Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-03-22

ed Tor the carnival city. we uhlb LOT
day at Montgomery, see the old town
and ride on the electric cars to the new.
We. ascend che steps of the old capitol
and enter. The front step has bronze
tablet, marking the place where Jef.
Davis stood when he took the oath OF
Office as president of the confederacy.
In the rotunda is the bier on which his
body Law when taken to Richmond for
interment. The memorial collection
contains many trophies of the lost cause
so dear to many, though forty years
have passed. On the capitol ground is
a splendid monument, concentrating
the deeds of valor of the sons of Georgia
in defense of the lost cause. Georgia Is
not too poor to erect a shaft of granite
that for all time will stand to tell OF her
! sacrifice in the civil war.
We continue the journey towards Mo
! bile, through country only In part cul-
tivated. The colored people are prepar-
| ing the ground for cotton. One mule
collar, traces and poor plow are the
| implements that produce more cotton
| than the world can use. The houses are
| but shacks, cherries, windowless, yet
the homes of happy and contented
1ace-the negro. We pass sawmills
which are rapidly cutting the pines to
be carried away to the building centers.
| We mass through piney woods awaiting
the axmen. and we reach the sounds,
ride over bayous and overtiowed lands.
| We arrive at Mobile and halt for day
| of investigation. Large sawmills, three
| masted schooners loading lumber and
! timber remind me that soon Georgia
will be de-forested Many vessels are
| loading cotton, sugar and turpentine to
| tramp the seas for a profitable market.
| We 90 aboard boat just in from Cen
trail America, loaded with bananas,
another with pire apples. The traffic
| in bananas is Immense Armour cars
| stand beside the ships and daily a train
is whirled north, the skins to rest IN the
| cutters and on side walks.
| We move on through pine lands, past
saWmills, over sounds, rivers, bays and
marsh land and halt at Biloxi-BLoxl
| by the gulf. We met many Sparta peo-
pie who have long come he-e to spend
| the winters. They are we'll housed in
| cottages Cheney has a fine new cot
/ tage and launch and enjoys the season
| immensely. Biloxi is now gathering in
| and shipping more oysters and shrlmps
| than Baltimore. Out few miles in the
| gulf are the oyster beds, in the pure wa
| ter which soon will be the most exten-
eive on the coast. Three hundred from
Wisconsin are registered, enjoying the
| gulf breeze, fishing and rowing we
/ again board the train, ticketed for New
| Orleans The ride of eighty miles Is
largely over arms Of the gulf, past a few
rest places for the city, and we pull IN 10
the station in the city overcrowded TO
witness the carnival. Nineteen hundred
and five has been billed as the greatest
of all caruiyals. We find desirable
place on st. Charles street, not far from
Lee circle and unpack. Boarding house
rates outdo the Auditorium, because OF
the carnival, and the carnival is to out
do any pageant ever witnessed in this or
any other country, in this or any other
age.
This city is now on the highway to
greatness. The great Panama canal
the railroads. the shipping, cotton, rice,
sugar, race track, base bail, golf. new
sewerage plant, all 60 to make New Or
leans the ideal city, the main travelled
road to. other countries. Small crafts
run everywhere around the bayous and
sounds; lines of steamers clear for Eur
one South America and Central Ameri-
| cs-and still more bananas called on
a ship captain, an ex-Confederate, un'
LOADING fruit boat, and he very kindly
informed me that his brigade in Lee
army routed the Iron Brigade and did II
to a finish at Yellow Tavern. he ENJOY
ed the pleasure so much Of meeting ar
old enemy he had done up In battle, thai
was invited to the cabin where oyel
/, the cups W made up, and / enjoyed MI
: good nature in having put TO rout tut
, Iron Brigade He wished me 10 under
stand that If all the wheat, oats, corn
rye, barley and potatoes OF the nortl
should, by some hot winds or ro5, o
r swept from the fields, that New Orlean
could send bananas sufficient to fee,
e eighty.seven millions of people for al
e | time thanked him, took the blue rib
t hon from bottle, smiled and left with
e ont any fear of famine 30 long rs tn
I captain. animated by two blue rlbbol
S packages, runs q fruit boat.
@ The carnival was truly great event
4 Four great professions, twenty floats i
8 each, emblematic of the evepss in tn
illustrated story. Comus, momus, PrC
teus and Rex are the kings; they chas
the queens, who are young society lead
ers Of great wealth and willing 10 eH
!, pend twenty-five thousand dollars 10
. their dueenly robes, and as much NOR
\ for their Jewels The kings are take
: from the rich and they, too, are require
, TO expend many thousand dollars, whlI
: the money to build the floats is the wor
= of fifty designers, artists and artisan
for a year Momus gives ball at tn
y Washington Artillery, Friday evenint
:, o o'clock to II, where admission is b
3 ticket although but play Of royalty
!" the number is large and the interest
great. They sit on throne and the
subjects pass in review, receiving tn
d salute Of the king his knights the quee
% smiles, her ladies of honor bow The
g they 20 to the French opera, where u
q most distinguished guests have asseu
E. bled where the king his knights, tn
It queen an / her maids of honor receiS
10 their sub. scts Tuesday evening, Shro'
n Tuesday, the gaieties of the season al
sr ended by Rex and his Queen in pr
ie cession Of chariots in search OF the io
j. Pleads. Another call at the Wasnini
II ton Artillery, a reception then to u
ss French opera. another reception u
u clock indicates twelve midnight ana q
h festivities close,
re Lent now demands the more seriol
ID consideration Shrove Tuesday u
ts masses magque. The young life tax
IL to itself the frivolous character, al
1g parades the streets In ridiculous &C
TUNES, initiating the jester. Now Tn
Lent il on, the city Is supposed TO
somber and pay more attention to {
~ soul The bells this morning called 9
lr- faithful to mass at an early hour