hats and caps. Easier deliveries placed
groceries and canned goods in better po-
sition and sales widened. Mercantile
collections generally presented little
complaint.
The demand for iron and steel has
shown more urgency and covered wider
variety of needs, with rails, pig iron.
structural and wire materials in best
request. Receipts of lumber ran 20 per
cent short of the volume n year ago.
Grain shipments we're 2,3122.45T bush
els, 10 per cent under those of year
ago. With the recent fall in values im-
provement was looked for in the spot de-
mand, but actual sales failed To develop
inheritance and rpceipts of all bread
stuffs, except corn, were heavier Prices
declined steadily until Wednesday, when
recovery set in, hut compared with the
Blessings week ago, quotations have de-
clined in wheat cert, in corn Is cent
and in oats II cent Receipts Of live
stock were 253.25a head, as compared
with 297 ,436 head year ago. showing
the first notable decrease this season.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-03-23

Its prevention and cure a speciality at
POWELL'S MEDICAL AND SURGICAL
INSTITUTE, La Crosse, Wis.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-03-23

Dun's weekly review of
| Chicago trade says: The re-
! turn of more seasonable
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-03-23

r. q. Dun & Co.'S
Weekly Review Of Trade
saws: More seasonahle
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1904-04-01
WILBUR HOLLOW.

Miss Vivian Hopkins OF Giles Hill, IA
employed at Ashland weaving,
Mrs. Arthur Bates spent the after.
noon with Mrs. Yesw on Tuesday.
Mr.. Isaac Yesw 10 putting q new
piazza on the east end OF his residence.
Mrs. ID. l.. Young ana daughter and
Mrs. Kennedy went 10 Providence on
Wednesday.
Mr.. Geo. Kennedy and DR.. VIM. Bowen
have recently employed VIM. King Jr to
paper and white wash.
Mr.. and Ms. Arthur Bates Of this
place. spent Sunday with their son, Mr..
Geo. Bates at the Field Farm.
The sharp frosty mornings of the past
week, have led people to think tina,
winter has no, entirely disappeared.
The annual school meeting will be
held al South Seituate, District No. I3,
April 9th, for the purpose OF elee,ing
officers.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1904-04-01
GREENv,LLE.

The hotel 10 being newly shingled.
Mr.. Andrew whipple has bought the
bank lot.
Mrs. suaa of Providence was here
Wednesday.
Miss Flora Farnum is the guest OF Mr..
and Mrs. II. F. Smith.
Mrs. Carrie Ballou OF Hillsgrove, Wiz
ited relatives here this week.
Miss Flora Hopkins of Chepachet
visited relatives here last week.
Misses Mary and Ruth Steere are visit.
ing relatives In Foster this week.
Mr.. Samuel Knox and family will soon
occupy the tenement in the holel.
Miss Alice Simmons OF Providence
visited her parents over Sunday.
Mr.. T. Webster will soon move hit.
family to Lowell, where he has secured
work.
Palm Sunday was appropriately OBJ.
served at St. Thomas and St. Philip
CnurCness
William \. Mowry, late of Lincoln,
was buried in the Greenville CemetGry
on Monday.
1 Miss Sarah Winsor of Providence was
the guest of her sister, Mira. Simon Steere
over Sunday.
The public schools In the village closed
Monday afternoon at o'clock to allow
teachers and scholars the privilege of
hearing Bishop McVickar, who spoke at
ST. Thomas Church.
Services at the Baptist church Easter
Sunday will be as follows. Sunday
School at u AZ 1880 Organ Prelude,
Doxology, Invocation, Anthem, Christ, +,
The Lord Is Risen To-day by Lerman,
Scripture Reading, Prayer, Respon,e,
Soprano Solo by Miss Bessie Mowry,
Hymn, Sermon, Hymn.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1904-04-01
SOUTH SClTUATE.

The Baptist church Is being repaired.
Business Is good at the Joslin Manfg.
Cos. local plant.
Isaac Yesw is selling many settings OF
Black Minorca eggs.
An Easter concert will be given at
the Baptist church, Sunday evening
Rev. Fenner Jsques attended the iuner.
al OF Mrs. Joshua &. Potter on Sunday.
a Republican caucus will be held at
the Town Clerks office on Saturday,
April 10Th.
Daniel H.. Remington attended the
financial town meeting at Foster Center
on Monday
The Christian Endeavor Society held
It's monthly meeting last evening at the
residence of AIR. Leander Hopkins
a special car WHIT through here on
Sunday. containing party Of Providence
and Danielson and Rhode Island Cos
Officials and their families.
People In this section are contiderably
exercised over the proposed raise In the
passenger tariff on the Providence and
Danielson Il. X.
Mrs. Charlotte Wilbur. an aged resi-
dent of this section died on Monday al
the advanced age OF 94 years and 9
months. The deceased was the widow OF
Samuel Wilbur and mother of Deacon
Ber iamin Wilbur. She has resided with
her son until this month when she wen,
to live with her nephew, Gilbert Adams,
while Deacon Wilbur and his daughter
attended the International Sunday School
Convention at jerusalem, Mrs. wilbur
was born near Poneganset and has
always resided In this section Of Scituate'
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1904-04-01
The Way TO Ward OF nm Attack of
Rhsumatism.

For years when spring time came on
and went into gardening. | was sure 10
have an attack Of rheumatism and every
susek was more severe than the preced-
ing one" says Josie Mcdonald, of Man
Logan County. West Va. ~ tried every.
thing with no relief whsteyer, until
procured a bottle OF Chamberlain Pain
Balm, and the fret application gave me
ease, and before the fret bottle was ssed
fel, like 3 new person. Now ] feel that
am cured, but always keep a bottle oil
c. smberlsin's Pain Balm In the house,
and when feel any symptoms Of return
7 .oon drive u swsy With one or two
spp'ies,ion. NJ ,hi. lin'ment" For sale
by B. A. Smiths drug store, OlneyviIle
Psrkers Drug Store. oineyville; W.
Dunning & Bro, Msn,on.Aye.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1904-04-01
Warrant Every Bottle.

II troubled with rheumatism give
Chamberlain's Pain Balm a trial. II will
not cost you a cent if il does no good.
One application will relieve the pain. 1t
also cures sprsins and bruises and In one.
thild the time required by any other
treatment. Cuts, burns, frostbites,
quinsy, pains in the eide and chest,
glandular and other swellings are
quickly cured by appIing It. Every
bottle warranted. Price IS and so cents.
For sale by B A. ,Smih, Olneyville; w.
Dunning & Bro. Manton Ave. Parkers
drug store, Olneyville.